Show i Newspaper Men ten i See Mummy Case LUXOR Egypt Feb 13 By A. A P. P P. Owing Owing to what he char characterized character character- as the discourtesy of oC the Egyptian public works department Howard Carter head of the excavation excavation excava excava- tion work closed Tutankhamen's I tomb today and abandoned opera opera- It la is understood that the tho crisis was precipitated by the tho re refusal refusal re- re of ot the Egyptian to toto to visit the tho tomb today 1 I The following notice was posted pasted in the tho hall of ot the Winter Palace ho hotel hotel ho- ho tel this afternoon Luxor February 13 Owing to the impossible restrictions restrictions and discourtesies on the part of ot the tho public works department and its antiquity section all my ray collaborators collaborators collaborators orators in protest have refused to work any further upon scientific Investigation of or the discovery of ot I Ithe the tomb of ot Tutankhamen I am therefore obliged to make known I I to the tho public that Immediately after the press view of ot the tomb between 10 o'clock and noon the tomb will willbe willbe be clos closed d and no further work will willbe willbo be bo carried out Signed HOWARD CARTER WRITERS SEE CASKET The correspondent correspondent of ot the Associated Associated Asso Asso- I Asso-I I Press was the first newspaper newspaper newspaper news news- paper man admitted today to view the gorgeous mummy case of ot Tutankhamen Tutankhamen Tut Tut- hamen which was disclosed I Continued on page 2 I I NEWSPAPER MEN Continued from from page 1 1 1 Yesterday by the raising- raising of the massive lid of the sarcophagus At the first view of this wonderful wonder- wonder ful Jul bizarre golden coffin with the face shoulders breast and arms of tho the Pharoah standing out in boldest relief on the tho metal one realized that this discovery was indeed an event in the annals of Egyptology Nothing has ever been found in m Egypt before resembling this colossus colossus colossus colos colos- sus of gold with its strangely natural natural natural nat nat- ural oddly captivating face tace and supreme dignity of line The only parallel one can call to mind Is the great stone effigy carved on the lid of the sarcophagus of the reputed Pharoah of ot the Exodus ROBBERS' ROBBERS INCENTIVE SHOWN It now s seems ems clear that the ef effIgy effigy effigy ef- ef figy of whose sarcophagus sarcophagus sarcophagus agus lies Hes In his tomb a scant hundred hundred hundred hun hun- dred yards from that of Tutankhamen Tutankhamen Tutankhamen amen and hitherto regarded as unique in Egypt merely represents In stone the habitual form of ot the mummy case of ot Egypt's kings The sight of the sheets of gold gleaming on the mummy case of Tutankhamen tells its own tale of or orthe the reward that awaited the enterprise enterprise enterprise enter enter- prise of ot the ancient tomb robbers whose activities were so great that of all the sepulchres of Egypt's old rulers only Tutankhamen's Tutankhamen's Tutankhamen's mens men's has been inviolate When the correspondent entered the tomb he found a sheet of glass laid across the tho open sarcophagus beneath the cracked granite lid which hung from its tackle some three feet teet above The first sight of the dead kings king's effigy was overwhelming over over- whelming It might have been a huge golden Idol An incredibly bizarre effect was lent by the solid soUd folded headdress the long curved golden beard the thickness of a ships ship's cable the gigantic flail flaB and crook grasped crook grasped In the great hands |