Sir Flinders Petrie Plans New Excavations

Sir Flinders Petrie brings his 48 years’ experience gained in Egypt to bear on the problems of the Old Testament and on the correlation of the little known Palestinian archaeology with that of Egypt, so much longer studied, Lady Flinders Petrie writes in the “Times,” appealing for funds to assist Sir Flinders’ researches on the Egyptian border of Palestine. Her appeal is supported in another letter signed by the Chief Rabbi, Dr. J. H. Hertz, the Bishop of London, the Lord Mayor of London, H. G. Wells, and others.

Sir Flinders, Lady Petrie says, hopes to find the headquarters of David’s bodyguard, with perhaps the military dispatches and much else that may throw light upon a civilization, of which we have few actual remains. He is at present occupied on a great settlement of Hykso’s Age. This is our great opportunity, she proceeds, for epoch-making discoveries in the periods of the Persian and Assyrian conquests, the Biblical Pharoahs, the Jewish Monarchy, the Exodus, and, last but not least, the Patriarchs them selves.

Dr. Mortimer D. Jones, medical superintendent of Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, N. Y., whose administration was investigated in 1927 on charges that he practiced religious discrimination and was guilty of mismanagement, was ordered to a similar position at the City Hospital on Welfare Island, a smaller institution. Dr. Charles B. Bacon, head of City, Hospital, takes over the Brooklyn institution. William Schroeder, Jr., Commissioner of Hospitals, in ordering the transfers, refused to comment on their meaning.

Dr. Jones was relieved of his duties while city officials were investigating charges that three Jewish internes at Kings County Hospital had been beaten up by other internes and that the institution was being mismanaged. He later was reinstated. Serveral months ago Rabbi Louis D. Gross of Union Temple, Brooklyn, offered to give additional evidence of the latter charge.