Evening Star Newspaper, July 25, 1929, Page 32

32 THE ' EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, which our rotates. Dr. Shaepley's announceme! GRLINTWENTES [ E e discovery, which as only one of & succession of steps of greater or less significance. Calls Work, Fun. It might be said that Miss Swope just happened into the fleld of astron- omy. She was puzzling over the choice | of a career after a year in social service | study at the University of Chicago, fol- lowing graduation from Barnard in By the Associated Press. 1926. en a friend told her of an CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 25.—Hen- opening in variable star research at rietta H. Swope, a siin: girl in her | Harvard. Thus it came about that she twenties, has the distinction of being bef‘n investigation of one of the 240 one of the youngest women ever to|flelds of the Shapley milky way re- have participated in a major scientific [ search. discovery. The social whirl has no attraction for She contributed to the studies of Dr.|the young woman scientist. Walking Harlow Shapley, director of the Har-|and riding are her favorite recreations, vard College Observatory, that led to|but her greatest pleasure she finds in | the discovery of the “hub of the uni- { work. | Yerse.” “I'm finding it great.fun now.” she | Thus the daughter of Gerard Swope, | says, “to put together the statistical Ereslflent of the great General Electric [ data I've been compiling on my par- ., does not need the reflected distine- | ticular milky way fleld the last year tion of her father's position to give her [and a half. It is rather exciting to public prominence. find out if one's work has accomplished Found 385 Stars. Two years of painstaking study of astronomical plates yielded to Miss | 7€ b Swope the discovery of 385 new variable stars—all very faint and distant, con- centrated on photographs of one small Youthful Scientist Helps Find “Hub of Universe” in Ma- jor Experiment. Weather Delays Air Mission. earlier this year, revealed that al:h SURVIVORS OF LAST MAN’S CLUB | [rou&“:t stars _was uncovered in the |::: The three old soldiers of Company B's Last Man's Club met again recently anything new. 'But we only gather at St. Paul, Minn., for their annual dinner. Gracing the dinner table was a data. Dr. Shapley interprets it. We | 43-year-old ‘bottle of wine that is to be drupk by the last man of Company B, are his instruments, so the merit must | veteran Civil War company. D. C, THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1929. MRS. HARGREAVES SEEKS DIVORCE Bryan's Daughter Charges Cruelty and Incompatibility in Plea; Asks Custody of Children. By the Associated Press. B‘ LOS - ANGELES, ryan Hargreaves, daughter of the laf Willlam Jennings Bryan, has filed tu'fi for divorce against Richard I Har- | greaves, Beverly Hills, OCalif, president. “She also petitioned for. o custody of their four children. ! _The suit cl Incompatibility. was reached Mrs Hargreaves family were made Then it was stated th b largely a difference ln' m’.fidf’ The couple separated, but Iater Te- united. area of the milky way. Tt was in the analysis of this ma- terial that Dr. Shapley, with Miss By Cable to The Star. milky way system, a massive central take off for Barranquilla, Colombia, en 'lawyer; Charles Gruere, route to Bogota, as soon as weather | director, and Pilot Couret. A five-day CARACAS, Venezuela, July 25.—The | permits, it was announced yésterd Swope, ‘discovered the micleus of the | French commercial alr mission will | The mission includes Pierre Colin, capital. commercial ' raine-plane is to be used. Shop Here Tomorrow—Store Closed All Day Saturday TheHecht Co. 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