Evening Star Newspaper, June 20, 1930, Page 30

BANKERS ADVISE ESSSPERILATON Vast Educational Program i Outlined at Institute Convention. @7 the Associated Press. DENVER, June 20.—Less speculation, | more thrift, will be the gist of advice that the American Institute of Banking is going to give American people in a ‘wast program of education that will em- brace hundreds of radio talks and pub- Ushed articles. ‘The public education committee of the institute laid its plans today at the annual convention. program map- out is & continuation of one begun t year, when 300,000 persons were reached through one medium or an- other with the gospel of thrift. ‘The public education committee re-| ported that it considered its work a very important service to the Nation. A. S. Puelicher of Milwaukee, Wis., sketched the history of the educational | movement of the American Bankers' Association, saying it was organized in 1919, when “radical forces were making w& in the world.” He said the ers decided it was unwise to com- No-Murder-News Policy Has Resulted In Mass Approval By the Associated Prets. EL DORADO, Ark., June 20.— Crime news, a deluge of mes- sages would indicate, is not to the liking of a great_portion of newspaper readers & large ter- ritory served by the El Dorado Daily News. Recently the news adopted a policy of “no murder stories on the front page” as an experiment to test readers’ interest. Since then, the telegraph, the telephone and the mails have brought a stream of messages to the newspaper expressing ap- proval of its course. PLAYWRIGHT DIES | Geraldine Bonner, Author of “Hard Pan,” Expires in Gotham. | NEW YORK, June 20 (#).—Gerald- |ine Bonner, author and playwright, died {here Wednesday. For more than five years she had suffered from arthritis, | during which time she worked on sev- | eral plays. She was the daughter of John Bon- ner, well-known editor of the San Fran- cisco Argonaut. Miss Bonner's first | book, “Hard Pan,” was published in} 1900, | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1930. Tue Hecur Co. F- Street at 7th NEW PLANET’S PERIOD SEEN AT 251.8 YEARS Figures on Pluto Computed From Records Discovered on 0ld Photographs. By the Associated Press. CAMBRIDGE, Mass,, June 20.—Sci- entists at Mount Wilson Observatory, Pasadena, Calif, have calculated a final perjod of 251.8 years for the new planet Pluto. Announcement of the ealculations was made here by the Harvard Observa- tory, which acts as the official distribut- ing agent for American observatories. The calculations were made possible through the discovery of photographic plates taken at Mount Wilson in 1919 and the computations made W&m B. Nicholson and N. U. Ma of the Mount Wilson Observatory. Prof. Frederick Seares, assistant director of the Californian observatory, sent notice of the discovery of the observatory here. The new planet will be nearsst the | earth in 1988, when it will be 30 astro- nomical units distant, or 2.800,000,000 miles. This is approximately the dis- tance of Neptune. COMISKEY’S KIN ROBBED E. J. Whitman “Taken for Ride” in Chicago by Gangsters. CHICAGO, June 20 (#).—Elmer J. Whitman, a nephew of Charles A. Comiskey, owner of the Chicago White Sox, was “taken for a ride,’ robbed and finally dumped out of his abductor’s motor car eight miles from Danville, I, last night. It is believed he was mistaken for some one else and that he was released only after the kidnapers of images of the new transneptunian | had realized their error. COOL, DELIGHTFUL WASH DRESSES In the Newest Styles Saturday! A Dramatic Radio Scoop! 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