New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 2, 1927, Page 33

ROLLS DICE T0 WIN HIS LIBERTY Alabama Prisoner Gambles With the Judge Birmingham, Ala., Dee. »— Haled before Judge H. B. Aber- nathy, in the Birmingham court of misdemeanors, a negro miscreant char; with shooting dice was offered the chance to “pass” his way to freedom. | Onto his knees went the defend- ant with a pair of dice. From his | perch on the beneh Judge “Ab” | down at the {vor DML AvraNaaay ing over the courtroom dozen wide-eyed forward to wa “Seven it is floor. A spectators leancd | ch the outcome, * exclaimed the pri- soner. A And the furist who meets resi- | dents of Birmingham's negro quar- | ter on grounds with which they are familiar pointed a finger at tl kneeling man and gave his decl- | slon: “Not guilty.” ! Several times the judge has cut | cards with prisoners of whose guilt he had some doubt. His col- leagues recognize him an as antho ity on the psychology of the negroes with whom he often de Once, when a prisoner pleaded lilty to minor offense, Judge “Ab” directed him to get down on his knees and pray for forgiveness. A feeble voice came up. “Louder!” directed the eourt The low tone went into a sturdy ! bass for five minutes, and the pri- soner was discharged. | RAILROADS ABLE - TO RAISE CAPITAL Stock Sales Again Are Per- missible New York, Dec. 2. (P improving earnings and fner operating efficlency of the country's | railroads during the past few years have placed many of the leading systems in a position fo raise nes capital through the sale of stock for the first time since the World war. Rallroad financing in the first | nine months of 1927 totalled $ 774,187, of which $172,205,157 w stock. This compared with toalt financing of $339,402,000 in the cor- | responding period of 1926, of which | only $10,240,000 represented stock. Railroad credit in the post-war period had sunk so low that many roads were compelled to raise new | capital zolely through the sale of | bonds and notes bearing interest | rates of 6 and even 7 per cent. This | continued emisslon of bonds, with | thefr heavy fixed charges, resulted in unbalanced and unwieldy capi- | tal structures, which gradually are | being corrected through the retire- ment of honds and the sals of stoek. The Interstate Commerce | Commission has readily granted | approval for railroad stock jssues wherever the credit of the road was such as to assure a ready sale ot par or better. Little Financing Now Little new railroad stock financ- ing is in prospect for the near fu- | ture, however. Railroad hankers point out that the large systems which could easily sell additionat stock already have retired as many high coupon bonds as were redeem- able and bad no immediate need of cash, while the earnings position of others, particularly in the North- west, had not yet reached a point where etock financing was feasible or profitable. The Great Northern, for example, recently sold & $20,000,000 issus of 5 per cent bonds. Improved earnings of railroads have been due to heavier traffic pnd greater operating efficiency, which has been accomplished by making | the engines run further and faster, increasing the length of 'rahm‘K keeping terminals clear of con- | gestion and rolling stock in good | repair and assuring better coopera- tion between the carriers and ship- pers through frequent regional con- ferences and othor means of closo contac adily New Issues In 1928 A new stock offering by the Mis- ! souri Pacific is regarded in Wall Street as llkely next year as part of plans, now under consideration by a special committee of directors. to wipe out nearly $50 in accumu- lated dividends on the preferred issue. The Southern Rallway has $20,000,000 in common stock un- issucd of the $30,000,000 additional authorized late in 1926 and, it buai- ness along the line warrants, it fs | probablo that this stock will be sold | during the coming year. | One of the largest stock offerings his year was $49,000,000 in pre- ferred stock of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Rallroad, the proceeds of which were used to l DAY of the war debt to the govern- | ment and for other capital pur- The Canadian Pacific offered 000 of new ordinary stock wivholders at $150 a share ana 1} | 1sting | According | be ! Aroostook $1. only, Photo of Complete Disclose Thirty Billion Stars - (President, University of California) Berkeley, Cal, Dec. 2. (P—The | wonderful reflecting telescopes which have become avallable in the last 30 years and the photographic dry-plate have enabled the astrono- mers to make astounding discov- eries about the sta The best eves, unassisted by tele- scope, are able to count no more than 7,000 stars in the entire sl It time could be taken by trained | observers to sweep the largest ex- telescopes over sky, approximately one million stars could be noted the whole hundred NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1927. Sky Might | If with our modern reflecting tel- | cscopes we were to malke long-ex- nosure photographs of the complete sky; under good conditions, the photographic plates would record tho Images of at least three bil- lion stars—three hillion suns. Radiation of Star Light Our sun, our star, s helieved 16 be appreclably smaller and radiate less light than does the average star of the three billions. It is vossible that the number of stellar sorded with long-exposnure photographs secured with the 100- inch reflecting telescope of the Mt. Wilson Observatory misht even be ¢ large as thirty billion: T am speaking only of sta in our own galactic system; system whose most conspict feature is the Milky Way, A1 who for a time dwell away fr the glare of electric lights haye seen and admired. The stars in our own stellar ey tem do mot exist at greater greater distances indefinitely, are contained within a volume space which {s somewhat the shape of a relatively very thin watch, or double convex lens. An observer on with- but Ithe earth, situated near the centrat | iplane of this lenslike figure, and at some distance from its center, iviewing the Milky Way, is looking ! out through the greatest sions of our stellar system direction of the edges of n the the lens | figure. Speed of Light Uncertain tual dimensions of our em are still uncertain. to Shapl of light, traveling 186,000 les per cond, would require 300, 000 years of travel from cne cdge of the system, il nter, to a star on tl site edge of the 2 » mor> conservatize estimate 200,000 light years. The ness of the system, using t e time s is perhaps one-fiflecnth as great; that is, from 14,000 to 20,000 light years. The two most interesting of Huli- Th stellar < a 1 m ahout a star on through opy aps would thick- sys and | of | DR. W. W, CAMPBELL By W. W. Campbell, LL.D. Sc.D, | ble's eroup of great spiral nebulae, { known as Messier 31 and Messier proved to be sl more than | 900,000 N Know- ular of these it 13 casy to say tl ter of Messier 31 is wpou® t and of Messicr 400 These are lig light. years. im values. Stars Larger Than Sun ronomers now hold confident- to the belief that each of these ts contains tens of millions- of stars larger on the than our sun. It is but a brief step to the cral conclusion that the tens thousands of epiral nebu stellar systems situat Gifferent and enormous dists fromm u« There appears to b reason to doubt that many of these e recorded upon our raphic plates lie at such stu- tances that their light now reaching us ources nty milijon, lion, or a hundred mil- Iy ohje gen- groat objeets ly | photog pendous d ¥s which left their or fif lion years @ knowledge of the pears to be in harmony that our stellar bula and that spiral nebula. Our spiral nebulae ay with the hypot system is @ spiral are living in a 5,000,000 additional to officers and cmployes. Other stock sales either completed or in preparation since anuary 1 include the New York Central, $38,325,000; Baltimore and Yhio. §16,08 ; St. Louis and San co, $15,096,200 61,600, and Old 401» Franci $891,700, (NEA Service, New York Bur As a page of the court Que Anne—that's how Mrs. Edwin Rob- inson was ‘ostumed at a New York benefit for the Victoria Home for the Aged in England. The Queen’s at- tire would have been more appro- priate! au) For Particulars Newspapers Next Week ERppRfteeRnRRn? Watch in the Iy Ie iy i P i ? ? i ? ? | n | B ) NEW YORK STATE - TALK EXECUTION and | {Aligady Has Put Two Women, fo Death New York, Dee. 2. (B—The chapter in the somber story of the y murder case soon 15 to , and New York wondc tened clectrocution autiful Ruth ler “back therc'—the death -is to become, some t early morn of January January 15 | snyder-G be writ s ne 9 ® chambe Letween and midnight of flashing actuality. Governor Al 8mith becomes a co- star with Mrs. Snyder in the dramna as the final act ne; He is the sole dispen: of clemency And New York recalls that few, extremely few, governors have shown a disposition hetween sexes in such matters. Judd Gray? He Docsn't Matter Fxtraordinary appeals to the courts present possibilities, too, with yehiatrists and psychoanalysts summoned to the aid of Mrs. der's lawyer in an eleventh attempt to fnvoke theories of pressions,” Terotie | “mental distortion er behalf. | But the governor in his office at { Albany and Ruth Snyder in her lit- {tle cell at Ossining, hard by the voomt where they keep the the story Sny- hour nd the like in has down. Judd G the dapper | set salesman, almost h gotten. It doesn't seem to much to New York mow | Judd Gray lives or dics. Two other women both mothe ave been cleetrocuted in New York state. Before that, five were hanged | All had heen convicted of murder. Mrs. Martha, Place went to the | chair March 21, 1899, and Farmer followed her March 29, 11909, Both died courageously. They | betrayed no “feminine weakness.” Mrs. Martha Place murdered stepehild and attempted to murder her husband with xe. Robert | Ingersoll called her execution a “dis- | grace to the state,” and Theodo Rooscvelt, then governor, s ! verely criticised for not to prevent it | That was before women had dri cn war wances and done Re Cross work. A woman was suppo ! to be i 1t was suppose an clectrocution would | she could bear with equar York was amazed when Mrs failed to collapse. | Two Women Among the Spectators The night before she spent in | prayer. At nine in the morning she ate a substantial breakfast, with | two cups of coffee. afterward she was dressed in nereal black, with a skirt which came to the floor. Ske worc only one | stocking, little cor- heen®for- matter was acting d | Mrs. Place entered the death | chamber with eyes tightly closed so | she might not see the chair. She was | backed into it, and the apparatus | snapped into place. Two women were among the spec- | tators. “What kind of women were uhm," one newspaper writer asked, iverage | 1a6t | of | in gray | to distinguish tendencies,” | chief characters to ! simnared | whether Mary | - | pathy s more than | nity. New | Place | Immediately | fu- | so0 the electrode might be | | applied immediately below the knee. | | “whose pulses are so even and whose nerves so true they could come, un- | moved, into such a place as this?" | T'hese women made one final ges- | ure of femininity, As the warden | about to put the electrodes in | place, they held out their full, long | {ekirts and made a screen, “moved | | by common impulse to hide what he | doing from the men who were | stooping forward with petritied | agerness to miss no detail of the was New York, Morrow, pri Corporation, recto bank. Mr. Mor dent of the Wa Company, vi veetor of and and Ch 4 h is Dead sllence prevailed. In a few minutes the affair was over. Ten years later, Mrs. Mary Farm- | v was electrocuted in Auburn pris- on. She was a poor woman, married 10 a poor man. She murdered a more prosperous nelghbor and ook | iossossion of her estate. The night | ; before her execution she confessed | ity ter guilt and made a statement fn | 57 )5, shich she absolved her husband. | Sho divided her last night be- | {ween prayer and wriing a long | litter to her infant s After being dressed waist and skirt for v Owe, ried 3 th declining $3 159, | vanced ina shirt- | ana Lon her execution, | forig s gave away the pack of ¢ards | jand in the with whicl: she had played solitaire ! niore ac s0 often during her 11 months of | jound imprisonment, “I will go quietly, llke a queen going to God's high court, to atone for my sins,” she said. though her appearance vegal. | She was allowed, on the way to | chair, to see her husband, Janies | Farmer, who was in a cell in an- | |other part of ths prison. Their | ‘grrbtlng was warm, but was withou |even a handshake, by the warden's orders, A _Photograph Next to Her Heart | With two men and two women at- |tendants she was taken into the |death chamber. Her skirt and her | stocking on one side were slit to the linees. Without a tremor or a mur- |mur, Mrs. Farmer sat down in the chair and was securcly strapped. Current was applied three times be- fore she was pronounced dead Pressed to her heart under- taker found a photograph of her child. | There was no sentiment | against the execution of Mrs Farm er than for Ars. Place. Charles E Hughes, governor ot the state, was | urged to act in her behalf, but did not. Thousands of letters and appeals from all parts of the coun- | try did not change his attitude. either Mrs. Farmer nor Mrs. Place was a woman who approachcd Ruth Snyder in appearance, or in | education, or social background. But both we stoics. New York wonders what Ruth's final day will be like 1f the ¢ dar's drab count is not inte with, | = | WwWOoM Warsaw, [ Polish p ‘l est styl d was not | Moberly, Mo., souri has a men rule it Urbandale, tl . Ruth Stam less DISCOVER SILK | Poland, Dec. - ant girls, to he the , simply must have a | erepe de chine blouse or dress for | Sundays, otherwise they would dir yrnn Jealousy or anger. | | Tt all happened beeause two younsg | students introduc some silk | { worms into the ¢ silk Industry is flourishing. Poland is, nevertheless, a coun- | Urbandale of beautiful linen. Fields of | (all, when res are gcen everywhere and nearly | scttlement de u” peasant cloth, though very thick, [ better in a civic at time is pure linen fenti unto itself But the peasant women who for centuries have been wearing only wool and linen now find their ward- | robe fncompleto without a eilk blousa or dre: The traditional linen blouse will a thing of the past on the arms as the girls fall more with th in MES. RUiT man of the izenry. lr the la tir village, the governing 1y of women At first imediately | =0on b heautiful Polish and more in line ousins. progr Lct of two ac ial street car lines operated by the munictpality of Sydney, N | W, Tost £250,000 in the past year, in B | comparison with a profit of $225,000 ' government in the previous twelvemonth, the to retire { change being ascribed to auto bus | April. competition. | lont ot, Board membe problems, MRS, LINC Madison, naisle Deaths Lawrence Stauff 15-months-old £on of Bdward Stautf of 119 Fra e e ernoon of double pneumonta at the | home of his parente. | The funeral will be hield tomorrow afternoon at o'clock at the Burial will be n St. Mary's ‘Wis. to an Belmont, sented Lawrenc | Mr. and Mrs. Clarence W, | home. e cemete pound your pres New advt, Funerals || e CARD OF 7T NKS | We wish to th k our friends and neighbors for the kindness and ‘mpathy shown us during our re- cent bereavement in the death of our beloved daughter, Alma and also for the beautiful floral offer- mnn received. Mr, and Mrs. pearl; Joseph Bianco, CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank our friends and neighbors for the kindness and sym- own us during our recent Lereavement fn the death of our bhe- toved husband and father and also | for the beautiful floral offerings re- | ceived. We espeeially wish to thank Dept. , Stanley Rule and Level, the American Railway Express em- | plovees, Baggage Dept. of the New | York, N. H.,.and Hartford railway, ! the Cathollc Transcript and the pu- pils of the Sth grade of the St | Mary's Parochial school. (Signed) MRS, JOHN MALARNEY, Joseph A. Haffey UNDERTAKER Phone 16252 Opposite St. Mary's Church. Residence 17 Summer S1.—1625-3. BOLLERER’S POSY SHOP Graves covered for the winter with Hem- lock, Pine, Laurel, Boxwood, Red Rus- cus.’ Cemetery wreaths made to order. 53 W. Main 6t Prof. Bldg. Tel. 888 “The Telegraph Florist of New Britain” came Sultan his late Dec. nt of at the Wik, shawl that helong to Todd Lincoln has been presented | the Wisconsin State Histori | tv museum hy Mrs. Mars he shawl One way to restore the lustra of experts have found, is to im- merse them in honey 2 ow Ite Wall Street Briefs P)—George W. | Gold Dust | 1 a di- | th 1 elec National pr efinin also is inz Company, mington Rand, rown and Co. atter pre r ende. 1 to § Copper Export ice of ¢ at H 1 14 rep: on > at 13 ered. Dec. iny town.” lage composed of ten houses, population of ex: 1e ed on the outskirts r per village board, ' ountry and now the | ofthand the neses of the town's cit s led it way men board compos: astonished, ot am, at each housa should st or ente v Ul N I an B ve cripth Prescription Dept.—a Lunch Spec father's harem—a measure for so gentle-faced a young (cree handed man! stic ctly s Sheet Glass Com- 4 a share on the red dividends, pt. 30, against ir before, et from Inc., has unburg 15 cents. Good orted, and de- market is to 14 cents a RULED BY FAIR SEX - i Consists of 10 Houses, and 35‘ People , and wo- iny town,” of Mol leming, PLEMING can c corporated this | of the little WALL STREET NEWS THE MARKET AT 230 P M, | (Furnished | by Putnam & Co.) 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(P—A Mary to 1l £ocle- 11 Sweet, was pre tor of Mrs Sweet by Robert Todd Lincoln, City Items fnerd who ha w Britain as a p) | tor over twenty W ons at The Fair dvt (NEA Service, Paris Bureau) When young Moulay Hamada be-| ot Morocco the thing he did was to rid himself of |children shall attend and what re- stern |llgion they shall adopt, firs and that | coni- Crowell's.— Willys Overland 153 Woolworth .195% n | LOCAL STOCK MARKET (Furnished by Putoam & Co.) Insurance Stocks. Bid Asked 240 1260 S10 §20 Aetna Casualty | Actna Life Ins Co . Aetna Fire .. Automobile, Ing . Hartford Fire National Fire Phoenix Fire I'ravelers Ins Co Conn, General Manu American Hard Am Hosiery ... ton & Cadwell Hfd Cpt Co com .. | Billings & Spencer com Billings & Spencer pfd Bristol Brass Colt's Arms ock . 12 fnir Bearing Co .... | Hart & Coo | Landers, I ... N B Machine .. N B Machine pfd Niles-Be-Pond com ... North & Judd . r owe & Wil . Russell Mig Co. coville Mf Standard Scr nley Works . 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Mis Lieutenant Colonel Vernon president of the Fed- That the father has the nhflolum’ right to choose what schools his| Is the de- down by a London magistrate. PUTNAM & CO. Members New York & Hartford Stock Exchanges 31 WEST MAIN ST. NEW BRITAIN TEL 2040 HARfiORD OFFICE, 6 CENTRAL ROW TELEPHONE 2-1141 L4 We offer Phoenix Insurance Co. Price to Yield About 5.66% Thomson, enn & Q]l'u Suite 501, Commercial Trust Co.. Bldg., New Britain Members of New York and Hartford Stock Exdnnn Edward L. Newmarker, Manager We Offer: Equitable Trust Company of New York Price on Application. EDDY BROTHERS & HARTFORD NEW WN& rtford Conn. Trust Bldg. Burritt Hotel ¢ { Bldg, Tel.2-7186 Tel. 3420 We Offer and Recommend: Aetna Life Insurance Co. Hospital Benefit Bridge, Dec. 3rd Fuller, Richter, Aldrich & Co. COMMUERCIAL TRUST BUILDING NEW BRITAIN MEMBERS HARTFORD STOCK EXCHANGE Joseph M. Hailoran Tel, 1253 Harold C. Mott We Offer: Aetna Life Insurance Co. Fidelity and Deposit Co. Our Healthiest Youths These two young folk were chosen as the healthiest girl and boy in the United States in a national contest of the Boys' and Girls’ 4-H clubs held in connection with the International Livestock Exposition in Chicago. The girl is Marie Antrim, 15, of King- man, Kas,, and the boy is J. Fred Christensen, 18, of College Springs, Ia.