New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 29, 1928, Page 4

'NINY POLIGENAN GETS CONFESSION Lientosant Receives Information He Wants Throngh Courtesy | Chicago, Feb. 29.—UP—A police | officer last night offered to take care | of Mrs. Katherine Cleaver's canaries and her dog while she is detained in | the Evergreen park mail train rob- bery investigation. Seventeen min- | utes later she had given him, details on which a federal grand jury in- dictedher husband, Charles (Limpy) | Cleaver, William Donovan and Frank | (Bozo) Meccia. | Kind to Her | T was kind to her. That's how 1| got Katherine Cleaver's confession,” | said Lieut. Michael Naughton, “She reminded me, as I sat the of my own mother, I wouldn't want to know she was lying. I told My Cleaver 30. Then she began to ¢ | “‘You are very kind,’' she =aid.| Then she told her story. | Lieut. Naughton, a police depart ment ace, was called upon for aid after post office inspectors who are in charge of the case, reported themselves unable to make headway in thelr questioning of suspects. Po- lice, who made the original arrest. insisted they had obtained th confessions, back by evidence, the federal men said that the were many missing links in the ev dence police had turned over to them. F. N. Davis, a postal inspector, and Policewoman Mollie Reddy werc present when Mrs, Cleaver made her statement to Lieut. Naughton. ! Mrs, Cleaver's story was that she b overhead Cleaver, Donovan, Meccia | and three others, whose names have | heen withheld, plotting on the night of February 20. The night before the robbery another conference was held | at the Cleaver home, she said, at | which details were completed. Got Breakfast Meccia, she said, brought along the two sticks of dynamite used in blowing the safe of the Grand Trunk mail car. Cleaver furnished dis- guises—hunting suits and masks, she zaid. At 2 o'clock on the morning of the robbery—February ~Mrs. Cleaver ‘ sald she got breakfast for the men. | Her statement related that she made pancakes and in the preparing them | scraped the bottom of her flour bin. | It was in this bin 20 hours later that police found $17,125 in cash and a sumably loot from the 're, vut | i | | Mrs. Cleaver told the officers that ' Donovan's wife “gave the gang away” by calling the Cleaver home & few hours after the holdup and ex- pressing delight over the big “haul” | that had been made. The Cleaver | telephone wires had been tapped by police. 1 “Charley (Cleaver) went wild | when I told him she had called,” Mrs. Cleaver said. “He telephoned Dono- van, and 1 guese the police heard that, too, for they began pouring into the house a little later.” { Last night's indictments forestall- ed efforts to free Cleaver, Donovan and Meccia on habeas corpus action. The indictments charge robbery of the United States mails. | No further announcement has beeny made since Monday of how much money has been recovered. The $17,125 found at the Cleaver home is the only sum definitely announc- ed, although Deputy Police Commis- sioner O’Connor said the full amount recovered is cousiderably greater than that. Sue Carol Reported as Planning Divorce Suit Chicago, I'eb. (#—The Herala and Examiner today said it hadl warned from Los Angeles that Sus Carol, movie actress and one ot this year's Wampas stars, is to take actfon against hLier husband, Allan H. Keefer of Chicago, for divorce| on the ground of descrtion. Miss Carol's real name is Evelyn Tederir fer. She is the daugh- | ter of the late Namuel Lederer, who left his widow and daughter an es- tate valued 5,000 Keefer, who is a buyer for @ stockyards firm, is said to have ex- pressed surprise. | “I didw't know was gu- | ing to sue for « he “but then, I didn't know much els about her, cither p o Hollywood a y 1 the news of her T've % from the movi PASSEN BILL ber of i shght € bill inereasig t Vot 103 to 74 sider the today Rheumatic Pains All Gone In Five Days Fair Drug Dept Invites Every $ar ferer To Try Wonder-Working Formula on Moncy Back Plan It's lard for you liaps—you folks who hn fering untold from leadening ach leave you—t here i remedy that to your * Don't I hold you ba wenerons off ago Biritain wil You fo gain a imatie pa i« making. <ingle thing rel from this wonder- as Allenrhn you of eve money you promptis Remem rhe orki ind ach ) (usually you sho days lon: for several the cystem. rid of urie acid And Kking ed ¥ s waiting for | member you 2 your mon ! soon get us CHARACTER OF DRIVERS FACTOR IN ACCIDENTS Motor Vehicle Commissioner Stoeck- el Talks on Driving to First Church Men’s Club. The personality of the driver is one of the outstanding elements in the average motor accident, accord- ing to Motor Vehicle Commissioner Robbins B. Stoeckel, who spoke to the Men’s club of the First Congre- gational church last evening, Mr. Stoeckel stated that such things as curiosity, negligence, wilfulness in ‘omitting to comply with regulations, all indicate the character of the driver. Only 15 per cent of the driv- ing public figures in accidents, he explained. Classifying drivers of criminal tendencies, he said these are driving while under the influence of intoxi- cants, evading responsibility and reckless driving. He pointed out the difficulty in determining when a man is drunk and said the courts usually conclude the man was drunk if a policeman or eye witness testifies to sceing the offender stagger and ap- pear to lack control of his body. Discussing the reactions of a driv- er who drinks while driving he told of a former aviator who was driv- ing a truck. He had one drink and thought he was back in his plane. He drove to the top of a hill and *“took off”” as he would with a plane, crashing through a fence and into a house, He also discussed new theories of highway building, that of following the tops of ridges rather than in the lowlands and river valleys, PRINCE SHOWS HIS DANCING PROWESS Hops About With Blonde, Then With Brunette Dartford, England, Feb. 28 (P— The Prince of Wales danced with two attractive voung dressmakers, one blonde and the other brunette, last night at the Working Men' club hers It w: with the blonde, To Ivy Bentley, brunctte, it was ircadfully embarrassing.” Both girls came through the excitment with blushes and smiles however. The blonde I declared the prince wag a wonderful dancer but that she m ged to keep step with him and wfter the dance he gave me his arm chair of honor and asked me to have a cigarette.” The brunette Ivy was very shy at the outset but soon got the laugh on the prince when he told her he couldn’t dance the Yale because he erribly thrilling to dance prince” sald was too old. “But, you are doing the Yale st now."” tittred bru- nette Ivy. ‘Am I really Well, T didn’t know it,” replied the prince. The bLrunette Ivy then confided that she hated being stared at and said “Of course, you are used to being ared at hecause you are a prince The prince laughed and said “Well if 1 came here often people would | i me and wouldn’t stare to secing The prince spent part of the eve- | ning in the bar chatting with the men one of whom treated him to a glass of ale. When the prince left, everybody crowded around and tried to shake . hig hand, many succeeded and those who failed consoled themselves by patting him on the back. SOBERING UP STATION State of California Will Operate This Resort At Border Near Tia Juana. San Dicgo, Callf,, Feb. 29.—The state of California today took over control of the *“Sobering up” sta- tion at the international border be- tween San Diego and Tia Juana. The “Sobering up” station is & re- treat where American visitors —re- turning from the Mexican resort way be “interned” for a few hours €0 they will be in condition to drive their automobiles. For several vears it s maintained by San Dicgo which was forced to aban- of lack of funds. new arrangement the Laintain two “inspectors’ 1 will meat all expenses of while the county will the buildings. is cquipped county, don it hecause Under the will state 11 operation ma with 10 resist detention wdition of drivers is hours in detention r their senses they are for more as will are not in condition to time the border closce state will maintain ition f for When 1 wh that vill not « dken to o be protracte other automobiles at the Special Session of Jap Diet to Be Held in April eh The cabl- > 14 davs, and other cinl 1G FUNERAL Bl 2, 29 (UP)—Tw £oi Ivy Nesbit, | adopt leatistied NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, . FEBRUARY 29, 1928, Leap Year Did Not “Just Happen’’; It is Product of Centuries of Mathematics by Greatest Minds Washington, D. C. Feb. 29, “Leap year day, February 29th, is a remin- jder of man's bungling efforts {through thousands of years to frame an accurate calendar,” says a _bul- letin from the Washington, D. C. headquarters of the National Geo- |graphic soclety. “He hasn’t achieved complete accuracy yet,” continues the bulletin, “but he is much clo: to properly measuring the passage | of the years than his remote anc |tors were, or than were the founders of the United States. “It was twenty years after George Washington was born that the Eng- | |1lish speaking world changed its cal- | |endar from ‘Old Style' to the 'New |Style’ that we use today, making & | difterence of eleven days, The in- fant George Washington first saw the light on February 11, 1732; bu we celebrate February 22 as his na tal day, since that conforms to the | | corrected date. Mohammedan New Year “To sce how far we have |gressed in ‘time measurement, one |has only to conmsider the stin, calendar of the Mohammedan world. |In Christendom's calendar our New | Year Day now stays pretty firmly| ifixed in the winter time. Not so the {merrily aroung the calendar, run- {ning the gamut of the seasons every years, | he first calendar was inevitably a moon calendar; for the changes | in the phases of the moon marked the most obvious time cycle after| the short one of day and night. This | unmoditied moon calendar is that {used by Modammedams today. Be- |cause twelve of these lunar months |taken as a year, do not equal the ! | | | pro- lenth of a true sun year by about leleven days, the calendar gains a| year in the number recorded in ap- | proximately 33 years. | Originated in Chaldea “The anclent Chaldeans started | with the lunar year, but discovered the real year as measured by the | revolution of the earth around the | |sun. Secing the error when moon |years were used, they took the fi |steps toward bringing the months and days and years into some sort of harmony. The abandoned the ac- |tual moon months and created the arbitrary monthe such as we have today. These were twelve months | of 30 days each to the year, making | |a 360 day year. This, they consid- |ered to be five days short. The error |was allowed to accumulate for six years and then an extra 30 month was inserted to take care of the 30 accumulated days. Thus they let a | |ziven date slip gradually backward |from its moorings for six years, and |then suddenly brought it forward to |1ts supposed proper position. “As a matter of fact, the earth travels completely around the sun in 385 days, 6 hours, 48 minutes, 145.51 seconds; so under the Chaldean | {method the odd hours, minutes and ! |seconds were ignored. But they could not be abolished. They piled | up to plague the Magi, the priestly keepers of the calendar; and gr ually, recurring events of the y like the solstices and the equinox: slipped away from their prop | dates. i Months Now Misnamed | “The early Romans had first 10, {then 12 arbitrary months, the latter alterna 29 and 30 days long.| From the original Roman months we | et the names ‘September,’ ‘Octobe; ‘November,' and ‘December.’ They | mean ‘seventh,’ ‘elghth,’ ‘ninth,’ and ‘tenth’ although they now relate to lour ninth, tenth, eleventh, and |twelfth months. “The twelve months of 29 and 30 |days gave the Romans a year 354 days long. Then superstition took |a hand: they added one day for luck. |The year was still more than ten days short; 5o every second year an additional month was added, |length decreed by the priests or pon- | {tifis. And there is where graft en- | tered into the making of the cal dar. Days would be dropped out 1o | favor some Influential creditor; or | | IAsl ronom February 29 is Reminder of Man’s Bungling Efforts Through Thousands of Years to Frame Accurate Calendar for Registering Time. months would be lengthened to in- cre: some office holder's tenure, Leap Year Appears “In 48 B. C, Julius Caesar, with the help of astronomers, gave the calendar its greatest reform up to {that time, by the creation of leap| vear and leap year day. He gave 31 days to each of six of the months and 30 days except cbruary, which ordinarily received 29. This gave a year of 365 days. He figured that there were 6 hours left, and that by adding an extra day—which we have come to know as leap year day—he would keep the da actly in accord with |the year. “This approximation of Caesar's was the closest ever made up to that time; but the six hours which he took as the excess was just 11 min- tes and 14.49 seconds too much to fit the facts. The year, which there- tofore had heen figured too short, |became for the first time too long. | {The old year lasted longer than it| should and so lapped over a bit into territory that should have been re. ognized as that of the mew year. events therefore, like the winter solstice, marked suppos- edly by Christmas, fell on earlier and earlier dates, The latter was separated more and more from Christmas Day. Similarly New Year's Day moved farther into winter and toward spring. “By 1582 the accumulated error amounted to 1 4days. But it was only ten days in error from the sit- uation at the time of the meeting of the church council of Nice in 325 A. . So when Pope Gregory turned the calendar back in 1852 he turned it not to the position in Caesar's time but to that in 325 A. D. As a result Christmas still falls four days after the winte olstice instead of at the same time, as it should. “After correcting the calendar, Pope Gregory made a change in the leap year arrangements so that the calendar would not again creep sad approximately 11 1-4 minutes He arranged to have three ar days omitted every 400 ears. This was a much more nearly aceurate calendar than that of Cae- sar, but still there is a shght dis- crepancy amounting to nearly three hours in 400 ¥ or slightly more than 44 minutes per century. In about 3,261 years after the Gregor- n corrcetion the calendar, in spite of the usual inserted and omitted Ieap years, will be in crror by one day, so that an extra leap year day will have to be omitted. It is prob- able, therefore, that the year 4544 although supposedly a leap ¥ will have only 28 days in its Feb- ruary—i February and the present calendar survive that long. “The English expression, year,' is rather an indirect one, refers to the fact that after Feb. tuary 29th a given date ‘leaps over’ an extra day. Thus March 1, fell on Monday and March 1, 1527 on Tuesday; but March 1, 1928 will “leap over' to Thursday. In the lan- ved from the Latin, and ientific circles in English, leap s known by a variant of the ‘leap year old Roman derived term, ‘bissextile year” The extra day inserted by Julius Caesar was placed between the 24th and the 25th of March, the latter known as sexto calendas. The lextra day was therefore known as bis-sexto calendas. One of the most sicturesque expressions for leap year oceurs in Swedish—Skottar.” It means literally, ‘sprout’ or oot year,” and carries the idea that an oxtra day has sprouted on the year as a green shoot springs from a tree trunk.” PRINCE ENGAGED Berlin, Feb. ung says Prince Otto Von Bis- Ze of a!marck, 30-year-old grandson of the | iron chancelior, is engaged to wed Miss Tengbom, daughter of Profe ;sor Tengbom, Swedish architect. The | prince is retary of the German legation at Stockliolm, 1Doctor Found Women and Children Sick More QfEn than Men a family doctor at Monticello, | the whole human body, not | t of it, was Dr. Cald- ce. More than lalf his on women, children and They are the ones most ofi- ' But thelr fllncsses wor of a mivor nature— headaches, billousne t a thorough | constipated. | fevers, all of them required fi They w In the course of Dr. Caldweil's 47/ {evacuation. practice (he was graduated rom Rush Medical college back in! 1575) he found a good deal of suc- s in such cases with a prescrip- ars’ of his own containring simple! ive herbs with pepsin. In 1562 «d to use this formula in the re of a medicine to be Dr. Caldwell's Syriup Pep- in, and in that year his preseription 1s first placed on the mour The preparation imm a snceess fously had in te Iy ha n the drug stores Dr. C tiate pri ird & - giving it to their i 7 second re to buy it Caldwell's 1sed somewhe e zre merit, on user telling repe try that of Dr are Cald Tiav | While women, childr Iy prople are especially benefited by to the alternate months, | —{P)—Vossische | $21.908 REDUCTION IN NEWINGTON LIST Board of Reliel Acts on Petitions for Assessment Cuts x(ewmgton, Feb, 29.—The board of relief hag announced that reduc- tions totaling $21,908, have been al- lowed. This amount is larger than last year. A total of 40 petitions for reductions, which is larger than usual, is probably the cause for the reductions. The board of assessors revised its method of asscssing property on the main streets this | year and as a result of the increased assessments, a large number of tax- payers sought relief, {of the board of relief are George Holt, T. H. Cogswell and N. C. Avery. The total of reductions was di- vided as follows: land $10,720; lots, 15,262; houses, $5.526; and automo- biles, $400. The board also award- i(‘d an additional exemption for mili- | tary service of $900. No increases were made in ussessments by the | board. ] Personal Tax Case ‘Walter T. Allen of Hartford, a for- mer resident of this town, was placed on probation for ‘a period of one month by Justice of the Peace Stanley Welles at a\ session of the | town court last night on a charge of fallure to pay personal tax. Judge Welles took into consideration the | fact that Allen has 12 children who are dependent upon him for support |and court costs were $2.85. Taxes lof $3 each for Allen’s wife and him- ¥79 Dr. ldwell's Syrup Pepsin, it is promptly effective on the most ro- | bust constitution and in the mos obstinate cases. - It is mild and gen- 1 in its action and does not cause griping and strain, Containing opiates nor narcotics, it i * © tiniest y. Childrer ) ke it willingly, a store sells Dr. Cald- well's Syrup Pepsin, Keep a bottr in your home—where mahy live omeone is sure to need it quickly. We would be glad to have you prove at our expense how much Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin can mean 0 yo W yours. Just write Syrup | Monticelio, Tlinois and Fi will SAMPLE BOTT paid 4 The members | C: E D are due by the end of the 30 days. Allen was arrested. by Conastable ‘E. Floyd Rice in Hartford, Friday night on a warrant issued by Grand Juror Harold G. Lucas by order of Tax Collector E. B. Proudman, Dairying Lecture At Grange The regular meeting of the Grange was held last evening in the Grange hall, A member of the farm bureu addressed the meeting on the subject |of dairying and the music commit- tee presented a special program. The Misses Agnes and Hilma Ring- quist presented a short sketch, Grange Club Election At a meeting of the Newington Grange club held Monday evening, C. 8. Barrows was elected president, E. A. Elliott, secretary, and H. B. Blake, purchasing agents and treas- urer. The directors of the club were |elected for the coming year as fol- lows: James E. Parker, H. 8. Rlake, 8. Barrows, O. M. Hosford, E. A. Elliott Harry C Goodale and Charles | L. 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