New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 13, 1930, Page 3

FIND NEW PLANET BEYOND NEPTUNE Harvard Observatory in Arizona | Credited With Discovery Cambridge, Mass., March 13 (P — Professor Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard observatory, today NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1930. FOOTBALL LEADER SAYS PROHIBITION (Continued From First Page) not carry bars in violation law. “Do you know.” LaGuardia went {on, “that young Dollar asked Sena- of the announced receipt of word from the |tor Copeland (democrat, New York) Lowell observatory at Flagstaff, Ari- zona, of the discovery there of a ninth major planet of the solar sy: tem. The planct, as yet unnamed, is beyond Neptunc and probably larger thai the earth but than Uranus. Dr. Shapley hailed the discovery one of the most important in a: tronomy since that of Neptune in 1846, The year of research which led to the definite determination of the existence of the trans-Neptune body have confirmed President A, Lawrence Lowell of Harvard, that such a planet existed, Dr. Shapley said. Systematic research begun ago supplementing Lowell's invest gation for a trans-Neptunian planet has revealed an object which for ven weeks has in rate of motion and path consistency conformed to the trans-Neptunian body at the ap- proximate distance he assigned. Distance Unknown Dr. Shapley said the distance of the new planet by not been definitely computed and neither had its orbit been calculated 8s far as he knew. The known planets until today were in the order of their remote- ness from the sun, Mercury, Venu, Tarth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus smaller |t the belief of |hibition i the late Percival Lowell, brother of | national yond Neptune had | to keep me from repeating that charge, because it would damage his business if he had to closc the bars?” Wants It Stricken Out | Representative Dy republican, | Missouri, asked that this part of the |testimony be stricken from the rec- | ord, saying it was untrue as he had travelled on six Dollar ships. LaGuardia, however, presence of bars had been admitted. | Another witne: John A. Me- |Sparren of I'urness, Pennsylvania, said he had sought to keep the pro- sue out of the democratic convention at Houston, Texas, but the party had forced it in and that he did not know of a can- didate “running on a straight tick- et” who had received fewer votes {in the electoral college than Alfred | E. Smith. | her Statement Ready As Stagg testified those in charge |of the witnesses appearing in sup- {port of prohibition held a brief en- dorsing the cighteenth amendment | prepared by Professor Irving Fisher lof Yale, the well know cconomist. | Fisher was not in the committee |room and it was undecided whether the bricf would be ready at today's on. Stagg, whose name is known to college students-throughout the na- tion, is one of the veteran coaches of ithe Western Conference, an organi- BENEFITT0 YOUTH insisted the | business men are habitual violators of the prohibition laws. Hesltates to Use Words He said he hesitated to use the word *fanatic” as he would hesitate to use the word “bigot” as both |terms were employed for the most part “by folks who live in large and spacious” glass houses. “However,” he added, “it is quitc evident from the character of a large part of the 'wet testimony given in these hearings that many of the leading opponents of prohi- bition will go to any extreme of wild mis-statement in an endeavor to make their case. Slander and ma- licious libel have become a large part of their stock in trade. They are willing to tear down respect for all law because of their dislike for one law. | “One docs not need to be a prohi- Ibitionist to realize that the cirect |statements and decided inference of those business men who testified for the wets has been harmful in thi country. “It has been alleged here by Mr. Grayson M. P. Murphy of New Yo |in particular that all the busines: |men of his acquaintance violate the eighteenth amendment to the con- his decided inference was that busi- ness men generally throughout the country disobeyed this law. “Of course. that is not true. It is far from the truth. But what is the cffect of such statements upon the growing boys and girls or upon that section of the laboring popula- tion of the country which does not have opportunity to know the truth and may be led to believe the worst ? Says It Is “Publicity Scheme” Denouncing the present investiga- tion as “primarily a publicity hear- ing” Sherwood erted that if business men generally thought the repeal or modification measures be- |fore the committee had any pros- |pect of passage, “the capitol would |not be large enough to hold the stitution of the United States and| 3 have been “overwhelmingly bene- ficlal to the American people” end that “the fact that its observance and enforcement is not one hundred | per cent perfect is poor argument for |its repeal.” Professor Farnham said that “the social and economic evils of the liquor traffic” could be handled only |by “the cooperation of the states and the nation as contemplated in| |the 15th amendment.” Washington. March 13 (UP)—The |old warning that a gentleman can | never win an argument with a lady did not dissuade wet members ef | | the house judiciary committee who today recalled half a dozen dry | women witnesses for further cross- | | examination. The experience of the wets, par-| | ticularly Reps. LaGuardia, republi- can, of New York city, and Celler, | democrat, of Brooklyn, during near- | |1y three hours ot close questioning | vesterday, did, however, throw a damper upon further proceedings. The two attorne eterans of iu- | | numerable debates in the courtroom | and upon the house floor, indicated | they were about ready to concede | | the last word to the so-called weak.r | sex, in the hearing on bills to repeal | or modify the 18th amendment. Graham Resigns Post Their 79-year-old confere, the wut chairman of the committee, Re Graham, republican, Pa., concedad the ladies that much from the start and has declined to question them, leaving them the word jousting (o his rasher and younger associates. For nearly three hours LaGuard.a and Celler cajoled, pleaded and ar- sued with the ladies about prohibi- tion and its cffects, but the resuits of their efforts were only such an- swers as: “You are trying to twist | my language and put words in my mouth,” “You know that, why do vou ask me?" I never heard of corn liquor in my life.” “I am aware sonic liquor is being drunk in this coun- try.” The ladics, part of a delegation of | and Neptune. business leaders of the country who | k3 “ o 3 | zation composed of ten big universi- y 2 000,000 - ; Mercury is °"‘YL 28:566.000.000 | tjoq in the midwest. He said his miles from the sun at its nearest ab- | home training “in comparative proach while Neptune is calculated | poverty was all that could be desired to_be 2,769,000,000 miles away. | but the environment in which I play- led was far from helpful.” Neptune's passage around the sun Saloons Instead of Movies requires 176 years. I Neptune was discovered mathe- | matically much in the same way that the existence of the new planet wz first surmised because of certain e cularities in the orbit of Neptun Lowell's observations of the phe- nomena led him to deduce the exis- | tence of another planet Deyond | ®¢ Neptune. | our substitutes for the movies, the theater, the motor car, the radio, the | seashore, reading and all. In bad luck men drowned their sorrows at the bar; in good luck, they celebrat- t there. Like Neptune, the new body is fn- | has been put into effect, hundreds of | Dollar Lines; J. C. Penney, founder | Aldrich, 2 | had |Of the Penney Chain Stores; Orrin | thousands more children have |a fairer start in life than existed in | pre-prohibition day With the | breakdown of the home lifc and visible to the naked SCHMALZ TO BE TAKEN | ble to think what this revolt of youth | might have Ied to were prohibition Man Held in Girl's Slaying to Ap-|not in operation.” | Cross examination of a number ot | the women who have urged support of the 15th amendment was under- | taken today by the committee and George I Schmalz of 35 Armis-|two members asked for Mrs, Henry tice street, this city, will be brought | W. Peabody of Beverly, Mass., who before the grand jury at Hartford | has been in charge of presentation at 10 o'clock next Monday morning | Of the women witnesses. She was 1o be indicted for the murder of |absent from the committee room at Miss Mary Velicka in this city, ac-|the time. cording to an announcement by mrl Chairman Graham said she would office of State’s Attorney Hugh M.!be present later and the committee Alcorn. | then had its attention airected b It had been tentatively planned | Representative LaGuardia to a let- to present Schmalz on Tuesday, but | ter from Baron De Munn to Horace word came to the local police yester- | Taft, brother of the late jurist, deny- day to summon witnesses for Mon-|Ing that his wine growers' organiz- day's session instead. Schmalz will |ation was engaging in a tremendous be fried at the present term of su- | anti-prohibition campaign in this perior court, it is expected. country. Women Appear Today Mrs. Pea- sted that the women she presented be permitted to finish pear at 10 o'Clock Monday Morning in Hartford. McINTYRE-HAMPTON LEAD At yesterday's session Miami, Fla, March 13 (®—Neil|body had in Meclntyre of Indianapolis and Harry Hampton, Chicago, were one up on | offering their prepared testimony be- Cy Walker, Saddle River, N. J., and | fore being questioned. This finally Clarence Gamber at the end of nine| was agreed to. Several of the wom- holes in the 36 hole final contest|en were interrogated and others re- of the $5,000 international four-ball | quested to appear this morning. golf matches here toda. | Carlton M. Sherwood, of New | York, executive ~secretary of th | citizens” committee of one thousand. was introduced at the first witness. | He had prepared a brief accusing | the wets of having become *“fan- OLYMPIC CHAMP TO WED White Sulphur Springs, W. V: March 13 (P—Martha Noreliu Olympic champion swimmer, and Joe Wright, Jr., famous Canadian oarsman, are engaged to be married, it was learned today. It is under- stood they plan to be married here Saturday. tunity to proceed with his testi- | mony, the committee took up cross xamination of the women witnesses. | Alonzo Stagg, the veteran athletic BRIDG T MAN FINED | divector at the University of Chic Bridgeport, March 13 (#) — Paul | 8% Sat in the room waiting to testi- Petrowsky, 40, of Shelton, was fined | ¥ I support of prohibition as soon $200 and costs by Judge A. L. Brown |35 the interrogation Was concluded in superior court today when he en- |4nd Sherwood had finished. fered a plea of guilty to keeping a| A Statement that “the wets have A S e e | become the fanatics” was made be- He was arrested several months |fore the committee by Carlton 8go when state police raided his|Sherwood, executive secretary of t AT | Citizens Committee of One Thous |and of New York city. M. TER 44 YEARS DEED FILED | His testimony, presented in the Fall River, Mass., March 13 (UP) |committee's hearings on proposals —A deed drawn 44 years ago, trans- | for the repeal of the eighteenth ferring 10 acres of land in Somerset |amendment, was concentrated upon has just been filed at the local regis- @ denial of evidence given by the try of deeds. |wets to the effect that American ANNATTTY TRATT) - = - I Starts Monday March 17 atics”, but before he had an oppor- | | would be here to defend prohibition ila the last ditch.” He added that although the business men know |“the wets do not have a chance” they are “not willing to let even this | publicity case go by default.” | He then proceeded to present |of them fiatly denying Murphy |charge, that had come to him by |telegram from, among others, Rob- lert Garrett, a Baltimore banker |Clarence H. Kelsey of the Titl |Guarantee & Trust company of New “In my judgment since prohibition | York; Captain Robert Dollar of th.|Blanchard, New Yor! |R. Judd, president of the Irving ;’Fru*t company, New York; L. K. | Linthicum, preisdent of the National with all the complexities of new op-|Cast Iron Pipe company, Birming- P 5- | |ham, Ala.; . L. Smith, president of |the Natfonal Association of Cloth (lers and Furnishers, Chicago; and | Ralph H. Burnside, president of the | Willapa Pumber company, Portland Ore. Uses Other Statements | Sherwood also brought statements supporting the prohibition from Vic Donahey, former governor |of Ohio, Bishop Francis J. McCon- |nell, president of the Federal Coun- cil of Churches of Christ in America |and Prof. Henry W. Farnam of Yale University, an economist. In support of his contention that statements such as that of Murphy public and that the business men of the country are preponderantly |in favor of the prohibition laws, he |said: | "It certain types of mind are led to believe that bankers violate such |portions of the constitution as they choose, it js not a far step for others |to let down the bars in violation of {the fifth amendment, guaranteeing |private property, and bomb the banker's bank. |complexity of our modern civiliza- {tion is making it difficult enough to bring up growing children with re- spect for the law and democratic in- stitutions, these mature citizens who |sneer at the law and advocate its ‘\inlanon should pause to realize how | far the poison of their influence may |g0. “The facts are these, gentlemen of the committee, that the vast ma- Jority of the American people are law abiding. They observe the pro- hibition law and other laws. This Yincludos the business executives at {the top, the day laborers at the bot- |that we have a difficult problem of |lawlessness in our country, but it ought to be said with equal vigor that the problem is restricted to a |comparatively small even though dungerous. class.” Text of Telegram Former Governor Donahcy’s tele- gram said: ‘‘Prohibition in my Ohio is being as well enforced as any other criminal statute.” Bishop McConnell said that “in general” the results of prohibition == JACQUELINE Grey was inf her happiness. laws | have a harmful influence upon the | “In such a time as this, when |)\1:‘ tom and those in between. It is true | opinion has been successful and in | extravagant holiday. Her only thought was to forget entirely the drab life to which she must soon return. == With startling suddenness, the glamorous bubblc was pricked. She became the innocent party-suspect in a sensational crime, policemen and detectives dogged her footsteps and a grim shadow threatened. == This is one of the exciting episodes of Richard Starr’s fascinating story, “JACQUELINE ON HER OWN.” Read it a chapter daily. | women's leaders of clubs, attorn | welfare and social worlers, stuck 1o | their arguments insistently and | | claimed prohibition brought great | cconomic benefits, lessened drin’ ing, rescued the home, protected | women and was the greatest moral | “The saloons,” he went on. “were |more than 25 brief statements, many | IMProvement of this age. | | From the delegation of 23, Cellar | |and LaGuardia recalled six for fur-| [ther examination: Miss Grace Van | | Braam Roberts, New York, chair-| {man of the woman's law enforce- | {ment committee; Mrs. John Osgood | I Mrs. Richarj ew York; Mrs. Mayna~d Thayer, Pasadena, Calif.; Mrs. Henry | W. Peabody, Boston, and Mrs. W. 11 | Alexander, Columbus, Ohio. | Dr. Wilson Called Away | A statement was prepared for de- | | livery by Dr. Clarence True Wilson | |of the board of temperance, prohi- | | bition and public morals but ) | [ compelled to leave the city and muy | not be able to deliver it. The only other dry witnes, scheduled for today is Carlton Sher- wood, member of the citizens co- mittee of 1,000, New York. | | The appearance of Rep. Dyer, r | publican, Mo., before the law en-| | forcement commission yesterday in | | behalf of per cent beer failed Ito bring any general reaction .n congress. Most of the wet witness. in the judiciary committee hearings | have opposed light wines and be and advocated straight repeal of th | Eighteenth amendment. Previously it had been the inten- tion of the wet bloc to endorse the | beer plan but since the hearinys | started they have moved their posi- | | tion forward in favor of repeal, tI | question upon which the hearing Inow are being conducted. Hearings upon Dyer's 2 | cent beer Dill are expected ihu]d later. CHILD DI | Ansonia, March 5 per to be | 13 |the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Do- | nato Desiderato of 11 Iront street, (P —Frank, |died at the Griffin hospital last | night from burns reccived the eve- ning before when the child upset a pan of water boiling on a gas| Iburner. It was the second tragic | |death in the Desiderato family with- | lin the past few years, Alexander,| la boy of three years, being drowned |in Beaver Brook, May 25, 1927. | The children remaining in the fam- ily are girls. TRINITY SENIOR DIES Martford, March 13 (P—Doranio | Heath Coles, of Wethersficld, a sen- ior at Trinity college, vice president lof the Trinity chapter of Alpha Tau Kappa, and president of the senior class at Trinity the first half of the current college year, died at {his home in Wethersfield this | morning of erysipelas, following an |infection received in the recent swimming meet with Wesleyan uni- | versit The family Wether: funeral will be held at the| home, 388 Church street, | ield, Saturday afternoon. 4 OMINOUS SHADOWS THREATENED HER! tent on énjoying her MEMBER BANQUET OF Y. W." APRIL 8 Rnnouncement of Date Made at Mesting of Directors The regular monthly meeting of the Y. W. C. A. board of directors held in the association rooms yesterday. Mrs, George W. Traut and Mrs. Robert Parsons spoke on some of the issues that will come up be- fore the national convention which will be held this coming month in Detroit. Miss Gertrude Rogers gave the report for the committee in charge of the rev tution. This report will be presented was, to the membership at the annual meeting in April. Mrs. Kenneth Searle. chairman of the membership committee. announced that the an- | nual membership banquet would be held in the association rooms April S at 6:30 o'clock. The program will be in charge of the membership | commitiee, Mrs. Maurice Pease announced a tea to be given by the board of di- rectors at her home March for retiring members of the board. A note of appreciation w read by Mrs. J. C. Loomis, the sec ry of the board. for the services rendered Stanley T. Goss, retiring and Mrs. Robert Parsons, Stowell, Miss 12. Gertrude surer, Grace Rogers, whose terms of office of six vears have expired. Their successors will be clected at the annual m ing. Miss Helen communication from Mrs. C: ion of the consti- | Phillips presented a | atheart |Hume, a former Y. W. C. A. staff | members here, now located in India SYLVESTER DEATH BAFFLES OFFICERS iManiacal Assanlt Held Probable (ause in Woman's Death Hartford, March 13 (P—Still bat- fled in their efforts to solve the mys- \tery surrounding the death of Mrs. | Frances Sylve vear-old L I Hartford wor body was |found in tr underbr which skirts bou 1eeticut 3 vard northe the dry bridg uesday morning. the Hartford po- llice today continued to run down the numerous vague clucs which have come in since the discovery of th rir The theory that oman |mother of 12 children, ihe vie- [tim of a maniacal assault pre- dominant r the invest ion |though the last Hartford police |1acking any definite evidence, refuse to abandon altogether the possibility that she met death in some other way. | Chief William J. McKee in- clined to discount the idea that |family feud might have been re- |sponsible.. in view of the fact that |the investigation has not disclosed any such situation of sufficient im- | portance. Th conducted by | Dr. Henry Costello, medical ex- aminer, has definitely shown that Mrs. Sylvester could not have been {the victim of a it and run driver he only injury found on the bod was the crushed skull, inflicted with | antopsy some sort of a sharp heavy imple- |ment such as a hatehet or jack- |handle, Dr. Costello’s exami showed. “our blow struck, appar- ently from the f M, J. O’BRIEN T0 ASK RE-FLECTION I One of Seven Now in the Field—Nowland Remains Silent Michac J. O'Br wmounced will be a candidate nomination as constable on democratic ticket, He is one o crats now in offi elected 1 s and W. Manning. Wil Needham is also a canc ec of e four rey lica now in office eapect to 1 They ar Joh Ired Winkle and Raymor man The fourth, Charle land has not announced himself. A report that Constable Recor w to withdraw was denied b SANFORD WILL FILED Washington, March 1% T last will and testament of Edward T. 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