New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 15, 1930, Page 11

Astronomers Debate Concerning Character of Latest Heavenly Body Discovered At Flagstaff % Lowell Observatory Direc- tor Contends It Is Planet While Californian Re- futes Idea. Flagstaff, Arviz., April mial to the contrary, M. | ipher, director of the Lowell (n\v-! servatory here, believes evidence in-' 15 (P—De-1 pr. v. M.| cicates that the recently discovered ! “planet X" is the long sought trans- | Neptunian pianet, and is not a; comet. H Commenting on articles appearing | in current issues of scientific publi-| cations, Dr. Slipher said misinte nretation of his announcement the discovery was evident. “No announcement of the discov- ery was made until Lowell astrono- mers were sure that it was the trans-Neptunian planet,” he said, “and I have at no time, intentional- Iy at least, intimated that there was ny doubt in Lowell observatory of- ficials' minds, including my own, that the point of light is anything hut a trans-Neptunian planet. Any inference to the contrary is a mis- interpretation of technical terms. | Reafirms Belict “March 13, when the announce- ment of the discovery was made we helieved it to be the ninth member | of the planetary family and so stated. Today, we are more firm in that belief in that all our observa-| tions and computations confirm the| first announcement.” “On February 1§, Dr. Slipher! sald, “an inspection of some pho- | tographic plates taken five weeks previously, showed a faint point of ! star, like light. Subscquent plates showed the same spot. After careful | investigation of dozens of these| plates, showing the astral body's iourney across the heavens, it was| announced on March 10 that the| long sought trans-Neptunian planet, whose existence was predicted by Dr. Percival Lowell many years ago, liad been discovered. | “This announcement was mot| made until Lowell astronomers, in- cluding myself, were sure that it really was the trans-Neptunian body. “Our orbit computations and ob- servations since February show definitely that it is trans-Neptunian and affords strong evidence of planetary nature. It has no come- tary appearances. “These computations have shown that the planet's orbit is more cc- centric and extensive than was at first believed. The orbit is in the! torm of an cllipse. "It is impracticable at this time o make any definite estimate as to the distance traveled by the ninth planet in traversing its orbit. “Our computations, however, have reached the point where we can say {hat the trans-Neptunian planet is approximately 41.55 astronomical units from the carth. In the lay- man’s language, this is equal to 41 times as far as it is from the earth to the sun.” of Scoffs At Identification Berkeley, Cal., April 15 (A)—TIden- tity of the new astral body discov. cred by Lowell observatory astror omers in Arizona last January as thg long-sought {rans-Neptunian planet was challenged today by Ditector A. O. Leuschner of the Unpiversity of California student ob- scrvatory. While agreeing with the discover- ies that the object is beyond Nep- tune, Professor Leuschner declinel to accept it as the ninth member of the planetary family, after “further orbit computation received from Swarthmore university observatory and preliminary computations of mass just completed at the student observatory here.” Professor Leuschner said the new sky-wanderer might be a large as- teroid. a long-period planetary ob- ject, or possibly a comet, adding. however, that its discovery was *of great significance because it extends the limits of the solar system.” “The computations of mass made here,” Prof. Leuschner explained, “indicate the object is too small to have caused the deviation in Nep- tune’s orbit which originally led to the suspicion that a trans-Neptunian planet exists. Refers to Density “Upon its stellar magnitude and Its unknown albedo and density de-, pends the 1 of the object. The | smallest known albedo—or ratio Mi sunlight reflected to sunlight receiv. ed—for a body in the solar system is 0.07. Such an albedo and the ob- served stellar magnitude of 15 would give a mass four-tenths that of the| carth for the object, providing its| density is the same as that of the| carth. “Lowell predicted that ‘Planct X' would prove to be seven times as large as the carth. 1t is highly im- probable that the newly-discovered object can be anywhere near this size.” Prof. Leuschner said the Swarth- more observatory computations in- dicated the orbit of the object had an eccentricity of .0909.” This means, | Prof. Leuschner explained, that the orbit is a flattened ellipse, with one | end twenty times as distant from the sun as the other. | Swarthmore and the University | of California observatorics agreel | in placing the body at fts greatest | distance. some 40 billion miles | from the sun, Prof. Leuschner | pointed out. He said no other plan- | ctary bodies except comets ever get | that far away and if the object is not a comet, it is the first planetary body ever discovered with such an eccentric orbit. ATTEND R. A. CONVENTION Past Grand Regent Fred Elliott and Grand Treasurer J. H. Annear will be among members of New Britain lodge, Royal Arcanum, {o attend the grand lodge’ meeting at the Stratfield hotel in Bridgeport tonight. i*. . Peterson will be the official representative of the local lodge, and a party of about a dozen officers and members are expected to ooty i oo e antend b0 Chest Fund o Be Tnvestigated by Nye Committee |at the navy department. make the trip. NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD. TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1930. e Shrill Police Whistles May Be Banned Soon New York, April 15 () — Po- lice whistles regulating traffic should be made less shrill and thereby aid in reducing the din of the city's multitudinous noises in the opinion of the noise abate- ment commission. The preliminary report of the investigators, which today had the approval of Health Commis- sioner Shirley Wynne. cxpressed Delief that traffic whistles could be muffled (o some extent. Among other things the report recommended regulating, were steel riveters, heavy truck and motoreyele engines, subway turn- stiles, automobile honking, radio loud speakers and noise devices in store windows. The commis- sion recommended that machin- 1] ery of any Ikind noisy enough to Baker | Gisturh people in residential dis- letters of | | tricts, be not permitted between government || 5 p. m. and 5 a. m. Commissioner Wynne said to- day he would work for the pass- age of six amendments to the sanitary code and ordinances recommended Dby the investi- gato! THINK SWEETHEART oHOT MARY BAKER Washington Police Demand Ali-| his i Probing Clerk's Death | Washington, April 15 (/) — Th former sweethearts of Mary their names taken murdered clerk or obtained from her friends, | today came under rigid scrutiny of | from the young the police in their intensive ecfforts to solve the mystery of her death. On one theory the investigators were agreed—that the man who | killed her and stuffed her bruiscd: and bullet ridden body into a cul-| last I'riday night was someone with whom she was on intimate terms. FlRST F[]R PR“BE “We are compiling a list of men with whom Miss Baker was friend- Iy said William C. Gloth, the prosecuting attorney of Arlington | essary, we will trace her friend-| ships back five years or mare.” | A strict cross-examination of Miss | Taker's old sweethearts was plan-| _ ety A ned and they were required to give| ‘vashington. April 15 (UP)—The alibis and produce specimens of [campaign chest that carried Mrs. their handwriting for comparison | Ruth Hanna McCormick, to a sen- with the tora scraps of a l"““"{sano:ml victory over Senator Dencen, which were found near her body. | One Alibi Flawless |republican, Illinois, in the recent L tinw <o |TeDUDlican senatorial primary in 11- A detailed investigation of Fred [l &5ii 1 the first one! scrutine Wilson, an architect, working for | : ; 10" lized by the newly-created senatorial the treasury department, was fol- | qmpaign and expenditures commit- lowed by an announcement that his | o PHEM @ P alibi had been found to be without | & ."‘.'l‘“"“. <hington homicide squad |toF )@ republican, N. D., will meet he Washington homicide squad |¢op oo PRI T e S was ordered to concentrate its f- |y o Illinois contest. forts cn solving the Baker mystery. | oinioq chairman yes Miss Balker's automobile, streaked |gonator Johnson, republican, Cali- with blood, was found abandoned |{ormia. had refused Lo gorve near the ccm‘Mcry on Saturday | Tne committee has received sev- morning and after a long search her |oral complaints of enormous cam- body was discovered in the culvert, hidiecoyored, dn; |paign_expenditures in the MeCor- half a mile away. She was employed | mick-Deneen campaign, the first of |the vear's primarics. | Unless something develops in the }mflnl\mfi. the next state to come |under the committee’s scrutiny will | Labor Davis is opposing Senator Jo- |seph R. Grundy, appointed to ths| :.‘flli left vacant by the senate's re- fusal of a seat to Vare, because of his 1926 campaign cxpendjturcs. A central figure in this investiga- tion will bo W. W. Atterbury, Penn- |svlvania railroad president and re- {publican national committeeman, {who is supporting Davis. A sunrise service at Walnut Hint | Grundy has charged the same| P e mieiamt gl | forces which financed “fraud ana ; corruption” in the Vare contest are day morning _according... to_action | GrRARTOR in the 2 taken by officials of Everyman's & against him and are using corporate funds. Bible class, when the combined ro- ligious forces of the city will hold Easter serviees, | The scrvice. sponsored by the | The committee, headed by Sena- 3 was ap- airman yesterday after Religious Exercises fo Be Held Easter Sunday Morning Canadian Premier’s Home darions young DPeople's socieliss. |y rnionings in Earnsclitte, the home Music will be furnished by. the Sal- {4 i Jonn A, MacDonald s | vation army band. Speakers Wil bel g ¢’ priie ™, 420N d;s;:::dd:; Rev. William H. Barsch, pastor of | ,iif PITICH &b being dispose the Memorial Baptist chufeh. and| “mpe gately old mansion has b tev. Allan Todd of the Kensington | taan over hy the British sovern. )If‘.(hod\l?‘( chureh, {ment from the estate of the late The site of the service has not| iy, Charles Harriss as a residenes been designated. Commissioner Berg | for Sir William Clark, British high of the board of park commissioners | commissioner. The entire confents is consldering a request that the|of the house, including antiques, pool be drained and scats placed | furniture, silver and brassware, are therein. i being disposed of as the house is to Transportation for those Who dc- fbe refurnished for Sir William's oc. sire it will be furnished by tele- cupancy. phone communication with 1. J, s Gooby, Charles F. Robertson or the Methodist church, Visit of W. E. D. Stokes Young Rinehart Loses Divorce Case to Wife Reno, Nev., April 15 (UP)—Mi= - s | Mary Doran Rinehart. daughter of Jr.,, to Reno Is Surprise George Doran New York publisher, Reno, Nev,, April 15 UP—W. L.|has peen granted a divorce from D. Stokes, jr.. of New York was on i stanley Rinehart, son of Mary Rob. Khelvay ofBenokDday) erts Rinchart, novelist. His attorney, Sam Platt, Mrs. Rinehart charged mental this comment: cruelty, “I cannot say what Mr. Stokes is| Custody of two children coming here for. He owns property | property settiement was in Reno and has since its acauisi-|out of court. tion in 1925 considered Nevada his| The couple married residence. He is financially interested | x. Y., in May, 1919, in railroad operations here. Other Bl ST than that I cannot say what his| POOR FASTER WEATHER business here Swill boit Tiome, April 15 (M—Rome is hav- Stokes was married on May 10, li5g the most un-Easter like weather 1926, to Florence Cecilia Crittenton |y geveral years. This forencon for at Key West, Via., where her fath- | 1o second time in 10 days, & vie- s an lipiscopalian clergyman. fjent nail storm struck tho city. It is the granddaughter of Charles | \ag preceded and followed by tor- rittenden, founder of the Crit- . { rential rain and heavy winds. tenden home for | The CAMEO’S APRILL TR ST /s 1929 1939 BIRTHDAY April 15, 1929, marked the birth of New Britain's “personal” lunching _ and dining establishment, THE CAMEO. Under the personal and active supervision of Mr. and Mrs. John Peters, the fruits of years of experience in catering to a discriminating patronage have been introduced to New Britain through THE CAMEO LUNCH and RESTAURANT, resulting, in the brief period of twelve months, in a popularity that rewards in a large measure the hard work and painstaking ef- {)oxfivessentia] to the kind of success THE CAMEO is uilding. made and a decided in Ossining, THE CAMEO management bespeaks the privilege of expressing a hearty appreciation of the growing patronage their first year's business has enjoyed. YOURS FOR GOOD DIGESTION The CAMEO Lunch and Restaurant (There’s An Individuality Peculiar to THE CAMEQ) lone of the many processions which .will be held Ttursday and Friday— | processions whercin Joly images arc | Seville folk assert holds the body of MBI PR Thonsands See Royal Family Arrive—Aviators Present By Army Plancs in California Today. | Simulated battles 15,000 feet over | | Mather field were ordered by the| army’s r corps first provisio: wing headquarters today as the lat- | cst-phase of the maneuvers being | held here. 8 Seville, Spain, April 15 (P— Cheering thousands, packing this historic city for the elaborate Holy Week ceremonies today welcomed the king, queen and other members| Bombardment of the royal family who arrived in,[by Kk groups, a special train from Madrid to par- el o knio Bien nure ticipate in what is one of the most directed to execute | colorful events of' the Catholic mancuvers at “high altitude.” | world. he purpos to give attack | The king himself, robed and hood- [ Planes a chance to show what they | ed in the medieval costume of a re- | “0uld do is pursuit units. | ligious brotherhood. will march {n | Ailita (s Ao Gl vaiue of sinzle " pursuit plancs. The 1 army pursuit ships are sir men fighters. cquipped with ma- chine guns synchronized to shoot | between whirling propeller blades. | attack planes carry six n chine guns, two in the wings. two to shoot between thepropellers, and two in the rear cockpit. functioning L were ular carried through the streets on wood- en platforms borne by members of religious brotherhood day and night. Aviators to be Honored The aviators Captain Francesco Iglesias and Captain Ignacio Jim- cnez, who flew from Scville to South | America in 1928 in the airplane "Jesus Del Gran Poder” (Josus ot Mayor Tully Proposes | the great power), have come to Se- Public Works to Board | ville in fulfillment of their vow that | k | 6:15—Tlashes | if the flight were successful they| Ncw Haven, April 15 — Mayor T. would make a holy weelk pilgrimage | 4. Tully, with the end in view of to Seville to thank the image of |rclicving some unemployment in the “Jesus Del Gran Power,” one of the |¢ity, has announced he will ask the | most famous of the many images of Christ in Seville churches. dermen to provide a bond issue of _ 0.000 to be used in strect con- The transatlantic plane Was gryetion. to repave old streets and to named for this image, and beforc jay out new streets in scetions now the flight the aviators prayed to it [ynder development, for success. The two flyers will car-| mp yagter will go to the alder- ry the image in a procession to ex-| e WAUIT W1 6 10 this week has helped to swell UW;““"“”' s moon bas sald That| great crowds which have come to| view the Holy Week pageantry. The Graf Zeppelin is expected to land here tomorrow evening on a trial | flight from TFricdrichshafen. Ceremonies Around Tomb Some of the religious ceremonials | will center around the tomb which or sirong, irritating purges take—NATURE'S REMEDY IR—thesafe, dependable, all- vegetable laxative. Mild, gentle, pleasant—N —to~ night—tomorrow alright. Get 8 2%c box. The All.Vegetable Laxative Christopher Columbus. This tomb is in the migh cathedral -where | Columbus worshipped shortly before he embarked for the new world. Renier, Pickhardt & Dunn dain S CAMP’S 127 P)::u:mbt' SURGICAL Phone 1409 Eaitl CORSETS Easter Means New Clothes and Accessories Dresses, Gloves, Handkerchiefs, Hosiery, Neckwear. Jewelry, Scarfs, Separate Skirts, Blouses, Corsets, Cor- selettes, Brassieres, Underwear of Crepe de Chine, Celonese and Glove Silk. For the Little Folks Tor Girls, 2 to 6 and 7 to 14 years. Frocks of Gay Printed Cottons, priced $1.00 to $6.75 Separate Skirts, Blouses and Sweaters. For the Little Man New Wash and Jersey Suits. Sizes 3 to 8 years. New Necklaces of Black and White, Glace Bugle Beads or Tear Drop Clusters and many others. JJordan’ 215 Main Street New Britain, For Wednesday A SPECIAL PRESENTATION e ilk Chiffon Hosiery $1.09 . Formerly sold at $1.65 All new spring colors and sizes, 8! All Perfect - 10. Silkwd Cotton Blouses In heavy Crepe de Chine, Washable Dimities and handkerchief Linen. In smart models that will give added charm to your new spring suit. Long or short sleeves. Values up to $4.98 ON SALE $1.84 182 98 Silk Costume Slips Made of good quality Crepe de Chine. Attrac- tively trimmed in lace and embroidered. Were $2.98. e 5189 oral arguments on the quchanna railr: ia survey of unemployment has been |mission May 3. department of | undertaken by the S not bonded and the raiflroad has lit-—= Approval of the application has tle hope of recovering the embezzled | charities and the community chest'been recommended to the commis- | funds. . working in unison Tests at 15,000 Feet to Be Made|JOhN Pressch Receives” Radiogram From Friend ester & Pittsburgh railroad. as a| 154 Daly received a radiogram Brill who is with the Sacramento, Cal, April 15 (P—| United States Navy at St. Thomas, John Pressch of nue yesterd from Carl J Virgin Islands. picked up by The me: Robert J. N. X, In his mes Lexington v duty. Wright about the 2 trip to Norfolk. Am couple letters contain sheet of a ling April sendin whenever you zet PINAL RAILROAD HEARING (P—Finul proposal of Washington. April 15 the Baltimore & r1equire control ¢f the Buffalo & ad are to be held b com- fore the interstate comme; age | Patterson, | yJr., of 81 Parkway road, Bronxville, Drillo says, | ing in the sights of St. Thomas, Vir- | st plancs, supported | giy Islangs. Being transferred to the S 11th Will be back for |iver D. on | mail and expr: for return he Virgin Islands. D chanet |sion by C. B. Burnside, assistant | finance director. The Baltimore & | SEEK VOLUNTEERS Ohio alrealy has been permitted 10| prainera, Minn., April 15 (UP)— = acquire control of the Buffalo, Roch- | ca1i” for volunteer fighters wera * |1ssued today as forest fires crackled - |part of its plan for shortening | jrough dry timber land to threaten route between New York and PIts-|gcoreg of northern Minnesota towns burgh. The Bu 0 & Susquehanna B S nanne |and farm homes. would also be a part of this v Aot s | Several blazes with a trontage of ’ Imore than 20 miles nearly sur- rounded Brainerd, but the flames Embezzlement Set at |1cst their vigor as the wind died: Louis, April 15 UP—An audit| g0 "\inich might send the flames {has shown the embezzlement of O1- | #ind% WK BT B0 S towne Chalmers, manager of the s traffic department of the Frisco railroad, who has con- fessedahe diverted mompany c to his own use for nbling. will amount to “around $122,000,% 13. 7" Miller. vice president and general counsel he railroad announced WHY BAL2 Iry Lucky Tiger for falling == a proven germicide. A aelightfully perfumed bair Gressing, America's largest ‘Seller at Barbers, Druggists LUCKY TIGER WHYTE-FOX NO. 2 The New Two-Way Treatmeni for HEAD COLDS .l SKI;LRR{ITA"‘o"' 1 omtmnetis vaine. A trial il sonvines | for the last night Chalmers. at liberty under bond, admitted he took the moiey over a period of four years, ad ting he converted checks given by three large newspapers for carrying | newspaper shipments. Chalmers was | $40.000 vaive. 6 smart reasons why Jordan’s is the popular store for Easter Apparel! 2 for §13.00 Value §12.50 each $339.50 and up Value $59.50 Never has therc been more fas- cinating variety—more individual- ity. Never have coats, suits, dresses been more charming and becoming than this season. Every style version is here . and at prices which are the lowest in New Britain. Comparison will prove it. Chaiming flowers on black, Dlue or green backgrounds. Geau- tifully flared. Styles in this group for Loth women and misses —$6.95—2 for §13.00. 2.~u This particularly styled coat nust really be scen. It is a gor- = model. Choice of several @ ng woolens. Notice the stun- ning cape which by the way is fur trimmed. 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