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New Britain herald., 1927-06-17
BYRD STILL WATTS FOR CLEAR WEATHER
Storms on Great Circle Track
 Delay Hop

New York, N. r., June 11.-P- Commander Richard E. Byrd to- day awaited only the clearing of the weather on the great circle course for the start of his flight to Paris in the Fokker monoplane America.
 The most optimistic construction of the weather reports had convinc- ed him, he said, that there was lit- tie hope for an overseas flight be- fore tonight. Weather bureau ofn- cials had reported conditions over the North Atlantic as generally un- settled.
 Tt may be two or three days be- fore We will be ready to start" Byrd said in announcing that he had kept q constant check on weather reports.
 The weather bureau map pre- rared for the flyer showed two storm centers over the Atlantic. The largest had its center 1000 miles wcs. of Scotland and covered wide area. The second was southeast of Newfoundland and covered an area of about 500 miles in diameter. It was the belief of bureau officials that thes two areas would hardly clear in two days.
 Meanwhile everything was in readiness for the flight. with the America's three motors thoroughly tuned and the ship ready to receive food and gasoline supplies. This can be done on short notice. 1t was said. Commander Byrd. who returned yesterday from Virginia. said he was pleasantly surprised to find pub lie opinion still was in favor of his flight as being of value to aviation. He said he could understand this ap- preciation from technically interest ed in the scientific side of flying, but had rot expected the same in- terest from the general public. Byrd said he had received many requests for a place in the America, most Of the applications coming from young women.
 They write charming letters" he said. ''All of them arc very nice. I also have few from mothers who want to be first to fly the Atlantic. Some of them make me feel little sorry that the personnel of the flight is all picked, but that's a fact. and there We are."
New Britain herald., 1927-06-17

his business and from that time on has devoted his entire time to the position of city electrical superin- tendent.
 During his career in the ire de- partment he was ladderman, hose man. stoker. engineer and assistant foreman.
 When he took charge of the fire alarm system 51 years ago there were l0 boxes in the city. He has gradually developed the system un- til now there are 137 boxes in oper- ation and his men today placed a new one in the Strand the ater.
 At the time he began his duties with the city on full time basis. Mir. Cooley took charge O. the DO. lice signal system and 30 years ago he started that system with 13 call boxes. Now there are 50 such boxes in operation. He also installed the red light system for calling patrol men and has installed "A such lights, Although he did not install the new traffic light system he will have charge of the electrical maintenance of the lights.
 Mr. Cooley is member of Har- mony lodge. 4. F. and A. M.: Gid. . dlngs Chapter, +. A. M., and Doric Council. k. and S. M. He also is a member Of the New Britain lodge of Elks.
 In addition to his other talents. the electrical superintendent plays the snare drum. Since 1874 he has played in musical organizations in this city. He served two cnlistments Tn the National Guard drum corps and played for.2S years yn the Amer. ican band. For three years he played ln the City band. which ,ater became the Philharmonic band. and for sev- en years he played trap drums with Herman Zanleiter's orchestra. He now plays with the Harmony lodge orchestra for Masonic ceremonies. 1 MT. Cooley is in good health and ! in his 51 years as a fireman has lost but few days. But I'm not going tc work Monday" he says.
 At my age l am long way from being an old man and III be with the ire department for a good man, years to come." And those who know him and his activities are satisfied that he will be active for a lons time yet. He plans to parade with the fire department, June c5. at the dedication of the Spanish War Me. morial.
 Mrs. Cooley is native of England ha:.ng been born in Dus5 berry. She was Miss Alice Preston before he, marriage. Mir. and Mrs. Cooley have one daughter. Miss Nettie 4. Cooley who reside with her parents.
New Britain herald., 1927-06-17
AROUND-WORLD FLIGHT
 IN ZEPPELIN PLANNED
Zeppelin Co. Head Says It Can Be Done In 300 Hours Three
 Masts Needed.

Done In 300 Hours - Three
 Masts Needed.
 Friedrichshafen, Germany. June IT, Pl-A Zeppelin flight around the world is the next great promised aerial venture.
 Dr. Hugo Eckener. director of the Zeppelin company, announced today that the LZ-137. now under con- struction here, will cross the Atlantic between Germany and the United States several times" and will then some time in 1928 attempt the cir cumnavigation of the globe.
 The great journey. he estimates, will require 300 hours. It will ne- cessitate the er>ction of two anchor masts, one in Asiatic Russia near the Pacific coast and the other in the western United States or Canada to be used in addition to the Lake, hurst. N. J. anchorage. Permission to use the facilities at Lakehurst, pr. Eckener said. had already been obtained.
 While complimenting Clarence D. Chamberlin and Charles A. Levine on their flight fron, New York to Ger many and welcoming it as intensity ing public confidence in aerial navi- gation, Dr. Eckener still thinks air. ships are more practicable than air. planes for trans-oceanic commercial aviation.
New Britain herald., 1927-06-17
Health Perpetual
 On Tanning Island

Sydney. June IT UP)--Doctors in search of fame and fortune are advised not to go to Tanning Island the mid Pacific station of the Pa cific Cable Board line.
 G. 0. Whitelaw, an official of the cable board who recently returned only one serious case of sickness to this city, declared there had been among the isla nd's small population in g years.
New Britain herald., 1927-06-17
C0OLEYS MARRIED
 FOR HALF CENTURY
Will Observe Golden Wedding
 Anniversary Monday

George Cooley electrical super intendent. and Mrs. Cooley will ob- serve their 5oth wedding anniver- sary at their home, 36S Park street. Monday. Mir. Cooley. besides being of fire alarms. is the oldest member of the New Britain fire department, "and I'm going to be with them for long time yet he says.
 Mir. and Mrs. Cooley were mar ried at the parsonage of the First
New Britain herald., 1927-06-17

In an effort to encourage scientific farming. the Turkish government has agreed to pay half the cost of every tractor used by its farmers. Only one-ffth of Turkeys tillable land S being worked now
New Britain herald., 1927-06-17

Of the original public domain, in. cluding Alaska and lands within na- tional forests and other reservations, there are approximately 525.165,0 900 acres not yet surveyed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-05
M u SIC
MARIA JERJTZA.s RECITAL.

The sunny prima donna of the
Metropolitan Opera Co, Viennese
Maria Jeritza, won applause from a
standing groom audience at her
recital yesterday afternoon. The
gracious soprano never seemed In
more happy mood or voice and
showed her appreciation of the en-
thusiasm of her audience with encores
and smiles. In her opening number
the aria I'll est doux. IL est bon, from
Messenet's "Herodiade," she seemed
to restrain her tones to concert legato
rather than expressing the drama Of
the song, and in this number only did
there seem a suspicion of roughness
and drop" from her ringing higher
tones to the lower notes. 1t was not
a particularly easy number on which
to launch a concert.
Nine. Jeritza was thoroughly at
home In the group of German lieder
exquisite songs sung bea utifuliy. First
there was Brahms "Immer Lesser wird
mein Schlummer," softly sustained
legato singing, contrasted exceliently
with Schubert's very dramatic "Erl-
koenig," sung with quite as much
character delineation az even the
singers noted for this number have
given 1t. There may have been rem
yesterday. but there surely were efYec
tive power and beauty The air Tau.
tenlied red MariNtta, from Die Tote
Stadt," and Richard Strauss "ceeelia"
We're the encores
The next group was opened with
a song by the Venezuelan COMPOSER
Reynaldo Hahn, and followed bv a
soldiers colorful song, "Au Paws" bv
Augusta Holmes. The other numbers
ana the encores We're all In English
NINE. JeritZa shows wisdom In learn.
ing more English songs and putting
tnem on her programs. Also her
aictlon In this language shows marked
Improvement, and what accent there
IS gives charming flavor to her mum.
pers. She sang Rashach's Trees. :"
which won applause that suggested
us repetition; a little puzzled for a
second as to what to do, her accom-
PIANIST, Emil Polak, having swung into
Inc frst phrases of the next song
Nine. Jeritza caught her cue and
launched the lovely Spring Dropped
Song Into My Heart" OF Beatrice
tenner on it's joyous way. Then came
a charming little eonceit of F'rimis
amour, Tes Yeux," Winter Watts
flerrof, Moore's when Love is
Kind which. although written nv
ago. was so shrewdiy appropriate To
present-day sentiment with its love
may go hang" that ripples of laugh.
ter greeted each verse, and, aIthotIsh
the singer did leave off the final utIle
cadehza, she sang the song so amusing,
~ that nobody cared about the cade MA
at ail~and Teiry's '"The Answer"
FOR the very end, Mime Jeritza
s s her big aria from Puccinis
Iurshuot, the aria, I'm questa
Hesgia,' which she infused with the
coid rage and sensitive usefulness Of
me chinese princess compiled ted
psyehoiogy: IT WAS dramatically a
work or art and vocally not nearly SO
devoid of musical worth as one might
nave been led to suppose from reports
ny critics of the opera. 1t makes an
interesting and briilian brav,,ra air
lef concert program. In fine con
trast was the air from "Cavalleria
RnsHcana" Vol 10 sspete." The last
encore was Hutchinson's Dream
Faces"
Assisting Nine. Jeritza were the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-05
SHEIk BOOKS AND PLAYS
SCRAPPED IN ENGLAND
Public Tires of Turbaned Over
worked Heroes and Looks for
Something New"
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, March 5.-Sheik books
and sheik plays have been strapped in
England. The public has tired of the
turbaned overworked heroes Of the
desert and is looking for something
new.
Fiction Is very dull in the British
markets at present and non-fction
books. especially biographies. are I'm
much demand. Michael Sadieir's Life
of Trollope" 10 having big sale and
another biography, Guedalla's pal.
merston" In in much demand.
OF course, the new prayer book Is
beating all competitors. Within two
weeks after it's release more than
10000 copies Of this "obeyless" prayer
book were sold by the oxford Press,
which called 1870 extra girls as folders
and was not able to keep up with the
demand which came from all parts of
the world.
The novel which is selling best now
in England is Lion Feuchtwangers
Jew Suss." The hero Is a refined
rascal, a debauchee and oppresor of
the poor, who Is hanged under very
thrilling conditions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-05
THE JAPANESE GIRL"
SUCCESSFUL.

1.-THE Japanese Girl" two-act
operetta by Charles Vincent, was
successfully presented last night by
the Wilson Normal School Girls Glee
Club in the school auditorium. The
excellent work of the chorus, under
the direction of Bernice Randall
features of the performance. The
singing and acting showed the result
of careful training
Dorothy Skinner. soprano who took
the role of q Hanu San, was easily
the star of the cast. She exhibited a
beautiful voice and showed ability as
an actress. Her rendition of the
difficult Bird Song" was particularly
praiseworthy. The Coincidence, Marie
Miller, as Chaya, provoked much
laughter by her Interpretation of the
song, Whatever Shall l do?" The
characters of o Kttu San and o
Kayo San. the Japa nese girls cousins,
were taken by. Evelyn Burns and
Vera Lacy, while In the parts of the
two American girls were Margaret
Hoover and Janet Bates. Miss
Knowali, the governess, was played by
Ruth Weldon.
With one exception, the entire
cast was composed of girls, the ex-
eeption being Harry Angelica, bari
tone. who acted the role of the
Mikado. His singing of the song
my Object Most Sublime" inter-
polated from Gilbert and Sullivan's
opera "'Fhe Mikado" and introducing
some new verses, deserves special
mention.
A feature of the production was
the scenery. consisting of black and
gold draperies, inscribed with Japa-
nese characters. The use of lanterns
In the final scene as the sole mode
Of illumination also added much to
the picturesqueness of the perform
ance. A Japanese dance was per-
formed by eight girls.
A large amount of credit for the
success Of this operetta should be
given to Florence Lawson, pianist,
who provided the accompaniment for
the performance. The show will be
repeated tonight at o'clock In the
auditorium.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-05
SIXTH BABY DIES
OF NURSES ERROR
Original Chart in One Fatal
Case Lost, Coroner Finds.
Doctor Resigns Post.


CHICAGO, March 5.-The sixth Of
10 babies accidentally administered
boric acid instead of sterile water died
Yesterday, while the coroner continued
to try to AK responsibility.
The bodies OF four OF the infants,
which had been inferred without post
mortem examinations, were eXhumed.
and necropsy was ordered in the
case OF the sixth baby yesterday, with
an inquest into its death today. One
other baby Is near death.
At Yesterdays session of the cor
oner's inquest 1t developed that the
chart of Baby Galitz's last hours was
not the original, but one that had been
prepared when 1t became known that
for the first time in many months an
original chart had been lost.
Through testimony of Miss Irene
Schwartz, student nurse in the Column.
bus Memorial Hospital who mixed and
boiled the fatal solution of boric acid,
it was brought out that the original
chart was made out by Miss Margaret
Cuff. the nurse who poured the acid
solution into a container used for
drinking water.
DR.. Fan d. Hopper, coroner's ply
stefan in the Columbus Hospital ter
ritory, resigned after being criticized
for failure to investigate properly the
deaths OF the first four babies The
first diagnosis made was that intesti-
nal influenza had caused the deaths.
DIR. Martin Fl. Ritter of the execu-
tive committee of the hospital told the
coroner's jury that steps to prevent
such a mistake again had been taken.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-05
DIRT FARM THEOLOGY"
NEW COURSE AT SEMINARY
Department Of Rural En- gineer-
ing" Adopted in Training Min
listers for Country Parishes.

By the Associated Press.
HARTFORD. Conn. March 6.-A
department of rural engineering,
called by the students dirt farm
theology has been adopted by the
Hartford Seminary Foundation, 1t
was announced yesterday by Presi
dent William Douglas Mackenzie.
Credit toward the theological de-
gree of bachelor of divinity will be
given for one year of study at an
agricultural college and arrange
ments have been made at Storrs
Agricultural College for such CO.
ordination.
The purpose of this new depart
ment il to train men and women for
rural pastorates in way that Will
give them many points of contact
and understanding with rural con-
ditions before they are graduated
from the seminary and enter upon
work in country parishes.
The agricultural studies will be
linked up with field work" I'm the
form of religious and social service
in rural communities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-05
DESCRIBES SHRINE
OF SHAKESPEARE
Archibald Flowers Tells OF
Stratford Theater for
Great Plays.

An outline of the proposed sane
tuary" of Shakespeare work. at
Stra tford on. Avon, the dramatist's
home. and a description OF the little
town comprised an address by Archi-
bald Flowers. a resident of Stratford
and one of the most active figures in
the work, at luncheon given by the
English, Speaking Union at the Carl
ton Hotel yesterday afternoon.
Mrs. Flowers and Thomas T. F.,
Cadet. London newspa perma H.
were guests OF honor with Mr.. Flow
ers at the luncheon, which was pre-
sided over by Bishop James r,
Freeman. James M. Beck. former
solicitor general, introduced the
speaker.
Forged Language Links.
Paying tribute to Shakespeare as
the man who forged the link Of Ian
guage which binds" the United States
and Great Britain, Mr.. Flowers said
that the work OF building at STRAIT.
ford a theater in keeping with the
quaintness of the town itself and in
which will be presented by an excel
lent cast the plays which the drama
fist wrote. will be done by both the
English speaking nations. British
architects, he said, have sent the
specifications of the proposed build
ing to America, and the planners OF
both nations will compete in the de-
sign.
The proposed building will take the
place OF the original theater which
was destroyed by fire and in which
Shakespearian plays were offered at
first only on April %, the anniversary
Of the writer's birth, and later over
a period of weeks. Through the In
creased number Of tourist patrons OF
Shakespeare. however, it Is expected
that the little theater's season can
continue from April through Septem
Der, Mr.. Flowers said. He visioned
for the future a vast "university of
the spoken word" centering in the
little town on the Avon, where young
actors and dramatists will be schooled
with the masters" inspiration.
Compliments United States.
Mrs. Flowers was presented by
Bishop Freeman, and In a brief ac-
acknowledgements she complimented the
United States on its love of beautiful
buildings, which is exemplified, she
said, in Washington, and it's spirit Of
hospitality.
Mr.. Cadet spoke briefly also, out
lining his plan of study of the United
States over a period Of year. He
said he had lived and worked in San
Francisco: Wichita, Kans.: Chicago:
Atlanta, Ga. and Washington. He
has yet to live in Boston and New
York. While here the young journal
ist, who is on the staff of the London
Times. Is studying the American mode
of living, and he expressed the wish
that England will some day learn, to
its own benefit, this Nations industry
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-05
Secretary and Mrs. Wilbur Honor
Guests at Art Exhibition


The Secretary of the Navy and
Mrs. Curtis ID. Wilbur and Repre-
sentative and Mrs. Finis J. Garrett
are among the many representative
Washington men and women who
have accepted the invitation of the
National League of American Pen
Women for the art exhibition and tea
in honor of Miss Grace r. Mckinstry.
American artist, in the Jefferson
room at the MayhoWer Hotel. this
afternoon from 3 to Z o'clock. Host
esses for the occasion Will be the
national officers of the league and
the national chairmen of committees,
including Mrs. John Mock, Mrs.
Blanche n. Ray, Mrs. Harriet HaW-
ley Locher, Mrs. Jesse w. Nicholson.
Mrs. Daniel G. Chace, Mrs. Eugene
CoIlister. Mrs. William Atherton
du Puy, Mrs. Lucia r. Maxwell and
Mrs. Edouard Albion. vice chairman
Of the music committee; also the
members of the social committee,
Mrs. Delos A. Blodgett, Mrs. William
C. Gorgas, Mrs William F, Dennis.
Mrs. Homer Hoch, Mrs. Luther r..
Gregory, Mrs. Theodore II. Tiller,
Miss Ruth Crissinger, Miss Mary
Boyd Temple. Mrs. Macpherson erich
ton, Mrs. Francois Berger Moran,
Mrs. Lucy Wilder Morris, Mrs. j..
Irwin Steel. Mrs. William James Mon
rO and Mrs. Stephenson Scott.
The Idaho State Society will give
a banquet at the Roosevelt Hotel this
evening when the principal speakers
will he Senator William r. Borah,
Senator Frank r. Gooding, Repre-
sentative Addison T. Smith, Repre-
sentative Burton l.. French and Mr..
Gutzon Borglum.
DIR. and Mrs. William Kennedy
Butler, who have been spending two
months in st. Augustine, Fla, have
returned to their home in Chevy
Chase, Md.
A benefit card party will be given
this evening at 8 o'clock at the North
east Temple. Eighth and F streets
northeast, by the Ladies' Oriental
Shrine.
Dr. John r. Nichols has returned
to the city from trip to Havana and
Florida points. Mrs. Nichols, who
accompa MED him. Is remaining at st.
Petersburg for the balance of the
season.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-05
SECRET Of CHEOPS
BATTLES SCIENTIST
Theory Is Queen Hetepheres'
Tomb Was Hidden From
Grave Thieves.

BY the Associated Press
NE" YORK. March 5-Historians
and Psychologists today believed DR..
George A. Reisner OF Harvard Uni
versity might be the victim of a trick
dating back 5000 years.
Seeking the mummy of Queen Hete-
pheres. wife of Sneferu and mother OF
CheOps, DR.. Reisner tourneyed to
Egypt on the word that her "a rcopha-
gus had been found. He found the
sarcophagus empty.
The grave was at the bottom of a
vertical shaft, cut 100 feet through
limestone, II had been undisturhed
through the centuries. Why such a
burial place should be carved from the
rock. inscribed with the Queens name
and sealed without her mummy In the
mystery.
BY Elaborate Trick.
The solution advanced by archeolo-
gists here In that the willy King
Cheops. who had the ma mmoth great
pyramid built to protect his own
remains. sought to safeguard the
mummy of his mother by an elaborate
trick
Grave robberies were frequent in
those days when rich treasure was
entombed with royalty. King Sneferu
and his Queen had been buried orig
inally at Dashur on the west bank
Of the Nile. Their graves had been
violated by thieves.
In Secret Tomb.
The theory il that Cheops sought to
prevent a second violation by building
the great sarcophagus at Giza which
DR.. Reisner has found empty and
placing the body of his mother else
where In a secret tomb.
For this supposed resting place Of
the ancient Queen DIR. Reisner IN
now searching. The quest In cen
tered about the glittering sarcophagus
which bears the name of the queen,
on the chance that King Cheops might
have chosen to seal the mummy in a
recess OF the shaft
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-05

young violinist. Macmillan Rose, and
Mr.. Polak, accompanied supreme. The
outstanding number by MIR. Rose was
the Mozart Kreisler "Rondo," in which
he seemed to catch the spirit of
Mozart admirably and achieved the
difiicult cadenzas inserted in the work
very we'll indeed. The Bach air was
too sluggish and the Ernst Hungarian
airs did not seem very intriguing.
The Rimsky Korsakoff Kreisler
Hymn to the Sun" was a pleasing
encore II. K.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-05
Editor Gives Address.

Warren Bishop, managing editor az
the Nations Business and a former
associate editor of the New York Sun.
addressed members Of the student
body Of National University yesterday
afternoon on his personal experiences
In business and newspaper life. Mr.
Bishop recalled many OF his expert
ences while on the New York Sun and
during his long professional career.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-05
Ia WOMAN LEGISLATORS.
New Hampshire Claims Honors in
Suffrage Development.

CONCORD, n. H., March 8 (P).--
With IA woman members In the Legis
lature, this State puts forth. unoffi-
cially, the claim To represent the
farthest development of that phase Of
suffrage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-05

THE Ambassador Of Cuha ana
Sonora de Ferrara will he me
guests in whose honor the MIN
L lister of Guatemala and Sonora
de Sanchez Latour VIII enter
tain a company at dinner this evening.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-05

Charged with collecting fees from
nonmambers for playing on the links
the starter of the Eastwood Golf Club,
near Dundee, Scotland, was recently
sent to jail
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-05

ut soon will be an offense to walk
to the common danger" said a coroner
during an inquest on an auto victim in
West Middlesex, England, recently.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-05
SOCIETY
Cuban Ambassador and Sonora de
Ferrara Honor Guests of Guatemalan
| Envoy and Sonora Sanchez Latour.

her home. Stepping Stone Lodge.
Daytona Beach and later the guest
of her son. MIR. Childress Buckner
Gwyn, jr, and his bride in st. Angus
tine.