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New Britain herald., 1929-08-02

The fathers of the early Chris tian church founf themselves with a consecutive biblical chronology running from the creation of Adam into the Christian era. For the first few centuries the general estimate of students placed the creation of man at about 5000 years before the birth of Christ. They reasoned that inasmuch as Adam had come on the sixth day of Creation so Christ, the second Adam, must have come 5000 years later; six was regarded as something of a sacred number.
 WaVered Between Two Dates
 Eusebus figured out some chron- ological tables somewhat reducing the period, so that eventually the age of man came to Oe placed some where between 1000 and coco E. C. though there were many bitter ar- guments over it. St. Augustine de- clared belief in any greater anti quity to be deadly heresy. lsdor.a of Sevill, the most important Of seventh century theologians, placed the date somewhere between. The Venerable Bede went into the subject in the next century and put the figuure down close to 4003. Four hundred years later Jewish scholars, including Rabbi Moses Maimonides, studied the Hebrew | chronology closely and corroborat- 1 ed him and Vincent of Beauvais later placed the date at about 400j l B. C.
 Martin Luther said: We know that longer ago than 6,000 years the world did not exist and the savant Melanchthon fixed creation of man at exactly 3963 B. C. The argument continued, however. and in 173S a scholar was able to assert that he had in 40 years studied 200 computations based on Scripture, of which no two were alike.
 In the Roman Martyrology, pub lished by Pope Gregory XIII aboEt 1880. and in Pope Urban WITS re- vision of 1640. the creation Of man is placed at 5199 B. C.
 Archbishop Usher, however, was ItopOliSIDit Lol tllC oN1t ptttliNN DF the Christian world of the date 4004 B. C., which he cited in lis Annals of the Ancient and New Testaments.
 Few Dared to Dissent
 Sir Walter Raleigh had cautious ly suggested greater antiquity than was commonly supposed, but there were few others, and any ra- dical viewpoints on cosmic chron- ology were likely to result in prison or worse for the holder. Toward the end of the seventeenth century and through the eighteenth d few British scholars protested against the accepted view, but as late aa 1850 one of the most eminent ot Psychologists was announcing 1T one of his volumes that he had modified the results he had obtained from Egyptian monuments so that his chronology might not confiic: with the accepted date of Noah's Flood.
 Finally, however, the archaeolo.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-02
SETS BACK
 BIRTH OF MANKIND
Admits Mans Beginning Ante
 dates 4OO4 B. c..

Washington, Aug. 2-In the sev- foot of Cambridge university, the greatest theological scholar of his time, announced after profound and exhaustive study of the Scrip lures that man was created by the Trinity on Oct 23, 4OO4 B. C., at 9 o'clock in the morning.
 Archbishop Usher agreed that 4004 B. C. was the very year and his verdict was so generally accepted that this and other of his dates were inserted in the margins of the authorized English Bible, where they remain to this day.
 Thus the theologians settled the antiquity of man after centuries of argument. Before long, how ever, scientists were at work pro- ducing proof that men had lived long before 4004 B. C. They boosted the date farther and far ther back into prehistoric myths.
 A Catholics Discovery
 Now the final knockout to the 4004 B. C. theory appears to have been delivered by Father Stephen Richarz, who. in geogolcal study announced by the Catholic Archaeological Conference here has concluded that the human race is SO,000 years old by the most con- servative estimate. Father Richarz boldly asserts that the question is one of geology rather than of the. ology
 He has counted glacial layers ant what not and admits that there arc | indications tending to put the birth. day of the human race back severa hundred thousand years, though 1t does not regard these indications such as f1ints dating from the frs ice age period-as indisputabl, proof.
 Scientists of the Smithsonian In stitution, including such famous savants as Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, tn, anthropologist and Dr. James w Gidley, the paleontologst. do no hesitate to estimate that mankind has been on earth for at least 5O0 900 years.
 If that is correct, it seems to b, a remarka ble fact that this humal race, until the last hundred year or so, has been misguessing it age by from 492,ooO to 494,00I years. For the widest venture 0 the old theologians, who used t control both education and the de velopment of science, never gave tn race an age beyond 5000 years.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-02
SLIDING SCALE ON
 SUGAR PROPOSED Shoot Suggests One to Three
 Gents Varying Duty

Washington, Aug. (P>-A sliding scale sugar tariff plan, ranging from one cent a pound at the time market prices are high to three cents d pound when the market is depressed was made public today by Chair man Shoot of the senate finance committee.
 Shoot will offer the proposal as a substitute for the flat rate of 3 cents a pound placed on sugar in the house tariff bill.
 Hearings will be held next week at which time the substitute will be considered by the committed
 Under the sliding scale, the pres ent rate of 2.20 on sugar would ap- ply when sugar is selling in. New York at 6 cents a pound. which $
New Britain herald., 1929-08-02
FELLOW COISTRYNJEN

Paris, Aug. 2.-Why go to Paris to get 'stung" by divorce lawyers? Many Americans who come here to have matrimonial bands severed are falling prey to American law yers and paying three or four times what they should. Only recently Paris court ordered w. H. Paul. ing -Emerich to return sl,250 to Mrs. Marjorie Corn, client. claim ing that the fee should be only $500.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-02
ROCKET RACKET

Berlin. Aug. 2.-Prof. Herman Oberth has something new in the rocket propulsion racket and this time it is hydrogen gas. AS yet he hasn't tried out his theories, but so convinced is the Astronomical so- ciety of France that he has been awarded it's Rep-Hirsch prize for astronautics. The German scientist claims his rocket, when constructed, will transport persons to the moon.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-02

gists began to push back beyond 4004 B. c. and even beyond O00D B. c. Geologists anthropologists and paleontologists subsequently sent the date skyrocketing. The study of Father Richarz, issued un- .ments the agreement of science and religion as to the worthlessness of the old ChronologieS.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-02

ficers ODay and Harper started tc search for another physician. At his home it was said that he was at a nearby gasoline station, but all though the officers went there, they could not find him. In the mean time Mrs. Brague had passed away After the police officers saw that they could render no assistance, they left,
 Mrs, Brague leaves her daughter, Mrs. l.. H. Ripple.
 Funeral services will be held to- morrow morning at 9:50 at the home Of Mrs. Ripple. Rev. Theodore s. Dunn, assistant pastor of the South Congregational church, will officiate. Burial will be in Holden. Mass.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-02
COULDN'T LEAVE IT

London, Aug. 2.-Beer was the one thing which Alexander Macau- ley, GA, liked nothing else but, and a cask of it probably saved his life when he fell off dock at Hull re- gently. It had enough liquid out of it to make an air compartment When Macauley fell into the water, he retained his grasp in the cask and was buoyed up until help reached him.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-02
FLOOR OF GOLD

Budapest, Aug. 2.-Digging the floor of her home here recently. Mrs. Simon Sichelmann unearthed S2,5O0 in gold dust. She is a widow and while her husband was living he was a goldsmith. He gathered the dust during his life and buried it under the floor. She had a law suit with the owner of the house over the ownership of the gold. and the court ruled the possession to hCr
New Britain herald., 1929-08-02
Personals

Mir. and Mrs. Aaron Paul Of G Lake Court and MT. and Mrs. C. E. Kelsey of 22 Lincoln street will spend the next two weeks at Bay Point, Maine.
 Mir. and Mrs. r. Borkowski of Overlook avenue entertained last night at their home. Miss Betty DAlleso. Miss Margaret Werhein, and Lillian Elliot of Baltimore, Md. who are spending the summer in touring the New England states.
 Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Bonkowski and daughter, Gloria. of Eddy Glow CT boulevard will leave tomorrow for Asbury Park and Long Brancn, N. J.
 Mrs. Albert Weiant of Murray street has returned home after spending the past two weeks in New York state where she attended the funeral of her father.
 Mrs. H. B. Olmstead and daugh- ter. Gladys. are spending the week with Mrs. Olmsteads brother, Win
New Britain herald., 1929-08-02
Tested Plates

Every ounce of material used in the construction of the plates is sub jected to numerous chemical analyses and physical tests during the five states of plate manufacture.
 The melting process in forming ed by automatic regulators 10 pre- vent unbalancing the proper propor- tions of lead and antimony. Every plate is manufactured by experts
New Britain herald., 1929-08-02
VALUABLE, EIEGY

London, Aug. 2.-An old copy of Grays "Elegy' sold at Sotheby's re- gently for s6,700. It was pub lished in 17o1 and at that time sold for a very small amount. Gray made practically nothing out Of this work, for he gave away his copyright 10 his publishers
New Britain herald., 1929-08-02

about the present price.
 Cuba would receive the same 20 per cent preferential under the slid ing scale as it now enjoys when the flat rates on sugar are applied,
New Britain herald., 1929-08-02
field Ritch of Fultonville, N. Y.

Mrs. r. D. Goodale and children. Ruth and Ralph, have returned from spending a week with Mrs. Goodale's cousin, George w. Austin of Long Ridge, Stamford.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-02
GERMAN MUSICIANS WORRIED

ITTtNTtN TT NTt TN.NS NOhhIFD
 Berlin, Aug. . tPl-The introdu'- tion of the sound movie in Germany is causing much worry to the musi- clans. Already three of the largest houses of Greater Berlin have given notice 10 their orchestras that their services now are unnecessary. and others are expected to follow.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-02
Port Oxford Cedar
 Separators

Separators are vital part of your battery. Hartford engineers and chemists so treat the separators as to give your Hartford battery maxi mum strength and resistance against the action of acid. Hartford bat tcry manufacturers are the leaders in using Port Oxford Cedar Separa- tors in battery construction.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-12
REV. J. 7. MARSHALL
RESIGNS CHARGE
Failing Health Causes
Georgetown Pastor to Re-
tire, Effective January |.

The Washington City Presbytery
meeting at New York Avenue Presby-
terrain Church. yesterday accepted the
resignation of Rev. James T. Marshall
for 81 years pastor>of the Presbyterian
Church of Georgetown, who is leaving
his church January because of failing
health.
The Presbytery also decided after dis
cussion yesterday not to extend an in
vitation for the General Assembly OF
the Presbyterian Church, U. S. A., tc
meet in the Capital in 1890.
Accepting the resignation of DR.
Marshall, the Presbytery named DR.
Wallace Radcliffe, pastor emeritus Of
New York Avenue Presbyterian Church
to serve in DR.. Marshall'S place until a
successor to DR.. Marshall is appointed
The body Endorsed the call recently
extended to and accepted by the Rev
James Mccartney, now pastor of a
church in Pasadena, Calf, who will
come to the Church Of the Covenant in
January
Plans were discussed by the Preshy-
terry for raising funds for church and
parish house for colored members of
the denomination in the northeast Sec
ton of the town. The church would be
at Second and S streets northeast.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-12
HOOVER BEGINNING
WORK ON MESSAGE
Country Believed Eager to
Hear First Report on
Stewardship.

President Hoover has entered upon
the task of writing his first annual mea-
sage to Congress, so as to have it in
readiness to present to that body when
it assemblies in regular session Deem
Der Q.
For various reasons, this message of
the President is being looked forward
to with more than ordinary interest.
There are indications that the coun-
try is eager to hear what the President
will have to propose in the way of legis-
lation. Then, too this paper will serve
as Mr.. Hoover's maiden report of his
stewardship Of the national Government
since he took the reins March 4.
Interest also is aroused because of
the situation in the Senate as result
of the successful maneuvering Of the
coalition in connection with the tariff
bill.
1t is known that some are expecting
the President to say something upon
that situation, but those who are antici-
pating anything of the sort will be
greatly disappointed, according to the
opinions of more than one of the Pres
ldent'S associates.
1t is thought doubtful If Mr.. Hoover
gives much more than passing mention
to the tariff in his message. He has
consistently set forth his position and
his views regarding this legislation and
it is thought inconceivable that he
would take occasion in his message to
again deal at any length regarding this
subject.
OF course, what he will say on the
subject will necessarily depend to a
large extent on the tariff situation when
the curtain drops on the present spe-
cial session. The President is repre-
sented, however, as being still hopeful
that a tariff revision bill will pass
which will bring relief to agriculture
and assistance to those industries which
need help and thereby fulfill the CAM
paign pledge of his party.
Although the President has not pro-
| crossed very far in the drafting of his
| message, the impression is that that
document is likely to be in the form of
memorandum of the things Congress
should do.
1t is expected that he will make some
comment on the subject of present tax
reduction, but administration officials
! doubt very much II conditions this year
/ will permit recommending a cut in the
tax burden for at least another year.
The President viii recommend addi-
tional appropriations for the Federal
| Farm Board and viii urge the early
/ passage Of the general supply bills ano
the expansion Of his public building
program.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-12
CARAWAY CHARGES
DENIED BY BURGESS
Pottery Man Coming Here to
Seek Retraction Of
Accusations.
~ the Associated press.


TRENTON, N. j., November l2.-De-
NAL of charges made against him by
Senator Caraway on the floor of the
Senate yesterday was made by William
Burgess, member of the United States
Potters Association and former tariff
commissioner.
THAT is pretty rank stuff" Burgess
asserted when appraised OF Senator
Caraway's charges that he had no re-
gard for his own reputation, no hesita-
ton for committing perjury, and was
willing to Islander members of the SEN
ate. They are absolutely false state
ments," he continued, made in order
to blacken my character and in an ef-
fort to stop American manufacturers
from getting their rights"
Il deny absolutely" said Mr.. Bur-
CESS, ANY such charges as the Cara
way statements. He cannot show per-
jury In any particular, and SO for my
reputation, l will leave that in the
hands of these who know me better
than he does.
II was called back to the witness
stand in the lobby investigation hears
ings for a second time and an effort
was made to trip me up in my testi-
mony. That attempt failed"
The Pottery Association member also
condemned as false, the charges against
him in respect to Frederick Koch. 1t
has been asserted that Burgess tried
TO have Koch, an employee of the Tariff
Commission, dismissed because Koch
supplied members of Congress with in
formation on the pending tariff bill.
Burgess left yesterday afternoon for
Washington, where he will attempt to
have the attack upon him refuted upon
the floor of the Senate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-12
TINSE[ WIRE RATE
IS CUT BY SENATE
Tydlngs Is Successful in
Urging Amendments fT
Material Reduction.
Rr the Assocfated press.

BY the Associated Press.
The spirit of Christmas sweptk the
Senate today as a Democrat succeeded
in lowering existing tariffs on tlnsel
wire and all articles made of this sand
similar materials.
While the finance committee 8had
proposed elimination of House increases
in these duties, Senator Tydings, Demo-
crat of Maryland, was successful in
urging amendments to cut the rates
materially.
The duty on tinsel wire was cut from
6 cents a pound and 10 per cent adj
valorem to cents, the tariff on lame,
an article like tinsel, from cents and
20 per cent to 6 cents; bullions and
metal threads made of these articles
from cents and 35 per cent to cents
and 20 per cent; beltings and other
articles made of these articles from As
per cent to 80 per cent and woven
fabrics OF tinsel from SIS to 40 per
cent,
A committee amendment increasing
the duty on putty from quarters
OF a cent to l cent a pound was re-
jected.
Expectations were that proposals of
the committee affecting metal para
graphs of the measure had not yet
acted upon, all of minor nature. would
be disposed of by nightfall with the
schedule embracing woods and lumber
next in line.
Senator Jones of washington. acting
Republican leader. has championed pro-
lection for the lumber interests, and is
expected to sponsor a move on behalf
of the domestic producers.
There were indications that this eff
fort would meet the opposition of the
finance committee Republicans and
Western Republican insurgents, COM
bination strange to the tariff discussion.
The House voted to place a tariff on
shingles and certain types of lumber.
| now on the free list. while the Senate
committee recommended the free listing
of logs of FIR, spruce, cedar or Western
| hemlock.
Senator Walsh, Democrat, Montana.
said, in a statement issued last night,
| that recent Senate procedure had
served to throw further light on the
insatiate greed and arrant hypocrisy
4 that comes to the surface in connection
with tariff legislation"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-12
Capital Residents
Unite in Tribute
To Unknown Hero

Wreaths were placed on the
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier IN
Arlington National Cemetery yes
terday by the following organiza-
lions and individuals:
The chief of chaplains OF the
Army and Navy.
The Washington High School
Cadets.
The Disabled American Vet
Grams of the World War.
President Hoover.
Chaplain John t. Axton OF the
Army.
The District of Columbia Chap
ter, Daughters of the American
Revolution.
The Washington High School
Cadets, colored.
The Washington Chamber of
Commerce.
The American Women's Legion.
The knights of Columbus.
The United States Veterans
Bureau.
The Canadian government.
The Boy Scouts of America.
The Junior Red Cross.
The British naval attaches.
The Women's Relief Corps.
The American Legion.
The District Federation OF Ma
t!onal Temple Sisterhoods.
Toc-H Society.
The general committee OF Army
and Navy chaplains.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-12
MMUITY CHEST
DIRECTOR TO SPEAK
Elwood Street Will Address Cham
Der of Commerce "Civic Service
Night" Session.

Elwood Street, director of the Com
munity Chest, is to be the principal
speaker tonight at the monthly meeting
Of the Washington Chamber of Com
merce, at the Mayfiower Hotel. The
meeting Is to get under way at O'Clock.
Called civil service night" the eve
ming will be devoted to discussions of
how the individual members of the
chamber can best apply their efforts to
achieve the most for the community.
Mr. Street is to speak on individual
responsibility and the necessity of or
ganization in promoting the work OF
the Community Chest.
Charles w. Darr, president of the
chamber, will outline briefly the pro-
gram of the standing committees for
the Winter and then will introduce the
recently appointed committee chairmen
and vice chairmen A buffet supper will
be served following the meeting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-12
IT, S. HELD FRIENDLY
TO LEAGUES WORK
Columbia Professor Cites Co-opera-
ton in Constructive Tasks
of Group.

ny the associated Press.
NASHVILLE. Tenn, November a.
DR.. Stephen P. Duggan of Columbia
University believes whatever may be
the attitude of our countrymen on the
question OF joining the League of
Nations, there is no question of their
friendly attitude toward its con-
structive labors."
He expressed this opinion in an adj
dress which he drafted for delivery at
today's session of the meeting of the
World Alliance for International Friend
ship
The degree of cooperation given by
the United States Government to the
work Of the League and its commission,
he said, and the number of Americans
who participate in that work have so
remarkably increased during the past
10 years as to bear witness to this be-
lief"
Col Patrick Henry Callahan oil
Louisville, KY, had praise for theI
people of England in an address hc|
prepared 10 give today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-12

citation of american Medical Colleges
and OF the National Tuberculosis AS
sociation, and Is now president of the
Washington Tuberculosis Association, a
post which lie has neld since 1918.
, He is a member of the American and
District Medical Societies. of the Col
lege of Physicians and of the American
Public Health Association. He was APP
pointed to the Board of Charities, now
the Board of Public Welfare, in 1906,
and has been a member continuously
ever since. He has long been active in
the fight against tuberculosis and for
the Improvement of public health con-
ditions generally. He was member
of the medical committee of the board
which made the Investigation into con-
ditions at Gallinger Hospital following
charges leveled against that institution
by Judge Kathryn Sellers of Municipal
Cnllrt
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-12

She explained her act in note
which was found in her purse in the
cabin of the plane The note read:
Most people end their lives because
something sad has happened to them
end mine because it seems not only
futile, burt wrong to go on existing. i
blame no one and feel 1 have no enc
mics. / will probably be considered in
sane, as any one taking his life Is sup
pose' to be slightly insane.
II would like to send my regards to
Miss Sheers in Drew Seminary at Car
mel, N. Y. My check for SITS in the
suitcase in the closet at home may help
pay my burial expenses. am very
II cm wondering If the newspapers
viii decide to devote any space to me.
l am wondering If 1 will find time to
think of the past as / whirl through
space, as it is said that drowning man
does when struggling in the water. I
am wondering if 1 will find anything in
death. If so, what?
Longing for Harmony.
Everything has been discord, when
long for harmony. Maybe yet l will
find it. maybe sweet music?
H'If I find any sort of life or CORE
spending time after death, will try to
communicate with my immediate rela-
tives at 9 o'clock some evening for a
while
During my lifetime, think my one
fault was deception. 1 have lied re-
peatedly about small things, but unfor-
tunately l forget what these small
things were. l have no guilty con-
science whatsoever, feel"
Miss Rockwell went to the airport
from the home of her brother, Donald
Rockwell, in Yonkers, N. Y, where" she
had been living.
In the operations Office of the Curtiss-
Wright flying service she told William
B. White, traffic manager, that she
wanted to fly high.
To Fly Real High"
'rI asked her how high" he said,
land she only replied real high
Il asked her If 10000 feet would be
high enough and she answered met
Affirmative. I told her that the charge
for such a fight would be high
We'll she said, I just wanted to
go for SIS flight; that is all 1 have"
Edward F. Booth, the pilot who was
assigned to fly the small cabin mono
plane placed at the girls disposal, told
how she Questioned him regarding the
operation Of the doors before they took
off.
He assured her that the doors operated
as ordinary doors. He said she also
asked whether he would lose his head