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New Britain herald., 1929-01-24
LIGHT SUBSTANCE
 IN HIGHER PEAKS
Science Explains Curious Fact
 in Make Up of Mountains

Cincinnati, Jan. 24 Rl-The high CT tho mountain the less its weight that is. proportionately. on the principle of a cork in the water.
 The earth's crust resembles the water in this curious analogy, and the tendency is for high mountains, like high riding corks to be made of something comparatively light.
 The light weight in the mountain is not. however. wholly like that of tho cork. due to tho substance of which the mountain is made. Geo. logists are finding that the force of garvity, when 1t comes to affecting. the weights of things as big as mountains, is not the unchanging force that the scales of men have credited it with being.
 Some of these tricks of gravity are explained by Dr. Walter H. Butcher, professor of historical ge- ology, graduate school of arts and sciences, University of Cincinnati. One is . fact long known. that the intensity of gravity varies from point to point on tho earth's surface.
 If the earth's crust comprised rock masses Of a density every where equal. says Dr. Butcher, the forces Of gravity would be expected 10 be equal at all points. The ob. served fact is that they are not equal. Whether density explains all the difference may be questioned.
 For example. Dr. Butcher points out, high mountains bear evidence Of once having been part of deep seas, where, generally. density Of rock masses is greater than of land rocks.
 Varying degrees Of pressure that tend to force upward lighter rocks. and eruptive heat that mclts and strains out tho lighter tlem01ts and floats them highest. complicate the problem of describing exactly the origins of mountains.
 Dr. Butcher says that deficiencies in gravity probably will prove one of the forces. and that these forces can be computed better after mcas- urements arc made of submarine topography and gravities Then he hopes that the conditions that make oceans will be better understood as we'll as the phenomenon of moun- tains seeming to be lighter as their height rises.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-24
BIG WIND TUNNEL FOR PLANE TESTS
Would Accommodate Full Size Machine to Study Air Force

Washington, Jan. 2l Rl-Safer and cheaper airplanes is the aim of d government proposal to build q giant experimental wind tunnel la boratory at Langley Field. Va.
 Plans for the project, which ex- ceed tho proportions of any similar laboratory planned by any nation, arc now before the house appropri- ations committee in an item re- questing m appropriation for $525,- 900 in 1880 by the national advisory committetc for aeronautics.
 A full-sizcd airplane could be placed in the new wind tunnel to provide detailed study of forces acting upon the plane in full flight without taking it off the ground. Wind tunnels have played an i'm portant part in the development Of safer airplanes, but heretofore toy like models have been used for the tests.
 Experts have discovered that CT TOTS sometimes as high as 10 DOT cent are incurred through use of models instead of actual airplaESs S. However. they are not willing to send pilots and planes into the air to test some new and radically un- conventional device unless they ar" certain that the risk to pilot and plane is not too great.
 ''At present the safe flight of an airplane is dependent too much up- on ability of the pilot" Dr Joseph $. Ames, chairman of the national advisory committee for aeronautics, told subcommittee of the house appropriations committee. '"Thc problems of better stability and control must be solved. A large majority of fatal accidents are the result of airplanes bearing stall ing speed. where the present types of control are ineffective. We can- not expect to study these violent maneuvers while in actual flight where the dangers are very great. and error is apt to creep in if We work out our problem with models We must have & wind tunnel labo- ratory in which an airplane with 50 foot wing span can be tested as if in actual flight"
 In commenting upon the success of the 20 foot propeller research tunnel now in operation Dr. Ames told the committee that the savings made possible in one year to users and manufacturers of airplanes through the development in the tunnel of new cowling for air cooled engines would be sufficient to pay for the present tunnel. The propeller research tunnel was built
New Britain herald., 1929-01-24
WOMEN MAKELAWS
 IN THE FAR WEST
Fiibeu Feminine Legislators m
 Five Pacific States

San Francisco, Jan. 2t. lV,-lda- ho, one of the pioneer states in the granting of voting privileges to women. is the only far western commonwealth which does not have . feminine member of its iegtsla- ture this year. Furthermore. tho only state office held by woman = that of state superintendent ot public instruction - faces . movo- ment for abolition.
 Utah and Washington, with five women legislators each. head the list of western states allotttng law making seats to the sex once allud- ed to an "weaker." Washington ts the only one to have woman state senator. She is Rcba J. Hurn of Spokane.
 Utah has returned to the assem- bly Mrs. Anna T. Piercey. whose legislative experience began m 1919. She is the author of the states eight hour law. and played an active part in mothering tho woman. suffrage bill through the special session of that year. It is notable that in the mountain bul- wark of republicanism in federal politics, all five of the assembly women arc democrats.
 California. which once had as many as four women members of it's house, now has only one - Eleanor Miller, republican, of Pasa- dena.
 Nevada, famed for the liberality of its divorce and gambling law. reelected it's one woman laWmaket. Mrs. Ethel B. McGuire, and Eave seats to two more. Mrs. Lillie V. Finger and Mrs. Nova Waters.
 O. egon, like California. has but . single woman legislator. Dorothy Mccullough, Lee. representing Multi nomah county.
 Women of Idaho are organizing to oppose elimination of the only state position that a member o, their sex now holds and to which Mrs. Myrtle R. Davis was elected to succeed Mrs. Mabelle NJ. Allen. Opposition to the office is not based on any objection to women in poli- tics but on the belief that the office functions partly duplicate those of the commissioner of education. The Tax Payers Association urges Its abandonment on the ground of economy.
 The Grange. however, while op- posing duplication. has expressed preference for retention of the superintehdency as against the commissioner as the former is an elective office and the latter filled by appointment.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-24
40 Driven Out by
 Bristol. R. l.. Fire

Providence, R. l.. Jan. 24.-fh- Forty persons, 31 of them children. we've driven to the streets scantily clad shortly after midnight, when ire broke out in a six family house at Coggeshall street, Bristol
 Antonio Columbo, while lying in bed reading . novel. smelled smoke. Upon investigation he found a large pile of kindling ablazc in the cellar. The building filled rapidly with smoke and many of the tenants on the third floor made their way to safety with difficulty.
 The town had been without water service for four hours just preced- ing the fire. while changes were be- ing made in water mains. Pressure had been restored few minutes be- fore the alarm was sounded. Sparks from . defective chimney were blamed for the fire.
 No estimate of damage as yet ob- tainable.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-24
COLONIAL WEALTH
 Of FRANCE LARGE
Country Hopes to Multiply ht
 National Fortune

Vincennes, Jan. 24.-LNHFranc has set to work in earnest to shOw the world that Frenchmen are as good colonists as any people any where. A great colonial exhibition, . veritable city at the gates of Paris, of which the first cornerstone has just been laid by President Doumer- que, is the first chapter in . vast plan for capitalizing the 60,000,000 people who live under the tricolor in the four quarters of the globe.
 This colonial exhibition, for which tremendous preparations are being made, Is the symbol in the minds of far-sighted Frenchmen for a France not of 4O,OOO,OO0 inhabitants. but of 0O,000.O0O. From Guadeloupe and Martinique to Madagascar and Diibouti. from Laos and New Gale donia to Senegal and Cameroun, these men have their eyes on the Vmcennes exhibition.
 It will open in 1881 and embody two years of work devoted to dis playing tho essence of French colo nies to stay-at-homes. Its largest building will remain as permanent new ministry of colonies Every activity of the colonies wilt be repre- scented in the grand tradition of French exhibitions.
 Undeveloped riches of this colonial empire .staggcr the imagination. Neglected though it has been by the naturally stay-at-home citizen. rudi- mentarily equipped and poorly capi- talked, it represented one-fifth the economic activity of the home coun- try this year. Its total yearly com- merce Is at present worth more than $10. 900, 900. 900.
 France hopes not only to recon- stitute. but even to multiply the na- tional fortune by properly exploiting this empire.
 Ports. roads. railways, capital, engineers and technicians are need ed for such work. Above all, the in- terest and pride of Frenchmen at home in this permanent monument to the work of great Frcnchmen abroad must be aroused.
 The Nincennes exhibition is the key to the plan.
 It was under the inspiration of this exhibition that the colonies them- selves this year got the courage to devote d billion francs to moderniz- ing their equipment without resort- ing to loans or to the home budget.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-24
City Items

See and hear the new Majestic Radio at Henry Morans & Sons.-- advt.
 When are you going to enroll for Simplified Shorthand? Moody Secre- tarial Evening School.--advt.
 See and hear the new Majestic Radio at Henry Morans & Sons.- advt.
 Social and whist, Altar society, St. John the Evangelist church. Hotel Erwin tonight.-advt.
 New classes now forming at tho Connecticut Business College.-advt.
 A joint committee of the fire and police boards will meet representa- tives of the board of public works tomorrow afternoon to consider preparation of maps of the cnNre electrical systems used in the oper- ation of signals in both the police and the fro departments.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-24
Bishop Deplorss the <
 Materialistic TendencS

Chattanooga, Tenn. Jan. 1S.-9 Bishop Thomas F. Caller. thA Protestant Episcopal church, dto, cese of Tennessee, deplerss tl6 modern tendcy to consider money the main thing in church life aad re- duce religion to . commercial bastA
 T must deplore the tendency to, day to measure all success by cosn- merctal standards" said plshep Gailor. There is danger that ths ministry of the church itself shall U regarded as a mere business er pro. fession, where the ability to raioa money is the test of ehicieney, and where the outlying places ta tho country may be neglected. bssausS the young men Of ability, whe en. ter tho ministry. are not rsaAy feS sacrifices and plain living"
New Britain herald., 1929-01-24
BABE IN COLLEGE
 WITH SIX MOTHERS
Girl Students it Maine Unvsr. sitJ Study Chlld C,rt

Orono. Me, Jan. 2i. N10eorse Joseph Legere has six "motherA."
 Although he is only six months old. he is helping sirl students at the University of Maine in their studies. By motherins him six students are getting practical train- ing in how to take care of | baby as \ part of their course In home economies.
 "Jerry'' follows a regular sched ule under the watchful eye of his six mothers" He has milk at 6 a. m. At : he is dressed and iA given cod liver oil and orange juice. At 10 he eats cereal jelly besides his milk and is tucked into carriage on the porch for . nap. At 1 D. m. he comes in for his hath, is dressed in clean clothes, has more milk and another nap on the porch.
 , At 1 he comes in to play by him. self until o'clock. He entertains visitors from until 6:s0. then is dressed for tho night. has another meal of milk and cereal jelly and goes to sleep. At 10 he ends his day with another drink of milk. And 90 to bed.
 This temporary adoption of a baby by the girls studying home economies at North Hall has be- come a regular and successful practice at the University of Maine. Every year . baby 10 ob- taincd as part Of the equipment. Every youngster who has come to North Hall for his six months period later has been adopted.
 How well they have thrived Is revealed by the fact that one of them recently won the blue ribbon at Bangor baby show.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-24
Boys Damage Building
 And Rifle StOrehOuse

Extensive damage wa; donc in house at 171 Belden strec.. whic'' is b Ing built by Santa Puzzo of 1o5 Winthrop street. according to tho latter's complaint to the police today. Four windows were broken. a quantity Of wall paper was ripped off and paint was dumped from cans onto the floor. It is thought boys in the neiehborhood did the damage.
 Herman Feigenbaum of Sa Lafay- cite street reported that a wooden o""housc was entered last last night on Leo treet. off Corbin ave- nue and considerable lead pipe and brass fittings and solder stolen. A key was used to open the door. Fcigenbaum is installing plumbing in . new house on the street. Boys are also suspected in this case.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-24
Raymond s. King Is
 PrOperIy Cleaned Ont

:. New York. Jan. 24, R-Raymond 5. King, president of the King Lighter company, and his wife. who were driving home in their auto mobile from a party carly today. were held up in lonely section of Canarsie by three men in an automobile and robbed of jewelry and cash.
 AS two of the men pointed pistols at MT. King and his wife, third searched them and took two rings valued at S2,500 from Mrs. King and from King took $2.700 in cash and checks amounting to $7,40O.
 T guess that's all" said one of the robbers. Then he noticed a fur coat Mrs. King was wearing and or dered her to remove it and hand it over. which she did.
 Good bye, thanks very much exclaimed another robber, as they stepped into their car and drove away.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-24
wo years ago at a cost of s1so. 900.

two years ago at a cost of $160,o0o
 The proposed tunnel, which is paralleled in it's size and import ance only by q similar project con- sidered for several years in Italy. would cost approximately ss00,000 when completed. The present ap- propriation request is for $5s5,00o 10 begin construction of tho tunnel.
 In comparison with the present laboratory at Langley Field. the new giant of them all would be ap- proAimately four times as large. Instead of an air stream 20 feet in diameter, the new tunnel would have an ellipticai throat 70 feet long and 25 feet high. It would'b be :12 feet long and 2S6 feet high. The air would be pulled through the chamber at speeds up to 100 miles an hour.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-24
Litigation Over
 Lyons Estate Ends

Detroit, Jan. 24 R-Litisation over the estate of Sophia Lyons Burke. also known as Sophie Lyon9. who was involved in several biz New York holdups of the last decade, was here yesterday.
 She died here in 1s24 leaving . $225,0O0 estate. The court decision today gives Madeline Brady. q who is an inmate of the home for incompetents in Epsom. England, &42,50O cash and 310.000 It also provides $50 a year for delicacies for Sing Sing death house inmates, funds for f>r several prisons and for establishment of home for children of penal inmates here.
 She was author of the book Why Crime Does Not Pay"
New Britain herald., 1929-01-24
CHURCH IAY STOP ROHEFNLBR'S PLAN
Dream Of Nov Metropolitan Opera House May Not Re Fully
 RAahaAS1

New York, Jan. st M-A church. the members of which feel they have '.sacred trust" to maintain their cdihce in tho heart of New York stheaters to prevent . com plete realization of the metropolitan opera center planned by John D. Rockefeller. jr.
 The Collegiate Reformed Church of St. Nicholas, at Fifth avenue and 18th street. is one of the few par cells of land In. tho three blocks. from 18th to S1st streets. between Fifth and Sixth avenues, not in- cluded in the &s.ooo.0oo . year lease by Columbia university to Mr. Rockefeller.
 The Rev. Dr. Malcolm James Macleod, pastor. and Charles Stow. art Philips. treasurer, declared the church, repeatedly has declined to sell and has no present intention of selling or leasins the property.
 Dr. Macleod said he believed landmarks in New York. particu. larly churches, should not be torn down. ''The material things arc great" he said. but tho spiritual things arc greater"
 There are semo things money cannot buy. and l think the Col leKtate Reformed Church of St. Nicholas is one of them" he added.
 The spiro of St. Nicholas church often has been declared. ono of tho most beautiful in the world. The bell in its steepls was cast. in Hol. land in 17sS. Tho church ts reported to have at one time refused m of. fer of e7.ooO.oo0 for the site.
 A representative of Mir. Rocke- feller said that If negotiations for the church site had been opened he believed MT. Rockefeller would drop them immediately if hs learned the church WAS unwilling under any circumstances to move from tts present place Of worship.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-24
Gregory Mason Is
 Sued for Divorce

Reno, Nev., Jan. 24 R-Gregory Mason. lecturer, explorer and writ CT, war correspondent for Outlook in the European war and joint mem- Der of an archaeological expedition into Yucatan, was yesterday sued by Mary Turner Mason for divorce and for the custody of their infant son. They were married in 1922.
 Mrs. Mason is a cousin of George Kibbe Turner. writer. The decree is asked on the ground of mental cruel- ty. Mrs. Mason charging that as a consequence of his actions she has lost many of her friends.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-24
Russia to Spend Billion
 For DevelOpment Soon

New York. Jan. 24.-lR-The Amtorg Trading corporation. Amer isan representative of Russian in- dustralists. announced yesterday that the Russian Soviet government is planning an expenditure of S1.- 000 1000. 900 for industrial and electri- cal development during 1929.
 Much of this sum, which is an in- crease of 3250.o0o.O0O over the amount spent last year. will be cx- pended in the United States for mechanical equipment and for en- gineerins advice. Russia, it was said, aims to eventually adopt generally the high-speed production system of American industry.
 A Classified Ad in the Herald will help lot.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-24
CANCELS PLANS

London, Jan. 24.0R-Edward Campbell, conservative member of the house of commons for North west Camberwel!, yesterday cancelled invitations for his silver wedding celebration next week. His note said fin view of the approaching general election the giving of a large party may be interpreted by some as be- ing irregular"
New Britain herald., 1929-01-24
LA TOILETTE STATUE

New York. Jan. 24.-lR-A nine foot marble statue of the late Rob- ert La Toilette to be placed in the hall of fame at Washington was brought to this country on the liner Paris by Jo Davidson, American sculptor. who completed it at his Paris studio.
 Davidson was commissioned to execute the statue by the state of Wisconsin three years ago.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-24
SAVE THE WHALE,
 NEWEST CAMPAIGN
Demand Great Extinction Threatens MammdoSists Believe
By NEA Service

Baltimore. Jan. 24 R--Interna- tional action to save the whale from oxtermihation is the aim of the American Society of MammaIogists
 Preliminary steps are under way to organize an American campaign in cooperation with an international movement.
 The demand for whales is greater row than ever before and some spe- cies are already on the verge of ex- tinctioh, explains the society's secre- tary, Dr. A. Brazier Howell of Johns Hopkins university.
 In the heyday of Yankee whaling, whales were killed in about 40 years, while now the number annually av- erages about 30,OO0.
 Whales offer a cheap source of animal fat, chicken feed. fertilizer and bone, he says, and for that req son. If for no other, should be saved from extermination.
 Except for a fine grade of lubri- eating oil needed for scientific in- strumcnts which fs obtainable from the porpoise, however, substitutes can be found, he declares, for all of the products of the various species of whales.
 "1n animal forms of such size" he explains. "the recovery is slow, as only one young is born every other year, and if depletion has been too severe, recuperation from . small nucleus is impossible.
 "The time has come, and for a few species is past, when international action must bc taken if we are to prevent the extermination of the largest mammals that have ever lived"
 Among the measures which are needed. he says. are regulations against killing species in serious dan- ger Of extermination; protection of whales on their breeding grounds and along certain tropical migration routes; prohibition of the use of air planes in whale hunting and of the killing of those nursing young. and compulsory utilization of the entire carcass ill reduction plants.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-24

In 1927 2c,Ss7,000 miles were flown by aircraft on regular com mercial services throughout the world. compared with 1,170.000 miles in 1919.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-24
PLANES TO HELP

Mexico City, Jan. 24.-(P-To wipe out insurgent groups operating in the mountains of Jalisco, Michoa- can and Guanajuato. the war de-
New Britain herald., 1929-01-24

partment today ordered s1 Airplanss to cooperate in the military cam- paign. q
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-01-17
MASQUERADE IS SET
 FOR FEB. 13, DOUGLAS

The January meeting of the D. l.. w. c. was held Wednesday evening with the Misses Lucille Pepoon and Josie Hurst, as hostesses. Final arrangements for the masquerade were completed. Owing to con flicts the dance will be given Wednesday, February 13 in the natatorium. This is the initial step to raise money for a com munity playground so everybody should turn out and help make it a success.
 'Mesdames I. Grim and K. Chap man were welcomed into the club membership.
 Local chairmen to cooperate with Territorial chairmen of their respective committees, were ap- pointed as follows: Citizenship, Mrs. Glen Kirkham; Publicity, Mrs.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-01-17

Ralph Morgan. He plans to open the series with one game in Chi cago, then travel by train and air. plane to the West Coast for games with California, Stanford, South. ern California, and also play either Missouri or Kansas on the way back
 Several of the Coast teams have invited the Red and Blue, and the tour, if arranged, will be the first ever taken by an Eastern college basketball team.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-01-17

the club adjourned to meet in February with Mrs. F. A. J. Gall was.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-01-17
DOUGLAS NEWS
JOE RIEDl INJURED;
 CAR GOES OVER BANK

Joe Riedi had a narrow escape from more serious injury and per. haps death yesterday afternoon when his delivery car which he was driving took a sudden notion to leave the road and plunged about 100 feet down a bank, turn ing over and pinning him under meath. Hans Loken who was riding with Riedi was damned be tween the side of the car and the hill.
 The accident occurred near the old hospital site on St. Ann's Ave nue, about 4:30 o'clock. Riedi was driving toward Treadwell and had passed the Gallwas car when he gave the wheel a sharp turn to take the car out of a rut it was in. In less time than it takes to tell, the vehicle shot across the road and over the bank.
 A. E. Goetz, driver of the Gall was truck, observing the accident, rushed to aid, first extracting Lok- en, and with his help lifted the wrecked car sufficient to liberate Riedi who was in a dangerous position. He then brought the latter to town where examination by Dr. Kirby revealed dlslocation of the shoulder and perhaps frac- ture of the bone besides minor in iuries. Loken who was only slight ly injured, was able to continue on foot to his home.