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New Britain herald., 1930-03-15

Cyprus and copper are synonN. nous. In ancient times the islanl was famous as the best known source of red metal that made the Bronze Age possible. But whether the island was named for copper, Or copper for the island. remains one Of the mysteries of history. What is left of Cyprus copper ores is not rich. but an American company works the mines and removes con- siderable quantities of the mineral. This and q British company mining asbestos; a silk filature; and sever- al cigarette factories constitute the islands industrial plants. The only railway is a narrow gauge affair about 7o miles long extending across the island from east to west.
 Women Do the Work
 "A great deal of the work of Cyprus is done by women. They work in the fields and even break stone and help build highways US well as make lace and embroidery in their homes. The men have a dis tinctive costume-a straw hat with 6 mushroom brim. plain shit sometimes with a jacket. voluminous Turkish trousers whose seats are tucked into their belts for croas country walking, and heavy leather loots with their tops turned down and tied above the calf. The Mos- lens wear a korchicf with lace flower fringes about their rcd tar booshes, and pink and orange shirts, blue trousers and purp:e stockings.
 Cyprus has known more ali2n governments even than Palestine. l. was under Egyptian influence millennium and a half before Christ, then successiyely was con- trolled by Greeks, Assyrians, Grecl:s and Phocnicians. Persians, the Ptolomies of Egypt. Rome, Byzanti- um, Arabs, Crusaders, Templars, th.. house of de Lusignan, the Venetian Republic, and Turkey. In 1878 Great Britain took over the administration of the island but recognized Turkeys sovereignty and paid an annual grant to the latter country. Alter the beginning of the World War Great Britain proclaimed Cyprus to be British Colony"
New Britain herald., 1930-03-15
City Items

J. c. Moody. principal of the Moody Secretarial school, is in Bos ton attending the 18th anniversary of the founding of the New Eng land Penmanship association. Mr. Moody was charter members and president of the association in 1910.
 A. Nash Co. spring suits and top coats. J. Ryan, 22 RoXbury road. Tel. 2909.-adNt.
 No trustee was apointed at meet ing Of creditors of Eli Grennier, bankrupt automob painter who formerly conducted business in this city. The meeting was held at the office Of Referee in Bankruptcy Saui German yesterday.
 Charles Stouman Of Philadelphia is the guest of his son-in-law and daughter. Attorney and Mrs. Jsra cl Nair of Shuttle Meadow avenue.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-15

timber and fuel for the community.
 Instead of being called clubs, aa arc the unit organizations of the other All activities, the forestry units are called ranger camps an1 tho members All rangers. The clubs build log cabins in the woods and enjoy camp life as we'll as All club life.
 The project rapidly is becoming enc of the most popular branches of All club work, according to R. A. Turner, field agent of the UnitGl States department of agriculture, who has had q great deal to 10 with it's promotion in north central states,
 The boys and girls learn the at of forestry in Michigan by actual experience in the woods under tn eyes of trained woodsmcn as wei as by instruction in taking care of their own embryo forests.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-15
Two Steamers Crash
 Going Through Big Cut

Panama. March 15 tPl - The steamship General Sherman of the Arrow line. bound from Port Alberni, British Columbia. for Philadelphia, was rammed by the steamship Silver Yew of the Kerr line, bound from England for the Orient. The General sherman was believed to be extensively damaged and may need dry docking. Divers were examining the extent of the damage today. The Silver lcw was only slightly damaged.
 The accident took place when the General sherman was leaving the Mirafiorcs lock chamber and the Silver Gew was preparing to enter it for transit to the Pacific. The Silver Ycw dropped anchor and reversed her engine in an effort to avoid the crash but was unsuccessful.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-15
Burns Prove Fatal to
 Winsted Blaze Victim

Winsted, March 15 (UP)-Wilbert Donaldson, SS, was dead today of burns received when he helped res- cue II members of his brothers s family from their burning home in Colebrook early yesterday.
 Donaldson died al Litchfield County hospital here late yesterday.
 Donaldson lad returned again and through smoke to safety. Finally he was trapped on the second floor and forced to jump. Injuries and burns contributed to his death.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-15
All Clubs Learning Reforestation
 To Restore Nations Tiimberlands

Chicago, Mar. fl P>-The future of the forests of America now is in the hands of boys and girls.
 With S1 million waste acres of land before them. thousands of members of All clubs in half a doz- en states are beginning to plant trees on what club leaders hope will soon be such a scale that the reforeStation problem will be solved.
 Michigan. which has taken a lead ing hand in this new enterprise, un- dertook in an exhibit at the recent livestock show in Chicago 10 demon- strate just how a, boy or girl may satisfy a longing for woods and streams and at the same time re- build the timberlands.
 In Michigan. where the work is two years old, 200 boys and girls al ready are enrolled in such work iii seven counties. In Wisconsin. lead ing state in the enterprise, 1,2)0 arc enrolled.
 Each boy and girl cndeavors 10 plant an acre of trees and care for them for four or five years. Seed lings are furnished to the club mem bcrs in Michigan by the state col lege of agriculture.
 About GOO trees are planted on each acre in Michigan. Between each row of pine seedlings is plant- cd q row of spruce. The young spruccs at the end of five years are cut and sold for Christmas trees at a price which usually runs about Sl each, giving the boy or girl prom ise of $500 or $500 return from the acre at the end of five years work. The pines go on growing. They arc mcrchantable after about forty years,
 In Wisconsin. community forests are being planted by the boys and girls, forests which in after years are expected to furnish recreation grounds. game preserves or even
New Britain herald., 1930-03-15
U. $. Naval Officer
 Wounded by Soldiers

Shanghai, March 15 P,-Lieu- tenant c. NJ. Winslow. commanding the United States naval armed guard aboard the American Yangtse Rapids Steamship Co.'S steamer Chipping, was wounded in the leg by a machine gun bullet during q clash between his guards and law less Chinese soldiers roamiuc thc north bank Of the 1angtse river 50 miles above lchang yesterday.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-15
WIFE SUES FOR DIVORCE

Because her husband was convict cd in court for misconduct and was fined S15 and sentenced to jail for fico of this city has instituted suit for divorce against Conrad ManGia- fico, also of this city.
 They have a mlnor child and she asks for it's custody. Attorney An- gelo Lacava represents the plaintiff.
 Mangiafico's case was heard i'll court on March 6, 1880.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-15
Old London Shakespearean Theater
 Doomed By Plan for New Station

London, March If P-London's "Old Vic. famous as the thcater that staged all of Shakespcare's plays without going bankrupt. is soon to be torn down 10 make room for a railroad station. The London cunty council needed the site in con- nection with the new Charing Cross bridge and station.
 For years the old playhouse has been threatened from one quarter or another. Six years ago it was saved when the late Lord Oxford and the archbishop of Canterbury intercedcd for it, and on another oc- casion Sir George Dance rescued it by providing Si50,000 for necessary repairs.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-15

But for Miss Lillian Baylis the old house probably never would have been heard of outside of London. She took it over in 1898 and made it a home of Shakespearean drama. !n 1914 she drew ali incredulous laugh from the other theater man. agers of London by announcing her intention to produce Shakespeare the year round.
 But she confounded her critics Gy perseyerlnS in her production policy all through the lean years of the war and thereafter. Every play Of the Bard of Avon has had its opportunity to charm or bore l modern London audience and she has been honored by Oxford uni NersitY for this achievement.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-15
Auction Sale

NOTICE, By Virtue of an EYecu- ton Issued by the City Court of New Britain (Notice of Sale having been waived), l will Sell at Public Auc- tion. to the highest bidder, on the premises, Saturday. March 15, 19S0. at 2:S0 p. m.. the entire stock Of merchandise and fixtures contained in the store known as Waters Paint 6 Wall Paper Co.,, No. II Main Street, New Britain. Conn.
 Dated at New Britain. Conn.,, this 12th day of March. 1880.
 Signed:
 FRED TWINKLE.
 Constable.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-15
Special Notice

Second of the series of card par tics given by Martha Washington Council No. 1, Daughters of America, will be held Monday evening, March IT, at S:15, Jr. o. |. A. M. hall. Glen St. Prizes at each table. Come one, come ail.-adyt.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-15
DUCHESS IN ITALY

Naples, Italy, March 15 Pl-The Duchess of Guise. wife Of the pre- tender to the throne Of France, ar rived here today to be with her daugter, Anna, Duchess of Apulia, who is expecting an accouchement
New Britain herald., 1930-03-15
LIKE FENCING

Chapel Hill, N. C., March 15 (UP) Fencing enthusiasts at the University of North Carolina have taken steps to have the pastime recognized as an intercollegiate sport.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-15
CARDINAL SERIOUSLY ILL

Florence, Italy. March 15 P(- Cardinal Archbishop Mistrangelo is seriously ill here of bronchial pneu- monia.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-15
Birth Record

A daughter was born this morn- ing to MT. and Mrs. Norman Joyce of Gl Belden street.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-15
B. F. Gaffney Retires
 As County Bar Head

John r. Robinson of Hartford was elected to succeed Probate Court Judge Bernard I7. Gaffney as presi- dent of the Hartford County Bar as- sociaton at the body's meeting yes- terday. The annual meeting was held before the opening of the short calendar session of superior court. Judge Gaffney had headed the asso- citation for two terms.
 Joseph F. Berry was elected vice president, Harry Reynolds. sccrc- tary. and Solomon Elsner and W. Arthur Countryman, committee on admissions.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-15

Estimates of the age of the earth range from the Scriptural, of less than G,000 years to 1,710,000 years, guess of Barrell, based on radio activity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-13
Two Giant Sea Liners
Are Planned by Italy

Plans for the construction of Italy's
two new ocean greyhounds, the Dux
and the Rex, which Italians hope may
be able to wrest superiority from the
Bremen and Europa, are practically
completed and within a few months
both boats will be well under construc-
ton.
incidentally, there will be internal as
well as international rivalry in the
construction of the two ships, the LLOYD
Sabaudo Steamship Co. and the Navi-
gazione Generate Italiana each plan
ming to build one. The fact that the
shipyards of Trieste and Genoa, which
are old rivals, will each have the privi-
lege OF building one of the new giants
also adds something to the interest be-
ing taken in the race
DR.. Forster, formerly Of Blohm &
VoSs or Hamburg, who designed the
Vaterland (now the Leviathan) and
the Majestic, has been engaged by
Lloyd Sabaudo to design its new ship,
while Navigazione is understood to have
obtained plans of the Bremen and to
nave engaged DR.. Bauer, who designed
Its boilers, turbines and machinery, to
do the same for its new shin.
Both ships will have q speed Of ap-
proxlmately 30 knots and will weigh
about 10000 tons, being capable of
making the Italy-New York run in six
Gays or less. The Ansaldo Shipbuild-
ing Yard In Genoa will have charge
OF making the Navigazione Generate
ship, while the Lloyd Sabaudo has
signed a contract with the San Marco
Yards at Trieste.
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held in January in Chichien TIA. There
the Carnegie Institution has its field
headquarters in big hacienda COM
Portable ranch house whose electric
lights, electric refrigerator and other
modernities seem an anachonism in this
ancient place, almost within the shadow
Of the pyramid to Kukulcanand only a
few hundred yards from the sacred well
Of the rain god which gives the city its
name. Here in the Maya homeland
under the electric fans-the scientists
met and mapped out comprehensive
program.
Purpose of Survey Outlined.
The idea is to analyZe the complex
Maya problem into its parts and assign
these specialized lines of inquiry to the
men who are particularly qualified to
pursue them, explained DR.. A. v. Kid
der, director of archaeological research
for the Carnegie Institution, who pre-
sided at the conference. I saw DR.. Kid
der at his home in Andover, Mass,
where he returned recently after Win
ter in Yucatan.
For IS years the Carnegie Institution
has been exploring, digging up and re-
pairing Mayan buildings: making copies
Of the drawings, paintings and hero
glyphs which adorn these structures;
trying to unravel the records carved in
the glyphs. 1t has spent quarter of a
million dollars in these studies.
simultaneously, other institutions and
individuals have engaged in similar or
related work, and altogether a consid-
cradle mass of data has been accumu-
lated. One present need is to study
these finds eXhaustively and see if some
consistent picture of Magyar life and
thought cannot be pieced together in
place of the scrambled jigsaw puzzle
that we now have.
Greatest of all the problems" said
DR.. Kidder, "is the Interpretation of the
hieroglyphs If we could read these,
doubtless most of our questions about
the Mayas would be answered"
We have many questions. Where did
this people originate-so skilled, so
original, so far in advance of all known
contemporaries? How were they able
to build so magnificently in the ever
encroaching jungle? Whence came their
mastery of mathematics and their pro-
flciency in astronomy? What was their
system of government, their society,
their theology and religion?
One of the most tantalizing of the
Continued on Fourth Page.)
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than his predecessor, no less a dictator
The charge Is or is not Justified our
authentic information of Lithuanian
developments is meager.
More trouble in Egypt. Nahas Pasha,
lately premier. was trying to hold a
little party. Troops and police were
trying to prevent it. The populace
sided with the former premier, and
clashed with the troops and police. Re-
suit, of the latter killed and "a
wounded. Three of the populace killed
and IL wounded
A good many historical sites along
the Nile (Dendur, with its temple, for
example) are being submerged by the
rising of the waters of the Nile caused
by heightening the AsSuam Dam. The
Egyptian authorities are busting them
selves to save relics ere that work
is completed
Costa Rica is seriously considering
return to the League of Nations.
Economic conditions figured impor-
family in the recent revolution In
Bolivia, though precisely how we shall
not undertake to explain. Tin is the
chief Bolivian export, indeed export
of tin constitutes 60 per cent of total
exports in value. Between January
1929. and Midjune, 1880, the export
selling price of tin fell so per cent
Any government would be unpopular
under such circumstances.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-13
Honolulu Iron Works
Expands Its Business

Honolulu Iron Works, which start
ed as little forge shop here more
than half a century ago, and now
builds machinery for countries all
around the Pacific, is going even far
ther afield.. 1t has purchased the con-
trolling interest in the Macfarlane
Foundry and Machine shop at Sagua
La Grande, Cuba, and expects to build
up a considerable business in Central
and South America. Honolulu Iron
Works Specializes in sugar mill
machinery, and over a space of two
or three decades its staff members
have added, by invention, many val
liable devices to the sugar world
1t builds and sells sugar mills in
successful competition with other
builders in Japan, Formosa, the
Philippines, as well as Hawaii, and in
recent years has landed several large
contracts in Cuba. The latest move
gives it base from which to operate
In bidding for jobs in Central and
South America.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-13
Italians to Resume Excavations
For Treasure on Rhodes Island

ROME.-Excavations on the Island OF
Rhodes, at Ialysus, the Doric city
which, with Indus and Camirius, fitted
out an expedition to join forces with
the Greeks at the siege Of Troy, have
yielded gratifying results to archeol-
ogists.
The acropolis Of the ancient city is 10
miles from the City of Rhodes, and 1t
was here that in 1868 a Lorene artist,
A. Salzmann, and British vice consul,
named Biliot+i. began excavations. At
that time the island was Turkish, and
permission to excavate a tract was cas-
lily obtained. TombS filled with vases
of rare workmanship, bronzes, jewelry
and finely cut gems were found, dating
approximately 1000 BIC. The entire
collection of priceless objects was sent
to the British Museum.
It was in this same district that Italy,
after she took over some of the Aegean
Islands, following the Italo-Turkish War
in North Africa, resumed excavations.
Prof. Maiuri was In charge, and at three
different periods he excavated and made
equally important discoveries. The ma
terial found formed the base of the
valuable collection now in the Rhodes
Museum. When Prof. Maiuri was re-
called to Italy to assume the dictator
ship Of the Naples Museum, Prof. Guilio
Jacopi was sent to Rhodes to continue
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-13
BY GEORGE w. GRAY.

7HE thrill of discovery touched a
little group of Psychologists in
the Guatemala jungle a few
Il weeks ago. They were digging
into an overgroWn mound on the
site of Uaxactun, Oldest known city Of
the Western Hemisphere, when they un-
covered a stone pavement. Cutting
through the ENHANCEMENT of trees,
vines, roots and rubble, fighting the
tropic insects and daring the tropic sun,
they laboriously pushed a trench along
this mysterious pavement into the pile,
to find-a massive stone wall.
Sinking pick into Capt. Kidd's chest
of gold could bring no equal excitement.
Indeed, to these diggerS it would mean
far less than the smallest carved mono
18th. For they are on the track of hui
man history beside which Capt. Kidd
and all his strutting crew are the merest
modernS. The treasure they seek is not
buried gold, but buried knowledge
monuments, records, remains, the story
of the lost civilization that hourished in
this dense jungle when Europe was still
the hunting ground of barbarous tribes.
That ancient pavement with its walls
Is the latest find in the old empire of
the Mayas No one knows precisely
when this aboriginal empire began.
Some estimate that it was flourishing a
millennium before Christ, but the evil
dence Is hid. in undeciphered HERO
glyphs. Because of the uncertainty, all
authorities today are on the qui vive at
each new discovery, hoping that it may
supply the key to this riddle of the first
Americans
What lies in the centuries old rubbish
heap beyond the new found wall is
likely to remain an unanswered question
for several months at least. For last
month the explorers had to withdraw
and leave their new find to the mercies
Of the torrential rains and the glutton-
Gus vegetation. BY January this rainy
season will be at an end. Then the
diggerS will come back for six months
OF uninterrupted work, to follow that
wall to wheresoever it may lead.
Represent Carnegie Institution.
These discoveries are archeologists
from the Carnegie Institution of Wash
ington. While they were uncovering
this wall in the old empire city another
group from the same institution was I'M
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-13
Swiss Prosper Despite Blow
To Watch Trade by U. S. Tariff

GENEVA.-Although Swiss watch
manufacturers have complained that
the American tariff on their product
threatened the ruin Of their historic
industry, no voice is raised to declare
Switzerland as a whole in any danger
from wolves at It's door. On the con-
trary, recent surveys show this country
as among the most progressively pros
porous
OF course, such statements must be
relative. Remember that Switzerland
covers only about 1925 square kilo-
meters: that its population totals only
3,9S0,000.
Last year proved the best in the Swiss
labor market in decade. No other of
those 10 years showed so little unem-
ployment, so great demand for work.
ers, and this despite the issuance Of
$4,000 permits to alien seasonal labor
ers. About 400 new factories were con-
structed, together with 5000 other
buildings, including apartment houses
containing $4,000 lodgings, an increase
Of rs per cent over 1928.
Savings bank deposits and telephone
subscriptions are always considered fac
tors in judging a country's material
state. Switzerland today registers 10
per cent more telephone subscribers
than last year, 100 per cent more than
10 years ago, and IA per cent of the
head stations, serving 20 per cent of
the instruments. have been made auto
matte. The rise of savings bank de-
posts has been continuous since 1926.
The total is now three times more than
the figure then recorded.
A semi-official statement says:
THE amount of deposits in these
banks Is estimated at 4,30O O0O, 600
francs (SwisS), and that of the bank
bonds at nearly 100000, 100000"
While. for the second time since the
World War, the governmental accounts
boast an overplus of about 10000, 900
Swiss francS-derived largely from
stamp taxes and tariff revenues-the
year 1929 was marked by a heavy in
crease of bond issues-760 ,000, 900 Swiss
francs. as against $50 1000 900 in 1928.
Whereas" the statement above
quoted declares, the nominal amount
Of nationally contracted loans went
down to what 1t was before the war,
the privately contracted loans sprang
from 270,000,000 to $4,000, 900, an in
crease Of 100 per cent, and have reached
q quotation never heard of for Is years.
Most Of the issues seem to have been
made for the benefit of banking con-
Germs, the accruing funds invested in
mortgages. Share capital growth kept
pace with other development, the banks
again taking the lead. Loans con-
tracted by foreigners in 1929 increased
by per- cent. They include a group
Of issues for the benefit of electrical
enterprise, a Chilean loan. and the
Rumanian loan, welcomed as "a new
manifestation of international co-opera-
tive work pursued for the sterilization
Of exchange"
A half dozen Swiss commercial banks
now announce a capitalization of f00,-
600 900 Swiss francs or more, the paid
up capital rising from 8I5, 00O, 900 to
BOZ. 000, 900 In 1929. while the reserve
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-13

covering a buried structure 200 miles
farther north, in Yucatan, in the new
empire city of Chichien TIA. Digging
there to repair a ruined tower known as
the Caracol, the Psychologists found be-
meath the foundation of the Caracol the
masonry of an Older building. They had
hardly shoveled the earth and stones
away from the upper cornice of the
when the rainy season set
in. So it, like the wall at Uaxactun
must await the Winter for further ex-
1t is now nearly 90 years since the
Maya ruins were rediscovered and
brought to the attention Of the civilized
world by John L. Stephens, United