Evening star., 1931-06-22
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. HAsKIN.

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@. Please name the present-day big
league players who made 200 or more
hits in their first major league season.
A. r.
A. Earl Combs, Lloyd waner, Dale
Alexander, John Frederick, Roy John
son and Charles Klein of the present
major league crops Of players made 200
or more hits in their first major league
season.
Q. In the Baptistry Of the Cathedral
Of Seville Is famous painting Of "St
Anthony and the Christ Child" by
Murillo Has this painting ever been
in New York?-E. l.. D.
A. In 1874 the kneeling figure Of st.
Anthony of Padua was cut from the
canvas. Soon it was offered for sale in
New York by Spaniard, who sought
out well known collector, Mr.. SchauS.
The latter, who knew of the theft of
the figure from the Murillo painting,
paid $3.50 for the work. He then noti-
fed the Spanish consul. The figure
was returned to Seville, the painting
was repaired and amid public festivi-
ties 1t was restored to the Baptistry.
@. What scholarship was awarded
the boy who discovered Pluto? Where
does he go to college?-A. r.
A. Clyde Tombaugh, discoverer OF the
new planet, has been given the Edwin
Emory Slosson $500 scholarship in
science. He will enter the University of
Kansas In the Fall, either as freshman
or unclassified, as he has had only one
year in high school. Almost entirely
self-educated, Tombaugh has been hon
ored by the Royal Astronomical Society
of Great Britain for his discovery. and
is now ON the staff of Mount Wilson
Observatory, at Pasadena, Calf.
@. Has Henry Ford taken UP farm
ing?-F. M.
A. Mr.. Ford is doing intensive farm
ing on a 3000-acre tract of land in
Lenawee County, Mich. A group of
farms has been purchased by him, and
will be operated as an experiment de-
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agriculture.
c. When was the first police depart
ment in the United States organized?-
j. B. H.
A. The basis of the modern police
organization was an act of the New York
Legislature in 1914 providing for con-
solidated day and night police" Dur
ing the next few years similar measures
were taken in Boston, Philadelphia,
Chicago, New orleans, Baltimore, New
ark and Providence.
@. Did the late Wallace Eddinger
ever play in Little Lord Fauntleroy"?-
E. B.
A. He was one Of three children who
originated the title role. At the time
he was only years old.
@. Who invented the electric pipeless
organ? How does it work?-T. H.
A. Capt. Richard Ranger of trans
oceanic acknowledgement fame. 1t is
both pipeless and reedless and responds
to series of electrical switches, tone
generators and amplifiers when its
standard pipe organ keys are played by
an organist. The sounds are generated
in groups, each group consisting of a
series of alternators in simple ratio,
controlled by one motor. Each tone is
amplifled and transmitted to the speak