Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 41, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 June 1927 — Page 7

JUNE 28,1927

TOTAL ECLIPSE OF SUN LOOMS; BUTNOTHERE! Europe to See Phenomenon Wednesday; America Unaffected. Bu United Press LONDON, June 28.—Rising over the Atlantic Ocean, not far from the coast of Ireland and continuing to sweep across the world until it fades out in the Bering Sea, a total eclipse of the sun tomorrow will throw nearly a quarter of a million square miles of the earth’s surface into almost total darkness. With its path of totality thirty miles in width and with a sweep of more than 7,000 miles to make, the ecilpse tomorrow will probably be viewed by more civilized peoples of the earth than any in centuries. . Although, the eclipse in the British Isles will cast a heavy shadow outside of the thirty mile path, thousands of people are preparing to view the phenomenon, the like of 1 which has not been seen here since 1724 and which will not repeat itself until 1999, within the path of its sweep. / Folks Made It Holiday Special trains and trucks will leave all of the principal cities of England and Wales tonight for the area of totality in the middle of England. Not only will the eclipse be observed by large numbers of curious people, but also by a large group of astronomers, scientists and electrical experts. The Greenwich Observatory is sending a special expedition, headed by Sir Frank Dyson, the Astronomer Royal, to Yorkshire. Oxford University Observatory has accepted the invitation of the City of Southport to set up apparatus there. Cambridge University Solar Physics Observatory is sending an expedition to Norway. Americans to See It London University is also sending an expedition to the totality area in England. The United States will be represented by three expeditions whfth are' going to Scandinavia. There will also be a party of Dutch astronomers in Norway. For several reasons the eclipse will not be a good one for astronomers. In the first place, it is remarked, the totality is far too short to permit thorough observations, especially since the greatest duration of the totality of the eclipse over land is 45 seconds, while in the British Isles it is only 24 seconds. It is also noted that-the altitude of the sun while over the British Isles will be only about 12 degrees, while its greatest altitude will be 35 degree* over the Arctic Ocean where no observations can be made. 'to Study Corona As is the case during all total eclipses, astronomers will try to answer their own question of, “What is the corona?” The corona is known to have an intimate association with sun-spots. About the sun’s poles it takes the form of short tufts or pjumes of some light. Investigation has shown the corona to consist of matter which is partly self-luminous, . though much of the light if sheds is reflected sunlight. In the spectroscope it reflects a mysterious green ray, which cannot be identified with any matter known on earth. This unknown element has been named “coronium.” Earlier total eclipses in England fell in the years, 878, 885, 1022, 1133 1140, 1155, 1330, 1424, 1433, 1598, 1652, 1715 and 1724. In 1140, people became so alarmed at the eclipse it was generally believed the world was coming to an end. MRS. WILLBRANDT TO GO ON SPEAKING TOUR Woman Assistant Attorney General to Talk on Supreme Court, "" By Times Special WASHINGTON, June 28.—Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, assistant attorney general of the United States, will spend the month of July and half of August speaking on a Chautauqua circuit in northern New York. She continues in office meanwhile. Mrs. Willebrandt is to talk on the Supreme Court, explaining a number of the biggest cases pending before it, on law enforcement, on the nw Fderal women’s prison, and on other phases of her work. She will avoid discussing her wbrk “from a woman’s point of view.” STALK BORER AT WORK i Purdue Entomologist Warns Against Crop Pest. Bu United sPress LAFAYETTE, Ind., June 28. From nearly every section of the State reports of borers working in young corn are being received by the Purdue University agricultural experiment station. While these stalk borers or heartworms, as they are called, are quite different from the European corn borer for which they are being mistaken, they are quite destructive to corn and other plants, and efforts should be made to protect cr6ps from their destructive work, according to J. J. Davis, head of the Purdue entomology department. /' UNION STATION PROBABLE Bu Times Soecial ALEXANDRIA, Ind., June 28.—1 t Zs understood here plans to give Alexandria a union station are practically complete. Definite word Trom the Big Four and Nickel Plate railroads is awaited. TEACHER 40 YEARS DIES Bu United Press JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind., June 28. —Miss Kate Pawson, 71, teacher in the city schools forty years, is dead here. She was a member of the second class graduated from Jeffersonville high schools

‘Tom, Dick and Harry, * Means Byrd Brothers in Old Virginia

Aviator Most Famous, But Tom and Harry Not Without Laurels. By NEA Service RICHMOND, Va„ June 28.—The Old Dominion, which is the oratorical name for the State of Virginia, has been extremely proud of a great many of its sons, what with Washington, Lee, Jefferson and the rest; but jt seldom regarded any of them more highly than it regards Tom, Dick and Harry. Tom, Dick and Harry—in ordinary speech that expression means something like “everybody,” but in Virginia it refers very deffinitely to three men whom the State admires with whole-souled southern fervor. These three are the brothers— Br£d —Richard Evelyn, Harry Flood and Thomas. Each has achieved distinction in a different way. Richard, the Aviator To begin with, there is Richard — the Dick of the triumvirate. Until a young man named Lindbergh came along Dick was pretty generally considered the country’s leading aviator —and he apparently intends to regain that distinction in the near future, having a flight to the south pole in mind as soon as this business of spanning the Atlantic is over. Then there is Harry. To the nation' at large he is less well known than Dick—but not to Virginia. In case you have forgotten, Harry Floyd Byrd is the Governor of the State—and is counted a very good one and a very popular one, too. Finally there-is Tom. The country at large knows him not at all. Yet he must be well worth knowing. Virginians think so. A World War Hero Tom is the introspective, contemplative type. Lacking the flare for direct action that motivates Dick and Harry, his career has v been, on the whole, quiet and obscure. Yet in 1917, when the call to arms came, Tom was one of the first sons of the Old Dominion to volunteer. He served well in France, making a record for bravery and. fidelity to duty under fire. When the war ended he retired to the quiet of his country estate in the Shenandoah valley, tending his peach and pear orchards, enjoying life hugely and emerging from his retirement occasionally to congratulate one or the other of his brothers for some new achievement. Tom, Dick and Harry come by their bravery and ability honestly. Their grandfather, Col. William Byrd, was a man of mettle. So was his wife, their grandmother, Mrs. Jane Byrd, who is still living and who is prouder than she can say of her three grandsons. An Adventuresome Career She and William Byrd had been married just two years when the Civil War broke out. Byrd had brought her to Virginia from Texas, whither she and her family had migrated, when she was 7, via the covered wagon from Tennessee. She had known frontier life, and her beauty and charm made her an ornament to the Byrd plantation at winchester, Va. She saw her husband and her two brothers enlist. The two brothers were killed. William Byrd was listed as missing in action, and hvhen month after month passed and no word cf him came it was thought that he, too, had been slain; but the-, young wife refused to believe it. At length the war ended. Still one day, he came riding up to the plantation, dismounted, and asked gravely, “Does the Widow Byrd live here?” It developed that he had been captured by Federal soldiers and had been confined in a military prison at New Orleans, unable to communicate with his home. . Three Different Types Mrs. Byrd loves to talk about her grandsons, Tom, Dick and Harry. The three were always of different types, she says; Harry was ever studious and grave, Dick venturesome and light-hearted, and Tom quiet and introspective. She is proud WORK STARTS JULY 1 ON DE PAUW BUILDING Lucy Rowland Hall Will Be Ready Next Year. Bu United Press . GREENCASTLE, Ind., June 28. ConstructiQn will be begun on Lucy Rowland Hall, new dormitory for women at De PauW University, July TANARUS, it was announced today. The building, posting $250,000, is one of the gifts of the late Edward Rector. tX It is being named in honor of his wife, Mrs. Lucy Rowland Rector. The hall will be located on the site of the Music School building, which is to be moved to another block. It will complete a quadrangle of women’s residences and be joined to Rector Hall by a sun parlor. The dormitory is designed by Robert Frost Daggett architect of Indianapolis, who has designed several other buildings on the campus. It will be ready for occupancy in the fall of 19&8. a.efThelpers on job Paris Visitors Will Meet Welfare Workers Again. When the American Legionnaires shove-off for Paris early in September they will find at least three of the accredited war-time welfare organizations on the job, it was announced today by Howard P. Savage, national commander. The Red Cross, the Knights of Columbus, the Salvation Army and the American Library Association will be actively associated again in war-time pursuits during the stay of the second A. E. F. in Paris. Conferences and correspondences was had by the Legion with the Jewijsh Welfare Board, the Y. W. C. A. and the Y. M. C. A., but without funds included in the fiscal budget for these enterprises, they found it impossible to actively participate in the movepient. Their moral support was given and, undoubtedly, had a favorable effect on the number attending the convention.

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there was no word of Byrd. Then, of Tom, proud of Harry—and oh, ever so proud of Dick. “That boy is a case,” she says. “I

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OREGON VOTING TODAY ON TAX LAWCHANGES Difference of Million Between Expenses and Revenue Causes Election. , Bu United Press PORTLAND, Ore., June 28.—A special election to solve a financial tangle in which Oregon finds itself today claimed the attention .of Oregon voters. A difference of approximately $1,000,000 between expenses of the State government and available revnue, on the basis of the present taxation system, was responsible for the off-season call to the polls. But communities in all sections of the State took advantage of the occasion and as a result numerous local measures also grace the ballot. Major centered in the proposition to place a tax on all incomes having thejr source in Ore* gon with a view/fif relieving, t|> some degree, the burden on real property. Propose Tax* Limit Another important proposal and having to do with complicated finances is an amendment to the 6 per cent tax limitation. Briefly, this means that Oregon cannot tax. its property any one year for more than 6 per cent in excess of the tax total for the previous year. A low taxation base, bound by this limit, prevented the raising of sufficient money for State government. The amendment is a proposal to raise the tax base so that the State may levy a tax in 1928 not in excess of s3,soo,ooo—which is considerable more than the present base can produce. Thus, its supporters say, anew tax base would be created, with assurance therefrom of plenty of money for State affairs, even though thereafter confined.to the 6 per cent limit. Assessment Law Another tax affair which found its way on today’s ballot is, the socalled taxation assessment law, passed by the Legislature and on

Chimney Sweeps Plying Trade Story-Book Way' NEW YORK, June 28.—The chimney sweep is about again plying his trade. He generally appears shortly after the last nip of frost has made fireplaces no longer necessary. He walks the byways of Manhattan, an incongruous figure in a rushing, modern world, crying his street call which sounds very much like this: “Chim’sasweep . . . Chimsasweep.” He carries his brushes and his ropes, his face is soot-streaked and his hands blackened. To most folks he is a figure almost as mythical as Santa Claus. Since his visits are seasonal he is used by many mothers as a sbrt of “Bogey-man.” The sweeps’ names appear in the telephone books and they carry on business in a modern and efficient manner, yet there Is something fanciful and unreal about this calling, suggesting the story book people of old tales, though large numbers of them work for big organizations operating out of skyscraper offices.

the ballot by grace of referendum. This measure grants the State assessment board broader powers in reviewing the work of county assessors. The fate ofit, too, is problematical. Negroes,. Chinamen and mulattoes will be permitted to enjoy the rights of State citizenship if voters repeal a section of the constitution which discriminates against this class. It is a dead section, because of conflict with the Constitution of Jhe United States and was submitted for this reason. FISH ‘FALL’ FOR DANCER Eskimos Believe Man Has Power Over Finny Tribe. Bu "NEA Service SEATTLE, Wash.. June 28.—1n the bleak flats between the Yukon and Kushowin Rivers lives “Old loguk,” whom the fish obey. Just before the salmon run up the rivers in spring loguk goes to the river mouths where he performs “magic rites,” dancing and chanting to charm the wigglers. Then, when the fish come upstream loguk modestly walks among the Eskimo homes and collects onefourth of all the fish caught as his share. White Sparrow Hnnted Bu United Press JJOBAPT, IntWJune 28.—A white sparrow is being hunted here. The odd bird was seen by H. S. McClure at his home a few days ago, but none has seen it since.

FLAPPERS WEAR LESS New Records For Light Weight Clothes Being Set. Bu United Press CHARLOTTE, N. C., June 28. There seems to be no change ir flapper attire this year, but thc.>e “in the know” are aware of a weighty difference. Last summer the weight of the average girl’s attire was found to be sometimes as low as 14 ounces. This year, merchants have estimated, the weight is to reach an even dozen. Many flappers have abandoned corselets, the merchants say, and wear simply step-in, slip and dress. _ Blank Checks Stolen Three blank checks of the Indianapolis Airport Corporation were stolen from the corporation’s office, second floor, Chamber of Commerce Bldg., Paul Moore, official, reported to police this afternoon. One of the checks was cashed at a grocery signed by a former employe, he said.

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NEW YORK HAS BIG COIN BOYS 96 of 207 Millionaires Live in Gotham. Bu United Press WASHINGTON,, June 28.—New York Staifc. is the mccca for millianaires. with 96 of the 207 persons who reported incomes of more than $1,000,000 for 1925 living in tnat jurisdiction, according to the Treasury. New York has two persons who reported incomes of more than $5,000,000 annually, while Michigg-. had two and Pennsylvania, Illinois and Oklahoma one each. In the $4,000,000 to $5,000,000 class. New York has six, Michigan one, Pennsylvania one and Illinois! one. New York had eight making between $3,000,000 and $4,000,000; 12 In $2,000,000 to $3,000,000 class; 17 making $1,500,000 to $2,000,000; and 51 making $1,000,000 to $1,500,000. Indiana had one making betweei $1,500,00 and $2,000,000; and on making between $l, n OO,OOO to $1 500,000. The number of millionaires in tt United States increased from 75 1 1924 to 207 In 1925, the Treaaur said. -CHILDREN IN MOVIES Bm Utitted Press PERU, Ind.. June 28.—Peru chll dren who attend the vacation Bibl school of the Methodist Church her 'saw themselves in the movies when fllm3 taken by the pastor, the Rev. A. H. Backus, were shown. The pastor recently purchased a motion picture camera to aid In church work.