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INTERSTELLAR CLOUD.
EVIDENCE FROM SPECTRA.
PROFESSOR EDDINGTON'S
VIEWS,
Professor A. S. Eddington recent.- ly broadcast from the London studio the second of the B.B.C.' course of national lectures." his subject being "Matter in Interstellar Space."
tintil about six years ago, he said. astronomers had no satisfactory evidence of the existence of the interstellar cloud, but they had been talking about it a good deal for the last 40 years. The decisive inves- tigation into the existence of some medium lying between the star and the astronomer's telescope occurred in the year 1923, and was under- taken by Dr. J. S. Plaskett with the 72in. reflector in British Colum. bia (the largest telescope in the British Empire and the second largest in the world).
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WONDER MEN WITH DEAD SEA WEALTH.
ONE ARM.
INFIRMITY NO BAR TO DEXTERITY.
GOLF AND THE PIANO WITH
ONE HAND.
To what extent can-a man, sud- deuly stricken with the infirmity of a lost arm or of blindness, rise above it and continue to earn, not only a pittance, but a really good living!
The question has been satisfac torily answered in the case of two men in London, whose names can- not be revealed at present in the one case, owing to professional etiquette, and in the other to the individual's own special request,
extremely
The identity of both these men is, however, known to the Daily Express, and it probable that the name of one of them will be known to the public before long-
an
This man, who belongs to honoured profession, lost his left arm during riots in South Africa. Nevertheless, he plays the piano far more skilfully than hundreds of professional pianista.
Classical Music,
Velocity of Stars. Observing some 40 stars which showed fixed lines. Dr. Plaskett found that there were considerable differences (sometimes very large differences) between the mean velo- city of the star and the velocity of
A Daily Express. representative. the calcium. According to the in- accompanied this one armed marvel terpretation hitherto current, the to several of the better-known dance stars were leaving their haloes be clubs in London. A word to the hind. It was clear, therefore, that management, and he was eventual- the medium revealed by the fixedly persuaded to take his scat at hines was not in any way attached the piano, The regular orchestra efaced themselves, and after the first few bars every one of the pleasure seckers stopped eating, drinking or talking and listened to a performance that would by no means have disgraced the Wigmore or Eolian Hall.
to stars.
An equally significant fier. was that, although the stars had moticna of their own, some large, some small, the calcium was always found to be nearly at rest in space
(not at rest relatively to the solar system, for the sun, like other stars, had its own individual motion, but relatively to the more fundamental standard, the mean of the" stars”). The result that the calcium sam- pled in different directions in the sky showed little or no relative motion strongly suggested that it was all one continuous cloud.
tically applauded were at first un- Many of those who so enthusias aware that the performer had only
one arm.
When they did realise the fact, they asked for more, and got it. They heard Beethoven and Grieg delightfully played, and exquisite compositions they bad never heard before because they were the un- published creations of the pianist.
Finally the pianist was rather
£500,000,000 CONCESSION.
LORD MELCHETT PESSIMISTIC.
MME. "X" AND MRS. MCPHERSON.
ALLEGED KIDNAPPING
Before
HOAX.
COLOURED SEAMEN IN
BRITISH PORTS.
לידי
REPORT BY CARDIFF CHIEF CONSTABLE.
the State Senate in
It has been a sore point with Sacramento, California, which is white seamen at Cardif for some hearing the impeachment proceed them are unable to obtain employ
time, past that, whereas numbers of ings against Judge Hardy, a long ment, there has been a continua. Mme increase in the numbers of colour for missing witness known as
ed men who come to the port and, "X" in the case against Mrs.
engage in British ships. (the The matter was raised at a meet- Aimée Semple McPherson Evangelist preacher) recently tooking of the Cardiff Watch Com- her stand and made a clean mittee in the early part of this breast," as she put it, of everything year, and the Chief Constable was instructed to communicate with the she knew.....
authorities of other ports with a view, to taking combined action in the matter. Since then a con- ference of part immigration officers has been held at the Home Office to discuss the problem, and a report of that conference was submitted to the Cardiff Watch Committed by the Chiaf Constable (Mr. James A. Wilson).
British United Press.]
Jerusalem. The concession the exploitation, of the natural wealth of the Dead Sea, estimated recently by Sir Herbert Samuel to be worth £500,000,000, will be for 75 years from the time it is granted to the two concessionaires, Moiss Novemysky and Major Tulloch..
The announcement that the con- cession has been definitely offered the Jewish mining engineer, a former Russian subject, and his Scotch isociate, both of whom have adopted Palestine nationality, was made in the course of a debate of the House of Lords. The Earl of Plymouth, replying for the Govern ment. said that unless the acgotis: tions with Messrs Tulloch and Nevorysky proved abortive, the
Government could not entertain an alternative proposal.
Fabulous Wealth, Work on the Dead Sea concession, whether the estimates of the snat riches to be extracted" are
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astronomical" as they were once denounced in Parliament. will mean increased employment in the country already experiencing shortage of hands in the orange plantations and other occupations While the British Government was not willing to entertain a pro- posal that the Company werking the concession should be required to have British finance, and control, the articles of association provide that the chairman of the company will be British with British subjects Jad Palestinians in the majority on the Board of Directors.
German Monopoly.
no connection with the German The proposal that the group have
Lord Melchett, who championed the potash monopoly was also rejected ovemeysky-Tulloch claim, declar
diffidently asked if he could played there is no monopoly in potash,
jazz.
Certainly was the reply, and in a moment the floor was packed with couples dancing to the most perfect rhythm.
Envy of Golfers.
That, in brief, was the primary observational evidence which had led us to picture a cloud of matter filling the stellar system, compara tively quiescent, with the stars rush- ing about through the midst of it. Light set out from a distant star on its journey to us, travelling 138,000 miles every second. On it went, } year after year, with the sparsely strewn atons of the cosmic cloud in and around its track. It ran the
This man has been approached in gauntlet for, say, 2,000 years before one or two quarters und requested reaching the earth Now and again to abandon bis profession and go a calcium or sodium atom made des on the music-balls.. predations. The light arrived de- pleted in these constituents which the atoms had appropriated, show- ing therefore those dark gaps in the spectrum which had afforded
astronomers their clue.
The Ozone Layer. Running through the list of ele ments, we could soon satiety our solves that calcium and sodium were the only reasonably abundant ele ments which under the conditions prevailing in interstellar space would
give observable spectra. The worst handicap of the astronomer was that all celestial spectra were cat of abruptly at wave-length 3,000— a point at which, the laboratory physicist would say, spectra were just belonging to be really interest- ing and informative.
It was
He is seriously considering the proposition.
Playing the piano is not his only accomplishment.
of two-armed men who have been On the golf course he is the envy struggling for years to get their handicap down to 10, and be wins most of his matches played against 12 handicap, men.
He plays," said a member of a famous club, "far better, ap- proach shots than the majority of our best men.'
The second case is, in its origin, more tragic. This man who has lost an arm, and is totally blind, went through four years of war unscathed, until a bomb exploded in his hand on the morning of the day the armistice was signed.
Nevertheless, in spite of two in- firmities which strike fear into the hearts of most unafflicted people when they think of them, this man can compete successfully against
a layer of ozone "ia the upper regions of our atmosphere which did the mischief. We were in the position of a listener trying to follow a piece of music with a load many, professional typists.
speaker that could sound only the base notes; we lost all the treble notes in the song of the stellar atoma Sodium and calcium had deep chesty voices and made them- selves heard.
WOMEN AND POLITICS.
CLAIM TO SIT IN HOUSE
OF LORD
be
One proof of the density of the cosmic cloud rested on Einstein's theory. For material of any given" Mrs. Pethick Lawrence, in ber density there was a limit to the size presidential address to the end of globe which could be made of annual conference of the Women's it. For example, it was quite im Freedom League, held in private at possible to have a globe of water Caxton Hill, Westminster, Balti more than 400,000,000 miles in dia- that the work of the Women's Free- meter. By Einstein's law of gravi- dom League was not done. Many tation matter caused a curvature of of its objects bad yet to the space that it occupied.
achieved. Even in the realm of political equality women had only obtained possession of balf the loaf. Women were represented. in, the House of Commons, but not in the House of Lords. The present posi tion wag $ palpable absurdity, Women should sit in the House of Lords on the same terms as men
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If you tried to put together too much matter in one lump, space curved round so much that it closed up. That was that happened to the large globe of water; when it reach ed a diameter of 400,000,000 miles, apace bad closed up tightly all round. You could not increase the globe, bocause there was nowhere In the economic sphere they were to put any more water. All space faced with the fact that the was within the sphere; what was women's movement for equality outside was-nowhere. It was no was still in its infancy. The pria- use trying to picture it; our minds ciple Equal pay for equal work". were not elastic enough. Our had bardly entered into the mind, mathematics, told us that war how still Jess the practice, of any Gov "it was.
The ernment..
teaching With matter of lower density a fession, and the Civil Ber large globe could be built; and evi- vice
of the two dently the cosmic gas must be of important professions in which, so low a density that it could build the workers were not paid accord- globe at least. large enough to ing to the grade or value of their contain the whole stellar system work, but according to sex. The through which it was supposed to example of the Government was extend. This condition required followed by municipal authorities, that the density should be less that banks, factories, and practically 10-18-that was to say, one million- every kind of business. million-millionth of the density, After a discussion of the need for The cosmic cloud meant quite a the inchada of women on com- serious addition to the mass of the mittees the following resolution was universe, because there was such a passed: "This conference urges tremendous expanse of it. The the Minister of Health to take any total mass of the cloud was about steps necessary to secure the inclu- half the mass of the stars. Out of sion on the committees to be form all the matter, in the world about ed under the new Local Govern two-thirds had condensed to form ment Act of all women now serving stars," and one-third was left uncon on boards of quardians and other densed and diffused through space. superseded bodies."
while the official Government re-
Presentative asserted it would be impossible to discriminate agains! the German monopoly,
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The witness, whose name is Mrs. Lorraine Wiseman Sielaf, testified that the story of the kidnapping of the woman preacher was a hoax. Hardy's direction, she produced a She declared that, "under Judge woman to pose as Miss X" when the evangelist was accused before a Los Angeles jury of haring made BI excursion with the wireless operator Mr Ormiston to the artist colony at Carmel (California).
A Significant Fact.
Mr. Wilson said it was made. Discuss Case with Judga.
clear at the conference that Parlia The witness was positiva that ment would not be likely to sane- Mrs McPherson was the person who tion new legislation which would really went to Carmel with Mr. impose drastic measures of control Ormiston, because both the evango-
on those coloured men already re- ist herself and her mother, Mrs. siding in or sailing regularly from Kennedy, had, she said, told her so British parts, but a promise was An attempt was made by the de- made that steps could and would fence to introduce a copy of the be taken to prevent the flow into) this country, vid the Continent, of adidavit which is said to have been made by Mrs. Sielaff declaring that coloured men who had not already she herself was the woman who seestablished a domicile here from an engagement at a British port on a companied Mr. Ormiston to Carmel. The objection was made that the British ship. original affidavit, and not a copy, should be presented. This affidavit Mrs. Sielaff afterwards repudiated, declaring that it was her twin sister, Mrs. Virla Kimball, who se companied Mr. Ormiston on his vacation.
It is significant," he added, that since this promise was given loured men in this category have not succeeded in reaching Cardiff. If the policy that has achieved this result is continued, then something tangible will have been accomplish- In her recent examination MTs.ed in the sense that the number of Sielaff swore that at the time the coloured men in this country will kidnapping story was published she be stabilized, and that with the progress of time it will decrease." went to Judge Hardy's home to dis cuss the case with him. When she
In regard to the problem of the doubted the safety of going ahead
association of coloured men with with the project Judge Hardy re-
white women, Mr, Wilson said he
the Superior Court of Los Angeles effected without the aid of Parlia plied. I am a respected judge of could not conceive how its partial or complete elimination could be and have a great deal of influènoe. ment.
Many letters and telegrams ex- Judg Hardy were introduced. changed between the witness and
There appeared to be no valid reason why steps should not be taken to consider the de- sirability of bringing into existence in this country legislation similar to that which has been found
POSING AS A POLICEMAN. necessary in the Union of South
FORMER C.I.D. MAN FINED.
The monopoly feared is probably the same Franco-German potash trust, whöde operations, it was an- nounced, were broken as far 23 America was concerned after two William Harwood, 36, of Wanda- pleaded "Guilty" before years of litigation. Whether either worth, the Deutsche Kalisyndikat and the Mr. Marshallat-West London Societe Commerciale des Potasses Police Court to falsely represent- de Alsace are behind Novemeyskying himself to be a Metropolitan has not been disclosed, although the police officer for an unlawful pur- suggestion that they are not in is pose. was hinted at by Lord Malchett, who thought it was curious no important financial group tendered for the concession.
Lord Melchett, whose Imperial Chemical Compary W39 OnCA thought to be behind Novomeysky, was the only one to throw cold water on the enthusiasts touched by the story of fantastic wealth some 1,200 feet below sea level.
RANCHER EARL'S
TROUBLES.
"1 CANNOT MAKE ANYONE OUT."
"I have been here three weeks or so, but so far I cannot make anyone out,"
In the meantime the lads of the village are trying to get used to having Viscount Perceval playing with them around the market
His Future. Regarding his future, the earl esid:
square.
Africa, by which promiscuous sexual intercourse between Euro- peana and natives is forbidden,
HER FIRST VISIT.
The Toman Maru, which arrived in the Colory from Colombo yes terday, was on her first visit to the port. She called here to take in supplies of water and provisions and sailed again in the afternoon for Dairen
She was built in 1921. by. The Caaka Ironworks, and her engines which develop 390 N.H.P. were installed by the builders. She is a. steel screw venel of 4,370 gross ton- nage and 2,733 net tonnage. Her port of registry is Hakodate, whils ber dimensions are: Length, 3:0 feet; breadth, 49.8 feet; and bern; 25.8 feet.
Mr. W. L. Sanders, prosecuting, said that from January, 1913, to July, 1928, Harwood was in the Metropolitan Police Force, being attached to the C.I.D. in the lat- ter part of his service, but owing to neurasthenia he had to resign.
On March 26 a Mr. Hulbert, who probably had done some bookmak ing, met Harwood in Lonsdale read, Westbourne Park, and, re- cognizing him as a police officer, get into conversation with him Harwood said to him, "Be careful. The couple of chaps over there are no good to you." They went into public-house, where Harwood told Hulbert he was "on,probation times, for bookmakers," adding that he Her present owners are the had been sent specially from Dairen Kisen Kaisha but at the Streatham and knew the ground moment she is chartered by the Kokusai Kieen Kaisha Captain Y. Sugimoto is in command with a crew of 49 Asiatics.
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At a second interview Harwood conveyed the suggestion that be This is what the new Earl of wanted money. Meanwhile Hulbert local agents for her owners. Egmont said to me when I talked had communicated with the police with him in the lounge of hotel is station, and Divisional Detective which he is staying here, writes & Inspector Horwell handed him two London newspaper correspondent marked £1 notes. On March 20 The villagers, in turn, are trying Hulbert again saw Harwood and to make out the ear, and are said to him, "What do you want? wondering if he is going to settle Will a couple of quids be any dowa among them at his seat, Avon good!" Harwood replied, "Yes, I WIFE DEPRIVED OF DIVORCE. Castle,, after his 30 years on do not want to be hard on you,” ranch in Canada,"
adding "I won't worry, you again | · for a month. Hulbert gave him the two notes, and Inspector Hor- Strong comments on divorce law well then appeared on the scene
were made by Mr. Justice Hill in and taxed Harwood with the the Divores Court in giving judg offence, and Harwood handed over thent in a petition for judicial separation brought by Mrs. Phyllis Inspector Horwell, giving evid-Thomas, of Park-road, West Dul- ence, said that after Harwood left wich, who alleged cruelty by her the police he bought, a business at husbandt, Mr. Herbert, George Penge, but that was not a success. Thomas, a qualified solicitor not Then he obtained employment within practice. a dairy company, but owing to that case he had lost his job. He was married and had four children. Harwood expressed regret, and said that he did not go to West I am able to sell the place and bourne Park with the intention of I may do so. There is a lot of forcing any one to give him money. good building property there.
Mr. Marthall said that there was Yes, there are some very beauti- no excuse at all for such conduct, ful things in the castle, but many and the offence could only be visit of their belong to the Dowagered with the extreme penalty Ledy Egmont and will go when or one month's imprisonment with
hard labour. abe gots. **I shall get a tutor for my 800, Viscount Perceval [who in 14], i guess. His mother died when be was one and a half years old, and I have brought him up. He la
I may stay here. I shall be Lere for some time, at any rate. I might live at Avon Castle for a time, but it means a lot of money.
It is all money going out on it all the time. A place like that is for a rich man.
a bright boy and will soon leard
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The earl spends most of his time sitting alone brooding as if, as he said he were "trying to make things put.”
I've got a sore throat," he con- tinued, and I am having trouble with my digestion. I do not like the bread here. I expect it is the change. I am used to hard work Now I have nothing to do but to hang around."
POISONOUS' GAS.
Mr. Thomae did not appear to contest the suit.
The charges made by Mrs. Thomas were that ber husband, to whom she was married at a Baptist chapel in Carmarthen in September 1918, con- stantly draak, used bad language and threats, attacked her, smashed the furniture and crockery, broke the piano with a chopper, and twice turned her out of the house partly dressed.
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It is planned, the paper adds," of misconduct," said Mr. Justice Tokyo and other centres in the Hill in his judgment, she would
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of the marriage, but as she has York banking houses are involved Tokyo-The valve closing a reser-only proved that be is a drunken in the negotiations which are st voir of poisonous gas, intended for beest who has treated her with the the Army and locked up in almost brutality for a considerable present in the conversation stage, powder-magazine in the outskirts period which she has borne, with the plan, hinging on the action of of Tokyo, seems to have become patience, the faw does not allow her loose.
to have her marriage dissolved, and all I can do is to pronounce a decree of judicial separation."
The gas escaped and penetrated some 2,000 houses, with the result that many persons are ill with chest and brai trouble. Part of the residents of the zone, affected by the gas have left the district,
A decree of judicial separation was accordingly granted with coats and custody of the child of the marriage.
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