HARVARD SCIENTISTS
STRIVE TO MEASURE
REMOTE STAR CLOUD
CAMBRIDGE, March 24.—Detemit
nation that the object in the universe
most remote front the earth anion*:
those visible through the highesi
powered telescopes is the faint stai
cloud known to astronomers as Nv G
C. 6822, is one of the latest contribu
tions of the Harvard College Obser
vatory to astronomical lore. Thri
studies made under the supervisior
of Professor Harlow Shapley, direc
tor of the observatoiy, it has been
estimated that this star cloud is one
million light years vlistanf. In the
language of the layman this means
a distance of approximately sixteen
quadrillion, seventy trillion, four hum
dred billion miles.
NCG 6822 was thought by the as
tronomers Perrine, Duncan raid Hobh
to be analogous to the Magellanic
clouds. Studies made at the Har
vard Observatory however, seem to
indicate that it lies well outside the
Milky Way system. It has been
estimated that a dirigible making a
nm .crop ilight an 1 traveling night
and cay at a sper-d of GO miles an
hour would require 23.315,000,000
years to reach this distant spot.
Another accomplishment of the ob
servatory is the recent completion of
Volume 99 of Harvar 1 Annals, the
last of nine volumes of the Diaper
catalogue an astronomical work cov
ering information concerning 250,000
stars. Work on the Draper series,
planned in detail by Professor Wil
liam Henry Pickering in 1911. has
been in progress for more than thir
teen years.
These volumes show the positions,
magnitudes and spectral classes of
the stars. Analyses of the data thus
collated are now in progress. It is
estimated that on the spectra plates
in the Harvard collection there are
nine million faint stars still unclassi
fied.
This priceless collection of astro
nomical photographic plates for years
surrounded by a fire hazard, is now
well safeguarded. Professor Shapley
demonstrated that the plates were
secure from either fire or water dam
ag*3. They are kept in a brick store
house, equipped with a water sprink
ler system.
Since the first photograph of a
star was made in 1850 under the su
pervision of Professor George Bond,
the Harvard collection has been grow
ing steadily. Systematic photogra
phic work with several telescopes
was begun prior to 1900. Dozens of
telescopes at the observatory and at
its stations in Arequipa, Peru, and
elsewhere are constantly adding to
the collection which now numbers
some 300,000 plates. Nearly all of
these are considered of value in the
study of current astronomical prob
lems, and those taken prior to 3900
are said to be unduplicated elsewhere.
England Follow Lead
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LONDON, March 24.—A movement
is on foot to start a British Empire
Canned Goods Week, to advertise and
sell British canned commodities.
Writing on the subject Godfrey
Cheeseman, general secretary of the
National Union of Manufacturers,
says everybody is being urged to
eat more fruit, but it is not suggest
ed that they e*at fruit produced with
in the British empire. He express
ed the belief that a week devoted
to the advertising and sale of British
canned commodities would show
most beneficial results.
Europe Asked To Unite
To Protect Wild Birds
STOCKHOLM, March 24 —Inter
national protection for migratory
birds so that it will be illegal to
shoot or trap them in one country
while the season is closed in another
has been endorsed by the public
lands’ department in Sweden. The
countries that will be asked to join
in this agreement are Great Britain,
the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium,
Norway, Finland, and Denmark. With
out such a treaty there is danger
that "wild ducks, quail and other edi
ble birds that fly south for the win
ter will be exterminated.
ROME TO GIVE CONCERTS
IN HONOR OF PALESTRINA
ROME, Mar. 24.—The fourth cen
tenary of the birth In 1925 of Gio
vanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, the fa
ther of modern musical nomencla
ture and composer of a considera
ble amount of the most magnificent
sacred music of the Roman Catholic
church, is being celebrated this year
in Rome and is being made the oc
casion for the rendition for the first,
time of many little known non-reli
gious works of the great master.
Although Palestrina’s sacred music
is universally known, almost noth
ing has been known of his profane
music, of which he left about 200
madrigals and canzoni. Since the
“vocal orchestra” ceased to exist as
a lay form of “instrumentation,” no
copies of Palestrina’s profane music
I have existed. Of the entire body of
his work, Richard Wagner published
a first edition in Germany but, af
ter such Italian musicians as Alber
to Cametti, Monsignor Casimiri, Gio
vanni Tebaldini and Domenico Ala
leona had pointed out that the Ger
man edition was very faulty, the
work of compiling a complete edi
tion was undertaken in Italy. This,
it is stated, will be ready some time
during the current year.
The first of a series of commem
orative concerts took place recently
at the Royal Academy of Santa Ce
cilia under the direction of Domen
ico Alaleona, who had copied from
the original manuscripts the works
included in the program. The mag
nitude of the task successfully ac
| complished by Alaleona is easily
! seen when it is remembered that the
j original works were written with
uniform notes without any indica
tions of movement, color or expres
sion. The program included a can
zone to the words of Petrarch’s
“Chiare fresche e dolci acque,” and
a madrigal written on the occasion
of the battle of Lepanto in 1571,
wly-n the united Christian armies
j defeated the Turks.
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, One advantage of being a bootleg
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; her of prominent people.
Formerly a man who had failed in
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Reformers think the Declaration of
Independence authorizes them to pur
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Argentina Preparing
for Boom in Oil Fields
BUENOS AIRES, Mar. 24.—(AP).
—The satisfactory results obtained
by the state owned petroleum wells
in 1924 has encouraged the govern
ment to give additional impulse to
boring in 1925. In the Comodoro
Itivadavia field alone 156 wells will
be sunk this year, while in the Salta
and Jujuy oil fields a considerable
number of borings will be begun.
In other respects also great strides
will be made, especially in the instal
lation of refineries, the most impor
tant of which, at La Plata, is fast
approaching completion.
OHIO THEFT LAND PAIR
IN BULGARIAN PRISON
SOFIA, March 24.—The search lor
a thief who got away with liberty
bonds in Ohio in 1920 was ended here
recently when a Bulgarian was sen
tenced to prison for IS months.
The securities amounting to $1,500
were stolen while in transit between
two banks in Ohio. The loss was
still unexplained when a Bulgarian
giving the name of R. C. Russeff en
tered a Sofia bank eight months
later and was given cash for Liberty
bonds to the amount of $1,500. The
return of the securities to an Ameri
can bank brought the information
from their numbers, that they had
been stolen. Ruseff was located, charg
ed with the theft, tried and found
guilty.
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