The Tennessean from Nashville, Tennessee • Page 7

THE NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN ASEVEN Sunday Morning, November 10, 1940 78 JOIH HAYY idler by Dr. Barnard Regarding His 14th Comet Will Be Displayed in New Vanderbilt Library BIG TRANSPORT SAID BOMBED FR0LI HOY. 2 TO 8 4.1 Recruiting Here Speetls Up I clusive, Navy recruiting groupe are stated to be at CookevtUe. Croae-vllle and McMtnnvllle; on November end 11. at Savannah, Kings, port Cleveland, aiorrlstown and Parts; on November IS and 14.

at Lexington, Oreenevllle, Etowah, Newport and Dresden, and on November 15 and 16, at Henderson, Rogerevtlle, Athens, Sevtervllle and Huntingdon. FACE AT WNDOW HORSE NEW BRITAIN, Conn. flPV-An excited resident called police In the early hours of the morning and said he saw a "long hairy face" peeping through his bedroom window. It turned out to be a ward Ciena Walker, Jr, Lebanon, who holds degreee from the University of Tennessee and Harvard, and James Palmer. Lewisburg, graduate of the Bowling Green (Kentucky) Collage of Commerce.

Thirteen of the men accepted for enlistment la the army went to MacDlll Field, Fla, 1 went to Fort Jackson, 8. and one to Fort Oglethorpe, Oa. Navy recruiting parties are slat-ed to visit 19 towns In Tennessee this week. These parties. Walker aald, will tntervtew applicants, make preliminary eaamlnattons and furnish applicants accepted with transportation to the recruiting station at Nashville, where they will be enlisted.

Empress of Japan Tour rlanned During Tliis Week Is fcm Ci'imi til lfc. -Kit lv rv j.vt regular service, recruiting offtoers announced. Among those Joining the navy were Tred O. Fleming and F. Ferris Fleming, It, twin sos of John Calvin Fleming, Route Culleoka Ueut-Cotn.

Frank R. Walker, navy recruiting officer, said that. Including the two Flemings, about eight est of twins have been enlisted here within a year, LEAVE FOR TRAINING Three men left here last week for Quantlco, Va to take the three months' course of Instruction in the "Candidates Class," leading to commissions as second lieutenants In ths Marine Corps Reserve. They were listed as Robert Q. Snowden, Memphis, graduate of the University of the 8outh at Sewanee; Ed Idftuil (i sorted Attacked Rep Seventy-eight men were enlisted By Nazis in the Navy at the recruiting station here from November to a.

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iM ltJ((. rift-kf in NEW YORK. Nov. CTV-Bombing by German planes of Uie liner Empreaj of Japan, British transport, about 300 miles west of Ireland, was reported today by a correspondent of Japanese news agency. The eorreapondent told of the attack in a wlreleea message to fcls New York office from the Japanese Uner Fuahlml Maru.

No Information wae available la London or Ottawa. An S. O. S. from the Empreu of Japan laid a direct hit had disabled her engines, the Dome I cor respondent aald.

Dome! aald the attack occurred In approximately ths same area where the Empress of Britain was crippled by German bombers October 26 and sunk two days later by a Next submarine with a loss of 43 persona The Empress of Japan, flag-ship of the Paolflo fleet of the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company, was built in 1930, eoat 7, 600,000 and had accommodations for 1,212 pasieng-ers. She was' converted into a troopship last April. a. ft i' '3 -Vf' Kits t'JecIx's Gpccldb Dcora Open Promptly 9 JL T.2. a S.

Seeking Data On RayvIIle Sinking WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 CSV-The United States government ought further Information today a.m WWII on the sinking of the American Plctursd above Is ths photostatic copy of a let ter written en October's, 1890, acknowledging the freighter City of Rayvllle before considering whether to take any action. Messenger, a contemporary scientifie Journal. The letter, discovered last week In California, will be en dleplay at the Joint University Library new under cenatructlon en the east end ef the Vanderbilt aampus. I discovery by ths eminent Vanderbilt alumnus and Southern astronomsr, Edward Emerson Barnard, of his fourteenth comet.

In the background is Dr. Barnard's report of the discovery in The Sidereal The freighter, owned by the Maritime Commission and leased by the United States Lines, was bltsted by an explosion about 4 26, with only two months' previous DoubU Or Twin Sixt Maplt Bed Only 50-Year-Old Document satellite of Jupiter. He was also ths first to discover the eighth satellite of Saturn, numerous comets and nebulae, and his photographs of the Milky Way still stand 10 miles off the Australian coast last night while eh route from Adelaide to Melbourne. All Of the crew except the third engineer succeeded In escaping in lifeboats. r- fc in MMWBM schooling, his earlier years having been spent in providing for his invalid mother.

He bad already attracted the attention of the president of the university, Bishop Holland N. McTyelre, who was so lm- Discovered Recently In Madera. 0(1. as monumental works in ths astro Maritime Commission records list ed the ship's third engineer as Mao hls scientlflo possl- pressed with billtles that he persuaded Chan Sturdily constructed of herd rock maple in Jenny Llnd de- B. Bryan, Randleman, N.

Secretary of State Cordell Hull Hidden for 50 years in a pile of told a press conference today that old scientific periodicals at Chalot preliminary information indicated Sign Observatotry in California, a letter A Complete Suite, As Low ils s20.95 the vessel had atruck a free mine, written in 1890 by the famous hut that there was as yet no knowledge- of the nationality of the mlna The secretary of state said there had been no consideration of the astronomer, Edward Emerson Barnard, acknowledging discovery of his fourteenth comet, has been uncovered in Madara, and turned over to Vanderbilt University for display in the Joint University library now under construction. advisability of extending the neu trallty law and forbidding Ameri nomical world. One star In the heavens which he found to change its position annually faster than any other, Barnard's Star, is named for him. CORNERED MARKET Dr. Barnard was at Vanderbilt during the years when the Mt Warner Observatory at Rochester, N.

was giving a S200 prise for every comet found. According to one of his contemporaries, the young astronomer almost the market, so many comets did he discover." With the prise money, he constructed a house at 807 Sixteenth Avenue, South, and appropriately called it "The Comet House." Prior to that time, he lived at 1919 Patterson Street. A collection of Dr. Barnard's papers are housed in the Vanderbilt University Library, and they will be displayed, along with. the newly-found document, at the Joint University Library, can ships to Visit Australian waters.

cellor I C. Garland, the first chancellor of the University, to break all precedent and place the young man in charge of Vanderbllt's then newly-completed observatory. Bishop MoTyelre's "hunch" proved i fruitful, for by the time of Barnard's death 47 years later, he had received 18 decorations from the leading astronomical societies of England, France and the United States, and Sir Robert Bell, an eminent Irish astronomer, was hailing Barnard as having "the keenest eye that ever looked through a telescope, with the possible exception of Sir William Her-schel" The greatest of Barnard's many discoveries was on September 13, 1892, when he electrified the entire scientlflo world with, the announcement of the discovery of th fifth Experts looked for a possible Barnard, generally recognized as r-itii 1 sm I 1 llPu4 clue to the nationality of the mine one of the greatest scientlflo figures ever to come irom the South, Beautiful Llaplo Or IValnut Finish A smart colonial bedroom suite made up of just the pieces you want and at a price that will more than please you. Jenny Li nd spool turned bed, vanity, dresser mansrobe, 26, 30, or 34 in. chests.

in fragments of metal found in the Rayville's lifeboats after Uey Is the only man in Vanderbllrs 65-year history to be awarded a had cleared the sinking ship hould examination show the mine to be of German or Italian origin Doctorate in Science without having first received his Bachelor's, and Master's It would Indicate the presence of a raider in Southern Pacifw HAD FELLOWSHIP Barnard entered Vanderbilt -on a "Mill -r waters. in i Fellowship in 1883 at the age of i vv A i I kl'rt IHe See Them on Sean Feurth Floor First Presbyterian Church sewing room. Production hours at the LOCAL RED A.1C.1IEPERSHIP URGED BY WELLS church center will be from 8:30 SHIPS SUPPLIES a m. until 3 p. m.

The medical supplies shipment was obtained by the committee's surgical dressing unit, of which Mid-State Press Group Has Mrs. John Orr is chairman. Five It Quarterly Session Here More than 120 similar supplies shipments have been made by Large Boxes Intended For British War Sufferers American Red Cross units, Mrs. Stevenson said yesterday, and only Si '0)J. Sidelines PUeup DALLAS, Nov.

9 IB At least five persons were seriously hurt today temporary bleachers at Ownby Stadium collapsed Just before the opening of the Texas A. M. U. football game. More than 800 persons were In the stands when the two by eight uprights snapped, dumping the spectators onto the ground.

Most of the Injured received broken bones. Four persons were brought to Parkland Hospital for emergency treatment and ambulance attendants said at least 20 persons still at the field needed hospital 'treatment, Five large boxes of supplies left Publishers of weekly newspapers In Tennessee yesterday were urged to subscribe- to the Audit Bureau Nashville Red Cross headquarters during the past week Intended for two cargoes were lost one in a torpedoed ship and one In a ship bombed at a British dockslde. Neither cargo, added Mrs. Stevenson, contained garments made by American women volunteers. of Circulation by H.

V. Wells, Jr, publisher of the Clinton Courier, ultimate delivery to Britain's war sufferers. One of the boxes contained surgical supplies. at the Quarterly meeting or Middle Tennessee Division, Tennes fa 1 Ths shipment was made possible 95 li see Press Association, at the An Fine Quality by the local chapter's production DIVORCE ASKED drew Jackson Hotel. committee, of which Mrs.

Eldon B. After pointing out that no week Stevenson, is chairman. lies In Tennessee are members the bureau at the present time SWEATERS Four of the boxes contained "Chatfidd" (4.29 Yd. Value) Wells said that "belonging to it Is the best way to get more national RED CROSS STAFF hand-knitted woolen sweaters, woolen dresses, convalescent robes and hospital shirts produced hy the advertising." Attractive Unfinished Dressing Table He said national advertising LEAVES FRANCE agencies required definite knowl edge of a weekly paper's circula Iffl committee 40 operating units. Another and larger shipment is expected In the near future as ths, units were asked by Mrs.

Ruth E. Lillian Roth, Seeks to End Marriage To New York Importer HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 9 (INS) Charging cruelty, Lillian Roth, Broadway torch singer and film actress, filed a superior court action today seeking divorce or annulment of her six-weeks-old marriage to Eugene Welner, wealthy New York importer. The couple was married last Septemberonly a few months after the singer had recovered from a broken jaw assertedly administered by Welner at a cocktail party In New York. tion before awarding contracts and that "they pay more attention to Worth $4.29 With Cosmetls Drawer Only 35 the papers whose circulation fig Moore, executive ecretary, to redouble their efforts until December American Official Order ures are accurately Known." 13, when the local committee will close until January 3.

Withdrawal Because Of Blockade Wells added that "weekly newspapers in the state could also gain Drape it to fit your own Bedroom Color Schema An Important factor in the planned speed-up program will be the reopening Wednesday of the Ccslca Hade To Fit Your Fccr! much valuable prestige by Joining the bureau. Weeklies are keeping nace with city dailies In most mod WASHINGTON, Nov. UP American Red Cross officials said 1.59 .1.11 Bench to Marsh 3-Wey Mirror tonight that most of the organization's personnel was being with ern Improvements, but they could all stand the respect which comes with membership in the circulation Fourth Floor drawn from France because of the difficulty of getting supplies. mmsm mm bureau," Specisl 1S Wool Sears Savings Price Only Fred 1 Tardy, Galnesboro, pub lisher of the Jackson County Sen The original staff of about 30 will be reduced to three or four, officials said. Those remaining tinel and president of the T.

P. and M. E. Bragg, publisher of the will be concerned primarily with I SETTER PIE CRUSTS BY handling serums and other medical Rutherford Courier and secretary of the T. P.

both spoke briefly about the work being done by the 29 Wl supplies which can be procured. The Red Cross distributed about University of Tennessee's press re Jl .000.000 worth of food in addi Sixe 70x80 Reg. $1.98 lations division and urged that all tion to clothing and hospital sup weeklies cooperate with the organ plies in France before the British ration. f- blockade shut off shipments of Ed Cherrv. manaelne director of food into the country.

In blue, csdsr snd doubon nets, with checkered border designs. PERSHING BACKS RED CROSS WASHINGTON, Nov. Iff) Gen. John J. Pershing urged to iiwrrm Third Fleer night that "every patriotlo American" support the Red Cross.

Furs Wool UVs 'Obligations which have -arisen ClanEicS the Tennessee Chain Stores Council, in a short talk, said the council "would cooperate with the press of Tennessee in trying to bring about a better understanding of the services offered by it members, including food chain stores, variety, department and drug atores, and specialty Jim McCord, publisher of the Marshall Gazette and president of the Middle Tennessee Division, presided at the meetmg. TWO ARRESTED from the national defense program outline a great task for the Amer Free 5-Yr. Ilcih-Prcof Gaaraniee 9x1 OVz Ft. ..37.95 9x12 Ft. ....39.95 9x1 Ft.

....56.95 12x12 Ft. ...57.95 12x17 Ft. ..79.95 ican Red Cross in the coming year," the World War American Luxu commander said in a statement. If these duties are to be dis loo LJ Sixe charged, it is necessary for every 72x90 PIZ CRIMPia PASTRY BLENDER. PIE PAN patriotlo American to give his support by becoming a member." rry lies' tkeeee te fit tte kewt 1 U.

S. TOBACCO WAX Solid colors with 5-Inch satin bindings. In 7 10 Inches longer then standard! A 4-Star feature! Highway Patrolmen Place Drunk Driving Chargee A man listed as Leslie G. Burton, 87. of Louisville, was in county jail PROGRAM SLATED last night charged with driving Exquisite 1 8th Hooks, and Floral designs.

You'll marvel st the great savings on this fine heavy quality, all wool, deep piled Axminsr. while drunk, after his arrest on Save on These Comforter Values Dlckerson Road by State Highway Patrolmen R. Fletcher and J. 6IVIS THAT CRISP UNDER-CRUST. Designad let the ke air "late the bottom emit ei weR et tfte e23c Harris.

sixe. and 12-ft. widths cut X. I 2 In 9 anv Creemi and bleodi try without teeth ef tiie Ksnd. Crslhet, lerrlst, fn.lh.- 5C Project Designed to Bolster Prices of Air and Fir Cured Type WASHINGTON, Nov.

UP The Agriculture Department announced today a commodity loan program designed to bolster producer prices of fire-cured and dark air-cured tobacco. The officers said they stopped CRIMPS SEALS sad TRIMS edee. Decerato eed perforetet the Sateen Covered, Wool Filled, 72x84 in. .2.95 Rsyen Cevsred, Wool and Silk. 7284 In.

.4.79 Hayes Satin Covered. Down Filled, 7284-ln 10.45 Sears Third Floor Burton after they saw him driving without lights, and found him drunk. Glenside Broadtoom $2.79 sq. yd. (Made up In "Rite Six" Rugs) i 1 Seers Feerth Floor Shop -T Eorly A man booked as Elbnsa T.

Wade, of Twenty-third Avenue, North, Csll-Dcsrln Holllng Pins was charged with driving while drunk and driving without a drlv-r'a license after his arrest yester- 25 1 dav afternoon by State Highway Buy Sears Coupon Books I Use them in the store as cash, Toke up to 6 months to pay. Patrol Sgt. Sam Johnston and Patrolman R. H. Fletcher at Eight- These types have been hard hit, the department said, by a loss of a major part of the export market for American tobacco as a result of the war.

Under this program, the Commodity Credit Corporation will make loans to producer cooperative associations and to domestic companies for the purchase of tobacco for future exportation, Avenue. North, and Buchan an Street. i The officers said they arrested Phone 5-4141 Wade after they saw hi car weav Store Hours: 9 to 5:30 Saturday 9 to 8 729 Church Street fl 729 Church St. (Demo nit rat ion ht floor) Jin. 9 to 5:30 ing across ths street..