BOCK AT FIRST SIGHT
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -A
cock at first sight has led to love
for Hollywood film players Julie
Adams and Ray Danton. Danton,
24, was required to slug Miss Ad
ams, 26, in their first movie scene
together. Yesterday they were
married by the Rev. Paul M. Gam
mons at the El Montecito Pres
byterian Church.
Notes on the News
6-(Sec. 4)-Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Mon., Feb. 21, 1933
Dr. Cook Dies
By Suicide
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (IP) A 48-
year-old pediatrician, the presi
dent of the Los Alamos Medical
Society, was found shot to death
in his apartment yesterday.
Police Chief Ralph Kopansky
laid Dr. Malcolm M. Cook ap
parently chose suicide rather
than face the morals charges for
which he had been indicted.
Kopansky found the body,
sprawled in the apartment. He
Slid Cook had been shot once be
hind the right ear. A .45-caliber
automatic was found near the
body.
Dr. Cook, free on $5,000 bond,
had been indicted by a federal
grand jury in Albuquerque Fri
day on morals charges involving
two girls, one 0 and the other 10.
He was charged with transporting
them across state lines for im
moral purposes.
Kopansky said Dr. Cook, a
bachelor, had a dinner engage
ment last night with some
friends. They became alarmed
when Conk did not arrive and
called police.
IV,
"The Dixon-Yates matter isn't settled. They're just erecting
a building to store all the official papers."
Julian and Gregorian
Calendars Draw Interest
By J. HUGH PRUETT
(Astronomer. Extension Division Oregon Higher Education System)
The recent article on the Julian
and Gregorian calendars brought
inquiries from several. 11. C. L. of
Portland asks:
"If the Julian calendar was
started in 45 B. C, then when was
the calendar changed to start
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year 1 with the birth of Christ?
Why then was not January 1 start
ed with the birth date? Or why not
on ine equinox change?
We who are accustomed to use
so glibly various dates with the
letters B. C. or A. D. attached to
them, seem to assume that the sys
tem we employ was adopted at the
time of the birth of Christ and has
been in use continuously ever
since.
In the history of the world nu
merous system for dating events
have been used. The old time Jew
ish calendar had their year 1 start
ing with what corresponds to our
3760 B. C, the supposed date of
the creation of the world. Arch
bishop Usher at about A. D. 1600
decided this should be 4004 B. C. In
Roman history we find dates given
followed by the letters A. U. C
This stood for Anno Urbis Condi
tae, the Latin for "In the year of
the founding of the city. Thus
100 A. U. C. was the 100th year
after the founding of Home. Julius
Caesar s revised calendar was put
into effect in 708 A. U. C. This cor
responds to our present 45 B. C,
but Caesar knew nothing about
B. C. The beginning of the Christ
ian era would then be dated 753
A. U. C.
The Mohammedan calendar has
for its year 1 the date we call A.
D. 622. This marks the Hegira. or
the flight of Mohammed from Mec
ca. Various other methods of start
ing dates were employed by an
cient peoples.
When then was our present sys
tem of dates, now followed by all
so-called Christian nations and
some others, put into use? The
best authorities tell us that this
method was introduced by Diony-
ijius the Little, an abbot of a Jio-
man monastery almost 600 years
after the time of Christ. Previous
ly the Christians evidently used
the methods of dating extant in
the countries in which they lived.
Dionysius' system gradually was
adopted by various countries, but
not without great confusion. He
used March 21, about the vernal
equinox and nine months before
Christmas, as the start of year 1.
Others used March 25, the sup
posed dato of the Annunciation. (It
is said this method prevailed in
England until A. D. 1752). In the
8th century after Christ, the Diony
sius chronology was in use in Gaul;
England, before the close of
that century. In Germany and
some Italian cities about the 11th
century, the year was starting on
Christmas day.
Present day scholars believe the
birth of Christ most likely occurred
in 4 B. C. Those who care to study
further on our present system of
starting dates will find much in
any good encyclopedia under the
topic Chronology.
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New Buildings
For East Salem
EAST SALEM Two new
home building projects have been
planned for East Salem this
month. A sale of interest to many
who have picked filberts on Lan
caster Drive for the past 25 years
is the sale by Mrs. C. B. George
of her 23 acre orchard to a Sa
lem contractor who plans to take
nut trees and open up streets for
home building. This joins a 12
acre project which also was a fil
bert orchard to the north, and
leaves only a small orchard on
Lancaster Drive.
The second is the first house
on Sunnyview just west of Holly
wood Drive corner on a four
acre tract and several houses arc
planned for this.
A new home under construc
tion on Fisher Rd., is the J. D.
Watson's.
Two new homes have been
adrled to the row of new houses
being built by Fordyce and Sam
ple on Sunnyview Ave., just
north of Brown Rd.
Making the business district
at the corner of Silverton Rd.
and Lancaster Drive more up to
city form is the large Jeon.sign
recently put up by the "Leon
ards Used Car Lot." This corner
is under new management.
Society Thursday by an initia-
tinn team from North Salem high;
school at the regular student!
body meeting Thursday after
noon. Those initiated were Angela
Krupicka, Naomi Westwood,
Ralph Merrill, Donna Vergen,
Keith Driver and Nancy Bar
endse. Coming from North Salem high
school were Jim Hardy, Danell
Hamilton, Bob Archibald, Ken
neth Nntbloom, Kathy Busick,
Elane .Morrow and Gaynelle Met-
heny.
MEMBERS INITIATED
NORTH MARION HIGH
SCHOOL Six new members were
initiated into the National Honor
Judge Douglas Praises
Work Done by Nehru
LOS ANGELES (UP I Justice
William O. Douglas of the U. S.
Supreme Court believes democra
cy's prospects are far brighter
tnan most Americans think.
Speaking before several hundred
listeners at the WesLside Jewish
Community Center last night,
Douglas said the competition be
tween democratic and Communis
tic forces "is not going to the
Communists, as so many people
fear."
"The great work being done by
Prime Minister Nehru in India is
stemming the Communist tide,
rolling back their forces," he said.
"They are doing a brilliant job
for democracy in Burma, too, and
our prospects are extremely
bright in Viet Nam."
SmUMITV WOMAN ILL
SUBLIMITY Mrs. Louis Hend
ricks is a patient in Santiam Me
morial hospital, having undergone j
surgery onjuonaay.
Central Howell
Women Meet
CENTRAL HOWELL Mrs. Silas
Torvend opened her home to mem'
bers of the Central Howell Farm'
ers Union Auxiliary on Friday for
an all day meeting with a no host
luncheon at noon. Mrs. Clarence
Johnson was honored with the
group singing the traditional birth
day song and cutting a birthday
cake.
Mrs. Leon Flux conducted the
business meeting in the afternoon,
with Mrs. Albert Mantie assisting
as secretary. Reports were given
on the recent dinner served by the
group to the Soil Conservation
Association.
Present for the day were Mrs.
A. E. Kuenzi, one of the charter
members, who is not a regular
attendant, Mr .and Mrs. Leon Flux,
and two children. Mr. and Mrs.
James Phillips. Mrs. Earl DeSart,
Mrs. Albert Mantie, Mrs. Clarence
Johnson, Mrs. George Plane. Mrs.
Milo Wilcox. Mrs. Frank Beuller,
Mrs. John Kock, Mrs. Henry Tor
vend, and Mrs. Frank Way. Mrs.
Johnson was also honored with a
handkerchief shower.
GENERAL RETURNS.
TAfPEI W Brig. Gen. Har
old W. Grant, commander of the
U.S. task force in Formosa, re
turned yesterday after a week's
visit to Japan, where he conferred
with Gen. Earlc E. Patridgc, com
mander of the Far East Air
Forces.
SENATOR VISITS CHIANG President and Mm. Chiang Kal.
TAIPEI VP) Sen. Margaret shefc
Chase Smith (R.-Me.) paid calls
today on Vice-President Chen T0 ot oranges, sour and
Cheng and Premier O. K. Yui. sweet, have been known for ceo.
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