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Evening journal., 1916-08-31
FLACMAN ROE CRUSHED
WHEN CAR JUMPS TRACK

Special 10 THE EVENING JOURNAL.
LAUREL. Aug Sl.-A caboosc and
one ear loaded with feed jumped the
track az Broad Creek siding, near Lau-
rel. this morning. blocking both tracks
for two hours. A car loaded with
watermelons ON the siding was wrecked.
Flaginan Roe was badly crushed and
burned
Evening journal., 1916-08-31

The earth is blessed with the one.
simple, painless. never-failing rem
edy that makes millions OF corn-pes-
tered people happy. and that's
'GETS-IT." Apply il in 3 seconds.
II dries. Some people jab and dig
at their corns with knives and razors
wrap their toes in packages with
bandages or sticky tape. make them
red and raw with salves. Nothing
like this with "GETS-IT" Your corn
iosens-you lift II off. There's
nothing 10 press on the corn. or hurt.
Angels couldn't ask for more. Try IL
onight on any corn. callus or wart.
"GETS-IT" is sold and recon-
mended by druggists everywhere. 25c
. bottle. or sent on receipt Of price
X z. Lawrence & Co., Chicago. III.
Evening journal., 1916-08-31
sPRAlNEp HIS ANKLE

Edward Walsen, chief operator OF
the new river front bridge. while
helping with repair work on the bridge
yesterday morning, sprained his ankle.
He was able to go on duty at the
bridge today.
Evening journal., 1916-08-31
RUNS OF THE WEEK.

Runs scored by all teams in Ameri-
can and National Leagues from Thurs
day August "a, TO Wednesday. August
90, inclusive. Only runs that figure in
onncial averages are included Scores
OF incomplete games are not counted,
Dut the scores Of games of five innings
OF more arc included in the table.
American Taonua
Evening journal., 1916-08-31
The Evening Journal Largest r.o o".Dao.
BASEBALL PROSPECTS
National Le,que

thioagu at ST. Louis, clear.
Boston at Pittsburgh, clear,
lOnly games scheduled tOday.l
American League.
Detroit at New York. clear.
Chicago at Philadelphia, clear.
n. Louis at Boston. clear.
Cleveland at Washington. clear.
Evening journal., 1916-08-31
MISS RANKIN LEAD scANpIpArEs

According 10 dispatches from Mon.
tana. Miss Jeanette Rankin is lead.
ing the Republican candidates for Con.
gress. During the session of the Del.
aware Legislature of 1913, she appear
ed there in the interests OF woman suf-
frage.
Evening journal., 1916-08-31
OYSTER SEASON TOMORROW.

Oysters will be in season tomorrow.
and residents OF Delaware and Mary
land may feast on the fat. juicy BIZ
valves that come from Chesapeake
Bay.
Evening journal., 1916-08-31
LTTTERS ON FSTATF

Register Of Wills Isaac r. Brown
today granted letters OF administra-
tion on the estate Of Tobias Written
% Fannie Mhitfan.
Evening journal., 1916-08-31
PERSONAL.

Miss Virginia Cooper. of this CITY
IS spending her vacation pt Atlantic
City and Centreville, Md.
Evening journal., 1916-08-31
SCOUT MASTERS TO DINE.

The Wilmington Scout Masters As
sociation will hold its annual dinner
on September 25. at Hannas Cafe.
Evening journal., 1916-08-31
Look Pa, How
'GetS-It Works.
Lifts Your Corn Right on.
NnNpr Inils.

Ever in your life see a corn come
out like that? Look at the true skin
underneath-smooth as the palm Of
your handi"
Evening journal., 1916-08-31

If the Want Ads did not do their
work we'll, they would not be so gem
orally accepted-Adv.
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when they mention TASK they catch their breath"

| tie over some guns they had taken
from the Turks the day before. Nice
r~iscals. but they obeyed an English
officer.
We'll. when we left Basra they went
on shiftin' EN- on, sometimes with no
food to speak Of for two or three days.
working their way up toward Amara.
II was bitter work. The only thing
that wasn't worth a damn was money.
I saw IA fellow pay so for a cigarette,
and he'd have given all he had for a
handful Of rice. Water? Why. we used
to skim the top Off a pool to get a
mouthful that would make n fellow
weak with dysentery. They didn't
dare touch the river, could tell
when a corpse might come down. Cen
eral orders said all water must he
boiled. Huh! There hadn't been any
wood in that country since Abraham
kept sheep.
Finally we hit Amara, and-say,
that's where the cheeses come in. There
was n cheese factory there and the
Turks had a lot OF guns in 1t, and the
boys went in and shifted EN- out. In
side they found a lot OF cheeses. round
ones. about big enough so a man
could carry two of them. They looked
mighty good to men who hadn't much
to eat for a few days and they sat
down and sailed into them. Every
chap came back with one or two. and
then the others went after them till
the whole crew was loaded down with
little round cheeses.
1T was getting sort Of dark when
the Turks came back for a final slap
at us-they were stubborn fighters.
those Turks. Decent chaps too. Lots
Of times a mar waded into their lines
in the dark. and they'd take his gun
and ammunition away from him and
load him down with cigarettes and
send him back. And when a chap got
hi and was in a bad way they'd ship
him back to us so ne could die among
his friends. The Turks n gentleman
all right. and a bully fighter.
The cheeses? OH, yes" and Roberts
gave another of those little chuCkles
of pure joy at the recollection. We'll.
as | said. they came back just as II
OF the chaps was digging into his
cheese with his %bayonet. lie got sort
OF excited and must have thought 1t
"os " ritiiohNs W NV W. INV sAhAS
the thing like a bloomin' six inch
shell into a crowd OF Turks. They saw
II coming and III out and must be rum
ming yet. and then the other fellows
got wise and began To hcave chooses
Il. the place was alive with the big.
bounding things. They chased those
Turks with cheeses mixed up with
%grenades till the hoGgars found II cat.
and then they were sore. That was
the reason they put up such a fight
over Amara. ! guess. II took us fnur
days to prove We could use something
besides cheese In n scrap
After Amarl came one of those long
waits for food and ammunition. while
the Tommies sworc and hoped tho
Turks wouldn't find out how low their
chests were. and the little Gurkhas
strutted about and shined up their
knives for the e scrap. And after
ArUira came kut, another story q,
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Clearing the Euphrates {
mines.

bloomin' Turks out OF one place he'd
sit down and blum EN- with cobble-
stones and gun butts till ne got shells
enough to go a few miles more.
They wouldn't give him the men
he needed. they wouldn't give him the
transport he needed. they wouldn't
give him the ammunition he needed,
and he'd go on shiftin' EN- on and on.
and mostly on pure blum. He figured
he could outguess EN- and he did till
the Anzacs got W OF Suvla and re-
leased so many Turkish divisions that
they Just swollered Townshend.
And fight, Why. you never saw
men fight the way those beggars did.
tanning along n few miles n day.
fighting marsh and sane and fever and
bugs, running the Turks ragged when
they got a chance. Sometimes they
didn't have much food. and sometimes
they didn't have water 'cept what they
strained through their fingers out OF
green slimed pools. but the Turks
couldn't stop EN-. TOwnshend said,
L can go ahead. but | can't hold my
ground and they said Go ahead any
way n he did. He sure did"
The merry eyes snapped with the
The sun., 1916-12-10

Of rubber and found that II was a
four inch tire OF "A well known maE'
He now knc that the car had IN
eight inch headlight and Q ss in~N
sldeiight and rolled on n four inch '.'
There was only m car in the WNg.i
that met all those requirement
1909 Packard,
Examining closely the buggy N
which the foreman was riding ~
found n spot of gray paint on tHN
shaft. Then he knew that the ar
was painted gray and that Il Wa a
model Is Packard of the Year l'n'
He now knew what he was hunt. T..
To the garages in the immoH.' "
nolghhorhood h" went, thinking ''t'
the machine might have put en-
repairs. but no trace OF II could Ie
md. AT last he heard OF "A car oJt
on Long Island at one Of the rpfl-rs
thht answered the description.
out he went, hut the car Naj 'c''
back to New York he trailoi It .
AZ last after n long search fuuu. ''
garage where the owner was iu
habit Of storing his car, The eos o.
"A said to he Louis Casc'it Z '''
cast S~cvonty-tfth street. t. TIC .
dress he went, rejoicing, hut the az w.
had disappeared as comrlctc,l as &
morning mist.
All his work seemed to have l,,r ~
vain. However, he learned thl' ~"
was being forwarded to the W.N
Allenhurst, y. j. To Allrnhll-' ii','
nan Went and made a search az a.
Harapcs-and found what he Wt''r.
just exactly IA week tu a d1N g.
the time Of the accident Sr'..
brennan handed in e Inspector =,
TINS report card, in the hr.,i 'w
employed by tn" Police Dcptr'".''
Tho auto which struck ~,
in which Foreman McHurh W. '..
ing is " Packard l909, MuIc' - a
Win a white stripe. nlcko, 'or
License number 67-3SS, owned |'
Louis Casclla, ll3 East seventy Ns''
street, who stored in Spcurl. o.
Garage, ll5 East Sevcnty-nf'h street
until June 20"
We days later Casol'a was ir''"'-'
for manslauehtcr.
with the all ~ this department a..
the famous Squad Two. the nuu.", .
autom"hil" th"ftS - being cu' 5'N'
Ncc"rding To Frank \. Lord. ~"r.
Deputy Police Commissioner of >,N
York, a couple "f years aEo an as
age or ten cars "A day were stole" .
New York city. The number has bet
cut down to four "a week.
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| joy Of the way they sure did go
ahead. for he had been part of II,
driving a truck 'one wheel in the
river and one buried in the bloomin'
sand" till the overloaded motor stuck
and he had TO get out and o IA il
back into exploding its way slowly
through the choking muck.
They were all men seasoned on In
dian service. Tnwnshend's men,
TOmmies who hadn't seen England in
many a day. Punjabis Of odious
memory. for they quit cold when the
Turks began to crowd them: big
Mahrattas with boards and a cold eff
cheney with the bayonet. and stocky
little Gurkhas, who carved their ne
mics with swift ease and died in their
tracks rather than retreat.
They started out from Bombay and
worked their way up the Persian Gulf,
having a bit of a racket % and then
with native she.ks and making them
see the error Of their ways with a few
~ shells. The transport men got
their lorries ashore and tried to Jam
ahead to Muhamrah. but they stuck
in the sand, and Muhamrah was
reached by transport. The Turks had
sunk transports in the river to block
the way and the British gunboats had
a time getting by. but they did, and
then Roberts and the rect of the crew
went ashore to begin their heartbreak-
ing work.
A lorrie would waddle ahead n WAY
and then sit down up to the hubs In
sand n refuse to bulge. and men
would shovel and pull and tickle her
motor until she ploughed a hit further
Finally they tried running on the edge
OF the river. one wheel in the mud and
n In the sand, "A skidding. sloughinG
kind Of progress that was death to
motors. They called them the Incor-
r!gibles. the transport men, n cursing
fighting. hard working lot. the back
bone Of the expedition.
And SO the %gunboats shelled the
Turkish positions ahead, taking "a sho,
now and then at the mines that drifted
down to send great columns OF water
and mud toward the blistering sky
while the main column shifted EN- on
and on, running EN- ragged. Twenty
Ave miles IL was to Basra. where the
main supply base was made. and q
hard twenty-five miles.
Thousands of friendly Bedouins
came down Whereabouts and Joined us,
and the Turks must have thought the
whole Arabian nation was after them.
Roberts went on with a Chuckle. They
were after the loot, hut Lord knows
what they expected 20 find in those
dirty little places called towns, 'dobC
shacks. oil cans and palm leaves. You
ought To see Jack, When they men,
ton Jask out there they catch thell
breath. And it's three houses and O
palm tree and smell.
But sometimes they'd find som,
rifles betwccn the lines or when ",
shifted the Turks out Of a trench, anC
then they'd go for them. They'd sci
their souls for a rife. one night hel
broke loose out on the desert. Al VI
could see was gun flashes. II the mex
day We found they'd had n regular bat
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Ezra's Tomb, shelled by the British.

:" HE hard listed. merry eyed me-
chanic who had driven an ar
mored car up the E%uphrates
With Townshend and the i'll fated
Aesopotamian expedition was bub-
bling over with Indignation at the
bOngling that made inevitable the final
catastrophe at Kut-el-Amara. Tech
ntcal terms and army slang poured
from him as he sketched with stubby
0ngers the details OF that slow ad-
vance and swift disaster.
vrancis Roberts. he said his name
~. A Connecticut Yank. the too
proud to fght" taunt OF London
Streets had goaded him into the Royal
Engineers and the transport service
I'd he had done his bit. But when
a the Turks in the world had swooped
avn on Townshend and enveloped
NH and Roberts drifted down the
Buphrates In the lcaky dhow. biindet
nom ehell fire and half mad with
fever. to be nursed back to health in
IN Indian hospital. the desire t. get
away led him to take the shortest road
home. So he came back-he wasn't
Nsen on telling hd~-and he wandered
into THE SuN office to unburden him
self.
30 he drew little lines that mean a
~ to him and picked out places on
DE desert where they had had "a
racket with the Turks" places with
,s0rOuth NANCY and uae peperalIy nm.
Interesting.
I'm telling you" he would say i'm
patiently when one ventured n ques-
don. But he wasn't. not the things
he had lived in day by day. the men
ne had fought beside, the struggles
with sand and mud and disease. And
then II suddenly dawned upon him
that II IA OF those things men liked
to hear and he grew human and de-
tached himself from the sketching
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faces Of automobiles drawn in outline.
The lamps stare at you like eyes and
the mudguards stand out like ears.
Looking at the faces of the cars as
shown on the charts is almost like
studying the faces across from you in
the subway. There is a whole row Of
them and each one Is different.
To learn how to know cars by sight
the patrolmen go to school, sit at lit
tie desks and are asked questions as
If they were in short trousers-go TO
school with pistols in their pockets.
Five days the patrolmen who are on
duty at the exits of Manhattan Island.
the bridges and ferries, attend class,
and at the end of hat time they are
graduated. Their graduation questions
consist of such posers az. What is the
location and describe the tail lights.
rear springs and mudguards OF the 1911
Packard?" Are the mudguards Of the
1909 Lancia crown, semi-crown OF
oval?"
Five days the patrolmen go 10 school
and then they are tent back to their
posts. In that time they are given
instruction in identifying the fifty
standard makes. AS explained. there
are l04 makes on the streets # New
York; the other ffty-four the police
men must work out for themselves.
For graduation the policeman is put
to the test. His professor takes him
10 Columbus Circle, where, as the po.
lice say. you have but to wait long
enough and every car in New York
will pass sooner or later. More cars
pass this point than any other in the
world. So. at Columbus Circle pro-
fCssor and student take their place.
each with a notebook In his hand.
The professor looks up and sees a ear
speeding by.
This Is No, l." he says. Name
IT,"
The student looks II over ms II
passes by, notes the position Of the
extra tire carrier, the kind OF filler can
and every detail that he can take in as
II PUSHES by. Then he writes down the
number and answer. The professor
keeps "A duplicate list.
The professor waits n few minutes
until another car OF a different make
comes swirling along, and he waits
TIL only the back shows, then saws,
There is cur No. ,. Name It," The
student has only the rear to Judge by
the axle, the springs. the position OF
the tall light. the window In the ton
neau.
a fow years ago systematic automo.
The sun., 1916-12-10

nome afternoon you may have
-. seen two men standing in Co
lunbus Circle, dressed in plain
clothes, each with notebook in hand.
paying no attention to anything in the
world except automobiles. II this you
have seen. and II at sight OF your car
they have scrubbed In their notebooks.
yvu may know that your car was be-
ins placed in the rogucs' gallery. But
DO not worry about this, as the char
acter of your car is no doubt without
blemish.
The two men belong to the rogues'
eallery OF cars, called more prosaically
by the Police Department the automo-
bile identification bureau. 1t is with
their help that you get your car back
you are run over by n speeding car.
For OF identification the po-
Nee place all cars in n rogues' gallery
and speak Of them as IL they were
human beings. To them automobiles
have faces, cars, eyes and mouths.
Down at Police Headquarters on
centre street In a professor OF auto
mobile phrenol gy who knows more
shout automobiles than any other per-
son I'm the United States. To him is
assigned the duty 81 teaching the pa
troimon bow to look at a car < o that
they wnl know ID at Il fleeing glance
Ca, NJ o. pf' tr- - tho 1nt makes thnt
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bile identification was unknown; to-
day 1t is compulsory. This has been
made necessary by the increasing
number of automobile crimes. When
policemen did not know one car from
another the criminals could ride under
their noses and escape. To-day it is
differapt-
4 mar IL run over in Warren street
by a speeding automobile. The car
does not stop: the patrolman PUSHES
tn the scene but can get no complete
description Of the car. But from the
bystanders he finds hat II was IA
large. heavy car, sever passenger.
This eliminates all the smaller cars.
He finds by further inquiry that II
has a gas tank on the rear, There
are only three makes of cars that so
carry their gas tanks-the Pierce
Arrow. Packard and Locomoblle. From
another bystander he learns that the
tail light was on the left. This elimi-
mates the Pierce Arrow. He now
knows that II was one Of two makes.
In addition he finds that the light
was also fixed on the m%udguard. lie
then knows the car he wants Is n
Packard. To a booth he PUSHES and
to headquarters he telephones his in
formation while the car IL still
speeding on its way. An alarm is sent
ont to the patro,mcn and especially to
the mes on duty at the exits Of the
island to pick up IA Packard coming
from Warren street with three pas
scngers. Slowly the net closes in on
the guilty car.
sometimes n car after running into
somebody may get away. especially If
ii il at night. without anybody seeing
1t. Then the department IL up against
"A old trail. Such was the case on
June "a last, and the way Sergeant
Brennan worked 1t u IN truly re-
markable.' 1t was only by his I'M
canny knowledge of automobiles that
he was able to accomplish 1t.
Foreman McHugh Of the Street
Cleaning Department was riding down
Park avenue on that date on his egu
lar round when at S.Xty-ninth street
n car crashed into the buggy. throw
ing him so violently 10 tn" pavement
that he died soon after reaching the
hospital. Tn" car escaped without any
ON" having observed II.
When Sergeant brennan. the pro-
fcssor Of the school. arrived on the
scene he could tud no one t. hep
him out NY giving him a description
OF the car. After looking around he
picked NY the frame of . battered auto
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Chasing Turks Out of Amara With
Cheeses for Bombs Only an Incl
dent of His Adventures

slow advance in a killing heat Of 14o
degrees that made men drop in their
tfacks and 20 "on their dot" and
turned wounds into things that made
men sick to look at; shifting the Turks
from one trench to the next, amending
suffering from lack o. food and water.
and all faced in. a grim matter OF fact
way that even Roberts felt was glori-
Gus.
BY this time one gathered that his
machine had been turned into a kin
OF drmorcd car, n sardine box he called
IL with a grin, that had an insolent
way Of staggering right into machine
gun fire and then shedding bombs with
ugly effectiveness.
And then came the beginning OF the
end when Ctesiphon had been reached
and taken and the Turkish limo grew
sitter from the weight of reinforce
ments let loose by the evacuation OF
Gallipoli. Townshcnd would have got
Bagdad and held 1t. ammunition or no
ammunition. Roberts said with an oath.
IL the beggars had only held on to
Suvla Bay and given Townshend a
chance. II didn't seem fair to him.
the long %sickenlng uphill climb, victory
far off hut in sight, n then TO be
thrust down into inevitable defeat just
because ones " people bungled their
job. At least that's the way 1t looked
To Roberts. and he was glum for a full
minute after he said IL.
Hut, however IT happened. there
came ono day when Townshend found
Il heavy column of Turks holding him
in front while another crept around
on his flank and tried TO push him into
the river. There was nothing to do
but retreat, give UP the grounu they
had struggled so hard for, and they
were a bad lot of Tommies to go up
against, fighting with bitter anger, raw
ing or deadly cold according TO their
kind. They OF the rear guard made
short, deadly rushes into the Turks.
iaiding them with bomb and bayonet.
picking out every little gully TO sell as
dearly as they could.
Eoberts's fingers were itching TO pick
up the pencil again and draw neat
little diagrams OF how they covered
the main column and how he n his
sardine box. which he drove with "a
fierce joy, were hurled time and again
Ut 'he ever P''SH"S NV " YIN 90
,"' P'h''' wa" i'""o''u III" "' '"'
na'h upon speech
There were about 800 in that rear
guard, Gurkhas and Dorsets-how
those fellows could fight: oh, they were
came-and Lancashire men. good fell
lows too. II WAS great to be with EN-"
And Roborts's eyes drifted away
aeaih ior II 'ho''eh'' i"r Oh anu
siuih'y around t"e cof''eis' as IL ne
c"u'u see "sd'h '"c C''s'''HS pa''er VI
nu''e'S ana no" Hhu 'neh one OF 'he
i'orS''s OF Il niue u"'N"a urop anu
ron over 20 ne pu'e' On 'Ha' !'''o"
s"hu Win 'ne p.'"'nS s"n over MN
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kind everything is built up by the
process of elimination. In fact nearly
all the difficult detective cases are
worked out by this process of cl!m!-
nation.
ON one Of tho lenses he found in
shadow printing the date of the grant
ing of the patcnt-octohvr ., 1905.
Straight 10 the patent room of the
New York Public Library the ser
The sun., 1916-12-10

scented. by measuring with a pair Of
calipers and completing tho are he
found that II was an eiGht inch gas
headlight; the other by the same
process proved itself 10 be n six inch
sidclight. This was some progress,
for It showed that it was a large "a
and probably an old one.
Step 10y step the wrong cars must
be eliminated. for IN "a case of this
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gcant vent and by studying the lamp
records he found that "A patent had
been granted to the Macbeth Company
nf l1ttsburg on hat date. At the
New York office of the company he
found that the lamp had not been
made since l9l2 Then the car must
have been one If the earlier types.
To the central testing laboratory at
Police headquarters he took the strip
The sun., 1916-12-10

mobile lamp, a scrap Of rubber and
twcnty-onc pieces Of glass.
These We're the only witnesses. The
car. when II had crashed into the
buggy. had shot tn one side and
scraped into the curb. The piece OF
rubber vas n strip shaved from the
Ere.
Studying the glass. Brennan found
that two kinds OF lenses were rcpre-