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Evening star., 1925-03-11
SYSTEM OF ARMY
NOV II MARVEL OF ACCURACY
Bureau Experts Haze Made 200, 900 Identif tifcutions
Without a Single ErrOr-RecOrds Of 800, 900
Men Are on File.

Fingerprint identification has been
developed by the Army to the point
of efficiency where its application at
times vies with the thrills of detec-
tive fiction. Any unidentified man
who has served in the Regular Army
can be located in from 10 to 90 min
utes, and his full record laid bare. In
that short time a searcher finds him
among the more than 100000 men
who have been in the Army since 1905,
when the fingerprint system was in
troduced. He may have been one of
the 50,32S Smiths, the 40,101 Johnsons,
the 2S,9o2 Browns, or one of the 1888
named Williams. All the Army needs
is his fingerprint to turn up his record.
Walter S. Kaye. in charge of the
bureau, says the indexing has been
worked out so efficiently that even a
new clerk, one never before having
had knowledge of the system, can ee-
gin work as a searcher with little pre-
liminary instruction.
Is Exact Science.
The science of fingerprint reading
is based on the study of the curious,
circling network of all but invisible
lines on the ball of the thumb and
each finger Examination OF millions
of specimens shows that the normal
formation is the whorl, or the scroll
which winds these lines from the outer
edge in a gradually reducing circle to
their inner termination at the core of
the network A majority of human
beings are marked with this scroll,
but there are others whose finger
print lines run in fattened figures or
in complications of figures far re-
moved from the simple, easily read
whorls. The first step in identifica
tion has to do with determining the
broad general division in which the
prints under examination are to be
sought
There are but four main groups or
classifications of prints, arches, loops,
whorls and composites. Each type
has it's gradational cases. The whorls
have 1,024 values or comb1na tionS
and the loops, arches and composites
have each their respective values to
simplify segregation for filing and to
make them easily located when iden-
tifications are sought. The evalua
tion of prints thus made has over
come all difficulty of dealing with
large collections of finger markings,
such as are in the Army files.
Fingerprints, since their adoption
in 1905, have exposed frauds, pro-
tected innocent men from injustice,
kept undesirables of the criminal
type out of the service. protected the
Government from INSCRIPTIONS claim
ants and uncovered the guilty. Many
interesting accounts of such instances
are contained in official papers of
the War Department during the last
10 years.
Those who have worked in the
Identification bureau since it's estab
lishment are authority for the state
Evening star., 1925-03-11
Police Hold Car and Driver.

A new automobile, which police al
lege contained 47 gallons of grain
alcohol, WAS seized near Rhode Island
avenue and the District line north
east yesterday afternoon by De-
tective o. w. Mansfield and Motor
Cycle Policeman J. G. Helm OF the
ninth precinct.
The driver, who later registered as
Charles J. McCracken, 23, 838 East
Preston street, Baltimore, was charg-
ed with illegal possession and trans
porting intoxicants and failure to
have a registration card. He was re-
leased on $500 bond.
Evening star., 1925-03-11

Time after time our patrons come back for
another pair of Arnold Glove-Grip Shoes
because they can't get Glove-Grip comfort
in any other shoe. 1t is the way they are
made-glove- fitting instep and natural
lines.
Lacing a Glove-Grip actually lifts up the
arch, instead of pressing it down, and gives
an indescribable feeling of foot comfort
The soft leather of the upper gently grips
the instep like glove.
With all their comfort, Glove Grips are in
the latest styles and the popular feathers
The Haig, campus style, illustrated
below, a great favorite with young men,
is in black or tan Scotch Grain leather.
Come in and try on pair.
Mems Shoe Section. Second floor
Evening star., 1925-03-11
SHIPMENT OF DRESSES
TO JOBBERS is STOPPED
Declared by Contractors and
Unions to Have Repudiated
Wage Pact-3o, 900 Idle.

By the Associated Press
NEW YORK, March 1.-THE Asso-
citation OF Dress Manufacturers, an
organization of women's dress con-
tractors, today ordered all its mem
bers to stop shipments of dresses be-
ing made on orders of the Wholesale
Evening star., 1925-03-11
TELLS OF INSANITY.
Brother of Accused Communist

LEIPZIG, March 11-At the TWEEN
tieth session of the trial of 16 Com
munists here on the charge of muir
der and terrorism, Fritz Numann,
brother of Felix-the latter is ac-
cused of having murdered a barber
testified Felix always was regarded
bys him as abnormal and unable to
follow single idea to a logical con-
clusion. Felix, after his arrest, turn
ed states evidence against the other
defendants. The brother also related
how various members of the family
h%d been confined in insane asylums.
Evening star., 1925-03-11

ply, of course. particularly to dealings
with the fair sex.
The league counts upon direct ac-
tion by its members, which means,
apparently, that the latter will--gent-
ly or severely, according to tempera-
ment-reprimand men in their re-
spective circles who may be guilty OF
a breach of courtesy or respect.
Copyright, 1881
Evening star., 1925-03-11

ordered the union members to stop
work, declared that this is not a
strike, but "stoppage of work"
, 1925-12-11
FRANCE SEES NEED OF TWOPARTY
SYSTEM.

London, Nov. 27 u. P.)-Dirlomatic
reports from Pans ind ate that only the
lack of q dominanf personality like BENZ
to Mussoliri stands between France and
an attempt to establish a French dicta-
torship.
1t is declared that the Governmental
machinery IN Paris is so raraIyzed that
the French popuiace with its innate COM
mon sense and its disgust over the H.
ability of the politicians to form a stable
government rally 10 the support OF any
leader who showed sufficient strength
to force himself to the front.
Some persons here fcresee the remote
possibility OF an attempted Communist
coup if the situation became worse, but
they believe that if it occurred it would
be crushed easily, merely resulting in a
reaction which would cause the entrance
Of a strong Conservative Government.
The eventual solution, it is believed,
may be the dissolution of Parliament,
perhaps accompanied by a revision Of
The electoral laws. These ave blamed
for causing the present chaos, due to
the number of small parties represent
ed in the Chamber. Those who hold
this theory declare the two party system,
such as prevails in the United States,
must return to the Continental nations
or dictators vii! arise. N. Y. Sun.
, 1925-12-11

THE cold and clear weather which
prevailed during the early part Of tie
week under review was the first that
we have had this fall and was in everv
way conducive to the maturing of the
sugar cane. Unfortunately its Duration
was Of only a few days and during the
latter part of the week warm and wor
weather again prevailed, which giII. to
some extent, nuIlify the ADVANTAGE of
the few favorable days by again start
Ing the growth of the cane. Practically
all of the sugar factories in the
state are now in operation and the
returns are disappoiutlngly low. The
cane has shown but little improve
ment and in some districts no improve.
ment at all is reported. The green con
dition Of the cane together with the
large mount of borer damage in one
sections of The sugar district are causing
extremely low yields. -- Ibid.
, 1925-12-11
4 GREAT SPIRITUAL FEAST FOR
ALL.

ALL.
Lovers of GOOD singing and preaching
is being planned by the FRILGRlM HO-
Illness CHURCH, beginning SUNDAY.
DECEMBER 9Th, through to CHRIST.
MAS DAY,
The visit Of our District Superintcnd.
ent and Secretary Rev AID Mrs. O. L..
King, Rev. and Mrs. Samuel Clarke and
Miss Iva Taylor makes possible he
launching Of another EvanqeIistic Cam
paign throughout our churches and out
stations, and We solicit the usual res
ponse from the public, independent of
class or creed.
Rev. and Mrs. Clarke will arrive on
the 5. S. Catherine this week and beoin
service at Elm, Frederiksted. on the
above date. The other distinguished
visitors will arrive a few days later. A
schedule of all places and services will
be given early next week.
Services every night at 7.30 D. m. and
Sundays IL a. m. and 7.30 p. m. All are
welcome.
c. STANLEY MAYHEM,
Missionary.
, 1925-12-11

fact that the participation on the part
OF the r~etiners was much more general
and vigorous; and as a matter of fact.
IT was a buyer Of this class who paid
the highest price of the week for raw
sugar, 2Tl6c. compared with the &c.
basis current to the time our last review
was written Louisiana Planter, 2lSt
, 1925-12-11
NEW YORK SUGAR MARKET.
New York, Nov. II, 1925.

New YORK, Nov. II, 1925.
In addition to larger volume of bust
ness in raw sugar, refined sugar, and
future contracts and an advance in prices
all along the line, a number OF interest.
ing Developments featured tie week
under review. Regardless of whether
there was or was lot any merit in ar
guments heard in some quarters to the
effect that the substantial advance from
the seasons lowest levels was TO a large
extent artificial and unhealthy, the fact
remains that various factors OF uuQues-
tiOnable legitimacy played a leading part
during the week to the end that buyers
in all departments of the trade who had
previously been opposing the advance
on the ground that it was Injustifed
were forced to Swallow their medi-
ciDee," to fall into line and to pay prices
even higher than those which they had
regarded as too high a week ago. In
short, 1t became apparent that buyers
Of raw and refined sugar were forced to
the conviction that they had over STAYED
their market, while those who had sold
future contracts short in the belief that
an advance based largely On outside
speculative buying could not be main
tanned were forced to cover at still high
er levels; in some cases 40 to S. points
above the seasons lowest marks. While
to this extent at least it was still an
operators market, it was a noteworthy
, 1925-12-11

crimes to commit robberies are very rare
indeed.
The generosity of the poor classes in
Porto Rico is something noteworthy, and
touching at times. 1t is often that you
see a half starving family offering a place
az their home and table To one or two
abandoned orphans with the same gen.
erous gesture that a rich man would
SHOW In welcoming a pleasant guest to
his palace.
An orphan never goes homeless in Por-
to.RIcO. Charity among the poorest
classes IS as common as among the rich
est. Families are unnecessarily large a
m0ng the poor, because the newlywed
couples always like to bring their rela-
tlveS to live with them at their new
ZONES, and will very often in addition
ot1or their bones to one or two needy
friends. Often these generous impulses
surpass the limits Of prudence, as When
people affected with tuberculosis and
other contagious diseases are offered
shelter In homes where there are many
children, and are allowed to sleep in the
same room or on the same bed with them
and eat out of the same plates.
The Porto-R ican jibarO is always cour-
teOuS to strangers. He likes to show his
hospitality. and a more pleasant and gen
erous host is hardly to be found any
where. He offers the best bench in his
hut for the comfort Of his visitor. and
will take out his best cocoanut cap for
serving him hot coffee; and he does this
with a look of contentment and satisfac-
ton which shows clearly how pleased he
feels in welcoming the stranger that hon
ors him by visiting his home. He likes
to be shown little courtesies, and feels
very much obliged to the stranger who
extends a frank hand to him, or salutes
him with a smile ON the road or on the
streets. Once ne becomes u friend,
he IS loyal and always aDX Gus to oblige.
PortO-Rican women are most patient
and resigned. | have seen many cases
where the responsibility of The home has
fallen entirely upon their weak shoulders
through death or sickness Of the man in
the family. and they have always borne
their heavy burden with a cheer and
courageOusness that seemed almost di.
vine. Sometimes poverty and sickness
will combine against them and their
children, making the misery and burden
Of their lives seem beyond human endur-
ance; but | have not heard one of them
rebel against her lot. They conquer fate
by acQuiesence and carry on their bur-
dens without fiiGching. AS wives they
are most loyal. AS mothers they are
ideal. They are very modest in their ac-
tons, speech and dress. Going out with
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-03-20
Chief Blames 1t to
Mayoralty Sanction

While slot machines continue TO
ply a flourishing trade in Seattle
poolrooms. soft drink parlors. gro
ccries and other places. the police are
powcrIess to cope with the gambling
devices. Chief OF Police W. u. Sew.
cryns declared Friday.
Official mayoralty sanction has
been given TO n certain type OF ma
chine that is supposed by popular
legend TO return package OF gum
for every scent piece riskod. Sew
erynS said. II the customer Is lucky,
the machine returns him bonus
OF trade chips In addition 70 the gum.
Mayor Brown was away from his
office Friday and could not be reach
ed for a statement.
Manufacturers Of the machine rep
resent that by giving every player n
piece OF gum for his money. the
gambling feature IB eliminated. and
that the bonus" OF trade chips IS
merely an incidental feature.
THE fact remains" said 5eyeryns.
that the machines are causing
much trouble. Hardly a day goes by
but that someone comes In and com.
plains Of losing heavily on the de-
vices. Last night two men came In
and said they had lost nearly $50 in
as many minutes.
I'VE have seized score Of ma.
chimes lately in different raids.
Nearly every amusement place in the
city has one or two OF them. As fast
as we take 'em out, they get new
ones. would like to sec them all
barred. Even school children have
been gambling on them, II what ]
hear Is true
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-03-20
Pretty Visitor Is Due
in City at us Tonight:
She Will Be Welcomed

the high cost OF cquntors conflict.
ing with the Coolidge economy
program. No fears arc felt
among scientists that the sun
won't be able TO make the grade.
Springs coming this year was
almost overlooked. Tho Star
called up Mr.. Summers and
asked him when she was due.
lie consulted tho calendar.
by George" he said. a min.
ute later. I'VE nearly missed
her. She's away ahead OF time"
II The Stnr hadn't called up,
chances are everybody would
have been looking for her Sat
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. down TO the
Union depot and so forth. The
girl might have got mad when
she got in Friday evening and
found no one TO meet her.
From the vcrnni to the au.
timnal equinox. the sun stays
north Of the equator; along
about September Il. he goes
South again. While he's North.
days in the Northern Hemis.
phcro are, roughly, longer than
the nights In fall and winter
nights are longer than the days.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-03-20
of Food Adds
to Horror of Disaster
Relief Workers Hindered in Aid Cam
paign; Roads impossible

workers are plunging on. attempting
to locate bodies of the hundreds who
were killed when the windy horror
swept over Little Egypt
Everywhere there is suffering. It
Is almost a bandaged town. One lit
Ito girl seems TO describe the thing
a lock of flaxen hair droops beneath
a stained bandage around her head.
She * seeking her parents-and no
one knows the answer TO her sobs
for Mamma"
Tents spot the charred landscape.
In these tents the injured are treated
by scores of nurses and doctors who
FASTENED here from Chicago, ST.
Louis and the adjoining territory
when word of the disaster was
spread.
Provisions tents have been started
where hot steaming coffee and soup
is passed out to a line of hungry and
homeless survivors of the storm.
The rescue workers also are being
fed at these provision tents.
Winged relief whirrs overhead.
That is in the form of planes from
Scott field Illinois. which are carry.
Turn to Page IS, Column o.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-03-20
GAL KNOWN DEAD:
1913 are MISSING!
Relatives Searching Morgues to Iden-
tify Victims of Tornado
BY UNITED PRESS

>HE NUMBER of known dead in the greatest tornado
disaster which visited the United States crept past
the 500 mark today workers searched the ruins of towns
and hamets in six states.
The United Press recaptulaton shows GAL known dead
approximately 5000 injured between 5000 and 1000 home
less and 333 as yet unaccounted for.
Food shortage in many Of the death adding to
the suffering Of the victims and the general horror of the
disaster.
Other estimates Of the casualties while somewhat lower
today than previously continued high ranging up to 800
dead In Little Egypt and 1000 sufficiently injured to
require hospital treatment The latter estimate was made
by Colonel S. 0. Trip of the Illinois national guard at
Carbondae relief center in southern Illinois, to Aduant
General Black at Springfield If the dead reached this
number in Illinois the total cyclone toll in the six states
would range well above 900
The property damage will reach S10,000000.
The storm reached down into Alabama struck with its
main force first III Missouri devastated southern Illinois
sped into Kentucky and Tennessee and Indiana where it
showed great fury
The tornado crumped all part of score of towns and
villages.
The loss of life in many rural districts and on farms has
not yet been fully determined
The quick work of the Red Gross and other organizations
aided by the militia in stricken southern Illinois, where
the tornado wreaked its greatest havoc has resulted in
orderly processes of relief and reconstruction
Care has been taken to prevent the outbreak of disease
best possible housing is being accorded the sufferers
thru erection of tents in the devastated and ames
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-03-20
DEFENSE TO END
ARGUMENT IN
OIL TRIAL
latimer's Testimony Closes
Case This Afternoon
COURTROOM DESERTED
Interest in Governments
Suit Dies Out
E'EDERAL COURT noon, chey

L'EpERAL COURT ROOM. Chey,
L oune. wyo. March Coon.
linuiug tho reading OF dispositions
OF ". Foster balm, director OF tho
bureau Of minsa aud a. ". Am
brose, government gcologtst. defense
counsel in the Teapot Dome suit
were 20 wind ZAP their case this AZ.
ternoon with the arrival OF Admiral
y. 1. Ta,imer Judge advocate gen.
crai OF the navy
faumer, who Is expected to ar.
rive shortly after noon. ln being
brought hcre by The defense and
wiIl either bring certniu navy 90.
pariment papers concerning tho
Feapos iesss Or win carry tho 70.
fusal Of Secretary of tho Navy vii.
hur 20 reveal these. Il il under.
stood.
Ssarecly dozon spectators were
in court this morning Al interest
in the case here has died out.
G.atimer previously has ruled that
exchange OF crude oil for storage
facilities was valid. That IL one
Of The ,eehnicsli,iea At stake IN the
case whether tho navy department
could pay for storage facilities in
crude oil which Is what tho Teapot
Lease 30 tho Mammoth OH Co. in.
cludcd.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-03-20
FREAKS HURT z
Peculiar Accidents Injure
Foreman and AutoiSt

Two men suffered painful THUR
les in peculiar auto accidents Fri
day.
Daniel Boyle. AIS w. Flndlay ST.,
foreman of n construction crew
building wall at Railroad ave. and
Bell St, was knocked from the curb
into seven-foot pit filled with
rocks by truck owned by tho
Lloyd Transfer Co. He was stand
ing on the curb directing tho work
when tho truck struck him, tossing
him into the hole. He WAS bruised.
II. II. Jones, 4siS Holly st. es-
capped with bruises to the hip and
shoulder when his car was crowded
into tho curb, striking n telephone
pole and overturning. Tho accident
occurred at Rainier ave. and cross
street, Jones said car driven by
c, d. Bridge. $3.50 saith ave. s. tried
to pass him and cut in sharply
ahead, forcing him TO hit the tele-
phone pole.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-03-20

The judges will be Major j.
+. Douglas of the metropolitan
Building Co.. Frank Hull, as.
sistant manager OF Tho olym.
pic Hotel, and Leroy V. John.
son, manager of The Liberty
thcatcr.
Keep your eye open during
courtesy Week for courteous
acts on the part of public en-.
ployes. II may win YOU prize.
md, public employees, watch
YOUR step during Courtesy
Week You don't know what
prl2e.aspirants eye may be on
you. And YOU may get the
Sl5 capital prize as result OF
tho letter the aspIrant writes.
Hold your letters to so
words, And mail them to tho
Liberty thcater,
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-03-20
ny JIM MARSHALL

ENCOURAGED by the fino
IL weather and the continued
absence OF attncks on the city's
fair name by enemies OF Mayor
Brown. Spring Will arrive in Sc.
attic at 713 Friday evening.
Elaborate preparations for the
festive young lady's reception
were made today by NJ. II. Sum.
mers. chief weather forecaster.
who was one of the first to learn
OF her coming.
she's lot earlier than usual,
this year" said Mr.. Summers
professionally. 1T Is only rarely
that she arrives before the 21st.
Sometimes she doesn't officially
get here until the card. and very
often it's the 22nd before shc
shows up
Spring starts officially the
minute the sun crosses the equa
tor after his southern tour dur.
ing the winter. Some OF the more
prosperous weather bureaus have
men stationed at the equator TO
watch the stunt. a real sun 10
used IN the act, but the equator
Is purely imaginary owing TO
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-03-20

manager at tho Liberty the,
ater. Mr. Johnson is contrlbut.
ing tho prizes.
An letters must nnrrate nc.
tual happenings, rs they viii
be Investigated before tho cap.
ital prize for tho most court,
cous man is awarded,
For the best so word letters,
tho prizes win be;
First-SiO IN cash.
Seconds in cash,
Third $3.50 in cash.
Fourth Four logo seats to
the Liberty.
Fifth-EepT general admls-
slons, Liberty.
Sixth TO Tcnth-A pair OF
seats each TO tho Liberty
The most courteous man. ms
indicated by these letters. win
bo given a Sl5 prize.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-03-20
FAKE ADMITTED
Boy Says Murder Comics
sion Not True

LOS ANGELES. Cnl.. March Co
Mrs. Margaret Willis will leave the
county jail here for San Quentin
penitcntiary tonight TO servo life
sentence for the murder Of DR.. Ben
jnmln Baldwin.
Her son. Harold. who admitted
he faxed confession that he and
not his mother. committed the
crime, was detained In Juvenile hall
pending further investigation Of his
case by "A grand jury.
The boy told the grand jury that
he alone conceived the idea OF con-
Tossing to the murder OF Dr Bald
win. The grand jury win meet
again Tuesday and continue probe
Of the boys story.
County prosecutors claim perjury
was put in the boys mouth"
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-03-20
Prosecutors
of Wheeler
NotWelcome

CREAT FALLS. Mont March
~ 20. The Great Fats clam.
her Of Commerce has refused 70
furnish office accommodations
for federal attorneys when they
arrive neat month to prosecute
Senator Burton X. Wheeler and
Gordon Campbell. oil operator
Tho secretary OF the club nd
visod w. T. Mcigs, a6sistan,
United states district attorney.
that II would not extend favor
20 attorneys prosecuting Mon
tana's junior senator and tho
discovcrcr of the Kelvin oil
field. tho largest in Montana.
Wheeler was charged with ap,
pcaring before government bu-
reaus for fec after no became
senator. in the interests Of
Campbell.