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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-09-19
HELEN cARRINGToN AWE PRANK MeINTYRE

the record for the astongH fine Glowing Of Gale Beverly
Charles Rugge Winnie Baldwin and Frank Mcintyre necessary
girl elongated pearl the small dadem Of comic dancers
Her unacies among the high spots evening thy stuffed
with high spots.
The comedy is in the hands Of Frank Mcintyre Charles
Rugge cast pickering partners who decide dissolve for
stipulation that the who holds the lowest poker hand
will the other valet The second surrounding
situation uprOariOusy funny with Mcintyre and Rugges
mating in the laugh output.
fetching lead Mildred Brown lovely look ii and
with fair voice and dancing ability Winnie Baldwin another
unnng Walter Craig handles the juvenile singing lead To- the
particular Of all homey in Jack Leslie
is SLOUGH himself
Then there il the dancing chorus which be cassed above
the chorus classification for the youngsters pretty and all
dance piano duet BY Edgar Moran and George Mckay
to the value Of wel-spent evening
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-09-19

w q son u.
Shepherd. pro-
prietor oe he
Northeast Bat
terry shop was
born In KEN
sington, Mary
land. on Febru.
airy 16, 1898, but
Tor the past
seventeen years
has made his
home In Wash
ington.
Mr.. Watson
was employed
BY a well-knpwn
LEGAL d eaIer
in motorcycles
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-09-19
LIGHTNING FIRES PLANT

HAGERsToWN. Nd. Sept. Is.-
During = terrific thunderstorm
which broke q weeks hot wave ana
drought last night, lightning struck
IN the sulphur plant Of Bester and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-09

of the mute victim told the Scotland
Yard men the imprnts were hers.
They did get, however. shreds OF i'm
prints that puzzled them. These were
left for further study at the Yard.
Photographs were also taken OF the
marks of a Jimmy used on the base
menr lock. The method of forcing en-
trance into the house was carefully
noted.
1t would have puzzled an onlooker
to see the eagerness with which the
detectives studied too, what the crimi-
nails ate from Miss Ennis harder, in
the meal they calmly made themselves
after strangling her.
Then, on the rug before the bed was
found a bit OF dried clay. such as
would be left by the stamping of a
muddy shoe.
This was not a rich haul for the
Scotland Yard men, but they hurried
back with it and set the machinery
of G. |. ID. to work on 1t. Their chemi-
cal experts analysed the bit of dried
clay to determine it's source. 1t was
not the mud of London's sidewalks,
| nor of the bit OF garden through
which the unknown criminals had
passed to enter Miss Ennis house.
From this it was deduced that the
shoe from which the hit of clay had
dropped must have pressed hard into
a he'd OF il somewhere outside OF Lon
don. caught some Of it in the angle
the heel makes with the sole, where 1t
had dried and then dropped off In the
course of a struggle in Mary Ennis
room.
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rich nor poor nor striking in any
way. Which was the reason an elder
~ spinster, Mary Ennis, chose to live
there. She had reason for living in
q colorless way in a colorless part of
London. ii developed later.
She had small threeroom fat in
the upper story of small brick house
In a street full of small brick houses
exactly like hers. The ground floor
and basement she presumably tried to
rent out, but the bobby who patrolled
that street decided that she was diff
cult to please, for he observed that
while people seemed ready to rent the
place she chose none Of them.
/. She was apparently a recluse. for
nobody called on her socially: and
only a day servant and delivery boys
ever set foot in the house. The
bobby on the beat learned these things
just as a woman, by everyday study
of her face. learns when the first
wrinkle arrives. He knew every
house on his beat and the familiar
aspect Of its everyday fronts.
EARLY one morning when he came
H on his beat he noticed a slight
difference in the aspect Of Mary En-
MIS- house. From the window Of the
upper story where she lived futtered
the end of a curtain. II was not a
startling thing To observe. But ii
had been raining and. putting this to-
gether with the fact that Miss En-
mis- never kept this window open even
on clear nights, the bobby started
Think ing, which London hobbies do
so often that their fame is not sur
prising.
When later. therefore, he noticed
that Miss Ennis did not take in her
morning newspaper and bottle of
milk, which it was her habit to take
in exactly at $50 every morning. he
decided 10 ring her bell. No answer.
She may have gone away for a trip.
of course. But there was the curtain
futtering in the upper window.
The bobby then tried the front door,
the basement door and the back door
to her house. He noticed that she had
an exceptional number of locks on
her doors and very good ones---for all
OF them held well--eXcept one. This
was on the door leading to the base
ment in the rear.
The London bobby. like all British
police, has traditional respect for
the sanctity of the home against in
vasion of any kind; and this bobby
consulted his sergeant before entering
his sergeant did enter they found
Mary Ennis strangled in her he'd a
little wall safe of exceptional thick
ness burned open with an oxy
acetylene torch. it's contents looted
and the front window open with the
curtain blowing.
There was no telephone in the room
30 the sergeant remained on the spot
while the bobby sprinted to the near
est police box and called up Scotia nd
Yard" as the world knows 1t, New
Scotland Yard" as 1t is semi officially
known, and &C. /. D." or the "Crimi
nal Investigation Department" which
is IT'S official name. With a brief but
telling description. the bobby outlined
what he had seen and thereby gave
G. !. d. an idea Of what men and para
phernalia were to he hurried In a
little green motor car to the house OF
Mary Ennis.
A quarter of an hour later there ar
rived in Mary Ennis Fat a divisional
inspector, hngerprint man. g
photographer and a specialist in q
certain category of crime hunting
Tie four man busted themselves TO,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-09
2r by Piece of Clay Print of Torn Glove and Menu

never before have DISCUSSES and the
assuming of roles been so widely and
effectively used as today in Scotland
Yard work. But the DISCUSSES are
those of character rather than of face.
In the makeup room one finds none
of the paraphernala OF the dressing
room of the theater--no wigs. paints
costumes or props in the stage
meaning of the word. But one does
find there a remarkable collection of
photogra phs
They are of bricl<layers and book
makers, of plumbers and minis' ars.
of Salvation Army soldiers and OF re
Ceivers of stolen goods: of stock com
pany actors. undertakers, beggars.
perfumed gentlemen of leisure and the
dance. of barkeepers, doctors. eleC-
tricians. truck drivers. newspa per
dealers. peddlers and hundreds of
other types that MAKE up the myriad
swarm in everyday London.
From this collection the prospective
detective ctor selects photographs of
several originals oc the role he Is to
assume. Our man picked to play the
Dutch receiver of stolen jewels found
half dozen photogra phs to study. lie
carefully noted the characteristic
clothing Of the type; the cut of the
hair; the presence or absence of orna.
ment.
Finally Detective let us call him
N-feit that he knew what he wanted
next. At a taiIor's he had n suit made
after certain minute description. At
the conclusion of some telephoning
between Scotland Yard chiefs and a
leading London jeweler Detective Y,
now clad in the loud garb of a Dutch
man in more than flourishing circum-
stances, issued from the swa gger jew
elry shop with a blazing diamond ring
on one finger, several emeralds on an
other. a great gold watch chain and
resplendent watch and charm, a huge
black pearl in his cravat and a dia.
mond stud in his shirt bosom.
In the office of Frederick Thomas.
superintendent of the central Office of
Scotland Yard, I saw big iron safe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-09


things. Until he appeared
there was nothing to worry about.
| for there was time for everything and
some to spare; not just minutes, hours
| or days, but cons. And now man has
| refined time to the point where a
| small fraction of a second can be
recorded and used
Poor Richard said: 'Dost thou love
| life? Then do not squander time, for
| that is the stuff life is made of"
Time, SO vital in every activity OF
| life. is something there is seldom
time to think about. and yet it has
occupied the hours and thoughts of
scientists and poets from the begin
ming.
Aristotle, In the fourth century be-
| fore Christ. defined time as a meas
ure of motion with reference to the
earlier and later" Latterly time has
been defined in two ways-absolute
(real or mathematicaD and subjective
or empirical. Newton held that time
Is conceived as flowing at constant
rate. unaffected by speed or slowness
of motion OF material things. The
modern view of time is that it is es-
sentially subjective, and even the
standards of time regarded as most
fixed and stable, such as astronomical
time, are held to he purely ideal con-
struction. All of which does not
make it any palmer why time and
tide wait for no man."
Since the world Is becoming more
and more standardized in every re-
spect, there Is a positive movement
abroad to make 10 months of IS days
each out of the present year. The
new month would be sandwiched in
hot Wonn nd TifIy nd hn
day of leap year become an interna.
tional holiday at the end of June.
This plan, now before the League
of Nations, would make all holidays
stationary and prevent Easter, in
particular, from wandering about all
over the calendar.
II month were quietly handed out
all around, what would be the re-
suit? 1t Is said that Lord Chester
field decided the 1st of January. 1851.
should be dated 1862, as before that
the new year had dated from Easter.
instead of January /. His decree
provoked such a riot that the worthy
gentleman was almost cut to shreds
to the cry of "Give us back our
three months!'
When the present century was ush-
cred in, 1t became the topic of in
ternational correspondence. Did it
begin January 1. 1900, or January 1,
1901?
Time units become more valuable
and important as life becomes more
complex. From sun dial, water clock,
sand and candle time we have
evolved to the present accurate time
clocks. For these clocks, credit be-
longs to Calico, who discovered that
pendulums were isochronous or equi-
time swinging. 1t Is interesting to
note that this occurred while he was
student in Pisa. Sitting one day
In church, he watched the chande-
liers swinging first through a greater
arc then through a smaller one.
Wondering IL the same length of time
was required by all the excursions,
he verified the fact by the only one
dimensional time measure at his
command-his pulse. That discovery
made present clocks and watches
possible, as until that time clocks
had what IA known as balance or
verge escapements.
Alfred gthe Great of England
worked hy candle-time. Desiring to
devote -two-thirds-of his time 30 the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-09
I.-Scot1and Yard

" VERY sChoolboy knows Scotland
- Yard from fiction. Which
means that the schoolhoy and
IL all other lovers of fiction about
that world far nous organization
of criminal hunters have missed the
better story. BY a stroke of good for
tune il has been my privilege as a
writer 10 sec from the inside the Scot
land Yard of fact; to talk intimately
with its chiefs: To study at close range
its crime hunting machine and watch
it work on actual cases; 10 look at
photograph albums Of famous crimes
"a glimpse that haunted my sleep
for nights: to spend hours in its
gloomy BLACK Museum ~: to delVe into
its private records and borrow some
of them for my work in writing these
articles. And the story of the real
Scotland Yard needs no Colorng t."
give it richer glamour than fiction
does
Let us put an actual case into the
Scotland Yard machine and study its
parts and workings by the way ii spun
a web of steel from the mereSt Cos
Samers of clues. 1t began with
bobby" hest known, hest loved DO
iceman in the world. the hluecoat of
London. He, too. is part Of Scot
land Yard, its uniformed man.
This particular bobby patrolIed
residential section of London. neither
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reasons to avoid meeting at this
time.
SO that the Scotland Yard shadow
ers got little out of their assiduOus
following of Kitty. This. however,
did not mean that she and her lover
were out of touch with each other.
Both were experienced in the art of
communication in spite of police
surveillance.
Not more fruitful We're similar
stealthy doggings Of several other
men and women. marked on Scotlan nd
Yard records as friends and associates
OF Jim Sully. Instead of feeling that
luck was against them, however.
Scotland Yard took these failures as
part of their average percentage of
success.
1t is only in fiction that the detec-
tive lands fish on his line at the first
or second cast. Shall we say. there
fore, that fCtional success is more
thrilling to contemplate than the sue
cess that comes with logged, relent-
less effort In the face of repeated
failure?
Finally Scotland Yard chiefs de
cided that if they could not catch up
with Jim Sully it might be worth try
ing to get Jim SullN to come to them.
Into the council room at the Yard one
morning there were summoned half a
dozen detectives. chosen for their
phlegmatic appearance.
X X
4 SORT of amateur theatrical per-
Torrance was then staged. Each
Of the six was given the same part To
play-that If a Dutchman. interested
in picking up bargains in jewels and
no questions asked lie was told that
he was in the company of gentry
among whom there were possibilities
of trade, and was asked to act ac-
cordngly
OF these six one was chosen as hest
in the role. From the council room
this operator went to the makeup
room of Scotland Yard. The days
when Diet rt;'-"s used false boards and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-09
NEXT WEEK.

Next weeks article I'm this
series on Master Man Hunt.
ers." by Joseph GollOmb, will
be making the Knife Talk"
This true detective story will
take the reader to Vienna,
whore the police institution Is
. thing unique, In that Il keeps
In touch with the university
laboratory heads. Ii win 10
complete In next Sundays star.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-09

mustaches have passed even in
cheapest detective fiction. But that
does not mean that DISCUSSES are not
employed in Scotland Yard Indeed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-09

and when its doors swung open 1
caught a glimpse of considerable sums
of gold and money.
When a detective goes out on a bit
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-09
MAUDE C. LUKENS.

&: :: :: -: i: &: s;
things. Until he appeared
The Washington times., 1927-12-01

Unfurnished House for Rent
SPLENDID residential section.
RedecOrated. rooms, bath,
electricity. Reduced rent, for
particulars, see the Rental col.
uinns Of Classified now.
The Washington times., 1927-12-01
TIMELY TIPS
auction Sale Today

auction Sale Today
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Sale By Public Auction on Thurs
day, Dec. 1st at 10 "A. M. House
hold goods OF every description.
Lot Of carpets and other mis-
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Real Estate for Sale
S5TH ST. N. W.-Near West
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see this ad now appearing in
the Classified Real Estate col
llmIls.
Unfurnished Apartments
THE ST. DENNIS, KENYON
ST. IN. W.--MOst reasonable rents
IN washington
2 rooms, bath. .......... $50
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rooms and bath, j. $50 80
Apartments, furnished and lIl.
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The abeVe l0anfs and effess
are only a fen Of the many
inseTesting preposifioRs you
DiN find advertfsed In eoday's
Times end Herald classified
6dUepeisiag section.
The Washington times., 1927-12-01
|. SEATS

Putting seats In train Is easy.
but have you ever tried to reverse
the process? It can be done with
the magic Laddergram by climbing
down a word at a time. changing
only one letter in each step. Re.
member not to transpose the re.
naming letters and avoid the use
Of words that are obsolete. hypi1e-
mated or Of Scottish dialect. Save
your answer and compare IL with
ours tomorrow. Here's the solution
for Fire-Plug: /, Fire; 3, FRS;
3. Fins; 4, Pins; 5, Plus; ., Plus;
I, Plug.
Copyright by Public Ledger)
The Washington times., 1927-12-01

The a6oUs lOants and effess
are only a fen Of ths many
Interesting preposifioRs yoa
DiN find advertfsed In eoday's
Times end Herald classified
6dUeseisias section.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-05-27
MANAGER FORM
WORKINGS TOLD
Diamond Chain Employees
Hear L. V. Sheridan.

Workings of the city manager
form of municipal government was
explained to workmen of the Dia-
mond Chain and Manufacturing
Company, 502 Kentucky Ave, today
at noon, by L. ". Sheridan, land
scape architect.
The Diamond Chain meeting will
be the last MONDAY factory gather
ing until after Memorial Day.
The educational meetings will be
revived Tuesday following the holi-
day, according to Blythe Q. Hen
bricks. speakers bureau director.
Central States Envelope Company.
l6 S. Sherman Dr., has scheduled a
meeting for Tuesday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-05-27
BANDITS LOOT
PUT AT S4,O67
Robbers Believed to Have
Fled in Small Car.

Bandits who robbed the Central
State Bank, Thirtieth st. and Cen
trail Ave-, Thursday morning got
away with $4,067, j. L. Bray, CASH
Ter, said today.
Police today had found no trace
of the two young men who calmly
scooped up all the currency in sight
in the bank while Assistant Cashier
Orville Dendo and a patron. w. r.
Horne, Washington Floral Shop pro-
prietor, were forced to lie on the
floor.
Detective Chief Claude NJ. Woriey
has his men retracing the crime
from the start.
The bandits are believed to have
left the bank in a. Ford. An aban.
doned Ford was found it Fortieth St.
and Central Ave.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-05-27
DOCTOR BACKS GILLIOM
IN WHISKY CONTENTION
0rvaII Smiley Takes Stand on Would You Break Law to
Save LifeY ISSUE

That thousands OF aged Indiana
residents are suffering the torments
Of the damned" because doctors in
the State are not permitted to pre-
scribe whisky is the contention Of
DR.. orvall Smiley, 242 Bankers
Trust Bldg, who wrote to Attorney
General Arthur L. Gilliom congratu-
lating him on his bold stand for in.
telligent modification Of the Wright
law. taken in a letter to Governor
Jackson.
Gilliom pointed out that whisky,
Illegally procured. was resorted to
in saving the life Of Mrs. Jackson
and the Gilliom children when they
were seriously i'll and urged the
Governor to recommend that the
next Legislature modify the law to
permit whisky for medicinal use.
IT prescribe whisky whenever I
think it necessary, law or no law"
DR.. Smiley declared. II believe in
law enforcement and I heartily dis
approve Of whisky as a beverage,
but In the matter Of health natural
rights must be beyond dictation."
The doctor cited many cases from
HIS own experience.
II had a case Of a woman, who
what is commonly known as a
bleeder," he recalled. For two
weeks she lowered between life and
death and had become as limp as a
rag. Nothing seemed to rally her.
Finally ! told her husband TO get
some whisky and gave him a note
TO doctor in Louisville, Ky.
THE man vowed that he would
bring back the liquor II 1t cost his
life. l also gave him a letter to
show any officers that might stop
and search his car. He was
frightened. but resolute. He took
two revolvers and, thus armed, made
the trip as fast as his car could
travel. The whisky did the business
and his wifes life was saved.
Can such a nonsensical piece OF
legislative poppycock' be called sane
let alone intelligent?
IT have ordered dozens of pa
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-05-27
.REP. VESTAL TO
ATTEND AFFAIR
CAUSING BREAK
Khan Participation in Gettys-
burg Exercises Brings
DiSSenSiOn.
Times WASHINGTON Bureau.


WASHINGTON, May 27.-Repre-
sentative Albert Vestal of Anderson,
Ind, who left Indiana Tuesday en-
route to speak at a Memorial day
function at Gettysburg, Pa, accord
ig to his Office here, is heading for
a very tense situation because of
Ku-Klux K1an participation in the
exercises.
According to a dispatch from
Gettysburg to the Baltimore Sun by
q staff correspondent, not one active
clergyman of the town will take part
in the exercises, withdrawing be-
cause of Khan participation.
The National Guard, the American
Legion post and Catholic school chill
dren have refused to join the pa
rade, the dispatch says, in which
1000 members of the Khan intend
to march. In previous years the
towns own clergy have been called
] upon to take leading parts in the
exercises.
Ills veal IWO lSlllCu pdSlOlS anu
a minister from a nearby town will
have charge of the rostrum. The
Rev. L. B. Hafer, one of the retired
ministers and chairman Of the Sons
of Veterans committee which ar
ranged the program, extended the
invitation to the Khan.
The Legion will have it's own pa
rade, and exercises in. the morning,
although II. T. Jennings, it's COM
mander, says the Khan participation
was not the cause of it's withdrawal
from the community function. The
National Guard will not march as
a unit, but members will be per-
mitted to march with other organi-
cations. Thus any Catholic need not
march with the Klan unless he de-
sires.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-05-27
POLICE STOP zoo
Church RIOTERS
Blessed Was the Squad in
Washington, D. C..

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, May 27.-Blessed
was the police riot squad here today.
1t was peacemaker when two hun
'dred men and women parishioner;;
fought it out with fists and elbows
in the street after motion to Dust
the Rev. Alfred 3. Barrows of the
Eastern Presbyterian Church was
voted down.
Alfred d. Calvert was the only
casualty. He suffered bruises of the
flesh because he was said to have
wounded the spirit of the church by
attempting to dislodge the pastor.
On his complaint, two fellow par
lshioners were arrested. John M.
Chisholm was accused of striking
him in the face and breaking his
glasses. William Samuel Pool was
charged with disorderly conduct.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-05-27
Wheat Belt Fire
Costs Life of Man

BIZ United Press
HANFoRD, Cal. May 27.-Fire
driven by high winds through a rich
wheat belt in this section, destroyed
81 100000 worth OF standing grain
and taking at least one life, was re-
ported partly under control today.
OF an unknown origin, the blaze
swept an area thirty-seven miles
long and ten miles wide late last
night, destroying a dozen homes and
whatever farm equipment and
machinery lay in it's path.
Martin Solario. 80, Boston Land
Company employee. died in the fire.
Fifteen hundred men were called
out to aid the fire departments from
Hanford, Coalinga and Lemoore.