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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-10

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 9.-If policemen
were stationed along the airway cross
roads OF the world this year they
would have busy time directing traf-
fic as the birdmeG ot four continents
zoom along the atmospheric highways
to bring new glory to their home
lands.
Even if only majority of the pro-
posed flights are actually made" an
official Of the AeronauticaI Chamber
Of Commerce of America told the AS
sociated Press today, there will be
more countries represented in long
flights this year than ever before
Besides the flights already an
nounced, there also are a number Of
other noteworthy fights planned for
the year, the details Of which cannot
vet he made public. Among these
flights will he attempts to break exist.
ing distance. duration altitude and
speed records
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-10
French Flyers Plans.

Pelletier d'Oisy. French flyer. nro.
poses a 12,000-mile fight 10 Tndo.
China, with only one stop. IN india
each leg of his journey being far long
err than the Paris New York fight
The Royal Austrian air force n,,o
poses fight TO Samoa in A seaniana
via New Guinea. Solomon Islands
New Hebrides, New Caledonia and
Fiji anu
One flight is proposed with bateht
as It's purpose. Jean Callizo who
holds the French altitude record in,
tends TO attempt TO fly over Mount
Everest. $4,000 feet above the India ~
plain. Photographs will be taken ~
the hope that they may he of aseist'
ance to expeditions on foot attennt
ing 10 scale the unreached height
Notable among the flights aIread,,
completed this year or now 1ndey.
way are the following: The America y
Good VIII flight TO South America
the De Pinedo four continent f1iqht
round trip from France to MAZDA 81 e
car completed in February bv Tieut
Marc Bernard Of France, round the
world flight begun by Sarmento Beires
or Portugal, and the fight of the
ofsuyan, Larre- Borges.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-10
Flights to Hawaii.

Three attempts are proposed to 1y
to Hawaii. c. X. Vance. air mail
pilot, has announced his intention of
making a noon-to-noon flight from
San francisco to Honolulu: former
members of the Royal Air Force from
Canada and Australia have planned
to try for same point from Vancouver
and Lee Scheonhair, former ARMY
hyer, will make an attempt. backed bv
the San Diego Chamber of Commerce
Both British and Spanish air on.
GERS have been reported preparing for
an attempt at the nonstop record by
flying over India. The present record
OF 1916 miles is held by two French.
men who last year flew from Paris fo
Jask, Persian port on the Arabian
Sea
French flyers plan to circle the
Atlantic by air, taking in Dakar.
Buenos Aires, Panama and New YORK
distance Of 10000 kilometers.
A round trip from Buenos Aires ~
New York and return is planned nv
Jorge Cariotte Of France, and Hector
Feirano, Argentine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-13
borat0ry Scientists Again Study Crime Without Single Clue

! ing place somewhere, and every one of
| the 90 willingly accepted service.
y X * i
/ TIFF. next few days an increasing
! body Of rumors. gossip. suspicious
and a number of we'll supported accu-
sations poured into the office of the
| chief of police from the deputy detec-
| tives. In this way several physicians
! were caught for malpractice and q
| larger number of charlatans and dan
| gerous quacks was brought in. But
| they We're all by-products of the hunt;
| none Of them the real quarry.
Then one day a keen young surgeon
on the staff of one of the big hospitals
came to see the chief of police. He
was one of those the chief had asked
for help.
Il must say in advance that / have
very little that is tangible to offer
YOU he said alphabetically. Moth
ing but vague suspicion"
Let me hear" requested the chief.
I'VE had on our staff up to two
months ago a woman physician, DIR.
Anna Weiss, diagnostician," the sur
geOn said 1T came to our notice that
in her diagnosis of the patients as
signed to her she laid too much stress
on surgery as the inevitable remedy.
Then we learned that she made it
an almost invariable practice to rec
ommend a certain surgeon, DIR.
Schmitz, not on the staff of the hos
pital, She told patients in each case
that he was highly specialized in the
particular operation she urged. Her
denomination for place on the hos.
pital staff did not go through.
'One reason was the following: We
found, i'll tracing the records of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-13
France Wonders If Its Grown Jewels
In Museum Are Effectively Guarded

Gallery and, afterward, found and
given back at Florence. Paris experts
now ask what was given back?
Was the real, genuine, bona fide
portrait stolen from the Louvre re.
turned to France. Does it now
hang on the Louvre walls? Or is
what hangs there only mastery
copy-several such having been made
cotemporaneously by Leonardo s
best pupils, one lit has been claimed)
by Leonardo himself So is not per-
haps the genuine Louvre original,
bought for France at first-hand by
King Francis /, now lying packed up
for transportation to some American
collection, as soon as it becomes safe
to risk it?
Another jeWeled treasure at Chan
tilly Museum has Jared entirely worse
and it's historic romance doubtless
ruined forever by the grasping ig-
norance of the thieves.
It is the famous dagger of Add ell
Kader, romantic character who led
the Arabs of Algiers against the
French from 1882 to 1S47. In 1843.
the Duke d'Aumale, son of King
Louis-Philippe and heir OF the last
Prince of Condo, captured the Arab
chieftain's tent--and found in it this
more than royal weapon. Thus, 1t
came to Chantilly Museum.
The dagger handle was studded
with almost unique rubies and dia-
monds. Stolen from Chantilly. they
are scattered forever, but may be
judged from one magnificent 14-carat
diamond, which was recovered.
SO. the burning question naturally
arises in present French discussion
are the crown jewels of France them
selves safe in the Louvre Museum?
Only the very greatest of the old
crown jewels thus remain. Are they
more safe in the Louvre than was the
Mona Lisa?
Once, they were safe in a shabby
valise, in the streets of Paris. And,
once, they were safe in an obscure
country bank
1t was in 1914, when Paris was in
danger of capture. The crown jewels
must not remain. and the director of
the national museums was forced to
act hurriedly. Dumping the crown
jewels into a shabby valise, he rushed
down to the street to find a vehicle.
Valisc in hand. he walked and
walked. He could find no vehicle. All
the taxicabs and auto-busses were
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-13

years of practice his work more than
carried out that promise.
Then talk began to spread of ex-
orbitant fees which DR.. Schmitz de.
manded for operations. 1t looked as
though the man were determined to
get rich quickly. So much did he
ask that in spite of his excellence
as a surgeon his practice fell off.
AT that time his work still bore
up well. 1t was then. too. that the
woman member of our hospital staff
DR.. Weiss. was seen very frequently
In his society. She was married To
an unsuccessful business man, but
the two did not get along well and
seemed to agree to disagree without
going to the bother of a divorce
AT any rate the accepted under.
standing among their. friends was
that she was much More interested
in DR.. SchmitZ! This was largely
borne out by the zeal with which she
sent patients to him.
For some time after DIR. Weiss
left our hospital-this brings my
story up to several weeks ago-she
and DIR. Schmitz appeared to be on
as friendly a basis as before. Then
he was seen to pay attention to an
other woman. nurse who helped him
in operations. Soon after that there
took place a violent quarrel in one
of our cafes between DIR. Weiss and
DIR. Schmitz
DIR. Schmitz Is known for his cold
blooded but unforgiving temperament
He Unanswered the quarrel in such a
way that she was left at the table
alone, and raving. After that DR..
Weiss was not seen anywhere. That
was 10 days ago. Her Office is closed.
And DR.. Schmitz seems to have
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-13

drawing Of a snake coiled. The whole
design. drawn the size it showed on
the finger, was so small that the
width Of the marriage ring would
cover most of it.
Undoubtedly meant to indicate
snake, this tattoo" the scientist said.
IF SO. who tattooed that finger
who had It done, l mean? What
would such symbol done in tattoo
suggest 70 you, professor he asked
the alienist.
1T might be the expression of q
morbid love for reptiles on the part
Of the woman" the alienlst said.
but if that were the case, she would
have had it tattooed large enough TO
show"
Instead, it would appear that the
woman actually wanted to hide il,
the examining scientist concluded.
For she wears her marriage ring on
the third instead of the second finger,
as is usually the case
IF she wanted to hide it," added
the aiienist. Il should guess that
the tattooing was not of her own
choice. It might have been done to
her in spite of her, just as one
brands cattle
but why SO small a tattoo" asked
the police chief.
perhaps it was meant only as a
reminder of some sort TO the woman"
the alienist replied. YOU'RE II
snake" some one may have wanted
to remind her: some one who had the
power TO tattoo that finger"
Next TO the marriage ring finger.
suggested the examining scientist.
Let us play with the supposition
Let's see what emotion might have
expressed itself by this compulsory
tattooing-if it was compulsory
You're q snake" it said to the woman.
Treacherous. And this is put here
to remind You of it. TO warn YOU
Aren't we beginning to spin fan
! cies?" asked the chief Of police.
Perhaps" replied the alienist.
| But with morbid or psychopathic
| gentry---as / suspect the author of
| this atrocity to be-fancies move to
action. Tancies TO these people are
| what logic is TO reasonable folk. In
| fact, more.
! II may reason to myself that l
| ought to go TO the dentist without
delay. But | will probably delay.
| Whereas. with morbid mind, fan
| cies, no matter how finely spun, have
| tremendously compulsive power.
| With the gentlemen we are studying
we can be practically certain it Is
| a man who has done the amputating
the thought that "a woman was
| treacherous as a snake would become
| an obsession.
! And it would be one that would
/ not let him rest until he expressed
! it in some way. He would want that
thought branded into the woman's
| consciousness. The very word brand
would probably come into his mind
and he would begin thinking how he
could bring that about.
| perhaps he was not yet desperate
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-13

Solomon, who had it from the Queen
of Sheba.
The great ruby came to Europe with
the Arabs at Granada. Peter the
Cruel of Spain murdered one of their
princes to snatch it from his bosom.
Dumas wrote an entire novel about it.
lie Batard de Mauleon." King
Francis I made it the foundation of
the French crown jewels in 1880.
These priceless stones are now again
in the museum of the Louvre-in u
sensational trick case of steel and eX-
ira thick plate glass, supposed to be
absolutely burglar proof.
1t is the queerest museum case in
the world.
All it's interior descends through
the floor, after museum hours, into
cement chamber hidden in the old
masonry of the palace. So, during
the hours when burglars can work,
there are no crown Jewels in any room
or hall at all.
1t is the beautiful Gallery of Apollo.
You can tell the case by the railing
around it. AT s am, ii you get there
with special permission, you can
see that the case Is empty. At that
Aiohi u AOCh OpcIiS SOUIcWIItIb
away below. The chief guard works
with beautiful big keys. In a hole,
which becomes visible, he inserts a
heavy crank and does laborious winch
work.
Inch by inch from below, inside the
case. there rises it's velvet-lined in.
terror. How the stones flash between
two queer old crowns-on the left.
the crown of Napoleon, copied from
Charlemagne's at AK; on the right.
the crown of Louis XIV, bereft of its
great jewels. Many of the most per.
feet of them went to Napoleon's sword
hilt. mass of simply perfect diamonds.
valued so years ago at above S., 900 900
and today up to as much as $50
900, 900.
Between the crowns Is the last
glory of the old French Kings-the
commemorative symbol of the peace
of Teschen in 1879. chef d'oeuvre ~
German workmanship, given 10
France as mediator. Blessed, are the
peacemakers.
And beneath the crowns are the
crown jewels.
Will any burglar possibly. imagin-
ably get them?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-13

fossor IN the department of crini
uology IN q nearby university.
Bring up the two packages, the
scientist ordered over the telephone.
And make speed"
In a high powered automobile, rae
ING at emergency speed. the chief Of
police drove up with the two exhibits
IN their original wrappings. The sci
enlist was ready for him in his labora,
tory. Powerful microscopes were
there. chemical reagents: a spectre
scope. and other instruments. Also
waiting for the exhibits was a pro
fessor of morbid psychology of the
same university.
Don't waste time. professor. eX-
amiaing the ring for clues" said the
police chief. undoinc the two small
packages. F'We've been over it in our
own laboratories. Not the slightest
shred of clue. But we've got to
make speed just the same
With a pair of delicately fashioned
pincers the scientist picked up the
two fingers and examined them.
Yes" He shook his head It's
only too clear that the poor woman
was alive four days after the first
finger had been amputated. The CON
dition of the second finger shows that
And she was alive only yesterday.
She may be alive still From the
character of the finger, I should say
she Is woman of refinement
I'VE gathered that much" the DO
lice chief said. 1--WE must work fast,
professor"
The professor was already on the
trail.
The amputation was so cleanly
done that only skilled hand at.such
things could have done it," he an
nounced. "A surgeon, a physician,
an assistant or demonstration in
dissecting room
The police chief had seated himself
by the telephone and at the professors
first words took up the instrument. A
clear wire to police headquarters had
already been arranged. At the other
end of the wire waited his assistant.
Character of amputation indicates a
surgeon. doctor, an assistant or
demonstration in a dissecting ROOM"
the chief repeated. Work on that
till further news"
We'll set squad two on it," The
assistant turned to issue orders.
In the laboratory the scientist was
saying:
And you realize. of course. that
the person guilty of this atrocity did
not pick his wrappers. containers.
string and mode of addressing them
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-13
Master Man-HunterS

it up and placed it on microscope
slide. Then he dropped Il single
globule Of liquid on it. With n bit of
absorbent cotton on his pincers he
swabbed the inside of the ring with
some more of the liquid of the re-
sulting smear on the cotton-which
had also turned color at the contact
with the inside of the ring-he made
a solution.
He subjected the two containers
Of what was on the inside Of the
ring to several tests. He himself
looked at them through the micro.
scope. \ colleague from the chem
istry department, an expert on quail
tativc analysis, subjected them to cx-
animation by means Of the spectre
, scope.
He did the latter test in the same
way that astronomers analyZe the
chemical composition of planets bill
lions Of miles away from the earth.
II Is known that different substances
in ii state Of ignition give off different
kinds OF light.
IT, then. the light is allowed TO pass
through prism and the resultant
arrangement of colors thrown on a
screen or paper. a certain character
istic distribution OF the spectrum or
rainbow appears.
Magnesium, for instance. when
burned, shows the red stripe of the
spectrum So and so wide, blue so
and 50 much narrower, etc. If, now
the light from some distant planet
passed through the telescope and
prism shows the same distribution of
colors in the resulting spectrum, the
scientist knows that there is magnes.
ium in that planet
He even can tell it's approximate
proportion in the chemical compost
ton of that planet. 1t was in this
way that the bit of string and the
swab of absorbent cotton were an.
alyZed. Finally, the chemist an
nounced:
There was indigotin disulphonic
acid on the inside of that ring. Also
ii was liquid only three or four days
ago-perhaps as late as yesterday 1t
is that which discolored the string"
And what is that acid used for
most frequently" asked the police
chief.
We'll, it can be used to remove
tattooing," the chemist said.
Ooh" cried the scientist in charge
of the analysis. "Then let us take
another and closer look at the finger
that wore the ring
TIC duJuStSu the microscope 1Or ek-
animation of opaque objects, and put
the finger on the stand. AS he did
this he was saying: This means
that our cold-blooded gentleman or
lady also may be well acquainted with
the use Of chemicals. OF course, he
did not foresee that a string would
be tied about the ring and would thus
betray the presence of the acid"
Even as he spoke the professor be-
gan to put down on paper a series of
fine dots.
You see something, professor"
asked the police chief.
Il think SO. The skin is slightly
corroded at one place where the ring
must have covered it. 1 detect the
following design"
The paper on which he put down
the dots now showed what might
be interpreted as a conventionalized
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hurrying soldiers to the Marine, So
at last, he stopped at modest fiat
and there, discouraged with respon.
sibility, he handed the valise to the
sub-secretary of state for the Beaux.
Arts-and took receipt.
For three days the valise stayed in
the modest fiat, until the Beaux Arts
man could get a train for X. The
railroads were packed with troops.
AT x the Beaux Arts man took
receipt from an obscure country
bank. Its doubtfully burglar-proof
vault sheltered the crown Jewels per.
fectly all through the war-because
nobody knew that they were there
The most precious jewels in the
world, by their intrinsic value and
associations.
The Regent diamond
The worlds greatest stones do not
depend alone on size and quality for
value, but also on their history and
adventures-the illustrious personages
VINO wore them. loved them. lost them
and committed crimes to win them.
The Regent, nevertheless. ranks the
finest and most perfect in Europe, just
by itself. 1t weighs 1877 carats, cut
down from 40 carats. In mere size
its only superior apart from two quite
new South African stones) was the
Orion, 1874 carats, which belonged to
the Russian crown. Where is it now?
Third ranked the F1orentine, 1873 car
ats, owned by the Austrian crown.
Where is it? The koh-inoor of the
British crown weighs only JOG carats
But remember it's history!
The Regent is often called the Pitt
diamond, because it came to Europe
in the pocket of Pitt, the English
statesman. While governor of Madras.
in 1902, he bought it at Golconda from
one Jamelchund, Hindoo merchant,
for 100000 las Pitt claimed). when
money had ten times it's present pur-
chasing power.
Both the Regent and the koh-i-noor
were almost certainly portions of the
fabulous Great Diamond of the Grand
Mogul, in 1926, which came from Col
conda 5000 years ago, and was worn
by karna, hero of the old Hindoo epic.
The great ruby glows red hot. 1t
is the greatest ruby in the world. 1t
remains uncut. AS Il raw stone, it
would be worth up TO 100000 with
out history. But it was worn by King
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1t the night was as dense as the Sky.
winch showed not even a star, So
| that any one. even on the lookout for
visitors. would have missed the half
q dozen or so figures gliding through
the dark toward the cottage.
| Now they were at the windows and
the door of the chalet.
| A strange cry rose on the night
air, the wall of a woman just outside
the chalet. II was such a cry as one
| would raise In a last extremity az
pain. 1t died out as suddenly as II
arose.
| A shadow sprang across the dirnlv
lighted window. Another.
| The front door creaked. Then II
| opened. giant of man clad in
long white smock appeared. In back
OF him woman. also in white, peered
over his shoulder.
| Suddenly stern voices cried a'rhrnv-
up your hands, doctor"
| The giant leaped back and pf1Ied
the door with him. But some one had
thrown q log of wood, and the door
catching on IL, would not close. At
the same moment several men hurled
themselves on the giant. A wolnan'S
scream rang out as a terrific struggle
ensued.
1t came to an end suddenly when
the butt of a revolver crashed down
on the skull or the giant and stilIed
him.
The screaming woman was caught
as she tried to escape down the val
ley. She was the nurse, F'raulein
Gertha.
In an inner room on an operating
carriage was the bound and half con
sclouS form of a woman whose hands
We're swathed in thick bandages. The
reek of ether filled the room.
She was revived. but it was before
her mind at all approached sanity. II
was not till she was shown DR.
SchmitZ and Fraulein Gertha hand
cuffed and surrounded by detectives
that she began TO falter out a coherent
story.
she confessed to having conspire.l
with DIR. Schmitz to have patients
undergo operations when they were
not necessary. They co-operated in
the grisly business, she as a dag
nostician, he as an INSCRIPTIONS sur
geon, until he became interested in
Fraulein Gertha. Then violent
quarrel resulted in which he publicly
Inundated her in a cafe.
Later she called him up on the
telephone and said:
Il III nand you over 10 the police
He was silent for a time: then he
pretended to be sorry and suggested
that they make up and go up to his
cottage in Semmerling for a week end.
When she gladly consented, he took
her UP there and she suspected moth.
ing until suddenly he clapped a cone
OF ether over her nostrils. When she
recovered consciousness she found
herself bound, bandased and deathly
sick, as after an operation. Fraulein
Gertha and the doctor were both
there. 1t was then that she learned
what had happened.
You'll hand me over to the police,
will you?" he grinned. well. the
little warning / gave you when I tat
tooed that snake on your finger
doesn't seem to have affected you.
All right, we'll send your hand To
your friends, the police--piecemeal.'
The blow DIR. Schmitz received from
the revolver butt developed into a
skull fracture that finished him.
Fraulein Gertha received a long prison
term. DIR. Weiss, crippled, was sui
ficiently punished by her experience.
And the police of Vienna leaned
more heavily than ever thereafter on
their expert allies in the university
laboratories.
THE END.
downright. 1927