Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-18
BY MORRIS WATSON.
Associated Press Stan Writer.

CHICAGO, May 18-Indignant at the
growth of crime on its body polite, its
reputation smirched by the smoking
guns of gangsters. the city of Chicago
will cradle its own potential deliverer-
the superdetective.
This crea ture, heretofore only a myth
of fiction, will be made into flesh and
blood to replace the policeman whose
chief qualification often Is but stout
heart.
Two of Americas leading universities.
both in Chicago, have hung up hand
writing on the wall for the heretofore
undecided murderer, thief. firebrand,
kidnaper. racketeer and other trans
gressors on the peace and comfort of
society. Police work will henceforth be
a part of the curriculum at Northwest
ern and Chicago Universities-and
racket-ridden Chicago will be their re-
search laboratory.
Starting with chair of police ad-
ministration, the University OF Chicago
plans in the near future to loose the
forces of modern knowledge on crime
through detectives. who will be doc
tors" instead of bulls" who will re-
plane guesswork with exact information.
Course Starts in September.
Plans for the Northwestern course
have not been completed. August Voll-
mer, chief of police at Berkeley. Calf,
will head the new department at Chi
cago and will inaugurate the course at
the beginning of the Fall semester next
October
Leonard White, professor of admins
tration and chairman Of the local COM
munity research committee at the uni
verSity, who worked on the plans with
chief Vollmer, said that while the course
will be confined at the outset to the
problems OF police administration it will
become eventually major study in
which the student may work for a de-
gree.
Every avenue of learning that can aid
In the tracking down of a criminal will
be thrown open to the embryo detec-
tives, White said. The course eventually
will be designed to permit special study
OF one or two years as well as the full
four-year college course for those who
wish it.
An interdepartmental committee will
cooperate with Prof. Vollmer to see
that his students are we'll grounded in
all the sciences necessary to intelligent
investigation.
The student undertaking the full
course will study the chemistry of
poisons, criminology. sociology, psychol-
ogy, physics and anthropology and learn
to apply the studies to the investiga-
tlOn Oh crime.
Plan Thorough Training.
As an indication of how other de-
partments will cooperate with the de-
partment of police administration,
White explained, the medical school
win teach the police students how to
detect the presence of poisonS, while
the department of anthropology will
show them how to determine the race
Of an unknown pe.son from a strand
of hair or spot Of blood
In addition to intoxicating knowledge
into the young Sherlock Holmes, the
new department plans to publish a
series of manuals on standard police
practices, ballistics or the science of
bullet Identification, preparation of
criminal cases for prosecution and on
the use of hair, dust and blood stains
as crime clues. These manuals will be
made available to police departments
everywhere. The depa -tment also will
cooperate with the Chicago crime
commission for central bureau of
criminal statistics.
Chief Vollmer, a non college man,
who will be raised to the title of pro-
lessor in his new work. has appointed