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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-30
Moscow Has No Breadlines, But All
Goods and Services Given I'm Lines

MOSCOW, June 20.--Breadlines are
taboo IN Sovietdon, which boasts of
being the only country in the world to-
day where there Is no unemployment,
but the line" on Moscow is that 1t
probably has more other kinds of lines
than any other city on the face Of the
globe.
The lines 70 which these lines shall
be dcvotsd are those that human beings
form when crowds are after the
same thing requiring individual atten-
ton or service.
In this line our Muscoyite wins. With
q smile on his face he bravely ventures
forth, day in and day out. into the
labyrinth Of the city's lines. where he
must patiently wait for the multiple
things he requires for himself.
Lineup Starts Day.
His day begins with the kitchen line
If he lives In a place with a commu-
nal kitchen he must wait In line to
brew his tea on the communal stove
Then he sets out for his place Of work
and line No. waiting for trolley car
Here he has time TO read his morning
paper He gets Tine" on the latest
party line. At the factory or ONCE ne
Joins the line Of his fellow workers as
they file into their place Of employ
the factory or office cafeteria. II il
happens 10 be his pay day he jumps
into another human queue to collect
his rubles.
Comes the moment when ne finishes
his Seyen-hour day Of work He or
she, as the case may be, decides TO do
some shopping And now the fun be-
gins Lines and more lines are the
order Of the day Longest are the lines
10 HasH- -
cies of clothing are sold, against orders
issued BY factories, ofices or special
organizations. Here they sometimes
extend for over a block outside the
Etore
Citizen Ivan Ivanovitch has no
choice He mvst get into the line If
he wants his suit or pair OF shoes He
does not mind waiting in line for an
hour He considers himself fortunate
20 be able 10 buy what he needs at a
price far below that charged in the
open market Once ne has handed the
clerk his order there is another line
up At the cashiers booth
Spring I'D Rapidly.
Such lines are to be found every
where in Moscow They spring up like
wildfiTe as soon as IL becomes known
that store has received a supply Of
goods which have been lacking for sew
cral days They also find their ex-
PLANTATION IN the fact that stores are
much more centrally located here than
In other cities. in the tremendous In
crease In the city's population, and in
the concentration Of goods in large
government and cooperative stores as
against numerous small privately owned
enterprises.
Lines at food stores are generally
much shorter They are longest in the
early morning hours and at the close of
the working day. also when 1t becomes
known that certain new supplies have
been received Lines at food stores,
however are expected to become shorter
with the passing Of the Winter and q
resultant improvement In transporta-
ton.
Stores All Crowded.
Crowded conditions obtain in yirtu-
ally al Moscow stores. They are part
end parcel Of the yer-growinR rise in
tae city's population Thus. lines Of
waiting people can be found every
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would consent to in order TO conciliate
Germany.
She would first of all very likely agree
to bid reductions of the irritating debt
eparations-which means that France
would agree to bear the greater part Of
the expenses of repairing her devastated
regions.
She would not object to the restitu-
ton to Germany OF her former African
colonies-namely, Togoland and KAN
erun.
She would help, in every way possible
and in a spirit of Cancellation, to solve
the problem of the Polish Corridor so as
to give a measure of satisfaction to both
the Poles and the Germans.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-30
Slaughter of All Felines
Ordered in Italian Town

ROME. Housewives hurried to hide
their favorite pussycats where the po-
lice couldn't find them recently when
an edict went out for the wholesale
slaughter of all felines in the town of
Salo, near Brescia. The local podesta
ordered the modern slaughter of the
innocents" after a 3-year-old child had
been bitten by cat infected with hy-
drophobia.
Inasmuch as the cat had circulated
freely in the town, and. as cats VIII,
had been friendly with other cats, medi-
cal authorities decided that they faced
the possibility of a possible epidemic.
How many of the 1000 cats which are
estimated to inhabit the town viii es-
cape the slaughter is a matter of con-
lecture. For the wives OF Salo. lika
all other Italian women, like cats.
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He dropped his bag at shack called
the Hotel and went to buy some pro-
tective celebration in the shape of 10
gallon hat and bandanna. AS he was
tying the latter around his neck, a
stranger stepped UP, introduced himself
as the Secretary Of the Chamber of
Commerce, eyed the lo-gallon hat, then
remarked in a kindly voice:
ITS fine hat, all right. But don't
buy any high-heeled boots. The cows
are passing. The farmers are coming in
Keep up with the parade Buy farmE'
Finds Lost Empire Stakes.
Price hired team and buggy, bought
county map and struck out. Whether
1t was Lady Luck or extra sharp eyes or
something else again, nobody can say:
but the impossible happened. On his
very first day out he came upon an
iron pipe bearing the section numbers
Of the Lost EnpireI In the midst Of the
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where. Every theater ticket window has
its queue. They can even be seen out
side Of restaurants at meal hours
Every street car and bus stop has its
lineup, and at railroad terminals pas
sengers are sometimes required to come
hours ahead Of train time for their
tickets.
Your Muscovite has become as ac-
customed to standing in line as New
Workers have to street corner unem-
ployed apple vendors. Queues to him
are welcome opportunities for meeting
friends and discussing topics OF the
day It is hard to say whether their
sbolition-snd abolition is bound to
come some day with the country's eco
nomic and industrial Development
viii be welcomed all around. Your Rus
sian, after all. is sociable being, and
lines TO him provide an excellent op-
portunity TO exercise his sociahility.
fCopyriEht, 1881
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-30
BY EDWARD PRICE BELL.

7 NESTIMABLY advantageous have
been the international results of
the understanding reached by Brit
a ish Prime Minister Ramsay Mac
Donald and President Hoover on
the Rapidan and in Washington in the
Fall of 1929. That understanding not
only established the principle of naval
parity between Great Britain and
America, thus easing the whole prob
prepared. these great nations to act In
harmony in the political, economic and
financial strains which have afflicted
the world of late.
And very great have been those
strains-much greater than many per-
sons have realized The recent Ger
man crisis alone touched the verge of
catastrophe. 1t was a matter of some
48 hours. President Hoover understood
He knew that a German crash meant q
general crash. He knew that European
money could not be voided of its value
without financial panic in the United
States.
Broad humanitarian motives were not
absent from his feelings. That is true
But the actual thing which moved him,
and moved him with such resolution
and rapidity, was his knowledge that
disaster overhung this country.
Crisis Thought Worst.
Those there are who assert that the
nations have passed through even worse
crises than the one just surmounted.
German statesmen do not think so.
Italian, French and British statesmen
do not think so. And President Hoover
certainly does not think so. 1t was not
case as often in the past of loss of
confidence in individuals or corpora
tons or banks or municipalities or even
small countries.
It was loss of confidence in the big
gest governments in the world.
VIII deal with few major matters
which one encounters in sounding au-
thoritative political thought in WASH
ington
It is noted here that Gen. Charles
@. Dawes, American Ambassador at
London, just has been saying in Scot
land that people make mistakes when
they are prosperous and learn some
thing when they are hard up. Oh1cial
washington hopes that a lot of bank
ers who made mistakes when everybody
was getting rich in hurry (and with
out much work. viii learn something
indeed, that they already have learned
something the current universal
depression.
For, what did those bankers do?
Foured out money all over the planet.
And then what did they do?
Called upon governments to pull
them out of their hole
Ofhcial Washington does not like
that. Ofnciai Washington would like a
banking policy which enables banks and
bankers to take care of themselves.
u. S. Tariff IntimatiOn.
Another thing which stirs no ardor Of
approval IN authoritative quarters here
is the intimation that the American
tariff is the worst Of all tariffs
It does not happen TO be such. 1t is.
In fact, about the mildest creation If
the kind IN the entire sphere of pro-
tection1sm All the continental Euro
pean tariffs are declared to be higher
than ours. America has 50 per cent
tariff, the rest Of her imports being on
the free list. Continental Europe has
commonly q 81 per cent tartn and
only - per cent free list.
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Striking Conductors
Give Free Tram Rides

SHANGHAI --ChineSe street-car on
Gals are trying to collect $4,000 from
their employees following a one-day
strike Conductors and motor1nen had
demanded an increase in pay and other
concessions, but when these were re-
fused they took out thir street cars
and continued their operation There
was a difference Conductors refused
to accept fares from anybody. and as
word few around that free rides we're
being given. hundreds of Chinese flocked
into the streets and, boarding the cars.
rode them up and down for a 12-hour
stretch.
At the end of the day the cars headed
for the barns and officials were ready
to negotiate. But they want the $4,000
for the uncollected fares.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-30
BY WALTER B. PITKIN.

N the Spring Of 1910 young news
paper reporter lately graduated
from Columbia University chucked
i his Job down in Park Row and left
New York City TO seek lost en-
pire. The empire had been lost for
three generations. Time enough in
which to become a great traditionl 1t
had been an original land grant to the
family, made directly by the infant
State Of Texas
The reporters father had hunted for
il, years earlier, but in vain All he
knew was that II lay somewhere out IN
the Land of Great rages-somewhere
on that vast windsWept fairness which
embraces thousands Of square miles IN
Northwest Texas along the New Mexico
line. In those earlier days, 1t was
land OF many treacheries-no trees, no
fences, no houses, no ages-nothing
but a world Of straight horizons melt
ing into the blue-a crazy fossil sea OF
soil over which a man might ride as
far as from Wall Street to Niagara Falls
without the slightest change OF scene
save for an occasional gopher hole and
lone wild horse
Did / say change Of scene? Wrong
The scene was ever changing. after
fashion. A huge lake would appear
on the right Of the explorer. A whole
range OF the Rockies would leap up
into the sky ahead of him, twisting its
western face TO the east The earth
would drop of into abysses a little way
beyond. Thus all day long-mirage
after mirage, mockery of nature. The
father had covered more than 800 miles
in search Of the lost empire; then he
had gone back East discounted. Again
it was forgotten.
Pioneers Inyado Panhandle
Years went, and then years. Things
we're changing down that way. rail-
road struck through Out OF the North
fiocked land hunters Frontier farmers
started to push back the cattlenlen,
slowly and timidly at first. Men said
something could be done with that rich
earth Of the Panhandle. But what?
Well, try it out and see!
The young reporter reading al inns
IN his newspapers, suddenly got the
ancestral Itch. The Lest Empire, said
tradition, embraced thousands CT acres
lit was as big as all Manhattan Island.
Its soil was as rich and as deep as MIS-
sissippi bottoms, stoneiess and clean.
Ana underneath IL ran mighty river
many miles wide. down from the SHOWS
OF Colorado's mountains; its slow, dark
waters were within easy reach OF the
well-digger's tools
How could the empire be distin-
guished from all the other indistinguish-
able horizontal stretches Of earth?
Solely by few tiny pieces OF pipe
driven deep into the dirt at the corner
OF every square fnIle-the surveyors
marking posts driven close TO century
ago, when the counties Of Texas we're
first laid out
Reporter Sets Forth in Quest.
Well, there was a sporting proposition
Mt to heat the brain OF any Park Row
cuol And made the spoTtier by md
ers keepers"I III only ne could chance
upon these little pipes he would come
into his empires
The train pulled into a tiny station
called Tulis, and frcm IL emerged our
hero, Hickman Price, late OF Park Row
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Cuban in Elite Hotel Pool
Causes Riot in Budapest

VIENNA. Budapest has been rock
ing recently at the great bath scandal.
A Cuban doctor, by name Ramon Cos
tello. colored, went to the fashionable
Hotel st. Gellert~-and took a bath
there. Now q bath in the St Gellert
is quite an affair The hotel is one of
the finest In Central Europe, its swim
ming pool has genuine ARTIFICIAL waves
It is the chief gathering place for Hun
garian society on warm Summer after
moons. The aristocratic crowd saw
the dark figure Of the Cuban disporting
among the artificial wayes--and there
was q riotl The hotel manager elected
DIR. Costello. He Indignantly went TO
his lawyer and sued the hotel The
hotel lost the suit. DIR. Costello imme-
diately returned. very conspicuously, and
resumed his swimming. So much pub
licity attended the affair that the Cubsn
was challenged 10 a prize fight by an
angry Hungarian anxious to let his
race feelings froth over.
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excitement the horses rubbed up against
the first barbed wire fence whereabouts,
ran away and left the young emperor
afoot. But what was that? A l5-mile
walk was nothing, after that find.
A few days later Price bought four
mules and a wagon. which he loaded
with lumber He struck out in the
midst of a terrific thunderstorm to build
himself a home on the Lone Prairie
Alone he built the cabin. Alone he dug
a well Alone he set about blowing the
once Lost. now Found. Empire with his
four mules. In the course of few
hours after his first furrow something
happened which turned the tide, flrst IN
the affairs Of young Price and years
later IA the larger affairs of mankind:
something which started him en- the
way toward becoming the most sig
niflcant figure in the modern world Of
dirt farmers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-30
BY sTEPHANE LAUzANNE.

Editor in Chief Of lie Matin, Paris.
I'm Europe, where every one disagrees
with every one else about every
thing, there is at least one axiom
on which every one is ready TO
agree. That is: If a durable
reconciliation took place between France
and Germany everlasting peace would
be secured to Europe"
The French don't in the least deny
the truth OF this axiom They have de-
fects-several defects, If you like-but
they certainly have one quality: they
are intelligent so far as intelligence
means comprehension. Ninety French
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Not only would she settle the question
of naval and land ornaments with Ger
many on just basis of common Sc
curity requirements. but she would GER
tatnly conclude financial, economic and
industrial arrangements with her neigh
Dor for the mutual benefit of the two
countries.
Such likely would be the price France
would pay to rid herself of the night
mare Of apprehension for the future in
which she has been living for the past
10 years. She wants peace; she needs
1t perhaps more than any other nation.
She does not wish to dominate Europe.
All she wants is to make sure that the
Continued on Fourth Page)
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Machine Age Goes to Farm

Called of Has Wheat
by Individual.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-30
stores An Crowded.

Crowded conditions obtain IN yirtu-
ally al Moscow stores. They are part
end parcel Of the ever growing rise in
sae city's population. Thus, lines OF
waiting people can be found every
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Proof That Trout Preys
on Newly Planted Fry

The spectacle Of large fish COB
bling up newly planted fry in TeMaya
lake in Yosemite National park re-
Gently proved to the rangers in charge
Of the fish planting that trout are
cannibals-and also proved too much
for the disposition of the rangers,
who promptly disposed of the offend
ers. Oscar Irwin, park ranger, was
in charge Of the planting Of supply
of steelhead fry in the upper end Of
the lake. After releasing the young
fish the planting party noticed large
fish swimming around in the shallow
water chasing four Of the small fish
just released from the can. Ranger
Irwin waded out after the attacker
with shovel, hit it over the back,
scooped it up and brought 1t to dry
land. 1t proved to be 14-inch Ger
man brown trout. A few minutes
later another fish appeared in search
Of food, and again Irwin and his
trusty shovel went to the defense of
the fry. This time he brought out a
16-inch trout of the same species.
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and ran to the door, screaming that
her father had been hacked to death.
Neighbors came, and found not only
his body but that of Mrs. Borden,
likewise murdered, in room up
stairs. The first murder must have
taken place at least two hours be-
fore the second.
Lizzie Borden was accused Of the
murders and found innocent after a
trial that lasted for thirteen days.
And most persons believe that she
killed her father and her step
mother.
Perhaps she did, but how and why
has never been explained. Those
certain of the daughters guilt would
have one believe that in the space
Of fifteen minutes she killed her ia
Their, took the AK to the cellar,
secured the blade with ashes, re-
moved her blood-spattered clothing,
disposed of it so effectively that not
a fragment ever was found, washed
her hands and face and gave the
alarm. Others have advanced the
theory that she had taken off all her
clothing before the murders, and
then had plunged into bathtub to
remove the blood stains-only the
frugal Bordens owned no bathtub.
The crimes were among the most
bloody ever committed. The walls,
ceiling and floor were spattered.
What became of the ak? How could
this carefully trained Sunday school
teacher have become maniac so
suddenly, and then returned to nor
NAL in an instant? What caused the
mysterious illness in the family a
few days previous? What was the
mysterious laugh heard at the top of
the stairs? Is there any truth in
the charge that Lizzie tried. to poi
son her parents? They said that
Lizzie disliked her stepmother, but
scores Of young women have felt
likewise, and not considered that
sufficient motive to strike her seven
teen times with an ak and then MUIR
der her own father.
If Lizzie did not kill her parents,
who did? There is no answer to
that, either. How did the murderer
enter? How could he have hacked
Mrs. Borden to death upstairs with
out others in the house hearing a
cry or a fall? Where did he hide
during the two hours? How did
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BORDEN MURDER AS
A "PERFECT CRIME
At Least, the Perpetrator OF
Diabolical Killings Is
Unknown.

What is the perfect crime? It may
be defined, perhaps, as one which
Is committed so cleverly that a
Sherlock Holmes or an almost omni-
scient, omnipresent Edgar Wallace
hero can find no evidence which
would legally justify an intelligent
jury in returning verdict of guilty.
And is such a crime, especially a
capital offense, possible? DR.. Garlic
ton Simon, formerly deputy police
commissioner of New York, says
that it is not. He asserts that no.
body can guard against matters OF
omission and commission so perfect
ly but that some telltale evidence
remains"
That is rather sweeping state
ment, George Minot, writing in the
Boston Herald, comments. Possibly
Doctor Simon laid in mind the Roth
stems, Marlows, Yales, Capones and
Vivian Gordons, but the killings by
gangsters or the murders Of lust
and revenge are hardly comparable
with such a tragedy as the Borden
murder in Fall River. Isn't that an
example of the perfect crime? 1t is
as much a mystery as it was an
hour after the bodies of the aged
couple had been found, hacked to
death, on that hot August day, thir'
ty-one years ago. The keenest OF
detectives and the ablest prosecut'
ing attorneys we have ever had
could hardly have brought about 6
conviction.
The main details of the case are
we'll remembered. Old Andrew j
Borden, affected by the heat, went
home for nap, found all the doors
locked and finally was admitted BY
q servant. He lay down to rest, and
the servant also went upstairs for 6
brief sleep. The thirty-three-year
old daughter, Lizzie, went to the
rear of the house or to the barn t.
look for fishing tackle in the loft
She returned fifteen minutes latel
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Ceiling of the World

"What is the ceiling today?" This
is a common question around air.
ports, because flying ceiling
varies with the atmospheric density.
To determine accurately the fluctuat-
ing ceiling clouds, haze and fog
around airports and weather bureaus,
an experiment is being conducted in
Cleveland with light beam that is
virtually a tape measure.
To determine the ceiling height
with this new electric tape measure,
it Is only necessary to focus the light
beam from a light protector upon the
clouds and to sight, through special
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he escape? What was his motive?
The Borden case remains unique
in Americas criminal history. None
other is more fascinating, more mys-
FERROUS, more uncanny. They were
decent, everyday people. No scan
dial previously had entered their
lives. For almost forty years the
crime has been a center of interest.
1t is said to be the only murder in
this country which European crimi-
nologists have condescended to
study.
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w. N. w., Portland, No. 35--1931.

gauging instrument, the light spot
thus thrown on the clouds. The OPP
teal system employed in the pro-
jector produces phenomenon beam
intensity of $4,000 candlepower.
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The Immediate Audience

"Future generations will applaud
your speeches." remarked the sin
cere admirer.
"I'm not trying to reach that far"
replied Senator Sorghum. I'm sat
isfied if can be correctly quoted In
my home town newspapers"
Imperial Valley press., 1931-11-19
(0UNT "

Wood for stove, fireplace or fur
mace. Tier. $500; cord, $500. Call
No l, Pioneer Truck and Transfer
Co. 14tf
DR.. A. q. Hanson, Dentist, Davis
Bldg. Extraction specialist.
For Sale Beautiful Navajo In
Clan rugs. 1902 Olive. 7tlmo
Madame Priser-French designer
and dress-maker, $50 Commercial
st. Phone 1854. 3ltT
Fire Last Night-Fire of undeter-
mined origin destroyed the house
occupied by Mr.. and Mrs. Dorsey
Wyatt, colored, at 11S Hamilton
street at ! o'clock last night. They
were able to save some bedding and
a few clothes before the place was
destroyed. The damage was esti-
mated at $500.
Newkirk's Beauty Shop - For de-
pendable service. Phone 227. l7tf
DR.. II. Hooper-Dentist. X-Ray
service. 10 North 9Th st. 2Stf
"Cash and Carry at the Marsh
Dry Cleaners, Mems suits Sl.00,
trousers soc. Dresses soc up. 3tf
Dry Eucalyptus Wood $500 rick
delivered. S53 Adams. t,th,s-tf