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The Washington times., 1932-12-20
WAD Of PAPER
HOLDS CAPONE
SECRETS
Nitti, Aide of Jailed Gangster,
Shot When He Tries to
Swallow Evidence

CHICAGO, Dec. 20 G.NS0-A
damp, crumpled bit of paper and
tell-tale lists of politicians and
police officers were closely studied
today as Frank Nitti, the dreaded
"enforcer" of AL Capone's edictS,
lay dying, his body pierced with
four police bullets.
Writhing in agony on a bed in
the Bridewell Hospital, the suave
occupant of the imprisoned
Capone's throne met every inquiry
of detectives with mute defiance.
Yet out of the shooting, which
brought the "enforcer" to the
verge of death, there grew a
structure of evidence which may
result in a series of raids and
expos unprecedented in
Chicago'S history.
Lists Found in Office
In that damp wad of paper
which detectives pulled out of
Nitti's mouth while his wounds
were still fresh and in those
revelatory lists discovered in the
trimly-furniShed office where the
guns blared may repose hitherto
undreamed of secrets Of the
powerful Capone syndicate.
And these secrets once exposed
to the light, may furnish the
information enabling Mayor Anton
j. Cermak to let fall the master
stroke in his war of extermina-
ton on the city's organized hood
lums.
The scrap of paper which Nitti
tried to swallow just before he
was shot down by Detective
Sergt. Harry Lang was being
scrutinized by experts of North
western University's crime detec-
tion laboratory.
Make Out Few Names
The paper torn out of the "en-
forcer's" mouth contained nota.
tions written with a soft lead
pencil and, hence, scarcely de-
cipherable. But, Northwestern's
crime experts have already iden-
titled some names and words.
The names were those of boot
leggers, ward politicians, and po-
licemen.
Sergeant Lang and three other
officers found Nitti and six other
Capone mobsters in the office and
were marching them off to head
quarters when the "enforcer"
tried to swallow the piece of pa
per, precipitating the shooting in
which Sergeant Lang was slightly
wounded in the arm before he
brought Nitti down.
The six men seized with Nitti
languished in Jail. They were
Louis ("Little New York") Cam
pagnia, reputedly one of Capone'S
most reliable pluguglies; John
Pope, a police character; Martin
Sanders, Joseph CHinky Dink"
Parillo, Charles MCGEE, and Louis
Mascara.
The Washington times., 1932-12-20
PARIS DEFAULT
BLOW To COURT.

Reputation by France of her
war debt obligations was said by
Senate leaders yesterday to be the
final blow against the fight to
secure action at this session on
proposals for American entry
into the League of Nations Court.
Action on the proposals will
be postponed until the new Sen
ate is convened.
Procourt Senators are unwill-
ing, it is said, to press the issue
now. as many members of the
Senate who were previously be-
lieved to be friendly to the court
ere shifting their position.
The Washington times., 1932-12-20
Russia and Germany
Confer on Arnaan1ents

BERLIN, Dec. 20 U.SO.
Maxim Litvinoff, Soviet foreign
commissar, conferred on dis
armament and other questions
today with Chancellor Kurt Won
Schleicher. A government COM
munique stated Germany and
the Soviet are in accord on all
subjects discussed.
The Washington times., 1932-12-20
Writer Calls Kaiser
Man Without Country

BERLIN, Dec. 20 0N.SD.-For-
mer Kaiser Wilhelm is a man
without a country, according to a
writer in the Daily Tempo today.
The writer said every German
living 10 years abroad without
interruption must declare his in
tentions or lose his citizenship,
adding he had been informed the
former emperor had neglected this
formality,
The Washington times., 1932-12-20
Navy Clinic KnOlUn
As "StOn11tOLO0icnL''

Tooth, dentist, clinic, may be
common words but they won't do
for the Navy. .,.
In respect to the responsibility
the dental profession accepts as
guardians of oral health the
Navy Department today an
nounced its dental clinic viii
hereafter be known as the
"Stomatological Service"
Evening star., 1932-04-20
A Foolproof Ticket System.

In order to enforce his new uniform
system of collateral for minor traffic
offenses, Gen. Glassford has put an
other check upon the fixing" Of tickets
by warning the members of the Metro
politan Police Department that disci-
attempt to instruct violators in any
method which may exist to reduce the
amount Of collateral. These instruc-
tions, coupled with the triplicate system
inaugurated by Gen. Glassford and the
agreement reached by the police and
the corporation counsels Office regard
ing the amount OF collateral to be
charged for first or repeated offenses,
spell chagrin to those motorists who
believe themselves immune to prosecu-
ton because they have heretofore been
successful in fixing" traffic tickets.
1t is q desirable reform that Gen
Glassford has instituted. In the past a
motorist with pull" could generally
arrange it so that the policeman who
gave him his ticket would. upon per-
suasion, forget about it." This is not
so, however, under Gen. Glassford's
regime. Oficers must now make out
tickets in triplicate form, one going to
the motorist. one being kept by the
officer and the other going into the
files OF arrests. Until the past week,
air tight as the system appeared to
be, tiny loophole existed by which
the motorist could, in some cases. Sc
cure a reduction of his collateral by
appearing before an assistant corpora
ton counsel. With this hole plugged,
the motorists last chance Of escape
appears to be shut off.
Traffic tickets are not given without
reason, and consequently If once handed
out they should be made to stick. So,
from now on, it behooves the motorists
of Washington to watch their step lest
they run afoul of this recently inau-
gurated foolproof system.
Evening star., 1932-04-20
Blame of Meekness
On Schools Assailed

TO the Editor OF The Star:
I regard the statement by Mr. Ebert
about the suppression of independence
of thought in the schools among the
children as based on mere ignorance.
I have known the school children for
over 80 years. The movement for
character education in the schools is
an expression of the purpose of edu-
Gators to produce in the schools the
character which civilization needs in
its citizens. Over 100000 has been
spent on character research to deter
mine the character ideal and the
methods of education for realization.
There are Is basic virtues which
have to be strong in the first-class
person, under civilization, which are
as follows: % Honesty, sincerity,
truthfulness. (2) Cooperation. 90
Kindness, affection a. Will power,
poiSe, Self-control 80 Muscular con-
troll, skill. 90 Executive ability. Cd
Inventive, constructive. (O Discern
ment, thinking (9) Purpose. determi-
nation. Q0) Justice. uD Interest.
Q2) Vitality. Q3) Industry, energy.
Q4 Urges, ambitions. Q5l Public
spirit, patriotism, family loyalty.
The parents at home, the employ
crs in business. the clergymen in pull
pits. the child welfare workers are
asked to cooperate with the teachers
in cultivating these basic virtues in the
Nations children. There are others
who take a fling at the schools in
ignorance, and the policy has been to
let them go unrebuked. but in these
times of distress in schools for ade-
quate financial support that policy is
ruinous The public must be shown
that the very best Of educational re-
search is the foundation of. school
practice. MILTON FAIRCHILD
Evening star., 1932-04-20
Animals Friend Urges
Advance in Kindness

To the Editor of The Star:
This is BE King to Animals" week,
when another step up the ladder OF
humaneneSs should be taken. Cru
city is q relic of our savage state, and
so long as man neglects animals OF
seeks to profit by the torture of the
animal creation he has not climbed
up very far toward civilization.
MANY feather in a woman's hat
has left grieving bird robbed of her
mate. Many fur collar is the result
of thirst, hunger and excruciating pain
endured for weeks by the animals
caught in our modern steel traps
Man is not a carnivorous animal. as
proved by his teeth, yet to satisfy this
artificial appetite fer flesh, animals are
bred for the market, their lives OF
thirst, starvation and exposure termi-
mating at last (after a painful trans
portation in crowded cars without wa
ter for from % to SO hours) in oul
barbarouS slaughter houses.
Thirst is one of the primal causes
Of suffering of all animals. And our
splashing, gorgeous fountains would be
far more beautiful to me If the water
were within reach of stray dogs and
cats. Every home should provide a
pan OF water for thirsting dogs, cats
and birds.
Let us not forget to mourn Mrs
Fiske, the great friend of animals
She never failed to stop her taxi to
rescue a suffering dog or cat and once
begged to have the train stopped to
aid a horse. MRS. H. D. ALBIN.
Evening star., 1932-04-20
Politics Held Force
Behind PAY Slashes
To the Editor Of The Star.

To the Editor Of The Star:
In The Evening Stars report OF the
proceedings of the Economy Commit
tee Chairman McDufie is quoted as
follows:
Unless a salary reduction bill is
passed there will be some new faces In
this branch of the Aext Congress"
Could anything more graphically H.
lustrate that curious type Of intellectual
nliberalism now motivating considera-
tion OF the pay cut? Craftsmanship
would ask, Is it right, is it just, is it
necessary to reduce salaries? Political
expediency merely asks, if I don't vote
for pay reduction will I be reelected?
Having been on a spending Jag for
three years or more, with billion dollar
appropriations for soldiers bonus. mil
lions for congressional junketS to
France. Gold Star Mothers trips abroad
all and everything that it was thought
would make voteS-the same congress
sional patrioteers, now faced with a
$4,000 00O 900 deficit of their own crea-
ton, would take it out of the hides of
the already underpaid Government en-
ployes, who cannot effectively fight
back
The Congressman is right. So was
Volstead, ct al. Undoubtedly there will
be new faces in the next Congress.
They are needed
GEORGE w. McENTEE.
Evening star., 1932-04-20
Heard Round the World"

Yesterday at Schenectady Governor
Joseph B. Ely of Massachusetts, fired
shot from an ancient musket, pre-
served as relic of the Battle of Lex
ington, fought just 157 years before
at Concord. A microphone sent the
sound to Holland, to Java, to Australia
and thence back to America 1t reached
the ears of those assembled at Sche-
nectady within a split second after
Governor Elys finger pulled the trig-
ger, having made the complete circuit
of the globe. Thus was enacted in
fact the phenomenon celebrated by
Emerson's hymn, written for the occa-
sion of the dedication of the battle
monument at Concord:
By the rude bridge that arched the
flood,
Their flag to April's breeze unfurled.
Here once the embattled farmers stood
And fired the shot heard round the
world.
The shot was fired at Schenectady
at 730 o'clock in the morning, which
is reputed to have been the hour at
which the firing began at Lexington
in the first engagement OF the War of
the Revolution, known as the Battle
of Concord
Radio reaches a climax of develop
ment in this demonstration. The his
toric setting Of the experiment adds to
its interest. 1t is not, however, the
first time that sound has been thus
carried over the entire circuit of the
sphere. Recently a dog barked into
a microphone and on the return" OF
its voice, relayed as in this later in
stance from Australia, 1t greeted the
sound with renewed barking
1t is now necessary to hook up the
radio transmission for world circuit with
an antipodal station, but it is altogether
probable that in a short time, so rapid
are the advances in this new science,
the waves Of wireless" will travel with
out assistance completely around the
world. In the course OF the test con-
Quoted yesterday Gov. Ely conversed
with persons at Sydney without Gifi-
Guilty of hearing.
There is no particular utility in cir
cult transmission in itself save in the
progressive advance of the art. For all
practical purposes relayed service is ef-
fective. The east-west chain appears
now to be the most efficient, for a rea-
son that is not fully understood. The
stretch from Sydney to the western
coast Of America Is an immense one
1t may be lessened by the establish
Evening star., 1932-04-20
Family Burdens Study
Urged as Paw Cut Basis

To the Editor of The Star:
Your editorial in The Star Monday
falls into the old error of assuming
that the amount of salary received is
the index Of whether a Federal en-
ploye can stand a salary cut or not
This mistake has been so persistent in
all discussions of salary cuts that grave
injustice Is going to be done. I am
afraid, to a number of Federal en1-
ployes.
1t Is a fact that many Federal en-
ployes who receive more than $2.5OO
have much greater responsibilities than
many who are in the 81 400 class. l
know Of case, and I believe it is tvpi-
cal. A man receives $500, on which
he supports q wife. two children and
two aged parents. With his home paw
ments and the necessities of life, he
barely gets along and. in fact. is going
into debt. His wife wears her clothes.
so long that she is ashamed TO meet
her friends on the street, and he hasn't
worn new clothes for two years. He
dictates letters to a married Stenogra-
pher whose salary, combined with her
husbands, Is considerably more than
his. This young couple have no chill
dren and are buying no home. A cut
in their salaries will not be felt, whereas
cut in the salaries of people such as
the man described above will work ter
rible hardship and probably cause the
loss of the home in which years OF
savings have been invested.
The Star could perform no greater
service in the cause of justice than to
argue the cause of the medium class of
Federal employees who have heavy fam
ily responsibilities and must hold their
salaries or see their children go hun
CRY and ragged. All salary cuts and
dismissals should, in justice, be made
on the basis of the family burdens
which must be borne.
GEORGE WRIGHT.
Evening star., 1932-04-20
Starving the Navy,

Economy in Federal expenditure. as
every one knows, Is today not a theory
but a condition demanded at almost
any sacrifice. There is one point at
which the country has a right to ex-
pect that sacrifice will not be made
That is the point at which the inter-
ests of national defense can be i'm
periled.
Yesterday the House Appropriations
Committee, continuing its sharp reduc-
tions of the Presidents budget esti-
mates, cut the amount recommended
for naval requirements $31 ,921 ,657 be-
low appropriations for the current year
and s15,336,984 under President Hoo
ver's budget proposal. AS left by the
committee the Navy for direct" needs
is assigned s326,S4O,4 ,466 for the fiscal
year 1888.
The ordinary citizen-and as far as
that is concerned, the average member
OF Congress-has only limited knowl-
edge OF the actual necessities Of the
fleet. The country at large has conf
dence in the wisdom and patriotism of
the men in charge of the Navy. 1t will
be reponderantly inclined to believe
that the House Appropriations Commit
tee was ill-advised when it ignored the
following message from Admiral Pratt,
chief of naval operations, which was
submitted when Congress began con-
sideration of the annual Navy budget:
The Navy Department is constantly
seeking means to reduce expenditures
one OF the most obvious methods Is to
oecommission ships. A careful survey
Is made annually and only such ships
are Kept In commission as are consid-
cred TO be absolutely essential to pro-
vide security for the Nation and to per
form the functions assigned to the naval
service.
Under stress of existing conditions
we have cut our operating forces to
the danger zone. We cannot 90 any
further without jeopardizing our ma
tional security.
international conditions are such to-
day as to render it unwise, in my opin-
ion, to make further cuts in the operat-
ing forces Of the Navy.
Little needs to be added to that sailor
like and statesmanlike declaration.
Surely in a budget aggregating four
and a half billioA dollars and in a
proposed omnibus" slash of five hun
dred million odd it should not be be-
yond the wit OF Congress to cheesepare
in directions which will leave the Ma
tion's first concern, its security, un-
questionably unimpaired.
Evening star., 1932-04-20

ator pointed out that II the nations of
Europe continue to purchase goods
from the United States In the same
amount as they have purchased them
in recent years, without increasing the
amount Of purchases at all, in q
twenty-year period Of debt suspension
these debts would be practically wiped
out. In other words, without helping
the American producer and exporter
one iota the Smith plan would result
in cancellation OF the war debts at the
close Of the twenty-year moratorium.
1t is obvious that at the close Of the
Hoover one-year moratorium q serious
question will be presented as to the
ability of these foreign nations to re-
sumo their payments to the United
States and to each other and Germany's
ability to resume payment of repara-
tions. The moratorium ends July l..
The sentiment in this country and in
the Senate and House is strongly
against further extension Of the mora
torium.
The moratorium, as Senator Borah
pointed out, was put through not be-
cause France and England and Italy
could not pay their debts to this coun-
try but because a financial collapse was
threatened in Germany, due to her in
ability to pay reparations. The hope
was expressed that in the year of the
moratorium the European nations would
be able to settle the question of repara-
tons so that resumption of payments
could begin at the end of the year. The
nations owing the largest debts to the
United States have paid them out of
their reparation collections from Ger
many. The American taxpayer is in
terested in the payments made to this
country, not in the collection of repara-
tions from Germany. That is a point
to which the statesmen of Europe as
well as Mr.. Smith and his advisers in
New York should give their attention.
Evening star., 1932-04-20
Gain for Stability of World
Read Into German Election

probation of the Salt Lake Deseret
News, that the reputation which Hit
Ter proposed, of reparations, will not
be made and that the warlike attitude,
which would necessarily accompany
Nch reputation, will not provoke
France and Belgium to an active fear
for their own future security. Repara-
tons may never be paid. Perhaps it Is
the best for the world that they should
never be paid and that the Versailles
treaty should be fundamentally revised.
But pence, Cancellation and counsel are
the steps back to a sane world
X
This is at least a breathing spell
for Chancellor Bruening" says the Bir-
mingham Age-Herald. He can 60 to
Geneva with the renewed prestige of
Won Hindenburgs victory. Bruening
now speaks for a Germany which has
preferred by considerable margin his
policies of moderation and negotiation
to the Hitlerian course of extremism
and defiance. In the diplomatic work
which is yet to be done touching the
incalculably vital problems Bruening
embodies a country which has refused
TO go to pieces in a rage of desperate
Illustration"
demand for development of world
leadership under existing conditions is
made by the Toronto Daily Star, which
observes that "all the nations Of the
world have been swept off their feet by
an economic maelstrom, and their un-
willingness to link hands to get out of
the current is hard to understand"
That paper concludes as to the elec-
ton: His majority of 100000 votes
over the combined votes of his two
0nnOnpnfC fNIgI <@fN q
over Hitler. his nearest opponent. will
serve as an encouragement to those who
wish to bring order out of chaos in
Europe. The readiness of $4,000 900
Germans to vote for a flrebrand such as
Hitler is warning to the world of the
temper of the German people. The
miserieS of the masses have developed
devil-may-care spirit in that coun-
try"
Evening star., 1932-04-20
Jefferson Called
True Republican

To the Editor of The Star;
An editorial in The Star Of April IA
describes the Jefferson day dinner, held
at Washington on the evening before,
as a tribute to the founder Of the
party" which is an error. as nothing in
the life of Thomas Jefferson is, or ever
was, reflected in the tenets Of the Dem
ocratic party.
That party came into existence In
1910, with Martin Van Buren, as its
first candidate for the presidency.
The liquor interests, at that early date
seeing their backs eventually to the
wall. with the aid of the Tammany
crowd, brought about the dissolution OF
the former Republican party. which had
been the party of Jefferson. Madison
Monroe. John Quincy Adams and An
drew Jackson, and organized anc
financed the people who called them
selves Democrats. They issued an ad-
dress to the people at that time, but
did not adopt a party platform until
four years later
Were Jefferson alive today, the peo-
pie who met in his name at Washing
ton on Wednesday night would point
the finger of Scorn" at him and de-
nounce him as an 'imperialist." fol
jefferson had engineered the Louisiana
purchase" and, further, was stanch
advocate of duties on imports (tariff)
and if Jackson were alive, he would
want to hang the whole bunch OF
would-be nullifiers of our sacred Con-
stitution. who had assembled a few
weeks earlier at the same place and in
his name Jefferson died on July 4
1926, which was just IA years before
the makeShift organization which calls
itself the Democratic party came into
existence.
1t would be we'll for the representa-
tives of the Democratic party to look
up the biographies of their supposed
patron saints" before holding pow
vows" in their name.
FRANK HARPER.
Evening star., 1932-04-20
The Smith Moratorium.

Alfred E. Smiths plan for dealing
with the war and postwar debts owed
the United States by European nations,
announced here in his jefferson day
speech, yesterday drew fire in the Senate.
Senator William E. Borah of Idaho.
chairman of the Foreign Relations
Committee, and Senator James Ham
Aton Lewis, suave Democratic leader
from Illinois and his States candidate
for the Democratic presidential NOM
ination, both fell upon the proposal
like ton of brick" The Borah as
sault upon the Smith plan, which calls
Tor a tWenty-year suspension of pay
ments of these debts to the United
3 States coupled with reduction Of the
d debts amounting to 25 per cent Of the
value Of the goods purchased annually
from this country, asserted that the plan
would be wholly valueless. The Idaho
Senator insisted that it would fail ut
terly to bring about economic recovery
OF the world. He said that 1t would be
Of no benefit whatever to the American
taxpayer or the American producer. and
finally he charged that the only benefit
that might be expected to accrue would
go to the European taxpayers and to the
so-called international bankers in this
country.
Senator Lewis was even more severe
In his attack on the Smith and other
plans for suspension or cancellation oi
the debts owed the United States BY
European nations. He asserted thai
these proposals were all part of a con-
spiracy to force the United States tc
cancel these debts. The conSpirators
he said. were the international banker,
in this country and the politicians ir
Europe. The international bankers
who Senator Lewis asserted were not
properly bankers at all but merely
brokers who have caused the American
public to expend billions of dollars fol-
foreign securities, are seeking u
further their own interest, not the in
terest of the American people.
Senator Borah's analysis of the
Smith plan made the proposal lool
particularly childish. The Idaho Sen