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Evening star., 1933-02-28
SEARCH CONTINUES
. N L|NDBERGH CASE
Investigators Have Not Drop
ped Probe of KIDNAPPING
and Murder.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TRENTON, N. j.. February 2s.-An
International man hunt for the Kid
napers and murderers Of Charles Angus
tus Lindbergh, jr., never relaxed, went
on today, one year after he was stolen
from his crib.
Begun March 1, 1882. when the 81
month-old son of the famous flyer was
abducted, intensified on May IL when
his body was found in bleak Sourland
Hills, the search has been relentleSSly
pursued.
Months ago President Hoover ad-
monished law-enforcement agencies to
make the case "a live and neVer-to-be-
forgotten" one.
His admonition has been followed.
At the years end investigators had
nothing they were willing to report For
six months they have maintained
silence.
Meanwhile, a $4,000 reward for in
formation leading to the arrest and con-
Jersey after the baby's body was found,
still stands.
Much Has Happened Since.
Much has happened since that raw
March night when a three-piece ladder
was placed alongside the nursery VIM
dow of the Lindbergh's Hopewell noun
tain home and the baby carried away.
An ever-hopeful father paid a $4,000
ransom IN vain, searched land and sea,
only to be summoned home-when he
hoped success was near-to identify a
body colored man found as that of
his child.
The man who led him to sea. John
Hughes Curtis. Norfolk boat builder. was
convicted Of impeding the search, SEN
fenced to year in States prison and
fined $1,000. The Jail term was later
suspended
Violet Sharpe, maid in the home of
Mrs. Dwight Whitney Morrow at Engle-
wood. Mrs. Lindbergh's mother, COM
mitted suicide after questioning.
A new baby, Jon Morrow, was born
last August. Before he was months
old threats OF kidnapping were made.
Two youths, charged with attempted
eXtortion, were arrested in Virginia.
From Scranton, Pa, came letter de-
from Chicago came a warning to watch
your child New investigations opened
for the police
Home Still Guarded.
There is no longer the freedom of
country life on Sourland Mountain.
The entrance to the lane leading to the
big white stone house is guarded night
and day by State police They have
maintained duty there since March /.
The curious, who first thronged by
the thousands to Hopewell, still drive
up the winding mountain road lust to
single out. from mile away, the Lind
bergh home, standing alone on Jerseys
second highest mountaintop.
Police see that they get no nearer,
although the Lindbergh's most of the
time are not at home. They are staying
at the Morrow estate in Englewood.
Col. Lindbergh is back at his work as a
technical advisor to an aviation COM
pany and again travelling the air lines.
But at home and abroad the search
Tor those responsible for his tragedy
goes on-"never to be relaxed" the
President of the United States said
until the criminals are implacably
brought to justice"
Evening star., 1933-02-28
COMMISSION BEGINS
WOOD PULP PROBE
-creign Commodities Now on Free
List, but Senate Resolution Calls
for Tariff Inquiry.

BY the Associated Hress.
An investigation of competitive con-
ditions in the wood pulp industry here
and abroad was begun today by the
Tariff Commission under a Senate
resolution.
The commission Is without rate-fix-
ing jurisdiction over the commodities
involved because they are on the free
list, but its data will be compiled for
the information Of Congress and the
President.
The investigation will deal partic-
ularly with pulp timber. pulp wood
and mechanical and chemical pulp
produced in Canada, Sweden, Finland
and Norway. The commission was in
Structed to base its cost of produc-
ton findings on the values Of United
States currency used in the payment
of labor and other costs.
Domestic producers in many parts
Of the country have complained of in
creased imports of wood pulp, asserting
the chief exporting countries have had
an advantage because of deprecated
currencies.
Minnesota and Michigan producers
have complained that Scandinavian
imports have been brought via the St.
Lawrence water route and offered at
prices below domestic production costs
at ports in their States adjoining the
forest region.
Evening star., 1933-02-28
Justice Marks 95th
Birthday at Work
In Rappahannock
Special pispa tch to The Star.


CULPEPER, Va, February 28.-
Squire John A. Compton of Kappa
hammock County. who has been q
justice OF the peace for 40 years,
celebrated his 95th birthday ami
versary on Saturday and ofi1ciated
in his official capacity by trying q
case that afternoon. In all the 40
years in which he has been magis-
trate he has had. but one decision
reversed by the higher courts, and
his homely wisdom and common
sense rendering of the law In the
case is almost universally regarded as
final.
THE Squire" as he is called
throughout the county. has been a
Mason for 72 years and is member
of the Fifty Year Masonic Club.
His 95th birthday anniversary was
quietly celebrated at his home, in
Washington, Rappahannock, and
his motto of business as usual" ex-
emplified by his hearing the case
that came before him that after
noon.
Evening star., 1933-02-28

ton, in his contest for the seat won by
James M. Beck, Republican, was COM
pleted yesterday.
Edward A. Kelley, counsel for Beck, d
allowed 40 days in which to present tes-
timony for Beck on charges made by
Shanahan that the Republican holds
his seat by illegal election.
However, Kelley indicated today he
would offer no defense.
"If this were q case at law, I should
make a move to have the thing thrown
out, for no case has been presented by
Mr.. Shanahan which would hold in q
court of law" Kelley said. For that
Evening star., 1933-02-28
Plans Grasshopper Drive.

OTTAWA, Ontario, February % R.-
The department of agriculture yester-
day announced plans for conference
between provincial and federal ento-
mologists on March 2, when next Sum-
mer's campaign against grasshoppers
will be mapped. In Manitoba, ento-
mologists predict, there will be at least
4, 4,356. 900 900 900 locusts next Summer
Evening star., 1933-02-28
Florida Mansion Damaged.

JUPITER, Fla, February % @.-
Fire Of unknown cause late yesterday
destroyed the home here of COL james
R. Branch of White Sulphur Springs.
w. Va, with an estimated damage of
$4,000. The house was unoccupied at
the time, Col. Branch having departed
Sunday for White Sulphur Springs.
Evening star., 1933-02-28
Actors Mother III.

HOLLYWOOD, February 28 R.-
George Raft, screen actor, left by train
last night for New York, where his
mother, Mrs. Eve Raft, was reported
dying. A message urging him to hurry
gave no details of the illness.
Evening star., 1933-02-28

reason, I am thinking Of Offering no
testimony for Mr.. Beck"
Counsel for Shanahan brought out
testimony seeking to show illegal regis
tration in several wards in the second
district, from where Beck was elected.
Evening star., 1933-02-28
TEXANS BOOM KLEBERG
State Senate Urges Appointment
as Envov TO Mexico.

AUSTIN, Tex, February 20 (R.-
The Texas Senate yesterday unani-
mously adopted a resolution urging the
appointment of Representative r. J.
Kleberg of Corpus Christi as United
States Ambassador to Mexico.
Evening star., 1933-02-28

insistent demands Of the day is for the
establishment Of sound principles
and sound business methods In every
line.
Evening star., 1933-02-28
BECK ELECTION CONTEST
CASE is COMPLETED
Defense Counsel States That shana-
han Has Presented No Case
= at All.

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, February 28.-
Taking Of testimony for John j. Shana-
han, Democratic candidate for Repre-
sentative in Congress in the last elec-
Evening star., 1933-06-27
Salvage.

BY an almost overnight decision sew
eral hundred workers of the Interstate
Commerce Commission who yesterday
were apparently slated for dismissal on
the first of July in the course of the
economy reductions of force in the Gov
pay rolls by virtue of adoption of the
furlough system Announcement is
made that these employees will all be
retained. though at reduced pay and
working hours. In the Census Bureau
also there will be no dismissals of en-
ployes whose jobs have been abolished
by congressional action, who will
be transferred to other work on the
short-week basis.
These adjustments, made on the eve
Of the new fiscal year, when the econ
omy changes vii! take place, are heart
ening to all who have been menaced
with dismissal. There has been great
confusion about this matter of curtail-
mentS. No fixed rule has been adopted
covering the entire Government service,
and apparently none has been sought,
owing to the widely varying conditions.
Some of the departments have suffered
drastic cuts in personnel by specific leg
islative action. All of them have been
affected by the reduction of appropria-
tions. In some bureaus large dismissals
have already taken place, effective i'm
mediately, with little notice; in some
cases with none save the final blow of
the ak. To the Government worker the
vitally important thing is to be re-
tanned on the rolls, even with a Sc
we're cut in pay through percentage re-
ductions or a shortening of the work
week or furloughs. Outright dismissal,
which has already been the lot Of some,
is veritable tragedy, for there is little,
if any, chance to find employment else
where at present.
Those who are retained with smaller
pay are in a position to regain their
former status as the economic stress is
lessened and the Government returns
as it must return eventually-to its nor
NAL range of administrative activity.
They are symbols, furthermore, of the
merit system, which should be preserved
at all hazards as a bulwark against the
abomination of spoils of public Office
Evening star., 1933-06-27
Friends, Strangers and Crime.

People are more apt to be killed by
reverse Of this rule is true with regard
to theft. Such, at least. are the con-
clusions of Prof r. Clyde White of the
University Of Indiana. He expounded
his views before meeting of the Amer
lean Association for the Advancement
Of Science, assembled in annual con-
vention at Chicago. A study of crime
conditions in a large city gave him the
data for his argument.
Murder is an ordinary phenomenon
OF modern life but, strangely enough,
there has been little scientific study of
its psychology The law, it is generally
agreed, is rigid in its letter, but sub
ject to liberal Interpretation in its
spirit. theoretically. a life is required
for life; actually, only small frac-
tion Of the number of persons charged
with murder ever are executed Some
writer's have believed that abolition OF
capital punishmnt might result in de-
crease in the frequency of homicide,
since juries then might be more willing
TO convict and judges be more apt to
infiict the full penalty of the revised
code, whatever it might be.
TIE notion appears to be widely en-
tertained that murder commonly is al
expression of momentary madness, a
temporary insanity, rather than a pre-
meditated, rationalized action. 1t Is g
popular dogma that individuals who
commit such crimes are touched with
lunacy. But the causes Of that menta
disorder have been inadequately ex.
amined. The question still remains
What makes the murderer mad? O
course, there have been attempted
answers. Dr. White suggests one wher
he calls attention to the truth that peo
pie kill members of their families o
close friends following violent quarrels
and that murder in these instances
the result of differences which groY
out of intimate association. Dr. Olive
Wendell Holmes, In his novel, 'Elsi
venner," touched on the same them
when he wrote Of relatives quarrelin
because of their likeness one to anothe
tho family quarrel, In his opinion
Evening star., 1933-06-27

different systems, and dangerous COM
petition between banks In the Federal
Reserve system and the State banks.
AS there was no uniformity OF State
control, there could be no uniformity OF
inspection, and great part of the peo-
Piles losses were directly attributable to
competition between the opposing sys-
TENS and laxity of inspection" A SINH
lar appraisal is made by the Oshkosh
Daily Northwestern. Observing that
those banks whose depositors are given
insurance after the end Of 1885 must
be in the Federal Reserve system" the
Columbia Is. c. State Is convinced
that the new law '.is bound to benefit
the whole country, and will bring an
end to wildcat banking"
The Oakland Tribune quotes Presi-
dent Roosevelt to the effect that ut Is
the best piece of banking legislation
since the Reserve Board act" The
Youngstown Vindicator comments: In
all the discussion too little is said OF
the importance of more thorough bank
examinations and stronger 1nsistence
that banks live up to the laws. With
these safeguards, depositors would De
protected even without guarantee. II
the Government makes sure that every
bank lives up to what is expected OF
it, there will be no danger In a guaran-
tee, and the Glass bill will be given the
credit it deserves for laying the founda-
ton for new and better era Of Amer
lean banking" The Omaha World
Herald believes that sit will end the
disposition to hoard and secrete cur
rency and make it possible for all the
money of the country to be put to
work"
Calling it "the only important bit
of legislation that originated In this
Congress" the Forth Worth Star-Tele-
gram finds that chiefly its object is
to provide ultimately for unified ma
tional banking system and for the exer-
else of greater control as to the estab-
lishment of new banks and the opera
ton of the old" That paper concludes
as to the merits of the legislation: The
clause prohibiting the payment OF IN
terest upon demand deposits and that
providing for the insurance of deposits
are the two causing the most concern.
The object sought in the former IS to
do away with reckless competition that
at times has prevailed between banks,
and to prevent an unreasonable con-
centration of money in the large flnan-
cial centers of the country. This pro-
vision is construed as being very bene-
fetal. There Is doubt about the other.
Some bankers contend that if interest
payment is prohibited on the accountl
of banks the effect will be to transfer
these funds to the Federal Reserve
banks, and that instead of concentra-
ton of funds in the banks of the large
centers there will be concentration in
the II Federal Reserve banks to the
detriment of banks in the average size
cities"
Evening star., 1933-06-27
A Planetarium.

New York City is to have a planeta-
rum. A loan granted by the Recon-
struction Finance Corporation to the
American Museum of Natural History
makes possible the erection OF the
structure. 1t will be three-story edi-
fee with dome seventy-five feet in
diameter for projecting replicas Of the
sky under all known conditions. The
basement will be used for an exhibit
of meteorites and the first floor for
the Copernican planetarium exhibit,
mechanical arrangement for showing
consultations in their orbits and other
astronomical exhibits" The money ad-
vanced by the Government is to be re-
paid from admission receipts paid by
visitors. The museum has been urging
the project for many years.
The word "planetarium," of course, is
coined, made -to-order title 1t de-
notes a mechanical arrangement for
producing an artificial sky. Images of
the sun, moon, planets and stars are
thrown upon capacious hemispherical
dome, and the apparatus is revolved to
demonstrate the principal movements
of the different heavenly bodies. In a
properly furnished and scientifically
operated planetarium spectator may
see in an hour celestial phenomena
which years would be required to OBJ
serve in the natural empyrean. The
device is an impressive dramatization
of the basic elements of astronomy It's
most obvious values are simple enough
to enlist the enthusiasm of child.
The United States has been somewhat
tardy in making use of the planetariun
idea. There are but two worthy o.
serious mention-one at Philadelphia
and one at Chicago The German
have been the most celebrated pioneer,
in the field. There are planetariums ir
Jena, Dusseldorf and Nuremberg. Doubt
less the expense Of building and equip.
Evening star., 1933-06-27
japan Tightens Her Grip.

Quietly and while the outside world
is preoccupied in the innocent pastimes
of economic and disarmament confer
erces In Europe, Japan is moving to
tighten her strangle hold on Northern
most China and, incidentally, to guaran-
tee her future mastery of Asia. Proceed
ings to that end began at Toxic yester-
day in the form of a three-power
conference between Soviet Russia, Japan
and her puppet State of Manchukuo
The negotiations concern the relinquish-
quishment by Russia, through sale to
Manchukuo, of the Soviet's interest in
the old Chinese Easteyn Railway. which
links Siberia with MA0churia and. as
originally designed, when jointly built
by the former Czarist and Chinese en-
pires, was to be an extension of the
Transsiberian line, which would confer
upon Russia a dominant sphere of in
fiuence in the future exploitation Of
China
Japan, of course, is the real factor
in the weeks negotiations in Toxic, her
hope and purpose being to eliminate
the last vestiges of Russian influence in
Manchuria and nullify the Soviet as a
strategic element on the shores Of the
Pacific, thus completing the process
begun by Japans defeat of Russia in
the war of 1904-5. When it became
evident in 1912 that Japan's absorp-
ton of Manchuria would ultimately
bring her into contact and eventual
conflict with the half Russian owned
Chinese Eastern Railway, the Soviet re-
vealed willingness to withdraw peace
fully from the area, admitting Japan's
full sway in it. From Tokio's stand
point, the consummation of this pro-
gram will eliminate all reasons for
fearing new Russo Japanese war and
promote peaceful relations between the
two countries for the next generation.
Certainly with China subjugated,
Russia pacified and the so-called great
powers Indifferent, Japan's confidence
in remaining monarch Of all she sur
veys in Asia from the portals of Peiping
to the steppes Of Siberia and from
the Yellow Sea to the mountains of
Mongolia seems entirely justified Ethics
and political morality aside, Nippon's
achievement represents one Of the most
monumental conquests in history. It
portrays a combination of dogged per-
sistence and skill, heavily tinctured
with cynicism and ruthlessness, If you
please, yet, judged by the accepted
standards Of international growth, the
Japanization Of the Asiatic mainland, a
process which encompasses all-told
roundly forty years, dating it from
the Sino-Japanese War Of 1894-95,
stands forth as a colossal achievement
1t may loom through the perspective
Of the years in brighter colors than
it does today, as chagrined Occideut
looks across the globe at the indispu-
table master of the Orient and deplores
the methods and the circumstances by
which Japan's supremacy was estab-
lished. That she will use 1t wisely and
do nothing to violate such rights as
may still remain to other countries in
what once was China is about all there
is left to hope for.
Evening star., 1933-06-27
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Bigger and Worse Mosquitoes

Bigger and Worse Mosquitoes.
Evolution surely brings
Very many wondrous things,
And of late 1t has been seen
Mixing insect with machine.
Once upon some swampy ground
Small mosquitoes would abound.
Now the grounds an airfield small,
Where great monsters soar or crawl.
Though mosquitoes once would brins
Slight annoyance with a sting,
Their successors huge and rash
Threaten with a total crash.
Like monster insect still
Each comes buzzing with a will.
We stand by and say "Alackl
Give us our mosquitoes back!"
Evening star., 1933-06-27
Dollar Wheat.

Dollar wheat has arrived On the Amer
ican market. Not for three long years
has wheat reached any such figures ii
this country, nor on any other grain ex-
change in the world. The sensational
advance made by this staple, within the
last few months is giving heart to the
farmers and to the country as a whole
which has come finally to look to agri-
culture to lead it out of the depression
The products Of the farmer were the
first to suffer in the postwar depres-
sion. They continued to drop lower,
with staples like cora and cotton taking
severe nose dives until wheat sold at a
lower figure thag1 at any time since the
days of Queen Elizabeth. But now
wheat and cotton are leading the way
toward higher commodity prices. Cot
ton, like wheat, has performed sensa-
tionally.
Crop conditions plus the drive by the
Roosevelt administration for increased
prices of commodities are held respon-
sible for the performance both of wheat
and cotton. Drought and extreme heat
have hit some of the heavy wheat
raising sections Of the country and re-
ports that the crops might be cut from
twenty-five to fifty per cent in certain
areas were responsible for the onward
rush of prices in the wheat market
yesterday. However, the administration,
through its farm relief act, which pro-
vides for taking large acreages out of
production both of wheat and cotton,
is responsible in no small part for the
boom in price.
What this great advance in prices Of
grain and cotton will mean to the
United States it is not possible to pre-
dict with accuracy at present. Many
elements enter into the problem. The
advance in the prices of these commodi-
ties will be followed by advances in the
prices Of other commodities, which the
farmers must buy. The prices to the
consumer Of flour and cotton goods will
necessarily increase. Indeed, -four
which sold q few months ago at $3.50 a
barrel Is now being quoted at s6.15. Cot
ton has reached los cents and even IL
cents. With these big advances, the
pledge of the Government to restore
normal average prices for these COM
modities has well-nigh been redeemed
What will become Of the so-called proc
essors tax. which under the new law is
to be levied to help the Government aid
the farmer back to higher prices? Un-
less the cotton farmers agree to limit
their acreage this year there may be
another bumper crop of that commodity,
which would seriously interfere with
prices. The leasing of cotton lands by
the Government must be paid for out of
the professors tax
Evening star., 1933-06-27
Egyptian Government
Backs Boy Scouts.
An Example in Ethics.

From the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin,
The ethics Of E. G. Buckland, chair
man of the board of the New York,
New Haven & Hartford Railroad, de-
serve note by q public which has had
somewhat discouraging reading for the
past 10 days. Mr.. Buckland's name
appears on two of the Morgan favored
customer lists. but is absent from the
list Of insiders" in the United Cor
poration flotation. His letter to a
Morgan partner, refusing the latter
stock with thanks for the opportunity.
informed the partner that he under
stood United Corporation was inter-
ested in the Connecticut Light & Pow
er Co, with which the railroad had
a contract, and that there would short
ly be negotiations in regard to future
dealings
He imputed no wrongful purpose to
the offer. He would himself have been
clear OF any wrongful purpose in ac-
cepting the opportunity to make an in
vestment on favorable terms. But he
did not forget the potential conflict of
MS personal interest and his official
obllgations to his company and its
stockholders.
This may seem to you leaning over
BACKWARDS. Mr.. Buckland wrote, but
excuse the paradox feel more
comfortable In that posture"
The ideal posture is one which q
person responsible to stockholders. or
even to an electorate. can be positive
That his decisions are unprecedented and
his duties safe from embarrassment
Mr.. Buckland's method, insuring that
he can stand erect by leaning back
wards" a little, is nearer safety than
STOPPING a little. either by accident
or neglect, so that later it becomes
difhcult to stand upright before ones
own Judgment and conscience and be-
fore the public.
Had he been Governor. a Senator,
an attorney interested in public affairs.
or serving In any high executive, legis-
lative or judicial position, with obli-
cations to the people of county, city,
State or the Nation, Mr. Buckland's
ethical code would have applied with
equal force against any possible entan-
clement or even an appearance Of such
handicAn J