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Retroactive Treason in Japan
(WaShinRton Star

Japanese veneration for the vener-
able is proverbial. But 1t has just
taken brand-new form In Toxic and
established In connection with the
crime Of treason q precedent that
must be without parallel In any coun-
try. Baron Kumakichi Nakajima,
since 1882 minister of commerce and
industry in the Saito government, has
just been dismissed from office for
condoning an act Of disloyalty which
occurred exactly 597 years ago.
In 1924 the baron, then merely a
prominent business man, wrote an
article praising the Shotgun Takauji
Ashikaga, who in 1887, A. D., de-
throned Emperor Godiago and en-
throned his own candidate. As re-
suit the name of Ashikaga is reviled
as one Of the blacklist in japanese
history-the perpetrator of an unfor-
givable crime against the throne.
Generations Of Japanese have been
reared to compare Ashikaga to noto-
rious traitors In other lands-doubt-
less to Benedict Arnold in Revolu-
tionary America, among others. Bar
on Nakajima Nkened him to Oliver
Cromwell Of England. and for that
act Of treason" to Japanese imper-
ial honor has now lost his official
head.
The baron's political enemies re-
Gently republished the discriminating
article. He apologized to both houses
Of Parliament, avowing that his ideas
had changed since he wrote the orig
inal piece a decade ago. But repent
ance came too late. His offense was
branded as unforgivable and his use
fulness to the government was de-
stroyed. He had to 60.
They take their ancient dynasty
and all and sundry Herewith asso-
ciated. seriously in Japan. It IS 9
species Of brassworks. 60 to speak
that 1t = dangerous TO monkey with
even retroactively. and even II thu
dastardly deed In question was q mat.
ter Of six centuries ago.
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A good lawyer is not made by ora
tory or personality, but by plain COM
mon sense.-Earle w. Evans, presi-
dent of the American Bar association.
\ y i
American women are charming, but
are all SO alike as to be indistinguish-
able, the one from the other.-Emil
Ludwig, author.
X * \
have never done any miracles
and I always distrust miracle work
ers.-Gaston Doumergue, premier de-
Signate Of France.
X \ i
My personal belief is that better
service can be obtained II postmas-
tiers in the larger cities are appoint
ed direct from the service.-James A.
Farley, postmaster general.
copyright, 1894, NEA Service, Incl
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SHED A TEAR FOR JOE


Around the War Department they're
feeling badly about poor old Joe"
silverman, barred from further deal
ings there and made an object Of
Department Of Justice investigation.
"Joe," . chubby, ingratiating busi-
ness man, has more friends in army
headquarters here than any other
outsider. For IL years he had q
monopoly on purchase Of surplus sup
plies and bought about $4,000 900
worth, mostly clothing.
He had friends in Congress. too,
who on at least one occasion helped
him dispose of Undertaking thus
bought to a relief agency here.
He lived at the Mayflower and
gave select parties for army o.
ficers. He always chose the right
ones, never wasting food or wine.
Everyone in the Quartermaster
Corps knew him by his first name.
Finally the Civilian Conservation
Corps came along and there weren't
any more army clothes to buy. Joe"
turned to selling-once he attempted
to sell back raincoats for about five
times what he had paid the army.
Then he turned to the business Of
selling motor cars to the War De-
partment and got in wrong.
WHY FINLAND PAYS
Ever wonder why little Finland
alone among nations continues to pay
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clerk in q large department store
and each time she arrived too late
or was turned away because Of lack

clerk in a large department store
and each time she arrived too late
or was turned away because Of lack
Of experience or references.
Valerie was persistently optimis-
tic. Something is sure to turn up,
but you've got to be patient. Don't
expect to get it this week. or maybe
next"
Stanley felt things would be in
iinitely easier when she had work
to do. When one is physically tired
out, one has to sleep. Between work
and sleep she hoped to get through
the next few months-beyond that
she refused to go.
Every bit Of her ached for Drew.
She felt that If he had been in New
York. she would have gone to him
and begged him to come back to her.
But he was not in New York. He was
in Chicago. And in her heart she
thanked God that this was 50, and
1T the same time prayed that be
might return, that he might speak
to her over the telephone. that she
might meet him in the street. Every
tall, swinging figure seen 1t q dis
lance robbed her Of her breath and
she sorted over the scanty mail on
the hall table with trembling fingers.
But Drew did not come and he
did not write and in her innermost
soul she knew that this was good
but her heart hungered for him
piteously. rebelliously, increasingly.
Even in her sleep she was never
without . troubled consciousness of
him-the ripple Of hard muscle in
his lean arms, the slanting planes
Of his dark cheeks, the husky note
in his voice, when he made love to
her. She wondered II these things
would ever dim, grow vague and
fade away, If she would ever be
able to push him into some dark,
Tar corner Of her mind. il he would
ever become less I painfully dis
tinct reality and more . half-for-
gotten memory. She thought not.
So intent she was upon her own
thoughts that she was startled
when out Of the hot darkness some
one spoke to her.
EXCUSE me. but you've been SIT
ting here an awful long time and
80 have !. II you DONE want me
to talk to you, ! won't but II you
don't mind, I'd like to-"
She looked up abruptly, noticed
tor the first time that she was not
the sole occupant Of the bench. In
the darkness it was hard to tell
much about him, except that he was
young and thin and had ! nice.
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rather shyly expectant sort Of
voice.
"Why. no." she said slowly
frowning . little, II don't mind.
Especially. if you are willing to do
the talking"
"Gosh, that's nice Of you.n IA
leaned toward her now and she saw
his face quite clearly. It looked
ridiculously relieved. "You know.
you might have called . con or
something. I suppose l took !
rather long chance, speaking to
you, like that"
She considered him with amused
and suddenly interested eyes. There
was something very young and
pleasantly naive about this awk-
ward young man who had an ide.
that girls spoken to in park.
called cops to rescue them. She
wondered . bit YEARLY why She
was going to bother to be- nice
to him and knew that she was
Decided it was because she wei.
coined any diversion to her own
thoughts.
She told him SO. She said. ~
didn't like what was think;no
about, but I couldn't seem to ston ,
Il know" He bent his head ia
her eagerly. spoke rushinrlv. -.
words tumbling over one another -
quick confusion. aThat's what
comes Of being alone too mnch
don't you think3 You get ali tan.
gled up In your own thoughts and
they're not always good comnarv
But what can you do about itf
Nothing"
= guess you're right" She
laughed . bit ruefully, elancine m
at him sidewise. liking the line 81
his profile beneath the pulled-dovn
brim Of his hat.
y know I'm right. I've he.r
alone for three months now-srd
well, it's made me desperate enourh
20 speak 20 you anyhow"
Did that take-so much eonr.
age?" ~
He laughed shortly. 1T certainlv
did. You see I'm not the sort that
picks up girls easily. i've alwavs
been clumsy about things like 49,
Il still ami" 49,
Ingenious, perhaps, but I
wouldn't say clumsy. There's sor.-
thing nicely unexpected about vo,,
! think ! like it." Stanley SPOKE
musingly. considering him with
grave eyes.
Then. I'm glad I'm like that y
Ito Be Continuedl
~, Copyright. 1882, by Allene cori;..
O'ssf1outed y Ains Features Syndicate. r..
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Barbs

Otto Kahn says there Is potential
grand opera star in every home, 50
now all the young hopefuls will prob
ably insist on singing in the bathtub.
i +
Those air mail lines that got
the fat contracts may have been
trying to change the old proverb
to read, 1T takes money to make
the mail CO."
Copyright, 1894, NEA Service, Incl
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Stock Manipulation Affects
lis All

suppose that you are a business
man and that you run little garage
just around the corner off Main
street. You happen to need money
to build an addition to your garage.
or to install new equipment; SO you
90 to your bank and ask for a loan.
Your business is doing well enough
and your reputation is good, and as
far as your own condition goes there's
no reason why you shouldn't get your
money.
Now suppose that down in New
York certain clever gentlemen have
banded together to conduct a raid
on the stock market. They have
formed q pool, hired a specialist ia
act for them, and by the various de-
vices available have set to work to
rig the market and make killing.
It's part Of their game, let us say
to beat down the price Of certain
stock. They have plenty Of money
and they know the ropes, so they sue
coed. The stock slides off some Is or
20 points. Other stocks dip more OF
less in sympathy.
Your banker, meditating on his
outstanding loans, which rest on COL
lateral, which in turn is affected by
the days trading, sensibly
enough-that he must tighten up. Sc
you don't get your loan and the
money which you would have put into
the channels of trade goes unspent
and the improvements you had plan
ned for your business don't get made
And that Is how you have q direct
interest in what happens in the stock
market, even though you never bought
a dimes worth Of securities in you,
life.
Which, in turn, is why the pro-
posed federal regulation Of stock ex-
changes IS not merely q thing which
affects brokers, investors and specu-
1ators.
A capitalistic society cannot func.
tion without some sort Of securitie.
market where there can be q free
flow Of available capital. But thu
forces set In motion by the opera.
ton Of such a market are 20 compile,
and reach so far that 1t Is essentia
10 society as . whole that that flow
Df capital be truly free.
Men who pervert the exchange into
= gambling hall, and manipulate
stock levels arbitrarily for their own
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CHAPTER NINETEEN

Stanley had been sitting for a
long time on the park bench. There
had been children in the Square
when she first came, and families
eating ice-cream cones and people
waiting for buses, and more peo-
pie sitting, reading the evening
papers. But now it was quite dark
and the children had gone home
and the people had taken the buses
and there was no longer any day.
light to read by.
Here and there thro U z h the
Square lovers sat close together,
theirs arms and hands touching;
here and there people who were no
longer lovers sat and slept-or just
sat, too tired to 60 home.
It was hot and still-with the
heat hanging languidly. % it does
when it IL very dark and there is
no wind and no promise Of rain.
Even in the darkness ono knew
that the trees and. grass were
scorched; that the painted benches
were blistered. that everywhere dust
lay thick and dry and motionless.
Stanley sat motionless, too, her
hands folded one over the other.
She had taken bath, and dressed,
and gone out to the corner drug
store and climbed up on . high
stool between = fat, cheerful per-
spring man, who was eating =
hamburg sandwich and . mildly
pretty little girl who was consum-
ing . chocolate ice-cream soda. She
had ordered food but the sight Of
the wilted lettuce and slice Of over
ripe tomato had been too much for
an already sick appetite, and 50
she had slid off the stool and come
here. Valerie had gone out with
Jimmy Hunter-they had asked her
to 60 along-now she wished that
she had-but it had been 50 hot and
she had been 30 tired.
Sitting here now in the dark, she
went YEARLY over the four days
which had passed since her after
noon at Nigel's. The relaxed mood
in which she had left his studio had
deserted her within . few hours
and she had known almost 1t once
that she would not 60 back or tele-
phone to him. She tried TO explain
It to Valerie. TITS like this, val-if
let him help me. get me this
place in the art shop. it would mean
that I would be seeing all Of them
again-Nigel, Dennis St. John,
Perry, Of course. ] don't want to do
that. I don't know Why, exactly,
but I don't. I'd rather find some-
thing for myself. work things out
alone"
So each day since she had walked
several miles IL answer to adver-
tisements Valerie marked the night
before in the evening paper. As
sistant in . beauty parlor, hostess
in . tea room, attendant in 4 doc
tors Office, part-time governess for
two English children, demonstration
for : new brand q coffee, fling
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Real Benefit in Sight

Out of the weller which comprise.
The investigation into the costs Of
airplane manufacture for the army
and navy may come the means Of
giving the average American wings.
Few Of US understand airplanes
but 1t has been obvious enough for a
long time that the application Of
modern manufacturing m eth d s
should make them cheaper than au-
tomobiles.
The big airlines have reached the
stage where speeds Of $50 to 200 miles
an hour are common. For planes
capable OF such performance and
large carrying capacity they must ex-
pect to pay large sums.
But "flivver" plane also has long
been a possibility and we haven't got
it.
The reason may be found, as one
veteran airman suggests, in an air.
plane trust or combine which. hav-
ing the power to fix prices, kept them
high enough to make huge profits
from small investments. To have
made the industry one OF national
scope and Importance might have de-
ktroyed such a graft, II the charges
are true and the trust actually ex-
lists.
That something Of this nature may
be the fact, also that there yet is
hope for the future, is indicated by a
recent Washington dispatch telling
how the Consolidated Aircraft COM
pany of Buffalo, N. Y, having made
profit of 46.1 per cent on its army
contracts, got ashamed Of itself and
subsequently sold the army so addi-
tional planes for 81 each to make up
for its previous profiteering.
Airplane makers are not in bust
ness for their health. They are not
expected to be. But they may find
their financial status improved If
they turn their attention to the ire
mendous market for cheap air trans
portation which exists here in Amer
lea, particularly in these prairie
states Of the west.
The first company to make a good
reliable plane which will sell for say
500 and meet the technical require
,nents OF highest safety for amateur
filters will find itself doing lot Of
business.
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enrichment, are not simply spearing
suckers; they are affecting the daily
business Of people who have no d.
rect connection with the stock mar
ket at all.
They are standing between indus
try and that free flow OF capital es-
sential to industry's well-being.
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US her war debt installments?
It's good business Judgment. Lasv
year Finland sold us about $9y000,OOC
worth OF goods and bought from W
only around $3,500,000 worth. Her
debt payment was only $378,0O0.
No other European debtor nation
has q favorable American balance OF
trade. Her chief exports to Us are
wood pulp, newsprint and skins.
She doesn't want Russia to get
that business away from her.
Copyright, 1884, NEA Service, Incl
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SYNOPSIS

Young and beautiful Stanley
Paige loses her fortune through
market speculation but Z harder
blow comes when her iiance +.
the fascinating. irresponsible Drew
ArmitaEe tells her it would be
madness to marry on his income
and leaves town. Penniless and
broken-hearted, Stanley refuses ia
seek aid from her wealthy friends.
Desiring to make her ewn way,
Stanley drops out Of her exclusive
circle and rents . cheap furnished
room. After . week Of loneliness
and trying to adapt herself to her
poor surroundings, Stanley calls
ON Nigel Stern, one Of her society
friends. and asks his aid in secur.
ing = position. Nigel urges her to
marry tho handsome and wealthy
young lawyer, Perry Deverest, who
has loved her devotedly for years,
but Stanley's heart is with Drew.
Nigel suggests that she think il
ever. and then. if she still wants
. position, he will try to place her.
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The Associated Press Is exclusively
entitled to the use for republication
Of all news dispatches credited to II
or not otherwise credited in this
newspaper and also the local news OF
spontaneous origin published herein
AL rights of republication Of all other
matter herein are also reserved.
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BIBLE HIS AUTHORITY

BIBLE HIS AUTHORITY
Many New Dealers can quote
from . large range Of sources,
but Secretary Wallace II perhaps
the only one who consistently
can cite chapter and verse from
Scripture.
The last time he was asked
about compulsory cotton produc-
ton control, Wallace, who op.
posed It In principle, replied:
my attitude IL that Of Sam.
uel, eighth chapter, first Samuel.
When the children Of Israel told
him they wanted kings, he told
them II they wanted kings they
could have them, but certain
things would happen to them"
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the shorter hour employment gain.
But It's another complication for
NRA as it considers shortening its
standard 40-hour week and realizes
that it viii be increasing average pro-
duction per man when it does so.
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Verree Teasdale. famous actress
gave up an attractive London engage
ment to be near Adolphe Menjou
thus proving he is successful lover
off the screen as well as on.
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When Lady Asquith, former Amer
lean girl, Withdrew the remarks that
had caused an outburst In British
Parliament, she exercised woman's
prerogative Of changing her mind.
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The fates have struck some hard
blows at Europe Baldwin,
British statesman.
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Editorial Comment

Editorials printed below show the
trend OF thought by other editors.
They are published without regard
to whether they agree or disagree
with The Tribune's policies.
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PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE
BY William Brady, M. ID

Signed letters pertaining hygiene to disease
diagnosis treatment will be answered by stamped
envelope enclosed Letters
IN ink No reply be made to queries conforming
Address Dr. William Brady in care Of this newspaper
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The NewDeal
- IN -
Washington

Shorter Hours Don't Spread Work.
MA Told -. Wallace Turns 70
baole to Back His Waning
Drop . Tear for Poor Joe Silver.
man,
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Nail Biting or Thumb Sucking

Make strong decoction of quassia
chips and dip the fingers and thumbs
in 1t and let them dry. One or two
Evening star., 1934-12-06
MOVING PICTURE FIRE
IN BARN INJURIES a.
100 French Villagers Caught in
Trap as Blaze Covers
Entrance.
By the Associated Press.

1y the Associated Press.
PERPIGNAN, France, December g.
One hundred villagers, rollicking at
o motion picture in rural barn,
were cast suddenly in the roles of
actors in real-life drama by fire
and panic that put A of them in
hospitals today.
Ten of the injured were so seriously
burned or crushed in the rush for
safety that they were not expected
to recover
The fire burst forth from the pro-
jector set up near the door of the
makeshift theater AS flames, fed
by hay stored in the barn, enveloped
the single exit, the spectators. mostly
women and children, struggled madly
to reach safety.
Evening star., 1934-12-06
MYSTERY DEEPENS.
WITH RITTER DEAD
Probers of Galapagos
Deaths Find Key Man
Died of Stroke.
BY the Associat ted Press.

By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, December 6.-The
death of DR.. FREDERICK Ritter, Ger
man self-exile through whom Ameri-
can scientists hoped to pierce the
mystery surrounding Marchena Is
lands two mummif1ed bodies. was
learned last night with the revelation
the equatorial tragedy involved a
third victim.
Capt. G. Allan Hancock, heading a
party of scientists to the Galapagos
Islands, which includes Marchena,
messaged here he had identified the
bodies, learned of DR.. Ritter's death
and heard one of the Marchena VIC
TINS had been driven from Charles
Island.
The castaway tragedy victims, Capt.
Hancock reported. were identified as
Alfred Rudolph Lorenz of Paris and
Chatham Island and Trygve Nuggrud
Of Chatham Island.
Colored Boy Is Victim.
A third victim, whose body has not
been found, was colored boy work.
ing for Nuggrud.
Much of the mystery back of their
fate apparently was held by Ritter,
who in letters to the outside world
had mentioned of strange happenings
on Charles Island which he said he
dared not put in letters.
The strange Baroness Eloise Bons-
quet de Wagner, who, DR.. Ritter had
written to Capt. Hancock, held a clue
to the strange drama. mysteriously left
the islands July 5, with Robert Phil
1ipson. Not a word has been heard
from this couple for five months.
Shortly before she vanished, Capt.
Hancock reported, she drove Lorenz
from Charles Island, Of which she was
the self-styled empress.
His pleas for food and water were
refused by the baroness, islanders said.
Without supplies, Lorenz Nuggrud and
the colored boy sailed in the Nor
wegian's launch for Chatham Island,
30 miles south of Charles
Storms, and probably engine trouble,
drove them 100 miles to the north,
where their bodies were found on the
barren, waterless Island of Marchena
Important pages in the tragic story
were left blank by the disappearance
Of the empress and the death of DR..
Ritter. His mind surging with the
turmoil of the isolated island where he
had sought peace six years ago, the
former Berlin dental student died Is
days ago.
Woman Tells Of Exile.
He and his mate, Frau Dore Strauch
Koerwin, who told Capt. Hancock Of
LorenZ's exile, we're the first colonists
to arrive on the former penal island,
once the haunt Of pirates.
Three years ago the baroness ar
rived, bringing with her Lorenz and
PhillipSon, employees of her Paris gown
shop Then came trouble
Ritter complained of the arrogant
young woman dominating dull young
men" There we're stories of captur-
ing sailors, casting away a ship
wrecked honeymoon couple, a wild
woman parading in silk panties with
q pistol dangling from her waist by
q silver cord.
The Ecuadorean government inves-
tigated last January, but decided the
stories were grotesque exaggerations.
A few months later DR.. Ritter wrote
Capt. Hancock conditions were again
unbearable and he knew something he
dared not write-a story he never told.
Evening star., 1934-12-06
EDUCATOR TO RESIGN
DR.. David L. Edsell Quits as Har-
ward Medical Dean.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, December s
(P).-Dr. David L. Edsell, for 16 years
dean of the Harvard Medical School,
will retire next September, DR.. James
B. Conant, president of Harvard Uni
versity, announced last night.
Dean Edsell. who is IS, will assume
the title of dean emeritus. He also
will relinquish his post as head of
the Harvard School Of Public Health
and dean of the faculty Of medicine
and science
Evening star., 1934-12-06

was unable to decide whether George
vickers, 81. Q mining engineer. for
merly Of Chestertown, Md, fell or
leaped to his death from a sixth floor
window last Saturday night.
Friends Of Vickers said they could
ascribe no motive for suicide.