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Evening star., 1934-05-05
URGES CLEARING HOUSE
Head Of Philadelphia Building
Loan Advocates Plan.

A clearing house for building and
loan associations Of Philadelphia was
advocated recently by John @. VIII
liams, president of the Philadelphia
County League of Building and Loan
Associations, as a feature of the pro-
gram of league activity for the year.
Williams stated that the real OBJ
jective of the county league win be
to further the increasing interest in
building aud loan associations and
that he believes this can be accom-
plished by arranging his organisation
so as to create a clearing house for
the problems and questions Of the
local associations.
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Your Health
by DIX. MORRIS FISHBEN-

ONE Of the most annoying diseases of the skin is
~ called psoriasis.
In this condition the skin peels away in large
amounts in the form of silvery-lke scales. These
scales develop on top Of the chronic inflammation of
the skin.
Treatment Of this condition has been almost the
despair Of skin specialists for years. All sorts of
remedies are constantly being tried. These frequent
" produce clearing Of the condition, but seldom
complete cure.
Because it is associated with the general reactions
Of the body whole. psoriasis frequently changes
its character with changes in the diet with freedom
from worry, with the incidence of other
disease. with almost any condition affecting the
body a whole.
VITHEN the white scales are forcibly removed
w there are tiny bleeding points Just beneath
each of them With many patients the areas of in
Hammation disappear either wholly or partially
during the summer and return in the cold weather
The disease usually appears first on the outer
or extensor sides Of the arms and legs. especially
around the elbows and knees 1t may. however oc-
cur on any part of the body. but most rarely on
hands ano feet.
Psoriasis occurs most frequently in the second
and third decade Of life, but age is exempt. 1t
IS unusual for first attack to appear after forty
i've years Of age
THE disease apparently is not contagious or di-
rectly transmitted from parents to children but
heredity seems to play part in some cases. The
definite cause OF the disease has not been eStab-
lished however
In early stages OF this condition modification
Of the diet with elimination OF meats sometimes is
effective. The skin usually is treated with mild
ointmenta
In chronic cases the ontments most frequently
used contain substance called chrySarobin which
seems to have the specific quality Of clearing up
the spots.
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TOugEneSS a PuzzHng Quality

TNHE toughness of tough men is puzzling quail
Il ity. They had one dock wallOper along the
piers in Brooklyn some years ago who came up to
fight heavyweight in the ring but could not lick
his weight in pushCart peddlerS. He fought lew
years, went back to the docks and presently died.
When he died he became sort Of John Henry or
Paul Runyan. He could split oak door with one
smash of his mighty fist He could lick roomful
of bad, bad single-handed. He could tear
mattress in half as clean as a sheet Of paper
But in the ring he just another abysmal bum.
shaggy, tattoOed and blotchy
Citizens desiring to read up on the nature of the
longshoremen the tough, hard men who started the
strike which has become general in San Fran
CISCO would be interested in the story OF big Dick
Butler, leader in the great strike of 1919 in New
York, written by Joseph Driscol year ago. Mr. But
lers story, called Dock Walloper" recounts many
enlightening "reminiscences of the tough who
kidnapped Harry K. ThaW from the insane asylum
at Mattewan N. Y, in 1913
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Today S Science
BY DAVID DIETZ

TT is only fair to state that the entire scientific
Il world is frankly skeptcal of the announcement
made by Nkola Tesla upon his seventy eighth birth
day that he has perfected super death-ray capable
of destroying an army of 100000 men.
While scientists today are unwilling to put any
dream down as forever impossible, they propose to
believe in death only after they have seen them
demonstrated. At present, they do not know OF any
principle upon which death ray could work.
Of course the rays Of radum, powerful X-rays
and powerful electric discharge-So-called cathode
rays--might all be called death rays in that they
possess the power to kill.
I have witnessed experiments with powerful
X-ray tubes and cathode ray tubes at the Science
tady laboratory of the General Electric Company. It
was necessary to set up the experiment in a room
whose floor, walls and ceiling lined with lead.
When these tubes in operation it not
possible to remain within the room. To have done
would have meant death
ATIKOLA TESLA, proposes scheme by which
IN generators capable of developing electrical po-
tenals of 100000 volts would be placed along the
borders of the United States These would throw
out rays of some sort, building up wall of eectri-
fed particles which could not be penetrated by air.
planes battleships.
AS yet Tesla has not disclosed how he proposes
to do it. And it is only fair to say that no other
SCIENTIST has any idea how this could be done. No
body has as yet developed a potential Of 100000
volts
The Van de GRAF generator at Massachusetts,
Institute of Technology, at present the most power
full machine Of its kind in existence develops po-
tental of about 100000 volts regularly and be
made to deliver 100000 volts at times But while
this generator develops this very high voltage, its
power output is twenty-five kilowatts. This
that the amperage current strength of the gen.
orator is only about two one-thousandths Of an
ampere.
TT is matter of record that very learned
l. scientist of the nineteenth century wrote arti-
Gle proving conclusively that arplanes impossi
BILE In spite Of his article, airpanes fly very we'll
today.
One therefore should be somewhat wary about
saying that the things which Tesla is talking about
are impossible But scientists just do not any
way of accomplishing the things which he says can
be done
1t can be seen at glance that the ring of gen.
orators which Tesla proposes to place around the
border of the United States would have to generate
thousand Of times more power than all the power
plants now in operation in the United States.
For the present at least it would seem as though
the scheme belonged in the class with plans
for visiting Mars by of Spaces,ips." In other
words. of those things which no one Jet knows
how SO do.
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A COnSultant LOngshOremdn

MIR BUTLER is a great cync with an insufficient
1Vl respect for the majesty Of the courts and
public officials and also for the truth. He admits
that some of the members of his union, in one
instance, suspected him of selling them out for $500.
Mr. Butler is not practiCing longshoreman him.
self He is what you might call theoretical long,
Shoreman conSultant.
Most revolutions start along the waterfront"
says Mr. Butler, or possibly Mr.. Driscoll. "A real
Iongshoreman is happy as when he is using
his fists or his steel bail-hook on an enemy"
Yes?
A few paragraphs later Mr.. Butler writes, Il drew
a deadline across West street and dared anybody
to it and go to work at the piers. The Cunard
people complained that the workers the tough.
fight-oving lOngshOremen) were being scared away
by gangsters with knives and pistols"
Copyright. 1894 by United Feature Syndicate IncD
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THE justice department has
one OF the most efficient in
ternational exchanges in the
world. 1t is for finger prints. 1t
swaps them with forty-eight
countries from Algiers to Turkey
Washington's chief graft
tude to the stock exchange COM
mission is because it's chair
man, Joe Kennedy, rented the
estate of Samuel K. Martin, one
of the great show places of this
section. Only a handful of
Westinghouse ever have seen
inside of it. Now they can
Martin, 25-year-old Chicago heir,
married Broadway dancer and
built the house as wedding pres
ent for her They lived in it
only short time, with no oppor-
tunity to meet Washington soci-
ETY.. Then domestic difficulties
arose. the estate was closed
Looking like a small edition of
Versailles, all the plumbing in the
house is heavily gold plated, the
tubs are really large sunken
swimming pools. the beds are i'll
the middle of the rooms, built in,
each on dais In the base
ment is a completely equipped
theater to seat 200 people, with
double moving picture projection
and thousands of dollars worth
of special lighting facilities
But if Kennedy wants to use it, he'll
have to have the chairs moved
back in Young Martin had
them all removed so he could set
up gigantic electric toy railroad
system on the floor. Also, the
Kennedys probably will want to
bring their own servants.
The Martin menials were all COL
lege graduates. paid very high SAL
aries, because Mrs. Martin ex-
planned it made her uncomfortable
to have the servant class around
her.
Copyright 1884 bv United Feature
Syndicate. Ipc1
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married and never had been di-
vorced. She gave her age as 35;
it was 43. They we're married at
the famous Little Church Around
the Corner, and that evening Po-
derjay moved his luggage to her
three-room apartment.
On Dec. 20, at p. M. the
couple went to the pier Of the
Hamburg American line. They
had several pieces of hand lug
gage; no trunks. He may have in
tended to sail alone, although he
had no reservation.
She may have insisted on &C
companying him, an arrangement
not to his liking because he knew
his real wife would be waiting at
the dock in Southampton.
Anyway they quarreled, re-
turned to the apartment, and were
still quarreling when Negro
maid went to the apartment at IL
o'clock that night. Poderjay told
the maid not to come in next day,
but to come the following day.
That was the last time Miss Tuf-
version is known to have been
seen alive.
ON Dec. q Poderjay bought
~ 200 razor blades, a Sleep
producing sedative, and perhaps a
cheap black metal trunk. A mer-
chant sold such a trunk to a man
of Poderjay's description, but
there is no subsequent trace of it.
Employees at the apartment build
ing do not recall any of the trunks
very clearly. On Dec. % the
Negro maid entered the apartment
and found Poderjay sorting over
papers.
When she asked about Miss
Tufverson he said she had gone
to Philadelphia. A little later
he told a woman who inquired
that Miss Tufverson had preceded
him to Europe.
The maid cleaned up the place
and put quantity of litter into
the building incinerator. Poder-
jay sent at least four trunks and
some hand luggage downstairs,
hired a truck, and rode on it to
the pier of the S. S. Olympic. He
sailed alone and insisted upon
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DAILY WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO-ROUND
By Dreao Pearson and Robert S. Allen

VXTASHINGTON, July In summer,
w usually problems
shall
to be vacaoning This Secretary Hull led
thought a busy nothing present
he flooded with abled
debt defaults with negotiations
the problem of negotiating tariff treaties usually
this in foreign affairs Reason
in South America
Capitol building that
the Declaration independence
SignerS-have left should
brought that 1919" Fairman.
CONFIDENTIAL word from London that
~ sheve him permanently
and that probably he will
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own unions, and gone out to sell them to the en-
ployers. If the employer paid what he asked for
there would be no strike and the labor raCkeeer got
the money. If the employers wouldn't pay the leader
called out the Transfers and if any of them re-
fused to strike, felloW-members Of the union were
sent out to slug them Then the employer had to
pay double and the leader still got the money Maybe
he also exacted a special strike assessment levied
upon the entire membership
At a hearing in Washington few years ago an
official of the sailors union described his men as
the rakings and scrapings of hell friendlesS, ex-
plotted, abused and much more pathetic than for
midable and tough
The longShoremen themselves have been exploited
by hoodums and bullied around unbelievably. They
have been compelled pay tribute to nervy graferS
along the docks under no better authority than the
threat of bodily harm and the trade which glories
in its reputation the toughest Of laboring
in the world has been more independent
than the sailors and teamsters the ribbon clerks.
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ny a Ulul QcI.
In New York a great stack Of
documented testimony. reports,
photostats and the like fills a
drawer in the desk of Captain
John Stein, new chief of the police
departments bureau of missing
persons. Captain Stein has six
teen men on the case, and they
are still turning in bits OF the
iigsaw which indicate that the
puzzle, if it ever is complete, will
be a shocking picture.
DUT of the key-piece, the one
ID which will prove the missing
woman alive or dead, there is not
a trace.
It has been seven months since
any one has seen the woman at
torney, and the long interval
proved a discouraging obstacle to-
police.
Witnesses have forgotten de-
tails which might have been i'm
portant, and vital physical EVIL
dence probably has been de-
stroyed. But from a maze of
clews and rumors authorities now
have arrived at the facts of much
of what actually happened.
They met on a boat train, and
later on a liner, when she was re-
turning from a vacation trip to
Scotland more than a year ago.
He represented himself as
wealthy Yugoslavian apd said he
was coming to America to sell an
invention.
Miss TufverSon was not pretty
woman, or attractively feminine.
Yet Poderjay paid her marked at
tention; many noticed his appar-
ent devotion. He says she was the
one who proposed marriage-that
she had contemplated suicide be-
cause of some unhappy amorous
experience and desired marriage
to restore her Self-reSpect.
None of her friends believe this;
they say she had no such emo
tional crisis, that she was not of
the brooding sort, and that the
prospect of marriage to the pol
ished, charming foreigner made
her radiantly happy.
ON Dec. 4, when the pair took
~ out a wedding license, Poder-
jay falsely swore that he was I'M
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For whatever the general pub
lie and the authorities may think
of the shipping dispute they are
now confronted with, a situation
where it is impossible for them
to be neutral. They are compelled
by the general strike to take
measures to defeat the general
strike.
The particular issues, between
management and men, are swal-
lowed Immediately up in the ur-
gent need Of the people for food,
for safety Of movement, for the
right to proceed with their own
affairs.
A general strike is in its very
nature a strike not against certain
employees or even against the
whole class of employers, but
against public authority.
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The ex-labor leader, now pre-
mier, has aged rapidly, has diff
Guilty in speaking on the floor of
commons Ma" Perkins is
handling her new job of labor
dispute conciliator without the
General Johnson pyrotechnics,
but with force and poise. Her
comeback to a place of labor
power, after having been Shelved
by johnson and Wagner, has been
remarkable. Miss Perkins
pronounces "employe" with
French ending as If it were "em-
ploy-ay."
INSIDERS are whispering that
Il after the congressional cleo
tions are safely out of the way,
the sales tax will be trotted out
and strong drive launched to
put it over at next years session
of congress. The President,
they hint, is fully apprised of the
plan. Michigan's multimil-
lionaire Senator Jim Couzens has
gone ritZy in a big way this sum-
mer. Jim has chartered a palatial
ocean-going yacht: with his FAM
lily and select friends is touring
the Great Lakes. The vessel
is the size of young cruiser. Its
hull is jet black. its superStruc-
ture gold and white. and it has a
bridge that would turn an ocean
liner green with envy. The
bureau of printing and engraving
is working overtime these hot
summer days rushing dies for the
new silver certificates soon to be
issued. Such greenbacks are not
new. over S495,00O,000 already
being in circulation. But the new
certificates will be of a distinctive
design. They will be issued in all
denominations. New Jerseys
millionaire banker, Senator Han"
Kean. is such a die-hard rugged
Individuals" that he is seriously
engaged in breeding a type OF
what he calls rugged chickens"
on his elaborate model farm
Ham" says he wants to raise a
breed of chickens able to take
care of themselves under all kinds
of conditions"
Several American business men
spent an evening recently with
popular Boris Skvirsky. counsellor
of the Soviet embassy. They eX-
planned to him American business
methods and system. Skvirsky
was keenly interested. After sew
erai hours one of the Americans
observed: I think We could make
a capitalist out of you" Skvirsky
laughed. looked at his watch, re-
piled: I'm not afraid. It's 1880,
and you won't have time"
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TO-DAY AND TOMORROW
By Waller Lippmann

the strike Francisco
WI thrust them the mem by
their employees brought about
affairs what the state of affairs that actually has
with general strike? conflict between group employees
conflict
tween Organized labor
public city, perhaps ultimately the federal
Organized labor by its decision undoubtedly meant to add to the
the fact will relieve the
upon mmeaaby greater forces of resistance to
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. ocean, or it still may be in a
trunk.
1t was not dismembered and
dissolved or burned in the apart
ment incinerator. If she commit
ted suicide, she almost certainly
would have sent some word to her
relatives, and she scarcely would
have carefully planned the act so
her body would not be found.
Vienna police have reported
that they are in possession of
enough evidence to warrant trying
Poderjay for murder. But they
overlooked the iron-clad techni-
cality in American law which re-
quires the presence of corpse in
a murder case.
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his contention it breaches the belief that every
citizen under the stress of acute discomfort will be
willing TO lose sight Of principle and knucke down
tO acceptance Of the will of private capitalists
In the present situation Mr. Lippmann enuncates
radical doctrine to which I can not subscribe. He
seems TO argue that the whim of a small group of
shipping owners ought to be dgnifed under such
terms the city, the state and perhaps ultimately
the federal government. Mr.. Lippmann think is
far too cynical America is not yet ready to let
small and persnickety group of employers identify
themselves as embOdying the state the city and the
federal government. The public has rights and
one OF them is to go back constantly to the original
problem involved. ANY member of the public has
right TO say Why should have to take all this grief
and turmoil simply because small group of wilful
men insist that in their hiring halls they will not
permit reasonable apportionment Of the Jobs
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keeping an unusually large trunk
in his stateroom. 1t was an out
side room with portfolio large
enough for a body to be pushed
through it into the sea.
MARGUERITE FERRAND met
Iva him at Southampton. Later
he sent a cable, signed Agnes"
to Miss Tufverson'S sister Sally.
1t said: 1--WE now on way to India
will cable and write later" Thus
it was several months before Sally
Tufverson became alarmed by
Agnes silence and requested po-
lice investigation.
Not the least mysterious aspect
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Fair Enough
by
WESTBRO0K PEG[ER

NEW YORK, N. Y July 1.-THE longshoremen,
or longies whose union began the general strike
in San Francisco reputed to be the toughest crew
of laborng in the world. Sailors and teamsters
for a long time were supposed to be Just as tough
but rather oddly at the time when the sailors were
believed to be at their toughest, they were the
iron men of the wooden ships, they also noted
for their docility under tyranny and their fear of
physical punishment such as 1ogging To the perilS
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city, the state ana perhaps
ultimately the federal govern
ment."
It seems to me that Mr..
Lippman grossly undertakes
the intelligence of the general
public. And I think he is I'M
fair in charging an entire
community with moral cow
ardice. L do not know" said
Edmund Burke, the method
OF drawing up an indictment
against a whole people" Even
when the problem has been
scaled down to a single city l
doubt if Walter Lippmann is
competent to draw up such a
scathing indictment of San
Francisco As underSta nd
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of the case is how Poderjay per-
suaded Miss Tufverson, lawyer
and shrewd business woman, to
give him her money. Neverthe-
less, he became a co-holder of her
safety deposit box on Dec. 10, and
next day the contract for the box
was relinquished. He has ad-
mitted receiving the money from
her bank account, and police be-
lieve he received from her more
than $4,000 in cash and securities.
There are only a. few applicable
theories. If Miss TufverSon was
murdered, her body may have been
put through a portfolio into the
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HJeemc bM
By
Haywood BROUN

NEW YORK. July 17.-It takes two sides to make
general strike. I can not go along with the
trend Of editorial comment which fastens the blame
for a difficult and dangerous situation upon the
union members. For instance Mr.. Walter Lippmann
notes today in passing the assertion that the action
was thrust upon the workers by the refusal of the
shipowners to concede two reasonable demands.
Apparently Mr.. Lippmsnn is disposed to disregard
his charge as a matter Of no Importance.
what" he writes. is the state Of affairs that
actually has been brought about by the decision of
organized labor to fight the shipowners with gen.
eral striker A conflict between one group of en-
ployes and group Of employers has been trans
formed into conflict between organized labor the
one hand and on the other the general public. the
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FARMERS MURDER
PUZZLES DEPUTIES
Piece of Bark and Carpet
Spots Only CIeWS.

Deputy sheriffs today faced
blank wall in their hunt for the
murderer of Alfred DAM Pearson,
Beech Grove farmer, killed early
yesterday.
officers vainly shifted the only
available clews, two pieces of bark
in the slain mans bed and damp
spots on carpets in his home, in
an attempt to penetrate the mys-
terry. Meanwhile, William Williams,
missing farm hand, was being
sought.
Mr.. Pearson was found in his bed
by Mrs. Ethel Pearson, his wife,
with a gaping wound in his fore
head. Mrs. Pearson had been sleep
ing in another room. Mr.. Pearsons
skull had been fractured in two
places by what appeared to be ter
rifle blows.
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INTELLIGENT PAROLE
SYSTEM Is URGED
Young Offenders Would Be Aided,
Wayne Coy Tells Club.

Need for an intelligent parole sys-
TEN in Indiana was voiced yester-
day by Wayne Coy. secretary to
Governor Paul V. McNutt. in an adj
dress to the Service Club at the In
dianapolis Athletic Club Inteli-
gent use of the parole system would
rehabilitate many young offenders,
Mr., Coy said.