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Evening star., 1934-03-26

Spltc ltlO GOuolcu
hair matted with mud and a nasty
bruise on her cheek: her body also
indicated that she had received
terrific beating. Her fluffy, white Or
candle dress was torn and dirty, but
her clothes we're of the finest quality.
MY belief is that she had been
placed on the tracks while uncon-
scious so that she would be struck by
train, making identification impossi-
bic. However, she must have revived
temporarily and crawled to the gravel
right of way before train came
along. There she died.
"Dr. johnson says death was due
to strangulation, but there were no
marks on her throat to indicate 1t,
although, as I said. her body was
horribly bruised. Perhaps she was
etrangled with her hose, which may
account for her being barefooted.
She was found in secluded spot,
but I am confident that she was
placed thereafter being attacked else
where"
He was right!
, WHY?
(For Solution See Page BID
Ferhape YOU have s story or prob
lem you would like to submit to Prof:
Fordney. If so. send 1t to HIM care Of
this paper. He will be delishted to
receive H.
Evening star., 1934-03-26

awarded the gold medal for the prize
winning design In the fourth small
house architectural competition spon-
sored by Better Homes in America.
Honorable mentions are accorded
the following, each Of whom receives
q bronze medal: Royal Barry wills,
Boston, last years gold-medal win
Evening star., 1934-03-26
FRENCH VETERANS
TO TOA|DDOUMERGUE
Policy of Neutrality Ends
as Group Rallies to
Premier.

PARIS, March 26-War veterans,
5000 900 strong. stepped into Frances
troubled politics today with q pro-
gram to modernize the government.
The Veterans National Federation
abandoned It's traditional policy Of
neutrality yesterday and by the
unanimous vote of its council decided
to take an active part in the nations
political life
AS this powerful group rallied to
the support of Premier Doumergue in
his drive to restore calm, extremists
battled in several cities, notably Tours
and Toulon. Fearing new outbreaks.
authorities took special precaution at
Tours to maintain order. Gendarmes
said shots we're fred there yesterday
in violent street fighting between
Rightist and Leftist factions.
The anti-Fascist front at Tours
called a demonstration for tonight as
a counter manifestation against one
by the Right organization, Solidarite
Francasise.
Three naval Offices we're among the
SO persons hurt, seriously, before po-
lice succeeded in scattering mobs of
struggling RoyaliStS and Socialists at
ToulOn.
Evening star., 1934-03-26
WINS MEDAL FOR DESIGN

NEW YORK, March 26 R.-The
American Institute Of Architects an
nounced last night that Roger H.
Bullard, New York architect, has been
Evening star., 1934-03-26

Francisco: Edwin 3. Goodell, Jr., gos.
ton; Martin L. Beck. Princeton, N. j.,
and o. Kline Fulmer, Cleveland.
Evening star., 1934-03-26

ner; Miller a. Warnecke, Oakland.
Calf; Milton L. Grisg, Charlottes-
vile, Va; william I. Garren, San
Evening star., 1934-03-26

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porch.
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know most of the
facts. Ruth Dick
sons body, lying
beside the rail-
ad tracks = a
quarter of a mile
from here, was
found day before
yesterday at 6
am. by Ole Bur-
ton. She was a
beautiful girl de-
er.ifA @IA fo,teleI
Evening star., 1934-03-26
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4 4 case, I'm about at the end
of my rope" groaned Prof.
Fordney sinking into chair. This
weather's getting the best OF me-"
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you'll :" urged one of the group
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-19
Public Welcomes Hopefully |
Cummings Crime Conference

can supply. Attorney General Cum
ntngs' crime congress undoubtedly
viii give great deal of It's time To a
discussion OF increased Federal ac-
tivity in the war on crine.~
Mr.. Cummings holds out hope"
states the Port Huron (Mich.) Times
Herald, "of actual progress when he
says that In some instances public
officials who gave aid and comfort TO
fugitive desperadoes were arrested
and convicted That sounds a good
deal like striking where we have long
known the heavy arm Of tina law
ought to fall. He emphasizes some
thing which must not be forxptten
Tor moment when he says that 'uIi-
scrupulous lawyers and dishonest
public officials are among the most
sinister elements to be dealt VITA"
or the suggestion that America
should have Scotland Yard. the
Savannah Morning News comments:
Department of Justice officials hold
that the State rights issue alone
would bar q master sleuthinR orRanl-
zation In America. In this connection
1t was recalled that the adgniutstra-
ton had to bring pressure upon Con-
gress to act upon several OF the new
crime bills because some Congress-
men felt the measures were usurping
State powers. The bills finally were
enacted in form desired by the ad-
ministration. They give the Govern
ment wide authority to step in and
Cooperate with State government
agencies or act alone, when conditions
warrant, to apprehend criminals"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-19
Western Cattle for South
From the Pittsburgh Post Gazette.

From the Pittsburgh Post Gazette
From the drought-stricken regions
Of the Middle West $4,000 head OF
cattle owned by Uncle Sam are to be
moved to Georgia. The first lot has
arrived in excellent condition. II is
estimated they viii turn into some
100000 cans Of beef. to feed fanli-
lies on Federal relief rolls.
Uncle Sam leases pasture lands. the
animals are marked with Government
tags and Federal employees ride range
over the herds. About 40 community
canning plants are to be opened: the
first, 1t Is expected, within a month,
After the beef is timed, the plants
will be used for canning relief stocks
Of vegetables. some Of which may Dos
sibly be shipped westward, to help the
former owners of the cattle.
To the supercritical, this may seem
like parallel to the economic fable
Of the isolated community where the
people lived by taking in one anotheF's
washing, but 1t has at least the ele-
ments OF immediate usefulness in
moving the cattle from drought re-
gions to those where pasturage is
rich, of furnishing employment and
OF providing sustenance for persons on
relief, to balance any defects that may
be discerned in it as q policy prece-
dent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-19

motor trip with q boy friend. But
her family and the local authorities
took IL for granted that she was tell
inc an accurate tale, and literally
scores Of men we're dragged 10 police
stations "on suspicion or TO BE-
identified" The hoax was proved
NJ last BY the confession Of the young
companion Of her adventure. He
came clean" he said. because his
sweetheart was taking too much"
the temptation TO embroider the
original lie with lurid details brought
about the undoing Of It's fabricator.
There have been several cases Of
men In financial difficulties pretend
ing to have been "snatched" one
merely wished 10 eyade his creditors,
another hoped 10 trick his friends
into sending him money. In each
instance the taxpayers were put to
unnecessary expense and the whole
public was agitsted by an indefenSible
canard. But the culprits suffered no
inconvenience save that Of being de-
tected in their frauds.
Actual kidnapings have been plenti-
ful enough, fake kidnapings and
imaginary kidnapings have been al
most equally frequent. A better
technique for discriminating between
the one kind and the others
is needed. The Conner baby would
have been found much earlier If the
police had not wasted time on an
unsupported theory. That circum-
stance demonstrates how human life
is involved n the problem Another
days delay and the child might have
been discovered dead.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-19
Takoma Park Stays Dry.

Under the District liquor control
act the Commissioners have broad su-
thority ito forbid the issuance of
licenses for manufacture, sale or stor-
age OF alcoholic beverages in such To-
cslities in, and such sections and por-
tons Of, the District Of Columbia as
they may deem proper in the public
interest; also TO limit the number OF
licenses in the District or any portion
OF the District in the public in
terest."
Dry Takoma Park, D. c., has fought
the issue OF liquor licenses in its vi
cinity from the drop OF the hat. Plenty
Of evidence has been produced to show
that the overwhelming sentiment Of
the community is against sale Of liquor
in any form, as it is in Takoma Park,
Md, across the line. The Alcohol
Beverage Control Board, with several
applications for licenses in Takoma
Park, D. c.. before it, referred the
question to the Commissioners. On
Tuesday the Commissioners decided to
recommend to the board that no
licenses for sale of hard liquor or
wines be issued, but, under their in
depreciation Of an amendment to the
liquor law. granting the right of beer
licenses to non-conforming stores in
residentially zoned areas, made no rec
concentrations on beer licenses.
The Commissioners decision was in
accord with demonstrsbly prevailing
public sentiment. To have permitted
sale of liquor in defiance of this senti-
ment would plainly have not been
in the public interest" The Com
missioners have established a sound
principle in thus respecting the senti-
ment of home communities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-19
Not kidnapped.

One Of the most interesting news
stories in many months is fading from
the front pages of the Nations press
The Conner baby has been found, and
physicians and police oficers appear
TO be agreed that he was not kid
mapped. His troubles, it seems. were
the result OF his own ill-advised at
tempt to explore an alien territory.
No evidence OF any kind has been
Forthcoming to support the theory
that he was either lured or stolen
away.
The case has 3 psychological Signifi-
esnce Of stable dimensions People
are apt to Jump TO conclusions" and
a favorite termination of such
Jumps" during the past two year:
has been the theory whereby kid
napers have been held responsible
for the vanishing of any missing in
dividual. The publicity which in
evitahly developed from the murder
OF the Lindbergh child set q fashion
so to say. and both real and fakec
kidnapings have been numerous ir
all parts of the country. But 1t il
imperatively necessary 10 distinguish
between the true and the false.
To Illustrate, q New Jersey girl re-
Gently created vast excitement BY
elaiminE 10 have been kidnapped b!
q gang OF thugs. Her story was de-
signed TO explain an unauthorized
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-19

the Pennsylvania avenue cart or the
Fourteenth street wagon, 1t may be
supposed, vas indicted into regular
traffic routine from a Stone AGE
equivalent OF Kensington. Nd. or
Lyon village. Va. and bystanders
may have considered the novelty
"too expensive" Living men and
women can recall the FIRST electric
cars and the first automobiies-they,
too. we're looked upon sskanee in
their infancy, yet survived the critl-
cism.
The race constantly seeks better
and quicker means Of getting from
one spot on the map TO another
and the whole history OF trsnsporta-
ton is but a chain Of such incl
dents as Mondays event. A Law
Of human life Is manifest in the cir
cumstance. Philosophers call 1t the
pragmAtic significance of inventive
genius. Rare souls dream things, and
by and by everybody is doing them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-19
Liberty's Refuge Is No More When
The Courts Abdicate Guardianship

grave probability confronts the coun-
try in the fact that the conservative
members of the Supreme Court are
all above their retiring age, and may
be soon retired voluntarily or by
death. Should this happen within the
next three years their places will be
filled by So-called progressives, and
the court, being then wholly progress
sive, will become nothing more than
an adjunct of the Congress to sustain
any legislation it may enact that bears
the label, For Social Betterment."
1nnumerable instances of recent oc-
currence can be cited in support of
the foregoing charges against the
courts. The decision of the Supreme
Court in the Minnesota moratorium
case is an example of where the court,
yielding to the exigencies of the times
and to the highly excited and unbal-
anced state of the public mind, de-
liberately suspended prohibitory
provision of the Constitution, which
they were bound by their oath of
office to support and defend. The
courts have sustained many Of the
acts Of the present Congress put
ting into effect the objects Of the
new deal" many Of which are so
flagrantly unconstitutional as to be
apparent to a layman.
Our currency, which Is the very life
blood of the Nation, has been de-
based, and the President, in the ex-
ercise of powers conferred upon him
by the Congress. has repudiated the
solemn contractural obligation of the
Government to redeem its bonds and
gold certificates in gold. The citizen
is required under act Of Congress and
executive orders to surrender his gold
to certain executive agencies, who fix
its value. and which will never be re-
turned to him, but paid for in a de-
preciated currency, the future value
of which is problematical. Even
though 1t be conceded that Congress
has the power to declare gold to be
affected with public interest, and,
therefore, subject to appropriation for
a public use, the Constitution forbids
that it shall be taken except in pay
ment of just compensation. The queS-
ton of compensation is judicial one,
and it cannot be otherwise decided
under the Constitution except by the
courts, and yet the law commits this
question to the decision of executive
officers, thus depriving the citizen of
his property without due process of
law" in violation Of the fifth amend
ment Of the Constitution. This in
iquitous and unconstitutional law has
been sustained by the courts in the
Campbell case, which involved not
only Campbell's gold, but also his per-
sonal liberty.
But enough. Our liberties and
property rights are in jeopardy, with
no place for refuge or their protec-
| ton. Freedom of the press and of
speech are being threatened. Local
self-government is being destroyed,
along with the independence, self
reliance, morale and character of our
people. The day of reckoning will
come, but let US pray that it may not
be a repetition of the melancholy end
of ancient Greece and Rome, who
found their destruction along the very
paths We are now moving.
ALEXANDER SIDNEY LANIER.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-19
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
IntelIectualism.

Intellectualism.
We must encourage intellect
And cultivate each thought,
BY methods straight or indirect
That new events have brought.
We must not fear increasing stress
OF problems that are great;
Wen boldly call on the Profess
To set our reasoning straight.
Perhaps our brains are not so strong
In this and foreign lands;
Or. maybe. what is going wrong
Is one Of numerous glands.
OF course, each intellect refined
A sense of pride preserves
And what We call a state of mind
May be a state of nerves.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-19

Attorney General Cummings an
nouncement of plans for national
conference on crime to combat the
common gangster, the conniving law
yer, the crooked official and the
"maudlin public" Is received hope
fully by the press.
It Is pointed out by the Nashville
Banner that "every State will be In
vited to send representatives to the
proposed congress" and that this lis
just another step in the Governments
crusade against gangsters and evil
doors generally" As to results al
ready achieved, however, that paper
declares that "law enforcement forces
have been augmented and new statutes
have been enacted, but Dillinger re-
mains uncaptured and robberies of q
startling kind continue"
"Mr. Cummings emphasizes his
recognition Of the full scope Of the
job he has tackled" according to the
New Haven Journal-Courier, which
adds: 1.-THE gangSter Is not an iso-
lated phenomenon. He is merely the
exaggerated symbol Of vast per-
vasive relaxation of standards, the
eliminating because the most obvious
rank In a long graduation Of GRIM
inality. The Federal campaign against
crime. II it is to be truly effective,
.1lust not be directed merely at the
open criminal, but at all the. inter-
locking anti-social elements In So
eiety. The racketeer is not cause,
he is q result of general corruption.
The national conference will rate
him only one Of its multitudinous
enemies"
The San Antonio Express recog-
nizes that Mr.. Cummings hopes to
enlist Il law officers, criminologists,
jurists and statesmen In a concerted
attack upon organized crime" and
that criminals do not regard State
boundaries, except as a means to d.
vide the opposition and perhaps evade
arrest and delay and Illustrate JUS
tice." The Texas paper commends
the desire for unity among law en-
forcement agencies" but concludes:
The criminal investigation division
at Washington has done such good
work that its sphere beneficially might
be enlarged However, not that nor
any other Federal agency should re-
lieye the States, counties and cities
of their own responsibilities. Many
communities probably will be found
only too willing to let Uncle Sam do
their house cleaning. That is i'm
practicable and, in any case, unde-
sirable. In fact. the individual citizen
must be made to realize that the
crime problem comes close to home"
Possibility Of greater activity by the
Federal Government is received with
favor by the Morgantown Dominion
News, which argues: Since crime
became an organized business, 1t has
become apparent that local police Of
ficers, hampered by district and State
lines, cannot deal with it. In COM
mission of q single crime gangsters
have extended their operations into
several States and over thousands Of
miles of territory. Obviously the law
enforcement officers Of the States in
volved, lacking authority to cross
State lines and a means for co-ordi-
mated effort, were tremendously hand
icapped. The Federal Government
seems to be the only agency whose
authority is extensive enough to equip
1t with the needed tools for lessening
crime and Furnishing criminals. A
major weapon needed is co-ordinated
effort. That the Federal Government
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-19
Cabinet Turmoil in Paris

determinations within the cabinet
at Paris suddenly threaten the "har-
mony government" OF Premier CASTOR
Doumergue and to plunge France into
another OF those political crises with
which her modern history is so re-
plete. The undying Stavisky bank
scandal is the root cause Of the latest
upheayal.
Former Premier Andre Tardieu.
minister without portfolio in the
Doumergue government, charges an
other former premier, Camille Chau-
temps, with completely In the Stavisky
affair. Tardieu also asSails his pres
ent cabinet colleague. Edouard Her
| riot. likewise a former premier, con-
tending that the Stavisky swindling
operations were known to the cabinet
headed by Herriot in 1892.
These various allegations cropped
up on Wednesday in the course OF a
parliamentary inquiry into the Sta
visky affair. M. Tardieu had been
questioned regarding Stavisky check
stub for 100000 francs, found marked
Camille A. Tardi" Claiming that he
did not know Stavisky, NJ. Tardieu
Numbered that the check stub was
part of scheme of the secret police
TO get something on me" and then
startled the committee by accusing
Chautemps of having forged the
"Tardf' on the stub. NJ. Chautemps
faced his accuser and demanded
proofs. which NJ. Tardieu failed to
submit.
Just what will finally come out of
these latest boulevard sensations is.
of course. unpredictable. They are
the stun that Parisians love and which
French politicians since time i'm
memorial have exploited for "crisis"
and affair" purposes. In parlia-
mentary Hobbies there is already a re-
port that NJ. Herriot, who heads the
powerful Radical Socialist party, may
leave the cabinet and that at least
four other ministers may follow him.
Such a development would inevitably
doom the Doumergue government.
At time when the entire European
political situation is in a state of con-
fusion and fux. serious internal po-
litical unrest in France would have
widespread repercussions. 1t would in
evitably arrest the ambitious and far
flung plans of Foreign Minister Bar
thou to link Europe in ring designed
to curb and encircle NaA Germany.
If the three former premiers involved
in the present fracas-Tardieu, Chau-
temps and Herriot-insist on a show
down on the ugly Stsvisky issue. there
is no telling to what lengths, in both
domestic and foreign politics, this
latest French explosion might lead.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-19
FLYING to Work,

Six New York business men COM
muted to work by airplane Monday.
They flew from their Summer place of
residence to Wall Street in nineteen
minutes. The trip was the first on a
schedule arranged by an air transport
company as a regular service facility,
and its success doubtless will en-
courage the promoters to perseyere
with their idea.
OF course, such q development was
bound to come. 1t was as certain as
anything can be. The machine which
began as a toy has demonstrated its
practical character so many times in
so many different ways that an air
taxi is q perfectly natural expansion
Of its carrying function. Probably 1t
will be the experience Of individuals
now living to witness the morning sky
literally alive with committing planes
conveying vhite-collar workers from
Suburoia to the metropolis. 1t is not
beyond the powers Of healthy imAg-
ination 10 picture the possibility of
the Chevy Chase or Silver Spring
coaches sprouting wings Even the
Mount Pleasant trolley cars at last
may rise from the rails to soar owe:
the District landscape like celestial
leviathans.
There is ample precedent for such
progress. Back in an unrecorded age
OF the misty past, it seems indicated
a group Of spiritual ancestors Of Mon
days voyagers took of" for theil
duty in the hunting field aboard 6
dinossur express, and the spectator:
OF their departure may have beer
scepticsl Of their safe arrival ut thetl
journeys end. Some centuries latel