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HOpSOn Vanishes, but LOUeS EN-

ID ECALLING the SAD experiences of the investor
IN class" when they were protected only by the
conscience of the master patriots who now view with
alarm the blow to private industry it is easy to
derstand why the survivors hesitate to trust private
be such that in shooting the bandit he will also hit
the victim, but the bandit, himself, is in posi-
ton to complain about that.
The trial of Sobbing Sam insult in Chicago,
showed that the holding company issue is complex
that the investor class" not hope to understand
what all about and will have to trust to luck,
realizing however, that Mr.. Roosevelt is more likely
to have honest, atruistic motives than the holding
companies.
In Mr.. insults trial there charts endeavoring
to show the pyramided relationship of his inbred
holding companies which looked like the family tree
of the all-American mutt. Even Mr.. insult, himself,
the weeping wizard Of the Mddle-West, was not
entirely clear all the details and 1t may be judged
from that whether the jury which decided that he
was sick. sad old man and let him go was guided
by intelligent understanding of the evidence or by
emotion and wish to be magnanimous to a fellow
big-Shot
If the great body of thrifty, self-supporting
citizens" is asked to make choice of defenders be-
tween President Roosevelt one extreme and big
hearted Howard sEIopson the vanishing altruist OF
the Associated Gas and Electric. on the other. and
if all that each side charges against the other IS
correct what difference does it make who wins? But
when did ig-hearted Howard develop this great
sentimental crush on the poor widows and orphans
of the investor class, and is it really lover
Copyright 1895 by United Feature Syndicate Incl
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When Arbiters Are Wrong

w will not work in our business" explained Carl
Kawasser the executive vice president of the COM
many. It seems that on a previous occasion the New
York Shipbuilding Co. did submit controversy 10
arbitration and the award went against it. SO arbl-
tration is out l wouldn't be surprised if Mr Metten
also regards that as unconstitutional.
It seems to me that the general public has every
right to be suspicious of promoters who wish to pro-
vide additional loyalty" oaths. On the surface the
school teacher or the shipyard worker the stu
dent is asked TO support the flag as symbol OF the
organic law of the land. But in practice this pledge
of LOYALTY is almost invariably stretched to cover up
and protect extremely remote authority which mas
mot the slightest right to claim immunity from
criticism and attack Many a teacher has found
that disagreement with the decisions OF the School
superintendent has been held to constitute violation
OF the oath and gross and crimson rebellion.
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Questions and Answers

Q-What kind of game is Eo?"
Am old gambling game in this country that
was decided by whether a ball rolls into a hole
marked e" or one marked 90"
Q-Wkat are the age limits for enlistment in the
United States Navy?
A-From II to IS
Q-What is port Of call?"
A port where vessels are in the habit of put
ting n for supplies. repairs. information ETC.
Q-ls the Guggenheim Foundation for the Pro-
motion Of Aviation still functioning?
A-No.
Q-Where IS the Northwest Passage?
At u passage OF sea between the Atlantic and
Pacific oceans along the north coast of America long
sought for by navigators
Gin which mountain range is Kunchinjunga?
A-HmalayaS.
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BY CHARLES RICHARDS
United Press staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, Aug. 5.-Supreme
y Court Justice Joseph Force
Crater, whose disappearance Gre
ated the mystery of a century, is
alive, Detective Joseph Won VIE
SentStein, missing persons bureau
ace, asserted today.
He added his assertion had no
basis for proof.
That, exactly, is the status of
the strange case after five years,
and the expenditure of some
100000 to solve it. At 9:15 p. m.
tomorrow, to the minute, it will be
half a decade since Crater stepped
alone into a taxi, waved to friends,
and vanished.
Even his wife, mild Stella M.
Crater. proved to have been as
mystified as the rest, doubts she
is a widow. She hopes not; po-
lice are convinced she is not
that brilliant Judge Crater will be
found.
Police have quit pulling over
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TN such a home, with such par
l. ents, with such a Christian
name, the boy was predestined TO
be a Socialist. He breathed re-
bellion in the very air of his
house. He learned what pow
erty was, but he also learned
what books were.
But if his parents loved him,
they also trained him, and at
school he was treated with little
consideration.
Many years later he was to
write:
who in my whole life has
shown me any tenderness? No.
body. Dreadfully poor was my
home, poor and bitter my young
years. Where could 1 have learned
tenderness? At school, in the
world? No place. Then why
should people wonder that 1 am
reserved, solitary, harsh and
stern?"
But he was not as steel-like as
he pretended. On three recorded
occasions ne wept. Once was
when he went to the bier of his
beloved mother. The second time
was when the Italian army was
smashed at Caporetto and started
on it's well-nigh fatal retreat be-
fore the united German and Aus
TRAN armies.
The last time was when ne
parted with Frau Dollfuss and her
infant children on their way to
kneel at the bier of the muir
dered Austrian chancellor.
a FTER his mother had taught
L n him his ABC's and something
beyond, she decided he must go
away to school. The one she
chose was the cloister of the
Salesian FriarS at Faenza. She
had to wage, battle with her
Socialist husband, but she got her
way.
There the poorly clad boy, with
his patched shoes, his Sullen, soll-
tary ways, his burning, black eyes,
was as lonely as his fellow Italian,
Napoleon Bonaparte, was in the
French military school when long
ing for his native Corsica.
Later, Mussolini went to
teachers seminary at FOrlim-
popoli and at the age of 18 COM
peted for the post of municipal
clerk at Predappio.
He was turned down by the
examiners, because they said he
was both too young and too revo-
lutionary in his political ideas.
But he got a job as assistant
teacher in the school at Gualteri.
BY now a convinced Socialist,
he was all on fire to get away
from his job, from ItSiy.
SWITZERLAND, land of lib
~ erty, was his goal. But he
had no money. So he wrote a
lying letter to his mother. He said
he owed a debt of honor-50 lire
and if she did not wire him that
amount he would kill himself.
The money came and Mussolini
started for the Alpine republic.
On the way, he picked up news
paper. In it he saw his father
had been arrested again for a
part in an election riot. He de-
cided to go on, as he could do
nothing to help his father.
He arrived at Iverdun, the first
Swiss station, with but 40 cents
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1
Secretary Hull. green at the
game. accepted this on its face;
was shocked and disappointed
few days later to find that it
meant nothing.
Meanwhile, insults and arrests
of American citizens continued. In
some cases Americans have been
imprisoned without right to see
counsel. Occasionally. the career
boys in Berlin dropped in to see
them. but not often. One Amer
leans release was secured chiefly
because of the mighty howl raised
by Senator Borah.
TINE State Departments most
i clear-cut opportunity to pro-
test Nazi discrimination was
when Germany defaulted >on in
tereSt payments to American
holders of Dawes and Young Plan
bonds, meanwhile paying Dutch,
Swiss and British holders of the
same bonds.
AT first the career boys passed
up any protest. Finally the
Federal Trade Commission went
over their heads: took the case
direct to the President. After
that the State Department got
busy.
BY this time both Hull and
Roosevelt had become a little
Skeptical about their career boys.
Hull found that John White,
counselor of the embassy in Ber-
lin. had deleted certain free
press" sections OF Hull's ASSo-
ciated Press speech before making
it public in Germany. (NaziS do
not believe in a free preSs)
AS a result of all this, Hull and
Roosevelt have been considering
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BY MILTON BRONNER
MA Service STAFF Correspondent

RENITO MUS0OLINI premier-dctator of Italy, who so
often has ratified the saber and later cooed like the
peace dove threatens this autumn to be the first
statesman of major power to take his country into con-
fc smashing the ftful and feversh peace that has eX
listed since the World War
every day. He is unique even among
dictators.
%, he old.
the highest rank in his country
revolutionary he has become
smashed Socialism proclaimed
republican uphoder OF TN
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Justice Crater Now Missing Years;
Baffled Police Certain He Still Lives

why he dropped out of the world
he knew, an honorable circle by
day, often a gay one by night.
They leave that to psychologists,
some who still cry, Sex but can't
agree. And to Mrs. Crater, whose
statement stands:
81 know of no reason why he
should have left me or abandoned
his career. I do not believe he
would have done so voluntarily
and without constraint if he was
of normal mind"
DUT Detective Wiesenstein's
- question today, like that of
hundreds of detectives throughout
the country and the world, who
still from time to time are called
quietly to trace false reports, is:
What does Crater look like
now?"
For it seems impossible, he
averred, that intensive search,
spurred by rewards totaling $780,
600, should have missed Crater,
we're he not disguised or greatly
changed.
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Unusual in appearance, he was 6
feet, weighted 1876 pounds, yet had
a long, thin neck and small head;
his hat size was only 63s. He
Slicked his hair from a middle
part. In the same year he van
ished, so also did 1855 others, but
SO per cent of them have been
found.
Why do police refuse to believe
he was slain?
A grand jury, in long inquiry.
could discover no hidden cause
for flight. Crater apparently had
every reason to be happy. There
were reports, among the hundreds
that flooded the bureau, and the
grand jury, that indicated his
strictly unofficial associates in
cluded the beautiful Vivian Cor
don, blackmailer who later was
garroted.
LIE gloried in Broadway bright
Il Il lights, he had a mistress, a
pretty clothes model. He led, in
comparatively harmless fashion,
police found a double life.
On the other hand, he was on
the very eve of achieving his
greatest ambition, since he started
his law career in Easton, Pa.-to
be Supreme Court justice.
Franklin D. Roosevelt. then Co.
ernor, had appointed him tempo
rarily few months before: he
was assured denomination to a
full 14-year term. His salary was
$4,000 year. He had $4,000.
Why should he voluntarily walk
out? He disappeared during the
Seabury investigation of corrup-
ton in New York City public life,
but it has been said he was not
under scrutiny.
1--WE years ago he Strengthened
Il his Office files, packing up
papers in a brief case and four
cardboard boxes. He had his con-
fldential secretary cash checks for
$500, bringing the sum he had
withdrawn in few weeks to more
than $4,000.
He bought single theater ticket
and went to Haas restaurant and
dined with friends. He left them
on the street to enter a taxicab
at els p. m. That was the last
seen of him.
But five months later, Mrs. Cra-
ter returned to the Crater New
York apartment from their sum-
mer home. She found in a desk
drawer. which previously detec-
tives had found empty, $4,000 in
cash, documents in Crater's hand
writing listing debts and sums
owed him, and life insurance
policies totaling S250,000.
Who placed them in the drawer2
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monarchy, although he over
shadows this actual monarch.
Once supposed an atheist, he has
made the Roman Catholic religion
the state faith of Italy, and has
made peace with the Vatican, end
ing war which has lasted more
than so years.
Vain of display, delighting in
military shows, and preaching that
the entire Italian nation, boys and
girls. men and women, must be
prepared for war, he has, never
theless. worked for peace.
With fortunes in his grasp. if
he wanted them, he has lived a
life of simplicity. healthy exer-
else. and strenuous labor for the
state.
CAPABLE of great tenderness,
Mas in his attitude to the
widow and children of the slain
Austrian Chancellor. Englebert
DollfuSS, against his enemies Mus
solini has been ruthless, setting
on his minionS to sicken them
with castor oil, beat them with
Steel-lined truncheons and exile
them in the arid Lipari Islands in
the Adriatic.
Despising the crowd as such,
he has delighted to appear be-
fore the mob and sway it with
his imprisoned oratory.
Whatever fortunes may befall
Italy after Mussolini is gone, he
has left an indelible impress upon
the country. He came upon the
national stage when class was
arrayed against class, when
strikes, lockouts, street rioting
disorder we're common.
He has made Italy land in
which law and order reigned. He
found an Italy discouraged and
pesSimiStic. He has filed it with
faith in itself and its great his
toric mission.
He found an Italy disregarded
in the great European confabS.
He made an italy which all the
great powers had to consult. He
set an example which lesser and
weaker men aped-notably Adolf
Hitler.
MO joy bells were rung and no
~ cannon Salutes were fired
when the baby Mussolini was born
at Davia, near Forli. in the rest
less SocialiStic Romagna district
of Italy on July %, 1883.
The baby's father was Alessan-
dro MusSolini, who became the
village blacksmith of Davia. He
was born at Predappio and be-
came an ardent Socialist, being
elected by them as mayor of Pre-
dappio.
Twice he was arrested for his
political beliefs and for months
after being freed was Swallowed by
the police.
The baby's mother was Rosa
MaltOnl, who, even after ner wed
ding, worked as school teacher and
eked out the family fortunes.
On the afternoon their first
born came into the world, news
was brought to the father work
ing at his forge. fastening across
the fields to his home, he sank
down by the bedside and softly
said:
"Benito shall be his name
Benito, in honor of the memory
of Benito Juarez, that great Mex
lean Indian leader who headed the
rebellion against European inter
ference with his country's affairs
and had the resolution to execute
the Emperor Macmillan. brother
of the emperor of Austria"
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a shaking up in the Berlin en-
bassy. Meanwhile, policy toward
the Nazi is dictated direct from
the White House.
Roosevelt. from the first days
in 1898, was anti-Nazi. Today ne
is even more so.
1t may be too late, however, to
make much impression. Conf
Dental reports received here are
to the effect that NaziS are dead
set on their program: determined
10 ignore the outside world.
TINE Presidents young son
i John is as successful as the
Presidents wife, Eleanor, in keep
ing out of the public prints these
days
He has been working strictly in
cognito at his forestry job with
the IVA in the hills of Tennessee.
In the sparsely settled reservoir
area above Norris Dam. he moves
among people who have not seen
his picture; meets no probing
preSSmen.
He eats rough chow, sleeps in
rough quarters, enjoys a holiday
from curious glances.
But one day his incognito broke
down.
The name in the lower right
hand corner was Franklin D.
Roosevelt"
THE Mail Bag: F. P. S., Indian
1 apolis-Louis Howe, presiden-
tial secretary. is still confined to
his bed.
Copyright, 1895. by United Feature
Syndicate, Inc.l
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Today S Science
BY DAVID DIETZ-

EIFTEEN times SO it is said, Reuben Greenspan.
L New York. successfully predicted earthquakes.
But when the press associations focused national
attention his sixteenth predlctlon, tne quake
failed to materialize.
Mr.. Creenspan predicted a quake somewhere be-
tween North Africa and India for July 30 in his six
teenth prediction.
While this sixteenth quake failed to materialize.
the claims of Mr.. Greenspan should not be dis
missed too quickly Failure this time does not prove
he is wrong any more than the other Is predictions
prove that he is right.
Some university or other scientific institutions
should undertake to investigate his claims This can
be done easily if he is willing to cooperate.
AS I understand it. his theory is that earthquakes
are caused by the united tidal pulls of the heavenly
bodies Thus for example. at the time Of new moon,
when the gravtatonal pull Of the sun and moon
both come from the side of the earth, he be-
lieves that the likelihood of earthquake is
increased
r ALSO understand that he believes conjunctions
i of the planets or of the and a planet con-
tribute to earthquakes A conjunction is appar-
ent close approach of two heavenly bodies for
AMPLE when the and the planet Jupiter appear
very close together in the heavens.
At such times their gravitational pulls are in the
same direction.
Now there is no need to wait for future earth
uuakes to test his theory. Past will do just as
we'll All that is necessary is to examine earthquake
records and astronomical records for the last 10
years.
This ought to establish whether or not there is.
any correlation between planetary confgurations and
the location and occurrence of earthquakes.
DROBABLY the task will not be altogether. easy.
Il Sesmographs average quake a day. But these
are small The really important ones. whether they
occur in crowded regions and cause property damage
and loss of life or whether they occur in isolated
regions or on the ocean bottom, not so frequent
1t ought to be possible to arrive at some definite
conclusion from this type of study.
OF course, it is not always easy TO interpret rec
ords of the past Differences of opinion can arise.
Thus for example. DR.. c. G. Abbot Of the Smith
sonian Institution claims that he has proof o. %
year cycle in the weather whereas officials Of the
United States Weather Bureau deny the existence
Of any such cycle.
My own guess is that if the correlation suggested
by Mr.. Greenspan existed it would have been
noticed before this But that is only a guess.
Q-What is the correct pronunciation of ski?
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Said Lenin: 81 know your Mus
Solini. He is a strong man Of
steel. It's a pity you parted with
him."
Added TrotZky:
Eyes, indeed He was the only
man who could have secured the
rule Of the proletariat in your
country"
NEXT-MuSSOIini the teacher,
journalist, soldier. His career as
a Socialist, his break with the
party, his war record.
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citizens who constitute the investor class" we're
frisked by the promoters of holding companies when
the frsking was good it is natural that the ordinary,
dumb citizen should look upon the holding COM
panieS Solcitude with a fshy eye and ask why are
YOU bows trying TO be so good to me now?"
1t is a queer situation in which the stick-up man,
having gone over his victim stands his ground
and undertakes TO protect him from the cop
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in his pocket. The first night in
Switzerland he slept under the
arch of a bridge like any other
tramp.
He went on to Orbe, where he
worked as mason'S helper,
carrying heavy stones for II
hours a day for few cents an
hour.
A row with his boss led to his
quitting. He went on to Lau-
same. His money was soon ex-
hausted. Again he slept under
bridges.
All he had in his pockets vas
little medal of Karl Marx,
apostle of modern socialism. He
wandered out past one of the
great luxurious hotels, listened to
TIE music, watched the fine
women eating lavish meals.
HALF starved, he begged from
Il an Italian and got enough to
buy loaf of bread, which he de-
voured like wolf.
He did odd jobs in laundries,
in hotels, in chocolate factories.
Lausanne had many Italians and
the Labor Party had paper
there, "Avvenire del Lavoratore"
Soon MusSolini was one of its
editors.
He got meal ticket, poor
though it might be. Outside of
the Italians, he mingled with
Russian refugees, heard their dis
cussions, and it is even limited
might have met Lenin and
Trotzky, at that time poor as
church mice and dreaming as
little as MuSsolini himself that
they we're all to figure largely in
history.
With his stormy temperament.
Mussolini soon got into trouble
with the Swiss authorities and
was arrested both III Lausanne and
Geneva.
In fact, in later years he boasted
he had been imprisoned in four
lands-Switzerland, France, Aus
tria, and Italy.
Finally, the Swiss expelled him
and he went to Annemase in
France. He worked there as a
mason and then as tutor in a pri-
Vate family. But his restless feet
soon carried him to the great
metropolitan port city of Mar
saille.
LIE was mixed up in strike
Il l. and was expelled from
France. He went back to Switzer-
land and once more mingled with
the Russian revolutionaries, trans
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lating Socialist literature into
Italian.
Once more the heavy hand of
the law came down upon him.
He was expelled forever from
Swiss territory. But before he
went, he must have left his i'm
press upon the Russians.
Many years later, when Musso-
lini was boss in Italy and Lenin
and Trotzky were ruling Russia,
a delegation of eXiled Italian So
cialists came to Moscow.
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CITY YOUTH is HONORED
Receives Distinction Rating at Har-
ward College.

Gordon NJ Messing, 18 E. 10th
st, Apt. 2, and Robert G.. Wolfe. 534
S. Sixth-st, Terre HaIte, were
among II members of the freshman
class at Harvard College 70 win
high distinction honors, it was an
j nounced from Cambridge today.
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were copied from pages torn at
random out of telephone books and
appended to the protests. 1t in
cludeS also those mock investors
whose names were gathered by tele-
graph messengers for a royalty of
3 cents each after the messengers
had explained the deep political
and economic meaning of the case.
Where those whom Mr.. Harding
used to call the best minds" dis
agree so violently on a tangled is
sue. it is only by instinct that the
layman chooses his side of the
barricade. In this case, remember
ing how thoroughly the great
body of thr -ty, self-Supporting
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EuEnough
BY
WESTBROOk PEGLER

You wouldn't imagine that any the hold
l. ing companies side Of the would have
the gall to mention the matter. But little PAM
phlet issued by the American Federation of Utility
Investors. Chicago. contains the following
For the first time in the history Of our country
Congress has been influenced by the letters and
kilograms of millions of investors" This reference
obviously embraces among the millions of investors
these thousands of phantom investors whose names
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DAILY WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO-ROUND
.Bu Drelg Pearson and Robert s. ANe,


that the President is
w pete with Nazi 1t is supposed to
Department has been split the
coddng the giving them the diplomatic straight
until recently the codds have had the upper nao
oath office
antiJewh activi-
Embassy cabled Berlin
Hitler promised drive to terminate
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Although Mr. Metten told The House committee InaI
the strike his Camden yards had Deen DrouelG
ano,It az the result of "a red plot" testimony did
disclose the fact that the management refused TO
arbitrate the differences.
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