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with binoculars and field tele-
phones.
Other trickeries they thought
of, too, and rejected as impracti-
cal. But finally they did arrange
SO ample a number that their
livelieSt hope was that the eX-
tortioniSt would grant them the
favor of coming for the ransom.
Then the extortionist, in the
letter of Jan. 5, announced that
he would be around.
Following the orders, one of the
Cannons, with four &c men," left
North Carolina, drove TO Atlanta,
and on the next day in nearby
Hapeville, the chauffeur, as in
structed, went past the vacant
house, came back, parked across
the road-and carried the ransom
money inside. On top of the
fateful china closet-he put it;
on the door he tied the telltale
white cloth.
TINE Federals were in waiting.
l. Possemen with sawed-of
shotguns were in the offing.
Others with binoculars, lying on
the roof of a home in the neigh
borhood, scanned the sky for air.
plane numbers, and still others
noted the numbers of passing au-
tomobiles.
For three days the &c men"
waited and nothing happened.
Mrs. Jones and Mr.. Brown came
to the house, poked about, Won
dering whether they would rent
it. Other potential tenants came.
But no one touched the china
cabinet; no one paid any atten-
ton to the package of banknotes.
On the fourth day it happened.
In the mid-afternOon a slender
young woman walked jauntily to
the house, tried to enter by the
front door and, finding it locked,
went around to the rear.
Eyes that she could not see saw
her; voices that she could not
hear sped the news of her arrival.
When she opened the back door
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Then He Backs Up

THE old Dublner begins to back upon his tracks.
u He now accepts a legacy from men whom once
he slew Possibly IL would be extreme to say that
Shaw killed Shakespeare. Z was not the left jabs
Of Red George which did in the bard. but certain
constitutional weaknesses in the lad from Avon.
But in the case OF SardOu the punch was palpable
and so was the resulting conclusion.
II was my notion that Mr.. Shaw undertook to
say. a great many years ago. that the theater had
tended TO distOrt and prettify most violent human
passions and problems. The London shop girl who
undertook TO behave after the manner of Juliet
would find herself a subject Of high moral censure
In her own community. And all for the lack of a
balcony and the sanction Of blank verse. That's
would be considered the proper prey of a New York
City vice cop if it were not for the fact that she
comes into court bearing a note of excuse from Jules
NaSsenet.
And to tackle the same problem on a much lower
Platform the things in the cinema to which Mr..
SHAW gives approval are the very factors which seem
70 me deplOrable. I mean the swank. the elegance.
the beauty II you please, by which directors try to
make minor tranSgreSsiOnS seem like heroic sins.
Mr.. Shaw, with his music ana poetry, has strayed
m his seventies into thoughts which are primrose.
Before he knows it some likely Irish lad in home
spun viii fetch him a clOut IN the shoulder and
cry push over George and make way for a real
reformer." PuritaniSn is not mocked.
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"Huey," he said, "we've got a
tough Job to be done and you're
the man to do it. You've got to
take the floor and make Joe
Robinson so sor that he will
turn down the Norris Amend
ment."
Huey obeyed orders. He heckled'
Robinson constantly. Whether for
this or other reasons, Robinson
vetoed the Norris amendment, the
seven shaky Senators were
alienated, the World Court was
defeated.
HORNY-HANDED Henry WAL
IL lace was testifying before the
Senate Agricultural Committee
on world cotton acreage re-
striction. He made a remark to
the effect that the Administra-
TONS monetary policy was a mere
"stop-gap."
Senator Bailey, standpat Demo-
crat from North Carolina, caught
him up Immediately.
DO you advise an abandon
ment of our present monetary
policy, Nj. Secretary" he asked.
The Secretary of Agriculture
paused, flushed, shifted in his
seat. His Cabinet colleagues, the
Secretary of State and the Secre-
tary of Commerce, were sitting in
a corner listening intently.
Finally, he replied:
Senator, it seems TO me that
the purpose of your question is
to place me in a false and en-
b~arraSSing position"
Bailey grinned.
rs there anything I can do to
get you out of it, Mr.. Secretary?"
Note-When the hearing was
over Bailey came up to Wallace
and said: I'm afraid Senators
sometimes ask foolish questions"
UnderSecretary Tugwell, who
stood nearby, interjected: Right.
I know by experience"
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should be paid, and the Federal
men frightened their net.
The money was to be put on the
top of a built-in china closet in
a vacant house in Hapeville,
Ga, the letter advised. Then, it
went on, a white cloth was to be
attached to the screen door Of the
house to show that these instruc-
tions had been carried out.
1--WE hope,' the communication
brashly ended, you had a nice
Christmas, and wish you many
returns of the new year.-FOur
NJ"
BY this time Federal men were
out-thinking the musketeerS. A
previous letter had mentioned
the vacant house. Two days be-
fore the final instructions were re-
ceived two Federal agents went
to it.
They drove to the town on the
night of Jan. 2, and at 3 a. m,
Jan. 3, they were two shadows
creeping past a dim street lamp
into the house. Inside, for three
hours, with a tiny beam of light,
they went about their eSoteric,
effcacious ways.
= Il
THEY so electrified the place
Il that it might have been one
of the magnetic fields Einstein
studies. They made it a scientific
curse. Who entered there and
went to that china closet went to
certain doom.
They set electric springs which,
if touched, would signal special
agents. They hid a photograph to
record every word uttered near
the china closet.
They installed foodlights out
side, so that if the eXtortioniSt
should try to flee at night the
area would be Illuminated.
They arranged hiding places for
groups of agents and a cache for
a small, high-powered automobile.
They spotted vantage points
where men might be stationed
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close to him say he much pre-
ferred to learn the lesson on what
he regarded as comparatively in
nocuous issue rather than on a do
nestle issue essential to his pro-
gram.
What several advisers are Won
dering is what might happen to
an Administration measure should
the full power of Father Cough
Inns radio appeal, plus Huey
Longs flibustering antics, plus
the pressure Of certain news
papers, be turned against it.
What might happen, for in
stance, on the bonus? On infla-
ton?
And how deeply have been
sown in the United States the
seeds Of mass psychology similar
70 those which have grown into
the relationships of Europe?
These are thoughts which are
troubling a good many Admins
tration advisers perhaps more
Than the mere fact that We did
not enter the World Court.
HOW close the World Court
H came to going through despite
the last-minute power of its
opponents is a secret carefully
guarded in Senate cloakrooms.
The little band which led the
opposition had counted on the
fence seven votes which would
determine the issue.
These seven Senators, they
figured. would vote for the Court
if the Norris Amendment to the
Thomas Reservation was passed.
These two safeguards made the
Court as innocuous as skinned
milk. Norris, himself. was ex-
pected TO vote for the Court if his
amendment passed. He was
wavering.
Therefore, the little bank Of
court fighters determined to kill
the Norris amendment. if posi-
bic to get Administration Leader
Joe Robinson 10 reject it. To that
end Wheeler Of Montana sum-
moned Huey Long.
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One Man Is a Gang

A T the club Huey laid hands on a young woman
"A in another party to whom he had not been
introduced and dragged her out of her chair to
make her dance with him.
A few minutes later the lights went out except
the stage illumination and the daughters Of the
members began q little show. At this point, Huey
left the room, followed by the young man who was
the escort of the young woman.
Soon thereafter there followed the famous battle
of the gents room. Gene Buck, the songwriter, and
Jack Curley, the wrestling promoter, we're quietly
summoned and discovered Huey with a CORY eye,
the effect of a single, well-aimed pop or Sunday
punch thrown by the young man.
Il was ganged," Huey roared.
Come on back in here and I will stop the wound
with c%ollodion," said Mr.. Curley. II am ali old
prizefight second and 7 know how"
mot back in there" Huey yelled. "They have
been after me for years and this is the first time I
have been without my bodyguard."
There is no gang in there said Mr.. Buck.
There is a gang" said Huey.
Under adequate escort, Huey was induced to re-
enter the gents room where the attendant swore
that only one other man, identity unknown, had
been present and that this man, single-handed,
constituted the gang which ganged Huey.
The danger is that Huey actually believes he was
ganged at Sands Point, believes he was waylaid on
the country road in the dark of the moon and, one
of these days will order his troops to fire into a
crowd of unarmed citizens in panic because some
one has had the i'll manners to pop a wad of chew
ing gum.
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He's PLAYING a Sneak Game

HOWEVER. DR.. Shaw felt that the licensing
IL scheme was an effective e~xpedent for keeping
decent order" pending the time until theaters and
picture houses would be public institutions under the
control Of a ministry Of education and the fine arts
It seems 70 me that Mr.. Shaw gave rather too
much aid and comfort 70 the very side he sought TO
smite. Miss Madeleine Carroll who accompanied
@. B. S. on the air was more fortnight in declar-
ing that the average Englishman had always been
his own censor and always would. I rather fear that
the old IrShman is trying TO sneak up on US. My
Own misgivingS are grave that If Shaw's fine arts
supervision ever gets into the saddle it will seem very
much like censorship to the film fan.
One may express pleasure at the fact that Bern
ard Shaw has finally given a passing nod TO sex
appeal and still feel that there was a Slight trace
Of hauteur in his greeting. It is a rather prissy kind
OF passion which he authorizes. Shaw would dover
sex With two Duennas called aSepsis and art.
Unlike the maternal counsellor Of the jinkle,
George Bernard Shaw would net seek TO inhibit a
young lady from leaping into the lake. His advice
would rather run. yes. my darling daughter, hang
each garment in its proper place and arrange for the
presence Of a symphony orchestra"
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EPW0RTH LEAGUE TO
HOLD DISTRICT FARLEY
Mid-winter Institute to Open Here
Monday,

The thirteenth annual mid-winter
institute Of the Indianapolis Dis
trict Epworth League will begin
Monday at the Roberts Park Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, Vermont and
Delaware-sts, and will continue
until through the following Satur-
day.
Among the speakers who will ad-
dress the assembly are DR.. G. sronl-
ley Oman, De Paw University
president; DR.. Percy Julian, De
Paw University instructor, and DR..
W. c. Barclay, Chicago, secretary Of
the JOINT Committee on Religious
Education.
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the agents knew it. When she
touched the china cabinet, they
knew it. They knew that now ap-
preached the climactic minute.
When she pulled open a drawer
in the cabinet they heard her do
it, and when she took down the
package of bills the combined
forces of the Departments of JUS
tice and the Police Department of
Atlanta, Hapeville and Charlotte
converged upon her.
She came out of the back door.
She stopped, went white-and her
hands trembled. Two men stood
there, and one of them said to
her:
"Just a minute, madam"
To her the moment may have
been a lifetime, for the men we're
special agents. Quickly they took
her to a house down the road, and
there they learned that she was
Mrs. Sue Zachary Boyles, wife of
Odell Carlyle Boyles, known also
as Red Boyles. But about any
= threatened kidnapping of a little
girl she said she knew nothing at
all.
CHE had come to the electrified
~ house, she said, because a
letter had instructed her to get
a package there.
The agents did not care much
about listening to that, but they
did want to know more about Mr..
Boyles, and within SO minutes,
as that young man walked up to
his rooming house, a stranger
placed a hand upon his shoulder.
Come along!" said the stranger.
While MI. Boyles was saying
that he was innocent, agents were
telephoning Washington.
Promptly the experts replied
that records disclosed he had been
sent to the North Carolina State
Penitentiary in 1926 to serve four
years for larceny.
Promptly after they received his
f%1ngerprints they reported one of
them Identical with a latent
print on one of the ~extortion let
tiers. His explanations were futile.
I'm the man," he said. "I did
it."
AS a parachute rigger at a North
Carolina airport, he said, he had
met Joseph F. Cannon, Jr., and
had then conceived the scheme.
Why he wrote so many letters, he
could not tell, and at one time, in
November, 1882, he was sorry, in
deed, that he had begun the series.
He saw, then, a policeman cycling
him-and in his pocket then was
conclusive evidence of his guilt
the fountain pen containing the
green ink in which the notes had
been written.
L tossed the pen into the top
of a combination popcorn machine
and peanut parcher in the restau-
rant. He didn't have anything on
me then"
The agents found the restaurant
proprietor, learned he had dis
mantled the machine, scanned the
debris and fished out the pen.
It was empty. But the particles
Of green ink, chemically analysed,
were the same as the particles
from the letters.
Resenting this, Boyles cried:
"I'm being railroaded to prison"
Before you get back" said
United States District Judge
Alderman, you will think it is a
long, slow train"
Tomorrow - The pluviometer
Gnoc ifc morE
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EUEnough
BY
WESIbROOK PEGLER

CENATOR Huey P. Longs recent hallucination in
- which he saw himself waylaid along a country
road in the dark of the moon by a group of assaSsins
in the employ Of the Standard Oil Co. is consistent
with his belief that he was ganged by three hired
sluggers the night he was popped in the eye in the
celebrated battle Of gents room at Sands Point, l..
L
Senator Long is -uncommonly sensitive to such
fears and his imagination plays tricks on him which
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of the Division of Investigation. A
typical one said
Don't be a damn fool with too
much confidence in the law, for
they are only trouble makers. How
long would a car full of law last
with two Thonlpsons spraying
them in the face? 1 am giving you
this last chance because I love
kids.
THE FOUR MUSKETEERS.
THE &c" men wondered about
the conspirators who cared
for children, and then they re-
ceived still another puzzling COM
m~unication.
1t came just before Christmas
and told Mr.. Cannon not to both
er about any plan to pay the sum
until after the holidays. He was
instructed to reply by inserting
an advertisement in an Atlanta
paper. He did. And the conspir-
ators acknowledged this by send
ing a clipping describing the. tor
ture and robbery of a Georgia
farmer.
The letter also gave detailed in
structions as to how the ransom
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for charity again. Then, as
he read on, he grew a little
scared. For the musketeers
wrote that if he did not pay
they would steal his 2-year-
old granddaughter, Ann
Reynolds, daughter of the
late Smith Reynolds, whose
second wife was Broad
ways Libby Holman.
Between Nov. 1, 1892, and Jan.
5, 1888, IS similar letters were re-
ceived, and meanwhile Mr.. Can
non decided that this was a men
ace calling for the talents of j.
Edgar Hoover's men in the di-
vision of investigation of the De-
partment of Justice.
They looked into the matter, de-
viSed one of the most deliberately
scientific traps ever laid by de-
t~ectives anywhere-and Odell c.
Boyles today is doing a 15-year
stretch in a Federal prison for
writing in green ink.
The letters, after the first few,
were routed by the postofice di-
rectly to the North Carolina Office
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DAILY WASHINGTON
MERRY
By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Ale

VXTASHINGTON, Feb. Though the Juror created by the World
w Court defeat has subsidized. there Is one lesson which left a pro-
found impression on several of those around the White House.
1t was the quickneSS with which the counry-or at least the most
vocal part of the cOuntry-can be aroused by a concentrated appeal
from a handful Of powerfully placed people. The President was genu-
nely disappointed to lose ratification of the World Court. But those
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IIEAW y u ANI NE- NA-aoIAC
theory Just now. II seems. according
to the Guardian. that England is in
a sV1vet over the cinema and sex.
And sex mas found an eloquent
champion among the respectables. I
doubt II you will be likely 70 guess so
I might as well reveal Immediately
that he IS George Bernard Shaw.
He sprang nto the fight sudden
" the other night as a surprise
item" on the wireless" which is the
English lOcutiOn for the radio.
Sex Appeal" said Mr.. Shaw. lis
a perfectly legitimate element in all
the fine arts mat deal directly with
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and machine guns but have never had a chance to
shoot or Skewer anybody, although they have been
called out on many false alarms.
Huey'S fear of personal violence increases day by
day even though he insists when in Washington that
there amt no revolution and there amt no trouble
in Loozana. His apprehension reached a dangerous
stage the other day when he posted a machine gun
to cover his exit from his hotel in Baton Rouge.
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seem likely to lead to a major
tragedy.
Not only does Huey steadily aug
ment the members of his personal
bodyguards but, much worse. he
now calls out the young soldiers %
the Louisiana National Guard for
military duty whenever a diseased
fivver backfires anywhere in the
state. The bodyguards are irrespon-
sible, realizing that no matter whom
they may kill or MAIN in Louisiana,
Huey will pardon them at once in
the inconceivable event of their
being tried and convicted. The
troops are young boys who have
bean nra ctisinp with rifles haVnnetS
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that II Is censorship itself which v~ulgarizes sex
appeal and he expressed the opinion that the films
had done incalculable good in associating sex appeal
With beauty and cleanliness and with poetry and
music.
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II Seems hM
BY
Haywood BROUN

IN order TO broaden the base Of this column I am
IL subscribing 10 some Of he British papers and
once a week or so I hope 10 make a casual report Of
the activities among the islanders. In spite Of the
decision Of the United States Senate that there is
no such place as Europe I think it is fun 70 pretend
that out across the broad Atlantic there may con-
ceivably be other peoples with problems not unlike
our own.
And If the Manchester Guardian is not q myth
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o-Ars Tigers native In Africaf
A-No
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BY WILLIAM ENGLE
Times Special Writer

ON the breakfast table in a sunny old mansion in Con-
cord, N. c., the butler placed an envelope addressed in
green ink to the millionaire textile maker, Joseph F.
Cannon, inclosing a note in green ink asking for a contri-
button of $4,000. 1t was signed "The Four Musketeers."
Mr.. Cannon, opening it, was annoyed. Fanatics asking
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OATH APPROVED
VI. D. ], A. N.

SALISBURY, Md, April 10.
Maryland members of the Junior
Order United American Me
chanics, $4,000 strong, yesterday
urged Governor Nice to sign the
teachers oath bill requiring all
teachers in State-supported educa-
tional institutions to take the
oath Of allegiance.
A telegram was sent by the
State council of the fraternity
to Governor Nice stating that
the council stood firmly behind
the bill.
The council recessed at noon
following a session occupied en-
tirely with fraternity affairs, to
await returns on the election of
State offices.
In direct opposition with the
Jr. o. U. A. M. plea, Archbishop
Curley Of Baltimore, declared the
bill was "of no consequence" and
he was opposed to the bill becom-
ing a law.
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GEN. JOHNSON WARMLY DEFENDS NRA AT HEARING

ency Of concentration of wealth
into the hands of the few.
II won't admit its failure.
Especially, 1 won't accede to
any madness that would re-
move its control and go back
to the unregulated condition
of futility that preceded it.
ono more explosive act Of
destruction could be COM
mitted than to kill it now and
go back to the utter futiIity of
the system we had here before
1888"
The United States was fast
spinning down toward com
plete destruction before the MIRA
was set up, said General John
son. Nothing had been done for
decades to check this downward
spiral. The NRA was a real, a
sincere and an effective brake
on this process, and it almost
came too late at that.
When the nations economic
structure collapsed in 1929, it was
not, said the explosive general, the
result of sledge hammer blow de-
livered against a powerful unit. It
was only the collapse of an empty
shell.
Cites Old System
Under the old system, before
NRA, there were only five types of
business concerns likely to weather
the depression. These, General
johnson scornfully pointed out,
were:
/. The concern with the big
war chest and swollen surplus.