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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-18

other thing that's false Byron. What
female heart can gold despise? What cats
averse To fish ?p-Thomas Gray.-EVDO
As TO that "R" month for oysters idea
there is nothing 10 IT, Oysters are
good any time of the year. More boys than
girls are born not only during periods Of
war but at all times. That is because boy
babies, being Of the weaker sex, arc harder
10 keep alive.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-18

ONE MANS OPINION
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-18
Our New SeriaI---Fasf and Funny
THEY SELL SAILORS ELEPHANTS

treated in good order from
the civilian sellers of
eleph ants, Seaman Linn
climbed into the taxi. Fire
man Dunnevan followed, still
under the spell of The Voice
erin Go Bragh Is a swell
Erish race horse, Benny.
Cousin Verse wont gimme no
bum steer. Besides"
"Ha."
The taxi driver turned his
head as the cab started off.
You guys gonna bet on
Erin Go Bragh?"
I'VE amt bet on him.
w"
pipe down, Tim" Seaman
Linn leaned back and lighted
cigaret casually You
know anything about at
horse, fella ."
VIGOROUS NOD
This question brought
vigorous nod from the taxi
driver. lie was an old horse
player.
"Ry- Paddy Malone outa
Liberty Belle. Going on three
year old. A rich young guy,
Bert Sedgwick owns him.
Sedgwick is a cousin of them
Whitneys an Vanderbilts."
"See Benny He's q high
class horse. Verse"
The taxi man was amused.
Him? Ha-ha-h a-ha -
Fireman Dlnnevan scowled.
you sayin' he ain't?"
"Yeah III say, he's
dog" ~
Verse: Pull up TO the
curb, wise guy"
The driver obeyed. Then,
he turned TO Fireman Dunno
van and Seaman Linn, and his
face wore the solemn per-
plexity of a philosopher and
student.
You sailors amt gonna
beat me up over a horse argu-
ment, are yuh ,"
verse. Get out"
"Hold on, Tim. Set right
where you are" Then, TO the
horse expert, you know Erin
-Gn Rragf1,s record .''
jest a minute -. I'll look
it up"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-18
FORM SHEETS

EXcavating under the front
seat, ne dug out a stack OF
form sheets and clippings
from sports pages.
Lessee, he ran his last race
at Santa Anita in January
towards the middle of the
1 lost two bucks on him
bet him TO show
January Ia, I6. II the
eighteenth here, il il,
Erin Go Bragh--in the fit
race for maidens--"
Fireman Dunnevan snorted
fire.
He amt no girl horse.
I'm gonna"
pipe down, Tim. Lookit
this"
Seaman Linn held a tat
tered sports page under Tins
nose.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-18

Then some one else will invent
a whip shortage.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-18
POINTS TO HEADING

He pointed TO a compila-
ton headed WHAT THE EX-
PEPTS SAY:
Evening star., 1941-07-27

ents was Raymond Pullman, brilliant
young newspaperman and native of the
District, who was appointed in 1916 Maj.
Pullman, as veterans of the force re-
member him. was far ahead of his time"
He brought to his job advanced ideas as
to the duties of a modern police force.
Crime prevention, he felt, was as i'm
portant as detection and punishment.
He was ahead of his day in that he be-
lieved, like the present superintendent,
Mai. Ernest w. Brown, that policemen
should be the best friends of under
privileged children, should help to better
their living conditions, get them inter-
ested in sports, and teach them respect
for the law. In other words, the police
should help to rear a new generation.
Maj. Pullman was on the job "a hours
a day. He made surprise pep calls at
precincts all over the city, and he worked
tirelessly to raise wage scale so low that
officers were almost compelled to stoop
to petty graft to provide a decent living
for their families. Maj. Pullman, old
timers say, was the father of the present
wage scale.
Evening star., 1941-07-27

nick of time. The Chief Executive was
quoted as being extremely vexed" by the
incident Maj Gessford could never quite
forget it. He soon handed in his resigna
ton
Mai Edwin B. Hesse stepped into
Office in 1925 during the hectic days of
prohibition. Moonshiners, rum runners,
HACKERS, bootleggers, speakeasies and
gamblers were the bane of his existence,
next to former Representative Thomas
Blanton of Texas, then highly vocal
member of the House.
Mr.. Blanton accused the major Of LAX
enforcement" and "speakeasy drinking"
and his officers of sheltering bootleggers,
gamblers and hi-jackers. Maj. Hesse
faced his accuser in public in House
caucus room and denied his charges.
The Commissioners later absolved the
major of blame and gave him vote of
confidence.
But Mai. Hesse, who had been on the
force for 35 years, was getting tired" he
admitted in 1923, although he didn't
want Ito quit under fire" A year later
he retired, along with Capt, Guy E. Bur-
lingame, who also had been exonerated
after being under fire.
Physical disability" was the Official
reason.
The third-degree investigation which
helped to end the career of Maj. Hesse's S
successor, Henry G. Pratt, had its incep-
ton soon after the World War A
Chinese, Ziang Sun Wan, was accused
of the murder of three members of a
Chinese educational mission in WASH
ington.
Detectives held Wan for eight days in
a downtown hotel while they questioned
him in secret.
Years later, in 1881, the incident was
cited, in the report of the Wickersham
Commission investigating police meth
DDS, as an outstanding example of
brutality" The Commission urged on
President Hoover legislation to eliminate
"barbarous third-degree" methods in
Washington and throughout the country.
The commission, it announced, was lay
ing the naked, ugly facts" before the
public.
Evening star., 1941-07-27

Thomas P. Morgan, one {
the fen police chiefs promoted
to a higher office in the Dis
trict a con1miSSionerShip he
assumed in 1879.
Capital, building shanties, accepting
handouts and setting up great clamor
outside the halls Of Congress. The gen.
eral contributed almost $1,000 from his
own pocket to fill the stew pots Of the
hungry lobbyists and helped to raise
more money.
President Hoover, however, was seri-
ously concerned by the presence of the
army; so were other officials. In the
lnal showdown, which turned out the
troops with bayonets. tear gas, tanks and
machine guns, a controversy arose over
who called for so much help.
1t certainly wasn't GlasSford, he said
During the whole show, his friends said
he had advocated policy later approved
by President Roosevelt.
The generals scalp did not fall, how
ever, until he tried to denote an in
spector of detectives without the ap-
proval of the Commissioners. Failing in
this. he resigned about IL months after
assuming ONCE.
Outsiders Doomed.
Young, talented vigorous and enter
prising, Happy" Glassford had taken
the job because, he said. Il want action" ="
He got it in large doses. Later he ad-
mitted he agreed with the Wickersham
Commission, which reported that police
superintendents brought in from outside
are doomed from the start"
With a few exceptions. things have
rocked along pretty smoothly with the
department since Maj. Brown, the in
cumbent, was appointed to succeed the
stormy Gen. Glassford back in October
of 1882.
The murder of Mary Baker in 1880, dis
tressing as 1t was to the police Of several
Jurisdictions, was more or less a thing
of the past. Too, the bullet-torn body
of the Navy Department clerk was found
in Virginia. stuffed in a culvert near
Arlington Cemetery gate. While the girl
was a District resident, the solution Of
the crime was, after all, the business Of
the Virginia police.
The Beulah Limerick case also ha'
simmered down.
Evening star., 1941-07-27

n year or more had passed, and the
public hao Almost forgotten the 19-year-
old playgirl of the prohibition era whose
body was found with bullet through the
head in her home on Nineteenth street
Sc. Interest in the mystery revived only
briefly in 1888 when the former cop on
the beat" was arrested in the murder,
tried and acquitted.
These cases contained enough dyna-
mite to shake the detective force from
top to bottom, but neither proved as
explosive as the violent death Of Mrs.
Virginia Mcpherson, a young nurse
whose garroted body was found in her
downtown apartment in the fall of 1929.
Investigation convinced Inspector Ed
ward j. Kelly, then lieutenant in charge
of the homicide squad, and Inspector
William S. Shelby chief of detectives,
since retired, that the death was suicide.
The officers, however, were charged with
bungling the investigation, charge
later disproved before the Trial Board.
Soon thereafter Inspector Shelby re-
ired because of failing health due t.
)verwork Considered one of the ables
electives ever developed in Washington
nd the son of famous police Office,
Inspector Kelly declined when offere
pe job of chief of detectives.
He never publicly stated his reason.
The mistaken identity" murder in 1885.
newspaper route carrier by profess
ional asSassins lying in wait for Wash
ington gambler had ramiflcations which
nook the detective force.
Allan Wilson was riddled by slugs
from a sawed-off shotgun and pistols
as he delivered a morning newspaper at
the Takoma Park residence of Mickey
Mcdonald, alleged Washington numbers
and "horse joint" operator. The gang
sters, hired by rival gambler, mistoc'
Mr.. Wilson for Mcdonald.
The District Commissioners took
land in the investigation and InspectC
frank S. W. Burke threatened to retire
as chief of detectives when Maj. Brow
was ordered TO create a special squad I
investigate the Wilson murder and re
port directly to him. Inspector Burk
retired in 1886 and was succeeded +
Inspector Bernard w Thompson, VII
retired a few months ago. Both hs
'hysical disabilities.
Three recent unsolved murders hay
precipitated another congressional in
vestigation and shake-up in the detec
tive force.
They were the fatal bludgeoning of Dr.
Heinrich Simon. distinguished Germal
refugee editor: the rape and strangula-
ton of Mrs. Rose Abrsmowitz, youn
bride of a few weeks. and the sex murde7
of Jessie Elizabeth Strict.
The first two crimes occurred befor'
Inspector Thompsons retirement an
the lastsa few days afterward. Whe
the latest murder broke Capt. Ira Ker
was acting chief of detectives.
Surrounded by congratulatory bo-
Quets, he was seated in his new office !
the new police headquarters at the IT
Gently completed Municipal Buildinc
when reporters entered to question him
about the progress of the murder in
vestigation
Evening star., 1941-07-27

Maj. William G. Brock,
UhoSe administration 1Ods
shadoaDed By the fatal lDound-
inq of President Garfield.
The major broke a threatened police
strike when underpaid officers were join
ing the A. F. of L., and had written into
the District appropriation bill a ban
against officers joining any union en-
ploying the strike as bargaining means.
This move incidentally, preceded the
disastrous police strike in Boston.
Mai Pullman, an outsider, had jealous
enemies within the force. Some of them
went out of their way to put obstacles IN
his path. Overwork and the cares of
office, his friends say, contributed to his
death in 1919
Man of Old School
Mai Daniel Sullivan, a native of Cork,
Ireland, came up from the brlcks-the
hard way" A stalWart, wide-shouldered
man, he belonged to the old school, but
still possessed enough diplomacy and
tact to win commendation for the way he
handled the suffragettes who picketed
the White House during the Wilson
administration.
Mai. Sullivan, former Marine, Joined
the force in 1889 and was appointed SUI
perintendent in 1922.
A gentle, kindly man for all his 6-feet-2
and his muscular Drawn, Maj. Sullivan,
his friends said, was too good-natured to
be an efficient taskmaster. He was in
failing health during his last months in
Office and retired in 1925 upon the insist
ence of a District Commissioner who, it
was said, had been "after his scalp" for
years.
Maj. Sullivan had succeeded Maj.
Harry L. Gessford, departmental clerk,
whose heart was broken" it was said,
by traffic jam which held up President
Harding en- route to participate in the
burial of the Unknown Soldier at Airing
ton Cemetery November II, 1921.
Maj Gessford was a most methodical
man. He had worked out detailed traffic
plans for the ceremony. But cross
flow of cars on the Virginia side of the
Potomac backed up automobiles across
Highway Bridge and all the way into
downtown Washington. 1t was the city S
worst JAM
President Harding had to be driven
over the open fields and arrived in the
Evening star., 1941-07-27
Job Of Police Chief No Easy Task in Nations Capital
BY ". II. Shibpen, J.

They'll make it hot for you'll"
And sure enough they did-nor were
they long about it. The new major and
superintendent of metropolitan police
began to feel the heat almost at once
That was back in the 80s, but Samuel
Fl. Walkers situation wasn't new even
then. In fact, it seems to have gone
with his job. 1t still does, for that mat
ter Ask any oldtimer.
The new superintendent, like many
another innocent, led off with a clean
up drive, big one, wide enough to in
clude several elegant domiciles not ordi-
narily favored with such attentions and
secret enough to surprise gentlemen who
might otherwise have been elsewhere.
Immediately there was clamor of pro-
test, not the least audible of which
emanated from Capitol Hill. Who was
this upstart?
Why had he arrested distinguished
friends and advisers of Congress along
with the riff raft? Was he trying to in
fiuence legislation by putting an evil
Interpretation on the pastimes of promi-
nent visitors?
Mai. Walker answered emphatically in
the negative. But his accusers, while
lacking evidence, made the loudest noise.
The majors assistants, who carried out
the unfortunate raids, were denoted or
dismissed amid much publicity, and the
major himself felt called upon to submit
his resignation five months after he
stepped into Office. He was willing to
admit the truth of the hot tip"
Wisdom Handed Down.
This bit of wisdom had been handed
down to him by the man he succeeded
Brig. Gen William NICE. Dye, late of
the victorious Union Army, military
stalWart born to command" His career,
incidentally, has curious parallel with
that of Brig. Gen. Pelham D. Glassford,
police superintendent here during the
famous bonus march,
Gen, Dye, like Gen. Glsssford, was a
tai! and strikingly handsome man, who
looked the part he had played as gal
liant young leader of combat troops in
the recent war. Like Glassford, he had
his own ideas of discipline and deport-
ment not all of them conventional. Al
together he was dashing figure, with a
career of distinguished action and ad-
vantage in foreign ports behind him.
Unlike Glassford, he was decorated with
a luxurious beard.
Gen. Dye came into office in 1885, sue
ceeding Maj William G. Brock, whose
administration was shadowed by the
fatal wounding of President Garfield by
Guiteau, the assassin.
One of the fortnight young generals
Evening star., 1941-07-27
Ferrying the Bombers
By Robinson MacLean.

we have to follow our dead-reckoning
fight plan through without any check.
we usually come within very few miles
Of our destination.
I'VE feel that our weather-reportine
system is one of the greatest achieve
ments of the war. Last crossing was
able to check it, My navigator was
young and the overcast prevented
sextant bearing. But I came down
through the clouds at point on the
English coast just miles from my desti-
nation"
What about the German Messersch-
rlitts and Dorniers?"
Speedy Flying.
What about them? No pilot flying
for the Atlantic Ferry organization has
ever seen one on a crossing, and if they
did try to intercept us, they haven't got
planes that could get out from Norway
or from Brest to cut us off and still have
the speed to catch us. We could outrun
anything they can get out TO meet us.
Before I was flying for Atfero I die
seven months ferrying planes around the
British Isles, and I can assure you that
even then you don't run into German
planes unless you are down around Lon
don looking for them"
Believe me, this job is glamour-it is
Just number of hours of very exactine
and precise work, using the best equip
ment that money can buy. We have
automatic pilots to fly for us-the Eng
lishmen call them George and the
Americans call them Iron Mike and a
lot of other things.
I'VE don't see the ocean at all until
lust before we come in to land. We fly
so high that we wear oxygen masks
most of the time and we have reserves
If oxygen and gasoline and everything
lse."
What about the balloon barrages?"
I'VE have a map of them" the Cali
rnia pilot grinned,
But what if you were captured?"
The map is in our heads. There is
lly one map of the British balloon
elds in existence in North America.
nd it is kept strongly guarded We can
look at it and see the spots to avoid,
but there's no more reason for hitting
q balloon barrage than there is for an
airliner crashing radio mast"
Evening star., 1941-07-27

AN EASTERN CANADIAN AIR
PORT-There is no crowd on the air
port, because the fight is secret from
Hitler. A quiet young California racing
pilot stands on the asphalt beside a
yellow -ringed tricolor cockade that shows
the plane is bound for the r. A. F.
He's wearing a blue serge suit and
blue tie. His navigator and radio op-
orator have already climbed into their
places He opens blue-covered booklet
and takes a careful look at the flight
plan" he has drawn from here to an
English airport. 1t isn't direct course,
but angles between whorled lines and
yellow splashes that mark bad weather
or opposing winds.
He taps a figure with his pencil. I'll
land at that time" he says. "or within a
few minutes Of it, unless there is major
change in the weather from the fore
cast.
AIhdLHlS CSdStS.
That seldom happens. The meteor
iogist who gives us our weather is amaz-
ngly accurate. He has been studying
the North Atlantic weather for a num-
Der of years and he can supply us with
a forecast that includes the weather up
to 10000 feet in each zone across the
Atlantic
But surely forecast for the whole
North Atlantic can't be as detailed as
the weather report between two points on
a regular airline rum" the reporter said
1T has to be much more detailed" he
said. I'VE fly at attitudes that the air
lines don't touch. We choose the level
at which we get the most favorable wind
and ride the breeze"
How fast will you make it?"
Sometimes in very short time a.
ometimes considerably longer" +
grinned. Our object is not to set rec
ord, but to get to England with as muc
~asoline in our tanks as possible"
What if you get of your course?"
I'VE have good gasoline reserve"
said. But we don't get of our course
We have the latest United States instru-
ments to calculate wind drift and our
navigators are expert, but even when
the navigator can't get q bearing and
Evening star., 1941-07-27

flee of chief.
first acts in Office was a frontal attack
on the local headquarters of the Lou
tsiana lottery This raised a great hue
and cry, and among the voices eVentu-
ally were heard the lamentations of dis
appointed job-hunters, inside and out
side the department. Why hadn't
hometown man, or at least member
of the force, been picked for such an
important post?
BY the time of Clevelands inaugural,
a lot of people looked askance at Gen.
please the politicians.
On the great day of the parade, Gen.
Dye failed to appear on his fine horse
at head of his command. 1t was case
of "be damned if he did and be damned
If he didn't" and the general chose the
least conspicuous course. Too, there was
a mild disturbance in the reviewing
stand Where was the major and sup
erintendent?
Soon thereafter Gen. Dye resigned.
Period Was Lawless.
Mai. Brock was never blamed for the
failure of his men to guard Garfield, but
the national tragedy didn't help him
politically. Too, it was pretty laWless
era. Fakers and light-fingered artists
wed with three-card monte operators,
horse mart swindlers and robbers for the
publics greenbacks. People got restless,
o1oinod onH thpro
investigation which fixed no blame on
Mai. Brock, but nevertheless was followed
by his resignation.
Mai Brock had succeeded Thomas P.
Morgan, one of the few police chiefs
promoted to a higher Office in the Dis
trict-a commissionership he assumed
in 1879. Maj. Morgans predecessor was
Mai. A. C. Richards, whose heritage was
grief from the time he succeeded the
first major and superintendent during
the Civil War-Maj. William B. Webb
Washington in '64 was plagued with
soldiers, camp followers, adventurers,
gamblers, contraband runners, bounty
jumpers, substitute brokers, smugglers,
prostitutes and plain thieves and rob-
bers, whose shootings, Stabbings, riots
and depredations outraged the good
citizens and made things very hot, in
deed for the new police superintendent,
q former school teacher
In the early months OF the year, po-
licemen were still being drafted for the
Army-a controversial problem then, as
now.
Too, there were squabbles between
military and civil authorities Maj
Richards had his hands full, even before
that fatal night when Lincoln chose tc
attend the Ford Theater on Tenth street
The swift and terrible death OF Lin
coin, as we'll it might, sent police ano
soldiers in all directions" when 1t be-
came known the assassin had escaped
In the troubled times which followed
Maj. Richards was accused, and un'
Justly, as the evidence later showed, o.
sheitering gamblers and (awbreakers
This Commissioners resigned and new
Evening star., 1941-07-27

tCSttC uNSo VI PfcetosteS'e-
to restore it a year later. Meanwhile,
various police chiefs came and went in
rapid succession. The three patrolmen
thev commanded were a bit bewildered,
it was said.
Things went along like that until a
highly audible minority in 1641 gave
President Tyler rough serenade" at
the White House after he vetoed re-
charter for the United States Bank. The
serenaders splashed tar onto white paint
and at least one heaved a stone in the
general direction of the Chief Executive.
Soon thereafter Capt. John H. Goddard
was appointed chief of an auxiliary
guard" for which Congress forgot to pro-
vide uniforms. The guard, in the course
of years, became the "Old Guard" and
their night sticks left fairly permanent
impressions on the hard heads Of the
unruly.
The Districts police force, through the
years, has been subject to investigation
by many groups-congressiona COM
mittees, the District Commissioners, the
grand jury, the Department of Justice
and civic law and order committees.
Police chiefs and their ranking aides
have tottered in Office over such occur
rences as President delayed by traffic
jam, third-degree investigation, sui
eide which could have been q murder,
or a murder which could by no stretch
of the Imagination have been suicide.
One of the most colorfM superintend-