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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-16
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON .

local police crime Laboratories
for comparison. Some of the
suspects have been taken to Ia
coma for possible Identification
by the other Mattson children,
now nearly grown but still re-
Numbering that face.
SEARCH YIELDS MANY
WANTED CRIMINALS
WHILE none of these suspects
has thus far been linked with
the Matnap case, the dragnet OF
over $4,000 possibilities has
brought in hundreds of criminals
wanted for other crimes. Hoover
towns and jungles and shacks all
oyer the country have been conf
bed and the combings have
brought in men wanted for ar
son, larceny, bank robbery, and
nearly every crime on the calen-
OAR. This is one of the incident
q, reasons for keeping the Mat
nap case open. 1t has yielded a
rich haul of men wanted for
other offenses.
The Mattson case is one of the
unsolved kidnapings to come
within FBI jurisdiction since the
deral kidnapping Act was
passed II years ago. The other
unSolved case is the kidnapping
of 12-year-old Peter David Lee
vine of New Rochelle, N. Y, in
February, 1898. A squad has
been kept working on this Le-
vine case in the intervening
years, but so far entirely with
out success. There is no cleW,
no scrap evidence which
to go. 1t will be solved only by
a confession or by an informer
who was in on the crime.
While these two cases have
remained unsolved, 227 other
kidnapinss since the passage Of
the so-called Lindbergh Law
have been solved. The racket
which once made the country's
most glazing headlines has now
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-16
NEA Correspondent

WASHINGTON-One Of the
most intensive manhunts in u. S.
criminal history has b e n the
8 l2-year search for the kidnap-
Ell and murderer of 10-year-old
Charles Fletcher Mattson of Ia
coma. Wash. In FIJI records and
In local police headquarters all
over the country this Mattson
kidnapping has become known
as the "Matnap" case. FBI hasn't
given up trying to solve it, and
won't give up.
There are three slender clews
to 60 on. When the kidnaper
broke into DR.. Mattson's home
on Dec. 26, 1896, and abducted
his oldest boy, note demanding
$4,000 ransom was left on the
chair. That provides a h a n d.
writing specimen. The kidnaper
left fragmentary fingerprints on
the glass of French doors through
which he entered the house, and
again at a phone booth from
which he called to make a Sec
ond ransom demand. The kid
naper was seen by the other
Mattson children who were in
the room listening to the radio
with their brother at the time he
was kidnapped. A sketch was
made from composite descrip-
tons by the Mattson children
ad that has been used as a guide
in examining suspects.
In all the years since Charles
Mattson's body was found MUIR
Gered In the SNOW near Everett,
Wash, two weeks after the kid
naping, rs, 402 suspects have been
reported. OF these, 1888 have
been eliminated as having no
connection with the crime. But
the remaining 1869 suspects are
still pending in an open file. A
steady flow of handwriting
specimens, fingerprint records
and photos comes into FIJI and
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-16
. IN HOLLYWOOD

We both admit she's not the
worlds greatest actress. But
she's got the application-and
those years of kicking around
on Broadway, flop-shoWs and all
that-have sharpened her up.
That's why she came over the
way she did in ITO Have and
Have Not" That's why she's
taken all this commotion about
her, the interviews and the ma
gazine covers, and our marriage
and everything. without letting
il throw her, like it would a lot
of new kids out here.
SOFT LIFE!
GUESS the only time I've
really seen her in a stew was
the other night in our new house
we've just moved into. Things
were just beginning to settle
down for us. But at / a. m. our
servant awoke us frantically
with the news that our living
room and bar was flooded A
pipe had burst; the furniture
and rugs were awash, afloat in
two feet Of water. We baled and
swept till daylight. When it was
all over, we had a good laugh
out of it and then got into our
cars and drove out to Warner
Bros. for that 7 a. m. cali!
Soft life for us actors. en- Jun
Tor?
She doesn't like night clubs
very much. We occasionally
do" Mocambo and when we do
the autograph kids swar m
around her and I've noticed-it
takes her a little longer than me
to sign their books. That's be-
cause she gives it the full treat
ment: Lauren Bacall Bogart. -"
But I guess / can't squawk about
THAT. It's pretty nice, as a
matter of fact.
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been broken. In all, there have
been oily Is kidnapings involv-
ing ransom. In the l2-month Pc
Rod ending last July !, there
were ID kidnapings. none for
ransom and all solved, with the
conviction of "a kidnapers for
terms averaging more than ID
years each.
RESULTS PROVE VALUE
OF LINDBERGH LAW
SUCH kidnapings as are re-
ported today are usually access
sorry to other crimes. Robbery
is ordinarily the first motive.
Usually there is an automobile
involved. The cases are pretty
sordid, the victims average peo-
pie going about their everyday
business or pleasure. They Just
happen to cross the paths of
lowlife characters who take their
money away from them, then
steal their car and take the own
crs along for the ride. When
they cross a state line the kid
napers' troubles begin. for that
permits the FIJI to move in and
work with local police where
otherwise the state authorities
would be hamstrung.
The Lindbergh Law has UNI
questionably been q good thing.
l; has put teeth in prosecution
before federal courts. BY pro-
viding for heavy sentences it has
discouraged "snatching" as a
crime that pays, Since 1884 there
have been SIT convictions. Sen
fences have averaged more than
10 years. Life imprisonment was
given "A defendants and the
death sentence TO IL. In addition,
ght-kidnapersj Mere-kiAed
while resisting arrest, seven
were murdered by other gang
members, two were lynched and
one was declared insane.
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EDITORS: HOLLYWOOD not

EDITORS: Hollywood not
ables have volunteered TO
serve as guest columnists'
while Erskine johnson is on
vacation. The column below
was write by star Hum
phrey Bogart.
HOLLYWOOD-Listen, Char
lie, let's get something straight
Il DON'T call her Baby"
Any more than l call her Jun
ior," or Charlie" or Creep
or Hey, you!"
I don't even call her THE
Look But sometimes, though,
I'll say to her, Give 'em the
from down-under look, Baby
Like the time Jack Benny came
onto the set when we were
shooting "The Big Sleep" and
wanted to meet her. She bobbled
her head, and let him have It..
Nov make him the Monkey
Face" (Oh, we Bogarts are
charmin' people!) So my bride
gave Jack an imitation of her
best simian. Benny? Oh, We
never saw him after that.
She takes to water like a
duck, if I may YEARLY lean upon
tired metaphor. l think she'll
make a pretty good sailor, be-
cause she likes boats and boat
ing. Particularly ours, down ut
Newport, where we spend all the
free time we can.
WHAT! SADDER THAN
BOYER?
SHE kids me about what she
calls my "cocker-spaniel" eyes,
which she says are even sadwhen
I'm happy. l dunno. Can they be
any sadder than her pals from
Confidential Agent" Charlie
Boyer?
That reminds mel think I'll
bash in the head of the next
person who asks me how ii feels
To have Boyer making love to
my wife before the cameras, Or
how Bob Taylor felt when ]
wooed Barbara Stanwyck in
THE Two Mrs. CAROLS" An
actor has his job to do and that
that.
I'm sure Betty's the same way.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-16

In 1922, Charley Robertson,
Chicago White Sox rookie, re-
tired q consecutive Detroit bat
men, including such famous slug
gers as Cobb, Heilmann and
Wingo. It is accounted the
greatest individual pitching feat
in baseball history.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-16
GREAT TASK AHEAD

Allied arm. hove conquered Jopon physically
but dispatches from Tokyo moke only roo e'eo'
thet ws have before even greater task ." WIN
nina their minds and heorts to woys OF peace ono CO.
operotion with their neishbors.
The bloody-honded Jop miIitorists ore tok'ns u
hard and with forbodns bitterness. War Minister
General Koreiehiko Anomi hos killed himself to
".,or. for his foiIure in accomplishing his duties
as hi. Mojestys minister"
Premier Boron Suzuki deelored in q broadcast;
'Thi. dow hos become the doy thot never, never will
b forgotten by the Joponese people,. lote' the
Domei News Agency announced that Suzuki o"d MS
Cabinet had resigned. At the some time kusuo Oyo'
chief Of the Oversees Bureou Of the Jopon Broad
ea.tina Cooperation, declared in broadcast to
troops on the fighting fronts:
I'VE hove bowed to the enemy's material and
scientific power . we have lost, but this is tenn
poFoY.
There We hove the ferment which will ereote an
oths, World War, unless the Allies find way Of
removing it from the heart Of Jopon. It will be IT,
tonic Job, for oport from other considerations we
are deoIina with people who in mony respects ore
still living in medieval Days. For mony Of them the
Allied military occupation will provide their first
reel eontoct with the western world.
Of course defect - where the conquered
ONE hes been wrong in his efforts - is terrible
dose 10 swallow. One con understood Jopon's feel
inss though she thonk her stars that she didn't
act q worse beotins. One Of the toughest moments
for the detected people undoubtedly was to witness
the unprecedented ond, to them, omost unthinkobe
spectacle Of their God-Emperor being compelled to
take the role he played in descending from the
heights to do the eorthIy job Of surrenderns Moth
ing even approaching that hos happened before in
the long centuries Of Jopon's history.
So We have our work cut out for Us to win the
JOS over to peace and modern civilization. Still,
she'll do il, and confidence in Allied obiIity to solve
this problem increased by the appointment Of Gen.
sreI DousIos Macarthur as Supreme Commonder. He
takes to this task exceptional leadership, wide ex-
psrsncs, greet understanding ond, while he is man
Of exceptional firmness he administers justice in the
spirit which from his deeply religious eonvie-
tions.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-16

Forests and brush covered
land total 19,142,000 acres of
Missouri's 44,292, OOO-acre land
area, according to the State Con-
servation Commission.
Evening star., 1945-05-26
horreI| in Talk Stresses
Need for Opera House

The need for an opera house In
Washington was stressed by Repre-.
sentative Norrell, Democrat, of Ar
kansas at dinner meeting of the
Washington Grand Opera Commit,
tee in the Willard Hotel last night.
Representative Norrell brought
out that the greatest argument for
suitable opera house was that I'VE
have in the Washington Grand
Opera Co. a highly successful insti-
tuition which is without a properly
equipped theater in which to pre-
sent grand opera"
Judge George D. Nelson, general
chairman of the committee, an
nounced that contributions to the
Washington Grand Opera Sus-
tanning Fund had been received
from practically every type" of
business and professional person in
Washington. He said that greater
effort was needed from every men,
Der to push the current fund raising
campaign to its successful conclu-
sion by June 80.
Evening star., 1945-05-26

not on things on the earth.
In these days Of war many of us
are turning our minds and hearts
of love toward heavenly things.
For it seems that all earthly things
are beginning to perish.
Now we think only of Russia,
Germany and Japan and part Of
Great Britain as being moldered
in dust and rubbish, but these are
just the beginning.
Remember God hath said He is
no respector of persons. Therefore,
If you are q Christian set, your
mind on deeper things of Christ.
Here We ind that Christ is seated
at the right hand Of God. So let
our hope be eternal and not of
things Of the earth.
In Verses and of the same
chapter we read: For if we are
dead and our life is hid with Christ
In God, what q promise we have
here!" We are declared dead when
we accept the crucifled Christ. We
are declared alive when we are
buried with Christ in baptism and
rise and walk in the newness Of
life with the Lord Jesus Christ.
These are wonderful words
when Christ, who is our life, shall
appear, then shall we also appear
with Him in glory. Isn't it won
derful? The Christian life stands
before God not in his own right
eousness but In the Righteousness
Of the Lord Jesus Christ who died
that we might be saved.
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Evening star., 1945-05-26
On the Other Hand
President Has Put Tom Clark in Tough
Spot for Good.Natured Man, Saws Writer

they begin pointing out the law in
such cases.
The President has put Mr.. Clark
in the toughest possible spot. Few
men are more familiar with the
problems that are going to hit the
Attorney General than is the man
for whom the Truman Committee
was named. Few have demonstrated
themselves more impatient than Mr..
Truman with business and industrial
practices that conflict with the
country's best interest. He called
the turn on more than one concern
in the course of his committee in
vestigations, refusing to be swayed
even by the Army's or the Navy's
notions of expediency. There is no
reason to believe that his attitude
in this respect has changed, and
that may make life uncomfortable
at times for the new Attorney Gen
eral, If he Is as good-natured as
commonly reported.
Evening star., 1945-05-26
Radio Bible Quiz

The Radio Bible Quiz will be q
contest between the Bible Quiz Kids
tonight at 7 o'clock over Station
WWDC, from the Bennett Memorial
Service Club, 613 G street NV.
Participants will include Glenna
Mae Morrison, George Willow,
Janet Worth, Elizabeth Campbell,
Richard Forestad and Doris Mason.
Evangelist Dale Crowley will be
master Of ceremonies.
Mr.. Crowley conducts devotional
service over Station WWDC daily
at 6:45 am. He will preach Sunday
night at Fifth Baptist Church. The
service will be broadcast over Sta
ton WWDC.
Evening star., 1945-05-26
Methodist Leaders

The church school superintendents
of the Methodist churches of the
Washington area will meet at 4 pm.
tomorrow in the chapel of the Meth
odist Building. The following will
lead in the discussion: The Rev.
w. w. Delaplain, executive secre-
tary Of Board of Education of the
Baltimore Conference; DR.. Horace
E. Cromer, superintendent East
Washington district, and DR.. Ralph
D. Smith,. superintendent West
Washington district. Frank L.
Smith, superintendent of Hamline
Methodist Church school, will pre-
side.
Evening star., 1945-05-26
Boy, Given Army Release
At IS, Returns to Outfit
Ey the Associated Press.

CLEARWATER, Fla, May 26.-
John Lejeune Bradley, 18, of Clear
water, is back with his old outfit,
the motorized cavalry at Fort Riley,
Kans., after an absence of more
than two years from the Army.
Young Bradley enlisted in the
Army, May 10, 1912, when only Is.
The Army discovered his true age
and discharged him October 1e Of
the same year.
The youth then joined the mer-
chant marine, He was called back
to Army duty when he turned 18,
returned to his former camp at
Fort Riley and was reassigned to
the same quarters he occupied be-
fore
Evening star., 1945-05-26
Browder ChargesU U. 5,
Broke Big ; Unity
AT San Francisco
BY the Associated Press,

oS inc ASSOClALeQ fIcSS.
NEW YORK, May 26.-Earl Brow
der. president of the Communist
Political Association, said last night
the United States had broken the
unity Of the Big Three at the San
Francisco Conference by what he
said was a departure from the late
President Roosevelt's policy.
Browder told forum sponsored
by the Jefferson School OF Social
Science that the Churchill pattern
for world relationships" has DOM
mated American policy since Presi-
dent Roosevelt's death.
TT is the pattern of a world polar
lied around American-Soviet an
tagonism. the separation of America
from the Soviet Union, with the
British Empire resuming its ancient
role of umpire of the world through
balance of power" Browder said.
Describing Mr. Churchill as a
reluctant partner in Teheran and
Yalta," Browder said the Roosevelt
policy recognized there could "be
no stable world organization of ma
tions, and hence no stable peace"
without American Soviet. friendship.
At San Francisco, he said, the
American Government departed
from the Roosevelt policy, broke the
unity of the Big Three, and prac-
tically' put our international rela-
tions into the melting pot for COM
plete recaSting"
Browder labeled the seating of the
Argentine delegation "a dangerous
breach of the leading coalition" and
the United States representatives
stand on the trusteeship question as
another surrender of Roosevelt's s
policy"
If President Truman sis to make
good his pledge to America that he
will execute the legacy of Roose-
velt's policies, then he must act now
and act decisively to reverse the
course upon which our country was
led at San Francisco by Vanden-
berg, and to which 1t Is being COM
mitted all over the world by Stet-
tinius," he said.
Evening star., 1945-05-26
Dr.. Busehmeyer Plans
Memorial Duy Service

In q Memorial Day service, DR..
Fred Sherman Buschmeyer will
preach tomorrow morning at the
Mount Pleasant congregational
Church on What Do You Re-
member?"
On Tuesday evening DIR. Ronald
Bridges. brother of Senator Styles
Bridges Of New Hampshire, will be
the principal speaker at a meeting
Of all the Congregational Christian
Churches of the Washington AS
Sociation.
On Friday evening there will be
a parish group meeting at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert w. Liv-
inpStOn.
Evening star., 1945-05-26
Dr.. c. J. Turck Named
To Presbyterian Office
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MINNEAPOLIS, May 26. - DR..
Charles ]. Turck, president of Mac
alester College, st. Paul, Mimi, was
appointed vice moderator Of the
Presbyterian Church in the United
States of America yesterday.
His appointment was announced
by the Rev. William Brakeman
Lampe, st. Louis, the newly elected
moderator, as the churchmen went
into the second days session of the
157th assembly.
DR.. Lampe also announced ap-
pointment Of chairmen Of the as
sembly's Is standing committees.
Among them was the Rev. Charles
H. Houk, Nashville, Tenn, synodical
records.
Evening star., 1945-05-26
Visit 10 Monastery
On Welcomes You Proaram

A visit to the Franciscan Monas-
terry will feature the weekly WASH
ington Welcomes You project to-
morrow. Those interested may
meet at 3 pm. at the District
Recreation Center, Sixteenth and
Lamont streets NV, or at the
entrance gate of the monastery
Fourteenth and Quincy streets NE,
at 4 pm.
For further details, call District
Information Center, Republic 58l9.
Evening star., 1945-05-26

and expended The Book.
Two men, one theologian and
one an eminent layman, are out
standing in this story of the, re-
turned Jews. One was Ezra, the
scribe, a teacher of the law, and
the other was Nehemiah, cupbearer
to the King of Persia.
These men built upon the early
return led by Zerubbabel, descend
ant of King David, and Joshua, the
high priest, who re-established the
community life in Jerusalem and
began to rebuild the temple.
Then came Ezra, a profound
teacher of the law. He saw that
the people had fallen into many
evil ways, especially in inter-
marrying with the natives. He
was man of penetrating insight
into the meaning Of social prob
lems-a reformer who handled
difficult situations with firm hand.
Then, as now, it was sound prin-
ciple for men and women to marry
within their own race and religion.
Nehemiah, living in honor in
Persian court circles, was yet so
concerned for the lot of his people
that the king saw his grief, and au-
thorized him to go to Jerusalem,
fully equipped with, royal authority
and supplies.
Under Nehemiah began the great
rebuilding Of the city and its walls.
The story is an absorbing one and
to be read in the books of Ezra and
Nehemiah. 1t is a great record Of
inspiring leadership and popular
cooperation. We turn from the
tale, wistful that in our greater
emergency we may have the same
sort Of leadership and the same pub
lie loyalty and spiritual grace.
Evening star., 1945-05-26
Muskineum College
To Honor Mr.. Cosby

The Rev. Virgil M. Cosby. minister
OF the River Road United Presby-
terian Church, will have the degree
OF Doctor of Divinity conferred upon
him by Muskingum College at New
Concord, Ohio, on Monday. He and
Mrs. Cosby are graduates there.
For the past eight years Mr.. Cosby
has served the denomination as rep
resentative on the General Commits
sion on Army and Navy Chaplains.
He will later go to Monmouth, Ill,
to attend a meeting Of the General
Assembly to report on chaplains.
The Rev. DR.. Fred E. Ressig of the
Federation Of Churches will preach
tomorrow morning.
Evening star., 1945-05-26
Gold Stur Association

The Gold Star Association, COM
posed Of fathers, mothers, brothers
sisters and wives Of those lost In
World War II, will hold memorial
services at II am. tomorrow at the
Church of the Ascension. The Rev
Corwin G. Roach will deliver the
sermon. Col. Joseph F. Randall Is
president Of the association.
Evening star., 1945-05-26
Metropolitan Baptist
To Honor Servicemen

The Alpha Sigma Kappa. young
mems class of Metropolitan Baptist
Church, taught by Mrs. Daniel c.
Shankle, will honor their AZ new
members in the armed services at
$50 am. Sunday. Ken Davey and
AL Haygard are in charge of the
service.
Two gold stars will be dedicated
in the service flag and special tribute
will be paid to Pvt. John r. Tatum,
who was killed in Germany, and Pfc.
Bane Gordon, who was killed in
France.
Members of the families OF the
boys in the service are invited.
Evening star., 1945-05-26
Spain Silent on frances
Opposition 10 Franco
= the Associated Press.

9S tilC AecOCl2te0 IESSes
MADRID, May 26-Word that the
French Foreign Affairs Committee
yesterday had recommended that
the Allies urge the resignation of
Gen. Francisco Franco brought no
immediate comment from either the
Spanish Foreign Once or Jacques
Truelle, representative Of the French
government in Madrid.
The Spanish Foreign ONCE ap-
parently was not surprised, since
relations between the two countries
have grown increasingly frigid since
the end of the European war.
The Spanish cabinet was in ses-
sion yesterday afternoon, and un-
doubtedly Franco was informed i'm
Of the new development.
Evening star., 1945-05-26
Epiphany Episcopal

Canon Theodore o. Wedel of
Washington Cathedral will speak on
"Episcopal-Presbyterian Union" at 8
pm. tomorrow before the Youth Fell
lowship Forum of the Church of the
Epiphany. He is a member Of the
commission Of the Episcopal Church
which is negotiating with the Pres
byterian Union in the United States
In an effort to unite the two bodies.
Evening star., 1945-05-26

the great re-
ligious revival
that a ccom
panied the res
toration. All
the people, men
and ON e n ,
gathered outside
the water gate
of the city. and
listened to Ezra's
reading of the
Law Of God. He
stood on a wood
en- pulpit and
I r o m e a r | v
morning u ntil
Evening star., 1945-05-26
Foundry Methodist

DR.. F. B. Harris will deliver the
sermon at II am. in Foundry Meth
odist on Round Trip to Yesterday" !"
Later In the day he will leave for
Buckhannon, w. Va, where he is to
deliver the commencement address
for West Virginia Wesleyan College
on Monday morning.
DIR. Frederick e. Reissig, executive
secretary Of the Washington Fed
Grafton Of Churches, will preach at
8 pm. and the choir Of the Cheverly
Community Church, Cheverly, Nd,
will render a musical program.
Evening star., 1945-05-26

yet. But give us
time.
Us farmers are
willing to take
Clinton P. An
derson on his
record and on
faith, our faith
in the President.
until we have
something spe-
cihc to Squawk
about. But come
the time when
we don't like the
price of wheat or
corn or hogs,
CAoratar., A