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EDITORIAL SOCIETY i LETTERS CLASSIFIED COMICS 0 mss NEWSwww faPAUL MALLON Daily Eagle I NEW YORK CITY, MONDAY, JULY 8, 193, Adt ripntifir Aqtaur Washington, July 8. PEACHERS Politics has always been run liere on a friendly basis. The boss of a party and all the sub-bosses take care of their friends. It Is a traditional custom, for instance, for a President to hand out political favors to Congressmen who support him. Sometimes these favors are offered before the Congressman has voted on a particular question, and the deal assumes some of the aspects of a gentle barter.

Every one knows about this, but no one is supposed to talk about it; certainly not the Congressman. There is an unwritten law against it. If the Congressman peaches, he becomes somewhat like an employe who tells on the boss for having offered him a favor. The rare snitcher rules himself out as far as any future favors are concerned. CHIVALRY ITEM Adventurous neighbor of ours fared forth into Manhattan one day last week and saw virtue rewarded right on 5lh Ave.

and 10th St. Adventurous Neighbor was idling about that locality when he saw a polite young man inflict bodily punishment on his lady right there In the middle of the sidewalk. Young man was soundly clubbing her about the head and shoulders and no one seemed to dash to the rescue that is. not until a certain stranger arrived. 8tranger did not say "Unhand that lady, sir, you cur!" Rather did he say, in calm terms.

"I beg your pardon. Have you a cigarette?" Our Neighbor tells us chap stopped thrashing his lady, reached in pocket, offered smokes, resumed beating. Stranger seemed unsatisfied. "I A herlockr really hate to bother you," he bothered him. but have you a match?" Process was reacted.

Beating stopped, matches were produced, beatii.g was resumed. At this point Stranger addressed lady, saying, "Could I get you a cab?" And, what's more, our man tells us he did get her a cab. handed her into it graciously and ended fingers in the face of the mad suitor or whatever And Our Neighbor swears he was right there hen the Stranger left the scene in the greatest smoking his borrowed cigarette. EE-TIIE-WORLD NOTE Sure local folks fall fully to appreciate our Brooklyn Museum, we to do our part by visiting there often. Which how It happened that other day we were trying understand meaning of Egyptian room exhibits len we were surprised to see a U.

S. Navy sailor lously taking notes as he studied curious look- iwl. Detective examining i print a Moody hand Bronzed, big and athletic looking, he didn't seem to be an Egyptologist, so we talked to him about it. Learned his name is George Karr and that his destroyer was parked in the Hudson oft 96th St. He confided: "I Joined the navy so sooner or later I could get close enough to Egypt to get a leave and study such stuff as this.

I come from Tulsa, Okla. When I was in school I just happened to get interested on the ihirt of a murdered Technical Research Laboratar at the Police Poplar St. fei 1 Detectlte-cientUt, whose tab- 6K enst- SS oratory tool ore as exacting a I 'Z2JM hoe nr of the meticulous I 4 sciences, working on a clue at I $t' Police Science, Big Bertha In the Battle of Banditry, Marches Amazingly On incidentally. of the earliest to recognize I abilities of police sciem POLICE and pursued tear around the corner on two wheels. The man in the stolen car empties his gun in one wild burst.

But still the police car gains. In his rear vision mirror its headlights bob doggedly. Then a police bullet shatters the Under him are a group of responsible police officials, headed by Chief Inspector John J. Seery, who rank with the pioneers of police science in America. They are a per-leet example of the results that can be obtained from wideawake men led by a visionary commander.

Several of the men date their interest in police science back to the days when they had to pay for instruments and equipment out of their own pocket. Sgt. Harry F. Butts, balh-ties chief. is one of House directed its Rules Committee to find out if agents of the President offered any favor or disfavor to Democratic Congressmen for their votes on the holding company bill.

You may relax and rest assured that tradition is not being cast to the winds. Some of the Democratic Congressmen are getting tired and fussy, but they have not reached the stage where you may expect them to do any Important tattling, whether or not there is any ground for it. You cannot expect them to line up outside the Rules Committee today on any proposition like that. EXPLANATION What threw everyone off was the stress given to an assertion by Representative Brewster that a Presidential agent threatened to stop a relief project in his district unless Brewster voted the way the President wanted. (This has been denied by the agent, Thomas Corcoran.) Mr.

Brewster's statement does not place him exactly in the category of a peacher. In the first place, he is a Republican. In the second, an overlooked portion of his statement gave the reason behind it quite fully. He said he was making the charge because he did not want anything to happen to interrupt his relief project. Thus he placed the New Dealers in a position where they cannot very easily stop work on the experimental, if not visionary, project for any legitimate reason.

So the least that can be said of Mr. Brewster was that he was a peacher with a logical purpose. But the charge was subject to such serious interpretations that it caught the House leadership off guard. An investigation had to be ordered for face-saving purposes, if no other, Now, a lot of Congressmen are con-firmed gossips. They buzz stories around among themselves and do not always get their facts straight.

If you listen to them now, you will hear that a vacant judgeship in a far Western State may have been offered to one Congressman, who accepted; that a new judgeship in a mid-Western State is supposed to have been suggested to another Congressman, who rejected it. Then there is the second-hand tale of still another Congressman who felt that two banks in his district might be closed if he voted the wrong way. There are good reasons for believing that the first-mentioned Congressman will get the far Western judgeships, but whether it has anything to do with the holding company vote Is another matter. There seems to be no substantive basis for the other All in all, the yarns do not sound logical. A judgeship is a high offer for one vote.

Also, bank examinations are presumed to be on a non-political rpAX DODGING No one in Congress has been able to get up much steam for President Roosevelt's indescribable new tax plan, except Senator La Follette. The President has announced that he wants action at this session, but, as all Congressmen point out among themselves, he did not say positively. There is no question that the Ways and Means Committee would lay the plan on the first vacant shelf it could find were it not for the fact that a certain promise has been made to La Follette. This promise is only that the committee will take up the question at this session and endeavor to settle it. Few insiders would be surprised if the committee discovered about two weeks hence that the matter is too big to be handled so expeditiously.

There is a strong chance that a sudden adjournment of Congress may be effected when all other pending business is cleared up. miPPING The man behind the interrogators in the Virgin Islands investigation is former Director Brown of the Bureau of Efficiency. For two months prior to the present inquiry Brown has been conferring from time to time with Senatorial investigators. He has supplied much data hostile to Governor Pearson, who is an old political enemy of his. DIGS A leading utility lobbyist met a Government lobbyist in the Capitol corridor a few days ago.

The Government man ironically congratulated the utilities agent on his victory, saying: You utilities certainly turned the heat on our Congressmen, didn't you?" The utility lobbyist ardently denied this and also suggested, as a sly dig, that he saw no evidence of pressure on the part of the Government to influence "Of course not," said the Government man. They shook hands, and the utilities lobbyist observed, in parting: "Boy, what a couple of liars wc mirror. Another pricks a hole in his windshield. Another buries itself in the rear of the seat. The fugitive knows he can't outlast them.

He thinks quick. A block ahead he spies the mouth of a lane. His car hairpins into it at these. He spent hundreds of dollars oi i is iv: mts iiriore the de partment finally recognized the value ol nis work i- a years was regarded as a "crackpot," as terms it. because of his interest In i Up the lane tt limps' The hunted IBk man throws open the car door.

A Until his recent promotion post ol -e 'ouu the immediate supervisor of the scrcecn 01 DraKes tells him the police have arrived at the lane's mouth. a shadowy figure fires. The nur- ihviMor.s i 1 1 a i 1 police science From the Second Denutv Polie Inspector John 3 Sullivan, who helueil ti was John J. Sullivan. In capacity as assistant chief inspector.

Working the city Police Deportment "Our Inhorn nl you've got lo combine police science uith sued man staggers. He has been hit. The back of his neck is sticky. in close co-operation along police they go in the history of Egypt. Back when I was about 15, 10 years ago, I wanted to see some Egyptian relic more than I wanted to do anything else in the world.

"Well, I've been in the navy four years and it just happened that I've never gotten close enough to Egypt to get there. All my boats fiddle around the Pacific and the China coast. In the meantime I've had to be satisfied with what's offered here at the Brookljn Museum and, believe me, WACATION HINTS-Summer weekends in the city, we're discovering, aren't near as bad as we'd feared they would be. Case you happen ever to get stuck in town Sats. and Suns, we suggest you go to the country offered by Prospect Park, where now again you may get a slant at India, Africa and even Alaska by taking a turn around the zoo.

i Newport, Southampton or even Jones Beach can't ofTcr any such diversification as that.) And if you get bored with the park and such bucolic things you might hop across the river and take a squint at the Aquarium, where the fish, at least, are cool. And. we suggest, it might be well to develop your backyard so that you may return in the evening to become farmer for an hour or so and spin off a bit of hoeing or cultivating. If you haven't a backynrd you can get much the same kick out of a window box. We suggest, in our best travel-advice manner, that you visit the park and the aquarium early In the morning so as to avoid the crowd.

And, frankly, we suggest that, unless you really have to stay in the city, you ignore our advice entirely and get as far away from the pavements as you possibly can. A LUMNVS NOTE Alexander V. Lynch, one-time Eagle reporter, stopped in other day and spoke to us. We didn't recognize him until he said: "You're not the first person who's had trouble recalling me. I've lost 80 pounds." Then we did remember.

Mr. Lynch, while on The Eagle, weighed more than 200 had been definitely not slender. Alex came in to tell us about his clover patch, in back of his home at 1441 E. 4th St. The other day he went out to look for four-leaf specimens, figuring a little extra luck wouldn't do a fellow any harm.

After hour's search he located one. ran proudly into the house to show to the Mrs. and liny daughter. Mary. He scrambles over a nearby fence," ipes the blood off the knife police bullets chip splinters from Somehow the fugitive escapes Simula ant is the fact that the courts no longer hesitate to accept and any number of the police department It has its own technical scientific appliances.

Advoc police science nomt proudl' opinion written bv Justice Millard research laboratory, boasts the finest and most up-to-thc-second scientific equipment available. John Citizen would be proud if he really SIX weeks later, in the calm and quiet of a special laboratory, a trained police aide peers Into a microscope at two identical hairs. He raises his head. icuce lines are uep. cruel insp.

John J. O'Connell and Dep. Chief Insp. Joseph Donovan. In Brooklyn is Dep.

Chief Insp. John J. Ryan. At headquarters are Act. Lt.

Charles Newman. Sgt. Harry Butts and Lt. Phil McGuire. Heading the Technical Research Laboratory staff is Lt.

William McMahon. All share a common interest in the development and progress of police science. One and all. however, join in pointing out the danger of overestimating the value of science to the police department. It i.s of enormous value but purely supplementary.

There is art. as well as science to detective work, and plain ordinary common sense is still more DCS DETECTIVE" "You can be sure that's the man want," he declares. And another victory is marked up tin- pohec- d. payment's man- hunting microscopes. judges of the Supreme Court oi the State of Washington, saying: "Courts are no longer sheplical that by the aid of scientitic appliances, the identity of a person may be established This is a progressive aye.

The scientific means afforded should be used to apprehend the criminal A PROGRESSIVE age requires a progressive police head to keep Valnine. can be ill EM 0111 from authentic police records, two hairs brought about the bandit's betrayal. wiui a nancuterchiet. then washes both knife and handkerchief thoroughly. The body is found, the husband arrested but he denies everything, stoutly protests his innocence.

In a police laboratory, knife and handkerchief are subjected to the ultra-violet light. As if by magic traces of blood appear on both. It is enough to convict him! In death row at Sing Sing, perhaps, he mulls his crime. He can't understand how blood could have been found on that handki rchief. He remembers rinsing it thoroughly.

He doesn't realize, however, that an absolutely white handkerchief may still contain blood! And that examination under the light of the ultra-violet lamp will bring it out. Another example in a loft building in mid-Manhattan a veteran cracksman sighs happily as the safe door swings open. He seizes the loot, signals the lookout. He leaves his tools behind as he exits. Cracksmen always do that.

And as he emerges onto street he strips the white gloves from Ins hands. Nary a fingerprint lias he left behind. Contemptuously he department In tracing clues. The Bomb Squad, addition to the as the "Teletouch Gun and Metal Detector The Technical Research Laboratory has recently perfected a method ol taking fingerprints off white cloth surfaces. The secret of important than all the chemicals Ill' '1 cape capture in the running gun fight six weeks before.

But police experts, going over the car later, found an embedded bullet. On it ana contraptions in the world. These men do not visualize a day when all a detective will have to do is drop a penny in a slot, press a button and out will pop the ed man. ballistics i.s being applied science ere two sticky hairs. Bullet and airs were filed away.

The weeks went bv. In another a little ahead Of the tn support of the Technics Laboratory plainly indie lend a helpi: hand part of the city one night, a patrol- TO put polici perspective liken It to the arrested a man for miie minor offense. At the station house de- no: cat a I rrv-h scar on the John Roosevelt, to Swing Ax as Payless TVA Worker, After Taking Serum back of his neck. They remembered le gun fight-Samples ef the suspect's hair were ken. They were checked with the ilrs found on the bullet.

The hairs tallied, and irrefutably linked him to the running gun light of six July 8 (P) There four working shifts, all of them shot" of typhold-dlph- and one-half hours long. waiting for John The men out for oungest of the Prcsi- into their overalls and -out i when he arrives for camp streets to the big. sunny work at the Tennessee term for breakfast. Then ti weeks before. Thus police science w.ir!.- Latter sniffed at the tosses the gloves to the street.

A day later detectives pick him washing up as he enters a barroom lor a glass will be a of beer. A quick conviction follows. 1 theria ant Yes. a fingerprint trapix'd him. nnr, For the next 15 years he'll be able' to wonder how they ever got it.

dents fain He'd be astonished to learn that a Summer they got it from the very article he Valley pro thought would protect him from his glove! For, only recently, police science developed a process by which workers the imprint of a man's finger can of a T. V. be taken from the inside of the ticular atti of its wonders. ONCE the puny plaything of occasional police tcrday I picked up half a dozen in a couple of minutes." Then, just to prove Vicr point, she went out, returned five minutes later with another half- science today ranks as a major ai'd the combat 1 1 1: has There are rest periods eens for cool drinks an At the end of the workii denly in the public eye as a vital lorce in the current nun, -i ru. i.uij campaign.

tant in a man-hunt as the machine package from Philadelphia. It looks the trucks rumble back for work- work of the bomb squad, ers, dropping them their dorml- He happened to be standing In the tories, where the. rush through Detective School one day talking to "wash up" and run for the cafe- the late OWef Surgeon Daniel Dono- teria. Regular lumberjack meals On the desk lay a bomb used him. He calls head- uspirious in.

And the test-tube traoker-jwners are really coming into their Far-sighted Police Commissioner Lewis J. Valentine has himself com- upou this only i eii nth the preface to a book on crime, the Commissioner wrote: place him in one of tin gangs, felling tree I to be flooded for tin CARM NOTE -Radishes will sprout within 24 hours, we've learned, if a little hot sun and then a heavy rain immediately follow planting. But if you look carefully you will that the whole seed ls above ground, with no roots or other respectable accouterments of a self-respecting vegetable. Don't let any of that worry you. Radishes are very sensible.

Heavy rain when they're a few hours old goes to their heads, makes them drunk, as It were. But as soon as the sun comes out again they sober up in a hurry, without hangovers, and go about the business of shooting their roots down into the ground. Which reminds us that our own particular term, located in the back yard of a brownstone front, is doing very well, thank you. A wind aim cold weather raised dickens with the corn, though. Matter of tact, getting confessional, we were delighted to note our corn was high enough to be lonn f'v DISCOVERY One thing which the Navy discovered in its recent Pacific maneuvers was that it wants more naval bases in the Pacific.

This will not be admitted publicly now, but, Just as soon as the Washington naval treaty expires, the Navy high command intends to recommend development of bases at Guam and Samoa, also naval air stations at Midway and Wake Islands. Japan may wish she had not been so hasty in scrapping the treaty when she hears about that. Tjl'NS Champion punster of the House is alert Representative Maverick. In a recent speech, he said critics of the TV A are that TV A operation of co-operative canneries is not an "uncanny" phase of its work; that the TVA Is the busiest of New Deal agencies "by a dam file." It takes a brave man to be a punster with name like that. inailniuacy mere experience and quarters, "Get everybody out and don' touch the package," is the curt com The Bomb Squad screams up hre minutes later.

Under a portabl X-ray machine, the package ts in spected. Two sticks of dynamite can plainl be seen within. And the trirkv com bmiilion of wires that will set it of when the wrapping cord Is rut. Delicately the Bomb Squad work: Without touching the cord, the; manage to pierce the box, dlscon Dh'mtiril tmm all the nces. Prevention of defectum and npprc-iminals are rapidly be- 111 hitherto hidden irmamei high vp kill a dozet the 11- lnrn' Tomorrow: 'The Milk-Fed Bab? AN ENRAGED husband leaps upon his wife, rams a knife into her heart, places the body in a trunk, dumps it into a marsh.

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