Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 4 March 1932 — Page 3
FRIDAY, MARCH #, 19^2. 1
DAD AND I
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frain from making a fool of himself in the eyes of its people. We need a little more Monroe Doctrine and considerable less taking care of wealthy Americans’ in(terests in foreign countries.— Kokomo I^ree Press. ■ V> HUSBAND BURNS WIFE HAIR AND BLACKENS HER EYES
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Chicago, March 1. (UP)—“My husband didn’t like my dark hair,” complained Mrs. Dorothy Seiwert in divorce court today, “so he lighted it—with matches. “He didn’t like my blue eyes, either, so he blackened them.” The court promised to issm* it decision, in black and white ,soon.
A NATIONAL ROGUES’ GALLERY Many Puzzling* Crimes are Solved With the Aid of the Federal Bureau of Identification at Washington. Here Millions of Finger Prints are on File, Furnishing an Elaborate Directory of the Lawless That Each Year is Helping to Put More Criminals Behind the Bars. (By Charles J. Y. Murphy, in Fraternal Order of Police Journal.) (FIVE PARTS—PART TWO.)
for the science as it While attached to a
Of all the aids to criminal iden- , identification. Nearly
Wheels moved within wheels. A
posse descended upon the farm of tification developed during the last Fleagle’s father. The father and century none has so nearly attaintwo other sons were found in a ed the nature of an exact and unshack in the center of a tract of failing science as the art of finger uncultivated land in Kansas. They printing. This case I have just iwere' arrested. Though none of cited is not unusual. 1 have given them worked nor had visible 'it prominence for the reason that, means of livelihood, neighbors re- more dramatically than most called that each of them had on'others, it demonstrates the certi-
several occasions exhibited huge rolls of bills. Banks gave the information that they had maintain
1,000 per-
cd individual bank accounts tjiat ran as high as $60,000. From here it was but a step to the observation that these accounts reached their peaks shortly after a succession of bold' bank robberies in Kansas and Colorado. With information yielded by the father and sons, detectives hammered at the trail. In August, 1929, Herbert L. Royston and G. J. Ashler were arrested at Sacramento, Calif., and Grand Junction, Col., respectively.. Each confessed to the Lamar affair and each laid the blame on the missing Fleagle. Of the men arrested, three have since died in the electric chair and one is serving life imprisonment. Last of all to be caught, ironically chough, w r as Jake Fleagle himself, whose bloody index finger, touching a mudguard and preserving its pattern in hardening blood, caused the trapping of them all. fleagle was fatally wounded in a battle with postal inspectors less than a
year ago.
sons are arrested each day in the United States for crimes for which the law's require they be finger printed. These prints flow to Washington, where they are compared with the finger prints on file. If an identification is made, a report on the offender’s true name and record is immediately returned. If a first offender, the print is carefully placed in its proper classification as a perma-
nent record.
The finger print industry, now ordered and sure of itself, is routine. If the prints arrive by mail.
tude with which the science operates. His finger, print record is the one thing a criminal cannot evade. He may change his name— on file in the Washington Bureau is the record of one man who has operated under ninety different
aliases—yet each time he runsj a report on the identification or afoul of the law his identity be- i ack of previous record must be comes as plain as if it w'ere tat- sent to the contributing police oftooed on his chest. ficial within twenty-four hours. If Avenue Almost Closed [a classification comes by teleIt used to be possible for a crim-!graph, answer must be made within Inal to move from the city of his, one hourAlt is a striking fact that last crime and, in another, lose 0 f the 447,301 finger prints sent to himself under another name. Save Waghillgtou { i ur ing the year that, by the personal recollection of)ended on June 30, 36 per cent of those who knew him, there was no' them were identified, despite misw r a v of combatting an alias. I leading aliases in many eases, as That avenue is almost closed | those of criminals with records; now. On file in, Washington on| aI1 d 1,852 of them were identified July 1, W'ere the finger prints of| as fugitives‘from justice. 2,536,308 major criminals—those Criminal identification is Indlswho have committed felonies, fhey jpensable in combatting crime, and ai^e active prints prints of crim- 1 finger printing, as it has been perinals still alive. Accompanying;fected in the last half century, is them aie 3,541,519 index cards car-.tiie surest method of identification rying the true name and aliases,i t]m , ), as yo t been devised, signature and record of each of “Unimpeachable Fidelity” these persons. Here police officials Dr Henry Faulds, an English
of the w'orld shop for Ci 1 m 1 thirdacfylographer, laid the foundation | that wood is
problems and
exists today, hospital in
Japan, in 1880, he established that the variety of individual finger prints was immense; that these patterns did not change during life; and that, finally, even when temporarily obliterated by use of acid or pumice stone, the ridges [soon restored themselves with
"unimpeachable fidelity.”
Sir Francis Galton, noted British scientist, contributed the next important step. After extensive research he discovered positively that no tw r o sets of finger prints w'ere alike. His findings were so conclusive that the government appointed a number of eminent scientists to report on the matter, wuth a view to applying the knowiedge as a means of criminal identification. The formula w'as finally rounded out by the research of Sir E. R. Henry, Commissioner of Scotland Yard, who devised a simple yet comprehensive method for classifying and filing the prints. The “Henry System” is now r in use throughout the world.
(Continued Next Week)
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Most Fires Start From
Carelessness; Caution to be Watchword.
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grateful for the splendid public support they have received in this effort, hut the results secured are not sufficient to meet the needs of the situation. Fire danger and losses must he further reduced. To accomplish that, unfailing and increasing public support is neces-
sary.—U. S. Daily o
Awful Conditions
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Pitible Plight of Workers Revealed by Investigation of New England Mills.
The extent to which Nqw England manufacturers are taking advantage of unemployment to impose galling conditions on w'ovke' s has been brought to light from two sources. I At Pittsfield. Mass., the situation is so had the mayor and board of aldermen have ordered an investigation of two textile concerns which recently moved in their | factories from New York. The| Pittsfield Development company j
—another name for a chamber of cue .. execil tive
commerce—paid a large sum tc obtain the plants, but the principal inducement, as far as the bosses were concerned, was a
President Herbert Hoover declares a year’s moratorium on foreign debts and then has the guts to state the federal government should not aid the American people directly with money during a depression because of the demoralizing effect of that procedure. \ny man who could pass out and
two such ideas is
either a fool or an idiot and is certainly a long distance from being an American. Hoover stated some time since that to his know* ledge there were no cases of actual suffering and starvation. No doubt a narrow-minded man with) a salary of $75,000 a year with a| few' thousand thrown in for trans-| portal ion and several more thousand for general expenses, who is; unable to see beyond the end ofi his nose, finds it hard to see any, evidence of hard times, but if he I will take a day off from worrying! about the welfare of other nations j and interest himself in the one ofi which he is supposed to he the ,
he might be able
to find enough evidence to make a change in his opinions—if he has the brains to make a change. The president cannot cure the!
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By R. Y. Stuart
Picture what this country would he like without forests. It would certainly be desolate. We would have to import at heavy cost the material for the thousands of uses
put. lo. Our flood our water supply
problems would be vastly increased. Our rivers would become scourges, descending upon us in fury in one season, and failing us altogether in another. And w r e would be denied the finest type of outdoor recreation—the type for-
ests alone can afford.
We must, have forests. And i!' we are to keep them, we must protect them. Fire is the scourge of the forest. There must be organ ized effort to prevent and fight forest fires as there is to prevent and fight city fires. Fire in forests de vours not only accumulated wealth, but it also licks up natural elements necessary to quick replace-
ment of that wealth.
Farmers naturally hove spools 1 interest in forest protection. They and other small owners hold more than one-third of the timberland in
the United States.
What Timber Fire Means Let’s see what a timber fire means to the farmer. It will destroy or damage valuable stand'ng timber in bis woodland. It kills the young reproduction that will bring future returns and increase the present value of bis land. It increases soil erosion and H*dn< , '\" streamflow and springs during the
dry season.
Fire on the farm or in tlm farm wqodland may do all those things, besides reducing the fertility of his woodland soil, burning the I fences, and possibly spreading on to cropland and farm buildings. General Public Suffers While the general public must, suffer from forest fires- it is still often to blame for letting the fire demon loose. More than half of all fires start from such simple beginnings as the careless dropping of a match, or tossing of burning tobacco from an automobile, or failing to watch the trash fire or to properly extinguish the camp-
fire.
Fire prevention, like chavitv. begins at home. Matches, gasoline, and such things have known dangers as well as uses. When ev'wy man realizes it is his personal interest. to stop the red destroyer whether at home or in the forest, fire losses will be greatly reduced. Remember To Be Careful Wherever he goes, he must remember that one second of fim carelessness may destroy a tree or a forest that it perhaos took Nature 10t> ynars or more to produce, and in destroying it he is removing from the earth something of value that he may not live long enough to see replaced. If the farmer, the motorist, the camper, the sportsman, and others in the woods will remember to be careful with fire, hundreds of millions in natural resources will be saved to the Na-
tion in a few years.
The organized forest protection agencies, Federal, State, county and private, are exerting every means in their power to save the timber, water, and recreational resources of the country. They are;
promise of “cheap labor” in ab-i coun tiT hut
un dance.
How this promise is being kept 1 is revealed by Alderman George A. Purnell. He declares that the employers have agreed to pay $5.50 a week, but that even less is being received by workers—in some instances as little as $1.50 a week. New employes are required to work a week without wages, and frequently they are discharged after the trial period. “Yellow Dog” Contracts The bosses are said to have literally thumbed their noses at; Die State Minimum Wage Law Gommission. which under court j decisions cannot enforce its u-'-j rrees but. must depend on publl- j city to get results. A feature writer for the Boston Sunday “Advertiser” who made an investigation of women’s shoe factories at Lowell, Mass., reported that chattel slavery “could not be worse than is the lot of women factory workers” who are bound by “yellow dog” contracts. “Slaving girl workers,” the writer said are entrapped not with chains, bul with heavy iron doors shutting them in a suffocating
workroom.
“I saw tlm tortured, distorter] expression of agony on Die faces of the girls overcome with poison
ed air.
“And what do these girls get in exchange for their dangerous la-
bor?
The most expert averages 60 cents I a day, which is about $3.50 for a full time week. “Girl after girl told me that un less they worked long hours overtime they would starve.” From Marlboro, Mass., come • a report that women shoe workers receive less than 30 cents a div. while married men are paid $5.10 for five and a half days’ work. -Labor.
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