Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 7, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 May 1921 — Page 19
U. S. TO RETAIN FINGER PRINTS DRAFTSECURED “Millions of Impressions Kept When Gov’t. Establishes Identification Bureau. MUCH IN DEMAND WASHINGTON, May 20.—1n the identification section of the War Department in the old Ford Theater, where Abraham Lincoln was shot, there has been collected a mass of evidence which is expected during: the years to come to play an important part in the conviction of thousands of criminals, and likewise to aid in the exoneration of perhaps other thousands of innocent men, who through force of circumstances became the objects of suspicion. The evidence in question is the fingerprint records of more thana 6,000,000 men whose imprints were taken when came in contact with the machinery of the selective service organization of the War Department during the war. Scarcely a day passes that the War Do partment is not called npon by the police of various cities and towns throughout the country to try to identify the finger prints of someone who has been Involved in a crime or fatal accident HELPED SAVE WAN DEREK CASE. A recent inquiry from Chicago in connection with the notorious Carl Wonderer murder case is perhaps typical. “The Bagged Stranger," who is alleged to have been shot by Lieutenant Wanderer while the stranger was staging a fake hold-up for which Wanderer had paid him a small sum of money, had never been satisfactorily Identified. The police believed him to be Earl Keessee of Mil waukee, and that he had served lu the Army either under the name of Keessee or that of Edward Morgan of Texas. Knowing that the finger print records ©f every man who had served In the Army since the identification system was Installed were on file with the War Department, they sent the Imprints of the “Ragged Stranger's" fingers to Washington for comparison, investigation Showed that a man named Earl Keessee had enlisted In the Army from Milwaukee, but the finger prints of Keessee were different from those of the “Ragged Stranger." It was found that no less than six Edward Morgans had served in the Army, and that two of them were from Texas, but the finger prints of the man slain in Chicago did not tally with those of any of the Edward Morgans who had served in the Army. PRJITI SOFT FOR SHERIFFS. So prolific has the Identification section of the Army become as a means of capturing criminals that every now and then the department has to squelch some ambitious sheriff who tries to make the (Service pay him dividends. The method .ordinarily used is simple. A sheriff make a collection of notices of reward offered for the capture of criminals. Then he arrests every tramp that comes his way, takes his finger prints and sends them to the War Department in Washington for identification. As the War Department has the finger print records of practically every able-bodied young man in the United States, It often happens the War Department is able to tell the sheriff the name of the man he has in custody t Thereupon the sheriff checks over his list of rewards offered and if be finds the captive's name among them he immediately notifies the persons offering the reward and then proceeds to collect. The identification section of the War Department is in charge of Walter S. Kaye, who was the organizer of the first “identity section” in use in the War Department. The main purpose of the identity section is to identify unknown dead in time of war, and to keeep undesriable ex service men from re-enlisting under assumed names. Lately it has been supplying identification records to soldiers, .necessary in securing discharges, and in Addition has been a source of great ssBstance to the police in identifying crimHels among discharged service men.
LUXURY COST EXCEEDS THAT OF EDUCATION More Spent for Cosmetics and Tobacco Than on Schooling. ■WASHINGTON', May 20—Tyn times as much money every year for luxuries as for education! That is what is wronie with the educational system in the United States, according to Dr. P. P. Claxton. United States commissioner of education, who has deemed the time propitious to Invite attention to the fact that American women spend each year almost as much for perfume, powder and cosmetics as is spent in the whole country on public instruction. “We think we believe in education,” said Dr. Claxton. ‘We talk much about it and many of us have believed that we pay much for it; that it in fact constitutes a very great burden if indeed it is not our chief burden. No doubt we do believe In education in a way. but we have not and do not pay much for ft.” SPEND DESS THAN BILLION. Dr. Claxton backs up his argument that we pay very little for public education with some rather startling and illuminating figures. For instance, in 191S, the last year on which figures are available, he shows that the total .expended for public education iff the States was somewhat less than $1,000.0()0.000. Figuring on the basis of 100.000 000 population, that amounts to about $lO a head. Two yearß later, according to Dr. Claxton, In 1020, American women spent on face powder, perfume and cosmetics alone the not Inconsiderable sum of $750,000,000. while American men (and women, too, it is presumed; spend on cigarettes the sum of $.500,000.U00. For cigars there went $510,000,000 and for tobacco in other forms another $800,000,000, making in all $2,100,000,000 which went for tobacco In a single year, or more than twice the amount that was expended on education. trxrKiEs cost MORE THAN SCHOOLING. The American people spent half a billion for Jewelry in IP2O while they were spending a billion for education, •nd in these dry and arid days $350,000.000 went for soft drinks. But bad as these figures may seem, worse are to come. For “luxurious •errice" —whatever that may mean— LAmericans got rid of some S3,<M>,OUO.OW Ihit year, and for “Joy rides, pleasure and racing” a like amount. Even ice cream and chewing gum have not escaped Dr. Claxton’s Indicting calculation, and his arithmetic discloses that $250,000,000 was spent for Ice cream and $50X00.000 for chewing gum. is Interesting." continues Dr. Claxrton, “to compare some of these items with the expenditures for education. The amount paid for face powder, cosmetics and perfume is only $12,000,000 less than Um total amount expended for public elementary and secondary education in 13TS and within $50,000,000 of twice the total amount of aalarlra paid teachers in
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public elementary and secondary schools. “The amount paid for Jewelry Is nearly $100,000,000 more than the salaries of teachers in elementary and high schools In 1018 and is more than the total of productive funds of all endowed colleges and universities in that year. “The $50,000,000 for chewing gunm is two and a half times the total expenditures for normal schools and almost exactly the same as all State and city appropriatlons for higher education.
Clearance Sale Extraordinary!—Odd Lots For Men and Young Men Sent from Our Third Floor to The Basement Store
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For Regulars For Stouts For Slims For Short and Medium Stouts For Stubs High-Grade SUITS from America’s Foremost Makers of fine, pure wool fabrics, single and doublebreastea, as smart or as conservative as a man would want. We gathered up the odd lots of fine suits in our Third Floor stocks, sent them to The Basement Store to sell at a price that will create a sensation! The words “odd lots” rather than being a mark of demerit are a compliment! The. groups of which these suits were members were of such DECIDED popularity—the size range and pattern assortments became broken. Intrinsically the suits are as good as gold—the same’ fine woolens, the same careful workmanship that was in them when they were in our Third Floor crystal cases, are in them today, and the price is half and less than half the former markings. To you, as a purchaser, it doesn’t greatly matter so long as your size is here, and the suit of your liking, whether or not we have a few or hundreds in a group, but to us as merchants, w T e can not tolerate broken lots. In all the length and breadth of the land we do not believe there arc clothing values comparable w ith these. Sale price $24.75
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In the next war It Is expected gas masks will be needed on the water as well as In the trenches. Uncle Sam's fighting seamen are here pictured on the U. S. S. Pennsylvania getting ready for eventualities. Thia is Admiral Wilson's flagship of the Atlantic fleet. “The $300,000,000 which went for furs last year Is more than twice the cost of all higher education, and the $350,000,000 paid for soft drinks Is more than two and a half times as much. It Is more
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INDIANA DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1921.
than the total value of college and university buildings. Including dormitories, in 19ia “Suppose that In some moment of high enthusiasm and patriotic devotion the people who use tobacco had agreed among themselves to smoke two cigarettes instead of three, two cigars instead of three, and had paid to the support of the schools the money thus saved for the year, the salaries of teachers In schools of all grades, public and private.
could have been Increased by more than 120 per cent. “For tobacco in various forms we paid more than we have paid for b. jher education since the founding of Harvard College in Massachusetts and William aud Mary in Virginia.” DAME RUMOR IS MISTAKEN AGAIN But She Made County Dads Get Busy. BENTON, lU., May 20.—Dame Kumor, the cause of millions of sorrows, the destroyer of truth, the wrecker of homes, the instigator of trouble and the guilty mistress of innumerable wrongdoings, has appeared In anew role. Cloaked as the protector of a sacred record belonging singularly to Franklin County, Illinois, the lady of gossip appeared on the scene to warn against the hanging of John Savant, under death sentence for the murder of Fritz Heick at Valler, Feb. 17 last. If you hang this man, said Miss Rumor, the ground on which your courthouse sets and which was deeded to the county in September, 1839, will, under the terms of the agreement, revert to the heirs of those granting the property. Much ado was caused. Dust was removed from the shelves, records were delved into and the instrument in question was pronounced. It was found that our lady of idle talk was misinformed. The land on which the courthouse is built and other property in the city, consisting of twenty-one acres, was deeded to Franklin County September 18, 1839, by John and Elizubeth Twlng and Waiter and Sarah Akin, with no such stipulated strings attached thereto. Counsel for Savant, the convicted man, have motioned for anew trial and a hearing will be given the motion this month. If the rehearing is denied and the Governor and Supreme Court do not intercede in the behalf of Savant, Franklin County will relinquish its distinguished record and the official hanging of a man will be registered in the archives of this Uttie mining community.
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REGARDING ALTERATIONS—W e can only make minor alterations on these suits, shortening or lengthening trousers and sleeves. Other alterations will be charged for at cost.
Replace Famous Brest Cobblestones BREST, Franco, May 20.—The cobblestone roadways of the quays here are being repaired. Veteran cobblestones that felt the tread of new armies from anew lend or bora upon them the weight of prisoners from the country beyond the Rhine as they worked and watched these same new armies disembark, are passing Into the discard. Long and well they have served thpir time giving place to newer and younger ones while are being laid by men as old as the service of those others. Not much sentiment about a cobblestone think the old men of Brest ns they dig them up and toss them contemptuously aside for the newer and less worn ones, yet back In America the cobblestone of Brest will linger long in the memory of almost 2,000,000 men. The cobblestones of Brest offered to countlegs men of the new American armies their first march on the soil of France. What doughboy will ever forget them as descending from steamer with heavy pack and rifle he stumbled and clattered across them? As they were the first of French soil to be beneath his feet, so were they the last as with victory in his kit, with the mud of the Argonne still on his
Prices Slashed on Coats and Dresses For Women and Misses
$15.00, $18.75 and $19.75 Qualities $A.75 Reduced to This Amazingly Low Figure Room must be made for summer frocks, and although these garments have been with us only a matter of a few days, their merited markings are prac-
tically disregarded in our desire to get the needed space which they occupy. The garments are all from our regular stocks, in the styles of the season; the preferred materials and colors.
TIIE COATS are of polo, velours and mixtures, in wrappy, conservative, belted and sports models; also swagger flared models with patch pockets and narrow belts; $15.00 and $18.50 qualities • $9.75
Professor Charles Munter’s NULIFE CORSETS on sale here.
Mignonette Sweaters jj/J QQ For Women and Misses * In the Season’s Preferred Colors \ J The wanted Tuxedo styles. Jade, brown, black, gold, geranium, Mrs. Harding blue, silver, taupe, etc. Sizes 36 to 44, sale price.. $6.98 White Lingerie Frocks
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shoes, he slipped gleefully over them to the waiting transport and home. Worn smooth by army trucks and the trampling men the old stones have done their bit. The only echo of those other days that has come to them has been in the trucks of the American Red Cross, which continue still to roll from cargo boat to warehouse carrying supplies that the people of Europe might live. NEW SILVER CAMP TO BEAT DAWSON British Columbia Field Is Fabulously Rich to 600Foot Depth . VANCOUVER, B. C.. May 20.—Mayo, the new silver camp on Btewart River, is destined to develop into a larger city than Dawson, according to John Lanning, fresh from the bonanza fields. “The ore at Mayo," said Banning, “is fabulously rich. It runs from 800 to 40,000 ounces to the ton, some of It looking more like solid silver than silver ore. The Guggeriheims are working twefity-two silver claims. The existence of the ore had been known for some time, but it caused no sensation because
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For girls, 2 to 6, 7 to 14 Winsome Dainty <sf| Tp |l |l fiLJr Girlish Models B Others are $2.98 and $3.98 "We were fortunate to obtain a group of broken size ranges from a well-known manufacturer, at enormous savings, which we are glad to pass along to our patrons. Crisp organdy, soft voiles, trimmed with dainty embroidery, pastel colored sashes, rosettes, etc.; sizes 7 to 14; $3.98 and _.52.8 Sizes 2 to 6
It was fetred It was merely a surface deposit and not wertb the hardships and difficulties of getting It out. The mining work done ao far, however, has proved a depth of 600 feet. How much deeper the vein extends la not yet known, but It gets richer the deeper it goes.” Mayo la 290 miles from Dawson by river and 148 miles overland. The country la still snowbound, but Mr. Lannlng said he expected a stampede of minora from Alaska and the Tukon rivaling the famous rushes of old Klondike gold days as soon as spring clears the trails and frees the rivers of Ice. RICHMOND BUILDING COST LESS. RICHMOND, Ind., May 20.—Richmond showed a loss of 70 per cent in the estimated cost of bulldin? work la April according to figures just compiled althought the number of permits for the month was almost twice as many for the same month a year ago. HARTFORD LEGION FUND, HARTFORD CITT, Ind„ May 20. The Service (Star Legion fund for a soldiers' memoirial here now totals $l,lOO. The form the memorial la to take will be determined upton soon.
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THE DRESSES are of mignonette, foulards, crepe de chine and Georgettes—cool and attractive for summer wear, in the wanted styles and colors, an array that will delight women and misses; regular $15.00 and SIB.OO qualities $9.75
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