Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 191, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 December 1933 — Page 13

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' By Heywood Broun

NEW YORK, Dec. 20.—They gave a dinner for Babe Ruth the other night and it was a gay *nd entertaining party. But to me It was also a little tragic. I am. undoubtedly, an old softy. When I hear the Babe announce publicly that he has the capacity for one more year of baseball and only the dim possibility of another I begin to go sentimental. It is not. of course, on account of any danger that George Herman Ruth will be tvirned out into a driving snow storm to peddle matches. He would do well in that line of endeavor or any other. Journalism, the radio, the silver screen and life insurance are among the activities which will beckon Babe when he hangs up his Shoes. I do not weep for him but for myself. Dull and gray all days Will be as far as I'm concerned when Ruth quits the Yankee Stadium. Nobody need remind me that hiany public problems of more weight are pressing close about us. At the moment Ruth crushed to earth appears the most poignant of them all. tt tt a AND it isn’t just baseball, though I can make no effective pretense of a cool indifference to the game. The Babe is one of the last of the legendary figures. It only goes to prove how closely mortals can imitate and follow on the heels of the demi-gods of minstrelsy. Out of the lumber camps of America came the prodigious figure of Paul Bunyan. His appetites and achievements were colassal. And then along came Ruth driving baseballs over fences where none had been hit before. He came to set new records on the diamond and new marks for the primrose path. Down the broad highway he strode filling his arms with vine leaves and home runs. There will not be his like again. But perhaps that was said when Marlowe died and Shakespeare still lurked just around the corner. But there is not visible any heir apparent. Across the table sat Jimmy Foxx. a hefty farmer lad with the wrists and forearms of a voung Hercules. Jimmy has driven many a baseball out where the blue begins and still it never has been quite the same thing. There is lacking the touch of showmanship, the glint and hint of high Olympus. tt n n NOR do I feel that it is extravagant to talk in these terms of Ruth. To me he holds a high place among American immortals. I’d certainly rather be Ruth than Washington Irving or Nathaniel Hawthorne. Os course. Walt Whitman is something else again. I could tolerate the Babe's retirement if it were already possible to refer to him as “the good, gray outfielder.’’ But he isn’t gray or palsied, or even more plump than usual. Ruth looks every bit as fit ns I do. One of the tragedies of sports reporting is that the critics outlast by so great a span the practitioners of the arts whicu they evaluate. A dramatic reviewer can grow old gracefully with Sothern. Booth or Eddie Cantor, but a baseball reporter who sticks to his last is likely to see three generations of outfielders and six decades of pitchers pass before his eyes. Never have I felt so ancient as when I ran into people like Whitey Witt and Bob Shawkey. I suppose there are fledglings within the sound of my voice who never heard of Whitey. Do you mean to say that you never heard of Whitey Witt, who laid them down and beat them out, and who was beaned by a pop bottle in that crucial series out in St. Louis? I guess they do mean it. And I hear that Herbie Pennock is a free agent. Bless mv soul, I can remember when Connie Mack waylaid him as he trudged sturdily to school carrying a red apple for the teacher. And Pennock could hang a curve upon a corner of the plate as if it were a hatrack. And here he is washed up. It seems like yesterday. a a WHY do we who merely write about these prodigies still cumber the earth. We not only continue to cumber the earth but we write about it bitterly. We turnover columnists who once were sporting writers have in us. I greatly fear, too great a proportion of vinegar. Os late I have beep scrutinizing my work carefully, and it seems to me that “peevish’’ would be rather a mild word for it. And the strange part of it is that a number of people at Babe's farewell banquet reminded me that I used to be an excellent baseball writer. They were quite right, but I didn't get away in time. I left my heart and my enthusiasm in the bat bag. and when I moved into a world which knew not Bob or Whitey and was preparing to forget Ruth I could only say. Who are all these strange people? I'll have none of them.” Not unreasonably, they replied that they would have none of me. The Babe can’t run as he used to. and I can’t write. We don't seem to cover as much territory. And both of us are inclined to fumble. It was. as I have said, a gay dinner, but we couldn’t turn the clock back. Never again will Walter Johnson come out of the dugout to save a world series game in the ninth inning. He pitched well that day, and I wrote a fine story about it. We can’t repeat. And that is why I think that we who knew our greatest glory in the field of sport are more than a little cranky when our peanuts and scorecard* are snatched away. We can't seem to tell the players. (OeptWfcW IMS. hr Tha Ximtsi

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G. 0. P. PLANS NOT TO STRIKE AT ROOSEVELT Politicas Feel President Popularity Can’t Be Dimmed Now. PARTY LEADER IS FIRM Ambitions Hopefuls Dream of Wresting Control from Hoover. BY THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer. WASHINGTON. Dec. 20.—Republican congressional leaders have decided to refrain from any frontal party attack on President Roosevelt's new deal at the outset of the coming session of congress as the safest and mast expedient political course. A policy of “wait and see’ has been decreed by party leaders here in conferences during the last few days which were concerned also with party reorganization, and, incidentally, with a few personal ambitions. Regular Republicans expect some Democrats and some of the Republican progressives who supported Mr. Roosevelt to prove fractious and troublesome to the President and they prefer to let these do the attacking. Leaders Map Strategy Senator Charles McNary of Oregon, senate Republican leader, is directing**"party "policy* in* congress in co-operation with house Republican leader Bertrand H. Snell of New York. They are meeting daily to discuss strategy. Other leaders are being sounded out. All agree that President Roosevelt's popularity is so great with the rank and file of the country that, little is to be gained by a party attack until issues shape themselves and some opening appears. There will be some stray sniping here and there, some trial balloons to sound out the public, but no organized attack at the start. The truth is that Republican party still is suffering from the shock of the Roosevelt landslide. Leaders are still groping. Fugitive attacks on the NRA have fallen with a dull and diminutive pop. Recently the Republican national committee peeped up with a protest, but no one seemed much disturbed. Hoover Remains Sjlent The party begins the session of congress without an outstanding leader. The titular leader, Herbert Hoover, is keeping very quiet in his Palo Alto retreat. Ambitious hopefuls are dreaming dreams of wresting control from his faction of the party, but no one yet has come out of the scheming with anything substantial. The Hoover group, led by Senator David A. Reed of Pennsylvania and former Senator George H. Moses of New Hampshire, instituted a movement recently to oust chairman Everett Sanders of the Republican national committee, but apparently got nowhere. Its candidate is former Senator Walter E. Edge of New Jersey, who was ambassador to France for a time. Senator McNary and the western wing of the party are resisting any attempt to eject Mr. Sanders, not for love of the Hoover chairman. but because they want the organization held intact for the present to await developments. $166 IS BOOTY OF > PARKED CAR THIEVES Radio, Vacuum Sweeper and Clothing Taken. Loot valued at $166 was obtained by thieves who broke into three parked cars last night. Paul Rich of Rich & Conway, 1524 North Illinois street, reported theft of a $35 radio from his car. Breaking a door lock on the car of Ben Auton, Newcastle, while the car was parked on North Senate avenue, thieves stole a grip containing clothing valued at SSO. An electric vacuum sweeper valued at $81.50 was stolen from the car of N. P. Overman. 1311 North Delaware street, while the car was parked at Virginia avenue and Washington street.

Serving Wines, Liquors The fine art of serving wines and liquors at table is a “lost art” to many hosts and hostesses whose only experience has been obtained during the “wild-party’’ period of the prohibition-bootleg era. The temperate and proper use of wines and liquors with the dinner is as different from the "gin party” now passing into the discard as night is different from day. Our Washington bureau has Just off the press p. new bulletin, compiled by an expert, from the most authoritative sources giving the host and hostess full information on the serving of wines and liquors with meals. An illustration shows the full complement- of the most modern glassware needed for the proper service of liquors for all occasions. It contains a section giving recipes and formulas for the proper concoction of all sorts of mixed drinks, tells which wines should be served with various courses of the dinner and will be an indispensable guide to the host and hostess who desire to provide their guests with suitable drinks at their dinner party, reception or other function. If you wish a copy of this bulletin, fill out the coupon below and mail as directed. CLIP COUPON HERE Dept. SWL. Washington Bureau. The Indianapolis Times, 1322 New York Avenue, Washington. D. C.: I want a copy of the bulletin, THE ETIQUETTE OF SERVING WINES AND LIQUORS, and inclose herewith 5 cents in coin (carefully wrapped), to cover return postage and handling costs. NAME ST. AND NO CITY STATE I am a reader of The Indianapolis Times. (Code No.)

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U. S. ‘SHERLOCKS’ WAR ON CRIME Amazing, Investigation Methods Developed in Strange School

Kin* Canute failed to turn back the tide, but not so Uncle Sam's detectives. The crime wave mounted higher and higher. I,ocal police were unable to make headway. Then the federal men took a hand. They have succeeded where others failed. Some of their cases and methods are described in a series of articles of which this is the third. BY LIONEL HOUSER Times Special Writer A BONY sorrel clopped down the street, pulling a wagon of Georgia peaches. A rusty glimmer heralded dawn. Two men in sneakers slid away from the pleasant - looking bungalow in Hapeville, Ga., leaving behind them a poisonous porridge for kidnapers to gobble. “I want one more look around,” one of the men grunted, hesitating. They both were agents of the division of investigation, United States department of justice. The speaker turned back, while his companion leaned against the porch, keeping watch. Inside the house the agent used a flash taped with adhesive, so that only a needle of light showed. The tiny disc fell on an object behind glass, with the flawless waxy sheen of a white magnolia blossom. Satisfied, the agent withdrew. The trap was set for the Four Musketeers, kidnapers of little children. Spangled with the frasty glow of many chandeliers, the home of Joseph Cannon in Charlotte, N. C., vibrated to invisible currents of tension. Moving through the house, slippered, Joseph Cannon trembled with fear for his 2-year-old granddaughter, Ann Reynolds. A sinister something overhung the house of Cannon. His daughter had been married to young Smith Reynolds and had been desperately unhappy. Reynolds apparently had been touched with the same toxic blight. He had taken a second wife, Libby Holman from Broadway, and his body had been found in his great house at the climax of a wild jamboree. Libby Holman had been held for murder. And now kidnapers threatened little Ann who slept in her crib clasping a toy bear. tt tt u THE kidnapers had directed that the ransom money be placed in a cupboard behind a glass door in a vacant house in HapevilJe. Through that house people flowed all day. They were praspective tenants. They peered into closets and cupboards. Any one of them might be a kidnaper. Yet to plug that stream of visitors would be fatuous; it would dissolve the only definite chance of contact with the Four Musketeers. The house had been turned into a. Land-of-Oz place, like one of those twltchy Coney Island fun houses where the touch of a finger or foot is apt to result in a shock or a blast of air. Here, however, every movement registered on an indicater in a nearby house where a squad of federal agents waited. On the roof of the latter building an agent lay on his back scanning the sky with binoculars, taking down the numbers of all airplanes that flew by. Other agents checked any automobile that stopped in the vicinity. Hundreds of numbers clews that led nowhere—were patiently checked. Four days passed. Then, late one afternoon last January, a

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‘No Fooling’ Auto Plates Must Be on by Jan. 1. WHEN Frank Finney, state license commissioner, says “fooling” he means “no fooling.” Severay weeks ago Mr, Finney announced automobile license plates deadline would be Dec. 31, and “no fooling.” Today he reiterated the statement, adding that there would be no extensions, such as have been granted in past years. “Motorists can buy 1934 license plates and drivers’ licenses just as well before Dec. 31 as they can later,” he explained. The United States imported 1.250,000 pounds of edible snails from Morocco in 1930

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1933

slight, comely young woman entered the trap-house. Woman- - like, she poked into closets, pursed her lips at the kitchen. " Casually, she strolled to a cupboard and pulled out a lower drawer. She hopped up on the drawer and reached for the shining white package on the shelf behind the glass door. Then pressure on a spring was released, and a bell clamored in the agents’ ears. Sue Boyles was met at the back door, and every passerby within blocks was halted and questioned. a a a ONE stroller was a parachuterigger named Odell Boyles. “Me?” he said_ "Why, I never saw that dame in my life. I was jest takin’ a walk.” “Your name?” “Boyles—Odell Boyles.”

slight, comely young woman en- *. ■ 1 , . ", '■ ' " ' m "*W~ | like, she poked into closets, pursed illi I her lips at the kitchen. ~ Wmm. Casually, she strolled to a cup- IT m —i • rigfcT * '"’ v board and pulled out a lower wfA iPI * ] I drawer. She hopped up on the ing white package on the shelf t " J&flojß released, and a bell clamored in | W*j the agents' ears. Sue Boyles was %>. |hiJSSg| L jest fakin’ a walk." .... "Your name?" ■HOBHfe * % - • JJL: “The brother is a .sailor whose Sir E. R. Henry in 1101 swet ’ 4Hm| whereabouts are unknown, but he over a system for classifying Agents of the can be identified by tattoo marks. gerprints—no two of which 1 '% -fc ■ u S. Division The prize-fighter is known to ever been found alike of all °t Investigation have a strong affection for his untold thousands taken. But 1 SraK .. I "going to brother. to classify them. Obviously i school ’at -From the family physician in detective couldn't, spend the nßfr JJ|fe f,..^HRdBRR;i Washington Chicago we have learned that the of his life comparing a suspei •HV mm and (below) an pugilist is in Washington. Go and set ot prints with all the null mmfe ; example of see him. pretpnd to be an old of available prints, checking e SRRR *| 1 moulage work friend of his brother and find out one individually. ,|gf from the where he is. Finally he found a way '|R||y' aHEK criminal “Now. if the young agent is breaking them into loops, twin JSnnk identification expecting a touch guy we hand loops, central pocket loops, la; BrufrtffiffimriWrr ' i filPS ' him a soft-spoken customer and pockei loops, arches, tented arc ‘ vice versa. He has to think fast whorls and accidentals. m. 1 on his feet and never have a nun S3 hard-and-fast story that he cant tjj the main room of the prei nnormo ir o niirntT T rm not* I

“Meet your wife,” the agent murmured sardonically. “She just gave the name of Mrs. Boyles.” By plane Boyles’ fingerprints went to Washington. Search showed he was an ex-convict—and showed also that his right index finger was identical with a “latent” fingerprint discovered on one of the extortion letters to Joseph Cannon. Odell Boyles confessed. He got fifteen years. What is the training that polishes these 1933 Sherlocks? In Washington the agent in charge of the training school, who asks earnestly that his name be not published, explains: “If the applicants are law graduates, if their character and past have stood our investigation, and if, in interviews, they have proved to have personality and imagination, they come here for their training course. They study fingerprinting, ballistics, analysis of blood and other stains, court decisions and federal rules, use of the violet-ray and Xray apparatus, moulage work, handwriting and typewriting analysis, secret writing and related subjects. “The moulage work is an interesting phase. By it any evidence that may deteriorate is preserved. Suppose an apple, bitten into, is found at the scene of a crime. “We need those toothmarks. But the apple will rot. We make that apple in moulage and have it preserved forever as evidence. “They study glass fractures un-

Instructions to Be Given at City Alleys Until Late Friday. With hundreds of Indianapolis women enjoying the thrills of bowling, under.direction of Mrs. Floretta D. McCutcheon, woman's world champion bowler, there still is room for scores more to take advantage of these free lessons given under auspices of The Times. Schedule of classes for the remainder of the week follows: Today at 2, Uptown Recreation alleys, 4169 College avenue, and at 3:30 at the Parkway Receation alleys, Thirty-fourth and Illinois streets. Thursday, Mrs. McCutcheon will instruct classes at noon, 2 p. m. ana 4 p. m. at the Pritchett alleys, Pennslvania and Maryland streets. Friday, which will be the last day of the school, will find Mrs. McCutcheon instructing students at 1 p. m. at the Fountain Square alleys in the Fountain Square theater building; at 3 p. m. in the Parkway alleys, Thirty-fourth and Illinois streets, and at 6 in the lillinois Recreation alleys, Illinois and Ohio streets. CITY BARBERS’ UNION GIVES FREE HAIRCUTS Curly’s Shop Is Scene of ‘Christmas Cutting’ for Children. Hundreds of Christmas presents in the form of free haircuts are being given this week by the Master Barber Association, Chapter 122 membership, who started cutting Monday night and will continue tonight at Curly’s barber shop, 809 Virginia avenue. Children under 12 years of age are eligible to receive the free clipper service. CLUB TO GIVE PARTY Thirty School Children Will Be Guests of Advertisers, Christmas party of the Advertis- : ing Club of Indianapolis will be held at the Columbia Club, Dec. 21, at I noon. Guests of the club will be thirty school children from West Washington street. Entertainment will be furnished by the local De Molay chapter.

Agents of the U. S. Division of Investigation “going to school” at Washington and (below) an example of moulage work from the criminal identification files.

til able to take a shattered pane and put it together again. 'They can tell, then, from what direction the bullet or missile came.” The ultra-violet lamp solved a case that would please any mys-tery-story maker. There were three suspects in a murder on a government reservation. Some human hairs were found on the victim’s clothes. They were studied under the ultra-violet lamp in the curious "black” light of which every object takes on an individual color. One of the hairs fluoresced a shade of blue-green, indicating aspirin. One suspect's hair fluoresced the same shade. Questioned, he admitted he often took aspirin. He confessed. tt a it “'T'HE trainees,” the agent proceeded, “are given practical work. Late at night they’ll suddenly be sent out to the home of some government executive whoss position is unknown to them. “They’ll be told that this man is a business executive and knows something about a certain witness. “It’s up to the agent to exercise all his suavity and diplomacy in worming out that information. The other man has, of course, been primed ahead of time and he puts every possible obstacle in the path of the young age;it. “A man will be put up in front of the class and given this problem to solve —There is a certain prizefighter whose brother is wanted for bribery in Chicago.

Slight Error Hits Police Car, but Fails to Stop. DRIVING past police headquarters late yesterday proved to be a “jinx”, to two motorists, each of whom struck and damaged police cars. John Early, forty-four, Greenfield made the mistake of failing to stop after striking one of the cars. Police officers gave chase in another car and halted Early at Alabama and Washington streets, arresting him on charges of drunken driving and failure to stop after an accident. Mrs. Olive Woods, twenty-six, of 1562 South Harding street, explained to police that her car struck the second police car while she was attempting to fix her windshiled wiper, which had stopped. She agreed to pay for the damage to the police car and was not held. CYCLE TOUR PLANNED New South Side Club Plans Trip Over Nation in June, Black Ace Motorcycle Club, newly organized on the south side, has planned a tour of the United States next June, according to Edwin Boyle, president. The next meeting will be held tonight at the home of Fred Wills, 1607 Ringgold street.

17 New City Policemen, Nine Firemen Appointed

Mayor, Safety Board Name First Additions to Force in 2 Years. Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan and safety.board members yesterday appointed seventeen new policemen and nine firemen. These are the first police officers named to the force in two years, although thirty vacancies have occurred. Firemen named were Harold Adkinson. 109 North Linwood avenue; James R. Breeding. 1010 Udell street; Francis L. Cool, 2220 West Washington street; Frank O'Malley, 407 North Delaware street; John Goedecker, 1841 Jones street; Herbert Hayes. 4819 English avenue; Russell Iverson, 1060 West Eighteenth Clarence Maphena*. 1249

“The brother is a sailor whose whereabouts are unknown, but he can be identified by tattoo marks. The prize-fighter is known to have a strong affection for his brother. “From the family physician in Chicago we have learned that the pugilist is in Washington. Go and see him, pretend to be an old friend of his brother and find out where he is. “Now, if the young agent is expecting a tough guy we hand him a soft-spoken customer and vice versa. He has to think fast on his feet and never have a hard-and-fast story that he can’t change in a hurry. I remember one older agent impersonating a bartender from whom a novice was supposed to get some information. “The older man spoke of San Francisco and said, ‘Remember the way the street lamps in Chinatown shine on the bay?’ The novice said, ‘Pretty nice, weren’t they.’ The old hand sneered, ‘You damned liar! Chinatown isn’t within half a mile of the bay.’ No, sir; they have to learn to be mighty doggone careful when they’re lying.” u tt tt FOR a long time after leaving school, the young agent investigates simpler types of cases with an experienced hand at his elbow r all the time, before he is finally allowed to work on his own. Backing up all federal operatives is the department of justice identification division. Nervous Alphonse Bertillon in 1882 developed the very first system of criminal identification, using measurements of the bones of the human body. Generally adopted, it. has now been discarded in favor of fingerprints. In ramshackle Tsukji hospital in Japan in 1880, Dr. Henry Faulds found that fingerprint patterns were unchangeable and apparently of infinite variety. A few months later in steaming Bengal, Sir William Herschel was highly irked by natives falsely claiming government pensions. So he tried fingerprinting all employes to prevent impersonation. It worked.

War Threats Follow Death of Tibet's Ruler

Powerful Rival Reported Ready to Take Throne by Force. By United Press PEIPING, China, Dec. 20. War at the top of the world, in fabled Tibet, was threatened today after the death of the Dalai Lama, its spiritual and temperal ruler. The Panchan Lama, held by some Buddhists to be of higher spiritual authority than the Dalai and hence his bitter enemy, is in refuge in China and was expected to make a bide to rule the country, sprawled in barren spendor over the world’s highest mountains. A London Daily Mail dispatch quoted a reliable source at Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, as saying that the Dalai Lama was poisoned. It took two days for news of the Dalai Lama’s death to reach the outside world from Lhasas. Few people knew, because of the country's isolation, that the Dalai Lama's was invading China’s western frontiers when he died. The Panchan Lama is on his way here from Mongolia. He is supported by China, whose authority in Tibet was denounced in 1912, when

Burdsail parkway, and Orval Miller, 230 South McKim street. Police appointees were George S. Martin, 2342 Beliefontaine street; Samuel Izsak, 2808 Ruckle street; Ralph Bader, 1924 Talbott avenue; Schorling Nickel, 1017 Langsdale avenue; George Gilby, 642 South West street; Walter Houck, 1416 North New Jersey street; William S. Lorhman, 907 Ashland avenue. Francis Griffin, 1614 East Vermont street; Bernard S. Miller, 1026 Olive street; Earl Banner, 1846 South Keystone avenue; Carl Sommers, 922 South State avenue; Cosmos Samson. 821 Greer street; William J. Denker, 616 Langsdale avenue; Francis Gootee, 816 Chadwick street; Robert E. Kelly, 1114 Southeast street; George Otto Gebhardt, 852 Prospect street, and Harry Nolte, 1313 Kappes street.

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Enterf'd as Second-Class Matter at rostolTlce, Indianapolis

Sir E. R. Henry in 1901 sweated over a system for classifying fingerprints—no two of which have ever been found alike of all the untold thousands taken. But how to classify them, Obviously, a detective couldn't spend the rest of his life comparing a suspected set of prints with all the millions of available prints, checking each one individually. Finally he found a way of breaking them into loops, twinned loops, central pocket loops, lateral pocket loops, arches, tented arches, whorls and accidentals. tt tt M IN the main room of the present identification division in Washington are files containing 4,000,000 fingerprints of known criminals. New prints come in at the rate of 22,000 per day, and the inflexible rule is that reports of these must go back to the police departments from Los Angeles to Berlin and from Rome to Quebec by the next day at 4 o’clock. Apprentices, who work under high nervous tension because of the cataclysmic consequences of a mistake, check the new prints against the old ones to discover if a man just arrested has a former record, or is wanted somewhere for another crime. Fifty countries send prints to Washington, as it is also the international exchange headquarters. Last month a total of 386 fugitives, wanted in other parts of the world, were identified. Other files in other rooms are arranged according to last names, to first names, to aliases and to nicknames. Every arrested person with a nickname is in the latter file. There are thousands of “Bucks” and “Babes” and “BabyFaces,” and “Reds.” It is necessary to have all ten fingerprints for a classification. Contrary to popular conception, one won’t do. However, the division recently Inaugurated a single fingerprint file for known kidnapers and extortionists. In this type of case, if a single “latent” fingerprint is found, the investigators may send it in for search through the files. It is a difficult search, but is proving increasingly successful.

its diplomatic representative was expelled. With China’s support, the Panchan Lama was believed likely to try to make himself the supreme ruler, overthrowing tradition which has it that the Dalai's successor will be found only after long search and ■ will prove to be himself, reincarnated. If there is war, Great Britain and Soviet Russia will be interested and ! diplomatically active, for Britain ; desires to keep Tibet as a buffer i state between India and Russia. The little man, with his waxed I mustache, his broad oval face, his; inscrutable faraway expression, has transferred his soul to some other Tibetan, his followers believe, perhaps to the poorest peasant boy in the land. The chiefs of the three great Lhasan monasteries, consulting frequently with the two chief oracles, will seek him. The nominee will be taken to Lhasa and installed in the potala palace, 900 feet long, and will become—barring success of the Pan- | chan Lama's rivalry—master of the I country of 3,000,000 persons. VETERAN EMPLOYED AT POSTOFFICE TO RETIRE Miss Hallie A. Joyce Nears End of Thirty-four Years’ Work. Thirty-four years' federal service will be completed Jan. 1 by Miss Hallie Amelia Joyce, 2306 North Talbott street, postoffice employe, who will be retired on that date. Receiving her appointment as money order clerk in February, 1900, after having entered civil service two months previously, Miss Joyce served with eight consecutive postmasters. She has served as paying teller in the money order divi- i sion since Oct. 1, 1921. CAR STRIKES COUPLE Girl and Escort Removed to City Hospital. Miss Mildred Jergenson, 21. of 430 North Meridian street, and Kennet Thomas, 31, of 1002 West Sixteenth street, were struck by a car driven by William E. Harding, 44, of 665 East Twenty-fifth street at Delaware and Walnut streets last night. Both suffered undetermined injuries and were removed to city hospital.

SPECIAL GUARD PLACED OVER GIRL’S SLAYER San Francisco Kiiler Tailed Thirty Miles From San Jose. POLICE FEAR LYNCHING Til See You Swing,' Yells Brother of Slain Radio Singer. By United Press SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 20.—Mob passions were inflamed today by the slaying of an attractive young radio singer whose rejected lover, snatched once from an angry crowd, was placed in a strongly guarded prison to await arraignment on murder charges. Mutterings against Umberto Giusti, 35. San Francisco, echoed in this suburban community where the musical progress of Emilia Da Prato. 26, was a matter of local pride. Giusti was accused of killing her on the eve of her departure for New York. There she was to receive a tryout with the Metropolitan Opera Company, the goal of the Italian girl whose singing had won her an audience with the President of the United States, musical scholarships, prizes and a radio contract. Mob Quickly Forms After the shooting i n the back yard of the Da Prato home, Giusti was taken to the local police station. A mob quickly formed, wth Prestco Da Prato, her brother, in its forefront. “I’ll see you swing,” shouted the infuriated brother. Cries of “lynch him" arase as determined peace authorities, swinging heavy clubs, fought their way to Giusti's rescue. Angry hands snatched at the frightened prisoner as he was led, behind a wedge of flailing clubs, to an automobile to be whisked away to the stronger RecTwood city prison. A special guard was set up there to prevent violence, for the jail was but thirty miles from San Jose, where another mob had hanged two kid-nap-slayers a month ago. Slayer Explains Jealousy Sobbing, contrite and bewildered, Giusti told of his rage and jealousy following the pretty Emilia’s decision to chose a career in preference to matrimony. I was unable to sleep for nine nights, i bought a gun, intending to shoot myself. I raised the gun to my head. “But at that moment, she slammed the door in my face. Something snapped in my mind. Mother of God, I don't know what came over me. I grabbed the door open and fired. lam awfully sorry.” Neighbors who saw' the shooting said that three shots were fired as the girl flew from her suitor’s rage. She was dead when they reached her side. Giusti walked to a nearby firehouse and surrendered. Lover threatens Death Members of the Da Prato family revealed that the temperamental lover had broken into Emilia’s room once before and had threatened to cut her throat because she refused to marry him. Her singing attracted attention In 1927 when she won a music scholarship, a $2,000 prize, and a threeyear radio contract in a national audition contest. She and other winners were presented to the late President Coolidge at the White House. She later sang at a Los Angeles radio station and studied under famous voice teachers. Amando Agnini, a director of the Metropolitan Opera Company, secured her the New York tryout, members of the family said. CHARGES DISMISSED IN LAST WALKATHON CASE Municipal Court Releases Nine Former Contestants. Last echo of the Walkathon, which played a stand at the state fairground for more than three months, was heard in municipal court today when charges against nine former contestants were dismissed. Arrests were made in a police raid. “The city of Indianapolis has nothing against the contestants,” said Judge Dewey E. Myers in dismissing the men and women. “In fact, we want to show leniency toward you folk.” HIT-AND-RUN DRIVER STRIKES TWO BOYS Police Seek Machine Which Injures Cyclist's Leg. Falling from a bicycle at New York and East streets last night Robert Truelle, 15, of 2941 Caroline avenue, and Joseph Wilkerson, 14. of 314 North Liberty street were knocked over by a hit and run driver last night. As the boys fell from the bicycle, the hit and run driver first ran over the wheel and then over younu Truelle’s leg. The Wilkerson bo; was uninjured. Police are seeking the car which failed to stop after the accident. BOY HURT CRITICALLY IN ELEVATOR PLUNGE Suffers Skull Fracture in Fall Down Unguarded Shaft. While in a vacant building at 343 Muskingum street, Louis Wischard, 10, of 737 North Davidson street, was injured critically last ngiht, when he fell twelve feet down an unguarded elevator shaft in the darkened building. He sustained a skull fracture, internal injuries and shoulder fracture, and was taken to city hospital. James Barr, 14. of 855 West New York street, with him in the building, also fell, sustaining les? serious injuries. .A ,