Evening Star Newspaper, March 11, 1925, Page 14

14 BUS COMPETITIO BLAMED IN FAILURE Detroit United Railway Also Hurt by Auto Industry De- | igline—Receiver Ordered. Brjthe Associated Press. DETROIT, Mich., March 11.—The Datroit United Raflway, for which a Federal receivership was ordered here vesterday, earned a net income of; $302,172.46 for the vear ending Dacember 3, 1924, the annual report of.the company made public 10 days 20, disclosed. This is a reduction of a half million dollars from the pre- ceding year, when the net income was pldced ‘at $942,430.34. This earning | is peturn on total assets of $54,01 5. | Business depression in the towns in witich manufacture of automobiles thé largest industry, from May to the onll of the year, apd competition with | mator driven lines, are ascribed in in- | fofmation to the stockholders sop for the decrease in earnin adfiition to its interurban lines, the company operates the local car serv- ica in several towns well known as automobile manufacturing centers. To meet the motor bus transporta- | tion problem, the company com- | manced the extension of bus lines of | its own, and it was in these pur- chases that the company became in- debted to the Yellow Coach Manu- facturlng Co. of Chicago to the extent of an actual unpaid balance of 52487651, with $276.6 toicome due. Inabil just at present r ofthe directors called by Lijiott G, Stevenson before his death whiich met here Sunday and agreed to | thé receivership. Assets of the compa e 50 per cont above the possible liabilities, the petition for a recelver conceded. i SIX' GUARDS NAMED. Will Watch Cotton Standards While Comparison Is On. Edgar C. United Staten | arshal, yesterday designated six men as special deputies to guard the original get of universal cotton stgndards, which are to-be used dur-| ing the next few days by experts Snyder, from European cotton exchanges “""'i s of comparison The appointments were made fol-| lowing a request from the acting| Segretary of Agriculture to the De- | paftment of Justice. The men are to e: paid from the appropriations for thé Department of Agriculture The deputies are William M. Potter, Alfred J. Duvall, William C. Medford, Chirles J. Lippold, Michael Ia an@ James N. Yates. Ellis | TELLS OF INSANITY. Brother of {Regards Latter as Abnormal. Accused Communist LEIPZIG, March 11.—At the twen- !.e!h session of the trial of 16 Com- munists here on the charge of mur- det and terrorism, Fritz Numan brother of Felix—the latter is a cuged of having murdered a barber- tegtified Felix always was regarded| by’ him as abnormal and unable to| follow a single idea to a logical con- | clysion. Felix, after his arrest, turn-, ed | state's evidence against the other | ndants. The brother also related various members of the fam bad been confined in insane asylu | moved from | tion has to do with Fingerprint identification has been developed by the Army to the point of efficiency where its application at times vies with the thrills of detec- tive fiction. Any unidentified man who has served in the Regular Army can be located in from 10 to 20 min- utes, and his full record laid bare. In that short time a searcher finds him among the more than 7,000,000 men who have been in the Army since 1906, when the fingerprint system was in- He may have been one of Smiths, the 40,101 Johnson: Browns, or one of the 2 illiams. All the Army needs is his fingerprint to turn up his record. Walter S, Kayve, in charge of the bureau, says the indexing has been | worked out so efficiently that even a new clerk, one never before having had knowledge of the system, can de- zin work as a searcher with little pre- liminary instruction. Is Exact Science, The science of fingerprint reading is based on the study of the curious, circling network of all but invisible lines on the ball of the thumb and each finger. Examination of millions of specimens shows that the normal formation is the whorl, or the scroll which winds these lines from the outer edge in a gradually reducing circle to their inner termination at the core of the network. A majority of human beings are marked with this scroll, but there are others whose finger- print lines run in flattened figures or in complications of figures far re- the simple, eas The first step in identifica- determining the broad general division in which the prints under examination are to be sought. There are but four main groups or classifications of prints, arches, 100ps, whorls and composites. Each type whorls. | has its gradational cases. The whorls have 1,024 values or combinations and the loops, arches and composites have each their respective values to simplify segregation for fillng and to make them easily located when iden- tifications are sought. The evalua- tion of prints thus made has over- come all difficulty of dealing with large collections of finger markings, such as are in the Army files. Fingerprints, since their adoption 1506, ve' exposed frauds, pr kept undesirables of | type out of the serv. ants and uncovered the guilty. interesting accounts of such inst are contained in official papers of var Department during the last worked in the its estab- ¢ for the stat have e BILL_JACK—RALPH SKILLED OPTICIANS Personal Service Served Personally 610 Thirteenth Street N.W. Phone Franklin 171 ly read | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, FINGERPRINT SYSTEM OF ARMY NOW A MARVEL OF ACCURACY Bureau Experts Have Made 200,000 Identifications Without a Single Error—Records of 7,500,000 Men Are on File. ment that never has a mistake been made. They have made more than 200,000 identifications. “The fingerprint system,” Mr. Kaye says, “is superior to any other syi tem so far devised in that it per- mits of no error. This may seem. a strong statement, but the fingerprint, when clearly made, allows of no mis- representation; it is an actual prese tation and does not permit the per- sonal equation of\errar to enter. Other systems alldwed errors of measurement and errors in location ot marks.” In more than 70,000,000 digit photo- graphs in the identification bureau's files, Mr. Kaye says, there are no two of them alike. “There is just as much chance of finding two prints alike as there would be in going into the fields and finding two flowers ex- actly alike.” REDS FREE PRIESTS. Release Men Arrested in Georgia Uprising. MOSCOW, March 11.—The Rosta . the official Soviet news dis- seminator, announces that Father Ambrose and other Catholic priests, who were arrested in Georgia during the recent uprising there, have been | released by the Soviet government. yrodent For Free Trial Tube ‘Write Pyrodento, Balto. Pay What You Will STUDEBAKER You Can Buy No Finer Car keeps you ace-high in health SEEK TO RESTORE FRENCH POLITENESS Aristocratic Dowagers Draw Up Code of Manners for Boor- ish Males. By Cable to The Star and New York World. March 11.—Dowagers of . Germain, the so-called en of French aristocracy in Paris, have started a crusade against what they describe as the growing lack of politeness, even the boorishness, of Frenchmen, formed “a league of po- the rules of which were passed on yesterday over teacups in one of the most prominent salons of Paris soclety. One member of the committes ex- plained that since the war masculine contempt for the traditions of French courtesy had known no bounds, and that the purpose of the new league is to organize leagues everywhere with the view of recovering lost manners. Books and pamphlets will be print- ed and circulated, telling every one ex- actly how they should act and what they should say in every given cir- cumstance, in conformity with the anclent laws of chivalry. It will ap- MEDICINE OVER 69 YEARS OF SUCCESS IN THE SPRING Your thoughts turn to housecleaning—first you start Jvith the kitchen— We Suggest A New Attractive Clark Jewell GAS RANGE to make your kitchen a glumrn place to work. 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