Evening Star Newspaper, December 31, 1934, Page 2

TRACE OFESKINOS | DSCOVEREDINLS Pennsylvania Invaded by Peoples From North, Scientist Shows. BY THOMAS . HENRY, Staft Correspondent of The Star. PITTSBURGH, December 31— Eskimos were once within 250 miles of the District. Evidences of a prehistoric invasion of Eskimo-like people which reached as far south as Pennsylvania were presented today by Dr. William A. Ritchie of the Rochester Municipal Museum to the American Association for the Advancement of Science. They swept southward after a peculiar broad-headed people, whose original homeland appears to have been in the general Chesapeake Bay region, had pressed northward and displaced a very primitive, long-headed race who | appear to have been the original in- habitants of New York and New Eng- land. The earliest remains thus far found in the Northeast are of these long- heads, Dr. Ritchie said. They evi-| dently were familiar with pottery or the use of tobacco and appear to have been a nomad, hunting people. Their chief remains have been found in the deep debris of a New York lake bottom. Supplanted by Advanced Group. They were supplanted by people who may have developed a rather ad- vanced aboriginal culture somewhere in the neighborhood of Washington. ‘They were much further advanced in their primitive culture, familiar with tobacco and pottery, and apparently established more or less permanent settlements. They remained in session of the Northeast until the still further advanced Eskimo-like people swept down from the North through the St. Lawrence Valley and Ontario. Whether these people were actually Eskimos from the Far North or rela- tives of the Arctic people who have since disappeared is unknown. Objects of walrus ivory and typically Eskimo ground-slate arrow points and knives have been found in the St. Lawrence Valley along the supposed route of their descent. They in turn were succeeded by the ancestors of the Algonquin peoples ! found along the coasts of the North- eastern States by the first white set- tlers. These Algonquins apparently had been pushed East by the invasion of the Iroquois tribes from the Ohio Valley. The great drought that turned large areas of the Midwest into a temporary desert was predicted 15 years ago and was due to the downward swing of the rainfall cycle, according to a report presented by J. B. Kincer, chief of the division of climatology of the Weather Bureau. Area Hit Twice Before. ‘Twice before since climatic records have been available, Mr. Kincer said, approximately the same area has been hit by a severe drought—once in 1850 and again in the early 90s. These made little difference because the land was unsettled and uncultivated, but should have been recognized as evi- dence of what was to come in the future. The ups and downs of the rainfall curves, Mr. Kincer said, can- not be predicted, but it is certain that a dry period is bound sooner or later to follow a moist period and. there is nothing that man can do about it. The phenomenon of alternating peaks of drought and moisture, he said, is world-wide, and a study of the climate of Warsaw, Poland, shows about the same history as that of St. Paul, although the effects did not come at the same time. Along the same line W. R. Chapline of the Washington office of the Forest Bervice told of an extensive erosion- stream flow research just inaugurated by the Department of Agriculture to measure the run-off ratios between bare and vegetation-covered slopes. In some cases, he pointed out, erosion on hillsides from which the forests have been cut has amounted to 4,000 times that on similar slopes covered with trees. New Method Aids Forecasts. Weather forecasts—especially as re- gards rainfall—will be improved con- siderably and it may be possible to make them further in advance through the air mass analysis method now made possible by airplane obser- vations of the upper atmosphere taken simultaneously over the coun- try, according to a report by Dr, Wil- lis R. Gregg, chief of the Weather Bureau. Experiments indicating that coffee acts as an antidote for nicotine were described by Dr. A. L. Windsor of Cor- nell University. The subjects of the experiment first smoked a cigarette, inhaling the smoke, for three minutes, It was found that there was unsteadi- ness in more or less failure of eye and hand co-ordination which lasted as long as 45 minutes, The same sub- Jects drank a pint of coffee at another time and showed very much slighter effects. Then the<y were made to drink the coffee before smoking the cigar- ettes. The effects found previously for the cigarettes alone were almost entirely lacking. The capacity of automobile drivers to judge distance falls off rapidly once the vision falls below 70 per cent of normal, it was reported by Dr. Alvah R. Laurer of Iowa State College. The deficiency need be only in one eye to greatly interfere with efficiency as a driver, he found. Girls More Truthful. Girls are much more truthful than their brothers. This finding, based on tests of 5,000 public and private school children from the third grade through the fourth year in college, was reported yesterday by Dr. Byrne J. Horton, professor of education at De Paul University, Chicago. The students were presented with a problematical situation which permitted truthful, untruthful or evasive answers, and the reactions were noted. Dr. Horton found, specifically, that girls in general are more truthful than boys and that this tends to increase with age. Thus the boys in elemen- tary schools were a trifie more truth- ful, but their sisters gained the ad- vantage in high school and college. BUTTEF.E.R.A.STRIKERS VOTE TO RESUME JOBS By the Associated Press. BUTTE, Mont, December 31.— Butte ¥. E. R. A, workers, on strike since Wednesday, yesterday voted, 765 to 354, to return to their jobs without concessions from relief officials. A committee of workers which ar- ranged for the balloting announced that the vote in favor of the strike ‘was cast by a small numbe~ of mem- bers of the F. E. R. A, Workers’ Pro- tective Union. About 600 workers had walked cut. The demands included reinstatenent of a discharged employe, higher wages and additional days of work. r What’'s What Behind News In Capital Economic Judges Expect 90 Per Cent Normal Industry in Spring. BY PAUL MALLON. NDUSTRY whirred itself up to 86 I per cent of normal activity last Spring. That peak momentum was reached in April and May. Then it began to slow down. To- day it is about 76. The private composite opinon of the best economic judges here is that it will reach 90 this comr ing Spring. That does not mean merely a 20 per cent improvement over the present. It means the improvement will be 20 per cent more than seasonal. The business seers do not base this expectation on_anything the New Deal will do. They reckon it on the law of ecomomic averages, brought up to date by investiga- tions of the present condition of supply and demand—the two fac- tors which stili seem to be more important than any others. It makes as good a New Year greet- ing as you can get, and far more sub- | stantial than the frail hopes expressed at the end of 1933. An accurate idea of the up-and- down road along which President Roosevelt has led us can be obtained by a squint at the accompanying monthly business chart. Important CTxceptions. It shows that, generally, we are at about the same level as last year, with certain important exceptidhs, The main exception is that wages and em- ployment have been notably improved. Industrial production is about the same as last December, but wages are about 10 per cent nearer normal and employment about 3 per cent better. This may be nothing to get out an extra about—especially in view of the | fact that demands for relief are not diminishing—yet it is encouraging. An equally important improvement in 1934 was in department store sales. They were 10 per cent nearer normal this December than last. Of course, that is generally attributed to the pump-priming money which Mr. Roosevelt has been putting out. For your guidance in reading the accompanying chart, the averages of 1923-25, inclusive, are considered 100 (normal) for everything except prices. Seasons Nullified. The figures are assembled mainly by the New Deal economists for gov- ernmental use, although most of them are compiled by non-governmental agencies. Seasonal variations have been eliminated as far as possible, so that each figure represents the actual percentage of normal at the times stated. Noté in the chart the continuous improvement in industrial activity Jor the past four months. It is important because the wheels usually slow down at this seasom. (Of gourse, they did in November and - December, but the decrease was_ less than seasonal, so the chart shows an improvement.) ‘The better December figure was due largely to steel and automobiles. Steel ran at 37 per cent capacity, Steel improvement is expected to con- tinue through the Spring. The auto maxers have been op- erating at a rate greater than sea- sonal, largely because they have changed their production season. But their plans for next year exude even more substantial optimism. Reports inside the trade indicate a planned output of 3.2 million cars next year (compared with about 2.7 this year). The trend is toward larger and roomier cars, with not 5o many costly gadgets on them. Textile insiders have moticed that there has been strong buying lately. Big orders in December ex- ceeded expectations and were con= sideradly in_excess of production. Unquestionadbly, production in this line also will have to be stepped up early in the new year to meet demand. It might be best not to spoil a very encouraging new year outlook by referring to building, but the sit- uation is somewhat better than the woeful figures indicate. The number of permits issued in November were 19 per cent over a year ago, and the extent of additions, alterations and repairs was 61 per cent over a year ago. That is due to the fact thet housing relief agency activity is at least beginning to show some results, however slight. Prices Higher. There was another improvement, not mentioned above—prices. They are now about 10 per cent higher than in December last year. Much of the increase can be attributed to the drought boost in meat and farm prices, yet there has been a small increase in prices generally. More significant is the fact that they have been stabilized at the existing level for the past five months. They will g0 _a little higher in the Spring. If any of you business men want ! a more detailed, but less up-to-date, analysis of the situation, get a copy of the address of Bureau Director Murchison of the Commerce Depart- ment, delivered at Pittsburgh Satur- day. It is the most intelligent New York statement from the New Deal standpoint. Of course, Dr. Murchi- son gives the administration the benefit of many doubts, but essen- tially his sound analysis lacks the usual political fragrance. All in all, conditions indicate that the happy New Year greetings are not idle wishes, although it might be just as well to omit the adjective “prosperous” from them. Anyway, it has not been used for a long time. The statistics: employment. Department = store sales. - wawh SE885 Industrial =39 production. 22322 B2 29992229903 Pactory R Lt e s b Preight loadings. Bullding contracts, .,, 2 Se 3 zE November December Jan., "33, November ‘34, ary. DicmbhicomODRARBR DD .. est. z 1926 equals 100. (Covyright. 1934.) ’ o] j ter in which you advise me of the rea- | to $3,720,000,000; or, putting it an- PRESIDENT OPENS FIGHT O BONUS Says Veterans Are Misin- formed on Time Pay- ment Is Due. £ (Contmued Prom Jet Bxge )i understood even among the veterans ves. “I am also particularly impressed with one paragraph of your letter which® confirms another conviction I have that the service men generally have the interests of their country and Government at heart. I have had prepared for me a memorandum ; which outlines in detail exactly what | Congress did in 1924. when they au- thorized the issuing of the adjusted service certificates known gencrally as | the ‘bonus’ This memorandum I am inclosing herewith. I am sure| that you will find in this memoran- dum sufficient information to enable you to decide for yourself the stand you should take on this issue as well as being in a position, as I fesl you should be, to advise Legionnaires who come to you seeking information in regard to the immediate paymen: of the balance due on the adjusted serv- ice certificates. “It is quite apparent from your let- sons why the service men are demand- | ing immediate payment of the bonus, that there is a general misunderstand- ing in regard to the Government's ob igation in this matter. When, in 1924 Ccengress decided to issue the adjusted service certificates, they act- uaily authorized a bonus of $1,400,- 100,000, but because of the stand taken at that time by those advocating the measure who felt that it would be in the interest of the service men them- selves, this cash outlay was not made immediately, but was deferred for 20 years. Because of this deferment the initial bonus was increased 25 per cent so that the $1,400.000,000 invested for the service men at 4 per cent com- pounded annually, would mature in 20 years $3,500,000,000. Or putting it another way, suppose that a veteran'’s original grant by Congress in 1924 was $400 and the veteran did not bor- row on his certificate, permitting the interest to accumulate to maturity, the $400 would grow so that it would pay the veteran when due in 1945 $1,000. In other words, the amount which is printed upon the face of every adjusted service certificate is not the amount of the basic or orig- inal bonus voted by Congress, but is an amount plus 25 per cent added for deferred payment which with interest | at 4 per cent compounded annually over a 20-year period, will produce the face or maturity value. This would seem to dispose of the question as to :’helher the obligation is immediately ue, Billion Borrowed. “There is another feature in connec tion with this matter that impresses me, and that is the fact that out of | 3,500,000 certificates outstanding, 3,038,500 veterans have borrowed thereon approximately $1,690,000,000. In other words, some have borrowed more than the present worth of their bonus certificates. This is brought about by the action of Congress per- mitting a veteran to borrow up to 50 per cent of the face or maturity value of his certificate, even though that certificate may have been issued only a ! few days before the loan is made. Of | coures, all the certificates were not ! issued ‘st the same time in 1925, but have been issued from that date up to the present time, so their present value or earned value, as we may put it, is not the same in all cases, but taking the aggregate of all the certificates issued, they have a present value of $2,100,000,000, whereas their face value is $3,500,000,000. Then, too, I believe it has been suggested that the interest paid or now accumulated be canceled or remitted. If this plan were carried out, the total amount would increase other way, making the cost $1,620,- 000,000 over and above the present value and $2,320,000,000 above the amount which the Congress fixed as the original basic adjustment. “I feel sure that many of the vet- erans have not given the question sufficient study to realize the vast sums required to meet the demands suggested. “Your statement advising me that those who favor the immediate pay- ment of the bonus feel that a good reason for doing so is because the Government has spent millions of dollars on the recovery program, and that much of these funds will not be, repaid, while by the payment of the bonus the Government will be dis- charging an_obligation, and by so discharging this obligation the money spent by the veterans will do much in a practical way of stimulating re- covery, is interesting. Relief Expenditures, “I know that you appreciate that all expenditures for relief have been made in the interest of recovery and for all our citizens, non-veterans as well as for veterans. All citizens in nesd have shared in the direct distri- bution for relief, and in employment, as you ‘no doubt are aware, a very definite and distinct preference is given to veterans. I am advised that at the time the issue of paying the balance of the bonus was up and a compromise was made by increasing the loan value to 50 per cent of the face value, there resuited a distribu- tion of approximately a billion dollars and at that time the same argument was advanced that the expenditure of such a large amount of money by the veterans would greatly stimu- late business and aid recovery. A sur- vey of the results showed otherwise. This large payment resulted in little stimulation of business, and in many of the large cities no material change was indicated at all. It was found !that indebtedness created by the vet- erans prior to the payment was liqui- dated, and the money advanced to veterans went to clear thet indebted- ness rather than to create new busi- ness. No doubt the same result would obtain if the balance were now pad. However, in this connection what to me is very important, having in mind that the bonus certifictee is a paid- up endowment policy, - payable either to the veteran upon its maturity or to his beneficiary, generally the wife and children in the event of his death, is the fact that of the veterans who die, approximately 85 per cent of them leave no other asset to their family, but the adjusted service cer- tificate or the balance due on the certificate. I feel, therefore, that those who advocate the payment of these certificates at this time for the purpose of stimulating business, cer- tainty cannot have given the interests of the veterans much thought. “I appreciate your truly patriotic Interest in desiring to obtain full information on an issue so vital to the service men and our country. I am giving you this information with the hope that it will be useful in en- abling ycu to reach s conclusion in your own mind regarding the matter as well as helping others to determine the fair thing to do. “Very sincerely yours, “FRANKLIN D, ROOSEVELT.” \/ al Amount of Bonus Grows Under Act of 1924 Memorandum regarding adjusted compensation, or “the bonus”: ‘The Congress, by the passage of the act of May 19, 1924, provided for the granting additional compensation to each veferan, with certain specified exceptions, of $1 per day for services in the United States and $1.25 per day for services over seas, in excess of the first 60 days of services. The amount thus determined was in- creased by 25 per cent because of deferment of payment. Using the ag- gregate as a net single premium ac- cording to the American experience table of mortality with interest at 4 per cent per annum, entitlement was granted to the veterans to payment, 20 years after 1925 or date of appli- cation of a sum approximately two- and-one-half times that of the basic adjustment. The 150 per cent in- crease represents the additional amount granted because of deferment of payment and the compounded in- terest. Thus an original grant of $400 in 1925 would enlarge itself to $1,000 In 1945, If in 1925 the $1 and $1.25 per day adjustment had been paid in cash the veterans would have re- ceived a total of $1,400,000,000, but by deferring the payment 20 years the sum became $3,500,000,000. Under the original law veterans | were permitted to borrow on their | certificates according to the reserve value thereof, but in February, 1931, an amendment increased, without re- gard to actuarial value, the amount which could be borrowed to 50 per cent of the maturity value. ‘This amendment also fixed the maximum | interest which could be charged on | loans at 412 per cent, which rate was | subsequently reduced to 3': per cent | by the act of July 21, 1932. The amount, including interest charges now outstanding because of loans made to veterans is slightly less than $1,690,000,000. Of this amount $1,470,- 000,000 is represented by actual pay- ments disbursed by the Veterans’ Ad- | ministration. The difference between the maturity value and the present liens on certificates is $1.810,000,000. | However, the difference between the present value of the certificates, actu- arially computed, and the amount out- standing as liens is only $410,000,000. As the major portion of this difference is represented by the value of the one- half million certificates which have not been borrowed upon, only $130,- 000,000 would be payable on the present value basis to the 3,000,000 men who have borrowed on their cer- tificates, representing an average equity of about $43 on the average certificate in contrast to the $500 which is now sought to be paid by the resolution of the American Legion. In substance, this resolution seeks the remitting of interest in an amount in excess of $220,000,000 charged to the veterans’ accounts, but would re- quire the immediate piyment by the | Government of interest that will not have been earned until 1945, which together with the amount granted on account of deferred payment totals $2,100,000,000 more than the $1 and $125 a day adjustment provided by the original act. The present value of the certificates in force is $2,100,- 000,000, whereas it is sought to have now paid $3720,000,000 (the ma- turity or face value plus remittance of interest), or an additional amount of $1,620.000.000 over and above the present value and $2,320,000,000 more than the original basic adjustment, TWO TICKET SCALPERS SEIZED NEAR STATION Selling Without License Charged Against Capital Man and Baltimorean. Two railroad ticket scalpers were arrested near Union Station yesterday on charges of selling tickets without a license. They are Benjamin Kay, 31, of 1028 Seventh street and Bernard Goldstein, 19, of Baltimore. They were to be arraigned in Police Court today. Police said the men were selling the | to relieve those on duty at Gray. A | aid than was available there, due to return half of round-trip tickets for more money than the tickets cost in| start for the wreck at noon, to be|and hunger. other cities. her maiden trip early this month. pilot who located the missing ship are shown above. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1934 - | THREE MAROONED IN WRECKED PLANE 3 DAYS ARE SAVED (Continued From First Page.) | Army ship dropped some food, but it was picked up by searchers, mistaken by the fiyer for the wrecked men. | Licut. Emerson returned 40 minutes after Jakway and said: | “I dropped food successfully to the | marooned men. The parachuwe which | lowered the food caught in a tree. There were six or eight men with the fiyers. They were forced to cut down the tree to get the food. I didn't | see any other searchers in the vicin- | ity. Lieut, Jesse Reed relieved me | |and I returned here.” | | Joy mounted high at the air base | here with the establishment of con- tinuous air patrol over the wreck. Officials credited the plan with guid- ing ground parties to the spot, and it was expected that the rescued men { would be started either north to Morehouseville or south to Gray im- | | mediately. ! State troopers at Gray had not heard from the sleigh party which | entered the woods there at 11:30 p.m. Other troopers arrived from Oneida bobsled hauled by a team was to | followed by another group in an hour. ! The Albany Evening News received | word from Poland, N. Y., in the area named Harney was carried out of the | of search, that three brothers, Lester, Charles and Dan Bartello, and Floyd Treuzer, all of Hoffmeister, started last night on snowshoes for the wreck and waded through waist-deep snow | in 30 below temperatures. They reached the plane at 1 a.m. today. Sergt. Hall Rouillard, observer with Lieut. Emerson and also a Massa- chusetts National Guard flyer, said | he dropped a note to the plane, read- | iny 8 | “If quantity of food satisfactory, go to plane and brush snow off stabilizer.” One of the men on the ground went to the plane and brushed some snow | off the stabilizer, he said. “All of the men were lively and in good condition apparently,” the ser- geant said. Pilot Al Mitchell radioed to the Al- | bany Airport from the air over the | wrecked plans that five men had left | the group of 11 at the spot and had | headed north toward Hoffmeister. He | could not tell whether the group leav- ing included any of the marooned men. Doubts They Can Be Moved. Pilot Charles Marris, an air flyer | at Albany, speculated that the strand- ed men could not be removed from the scene of the wreck without more | their weakened condition from cold The giant Condor plane, which was wrecked in the stormbound Adirondacks, two members of its crew and ‘Top (left to right): Ernest Dryer of Cleveland, pilot of the ill-fated plane; Dean Smith, veteran mail pilot who relieved the anxiety of the airline officials and families of those with the ship when he reported sighting it, and Dale Dryer, copilot. The photo of the plane was taken on —A. P. Photo. grees below zero, a State trooper | Adirondack wilderness today by six comrades who had been searching with ‘him for the wrecked airliner, it was | reported from Gray, N. Y. The seven men from New York | State’s police force left this hamlet of |10 families at 10 o'clock last night, | hoping to cover the six miles to the mountain-side site of the plane crash and to rescue the marooned fiyers. They penetrated six miles, right enough, but not in a straight line. Forced by the rugged country to zig- | zag in at one point, then double back to another through snow-filled trails, they made scant progress toward their goal, then had to retreat. A second group of troopers with a hdrse-drawn sleigh went into the desolation at 11:30 p.m. and had not been heard from at 7 am. today. MRS. BUSCH DIES AT 92 Member of Ohio Brewery Family Succumbs in California. REDLANDS, Calif,, December 31 (#)—Mrs, Katherine Busch, 92, died yesterday after a long illness. Her | Tamily was identified for n.anv yra:s with the Lackman Brewery in Cin- | cinnati. A daughter, Mrs Ana Lackman of | Redlands, Calif., and a son, Edward His toes frozen m weather 28 de- Busch of Dayton, Ohio., survive. A Review of the Year in Cartoon A BUCK'S S TAMMANY DEFEATE| IME BUDGET - My HEAD OR MY EGBS?[o SYSTEM it Va Ay - “ GOLDEN “TAX EGGS: ;y&,‘; a°"'" 2 ! CARDS TRIM TIGARS* [BASEBALL FLETCHER - RAYBURN BiL [COMES_TO, WALL ST. MONEY POLICIES DO NoT WORRY Buck!, STILL // 2 WAITIV P~ PROBLEMS OF THE St RERpLovmE L ERNMENT | WITHUS. Z 2| GOV 0 THE AIR| Y z PERRY!IS “DE WOIKS IN TENNI! T ‘AL ND o :1' WERE STIL | RELIEF | PROJECTS LIVES WERE T~ —LOSTL DILLINGER HOT o D gEL =& eR! § i \/ WASE] o) K NATION WIDE TEXTILE STRIKE ALLE PRICES SAW- TO NEW HIBH e = N :;w,(:u S Moy, & ST S:Dloy- SSIA oINS eacie E 0 GET ALLE. o) SIL) HINA P%d\' ESTS) SIWER < AN ?, = GER AND 'JAPAN 14 LEAGUE AS YET..! — HASN'T MAD| UP HIS MIND CAPTURED - RENEWES o IN LINDBERS CASE. * H }5‘760L0 THAT a {, :SUYTERS. AR 95\;1. BRONTHON AND CUNNINGHAM- -~ ‘s 25805 S Ececrion! 7 o a0 73 RAINBow BEATS = ENDEAVER iN YACHT WITH FLYING "COLORS™ ALSO THE STOPWATCH! M., ) = < w3 ] f‘av%n $§ Tumg / SR USES THE,, *IRON FIST -AND :‘?\_os AN ELECT- 10N= HITLER IS ELECTED!!/ WEST COASYT MASA BAD WATER FRONT STRIKE !, THEY ALL [WANT A LIFTL TOO M P THE e g g e SR QoS TEARS!, ' A MWBERTY (NOY CONNECTE, WITHTHE & \S FORMED. NEW NAMES MAKE 'HEADLINES NYEAR ‘[Crashing Events Impress Little-Known Persons on Public’s Mind. | By the Assoctated Press. | NEW YORK, December 31.—The | headlines of 193¢ unrolled a profu- sion of new names. | “Names make news” is a journal- | Istic adage, but 1934 reversed it. News | —big news—pushed scores of names | onto the front page and kept a gen- erous handful of them there until they were as familiar as the name of the family physician. From the march of the Cardina’s i to the world's base ball championship, | the Midwestern crime wave, the de- velopments in the Lindbergh baby kidnaping and murder case, the “tempest in a feapot” investigation of the “brain trust,” and a dozen cther news events, new names emerged slowly or burst like rockets on Page 1 of the dailles. No longer was iden- tification necessary. Within no time at all the head writers were unfurl- ing such banners as “Hauptmann Held for Murder”—*"Dizzy Dean Downs De- troit"—*Dillinger Dies in FPederal Trap"—or “Wirt Willing to Testify.” Hauptmann Arrest Startles. Outstanding, of course, was Brun Richard Hauptmann, the alien car- penter, around whose Bronx home the 25-year-old investigation of t kidnaping and murder of Charles A. Lindbergh, jr., suddenly seitled wih the fury of a tornado. Only in his home town in Germany apparently had Hauptmann's name appeared in public print until a New York filling station operator became suspicious of 8 gold note with which Hauptmann paid for some gasoline On into 1935 the name of Haupt- mann is scheduled to hold its share of the headlines. As soon as the new year has made its turn the Sta‘e of New Jersey will open its effort to prove that Hauptmann committed the “crime of the century.” Jerome Herman “Dizzy” Dean was too big a favorite with the sports writers and too good a pitcher not to have made his bow in the headlines before the world series. In August, in fact, when he instigated and per- petrated a one-man strike for higher pay for Brother Paul, the story moved outside base ball circles. But by the time the series was over and Dean had surpassed even his own expacta= tions, base balldem’s new favorite was permanently launching. “Bad Man” Slain, In police circles and in numerous localities of the Northern Middle West John Dillinger was notorious when the year opened. His capture with three companions at Tucson, Ariz., and his subsequent “‘wooden-pi: escape from the Crown Point, Ind., county jail catapulted him into the national lnf“s category. From that point on he continued the thorn in the side of the Department of Justice and the Nation's “No. 1 bad man” until that jnight in July when he relaxed his ! vigil and went to a movie. His des a in the gunfire from officialdom'’s ar bush was the highlight of an a crime drive which hes carried m gangsiers to death from the guns of Jjustice than in any other year. Dr. Willlam A. Wirt might still a comparatively little known G !{ndv, pedagog had he nét underta o 1 'over an investigation that filled the front pages for weeks until the House committee finally ued a report that the “charges of . Wirt were une founded.” Science Honofrs Doctor. Had the Dionne quintuplets never been born Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe prob- ably would have ended his life a sine cere, intelligent country doctor re- markably like a character from recent fiction. His fight for the lives of the five Dionne babies since he received that before-dawn “hurry call” at home in Callendar, Ontario, May 28 has drawn almost as much attention from science as from the public. In that wooded North country now is a tiny hospital that bears his name and houses only five patients—the Dionne quintuplets, Headlines come early in life to some, Two youngsters this year have drawn more than mamy famous figures ever receive. There is Gloria Vanderbilt, 10 years old, who went into Central Park one day to feed the pigeons and precipitated charges by her mother in a habeas corpus proceeding against Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney that her daughter had been “spirited away.” After nearly three months, prepara- tions for another court battle ovcr custody of the child are being made by Mrs. Vanderbilt. ‘The other youngster is none other than a darling of the movies, 5-year- | old Shirley Temple, who was drafted into the cast of “Stand Up and Cheer” and elevated to stardom because au- diences did just that when the film was shown. Richberg Gets Spotlight. Donald Randall Richberg has been in the public prints for many years. Even before his appointment as gen- eral counsel of the N. R. A, he had wedged a generous niche in America’s “Who's Who.” But it was not until 1934 that his name began to emerge as one of the most prominent figures in the “New Deal.” There are scores of others whose names have popped into prominence— the kidnap victims, Edward G. Bremer, Mrs, Berry Stoll, T. S. Gettle, June Robles; there is Melvin Purvis, Fed- eral agent, who has been credited with a big role in the eradication of Dil- linger, “Baby Face” Nelson and “Pretty Boy” Floyd; there are Capt. Ivan Poderjay, who is to be brought from Austria for questioning in con- nection with the disappearance of Agnes Tufverson, and Dr. Alice Wyne- koop, now serving a sentence for the murder of her daughter-in-law. WASHINGTON NATIVE ILL TWO YEARS DIES Mrs. Sophie d’Antignac Aspinwall, 67, a resident of Washington all her life, died yesterday at her home, 1821 Jefferson place. She had been an invalid for the last two years. Mrs. Aspinwall was the sister of the late Dr. Middleton Cuthbert, well-known ‘Washington physician. She is survived by a son, John Cuthbert Aspinwall of Norfolk, Va.; three grandchildren, Midéleton, Cath- erine and John C. Aspinwall, jr.; two sisters, Mrs. George W. Brown of Washington and Mrs. William Mec- Pherson of New York City, and a niece, Mrs. C.'R. Train, wife of Ad- miral Train. . Funeral services will be held in Joseph Gawler’s Sons chapel tomor- row at 2 p.m,; followed by burial in Oak Hill Cemetery. L} {