Evening Star Newspaper, October 21, 1935, Page 5

AN YSTEN Cummings Says Bureau of Investigation Superior to Methods Abroad. By the Assoclated Press. The “G-man” idea appears to be spreading. Attorney General Cummings, back from a six-week study of Scotland Yard and continental police systems, said today -the English are starting a police school “somewhat along the | lines of our training school here” and | the French surete has organized a “flying squadron” which swoops down on gangsters as the American “G- men” do. “The yard” and the surete are “fine organizations,” Cummings said, but | the Federal Bureau of Investigation is “miles and miles ahead of any- thing they’ve got over there.” Better in Some Work. The European police systems are *adapted to the needs of their coun- " Cummings said, and “in some spects they are more efictive in achieving results than we are. “I would not say that their system Is better. But crime in this country has so manifestly slipped out of State lines that our problem of co-ordinat- ing law enforcement agencies is far more difficult than anything they | face.” Scotland Yard's famous crime lab- oratories were “very interesting,” the Attorney General said, but the over- | crowded building of “the yard” has “embarrassed their work.” “The yard” files 300 fingerprints a day, Cummings said, compared with 3.700 prints filed caiiy by the Federal Bu- reau of Investigation. The English court system is “prob- ably their most outstanding difference from us,” Cummings said Speed Prime Factor. “Speed in dispensing justice.” he said, is a feature of English law en- forcement, and “that's a very sore spot in the United States.” | Pointing out that the Supreme Court is now working on a revision of Federal court procedure, he said: “If the Federal system can be made & model for the States, it will have all the virtues of a model.” Belgium has carried the training of Jaw enforcement officers “farther than clsewhere,” Cummings said. Even magistrates who present the govern- | ment’s case in court are given Spe('la]: training. | “I hope some day we may have a campaigns, a lady phoned him and | lar school for district attorneys. | commissioners,” he | said | prove the technical equipment of thosz who present the Government's case in court.” BRONCHO KILLS SELF Which No Rider Could Tame Breaks Neck. OKLAHOMA CITY, October 21 (P). ~—An outlaw broncho, “Black Bottom.” which no man could break, has per-| manently tamed himself by breaking his neck while at his favorite sport of tossing would-be riders. | The Montana horse,. whose sleek beauty and wicked mien bave thrilled crowds in Madison Square Garden | and London. ran into a railing at a | live stock rodeo Saturday night. Horse Arrest Halts Wedding. A man who spent his prospective wedding day in a cell has appeared at ‘Windsor, England, court. He is Arthur | G. Leighton, aged 33, of Hawes, who was remanded, charged with stealing a cycle, a gold watch and other prop- erty. It was stated that he was ar- rested on the eve of his wedding, and that the offense was committed 10 years ago. | Fine factory standards, fac. Lots shoe: Sperators. Viscol bath Hall treatments for Damp- Longer dee Choi Skilled treeing with correct Tines to restore orlginal "Shave and sivte. Linings and welts repaired without extra rge. 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It consisted of toads, which he handled tenderly until time to attach them to the hook. One day he had a particularly fine specimen of the bait. He would catch nothing less than a four-pound bass, he thought as he cast the hook into the water. Grasping the rod firmly, he sat down to wait for his prey. Minutes passed. Then an hour. Still no bite. “Queer,” he thought as he shifted his position. Then he looked down. There sat the toad beside him, pa- tiently waiting, the hook and line firmly attached. e, FLAG-WAVER. Why is a large white flag waved each day at more or less regular periods from the main front steps of the Capitol? A tourist asked Miss Frances Thibideau, who was waving the flag, and she piquantly replied: “Why I'm afraid of the Ethiopians and I'm not taking any chances.” But—Miss Thibideau is ome of the popular Capitol guides. The flag is used as a signal to sight-seeing busses, when their load of tourists has completed the trip with the Capitol guide. The busses meanwhile are parked on the roadway leading to East Capi= tol street, so as mot to block the Capitol plaza. e WELL—? | ADIT. DECKER of the Salvation Army tells this oneon himself: During one of the Community Chest asked if the Salvation Army was help- ing such-and-such a person. Quite “Thus, we may be able to im- | proud of the army’s relief work Adjt. Decker answered that it was “Well,” said the lady. “I found out | that he smokes cigarettes, and I will | | not give any money to the Community | | Chest if the Salvation Army gives re- lief to cigarette smokers.” | Decker tried to reason with the lady, telling her she could specify that her contribution be given to some agency in the Community Chest where the relief recipients were not tobacco | users. She asked him to give an example of such an agency. “Well,” he said after thinking a minute, “how about the Animal Res- cue League?” The lady hung up. % DID YOU KNOW—2 The amount of outside office space rented this year by the United States Government is equivalent to twice the size of the Department of Commerce Building. If You Suffer With Kidney Trouble Headache. backache, unusual thirst are symptoms that point to kidney trouble. | For over 30 years physicians have en- dorsed Mountain Valley ) direct from famous Hot Springs. Ark A na ive. ~ Phone for | booklet today. | Mountain Valley Mineral Water 1105 K St. NW. Met. 1062, YOUR PARTY SLIPPERS FOR HALLOWEEN of life left in those idle s in your closet! Let We'll oween festivities. them in gay contrast. ce of 30 colors . .. You'll ADVENTURE STORY. DVENTURE must, necessarily, fol- low the trail of the treasure- seeker. One of the strangest tales of adventure, & story of ghosts and bulls that snort fire, was told to a Wash- ington newspaper man by Capt. Jasper E. White of the Marine Hospital, Sa- vannah, Ga., who vouches for .its truthfulness. The locale was Blackbeard Island, down along the Georgia coast, about 50 miles below Savannah. It was here, so legend has it, that the famous old pirate buried his wives. The story, as told by Capt. White, has it that a group of adventurous treasure-seeke ers went to the island. With a divin- ing rod they sought all night for the treasure, As dawn approached the leader of the party heard a voice de- manding: “Who—who are you; who—who are you—all?” “I'll show you who,” replied the leader and fired his pistol in the direc- tion of the voice. Just then they looked toward the beach and what they saw made their hair stand on end! An enormous bull was coming toward them on the run. Streams of fire spat from his nostrils and vivid flashes of lightning shot skyward from his tail. His bel- lowings shook the island like an earthquake. The men held their ground until the fire from the bull’s nostrils burned the shirts from the backs and seared the face of the leader. That was all they could stand. They ran for their boats as fast as their burned and lacerated bodies would let them. And to add a needed credence to his story, Capt. White concludes with: |, “If you are ever in Jacksonville, you may see a man whose face has been horribly burned. . . . He was SWHAT can we do to make them better?” All during the year, Ford engineers have been seek- ing the answer to that question. They took nothing for granted. They went back to the basic design of each truck and commercial car part . . . and asked themselves, “Is this the best part for the purpose? 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New manufacturing methods were de- vised. The result of these investigations proved ) the leader of the treasure-seeking party that night.” * x k%, LITTERATEUR, Ambitiously eager to keep up with all new literature a young lady re- cently came into this office and, picking- up a copy of the newspaper men’s bible, Allen’s “Synonyms and Antonyms,” asked, “Is this an interesting book?” x x ¥ X ‘THE REASON. JPROF- C. is one of the fabled 10 men on earth who understands the Einstein theory. He was born that way—with an intupitive grasp of the language of mathematical symbols. His reason- ing starts where Einstein leaves off. Prof. C. was reared in the Kentucky mountains—a member of a primitive sect which believes that the world is coming to an end in 1950, as cer- tainly foretold in Revelations. He admits, when the issue is pressed, that behind all his marvelous juggling of hyper-dimensional equations is the inspired purpose of proving that the doctrines of this sect are true. For Fewer Hold-ups. Nineteen recent daylight bank rob- bery attempts were frustrated by the effective use of tear gas installations put in by the Federal Government. NOBILITY BAGS GAME Alaskan’ Trophies Taken by Eu- ropean Hunters. Baron Charles Buxhoeveden of Vienna, Count Sigmund Szechenyi of Budapest and Count Hans C. Sfers- torpfl of Upper Silesia, the returning hunters, said they traveled 10,000 miles in Alaska, but that “one moose head was worth the journey.” They shot four. ‘They left today by plane for New York en route home. KEATON CRITICALLY ILL Complications Develop After At- tack of Influenza. HOLLYWOOD, Calif., October 21 () —The condition of Buster Keaton, film comedian, ill at his home here, was described yesterday by his physi- cian, Dr. John Shuman, as “serious.” Keaton was stricken with influenza & few days ago and it was believed this had developed into pneumonia. 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