Evening star. [volume], February 06, 1932, Page A-6, Image 6

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Eighth Floor.
Maryland Senator Says Island
Legislature Thwarted
Will of People.
By the Associated Press.
A charge was made in the Senate
yesterdav bv Senator Tydings i Demo
crat, Maryland) that the Hawaiian
Legislation has "thwarted the will of the I
people of Honolulu" by abolishing offices
which they had filled by elections.
Tydings said the situation was re
sponsible for crime conditions which
culminated in an assault on the wife
of Lieut. Thornes Massie and the arrest i
of four Americans, Including Massie
and his mothr -in-law, after one of the
alleged attackers had been killed.
Tvdtngs relocated changes In the
organic law of the Territory to protect
the people of Honolulu.
The Maryland Senator said he was
informed the delegates from the “out
lying islands" control the territorial
Legislature.
“The plantations are very large, ne
said, “and a small group of men can
handpick the members of the Legisla
ture."
Chairman Bingham (Republican. |
Connecticut) of the Senate Territories
Committee, said he was confident • new
legislation enacted by the territorial
Legislature would “meet the situation
there to a considerable degree."
Senator McKellar (Democrat, Ten
I nessee), however, presented telegrams
j from citizens of Hawaii asserting that
the Legislature's action did not go far
enough.
RECAPTURE CLAUSE
HIT BY RAIL COUNSEL
Repeal Proposed at I. C. C, Hearing.
Valuation as Basis for Rate
Making Assailed.
By the Associated Press
Repeal of the recapture clause of the
Interstate commerce act was urged yes
terday by Alfred P, Thom of this city,
general counsel of the Association of
Railway Executives.
Before the House Interstate Com
merce Committee. Thom said the pro
vision under which the Government
takes over all earnings in excers of 534
1 per cent has been found impracticable.
The Government, he said, has spent
$40,000,000 and the carriers $137,000.
000. or a total of $177,000,000. in seek
ing a valuation of the railroads. He
declared that as lone as the recapture
{ clause is in force the valuation never
would be completed.
Thom maintained valuation of rail
roads should not be used as the basis
for rate-making. Instead, he asserted,
i it should be on the basis of economic
conditions and the movement of traffic.
Giving a free hand to the Interstate
Commerce Commission to make rates,
i with Congress insisting only on adequate
i public service, was urged by the rail
road counsel.
DARROW WOULD ABOLISH ALL
CRIMINAL COURT PROCEEDINGS
Famous Defender Would Substitute Mental
Experts for Judges and Juries and
Hospitals for Jails.
By th® Associated Press.
NEW YORK. February 6 —If Clar
ence Darrow could have his way he
would tear down all jails, strip Judges
and juries of their power and abolish
all criminal court proceedings.
Instead of punishing those guilty of
crime he would have their mental con
dition, their environment and their past
studied by experts, who then would de
cide whether they should be set free,
sent to a hospital or kept under super
vision until they “became normal
again.”
Darrow’s sweeping condemnation of
the present system of fighting crime is
contained in his autobiography. “The
Story of My Life,” which was published
here yesterday.
Many strange experiences the famous
Chicago lawyer had during his half
century in courts from one side of the
country to the other are recounted.
Tells of Loch and Leopold.
In a chapter on the Loeb-Leopold
case, one of the most celebrated he
fought, he says Nathan Leopold "had
and has the most brilliant intellect I
ever met In a boy." Richard Loeb. he
writes, "was not only a kindly-looking
boy. but he was and is a kindly boy.”
He calls the murder they committed
"the most foolish, most motiveless act
ever conceived in a diseased brain." He
presumes the slayers “know less about
the reason than those who have studied
the case and the boys as well."
He tried to save the youthful pair
from the gallows, Darrow writes, "to do
what I could for sanity and humanity,
against the wave of hatred and malice
that, as ever, w'as masquerading under
its usual nom de plume, 'justice ’
"In a terrible crisis there is only one
element more helpless than the poor,
and that Is the rich. I knew then, and
I know now, that except for the wealth
of the families, a plea of guilty and a
life sentence would have been accepted
without a contest. I knew this and I
dreaded the fight.
Strongly Against Killing.
"No client of mine had ever been put
to death (a record still unbroken) and
I felt that It would almost. If not quite,
kill me if it should ever happen. I
have never been able to read a story of
an execution I always left town If
possible on the day of a hanging. I am
strongly—call it morbidly, if you will—
against killing.
"I felt I would get a fair fee if I
went into the ease, but money never
influenced my stand one way or
another."
Some of Darrow's comment on the
American system of jurisprudence are:
"There is no more ^xcus” today for
indicting and trying a person in a
criminal court than lucre Is for hang
ing him for being 111 or insane."
"Everv crlmlra! rial Is a man-iunt.
where the object of the pack is to get
the prey.”
"It is a game where the dice are
loaded and the victim is almost sure to
lose.”
Fair Trial Impossible.
"AH courtroom proceedings seem more
like a prize ring combat than • calm
dignified effort to find the truth.”
"Every prospective juror has all the
bias of a partisan and it is not possible
for him to give the defendant a fair
trial."
"Most Judges have neither the ex
perience nor the imagination to compre
hend life.”
Darrow discloses he spent the first
half of his life “trying to get written
about in the newspapers" and the last
half trying to stay out of them.
He characterized Eugene V. Debs the
most, kindly, gentle, brave and generous
roan he ever met.
At 75, he writes, one of his firmest
convictions is that "the most satisfac
tory part of life Is the time spent in
sleep,”
In discussing his trial for Jury brib
ing in California, Darrow says when
things looked blackest and his funds
had been exhausted in fighting to prove
his innocence, he received a check for
$1,200 from a total stranger, Frederick
M. Gardner, who wrote;
Might Be Dry Agent.
"I hear you have spent most, of your
life defending men for nothing and
that you are now broke."
Darrow continues:
"Mr. Gardner has been twice elected
Governor of Missouri. I have always
hoped he might be elected President of
the United States. This is not because
I want an office; I w'ould hardly take
any position until it was very, very
important and worth while—like a pro
hibition agent, for instance."
The famous lawyer describes Prank
Murphy, who presided at one of his
murder trials in Detroit and later be
came mayor of that city, as “the kind
liest, most understanding man I ever
met on the bench.'’
—-• —
PRESBYTERIANS URGED
TO CONTRIBUTE MILLION
Emergency Self-Benlal Offering
Asked “for the Service of the
Risen Christ."
By tfie Associated Press.
NEW YORK, February 6.—The 2.
000.000 communicant members of the
Presbyterian Church in the United
States of America yesterday were called j
upon to contribute $1,000,000 In emer
gency self-denial offerings "for the serv
ice of the risen Christ."
The request was contained in an offi
cial message from the Presbyterian
General Council, transmitted through
the denomination's 10,000 ministers by
the Rev. Dr. C. Franklin Ward, sec
retary.
Presbyterians were asked to devote
the period from the middle of February
to Easter Sunday to "genuine, unaffect
ed. definit” self-sacrifice." by Dr. Clel
and Boyd McAfee, secretary of the
Beard of Foreign Missions and former
moderator of the Presbyterian General
Assembly.
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The unrivaled
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TU for. ■ collared
rip e—w o r n as
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Note the new
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$69.50
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Another example
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Short cape — gray
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A paradox indeed—this dis
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Other Smart Signs
of Spring 1932—
..jacket costumes promi
nent, with jackets short
and fitted.
... shoulders w idened by cut
ting — yokes, capelets,
tuckings.
.. dull surfaced fabrics in
both silk and wool.
...blues, blues, blues in
many hues — notably a
new bright blue.
...prints — often seen as
tops to plain costumes, as
frocks to redingote coats.
.. higher waistlines achieved
by betrj—or girdles wrap
ped as tine prefers.
V
... the covered way should
ers have. \
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.. the shining metA note in
buttons—in clips-Vbelts—
bracelets. *
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.. . the patriotic note through- \
out—as well as subtle
new colors.
...the amazing number of
knitted or crocheted
things.
...the trim, slim appearance
all clothes have.
...the charming wavs there
ere to scarfs—and scarfs.
...the importance of suits,
furred or not.
...the new beige note seen
again and again.
.. the high-in-the-hack way
of hats—flowers again—
ribbons—with berets, bo
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lean tvpes all meriting
our choice.
...how many and how chic
the sweater and skirt
costumes.
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and we predict you will like
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than any you have in sev
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