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THREE OUT OF FOUR
TOUCHED BY CRIME
Law Violators Now Insist
^on Moving in Best
Circles.
Editor's note: Only one person
mit of every four has a chance to
escape the effects of a major crime,
says Courtney Ryley Cooper, author
and criminologist, in the following
article. Mr. Cooper has been writ
ing and. lecturing on criminal sub
jects for several years.
BY COURTNEY RYLEY COOPER.
SEBRING Fla.. February 13 (/Pi
Crime has moved in next door to us.
It will continue to live there until
we. as old-time residents, throw it
out. That, I believe, is the biggest
fact which America has to learn
about the present status of law infrac
tion, which now. incidentally, is
furnishing a living in greater or lesser
degree to fully 3.500,000 persons.
This makes crime our biggest indus
try and one in which there are no
sit-down strikes.
The professionals of the lawbreak
ing business no longer are contented
with hideouts or with a slinking exist
ence in alleys.
They want the best neighborhoods,
the best clubs, the best hotels and
the best shows. If you moved about
at night, you may have rubbed elbows
with Tommy Robinson, the kidnaper—
he spent the money obtained by
snatching Mrs. Grace Stoll on night
life in the biggest clubs of America.
And Charlie (Lucky) Luciano lived at
one of New Yosk's finest hotels, while
the head of a tremendous fur racket
Jived at an equally snooty one in
another part of town, and while a
man who had committed at least 100
murders was entertained by other
crimesters in a portion of New York
visually reserved for the elite.
Likewise. Dillinger wanted only the
best, while ' Baby Face" Nelson once
subleased the home of a millionaire
and Alvin Karpis spent thousands of
dollars on e Summer place just to
make his "gun moll" happy.
Incidentally the "gun moll” these
days travels by airplane or in a draw
ing room—she feels she amounts to
something. The big-time gangster has
a right to support her in style, for he
•■earns” from $50,000 to $100,000 a
year from his ‘‘profession,” a situa
tion usually brought about through
his ability to bribe certain law-en
forcement agents.
Count Lustig Miller, the counter
feiter, rolled up profits of at least a
million dollars before he was sent to
Alcatraz Prison. He insists that he
did this because ‘‘he was able to buy
his way out of prosecution on at least
40 occasions."
Leghorn Hen Hobo.
LOS ANGELES (i'F'.—Hobo Man- is
Just a white Leghorn hen with a
penchant for travel. J. H. Harris
saw Mary roosting on the trucks of a
Pullman car as the train left New
Orleans. She was still safely perched
there at the next stop Pools were
made up among the passengers as to
how many miles Mary would ride.
Fifty-flve hours and 2,005 miles out
of New Orleans. Mary flitted down—
safely In Los Angeles.
ChUd Bride O.K.’d by Court
Baltimore's girl bride, 13-year-old Eleanor Hands, has the
grand jury to thank for this glad reunion with her 23-year-old
husband, Joseph 1. Falice. The jury refused to indict Falice on a
charge of giving his bride’s age as 18 in taking out a license. Her
mother had given her blessing.
A___
CLARICE LASSITER,
"l, a bride at 11 and a widowed
mother at 13, who declared
yesterday at Houston, Tex.,
that she would “do it again ”
She defended marriages for
“mature” youngsters. Her
husband was killed accident
ally eights months after their
marriage. Clarice is a wait“
ress.
—Copyright, A. P. Birephotos.
RACKETEERS’ INFORMER
IS NEW YORK POLICEMAN
Prosecutor Says Officer Had Been
Giving Wrong Data for
Several Months.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, February 13.—Special
Rackets Prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey
disclosed today a police officer act
ing as informer to suspects in the al
leged $2,000,000-a-year restaurant
shakedown ring had been supplied de
liberately with false information by
the Dewey office.
The existence of such a spy was
testified to yesterday by Max Engler,
operator of several cafeterias and a
hotel, during the trial of eight ac
cused restaurant racketeers.
Engler said one of the eight de
fendants, Attorney Abraham Cohen,
had asserted he had “somebody** sur
reptitiously piping out Information
from Dewey's office.
The prosecution said today he had
“for several months been aware of
the conduct of the officer Involved,"
and that the “matter was placed In
the hands of the police commissioner
and will be dealt with by hi ; after
the conclusion of the pending trial."
The ease was In rays today.
Crew Taken From Helpless Ship
Scene near Portland, Or eg., as one of the seamen rescued from the coastwise ship Cottoneva,
reached safety in a breaches buoy after the ship ran on the rocks. Coast guards took off the
crew of 26 as well as the owner, the captain an d officials of the company.
—Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
R.A. Assisting Tenant Farmers
Re-establish Earning Capacity
. _ »
Demonstration Projects Organized in
10 States Show ljOOO Selected Sub
jects How to Be Independent.
The farm tenant, to whose better- !
ment President Roosevelt Is devoting
this week end in framing a message
to Congress on the need for tenancy
elimination, is already the object of a
major program of the Resettlement
Administration.
For two months R. A. has been or
ganizing in 10 Southern States demon
stration projects to assist 1,000 se
lected tenants to become Independent
home owners, at a land cost of about
$4,000 per tenant.
On the basis of this cost, re-estab
lishment of the country’s 3.000.000
tenants as tillers of their own farms
would amount to $12,000,000,000,
which is about 25 times as much as
the highest estimate put forward by
any Government official so far.
I "Rapid progress is being made in
the farm tenant program," according
to a resettlement report. "Project
areas have been selected in each of
these 10 Southern States and project
managers have been appointed.
Completion Due June 3$.
"It has taken time to set the ma
chinery in motion, but the work ,
progresses and the objective of secur
ing the 1.000 units will be completed
by June 30, in so far as the land
acquisition phase is concerned.’’
One anti-tenant aid argument which
the R. A. feels It has answered is the
contention that most tenants are by
nature shiftless and unsuited to
operate their own farms.
The problem of shift lessneas is a
problem of health. Dr. Will W.
Alexander, resettlement administrator,
holds, and he has instituted a wide
spread health program. Laziness Is
curable, he says, because the hookworm
and pellagra which cause laziness are
curable. The tenant rid of his ailment
becomes a hard-working person, the
agency has discovered.
R. A. is choosing farm tenants of
good reputation for integrity and
farming ability, and selecting good.
| economical family-sized farms on
which to place them, preferably the
■ very farm they are working, provided
it meets resettlement standards.
White and colored tenants are chosen
on the basis of the local proportion
of those two classes.
Plan for Farm and Client
“A farm-management plan Is worked
out for the farm and the client,” the
administration reports, “taking into
consideralon crop rotation and soil
conservation. Farms are being selected
which show that the average normal
rental customarily paid by the tenant
to the landowner will pay for the farm
over a period of 40 years or less, to
gether with an interest charge of 3
per cent.
“The plan Is to lease the farm to
the client with the privilege of enter
ing into a purchase contract when the
client is in a position to make a cash
payment of 15 per cent toward the
purchase of the farm. Every farm unit
is carefully considered, and plans are
made for adding such improvements
as may be needed to meet the stand
ard set for other rural resettlement
farms.”
Cost, of course, is the great problem.
By keeping the interest rate down to
3 per cent, R. A. feels that the farm
ejs it is aiding can carry a greater
capital investment. With low interest
another necessity is governmental
supervision of the farmer, R. A. sug
gests. explaining:
“Supervision does not mean dis
couragement of individualism or of
initiative. On the contrary, it will
have developed more initiative and
more individualism than exists at the
present time. A farmer who has $300
to $400 a year gross return does not
have much Independence. He is sub
servient to landlords and to merchant
creditors. The same man under super
vision, on a good farm with a low
rate of Interest, making from $800 to
$1,200 a year, will feel that he is in a
position to establish his independence.”
Average Farm Value 97,818.
The value of the average farm in
the United States Is <7.810. R. A. has
computed that the value of the average
fully equipped tenant-project farm at
$6,500. which is scaled down to $5,255
when community enterprises and cer
tain services are eliminated.
After the $4,000 worth of land has
been bought, the largest single Item of
expense is the house, which averages
$1,800 to $2,000, including the costs of
water supply. Inside toilets, baths,
washstsnds and central heating.
Utility costs are low. Furniture is
included as a cost item because most
of the tenants possess very little of it.
R. A.'s Special Skills Division Is de
signing special furniture for farm
homes.
Livestock and operating equipment
are included in the total cost figures,
and the cost of management is in
cluded as a part of the purchase price
of the farm.
Resettlement argues that the taxa
tion needs of local governmental units
will be reduced by the tenant program
because roads now required in the poor
areas inhabited by the tenants will be
eliminated. To make possible taxation
of the land bought by the Government,
R. A. will pass title to local corpora
tions.
Realty Values to be Raised.
The program will raise local real
estate values and benefit labor, di
rectly through employment for th«
construction of buildings and the de
velopment of farmsteads, and indi
rectly through the use of materials
the production of which supplies
work, the R. A. declares In its annual
report. It also had this to say of the
virtues of the program:
“The increased income which these
resettlement families will have will
directly Increase their buying power,
and will give them more security. The
better living conditions, the greater
supply of diversified products for con
sumption. including preserved products
for Winter use, and the provision for
local health service will materially
improve the stability and morale of
resettlement families. In general, the
opportunities offered will engender
hope and provide relative security as
a basis for the future."
The . Resettlement Administration
would manage the tenancy program
suggested by the committee of 40
whose report the President has before
him as he writes his message.
$9,000 THEFT CHARGED
SAN FRANCISCO. February 13 VPI.
—Charles Harris, 40, cashier of the
Eastman Kodak Co. branch here, was
arrested today on a complaint chart
ing grand theft of $9,000 company
funds. •
A. W. Pye, company manager, said
Harris admitted the peculations over
four years.
An employe of the company 17
years, Harirs talked freely in Jail to
reporters, saying he needed the money
to pose as a "big shot" in the city’s
night life.
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Body of Unity Practitioner
Discovered by Man Whose
Home He Visited.
Special Dlapatch to The Star.
UNITY, Md„ February 13—Dr.
Harry Gilmore Spurrier. 70, tor 48
years a general practitioner of medi
cine in this vicinity, was found dead
alongside the Etchison-Unity road,
a short distance from hs home here,
about 10 o’clock this morning.
The discovery was made by Percy
Price, a farmer of this neighborhood,
whose home Dr. Spurrier visited pro
fessionally late yesterday afternoon.
He was last seen alive when he left
the Price home, about 6 o’clock In the
evening to walk to his home, a mile
away. His death may have been due to
heart attack.
Dr. Spurrier was a ton of the late
Joseph Spurrier of Frederick County.
He Is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Frances Grlfflth Spurrier; a daughter,
Mrs. Vestus J. Willcox of Unity, and
three sisters. Mrs. Gertrude Norwood
of Mount Airy, Md.; Mrs. Walter C.
Cutcheon of Baltimore, and Mrs. W.
W. Wallace of Washington.
The funeral will be held at the
home at 11 o’clock Monday morning,
burial to be in the family burying
ground on the Spurrier farm near
here.
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. Camphor Is Produced.
Collective farms of South Rhodesia
are reported to have produced from
18 to 20 tons of camphor last year.
Trivial Things
That Make
A World
Items of Interest Gath
ered From Europe
and Asia.
E VERY careful when you talk
about somebody's red nose.
The advice comes via the
Associated Press from Vienna
doctors who have studied the matter.
One of their conclusions Is that a
red nose may Indicate unbalanced
hormones and may have nothing to
do with drinking.
There may be other causes—poor
circulation, changes In temperature.
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indulgence.
* * * *
FAULTY MEMORY.
A plea of sleepwalking didn’t pre
vent Rudolph Eugene Wallace. 23, a
London actor, and Igor Raglnaky, 21,
a London psychotherapist, from being
sentenced on a charge of housebreak
ing.
Wallace, arrested with a “jimmy”
in his possession, said he didn't re
member what he went to the house
' for. Raglnsky said: “Wallace's con
ditlon suggested dementia praecox*
He seemed to be living in a world
outside his own world."
* * * *
LARGEST COIN.
What it said to be the world's
largest coin—the Swedish four
daler—has been found and offered
for auction in London. The coin
consists of 7V, pound* of copper. It
measures 10 by 11 inches.
* * * *
HYPNOTIC 8TATUE.
A statue depicting processes o(
hypnotism—so realistic that two per
sons are said to have fallen into a
trance while looking at it—has been
completed at Vienna by Andor Kocsls,
a farmer mason, who was treated
hypnotically tor an illness by a nerve
specialist.
The specialist, Dr. Aladar Vincae.
and the symbolic figure of hypnosis
are shown in the work which Kocsls
said he made under hypnotic influ
ence.
^ m * *
FLAT-FOOTED LEARNING.
To support the contention that "ed
ucation hurts the feet," Debrecen
(Hungary) University professors point
out that 1S5 of 265 students developed
fiat feet during their first Tear there.
* * * *
ADVICE TO NURSEMAIDS.
It ha* been ruled by Justice Me
Naghten in the King'* Bench Di
vision at London that—
"A nursemaid pushing a peram
bulator must not, while discussing
her love affairs, push it against
the legs of an old man in front of
her and knock him."
0**0
FOR EARLY BIRDS.
Early rising may or may not make
residents of the Chinese capital
healthy, but It will help to make
them wealthy .
Placing the proverb about "early
to bed and early to rise” on a paying
basis, the Nanking Motor Bus Co. Is
offering full rides for half fare to
passengers who bestir themselves
early enough to climb aboard the first
bua <5:30 a.m.) of the morning.
* * * *
YACHT.
Portugal’s last royal yacht, origi
nally built for an American mil
lionaire and later used by King
Manuel In his flight from his coun
try when it was proclaimed a re
public, has been consigned to the
breakers.
After King Manuel returned the
yacht it was used as a gunboat and
later as a vessel for hydrographic
studies.
LANDON TARRIES AFTER
SPEECH IN NEW YORK
Flans to See Friends in Jersey
Before Leaving for Home
in Topeka.
Bt the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. February 13.—Former
Gov. Alfred M. Landon of Kansa >
planned to spend tonight with friend;
In New Jersey and to return here to
morrow before leaving Monday after
noon for his home In Topeka.
Mrs. Landon, it was said at the L&n
don Hotel suite, had accepted an in
vitation to attend the theater with
friends. Landon spoke here last night
before the National Republican Club.
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