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'WARDENS WILL PAN
i WICKERSHAM BODY
Baltimore Session October 22
i Set for Answering of
\ Prison Report.
®y the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September 30.—Prison
wardens from 40 States are preparing
to bombard the Wickersham Commis
sion with criticism for its recent attack
on brutality in American penal insti
tutions.
An outlet for their feelings has been
arranged in the form of a special ses
sion October 22 in connection with the
sixty-first annual congress of the Amer
ican Prison Association, which opens in
Baltimore October 19.
At the close of the session a commit
tee—already organized, with Sanford
Bates, superintendent of Federal
prisons, at its head —is to meet to draw
up a formal report summarizing the
group's attitude.
New Yorker to Preside.
Details of the arrangements were
Inade public in New York today by Eas
tward R. Cass, general secretary, of the
’Prison Association of New York, who
has been designated to preside at the
meeting. .
Predicting that "there will be plenty
of fireworks.” Cass said the wardens
will probably center their attack on
what they believe to be a blanket in
dictment contained in the sixth of 23
tonclusions in the Wickersham report.
That conclusion, in part, was as fol
lows: . ,
“We find our present system of penal
discipline to be traditionally unintelli
gent and not infrequently cruel and in
human. Brutal disciplinary measures
•have no justification. They neither re
iform the criminal nor give security to
the prison. We recommend they be for
bidden by law.”
Cass said today the wardens are
planning to object strongly to that and
other parts of the report which they
deem sweeping generalizations unwar
ranted by the facts.
Generalities Resented.
"There is a feeling.” he said, "that
while some of the accusations contained
In the Wickersham report may apply to
certain individual penal institutions
they certainly do not apply to the penal
{nstitutions of the United States gen
rally.” . .
Cass said in addition to Bates and
tlmself the committee which will draw
p the wardens’ report on the Wicker
nam findings will include William J.
Ills, head of the Department of In
stitutions and Agencies of New Jersey:
Dr Mary B. Harris, superintendent of
the Federal Industrial Institution for
Women at Alderson, W. Va.. and
Warden Oscar Lee of the Wisconsin
State Prison at Waupun, Wiz.
CHICAGO THREATENED
' WITH SCHOOL CLOSING
Board Warns Classes May Discon
tinue if Teachers Cannot Tako
j Script During Money Shortage.
®y the Associated Pres*.
v CHICAGO, September *o. Chicago
Was served notice Monday by counsel
for the Board of Education that its
schools would be closed if the board
were restrained from paying employes
with scrip instead of cash.
The restraining order was sought be
fore Judge Phillip Finnegan by Miss
Mary Abbe, president of the Chicago
Teachers’ Federation, and David Ros
enheim, a taxpayer. The teachers have
not been paid with cash for months, due
to the depleted condition of the city
treasury.
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MONTGOMERY JAIL
SITE TRADE SEEN
County to Get Right of Way
for Street in Exchange
for Fair Price.
By a Staff Correspondent of The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md., September 30.
Acting to place a value on property
where the present county jail is loca
ted, the Board of County Commis
sioners yesterday began negotiations
which are expected to result in dedi
cation to the county of two rights-of
way, one to be used as a new arterial
street and the second to convey drain
age pipes from the court house prop- j
erty.
The Jail property consists of about
three-fourths of an acre. The old Jail
will be abandoned soon and prisoners
transferred to the new jail on the top
floor of the new court house.
Commissioners are seeking rights-of
way through the estate of the late
Judge Edward C. Peter which sur
rounds the old jail site, and heirs of
the estate have indicated that they
would be willing to dedicate the neces
sary land if they are allowed to pur
chase the jail site at a satisfactory
price.
Mayor J. Roger Spates of Rockville
was named by the commissioners yes
terday to appraise the jail site and
suggest a price to the county.
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Paul Block, Publisher, £nd Mis
Wife Entertained by Hoovers
President and Mrs. Hoover last night
entertained as their guests at the White
House Paul Block, newspaper publisher,
and Mrs. Block. The Blocks arrived
In the Capital from New York last
night.
THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. D- 0.. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 30. 1931.
JOBLESS AID SEEN
IN SHORTER HOURS
Hoover Subcommittee Asks
Distribution of Work to
More Men.
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, September 30.—A sub
committee of President Hoover's Unem
ployment Commission has proposed that
all available work be equitably distrib
uted among those normally employed
in each unit of various Industries so
that America may progress in the
President’s "war against this depres
sion.”
The committee, considering hundreds
of suggestions to supply jobs instead
of charity to the Nation’s unemployed,
issued its statement last night at the
end of a two-day session. In addition
to the equitable distribution of work,
it suggested that careful consideration
of public works programs be secured
as soon as possible.
Confers With Gifford.
The report, released by Chairman
Harry A. Wheeler, Chicago banker,
after a long-distance telephone con
sultation with Walter S. Gifford, head
of the parent body, was addressed to
the President’s Commission and other
subcommittees.
“In its first recommendations,” the
report read, “the Committee on Em
ployment Plans and Suggestions recog
nized that it is not at this point deal
ing with those fundamental and perma
nent factors in industrial stability
which can only result from continu
ing study and analyses of all the com
plex conditions under which industrial
operation must be conducted.”
After declaring that "public opinion
will support the employers and employes
In every effort they put forth to dis
tribute the amount of work in both pub
lic and private as equitably as possible,”
the report said that it was the duty
of those employed to assist those who
are out of work by adjusting their work
ing time.
Appeal to Patriotism.
"We deem it a patriotic duty,” the re
port said, "on the part of managements
and employes to meet this crisis in a
fearless manner.
"The demand upon the Committee on
Employment Plans and Suggestions is
for work rather than charity, and, there
fore, this committee respectfully sug
gests to the Committee on Administra
tion of Relief: That communities in
meeting needs growing out of unemploy
ment be urged to give serious consid
eration to carefully planned and admin
istered relief work programs.”
The committee urged that every effort
should be expended to stimulate con
sideration of public works, to be con
structed "at the fair going wage of
the community,” and which would im
mediately furnish employment to its
needy citizens.
STUDENT PILOT DIES
IN MIDAIR COLLISION
Both Flyers Make Parachute
Jump at Low Altitude.
Second Injured.
By the Associated Press.
CAMP BORDEN, Ontario, September
30. —Q. J. Hitchen of Winnipeg, a stu
dent commercial pilot, was killed here
Monday as his plane collided with an
other in midair at low altitude.
Hitchen, a qualified pilot, was taking
a course in aerial navigation. His plane
crashed Into one piloted by F. B. Bris
coe, Chatham, Ontario, who also holds
a commercial pilot’s certificate.
Both men Jumped with their para
chutes, but the Winnipeg flyer was too
near the ground and the impact caused
almost immediate'death. His parachute
opened only partly.
Briscoe was slightly Injured. Hitchen
was 24 years old.
Building Collapse Injures Many
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I the roof and rear wall of a tenement house being rnovated, at Second
I avenue and Thirteenth street, collapsed. Workmen had Just started
| their day’s work on the site when the collapse occurred. Two of the
men were injured seriously. Photograph shows the floors of the build
ing afterward. —A. P. Photo.
CHANGE IN DUCK
SEASON PROPOSED
Virginia Urges System of Three
Closed Days Weekly Until
January 15.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
RICHMOND, Va„ September 30.—A
more liberal wild duck and geese season
for Virginia will be asked of the United
States Bureau of Biological Survey Fri
day, when Maj. A. Willis Robertson,
chairman of the State Commission of
Game and Inland Fisheries, will appear
before the Federal body In Washington.
Under President Hoover’s proclama
tion the season for shooting duck and
geese in Virginia and neighboring
States has been reduced to 30 days,
from November'ls to December 15. The
season In Virginia heretofore has been
from November 1 to January 31. The
' State, through Gdv. Pollard, asks that
the new regulation be modified and
‘ that Virginia be given a 10-week sea
. son, beginning November 1 and ending
January 15, with three "closed” days
' each week.
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Union Veteran Buried.
> BHINNSTON, W. Va., September 30
[ (Special).—Services were held yester
r day afternoon for Albert L. 'Barnes, BJ,
Clay district farmer and Union veteran,
i Interment was In the Shlnnston Ma
sonic Cemetery.
EX-SENATOR IS FOUND
TO HAVE LEFT NO WILL
Widow of Eugene Jones, Kensing
ton, and Son Appointed Ad
ministrators.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md„ September SO.—
Former State Senator Eugene Jones of
Kensington, whose death occurred last
week, died intestate, It was disclosed
In the Orphans’ Court here yesterday
afternoon, when his widow, Mrs. Clara
B. Jones, and son and only child,
Charles C. Jones, made application for
letters of administration on the estate.
The letters were granted and the
widow and son thereby became Joint
administrators and filed a bond of
$5,000.
The value of Dr. Jones’ estate was
not mad* known, but is understood
to be substantial.
Church Benefit Planned.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
VIRGINIA HIGHLANDS, Va., Sep
tember 30. —On Friday afternoon there
will be a silver tea at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Harry Wilson, Virginia High
lands, for the benefit of the building
fund of the Mount Vernon Baptist
Church. A number of political candi
dates have announced their intention
cl attending.
PANGBORN DELAYS
TRANSPACIFIC HOP
He and Herndon to Take Off
Tomorrow on Record-
Breaking Flight.
By the Associated Press.
SAMUSHIRO, Japan, September 30.
—Bad weather in the Aleutian Islands
today caused Clyde Pangborn and Hugh
Hemdon, Jr., American flyers, to post
pone until tomorrow their take-off here
on a projected non-stop flight to the
United States.
Their primary aim is to be the first
to cross the Pacific In an airplane with
out a stop. Secondarily they will seek
a record for distance In a single hop.
Pangborn and Herndon figure if they
can get as far as Salt Lake City with
out an Intermediate landing they
would break the distance record of
Bussell Boardman and John Polando,
who covered 5,011 miles In flying from
New York to Istanbul, Turkey, last
July.
The Americans are confident, even
having dreams of the possibility of
their gasoline holding out long enough
for them to reach Dallas, Tex.
In addition they are after the $25,000
offered by the Tokio newspaper Asahl
for the first non-stop fight across the
Pacific.
Pangborn and Herndon said the ca
pacity of their plane was about 900 gal
lons of gasoline, which would enable
them to remain aloft 45 hours and
cover 5,400 miles under ordinary con
ditions.
The flyers, however, pin their great
est hopes on the possibility of high-alti
tude speed flying after some 12 or 15
hours of low altitude progress while
their fuel load is being lightened. Once
the load Is sufficiently reduced they
said they would figure on climbing to
the 15,000 or 20,000 foot level in search
of prevailing westerly winds which
would make possible a flying speed of
150 miles an hour.
Pangborn and Herndon will carry no
rabbit’s foot, radio equipment, pneumatic
life belts or collapsible rubber boats.
30 AGENTS IN CHICAGO
TO PROBE ALIEN RING
, Garsson. Directs Drive Against
Nation-Wide Smuggling
System.
Br the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, September 30.—Murray
W. Garsson, special Assistant Secretary
of Labor; W. F. Watkins, chief field
supervisor of the Labor Department,
and 30 agents established headquarters
In Chicago yesterday to continue an
investigation of a Nation-wide alien
smuggling ring.
The inquiry was started In New
York, where the headquarters of the
gang were believed to be, but Garsson
said the ramification of the ring ex
tended all over the country. Several
indictments have been returned and
others are expected as the result of the
Eastern Investigation.
FIREMAN DIES IN WRECK
KANKAKEE, 111., September 30 (Ab-
The engine and mail car of a fast Cin
clnnati-Chicago passenger train on the
Big Four Railroad were derailed at a
Kankakee crossing today and hurled into
a ditch. Fireman Carrigan of Chicago
• was killed, but Engineer Sam Cahill of
i Chicago was thrown clear of the wreck -
. age and suffered only minor bruises.
■ None of the passengers was injured.
[ Cahill said the signal block,, coft
b trolling the automatic derail at the Big
- Four-Ulinois Central crossing, was
i thrown against him before he could stop
bis train.
Visiting Governor
Uses Lunch Wagon
For Noonday Meal
Arthur Seligman of New
Mexico Merely Drops
in for Day’s Special.
Br the Associated Pres*.
PHILADELPHIA, September 80.—
Gov, Arthur Seligman of New Mexico
ate a plate of beans and drank coffee
yesterday seated on a stool In a lunch
wagon. His fellow diners were clerks
and merchants of a South Philadelphia (
area.
Gov. Seligman, who Is visiting his
sister, Mrs. Eva S. Cohen, was near ;
the lunch wagon at noon and dropped
In to eat the plate special of the day.
He told questioners unemployment in
his State “Is well in hand and can be j
handled locally.”
Os prohibition he said, “In New
Mexico we’re too busy living to worry
much about It.”
SPEED FLYER GOES
415 MILES AN HOUR
Lieut. G. H. Stainforth 9ets
New World Record in
England.
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, September 30.—A new
world speed recod of 415 miles an
hour today stamped Flight Lieut. O. H.
Stainforth as the fastest man on wings.
He topped his previous mark of 388.67
miles an hour on the second of four
laps over a 3-kilometer (l’i miles)
course at Calshot yesterday. His average
was 408.8 miles an hour, as compared
with I,he figure of 379.05 made during
the Schneider Cup races.
The judges officially announced his
time for the four laps as calculated by
an electric camera as 415.2, 405.1, 409.5
and 405.4. His machine was an S6B
seaplane, driven by an especially-built
Rolls-Royce engine described as the
most powerful ever built.
Although the weather was considered
only barely safe, Lieut. Btainforth took
off over the Solent easily and was soon
buried in the mist. He made the turns
with dexterity and continued around
the course with the outlines of his plane
’ hardly visible. He landed at 100 miles
an hour while the spectators gasped.
“I believe I have broken the record,”
he said quietly as he joined his wife.
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Maryland Park Athletic Coach
Believed in Line for
SBOO,OOO.
By a Staff Correspondent of The Star.
MARYLAND PARK, Md., September
30. Robert Wilson, mathematics
i teacher and athletic coach at the Mary
| land Park High School, may be one of
| the beneficiaries of a large New York
estate now In process of settlement, it
I was learned today.
Although the amount which Mr. Wil
j son and his baby daughter, who Is also
believed to be a beneficiary, are expected
to receive has not been determined, it
is reported to be between $500,000 and
SBOO,OOO.
The property Involved is known as
the Buchanan estate and originally be
longed to President Buchanan and his
brother, according to information ob
tained here. It is said to consist of
land In downtown New York on which
skyscrapers now stand. According to
the story circulated here, there was a
99-year lease on the property which
has now expired, making a settlement
possible.
The estate is said to be worth several
hundred million dollars and will be dis
tributed among more than 1,000 heirs.
Other than to declare the whole thing
seems unbelievable, Mr. Wilson de
clined to discuss the matter which has
set all Maryland Park agog. The de
tails he described as “Inconceivable,”
and added they could not bo disclosed
until an actual settlement is made.
Although it is known Mr. Wilson has
been in constant communication with
the attorneys who are settling the estate
for the past few weeks, his whole atti
tude toward the prospective wealth is
that the story is “too good to be true,”
according to his neighbors. It Is said
he has been advised a settlement will
be made within the next 10 or 15 days,
but still Is apprehensive of a last-min
ute “sllp-up,” which makes him reticent.
According to his friends, Mr. Wilson
has announced he will continue to teach
at the high school If he receives the
inheritance. His wife, Mrs. Dora B.
Wilson, Is also a member of the Mary
land Park faculty.
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