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Many Are Out of Town While
Others Use Absentee
Ballot.
By the Associated Press.
* A large cabinet contingent, follow
ing the lead of President and Mrs.
Roosevelt, were “back home" today to
vote in person, leaving “Acting Sec
retaries” in their places.
Other cabinet members—and all
the wives, save one—are exercising
their right of franchise by “absentee
- ballot." Secretary Wallace filed his
In person ir. Iowa 10 days ago.
The woman without a vote was Mrs.
^ Roper, wife of the Secretary of Com
^ merce. She never did win suffrage.
For the Ropers have lived in the vote
less District of Columbia 35 years, and
while Roper kept his “voting resi
dence” at Bennetsville, S. C„ Mrs.
Roper would have to go back there
and live for six months to get hers.
Members Out of Town.
The cabinet members and their
wives who went personally to add just
one more tally to some precinct box
Were:
Secretary Morgenthau and Mrs.
Morgenthau, who are voting at their
home at Hopewell Junction, Dutchess
County, N. Y., the President's home
county. Treasury affairs were left In
the charge of Thomas Jefferson Cool
idge, Undersecretary.
Postmaster General Farley joined
- Mrs. Farley in New York. W. W.
Howes, First Assistant Postmaster
General, is acting in his s):ad.
Secretary Frances Perkins left As
sistant Secretary Edward F. McGrady
in charge of the Labor Department
when she went to vote in New York.
In the State Department, William
Phillips took the place of Secretary
Hull, who with Mrs. Hull is in Ashe
ville, N. C. The Secretary is recov
ering from a slight illness. He and
Mrs. Hull voted in Tennessee by ab
sentee ballot. Phillips, whose home is
Massachusetts, did not vote.
Dern Votes by Mail.
Secretary Dern, in Alabama today,
voted by mail in Utah. Assistant Sec
retary of War Woodring has gone to
* his home town, Neodesha, Kans., to
vote, leaving Gen. Douglas MacArthur,
chief of staff, in command of the War
Department.
Attorney General and Mrs. Cum
£ mings voted by mail in Greenwich,
Conn. The head of the Navy, Mr.
Swanson, and Mrs. Swanson voted by
mail in Roanoke, Va.
Secretary Ickes, like Secretary Wal
lace, personally cast his absentee bal
' lot. leaving his choice of candidates
behind when he was in Chicago a
week ago. Mrs. Wallace mailed her
vote to Des Moines; Mrs. Ickes, who
used to be a Republican member of
the Illinois Legislature, mailed hers
to Chicago.
Vice President Garner and Mrs.
Garner were unique among the high
ranking group, being already at home
and handy to their polling place in
Uvalde, Tex.
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, U. S. GIRL FACES
NAZI SPY PENALTY;
IN JAIL 88 DAYS
(Continued From First Page.)
she may be charged with ‘‘divulging
state secrets"—meaning giving mili
tary information and "preparations
for high treason"—meaning Commu
nist activities.
To her friends she gave the impres
sion of having an excellent connection
with the ministry of the interior and
, the Steel Helmets, the war veterans’
organization. She also claimed to be
a correspondent of the magazine Time
_ of New York. (Note: This was later
• denied by Time in New York.)
"FAIR TREATMENT” PLEDGED.
Ambassador Reassures State Depart
ment on Arrests.
By the Associated Press.
A promise that two Americans held
in Germany for several months with
out charges would be "given exactly
as fair treatment as if they were Ger
man citizens’’ was made today by
Ambassador Hans Luther of Germany.
He gave this assurance following a [
call at the State Department to re
view the matter with Acting Secretary
Phillips.
The State Department was disclosed
yesterday as having proceeded actively
to clarify the status of the two citi
zens, Isabel Lillian Steele of Los An
geles, and Richard Roiderer of Chi
cago. both jailed last Summer for
* suspected espionage.
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SAAR COMMISSION
CONVENES IN ROME
French and German Experts Are
in Attendance—Use of Troops
Discussed.
By the Associated Press.
‘ ROME. November 6.—The Saar Ter
ritory Commission of the League of
Nations met here today under the
presidency of Baron Pompeo Aloisi,
^ Italy's delegate to the League of Na
tions, with French and German ex
perts in attendance.
It was understood the commissioners
discussed the use of French troops as
, police in case of trouble during or
after the plebiscite in the territory in
January.
JOSEPH HAINEN ESTATE
IS VALUED AT $250,000
Joseph Hainen, who died here Oc
tober 17, left an estate valued at
$250,000, according to a petition filed
with the register of wills for adminis
tration of the estate.
The petition listed his personal prop
erty as worth $236,852 and stated he
owned real estate in North Carolina,
the value of which was not known.
Appointment of E. C. Sasser of Wash
ington, Anne Hainen of Edgemere,
Long Island, and the National Metro
politan Bank as administrators was
recommended in the petition, filed
through R. P. Hollingsworth, trust of
ficer of the bank.
Mr. Hainen, who left no will, is sur
vived by two brothers and three sisters.
They are Anrie Hainen, Samuel R.
^. Hainen and Alice L. Reynolds, all of
> Edgemere; Ethel G. Jenkins of Mead
ville, Pa., and Joseph Hainen of Ohio.
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Casting Absentee Ballots
Scene at the young Democratic Club absentee voteers' headquarters at the Willard Hotel today when out-of
town residents were preparing their ballots. Miss Margaret Hickey, in center, secretary of the General Campaign
Committee, receiving ballots to be mailed. —Star Staff Photo.
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Key Contests Closely Watched
.4s Millions March to Polls
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for Governor by Upton Sinclair, Dem
ocrat: Frank F. Merriam, Republican,
and Raymond L. Haight. Progressive,
drew the attention o£ the Nation.
Warns of Fascism.
In last-minute statements Sinclair
warned of the danger of civil war.
Fascism "and ultimately bolshevism”
unless "Democracy can find a way” to
build a new economic system. Mer
riam lashed out at "the impractical
and visionary” who "would experi
ment at a time when experimenta
tion cannot be permitted.” Haight,
declared his program offered a “job'
to every person in California ”
Amid charges and counter-charges
Senate Campaign Committee investi
gators were sent into Pennsylvania
and Delaware to watch voting in the
Reed-Guffey and Townsend-Adams
senatorial contests.
Roosevelt Votes.
The Nation saw President Roosevelt
take the lead in casting his ballot in
his home town, Hyde Park, N. Y.
For the first time in the campaign,
former President Hoover also appeared
in the political picture. “The coun
try needs a live and virile Republican
party more than ever,” he said in a
letter to the Republican Club of Sum
mit, N. J.
“In these days when liberty Is en
dangered.” he wrote, the country
"needs an adequate opposition in the
Congress if our institutions are to i
ciipviro ft i
Voting began as early as 6 a.m. in
the Eastern States and will continue
until 11 p.m. Eastern standard time,
in California and other West Coast
States.
A total of 274 high State offices are
on the election block in addition to
the governorships.
Seven States are voting on prohibi
tion repeal, including Kansas, where
a dry constitutional amendment has
been in effect half a century. Florida,
South Dakota, Idaho, West Virginia,
Wyoming and Nebraska also are de
ciding about repeal. Massachusetts
and California are passing on local
option liquor control. Altogether a
score of States are acting on 60 char
ter changes.
“Roosevelt Tide Strong.’*
In predicting that the Republicans
would be reduced to the smallest rep
resentation in Congress since the
Civil War, Chairman Farley said, “A
Roosevelt tide is running full in this
country that will not be denied.”
Democratic headquarters were look
ing confidently toward Senate gains
in Ohio, Maryland, New Jersey, West
Virginia, Missouri and Indiana.
While Fletcher asserted Republicans
would hold their present Senate
strength of 35 seats, Democrats fo
cused their attacks on such G. O. P.
strongholds as Pennsylvania, Ver
mont, Rhode Island, Connecticut and
Michigan in a drive to riddle the
opposing party as a prelude to the
1936 presidential campaign.
The results of the sensational race
Sinclair, former Socialist, has run for
governorship of California on the
Democratic ticket, and that of Sen
ator David A. Reed. Old Guard Penn
sylvania Republican, opposed by
Joseph F. Guffey, Democrat, were
awaited anxiously by the President's
political advisers.
Reed of Pennsylvania has been a
severe critic of the New Deal in
all its phases and frequently has been
mentioned as Roosevelt’s likely op
ponent in the 1936 presidential race.
Olson's Race Watched.
The Democratic high command
also awaited anxiously the outcome
of Floyd B. Olson’s Farmer-Labor
campaign for Governor of Minnesota
against Martin A. Nelson, Republican,
and John E. Regan, Democrat.
Despite the confident predictions of
Democrats, Republicans caused them
to redouble their efforts in Wyoming,
Nevada and Montana. The Demo
cratic organization not only sent
speakers into those States to help
their candidates, but otherwise aided
them.
Senator Joseph O’Mahoney, Demo
crat, was hard fought by Repre
sentative Vincent Carter, Republic
an, in Wyoming; Senator Burton
Wheeler, Democrat, of Montana faced
former Federal Judge George O.
Bourquin, Republican, and Senator
Key Pittman, Democrat, of Nevada,
president pro tempore of the Senate,
battled George W. Malone, Repub
lican.
New York Fight Watched.
Next to the Sinclair-Merriam
Haight contest in California, the fight
between Gov. Herbert H. Lehman,
Democrat who succeeded President
Roosevelt In New York, and Robert
Moses, Republican, has been of para
mount importance to the administra
tioa
President Roosevelt made a per
sonal appeal tor Lehman's election
and Chairman Farley declared that
the Democratic slate would be elected.
James Roosevelt, son of the Presi
dent, threw his support behind James
M. Curley, former mayor of Boston,
in his encounter with Gaspar G.
Bacon, Republican, for the governor
ship of Massachusetts. Gov. Joseph
B. Ely, Democrat, kept silent on Cur
ley, who defeated the organization
candidate for the nomination.
Mrs. William Langer, seeking to:
succeed her deposed Republican hus
band as Governor in North Dakota, |
drew national interest on a "vindica
tion” platform. Her opponent was
Thomas H. Moodie, Democrat.
Republican Claims.
Republicans claimed chances to win j
governorships in New Jersey, Iowa, i
Connecticut, Nebraska, Idaho, Wyom- j
ing and Ohio. In addition, they said, !
they would retain G. O. P. administra- j
tions in California, Kansas, Nevada, j
New Hampshire. North Dakota, Ore- |
gon, Pennsylvania and Vermont.
The campaign was enlivened by j
many unusual developments. Mrs. 1
Franklin D. Roosevelt, wife of the !
President, took the stump for her
friend, Mrs. Caroline O'Day, New York
Democratic candidate for Congress
man-at-large. As a result, the vote
of her daughter, Mrs. Curtis Dali, who
established residence in Nevada to
obtain a divorce, was challenged by
Miss Natalie Couch, Republican oppo
nent of Mrs. O'Day.
In Rhode Island, where Peter G.
Gerry, Democrat, and Senator Felix
Hebert, Republican, battled for the
Senate seat, a Democratic campaigner
was accused of applying the term
“skunk hunters" to small town folk.
Whereupon the opposition used that
episode in an attempt to align the
small-towners against the Democrats.
Fess Fight Clear Cut.
A clear cut fight was made against
the ’ New Deal ’ by veteran Senator
Fess of Ohio, long a G. O. P. leader, 1
who bucked Vic Donahey, former
Democratic Governor.
Both Democrats and Republicans
claimed victory in the hard-fought
battle between Senator Arthur R.
Robinson, Republican critic of the
New Deal, and Sherman Minton.
Democratic candidate favored by Gov.
McNutt of Indiana.
In Wisconsin, the outcome of the
three-cornered gubernatorial race of
Philip P. La Follette. progressive; A.
G. Schmedeman, Democratic Gover
nor, and Toward T. Greene, Repub
lican, expected to go a long way to
ward determining whether the new
third party movement would survive.
With Senator La Follette possessing j
the tacit approval of the administra
tion over John B. Callahan, Demo
cratic senatorial nominee, there was a
possibility the new' party would become ;
a factor in 1936. La Follette's Repub
lican foe was John B. Chappie.
Hatfield Claims Victory.
An old guarder. Senator Hatfield,
running for re-election in West Vir- \
ginia on his Republican record, and
the young liberal, Rush D. Holt, Dem- j
ocrat, both claimed victory as the cam
paign closed. Holt is 29 years old,
younger than the constitutional age
limit for Senators.
Republicans in the Middlewest said
they will make gain in the House by
capturing five House seats in Missouri,
Kansas and Oklahoma, but this was
disputed by Democrats. The Demo
crats said Judge Harry S. Truman
would defeat Senator Roscoe Patter
son. Republican, in Missouri.
Other tight senatorial contests with
the results in doubt were between Sen
ator Arthur H. Vandenberg, Repub
lican, and Frank A. Picard, Democrat,
in Michigan; Senator Frederic Wal
cott, Republican, and Representaftve
Francis T. Maloney, Democrat, Con
necticut; Senator Warren R. Austin,
Republican, and Fred C. Martin, Dem
ocrat, Vermont, and Robert G. Sim
mons, Republican, and Edward R.
Burke, Democrat, Nebraska.
vvaisn victory been.
Democrats predicted that Gov. A.
Harry Moore of New Jersey, Democrat,
would defeat the veteran Senator
Hamilton F, Kean, Republican, and
that Senators Walsh in Massachusetts
and Copeland in New York would
turn back their Republican opponents.
Candidates for the Senate assured
of election included Senator Johnson
of California, who received both the
Democratic and Republican nomina
tions; Senators Byrd of Virginia,
Connally of Texas and Trammel of
Florida, all Democrats.
Governorship candidates certain of
victory included Bibb Graves of Ala
bama, J. M. Futrell of Arkansas, Eu
gene Talmadge of Georgia, Olin D.
Johnston of South Carolina and James
V. Allred of Texas, all Democrats.
Sixty-one Democrats and five Re
publicans had no opposition for House
seats.
SENATE IS CALLED
Special Session in Argentine Or
dered in Packing Inquiry.
BUENOS AIRES, November 6 (£’).—
A special meeting of the Argentine
Senate was called today for November
16 to consider the refusal of meat
packing companies, including North
American and British concerns, to
show their books to accountants of the
Senate Investigating Committee.
The committee requested a special
session of the Senate after hearing
their accountants' report on the pack
ers’ refusal*.
HEAVY VOTE BEGINS
EARLY IN MONTGOMERY
AND PRINCE GEORGES
(•Continued From First Page.)
affairs that has been going on for
months before the public, a trial
marked by continuous motions for a
new deal on the part of the Fusionists
and equally continuous motions for
exceptions to the Fusionists's remarks
by the administration.
Both Prince Georges County parties
delivered their concluding arguments
before colored audiences last night, the
Republicans at North Brentwood and
the Democrats at Lakeland.
Hardly had the oratorical outbursts
ceased before party workers turned
their energies to getting out the vote.
A continuous line of men and women
passed through the ballot booths this
morning and before the polls close it
is expected a record vote will be cast.
The vote cast in Montgomery was
so heavy during the morning hours
that election officials predicted that it
would establish a new county record—
surpassing even that of the 20.061 bal
lots cast in the 1930 presidential race
between President Roosevelt and Her
bert Hoover.
Democratic voters were more numer
ous than Republicans during the open
ing hour at the polls in suburban !
Prince Georges County.
In addition to selecting complete I
slates of county officials, the electorate '
of Montgomery and Prince Georges j
will figure in State and congressional
contests, the selection of Circuit Court
judges and vote on two constitutional
amendments.
Altogether there are 70 names on
the Montgomery ballot and 63 on the
ballot in Prince Georges.
Gov. Ritchie’s supporters are count
ing on Prince Georges and the other
Southern Maryland Counties to give
him majorities large enough to over
come anticipated Republican leads in
Western Maryland and on the East
ern Shore.
Figures Point to Ritchie.
Having given the Governor a ma
jority of 981 votes in 1930, and nearly
doubled its registered Democratic ma
jority since then, Prince Georges is
counted definitely in the Ritchie col
umn this year. County Democratic
leaders predict it will go for the Gov
ernor by at least 2,500, while the Re
publicans admit privately that Ritchie
will carry the county by at least 1,000.
Montgomery County is very mucn
in the doubtful column as far as
Ritchie is concerned. The Governor
nncoH out TD i ~ il_
1930 by a scant 220 votes. Harry W.
Nice, Republican gubernatorial can
didate this year, campaigned strenu
ously through Montgomery.
George L. RadcliSe, personal friend
of President Roosevelt, who is run
ning for the Senate on the Democratic
ticket as an ardent advocate of the
New Deal, is expected to carry both
counties over Joseph I. France, Re
publican senatorial candidate.
Montgomery County will partici
pate in the sixth district congressional
race involving Representative David
J. Lewis, Democratic incumbent, and
former Representative Frederick N.
Zihlman, Republican, while in Prince
Georges the congressional contest
concerns Representative Stephen W.
Gambrill, Democrat, running for re
election, and Joseph Wilmer, Re
publican.
Mitchell Unopposed.
Charles W. Woodward, Democrat,
and F. Barnard Welsh, Republican,
are the candidates for associate judge
of the sixth judicial circuit in Mont
gomery County. Prince Georges and
the other Southern Maryland coun
ties will go through the formality of
electing Walter J. Mitchell chief judge
of the seventh judicial circuit.
Mitchell is a Democrat and has no
Republican opponent.
One of the constitutional amend
ments before the voters would in
crease the jJky of members of the
General Assembly from $5 to *10 a
day, and limit the time for retiring
tiond issues of Baltimore City.
Election day being a legal holiday
In Maryland, ail schools, banks and
public offices were closed as the public
concentrated on politics.
The official count In Montgomery
will begin in the office of the board
Df election supervisors, in Rockville,
at 12 o’clock on Thursday. It was
announced by the supervisors this
morning that they had designated
Republican judges as the group to
return the ballot boxes this year, while
the Democratic judges would be
charged with the duty of returning
the keys to the boxes.
WORKS OF COMMUNITY
CHEST ARE PRAISED
The accomplishments and efficiency
of the Community Chest were praised
last night by speakers at the twenty
flfth anniversary celebration of the
Hebrew Free Loan Association at the
Jewish Community Center.
Those who addressed the meeting
Included Leonard W. DeGast, general
secretary of the Y. M. C. A.; Charles
Rapaport, president of the Free Loan
Association; Morris Reichgut, secre
tary; Isadore Hirshfleld, Mrs. Charles
A. Goldsmith, Paul Himmelfarb, vice
president of the association; Morris
Garflnckle, treasurer; Rev. M. Gold
man, corresponding secretary; Harry
Hites and Rabbi George Silverstone.
Bernard Danzansky acted as toast
master.
A
Trade for Nine Months Is
$1,561,365,597—Exports
to Cuba Mounting.
By the Associated Press.
The United States has sold and
bought many more hundreds of mil
lions of dollars worth of goods during
the first three-quarters of the year
than it did in the same period last
year.
For the nine months, figures made
public yesterday disclosed that ex
ports at the end of September totaled
$1,561,365,597, compared with $1,
105.030,155 for the first nine months
last year. In the same period the
United States imported $1,241,732,242
this year and $1,036,632,489 last.
Experts pointed out that trade with
South American countries, both Im
ports and exports, had increased dur
ing September. They singled out
Cuba, which recently negotiated a
tariff treaty with this country, as an
Illustration. Exports to Cuba jumped
from $1,900,000 last September to $4,
380.000 this. Imports from Cuba were
$6,762,000 In September, 1933. and
$7,439,000 in that month of this year.
Tariff Favoritism Proposed.
In hearings held yesterday point
ing toward formation of similar
treaties with other countries, Thomas
W. Page, chairman of the Commit
tee for Reciprocal Tariff Informa
tion, proposed that tariff favoritism
be accorded countries which lead in
supplying any given article to the
United States.
Page was testifying in connection
with a treaty that is being contem
plated between this country and
Sweden. Newsprint manufacturers
asked that the present arrangements
with Sweden affecting that article not
be changed.
Testimony also was presented that
Swedish. Japanese and Russian
matchmakers were working together
in an attempt to take over the Amer
ican match market. Ned G. Beagle
of an American concern, said the
foreign match manufacturers were
withholding shipments to create the
impression they were not serious com
petitors and obtain a favorable tariff.
Swedish Exports Leap.
Commerce Department figures for
trade with Sweden showed a jump
in exports to that country from $1.
945,000 in September last year to
$3,295,000 In the 1934 month. Ex
ports to Sweden more than doubled
during the last nine months, the com
parative figures for the first nine
months of last year and this showing
S11.065.00G and S22.966.000. Imports
from Sweden showed a decrease from
September of last year to the same
month of this year—$3,539,000 and
$2,741,000. There was a slight in
crease for the nine-month period,
however.
The largest increase in exports to
any individual country during Sep
tember was to the United Kingdom,
$40,119,254 and $28,474,201. United
Kingdom imports dropped from $12,
093,455 to $9,838,405.
ADVERTISING MEN MEET
The Advertising Club of Washing
ton held a luncheon today at the
Press Club with W. N. Freeman, man
ager of the Washington Shopping
News, as guest speaker.
The subject of his talk was "Behind
the Scenes;—or Selling an Advertising
Medium to the Public.”
CRIME COMMITTEE
MEETS THIS WEEK
FOR START OF WAR
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preponderance of persons long iden
tified with the District and its inter
ests as a community.
F. Regis Noel, a member of both the
Original Committee and the Perma
nent Committee, said today that the
names of about 200 persons were
considered before the nominations
were made, of which 62 were from
one organization alone. The Per
manent Committee will set up head
quarters, organize, and split its work
among subcommittees. First, he said,
it would seek to secure the backing of
all Important civic bodies of the work
of the committee, so that all citizenry
interested in combatting crime could
present a united front on the ques
tion.
The Nominating Committee still
has two committees to appoint. This
will be done at a meeting at 5 o’clock
p.m. next Monday. The additional
committees will deal specifically with
problems of police procedure and
court procedure In criminal cases.
Mr. Noel pointed to the interest
taken in the work of the committee
of 40. He said the attendance at
yesterday's meeting was 37 and at
the meeting a week ago, 34. The
subcommittee of five held six meet
ings last week, some of them three
and a half hours long.
Five citizens’ associations at meet
ings last night approved the proposal
af the Federations of Citizens’ As
sociations that vigilante committees
be appointed to co-operate with the
police in stamping out crime. One
association, Sixteenth Street High
lands. decided without a vote that
the present police work was adequate
and a vigilantes committee unde
sirable.* The associations which up
held the proposal were the George
town Progressives, Kenilworth, Du
pont Circle, Takoma and Forest Hills.
Meanwhile the case of Allen Wil
son, newspaper route agent, whose
gang murder two weeks ago was the
spark that touched off the present
Intense civic anti-crime activity, ap
peared still far from solution. Police
have tapped the telephone into the
home of "Mickey” McDonald, in
Montgomery County, Md„ but what
they learned has not been revealed.
Wilson was shot and killed as he was
making a delivery to McDonald’s
home, apparently by thugs who mis
took him for McDonald.
Citizens’ Committee on Crime
r---n-—r-1 ——:—n
Upper, left to right: Paul B. Cromelln, Mrs. Merritt O. Chance and
James G. Yaden.
Center, left to right: Claude W. Owen, Arthur C. Smith and Seth W.
Richardson.
Lower, left to right: F. Regis Noel, George W. Beasley and Arnold
B. Ball. -Harris-Ewing and Underwood Photos.
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Street Believes Parole Laivs
To Be Fundamentally Sound
This is the filth of a series of
articles dealing with the District’s
indeterminate sentence and parole
laws which have been subjected to
criticism in connection with the
anti-crime crusade.
Elwood Street, director of public
welfare, is confident the District's
comparatively new indeterminate sen
tence and parole laws are funda
mentally sound, although he believes
their effectiveness could be increased
through an improvement in adminis
tration.
Lack of equipment and proper per
sonnel—highly trained experts in
sociology, and psychiatrists—according
to Street, is chiefly responsible for
the existing deficiencies.
Street, however, thinks there is
room for improvement in the law it
self. and the first change he sug
gested is to bring it in harmony with
Federal laws. That modification
alone, he pointed out, would remove
many difficulties which now confront
District penal officials.
Declared Important Feature.
“The parole and probation system,”
said Mr. Street, “constitutes an im
portant feature of the penal and cor
rection system. The purpose of the
penal system is twofold: First, to
protect society from people who are
menaces to it; and, second, to treat
an offender in such a way that he
will not again commit the offense for
which he has been convicted. ,
“It is clear that many people who
ought to be incarcerated because of
defects in personality and early train
ing and experience indicate they can
not safely be left at large. I mean
by this, the habitual criminal.
"On the other hand, it is of interest
to society to follow as far as it can
the correctional principle. Prison care
is expensive. A man kept in prison is
removed from productive society.
Therefore, no one should be put in
prison who can be handled satisfac
torily by a system of probation, or
should be kept in prison if he can
safely be paroled.
Protection to Society.
“For many offenders there is no
question but putting them on proba
tion will protect society. Experience
has been a warning to them. A pro
bation officer can exercise supervision
and guidance over such paroles and
I am sure they can be trusted to go
straight.
•'It also is quite clear that' a large
proportion of persons committed to an
institution, after a greater or shorter
period, will be in a proper frame of
mind by such training that they can
go back into the community under
proper parole supervision.
Such parole, to be done properly,
presupposes two things: One. a prison
system aimed at training and recon
structing men; two, institutional
equipment that makes possible the
carrying out of that purpose.
Equipment Lacking.
“Our institutions are not equipped
as they should be to fulfill completely
the purpose we have in mind. That
equipment should be two kinds—per
sonnel for classification and training,
and equipment for a diversified pro
gram of vocational training.
•'Lorton. and Occoquan in a lesser
measure because it handles short
term prisoners, are doing good jobs in
the way of inmate labor—construction
of buildings, manufacture of clothing
for the prisoners, etc. But more equip
ment is necessary for vocational train
ing. More teachers and more psy
chiatrists are needed. Until we get the
necessary appropriations these are
out of the question.
“So long as we fail to have that
personnel and equipment we shall fail
to do all that a modern prison system
can do to prepare a person at the
earliest possible moment to return to
the community.
"However, a tremendous job is being
done by the personnel and equipment
now available to train prisoners and
reconstruct their points of view on
their relationship with society. That
means a great many prisoners can be
returned to the community if the
proper supervision is provided. There
we strike, of course, the question of
the staff of the Parole Board. It is 1
doing a good job as far as it goes, but j
it is not adequate in numbers to han
dle the work of finding which prison
ers can safely be paroled, finding a
place for them in the community and
supertising them on return. Obviously
more funds are needed there.
Many Difficulties.
“The present indeterminate sentence
law evidently has many difficulties.
The best evidence of that is the diffi
culty in handling a more different
type of prisoner who should never be
confined in an open prison like Lor
ton. That type should be in a Federal
prison.
“Because our law is not in harmony |
with the Federal parole law certain
District prisoners require special treat
ment. Our law should be put in har
mony with the Federal law.
"The trouble, therefore, is not with
probation and parole, w hich are funda- j
mentally sound, but with the law un- i
ner which we have and the equipment
used for its administration. This all
goes back to Congress—what it can
and will do in revising legislation in
accordance with modern principles and
making appropriations to enable us to
do the job we ought to do in our
prisons.
“We must see the treatment of the
offender as a whole problem in which
the elements of arrest, conviction and
incarceration, probation and parole all
fit. The primary purpose is to protect
society and to rehabilitate the offender
whenever that is possible.
“Each part of this program must be
seen in relation to every other part.'
If one part falls down through lack of
vision or legislation, or lack of funds,
the whole problem will fail to that ex
tent. But if the problem is seen as a
whole and handled as a whole, in ac
cordance with modern methods and j
thought, there is no question but that !
repeated offenses can be prevented. 1
much money can be saved and many
people who otherwise would spend
many unnecessary years in prison
could be returned to their families and
their communities as law -abiding, use
ful citizens.”
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Lafayette Society to Meet.
The Lafayette Home and School
Association will meet tomorrow at 8
p.m. at the school In Chevy Chase. ;
D. C., when Dr. Joseph E. Morsh will
speak on character education, and
Miss Reba Will, a graduate of the i
Peabody Institute, will render musical
selections.
Dupont Circle Group Names
Members for “Vigilante
Committee.”
Aroused by the current campaign
against crime in Washington and by
statements that the "numbers” racket
and other forms of gambling are
flourishing in the heart of its terri
tory, the Dupont circle Citizens' As
sociation made plans yesterday after
noon to lend its aid in the fight.
Col. J?. G. Bliss, president, appointed
Floyd Crosby and Woodson Hough
ton, local lawyers, as members of a
Special Crime Committee to co-oper
ate with the “Vigilante Committee."
Approve Statue Protection.
A resolution introduced by Mrs.
Kate Deering Ridgely, requesting offi
cials of the National Capital Parks
Service to piovide better protection of
the statues and memorials in Du
pont and other circles, received the
unanimous approval of the associa
tion when it was pointed out several
of the statues have been disfigured.
Specifically, it was pointed out, four
fingers had been broken off one of
the statues on the memorial fountain
to Admiral Dupont in Dupont Circle.
Other memorials which have been
vandalized, it was said, are the George
Washington Statue in Washington
Circle, the Sherman Statue and the
monument to Grant.
A committee, consisting of Mrs.
Ridgely, Col. John R. M. Taylor and
Prank C. Baldwin, was appointed to
acquaint the parks office with the
situation and request remedial meas
ures. The committee was authorized
further, in another resolution intro
duced by Miss Leila Mechlin to con
fer with Dr. Frank W. Ballou, super
intendent of District schools, to dis
cuss the possibility of teaching pupils
to respect the memorials, thereby dis
couraging vandalism.
uppose Local tiections.
After Admiral William Ledyard
Rodgers, chairman of the Suffrage
Committee, told the association a
proposal to permit election of local
officials by District residents probably
would be considered by the House
Judiciary Committee at the next ses
sion, the association went on record
as opposing the plan.
A report on rerouting made by Ad
miral Mark Bristol, chairman of the
Streets. Parks and Traffic Commit
tee, was referred back to his commit
tee. This action was taken, it was
said, in view of the rerouting pro
posals recently suggested by People's
Counsel William A. Roberts. Admiral
Bristol's report favored the removal
of the car tracks on P street, between
Dupont Circle and Wisconsin avenue
and also the proposal to lay tracks
around the east side of Dupont Circle
to permit northbound Connecticut
avenue cars to follow a normal route
around the circle.
RUSE FREES CONVICT
Man Walks Out of Prison When
Mistaken for Another.
McKINNEY, Tex., November 6 (JPi.
—Martin Stover Tuley, sentenced to
31 years in the penitentiary, walked
out of the county jail unmolested to
day, because he resembled another
man.
The jailer was about to release
three men when Tuley noticed that
one of them was asleep. Tuley took
his place, and the mistake was dis
covered only when the man left be
hind awoke and asked to be released.
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FILM ACTOR CLEARED
SAN FRANCISCO. November 6 UPh
—Declaring "even an actor must live.”
Superior Judge John J. Van Nostrand
yesterday discharged an order direct
ing Conw ay Tearle, film actor, to show
cause why he should not be held in
contempt of court.
The actor had been accused of col
lecting his salary from his employer
without court order while a suit was
pending to settle the estate of Tearle's
divorced wife. Josephine Parks Tearls,
who died in 1930.
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