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New Britain herald., 1929-12-14

The average cotton yield an acre in Mississippi during the five year period from 1923 to 1928 was PIP pounds of lint. an increase of T pounds over the 141-pOund aver age from 1919 10 1923.
New Britain herald., 1929-12-14
Los Angeles Police Chief
 Will Face Charge Today

Los Angeles. Dec. 14 Rl-Presi- dent W. G. Thorpe of the police commission announced that formal charges of incompetency and neg. lect of duty would be filed against Chief of Police James E. Davis at a meeting Of the commission today.
 Thorpe said majority vote oi the commission would be cast ir favor of formally charging Davis with the accusations brought infor- nHlly before the commission re- gently by John A. Quinn and the Developers association. a political organization. Quinn's charges came after several policemen had been indicted on bribery charges.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-04
SIX ARE ARRESTED
ON FIGHT CHARGES
Two Taxicabs Figure in
Case at East River
dale, Md.

A free-for-all fight, said to have taken
place early this morning at East River
dale, Md, led to the arrest of six per-
sons on diSorderly conduct charges at
BladenSburg.
A washington taxicab with most of
the glass windows smashed out drove
up to the Bladensburg Volunteer Fire
Department shortly after midnight and
its driver, Warren Mercilott, 1343 II
street northeast, asked for help for him
self and the other occupants. He was
treated by the departments rescue
squad for cuts and bruises on his scalp
and passenger, Maude Ridgeley, 4oo
Eleventh street southeast, for a cut
finger and bruises. william Allison,
929 Fourteenth street southeast, an
other passenger, was also helped.
While Mercilott was receiving treat
menC a loud crash was heard outside
and Constable Andrew Gasch of Prince
Georges County arrested the driver Of a
second car which had crashed into a
taxicab at the Bladensburg crossing.
The driver of the second car. who gave
his name as B. Howard of z Block
street. Hyattsville, was charged with
disorderly conduct, reckless driving.
failure to show permit and failure to
show registration card. The taxi which
he pTOCCCOCu W
without stopping. Howard also had
passengers in his car more or less bat
tered. Frantz Frederick of East River
dale was badly cut on the left leg and
left arna and Charles Lamot Of River
dale had q cut finger.
The accounts of the affair were ex-
tremely garbled but through 1t all Fred
erick insisted that he had attempted to
separate several combatants and that
Mercilott had deliberately run over him
In the cab.
All six were arraigned before Justice
of the Peace Hugh CNeil. All were
charged by Constable Gasch with disor-
derby conduct and additional charges
were placed against Howard.
Judge O'Neil set the bond for How
ard at $3.50 and $40 collateral each for
the rest for appearance at the Hyatts-
vile Police Court Wednesday. Early
this morning none Of them had raised
the money.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-04
KINGS ILLNESS KEEPS
QUEEN MARY AT HOME
London Full of Visitors in Spite
of End of Social
Season.

LONDON CN.ANA) THE season"
proper is over and society Is fast dis
persing to Cowes and the fashionable
watering places on the continent. But
London is full of visitors-Americans
colonials and people from the English
provinces, who delight to take their
holidays in the capital.
One of their chief diversions seems to
be to stand outside Buckingham Palace
in hope of a glimpse of the Queen.
The Queen is seldom in London at this
time and were it not for the Kings Ill
ness she would be paying the round OF
personal visits she always enjoys SO
much at this season.
The rooms used by the. King and
Queen are on the first floor of the pal
ace in the northwest wing. They are
very simple and are not visible to the
passer-by, as they overlook the lovely
palace gardens.
The queen is an early riser and be-
gins the day with an ordinary English
breakfast. After this she deals with her
correspondence, deciding how the let
tiers are to be answered, and writing
personally to many of her intimate
friends. One of her regular CORE
spondents is Princess Marys elder boy,
who writes to his grandmother every
week.
Later in the morning the queen taxes
a walk in the grounds of the palace or
goes on a shopping expedition. but she
always makes a point OF being back
punctually for luncheon. In the afteT-
noon she does needlework and she often
has an formal little tea party In her
private sitting room.
Dinner usually is served in the CHI
nese dining room. which has Chinese
wall paintings and ivory-inlaid furni-
ture, and afterwards the Queen reads or
crochets or listens in on the radio un-
til bedtime
Copyright 1921
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-04

parity between Great Britain and the
United States, in which must be con-
sidered the naval bases of the two
countries. Since the protection of COM
merce is dependent upon cruisers, we
must have parity in cruisers. 1t would
be much better for the United States to
proceed to construct navy suitable to
its own needs and wants, and let Great
Britain do likewise, than to let Great
Britain and the United States make
treaty which would give a great in
feriority to the American Navy.
"The seaborne commerce Of the
United States amounts to 10000, 000, 000
dollars year, which is rapidly increas-
ing, and the American people demand
this vast commerce, tnSeperable from
their prosperity, shall be protected by q
Navy second to none.
"The American people are unwilling
that this vast commerce, either in peace
or war, shall be controlled by superior
navy possessed by any nation.
"The American people are fixed In
this determination. as their best inter-
est requires this. If Great Britain real
ICES we are determined to have this
and not before will she consent to a
reduction or limitation Of naval arma-
InentS."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-04
HARRISON JESTSli
| AT SLIDING SCALE
Democratic Senator Doubts
President Will Indorse
Sugar Baby"

Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi,
a Democratic member of the Senate
finance committee, in a statement Is
sued last night fidiculed the proposed
sliding scale OF sugar duties proposed by
Chairman Smoot for insertion IN the
tar1n bill. The Democratic Senator
also took a fling at President Hoover.
charging that he was doing little or
nothing to bring about a reduction of
rates from those carried in the House
bill Senator Harrison said:
1T Is noted that President Hoover
has invited Chairman Smoot to his
fishing camp upon the historic banks of
the Rapidan. This is quite significant,
in view of the fact that Senator Smoot.
as chairman of the finance committee,
has called meeting of the full COM
mittee for next Wednesday to consider
the fretful condition of this newborn
sugar baby. Certainly the sleepless
nights the Senator must have spent
with this crying curiosity and the cease
less rows to which he has been forced to
listen among his Republican colleagues
OF the finance committee entitle him
to a rest.
Little Hope Is Seen.
"In view Of what has transpired in
the past, little hope can be entertained
from this conference. 1t will be recalled
that the House ways and means COM
mlttee had reported the Hawley tariff
bill to the House, and while prepara-
tons were being made for tanning it
through that body, House leaders. con-
siStlng of Speaker Longworth, Chair
an Hawley, Chairman Smell of the rules
committee and Walter Newton. now the
Presidents secretary. conferred with the
President and received his blessing. No
one at that time heard of the President
raising protest against any part of
the House program. It may be that it
is the aroused force of public opinion
that has caused this important confer
ence in Virginia; or it may be that Sem
ator Smoot wants to sell his sugar.
coated plan to the President.
Endorsement Inconceiyable"
at is inconceivable that the Presi-
dent will indorse it, and yet, the Sen
ator, weeks ago, gave the country to
understand that he was comforting with
the President about a sliding scale on
sugar.
1T is a fine scheme to fix and
manipulate prices and add to the bur-
dens of the American consumer. 1t is
just as bad, and in some instances
worse, than the House proposal. 1t sig
nifies retreat on the part of the sugar
aviators, with a smoke screen to cover
up their aerial stunts.
Surely, if the President is going to
express himself about this tariff mon
strosity, it is time. If he delays much
longer the horse will be out"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-04
nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, August 3.-Pitsburgh
is to be the laboratory for scientific
investigation Of the cause of automobile
accidents.
The National Safety Council, the
city Department Of Public Welfare and
the University Of Pittsburgh. tonight
announced they had organized the Acct
dent Research Association, and that a
.corps of specialists would come here to
make q study of automobile accidents.
Special attention will be given to
drivers who become involved in acci-
dents. The specialists win inquire into
their mental alertness. eyesight, hear.
ing, COORDINATION, reaction time ana
left-handedness- Psychologists and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-04

When q man Is accused OF CTuuc Al
England he Is sent to the remand
prison or to the remand section OF q
local prison. While he is confined
awaiting trial he has every reasonable
privilege, but more important than his
comfort and his welfare is the fact that
there Is no possibility of his consorting
with criminals who might influence
him or blackmail him afterward.
Omitted States National Crime Com
mission-"Five out Of six calls Visited
we're violating the State law as to
segregation, which requires separate
compartments for men awaiting trial
and men serving sentences, woman wit
| nesses, etc.')
Segregate First Offenders.
II a man is convicted Of a crime and
receives sentence of imprisonment
which might extend from five days to
two years, he Is sent to local prison
| with special facilities to deal with GRIM
inals Of his class. Careful arrange
ments are made to keep first offenders
separate, and in London, owing to the
larger prison population, it Is possible
to set aside separate prison. A 10y
| 16 to 81 would be sent in the first place
to a collecting center for young prison
ers and a prisoner certified insane Is
sent to a criminal lunatic asylum.
Omitted States National Crime Com
miSsion-"There was no provision fol
segregation of sexes, nor for Sepa-
ration of insane from other prisoners
nor of juvenile from adult criminals" y
| Woman criminals are classified In
much the same way as men-juvenile,
adult, first offender, habitual offender
normal or abnormal. There are Borstal
| institutions for juvenile girls, separate
wings of local prisons for women and
special convict prisons for women
Woman prisoners are supervised entirely
by woman attendants and often there Is
woman doctor.
Omitted States National Crime Com
misslon-"The prevailing practice OF
subjecting woman prisoners to the over
sight Of male attendants
Preventive Detention Sentence.
The man or woman sentenced to
penal servitude, three years to life, is
sent to a convict prison. If already
convicted more than three times and
obviously living a life of crime, the
prisoner Is subject to a further sentence
of preventive detention" which must
be served under special conditions after
the expiration of a penal sentence
Thus, professional criminal is secluded
not only as a punishment, but as pre-
CnOtAOkL LAWN VAC Swiftly W WAtACLl lLLC
prisoner has proved an tncorrigible
menace.
No matter in what group the male
factor is classified, or to what prison he
goes, every effort is made to reclaim
him. Even the professional criminal is
not regarded as hopeless and worth
less.
Every prison of1cer, from governor to
warder, is appointed because he is es-
pecially fitted to make a prison some
thing more than a place of confine-
ment. If the prisoner is to learn obedi-
ence, discipline and industry, the men
who supervise and teach him must set
him an example Of honesty and clean
living.
(Next-Principles Of Punishment Found
to Be Deterrent. Actual Conditions
in English PriSons.)
| Copyright, 1929. by North American News
| paper Alliance.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-04

Paul L. Bromley Taken to Will
mington Hospital From Auto.
Paul L. Bromley, 50 years old, Of
1850 Irving street, was injured in an
automobile accident yesterday morn
ing at Minquadale, on the Delaware
State Highway, according to advices
received from Wilmington last night.
His car struck the rear of car driven
by Miss Helen Fitzhugh, which had
stalled on the road.
Mr.. Bromley was hurt about the head
and was taken to the Wilmington Cen
eral Hospital. His car was wrecked.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-04
VALUABLE AUTOGRAPHS
ARE TAKEN FROM TRUNK
Miss Malone, Artist, Reports Dis
appearance While They Were
Under Lock.

Loss of a souvenir album contain
ing the autographs of many olstin-
guished art patrons and painters was
reported to the police, yesterday, by
Miss Blondelle Malone, artist, who re-
sides at the Stoneleigh Court.
Miss Malone said her album was
missing from locked trunk in which
she had placed it temporarily Tor safe
keeping. A diary Of various scenes
she had painted in long career also
was missing.
Miss Malone has exhibited her paint
ings in Paris before the war and also
in Washington on number OF oc-
casions. She obtained the autographs
of many art patrons of Europe who
saw her exhibits, including those Of
the late Myron T. Herrick, American
Ambassador to France, and Mrs. Her
rick. Other autographs included those
of Francois Mfllet, the painter; Lord
Fitzgerald, Dermond O'Brien and Wes-
ley Frost of Lusitania fame.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-04
Sir Horace Plunkett,
Is, Learning to Fly
With Boyish Vigor
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, August 3.-The
Mail today says that Sir Horace
Plunkett, veteran Irish states
man and bachelor, is learning
to fly at the age of rs years. He
is taking lessons at the Brook
lands Airdrome in Surrey and Is
keen as a boy.
His friend, George Bernard
Shaw, wrote him when he heard
of this activity, 1T Is an agree
able and not too obvious method
of suicide" but Sir Horace says
he feels safer IN the air than in
a taxicab on London's streets
and finds the lessons q good
tonic.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-04
SCIENTISTS TO STUDY AUTO CRASH
FACTORS IN PITTSBURGH SURVEY
Mental Aertness Eyesigh Hearing, Coordination and
Other Elements to Be Considered

psychiatrists will inquire into the habits
and state Of mind of the subjects. To
determine just what they eat. what ex-
ercise they take, what is done for recre-
alton, and If they are worried by finan-
cial matters. family affairs, employment
or health.
Those cooperating in the research
work aim to learn, so far as possible,
the cause Of each accident, together
with contributing factors. Among the
first subjects to be examined are truck
drivers. whose employers have in
structed them TO undergo the ,examina-
ton in event they become involved In
accidents.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-04

When a man commits murder In
England he is usually sentenced within
two or three months of his arrest, and
the sentence is carried out soon there
after Three clear Sundays are allowed
him between the death sentence and
execution, and this period may be ex-
tended If he appeals against the death
sentence. When man steals IN France
he is promptly deported to Devils
Island. When a man is convicted OF
manslaughter in Holland, he does 10
to IS years solitary confinement.
England Laid Foundations in 177S.
The foundations of the English prison
system were laid in 1778, when an act
was passed to introduce three new
principles of dealing with criminals,
separate confinement, hard labor, and
instruction, secular and religious.
These principles have survived,
though the methods Of applying them
have changed enormously. At various
times in the last $50 years, royal COM
missions and boards OF inquiry nave
studied penal conditions and suggested
reforms, with many important improve
ments resulting.
The penal servitude act of 1864. the
habitual criminals act of 1863 and the
prevention of crime act OF 1871 legalzeo
reforms which made the English penal
code Of the late nineteenth century the
most humane and effective that had
ever existed.
Unified Control System.
AS a result of reforms introduced in
1878, 1894, 1898, 1908 and 1914 the
present English system is as dlnerent
| from that of 1871 as the 1871 system
| was from the one of 1778.
Today, all prisons are under the
supervision of permanent prison COM
mission The local prisons, which cor
respond to county and city jails in the
United States, are governed in the same
way and are subject to one set OF laws
and regulations. There is no dlnerence
in the method Of treating prisoners IN
different prisons; the method varies
only according to the classification OF
the prisoner, no matter where conhned.
The treatment Of prisoners in the con-
Wet prisons, penitentiaries is also uni
form, and under the direction Of the
prison commission.
One of the many advantages OF this
central control of prisons is that the
criminal is protected from graft, Vlo-
lence and contamination, while the
community is protected from the crimi-
nal.
MalefactOrs Are Classified.
Another advantage is the opportunity
given to classify malefactors and send
them to special prisons. Not merely
the particular offense of which the
criminal is convicted determines his
punishment, but his age, sex, character
and previous conduct are taken into
consideration.
When a man is convicted of petty
offenSe in England he may be fined or
put on probation, instead of imprisoned.
He may pay the fine in installmentS. In
this way thousands of unfortunates are
saved from the inevitable blow to pride
and self-respect caused by imprison-
ment.
UNITED States National Crime Com
mission-"More than half of those who
are confined in (American) jails are
committed for non-payment of fines.
The petty offender cften becomes a
felon because of his jail tratning.'O
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-04
Slain in Election Fight.

WEST LIBERTY, KY, August tED.
Claude Peyton was shot to death and
John Thomas Lewis seriously cut in E
quarrel at Blaze, KY, 10 miles from
here, just before the Kentucky pri-
mary polls closed today. Sheriff Noah
Hughes was told there was general
quarrel and that Jarrie Blankenship
was the man who shot Peyton. An eff
fort would be made to hold Blanken-
ship, he was told.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-04
BICYCLIST, HIT BY CAR,
IS INJURED SLIGHTLY
Driver TAX es Youth to Emergency
Hospital After Acct
dent.

Benjamin JANE, 16 years old, Of 1885
Princeton place, was thrown from his
bicycle and slightly cut about the face
last night in a collision with an auto
mobile operated by Richard z. Sewell'
l1s1 New Hampshire avenue, who was
going east Oh Rhode Island avenue be-
tween Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets
at the time of the accident. Sewell re-
moved the boy to Emergency Hospital
where he was treated and discharged.
Irene Hughes, colored. 40 years old,
1912 Fourth street, suffered minor
bruises last night when knocked down
by an automobile while she was cross
ing o street at Fourth street. The
driver of the car was Bernard Carroll,
42l3 Grant street northeast, who re-
moved the woman to Sibley Hospital
After first aid treatment, she was sent
home.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-04
GETS 5 YEARS FOR FRAUD.

LOS ANGELES, August 8 (P.-J. W.
Afford, Los Angeles broker, convicted
of using the mails to defraud In an oil
stock selling scheme, was sentenced by
Federal Court today to five-year
prison term and fined $4,000.
Afford was charged with nlisrepre-
senting ownership of oil lands in Chm
maron County, Okla, and obtaining
the savings Of many elderly people.
The conviction and sentence was APP
pealed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-04
Mrs. Cont, Hollywood Dancer, Dies

{. LOS ANGELES, August (P):-Mrs.
Patricia Cont, "a, Hollywood dancer,
was freed by death today from tne
horrible dreams" she said had driven
her to take poison q week ago. The
Young woman was the wife of Capt. AL
bert Cont, Austrian film actor and al.
rector. She said wild animals chased
her ceaselessly in her sleep.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-04
U. s. Consul Sued for Divorce.

RENO. New, August 3 P).-Robert
Ward Harnden, United States consul
at Tampico. Mexico, was made defend
ant in a suit for divorce filed here to-
day by Phoebe Binney Harnden, who
charges cruelty. They have a son in
school in Germany whose custody Mrs.
Harnden asks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-04
Jazz Bands Play in Streets

With the decline of jazz in Europe
many jazz bands are touring the streets
of big cities and living on the aims
they collect. Hotels are reVefting to
,orchestras. and dance halls are using
monographs and talkie amplifiiers,
throwing many musicians out Of work,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-04

Construction Of the bridge across the
River Vistula TO join Warsaw and Pra-
"a, Poland, will be started next Spring.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-04
BY HENRIETTA w. BINGHAM.

break
in judicial
Of be reformed and ssnv
countries
in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-04
SWIFT EUROPEAN JUSTICE
MAKES CRIME WAVE UNKNOWN
Survey of Penal Systems Reveals Many
Methods, but All Work Promptly to
Put Criminal In Cell. I'D

interest
results series OF dispatches Oh
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-04
HOOVER CRITICIZED
BY SWANSON FOR
CRUISER CUT ORDER

Continued From First Page)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-04
MOSES WILL LEAD
SENATE CAMPAIGN.
Republicans Name Chairman
for 1880 Fight to Increase
Control.

Continued From First Pageo
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-04
Prefers Reduction.
az

1T would prefer this equality to be ac-
quired by reduction instead Of increase
OF navies.
"I feel that the best interests Of,
America require substantial and fair
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-16
LAND OF SOV|ETS NEWARK CARMEN
Grew UNFRAMED EXPECT SELLOUT
Plane Down at Chita;
Flight May Be Off

Continued from Page One)
Manchurian frontier last Sunday. 1t
has not yet been determined how
soon the all-metal, bi-motored mono
plane will be able to resume its
flight.
Bringing with them greetings and
expressions Of solidarity from the
workers and peasants of the U.S.S.R.
to the workers and farmers of the
United States, S. Shestakof and his
three comrades, Boris Sterligof, Ale
Bolotof and A. Shestakof, took off
from the Moscow airdrome Aug. 8,
making the 1880 mile hop to Omsk
in II hours. The flight continued
to Novosibirsk and thence to Kras-
noyarsk, from where the airmen set
out Sunday, planning to reach Chita,
400 miles beyond Lake BaikaL
At Ticolaievsk, on the Siberian
coast, the Land of the Soviets was
to have been fitted with pontoons
for a transoceanic flight, which was
expected to take upward of fort
night, with stops at Petropavlovsk,
the Aleutian Islands, Unalaska, Sc
ward, Sitka, Seattle, and thence to
San Francisco, Chicago, and New
York.