davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1947-02-26

81; American portraits from collection Of
National Portrait Gallery, including por-
traits Of famous historical personages,
through March 80.
Howard University, Founders Library
24O1 Sixth street NV, open daily ex-
espt sunday. s am. . 70 10 P m. Rose a,n,e Nc
graphs of celebrated Negroes by Carl Van
Vechten, through Saturday,
National Archives, Constitution avenue,
between Seventh and Eighth streets NV,
open S:45 am. to 5:15 p m; weekdays and
1870 to pm. Sundays: President Tru,,
mans proclamation ending hostilities and
other. World War II documents, through
March 81.
Smithsonian Institution, Jefferson drive
between Ninth and Twelfth streets NV,
open am to pm daily and Sundays;
Adolph Dehn. lithographs in the Division
of Graphic Arts, through March 2: pic
torial photographs by Frank Meister in
Arts and Industries Building, through
Friday.
Square and folk dancing, Pierce Hall
Sixteenth and Harvard streets NV, $50
o'clock tonight.
American Youth Hostel square dance. St
Evening star., 1947-02-26

Johns Parish Han, sic Sixteenth street
NV, 8 o'clock tonight
FOR SERvICEMEN.
Classical music hour, 7:3O O'Clock. and
midweek dance, refreshments, $3.50 O'Clock
tonight, USO Club, 1911 H street NV.
Singing around piano. o'clock, and
basket ball game in gym. o'clock, Pent-
house USO. Seventeenth and K streets
Games. O'Clock, and refreshments
9 o'clock tonight, USO Club, SOL Pennsyl-
vania avenue NV
FOR OFFICERS.
Dance with orchestra, hostesses, Officers
Club of Washington, 400 New Hampshire
Bridge, 8 O'Clock. and dance with or
chestra, hostesses, g. o'clock tonight, OFF,
GERS Service Club Of the United Nations,
1914 Twenty-1rst street NV
Evening star., 1947-02-26
Chemists to Hear DR., OFT

DR.. Emil OFT, director Of research
of the Hercules Power Co., Whining
ton, Del, will address the Wash
ington Section, American Chemical
Society, at 8:15 pm. tomorrow at the
Cosmos Club, Madison place and H
street NV.
Evening star., 1947-02-26

Naturalization of the electric
power industry is being considered
in Italy.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-04-24
Penitentiary Built in 1913

Though the penitentiary was built
in 1913, the penitentiary system was
not introduced into Ohio until 1916
and Kooken had an easy time. Most
offenses, later carrying penitentiary
sentences, then were punished by
whipping.
Few thieves of smaller amounts
received penitentiary sentences be-
cause larceny then was considered the
theft of value up to any amount over
$40, and larceny was punishable by
30 stripes on the bare back for the
first offense and 30 stripes for each
subsequent offense.
In 1921 a new law defined larceny
as the theft of value of $50 or more.
Punishment was from one to seven
years Imprisonment in the peniten-
tiary. In 1885 the larceny limit was
again lowered to $35-the standard
of today
When there was little work to be
done in the early penitentiary, the
convicts were farmed out to do other
work in Columbus, sometimes with
out guard. Often they were permit
ted to keep some of their earnings.
Old accounts relate the story of a
printer named Scott who was allowed
to go out in town and work at his
trade, retaining some of his money.
One day when gloriously drunk, he
met Governor Robert Lucas on a Co.
lumbus street and insisted on receiv-
ing a pardon. Given courage by the
whisky with which he was filled,
Scott became uproarious and argu-
mentative, much to the governors
embarrassment.
Scott did not get his pardon nor
time off for good behavior but served
his full sentence with privileges re-
stricted.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-04-24
Death Sweeps The
Prison

Though the burning Of the Ohio
Penitentiary, Columbus, April 21, 19-
30, and the fires death toll Of 322
persons became headline news all
over the country, no Ohio newspaper
tailed" the story with the recollec-
ton of a similar state institution fire
62 years previous or of another sweep
of death through the same peniten-
tiary SO years ago.
The fire was the destruction, Nov
ember IS, 1868, of the entire Ohio A
sylum for the Insane, Columbus, "the
largest in the world" by blaze set
in the east wing by mischevious pa
tient. Of the hundreds of inmates, on
ly six-all women-lost their lives.
They We're not burned, but died of
suffocation.
After the burning of the asylum
the inmates were quartered in the O.
hio Deaf and Dumb Asylum and in
various insane asylums throughout
the state.
First Asylum Built in 1889
The buildings destroyed were the
original asylum, built in 1889, and
additional buildings erected in 1845,
1916 and 1847. The original asylum
building had capacity of only 12O
patients.
On June 80, 1849, there were two
deaths from Asiatic cholera in the
Ohio Penitentiary. The disease had
been prevalent in Columbus and near
by towns for about week.
The epidemic spread through the
pentitentiary at the rate of so to &C
new cases a day and the death roll
grew day by day until 116 prisoners
had died from it. Nine days after the
first appearance of cholera in the
prison 396 of the Alb prisoners in the
institution had it.
Three Physicians Die
Drs. Lathrop and Trevitt, prison
physicians, died from cholera. So die
DR.. B. F. Gard, Columbus physician
who had volunteered to help fight the
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-04-24

scourge in the pentitentiary. Other
Columbus physicians who gave their
services at the pentitentiary, were
Drs. Robert Thompson, J. B. Thomp-
son, Norman Gay, ]. Morrison and
G. w. Maris. It was after Mr.. Maris
took charge that the epidemic grad
ually, but Immediately began to de-
cline.
The prison guards fled panic
stricken and prison discipline COM
pletely broke down. Cell doors re-
mained unlocked for 16 days and
nights while murderers and robbers
mingled with one another unrestrain-
ed. Some prisoners were nervous and
panicky. others stoically Indifferent,
while many worked heroically to as
sist with the stricken inmates.
When the sick overflowed the hos
pital the abandoned workshops were
filled with the i'll and dying. Medical
students and Columbus citizens who
volunteered were assigned to attend
them.
None Attempt Escape
But during the 80 days of cholera
epidemic, not one prisoner attempted
to escape.
It was the second Asiatic cholera
epidemic in the Ohio Pentitentiary.
The other one, in which the disease
also spread out Of Columbus into the
prison, was in 1888. Of the 3O3 con-
victs in the pentitentiary at that
time, 100 were hospitalized. Only II
died.
The Ohio Pentitentiary walls have
fenced in many famous prisoners.
William Sydney Porter 20. Henry)
wrote some of his most popular
stories when confined there. General
John Morgan, Confederate Army,
dug his way out of the prison with a
kitchen knife following his capture
after Morgan's raid into Ohio in 49,
SO, Several principals in the Dillinger
and other notorious gangs have paid
their debt to society in the prison
death house.
Many attempts to escape from the
pentitentiary have been abortiye and
but few temporarily successful.
First Escape in 1880
The first prisoner to escape from
the Ohio Penitentiary was Smith
Maythe who assaulted guard and,
with II other convicts, broke out of
the original penitentiary in 1880. All
were soon recaptured except Maythe,
who was later hanged by a mob in
Kentucky for attempted robbery and
murder.
Ohio's original pentitentiary was a
brick building so by 80 feet, three
stories high, built on a lot 100 feet
square facing Scioto street. 1t had
but 13 cells, nine Eight" and four
dark" all on the top floor. The keep
er lived on the second floor, and the
ground floor contained the prison
rooms.
The ground floor was half under
and half above ground and could only
be reached from the prison yard. A
wall Is to Is feet high surrounded
the entire plant.
The first warden was James Kook-
zen, who, history said, was "as kind
and lenient as was consistant with his
official duty" He had but four con-
victs.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-04-24
rrnA NnTIrI.

Lester gsnead also known as Lester Hol-
lis whose place nf residence Il unknown and
cannot with reasonable diligence be aseer-
tained, IS hereby notified that josephine Il.
Smead, also known Josephine I. Hollis,
vorce. custody of children. injunction and
ali proper relief, on the grounds Of gross
neglect Of duty and extreme cruelty. In case
No. STARE in the Court Of Common Pleas OF
Allen County. Ohio. at Lima Ohio. Said
cause may be heard and decided aftaa@tase. eS-
niration OF SIX weeks from the first publica-
ton of this notice. En-
Josephine T. Smead.
also known as p
Josephine r. Hollis Plaintiff
BY Clarence C. Miller, Her Attorney,
6OA Citizens Bldg, Lima, Ohio. SIS
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-04-24
LEGAL NOTICE

Raymond Woodrow Heffeifinger. whose
place of residence Ia unknown and can not
with reasonable diligence be aseertained. Is
hereby notified that Pauline Lucille Heffei-
finger has filed her petition against him for
divorce and all proper relief. on the grounds
of gross neglected duty and extreme cruelty.
in case NO. 37+49 In the Court Of Common
Pleas of Allen County, Ohio. at Lima, Ohio.
Said cause may be heard and decided after
the expiration of six weeks from the first
publication of this notice.
Pauline Lucille Heffelfinger, Plaintiff
By Clarence C. Miller. Her Attorney,
504 Citizens Bldg. Lima, Ohio. /
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-04-24
LEGAL NOTICE

George w. Corbat residing at 474s Heck
Place. Detroit, Michigan, is hereby notified
that Ellen M. Corbat has filed her petition
against him for divorce in case number 81
54S of the Common Pleas Court Of fAllen
County, Ohio, styled Ellen M. Corbat fplain-
tiff VS. George w. Corbat defendant and
that said cause viii be for hearing On and
after June 4, I947.
Ellen M. Corbat
BY Light & siferd. fer Attorneys s
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-04-24
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT

THE STATE OF OHIO
Allen County, IS.
Estate of Elsie Bierly Deceased
Lester II. Bierly of Lafayette Ohio, has
been appointed and qualified as Executor of
the estate of Elsie Bierly late of Allen
County, Ohio, deceased.
Dated this End day Of April l947.
RAYMOND P. SMITH
l Probate Judge
Evening star., 1947-10-23
FOUND,

CAT, about half grown, female. maltese
with white bib and feet; found at 42nd and
Military rd. NV. Call WO. 3197.
GERMAN SHEPHERD, female; in Takoma
Park; friendly. Call PRINCE GEORGES
COUNTY ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE, WA
357a.
WRIST WATCH, mans; Clarendon. CH
2460.
Evening star., 1947-10-23
French
Continued From First Page

constitution of the Fourth French
Republic, adopted by referendum
October 13. 1916, on the ground that
it gives too much power to the
legislature and too little to the exec
utive.
Cabinet Trimmed to 13.
In a new list of ministers pre-
sented to President Vincent Aurio,
shortly after midnight, Mr.. Ra.
nader trimmed the cabinet from
Is members-12 Socialists, six Popu.
lar Republicans, five Radical So.
cialists and two tndependents-te
13-seven Socialists, three Popular
Republicans, two Radical Socialist:
and one independent.
The Premier, who has been undel
heavy pressure from both the righ,
and the left-Gen. de Gaulles vic.
tory in last Sundays municipa
elections and labor's demand for 8
81 per cent increase in minimum
wage scales-said the streamlinine
was undertaken because:
I'VE realized that it was necessary
in this hour to give the government
the possibility of rapid decision ano
for this end to concentrate author
ity in smaller number OF hands.
In an official statement, he added
ut is not a new government that
has just been formed. It is the gov.
ernment that was formed in Janu-
ary and which continues it's work.
Small Towns Vote Sunday.
The Deputies, when they return
Tuesday, will have before then
nearly complete results Of the mu-
Evening star., 1947-10-23
Extra Session Asked
On Price Controls al
Baltimore Hearing
BY the Associated Pres.

BALTIMORE, Oct. 23.-Congres-
sional investigators heard Mary
land food producers assert yester-
day that current food profits are
not excessive, but labor and con-
sumer spokesmen demanded a spe-
cial session of Congress to re-estab-
lish price control.
The two-day hearing completed
six-week investigation that took
the Eastern Subcommittee of the
Joint Congressional Committee on
the Economic Report to cities as
tar north as Manchester, N. H.,
and as far south as Jacksonville
Fla.
At the close of the session, Sena-
tor OConor, Democrat, of Maryland
said the testimony showed prices
in the Baltimore area have in
;reased faster than elsewhere, part
y because prices here were lower
When the spiral started.
He said he agreed with Senator
Flanders, Republican, of Vermont
that special investigators should be
sent here when Congress recon-
venes.
John A. Heinz, meat packer, testi-
fed that profits from high meat
prices are going principally to cat
tile growers, rather than to
professors.
Harry Cohen. president OF the
Maryland and District of Columbia
Federation Of Labor, said rising
costs could not be ascribed to wage
increases, which had been granted
only after price increases made them
necessary.
Evening star., 1947-10-23
LOST


BTLLFOLD, black, 9-29-47 dry cleaning
check: between Hay-AdamS Hotel and 9th
st. and M st. NV, between 1890 and II
pm. reward. So. CO. 200. Ext. 200. 23'
BILLFoLD. blue, drivers license ocornelia
Health. Keep money, return billfod and
contents to loves Palace Theater. 25'
BILLFOLD, red, containing valuable papers. .
Finder can keep money but return billfold
and papers. NO. 45s5. -24
CAMEO RING, gold setting; lost Tues,
Oct. Il. Reward. Hillside 6441.
COCKER SPANIEL, male, color buff, lost
in the vicinity of University Park. j Call
DIAMOND RINGS 12!. tied together; in
y. Reward GE eo55. -.a6
DOG, mixed police. mo-, gray f1ecked
ytenitgg RqIinsTNGd Wn yoss Chevy Chase FRIDAY
DOG, part cocker spaniel. small, black:
ENGLISH SETTER, male, black white. tan
s. North Arlington. Va. GIL. Ills or Ex.
FoxHoUND, female, Is months, black and
tan White stoekinss sl half haif way. way up front
Rockville Liberal reward for information
or 5sad5Pf Wi e s74s Es'0'eF' Call Rockville $4S5
FUR SCARF, mink: between Carlton Ho-
tel and I4th and Columbia I'd; nv, Tues. Tues.
Ext. 1920. ewes. AID. 1902. -26
CLASSES tortoise shell; lost Wed. Oct
90. bet. Mass. and Que on 18th. Reward.
Cau MI. GAG. -24
GOLD CHARM BRACELET engraved to
Ann from Jackie vicinity Of Adams Mill
rd NV. Call CO. 4457. "a
LADY'S BULOVA WATCH and diamond
ring in small change purse; ring has large
diamond and six small, one small diamond
missing. Reward. HO. 1929. "a
PEARLs-short strand Of graduated
1852 after $50 pm. MA. 5000, Ext. 7.
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TERRIER, long haired, medium sized,
on back; W. .h95s ns, black tall Randyl. Re
WALLET. blue. containing money and
Identification; in the Kenesaw Drug Store,
telephone booth ,u6o0 IrvinR). Reward
es,l ssy ds1: EM: 7e4s bet am. and / JS gm.
WILL TAXI DRIVER who picked my hus-
7th and H SITS. NV. and took us to 4th
and Pa. ave. NV, please get in touch
with US as my purse with my husbands
2 wks. salary was left in cab. Am des-
perate. Reward. Call Locust 1882
WILL THE PARTY who found iady's black
Oct. H.. please return the papers and
glasses; they are very important to owner.
useless to others. Keep the money bat
please return the papers to address on
passport or inside Of glass case.
Evening star., 1947-10-23
G. W. u. Hotchet
|WinsHonors
DESPITE Probe

George Washington University's
student newspaper, The Hatchet, has
been named one of the seven out
standing college newspapers in the
Nation for the 1867 school year
by officials of the Associated Collegi-
ate Press.
Editors during that period were
Miss Dorothy Henry. Mervin Lewis,
Miss Harriet Schiff and Miss Nancy
Hanck.
The honors came despite the fact
that during the year the editors
were investigated by joint student
faculty committee following charges
that the paper was poorly run and
that the editors had no concept of
journalistic work.
This marks the fourth time in the
last 10 years that the paper has
received the top rating of the AS
sociated Collegiate Press.
Evening star., 1947-10-23

day by saying 1t is "a matter of con-
lecture" whether the 1899 plan
would have been better than steps
actually taken when this country got
into the war.
Mr.. johnson replied that, "ot
course, that is a matter of conjec-
ture," but he contended that the
testimony of two other witnesses
yesterday bore out the contention
| that the administration finally
worked around to the 1889 mobiliza-
ton program after the war started
The witnesses he referred to were
Thomas J. Hargrave, chairman OF
the present Munitions Board, created
by the Armed Services Merger Act
of this year, and Ferdinand Eber-
stadt, who was vice chairman of the
War Production Board under DON
aid M. Nelson.
Mr.. Nelson and Charles E. Wilson
OF the General Electric Co., former
executive vice chairman of WPB
are expected to be heard later today
Evening star., 1947-10-23
Friends Soy Windsors
Will Winter in U. S.
BY the Associated Press

NASSAU, Bahamas, Oct. 23.-The
Duke and Duchess of Windsor plar
to leave Paris November l for the
United States and will remain in
Palm Beach for the winter, close
friends here said yesterday.
The Duke, former Governor of the
Bahamas, and the Duchess divided
their time last winter between New
York and Palm Beach. In the resort
city they were guests of Robert
Young, railroad executive.
Evening star., 1947-10-23
Afl Union Begins Building
MI. Wilson Radio Station
By the Associated Press

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 23.-Ground
has been broken for a 100000 labor
union frequency modulation radio
station atop Mount Wilson which
David Dubinsky, president Of the
AFL International Ladies Garment
Workers Union, says will be one of
six such stations to be established
across the Nation.
Mr.. Dubinsky, who took part in
the ceremonies yesterday, said the
broadcasting stations are being es-
tablished to further the unions pub
lie relations and to engage in COM
mercial activity.
He said his union will retain 49
per cent of the stock in the enter
prise with the remainder to be Of
fered to other unions, organizations
or the public.
Evening star., 1947-10-23
Reds Declared Controlling
MANY British Industries :
by the Associated Press

LONDON, Oct. 23.-John Gibson
Jarvie asserted today that many
British industries "are virtually
under Communist control"
MI. Jarvie, a banker and chair
man of the United Dominions Trust
told the Society of Individualists
that through Communist shop
stewards and union officials, discord
is deliberately created in some. fac
tories.
"The Communists are out to de-
stroy everything this country stands
for" he said
The Socialists disown the Com
munists," he added, but it is a
somewhat empty gesture in view of
the influence of individual Com
munists in the unions and the So
cialist movement.
Evening star., 1947-10-23
Two Big Maine Fires
Famed Out Of Control
Again by Strong Wind
BY the Assoeiofed Press

PORTLAND, Me-, Oct. %
Strong winds famed huge fires
at WATERFORD and on Mount
Desert Island out of control
again today and hundreds of
weary firefghters sought to
check the flames at the edge of
North WATERFORD Village.
Most Of New Englands other
drought-induced forest fires which
have caused two deaths and more
than $3.500,000 in property damage
were under control, however, as
thousands Of flremen and volunteers
continued their efforts to check the
blazes completely.
Former Fire Chief Richard CARL
OF WATERFORD said firefighters were
making stand at the edge of
North WATERFORD Village in an effort
to save the settlement of IS houses,
a church, school and store.
WATERFORD and South WATERFORD
appeared out of danger as the wind
shifted
Fire Near Bar Harbor.
A call was sounded by Bar Harbor
officials for additional help to fight
he Mount Desert blaze, which was
moving toward Hulls Cove, 3 miles
north of fashionable Bar Harbor.
Bar Harbor itself did not appear in
danger. Hulls Cove is small vii
iage of fine homes and cottages.
No end OF the prolonged drought
was seen, but the Weather Bureau
said scattered showers were possible
tomorrow in Maine, where approx
mately 400 homes, cottages and farm
buildings and more than $4,000 acres
OF woodlands have been blackened
with an estimated loss of $4,000, 900.
Smoke Over New York City.
In Massachusetts damage was
estimated by officials at $5O0,O0O.
There was no estimate Of damage
caused by smaller fires In New
Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island
and Connecticut
The largest of 25 blazes reported
in New York was at Hartman, where
a 7-mile fire front sent smoke over
the Hudson River Valley to the edge
OF New York City. The blaze was
turned away from the 27OO0-acre
estate Of Secretary of Commerce
Averen Hartman.
New Jersey, with 100000 acres
OF forest. reported at least 20 fires
and the State Conservation Commits
sion Cancelled all outstanding out
of-doors fire permits.
Evening star., 1947-10-23
Z Ridge|y Plant Organizers
File Illegal Arrest Suits
BY the Associated Press

Two union organizers and striker
at the Excelsior pearl works plant
in Ridgely. Md, have filed COM
plants of illegal arrest, the Justice
Department reported today.
The trio, Irwin j. Jaffe of Balti-
more, Charles F. Tillpan, jr, OF
Norfolk, Va, and Lawrence Chris
topher of fredericksburg, Md, were
arrested in Ridgely last week and
charged with disorderly conduct.
Jaffe and Tillman, organizers for
the AFL International Ladies' Gar
ment Workers Union, we're to re-
ceive hearings today in Denton, Md.
Christopher's hearing has been set
for next week.
The Ridgely and fredericksburg
plants of the button works have
been struck for two weeks by en-
ployes seeking recognition of the
1LGWU as their bargaining repre-
sentative
Evening star., 1947-10-23

nicipal elections, in which Gen. De
Gaulle's triumph caused a revision
of considerable political thinking
in France.
The second half Of the municipal
voting will take place Sunday to
choose local officials in most towns
under 5000 population. Returns
from that balloting are not expected
to change essentially the percent
ages chalked up last Sunday.
Gen. de Gaulle's apparent per-
centage of the vote cast continued
to run at about 40 per cent and
one of his spokesmen declared last
night that the Ramadier govern
ment no longer represents more
than 80 per cent Of the people"
The Communist share of the vote
about % to 80 per cent--coupled
with that polled by Gen. de Gaulle's
Rally of the French People (RPF)
and De Gaulhst-led coalitions, totals
about 10 per cent of the vote.
Members Of Cabinet.
The members of the streamlined
cabinet are:
Premier Ramadier, Socialist.
Foreign Minister-Georges Bidault,
Popular Republican, (MRP).
Economy and planning-Pierre-
Henri Teitgen, MRP.
Finance-Robert Schuman, MRP.
State-Yvon Delbos, Radical So
cialist.
Justice - Andre Marie, Radical
Socialist.
Interior-Edouard Depreux, So
cialist.
Education-Marcel Naegelen, So
cialist.
Economic affairs, public works
and transport-Jules Moch, So
cialist.
Social affairs-Daniel Mayer, So
cialist.
Industrial production-Robert La
Coste, Socialist.
Agriculture-Marcel Roclore, in
dependent.
Defense and colonies-Paul Be-
chard, Socialist.