The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 13, 1929, Page 12

Muit€ owt Se ewawenrce Editor's Note—This is the third of three stories on the recent work of the Penns; nia Crime Commission, especially timely cause of the similarity of the in- vestigation by the president's law enforcement commission. * oe x By RODNEY DUTCHER (NEA Service Writer) Washington, June 13.—-One of thi offe: life sentence discretionary with the judge, the law which the legislature passed on its recommend: tion makes the propriety of such sentence reviewable by a higher court For second and third major of- fenses, it provided, the convicted man may be sentenced to a term not more than twice as long as the maximum ¢ for first offense. The “major of- most important results of the investi- | fenses” covered by these provisions, gation of the Pennsylvania Stat Crime comm Passage by the lay fourth convictions of higher felonies at the discretion of the judge. Mandatory life sentences had caused most of the cr sm of th Baumes law in New York, and Penn Ivania profited by experience. e include treason, murder, voluntary. the recent | manslaughter, burglary, entering with intent to steal, robbery, arson, ma; hem, kidnaping, sale of narcotic perjury, abortion and offenses com: ' mitted with deadly weapons. Most of all, the crime commission laid stress on firearms legislation. To provide ‘bandit-chasing squads © of police,’ to establish ‘bandit cou! - and to impose extraordinary sentences ‘on the comparative few gunmen ‘On all sides.” the crime commis- | wio are brought to trial,” the com- sion decided at the outset, “there is a mission reported. “is, W general agreement that tration of the criminal law Present status of crimi throughout the United Pennslyvania in particu! quately mecting the p kinds of criminals.” Two Eras in Conflict . viewed in the light of what little has been a complished against the so-called gu men, very much like locking the stable door after the horse has been stolen.” More than 12,000 persons lost their lives through acts of violence in 1925, says, 10 murders to every 100,000 inhabitants as against five per 100,000 in 1900. Seventy-five per cent were committed by profes- The commission also quoted with sional criminals in cold blood and the approval a statement of Dean Roscoe | revolver or sawed-off shotgun was the Pound of the Harvard | ver commission mary of the situation “A highly develope stantive law and a « chinery of prosecution tion, judicial orga cedure and panal and shaped for pionce: school, one principal weapon used. The increase in the proportion of gun murders has been large and steady. Guns Easy to Buy A dealer in firearms, located in the busiest street in Philadelphia, was |} found to have sold over 100 machine guns, that could fire more than @ j hundred bullets a minute, without taking receipts or making any record tural America of the first half of the | of buyers. nineteenth centur: struggling ‘The commission recommended an vith the wholly different conditions of | act, with the hope that similar laws the urban, industrial society of to-| would be adopted in other states, In the huge cities which have| which would prohibit manufacture, ere up all over the country in a]sale, importation, possession and generation the ill adaptation of the; transfer of machine guns, automatic machinery to the task is acute.” \r , Shotguns, silencers and other m could not convince | deadly weapons; prohibit carrying of should be compelled | firearms in automobiles as well as on to sentence fourth offenders to life}the person; prohibit aliens and con- imprisonment. It asserted is true that some men should be im. victed criminals from carrying or pos- - | sessing any firearms; punish commis- prisoned for life after the first offense | sion of violent crimes while armed. as unregenerate criminals as it is true | with increasing severe penalties; con- that other men after the commission | fiscate and destroy all unlicensed fire- of their fourth offense should not be | arms and license all firearms as well locked up for the balance of their na. tural lives.” - | as their sales. ‘The legislature has recently ad- In addition to making the fourth | journed without passing this bill. “Well, Crys, how do you ike news- Paper work?” Harry Blaine demanded, when they were seated at a little por- celain-topped table in a hole-in-the- wall lunch room across the street from The Press. He was again the Harry Blaine whom Crystal had known for months and who was her very good friend, but she was too preoccupied to no- tice or care. Hard-boiled city editor or friend, Harry Blaine meant little to her now. And she had wondered only last week if love with him! vhen that tre- mendous thing happened, one could Possibly be in doubt! “Fine! ‘} answered his ques- tion automatically. “Harry, tell me about Colin There w: only friendly amuse- ment in Harry's voice as he answered: “You, too, Cry Every woman who looks at him seems to develop sudden, acute trouble with her dia- phragm and heart. Even funny little old Miss Karen, the society editor, fluttered about him like a snake-| charmed bird when he first came... . Queer thing. too. Grant's not so blamed good looking. Doesn't give a! hoot about clothes or his looks. Forgets to shave for two days and looks the tramp he is—” “Tramp?” Crystal repeated. i} “Sure he’ a tramp,” Hai chuckled. “Newspaper hobo. Best | reporter and special writer in the| game, from New York to ‘Frisco, but | you can’t pin him down to work at it.! ‘Two weeks is usually his limit. I feel | pretty, swell over snaring him into another week on The Pre: If he} gets a kick out of the Harmon mur- der trial he may hang on till the verdict’s in, but it'll be pure luck for us if he does. A rolling stone, gather- i ° IN NEW YORK | New York, June 13.—Canal street is; Manhattan's closest approach to the emall town streets I knew in boyhood. You know what I mean—brightly hued bolts of dress goods in the win- dow. . . . Those life-sized pasteboard | figurines in silhouetted displays of old-fashioned apparel. ... Faded signs displaying suspenders drawn out full length. . . . Tarnished gold shields at the corners of buildings... . Winter mittens ih display cases, though the sum:1er sun beats down. + Barrels of tripe and kegs of herring. . . Nails, ! bolts, screw-drivers and brads in little | > > MS 5 ‘OFF GoROS. - ing something a blamed sight more important than moss.” “And that is—?” Crystal asked, as casually as possible. “Mean to say you don’t know Colin {Grant's work?” Harry Blaine was in- credulous. “He writes the best short stories of anybody in America, and he gets his material for them as a newspaper hobo. Works just long enough to get money enough to move on to the next place and to buy coffee "THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1929 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ca ios | THE GUMPS—THE WELCOME MAT IS OUT ; 7 = SAY BOY . “fom Conse |, AWA’ i RON cane = BANK : GET YOURSELF SHAT A BISH POLE - Yom = You'RE WORKING YOO HARD = WE'RE UP AT TNE LAKE FOR THE SUMMER = ANN TIME YoU WANT TO MAKE A DEPOSIT = 5 FOR CURRENCY = 1S A HOOK AND UNE — VLE FURNISH THE SINKER = SOUNTARY AND TALK ABOUT COMPOUND INTEREST if CONFINEMENT ? : \\ Pi fort : GIDDAP LING =weRE GETTING ALONG IN GREAT SHAPE, ARENT WE? WELL Go COA TO THE END OF THE CLEARING AND BACK ONCE Boy! WAT AN APPETITE MAT GNES You !! 16 TL, way 3 PEEL Aow 2 NWO NOR THATS: ENOU6U FOR Now = THE MAIN THING ABOUT RIDING A WORSE 1S ACT To BE AFRAID’ | MOM’N POP Affluence By Cowan | THIS LOOKS FAMILIAR NO SIR. THIS IS THE GUNN HOME. 1 AM BOGGS, THE NEW ~ BUTLER. TLL TAKE: YOUR THINGS, sie and cakes. A genius, Crys, though I| admit there’s not many of us who know it yet. “Where could I find something he's written?” Crystal asked, her heart beating heavily with excitement. “He's written three swell feature stories for us this last week. You can find them in the files. And there's a book of his short stories, brought out last year by an optimistic pub- lisher—or an altruistic one. Don't suppose they sold a thousand copies, but some day a first edition of ‘On My Way’ may be worth a small for- tune. Personally, I'd bet on it, so I'm not turning loose of my copy.” “May I—borrow it?” Crystal asked. “Poor Crys!” Harry sympathized. “T ought to warn you that he’s scared to death of women—hates ‘em for fear one of them will lasso him and tle him down to one place. . . Of course ‘ou can borrow the book.” oan is te me furious about?” rystal surpri erself asking. ‘At life, because it's brutal and ugly, and at himself because he’s a romantic and thinks he's a realist,” Harry Blaine explained. “Don't fall n love with him, Crys. It will only bring you grief. NEXT: “On My Way,”—another warning. (Copyright, 1929; NEA Service, Inc.) tin containers. . .. Overalls piled high in second-story windows. Buildings that look like country ho- sels. ome And no structure more than four floors up... . Stock piled on 1 board tables and salesmen stat ‘ing with one elbow on a bolt of goods and left inee right-angled. . . . More horse-drawn vehicles than you're like- ly to see on any New York thorough- fare.... Buggy whips in umbrella stands and displays of flashy harness. ... And that nice smell of leather that lingers about such places. All quite incongruous in this city! *,* #€ But Canal street is, in @ sense, cross-roads of the city. It bisects Manhattan just beyond Vee as vi { LITTLEJOE | seem to melt into a sort of the old city that SURE! KEEP RIGHT ON KPOURIN’ Tice ( Tur . “ea Ta stor! y MUSTEK om jeege! oe TH’. WesTeR..\'VE DOWNED T GeT a CUITrTLe 4 tego a OtT OF IT! Ii ii ge ;