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T CLADDELASHLS | [ e s ] LUHURES TARFF PP Ambassador Declares Fine | Jewels, Perfume and Silks Necessary. Special Dispatch to The Star. ; NEW YORK, January 31.— The necessity for an immediate tariff re- | vision by the American Government on French importations in order to bal- ance the present disputes between the two countries and to avoid further anx- jety and aggravation was emphasized by Paul Claudel, French Ambassador to the United States, in his address ! before 400 members of the French | Chamber of Commerce of New York at | the annual dinner on the French liner | Ile de France last night. M. Claudel charged in substance that the tariff regulations of the United States in respect to PFrench importa- s were unjust, and could not be lered on a parity even with the rediprocal tariff regulations existing be- tween France and Germany. Hits Luxury Levies. ! stressed particularly the decline | InH;rench e“.pcu?t: to the United States and spoke of the increased commodities being shipped from this country to France, urging that there be a reclassi- fication of French luxuries with a sub- sequent reduction in taxes. He intimated that there should be 8 great reduction in American duties on such French importations as silks, jew- elry, glassware and other commodities designated under a high American tariff as luxuries, but which, he said, should be taxed no higher than books, paint- and statues. m!r!hs Ambassador asserted that the latest statistics on the United States tariff have shown to French citizens “the aggravation of a situation which Bbas existed for some time.” France not only receives her principal supplies from America, from whom she received her raw materials, but is also dependent upon the United States for manufactured goods and food products in ever-increasing quantities, said the Aml or. He contrasted this situa- tion with the fact that the exports from France to America showed a great de- cline last year. Says France Lacks Relief. “America_has benefited automatical- Iy without her tariff system having al- lowed her to grant to us anything in exchange for the tariff advantages which we had conceded to Germany in consideration of equal advantages, continued M. Claudel. “Much more, the French government, by its engagements of 1927, is going to find itself led, through the coming en- forcement of certain tariff reductions provided in the recent Franco-Austrian and Franco-Czechoslovakian agree- ments, to !proceed to new adjustments in favor of the Vr;‘l":dos‘ttgs.d During this time France ed no re- lief of any kind, but, furthermore, goods ‘which interest us particularly, such as polished glass, have just been taxed by | considerable tariff. “There is, n{\mn:‘-'fi between the two tries an inequality of and of mflm which probably will only become more pronounced and which has not failed to awaken certain anxieties. Relies on French Spirit. “All that I can tell you, reverting again to the metaphor which I used last year, is that I hope that the French spirit will be able to soar sufficient h to overleap all l:mn '=;‘ DR commenting m of "xrfides‘de \&' <exported from Prance to America and other countries, M. Claudel made the following unusual challenge as to the justification for the high duties on French merchandise des- as luxuries: - “Luxury, by definition, is a thing, the need of which i8 not indispensable; it is therefore on this side that economics seem indicated and that fiscal restric- tions turn of themselves. This is true, but a comparison comes to my mind which I admit perplexes me. “Do mnot the reasons which militate de luxe articles also militate against all products of the intellect. against all those objects where intellect occuples more space matter? Books also are not necessary, pictures, statues and music are not necessary. Why not tax them as heavily as jewels, perfumes, and silks? Who, however, would dare to prescribe books and pictures? Far from impoverishing a country, they enrich it, on the contrary. They b to it more than their value in banknotes. Sees Intellect at Work. “Well, what is true of a picture by Vuillard, a book by Colette or Paul Morand, is also true of glass by Lalique, 8 Rodier tissue, or an ornament by Cartier, and for so many other similar | and charming articles which Paris in- | vents daily and where intellect, which is the principal factor, smilingly defies the scale and the thread counter. “Evidently, certain products will al- ways succeed in overleaping the bar-| rlers which endeavor to limit intellect | or, in any case, to punish it. | “France may perhaps succeed in send- ing fo certain countries, very needlessly alarmed, models of which a small num- | ber of clients will exploit the novelty | and the style. Can one say that those countries will benefit much from this parsimonious system, from this prohi- bition of luxury, which is iswnbllny al prohibition of the intellect? | “F believe that intellect is like light | lnd‘ air, there can never be too much | of it. | Benefit to America Seen. “I' believe that intellect is not one of those nefarious germs the contagion | of which can be stopped by any kind of means. I believe that a country has, | finally, an interest in allowing beautiful | and pleasing things to awaken the sensi- bility and intelligence of the largest possible number of men and women and | encourage them, not to servile imitation, | but to beneficial emulation.” The Ambassador then spoke of Ameri- | can_architectural students who studied in Prance and who returned to thi United States to develop the present architectural achievements from plans | evolved through their research of | French architecture. He cited the | modern architectural masterpieces of | the principal cities of the United States &s compared with the American struc- | tures of 30 years ago. Optimism that the committee of ex- | perts, who will meet in Paris in the | near future, will establish the definite exterlor revenues which Prance may expect to receive over a definite period | of years was also expressed by the Am- | bassador. He expressed the hope that thelr conclusions would show achieve- ments as excellent as did the Dawes committee. Other speakers at the dinner included Judge Victor Dowling, Pierre de Mal- glaive, president of the French Cham- ber of Commerce of New York and resident director of the French Line; Julius Barnes, representing the United States Chamber of Commerce, and Dr. Alfred P. Dennis of the United States ‘Tariff Commission Dr. Lawrence Joseph Henderson of Harvard decorated with the French Legion of Honor by the Ambassador. L0 Two Sergeants Retired. ‘Master Sergt. Elliot Hoagland at' the Army recruiting office, 520 Tenth street, this city, and First Sergt. John R. Bluhm, 2d Bombardmsant Group, Air Corps, at Langley Field, Va.. have been wn applications. Each of these soldiers | pallbearers - will be THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D. C. THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1920, HOOVER IS STILL DETERMINED CLEAR SKIES GREET FISHERMAN HOOVER {President-Elect Determined to Lure Sailfish on Official Hook. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG, Btaff Correspondent of The Star. LONG KEY, Fla,, January 31.—When President-elect Hoover this morning | headed for that stretch of the Gulf Stream off the Florida Keys he has | | selected for his fishing grounds during CAPT. FRED BEALL. CAPT. FRED BEALL, 91, IS CALLED BY DEATH Confederate Army Veteran, Retired Lawyer, Helped Organize Mississippi Society. Capt. Fred Beall, 91, for years a prac- ticing lawyer here and veteran of the Confederate Army, died at his residence, 1123 Buchanan street, last night. He was commander of Camp, No. 171, United Confederate Veterans. He is survived by two daughters, Miss | Emma Beall and Miss Zoe Beall of this city. Capt. Beall served through the Civil War as captain in the Confederate cavalry. He was born in Georgia, July 10, 1837; came to Washington from West Point, Miss, in 1893, and was in active practice as an attorney until he retired in 1924, He helped organize the Mississippi Soclety here in 1895, was the second president of the society and served sev- | Trib eral terms as president. Later he was elected honorary president. Capt. Beall was elected in 1923 as commander for life of Camp 171, United Confederate Veterans. Funeral services will be conducted at his last residence at 9 a.m. tomorrow by Rev. Thomas E. Broode, assisted by Dr. J. W. Duffey. Interment will be in the Confederate section, Arlington Ceme- tery. Among the active and honorary the Senators and Representatives and officers of the Mis- sissippi Society, representatives of the Bar Association of this city and mem- bers of Camp 171, United Confederate Veterans, The list includes Representative Charles M. Stedman, Dr. W. A. Daniel Roper, Paul Johnso: Davidson and Dr. T. J. Curry. WOMAN STRUCK BY AUTO, DRIVER IS ARRESTED Injured While About to Catch Street Car—Skull Probably Fractured; Face Lacerated. Miss Mary L. Adams, 25 years old, of 1444 W street was seriously injured about 8:15 o'clock this morning when she was struck while about to board a street car at Fourteenth and V streets tly | by an automobile operated by Joseph Ottenberg, 51 years old, of 3521 Six- teenth street, who was later arrested by eighth precinct police on a charge of assault. Ottenberg is the owner of a bakery at 1243 Seventh street. Miss Adams’ skull is probably frac- tured and her scalp and face badly lac- erated. She was taken to Emergency Hospital by W. K. Jawish of Thirty- sixth and M streets, and treated by Dr. Walter Gladding of the hospital staff. Ottenberg told police that he saw Miss Adams and another woman stand- ing on the curb. Both started to- ward the approaching street car and the second woman halted to allow him to pass, he declared, but Miss Adams con- tinued out into the street and before he could bring his machine to a halt he had struck her. booétenberg was released under $300 nd. BILL TO CLARIFY LAW. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md., January 31.—The bill prepared by the State Tax Commis- sion which would recodify and clarify the State tax laws was sent to the Legislature i;esherday by Gov. Albert C. Ritchie, without comment. The meas- ure grants a reduction of taxes on shares of stock of surety and guaranty companies. It was said that the gov- ernor would make known his stand on the measure as soon as he receives in- formation as to the effect of the meas- ure on these reductions. . As a whole, it is understood that there no real opposition to the measure, but specifically the tax reduetion fea- ture is unpopular because it was said that Baltimore City taxes would drop about $600,000. The Foeing Htar | his se¢ond fishing expedition of his pre- | inaugural vacation he was greeted by | beautiful clear skies, a calm sea and ;every other condition considered ideal from the 'viewpoint of the deep-sea | angler. If he returns with a poor catch to- night to the yacht Amitie anchored in | Angel Fish Creek, a few hundred yards oft shore from here and upon which | he and Mrs. Hoover and a portion of { his fishing party are living on this | expedition, he cannot blame his 1l luck on the weather. Local fishermen pres- ent as Mr. Hoover pushed off were unanimous in describing the weather as perfect for fishing, especially for catch- ing sailfish. Judging from the look of assurance and determination on his face this morning when he started out for the fishing grounds, Mr. Hoover is not com- ing back without realizing his long- cherished ambition to land a sailfish. Newspaper men have been left behind, so some member of the Hoovex, party will come ashore tonight and glve an ac- count of the President-elect’s day. Mr. Hoover's party personnel includes Mrs. Hoover, Harlan F. Stone, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, and Mrs. Stone; Mark Sullivan, political writer, and Mrs. Sullivan; Jere- miah Milbank of New York, Eastern treasurer of the Republican national committee, and Mrs. Milbank: James P. Goodrich, former Governor of Indiana; Verne Marshall of Cedgr Raplds, Iowa; Willlam K. Hamilton, New York bank. er, and Phillip Kinsley of the Chicago une. Justice Stone and Mr. Sullivan are old fishing cronies of the President- elect. Mr. Kinsley also has fished with Mr. Hover on former occasions. Lawrence Richey, Mr. Hoover's per- sonal representative on his Florida va- cation, did not accompany him. ‘The Hoover party left Miami on a special train of two cars for Long Key at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The understanding is that the party will not return before nearly midnight Saturday. e s BOY FIREBUG GUILTY. Reform School Sentence Result of Damage at Academy. BEDFORD, Va, January 31 (#).— James Potter, the youth who confessed to setting fire to a dormitory building at Randolph Macon Academy the night of January 12, and pleaded guilty when brought before the Circuit Court here on a’charge of arson, was yes- terday sentenced to five years in the penitentiary, but on motion of counsel and absence of objection from the com- monwealth attorney, the sentence was changed to send the boy to the State reform school until he is 21 years of age. Potter is about 17 years old and his home is at Alliance, N. C. He was a student at the academy. RITES FOR MRS. COCKEY. Greatniece of President Madison Lived With Sister Near Berryville. Special Dispatch to The Star. BERRYVILLE, Va., January 31— Funeral services were held for Mrs. Nannie D. Cockey, widow of Maj. T. D. Cockey, who died at Chapel Green, the home of Miss Lelia Baker, near Berry- ville, following several weeks’ illness of pneumonia. Mrs. Cockey formerly was Miss Baker and was a greatniece of President Madison. Her great-grand- mother was Annie Madison, who mar- ried Maj. Isaac Hite of Revolutionary War fame. She was a native of Clarke County and after her marriage moved to Texas. Since the death of her hus- band, 10 years ago, Mrs. Cockey had made her home with her sister, Miss Lelia® Baker, who is the last surviving member of her family. Tsaak Walton Branch Formed. Special Dispatch to The Star. LYNCHBURG, Va. January 31.— A chapter of the Izaak Walton League was formed Friday night at Massie's Mill, Nelson County, with 22 members. The league is expected shortly to have an_active membership of at least 50. R. P. Taylor of Roseland was made tem. orary chairman, the other officers ing: Vice President, Dr. Homer E. Clark; secretary, Charles S. Wilson, and treasurer, H. E. Powell. . o A Since radio and airplane service have brought Alaska closer to the centers of civilization, there have been fewer cases of insanity there. ADVERTISEMENTS Bk ol ( RecEIVED HERE Kenner’s Pharmacy—17th & Que Sts. N.W. Is a Star Branch Office Results are so sure from Star Classified Advertising that practically any want you may have will be promptly supplied through a properly worded and classified adver- and THE ABOVE SIGN Is DISPLAYED BY AUTHORIZED STAR BRAMNCH OFFICES w a Star i iced on the Army retired list on their ad more than 30 years' active Yy service, Classified day than any other Washing- ton paper that there can be no question as to’ which will give — you the best results, tisement in The Star. Copy may be left at any Star Branch Office — and there’s one located in prac- tically every neighborhood in around Washington. No fees are charged for Branch Office service; only regular rates. The Star prints such an over- helmingly greater volume of Advertising every “Around the Corner” is Branch Office BY MARK SULLIVAN, Speclal Dispatch to The Star. MIAMI BEACH, Fla, January 31.— Much of the current interest around President-elect Hoover’s temporary home here centers about the association be- tween his name and a sailfish. By com- mon' consent_the sailfish is the second gamest inhabitant of Florida waters. The one most desired by most fisher- men is the tarpon. February 1 is, how- ever, a little early for tarpon. The denizen of warmer waters does mnot arrive on the Florida coast in numbers until after the first week in March, by which time Mr. Hoover will have a more engrossing occupation in another part of the United States. ‘The sailfish are now here in reason- able numbers. The Miami newspapers, which print daily columns of fishing news, com- monly report the doings of from 15 to 30 boats. Always large catches are reported of mackerel, barracuda, group- ers, bonita, amberjack and other famil- far fish of these waters. Of sailfish there is usually a report of at least one or two catches a day. The game- ness and desirability of the sallfish rest on many causes. He is large, being as a rule from six to seven feet in length and weighing from 60 to 70 pounds or more. He is strong and active beyond all other fish in these waters except the tarpon. To see a sailfish leap from the sea and angrily shake himself to get rid of the hook is to get a fisherman’s thrill. One gets anywhere from five to 20 such thrills in the course of the hour or so that 1t often takes to land a sailfish. and harder to hook. Local fishing lore says that out of every five sailfish hooked by the most >xpert fishermen, three to four get away. Fishing for sailfish is an art by itself. Other kinds of fish swim up to the bait and swallow it, or try to. The sail- fish operates more intricately, He has a long bill like a bird. His bill is larger and narrower and more tapered than any bird's. It is like a rapier. ‘The sailfish swims up to his prey and jabs it with his rapier-like bill, then he swims off, turns around and comes back to see if the prey is dead or dis- abled. If the prey is dead, the sailfish starts to swallow it. That process gives rise to the technique of sailfishing. To haul in the line at the first bite is wrong. On the contrary, the fisher- man must let out his line so that the bait seems dead and remains in the same spot. When the sailfish returns and starts to swallow the bait is the time to hook him if you can. That “if” is a large one. Most of the sailfish's bill and mouth is as hard as a bird's beak. ‘The hook cannot Penetnu it. The fisherman's chance lies in getting the hook curved around the edge of the fish's bill or mouth and then holding it absolutely and continuously taut during the hour or so of struggle that may follow. Occasionally, but only by unusual luck, the hook will strike soft flesh back near the sailfish’s throat. In that. case the hook may penetrate and the fish- ing becomes like catching of any, or. dinary fish of great strenigth and game- ness. To haul in a sallfish'is pard phys- 3 1y strong man will be breathless and nearly exhausted at the end of an hour of it. The salifish habit a spectal depth and kind of water, Where they are, few other fish are apt to be. One does not find a sailfish cas- ually in the course of shing for or- dinary varieties. One must find out where the sailfish are on the particular day you go fishing. Then you must g0 after them, track them down and fols low them up. Frequently they will change their minds and depart for some other part of the sea. Often it is rea- sonable good luck to get one bite from @ saiifish in half a day of patient pur- suit. Much depends on the weather. If the wind {s high and the waves have churned up sand the sailfish will' go. FRIDAY ONLY! Regular $1.50& $2 Ties for Three 8 Sc $2.50 He is hard to land after he is hooked | .ray, GROSNER”S 1325 TO LAND THAT GAME SAILFISH| away to avold getting sand in their gills. The weather the latter part of this week does not promise to be ideal for sallfishing. Most fishermen here are willing to bet that Mr. Hoover will get a sailfish before he returns to Wash- ington. In his trips to Florida in for- mer years he has not gone after sail- fish specifically. This year he is going to. GIRL, 1_7, SETS NEW RECORD ON FLIGHT; UP OVER 13 HOURS (Continued From First Page.) seated in the one position so long. She brought her plane down at the southern end of the field, beyond the range of the floodlights, but one of the first to reach her side was her father, Tom Smith, also a pilot, who greeted her |has with a kiss. She then went to the field operations’ office, where she sat in front of the fire and drank a cup of hot coffee. She had taken two vacuum bottles of beef tea and coffee along in the plane, but did not drink any of either. She also had taken some anti-sleep tablets, but said she had not found it necessary to use them. Her plane, a Brunner Winkle biplane, started with 116 gallons of gasoline and 32 gallons remained, enough to fly an additional four hours. The riding lights on the tip of the wings were burned out and the alti- meter went out of commission during the flight. She had to estimate her alti~ tude during the night. A beacon, the lone light on the field, was out of commission several hours. Mechanics finally effected repairs after climbing the hundred-foot tower in the freezing weather. Miss Smith flew at an average altitude of 1,200 feet. The flood lights were turned on when she signaled by a flare that she was de- scending. Her father arrived at the field yester- day with the intention of having her postpone her flight in view of the ex- treme cold, but found she had already taken off. Later in the afternoon he went up in another plane on the side of which in- structions had been chalked advising her to fly north and south during the night and informing her she would have | gy, moonlight before 11 p.m. Both her mother and father and her 14-year-old brother remained at the | pef field throughout the time she was in the air. The family resides at Free- port, Long Island. Miss Smith, who was granted a private pilot's license last year has had considerable experience in the air. On August 21 she set an official woman'’s altitude world record of 11,663 feet. Several months ago she was grounded for 15 days by the Department of Com- merce for flying under the four East River bridges, a feat never before per- formed by a woman. Scout Council Expands. Special Dispatch to The Star. STAUNTON, Va, January 31— Stonewall Jackson Counell, Boy Scouts of America, which embraced Augusta, Bath, Highland nad Rockbridge Coun- ties, has expanded to take in Rocking- ham County and Harrisonburg. Officers were re-elected last night, as follows: George H. Vermilea, vice president, Clifton Forge; R. M. Loving, vice presi- dent, Covington; Rev. Dr. J. J. Mur- vicé president, Lexington; Col. Morgan H. Hudgins, vice president, Wayneshoro; Howard M. McManaway, vice president, Staunton; R. O. Baghby, vice president, Buena Vista; Dr. H. R. Thompson, Clifton Forge, representing the National Council, and J. Wilford Fix, Scout executive of Stonewall Jack- son Council. 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In other words, the Executive offices are so cramped and the work there is growing so rapidly that something like the organization of a Government department itself may become necessary. Hoover Dislikes Red Tape. Mr. Hoover is accustomed to work with executive assistants. He dislikes red tape. He had personal secretaries whom he paid privately when he was Secretary of Commerce. He did not feel justified at that time in asking the Gov- ernment to take care of this burden. But as President of the United States the situation will be different. Congress shown a disposition to lighten the labors of a President by giving him all the help he needs. Mr. Hoover has a systematic method of approaching the many problems that come to him for at- tention. He is more like the executive of a big corporation, delegating his work to trusted assistants who investigate and report to him. p’l?he general impression now is that Mr. Hoover will have three secretaries to divide the tasks that pile up in the outer office of the President. Every Cabinet officer has a better auxiliary staff than is granted the President. It is not that the present staff originally was inadequate, but that the work has been increasing. The correspondence with the White House is growing. It takes one executive secretary to handle and supervise it. It takes another secre- tary to handle the callers from Congress and other visitors. Then there are the people who come merely to pay their respects. Press Contact Was Needed. Last and by no means least is the contact with the press which suffers when the executive secretaries become immersed in the business of handling callers from Capitol Hill and elsewhere. Many an important memorandum is presented to the President for perusal. He may want something looked up. He cannot always send it to a cabinet of- ficer. And, besides, there is other re- search work to be done. The late Pres- ident Harding started the custom of & personal secretary to look up data for speeches. This was continued bylML Coolidge. It has proved a great p. The belief prevalls that George Akerson, formerly Washington corre- spondent of the Minneapolis Tribune, will be the secretary who contacts the press and callers from Congress; that Laurence Richie, now in Florida, will look up data and take care of manvy personal matters of investigation for Mr. Hoover and contact other Govern- ment departments, while a_third sec- ret 1 be a man of the type of Jullus Klein; now head of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce of the Department of Commerce. In other words, Mr. Hoover will have an economic secretary familiar with the many questions he has to deal with as Secretary of Commerce and the many mare that will come to him in the [ Jrom_ Margaret Brown, 7 years old, Perry, Kans., following attack of pneumonia, was kept alive for the 12 days through | the application of oxygen, administered by Dean Way and A. W. Schuberg, Topeka firemen, working in 12-hour shifts. She has regained consciousness and hope is held for her recovery. P. & A. Photo. FIREMEN WIN FIGHT T0 SAVE GIRL'S LIFE Contsant Administration of Oxygen Is Believed to Have Elimi- nated All Danger. By the Assoclated Press. PERRY, Kans, January 31—Two ‘Topeka firemen who for 12 days nursed the spark of life in 7-year-old Mar- garet Brown by the constant admin- istration of oxygen were relieved from duty today when their little patient, suffering from a lung infection, was pronounced almost out of danger. For the first time in 13 nights Mar- garet slept without the aid of oxygen, and her physiclans said this morning her condition was good. The child asked for her dolls and also talked about school and her play- mates. ‘Without the oxygen and blood trans- fusions from her parents, Mr. and Mrs. ‘Walter Brown, the physicians said Mar- garet could not have survived the crisis. HOWARD ELDRED WILSON, BANK EMPLOYE, DIES Assistant Cashier Survived by ‘Widow, One Son and One Daughter. Howard Eldred Wilson, 12 Seventh | street southeast, for 30 years connected with the Franklin National Bank and for the past 10 years assistant cashier of the titution, died today at his home of pneumonia. Mr. Wilson was well known to the banking fraternity of the Capital. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Vir- ginia Wilson; a son, Howard Eldred, jr., and a daughter, Eleanor. Puneral serv- ices have not been completed. future because of Mr. Hoover's known familiarity with economic questions. All in all, the next President of the United States will be more of a gen- eral manager than an inactive chair- man' of the board—a hard-working exeeutive with plenty of assistants. (Copyright, 1929.) a < m the AVENUE PRISON PROGRA URGED IN HOUSE Two Penitentiaries, Hospital for Insane and Many U. S. Jails Asked. By the Associated Press. The construction of two penitentiaries and & hospital for the criminal insane were among the major recommenda- | tions of & special House prisons investi- | gating committee submitted today in | a report to the House In addition, as further means of re- lieving congestion in Federal peniten- tlaries throughout the country the com- mittee recommended that a narcotic institution, authorized under the Porter bill, be constructed as quickly as pos- sible; that the reformatory at Chilli- cothe, Ohio, be pushed to completion and that Federal jails or workhouses to care for short-term and detention pris- oners be authorized. One in Northeast. ‘The committee suggested that one of the two additional penitentiaries be lo- cated in the Northeastern part of the country and the other at such a place as a board of experts might determine, It recommended that the jails or work- houses be located at New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cleveland, Cin~ cinnat!, Chicago, St. Louls, San Fran- clsco and “such other places as the needs from time to time shall require.” The committee said legisiation to carry out its recommendations would be presented promptly to Congress. Other recommendations included en- largement of the office of superintendent of prisons and enactment of a law to establish a parole board to act upon application without requiring approval by_the Attorney General. The report suggested that all mill- tary prisoners now held in civil peni- tentiaries be transferred immediately to the United States disciplinary barracks, and that in the future no more mili- tary prisoners be accepted in the “al ready crowded penal institutions.” Due to the lack of a proper program and to the tremendous increase in the number of persons committed, the com« mittee said the penitentiaries were over- crowded with persons sentenced to prison for more than one year. Leavenworth Overcrowded. “The committee found that the Leavenworth penitentiary now has within its walls more than twice the number of prisoners it is able to ac- commodate,” the report said. “The normal capacity of the Atlanta peni- tentiary is 1,712 and upon the day the committee visited it there were 3,107 prisoners in the institution. “In both of these institutions there exists the vicious practice of ‘double up,’ or placing two prisoners in single cells. Men are sleeping in dark, ill-ven- tilated basements and corridors, impro- vised dormitories are in use, the kitchen and T).i" nqmu:; ;u ovm'flmdml g more an twice flr prope: capacity. “The committee also found that no more prisoners should be confined in the McNell Island Penitentiary,” it add- ed, “not only because it has reached its proper physical capacity, but also because of the remoteness of its location, in one corner of the country, far from the center of commitments, and because of the impossibility of securing sufficient fresh water. “Only at the new Iederal institution for women at Alderson, W. Va., did the committee find sufficient facilities for the proper care of the Federal prisoners committed to that institution.” . —_— ‘The state of Chiaj in Mexico, is extensively replanting its forest lands, looking ahead to a forest crop about 70 years from now. 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