Evening Star Newspaper, December 4, 1929, Page 25

CRIVE RELATE " TOLACK OF WORK Census Shows 30.6 Per Cent of Male Prisoners Unem- unemployed when the crime for which u:u were mureenud ‘was committed. pron his statement was the as- sertion that uipurmto(thepmm ers had been unemployed for six months or more of the year prior to the crime, while on the average the offenders had been unemployed for about three months during the year prior to the | crime. ‘The bureau found that the prisoners had a decidedly lower educational value | than the population as a whole. The report presents socisl and economic statistics concerning criminals on & _per 100,000, the urbsn d!.ltflcu showing THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, prisoners were non-residents of the lo- calities where the crime occu: Statistics obtained in the study show that crime is far more prevalent in the city than in the country. For eities, towns and villages having a_population ©of 2,500 or more there were 25.1 prison- °ors per 100,000 of population, while for | the rural districts and villages of less than 2,500 there were only 7.6 prisoners more than three times as many prison- ers as the rural territory. were the crimes of the prisoners largely committed in cities, buz the prisoners = |40 WAR-TIME SHIPS LEFT TO BE BURNED Work of Destroying Old Vessels Expected to Be Completed at . Mallows Bay in Spring. Burning up of about 40 war-time D. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER ¢4, '.hoflaed vessels at "lflll the scene of previous operations in 1925. The major burning operations have been practically suspended for the season, due to the weather. While 40 more ships are to be dis- posed of, the Western Marine & Sal- vage Co. may sell additional vessels. When this work is entirely completed, the company will have to clean up the by Maj. Somervell to bum| o Brents Marsh, Vir- anchorage area, which it has occupled | ;¢ seven or eight years, and remove all debris, 80 that the area can be used for the fishing industry which formerly was 1929. organizations whose mission would be to eliminate from the government offl- clals and employes “not 100 per eent revolutionists.” The movement was said to be the result of a recent political meeting at, which a resolution was gi‘:”ffld to safeguard revolutionary prin- badCOLD goesinaday =3 way relief Instead ofenduring stuffedhead, aches, or asore, red nose, — It is estimated that 93 per cent of the nc:an floor is entirely devoid of plant FALLING ships that remain to be disposed of is expected to be completed at Mallows Bay, Virginia, next Spring. This was made puhlic yesterday by E. J. Merrick, | the vessels has recently been extended ir., civil engineer of the office of Maj.|for three years, it is expected to termi- Brehon B. Somervell, district engineer |nNate operations the coming Spring. for the r Department for the Wash- ® - a ington area. who has just completed an . S inspection trip of the burning opera-| Mexican Insurgents Organizing. MEXICO CITY, December 4 (#).— tions. Mexico City newspapers yesterday said ‘The Western Marine & Salvage Co. of San Francisco, which is burning the they had learned a Trouia of politicians belonging to the National Revolutionary themselves were chiefly city dwellers. e DEATH SENTENCE UPHELD PHOENIX, Ariz, December 4 (#).— The Arizona Supreme Court has af- firmed the death sentence of Mrs. Eva Du an, convicted in 1927 of the murder | . J. Mathis, elderly Tucson rancher. Pebruury 21 has been set as the carried on in that section. The com- pany has now disposed of about 180 ships, and while its permit for burning scale Jarger than ever has been attempt. ed before in the history of the coun- try, covering 19,080 prmmerl ‘who were | committed to State and Federal penal institutions. | Nearly one-third of the miale prison- Unemployment has & definite relation | ers had full-time weekly earnings of to the likelihood of crime, the Census | less than $20, while at the other ex- Bureau declared yesterday in a state- | treme 19.5 per cent had earnings of ment which said that while criminals| 840 8 week and more. are not drawn from any single economic | A large percentage of the prisoners or social class, the records show that in | had no normal hoi ife, 8 large | date of Mrs. Dugan’s execution. If the 1923—the period covered in the report— | proportion of them were rovers, movlnl sentence is carried out, she will be the 80.6 per cent of the male prisoners who | from place to place, as shown by the!msb woman hanged in the history of Teported their employment status were | fact that more than 27 per cent of the | Arizona as a State. Tflf flECflT Co. F Street at 7th that cold. Take Hill's. Gives safe, sure reliefin one-third the usual time because it stops cold ways. .. |:Checks fever... : 2: Opens b Ask any druggist i 3P°Tne.°.'§f:m"§.§' . for the red box of to take, always effective. HILL'S CASCARA-QUININE ployed at Time. HAIR STOP o ships, recently sold 14 of the vessels, to be taken to Philadelphia and used for a breakwater. A peemit has been au- party was organizing a body of secret 1,000 Pairs of *1+ to 1% Ruffled and Tailored Curtains & Lace Panels $ Don’t Forget Anybody This Christmas— NOT ANYBODY! 35¢ French Marquisette 20¢ Y4 Eighteen inches wide. 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