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“25 years, | THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON. D. C. DECEMBER 2SPEND T2 VEAR INFEDERALENPLOY flteran Workers Praised by ks Admiral as They Retire i From Gun Factory. +Two veterans of Government service, Charles C. Love, quarterman machinist, 8nd Christian Hintenach, helper gen- eral, who have hung up & total of 72 | years of work for Uncle Sam, were ‘®mecorded public and official honor for Ztheir labors vesterday when they laid down their tools at the naval gun fac- tory, having reached the age of re- $irement. Co-workers in the erecting shop at the gun factory presented cash gifts 10 Charlie and Chris as mementos ©f their esteem, and Rear Admiral Arthur L. Willard, commandant and | superintendent of the gun facto: Te- viewing the records of the men, de- clared: “All of us here at this great naval ordnance plant take a peculiar pride, not only in the merit of the materials which are manufactured here, but also in the fine spirit of co-operation and of mutual interest and understanding which prevails. Naturally, we regret to see those who have worked for years with us pass from our midst.” Love has been employed at the gun factory for 36 years and Hintenach for which with an additional service of 11 years in the United States Army, brings his Government employ- ment to 36 years. Each of the men is 65 years old, the retirement age. In 1922 Love was officially com- mended for “efficlency and geal dis- layed” in connection with work on 4-inch gun slides. Hintenach was born on Christmas day, 1864. He enlisted in the 1st| Cavalry in June, 1887, and served in Army until 1899, 'a period of 11 Jears, which included Spanish-Ameri- can War service. CAPPER PRESENTS GUARDIANSHIP BILL ‘Would Change District Code as Advised by Veterans’ |3 i Bureau. A bill to change portions of the D{s-i trict Code with reference to the question of guardianship of incompetent veterans and dependent minor children of vet- erans, prepared by the Veterans' Bu- Teau, was introduced yesterday by Chairman Capper of the Senate District | transfer of 97 prisoners from the Fed- When Christian Hintenach, helper quartermaster machinist gifts. With them here general (left), and Charles C. Love, (right), left the naval gun factory yesterday after veteran service there, they were felicitated by co-workers and presented cash Rear Admiral Arthur L. Willard, commandant and superintendent of the yard, who made the presentations. —Star Staff Photo. Lease Called Temporary Ex- pedient to Relieve Congestion and Eliminate Idleness. ! Attorney General Deems | Georgia Contract Legal, But | Asks More Legislation. | —— | Both the propriety and legality of the | eral Penitentiary at Atlanta to the | State of Georgia and their assignment | to work on the public roads near Sa- vannah were upheld by William D. Mitchell, Attorney General, in a report to_the Senate made public yesterday. The report was made in compliance with a resolution asking about the con- tract made October 16 by Sanford Bates, the superintendent of prisons, with the prison commission of Georgia, It clted | various statutes and precedents and TRANSFER OF U. S. CONVICTS IS DEFENDED BY MITCHELL ATTORNEY GENERAL GIFTS FOR THE FAMILY e — R R R R R R R R R R R B B B B R B R O R N R R IR B IR B OB IBOTNBNT, ¥ i & NO MONEY DOWN For the Benefit of Our_ Thousands of Customers and Their Friends We Are Making These Special Terms! Every Item Sold Will Be Delivered in Time for Christmas—For the Benefit of Those Who Cannot Shop at Daytime We Will Be Open Monday and Tuesday Evening 4-Piece Bed Room Suite Just 30 of these suites to be sold. Fin- $79 ished in Walnut on Hardwood; very pret- tily decorated Dresser, Vanity, Bed and Chest. 3-Piece Kroehler Bed-Davenport Suite Made by the well known Kroehler Manu- facturing Co. A settee during the day and bed at night. Just the thing for the unex- pected guest. Has bed-davenport, club and Blinny back chair, covered in good grade of velour ... Pillows Torchiere 4-Pocket Magazine Rack Priscilla Sewing Cabinet Washington Sewing Cabinet Ship Model 21 Inches Long Until 9 0’Clock Covered in Jacquard velour, with re- versible spring-filled cushions, framed top and bottom and a suite generally sold for 3-Piece Framed Suite $119.00. '8 wia e, p o s LT TTTeN @t : 14-Piece Dining Room Out Consists of large size buffet, ex- tension table, china cabinet, five side and one host chair and 5-piece con- sole s et. ‘09 committee and referred to that com- mittee for study. The bill would prohibit a person from accepting appointment as guardian if already acting as guardian for five wards. This provision would not apply 1o a bank or trust company acting for wards’ estates only, nor would it pro- hibit & person from acting as guardian for more than five wards if they were 8l in the same family. The court would be permitted under the bill to allow a commission not ex- ceeding 5 per cent in ordinary cases, but larger when service by the guardian said the superintendent had recently arranged that prisoners confined in the Jails of Alaska may be placed at work on the public roads in that territory. Leased to Relieve Congestion. “There is nothing about this trans- action that resembles what has been known as the leasing of convict labor,” the report reads. “The Federal Gov- ernment pays the State authorities for boarding and caring for the prisoners and receives nothing for their labor. The prisoners are engaged only on pub- lic works and arc not used by or farmed which Federal prisoners are housed may employ them in the same work and un- der the same conditions as State prison- ers are employed, subject to the Testric- tion against contracting their labor to private persons or corporations. “The arrangement made with the|. Georgia authorities is, within the plain terms of this statute, permitted by law. “To hold that the acts of Congress prohibit placing Federal conviets in State penal institutions under contracts by which the State authorities are al- lowed to utilize the labor of such con- warrants a larger commission. This measure also would authorize commitment. of incompetent veterans in need of hospitalization to United | States Veterans' hospitals outside the | District of Columbia if such action seems necessary afd desirable. At present, commitment must be made to St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, which is not an United States Veterans' hospital. The bill embodies the features of the uniform veterans' guardianship act, as ?roposcd by the commissioners on tni- lorm State laws, and approved by the American Bar Association, the Ameri- can Legion and similar organizations. CHICAGOVNEWS ADOPTS EMPLOYES’ PENSION PLAN Announces at Annual Banquet to 1,500 Workers Provision for Retirement Pensions. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 21.—Walter A. Strong, publisher of the Chicago Daily | News, tonight announced adoption of & new employes’ protection plan to the | 1,500 employes of the paper, at their annual banquet. The plan, underwritten by the Metro- politan and Prudential Life Insurance | Cos., provides life insurance, accident and health insurance and savings an- nbity for retirement. The latter fea- ture, calling for payment of 3 per cent ©f the employe’s salary and a like amount from the publishing company, will provide a pension amounting to 43 per cent of the employe'’s average sal- ary during service. The retirement ages are 65 for men 8nd 60 for women, with 25 years' con- tinuous service required. ‘DROWNED’ MAT\I RETURNS. SPRING HILL, Nova Scotia, Decem- ber 21 (#).—Ernest Austin, mourned as having drowned during a storm near Detroit, returned here today to surprise his friends and relatives. Austin said he was on the steamship Selkert during the storm and when the | deck load shifted he was thrown over- board. After being in the water for more than an hour he was picked up by a tug boat, which took him to Wind- sor, Ontario. Austin was not missed from the Sel- Kert until two hours after the cargo | shifted and the captain wired his par- ents here that he had drowned. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. O. L. Simpson will lead the Red Tri- sangle Outing Club hike this afternoon, Party meets at Seventeenth street and Pennsylvania avenue southeast at 3 o'clock. Hike of 41 miles will bz taken to Benning. No campfire. FUTURE. Kentucky State Socie meets tomor- Toy night at the Willard Hotel at 8:15 Former Gov. Edwin P. Morrow will speak. Dancing follows at 9 o'clocl North Capitol it ns’ Association meets tomorrow night, Room 130, Mc- Kinley High School Building mas party is planned. Mrs. Ada Mill Payne is chairman and Seldon El. chairmen of committee in charg ‘Washington Round Table will hold its annual Christmas party Tuesday at 12:30 pm., the Young Christian Associatio Seventeenth and K sireets. Curly Club will meet at the Gordon | Hotel at'8 o'clock on Thursday, Decem- | ber 26. Christmas party will follow meeting. Midnight party will be given by the | Derby Club at BamBco Inn Friday evening, December 27. At the meeting of the Exchangs Club Tuesday night at the Carlton Hotel motion pictures of a trip through Yel- Jowstone Park will be shown. Dr. Herman Valarde, Ambassador of Poru, and Dr. Enrique Claye, Minister of Colombta, will be the ' principal speakers at the banquet of the Ameri- can Association of Teachers of Spanish, of the Federal Government to see that with and the prisoners are properly tolerable conditions of overcrowding in out to eny private contractor. They are housed in one large dormi- tory building formerly used as an air- plane hangar and are fed in an adjoin- ing building. They are in the custody of ‘the State authorities and are guarded by employes of the county, and theré is in constant attendance an employe the terms of the contract are complied treated. “The reasons which prompted the execution of the contract were: “(a) The desire to relieve the in-| the penitentiaries. “(b) The need for supplying employ- ment for the inmates. “The usual form of contract be- tween the United States and State authorities providing for having Fed- eral prisoners kept in custody in county penal instituticns * * * contains no special provision respecting the labor or work to which the prisoners thus placed in State custody are to be assigned, and under the law they perform the same kinds of work under the same conditions as do State prisoners in the same institution.” He called attention to such an ar- rangement in West Virginia under a | contract entered into in 1925, and the new one in Alaska, and continued: “Just what other State institutions housing Feceral prisoners may be em- ploying the Federal prisoners, and as to what classes of work they may be doing, I am unable to supply adequate information. The department has no adequate means of inspecting these State institutions or_ keeping records or statistics of the Fedéral prisoners in them. That is one reason we are asking for an enlargement of the per» sonnel of the bureau in_the depart- ment having charge of Federal pris- oners. Arrangement Is Temporary. “The execution of other contracts like that with the Georgia Prison Ccm mission is not now pending or contem plated. Because of the generally over- crowded conditions in State and county penal institutions, we do not know of any such institution that can take any considerable number of Federal pris- oners and give them employment on public work ¥ “The policy of the department is not to eniarge the employment of Federal prisoners on public works for the States, but to utilize the labor of Federal prisoners under its own direction in non-competitive employment on public works for the United Sta Legisla- tion is now being asked to enlarge the powers of the Attorney General in this spect. re"-)"le'gle arrangement made with the Georgia authorities is & temporary ex- pedient seized upon by the superin- tendent of prisons in his effort to re- lieve the terrific pressure upon his bu- reau resulting from the overcrowded conditions. “The number of Federal prisoners in Federal penal institutions has sub- stantially increased since the beginning of this fiscel year. To the Federal Industrial Reformatory at Chillicothe, construction of which has just been commenced, with a planned capacity of 1000, there ate Now on commitment 1,747 Federal prisoners in temporary quarters. At Levenworth Penitentiary, notwithstanding the transfer from the War Department to the use of the De- partment of Justice of the disciplinary barracks, there are confined in the tentiary proper at this time 3,100 oners, although the normal capacity is 1,640. At Atlanta, nothwithstanding | transfers to the disciplinary barracks Leavenworth, there are still 3,687 ners, although the normal capac- | of that imstitution is about 1,580, | with two men to a cell. He quoted a number of statistics bearing on the subject, and said: Law Is Explained. “By these statutes the employment of Federal prisoners confined in Fed- eral penal institutions is limited to work within the prison inclosure or in the cultivation and care of prison grounds and farms, but in the case of Federal prisoners confined, by arrange- ment with State authorities, in State county penal institutions it is vided that they shall be subject to e same treatment as are State pris-| oners in the same institutions. In like| manner Congress has provided that Federal prisoners confined in State in- | which will be held at the Willard Hotel, Friday, December 27. Tickets may be obtained through Dr. H. G. Doyle, chairman ‘of the organizing committee, ‘George Washington University, stitutions shall be subject to the State parole laws, “Except as restricted by the contract made with the Attorney General, the officials of State penal insiitutions in victs on governmental work within or without the confines of the State insti- tution would mean that every Federal convict in a State institution is doomed to idleness and cannot be given any useful public employment, and that, as has been pointed out, is in plain con- flict with the express provisions of the sections relating to prisoners so housed. “The 97 prisoners who have been transferred from Atlanta have been given healthful, outdoor labor under comfortabie conditions. Many condi- tions have been imposed for their pro- tection. “Their employment is non-competi- tive, as the Georgia authorities have represented that free labor cannot be used as there are no funds available to employ it, and unless convict labor is used this work could not be done,” GEN. HOBBS DIES AT WAVERLY HOME Retired Veteran of Numerous Cam- | paigns Was Thrice Wounded in Action. Brig. Gen. Charles Wood Hobbs, U. 8. A., retired, veteran of numerous cam- paigns who survived wounds in three engagements during his career, died yesterday at Waverly his home on the Rockville pike. He was 87 years of age. Born at Albany, N. Y. February 2, 1842, the son of George W. and Sarah Boggs Hobbs, Gen. Hobbs began his military_career as a second lieutenant in the 113th New York Volunteer In- fantry in August, 1862. He subsequently was promoted through the ranks to that of brigadier general in April, 1905, During his Civil War service, which ended when he was mustered out in July, 1865, Gen. Hobbs was brevetted for gallant service in the Spottsylvania and Cold Harbor battles. He was wounded in the latter engagement so that he lost three fingers of his left hand and one of the forearm bones. Following the Civil War, Gen. Hobbs was appointed & second lieutenant of the 3d U. S. Artillery, with which he served continuously until he was pro- moted to the rank of major, in 1901. In July, 1904, he was made a lieutenant colonel and the following year he was advanced to rank of brigadier gen- 150 participated in the War and in the ion. He was wound- ed again during en attack at Manila. On April 13, 1905, after having com- pleted 40 years’ service, in the Regular Army, in addition to his Civil War ac- tivity, Gen. Hobbs was retired from active duty at his own request. He was a member of the Loyal Legion, of which he was at one time com- mander; the Military Order of Foreign Wars, the Society of the Army of the Potomac and the Military Order of the \Carabao. Gen. Hobbs is survived by his ‘widow, Mrs..Kate P. Hobbs, whom he married in Philadelphia November 25, 1874; two sons, Col. Horace P. Hobbs, commanding the 11th Infantry, U. A., at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind., and Charles ‘W. Hobbs, jr., of Redlands, Calif., and one daughter, Mrs. Henry H. Pfeil, wife of Maj. Pfell, U. S. A, now stationed here. EDWARD N ROWELLV DEAD. BATAVIA, N. Y, December 21 (#).— | Edward N. Rowell, president of the E. N. Rowell Co., one of the largest paper box concerns in the country, died this afternoon at Clifton Springs Sanitarium, at the age of 82 years. Mr. Rowell was born in Utica and started business here in 1882. He is survived by his widow and two daughters, Mrs. George Butte of Wash- ington, D. C., and Mrs. Edwin Russell of Loulsville, Ky. Moderator Wins Honor. NEW YORK, December 21 (). — Rev. Dr. Fred B. Smith, moderator of the National Council of Congregational Churches, tonight received the Chris- tian Herald's award for distinguished religious service. ‘The award, which in- cludes a trip to the Holy Land, was pre- sented at a dinner. Stanley High, editor of the Christian Herald, made the presentation, § n o o 15-Piece Dining Room Outfit Made of walnut veneer over hard- wood. . Large buffet, extension table, china cabinet, server, 8 chairs and 5- piece console set complete this group. [ i e 213082888RIANSE $179 3-Pc. Bed-Davenport Suite Just received a car of ' these Genuine E E Kroehler Suites. Covered all over in facquard velour, with loose, spring-filled cushions. Re- verse side covered in tapestry. Just 40 of these outfits to be sold at this price. Special terms for this sale. Room Suite Made of walnut veneer and other hardwoods. A suite that must be seen to be nf)preclated. 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