Evening Star Newspaper, March 26, 1930, Page 16

PRISONS' PRODUCE MARKET IS SOUGHT Southern Group Will $tudy to Make Industries Helpful for Convicts. By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va., March 26—Or-| ganizing as a permanent body, the | Eastern-Southern Conference on Insti- tutional Labor yesterday named an ex- ecutive committee to consider legislation necessary to secure practical organiza- tion of prison industries under the “State use” system. The committee will make its report at another meeting which it will call. The States of Georgla, Kentucky and Mississippl, which were not represented here, were invited to name members to the executive committee and to become members of the organization. That the Hawes-Cooper bill, depriv- ing prison-made goods of their inter- state character, will make marketing of contract prison-made goods exceed- | ingly difficult, if not impossible, was agreed upon at the final meeting to- day. Emphasizing that prisoners should be | kept employed and that the public is | best protected through methods to rc-! turn the criminal to society ready to | take a place in the economic scheme, the conference agreed that the training of isoners should not be secondary to js direct earnings in the manufacture | of products while incarcerated. The conference stressed the need of | a careful survey of the potential mar- | kets so that proper industries might be | introduced into the prisons. i Col, J. D. Sears of the New Jersey Prison Board was named permanent chairman of the organization: Dr. Wal- ter N. Thayer of Maryland, vice chair- | man, and Capt. Calvert L. Estill of West Virginia, secretary. J. E. C. Bischoff was named to the executive committee from the District of Columbia. —_—— GIVEN ANCIENT SWORD NEW YORK, March 26 (#).—A sword carried by Peter Stuyvesant, famous Duteh Colonial governor of New York. nearly 300 years ago has been presented to the museum of the city of New York by De Lancey Kountze, a descendant of governor. U. S. to Pay Chinese $500 Death Claim As “Act of Grace” By the Associated Press. As “an act of grace,” a House committee has approved a bill appropriating $500 to pay a claim which resulted from the death of a Chinese in 1927. ‘When a Chinese junk and the United States gunboat - Bittern collided, & passenger on the junk was killed. President Hoover asked Congress “as an act of grace and without reference to the question of legal liability of the United States,” to appropri- ate the $500. | An investigation showed, offi- | clals said, that the junk did not bear a light at the time of the collision. TRIBUTE TO EIELSON. Senator Nye Reads Letter From Wilkins in Senate. A brief tribute to Carl Ben Eielson, | Arctic explorer, who lost his life recent- ly in the frozen North in an attempt to | rescue passengers on an ice-bound ship, | was paid in the Senate yesterday by | Senatqr Nye, Republican, North Dakota. Nye read a letter he had received from Sir Hubert Wilkins, another ex- plorer, who described Eielson as one of the great pioneers of Arctic flying. He urged also that the Senate adopt as soon as possible his resolution calling for the naming of a mountain peak in| Alaska after the explorer. This Mother Says “‘Sour Stomach Made Edward Dull Until...” Zdward was usually a healthy, robust wood St., New York, N. reason he would get droopy and dull too often. Tt worried me until I was told too much starchy and sweet food was giving him a sour stomach, and that Acidine would help him. I gave him regular doses and he is fine now. 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