Evening Star Newspaper, July 1, 1931, Page 22

ITALY REINSTATES DEATH PENALTY New Penal Code Recognizes “Unwritten” Law——Fixes Dueling Punishment. By the Associated Press. ROME, July 1.—A bagful of new laws and procedure,-including the pen- alty of death for murder, was opened! today in Law Courts throughout Italy, as the new penal code came into ef- fect. For the first time since 1890, juries will be able to return a verdict of death. Hitherto all they could do was| to send the prisoner to jail for life. Greater license and ~extension of erime has induced Italy to reinstate the death penalty. Minister of Justice Rocco says_that the history of this penalty in Europe has been a succes- slon of abolitions and reinstatements. “Unwritten” Law Recognized. Prom this day on, Italians will have some recognition given to ‘“‘unwritten law” killings. Such murders, either of an unfaithful wife and her lover, or an unfaithful husband and his mis- tress, or of an erring daughter or sister, are to be punished with ne more than seven years imprisonment. That Is, if they are punished at all, because juries in Ttaly have been prone to acquit_in such cases. Duel Killing Penalty Fixed. Under the new code dueling occupies & peculiar position. In vivid contrast with the new death penalty is the pro- vision that a man who kills another in a duel can be sentenced to no more than five years, and he can get as little as one year. Courts are permitted to impose the death penalty for attempts against the life of the King, the Queen, the Crown Prince and Mussolini, and prison sen- tences for oftenses against their honor and prestige. Jury Rule Changed. With the coming into force of the code, Italy will institute a new experi- ment in juries. The courts of assize will have their usual juries of 12 men replaced by five professional jurors pald by the State and chosen from ranks which require an equivalent of a col- lege education. Ttaly, moreover, will now give up “cellular segregation” in her peniten- tiaries and permit her prisoners to do manufacturing and other work as is done in American institutions. E. ENNIS WHITE WED EUGENIA BANKHEAD| Court Records Reveal Name of! Fifth Husband Erroneously Reported as Smith. By the Associated Press. i TIA JUANA. Lower California, Mex- ico, July 1.—Civil Court records here yesterday revealed that Edward Ennis ite, and not Ennis Smith, became the fifth husband last Saturday of Eugenla Bankhead, sister of Tullulah Bankhead, film actress and daughter of Representative William B. Bankhead of Alabama. The first announcement of the mar- riage, at Rosarita Beach, Mexico, came from Mexican official sources. White is a New York business man and is 33, three years older than his + bride The ycung couple ‘s honeymooning along the coast of Lower California. BANKHEAD ELECTION INQUIRY ACT SIGNED Alabama Probate Judges Given Authority to Investigate 1930 Senate Balloting. B the Associated Press. MONTGOMERY, Ala., July 1.—Gov. B. M. Miller yesterday signed the Tunstall act, authorizing investigation of the Alabama election fcr United States Senator last November by pro- baie judges of the several counties. The act provides that the probate judges who. under the Alabama law are custodians of the ballots, shail inquire into the election for fraud, illegal vctes and other irregularities. Speaker of the House Alfred Tunstall announced that Senator John H. Bank- head, whose election is being contested before the United States Senate by for- mer Senator J. Thomas Heflin, had re- quested that the bill be introduced. Science Did Crucifixion Take. Place in Autumn. ID the crucifixion take place in the Autumn, If the biblical description did Tot date it so clearly in the Spring, just after the festival of the Passover and when the corn was ripe enough to eat, astronomers could be certain of the year and almost the hour. Investiga- tions of the German astronomer, E. Dittrich, reported in Nature, Lohdon, show that there was a total eclipse of the sun November 24, 29 A. D. The track of totality ran just north of Pal- estine. The eclipse must have reached its maximum in Jerusalem just before noon. This would explain perfectly, Dittrich holds, the reported darkening of the sky at the time, which was con- sidered by the biblical writers a super- natural event. This was the only solar eclipse in that part of the world at anywhere near the approximate time of the cruci- fixion. There is a possibility, Dittrich holds, that the two events happening in the same year became confused in the minds of the witnesses relating their experiences years after. If this was the case, he says, the crucifixion ean be assigned with reasonable assur- ance either to the year 29 or 30 A, D. It may have been in the Spring before or after the darkening of the sun, which m‘numnbly would make a much greater pression on the first century populace :&J"uulem than would a similar event ay BUMPER WHEAT YIELD PUTS THE EVENING KANSAS FARMER DEEPER INHOLE 200,000,000 Bushels.at 35 to 40 Cents Will Mean 10 to 15 Cents Loss Per Bushel as Old Debts Continue to Nag. Special Dispateh to The Star. | KANSAS CITY, Mo, July 1 (NA. NA ‘Many years ago Mary Ellen Lease de herself widely known when she declared Kansas should “raise less corn and more hell.” This year Kan- sas has raised a 200,000,000-bushel crop of wheat and is preparing to raise a revolt—some kind of a revolt. The State that almost swept the goat gland man, J. R. Brinkley, into office last Fall is about ready to take it out on some one. The cause is 35-cent wheat. Only a decidedly sharp devel- opment in the wheat situation, such as the Farm Board announcing it will withhold the old crop surplus, can keep Kansas quict. That is the situation as a staff cor- respondent for the Kansas City Star found it in a 1,500-mile motor car swing through the wheat belt. ‘Thirty-five-cent wheat wrecks the aspirations of Western Kansas—town and country—in a season when nature has never been more bountiful. Travel in any direction from Wichita, Salina or Belleville, key entrances to the main Kansas wheat belt, and the same s'ght meets your eyes—wheat growing to the roadside in all directions, wonderful wheat, the staff of life, probably a 200,- 000,000-bushel production for the State as a whole. Loss in Every Sale. Then consider the price of this wheat, from 35 to 40 cents a bushel at shipping stations. Every bushel sold Monthly on 7 Light Bills represents a loss to the growers of at|S! least 10 to 15 cents a bushel, And this is in the face of a declara- tion by Secretary Hyde of the Depart- ment of lture in Kansas City to- day that world needs all the wheat now existent and faces drastic reduc- tions in the new crop. He believes the world-wide production of wheat the coming year will be at least 350,000,000 bushels short of last season, including Russia, Canada, the Secretary says. at the very most will have only 250,000,000 bushels this year, far short of nor- mal; the Argentine, turning to flax, will be 30 per cent short of its vheat acreage, while Australia, the third great competitor of America in the world markets, would have a reduced acreage of 40 per cent. Kansas does not as yet realize the extent of this tragedy of wheat. Farm- ers, busy delivering their wheat to the | elevators, are taking scale tickets for | the amount. ' They will settle up when all the wheat is delivered, and at pres- ent prices they still will be in the hole. | | plained, “by which the holder of the Not only that, but they still owe on previous crops. Here is an incident to show that the average farmer has not vet awakened. A Western Kansas man who sells short term fire insurance on wheat had a caller the other day asking a $3,000 policy. Farmer Gets Surprise. “Wait a minute,” the insurance man said, “how much wheat have you got?” 7 Y Is “Three hundred acres, good for 20 bushels to the acre,” the farmer replied, proudly. “Yeah?” ~ Sald the insurance man. “Well, 300 acres of 20-buchel wheav is 6,000 bushefs, You owe the landlord one-third for rent, leaving you 4,000 bushels, at 40 cents a bushel, that is $1,600.” The farmer sat back, agape. Below e¢ost of production wheat means that Kansas is losing its big an- nual chance to cash in on one of its most important sources of new wealth. Where, ordinarily, a Kansas wheat crop brings in new capital from the East and North, this year whatever is saved out olu ame crop will be largely lost to the Consider the hordes of implement men and credit corporation representa- tives now infesting the Kansas wheat belt. It is difficult to obtain & room in a hotel out in the big machine farming country, so many of these “collectors™ are on hand. It is understood that when a farmer mortgages his crop, the holder of the mortgage is entitled to first collections until the debt satisfied. ‘The farmer, forced to make & pay- ment on mechinery even if he is not a tenant owing a third rent to the landlord, may find, despite his wonder- ful crop, that when he is through harvesting he still hasn't pald out. Then is when the howl will rise, espe- clally if the farmer still owes from last ar. 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