Evening Star Newspaper, March 13, 1935, Page 25

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1935. NURSES AID 8380 DURING FEBRUARY 15,929 Visits Made in Month Society Reports to Its Directors. The Instructive Visiting Nurse So- elety carried 8980 patients on its, active list and made 15929 visits during February, it was reported at & meeting of the Board of Directors of the society yesterday. i Because of the pressure load which was brought about by the seasonal increase in respiratory disorders, grippe, colds, pneumonia and other ailments, the organization was un- able to visit 944 patients. Approxi- mately one-half of these, the board was told, were patients with tuber- culosis, tuberculosis contacts and sus- pects. May Have to Drop 10. Concern was expressed over the fact that while the organization was unable to give care to all patients to whom it is obligated, the society prob- ably will have to drop 10 nurses from its staff at the end of this month, | unless the Community Chest can find means to permit these nurses, who were requested for the year, to con- tinue in service. The board voted to make an urgent | appeal for extension of funds to carry these nurses. Mrs. Harlan F. Stone, chairman of the Nursing Committee, reported that her group had held three meetings since the last board session, and told of an {llustrated lecture given by El- wood Street, director of the Board of Public Welfare, at a program meet- ing of the committee. Mrs. Chase Presides. Mrs. G. Howland Chase, president of the board, presided at the meeting. Among those present were: Mrs. ‘Wilder D. Baker, Miss Elizabeth Bryan, Mrs, Whitman Cross, Mrs. Charles B. Crawford, Mrs. John W. Davidge, Joshua Evans, jr.; Mrs. C. C. Glover, jr.; Miss Janet B. Houtz, Miss Virginia Hunt, Mrs. R. M. Kaufl- mann, Mrs. Emory S. Land. Mark Lansburgh, Mrs. Keith Merrill. Mrs. Cresson Newbold, George H. Myers, Mrs. Ord Preston. Mr. John M. Stern- hagen, Mr. John W. Turrentine, Richard Wilmer, Mr. Charles F. Wil- son, Mrs. John Marvin Wright and Miss Gertrude H. Bowling. PRISONS CROWDED DESPITE REPEAL Sanford Bates Tells House Hear- ing His Bureau Must Retain Leavenworth Annex. By the Assoctated Press. The Federal Government's prison population is on the increase, notwith- | standing repeal of the liquor laws. Sanford Bates, director of the Bureau of Prisons, blamed this situa- tion, in testifying at a recent hear- Ing of the House Appropriations ¢‘om- | mittee, for the bureau's inability to give up an annex to Fort Leaven- | worth, Kans., penitentiary where | 1,695 prisoners now are housed. The | annex is War Department proporty.; Bates said the New Orleans Fed- | eral Jail recently reported it “had | never had as many arrests for iliegal | liquor as they had that month.” | “That is one of the surprises that has confronted the committee, as well | as the Department of Justice—v.hel rapid increase in the populations of Jails since the repeai of the eighteenth amendment,” said Representative | Oliver, Democrat, of Alabama. | Attorney General Cummings re- | cently said new Federal statutes and | expansion of the Bureau of Investi- gation pointed to a steady increase in | Federal prisoners. The all-time maxi- | mum in Federal prison population was | 14314 in June, 1932, before repeal. | ‘The minimum was 11,030 in March, 1934. But the most recent check, on February 22, showed 14,010, with gains each week of from 50 to 100. | HARRIMAN TO ADDRESS BOARD OF TRADE FRIDAY | Dr. William McClellan, President of Pepco, Also on March Meeting Program. Henry I. 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There was an iron ball of 20 pounds’ weight hitched to his ankles, and the chain from the ball passed up by a special chain and was fastened to a collar that fitted close around that great neck. “Leave him, then,” said Estrada. “I may need you again in a moment. Wait outside the room.” ‘When they had withdrawn, Es- trada said: “Rubriz, the fact is that you worked with El Keed. You made a gringo your partner to steal from me today.” Rubriz said nothing. There was merely a sort of idle curiosity in the eyes with which he scanned the face of the general. But in Estrada there was a mighty confidence. It was as large as his soul and rooted as deep. “When you stole the emeralds.” said Estrada, “you took half and El Keed took half. You went by dif- ferent ways. And, by God! you al- most escaped, as he did. Bad luck stopped you. And yet, Rubriz, it may not be such very bad luck, after all You have fallen into the hands of a man of understanding. “The poor have never had any rea- son to fear you. Now, then, I was once a poor man myself. I remem- ber those days very well. And I want to tell you that I can feel such a sympathy that I could give up all the noise and the reputation that will come from all over Mexico be- ‘cause I am the man whose grip at last closed on you. I could arrange matters so that you would be able to slip quietly away, Rubriz, one of these nights. And all that I want you to leave behind for me is a little information—just a little information, Rubriz. “Something for nothing is not what a man can expect in this world, Rubriz. But the payment I ask from you is very small. jewels in the hands of El Keed— that El Keed was your partner in the work of this night. I merely ask you where I can find the gringo.” There was no answer. The general said: *“You note, Ru- briz, that the man is not one of us. You note that he is a gringo?” Rubriz smiled. And at that, with & touch of anger in his voice for the first time, the general continued: “If you will talk willingly you receive I begin by point- | ing out to you that there are certain | trada felt that he knew how to ex- | your freedom. But if vou put me to it—if I have to tear the answers out of you, I shall have them, with blood dripping from every word of them. You hear me, Rubriz?” Gen. Ignacio Estrada could not be- lieve his eyes. Yet he saw the pris- oner continued to regard him in silence, without greater emotion than a mild curiosity. The general leaped to his feet. “You fool!” he shouted. know what I am?” “A dog and the son of a dog,” said Rubriz. Now for the first time that night, the rage of the general was so great that he remained calm. In a sense it would be better this way. More than:once Gen. Estrada had enjoyed putting his questions by force, but he never had such a com- plete man to deal with. There was pleasure as well as answers to be ex- tracted by the method he had in view. Therefore he almost wondered that he had, in the first place, offered any sort of a bargain .o Rubriz. I The little cell in that old dungeon which was supposed to be disused was | the lowest of the entire cellar of the | building. It was so low that the river | water, seeping aslant through the soil, kept oozing through the walls and covering them with mold. And’ on the floor there was slime from which sprang a disgusting odor of decay. But though the irons were thick with | scales of rust, they retained a strong | core. 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