New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 5, 1928, Page 2

CONSIDER CONN. A8 PENITENTIARY SITE Survey to Be Made for Federal Prison Location Ry GEORGE M. MANNING (Washington Burcau of the N. Herald) Washington, D. €., —A survey of federal prisons being made this summer may 2t in the es- tablishment of a f al prison in ve B X introduc session of ¢ viding for the tederal prison in cireuit, which and Connecticut. tion taken on this measure, the partment of justice wanted a survey made of the situation throughout the entire count 2 7,598 pris- oners are lodged in prisons, the cells capacity of which is 8759, final day of the session, On the however, Representative Snell sus- From Carnegie Tech ceeded in having passed a resolu-| piusburgh. Pa., June 5.—Clarence | tion providing for survey of | Hjerpe, of 95 Winthrop street o crowded conditions in the federal | Britain, Conn. was awarded @ cer- prisor ad a committee of five ! tificate in Heating and Ventilating congressmen was appointed headed Ly Representative John G. Cooper of Olio ce, which has al d with Attorney G €ral John G. Suarge will also study the problem of convict labor in_the federal prisons, to determir whethier the products of prison la- bor come uniai into competition with the products of free labor. The question of the competition 0 products made in state prisons With the products of free labor has asitated congress for years, without ever reachin final action. session the bill wa the house, by a vote o but no action was taken in the senate New York as a whole ported this legislation, a not allow its convict goods o com pete in the open market with pro- labor. but Con- duets made by 1 necticut, prison wa Connecticnt, of gools of which outside the state in Connecticur. some is produc in the prisons, 0 worth is sold and $500,000 worth Federal prisoners for the entire rortheastern part of the d'nited State are sent to the penitentiaries in Atlanta, Ga. or Leavenworth Kan thus going 1,000 miles r | its products to 98 countries. “Build ~And Help ‘Build ‘mnre to prisoin. In urging the resolution provid Lepresentative Snell said This resclution provi for a neral survey of the penal institu | tion of the tes and the conditions i rein by a mittee of the house of repr ntatives. There has been no such adoption of the g for the survey, survey made in the last 40 years. Ihere seems to be a general de- for this survey tl department of ju several association and people who lave given a great deal of time and not only by attention 10 & study of those condi- As rar as I know there is 1o whatever to the resolu- only question is of getting who cpposition tion. The some members of the house will do the real work t | quired to make a proper rep the house in order that we may gt som ctive information— n ion that will guide us in slation in regard to these real instr rm. passing itutions con ttee will report its s to Congress in February, so t legislation can be irafted in time for action in the Seventy-first Congress. Hjerpe Is Graduated Ly the Carnezie Instituts of Techs | :!u.lo:_\' at th -first Com- mencement excreises today b The graduating class of 360 was the largest in the Institute’s history, Walter Lippmann ior and jour- nalist on the sta Worl , delivered the Dr. Thom ident of Carnegie commencement Stocklim Bak- Institute eref Poison Taken by Girl Causes Her to Die Chicago. June 5 (P)—Poison taken three weeks ago because her par- ents ohjected to her marriage until she finished her studies caused the death last night of Miss Helen | Owens, 23, co-ed at the University of Chicago. Miss Owens underwent several blood transfusions while doctors en- | deavored to save her life, fellow students giving their blood for her. Her parents, Professor and Mrs. F. W. Owens of State college of Penn- sylvania were at bedside: Miss Owen's fia was John Mey- , whom she met while they wer ttending Cornell universit In the past year Australia shipped To The Treasure Chest! $100 In Gold—Free! 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Coal operators, however, 100k to the practical and economical rathe the sentimental and the paesing of the mule has been decreed Engines Replace Mules Electri | gines are rapidly | four-footed rivals. | Most of the mu replacing their blind, due s it is seldom if ever that a mule surface before he dies. Dut blindness docs not end the mule's usefuln to the miners. So well do many of the blind learn the routes which they daily travel that they never stray from their track. Coming upon an open switch, where a closed one should have heen found, the mule stops | dead in his tracks. 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