New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 15, 1929, Page 13

MAN BUILDS PORT AWAY FROH TOWNS Florida Harbor in Wilderness But Has Growing Trade Port Bay Mabel, Fla,, Jan. 15 UP =—Please note that this story comes from a port — not a town. There's Bo town here, That's what the atory is about. Port Bay Mabel is an anomalous sort of place. It started more as @ salt grass swamp than anything else, but it was called a lake; the lake was really part of what a Flor- idian calls a river — which ian't & tiver at all, but a sound—and now it's a bay. The man responsible for the lat- ter part of the anomaly is Joseph W. Young, development operator who built the city of Hollywood, nearby. He decided he needed a & port, s0o he built one. Here it is. There is no rallroad in reaching distance of the slips. The only road to the place was not con- structed for heavy hauling. The place is about half way between Fort Lauderdale and Hollywood, which are about 10 miles apart. But as an ocean port, it is an ac- complished fact, with foreign ship- ping already taking note. The steamship Grey Point, first ship of foreign registry to enter, landed 1,100 tons of rock trom Cuba No- vember 19 for the port construc- tion project. At the time outlet to the ocean was blasted through the narrow sand spit left between the dredged basin and the open Atlantic there was mnot a house in sight from a boat deck in the bay except eon- struction warehouses erected in connection with dredging opera- tions. . . The project {is intended to pro- vide south Florida with its only truly commercial port, the develop- ers say. It is about 25 miles north of Miami, where the port is not deep enough to accommodate the larger ocean-going cargo vessels, and about 60 miles south of Palm Beach, where only pleasure craft and commercial versels of com- paratively small draft can be han. dled. The builder's purpose is to estab. l1sh here an industrial blue-water harbor for south Florida's world commerce, freeing the essentially scenic and pleasure ports of Mi- ami and Palm Beach from the threat of odors and sights inci- dent to commercial shipping. On paper at least there is plenty ot potential commerce, the port be- ing connected with the citrus belt of the Indian wiver section north. ” ward, and the rich truck-growing districts of the inland Everglades by eanals and rivers which easily | can be made to accommodate barges. The {nnermost slips ere one measured- mile from blue water in the gulf stream, nearer, the devel- opers contend, than any port in the eastern United States south of Nor- folk. NONE T0 REPLACE GHETTO'S HAWKERS Disappearance of District in NEW BRITAIN HERALD [rene] NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, Michigan Governor Would Change State’s Rigid Life-for-Pint Law ’ Mrs. Edih Mac Miller (left), mother of 10 children, has been found guilty of her fourth liquor offense under the Micbigan habitual criminal law, and sentencod to life in prison. Gov. Frod W. Green | (right) advocates that the law be modified to some extent. BY GILBERT T. SHILSON Lansing, Mich., Jan. 16 (P—A criminal code, so stern in its penal- ties for habitual offenders that a grangmother faces life imprison- ment for a liquor sale, has focused national attention on the 1929 ses- sion of the state legislature. The state lawmakers have been importuned to soften the feature which provides for a life term for a fourth violation of the prohibition laws. Gov. Fred W. Green and other state officlals have advocated re- moving some of the harshnecss from the law. The Anti-8aloon league retorted that liquor law violators are no better than other criminals; that they should be placed where they cannot menace society. ‘The habitual criminal law was written into the statutes in 1927. It had been recommended by a special commission named by the preceding legislature. Governor Green urged Its passage. New York's Baumes law was taken as a model. The law's application to liquor law vinlators became apparent when Fred Palm of Lansing was sent to prison for life for bootleg- sing, his fourth offense. The statute was dubbed “the life for a pint.” In Michigan the Palm care attracted little attention because Palm’s criminal record was long. ‘The controversy became national when Mrs. Etta Mae Miller, 48, a grandmother and mother of 10 chil- dren was found guilty of her fourth liquor offense. The sentencing of Channie Tripp of Flint to life for his fourth liquor law violation kept the issue afire. ‘The Muskegon ecounty prosecutor disregarded the habitual criminal provision in filing Information against Alec Zach and for his fourth offense he went to prison for only a year. Legislators, many of whom voted for the law, now want it changed, declaring they did not realize it applied to liquor violations when it was considered. The state Anti-Saloon League is the code, Amending the code 1s bothering lawmakers. The governor desires to classify the crimes that are pun- ishable with life terms, or exempt such offenses as liquor handling and alimony dodging. The section under consideration reads: “Any person who, after having been three times convicted within this state of felonfes, or attempts to commit felonies, or under the law of any othcr state, government or country, of crimes which if com- mitted in this state would be fel- onies, commits a felony within this state, must be sentenced upon con- viction of such fourth or subse- quent offense to imprisonment in a state prison for the term of his natural life.,” The code I8 retroactive: life for a fourth offense even though the other three crimes were committed before the law was enacted. Tests of Widia Are h Nearing Completion Bridgeport, Jan. 15 (UP)—Tests of widia, the new Krupp alloy of unusual strength, are nearing com- pletion and as yet have revealed no weakness, E. P. Bullard of the Bul- lard Machine Tool company said to- day. The most recent tests have ban. |1shed the fear that new cutting ma- chinery would be needed ‘o operate cutting tools of the new metal, he sald. 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