New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 7, 1929, Page 15

Sicily’s Reign 150 of Last Group Jailed— > drowned. Cattle Thieves and Mur- derers' Once Scourge of Nation. . Termini Imerese, Sicily, Juhé 7 (P ~—The reign of terror of the Mafia 13 over. As Prefect Mori RQegins to scatter among the jails and peniten- tiaries of this island 150 of the last group -of the Madia rirgleaders, re- cently convicted and sentenced by the- courts, Sicily is settling down to a life of .produciion and.peace. Romantic figures, who after all, were only cattle thieves and murder- ers on a great scale, the Mafla for 15 years held Sicily paralyzed with terror. North and South -America also felt the influence of the dread organization. Internal feuds of the criminal society were settled in blood within the United States. Let- ters from the Americas were intro- duced during the trisl showing that & falr percentage of the cattle stolen by the Mafia was sent to the western hemisphere. Hearing Took Nine Months The extent of the crimes of the present group of the Mafia was 80 vast that the court labored for nine months merely hearing the evidence and arguments. The jury was out for seven days .considering 30,000 questions and returning 7,000 ans- wers to them. The Mafia group just dissolved, is Scientist Urges Study of River In Mississippi Honolulu, June 7 (A—Private wealth has a supreme opportunity in |i the center of the American continent to create the new sclence of fluviol- cgy. said Dr. T. A. Jaggar, Jr., one of the world's five most prominent volcanologists, here rcvently. He was refetring at the time to the overflow of the Mississippi river in 1927 when many persons were The- property loss was $800,000,000 and eight states were affected. Fluviology, said Dr. Jaggar, would have to be based on the same gen- cral basis as volcanology, that is humaneness, experiment and scien- tific recording. Humanc Motive Exists “It is clear that a humane motive exists in Aluvi continued. experiment, . the making of scientific records strictly in the do- main of pure science, unaffected by politics, bureaucracy or commerce. “If T were a millionaire I would certainly found a Mississippi river observatory. The work of such a station would be more interesting, more exciting, more human, and would be quicker to_yield resuits | - the velcano-ebservatory: of-$25.000,006 a8 a mra fy@finlflnz A headquarters might well be at St. Youis for laboratories, and for re. ceiving reports and for publica- tion. “There should be a laboratory of of Mafia Terror Ends Wlth‘Wbolesale Roundup | Bolohed “the- édinilierce department (from -ita-Austrglian trade commis- WANY STILL DHING ONWESTERN FRONT Explosions of Old Shells Kill 9,345 Peacelul Citizens Paris, June 7 (UP)—The French battlefields, particularly the scarred “red zone,” are still taking a heavy toll of lives 10 years after the Palermo, Cantania, Castelbuono, | Armistice ended fighting. Statis- Messina, Niessia, Caronfa, Polizzi, |tics gathered by the ministry of Mezzoniso, Corleone, San Stefano, |liberated regions for the United Gangi, Capizzi, Agira. Villafrati, S8an | Press show that 2.545 persons have Mauro, Alia and Mazzarino, and been injured or killed by shells left documents introduced at the trial jon the battleficlds, indicated that there were agents in; The cleaning up of the battle- America. iflelds took a heavy toll among farm- Ringleader Attorney ers, many of whom are blown to bits | At the head of this vast organiza- |With their animals when a plow | tion was the Attorney Ortoleva, a |point strikes a buried shell or an man of influence, skill and brains. |unexploded mine or grenade. The His office was the general headquar- |government estimates that 320 such ters and the high court of the [deaths resulted, and injury to 600 Mafia. Here it was determined what | more, i amount of tribute should be levied. | There were 525 deaths and 1,100 ( Ortoleva himself was the justice. | injurics in the task of cleaning up The Mistretta section of the Mafia |the battlefields before they were was betrayed by one of their own |turned over to their rightful owners number. Almost immediately there- |for farming again. This includes after he paid for his desertion With |the victims of the delicate opera- | his life. tion of taking the shells apart to re- Prefect Mori had enough infor- | cover the steel they contain. mation to enable him to proceed | Many children were among the with the help of the government at | victims, also tourists, who disre- Rome and he rounded up the Mafia | and brought 169 of the ringleaders before the courts. Ortoleva was| among them. but he died at the be- ginning of the trial, Of the remain- der all but a mere handful were convicted. Some were sentenced to prison for 23 years. believed to be the last of the notor- lous -Sicilian organization. It was founded in 1913 at Mistretta, pri- marily to carry on family and dis- trict feuds. It immediately began to wreak its will on the countryside by driving off the cattle and extorting money. Human life, too, was of small value to the Mafia, much less in fact than that of cattle. Selling agents were established in Valley Laboratory . for hydraulic and seismology; « labra- tory or river geology, for ecrosion, silting, uplift. subsidence and map- ping, a laboratory of river chemistry. for solution, suspension, colloids and | analyses; a laboratory of river bi- ology. for bacteria, plans, works, molluscs and fish. And lastly, a lab- oratory of river meteorology, for the atmosphers and moisturc would be necessary.” MELBOURNE MOTORISTS BUY PARKING TICKETS Parking Space Within City Limits | Is to Be Had Ounly on Pre- grav- sentation of Pasteboards, Washington, June 7 (UP) — Out | in Melbourne, Australia. the traffic cops don't give automobile drivers tickets. They collect them, and the tickets cost a shilling. This sad portent _of what condi- tions may be lere if parking -space continwes-to-gros-more scarce has sioner. Untl reeently "Melbourne motor- ists parked-frec and anywhere they pleased. For their supreme court had decided the Melbourne city council had no authority to restrict them. Someone said, “There orta be & law.” and, lo! one was passed. Melbourne’ motorists now park thelr cars only after presenting traffic cop collectors with colored pasteboards costing a shilling & day. five a week, one pound a would he blown to pieces. garded the signs posted all over the battlefields warning trespassers against pulling wires or picking up grenades or shells. Helmets Wired The cleaping, up process was especially dangerous, for there was| no chart showing the location of | many mines and once the troops were withdrawn from the front line no one was left to point out the spots where death lay buried under the surface. ‘The Germans, in withdrawing, fixed up many hasty mines under bridges, im the middle of roads, in houses and places .where the Allied troops could be expected to seek shelter. Often a mine would be| connected by unseen wire with an attractive helmet. picked up the helmet as a souveni Doors were wired o that a turn of the knoh would set off dynamite. It took several vears for thou- sands of men to walk over the tlefields picking up unexploded she and weapons. Seven million ac of 1and were ruined by the war. torn | up by shells, littered with barbed wire and concrete construction and filled with unexploded engines. Three hundred and to be filled, and 14,000 rolled up. fort has been remarkable and six and a half million acres have been | resowed. Permanent Damage There are certain rcgions where The man who| thirty-three | nothing can be done. The ground was 50 badly cut up by shells and trenches that the soil is worthless, even for tree culturc. So th areas will be formed into “red zone parks,” and kept as a pumamnll memorial to teach future xencrav tions the waste of war. | Except for those parks, the whole of the battlefields will be cleaned up | this year. The work of the French government has been highly success- ful, and the battleground depart- ments have regained the population they enjoyed in 1914. Of the 17,616 public buildings been reconstructed and a half mil- |lion children have resumed class- work. The government has built | 6.000 kilometres of roads and 5,200 | Kilometres of railroads. In another hard to find 1 1o it will he othe war 1 the he ex- | 2 wounds will be | © he said, of | paper's present quarters would not accommodate. TES PROVE PERIL Miss, June 7.-—Termites, | are {rouble- 1 proving This insect, which Jackson, I white ants, some in this city. left to nnnm.- | struction of s 0. M. Chaner spector, vice will be given to anyone periled by this inscct. will cause the de | » homes eventual T Small Bc”pa;// Holds. 7 For future 4’. 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