Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 80, Decatur, Adams County, 3 April 1937 — Page 1

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rWMENTIN . DISPUTE 1$ ANNOUNCED ■ '■( oal Miner" W ill Work Mondaj ; Boost Wages York, Tpr ;d „ w n in th.' soft .oal intlDin K involving liners „ .■AtHntay »"•" th- I int.<t Mme " ? ■ . , th- .hat's b-.aus.- ..I ‘r. Wh^B', lw „f SA "’"ter U r „. . renewal ..■Him "’ ,lk Monday d.-maml pay a haif 11,1 overtime. ......r. fort»" *• ' Ss laL .'O "’ *.» "■■ H , " d ::: U |K. ■-‘-■ad-.i l>> John l -ewle -mis Al ’ nl •:.•■ m ronterence. « Agreement Provides ; j-..lit t h<‘ increases: ,-n's a day for day rate ton on the loading rate .. paid by 11... ton. 7<> rents ...a !.m ina.hine operatwork. BMi„... ■ -mpl.iyr-' minei commis-:-h-d the mechanized : v whi<h i will I"' started March , t it 1 . latet than usual. ' Kennedy. operators’ and joint . ouferem «■ said the ratification vote •' 'll the Harlan county. HazVirginia districts not votr latter Two voted "no" at first BE.. two had because ompe’ tive situation, but changed th-ir stand. Philip ■■■ St '.' 11 ,|1! O.ue in four districts. officials explained, did not a Strike but was a re- ' contract demonstration was the most since the V M. W. walk Mont for a week in September, of th- number of shut participants were: Illinois, ■k. Alabama. 20.000; West VirliiO.OOt!. Indiana. 0,000; Penn--136,000; Ohio. 35.000; B WEATHER t~~ Probably occasional rain to■Tt and Sunday; rising temtonight and East por Sunday, lIIKON IS I MUCH BETTER Engineer, Injured In ■February Train Wreck ■ Is Improving after 48 days in the Adams memorial hospital, suffering U® burns and injuries received in fatal train crash east of the February 14. the condition t-barles Patterson, engineer of »• fated freighter, was describBt6aily im Prov:ng. « attending physician stated is physical condition was im- ■" >bn « and that ae, soon as dead ■/ ae c barred by the white-hot cinK" i an d e9ca P ln K steam had com--8.,/’ faUen awa >’’ the worti of Bt> lng new s kin would start. Herta physician stated that he exBL to be able to release Mr. H«pi, erSon witll in three or four Hnr/j unlefie unforseen complicaHmn e ' elt * p ' Th e elderly wife and Hr \° f ttle old Erie engin--IL?' ° J C1 ' rnaxed a 4 °-y« ar record. ■ rred iby accident, by piloting ■nr,t>, rei8 ‘ lter tb© caboose of R. . 6r “bead, haa been in nearly Brlvin 11 attendanc * at his bedside, mL. f t 0 and from .Huntington, B"« r home town. Bkbo^ ndll u tOl and brakeman in the KcelvJa ahead ’ dled from injuries » ''cd in the wreck.

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SCOUT WORKERS ARE ANNOUNCED I Annual Boy Scout Financial Drive Will Be Held Tuesday Names of the workers for the annual Hoy Scout Day finuncial I drive were announced today by Lloyd Cowens, county Boy Scout (■ommittee chairman. The drive will be made Tuesday by the volunteers, who have set * a goal of 1600 to finance the conn ty Boy Scout program for 1957. * The increase of SIOO has been decided upon because of the larger number of boys now interested in ' the Scouting program. Final plans for the drive will be j made at a banquet to be held at the Rice Hotel Monday night, and ! to be attended by the workers. One of the projects already com , pleted has been the establishment of a Scout city at the Hanna NuttI man city park west of the city limits. In this park are the Rotary and , Lions troop cabins and the Legion ( troop camp. The 1937 appropria . tion will include funds for the maintenance of these cabTlis and camps. ! The workers are as follows: Andrew Appelman. Clyde Butler. t \V. Guy Brown, Avon Burk. Adrian . J. Baker, Charles Brodbeck. I. B Butler. J. W. Calland, Lloyd Cow . ens, W. F. Beery. Sylvester Everhart, Dee Fryback, Walter Gard, R. E. Glendenning , Harold Essex. George HardiiTg. Arthur Holthouse, Paul Kuhn, J. L. Kocher. Walter Krick, W. H. , Lee. Oscar I-ankenau. M. J. Mylott. the Rev. C. M. Prugh. Roy Price. ’ R. E. Roop. H P. Schmitt. Al. D. Schmitt, Bryce Thomas. I > Charles Langston. Arthur Suttles, Herman Kruckeburg. Cal Peterson. Clarence Weber. Dr. Ben Duke, , Dr. Eugene Fields, Dr. Harold I Zwick, £ W. Laukenau. Herman ( Ehinger. and Carl Pumphrey o — GIVE CONCERT ■ MONDAY NIGHT * I Three Fort Wayne Artists t To Present Concert Here Monday Three artiete of outstanding abiJ lity and national reputation will be 1 presented in Decatur Monday evening at 8 o’clock at the First Evangelical church under the direction j of the Music Department of the woman's cluh. Gaston F. Bai'he. conductor of j the Fort Wayne Civic Symphony Orchestra and a well known violinist. will play for his first group: 1. Sciiata—F. Francoeur (1726). Adagio Corrente Aria Sarabanda Giga I 2. "Thaw"— (Meditation) —J. Massenet ‘■Romance’’—H. WieniawskyMrs. Loie G. Bailho will give the following organ numbers: 1. “Grand Offertoire in D" —Pietro Alessandro Yon “Echoes of Spring" —Rudolf I Friml. Mrs. Bailhe is organist of the J Grace Reformed church in Fort j Wayne and an artist of unusual abi-1 | lity. I Miss Helen Limbert, soprano, has i made solo appearances with the Fort Wayne Civic Symphony and . the Cleveland Symphony at the Great Lakes Exposition last season. She appeared as soloist with the Lutheran Choral Society in “The Messiah”, Mies Limbert will give i the following vocal selections: Group 1. To A Hill Top—Cox i Four-Leaf Clover — Brownell j > As 1 Went A’roaming. i Group 2- —Wake Up! Phillips, tl The Second Minuet—Besly T. C. Bacio Waltz—Arditl. , i iA brief business meeting of the I entire club will be held at 7:45. with • the program commencing at 8 o’-. I clock. All members are urged to use 1 ■ their guest tickets. o Four Years Os College Training Is Approved Litchfield. 111.. Apr. 3— (U.R) —' Four men were killed instantly late ; i Friday when the truck in which j they were riding was struck by an ’ Illinois Central passenger train at ' [ a grade crossing two miles north : ' of Waggoner, 111. The four of ■ Springfield, 111., were identified as ’ L. E. Miller, Barney Smith, Charles . Barr and Henry Brockman. ■ There were no witnesses to the accident, which mangled the men I '.almost beyond recognition. The i truck, loaded with rags, papers and old iron, was demolished.

Woman’s Club To Present Concert Monday

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Three outstanding Fort Wayne musical artists will present a concert at the Evangelical church Monday . evening, under the sponsorship of the music departine nt of the Decatur woman's club. Miss Limbert Is | soprano soltfist. Mrs. Bailhe is organist, and Mr. Bailhe is a violinist.

REBEL CITIES ARE CAPTURED 10,000 Italian And German Troops Cut Off From Base Madrid, Apr. 3. -<U.fD- ~Ten thous- 1 and Italian and German troops, re-, treating from I’ozoblanco under the nationalist banner of Gen. Gon I zalo Queipo De Llano, were cut off 1 from their base of supplies at Cor- ■ doha today and forced westward; toward Belmbez in “disorder", loyalist army dispatches reported. The towns of Espied, Ovejo, and j Villamarta, between Cordoba and{ I Pozoblanco in south central Spain,! were captured in rapid succession by the swiftly advancing loyalist! army which took many prisoners and much war material. The de j . seated nationalist army blew up, I bridges, obstructed railways, andj iset fire to woods, trying to delay pursuit. Cut off from their base, harassed by toysitst planes which pappea ed them with machine gun bullets i and bombs, attacked on two sides 'by government artillery and in-] fantry, the fleeing nationalist army. . trapped in mountainous country which made large scale movements ' unwieldy, faced almost certain annihilation or surrender, loyalist army reports said. At the same time, on the basque j front in northern Spain, the loyal ] , ist army operating out of Bilbao stopped Geu. Emilio Mola's nation- ■ allst drive on that important loyal-1 ist seaport, recaptured the strategic Mount Corbea, and forced the ] invading insurgents to retreat from I Ochandiano, an important point I between Vitria, whence the nationalist offensive was launched two i days ago, and Durango. Although the loyalist advance' had taken the government army to within 15 miles of Cordoba, nationalist stronghold in south central Spain since the beginning of the civil war, the government army] 'CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE* o SENIOR CLASS ENTERTAINED — Pleasant Mills Juniors Entertain Seniors And Faculty j The junior class of the Pleasant Mil's high school entertained the seniors, the faculty of Pleasant] ] Mills and Bobo schools and a num-] i ber of other guests with a banquet ' at the Masonic hall Friday. At 6:30 o'clock a three course 1 dinner was served. The guests were led to the dining room by Miss Alice Meyers and Roberi Wells, preI sidents of the Junior and senior classes respectively The tables were attractively dec- ] orated with bowls of sweet peas, ] pink and green candles and pink iand green nut cups, carrying out the colors of the junior class. Miss Alice Meyers, as toastmisI tress, gave a toast to the senior class. The response was made by Robert Welle. After dinner speeches . were made by Henry Snyder, principal; Gerald Vizard and county superintendent C. E. Striker. Several contests were enjoyed after which the entire company attended the Cort theatre. Guests other than the junior and senior classes, the faculties of Pleasant i Mil's and Bobo included: Mr. and Mns. Ben McCullougl, | Mr. and Mrs. D. D. flahegger, C. E. Striker. Mrs. Gerald Vizard, Mns. j Henry Snyder, Harry Fortney and, I Ralph Yager.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, April 3, 1937.

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Four Men Instantly Killed In Accident Indianapolis. Apr. 3 <U.R) -The I state board of education has ap- | proved a four-year course of college training for teachers in Indiana's elementary schools. Previously only two years' training was necessary The program will become fully effective in 1940. Teachers studies will be extended into new fields. . one course planned being “Contemporary Civilization.” a study of the I modern problems confronting society The first two years of teachers i training under the new plan will be devoted exclusively to general culI ture and the last two to intensive specialization in particular fields. GROSS INCOME ! RECEIPTS HIGH Year’s Receipts Higher; Clubs. Lodges To Pay Tax ■| Indianapolis. Apr. 3.—State gross ! income tax collections on 1936 income amounted to $19,942,597. nearly 25 per cent above collections for, 1935, it was announced today by, Clarence A. Jackson, director of I the gross income tax division. i Bookkeeping records on 1936 re- ] turns were closed March 31 as the division prepared to receive tax returns covering the first quarter of ■1937, which are due by April 15. Number of taxpayers filing 1936 ' annual returns was 408.115, compared to 354.610 for 1935. an in- • crease of more than 50,000. Returns for 1936 exceeded those for ' 1934 by more than 100,000. I Gross income tax revenue for 1936 almost equalled the estimated ' $20,000,000 gross income tax re- ' ceipts anticipated for the 1937-38 1 and 1938-39 fiscal years in the new '.state budget. Improved business conditions, I plus new revenue to be received from previously exempt organizations under the gross income tffx law as amended by the recent legislature, are expected to offset revenue losses caused by increase I in the exemption for retail merI chants from SI,OOO to $3,000 annually, also provided in the amendments. , Mr. Jackson pointed out that the amended law does not apply to returns due in April covering income for the first quarter of this year.' On April 1, however, tax liability, under the amended law began to; accrue. Retail merchants, under the i amended law. will be entitled to an exemption of $750 for the second quarter of the year when they file returns in July. The increased ' exemption is applicable only to retail merchants’ receipts from sell-, in gat retailNumerous non-profit organizations, heretofore exempt, will be subject to tax in July based on second quarter receipts. Only non(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) _O Acquit Kentucky Man In Dynamite Murder Harlan, Ky., Apr. 3 — (U.R) — William Leonard, 33. was acquitted late yesterday on a charge of participation in the dynamite murder two years ago of County Attorney Elman Middleton. On motion of Commonwealth Attorney D. B. Smith, the court dismissed charges against three other defendants, Robert Farmer. 40, Boscom Huff and Ernest Hampton. The jury deliberating Leonard’s fate was out only three hours. Freed from the county jail where I he has spent the last 19 months, ' Leonard went to play pool. I

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NATHAN ROE IS HEART VICTIM i Retired Blue Creek Township Farmer Dies At Fort Mayne Nathan Roe. 79. retired Blue Creek townehip farmer, died suddenly at the home of his daughter. : Mrs. Laura Saums, in Fort Wayne] last evening at 4:15 o’clock. Death wae caused by a heart attack. The deceased was born in Blue Creek township October 7. 1857, the son of Joeeph nd Catherine BickelRoe and epent his entire life in that township. He was a member of the Campbellite church. | Surviving, besides the widow. Catherine, are the following children: Fred. Jefferson township; Mrs. . Mary Coppock. Athens, Michigan; Mr«. Flossie Johnson. Allsbury.! Canada; Mrs. Orville I-and, Fort; Wayne; Mrs. Pearl Selbee, Battle! Creek, Michigan; Mrs. Florence Connors, Chicago. Illinois; Rollie, B'ue Creek township and Mrs. Saums. One daughter is deceased. Thirtysix grandchildren and 18 greatgrandchildren also survive. Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon at the hont* in ! Blue Creek township at 2 o’clock and at the Springhill church at 2:30. 'Burial will be made in the Springhill cemetery. The Rev. Vernon Riley. of the Monroe Friends church, will officiate The body was returned from the Lobenstein funeral parlors to the home this afternoon, where it may be viewed until time for the funeral. Regular K. Os C. Meeting Monday — The regular meeting of the Knights of Columbus, will be held Monday night in the local K. of Chal', with the lecturers’ committee serving lunch and refreshments. No charge will be made. All members are urged to attend. OPERETTA iS GIVEN FRIDAY Capacity Crowd WitnessI es North Ward School Operetta II • '■ A capacity crowd witnessed the splendid presentation of the operetta, “The Early Bird Catches the Worm.’’ given by the pupils of the North Ward school Friday evening at the Decatur high school auditorium. The play was given under the di- ! rection of the school faculty, which includes John R. Parrish, principal; Miss Florence Haney, Miss Della Sellemeyer and Miss Elizabeth Peterson. The high school sewing class, under the guidance of Miss Mildred Worthman, was responsible for the majority of the costumes. Lowell Smith manipulated the spot light which added to the effectiveness of the play. Amos Ketchum, manual training instructor, assisted with the stage properties. Miss Helen Haubold was plan-1 ist for the play'et, which was cleverly given and held the interest of the audience from the appearance of President Rooster at the -beginning of the first act up to the grand finale. The proceeds from the play, which is an annual event, are used to purchase new equipment for the ; playground and replace that which I is worn out.

LOCAL STORES TO CLOSE FOR PART OF DAY Most Os Retail Stores To Be Closed Wednesday Afternoons Beginning Wednesday of next week, a majority of the retail stores in Decatur will be closed from 12 o'clock noon for the remainder of the day, it was announced here today. Approximately 50 stores in down town Decatur and outlying business centers of the city have a greed to participate in the movement recently started hern and observe the Wednesday dosing. I ] The types of storee that have I agreed to dose are all groceries. I meat markets, drug stores, five and ten cent stores, jewelry stor ! es. furniture, stores, shoe stores, i bakeries, electric shops, secondi hand stores and other tniscellani eons firms. ] A suggestion that these same | stores remain open Thursday evenings to make up for the lost time hae been abandoned, they state. While it is entirely a voluntary j matter with the individual mer chants, others are expected to agree to the new schedule Some have stated they would sign, but have failed to do so yet, leaders of ' the movement state. The participating merchants state that during the summer ] months little business is transact- 1 led on Wednesday afternoon, thus ’ making that day most favorable for dosing. The schedule would afford a shorter-hour week, and afford both employe and employer an opportunity to enjoy day-time recreations that have previously been denied them, instigators of the (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) I 0 MAYOR URGES AID TO SCOUTS Mayor Holthouse Proclaims Next W eek Boy Scout Week Decatur will demonstrate its belief in the Boy Scouts and enact the scout principle of doing a "good turn." by contributing to the area council Boy Scout fund next week. Mayor A. R. Holthouse stated in proclaiming the week of April 5. Boy Scout week in the city. The campaign for funds to carry on the Anthony Wayne area council activities will be launched here Tuesday. Decatur's quota is S6OO and an effort will be made to raise the amount next week The campaign is under the direction of Walter Gladfelter. finance ' chairman and Lloyd S. Cowens, general chairman. Mayor Holthouse, In officially iesignating next week as "Boy Scout week." emphasized the constructive program which the scout organization carried out. “This organization does much in aiding youth, providing educational and recreational programs and materially helps to build better manhood. Every person acquainted with the Scout organization and its activities feels privileged in ,| helping carry on this program. Decatur has raised its quota before and I feel sure the citizenry will respond nobly to the appeal this year,” Mayor Holthouse stated. Mayor Holthouse pointed out that the men who were conducting the campaign were donating their time and giving of their thought and energy in the interest of the boys and were contributing to(CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) o Two Adams County Y’ouths Plead Guilty Joseph Johnston and Arthur Neadstine. arrested earlier in the week, plead guilty to charges of grand larceny and forgery, respectively, when arraigned in Adams circuit court shortly before noon ; today. Judge Huber M. De Voss withheld passing of sentence until later. o — No Change Reported In Myer’s Condition — At press time today, no change had been reported in the condition of Bernard (Mongo) Myer, former Decatur young man, hurt in a truck-train collision at Indianapolis Thursday morning. He has > I been confined in the City hospital ] there In a critical condition since j the time of the crash.

Dairy Industry Improvement Is Meeting Theme

STRIKE GLOSES FORD ASSEMBLY FACTORY TODAY Kansas City Plant Closed; Minnesota Strike Is Settled Kansas City, Mo.. Apr 3 —(UP) — Sit-down strikers of the United Auto workers occupied the Ford assembly plant here today. It was the union's first overt action against the Industry of Henry Ford, second largest auto producer in the World, although union leaders often threatened eventually to ; "move in" on Ford. Homer Martin. U. A. W. A. president. announced at Detroit that the strike here would lead eventually to complete unionization of the vast Ford Motor Co. He declined to say if this was the opening of a general campaign. Ed Hall, second vice-president of UAWA arrived by air from Detroit i early to day to direct strike tactics at the nprawling plant. He conferred immediately with local union lead- . ers but was non-committal. More than 1,000 workers were en trenched in the building. They demanded higher wages, better working conditions and recognition of their union, which was chartered to I Ford employes here only two weelcs ago. Last night the strikers welded ’ shut five gates to railroad yarde and [larking lots around the plant. They shouted to friends outside: "Who says we can't take Ford” The plant employee 2,300 men. The strike was called when it was learned 350 men were to be laid off. An 18 men evecutive committee wan in 1 charge o fthe strikers. Settle Strike ' Albert Lea. Minn., April 3 —(UP) ] —The American gas machine company strike was settled early today, 12 hours after tear gas and rioting ] brought the city to the verge of martial law. Negotiations conducted under an "honor truce" and thepereonal direction of Gov. Elmer A. Benson ended at 4:15 A M., when an agreement was signed under which the strike was called off and the company's plant will be re-opened. The company will rehire strikers and the four discharged workers whose discharge the strikers protested. It will recognize the independent union of all workers as sole , collective bargaining agency provided it secures a charter from a national labor organization within ©J days. Union members will cast secret ballots to determine whether to ((CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) o February Term Os Court Ends Today The February term of the Adams circuit court will close this afternoon. The court was busy this morning as attorneys brought cases to be dismissed or continued to the next term of court. AIDS MAN TAKE DAD'S TRACTOR Hartford Township Lad Helps Thief To Steal Tractor ’ Stealing isn’t as laborious as it used to be, a Hartford township farmer has learned. A week ago William Anderson left ' his Hartford township farm in the keeping of his son. A short time later a man drove up with a truck and told the boy his father had sold 1 the farm tractor and had ordered him to get the old on for the tradeThe man asked the boy to see the tractor. The boy led him to the barn where it was kept. The boy [ started the tractor for the man, who then asked him if he could , drive it up the “shoot’’ onto the truck. The boy agreed and put the . tractor on the truck. The man drove away. When the boy's father returned i : home, the boy learned, to his sorrow ; that no sale had been made, ; Neither the tractor nor the man has been seen since.

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Dairymen Os County Are Dinner Guests Friday Os Cloverleaf And McMillen. 150 ARE PRESENT The general improvement of the dairy Industry, through the breeding of better herds, proper feeding of cattle and safe guarding milk and cream products to market, was the theme of talks made at a joint dinner-meeting sponsored by Cloverleaf Creameries. Inc., and McMillen Feed Mills of this city at the Catholic high school banquet room last evening. Farm leaders and merit winners in the boys’ and girls’ 4-H clubs were honored at the meeting. More than 150 persons attended. W. A. Kiepper. general manager of Cloverleaf Creameries. Inc., acted as toastmaster and Joseph Seabold of Bluffton, lead in community singing. The Seabold orchestra furnished music. The speakers paid high praise to Adams county farmers *nd dairymen, their methods and progressiveness. They complimented the industries and the community on the cooperative attitude shown and stated that this section of the state was recognized as one of the best agriculture and dairy centers in the state. A resolution was presented by Benj. D. Mazelin of the Dairy herd improvement association and unanimously adopted, declaring for ! the production of quality dairy products and the destruction of milk ] or cream unfit for human consumption. It was resolved “That when the inspectors of the Indiana Health department find any dairy products distinctly under grade being offered for sale, they cause it . to become unfit for processing by . i introducing a suitable amount of : powdered charcoal.” Speakers included Prof. H. W. Gregory, chief of dairy department of Purdue; E. T. Wallace, assist- , ant to Prof. Gregory; John Taylor of the state board of health and Franklin E. Franz, representative of the McMillen Feed Mills. Guests were introduced by Mr. Kiepper and L. E. Archbold, county agriculture agent. They included Walter Freeman of Indianapolis; visitors from Bluffton. Huntington. Portland, and DeKalb county; Van Wert. Ohio; Roy Hall, president of the Central Sugar and Central Soya companies; Floyd Greenburg of the Indiana Guernsey Breeds association. Everett Beatty and R. L. Holden, of the American Guernsey Cattle Club. Mayor A. R. Holthouse in extending words of welcome, remarked, "This meeting is typical of the Decatur spirit—industry uniting in recognizing the farmer, the farm leade * and the boys and girls who are striving to improve conditions in the dairy and agriculture sections.” Mr. Wallace spoke on the proper breeding of cattle. Efforts should be continued to improve the breeTt of dairy cattle, for it takes as much work and as much feed to care for poor producers as it does the good ones, the dairy head stated. Mr. Franz in his talk on feeds and the feeding of dairy cattle, remarked that tests had proved that increased production of milk and cream depended largely on the I grade and amount of feed given | the cows. Investigate the feed formulas and select the right one for your herd, Mr. Franz advised. [ "The state board of health wishes to cooperate with the dairyman,” Mr. Taylor remarked in his 1 talk. He told of existing laws, which were passed to safeguard dairy products and to assist in the marketing of milk and cream. “The (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) ; O Gottschalk Launches Inmate Classification 1* Indianapolis, April 3 —Test of the ! value of phychological examination I and classification of the inmates of correctional institutions has been ■ authorized by the state department i of public welfare, it was announced • today by Thurman A. Gottschalk , administrator. I The Indiana Reformatory at Pen- > d'eton, Mr. Gottschalk asserted, is > the institution selected for initial test in Indiana of the classification, education, and welfare type pro1 gram which has done much in east- ' ern penal and correctional institutions toward solution of problems i of management, over-crowding ani rehabilitation.