Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 183, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 December 1928 — Page 11

KC. 21, 1928.

POPULATION OF FEDERAL CELLS GAINSJ 0,000 Crime Increases at Rate of 10 Per Cent a Year Since 1918. Bit Times Special WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.—Federal prisoners have increased 10,000 In number since 1918, according to testimony before the house appropriations committee by department of justice officials, just released. The number at the end of the fiscal yea> 1918 was 8,927 in federal prisons and other institutions. At the end of last fiscal year it had grown to 18,606. Crime Is Increasing Crime has been increasing at the rate of about 10 per cent a year since 1918, J. Edgar Hoover said in response to questions by Represen - tative Tinkham of Massachusetts. Hoover is director of the bureau of investigation. “Is crime, from your point of observation, increasing or not -a the United States?” Tinkham asked. “My personal opinion is that it is just holding about the same. The reason I can not answer that more definitely and the reason that no one can answer that intelligently is because this country today has no central place where criminal statistics are compiled,” Hoover said. Prison Population Doubles A. H. Conner, superintendent of prisons, submitted to the house committee records showing that the

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While airplane crashes make newspaper headlines and individual feats of daring win renown for many an aviator, consistently safe, uneventful flying does not go unrewarded. Here’s Lieutenant James E. Dyer, (right), of the navy air station at San Diago, receiving from President Coolidge the Herbert Schiff trophy for safety. He flew 1,251 hours in the last fiscal year without accident of any kind. Left is Herbert Schiff of New York, donor of the award.

population of the prisons had more than doubled in the past nine years. In 1920 there were but 3,889 prisoners at Leavenworth, Atlanta and McNeil Island prisons, while last year there were 7,950. Os this number 1,141 prisoners had been convicted of violation of the prohibition laws. The exact number of federal prohibition prisoners in all institutions is not known, questioning developed, since

most of them are serving short terms. These mainly are included in the 9,658 federal prisoners locked up in county jails and other than government institutions. Broadway Has Yule Tree NEW YORK, Dec. 21.—The Christinas season officially is on. The annual tree has been installed on Broadway and Forty-third street and is kept alight by 3,000 bulbs.

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LEAGUE WILL TALK PROBLTM OFJEFUGEES Thousands Driven Out of Homes During War Must Decide Futures. Bu Timeti Special GENEVA, Dec. 21.—The immense labor of caring for refugees driven from their native countries during the World war is to be wound up as soon as possible by the League of Nations. Russians and Armenians are the chief sufferers, and it now appears that many thousands of these two races permanently will be absorbed into other nationalities. Os the hosts of Russians and Armenians who fled or were driven from their homes 754,700 of the former and 162,130 of the latter still were classified as refugees in reports submitted to the ninth session of the league recently held in Geneva. While the great majority of these refugees have found work and have become more or less attached to the countries where they are sojourning, there are 110,138 Russians and 64,199 Armenians able to work, but either unemployed or in temporary jobs, and 48,366 Russians and 21,867 Armenians incapable of earning their living. It is pointed out by the director of the international labor office, Albert Thomas, in his report that, as most of these unemployed refugees are professional men and generally poorly equipped for industrial or agricultural work, it is becoming increasingly difficult to place them on contracts. i It is realized by League of Nations

experts that the refugee problem cannot be allowed to run on forever, so fi resolution was passed by the assembly noting that the final solution can only be provided by the return of the refugees to their countries of origin or their assimilation by the countries now sheltering them. The council was invited by the league to appoint an advisory commission, which is to study the matter and submit a report to the council before the next session of the assembly on how to solve the problem as soon as possible. This would seem to mean that political refugees and self-exiled emigres who are able to support themselves will soon have to decide between returning to their native land or announcing their intention to become citizens of the countries where they are living, thus losing their special status as refugees.

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TERRIER CLUB ELECTS Dr. S. C. Owens Is New President of Organization. Dr. S. C. Owens is the new president of the Boston Terrier Club. Other newly elected officers are: Vice-presidents, F. C. Terry, John Henry; secretary-treasurer, Mrs. Velma E. Henry, assistant secre-try-treasurer, Charles A. Shumard; directors, Terry Owens, Henry, Mrs. Charles A. Shumard and Ben Foxlow. Zoning Adopted by Marion By Times Special MARION, Ind.. Dec. 20.—The city council under suspension of rules rushed to passage a zoning ordinace for Marion. Enactment of the ordinance followed four years of research work.

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