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HOUSE REVOLTS UNLIKELY FOR NEW CONGRESS Progressive Democrat Bloc Could Hold Up Action in Senate. BY.LYLE C. WILSON l nited Prei Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Nov. 11.—Checkup of the political .storm which swept the country Tuesday shows that Democrats apparently returned complete house delegations from twen-ty-eight states, and got one or more seats in forty-five to amass a better than two-thirds majority in the 1933 house of representatives. Democrats will have fifty-nine seats in the new senate, ten mo> than a majority. This transfer of congressional pbwer which began in 1930 in the off-year elections almost is un- / precedented in its emphatic repudi- / action of a political party. Returns, which in most instances could not be overcome by scattered missing precincts, show that Democrats will have 306 votes in the new h®use; Republicans, 124; and Far-mer-Labor. 5. All Farmer-Labor representatives are from Minnesota. in the senate will thirty-six seats and FarmerLabor, 1. Five Farmer-Laborites .The party which controlled the national government continuously for ten years, and kept control of the senate and White House for two more, returned representatives from only twenty states in Tuesday’s election. In only three states did Democrats fail to get at least one house member. Those states are North Dakota, with two representatives, and Vermont and Wyoming, with one each. In six states Republicans maintained control of state delegations; California, Connecticut, Massachusetts New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. In New Hampshire the parties split the delegation with one each. The five Farmer-Labor representatives from Minnesota are a majority of the delegation from that state, the Democrats getting one and the Republicans three seats. Successful Revolt Unlikely The .slim majority by which Democrats controlled the house last winter and which will be theirs in the short session to come was far short of a real working control. It varied from half a dozen seats to, a dozen, and on the sharpest controversy of the last session, Democrats were unable to control the house. That dispute centered around the tax bill. Democratic leaders brought to the house a sales tax program, which was denounced and defeated by a coalition of back bench rebels led by Representative F. H. La Guardia (Rep., N. Y.) and Representative “Bob” Doughton (Dem., N. C.). Sometime after March 4 the new Democratic President is expected to summon an extra .session. None looks for a successful rebellion against leaders in the next house. If the house Democrats follow the pitcedent of legislative leaders with large majorities, they will tighten rules of procedure, beat down ambitious and recalcitrant back benchers and conduct the business of the country according to a pre-arranged program. Senate Prospect Different Rut the prospect in the senate is different. The country is familiar with the so-called progressive Republican senate group which repeatedly disrupted old guard projects. Less well known, but equally numerous, is a progressive Democratic bloc which eventually may become as powerful as were the Republican progressives under the leadership of Senator George Norris (Rep., Neb.). So far there are no evidences of disunity among Democratic senators, but if the trails of depression, deficits and related national problems are to split the majority party anywhere, it first will be apparent in the senate where rules of procedure rather foster individualistic action. CORNBORER IS HALTED Weather Conditions are Unfavorable for Spread of Pest. JR.wScirtire Service WASHINGTON, Nov. 11.— Weather conditions unfavorable for ths flight of the adult-s retarded the spread of the European corn borer during the last season, so that It added little new territory to the infested area, the United States department of agriculture announced. The corn borer area now includes territory as far west as Wisconsin, and extends from the corn-growing provinces of Canada on the north to Kentucky, Virginia, and Maryland on the south. Department of agriculture engineers have devised special types of farm implements with whicn farmers in the infested area can clean up their fields thoroughly in autumn, thereby depriving the borer larvae of refuges in which to spend th 4 winter. HARVARD PUTS OWN WORD JN DICTIONARY ‘‘Detur” Means Only Set of Books Given by University. Press CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 11.— Harvard university has a dictionary accepted word all its own—the word "Detur.” The New Standard Dictionary defines “Detur” as: A book, or set of books, given as a prize to each meritorious undergraduate student in Harvard university; from the Latin word "Detur" (Let it be given) on the presentation bookplate. The custom of rewarding distinguished undergraduates at Harvard with "Deturt' has been in vogue since 1712. Fifty-five were awarded this year. SHOE STORE WILL OPEN Brown and Voils Will Conduct Second Shop In City. Souvenirs will be given patrons attending opening of anew shoe store Saturday at 104 North Illinofc street by Frank Brown and J. W. Voils. Peters’ line for man, and children will be sold. Thf store will be the second to be opened by Brown and Voils within six months. ■ c *

World’s Model Prison to Be Opened Today in Pennsylvania

Architect’s drawing of Lewisburg prison, exterior view of penitentiary, and Sanford Bates, federal prison director.

Penitentiary Planned With Intelligent Purpose by Penology Experts. BY MAX STERN Times Staff Writer LEWISBURG, Pa., Nov. 11.—The world’s model prison will be opened here today. It is the federal government’s new Northeastern penitentiary, •which Sanford Bates, federal prison director, has built high on 1,000 rolling acres of fertile Pennsylvania soil ias a monument to "The New Penology,” and a milestone in the slow progress of men toward wisdom and humanity. This prison was planned with an intelligent purpose. Every feature was built so that the men who enter may leave healthier, stronger and better able to resist the temptations to crime. As if in answer to the Wickersham commission's recent scathing criticism of the whole American penal system, it has left out of its scheme all incitation to hate, fear and revenge. Resembles Hospital Over the proscenium arch of its spacious chapel is this quotation from Bacon: “That which is past and gone is irrevocable; wise men have enough to do with things present and to come.” “Northeastern” will hold 1.500 men, and it will hold them securely. Its walls are high and well-guard-ed. But, inside, the buildings resemble a barracks or a hospital more than the dungeons and cages that for 150 years have been the nation’s post-graduate college of crime. The rows on rows of cellhouses, built cheaply of concrete blocks, so are arranged that the inmate may be graduated from one to another as he shows himself fit for promotion. The receiving building is a splendid diagnostic hospital. Here men are classified. The sick of body

Contract Bridge

BY W. E. M’KENNEY Secretary American Bridge League PSYCHIC bidding is one of. the most widely discussed topics in contradt bridge today. The last year has seen a large decline in its use; first, because it is too frequently a boomerang which strikes back at the user, and, second, because skillful opponents seldom are deceived, and usually And their way to the proper contract as though nothing had happened. The following hand played in a duplicate game, shows an interesting form of psychic, and also illustrates how skillful opponents Wvre able to defeat its purpose. A None V 8-6 ♦ 10-9-7 AJ-10-9-8-6-5-4-2 „ NORTH AK-Q- AA-4-2 10-9-5 £ > VK-5-3 V A-9-2 £ <2 ♦ Q-8-3 ♦ A ' 6 - , *A-Q----*N.n. 1 8 °STH AJ-8-7-6-3 VQ-J-10-7-4 ♦ K-J AK 11 The Bidding East and West were vulnerable, while North and South were not. South passed and West opened the bidding with one spade. North was entirely helpless against the spade contract and knew his partner to be rather weak also, hence it seemed inevitable that East and West would make a game, or possibly a slam, unless he could interfere in some way. At one table North did attempt to interfere oy inserting a bid of three no trump. This bid appears ridiculous, but it is a psychic of a well-recognized type. Mrs. P. H. Sims, the country's leading authority on psychic, bids, termed it 'The Barricade.” be-' cause it erects a high barrier which interferes with the exchange of information by the opponents. Os course North expected to be doubled at three no trump, in which case he would bid four clubs, being willing to take a penalty of three or four tricks to prevent the opponents from going game. East recognized the bid as a psychic he considered it useless to double, because North ob-

are turned over to specialists—ca-' reer officers of the public health service—and housed in an up-to-the-minute hospital. # The sick of mind are turned over to psychiatrists. The well are started on their long climb to liberty. Prisoners Advance The intractable are sent to solitary, but solitary does not mean an underground dungeon hole. The rest are put into single cells, each j equipped with toilet, washstand, bed and chair. Each tier of cells is just a little better than the one the prisoner leaves behind. Finally he reaches wards and “honor rooms” with lounging space. There will be no idleness. A factory for metal furniture is being installed. A big athletic field for baseball and football for all, vocational training shops, a beautifully decorated library, a chapel for a once-a-week movie show of convict performances, will keep the men active in body and mind. The most amazing feature, however, is a school built into the prison, with classrooms for every sort of adult education. This is unique in the United States. The men are fed a balanced diet J three times a day. The dining: rooms, too, are graduated on the | behavior scale. All of them are the cafeteria style, the men helping themselves to the hot food as they wish it and then sitting down to eat it at small oaken tables. Electricity Plays Big Part The kitchens, bakeries, refrigerators and storehouses are models of j modern convenience, with electricity playing a big role everywhere. All the rooms are simple but handsomely built. Instead of the usual gray and forbidding stone, the walls are of warm browning gray. The architecture is Italian Renaissance, giving the institution a monastic appearance. While the corridors lack the j

viously had a safe suit to bid. after the double. East’s next bid must be strongly constructive and must show his partner three things; first, that North’s three no trump bid was a psychic; second, that East had a hand of great strength; third, that he had only moderate assistance in spades. This he accomplished by bidding four no trump over North’s three no trump. West responded with five diamonds —another strongly constructive bid. East now knew that his partner held at least five diamonds and consequently that he must hold at least five spades, having bid that suit first. Therefore. East had no hesitation in raising to five spades* and West, in view of his partner’s constructive bid, carried the contract to six spades. The Play North opened with the jack of clubs and the declarer .wisely went up with the ace in dummy, refusing the finesse because he had nothing to gain even if it should win. A small heart was discarded from his own hand. West suspected from North’s bid that he might be void of spades, so he laid down the ace first to see how the land lay. His suspicions were confirmed, so he led a small spade from dummy, finessing the nine spot. His next play was the ace of diamonds and when South dropped the jack. West continued with a small diamond. West reasoned that North had shown no strength in either spades, hearts, or clubs, and therefore probably had a complete psychic, so he placed the king of diamonds with South. He played low from dummy and was lucky enough to have the king drop. South returned a heart, which was allowed to ride to dummy's king, and another spade finesse enabled the declarer to pick up all the trumps. He then led a small diamond to dummy’s queen and the remaining cards in his own hand were good. Thus East and West were able to bid and make their small slam, and North's psychic far from confusing them, had given valuable inferences which assisted in making the contract. iCcpmabt. 1932. NEA Service. (Inc.)

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clanking steel of cage-like cellblocks, they are secure and strong. The cost, too, is less per capita of inmate than any similar institution in the country. Originally estimated to cost $3,850,000, it will cost only $3,400,000. Its entire cost can be amortized over a period of thirty years through the saying in transportation now expended in conveying men of the northeast area to Atlanta and Leavenworth. The new prison’s warden is Major Henry C. Hill, formerly of Joliet, 111., a penologist of the newer school. The new institution was authorized by congress to relieve the intolerable overcrowding at Atlanta and Leavenworth. “The bureau of prisons makes no rash predictions for the success of this institution,” said Director Bates, former Boston lawyer, called to Washington by Calvin Coolidge. “We know that the older type of prison has failed. This one represents the best thought of some of the most progressive minds in the country. • “Success of the experiment depends not only upon the way the inmates react, but by the sympathy with which the public accepts it.” NO MUSIC —NO DANCE Girl, 14, Declines to Give Act Before Juvenile Judge. Because there was no music in juvenile court, a 14-year-old high school girl Thursday declined, a request to make her stage debut befor Juvenile Judge John F. Geckler. Her dreams of doing her “HoHum” dance on the Chicago stage also were blasted, although she had run away from home for that purpose. The girl, who had slept in a barn all night preparatory to leaving for Chicago, was sent home to her mother, a widow. “I should like to see the dance,” Geckler said. “I can't without music, the girl replied.

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ASKS DISMISSAL OF TOWNE CLUB LIQUORGHARGES Action to Quash Filed in U. S. Court Here by District Attorney. Motion for dismissal of liquor charges against four persons formerly connected with the Hotel Antlers Towne Club has been filed in federal court by District Attorney George R. Jeffrey, it was learned today. At the same time, it was announced that trial of the Kokomo legion liquor conspiracy case, which, with the Towne Club case, was scheduled for trial Monday, has been postponed because of illness of a defense attorney. Twenty-six other cases remain on the jury calendar for trial before Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell Monday. , Estates Trial Postponed Trial of the Indiana Estates case, in which James F. Huteson, Mel J. O'Keefe gnd William M. Dozier are alleged to have swindled Marion county citizens of almost SIOO,OOO through sale of lots in the Morningside addition along Kesler boulevard, has been postponed from Monday until Thursday. No trials have been set for Wednesday to permit Jeffrey to appear before the United States circuit court of appeals in Chicago for oral argument in the appeal of George R. Dale, Muncie mayor, and other Muncie defendants, convicted in the Muncie liquor conspiracy case several months ago. Jeffrey said motion to dismiss the Towne Club case was filed because he doubts if there is sufficient evidence to convict, in view of the fact that a former dry agent who is a witness can not be located. Case Based on Raid The case is based on a raid on the hotel in May, 1931, by Charles P. Britt, then acting deputy prohibition administrator, who later was demoted to special agent and transferred to New Orleans following discovery of disappearance of 1,200 pints of confiscated bonded whisky. Defendants were Robert Griffith, hotel manager; Lloyd Turpin, club manager, and two Negro employes. No liquor was found on the raid, but it was charged patrons of the club were served “setups” for liquor. The Kokomo indictment was returned following a raid on a hotel bar room during the Legion convention at Kokomo several months ago. Liquor cases set for trial Monday include: Bertha L. Pollard and Clarence Schreve. 303 Bright street; Max Pope. Negro. 520 West North street; Raymond Walsh, 713 Chadwick street; William Duncan. 425 West Merrill street; Albert Dale Gillaspy and Cecil C. McDaniel, 1334 Spann avenue; Marshall Hendricks, 1268 West Thirty-first street; Ancil L. Lewis, Muncie; Claude Bitroff. Angeline and Steven L. Sclipcea, Peter Braz. Scott Palmer. Allen G. Smith, Robert J. Campbell, Elmer Fry. Dillen Fry and Harvey Fiy and Paul Henry Romberg. Other cases set include: Andrew Jackson. 2250 Kenwood avenue, narcotic charge; Joe Micelli and Elijah A. Bolen, Terre Haute, motor theft; Charles E. Martin and Humphrey C. Harrington, Indianapolis, filing false claim against the government. CONVICT BOY IN DEATH 17-Year-Old Lad Freed in Killingof Father of Seven. By United Press ELKHART, Ind., Nov. 11.—Warren Pletcher, 17, local high school student, Thursday was found guilty of contributing to the death of Charles Baker, 56, father of seven children. Pletcher was fined SIOO and given a suspended sentence to the county jail. Baker died after allegedly being struck by Pletcher while the two quarreled. He was knocked to the sidewalk, police were told, after he asked Pletcher to refrain from riding his bicycle on the sidewalk.

Fatal Loyalty By United Pres * BEDFORD. Ind., Nov. 11.— A loyal Civil war veteran maintained an unbroken voting record of seventy-two years when he voted here Tuesday, but it resulted in an illness that cost him his life. Stricken with pneumonia shortly after he returned from the polls, W. B. McGinnis. 94, failed to rally. He died Thursday. McGinnis cast his first vote for Abraham Lincoln in 1860.

PLURALITY IS 208,119 Van Nuys Leads Ticket, Final Tabulation Shows. Complete, unofficial tabulation of the election vote in Indiana reveals Frederick Van Nuys, United States senator-elect, defeated Senator James E. Watson by a plurality of 208.119. Van Nuys received 869,368 votes to 661,250 for Watson. Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt’s total vote was 860,625 to 671,179 iot President Hoover. Paul V. McNutt won the governorship from Raymond S. Springer the Republican candidate, by a vote of 860.858 to 670,910, Remainder of the Democratic state ticket was swept into office by approximately the same pluralities. Governor Roosevelt won eightyone of the ninety-two counties, and Van Nuys led Watson in all but five counties. VENUE CHANGE GRANTED Change of venue to Shelby county was granted Thursday in the case of Stanley Parker, Indianapolis youth, charged with murder of Jack Werner, Indiana •avenue pawn broker. The petition was granted by Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker. Roy Love, Parker’s alleged companion, will face trial here.

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RECEPTION TO HONOR M'NUTT AT INDIANA U. Governor-Elect Tribute to Be Paid Tonight by Faculty, Students. By Times Special BLOOMINGTON. Ind., Nov. 11.— Indiana university will pay honor to its distinguished son, GovernorElect Paul V. McNutt, in a reception tonight from 8 to 9 in the new Union building. Dean and Mrs. McNutt and their daughter Louise will be guests of honor and students, faculty and townspeople will attend. President William Lowe Bryan, Secretary John W. Cravens, Mayor Joseph Campbell and GovernorElect McNutt will be presented in a brief, informal program. Indiana university students and faculty and townspeople will lay aside all political affiliations in preparation for the recepton. "His election is not only a signal honor to himself, but also one for his alma mater,” says the Indiana Daily Student. The committee emphasizes that the reception is to be strictly nonpolitical and that no campaign oratory will be permitted. The entire first floor of the Union building will be thrown open for the McNutt home-coming. The committee in charge of the reception inclu and es: Secretary Cravens, Alumni Secretary George F. Heighway, Publicity Director Frank R. Elliott; Miss Lucille Kitson, president of A. W. S. and representative of women students; Dean Agnes E. Wells, Dean C. E. Edmondson, State Senator-Elect Ward G. Biddle; Eugene Fletchall, Indiana Union and representative

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