The Syracuse Journal, Volume 24, Number 17, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 20 August 1931 — Page 2

Wealthy Convicts Buy Their TFay From Prison to Easier Life of Camps

New York. —An Investigation Into a Byslem of bribery whereby well-to-do convicts sentenced to federal penitentiaries at Atlanta and Leavenworth, especially for liquor law violationsand stock frauds, have been able to get themselves transferred to less onerous confinement, in army detention camps, such as those at Fort Wadsworth here, and Camp Meade, Md., has been under way by the Department of Justice for several weeks. The first Intimation of the existence of such a system was obtained by federal authorities here some months ago with the discovery of a letter in the pocket of Paul Rubkin. a convicted watch smuggler, in the Manhattan federal building. Rubkin. with Solomon Rubman, secretary of the company, and Josiah Y”. Pearlman, was sentenced tn the Atlanta penitentiary in July. 1930. The trio had pleaded guilty to charges of smuggling watch movements valued at $950,000 Into this port from Switzerland and defrauding the government out of $300,000 In duties. Rubkin and Pearlman got two years each and Rubman was sentenced for 18 months. Some‘time later, however, when the federal authorities wanted Rubkin to confront a new suspect and they sent to Atlanta for him, it was found that he was at Fort Wadsworth. He was brought to the courthouse here. Afterwards when he was. taken back to

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I have never been able to’whlstle, much effort as I have expended tn nt-

tempting to acquire the art I recall with great vividness my envy of a young companion of seven or eight years who had already acquired the art and whose accomplishment I tried in vain to emulate. Nature evidently never intended that I

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should express my emotions through the medium of whist Ung. My brother* was a great whistler. He had a tremendous range and could reach the highest and the shrillest , notes. He was hot one who whist fed loud “to keep! his courage up-" Whistling was his! way of quieting the irritations of life- He seldom whistled * as he went about his work to express Joy or interest or lightheartedness. If I camyuponhim sitting immovable with furrowed brow, whistling shrilly and persistently, then I knew that something had gone wrong, that he had been thwarted In some purpose, deprived unexpectedly 'of some pleasure. Irritated by some trifling event, possibly. It was no time to nsk for favors or to Attempt pleasant conversation If we found him whistling. It was better tjo wait until the storm blew »ver. In general! whistling expresses a contented, sutiafied state of mind and sometimes a thoughtful one. When at midnight or later 1 am awakened by the sound! of whistling as some of the youthful undergraduates are going home to the|r w li‘H»ks or their beds, I know that I the evening has been passed pleasantly, if not profitably—that the young woman was agreeable, that the show was pleasing, or that the argument went his way. When the boy next door—who whis- , ties amazingly well for one of his years and would have driven me w ild •with envy at| his age—comes out early In the morbing whistling gayly, I know that he has slept well, that he has enjoyed his breakfast, and that now he is engaged in the solution of softie difficult and serious mechanical problem, or lln the devising of some plan for the astonishment of his companions across the street. For him whistling suggests a meditative state of mind. = <©. 1»11. wasters Xewspsper Vnton.)

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Fort Wadsworth and searched It was discovered that some one had given him a letter u-hile in New York. The letter was from a convict at Atlanta. It disclosed that the writer had obtained the necessary funds and wanted to follow Rubkin's example In obtaining a transfer to Fort Wadsworth. Questioned by federal authorities, Rubkin admitted that he had bought a transfer for himself for SI,OOO and that his two associates had also bought transfers, the prices being SI,OOO and SSOO each. Department of Justice agents, under John Edgar Hoover, chief investigator at Washington, began an investigation. They learned that other transChic Street Costume - Wgan (f ' n This debonair street costume was created in sharkstn cloth. The smartness of this sleek tailleur Is accented by the Jaunty hat of brawn and white. fern had been made under similar conditions. However. It was not always easy to .ascertain whether the transfers had been paid for. Because of the overcrowded condition of the penitentiaries at Atlanta and Leavenworth, federal prison authorities have made it a practice recently to transfer as many prisoners as possible to army detention Camps. Nearly 1,500 prisoners have been scattered through these camps. Aiiiuiig. other notorious prisoners who are said to have obtained transfers from Atlanta to army detention camps Is jlarry Qoldhurst, operator of a Manhattan bucket simp and financial adviser of Bishop Cannon and friend of Samuel Radiow, once an Intimate of the late Vivian Gordon. Gold hurst was sentenced to five years in Atlanta for his bucket shop operations.

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The temples at Eleusis, near Athens, where the great festivals and mysteries tn honor of Demeter were celebrated, as they now appear after the clearing of .the ground which has covered them for nearly 2,000 years.

Legion Would Pu»h Work on Public Improvements Chicago —• “WiHle the,American Legion is constantly looking after the welfare of phy.-icaily disabled comrades. the Legion now feels that It should give attention to the many thousands of veterans who are physically sound but financially disabled.* This statement was made by Ralph T. O’Neil, national commander of the American Legion In commenting on the public Improvement programs being sponsored by the ten thousand Legion posts In ten thousand cities. "Government reports show ’ that there are about $2,500,000,000 worth of public Improvements planned and nearly ready to carry through," points out Mr. O’Neil. "But many millions of dollars worth of projects are tied up in red tape and money appropriated is lying Idle. Since a great deal of man-power Is required in construction work, labor's share of this two-and-a-half-billion-dollar program will be in the neighborhood of one and a half billion dollars. Labor needs that money "The American Legion unemployment commission, headed by Howard Savage, past national commander, askr that each Legion post support in Its own community needed projects so that employment may be furnished immediately. This will be to the public benefit for projects built now will cost far less than later when higher prices return. Further, money productively spent to the.benefit of labor and the community will not have to be spent next winter in nonproductive relief work with the same men. The ex-service man asks no charity, but an opportunity to support htg»elf by

Emperor’s Daughter K iß'W’ *Ol ■> I ■ ' X This is the first photograph made of Princess Yorinomiyg Atsuko, daughter of the emperor and empress of Japan. It was taken on the one hundredth day following her birth, when she observed the traditional ceremony of first taking up the chop-sticks. Ends Life in Trunk Mt. Vernon, Ohio. —Stephen S. Shifflette, sixty-four, committed suicide here by closing himself in a trunk and inhaling chloroform. He, took a pistol into the trunk with him to use in case the chloroform failed.

Lost Children Kept Safe in a Cage ■w ii i. s", ■■ i — ii 1 1 ii y I"' a wSSwhffiCH During the hot weather many children are lost in the parks of the big cities and at the bathing beaches. At the Oak street beach in Chicago, this became such a problem that the park board erected a wire-fenced enclosure, where the lost little ones are kept until called for by their parents.

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THE SYRACUSE JOURNAL.

America Was Once Joined to Europe

Paris.—The Abbe Moreux, eminent French meteorologist and scientist, has aroused intense scientific interest by reviving discussion of the theory that the American continent once was Joined to the- Old world but, after the deluge, floated away to its present position. This theory was advanced during the early part of this century by the German meteorologist Wegener, who died recently. Accepting the theory that the inferior of the earth is fluid, then the solidified continents may be giant expanses of floating earth, attached to the interior of the earth by a supple, gradually diminishing link. The Abbe Moreux points out that the German scientist held that the two continents, when they were close together, fitted Into one another almost perfectly, as though they were parts of a Jigsaw puzzle. Examination of a world map shows that this, Jigsaw puzzle Idea is not so farfetched as It would seem at first. When the deluge came, Abbe Moreux says, the narrow gap between the continents widened, America drifted away, leaving the wide expanse of the Atlantic to separate. the newly created world from the old. The French scientist declares the theory is not new. It was first advanced by Pierre Placet in 1668, and again by Snider in 1889. Abbe Moreux, while unwilling to pass on the theory, points to the curiosity of the islands of the Atlantic, such ns the Azores and Madeira. Have they remained stationary, or are they floating more

social bustle Os some kind, with a meaning similar to the word “spree.” Finally by the uncertain processes whidh such words often take it came to have a slang meaning of a scheme, dodge or trick. This meaning developed into the idea of a gigantic illegal enterprise. w

slowly toward the new world? It is indicated that the French academy of sciences may discuss the theory in its entirety, while organization of a mission to study the composition of the Azores and other Atlantic islands is being urged. Retains Her Crown ’ Miss Georgia Coleman of Los Angeles, queen of divers, who successfully defended her national diving championship at the Bronx beach pool at New York,where the A. A. U. championships were contested. Public Jewish Weddings Again Are Held in Spain Madrid. —The first official public Jewish wedding since the expulsion act of 1492 was celebrated in a Jewish synagogue here. It united two descendants of the old Spanish-Jew aristocracy. While Jews have not been molested in Spain for the past century, they were unable to observe publicly the ancient Hebraic rites. This privilege is now offered 2.000,000 Spanish Jews through one of the first official acts of the republican government, which established freedom of worship. Monument to Taine Being Erected in Paris Paris, France.—A monument is being erected in front of the Invalides to the memory of Henri Taine. whose real name was Hippolyte Adolphe Taine. The site of the memorial was chosen because Taffie was given the name of Henri through the whim of the editor of the Revue des Deux Mondes, who also styled him a French critic. He was more truly a great historian and philosopher, who enjoyed a considerable vogue in the latter part of the Nineteenth century. Net Blouses One cannot have too many blouses now that the "soft suit’’ is such an important fashion —and that they may be as versatile as one desires is shown by a group which includes piques, linens, crepes, satins, batiste and newest of all tucked net with tiny puffed sleeves. I POTPOURRI The Typewriter’s Aid to ■« Women X < > The first really workable .» g typewriter was placed on the T ■o American market in 1874. It •> was designed by three Milwau- i; <► kee men, C. L. Sholes, S. W. o Soule, and Carlos Glidden. .The <;> < * ’typewriter undoubtedly has been ” o the most important factor in .1, * k bringing women into the liusi- t’ <> ness world, for it provided the X • opening wedge which gave them t 1 opportunities to prove their ■ capabilities. x <s> (sck 1»31. Western Newioiper Union.! X

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PlactJ MjDNEY FOR OWNER IN GRAIN FEEDING Figures Show Its Value in Milk Production. Records from dairy herd improvement associations show that grain fed to good cows makes money for the dairyman. The average annual yield of milk for dairy cows in New York is 5,500 pounds of milk. A group of cows with less than the average production, or 5,261 pounds of milk, was fed on an average S2O worth of grain, and $35 worth of hay, silage, and pasture, or $55 in all for feed. The average rethan all costs of feed, the transaction assuring the dairyman a substantial profit on his investment. In a group with an average production of 5,500 pounds of milk, the value of the milk was $l6B. The totkl feed cost was s7l, made up of S3O for grain, and s4l for roughage, and the net return was $95. A group which produced, on an average, 7,771 pounds of milk, and fed SSO ■ worth of grain and $44 worth of roughage, produced a gross return of $213 against a feed cost of $94, or a net return of sll9. Similarly, two other groups, producing' about twice, the state average in pounds of milk, or 10,254 pounds and 11,937 pounds respectively, were fed SBS and $99 worth of grain, and $42 and $46 worth of roughage, with total feed costs of $127 and $145 as compared with milk values of S2BO and $339 each, and net returns of $153 and $194. Acids in Silage Found Not Harmful to Cows Claims are frequently made by some groups opposing the use of silage that this feed is harmful to cows because of the acid it contains. No evidence to this effect was found in a carefully controlled experiment conducted by A. E. Perkins and C. F. Monroe of the dairy department at the Ohio experiment station, Wooster. Four groups of cows were variously fed with two types of rations. One type contained liberal amounts of silage, supplying in some instances nearly one and one half pounds of the silage acids daily; in the other type the silage was replaced by a five to one mixture of dried beet pulp with molasses, soaked with two and onehalf times its weight of water. The latter ration supplied a slightly greater amount of digestible nutriehts than did the silage ration but it contained no acids. Chemical analysis conducted on the urine of the cows in both groups showed only slight differences in composition. There was no indication of an accumulation of acid or an excessive loss of minerals when as much as 50 pounds of silage per day was fed to the animals. Profits From “Culling” A certain amount of herd culling would increase the actual profits on many farms. Here is an illustration from a western, herd. In February a farmer started to weigh the mil., from each cow in his herd an ’ have it tested for mtterfat. Also*he kept track of his feed costs. The aero returned $27.48 above feed osp This was only $1.38 for e*ch of his 18 cows. 16 of them in milk. The first c March he sold 8 of these cows to th- butcher. The remaining 10 cows, one of which was dry, returned $"9.14 above feed costs or $,T.92 for each cow. Removing 8 cows more than doubled the nt' above feed cost for the herd, to say nothing of labor saved. It would not always be safe to base dairy culling on one month's perfora .ce unless that one ’ ’i merely verified observations already made. A year's records would be safely .accurate and wonftl hot represent any great time expenditure either. Cleanliness Essential Two things are important in producing clean milk. These are cleanliness and coldness. Cleanliness means a clean cow, clean utensils and a clean dairyman. This does not mean a great deal of extra expense or fancy equipment The next greatest essential in clean milk is to cool it quickly enough. Milk should be brought to 50 degrees Fahrenheit or lower within an hour after it is produced. The milk tank seems to be the most satisfactory and cheapest method of cooling milk on the average dairy farm. Clean milk can be produced with a milking machine as readily as by hand providing proper sanitary measures are observed. DAIRY NOTES When the pasture begins to shorten up, grain should be added in order to maintain the heavy flow which has been stimulated by grass. » • • Keeping records on milk production of dairy cows is especially important when the price of milk Is low. All low producing cows should be weeded from the herd as soon as detected. Serious losses may thus be prevented. • • • Members of 44 New York state dairy herd improvement associations found and sold 335 unprofitable cows in April. • • • One of the secrets of profitable milk production throughout the year lies in feeding grain to the cows during the pasture season. < • • • New York state farmers believe in helping themselves. More cows are on test and more poultry flocks are signed to be culled this year than any previous year.

’FARMt POULTRY FALL EGG LAYING BRINGS IN PROFITS Now Is Good Time to Plan for Hatching Pullets. Winter eggs are not the most profitable eggs "for the poultry producer. Fall production of eggs is mof£ Important than winter production, according to an analysis of egg prices during the months of August, September, October and November, comparison with the winter prices, made by R. E. Cray, extension specialist in poultry husbandry at the Ohio state university. “In February is the time to plan the hatching of pujlets for production of eggs next fall during the high-price season,” says Cray. “Next winter is the time for managing the flock in such away that the egg production which started in the fall will continue throughout the winter.” ' “Breeding is the first requirement of pullets that are to mature eairly, lay-good-sized eggs, and continue (to produce steadily through the' fill and winter months: Careful breeding is becoming more and more injportant with general increases in fee<| prices and decreases in egg prices, I feel safe in predicting that the next five years will see conditions in poultry business which will make it necessary to increase the production 10 eggs per bird in order tp make the same profit we are making today.” Keep Young Cockerels in “Bachelor” Quarters Place prospective breeding cockerels in “bachelor” quarters at the age of 10 to 12 weeks, Counsels Berley Winton of the Missouri College of Agriculture. Put the culls in fattening crates for quick growth gain's two weeks before sale,. Remova.l of the males will help prevent crowding and will provide room for the pullets to make rapid growth. As soon as the young cull chickens weigh one and one-fourth to one and-one-half pounds, they are ready to fatten. They should be placed in fattening crates, and should receive no feed the first 24 hours. Then feed the fastening batter lightly for the first day <>r" two at least three and preferably five times a day. Care should be taken not to over-feed and to keep the birds slightly hungry by givinsr only what they will clean up* in 15 minutes. ?t is not considered profitable to fatten for more than 14 days. A good batter Is made from seven parts of cornmeal and three parts of middlings mixed with enough buttermilk or skimmilk to make the whole the consistency of pancake batter. Ordinarily two pounds of milk to one .pound of dry feed are usedJ Neither grit nor water are required with this ration. Green Ducks Always in Demand at Fair Prices Ducks require about the same care that is given to geese. However, ducks are easier to mate and, generally speaking, easier to manage. It is best to keep standard bred ducks, the market will pay more for uniform quality, the carcass is bigger and besides there is a ready demand for breeding stock of the more popular breeds. Young ducks require fresh water to drink, but tin not require It to puddle in and should not be allowed to spoil the drinking water In this way. To fatten young ducks to the green duck stage, they must be kept in yards or pens which are clean and sanitary, and fed every ounce they will consume of the following ration: Three parts cornmeal. Two parts low grade flour (or middlings). One part bran. One-half part beef scrap, to which should be added 3 per cent fine grit and 10 per cent green feed. Feed this as a mash, moistened with milk, three or four times a day —all they will eat. This mixture, fed properly, will make a three to four pound green duck in ten to twelve weeks. Poultry Hygiene The task of poultry hygiene is twofold because It aims not only to promote health but also to protect and defend it. In connection with the former. conditions are sought to be established under which the vital functions of the animal body can be performed with the least hindrance and at a maximum efficiency, while the latter Is designed to either ward off actual causes of disease, to Interrupt tiefr free movements, to bring about their destruction. Avoid Worm Troubles Thejp are numerous recipes and suggestions given for the treatment for worms In poultry, turkeyi included. but the first thing to notice Is ♦hat worirt troubles are largely due to <il?ty premises. There Is not much Use in attempting to stop losses in a flock through worms unless care Is taken to clean up the premises regularly,' disinfect them and clean out the drevppinf’ from the roosting place to a portion of the farm that is not frequented by the flock. ' Thorough Delousitig In delousing fowls with powder, It is a wise precaution to sa’/urate all bunches of nits found withj a mixture of lard and kerosene, whlcp prevents their hatching. Blue, ointment rubbed into the skin among the f/eathers below the vent will kill flS 800,1 as they hatch and'come down to the skin. Sodium fluoride ponder Is supposed to remain on th® skin long enough to catch nits that hatch after, but the grease or ointmSOt makes destruction sure.