Wealthy Convicts Buy
Their Way
New York.—An investigation Into a
system of bribery whereby well-to-do
convicts sentenced to federal peniten-
tiaries at Atlanta and Leavenworth,
especially for liquor law violations and
stock frauds, have been able to get
themselves transferred to less oner-
ous confinement in army detention
camps, such as those at Fort Wads-
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WHISTLING AND
EMOTION
By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK
Dean of Men, University of
llinois.
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the medium of whistlis
My brother was a
Je had a tremendous range
reach the highest
notes He was not
Joud “to keep his courage up.”
tling was his way of quiet
ritations of life, He seld
as he went about his worl
Soy or interest or licht-hear
I came him sitting
with furrowed brow, whistling
and then I knew
something wrong, that he
had been in some purpose,
deprived unexpectedly :
ure, irritated by some
It was no time ask for
favors or to attempt pleasant conver.
found him It
to wait until storm
great
and the
one who wi
unon
persistently,
had
thwarted
gone
some pleas
trifling event
possibly, to
gation If we
was better
blew over.
in general, whistling expresses a |
contented, satisfied state of mind and
sometimes a thoughtful one, When
at midnight or later I am awakened |
by the sound of whistling as some of |
the youthful undergraduates are going
home to their books or their beds, I
know that the evening has been
passed pleasantly, if not profitably—
whistling,
the
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worth here, and Camp Mende, 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 convicts
ed watch smuggler, in the Manhattan
federal building, Rubkin, with Soio-
mon Rubman, secretary of the com-
pany, and Joseph Y. Pearlman, was
sentenced to the Atlanta penitentiary
in July, 1030,
The trio had pleaded to
charges of smuggling Moves
ments valued at 3050,000 into this port
from Switzerland and defrauding the
government out of $300,000 in duties,
Rubkin and Pearlman got years
each and Rubman was sentenced for
18 months,
guilty
watch
two
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. Aft-
erwowds when he was taken back to
Fort Wadsworth and searched it was
discovered that hind given
him a letter while in York,
The letter from a conviet 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 Wads-
worth, Questioned by federal authori-
ties, Rubkin admitted that he had
hought a transfer for himself for
£1,000 and that his two associates had
also bought transfers, the be-
Ing $1,000 and £300 each,
some one
New
was
prices
Department of Justice agents, un-
der John Edgar Hoover, chief invest]
ator at Washington, began an inves.
tigation, They learned that other trans.
f had
fers been made
conditions,
similar
not
under
However, it was
to whet
fers had been paid for.
the overcrowded
al-
Wass
fran
4
easy ascertain ithe
condition of ‘the
a
penitentiaries at Atlanta and Leaven-
worth, federal prison authorities have
made it a practice recently to trans.
fer as many
army
prisoners as possible to
Nearly 1,500
prisoners have been scattered through
these camps
detention camps.
Among other
who are sald
fers from
notorious prisoners
have obtained trans.
Atlanta to detention
camps Harry Goldh operator
of a Manhattan and
financial adviser ‘unnon
and friend of Radlow, once
an Intimate of the late Vivian Gordon,
Goldhiurst was sentenced to five vears
in Atlanta for bis bucket shop opera-
tions,
to
army
is urst,
bucket shop
of Bishop (
Samuel
An oll
has b
two miles
een drilled
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appear
that the young woman was agreeable,
that the that
the argun
When the boy next door-—who whis-
tiles I for one his
years and would have driven me wild
with envy at his age-—comes out early
in the whistling gayly, 1
now that he has slept well, that he
has enjoyed his breakfast, and that
now he is engaged in the solution of
some difficult and serious mechanical
problem, or in the devising of some
plan for the astonishment of
the
whistling suggests a
of mind,
show was pleasing, or
went his wa)
amazin of
morning
hig com.
For him
meditative state
panicns Across street,
fan.)
America Was Once
Paris.—The Abbe Moreux, eminent
French meteorologist and selentist, has
aroused Intense scientific Interest by
po
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dling?
“Crash sutls are fashionable and
practical for amateur fiyers”
WNT Serviced
Joined to Europe
reviving discussion of the theory that
the American continent was
Joined to the Old world bul, after the
deluge, floated away to present
position,
This wis advanced during
the early part of this century by the
Cerman meteorologist Wegener, who
died recently. Accepting the theory
that the interior of the earth is fluid,
then the solidified continents may be
giant expanses of floating earth, at
oiched 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 another als
most perfectly, as though they were
parts of a Jigewrw puzzle. Examina-
tion of a world map shows that this
Jigsaw puzzle idea Is not so far
fetched as it would seem at first,
When the deluge eame, Abbe Moreux
snys, the narrow gap between the con.
tinents widened, America drifted
away, leaving the wide expanse of
the Atlantic to geparnte the newly
created world from the old,
The French scientist declares the
once
is
theory
one
The man who
takes an umbrella to
church and leaves it
out in the vestibule
has got true friends.
a "y
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fest
of the ground which
Retains Her Crown
Miss Georgia Coleman of Los An-
geles, queen of divers, who success
fully defended her national diving
championship at the Bronx beach pool
at New York, where the A. A U.
championships were contested,
theory Is not new. It was first ad-
vanced by Pierre Placet in 1608, and
again by Snider In 1880, Abbe Moreux,
while unwilling to pass on the theory,
points to the curiosity of the islands
of the Atlantic, such ds the Azores
and Madeira. Have they remained
stationary, or are they floating more
slowly toward the new world?
It is Indicated that the French
academy of sciences may discuss the
theory in its entirety, while organiza.
tion of a mission to stidy the com
position of the Azores and other At
lantie islands is being urged,
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