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...Penal Code of the State of New York a section (No. 1530) providing for the closure of a public nuisance. There is a recent decision by the State Court of Appeals that a speakeasy is a public nuisance. Also in New York are Grover Aloysius Whalen, the Police Commissioner; Maurice Campbell, the local U. S. Prohibition Administrator; and a tidal sentiment against Prohibition.* Tall, blue-eyed, cinematically handsome, fastidiously dressed. Administrator Campbell rose to Major in the Army Ordnance Corps during the War. For three years (1919-22) he was a cinema director for Famous Players-Lasky (Oh, Lady, Lady...
Last week Administrator Campbell rolled up a batch of several hundred uninvestigated complaints against speakeasies, despatched them to Commissioner Whalen, called that official's attention to Section 1530 of the Penal Code and the Court of Appeals' decision, told him, in effect, to get busy and dry up New York City. Wrote Prohibitor Campbell: "If the police make raids and the several magistrates and district attorneys conscientiously do their duty, the speakeasies in New York will rapidly fade away...
Responsible for the President's program was Sanford Bates, U. S. Superintendent of Prisons, selected as a man of "advanced ideas" by Mrs. Willebrandt shortly before her retirement last spring. For ten years Mr. Bates was Massachusetts' Commissioner of Correction, fought many a fight to modernize that State's penal system. No sentimentalist, he believes in prison reform, rehabilitation of society's sick-minded. One of his methods for relieving U. S. prison congestion is to increase paroles, now limited by the scarcity of probation officers. President Hoover last week promised him more of these officers...
...Angola Penal Farm in Louisiana last week six convicts seized a locomotive, went roaring away towards freedom in the hills. When their steam gave out, they took to their heels, were shortly recaptured...
Remembering bloodthirsty stories of France's Devil Island and Italy's Lampedusa, meticulous Robert A. Maier, Mexican correspondent of Berlin's Lokalan-zeiger anticipated the first anniversary of General Obregon's death by going to visit Mother Concepcion, to see for himself what a Mexican penal island is like...