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PRCVTEam FOLLOW SENTENCE
OF^y,BAR-OLDKENTUCKY BOY
PAINTSHLi.E, Ky — Public inter
est in the.,-case of Carl Mahan, 6-year
a'ld sia^er of his playmate Cecil Van
hdosel may. bring to Kentucky some
thing besides the scores of letters re
garding:; thei.case,
Thesentence of- .nearly 15 years
ini thei, reformatory passed,jomthe. Muj
i<ln child .brought .a..challenge of .the
inrisdieihjnu.of the court which tried
him, and-also a number of criticisms
and defenses of the Kentucky court,
system, •«.
Carl killed hi* eightryearrold play
mete on,-May .16, during; a: quarrel
aver a< .piecesof scrap iron they in
tended., to, sell at.a Paintsville junk
yard.., The*, ehild. admitted that he
wrestled for possession of the piece
o& iron when..Cecil took it from him,
aud that he. got his- father’s shotgun
and fired it at the Vanhoose bay.
At the arraignment in juvenile
court before . County Judge : John
Butcher, the boy’s attorney demanded
aiqury trials The. jury found him
Guilty, and the boy.was sentenced to
fhe reformatory at Greendale.
Attorneys* for .the Mahan, family,
ienied arnotian'for a new- trial, were
granted a,.writ of prohibition to re
strain JudgevButcher from carrying
out the-judgment;
The"i.pIea f'or the'writ was support
ed by the . contention that since , the
defendant? is under seven years of. age
Judge: Buicher V eourt had. no juris
diction. tthafo theh jury’s, verdict was
not supported ’by competent evidence,
and thstasince th# child was, charged
with murder. not delinquency, the
case.'shQulrf haveybeen, transferred to
thte circuit, court.
Then the p»*tes#s began to come' in.
S<5me critics .attacked the system
whiete<does nat require that a county
ffiudge* b& 'p lawyer. Judge Butcher
isi noti a- lawyer,/ hut is a mountain
farmer, and, Baptist ministers
Caa.neaaei.Darrow, Chicago lawyer;
sajdVfcM Mahan case was a. throwback
toi.medieval;itimes and,that anyone
with iintalligepce should iecognize the
irresponsibility of anyone of Mahan’s
agq,',?A DaytonasBeach, Fla., woman,
a motive vKwhtuckian, wrote: “If the
Stata.,of i ^Kentucky permits a six
IQjtcwldifcaby to b*. confined in the
reform, school, when all he needs is
loving, intelligent Christian care,
then 1 denounce my, Kentucky herit
age.”. The? letter' bare the name of
Elizabeth 5W. Browdhurst..
Cittern t Judge-Bailey, in granting
thg writ'df’ih'oiiibition,.replied to txie
04rjewoebaEge» and said that such
I ntarviews were the cause of much
crime... He,. stated that he believed
JuagfeeBiitcher and. other Paintsville
of&Jire had', administered justice as
ctit&r.TSawPit.
Albert Vanhoose; father of the
slainridy/ testified at the trial that
thttee weeks before the fatal shooting
rht; Maha nchild struck a man with
i-hlvib-and that .once be threw a knife
| at one o fthe Vanhoose boys. He said
tlie Mahan boy was “incorrigible.”
W l nt*r>co/Mif! no* ottoi
M « .//. Vi »» -»»*j v-a, uvmj, ct bt w i
ney of the Louisville police court, said
he considered the verdict and sen
tence just, on the ground .that , the boy
ppobably would be a menace to the
community if set. free.
Many other Kentucky attorneys
and those from other states, however,
expressed opinion that the sentence
1 was unjust. The case now . is or, ap
peal.
PLANS FOR WORLD BANK ARE
VIEWED CLOSELY BY WALL ST
l
! -
NEW YORK.:—One eminent Amer
ican hanking authority sees in the
proposed bank for international set
tlements a long step toward fulfill
ment of the old dream of an economic
United States of .Europe.
Banking opinion, with some excep
tions. favos the new institution as
outlined by the experts committee.
| Comment usually leads around to the
| inevitable question, Where will this
■ super-bank and possible capital of
I. world finance he located ?
Two paragraphs in. annex 1, part
.XII of the experts’ report are receiv
| ing special attention.. They read:
! “The purpose of the .bank is to pro
| vide, additional facilities for the in
j ternational movement of funds and
! to afford a ready instrument for pra
1 moting international financial rela
j tions. In connection with the Ger
man reparations annuities it shall
perform sls trustee as trustee for tlie
, creditor countries the entire work of
external administration of this plan,
shall act as the agency fo the receipt
and distribution of funds, and shall
supervise and assist in the commer
1 cialization and mobilization of certain
portions of the annuities.
“It shall be located in a financial
center, hereafter to be designated. In
i selecting the country of incorporation
| due consideration shall be given to
j obtaining powers sufficiently broad to
' enable it to perform j. its functions
| with requisite freedom and suitable
\ immunities from taxation.”
i" This description has been interprefc
| ed here to mean that reparations
! might become a comparatively minor
' consideration in the future career of
! the bank.
The non-political and strictly inter
national character of the directorate,
together with the fact that.participa
; tion in the bank’s shares will he open
to al! countries whose currency is on
a. gold basis, points toward its grad
ual evolution into a “Bank of Eu
| rope”, or world bank.
It is foreseen that. the. institution
; will give Europe a central bank to
protect its gold supply from being
drawn across the Atlantic and to en
courage the same degree of financial
unity in Europe as already exists in
the United States.
DECLARES DEER WILL BRING
PROSPERITY TO ALASKA
SEATTLE—Ernest W. Sawyer, ex
ecutive assistant to the Secretary of
the Interior, returning from a six
weeks’ trip to Alaska, predicted that
development of the reindeer industry
in the Northland is destined to pro
.vide more, revenue than fisheries.
Instead of shipping reindeer car
-casses from Nome, a sat present, the
animals will be driven overland to the
Alaska Railroad and fattened on bar
i ley grown in the Tanana valley, then
! slaughtered and shipped out.
Sawyer said there are between
600,000 and 1,000,000 reindeer in
AAlaska .now., The herds are 80 per
j cent females, and increase at a rate
L<of 35 per cent per year. In three or
[four years more, he said, there would
I be 300,000, carcasses available for
shipment annually.
“The Alaska Agricultural College
has demonstrted that 50 pounds can
be added to each carcass in two
months through the use of barley
i feed,” he said. “The Alaska Railroad
| has a colonization campaign under
.way to bring farmers to. the. Tanana
valley to raise barley. I expect to
see same early developments in con-!
nccticn with the reindeer industry'
which will make it .one of the leading'
factors in Alaska’s prosperity.”
MOTOR CENSUS DISCLOSES
THIRTY-TWO MILLION CARS
DETROIT.—More than 32.000,000
motor cars were moving along the.
streets and highways of the world at.
the beginning of this year.
The automotive division of the De
partment of Commerce, which recent
ly completed the laborious task of
counting hoods from Iceland to Aus
tralia finds that 24,629,921, or three
fourths of the world’s motor car pop-'
ulation, is in the United States.
Spitzbergen and. Bermuda are tied
for bottom place with only one auto
mobile each. The Gilbert and Ellice
islands have two busses, but nothing
else. The New Hebrides have no pas
senger cars, but recognize the motor
age with 25 trucks and 3 motorcycles.
The country with the largest total,
next to the United States, is EnglancL
with 1,123,000 motor cars. France is
next, with 1,098,000, and Canada next
with 1,061,000.
China’s huge family of .400,000,000
manages to get aalng with only .25.-,
581 cars.
ALASKA HOLIDAYS.
The following days were designate
ed by the ninth Territorial Legisla-.
ture as legal holidays in Alaska:
January 1, New .Year’s day.
February 12, Lincoln’s Birthday. .
February 22, Washington’s Birth
day.
March 30, Seward’s Day.
July 4, Independence Day.
First Monday in September, Labor.
Day.
October 18, Alaska Day,
| November 11, Armistice Day.
December 25, Christmas Day.
Any day designated by public pro
r clamation by the President or Gov
ernor of Alaska as a legal holiday or
day of thanksgiving.
Memorial or Decoration Day, and
the day on which a general election
is held throughout the Territory.
A traveling man one night found
himself .ohliged to remain in a small
town on account of a washout on the
railroad caused by the heavy rain,
which was still coming down in tor
rents. The traveling man turned .to,
-the waitress with:
“Thui certainly looks like the
flood.”
■ “The what?”
“The flood. You’ve read of the.
great flood, and the Ark landing on
Mount Ararat, surely.”
“Gee, mister,” she replied, “I ain’t'
seen a paper for three days!”
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