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Show UINTAH IUSIN RECORD IE WORLD'S WORST PRISON Keeping Up du Salut Isles of Salvation Create Living Death UB Jhat Terrifies Hardest Criminals; Horrors of Bear Pits, Guillotine and Disease Are Unbelievable f it;nciene ervice Science Service. WNU Service. Cosmic Rays Man Finds on Earth Are Trapped in Galaxy They May Originate in Blast of Stellar Worlds MM New York. A Nobel prize winner in physics and a Chinese scientist joined forces, through the printed word here to tell the world of a new hypothesis on the origin of the cosmic ray. The men are Prof. Arthur H. Compton, University of Chicago, and Dr. P. Y. Chou, physicist at National Tsing Hua university, Peiping, China. Their medium of expression was the highly technical journal of the American physical society, the Physical Review, published here. Get Elderly Patient Up in Two Weeks to Avoid Death THAMES TELLS ITS TALE Doctors Find Confinement to Bed Hastens the End By JANE STAFFORD Atlantic City, N. J. Elderly persons who get sick must be gotten out of bed and back on their feet as rapidly as possible, in order to stall off death, Drs. Louis B, Laplace and J. T. Nicholson of Philadelphia told members of the American Medical association here. Confinement to bed hastens death In persons over sixty years, they found. The reason is that remaining inactive and prone for long periods allows the blood to accumu- Weighing a Shipment of Eleph ant Tusks on a London Wharf. late in the small veins and arteries. The total volume of blood is thus reduced and its circulation Is further impeded by the hardening of the blood vessels that occurs in old age. The blood, therefore, remains in Prepared by National Oorraphtc Society, for the zoo to a shipload of molasses NU Service. the capillaries until It Is forced out ttPhlnirton, D, O from which to distill fuel alcohol. traffic makes It weighs by contractions of the muscles, but THAMES goods, reports on their a person confined to bed moves his the worlds fore- quality and condition; it opens bales muscles so little that the blood does Roand boxes for customs Inspection, not circulate enough. As a result, most river port. Since furnishes samples for buyers, and Britwhen man tissues degenerate, ulcers form, and galley days looks after and loading the body Is slowly poisoned by ab- ons traded grain, slaves, and for those whorepacking from London to ship sorption of the products fromthe dogskin for European salt other ports. degenerated tissues. The patient and horse collars On the north bank of the Thames, comsinks Into stupor and the final Inscattered for miles downstream flowed between merce has vasion of the bacteria into the lungs the Tower, stand these great In the present stage of cosLondon and the continental from causes the fatal pneumonia. PLA docks: London, St. Katharine, Promic ray knowledge, say The way to prevent all this Is countries along the Schelde, East and West India, Millwall, Vicfessor Compton and Dr. Chou, to order elderly patients out of bed the Rhine and the Elbe. Afttoria and Albert, King George V, there Is no known act of nature even the annihilation of the as Boon as possible and while they er Drake nerved England to and the Tilbury. On the south bank, near Londons atomic nucleus which can provide must remain In bed to give them smash the Spanish Armada, heart, are ancient Surrey Commersufficient energy to fit the observed massage, exercise in bed, deep and frequent shifts of London ships gained in time cial docks, with a lumberyard that energies of some of the cosmic breathing the lions share of ocean-born- e covers 150 acres! position. rays. A trade. Besides the railways and truck The only possibility, they feel, Is to new, quick and Inexpensive test determine whether a woman is Names immortal in discovery and lines that tie these docks to the outtlie primeval explosion that sent going to become a mother was re- conquest are linked with this water lying kingdom, some 9,000 Thames worlds and galaxies literally rockby Drs. John Huberman, front. From here Frobisher went barges handle goods to and from ported and into space. ing reeling Howard H. Israeloff and Benjamin seeking the Northwest passage, and ships sides. Acknowledge Belgians Theory. Hymowitz of Newark, N. J. The test Hawkins to Fuerto Ricq and Vera dock has its own character. Every kind of particle and the is made by injecting under the skin Cruz; from here Lancaster made St.Each Katharine docks are built on the known as of one of of the hormones his voyages to the East, before the the forearm energy photons packets site of the old Church of St. Kathwould be the debris of such a stag- present in the body of an expectant downfall of Portugal and the rise arine by the Tower, founded by gering catastrophe, they admit. To mother. If the skin becomes red of the British East India company. Matilda in 1148. What heteroQueen account for the known preponderand inflames, the test is negative sailed from here to explore geneous goods they store: wool, ance of electrically charged par- and the woman is not about to be- Raleigh to the Orinoco, popularize tobacco come a mother. If there is no re- and, tradition says, to start the Irish skins, wines, spices, sugar, rubber, ticles, they suggest that the balata, tallow, ivory, barks, gums, photons and neutrons have action, the test is considered posipotatoes. drugs, coffee, Iodine, hemp, quickbeen lost in space because they could tive evidence that the woman is planting It was Londons daring money silver, canned fruits and fish, coir penetrate the magnetic field of stars bearing a child. which sent Sebastian Cabot to found coconuts, and brandy! and galaxies. But these same magThe test was originally devised by the Russia company, opening trade yarn, netic fields might trap the charged Drs. G. C. Gilfillen and W. K. Gregg with that land. London Navy at One Dock. merchants West India and Millwall docks lie particles and so produce the ob- of Dayton, Ohio. The Newark physi- and skippers promoted the Turkey, served particle component of the cians found it 90 per cent accurate African, Virginia and Hudson's Bay in a river peninsula known as the cosmic rays. Isle of Dogs. Here the passer-bin tests of 200 expectant mothers companies. The scientists acknowledge the and 95 per cent accurate In 150 womLondon emigrants helped colonize may smell 12,000 puncheons of rum, o f en known not to be expecting chilin the Americas, in Australia, New a million tons of sugar and shipexpanding universe theory Abbe LeMaitre, the Belgian dren. Zealand, China, India, Africa and loads of dates. scientist - priest, as the inspirathe rich Islands of the sea. Victoria and Albert and King tion for this newest cosmic ray English Spread From Here. George V docks form one huge From this water front went the structure, the worlds largest sheet hypothesis. The Comporigin ton - Chou report is the first one English language. In Drakes day of enclosed dock water. Often 40 or in considerable time which has only a few millions spoke it. Now 50 ships equal to a good-sizenavy It is a world tongue. Of all letters, tackled the origin of the cosmic ray. tie up here at one time. telegrams, books and papers printDiscussing the high energy of cosTilbury Is the first dock one sees ed now, it is estimated that 70 per when sailing up the Thames. Its mic rays and their apparent origin cent are In London alone long landing stage forms a homesomewhere out in space, the scienA fainting uses enough English. Washington. tists said, If the cosmic rays come newsprint every day land gateway for people from Auto cover a ranch of 9.350 acres from beyond the Milky Way, at a strike as an advance in techstralia, New Zealand, India, China really typical place in intergalactic nique over sit-dostrikes or nearly 15 square miles of paper. and other eastern countries who enbig paper land or embark here. Fast trains space the density of cosmic-ra- y be the explanation of the millTheat smell from that is one of the of the London, Midland and Scottish Bayswater ergy would be of the order of 100 may times as great as that of starlight. reported mass faintings of marks I steer by on foggy nights," railway touch the dock's edge and whisk passengers away to all parts It Is thus apparent that either the girl workers inaLille, France, a Thames pilot will tell you. source of the rays must be a radiaExploration of Londons crowded of the kingdom. refinery where 400 docks sugar reveals not only what amaztor which is very powerful compared workers fainted while at work In the city, PLA has still more with stars as a source of light, or ing piles of food a great city can warehouses. At its Butler street col70 the cosmic rays once emitted must one day and another normally eat, but also what odd building are 70 rooms full of oriental be retained by the metagalactic lapsed within a few hours Items, from live bats to rhino horns, carpets enough to cover a farm of are mixed in the life stream of 120 acres! system instead of being lost as Is after resuming work. The faint strike explanation is the world commerce. starlight. People buy most carpets In June, Imponderable, In variety and for wedding presents, you are told. suggestion of a national authority, May Deflect Rays. on industrial hygiene. He refused magnitude, are these fruits of mans There are electric ovens, too, for Although nuclear processes ocbut pointed barter. Here, too, his work ranges conditioning raw silk, a mountain curring in interstellar space might to be quoted directly of combination out a that high tem- from rat catching and opium samof Havana cigars and leaf tobacco result in an adequate total energy, labor pling to dredging the Thames and enough to last one man, say, and humidity, high 0 perature such that it appears they add, to fill annual cargo enough a little hysteria might handling yearsl processes are inadequate to account unrest and a road with loaded trucks from the Here Is a furtive horde of lean for the great energies of the individ- lead to such mass collapses. Dis- Yukon to Patagonia. with working conditions satisfaction black cats, to help out the official ual cosmic-raparticles. 500 To some that every day worksay human rat catchers. Musty wine Concerning the trapping of the generally plus uncomfortable big and little, pass through vaults use 28 miles of electrical particles they ask, Is it ing conditions during hot weather craft, underground tells half mouth Thames the only to think all track on which to roll barrels that possible that electrically - charged might lead the girls is More what the significant story. to something in hold the 12,000,000 gallons of wine rays emitted by the initial explosion their troubles due would then faint happens on the docks. and the they plant or stellar deflected be brought to London each year. by may Commission Ends Confusion. to work. Tills Is the worlds ivory and tooth galactic magnetic fields just as on going A possible chemical explanation Even London people themselves market. It takes 18,000,000 artificial a cosmic - ray , electron is deIs the that during refining process dont dream what incredible activity teeth from the United States every flected by the earths magnetic If so, those particles there might be some fermentation is here. Few ever see it. Confusion year and some 2,000 elephant tusks field? which would be most probably re- which would Increase the carbon on this crowded river, In days gone, from Africa and Asia. tained by the metagalactic system dioxide content of the air and reduce grew so Intense that waiting boats Not many tusks are from newly its oxygen content. This could easily often lay unloaded for weeks; goods would be those with the highest raslain elephants. Most of them come cause on disorder in were fainting. piled river tio of charge to mass in order, from mudholes, left by animals. been The temperature has reportbanks, and pilfering was enormous. electrons, protons, etc., whereas all A in Lille. Tea for Londoners. hot as ed stole a One bandit almost being river neutral rays might be forever lost. of 80 degrees Fahrenwhole shipload of sugarl To comWool was England's chief export Because, on the hypothesis, the temperature cosmic rays would spend much of heit with a relative humidity of 100 bat this chaos the West India mer- in the Middle ages. Today it is one their life time in intergalactic space per cent is the border line between chants built their own fortlike docks. of Londons main imports. It takes conditions tolerable and intolerable With more trade came more the fleeces from about fifty million they should suffer the red shift, for continued work. If the air movewars and sheep to meet London's annual deand more docks, in same of the way energy decay ment is good this temperature can other confusion. This ended in 1909 mands! If this is true, that light does. when the Port of London authority, the en- be borne while working. conclude the scientists, Tea trade has centered here for a Royal commission, took full connow strikof the cosmic 300 years. In Mincing Lane you can rays ergies trol under act of parliament. see brokers bidding on lots which ing the earth must be much less High IIccls for Glamor? It paid 23,000,000 pounds for pri- have been expertly than those of the rays In the early sampled by Cleo, Helen Wore Sandals vately owned London docks, spent PLAs own teatasters. history of the earth." millions more to make the lower When they bulk" tea, or mix it, on some warehouse floors you may Out- Thames the world's longest deepKansas City, Mo. Oldest Metal Statues of water channel and to enlarge and see it heaped up in mounds higher standing glamor ladies of hisfacilities. then mens heads. Man Found in Syria of It has dredged mud enough out of tory, Cleopatra and Helen Think of all the liquid history Thames to build a Chinese Wall, that has been packed Into this anChicago. The oldest metal Troy, wore sandals, not high the the world's cient water front since Roman galand has statuettes of men and women heels. dock system. One most extensive This thought on shoe psychology leys traded here; since Danes and ever discovered have been of its cranes the London Mamto was here the American Vikings came to plunder; since the 150 tonsl unearthed in ruins of a Homepresented Economics association by moth," lifts great companies of merchant adFinally, with characteristic Brit- venturers launched their tiny ships temple in Syria, dating from Miss Ruth Kerr of the ish financial gnius, it sold Its deb3300 B. C. for daring trade and colonizing far association. entures on the stock exchange, and over then seas. I a little stiff with It task for that the now figures Quaint, Declaring its operations usually pay all Think of the 00,000 ships a year solemn faces and arms folded or engineer and the physicist, to adapt costs and interest and leave a profit that now form smoke lanes from bent sharply upward, these copper the facts known about foot bniance which is used fot more ImproveLondon to every nook of the world statuettes are believed to represent to shoe design, Miss Kerr said: ments. ferwhere goods can be bought or sold No positive findings have yet gods of war and goddesses of Giant Docks and Yard. and you begin to see why this tility. They were discovered by the been made to establish exactly what stretch of London River Is, The PLA Is not In trade. It Is rian expedition of the Oriental happens to the static shoe when it Institute of the University of Chiis united with the dynamic foot in merely custodian of merchandise incomparably, tlus world's busiest that may range from wild animals water front. action. cago, at Tell Jedidch. From Every Corner of the Earth Come Ships That Ply This River VS non-charg- Devils island grave digger, shown above, never has long to wait for corpses (1). The convicts, locked bars, dream only of escape (2). Richard Halliburton found these things out when he lived with the pris-'He is shown with four of them in the picture at the right, above (3). e jW ihr be-p,f- ttICHARD HALLIBURTON xhe Royal Road to Romance, etc. (,or 0f 1 CE a scalatohgijg year, from La Ro- JPrance a Ship tenant :ts, bearing the most ay whe-- ; cargo ever carried the sea. It is the Mar-i- n an aboard her, Noe in three cages, are . piasi-'convicts bound levils Island penal French Guiana on the of South Ameri-isiocoast he cor r s Within twelve months is d lieutcn-undre- d to get along. But in the blockhouse they sleep on planks with their feet manacled to an iron bar. They are allowed no exercise, no tobacco, and no release from the one common bull-peexcept to empty, once a day, their wooden toilet buckets. The heat and the stench are almost overpowering. When their trial comes round, many of the victims have obliged the authorities by dying. And then, as if the blockhouse were not pain enough, the tribunal sentences the offender (for a first evasion) to 30 days in the bear-pits- " on lie St, Joseph. If its a n. second attempt, the prisoner gets six months. For a third attempt, he will get a year. f leg tor arrival, three hundred The Unforgivable Crime. andEbe dead. Within seven takes It just one failure to teach five hundred will be from rh that evasion is the newcomer the We Within twenty years, one crime. There Is a unforgivable ok the 11 still re- pg oniy one murder a week; there are stabbings hundred, and robberies and violence of a thno'-kinds. But these offenses Ve will have escaped. Of hundred attention from the small get w iked, twelve, not half will A murdered murderer is ajudges. good ;ets fiih the shores of France This guarevasionl But riddance. he city I antees for the malefactor rigorous truck s punishment. And when one rememi of the; dry guillotine! in their cages, the de-- i bers that of 10,000 evasions in the so we S.sed spend 20 days en route. last ten years, only some 200 have are well behaved, for there succeeded, one can realize how on is Lej3n pipes au around, filled with much punishment the bear-pit- s e was which can flood the cages in St Joseph have inflict id. The tribunal was not In action ran wa of mutiny. :cided Ive hours before reaching St while I was in Guiana, but I had nt, the town on the Maroni plenty of opportunity to witness the within where the cargo will disem-- t results of its sentences. build- - the Martiniere The barracks on lie Royale were passes close even less fit for human occupation Iter for ee beautiful rigt each about 20 acres In ex-- I than those I had seen in St. Laurent the foknown as the Ues du Salut. yet into each one, 80 prisoners leg. lies of Salvation ironic name! were crowded. They were the most e brokflo of these islands, St. Joseph wretched convicts in all Guiana, for and tie Royale, several hundred the islands are the health resort" s the and of the colony, and collect the prisrotting In iment cells, while on the third, oners who are dying from tuberculoand malaria. Mixed with these cast sis are the liable, Wa1 away an despised class of all crimi-r- e are the incorrigibles, the irredeemtraitors and spies, ables, who have been sent here for nove on offenses on the mainland. repeated Political Prisoners Only, r watt next The island, He du Diable Itunder tie du Diable itself, the love-DIs one self, great coconut grove. It twt-all, the convicts will never is more beautiful than Royale, but Int ot, unless they are political led even unhappier, because its handtys Brpers. Nevertheless, they look ful of s are cut off intense lysteriowith Interest, for its from all contact with their fellow ce durlt has rung around the world men. They live, each alone, In litshe saince Captain Dreyfus impris-l- t tle shacks, avoided and despised. there, 35 years ago, brought never see a new face, except They id her a to the brink of revolution when another traitor comes to join the entire penal colony js skiraused There is not the remotest them. t known thenceforth as Devils over chance of their being able to ed us . the dream, the hope, pe-escape, ad gon the way out from France the that keeps alive the spirit of the fat of ne discussion has been ether topic deportes. ossibility and the methods of Horror of the Bear-rita. for every man who finds free But compared to He St. Joseph, in Sbf'60 are recaPtured and sent to both Royale and Diable are little famous blockhouse" to await heavens of joy and freedom. On St. p, tribunal sits only three Joseph are the bear-pit- s where the 5 the so the prisoners may evasionists are sent for punishment. year, nt of .to endure four months of spe- - Here are the utter depths. aj etention. Ive seen my share of prisons, but nany as barch the blockhouse is designed for Ive never seen anything In the ordinary bar-- , barous as these bear-pits- . They are vail j iment. where the well behaved con-liv- built In a grim, silent building that n aft1' they sleep on canvas Is like nothing else in the world. It ir end earn a few sous a day consists of three sheds, drove locks, garettes, and are fed enough each 300 feet long. Inside each shed. col-"ashb:- .in sx ? : palm-shade- do-i- d is-h- is pest-house- ut traitor-prisoner- esca- s. V e. Iron-roofe- d 80 cages are arranged in two parallel lines. These cages are really windowless pits, 12 feet long, 7 feet wide, and 12 feet deep, of thick concrete. Through a shutter In a solid door, the food and toilet buckets are passed. The pits have no roofs, only grills of heavy bars. A central wall 20 feet high, reaching half way to the shed roof and running the length of the building, separates the two lines of cells. Along the top of this wall is a railed runway. Here the guards walk their beats, back and forth, looking down on either side through the and upon bars Into each bear-pi- t, each of the caged animals. Nothing escapes the gaze of the passing officer. Nothing can be hidden. Inside each cage there are one wooden bench, two small wooden buckets, one blanket, and one man. That is all. High over everything arches the vast iron roof that keeps out the sun and the rain. On very bright days It Is gloomy In the pits. On dark days, there is almost no light at all. At night, no lamps are lighted, and from twilight to dawn It is completely black. Escorted by a guard, I entered one of these somber sheds, climbed the ladder of the central wall and moved along tiie railed walk. Half the men beneath this particular roof were mad. For they go mad never allowed to speak, to smoke, to escape the scrutinizing eye of the military lynx above; having to live month after month In this still, dark tomb. And when their minds do crack, they are simply moved from the sane end to the insane end. The cells are all alike; the treatment, the same. Seek There Is one escape to get sick enough for removal to the hospital on lie Royale. One doesnt get sick so easily, cut off from all Infection. So the prisoners poison themselves with pus from scurvied gums, or mortify their flesh in any other way that the four walls of their cells permit. Sometimes, if theyre lucky, gangrene does set in. The doctor makes his rounds on Thursdays, so the job must be done on Tuesdays, In order that the Inflammation may be sufficient to force his attention. If this desperate hoax works, the prisoner is removed. He may lose his arm, or toe of blood poisoning, but at least he has seen the sky and the sea again, he has spoken to another human being, perhaps even smoked a cigarette, and he wont mind dying now. The Gulllotiner Explains. All the deaths on the Islands, however, are not from disease. One day I passed a convict wearing a long black beard. He was the gulllotin-e- r, and the beard his sign of office. You get well paid? I asked, a bit faint. Yes, a hundred francs a job, I send it to my he answered. wife in France. C Bell Syndicate. WNU Service. y Fainting Spells May Be Latest Strike d Technique in France 500,-00- y toll-rat- cargo-handlin- e g Calf-Tanne- little-know- n |