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30. CHICAGO PAlLY TRlBtOTL ATOM AY, NEW JUVENILE HOME EXPOSE BISHOP GANNON REFUSES TO TALK day with the deposition showing Cannon as insistent that any question relating to his present conduct would be an invasion of his private rights. The reading of the deposition to a jury of eleven men and oie woman will continue Monday morning. ARREST KANKAKEE BANK TELLER; FIND $50,000 SHORTAGE HORNER BALKS PAROLE SPONSOR REFORM MOVE LAUNCH CLEANUP OF CONDITIONS IN JUVENILE HOME the direct answer of the leader of the anti-Smith forces in the south in the 1928 campaign to a question as to whether he profited from the contribution. The libel action is brought on the ground that Tinkham, bearded blue blood from charged that Cannon was a shameless violator of the corrupt practices act" because he allegedly diverted the Jameson money to his pockets.

The case, which was opened yesterday after a long delay, was continued. In the deposition the bishop denied that he profited in any way from a OF STOCK DEALS Kankakee, 111., Jan. 29. Special. Lavern St.

John is in the Kanka $63,500 contribution he secured from kee county jail, held under a charge E. C. Jameson, New York broker the 1928 campaign of former President Herbert Hoover. A No was of embezzlement of approximately $50,000 from the City Trust and Sav ings bank here. St, John was employed as a teller at the bank.

According to H. M. Stone, president of Quiz in Libel Suit Held 1 the bank, St John had been em New Revelations Made as County Acts. Accepts Resignation of Scully as Supervisor. ployed by the institution for the last Invasion of Rights.

thirteen years. He is 32 years eld. The bank will not suffer any loss because St. John was bonded, Mr. Stone said.

Discovery of the short tl'hlcaso Tribune Prens Service. Washington, Jan. 29. Spe One of the important reforms contemplated by T. P.

Sullivan, acting age was made yesterday. St, John is married and has two children. cial. Bishop James Cannon tes 100 NEW STYLES this pair of gleaming pal' ent with the very breath of Paris in them New revelations were made yesterday concerning the Juvenile Detention home, which has been the target recent weeks of social service leaders who are demanding that the place be cleaned up. One of their primary i i i i parole supervisor, has been upset by Gov.

Horner. tifying by proxy in his $500,000 libel suit against closer parole supervision by requiring if -J Sullivan and A. L. the agents to spend one-third more Represen a i George Tinkham $075 time "in the field" that is, in per Bowen, state welfare director, recommended that sonally watching the ex-convicts they and girls from contamination by association with hardened delinquents. As the new disclosures came to supervise.

19 Supervise 3,000. today refused under cross-examination to state where he parole sponsors Others at $10.75 7th floor for convicts be Under present conditions the nineteen agents in the Chicago district, who supervise more than 3,000 pa Six small beds fill one room for smaller children at the Juvenile Detention home. Crowding caused by incarceration there of youngsters is one of the conditions attacked by critics of the management. TRIBUNE Photos. rolees, are kept out of the field the equivalent of fourteen days monthly, eliminated and complete authority vested in the parole agents whom the authorities thought best qualified to oversee parolees.

The governor has has dabbled in stock market since 1930 when he promised officials of the Methodist Episcopal Church South he would not do On three of these days parolees re port to them in their offices at 608 South Dearborn street. Each Satur shoes 1 jn Ls. ft! day morning is occupied by weekly vetoed that sug- gestion and the george T. scollt tinkham. The bishop re fusal came from the lips of his at same old system, which has repeated ly been under fire, is to be continued Bags to match your elton shoes $5 $6.50 light, the county board was acceding to the pleas of County Commissioner Elizabeth A.

Conkey for additional money to help rehabilitate the place. On Monday or Tuesday a special staf of social service experts, engaged by Commissioner Conkey with the appropriation, will report for duty at the juvenile home. They will attempt to stop the -sending of innocent children into the institution. One of First Definite Moves. This is one of the first definite moves to rectify existing conditions.

Two recent preliminary moves were the suspension of two woman attendants who permitted a risque burlesque court to be held by girl inmates several months ago, and the filing of an initial report on conditions with the county board. Some of the conditions disclosed in the institution yesterday follow: 1. Boys and girls formally committed to other institutions are kept Sullivan, who succeeded George Scully when the latter was ousted by the governor last Christmas day, be came more secure in his position yes terday when Mr. Horner announced fZW-Y' I 1 reports from parolees whom it is thought need especial attention. In addition, each agent spends an average of five days in court every month.

And there are the four Sundays during which no supervisory work is done. Sullivan proposes to abolish the monthly and weekly reports and instead keep his agents out in their districts for that time. To make certain that they keep in constant contact with their parolees, he is installing what he believes to be a fool-proof report system for the agents. It will be checked each week by supervisors. "The governor," Sullivan said, has promised us more agents.

In this district each agent supervises an aver MAURICE ROTHSCHILD State at Jackson in prmgneia, mat scuny "resigna tion had been accepted. The gov ernor did so without comment save to say that Sullivan would continue torney, Robert H. McNeill. McNeill took the witness stand in the court of Justice Jennings Bailey of the District of Columbia Supreme court to read a deposition of the church man. The deposition was put into the record because Bishop Cannon is ill at Durham, N.

C. The refusal was persistently made last June at Sibley hospital, here, when Attorney Roger G. Whiteford, representing Tinkham, sought 'o learn whether the bishop is operating in llie stock market. Though the question was phrased in various ways the deposition showed the bishop could not be persuaded to make a reply. The trial was adjourned until Mon- as acting supervisor.

It was reported however, that Sullivan is to have the Barren walls and benches in for younger boys. post permanently if he desires it. Some Reforms Accomplished. A number of reforms have been brought about and others are contemplated in the supervision of parolees age or lba parolees, some nave as many as 211. I need at least nineteen more agents." Bed and stool in room where girls are put into solitary confinement.

at the home as long as 255 and 270 days awaiting transfer, and other children are kept there as long as 150 days while awaiting disposition of their cases. 2. Boys and girls, violating minor rules, are forced to scrub floors, even after the bedtime hour of 8:30. 3. Girls with venereal diseases are permitted to mingle with other girls, regardless of whether the latter are innocent dependents or wayward delinquents.

Solitary Cell Tenalty. 4. Delinquents who break rules arr placed in poorly ventilated, hard berl solitary cells. 5. Inadequate provision for pastime and recreation of the inmates.

6. Boy helpers are fed leftovers 'B fit jfib- are segregated. The girls wore denim, shapeless dresses of blue or gray. The Diseased G.rls. On the first floor i3 the dormitory for diseased girls.

There is not room enough for them, and Dr. Barry ad 175; a fourth. 162. and so on. About two weeks ago only 7 of these 26 had been transferred.

Similarly with the girls. On Dec. 21, twelve girls were awaiting transfer. One had been awaiting removal 270 days, another, 217; a third, 112, and a fourth, 302. Five had been transferred by Jan.

18. The plight of children awaiting trial or other disposition and these are technically considered innocent' was relatively bad. Of 69 such in-matps, one had waited 150 days, another, 134; a third, 109, and a fourth, 102. Defeats Purpose of Home. This, it was pointed out, defeats the very purpose of the Juvenile home, which is to take in children requiring detention, to keep them temporarily, not for months, and to find homes for them or send them to permanent institutions such as Dixon, Lincoln, or St.

Charles. Mrs. Conkey emphasized 1his point mitted they are allowed to mingle since Sullivan succeeded Scully. The first setback he has had in this work was the governor's refusal to sanction abolition of parole sponsors. Sullivan and Bowen decided to ask the governor's permission to abolish the sponsors after the murder of two policemen by paroled convicts.

It was revealed that the parolees had had little attention from their sponsors, Sullivan and Bowen reasoned that because the parole agents are in more direct touch with parolees than are any other persons such, at least, is the theory of parole supervision they rather than private individuals should act as sponsors. Gov. Horner Objects. Gov. Horner, however, is represented as opposing the abolition of private sponsors because of the work of several organizations which have sponsored or shown interest in pa roleps.

These organizations include the Volunteers of America, the Central Howard assoHat ion, the Jewish with uncontaminated girls during the day. Toilet rules affecting the dis 4t eased and other girls are difficult to enforce," he further admitted. WfJW In several rooms throughout the huge building one could see patches If A where plaster had fallen and had not been repaired. At this time about 20 boys, "diphtheria carriers." are segregated in the basement. On the second floor 59 other boys are in quarantine because yesterday in a talk before the Woman's City Hub.

'The Home." sh said, "should ho used to care fo- those children who -4 him are in need of detention, and not as one their mates was stricken with starlet fever. Young Motorist Disarms and Captures a Robber Harry Ruppel 10 years old, son an institution for children in need, irrespective of kind of csre which thy require, not as an institution Welfare association, the Catholic Youth organization, the Salvation Army, and the Cathedral Shelter. Instead of permitting abolition of private sponsors the governor, it was learned, has sought to correct the naming of incompetent sponsors by instituting a double investigation of all men who offer to act as sponsors Heretofore the parole supervision office has done all the investigating of sponsors. The governor has ordered that in addition to this inquiry for the feeble minded, not. as a hos pital for isolation and quarantine, not as a correctional institution, and not for sociological experimentation." The Saddest Quarters.

A visitor to the home yesterday from adult attendants' tables and sometimes children are given food less in quantity and variety than employes get. In addition are the long known conditions of overcrowding and indiscriminate mixing ot law violators with youngsters who are merely dependent through no fault of their own. Tn" capacity of the home is 250 boys and girls. The roll yesterday listed 213 hoys and 80 girls. Most of the conditions listed were noted in reports submitted 1o Commissioner Conkey by a special staf of social service investigators whom she sent into the home months ago.

This staf was in charge of Miss Regina J. O'Connell, assistant director of the school of social service work, Loyola university. Breakfasts with Inmates. One investigator told of breakfasting with boy inmates and attendants on the first floor dining room. About 20 boys were seated at one long table, she said.

Six others, who helped wait on the table, sat at a small table. The dining room helper, a woman, and two attendants and the investigator sat together. "The boys," reported the investigator, had a bowl of cereal, three slices of bread, and several cups of cocoa if they wished. The attendants and woman helper had corn flakes, bacon and eggs, pancakes, toast and coffee. The leftovers from their table were transferred to the six boys who had assisted in the dining room." Stay Up to Scrub Floors.

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The boys' living rooms were the saddest quarters. The rooms are bleak, the walls bare and dirty and curtain- the parole board itself shall make its own investigation, backtracking on the ground already covered by Sulli van's office. less. The windows are dirty and screened with meah, discouraeini; Sullivan, meanwhile, is instituting A sweeping final clearance of escape. The boys sat glumly awaiting the periodical school classes or movies.

The schoolrooms are in outside portables, within the Juven ile home yard. The boys were attired in khaki c'othing. of uniform make. 2975 5 MRLEY The girls' quarters present a more COATS cheerful aspect. The dormitories for JKr The silk Mouse $195 delinquent girls are on the third floor.

The beds appeared very close together, requiring unending watchfulness on the part of matrons. "Very bad girls," according to Dr. Barry, MAURICE ROTHSCHILD State at Jackson drastically reduced to 75 dr III A second investigator discovered SPECIALS! six boys who had not gone to bed at the regular time, but were scrubbing floors after the regular time of retirement." The attendant on the floor told her the boys had sought the late hour work for the privilege of remaining up and sharing in a late lunch curtomarily sent up to attend ants. The attendant discovered that in some instances this was true. How ever, another report submitted to Mrs.

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Commissioner Conkey's investigators related several cases of boys being sent to the home for pranks. In the case of two who caused a disturbance in a west side movie house, the manager demanded that police take them to the juvenile home and there they went, although they had no record of previous offenses. The investigators made a study of the solitary confinement cells. The boys refer sarcastically to them as "The Blackstone." An attendant told the investigators he "hated to have to place a boy in one of these cells." The report went on to say that one boy was confined in such a cell, and Quicr him: r- jStvr- LADIES' EREECHES or Jodhpurs $295 LADIES' BOOTS or Jodhpur Shoes $C95 ijno's doing- auw Amy uytcc THAT r-V wePMw- rw I vCMiep? takiwg- CAse 'vwO 0P HiVN rMis you'd expect to pay twice $10 The costly fabrics the perfect fit the meticulous tailoring all are far, far above this ridiculously low price. All colors double and single breasteds sport and plain backs.

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