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July 27, 1931

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PRISONS OF NATION DECLARED FAILURE; OUTWORN, INHUMAN; Wickersham Report Assails the Whole System as Worthless in Rebuilding Men. BRUTAL DISCIPLINE DECRIED Riots and Fires "Dramatic Evidence" of Futility--AuburnType Forts "Needless."NEW PENAL MODE URGEDConvict Wages, Segregation, Individual Education and Broad Use of Parole Advised. Inefficiency Is Stressed. PRISONS OF NATION DECLARED FAILURE Individual Study Advised. Would Relieve Overcrowding. Prisoner Wage Recommended. Value of Parole Emphasized. Central Supervision Favored General Overcrowding Found. Data on Discipline Given. New York Parole Plan a Model. Points to Savings. Experts Who Made Study. DEFENDS BAY STATE PRISONS. State Commissioner Denies Cruelty but Admits Overcrowding.

By Special to The New York Times

Hart (Mrs), A B, 93

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Gerbault's Round-World Yacht Lost in Channel as Tow Fails

By Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Boat, Firecrest, reptd to have foundered in Eng Channel

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REVOLT WINS IN CHILE AS PRESIDENT QUITS; MANY KILLED IN RIOTS; EX-PRESIDENT OF CHILE. Students Start the Upheaval. Refuses to Let Ibanez Leave. Alessandri to Go Back to Chile.

By Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Ibanez resigns after delivering Govt to P Opazo, Pres of Sen; statement by Ibanez; he flees to coast, but Chamber of Deputies rejects his request for right to leave country; new Premier J E Montero starts formation of Cabinet

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Shaw, in Russia on 75th Birthday, Lauds Reds; Says British, Too, Will Abolish the Nobility; SHAW PRAISES REDS AT FETE IN MOSCOW Soviet Proud of Visitors. Lady Astor Sees Differently. 1,000 American Visitors. Shaw Dozes at Horse Races.

By Walter Duranty. Spec1al Cable To the New York Times

Shaw, G B, in Russia

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COURT RULES TODAY ON JAIL FOR DOYLE; Appellate Division to Decide Whether He Must Answer Fee-Splitting Queries. TAMMANY DEFENDS STAY Untermyer Attacks Seabury and Ignores the Phone Call to Lake Placid. Doyle Case Up Today. COURT RULES TODAY ON JAIL FOR DOYLE Garry Plays Golf. Upholds the Stay. Cites Crain Case.

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S Untermyer says stay granted to Doyle is insignificant incident

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1931Khieu Samphan, Cambodian academic and politician, 28th Prime Minister of Cambodia^[†]

Khieu Samphan is a Cambodian former politician, economist, and revolutionary who was Chairman of the State Presidium of Democratic Kampuchea from 1976 until 1979. As such, he served as Cambodia's head of state and was one of the most powerful officials in the Khmer Rouge movement, although Pol Pot remained the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea. On 7 August 2014, along with other members of the regime, he was convicted and received a life sentence for crimes against humanity during the Cambodian genocide, and a further trial found him guilty of genocide in 2018.

1931Jerry Van Dyke, American actor (died 2018)^[†]

Jerry McCord Van Dyke was an American actor and comedian. He was the younger brother of Dick Van Dyke.

Headlines from July 27, 1931

Gerbault's Round-World Yacht Lost in Channel as Tow Fails

REVOLT WINS IN CHILE AS PRESIDENT QUITS; MANY KILLED IN RIOTS; EX-PRESIDENT OF CHILE. Students Start the Upheaval. Refuses to Let Ibanez Leave. Alessandri to Go Back to Chile.

Shaw, in Russia on 75th Birthday, Lauds Reds; Says British, Too, Will Abolish the Nobility; SHAW PRAISES REDS AT FETE IN MOSCOW Soviet Proud of Visitors. Lady Astor Sees Differently. 1,000 American Visitors. Shaw Dozes at Horse Races.

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