Evening Star Newspaper, December 20, 1929, Page 46

a3 TIE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1929. CONVICTS LEAGUE | ABOLITION ASKED Officers and Members Cre- ated Reign of Terror, Warden Charges. By the Associated Press. ALBANY, N. Y., December 20.—Col. George F. Chandier's recommendation for abolition of the Auburn Prisoners’ Mutual Welfare League was before Gov. Roosevelt, today, backed by the colonel’s | assertion that the league was “con- | trolled” by plotting criminals and creat- ed a reign of terror which caused two Tiots at that institution. Col. Chandler acted as Mr. Roose- velt's personal investigator in an inten- | sive study of the December 11 riot. Privilege Abuses Charge. “Desperate characters have obtaine control of the welfare league and have held responsible positions in the league,” zaid Chandler. “This has given them freedom, and they have gone about the vard, throughout the corridors and have used their league room at anv and all | times, even well into the night. “In fact, we have a statement from a guard at the gate that night after night he has looked through the window of this room at gambling going on with money on the table and drinks of what character he did not know but surmised. “Prisoners have cat-called at the guards and have used vile and abusive language to them, defled their authority and when put in the cells by the guards have been let out through the league of- ficials, immediately to laugh at the guards. Members Beat Prisoners. “League members have taken prison- ers out of the line as they were march- ing and have ordered them into the league room, and here the league mem- bers themselves have, behind closed doors, beaten up prisoners so that they had to be taken to the hospital. In fact. a veritable reign of terror has obtained in this prison through the machinations of the criminals in control of the league.” PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, December 20 (). —Representatives of German and Crechoslovakian automobile com- panies met here yesterday and agreed to form a European committee in the automobile industry to fight against the growing importations of American cars. Another meeting will be held in Janu- vary to discuss the possibilities of form- ing a continental combination to com- bat the transatlantic trade invasion. RUSSIAN DECLARES HE IS “DEAD” HEIR | Passport Arrest Brings Tale of Confinement in Siberian Prison. By the Associated Press. BAGDAD, December 20.—A young | Russian, arrested by the Irak police on a charge of entering this country with- out a passport, has caused much excite- ment among Russians here by claiming |to be the Czarevitch, who supposedly | was killed by Bolsheviks with the rest | of the Russian imperial family in 1918. He told his tale after he had been released on the passport charge. He said he had escaped to Russia from a Siberian prison. Countrymen of the youth say his like- | ness to the last heir to the Russian | throne is startling, but others say that he is obviously younger than the Czare- vitch would be if the latter had escaped the bullets and bayonets that killed his glthrn mother and sisters at Ekaterin- urg. Beer Cheap in Berlin. BERLIN (A).—Berlin’s most popular refreshment emporiums are those of a ! chain store variety, where beer is dis- pensed at 21 cents a glass. REICHSTAG BLOCKS SALE OF ART TO AMERICAN Offer of $1,680,000 Made for Fifteenth Century Altar Piece in Cathedral. By the Assoclated Press. BERLIN, December 20.—The Reich- stag has virtually vetoed the sale of a fifteenth century altar piece by Hans Memling which now is in Lue- beck Cathedral. It was reported that an unnamed American buyer had offer- ed 7,000,000 marks (about $1,680,000). In the course of discussion of exten- sion of the law on exportation of art works the Reichstag adopted an ur- gency motion rescinding the existing | exemptions whereby exportation is per- mitted in_ certain cases for financial considerations. It was decided to sub- mit a list of nationally protected art | works to a careful revision. Hans Memling was a Flemish painter of Bruges, who died about 1494. Among his most famous works are “Shrine of St. Ursula,” “Seven Griefs of Mary” and ‘Seven Joys of Mary.” The Luebeck altar piece was one of his later works and is attributed to the year 1491. 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