Evening Star Newspaper, August 10, 1931, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast). Partly cloudy and not so warm to- night end tomorrow; modcrate north- ‘west ' winds. ‘Temperatures—Highest, 96, at 4 p.m. yesterday, lowest, 75, at 6:30 todsy. Full repert on page 9. Pages13,14& 15 [ sing N.Y. Marke he Epening Star. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Saturday’s Circulation, 103,192 Sunday's Circulation, 115,233 N Entered as second class matter No. post office, Washington, D. C. 31,877. WASHINGTON, D. (., MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 1931—-THIRTY PAGES. R P Means Asscciated Press. TWO CENTS. In Fatal Crash I CRANER OVERDLE | ATCOPENRAGENIN HOP OVERARCT American Airman Is Feared! Forced Down on Waves | as Radio Fails. LINDBERG—H CONTINUES POINT BARROW VIGIL/ Adamant in Refusal to Start Hop Until Weather Conditions Improve. By the Associated Pross Bad weather, mystery, daring, gmbar- rassment, accident: All these character- ized the feats of those who cut capers aleng the world's airwa: sterday. The Lindberghs were weather bound | at Point Barrow. | Parker Cramer, American airman, was overdue in Copennagen on a flight | across the Arctic. It was believed he | might have been forced down on the | waves, as he was several days ago, or that he had landed at some deserted #p°t in Norway and had been unable to communicate his presence. Radio Contact Lost. He left in the morning and was due early in the evening. Seven Danish radio stations tried in vain for several hours to contact his pont-cn-equipped | plane. Airport officiils at lenguh de- spaired of his coming and hoped the opening of telegraph statlons would re- veal his safety. Russell Boardman and John Polando. Americans, landed at Marseille, France, after a speedy flight from Istambul on the way home from their world record- breaking dash across the Atlantic to “Turkey. y plan to leave Wednesday with the airplane Cape Cod for the Uniteq States. ‘Wolfgang von Gronau, German mas- ter of the Amphibian, dropped into Reykjavik, Iceland, o an unheralded Edw'n Moore (above), organist at | Epwerth M. E. Church South, who was | killed in an automobile collision near | Frederickzburz today. Below: Dent Kirby, a in Moore’s ‘automobile, who dragged four others from the machine when it burst into flames. jIWU DIE AS AUTOS COLLIDE AND [GNITE: IFIVE OTHERS HURT Organist at VEoworth Church| and Wife Killed in Crash Near Frederickshurg. COMPANIONS ARE PULLED | FROM CAR BY BOY, 17 ll{lchine Returning to Capital and Another Bound for Norfolk in Head-on Smash-up. Edwin Moore, 26-year-cid organist at the Epworth ' Methodist Episcopal Church South, and his wife, Ida. 25, were fatally injured early today when two automobiles crashed head on and burst im'.o flames near Triangle, Va. 5 miles north of Fredericksburg. Five other persons, including Moore's | Tr,,m o ROTING QUELLED AFTER PRUSSIN DT 1S UPHELD With Edwin Moore at the steering | wheel, the party—which included Dent (Kirby, 17, of 112 PFifteenth street Berlin Police Get Control of { southeast, and Don Gulbrandson, also 17, of 1729 D street southeast—was re- Situation—Three Men | Are Slain. turning to Washington aftter having spent the week end at Colonial Be Boy Rescis Companions. The occupants of the cther car, Mr. | and Mrs. B. J. Hamilton, aged 51 and | 49, respectjvely, had visited the Capi- tal and.were on their way to their | home in Norfolk. Kirby, who was graduated from East- ern High School last June, was asleep | when the crash occurred. He awakened to find the machine in flames and its | occupants injured. A quick glance at | jthe other autcmobile revealed it also was afire. Despite the fact he was severely cut and bruised, Kirby dragged his com- panions from the burning car one by Relief From Heat e From Mt G DJERS CONTRL eromined Caia VAN IS REBE Forecaster Expects Fall| i CUASES SUBOE Here Tonight. - | 4 A “definite break” in the heat wave Martial . Law Dscreed is promised by the Weather Bureau for : il tonight. { Capital and Pinar Hope for relief is contained in the official forecast of | in POLICE BRUTALITY HIT BY WICKERSHAM BODY; TWO D. C. CASES CITED Practice of Extorting Confes- sions Covers Half of Nation, Report to Hoover Says. AMENDMENT URGED IF NECESSARY TO END BARBAROUS METHODS Long Grilling of 11l Chinese Here Is Among More Than Fivescore Instances Enumerated. By the Associated Press. A tale of systematized pelice brutality speading over half the Nation—a 10-year record of illegal law enforcement by barbarous “third-degree” methods—was unfolded today by the Wickersham ! Commission. Asserting its duty was to lay the “naked, ugly facts” before the public, the commission crammed into a single weighty volume on “Lawlessness in Law Enforcement” more than five-score proved in- stances of extorted confessions. It urged upon President Hoover new legislation, or a constitytional amendment if necessary, to abolish “conduct so viol A = 'lme;xtn‘l:l errilmilg:le; Lgo’ c(lrgs:%uuona] liberty.” R s s e pold-Loeb case, in which an innocent school teacher was beaten in the "third Bore to confession, as having focused attention upcn It turned to the Snook case in Ohlo as showing the unfavorable reactions to a prosecutor who stru 1 b b ectter W ck the university professor on the Mooney Case Left Out. One case, however, the commission refused to ussed, asse ing flatly a review of the Mooney-Billings case hdlx:cbeex? : decldr:d ;g:h}lg: g:ceau?etgf inability to examine witnesses an Of the men accused of the 1916 San - ness day bombing is now under consideration. e Ky ey In addition to its assault upon the “third d condem"ned as too prevalent cases of conscious “un cutions” by district attorneys and judges. It dealt with nearly 150 instances of ree,” the report airriess in prose. flight across the North® Atlantic to America, something he's done before. He is following his previous route and t of Cramer, via Greenland and Can- ada, to his destination. Quizzed on Photographs. Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon, jr., were still answering questions in Tokio as to why they photographed Japanese fortifications on their flight from Siberia after passing up their as- sault on the Post-Gatty globe-girdll . Officials said the matter vmu“ls B San iyl seaplane DO-X chafed T i l: Para, Brazil, its maiden visit to America go‘nh American poris. ‘i{"‘.‘".;'.fi?."&] g hould arrive from Mysterious Rad]c Calls Are Reported By Dockyard. PENHAGEN, Denmerk. August 10 l’?im whereabouts of Parker Cra- mer, American fiyer en route here from the Shetland Islands. wes still unknown at 8:30 am. (3:30 am. E. 8. T) today. Military planes were scouting the coast Jine and radio siaticns were calling vainly. Anxiety Is Felt. The Exchange Telegraph sgency re- ported that the naval dockyard hvld Ticked up several puzzling wireless tele- phone calls in which the speaker cried “Hello, hello,” in what was judged to be an Americen aceent. Nevertheless, anxiety was felt as the hours passed without definite word of the fiyer. “THe calls were indistinct and only the word “Norway’ was made out. They were heard at 7 o'clock this worning and also Jast night cn a 600-meter wave length. Al ships were asked to listen in and keep a sharp lookout. Cruiser Ordered Out. The Government ordered a cruiser from Frederickshaven, Northern Jut- 1and, to search the waters between Den- mark and Norway for the missing air- man. Sesplanes were unable to aid because it was blowing too hard There was & possibility that Cramer had taken shelter in som> isolated fyord or thet he had been picked up by & fishing vessel, but the authorities con- ducting the search were pessimistic The weather was so blustery that Dan- ish seaplanes could not take off ta foin the hunt across the waters of the Skagarak. SEAPLANES PREPARED. Two Norwegian Ships Ready to Search for Cramer. BERGEN, Norway, August 10 (7 —Two naval seaplanes were prepared today to assist in the search for Parker D. Cramer, American aviator _reported " (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) NET OUT FOR GANGSTER New York Presses Hunt for Figure in Child Shooting. NEW YORK, August 10 (#.—Police gent out a general alarm vesterday for the arrest of Vincent Coll, gahgster whose followers have been identified to authorities as the gunmen who rode through Harlem's “Litile Jtaly” July 28 and shot five children. killing one. Circulars bearing Coll's picture and description are being prepared for dis- tribution throughout the Un CHINESE GENERAL’S B crankcase in one motor delny- |y, ., gusociated Pross. ates GRANGE OPPOSES |Brengkman, Representative | “gerto-Ageibulture! The National Grange, through Fred Brenckman, its Washingion representa- |tive, today protested against any in- | crease in railroad freight rates at this time Brenckman, testifying at resumption of hearings before Commissioner B. H. Meyer on the railroad’s plea for a 15 per cent increase, said that, “so far as \pertecuy manifest to any one who un- derstands the situation that increared {reight rates would prove ruinous under prevailing conditions so far as higher rates could be made effective.” Brenckman followed the first oppo- sition witness, Noah W. Cooper, Nash- ville lawyer, who vead into the record |a statement blaming Sunday labor for the raflroads’ situation. Sunday Closing Propesed. Cooper, who long has worked for com- plete Sunday closing. urged the com-| gg, mission to ca'l a ronference of railroad heads, workers, church reprezentatives and others on August 31 at Chicago to work out some arrangement for clos- ing the railrcads on Sunday. Ct r's statement was read into the record over opposition of some of the attorneys in the case, who held that the subject was argumentative. Commis- sioner Meyer, however, held that Cooper should be permitted to present his views. which were represented as those of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Presenting the National Grange op- position, Brenckman said it was “quite lain from all the evidence that has en presented that the railroads are suffering from ioss of traffic rather than from rates that are too low.” Effect on Competilion. “If the rates that are now in force have driven traffic to competing sys téms of transportation,” he said. "hig er rates may be depended upon to ac- celerate and aggregate this tendency. “With the cost of gasoline and other trucking costs at the lowest point in history, together with the fact that thousands of miles of improved high- ways are being added to our road sys- tems throughout the country, it is not reasonable to think that the ratlroads (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) CASTLE DESTROYED Former Home of Count Berchtold Wrecked by Flames. BRUENN, Moravia, Czechoslovakia, August 10 P).—A dispatch from Un- garish Hradisch today reported the de- struciion by fire of Castle Buchlau, b jonging to Count Berchtold. Austro- Hungarian foreign minister at the out- break of the Great War. The castle was seven centuries old. It was at Buchlau that Count Aehren- tal, predecessor of Count Berchtold the Russian Minister, Count Isw N signed a_convention approving the an- aexation by Austria of Bosnia and Herze- govina. The castle contained valuable paintings and objects of art. all of which ere destroye EMPTIED BY POLICE IN RAID Overlord of Jehol Thought He Should Have Everything | He Desired, So He Locked Up Personal Enemies. Bv Csble to The Star TIENTSIN, China, August 10.—Gen. ‘Tang Yu-Lin ‘believed that an Oriental | his personal enemles to be confined therein. ‘When police bad raided his premises they covered at Jebol, dis: potentate should have everything hif; oners ing | beart desired. Gen. Tang did. Heflmt'.n had been mnmmmnpflmm-uu HIGHER RAIL RATES | Mére, Tells 1. C. C. of Dan- | agriculture is concerned, it must be| one. The younger Moore, who appeared to be the most seriously injured of the group, was taken to the Marine Hos- pital, Quantico, where he died shortly {after 10 o'clock. | " His wife—who, with her father-in- law, Gulbrandson, and the Hamiltons, was taken to the Mary Washington Hospital, Fredericksburg—died about 20 minutes later. Kirby Treated at Casualty. Kirby, on the other hand, returned to Washington, receiving treatment at Casualty Hospital and later being taken & brokén arm and a cut head. | brandson and the Hamiltons escaped with minor cuts and bruises. The younger Moore, & member of the local chapter of the A. A. G. O., was well known in musical circles here. | THREE HURT IN AUTOS HERE. | Woman, 51, Suffers From Shock After tonight and tomorrow. When asked for SRR ey {the significance of the anticipated i “slightly cooler” for | Del Rio. | By the Associated Press. HAVANA, August 10.—Martial law reigned in Havana and Pinar del Rio Provinces today in the wake of a revo- lutionary uprising against the regime of President Gerardo Machado which cost three Lives and threw the island | into confusion. | The President issued & proclamation | seying that military sutherity was su- | preme until countermanded and that | all Tegdl Action was vested in the mill tary courts. He also promised that ypia: | rebsis, other than leaders, who laid | down thelr arms within 24 hours would | be pardoned. | "It is intimaied that rebels or sedi- | tious disturbers who cease in their hos- tile attitude, delivering their arms or | other implements of war and lending | obedience to legitimate authority within | 24 hours of the publication of this proc- |lamation,” he said. “will remain ex- |empted from penaity, except the au- trials following so closely upon arrests as to leave the accused no ll':le for de- :enr:el dlemlul of counsel to defendants actual misconduct A ‘w;;::u"m. by court *and bulk of the report, written Prof. Zechariah Chlf!p: jr.. et Hn‘z vard and Walter H. Pollak and Carl S. Stern of the New York bar, asserted that, despite the secrecy and denials of | police brutality, instances of the “third ifleme‘ had been found in “considerably I:‘:;t‘ ll(,’hln hlll"themstlt:s.' Also, in the 1 vears, it said, cases were proved 1in the following citles: x den, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Denver, Detroit, Kansas Kenosha, Wis.; Los Angeles, ewark, New Orleans, New York, Oakland, Calif.; Oklahoma City, | Philadelphia. - Richmond, St. Jo- seph, Mo.; St. Louis, San Prancisco, Se- attle,. Waco and Wichita Palls, Tex.; | Washington and West Allis, Wis. Actual Cases Pointed Out. | ‘The three experts reported they were | unable to determine whether the “third | degree” was increasing or decreasing as an instrument, but after citing reports Albany. Birmingham, Buffalo, Cam- | ,?uem:mod for 35~ hours until she con- | In Clarksdale, Miss. a colored man charged with rdering ‘white | was tied to lhem:wr snd"m' vl strangling poured up his nostrils, | e him, until he | ‘Washington Case Cited. 'Amnfl'-fllnlluuwu.leem of murdering three members lcnm-u&'.mfim e s Ik £ ifnd E%.fgi questioned with wife at his feet. Yo’r:‘%le; ?hbf Plaschetti talian squad |follows: “I went to the got myself a sawed-off base and walked In on all those | they came through with e | “"Despite their g such | 5D condemnation 0 | practices, the three ex & | arguments in their favor Hese sideration, adding that - fq 2 FE : o 5 §f nd |and Appeals PRIVATE JAIL | | Twe Cars Collide. Three persons were injured here yes- | {terday in a series of traffic accidenis | Probably the most seriously injured | was Mrs. Agnes Zeaman, 51, who was | | cut about the head and body when a car | | driven by George Zeaman, 21, of 529 | Eleventh street southwest, struck an- | | other machine at Bladensburg road and | Randolph street northeast. talisted with spasmodic gunfire and | Mrs. Zeaman and her daughter, | finally drove their asseilants to cover | rbara, 17. were removed to Casualty | with one dead, possibly a score of them | | Hoepital, where thé former's condi- | severely wounded. | tion was reported as undetermined, due A crowd of radicals then turned on to the shock. Her daughter was dis- | the police and exchanged shots while | | charged after receiving first aid treat- | they fled. Lorry after lorry of reserves, | meni. | manned with high-powered searchlights | ‘The operator of the second machine. rifles, rolled into the square and | Lovett Johnson, colored, 31, of 1840 swept it clean. A veritable state of | Fenwick street northeast, is being held | siege for the assassins and a thorough- | at z-emu:: precinct police station | going search for them got under way. | pending the outcome of Mr Zeaman's | OebARt Olse- Cle | injuries. Debb Murman, 62, of 513 Fourteenth | National Socialists and Communists street, is confined at Sibley Hospital : clashed early today in the western dis- with a fracturei arm. received when | trict of Schoenburg and cobblestones flew back and forth. Police quelled the an automobile in which he was riding skidded and struck a stone retaining | disturbance and arrested 78 cf the par- ticipents. wall at Rrode Island avenue and Tenth street northeast result of conflict between authorities and radicals, A score c{ persons were | believed to be dying in Berlin as the aftermath of a night replete with bullets | and bloodshed. v { The battle started when Communists secreted on roof tops sprayed police on patrol with bullets, killing the two ! cfficers almost instantly. The= police re- | Police today clapped a padlock on the { headquarters of Communism in Ger- many, posting a heavy guard at Kar! i Liebknecht Haus on Buelow-Platz, | where the rioting occurred. |~ 'The headquercers building will be padlocked until August 20, snd the Com- munist newspaper Rote Fahne has been 'DOYLE LOSES PLEA | IN CONTEMPT CAS e 5 [ | Defiant Witness in New York Probe von Hindenburg bans all open-air meet- | { ings in the vicinity, under the penalty | | s “Blost Scrve J2i | of three morths' imprisonment. ! | e Jzil Sentence, ' Rewards have been offered by the | o | i poiice for information leading to ‘he { Higher Court Rules. |arrest of those who started the rioting ! = Prussia Stands by in Crisis. Disorders in connection with yester- | By the Associated Precs. ALBANY. s —The! | Court of Appests. e ugust 10-—The 4ov's voting were widespread ih Prus- | ! Ppeals, meeting in extraor- gis, but the only death reported outside | dinary session. today ruled that Dr. Wil- of Berlin was that in Cologne. A se- | llam F. Doyle must serve a 30-day jail | rious tny“o&k D'mu;_; pooi i $ a gang o mmun| ral the Na- term imposed on him for refusal 10 | tional-Socialist headquarters. Four per- | | answer questions before the Hofstadter | sons were injured seriously and & num- | Legislative Committee investigating the | ber slightly hurt The interior of the | | affairs of the City of New York. T e an W ey o | io tell the committe: with whom he split | (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) | £2,000,000 in fees received in cases he s =7 randled bsfore tie Board of Standards | FlGHTS‘ M"‘E CONTROL | ! e committee had offered Dr. Doyle - | unity if he would tell with whom { the fees were spiit. He refused on the Bival Union Opposed to Federal | ground the committes had no power to | He was cited for con- | at present in jail. of the decision Dr. Doyle y be recalled to testify. | Dr. Doyle is a veterinarian. The fees | concerning which the committee is | coal industry. 1 | anxious to learn were paid him for his| The union has demanded direct we- | services as representative of varjous in- gotiations with the goal operators to! ‘dhldu&k and concerns before the Board obtain recognition of: the union, rival| i ica, and a higher wage scale. of Standards and Appeals. of the United Mine Workers of Amer- MA| k P,LAEE‘_(.:F " Catfish Kills Man ATHENS, Gs. August 10 (P —A As Fin Penetrates | | | | Operation System. PITTSBURGH. Pa., August 10 () — | ! The National Miners’ Union today an- | | nounced it was opposed to any plan seeking Government control of the soft- | scuthbound airmatl plane crecked up| in landing near Tia, Ga., 15 milss from | Eyeball and Brain By the Associated Precs | here, early today and its pilot, Webster, 4 4 pl | thors or chiefs of the rebellion and | sedition and disorder and persons re- peating the crime.” | Comb Seas for Menocal. | The armed [orces of the government |sought bv land and sea the slender T oty Tentitod ith - haneelor | TIEADE “a definite break” that will con- | temperatures, the Weather Bureau ex- of its enemies of the Right and Left. But_before Washington may enjoy ) th [ alists to dissolve the Prussian Diet and | pacted to hit 94 degrees pefore It begine ‘s maxi- whole of the East-Central district of i | nist were sl2in in the Buelow Platz, | Better Offer From Berlin | £gute of Gen. Mario G. Menocal, Cuban | President from 1913 to 1921 and alleged | munication with the interlor, but there . z | “coolness,” the bureau forecaster ex- ",B:n :;?:,‘t:: ';“:e::;::"fi' ;.:“:; plained, without hesitancy, that it |tinue for at least a couple of days. Brucning's regime, today stood firm |Together with the outlook for lower ag:nst the legel and illegal onslaughts | emPEraiures ity o e showers. | The combined efforts of the Commu- | - ore Washingt - - " - e promise relie it must worry nicts, Naticnal Socialists and Nation: h today. The mercury s ex- to compel new elections falled by 3,500, | its downward. glide. the tem- 000 votes at a plebescite yesterd:y. ,m“"","'fim 'l‘ to eome Though revolutionist dynamiters de- | mum of 96, the humidity probably will refled the Basel-Berlin express and the | be slightly less during the afternocn. Berlin was in a frenzy of fatal rioting, the pclice obtained full control of the | | Three Killed in Berlin Rioting. Two police captains and one Commu- Aw A"‘Efl BY BHARD Communist center in Berlin, and a steel | helLret leader was killed in Cologne as a Stone Also Hopes to Receive on Cotton. | Jeader of the movement. TSRS | Strict censorship prevented direct com- today to| were rumors that there had been fight. an Called into sesslon again study the critical agricultural situation, ing in Pinar del Rio, Camague; the Federal Farm Board was awaiting | Sor'n Clara Provinces, Army o receipt cof the German proposal to buy | itself denied them. 600,000 tons, about 22.000.000 bushels, of | In Pinar del Rio vesterday 17 men, stabilization wheat. At the same time, | 8M0Ng them Menocal’s brothers, Fausto, Chairman Stone let it be known that the | Guatimon and Serafin, and Dr. Ricardo board still held ftself open to further | DO law dean of Havana University, negotiations with Germany on the cot- | ¥ere arrestad by rural guards just be- ton offer, rejected Friday. in the hope |fore they entered Pinar del Rio City, ot ore At factor e e IMUBe | allegedly with arms and ammunition in thikaieed. | their automobiles. They were brought While low prices, enormous erops and {0 Havana and confined in Cabana a scarcity of markets have given added | Fortrsss. 5 importance to German whest and (ot- | Others arr:sted during the day in- ton offers, Carl Williams, cottcn member | cluded Menocal's son, “Mayito” Santi- of the Parm Board, believes the Amer- (280 Verdeja, former Speaker of the ican surplus already is so large that | House and Canservative member from rbr: :amu«;g of nkppr&x(tlrn-:;g 1.500.002 Havana province. les woul meke e erence traders and growers. Stocks would be g o). S0 TV reduced this vear, he added, since it | Revolutionary blood, almost the first is estimated consumption c¢f American | since the 1917 revolt, ran in Havana. cotton will be 2,000,000 to 3,000.000 bales Plain clothes men who sought to greater than a year ago. | search the residence of Arturo del Pino, No action had been taken today by |in Luyano suburb, were met by a hail the board in connection with the loan | of rific and machine gun fire. When they application of Fruit Industries, Inc. entersd,after an hour’s battle, they found manufacturers of a grape concentrate, Pino and Felips Cabeza dead and two which had been excluded from the women of the house seriously wounded. (Continued on Page 2, Column 8, |A youth was killd by stray bullets. i | Twelve policemen were wounded, three 2 {probably Tatally, and five passersby | “The theory was that Gen. Menoeal BALE DROP ™ IS MADE BY COTTON fals, — and two of his aides were aboard the {vacht Coral, which safled from the |Havena Yacht Club Saturday. Maj. | Carrera. chief of police, however, said | he believed Menocal was in Havana. Government Crop Estimate Sends| Arms Smuggling Linked. . Public opinion connected the revolu- (JPrices Down Sharply tionary attempt with the recent, deten- ew rsey waters many on Exchange. o of_having tried to mored three boats actually arrived with By the Associated Press. | military supplies. NEW YORK, August 10.—One of | Col. Luis del Rosal, chief of the mili- the most drastic breaks in the history | tary district of Orlente Province, re- of the cotton market carried cotton ported that the situation there was down about $7 a bale today in an ex- (calm, bit that district troops were be- cited rush to sell ss.a result of the |ing concentrated in Santiago to guard aging crop estimate of the De- | against developments. nt of ure. The newspaper Camagueyanao said The opening flurry of selling was ab- ks | |the City and Province of Camaguey sorbed by covering and. trade buying. |were quiet. sxcept for the arrest of a however, and’ the ma thereafte: quiet a man who had 50 bombs in his posses- evolved into a comparal sion and was headed for Santa Clara. falr, with narrow dons | a’ little ‘The mar- rice. g i d Do 8 Hustes Risdle Buck ot e dnse a% erang e | | After 25-Foot Fall e o 2% et | | OmBumt—He St o Bl Bt h On Hunt—He Says FOUR DIE IN WRECK PECOS, Tex., August 10 (#).—Four men were killed and ancther eritieally injured today when the East-bound Sunshine ial. a Texas & Pactfic a handcar on which a| section crew was riding a{ Wickett, the interior department and the palace | that the methods were growing “less cueiico - barbarous” they wrote the words "wn-iq “The ‘:gng: tapmm. ":i view clusion in doubt.” | understood.” th report said. | Actual cases were cited of prolonged | the occasional influences of politics sleeplessness, severe beatings with a | COrTUPtion, most policemen are to | rubber hose, sand bag, fist or telephone |cONceived &8s conscientious and hard book, questioning murder suspects over | Working. They risk their lives contigu- the corpse, cramming men into cell.q""y- and if an occasional slap on the | with diseased persons, administering the | f8¢¢ Will mean sending a hardened “water cure” and handcuffing men up- | CTiminal to prison, why should it not side down while épraying them with|De used. even if by mistake force is ! tear gas. |now and then appliec to an innocent | Here are some of the instances re-| man? ported: | The report contended, nevertheless, A colored boy in Arkansas was that this was overweighed by the pos- whipped over a period of six or eight |Sibllity of false confessions, the uncon- | days until he confessed to the murder |Stitutionality of extorting statements of & white boy and a colored boy found | from both the guilty and innocent, and drowned. An appeals court reversea the fact that cf 106 appeal cases studied the conviction. | nearly half the convictions were re- A.Finn in Los Angeles, arrested with- | versed because of “third-degree” meth- out cause when he argued with a po- |0ds. liceman, was beaten with brass knuckles | “The effect upon the police is obvi- until covered with blood. jous,” the report said. “The third de- In El Paso a young Mexican woman | 8ree, in its nature brutal, must brutal- charged with having killed her child'ize those who practice it. Their fight by setting fire to its bed was relay- (Continued on Page 2, Column 4. | Attack on Third Degree Cites Wan and Perrygo Cases Here : t 4 ‘The Wan and Perrygo murder cases tinuously night and day and guarded by in this city some years ago were. cited | policemen at all times. The examina- as outstandinig examples of the use of | tions sometimes lasted until 5 in-the so-called third degree methods in ob- morning. On the eighth day, from 7T | taining evidence and confessions in the | p.m. to 10 am., he was questioned at report on lawlessness in law enforce- | the scene of the crime. ment by the Wickersham Commission,, “On the ninth day he was at last for- made public today at the White House. | mally arrested and taken to a police This report, in which the law officers | station, where investigation was imme- were severely criticized for abuses and | diately resumed. On the 8levénth day injustices in the solution of crime, prin- | he was again questioned at the scene of cipally through the medium of the so- | the crime for hours. A stenographic re- called third degree, referred to the Wan | port of the interrogation was then writ- and Perrygo cases as flagrant evidences | ued o e 2, Co of protracted questiohi with -great S mental suffering being inflicted. Kiang Sun Wan, a Chinese, was con- victed of the murder in 1919 of three MOSES GIVES DEMOCRATS Son' o Wesniagton. Tt this comvieon | BAY STATE, RHODE ISLAND was reversed by the United States Su- | preme Court, and Wan's confession was | Honing ressetedto. by the.setice: Xfver P ning reso y the police. After | f“""’v;“""‘l“'“u‘ ’“:“Uh?& dil!l':rgd os| fion in Ohio Guesswork, but Is an's guilt, the United at- Sur N torney stated to the judge that it would * ® Boston Won't Wet It. ;w ‘anmvi}ble u: :nd a j&\:y wm‘cr? wouléi By the Associated Press. leclare Wan either guilty or innocent, | CONCORD, N. H., August 10.—United and the accused man was thereupon re- | leased seven vears after his arrest. ;Z’;‘;’; :;:"::;:;:c‘: “‘-‘r’;"::;' Hew A | , 5, today i 'rz' C::'“::“ Riversal. that Massachusetts and Rhode lsland garding the Perrygo case, men- | would n ocratic column tioned in the report, Edgar R. Derryga, | in’ the presiaentisl certon ex momn el e S murder of Mary E. Faithtul q by e - 5 ‘wWoma; on' Was reverse £ and & new trial ordereq, and t the next | , Scoator Mosss made his trial Perrygo entered a plea to guilty of second-degree murder and was sen- tenced to 20 years. b The mentioned only Perrygo case was incidentally in the report, but the wWan case was discussed at 3 ble ngth. This discussion also included a " (Contibued on Page 2, Column 2.) Calls Forecast of G. 0. P. Conven-