Evening Star Newspaper, August 25, 1931, Page 2

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'POLICE THIRD DEGREE ME HELD “ABSENT FROM FEW C Wickersham Investigator Says Hose, Black~ jacks and Nightsticks Are Favorite Instruments in New York. LB (] g H i 7 check ‘of these killed at Gibera in the and loysl B g E g 1 the essential malpractice, which is the self. It has no sanction in I Hopkins conceded the right of de- 1 secret pretrial court of mqnslqnn it- | CRIME ATTACK PLAN Wickersham Suggestions to Be Utilized to Strengthen By the Associated Press President Hoover had before him to- day more than 60 concrete suggestions for a simultaneous attack from all sides wupon the Nation's crime problem. Hach bore the seal of the Wickersham Commission and represented the $500,- 000 two-year effory, of that body to build up legal machinery to compete Wwith modern criminality. At Joast 12 of the three-score recom- mendations would require legislative ac- tion *nd one a possible constitutional amendment. With this completed work resting | : } strengthening Federal law enforcement activity. Gengster, racketeer and pro- fessional criminal would fall within the i | ¥ ! : ! l i | } ada iil 1 i it - fe i Byt itls : g; ] li ment.” Action Follows Report of Probe of Charges of Beat- gifigh L w835 i P i L3 L i g i i i i i i ] i § H i i i $ i o i i 6 i | i i 3. of third prisoner—Henry Johnson— “nvestigation. Johnsen is [ L] 4| H il ] ) é 5 §§ ! L] ¥ ol Ml i 13 | fieg! identified Mostyn and Laflin :‘:a aell him and said that roomes were Beating was belng adminis- i been subjected to & terrible beating, al- though be could not say where or when recetved it Assuming. however, that he was beat- en in the station, Maj. Pratt sa¥d it 0 difference which of the CORBIN. British Columbia, 75 UP.—Exezpt for its men folk. this| deserted & thé and attempt to save from de-, s struction hom&ol the town's 700 citi- | precinct detectives best 3’.:“-:1:: 1 2ns. Late several houses | fists repeatedly make had been the sn—-yhu“uflrmnMn- round house burned to the ground. ally. The train which women and children to safety returned and stood by to carry out the grimy firemen should the flames become uncontroi- | Was aged throuy the whole | his nose and pummeled him Gorsin dumeiss w‘-';&k-mawnum«n Pulled Hair From Head. Martz said he insisted the shooting accidental, but the officers bloodied about the Jm&hmm which he had been | the expenditure of more money, since sitting. B the annual expenditure to this end of e ’Wh::ail was taken -t‘fi h: the — Mm‘“:flm:%‘f of ]mmg: | occurred,” @mmpeon said, “my friend portance than the losses ct was wiping blood from his face.” the criminal. | _The police finally abandoned their | atier tw. e ekaemptes boary other two. and | charged them with | Sampson said. Sempson and one of the men were given six-month sentences, while the other man finally was re- lensed. of >rward, Sampson added, the vagrancy charge against him was dropped and he was indicted for | hot and He is now | await trial. One of the men named by Sampson— in the present code. betweert “criminals and corrupt politicians,” ex- tending their power over the police would be acted against. Legislation or a constitutional amend- ment would be adopted to allow judges and prosecutors to follow the commis- considered as the 12 he told the judge he had been beaten. | ™ forces in many metropolitan areas, | ON RELEE LANS Noted in Wilmingtapn, Phil- adelphia and Buffalo. , Preparations for taking care of the (gnemployed were outlined today by various municipalities in réports sub- mitted “to the President's Committee for Employment. The trend of the reports from 30 localities as made public by Fred C. Croxton, acting director of the presi- dential agency, was not optimistic. The National Employment. Exchange in New York City reorted that appli- cations for employmeflt increased 21.37 ?cr cent during the 9. The report applications for every 100 jobs opening for the week was 2,303 as ws‘:fi Del. port added, there is a surplus of unem- pioymentin clericai, machine, fiber and ployment in clerical, machine, fiber and Philadviphia Confident. Accding to a report from Phila- delph:®, there appears to be a general feeling of stabilization with a confident hope for the future there, aithough con- | ditions show very little change from the previbus week. Pittsburgh and Buffalo reported like- wise. The Bufialo report added that a selectecygroup of industrial firms em- ploying approximately 69,000 men in normal are now employing 29,718, | PFrom Norfolk, Va., the presidential | organization was advised that _Gov. Pollard had negotiated loans totalf $900,000 for immediate road covering all tries of San Francisco County shows for July ‘:Inzuy-r Ao increase of 11 1 told him the police could make you | admit anything,” Sampscn added, “but he paid no attention %o me.™ a Mattingly, however, was unable | to recall the case, pointing out so much i 2 - LT sl £ 4 . LINDBERGHS GIVEN DIAGRAM OF ROUTE TO EVADE FORTS _Oontinued Frem Pirst Page) raw horeradish. | Sashimi was served Monday at & @in- ner given in their honor by Mayer An- dos. It 85 eaten @ipped in black soya bean sauce with plenty of fimely grated horseradish. In oconnection liking for the food. Have Day to Themselves ‘The Lind| unconsciously put one over today :%m Vaen the pro- gram for their entertalmment was ranged two weeks ago, * was believed they would stay here only one day and plans were made i to those for gathering criminal statis | ties upon a Nation-wide scale for * { thorough overhauling of our criminal Jaws” and for the creation of a judicial {bedy outside the present immigration { forces to hear the appeal, of aliens o i include siready taken upon BICENTENNIAL FEATURE | Festival to Be Presented by Fed- eratfon Clubs in Connmsetion With Washington Fete. A program embodylng the most im- portant contributions to Ameriean folk not the s 3 Legislation Prepared. Word already has come from the Justioe that legisiation is being prepared to carry out the com- mission r-commendaticn that the Gov- ‘ernment “be empowered to withdraw are pending in the coming carry gut coe of the com- earliest for the ion 29 of the Volstead to fruit juices, substituting fixed aleoh:zlic content” the pres- ;nt requirement of * act.” Should President Hoover desire to go renc piete history of American 'h;J d-ysm of George Washington. rs. Elmer Jame; Oftaway, president %iof the National Federation of Music expects to submit it soon to the federation. termine the causes of crim:, and for the | tiona) board of the extension of employment bureaus in- stend of prisons. 21 WORKMEN HURT ASSOCIATE JUSTICE HOLMES NOT IN DANGER. )&'m Decorators and Painters Pro- test Discharge of 30 With Sticks and Stones. | decorators and puinters were injured. Poiice said the trouble resulted from & dispute regarding the discharging by subcontractors of 30 workment. Offi- MIDDIES LEAVE NORFOLK 1,000 Aboard Two Steamships Will Debark at Annapolis. NORFOLK, Va. August 25 (#).—The battieships Arkansas and Wyoming with 1000 midshipmen aboard, weighed LUKE LEA. JR. COL. LUKE LEA. DRVE ON CRNE ROUNDS P CORES Vacations Canceled as Al Ranks of New York Police Force Go on Duty. By the Associated Press. Sdys City Is Unsafe. facts remain that New to be & safe place to , counsel to the Legis- in Seabury, government,’ mm*n:fiet?{ ?g 8rngster - and racketeer flourishes with those nial she is planning tentative program for the festival and| ine BOMB DISCOVERED OUNELL ALWAYS DENED O CHARGE “| Have Decided -They Have No Place in Enforcing Pro- hibition,” He Says. | forcement activities in the eastern ais- trict of that State. “I .have decided,” he said, “that women should have no place at all in the enforcing of prohibition. I think we can enforce the law without their use in any way."” at an incident in Buffalo recently in which & young girl, arrested for intoxi~ cation, reported she was employed by » Federal dry agent to gather evidence. Later, Andrew McCampbell, prohibition administrator in New York, told news- AR to_{ashionable K ‘Woodcock Declared in Affidavit Before |amund the Death He Never Evaded Subpoena. James E. O'Neiil, missing witness In the famous Teapot Dome ofl scandal in- vestigation of a decade ago, who died yesterday at Cannes, Prance, never went TO ONE MONTH IS 0. K.’D BY HOOVER i i { fi i ¥ ¥ £ i i gfii!! sl ‘! i | Hi it I it to el d | | g | i i i ! ; s : i bigii ;§i=? i | e !5 of % » i g | i ! s : 3 2 é z i : J i El ; i annually i i E ; E §s i ? H s il % i f i i ii i § § & g ON JUROR’S PORCH | will Lone Member in Clark Slaying Trial Who Sought Conviotion PASSENGERS GO ASHORE AS STEAMER GROUNDS £r] 4 ¢ § | g i (As it is played in) different foreign countries.) Rita” . Tierney

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