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MADE CANNON BY FRELIGHUYSEN _Probers Told of $10,000.Do- ‘nation During Cam- paign of 1928, (Continued From First Page.) - odist churchman in the Citizens' Bank & Trust Co. at Blackstone, Va., was & rsonal and long-standing account, anly said, and was kept a personal one, except that certain political con- tributions were deposited in it from time to time. Manly said “political funds” were found in all eight accounts, “and that was the only reason we examined them.” $8,000 Newspaper Fund. s e_of ‘an $8,000 ac- N National Bank of Blackstone, W) Bisho) nnon de- posited as funds of the. Newspaper Supply Co. of Richmond. He said this deposit had been traced to an $8,000 cantribution by Jameson. “Later,” he continued, “this deposit with interest was transferred to the sccount of Bishop Cannon, executor, in the bank of Crewe, Va. Then the/ entire executor account was later closed out, amount to $5,900 at the’ time." | Senator Dill interposed that the Newspapsr Supply Co. had been *out | of business and without a charter for | seven years,” i ‘The eommitte had difficulty keeping | up with the manifold transfers of funds from one account to another. Manly said the personal account of Bishop Cannon in the American Na-, tional Bank of Richmond on June 1,| 1928, amounted to $1,459. Total de- posits, he said. in this account durig and just after the campaign total $79,396. Many said that prior to the campaign Bishop Cannon had just two bank ac- opened six accounts Nye asked how mn transferred from this “political account | to the personal account of James O ere was #7050, plus 8528 paid on | “a personsl rate,” Manly said. Chasge Made by Nye. | e Senaty committee had spent most | ."l‘h . through the ‘when 18 e AntiBmith Sommitiee ol Virgini: A e NY® Charyed the Bhop. with transferring political funds to his per- ‘mmioesnu-umcfihur Senator the shifting of :'noum.bulu Tecords |, on the | TIGER SEEKS PEAC WITH ROOSEVELT AS INSURGENCY LOOMS (Continued From First Page.) sdministration. The lines. { escapeble conclusion from the facts”| replied Seay. Payment Frem Jameson. Senator Nye recalled the report of the | Cannon Committee, showed a payment | of $17,000 to Bishop Cannon from Ed- | win C. Jameson on Pebruary 11, and! the payment ths same day cf almost| that amount in turn to Bishop Cannon by the Anti-Smith Committee. A letter bearing the signature of, Bishop Cannon and asserting that “we | do not spli. hairs in our office on the matter of the indorsement” of checks sent to the anti-Smith Democrats al ‘was placed in the records of the cam- committee yesterday. letter, written to C. W. Warden, an officer of the Continental Trust Co. st Washington, follows: “I am enclosing in this another batch | of checks to be placed to the credit of | our_account. “1 am also returning the check of W. L. Elsey, which was made yable to Mr. Peters by mistake. We do not split | Bairs in our office on the matter of the | indorsement of these checks. | “I have been indofsing them right| -lonsul'hen they were made payable | £23 treasurcr of the anti-Smith | Democrats, etc. I do not think it is the function of your cashier to de- termine whether the indorsement on the back of the check is satisfactory or not. “That I conceive to be the business of the bank upon which the check is drawn, or the maker of the check. “However, as the Master said when Caesar, But tell your be_responsible the future.” PAYS HEAVY TAX ‘Woman Gives County Treasurer 32 Pounds of Silver Dollars. for our own act 218 lesson 150 | were unconstitutional. Charges Brutality /| Yourn DECLARES WE was BEATEN BY POLICEMAN. PAUL HENRY, Paul Henry, 20, of 800 Eighteenth street today charged that he was the victim of police brutality of the third precinct on August 9 at the hands of some unnam=d officer. Henry said today he was arrested by a park policeman when he took a row- boat from its moorings »t the Tidal Basin wall and went fishing early in the morning of August 9. This police~ man, he said, twisted his arm behind his back and when he tried to break away they both fell to the ground. The park policeman called the patrol wagon and took him to the third precinct and charged him with intoxicatior, as- sault and disorderly conduct. Henry says he spent the night in a cell at the third precinct station and that while he was there a large, heavy-set policeman told him he had committed a robbery, and kept slapping him every time he made a denial. The officer tore his shirt off him, he said, and beat him on the legs with a club. Then he made Henry stand up and threw about 20 glasses of water at him through the cell door. * Later the same officer accused him of stealing automoblies, Henry said, and continued slapping him. officer hit him on the head with a billy, and raised a Jarge lump there, Henry Later the same policeman returned with & according to Henry's again for making the statement to the that the next day he 340 col charges. There are no charges pending against him now, he said. and he therefore has no interest in making the statement relating to his treat- ™5 ol et 1o ad’ ot \now the | tn Blleuun's name, but was quite sure could identify him. sole rpose of making political capital—will receive thet will not soon be for- t his denunciation of the Dunni mad cy tionship with y may determine the wfla of his being able to take the State's 45 votes to next year's party convention. One Objection Heard. The two bills that traveled -through committees and the Legislature pro- pelled by the Republican majority re- store to the Hofstadter committee, of which Samuel Seabury is counsel, the power to grant immunity to witnesses who will relate their part in question- able practices. The rt of Appeals held the committee had illegally re- ceived the power in a concurrent reso- lution creating the investigatory body. The Assembly heard only one objec- tion to the bills, Louis A. Cuvillier, New York Democrat, objecting that they Republican ‘The Speaker overruled him. Gov. Roosevelt’s unemployment re- lef plan, completed, is guarded. It will erary definite relief provisions, he said, requiring money. Increased tax- ation is likely, probably, same ohservers believe, in the upper brackets of the income taxes above $10,000. Imposts on cigarettes and cosmetics have been mentioned as sources of the $25,000,000 needed. $25,000 LIBEL UPHELD Decision in Paterson, N. J., Press Row Is Sustained. NEW YORK, August 27 (#).— Supreme Court Justice Alfred Pranken- thaler today sustained the contention of Bernard H. Ridder and his brothers, Joseph E. and Victor F.,, that Harry B. Haines, publisher of the Paterson (N, J.) Ev News, libeled them in an effort to drive them out of the pub- in Paterson. ‘The Ridders were awarded $25,000 in damages in their suit for $1,000,000. ‘They are owners of & chain of news- | m! n the East and Middle West, the New York Staats Zeitung and the Paterson Press Quardian. CLERK DIES SUDDENLY iss Lelia Johannes Found Uncon- scious in Apartment. Miss Lelia Johannes, 38, Oensus Bu- :nehtl.‘bfl in missioners. - | Director Hoover of the Bureau of In- THE_EVENING PRESIDENT BACKS | *SEVERE PENALTIES Praises . Police Force as Whole and Warns Against Prejudging. ____(Continued From First Page.) was not the slightest disagreement be- tween them. Dr. Reichelderfer also den‘ed printed statements to the effect he planned suspension of all of ti® members of the first precinct command who had signed afdavits denying they heard any com- motion at the precinct when Harker was being beaten. He sald the course to be followed in regard to these men depended entirely on the facts found by the Department of Justice in its probe, and he had.no intention of ordering anybody's sus- pension except on the regular recom- mendation by the major and super- intendent of police. 2 Pratt and Keith Confer. 8o anxious was Dr. Reichelderfer to quiet the rumors of ‘the rift between Pratt_and himself, that he summoned Maj. Pratt to his office this morning for | the sole. purpose, he said, of assuring him the rumors were bas . Ma). Pratt was conferring with John M. Keita of the Burcau of lnvestigat.on with reference to the investigation, but wes expected to call on Dr. Reichelder- fer when the conference was over. Dr. Reichelderfer reinforced his de- nial of a rift by issulng two written statements. llnon“ onl.‘th’:m denied tl\emm‘l;; ers any way pre case and sald they mdphoid an open mind in fairness to the whole depart- ment. This statement reads: “The Commissioners and the corpora- tion counsel have not.preju the report of the investigating officer of the Police ent, and the state- ments submitted with this report will not prejudge them. When the reports of the e Department, the grand jury and the Department of Justice are submitted is the correct time to determine whether or not the charges have been substantiated. In the mean- time, in fairness to the whole depart- ment and the very great majority of ! the fine men and women who compose it, complete justice requires that an mind should exist—and this ap- not only to the Commissioners, to the whole body of our citizens.” Police Continue Probe. The Police Department investigation into the w charges is continuing and will independently of the one being conducted by the Justice De- partmnte and the one to be started by the grand jury. A report on the case| | of James Henry Harker, whose charge | that he was brutally beaten at the first | Iureclnct station last Saturday, started all of the investigations, was completed and sent to the District Bullding yes- terday. It resulted in the suspension of four members of the first precinct com- mand. Inspector Louls J. Stoll is still at work | other complaints of po- | made since the Harker pl | but Ivestiga lice brutalil <=, United States Attorney Wil- liam H. Collins expressed doubt of the beginning of the grand jury investi- ition next Tuesday as announced yes- day in his reply to a letter from Dr. Reichelderfer. Collins said he to have a conference some time y with Bureau of Investigation offi- cials and that in all probability the the grand jury inquiry would await & report from the bureau as to the result of its investigation. | ALl I can say.” said Collins, “is that at this moment I cannot state definitely whether the investigation will start be- | fere the grand jury next Tuesday. I| am to have a conference with | J. Edgar r, chief of the Bureau | of Investigation of the Department of Justice, to discuss the situation. Hav- ing in mind that the bureau will make its ususl thorcugh investigation of the matter and baving in mind also that it would be undesirable to present the matter piecemeal to the grand jury, it ‘will probably be found desirable to post- pone the date for inning the grand Jury probe unti] such time as the bureau has completed its endeavcrs.” Federal Support Assured. Decision of the Department of Justice to conduct the police investigation was reached following a conference yester- day afternoon between Acting Attorney General Thacher and Commissioner Reichelderfer and Corporation Counsel Bride. Tzeuflcomh sflmvner' -mf1 ltu‘sr- ney viously had conferred with President, Hoover And Teceived assur- ance of Federal support. ‘Thacher announced the department's agreement to act in a formal statement to the press. The statement said a W " fpquiry would be made a the earnest request of the District Gom- vestigation was called into the confer- ence in Thacher’s office. The bureau chief shortly afterward was ordered to conduct a sweep! inquiry into the third degree by local 1 to his office and| , Keith to take charge of the investigation. Director | | Hoover sald he would maintain per- | sonal supervision of the inquiry. He declared the investigation would be wide and thorough, but would be con- fined to alleged third degree methods. 1f necessary, Hoover said, agents will | be summoned from out of town to aug- ment the local staff Kelth went to the District Building | a few minutes after receiving his in- structions and obtained the report and other data pertaining to the case of Harker, whase charges of police brutality at the first precinct resulted in the investigation. WO0OD THREATENS PAY OF POLICEMEN WHO ABUSE POWER| (Continued From First Page) who also is & member of the Special! Gibson Committee making a systematic | investigation of the District Govern- ment and .fiu:mly of the Police De- partment, sal Praises Investigation. “I am strongly opposed to the third degree method and to any brutality in | the Police Department. I am glad to see that the Department of Justice is taking a hand and will investigate the . 1 consider the as to be brutality in its worst ; should not be tolerated in any com- that the Department Justice, is making a good start under the - g the Pr?ifllnt in making a e present charges, will broaden scope of its investi- fiflm to cover the ent charges of ~jncking and racket in_ th Washingtop police force, as well charges of collusion in "rnhnnq and every other ':lctmty of police work | “In gu.'n'mm-ul - here, unity. “It is my of — | frontier STAR. WASHINGTON charges of brutality in the Met U PPER left: Commissicner Luther H. Reichelderfer, who with the Bureau of Investigation to make D. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1931 ; Corporation Counsel W. W. Bride (lower left) led ropolitan Police Department. Center, President Hoover, who supported Comu: their fight and asked the Department of Justice to lend them assistance. Upper right: Aeting Attorney € -n= probe. Lower right: J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the Bureau of in:estization, who will direct the investi- gation. Lower center: John M. Keith, who will be in direct charge of the bureau operatives working on the charges. the the fight for a Federal investigation of oner Relchelderfer and Mr. Bride in 1 Themas D. Thacher, who ordered TRIAL BOARD FREES 3 INBEATING GASES Recommends Dismissal of Two Other Policemen on Liquor Charges. The Police Trial Board yesterday ac- quitted three officers accused of having beaten prisoners, but recommended the dismissal of two others on charges of intoxication and possession of liquor. James Thomas, colored, 120 Reeves court, accused Policeman Clyde N. Strange and W. C. Handley, jr, both| of the second precinct, of having struck him, his wife, Mamie, and her daugh- ter, Rosetta Johnson. Testimony Conflicts, Conflicting testimony was given by the various witnesses against the offi- cers, who denied the charges. Inspector O. T. Devis testified that William Wil- liams, colored, one of those said to have been struck, told him other resi- dents of Reeves court had persuaded bim to help them “frame” Strange. The charges against both officers were d ropped. Policeman Willlam Kuhns, twelfth precinct, was accused of having beaten Clarence Woodrow Brown, 18, volored, when he refused to aceept & summons to appear as a witness in an accident case, The officer admitted having struck Brown, but insisted he had done s0 only after the youth had attacked | him. The charge was dropped. Charge Denied by Zepp. The policemen recommended for dis- missal were C. S. Zepp, first precinct, and A. F. Kreuger, Traffic Bureau. Zepp, accused of having been under the influence of lijuor while on duty at the 101 Ranch Wild West Show, de: nied the charge, explaining' he had only been “sniffing snuff.” Kreuger now serving a 30-day term in the District Jail, pleaded guilty to a liquor-possession eharge placed against him three weeks ago. 200 HELD BY RUSSIANS Polish Peasants Seeking Work Across Border Despite Guard. MOSCOW, August 27 (#).—Dis- ynwhe.‘ from Minsk today said Soviet | rontier guards in the past 10 days had arrested more than Polish peasants crosging the border into Russia looking rk. In one day, the report said, 147 en tered Russian territory after a skirmisl with the Polish border guard, who fired Two grenades hurled by Pol ish soldiers. the dispatch said, exploded in Russian territory. Most of the “refugees” were described as young men, and it was said that the movement across the border is ncreas- ing. There has been no indication as to what will be done with them, but it is expected they will be permitted to remain in Russia, 24 Policemen Give Inspectors Version Of Harker Charges & jani- recinct and who have given statements to the inspectors are: Capt. Willlam E. Holmes. Lieut. J. H. Lee Sergts, W. D. Haislip, E. . C. Blackman, A. | Text of President’s Letter President Hoover's letter to the Department of Justice on the Federal inquiry into charges of third-degree methods in the Metropolitan Police Department follows: | “I am glad to approve, in the special circumstances of the | | Federal Government'’s relation to the District of Columbia, that the Department of Justice should accede to the request of the | | District Commissioners for aid in investigation of recent charges against certain members of the Washington police. [ “However, we must not overlook the fact that Washington ‘[ has an able and devoted police force.. The vast majority of its honest men should be protected by determining if there are un- | worthy men in their midst. It is always possible that occasional individuals may have overstepped the law and humanity in treatment of crimizals and those charged with crime and, if so, they should be severely punished. But even in such charges the police should not be prejudged on the allegations of criminals themselves, although accused of crime. There is too much ten- dency on the part of some people to forget the devoted work of the police, to forget the safety of society and victims of criminals out of sympathy with criminals themselves.” Four Officers’ Records Policemen Suspended in Third Degree Probe All Have Been Commended, and Two, Mostyn and Grooms, Have Faced Trial Board Previously. | The records of the four policemen | | suspended in connection with the al- | § third-degree mmugeuon now ng made by the Police Department | d the Department of Justice were re- | led today by police officials. | On December 14, 1928, James A. | | Mostyn was detailed with the special | | investigating squad, where he worked | | until April 19, 1929, when he was sus- | | pended for having allegedly falsified an fidavit for entry in the Police De- | partment, | Mostyn was tried several days later on a charge of conduct prejudicial to the force, the charge growing out of the alleged falsification of the affidavit | The charge cited that Mostyn “know- | ingly and intentionally concealed from | his_superior officers the fact that he | had been arrested in the past on a | charge of attempted robbery.” | | The 1 dismissed the | | charges st him, and he was re- | stared to duty April 26. -During June of the same year, Mos- | s tyn sustained head and hip injuries and | b his shou was lacerated in several | | | places while he was lrrenlg & man | on & liquor charge. The explains | the mer resisted arrest and at- tempted to escape, and Mostyn was | urt in the ensuing struggle. | On March 29, 1930, he was com- | mended for elosing a vice establishment in the 2200 hlock of Second street. | indebtedness. An April 11, 1930, Mostyn again was | He was injured slightly several times njured. He recelved a 5-inch cut on | during execution of duty and at one his foot while raiding a liquor estab- |time fell from a speeding automobile | lishment. }lldm with liquor., The driver of the | He was sworn in as a prohibition en- | machine on liquor forcement officer July 19, 1030, and a | charges. | month later was promoted to private | During the following seven months | class 3, on orders of the District Com- |Lai | missioners. % | efficiency. | v | = JAMES A. MOSTYN. |a complaint was filed against him for was arrested ‘was commended Assistant District M month | ey connection with a murder, for the clev s Attorney O iongeryy |, William T. Burroughs was appointed John in which he presented a ly house case to & Turee other | 10 the force July 1, 1925 end was pro- Jury. commendations followed for the clever | tion of court cases. of & business establish- February, 1927, for his arrest of two on a robbery charge. ‘The only two complaints .w B T T uly, ,_he was te, class 5, and transferred &ncmn when the sixth and cts were consolidated. first | first " pree | f | Wintam ©. Groams was the force December 13, 1924, and | Desember, 1025, was promoted Lo tss i i gizk: | mended for arresting a man wanted in | 23000000001 NERGER SEEH NEAR Presidents of Standard Oil Groups Find No Obstacle to Consummation, By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, August 27.—Intri- | cate questions relative to merging the Standard Ofl Cos. of California and | New Jersey were before officials of the | two organizations here today after com- pletion of conferences at Lake Tahoe, Calif., between K. R. Km;hur! and W. C. 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