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WEAT Local showers tonight and probably tomorrow morning; somewhat cooler to- N.Y. Markets, Pages13,14 & 15 Full report on page 4. HER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Porecast). morrow. ‘Temperatures—Highest, 82, pm. yesterday; lows today. at 3:45 est, 64, at 7 5 en post office, Wa: ered as second class matt ar shington, D. C. D. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST. 28, * he FEpening WASHINGTON, No. 31,895. { oo MAJ. PRATT WITHDRAWS POLICE SPEED UP U. S. INQUIRY Decision Is Reached After Conference With Keith. WITNESSES COMPLA OF DUALQUESTIONING D. C. Commissioners to Await Federal Re- port on Case. Maj. Henry G. Pratt, superin- | tendent of police, today called a halt to the independent police probe of brutality charges in third dggree methods of the metropoli- tan police. Maj. Pratt said the police in- quiry had been called off to give the Department of Justice free rein in its investigation of the charges, ordered by Acting Attor- ney General Thacher Wednesday at the request of Commissioner Luther H. Reichelderfer and Cor- poration Counsel W. W. Bride. The fudden dropping cf the police fnquiry is understood to have followed instances in which witnessss complained | of being questioned on identical sub- Jjects by successive investigators. { Hereafter, Maj. Pratt said, the police will confine their investigation to the personnel of the Police Department, leaving the questicning of all civilian | witnesses to sgents of the Bureau of Investigation. The decision to restrain police from quizzing witnesses outside the depart- ment was reached following a confer- ence today between John M. Kelth,‘ inspector in charge of the Federal in- vestigation, and the police superin- tendent. Trying te Make Probe Thorough. “This was done,” Maj. Pratt said, “to avoid useless duplication, and it does not mean !llheru?nlt Hll! ‘lo’:llcem Department’s investigat will s that there is any friction between us and the Department of Justice, or that we are to cover anything up. | “We are trying to make a tror- | ough and impartial investigation, and | we think that the way agreed upon is | the best in which we can accomplish | the result.” E » As the Department of Justice con- tight lnd!lkennfurflurmbnhihel matter until the investigators make their final report. | The Justice operatives were deluged | with & mass of complaints, written and | oral, i alleged brutality on the part of the police. Their investigation, it was said, probably would eventually lead to Gallinger Hospital, where, it is al , “eertain prisoners were sert.for treatment after beatings. Acting Attorney General Thacher to- day characterized as “bunk” reports that United States Attcrney Rover was 10 bz replaced as prosecutor in any criminal action which might grow out of the investigation. Crosby Expected Today. Commissioner Herbert B. Crosby was | speeding back to Washington and was | expected here sometime this afternoon. | Gen. Crosby has been on a vacation | since July 17. Reports that he had been summoned back to Washington | brought a statement from Dr. Luther H. Reichelderfer, president of the board, | that as far as he knew nobody had communicated with Gen. Crosby on any phase of the third-degree investigation The question of selecting a trial board, made up of members not con- nected with the Police Department, to try the four officers suspended on charges of brutality to James Henry Harker, a prisoner at the first precinct, will not be taken up at this time, Dr. Reichelderfer said today, nor will the question of the selectiza 6f a prosecutor. Dr. Reichelderfer said that should in- | vestigation result in charges against the | officers which necessitated a trial in the courts, their trial before the Trial Board would be delayed until after the action of the court. It might be possible that | the men would never be brought before a Trial Board, depending on the out- come of any cases which migot be in- stituted in the criminal cours. Thus far the only Police Department report on the investigation to reach the District Building has been the one recommending suspension of four mem- bers of the first precinct command, with accompanying documents. No Recent Complaints. At Gallinger Municipal Hospital to- day it was stated that there had been no complaints from patients recently thst policemen had used third degree (Continued on Page 5, Column 2) BOWMAN IN ACCIDENT ‘West Virginia Representative Is Slightly Hurt by Auto. Representative Prank W. Bowman of West Virginia, a member of the House District Committee, narrowly serfous injury when his car into a telephone post near Paris, Va Representative Bowman to his home in Morgan- town. He was alone in the car, proceed- ing toward Winchester. He jammed on his brakes to avoid hiiting a boy on & bicycle. The road had recently been tarred and the car skidded off the road hitting the telephone pole. Mr. Bow. man suffered only slight cuts from fly- ing glass, aithough his car was de- molished. The boy turned to watch the skidding car and fell off his wheel into the ditch SHOT BY GUNMEN [ | approve the beating of prisoners. ! brutality toward prisoners. FROM PROBE TO | Freed, but Job Is Gone Celored Suspect Reveals He Stayed Four Days in Cell Without Any Charge Against Him—Tells of Third Degree. Walter Johnson, colored, 16 O street morthcast, says he was taken to the first precinct last Saturday two hours before the re- lease of James Harker, whose charges that he was beaten are under invest'gation dy Federal authorities. He was held for four days, re- leased without having a charge placed against him and lost his job. His statement to The Star jollows: I was arrested Saturday evening with 2 man named Fred, who lives on Sixth street southwest, while we were sitting in a gasoline station at Third and Maine avenue about 6 o'clock. I don’t know the name of the policeman. He said he wanted to question us about a robbery on Missouri avenue. We were put in a cell at the first pricinct and kept there until midnight, when a policeman brought us out with another colored man named Preston Brooks. They turned Fred loose and took Brooks and me into a little room. Two policemen in plain clothes were in there. I didn't know who they were then, but I saw their pictures in the newspaper later and know they were Detectives —— and —— One was sitting at the d policeman on the cutside call e show start?” and he was told “in just a little while. Then they commenced whipping us. They hit us on the jaw and in the stomach and slapped our faces for about 15 min- utes. During the beating, they kept asking us nbo\gt the rob- bery, but we didn't know anything about it and couldn’t tell them. Returned to Cells. Finally they put us back in cells and kept me there until Wednesday at 10:40 o'clock in the morning, when they turned me loose. I knew they didn’t have a right to hold me for investigation more than 48 hours, for I was arrested once before for investiga- tion by Officer Perry of the sixth precinct, and he didn't keep me more than 48 hours. So Monday evening 1 asked them if they weren't going to let me go. The policeman I spoke to said he didn’t arrest me and didn’t have anything to do with it. An- other one said they could hold me as long as they pleased. When they beat me Saturday night I saw a rubber hose lying on the desk, but they didn't hit me with it. Before I was arrested I worked in the kitchen at the Manor Club, but when I went back there Thursday I found they had gotten some one else to fill my job. (Signed): WALTER JOHNSON. (Capt. Holmes of the first precinct declared today that John- son had been identified by a white man, who had complained that he had been held up and robbed. The day after the identi- fication, Capt. Holmes declared, the witness disappeared. He said Johnson was held several days while the police sought the witness, then released because of lack of prosecution.) CROSBY DISCLOSES PRISONERS FEAR Statement Signed by Walter Johnson esk with his sleeves rolled up. A ed in and asked, “When will the Foreign Agency Will Take Make Stat:ments of Brutal- | Charge of Prisoners in New Headquartzrs. BY JAMES E. CHINN, Staff Correszondent of The Star. HARRISBURG, Pa., Al 28— Vigorously condemning the third degree under any excuse, Police Commissioner Herbert B. Crosby is speeding home to- day, detemined to fix responsibiity for the recent brutality scandal which pro- voked the derfouncement of President Hoover. Surprised and indignant over the de- velopments in Washington during his absence, Commissioner Crosby said he would begin an immediate investigation of his own when he returns, to ascer- tain if police officials either condone or ity After Assurance Officials Would Protect Them. N = - Note—-The following marrative. written by a Star reporter who interviewed and obtatned from several prisomers signed stotements accusing the police of brutal treatment, illustrates the fear. on the part of the prisomers. of reprisals from the police. Kmowledge of the existence of such intimidation ceused Corporation Counsel W. W. Bride vesterdaw to viedge Full tn those 1who possess Enowledge ritiing to_ a3 tion By submifting statements to prover authorities. police brutality and are " the present investion- the BY PHILIP H. LOVE. Inspector Louis J. Stoll, one of the investigators the charges, told me yesterday that he nad interviewed Pred: k C. Sampson snd Robert E. Martz, priconers at the Dis- trict Jail, concerning the manner in which I obtained their signatures to statements that they were peaten at the first precinct The inspector told me Sampson ad- hered to his signed statement, repcat- ing his story of having been assaulted by three officers, while Martz “admitted he nad lied” Stoll said Martz tcld nim two Star reporters visited him at the Jail. the first promising to “help him” if he would make a written stat ment and the other obtaining his sig- nature to such a statement. As & matter of fact, I am the onlj ar reporter who talked to Martz 1 interviewed him in the presence of W. H. Arnold. captain of the jail guards (Continued on Page 5, Column 4.) of “In a case of this kind,” he said, first thing is to find out lice officials have to what 1 propose to do.” Commissioner Crosby also revealed for the first time that steps have been taker, by District officials to remove from the police any temptation to beat prisoners by having them placed in the custody of another agency foreign from the police immediately after arrest The plan, he sald, would be put into effect when the Police Department moves into the Courts Building in the municipal center area. This building will contain a la-ge cell block where the lice will bring prisoners and where they will be held in custody until trial. A department under Commissioner Reichelderfer will g, be responsible for the prisoners, and ¢ not_the police “This plan was suggested by Police Supt. Pratt,” Crosby declared, “which indicates that he does not approve of 1f the plan is successful, the possibility of such 2 thing will be removed.” “the at the po- and that is only British Novelist Improving. DOUGLAS, Isle of Man, August 28 Commissioner Crosby said before he () —Sir Hall Caine, Brit'sh novelist, takes any definite action in the third- | who has besn seriously ill, was reported degree scandal he would confer with |to be slightly better today after passing (Continued on Page 5, Column 1.) |a fair night TEST SHOWS NOISE IN SQUAD ROOM INAUDIBLE IN CAPTAIN’S OFFICE Chairs Kicked Arcund to Prove Harker Could Have Been Beaten Without Holmes’ Knowledge. A icking” test in the office of the son kicked two chairs around the Capt cinct, has dembnstrated that James H.|out and asked Capt Harker could have been s:verely beaten | not been told of the test, in the adjoining equad room, as he | heard any noise charges, without any noise being heard | Capt. Holmes replied in the n-gative in the captain's office. | Hawken also said not a sound could Harker's charge that police beat him [be heard in the captain’s office while with & rubber hose and pummcled him vith their fists in effort to make him confess a robbery precipitated the present investigation of police “third- degree” methods | The test was planned by S, McComas Hawken, Harker's attorney, to show it chat Holmes, who had if he had ining room. rooms is of thick brick. “In my opinion.” sald, “this test demonstrates conclu- sively that Harker might have been s°- police brutality | W. E. Holmes, first police pre- (squad room. Then Inspector Stoll came | rs_were clattering around in An examination | revealed that the wall between the two Attorney Hawken PROBERS REFUSED GANNON DATABY MI3S BURROUGHS Anti-Smith Treasurer Fesists Senate Quiz Second Time, Disputing Jurisdiction. DENIES HAVING CHECKS “GIVEN HER BY BISHOP” W. C. Gregg of New Jersey Reveal- ed by Letter as Contributor of ! $1,200 to Campaign. | By the Associated Press. Miss Ada L. Burroughs of Richmond, | treasurer of the Anti-Smith Democratic organization, headed by Bishop James | Cannon, jr., in 1928, today declined for | second time to answer questions be- { fore the Senate Campaign Funds Com- | mittee. | Committee members gave no indica- {tion what action, if any, they would take in view of Miss Burroughs' second refusal to testify | As she went c- the stand, Miss Bur- {roughs said in a mild voice that she |had a statement to read. She asked { photographers not to take her picture and that was ordered by Charman Nye. \ In her prepared statement, Miss Bure | rougks said: “None of the books, ac- | counts, checks or other documents i called for by the committee's subpoena | are now in my possession.” | It was Miss Burroughs to whom | Bishop Cannon in a London statement | |last night said he had turned over | {some of the funds wijhdrawn by him | from political accountd in several banks | | in 1928, | | “I decline to answer,” Miss Burroughs sald when Nye called her attention to | the recent order of the District of Co- | {lumbia Supreme Court refusing to grant Bishop Cannon a writ of prohibi- | | tion against the committee continuing |its inquiry into his political activities. | Senator Nye reminded Miss Bu | roughs that “‘you have given some testi- | mony in your prepared statement.” | Senator Wagner, Democrat, New York, then asked her who were the | other officers of the anti-Smith organi- | zation. “I decline to give any testimony,” replied. “Is that a secret?” asked Wagner. There was no answer. Wagner asked other questions and finally got the witness to say she was | @ member of the Methodist Church. | “You don't want to answer an - | questions dealing with Bishop Can- non’s handling of money, then 1 would |like to ask you if you were treasurer of the Anti-Smith Committee,” Wagner pursued. “I decline to testify," she replied. | That is a matter of record,” | minded Wagner. “Yes, it is a matter of record.” “Who advised you not to testify,” Wagner inquired. | " decline to say.” | David Cannon, a son of the bishop, |and attorneys for Cannon sat near the | witness stand. Denies Having Accounts. The statement of Miss Burroughs ea | | Testimony Is Refused. i re- T “To the chairman and members of the select Committee on Campaign Ex- penditures, United States Senate. “Gentlemen: “Referring to subpoena for my ap- pearance today to testify before this committee under the terms of Senate | resolution 403, I beg, with all due re- spect, to refer the committee to a pro- | test heretofore filed by me with this | committee on May 7. 1931, and I hereby | adopt said protest for the purposes of | | this hearing. “However, in further deference to the | committee and the subpoena, I beg to | | state that none of the books, accounts, | cheeks, or other documents called fox | by the committee’s subpoe: {in my possession. “All the books, accounts, records, etc., | which were in my poscession as treas- | urer of the Headquarters Committee, Anti-Smith Democrats, were retained in my possession for the statutory | period of two years from the time of | the receipt of all moneys by said com- | mittee and were thereafter turned over and delivered to James Cannon, Jr., and | I have no knowledge as to their pres- | { ent whereabouts. “For the further information of the | committee, I beg to state that I never at any time had any connection with a committee designated in the commit- tee's subpoena as ‘Committee on Tem- perance and Tolerance.’ “Believing, as stated in my protest of May 7. 1931, that this committee is without authority or jurisdiction to | investigate or inquire into any of the matters referred to in said subpoena | of August 27, 1931, to me, or any mat- ters relating to the private transactions of James Cannon, jr., or my connec- .| tions therefore, and being so legally ad- | vised, I agatn respectfully decline to give any testimony in this investigation. “Respectfully submitted. “ADA L. BURROUGHS At the outset of today's hearing the NEW ORDER PERMITS | ENTRY INTO MEXICO| | i | | ! “5 na are now | | | | | | | { iModificninm However, Does Not | Lift Ban on U. S. Bound Traffic. | | | By the Associated Press. BROWNSVILLE, Tex. August 28— A modified order itting passage acrogs intermational bridges into Mexico at all hours was in effect along the Rio Grande last night. The new order did not, however, lift the barriers to traffic into the United States between 9 p.m. and 7 a.m., re- cently prohibited by a United States | remains unchanged. | without a mandate from the Labor BRITISH LABORITE 0LST NACDONALD Leader—Tories and Liber- als Vote to Back Regime. By the Associated Press. LONDON, August 28 —Ramsay Mac- Doalnd, three times prime minister of Great Britain, today was ousted as leader of the Labor pafty and Arthur Henderson was elected his successor. “Uncle Arthur,” as he is known in the Hous*, now will lead the opposition 2gainst the man whom he served as forelgn secretary in the recent Labor | government. Only 6 of the 280 mem- bers of the Labor Parliamentary party voted to retain Mr. MacDonald at to- day’s meeting. The others lined up solidly behind the alternative proposals which organ- ized labor is advanc as_substitutes for the program of national government. The heart of their scheme is adamant oppesition to cuts in the unemployment dole. Two Parties Back Regime. Replacement of Mr. MacDonald as the party chief was inevitable in the face of the bitter resentment by labor to his organization of the national cab- inet. His position in the government Although he is party, he rtill is the head of the non- partisan emergency regime formed to balance the budget. The erstwhile opposition, both Con- servative and Liberal, has indorsed the participation of those party leaders in the present arrangement. Meanwhile MacDonald, “resting” at Lossiemouth from the strain of the past few weeks, telephoned his Downing | street office to deny reports he already has decided not to be a candidate for Parllament in the next general election. Llody George Concurs. The Liberals and Conservatives, in party session, voted indorsement on the part their leaders are taking in the re- organized cabinet, and Lord Reading, Liberal foreign secretary, announced at his party’s session that David Lloyd | George, ‘the Liberal leader, has con- curred in all the Liberal decisions taken thus far. His statement refuted another rumor | that Mr. Lloyd George would take the field against the new regime as soon as_he recovers his health. Still_ancther report had Chancellcs Philip Snowden resigning from the cab- inet, but the veteran statesman. spiked | this one with a statement that he will hold < to the end, retiring from poli- ties after this national emergency.. | He reached this decision four montty ago, he said. and informed Mr. Mac- | Donald at that time that when the | budget was out of the way he would ask | to be relieved from his office. Snowden has been in bad health some time. Jowitt Accepls Post. The government is working night and day through two cabinet committees, | Mr. | for | one of which is outlining economy leg- | iclation and the other looking over the | o general state of parliamentary business. By tanight the Economy Committee | expects to have its proposals fully out- | lined and the schedule will be submit- | ted to all the cabinet members before the full cabinet meeting on Monday. On September 8 the cabinet will make its appearance before the Commons in special session. This afternoon it was announced that . Sir Willlam Jowitt had accepted the appointment as attorney general, giving the prime minister the fifth Labor member in the ministry. Credit Negotiations Under Way. Great Britain was informed today by | reports from New York and Paris that negotlations are under way to ralte a (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) SHAM ATTACK BY AIR “DESTROYS” ITALIAN CITY Street Car Passengers in l']urence: Frightened by Falling Imi- | tation Bombs. By the Azsociated Press. FLORENCE, Italy, August 28.—This city, where some of the world's great- 1931—THIRTY mion-partisan | “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. Yesterday's Circulation, 107,203 PAGES. TWO CENTS. ROOSEVELT URGES o0 PER CENT TAX RISE FOR §20,000,000 JOBLESS AID FUND Relief Group to Administer Appropriation for Public Works and Five-Day Week Advocated to Legislature. P) Means Associated Press. | L . “MUST BE NO SEMBLANCE OF DOLE,” GOVERNOR SAYS Levy Would Be Confined to Only Personal Incomes—1930 Pay- ments May Be Included—Soldier Bonus of $548,000 Would Be Given From Revenue. By the Associated Press, ALBANY, N. Y., August 28.—A 50 per cent increase in the State personal income tax was recom- mended to the New York Legisla- ture by Gov. Franklin D. Roose- velt today as part of his program for unemployment relief. Other recommendations cluded: Creation of a temporary emer- gency relief administration of three members appointed by the ! Governor, and an appropriation of | $20,000,000 to be expended under | he supervision of the commission, | principally to employ persons on ;publll: work during the Winter g | ot SPEEDING FINES HELD ILLEGAL AS DISTRICT LACKS LAW LIMIT Convictions Since July 10 Have Been Ille- gitimate—Van Duzer Fails to Use Restrictive Power. | = BY G. ADAMS HOWARD. There is no regulation existent today against speeding in the District of Columbia. Not only are there no restrictions on the speeding of passenger busu;. etll.m !;x :{:t“:bke’é but tsg‘ have not been any since July amen: traffic ame e ve. This act, abolishing all other regulations not specified, gives the director Bonds for Public Work. of the department of motor vehicles and traffic the power and authority to| Authorizing cities and counties, for designate such speed limits in various parts of the city and suburbs as he sees | the period of one year, to issue three- fit and proper. So far, William A. Van Duzer has not designated any speed limits at all. ’"'"lmmm i ‘:; "“";"b;‘ m" Therefore, all previous limitations became automatically null and void on the tenth day of last month. The 22-mile limit through the city proper is out, as ! public works. well as the 30-mile limit in some of the outlying Providing for a five-day week in all This fact was confirmed today bythaihnn to be for at least two weeks vet. | coniracts for State or municipal pub- director, himself. It is not his intention, | After a traffic regulation is - o however. to allow this omission to re- | ed to the Commissioners their approval | lic works, except supervisory Jabor. | main. At an early date he will designate | must be obtained, and advertised in the | Providing that out of the $20,000,000 | the same speed limitations that were in | local newspapers. Ten days after this for relief work the sum of $548,- | force heretofore. ~Although Mr. Van |procedure a regulation becomes effective. : Duzer recommended the ban on speed | A police change |t e S o g | % | while he was way 1 w.-m that he has not been in*Washington long enough to de- | District Government is that cide any immediate change. |than six weeks no_one The absence of & speed law here will | (Continued on Page 3, Column §. MISSING WOMANS CLOTHIG IS FOUND | Blood-Stained Articles Turn | Up in Garage Built by Slaying Suspect. GREEN SEES NEED FOR STATE FUNDS Doubts That Private Dona- tions Will Be Sufficient for Winter Relief. ] By the Associated Press. CLARKSBURG, W. Va., August 28.— ]Pollce said today they found blood- | stained clothing of a woman in a garage | built at a village near here by Cornelius O. Plerson, who is being held in con- nection with the disappearance of Mrs. | Asta Buick Eicher and her three chil- | dren from their home at Park Ridge, Il The police also said there were let- | ters written to the woman and photo- | graphs in the garage, located at Quiet | Dell, a village located on the Buck- | hannon Pike. | _ Plerson built the garage a few months | | ago, the authorities said. Faces Two Charges. The officers still were at Quiet Dell | this morning while Plerson was in the Clarksburg Jail following his arrest yesterday. Park Ridge authorities have warrants charging him wth manslaugh- ter and kidnaping in connection with | the disappearance of the woman, a | | widow, and her children. The officers did not disclose the evi- dence on which they based their charges. The interior of the garage was spat- blood, uthorities id, Willlam Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, today predicted that Federal and State ap- propriations will be needed tg relieve that he doubted whether the effort of the present organization on unemploy- ment relief to provide for relief through | oo ‘e emun raising funds locally would be adequate. of the next few months. “The need for relief will be far greater | _After outlining the ramifications of this Winter than last,” said the Federa- | his, unemp) o tion leader, who is & member of the |crease National Advisory Committee appointed by President Hoover to aid Walter S. i Gifford, national relief director. He estimated that unemployment would mount the scale to an un-|qe precedented mark of 7,000,000 this Win- ter, which is approximately 1,000,000 more jobless than were counted in the special Federal census taken last Janu- ary. The census figures were 6,050,000. Urges Division of Jobs. lh;.‘. Green tu.me&:d al:h Federal ap- propriations predic an appeal to industrial leaders to tu map: at and ly increase n paying an income tax were re- quired to pay merely half again as much, I am informed by the State Tax Comm'ssion, the necessary $20,000,000 "l "mm'l the Gov 1d, “ ernor _said, “places upon the man with small in- come only a slight burden. “The single man with an income of from | $3,000, for example,” he said. “will pay an addif tax of onmly $2.50, the man with family earning $10,000 a year will pay an additional tax of only $26.” i vear in the. State, ‘the taxpayers year 3 executive said. N burden among spreading this those people, few of them will feel 1t it and the | " (Continued on Page Bandits Rob Michigan Bank. SUNFIELD, Mich., August 28 (#).— | Three men, who gained entrance to the Sunfield State Savi Bank Building during the night, held up the cashier when he reported for work this morn- |ing, forced him to open the vault and | escaped with an undetermined amount | of money. ade Legislatures and the Federal Gov- | ernment to assist in relieving distress.” | (Continued on 2, Column 6.) WOODCOCK UNFAIR, WOMEN SAY IN PROTESTING INFORMER BAN |&am If Not Fit for Women, Then Not Fit for Men, Declare i Members of Maryland Council. with immunity power was illegal. The new I tion gives the investigators “We do agree that it is an unsavory | the %mflnk. . who had appeared as counsel bml‘ln?n'\ ::nfii’lrnhnotfltlvrmm men—to say the Pederal Amflnuedml‘m!.liflm'l.) it. . gy ek RUMORS CAUSE ARREST By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, Al t _28.—Answer- tion Director Woodcock’s de- fense of his ban on the employment of women as informers, Business and Pro%:ssional Women's Council of - land asserted in a letter today that if prohibition enforcement it is not fit for sharing the cost. u‘nt as much unem- “Is not fit for women 'ew York Man Pleads Not Guilty would have been possible for his client to have been beaten in the squad room of Spreading Bank Report. witiout the attending noise having | been heard by Capt. Holmes, - claimed {by the iatter in his report of the |to asscri that bis only purpose in press- incident. g &n Accompanied bty his son, Harold | charges is to protect the interests of his Hawken, and Inspector Louis J. Stoll, | client. s the attorney went io the precinct| “There is no doubt in my mind" he gered into & doorway. He was dead | station Monday. He went into the|said, “that Harker was beaten by the when police arrived. Police were | office where Capt. Holmes was sitting, | police in the station house. Inspsctor checking fingerprints in en effort to| while the two others went to the squad | Stoll's report srouscd my indignation establish the man's identity. His de- room. |an v the police cfficials seription tallied with that of a known While Hawken pt. Holmes | tried to whitewash Doctlegger. talked of the case, Stoll and | the interests @ the | versly beaten in the squad rcom with- out any noice being heard by Capt. | HHotmes or any ane eise in his office.” | “Attorncy Hawken also took occasion Treasury ruling. Night traic was halted after complaint of gambling and drinking on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande. ‘The new order approving 24-hour investigation of third-degree | passage into Mexico was Unknown Victim May Be Identi- fied as Bootlegger. BOSTON, August 28 (#).—An un- identified man sbout 40 years old was fatally wounded last night by three | thots fired from a passing automobile ‘The car sped off while the vietim stag- est art treasures are kept, was theo- | men. retically destroyed today in a sham at- tack by hundreds of airplanes partici- pating in the army aerial maneuvers. memununbuuon-m::t week as dis-