Evening Star Newspaper, August 29, 1931, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast), Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow; cooler tonight. ‘Temperatures—Highest, 87, at 4 p.m. yesterday; lowest, €8, at 7:45 a.m. today. Full report on page 16. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages13,14 & 15 No. 31,896. The only evening in Washington 'l': the Associated Press news service. WITH SENDAY MORNING EDITION he Fpening Star. WASHINGTON, Yesterday’s Circulation, 106,902 TWO CENTS. PIERSON ADMITS Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. EARLY COMPLETION OF U.S.| ik 0, 1931—-THIRTY PAGES. FER (#) Means Associated Press. 'ALFRED P. DENNIS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, THIRD DEGREE INQUIRY ISURGED BY GEN. CROSBY Will Ask Speed in Interest of Morale. } PLANS PERSONAL QUIZ OF POLICE | First Step Will Be Conference With | Maj. Pratt. Early completion of the Depart- | ment of Justice investigation into | the police brutality charges will be urged by Commissioner Herbert B. Crosby, he indicated today upon | return to his office in the District | Building, where he immediately | undertook an independent inquiry of the situation. | Gen. Crosby said he feared a | prolonged investigation would | merely serve to keep the morale | of thé Police Department at a low | ebb and he is anxious that it be restored as soon as possible. The | Commissioner, however, made it clear that he wants the inquiry to be as thorough as practicable and to that end, he declared he would give his full co-operation | to the Department of Justice. Confers With Officials. Commissioner Crosby arrived at | his office at 9 o'clock and a half an hour later went into confer- | ence with Commissioner Luther H. | Reichelderfer - and Corporation Counsel William W. Bride to get | first hand details of the brutality | scandal, which developed while he was on vacation on the Pacific | H ik ; views that policeman | of brutality should be from the force. befdre his conference with Dr. Re! fer, Maj. Mb‘n:nid ?ir.‘md':; Gen. ve & interview nwmm“m which he developed his views on third-degree practice quite | ex’ensively. | Discipline Held Cure. | ‘The third degree, he said, is & blemish | which can be removed {rom a police de- | discipline. is the Pelice Department and not re- task. sponsible t0 & sergeant or & captain or any one else, we have trouble. There are such men in the department, al- though I am frank to say that until the charges were made, I did not now that there was an established | third: ice in the depart- ment. Bt Wty ‘t;hn I"::l!: judicing case, but I know 'g:nm are some members of the force who are not disciplined. “If every time one of them acts as 4f he believes he is the department he ‘were brought promptly before the trial board that would greatly improve the discipline. I believe the discipline in | the force has improved in the past 1 do not believe that we can | E(."éi‘ nued on Page 2, Column 1) RENEWAL OF WMBC | LICENSE FAVORED Radio Examiner Recommends Com- mission Action After Hearings on Gang War Funds. | . |by Gen. W. W. Atterbury, president of | .| cent from the net for the same period | CITIZENS CAN AID POLICE PROBE Maj. Henry C. Pratt, Superintendent of Police, has ordered that his police department investigation of third degree charges be dropped. No civilians are to be questioned, as this would in- terfere with Department of Justice investigators. This interfer- ence could be interpreted only as a desperate police effort to save the “black sheep” of the department and prearranged defenses against the flood of charges that have been preferred. All com- plainants have been assured by the Federal Government that they will be protected against police reprisals. 1t is not to be expected that suspected officers will not con- tinue their frantic efforts to protect themselves against the in- quisitorial powers of the Federal Government. Despite Maj. Pratt’s orders, individual officers under suspicion may continue to question civilians or even threaten them with reprisals. All citizens questioned by police officers, in the face of Maj. Pratt’s order that they shall not do so, should immediately re- port such cases to the Bureau of Investigation, Department of CFFORD ASKS BANE ECONGMIES BEGUN IS BRTANGETS 10 HEAD WELFARE WORK FOR OBLESS 4 MLLIONLOAN Virginia Commissioner to De- Committees Given Parlia-| cide Next Week Whether | mentary Program of Stabil- to Accebt Post. izing Nation’s Finances. Prank Bane, public welfare commis- | BY the Assoclated Press. sioner for Virginia, has been asked to| LONDON, August 29.—Bolstered by a | take charge of the welfare work of the | $400.000,000 credit from bankers of the National Committee on Unemployment | United States and France, the national Rellef by Walter S. Gifford, the director, | S0vernment today placed in the hands The Star learned today. {of committees its parliamentary pro- Mr. Bane at his office in Richmond |§ram for restoring British finances to informed The Star over the telephone | the right side of the ledger. that the post had been tendered him | ODe committee was discussing the by Mr. Gifford, but said he would wait | technical means to be used in balancing | until the early part of next week to | the budget and the other was concerned | make a decision on acceptance. He said | With the procedure t be used in push- e would come to Washington next week, | ing the mezsures through the House of but expected to notify Mr. Gifford of his | Commons. Both will report to [he; decision before he left Richmond. | cabinet Monday, when Prime Minister | Pennsy Reduces Salaries. MacDonald returns from Scotland to Meanwhile, the Gifford organization jberln his task anew. was an announcement Salaries of 300,000 Cut. At the same timeé the Government the Pennaylvania Railroad, that while | pyt into effect the first of & number of his company was continuing its sup- port of constructive measures to reduce unemployment and restore prosperity, it has been forced to order a reduction of 10 per cent in salaries of executives | The salaries of 300,000 civil service em- ployes were cut to effect an anual sav- |ing of $4,000,000. The Roysl Investi- and general ¥ lnunz Commission had counseled ‘The also has been forced, | against such reductions, but the gov-| company Gen. Atterbury asserted, to reduce the | ornment decided to leave no stone un- orking me Of cmiployes on account of | 1y med to achieve economtes. the continued heavy loss of traffic. Meanwhile the Seaham Harbor Labor erbury’s message to Pennsylvan! o , which Prime Minister MacDon- Toad stockholders, accompanying the | ua emven 3 regular quarterly dividend. Results for | |ald represents in the House of Com- the first six months of 1931 lndle-tei that conditions are still unsatisfactory, the message said, net operating income of the Pennsylvania totaling only $22, 639,347, a decrease of more than 50 per mons, recommended that he be asked to resign his seat. This action by the party executive, which will be referred to a meeting of party delegates, followed soon after the prime minister had been i the party by the Ham | & consequence of his participation in! S Gt & Share. | the new national government. This is mqm{:my diivdend patd today to | B OTEanization through which Mr. stockholders of record August 1 repre- :;:cm,’dp.*x;m i s SRt 236 o seut on the vephial sfact, | 1t was evident from yesterday's events terbury pointed out the Pennayivania | (Continued on Page 4, Column 3.) Rallroad stockholders have received a return on their investment in every calendar year since 1847. It also was learned today that Mr. Gifford had selected most of the State reprekentatives who will co-ordinate in the local drives throughout the country last year. PARIS NOT PROPOSING| ARMS PARLEY DELAY| Rumored Plan of Taking Initiative for Postponement Denied by Foreign Office. for relief funds, commencing October 10. director plans to spend the week end in Washington to finish this | Mr. Bane is nationally recognized as an authority on welfare work. He was one of the first men selected by Col. Arthur Woods when he organized the President’s Emergency Committee for Employment last year, and acted as one of the five regional directors. His work in this capacity was praised both by public welfare and Government offi- clals. tod: Mr. Bane is s mative of Smithfield. 'ing (Continued By the Associated Press. PARIS, August 29.—The French for-! eign office, commenting on rumors that |France would take the initiative, said lay it had no intention of suggest- the postponement of the fi’nen | disarmament conference schedul 1 SO { Geneva in February, 1932, POLICE GUARD PLANT | — T AACTIVITY AFTER STRIKE BATTLE o S R | | Authorities Take Steps to Protect 11 Persons Arrested in Textile Dis- trict, Including Girl Leader Ulster Town as 20,000 of Orange Group Form. Page 2, Column 3.) and Boy. By the Associated Press. CENTRAL PALLS, R. T, August 20.— | Every available policeman was on duty today to cope with any situation that might arise as the aftermath of a clash yesterday between strikers and police in | the district adjoining the General Peb- ries Corporation Mills. | Eleven By the Associa‘ed Press NEWRY, Northern Ireland, August 20.—The assembling of 20,000 members of the Royal Black Institution, a vmx‘ were under arrest. | persons | They included Ann Burlak, 20-year-old | drastic curtailments in expenditures. | POSt PROSECUTOR GETS BRIDE HOLDS SPEED HEAD TO BE SOUGHT BY MAAS Minnesota Representative Charges Excessive Lease Costs. $9,000 Monthly Rent In San; Francisco Cited in Charges. { By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, August 29.—The Examiner today quoted Representative Michael J. Maas of Minnesota, who has | been investigating alleged irregularitics ' in the J of privately owned build- ings by the Office ent, as saying he would ask for the removal of | Postmaster General Walter F. Brown | on the basis of the findings. | - - Maas, who said he had been conduct- | REPRESENTATIVE M. J. MAAS. ing :h investigation quietly, was quoted as Having charged that Jacob Kuip of | He sald the building and site were val- Chicago and Ray Brown of Indianapolis ued at $1,000.000 when the structure had been given a virtual monopoly on | was completed in 1925, and asserted the office building rentals. | rental of $108,000 annually was ex- He sald the Government's ommn | ive. of $18,000,000 annually for of | Kulp was named by Postmaster Harry post office quarters was “more than | L. Todd as the principal owner of the twice what it should be.” Ferry Post Office Building. Representative was ted | Todd also asserted he would oppose The represen | as having cited the pavment of $9.000 | a renewal of the lease upon its expira- | a month for the Ferry Post Office Bulld- tion in 1935. He said a more suitable ing in San Francisco as a case in point. | site was needed. CANNDN EVIDENCE LA N FORC Takes Exception to Va | Duzer’s Statement Regula- tion Temporarily Out. By the Associated Press BY G. ADAMS HOWARD. Notice was taken today by the Dis-| oo i b A d poration Counsel Willlam W triet Attorney's Office of the Senate’s|pige gecided today that the regula- inquiry this week into the disposition | yion, governing the speed limits in the of 1928 campaign ' funds by Bishop | pystrict of Columbia are not null and James Cannon, r., but it was indicated | (oo no action was contemplated pending| Taking jssue with the statement of SREUIE cf word feden the Betge | Willlam A. Van Duzer, director of the In the absence of District Attorney | Department of Motor Vehicles and Leo A. Rover, his first assistant, Wil- | Trame, that the speed law was tempo- liam H. Collins, said he had noticed |rarily out because he had fafled to the refusal of two witnesses to testify— | designate any limits since the adoption Miss Ada L. Burroughs of Richmond |of the amended traffic act July 10, Mr. wport | Bride said it was his legal opinion that ;‘nd ""I V- | the regulations on that subject were ews, Va. | carried over despite the fact that men- He expressed the view, however, that | tion of them was not reinserted. his office could take no officlal notice | “The old regulations prescribing the of this and other events In the Senate | sajd - were ‘Bporossd b the aresens inquiry without “certification” of the | Commissioners. They have authorized record from elther the Senate Cam- | RO change, one way or another. While paign Punds Committee or from the | the director of traffic has power to Senate. designate new limitations subject to In cases of contempt of the Senate the approval of the Commissioners, he the District Attorney's Office here is | has not done so. Therefore, inasmuch notified for possible prosecution. | as the new act also pro\fldesmt.hhn motor Will Meet in s, vehicle regulations not inco: tent with Chairman Nye sald his committee the ones now adopted shall remain in force, I believe the speed regulations would not have a chance to come to- | remain the same.” gether again until after the middle of | Judge Gus A. Schuldt, presiding over October to study the wide variety of | the Traffic Court in Police Court today evidence accumulated in the three days’ | in the absence of Judge John P. Mc- hearings and decide what action it would take regarding the witnesses who n | Mahon, stated that he had not gone into the matter as no questions had | been raised, and would await the recom- { mendations of the assistant, corporation | counsel's office. It was his opinion nder oath by Bishop Cannon, Miss | that the speed regulations were still in refused to testify. He added he thought evidence placed ia the record demanded an explanation RED SOK DEFEAT | - NATIONALS, 3101 | :Bunch Hits Off Marberry in i Opening Game—Manush ‘ Hits Home Run. | BY JOHN B, KELLER. | _BOSTON. August 29.—Bunching hits off Fred Marberry in the first and third | Innings, including doubles by Warstler |and Sweeney, the Red Sox defeated the Nationals, 3 to 1, here today in the | opening game of a double-header. Manush’s home run off Durham in the opening inning saved the Nationals from a whitewashing. FIRST INNING. WASHINGTON — Myer popped to ;anller, ‘Warstler threw out Rice. { Manush hit a homer into the right-field | stands close to the foul line. Cronin | fli=d to Oliver. One run. | _ BOSTON—Warstler doubled down the right-fleld line. Rhyme filed to Rice, Warstler taking third after the catch. Kuhel was I:)Igr‘l!d Wlth’% nfl:r when dropped Sweeney's . Sweeney doubled to right center. sccring Warst- ler. Webb flied to Manush. Miller singled to center, scoring Sweeney. Myer threw dut Oliver. Two runs. COND INNING. WASHINGTON—Warstler threw out West. Millér threw out Bluege. Kuhel fQiled to Webb. No runs. BOSTON—Marberry threw out Roth- rock. Ruel walked. Durham sacrificed. Bluege to Kuhel. Warstler's fly. No runs. THIRD INNING. WASHINGTON—Oliver went to deep center and made a fine catch of Spen- cer's fly. Marberry flied to Oliver. Myer singled over second. Rice popped to Warstler. No runs. | BOSTON—Rhyne singled to short center. Bluege threw out Sweeney, Rbyne taking second. Myer threw out Webb, Rhyne taking third. Miller | walked. Oliver singled to center, scor- | ing Rhyne, Miller stopping at second. ‘Rov.hwck popped to Cronin. One run. | FOURTH INNING. | WASHINGTON—Manush hit to Dur- | ham, who threw him out. Cronin struck out. Warstler threw out West. No runs. BOSTON—Ruel fouled to Spencer. Durbam struck out. Bluege threw out Warstler. No runs. | WASHINGTON- Blocge’” —Bluege to | Warstler. Kuhel walked. sggflgf sin- gled to short center, Kuhel stopping at second. Marberry fouled k i o berry to Ruel. Myer | TON—West made & running ‘fl?fi"f"“r"f""v'v short fly. sweenzg | 0 West. Webb fi | the right-field e B 245 | runs. | SIXTH INNING. | o WASHINGTON—Rice fanned. | nush_singled to_right. Cronin popped (Continued on Page 10, Column 1.) | '| Box Score | (FIRST GAME) | | ! WASHINGTON. | AB. R. H. O. | Myer, 2b. | Rice, rt. | Manush, If... | Cronin, ss. | West, cf. | Bluege, 3b | Kuhel, 1b. | Spencer, ¢. | Marberry, p. | Judge .. West came in for | corner of the fleld. No! MEMBER OF TARIFF BOARD, ENDS LIFE Body Found on Beach in Maine Had Drifted Back With Tide. MURDER OF WIDOW AND 3 CHILDREN Correspondent of Matrimo- nial Agencies Promises to “Tell AllI” Today. HAD BEEN DESPONDENT | THREE HELD STRANGLED; BECAUSE OF ILL HEALTH! Searching Party Formed After His Departure From Cottage Clad in Pajamas. By the Associated Pre: BAILEYS ISLAND, Me., August 20.— Alfred P. Dennis, member of the United States Tariff Commission, com- mitted suicide by drowning in Casco Bay here early today. ‘The body was found on the sand, where it had been left by the receding tide. Members of his family said he had been despondent for some time because of il health. He arose before the rest of the house- hold this morning and, clad only in his pajamas, wandered about a quarter of a mile from the cottage. ‘The body was found by a small | searching party made up of relatives and friends. On Commission Since 1925. Medical Examiner Gilbert M. Elliott pronounced death due to suicide by drowning. Dennis, who was 62 years old, was appointed to the Tariff Commission by President Coolidge in March, 1925, and two months later was named vice chairman. He was a Democrat and taught at Princeton, Wesleyan and Smith from 1893 to 1907. He was commercial attache of the American embassy at Rome from 1918 to 1921 and a special representative of the Department of Commerce for Secretary Hoover in Central and East- ern Europe during 1922 and 1923. He ":214 assistant to Secretary Hoover in 1924. His widow and two sons survive. CONSTANT WORRY BLAMED. Death of A. P. Dennis is Distinct Loss, Brossard Says. Commissioner Dennis had been in ill health for several years and friends here attribute his suicide to worry over his condition. ter he received two weeks ago from Mr. Dennis had “a melancholy m."" Bride Rules It Improper to Fix Building Wage Prior to Letting Jobs. Agreements between the District and contractors as to the wage scale to be | followed on any construction project, made prior to the awarding of the con- tract, are improper, William W. Bride, corporation counsel, declared today. Mr. Bride was requested to prepare an opinion on this matter by the District Commissioners before action is taken on |a recommendation by Maj. H. L. Robb, ilmuum Engigeer Commissioner, for | adoption of & minimum wage scale on municipal building jobs. Under Robb's plan, contractors would be required to pledge themselves to pay the prescribed wages before they would be awarded contracts, even though they made the lowest bids. Robb's purpose was to make the con- tracts conform to the provisions of the Bacon-Davis act, which provides that “prevailing wage scales” be paid on all District and Government contracts. Contracts drawn up by the Treasury Department on Federal Government construction have contained the clause, “prevailing wage scale,” and the bid- ders have been warned that they were subject to decisions of the Secretary of Labor on what constitutes the pre- vailing scale. In the only decision made under the terms of the act Sec- retary Doak has decided that the pre- vailing scale for painters in the Dis- trict is $11 a day, the union scale. District Scale Urged. Maj. Robb yesterday recommended to the Commissioners that the scale d bullding trades workmen by the istrict government be made the “minimum” to be inserted in contracts for new construction. BOY’S SKULL FRACTURED Bones Found in Ruins of Cottage Near Spot Where Four Were Buried. By the Associated Press. CLARKSBURG, W. Va., August 29. —Andrew Moore, irrison County jail- er, announced today that Cornelius O. Pierson, 45, had confessed the murder of a woman and three children, whose bodies were found under his garage yes- terday. Moore said Plerson promised “to tell all today.” Pilerson was locked up after a night of questioning. Another development was the an- nouncement that bones found in the Tuins of a cottage near where the bodies of the four were found yesterday were to be turned over to the county coroner today to determine whether they were those of a human being. The bones were found by John Byrd of North View. The cottage was the property of the wife of Plerson. Disheveled, red-eyed and nervous, the once suave correspondent of matri- monial agencies was hustled back to his cell in the county jail at daybreak. The bodies, wrapped in burlap and buried in a drain sewer beneath oddly constructed 13 here, were tentatively of Mrs. Asta Buick Eicher, well-to-do Chicago widow, and her children, Harry, 12; Greta, 14, and Anabel, 9. , Plerson with police Clarks- and Charléston, W. Va., and de- tectives from During the night he posed for & pho- held & hammer while PACT HELD WRONG loved him and intended to “stand by him.” Discharge papers from the United States Army disclosed the man served in the 117th Regimept of the Rainbow Division curm&e'.hg ‘World War. The Dame Harry F. of k. vers. for 23 months. According to papers, his age is 42. Under heavy police d Pierson was taken to a mortuary late last night, where he calmly viewed the bodies. “Isn't that awful,” was his only com- ment. Prisoner’s Wife Questioned. Mrs. Powers and her sister, Belle Srother, were questioned in the county jail last night. ‘The bodies were found late Thursday. Police, informed by a boy that Qe had helped Plerson make a tunnel under- neath the so-called garage, dig- ging in the cellar. In the e and mud of the sewer they came upon the body of the woman. Within an hour l,h,euy had unearthed the bodies of the children, buried close together. Earlier in the day the garage, which never had been used as such, was searched. Bloodstains and what was said to be human hair was found. Trunks containing clothing of the Yo and children also were ered. Crowds gathering about the eity jail when news of the finding of the was circulated prompted officers to re- move Pierson to the county jail. l'-wmubsbbhp leonu-oaua— | of the Orangemen, caused suthorities | U | strike leader, and a 14-yeat-old boy. Burroughs and Peters. | sowie. bor Department officials- _today B the Associated Press | Ellls A. Yost, chief examiner, recom- strikers and sympathizers in the first violent demonstration the textile dis- | trict has experienced for several weeks. | mended to the Radio Commission today the renewal of the license of station ‘WMBC, Detroit, alleged to have been involved in gang warfare. ‘The recommendation was made after lengthy hearings, at which charges were that the station had been used in & manner inconsistent with the pub- lic interest and for solicitation of funds | false r?nunuuon. | ‘Counsel for the station contended that | no of irregularity had been | the death of Jerry Buckley, its announcer, who was slain by gacg- of a relief fund | r and the evi- | as to the final funds, he could not the fund was mis- CAPE TOWN, Union of South Africs, | ugust 29 (P). of locusts have done tremendous damage to crops in authorities are find- | nadives, Miss Burlak headed a crowd of 1,000 ‘The mill reopened last Monday after several weeks’ shutdown. Nailed Box Trick Fails When Point Injures Magician By the Associated Press. & brawny member nalled Huber in, ‘The audience waited breathlessly. Seven minutes passed and Huber did not emerge. ‘Then the box was opened and | teday to take extraordinary precautions ! to forestall possibls outbresks in and | around this Ulster border town. In view of the train-wrecking inci- | dent a fortnight ago when the Hiber- | nlans met at Armag!:, officials were tak- ing no chances. Police were stationed at every 100 yards along the track | | between Belfast and Newry, every | bridge was guarded and hundreds of additional police were imported. A special radio was installed in police headquarters so that in the event of disturbance: tion who had orders to stand by in barracks. ity AUTOPSY IS ORDERED Miss Ada Rhodes, 18, Dies After| Two-Day Illness. } Miss Ada Rhodes 18, died at her tario Huston Check Revealed. ! Included in the testimony that went |ton counsel's office stated that speed into the record in the last three days were assertions that a check for $5,000, charged to the account of Claudius H. Huston, who later became chairman of | et the Republican National Committee, | Without authority. was used in financing the anti-Smith |, Mr. Van Duzer could not be reached movement in North Carolina. The com- | 1048y, having left town for the week mittee has subpenaed all the records in | (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) connsction_with this account. |less orders to the contrary came from Mr. Bride. “It is not up to us” one | official stated, “to take an initiative With All That's Going On in ‘Washington Now You Can’t Afford to Miss Reading The Sunday Star Tomorrow ‘With all the news from everywhere. Be sure and have your news dealer reserve s copy for you. leposi month wers $183,356 and dollars flowed out of it from the $5,000 check, (Continued on Page 2, 50 Held in Berlin Raids. Members of the assistant corpora- | | papers would be made out as usual, un- | -.Ia--e-ecas— © - wlosenscccsom .-Ieas::ec..ee glenaawengenP « - | f i i M H H 5 11 B H F 2 g | Warstler, 2b.. | Rhyne, | Sweeney, 1b » enal n' 5 “loawes |ea~a=aaem.° Iuoeeuae—»? cleeew~'--u.= - nleaoeaa..-..l' ] we 1] . ww? olecocscccso” LT said the recommendation of Robb did not have the sanction .of the depart- ment. Officials further asserted that Cor- poration Counsel Bride and Maj. Robb conferred with Solicitor Ridgley of the (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) | Draft of Unmarried Jobless for Public Works Is Proposed By the Associated Press. ‘WELLIN '.h%rluu today. ; : m’b’ufl relief funds are overdrawn by sbout $1,120,000. would be established un- (Continued on Page 2, Column 5) . TWO COLORED MEN ARE LYNCHED IN FLORIDA Pair Charged With Attacking For- est Ranger Were Out on Bond. By the Associated Press. BLOUNTSTOWN, Fla., August LT T i e H g i i 2