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AVEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bu; Increasing warmer tonight, beginning late tonight or tomorrow. Temperaturec—Highsst, today; lowest, €0, at Full report on page 9. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages13,14 & reau Forecast). slightly 5 5 am. today. at noon 15 Che 21 GO 31,902, FRETOhes Wa ntered as second class matter ington, “D. ( WASHINGTON, D. C, HOSE, FISTS AND CLUB ARE LISTED AS WEAPONS IN 3D-DEGREE CHARGE; STAPLES HELD VICTIM OF FRAME-UP Alleged Attacks Made on Four | Priseners, | ACTION PUT OFF IN OTHER CASE Mostyn, Burroughs, Perry, Laflin and : Groom Cited. | Five policemen of the first precinct today were indicted on cnarges of assault involving a total of four prisoners, bringin: ~ to a dramatic stage the first phase of as ping Government inves- tigation of third-degree abuses in ‘Washington. The indicted officers are: Detzctive James A. Moslyn, ac- cused of beating three prisoners on August 22 last. Policeman William R. Laflin, ac- cused of assault on two prisoners RIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1931 —— / e N “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star's car rier system covers every city block and the regular edi- ered to Washington homes * the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 108,769 e —F(_UKTY-FOUR PAGES. FHF ) Mcans Associated P TWO CENTS. URY INDICTS 5 POLICEM] Text of Staples Report Grand Jury Explains Exhaustive Investigation and ding That False Testimony Causcd Police- man’s Dismissal—Reinstatément Asked. Fi HE complete text of the special | grand jury report exonerating | Orville Staples and recommend- | ing a geprimand for all members of the%Police Department identi- | fled with the so-called Staples case, ! follows: i “To the Honorable Justice of the Dis- ' trict of Columbia Supreme Court | sitting in Criminal Court: i “We, the grand jury of the Supreme | Court 'of the District of Columbia in | and for the July term, A.D..1931, had presented to us on August 10, A.D. 1931, | by the United States attorney in and | for the District of Columbia the affidavit of one Frederick A. Schenck, in which | he confesses his part in’ causing untrue | charges to be made mgainst one Orville | Staples, at the time a member of the | opolitan Police Department, ‘upon hich charges the said Staples wes | brought to' trial before a Police Trial Beard. found guilty and dismissed from | the pofice force. | “In this same affidavit the said; Schenck states that others and himself | cathered false testimony for the pur- | pose of substantiating these charges; that many members and officials of the | Metropolitan Police Department were | guilty of corruption and graft and, fur- | ther, that two members of the United | States attorney’s office were guilty of ‘Report Asks to Have Officer - Restored. OF FORCE HINX | Hunt’s Dismissal Re-| quesled—Comn’nis- | sioners Siltjnt. / A sensational repdyt clearing! former Policeman O/'lme S(aples: | of the charges on which he was | ‘dtsmLssed from the/Police Depart-! ment in 1928, and’ recommending | | his re\nstatemery,. retroactive to that date, wes pnade to the Dis- trict Supreme @ourt today by the grand jury. /‘ 1 | Unnamed pembers of the de- | partment wilo were identified with | the Stapley c; re condemned - |in the repprt and a recommenda- ! | ORVILLE STAPLES. e = —n N, SCORES FORCE 7 st \ News Not COMMUNITY BANKS Chairman Raskeb has just paid an additional $30! misconduct in office, in connection with | vestigation, that there exists in the Met- | their handling of the ceses of United ropolitan Police Department a fale2 | tion is myde that they be severely PLANNED BY HEADS )00 A Correction. The Star yestoray printed a statement that Nugent Dodds. special presecutor in the F. H Smith case, brought cut at the trial of offizers of the company to the national Democratic fund. HOWELL HAS 1 UP RED RULE THREAT “INCHLE BLOEKED S MUTIY EADS iGovernment Announces Ami- | cable Settlement of Revolt in Battle Fleet. |RADICALS ARE CHASED \FROM STREETS BY TROOPS | P JRER | Circular Pointing Out Pitfalls of Communism Issued to Army Units by Commander. By the Ascociated Press. SANTIAGO, Chile, September 4.—A | statement saying the mutiny in | battle fleet at Coquimbo had been set- | tled amicably and that only the details | of the settlement remained to be drawn up was issued today by the Chilean gov- ernment. Acting President Manuel Trucco told | the press the government had the situ- ation throughcut the country. purport- | edly fomented by Communists, under ccmplete ‘control and that every meve- meny, directed against the public order d been dominated. W eble to confirm.” he said, “that in the last hours of yesterday afterncon the difficulty with the flcet at Coquimbo was solved, there remainng ay On!}é _th! actual details relative to accord.” the Radicals Chased From Streets. ‘These official statements were received LEAD FOR ROUND; named in the Mostyn indictments. | states vs. Clifton Young and Estelle sense of loyalty supplemented by a vi- reprimay.ded {0! “negligence and Policemen William T. Burroughs | Rebinson and certain cases of United | cious system of reprisals for those who incompetence,” unless the District ana! William C. Grooms, indicted | SAves! vs. Bes Dodson. | tell ths truth that makes it impossible Commyssioners should concludz, Thorough Inquiry Requested. |Sor s stationusy Bomy saon 25 e |after/ Turther investigation, that . R— - in in ! roug} I o grand jury, to sccure evidence against nvestigation, al jointly with Mostyn and Laflin in | . "4 ovove date the United States | the parties who are guil 4 S savage attack OEITAMES ORIV st o et ShIROAY D] thore | mAing s coppeabive s isitn e | Tyl oeatle action'is Justified. © | : a Frarker, young baker, whese com- | oughly investigate these charges and | case as this we have investigated. he report also recommends the | . 5 5 | report to this honorable court. | . | . | plaint precipitated the sensational | “Bye yish to advise that an exhaustive | Testimony Held Perjured. | dfsmissal of Policeman Joseph H. inquir; “We find that Joseph H. Hunt, | investigation, as requested, was made, at | Jlunt of the second precinct, who Policeman George that the orly collzt<ral sezurity for notes delivered to the Central Trust Co. were general mortsage bonds on the Arlingion Hotel, which Dodds described &5 “not worth three feothers.” On investgaticn today The Ster learned that no bonds of the Arlington Hstel of Washing- ton were ever owned or in the pos- session of Emory L. Coblentz, president of the Central Trust Co., or the F. H. Smith Co. or any zmong_the people. said about Commu it was known nat police trcops, firemen and the civic guard had chased radicals from New Yorkf} "2_ -Down 'lOle eets and were prepered to dise Conversion of 11 Branches further manifestations with force, Westland in Semi-Final crews were said to be satisfactory and Into Independent Units The proposals for an accord with tte the details easily met. They had been demanding the maintenance of pres- | numercus witnesses were heard, includ- | present & member of the Metropolitan fthe gr: > | E. PeIY, |ing Frederick A, Schenck. During the Police Department, and Frederick A.f g . g a‘:d ’"l'y accuses of securing harged with clubbing a priconer |course of the investigation we had the Schenck, a former member of the Me alse afidavits, of giving false tes- | on August 21. The victims of the alleged attacks, in addition to Harker, were Walter W. Johrecon, Preston Brocks and John F. e The last three are colored. Hose, Fists znd Club Named. The weapons named in the indict- m-nts ranged from a picce of rubber hes» and bare fists in the Harker > to a wocden club in the case’ of Milier. One other casc in which the grand jury took fostimony was deferred for “later action,” it was announced. No officers other than one or saveral of those named in the four indictments today ere involved in the fifth case.| Three Post $1,000 Bond. The indictments were reported to Justice F. Dickinson Letts of the Dis- trict Supreme Court with brief formal- | Three of the indicted officers, , Laflin and Perry, immediately gave bond of $1.000 each in the clerk’s office at_the other side of the court The trio was accompanied by Attorney A. O'Shea, who said that Policeman Grooms was out of town and will give bond scmetime next weel and that Pol who was unable to be present today, will give bond tomorrow morning. The bonds were supplied by Milton Kron- heim. ‘The grand jury filed into Judge Lett's court Toom promptly et 12:30 o'clock and stood in a semi-circle before the bench. - The small court Toom was filled to capacity with spactators. There was no demonstration. Other Cases Reported. One of the members of the grand Jury turned over a thick bundle of papers containing not only the police indictments but the report in the Or- ville Staples case 2nd about 75 other routine cases. The documents were handed to Justice Letts, who then ad- ~ (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) SPAIN TO JAIL LEADERS UNDER ROYAL REGIME house. Berenguer, Fcrmer Premier, and Others of Dircctorate to Await Trial in Priscn. By the Associated Precs. MADRID, September 4 Berenguer, er placed in a jeil in Madrid with other ! members of the directorate of Gen. | Primo de Rivera, it was announced last | en. Damaso will _be cas taking | d partiality. i for scveral months | ner 2t Scgovia Castle, | he has been made very | is being held for trial | of other persons A the governments undet cemfortable with & numbe essociat=d W the monarciy. | Orville Staples, on which he was dis- | | mony was secured by then members of full_co-operation and assistince of Leo | ropolitan Police Depariment and no; A. Rover, United States attorney, and | incarcerated for other reasons, are boj special agents of the Bureau of Investi- | guilty of securing false affidavits, of gfv- gation of the Dspartment of Justice. ing false testimony themsclves and/ of We have also bcen rendered valuable | accomplishing perjured testimony/ by assistance by Robert J. Allen. others. ier the grand jury, report the fole|.. “We feel that all the members £ the lowing findings from our investigation: | Metropolitan ~Police Departme vh “We find the charges against the| were connected with the gathofing members of the United Siates attor- | evidence in connection with the trial s office to be false in their entirety. | Orville Staples were either acftve po ‘We have been unable to substantiate | ticipants in the securing of/the fils in eny particular any of the charges evidence, cr were guilty of gloss n2gli tion and graft against any of | gence, incompetence and i the officials of the Metropolitan Police | “We respectfully recompiznd to the | Department. honorable Commissioners {A.‘and for the “We find that the testimony against | District of Columbta: / “(1) That Orville Siaples, former missed from fthe Metropolitan Police member of the Metropofitan Police De- Department, was false in its entirety; | partment, be cleared jef the charges that it was perjured testimony by in- | that occasioned his dfsmissal and that | competent witnesses. | he be reinsteted to “We believe that this perjured testi- | &s of the date he w f | That Joepi H. Hunt, t member of the Mefropolitan Police De- ed from that body. now a the Metropolitan Police Department who gathered thesc incompstent wit- | partment, be dis nesses together and, through coerclon,| “(3) That all duress and inducement, caused them to | politan Police Department “ke false afidavits and give false tes- | With the Staplgs case be severely rep- timony | rimanded for pegligence and incompe- “We co not believe that the dismissal | tence, unlefs?gle Commissioners of the identified of Staples from the Police Department | District of Golumbia, as the result of and the incidental public discredit to|zny further fnquiry instituted by them, him resulting from the above miscon- | should concfude that more severe meas- duct could have been accomplished | ures are justified. without some knowledge, consent and| “We, th# grand jury, respectfully re- co-operation of certain members of the cuest of this honorable court that a cer- Metropolitan Police Department, includ- | tified copy of this report be transmitted ing some of its officials. to the ponorible Commissioners in and We believe, as disclosed by this in- for the, District of Columbia.” DRINKING 10 GET DAY AGENT FACES FUDENCE CURBED, EXTORTIONCAARGE timony and of accomplishing per- | jured testimony by others. The{ same charge Is applied to former |, , gian correspondent of The Star. Policeman Frederick A. Schenck,| FREDERICK, Md. September 4.—A | now._scrving a sentence~ab:FOrt!pian of reorganization having as its ng&;{g‘“{:‘g- AR o L ) | principal feature the elimination of the Sought by Directors. f t | Robert J. Allen sat in the court room Chain system of banking was being ccn- when the report was returned. Their sidered today by the dire exuberance could not be concealed. Central Trust Co. of Maryland, which Staples received the congratulations of & number of friends. The grand jury did not read its re- port, merely handing it to Justice Letts with an explanation regarding the addi- | tional copies, which were for the in- ' formation of the District Commission- ers. Justice Letts said he would trans- mit the copies to the Commissioners. | The grand jury's appeaiance in court was very brief and there was no ex- | citement in the court room. Severe in Denunciation. Particularly severe is the grand jury's denunciation of members of the Police Depzrtment who gathered the wit- nesses that testified against Staples. the repart declaring that these officers through “coercion, duress and inducs- | ment” caused the ‘“incompetent” wit- nesses to make false affidavits and give false testimony. The report also contains a_ brief commendation of former Police Robert J. Allen, pointing out that he rendered valuable service to the grand jury in connection with its investigation. The | nature of these services, however, was not mentioned. Allen himself was dis- missed from the force nearly two years ago on a charge of insubordination. Conessfion of “Frame-Up.” ‘The grand jury's findings were based on an exhaustive investigation of charges contained in an affidavit of Schenck, in which he is purported to have confessed his part in the “fram- ing” of Staples which led t5 his removal from the force. In this afdavit Woodcock Bars Use by Dry Agents Unless Given Spe- cific Permission. By the Associated Press. ! Direstor Weedcock of the Prohibition Bureau today issued an ordler prohib- \Jurors Accuse J. R. Gambaro| Schenck outlined the part he and| dthers played in gathering false testi- | mony for the purpose of substantiat- | ing the charges against Staples. i The Schenck afidavit also contained | serious charges against members of | torney’'s office, and | of Receiving $5 on Promise to Aid Defendant. the United States 'm (Continued on Page 2, W00DCOCK GOING SOUTH Joseph R. Gambaro, 44, 2309 Fifteenth | street, a special employe of the Pro-| hibition Bureau working out of the | with 11 branch banks in nearby Mary- |1and towns, went into the hands of re- celvers yesierday. While the directors were struggling with their reorganization plans, the af- fairs of the Central Trust Co. were in the hands of George W. Page, State (Continued on Page 2, Column 1) | ——-e $300,000 DAMAGES | ASKED IN BANK SUIT Mrs. Louise Chambers Claims Loss of $166,666 Stock, Blam- | ing .Haynes. Mrs. Louise T. Chambers. 3652 Park place, today filed suit in the District Supreme Court to recover $300.000 dam- | ages from the Riggs “a'ional Bank. ! | Harry V. Haynes, former president of | the Farmers & Mech Nationai | Bank, and 17 other defendants who | from time to time were directors of the | latter institution. | The plaintiff ‘claims that through manipulations and deceit of Haynes she | lost 1.000 shares of stock, valued at | $166,666.67. | The Riggs National Bank took over | the assets of the other bank following the resignation of Haynes as its presi- dent. Haynes is now serving a term of four years and six months at Lorton. Va., for alleged illegal manipulation cf the bank’s assets. i The other defendants are J. McKen- ney Berry, 1336 Thirteenth strzet: William M. Beall, 1670 Thirty-first street; Charles H. Cragin, 3127 Dum- barton_avenue; J. H. Cranford, Ward- men Park Hotel: Henry W. Fisher, | iting all Federal dry egents from con- | office of Assistant United States At-| suming intoxicating liguor while mi%g;ney bfla:g}d W. grcuu. was md‘::!ed o et R e ay by the grand jury on a charge| scaEchor levlerice nIASISPECINSNDES Y ore Rt ot e s inieart cxlcmsg; mission was given thom. | 85 from Robert H. Adams, 1310 Twelfth In a circular letter dfspatched tc‘xtre&t’. on & promise otrntdl him lx; very me! T ;- | Bvoiding the penalty of a charge of every member of the Federal prohibl- | yioiaiing the national prohibition law. | tion army, Woodcock recommends that| The indictment charges that while ! agents, when prover-ding”against sp: Gambaro was in the employ of the De- | easies, “try the mothod of abating these | pertment of Juctice, under which pro- nuf by the observation method” | hibition is being enforced, and v g'c or ohase of liquor, not for | Adams’ case was pending before | probation officer at Police Court, Augus! 1y recommend to you for use |31, -Gambaro extorted $5 from Adams. 5 Column 7., | Adams had previously pleaded guilly MAYOR WALKER MADE COMMANDER | w4 "S55, polic it Sar| OF LEGION OF H Decorati ati Bv the Associated Press. ! PARIS, September 4. —Mayor Walker of New York tocday was made a com- meander of the Legion of Horor, on: of the highest distinetions which France confers. There had been no intimation, even to the mayor himself, that the decora- tion was to be bestowed upon him: - Although many Americans have been | created chevaliers of the Legicn, com- paratively fow have been madc com- manders. One of these i5 Cel. Charles A. Lindbergh, who was decorated at, Washington last January by Ambasca- dor Paul Claudel. Federal constitutional provisions which deny cities the right to deal with immi- rrants in a decisive manner is one of tae greatest obstacles to crime preven- on Is Cne of Highest Fonors Nation Bestows. | Action Comes as Complete Surprise. - | Amcrican idea of liberty may be at fault 'on Continued on’ C . (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) Li5"the’ cnarge and the mattsr was be. | fore the probation officer. | but the officers gave him five $1 bills |after taking the numbers and were | present when the money was given to | | Gambaro and tcok the biils from his | hand, they reported. ONOR BY FRANCE % BELIEVED BURGENLAND tion in New York, Mayor Walker said | today in a speech at a luncheon given | in his henor by the 2ress Associztion. fter comparing Eurcpsan methods ' NTOIXIO. sem%rln‘l:er 4m(g’».—dz:ngo ews Agency tonight reported a distress Arglo-American | call had heun intercepted at Seoul from | a vessel believed to be the North Ger-' man Llcyd steamer Bnmenr lln?, g&l-g shich permit city police to bundle up | Fne o Loutban Wores JFhe Burgens | undersirables and send them off.” Mayor | jand was thought to have been in that | r sald, "I am cen.inced that our! vieiity, but the name of the distressed | [ ship was not positively determined. i | The message said the ship's 25 pas- 1senzers and crew members took to life boats. The Japancse liner Baiksl Meru enswered the call and expeeted to reach the scene tonight. At last ac-: oosnte the stricken_vessel was leaking V. Tre Burgenland, a vessel of 7.320 | gross tons, was out of Tsingtao for Na- fll and thence to Kobe, being due to ve the latter port September 7 ‘Hamburg vis Suez ports. on this point. “When you ccme into Eurcpeza cities u are foreed to give particula~s ahou urself so the police can lay 2 £n: you at a moment’s noti t do that. When we ar: ct=d criminal he gets cul Giy on a writ of habeas corpus granted him by the Federal Government. “We can go so far and then we stopped by the Constitution just at & (Continued on Page z?omnn (3] . for Leaving Tomorrow for Florida on Last of Inspection Trips. SALISBURY, Md., September 4 () — Amos W. Woodcock, national p:ohibi- tion director, said today he wouid leave tomorrow for Florida on the last of the inspection trips to the individual en- forcement districts Wwhich ke started several months ago. Ccl. Woodccck came to Salisbury, his former home, to attend a bank direc- |tors’ meeting today. Veteran Actor Dies. NEW YORK, September 4 (#).—Harry Dornton, 65, an actor, died suddenly yesterday while waiting for an elevator outside the offices of Lee & J. J. Shu- bert. He had played in “Loyalty,” “A ‘ll!m of Divorcenent” and “The Lad- er.” 3205 R street; William C. Gwynn, 1314 Thirtieth strect: William King. 3114 N ; Joseph H. Lee, 1823 Kalorama ;' George L. Nicolscn, 3013 Q1 | street: J. Wilbnr_Sterwood. 5301 Reno }rold; ‘Thomas J. Stanton, 3003 O street; Robert D. Weaver, 2101 Wisconsin av nue; Raymond Wise, 3417 Lowell street; Harold W. Burnside. 3818 P street: Harry L. Selby, 3922 Morricon street; | Henrv W. Sohon. Union Trust Bnilding, | and C. Howle Yourg. Philadelphia. The bank issued the following ctate- ment concerning the suit: “In the action filed by Mrs. Cham- | bers, the Rizgs National Bank is in-| cluded as a party only because of the | consolidation of the Farmers & Ple-q chanics National Bank with it in De- cember, 1928. The general councel of the bank is familiar with the matter and is of the oni~ion that there is no liability whatever.” WHAT IS THE One of the Leading Articles in the Magazine of Next Sunday’s Star Reveals the tortures of this form of police brutality and shows how certain methods used in obtaining confessions originated hundreds of years ago. An Amazing Article Is of Special Interest Order Your Copy of Next Sunday's Star From Your Newsdealer Today. IIIIIIIII-+-V EEEERIRSRENRARERENLE) wISTEERINEE THIRD DEGREE?, a3k BESIRIETIIEIELN on a Subject Which to All Washingtonians. SErINEEACIRNNRIEEES! Ilrom the airport mooring Maryland banks. ipt of testimony at that the hotel re- the Arlington Hotel ., not Washington. regrets the failure properly to fdentify the hotel |IGHTS IN BAY MAY BE FROM NAUTILUS Port in Spitzbergen Reports Possibility Craft Is Back and Starts Search. By the Associated Press. LONGYEAR CITY, Spitzbergen, Sep- tember 4—Hope for the safety of Sir Hubert Wilkins 2nd his Nautilus crew | was revived by the appearance of lights |in Eckmann Bay, seen from Longyear City last night. Unless the lights emanated from Sir Hubert's submarine, in which he staited on an under-ice expedition to the North Pcle, or from some of the crew on the ice, their origin seemed inex- plicable, Tre local governor’s ship went out this mornirg in a search of the neigh- borhood. At the same time the fishing boat Weiding, with a sta:- inspector of fisheries aboard, is searching at the edge of the ice near Kings Bay. Norway Plans Rescue. OSLO. Norway, September 4 (#).—Nor- wegian Premier Kolstad announced to- day that the government probably would send a relief expedition in search of | Sir Hubert Wilkins’ submarine Nautilus, unheard from for five days on a cruise ‘The sealer Vieding or the sloop Fridtjof Nansen will be sent, it was said, and the plans will be worked out during the day. Capt. Riiser Larsen, noted North Polar airman, discyssed the advisability of a search with Polar ex- perts last night, and the opinion was expressed that there were no_grounds for anxlety, but preparations should be made in view of the lateness of the season. Nation Feels Grave Concern. Sir Hubert said before he left August 18 that it would be unnecessary to send an expedition even if communication with the submersible was broken for some time. He stressed the fact that he had no intention of endangering the Lifi: of the crew by taking a foolhardy sk. | to_the Arctic. The public has begun to feel grave concern for the explorers to pic- (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) GRAF LEAVES BRAZIL ON HOMEWARD TRIP German Dirigible Crossing Atlantic Ocean Ninth Time After Two-Day Visit. By the Associated Press. PERNAMBUCO, Brasil, September 4. —The Graf Zeppelin, ending a two-day visit to Braszil, dipped in farewell early today and started homeward for Ger- many on her ninth crossing of the Atlantic Ocean. Dr. Hugo Eckener pulled her away mast, 8 miles from the city, at 2:40 am. (12:40 am., E. S. T.) and 5 minutes later she soar- ed over Pernambuco, riding high and brilliantly illuminated. She is expectea to reach Friedrichshafen late Sunday or early Monday if she maintains the speed of the outward trip. —— priestly Radio Pragrams -on Page C4| Fuiiti tr s 5 of Amateur Golf._ By_the Associated Press BEVERLY COUNTRY CLUB, | cégo, Septémbsr 4.—The ‘“new boy wonder” from Virginia, Billy Howcl, played splendid gelf teday to lead the | | 38-year-old veteran, Francis Ouimet, of EBostcn, 1 up, after 18 holes of their semi-final match in the United States amateur golf championship. Howell, just haf the age of his famous cppon=ni, who heid the title | away back in 1914, surprised a gailery of nearly 1000 speciators by out- t-adying Cu‘met mest of the way. The Virginia youngster was straighter and longer o the tees, coolly recovered from trouble 2nd out-putted one of the | bast putiers in tie business. Howell ur greens. Howell Around in 79, Howe'l neg-tizted the first round in| 79 strckes to Guimet's 8 , well over par, tag> most of the way Twi 5'2 up on the bacl stretch, but a stymie cost him a chance for a half on the home hole he had clinched the seventeenth by laying Ouimet a dead stymie. In another big surprise party for the experts, Jack Westland, the Chicagd district champion, outpointed Maurice J. McCarthy, jr., New York's favorite. on the home-coming round and was 2| - up at the eighteenth hole stage of the other semi-final tussle. | Westland gained his margin on the | back nine despite a ragged medal score ‘nl' 41. McCarthy failed to get th> range of the greens. He lost control (Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) SOVIET SPY EXECUTED Polish Firing Squad Kills Officer, Second in Case to Die. | BREST-LITOVSK, Poland, Septem- iber 4 ().—Lieut. | sentenced to death Wednesday on a charge of espionage in b2half of Soviet | of the affair involving Maj. Demkowski, | Polish officer executed in July. Chi- | Bogdan Humnicki, | Russia, was exscuted by a firing squad | | vesterday. His case was an outgrowth | ent wage scales and the resignation of Finance Minister Blanquier, who left | his post last night. It was ¢ d ha2t one of the points approved 1d 2 comp'ete amnesty for the mutineers. Rear Admiral Edgarco von Schroeder, who personally eonducted the negotia- tions for tie government, is looked on 2s the hero of the hour. He is under- stood to have reco: ended to 2u- thorities that the sailors' demands be met in r to prevent what he con- sidered to bo certain civil war. Engincer Regar as Leader. The governmcnt expects the revolt- 'ing crews on fighting ships at Val- paraiso ¢nd Talcahuano, who went over to tre mutineers' cause yesterday, alzo will accept the accord and that | the T2lcahuano naval base will peace- | fully be turred over to its officers 2gain. t was learned that Rogelio Reyes, an electrical enginecr attached to the flagship La Torre, has been in supreme command of the Coqu:mbo fleet during the trouble and regarded as its He and his licutenants have ted that they* have no connec- ith Communism. Gen. Indalecio Telez, commander in chief of the army, has issued a lengthy (Continued on Page 3, Jolumn 5.) 'LINDBERGHS PLAN " VACATION IN CHINA Flight to Nanking and Other Points Revealed in Application Through Embassy. | By the Assoctated Press TOKIO, Scpiember 4. — The Ameri- | can embassy revealed today Col. and | Mrs. Cherles A. Lindbergh will continue their vacation flight to China Sepiem- ber 10. Their plans wer> approved by the Japan Aviation Bureau. An application, thrcugh the Ameri« can embassy, disclosed the couple plans to take off from ‘he Kasumigaura naval | base near here September 10 for Osaka, near where they will spend a few days at Kicto and Nara and other scenic points. ‘Then they will hop to Kagoshima, in extreme Southern Japan, from where their flight of more than 600 miles to Nanking, the Chinese capital, begins at a date not yet det>rmined. Devout, With Sacred Water, Liner Steered By the Associated Press. ABOARD THE S. 8. RAJPUTANA, September 4—Mahatma Gandhi, leader of Indla’s swarming Nationalist mil- | iions, has spurned the first-class state- room placed. at his disposal by the | British_government for his trip to the round table conference in London and sieeps on a wooden bench in the stern of this liner. Covered by a shimmering white sheet, he slept uriconcernedly yesterday, while deck-patrolling passengers gazed in amazement. “Who is it?” they asked, and an attendant answered cour- teously, “That is Mr. Gandhi, but this is his day of silence, and so he is sleeping.” h ere are many strange things for the uninitiated aboard the Rajputana. For instance, the half ton of mud brought from the sacred Ganges by Pandit Malaviya, Mr. Gandhi’s com- panion. The pandit converts the mud into miniature gods for purposes of worship. . A wealthy Indian admirer of the pandit has contributed $5,000 to insura for him a weekly supply of water from the Ganges for ablution and drinking. For the first time in his 70 years the pendit, who belongs to the highest tly caste of Brahmins, is g his clothes cow with | GANDHI, SPURNING STATE ROOM, SLEEPS IN PUBLIC ABOARD SHIP Milk and Mud, Pray Aboard by Mahatma. him wad denied. and so, to satisfy the requirements of his religion, he has 120 quarts of ritualistic pasteurized milk. When darkness falls each evening the Mabatma Gandhi rises from his wooden bench and summons his small flock of followers to prayer. All are dressed in white flowing robes, and all squat Buddhalike on the deck, hands clasped, | heads bowed, eyes closed, in meditation. Beside the Mahatma sits the Pandit Malaviya, in whose highly spiritual fea- tures seem to be written thousands of years of Hindu culture and mysticism. On the other side sits Miss Madeleine Slade, daughter of an English admiral and the Mahatma'’s assistant. Gandhi’s voice surges above the lash- ing wind. “We humbly ask the Giver of all Gifts to give India her freedom,” he prays. ‘There is another side to the Mahatma. + He has made friends with the ship’s cat, a big, black fellow, to which he feeds goat’s milk, and with which he shares his bench nightly. Also, Gandhi tried his hand at pilot- ing. Wh!l.eh C:op:k {;ll Mgrfi;n ‘chl: supervised, he e wheel o liner for 10 minutes. Throw sharply to port, he said, “I hope I don't capsize the bcat and drown everybody.” Escorted by the captain, the Mahat- ma inspected the engine room and dis- ru d as much interest in the mechan- trivances as a schoolboy 31“!. the