Evening Star Newspaper, September 7, 1931, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bu ureau Forecast.) Fair and continued cool tonight; to- morrow fair and slightly warmer. Temperatures—Highest, 87, at 1 p.m. yesterday: lowest, 60, at 5:45 a.m. today. Full report on page B-1. New York Markets Closed Today. No. 31,905 Intered as second class matt, post office, Washington, D. er i he Fn WASHINGTON, D. (€., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1931—THIRTY-TWO ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ening 100,000 WATCH FIREMENI|.S AGENIS SHEF OF NINE STATES PARADE;| HART, PITTS AIDE, 10,000 VISITORS MARCH IN ATLANTIG GITY Ritchie Leads and Reviews Procession. COLUMN TAKES OVER 3 HOURS Pre-Motorized Era Recalled by Old Equipment. The largest and most colorful} of the nine annual firemen's parades passed down Pennsyl- vania avenue today between| masses of spectators, who linedI the historic thoroughfare from | Peace Monument to the Treasury.| With ideal weather conditions prevailing, fire fighters of the Dis. trict and nine States marshale all their pomp and display for the Labor day demonstration. Lo Powerful fire-fighting equip- ment and marching firemen,| floats—the products of months| of labor—and flower-decked auto- | mobiles, military display and mar- tial music, clowns, jesters and all the other paraphernalia of carni- val had their place in the column, | which took more than three hours to pass. ‘} At 10:30 o'clock the head of the! parade left the Peace Monument and| at noon the miles-long column still covered the entire length of the line of march. As the various units reached the Ellipse in rear of the White House they disbanded. Thousands of the 100,000 who watched the celebration were visitors to | the city for Labor day. many of them accompanying the firemen to Wash- ington. | Gov. Ritchie Reviews. From a reviewing stand on the south | gide of Pennsylvania avenue at the Dis- trict Building an official party which | included Gov. sibert C. Ritchie of | Maryland and the District of Columbia Commissioners, watched the parade pass after riding at its head from Peace Monument. Also_in the official party were Sergt. A. J. Bargagni, director and marshal; Odell S. Smith, general chairman of | the Washington Board of Trade Com- mittee on _Arrangements: Joseph A. Burkart, chairman of the Executive Committee of the trade body group, and heads of the volunteer State firemen's associations and the District of Co- lumbia Firemen’s Association. Unusual trafic regulations were put | in effect at 8:30 o'clock this morning to assure the parade free passage. No | parking was allowed after that time on | seven streets north and east of Peace | Mounment, where the columns formed, or along the route of march. East and | west bound traffic on Pennsylvania | venue was suspended at 10:30 o'clock and traffic crossing the Avenue. was prohibited during the period of the parade. P A detail of 164 policemen handled the | crowds under the general supervision of | Inspector E. W. Brown. Inspector Louis J. Stoll was in charge of the line of march east of Seventh street, while In- spector O. T. Davis was in charge from goventh strect to East Executive avenue, | where the parade turned into the Ellipse. 10,000 in Parade. Various estimates were made by fire officials of the number of firemen from outside Washington participating in the parade. Sergt. Bargagni placed the number at approximately 10,000. The column commenced to form ebout 9:15 o'clock this morning. Last- minute arrivals were registered at No. 1 Truck Co. station at New Jersey avenue and E streets and hustled to positions in line, Sergt. Bargegni, essisted by Sergt. A. H. Harding, was in charge of the formation, As the visiting firemen arrived at the headquarters, they were supplied with lunches, to be consumed later in the day, by the Ladies Auxiliary of the local department. Six thousand lunches were | prepared by the auxiliary under the di- | Tection of Mrs. Grace T. Weitzel, president. Precisely at 10:30 o'clock, the United | States Marine Band fell in behind a| ~(Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) | Japan and _Spain Ritchie of Maryland. Maj president of the District chapte Reichelderfer. HE annual firemen's parade today was led by Luther H. Reichelderfer, president of the Board of District Commissioners, and Gov. Albert C. In the photograph, left to right: Gov. Ritchie, Gen. John A. Johnston, retired, former District Commissioner and r of the Red Cross, and Commissioner —Star Staff Photo. LEAGUE ASSENBLY 10 AGT ON MEXICO FOR NENBERSHP Destroyer Flotilla Steams | Into Port After 20 Minutes i of Federal Bombing. Former Premier Titulescu of Rumania Elected Head at Twelfth Session. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, September 7.—Delegate: representing Great Britain, France, today asked the League of Nations Asscmbly, which opened its twelfth session this morning. to invite Mexico to become a member | FIVE CHIE REBEL “SHIPS SURRENDER * AFTER AR ATTACK SANTIAGO. Chile, September T (#).—It was officially announced to- day that the mutinous Chilean fleet had unconditionally surrendered. By the Associated Press. VALPARAISO, Chile, September 7.— Trailed to Resort After Sur- rendering $189,000 Bonds Saturday. CHAUFFEUR ALSO IS HELD; ACCOMPANIED BY WOMEN Arrest Believed Part of Internal Revenue Plan to Collect $2,000,000 Tax. Henry O. Hart, confidential agent of G. Bryan Pitts, former head of the F. H. Smith Co.. was arrested today at a fashionable Atlantic City, N. J., hotel and held for action of the Internal Revenue Bureau, according to an Asso- clated Press dispatch. Patrick J. Clancy, a chauffeur of 3803 Michigan avenue northeast, was arrested with Hart. Internal revenue agents Saturday sur- }wxrxl::.:i H": gx an ltbebl;lpt to cash some ment Building coupons and took $189,000 worth o?‘lhe Securities from him. It is believed they acted on the theory the bonds belonged to Pitts, | whose property is being sought by the | agents for an income tax levy. | A local attorney who has represented Pitts said he received a phone call from Atlantic City today notifying him of Hart’s arrest. He sald his informant told him Hart and Clancy were being held incommunicado by tte New Jersey police. il Women Not Arrested. / The attorney expressed the ccnvic- | tion that the revenue agents had trailed | Hart to Atlantic City and arrested him there on a holiday to thwart possible court action to secure his release. | Dispatches from Atlantic City said | Hart and Clancy registered at the hotel | with two women. The women were not | arrested and their identities could not be_learned. Hart, it was said. went to Atlantic City Saturday for a week end vacation The two men and women attracted the attention of the hotel management, ' who notified Detective Inspector John Malseed. according to word received here. The latter immediately commu- {nicated with Washington authorities, {and an Internal Revenue officer went | to Atlantic City today. | Clancy's wife said her husband is a | commercial chauffeur, and that he has frequently driven for Hart. Watched Several Months. | The Internal Revenue agents are be- | lieved to have been watching Hart for | several months. The latter, an ac- | countant, testified for Pitts while he | was on trial here on charges of con- | spiring to embezzle $3,000,000 of Smith | company funds and destroy certain | records. Testimony concerning Pitts’ income | about “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s every city block a tion is delivered to carrier system covers nd the regular edi- ‘Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Saturday’s Circulation, Sunday’ Circulation, PAGES. #» (®) Means Associated Press. TWO CENT L RESERVATiON 3D DEGREE POLLCY DECLARED STARTED HERE YEARS AGD Ex-Capt. Schneider Says Ex- pert Taught Method in 1914, FAUROT TOLD HOW HOSE WAS USED, LETTER SAYS Retired New York Detective Does Not Recall Lecturing Officers on Abusive Methods. The “third degree” was introduced as | an offically condoned method of crime detection for Washington police during the regime of the late Raymond Pull- mezn, war-time police superintendent, according to & former police captain’s signed statement, now under investiga- tion by the Department of Justice, in connection with its inquiry into al- leged brutality in third-degree methods of the Metropolitan Police Department, it was disclosed today The former captain, Henry Schneider, now an employe of the Tax Collector's Office. made the charge in a letter to | the District Commissioners, who turned U. 5. T0 RECOVER SO, SAYS DOAK Early Return of Prosperity| Due to Able Leaders, Is Predicted. By the Assoctated Press. JOHNSON CITY. Tenn. September 7—A belief the United States will stand upon “the substantial plane of prosper- ity” once more “before long” was ex- pressed here by Secretary of Lab:r Wil- lism N. Doak in a labor address at the Appalachian Tri-State Fair. Cites Federal Program. Emergence from “our present diffi- culties,” he predicted. will be brought t “as a result of the strivings of men of thought and acticn.” He said he was “an extreme optimist so far as holding the view that Americans will solve any problem with which they have to deal.” The Secretary of Labor added that the. Federal Government. was doing all in its pcwer to restors conditions of prosperity and included as actions: Increase in the number of employes G. 0! 'P. TABOR' DAYSH Robbery Thwarted By Auto Wreck as Captive Calls Help By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, September 17.—A speeding automobile hit a hole in a West side street, careened against_another car and turned over. David Kornblith took the opportunity to vell from beneath the car: “Help, help! I'm being robbed.” The police came running and arrested one of two alleged ToB- bers who had kidnaped Kornblith of the League. The Assembly will act Pive destroyers, bombed into submission on the request tomorrow. 1 by the Chilean air forces yesterday, This formality indicates that Mexico | has made known her wish to become a | Steamed into this portest dawn today member, but the preliminary negotia- |and were formally surrendered to the tax payments was brought out at the engaged in public construction work trial and the revenue agents shortly | from 180.000 to 760,000; drastic reduc- afterwards seized all of Pitts' avail- | tion in the number of immigrants ad- able property to satisfy a claim for | mitted: appointment by President Hco- tions were conducted so ouletly that today’s development came as something of a surprise, Special Invitation Necessary. There must be a special invitation if Mexico is to join. for that country was not included in the original list of states nominated for membership | in 1919. The omission was generally | attributed to the fact that at that time | President Wilson was not on good terms with the Mexican government. Nicholas Titulescu, former premier of Rumania, was elected President of the Assembly, and the meeting was ad- journed until tomorrow. The Assem- bly opened its twelfth session, with Act- government by the rebel crews which took them over last week. They are to be overhauled as speedily | as possible and put into service for| an attack on the heavier units of the fleet which have not yet surrendered. The battleship La Torre and the cruiser O'Higgins were still holding out this morning, but there was a general belief that they would submit before the day ended. Yesterday's engagement was brief, the destroyer flotilla surrendering after a 20-minut> bombardment from the air. When machine guns opened up from ing President Allejandro Lerroux, for- | the planes, men aboard the surface eign minister of Spain. calling on the | Vessels began leaping into the water nations represented to “arrest the wave |and the submarine squadron gave in of ‘pdasxmum which is sweeping the world.” Titulescu received 25 votes out of 49 cast. Count Apponyi of Hungary got 20 votes, Costa du Rels of Bolivia 2 and Ven Nersteln of Sweden 2. Titulescu was President of the last Assembly and the first man to be chosen to presice twice. .\Cnnfltlmcz Seen Need. Senor Lerroux said it rested with the governments to “insure co-ordination of efforts in financial, economic and political domains to bring about & re- vival of confidence.” Some valuable contributions to inter- national co-operation, he said, have been made outside the League in the past year. “The adjournment of reparations payments and war debts on the proposal of President Hoover, the London con- ferences, the conversations in Paris, Berlin and Rome between German, American, British, Prench and Italian statesmen, the action of the Bank for International Settlements, the work of g = = J GRAF RETURNS HOME | the Basel Committee of Experts are all FROM BRAZIL VOYAGE E}é" S ey Lands After Non-Stop Hop From;’ THREE DIE IN CRASH Pernambuco—Trip Wes 217th. | seaem s S | TOPSFIELD, Mass.’ September 7 (&) | —Three persons were killed, two are dying and five others hurt as the result of an automobile accident on the New- buryport turnpike early today. B e The dead sre Chester Powell and FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany, Sep- | T e tember 7.—The Graf Zeppelin landed | %""lmd‘".‘;{l, %mov?n ;u‘a Malden here at 3:45 o'clock this afternoon, | m Meehan of Boston. It was her sccond round trip to Witz of Worcester. Brazil, She sailed on August 29, reached | _ Cars driven by Powell and Benjamin Pernambuco September 1 and took off | Taines of Dorchester - collided head-on for home again Friday afternoon. | and burst into flames as their gesoline On the way over she carried 13 passen- | tanks exploded. Those less severely in- gers and a cargo of mail end freight. | jured maneged to pull the others from This cro:sing of the Atlantic was| the cars but Miss Lubowitz was burned non-stop both ways. 1t was the 217th | from her hezd to her knees. Collins flight the Graf has made. | suffered internal injuries HERRIOT LEADS LYONS IN FIGHT | ON NOISE AS HEALTH MENACE| Street Repairs, Noisy Trucks, Raucous Horns and “Ad” | Criers Banned in New Campaign. | BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. By Cable to The S PARIS, France, September 7.—Lyon, ‘ Street repairs, fast-driving trucks ' without pneumatic tires, cars with rat- | tling bodies or noisy motors or br:k repairing or testing motors in th under the leadership of its mayor, | strects, all strident horns, sirens and | Edouard Herriot, is taking strong ' whistles and =2lso open exhausts; all measures against city noises, which, | honking whatsoever beiween mid according to recent reports of the night and 6:40 am, all forms of ad- French Academy of Medicine, cause | vertising in streets by phonograph: “deafness and lower the general health. | loud speakers or the human voice; all nnecessary or careless noises | noises within houses or flats tending to 10 disturb the rest and quiet of | disturb neighbors’ rest, all tants are forbidden, notably | noises between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. and nolses-of faetory motors at all times, | quickly. Officers Put Ashore. Admiral Abel Campos, commanding | officer of the fleet who was taken pris- |oner by the rebels, was put ashore with several other officers as soon as the destroyers surrendered. He will assist in the direction of operations against the O'Higgins and the La Torre. | A government account of the engage- ment yester’ay said there were seven destroyers off Coquimbo, five sub- marines, one transport, four monitors, the O'Higgins and the La Torre, car- rying altogether 2.730 men. | In the morning a squadron of planes | flew over the fleet as a warning and in | the afternoon six planes, flying In for- mation, began the bombardment. It | lasted 20 minutes, but although several |of the vessels were struck by bombs | none was damaged seriously. ‘Three bombs struck close to the La Torre and another started a fire on the O'Higgins. A number of the rebels were reported to have been wounded. There were reports that the crew on one destroyer rebelled against their leaders when ordered to return the fire from the planes. Alr Base Attzcked. | _While this attack was golng on a de- | tachment of rebels attempted to dis- | embark at Port Tongoy for an attack on the aviation base at Ovalle, but were repulsed by the civil guard stationed ' ere. A prisoner told his captors that most of the rebels in the fleet wanted to call off the revolt but were induced to hold |out by two leaders whom he said were d | communists. A statement issued from general | headquarters at Santiago this morning (sald that complete surrender of the | fleet was expected before the end of the day but that if it did not come the attack would be renewed.. The rest of of country, the statement said, is quiet. PLANES KEEP, VIGIL. SANTIAGO, Chile, September 7 (). — Wheeling and_circling above the waters of Coquimbo Bay, Chile’s air force was primed today to renew its devastating attack on the rest of the revolting battle fleet, unless the white flag of surrender is unfurled. ) _submarines we (Continued on Page 2, Co HOOVER SPENDS DAY AT MOUNTAIN CAMP By the Associated Pre: LURAY, Va, dent Hoove: September 7.—Presi- ending Labor day in complete Te n in the quiet of his Virginia mountain retrezt. After glancing l-isurely through the mornirg papers. the Chief Executive and scme cf his guests took an early morning horseback ride and returned invigorated. The weather was clesr and cool with the temperature a early in the day. . Mr. Hoover planned to return to the ‘White House tomorrow He came here Priday some $2,000,000,000 in back taxes. Slip Is Recovered. The arrest of Hart today is believed to be a follow-up move in the search for | Pitts' assets . The bonds were seized Saturday in the offices of the Continental Build- {ing, Inc. Hart is alleged to have attempted to swallow a printed notation on the bonds as the agents approached him. This! slip was recovered, and attempts were being made to decipher it Saturday. It could not be learned whether this nota- tion had anything to do with Hart's| arrest. Hart was indicted here recently for “ajding in the commission of perjury.” | The crarge was based on the intro- | duction of alleged fraududent requisi- | tions in an attempt to justify the tak- ing of money by Pitts which the Gov- ernment claimed was embezzled. Hart is alleged to have aided in the prepara- tion of these requisitions. BARRED ALIEN SEAMAN PUT ASHORE IN BRITAIN | By the Associated Press. GLASGOW, Scotland, September 7.— Peter Russell, “a man without a coun- | try,” who has been shuttling back and | forth across the Atlantic since last | June, seems to have found & haven of | ‘refuge at last. British and American immigration | authorities declined to permit him to enter either country while they debated his nationality. When he arrived here today in the steamer Artigas, he learned that he had been proven to be a Scots- man and was at liberty to go anywhere in®Great Britain. He headed for Fife, where his home is. Russell's troub'es began when he | missed his ship at Cork last April. He stowed away on another bound for Boston, and was refused entry there because of conflicting information | about his place of birth. He was de- | ported, but the British ruled that he was not a subject of King George and e was sent back. During all the time that he steamed back and forth across the ocean, a technical prisoner, it cost about $8 a day to guard and feed him. Defends Tariff Bill. Provisions of the Hawley-Smoct tariff bill, he went on, “very greatly relieved this. countyy from the influx of forel made goods.” He added that despite the measure had educed the conditicns of unemploy- ment which otherwise would have been chaotic * * *.* CRIME WAVE TERRIFIES CITIZENS OF BROOKLYN Gang Tries to Kill Man in Street, Speakeasy Owner Shot, and 0il Plant Robbed. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 7.—A gang- sters’ gun fight that sent pedestrians scurrying, the shooting of a speakeasy proprietor and ri an oil plant gave Brooklyn polit of a crime wave to consider tod Onlooking citizens were thrown into a panic yesterday after a sedan stopped at the curb in a thickly trafficked Brownsville district and fired bullets at a young man. He leaped safely behind a telephone pole and, as his assailants fled in & car, jumpd in a car and gave chase himself. Henry Halperin, described by the po- lice as a speakeasy owner, was shot in the left lung after he stepped into the street to answer a knock. Passersby saw him holding the legs of two men. who shot him, jumped in a cer and fled. He was taken to a hospital. River pirates savagely attacked, bound and gagged the night watchman of an oil company and looted the plant of almost $1,000. Burmese Rebel to Appeal. RANGOON, Burma, September 7 (#).—Saya San, Burmese rebel, has been enter an appeal from the death sentence imposed by a special tribunal at Thara- waddy. The appeal will be heard September 15. 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The other alleged thief escaped. BORAH WARNS RiCH 10 FEED JOBLESS :S.es Income Tax Boost and Dole as Last Resort for Relief in Address. By the Associated Press. COTTONWOOD, Idaho, September 7. —Senator William E. Borah declared in | the eountry must feed the unemployed during the coming Winter and warned that “if they do not do it voluntarily they will nevertheless do it.” Accusing the governments of respon- sibility for the World War, “the result |of which was! to wreck the economiz system of two continents,” the Idaho Senator contended it was their duty to |care for the impoverished and sug- gested an increase in the income tax in the United States. “Armaments Increase Burden.” He asserted the burden of the people was increased by the governments’ con- \unued building of armaments and | “reckless extravagance” | reached the point where “taxes discour- age thrift and menace legitimate busi- ness, where the expenses of government have made home building a luxury.” The address was delivered at the | teers in the Nez Perce Indian War who, | July 5, 1877, fought a desperate battle the savages and turned the war in favor of the whites. “As we approach Winter the task of taking care of these men and women and that is to feed those people from our minds,” Senator Borah said, refer- ring to an estimated 5,000,000 or 6- 000,000 unemployed in this country and 20,000,000 in the world. “How 1s it to be done? Food is going to waste. There is plenty of money in this country, hoarded and idle. When the Secretary of the Treasury offered certificates for sale to the amount of some 800,000,000 they were oversub- scribed many times. Sees Dole Possibility. “If the wealth of the country.” he | given permission by the high court to | said, “does not voluntarily contribute, to the end that we may take care of them. there is only one thing to do, and that is to feed these people from the Treasury of the United States and increase the income tax, particularly in the higher brackets, to enable us to lo it. “If the public dole system is estab- lished in this country, it will be forced by those who, having the means, re- fuse to do their part in feeding the hungry.” He cited a donation of $1,000,000 by Senator Couzens as an example of what may be done to alleviate the suffering. | | Major League Scores AMERICAN. hia—Mornis me— A e l!l“l '1'115 16 0 0002001—3 93 d Dickey; Mahaffey game— 000000100—1 [J Chicago. 00000000—0 81 Batterles—Derringer and Mancuso; Smith and Hartnett. TODAY’S HOME RUNS National League. Jenson, Pittsburgh, fifth inning. Radio. Programs on Page B-1 i | an address here today that the rich of | BIG .S, OPERATION URGED BY WAGNER | Senator for $2,000,000,000 Construction Over Normal To Provide Jobs. | | By the Associated Press. SYRACUSE. N. Y.. September 7.—A two-billion-dollar Fede:al construction program, in addition to normal activity, | 50 as to provide prompt employment for over a million men., was advocated by United States Senator Robert F. ‘Wagner of New York in the principal Labor day address at the New York State Fair opening_today. State and local effort alone in meet- ing the present unemployment situa- tion, he said, will prove insufficie: | | _ He also urged withdrawal of a “mil- lion children under 16 years of age who are holding jobs which ought to be filled by their fathers, their elder | | brothers and sisters,” by strengthening | legislation to keep the children in school and having industry itself realize the wrong done the child and the adult both by these children working. | Modification of the Volstead act within the limits of the Constitution, with an expected “substatnial” addition to employment, was cited as a third measure of relief, and “erection of a Nation-wide system of employment of- | fices conducted in co-operation with the | States” as a fourth. | The $2.000,000,000 construction pro- gram, he said, should be the very mini- mum. The task. he said, is this, “To ‘mske | assurance doubly sure’ that none shall | be fdle who are able to work. that ncne shall go hungry and rone shall be cold, and that in the performance of that first dictate of humanity there shall be no degradation for those who happen to receive and no arrogance on the part who happen to giv the communication over to the Bureau of Investigation, in charge of the Gov- ernment’s inquiry into police brutality charges. Schneider in an interview today de- clared detailed instruction in methods of administering the third degree was given in a lecture to police officials and detectives by Inspector Faurot of the New York Police Department. Can’t Recall Third Degree. Faurot. since retired, when inter- viewed over the long distance telephone told The Star he lectured before local police on methods of law enforcement. but he did not recall having discussed the third degree. Schneiter asserts the third degree talk took place before 80 or 90 captains, licutenants, detectives and other police officers assembled in the old Penn Gardens, a dance resort which formerly stood &t the northeast corner of Twenty-first street and Pennsylvania avenue. The dance hall was used in order to accomodate the large number of officers ordered to attend the lecture “Inspector Faurot told us how the third degree was used in New York,” Schneider stated, “I remember particu- larly his description of a method for using a piece of rubber hose in such a way as to leave no marks on the pris- oner. He mentioned how a brass cuspidor, used back of the head, would refresh a man’s memory.” Amazed at Lecture. Schneider said he was amazed that the lecture was permitted. and he re- marked to a police captain at his side that he thought the New Yorker had “his nerve with him."” Schneider named a number of police officers as attending the lecture. He said Maj. Pullman also had several civilian friends present. he third degree flourished under Maj. Pullman, Schneider declared, but Hesse and the present superintendent, . Henry G. Pratt. Lecture Is Recalled. Several high police officials. when questioned about the lecture, said they had attended a lecture by Inspector Faurot some years ago. but had no rec- ollection of any mention of the third degree. Detective Sergt. Fred Sande- berg. identification expert of the de- partment, recalled a lecture by Faurot on fingerprinting and other methods of identification. Files of The Star contain no reference to a lecture in 1914 by Faurot. but an article published on February 2, 1917, | of those | told of a lecture by Faurot at police headquarters, during which he dis- | cussed crime detection, with special ref- which has | | dedication of a monument to 17 volun- | | against 150 Redmen that nonplussed | STORMS AND FLOODS HIT EUROPE HARD Trail of Death Sketched Across Western Countries by Fierce Gales. | | By the Associated Press. . PARIS, September 7.—Storm, flood, | snow and cold sketched a trail of death | and destruction actoss most of Western Europe over the week end. | Seven sailors were swept overboard from the Italian destroyer Da Recco on the way from Sardinia to Spezia, Italy, and two of them were lost in a heavy sea. The other five were picked up in a lifeboat after being given up for dead. | A laborer was killed and several were | injured when wind blew over a_wall erence to “police methods of the New York police department.” No mention was made of the third degree in the article. Schneider has applied for rein- statement in the police department. he disclosed during_the interview. Rec- (Continued on Page 2, Column 1) STUDY MAY BE MADE OF TAX CANCELATION Honor Paid Mayor Walker in Paris Follows $415,499 Benefit Received by France in New York. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. September 7.—Several on which they were working at Bern- | newspapers predicted today that the hagen, Germany . The Baltic Coast was | Hofstadter ~Committee, investigating lashed with heavy gales that stranded New York City's government. would the Hamburg freighter Uli and drove study the cancellation of $415499 in many steamers into Stettin harbor. | unpaid taxes by the city's board of esti- Navigation came to a standstill and | mate in favor of France. several ba:ges were sunk. | One newspaper coupled the cancella- Thirty yachts anchored on lakes near | tion with the award by the French gov- Berlin were overturned by winds. Trees | ernment last week of the title of com- in the parks and on streets were snap- | mander of the Legion of Honor on ped off as a gale blew through the city. | Mayor Walker. The mayor sponsored France was beset with floods and | the resolution by which the taxes were freezing temperatures. A seaman was | Temitted. washed away and drowned in a storm Inquiry among the mayor's associates near St. Nazaire and a farm laborer lost | failed to establish any connection be- his life in a flooded stream near Cher- | tween the taxes and the honor paid the bourg. The Seine in Paris rose to new | mayor. The taxes were unpaid as- heights for the year and the city shiv- sessments owed by a French government ered at 50 degrees. subsidiary corporation on Brooklyn ‘The Marne, Rhone, Saone, Moselle | waterfront property used for war-time and Meurthe Rivers flooded fields. Snow | storage of munitfons. fell in the Pyrenees and cut-off little The board’s action, based on an act St. Bernard from the world. The of the Legislature permitting cities to thermometer went as low as 37 degrees exempt from taxation land used by in Savoy. Tobacco crops and vineyards | allies of the United States for war pur- in the Girdone district were badly dam- poses, was criticized when the taxes aged by hailstones. were cancelled last year. ARGUMENTS BUDGE PRISONER WHILE ANOTHER THROWS STEW Capital Poilcemen Keep Patience and Avoid Brutality Despite Disorderly Captives. station house as Milton 5. Redmond of charge of brutality, police of the|the 1200 block of Thirty-fourth street. seventh precinct last night argued| He had been arrested by Policeman politely with a recalcltrant prisoner f0r | p 5 Marshall at Twenty-fourth and 20 minutes before they were able to/ M streets on a charge of drunken driv- persuade him to accompany them 10| i, "ond was being taken to the station t n the house in an automobile. ok e e " said 1 | block of Thirty-fourth street, however, have assaulted two policemen, torn| Redmond leaped from the car and ran fixtures from his cell and drenched his | into & house. ~ Marshall and four other policemen Jallers, with ot stew peiore Deing sub-| o o¢in ‘atter him. Redmond, however, The prisoner who was persuaded to|clung to various objects of furnit: submit. to.arrest was booked at thel|. (Continued on Page 2, Column 8. k. Determined to avoid any possible