Evening Star Newspaper, September 16, 1931, Page 1

WEAT Partly cloudy toni probably local thundershowers; not quite 50 warnf tonight. T :!'-. 87, at 4:30 pm (U. 8. Weather Buresu Porecast.) 3, at 6:30 a.m. today. Full report on page 9. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages13,14 & 15. HER. ght and tomorfow, ‘emperatures— o . yesterday; lowest, Entered as seco! post office, Wa: No. 31,914, nd class matter shington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D.. C, The Toening Staf. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1931--FORTY PAGES. #%% “From Press The every city block UP) Means Associated to Home Within the Hour” Star’s carrier system covers and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 109,733 TWO CENTS. Press. ALLEN AND MOYLE FOUND SAFE ON ISLAND RUSSIAN VESSELS CONFIRM REPORTS JAPAN-. . PILOTS ARE ON WAY HOME Flyers Had Been Missing Since Take Off From Samu-l shiro Beach on Monday of Last Week. PAIR WAS FORCED DOWN NOT FAR OFF KAMCHATKA Radiogram Relayed From Soviet Boats to Navy Station at Brem- erton Via St. Paul Island and Codora—Position of Ship Placed at Olyutorski Gulf. By the Associated Press. SEATTLE, Wash., September 16. —A week after they had been given up as lost on their non-stop flight attempt from Japan to America, Cecil A. Allen and Don Moyle, California aviators, were reported today by three Soviet vessels to be safe in Olyutorski, Northern Kamchatka. The messages said the fiyers landed on an uninhabited island and were “safe and well” and would be home soon. The messages were intercepted by the United States naval radio station at St. Paul Island, in Bering Sea, and by the United States Coast Guard cutter Itasca of the Bering Sea patrol. On Soyiet Steamer. The message received by the Itasca and relayed 1o Northern division head- quarters of the Coast Guard here said the fiyers. were aboard the Soviet |- steamer Plaly Krabalobe. Another So- viet vessel, the steamer Esquimos, at Penjensk Bar, radioed the Plaly was in Olyutorski Gulf on Kamchatka Peninsula. The Esquimos said the Pilay would be on radio ‘'watch again tomorrow morning. The naval radio at St. Paul Isiand veceived & message from the Soviet steamer Buriat, which aided in placing fuel depots for the Lindberghs in the Kamchatka region. The Buriat for- warded s message addressed o Miss Frances Bresson, financee of Moyle, in Riverside, Calif. Message to Fiancee. o Bresson_sald: <~Lfl&e¢%l:fl-§fqfi island. Every- tle | House dress, ) ptember 22 was rbled, as the flyers would be ::‘ll:el!‘l:! reach Seattle from the Kam- chatka region by that time. Used Rebullt Ship. - len and Moyle on their flight us lAl!lbuut monoplane originally built for Harold Bromley for a transpacific t last year. m!rhhe fiyers were seeking a $25,000 prize offered by the Toklo newspeper Asah! for the first non-stop flight be- tween Japsn and continental United States. They carried 1,020 gallons of gasoline and expected to make the 4,400-mile flight in from 39 to 44 hours. Thomas Ash, who went to Japan this Summer to fly the same plane 5 America, gave up the attempt after trying the ship out. He returned to Seattle last week and expressed the opinion the motor of the craft would have “blown up” soon after taking off n. "ori‘le‘:l!pl‘nd Moyle installed a super- eharger which stepped up the horse- power of the motor. They also vut on a new tail on the plane, bu: Ash sald he thought the ship still would be un- sble to fly the long route to America. Sought $25,000 Prize, early | ) i i | | Don Moyle (left) and Cecil A. All to a message relayed to Moyle's fiancee. Down, but Safe len, Toklo-to-Seattle flyers, missing for more than a week, who were reported safe on an uninhabited island, according BODY OF COLLINGS 15 WASHED ASHORE Found Bound and Wounded Where Wife Declares Two Pirates Attacked Them. By the Associated Press. HUNTINGTON STATION, N. Y, | September 16.—The body of Benjamin Collings was washed ashore today, bound hand and foot as his wife had said he was when thrown from their | cruiser, but still District Attorney Alex- ander Blue refused to accept her story. | He acknowledged, however, that Mrs. | Collings might believe it to be true. “The story she tells in its entirety is not the true story, I believe,” he said, “although she may believe it to be.” Blue called especial attention to the fact that Mrs. Collings’ story offers no established exnhnnl!an for the fact, cording to Blue Collings’ y Lloyd's Neck, Long l;'l.‘l;x:k this mos fel v b e Collings’ body Mrs. Collings, ‘who for six days had been questioned - about the mysterious disappearance of her husband, said | had n tossed into the waters by two strange men who boarded the Col- | lings yacht. Twe Men Seught. An immediate general alarm was sent out for two men, one about 50 years of age, the other a youth of 18 who, Mrs, Collings said, had thrown her husband into the water. The finding of the body evidently clinched the story which she had told authorities through days of constant quizzing. ‘The Collings tragedy was revealed last Thursday morning when Mrs. Col- lings was found marooned on a motor boat in Oyster Bay, clad only in a thin but protected from the chill of .dawn by four blankets. Says She Was Abducted. She told an amazing story of piracy. Late Wednesday night, she sald, two men in a canoe boarded the anchored Collings cabin cruiser Penguin, bound her husband and threw him overboard, abducted her and abandoned 5-year- old Barbara Colungx on the Pe | Barbara was found by a party of yachts- {men who saw the Penguin drifting without lights. Mrs. Collings has .twice re-enacted the scene she says took place on. the Penguin and has over and over again | told her story to investigators of | Naseau and Suffolk. Counties. Describes fwo “Pirates.” Mrs. Coiings sald the “pirates” were |an elderly man and a youth. The | jelder man, she said, offered her in- dignities in the canoe in which she was taken fromr the Penguin, which, she said, she left without a struggle in the belief that by so doing she would draw the men away from her { little daughter. i She first told police that when the men appeared she heard them offer her husband $100 to take a wounded man to the Connecticut shore. linws refused, she said, and was then | attacked. Later she expressed the be- | lief that the talk of a wounded man Don Moyle and C. A. Allen, Califor- | li Tapan, early on the morning of Sep- | l:rg::'z,r B on)| non-stop flight across the ; Sh_emwn pheeeel: ell}.’ s Atat b Pacific to Seattle, 4,465 miles Itll)‘;rll;};- 1 Whlcl: 3‘2# e N it Oug of ing for a $25,000 prize offered by & Tokio | jon oy tound to be marked with the CRAMER'S PLANE FOUND IN ATLANTIC Factory Manager Identifies Debris as Airship Lost With Two Aboard. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 16.—K. D. Vosler, factory manager for the Edo Alreraft Corporation, today definitsly identified wreckage found in the North Sea by the British trawler Lord Trent as that of the plane of Parker Cramer, American flyer, lost on a flight from Detroit to Copenhagen. Cramer and his radio operator, Oliver Pacquette, disappeared into a heavy storm August 9 after leaving the Shet- land Islands for Copenhagen. Cramer, who had hoped to blaze an airmall Toute over the Arctic, was a veteran pilot. In 1929 he was one of the pilots of the Untin Bowlér, huge amphibian lane, which essayed a round-trip flight from Chicago to Berlin on the Great ggxr:h ctrcl:u' eaum,.j"rh; craft r;:rch“:: 3 well, on udson . Strai but -fi“‘fln ‘when ice 0 which it was moored broke up in a gale and drifted out to sea. Cramer and his compan- icns made their way back 1o clvilization. Cramer also accompanied Sir Hubeit Wilkins on one of his trips into the Antaretic. SHIP FINDS PLANE. WRECKAGE. British Trawler Reports Debris With Identifying Numbers. LONDON, September 16 (#).—The British trawler Lord Trent wirelessed the Associated Press today that it had rlcked up the wreckage of a seaplane in the approximate vicinity where Par- ker Cramer, American flyer, was be- lieved to have been lost on a flight from Detroit to Ccpenhagen. The message, signed by Capt. Arna- son, said that the wreckage looked as if it had been in the water a long time. It read as follows: “Picked up wreckage of seaplane in latitude 56 degrees 50 minutes, longi- tude 1 degree 10 minutes E. Model 3,830, date 3/19/30, manufacturing num- ber 07006, patent 1,726,439, Edo Air- craft Corporation, College Point, N. Y.” ‘The Lord Trent was bound for the White Sea. PACQUETTE'S WIFE COLLAPSES. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., September 16 (#)-—Worn by weeks of waiting for word of her husband, who was lost with Parker Cramer on an attempted North quette today suffered a collapse at the home of her parents here. Physicians forbade that she be told of discovery (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) NATIONALIST GERMAN DICTATOR PREDICTED Columbia Professor Sees Move on Return From Tour of Europe, By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 16.—A pre- diction that a Nationalist dictator will rule Germany by the first of next year was made today by Prof. Willlam R. Ehepherd of Columbia University. He | returned this morning from a tour of Europe. In all likelihood, he said, the dictator will be Dr. Alfred Hugenberg, publisher Atlantic flight, Mrs. Oliver Louis Pac- BRITISH SAILORS| PROMISED REVIEW OF WAGE PROTEST: FLEET IS HELD UP Ships Ordered to Proceed to Home Ports at Once While Cabinet Confers on Un- usual Situation, ADMIRALTY WILL SEEK TO LIGHTEN HARDSHIPS Passive Mutiny Is Confined to Ves- | sels at Invergordon and Rolythl' Crews Cheer King George as Evidence of Continued Loyalty. Marines Man Boats. By the Associated Press. LONDON, September 16.—Blue- jackets of the British Navy's At- lantic fleet, through a series of| demonstrations against cuts in' pay, obtained from the admiralty today a promise of re-examination l-of the new rates with a view to alleviation of such hardships as might be revealed. Announcement was made in t House of Commons by Sir Austen Chamberlain, first lord of the ad- | miralty, that ships of the Atlantic fleet had been ordered to proceed to their home ports immediately. The government has authorized the admiralty, he added, to pro- pose measures for alleviating hardships in thcse classes of cases: vn:h:um ',::;::de: Ed. .:: in which “the reductions press|.ut of a plane crash. 3 miles exceptionally.” nofthwest of David, Republic of Discloses No Details, Panama this morning, the Navy He gave no details of the origin. of. Depkitietic ‘v SR thtay. ° The the trouble nor of the courss it hs taken among the men of the fleét who were reported to have staged a sort of non-violent mutiny in protest against is unknown here, PROsEtive DAY byls. The dead are: What he sald, however, made it €leAT { Ghier Aviation Pilot Isaac L. Jenkins that the government had capitulated | ¢ Gouch, Mo, and Aviation Machinist at least to the extent of investigating | yiyie (Thirg Class) Arthur O. Miller of the complaints with a view to remgdyinz| La Salle, N. Y. BELIZE AID PLANE CRASH KILLS THRE Pilots and Mechanic of Navy Ship Burn—Radio Man Injured. relief supplies from Coco Solo, Canal Zone, to Belize, British Honduras, had whatever hardships might be found. Lieut. (Junior Grade) Creighton K. A Labor member tried to open debate | Lankford, the pilot, whose home is in plape, which was carrying medical and | & forced landing, the cause of which | ewspaper. T Wee & single motored ship without s radio, carrying a very heavy load. " From the time of the take-off they were sighted only once. That was 70 minutes out from Samushiro, passing Point Erimo, 110 miles northeast of he starting point. P men they ‘dropped out of sight and ope was virtually abandoned. A 30-day jail sentence was waiting for Moyle at Los Angelcs. Last July he pleaded guilty to a charge of driv-| ing an sutomobile while intoxicated and was sentenced to 30 days and three years probation. Faced Bad Weather. Both he and Allen were quoted as | having sald before the ~ (Continued on Page 2, Column 7. FIRE HIDES IDENT!TY OF WRECKED AIRPLANE Pilot Believed to Hl': Saved Him- self Before Craft Crashed to Earth Near Saratoga, N. Y. By the Assoclated Press. ALBANY, N. Y., September 1¢.—The burned wreckage of an airplane from which the pilot is belleved to ihave! jumped ‘o safety was found today 15 ‘mies west of Saratoga. The plane wi 50 badly damaged that its registrat numerals and makers' marks were ‘obliterated. Ridio Pro bl o grams on Page B-11 take-off that | me of the Hotel Charles, in Spring- d, Mass. But this clue led to noth (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) and industrialist, with Adolf Hitler, Fn:icllt leader, agitating the move. ‘Germany is the crux of the finan- cial situation in the world today,” said ; Shepherd, who h Quake Hits Queenstown, N. Z. roirpietir ] m?:‘iufm chair of modern WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Sep-| “In adopting a dictatorship they will tember 16 (#).—Queenstown was shaken | employ the same level-headed methods this morning by a severe earthquake |they adopted in 1923 when the mark which broke windows and frightened | was deflated out of financial existence. |the populace. The epicenter was esti- | Their logical attitude will bring them mated as about 380 miles distant. through the crisis.” INDEPENDENCE DAY IGNORI_SD, LATIN AMERICANS FEEL SNUB | {Consuls at New Orleans Criticize European Colleagues Who Failed to Join Celebration. i | 1 By the Associated Press. | Central American republics have had NEW ORLEANS, September 16— | the patriotic hope of dnlna‘!.heir share Failure of the European consular group | toward universal friendliness among and city officials here to attend yester- | nations of the Old and New Worlds day's celebration of the 110th anniver- and in recent days it seemed as though | sary of the irtdependence of five Cen- | our tral American Yepublics brought criti- | reality.” jcism today from representatives of | Their ind! tion was accentuated by { those countries. the circulat! at the banquet of & | »"It is certainly rather odd—the com- | remark attributed to the consul of & | plete absence of our consular colleagues describing the Central | from Europe,” said Col. R. Arturo Ra- |m1m. consular general of Guatemala. “It is a rhost regrettable episode to us, because we have always complied |of with the elemental courtesy due their historic dates. “1v is chiefly nmmblz_"bruun the vision was going to become & |th was nothing to show that it had ex- tended to English home ports, either at Portland, which is the fleet's home base, or at the important naval bases of Portsmouth, PlyTouth or Chatham. There was said to be considerable dissatisfaction, however, at Portsmouth among the men of lower naval ratings. Refuse to Obey Orders. The best available information indi- cated that 16 ships were involved in the movement. but de were_care- ~(Continuea vu Page 7, Columa 5., EDITOR OF MAGAZINE { Parker Lloyd-Smith, 30, of For- tune, Dropped From 23d Floor to Adjoining 8-Story Roof. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 16.—A man identified as Parker Lloyd-Smith, 30 years old, editor of the magazine For- tune, was killed today when he jumped or fell from the twenty-third floor of an East Eighty-sixth street building to e roof of an adjoining structure, Lloyd-Smith had plunged from his suite on the twenty-third floor. His body, nude, was found on the eighth- floor extension of the Hotel Croydon, adjoining. Police listed the case as a e | suicide, and attributed it to overwork . and the heat. Lloyd-Smith, listed in the social reg- Prince! ton Uni- versity in 1924, was unmarried. A brother, Wilton, ig1n Aléska. [~ KILLS SELF IN FALL|. Plattsburg, Mo. on what he called the “urgent and | Biajy R aimeted 1o v definite matter of abandcning the At- | cover is Roy J. Miller, radio man, third lantic flcet exercises,” but the speaker clfieolnirvv,lmb's‘;. DR s K e e O e & the ountry Were | in an official dispatch from Comdr. A. left without any -u;‘nom-u;e I;n&-]g‘.e l;-;;x:h:;:l, . sl.L Emmgo%-n?m% ke DAL TS © | he plane crashed in attempting nfl forced Reports from Invergordon, where the | landing, when it was only eet alof fleet 15 anchered, indicated that what- ‘ The cause of this, the message said, is ever trouble there may be does not | unknown. O en” everle blew " this_morning, | en revellle lew | these reports said, hundlrednmo(dmer; o,;CONFESSION REPORTED battleship Rodney tumbled out of | their hammocks and gathered on the IN $320,000 THEFTS gun turrets to raise & rousing cheer| Shsge Bl for King George. . Then they sang the old-time “Froth- IOMchl of Loan Association Admit blowers Anthem,” a favorite with the| Huge Embezzlement, Officers fleet. Somebody yelled, “Are we down- | hearted?” and there was an answer- Say, at Minneapolis. ing roar of “No!” By the Associated Press. Echoes Down Line. | MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., September 16. It echoed from the battleship Hood, | —County officers today said L. E. Smith, e s B S e mn | assistant secretary of the Hennepin Sav- the line among the | Meanwhile here in London Rear Ad- | ings & Loan Association, had confessed miral Colvin, chief of staff to the com- | thefts which might total $320,000. mander in chief of the fleet, was in- SN S e SN rming the cabinet of e situation. O iaied ine men. are. com- | EX-POLICEMAN GIVEN laining that the cuts constitute un- D erifice in comparison with the] THREE YEARS IN PRISON rest of the defense forces. Another officer Who Teached here from Invergordon described the situa- | By the Associated Press. tion as “not “s;flr‘z‘um but \;{nmecle:u:fit: NEW YORK, September 16.—Former in the. Britl Navy."” e sal i aies J. e the crews felt they were being unjusti- | 1‘:\‘:; 5:::5 P:l‘:;";";y-’ :edml ?:d” fiably penalized by reductions in pay sen! plncedua‘s’lhllh “Jfin‘éfié.fia"‘m B Anderson today to three years at the S at | Atlanta Peniténtiary for defrauding the disaffection had been confined to tWo| Government in connection with failure points—Invergordan and Rosyth. ‘There| ;' sio ycome tax returns. He was given an alternate sentence of two years in the Federal House of Detention, to be served only if the Cir- cuit Court of Appeals decided the in- dictment was fllegal as to the three fraud counts. The indictment contained five counts, three charging fraud and two failure to file income tax returns for the years 1928 and 1920. The policeman was alleged to have had an income of $80,000 during 1927, 1928 and 1929. | Flll Merchandise Statistics show that basic commodities are lower in price than before the war. Local merchants’ stocks are complete with new goods bought at great savings. ‘Today’s Star is full of adver- tisements of all that is newest and best in the stores. Your money will go further than at any time in years. Yesterday's Advertising (Local Display) The Evening Star. . . 51,699 2d Newspaper 3d Newspaper 4th Newspaper . . . 5th Newspaper . . . Total ! | | i (ather four newspapers).. :House Washingfon |Used at Brandywine, | Deswroyed by Fire| |Relics, Papers of Struggle | During Revolution Lost | in Chadds Ford Blaze. | By the Associated Press. WEST CHESTER, Pa., September 16. | —A smoldering mass of ruins was all | that remained today of the old Colonial farm house used by George Washington and his staff as their headquarters dur- ing the Battle of Brandywine in 1777. The strugture ca fire and burned | to the ground at Ford, near here, early today. - _The bullding was located hlmllun‘ made famous by the struggles of Wash- ington and his men during the Revolu- ' tion. Destroyed with the building were G T I SR Brandywine. BREWER CLEARED | | Indictment of Former Aide of Rheem Nolle Prossed by Burkinshaw. | An indictment charging J. Newton Brewer, former vice president of Swartz- ell, Rheem & Hensey Co., With embez- | zlement and concealment of writings was nolle prossed today by the Govern- | ment. | | Brewer was indicted with Edmund D. Rheem, president of the concern, | following an investigation by the Jus- | tice Department of business dealings which resulted in the bankruptey of that company. Rheem pleaded guilty to the count charging’ him with con- cealing writings, and now is serving a sentence of seven years in the peniten- tiary. Burkinshaw Silent on Step. | Special Assistant Attorney General | | Neil Burkinshaw, who nolle prossed the indictment, declined to discuss the rea- sons for the step. It was understood, however, that representations had been mrde to the Justice Department absolv- ing Brewer of any willful connection with the offense charged. During the recent hearings conducted b voluntarily assumed full responsibility for all transactions entered into by his OF FRAUD CHARGES : y the referee in bankruptcy Rheem |nhis DEATHOF MORROW 5 LAD TO FAL Coroner’s Jury Unable to De- termine Cause of Fatal Plunge. "Raymond M. Morrow, third precinct policeman, was killed as the result of & fall, a coroner's jury held this after- noon. The verdict is that Morrow “came to his death from & rupture of the lungs and liver, hemorrhage and shock, said injuries being the result of a fall, the cause of sald fall being unkinown to this Jury.” This verdict wes in line with result of the autopsy performed by Deputy Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald. Miss Martha E. N, Habey, manager of the Playhouse Inn, 1814 N street, was icentified as the “mystery woman” was in the case. Taking the stand as the lnmldt resumed today, Miss Habey tes! that she was with the policeman from about 11:30 Friday night until 2 o'clock Satur- day morning. when he left her outside of ler apartment, at Sixteenth and S streets, and drove out Sixteenth street in the direction of his home. Mor:ow is believed to have met his death within an hour afterward. Deputy Coroner Testifies. Miss Habey took the stand after Dr. MacDonald bad testified that it would not bave been possible for Morrow to have #alked from the spo: where lnvuuml believed he plunged over the em! - ment at the edge of the valley to the point where his bocy was found. ‘This is a distance of 137 steps. Dr. MacDonald said that it would have been possible for Morrow to have fallen down either one of the inclines at the edge of the Piney Branch Valley Bridge and then to have gotten to wi body lay when discovered. This was only 20 feet from the foot of the bridge. Denied She Was Witness. ‘The appearance of Miss Habey had been awaited with interest, as she was, so far as is known, the last person who saw Morrow alive. She arrived at the Morgue about a half hour before the inquest was scheduled to start, but de- nied to newspaper men that she was & witness. She said she ‘had only come down “out of curiosity.” After successfully evading photogra- phers while the inquest was in progress, Miss Habey, shieding her head and face with paper, was spirited out of & side door at the morgue and into a machine with the help of policemen, and raced away. Miss Habey had been refered to yes- terday in the testimony of Hainer Hin- shaw, vice president of American b ways, as the woman who had been in apartment with Morrow Friday night. Hinshaw, however, knew her only 8s “Sugar,” the term he said Morrow company. He said the other officers, including Brewer; acted under his di- used jn addressing her. Miss Habey said that she had known | T (Continued on Page 2, Column 4. (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 16.—The | Naval Academy Graduates’ Association of New York is overwhelmingly in favor of the resuinption of athletig relations between Army and Navy. | : A poll conducted by the local alumni group, sounding the attitude of naval officers and former midshipmen, re- vealed today that most Navy men are in favor of foot ball contests with West Point under the three-year Navy eli- gibility rules. e 4 The detailed results of the poll were not made public. The Associated Press was informed, however, that partial re- sults of the questionnaires were made known at Graduates’ Association lunch- n yesterday. eos-nymum J. Singer, secretary of the or- ganization, refused to comment on the poll. He explained that in the absence of the president of the Graduates’ As- sociation, he could not make the figures iblic. wA letter Rear Admiral Thomas ‘$ NAVAL ALUMNI VOTE TO RESUME GRID GAMES WITH WEST POINT Annapolis Graduates Favor Insistence Upon Three-Year Eligibility Rule for Players. C. Hart, superintendent of the Naval Academy, was read at the luncheon, in which he said he had studied the re- sult of'the poll. He said too much publicity had already been given the Army and Navy foot ball controversy. Singer announced at the meeting that most of those voting in favor of reneving relations also insisted the games be played according to Navy rules. other sources, however, the Associated Press was informed, a great number of members voted for ompromise rules. The Navy severed athletic relations with its traditional service rivals in u‘z'l over the three-year eligibility rules. For two years no service game was played. Last Fall the hatchet in the cause of unemploy- met‘l‘t' Army won ;‘ to 0 and the Sal- vation Army unemploym was_enriched by about $50,000. Attempts to bring the two teams to- getber have been made by several Con- grflfl'ntn and high officials of both ranches of the service without suc- cess. g e his | ] both agreed to bury | th IPOLICE HIGHER-UPS MAY BE INVOLVED INPROBE OF THIRD DEGREE USES HERE Grand Jury Given Evidence Gathered by U. S. Depart- ment of Justice Agents After Three Weeks’ Inquiry. SIX OFFICERS CALLED IN.NEW INTERROGATION More Than 150 Witnesses Sched- uled to Appear, Many of Whom Claim They Were Assaulted After Being Taken Into Cus- tody. Its investigation of third-degree abuses in Washington completed, the Department of Justice today carried to the grand jury sensa- tional evidence that is expected to result in indictment ‘of another group of policemen and possibly a report blaming alleged preva- lence of third-degree methods on “higher-ups.” Presentation of evidence and testimony in more than 50 cases, involving approximately 25 police- men of lower grade, was begun at the grand jury room, outside of which more than 150 witnesses, many of them alleged assault vic- tims, waited their turn to testify. Among those subpoenaed for in- terrogation by the grand jury to- day were Capt., Ira Sheetz, com- manding the tenth- precinct; Headquarters Detective A. D. Mansfield, Policemen R. L. Jen- kins, B. G. Lewis and Willlam R, Sheetz of the first precinet, and Policeman Henry Rinke of the second precinct. ; . Mariz Case First. The first case given attention grand jury was that of Re| 19 years old, who has beaten by three policemen precinet following his of shooting to death room ietor 3 M:y Swl:f: at' 937 Ninf . Edgar Hoover, United States Buresu the weeping ing: weeks ago . criminal character g ¥ g H i LEY § i ? of agents, will be given to tca;“ any lctir:ln it may While a general summary of the bureau’s findings is .bei prepa! formation of mnumn‘ — ‘The number of witnesses room, which has a capacity of 100. Long es and chairs were placed 1n the corridors outside the courtroom and half a hundred wit- nesses, chiefly women, sat in the hall- proceedings two weeks ago, when flve policemen of the first pt‘euctlnc;‘ were in:l]l:lud T;le felonious as- sault charges. ess proceedings are expedited the hearing may extend into the first part of next week. Inspector John M. Keith. in cnarge of ‘L:i Federal investigation, assisted Uni States Attorney Leo A. Rover in organizing the parade of witnesses. Keiin took with him into the grand Jury room a long club-shaped package wrapped in newspapers. A group of special agents of the Bureau of In- vestigation also was on hand to testify if needed. ‘The cases to be presented to the jury (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) BAR LEADERS HOLD LAWS CRAMP TRADE Statutory Revisions Urged for In- dustrial Union and Crime Curb. By the Associated Press. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., September 16.—Leaders of America’s bar today urged alteration of the anti-trust laws to permit industry to control produc- tion, and advocated changes in the criminal laws to curb the activities of gangdom. Rush C. Butler. chairman of the Commerce Committee of the American Bar Association, addressing the mineral law section, said chaos is king in’the oil industry because Federal laws will not permit the oll companies properly to_co-operate. Meanwhile a joint committee repre- senting the American Law Institute, the e recomme: exhay and co-ordinated researches with a view finally to radical readjustments in crim- inal codes.