Evening Star Newspaper, October 28, 1931, Page 17

Washing‘_ton News JURY EXONERATES THREE POLICEMEN INBRUTALITY QUIZ Refuses to Indict Sergts. Kenney and Hughes and Pvt. Mahaney. ASSAULT CHARGE LAID AGAINST R. J. BARRETT Che WAS HINGTON, D. C, 'WORLD NEEDS ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT, SAYS WELLS This “very dangerous world” must be adjusted to & new economic and social order. Today's election in Great Britain may be a symbolic incident in the mgx ment. with its mandate from the I to take a critically sick economic sy tem out of the hands of politicians of all parties and “call in the doctors.” Such are the opinions of H. G. Wells, noted British author and sociologist, Colored Doorman Accused of Mur- der in Shooting of W. F. Norman. ‘Three were exonerated by the grand jury today of charges of bru- tality to prisoners. Their cases were among those investigated by the De- partment of Justice, which resulted re- cently in the indictment of 18 detec- tives and imen, some being charged with simple assault and others with as- sault W’thdul ‘d’:n‘c;‘?un weapon. All leaded ne g e Pgrand jury Sefused to indict De- fective Sergts. James E. Kenney and Van D. and Pvt. Michael J Mahaney, were accused of stand- ing by at an alleged assault by Head- arters Detective Robert J. Barrett on E. Baber, who had been arrest- in the Garden T Shoppe S parrett ‘was indicted for 8 | PIOk murder. simple assault on Baber. La Force Is Exonerated. Another liceman, Edward J. La Worce of the seventh precinct, was ex- they understood was to be for $50, but found on turity that it was for $300. ‘The snnd jury ignored cl against 19 other persons and rej indictments against 79, first “mge-n- nh; larceny an Chat of ~robbery, joy- -:l‘: made up the rest of the list. William C. Robinson, Charles E. Washington and Leonard A. Layton, all colored, were with first-degree murder in connection with the death of Mannie Solomon, a taxi driver, at Unlon © streets southwest, last August. they had been ind by its ma- Joseph Henry Diggs, B ar e the Wardman Park Hotel, who Was charged with first-degree murder mml June 29. Sylvester L. McLaurin, colored law- . was again indicted on a charge of ceny from the District of Columbis. e had been indicted by the disqualified grand jury. McLaurin s accused of extracting from the files at Franklin School certain examination papers of & yelative Who was seeking an appoint- it mouu- indicted and the charges #gainst them were: Joseph Thomas Hammond, assault with dangerous weapon and assault | with intent to kill: Ernest Ulysses *Thompson, assault with intent to com- mit robbery and assault with danger- ous weapon; Clifton E. Taylor, as- sault with intent to commit carnal knowledge: Leroy Morrison, James Cole, ,Theodore Diggs, James Hall, 3 Fields, Melvin Lee, George 1B. Oarter. Alfonzo Praser, James | 'Gratt (alias George White), Thomas | Hervey (alias Thomas Howard), Steve Holmes (alias) Steve Holland, Carydo Johnson, Samuel G. Smith, Vergle Peyton, Timothy Wiliiams, Rob- ert A, Johnson, Walter Johnson, Pink- | ney Henderson, Melvin Lee, Roscoe Fields, Melvin Lee, George B. Carter, Daniel J. McCarthy, Daniel J. Me- Carthy, Leo J. Moran, Joseph Schriver, | Samuel Walker, Thomas E. Redmond, Frank Morgan, Thomas E. Redmond. Frank Morgan, Frank Stanley (alias John Beasley), Frank Stanley (alias John_Beasley), Obediah Thomas, Wi Jiam Raymond Walker, Obediah Thom- | iy as, William Raymond Walker, Adam J Urbap, French Wen, Almont W. Wooden, i and larceny; Ralph E. * MacMichael and Harry W. Stephens, ‘embegzlement; Otto M. Deutsch, lar- ceny after trust, embemslement and nd 4 EValter Will Brown, Harvey A Lee alias Harvey Orman Lee), Clyde Nieman and Alen Sevenans, larceny after trust; Theodore Diggs, James Hall, Van John Echo (2 cases), Clyde 1S | 11 competition to the taxicabs Leonard A. (2 cases). George Hatcher Wil- Yams and Samuel Edward Tetlow, rob- William Milton Botts, Edward . _Charles James May- nard, Sylvester Epps, George E. Gar- rison, Clarence Back, Clifton Arthur Hall, Harry J. Kendall. John Branpon Nash, Walter Harry Lutman De Witt Owens, Melzer Ignatius Scott, George Patton and Dougles Steele, joy-riding: Harry W, Stephens, forgery. Harry C. . | as the which must " | going wm:mphm of the readjustment But, Mr. the whole world must be “turned over to the doc- tors.” the specialists in economics, soclology and the biological and physi- cal sciences, for treatment. The out- come of the present British situation, he holds, depends on whether the Na- tional party with its backbone of Con- servatives actually does call in the spe- clalists and follow their prescriptions. Vietory for Treatment of Ills. While apparently a victory for the Conservatives, Mr. Wells said, it is not intended as a victory for “conservatism” or for the doctrines of any political party whatsoever, but for objective treatment of the ills of England in ac- cordance with the great body of sound economic science knowledge of which largely is confined to the specialists themselves. There has come into ex- istence a body of objective social science, he said, which has no relation to politi- cal subjectivism and within which there | is no more possibllity of an emotional | difference of opinion than in physics or logy . But if the country is not “turned over to the doctors” Mr. Wells sees the Author, Working on Compendium of All| Social Sciences, Holds British Election Today Is Symbolic. |serve tradition. Now we are in & pro- ve way. But the colleges have not been able to turn around and face the future. The knowledge which they do not give may come from the journalist and I regard myself as a sort of jour- nalist, producing books which must give way to better books as knowledge | advances. I don’t know that I want {to be remembered. “Existing social and economic insti- | tutions all are provisional. The world must be made over. It is a very dan- gerous world, but not necessarily one | calling for dispair. The future can be planned in the u:m of science. In the past we have had a haphazard growth. The social order always will be some- thing of a haphazard , but man is inguished _primarily | other animals by his ability to plan for | the future instead of taking things as | they come.” . | Disagreements Minimized. There is much less disagreement be- tween economists and sociologists pur- | suing thelr researches the world over | by the objective methods of science than | s generally supposed, Mr. Wells said They are developing a body of knowl- edge of human relations which is in accordance with the laws of nature | and, by that sanction, is certainly right he insisted. Economics and sociology. | he said, must be erected on a firm basis consider as parts of the biological | organism, in this case the human being to its geological and biological environ- ment. return of Labor—not the comparatively | _Mr. Wells looks to great changes in conservative Labor party now going out of office but a socialistic and even Communistic party. ‘The whole world must come to it, he said, for it now stands at a parting of the ways. World State Is Step. Out of the inevitable readjustment, Mr. Wells said, he hopes that much of the present social and ,economic system can be preserved “for it has given us an abundance and fullness of life as well great inequalities of wealth 'n in the new system. I hope that readjustment can be brought about without destruction, by adaptation rather than revolution.” A step in the readjustment, Mr. Wells holds, is the world state. “The modern state or nation must be subordinated to life. today might be compared with an auto- mobile going up hill with the motor be- ginning to go wrong. It is time to| get out and look under the hood.” Mr. Wells does not point to Russia | as a model, although he hoids that matters of tremendous importance are | taking place there. Russia is under- through ich the world must pass. It s & mistake, he said, “to consider the t Russian system as com- B e G, ot ict revolutions in ” came control, only ‘world m sight of them because the same | Working on Social Study. Mr. Wells is now at work on a compendium of the world's knowledge of the o t| Two noted Englishmen today* had what they termed “a most inf ng the strictly social, as well as in the | economic order. He does not see in thc future, however, very great changes in such institutions as the family, except for the absolute equality of woman in the world’s affairs. However, the fam- ily be readjusted, he said, monogamy will remain because “there are about as} many women as men in the world.” Sees Government Present governments, he said, have the opportunity of realizing the nec- essary changes, leading their peoples out of the parrow nationalism which now afflicts the world and placing the various departments of human affairs in the hands of men capable of direct- ing them by specialized knowledge with no more emotional influence on their behavior than have the surgeons at an operating table. Otherwise he sees a great swing rd something like Communism everywhere. Mr. Wells emphasized ‘that he does not wish to pose as a prophet of dis- aster He would preserve the good things of life. He does not think that in the new age of science the individual is due for annthilation in the flood of specialization. Man today, he believes, is less specialized than in the middle ages, when it was impossible for one to escape from the rut in which he was born. And he characterized his social philosophy as the opposite of that symbolized by the Hindu leader Gandhi, “with his loin cloth, goat milk and con- tempt of dentistry,” which would make sufficient Rather he would have for which they are best fitted. gressing world where tradition must | of objective biology. Both he would | WOMAN'S REPORT " OF BEING SHOT ON STREET DISPROVED {Bullet Found Imbedded in Floor, but She Refuses to Name Assailant. |SLIGHT WOUND GRAZES MRS. BURNELL’S FACE | Twenty-Year-Old Wife ginian Injured in Jefferson Avenue House. Mrs. Elsie Lee Burnell's story of hav- ing been shot while standing in the 3000 block of M street last night was discredited today when police found a | .38-caliber bullet imbedded in the kitch- |{en floor of the home of her 56-year-old | husband’s nephew, W. T. Pisher, 1059 | Jefferson avenue. | The bullet, police explained, lodged lin the floor after grazing Mrs. Burnell’s |right cheek and inflicting a slight wound. Fisher, according to police, declared he was playing cards next door at the time of the shooting and did not learn | science as ecology, or the relation of an | of it until he returned home some time later. Al though he said he did not hear the report of a revolver, other residents of the neighborhood told police they heard a shot fired about 10:30 p.m. The first tale told by Mrs. Burnell, who is 20, was that she was standing in front of 3028 M street, waiting for her husband, Robert Henry Burnell, who had gone to a movie. She heard the report of a gun, she said, and felt a stinging sensation in her cheek. She went to a drug store at Thirty- first and M streets, where she was given first aid, she said. There, she added, she met her stepson, said to be about her own age, and he took her to Georgetown University Hospital. After receiving treatment at the in- stitution, Mrs. Burnell was questioned by seventh precinct police, who decided to hold her for investigation. She was taken to the House of Detention. Her husband, arrested a short time later, also was booked for investigation. Her stepson disappeared. however, and a search for him was begun. Questioned by Detective A. C. of the seventh precinct, Mrs. Burnell refused to reveal who shot her, assert- ing she did not care to prosecute the guilty person. Fisher toid police he did not know who was in his house with Mrs. Bur- nell at the time of the shooting. ‘The Burnells, who live in McLean, Va., were visiting Fisher. MARCUM TO HEAR FATE TOMORROW WELLS AND ENVOY SEE HOOVER. Sir Ronald Lindsay and Author Have “Most Edifying Chat.” By the Associated Press. z and edifying talk” with Hoover. H, G. Wells, British author famed as an outliner of history, and Sir Roneld Lindsay, British Ambassador, would not say, however, what they had chatted about other than mentioning the Brite lent colleges, “The colleges.” he said, “have al- ways tended to lag. The object of | schools in the past has been to pre- questions back to him. TAXI ZONES HELP = PUBLIC, SAYS KEECH Vigorous Defénse Is Filed. Special Interests Seen in Opposition. People's Counsel Richmond B. Keech in & memorandum filled with the Pub- lic Utilities Commission today vigor- ously defended the zone system of taxi- cab operation and recommended re- tention of that system with the bound- aries of the zones definitely established by order of the Commissioners. He sald the fact the zone cabs have taken away so many passengers from the street car companies is conclusive evidence the cabs fill a public need The zone system, he added, has never had a falr ¢ ce to show its worth since there have never been any del- inite boundary lines for the zones fixed by the commission. Asks Definite Lines. Should the commission fix definite zones and rates, he continued, both th rate wars and the complaints of pas- sengers that they have been over charged by being carried over imag inary zone boundaries would be elim- ted. At the same time Mr. Keech launched a counterattack on those Who have at- tacked the zone system. He said op- ponents of the system include only the old line taxicab operators and street |car and bus companies. Mr. Keech then likened the plight of the car companies to that of the steam railroads who are facing competition from airplane and bus travel. He sad the steam railroads are - meeting the competition by giving better and faster service, electrification of lines, and so Com- ;:uuon. he held, is highly desirable the point of view of public in- terest. Should the commission order all cabs to run on the meter system, Mr. Keech weapon: Coleman Jordan, Edward Joseph Warren, Gerald Sams and John D. Johnson, joyriding: Herbert D Lewis | and Robert” Gray. robbery: John L Jobnson (alias Bernard Downay), imper- sonating an officer; John P. Kolar, false pretenses; Robert L. Martin (alias Wil- ., Tape. Other cases ignored by the include: — assault with fin.-:’: o aiins Benjamin Jackson. alss Rix- son ¢ ., Rus- Jackson), Que Johm:;_ Charles Major (alias Bee Jack) and Noble M. Hunter, larcensy. and paying respects to Executive. | Cmealy. Mr. wens saia. it was a most interesting and edifying talk, but, of course, I cannot discuss it.” Sir Ronald was equally polite and un- communicative. Out of deference to} Mr. Hoover, he said, he would refer all | | predicted that the mumber of persons carried by cabs will decline by 50 per cent, basing this on the fact that even the Nickel Cab Co. could not make a suc(‘z]fls of meter operations at 15 cents 2 mile, Mr. Keech charged that the Mer- chants & Manufacturers’ Anoct‘tl"t 3 which opposes the flat-rate cabs, is made up in part of who have a di- | rect interest in lessening of competi- |tion for their particular outfits. He said Presidents Willlam P. Ham and John H. Hanna of the Washington Railway & Electric and Capital Trac- Penalty in Contempt Case Arising From Divorce to Be Fixed. Philip H. Marcum, s assistant to the Attorney General, who was saved from jail last Saturday when Chief Jus- tice Wheat decided the District Suprems Court was without jurisdiction to com- mit to jail a husband who failed to pay an attorney’s fee fixed in a final for a limited divorce, may yet find him- Self behind prison bars, eys Dwight E. Rorer and. Syril Lawrence, representing Mrs. Maria S. Marcum. who was granted a limited divorce and alimony by Justice Jesse C. Adkins some months ago, called the at- tention of Chief Justice Wheat to the failure of Marcum to keep up the ali- mony payments fixed in the decree. Justice Wheat signed an order adjudg- ing the Special Assistant Attorney Gen- eral in contempt of court for failure of alimony payments. As Marcum was not in court, the question of the punishment was held in abeyance until tomorrow morning. Marcum recently filed an affidavit of Ere)ndme against Justice Jesse C. Ad- ins when the latter refused him an extension of time to argue the rule to show cause in an-injunction suit which he had brought against his wife. The injunction suit was dismissed last Sat- urday by Chief Justice Wheat at the same time that he ruled on the inabil- ity of the court to send a husband to tion Co.s, respectively, are representa- tives of the Merchants & Manufac- turers' Association. “As to the Board of Trade the memorandum continued, “it is signifi- cant that the report rendered by the Board of Trade to this commission was that of its Executive Committee, rather than the total personnel of that or- ganization. Likewise, to my _personal knowledge at least two of the Executive Committee of that organization are persons having a direct interest in r the Washington Railway & Elec- or the Capital Traction Co. the voica of the Board of Trade, general 1, would be con- Ty to that expressed by its Executive mmittee is in my opinion subject to jail for not paying his wife's counsel fees. FELT HAT GIVES CLUE TO NURSE’S ASSAILANT Man, Scared Away by Screams, Drops Battered Headgear on Lawn at Garfield Hospital A battered felt hat was aiding police today in their search for an unidentified white man who attacked Miss Minnie Fields, 23-year-old nurse, as she stepped from the recreation hall on doubt, when the response to the | Garfield Hospital grounds shortly before rnuduxk-ahs by the general public SUSPECT HELD HERE WANTED IN INDIANA Detroit Detective Chief Wires Al- bert J. Curley Is Sought in Robbery Case. Albert J. Curley, one of the fhree men arrested here recéntly as suspects a Kansas bank robbery last year, is wanted in Pennsville, Ind, in connec- tion with a robbery there, according to 2 telegram received by police today from J. C. McCarty, chief of detectives of Detroft. The telegram stated a letter contain- ing more complete information had been forwarded to Washington detec- belief the two men with Curley, W. M. Tierney and P. M. Fitzgerald, also may be sought by Indiana authorities. Although a small arsenal including ree pistols, a sawed-off shotgun and a kit of supposed burglar tools, was d's- covered in the hotel room occlipied by the men here, police Were unable to 10 o'clock last night. Miss Fields received a blow in the mouth but was otherwise uninjured when she struggled with the man. Her screams frightened her assailant and he fled before hospital attendants ran up. Miss Pields reported the attack to the second police precinct and furnished a ! description of the man. Police search- ing the grounds found the hat which had been knocked from the man's head during the scuffie. WEDNESDAY, of Vir-| ROVER AND SEGA N BITTER VERBAL BATIE AT TRL i Defendant in Bribery Case Warned by Judge After Sharp Exchange. {ATTACKS DR. SOUDER, HANDWRITING EXPERT | | —_— “You Admit You Won't Say Any- thing That Will Help Me?” He Queries. Caustic exchanges between opposing counsel today marked the: District Su- | preme Court bribery trial of Abner Siegal, local attorney. Justice James M. Proctor’s criminal | division tors attract by the unusual spectacle of a principal in a criminal prosecution playing the dual role of defense counsel and defendant. Nor were the curious disappointed, as Siegal and Leo A. Rover, United States attorney, bristling battle of words. At one point the invective became S0 ruthless that Justice Proctor intimated Stegal would be held in contempt of court unless desisted. Denies Directed Verdict Plea. As the Government closed its case with the testimony of Dr. Wilmer Sou- der, handwriting_expert of the Bureau of Standards, Justice Proctor over- ruled a motion by Siegal for a directed verdict of acquittal. Dr. Souder de- clared an admittedly genuine signature ni was written by lawyer sought to bribe Perry S. Dean, District Jail fingerprint clerk, to place the false commitment card in the jail records to. establish an alibi for Dami- ani, wanted in Pennsylvania for mur- der. The experts testified certain peculiar- fties of the signatures indicated they were written by the same individual. ‘Beginning cross-examination the fiery Siegal wrote the letter N on a black- board twice and asked if they were| not dissimilar. Dr. technical reply. “You admit you won't say anythi that will help me don't you?” St asked. Souder made a Judge Warns Siegal. Before Souder could reply Rover ob- | | jected. | “You absolutely must quit making such comments,” Justice Proctor told Siegal. “T have warned you repeatedly. I don’t want to keep interrupting you, but_you must avoid such conduct. That is final. “I admit,” Siegal responded, “that’s a very bad habit. If I didn't have it ;‘d possibly be on the bench of ere.” A moment later Rover objected to Siegal addressing the witness as “Doc.” “He is a professional man,” the pro- secutor said, “and deserves the respect of being called by his proper title of “I didn’t call him ‘Doc,’ " Siegal coun- tered. “I called him ‘Doctor.’ I'll call him ‘Mister, Doctor, Professor, Souder’ if you insist. “Try to be fair here,” Rover insisted as Siegal failed to permit the witness question he had pro- ‘pounded. “If you were as fair as I am I wouldn't be here,” Siegal said. Expert Is Questioned, 1 contended the tographs submitted by Dr. dicated that the signature on in overflowed with specta- | waged a |- bening Staf WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION OCTOBER 28, " 1931. t, and Betty and June Babb, daughters y 8 ? and playmates of the little Andrews girl. Marine Andrews, of Mrs. Babb HALLOWEEN FETE was spelled “Domioni” signature on the admittedly genuine exhibit was spelled “Damioni.” After repeated questions the defend- ant-lawyer drew from Souder the state- ment that the two_ signatures might have been spelled differently. Siegal sought to prove there were numerous discrepancies in the style of writing shown by the two signatures. ‘The Government previously sought to prove Siegal visited Damiani in a ‘Wilkes-Barre, Pa., prison at about the spurious commitment card prepared for insertion in the jail m&. hDunhn} fil under indictment e_slaying of Alex Campbell and Peter Riley, mine workers, in Pif Pa., February 28, 1928. Siegal is expected to testify in his own behalf under examination by his associate counsel, E. Russel Kelly. time the was Y. W. C. A. CLASSES HAVE RECORD ENROLLMENT Both Free and Paid Courses Al- most Filled to Capacity—New Study Groups Planned. ‘This season’s enrollment in the vari- ous courses offered by the Young than ever before, according to Mrs. rving W. Ketchums, secr of the general education division of the asso~ ciation. Both the free courses and those for which a small tuition fee is charged hl’ze almost capacity classes, it was said. A number of new study groups have the needs of unemployed or insufficient- ly paid girls and young women who desire to learn how to add to their small incomes. Such courses include local advertising, dressmaking, hand- craft, speedwriting, short story writing, greeting card verse writing, household management and budgeting. | Peggy, & 10-year-old girl, is to be the | personal guest of Capt. Frederick Hell- weg. superintendent of the Naval Ob- servatory, to see the stars through the big telescopes there—all because her parents put her to bed last night and Tefused to take her with them to the Navy day observance at the observatory. In this morning’s mail Capt. Hellweg received & poem which Peggy had writ- ten and placed under her pillow while her parents were viewing the stars out at the cbservatory. Although he declined to tell Pegg's last name. the captain vagrancy firearms dence™ place any more severe charge than 1 against them. as of S el b o T in the District. said that she lives in the Northwest nxunnnzl&e'cny. Here poem that Peggy wrote én & scrap of paper with a stwb-of - GIRL, 10, TO BE SPECIAL GUEST OF NAVAL OBSERVATORY CHIEF Peggy, Left at Home by Parents on Navy Day, Writes Poem With Astrological Theme. :{e-d pencil and tucked under her pil- | “There was a star lived high up in the sky And every night he shone on dh‘:h But on one Summer’s eve, he not | come out— | The r . Do one knows about. | The reason I know, and Il teil you why— A mama comet flashed on high. She broke the star all up in pieces And made them over into big dog leashes.” Peggy’s parents sent the poem to Capt. Tellweg and the Naval Otwerva- | tory tendent is se: a spe- | cial invitation to wn% guest and see the stars herself, even if #s not Navy day. PLANS GOMPLETE Community Center Depart- ment Will Enter Float in Parade Saturday. Plans for participation of the Oom.: munity .Center Department in the cit] wide Halloween celebration Saturday night have been completed by Mrs. !l\llbeu; K. Peeples, director of the de- ni A float will be entered which will . The marching groups from the various centers will su the float. They will be companied by th a by the Washington Park View Center will send a of 200 marchers; Columbia mlthm enter Boy Scouts, as well as other marchers; East Wi Center will ‘Women's Christian Association is larger | ¥ been planned for this Winter to meet |8 HEARING FOR CANNON ANALCGTAN ISLAND PLAN FAGES SNAG: GOBS MAKE RESCUE FROM U. S. S. RICHMOND Aerial Show, Fire Drill and Ship Inspections Among Attrac- tions for Throng. ’ With 137,040 persons visiting Washington Navy Yard yesterday for § & Tl ga S8k 538 H T §§§§e $EB, E3 1P i H 3 i i sl 3 gfiis 4 | | i g, 2 garmen who went overboard were in the ship's laundry and all | g EH T Special Legislation Will Be|" Required to Erect Roose- velt Memorial on Site. ‘The name of Analostan Island will be changed to Roosevelt Island, if legisla- tion now eontemplated by the National | re Capital Park and Planning Commission and the Roosevelt Memorial Association | dent 'and 1s enacted, it was learned today. ‘The present law does not permit the Roosevelt Association to operate in the area covered by Analostan Island, and will be necessary, today, to_turn the island Qper to the Pederal Government with | 814 that later & monument b Roosevelt is to be erected An Associated Press dispatch froi New York stated that the l(!mnfl: tion Board, at its annual meet- ing yesterday em birthday anni- versary of velt, voted to ?or:le“!:: the hmk wrhu:e Government @s & park. dispatch said the association, which recently pur- chased the island, reserves the right to construct & monument to Roosevelt on it at some future qme Not Yet Turned Over. Officials of the Office of Public Build- Parks to DELAYED TO MONDAY | = F.B2EERRERE %??EEEE%E INQUEST IN FATAL AUTO ACCIDENT IS OPENED An inquest into the death of Louise C. Prince, 50-year-old Veterans’ - Bureau clerk, of street. northeast, who expired at :;u“nnmm ,_was e opened by a coroner's Ssg EHH JeicE ¥ | e