Evening Star Newspaper, January 15, 1932, Page 10

A—10 = THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D.. Q.. FRIDAY, = JAI BRUTALITY TRIAL | 10 RESUME_N[]UNDI\Y1 Testimony Against Clark and Bremmermann Will Con- ¢ tinue. Justice P. Dickinson Letts has taken | @ recess until Monday morning in the trial of Policemen Charles R. Bremmer- mann and Hollis H. Clark, now under | suspension pending & jury's verdict on | charges of assaulting a 17-year-old col- ored prisoner, Thomas McKeever Wil- liams, on three successive days last| June at the old second precinct sta- tion Two other policemen, one designated Popeye” and the other as “Smiley ed in the testimony of Williams and the five other colored youths, who have told the j since Monday, of alleged beatings that Bremmermann and Clark had given them on repeated occasions to force confessions of house- breaking and petty thievery. Some of the youths now are serving short sen- | tences for their offenses. | Three More to Testify. At least three more youths will be put | on the stand when the trial resumes | Monday to tell about the setting-up ‘exercises through which they claim the two accused policemen put them through in the self-conve: “ i " at the station hous ted to the jui as have fig1 A. Gallagher and John R. Fitzpatri how they stood on their toes with arms extended in the locker room. An oak stick, a black- | jack and fists were used freely upon them, they testified, to keep them “on their toes.” The policeman designated as “Smiley,” the boys testified, came into the locker Toom during the setting-up exercises, which Bremmermann was said to have characterized as his “kindergarten class.” He looked on for a momen it was charged, and then “took a pok at the boys with the oak stick. “Popey merely poked his head in the door, the ed, to see what was going on Boys Stick to Stories, The boys have all stuck stories about the beatings, under | which it is alleged that Williams, the Government's _comolaining witness. | finally collapsed. William is now serv- ing a six-month sentence for joy-riding Defense attorneys. on the other | hand, have caught the boys in various | omissions of fact and discrepancies in | an endeavor to discredit their testi- mony. Yesterdav afternoon Justice Letts de- ¢ided to let the daily hearings con- tinue until 4 o'clock in the afternoon adding an extra hour, in order to ex- pedite the trial. It is hardly likely that the case will go to the jury before the | end of next week HAITIAN L.OANS HIT to their Colored Association Asks Probe of | Bonds Held in U. 8. ‘The National Association for the Ad- vancement of Colored People today | made public a statement sent to Chair- man Smoot of the Senate Pinance Com- | mittee. urging the committee to inquire into Haitian loans floated and held in this country. The association’s letter contends that the dealings with Haiti are “a challenge | to international law and a violation of the rudimentary dictates of political porality” The statement includes a| fist of 18 questions which the associa- tion wants the Finance Committee to go into in connection with the loans. | We request the return pf amything that cam be bought for less elsewhere Exceptional quality felts in newest snap-brim models. Tans, Browns and Greys, in all sizes. Don't Miss it! Also .+ A Special S Marylan Salisbury SHIRTS 69¢ 13y to 17 ale of Collar- attached and neck- ban d s plain shades and ripes. All sizes, 910 7th. STNW ROBBERY VICTIM TAPS IN VAIN 1 FOR AID DURING RADIO THRILLER Pharmacist, Locked in Room and Relieved of $50 by Unmasked Pair, Discovered by Woman. Locked vp by robbers at 1742 Penn- sylvania avenue last night, Dr. John L. Krick had to compete with a radio mystery thrille#or the attention of his neighbors. And, after a strenuous interval of window-tapping with a fishing pole, Dr. Krick had to admit that his real life drama was taking second place. Two unmasked white men drew guns on Dr. Krick on entering his pharmacy, locked him in a rear room and escaped with $50 from the cash register. “The victim clambered through a win- ENDURANCE MARK IS SET BY AKRON The veil of military secrecy drawn by the Navy around the first military m sion of the U. S. S. Akron, giant new Navy dirigible, early this week, was partially ripped aside today to re new endurance record for American airships. During her mission the Akron was in the air continuously for approximately 62 hours, it was learned today No announcement has been made by the Navy Department of the flight which is regarded as one of the most important in recent airship histo; During her cruise, in which the Akron operated jointly with the scouting fleet. she is believed to have gone out over the Atlantic as far as Bermuda The Akron left Lakehurst Naval Air | dow into & tiny court, seized a fishing pole standing in a corney there and be- | gan to pound on an upstairs window. | But_the occupant of the apartment | above was 5o absorbed with his radio he did not hear, and Dr. Krick was liberated a considerable time later by a | woman who chanced to see him while | passing through a lower corridor of the | adjoining building. | The druggist notified police of No. 3| precinct and lookouts were broadcast | from descriptions which he furnished. | The neighbor explained he thought the tapping was part of the mystery program Station at 4:3¢ pm. Saturday and headed out into the Atlantic under secret orders. Since that time there has been no public announcement made by the Navy Department concerning her mission. No position reports were made at any time during the cruise and there was no definite word of her course learned until today, when the Navy De- partment admitted that at noon Mon- day the Akron radioed that she had -ompleted her mission and was on the way back to Lakehurst. Her position at that time was given as 500 miles at sea east of St. Augustine, Fla. Landing at Lakehurst the next day Tuesday, the Akron complcted a flight exceeding by approximately 14 hours her 48-hour trial, required under the construction contract, and setting a new all-time American airship record Railways of South Africa are impos- ing further restrictions on competing bus and truck lines. | Minister SOCIALISTS GIRDED 0 0PPOSE LAVAL |Premier Sets New Cabinet| to Work as Parleys Draw Near. By the Associated Press. 3 PARIS, January 15—Premier Pigrre Laval launched his new-born cabinet into the work of preparing for the criti- cal conferences on reparations and dis- armament today, with the possibility of trouble from the left wing of the French Chamber. Socialist Deputies, ardent supporters of the peace policies of retiring Foreign Aristide Bfiand, announced they would interpellate the premier on his foreign policy as soon as possible. Hopes to Aid Successor. M. Briand, who stepped aside on ac- count of illness, told his young succes- sor in the foreign affairs post that he would collaborate with him in some form yet to be determined. But it appeared from the communique jssued by Premier Laval that M Briand’s support would not be in the form of taking a post as “minister of state” without portfolio, as the premier had originally planned. M. Briand said, according to the an- nouncement, that he was “causing to be studied by his juridical and diplomatic collaborators the form in which his collaboration might eventually be en- vicazed.” This was interpreted to mean that the veteran statesman intends to take a long rest and that thereafter he might resume his position as France's perma- nent representative at the League of 1 | ‘ Natfons or go to the international con- | | ferences as France's delegate extraordi- | nary. | Praise Choice of Tardieu. “The premier had a talk with Senator Joseph Paul-Boncour, to whom he first offered the foreign ministry portfolio, and it was announced tF had dis- | cussed the disarmament parl | Boncour would be a member of French delegation, of War Andre Tardieu. The nationalist and moderate press | the | choice of M. Tardieu in his new poq-‘ was unanimous in applauding tion. Camille Aymard, editor of La Liberte, said no one was tetter equipped | the task of | France's chief representative at the disarmament conference and thus “dis- pel the red fogs gathering on the Rhine and beclouding the horizon.” | | ‘lhnn he to accomplish | HOLD-UP OF GROCERY Police Told of Pistol Battle Be- tween Hyman Goldstein and Colored Men. Two colored men, one said to have been carrying a pistol, were arrested by police early today as suspects in the | hold-up of Hyman Goldstein, owner of a grocery store at 1633 Twelfth stre at the point of a pistol last night Goldstein engaged in a running pistol | battle with the two men after they had robbed him of $15 in the s As soon as the men left Goldstein procured a pistol and went in search of them. Discovering them in a sedan in an alley nearby, he fired two shots and one of the men returned the fire they sped away. Goldstein gave police & description of the men. He was to view the men arrested later today to see if he could identify them. ore. as This was construed to mean that M. Paul- | the niaded o aniser Key Witnesses in Edith Riley Hearings officials |officials to determine if there s any | be‘called as witnesses negligence in child care under the Wel- TWO ARRESTS FOLLOW | made and that there is no chance that the subcommittee will be able to make its report to the Hduse District Com- mittee for several weeks Representative Bowman and Repre- sentative Black of New York, are the other members of the subcommittee. WRITER’S FATHER. DIES 1932, fare Bureau or other District govern- ment agency that should be corrected as a result of the disclosures in the D NEG IGENEE | Edith Riley case are to start Tuesday |at 2 pm. | Chairman Palmisano of a special sub- | committee of the House District Com- mittee appointed to make this studv as a result of a resolution introduced s | by Representative Frank L. Bowman of | West Virginia, today sent out invita- | tions to key witnesses, but stated that he proposes to hear all those whase | testimony may be helpful. The letters were sent today to Mrs Mary H. Bayles, chief probation officer | of the Juvenile Court: Mrs. Jeanette Ezekials. in charge of the Juve Michael Strange’s Parent Succumbs at Newport, R. I, Home. NEWPORT, R. I, January 15 (#).— Charles M. Oelrichs. 73, prominent for many years in the Newport s |- Court Inquiry Department and Sergt |ony, died today after ll\'«() ‘l’;.lco':l:.!l{‘lscofgf | Rhoda _Milliken of the Woman's Bu- |illness. He leaves three children, Mrs. reau. Subsequently George S. 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