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A—16 * | indicate a pre-conceived plan to em- | ploy force.” Police Exhibits Disregarded. HUUGHTEI'ING NEW The committee said many of. the N clubs, stones and pieces of scrap iron | which the police claimed the strikers | had used were collected by police after the clash from a nearby dump heap. A It quoted one witness, Robert Fleming, as saying he *'saw police pick up a milk bottle he had used to water his garden and about 20 sticks he had placed in his garden to use for MacCormack Successor Is Former Chicago News- tomato plants.” paper EXECUtIVE. “We must, therefore, disregard the President Roosevelt today nominated | Police exg};“-fi i de‘;mlmngxlhe 5 | question fore us,” the committee James L. Houghteling of Chicago to concluded. succeed the late Col. Daniel W. Mac~ In discussing the injuries to both Cormack as of immi- | sides, the report said: gration. “The nature of the police injuries Houghteling, former newspaper ex- l does not argue um_ the marchers put up any marked resistance to the po- lice: the medical testimony of the nature of the marchers’ wounds in- commissioner ecutive, is a cousin by marriage of the President. He is u son-in-law of n'ed—’ sric A. Delano, Mr. Roosevelt's uncle. Houghteling joined the staff of the New York Evening Post in 1920. He | went with the Chicago Daily News in | 1921, but left after a few months to | become chief editorial writer for the | Chicago Evening Post. In 1923 he re- Joined the Chicago Daily News and | was vice president and treasurer from 1927 to 1931, At the time of the Russian revolution in 1917 Houghteling was an American Embassy attache. He wrote “A Diary of the Russian Revolution.” A Yale University graduate, Hougi- teling is a member of the Illinois Com- | mittee on Immigration and Naturaliza- | tion The President also nominated Clin- ton E. MacEachran of Magachusmsi for promotion from the grade of con- sul in the foreign service to Consul General. He has been chief clerk of the State Department for five vears. MecEachran has been in the State Department’s service for 27 years. He | has served as consul at Madrid, | Antwerp and Ghent. La Follette (Camlwzmm 7&?_&59 ) missiles from the rear ranks of the marchers “We believe that it might have been l possible to disperse the crowd without the use of weapons.” The committee went on: “Uncon- tradicted photographic and oral evi- | dence, corroborated by the admissions of the police themselves, established | that their treatment of the injured | was characterized by the most careless | indifference to human life and suf- | fering. No First Aid Given. “Wounded prisoners of war might have expected and received greater solicitude. “By the frank admission of all the police, no attempt whatsoever was | the Republic plant dicates that they were shot in flight. » Self-Defense Claim Scouted. “Common sense tells us that shoot- ing in the air cannot explain 40 gun- shot wounds, the majority of them in the back “The alternative theory of the police that they shot in self-defense * * * is likewise refuted by the medical, photographic and oral evidence.” The committee cited testimony that one patrolman, 50 to 65 ds behind the police lines and “safely screened from the marchers by a fence,” took “deliberate aim and fired at the backs of the retreating crowd.” “Any evidence that shots were fired from the crowd has been discredited,” the committee declared. The purpose of the strike stration, it continued, wa lish “‘peaceful picketin; rs” demon- to estab- in front of The police com- missioner “enforced no settled policy on picketing,” it said, “since the place | of picketing and the number of pick- ets were mainly dependent upon the caprice of commanding police officers.” Either One of Two Conclusions. “When the strikers attempted to increase the number of pickets or the effectiveness of their picketing, the police offered varying resistance,” the committee asserted The committee concluded that po- lice violence in breaking up the dem- onstration “must be ascribed either to gros® inefficiencqy in the per- formance of police duty or a deliberate effort to intimidate the strikers.” The police department’s investiga- tion of the clash, it reported, was “entirely inadequate, because it start- ed with an assumption of guilt on the part of the marchers and filed to make any impartial examination of the conduct of the police “The entire effort of the police was directed, not toward an impartial in- vestigation of the event, but to an attempt to build up a case against the marchers made to render first aid on the field. * * * Wounded and dying strikers were unceremoniously thrown into police | patrols along with uninjured prisoners. “The record shows that each patrol wagon was equipped with a stretcher, Yet the evidence is clear that not a single stretcher was employed to re- move the wounded from the field “Indeed, as the photographs estab- lshed, the police dragged seriously wounded. unconscious men along the ground with no more care than would | be employed on a common drunkard.” Pictures Are Presented. The report was voluminously illus- trated with pictures taken by press photographers and excerpts from a newsreel. It declared “a number of the police ermed themselves with hatchet han- dles, apparently obtained from the plant” and that Capt. James L. Mooney, police commander, did not know. where his men obtained the tear gas they threw. “Np gas owned by, the police de- partrent was employed,” the commit- tee added, while the Republic steel | plant was “abundantly supplied” with | Rgas bombs. Some of the strike demonstrators| earried sticks. clubs or other similar weapons, the report said, but “the arm- ing of the crowd was not so general that it can be attributed to any pre- eonceived design to assault the police.” “Thus, the evidence not only refutes #he police charge that the parade as- sumed a military character, but es- Mablishes, on the contrary, that it tacked all the elements which would | PRODUCTS [+) e Cod 3“dn(§a.iasv adroitty ; ourishing cook: 'g per” o eat Sumsmes 5 1o €& fect meal: Go 3 PREE o Gore Dishes: T Glou Fisheric® o recive P07 gih e\ Dl Pew . Made from Fan—;oui GORTON'S CODFISH THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1937. MEDAL AWARDS SOUGHT FOR FEDERAL EMPLOYES Pro- poses Honor for Services to Representative Sparkmian Science or Humanity. By the Associated Press. Representative John J. 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