Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-07
YOUNG COMMUNIST
HELD IN $500 BOND
Edith BriScoe, 10, Faces AS
Sault Charge After White
House Riot.
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what they considered unfair treatment
Of workers by the courts.
Those charged with disorderly con-
duct were Rhinehart Scheinbenhuber,
%, of Baltimore; William Phillips, II,
of the 400 block of Kenyon street; Miss
Sarah Deskin, 10, of the 1900 block of
Georgia avenue; her brother. Mischa
Deskin, 19; Solomon Harper, colored.
of WinSton-Salem N. c.: John Wor-
land, %, 1900 block of Harvard street,
and Albert Mallan, II, of the 1900
block of Seventh street; William Snow
den, 1900 block of Seventh street, and
Frank Phillips, of the 400 block of
Kenyon street William Lawrence is
charged with violating section S, article
5, OF the United States park regula-
tions.
The formal charge against him is
that "the said William Lawrence on
March at and on a certain public
space and reservation, comprising part
OF the park system of the District of
Columbia, to w.t. the gounds known as
the White House Grounds, unlawfully
did climb upon a certain fence and
structure ther situate
The other charges provide, Gin q GER
tain public reservation of the United
States known as and called Pennsyl-
vania avenue in front of the White
House did then and there use language
indecent, obscene words, and engage in
disorderly" conduct and did further en-
gage in disorderly conduct, to wit, fight
ing in said street, and engage In loud
and boisterous talking and other dis
orderly conduct"
Sent to Third Precinct.
All of those charged were locked up
in the third precinct station house after
the riot yesterday.
The demonstration at the White
House started when the parade, in
which 101 men, women and children
marched back and forth, displaying
placards calling attention to their al
legged grievances. After parading back
and forth several times in front of the
White House, Lawrence attempted to
make q speech and was arrested imme-
diately by policeman. A general fight
ensued Immediately, in which police and
civilians who had been watching the
parade joined against the demonstra-
tors. The disturbance was brought to
an abrupt end when one Of the police
men set on a tear gas bomb in the
crowd.
The gas promptly discussed the
crowd which had gathered to watch
the fight, and police, after suhduing
several of the demonstrators with black
jacks, took them away in patrol wagons.
One woman was knocked down and
trampled BY the fleeing spectators,
many OF whom believed the bomb had
been thrown by one Of the demon
Strators.
President Hoover, who had previously
instructed the police not to disturb the
paraderS unless they became disorderly,
remained at work in his ONCE q few
yards away throughout the disturbance.
Planned at Meeting.
The Avenue in front of the White
House was closed to traffic and three
loads of police reserves, after some diff
Guilty, succeeded in clearing the street
of the MONDAY crowds which gathered
to watch the disturbance.
Plans for the demonstration were
made yesterday morning at Commun-
ist meeting in the 1900 block of Seventh
street. This meeting was watched by
policemen from the second precinct. but
as there was no disorder they did not
attempt to break up the meeting.
Shortly before noon the demonstrators
went in small groups by street car to
the White House where they formed for
their parade.
After police had discussed the rioters.
one group of Communists marched