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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-27

Paul Henry, 20, OF 800 Eighteenth
street today charged that he was the
victim Of police brutality of the third
precinct on August 8 at the hands Of
some unnamed officer
Henry said today he was arrested by
a park policeman when he took row.
boat from It's moorings ct the Tidal
Basin wall and went fishing early In
the morning Of August 9. This police
man, he said. twisted his arm behind
his back and when he tried to break
away they both fell to the ground. The
park policeman called the patrol wagon
and took him to the third precinct
and charged him with intoxication, as
sault and disorderly conduct.
Henry says he spent the night In q
cell at the third precinct station and that
while he was there a large, heavy-set
policeman told him he had committed
a robbery. and kept slapping him every
time he made denial. The officer tore
his shirt of him, he said, and beat him
on the legs with a club Then he made
Henry stand up and threw about 20
glasses Of water at him through the cell
door.
Later the same officer accused him
OF stealing automobiles, Henry said, and
continued slapping him. The officer
hit him on the head with a billy. and
raised . large lump there, Henry
charged.
Later the same policeman returned
with physician. according to Henry's
story, and told the medico that Henry
had tried to hang himself with his shirt.
Henry said he denied this and told the
physician that the policeman had torn
his shirt on.
After the physician had left the
policeman came back and slapped him
again for making the statement to the
doctor,
Henry says that the next day he
forfeited $40 collateral on the three
charges. There are no charges pending
against him now, he said, and he
therefore has no interest In making
the statement relating to his treat
ment.
He said that he did not know the
poIiceman's name, but was quite sure
he could identify him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-27
"a Policemen Give
Inspectors Version
OF Harker Charges

The "a policemen and jani-
tor on duty at the first precinct
when James HaFker is alleged to
have been beaten last Saturday
and who have given statements to
the police inspectors are.
Capt. william T.. Holmes.
Lieut.. j. III. Lee.
Sergts. w. y. Haislip, E. p.
Myers, Fl. C.. Biackmar, A. S.
Bohrer, G. A. MusselInan and
Bert Sheldon.
Privates r. NJ Dierkoph, o. L.
Curtis, r.. p. Kelley, w. j Cam
field, #. n. Tierney, O. D. Ro-
gers, II. o. Pfalzgraif, +. w.
HoweS, George Weaver, w. ?.
Dineen. Ambrose Brown, w. d.
Southland, p. O. Withers, j. II.
Murphy, M. p. Lewis, b. q. WiI-
liams and virgil Brigham. janitor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-27
Text of Presidents Letter

President letter to the Department of Justice
inquiry charges hirddegree methods in the
Metropolitan Police Department follows
Il glad to approve in the special circumstances Of the
relation to the District of Columbia that
Department Justice should accede to the request of the
District Commissioners for aid in investigation of recent charges
against certain members of the Washington police.
must not overlook the fact that Washington
able devoted police force The vast majority OF its
should protected by determining there
worthy possible that occasional
individuals may overstepped the law and humanity
of criminals and those charged with crime and
should severely punished But even In such charges the
police should be preudged the allegations OF criminals
although of crime There too much ten
dency part people forget the devoted work of
police forget the safety of society and victims OF criminals
out sympathy with criminals themselves"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-27
SIS, 900 LIBEL UPHELD
Decision in Paterson, N. J., Press
Row Is Sustained,

NEW YORK. August ~ (P).-
Supreme Court Justice Alfred Franken-
thaler today sustained the contention Of
Bernard H Ridder and his brothers,
Joseph z. and Victor F., that Harry B.
Haines, publisher Of the Paterson
IN. j. Evening News, Mbeled them In
an effort to drive them out of the pub
fishing business In Paterson.
The Riders were awarded SOS, 900 in
damages IN their suit for 81 ,Oc0, 900.
They are owners Of chain OF news
papers in the East and Middle West.
including the New York Stats zeitung
and the Paterson Press Guardian.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-27

cap. the record states were removed
at the time The report says the
prisoner remained awake and unat-
tended In q ward inside Of said Cas-
uaity Hospital" while the ofIicer slept.
The report also said that the ofiicer
failed to report for duty between mid
night on July and o'clock the fol-
lowing morning.
The Trial Board found him guilty
and imposed A fne of $50.
During tie next esfyeral months the
Police department recelEed complaints
that he failed to pay two debts.
Five commentators for 'exccllent
performance Of duty involving the ar
cited b the record.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-27
PAYS HEAVY TAX
Woman Gives County Treasurer 80
Pounds Of silver Dollars.

TOLEDO, Ohio, August 2T G49.--
Paced with a county tax deficit. because
Of recent bank failures. County Treas
ufer Grant Northrup WIS 50 elated yes
terday when Lille Clark wanted TO pay
her taxes that he offered 70 take them
IN pennies
She compromised and lugged IN two
racks 81 NIper dollars weighing 20 and
haif pounds, amounting 70 $500 SYM
Dathefie, Northrup counted out 9lse
change Ia curTeney.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-27
EvAL. YIN KNAPP LEARNING
TO WALK WITHOUT HELP
Film Actress, Hurt in Fall Over
Cliff, Spent Two Months in
Plaster Cast.

BY the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD, Calf, August al
Eyalyn Knapp, young motion picture
beauty, is learning to walk again.
She Is taking her first steps unaided
since her fall over q cliff two months
ago while hiking in the Hollywood
hills. The plaster cast In which she
spent weeks helpless on q hospital bed
was removed recently.
IT find I can go q little farther each
day" she said, although it is still
necessary to have a nurse close by. It
will take q great deal Of walking to
forget these last two months in that
cast"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-27
BAND CONCERTS.

BY the United States Soldiers Home
Band this evening at the handstand al
$50 o'clock. John zimmerman. band
master; Anton Pointner, assistant.
March. Coronation From the
FTopheb ....s............ Meyerbeer
overture, Tancredp ........ Rossini
Ballet suite, Ballet Pantomime, " Lacome
Melange. Songs From the Old
Fox trOt, Now you're in My " : .AAA'
valse iente. aCaressante" 49,. Lambert
Finale, Noisy Billr Losey
The star Spangled Banner"
BY the United States Marine Band
this evening at the sylvan Ti1eater,
Monument Grounds, at 7:30 o'clock.
Taylor HransOn, leader Arthur Wit
comb second leader.
March. washington High
Overture, 'Ieonore. No. s.. Beethoven
Cornet solo
Fantasie Capriecioso'' .,..... Kemp
Musician Winfred Kemp,
Hungarian Rhapsody No, 2....... Liszt
Dance of the Tumblersr from 'The
Snow Maiden" RimSky Korsakow
Xylophone solo
Musician Wilbur y. Kieffer.
Nocturne, dreams Of Love- 49,. .Liszt
"reminiscences Of Beriioz. 4. Godfrey
Marines hymn
Tne Halls ct Monteznnin.s
The Star Spangied Banner.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-27
FoUR AMERIcANs FREED.
Had Been Held In Cuba as Suspected
Rebel Supporters.

The American embassy at Havana
has advised the State Department that
four Americans held as suspected rebel
supporters had been released.
The names of the four, who were de-
tanned August 20, were Alfred walter.
New York City; Isadore Miller. New
York City; James Russo, BROOKLYN. ana
George =. Fraser, Boston.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-27
200 HELD BY RUSSIANS
Polish Peasants Seeking Work
Across Border Despite Guard.

MOSCOW, August 81 up. - Dis
patches from Minsk today said Soviet
frontier guards in the past 10 days had
arrested more than 200 Polish peasants
crossing the border into Russia looking
for work
In one day, the report said, lat en-
tered Russian territory after skirmlsh
with the Polish border guard, who fired
on them and pursued them across the
frontier Two grenades hurled by Pol
ish soldiers. the dispatch said, exploded
in Russian territory
Most of the refugees" were described
as young men, and 1t was said that the
movement across the border is .ncreas-
ing. There has been no indication as
to what viii be done with them, but it
is expected they viii be permitted to
remain in Russia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-27

Continued From First Page.)
the New York City administration. The
vote in both Houses was on party lines.
The bills will be sent to the Governor
today and the way viii be open for
Rooseveit's unemployment relief mes
sage on Friday. The special session
convened Tuesday.
Spokesman for Tammany.
Drnnigan, who has been the spokes-
man for the New York City Democratic
organization IN its Tight against the
legislative investigatiO into TammanY
once holders, viii reveal, he said. de-
tailed instances Of alleged corruption
in upstate Republican communities
Dunnigan Hnsuccessfully sought TO
have Gov. Roosevelt iaclude an up
state elean-up plea n his message.
Mark my WORDS" said Dunnigari,
shaking his finger at the silent ma
jority side of the Senate, "just as our
sturdy forefathers administered a re-
buke to George III and his Hsssians.
just so viii you see those who have
tried to probe into affairs that didn't
concern them-with the sole purpose
Of making political capital-will receive
. lesson that win not soon be for
gotten"
Throughout his denunciation Of the
New York inquiry Dunnigan made no
direct reference to Gov. Roosevelt, but
there were passages that might have
been pointed at the executive chamber
on the floor below the legislative halls
Gov Roosevelt Is regarded as q likely
candidate for the Democratic nomina-
ton for the presidency and his rela-
tionship with Tammany may determine
the possibility Of his being able to take
the States IS votes to next years party
convention.
One Objection Heard.
The two bills that Travelled through
committees and the Legislature pro-
PEELED by the Republican majority re-
store to the H0fstadter committee, Of
which Samuel Seabury Is counsel, the
power to grant immunity TO witnesses
who viii relate their part in question:
able practices The Court Of Appeals
held the committee had illegally re-
ceived the power in a concurrent reso-
luton creating the investigatory body.
The Assembly heard only one objec-
ton TO the bills, Louis A. Cuviilier, New
York Democrat, objecting that they
were unconstitutional. The Republican
Speaker overruled him.
Gov. RoOsevelt's unemployment re-
lief plan. completed, Is closely guarded.
It viii erary definite relief provisions, he
said, requiring money. Increased tax
alton is likely, probably, Some observers
believe. In the upper brackets of the
income taxes above $4,000. Imposts on
cigarettes and cosmetics have been
mentioned as sources Of the S25, 600. 900
needed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-27
Seven Dead in Storm

BELGRADE, Jugoslavia, August n
t41.-Seven persons were dead today
ana numerous others were injured a
the result OF a severe storm which swept
Herzegovina.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-27
CLERK DIES SUDDENLY
Miss Leila Johannes Found Uncon-
scious in Apartment.

Miss Leila Johannes, 80, Census Blu.
reau clerk. died suddenly yesterday In
her apartment at 2Oi8 / street She
was found unconscious BY Mrs. G. w.
Curtis, resident manager Of the apart
ment house. who summoned Q physician
from Emergency Hospital. Miss Jo-
hannes died before the doctors arrival
Coronef j. Ramsay leVitt issued .
certificate Of death from natural causes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-27
WOOD THREATENS
PAY OF POLICEMEN
WHO ABUSE POWER

CONTINUED IRON First Page.l
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-27
TIGER SEEKS PEACE
WITH ROOSEVELT AS
INSURGENCY LOOMS

Continued From First Page.)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-30
No One Fooled

Having lost their struggle to defeat the
old age pension measure in the lower house,
Bourbon minds which concoct fears for
frightened business men are now attempting
to kill this movement in the senate by lies
and Misrepresentation
The big fear, Of course, is taxes The
people are told that to pass an old age pension
measure means bankruptcy. The people are
told that in this county alone it will cost
million dollars year and in the state as
whole, probably five or six millions.
Were these figures true, it pictures a
state of poverty and privation that would
make the bill even more necessary than it is.
Of course, it is not true. There is greater
probability that the measure would reduce
the cost of caring for the aged unfortunates.
1t is certainly true that it would permit aged
couples no longer self-supporting, to end
their days together and not be condemned
for the double crime of growing old and be-
ing poor.
If there be criticism of the measure as
passed by the house, it is that it is too con-
servative and too stringent in it's safeguards
of tax funds.
In order to obtain pension the citizen
must have lived for a long period of time in
the county in which he applies
He or she must have reached the age of
IS and possess not over $1,000.
Any person who applies for pension
turns over all property owned by the appli-
cant to the county.
Are there 5000 men and women of that
age who are unable to support themselves
and who have not saved the sum of $4,000?
Are there that number who need help in
their old age and who would put aside what
ever pride may have to be sacrificed in order
to obtain aid?
Those who are fighting this bill SANDER
the state and the present economic system
if they say that it produces such results
They do not flatter the senators by such alb
surd appeals to fear.
A casual reading of the old age pension
bill should convince any senator worthy of
a seat that here is tax-saving measure as
well as new step in humane treatment of
the aged and the poor.
1t is time to quit making poverty crime
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-30
REASON BY FREDERICK flaSn1S

IN the next congress an effort will be made to lib
eralize the rules of the house of representatives
SO that majority may transact business.
This is sane proposition, particularly in gov
eminent that's supposed to be representative of
free people.
In the early days of the republic, two statesmen
discussed the future of congress.
AS they talked, they were drinking tea, and one
OF them poured some tea into his saucer, and said
The senate will serve a saucer and we will pour
the hot legislation of the house into the senatorial
saucer &C cool it."
But In recent practice, it has worked the other
way, and under its iron rules the house has become
the saucer and into 1t has been poured the iegisa-
ton, passed by the senate and there it has stayed
until three leaders consented that it could come up
for consideration.
IT'S easy to understand how foreign nations form
the idea that we jazz people, particularly if
they happened to read any of metropolitan papers
during the trial of Clara Bows secretary for it occu-
pied the headlines to the exclusion Of everything else
The duchess de Guise announces that soon the
French people will call her and the duke to the throne
If she win glance over the pages of the French rev.
olution she'll decide that her toppiece is safer Just
where she is
IT'S said President Curtis win abdicate the tail
OF the presidential ticket in S2 and for his old seat
In the senate preferrng freedom Of speech to the s-
locating silence Of his present job.
A ND there's dash of human nature in his alleged
n desire to get back the place he relinquished to
with Hoover.
Henry Allen who succeeded him by appointment
and then was beaten last fall when he ran for the
nnexpired TERM long has been at swords points with
Curtis and it would make the Curtis heart joyous to
keep Allen out of it for keeps.
The defeat Of Henry Allen was Xss to the senate
and to thz country he being the mck@ brilliant man
Kansas Ms offered to public Life since the sointiating
John y. ingalls,.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-30
DAILY HEALTH ---
Glaucoma Is Serious Disease of Eye
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

glasses to overcome his condition
without helping him very much.
Finally he comes to the attention
of some one who understands dis
eases of the eye. This expert will
measure the amount of tension that
exists in the eyeball and find it too
greatly increased.
Now the pain becomes worse, and
associated with this condition more
disturbance of vision. In the end, IL
becomes necessary to perform
operations on the eyes and, In some
cases, even to remove the eye to
take care of the agonizing pain and
the associated disorders.
Cause of this disease is unknown,
although it's mechanism Is fairly
well understood. It results from the
fact that fluid which pours into the
eye does not escape with equal
speed.
1t, therefore, becomes damned up
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-30
Preamble, at Least

ONLY yesterday mother called
~ me up and said that her small
son, now 10 months old, had been
left alone in his playroon1 with a
current newspaper and that he had
seized upon the Wickersharn report
and both cilewed and swallowed It..
Sch seemed distraught With anxiety.
What shall I do?" she pleaded.
do nothing, madame" I advised
her. "Just wait a day or So and
somebody in Washington who
speaks with authority will take 1t
back"
In all fairness to Herbert Clark
Hoover, it should be pointed out
that in the past executives have
been known to send up trial bal
looms, and to impart information
through spokesman" but this test
ing of the velocity and direction Of
the wind was done before the issu-
ing of any definite statement.
Hoover is the first to make the
process Of coming out fiatfootedly
and retreating little hearted
ly a part of his daily exercise.
But 1t seems an ill-devised GYM
nastic maneuver. At any rate,
there Is no evidence that 1t
strengthens the lower abdomen.
In the year 1928 Hoover was nom
mated by the Republican party for
the exalted Office Of President and
he prepared a speech of acceptance
in which he touched lightly upon
the issues Of the campaign.
1t was not exactly what might be
called a ringing document, but upon
one point the attitude of the candi-
date seemed wholly plain.
In speaking of prohibition he
said: II do not favor repeal of the
eighteenth amendment. Modi-
fcation of the enforcement laws
which would permit that which the
Constitution forbids is notification.
This the American people will not
countenance."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-30

or congested within the organ and
because of the excess pressure there
Is serious pain.
Excess pressure on sensitive
tissue, such as that of the nerves
which control the sense of vision,
causes them to break down and
degenerate, with the result that
pressure over any considerable
length of time must injure the
nerves permanently and cause COM
plete loss of vision.
Obviously a correct diagnosis
early in the condition means a
great deal for the saving of sight
and even more for control of the
serious pain and pressure which
may affect the body generally.
The eye is one of the most highly
complicated and delicate of all me-
charlisrn in the human body. It
deserves far more serious care than
is given to the highest priced watch
or the most costly motor car.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-30
SCIENCE
Inventions of Remarkable No-
tire Are Expected Within
Neat Ta0enty Years.
BY DAVID DIETZ
ID EMARKABLE inventions and

II EMARKABLE inventions and
N engineering developments,
dwarfing the present day wonders
of electricity and aviation are ex-
tremely likely to occur within the
next twenty years as result OF the
rapid advances in theoretical and
"pure" science made in the Last
twenty years.
That is the opinion of DR.. G. &.
K. Mees, director OF research and
development Of the Eastman Kodak
Company.
''The engineering triumphs of the
recent past have been based on the
physics OF the nineteenth century,
he says. VERY little application has
yet been made of the physics of the
twentieth century, the new atomic
physics, which is being discussed in
its astronomical aspects by Millikan,
Eddington, and Jeans, and in Its
chemical aspects by Rutherford and
Aston.
with growing knowledge of the
structure of the atom. new sources
of power will be developed and
fundamental, new discoveries in
engineering will be made.
up to the present, the only inn
portant application of this great
field of physics is the radio. One
immediate development that can be
seen is the improved transmission of
electric power"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-30
New VistaS Ahead

XXTHAT are we likely to do when
w the new knowledge Of the
atom, ''the new physics" as it is
called, is applied to engineering. DR..
Mees asks.
81 doubt if any scientific man will
dare prophecy in this field" he says,
by way of answer to his own ques-
ton.
1.-THE only thing certain is that
there will be applications of the
new physics in engineering and that
those applications will open entirely
new vistas and be radically differ
ent from all previous experience.
IN one narrow field some Of the
work of the new physics has been
applied. The fact that hot body
gives off particles of electricity or
that these electric units can be
driven out of materials by the i'm
pact Of light has produced the valve
tubes and photo electric cells, which
have enabled us to amplify electric
currents and to transform light into
electricity, so that there has been
developed from these discoveries the
great modern amusement industries
depending on the production and
amplification of sound.
1.-THE radio and the talkies are a
first earnest of what me may ex-
pect when the engineer is able to
apply the physics of the twentieth
century.
1.-THE greatest revolution which
science could produce in human af-
fairs would, of course, come from an
entirely new source Of power"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-30
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SHOOTING OF GOV. GOEBEL
Jan. 80

SnOOAANG OF GOFs GOEBEL
Jan. 80
ON Jan. 80, 1900, Governor viii
" liam Goebel of Kentucky was
shot by an assassin in front of the
state capitol.
The preceding June, GoebeI
was nominated for Governor by
the Democratic party. Seeding
Democrats nominated John Y.
Brown. AS a result, the Repub-
lican candidate, w. S. Taylor, was
elected by about 1900 votes.
Goebel, however, contested the
election, and a legislative COM
mittee was about to report in his
favor when he was shot.
The Democratic members of the
legislature Immediately declared
Goebel Governor, and the oath Of
office was administered to him on
Jan. 81. He died the following
Feb. 3.
Goebel had won a reputation as a
trial lawyer and a state senator. In
1897 he secured the passage of the
2"Goebel law" relieving the courts of
all power in the appointment Of
election officials, and creating a
state election commission Of three
members. chosen by the legislature,
which should have the power to APP
point local boards OH the same
principle.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-30

him as the angel of aridity, while in
The east several editors explained
that he was not really dry, but
merely a great engineer With an
= oen mind.
The trick worked then, and it is
not for nothing that G. o. P. Is rep
resented as an elephant. The party
contains many who do not forget,
and so strategem similar in every
way just has been executed.
He added that he saw serious OBJ
lection to and must not be under
stood as recommending the commits
Sion's proposed revision" for possible
consideration at some future time
If enforcement failed.
And to top it off the President
spoke of his personal duty to stand
by the amendment and its attend
ant laws without equivocation or
reservation"