Evening star., 1932-03-30
Officials to Demand Uncondi-
tionaI Release and Police
Punishment Friday.
FOUR OF FIVE WOMEN
GO TO OCCOQUAN LATER
Thirty to Sixty Days Penalty After
Two-Day Trials in Anti-Japanese
Demonstration Last Week.

While Communist officials made plans
for a mass meeting here Friday night to
demand their unconditional release
10 so-called radicals today began serv-
ing their sentences of from 30 to go
days for having participated in q
demonstration In front Of the Japanese
embassy last Saturday.
Twelve Of the male members of the
group we're transferred from the Dis
trict Jail early today to Occoquan
Prison to serve their sentences. Three
other men, Albert Suskin, James L.
Kennedy and Ivan Kostraw, were held
at the District Jail to await trial April
6 on charges of assault growing out of
the fight the demonstrators staged with
police.
Maj. william L. Peak, superintendent
Of the jail, said he would transfer four
Of the five young women to Occo-
quan later in the week The fifth, Joan
Hardy, Is years old, of Baltimore will
be held in prison here until after her
trial on an assault charge with SuSkin,
Kennedy and Kastrow.
Bail Arrangements Fail
All arrangements for bail of $500
each for release of the prisoners pend
ing appeal of the case fell through
last night, Communist officials said to-
day. The following statement was is
sued:
"A mass meeting to protest against
the brutal attack by the police on the
demonstrators at the Japanese en-
bassy is called under joint auspices of
the International Labor Defense, the
Friends of the Soviet Union and the
Unemployed Councils of Washington.
THE meeting will be held at the
Musicians Hall, 1905 E street, Friday,
April /. The meeting will demand
the unconditional release of all ar
rested and the punishment of the po-
lice who attacked the demonstrators.
Resolutions will also be presented for
the release of the Kentucky mine strik-
erS and Tom Mooney"
After trials lasting two days, Judge
Ralph Given, in the District branch of
Police Court late yesterday, sentenced
the following to pay $500 fines or serve
so days for diSorderly conduct and
parading without a permit:
Ivan Ignatoff, Albert Sylvester. James
L. Kennedy. Albert Suskin, Joan Hardy,
Dorothy Dare, Rose Smith and Mary
Grossman.
Lesser Fines for 10.
Fines Of 500 or serve 80 days we're
imposed upon the following 10 for pa
rading without permit:
Lewis Williams, colored, the only
Washingtonian demonstration; Walter
G. Woods colcred; william Henry
BaragosS. B. M. Brown, Walter L. John
son. Pete G. Stergion, Charles A. Ed
wards. Donald E. Plynton, Elva Gray
son and Ivan Kostraw.
Stephen Rathajgzak, who said he was
a World War veteran and now drawing
disability allowance from the Gov
ernment, was sentenced to pay q fine
Of S25 or serve 80 days.
The charges against Ella Tyler, COL
ored, anS William Dorsey, colored, were
dismissed. The woman convinced the
court she had been misled, while evi-
dence against Dorsey failed to substan-
tiate the charge of vagrancy.
Judge Given said he was reluctant
to impose sentence upon the 10 defend
ants because, in his opinion, they had
been misguided" He asserted, how
ever, that the four women appeared to
be more informed Of Communist affairs
than the men.
He questioned each of the girls closely
as to her age and Affiliations with the
Communist party. Elva ,Grayson, 18
years Of, of Baltimore, insisted that she
was q stanch member of the Young
Communist party. Mary GroSsman,
Rose Smith and Dorothy Dare of Phila-
delphia are acknowledged Communists,
while the young Hardy girl was classed
by Federal investigators as merely q
thrill seeker"
Police Methods Upheld.
Judge Given told the defendants he
was only concerned with the charges
OF parading without permit and dis
orderly conduct, but that he upheld the
methods used by police in breaking up
the demonstration.
why should they take upon them
selves to demonstrate in front of an
embassy which the United States Gov
ernment is duty bound to protect?" he
questioned in his general remarks be-
fore imposing sentence. THE scene
that occurred may have led to a serious
situation" he added
Charles E. Ford, defense counsel, as
serted in his argument that the de-
PENDANTS had come here from all Sec
tions of the country to hold peaceful
demonstration and 'it was the conduct
of the Washington Police Department
that turned this affair into riot and
bloody riot at that"
Had not the police been the ag-
gressor, there would not have been vio-
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