Smyrna times., 1932-12-07
MARCHERS RIOT
IN WILMINGTON
Three Of EEain Group Sent to
WOrkhOuse After Friday
Nights Riot
DROP SOME CHARGES

After sleeping in scattered se-
tio2s Of Philadelphia. nearly
thousand demonstrators left Fl-
day for Washington to present
petitions for relief. They spent
the night at Philadelphia. these
'marcheTs" from New York and
New England after a meet ng al
Reyburn Plaza, opposite City Han.
and after two of their representa-
tives had appeared before CITY
Council and urged unemployment
aid appropriations Most Of them
slept in the mill districts Of Ken
sington and Manayunk when Lead
ers were unable to find Mayor J
Hampton Moore and Public Safety
Director Kern Dodge in their Of
fees. These leaders had planned
to ask the city officials for Shelter
for the marchers. The police made
no attempt to interfere with the
Reyburn Plaza meeting nor with
another demonstration in Ontario
Square in the northern section Of
the city, confning their efforts to
keep traffic moving Wilmington
was scheduled as the first stopping
place of the demonstrators riding
in trucks and touring cars, as they
departed Friday Although sever
al belated truck loads Of hunger
marchers passed through Whining
ton Friday the only ones who re-
mained were Benjamin Gold, Of
New York, Leon Saginor,o of Boston
and Cary Carlson, of New York
who are in the New Castle County
Workhouse in default of bail for
an appeal All three were sent
enced to short terms and fined by
Judge Lynn in Municipal Court
aturday for attacking policemen
during the riot Friday night The
trucks that passed through Friday
were filed with negroes and were
accompanied by coupe covered
with placards and signs announc-
ing they were part of the hunger
army.
Sing "InternatiOnale"
The principal group of the hung
er marchers left Wilmington at II
o'clock on Saturday morning sing
ing the "Internationale" and fling
ing taunts at the police. They
were escorted to the city line by
city police and to the State line by
State police and from there to Bal
timore by Maryland State Police.
David Levinson, a Philadelphia at
torney affiliated with the Interna-
tional Labor Defense League, de-
Tended the % marchers who were
given hearings in Municipal Court.
Several Were Fined
Gold was found guilty of strik-
ing Policeman Webb on the head
with a bottle and was fined $50
and sentenced to 40 days imprison-
ment. He gave notice of appeal.
Mike BrisIak, of New York, who
was said to have punched an offlc-
er, was fined $40. Leon Saginor OF
Boston. was fined $1OO, and sent
enced to three months imprison-
ment on a charge of cutting Po-
liceman Lennon severely with
bottle. He also appealed. Carl
Carlson. of New York, alleged to
have struck Policeman Krauss
with a chair, was fined S1OO and
sentenced to three months imprls-
onment. He also gave notice OF
appeal.
Drop Charges Against IL
Disorderly conduct charges
against thirteen other men and
women who were arrested, were
dropped. A charge Of carrying a
concealed deadly weapon against
Telesphon Gasselon was retired. II
was found that a razor in his pos
session was in a case at the time
of his arrest, and his explanation
that he carried it to shave himseh
and some Of his companions lea 70
the dropping of the charge. how
ever, he was fined 81 and costs on
disorderly conduct charge An
of the disorderly conduct charges
against the defendants were oaseu
upon their alleged shouting, ours
ing and singing songs abusing the
policemen. Assault and battery
charges against Barnett Stallman
and Konstantin Kowolas were re
tired for lack of evidence stan
man was fined SO and Kowoias %
on disorderly conduct charges
Others fined on disorderly conduc'
charges were as follows: Ann Bur
lax. SIS and costs; Rose Platkin' y
and costs and Gelsha Elkin, 81.