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The Washington times., 1932-07-20
CONSPIRACY
LAID To IS
OTHERS
Detective Son of Beaten
Woman Among Those ImpIi-
Gated in Stark's Death

MINEOLA, N. Y, July 20
, .S.(.-Supreme Court JUS
tice Meier Steinbrink, presid-
ing at public inquiry into
the brutal "third degree "
death of Hyman Stark, a
youthful prisoner, today Or
dered three detectives and a
police lieutenant held for the
grand jury on charges of muir
der in the second degree.
They are Detectives Leslie w.
) Pearsall, Harry zander, and
Charles Wesser and Police Lieut..
Jesse Mayforth.
Throat Stepped On -sss
Stark died of a fractured lar
ynx after an 8-hour grilling at
Mineola police headquarters. He
had been severely beaten with a
hose, a shoe, and a heavy ledger.
One police official, Deputy
Chief Frank ]. Tappen, it has
been testified, planted his feet
on the prisoners neck and stom-
ach, and rocked back and forth.
Stark had been arrested on the
charge of beating and robbing
the mother of a detective who
. worked out of the Mineola head
quarters.
Seven other officers were or
dered held for the Grand jury
on charges of assault in the sec
ond degree.
Justice Steinbrink also ordered
that Tappen be held as an &C
cessory to murder, second degree.
and set bail on this charge at
$4,000, and further ordered him
held for the Grand Jury on
charge of dereliction of duty. Tap
a pen, who weighs $50 pounds, de.
MED he had, jumped on Stark'S
throat.
Conspiracy Charged
Detective Hizenski, who's e
mother had been Leate.- and rob
bed in her home in RoSlyn, was
among those charged with as.
Sault.
Thirteen patrolmen and detec-
tives suspended since the death
of Stark were ordered held on
charges of conspiracy to obstruct
, justice.
All defendants were ordered
into the custody of the sheriff
until they provide bail.
The Washington times., 1932-07-20
BEAT
=. BOYSFROM
NORTH
Cruelty Declared Especially
Aimed at Northeners in
Florida Prison Camps
By WIN, x. HUTCHINSON

STATE PRISON FARM,
RAIFORD, Fla, July 20
(I.N.S.). "A terrific indict.
ment of the Florida prison sys-
TEN for its treatment Of North
ern boys serving long terms for
crimes against the State was
voiced here today by young
Northern convict whose iden-
tity was shielded to save him
from reprisals.
This young man, in his early
twentieS, and serving a 20-year
sentence, charged northern boys
were maltreated in the prison
road camps, beaten without cause
by brutal guards, and tortured
when they fell sick under Florida S
broiling sun.
New Head Praised
He said like treatment was not
accorded Florida's native convicts
as a rule because the guards
feared the wrath of the local
prisoners relatives.
His description of prison camp
conditions was echoed by scores
of other prisoners interviewed
within the prison farm confine.
Sixty convicts were questioned
and without exception they con-
demned pris on road camps,
though most of them praised the
new administration of the prison
farm under Superintendent L. F.
Chapman.
The attitude of convicts whose
homes are in the North was
significant, because at least go
per cent of the white inmates
here are from States above the
Mason-DiXon line.
Boys, First Offenders
A great current Of resentment
against Florida justice ran
through these convicts, most Of
them boys and nearly all serving
their first prison term.
One spokesman said:
"MOSt of us are young men
in our twenties. We were at
tracted to Florida by her
publicity. We thought we
could find work. We didn't.
Our money gave out and we
began to starve.
"Then we turned to crime.
We stole an automobile, trying
to get back home, or we robbed
a store, or we held up filling
station. We all seemed to get
caught. That was all right be-
cause we ran a chance.
"But then the injustice
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WIDOW BLA|NES
N.Y.POL|CE

NEW YORK, July 20 G.N.S0.
District Attorney william F.
Geoghan, of Brooklyn, announced
today that he will investigate a
charge that Sigmund> A. Gallant,
an auction store owner, died
June 80 as a result of police
brutality.
The investigation, to be started
tomorrow, is the result of a
charge by Louis Zimmerman, an
attorney representing Gallant's
widow, Anna, that the man died
as a result of being throttled .oy
one of four patrolmen who raided
sGallant'S store while he was play
ing pinochle there with three
other men.
The Washington times., 1932-07-20
DICTATORSHIP
ESTABLISHED
|NPRUSS|A
Won Papen Assumes Control
Of State; Machine Guns
Guard His Office

BERLIN, July ~ (1.N.O.] j.
Chancellor Franz Won Papen
forcibly ousted the 14-year-old
regime of Premier Otto Braun
of Prussia today and estab-
lished himself dictator over the
entire state, which includes
Berlin.
Appointing himself reich COM
misar of Prussia, Won Papen
named an almost completely new
PruSSian government and then
proceeded to take control by
brute force when Braun's minis
ter of the interior, Karl Severing,
refused to obey the chancellor's
decree. Braun was away on vaca-
tion.
Reichswehr guards marched
upon the PruSsian ministry OF
the state and seized control Of
the building. Severing remained
in his offices in the Unter den
Linden with the announcement
he would yield "only to force"
Troops Guard Office
A select company of govern
ment troops, armed with machine
guns. was placed about Chancel-
lor Won Papen'S office to shield
him from violence.
The unprecedented measures,
which threatened civil war
throughout the reich as result
of the claims of many states
that their sovereignty was being
broken down by Won Papen, were
taken following the demand made
in the PruSsian Diet by its Nazl
president, Hans Kerrl, that a
federal commissioner be ap-
pointed for Prussia.
Won Papen charge that
Braun's Socialist government,
which was defeated by Adolf Hit
ler's Nazis in the last PruSsian
elections, had been. lenient in
dealing with Communists and
had failed to prevent cam
paign of terrorism which had
been growing during recent weeks.
Martial Law in Force
A "state of emergency" tanta-
mount to martial law, was estab-
lished throughout Berlin and the
province of Brandenburg.
DR.. Franz Bracht, mayor of
Essen, was named Won Papen's
plenipotentiary, and he immedi-
ately Elected emergency measures
to carry out the dictatorship.
After a Commute conference
with DR.. Bracht, Severing again
refused to quit.
Bracht was booed by a small
crowd which stood outside the
building as he emerged.
Premier Braun, who arrived in
Berlin after hurriedly cutting
short his vacation, twice at
tempted to enter his offices in
the WiIhelm1Strasse, but each
time was refused permission and
forced back by the Reichwehr
guards.
Albert Grzesinsky, socialist pres
ident of the Berlin police de-
partment was ousted, as was the
vice president, DR.. Bernard Weiss.
Each protested their removal and
refused to leave their offices,
CONTINUED on Page 2, Col. s.
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POLICE.
DRIVE MEN
BACK To
CAMP
John Pace and Two of Aides
Arrested; Gordon Thrown
Around Executive Mansion

The radical element of the
Bonus Expeditionary Force
marched on the White House
today and, after being kept
two blocks from it's objective,
had two clashes with police
and then was escorted back to
camp at Thirteenth and B
Streets Southwest.
The White House late today
was still under police guard, but
most of the 100 Metropolitan of.
ficers who were on duty during
the morning had been withdrawn.
Police, to avert any attempt OF
the radicals to stage another
march on the Executive Mansion,
threw a Gordon Of police around
their encampment.
Three Men Arrested
AS a result of the second clash
with police, three of the radical
leaders were arrested and booked
at the Third precinct station on
charges of parading without a
permit and disorderly conduct.
They are John Pace, Of Detroit,
Commander-in chief of the radical
camp and a member of the Work.
ers' Ex-Service Mems League;
Walter F. Eicher, of New York,
and B. E. Johnson.
They we're arrested following a
clash at Eighteenth and D Streets
Northwest, when two of them,
Pace and Johnson, attempted to
march toward the White House.
They were seized by police.
Eiker was seized when he
shouted:
Don't let them take them"
Earlier in the day, Pace had
had an encounter at Fifteenth
street and Pennsylvania Avenue
Northwest with Inspector Albert
j. Headley.
When the police took the group
back to their encampment, one
man, whose identity police did
not ascertain, shouted:
"Keep up your picket now.
Well come back and relieve
you with numbers"
All Traffic Stopped
During the two hours the raol-
Gals held sway, the White House
resembled an armed fort and pc
destrian and vehicular traffic was
stopped within an area OF two
blocks.
While the excitement was
under way around the Executive
Mansion, Walter w. Waters. COM
mander.in-chief of the regular
B, E. F., told his veterans at
Camp Marks, Anacostia, that any
effort of the police or others to
raid the commissary will be re-
sisted.
Waters yesterday cut off three
rival outfits which have refused
to affiliate with him. The decree,
cutting off rations, went into ef'
feet this morning despite police
ultimatum that every veteran
must share in the general food
supply.
Brig. Gen. Pelham D. Glassford,
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The Washington times., 1932-07-20
WIFE To HUSH
'NHAT-A-MAN'

HERMOSA BEACH, Calf, July
20 0N.SO Mrs. Minnie Ma"
Kennedy-Hudson, mother of Aimee
Semple REPRESENTATION, today
warned her husband, Guy What
a-Man" Hudson, to keep quiet
or I'll quiet you"
After Mrs. Hudson filed a suit
for divorce against him, alleging
he drank excessively and was
lazy, Hudson retorted by de-
claring that his wife had "a
new sweetie," and threatening
to reveal the inside of Certain
kidnapping shenanigans." Said
Mrs. Hudson:
Sounds like desert hoOch
and hot air to me-"
The Washington times., 1932-07-20
Jury Trying Curtis
ShudOUed, Revealed

PENNINGTON, N. j., July 20
.S0.-Revelation that the
Jury in the case of John Hughes
Curtis, convicted of obstructing
justice in the Lindbergh case,
was "shadowed" today stirred
this community.
Prosecutor Hauck, of Hunter
don county, presented a bill to
the county board of freeholders
which included $1e4.30 for detec-
tives covering" the jurymen,
The Washington times., 1932-07-20
Lying Coin Scales
In Chicago AssdiLed

CHICAGO, July 20 Q.N.S0
City Sealer Joe Grein today
launched a drive against penny
slot weighing machines which "lle
about the weight of ladies'"
Six machines were confisca5ec
and 229 condemned.
He said:
"Why, it's actually dangerous!
Suppose a woman weighing 200
pounds steps into one Of these
scales and it says 24O. She'll
start right in dieting and the
chances are she'll injure her
health"
The Washington times., 1932-07-20
4 Police Held as: Third Degree Slayers
Grandi Out,
Duce Takes
His Post

ROME, July 20 Q.N.S0.-An-
other stage in the history Of
Premier Benito Mussolini's die
tatorship over italy was effected
today with a thorough-going cabi-
net shake-up in which the youth
full foreign minister, Dino Grandi,
resigned.
MuSsolini himself took over the
foreign portfolio. In all, five
cabinet ministers were replaced
and were expected to take UP
other important posts in the gov
ernment.
The move ws considered of
little significance as far as for
eign nations are concerned, being
merely another shake-up in ac-
cordance with Mussolini's policy
of rotating" officials to acquaint
them with more branches of the
government.
Grandi was mentioned promi-
nently as a candidate for either
the London or washington am
baSSado dorships.
Prof. Peter de Francisi, d.
rector Of the Roman University,
was named minister of justice,
succeeding Signor Rocco. who
probably will be made ambaSsa-
dor to France.
Rumors that Signor Dino
Grandi, Italy's dashing young
diplomat, might succeed Ambas-
sador Mobile Giacomo de MARITIME
in Washington, were renewed to-
day following he announcement
that Grandi had resigned as
foreign minister.
The Washington times., 1932-07-20
Tire Company Plans
To Raise Salaries

AKRON, Ohio, July 20 IN.SJ,
India Tire and Rubber Company
directors today adopted a salary
and wage increase plan designed
to restore to all employees wages
lost since January l when a 20
per cent salary slash went into
effect. The new plan will be
retroactive to July /, w. q,
Klauss, president of the company,
announced,
The Washington times., 1932-07-20
Heat WGUe Holds
Gotham in It's Grip

NEW YORK, July 20 GN.SD.
Together with many other cities
in the tion. New York will ex-
perierC another dav Of swelter-
ing hea today. the weather fore
caster predicted.
Yesterdays maximum tempera.
ture of 81 degrees was likely to
be equaled today.
The Washington times., 1932-07-20
Downtown Parking
Banned in Chicago

CHICAGO, July 20 G.N.SJ-
There will be no automobile park
ing in Chicago's downtown dis
trict during the day. the city
council had determined today by
a vote of 30 to 10.
The municipal fathers defeated
a resolution which would suspend
the no-parking rule one hour each
day for five months as an expert
ment.
The Washington times., 1932-07-20
Princeton Student
Missing for Week

PRINCETON. N. j., July 20 Il.
N.S0. - Pennsylvania and New
York police today co-operated in
the search for Louis .Ilhert
Jackes, jr., 81, summer student at
Princeton University, missing mys-
teriously for a week, Jackes is the
son Of Newark. N. j.. 3eweler. ~
The Washington times., 1932-07-20

every able-bodied Japanese,
man, woman and child, is here
to compete in the Olympics.
There are hundreds of 'em.
The big Swedes and Germans
can't step without tramping on
dozens of 'em.
And they've all got kodaks.
I asked nice little Japanese
girl if her father and mother
were on the team, too9 She
said, "No, they didn't have a
kodak"
Visiting the studio today was
Matthew Brush, not "late Of, "
but "still of" Wall Street.
The Washington times., 1932-07-20
"CLeGn Up Politics" "
Plea to COLLe0iGnS

NEW YORK, July 20 Q.N.S0. d.
College students of today should
prepare themselves to "clean up
politics" by taking an active in
terest in public affairs. Dean J..
B. Johnston, of the University Of
Minnesota, told students at Teach
ers College, Columbia University.
The Washington times., 1932-07-20
RADIO DIVISION
ABOLISHED
Times staff Photo

BY Executive order, President
Hoover today abolished the radio
division of the Department of
Commerce and transferred all of
its duties, powers and functions
to the Federal Radio Commission.
Under the order, the radio com.
mission is authorized and d.
rected to dismiss officers and en-
p1oyes of the radio division not
indispensable to the service.
Others will be transferred to the
commission.
The Washington times., 1932-07-20
Mayor Calls Rooster
CrOW "Act of GOd''

DEERFIELD, Ill, July 20
GN.SO.-Citizens of this suburb
were today officially informed
that a ROSTERS crow is an act of
God, when Mayor James J. Hood
explained why the village council
gave Edwin F. Weigle permission
ito build as many chicken cooos
as he likes.
The council granted its permiS-
sion last night after hearing COM
plants of neighbors.
The Washington times., 1932-07-20
Gloria Gets Playfair
To Aid in NeU Film

LONDON, July 20 Q.N.S0.
Gloria Swanson today engaged
Sir Nigel Playfair, noted English
actor-manager, to play an impor-
tant part in her new film which
will go into production shortly.
The Washington times., 1932-07-20
Detroit Employees
Get Cut. 5-D1u Week

DETROIT. July 20 GN.S3--A
five-day week for all city EN-
ployes, accompanied by a salary
cut of las per cent, went into
effect here today. The salary cut
and additional economies will save
the city $1,000, 900, Mayor Murphy
estimated.
The Washington times., 1932-07-20
RunGIUay Horses
Cause Death of Boy

CAMDEN, N. j., July 20 QN.S)
An old-fashioned accident today
claimed the life of Walter Stiles,
15-year-old Sicklertown boy. A
team of horses he was driving be-
came frightened at a passing auto
mobile and ran away. The youth
was thrown off his seat on the
wagon and crushed under the
wagon wheels. x -. -.
The Washington times., 1932-07-20

Three years ago he saw America going over
Niagara Falls and sold everything "short" but
barrels. Such foresight naturally investigated
by the Senate He was pronounced clear of at
least "astigmatsm''
Copyright. syndicatsI
The Washington times., 1932-07-20
CONDITION OF TREASURY

Treasury balance as of July 10,
$218, ,8O7, ,479 20; expenditures, $11,-
357 ,3O0.27; customs rec ipts, $1O,-
349,672.79.
The Washington times., 1932-07-20
WILL ROGERS Saus:

BEVERLY HILLS, CAL, July 2O-If any coun-
try wants to pounce Japan, now is the time, for
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-01-11
HORR SPEAKS FOR BIN 6 CHA M
 BEER MEASURE
Seattle Congressman Ap- pears Before Senate
 Committee

WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. It. Representative Ralph G. Horr of Washington State appeared unex- pectedly before the Senate commit tee that is holding hearings on the Bingham beer bill. He submitted 8 statement showing the 1913 brew cry data in his State, showing that $14,00O,O00 were invested. The an- nual business amounted to S11 ,0O0,- 900. The wages paid in the brew cries amounted to s1,538000, paid to 1,064 employees.
 Horr said the people of his state are fled up on Prohibition" He continued, I've have home brew the same as you have. Your own wheat and grain is lying in granaries the same as ours. We want our mar ket."
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-01-11
Find Liquor in Home
 Seattle Man
Secret Room Revealed in Raid on Ahira Pierce's
 Residence

SEATTLE, Jan. 11.-Harold Dun- das, liquidator for the Home Saw ings and Loan Association, said he accompanied detectives on liquor raid Friday night to the home of Ahira Pierce, former head of the Association, charged with embez- clement, in hopes of finding some securities.
 Officers said they found 150 bot ties of Canadian beer, and 800 bottles of home brew, champagne cOgnac and wine in secret room behind a wall in Pierce's home.
 The sheriff said Pierce will be charged with possession of liquor.
 Pierce said the raid was spite work.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-01-11
Spiritual Empire No,U Set
 As Goal of Duce's Regime

ROME, Jan. 1.-The black shirts still dream of empire, but in a spiritual rather than a military sense.
 At the same time, the "joy of obedience" is stressed in govern ment spokesmen, who frequently say that sthe privilege of disci- pline" is the cornerstone of Italy.
 One of the last announcements of the late Arnaldo Musolin set forth the Fascist policy in these terms:
 Brother Echoes Thought
 We aim to create the state of mind necessary to build a spirit ual empire. Imperialism may take any of various forms economic, military or colonial, for example but that which is superior to all is spiritual imperialism"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-01-11
DEMOCRATIC
 C0NvEN TI0N
 MEETS JUNE q
Raskob, Smith and Shouse Not Against Roose-
 velt's Candidacy

WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. H. The scant Democratic majority in the National House of Representa- tives scored it's first victory over the Administration forces on a major political issue Saturday even- ing by forcing the Democratic Par ty tariff measure through final passage The House voted PA for the measure and 182 against it. It received the vote of every Democrat voting, twelve independent Repub- licans and the lone Farmer-Labor member
 The bill provides for calling an international conference for the purpose of reducing tariffs through reciprocal agreements and revamps the administrative features of the Hawley-Smoot law dealing with the flexible tariff powers. It provides that the tariff commission must report to the House of Represen- tatives, instead of the President, and that tariff changes must be considered there first The power to change tariff rates is withdrawn from the President and restored to Congress.
 The Democrats accepted amend ments offered from the floor by Representative H. c. Canfie d, Democrat of Indiana and Repre- sentative F. H. LaGuardian, inde- pendent Republican of New York, which provides that any agreement reached by the International Con- ference be approved by both branches of Congress.
 The tariff bill will now go to the Senate where it's passage is regarded as probable Administra- tion followers are convinced that the President will veto the measure if it is sent to the White House However, before the final voting in the House, President Hoover an- nounced his approval of the pro- vision for an international confer ence to revise tariffs downward.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-01-11
Alaskan Prospector Murdered;
 Strange Story Told by Partner Investigated, Found to Be True

FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Jan. H. The wierd account, told three weeks ago by Charles Christensen, pros pector, found wandering, half dead, in the woods. that he had killed his partner. has been confirmed, although since then he has been found insane.
 At first Christensen's story was doubted but Deputy Marshal Bur- nett has returned from trip to Little Moose Creek in the Kan tishna district and reported he found the body of Sam Fedderson, buried face down in the snow, 250 feet from the front of his cabin.
 Burnett covered the body with canvas. He said there was no doubt but that Fedderson had been mur-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-01-11

At about the same time, his fa- nous brother, as head of the state, said to the annual congress of Fas- cist cultural institutes:
 Our concept of culture is that it is not simple ornament of intel ligence, but an instrument in the fight for life and an arm of, and for, the regime"
 Humanism Stressed
 The institutes are functioning in all parts of the country. Their aim is to diffuse political, economic and other forms of culture as seen from the viewpoint of the Italian brand of Fascism. Speaking before the varese institute Arnaldo said:
 We can not reduce life to sta- tistics. We must allow unitarians in politics, collaborations in eco monies and humanists in our mode of existence"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-01-11

dered. A number of his dogs were tied and almost starved
 An airplane will leave here to bring the body in for an inquest.
 Christensen was found near Knights Road House on December IS. He told his rescuers he had been directed by Mount Mckinley Range to kill Fedderson.
 Christensen had started to march Feddsrson through the woods to the creek, half mile distant, but shot him when Fedderson baked.
 One of Federson's dogs was found following Christensen. Within a few days Christensen was adjudged insane and he is now at Seward enroute to Morningside Sanitariuna.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-01-11
BILL TO HELP
 CLOSED BANKS
 BEFORE HOUSE
Ire asury Dep artm en t Measure Introduced by
 Beedy of Maine

WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. H. A $150000,0O0 "Depositors' Relief Corporation is proposed in a bill drafted by the Treasury Depart ment has been introduced by Rep resentative Carroll l.. Beedy, Re publican of Maine.
 The bill will enable closed banks to extend money on free assets to their depositors and creditors.
 The agency will have $100,000, 900 of the proposed stock paid for by the Treasury and the rest by the Federal Reserve.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-01-11
MANCHURIA IS
 PART OF CHINA
 SAYS MINISTER
Yoshizawa Makes State. ment Upon His Arriv-
 al in Mukden

MUKDEN, Jan. II. = Kenkichi Yoshizawa, Japanese Foreign Min ister Designate, declared his Gov ernment has mo intention of in- terfering in American or other for eign rights and privileges in Man. churia."
 Yoshizawa arrived here after a long journey across Siberia. He was met by General Honjo, Com mander of the Japanese Army.
 Asked whether his Government still considered Manchuria part of China, so far as treaties are concerned, Yoshizawa replied "cer- tainly."
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-01-11
CANDHYS WIFE
 ARRESTED WITH
 OTHER INDIANS
Prominent Women Leaders of Nationaists Are
 Rounded Up

BOMBAY, India, Jan. 11.-Ma- hatma Gandhi's 60-year-old wife has been arrested with several other prominent women leaders oi the Nationalist campaign, including one known as the woman dic- tator."
 The women were advocating g non violent revolt.
 The Government has adopted an. other emergency ordinance prohib- iting meetings of more than five pers ons, automatically outlawine the gatherings of Nationalists.