Evening star., 1935-04-28
PROBERS WILL ASK
K|NDLEBERGER CO
Garnett's Removal Also Will
Be Sought by House
Crime Inquirers.
BY JAMES E. CHINN.

heDlONdl OF hdTl hlnQleDeTgeT, as
sistant United States attorney, in
charge of Police Court prosecutions,
as well as United States Attorney
Leslie c. Garnett will be sought by
the Special Crime Committee of the
House as a result of its two-month
investigation of vice and law enforce
ment conditions here.
The final draft of the approved
committee report which is being
whipped into shape for consideration
of the full District Committee We'd
nesday, it was learned last night, ex-
presses the belief that Kindleberger
and Garnett should be removed in the
interest of increased efficiency in the
law enforcement machinery Of the
District.
The immediate removal Of Garnett
and Kindleberger was recommended
in the tentative draft of the report,
prepared by John R. Fitzpatrick,
committee counsel, but the commit
tee itself. l. was said. modified this
proposal so as to merely indicate these
two officers should be replaced.
Other Charges Minor.
This was one of the major reviSions
made by the committee in Fitz-
patrick's report. The other changes
are understood to have been minor in
character and designed primarily to
take the sting" out of certain other
recommendations.
The committees views with respect
to Garnett and Kindleberger are to
be given to Attorney General Cum
mings some time this week by Chair
man Norton of the House District
Committee and Representative Ran
dolph. Democrat, of West Virginia,
who headed the Special Crime Com
mittee. The conference between Mrs.
Norton, Randolph and Cummings
was tentatively fixed for 1890 pm.
tomorrow, but it was repotred the
date had been changed.
Kindleberger was brought into the
Crime Committees investigation as
the result of case he nolle pressed
which involved one Of his friends,
Edward Buckley. former Central High
School foot ball star, who is now
practicing law here.
Aside from Garnetts Office. the re-
port is understood to cover rather
comprehensively conditions in the
Police Department as developed dur
ing the investigation. The principal
recommendation, in so far as the Po-
lice Department is concerned, is that
all officers above the grade Of captain
be retired after reaching 60 years.
This recommendation will directly
affect Police Supt. Ernest w. Brown
and Inspectors Thaddeus r. Bean and
Albert J. Headley.
Group Split on Garnett.
1t is known that the committee S
views with respect to United States
Attorney Garnett are not going to be
supported by all of its members,
While a majority of the committee
has already approved the report. as
revised, Representative Werner. Re-
publican, of South Dakota, said he
would not agree with the proposal for
the removal of Garnett simply be-
cause he admitted his lack of knowl-
edge of certain provisions in the Dis
trict Code.
Werner pointed out that it is not
any more necessary for a United
States attorney to be intimately ia
miliar with all statutes in the District
Code than it is for newspaper owner
to know all the details of the news
paper profession. Werner is news
paper publisher.
incidentally, Werner said, he had
not received copy of the committee
report and was completely in the dark
as to its recomm endations. He did
not attend the three-hour committee
meeting Friday at which the report
was adopted and has depended on the
newspapers for information as to the
developments.
The committees report will be
made public as soon as it is presented
to the full District Committee. Upon
ratification by this committee it will
be transmitted to the House in COM
pliance with the resolution authoriz-
ing the INQUIRY.