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The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn, New York • Page 5

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn, New York • Page 5

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5 Aliens Cleared Of Crime Onus Bv Wickersliam BROOKLYMTES AT VIRGEVIA BEACH they had been informed he was carrying a revolver. Patrolman John Lembauer of the Poplar St. station was told Racchette had a gun and had threatened several persons. He shouted to Rac chette, who ran along Myrtle Ave. As the policeman neared Racchette turned and fired two shots at him.

Lembauer returned the fire. The shots attracted Patrolman Martin Weiskel, who Joined the chase. Racchette fired the second time and when a bullet struck him in the arm fell and was captured. Brooklyn. Re ta iiirvlvod by hli wire.

Mn. Mary A. Reynolds, and nine children. Marie, John, Helen, Bernard, Anna, Margaret, Grace, Florence and Walter Reynolds. A requiem maag will be offered In St, AuguBtlne's R.

C. Church at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow and Interment will be In Holy Cross Cemetery. The sun serves not only our world but other planets as well with light and heat. It is said that Poe was to skillful as a detective-story writer that he anticipated every plot conceivable.

i BERNARD REYNOLDS of 38 Pros pet Place. retired member or the Street Cleaning Department, died Saturday. He was 57 and was a lifelong reiident of Board CaiTt Deride Whether to Put Blame on Second Generation BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, MONDAY, AUGUST 21. 103f LOESER'S Bk JHH VI Mm mm I Mmm TmWJ a jmsv' ve Patent" Helen and Alice Swart of Sterling Place photographed on the sands at the Cavalier Beach Club, Virginia Beach, where they are spending their vacation. room 0va, sc5 floor.) groups," it said.

"Differences of Washington, Aug. 24 () Reports of police discrimination against foreignersof third degree and "jail torture" methods were pushed forward today by the Wlckersham Commission. The commission Itself. In a final major report upon its two-year investigation into crime, attacked what was a popular belief that aliens are mainly responsible for the Nation's more than billion dollar annual toll of criminality. All 11 members signed a statement that they were able "definitely to say that any such impression as to the foreign born is at variance with the facts." Charges Police Brutality Reports by half a dozen specialists, supervised by Dean Edith Abbott of the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Social Service Administration, maintained that despite prejudice against the alien this class actually committed less crime than the native-born in proportion to their numbers.

A study of the Mexicans in California by Prof. Paul Taylor of the University of California found that in some sections where crime among this class exceeded that of resident citizens, police prejudice acted to increase arrests "quite independently of criminality." Miss Alida C. Bowler, research assistant at the University of Chicago, reported that among 498 foreign-born criminals in Illinois penitentiaries tales of "police brutality" were frequent. Undecided on Immigrants' Sons As to the sons of immigrants, the Commission reported itself undetermined. "Whether or Hot," it said, "the current impression of excessive criminal propensities among so-called 'foreigners' generally can partially be justified by the existence of criminal propensities among race, religion, speech and habit, which obviously segregate minorities, are instinctively extended by Policeman's Shot Fells Fugitive in the majority to imply other differences and when some members of the minority group have been guilty of anti-social conduct the ma jority all too quickly assumes such conduct to be a characteristic weakness of the minority group as a whole." Running Gun Fight Navy St.

Man Who Had Threatened Pedestrians Prisoner in Hospital Centuries ago there was in Europe a game in which the players danced to the sound of their own voices while throwing a ball to one another. In due course of time the game was forgotten, but our word ball, meaning a dance, still remains. The pompadour received its name from Madame le Pompadour, a. notorious Frenchwoman of the eighteenth century, who popularized the style. 3.28 Imberto Roccahette, 42, '148 Navy is in Kings County Hospital with a bullet wound in the right arm.

He is a prisoner charged with violation of the Sullivan law and felonious assault. Roccahette was shot by a policeman after he hadf attempted to shoot two policemen who chased him more than seven blocks after tine n- UAS tWLg desist children of foreign-born parents, it is impossible either to affirm or Sale deny." choice ot YCzMyr' 10. mil Stool lity Miss Bowler's statistical study found that among Chicago's 28 Qppenheim.Qllins FULTON STREET T' BROOKLYN 80 in 70x 40. 20x Is, si 22x22 "public enemies" at least 19 were natives of the United States, although born of foreign parents, while eight were born abroad. Hit "American" Cry tur Of the "blacklist" held by Cleveland police, she said tht of the 121 names upon it 74 ire "native white of foreign parentage," while Mb jJ 3ft were foreien born.

The Coooiissiontself, however. warned tluttie mfcny "Americans" raising the cry of, "America for Americans" often themselves were the direct descendants of immigrants. "Adverse assumptions are easy and habitual with regard to nghwity 495 oa rflfijnininJllIlK ftr. v. "Wfc(jR, Ml (Haw tMft Mil IVAlvMlt ttBHaWMMT 1, 1 II I mi iiiim rr 701 st -a- caw toy 'Oft OJIgW" to tjaawfc tei 3inch times1 hoto VMliwxjt Free Wlf.

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