| Show a g A Washington w J By RODNEY DUTCHER I. I WASHINGTON May 2 2 While While statesmen bellow on Capitol hill downtown Washington still rings with the echo of ot the police clubs which rained down on the heads of communists communists com corn who recently attempted to demonstrate in front of the thc Japanese embassy The newspapers and newspapermen newspaper newspaper- men generally are arc sour on the tactics used by the police pollee General Pelham D. D Glassford police pollee chief has advised the American Civil Liberties union that newspaper accounts were immensely immensely im mensel exaggerated and th the newspapers newspapers newspapers news news- papers have answered with editorials eyewitness stories and photographs to prove that the accounts were true io I happened to be approximately in inthe inthe inthe the middle of the sided one-sided struggle between the communists and the cops and was wa'S impressed mainly by two facts First some communists arc are willing willingto to face ace cruel and black black- in the face of quite hopeless odds rather than submit tamely to police orders Second the sight and md sound of ot those is not for weak stomachs such as mine The sound if IL you ou haven't heard it It is exactly like that produced by the harsh impact of a abat abat abat bat and a baseball The communist communists had sought to parade parade parade pa pa- rade on the sidewalk in hi front of the embassy bearing placards protesting Japanese actions in China and one or two other matters The cops acting without an any request from the embassy embassy em em- bassy said they couldn't couldn't- 09 The communists insisted on their right to demonstrate and both plainclothes plainclothes plain- plain clothes and uniformed men proceeded to grab rab the banners and arrest bearers Billies and blackjacks came into play when the communists began to resist some attempting to dash through the lines and up the side side- walk valk I saw several men beaten up but apparently only when they at attempted attempted at- at tempted to pull pulI a cop off ocr a comrade or tried to wrench themselves from a cops cop's grasp as they often did The communists who demonstrated actively after the disturbance began were simply beaten into If on one remained gained motionless to be safe saCe from he 4 t cops were simply T acting like with orders from Glassford to u Use more violence than n necessary often seemed to take the clubb clubbing In of three or off four our lf cw cops to the desired result ea eff 00 Other reporters saw a cop run down a fleeIng and driving full tilt knock co hir him a car I didn't see th that at I SPent time watching Joan Hard Hardy tigress a tussling with a bin big old geant and others in a re game Jame fight Some reports was finally knocked sa saId l out by a mans man's fist hut but I dIdn't see ee t the blo it if there was one The big biJ sergeant trIpped a and on her She lay Jay on the or four minutes moaning u ing in apparently and g fa t perhaps only getting her breath could fi fight ht those cops again I Anyway she jumped up agaj again flew furiously Curiously at that sti Fin ly Iy enough cops got cot firm grips grip f or on to hold her until the patrol came WI 0 S a Three other girls and 15 or 1 18 IS were by that thal 11 time being held J of the men were bleeding from frOIn hI h or face wounds and one bleeding The cop coo demonstrators Ii all taken away for sentences or S f running as high as some 1 ing charged with assaulting cop cops C of oC the girls was a slender n ore year old blonde with rosy che cK chee who had taken no part i in the fL fi mg ing Two of the girls 1 J though tough h held f fc f. wore themselves hoarse in speed accusing the cops of being drunk promising what would happen happ them when the workers et C ci trot None of oC the 60 or 75 ci seemed drunk although the cn emba had served sandwiches coffee a chocolate cake prior to the de denv After it was all over one midd aged cop was rubbing his hands a exclaiming to another another- Best time Ive I've had in 20 0 ye yea |
