Evening Star Newspaper, December 3, 1928, Page 7

! V0000 MURDER HEARING 1S SET Professed Witch Doctor and Two Youths to Be Ar- raigned Wednesday. & the Associated Press. YORK, Pa., December 3.—John Bly- ver, professed witch doctor, and two E-'Aums, Wilbert Hess, 18, and John Cur- Ty, 14, will be arraigned Wednesday (charged with the murder of Nelson D. | IRehmeyer, county authorities announc- | ed_today. | Rehmeyer, a recluse farmer, was kill- #d last Tuesday night, according to statements made by the defendants, during a struggle when they attempt- ed to cut a lock of hair from his head ‘The hair was to be buried deep in the ground as a charm to break a spell or “hex” alleged to have been cast over the Hess home. Powwow Practitioner. While the aged farmer was being duried yesterday, Blymyer: enlarged from his statements to police and said that Rehmeyer himself was a powwow practitioner and a firm believer in the practice of witcheraft, “hexing” and other forms of mysticism carried on in some rural districts. Blymyer said the desired lock of hair had not been obtained because Reh- meyer's hair was bloody and he was fraid to take a lock, as it might do |more evil than good. Police also quoted 'him as saying that the motive for the slaying had been partly to obtain a handbook on witcheraft which the re- clues was supposed to possess. The | book, v Long Lost Friend,” was said jto contain many of the formulae and ‘practices used in pow-wowing. Investigation Promised. Speaking in the absence of District Attorney Hermann, who is ill, County |Detective Ralph W. Keech said that |thorough investigation would be made lof the case In its various angles. He intimated that hundreds of residents of this section, particularly farmers, had |been “fleeced” by voodoo doctors and ipow-wow practitioners. ~Many of ithose who deal in superstitions handed down from pioneer days will be ques- tioned, he said, as to their practices land experiences in witcheraft. " Police today declared they had no evidence linking Glymer with the slay- ing several years ago of 16-year-old Gertrude Rudy. She was believed by some to have been a victim of witch- jcraft practices, but the motive for her ‘death has never been learned. " "As officers continue their investiga- (tion their conviction increases, they |say, that the motive was robbery, at Jeast so far as Blymyer is concerned. The officers said they place some re- ‘Yiance in the witchcraft story as told by | Wilber and ;Ieég but look upon Hess as a dupe of Blymyer. Aldzrmp:n ‘W. F. Owen and Detective Ralph W. Keech have learned that Rehmyer kept $800 in a stone jar in the kitchen cupboard. This jar is re- ported missing . CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. The Manor Park Citizens’ Association will meet 7:45 o'clock in the Whittier School. Cathedral Heights-Cleveland Park Citizens’ Association will meet 8 o'clock in St. Alban’s parish hall. Election of officers. The Washington Tuberculosis Asso- ciation will hold its twentieth anniver- sary meeting, 8 o'clock, in Barker Hall, Y. W. C. A, Seventeenth and K streets. Dr. H. E. Kleinschmidt will speak of “Childhood Tuberculosis: Its Discovery and its Cure” Awards in the Public School Christmas Seal Ship contest will be presented to the winners. ‘The Manor House Chapter, D. A. R, will give a card party tonight at Chest- nut Farms Auditorium, Twenty-sixth street and Pennsylvania avenue. The Graduate Nurses' Association will give a tea to members and their guests from 4 to 5:30 o'clock, at 1337 K street. Members from the Gallinger Municij Hospital Alumnae Associa- tion be hostesses. The Washington branch of the Association of Teachers of Spanish will observe the hundredth birth-anniver- sary of Goya, the great painter of Spain, 8:15 o'clock, at the American University, 1900 F street room 8. Prof. Will Hutchins will give an illus- trated lecture. Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War, Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey ‘Tent, No. 1, will meet, 8 o'clock, in Grand Army Hall. The Sixteenth Street Highlands Citi- zen's Association will meet, 8 o'clock, in the assembly room of the Sixth Presbyterian Church. Dupont Circle Citizens’ Association will meet, 4:45 o'clock, in the Jeffer- son room, Mayflower Hotel. Announce- ment of standing committees. ‘The Brookland Parent-Teacher As- @he Foening Ftar ADVERTISENENT B ot REC John H. Blymire, Wilbert G. Hess and John Curry (left to right in center with detective on cach end), confessed “yurderers of Nelson D, Rehmeyer, a recluse farmer near York, Pa., in a “witcheraft” case. they killed Rehmeyer while attempting to get a lock of his hair, which, they said, was needed to destroy a “spell” which had been cast over Hess by the hermit farmer. The murderers claimed —Associated Press Photo. sociation will give a Teception for new | members and teachers at the school, 8 o’clock. The Grinnell College Alumni in Washington will give a dinner, 6:30/ o'clock, at the Parrot, 1643 Connecticut avenue, in honor of Dr. Charles Noble. All friends of Grinnell College are in-| vited to attend. The Anglo-Catholic Club of Wash- ington will meet, 8 o'clock, at St. James’ Church, Eighth street near C street northeast. There will be a service of solemn evensong benediction, and the preacher will be Rev. William A. Mc- Clenthen, D. D., rector of Mount Cal- vary Church, Baltimore. The 438th_ Infantry, Organized Re- serves, will hold an_instructional as- sembly at the Oxford Hotel, 8 o'clock. Capt. Andres Lopez will conduct the conference; subject, “The Company in Defense.” Admiral George Dewey Naval Auxil- iary, No. 3, United Spanish War Vet- erans, will meet, 8 o'clock, at North- east Masonic Temple, Eighth and F streets northeast. Election of officers. The League Against Cruel Sports and Practices will hold a public meeting, 8 o'clock, in the parish hall of St. Thomas' Episcopal Church, 1722 Church street. Charles Edward Russell will be the speaker., FUTURE. The Business Women's Council will meet tomorrow in the lecture room of the Church of the Covenant. Rev. Irv- ing W. Ketchum, pastor of Peck Mem- orial Chapel, will conduct the Bible class from 6:45 to 7:15 p.m. “A Visit to the Land of the Sky” will be de- scribed by Misses Groves, Martin and Vail. Illustrated. J. C. Buckler of England, who represents the “One by One” Band, engaged in personal evan- fiuf&i will speak at 5 o'clock. Public vited. The ladies of the McKendree M. K Church will serve a turkey supper and hold a bazaar in the lecture room of the church, Massachusetts avenue near Tenth street, tomorrow from 5 to 7 pm. ‘The University of Michigan Men's Club will have as its speaker at its| luncheon Wednesday at the Cosmos Club Dr. Cohen, who will talk of “Ex- periences of a Bond Salesman in Eu- Tope.” The annual bazaar and chicken din- ner for the benefit of St. James’ Church will be given tomorrow, 4:30 to 8:30 p.m, in the auditorium of the church, Thirty-seventh street and Rhode Island avenue, Mount Rainier, Md. ‘The Washington Advertising Club will meet tomorrow, 12:30 p.m.,, in the ball- room of the National Press Club. J. W. Hayes will speak of “Advertising, Yes- terday, Today and Tomorrow.” Music and entertainment. The Women's Society of First Con- announces_a public_lecture on “The | Harmony Diet,” by Dr. T. M. Schippell, | ‘Wednesday, 8:15 p.m., at 1329 Sixteenth | street. The Woman'’s Guild of Calvary M. E. Church will hold its annual bazaar to- | morrow and Wednesday in the church | parlors. Dinner served both evenings from 5 to 7 pm. The Readers’ Club will entertain each evening. | The Botanical Society of Washington | will meet tomorrow, 8 pm., in the as-| sembly room of the Cosmos Club. | Speakers: Frederick V. Coville, S. F.| Blake and Oliver M. Freeman. | 'RESOLUTION URGES 13-MONTH CALENDAR| International Conference Sought| in Measure to Be Offered by Porter. The President would call an inter- | national conference t{o consider ad-| visability of adding a thirteenth month to the calendar, under a resolution | being drafted by Chairman Porter of | the House foreign affairs committee for | introduction at the present session. The old system of enumeraton would be ushered out and the new ushered in by the New Year bells of 1933, the resolution proposes. Numerous other nations are anxlous for the change, the chairman said, and he will press for action on his resolu- tion at this session, in accord with a strong movement for the 13-month calendar, headed in this country by George Eastman. One of the strongest arguments for the new calendar, Porter said, is that it would permanently fix the dates for “Torays Worth 1005 Penna. Ave. Easter and other religious observances by eliminating inequalities in the monthly divisions of the present system. The new months would have the same number of work days, Saturdays and Sundays, and each month the same number of whole weeks. R W Want to Sell 4109 Leland Street Chevy Chase, Md. West of Conn. Ave. Description of this N property: Detached, 4 bedrooms, sleeping porch, A. M. I, lot 50x150 ft. and garage to match house. is beautiful home is ideally located. further information is desired phone: Dan G. Loomis 2812 36th Place N.W. Cleve. 3455 o Lrecy) Back 1724 Penna. Ave. We Invite Charge Accounts Buy on the Budget Plan Pay as You Get Paid No Interest or gregational Church wil hold its annual two-day bazaar December 4 and 5 in the parlors of the church, Tenth and G streets. A turkey dinner will be served December 4 from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Lunch- eon, December 5, from noon to 2 p.m. The motion picture “Quality Street,” will be shown at the First Congrega- tional Church Thursday, 7:30 p.m. The annual bazaar, with chicken salad luncheon and a turkey dinner, of the Takoma Park Baptist Ladies’ Aid slgclet}x:, will be held tomorrow at the church; ‘The West Virginia State Society will meet Wednesday, 8§ p.m., at the Wash- ington Club. Musical program by stu- dents of the Walter T. Holt School of Music, followed by dancing and cards. The annual cider party will be held De- cember 19. The Woman's Benefit Association Officers’ Club will serve a turkey dinner December 12 from 5 to 7 p.m. at 1750 Massachusetts avenue. 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