Evening Star Newspaper, November 27, 1934, Page 3

. BRIDE AND PRIEST SLAINBY HUSBAND 17-Year-0ld Showagirl and? Clergyman Shot Down in Hotel Room. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 27— Dishevelled and apparently on the, verge of complete collapse, Joseph | Lieb Steinmetz, youthful theological student, was arraigned in Homicide Court today on the charg: that he shot to death his 17-year-old bride and the Rev. Joseph J. Leonard, | Catholic priest. Shortly after he was remanded without bail for a hearing next Mon- day, Steinmetz's attorney, Meyer Machlis, intimated he might use the “unwritten law” as a defense for his client. | Through his attorney. Steinmetz declared he found his bride of less than a month “in an embarrassing | situation” in the priest's hotel room | yesterday before he seized a pistol and slew her and the cleric. Machlis said Mrs. Steinmetz, former dancer in Hollywood, had known the priest for several days. “I don't want to go into that now,” he added. Urged to Buy Gun. A bizarre twist to the honevmoon | tragedy was given by the attorney’s statement that the slain bride had urged her husband to purchase the gun used in the killings. | Mrs. Steinmetz “took a liking to it.” | and Steinmetz bought it for her in Douglas, Ariz., Machlis said | Through his lawyer, Steinmetz, 22, who turned toward the Presbyterian ministry, denied reports that he and his bride had not been happy during | their brief wedded life. On the con- trary, they were “very happy.” Steinmetz gave this acco ghooting and events preceding Machlis relayed it | He and his wife met the priest, who was chaplain of a home for the aged | in Lawrenceville, N. J., Sunday night | in the Knights of Columbus Hotel. | Yesterday morning the three had three | rounds of highballs. The priest paid | for them. Steinmetz. never a “heavy drinker,” he exvlained, “got very drunk.” Went to Priest's Room. Machlis said that Steinmetz “re- membered the priest inviting his wife to his (the priest's room).” and he followed them 10 or 15 minutes later Steinmetz found his wife and the cleric “in an embarrassing situation,” said the attorney. Then. according to Machlis' ac- count, everything went black in front of Steinmetz, he snatched the pistol from the priest’s coat pocket. where it had been placed for safekeeping, and “blazed away.” The girl had been shot four times the priest once Steinmetz said that the girl's fa! was present when he married her last | November 10 in Tia Juana. Mexico. To the official who performed the cere- | mony the bride gave her stage name of | Ruth T. Tiles. Asserts Love for Wife. Machlis said Steinmetz expressed gorrow for the slaying and asserted his Iove for his wife. Detective Robert Rehman today quoted Steinmetz as having said that if he had a chance he would join his “dear wife and the priest” in a few days. At the detective’s suggestion, Cornelius Hazel, prison keeper, re- moved the prisoner’s belt, necktie and the belt of his overcoat. i Steinmetz brightened somewhat after recurrent fits of weeping, and asked for morning newspapers. TWo | or three were supplied and he read them, weeping as he did so. Assistant District Attorney Saul Price, who questioned the prisoner yesterday, had a conference today with District Attorney William C. Dodge and announced shortly after- ward that he would present the case to the grand jury today. Meantime Dodge thought it unwise to disclose data his office had assembled. Machlis said his client had asked to see a rabbi. CHANGES IN TRACKS ON SQUARE ORDERED Public Utilities Group and City Heads Act on Stanton Traffic Hazards. The Public Utilities Commission end the Commisisoners today ordered & change in track layout near Stantun Square northeast, designed to cure afL long-standing traffic hazard in that| section. Street cars operating to Thirteenth and D streets northeast at present travel eastwards on the north side of Stanton Square. This is 2 one-way street westbound for all other traffic | and cititzens’ associations in that section for years have complained about this irregularity. The two commissions, sitting today as the joint board, ordered a single track switch at Third street and Massachusetts ~ avenue northeast, which will allow eastbound cars to proceed along D street and west- bound cars on the north side of Stanton Square, thus reversing the present flow and ending the conflict between street car and other traffic now existing. SPECIAL NOTICES. WE WILL CLOSE ALL DAY THURSDAY, November 25 no deliveries_made on that date. SAMUEL C. 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THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Cloudy. prob- ably occasional light rain tonight and tomorrow; slowly rising temperature tomorrow; lowest tonight about 46 de- ! grees; moderate northeast shifting to east or southeast winds Maryland—Cloudy, probably occa- sional light rain tonight and tomorrow; slowly rising temperature tomorrow and in west portion tonight Virginia—Cloudy, probably occa- sional light rain tonight and tomorrow; slowly rising temperature tomOITow and in extreme southwest portion tonight. West Virginia—Cloudy, probably oc- casional light rain in extreme east portion tonight; tomorrow occasional rain; not much change in temperature. River Report. Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear today. Report for Last 24 Hours. Temperature. Barometer. Degrees. Inches. 5 30.51 3051 3051 4 pm. . 8 pm. . Midnight Today— 4 am. . 8 am. . 30.52 Noon . 30.50 Record for Last 24 Hours. (From noon yesterday to noon today.) Highest, 47, noon today. Year ago. 43 Lowest, ago, 31. Record Temperatures This Year, Highest, 101, on June 29. Lowest, —6'z, on February 9. Humidity for Last 24 Hours, (From noon yesterday to noon today.) Highest, 98 per cent, at noon today. Lowest, 74 per cent, at 2 p.m. yes- terday. 30.52 41, 3 am. today. Year Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) Today. Tomorrow. 3o0a 12:32am. 7:32am. 1:18p.m. 7:52p.m. The Sun and Moon. Rises, Sets. . 7:03 4:48 Sun, tomorrow. 7:04 4:48 Moon, today ...10:43p.m. 11:51p.m. Automobile lights must be turned Sun, today ... | on ore-half hour after sunset. Precipitation. Monthly precipitation in inches in the Capital (current month to date): Month, 1934. Average. Record. 197 3.55 709 '82 3.22 327 6.84 '84 3.75 884 91 327 9.13 '89 370 1069 '89 413 1094 '00 471 10.63 '86 401 1441 28 324 1745 34 284 857 '85 237 869 '89 December. 332 756 '01 FIREMEN PLAN DINNER Rockville Department’s Annual Banquet to Be Held December 6. Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., November 27— The tenth annual banquet of the Rockville Volunteer Fire Department will be held in the fire engine build- ing here December 6, the arrange- ments being in charge of a committee consisting of Clarence E. Anders, chairman; Cullum Barnsley, Harold Bean. William Watkins and Albert Hamke. William F. Prettyman, president of the department, will be toastmaster, and the guests will include about 40 professional and business men of the community. February... October. . November i You Sufferfion Ble of thonsands who have us This soothing ointment relieves burning and_itching of Blind, Bleeding, Pro- truding Piles, Promotes healing and tends to reduce swelling. Don't suffer ed relief has been the experience d PILE-FOE. needlessly o ., . REPAIRS AND ¥ h hop on Mhcels, I A Fepnone bi- rectory for branch nearest you or call Wis- consin 4821, No job too small or too large. get a tube of soothing aranteed re- PILEFOE foday for tores or other sults. At Peoples Drug good druggists. THE EVENING IFUSIONISTS TAKE COUNTY CONTROL Hold Balance of Power as Montgomery Board Is Organized. BY JACK ALLEN, A hope which progressive Demo- ! | crats and Republicans of Montgomery | | County have cherished for more than | |a decade and a half was realized to- | |day whea the Fusion party, formed | |six months ago through the merger {of those two factiors, assumed con- | | trol of the Boara of County Commis- | sioners and ended the Democratic or- | ganization's 15-year reign at the head | of administrative affairs in the nearby | Maryland community. Members of the board, composed of three Fusionists and two organiza- : tion Democrats, took the oath of | office before Clerk of Circuit Court | Claytoa K. Watkins shortly after their commissions, issued by Gov. Albert C. Ritchie, reached Rockville this morn- ing, and went into session for their first ineeting a few moments later. Karn Heads Body. Frank H. Karn of Rockville, Fu- sion party nominee who was elected commissioner from the third district in the county's recent election, was unanimously named president of the board as the fust official act of the new group. Ira C. Whitacre of Silver Spring also was unanimously elected clerk, and it was said that Edward Peter of Rockville would be named counsel. The latter appointment was deferred. Whitacre, Fusion candidate for county treasurer, who was defeated in the recent election by J. Forest Walk- er, Democratic incumbent, formerly was vice president of the Silver Spring National Bank. Peter served as chair- man of the Fusion party’s executive committee during the campaign. While the Fusion party controls the County Board through the election of three of its commissioner candidates, a legal contest which might unseat two of its nominees is pending in the Cir- cuit Court for Montgomery County. John B. Diamond and Raleigh S Chinn, Democratic candidates who were defeated by Karn and Charles E King, are contesting the election of those two Fusion candidates in peti- tions for a recouni of the vote cast in their respective contests. Karn and King assumed their places | on the County Board, however, as the result of a ruling by Attorney General William Preston Lane, jr, that they were entitled to serve, at least until their cases are decided by the court The presence of King, Karn and Paul Coughlan gives the Fusion party three seats and the controlling vote on the board against the two votes ob- tained by the Democratic party through the election of Robert D. also were sworn in today Passing of the control to the Fu- sion party marks the first time in 158 years that the Democratic party has not been the ruling power in the county's administrative affairs. The board had been under the rule of the Democrats since the county was founded, in 1776, Fusionists Get Flowers. A group from the Montgomery County Federation of Republican ‘Women called at the court house shortly after the new commissioners were sworn in this morning and pre- sented the three Fusion members of the board with a large basket of flowers. Many supporters of the new party, which was organized by the Republic- ans and progressive Democrats after their individual efforts to oust the Democratic organization from power had failed, also were on hand to con- gratulate the new members and wit- ness their installation. Commissions issued by the Governor for other candidates elected to office also arrived, and they will take their oaths of office and assume their duties, probably today or tomorrow. They include Joseph A. Cantrel, and Walter M. Magruder, Fusions elected to the House of Delegates; Thomas C. Kelley, a member of the same faction, who was named a judge of the office court, and the following Democrats: | Charles W. Woodward, Circuit Court judge: J. Forest Walker, county treasurer; Stedman Prescott, State | Senator; T. Yellott Canby, Richard | S. Hays and Miss Ruth Shoemaker, House of Delegates; C. Edington Bell, sheriff; Clayton K. Watkins, clerk of | Circuit Court; Lewis F. Hobbs and | Dr. Washington Waters, judges of the | office court; James H. Pugh, States attorney; Hanson G. Cashell, regis- trar of wills, and Charles J. Maddox, surveyor. Hagner and Richard H. Lansdale, who | the board. The three new members of the Board of Montgomery County Commissioners, elected on the Fusionist ticket, 1 | CATHEDRAL PLANS With Holy Communion in Great Choir. Special Thanksgiving day services will be held in the great choir of Washington Cathedral on Mount St ‘Thursday, beginning with the celebration of holy communion at 7:30 am. Holy communion again will be cele- brated at 9:30 am. and the annual festival service and mor prayer will begin at 11 o'clock. At the lat- | ter service Bishop James E. Freeman will deliver the sermon. taking his | theme, “The Significance of Thanks- | giving Day This Year.” Evening prayer will be read at 4 o'clock. Special music will be given at the 11 am. service by the Cathedral Choir of men and boys, under direc- tion of Edgar Priest, organist and choirmaster. Members of the Cathe- dral clergy will take part in the service aides will be on duty iay to escort holiday the Cathedral and the crypt chapels. There will be a large group pilgrimage immediately | following the 11 am. service. In ac- | cordance with custom, it is announced | the bishop’s garden will not be open {on the holiday. Other T 70c per month. will start immediately. 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