Evening Star Newspaper, December 25, 1934, Page 8

= tA=8 GUNNER IN AUTO MURDERS FARMER Housekeeper Finds August Matt, Cheltenham, Md., Shot to Death. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., Decem- ber 25.—An automobile license tag number was the most tangible clue being followed today by police in their cffort to solve the murder of August Matt, 40, shot to death in the yard of his Cheltenham home last night. As Matt and his housekeeper, Mrs. Leta Brodhaute, 35, were bedecking the former's home with Christmas decorations, un automobile drove into the yard and extinguished the head- lights, Matt went cut to investigate. A moment later the housekeeper heard & shot. Rushing to the door she saw Matt on the giound. She noted the automobile licerse number as it sped away. Matt had been shot through the abdomen and died instantly. An au- topsy was performed by Dr. James I. Boyd at Ritchie’s funeral home, here, this morning. Police said the | murderer used a shotgun. They at- | tributed the crime to jealously and said Matt's pretty housekeeper was “the woman ir: the case.” As she moved into the community | only a few weeks ago and had no place to go after the shooting, Pfllice‘ lodged her at a local hotel. They arrested a man shortly after | the shooting and booked him for in- vestigation, but declined to disclose his identity. The officers said they had little evidence against him at this time. Matt was a prosperous farmer, ac- cording to the officers. Sergt. A. W. Hepburn heads the police investigators. He is being as- sisted by Patrolmen Elon Turner and R. Arnold Naylor. Magistrate J. F. Billingslea impan- eled a coroner’s jury. The inquest will be held after police complete their investigation. PIRANDELLO.CONFERS ON ITALIAN THEATER| Nobel Prize Winner Sees Musso- lini on Plan to Establish Dramatic Enterprise. By the Associated Press. ROME, December 25.—Luigi Piran- dello, author and winner of the Nobel | Prize in literature this year, inter- viewed Premier Mussolini yesterday, and it appeared probable that a new Italian national dramatic theater will | e established. The playwright proposed that the Argentina Theater be used for the purpose and was assured the plan would be given every consideration. Fairfax Licenses 4 Couples. FAIRFAX, Va., December 25 (Spe- cial). —Marriage licenses have been issued in the office of the clerk of the Circuit Court as follows: Carl T. Lindsay, 50, Washington, D. C, and Florence Deibler, 33, Chevy Chase, Md.; James S. Duff, 25, and Edith L. Morrison, 22, both of Baltimore, Md.; Russell M. Robinson, 18. and Esther E. Naylor, 21, both R. F. D., Manassas, Va., and Clifford L. Stanley, 32, and Helen L. Tighe, 27, both of Theologi- cal Seminary, Alexandria, Va. Perfect Hand Nets Bridge Player in Va, 2,250 Points Special Dispatch to The Star. WAYNESBORO, Va, Decem- ber 25.—Bruce Phillips received an unusual Christmas gift in the form of a perfect bridge hand, the first ever reported by players here. Mr. Phillips was playing at a table with his wife 'and Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Antrobus, when he was dealt the ace, king and queen of each suit, with the jack of diamonds as the thirteenth card. He immediately bid seven no trump and excitedly laid down his hand without giving his op- ponents an opportunity to dou- ble him. He realized 2,250 points on the hand. BODY OF YOUNG GIRL FOUND BESIDE ROAD Police Blame Illegal Operation for Death of 19-Year-0ld New Yorker. PORT JEFFERSON, N. Y., Decem- ber 25.—Police believed today they were close to a solution of the mys- terious death of Mrs. Loretta Wilson, 19, whose unclothed body was found |in a thicket along a highway here, The authorities said examination of the body gave evidence the woman had died from an illegal operation. Her body had been placed in the ‘woods, they said, about 12 hours be- | fore it was found yesterday afternoon by two passing truck drivers. State police questioned the woman's husband, William Wilson, a New York chauffeur, who had reported her miss- ing to New York authorities last Thursday. Wilson said his wife had told the { landlady of the rooming house where they lived in New York that she was | going to see a physician, but he denied knowing that she planned to undergo an operation. - YEGGS LEAVE DAMAGE IN THREE BUILDINGS Futile Hunt for Booty Gives Ha- gerstown Police Belief Five Were Novices. Special Dispatch to The Star. HAGERSTOWN, Md., December 25. —Two local high school buildings and an office here were ransacked by what police believe were five amateur yeggmen during Sunday night. Several hundred dollars in damage was caused, but no loot was ob- tained. Virtually everything in the two schools that had a lock on it was smashed. The schools entered were the Hagerstown High and the Wood- land Way Junior High. At the former school, five plates upon which the gang had lunch in the cafeteria, indi- cated their number, say police. At the office of Leonard Humelsine, | safe was | knocked off, but the door did not | the combination on the yield. Arlington Zoners to Meet. ARLINGTON COURT HOUSE, Va., December 25 (Special).—The Zoning Appeal Board of Arlington County will meet at the court house at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow. It is understood a dozen or more requests for rezoning are to be taken up. | nomic problems with continued im- | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, Bt TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1934. PEERY YULE WISH HITS BOOTLEGGER Virginia Governor Makes Direct Plea for Law Observance. By the Assoclated Press. RICHMOND, December 25.—Gov. George C. Peery today had a merry Christmas wish for everybody in Vir- ginia except the bootlegger at whom he struck vigorously in a plea for law enforcement. In a Christmas day message to the citizens of his State the vernor expressed himse!f as grateful for many things, and hopeful that the “new year will witress a solution of many of our economic problems with a continued improvement in prosperity.” His season's greetings for the boot- legger were put like this: “I would like to make one specific appeal to the people of Virginia for the new year. Strict Enforcement. “The law for State control of the sale of intoxicating beverages set up by the General Assembly pur- suant to a v.te of the people has been in operation less than a year. The problem is being handled in a | sound and business-like way. It is| essential to the success of the plan | that & new Jaw be strictly enforced, Failure to en‘orce the law exists in some localities. As I see it, lhere‘ is an abiding duty on all good citi- | zens not only to obey the law, but | to help in its enforcement. Respect | for and obedience to law are abso- lutely essential “My plea is that a united effort on the part of enforcement officials | and our citizens in general be made for law enforcement throughout the | entire State.” Problems for All ‘The Governor said the" past year has brought “*o us in Virginia prob- lems common to all.” Chief amongz them he mentioned those incident to relief and unemploy- ment. He added that through con- tributions from the Federal Govern- ment, the work of the highway de- partment and local contributions the situation has been met and “condi- | tions today are better than they were | a year 1go0.” He said Virginians have escaped destructive droughts that came to other parts of the Nation, and nas ture has yielded bountiful crops. These crops, ne said, were sold at better prices than prevailed a year ago. “We nope the new year will wit- ness a solution of many of our eco- | provement in prosperity. Industry must give its help in absorbing un- employment, and all of us must lend 8 helping hard to those less for- tunate in thess critical times.” THOUGHTFUL GREETINGS; Health Officer Remembers 250 Children in Quarantine. } BALTIMORE, (#).—The 250 Balti- more children who can’t leave their homes to celebrate Christmas got | greetings from the man who makes | them stay at home. | The children are those quarantined for communicable diseases, and the| man is Dr. Adolph Weinzirl of the city | Health Department. Dr. Weinzirl sent \ each of the 250 a Christmas card. Home for Gen. John J. Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Force during the World War is shown here (right) es he returned to New With him is Gen. Dennis E. Nolan from Governors Island, who greeted him when the ship docked. Gen. Pershing will spend the holidays in New York, then proceed to Tucson, Ariz York on the S. S. Manhattan. PATRONAGE MEETING CALLED AT ROCKVILLE Progressive Democrats to Take Up 50-50 Agreement of Fusion Campaign. Special Dispatch to The Star, ROCKVILLE, Md., December 25.— Jack S. Eaton of Chevy Chase, sec- retary of the Fusion Ccunty Com- | mittee, has issued a call for a meeting of the Democratic members of the | committee here tomorrow night to take up the question of distribution of the Progressive Democratic share of patronage. Under a pre-election agreement, the jobs gre to be distributed between Re- publicans and Progressive Democrats on a 50-50 basis and the 65 Demo- cratic members of the Fusion County Committee have been called together to discuss recommendations to be made to the county commissioners. Whether the Republican members | of the Fusion County Committee will | beat off Collins with the stock of a | Catholic Church here. be asked to submit recommendations | shotgun, but Collins overpowered him | Rev. Charles R. O'Hara, celebrated | Miss Laura Gardner, to the commissioners, or the matier will be left to the Republican State | Central Committee for the county, has not been determined. Christmas —A. P. Photo. RECONCILIATION EFFORT | RESULTS IN KILLING| Self-Defense Plea of Fa!her-i;- Law of Merrifield Victim in Fight Over Wife. Special Dispatch to The Star. MERRIFIELD, Va., December 25— | An attempt to effect a Chrisimas reconciliation with his estranged wife ended in the death of Norman Coi- colored, 40, of Merrifield, here | M. ALEXANDRIA AID ASKED FOR EIGHTY Aged and Invalid Unemploy- ables to Require $12,480 During 1935. ALEXANDRIA, Va., December 25.— City Council has been asked to set up an appropriation in the 1935 city | budget to provide support for ap- proximately 80 aged and invalided persons here, listed as “unemploy- able.” Based on a figure of $3 a week, their support next year would cost $12,480, according to A. W. Boehringer, relief director, who re- quested the funds. Funds Are Restricted. Because they are incapable of em- ployment, funds of the Department of Public Welfare, local Federal relief agency, cannot be spent for their aid, the director said. The United Charities, which cared for most of the “unemployables” this year, cannot be expected to continue the whole task next year because their total drive subscriptions for 1935 amounted to | | less than $10,000, it was explained. The council has already set up $14,- | 500 in next year’s tentative budget for contributions and charity. The sum is an increase of almost $10,000 | over the $4,700 apportioned to charity this year. Possible Arrangement. A possible arrangement, whereby | City Council and the United Charities would each set aside one half of the approximately $12,000 needed to care for the city’s unemployable popula- | tion in 1935 has been pointed out. The | | council's appropriation could be taken from its tentative $14,500 charity fund set-up, ROCKVILLE. ROCKVILLE, Md., December 25 (Special) —The annual Christmas entertainment of Faith Methodist Sunday school, Derwood, will be held in the church tomorrow night, when children of the school will render a program of recitations and other features and a choir of 25 will sing. Miss Mabel Becraft, superintendent, heads the Committee of Arrange- ments. The Sunday school of the Meth- | odist Mission at Seneca will hold its Christmas entertainment Friday night. Licenses have been issued here for the marriage of Arthur Lee Dumhart, 21, and Dorothy Virginia Jones, 29, both of Fairfax, Va., Lawrence J. Heller, 41, Kentsdale, Md., and Agnes A. Westberger, 34, Lancaster, Pa.; William F. Johnson, 31, and Susie V. Porter, 31, both of Washington: Harold C. C. Willey, 42, and Pauline Dawson, 43, both of Berkeley Springs, W. Va.; Milton W. Johnson, 22, Crewe, Va, and Annie Waddell, | 21, Victoria, Va., and Perry B. Tiller, ins, police say, was shct and killed by his father-in-law, Jefmie Robinson, colored, 47, when he forced his way into the latter’s residence after his wife had refused to go home with him. Robinson told Sheriff Eppa Kirby that Collins forcefully encered the house and dashed upstairs brandisn- ing a butcher knife, a struggle en- suing. and Robinson shot in self-defense. 21, and Roxie Wampler, 19, both of Sunset Hill, Va. About 50 members of the half dozen singing classes recently organized in Montgomery County as part of the Federal Government's adult educa- tion program spent several hours last night singing carols in various sec- tions. A large congregation attended mid- high mass and preached and special London’s Sleuths Make Christmas Truce With Crooks By the Assoctated Press. LONDON, December 25. — A ‘‘gentleman’s agreement” between Scotland Yard and the under- world enabled Scotland Yard to release from duty all but 25 of its staff today. Crooks traditionally keep an unwritten truce on Christmas in London and nearly all of Scot- land Yard's, 500 officers will be enabled to enjoy the holiday— though it is true that 300 men can be recalled within 10 min- utes. CRASH WITH TRUCK INJURES VIRGINIAN Laurel Accident Sends Nick Dida- chere to Hospital as Driver Is Arrested. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. Didachere of Abingdon, Va., was seri- automobile in which he was riding crashed into the rear of a parked truck on the Baltimore boulevard here. He was removed to St. Agnes Hospital, Baltimore, where he is re- ported suffering from a fractured skull and other injuries. - Niola Foglik, also of Abington, driver of the car, was arrested by Sergt. A. E. Markley of the State | police force and jailed at Hyattsville | pending the outcome of Didachere’s | injuries. Joe Crump and Joseph Watson, both of Petersburg, Va., who were re- pairing the truck at the time of the accident, were treated by Dr. B. P ‘Warren for minor injuries. Brady, owner of the vehicle, escaped unhurt. CHERRYDALE RESIDENT RUN DOWN BY AUTO Frank Scutte in Hospital After Accident on Lee Highway. Both Legs Bruised. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. CHERRYDALE, Va., December 25 Frank Scutte, 29 years old, of Cherry dale, suffered severe bruises of both legs early today when an aut driven, police say, by Elcer T Cherrydale, struck him on tn Highway here an of e Lee | of Tyson's car and was knockec dGown. | Scutte was taken to Georgetown Uni- | versity Hospital, in Washington, for treatment. | CLUB TO GIVE DANCE Second Annual Montgomery Co- tillion Event Tonight. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. KENSINGTON, Md., December 25 —The Montgomery Cotollion Club will give its second annual Christmas dance in the Kensington Armory to- night from 10 to 1 o'clock. | Charles H. Davidson, jr., is general | | chairman of the committee and is Police said Robinson tried to | night services last night in St. Mary’s 1‘ being assisted by Jack Christie, Harry ‘The pastor, Dawson, Jack Elgin, Frank Fisher, Miss Rebecca | Keys, Mrs. Howard Miles, J. Brawner Robinson is being held for investiga- [ music was rendered by an augmented | Nicholson, Miss Jean Skinner, Miss choir under direction of Mrs. Howard | Elizabeth White, George Wilson and | but last vear's total of $326 has not tion at the Fairfax County Jail pend- | ing a coroner’s inquest. ! M. Blandy. | Miss Maude Wilson. LAUREL, Md., December 25.—Nick | ously injured early today when an YEAR GIVEN SON INFARM SLAYING New Trial Motion for Young Hash Overruled by Rock- ville Court. | Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., December 25.— | Lowell Hash, 22-year-old farm worker, who was recently found guilty of manslaughter by a jury in Circuit Court here in the slaying of his father, Edgar J. Hash, 44, last June, yesterday was sentenced by Judge Charles W. Woodward to 12 months in the Maryland House of Correction. The maximum penalty for man- slaughter in Maryland is 10 years in the penitentiary. Sentence was passed after Judges Woodward and Willard had overruled a motion for a new trial and in announcing the court's decision Judge Woodward stated that in the opinion of the court the de- fendant had more than a fair trial and that the jury had rendered a proper verdict. Request for Leniency. Nelson | obile | Arlington County police reported | | that Scutte crossed the road in front | | Before sentence was passed, Attorney | Albert M. Bouic, for the defense, pre- | sented a petition signed by all mem- | bers of the jury which convicted Hash, Police Chief Albert A. Moxley and many citizens of the county, asking leniency on the part of the court. The request was joined in by States Attorney Stedman Prescott In passing sentence, Judge Wood= ward stated that the petition for | leniency and the pleas made by coun- sel for the defendant and the State’s attorney had much to do with what he regarded as a light sentence. Good Reason Absent. He said, though, that in the opinion of the court the boy had used entirely too much force in the altercation and there was no good reason why the | boy killed his father. 1t was shown at the trial that dur- ing the altercation in a barn on the farm near Quince Orchard, young Hash struck his father on the head | with a metal pipe, causing his death three days later. The defendant claimed that he struck his father in | self-defense. GRAND JURY TO PROBE ASSAULT IN STORE Arlington Judge Holds Charles Brown Charged With Attack on E. B. Putnam. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ARLINGTON COURT HOUSE, Va,, December 25.—Charles Brown of Ball- ston and Fairfax, charged with as- saulting E. B. 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