Evening Star Newspaper, April 14, 1935, Page 30

B—10 * MURDER SUSPECTS FAGE EARLY TRIAL Two Colored. Men Held in ' Slaying of Spotsyl- vania Couple. By the Associated Press. FREDERICKSBURG, Va., April 13.—Early court action was promised tonight for John Shell and Joe Jack- son, colored, held on warrants charg- ing the murder of Mr. and Mrs. John Thomas Coleman at their Spotsyl- | vania County home on the night of April 2. Police have held Jackson in jail| Rere since Sunday and last night Shell was arrested in Haverstraw, N. Y., by | Spotsylvania County officers who trailed him through several States. Although Judge Frederick W. Cole- n would not comment on the case, was believed he would summon a “special grand jury early next week to consider the charges against the ac- eused pair. Commonwealth’s At- torney E. R. Carner said he would re- quest grand jury action as soon as possible. Find Watch Case. Sheriff M. L. Biaydes and Deputy Sheriff Walker Burgess said when they arrested Shell in a rented house in Haverstraw he had in his satchel a gold watch case which had belonged to Mr. Coleman. The works had| been removed. the officers said, and | the gold chain was missing. They were unable to find Mrs. Coleman’s | watch or her daimond ring, both of . which have been missing since the bodies of the aged couple were found in a 40-foot well early this month. They had been shot and beaten to| death in what police termed the| eounty’s most brutal crime. | In his cell at Haverstraw, Shell was | quoted as saying he would resist ex- ! tradition and would appeal to the National Association for the Advance- ment of Colored People to aid him in his fight against return to Virginia. Although told he would be kept in the Richmond Jail as protection against possible mob violence, the prisoner would not return with the officers. Will Seek Extradition. Spotsylvania County authorities #aid they would make an immediate request to Gov. Peery to ask extra- dition. ‘County. With Shell when he was arrested were his wife and two children. Po- ‘ lice said the four of them left Fred- ericksburg by train two days after the alayinge. | Shell, who had served a term in| = the Virginia Penitentiary, came to Spotsylvania County last Summer with a road construction gang. More recently he worked at a Fredericks- burg store but was discharged three days before the aged couple was killed. Officers said Shell tried to run away when they went to the house to make the arrest but that he was confronted by two police as he sought to dash from the back door. They described him as sullen after the arrest, and said he would answer no questions except to assert his inno- cence. He is a native of Halifax Jackson, who came here from Goochland County, worked with the road force in Spotsylvania County last Fall. Subsequently he had been employed at the Coleman farm for short periods of time. He worked for Mr. Coleman as recencly as a month ago following his return from the State farm, where he had served a 60-day sentence for assault. Gave Police Information. He surrendered to police here last Sunday after being told Spotsylvania officers were looking for him. In- formation obtained from him led to Shell's arrest. Police sald they learned that two colored men were seen to leave a southbound bus on the highway two miles from the Coleman home on the afternoon of the murders. Later they were seen walking in the direction of the Coleman home. The murderers of the elderly farm couple robbed the house of money and jewelry and then escaped in Coleman’s automobile which was abandoned in Richmond the follow- ing day. A reward of $700—$500 by the county and $200 by the State—has been offered for the arrest of the slayers. e BIG LUMBER STRIKE FEARED IN WEST By the Associated Press. SEATTLE. April 13.—Fears of a paralyzing strike in the lumber in-| dustry of five western States were ex- | pressed here today by Charles W. Hope, director of the Regional Labor | Board. After making an “opinion sound- ing” tour of the area, he asserted the threatened strike of loggers and lumber mill workers is “more critical and far-reaching than last years longshore strike.” Demands of the 75.000 members of the lumber and saw mill workers union, Hope said, are for a 36-hour week, increase in the minimum wage standard from 45 to 75 cents an hour and pay of time and a half for over- time. Employers have indicated. Hope said, they will not accede to the de- mands and are contemplating closing mills, “unless a happy medium is| reached.” I | | THE BGAMY CHARCE OROPPED N COLR Man Freed When First Wife Is Shown to Have An- other Husband. ROCKVILUE, Md., April 13.—Dis- covery that Lomas Ray's first wife had not obtained a legal separation be- tween her third and fourth marriages caused Police Court Judge Donald A. De Lashmutt to dismiss bigamy charges against the man yesterday. The charge was brought by Mrs. Matilda Von Drass Ray, who claimed the man was married to her when he went _through the wedding ceremony with Virgia Bays, here, last September. Although Ray made no denial cof that assertion, he told the court his first wife was not divorced from the last of her three previous husbands when she married him. Upon being questioned by Judge De Lashmutt the woman admitted that sincé 1914 she had been married to Harry Shelter of Chicago, Willard Sowell of Newport, Ark.; Robert Beck and Ray. The first two marriages terminated in divorce, but the judge found that the third had not been annulled, and freed Ray, who had been in jail since Monday awaiting trial. He and his second wife left the court room to- gether. Ray, who lives in the 600 block of Indiana avenue, Wasnington, married to the complamnant in the case here in May, 1933, according to the testimony. PROGRAM ARRANGED BY CHEV Election of Officers and Review of Year's Activities Features of Tuesday Meeting. Special Dispatch to The Star. CHEVY CHASE, Md. April 13.— Officers will be elected, the year's ac- tivities reviewed by committee chair- men and & program of entertainment will be carried out at a meeting of the Parent-Teacher Association of the Chevy Chase Elementary School Tues- day evening. In its only public appearance for the year the school band will give a concert under direction of Raymond Hart, Montgomery County school band director. A program of vocal music will be presented by the Jesters, a male quartet of Washington, under the leadership of Ralph Paddock. was | Y CHASE P.-T. A.| ENVOYS DAVGHTER S LOSSOM QUEE Mile. Nella Veverka Named to Reign May 2.3 at Winchester. Special Dispatch to The St WINCHESTER, Va., April 13.— Mile. Nells Veverka, 20-year-old blond beauty and daughter of the Czecho- slovakian Minister, Ferdinand Veverka, and Mme. Veverka, of Washington, will reign over the twelfth annual Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival this Spring as “Queen Shenandoah XII," it was announced today by Fred | A. Read, jr, director general of the | celebration. Shortly after announcement of the choice, the committee assigned the task of determining the date said it nad decided on Thursday, May 2, and Friday, May 3. The committee, composed of Thomas B. Byrd, executive chairman; Walter S. Hough and Fred A. Robinson, deferred selecting the date until after a telephone conference with Weather Bureau officials in Washington. The committee estimated apple orchards will be in bloom throughout the Sherandoah - Cumberland - Potomac fruic belt of Virginia, West Virginia, Marvland and Southern Pennsylvania | when the festival is in progress. Mlle. Veverka is the only daughter | of the Czechoslovakian Minister, who as represented his country at Wash- ingtor. seven years. She was born and | reared at Prague, where she was edu- | cated by private tutors, and completed | her education in this country. She has one brother, Ferdinand Veverka, ir., who will act as her official escort during the blossom-time festivities, | arriving here from Washington the evening preceding the opening of the | celebration. CLINIC TO BE STARTED Legion Women Announce Date | for Orthopedic Examinations. | | HYATTSVILLE, Md,, April 13 (Spe- cial) —It is planned to start the or- thopedic clinic, sponsored by the La- dies’ Auxiliary of Snyder-Farmer Post, | No. 3, American Legion, early next| | mcnth at the Upper Marlboro High | School. Heading the committee in| charge of the clinic is Mrs. Ralph J. | Sheffer; The auxiliary meets next | Thursday night at the armory here | at 8:30 o'clock. Maryland Police To Enforce Rules On Car Headlights Spectal Dispateh to The Star. BALTIMORE, April 13.—An intensive campaign agsinst mo- torists who are indifferent about the condition of their headlights was inaugurated this week by E. Austin Baughman, commissioner of motor vehicles. In announc- ing the campaign Commissioner Baughman said: “A few months ago this de- partmént made a drive against machines with glaring headlights or with only one burning, or with both out. Apparently the motoring public took no noticz | of it. “Well, what is to be done if warnings fall upon heedless ears? The answer is keep such drivers off the roads. This I intend to do.” The commissioner has the power to revoke or suspend li- censes for cause without legal procedure. 1 Chamber Reorganized. BERKELEY SPRINGS, W. Va, April 13 (Special).—The Chamber of Commerce of Berkeley Springs was re- organized last night and officers named as follows: President, James A. Donnelly; vice president, Attorney Charles 8. 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