Evening Star Newspaper, May 12, 1935, Page 6

FATHER DENES - PISONNG FIVE firippled Bookkeeper Held Under Guard to Balk Possible Suicide. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 11.—A crippled 49-year-old bookkeeper, held without bail for allegedly slaying his wife and four of their five children by mixing poison with their cocoa, sat slumped in the Raymond Street Jail tonight protesting he was innocent. ¥ ‘Through more than 24 hours’ vigor- ous police questioning, Frederick Gross admitted only that he had access in his employer’s chemical plant to the lethal substance that brought death to five members of his family in four ‘weeks, Arraigned on a short affidavit charging him with the multiple deaths, he was ordered held for exam- ination Monday. He was then taken to the jail and placed under extraor- dinary surveillance to guard against possible suicide. Earlier in the day Gross stood in the spotlight in the police line-up and repeated his denials. He was calm as he answered the questions of Acting Police Capt. Frederick Swirz. “When your wife and children be- came {ll that night did you send for a doctor?” Capt. Swirz asked. “Yes, immediately.” “At dinner that night did you eat the same food they did?” bt (ol “Did you drink cocoa?” “No. They drank cocoa and I drank coffee.” Swirz then asked him if he put poison in the cocoa. “I did not,” he replied firmly, SENIORS T0 HEAR BISHOP FREEMAN Prelate to Deliver National Cathedral School Bacca- laureate Address. Right Rev. James E. Freeman, Bishop of Washington, will deliver the baccalaureate address to graduates of the National Cathedral School June 2 at 4 p.m., Miss Mabel B. Turner, prin- cipal, announced yesterday. Commencement exercises will be Reld June 4 at 10:30 am, in the Great Choir of the Cathedral. Bishop Freeman will present the diplomas. A picturesque Flag day ceremony will e staged under the trees at Beauvoir House, within the Cathedral Close, on the afternoon of June 3. The senior play will be presented in Whitby Hall May 31. The members of the class of 1935 are Roberta Aylor of Berryville, Va.; Margaret Boxley of Roanoke, Va.; Dorothy Dovell of Culpeper, Va.; Rosa Laird and Wilhelmina Laird of Wil- mington, Del.; Margie Morton of War- renton, Va.; Sallie Taylor of Water- town, N. Y.; Mary Jane Tillotson of Jamestown, N. Y.; Florence Wright of Chevy Chase, Md.; Anne Claude, Sara Farwell, Ruth Wynne Fulton, Anne Macfarlane, Patty Nichols, Louisa Pownall, Gail Richardson and Madeleine Wright of Washington. MARYLAND U. WINS CATTLE-JUDGING PRIZE Team to Receive Engraved Plaque in Contest Sponsored by Magazine. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. COLLEGE PARK, Md, May 11.— Amassing a total of 442 points out of a possible 500, the University of Mary- land cattle-judging team won an an- nual cattle-judging contest, sponsored by a dairymen’s magazine, it is an- nounced by the Extension Service. The team will receive an engraved plaque 1n recognition of its victory. Twenty-four colleges and 590 indi- viduals participated in the contest. Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College finished second, and the Uni- versity of Missouri third. Maryland’s team was composed of Thomas J. Hoshall and William Chil- coat, Baltimore County; John L. Hull, Carroll County; Abram Z. Gottwals | Caroline County: Charles H. Clark and Harry W. Clark, Harford County; William F. Boarman and Daniel John- son, Prince Georges County, and Ches- ter Cissel and William P. Brendel, Howard County. The coach of the Maryland team was L. W. Ingham, as- gociate professor of dairy production at the University of Maryland. In competition with 34,684 individual contestants, Prof. Ingham was award- ed second place and a prize of $25 in the senior division. . Road Crosses Mountains. Opening of the new road between Teheran, capital of Persia, and Char- lus, on the Caspian Sea 100 miles away, crosses the Elburz Mountains, the highest point being nearly 10,000 feet above sea level. Ticket Printers Saved From Jail In Law Conflict Court Modifies Decree of 1926 Clashing With Code. Modification of a District Supreme Court decree yesterday lifted the Nation’s ticket printers from a di- lemma which offered two alterna- tives, either of which promised to land them in jail. A court decree in 1926 forbld them to exchange any information conern- ing prices of tickets and terms of sale under the Sherman anti-trust act. Then along came the graphic arts code directing them to do these very things and fixing jail sentences for failure to comply. The national industrial recovery act, which authorized the graphic arts code, eliminated prospective offenders from the anti-trust act, but failed to provide for court decrees already in_effect. Consequently, members of American Amusement Ticket Manufacturers’ Association, who print 85 per cent of all tickets used in this country, were faced with the prospect of going to jail for failing to obey the code or being jailed for contempt of court for violating the decree. They came into court and were granted a request for modification of e decree, - L3 THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, Father Questioned in Five Deaths Copyright, A. P. Wirephotos. Five deaths in the family have caused Brooklyn, N. Y. police to question Frederick Gross (center), ‘bookkeeper for a chemical concern. Frederick, jr., 9 (left), and his sister Katherine, 7 (right), have died since March 29. children had died previously. HOROLOGICAL GROUP TO MEET TOMORROW Business and Committee Reports First on Program—Capt. Hellweg to Speak. The Horological Institute of Amer- ica wlil hold its annual meeting to- | morrow at the Lee House, Fifteenth | and L streets. | Reports of committees and regular business will feature the morning pro- gram, beginning at 10 o'clock, while an address by Capt. J. F. Hellweg, superintendent of the naval observa- tory, and election of officers will be the principal events in the afternoon. Capt. Hellweg wilt speak on “Present Time Broadcasting.” The meeting will be concluded with & dinner at 6:30 p.m. MAYOR OF BALTIMORE WILL ATTEND BANQUET Guest of Honor With Mrs. Jack- son of Chevy Chase Pen ‘Women. 8pecial Dispatch to The Star. CHEVY CHASE, Md, May 11— Mayor and Mrs. Howard Jackson of Baltimore will be the guests of honor of the Chevy Chase Branch of the National League of American Pen Women at a banquet to be tendered Mrs. Lucille Foster McMillin and new- ly elected officers of the organization at the Congressional Country Club | tomorrow night. Mrs. Jesse W. Nicholson will act as toastmistress and Mrs. Emma W. P. Slack and Miss Victoria Copping, members of the Reception Commitee, will present Mrs. Daisy B. Calhoun, retiring president, with a gift from IR ———— Police said they found poison in cocos cans at the Gross home. Post to Hold Smoker. CLARENDON, Va, May 11 (Spe- cial) —A smoker, with a special feature entitled “A Night in Coblentz,” will be staged by the Arlington Post of the ,American Legion Wednesday night. ‘The smoker is in connection with the post’s drive for membership. B Geraniums Ageratum Heliotrope Marigolds Coleus Ten-Week Stock Zinnias = Dusty Miller E Asters S Verbenas £ Fuchsi Scarlet Sage Parlor Ivy Cigar Plant 10¢ Sn grown in beds and dug. established and cut bacl Evergreen, 35¢ R T 7 BRI ™ LEISSLER’S E. Falls Church, Va. Drive over Key Bridse—turn right i Oven every day until the organization. Sale of Bedding Plants Geraniums—Scented . . ..25¢ Candytuft Larkspur Sweet William Mimulus or Monkey Plant Sweet Alyssum Petunias Do not confuse these plants with seedlings Every one of these plants grown in pots—well Soil, per bag, 29¢ 17 Varieties of Rock Sedum, 15¢c each Orders of $2.50 or more delivered free in Washington and Vicinity Mail and Phone Orders Filled Prompily Mrs. Gross and two other Portrait to Be Unveiled. MONTROSS, Va., May 11 (Special). —The restored portrait of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, will be un- veiled at the Westmoreland County Court House here May 20 at 3:30 p.m. Gov. Peery and others of prominence will attend. i R AR N e T g apdragon B T et k to give a compact plant, Shrubs, 25¢ NURSERIES Phone Clarendon 1306 —31% mil Included. to nursers. NG 00 Y B i R & BRAND-NEW, GENUINE @@ RCA VICTOR 6-TUBE «%. AUTO RADIO Tnnnn, B ] W & sues 938 F St. N.W. 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Ear] Landreth, secretary of the Puerto Rico Hurricane Relief Com- mission and chairman of the Play- ground Council, will preside at the meetings to be held in his munitions building office to consider an earlier report of the group on the inadequacy of playground supervision. ‘The council, organized last Febru- ary, is a group of Washington citizens made up of two representatives from each of the 26 playground areas. Allen’s Opinion Sought. Opinion of Commissioner Allen on the playground campaign has been sought by the group through H. E. Jueneman, chairman of the council’s Legislative Committee. “Playground personnel to care for the thousands of children, who will ® Medium Brims ® Wide Brims @ Youthful Shapes ® Matrons’ Shapes ® All Headsizes Linens Smooth Straws Rough Straws Body Straws MAY 12, 1935—PART ONE. be eager to use the recreation facilities this Summer is entirely inadequate,” Maj. Landreth said yesterday. The organization has made & formal protest against the lack of play space in the 96-block-square area in the Central Citizens’ Association territory. Council Works on Report. Meanwhile, the council is working on a report of recommendations for improvement of conditions on existing playgrounds. Mrs, Horace J. Phelps, chairman of the Land Aquisition Com- mittee, declared yesterday the land aquisition program is nearly complete. A program for use of land for play purposes has been presented to the Park and Planning Commissioner with a p;u for is co-operation, Mrs. Phelps said. The council has urged all citizens’ assoclations to send a representative to council meetings. —_— P.-T. A. AT LAYTONSVILLE PREPARES FOR ELECTION Committee Named to Draft-Slate to Be Presented at Meet- ing in June. Special Dispatch to The Star, LAYTONSVILLE, Md, May 11.— Mrs. John Leizear, president of the Laytonsville Parent-Teacher Associa- tion, has named Mrs. Roy Barber, Mrs. Fearnow and Mrs. Mowatt Windham as a nominating committee to pre- sent & slate for the election of officers at the June meeting of the associa- tion. Plans for the commencement pro- gram were discussed at the monthly meeting, held this week. Mrs. Mary Smart Riggs again will be in charge of the music. Miss Grace Roberts, principal, and Mrs. Roy Barber, grade mother, will arrange for the annual outing, to be held in June. The school boy patrol, under Wil- liam Seek, captain, and Warren Howes, lieutenant, will participate in the pa- rade to be held in Washington Satur- day, May 18. Other members of the troop are: Harold Morris, Francis Barber, Howard Kemp, Paul Winstead, Richard Burdette, Merhle Howes and Richard White, flag bearer. — REV. WALTER SPOONER GIVES UP POSITION Congregational and Christian Superintendent of Three States and D. C. in Ill Health. . Rev. Walter Spooner, superintend- ent of the Congregational and Chri tian Churches in New Jersey, Dela- ware, Maryland and the District of Columbia, resigned at the closing ses- sion of the Middle Atlantic Confer- ence, at East Orange, N. J., yesterday, | according to word received here. Mr. Spooner, a native of England, | had been a superintendent or pastor | at large in the Middle Atlantic States T Stewart—A. C.—lleut Authorized Service SPEEDOMETERS MILLER-DUDLEY/ 1116 144 ST.NW. NORTH 1583 LACE ST, ,N.W. Hats That Regularly Sell for $1.00 to $2.00! White Black Brown Navy Pastel Shades Street Floar—King's Palace Frocks * Sheers, batistes and ercales in a beautiful ine-up of summery pat- terns and color combina- tions. Sizes 14 to 20, 38 to 52. Second Floor Foundations $7.76 Corsettes with swami tops and with or without inner belts; sizes 34 to 46. 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