Evening Star Newspaper, March 4, 1937, Page 5

FOES OF SEAMIEN'S BOOKS ASSAILED Union Representative Holds Opposition Based on ‘Dia- bolical Campaign.’ BY the Associated Press. Paul Schanenberg, legislative repre- sentative of the International Seamen’s Union, asserted today that opposition to the law requiring seamen to carry continuous discharge books was based on a “far-reaching and diabolical cam- paign.” He testified before the House Mer- chant Marine Committee on a pro- posal to repeal the law. Schanenberg submitted data which he said showed opponents of the books had resorted to blacklisting tactics against seamen who had accepted the books. “Then they came here shedding crocodile tears about what the ship- owners may do to them in the future,” he said. In reference to testimony that Com- munist influences were at work to wreck the American merchant marine, Schanenberg said a campaign of “sub- versive influences” had been making headway in the California labor move- ment. Some Capitol Hill quarters expected that the present temporary Maritime Commission might soon be put on a permanent basis by President Roose- velt. Among those mentioned as possible permanent appointees to the commis- sion were Rear Admiral H. A. Wiley and George Landrick, both members of the temporary board; Rear Admiral Emory S. Land, chief of the Bureau of Construction and Repair of the Navy; Ernest E. Johnson of California, marine expert, and former Repre- senfative Edward C. Moran of Malne. Chloroform (Continued From First Page.) Miller to finish filling a patient’s tooth before he took the dentist into cus- tody. . Sheriff J. Mason Smith, in charge of a squad which rushed Dr. Miller to Richmond last night as a good- natured crowd, mostly college students, milled about the local police station, said the prisoner asked him to pull the car over to the side of the high- way before reaching Richmond. “He told us,” Sheriff Smith said, “the girl was to become a mother and that he had attempted the operation at her request Monday evening. “He said he borrowed an automo- bile and drove to a point 6 miles north of Charlottesville, where he turned into a side road. It was not yet dark. Chloroform Proves Fatal. “He was preparing for the opera- tlon,” he said, “when the girl died from the chloroforms He said he then became greatly excited and finally de- cided to wait in the side road until dark. ' “Then he told us he drove to the patch of woods between the university ceme and the golf course, where he put the body out.” Soon after arriving at the Henrico County (Richmond) Jail, the sheriff asserted, Dr. Miller began to write his statement. Dr. Miller earlier had said that the ean of chloroform found on the girl’s face had been missing from a cabinet in his office after he had given the girl dental treatment about 10 days 2go. A warrant charging the dentist with murder was issued secretly after Hu- bert Carver, a salesman, reported to police that Dr. Miller had borrowed his automobile late Monday afternoon upon his promise to return it within an hour. When the car was returned late that night, Carver said, it “reeked” of chloroform, and there were bits of cotton in it. ‘Was Engaged to Marry. Cleo was engaged to marry a young man. Her mother, Mrs. Lulu Sprouse, is a widow. The father committed suicide several years ago. There are | several other children. The dentist’s alleged confession was at variance, in one respect, with a story told by a girl acquaintance of Cleo. This friend told police she saw Cleo alive about 7 ,.m. Monday, when the Sprouse girl drove up in a car and asked the friend to go for a ride. At 7 p.m., according to the dentist's slleged confession, Cleo was dead. Suspicion was first directed toward Dr. Miller when a local druggist re- ported to police that, the dentist had complained to him the fatal chloro- form can had disappeared from his office. Later the salesman told his damaging story about the borrowed ear. It was to question Miller about these angles that the detective went to the dental office late yesterday. Police Building Porch Falls. Dr. Miller was not served with the murder warrant until after he had been questioned at police headquar- ters. During the grilling a crowd of about 1,000 persons, mostly youths, gathered outside the building. At one time they became so eager in their clamoring for “news” that the front porch of the police building collapsed. None was injured. More confusion resulted when a police car knocked down two spec- tators. They were not seriously hurt. Dr. Miller was smoking a cigar and appeared at ease when Sheriff Smith and his men brought him.out of police headquarters for the trip to Richmond. “How about it, sheriff?” came from the crowd as the group appeared. The officers made no reply. The authorities said Dr. Miller was removed to Richmond, not because of fear of mob rule, but because it would facilitate the investigation. Charyed with the murder ot cleo Sprouse, 18, Charlottesville High School student, Dr. R. G. Miller, Charlottesville dentist, is shown taking off his apron as he was arrested yesterday. J. HUBERT CARVER, Automobile salesman, whose statement to police that he loaned a car to Dr. R. G. Miller, Charlottesville dentist, the night of Cleo Sprouse’s disap- pearance led to the latter’s arrest. The car “reeked” with chloroform, Carver said. THE EVENING STAR, Confesses Girl’s Death —Associated Press Photo. ETHEL SEALOCK, Eighteen, friend of Cleo Sprouse, who told police she saw her schoolmate in “a big sedan” the night she was last seen alive, and that Cleo had asked her to go for a ride. abouit 30 years ago. in 1909 to a Roanoke woman. They have two children, a 20-year-old daughter, employed in an office at the University of Virginia, and a son about 16. News that Dr. Miller has been charged with murder was accepted with mixed emotions by the dentist’s family and relatives of Cleo. “My father couldn’t have -done that,” cried the dentist’s bewildered 16-year-old son, Richard, jr. “He never harmed any one in his life! Mrs. Miller also was understood to have expressed the belief that her husband was guilty of no crime. Friends who remained overnight at the Miller’s modest little bungalow refused to allow newspaper men in to see her. One spokesman for the family said, however, “Everybody loved him.” The widowed mother of Cleo, Mrs. Lulu Sprouse, a small, quiet, dark- haired woman, was grave as she pre- pared to attend the rites for her daughter this afternoon. “If Dr. Miller is the man responsi- ble,” said Mrs. Sprouse, “I believe the law should take its course, although it won't bring back my little girl.” At the same time Mrs. Sprouse re- called that Dr. Miller “always had been fond of Cleo. He often told her he felt like a father to her, and he was so much older than she was that I'm sure that was the only way he felt about her. “I've seen him sometimes slapping her in a fresh way and sert of grab her around the waist. 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Ave. Call Natl. 9331 or Clev. 2502 and Leave Your Order He was married | ® L4 around they were beth smiling as if | nothing had happened.” “Dr. Miller had given Cleo money lots of times, I know, to go to the movies.” The funeral services were to be held at the Sprouse residence, whers | hundreds of friends, including many of Cleo’s schoolmates and relatives, passed through last night. Burial was to be in Riverview Cemetery. This is not the family burial ground. Riverview was selected because Cleo had told her mother some time ago when she died she did “want to be on that hillside,” referring to the plot where her father was interred. - Plowing Matches Revived. Plowing matches are being revived in the Irish Free State with all the glory of the days before modern agri- cultyral machinery, the excitement at some being akin to a derby event, and an all-Ireland plowing championship WASHINGTO:! PROPERTY OWNER EXPLAINS MIX-UP{ Man Says He Thought He Owned Land Belonging to School Board. By Staff Correspondent of The Star. ARLINGTON, Va., March 4—Nego- tiations are under way between W. 8. Hoge, jr., Cherrydale real estate man, and _ the Arlington County School Board for an amicable settlement of the question of “what to do” about a brick dwelling built by Hoge on prop- erty he sold to the School Board in 1924. The presence of the dwelling was brought to light Tuesday night when the Arlington County Civic Federa- tion passed a resolution demanding an investigation of why the dwelling should be there. Hoge today explained that the con- struction of the residence was due to & mistaken impression on his part that he owned the lot where the build- ing stands. Under this impression, he explained, he sold the lot and bum. the house. Soon after the sale of the 2%-acre tract of land to the School Board, Hoge explained, his brother died leav- ing him heir to other lots in the sec- tion. Among .them was the one on which the house was built. He cannot explain how the title could have passed through a title company, but it did, he contends. He insists that a court order deeded him the lot. The lot, one of 12 sold by Hoge o the School Board, lies on Washington boulevard between Madison and Mc- Kinley streets. Since he owns other lots adjoining the property, he 1is seeking to make a trade with the board, giving them another lot for the one where the house stands. W. 8. Hoge, 3d, & member of his father’s firm, said they have known' of the mistake for some time and had been negotiating with Fletcher Kemp, superintendent of schools, and the board for a trade. Kemp declined to comment on the board’s stand in the mix-up. CABOT DIVORCE ASKED - LOS ANGELES, March 4 ®).— Reconciliation attempts of Adrienne Ames, screen actress, and Bruce Cabot, actor, reached an unsuccessful finale yesterday when she filed suit for divorce. 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