Evening Star Newspaper, April 2, 1937, Page 4

FATHER OF MODEL UNDERS10 000 BAIL Gedeon Hounded by Police, Says Attorney Represent- ing Bruised Prisoner. BACKGROUND— Joseph Gedeon’s arrest followed discovery of a gun in his apartment after he had been questioned in the murder of his estranged wife, Mary Gedeon, 54; his daughter, Veronica Gedeon, 20, an artist’s model, and Frank Byrnes, a roomer. NEW YORK, April 2 (#).—Joseph Gedeon, 55-year-old upholsterer, was held in $10,000 bail today on a charge of possessing a revolver illegally, as detectives contfued their frantic search for the slayer of his artist model daughter “Ronnie,” his es- tranged wife Mary and Frank Byrnes, & roomer, Easter morning. Appearing in Magistrate Michael Ford’s court for mehmin.rv hearing, with bruises showing on the right side of his face, Gedeon, through his at- torney, Peter L. F. Sabbatino, asked that nominal bail of $50 be set. “Police are just hounding this old man,” Sabbatino told the magistrate. “They are barking up the wrong tree.” $15,000 Bail Asked. Assistant District Attorney Ray Leo argued against Sabbatino’s request, asked $15,000 bail, and said: “I understand this man is the prin- cipal suspect in the Gedeon triple murder.” Magistrate Ford then set bail at $10,000, and ordered the case up for hearing at 2 p.m. in Felony Court. Sabbatino's request that four physi- cians be permitted to examine Gedeon in Tombs Jail was granted by Magis- trate Ford, but an additional request for permission to photograph the little upholsterer’s body. which Sabbatino saild was badly bruised during the two-day police questioning, was re- fused. Assistant District Attorney Leo ex- | plained to the court that pictures taken in the routine of booking by the | police showed four sections of Gede- on’s body. Gedeon looked puny before the bar, despite detectives’ frequent assertions | that he is extremely powerful in his | arms and wrists. He was neatly | dressed. freshly shaved and had found another pair of glasses to replace those he broke when fleeing from questioners early in the investigation. He wore no tie. Right Temple Bruised. His right temple, near the eye, was obviously red and bruised. Policemen who accompanied the prisoner to court | said Gedeon had collided accidentally | last night with an iron gate in the jail No effort was made immediately to raise the bail, and Gedeon was taken | back to the Tombs Sabbatino, head to watch the phys: his client, hotly with “brutality” tracted questioning “He's a mass of for the prison | 1 examination of | harged the police | during their pro- bruises,” he said | said she would feel said, STAR, . WASHINGT APRII, Jails Father of Slain Model After grilling Joseph Gede on 3v hours concerning the Easter Sunday slaying of his wife and pretty artist’s model daughter, They said they found the zunpon in his room. cronica, Gedeon is shown New York police jailed him for possessing a gun illegally. (center) rubbing his head in a bewildered fashion as Police Lieut. Ben Brady booked him into jail, with detectives looking on. —Copunqht A 2. erephoto. Harriman (Continued i rom First Page.) Textile (Continued From First Page.) Roosevelt's second appointment of a woman to the diplomatic corps, the first having been Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, who had been a Representative | After serving several to Denmark she from Florida. years as Minister | resigned last September shortly after Boerge Rohde Royal Lite her marriage to Capt. of the Danish King's Guards. Biddle Now Has Post. ‘The Norwegian post at present is held by Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, jr., of Philadelphia, who is slated to be transferred to some other European post, probably that of Ambassador to Poland In New York today, according to the Associated Press, Mrs. Harriman “greatly honored” if reports she would be named Min- ister to Norway turn out to be true. But,” she added, “I've had absolutely no information about it.” She said there had been some talk about her being appointed to a for- eign post, but she had received no word on the matter from the Presi- dent or the State Department. “Under the circumstances,” “I have nothing further to say. Mrs. Harriman long has been ac- tive in District affairs and for a num- she | ber of years has been active in na- | tional as well as local politics. She “They used the old ‘back room’ tactics | has attended Democratic national con- on him.” Referring to the possibility Gedeon being connected Dbaffling triple murder, Sabbatino said: “I am sincerely and positively cer- tain that my client is not guilty of any connection with the crime. As a mat- ter of fact, who seem willing to help solve the | mystery “Furthermore, sane.” Sabbatino said that he was consid- ering asking at the afternoon hearing that police officers who questioned Gedeon be prosecuted for their “bru- tality.” Gedeon went to sleep at 10 o'clock | last night and did not awaken until 5:25 this morming, despite a large light in his cell, No. 1 in police head- quarters. “Do you feel like anything to eat?” | asked Patrolman Andrew Kiel, the | regular attendant. | “Yes; I feel like having coffee and | some cake,” Gedeon replied. A container of coffee and a cheese bun were obtained from a nearby | restaurant and Gedeon ate his break- fast with relish. Search for Weapon. Meanwhile the city's sewers in the he is absolutely ventions as a delegate from this city of |and for a number of years has been with the | national committeewoman. She also | has been prominent in social affairs of | the Capital, has maintained an inter- est work and has been active in indus- he and I are the only two | trial and sociological movements. in charitable and philanthropic Friend of Roosevelts. Mrs. Harriman is a close friend of the Roosevelt family and has been an ardent supporter of the New Deal. She was actively engaged last Fall in campaigning for Mr. Roosevelt and recentlty came out publicly in support of the President’s Supreme Court pro- | | posals as “the least painful and least radical alternative to a delay that might stretch into years.” Mrs. Harriman's home in Wash- ington, known as Uplands, on Foxhall road, has long been a gathering place for her friends, many of them leaders in political, governmental, diplomatic, social and philanthropic circles. They refer to her Sunday night salons as | Mrs. Harriman's “teacup chancellery.” Although Mrs. Harriman has been a | resident of Washington for many years, she is a native of New York, having been born there in 1870, the daughter of Francis William Jones Beekman Hill vicinity were searched and Caroline Elsie (Jaffray) Hurst | in an effort to find the answer to the | and named Florence Jaffray Jones. question of who killed the glamorous | She was educated in private schools in “Ronmie,” her mother and a roomer | New York! At the time of her mar- in their home. | riage in 1889 to J. Borden Harriman, Hairs from Gedeon's face were sub- | New York banker, she was regarded mitted to the police laboratory for|as one of the beauties of New York comparison with those taken from | beneath the fiingernails of his dead daughter. Denies Gedeon Maltreated. | Denying third degree methods, De- | tective Capt. William T'. Reynolds said: *No, no, no, of course not. He has a double hernia and no one would think of striking him.” Reviewing police theories, as de- veloped in their two-day questioning | of Gedeon, Capt. Reynolds said: “It was evident from the first that | whoever committed these murders not only was familiar with the layout of | the Gedeon apartment, but also was | & frequent visitor. This was indicated | by the actions of the Gedeon Pe- kingese dog, Touchi, which made no disturbance during the time of the killings, but on arrival of detectives | ran about barking and trying to bite every one, “Gedeon was very friendly with his daughter, Mrs. Ethel Kudner, a friend- liness that was entirely absent in his attitude toward his wife and daughter ‘Ronnie.” “Mrs. Kudner agreed with the old man, and did not approve of the life which her sister was leading, and the fact that her mother allowed her to do so. This was Gedeon's attitude, although he continued to visit his wife occasionally.” PUPILS TO BROADCAST Eight students of Woodrow Wilson High School will present a radio dramatization of the invention of the stethoscope over Station WOL tomor- row at 12:30 p.m., as the second of a series of broadcasts arranged for the early diagnosis campaign of the Tuberculosis Association this month> Those to take part in the broadcast are’ Dan Malsy, Gove Hambidge, Theodore Norcross, David Margold, Arnold McKee, Ellen Leech, Jean Stoner and Josepehine Burbank. The | playlet is under the direction of Miss Elizabeth Best, English teacher at ‘Woodrow Wilson. 800 Twins Gather. Eight hundred twins met in & Co- penhagen, Denmark, motion Picture theater st the invitation of the man- and was considered one of the most popular debutantes in the late 80s. Mrs. Harriman has one daughter, who is now Mrs. Harriman Russell, an actress, who is a frequent visitor to Washington. Mr. Harriman died in 1914, Honored by Wilson . Mrs. Harriman holds the distinc- tion of being appointed by President Wilson as the only woman member of the Commission on Industrial Rela- tions. This was in June, 1913, and brought about the Harrimans’ taking up their residence in Washington. Mrs. Harriman was chairman of the Com- | mittee on Women in Industry of the Council of National Defense during the World War. She also was one of the organizers of the uniform motor corps of the American Red Cross, which attained such fame for out- standing service. One of Mrs. Harriman's first ac- tivities in connection with social prob- lems, was in 1906, when she was made manager of the New York State Re-' formatory for Women at Bedford, N. Y. She served in that capacity for 12 years. Mrs. Harriman was presi- dent of the Colony Club in New York at the time of its organization in 1904 until 1916. She is identified with the Babies' Welfare Association of New York and was a director of the Farm- ingdale Preventorium for Tuberculosis, as well as being one of the leaders in women's civic work in New York. She is a member of the National Institute of Social Sciences and is author of a book, “From Pianofortes to Politics,” published in 1923. Early in the days of the Roosevelt administration Mrs. Harriman was mentioned prominently in connection with appointment in the diplomatic corps. However, rumors to this effect did not bear fruit then. The impres- sion is, however, that Mr. Roosevelt for a long time has had Mrs. Harriman in mind for some major appointment. ‘Therefore, reports of her selection for the Norway post do not come as a great surprise. Church Becomes Home. Buying the 70-year-old Presbyterian Church Tn Melbourne. Australia, John Heath has fitted it up s & home and | T! agement to see a film, “Twice Twins.” ) a dentist's office. 1 ments may point the way to even| | larger accomplishments.” | Miss Perkins expressed her pleasure | that the conference was brought to| this country “because of the oppor- tunity it affords for the study of the| history, the problems and the experi- | ence of our textile industry.” Secretary Roper spoke after Miss Perkins. The Tripartite Textile Conference was arranged at the suggestion of an American, called by the action of the International Labor Office in Geneva and brought here at the informal invi- tation of President Roosevelt. The most pressing problem before the conference, which expects to de- cide nothing but to develop for later action all possible information con- | cerning the industry, is the relation of labor to textile manufacturing, which is a low-pay enterprise chiefly because of the intensity of the international | competition. Seek Now, Pay Agreement. Out of these conversations, it is hoped, will come eventually agree- ments for a general 48-hour week (if | mot a 40-hour week), a day of rest | each week (Japan's textile workers labor seven days a week), a ban on night work for women and some sort of minimum standard of pay. The 40-hour week will be pushed by the American delegation in the face of opposition from the Japanese and the British. Only the United States, France and Belgium operate on the 49-hour standard. Adoption of & | worldwide wage standards is made difficult by the fact that real wages vary in every country not only ac- cording to local prices, but according also to changes in international mone- tary relationships. | Jaromir Necas, minister of social welfare of Czechoslovakia and chair- man of the governing body of the | International Labor Office, officially | opened the meeting before the speeches by the cabinet officers, whose | talks were followed by addresses from these three: Carlos Alberto Pardo, government representative L L. O. governing body. Corneille Mertens of Belgium, workers’ vice chairman on the gov- erning body. Hans C. Oerstad of Denmark, em- ‘ployers’ vice cpairman on the govern- ing body. This first-day session was to close with the election of a permanent chairman, probably John Winant, the United States Government delegate. International courtesy usually dic- tates the choice of the representative of the government which is acting as host. Winant was the original sug- gester of such a conference. The textile question will be thrown open to general discussion tomorrow, and some time next week the delegates will select committees to consider vari- ous special topics of the industry. Sessions to Be Broadcast. Today's sessions were broadcast over a nation-wide hook-up of the National Broadcasting Co. The countries which are represented at the conference, besides the United States, include Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Pinland, France, Ger- many, Great Britain, Guatemala, In- Argentine onr the IL DUCE LIFTS BAN New York Paper Again Allowed | in Italy. ROME, April 2 (#).—Premier Mus- | solini yesterday lifted the ban on the New York Herald Tribune, which was forbidden last Saturday from circu- lating in Italy. Officials said the ban was imposed through a misunderstanding. Trees Bloom in Winter. Almond trees flowered in Hamp- shire, England, in wintry February. 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