Evening Star Newspaper, April 6, 1937, Page 5

. ARMY PROMOTIONS EXPECTED TODAY Senate May Act on Four Names of General Officers. Four appointments to high com- mands in the Army, sent to the Sen- ate yesterday by President Roosevelt, are expected to be acted on today. The appointments affect the fol- lowing: Brig. Gen. Charles D. Herron, com- manding the 6th Corps Area, Chi- cago, promoted to major general to succeed the late Maj. Gen. Henry W. Butner. Col. Walter K. Wilson, chief of staff, Tth Corps Area, Omaha, Nebr,, promoted to brigadier general to suc- ceed Gen. Herron. Col. Walter C. Baker, on duty at 1st Corps Area Headquarters, Boston, promoted to chief of Chemical War- fare Service, with rank of major gen- eral, to succeed Maj. Gen. Claude E. Brigham, whose term expires May 23. Col. Charles Burnett, Cavalry, com- manding the 6th Cavalry, Fort Ogle- thorpe, Ga., promoted to be chief of Bureau of Insular Affairs, with rank of brigadier general, to succeed Brig. Gen, Creed F. Cox, whose term ex- pires May 23 | A native of Crawfordsville, Ind, | Gen. Herron served in the Field Artil- | lery during and subsequent to the | World War, commanding the 313th Field Artillery in France and later | serving on the general staff at head- quarters of the A. E. F. He also saw | active field service in the Philippine | Insurrection Col. Wilson, who was born in Nash- ville, Tenn. served on the general JUAN LECUNA. UAN LECUNA, civil attache of the Venezuelan Legation, today impatiently awaited the arrival in the United States of his bride, to whom he was married by proxy yesterday. Lecuna was playing a piano in the Roosevelt Hotel, 1,500 miles from the church in Caracas, Venezuela, where Senorita Calliss Torres at the same time was vowing to love, honor and obey him until death did them part. Senorita Torres made the answers to the proxy groom, Dr. Juan J. Diplomat Married by Proxy Awaits Bride From Venezuela THE EVENING CALLISS TORRES. Mendoza, former Minister to the United States from Venezuela. She will sail soon for this country to join her husband. Lecuna timed his arrival at his piano to coincide with the hour at which he calculated the ceremony would begin. For half an hour, he played a selection of his own com- position dedicated to his bride, “Calina.” Senora Lecuna is the daughter of a former Venezuelan Minister to Hol- land. Ronnie and Ethel,” Hauser told de- tectives. Police previously declared that revenge against Ronnie and Mrs. Gedeon for their opposition to his suit of Ethel was Irwin's motive for staff during the World War and or- | ganized and administered the cable | service, having charge for the Wm’i Department of communications to and | from the A. E. F | Born in Chester, Pa, Col. Baker | served during the Spanish-American | War as a non-commissioned officer. He served in France as ordnance offi- cer of the 88th Division and later was on duty in the Embarkation Service here. He has been in the Chemical | Warfare Service since 1920. | Col. Burnett was born in Concord, Tenn., and was commissioned in the cavalry in 1901. He served in the | Philippines during the insurrection and for a time was aide to Gen. Per- | shing. During the World War he | served in Prance as assistant chief of | staff of the 30th Division. He was on | duty in Tokio during the 1923 earth- | quake, when he saved the life of the American Ambassador, Cyrus E. ‘Woods. Sculptor (Contmged From First Page.) sonages, making them from photo- graphs. Gedeon, who came to the station house to tell detectives what little he knew of Irwin, was rather vague in his concepts of the sculptor. “I knew him perhaps in the same way I knew other people,” said Gedeon, who was estranged from his | murdered wife and had not lived with his family for four years. “I knew very little about his personal life.” He said he intended to “stay neutral in this whole affair” until the murder 1s solved and the killer behind bars. Not Mentioned in Diary. Inspector Lyons cleared up one im- portant point concerning the five-year diary of “Ronnie” Gedeon, found in the murder apartment “Nowhere in the diary did she men- tion Irwin,” he said. ‘“Apparently he had been dismissed from her mind when he left the room he occupied for some time in the Gedeon home.” He did not identify the many ref- erences to “Bob” and “Bobby” in the model’s diary. Ronnie married Robert Flower when she was only 16, but the marriage was annuled after a short time, Lincoln Hauser, jr, an artist, to whom “Ronnie” was reported engaged, told police today he was planning a trip to Europe to get away from the murder scene. “Ronnie” told him of several dis- putes she had had with Irwin, he said, and how she resented the fact that Irwin offered his affections both to her and her sister Ethel. | “He tried to make love to both | SCOTCH | Fifty the killings. Ethel married George Kudner of Long Island City. Although police expressed the be- lief Irwin was still in New York, Mas- sachusetts officers watched highways | in the eastern part of that State after | receiving a report a man resembling | Irwin had fled from a Wollflswni Beach inn in a New York car. New York authorities issued an eight- State alarm for Irwin yesterday. As they blocked every egress from this water-bound borough, police dis- closed bits of what they termed in- criminating circumstantial evidence against the chunky divinity student | Ethel. and had spent three years at the Rockland State Hospital for the In- sane undergoing treatment. Left Hat at Ottburg Home. Apparently he stayed at the Ottburg home until last Saturday, almost a full week after Mrs. Mary Gedeon, Ver- onica’s mother, was strangled to death. When he departed he left his hat, a large empty carton and a box of salt. A one-time roomer in the Gedeon household, Irwin was described as re- senting Mrs. Gedeon’s and Ronnie’s interference with his courtship of Frank Byrnes, waiter and the third person killed, was called merely an STAR, WASHINGT on Ronnie until after 3 a.m., when she returned from a date. ‘The glove, which police believed is Irwin's, was found in the Gedeon apartment. Dr. Russell E. Blaisdell, superin- tendent at Rockland, predicted that Irwin would surrender to police or return to the institution the moment he learned he was wanted. Joseph Gedeon, the skinny little tather of Veronica, who was grilled hours on end last week about the mur- ders, did rot say what he thought of the Irwin angle. No one asked him. On the theory that the hunted man might attempt to harm Ethel, now Mrs. Ethel Kudner, police have per- suaded her to give up her home in Long Island City and take a residence elsewhere. Several detectives were assigned to keep a vigil at her new abode, and her Long Island City home also was constantly watched for the possible | appearance of Irwin, who, police said, knows the address. POLICE HERE WATCHFUL. Sculptor Believed Hitch-Hiking South From New York. Detectives were assigned here today by Inspector Bernard W. Thompson as a result of statements by New York police that Robert Irwin, 29, the eccen- tric sculptor sought in the Gedeon murder case, was believed to be hitch- hiking in the direction of Philadelphia and Washington. Thompson said, however, that thus far New York authorities have not re- quested the aid of Washington police in the search. Employables (Continued Prom First Page.) the Council of Social Agencies in- formed the Commissioners that the Bureau of the Budget had declared it had taken no action on the sug- gested deficiency appropriation be- cause the Commissioners have never formally asked for additional relief money. Under authority bestowed by the citizens' mass meeting, Coleman Jen- nings, prominent lay social worker and general chairman of the meeting, announced he will name a committee to carry out the mandate of the gath- ering before the end of this week. In the meantime, it was announced, the study of the 3,000 employables | incidental victim. After Mrs. Gedeon was dispatched, Byrnes entered (he‘ apartment and had to be disposed of. | The killer's venom was not released at St. Lawrence University, Can- ton, N. Y. First was his sudden trip to New York after his resignation at St. Lawrence—by request, because he lacked “the proper character for the ministry.” He arrived here Good Fri- day and took quarters in an East second street rooming house run by Charles Ottburg and his wife. win was in love with Ethel, “Ron- nie” Gedeon's sister, now married. Entries in his diary, discovered in Can- ton, showed that. At his own re- quest he had been psychoanalyzed @ Your eyes are red—the veins are so promis nent! It often happens after late hours. 100 much reading. exposure, etc. What shall you do? Eyes are a “sight” ... ® Quick! A drop of Eye-Gene goes ato exch eye. 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