Evening Star Newspaper, June 1, 1937, Page 9

C.C.C. CAMPPROBE ISHELD DUE TODAY Georgia Hunger Striker Says | Offical Inquiry Is to Be Made. By the Associated Press. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 1937 Triplets Wed Ex-Playmates; Two Bridegrooms Brothers! By the Assoclatec Press. respectively, young Belfort farmers. CARTHAGE, N. Y., June 1—Wed- | Then Doris completed the plan by ac- ding bells rang thrice in the Zehr fam- ‘ cepting the proposal of Dewey Hill of | ily today as triplets, Doris, Dora and | Lyons Falls, also a farmer. Dorothy, marched to the altar with| The Kloster brothers and the trip three stalwart North Country farmers | et grew up together in the same —two of them brothers. I'school district. The girls left school | Prim in white satin gowns, the 24- |at 16 and since have been helping vear-old sisters came to the small | their mother at home. Methodist Episcopal Church here from | They're all going to Beloit, Ohio, {o their home, in nearby Croghan, for the | visit relatives. ROSSVILLE, Ga., June I—Phihpl A. Baumgartner, dismissed C. C. C. | clerk, who says he has been without | food for 77 days in protest of “corps | conditions at Fort Oglethorpe,” said | last night an official investigation of | conditions would start today. | At the start of his fast Baumgart- | ner said living costs had advanced to the point where he was “desperate” | and that the hunger strike was his ' way of protesting. | He said he was paid $105 a month and claimed “soldiers and members of | their families and some girls with | less experience are making more ! money,” and asked “an investigation.” | Lieut. Col. Howell Estes, acting commandant at Fort Oglethorpe, in- formed of Baumgartner's statement, raid, “If there is anything like that ® be done I wouldn't want to com- | ment on it until noon.” He ad- vised newspaper representatives to be at the post at that time. Baumfartner, the father of six children, started his hunger strike May 16. A week later he was dis- missed by Army officials at Atlanta for “insubordination and attempting to coerce the Government.” “I feel much better than in some | time.” Baumgartner said today. “My | nervous system is improved and 1 told my doctor not to come back until I call him.” He said his weight had dropped from 196 to 160 pounds. | | HONOR SUN YAT SEN Local Chinese Attend Memorial at Embassy. The: first of a series of Monday morning memorial services in tribute | to Dr. Sun Yat Sen, founder of the Chinese Republic, was held yester | day in the reception hall of the C] | nese Embassy, with members of the local Chinese community and of the ssy staff present. | Those present bowed thrice before the portrait of the founder of the republic, and his will was read by Dr. Chengting T. Wang. new Chinese am- bassador to t s Wang. in a brief speech, stressed the need for co-operation among Chinese | nationals in speeding up the re(‘onai tion work in China which was napped out by Dr. Sun Yat Sen. o — | ALBERTA DEFAULTS ; Bocial Credit State Unable to Meet 81,650,000 Bonds. EDMONSTON, Alberta, June 1 (Ca- | nadian Press).—Provincial Treasurer Solon Low announced yesterday that Alberta’s social credit government will default on a $1,650,000 bond maturity | due today. | The announcement that the prov- | ince would default on a major bond issue for the third time in 14 months | came after the Bank of Canada noti- fied Low it was unable to loan the province enough money to meet the | maturity. { second time in 24 hours. f - S R, Last night, the triplets, daughters of Mrs. Flora Zehr, a widowed farm | JOBLESS MAN ACCUSED mother, rehearsed the triple ceremony | for more than an hour, as curious vil- | OF MURDER OF WIFE lage folk watched through doors. | S Three times they marched up the cayoi ; | aisle with their three sisters, Delia, | C" C L 0% Woman Said to Have Been Slain, Then Placed on Pearl and Florence, as attendants and I grouped themselves with other mem- bers of the wedding party about a‘ Blazing Bed crescent platform before Rev. William | By the Associated Press. K. Bradshaw. House dresses sufficed MORGANTON, N. C. June 1— for the rehearsal. | Ervin A. Stamey, 22-year-old jobless | It was Dorothy and Dora who con- | filling station worker, was charged | ceived the idea of a triple wedding | with murder yesterday in connection When they became engaged to Sher- | with the death of his 20-year-old wife, man Kloster and his brother, Francis, whose lifeless body was found in a PRICE! 15¢ Automatic THRIFE NIT | Sebled-in-Steel 1328 New York Ave. N.wW. Prices start ot blazing bed at their home shortly after midnight Saturday. Sheriff Fred W. Ross said an ex- amination showed that Mrs. Stamey, mother of two small children and worker in a textile mill at Drexel, near here, had been struck a severe blow in the back of the head and was dead before the bed was set afire. Conley Stamey, brother-in-law of the victim, reported finding the body on the burning bed. 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