Evening star. [volume], April 02, 1937, Page A-4, Image 4

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iGedeon Hounded by Police,
Says Attorney Represent
ing Bruised Prisoner.
BACKGROUND—
Joseph Gedeon’s arrest followed
discoi'ery 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 (A5).—Joseph
Gedeon, 55-year-old upholsterer, was
held in $10,000 bail today on a charge
of possessing a revolver illegally, as
detectives continued their frantic
search for the slayer of his artist
model daughter “Ronnie,” his es
tranged wife Mary and Prank Byrnes,
a roomer, Easter morning.
Appearing in Magistrate Michael
Ford's court for preliminary 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
said 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 1
back to the Tombs.
Sabbatino, heading for the prison j
to watch the physical examination of j
his client, hotly charged the police !
■with "brutality” during their pro- j
traeted questioning.
"He's a mass of bruises,” he said, j
"They used the old 'back room' tactics
on him.” 1
Referring to the possibility of
Gedeon being connected with the
baffling 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, he and I are the only two ■
who seem willing to help solve the |
mystery. |
"Furthermore, he is absolutely
sane.”
Sabbatino said that he was consid
ering asking at the afternoon hearing j
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 morning, 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
Beekman Hill vicinity were searched
in an effort to find the answer to the
question of who killed the glamorous
‘ Roniaie,” her mother and a roomer
In their home.
Hairs from Gedeon’s face were sub
mitted to the police laboratory for
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
a frequent visitor. Tnis was indicated
bv 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 barkmg 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^a Co
penhagen, Denmark, motion picture
theater at the Invitation of the man
agement to see a film, “Twice Twins.”
\
A Gun Jails Father of Slain Model
After grilling Joseph Gedeon 3tt hours concerning the Easter Sunday slaying of his wife and
pretty artist's model daughter. Veronica. New York police jailed him for possessing a gun illegally.
They said they found the 'weapon in his room. Gedeon is shotvn (center) rubbing his head in a
bewildered fashion as Police Lieut. Ben Brady booked him into jail, with detectives looking on.
—Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
Harriman
(Continued i rom First Page/)
Roosevelt’s second appointment of a
woman to the diplomatic corps, tne I
first having been Mrs. Ruth Bryan |
Owen, who had been a Representative
from Florida. After serving several
years as Minister to Denmark she
resigned last September shortly after
her marriage to Capt. Boerge Rohde
of the Danish King's Royal Life
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
past, probably that of Ambassador to
Poland.
In New York today, according to
the Associated Press. Mrs. Harriman
said she would feel "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,’’ she
said, "I have nothing further to say.”
Mrs. Harriman long has been ac
tive in District affairs and for a num
ber of years has been active in na
tional as well as local politics. She
has attended Democratic national con
ventions as a delegate from this city
and for a number of years has been
national committeewoman. She also
has been prominent in social affairs of
the Capital, has maintained an inter
est in charitable and philanthropic
work and has been active in indus
trial and sociological movements.
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
recentltv 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
and Caroline Elsie (Jaflray) Hurst
and named Florence Jaflray Jones.
She was educated in private schools in
New York: At the time of her mar
riage in 1889 to J. Borden Harriman,
New York banker, she was regarded
as one of the beauties of New York
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 190G, 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 Th Melbourne. Australia, John
Heath has fitted it up as a home and
a dentist's office.
1
Textile
(Continued From First Page )
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
comDetition.
Seek Now, Pay Agreement.
Out of these conversations, It Is
hoped, will come eventually agree
ments for a general 48-hour week (if
not 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,
Prance and Belgium operate on the
40-hour standard. Adoption of a
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, Argentine
government representative on the
I. L. O. governing body.
Corneille Mertens of Belgium,
workers’ vice chairman on the gov
erning body.
Hans C. Oerstad of Denmark, em
ployers’ vice cjjalrman on the govern
ing body.
This first-day session was to close
with the election of a permanent
chairman, probably John Winant, the
United 8tates 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, Finland, France, Ger
many, Great Britain, Guatemala, In
dia, Japan, Latvia, Mexico, the Neth
erlands, Poland, Sweden, Uruguay.
Yugoslavia, Cuba, Ecuador, Rumania
and Turkey.
Whatever points are made at this
conference will be laid in June before
the International Labor Office itself,
with subsequent possible international
agreement by treaty on whatever de
cision the I. L. O. reaches as to what
should be done to save the industrv.
An immediate problem, one of mar
keting rather than of labor, but one
which ultimately affects wages and
hours, is a search for new means of
textile consumption.
OFFICER HELPS SWAN
May Be Detailed to Guard During
Hatching.
LOS ANGELES (A3).—It begins to
look as if a policeman may be as
signed to help a swan hatch her eggs.
The park authority asked the police
chief to station a patrolman near the
swan's nest daily during the hatching
process.
It was George R. Mitchell, presi
dent of the Humane Education So
ciety, who said originally the swan had
nine eggs, but somebody had poked
the bird oft the nest and stolen five.
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IL DUCE LIFTS BAN
New York Paper Again Allowed
in Italy.
ROME. April 2 i/Ph—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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HOEPPELS BEFORE
Ex-Representative and Son
Complete Minimum
of Sentences.
Former Representative John H.
Hoeppel of California, and his son,
Charles J., probably will win parole
today from the District Workhouse
where they have served four months
of sentences for conspiracy to sell a
West Point appointment.
They were among 24 prisoners who
were to appear today before the Board
of Indeterminate Sentence and Parole,
meeting at the District Reformatory
at Lorton. Since they have served the
minimum of their sentences of 4 to 12
months, and have a good record as
prisoners they stand a good chance
for parole, it was said.
Arrested By G-Men.
They were confined at the Work
house last November 25 after being
arrested at Richmond, Va.,( by agents
of the Department of Justicfc, on fugi
tlvr* warrant* after a national March
had been tnatltuted.
Tile elder Hoeppel aald they had
gone to Richmond from California, In
tending to give themselvea up, but
■ought a delay until they might con
tact James W. Ives, the complaining
witness, In the hope of getting him to
correct some statements in the case.
Ives was one of the Olympic athletes
and a student of Johns Hopkins Uni
versity In Baltimore. The Hoeppels
were convicted on a charge they con
spired to sell the Ives appointment.
Lout Appeal.
The elder Hoeppel charged "Injustice
and persecution” and Issued a state
ment last November, when brought
back to Washington, saying he had In
curred the enmity of "certain brass
hats.” After the two were convicted
in December of 1935, an appeal was
taken from the United States District
Court, but the Court of Appeals
affirmed the verdict.
When arrested at Richmond, the
Hoeppels sought a writ of habeas
corpus, which was denied and were
held In the Henrico County Jail at
Richmond for 18 days, until an appeal
from the denial of the writ, was with
drawn.
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