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THREE SOLDIERS HDD IN ASSAULT Footprints and Alert Sentry Lead to Arrest of Trio in Taxi Robbery. Three sets of rubber heel prints at the scene of the crime and a sentry’s recollection of a name overheard as a cab passed his station led G-men yes terday to arrest three soldiers at Fort Myer, Va., on charges af assaulting and robbing a Washington taxicab driver early Thursday. The three, according to J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bu reau of Investigation, confessed they beat Simon O. Agpaca, 623 M street, and robbed him of $5 about 3 a m. Thursday on a lonely part of the mil itary reservation. The soldiers, being held at Fort Myer for military trial, are Privates Bill James Taylor, James Patrick Dougherty ahd Wilmer Maphis Payne, all attached to the fort. After court martial proceedings, they will be re leased to civil authorities for further prosecution. Agpaca Beaten in rare. Agpaca, who is under care of fort physicians for possibly fractured fa cial bones and shock, stumbled into the military post and reported he had been beaten and robbed by three white men in civilian clothes. He could give no clue to their identities. The Army authorities summoned agents of tire local field division of the F. B. I., who learned Agpaca had picked up the three on Pennsylvania avenue, near the Occidental Hotel and driven them to Fort Myer. Around Agpaca's blood-stained cab were found footprints of four men. The agents made casts and several of the prints were found to have been made by the cab driver. Three other sets of prints, with clear impressions of rubber heels of differing patterns, were obtained. Sentry Gives Clue. All sentries on duty at the time of the crime were questioned. One recalled hearing a man call out the name '‘Taylor" as a taxicab passed him about the time of the assault. The agents checked names of all soldiers at the fort, with the result that Pvt. Taylor was investigated. A pair of shoes in his possession were found to have rubber heels matching some of the prints at the attack scene, Hoover declared. He then gave G-men a statement. The investigation thereupon turned to Dougherty and Payne, whose rubber heels were found to correspond with other prints. X-rays have been taken of Agpaca's head to determine the extent of his Injuries. Gored by Bull. BETHESDA. Md„ April 3 (Spe cial).—R. E. Cruse, an employe of the Kensdale Dairy Farms, near here, was seriously injured today when a bull gored him in the lower abdomen. Cruse was taken to Georgetown Hos pital.’ where his condition tonight was described as critical. FOUND._ FRATERNITY PIN. FaI',rchurch_S34-F:41. I/OST. BILLFOLD, red. small. Initials "R L H " Lost between March 3 and 7. Reward. Emerson QUO._____ BILLFOLD, brown, containing money and papers^_Rewanl_Phone Met. 0954._ BOSTON BULL. male, black, white on neck and breast, short tail: weight 12 pounds; no collar. North Capitol and M n.w. Re ward. Dec. 0028._ CAT, large, black, strayed from 3(139 Que j st n.w. Reward. North .Vlim._| DOG. male Schnauzer. black and gray, fi j months old. chain choker collar. Reward. Call Cleveland 1427.__ DOG. brown and white fox terrier, lame jn right leg. answers to name • Rip.' If found call Adams 9835. 1326 Otis pi. n.w.___ FOX TERRIER, black and white, named “Mickey." Child's companion; 1935 tags; vicinity_Frlendshi pj_re ward. Clev. 3H() 9. IDENTIFICATION CARD CASE, brown on J4th st. car Apr. 3. Reward. 917 Ingraham *t. n.w_*__ KEY CASE, brown leather, stamped with name "Frances McIntyre." Reward. Call Adams 1291._____ KODAK. 1A. series 3: In taxi, at War College, about 10 o’clock Wednesday. Reward. Adams 6564._4 MONEY lost from pocketbook. two $20 bills. Reward. Address Box 234-0, Star office._ __ MALTESE CAT. white nose and paws, an swers to name ••Rachel" or "Snooky. Reward. Lincoln 5464-W._ MUFF, black Persian Iamb. 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ASSOC.. INC- National 1460. Padded vans. 1317 N- Y. ave. AUCTION SALE—FURNITURE OF EVERY description to be sold for storage charges on Thursday. April 8, at 10 a.m.. in our warehouse, 420 10th st. n.w.. first floor, consisting of living room suites, bed room suites, dining suites, dressers, tables, chairs, beds, linens, dishes, books, rugs. etc. UNITED STATES STORAGE COMANY. « k One Wins; the Other Loses John H. Hoeppel (left), former member of Congress from California, last night icon parole from Occoquan, where he is serving a sentence for conspiring to sell an appointment to West Point. His son, Charles J. Hoeppel (right), co-defendant, was denied clemency. The above picture was taken at the time of their conviction in District Court. —Star Staff Photo. Hoeppel (Continued From First Page.) When it involves also, as here, the sale of an appointment to our national Military Academy, it threatens the national defense. “The sentence imposed was short— shorter in fact, than that usually im posed for larceny of an old automo bile. Our first reaction is to deny ' parole on the ground that the mini mum sentence is not sufficiently long in view of the nature of the offense. But it is not the function of the board to determine or to pass upon the length of sentence. To deny pa role on that ground alone would, in a sense, overrule the court which im posed the sentence and which pre sumably had adequate reason for the conclusion reached. "At the hearing the elder Hoepe), who has an honorable past record, was frank in explainmg his connec tion with the affair. The son, on the other hand, was lacking in frankness and attempted to take refuge in tech nicalities and in shadowy distinc tions. His story, far from convinc ing the board of his innocence, indi cates that he was probably more culpable than his father, who did not originate the scheme and whose par ticipation in it was less direct. “Past Record Honorable. “Viewing the matter strictly from a parole viewpoint, the controlling factors are favorable to granting a parole to the elder Hoeppel. His past record is an honorable one. The dis grace caused by his conviction has profoundly affected his career and is far more telling as punishment than the precise number of months to be served. The probability of his further participation in crime is very re mote. The board has received no protest against the granting of pa role. “The board is faced with the al ternative of keeping the elder Hoeppel in confinement for a few months longer or using that period to aid in his rehabilitation. The latter would appear to be the wiser course and more in harmony with the spirit and purpose of the parole law. Hoeppel desires to return to his home district in California where a parole plan is available which has the tentative ; approval of the board. It is our con viction that the public interest will : best be served by granting parole to | the elder Hoeppel subject to certain j conditions to be prescribed by the j board which will aid in his rehabilita tion and insure the carrying out of the parole plan in his home district.'1 Dissenting Opinion. Dissenting. Dr. Scott said: "I concur in the denial of parole to Charles J. Hoeppel, but I dissent as to the granting of the parole to his father. That part of the decision of the majority which comments up on the seriousness of the crime and the shortness of the sentence imposed seems to be to argue rather against the granting of parole than for it. Nor should we overlook the fact that after repeated appeals to the courts, the elder Hoeppel was not able to establish his non-participation in the perpetration of the crime charged against him. “In my opinion, the public interest demands the denial of parole to both applicants.” Hoeppel, 56-year-old veteran of the Spanish-American and World Wars and a Democrat, was serving his second term in the House from the twelfth district of California at the time of his indictment. A resident of Arcadia, he had taken an active part in veterans' affairs there, and continued this interest when sent to Congress. When the case came to trial before Justice Daniel W. O'Donoghue in Dis trict Court, Hoeppel said he nomi nated Ives, an Olympic lacrosse star, to please two high-ranking Army officers who wanted good foot ball material for West Point. Ives, a Baltimorean, said he gave a promis so-“ note for $1,000 for the appoint ment to young Hoeppel, who had identified himself as “Charles Alexander.” The House never took official cognizance of the case. When the Hoeppels entered Oc coquan the father was assigned to a clerical post and the son to the ma chine shop. STUDENTS END STRIKE BY SMASHING WINDOWS Mexican Classmen Hurl Stones at School—Dispute Left to President. BT the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, April 3 —Students celebrating a return to classes alter a two-week strike stoned Secondary School No. 8 yesterday. Mor. than 60 windows were broken. (The Public Beneficience Society closed these schools alter students walked out. Directors of the society charged the students wanted to run the school through their own com mittees. The strike became Nation wide as other students joined those of Mexico City out of sympa'hy.) The Beneficience Society and .stu dents said a demonstration would be held today for President lazaro Car denas, to whom the students agreed to leave the working out of a strike aet Veneruela will hav« a foreign ex hibition building at tte 1088 exposition. ANGERS WANS Settlers Boycott Courts to Retaliate Against Anti Nazi Decree. By the Associated Press. PRETORIA. Union of South Africa, April 3.—German settlers in the former Reich colony of Southwest Africa, angered by a decree outlawing 1 Nazi political units, boycotted courts ! and mapped a protest to the League of Nations today. Flaunting the authority of terri torial judges, they set up their own secret tribunals and launched a pas sive resistance drive to extend boy cotts to other governmental bodies. The South African government, which administers former German possessions under a mandate, pro hibited aliens from joining any po litical organization or holding any public office without the written con sent of the administrator. Heavy Penalties Provided. Any British subject pledging al legiance to any sovereign other than j King George VI also will be subject to heavy fine or imprisonment. Britons ! and aliens engaging in unauthorized political activities would be subject to deportation. 1 In Berlin, official German circles said the government probably will protest against the decree on grounds it violates promises given to Ger mans in the former colony granting them full political, cultural and par tial commercial equality.) The union government has carried on a three-year drive to suppress Nazi and other nationalist movements, raiding Nazi headquarters and de claring a Hitler youth movement il legal. Situation Called Critical. The situation was viewed as "critical” in Capetown, legislative seat of government. Officials there were especially dis pleased by the fact that German youths still were being drafted for German military service just as though Southwest Africa, lost by Ger many after the war, was still Reich territory. Nazi organizations, although offi cially banned, have been known to keep a "blacklist" of Germans fra ternizing with Jews or Britons or dis obeying party orders. The persistence of Nazi activities already has lost most of South African support for the German demand of former colonies. COUPLE WIN TROPHY IN BRIDGE TOURNEY Miss MacKenzie and E. B. Con olly Score in State Competi tion at Alexandria. By p StafI Correspondent of The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va.. April 3— Miss M. M. MacKenzie and E. B. Conolly yesterday won the Stockvis Trophy with a high score of 435 points in the first event of the Old Dominion Bridge Tournament being held here and end ing tomorrow. Other high scorers in the mixed pair championship play, a new fea ture of the tournament, were second, Mrs. A. P. Stockvis and H. P. Cochran, 40914 points; third, Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Kreider, 40714 points; fourth, Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Urguhart, 40314 points; fifth, Mr. Marian Barre and T. H. Wharthen, 396 points. This is the second year the tourna ment has been held in Alexandria, having previously been held in Rich mond. Players are entered from Vir ginia, Maryland, New York, Penn sylvania and the District of Columbia. Trophies given in the championship play are kept by the winners only one year. home LOANS 1 To P«M*cl,asc lr Interest oTu ■ or U Low os 11 ■ RefiaanCC 5% I l Easy MontJily ^a^ I 1 I ■ '"■OP' AiA P[<„ected b, F.d.~« | I Y.„, s«'',"9;nlu„„c.»P«s5^“0Cl&T10M I COLUMBIA BIIILBIBB ^” poloi, »ov.t ■ ,,siubs««*^ WHEELER ENTERS COPPER DISPUTE Takes Issue With Roosevelt Contention Present Price Is Too High. By Hie Associated Press. Senator Wheeler, Democrat, of Mon tana, taking issue with President Roosevelt's contention that the price of copper is too high, said yesterday the proposed curtailment of Govern ment purchases would throw miners out of work. The President contended that prices of durable goods, Including steel and copper, were too high. He enunciated a new policy Intended to boost pur chasing power for consumers' goods and discouraged Government buying of durable products. Wheeler, whose State is one of the , country's principal producers of cop per, contended it would be impossible for American miners "to have a half way decent standard of living" if the price were reduced "by any appre ciable extent.” The market price recently has been about 17 cents. Statement or wneeier. Already at odds with the White House on the court reorganization is sue, Wheeler said: “I am sure the President Is wrong when he states that mines in Montana , can produce at 8 or 9 cents and make a profit, and that mines in other parts of the country can make money on 5 or 6 cent copper. ‘‘I am sure the mines in Montana cannot make any money and pay present wages on 8 or 9 cent copper. They have a wage scale in Butte now, I am told, of $6 a day for ordinary miners. "The wages go up or down auto matically with the price of copper, pursuant to the contract the com- ' panies have with the miners. "When copper sold around 8 or 9 cents a pound, companies in Butte had to curtail production. * • * No copper mines in the United States can produce copper for anything like 5 or 6 cents a pound now. Very few of them can produce and pay the present wages on 9 or 10 cent copper. 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Msr. Nat’l. Press Bide. Nat’l. 2711 "Ask Our Customers" Pee Gee PAINT ASK US ABOUT PEE GEE Two-Coat System of \ Outside House Paint GET THREE COAT RESULTS BY USING IT Employ a Painter MUTH 710 13th N.W. 14 cents in order to pay the present vage scale.” Cites African Competition. Wheeler said "Africa, with its slave abor, is today the big competitor of ^meriran r.onm»r " anri arlripri “T Irnnur Lone Surviving “Musketeer” Sends Flowers to Mission Friend >f no one in America who wants to see American miners placed in a position where they have got to com pete with either slave labor of Africa >r peons of Mexico.” Wheeler’s colleague. Senator Mur ray, Democrat, of Montana, declined n Join in the criticism, saying, "No ntelligent opinion could be formed without knowing production costs.” "The big corporations’ system of jookkeeping is such that the general Dublic can’t know what the costs are ind it isn't supposed to know,” he idded. BOY KING OF EGYPT DRIVES LOCOMOTIVE By the Associated Press. BERNE, Switzerland, April 3.—Sev inteen-year-old King Parouk of Egypt jecame a locomotive engineer today, imulating King Boris of Bulgaria, The boy King piloted the electric ingine of the Red Arrow Express 'rom Geneva to Berne. His mother ind sisters rode in a special car at .ached to the train. The party will spend a few days lere. King Boris has made locomotive Piloting one of his favorite pastimes. 3o famous has his royal hobby become hat he has been dubbed "locomotive | fuehrer honoris causa” by engineers I of Yugoslavia. Although there now Is only one left of the "Three Musketeers” of the Central Union Mission, their cus tom of sending flowers on special oc sions to Mrs. jonn o. rvriiiirii, wife of the su perintendent of the mission still is being carried out. Nine years ago three men who had been aided by the mission decided to show their gratitude by sending flowers to Mrs. Bennett every Thanksgiv w. m»jo. Easter and on her birthday. Three years ago the flowers were received with a card reading: ‘‘From the Three Musketeers, one missing.” After May, 1935, the flowers continued to come from the musketeers, but now there were two missing. Easter Sunday was no exception. A beautiful rambler rose bush was de livered to Mrs. Bennett from "The Three Musketeers, two missing.” The last survivor of the trio is Julius W. Mayo, 67, a University of Virginia graduate and night clerk at the mis sion. When Mayo W'ent to the missionI nine years ago as one of the "down but not out,” he found there Col. \ NEVER SAY: l AM SORRY I AM LATE | BE WISE *' -y LOOK AT THIS “TIMELY VALUE” YOU GET IT ALL { FOR ONLY j ANY MAKE WATCH • CLEANED • BALANCE WHEEL POISED • HANDS ADJUSTED • DEMAGNETIZED • HAIR SPRING ADJUSTED • GUARANTEED ONE YEAR WITH THIS I COUPON MON. A TUE8. Any Shape 1Q Crystal Main 7C Sprinr_' WASHINGTON’S LARGEST WATCH REPAIR COMPANY J. F. ADAMS 804 ”LW-W F. W. 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