Evening star. [volume], April 06, 1937, Page A-5, Image 5

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ARMY PROMOTIONS
EXPECTEDJODAY
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, 7th 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 Crawfordsvine. mo.,
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
staff during the World War and or
ganized and administered the cable
service, having charge for the War
Department of communications to and
from the A. E. F.
Born in Chester, Pa., Col. Baker
served during the Spamsh-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 France 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.
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Sculptor
(Continued 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
is 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 lie
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
Diplomat Married by Proxy
Awaits Bride From Venezuela
JUAN LECUNA.
CALLISS TORRES.
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.
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
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 Wollaston
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
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
Fifty-second street rooming house run
by Charles Ottburg and his wife.
Irwin 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
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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.
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
Ethel.
Frank Byrnes, waiter and the third
person killed, was called merely an
incidental victim. After Mrs. Gedeon
was dispatched, Byrnes entered the
apartment and had to be disposed of.
The killer's venom was not released
on Ronnie until after 3 a.m., when she
returned from a date.
The glove, which police believed la
Irwin's, was found in the Oedeon
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 Oedeon, the skinny little
lather of Veronica, who was grilled
hours on end last week about the mur
ders, did not 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 Kudncr, 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 ol 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
being made by a group of volunteer
church workers under the direction of
Miss Louise O. Beall of the Family
Service Association, is continuing to
UCVCIUy I11U1C B1JU I11U1C bl Bgil/ ObViCO Ui
the familes denied both direct relief
and work relief.
“These people we are trying to
help are very real personages," Chair
man Jennings said. “One only has to
spend a few minutes at the headquar
ters of the survey now being made by
the churches and the Family Service
Association to obtain first-hand infor
mation on Just how desperate this
situation is.
“Volunteer workers bring tales of
suffering that are almost blood cur
dling. An average of 25 families per
week are being evicted officially. This
does not take into account the ones
that are thrown out of rooming houses
where there is no record of the evic
tion. These latter do not form such
a spectacular picture because they
rent furnished rooms and have no
belongings to be piled on the side
walks.
“Tales or overcrowding, or insani
tary living conditions, of families brok
en up because the bread winner can
not stay at home and see his loved
ones starve are common stories In
the dally reports of these workers.
"Scarcely a day passes that the
newspapers do not carry the story of
the suicide of some unemployed per
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get along, the final loss of all hope
which precedes the final decision to
end It all, are stories that do not
reach the public and there are others,
countless others, who are nearing the
border line and who will earn their
brief mention in the press unless
something is done to help them.”
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