Evening star. [volume], June 01, 1937, Page A-9, Image 9

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C.C.C.CAIVIP PROBE
IS REED DUE TODAY
Georgia Hunger Striker Says
Offical Inquiry Is to
Be Made.
Bt the Associated Press.
ROSSVILLE, Ga„ June 1.—Philip
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 casts 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,
aaid, "If there is anything like that
nv be done I wouldn't want to com
ment on it until noon.” He ad
vised newspaper representatives to
be at the past 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 I
told my doctor not to come back until
I call him." He said his weight had
dropped from 196 to 160 pounds.
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HONOR SUN YAT SEN
Local Chinese Attend Memorial Rt
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 Chi
nese Embassy, with members of the
local Chinese community and of the
embassy 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 the United States. Dr.
Wang, in a brief speech, stressed the
need for co-operation among Chinese
nationals in speeding up the recon
etruction work in China which was
mapped out by Dr. Sun Yat Sen.
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ALBERTA DEFAULTS
Social Credit State Unable to Meet
$1,650,000 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 I
came after the Bank of Canada noti- j
fled Low’ it was unable to loan the '
province enough money to meet the !
maturity. 1
Triplets Wed Ex-Playmates;
Two Bridegrooms Brothers
B> the Associated Press.
CARTHAGE. N. Y.. June l.~Wed
ding bells rang thrice in the Zehr fam
ily today as triplets, Doris, Dora and
Dorothy, marched to the altar with
three stalwart North Country farmers
—two of them brothers.
Prim in white satin gowns, the 24
vear-old sisters came to the small
Methodist Episcopal Church here from
their home, in nearby Croghan, for the
second time in 24 hours.
Last night, the triplets, daughters I
of Mrs. Flora Zehr, a widowed farm 1
mother, rehearsed the triple ceremonv
for more than an hour, as curious vil
lage folk watched through doors.
Three times they marched up the
aisle with their three sisters, Delia, j
Pearl and Florence, as attendants and
grouped themselves with other mem
bers of the wedding party about a
crescent platform before Rev. William
K. Bradshaw. House dresses sufficed
for the rehearsal.
It was Dorothy and Dora who con- j
ceived the idea of a triple wedding
when they became engaged to Sher- i
man Kloster and his brother, Francis,
respectively, young Belfort farmers.
Then Doris completed the plan by ac
cepting the proposal of Dewey Hill of
Lyons Falls, also a farmer.
The Kloster brothers and the trip
lets grew up together in the same
school district. The girls left school
at 16 and since have been helping
their mother at home.
They’re all going to Beloit, Ohio, lo
visit relatives.
JOBLESS MAN ACCUSED
OF MURDER OF WIFE
Carolina Woman Said to Have
Been Slain, Then Placed on
Blazing Bed.
Fr the Associated Press.
MORGANTON, N. C, June 1 —
Ervin A. Stamey, 22-year-old jobless
filling station worker, was charged
with murder yesterday in connection
with the death of his 20-year-old wife,
whose'“lifeless body was found In a
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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. In the room
were Betty Jean, 4-year-old daughter
of the dead woman, who was asleep
in a crib, and Royce Ervin, 8-month
old son. The boy was found on the
floor, suffering from a burned leg.
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