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Evening star., 1935-01-21
TOOLMAKER FACES
MURDER HEARING
IN FIRE DEATH OF 3
Burning of Home, Wife and
2 Daughters Charged to
P. J. Wise in Fairfax.
TRAGEDY OF OCTOBER
SECRETLY INVESTIGATED
Escape With Son From Flames
Told After Vain Efforts to Res
cue Victims on Second Floor.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
FAIRFAX, Va, January 2l.-Phillip
Jacob Wise, As, a toolmaker at Wash
ington Navy Yard, will be arraigned
before Trial Justice Paul E. Brown to-
morrow or Wednesday on charges of
setting fire to his home at Franconia
last October % and burning to death
his wife and two daughters.
He was arrested yesterday in Alex
andria by Detective Sergt. Edgar Sims
and Fairfax County Sheriff E. P.
Kirby and is being held in Jail here
pending arraignment.
Two warrants were issued for WiSe'S
arrest sworn out by his father -in-law,
Harry Javins. One charged arson of
the house and the second charged
the triple murder. His wife, Nellie
Virginia, and the daughters, Beatrice,
10, and Frances, IL, were burned be-
yond recognition. Kirby said. Frances
was a pupil at Lee-Jackson High
School. and the older girl, graduate
of the school, was employed in Wash
ington.
Five Occupants of House.
At the time of the fire Wise, his
wife, the two girls and a son. Wood
row, 81, were occupying the house,
about miles from Alexandria on the
Franconia road.
Kirby declared that suspicious cir
cumStanceS appeared to surround the
fire, and that he, with Common
wealth's Attorney Wilson M. Farr,
has been carrying on quiet inves-
tigation. At the same time Sheriff
Kirby asserted Wise denies any guilt
and has retained former Judge Rob-
inson Moncure of Alexandria to rep
resent him.
When the fire occurred, Kirby said
he was told that Wise and his wife
were occupying one upstairs room in
the house, the two girls another up
stairs room and the son a room
downstairs directly under his parents.
According to the sheriff, the son
was awakened by his mother who
shouted to him from upstairs to open
door and let the smoke out of the
house. He is said to have fled
through a window, but was overcome
before being able to assist his mother
or sisters. Wise declared he was
burned in an attempt to save his
family.
Wise said he made his way down the
burning stairway, telling the others to
climb out on a porch roof. When
they failed to appear on the roof, he
said, he was unable to enter the house
again because of the flames.
Hunters Witness Fire.
Two night hunters first saw the
fire, but it had already made such
progress that they were unable to
help, Kirby said. The Alexandria
Fire Department responded, saved an
adjoining store building and recov-
cred the three bodies. According to
Sheriff Kirby it is not known that
either Mrs. Wise or the two girls
were seen by any who arrived after
the fire alarm was sounded.
Although the Circuit Court is con-
vening today for its January term,
the sheriff said that even if Wise is
ordered held for the action of the
grand jury following a preliminary
hearing, it is not believed the case
will come up before the March term
of the court.
Evening star., 1935-01-21
Concert Director to Face Court
For Presenting Child Musician
Labor La,C Test Comes
Wednesday Orer Ruth
Slencsynski.
Case to FOllOtU Appear
ance Tomorrow of TO-
year.old Girl.

TEST case of Washington S
n child labor law will be made
"A Wednesday when Mrs. Doro-
4 4 thy Hodgkin Dorsey, head OF
the concert bureau that bears
her name, will be arraigned in Police
Court on a charge of violating the
law for presenting Ruth Slenczynski
10-year-old pianist. at Constitution
Hall tomorrow afternoon.
The test case was agreed upon
when a difference of opinion devel-
oped between E. Barrett Prettyman
corporation counsel and the foul
lawyer members of the Board of Edu-
cation: Hayden johnson, president;
Henry ]. Quinn, Henry Gilligan anc
Charles H. Houston.
Violinist Raised Question.
The question was first raised sew
eral weeks ago when Gloria Perkins
child violinist of New York, appeared
in concert with the National SYM
phony Orchestra. The Department OF
School Attendance and Work Permits
which has charge of enforcing the
law, held that her appearance was
against the law, but Prettyman ruled
that since she was paid nothing more
than her expenses, that the concert
was a part of her musical education,
and as such, was neither work" nor
employment in "a gainful occupa-
ton"
At the same time he also held that
the appearance of little Miss Slenczyn-
ski here would be against the law, since
she is employed as regular concertist
and is paid a fee for each recital.
The Board of Education, in an
opinion written by President Johnson
declared Prettyman's Interpretation
was too liberal and the agreement for
a test was the result.
Concert Is Tomorrow.
Mrs. Dorsey has retained Robert E
Lynch to represent her. Prettyman
has taken charge of the prosecution.
Plans for the trial will not interfere
with the concert, however, the child
pianist being permitted to present her
program at 4:40 pm. tomorrow.
Mrs. Dorsey is expected to be con-
victed in Police Court so that the
question may be appealed to the Dis
trict Supreme Court.
Little Miss Slenczynski arrived here
from New York early today. accom-
panied by her manager, Charles L.
Wagner. Wagner will not figure in
the case. Mrs. Dorsey assuming all re-
sponsibility as local manager.
Ruth, who celebrated her tenth
birthday last Tuesday, was not con-
cerned about the legal complications
that have arisen. Instead, she was q
bit disappointed in the weather, fol
she wanted to see the sights of Wash
ington on her first visit here.
IT want to see Mount Vernon" she
said, but it may be too far away
She also wants to visit the Lincoln
Memorial.
This is my first visit, but know
something about Washington"
Aside from her music, Ruth is most
interested in her work under two
tutors she has in Paris.
Il like history and geography. And
arithmetic isn't bad" she said. She Is
just starting algebra and finds that in
teresting, too Languages, she thinks,
are easy. and she likes French and
German verbs.
Like thousands of other 1o-year-old
Evening star., 1935-01-21
MAS CONFESSES
WEISS KIDNAPPING
Three of Gang Start for
Cells in Heavily Guarded
Auto Caravan.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January 2l.-Three
members of the "tri-State" gang, cap
tured here in a roundup last week,
were started for Philadelphia at 1870
am. today in a caravan guarded by
machine guns and 80 Federal agents
and police.
The three were Martin Farrell, Ed
win Gale and Marie McKeever.
Mais was not in the caravan, Fed
eral agents explaining that he would
be turned over to authorities of Rich
mond, Va, where he was under SEN
tence of death when he shot his way
out of Jail there.
The three prisoners, handcuffed tc
guards, were escorted from the De-
partment of Justice offices in Lexing-
ton avenue to three automobiles lined
up at the curb. Each was placed ir
a separate automobile. Gale and the
McKeever woman attempted to cover
their faces.
Both entrances to the building were
strongly guarded and few persons were
permitted to alight from elevators or
the fourteenth floor, where the offices
are located. Those who did succeed
in reaching the floor we're seized by
guards and brusquely escorted to q
lower floor.
A large crowd, attracted by the
activity around the building, stood ir
the rain to watch the caravan gel
under way.
The arrests of MaiS, LegenZa anc
the other three last week entirely
clears up" the Weiss kidnapping case
which has puzzled police and Fedora
agents for three months, Philadelphia
Police Supt. Joseph A. LIE Strange
announced.
"The Philadelphia police" he said
Twill recover the body of Weiss before
tonight"
The statement followed closely re-
port in the Philadelphia Record that
Mais and Legenza had confessed the
abduction and Staying Of Weiss.
Evening star., 1935-01-21

The National Capital Park and
Planning Commission at its meeting
late this month will consider dyke
as part of the flood control program
from the National Capital. This dyke
would be erected in the line of Inde-
pendence avenue. An alternative plan
calls for erecting a dyke at the rear
of the Navy and Munitions Building.
Either dyke would end at the rising
ground at the Washington Monument.
C. Marshall F1nnan, superintendent
of the National Capital parks, said
today the engineering office of the
National Park Service is stalking out
the dyke projects in both instances
so that members Of the commission
may view at first hand the effect upon
Evening star., 1935-01-21
TRAFFIC CAMPAIGN
SLOWED BY SNOW
Only az Persons Arraigned
on so Charges on Light
Monday Docket.

Saturdays snow aided the Police
Departments drive against traffic
violators, only AZ persons being ar
raigned before Judge Isaac R. Hit on
so charges.
This was one of the smallest Mon
days seen in Traffic Court in some
time, court adiourning at 1870 am.
Only persons were charged with
speeding. II for parking. for driving
the wrong way on one-way streets,
2 for passing stop" signs and l for
passing red lights.
Judge Hit disregarded a recon-
mendation from the corporation coun-
sells Office in the case of Thomas A.
Carpenter, 6202 Spruce street, Chevy
Chase, Md, and gave him a suspended
sentence on charges of speeding and
diSobeying signal. The corporation
counsel's Office had recommended a
SIS fine in the speeding case and a
$40 fine for disobedience of the signal.
Gilman F. Womack of Tennessee
was fined s35 on a reckless driving
charge. James B. Wilson. colored, 1928
N street, pleaded not guilty on a
similar charge and was released on
$500 bond, pending jury trial. Philip
A. Crimes, 955 Fourteenth street
southeast, and Paul M. Spilman of
Clarendon, Va, both pleaded not
guilty and demanded jury trials on
charges of driving while drunk.
Bonds in each case were set at $500.
Merriott o. Wells, 18, was fined SIS
in Traffic Court on a no-permit
charge. When arraigned before Judge
Gus A. Schuldt in the United States
branch of Police Court on a charge
of joyriding he was ordered held
under $1,000 bond for action of the
grand jury.
SIS Fine for Speeding.
A $25 fine was imposed on George
N. Jackson, colored, 612 Twenty-third
street, on a second -offenSe speeding
charge. The court took the personal
bond of Mary B. Larimer, $40 Con-
necticut avenue, on charges of speed
ing and failure to sign her permit
upon recommendation of Policeman
c. W. Coleman of the Traffic Bureau.
The officer said the woman was talk
ing to another and did not realize she
was speeding
James L. Lyons and Bernard N.
Jones we're given personal bond on
respective charges of driving without
D permit and failure to show a permit.
Harvey Fair, colored, was fined $25
for driving without a permit. George
T. Smith was fined SIS for passing a
red light
Minor Fines Assessed.
Gary o. Powell and Frank A. Far
mer forfeited So each for driving the
wrong way on a one-way street.
Everett r. johnson was fined So on
the same charge. For driving on the
wrong side of the street. Harry S.
WEIGH was fined 50. Fined $40 for
speeding were James H. Joyce. Luther
L. Miller, Harry L. Bacalman and
Richard A. Rilee of Maryland.
Fined SIS on similar charges were
William T. Crow, ]. Edward Lyardy,
Osborne D. Abel and Donald E.
Mursch.
John T. Christian, colored, was
fined SIS for speeding when he was
brought in on an attachment. The
Judge set aside his $25 forfeiture be-
cause Christian explained he did not
know he could not forfeit on speed
ing charge.
Herman r. Peterson, Joseph F.
Hiestand and Oscar E. Grentham
forfeited $40 on speeding charges.
Personal bond on a speeding charge
was also taken In the case Of Everett
Bailey.
Evening star., 1935-01-21
ROBBED FIFTH TIME

For the fifth time In four months,
the restaurant operated by Charles
Springer at 637 F street was entered
Saturday night and large quantity
of hams, chickens and other foodstuffs
carried off by thieves. who appear to
have mo fear Of the police" the res
taurateur said this morning.
Previous visits netted the burglars
about $3.50 in cash, and the total value
of missing articles is about $3.50, he re-
ported, although cash no longer is kept
in the building overnight.
Evening star., 1935-01-21
Club to Give 3.Act Play.

SILVER SPRING, Nd, January 81
(SpeciaD "A three-act play, "One
Minute to Twelve" will be presented
by the Spotlight Dramatic Club to-
morrow at pm. in the Takoma-
Silver Spring High School. The cast
includes Bruce Stedman, Mary Ann
Griffith. Tarleton Bean, Phyllis Car
son, Marie Reitz, Carroll Mallory,
Robert Lyons, Helen Furbee and
Louise PrintZ.
Evening star., 1935-01-21
BANK OFFICERS NAMED

Irvington, Va, Institutions Board
Headed by Stoneham.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
IRvINGTON, Va, January 21.-
At the annual meeting Of the stock
holders and directors of the Lancaster
Bank of Irvington the following off,
GERS were elected:
L. D. Stoneham, chairman of the
board; w. r. Rowe, president; r,
Hill Fleet, vice president; w. ].
Haynie, cashier; board of directors
L. D. Stoneham, A. e. Segar, W. L.
Bellows, r. Hill Fleet and w. A. Rowe
Evening star., 1935-01-21
Big Barge Abandoned.

In the height of a storm lifeboat
from the lie de Sein, in France, re-
Gently found in the Bale des Tres
passes a barge valued at 100000
francs, without soul on board.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-16
BRUNO ENTERS
DEATH CELL
Becomes Convict No. 17,400
at New Jersey State
Penitentiary.
BIZ United Press


TRENTON, N. j., Feb. 16.-Bruno
Richard Hauptmann was brought
today to death row" in the state
penitentiary to wait with mingled
hopes and fears while the higher
courts decide finally whether he
shall die in the electric chair for
the murder of Charles A. Lindbergh
Jr.
II have nothing to confess. I am
innocent" we're the doomed mans
words before he was led into the
routine of the prison death house.
Manacled to guards and escorted by
state troopers, Hauptmann was
brought here by automobile from
Pennington.
He was poised, carefully dressed
and smiled frequently as he came
from the bright sunlight of the New
Jersey countryside to the stern walls
of the prison.
Only when the forbidding walls
of the prison doomed before him,
did Hauptmann appear depressed.
His hands shook slightly as he
stepped from the automobile which
had brought him from Pennington.
His face was pale.
II go as an innocent man." he re-
peated as he raised his pale eyes
toward the prison walls-to become
convict No. 17,400.
Hauptmann was taken from his
cell in Hunterdon County Jail at
9:33 a. m. Outside the jail four
automobiles waited for him. State
troops surrounded Hauptmann as
he came from the Jail, manacled to
Warden Harry M. McCrea and
Lieut.. Allen Smith.
For a moment, the parties paused
on the steps of the Jail while photo
graphs were taken. Then the pris-
oner was hurried into his automo-
bile while a crowd of about $50
persons looked on.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-16
WIDOW LINKED TO
MYSTERY Staying
Bartender'S Wife and Her
Lover Arrested.
BIZ United Press

By UHtted Press
CHICAGO, Feb. 16.-A gun of
the type used in murder of Louis K.
Straub in the exclusive Saddle and
Cycle Club two weeks ago, was
traced today to- his widow and a
married man with whom she ad-
mitted intimate relations.
The man is Peter Bricke, an cleo
trician and father Of two children
He was arrested a few hours after
Mrs. Straub, blond and attractive
former chorus girl, was taken into
custody last night with her father,
mother and sister.
Police also held three other wom-
en- and three more men. Morris
Meyers, assistant states attorney,
said Mrs. StraUb admitted that she
bought a .38-caliber automatic pis-
toll from her father Oct. 81, and sold
it the next day to Bricke. She adj
mitted too, Mr.. Meyers said, that
Bricke had importEned her for nine
years-the entire period of her mar
ried Hfe-tc divorce Straub and
marry him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-16

Otner occupants OF the car were
Mrs. ReiSler. the physicians wife,
who suffered a broken left leg. and
Mrs Blanche Hunter, 40. of CAT N.
PennSylvania-St, who received head
injuries. as did DR.. Reisler.
DR.. Reisler lost control of the auto
after striking the rear end of car
driven by Alva Parker, 80, R. r. IA,
Box lis.
All three were sent to st. Francis
Hospital.
When the taxicab in which she
was riding crashed into a post under
the railroad elevation at S. Rural
av last night, Miss Gertrude HulSe,
%. Of 1874 N. Meridian-st, was so Sc
verely injured that she today faced
an operation for blood tumor on
her forehead.
The driver. Marion Gardner. % n.
Gladstone-av, said he was blinded
by the lights Of an approaching car.
Miss HulSe was taken, at her re-
quest. to a private physician who
ordered the operation must be per-
formed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-16
CHIEF CLEARS
ERRING POLICE
Hurrying to HOIdup When
Crash Occurred, Trio
Says; No Report.

Police. who early yesterday crossed
Belt Railroad tracks at Kentucky-av
in defiance of a ringing bell and a
flashing light, were hurrying to a
holdup. which, a man down the
street had told them was in progress
across the tracks, they have ex-
planned to Police Chief Mike Nor
riSsey-and he is satisfied with their
explanation, he said today.
However, on a bird-in-hand
theory, they paused to arrest for
violation of a city ordinance the
conductor C a train that grazed
their car and never managed to
get to the scene of the reported
felony. to which they were hurry
ing illegally.
Chief MorrisSey said today he
would not discipline his men, since,
if they were about to discharge
their duty as officers at the risk of
their lives, they were morally right
in breaking the ordinance to get to
the scene. This, they never reached
~ y % bAAoAA q WIN
away.
No report of any holdup in the
neighborhood has been reported.
The officers, who were Sergt. Will
liam Purcell and Patrolmen Robert
Smith and Fred Stages. did not in
clude in their original report of the
accident any mention of the re-
ported holdup.
Morton Reid, conductor of the
train, who has worked for the Belt
since 1916 and never before has
been arrested, said today that he
would appeal his conviction.
If the appeal is sustained, he said
he would sue the officers for false
arrest. He said that when he was
taken to the police station the Of
ficers thumbed the Municipal Code
for nearly 20 minutes hunting a
charge to place against him. A
newspaper reporter. he said. finally
pointed to 678 and asked How
about that one?"
That one it was, according to Mr..
Reid.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-16
All NeWSpapermen Attribute
Executives Anger to
Indiana Story.
INCENSED BY RESULTS
Indianapolis News Target
of President; Says He Was
'MiSinterpreted.'
BY DANIEL NJ. KIDNEY
Times staff Writer

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10
President Franklin D. Roose-
welt, incensed over being mis-
interpreted by the Indian
apolis News on the State
NRA controversy, yesterday
severely lectured CORES
pondents at his regular press
conference.
The Indianapolis News reporter
interpolated a question on the In
diana NRA legislation into to-
tally unrelated discussion early this
week, and, according to the PreSi-
dent himself, was guilty of 'eXtraor-
binary "misinterpretation" in report
ing the answer.
The President, noted for his anna
BILE relations with the press, is the
first chief executive in many adj
ministrationS to make press confer
ences informal. His obviously sim
cere and intensely earnest oral
spanking of the correspondents was
attributed by all present as having
no other motivation than the News
story.
No Ground for Deductions
"You know" President Roosevelt
told the press representatives yes
terday, that neither comment, nor
am to be quoted, on any pending
legislation. 1t shouldn't be neces-
sary to remind you that questions
involving such matters should never
be asked.
when I say NO to dismiss such
a question, there are no grounds
nor reasons why any newspaper
should proceed to draw deductions
regarding my stand. This has hap
pened within the last week or two
weeks.
Ninety nine Per cent of such de-
auctions are bound to be wrong"
When the President gave a mega
tive answer to the question as to
whether or not he is asking for
S-NRA legislation at this time it
was ''misinterpreted by the News as
an expression of opposition to the
S-NRA statute being sponsored by
Gov. Paul V. McNutt in Indiana.
Wire Is Sent McNutt
The News climaxed a series of
articles on the S-NRA, purporting
to show that washington did not
want its passage by the Indiana
Legislature, with the misinterpreta-
ton Of the Presidents answer.
On Feb. 8 it printed story say
ing that Washington did not want
the S-NRA and on Feb. IL The In
dianapolis Times printed state
ment from r. S. Beach, Washing
ton, deputy NRA Administrator for
State Relations, that the MIRA
favored passage by the Legislature
of the measure.
On Feb. Is it printed that the
President had denied he wanted
passage of the measure. This led
to wire from President Roosevelt
to Gov. McNutt denouncing the
misinterpretation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-16
.SOCIALITE SLAYER IS
ADJUDGED INSANE
Harvey Talbot Committed
to State Colony.

Harvey S. Talbot, 47-year-olds
socialite slayer of his sister-in-law,
Mrs. Pauline Williams, today was
adjudged to be insane and was SEN
fenced to the colony of Criminal
Insane, Michigan City, until such
time as he may become orientated,
or for the balance of his life if his
condition remains unchanged.
Talbot, who had suffered f1nan-
cial reverses and illness fatally shot
Mrs. Williams, who was At, Nov. 20
in a w. st. Joseph-st apartment
which she had rented to be near her
work as houSekeeper for the Glenn
Martin Apartments, N. Meridian
and w. st. Joseph-sts, and their
annex, the Livingstone.