Evening Star Newspaper, February 18, 1924, Page 12

9 - TWO PILOT BILLS UP AT RICHMOND Fight of Forty Years to Be Renewed on Floor of Vir- ginia Senate. Speciai Dispateh o Tho RICHMOND, V February Tho begin conside of the two pilot measures today, the Lesner bill and the Barron bill. The fo! come om the committee with an report, while that of Senator Barron v proved. fyw bills are at variance with the four i bills on the subject all of which before the house at thi time. The fight is th me that has been coming here the last rs, to n the tar. i8— nate tion ner as due orfoli, in the election. No ques- made as to the ts or tho s e - is an element the bog and rev < of the lat- public _and (tion, which n has ever 1 ney of the I but ch insists operatic nd the Fown ope tion comn; tive which without pilots on ill control them New Building. building, which has formally % the Structure and will 3 Ges and fts + task four L part will 1 nenn i = it . toree. depnrt: o busin days. i sround e or G the with With men de e mili- BETTER ENGLISH AIM. COLLEGE, Vi, today of action afts not he Wi su in Studer required i ficivney y wor use of corrvect i e be in the nglish. Has been built the *“Homor Built the ordinary way Your Saving Come and See Our Exhibit Inspect our material. See accurate models of completed homes; many built-in home conveniences. I You Prefer, Phone Main 9637, any ! the the Who Mistook Sled Special Dispatch to The Stal RONEYS POINT, W. Va., Febru- ary 18.—John Orr, seventeen years old, this place, is dead from a bul- let wound infiicted, it is alleged, by Levon Hamilton, a fifteen-year- old neighbor girl. The girl, according to half a dozen witnesses, who were in her country home, mistook Orr and his cousin, Charles Orr, who were sled riding near the Hamilton home, for burglars, and shot him in the neck. ROCKVILLE. ROCKVILL (Spectal).—G: in Md., February at the courthouse, Rockville, j tax returns, for such services. sult unusually large were in attendance in all churches, arfous churches of the at the year. The Montgon County issued au app for ana girls Qe s for boys of 1y desired. needed. | shir esp. { mueh ibe Tec | the Tea in |~ Abvout 700 similar in size and appe cottontails, have been crated this country for {purposes, and Deputy Clyde county. who | tende stribution. state that more will be su i plied” the within the week or 1 Tahbits [ Lew Le Compte and were purcha eru lie Underwear is a Such _do Rockville. Missouri rabbits, nce -ntl proy o r H to Jut t as ma county al ded e with funds a were pro state by n P. B Margerum, for forty engaged in farming in Colesv | trict. this county, has ke of the price of w since which shows that the a jexclusive of the four pric ars of th world w ave heen b circuit court here £ Irvin R. Mumm nd Miss Katherine oy of pmington, i, "B, Builey and Mr: Fox. both o ohn Gardner. county tr published a taxpayers for 1923 itice that all prop xes for the year r il 14 will be . on that urthot feludes about Jin various parts of the represents taxes, inte ting around $30,0 ames I | Bishop ¢ ngto the rite of confirmation in Christ terd upan main un old at in f ville, T t 1 iniinistere i Riders for Burglars ! 18 en L. Tait, collector of | nal revenue for Maryland, has arranged to have 2 deputy collector | on | arch 6, 778, 9 and 10, to assist tax- payers in making out their income No charge will be made Go-to-church Sunday was observed in Rockville yesterday, and as a re- congregutions services | The pastors of the towne have d to observe such a day once a Soctal al of clothing for school between fourteen and | ich ages being | fons will | 1 at the headquarters of | to our 1ib- Inis s Warden | t- | nest| warden, | & from the issuance of hunting | w record | 1883, | Dorothy M. Freeman, ! ind preached copal Church here yes- | mittes My T ‘| Ginmai e THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, ALEXANDRIA, Va., February 18 (Special).—Foreing a rear window burglars last night entered West End School building stealing about 2 which had been left in tho desl belonging to the principal, Miss Anna, Summers, police said today. Police ‘believe that the theft was perpetrated by boys using the school building s a mepting place, the theft coming, as it did, on the first day after the appoiniment Kriday of W. H. Humphreys as watchman of the school bufldings. Police say that the boys evidently watched the {watchman s after one of his {rounds and immediately forced an entrance. City Manager Wilder M. Rich denied last night that there was any con- nection_between the arrest Saturday of T. Morris Wampler, Washington attorney, and Wampler's efforts to pProsecute a suit instituted by him re- cently against certain Fairfax coun- ty officials, which all irregularity ih road-building operations. Mr. Rich declared he (Rich) was simply trying to stop the practice of Washington attorneys attempting to “dodge Detective Campbell was in- dignant over a report that he had manhandied Wampler. New Health Quarters Likely. New quarters for the city health de- partment probably will result from recent complaints that the offices are kept in an insanitary condition. De tions, It is s re being prepared waiich will b, ty offi- clals asking that a general clean-up be made i City Manager Rich said last night the matter hu ached him £ 1 heard it fons. He INVARYLAND BODY, Preservation Sbught as Na- tional Park and_Memo- rial to Patriots. ‘ Special Dispatch to The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md, Februury 18— Expressing the sentiment that Fort! McHenry, the defenso of which in- spired Franels Scott Key to write “The Star Spangled Banner,” is the most notable heritage in Maryland, a joint resolution has been introduced in the house of delegates requesting Con- gress to enact the bill of Representa- tive J. Charles Linthlcum, now pend ing, placing the fort in the care of the Secretary of War for preservation as a uational park and a “memo- rial to the patriots of the country of all time” The fort, which s located near Baltimore, fs now under jurisdiction {of the Vetorans' Bureau, and the sito of a general hospitul for world wra veterans., Under the terms of the resoluilon these buildings would be removed and the fort, possible, restored to the conditions existing when it resisted u nglish flect in 1814, 22, former Pr | ssed on several that if the offic s mot pre the best appearance It crowded condition of t on_the second floor of city hall, The blame, he xays, does not rest with Dr. Louls I Foulkes, th oflicer, but with the city coun- which réfused last year to act recommendations that the office moved to more commodious quar- ¥ believes that if the pe. presented steps will swvide more hte ‘department, which d efficient and beneflcial. nsfield, seventy-one Manstield, her home n iliness sent cause t and un- ‘ted in mem- on e tors, | titions | taken i Meets Again To ion of only six minutes, the shortest on record, the of delegates adjourned Situr was in session for g her ne ot Pitt stre afternoon months. ntitied with ork and ders of Anne Lee ) the Ag [ w M county, dgstri subject irs of the TR referendum by the trict is il futrody in the h v Delegate Charles 1. ; Ager of that county. The Lill incor- | GiIY Of th porates the district and provides for} . ¢ the election “of tizens committee, ughter snsisting of a and four committec its affairs The dis isions and is bounded b inston-Baltimore boulevard, An {tia river, District of Columbia Fort Lincoln cemetery, officials are to se T, two committ di Sh f the Allison rnon Counetl, Liady M . Pythian Si £ A ides her husband, Mansfield is su James 1 Qaughters, Mrs. | Mrs H, O ¥ Funeral o | the First Baptist Church tomorrow afternoon at 0 o'clock. Services of | will be conducted by the Hev. Ryland real estate | T. Dodge, pastor of the Second Bap- value of $500 in the district. | tist Chiircl, assisted by the Rev. Bd- el Vgar Carpenfer, rec of Grace Epis- mit Appointments, Eara Chun Burial will be in intments to prominent | ethel cemeter, be submitted to the tonight, inclu T tioce o Min. Mary C. Smith Hies. of patlic 3 €. 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RICHMOND, Va., February 18—The bill offered by deiegate jesses, which hill offered by Delegate Jesse, which Church a separate school district, has come from the committee with a fa- vorable report, and Is now on the calendar on its second reading. The fate of the bill is uncertain, there belng some opposition. The village is In two countles— Fairfax and Arlington—and the mat- ter of arranging for better schools has been glving trouble on this ac- count. If the bill shall hecome a law the mere fact that it s in two counties will not prevent the develop- ment of the schools. The senate has passed the bill {which abolishes the office of the |resister of the land office, as reported by the commission on simplification of government. The bill was amend- ed to exclude the present incum- beney. Dutles of the position are to be transferred to the secretary of the commonwealth. The bill will g0 to the house, and it is belleved it will have u hard time. the M. ¥. Church South. Turial will be in Bethel cemetery. Mrs. Smith |was a Iifelong resident of the city, and for many years had been an ac- tive worker in the Southern Methodist Church, Preparations are being made for the entertainment here tomorrow night of the Columbla Federation of Baptist Young People's Unlons, com- noscd of groups from all Washington “hurches and those of the immediate | surrounding territory. A program will be held fn the auditorium of the { Wirst Baptist Chureh | A play entitled “Engaged by Wed- | nesdny’ will be presented conight in i Young People's building by the | choir of the Epworth Leagus of the Southern Methodist Chure 3 on of a pastor will be Kirst Baptist Church, Mas h 2, it was 1 i { 0 North | DEATHS 19 IN YEAR Record Includes Only One Pedes- trian and Two Hurt, Says Official Report. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, February 18—Out of nineteen persons killed and eighty- seven injured at rallrond crossings in the stato during the past year only one killed and two injured were pe- destrians, the balance being wutomo- billts, according to a report of the publio service commission just issued. All but six of the forty-nine acc dents involved automobiles being struck by trains or running into them. Watchmen, 1t appears from the re- port, are not against crossing nceldents, even where ure gates, r mish curred with watchmen on dut. of them with gutes fn addition accldents oc owsings ed with bot w cleven ps oc- Six to the crossing. At public cro without thix protection reven dents occurred und 1wo took p unguarded privite crossings. half of the ing the last thre . and elght of the deathg and foris two of the Injurfes resilted during that period. The summer months, when motoring 15 =t its height, had no larger percentaxe of accidents than the other months. More persons were killed and in- jured at Western Maryland raflroad crossings than at those of any other railroad, the totals being seven killed and twenty-six injured. BOAT CLUB REORGANIZED. Special Dispatch to The Star. LYNCHBURG, Va, F The Lynchburg Boat Clul, organized for the coming the election of Willia dent, and R. E. Mo there | two | .Youth Killed by Girl FUR"’ M’HENRY Bl“_ ALEXANDRIA. IFAVOR SCHOOL LAW |MARYLAND CROSSING |PROPOSES HOME-COMING WEEK FOR SHENANDOAH Former Senator Conrad Starts Move Before Kiwanis Club at Harrisonburg. Special Dispateh to The Star. i HARRISONBURG, V bruary 15 —A “Shenandoah Vaulley Home-con ing week,” when all former residents will be invited to return to sec the land of their nativity and renew ti ties of kinship and fricndship, wi suggested by former Senator Geor din an address before the Club. It was decided to take the matt up with the mauyors and all civie commercial organizations in th valley countics to_arran ting to make plans for 1 thir- = 4 might ads for U trip and th | tise the fon. 50 DRY AGENTS NEEDED. Baltimore Situation Defined &y U. S. Attorney Woodcock. Dispatel SALTIMORF uld take gents to enfor I United Woodeo State | th the It Jition et ef- ceording to WoW. United bruary fifty p Volsteud A who is thie fir il to resort to on, otherwise 15 ope Doin 1 liquor wit : T - | county yetems ashed to advers | | APPROVE NAMING " OF WOMAN JUSTICE | Prince Georges County Women Commend Mrs. Morris, Wife of Educator. | Steciai Dispateh to The Sta | HYATTSVILLE, Md., Febr { Women of Prince Georges cu day expressed approval of the r. mendation of the democ 2l committee of Pr for the appointment of tetia D. Morris as w justice wee for Hyattsville election disir Morrts s the wife of Prof. K ipal of the Hyattsvi nd her appointme tically ce Who_appoints’ the Mr the governor, tie tinetion of being red by a w . the o aving also oman, U is understood. Morr d tod she been informed that the county mittee had indorsed her for th | tlon, and that ehe is i real piart pos ~uli whie n of hurg ounty ar, wi 15 'on ur of Prin in £ ho died in th. men about § HOME DESTROYED BY FIRE. e aturday the Combination Walnut Bedroom Suite, Four Pieces, $210 LIFETIME FURNITURE A Remarkable Suite With a Remarkably Low Price During With a bow-foot bed, a big, full-size, triple mirror vanity, chifforobe and dresser correspondingly large, and with a neat black dec- oration. This is a value not often found at the price. This suite can also be had with semi- - vanity dresser, chifforette and smaller dresser for only $180. It’s an unusual value and priced away out of proportion to its real value this month. Mayer ' Seventh Street & Co. The February Sale of Lifetime Furniture IS MORE THAN A NAME Between D & E