Evening Star Newspaper, July 27, 1925, Page 2

PRESIDENT STUDIES FARMING SITUATION Conference With Pepper on Coal Problem Set for This Week. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG Staft Correspondent of The Star. SUMMER WHITE HOUSE SWAMPSCOTT, Mass., July 27.—The first long rainy day of the President’s vacation, a day that makes reading by the wood fire seductive, came to day. A Eastern storm hit Swampscott last night and had con tinued with no let-up until noon today. Instead of reading the biographies which he has brousht Presi dent Coolidge devoted his morning to posing for the oil portrait which E C. Tarbell is makifg for the Massa- chusetts gallery of governors in the state ho This painting will be finished before Mr. Coolidge ends his stay here and he may time to permit Mary Scott McCor: of Chi cago to mold his image in clay. He has not any vet for the necessary sitti may be set when he Was Farm Problems. The aspects of the farm problem as affecting Indiana were today I fore the President by Rep Fred S. Purnell, rank member of the House committee on agriculture. Representative Purnell is in agreement with the administra- ton's general a ltural policy that Jegislation providing for co-operative g would he most helpful to al he feels that here, gets back to Studies tative Republican perhaps < ought to he done do not prove satis ¥ He will support the administration’s program and therefore is here to learn the measures that the Presid proposes 1o offer in the next C A greeting from t cident to vy day, w 1o be obs ed, was re when Marion Eppley a W Howe, 1 ent and vice pres respectively, of the Navy League, called at White Court shortly after noon. Other engagements made for President this afternoon are with Harry Williams of Brockton, Mass, who was a m nber of the executive council when Mr. Coc nor, and Mr. and Mrs. personal frienc ps ent shortl: 1ested - toda alter F Leon R. Eyges, Pepper to Discuss Strike. The principal engagement the Presi dent has for week is wi enator Pepper of Pennsyivania, w | ar- rive at Whit urt nekt Saturday Mr. Coolidge will attend a meeting of the Essex C: Republican Club Wednesday Senator Pepper comes here to dis cuss the imminent hard coal strike in Pennsylvania and the World Court proposal. He is hopeful that the Fed eral Government will intervene, if in tervention in ad vance of action Gov. Pinchot of Pennsylvania might take. Pennsyl vania pol cians fe: ul that Gov. Pinchot might h personality into the hard coal fight in a successful seems necessary, dent, | the | idge was gover- | OPERATORS READY T0 ANSWER MINERS Will Present Own Demands at Resumption of Hard Coal Conference. By the Associated Press. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., July 27— Reports were current today that the anthracite operators would be likely to present their own counter demands | to the mine workers on resumption of the scale conference tomorow or soon afterward. Miners have been expressing im- patience that the mine owners have been forcing them to “do all the talk- ing"” the past two weeks. The op- erators have rejoined that the miners, as plaintiffs, would be expected to state their case in full before they themselves returned fire. The miners have In large measure submitted their case. John L. Lewis, miner's international is expected to return soon, indications are that the scale | negotiators will have a busy week. SCOUTS STRIKE MENACE. Hammond Believes Walkout Will Be Short Even if Called. GLOUCESTER, Mass., July 27 () ief that, even if anthracite opera and miners fail to agree on a new cale, suspension of operations in 1 coal flelds would be of brief expressed yesterday by nmond, former chair- |man of the Federal Coal Commisston. | ven should a strike occur,” he {said in a formal statement, “‘it prob- to | was |the {du: ion, | John Hay Sjably would be a short suspension of ‘nl’\er:_\(lnns. as was the case in 1923, | There is little danger of a protracted | deadloc a long suspension of oper- {ations would be ruinous to both opera- s and miners.” ort held that the r 1 Government lay ntinuous and equita- ble flow of coal in commerce between | the States, Mr. Hammond continued: Forced Settlement Unsound. “‘Since settlements reached by politi- { tles of | permanency, and frequently are not | economically sound, it is very much better to have the differences settled within the industry, as the Coal Com- on emphasized ‘The President’s position, as I in terpret it, is that it would be prema {ture to assume that this dispute is {not going to be settled within the |industry. He has advocated repeat- {edly a policy of the minimum amount {of interference on the part of Govern- {ment with industrial affaire. “The public should grant with |patience every opportunity to the {parties at interest to settle the con- | troversy. Sees Backing for President. | _“If, by any chance,. however, occa. |sion should arise for President Cool- {idge to exert his influence in an effort to compose the situation I believe he could rally public support as have few other Presidents. ponsibili- | cal pressure rarely possess elements of | T NEARBY MARYLAND AREAS RAPIDLY BEING BUILT Editor's note.—An adrquate pic- | ture of the great development of | Maryland and Virginia suburbs { which are to be embraced in the | regional developmerit of the Na- | tional Capital and its environs | mever has been presented. The | Star has made an extensive inves- | tigation of the subject and this is { the second of three articles pre- pared by Mr. Wheatley. His article discussing the growth of Virginia's suburbs will appear tomorrow with maps BY WILLIAM J. WHEATLEY. Marylanders have foreseen the pos- bility of developing that paft of their | tate adjacent to the Capital as a| HE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. GLenmoNT | Movement of City Toward Northwest, Chevy Chase,| Rockville and Georgetown Roads Is Heaviest, and State Laws Denote Foresight in Projects. | even there has been a building develop ment which takes on almost the ap | pearance of a boom, yét the homes | | there are being taken by people for | | the most part from the National Cap- ital. and people who are permanently |located. "The building 1s substantial | |and life lasting, and is the beginning | of what is to become the great metro politan district of Washington, de veloped along the lines of the sub. | urbs of New York and Chicago, ap- | pearing when entirely bullt up as a part of the city proper. | Building Operations. | For the two years ending July 1 of this year there was constructed in the area east and west of the Rock-| ville and Georgetown roads bulidings | UP. ‘HOLLYWOOD DANIELS PARK BERWYN 2OLLEGE PARK RIVERDALE OHYATTSVILE * & CEOAR HTS \FARKONT '\GEAT PLEASANT ” MELLWOOD HTS, ,ui"uc AP HEIGHTS This map shows the location of the various towns and subdivisions, where a great amount of new building construction has taken place in the past two 'MARYLAND’S PLANS WELL LAID TO WELD SUBURBS AND CAPITAL ear: Growth at a Glance of Nearby Maryland The following shows the total valye construction of new dwellings in Montgomery Coun- ty for the two.year-period end ing July 1, 1925 sChase Chev Park. sec. 2 , sec. 3 ; Chase, sec. 4, 1and. . Chevy Chase. . e Terrace West Battery G Norwood Heights Silver Spring Blair Takoma Park ....... Bethesda, Tth dist ding Oakmont, Vista and Pinehurs 7 North Kensington Northwest Park Woodmont Forest Glen 3 Roc*~ille and vieinity e district »hn Park | secona & { the | pertod | with a total construction of 1 | months’ efght at $50,250 and for the MONDAY, JULY 27, 1925. CHOIR SINGER HEL FOR FATAL BLAST Former Suitor Charged With Setting Fire Which Killed Five in California. By the Assoctated Press. LOS ANGELES, Calif., July John Manoogan, 36, a member of the Los Angeles Bible Institute choir, was arrested today and held in con- nection with an incendiary fire at Reedley, Calif. which destroyed the home of H. D. Schroeder, burning Schroeder and four of his children to death while they slept. Detectives said the man formerly was a suitor of one of the Schoeder girls at a time when she lived in the women’s department at the Bible In- stitute. The girl's parents disproved of her acquaintance and ordered her home. Since the explosion it is al- leged Manoogan has spoken of the tragedy to friends, saying he felt sorry for the girl, but that “it was good enough for the old man.” Manoogan was not in Los Angeles on the day of the explosion, officers sald, but when questioned in his cell, the prisoner insisted that he was here on that day, and that he knew nothing of the blast excépt what he had heard and read. Bethesda, the construction for the two | vears totaled $27,000, divided as fol- lows: Two houses valued at $8,000 for the first year; two houses vatued at $8,500 for the following aix months and two houses valued at $10,600 for the subsequent six months. In Woodmont the construction to- taled in value $43,500. In this sub- division there were constructed dur- ing the first year four houses valued at $8.600; for the six months from July 1, 19%4, to January 1, 1925, three houses "valued ‘at $4,700, and for the six months ending July 1, last, 12 houses valued at $25,800. In Forest Glen, the figures show one house at $1,400 in the year ending July 1, 1924, and one valued at $8,000 for the six months’ period ending January 1, 1825. In the Bethesda, or seventh district, where permits were not grouped in| | large subdivisions, but including Oak- mont, Alta Vista, Pinehurst, etc., the construction was valued at $218,025 for the two-year period; $44,525 for the first year; months ending January 1, 1925, and $%6,300 for the following six months There were 39 new houses in this area, 12 in the first period; 16 in the d 13 in the third. Woodside Growth. In Woodside, Woodstde and Seven OCaks, near Sligo construction for the totaled in value $157,150; $37.000 for the first year; $67,750 for the six months ending January 1, Md., two-year 1925, and $52,400 for the six months | ending July 1, 1925. In Seven Oaks, thouses at 50; there was only one bulilt in the year, ending July 1, 1924, valued at $10,000: for the following six subsequent six months ending July 1. last four houses at $17,200. In Wood- $87.200 for the six| 34TH STREET PAVING IS BLOCKED BY COURT Citizens’ Complaint Sustained Be- cause of Indefinite Wording of Congress’ Order. Congress ordered the paving of Thirty-fourth street between Massachu- setts avenue and Cleveland avenue “30 and 40 feet wide.” Justice James Francis Smith of the District Su- preme Court says he is unable to learn from the wording of the law what part is to be 30 feet and what part 40 feet wide, and so sustalned the complaint of Harry L. Hoffman of 3712 Thirty-fourth street and granted an injunction against the District Commissioners proceeding with the proposed widening of the street. Hoffman through Attorneys Bell, Marshall & Rice complained that the Commissioners had threat- ened to destroy a retaining wall built at much expense in front of his property and to take away 7 feet of the lawn of his home. LADY MACKENZI JAILED FOR CHECK Is Change Made Because of Bogus Paper. By the Associated Press. TAMPA, Fla., July 27.—From a surrounding of luxury, where she was pampered with the attentions of many servants, to a single room cell in a bleak stone and fron jail, where she today was doing her own laundry, is a far cry, but Lady Grace Esme Mac- kenzie has made the change. Lady Grace, who also is Mrs. Frank T. Jennings, was arrested Friday night by a deputy sheriff on a warrant taken out by G. E. Bray, charging her with issuing a worthless check for $200. This morning she could not be seen but made an appointment for a few hours later when, she said, she would i be_through washing her ciothing. Her unexpected incarceration came about, according to officials, when she for a draft drawn on a New York bank and indorsed by Mrs. Bray. It |also was learned that she had come here particularly to care for the al- |leged bogus paper, arriving hers from Miami on the private yacht of a | friend. Today the Grace is said to have | that unless she can be released be able to care for the obligation. New Balzac Play Found. | _Prof. Walter Hastings of Princeton University has discovered an hitherto | unknown play by Balzac. It is called Balzac was 19 years old. The univer- sity press will publish it. The manu- | script was discovered by Mr. Hastings among the old documents of the Insti- {tute of France in Chantiily From Lap of Luxury to Cell| failed to make arrangements to mre}go“ner Cc contemplated arrange- | ments had not been made and Lady |POrtion of the fund can be r told officers | from | park | the Hillsboro County jail she will not SCIENTISTS PLAN FUND FOR SCOPES Those Who Steod Ready to Testify at Trial Would Con- tinue His Training. The scientists who were reads testify in behalf of John T recently convicted under evolution law of Te sponsoring the raising of a scholar fund which will enable Mr continue his scientific training as soor as possible. Mr. Scopes has expressed a keer sire to undertake graduate some branch of natural science. At présent, however, he is without a teaching position or other means of obtaining the necessary money. though he has been offered numerous lucrative lecture and stage engage ments which would net him thousands of dollars, he has ref them, wishing to a pearance of self-ex pressed with Mr. Scopes qualities and modesty, that he is entitled to some recognition for the t that he has u of science and of and speech zenera who were ass the work act as chairman o fund committee; Dr. Kirtle of Harvard Geolog Cambridge, is vice chair Watson Davis, managing Sclence Service of Washingto act as secretary-treasurer. Other scientists who came to Dav- ton to testify for the defense include Prof. Willlam A. Kepner, Univers t Virginia; Dr. Jacob G. Lipma tor agricultural experiment w Brunswick, N. J.; Dr. Judd, University of Chicago; D University of Chi Tennessee State C. Curtis, D: bur A. Nelson, geologist; Dr. Winterton 1 f 1 ouri Goldsmith, Dr. H. H cago; Dr. Fran ice. It is hoped that a sufficlently larga sed withe . in a week or two, 80 that Mr. Scoped can make his plans to enter upon his graduate work this Fall. Contributions can be sent to mng member of the commiites and they will be promptly acknowledged. Sciens tists who will act as chairmen for various regions of the co will be designated, and will have charge of the raising of the fund in their “Cromwell,” and was written when |particular location It is a | DISMISSES CHARGE OF SMOKE SCREEN He enjoys public|Part of the city, and have laid their | | confidence and affection such as has| Plans well for welding the two geo- [no ot let Fxecutive sinee the | Erabhical divisions together, so that {davs of James Monroe and the ‘era!AaS they gro ';l}x]nl PSp:‘nr; u.'.;; hwfll of good feeling.” Should the time come | 2PPeAr as one, though each will have & {to act the Prestdent will find all politi- | It 0Wn government. That their keen \:7},1(9{‘ oy, e thi Tullder ghves | cal parties united behind him on the | foresightedness was not a dream, but |1 © "S0Ores: Wwhere (RS BIUICET EIVES | {principle that the public right to a|iS r&pldly becoming an actuality “"im"d the permit (:v'moy(. 18 *maintained | |continuous ‘supply of fuel transcends | indicated by facts and figures. whiteh | {1 408 ORIV CTL LT | basie the private rights of efther capital or | NaVe been gathered in the course of |¢% OFCr 0 S ‘ e PHIS. Boo | 1abor-. |The Star's survey in anticipation " ]”] ““ “"]h‘ ’:“h 5“- “\ While Mr. Hammond asserted that|Of the greater Washington plan-|Uon Includes (hexy (hase, o ed {1f the public becomes panic-stricken|Ning. Like movements of the pop- | i e A v LGOS At land bids up the price of coal I |ulation as shown by the decennia] |Chevy € EETA0S; & Jatialic ¢ ang there will be no strike, but if there T n the | = s . what is known as sections 2, 3, 4 and | ia one he intenda:to follow the sug. |ISUSE Lint Wore, Tay be ndnh"fr(:ze’:;:‘:X'T;;{la: ity Ihto what 1s to be. |0 0f Chevy Chase, Batery Park and | estions of 3 2 ond, | it 8! © plays into the hands of that | . ! 0 ‘he v: of | Sho Tecentls Conferted with mim, be: [mAll and seliah element tha esires | Come the great metropolitan alstrict | BAESTOO 15 thia rea Lhe \alue of lieving that public opinion and an | & strike.” He advised coal consumers | §f \washington is in a northwesterly j 1% SERFHCLOL, (Feas, 250” and from united Congress wi pport him to|to take ‘the middle ground between dlcction. lied In th July 1, 1924, to January 1, 1925, $441, the limit in sition the Federal |Panic and letharg the Tnvestioation: showe that ihe|036. During the six months from | ¥ t th ‘estigs ¢+ tha Government may be required to take - TR o e et s e | January 1, 1925, to July 1, 1925, there | er Septemb 1 to force an adequate R'FF OFFENSIVE v |was a decided increase, the figures| Elys - Eieadi Yoolldgs" hi in the general direction of Che ply. President Coolidge has Chase and running along the Rock.|Showing $1.532449 o proposal in mind,, and un- | vills' ahd’ GesrEetown Pod leads In| During the two-vear period the area at Pleasant ..... w he can neither compel the Y : % under which has been grouped Chevy | frmont Heights —_— i French Not Ready to Begin Move in Morocco, and Calm G ho | five-act tragedy, bullt on the strictest | 18th dist.. surround ing Siiver Spring. Kensington, Glen mont and Wheaton Woodside and Wood- side Park Seven Oaks . Prince Georges County year ending July 1, last Lanh: A rdmore and Cottage City Bladensburg Colmar Manor Mount Rainler .. Brentwood Hyattsville Takoma Park | | Riverdale o2 Bradbury Heights Mellwood Vv Boulevard Heights. .. Cedar Helghts totaling in _value $2,164.334. These | are official figures compiled from the records of the Rockville land office, | and are conservative, if anything, for | | side and Woodside Park, the construc- | classical lines. | tion totalled 16 houses at $79,700; five | i .000 for the first year; two at 1 $17.500 for the following six months and nine at $35.300 for the remaining six months of the perjod. In the thirteenth distriet, which takes in the territory around Takoma | Park, Silver Spring, Blair, Kensing- | {ton, Glenmount, Wheaton, ete, but not | included in any of the large subdi- | visions. there were constructed 27| In the section in which has been | houses totaling in value $107,350. Dur- | grouped Seat Pleasant, out Benning | ing the vear ending July 1. 1924, there |road way, Farmount Heights, Greater | were constructed 14 houses, valued at | Capitol Heights and Cedar Heights, | $40,950; for the six months ending|the total construction netted $65,567 January 1, 1925, 10 houses. valued at |$25,242 for the first six months and $38.700. and for the following six [$313% for the subsequent perlod. In {months, seven houses, valued at|Fairmount Heights the construction 700, totaled $8,617 for five houses, one Cabin John Section. house at $2,792 for the first six months and four houses at $5,825 for In Cabin John and Glen, Echo, the |th, i E! | | constrnion tor the. caen; Fcho. thethe second period. In Seat Fleasant district there was no construction totaled $140,200; $29.300 for the first | recorded duri o vear, $38,800 for the following six | b Bl gl but the following perfod permits were | months, and $72.100 for the six months | jssued’ for six houses costing $10.800. | |ending July 1, last. Tn Glen Fcho for | In Greater Capitol Heights, for the | (sheh first _venr‘ lh;re (\\-;r‘oxmn.«;rucx;d year, there were constructed 10 houses ouses, valued at $4.800; for the |tota i ) ‘0 hous followlng six months 1 house at $600, | for the firet s monthe ut $1200 g for the first six months at $1.200 and | and for the six months ending July 1, |ej Jast, 3 honsdd st $6.400. 1o Cevin eight housés during the subsequent way and thereby strengthen his an nounced candidacy for the United States Senate next vear in opposition #to Mr. Peppe There have been no developments here in connection with the negotia tions being held by the minors and op. erators at Atlantic City. President Coolidge is being informed daily of the situation President Optimistic. The President is still convinced that the first sfx months valued at $35357 | ’ | and eight houses for the six months| Grand Jury Ignores First Allega- just ended valued at $27,800. Uni-| 3 . versity Park showed permits for seven | tion Under New Dis- houses valued at $40,500 for the first | - six_months and three houses valued | trict Law. at $14,500 for the second six months, a = !‘nml value for the ten houses of ,000. The grand jury today ignored a charge of operating a smoka screen against Wilbur Wright. This is tha first case to come before that bodv under the new law making it a felon to use a smoke screen. The grand jurors found was no evidence to show that knew of the smoke screen device on the car, as only part of the device was 1 and no use by him of the screen was shown. Policeman Robert I". Langdon and Internal Revenue Agent Cornett made the complaint. They said they were riding about town and a parked at the curb on H s Seventh street June ] clared they recognized the ¢ in looking it over discovered : complete smoke screen attacl which lacked a tank and 1 The officers, waiting around ght . | the amount of new construction for i et miners to work nor seize he mnines the past two years, and those who|Chase View, Leland and section t Pleasant dist a erate as a public neces. | s e et e b e are famillar with the situation say Biie anfi e ortha. ) that before this time the growth could L Hiian e Ly ity be observed there. Then, too, the solve the situatio he event of ; . too, | Ly &~ musealt ol most_expensive houses have heen and | "~ President are being constructed in this direc- | their son Johr tion, and, also, in this territory lie and 5, lead with a total construc Greater Cap. Heights valued at $1,147.284. In this area| | Berwrn there were built between July 1, 1823, | Collese Park and_Jul 1924, nine houses valued | | University Park at $97,250, the mafority costing from | | Vansville $10,000 to $15,000 each om July 1.| | Sultland idge and | cos at the | 1925, there were Congregatio: hacle vesterday, where they he preached by Rev. C. H wauker D. C. GIRL KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT in Salem rd a sermon Beale of Mil Sister of John J. Daly Victim Near | '°'ms | | which in the last few days has re- Laurel, Md., and Escort Is Injured Miss Josephine Daly, sister of John J. Daly, dramatic editor of the Wash ington Post. 1009 Hopkins place, was fatally injured in an automobile acci- dent near Cherry Rum six uilles be vond Laurel, Md., about 11:30 o'clock iast night. dying at the office of Dr. N. B. Steward, Laurel, shortly after reaching there. Percy Keller, 15 < t, Miss T as driving the s when picked up and brought to Garfleld Hospital. It was said at the hospital today that he had regained consciousness, but his condition is still critical ray pic tures were taken Miss Daly had been spending a brief vacation with friends in Philadelphia and was returning home. The car 1s reported to have crashed through a fence alongside the road rail in- flicting a severe injury to Miss Daly's chest before the car overturned and rolled to the bottom of the embank- ment Miss Daly's body s brought to n's undertaking _establishment v this morning and prepared for > Maryland authorities deeming an inguest unnecessary rangements for Miks Daly been compieted Mrs. T. W. Robinson, colored, 27 vears old, of 1214 T street, occupant of the automobile of Howard Jones, colored, 955 Florida avenue, was in- jured about the face and arms early vesterday morning. when the automo- bile collided with another car at Ninth and L streets. She was treated at Freedmen's Hospital by Dr. Chinn. Bimon Rappaport, 23, a real estate operator, was struck by an automobile while crossing at Alabama avenue and Suitland road southeast vesterday aft ernoon, the driver of the car failing to stop. He refused ho: 1 treatment for an injury to h Mansfield Twogood, colored, street southeast, was a the day on suspicion driver of the car, and police are mak- ing a further investigation Two_residents of this city, Injured in traffic accidents in Maryland, were treated at Casualty Hospital last night. One was John Lawrence, 35, 1343 East Capitol street, and the other was Walter Peacock, 17, 454 Massa- chusetts avenue. The former was in- jured on the Marlboro road near the District line, while the latter was =truck by an antomobile at North Beach. Nelthy was dangerously hiurt, < w have not sted later in of beinz the neral ar- | Reigns on Front. By the Associated Prass FEZ, French Moroceo, July Calm reigns along the front in | Morocco. where the French troops are ! | facin & g the rebellious Riffian tribesmen he enemy is understood tp have abandoned all Idea of an offensive, and the French are not vet ready to begin their movement with a view to bring- ing the for to The airplanes alone are active, ntinuing to harass the Rifflans, notably in the Beni Zerouall country, ceived planes Abd-el-Krim, when informed of the tendency being shown by tribes to join the French forces, sent his brother to their country. ~Five hundred notables among the tribes were gathered and sent off to Adfir, headquarters of the Riffian leader, as security for the fidelity of the tribes- men. Marshal Petain, who came to Morocco a week or so ago, commis- sioned by the French government to look over the situation here, is expect- ed to fly back to Paris by the end of the attention of 23 bombing | the weelk, his presence no longer being necessar; Together with Marshal Lyautey, resident French Governor of Morocco, he has left for Rabat, having completed his investigation at Fez. On his return to Parls Marshal Petain will report fully to Premier Painleve on all he has seen and done, and make recommendations for the successful termination of the French campaign. It is regarded highly im- probable that he will return to Morocco. 20 KILLED IN SUNDAY AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS By the Associated Press CHICAGO; July Automobile accidents took a toll of more than 20 lives throughout the country Sunday, while several persons were drowned or met death in other mishaps. Four Chicagoans were killed near Kankakee, Tll, when an automobile hurtled off an enbankment; four deaths occurred at Seymour, Ind., when a machine collided with an interurban car, and two accidents acocunted for four deaths in Chicago. Other auto fatalities reported included: Tiffin, Ohlo, 2; St. Louis, Mo., 2; Blooming- ton, Ill; St. Cloud, Minn.; Minneapolis and Valdosta, Ga., 1 each, SEES RETALIATION VAIN. LONDON, July 27 (®).—Sir Willlam Joynson-Hicks, secretary of state for home affairs, replied negatively in the House of Commons today when asked if he belleved ‘retaliatory measures would be calculated to lead to an improvement of emigrant con- ditfons at Ellis Island.” Asked if he tvas satisfied with con- ditions at EIlis Island, he repliéd: “No, T cannot say I am satisfled with conditions and I hope an improve- ment will come before long."” certain | some of the most beautiful estates. owned by people of means. Plans of Maryland. That Maryland has been making plans for this reception of an in- creased population, which eventually will make a city of this area, is shown by laws passed by the State within the past three vears, and of vast activities to carry these laws into effect, so that the developments ill follow a co-related plan in an or- derly way. City planning calls for the development of streets and high- w laying of water and sewer lines, laving out parkw provision for schools lighting systems, etc. This is now being donme in this | section of Montgomery and Prince | Georges Counties. As the subdivi- stons expand and eventually meet into a_homogeneous whole streets will run direct along certain lines, and there will not be highways running into buliding lines, with a maze of turns to enable one to get about Under the law of 1922 the Wash- ington Suburban Sanitary Commis- sion must approve all plats for any proposed subdivision in this territory before they can be recorded in the land offices of these two countles. In its consideration of such plats the commission takes into consideration the development of the metropolitan area and ascertains that all streets and highways proposed run in a line which will eventually connect them up not only with other subdi- visions but with the streets and highways of the Capital City. Controls Water System. Among its other duties the commis- sion has full authority over the area which naturally drains into the Po- tomac River and also the water sys- tems, Sewer systems have been and are being constructed, giving city drainage service, and these are con- nected with the Washington sewerage system, all in the effort to prevent the sewage from these towns being flowed into the streams which run through the National Capital. Now the commission is extending the water sup- ply system of the county, and on many of the roadways now may be seen mechanical ditch diggers cutting into ground where water and sewer pipes may be laid. ‘o Supply this area with water works have been constructed at Burnt Mills, on the Colesville Pike, and in Hyattsville, Md. For thess privileges special taxing area® have been established in the counties, and the people obtaining this service pay their assessments, which are used to retire the bonds which have been issued. It cannot be said that any particu- lar class is expanding Into the subur- ban sections which are rapidly be- coming urban, with all the facilities that a great city provides. There are houses of all types and for all pocketbooks, but, like all cities, there are particular sections with high- priced homes and others with mod- erate-priced homes. g has experienced The section which the greatest development in the past two years is that lying along the Rockville and Georgétown roads, and extending_northwesterly from Chevy Chase. Within the last six ?‘!‘., , to January 1, tructed 45 houses valued at $247, 585, most of them at $4,500, with some running as high as §10,000 while from the latter date until Jul 1 of this vear there were constructed 36 houses showing the enormous total in_value, and a vast increase, of $502,449. These prices ranged around $10.000 each, but there was ohe apart ment costing $500,000 Some Cpstly Houses. Chevy C ly 1, 19! Sectlon riod from J , to July 1, 192 ing in value from $10,000 to $25.000. For the perfod from the latter. date until January of thid year there were constructed four _houses £45,000, and from January to July 1 of the current year, 37 houses were conetructed, having a total es- timated value of $269,500, or a total vaiue for the 39 houses of $428,300. Section 8, Chévy Chase, for the year ended July 1, 1924, six houses were constructed, having a total value of $54,800; for the six months quent and_till January 1 last, 12 houses at $79.700, and for the period from then until July 1 last, 17 houses having a value of §144.000. Tn Chevy Chase proper, only one permit was issued- prior to July 1, 1924, the house to cost $6,000, and for the same period In Chevy Chase Park three houses totaling $15,500. In West Chevy Chase, two permits were {ssued for houses costing a_total of $11,000 for the vear ended July 1, 1924; six houses costing $19,000 for the six months between Jply, 1924, to Janu- ary, 1925, and three from that time until July I of this year, costing $8,500. Chevy Chase Terrace was the scene of a big growth during the latter half of the fiscal vear just closed. From January 1, 1923, to July 1, 1924, there were -constructed two houses costing $24,000, no construction during the following six months, and for the six months perfod just closed there were _constructed 16 houses having a value | of_$152,000. | ooIn Chevy Chase Park for the year ending July 1, 1924, there were con- | structed only two houses, totaling in value $11,500, while during the fol- | lowing six months six houses, val- ued -at $46,750, were built, and this wis followed in the &ubsequent six months by the Sonsteuiction, of enly twg houses, totdling $18,000. Battery Park and Edgemoor. Battery Park, Edgemoor. and Nor- wood Heights, taken as a group, show- ed houses totaling in value of $914, 250, for thé two-yedr period. Rapid |increases are being shown in this group, as evidenced by the fact that for the year from July 1, 1923, to July 1, 1924, there was construction val ued at $376,000, whereas this was ex- ceeded for the first six months from July, 1924, to January, 1925, by a total of §244,500, and a greater jump from' that. period to July 1 of this year, when the figures showed $293,- 750. Battery Park experienced the greatest total in construction during the two.year period when the figures showed 61 houses, costing $598,900. _ In this particular development, the first thowed eight hotses at §110,800, rdng. | subse- | year of the period covered by the fig- ured sho the construction of 28 houses with-a total value of §286,400; while for the six mont 1, 1924, to January 1, 1925, there were constructed 16 houses, with a value of §158,500, and for the following six months 17 houses, with a total value of $154.900. In Edgemore for the two- vear period there were constructed 27 houses, with a total value of $279,- 000, divided into 5 houses at $70,000 for the first yvear, 8 houses at $86,000 from July 1, 1924, to January 1. 1925, and for the past six months from July | 14 houses, totaling in value $123,000. ‘The construction Heights for the two-vear period to- taled $36,350 for 7 houses. For the year ending July 1, 1024, there were constructad 4 houses, valued at $19,600: for the following six months none and for the period from January , to July 1, 1925, 3 house§ at in Norwood Development Rapid. Silver Spring, Takoma and Blair, out Georgin avenue way, and Jjust across the District line, the devélop. ment has been most rapid during the past two years, the value of the new construction of dwellings during this perfod being $1,462,160. From July 1, 1028, to July 1, 1924, the value of the comstruction was $344,300; from the latter date to January 1, 1925, $399,150 and- from that date until July 1 of this year $518,700. In this group Ta- koma Park led with a construction during the two-vear period of 118 houses, totaling in value $61 Silver Spring second with 78 houses, at $551,500, and Blair, 68 houses totaling $300,400. In Takoma Park for the vear from July 1, 1923, to July 1, 1824, there were constructed 37 houses, val- ued at $196,150; for the following six months, 46 houses, valued at $243,850, and for the period from January 1, 1925, to July 1, 1925, 35 houses, valued at $170,250. In Silver Spring there were con- |structed 38 houses during the first year, valued-at $321,650; for the six months from July 1, 1924, to January 1, 1925, 10 houses valued at $32,700 and for the following six menths 25 houses valued at $147,500. Blair's con. struction for the first year of this report showed six houses valued at $26,500; with 19 houses valued at $27,- 600 from July 1, 1924, to January 1, 1925; and 41 houses valued at $201,- am\d for the following six months' pe- riod. In the area in which has been grouped Garret Park, Kensington, North Kensington, Woodmont, - Oak- mont and Pinehurst, the construction for the two-year period totaled $870.- 825. These figures showed construc- tion valued at $76.975 for the period from July 1, 1923, to July 1, 1924; $110,450 for the following six months and $183,500 for the six months sub- sequent to that, or for the period end- ing July 1 last. North Kensington. In North Kensington thére weré constructed for the first year sevén houses valued at $14,450; for the pe- rsod from July 1, 1983, to Jahuary 1, 1925, two houses valued at $3,000 and for the following six months 21 houses valued at $61.200, a total of 01.7.0_50. _ln erg.hwu*'m. .w John and Cabin John Park 12 houses at $24,600 for the first year; six houses at $38,200 for the six months ending January 1, 1925, and 7 houses at $66.700 for the following six months. The following figures Include a $50,000 residence being constructéd in this area for a New York millionaire. In the Colesville district, just be- ginning a development, and along the Colesville road the construction totaled $47,900 for the two.year period. Dur- ing the first year there were con. structed 5 houses at $12,600, 3 houses at $10,200 for the six months ending January 1 last, and 6 houses, valued at $25,100, for the six-month period ending July 1 last. In the Rockvilla district, which covers the area along the Rockvilie road between that town:and Wash ington, exclustve of figures along the Rockville and Georgatown roads cov- ered in the subdivisions, there was construction for the two vears valued at $142,850. During the first year the construction included 11 houses at $26.200; for the six months ending January 1, 1925, 14 houses at $56,850, and for the following &ix months 11 houses, valued at $69,800. Prince Georges County. The figures for Prince Georges County, as explained in the first arti- ¢le, covers only the one-yéar period, as the building permit system has only been in effect for that time. While there had been some development be- fore this period, observers who know this section point out that the greater part of it has started during the pe- riod covered by the reports, and the figures have been divided into two six-month perfods, from July 1, 1924, to July 1, 1925. In the group taking in Hyattsville, Bladensburg, Colmar Manor and Cot- tage City there was construction valued at $443,550 for the entire pe- riod; $171,000 for the first six months and $272,650 for the second six months. In Hyattsville and its suburbs, includ- ing Hyattsville Hills, the construction for the year totaled $285,500 for 89 houses, 52 houses for the first six months, at $123,350, and 37 houses for the second period, valued at $§112,200. In Lanham, Ardmore, and Cottage City, the construction totaled 18 houses valued at $65,300; ten houses at $25,300 for the first six months and eight houses at $40,000 for the second period. In Bladensburg and Rogers :Pe'xgm. the total value of the construction for the vear period totaled 15 houses at $47,050, three houses at $8,400 for the first six months and sixteéen houses at $38,650 for the second period. In Colmar Manor the. construction to- totaled 26 houses valued at $95,650; five period of six months with a value of $9.400. In Seat Pleasant proper the construction for the vear totaled in value $23,300 for 11 houses; 9 houses at $19,400 for the first six months and two houses at $3,900 for the subse quent six months. In Cedar Heights there were built five houses valued at $3.250, three houses in the first six months, valued at $1,850, and two houses ~ during the following six months at $1.400. In Mount Rainier and Brentwood the construction for the vear totaled $240,600—$122.000 for the first six months and $240.500 for the six-month period ending July 1 last. Construc- tion in Mount Rainier totaled 91 houses, valued at $193.650; 24 houses during the first six months, valued at and 67 & six-month ed 32 houses, totaling in value §26,450; 14 houses at $39,600 for theé first €ix months and 18 houses at $46,550 for the following sfx months. Takoma Park in Montgomery County is spreading across the County line now, as indicated by the Prince in this part of Takoma Park totaling for the year 25 houses at $51.950. This section ‘also ‘includes the subdivision of Pine Crest. . For the first six months of the vear there were con structed 7 houses, totaling in value $14,800, and for the subsequent period of six months, 18 houses at $37,150. Along the Marlboro road there has been an increase in development dur- ing the past year. In this section are the subdivisions of Bradbury Heights, Mellwood and Boulevard Heights. within the shadow of the District line, In this area the year's total showed construction valued at $25,500. In Bradbury. Heights the construction showed 12 houses valued at $9,500, 6 houses at $3,200 for the first 6 months and 6 houses at $6,300 for the second period. Boulevard Heights. Boulevard Heights' construction totaled 6 houses at $7,800 for the year; three houses at $3,100 for the first 6 months and three houses at $4,200 for the second 6 months. In Mellwood there was constructed dur- ing the first 6 months 3 houses val- ued at $8,700 and no construction dur- ing the second period. In the section surrounding River- dale the construction for the year totaled $92,200, $32,550 for the first 6 months and $59,700 for the second period. There were constructed § houses in the first 6 months valued at $32,500 and 22 houses during the subsequent period of 6 months, valued at_$59,700. houses at $13,950 for the first six months and 21 houses at $81,700 for the second six months ending July 1, last. Berwyn Construetion. In Berwyn, Collége Park and Uni- versity Park the construction for the year totaled $247,907; $113,707 for the first six months and $119,300 for the second périod. In Berwyn and vicinity the construction tétal u‘hz uses at $22,600; thrée houses at $5,300 for the first six months and five holfSes at total of 16 houses at 303,157, elght houses in In the Beltsville district, including Vansville, the construction for the year totaled $23,150; 3 houses at $7. 500 for the first 6 months and § houses at $15,560 for the subsequent period of 6 months. This is a new development. In the Suitland area, there was onstructed during the first 6 months 3,000, dividéd betweén 3 houses, and no6 eonstruction during the subséqueént era. In the section lying alohg the l‘&:& and sotitheast of the District theé dévélopmeént was époradic, and 86 émall that it is not worth while grouping. o valued at |home, 424 K street | | home, Georges figures, which show building | minutes, saw Wright ride u other car and attempt to parked machine. They arrested and he denied knowledg smoke screen, they eaid Wrong Man jurors an the Accused The grand also | charge of against Otto housebreaking kins. In the suggested that been arrested Two indictments were retu charging aults to kill Mar Littleton, colored, is alleged t shot twice at her husband Littleton, June 29, in front Johr ored, 'is said to have attacked N D. Posey with a knife at the lat 1635 Vermont avenue Arson is charged in an i against Carrie Williams, is said to have set fire to gtory apartment at 212 Clark’s co southwest June 20 Other Indictments the \ie Ch R. K Mihor, latter the wrong he Horace O forac Others indicted and against _them are: Peter Berg Daniel . Paul Schoo, alias Earl F. E. Schoo Coughlin, Isabel Ford, James son, Amos R. Stephney and Flelds, grand larceny: John housebreaking; Amzie A. McLure housebreaking and larceny: Henry Moten, robbery: Octon U. Dischamp Charles _T. Kearney, James Otis Grimes, Richard Lipscomb and George Murry, non-support; Ralph Nordan, Norman R. Stifier, Philip Akure and Amos R. Stephney, joy riding. E Rob! Holmes BALDWIN MAPPING COAL STRIKE MOVE By the Associated Pre LONDON, July 27.—It is understood Premier Baldwin will devote his per- sonal attention to the threatened strike of British coal miners. King George is being kept closely informed of ‘every move in the negbtiations which seek to avert the crisis, and it {s announced his majesty will “hold himself in readiness to give any a=- sistance within his power, should ft be required.” The premler, after an hour ference this morning with a sp committee of the Trade Union gress, is repogted to have decided to handle personally the government's end of the negotiations. The King plans to leave this after- noon for the Goodwood racing meet, but will receive reports from the gov- ernment of all strike developments. After Mr. Baldwin's conference with the Trade Union Congress committee, it was announced the latter had urged the premier o request the coal owners to postpons their insistence upon a new working agreement and to allow the miners to continué under the pres. ent agreement, which expires Julv 31, pending negotiations,