Evening Star Newspaper, March 6, 1928, Page 5

THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. €. TUESDAY, MARCH 6. 1928, 5 S E z = ~ o = MONTGOMERY SELLS | Py ik arehully comaiacred the tebis | been sumivied By (he Maryiand-Ne2 ENTERPRISE SERIAL TAKOMACITIZENS HIT MERGER PLAN BUILDING ASSOCIATION TMh St & La. Ave. NW, 30th Tame of Stack Now Open or Subserintion i Money Loaned to Members on Easy Monthly Payments James E_Cannelly reciient Ll\ssociation Indorses Unity, but Condemns Method Now Considered. dames F. Shea | Secretary | | Although believing in the principle of | | a merger of the street railway com- panies of the District to reduce unneces- | !'sary expense and enable a reduction ; . the Citizens’ Association of . D. C.. last night adopted a | resolution declaring “as highly offensive | and outrageous the pending so-called The Marmon Straight 8s at $1,395 and $1,895 At Factory { | - word ¥ | ‘unification ag! ment,” to which the i ‘;lm;i.mfm',; | two street railway companies and the | R g | Washington Rapid Transit Co. are, - " | parties.” Marmon Motors. Inc. | PGeorge E. Sullivan, chairman of the | 1727 Conn. Ave. aws and legislation committce of the | ssociation, addressed the meeting and | Phone Potomac S6l for | presented the resolution. “deeming it | demonstration { the solemn duty of the Public Utilities | | Commission not to_entertain such a | proposition without first instituting m\d! prosecuting under the various acts of | | Congress.’ Sees 9 Years' Depreciation. | He pointed out in his resolution that | the decision of th> Court of Appeals | | purporting to fix the valuation of the { Capital Traction Co. as of June 30, | 1919, was made nearly a month prior to act of March 3, 1927, and that the as sets are considered to have undergone B Mattona I Flat Wall Finish | A was 1t o Phone Main 889 WaLTErR MoRGAN COMPANY Artists Maceriais Sigo Makers Supplies Paints, Varnishes. Brushes. Glass 421 Tenth Street. N. W | Inearly nine years of depreciation since | that time, in addition to the deprecia- tion before that date which was not | taken into account. aggresating about | $2.000,000. In addition to this Mr. Sul- livan pointed out that one of the iter of suppos~d assets is the powerhous of the company which burned down mar ears ago, disguised under the title “development expense.” The resolution provided. further. that { the companies should be relieved of the expense of the crossing: policemen; that | “we are not convinced that there is anv good reason for including any bus com- |panv in the merger. any more than tax- |icab companies.” and “that we deem the exrlusion of the assets of the Poto- {mac Electric Power Co. from the pro- i | e | 1 i interest.” In conclusion, the resolution | directed the delegates to the Federation: of Citizens' Associations “to oppose the | pending merger on all occasion Holds Move Unauthorized. | Jesse C. Suter. delegate to the Fed- eration of Citizens’ Associations from the Takoma association. addressed the WHAT a wonderful vel- vety creaminess!” That’s what people say of Nestlé’s! Pure milk with everybit of its cream goes into Nestlé’s un- tis richest in cream of all. 5S¢ & 10c—plain or almond NESTLE's MILK CHOCOLATE a matter which had not originated from |2 committee and under the constitution |the association was not authorized to| pass a resolution on to another body. and especially in view of the fact that| | the federation had recommended the inclusion of the bus company and has | so stated to the commission. He was followed by Charles H. Spencer, who said that the people were in favor of a merger. but not at any cost. Representative Simmons, Republican, | of Nebraska. chairman of the subcom- mittee on appropriations of the House | District committee, addressed the as- { sociation, which was the largest attend- {ed meeting in the history of the or- ranization. defending the action of the | House appropriations committee in re- | taining $9.000.000 as the Government's | share in the District appropriation bill { posed merger to be not in the public | ©; { meeting, saying that the resolution was | posed legislation insurance and is active tees of the Board of Trade on law and legislation and on schools and universi- ; tes. Gets Court Po 1860000 T0 BE SPENT FORROAD SUBWAY Montgomery County Heads Promote Construction of 16th Street in Maryland. | | The Board of Commissioners | Montgomery County today authorized jand requested Chairman Joha N Mackall of the Maryland State Roads Commission to have his engincering force commence the preparation of the plans for the construction of the sub. way or underpass on the first Mary- land extension of Sixteenth street, con- of $30,000 BOND ISSUE Brookville Pike Grade Crossing Elimination Securities Bought by Baltimore Firm. Special Diapateh to The Star, ROCKVILLE, Md, March 6.—The county supervisors of Montgomery County this afternoon sold the $30,000 issue of Brookville pike grade-crossing | elimination bonds -to John P. Baer & Co. of Baltimore, at a quotation of 103.302. | The money is to be used to improve the approaches to the Silver Spring subway under the Baltimore & Ohio tracks and was approved at the last cssfon of the State Legislature. necting that street at the District line with _Georgia avenue and the Coles- ville-Baltimore toad in the northern end of the Silver Spring business di: trict. The eastern section of the road: way as far as the proposed subway i now under construction by the State Roads Commission The Board of County Commissioners agreed {o pay for the cost of this sub- which the State Roads Commis- has estimated would be less than from the county's emergency construction fund of $250.000, provided that they are not able to finance the project from the current road bond is- sies or from other available funds. WL JADE COURT LDTOR | Construction Agreement. | The agreement between the county |and the State Roads Commission is | that the county will furnish the money | for the construction of the subway and | will pay interest on this sum until this {item " of grade-crossing elimination would | be logically reached on the grade-cross- ing climination program of the State. { at which time it will be included in the | State program and a refund of the cost of censtruction as paid by Mont- comery County returned to the county. Local Attorney Succeeds to Post Resigned by H. L. Davis. at- as George Francis Willis torney, was appointed yesterday court auditor by the justices of the Dis- trict Supreme Court, to succeed Herbert L. Davis, whose resignation was at the same time accepted. Mr. Williams will assume office on April Mr. Davis has held the position since 915, and has handled a number s of accountancy chief of which the litigation over the estate of Levi Z. Leiter. Chicago millionaire, and the dissolution of the nited States Trust Co. The auditor presented his resignation to the court January 12, when the press of outside business seemed to demand his entire attention. Mr. Davis is the author of the pro- for compulsory auto in the commit- will be cstended t castern Montgomery County and the subway built at an earlier date than could be accomplished if crossing elimination waited its turn on the State schedule. This construction will not only be of great benefit to the people of the en tire eastern sectfon of Montgomery County, but will furnish a most desir- able state highway between Washington and Baltimore by of Sixteenth street and the Colesville-Ellicott City- Baltimore State road. This Baltimore route will also be open to the people of the western section of subnr gomery County, (Chevy Chase | thesda_scetion), tion of this subway {tion of the east and west highway & Itween Bethesda and Silver Spring { which is on Montgomery County’s 1928 construction program. He will devote his time to the general practice of law. County officials state that they ex- o ipect the State R Commisston fi foalin OReMers. for [0 climinate the Kensingion ~grad: Mr. Willlams has practiced law (0% | crossing where six_people “have been nearly forty years and has served thefyjjeq quring the last vear. and ‘hat court as special auditor in a number | yhic“oroccing is of case: item on the State’s program in Mont- He w gomery County. The commissioners then 13, 186’ expect the State Roads Commission to garded as the first s born In Chester, Pa., October and came to Washington in} Through this method Sixteenth street * Baltimore and into! The bonds are to be redeemed at the jrate of $3.000 a year beginning March [1,71920. "the _cost’ to be levied against the Silver Spring precinct taxpayers Only two other bids were received. The Mercantile & Deposit Co. and Stein Brothers & Boyce of Baltimore made a foint bid of 100.20 and the Silver Spring National Bank offered to take the fssue at par. DIES OF HIS INJURIES. Frank Sheridan, 76, Fell From | Window at Soldiers’ Home. | | | Frank Sheridan, 76 years old, a resi- | dent of the Soldiers’ Home, was injured | fatally yesterday afternoon in a fall | from “a “second-story_window. He was taken to the Home hospital, where he | died this morning. | Mr. Sheridan was a veteran of Com !pany B. 6th United States Infantry serving as a private in that company from March 9. 1887, to June 1. 188 ' He was a native of Belfast, Ireland Records at the Soldiers’ Home indicate that he is a widower and is survived by a son. Thomas, of Baltimore, Md. A verdict of accidental death was re- turned by a coroner's jury today. this grade- | pected to give that crossing precedence ! on the State’s elimination program. ‘The president of the board of county commissioners, Dr. Benjamin C. Perry, senting the western suburban di . and County Commissioner La Shaw, representing the eastern subur- ban_district, regard the east and west road, which the pect to build during the Summer of 1928, connccting the business section of Bethesda witn the business section of Silver Spring through the northern part of the Chevy Chase residential district and by way of Sixteenth reet at the District line, as the highway on the Summer building program that will serve the greatest amount of traffic. The local citizens Iy in the suburban section seem cartily the early construc- important artery for east | affic and the commissioners propose to push this construction to l:drl\‘ compleiion OLD COLONY tion of thi | and west tr mony and petitions presented to us at the hearing held in this board’s office lin er Spring on the morning of February 23, and at the office of this board at Bethesda held on the after- noon of the same date, and we hav further considered the cases of the vari- |ous parties at interest appearing before TONING NOW FACT Commissioners Adop( Re- | reason for making any of the suggested strictions for Area Ad- | Nationai Capital” bark” and Tisaeing joining District. | Commission. We are, however, trans- | mitting the minutes of the Silver commission for your information and any future recommendations that your commission may sce fit to make.” In future, applications fo permits in Montgomery County wiil continue to be made to the office of tie An important step in insuring the harmonious planning and development of the Greater Washington area took place today when zoning became a fact in_the Maryland-Washington Mectro- Board of County Commissioners. When politan district of Montgomery County. the construction in question is located Shortly after noon today the zoning in that ion of Maryland-Washington plan and regulations for Montgomery County became a law through the ap- proval of the Board of County Commis: sioners at Rockville, sitting as a zoning council for that section of the Metro- politan df ; The Washington suburban commu- | nities that constitute part of this dis trict are Chevy Chase, Takoma Park, Bethesda, Silver Spring, Cabin John Park, Glen Echo, Alta Vista and all other sections throughout suburban Montgomery County. The county commissioners approved the zoning plan as submitted to them by the Maryland National Capital Park and Planning Commission and in advis ing the park and planning commission - metropolitan district within ~ Mont- gomery County, the clerk to the Board of County Commissioners will the approval of the Maryland-Nati Capital Park and Planning Commis as to the proposed use, and the mit_applied for. em at the meeting to be held Tuesd: March 13. 3 The zoning plan approved e A B S S S KAUFMANN’S—1415 H i by | | Pullman Davenport =\ = TR \ | N B | | | We see no | amendments or changes in the zoning | Spring and Bethesda meetings to your | ap- proval of the county building inspector as to the proposed construction plans, whereupon the Board of County Com- misstoners will issue the building per- “The building regulations for .suburban Montgomery County are now before the Board of County Commissioners, and they are expected to act finally upon the STREET tional Capital Park and Planning Come mission to the town and taxing ares governments in suburban Montgomery County and to the chambers of com= merce and civic organizations of ths general suburban area, and had been enerally approved by the organizations, The property uses contained in the deal in zoning ordinance as far as pract follow the definitions of zoning now force in the District of Columbia. T was done so that confusion will not be created at the District Line on terms of 7oning. MOORE BUYS PAPERS. Purchases Gotham and Boston Pub- lications From Hearst. NEW YORK, March 6 (). —Alex der P. Moore, former Amb Spain and former he Pittsburgh Leader, newspaper publi two tabloids—the 1} Mirror and the Boston Adver chas® of the papers from organization was completed Mr. Moore announced in the presence of Victor v aging _editor of the Mirre saild he may add to his n Bed Suite Exclusive Agents for Pullman Quality Makes | boyhood. He was educated in the pub- | lic schools and took law degrees at | both Georgetown and George Washing- | | ton Universities and was admitted to the bar in May, 1889. In 1898 he was admitted to practice before the United tates Supreme Court. Mr. Willlams was associated for a number of vears in law practice with | TR T the late Benjamin F. Leighton. ang i i th of Mr. Leighton forme Vatican Legation Now Embassy. | after the death o n formed ROME. March 6 () —The Argentine | representation at the Vatican was | raised from a legation to an embassy | today, when Alberto Blancas presented his credentials as an ambassador to | the Pontiff. SHIPPING NEWS Arrival It’s simply a case of #Have one of mine.” A Yorktown Ciga- rette passes from one friend to another— and Yorktown has one more true friend. There is a combi- nation of zip and mildnessintheflavor. Fehruary 2 Februars Friruary _February Febriars [ TOMO RROW critise | MARCH & | But you'll have TS reasons of your own ety 2n | March 4 after you try a pack. DR PRIDAY MAKCH 5 T‘A‘in}' for 15¢, Nicuw Amaterdam—Rotteedam. Febroary 28 ai DUE SATURDAY roe, Kicamond virginis \“-- ”4 AK',V‘”' Barcelons . . . l [ OE SCNDAY, MARCH 11 MOXDAY MARCH ) m . Lamdon 3 OUTGOING RTEAMERS, SAILING TODLAY Poct-an Prinee and Cristohal Wil Croe o Ahe Medites Danein Orizatia—Husans i SAILING TOMORROW. 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