Evening Star Newspaper, January 22, 1929, Page 10

<hr s THE EVENING STAR, W;(SHfNGTON. D. C. TUESDAY, JANUARY TAKOMA DIVISION INTO WARDS ASKED League Asks Town Council to Provide for More Rep- resentative System. #pecial Dispatch to The Btar. TAKOMA PARK, Md, January 22.— Amendment of the town charter of this town is sought in a petition presented from the North Takoma Improvement League to the Town Council at its meeting last night, which would pro- vide for the division of the town into six wards, councilman from each. At the pres- ent time the councilmen are elected at large. It was explained thal the new method would insure representation for each community or ward, and would preclude at any time in the future any one group getting control of the coun- cll. The matter was referred to the ordinance committee for investigation and report at the next meeting. Amend- ment of the charter will have to be finally approved in legislation by the General Assembly. Some amendments to the charter which were reported favorably by the council were the subject of a public hearing last night, but no opposition and the election of one| ARLINGTON Grover E. Payne Elected President of Coun- cil. Committee Is Named to Study Abattoir Permit Request. Special Dispatch to The Star. CLARENDON, Va, January 22— The Arlington District Council of Citl zens' Associations, at its annual ban- quet and business meeting here last night, by unanimous vote, went on rec- ord for higher salaries for county school teachers. The action was taken on recommen- dation of the school committee con- tained in a report submitted by C. I Kephart, chairman. The report cov- ered all phases of the county school sit- uation, and called attention to the fact that while the system and manage- ment is of the best there is need for expansion as to classroom space and equipment. In pointing out that the county is underbuilt in school capacity, many of the schools being overcrowded, the re- port cites that Arlington County has an investment of $224 per pupil as against $370 in the District of Colum- bia and $440 in Denver, Colo. Has 58 Acres. developed. ‘The most important was one providing salaries for the mayor and members of the council. The others are intended merely to clarify some of the language in the present charter. They will be sent to the Legislature for approval. Irving H. Ware, chairman of the po- lice, fire and light committee, announced that the new fire department building would be completed in a very short time, and invited the council to hold its subsc- quent meetings in the auditorium of the building. The volunteer fire equipment will be moved into the new location this week, it was announced by Councilman Martin F. Iverson, who also said that a formal opening ceremony was being planned. Petitions were received for a-number of sewer improvements on Takoma and Buffalo avenues, where, it was said, the lines are, in some places, exposed. Mayor Davis said that the matter would be referred to Washington Suburban Sanitary Cammission. GIRL SCOUTS PLAN HOUSE IN FAIRFAX Lot Next to Town Hall to Be Site of Copy of Lord Fair fax House, Special Dispatch to The Star. FAIRFAX, Va. January 22.—At the annual dinner and business meeting of the Fairfax Troop of Girl Scouts at the Tavern, Miss Ludema Sayre, scout- mistress, announced that Mrs. Joseph E. Willard of New York, widow of the late United States Ambassador to Spain, will give th troop a lot adjoining the Town Hall, in Fairfax, on which to build a Scout home. W. I. Deming of ‘Washington, architect for the recently compleed $75,000 clerk’s office addi- tion to the near Winchester and later destroyed by fire man; ‘The plans call for a structure of oak logs, with native stone used in the open fireplace and chimneys. The cost of the new building is not yet known. Detailed estimates are to be prepared by A. R. Sherwood, father of one of the local Scouts, and the members of the troop will endeavor to raise the necessas funds among their friends and rela- tives Troop 64 has pledged itself to build the foundations for the new building in memory of their own or- ganization, now in its third year. The annual election of officers re- sulted in the selection of Jean Ritchie as leader of Patrol No. 1 and Marian Earle as corporal; Ruth Sherwood as leader and Elizabeth Marshall as cor- poral of Patrol No. 2, Eleanor Rust as leader and Vivian Gillespie as corporal of Patrol No. 3. Hannah Lee was elected scribe and Nancy McCandlish re-elected treasurer. Three committees were appointed to co-operate with com- mittees of adults to be selected later, in planning for the new building: Build- ing committee, Mary Graham, Warwick Rust and Esther Kincheloe: furnishings committee, Dorothy Ritchie, Mary Blake, Mary Frances Cooper; finance committee, Thelma Speer, Mary Walton McCandlish and Randolph Richardson. Eleanor Rust acted as toastmistress at the banquet which preceded the busi- ness meeting, when the Scouts were guests of the Scoutmistress. Toasts were given by Mary Graham, Esther Kincheloe, Randolph Richardson, Mary Blake, Dorothy Ritchie and Warwick &u;lt, Wlfl;‘:lll'x o?mal poem by Eliza- Marshall and a ec; Frances Cooper. i i ALEXANDRIA, ALEXANDRIA, Va., January 22 (Spe- cial).—A house-to-house canvass to as- certain the number of tuberculosis suf- ferers in this city will be started by more than 200 persons tomorrow as a pre- liminary to the survey which will be conducted January 28 to February 9, inclusive. A free moving picture on tuberculosis will be shown tomotrow night, at 8 o'clock, in the Elks’ Hall auditorium. Dr. Edgar Harper of the Virginia State Board of Health will hold clinics at the Alexandria Health Department each day during the survey. Clinics for white persons will be held from 9:30 t0 12:30 p.m,, and from 2 to 5 p.m. for colored. Special clinics will take place on January 28, 30 and February 1, from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., for all persons, re- gardless of race. Comdr. E. C. Graham, Adjt. Edgar Warfleld and Capt. George K. Pickett, veterans of the war between the States, were the only members of R. E. Lee Camp of United Confederate Veterans who were able to attend the camp’s annual banquet last night at Lee Camp Hall, in celebration of the birthdays of Gen. Robert E. Lee and Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson. Only 10 of the 228 members that organized Lee Camp survive. Representative Henry B. Steagall of Alabama and Rev. Dr. W. 8. Hammond, pastor of Methodist Episcopal Church South, were the principal speakers at the banquet. Representative Lester Hill of Alabama was to have talked, but he was unable to attend. A Confederate Cress of Honor was presented to Dr. Llewellyn Powell, who served in the ‘World War and whose father was a Confederate veteran. Edgar Warfield, adjutant of Lee Camp, read Gen. Lee's farewell address. Donald Jamieson sang, with Mrs. George A, Warfleld as accom- panist. A meeting of the Independent Voters" League will be held tonight at 8 o'clock in the George Mason Hotel, with C. H. Brown presiding. A meeting of the ex- ecutive committee will be held at 7:30 pm. ‘The frame structure at the northwest corner of Washington and Prince streets 45 being razed by the Virginia Public Bervice Co. to clear the site for con- struction of its new four-story office building. Rev. Dr. Louis Motry of Catholic Uni- versity, Washington, was the principal peaker today at the weekly luncheon The school system, the report states, now possesses 58 acres of land, which will accommodate extensions at the })‘icsent structures for the far distant ture. Dealing with the question of teach. ers’ snh.lg!es, the report states that sal aries of the county’s high school prin- cipals average less than $250 per ‘month, while those in the District of Colum- bia run as high as $5000 per year. High school teachers’ salaries run from $120 per month to $195, while those in the District of Columbia begin at $1,800 and are subject to annual increases. The cost of instruction per pupil for 1927-28, the report cites, was $38.03. Figures were presented to show that this figure was greatly exceeded in oth- er localities of about the same popula- n. m'l‘he amount of increases and the manner in which the money needed shall be raised is left by the commit- tee to the judgment of the duly con- stituted school authorities. Hits Abattoir Plan. al of the N. Auth Provision dm Riasningion to establish an abat- toir on its property on Columbia Pike was bitterly assailed by L. B. Burk on Mount Ida and the Live Stock Bureau of the Department of Agriculture. Mr. Burk declared that while the sponsors have claimed that the plant would be odorless and free of other objectionable features, he had never seen a “slaugh- ter house” that was not a dertiment to a community. “Assuming that the Proj plant will be all um" it is claimed for it by its sponsors” Mr. Burk asserted, “the mere name of the thing is enough to do the county irrep- arable injury. “To loc,we the plant on the site pro- posed, within sight of the White House, Capitol and Potomac Park, would not only be an insult to the people of ‘Wash- ington and visitors en route there, but would depreciate property from 5 to 30 per cent, according to proximity to the plant.” The speaker pointed out that the Fed- eral Government is preparing to spend millions of dollars in bridges, boule- vards and parks in the vicinity of the proposed abattoir and warned that if it is allowed to materialize much of that be dropped. section of the lant is proposed to be in the way of esthetic values at the t time, Mr. Burk declared that establishment of airports has done much to clean it up and that there is a strong possibil- ity of further improvement through the expansion of the flying fields. Resolution Laid Aside. uA motion moflered gu:‘u:an;:“ emn:; cil on record against oject wi laid aside when an amendment which provided for the appointment of a com- mittee to make a thorough investigation of all angles and report was carried. The latter action was t more de- sirable discussion, which indicated that some members felt that the pro- posed plant might not be as bad as painted, others that its rejection might result in the impression getting out that the county does not care for in- dustrial dzvelormenb and still others that another site in the county might be found, where the plant would work C. I. Kephart of Ashton Charles L. Ladson and P. with proven directions, eeting of the Alexandria Rotary Club. 'Rotary’s Contribution to- Civic ‘Wel- $916". was the text of his addyess DISTRICT CITIZENS URGE HIGHER PAY FOR TEACHERS GROVER E. PAYNE. W. Luckett were named for the com- mittee. An appeal for the co-ordination of efforts of the civic interests of the county and their co-operation With the Arlington Chamber of Commerce to the end that “the best can be ob- tained from the county’s wonderful o] portunities for high class development,’ bridge, the chamber. B. M. Hedrick, supervisor for Arling- ton district, declared that he had been misunderstood with regard to the im- provement of Wilson boulevard. He had been reported as saying that the road would be widened and otherwise improved if the property owners would furnish a free right of way. The im- provement of the boulevard, he said, is contemplated and widening and free rights of way are desirable, but they are not contingent on its improvement. Grover E. Payne of Ballston was elected president of the organization, succeeding Gilbert Hall of Aurora Heights, who declined renomination. Mr. Payne has long been a leading civic worker in the county. He is presi- dent of the Ballston Citizens' Associa- tion and treasurer of the Arlington County Civic Federation. Richard L. Eacho of Ashton Heights was_elected first vice president; Robert H. Forman of Glebewood, second vice president, and A. A. Moore of Lyon Park, secretary-treasurer. Mr. Forman called attention to the fact the State allocations for road de- velopment do not include anything for Glebe road and urged that action be taken to impress on the State's highway authorities the need for early improve- ment. He declared that free rights of ways for widening of the road, which have been obtained by a committee of the Glebewood Citizens' Association, of which he is chairman, would be with- drawn if the improvements are not made within the next eight months. ‘The road committee of the council was instructed by vote to attend the hear- ing of the State highway commission at Charlottesville January 29 to work for an appropriation for this road. JURISDICTION ON ROAD QUESTIONED IN COURT Coal Company Holds District Main- tains Stretch South of Bridge. Special Dispatch to The Star. CLARENDON, Va., January 22.—The question of whether the road immedi- ately south of the Highway Bridge is in the District of Columbia or in Vir- ginia will have to be decided before the Colliflower Coal Co. of South Wash- ington is compelled to purchase Virginia automobile tags for their trucks, it was stated today by Judge Harry R. Thomas in Police Court. The matter was brought before Judge Thomas when a driver for the coal company was ar- rested for operating on a District of Columbia tag. The matter was taken under advisement. According to officials of the company, they do 90 per cent of their business in Washington and the road over which their trucks travel between the plant and Washington is maintained by the District, although on the Virginia side of the river. B. H. Luttrell, an automobile dealer of Falls Church, Va., was fined $14.25 for using a dealer's tag on his car. Judge Thomas ruled dealers’ tags are executive secretary of for use only on demonstrative cars and may not be used in operating an auto- mobile on other business. For sore throat, there’s a swift and sure way to soothe away the inflammation. Every singer knows the secret! Dissolve Bayer Aspirin tablets in pure water, and gargle. Nothing in the whole realm of medicine is more helpful in cases of sore throat. And you probably know how Aspirin dispels a headache; breaks up colds, relieves rheu- matic pain, neuralgia, neuritis, lumbago! Just make certain to get genuine Bayer Aspirin; it has Bayer on the box, and on each tablet. All druggists, For TONSILITIS nd a SORE THROAT Physicians prescribe Bayer Aspirin; it does NOT affect the heart . “Wotria @ the Wide mask o Beger Mabutasture of Monoréytessidertss of was made in an address by P, P. Wood- | 29 Loy 1929, MONTGOMERY BILL COMES UP TONIGHT County Financial Measures to Be Presented to State Legislature. By a Staft Correspondent of The Star. SILVER SPRING, Md., January 22. —Legislation for refunding the school and road construction in Montgomery County during 1928 will be offered to the Maryland Legislature tonight, when bills will be introduced by the Mont- gomery County delegation to authorize the necessary bond issues, it was said today by E. Brooke Lee, Speaker of the House of Delegates. While the figures have not yet been completed, it was said that the authorization would be for about $300,000. money is to cover the final balances on the unprecedented school construction of the past year, when practically every community was given a modern building and also for the roads that have been improved during the same period. ‘The measures are expected to have smooth sailing on both houses, as the Montgomery members of the House of Delegates, including Speaker Lee, George L. Edmonds of Rockville, Rich- ard H. Lansdale of Sandy Spring and Harvey J. White of Dickerson and State Senator Eugene Jones of Kensington, have pledged themselves to support the measure. Under the system of working in the State Legislature, where the delegation in either house supports a measure, it is not interfered with in any way by the delegates from other counties. A vote of the county delegation on a measure affecting its county is followed by a favorable vote by all Delegates and Senators. The real split in the Montgomery County legislation at this session will be on the proposed bond issue of $150,000, providing additional funds for the pur- chase of land and for the construction of a modern courthouse and jail for Rockville. Senator Jones has expressed himself as opposed to this additional bond issue on the ground, he says, that he is interested in keeping the county tax rate down. On the other hand, figures compiled by Berry E. Clark, clerk to the county commissioners, brought forth a statement by that of- ficlal that the county can issue bonds to the limit of $1,750,000 without any increase in the county tax rate. "We know our Luckies als how we stay slender” Mouse in Radio Station Sings Swan Song Like Static By the Associated Press. ROANOKE, Va., January 22.— M certain pied piper is sald to have saved a city from the menace of rat intrusion, but it took a radio engineer to discover what happened to radio station ‘WDBJ. This trouble was a tiny ni\:,)uu with, perhaps, an urge to sing. A huge organ was pealing its songs in thunderous volume and radio listeners were enjoying it in soft-slippered comfort when a series of squaks and shrieks came through in disquieting combina- tion. Reception was halted and a cry of “static” went up. If the audience was electrified by the efforts of the mouse, the mouse was electrocuted. Its body was removed from the condenser and the program continued. County leaders admit that they do not see just how they are going to handle the courthouse bond issue if Senator_Jones insists on his opposition in the Senate, because of the fact that his opposition will carry the support of the other Senate members, as it is dis- tinctly a county proposition. Whether Senator Jones can withstand the great demand of the people of the country for the improvement, as indi- cated by the action of various organiza- tions of the county, remains to be seen. Nearly .every organization in the’ State, including not only thos¢ in the sub- urban district, but even upcounty or- ganizations in the rural districts, has passed resolutions urging the improve- ment. ‘When the matter reaches the Senate, it was learned today, Senator Jones is going to be faced with scores of voters in the county who are planning to de- mand a public hearing before that legis- lator on the matter, in an effort to con- vince him that the voters are for it. One large delegation of more than 200 persons, which is planning to advance on the Legislature when the matter 1s before the Montgomery County commit- tee, is to be led by Barnard F. Welch, Republican leader. Even women’s organizations of the county are getting behind the matter, the Woman's Democratic Club of Mont~ gomery County, of which Mrs. Charles E. Roach is president, having voted yesterday for the additional bond issue, when they met in the county building at Bethesda. Not only were the mem- bers of this organization in favor of the bond issue, but the concensus was that the present bullding should be torn down, and an entirely new build- ing erected. S. B. HEGE EXPIRES; WAS RAIL LEADER Prominent Rockville Resident Served on Inaugural Com- mittees Here 40 Years, Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md, January 22— | Samuel B. Hege, for 42 years a resi- dent of Rockville, died at his home here yesterday afternoon after an illness of a week. Mr. Hege for years was connected with tas Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in Washington, first as city passenger agent, then as division passenger agent, Southeastern district passenger agent and since 1917 as special passenger representative for the entire system. During the World War he served in the War Department as assistant to the chief of Army transportation and for the last 40 years has been chairman or a member of the transportation com- mittees assisting in all the maugural and other important national and civic events in Washington. Mr. Hege was prominent in Masonic circles, being a member of Hiram Lodge, No. 10, F. A. A. M.; Almas Temple and Columbia Commandery, No. 2, Knights Templar. He served many years ago as a member of the Rockville Town Coun- cil, and during his tenure sponsored the development of the present water and lighting systems. He was a native of Chambersburg, Pa. He is survived by a son, Edwin 8. Hege, of Chevy Chase, D. C, and a daughter, Miss Daisy B. Hege of Rockville. Funeral services will be held at the home tomorrow afternoon at 3:15 o'clock, with burial in Rockville Union Cemetery. Masonic services will be held at the grave. Stacy T. Noland, 3d, Dies. Special Dispatch to The Star. CLAREN! , Va, January 22— Stacy T. Noland, 3d., 8-year-old son of Dr. and Mrs. Stacy T. Noland of this place, died last night at Garfield Hos- pital, Washington, following an illness of about two weeks, which began with la grippe and developed into scarlet fever and pleurisy. Funeral services, which are to be private, will be con- ducted tomorrow at 11 o'clock by Rev. A. A. McCallum, pastor of St. Paul's Episcopal Church of Washington. In- terment will be in Columbia Gardens Cemetery. 'VERY woman who fears overweight finds keen interest in new-day and common-sense ways to keep a slender, fashionable figure. Overweight must be avoided. “Better to light a Lucky whenever you crave fattening sweets.” Toasting does it. Toasting develops and improves the flavor of the world’s finest tobaccos. Lucky Strike satisfies the longing for things that make you fat, withoutinterfering with a normal appetite for health. ful foods. That's why Luckies are good to smoke. Toasting makes Lucky Strike the healthy cigarette for you to smoke. Many men who carefully watch their health discove ered this years ago. They know that Luckies steady their nerves and do not slow up their physical vigor ~—prominent athletes have gone on record that this isso. They know that 20,679 physicians have stated that Luckies are less irritating to the throat than other cigarettes. A reasonable proportion of sugar in the diet is rec. ommended, but the authorities are overwhelming that too many fattening sweets are harmful and that too many such are eaten by the American people. So, for moderation’s sake we say:— “REACH FOR A LUCKY INSTEAD OF A SWEET.” ‘The Misses Catherine Moylan, Myra Darby, Murrel Finley, now appearing in Ziegfeld’s “Whoopee” é ©1929, The American Tobaceo Co., Manufacturers It’s toasted SAMUEL B. HEGE. FRATERNAL AMERICANS PLAN GENERAL SESSION Councils of Northern Virginia to Meet in Elks’ Hall, Alex- andria, Friday. Special Dispatch to The Star. FAIRFAX, Va, January 22.—James | R. Mansfield, State secretary, has called a general meeting of all the councils of the Order of Fraternal Americans in Northern Virginia to be held in Elks’ Hall, Alexandria, on Friday night at 8 o'clock. The national councilor, E. A. Llew- ellyn of Cincinnati, Ohlo, and his staff will pay their official visitations to Alexandria Council, No. 5; Vienna Council, No. 12; Fairfax Council, No. 26; Herndon Council, No. 28; Ballston Ceuncil, No. 36; Clarendon Council, No. 38; McLean Council, No. 42; Belle Ha- ven Council, No. 61, and Farmers and Mechanics’ Council, No. 72, of Andrew Chapel. Other national and State of- ficers are also expected to be present. Members of Fairfax Council are re- quested to assemble at Robey Hall at 7 p.m. John C. Sisson, C. A. Lane and John M. Whalen have been appointed ‘a‘ committee to arrange for transporta- on. No TOWN IS DVIDED ' ON INCORPORATION Proposal at College Park ‘ Meets Opposition and Sharp | Fight Is Developed. Special Dispatch to The Star. COLLEGE PARK, Md., January 22— A sharp fight has developed here over | the proposed incorporgtion of the town, | As a general proposition residents 1 ing west of the railroad tracks are un- | derstood to be favorable to the propo- | sition, while the interests controlling !the aviation field here are said to be | heading the opposition faction. At a meeting last night of the Col- lege Park Home and School Associa- tion held in the school it was reported by the committee on incorporation, of which Dr. Charles O. Appleman is ____ | chairman, that it had decided to circu~ | late a proposed bill providing for in- | corporation among the property owners, {and should it be looked upon with favor to take steps to have it presented to the Legislature now in session for enactment into law. Firemen Add to Equipment. It was announced by the fire de=- partment committee of the association that a chassis has been bought and that it will be equipped for modern fire fighting. The present apparatus is reported too heavy to be of very | much service. It was estimated that the new apparatus would entail an outlay of $900. Of this amount $300 already has been received as the de- partment’s share of the county appro- priation by the county mners. From this source $300 more is ex- pected this year, which will be used to help pay for the machine, School to Entertain. February 15 was set for an enter- tainment which will be presented by the pupils of the College Park School in the auditorium of the University of Maryland for the benefit of the asso- ciation. An interesting report of the last meeting of the Prince Georges Cou: v Community Council was given by Dr. C. P. Close of College Park, president of the council. e S | _Constantinople’s new bridge across the | Golden Horn will cost more than §1,- i 000.000. 99 No Throat Irritation- Cough,