Evening Star Newspaper, January 31, 1929, Page 11

SUBURBAN ‘NEWS.? VARNEY OPPOSES ANNEAATONPLAN Potomac Attorney Testifies| 75 Per Cent of Townsmen Prefer County Rule. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. ARLINGTON COUNTY, Va, Jan- unary 31.—Walter U. Varney, corpora- tion attorney for Potomac, Va. and member of the counsel for Arlinmn\ County in the annexation suit of the city of Alexandria against the county, was celled to the witness stand here today to testify as an individual and a | resident of the territory proposed to be ennexed. In the direct examination, conducted by State Senator Frank Ball, Varney told the court that Potomac has every- thing necessary to operate independent- | 1y of any city, including fine police and re departments, churches, schools and stores as well as a moving picture theater, Seventy-five per cent of the residents of the town are opposed to annexation, he said, and of the more than 1,000 | adults with whom he is personally ac- quainted in the town he does not know of 200 who are in favor of going into the city. Among those opposed are the businees men of the town, whose taxes would be greatly increased as a resuit, he said. ‘Would Increase License. ‘Varney stated that business and pro- fessional men of Potomac pay an an- nual flat license fee of 810, while the much higher rate of Alexandria would apply if the city wins its suit. He said the city tax on automobiles, bassd on | the weight of th2 machine, ranges from | 200 to 300 per cent more than the flat | rate of $2 charged for all types of ma- | chines in Potomac. As an example, Varney said, his own automobile tax would be increased from $2 to $5.80, while his annual tax of $10 for practicing law in Potomac would b2 increased to epproximately $50. He added that all licenses in the city rangs frcm two to three times more than the same licenses in the town. On cross-examination by Albert V.| Bryan of the counsel for Alexandria, Varney admitted that his fees as cor- poration attorney for the town would cease if the city wins the annexation | suit. He also admitted that he was! employed by Arlington County in Athe] current proceedings to fight annexation. | Change of Attitude Cited. | Varney told the court that Mayor ‘William ~ Kleysteuber of Potomac had spoken in opposition of annexation when the suit was first instituted, but that less than 30 days after being de- | feated in the election of a supervisor from Jefferson majesterial district Kley- steuber advocated the retaining of spe- clal counsel to represent Potomac in the case and asked for annexation by the city. cross-examination Varney was asked by Attorney Bryan if he had Temar] to & newspaper reporter that he would move out of the town it the city wins the case. He admitted that he did. “Is m-:d & promise or & threat,” Bryan 2 “Neitlghr,” replied Varney. Jchn 8. Barbour, chief of counsel for thé county, read into the court record statistics taken from a State record showing Arlington County to be the leading county in the State in re- #ards to assessments per acre. ROCKVILLE. ROCKVILLE, Md., January 31 (Spe- cial).—On charges of enticing from home the 15-year-old daughter of John H. Green of Potomac, this county, John Kisner and Paul Wright have been committed to jail here to await a hearing in ths Police Court. ‘They were arrested by County Police- men Roy Bodmer and Harry Merson at the instance of the girl's father. ‘The girl, according to the officers, was found at the home of a relative of Kisner near Sandy Spring. Rev. J. Wesley Loftis, pastor of the Bilver Spring Baptist Church, offici- ated at marriage at Silver Spring of Miss Lillian E. Oliver and Robert R. Klotz, both of Washington. Ernest Adams, colored, was arrested on a cl of illegal possession when county visited his home, near Hllplm,polnd found four jars of ai-| ™ corn W He was released on $500 bond. Miss Alta Watts of Takoma Park, Md, and Joseph Weitz of Washing: ton were married in Rockville yesters day by Rev. Bertram M. Osgood of the Baptist Church at the homeof the minister. The same minister offi« ciated at the marriage here of Miss Mary Virginia Todd of Cherrydale, Va, and Hamilton T. Brown of Ross- Iy, Va. Announcement has been made that Y. C. Yang, president of ths Soo Chow University, formerly secretary of the Chinese legation at Washington, will speak in the Rockville Methodist | Church Sunday evening. ’ The funeral of Charles W. Oxley, well known retired farmer, who Monday morning, aged 72 years, took gl‘:oe yesterday from the home of flsmter. Mrs. Herbert Brown, in Poolesville. Rev. William W. McIn- tyre, pastor of the Poolesville Meth- odmd bcr!‘\.\:rch. ?onfimzed the services and burial was in Monocacy Cemetery, at_Beallsville. i 7 The dwelling on the farm of Wil- | liam H. Dodd, near Poolesville, was destroved by fire yesterday, as well as ® large part of the furniture. ~Rock- ville volunteer firemen and many per-. sons from the surrounding country re- sponded to the alarm. Cause of the fire is not known. Loss is partially envplurea \1>y lns‘uranl:!, neral services for Mrs. Lucy Ann | ©O'Donnell, widow of Patrick O'Don- nell, who died Monday of bronchiis, aged 87 years, following an illness of & week, were held this morning in St. John's Catholic Church, Forest Glen, the “flnmr, Rev. Charles O. Rosensteel, officiating. Burial was in St. John's Cemetery. Mrs, O'Donnell was a long- time resident of the Silver Spring neighborhood and had lived in the oounty all her life. . ASKS ABSOLUTE DIVORCE. | Wife of Veterans’ Bureau Official Alleges Infidelity. Mrs. Conception De Ribas MacMillan, 2023 Cathedral avenue, has filed suit {or an absolute divorce from Col. Marion | B. MacMillan, an official of the United States Veterans' Bureau. They were merried at Camaquey, Cuba, August 2,' 1899, and have one child. The wife says they left Cuba in 1907 and went to New York, where they resided until coming to Washington in 1924. She charges attention to another. woman, who is named as corespondent. Mrs. MacMillan tells the court her husband makes more than $600 per month and 'asks for suitable alimony. She is represented by Attorneys Ru- dolph H. Yeatman and George D, Horning, jr. Two Flu Deaths Be.p;_rted. Nine cases of influenza and - two deaths from the disease were reported to the District Health Department to- day. Thus far in January 1,740 cases and 69 deaths have been reported. Assigned to Nogales. Maj. George M. Holloran, Chemical Warfare Service, at headquarters, 3d ;:orpe.d ge:fies;nrxmr;m hm; been trans- | err nfantry and assigned to the 25th Infantry at Nogales, Aris. THE EVENING RIFLE SHOTS STOP AUTO IN ALLEGED LIQUOR CHASE POLICEMAN CHARLES BARNES AND HIS RIFLE. Montgomery Policeman Hits Tire Five Times and Two Baltimoreans Are Arrested. Special Dispatch to The Star, SILVER SPRING, Md, January 31.— Five shots necatly placed in a rear tire by County Policemap Charles Barnes brought a big automobile to a standstill on the Colesville pike near Sligo yester- day and two men, who said they lived in Baltimore, were arrested on charges of transporting liquor. With the auto 120 gallons of alleged alcohol were seized. With Policeman Paul Watkins driv- ing, Officer Barnes gave chase in a car of the county force and nearly three miles were covered before he found it necessary to puncture a tire in order to halt the alleged fugitives. An automo- bils was similarly halted a few days ago by Policeman Barnes. He has found the rifle more certain than a revolver and has proved his‘marksmanship in a way to sarike terror to the liquor run- ners said to be operating between Bal- timore and Washington. Yesterday's prisoners, who gave their ALEXANDRIA. ‘ALEXANDRIA, Va., January 31 (Spe- ¢ial).—City automobile license plates have been placed on sale at the office of City Collector Purvis Taylor and 126 have been sold. The rate is based on the weight of the car at 20 cents for each 100 pounds plus 50 cents additional on each tag. The license is the same color and length as the State tag and is approximately 2 inches in height, made to fit above the Virginia plate. Business and profefsional men who have not paid their city and State li- cense fees must do so today. A gennlty of 10 per cent will be added by the State if returns are not made to Com- missioner of Revenue C. H. Callahan to- day. A penalty of 7 per cent will be added to all unpaid real estate tax bills after tomorrow. Station Keeper to Leave. Stationkeeper L. E. Brown of the Alexandria Police Department is serving his last duty today. His resignation be- comes effective at midnight and tomor- row he will return to the employment of .the Southern Railway. Co. Patrol- man Charles Summa - will succeed Brown as stationkeeper. Police Capt. W. W. Campbell has also announced that Patrolman Clarence McClary has beendtnnsterred to the motor cycle uad. ‘The new term of the public schools will open tomorrow and pupils will re~ port to their home rooms and be as- signed to the new work. No sessions ‘were held ‘in the public'schools yester- day or today in order to allow teachers time to correct txamination papers. Promotions will be announced tomor- TOW moruing. The automatic traffic lights at Duke and. Alfred and nce and Alfred streets were wired yesterday, so that the red or danger light will flicker on all four sides to warn motorists of the ap- proach of fire apparatus. The new fire siren installed at King and St. Asaph streets to warn motorists and pedesierians of the. approach of fire apparatus whs given its first test during an actual fire last night, when No. -4 engine company answered an alarm of a chimney fire at the home :n!r CtharXEI E. Cabell, 511 Cameron eet. Cadet Meeting Tomorrow. A meeting of parents and students interested in the formation of a cadet corps at Alexandria High School will bz held tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock in the school auditorium. Maj. Me- Neill, U. 8. A, retired, will speak. Mrs, Lueinda Llyod, widow of I J. Liyod,- died -Tuesday at the residence of J. L. Robey, 310 Wolfe street. Fun- efal strvices were held this afternoon at her late residencé and burial wes in the Union Cemetery. Through the efforts of Police Justice W. S. Snow of this city, a member of the State Game and Fish Commission, 750 Mexican quail will be released Fri- day in Fairfax, Prince William, Staf- ford and Fauquier Counties. Funeral services for Mary Elizabeth Cook, 7-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Cook of 5 Cedar street, who died Tuesday at Children’s Hospital, Washington, were held today at the home and interment was in Bethel Cemetery. A joint banquet of the Alexandria Tent, No. 2, Maccabees, and Alexandria Hive, No. 2, wili be held in March. Funeral services for Mrs. Celine Wise, 51, widow of L. E. Wise, and & native of France, were held this afternoon at the home of her daughter, Mrs. H. E. McCullough, 603 North View Ter- race, Rosemont. Interment was in Bethel Cemetery. D. C. ENGINEERS HONORED. Appointed to Help Boost Interest in World Meeting. Seven local engineers have been ap- pointed to a committee to co-operate with the American committee of the World Engineering Congress to stimu- late interest in the World Engineering Congress to be held at Tokio next Fall. Herbert Hoover i3 honorary chairman of the American committee. The locel engineers apgnmud were L. W. Wallace, L. D. Bliss, Elwood Mead of the Interfor Department; Willam M. Cotse, N. H. Heck, commander of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey; Rear Admiral C. W. Dyson and R. W. Crum of the Highway Research Board. Dr. Elmer A. Sperry, inventor of the gyroscope, is chairman of the American committee. Refusel by a taxi driver to accept a Szg‘-%ug; t:omnnbu&%hre ki;s‘been uphe e court irf-Wigan, land, as justifiable, 3 d 4 names as Nathan Casman and Maurice Glasser, were released under $300 bond each for their appearance in Police Court at Rockville for trial. The car was stored and the alleged alcohol will be destroyed if the defendants are con- victed. STAR, WASHINGTON, ARLINGTON FIGHTS STATE GAS TAX GUT Reduction in Returns From $70,000 to $12,000 or $14,000 Threatened. BY LESTER N. INSKEEP, Staft Correspondent of The Star. ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT- HOUSE, Va., January 31.—Warned by Hugh Reid, member of the Virginia House of Delsgates from Arlington County, that the county is in danger of losing much of its greatest source of road-building revenue, the Board of County Supervisors is laying plans to prevent legislation that would reduce | the present $70,000 annual gasoline tax payment to between $12,000 and $14,000, Appearing at a meeting of the board yesterday, Reid explained that it was only through strategy that the county retained this revenue at the last meet- ing of the Legislature and that the danger is still so apparent as to require every resource at the command of county officials to combat it. Arlington County, Reid explained, is now receiving $70,000 annually from the tasohne tax. This money is reappor- loned to the county by the State in {n‘opflrtion to the State taxes paid by he county, Arlington recsiving a large share, which soon may reach $150,000 annually because of its population and Tesources. At the last meeting of the Legislature there were two measures introduced, both calling for a new methof of m\ppomonlns the = countles’ share of the tax. One bill set the distribu- tlon in accordance with area alone, and the other referred to area, population and road mileage. Under the former plan, Arlington County, the smallest in the State, would receive but $12,000 annually and under the latter would receive only $14,000. Determined that neither measure should pass, Reid combined with the representatives from metropolitan sec- tions, which could not profit by the plan, and succeeded in having both measures defeated by making sure that neither was withdrawn in favor of the other. Had but one of the measures been allowed to stay it would have passed, Reld told the supervisors. The strategy by which Arlington County retained its present fund is n 0. THURSDAY, Citizens Retire Armed After Six Stores Are Robbed Special Bispatch to Tne Star. STAUNTON, Vi —Residents of slept with their s! last night. as a result of several robberies, committed between midnight, Tuesday and 4 am. Six business houses were en- tered. The pharmacy operated by O..P. Bussey, Herbaugh's general store, the post office, the N. and W. station and store of J. I. Moore were entered. Mr. Mrs, J. I. Moore heard an automobile, and noise in their store. As quickly as possible Mr. Moore fired several times from his window, but the machine was well under way, and he could not 8ee in the dark. Vi little money was taken, the store losing about $20. now known, he explained, and repre- sentatives from the rural districts of the State are prepann,] a bill that i3 to be introduced at the next Legis- lll’gare.' which convenes in February, “This question,” Reid declared, “is more important to the county than the danger of losing Potomac Yards to Alexandria in the annexation proceed- ings, for it is but a question of a short time until the revenue lost by annexa- tion of the railroad yards by Alex- andria would be but a drop in the bucket to the loss under the proposed gasoline tax change plans.” The supervisors announced that they will appoint a committee of county officials to devise means with which to prevent the passage of a bill that would be of such detriment to the couneg‘ Under the present plan the State collects a B8-cent tax on each gallon of gasoline sold within the State, then rn})portlons 1%, cents to the county for the purpose of building county roads, the balance being uses in the construction of State roads. 114 TO GET PAROLES. Federal Beard Recommends Many for Release. The Federsl Parole Board recom- mended 84 prisoners in the Atlanta Penitentiary for parole after its January meeting. At the Chillicothe Reformatory recommendations for parole were made 30 cases. The department did not announce the names of any of the prisoners who applied for parole. JANUARY 31, 1929. ™ DRY OFFICER IS FINED. Reckless Driving and Speeding Charged to Colored Man. Speclal Dispatch to The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md, January 31— On charges of reckless driving and ex- ceeding the speed limit, Eugene Jack- son, colored prohibition officer, was fined $33 yesterday by Judge Chew Sheriff in the County Police Court here. Judge Sheriff dismissed charges of assault with intent to kill and extinguishing his lights to avoid identification and arrest, while four other minor trafic charges were with- drawn by Chief of Police Carl M. Blan- chard of Hyattsville. Two charges of passing a stop sf in Hyattsville against Jackson were to be heard today by Jus- tice of the Peace Herbert J. Moffat. It was charged by police that Jackson failed to observe a stop sign in Hy- attsville a week ago, and when Town Bailif W. C. Proctor stepped out into the street and blew his whistle for Jackson to stop, the latter turned his car against Proctor and after forcing him onto the sidewalk turned out his lights and away, it was said. Chief of Police Blanchard and Town Balliff R. T. Read, who were seated in a car back of the stop sign, gave chase. CONSENT TO PAY $1,000. Virginia Defendants in Suit for Damages Lose Case. Bessie I. Beattie, Clarendon, Va., and Robert W. Wood of Vienna, Va., today consented to a verdict for $1,000 dam- ages against them by a jury in Circuit Division 2 of the District Supreme Court before Justice Hitz. The verdict was rendered in favor of Norman Jelly on behalf of his 7-year- and |old daughter, Isabella, who was m:k by the Beattie automobile, driven by ‘Wood, as she was returning from school along the Blngham road in Virginia January 25, 1928. Attorneys Vandoren, Rafferty & Rogers and William E. Furey appeared for the plaintiff. The defendants were represented by Attor- neys Swingle & Swingle. ‘Woman Hurt Fleeing Fife. In an effort to hurry from her burn- ing home at 522 First street early last evening, Amanda Lancaster, colored, fell on the stairway and received a severe injury to her left leg. She was taken to Casualty Hospital by the police g;:n :«erve and treated by D:. Louis Origin of the fire was not determined, according to the police. s Pierce-Arrow seizes “the psychological moment” With a new fine car—a straight eight—that has size without bulk, and beauty rather than tonnage! 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