Evening Star Newspaper, February 9, 1929, Page 6

F ROADSFUND AUDT " ELOSELY STUDED Members of Grand Inguest Go Over Report During Recess of Probe. By a Staft Correspondent of The Star. STATE HOUSE, ANNAPOLIS, Md., Pebruary 9.—While the grand inquest of Maryland, consisting of members of the Senate and House of Delegates, which is inquiring into the State Road Com- mission scandals, has adjourned over until Tuesday, when it will meet here dgain, the members are active in study- ing the report of the Baltimore audit- ing firm, which examined the commis- sion's books. Subcommittees are instituting their investigations into the surplus war ma- terial given to the State, expressly for nse in the improvement of roads. Dele- gate Daniel C. Joseph of Baltimore, and Senator Lansdale G. Sasscer of Upper Marlboro announced that they ex- pected to go to Washington tomorrow for a conference with Department of ‘Agriculture officials with a view to de- termining the value of material, trucks and tractors turned over to the State of Maryland. Joseph, chairman of the subcom- mittee, let it be known that he would obtain the aid of detectives to find ‘where certain of this property went. Names of contractors have been men- tioned who were said to have obtained some of this material at little or nothing. . Study of the audit report is prepara- tory to the appearance on Tuesday be- fore the committee of C. C. Croggan of the auditing firm. The committee also 1s expected to have for its information next week the report of the present State Roads Commisison on State ex- penditures made in connection with celebrations at road openings. partie- ‘ularly that held in October, 1927, at the bpening of the Crain highway. Joseph, in an address in the House Thursday, demanded of Attorney Gen- | eral Robinson that he immediately in- stitute suits against the banks that rashed forged checks amounting to al- fmost $300,000, by which the State was defrauded. efra: Delegats Josepn . Wikmer of Faukner o s floor leader, would make it datory that all members of the &‘Ze Roads Commission inspect the State roads system, and providing jes for the associate members of a year. For the mem. salaries of $2,500 each would be ided. . The legality of the clothing of the rvemar‘u commission, known alse as he Nelligan committee, with powers to sybpoena witnesses and to punish any fail to apepar, refuse to testify, or commit perjury in their testimony upheld yesterday in an opinion by Attorney General Thomas H. Robinson. BROTHERS RECAPTURED DAY AFTER JAIL BREAK Milijah and Roger Lovett, Caught in Washington, Are Taken Back to Leesburg. of Court of Apj Jury Acquits Girl Despite Failure to Offer Defense By the Assoclated Press. ROANOKE, Va., February 9.— A precedent for the unexpected in verdicts b;u established ?hl: yes~ a jury trying case 1 with disorderly terday of a girl charged conduct. The defendant had been fined $50 in Police Court and appealed. She was not in court and was not represented by counsel, nor, so far as could be discerned, by friends or_kin. No evidence was introduced in her behalf and there was no one to cross-examine witnesses of the Commonwealth. The charge was not denfed. ‘Within flve minutes the jury returned the verdict. “Not guilty,” said the foreman. MOXLEY PLANS DRIVE ON DISTRICT TAGS Will Seek Arrest of Those Using Capital Employers’ Cars for Selves. Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., February 9,—Chief of Police Alvié A. Moxley today an- nounced a drive against persons living in the county, and employed by resi- dents of the District of Columbia, who operate in motor vehicles in Maryland belonging to their employers, both on business for their employers during business hours and for their own pur- poses at other times, without Maryland registration or Maryland license tags. Chief Moxley's announcement followed a conference here with State’s Attorney Robert Peter, jr. He would not indicate just when he proposes to start the campaign further than to intimate that it would be *“soon.” State’s Attorney Peter several days ago took the matter up with Attorney General Thomas H. Robinson and in an opinion received by the prosecuting attorney the attorney general holds that in cases referred to the employes use the vehicles not only on the busi~ ness of their employers, b% for their own business and pleasure to the same extent as if they had bought and paid for them and are practically the perma- nent and exclusive owners. “The term ‘owner,’” states the opin- fon, “includes any person having the exclusive use of the motor vehicle. The peals has held that this definition does not include a person hir- ing an automobile for a few hours or ROCKVILLE. ROCKVILLE, Md., February 9 (8) R0AD BOND ISSLE PLANIS STUDE Prince Georges Commission Gets Petitions for Allocation of 1928 Taxes. BY GEORGE PORTER. priated by cial) —Norman Cecil, 33 years old, died at the home of his mother, Mrs. Julia M. Cecil, at Clarksburg, Thurs- day . He was unmarried, and besides his mother is survived by six sisters and five brothers. The funeral sceercv‘llcei hv‘v:re held at L:;nh:‘mie .Z'r“ M"i mom!n(, a Hyattstown. Howard M. Starli the safety department Automobile Association, delivered an address at the February meeting of the Montgomery County Automobile Deal- ers’ Association, held at the Montgom- ery Country Club, Rockville. In the abse ing, manager of of the American legisla mittee, temmd the status of legisla- tion : of interest -to the. automobile trade before the Legislature. Announcement has been made that the annual convention of the farm- ers of Montgomery County will be in the High School auditorium at dy Spring next Saturday. Morn- and afternoon sessions will be held, ith lunch at noon by women : served of the neighborhood, and R. W. Dun- .| 1ap, Assistant Secretary of Agricul and Dr. E. M. Cory of the Univer: dresses. ALEXANDRIA. ) =Srhe Biate Highway Commi — way nounced yesterday that the tentative allocation of $80,000 for widening River Toad between this and Washing- an important and heavily traversed of the Richmond-Washington high- mA has been made t. Funds be available July 1 and work will start she after that date. ulders three or four feet wide will placed on each side of the road while r];resem. roadway probably will be aced. Milton Burke, local electrician, nar- afternoon when a truck he was driving for J. Kent White, electrical contractor, iwas demolished wheri struck by an car of the Washington, Alexan- @ria & Mount Vernon Railway Co. at WNorth Braddock Station. ‘The body of Owen I. Morris, 27 years @ld. who died yesterday at his residence, 731 South Fairfax sireet, was sent to | Pront Royal, Va., his former home, today for burial. Mr. Morris was a trainer. His father, Joseph | ris; two_sisters, Mrs. Josie Henry nd Miss Pauline Morris, and two brothers, Henry J: and William M.| , survive. A mo picture of President-elect Hoover's recent South American trip was shown last night at a meeting of the Alexandria City Republican Club in the George Mason Hotel. Final rites for Mrs. Evelyn G. Ben- hett, who died Thursday, were held | morning in St. Mary's Catholic | urch. Interment was in St. Mary's Cemetery. Alexandria-Washington Lodge ns, No. 22, will hold its annual day celebration February 22 in Armory Hall with a banguet. The prin- speaker will be Senator Robinson Indiana. C. Aubrey Callahan, wor- of of Maryland are scheduled for the principal ad¢ At a meeting at the home of Mrs. Edwin Smith, the Circle of King's Daughters elected these officers: Leader, Mrs. Wi L.|Mildred Franklin, Mary . | Rachel Helferstay, Christine gomery County American Legion - which comprises the posts af Sandy Spring, Kensington SY’ , will be held in the Rockville High School auditorium Tues- % , with the Henderson-Smith- t of Rockville host. Rev. 8. J. Goode, pastor, has an- nounced that he will deliver an ex- pository sermon in the Rockville Chris- tian Chureh tomorrow morning on the riches of eternity. “The Millennium, the Golden Age of the Earth” will be the subject of ;lan sermon of ul‘hz tlx::‘wor. R:;“ Bennn: Church, tomorrow morning. HELD ON AUTO CHARGES. Woman Fined, Another Forfeits Bail in County. Special Dispatch to The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., February 9—Ruth Hooker of Greater Capitol Heights, Md., forfeited $10 collateral in the Marlboro branch of Prince QGeorges County Police Court for operating a motor vehicle without a license today. Mrs. Frances Scott of Forestville was fined $26 and costs by Judge J. Chew Sheriff for having fictitious tags and {no Maryland registration card. ture, | the Glass Hig] Staff Correspondent of The Siar. UPPER 0, Md, 9.—Anxious to secure for their ewn communities part of the $134,000 which has been allotted Prince Georges County for road construction this year, citizens from all sections bave within the last few days been filing petitions with James C: Blackwell, clerk to the county commissioners. Dum the next month the county ers will decide which roads they will recommend for extension or improvement. Consideration is being given to a proposal to float a bond issue, build all the roads needed and pay for them out of yearly allotment. Twe Views Presented. ‘Those advocating this plan point out the desirability of having the roads made immediately available. Opponents of the suggestion contend that the in- terest and other expenses involved in a bond issue would make the roads even- tually cost about twice as much as they would if built year by year. Among the requests for roads already filed are ones for the conversion of the county road connecting the Crain High- way and Croome into a State highway, the extension of Central avenue from the Southern Maryland Pike to Fort Foote by way of Oxon Hill, from Ritchie to the Marlboro Pike and from River- dale and Berwyn to the Defense High- way. Will Report in March. 1t has been announced that the com- missioners intend to recommend con- crete roads in the heavily traveled dis- tricts and gravel roads in rural sections. The commissioners are to make their road recommendations earlier this yaer than last, it being planned for them to ED:{: r& the State Roads Commission sum available is $22,000 more that the county match the funds appro- the State for road construc- tion, and $60.000 in bonds was issued annually for this purpose. EEOEb ST MARYLAND BAN SOUGHT ON 2-TERM GOVERNORS Coad Bill Would Prevent Executive Succeeding Self After 1930. By & Staff Correspondent of The Star. Md., against any r . of land succeeding himself contained in a bill just introduced in the Senate by Senator Joseph A. Coad, Democrat, of St. Marys County. The measure would not prevemt Gov. Ritchie from seeking another term, as it would have to be submitted to the electorate of the State at the 1930 election, when a new governor also will be elected. The measure would change the wumthn.’ i ik o The of , aceord! the :m to prevent any repetition of the conditionswhich have been dis- closed in the State roads in tion. ‘The St. Marys Senator is an anti-Ritchie man. HEB LN 38 GRADUATE AT GLASS. 14 Boys and 24 Girls Given Diplo- mas in Lynchburg. Special Dispatch to The Star. SURG, Vs., Pebnuryun.— LYNCHB! Fourteen bonhlnd 24 girls graduated at erno! is of the first semester. They are: John Adams, Abe Amowitz, Douglas Bryant, Pred Clark, Conner Foster, Gibsan, Archer Jefferson, Braxton it, Leslie McDonald, John Mosby, Robert Moss, Breckinridge Stovall, Frank Van Lear, Edward Wright, Mabel Louise Atkinson, Martha Clark, Gladys Coffee, Rose Fourqueran, Hamilton, Johnson, Betty Kabler, Jacqueline Lee, Lue Mas- ste, w, Frances McGehee, McLennon, Margaret Mitchell, Erlma Morris, Louise Martha Partlow, Mary Rucker, Katheryn Steppe and Declines Anti-Smith Post. DANVILLE, Va., February 9.—Dr. S. E. Hughes of this city, who was ap- pointed chairman of the fifth distric committee by the anti-Smith erganiza- tion at its Lynchburg meeting, has de- clined the appointment. He said he was molnted Wwithout his know] , and not desire to become fi T in- volved in politics. ENTERPRISE SERIAL BUILDING ASSOCIATION 7th St. & La. Ave. N, W. 6ist Xssue of Stock Now Open for Subscription Money Loaned to Members on Easy Monthly Payments Y R From Elevator Man to School here at the end | Fed i chestnut trees, | each of the 13 colonies. Tree surgeons have succeeded in keeping alive the last of 13 spreading horse planted by George Washinglon at Fredericksburg, Va., one for The seedlings were placed in the ground with due ceremony by the Father of His Country, but one by one all died with the exception of ome. rowed through the heart of the survivor, but the hole was filled with concrete and the tree is expected to live for a few years longer. Ants bur- —TUnderwood & Underwood. | | MONTGOMERY JAIL IS HIT IN REPORT| State Welfare Board Praises Prince/ Georges Institution—Fred- erick Assailed, Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, February 9.—Women sleeping on floors, rats, vermin, leaky roofs and many other deplorable con- | ditions are mentioned in the report of the State welfare board on the condi- tion of the county jalls of the State, Just issued. | ‘The jails so classified are in Mont- ery, Wicomico, Caroline, Frederick, ward, Charles, Kent, Washington and Cecil Counties. ‘The praised as good those of Prince Georges, Allegany, Worcester, Dorchester and Baltimore Counties. At the Elkton Jail the inspectors found “the prisoners are seldom locked in their cells,” the report says, “but all congregate in the large corridor.” At the Frederick jail, inspectors found “three woman prisoners with only one oot for them to sleep on.” Two of them had slept on the floor without mat~ f.bm the night preceding the inspec- n. “‘One cell in the jail at Ellicott City contained half a dozen half-pint bot- tles, and when asked by inspectors if the prisoners were permitted to bring in liquor, the sheriff replied that he didn’t see them bring it in.” COURT GRANTS CREDIT. CARSON CITY, Nevada (#).—Adap- tion of the installment payment plan to the liquidation of fines assessed in eral court for violation of prohibi- tlon laws is declared a success by Judge Frank H. Norcross of the United States District Court. On the first day of the month deputy marshals sally forth to cdllect the month’s installment. So far n o';uis has geén;‘x‘l,?d and t.he‘Gnvem- n spal ’xim of feedin; those who, for lack of cash, ot.herw!sz would be incarcerated. o= @ Scale of VIRGINIA U. PLANS CLASS IN CLARENDON Mrs. Leome R. Spicer Will Open Course in Social Hygiene Tuesday. Special Dispatch to The Star. CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., February 9.—An extension class for college credit in social hygiene is to be started at Clarendon, Va., Tuesday under the di- rection of the extension division of the University of Virginia. Mrs. Leone Reaves Spicer, who will conduct the course, is the wife of Dr. George W. Spicer, acting professor_of gflmeal science in the university. She a graduate of Columbia University and has been director of home eco- nomics at the College of Willilam and Mary and the Eastern Carolina Teach- ers’ College. At present Mrs. Spicer is connected with both the University of Virginia and William and Mary. In the latter college she holds the position of ine structor in sex and character education. The Clarendon class will be conducted each Tuesday afternoon in the Wash- ington Lee High School. The class is fim organized by Supt. Fletcher Kemp of Rosslyn and Mrs. Ferera Croxton of the Virginia State Department of wiATes AND CLOCK REPAIRIN Clockis Called For +Deivered Sulgrave Manor 5130 Conn. Ave., Chevy Chase, D. C. The Apartment With Personal Appointments THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ©, SATURDAY., FEBRUARY 9, 1929.° WASHINGTON’S TREE SAVED SHENANDOAK PARK - PLAN'IS ASSAILED Group of Landowners Calls Protest Meeting at Luray for February 23. Speclal Dispatch to The Star. LURAY, Va,, February 9.—Active op- position toward the Shenandoah Na- tional’ Park movement as developed through those in charge has arisen in Page County from residents in the area and owners of grazing land, four of whom have constituted themselves as a committee and called a meeting of land- owners for February 23. ‘The meeting, “for the purpose of dis- cussing proposed ' condemnation pro- ceedings and to take proper steps to protect our interests and to obtain just wmz:nn for our land,” follows published articles in a local paper de- nuu;\cinx the taking over of the area for park purposes. ‘The meeting will hinder the park movement in no way, those in charge of the plan believe. ‘Those on the committee are Lewis Willis, one time defeated candidate on the Republican ticket for the House of Delegates; H. Cliser, present deputy-treasurer of Page County; S. H. Spitler and W. H. Keyser, farmers. No opposition has arisen from the small landowner as a whole within the arca. Those owning homes have ex- pressed stheir willingness to sell them with the privilege of leasing them back. Buying of land in this county or condemnation proceedings have not be- n, the officials having established the rst office in Warren County. Y. W. C. A. Club Elects Officers. Special Dispatch to The Star. LYNCHBURG, Va., February 9.—The Industrial Club of the Y. W. elected the following new officers: President, Miss Edith McDonald; vice president, Miss Belle Crowe; secretary, Miss Mary Hunt, and treasurer, Miss Mae Walton. Legion Post Seeks Band. Special Dispatch to The Star. LYNCHBURG, Va., February 9— Lynchburg Post, No. 16, American Legion, has named a committee to seek to bring about the organization of a post band. J. E. Canada and L. K, Bryant are in charge. SAVE MONEY ON STORAGE A L F1RE - PROOF L TORAGE AGENTS ALLIED VAN LINES LONG DISTANCE MOVERS CRATE AND PACK BY EXPERTS 1313 U ST. PHONE NORTH3343 RPN R for FLOWERS @ 1407 H STReeT eMain 3707 C. A. here || MORE BEDS ORDERED FOR BLADENSBURG JAIL County Judge Inspects Town Cells and Finds Accommoda- tions Lacking. Special Dispatch to The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md.,, February 9.—Purchase of additional cots and bedding for the Bladensburg Jail has been recommended by Judge J. Chew Sheriff and will be made within the next few days. The recommendation was made by Judge Sheriff following a personal inspection of the jail this week, during which he found present accommodations inadequate. ‘The Bladensburg institution is owned by the town of Bladensburg and rented by the county, which bears the operat+ ing expenses, such as will be involved in the buying of the bedding recom- mended by Judge Sheriff, J. A. GARBER TO SPEAK AT FIREMEN'S BANQUET Special Dispatch to The Star. ‘WINCHESTER, Va., February 9.— Representative-elect Jacob A. Garber, Harrisonburg, and Rev. Dr. J. J. 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