Evening Star Newspaper, February 9, 1929, Page 7

BUTLER ACCUSED OF FALSIFICATION Baetjer Says Convicted Road Official Sought to “Frame” Mackall. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, February 9.—Thomas | A. Butler, convicted purchasing agent, yesterday was charged with falsifying a bill in an effort to “frame” John N. Mackall, former chairman of the State Roads Commission, to save himself from prosecution, when he took the stand to testify before the governor's committee investigating the $376,000 road shortage scandal. The accusation was made by Edwin G. Baetjer, counsel to the committee. The committee room of the governor’s office here where the hearings are being held was in an uproar as the two shouted at each other. Plans Perjury Charge. Butler, seated in the witness chair in his prison uniform, finally raised himself to blurt out: “I am being accused of a number of things which I cannot fight and I ex- pected this of you, Mr. Baetjer. I am a convict now, serving my time, but before I get through and when I get out I am going to show and prove that John N. Mackall perjured himself.” The charges grew out of Butler’s tes- timony that Mackall had ordered him to pay Southern Maryland Society bills out of State road funds. Baetjer contended Mackall had the bills paid out of road funds, but in- tended the Southern Maryland Soclety should reimburse the commission. Before the argument between the two began, Butler had laid charges of ex- travagance, negligence and carelessness against Mackall for the purchase of automobiles during his regime. Bill for Road Fete. ‘The bill in question when Baetjer Mmade his charges was for $150 billed by the Chesapeake & Potomac Tele- rhflne Co. against the Southern Mary- land Soclety for expenses in connection with the Crane highway opening cele- bration, and sent to the State Roads Commission for payment. Butler told the committee that 12 passenger automobiles were owned and used by the State Roads Commission before John N. Mackall became chief engineer and chairman and 75 were being used in January, 1928. The committee announced that W. Hampton Magruder, an attorney of Prince Georges County, would appear before the committee on Monday as well as J. A. Wilmer, delegate from Charles County. HUNDREDS JOIN RUSH FOR GIFT RAILROAD Housewives, Preachers, Actresses and Even Hoboes Ask Chance to Show Operation Abilities. ped, | Gaithersburg, and Miss Edna Tarlton, to any one who would operate it, have found the wu;h—y is full of potential railroad op- erators, _ | Hopes to Be Able to Go Back | ‘Lyon Villager Able to Walk | Miles Daily Seven Months After Dive. to Work Soon Despite | Handicap. ! Special Dispatch to The Star. LYON VILLAGE, Va., February 9.— Distinguished by the fact that he is one of few people who have even partially recovered from the effects of a broken neck, O. W Kendall, 106 Virginia ave- nue, 'is regaining the entire use of his limbs by walking several miles daily. He expects to return to work in about a month. Kendall, a former display manager for a large Washington clothing store, fell and broke a vertebrae in his neck while preparing to dive from a wharf at a’ Maryland Summer resort last Au- gust 19. As a result of the fall he was taken to | the Emergency Hospital at Annapolis and found to be paralyzed from the lower jaw to his feet. After a month in the Annapolis institution he was brought to Garfleld Hospital in Wash- ington, where he remained for nine weeks. At the end of that time he had suf- ficiently recovered to masticate his own food and smoke a cigarette, and was removed to his home. His income cut off and faced with the problem of meeting the payments on the home occupied by him, his mother and invalid father, Kendall started efforts to walk as soon as he regained the partial use of his right side. That was two months ago, and now he takes his daily walks, despite :hzeedhct that his left side is still para- lyzed. CONFERENCE DEBATES EDUCATION QUESTION Wgyl of Increasing Efficiency in Vocational Training Discussed. Meeting Closes Today. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, February 9.—Ways of increasing efficiency in vocational edu- cation are being discussed at a two-day State conference which opened here yesterday. Correlation of plans, study and super- vision were discussed by Paul Frank, P. S. Flegal, H. Stanton and L. E. Taylor. Donald Watkins reported on the revised project book. Practical work was discussed by E. C. Baity, H. M. Dent, E. M. Hill, G. H. Elmer, T. C. Martin, F. Fuller and W. . Methods in plant produc- tion were explained by Charles Rems- berg. Miss Elizabeth Amery discussed home vocational work. Speakers at today’s session include M. M. Stewart, State Farm Bureau; Miss Edna B. McNaughton, University of Maryland; Miss Maude V. Broome, Western Maryland College. 0 R TR ST. LOUIS CHURCHMAN UNDECIDED ON OFFER Dean Scarlett Delays Decision on Accepting Pennsylvania Dio- cese Invitation. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, February 9.—The Dr. William J. Scarlef Dean Scarlett told the churchmen he ‘would go to Philadelphia probably with- in a week to get information directly. p m] oked Special Notice to Our ~ Friends and Customers wi THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1929, " RECOVERING FROM BROKEN NECK MAN HIKES TO DEFEAT PARALYSIS O. W. KENDALL. MONTANA’S COPPER AGAIN AT WAR LEVEL Mines Operating Close to Capacity and Wages Near Peak—15,000 Workers Employed. By the Associated Press. BUTTE, Mont., February 9.—Lacking only the glamour of gold-rush days, Montana's mines, with copper again selling at pre-war level, again are justi- fying its claim to be “the treasure State.” For the first time since the post-war depression Montana copper properties are operating close to capac- ity, miners are in demand and wages at or near the peak. Miners of the Anaconda Copper Min- ing Co. and other concerns at Butte, with corelated industries scattered over the State, have been rapidly restored to production during recent months. Eleven thousand miners in Butte, 3,000 smeltermen at Anaconda and 1,500 more at Great Falls now are at work under wage scales increased twice with- in the last five months. Aside from its mines, the Anaconda Co. operates plants at Anaconda pro- ducing 420 tons of copper anodes daily, 10,000,000 pounds of refined zinc a month, together with quantities of ar- senic, trebled superphosphate and sul- phuric acid. ‘The plants at Great Falls have a capacity of 27,000,000 pounds of refined copper a month and 20,000,000 pounds of electrolytic zinc. At the rod and wire mill 20,000,000 pounds of copper can be rolled into rods and drawn into wire every 30 days. DE VALERA IN JAIL. BELFAST, Northern Ireiand, Feb- ruary 9 (#).—Eamonn de Valera last Rev. | night began serving a sentence of one month’s imprisonment after his con- t | viction on a charge of violating the civil authorities act forbidding his entry into Northern Ireland territory. At the conclusion of the evidence re- garding the Republican leader’s arrest on Tuesday at the Ulster border Pat- rick J. O'Donoghue,. the presiding magistrate, gave De Valera an oppor- tunity to speak in his own defense. The defendant, who had been taken off the Dublin train at Newry while en “I cannot decide until I have k over the fleld first hand,” he sal Dean Scarlett came to New Yorl from St. Louis to meet the committee. route to Belfast to open a Gaelic bazaar, replied in Gaelic, GLEBE ROAD SEEN AS DETOUR LINK |Early Paving Would Avoid Bad Stretch During Lee Highway Work. BY LESTER N. INSKEEP, Staft Correspondent of The Star. | CLARENDON, Va., February 9.—The | | decision of the Virginia State High\ay | | Commission to expend $40,000 this yess | on Glebe road will, if it is done first, | provide an entirely hard surfaced de- tour while the Lee Highway widening is under way, it was pointed out today | by persons familiar with the county road problems. | It will be necessary, while the Lee |Highway work is under way, to reroute the heavy Wilson boulevard traffic through Clarendon over the Wilson boulevard and would have been neces- sary, had the original allocation for the Lee Highway been allowed to stand, to detour traffic through Ballston, and then over the rough gravel road used 1ast Summer during repairs to the Lee Highway. With the $40,000 taken from the $100,000 originally allocated to the Lee Highway there remains just about enough money to complete the Lee Highway to Glebe road, thereby bring- ing the rerouted traffic back into the main highway without the use of the rough road into Falls Church. While it was sald that the Highway Commission intended only to pave Glebe road from the Lee Highway to Ballston, members of the Glebewood Citizens’ Association, under the leader- ship of Robert T. Foreman, chairman, expect to urge that a type of hard sur- faced road be constructed that will reach from the Lee Highway to Colum- bia pike, it was announced last night. If the commission insists upon the use of concrete, Foreman said, there can be but a mile and a quarter of road built on the Glebe road route, this type of road costing $30,000 a mile. While the $40,000 would take care of one end of the road the cost would be so high that the options obtained by the association for widening, and which are donated by the property own- ers on both sides of the road, making it a 50-foot instead of a 30-foot high- way, will expire before funds are avail- able for a continuance of the project. FULL SELF-GOVERNMENT FOR PHILIPPINES SEEN Prediction Is Made by Stimson in His Farewell Speech to In- sular Legislature. By the Assoclated Press. MANILA, February 9.—Gov. Gen. Henry M. Stimson, in his farewell speech | to the insular Legislature today, pre- dicted that the Philippines eventually | would have “full self-government.” Stimson will leave soon for the United States, where he is expected to have a place in Hoover's cabinet, possibly that of Secretary of State. The governor general did not explain whether by “full self-government” he meant m%efiendence or government en- tirely by Filipinos. He said that if the executive branch efficiently performed its duties and if the legislature branch did not attempt tc encroach upon the powers of the executive he could foresee the islands following a course to full sels!-glwen'xmel"\:e.(l timson pral Manuel Quezon, pres- ident of thé Senate, and the governor- general’s cabinet for loyalty and aid to the government. He thanked the - lature for its co-cperation. U. 8. Tourists Reach Brazil. RIO DE JANEIRO, February 9 (£).— The arrival of 500 tourists” on two steamships New York to take part in the carnival yesterday crowded the capital city, for already hundreds of Brazilians, coming by train and steam- er from various parts of the country, as well as delegations from Argentina, Uruguay and Chile, have arrived. Some of the gayety in the frolic, which com- mences tomorrow night, may be damp- ened by the restriction of “perfume throwers.” CHERRYDALE CITIZENS PROTEST AGAINST ERECTION OF ABATTOIR R. E. Mann Urges Delay at Least Until Arlington County Can Be * Effectively Zoned. Special Dispatch to The Star. CHERRYDALE, Va., February 9.— By a unanimous vote the Cherrydale Citizens' Association last night passed a resolution against the establishment of an abattoir in the county by the N. Auth Provision Co. Preceding the vote the secretary, R. E. Mann, read a letter from Frank G. Campbell, chairman of a special pro- | test_committee against the abattoir, in | which he stated that the proposed plant, | which would be located on Columbia Pike near Relee Station, would be a | menace to the residents of Arlington | Ridge, Oakcrest, Aurora Hills and other sections of Jefferson district, and re- | questing that the Cherrydale organiza- | tion combine with them in the fight| against it. Mann stated that if he had no other objection to the plant he would oppose - eLw emeorary schooL |y INTY 10 STUDY | its erection until after the county had been zoned. ‘The association indorsed the drafting of a letter to the Cherrydale Volunteer Fire Department assuring that organ- ization of the support of the civic or- ganization in its fight to have the gasoline and oil bills of all county apparatus paid from the special fire protection levy. | Mann described to the association his | visit to the State road allocation hear- ings at Charlottesville in behalf of Lee Highway, which runs through Cherry- dale. While he was somewhat disap- pointed at the action of the Virginia State Highway Commission in allocat- ing $40,000 of the $100,000 fund to Glebe road, he said, he appreciated the need of the Glebe road project and only hoped that the remaining $60,000 would be sufficient to carry the widening of the Lee Highway to its intersection with Glebe road. TOWNS SEEK NEW LAW ON FINE DISTRIBUTION Hyattsville, Capitol Heights and Riverdale to Ask for Larger Share. Special Dispatch to The Star. CAPITOL HEIGHTS, Md., February 9.—The mayor and town council has lined up with the governing bodies ofi Hyattsville and Riverdale in a move- ment to have the Legislature amend the county police force law so that all the fines imposed for violations of town ordinances go to the town instead of half going to the county. In Hyatts- ville it has been pointed out that the town will lose $500 this year because of this law. The county commissioners, however, state they have never collected money from the towns under this law and have no intention of doing so. D. C. MAN HELD. William W. Keeler Charged With Transporting Liquor. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, February 9.—William ‘W. Keeler of Washington was held for court after a hearing yesterday before United States Commissioner J. Frank Supplee on charges of transporting champagne through Baltimore. Commissioner Supplee dismissed Mrs. Julia Tilton, 24 years old, who gave her address as Washin . Mrs. Tilton was arrested with Keeler when two special dry agents from the District of Columbia said they found their car laden with six cases of champagne. e — Appointed Church Trustee. Special Dispatch to The Star. FAIRFAX, Va. February 9.—A. H. Hoiland has been appointed by Judge Howard B. Smith as trustee of Cross- man M. E. Church, at Fall Church, in place of J. 8. Cooley, who has moved from the State. PR e Marriage Licenses Issued. Speclal Dispatch to The Star. FAIRFAX, Va, February 9.—The clerk of the court has this week issued marriage licenses to Samuel E. Ecker of Ellicott City, Md., and Miss Helen E. of Jessups, Md; also to James Woodall and Miss Virginia Meekins of 0 Baltimore. We wish to announce that although a disastrous fire occurred in our Furniture warehouse, at North Capitol and Pierce sts. n.w., last evening, our customers will not suffer or be inconvenienced by the blaze. Through co- operation with our furniture manufacturers carload ship- ments of new merchandise are already on the way, and 1l arrive in a few days. Our announcements in tomorrow’s papers will carry hosts of values from our great February Furniture Sale and we assure our public that the usual HUB 1009, MISSING GIRL’S AUNT RELEASED ON BOND Mrs. Hattie White Freed on $1,000 Bond From Upper Marl- boro Jail. Special Dispatch to The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., February 9.—Mrs. Hattle White of Queen Anne County, Md., aunt of Miss Viola Quinn, missing Upper Marlboro high school girl, who has been lodged in the jail here since last Saturday on a charge of conspiracy, was yesterday released on $1,000 for further hearing before Jus- tice of the Peace H. W. Gore. The bond was furnished by Elmer Pumphrey. Although no material developments in the case were announced yesterday, it is known the State’s attorney’s office and Prince Georges County police are running down clues that may disclose what has happened to her. One of these took them to Baltimore last night to investigate “a tip” that the girl was living there under the name of Pearl Quinn. No trace of her was found, however. Commission Selects Jurors. Special Dispatch to The Star. FAIRFAX, Va., February 9.—Benja- min B. Iden, A. D. Kirby, Benjamin Nevitt, Hassell Leigh and Thomas P. Chapman, sr., recently appointed by Judge Howard Smith as jury commis- sloners for Fairfax County for the year beginning February 1, 1929, l\ehfe a meeting in the "boardroom at the courthouse yesterday to select 300 names from the voting list for jury service during the coming year. D Oppo;el ‘Weakening of Code. LANSING, Mich., February 9 (#).— Members of the Michigan State Farm Bureau yesterday went on record as opposed to removal of dry law viola- tions from the category of offenses punishable by life imprisonment. In the face of State administration sup- port of an amendment to the criminal code removing liquor offenses from cl t as felonies, the farmers adopted ‘a resolution in their annual Six-Room Structure to Replace Burned Centerville Building. Special Dispatch to The Star. i STAUNTON, Va., February 9.—A six-room temporary structure will be erected at once, the school officials forecast of the Centerville High School, which was burned to the ground early ‘Wednesday morning. The loss is estimated at $20,000, of which insurance covers $11,000. There was $10,000 on the building, and $1,000 on the equipment. OLDEST WOMAN 6.0.P. VOTER, 100, EXPIRES Mrs. Mary E. Brown Recently Received Note of Thanks From Hoover for Ballot. Special Dispatch to The Star. BARNESVILLE, Md., February 9.— Mrs. Mary E. Brown, believed to be the oldest person in Montgomery County, died last night at her home here. On October 29 she celebrated the one hun- dreth anniversary of her birth. Until a few months ago she was in excellent health, attending to her house- hold duties, mingling with her neigh- bors and taking a lively interest in cur- rent events. She was a lifelong Republican and is believed to have been the oldest woman in the United States to cast her vote for President-elect Hoover last November. When Mr. Hoover was apprised of the fact a few days ago he sent her an autographed photograph of himself and a note of appreciation and respect. Mrs. Brown was the widow of John W. Brown and was a lifelong resident of the Barnesville neighborhood. She is survived by a daughter, Miss Sallie E. Brown of Barnesville, and was the grandmother of Mrs. Mary E. Peddicord Hatton D. Brown of Barnesville. ‘The funeral will take place at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow afternocon from the home, burial to be in Monocacy Ceme- tery, at Beallsville. Mrs. Brown was a member of the Episcopal Church and until a few years ago was active in re- ligious work. VIRGINIAN GETS YEAR FOR FIRING AT OFFICERS Man Whose Bullet Went Through Deputy’s Collar Con- victed in Fairfax. Special Dispatch to The Star. FAIRFAX, Va. February 9.—Cass Brooks, who pleaded guilty to a charge of firing at an officers, was tried yester- day before Justice of the Peace Charles Zell, at Fairfax, and sentenced to one year in the penitentiary. Brooks last Saturday night jumped from the second- story window of his home, on the Hunters Mill road, near Oakton, when Sheriff E. P. Kirby and Deputies Wilson Darr and W. A. Wheeler started to en- ter the building with a search warrant after having been refused entrance by Brooks’ sister. Brooks fired at the of- ficers, one shot piercing Darr's coat collar. St DroUED: against . O St | age suit brougl . C. of Franconia. by the parents of Forrest Dodd, 10-year-old boy, who died several months ago as a result of a traffic ac- cident on the way to school in Alexan- dria. The car was driven by Woodrow Wilson Smith, 14 years old. The jury dismissed the suit at the cost of the plaintiff. $125,000 Blaze in Richmond. RICHMOND, Va., February 9 (P).— | Fire late last night caused damage esti- mated at $125,000 to the Columbia Pur- niture Co., Inc.,, and the Willlam Bell Restaurant. occup; build- convention urging that nothing be done to “weaken the criminal code.” of Howard County and William C. and | g CEHETERY LAY Commission to Reconsider Montgomery Ordinance at Tuesday Session. BY WILLIAM J. WHEATLEY. Staft Correspondent of The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., February 9.—Re- consideration will be given on Tuesday by the Montgomery County Commis- sioners to the ordinance recently ap- proved by them governing the location of cemeteries in Montgomery County, according to County Commissioner Lacey Shaw of the Silver Spring dis- trict. The proposed ordinance is a re- sult of an application received for the location of a burying ground adjacent to the Congressional Country Club, <nd is designed to govern the location of | such so as to protect the public health and safety. While it is not believed that any drastic changes will be made in the ordinance as at present written, some of the language may be changed to guard against successful legal attacks. The measure provides that no cem- eteries shall be located in the county without a permit from the commis- sloners, and that the application shall name all of the persons seeking the permit, and give a description of the land. Public hearings must be had be- fore a permit can be granted, and a “elel;‘u fee of $25 annually must be paid. No such burying ground may be located to allow drainage into any res- ervoir, well, spring or stream used for rinking purposes by human beings, or which might endanger the safety and health of residents. It may not be located within 500 yards of any school, hospital, sanitarium or orphan asylum, or established at any place where with- in a radius of 500 yards of its outside boundary there are more than 100 per- mere” i 1 ere the proposed location is be- lieved to endanger the public health, the ordinance provides that it shall be the duty of the commissioners to refuse a permit. Any permit issued may be revoked at any time that the property is considered dangerous to the public health or upon failure to pay the annual license fee. Violations are pun- ishabe as a misdemeanor, the fine to be not more than $100 or 30 days in jail, and the ordinance will take effect one month after its adoption. —— HOOVER VOTER GIVES DEMOCRATS $1,000 Californian Tells Smith Strong Party Is Needed Against Machi- nations of Teapot Dome Group. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 9.—A for $1,000 from a Californian w'l::l;ec: adjoining ings in Richmond's retail district. BEFORE YOU INVEST —INVESTIGATE Tt costs nothing to be cautious. In matters of investment, particularly, is it well for the uninformed to get the facts first, The financial fraud and the wild gamble alike masquerade as safe, conservative investment. In securities it is not difficult to uncover the wolf in sheep’s clothing. The facts obtain- able by a sound, impartial investigation are practically the only protection against loss to the prospective purchaser of stocks or bonds or live sto ck or other securities. . The Better Business Bureau goes further than saying, “Before You Invest—Investigate.” The Bureau aids you to get the facts and to analyze them properly. No charge is made for this service, our organization being supported by the busi- ness institutions of Washington for the mutual protection of the public and of le gitimate industry. Remember, it rarely does good to “lock the stable door after the horse is stolen.” Investigate First! service will prevail uninterrupted. The: wpiblication ‘ot thie: ‘aus nouncement in these columns is evidence that this newspaper co- operates with and supports the Better Busines Bureau for your protection. . We also take this opportunity to thank the Fire De- partment and others who so ably assisted in minimizing our loss. The Better Business Bureau of Washington 336 Evening Star Building Telephone Main 8164 Seventh and D Streets Northwest FURNITURE CO.