Evening Star Newspaper, February 15, 1929, Page 11

SUBURB LEE BOULEVARD PAVING PROMISED Shirley Definitely 'Prorr)ises $300,000 Highway to Bridge by 1931. BY LESTER N. INSKEEP. Staff Correspondent of The Star CLARENDON, Va., February 15.—A| 40-foot concrete highwuy on a 200-foot right of way, which will allow for neces- sary widening for many years to come, the Lee boulevard is to be finished from the new Arlington Memorial Bridge to the Lee highway beyond Falls Church before the Federal Government is ready to open the bridge. This was the state= ment made yesterday at the joint meet- ing of the National Capital and Virginia Park and Planning Commisisons and the Virginia State Highway Commis- sion by Col. H. G. Shirley, chairman of the latter commission and its only rep- resentative at the meeting. In a statement made prior to the meeting Col. Shirley intimated that the Lee boulevard would be the first bridge connection constructed by the State, but it was not until the meeting was in progress that he made the promise to the gathering. 'Will Cost $300,000. Col. Shirley made it plain at the be- giennir.g of the meeting that there was to no discussion as to the highway. Yesterday's conference was given over to the d ion of the immediate ap- proaches to the b and to the manner in which the highways would reach the span, & ject of considerable magnitude due to the peculiar gzograph- ical aspect of the Virginia side of the river. The Lee boulevard, the first section of which is to be approximately 10 miles in length, will cost a minimum of $30,000 a mile, bringing the total cost to the State to at least $300,000, with a possi- bility that it may cost ziore. Col. Shir- ley set at vest the fear that the road would not be finished in time by stating that the 10 miles of road can be finis] in 10 months from the starting time. Hope for Clarendon Link. ‘While disappointed that the straight- to-the-bridge route was mnot ap- parently given any immediate consid- eration by the commission, advocates of that project said today that they are still hopeful that the commission may eonstruct the one mile of road necessary to connect Clarendon” with the Lee boulevard. So nearly did Col. Shirley agree with Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, chairman of the National Capital Park ard Plan- ning Commissior, and W. L. Bragg. chairman of the Virginia Park and Planning Commission, regarding the fmmediate bridge approaches, that it was deemed- unnecessary to make a personal survey at this time. It was explained yesterday by Col. Grant that, while he expected that the bridge itself would bz completed by March of 1930 it was not believed pos- sible to have the approaches ready to “urry“a;.rntm: before late in the summer ‘While he did not state just how the new road will be built, Col. Shirley said that the State had learned that road can be constructed more cheaply and just as quickly by convict labor as by contractors. It is not held likely, how- ever, that a prison camp would be es- tablished so near the city. ELIHU ROOT TO SAIL. 84-Year-Old Former Secretary of State on World Court Mission. NEW YORK, February 15 (®).— Elihu Root, who is 84 years old today, will sail for Europe at midnight on the Italian liner Augustus to accept an invitation of the League of Nations to sit with jurists to revise the statute of the World Court. Although mnot acting as a representative of the United States Government he is expected while in Europe to try informally to lay the groundwork for acceptance of the American reservations. At the home of the former Secretary of State it was said he was in_excel- lent health. He planned to spend the | day quietly with his son, Elihu Roof Jr, and his daughter-in-law. License to Wed Given D. C. Girl. FREDERICK, Md., February 15 (Special).—A marriage license was is- sued here yesterday to Russell B. Payne, 18 years old, Purcellville, Va., and Miss Thelma T. Jacobs, 19, of Washington. i THE EVENING Frank Ball. STAR, WASHINGTON D. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1929." OUTLINE PLANS FOR HIGHWAY TO BRIDGE Members of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, the Virginia Park and Planning Commission and the Virginia State Highway Commission who yesterday conferred on approaches to the Arlington Memorial Bridge. Sitting, left to right: Col. U. S. Grant, 3d; Representative R. Walton Moore, Col. H. G. Shirley and Col. Charles! Mortimer. Standing, left to right: Maj. Carey Brown, Charles W. King, W. L. Bragg, Frank G. Campbell and State Senator —Star Staff Photo. ROCKVILLE. ROCKVILLE, Md., February 15 (Spe- cial). — The Dickerson Community Leagde has joined other organizations of the county in advocating authoriza- tion by the Legislature now in session of an additional bond issue for the pro- posed new Rockville courthouse and the purchase of adjoining land for an en- larged site. It was one of the principal matters considered at the February meeting of the organization, and a reso- lution was adopted urging a bond issue of $325,000 to augment funds already available. d The report of the treasurer, Mrs. Mil- ton H. Bancroft, submitted at a meet- ing of the executive board, showed that hed | the Montgomery County Social Service League spent $1,350.82 during January for relief work. Miss Irma E. Mohr, the executive secretary, reported 181 families under care for the month, of which 30 were new. According to Miss Mohr the month was the busiest January in three years, due, she thought, to much ill- ness and increesed unemployment. Th2 Social Service League workers made 361 visits during the month, traveled 3,011 miles and worked overtime every day, including Sundays. It was stated that women in Takoma Park, Chevy Chase, Bethesda and Boyds helped in emer- gencies at the request of the league. Stedman Prescott of the Rockville bar was appointed organization member of the American Association for Or- ganizing Family Social Work, with which the county league is affiliated, and Miss Elizabeth League, one of the workers, was granted permission to at- tend the extension course of the New York School of Social Workers to be held in Baltimore Thursday and Friday of each week from Apeil 4.to May 10. In the monthly school attendance re- port of Edwin W. Broome, county su- perintendent of schools, for January, the school at Kingsley is shown to have made the best record among the one- room schools of the county with an average of 94 per cent; Colesville among the two-room schools, with an_aver- age of 84.5; the East Silver Spring School among the graded schools, its averagz having been 86.3, and the Bethesda-Chevy Chase Scheol among the h schools with an average of 91.8. umnoeflmvh. 19, colored, o(;oolu- ville, was given a liminary hearing before Judge s-mue?riluu in the Police here terday on a charge of ‘Walter the Poolesville neigl hood, on December 17. He was without bail for the action of the March grand jury. TAX EXEMPTIONS URGED. Mail Carriers and Milk Trucks Would Benefit Under Bills. ANNAPOLIS, Md., February 15— % | Gasoline used by rural free delivery mail cariers would be exempted from payment of the State gas tax of 4 cents a gallon, to the limit of 1,000 gallons a year, in a bill introduced in the House te. Carroll ual - registrat trucks used exclusively in the hauling oxmukmano-tentho{nmtnm ‘Thé Austrian government has con- structed new telephone cable lines o Hungary and Switzerland. full load capacity, multiplied" by number of miles estimated the truck will travel in the State in a year. LAST DAY! The Sale of Men’s “HAHN-SPECIALS” ends tomorrow DON’T pass up this fine chance to save on the best $6.50 Men’s Shoes in the wide world! Man’s Shop i l4that G 7th & K 3212 14th DISTRICT HEIGHTS 15 DENIED SGHOOL Delegation in Legislature Promises Transportation for Children, However. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. DISTRICT HEIGHTS, Md., February 15.—Although unsuccessful in their ef- fort to have their request for a $25,000 school for District Heights restored to the Prince Georges County school- building program, a delegation of citi- zens yesterday was told by the county delegation in the Legislature that irans- portation to the Bradbury Heights School would be provided next year. State Senator Lansdale G. Sasscer told the citizens it would not be possi- ble to grant their request for a new building for the reason that there were 50 many other communities that would also demand schools. The delegation was satisfied with the promise to have the Board of Educa- tion provide transportation to Bradbury Heights, as & new building will be erected there. Many District Heights children are already attending that school, but this year the community is having to pay for their transportation, which amounts to $800 a year. ‘The delegation was headed by O. J. ‘Whaley, chairman of the school com- mittee, and recently elected president of the citizens’ association. MEXICANS ABANDON BOMB PROTEST MEETING President Disappréves Demonstra- tion as Attempt to Give Undue Importance to Incident. By the Assoclated Press. disapproval of President Emilio Portes Gil today caused cancellation of orders for & demonstration Sunday protesting the recent attempt on his life. The President thought the demon- stration, in whkhwlzl:or nlnd social °fi ganizations were enlisted, “woul attempt to give undue importance and keep public attention fixed on an affair which would better be forgotten.” ‘The manifestation was planned by the mixed congressional commission which met Wednesday to consider the political situation following the execution of Jose de Leon Toral last week. ing Florsheims MEXICO CITY, February 15.—The |th ALEXANDRIA. ALEXANDRIA, Va., February 15 (Special).—Howard W. Smith of this cuit of Virginia, yesterday was named by the Washington Society of Alexan- dria to preside at the George Washing- ton birthday celebration to be held by that organization February 22 in the |old Presbyterian Mecting House. Sena- tor Simeon D. Fess of Ohio will speak. The principal address will be de- livered by Dr. Albert Bushnell Hart, professor emeritus of Harvard Univer- sity and historian of the George Wash- ington Bicentennial Commission, who will speak on “Washingten the Gentle- man.” William Tyler Page, clerk of the House of Representatives, will introduce the speakers. James L. Kelley and George A. Guthrie will be presented with silver loving cups, donated by William A. Moore and John G. Graham, as the members of Boy Scout Troop 126 hay- ing shown the greatest proficiency in Scout work during the past year, to- night at the troop’s annual banquet in the Westminster Building at 6:30. Com- monwealth’s Attorney Albert V. Bryan, Rev. P. L. Vernon, pastor of the First Baptist Church, and Frank W. Noxon of the city Scout committee will speak, while Scoutmaster Henry P. Thomas will preside as toastmaster. William Knowles Cooper, general sec- retary of the Y. M. C. A. of Washing- ton, “was the principal speaker last night at the annual banquet of the Baptist Young People’s Union held at the First Baptist Church. Representative H. G. Hoffman of New Jersey addressed the Kiwanis Club yes- terday. Elliott P. Hoffman presided. Funeral services for Francis Nevitt, retired business man, who died Wed- nesday night, were held today from the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Mary E. Hoy, and burial was at La Plata, Md. Rites were conducted by Rev. Percy Foster Hall, rector of St. Paul's Epis- copal Church. Work of razing the three-story brick building at 908 King street to make room for the construction of a $100,000 building for Montgomery Ward & Co. was started yesterday. Final rites for James E. Martin, 47, who died Wednesday night, were held today at the home by Rev. Dr. Samuel A. Wallis, professor emeritus of e Episcopal Theological Seminary of Virginia, and interment vm in the Episcopal burying ground at colnia. Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Whitestone of 309 Duke street. will celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of their wed- ding Sunday night. A reception will be held at their home from 7 to 11 o'clock. The degree team of the local voiture of the Forty and Eight, American Le- glon honor society, will confer degree work upon a large class of candidates for the Grand Voitures of Maryland and the District of Columbia at Hyattsville, Md., February 21. ‘The body of John H. Janney, 56 years old, who died yesterday at the Emer- FLORSHEIM The Finer Smarter Shoe When keen dressers get to- gether you'll hear many good things about Florsheim Shoes. You certainly would be wear. too,if you knew them as other men do. Why don’t you wear Florsheims? 10 Some Styles $11 and $12 7th & K 3212 14th “Man’s Shop’—14th at G city, judge of the sixteenth judicial cir- BRUMBACK NAMED (. OF C.PRESIDENT Arlington Directors Also Elect Arnold, Carl and Honts as éfficials. By a Staft Correspondent of The Star. CLARENDON, Va., February 15.— At a special meeting last night of the board of directors, Keith A. Brumback was elected president of the Arlington Chamber of Commerce for one year. Other officers elected were: Leon Arnold, first vice president; Louis C. Carl, sec- ond vice president; P. P, Woodbridge, secretary, and A. B. Honts, jreasurer. All of the officers are new except the two latter, Woodbridge being a salaried permanent secretary-manager and Honts having been re-elected. Following the election of officers, the board elected an executive committee, composed of Walter U. Varney, William P. Ames, Louis C. Car], A. L. Kelly and Walter K. Handy. Eight of the nine new directors who were recommended by the nominating committee on Tuesday night to enlarge the number of the board of directors to 2¢ members were élected, the ninth, John B. Fowler, declining to serve. A committee was appointed to call upon Col, Charles T. Jesse, who had m viously declined, and urge upon hat he accept. i e ‘Woodbridge announced that president probably will call a meeting of the executive committee before the next regular meeting night, which is to_be Thursday. He wishes to place before them the matter of organizing a membership committee and to suggest that they make recommendations for amendments to the constitution. The committee could whip these matters into shape and have them ready to present at the regular directors’ meeting. Woodbridge may ask that the board adopt the standard constitution in use the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. > Committee intments may be simplified by the appointment of a committee on committees, the member- ship to be recruited from the member- ship of the chamber and not from the directors, Woodbridge said. Brumback appointed a committee consisting of Guy N. Church, Leon Arnold and Ashton C. Jones to arrange plans for a joint meeting between the chamber, Gov. Harry F. Byrd, the Park and Planning Commissions of both Washington and Virginia and county officlals. gency Hospital, in Washington, has been brm&'gz to Demaines’ g establishment in this city. Funeral services will take place tomorrow after- noon at 2 o'clock from the home of his brother, Tyson Janney, in and burial will be in Glenwood Ceme- tery at Washington. Mrs. Martha E. Boyd, 84 years old, the widow of J. T. Boyd, died last night at the home of her daughter, Mrs, G. N. Gradlin, 17 Cedar street, Rosemont. Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon 0 o'clock at the home of her daughter, and interment will be in the yterian Cemetery. The serv- ices will be conducted jointly by the Rev. Richard G. Koontz of Trinity M. Church and Rev. Mr. Luttrell of E. Baltimore. 3. k3 KEITH A. BRUMBACK, Newly elected president of the Arling- ton County Chamber of Commerce. —Harris-Ewing. GREEN ELECTED 10 MASONIC POST Arlington Official Becomes Grand Junior Warden at Richmond Session. By a Staft Correspondent of The Star. CLARENDON, Va., February 15.— Word received here today announced the election "> the post of grand junior warden of the Masonic Grand Lodge of Virginia of Harry K. Green, commis- sioner of revenue for Arlington County and a member of the Virginia Park and Planning Commission. Green’s election took place at the 151st annual commu- nication, which is being held in Rich- mond. Green, who is » native of Leesburg but has been a resident of Arlington County for many years, is a past master of Columbia Lodge, No. 285, of Claren- don and served for two years as district deputy grand master of District No. 54. He was first elected to the line of the Grand Lodge of Virginia in 1927 as grand junior deacon. He is now serving his third term as commissioner of reve- nue. John T. Cochran of The Plains was elected grand master. Large delegations from Clarendon, Cherrydale and other sections of Northern Virginia were in at- tendance at the communication. MOTHER OF 7 DIES. Mrs. Mattie M. Starr, 45, Survived by Seven Children. HERNDON, Va., February 15 (Spe- cial). —Mrs. Mattie Middleton, 45, wife of Joseph Starr, died last night at her home near here. She is survived by her husband and seven children, ran, from 2 to 13 years of age. Burial will bs in Herndon Cemetery. The creme de la creme of fashion shoes for Spring are the stunning models we’re showing in the new Genuine Water Snake “HAHN-SPECIALS” : 6.50 Now in their own lovely new 2nd Floor r Dept., at our F St. Shop. Also at our 7th St., 14th & Park Road and Baltimore stores. Sizes AAA to C widths. "SUBURBAN NEWS. RS0 3 5 SIGNBOARD LAW HIT IN ARLINGTON Opposition Develops . When Ordinance to Tax Struc- tures Is Asked. By a Staft Correspondent of The Star. ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT HOUSE, February 15.—Appearing be- fore the Board of County Supervisors of Arlington County today a committee of Chamber of Commerce, headed by Frank G. Campbell, urged that a tax of 50 cents a square foot be assessed against signboards along the public highways in the county and that the revenue derived from the tax be used to pay the expenses of the Zoning Com- mission. The suggestion met with the opposi- tion of Crandal Mackey, prominent lo~ cal attorney and property owner, and Edgar Pumphrey, attorney for a large | signboard company. The supervisors | advised the committee to prepare an ordinance and submit it for their ap- proval at the next meeting. While the recommendation aimed at the large commercial signs placed along the highways by foreign advertising concerns, the board stated that the or- dinance must cover every type of adver- tising sign in the county. According to Campbell, the Chamber of Commerce has been receiving many complaints against the signboards, the complainants insisting that they tend to cheapen the appearance of the county. Duncan called to the attention of the committee the fact that the signboard companies pay a yearly rental to the owners of property on, which they are placed. Referring to the zoning of the county, Campbell suggested the laying of a levy of 3 cents to obtain the funds with which to meet the expenses of the zon- ing commission in case of the failure to pass the signboard ordinance. TWO DIE, 3 INJURED AS AUTO WHEEL BREAKS Virginia Men Killed Near Hagers- town When Car Is Thrown Off Road. Special Dispatch to The Star. HAGERSTOWN, Md., February 15.— Two men, Charles Elliot, 32, of Gore, Va, and Philip P. Kline, 30, Valcous, County Hospital here, from injuries re- ceived when the front wheel of the ma- chine in which they were riding broke and threw the car off the road. | Three others, Benjamin Mills, Hag- erstown; Ershel Foreman of Gore, and H. A. Sherman, are in the hospital in a critical condition. | TRUSTEES APPOINTED. Judge Names Four as Officials of Fairfax Church. FAIRFAX, Va., February 15 (Sp: clal).—Judge Howard Smith of the ! Fairfax County Circuit Court has aj ted F. 8. McCandlish, F. D. Rich- ardson and George B. Robey as addi- tional trustees along with Judge James M. Love, at present sole surviving trus- Va., died last night in Washington | be LIABILITY FIXED IN LUMBER SALES Philips & Sullivan Owe U. S. $1,380,825, According to Special Auditor. Herbert L. Davis, special auditor of the District Supreme Court, has filed a report fixing the lability of John L. Philips of Georgia, former Republican State committeeman of Georgia, and of Frank T. Sullivan, lumber merchant, of Buffalo, N. Y., for sales of lumber from Army cantonments following the armi- stice. The special auditor finds that Philips is liable to the United States Govern- ment in principal and interest to June 3, 1927, for $1,380,82548. Of this amount, according to the auditor, Sulli- van is jointly liable with Philips to the extent of $947,610.73. The men were charged with criminal conspiracy growing out of an alleged defrauding of the Government in the sale of the lum- ber, but were acquitted. Civil Proceedings Started. The Government then brought the and Sullivan liable to the Government for the money received from the sales and certified the matter to the auditor to reach a figure as to the total lia- bility. Other persons held in smaller amounts under the decree, on which the auditor had only to compute interest, include the Metropolitan Bank of Newark, N. J., and Nellie S. Chambers of Newark, executors of George M. Chambers; Lee L. "Harrell, lumber merchant of Washington, D. C.; Mitchell A. Touart, jr., of Pensacola, Fla.; Mrs, Lottie Eitzen, executrix of Gus Eitzen, a former partner of Touart, and Charles Phillips of Georgla, brother of John L. Phillips. Motion to Be Filed. The Government will file a motion in 30 days for judgments inst. all of the defendants in the va sums found by the special auditor, and will request the court to fix the extent of the liabilities of the Pidelity & De Co. of Maryland, which execu as surety bond of $500,000, guaranteeing the faithful performance of the contract to sell the Government lum- T, The United States is represented in the case by Willlam 8. Ward and Mar- cus Borchardt, special assistants to At- torney General Sargent. CONTEMPT CHARGED. Man Held After Refusing to An- swer Questions in Court. FREDERI( Md., February refused to CK, 15 (Special) . —Because he grand jury Naylor of near Gi was manded to jail and will be taken before judges of the Circuit Court to face a contempt charge. tee for the real estate and property of Zion Episcopal’' Church in Fairfax. i S i et ‘The Netherlands East Indies plans to buy 1,700 automobiles for government officials. “Junior Town” The cute little “Spanish Vil- lage” downstairs at our F St. Shop—used recently as our Women's $6.50 Dept.— Now. again devoted ex- clusively to children's shoes. Here complete stocks of our better sorts of juvenile footwear—and salespeople who are ex- perts in fitting young feet correctly. Announcing the arrival of . “Bally Swiss” Imported Novelty Children’: Spring S F O children to have the very best in footwear. Swiss 5 much . craftsmen—unique hoes course, you want your Hence, Bally Built by fine e in style— higher grade than their shoes. moderate prices would indicate. 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