Evening Star Newspaper, February 21, 1929, Page 11

SUBURBAN NEWS.” THE EVENING STAR., WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY ORDERS N STUDY NOTHERS TO NITE | [FLERICAN]. OFHEAWAY BOOKS T T T D PG ORNEW NG " SUBURBAN XNEWS." # 1y TAKE PART IN BIRTHDAY PAGEANT e®i'e ¥ | # B Grand Inquest to Probe Arlington Women Will Confer 4 F Y P t t ' Amounts Paid to County At- | : :0 or our ro ec lon L] “torneys for Rights of Way. With Chamber Today on District Demand. Your nearest ASCO Meat Market is your protection, for it sells you Quality Meats and Poultry only of full weight, under ideal sanitary conditions, at the lowest possible prices. All our Meats and Poultry are kept in modern scientific re- frigerators until wanted, insuring them reaching you in prime | BY LESTER | - stanr Gorresponde BY WILLIAM J. WHEATLEY, . INSKEEP, t of The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md., Va.. February Tebrua —Further investigations’| are to be made of the books of the State Roads Commission for the ex- | press purpose of defermining what | amc paid to county attorneys | for ¢ ase of rights of way for | State highways. * The grand inquest rected yesterday, following the CLARENDON, 21— Organization of the Mothers' Health | League, composed of all of the mothers | whose children have been treated at the | public health centers in Arlington County since their establishment seven | yea ago, will be the first step to be taken at a meeting Tuesday afternoon | condition. in an attempt to force the Board of County Supervisors to erect a per- It Pays to Trade Where Quality Counts! manent clinic building in Arlington | {4 on Raymond E. North, | district. (B Our Stores Will Close at 1 P.M. Friday, February 22nd, in Honor of Washington’s who had been summoned to appear The mecting. to which the supervisors | Birt hday # | azain for questioning as to the vm.rw’ % K ’ 4 g Y have been invited as honored guests, | P4 13 collect the amounts in the accounts | has been called by Mrs. Mary Morri: A delightful, tasty dish ready to serve this of Lockwood, chairman of a special com. receivable on the books. mittes of the Organized Women Voters Daniel C. Joseph, Baltimore, leader nd other women’s clubs in the county, | of the insurgent bloc in the lower house, 2nd will be held at the Women's Club of | started on the point of amounts paid Ashton Heights, beginning at 2 o'clock | to attorneys, but North said lhu\.hhe and ending at 4 o'clock. did not particularly examine these A (NI Smounts, aa his firm was only deter i Will Mcet With Chamber. mining if there had been any fraud. \ | _Another important step in the plans | During the course of his questio 3 of the committee their scheduled | Joseph intimated that there was some | appearance before the board of directors | thing worth-while_in these aceounts, | Members of the of the Arlington County Chamber of | when Speaker E. Brooke Lee of Silver | tomerrow afternoon. Commerc= this afternoon. They have | Spring interjected that if Joseph be- been invited to attend, Mrs. Lockwood Can 10c shington Society of Alexandria, who will ¢ake part in the pageant to be staged by the soclety The actors are seen ng the home of Col. Dennis Ramsey, the oldest house in Alexardria, | which will be one of the scenes in the pageant. The house was built in 1351 and Col. Ramsey, who served in the Revolution was one of the palibearers at. Gen. Washington'sfuneral. --Star Staff Photo. |EDGEMOOR CITIZENS | ELECT ROBERT E. BONDY ALEXANDRAFETE Washington Society to Hold City-Wide Celebration Tomorrow. Lenten Sugnestions! Choice Pink Salmon . . . . .can 19¢ STEAK SALMON . . . cm 25¢ TUNA FISH . e« 14c TUNA FISH . . 0 . . % 20c TUNA FISH . Reg. 15¢ Horse Shoe Extra Tax Levy for Beautification | of Area Voted Down by Association. Although he would not give details, use he said he did not want to gresem hearsay testimony which might urt some one before the real facts were lieved “there was any rottenness in said, and it is hoped that the chaml these” he would second a resolution to SLNE: | s well as many other men's organi | get the information. 2 m_!}& mfl!\ h; enl lmd 2 the fig i { | Mrs. Lockwood and representative ‘ Asks for Amounts. | { from 10 other women's_organizations | Joseph insisted that he thought the | appeared meeting of the board grand inquest ought to have the m!u!'»! o \ upervisors a month ago to urge mation, and particularly how the money | {pemanent ‘1}"31‘31 b‘ulrflzfih L was paid | he old buil W s been | ‘The resolution as adopted. calls on ment mr‘ . the new State Roads Commission for , is to be torn | details_as to the amount of money d and the occupants have been spent for ohtami‘rég x\')ghvs of xw;\_v and notified to move by April 1. the amounts paid in counsel fees in g connection with obtaining lfimxe me(;’ Special Dispatch to The Star. |Fleet of S | Work | i mp"‘]‘:‘:‘t Ar:t::i:;n:;'fiw Wt @ period of eight years, the perio EDGEMOOR, Md., February 21.— wplow: rks! las iy e shorm h{\ ;\h(‘ ln;'e:;lgann? ‘;‘a da!g Fur]thcr beaunfflcannu of Edgemoor \wl cet o nowp $ 0 S‘ i!r;épl:r;:kmm‘!hgpg; 2:&3 “an:‘ax“i[‘rque. s'le\(:‘ juring which peculations of e Toaf replacement of trees and shrubs and | 2 = ® [ funds took place. care of parkings was discussed at the| TNroughout Night to Sweep |was told that no decision had oeen | last meeting of the Edgemoor Citizens' 2 e Kmn‘:cr Ta lmaiad o femapatary | 5c¢ ASCO Association in Bethesda. Away Drifts. | buildin b 3 Reg. 15¢ The proposal that the Maryland | 8. s . arin The committee insists that both Jef- : Princess Legislature grant authority for an extm‘ | ferson and Washington districts have known absolutely, Joseph also said he had information that a political boss "in one of the counties had a whole barmn full of material belonging to the State Road Commission, which had been given to him. He renewed his re- quest that the committee ask the po- lice commissioner of Baltimore for the use of several detectives to run down jceptain leads in this connection, and other leads developed as a result of the investigation by Joseph into the dis- tribution of war materials given the State by the Federal Government for use in road building. Refuses to Give Information. He was asked to give the information %o the committee, but refused, and one member suggested that the commit- tee go into executive session so that Joseph could present the matter without publicity, but Speaker Lee objected to any closed sessions. Joseph also added that he did mnot want the information to get out prior to an investigation, as the material ‘would be moved. Senator S. Scott Beck, chairman of the inquest, suggested that Joseph give the name of the political boss con- cerned, so that he might be summoned. Bt Joseph opposed this. Levin said that if the grand inquest did not show a disposition to go into this matter it would face a charge of failing to investigate. He said that while he voted against a resolution of Deleggte Paul Berman on Puesday, ‘which’ would have provided for the use of detfectives, he now was thoroughly in favor of their use. It was suggested by Speaker Lee that Joseph name the county concerned, and if this was done he would second a mo- tion to have the State's atiorney of the ;:‘L;ru;uy present the matter to the grand Reporter Takes Stand. W. Turner Catledge, a reporter for the Baltimore Sun, appeared before the committee to tell of his interview with W. Purnell Hall of Baltimore, at- torney, who presented 42 charges pur- porting to have been made by Thomas A. Butler, convicted purchasing agent | of the commission. While on the stand Hall denied a statement in an interview in which he was quoted as saying that {John N. Mackall, former chairman and ' chief engineer of the commission, had Peen made the goat of the whole affair. Catledge testified that Hall had made {fthe statement. Asked if he had printed verything that Hall said, Catledge said !“‘“ if he had written all, it would have taken three newspaper pages. He also | 'said that when he pressed Hall to tell {him of the men “higher up” that were {goncerned, the answer was “the Ritchie , North's testimony dealt entirely with orts to collect the $254,000 in bills re- ‘ceivable on the books of the commis- felon on December 12, up to February 15. # “PADDING” IS CHARGED, Push Case Witness Says Son Did Not | I Indorse Checks. |' BALTIMORE, February 21 (Special). | »—Testimony designed to show the pa; Ifolls of the State Roads Commissio ‘were padded to permit the payment of khecks to “straw men,” and that checks !for one man were cashed a year after he had left the commission’s employ- ;ment, was introduced at the trial of | ;’I‘urbm E. Bush, former roads employe, | in Criminal Court yesterday. | Bush, indicted under 98 counts, is on trial before Chief Judge Samuel K. Dennis. The State is endeavoring to show that he obtained approximately $7,500 | by means of checks cashed for men Who | were merely 50 many names on the | ay roll | Mrs. Anna M. Unberzagt of Catons- wille testified that her son, George Kahler, had worked for the commission for about a week in 1926. Checks made | out to him in 1927 were shown. John Lipins, who ran the State roads filling station at Glenburnle, testified that he had cashed between 50 and 75 checks for Bush, many of them bearing | the names of “Bowen, Bowers and Smith,” alleged “straw men.” MAN, NAMED BY BOY, HELD IN ARSON CASE|* uth Sent Back to Reformatory. Accused Faces Two Barn- Burning Charges. Evecial Disputch to The Star. PURCELLVILLE, Va., February 21— John Copeland, 16 years old, son of Mr. and Mrs, David Copeland of near here, was arrested yesterday on a charge of burning the barn of Lester Payne, on | the farm of Mrs. Rebecca Hoops, on the | 8 night of January 18 Copeland, who returned home from the State Reformatory less than three months ago, confessed, according Mayor Adams of Purccilville, and said the act was incited by Albert Ains- sorth, who at the time was out on | $2,500 bond on a charge of burning the | bam of Walter Simpson, dairyman, on the night of December 11. Copeland was turned over to Probation Officer Harry Leslie and returned to the re- to | Special Dispatch to The Star. | ALEXANDRIA, Va, February 21.— Impressive tribute will be paid to the memory of George Washington wmor-i row afternoon on the 197th anniversary of his birth by the Washington Society of Alexandria, the second oldest society | in America, at a celebration in the Old Presbyterian Meeting Houge at 2 u'clock.; Dr. Albert Bushnell Hart, professor emiritus of history at Harvard Univer- sity, will deliver the principal address. Senator Sineon D. Fess of Ohio and 3 William Tyler Page, clerk of the House of Representatives, also will speak. The three spea:. ers are officials of the George Wash- ington Bi-Centen- nial Commission, appointed to ar- range a tremendous | celebration of Feb- ruary 22, 1932. ‘The presentation of a historic pag- eant, “The Gath- ering of the Found- ers,” will be one of the features of to- morrow’s celebra-| tion. The lead will be played by Willlam Buckner Mc- Goarty, president of the Washington Society of Alexandria, who will appear in the role of William Pitzhugh Chatam, first president of the society. W. Sel- den Washington, a descendant of Washington, will play the part of Gen. Henry “Light Horse Harry” Lee, Among the characters to appear in the pageant and the persons in the cast are William Henry Fitzhugh of Ravensworth, son of William Fitzhugh of Chatham, Park Bell; George Wash- ington Park Custis of Alexandria, Gar- diner L. Boothe II: Richard Bland Lee, Hannon Norris: Hon. Charles Fenton | Mercer, Nelson T. Snyder; William Her- bert, Arthur Herbert; Chief Justice John Marshall, Jacquelin Ambler Marshall; Thomas Marshall, J. Frank Myers; Dr. | James Craik, Judge Mauchlin Nevin; | Rev. James Muir, Rev. Ernest M. De- | laney, pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church, and Rev. Thomas Davis, Dr. E. 8. Leadbeater. Others are Col. George Deneale, David N. Rust, jr.; Col. Dennis Ramsay, Dennis | McCarty Ramsay; Col. Charles Simms, W. A. Harding; Bryan Lord Fairfax, Frank W. Noxon, Ferdiando Fairfax, Joseph H. Newell; Dr. Elisha Cullen | Dick, John W. Herndon; Col. George West, G.F.D.Rollings; Jonathan Swift, John H. Trimyer; Col. Phillip Marsteller, Henry P. Thomas; Francis Scott Key, Howard L . Arnold. Trumpeters are Herbert Cady and G. A. Horton. Harry Davis is color sergeant and E. H. Hoff- man and Burnett Ale, drummers. The organ in the Meeting House, the | oldest known church organ in use in America, will be played by Miss Mar- garet Alexander. The program will then be opened by Howard W. Smith. “The Star Spangled Banner” will be sung by Mrs. Evelyn Howard Sheridan, | while the Colonial Quartet will sing “Carry Me Bacw to Old Virginny.” Senator Fess. PLAN TO SOLVE POTOMAC FLOOD PROBLEM URGED| Consulting Engineer Submits Pro- | posal for Check Dam and Gates to Cumberland Council. Special Dispatch to The Star, CUMBERLAND, Md., February 21— A solution of the Potomac River flood problem at Cumberland is thought to have been reached in the plan sub- mitted to the mayor and City Council yesterday by Consulting Engineer Lean- der Schaidi. It calls for the extension of the Chesapeake & Ohia Canal dam, with installation of flood gates. The plan has been approved in principle and will be submitted to the engineers of local industries, such as the Poto- mac Edison Co., Kelly-Springfield Tire Co., Celanese Corporation of America and Western Maryland Railway. er is not_dis- | turbed, but an additional concrete dam, with steel gates, is added or extended on the West Virginia pier slde of the | river in Ridgeley for 102 feet. This | would give & dam of 502 feet in length. | Pive 16-foot flood gates 8 feet high, | set in piers, will be installed. AMERICAN LEGION POST HOLDS BANQUET TONIGHT| Initiation Exercises Scheduled and Officials From District Are Expected to Attend. | Special Dispatch to The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md., February 21.— A promenade and banquet will be held tonight by the 40 and 8 of Snyder-Far- mer_Post, No. 3, American Legion, in the Masonic Hall here, | A class of candidates will be initiated. | (Special).—The { home. tax levy for this purpose met but little favor among the members. Authority | | was given for a special committee, con- | sisting of Jo V. Morgan, George Plitt | and James L. Fieser, to investigate the | authority of the present suburban and | county government to perform' these | services and require owners of unim- proved property to keep their grounds ! in sanitary condition, | Officers of the ociation for the coming year were chosen, as follow: President, Robert E. Bondy; vice pres! dent, E. G. Adams; treasurer, De Witt | C. Smith; secretary, T. E. Beall. ABATTOIR ENEMIES SEND BYRD LETTER War Mothers Join Protest| Against Plant Near Unknown’s Tomb. By a Staft Correspondent:of The Star, - ARLI N, Va., February 21.— With but a week left in which to pre- | pare for the opposition to the erection of an abattoir in Arlington County by the N. Auth Provision Co. of Washing- ton, opponents of the project today i3 pageJetier 1o Gov. Hagry F. By ix-page . , A bringing to his attention the so-called apparent disadvantages to the county and State. | The letter, which was prepared by Frank G. Campbell, chairman of the | special protest committee, was written | as the result of a recert visit to the county by Paul S. Blandford, who said that he had come to get definite infor- mation for the governor, but opponents of the abattoir felt that he could have gotten only’ the viewpoint of advocates of the project, since he was piloted on | his tour of inspection’ by Carl Marshall, attorney for the company. Paramount among the facts called to the attention of the executive, and one which has not heretofore been used in arguments against the abattolr, is that the spur track over which the loaded stock cars would have to pass to reach the proposed plant would run across the Jeflerson Davis Highway, the prin- cipal thoroughfare to the South. Arlington County, the letter pointed out, is fast growing into a city. The last census showed a 57 per cent in- crease in the population. It is but a question of & few years until there will be a City of Arlington facing Washing- ton, and the abattoir, with its inevita- ble cattle pens, would be situated in the | “front yard.” It is hoped by the opponents of the | plant that the board of directors of the Arlington County Chamber of Com- merce will decide against:the proposi- tion at the meeting sto be held this afternoon. Miss Gertrude Crocker, secretary of the Civic Federation, today made public resolutions passed. by the War Mothers and Spengler Chapter, American Legion Auxiliary, expressing their opposition to the plant. The resolution calls attention to the fact that thousands of relatives of sol- diers. who were killed in France go yearly to visit the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and that countless numbers | from all over the world would pass near the plant in their pilgrimages. ALEXANDRIA. ALEXANDRIA, Va., February 21| George Washington | Birthday Association of this city will | make its annual pilgrimage to Mount | Vernon tomorrow morning, where a wreath will be placed upon the tomb of | Washington by three officials of the association—J. William May, president; Harry C. Kirk, first vice president, and Martin E. Greene, secretary, The party will leave from in front of the George. Mason Hotel at 10:30 o'clock. A campaign to round up the owners | of unlicensed dogs has been opened in | this city and persons who have not paid their dog tax will be summoned to appear in Police Court. ‘The newly organized Cadet Corps at Alexandria High School received its uniforms yesterday and they will be wor]n ‘Tuesday for the first time in a drill. Rev. Dr. William Jackson Morton, rector of Christ Episcopal Church, left yesterday for Orlando, Fla., to recuper- ate from a recent attack of the grippe. He plans to remain in Florida until Easter. ‘The junior board of the Anne Lee Memorial Home for the Aged will hold a meeting tonight at 8 o'clock at the | Mrs. Irvin Diener will preside. | James Talbot, a guard of the city chain gang, was cut about the face and body this morning when struck by a taxicab at the intersection of King and Washington streets, 7The criver of the cab, Raymond Skillman, 20 years old, is held on personal bond for appearance in Police Court. The degree team from the Alexandria voiture will conduct the initia A meeting of the Civic Bureau of the ! By a Staft Correspondant of The Star. | UPPER MARLBORO, Md. February 21.—Working throughout the night the cntire fleet of snowplows under the jurisdiction of the State Roads Com mission office here had most of the | principal highways open to two-way | | trafic early this morning. | Eleven plows operating under the di- | rection of Joseph Chaney, district en- | gineer, cleared the Southern Maryland | roads. According to reports which started pouring into Chaney’s office at 4 o'clock this morning, the Washington-Marlboro | pike was open to two-way traffic, as was the road from Hughesville to Point Lookout, and the Annapolis-Washing- ton highway. The Southern Maryland pike was| open to one-way traffic at 9 o'clock. The | road from Mount Zion to Solomons | Island is open. The two big new snowplows with rotary blades and pushing power of 8 tons saw action for the first time in to- | day's snow, operating with 15 other plows under the supervision of District Engineer C. E. Duncan. The Washing- ton-Baltimore Boulevard was clear by 8 o'clock and . the streets of Silver Spring were clear at 9. ‘Two plows were at work on the Rock- ville pike. The road to Ashton was be- ing ‘opened by way of Colesville and by 9 o'clock was clear as far as Four Cor- ners, A Full Line of {Fish and Oysters In All Asco Markets Strictly Fresh Buck Shad, Ib., 32¢ Stricty Fresh Fillets Haddock . Strictly Fresh Trout . . b, 31c Fancy Croakers Standard Oysters . . . Our Week End Sale On in Price and Quality “Juicy, ‘THRIFT’ Brand, Florida “ORANGES” “Sweet and Highly Colored.” Kiln Dried Eastern Shore “SWEET POTATOES” YELLOW “This Price Is Exceptional.” Crisp Bunches Florida “CELERY” “Buy Two. This Clerey Will Keep.” Juicy Florida Grape Fruit 3~15c “These are Fine” | attention to the provision for the clinic, | | Lee Dickerson, 31, was arrested yester- | permanent buildings, owned by the county, and that Arlington district, the in the county, has been forced | se a ramshackle building. They suggested that a building, which they say ¢an be constructed for approxi- mately $7,000, be erected on a county- owned lot near the present structure. In the notice of Tuesday's meeting, Mrs. Lockwood calls attention to the | fact that the board must give immediate | bd since the budget is now in preparation. WIFE IN POISON PROBE. Louisville Car Conductor Charges Lunch Caused Illness. LOUISVILLE, Ky., February 21 (#).— On charges of her husband, John C.! Dickerson, a street car conductor, that she tried to poison him, Mrs. Brodie day. Police said Dickerson turned his lunch box over to a physiclan with the infor- mation that after eating part of its contents he became violently ill. The food was sent to the city chemist's office for analysis and Mrs, Dickerson's arrest followed. Following _her release on bond last night, Mrs. Dickerson denied the chary and said she prepared the food in :ggl presence of her husband's aunt sent. it to him by one of their two small children. e ,69¢ ¥ -~ 4 o Oranges Is Exceptional o 19¢ oo c Pound Bunches 1 5c ICEBURG LETTUCE 3 s 25 Crisp, Firm Heads JELLIES 2 tumbs. 25c Mint Jelly 2 tumbs. 150 Hot Bread Every Afternoonat 2 P.M.! JELLI 2 tumbs. . 153 Victor Bread Per Loaf 5¢ Baked in our own bakery in the District—it’s oven fresh ASCO Sugar Corn Sweet and tender. Just right for corn fritters Can 15¢ Timely Sugge:fiom—-Scfi:ibly Priced!. ASCO Beans WithPork.............3%=28¢c Ritter’s Baked Beans. ............,.3 “™ 28¢c ASCO Mixed Vegetables ...... ASCO Golden Bantam Corn. ... .- . ASCO Fancy Small Sifted Peas. .. " Del Monte Peas. . 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Ib., 45c§ gormatory for an indefinite pariod fon. | Alexandria Chamber of Commerce will Alnsworth was immediately rcarrest- Representatives from jlures from be held Monday night at 8 o'clock in and is being held in jal} heve pend- ' Maryland, the District offolumbia and the Chamber of Commerce headquarters trial next Tuesday, Visginia ia will attend, At the George Mason Hotel, ¥ BEST ROUND STEAK . . . . Ib., 42c§ FatkToR 1 Poumil - K ....“',