Evening Star Newspaper, February 28, 1929, Page 10

0 f’ SUBURBAN NEWS, THE EVEMING STAR. WASHAINGTON. D. €. THURSDAY, FEBRUART 28 192%:° Yis counsel, Richard B. Tippett, was tware that his fee of $2,500 had come rom Francis J. Woods, also convicted n the State roads case. | ) $ i | Bastjer presentsd a cerlified check | 'for $2,500 made payable to Woods and | & indorsed by woods and “Richard B. Tippett & Son." Tippett, who has been . : resent throughout the hearing. sitting | seside his former client, jump=d up and | i }enx(ed that he knew the moncy came ABATIOR ACTION | DELAVED Y ERROR - . rom Woods, despite Insinuations, and Jaciicr Charges Falsenood siccs o et s rman o [ in lzaring Before Grand | e ouer State Tosds peopler juired of Tippett if he had made any | Inques“ ittempt to pay the money back to | = e | Woods or to turn it over to the State as reimbursement for stolen money. Staft Correspondent of The Star. Tippztt replied that he had not, as it NAPOLIS, Md. February 28— was Butler's money, and there was no Verbal fireworks characterized the joint reason why he should turn it over to inquisition yesterday of the grand in- any one. 'quest of the Legislature and the Nelli- Butler testified that he didn't think gan committee, both prying into the it was stolen money that he had got- Women Assured Clinic! Building Demand Wil Be Given Study. BY LESTER N. INSKEEP, Staff Correspondent of The Star. i ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT- HOUSE, February 28.—Because through | an error the published notice of the! N. Auth Provision Co. to establish an' abattoir on Columbia Pike near Relee | Station did not describe the location of the property, the application did not officially come before the moeting of the Board of County Supervisors this morning. win G. Baetjer, special counsel for the ducting the two-day cxamination of imburse the State that he got the cgant of the commission and so-called fixed up. “kev” man in the case, char that Another tense situation was created E. Brooke Lee of Silver Spring in- | | House here. The first came when Ed- \ Butler got the money from Woods to | toral Conference, in of witnesses that he wishes to have! examined by the committee, and re- | fused. He said that when a list of wit- nesses is prepared 10 days ahead there | too much opportunity for heads to | get together and for evidence to dis- appear. ¥ Wilmer was asked pointedly Sena- tor S. Scott Beck of Kent County. chair- man of the grand inquest, if Wilmer was making any insinuations against him. Wilmer replied in the negative Subsequently a motion was adopted to permit Delegate Wilmer to bring in as many witnesses as he desired at any tme he selected without previously in- forming the committee of the names The Charles County defegate selected 10 a.m. next Wednesday for the hearing | Churches Elect Officers. COLVIN RUN. Va. Febru 28 (Special) ——The quarterly conference of the Methodist Churches of Brown's Chapel, Smith's Chapel and Herndon has elected Herbert Brown and Zene State Roads peculations. in the State ten from Woods. Bastjer insisted that, McMillan as delegates to the Lay Elec- Washington, in reimburse the State, to which B\lll(‘l“April. J. A. Wheeler, Samuel Millard, 1 Nelligan committee, who has been con- replied that it was not only to re- | Herbert Brown, Walter Wyncoop and Roland Wheeler were elected trustees l| | Thomas A. Butler, convicted purchasing money, but to get the whole matter | for the coming year. Stewards elected were Mrs. Minnie McCuen, Mrs. Lillie Utterback. Mrs. Howard Cunningham. BEGIPJ WORK ON NEW POST OFFICE SITE Treasury Department Officials to Test Soil for Building Costing Nearly £300,000 in Alexandria. 3pecial Dispatch to The Star ALEXANDRIA, Va, February 28— City laborers, working under the su- pervision of Government representatives, yesterday began the work of removing S0l from the site of the new post- office building to enable -the Treasury Department to test the ground. Plans for the new postoffice, costing approximately $300,000. have been com- pleted, and it is expected that the con- tract will be awarded within the next 90 days. Construction work will probably start in July or August. Approximately $80.- 700 was spent in purchasing the site at the southeast corner of Prince and Washington street: The structure will face on Washing- on street with a frontage of 112 feet and a depth of approximately 162 feet o Prince street. SUBURBAN When the board met the room was packed with persons interested, most of them being opponents to the erection* of the abattoir. Col. Charles T. Jesse, one of the at- torneys for the company, informed the board that the company had no inten- tion of withdrawing application for the permit. ‘Wood is Attacked. H When the board was requested to write a letter to Chairman Wood, of the House appropriations commiitee, in- forming him that the application is not officially before the board and cannot now be acted upon for at least 3% days, Supervisor B. M. Hedrick of Washington district said that Wood has not treated the board with “com- | mon courtesy,” in that he did not con- sider the board before offering a reso- lution in the House to stop the appro- | beilding to house the Arlington H th represents the disirict in which’ t Worgen Voters, who demands cons’iaration of a plan to erect a county-owned Mrs. 3 is e - 5 - ., Butler was telling a willful falsehood when Joseph A. Wilmer, Republican, |Miss Bessie Wyncoop, Miss Phoebe o Vel e eckRBe s manbo! ol commiltes ol itheiOvenninait LIS, MR Gl B e ot oF Oliatiee Couaty, e dsked Tk & 1Lt 5 Clini; and Supervisor B. M. Hedrick, | e buile wiil be located if authorized. THKOH SHARTER CHANGES URGED | Dr. Edmunds Proposes to Modernize Town Govern- ment by Bill. priations for the construction of Arling- | - ton Memorial Bridge and Mount Vernon | Boulevard. By a Staff Correspordent of The Star, “We do not like Mr. Wood's state-| ANNAPOLIS, Md., February 28— ment and do not want anything to do, Numerous changss in the charter of the | with him,” Hedrick said. | Dr. W. J. Showalter, president of the | Lee Highway Association, asked the board o be careful not to disturb House of Delcgates yesierday on behalfl | nance as requested by the county com- the friendly relations between the Fed- eral Government and Arlington County. Is Second Attompt. ‘This is the second attempt of the company to obtain a permit for the erection of an abattoir on its property ! the first having been withdrawn be- | cause of the opposition. Al As on the first attempt, the project‘ met with a storm of protest, both by citizens of the county and by Fed- eral officials. Returning yesterday from Richmond where she had a conference with Gov. | Harry F. Byrd regarding the project, | Miss Gertrude Crocker, a member of the citizens' protest committee, stated that | the chief executive of the State inti- mated that he might write to the super- | visors and suggest that they find a more | suitable location for th= plant. The satisfactory result of her confer- | ence was made known today when the | supervisors received a telegram from | Gov. Byrd in which he requested that | “serious consideration should be given | to see that nothing is done on the Vir- side of the Potomac River to in- terfere with projects contemplated for further improvement of this section by the Federal Government.” Urges Action on Clinic. Appearing before the Board of County SBupervisors for the third time, Mrs.; Mary Morris Lockwood. chairman of the special clinic committee of the Or- | ganized Women Voters, requested defi- nite information as to whether any ac-, tion has been taken by the board re- garding the construction of a new clinic building on a county-owned lot in Clarendon. She was told by Chairman Edward | Duncan that the budget for the com- | ing year has not yet been prepared and that the matter will be given consider- ation in the preparation of the budget. ‘The two other members of the board, one of whom has expressed himself* as in sympathy with the movement to erect the building, remained silent. Mrs. Lockwood was accompanied Ly & large delegation. DEPUTY SHERIFF SHOT WHEN GUN EXPLODES John Millan Wounded When Gun, . Drops to Ground as He Stops Automobile Driver. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. FAIRFAX, Va, February 28.—John Millan, 45 years old, deputy sheriff here, is in the Alexandria Hospital today with a bullet lodged in his spinal cord, the | result of an accidental explosion from the gun of Deputy Sheriff Wilson Darr. Late last night Millan, Barr and W.| A. Wheeler stopped an automobile on- the Richmond highway below Alexan- | dria. The car, bearing Richmond li- cense plates, was loaded with over 100 gallons of alleged liquor. The police car approached from the rear and or- dered the occupants to halt, but they jumped from their seats and escaped | into the nearby woods. Millan and Darr ran forward to grab the car's| emergency brake and keep it from slid- | ing backward down the hill into their | machine. As Darr reached over the edge of the car his revolver fell from its holster and exploded when it hit | the concrete highway, the shot entering | Millan’s back. | Millan was rushed to the Alexandria Hospital, where Dr. S. B. Moore made an examination, stating his condition as not serious The captured car and its contents were taken to Fairfax. The drivers have not yet been apprehended. | town of Takoma Park, Md., are pro- vided for in a bill introduced in the of th2 Montgomery County delegation by Dr. George L. Edmunds, delegate from Rockville. .One of the principal changes, and one which indicates the growth of the town, is the provision for the payment of salaries to the mayor and members of the Council. The bill, as introduced, however, provides only for this section that before it shall be- come effective it shall be submitted to | a referendum at any municipal election, and, if approved by the town voters, it shall become effective on the first day of the month following such approval. It provides a salary of $1,200 a year for the mayor and $300 a year each for the. members of the Council, payable monthly. One of the amendments provides that the nominations for mayor and posi- tions onthe Council shall be made at a meeting of the citizens of the town to be called by the town clerk and ad- vertised in the newspapers and by the distribution and posting of handbills on the Monday evening preceding the mu- nicipal election. Must Own Property. Candidates for mayor and councilman must be leral voters and property holders. Another amendment authorizes the use of a modern card system for re- ording the names of voters, and there is a provision for a written appeal on a rejection of a right of a person to vote, to be filed within 24 hours after notice, the right of appeal being to the ‘Town Council. Another amendment provides that the council shall meet not less than once a month. The mayor is named 'as the presiding officer. The proposed change makes the mayor the responsible executive and gives him authority to appoint the com- mittees and to designate the chairmen, and he may change them at will. He may suspend any officers for what to him are sufficent reasons, but he must report his reasons in .writing to the council. He is also given all the powers of a justice of the peace over criminal cases. The new law provides that the coun- cil shall appoint annually a clerk, treasurer, superintendent of public work and chief of police. Provides More Police. The council is authorized to appoint additional police, with special authority given the mayor to appoint additional members of the force in an emergency. In addition to its right to purchase property, the amended charter provides that it may accept property for munici- pal purposes. The council is authorized also to pass ordinances for equipping and maintaining parks and playgrounds, to protect buildings, trees and fences, from defacement and injury and for the pro- tection of birds. ‘The council would be authorized to turn over to the county commissioners of Montgomery and Prince Georges Counties such sums as may in their discretion be necessary for schools. It reduces from three to two weeks the time for giving notice of intention to create a town debt, and provides for a budget system to bz carried out each fiscal year, beginning on July 1. Instead of taxes being due immedi- ately upon the levy, they are to come due on July 1 following the levy. WOULD-BE BRIDEGROOM HELD FOR GRAND JURY Thomas McCorkel, 21, Takoma Park, Md., Charged With Giving Age of 16-Year-Old Girl as 18. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star, HYATTSVILLE, Md, February 28.— Accused of making a false affidavit to procure a marriage license, Thomas Mc- CHAPT‘ER"OF UaD; VC, icor\wl. 21, of Takoma Park, Md., was OPPOSES ABATTOIR Pass Resolution Opposing Granting | of Permit for Its yesterday held for action of the grand jury under $500 bond by Judge J. Chew Sheriff in Police Court here. McCorkel is said to have given the age of Eleanor Beal as 18, when, ac- cording to the girl's mother, Mrs. Cath- erine Beal, he knew she was only 16, Erection, Epecial Dispatch to The Star. ! Deputies Capture Still and Liguor. FALLS CHURCH. Va,, February 28— | FAIRFAX, Va., February 28 (Spccial). Robert E. Lee Chapter, United Daugh- ters of the Confederacy, meeting yes- —Deputy Sheriffs Walter L. Mitchell, John A. Millan and H. T. Magarity yes- terday afternoon at the home of Mrs. terday raided the home and store of H. T. Payne, adopted resolutions strong- | ly protesting the granting of a permit for the erection of an abattoir on the proposed site in Arlington County. Mrs J. B. Henry was appointed to attend the hearing this morning and voice the opinion of the chapter. The chapter voted to pay into the treasury of the Virginia division taxes on 44 members, and Mrs. J. B. Henry ‘was appointed to interview Miss Maude Hobbs, principal of the High School here, to ascertain whether she will ap- prove of offering a gold medal for the best essay by a High School student on a historical subject to be anncunced later. TRUCK KILLS GIRL. Lonaconing Accident Is Held Un- avoidable by Authorities. TONACONING, Md of 10 children of Harry Hadley, was killed yesterday when struck in the street By a truck driven by Warner | final survey for the widening and re- | pike this Summer. Trost and owned by his father, August ‘Trost, baker. The child ran in front of the truck and authorities held the ) accident unavoldable, February 28| (Special) —Margaret, aged 9 years, one | of the county directing engineers have | before the State starts widening and | Peyton Ballenger on the Telegraph road, in’Fairfax County, capturing part of a still and 60 gallons of alleged liquor Ballenger and his son, Peyton, jr., were taken before Justice of th: Peace Charles Zoll, at Fairfax, who held them ONING ORDINANCE COMES UP TODAY Park and Planning Body to, . Study Proposcd Prince Georges Amendments. BY GEORGE PORTER, Staif Corresponient of The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., February' 25.—Hoping to agree on a bill amending the Prince Georges County zoning ordi- | | | | | | nissioners in time for presrntation to | the State Legisla- ture carly next| week, the Mary-| land-National Cap- ital Park and Plan- ning Commission will make consider- ation of the amend- ments their chief order of husiness at their meeting to- night, Agreement to make certain changes in the zon- ing law through amendments was| reached between the park group and | the county leaders two weeks ago, when the commissioners, concluding a pro- longed period of hesitancy at taking over the responsibilities of administer- ing the act, decided to proceed and advertise hearings on requests for zon- ing changes. Apparendy by way of compromise the Park Commission at that time agreed to certain changes in the zoning | law which are unsatisfactory to the county commissioners. ‘The changes asked for by the county ! leaders are said to include incorporation | of specific provision in the act that all expense of litigation resulting from ad- ministration of the zoning law shall be levied against the Park and Planning Commission, and authorization for the County commissioners to be given a share in the development of parks and roadways. Other minor points of disagreement are hoped to be ironed out through the amended ordinance. Since the meeting two weeks ago, there have been several conferences be- tween representatives of the two groups. Last night Irvin Owings, chairman of the Park and Planning Commission, and State Senator Lansdale G. Sasscer of Upper Marlboro discussed the proposi- tion informally. Senator Sasscer has warned that there is danger of the amendments not getting through the Legislature unless intro- duced promptly. Senator Sasscer. |G. A. R. COMMANDER PROTESTS ABATTOIR | Samuel G. Mawson Decries Plan| to Build Plant Near Arlington, Samuel G. Mawson, department com- mander of Potomac Department of the | | Grand Army of the Republic, today is- | sued the following statement denounc- ing the abattoir planned in Arlington County: “I have been so profoundly shocked | at the very suggestion that a slaughter | house be erected within the shadows of | the final resting place of my dead com- rades that words fail me in an at- tempt to protest such a desecration. “The Arlington Cemetery, which was established as a burial place for the Civil War dea: d which is now almost filled by the soldiers of the » Spanish and World | ‘Wars, is to be ex- tended, I am told, to a point within Vi % 71 1.000 feet of the | : site of this pro- - posed slaughter| house. As time goes on the ceme- ' tery must be enlargzd more and more to | care for our heroic dead until eventu- ally the walls may reach the very prop- | erty on which it is proposed to erect this insult to American ideal | | | 8. G. Mawson, here are but few of us left and I believe that the insult that would re- | | sult from the granting of a permit to | erect a slaughter house on what is to | us sacred ground would hasten the end | that awaits us all in the none too dis- tant future. | I belleve that T can speak for the | | entire_membership of the G. A. R.| when I call upon the supervisors of Ar- | lington County to once and for all oring | to an end this attempt to erect a | slaugh house any place in Arlington Count i 1 Joint Rotary Meeting Planned. | LYNCHBURG, Va. February 28 (Spe- cial).—Rotary group No. 1, composed of {clubs at Lynchburg, Bedford, Martins- ville, Danville and Roanoke, will hold a joint meeting at Martinsville, March 7. ifor the grand jury on $3,000 bond. Order to Delay Aski % H aff Correspondent of The Star. ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT- | HOUSE, Va, February 28.—The de- ision of Supervisor Edward Duncan of Jeflerson district to delay the adver- tissments for bids for the consiruction | of approximately three miles of Mount | Vernon avenue was received by resi- dents today with considerable surprise. A stafl of surveyors from the office v a ¢ been busy for several weeks making a construction of the road so that the bids might be advertised March 1 and opened March work to start as quickly as possible thereafter, | Surprises Citizens on Mt. Vernon Avenue! ng for Road Bids Yesterday the engineer, C. L. Kin- nier, was directed by Duncan to delay | | the advertisements for an indefinite | period. He declined to give any reason for the delay. 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Special Dispatch to The Star, CUMBERLAND, Md.. Februar State’s Attorney Willlam A. Huster of Allegany County has written for specific facts from Representative Blanton of Texas, a member of the District com- mittee, who, in the course of d=bate in- velving District bills, is quoted by the Congressional Record as telling of a truck with a secret compartment for hauling 150 gallons of whisky, *“load after load. under prolice protection from the city of Philadelphia, the city of Cumberland, the city of saltimore and various other cities, to Washington " Mr. Huster sent copies of the leiter to Senators Bruce and Tydings and to Representative Prederick N. Zihlman of the sixth Maryland district. who is chairman of the House committee. ARZAR S AR S B Y SIS QW e o e aEAERR R, NS SRR A AT AN D A NIRRT LIRS (AW SRS SRR ERCAEIEIIT B T A A N DR YGRS 5 Between D and E