Evening Star Newspaper, March 8, 1929, Page 10

R 10 SUBUR BAN-NEWS. \ THE EVENING- STAR:- WASHINGTON, -D.--C...EFRIDAY.. MARCH. 8 1929, SUBURBAN NEWS. COURTHOUSE BOND BIL INTRODUCED Montgomery Delegates Take Action Which Will Open Breach With Senator. BY WILLIAM WHEATLEY, S1aff Corrospondent of The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md.. March 8.—Placing of two additional bond issues on Mont- gomery County is-sought in two - bills introduced in the lower house of the Legislature today providing a total of | §325.000 for the proposad nmew court- house at Rockville, and the acquisition of the acditional land. The measures were introduced in the House of Dele- gates by the Montgamery County. dele- gation, and It is expected that they will be passed by that body early next week. to be sent to the Senate, where Senalor Eugene Jones of Kensington bes said that he will stop them These bills will mark the open bredch between Senator Jones, who represents Montgomery County in the Senate, and the House delegation. It will serve. to place the people’s representatives on record one wa r the other on the matter, and it probably will resuit in 2 year. The Senator from Montgomery has indicated that he not only wants 10 stop the bond issues for the purpose of bringing about a reduction in the tax rate, but he wanfs to protect the | bank, of which he is a stockhoider and direcior, from being forced off its pre: ent site. Jones Polls Senate. { Senator Jones says that he has polled the Senate on the question, and he has the necessary votes to stop the legisla- tion in the upper house. He said that they will never pass as long as he is in the bod: On the other hand. county leaders pointed out that the House dele- gation will do its duty in that body, but will not make any effort to infiuence the members of the Senate as against Senator Jone! They pointed out that if defeated there, the responsibility would be left squarely on the shouiders of the Kensington Senator, | One of the bills provides for & bond | jssue of $150,000 to be added to the fund already in hand to build a court- | house in conformity with the plans lnId] down by the courthouse building com- mittee, the courthouse architect.and the county commissiones The bill gives the county commissioners wlde‘ authority to be exercised in the con-| struction. The other bill provides for a bond | issue of $175,000, the proceeds of which | are to be used for the purchase of the | square west of the present courthouse ; site, bounded by Montgomery avenue, | Washington, Jefferson and Court streets. | Both acts are declared to be emergens measures, and they require three-fifths | of the membership of both houses for | their passage. It was stated on behalf of the dele- gation that the two measures have the | indorsement of nearly all of the eivic and community organizations of the | county, including the unanimous -in- | dorsement of the Montgomery County Civic - Federation, representing 34 of ! the suburban communities of the eoun- | ty, and the mayor and town council, | e Chamber of Commerce and the Volunteer Fire Department of Rock- | ville.” It was added also that the suburban. sections of the county seen: upanimously_in favor of an adequate | improvement of the courthouse area, and it is regarded by those who have a hand en the pulse of the.electorate that majority of the upper- house and central county residents also favor the project. s ¥ ‘There is not much more time to; handle the legislation, as-the present | Legislature has less than 25 days:of | life, it being required by law to adjourn sine die on April 1. . # Road Engineer Asked. Further evidence of the utban “de- | velopment of the metropolitan district | of fhe county adjacent to Washington | is contained in another bill introduced .today. It provides for the appointment by the county commissioners of a roads engineer for the district. He Wwould h: geperal supervision of all road and improvement work in the including sidewalks and gutters and curbs. Increase in the salaries of the patrol- | men of the Montgomery County police | force is provided for in another bill.” It provides that. the pay of .these men shall be increased $5 a month, begin- ning with the second vear of their em- ployment, and up to and including the | fourth vear, with a maximum limit (orl the patroimen of $1.680 a vear. ! An assistant to the building inspector | 1% provided for in another bill. The work | in the county is increasing to such nn‘ extent that it is difficult for the one inspector to .give the proper attention | ‘to the construction work. Authority is given in this law also to provide an electrical wiring code. | So_that_a complete record may he kept of proceedings in the grand fury room of the county. authority is con- tained In another bill giving the judge | of the Circuit Court authority to em- ploy a stenographer to report the pro- ceedings. The record is to be kept closely guarded in the office of the attorney and a fine of $1,000 or A vear's imprisonment is provided for any one who discloses any part of such a report made by a stenographer, ex- cept. upon order of the court. Another bill repeals the prohibition | In an old Maryland statute which pre- | vents the laying out of a public road between the home and outbuildings of private property, or through the gar- dens. BRONCHOS TO CAVORT | the |GALE CAUSES HEAVY DAMAGE AND MANY IN JURIES i IN SWEEPING OVER MARYLAND AND VIRGINIA | ‘ Blown From Porch, May Die. | | | | | i | Burn 80 Acres in Prince ! Georges. Sweeping acros Morigomery County Woman, HOUSES 7ARE UNROOFED Forest Fires During Storm the farmlands and small communities of nearby Maryland and Virginia, the 45-mile-an-hour gale, which caused thousands of dollars prop- {erty damage in Washington, 3 !blew down trees and roadsid broke power lines, unroofed | slowed down traffic on the highways and | fanned three forest fires over about 70 acres in Prince Georges County. The wind caused the greatest damage at a fire' starting near the railroad in § district, which burned over about 50 acres of | brush and timber. Four Maryland fire | companies, one engine company from | Washington and registered crew of fire campaign issue at the elections of next | fighters of the State Forest: Seat Pleasant-Tuxedo Depart- ment from Greater Capitol Heights bat- tled the flames three hours before th: were brought under control. Boys Fight Blaze, Avother forest fire swept over about 20 acres near Hyattsville, while about an acre of woodland near the State Roads Commission’s garage, at Marl- boro, was destroyed. Boys from the Cheltenham Reform School were called to fight this blaze. During the high wind which pre- vailed yesterday afternoon Mrs. Janie ., 83 vears old. was blown from the porch of her home near Pur- County, and so seri- injured that it is fearéd she can- not recove Although she was blown about 15 feet and sustained a broken hip and other injuries she succeeded in crawling into the house, where she was found an hour later by a neighbor. Dr. George M. Boyer, who was summoned, sald her condition is critical. .Hundreds of window 'panes were smashed, barns and other buildings unroofed and other damage done in Montgomery (‘ounty. Alexandria Is Hit. ‘The winds wrecked the roof and top floor of the home of James A. Pilkerson, at 403 South Lee street, Alexandria. Fortunately members of the Pilkerson family were in another part of the house VIRGINIA ILLITERACY SEEN STILL DROPPING S'Qnte' 'E.dnc:iior;' Vnro;rd Expects Minimum School Term Law to Help Solve Problem. By the Associated Pr ! RICHMOND, Va. March v8.—The situation with' respect to. illiteracy in Virginia has been markedly improved since 1925, when the last school census was ‘made, it was stated today, by ,of ficials of the State Board of Education. | The progress . shawn . by ..the . school census of 1925 for the preceding five years is believed' by officials to bé ¢ol tinuing, with further decreases in fili erates. The reports for 1925 sboweq total number of illiterates of on! 14,072, or“less than half the total ilift- erates reported for 1920. Of these, 5839 white and 7,646 negro illiterates were in the rural sections-and 587 in the cities of the State. The school popula- tion for 1925 was 701,534, with ages ranging from 7 to 19 years. New provisions of the compulsory school attendance law requiring a mini- | mum school term of seven months and increasing the age range of children subject to school attendance will have the effect of increasing school enroll- ment and attendance and will reduce still further the number of filliterate: of the State, it was said. These new provisions, which officials point to as | lending - considerable more strength to the compulsory school attendance law, were passed at the last meeting of the | General Assembly. At Akron, Ohio, it is proposed that ] the bed of the canal be utilized as the location of a street which shall have facilities for electric and steam cars on the ground level, local motor trans- portation on a structure above, and through passage on a still higher way. - When Winds ol House at 403 South Lee street, Alexandria, where the large chimney was blown over, tearing away the entire roof. wheh the roof caved in and were not injured Telephone service both in the cit and along the road to Fort Humphreys was hard hit, with many wires blown down, while many streetglights were cut off without electricity last night because of damaged wires. Fight chimney fires yesterday after- noon and last night were attributed to | the gale. The Union District High School | Building - at the mining town of Bay- | ord, Md. was wrecked by the wind- storm, the entire roof being carried off, striking a store and residence across the street and_completely blocking the | main_ street. The bell and tower were | | | Colleg | Confer at Lynchburg. | Sbecial . Dispatch to The Star. | pected: from ' Virginia - colleges for' a | conference ~which 'is *being held at | Lynchbiirg College, ‘today, tomorrow and ‘Sunday. A banguet will be held | this evening, with'Dean C. L. McPher- | son’ as toastmaster. The principal ad- | dress, will.be by Dr. Edmund D. Soper, president of Ohio Wi n. | Other speakers will include Dr. Wil- Jiam Adams Brown 6f Union Theo- logical Seminary, Ricimond; Dr. John! Hart - of. .University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Francis H. Scott, Rognoke; Rev. R. W. Mifles, Lynchburg; Dr. Ernest L. ‘Thompson of Richmond and Dr. Henry Louls Smith, president of Washington and Lee. | TR T KEYS BILLS ARE PASSED. | Measure Voted by House Broadens %y Cotlnge‘ City Authority. | Byia Stafl Cofrespondent of The Star. ¢ ANNAPOLIS, Md. March 8.—The 1bllls introduced last week by Willlam F. | Keys-of Mount Rainier, to give sufficient | authority."to the town.of Cottage City. | between Mount ‘Rainier and Bladens- |'burg, to maké‘it a‘full-fledged munici- pality were passed last night by the House of Delegates. , - . | The bills included, were: One extend- | Ing the limits of the town; increasing the salary of the treasurer from $60 to $100 a year; regulating the election of the two commissioners; providing a 12- cent tax levy. for the use of the fire the town fo borrow within 10 per cent of the tax assessment for street and highway improvements,, and providing for the disposition of real which taxes are unpaid. March Roar ing Silk Clear-to-the-Top “LADY LUXURYS” AT FORT WORTH SHOW. Cowbovs to Divide Honors With Beasts at Live Stock Exhibition. FORT WORTH, Tex. bronchos and cowboys will divide exhi bition honors with pure-bred live stocl of the new sclentific Southwest, March (#).—Bucking | 9 to 16, at the Southwest Exposiion and | Fat Stock Show. Cattiemen and poultry find thousands of head cattle, fat hoge, sheep and poultry in exposition stalls. It will be the South's largest poultry show. Nearly $1.250.000 worth of live stock will be ready for pa- vilion auctions and private sales. Leading stables of the country will be represented at the horse show. Hun- dreds of counties will present agricul tural exhibits. Sales at the stock show are expected 16 total $400.000 this vear. The Southwest of frontier, d: Jive again in an eight-day rodeo. boys and cowgirls will 100 outlaw horses. $90,000 IN BONDS SOLD. Va.. Gravity Water Supply System. will Cow- Purcellville, Planning for ttempt to ride ' | owners will | of pure-bred | hosieried ankles and Then, Milady will be prond of her snugly limbs—in the precise shades needed 1o bring out the full glory of her Spring ¢ PURCELLVILLE, Va., March 8 (Spe-' cial).—The $90,000 water bond issue of the town of Purceliville been taken over by the Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Co. of Pittsburgh. Pa contracted to do the work in installing & gravity system water supply for the fown. Sixty thousand dollars of this is- #e was voted upon March 24 last and the remaining thirty thousand dollars Jul The suppiv will have ite source in the Blue Ridze Mouninis sour »e of Hi, oro. Tweniv-five fire {\:- will be installed, 2 miles which had | i ‘7th & K 3212 1dth “Women's Shop—1207F. > LYNCHBURG, Va., March 8.—Fac- | | ulty and student representatives are ex- | department; granting full police powers | to the town commissioners; authorizing | tar Stafl Photo. | building torn loosé. The town is with- out light.” * An Associated Press dispatch from Rocky Mount, Va. states that fire | sweeping through a residential block | and driven by a northwest gale had | destroyed six homes. Fire departments at Roanoke.and Martinsville responded to calls for help. One of the worst northwest gales in several - months swept over Norfolk, lashing the water front and inflicting considerable property damage in va- rious sections of the city, according to the Associated Press. Only one injury was reported as being directly due to the windstorm, but scores of plate glass windows were smashed. |SOCIAL SERVICE LEAGUE GAINS OUTSIDE NOTICE | Philadelphia Group Reguests Miss Irma Mohr Attend Conference to Report on Work. Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., March 8—That the Montgomery County Social Service League attracts outside attention is evi- denced by a letter received by Dr. Jacob W. Bird, league president, from Miss Mary E. Lucas, associate field directo {of the American Association for Organ- izing Family Soclal Work, in which she | commends the work done in Montgom- ery County and asks that Miss Irma | Mohr, executive secrétary of the league, be permited to attend .he conference soon to be held in Philadelphia and teil of the work done here. This was made known at the meeting ef the executive board. - Miss Mohr reported thet during Feb- ruary} league workers 'traveled 3,265 miles, making 520 visits In caring for | 197 familles*and supervising the care of 45 children, There were 34 more fam- ilies cared for in February than in Jan- uary and the bills for relief totaled | about $75 mofe. - We Can’t FORMED BY BOARD: TONING FUND BODY i 3y | Fifty Will Seek $5.000 Share to Pay Cost in Arling- ton County. BY LESTER N. INSKEEP, Staff Correspondent of The Star, CLARENDON, Va, March #—Deter- mined to raise their share of the fund with which to meet the expenses of the | | 7oning commission within a 30-day | ! period, the 25 members of the board of | directors of the Ailington County | Chamber ofsCommerce last night agreed | to each bring another member to a ! meeting at the Washington Golf and { Country Club next Wednesday night, | | the extra members to form half of a | special finance committee to solicit the | | funds. | It was agreed by the board of di- rectors that there should be at least 50 | members of the committee which is to ! raise the $5.000, and each member of the board said that he could find a | member of the chamber, who is not a ! | member of the board. who would be | willing to raise at least $100. Four Morfths Held Sufficient. Considering the fact that the city of Washington was zoned within = six months from the time the work was started, it is the hope of the chamber that the task of zoning Arlington Coun- ty can be completed in four months. The four months ’time. it was ex- | plained by P. P. Woodbridge, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, should give the commission time to complete |its actual designation of the various types of development. but would not, of course. be sufficient time to straighten out the objections that are certain to arise. 1t was agreed to write to each mem- ber of the chamber and to all of the | civie organizations in_the county, re- questing that thev aid in the drive in the way they think best. It will be sug- gested to the civic bodies that they ma help either by raising funds themselves | or by creating a favorable attitude to the project among their members. | Protests Road Closing. |, Teon Arnold, chairman of the execu- tive committee. brought up the matter of the State roads being closed for such a long period during the time they are being reconstructed. The matter was referred to the State highway commit- lee. of which W.'S. Hoge, jr, 15 chair- President Keilh A. Brumback last COMMISSIONERS AGREE TO SCHOOL SITE OFFER Property Owners' Price of 393,480 for Location Is Aclepted by D. C. Heads. The District Commissioners today ac- cepted the offer of property owners to sell for $93,480 a site for a junior high school in the vicinity of Fourteenth and E streets northeast. ‘The property consists of all of square 093 lying_east of Seventeenth place except a four-foot strip directly south of the south line of C street, and all of square 1107 with the same excep- tion. This property was condemned for the school site, but the Commissioners dis- missed the case when the condemna- 'tion jury reported a price of $102.600 The current appropriation act carried 04,000 for the purchase. Duiing the past vear the Automobile Club of Germany issued frontier passes to 23,902 members of foreign clubs en- tering the country, the largest number for any year since the war. PAPER THEFTS REPORTED. For the last vear, 35 to 40 papers have been stolen daily from the hall of {the District Building just outside the Detective Bureau where they are left on the floor with an open cash box beside them to facilitate the making of change, William Warrick, colored, 2, of 633.K street southeast, who has e paper selling concession there, re- ported to Capt. Walter Emerson, in charge of the Bureau, today. ‘Warrick said at one time his Josses reached such an amount that he was forced to discontinue selling papers in the building. WATERSNAKE! night announced the standing commit- | tee chairmen. i The chairmen are as follows: Streets and highways, William S. Hoge, jr.; public utilities, Harris Levy; _public health and. sanitation, Dr. W. C. Wel- | burn; education, Walter K. Handy: | city planning and zoning, Ashton C. Jones: legislation, Walter U. Varney recreation, parks and playgrounds, | Arthur J. Porter; housing conditions, | Guy N. Church; transportation, Charles | T. Jesse: water, W. R. Rose; sewers, | C. W. Fitch: aviation, Fred N. Wind- ridge; taxation, Hugh Reid; industrial | promotion, Wiiliam P. Ames: public safety, J. O. Burks; retail promotion, Thomas R. Crack; manufacturing, A. L. Kell conventions and entertainments, | Leon’ Arnol Gosnell; finance, Louis C. Carl: mem. bership, Clarence R. Ahalf: open forum | and public meetings, H. C. Morris: co- | operation and service, A. K. Stratton, | College Girls to ' Give Oratorio. | FREDERICK, Md. March 8 (Spe- cial).~One hundred Hood College girl: will participate in the fourth annual | Lenten oratorio, which will-be present- ed March 24, under the direction of Prof. Henry T. Wade, head of the| musie department of-Hood College. | B & i In New York State automobile prop- erty ‘damage insurance rates have been reduced below what they were in 1927 Lay Too " Much Stress On “HAHN- SPECIALS” property on . | “ Our “Arcade” Shop open evenings. 7th New Spring Sox, 65¢—3 prs. $6.5 One of the Spring Hits “Nobby Boy” $6-50 OUR eyes will “pop out” when you see this shoe, and realize how much you're getting for the price! Extremely swell square brogwe last —smart stitching— wide, flanged pegged heel. Tan or black calfskin. Sizes 5 to 12, 44 10 E. Others and $6.50 S SR RN NN W Moo $1.50 Man’s Shop 14th at G 3212 14th & K AVING you a third on shoes which are praving the Style Sen- sation of the season. Genuine watersnakes at $6.50--an absolutely un- paralleled value! 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