Evening Star Newspaper, March 9, 1929, Page 7

SUBURBAN NEWSY MARYLAND ROADS PRAISED BY EXPERT Chief of U. S. Bureau Says State Has Best System in Entire Country. BY WILLIAM J. WHEATLEY. Staff Correspondent of The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md.,, March 9.—Mary: land’s road-building system, particularly as to the method of letting contracts, which has been assailed during the past several months before several investi- gating bodies and even in the halls of its Legislature by its own citizens, yes- terday received the unqualified appro- bation of the Federal Government, which paid part of the contruction bill, through Thomas H. MacDonald, ehief of the Bureau of Public Roads in the Department of Agriculture. For nearly three hours Mr. MacDonald oc- cupied the witness stand in the State- house before a joint session of the grand inquest of the Legislature and the Nelligan commission. Mr. MacDonald was closely examined as to the distribution of war material, gave expert opinion as to the methods followed by Maryland in putting good roais in the Staie, and told the inquest members that the svstem inaugurated in Maryland of roving the main arteries by shoulders, and using Federal aid money for building new lateral roads was the most profitable and most effi- cient from the viewpoint of the Federal Government and of the State. He said that Maryland was the first State in the Union allowed to go off the main roads in its construction. Praises State's Progress. Maryland has made more progress In building secondary roads than any other State in the Union, he testified. But he pointed out that the building of the secondary roads was profitable because it permitted the roads to earn money for the State by allowing traffic in more territory. He pointed out that it was the most courageous policy to follow, and the most courageous acts are what al- ways bring criticism. A less courageous policy would have been, for instance, he sald, to take the Federal aid money and build the Washington-Baltimore boulevard 40 feet wide, and not build any secondary roads. But the efficient maintenance system which has been built up by the State of Maryland has resulted in keeping ! the main arteries in the best of shape, leaving the new construction money for the lateral roads. He pointed out also that the more roads, the more income. and the greater number of people are served, and this is just what the State had done, with the approval of the Federal Government. The policy inaugurated by the State Road Commission, he said, had relieved the taxpayers of the State from shouldering hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes, because without such a policy it would have been necessary for the counties to float big bond issues-| g to pay for the new construction. Many counties in many States now have big bond issues outstanding to pay for road construction on this less efficient policy, he said. Only a few States, he said, have I; record as good as Maryland, which has built up the most efficient road main- tenance system, which, he continued, is more important than new road con- struction. He said that there is no such thing as a permanent road. Close Check Kept. Questioned as to the comparative costs of road construction in Maryland as compared with surrounding States, he said that the average cost of the surrounding States was $2.60 a square yard for concrete road, while Mary- land's cost was $2.62. He pointed out that the Federal Gov- ernment engineers closely checked all projects in Maryland in which it was & partner in the payment of costs. It checked the materials, the specifications and finally checked the finished project. He detailed the Federal Government’s system in paying part of the cost of State road construction and also was examined as to the distribution of war surplus material tor road building, ex- plaining some of its difficulties. He testified that it was impossible to give actual price values of the material de- livered at the time of transfer to the States and any prices on various pieces were merely arbitrary, citing, for in- stance, that new trucks that had never been used were invoiced at 89 per cent of their cost, regardless of whether they had deteriorated by having been allowed to stand out in the weather. There were many difficulties involved in the distribution and he cited an instance to show that those in charge of the dis~ tribution knew little about the material. ~He said the inventories showed “dirt scrapers.” These were believed to be good for road building and were in- cluded in the lists sent to the States as available material. Some of them selected them and when delivery was finally made there came many protests. It was found that the “dirt scrapers” were the small iron pieces placed on door steps which people could use to scrape mud off their shoes before enter- ing the houses. He testified that it was further im- possible to price the material because subsequent to the war there was no market and pointed out that TNT, for Which the Government paid 80 cents a pound, was bid on by manufacturers at 1 cent a pound. He said trucks sold as low as $40. Other witnesses before the committee yesterday were J. Bernard Wells, dep- uty State’s attorney; Ira H. Danforth, elevator man in the Garrett Building, Baltimore, and Thomas J. Dennis, as- sistant State auditor. They testified about the visit made to the roads com- mission offices in the building on March 18 last by Mr. Dennis, Daniel H. Car- roll, deputy State auditor, and Thomas A. Butler, Charles L. Robbins and C. V. Miles. The last three named are former employes of the commission, who were sent to the penitentiary for cefrauding the State. Another witness, William P. Zimmer- man, a photographer, testified to the dates appearing on certain pictures introduced previously in evidence, pur- porting to show the condition of con- struction of the Severn River Bridge. The dates on the pictures had been shallenged, and the photographer assert- ed to the investigators that he had cut the dates appearing on the pictures in the negatives and said they were cor- rect. SASSCER INTRODUCES $550,000 BOND BILL| re to Provide for Prince Georges Lateral Roads Is Offered. 3 a Staff Corespondent of The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md.,, March 9.—Float- ng of a bond issue in the amount of £550,000 for the purpose of building roads in Prince Georges County would be authorized under the terms of a bill introduced in the Senate yesterday by Senator Lansdale G. Sasscer of that county. Senator Sasscer also introduced a bill providing for the incorporation of the town of Eagle Harbor, in Prince Georges County. Mrs. Reubush Buried. STAUNTON, Va., March 9 (Special). -—Mrs. Isabella Reubush, widow of the Jate George Reubush and a native of this tion, died in Washingion Mon- day morning. She is sarvived by two sisters, Mrs, Etta Gentry and Mrs. Dora Nondabush of Washingion. Funeral warvices were held Thursday at Verona. Lauds Maryland THOMAS H. MACDONALD. 'TWO MEN ARE HELD IN ASSAULT CASES Schoolgirl and Young Woman | Make Charges in Arling- ton County. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT- HOUSE, Va., March 9.—Escaping after & chase of more than a mile by a train crew and employes of a filling station, following an alleged attack upon a young woman companion, Charles A. Martin, 25 years old, a soldier at Fort Humphreys, Va., was arrested on a bus as he was leaving Alexandria early this morning and taken to the Arlington Gounty courthouse, where he was charged with attempted criminal as- sault and highway robbery. He was held without bond when arraigned be- fore Judge Harry R. Thomas, in Police Court, this morning. Martin was one of two men arrested on similar charges for the Arlington County_authorities this morning. The other, Clarence Walter Schutt, 20 years old, was arrested in Washington and charged with a criminal attack on a school child. g According to Sergt. A. F. Driscoll of Potomac, Va., Martin took a young woman resident of Virginia Highlands to a dance at Quantico last night. Mar- tin is sa idto have struck the girl sev- cral times on the head with his fist when they reached her home and then took her pocketbook, containing $2, and led. Schutt was arrested as a result of having been recognized by a schoolgirl whom he is alleged to have assaulted on March 5 near the Washington-Lee High School. He was arrcsted by Po- licemen W. E. Thompson and Raymond Crack of Arlington County and Detec- tives A. T. Fihelly and Benjamin Kueh- ling of Washington. LEROY LINCOLN HIGHT FUNERAL TOMORROW Funeral services for Le Roy Lin- coln Hight, 63 years old, 1901 ‘Wyoming avenue, an assistant attorney in’the Bureau of Internal Revenue, who died in Garfield Hospital Thursday, will be conducted at the Hysong funeral home, 1300 N street tomorrow at 3 p.m. Mr. Hight served as an assistant at- torney in the Department of Justice during the Harding administration, He was formerly of counsel for the Grand Trunk Railway. He was a native of | Portland, Me.; was graduated from Harvard University, and later was. ad- mitted to the bar in Portland. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Clara Webster Hight; three sons, Wil- liam ‘Hight and Richard Hight of Los Angeles and Le Roy Sumner Hight of St. Louis, and two brothers, C. A. Hight, president of the United States Smelting, mfi&mg and Mining Co., and Francis ight. BANKERS PLAN VISITS IN STATE OF VIRGINIA Special Dispotch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va, March 9.—More than 500 bankers from New England, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and the District of Columbia will visit Virginia June 8, en route to the American Institute of Banking meeting at Cincinnatti early in June, the Virginia State Chamber of Com<; merce announced today. Two special | trains will be needed to handle the | movement. Charlottesville and Vir- | ginia Hot Springs will be visited by the | party in Virginia. Monticello and the University of Vir- ginia will be visited by the bankers Charlottesville, The party will arriv sarly in the morning and leave just prior to noon, arriving at Hot Springs at 4 | o'clock in the afternoon and following a dinner dance will continue to Cin- cinnatti. ‘The Virginia State Chamber of Com- merce also announced that approximate- ly 200 New England fruit growers also | will visit Virginia in the early Summer. | An itinerary for their visit already has been prepared by the Virginia Chamber and the exact date when the party will | come South will be announced shortly. ELKS TO CELEBRATE. Local Colored Lodge to Share in| Alexandrians’ Anniversary. Members of Columbia Lodge of Elk Pcolored. will leave Elks’' Rest, 301 Rho Island avenue, at noon tomorrow for | |'Alexandria, to take part in exercises| celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary { of Alexandria Lodge, No. 45. The local | | lodge, together with marching clubs and health units, will participate in the | program, it was announced by Oscar L. Deane, assistant secretar; | i PARENT-TEACHERS MEET.| | ARLINGTON, Va. March 9 (Spe- | cial).—J. B. Lowell was appointed at the | eacher Association las ent that body at tk rd of county supervi- School Parent-Te ight, to repre meeting of the b ttoir in any part of Arlington r th A card party will be held benefit of the association Wedne | | the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Coe {and a musical comedy, “The District | Hilltop School House,” will be given at the school Friday night. | Hyattsville, to the District line at| | monthly meeting of the Patrick Henry | sial)— Fight ra SEES EARLY AGTION ON 2 HIGHWAYS Bond Issue May Facilitate| Work on Rhode Island Ave- nue and Boulevard. Epecial Dispatch to The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md, March 9.— Extension of Rhoae 1s.and avenue along the west side of the electric railway car tracks from Johnsen avenue, Mount, Rainier znd completion of the widening of the Washington-Baltimore boulevard at an early date now seems assure In a letter received here, H. D. williar, jr., new chief engineer of the State Ro: Commission, say: the present ssion of e .ature is being asked to pass a $1,000,000 bond issue, $500,000 payable in 1929 and 500,000 payable in 1930, from the proceeds of which the commission plans to complete the widening of the boule- vard between Laurel and Baltimore to feet and to construct the two-mile xtension of Rhode Island avenue from Hyattsville to the District of Coiumbia line as rapidly as these funds become available. Has Emergency Clause. If the bond issue is passed, and it is virtually certain to be, as it has the support of the administration, it will become effeztive upon its passage, which will be before March 31, as iv contains an emergency clausc. Mr, Williar states that last year the State Roads Commission widened 3.6 miles of the Washington-Baltimore boulevard fro mLaurel toward Balti- more out of the regular maintenance and reconstruction fund derived from the 2 cents tax on gasoline. This work cost approximately $60,000 a mile and consisted of the construction of a 10-foot concrete driveway on each side of the ting 20-foot road. This leaves 11 miles between the Baltimore City line and Laurel to be widened and 121, miles from Laurel to Hyattsville. At vattsville work of eliminating the existing Baltimore & Ohio Railroad grade-crossing by an overhead structure started Wednesday. Holds Project Tmportant. According to Mr. Williar, the roads commission feels_that the widening of the Washington-Baltimore boulevard is one of the most important projects to be accomplished, but that the finances for this particular kind of work should be geographically distributed on roads that need widening in the order of their importance, At the present rate it would take six or seven years to com- plete the widening of the Washington- Baltimore boulevard as planned and it is to speed the work that the Legislature is being asked to pass the $1,000,000 bond issue. Mr. Williar points out that 20 per cent of the bond issue, as is cus- {omary, will go to Baltimore City and very properly should be used to facili- tate the traffic eoming over the Wash- ington-Baltimore boulevard after it reaches the Baltimore City line. Mr. Williar describes the Rhode Island avenue extension from Hyattsville to Mount Rainier as extremely pertinent and it is estimated it will take about 85 per cent of the traffic which now goes by way of Bladensburg, Cottage City and through the congested part of the District. PARENTS OF GIRL, 7, KILLED BY CAR, SUE Mis. Schlesinger and Her Chauf- feur Face $25,000 Action in Baltimore. By the Assoclated Press. BALTIMORE, Md., March 9.—Mrs. Eleanor Medill Patterson Schlesinger, the former Countess Gizycka, and her chauffeur, Charles Frazier, were sued for $25,000 yesterday by the parents of a 7T-year-old girl who was killed when struck by Mrs. Schlesinger's automobile here Wednesday. ‘The suit s filed in Common Pleas Court by Mr. and Mrs. Glen W. Leroy, parents of Florence Leroy, who was killed when struck by the automobile while returning home from_ school. Frazier, who was driving the machine, told police he was en route to Washing- ton from New York when the accident occurred. Mrs. Schlesinger is a prominent mem- ber of Washington Society. She is the author of “Glass Houses,” a novel of life in the Capital. She divorced her first husband, Count Gizycka, a member of the Polish aris- tocracy. Her second husband, Elmer Schlesinger, former director of the United States Shipping Board, died last month at Aiken, S. C. CLOSED FOX SEASON BILL INTRODUCED BY EDMONDS Measure Sponsored in House Seeks Montgomery County Limitation of. Killing Animals. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md., March 9.—A closed season for the hunting of foxes in Montgomery County is provided for in a bill introduced in the House yesterday by Dr. George L. Edmonds of Rockville. The proposed law would prohibit the setting of traps for foxes at any time within 30 feet of a den, and would make it unlawful to hunt with dog or gun, or trap, foxes between May 1 and July 15 of each year. However, nothing in the law is to be construed as pro- hibiting the killing of a fox by residents on their own property at any time, ex- cept when the fox is being chased by hounds under the charge of a fox hunter, The bill provides a fine of from $5 to $25 for each offense, and imprison- ment in the county jail until the-fine and costs are waid in full. The fine and costs are to go to the Montgomery County commissioners. A bill introduced by George C. Peverly of St. Mar) County, would make it unlawful, punishable by a fine of $25, to trap or catch a fox ab any time in St. Mary's County. EIGHT CHILDREN FREED. Urchins, Accused of Stealing Coal, Placed on Probaticn. ALEXANDRIA, Va, March 9 (Spe ged lif urchins, ranging from 10 to 15 s in age, | were piaced on probation” for a period |of one year when arraigned before Judge Willlam S. Snow, in Police Court, this morning on @ charge of stealing coal from the plant of the Virginia Public Service Co. on the river front. Game Refuge Planned. FREDERICK, Md, March 9 (Spe- cial) —Plans for the purchase of from 1.000 to 2,000 acres of Frederick County adaptable timberland for the establishe RENO, Nev, March 9 (#).—Fay Lanphier as “Miss America” was the cynosure at Atlantic City, but when | she got her divorce in District Court | here yesterday she shrank from pablic view. | The hour for trial of her suit against |S. M. Spiegel, jr.. of Chicago, was set at 4 o'clock this afternoon, but to avoid a crowd the to 1 p.n. today and then hcard the case in his chambers. - BEAUTY GRANTED DIVORCE | ge advanced the hour | ment of a State game refuge were out- lined by E. Lee Le Compte, Maryland | game warden, at the annual meeting of the Frederick Chapter of the Izaak | Walton League of America in this city Thursday evening. Other cluded Swepson Earle, Mas : tion commissioner; | Yeung of the Biological Su | tes Department of Agr | B. Carl, president, and Frax cretary of the Hagerstown, Md., chaoter, and D. C. Winebrenner, 3d, secretary of Slales CLARENDON TO HAVE NEW BLOCK OF STORES Brick Buildings to Replace Old Frame Structures on Wil- son Boulevard. Special Dispatch to The Star. CLARENDON, Va, March 9.—Old frame structures at the corner of Wil- son Boulevard and Lorton avenue, long considered out of tune with the march of progress in the business section of | this place, are being removed to make way for a large modern brick and stone business building to cost approximately $60,000. 5 Contract for the new structure, which will occupy a frontage of 125 feet on Wilson Boulevard, conforming some- what to the architecture of the Rucker and Jores Buildings erected here in the | ¥ past four years by the George H. Rucker Co., promoters of the new de- velopment, has been awarded by Ashton C. Jones, president, to Arthur J. Porter, | b contractor and builder of Clarendon. Six stores, all fronting on Boulevard, will be provided on the first floor of the building. which is to be only partially a two-story affair. The sec- ond story part, which is to be made into offices, will occupy a space over the two stores at the corner. The build- ing is expected to be ready for occupancy in about three months. Byrd to Speak in Ohio. RICHMOND, Va., March 9 (£).—Gov. Harry F. Byrd has been invited by the Steubenville, Ohio, Chamber of Com- merce to speak before that body at a meeting March 21, the day before the Virginia governor is to speak before the | Ohio Chamber of Commerce at Colum- by ‘Wilson | RAIDERS CARRY OFF DOORS AS EVIDENCE Washington Man Accused of Pos- sessing Gambling Equipment on Conduit Road. | Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md, March 9—As a | result of a visit Thursday afternoon by | a squad of Montgomery County officers, including Chief of Police Alvie A. Mg~ {ley and Policemen Leroy Rodgers, Roy | Bodmer, Lawrence Clagett and Harry Merson, to a pretentious dwelling on the | Conduit road, half a mile from the Dis- | t rict line, a warrant was issued here esterday for the arrest of Edward V. | Kill well known in Washington | sports les, on a charge of having in | his possession paraphernalia for gam- ing. The warrant was sworn out by Chief Moxley. When the officers reached the build- ing they found the outside doors of double thickness and heavily bolted on | the inside. In an apartment in_ the | basement, the heavy iron door of which had to be forced with crowbars, was | found a roulette wheel and in other | parts of the building were dice, play- ing cards, tables and other gambling devices. Five telephones were in place and in working order, according to the officers. The various devices were brought to Rock as were the heavy outside doors. In the top of each of which was a peephole. A car capable of making 116 miles an hour. shown at Detroit show, sells for automobile. | aid outfits and a fire extinguisher. Fire Chief James M. Duncan, jr., of Alexandria has recently received a new The machine is specially equipped for speed and carries small first- —Star Staff Photo. MILLER LEADS IN RACE. G. 0. P. Mayoralty Primary Re- turns, St. Louis, Indicate Choice. ST. LOUIS, March 9 (#).—With two- thirds of the pracmcw reported, Mayor Victor W. Miller had a commanding lead over Henry W. Kiel, thrice mayor, in the Republican race for the nomi- nation. Miller led 55,387 to 49,256 in 440 out of 670 procincts. At one time Kiel was ahead 1,500 votes. In the Democratic nomination Law- rence McDaniel was continuing to out- distance his two opponents, gathering | 7.819 votes to 2,381 for Dr. John Simon and 2,257 for former United States Judge Henry Priest. Paris is to test the value of asphalt pavement laid in steel frame fSUBURBAN NEWSA < & 7 $3,000 VERDICT GIVEN IN DEATH OF CHILD| Trolley Line Loses Suit Filed by John V. Rowan in Arling- ton County. ARLINGTON COUNTY COUR® HOUSE, Va.,, March 9.—A verdict fog $3,000 was returned by a jury in Cire cult Court late yesterday in favor of John V. Rowan, who had sued the Washington-Old Dominion Railroad for $10,000 for the death of his 19-monthe ou?r ;:.mld. 0 e suit was brought as a resulf of the child having :{en struck byu: car at Pierce Station on September 16, 1927. The child was said to have run -lzlxl\ the track as the car was approach« . The traction company made a motion to have the verdict set aside and the court announced a date for a hearing on the motion would be set later. SON DIES WITH MOTHER. IMPERIAL, Mo, March 9 (#.—A father returned to his home here last nigit to discover the body of his son hanging from a basement rafter. 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