Evening Star Newspaper, March 11, 1929, Page 7

SUBURBAN NEWS. THE EVENING STAR. WASH TNGTON, MONDAY, MARCH 117, 1929. "SUBURBAN NEWS." b SIX ARE KILLED INAUTO AGCIDENTS Four Boys Meet Death at Bristow, Va., Grade Crossing. Epecial Dispatc BRISTOW, 11.—Grim | on the homes Virginia com- | od the lives | automobile bound freight | in this coltided train of t | the suit | the s By a Staft Correspondent of The Star. ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT- HOUSE, March 11.-The defense of Richard W. McMahon of Glencarlyn in collection of $369 in delinquent taxes was described by Commontwealth: Attor- ney William C. Gloth as an “absurdity” { this morn McMahon in his defense claims that of Virginia has no legal r to tax him, since Arlington County once a part of the District of Columbia | d should be i hecause it ly receded the State. . He that any xes paid by him should be assessed | the District and not by Virginia. } s filed by me as com- No Witnesses to Ace n of how ored the | d to be ‘There gt | ey d Siz- .bu!‘ for Two Boys F more of | Co. His body |a here for | Iuvl\ returned skull fracture brain_about 8:20 mother at his_bedside. th, jr., who drives portation Co., did not learn of his son’s death until he arrived at the hospi oss than five minutes later. Father Bids Good-by. William Kerlin, father of Hampton | Kerlin, it is said, bade his son good-by 2t their home less than 30 minutes| before the wreck. John Kerlin, sheriff | V' m County, is an uncile | I | | 1 father of the two| conducts a store at Aden. 2 1 of Manassas, 3 ner, who was out of town when the wreck took pla at an early hour this morning had nc completed arrangements for an inquest. | GIRL FATALLY INJURED. from Auto When Machine Crashes Into Tree. RITCHIE, Md., March 11 (Special).— Catapulted from an _automobile _in which she was riding when it ran off a e Eleanor , was_in- at 2 o'clock Webb, Thrown stantly yesterday aft Colored, driv erated of all bl ANNAPOLIS MAN KILLED. a coroner's jury. | Automobile Collides With Another Near Glenburnie, Md. GLENBURNIE, Md., March 11. Richard E. Hyde, 24, of Annapolis, Md., was fatally injured in a head-on col- n about half a mile north of here t night. He suffered a broken neck, fractured I and other mjuries of hile being taken to a who reported to State Policeman W. A. Plummer that another car pulled from behind a parked ma- chine, causing the head-on collision. The other car was reported to have been ven by Charles Randall, police s fictitious addre HARDY, BOY PROBIGY, NEARS PH. D. DEGREE! Master of 12 Languages at 13 Prepares to Enter Ministry. h 11 —Edward \nguLNl today. Readers of ars a child prodigy in a period | v as required by the erence to delinguent | id. “Freeland | s appointed the State Tax Com on as delinquent State tax col- of 19 d the law provides that where | shail be brought commonyealth, ROCI\VILLE TO HEAR NEW HOT[L PROPOSAL cannot collect st Plans Will Be Submitted Tomor- row Evening Before Meeting of Chamber of Commerce. | | | | | | | ARLINGTON HELD PART OF D. C. IN SUIT: DECLARED “ABSURDITY™ County Resident, Defe;ldant ;n Delinquent Tax Action, Says He Should Be Assessed Under Capital Laws. brought against him for the | '100-GALLON STILL which was jurisdiction merous times | question as to | is legally in Vi Gloth added. McMahon stated that he believed that | the residents of Arlington County will | | be greatly benefited by its return to | | the District, both as to taxes and im- | | provements, “If the State were to dismiss the case against him in so far as the delinquent taxes are concerned I would still carry the case through the courts in an effort | to have Arlington County receded to| | the District of Columbia,” McMahon | declared. | The suit against McMahon is the | first of a drive by authorities of the county and State to collect by suit all of the taxes which become d: { linquent for a period of five years or mor A minute examination of the tax books | |is being made and suits will be imme- | diately institutded in all ceses where Chew has been unable to collect. In some of the cases where the taxes have been delinquent for a number of years the owners are dead and the heirs can- ot be located. done. The question of s been passed upon nu- and the raising of the ther Arlington Coun nia is an absurdity,” FOUND AFTER FIRE| Removed From Debris Near Buck Lodge, Md.—Resident of House Missing. pecial Dispatch to The Star. | ROCKVILL 1d., March 11.—The| ns of Rockville and the county |have been invited to attend a special | | meeting of the Rockville Chamber of | Commerce tomorrow evening to consider the erection of a modern hotel in Rutk-i ing of the chamber | Robert_G. Hilton, | 'mers’ Banking & Co. of Rockviile: Rufus E, ntractor and builder, of Rockv Washingion: Harold C. Smith. Roc attorney, and Rossell C. Mitchell, Chevy Chase architect, had been giving the matter consideration for some time and had reached the conclusion that such | a project would be a success in the| county seat and could probably be put | across if sponsored by the Chamber of | Comumerce. ! At the meeting tomorrow evening Architect Mitchell will, it ja stated, be | prepared to submit suggestions as to| buildings of varicus types and sizes nndv to give some idea as to the cost, and a | representative of a well known hotel | promotion concern is expected to at- (tend and give his opinion as to the availability of Rockville as a site for an up-to-date hotel, to offer suggestions as | to financing and to give other advice concerning the project. It is understocd to be the wish of those behind the movement to have as many people of the community in-| j terest themselves financially as possible, | !but, according to Attorney Harold C. Smith, if there is a disinclination on the | part of the pubiic to co-operate a few | will get together and endeavor to work out a plan that will give Rockville a| modern hostelr: e THREE ARE SENTENCED ON ‘POLICY’ GAME CHARGE Declared to Have Conducted Gam- bling at Halls Hill on Clear- ing House Figures. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star, ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT- HOUSE. March 11.—Arrested in a raid carly this morning by Deputy Sheriff Hai L. Woodyard and County Police- man Ray Cobean, Edward Johnston, Jerry Ross, colored, and Beatrice Gray, colored, were fined $25 and costs each and sentenced to 30 days in jail on charges of conducting a “policy” game in Halls Hill, ‘The woman tumed state’s evidence and the jail sen‘ence against her was suspended. A similar charge against Edward O'Connell was dismissed for lack of eviden Attorney Homer Ran- dolph Thomas, a son of Judge Harry R. Thomas, who pronounced sentence, noted an appeal as regarding the cases of Johnston and Ross. According to the officers, the raid complaints that the alleged game, which based upon a daily Federal Reserve clearing house figure, had been in oper- |/ ation among the colored residents at Halis Hill. They claim to have found 2 number of betting forms and other paraphernalia, THREE HURT IN CRASH. jured, Third Not Seriously. MARTINSBURG. W. (Special) . Colbert were injured, the first two serious! ‘\hrn the cars which Williams and Col- crt were driving collided (/flh ert is in a ]m~ml1l suffering | probable internal injuri ‘Williams s | home under a physic| care, Brooks was not seriously hurt. The steering | ars of both cars were torn loose. . Hotel quaged by Storm. n aca- hopes (u when won- | at ! the 1 a fow steps 1is father York | at tlie age of university New York Attends Theotor FROSTBURG, ‘\k] March 11 of the roof of story brick sdale, was windstorm. Three % in front of the hotel were ‘wu ‘a_min from ti he will re time t Celumi; in which pects to get his doctor’ nbia College he ne e theater. nees nnd -mx—vn he i Johr is a member of 0 pounds, 2 the Cathedral of ¢ where he Club. s now, he says, that wher College there wa: “above my head. ¢ a part ir Divine went on asked to ta ity & v of 1921, " he had no inkiing that it was stunt. am fully aware now nted me Tor the. Bubioity arance gave to the show,” Km W appe ze vow that many things wen / head.” He does not resen Hie thinks it i3 humorous. : | Lengthens List of Langu With a knowledge of 15 d a half years. These additions ar iac and Sanskrit, both of which h ed in order to further study a ancient histo! Included in the temsive list of tongues he has mastere Iunearian, Danish, Chind French, iof I'school girl recently. was made as the result of numerous | uvo (Takenito Ha:xum Badly In-| R. C. Williams, manager of | ihe Berkeley Woolen Co. plant; Charles | and Earl Brooks of this city | (Spe- ! blown | y in the Spring. Then to vesearch in “You'll Never that they that my Hardy | didn't know that at the time, | Hardy has increased | ¢ number only two in the last four Special Dispatch to The St. 0CKVILLE, Md., March 11.—Mont- gomery County police are today in- vestigating the discovery of the remains of 2 100-gallon still in the ruins of a fire which pr: y destroyed the | home of W. F. Burbage near Buck | Lodge, Md., Saturday night. :'Roy_Bodmer of the county has been instructed to brin . Who was not home when the broke out, in for investigation to find him will result in the arre ~L on investigation of his wife, who, polic say, went to Frederick for shelter fol- lowing the blaze. Tngredients for the manufacture of |, whisky, police say, were found in an| outbuilding on the farm. The house | is belicved to belong to Reginald D, | Poole of Washington. The remains of the stil are now in the basement of the Rockville courthouse. TWO MEN ARE HELD FOR GRAND JURY ACTION Arlington Court Remands Youths | Without Bond on Assault Charges. v @ Staft Correspondent of The Star. | ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT-| IiOL‘SE March 11 rraigned be- fore Judge Har . Thomas in_police | court this morning, Clarence Walter | Schutt, 20, 2100 block of H street, Washington, waived a_ preliminary hearing and was held without bond for action of the grand jury on a charge having attacked a 12-year-old Charles A. Smith, a soldier of Fort Humphrics, Va., listened to the reading of a statement previously made by him in_connection with an alieged_attack made upon a young woman and stated that it was correct. He too was held for action of the grand jury without bond. He also faces a charge of high- way robbery, the young woman having ccused him of taking her pocmietbook. Following these hearings, Common- | wealth Atterney William C. _Gloth | communicated with Dr. J. S, DeJarnette, superintendent of the Western State Hospital in smumonl requesting that he come here Wednes- | day and conduct a mental examination of Milton Rothery, one of several youths, held here on houscbreaking charges. $20,000 for Kipling Works. Nearly $20,000 was paid within 20 minutes for rare editions of Kipling's | works at an auction in London recenti A firsi edition of “Scholboy Ly |printed in_ Lahore, India, in 1881, | brought $5,500, while a copy of “Echoes” by Kipling and his sister | Beatrice, 1884, realized $2.250. Bids for | A copy of “Leiters of Marque,” the sup- | {'pressed English edition, went only to | 50, but the auctioneer knocked it | down to.an absent buyer “Plain Tales From the Hills, an autograph, brought $625. Va,, March 11 | | s SHOW n | 5| n s t t) o e | n d ) Gaclic, Swedish and German. | to 1727 CO:. PROPERTY OWNERS SIGN FORNEW ROAD Right of Way Given for Road From Ballston to Lee Boulevard. BY LESTER N. INSKEEP. Staff Correspondent of The Star. GLEBEWOOD, Va., March 11.—Free rights of way for a new 40-foot highway fiom Ballston to the proposed Lee Boulevard have been signed by all of the property owners who would be af- fected by the road and wiil be offered to the county for development, it was announced today by Robert T. Fore- man, chairman of the roads committee of the Glebewood Citizens' Association and one of the property owners. The new road would bisect a terri- tory not heretofore served by a high- way and would be approximately cne mile in length. There is little doubt in the minds of the donors that it wili be accepled. Among those who have signed the rights of way are State Scnator Frank L. Ball, his law partner, Lawrence W. Foreman and Arlington Hall Waiile was _to constructed only in ¢ Lee Boulevard follows the p Ik for it, the dono 1o let the otfer stand 1se of the fact that the new road would connect with a cement road now running iuto the school, The Lee Boulevard, the State high- way that is to be Virginia's first con- tion with the new Arlington Memo- rial Bridge, takes an equal amount of ound from the school and Foreman, the center of the route being the line between the two properties, hence the proposed new county road would make two North and South connections, the State having already arranged to pave Glebe road from the Lee Highway to Columbia Pike. Arlington Hall and the residents of Giebe road have never been given the proposed that the road the wre willing | privilege of transportation other than that furnished by themselves, their ple for a bus line having been denied be- ause of the fact that it would have been impossible for the heavy vehicles have gotten through Glebe road at certain times of the yes With the paving of Glebe r nty and the construction of the proposed county road a probability, it planned by residents of that section to request Leon Arnold, operator of the busses now running on Wilson Boule- vard and the Lee Highway, to start service to the school. Residents are confident that with the school, where there are now more than 150 students as well as the personnel, the extension of the bus line could be made to pay. 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The lease of the present post office | quarters will soon expire, and the Post | Office Department has requested bids which will be received until March 2 for rental of a building for 5 or 10| years from January 1, 1930. According to Postmaster Willis B. Bur- | dette, William E. Viett, owner of the | 1t post office building, and Brosius Rockville automobtie dealers ns calling for | Mr. Viett will, it is | up-to-date structure understood, propose to remodel, and mod- | ernize the present building, and the | of Brosius Brothers will, it i provide for the erection of Jequate thelr au 2 on Montgomery avenue, near lll M gomery County National Bank Building Other bids may also be submitted, 1t 15 | stated, The' Rockville post office fs regarde as probably the most important in th county. +Not only does it serve th wn of I’mrk\lll: where there are two epting Sun- routes radi- | ate from the office and cover all of | Rockville district_and large portions of Darnestown, Wheaton districts, points as far gway | as 12 or more miles being reached. The office have I)nrn‘ steadily increasing for a good many 0 Postmaster Burdette stated to- | . which, of course, means that the| cen growing in propor: tion, and the need of a more adequate building is said to be generally recog- nized. Postmaster Burdette is und; stood to feel that when tne new 1 | is signed a modern post office, suffic for the needs of the community for 2 good many ¥ W \.1 be @ | stuted, Reappointed I.ami Patent Clerk. KENSINGTON, Md., March 11 (Spe- clal) —President Herbert Hoover has reappointed Mrs. Viola B. Pugh as clerk to sign his name to the land patents. | Mrs. Pugh was first appointed August | 8, 1921, by President Harding and has since signed the name of Calvin Cool- idge during his administration. She is the fifth woman to hold this office, created during.Jackson’s administration. 5 «25¢ 2 HEADS 1 5c o o| COMMISSIONER TO ASSIST Office of Harry K. 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