Evening Star Newspaper, March 15, 1929, Page 10

fSUBURBAN NEWS "THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, . €. FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1999, MORTON DISCUSSES OV COVERNENT Alexandrian Addresses War- renton Rotary on City Manager Plan. * #pecial Dispatch to The Star. WARRENTON, Va., March 15—“The council-manager plan of municipal gov- | ernment is the highest hope of the | American people for a combination of { science and democ- | racy in our citics,” City Manager Paul | Morton of Alexan- dria, Va, declared here yesterday in an address before the Warrenton Ro- tary Club. “The plan is one borrowed from the experience of big N business and is ex- actly the same as now applied to a o factory, bank, rail- road or any suc- cessful business or i industry,” he said. “The city council serves as the board of directors, the city manager is » general manager ang you, the taxpayers, are the stock- holders. The only difference is that the purpose of city administration is not the accumulation of wealth, but pay- ment of dividends in service to you, turning any surplus back into the capi- tal of the municipal enterprise.” Morton told the Rotarians that the points of the plan that merit special approval are the elimination of politics, increased cfficiency of employes, econ- | omy of expenditures, more miles of streets and sidewalks, fixed responsibil- ity or centralized administration control and reduced taxes. Paul Morton, TOBACCO FARMERS MEET PRINCE GEORGES | 200 TREES TO BE SET. | Virginia K. of P. Officers Plan PRINCE GEORGES cial) —Officers of the Grand Lodge of | Knights of Pythias of Virginia are to | take part tomorrow in the planting of | about 200 young trees on the grounds at | the Pythian Home, near Néw Market, va. | Representatives of all lodges of North- ern Virginia are to have & part in i ceremony. Grand Lodge officers w special guasts last night at a big rally $194,000 School Bond Issue and Mt. Rainier Measures Among Those Favored. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md., March 15.—Prince | Georges County had its innings in the House last night, when that body passed i five bills affecting the county as a! whole and two i towns within thi at Woodstoc! THREE FIREMEN HURT | IN AUTOMOBILE CRASH Two Jefferson District Men Con-| Members of the Maryland Tobacco Growers® Association who met yesterday at the courthouse in Upper Marlboro for a conference on co-operative marketing and the problems confronting their industry in the State. Star Staff Photo. T0BACCO GROWERS MEET N COUNTY Co-operative Marketing Is Subject of Parley at Upper Marlboro Courthouse. UPPER MARLBORO, Md, 15.—Declaring the und the proposed farm relief legislation is | based on co-operating organizations of | roducers, Dr. F. B. Bomberger, assist- March ALEXANDRIA PLANS | City Officials to Confer With Rail- | road Representatives Next Week. ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 15 -Clh’} officials will hold conferences with rep- | resentatives of two railroads next week | in the hope of reaching satisfactory agreements that will enable them to proceed with the construction+oi two greatly needed permanent ments. Mayor William Albert Smoot, City Manager Paul Morton and City En By a Staff Correspondent of The Star, CLARENDON, Va, March 15.—The elaberate plans for the sixth birthday anniversary of the Organized Women Voters of Arfington County include, among_other features, an address by cer E. C. Dunn will meet with repre- | Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, daughter of sentatives of the Richmond, Fredericks- | the late William Jennings Bryan and burg & Potomac Railroad Co. Tuesday | & member of the House of Representa- afternoon_at City Hall to discuss the | tives from Fiorida: a piano colo by Miss | digging of two underpasses under the | Virginia Bestor of Lee Heights, Va., raflway tracks, one at Cameron street | and numbers by Miss Cleo Scanland and the other at Oronoco street, Parks, contralto, who will be accom- The conference to be held with the |panied by Miss Mary Izant Washington, Alexandria and Mount Ver- | pianist. non Electric Railway Co. to plan for the | ~ The -birthday party will be held at repaving of seven blocks of King street |1 o'clock on March 22 in the guild | hall of St. Mary's Episcopal Church at Rixey Station. i 1t is largely through the separation | of the various activities of the organ- IDOW DIES | ization that the program to be presented | this year has been arranged. = | " Under the new plan the activities are improve- | has been set for Thursday afternoon at | City Hall. | Soen DEVIL ANSE’'S W East Survivor of Hatfield-McCoy | Couch, | | /ORGANIZED WOMEN VOTERS | TWO IMPROVEMENTS ~ PLAN BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION Arlington County Group to Be Addr:ssedi by Representative Ruth Bryan Owen on Next Friday. SUBUREBAN divided into three groups—civie, political and publicity. Mrs. Rex Hunt is chair- man of the first activity; Mrs. Neta | Broaddus of the second and Mrs. Amos | Crounse of the third. T7rs. Arthur J. Williams, jr., is chalrman of the special birthday program. The outstanding work of the organ- ization for the year is the plan now | under way for the establishment of a | permanent clinic bu‘lding in Clarendon. The drive was carried out under the | direction of Mrs. Mary Morris Lock- | wood, who upon several oecasions led | large delegations before the board of | county supervisors to urge that a clinic building similar to those in use in the other two districts of the county be | constructed in Clarendon, near the site | of the old bullding which has been torn | down. At the business meeting, which is to | precede the entertainment, it is ex- pected that Mrs. Lockwood will make a full report. | Feud Expires at 87. | | LOGAN, W. Va., March 15 (#).—Mrs. | Levisa Hatfield, 87, widow of “Devil | Ans Hatfield, who gained wide re- nown in the Hatfield-McCoy feud in | the eighties, died at her home here | today of pneumonia. Mrs. Hatfield, who leaves 10 children, By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. Girl, Injured by Auto, Turns Vote community in the hands of the council- NEWS.’ FRIENDS T0 HONOR CIHLMAN MARCH 25 Testimonial Dinner Will Be Held on Maryland Day for Member of Congress. Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md. March 15—Th testimonial dinner to be given to Repre- ntative Frederick N. Zihlman in the new armory building at_Silver Spring on Maryland day, March 25, promises to be one of Mon gomery Count; Tost notable event It is being ar- ranged by Mr. Zihl- man’s Silver Spring neighbors and other friends and will be entirely non-politi- cal. According to Capt. Frank L. Hewitt, who heads the general com- mittee of arrange- ments, preparations will be made to en- Frederick N. Zihlman fertain 800 guests. Secretary of Labor Davis, Speaker Nicholas Longworth, United States Senators Goldsborough and Tydings, former Senator O. E. Wel- ler and members of the Maryland dele- gation in the lower house of Congress will be present, and Vice President Cur- tis has been invited. ying factor of | = was one of the last of either the Hat- field or McCoy One of her am; took an active part in rel, however. All of the Mc- e belleved to be dead. Wil ns, few gan! DI rs have made co-operative or- ations necessary among farmers. CAPITOL HEIGHTS, Md., March 15. | men. amilies directly con- | | nected with the imbroglio Bomberger told the 200 farmers “The mayor and Town Council of Cap- | When he returned to the meeting, the | council D, W 4 - e itol Heights will hold a special meeting | fon Gom. and reoning Snree toldeen | in the firehouse tonight, and 10 had been killed by machines in_their |old Irene Glover is largely responsible, | community in the last two years, had |"“Irene involuntarily played an _im- | decided in favor of sidewalks.” They had | portant part in the civic affairs of the ! even gone so far as to decide that Cen- | fown, and became something of a|tral avenue. on which is located the | “mar to the cause of civic advance- | Capitol Heights School, and portions of ment Tuesday night when she was run | Which only 14 feet wide have to be | |plans formulated Tuesday | Committees were appointed and other and final preparations are expected to be made at another meeting at Silver Spiing next Monday. TWO BENEFITS PLANNED. Card Party Tonight for Benefit of Morton also explained the evolution of city government. He said that the fikea b Roih Sdeweis ARG Wawwhy: political subdiv should receive first attention. eI sipHGEinel | ant director of extension work of the assembled in the courthouse that the| down and injured by an automobile. sion. The principa S fined to Washington Hos- L University of Maryland and chief of the | Maryland Tobacco Growers’ Association, | The mayor and council were meeting Capitol Heights Fire Force, first city to adopt the council-manager plan was Staunton, Va., in 1908, On January 1. 1929, the plan was being used in 392 cities in the United States, Canada and New Zealand, serving over seven and one-quarter million citizens, Mayor Thomas E. Frank, Council- men C. E. Tiffany, H. I. Hutton, D. P. ‘Wood, W. N. Hodgkins, Town Manager Sidney Shumate and City Attorney W. H. Rpbertson attended the meeting as special guests of the club. .~ WATER FRO | URGED IN MARYLAND| Commission Would Control State's Activities in Waterway Development. By a Staft Correspondent of The Sta ANNAPOLIS, Md., March 15.—Im- provement and protection of the water fronts of Maryland along the Ptomac River and other rivers in the State, along the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean front is sought in a bill | introduced in the House of Delegates | yesterday, which provides for the ap- pointment of a commission by the gov- ernor. Duties of the proposed commission are detailed as follows: To examine, investigate and recommend to the Legis- Iature plans and policies for the pro- tection of the water front and water- ways of the State against erosion; to | co- in carrying into effect such plans for improvement of water front pmrefly and waterways and to fepre- sent the State in conferences for the discussion of such problems. ROCKVILLE. ROCKVILLE, Md., March 15 (Spe- clal).—An illness of several weeks re- sulted in the death, at her home near Traflah, early yesterday, of Mrs. Emma Elizabeth Roberts, 72, wife of William M. Roberts. She is survived by the fol- lowing children: Mrs. Jesse Magruder of Potomac, Mrs. Bertha M. Mills, Mrs. | J. F. Schwartzback and Mrs. Ernest C. Briggs of Travilah and Charles A. Rob- erts of Darnestown. The funeral will take place at the home at 2:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon, burial to be in the cemetery at Darnestown. Russell M. Smith, 18-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. George H. Smith of near ‘Washington Grove, died of pneumonia on Wednesday. He is survived by his | parents, two sisters and six brothers. ‘The funeral will take place Saturday | morning. Rev. Bertram M. Osgood of the Bap- tist Church officiated at the marriage in Rockville Wednesday afternoon of Miss Ann Mildred Moser, 21, of Marion, Va., and Ralph W. Knight, 23, of ington. Charles Hampton Pitts, 23, of Wash- ington yesterday afternoon obtained a license to marry Miss Marjorie B. Walk- er, 23, also of Washington. COL. ROJAS IN NEW YORK. Will Inspect Battle Planes Ordered for Mexican Federals. NEW YORK, March 15 (#).—Col. Bamuel Rojas, military attache of the Mexican embassy, was here yesterday to Inspect the fleet of battle planes ordered for the Mexican federal army. While Col. Rojas would not make known the number of ships to be pur- chased nor their type, it is understood there are eight bombing planes in the consignment. The embassy official is expected to spend several days trying them out and then will lead them in convoy to the Rio Grande, where he will relinquish command to the Mexican Air Corps. Col. Rojas is regarded as the most experienced aviator of Mexico. He holds his license as the only surviving member of the first class to be grad- uated in flying in the Southern republic. Promoted to Rank of Colonel. Announcement is made at the War| Dtl)aflmen! of the promotion to the full grade of colonel of Lieut. Col. George T. Perkins, Coast Artillery Corps, at the War Department; Lieut. Col. Lewis S. Morey, finance department of | the office of the chief of finance, War | Department; Licut. Col. Fred C. Doyle, Field Artillery, at Fort Des Moines, Jowa, and Lieut. Col. James P. Robin- ;‘cn. Field Artillery, at Governors Island, | . Y. | Diamond and $50 in Cash Stolen. A purse containing a diamond ring | valued at $600, a $20 gold picce and | $30 in bills was stolen from Mrs. M. Norman Leese of 2028 Twenty-eighth street yesterday afternoon while she was In a downtown theater, she report- | ed to the first preeinct police. Mrs. | Leese said she did not know when the ! purse was taken. Freight Vessels Collide. PANAMA, March 15 freighter Hanley, bound from New York for Seattle with a capacity cargo, was tied up at Cristobal today after a col- lission with the freighter George W. Barnes, from Baltimore to San Pedro in ballast. The Handley may have to un- dergo repairs before resuming her voyage. ‘Ihe Barnes continued through the canal for San Pedro. S - § Washburn's new athletic director is to teceive a higher salary than any mem- ber of the facuity. L2 NT BOARD | Rainier, $35,000 for a new building at | measure passed and sent to the Senate was the school bill providing authority for the county commissioners to issue bonds to the limit of $194,000 for either new school buildings or additions or altera- tions to present structures to take are of the ever- increasing school population, par- ticularly in the metropolitan district. ‘The school bill specifically provides certain amounts for projects, including | $50,000 for a new building near Mount W. F. Kevs, Decatur Heights, $50,000 for a new building at Bradbury Heights, $33,000 for an addition to the Riverdale School, including the purchase of additional land, if necessary; $18,000 for an addi- tion to. the Hyattsville Elementary School, $4,000 for a new colored school | bulilding at or near the site of the pres- | ent building at Holly Grove and $4,000 | for a new building at or near the pres- ent site at Mitchellville. | Two of the other bills, introduced by Delegate William F. Keys of Mount | Rainier, changed the boundaries of that | town. One adds to the corporation a| triangular section | of land about eight acres north of Rhode Island ave- nue, between the present town limits and the District of Columbia line, while the other changes the pres- ent boundary line between Mount Rainier and Brent. wood from the eastern edge of Grape street to the center lire. This, it was explained, was made neces- K. R. Mullikin. sary so that both corporations could share the burden of paving the street, instead of one corporation having to pay for it for the enjoyment of tax- payers living on the other side of the street and who would benefit. ‘The other two bills were those of Kent R. Mullikin, delegate from Laurel, one authorizing the mayor and city council of that town to issue bonds to the extent of $13,000, the proceeds to be used for the purchase of a fire engine and equipment, and the other| providing a bond issue of $10,000 for | the construction of street crossings and | to make general improvements to streets and public highways in this Prince Georges County city. TRUANCY CASES DELAYED. Opportunity Given Two Prince Georges Mothers to Meet Law. | By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. | CAPITOL HEIGHTS, Md., March 15. ~—Charges of violating the compulsory school attendance law by not sending their children to school were continued | against two local women in Police Court | here yesterday to give the children an| opportunity to show a better attendance | record. | The women against whom the charges are pending are Mrs. Edward Knight| and Mrs. Charles H. Kline, both of Cap- | itol Heights. YOUTH'S EYE R Lonnconing,_)E Student Victim of Accident at Schdbl. LONACONING, Md., March 15 (Spe- cial).—Aleck Byers, 15 years old, son | of Mr. and Mrs. William Byers, Fur- nace street, student at Central High School, submitted to an operation for | the removal of his left eye at Western | Maryland Hospital, Cumberland. He was injured when he ran into a bras: tipped ruler in the hands of Robert | Cameron in the manual training room at the school. CHURCH HOLDS DINNER. | Supper Begins at 5:30 0'Clock, in Charge of Mrs. C. W. Harris. CLARENDON. Va. March 15—The | Clarendon Presbyterian Church will | hold a baked shad dinner this ev | from 5:30 to 8 o'clock. A committee of | ladies of the church under the dir i irs, C. W. Harris is in charge of ngements. The dinner is for the benefit of the church fund. Confederate Veteran Dies. KEYSER, W. Va, March 15 (Spe- cial).—Jacob H. Wynant, Confederate | veteran, native of Rockingham County, | Va., died here yesterday. He served in | y A, “lst_Virginia Cavalry, | brigade. Rosser The funeral will be (P).—The | held Sunday afternoon at Bridgewater, }viver and she’s been gaining ever since.” Va. | Dunkard Elder's WINCHESTER, Va., March 15 (Spe- | cial) —Mrs. Susie Mary Stickley, i | years old, widow of Edward A. S {and daughter of the late Daniel Bak a native of Pennsylvania and the fi Dunkard Church elder to locate manently in this county, is dead from a stroke of paralvsis at her home at Vaucluse, near here. ’lcarton. pital by Injuries. Special Dispatch to The Star. VIRGINIA HIGHLANDS, Va., March 15—~Two members of the Jefferson District Fire Department are confined to *Emergency Hospital at Washington today with injuries received last nighf when they were struck by an automo- bile driven by H. B. Travers, 3¢, of Potomac, Va. The injured are George Clark, 25, of Rydeout avenue, suffering from con- cussion of the brain, cuts about the face, head and legs, and shock, and Allen F. Coch, 33, of Frazier avenue, who sustained a fractured leg, cuts about the face and abrasions. Frank Allwine, 35, of Murray avenue, was treated for a fractured hand. The three, accompanied by A. G. Henry, *Frank Jones and C. W. Ford, Iso members of the fire department, e returning to the engine house near River road, when struck by the machine. Travers said he was blinded by the lights of an approaching automobile. ARLINGTON SCHOOLS BEGIN HEALTH DRIVE County Officials Visit Classrooms to Interest Students in the 1 Campaign. By a Staft Correspondent of The Star. ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT HOUSE, Va., March 15.—In co-opera- tion with Mrs, N. R. Davies, county public health nurse, the Washington Dairy Council is conducting a health campaign in the Ariington County schools. To interest students a “story teller” will visit the elementary schools to explain the necessity of proper diet to the children and a dramatic leader will !t])rm dramatic clubs to present health plays. High school students will be appealed to by Clifford Goldsmith, known as “Prof. Happy,” & humorous lecturer. Lynchburg Woman Dies. LYNCHBURG, Va., March 15 (Spe- cial).—Mrs. Jane Newman, 62 years of age, died Wednesday at her home. She was a native of Russia and is survived y_two_daughter: EMOVED. * Columbia Road | Mother Amazed| Constipation is one of the worst health-ruiners for children. Waste matter held too long in their lit- tle stomachs and bowels, forms poisons which pollute their blood, cause headaches, bad breath, | coated tongue, indigestion; make them bilious, weak, sallow, fretful and underweight. 5 At the first sign of constipation, | give your child a little California | Fig Syrup. Children love its rich, fruity flavor. It’s purely vege-|( table, a gentle but certain laxa-| tive, and it gives tone and! strength to the stomach andj |bowels so they continue to act| normally, of their own accord. Thousands of Washington moth-| ers are praising it. Mrs. G. E. Nash, 1111 Columbia Road, says: “My little girl, Peggy, had consti- pation. Her breath was bad and| she never wanted anything to eat.| She was fretful, pale and weak. | “Mothing seemed to help her; until I got some California Fig Syrup. Her trouble stopped after the first few doses, and she amazed me by the way her pretty, | natural color came back. Soon she was as playful and happy as| Like all good things, California | Fig Syrup is imitated, but you can always get the genuine by looking | for the name “California” on tht-l ALIFORNIA % IG: SYRUP | LAXATIVE-TONIC for CHILDREN . ] Maryland Bureau of Markets, yesterday told members of the Maryland Tobacco Growers' Association they were helpless as individuals in modern markets, where prices are determined by world-wide conditions, and that their only remedy was co-operation. Recalling that under the conditions of a generation ago farmers produced com- modities largely for local consumption and prices were determined by local conditions, Dr. Bomberger pointed out that the economic changes of the last The only drug store giving United Certificates with each purchase and were deadlocked on whether their town should improve the streets during the coming Summer or whether a pro- | in its nine years' existence, had brought | | millions of dollars to the farmers 1] vland which they woult have had, and prophe: that even better results could be ex: | pected if the velume of business which | the association should handle were m-i | | Southern Ma not other stressed. While the discussion was at its hottest a message was delivered to the mayor that a child had been injured by an sutomobile and the driver should be ar- rested. creased. George I. Gardiner, executive vice president and consulting manager of | the Maryland Tobacco Growers' Asso- | clation, and Thomas B. 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