Evening Star Newspaper, March 16, 1929, Page 7

SUBURBAN NEWS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1929.' HORSES RESCUED FROM STREET MUD Two Animals Mired Branchville After Extricat- ing Automobile. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. BRANCHVILLE, Md., March 16.—In- dignation of the citizens of Branch- ville over the condition of their streets because of the alleged indifference on the part of the contractor in properly filling up sewer and water trenches reached a new pitch this morning when more than a dozen men of the com- munity were required to work nearly an hour to extract two horses that had fallen into a five-foot open excavation. This morning's accident occurred in front of the home of Prince Georges County Commissioner William A. Duvall, &t the intersection of Branchville road and Rhode Island avenue. ‘The hor driven by William Althe: #on, Berwyn contractor, had just extr cated an automobile that had become mired a shorc distance down the road. Aitherson was turning his team around when both horses fell into the ditch. | One of the animals retained a partial foothold on solid ground and was quick- Iy pulled out, but a group of citizens, together with several colored laborers directed by their foreman, worked near- lv an hour with heavy ropes before the other horse was pulied out. The animal itself was almost exhausted from the ordeal. According to the citizens, the trench into which the horses fell was origin- ally five feet deep. Early this week, while partially filled with water, loose earth was thrown in it, and during the past few days a fire hydrant at the head of the trench has been running day and night. A delegation of citizens from Berwyn and Branchville vehemently protested | the condition of their streets before the county commissioners at Upper | Marlboro last Tuesday. They charged the contractor with indifference by fail- | ing to make the streets passable during | the laying of the sewers and water | mains, and the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission with failing to make the contractor perform this duty. ‘The county commissioners directed their attorney to call the Sanitary Commission’s attention to the matter and request immediate relief. REALTORS CONFER ON NEW BOULEVARD| Arlinggon, Fairfax and Alexandria Group Urge More Entrances, Epecial Dispatch to The Star. ROVETON, Va, March 16.—The Real Estate Board of Arlington and Fairfax Counties and Alexandria City at its meeting last night at the Belle Haven Country Club discussed the prob- lem presented by the Mount Vernon Boulevard, the original plans for which call for a through highway to Wash- ington from Mount Vernon with no evmvislun for entrance or exit except at ashington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon. The importance of co-opera- tion between Federal and local authori- ties was stressed by Gardner Boothe of Alexandria, who outlined what was be- ing done at Belle Haven to secure an entrance from the local roads to’the boulevard. There a 200-foot entrance way will be provided, and. this will be landscaped to accord with the for the development of rest of boulevard. resolution asking the Board of Super- visors of both Arlington and Fairfax Counties to have all plans for sub- division along the route of the Mount Vernon Boulevard approved by th director of public roads of the United States Department of Agriculture in order to secure the fullest co-operation of the Federal Government in providing adequate side approaches to the new memorial highway. The board voted to raise money to assist the Arlington County Chamber of Commerce in raising the $5,000 for zon- ing the county. Plans were made to co-operate with the Washington Real Estate Board, in an all-day session Wednesday, at the Willard Hotel, when two of the officers of the national as- sociation, Willlam E. Herren, extension director, and John Berge, head of the education department, will conduct classes in salesmanship. The board will also co-operate with the Washing- ton board in arranging for a meeting in honor of the national president, who will fly to Washington from California to speak before the boards. ROCKYVILLE. ROCKVILLE, Md., March 16 (Spe- cial).—Another step toward making Rockville keep pace in progress with other communities of the county was taken by the mayor and council last evening, when it was decided to ask the | Legislature now in session at Annapolis to amend the charter of the town so as to give the mayor and council authority to_adopt zoning ordinances and name officials to zone the town. Both the amendment and ordinances will, it was decided, be prepared by| Engineer Root of the Maryland National | Capital Park and Planning Commission, | and their prompt enactment into law ! 1s looked for. ‘There is no immedaite attention, Mayor Spates stated today, of zoning the town, but it is desired that every- | thing be in readiness to do so when the | proper time arrives. | Licenses have been issued here for the | marriage of Mary C. Power, 19, of Ta- | koma Park, Md, and Robert M. An-| ders, 21, of Washington, and Hilda M. | Strother, 19, and Jerome H. Edwards, | 22, both of Lincoln, Va. ‘The bi-weekly meeting of the Ger- mantown Woman's Club, held at the home of Mrs. Willlam H. Topping, was featured by an address by Mrs. James P. Egan of Washington on birds. In lieu of the usual sermon tomorrow morning, the Rev. William H. Topping, pastor, will, he has announced, give a e | n 1ans | to organize a fire association in the | the |y anham voting district was reached at The Real Estate Board adopted a|® speclal meeting of the Lanham Cit- e | as & committee to canvass the voting | | | | Dobbin being pulled from mire in Branchville after extricating automobile. ROAD RIGHT OF WAY | CONTRACT IS SIGNED| Clarendon Property Owner Gives Land to Connect Two Ar- lington Roads. By a Staft Corresp ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT HOUSE, Va, March 16.—In order to connect Washington avenue with Bgair road on the south side of the car tra' the board of county supervisors yeste: day signed a contract with Arthur J. Porter of Clarendon, whereby he is to donate to the county a strip of his property at the intersection of Wilson boulevard and Clarendon avenue. In the contract Porter agrees to move his hedge back 10 feet and to construct the sidewalk, whereas the county will have the telephone poles removed and construct the road. C. L. Kinnier, coun- ty engineer, said that the work will be nt of The Star. s also passed an ordi- nance, which will be submitted to Judge Howard W. Smith of Circuit Court, pro- viding that where city water is con- nected with a house, it must be sepa- rate and in no way connected with any well that may have been in use before that time. The ordinance was passed at the sug- gestion of Kinnier, who stated that where it is possible for the property owner to pump the well water through the same pipes in which the city water flows there is danger of polluting the city water. LANHAM VOTERS PLAN FOR FIRE PROTECTION Committee Named to Canvass Dis-| trict in Interests of Proposed Association. By a Staft Correspondent of The Star. | LANHAM, Md., March 16.—Decision | izens’ Association in the Lanham School last night. A. B. Harvey, Jacob Eberle, Charles Stancliff and M. A. Blythe were chosen district in an effort to secure subscrip- tions and pledges to be used for the purchase of fire apparatus. ‘The association also voted to request | Charles Howser, owner of a bullding erected for the Lanham voters, to per- | mit the proposed fire association to meet and house its equipment in that structure. In inaugurating their campaign for the formation of a fire assoclation, the citizens recalled the fire hazard to which many of their homes are an- nually subjected at this season of the year by forest fires. . ‘The committee selected last night is to meet Monday night and report back to the association at its meeting next ‘Wednesday. STEPHEN WALSH IS DEAD. ‘WIGAN, England, March 16 (#).— Stephen Walsh, secretary for war in the cabinet of the Labor leader, Ram- say MacDonald, died this morning after a long period of ill health, Stephen Walsh was a member of Parliament from the Ince division of Lancashire from 1906 until the end of | his life. He was parliamentary secre- tary to the ministry of national serv- ice in 1917, and to the local government board from then to 1919. After fall of the Labor government he kept very much in the background, this being partly due to ill health. Engagement Announced. WARRENTON, Va, March 16 (Spe- cial) —Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hall of Richmond, Va., announce the engage- ment and approaching marriage of their daughter, Miss Rose Henrletta Hall, to | Dr. James Frank Folk of Warrenton, ' Va. The wedding will take place March 28. S reading from Henry Van Dyke's “The Mansion,” and an elaborate musical | program will be rendered. Natives of Kingstown, St. Vincent, | West Indles, were delighted recently when a circus visited the island for the first time The Choice of the Most Particular Food you'll heartily en- joy at prices that leave no regrets. FRANK P. FENWICK Prop'r. NATION-WIDE HUNT ON FOR JACK HART “Bad Man"” of Maryland Prison Has Made Two Previous Escapes. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, Md, March 16—FPo- lice throughout the country were put on watch today for Jack' Hart, notorious “bar man” of the Maryland Peniten- tiary, “whose escape Thursday night topped a record of two previous breaks, a leading part in_a riot within the penitentiary last Fall and numerous perlods of solitary confinement in his conflict with prison authorities, George Bailey, whom Hart released after sawing around locks on his own cell, was found in a ventilator on the prison roof, hours after Hart got away. Bailey told Warden Brady that Hart clambered down a cloth rope on the side of the penitentiary facing Eager street, and that breaking of the rope prevented Bailey from following. The night captain of the penitentiary guard was suspended for failing to post the customary guard in the street. Hart had been in solitary confine- ment since last October, for refusing to work because penalties for his part in the prison riot included a ban on kiss- ing his wife, Kittye Kacanaugh Hart, when she visited him. A police watch was stationed around the house here where she lay ill. Hart was serving a life term for participation in the hold- llxgnlnd killing of Willlam B. Norris in Black to Resume Flight. BROKEN HILL, Northern Rhodesia, March 16 (#).—Van Lear Black, Balti- more publisher whose return flight from Cape Town to England has been inter- rupted by the illness of his crew, ex- pect to reume his trip on March 20. Mr. Black's pilots and mechanics are in a local hospital suffering from in- uenza. Heads German Railway Co. BERLIN, March 16 (#).—Dr. Julius Dorpmueller today was re-elected di- rector general of the German Railway Co. for another three-year period. 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ALEXANDRIA, Va, March 16.— | Characterizing George Washington and | his fiye immediate successors to the presidency as “Americanized English- ! men,” Rev. W. S. Hammond, pastor of | the Church South, declared that | Andr Jackson was the first typical | | American to hold the office of Chief Ex- | ecutive of this country, in his address {last night at the banquet held at Elks’ Andrew Jackson Lodge of No. 120, in commemoration of 2d anniversary of Jackson's birthday. | Rev. Hammond asserted that Jackson by e e T e Tk ek e ek s ek e A e dkeok ok e e 2 e 2 e Tk e e e ke sk e sk ke ke ke ek e sk e e sk ke sk e ek sk sk e e ek e ke e sk ok sk ke ok kokok ) o was & man of fire and determination and always won his points. “He had his enemies, but lived so see them all overwhelmed. Jackson's influence was so great that his support won the presi- deney for both Martin Van Buren and James Polk, despite the fact that they were opposed by Henry Clay, noted statesman and a more cultured man than either of his opponents.” Gratz E. Dunkum, past grand master of Masons in the District of Columbia, said that during the last few gencra- tions Masonry has taken root in the heart of the greatest Nation of the world, and that where Masonry gripped | the rulers, those nations immediately stepped forward. “The soul of Masonry is gction, bo in and out of the lodge, and the spiri of Masonry is reverence and worship, he stated. J. E. W. Timberman, past master of Andrew Jackson Lodge, related the his- tory of the lodge from the granting of its charter in 185 ‘Thomas M. Jones, jr., son Lodge, presided. given by the Rev. Dr. < presiding elder of the dis- trict of the Baltimore Conference of M. E. Churches, while benediction was delivered by the Rev. Dr. W. R. Hard- esty, pastor of Del Ray M. E. Church, South. Vocal selections were rendered master of Jack Invocation wa: ster o« .= - by Clarence M. Wells and Stephen H. Fleld. Among the more than 250 Masons present were the worshipful masters and officals of Alexandria-Washington | Lodge of this city, Kemper Lodge of | Falls Church and Henry K. Field Lodge | of Potomac. INEW ROAD PROPOSED 70 POINT LOOKOUT, MD. | Bill Seeks Highways From Near | Leonardtown to Two Points | on Shore. | ff Correspondent of The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md., March 16.—A new | road from a point below Leonardtown | | to Poin® Lookout is proposed in a bil} | introduced_yesterday by Delegate Lav | rence P. Williams of St. Mary’s County. | It directs the State Roads Commis- | sion_of Ma d to construct a gravel oad from the Confederate Monument on the road leading from Leonardtown to Point Lookout, | and a similar road from the monument to Scotland Beach, to cost not to ex- ceed $25,000. The cost, it is provided, is to be paid out of the surplus fees in the hands of the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles of Maryland. to the latter place, | "SUBURBAN NEWS.” T WOMAN’S ASSAILANT REPORTED KNOWN Man Sought in Takoma Park At- tack Expected to Be Ar- rested Soon. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. TAKOMA PARK, Md.. March 16.— | working on the case, it was reported | today that the identity of the colored man who criminally assaulted Mrs. Clara Miller in her home here Wednes- day had been established. Several colored persons, including the mother of the man believed guiity of | the act. have been questioned and his |arrest is anticipated shortly. Several colored men have been taken into cus- | ody. but released after accounting for their whereabouts at the time of the | crime. Maryland Bradl man State Policeman J. M. Prince Georges County Police- ude Reese, Chief of Police L | A. Cutshaw of Takoma Park and Mont- | gomery County officers are today | endeavoring to locate the woma | assailant. With police from several jurisdictions | /L FIREMEN’S INSURANCE LAW IS EXPLAINED iVo]\mteers Injured in Line of Duty ' Outside Own Counties Can- | mnot Colleet. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. | CHERRYDALE, Va, March 16— | Volunteer firemen who are injured in | the line of duty outside of their own | county are not protected by the State insurance act, it was explained at the meeting of the Cherrydale Volunteer Fire Department last night by Hugh Reid, member of the House of Dele- gates from' Arlington County. In expiaining the act. Reid said that firemen who may be injured fighting fires in Washington, ‘Alexandria or Fairfax County cannot receive compen- sation. Roy Sha, director of the recent min- strel show, announced that there were 1200 in attendance and that the show as a financial success. 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