Evening Star Newspaper, March 20, 1929, Page 11

~SUBURBAN NEWS." INGREASED TAKES HINTED AT HEARNG Debate Arises Over Discus- sion of Riverdale Bill at Annapolis. THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. D C. WEDNESDAY WOMAN FAINTS DURING ASSAULT SUSPECT QUIZ Miss Ruby Pitmin Is Overcome at Sight of Man Resembling Her Assailant. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. TAKOMA PARK, Md, March 20— Overcome by the sight of a colored man, who she claims resembled the one who seized her on the street last Friday night, Miss Ruby Pitmin, 1400 block of R street, vesterday fainted in the Takoma Park firehouse, where five BY WILLIAM J. WHEATLEY, suspects in the attack on Mrs. Clara Miss Staft Correspondent of The Star. | Millar were being questioned. ANNAPOLIS, Md, March 20— | Pitmin was revived by Fireman Stephen Predicting that there would be an in-| Lascola of the Takoma Volunteer Fire crease of 10 cents on each $100 in the | Department. tax rate of Prince Georges County at| Neither she nor Mrs. Millar, however, the next levy, and picturing hundrecs | succeeded in identifying any of the of people evacuating the county because | five men as their assailants and all were they were unable to meet the oppressive | released. taxes, Bruce Bowie, | Mrs. Millar was assaulted in her a member of the | home last Wednesday, while Miss Pit- board of county | min was seized by a colored man as she commissioners, ap- was leaving a Washington telephone peared at the State | exchange building. House here and | e urged the defeat a bill which would ! i give the town au- i thorities of River- ‘ yUl dale power to im- | prove streets and { highways within | the corporation. ‘ The measure, which was_intro. ;'Resorts in Prince Georges Would Be Put Under Strict License System. ? Bruce Bowie. the Seriate and now is pending on the third reading file in the House for passage. The hearing was given by Senator Sasscer and the Prince Georges delegation 1n | the lower house, of which Hes Morris of Upper Marlboro is chai “The adoption of the measure was urged | by John H. Schaefer, mayor of River- dale, By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md., March 20.—Public e — j dance halls in the metropolitan district Senator Sasscer took issue with Of Prince Georges County, adjacent to County Commissioner Bowie on ms)(he Capital City, which have been a statement that high taxes were the|source of much complaint, would be de- | caused Dr. Harry M. Bowen, who pre- FOR DANCE HALLS cause of so many pieces of property being sold in the county, in the evacu- ation movement, which appears to be uncer way. He said that it was due to a general deflation now going on and that it had hit other sections adjacent to the Capital City. He said that con- ditions were no worse there than in| any other place. Mr. Sasscer told his | audience that he has the greatest faith | in the development of the metropolitan district of the National Capital, and predicted that within the next year or two the residents who stayed in the county would experience the greatest development in the history of the sec- tion. He said that he did not see & complete collapse of the development of | the metropolitan district of Prince Georges that some people to| predict. However, Commissioner Bowie in- sisted that there were a great many people now living in the county who have only a small equity in their prop- erties and that they will be getting out under the heavy taxes, figuring that it is cheaper to lose what they have than to pay the taxes, which are ever in- creasing. | He conceded that everybody wants! good streets, but said that this is not time to get them, again pointing out | that a depression was on throughout ! the county. He told the committee that he had talked with officials of every bank in the upper end of the! county, including those of the River- dale bank, and they had informed him that more people had borrowed money m’v.he past year to pay taxes than ever ore. Mayor Explains Bill. Mayor Schaefer pointed out that the only thing that the bill provided was authority for the town authorities to improve the streets, if the people want- ed them. He said that the measure must be submitted to a referendum, and if that is approved, then the improve- ments can only be made after a petition of more than 50 per cent of the proper- ty holders along the street affected. ! ‘The whole thing is finally left in the hands of the pecple. But this led to a question from Mrs. E. Saulsbury, who wanted to know who would vote for the improvements. She pointed out that incorporation of the town was forced on the permanent resi- dents b?v college students' then resid- ing in it, and that it became effective only by seven votes. It was added by Mrs. Saulsbury that the permanent resi- dernt or property owner would be forced to carry the heavy burden in the end, if the property holder with a small equity should decide to get out if the taxes became too heavy. Mr. Schaefer said that the town now has only $3,000 of the county rebate fund with which to improve 11 miles of streets. He added that the improvement was expensive there because of the soft subscil and that it was necessary to make provision for the employment of an engineer to direct the permanent improvements. He insisted that the| people of the town at least should be given an opportunity, through the ref- erendum, to say whether they wanted the law, and the town should not be | required to wait for another session of | the Legislature, two years hence, BILL FOR WORKMEN BEATEN IN MARYLAND Liberalization of Compensation Law Defeated in House by 75 to 31 Vote. seem By a Btaft Correspondent of The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md., March 20.—Liber- | slization of the present workmen's compensation law of Maryland was dis- approved yesterday by the House of | cafe, inn, hotel or club for profit where | public dancing is permitted more than | enterprises. | livered a severe blow if the bill intro- {duced in the House yesterday by the Prince Georges County delegation be- comes a law. The measure provides for licensing of such places by the county | commissioners, at an annual fee of $1,000 a year, and any place having dancing more than once a week comes within the scope of the proposed new law, which the legislators say, has a good chance of pa&s.fi. ‘The bill provides that effective July 1, next, it shall be unlawful to operate a roadhouse, restaurant, lunchroom, once a week in the Chillum, Bladens burg, Hyattsville, Riverdale and Be wyn_election districts without first ob- taining a license from the county com- missioners. The applications must be in writing, giving the names of the applicants, locations and nature of businesses or Public notice is to be given of such application, at the expense of the applicants, and ‘the commissioners are given authority either to grant or reject such licenses, and even reyoke. However, in the latber case, an appor- tioned refund of the license fee is to be returned. It is provided in the bill that the proceeds from such license fees are to be given to the election districts for road improvement, and if collected within an incorporated town, then to the town for street improvements. Violations of the law are made mis- 17 ZONING PLEAS AREGIVENHEARNG Four Reclassification Peti-| tions Denied in Prince Georges. BY GEORGE PORTER. Staff Correspondent of The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., March 20. | —Inauguration of its activities as & zoning board, approval of a new and | increased assessment against certain corporations and consideration of an important road construction petition featured the weekly meeting of the Prince Georges County Commissioners in the courthouse here yesterday. Absence of two members of the board sided in place of George W. Waters, Jjr. | president of the board, to postpone final decision in the 17 zoning cases heard. Four Petitions Rejected. Irvin Owings, chairman of the Mary- land-Naticnal Capital Park and Plan- ning Commission, and Irving C. Root, chief engincer, represented the park body at the hearing and explained the reasons for their organization disap- proving four of the petitions for re- classification. In one instance, where the park commission had gone on rec- ord against the request for rezoning, Mr. Owings asked that the petition be re- ferred to them again for further com- sideration. This was the petition of the Harr Zion Congregation Cemetery, Inc.. to establish a cometery in block 22 of Greater Capitol Heights. i The other petitions for reclassifica- tion, involving residential property which the owners wish converted into com- mercial, and which the Park Commis- sion has disapproved, are petitions of Lewis S. Magruder, acreage farm in Huntsville, Kent district, and of W. Anderson and Henry Meyer, one lot in Berwyn Helghts. The park body also opposed the petition of Clayton F. Moore for reclassification of lot 1, block 39, Riverdele Park, from commercial to residential. Moore appeared in his own behalf and presented the longest argu- ment of the day in urging his petition be granted. The only other person who came before the board to protest the disapproval of the Park Commission was Magruder. In only one case where the plan- ning group approved a change was there civic objection. This involved the petition of Frank R. Lake for reclassi- fication of lots 87 and 88, Cedarcroft, Brentwood, from residential to commer- cial. Eleven petitioners presented a signed protest against such a change. Final Disposition Uncertain. ‘The final disposition of these conten- tious cases is still very uncertain, but it is believed the county commissioners will concur in the judgment of the Park Commission in approving the following petitions: For reclassification from residential to commercial: Katie Dyson, four lots in Cedar Heights; L. C. Gingell, acre- age on west side of Washington-Balti- more boulevard, 116 feet south of the intersection of Central avenue: A. H. Gray, lot 17, block 74, Riverdale Park: John W. C. Brown, acreage on west side of Washington-Baltimore boule- vard, one and one-half miles south of demeanors, punishable by a_fine of not more than $50 for each offense. g ROCKVILLE PLANS INDUSTRIAL SURVEY Chamber of Commerce Con- siders Study to Determine Possibilities. Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., March 20.—Spon- soring of an industrial survey of Rock- ville and environs with the idea that it might lead to one or more indus- tries locating in the county seat was given lengthy consideration by the Rockville Chamber of Commerce at its monthly meeting last evening. After Craig P. Gilbert, head of the Craig P. Gilbert Co., Inc., of Wash- ington, which specializes in finding suitable locations for manufactories, had discussed industrial development with a view, as he stated, of ascertain- ing whether the Rockville community was “industrially minded,” he explained that a survey would be a necessary pre- liminary to any efforts that might be made to attract industrles. Chamber adopted a resolution to refer the matter to a committee of j three and the chairman named Wil- | iam F. Prettyman, Thomas L. Dawson and Leonard L. Nicholson, jr. ‘The committee will, as provided by the resolution, confer with the mayor and council and otherwise investigate the desirability of having the echamber sponsor a survey and to consider means | of financing such a preliminary ana report at the next meeting of the chamber. William F. Prettyman, chairman of the committee recently named to con- | sider the organization of a Boy Scout | { troop in Rockville, reported that efforts | had been mede to induce the right | kind of man to serve as scoutmaster, Delegates, when that body rejected a|but without success. Interest in the motion to substitute the bill providing | proposition was manifested by members increases in the allowances for the un- | of the chamber, and it was understooc favorable Teport on the measure from | that the matter would not be dropped. the ways and means committee, The| The meeting was unusually well at- vote was 75 to 31. | tended and was conducted by the presi- The principal objection of the oppon- | dent, Curtis L. Ward. The usual com- ents, as indicated in the debate, was | Mittee reports were submitted and other | that any increase in the amount of | business of minor importance trans- | money 10 be spent by industry as over- | acted. head “would serve not only to put Mary- | land industry in & position where it | would not be able to compete with that | of nearby States, but would prevent new industry from coming into the State. i Speaker Lee, in explaining his vote in | favor of the measure, said that all charges against industry were objec- tionable, but he pointed out that Mary- mddu?ssmlme bottom of the upper rd of States in the liberality of its | for an appropriat, workmen’s compensation laws. He also 1“0.Smrvp§r1c}; :.;‘g:x ;";mfno: sfi'l‘é,",'.n'f sald that he considered workmen's com- | dria High School with Jefferson Ele- pensation as the fairest of all charges | mentary School to relieve the congested | against industry. | condition in the local institutions will | | not be | council | learned today. — ALEXANDRIA SCHOOL | Special Dispatch to The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 20.—The public school board’s’ proposed request PIPES TO BE LAID BEFORE } A school architect, said that two sketches | for the proposed annex have been sub- | mitted to R. C. Bowton, superintendent | of the Alexandria public schools, neith- er of which has fully met with his By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT | town’s claims for a refund of its road | PLANS ARE DELAYED, presented formally to the city | or at least two months, it was | ; | Summer Club Site Will Be Used C. Robinson of Richmond, State | HOUSE, Va., March 20.—Anticipating the trouble that would be caused if it became necessary to cut through the | new surface to make water connections, C. L. Kinnier, county directing en- approval and that it will take at least 60 days to complete other sketches which are now being prepared. The architectural work will continue until a sketch is designed that wili gineer, has arranged to lay all pipe|meet with Bowton's desires in every connections across Glebe road before ) particular. When a satisfactory sketch the State starts the widening and|and complete estimates for the work paving of Glebe road are obtained the school board plans There are hardly more than 2 per |to appeal to the city council for funas cent of the residents of the section ! with which to erect the annex. served by Glebe road who have had| The two schools, linked by the annex their homes connected with the city | would form one of the largest insti- water, it was said, and if the pipes|tutions anywhere in Virginia. The were not laid before the road is con- | number of classrooms to be placed in structed it would be necessary to cut | the plans has not been ascertained, but 2 Beltsville, and Samuel Bass, 10 lots in block “A,” Beaver Heights. For reclassification from residential to industrial: The le}hl Helghts Ice & Fuel Corporation, four lots in Seat e Tee property m’fimb Gl YA s lensburg, and five mmm from the Baltimore & Ohio road Co, involving its rights of way, two of which are in Hyattsville, and the others in Branchville, Bladens- burg and Beaver Heights. Road Construction Urged. Construction of & State road from large delegation of residents from that section, headed by William E. Penn. This road, only five and & half miles in length, would form a much needed connecting link between the Southern Maryland and Matlboro pikes, accord- ing to the citizens. At present the road is impassable in wet weather, they claimed, and James H. Shreve, county assessor, and member of the delegation, declared he was forced to daily drive eight miles further than the Melwood | route in order to reach his office at| Upper Marlboro in the Winter time. | Other members of the delegation who spoke in favor of the road, were Rev. J. E. Horstkamp, pastor of St. John's Church, at Clinton; Mrs. Chandler Hale, widow of Senator Hale of Maine, who recently purchased the old Dain- gerflield estate on the Melwood road; Samuel Sweeney, E. J. Milliken, secre- tary of the Public Utilities Commission of the District of Columbia, and B. K. Miller. - Although only three members of the Board of County Commissioners were present at the afternon session when the delegation presented their argu- ments, the county heads are believed to have regarded the request favorably. New Assessment Approved. ‘The commissioners approved a new assessment against several public utili- ties corpbrations, carrying an increase of approximately $200,000. The corporations affected are the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co., the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., the Western Union and the Postal telegraph companies and the Consoli- dated Gas, Electric Light & Power Co. of Baltimore. All of the companies waived a hearing on the reassessment as drawn by County Assessor James H. Shreve. The new corporation assessment is against poles, wires, cables and such equipment, and does not include any real estate. The increase is partially accounted for by the additional equip- ment installed since the last assessment and partially by a new valuation placed on the property. ‘Arthur C. Keefer, corporation counsel of Mount Rainier, appeared before the board and offered to compromise that levy based on automobile tax nsusa-l ments. The board decided to hold a special meeting Friday afternoon to give final consideration to the annual levy which will be signed next Monday. Appointment of the district road com- mittees was made by the three com- missioners at the meeting, but con firmation of all the commlittees was withheld until next week, because of the | absence of the other two commissioners. COUNTY 4-H GROUPS T0 HAVE BERKELEY CAMP Entire Season by Three Organizations. Special Dispatch to The Star, | MARTINSBURG, W. Va, March 20. —The Berkeley County 4-H summer camp, on Back Creek, will be accepted as a 4-H camp for the entire Eastern Panhandle—Berkeley, Morgan and Jef- ferson Counties—it was announced to- day by officers of the Berkeley Associa- | tion. ‘The camp, under the plan, would be used the entire Summer by one or an- other of the organizations. Berkeley members, at their meeting, elected the | following board, which will organize |later: Arthur Stuckey, Miss Minnie Thatcher, J. Holland Sperow, C. M. PROPOSES TWO NEARBY | MOTOR VEHICLE OFFICES Speaker E. Brooke Lee Would Es-| tablish Branches at Rockville and Upper Marlboro. By a Staft Correspondent of The ANNAPOLIS, Md., March 20.—Loca- tion' of branch offices of the commis- sioner of motor vehicles for the han- diing of all business which now musy be handled direct with the Baltimore office tn Rockville and Upper Marlboro has been agreed to by Speaker E. Brooke Lee. He said that he woula offer amendments to his bill, which provides now for the establishment of four branch offices in the State, one of which was to be at Silver Spring to serve Montgomery and the Southern Maryland _counties. Edgar Reed, president, and Donald De Lashmutt, secretary, of the Mont- gomery County Automobile Association, discussed the proposed Sil- ver Spring location with the speaker, and urged that it be changed to Rock- ville, The speaker finally agreed to the change, but with the provision that another branch office would be located at Upper Marlboro. He told the dealers, it was said. that one of the purposes of putting the Silver Spring location in the bill was to show how easy it was to move parts of the government from Rockville, in the ab- sence of adequate provision such as is Dealers’ | proposed by the new courthouse project. COUNTY CARAVAN GOESTOANNAPOLIS Scores Favoring Rockville Courthouse Bond Issues “ Drive to Statehouse. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ANNAPOLIS, "Md. March Scores of men and women, representing | practically every political faction in the State, as well as many civic organiza- | tions, arrived at the Statehouse this afterncon, after an automobile trip from Rockville, where the motor cara- | van was formed, and are explaining the need for the passage of the two proposed bond issues which provide for | great reduction in the number of ty-| the development of a new courthousc phoid fever and diphtheria cases and |retrocess | the complete elimination of smallpox |for several years, and Richard Mc- | ars was pointed | Mahon, who recently fought a tax suit city [on the grounds that Arlington County | health officer, in an address at the|had not be Rotary Club's luncheon and meeting in | ginia and at the county seat. The assemblage met in the House chamber at 2:30 o'clock, before Sena- tor Jones and the Montgomery delega- tion in the House. The hearing was par- ticularly asked by the delegations be- cause of the outspoken opposition of Senator Jones to the two bills, one of which provides an additional $150,000 | 20— for the building, and the other a simi- lar amount for the acquisition of the square west of the present courthouse site. The Farmers Bank & Trust Co., of which Senator Jones is a director, is 1o~ cated on this propored new site, and Senator Jones has indicated that his opposition is both an account of the fact that it would force the bank to seck a new site, and also that he is op- posed to any more bond issues which | would prevent a lovering of the tax rate. On the other hand. the organiza- feated, there would not be any ring of the tax rate. 'HEALTH OFFICER TALKS ON TYPHOID MENACE {ticn loaders of the county have said | that whether the bond issues are passed | o "SUBURBAN NEW CITIZENS DEFEAT RECESSION IDEA Ashton Heights Association Decides Not to Agitate Subject. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ASHTON HEIGHTS, Va., March 20. —The ‘“eleven reasons” offered last by Richard L. Eacho for the Physician Points Out Reduction in o oS LA ore Con O to. e i Diseases at Rotary Club | Meeting. Specinl Dispatch to The Star. | ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 20.—The Inot to agitate the subject there. during the past nine y out by Dr. W. Lewis Schaffer, the George Mason Hotel yesterday. Miss Mae Cavanaugh, bacteriologist at the Alexandria Health Department, made a short talk. istrict of Columbia were not held suffi- cient by the members of the Ashton | Heights Citizens' Association and a reso- | lution was passed, instructing the dele- | gates to the Arlington District Council Eacho, who revived the idea of after it has been dormant n legally returned to Vi erefore he owed his taxes |to the District of Columbia and not. to Virginia, were the principal speakers. The 11 points in favor of retrocession were given by Eacho, as follows: The Se | toll system of the telephone company, the high rate of electric current, the | high gas rates; because the merchants’ | tax in Arlington County is $150 yearly | as against $5 in the District; lack of | proper sewerage and the financial in- ability of the residents to pay for a bond issue: the high water rate, the lack of proper streets and sidewalks. the lack of park developments, financial inability to properly zone, high automo- bile and gasoline taxes and improper health supervision. He loses $300 year- ly by living in Virginia, he said. McMahon went into a historical de- scription of the ceding of Arlington County back to Virginia, claiming that it was unconstitutional and citing Chief Justice William Howard Taft as his authoril The Federal Government cannot give away Federal property, he said. Arguments Advanced. Hugh McGrath and Thomas R. 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