Evening Star Newspaper, March 23, 1929, Page 5

1999.° - s STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. MARCH 23. SURUREAN NEWSr 3 | ZEPPELIN TRIP PLANNED. HOUSE BILL PROPOSES | U.'S. MARKET SOUGHT. | PRINCE’S DINNER GUESTS.i 5 e ‘ = [ THE EVENING The county treasurer is an elective of- | COUNTY LAW CHANGE is a matter for the electorate, but the | | present law even prevents him from be-| BERLIN, March 23 (#).—Constantine Ambassador and Mrs. Houghton German Craft May Leave Monday GONVIB]’ 'I- AB“R ficer and his succession, of course. ing a candidate. Schwetchikoff, director of the So\'i"l Entertained in London. on Mediterranean Cruise. legation recently appeared Amendment Would Permit Candi-| A large de film industry, has arriv before the Prince Georges delegatioa at| © o 1neistry, b I'fh'" Berlin t0| | ONDON, March 23 (#).—United| FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany, date for Treasurer to Succeed |Annapolis to urge the introduction of 'study the problem of the export of | siates Ambassador Alanson B. Hough- | nMarch 28 (#)—The dirigible Grat such a measure, pointing out that it Russian films. He said that the | ton and Mrs. Houghton were the guests TR igible Gra Himself. was in the interest of efficient admin- | United States offered a growing market of the Prince of Wales at a dinner Z€Ppelin, under command of Capt. By a Staft Oor - | istration to keep in office those who are for new Russian films. Of the 130|party last night. Other guests were| Flemming, yesterday flew for three y & Sta rrespondent of The Star. 1mcmughly familiar with the workings. to be produced during the coming year | Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and hours over Lake Constance, testing new ANNAPOLIS, Md., March 23— - | 50 probably will go to Europe and 15 Mrs. Baldwin, the Marquess | i . | Amendment in the Prince Georges | County local law so as to permit the| Sir James Barrie has presented the | to_the United States. Marchioness of Salisbury, the Earl of | 3Ppliances with satisfactory results, Schwetchikoff said that Russia will | Clarendon and his countess, Lord ana| Unless bad weather intervenes, the county treasurer to be a candidate to|Newspaper Press Fund of London the | prodiuce some sound films, but expressed Succeed himself is proposed in a bill | manuscript of his play, “The Twelve- | belief that the true film developmen: Lady Desborough, Maj. John Astor, | airship will start on Monday on a four- Lady Violet Astor, Mr. and Mrs. Ray | day cruise of the Mediterranean. its introduced in the House yesterday by | Pound Lock.” It will be auctioned for |is away from copying the legitimate Henry L. Morris of Upper Marlboro. ' the pension and sick fund. | stage, “which the sound film does o Ml i ettt Ml 2y SATURDAY, SUBURBAN NEWS: l Maryland Orator ORATORYGONTEST VN BY TRUNDLE Last Year’s Defeated Cham- . pion of Poolesville School Is Victorious. Speaker Lee Introduces Measure Affecting Mont- gomery County. By a Btaff Correspondent of The Star. | ANNAPOLIS, Md., March 23 —Use of | convict labor on the roads of Mont-| Atherton and Lieut. Col. Plers Legh, | most extended flight since its return from the United States. | equirry in waiting to the prince. Coming back last night to fight| against what his classmates had con- sidered unsurmountable odds, David “Trundle, once defeated champion of the Poolesville High School, won & ciear-cut victory in the first interschool compe- tition in the Maryland District's Sixth | National Oratorical Contest schedule, | held at the Bethesda Elementary | School. | In his victory, glorified by the light | of his bitter defeat in the same stage of the contest last year, Trundle won the decision over two other boys and three girls, all of whom made excep- | tional bids for first honors and the right to compete in the Maryland finals. John G. Gott, one of those two, defeated boys, and the spokesman for the Dickerson High School, received second place and Miss Doris Palmer of the Gaithersburg High School captured third place. Trundle Fifth Speaker. David Trundle, the Poolesville High Bchool victor in last night's compeli- tion, was the fifth speaker to take the platform. Following immediately after two girl speakers, Miss Palmer and Miss Frances Fulks, Rockville High School champion. Trundle entered easily and calmly into his speech on “The Privileges and Obligations of a Citizen Under the Censtitution.” He spoke slowly and in an aimost conversational tone and as he got deeper into his oration, he rose in volume and power to the climaxes marking his speech. There was a de- liberateness about the boy which com- manded attention and that may be one of the mamy attribus which won vicory for him. Trundle was the only student of the Poolesville High School to enter the contest this vear, B. O. Aiken, the school's principal, explained before the meet to a reporter for The Star. The champion’s own defeat last year and the power of the oratory which con®- fronted him then stifled courage in the hearts of the Poolesville students, who believed it useless for thsm to com- pete in a contest where, as they told Mr. Aiken, “we haven't & chance.” But not so Trundle. He knew he was licked last year and he figured he failed not because of the ability of any one else, but because there was something lack- DAVID TRUNDLE | ot the Poolesville High School. | 0 ROADHOLSE TAX 1S FAVRED Green Gables Shootingl Brings Action From County Commissioners. By a Sta?t Correspondent of The Star. | UPPER MARLBORO, Md., March 23. : | —The shooting Wednesday night at| Green Gables, roadside resort near Suitland, which resulted in the serious injury of two Washington men, the arrest of two others as witnesses, and prompted a widespread, but so far futile, search for the gunmen, yesterday found an echo in the special meeting of the Prince Georges County commis- sloners. Tax Is Urged. Although the county heads had met for the purpose of fixing the annual levy, they cast aside budget estimates and calculations of tax rates long enough to give attention to scores of complaints from communities near the ing in his own oratory. So he ume’ shooting, and to go on record as favor- out early in his school this year; wrote his oration, committed it to memory and trained. He rehearsed it over and over again. He'd show them. And last night he did! Trundle lives with his sister, Miss Barbara Trundle, at Pooles- ville. But_glorious as the winner's victory may have been, it did not necessarily represent an overwhelming rout of the remaining contestants. ~With their ability, it couldn’t, for no board of Jjudges could have separated the speak- ers by very wide margins. Golt Launched Program. Young Gott, the Dickerson boy, took second place with his speech on *“ Development of the Constitution.” It befell Gott to launch the program with the first oration and he did it. His voice was heavy and it boomed out ‘ its expression of ideas formed through hard study. He used no gesture, save|Ph ity for the street fund. a spontaneous movement or two of his arms to give weight to particularly e e, ‘inira-piace wimer of |50 MEMBERS ADDED the Gaithersburg High' School, made The | Dot permit public dancing more than ing a county-wide bill placing a $1,000 yearly tax on roadhouses. As the county delegation in the State Legislature had already framed a bill calling for such a tax on public dance halls in the Chillum, Bladensburg, Hyattsville, Riverdale and Berwyn dis- tricts, the commissioners asked that it be changed so as to include the entire county, or, if that were found impos- sible, then to include all the districts bordering on the District of Columbia. ‘The bill as previously framed provides that after the first of next July a road- house, restaurant, lunchroom, cafe, inn, hotel or club operated for profit, can- one day a week without pre a special license, which would cost $1,000. ‘The fee thus acquired is to be awarded the election district in which collected for expenditure on road improvements, or, it in an incorporated town, to the e Soenste Wi Wit ot ot Lrty | BY PARENT-TEACHERS {of the Individual” She was a flery 5 er, was Miss Palmer and, although the “junior” of the fleld—she is only | Special Dizpatch to The Star. 14 years old and a sophomore at school ROCKVILLE, Md., March 23.—The —she whipped that audience into lis-| membership drive recently inaugurated tening to what she had to say. Oliver Owen Kuhn, managing editor | ciation has so far of The Star, was chairman of the con- by the Rockville Parent-Teacher Asso- ted in the en- rollment of 50 new members, it was test meeting. In his brief introductory, | reported at the monthly meeting of the containing for the most part a review “%fmu”“ last evening. cam| of the general rules under which the is being conducted e paign competition was to be held, Mr. Kuhn | through pupils of the Rockville Public cited the participation in the contest|School, and the child obtaining et pum(fm hout o"rmz,.';‘on,‘tm young peoj ug] al and declared that the contest activity is “not only & real sentiment in favor of the perpetuation of laws and Amer- ican ideals, but that it is a sentiment and bounds sented Gott as the first speaker. Other Participants. Beasides the “placers,” the contest was ipated in by Miss Fulks of the Rockville High School, Miss Margaret Benson of the Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School and James A. Gannon, jr., of the Georgetown Preparatory School. The order in which they are given here does not indicate the order in which the judges’ rating placed them, for only the first three places were announced, and they are the only places which The Star will reveal. Young Gannon, son of Dr. James Alonzo Gannon, Washington surgeon, of 1915 Biltmore street, was the second speaker. He used the more conversa- tional type of oratory in his oration on “The Constitution—Its Value.” Miss Pulks spoke on “The Citizen—His Privi- leges -and Obligations Under the Con- stitution,” with commanding power, and Miss Benson talked on ‘The Citizen— His Privileges and Duties Under the! Constitution.” The latter girl gave the admirable impression she was talking “with” the audience as she scanned ;n‘ces before her in every sector of the 1. ! The judges of the meeting, as an- nounced _yesterday, were Lieut. Col. Wallace M. Craigie, U. 8. A., professsor of military science and tactics in the| District of Columbia public school sys-| tem; Robert Peter, jr., of Rockville, State's attorney; George P. Sachs, presi- dent of the Bank of Bethesda, and Mrs. H. D. Rogers of Linden, chairman of the education committee of the Mont- gomery County Federation of Women's Clubs. Music played its important role in the contest last night” when it broke the stress which the competing oratory im- posed upon_the audience. Miss Dorothy Hobley and Miss Jean de Lashmutt, pianists, offered solos; while the Girls’ Glee Club of the Bethesda-Chevy | Chase High School sang in chorus. Richmond Editor Weds. RICHMOND, Va, March 23 (®)—| Miss Virginia Lee Cox, woman's editor of the Richmond Times Dispatch, and Lamotte Marcus Blakely, editor of the aper, were married here today at the F\ome of the bride's sister, Mrs. Robert Vance Hatcher. Mr. and Mrs. Blakely left soon after the ceremony by motor for Charleston, 8. C. Marriage Licenses Issued. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., March 23 (Special).—Marriage licenses have been issued here to the following: Frederick Baden Unkles, 30, a mechanic, and Miss Mary Gertrude Edelin, 24, both of Pis- cataway, Md., and James D. Heck, 38, a painter, and Mrs. Ida C. Hicks, 28, both of Baltimore. Official's Pay Raise Sought. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md., March 23—In- crease in the salary of the assistant treasurer of Charles County from $300 ; to $800 a year is provided for in a oill introduced in the House of Delegates yesterday by John E. Bardroff of Portl Tobacco, Charles County. The first zavings department of a hank in Mexico has just been opened. e most new members by the end of the school year will receive $10 in gold, donated by Leonard L. Nicholson of the board of school trustees, The drive is expected to increase the membership from 60 to around 200 or more. ‘The meeting last evening was well attended and was conducted by the president, Mrs. J. Somervell Dawson. t was the consensus that the grounds surrounding the Rockville School are much in need of attention and a com- mittee, consisting of L. Fletcher Schott, chairman; Nicholas Brewer, Richard L. Waters, Albert Moulden and W. Frank Ricketts, was named to arrange for a clean-up and take other steps looking to their improvement. A balance of $250 is, it was reported, due on the handsome piano recently provided by the association for the new high school gymnasium, and to raise the amount the members were divided into eight teams to canvass the community. It was announced that the Rockville Woman's Club had con- tributed $10 toward the fund. Following the meeting fhe members were given demonstrations of the uses the new gymnasium is being put to, and talks on good sportsmanship were given by Miss Lucille Penn and Frank Mar- shall, captains of the girls’ and boys’ athletic teams, respectively MRS. OWEN ADDRESSES ARLINGTON WOMEN By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. CLARENDON, Va., March 23.—Every outstanding community in the country that has been visited by her in recent years has been one in which the women were organized for political and civic betterment, Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, Representative in Congress from Florida and daughter of the late William Jen- nings Bryan, yesterday told the Or- ganized Women Voters of Arlington County at their sixth anniversary re- ception, held at St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Rixey Station. 4 Mrs. Owen’s entire talk was an en- | couragement to women’s organizations. | The first organization of the kind was | formulated but 50 years ago, she said, | and the movement has been so rapid that the women now have a large part in the direction of the Nation’s policies. She would much rather have high school students count the ballots in an | election than those to whom the task is now assigned, Mrs. Owen declared. She announced that she has arranged for contests in each county in Florida for the selection of the boy and girl high school student who is selected as the best citizen to come to Washington for three weeks and study civic govern- ment. These selections will be made yearly, she said: On the program with Mrs. Owen were Miss Virginia Bestor, pianist, of Lee | Heights, and Miss Cleo Scanland Parks, well known contralto. Miss Parks was | accompanied by Miss Mary 1zant Couch, pianist. Following the entertainment there was a reception at which Mi Charles Martin pourcd t Erne W. Cushing poured coffee Mrs. A. J. Rice and Mrs. J. L. Keddy served punch. At the business meeting that preceded the other activities, every woman present signed a petition requesting the 1 cents to the present levy to care for the school fund shortage and increase salaries. The petition will be presented at the next regular board meeting. There were approximately 200 signers of the petition. secretafy to - fill the corresponding the resignation of vacancy caused Mrs, Elizabeth Sarah Carl jthe Legislature yesterday by Speaker i county, or the streets of any special ; taxing area. board of county supervisors to add 10‘ Mrs. Madeline Crounse was e]ened‘ gomery County would be authorized un- der the terms of a bill introduced in E. Brooke Lee of Silver Spring. The bill provides that the court or justice of the peace in sentencing persons for violations of laws in Montgomery Coun- ty, shall include provision that the con- vict shall be subject to the performance | of work on the public roads of the! The sentence also must provide that upon failure of any con- vict to serve at such tasks, he shall be sentenced to serve two days additional for each day he refuses to work on the roads. However, at the end of the term of any convict who does work, he is to receive pay at the rate of 75 cents a da; ‘The bill fixes the duration of the day's work at not to exceed 10 hours. Convicts under 16, females and those in {ll health are relieved from the pro- | visions of the proposed. act. | Provision is made that any special taxing area which elects to use convict labor on its streets shall be charged by the county commissioners with all the expenses attending such employ- ment. The county commissioners are to have full charge of the work, and the prisoners are to be delivered by the sheriff to the representative of the com- missioners, who will be responsible for them while out of the jail and who will be required to return them to the place of confinement at the end of cach day. Any persons to whom the prisoners are intrusted for road work who by will- ful neglect or connivance permit their escape are to be fined between $100 and $1,000, or imprisoned from 60 days to 6 months, or both. LITTLE GRAFT FOUND | AMONG LONDON POLICE Probers Declare Reports of Corrup- tion and Misconduct Are Greatly Exaggerated. By the Associated Press. LONDON, March 23.—The royal | commission, which has investigated po- lice procedure in London, in its report yesterday was unanimous in saying that there was very little evidence of misconduct by police in investigation of crime. There was no evidence of the use of third-degree methods nor any disposition on the part of police to trump up charges. | The practice of sending officers into | night clubs disguised as guests was | called wholly objectionable and its | rohibition was recommended. Street tting was said to present an almost insoluble problem because of the un- satisfactory existing legislation. The commission said that, while cor- ruption was not unknown in. the police force, its extent had been greatly ex- aggerated and it was mainly associated with enforcement of laws which are out of harmony with public opinion. It was remarked that many complaints made by the public should have been directed, not against the police, but against the laws they are called upon to enforce. SCmai © Teachers’ Pay Bill Passed. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md., March 23.—The bill of Delegate George C. Peverley of St. Marys County, raising the salaries of all teachers in the colored public schools of the State to the same level of those pald teachers in the white schools, was passes the House yes- terday by a vote of 72 to 24. e R Detroit evening schools had 24,773 pupils in the Fall term; 10,613 were women. 2001 16th St. N.W. Exceptionally attractive apartments of three out- side rooms, reception hall, bath and large kitchen. 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