Evening Star Newspaper, April 3, 1929, Page 10

‘SUBURB’AN>NEW RICHARDS IS' APPOINTED ON ARLINGTON ‘ZONE BODY HEARING PLANNED - ONISSUING TAGS Ritchie Action Formulated on Receipt of Word From Dealers. BY WILLIAM J. WHEATLEY. Staff Correspondent of The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md, April 3.—Follow- ing receipt of scores of telegrams from automobile clubs and dealers, appealing to be heard on the bill passed by the Legislature authorizing the establish- ment in each county seat of ‘a branch office of the commissioner of motor vehicles for th2 transaction of the busi- ness of issuing tags and licenses to the residents of each county, Gov. Albert C. Ritchie has decided to hold a public hearing on the measure at 3 o'clock Friday afternoon. It is known that Commissioner of Motor Vehicles Baugh- man is opposed to this decentralization of tag issuing and other business which it is now necessary to conduct at the Baltimore central office. The bill is favored by the automobile dealers and the county citizens. It was originally introduced in the House by Speaker E. Brooke Lee of Silver Spring, and provided that four offices should be established, one of them at Silver Spring, to take care of Montgomery and the Southern Maryland counties. Amended by House. ‘However, when it became known that the commissioner of motor vehicles opposed such a measure, it was amend- ed in the House ways and means com- mittee to provide that the governor should appoint a deputy clerk of the automobile commissioner in each county seat to look after the automo- bile licensing business for the particular county. As amended this measure passed the House by a large ‘majority, but when the bill went into the Senate it was further amended, by knocking out the provision that the governor appoint the deputy clerks, and in its place was inserted the provision that the clerks of the Circuit Courts of the gounties should transact the business at & fee of 25 cents for each trans- action. The House concurred in the amendments. The governor, also on Friday after- noon, will hold a_hearing on the bill providing for the licensing of commis- sion merchnnm.mAtg‘n‘rge numrt:rwgg telegrams opposing s measu! recelged. It is designed to protect the farmers of the State against unscrupu- lous commission merchants, and pro- vides that before a commission mer- chant is licensed he must file with the agricultural board an_indemnity bond to the amount of $5000 “to secure honest accounting and payment to the consignor for goods consigned to .such commission merchants for sale” It provides also for the agricultural board to examine the books of any firm about which a complaint is received. The governor has signed several State-wide bills, and has set a date April as the time when he will meet Speaker E. Brooke Lee. and Senator David G. Mclntosh, jr, president of the Senate, to dispose of about 275 other pending bills, including a number of those passed for Montgomery and Prince Georges County. Road Bill Signed. He signed yesterday the $4,000,000 road bond bill, which provides funds for the construction and improvement of a number of roads providing direct trade routes to Baltimore, two of the proj- ects directly affecting Montgomery and Prince Georges Counties. One of them vides for the improvement of Co- Klr::bla pike from Laurel, providing & cut-off from that road and a direct route from that point to the Sixteenth street gateway into the Capital City by way of White Oak and Silver Spring. The other road provides another cut- off from the Baltimore Boulevard at Hyattsville bringing traffic_direct into Washington by way of Rhode Island avenue, an improvement which has been sought for many years. This law goes into effect immediately, and the board of public works already has taken steps to advertise for bids on the bonds. Others Approved. He also signed the inheritance tax law, which gives the State authority to take 80 per cent of the Federal estate taxes collected by the later in the State. The Federal law permis this, following affirmative action of the State. The fund expected from this source, is to be used to finance the $4,000,000 road loan. He also signed the tax codification bill, the bill placing the State Roads Commission funds in the hands of the State treasurer and controller; the budget bill, appropriating money for the operation of the State government during the fiscal years 1930 and 1931; the bill giving State aid to the counties for special schools for education of physically and mentally handicapped children; the $1,500,000 post road con- struction measure; the $1,500,000 bridge County Appointee Is Well and Nationally Known Engineer. Applicants for Other Position to Be Taken Over Area. BY LESTER N. INSKEEP, Staft Correspondent of The Star. ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT HOUSE, Va,, A 3.—Chairman Ed- ward la:nun the m of em'y;:fiy supervisors. today appo! Maj. Wil- liam R. m:hndl’ot Jefferson Park, m nationally kno e:fln D H commission, com| ";‘erl-tom_ p. Maj. Richards’ appointment fills a vacancy cr;m&:m them:u Te- organized by supervisors Saturday and brings to its membership an en- ‘who will be able to view the zon- problem from a technical point of in the opinion of Duncan. zoning committee of the Arling- ton County Chamber of Commerce, which is working with the board of su- pervisors in an effort to effect the im- mediate zoning of the county, is heartily in accord with the new appointments to the commission, it was stated today by P. P. Woodbridge, executive secre- tary of the chamber—Robert H. Forman and J. E. Spaulding, the other new members, having been long prominent in the development of the county. Applicants to Meet. ‘Thursday morning a number of ap- plicants for the position of zoning en- gineer are to meet with the zoning com- mittee of the chamber of commerce, at which time they will be taken over the entire county and their propositions then considered. It is expected that new members of the soning commission will play an active part in the selection of the zoning engineer. Ma). Richards is at the present time the safety engineer of the Associated General Contractors of America, with general offices in Washington. He is. also a member of the staff and in charge of the quantity survey department of the association. Born in Cecil County, Md., Maj. Rich- ards is a graduate in civil of Northwestern University. For many fi"‘ he was engaged in railroad work, ving been in the engine depart- ments of the Pennsylvania and Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Rail- road, and superintendent of construc- tion for the Louisville & Nashville Rail- road. Later he was general manager of the H. K. Corbin Engineering & Con- tracting Co. of New York City and superintendent of construction of the J. G. White Engineering Corporation of New York. Flying Field Construction. During the war he had charge of the construction of two flying flelds in Florida; was quartermaster in the con- struction of Fort Eustis, Va.; construc- tion quartermaster of the loon Ob- servation School at Lee Hall, Va., and construction quartermaster of the con- crete road that was constructed by the Army between Newport News and York- town, Va. While in charge of the Rocky Moun- tain branch of the Associated General Contractors, before coming here, he was & member of the advisory board of the zoning committee of that city. Maj. Richards is now & Reserve offi- cer in the Quartermaster Corps of the United States Army, with the rank of major. He is a life member of the Shrine, belonging to the Delco Con- sistory at Richmond, and a member of the Blue Lodge at Willlamsburg, Va. ‘With the membership of the commis- sion filled it is expected that they will meet shortly to select a chairman and work out the detalls for an early start upon their task. —_— BRGEPROET 5T0BE PUSHE Arlington Official Says R., F. & P. Railroad Span Is Un- safe After 25 Years. view, ‘The By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT HOUSE, Va., April 3.—While they have received a letter from the officials of that they construction measure, and the $761,000{ Will spare building construction bill, and the two bills providing for a referendum at the Fall elections of 1930, one whether the governor should call a convention to Tevise the State constitution and the other providing for a change in the constitution to permit the State treas- urer and controller to deputize the sign- ing of vouchers and checks. CHURCH CIRCUS STARTS APRIL 9 AT ST. STEPHEN'S Proceeds From Entertainment Will Be Used to Reduce Church Debt. A combination cireus and carnival il CLINIC PLAN DISCUSSED. Mount Rainier Women Arrange School Project Preliminaries. b:lsl Dispatch to The Star. Arrangements for getting dental clinic to be ashington-Alexandria pike an ington avenue, it was staied today by Edward Duncan, chairman of the board Jockeys, Trainers, Ticket: Men, Sheet Writers and Calculators Are Exempted. -| By » Stafr Correspondent of The Star. ¥ 4 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C WEDNESfiAY APRIL MAJ. WILLIAM E. RICHARDS, ROCKVLLE Z0NNG LAV I PROVIDED Maryland Senate Passes House Bill Granting Offi- cials Broad Powers. By a Staff Carrespondent of The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md,, April 3.—Zoning of Rockville, county seat of Montgomery County, is provided for in a House bill PLANNING BODY'S ers Grant Magruder Com- meroial Zoning Plea. e er: | CHARGED WITH DEATH Laura Landino to Face Coroner in ‘The advantages of this road were to include natural which passed the Senate during the | W final hours. It was introduced by Dele- gate George L. Edmonds of Rockville and would authorize the mayor and ' council of that town to prepare and adopt a zoning ordinance. Broad powers are given under the terms of the bill for the town officials to establish districts or zones within which may be regulated and restricted by ordinance the height, number of stories, size of buildings and other structures, percentage of lot that may be occupied, size of yards, courts and other open places; the density of popu- lation, location and use of buildings, structures and land for trade, industry, residence or other purposes. Provsiion for Hearing. ‘The measure provides also that no regulation, restriction or boundary is to be effective until after a public hear- oy huhnd aae: ::“g:yl' notice. If re is a protest t any proposed zoning, signed by the owners of 20 per cent or more of the area affected, or those adjacent 100 feet in the rear or in front a distance of 100 feet from the frontage line, any regulation may not be effective except by a favorable vote of three-fourths of the council of the town. The mayor and council are author- ized, under the terms of the bill, to A delegation from Riverdale and Uni- versity Mhfid m:h‘ln“mvln(“ ace pa ew Cut road and its continuation, Univer- sity drive, on the ground that this thor- oughfare would relieve serious conges- tion on the Baltimore boulevard. George H. Lanhardt and other spokes- men of the delegation claimed the pro- posed road would relieve traffic through Riverdale, Hyattsville and Bladensburg almost 50 per cent, and afford a direct route from the boulevard to Northwest e ue . Kelly, Sacred Heart Home W fiu:'rth Con- road, and George vent, on the N. Bowen, J. P. M. Duvall and Chris- appoint a commission, which shall sub- | tian mit a preliminary report of a zon! le and shall hold public hurl:: fore any final report is submitted. Th;l lm:n and council cr.’:un must hold on final report &‘Im it is :lgpted. e % Appeals Board of Five. zoning board of appeals to cons! five members, to be -ppolnl:l by v.‘hf: mayor and councll, is provided for. Their terms would be for four 'fifl“ that the first appointments one sl be for one year, one for two years, one for three years and one for four of change ations on ing, but it mfuh tive votes of four the board - shall befor be made either by a private citizen or on behalf of any public department, hmfit b’: l‘tllpuhud 'uut any such appeal lven pre; w:fltfol:’fl” .h:m. lerence by the court uf is given to the town officials to pass ordinances to provide Ppenalties for those violating any of the Pprovisions of zoning ordinances passed. CEMETERY PROTEST BOARD TO SEEK CAUSE OF AIR STATION FIRE Comdr. Seymour Will Head In- quiry Over Hampton Roads Disaster. By the Assoclated Press. NORFOLK, Va, April $.—A naval board of inquiry, headed by Comdr. Philip Seymour and with Lieut. Comdr. R. D. Miller and Lieut. Comdr. F. B. Stump as the remaining two ibers, e which sarly this moraing devoped W] early three buildings at the Hampton Roads Raed » fourn S teriously dam- a Fanned by a stiff breese, the flames at one time threatened to destroy the en- block along Pocahontas HEARING STARTED (.55 & Hear Arguments Next Tuesday on Property Values, early in May, and contained much valuable equipment and - fittings. Six auf also were No information has been obtained as to’ the ere umoceuplea, o bulldioes FOUR PRISONERS ESCAPE FROM ‘BREAKPROOF’ JAIL By the Associated Press. ELDO! Miss Mabel Barnes, teachers, who are directing the two presentations. The performances are for the benefit of the high school athletic asseciation. 3| CRIPPLED GIRL OF 12 Slaying of Her Brother-in- Law at Baltimore. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, April 3.—Arraigned in |7 years old may be Laura Landino, a 12-year-old cripple girl, was held under for an inquest to the lhylnfi‘o! Anthony Bevalaqua, her brother-in-law. Laura appeared undisturbed in court, smiling her family and kissing the bally boy whose father she is alleged to have killed. She is a slight young- ster with chestnut hair. Bevalaqua, the slain man, was the husband_of Rose Bevalaqua, sister of Laura. He was shot within the yard of the home Saturday night, when mwvmnnwm;idcmm,m wh‘n,)mmhe ln.ry'“ m“h person over v, 8 held and tried on Juvenile Court on a charge of murder, & charge of murder. VESTRYMEN ARE CHOSEN. St. Johh's Episcopal Church at Upper Marlboro Holds Election. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., April 3.— Vestrymen for St. John's Episcopal Church, King George’s Parish, were he | elected at the annual Easter Monday parish meeting as follows: T. B. Mid- dleton, James R. Edelin, A. L. Adams, ‘Thorne, George Kerby, Owen s Moore, Prank H. Smith, sr., and George F. Von Osterman “FREVITIN HELD Newark, Del., Charged With Two Murders and Arson. Speclal Dispatch to The Star. A 3 —Edward say the Mahoneys were known keep sums of money in their hamfl which could not be found after the . Information was obtained by the police that Smith, although out of work, seemed to have a good deal of money lately. Elmer Johnson, a farmhand, was ar- rested several days ago, but released when he proved an alibl. Vote for Dirigible Race. SAN DIEGO, Calif., April 3 (#.—San Diego voters yesterday authorized a $250,000 bond issue for the purchase of property to be given to the Government for use as a base for Navy dirigibles. ‘The Government is investigating pro- 1 the Pacific tory. value. 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