Evening Star Newspaper, April 25, 1929, Page 10

SUBURBAN NEWS.' * IPHELD BY CLUBS, INDIVIDUAL VIEWS Maryland Federation Votes Bown Ban on Clubs Because ; of Members’ Opinions. $pecial Dispatch to The Star. __BALTIMORE, April 25.—Defenders of {ndividual liberty won a victory in argu- ments over a proposed change in the eonstitution of the Maryland Federa- 4ion of Women's Clubs at the second day's session here yesterday. LA clause which would have barred from membership all organizations with- 1 whose ranks were any members “sffiliated with any organization which tolerates violation of national or State §ws,” was so altered as to make the applying group responsible only for its formally recorded group opinions. +“During the long discussion which pre- ceded this alteration, Mrs. William J. Brown, president of the Fortnightly Club, made a request that, if the pro- posed change were aimed at any cer- tain group, that fact be brought into the open. Similar to Others. She was answered by Mrs. J. W. Avi- rett-Thomas, chairman of the revi- slons committee, who explained the section was part of the constitution of the general federation and been adopted by four State groups. It was developed, she said, a long time before prohibition became an important issue and at a time when an element of anarchy was creeping into evidence in all parts of the country. Tgm closing session of the convention ‘was devoted to an open forum discus- sion of club matters, at which Mrs. A. Norman Ward presided. As far as the more than 17,000 mem- rs of the federation are concerned, there is no overwhelming demand that ‘women be permitted to service on juries, the convention was told by Mrs. Alonzo Boley. Opinions Evenly Divided. ‘Questionnaires had been sent to mem- bers throughout the State prior to the last Legislature, asking each woman whether she favored jury service.for women. ‘The replies were almost ex- actly evenly divided, she reported. Brig. Gen. Frank Parker of the Bu- reau of Insular Affairs of the War De- ertmem. spoke on “The Election in icaragua” at the afternoon session. “Leaders of both the Liberal and Conservative parties in Nicaragua,” he sald, “were so well satisfled with the United States supervision of their elec- tion that they requested us to again supervise their election in 1932.” ‘'THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, layout for Magruder Park, which is now Proposed model municipal recreation center. MAGRUDER PARK WORK PROGRESSING ‘Gen. Parker was the vice chairman of the board which was in charge of the Nicaraguan election. CITIZENS WILL VOTE ON TOWN FIRE LEVY Mount Rainier Council to Put 10- Cent Tax Plan Up to Resi- dents Next Month. By a Staft Correspondent of The Star. MOUNT RAINIER, Md., April 25— A proposal to levy a 10-cent tax on each $100 assessible valuation of all real and personal property in Mount Rainier for “maintenance, supply, care and pur- chase of new equipment” of the volun- teer fire department will be submitted to the people of that town at their reg- ular election May 6, it was voted by the mayor and council last night. A proposal to levy a 20-cent tax for a refuse collection service at the same election was deferred by the town lead- ers until a more urgent demand arises. In addition to voting on the fire tax the citizens will choose a new mayor and some members of the council at their election. A committee of firemen is directing & canvass of the town, urging the cit- izens to vote for the tax. Those in charge of the work are A. B. Bates, Robert McCallam, David Laing, Frank Crown, Harvey Wilson and Chief Young. —_ MAN IS HURT IN CHASE IN SOUTHERN MARYLAND | ZLeonardtown Resident Brought to ‘Washington by Federal Revenue Agents After Car Is Wrecked. Stephen Murphy, 27, of Leonardtown, Md., was brought to Providence Hos- pital suffering from severe injuries as the result of an automobile accident near Morganza, Md., at an early hour this morning. Federal Revenue Agents Joseph R. Brewer and W. H. Schultz, who brought Hyattsville Recreation Cen- ter’s First Facilities Expect- ed to Be Ready June 1. Special Dispatch to The Star, HYATTSVILLE, Md, April 25— Grading of Magruder Park, Hyattsville’s community recreation center, is pro- gressing rapidly, and it is expected that the base ball diamond, which will be the first_ unit of a group of facilitles to be provided, will be ready for use by June 1. The plot, which lies in the western end of the own, opposite the Washing+ ton Suburban Sanitary Commission plant, was donated by former Mayor Wlltliugl P. Magruder as a recreational center. ey has been appropriated by the town and contributed by citizens to- ward the fund for the start of work on the park. It is planned to add to the facilities of the park each year until ultimately it is & model community rec- reation center. Held Vital Need. Establishment of the park will fill a vital need here, it is pointed out by Daniel Cox Fahey, jr., a landscape and golf course architect of Hyattsville, who is & member of the playground commit- tee of the Chamber of Commerce of Hyattsville. G. Shearman James is chairman of this committee. Dr. Perley P. Brookens of the fourth ward is chair- man$ of the parks and playgrounds committee of the town council, which is co-operating. Hyattsville has been in the past and will doubtless always remain essentially a suburb of Washingten, it is pointed out by Mr. Fahey. As such it has en- joyed the fine recreational facilities of the National Capital.. However, it is claimed that with the building up of this community it is losing by degrees the picturesque woodlands and fields which have attracted many home seek- ers to the section. Magruder Park will be readily ac- cessible to all sections of the commun- ity. At present it may be reached only from Columbia avenue, but eventually Melrose avenue and Arbor street will make possible an entrance from Rhode Island avenue extended. Oakwood road him to the hospital, said he was in- jured when his car was wrecked while trying to escape from them. Murphy’s condition is undetermined. He is said to be a brother of Policeman Dennis Murphy of the Washington force. P P i Y Boy Burned by Explosion. STAUNTON, Va., April 25 (Special). ~—Ralph Cook, 14, who lives near Green- ville, was brought to a local hospital ‘Tuesday suffering from severe burns. ‘With a rag on the end of a stick, dipped in. gasoline, he was destroying cater- pillar nests at his home, when a can of gasoline exploded. ALEXANDRIA. ALEXANDRIA, Va. April 25 (Spe- cial).—The bronze tablet to be placed on the old Marshall House in memory of James W. Jackson will be unveiled May 24 by the various Confederate o tions of Alexandria immediately following the annual memorial services at the Confederate Monument and at the mound in the Christ Church yard |2 where a number of Confederate dead ‘were laid to rest. Jackson was proprietor of the ‘Marshall House and was killed by New York Zouaves after he had killed Col. Elisworth when Bilsworth removed the Confederate fiag flying above the Marshall Héuse, Forty members of Adherence Lodge, No. 38, Masons, I come here from Baitimore tonight to pay a visit to Alexandria-Washington Lodge of Ma- sons, No. 22. Worshipful Master C. Aubrey Callahan will preside. Alexandria Post, No. 24, American Tegion, held its annual ladies’ night celebration here last night in Elks’ Hall with Dr. Howard L. Arnold presiding. An entertalnment program was held, followed by dancing. Gifts were presented by Dr. Arnold to the following: Mrs. F. Clinton ive an illustrated lecture > l:hc Doorbells of Europe,” tonight Grace Epi | Church of the Holy Land will be shown. | ., The Alexandria Republican Club will , hold its first annual banquet Wednes- muhe at the George Mason . Hotel. | Republican Representatives in | Congress, Langford, Garber and Shaf- 1 fer, will speak. R. Samuel Lucketf, will Y £ will be another means of access to the park. Would Have Foot Ball Field. Following the laying out of a base ball field, which is considered the town's most vital need, it is hoped to provide a foot ball gridiron, & swimming pool, concrete basket ball courts and five tennis courts. Recognizing the popu- larity of golf, an area has been desig- nated for clock golf. It is pointed out that the oriental of the l:ldl'k is such ‘lsu to mket ) a ve vantageous layou! - ome:’zmm‘: activities to_which it will be devoted. The d lies well, is of a soil texture and Sses & con- siderable number of shade Because of the fact that the areas adjacent to the k are not built up, zoning, it is set forth, will be simple and objection- able types of buildings or activities may be forever excluded. Grandstands Planned. 1t is planned to erect stands and a ucnwpp at_the base ball fleld. The stands could also be used to observe contests on the foot ball field, as the lesignated for a gridiron coincides major portion of that to be in the erent, season for base ball. ard establishment of one have A Tt s o, By ot treams have e care of sew~ :n:mlu-mun.:eunm(orhm- m’it the extreme north of the park which, it is believed, sufficient water not only Two Cumberland Men Fined. - CUMBERLAND, Md, A 25 (Spe- jamin Levin, p{&m (e\;’:- inl'm'e here, was fined $650 and costs in two cases, by Judge Morris A. Soper in United States Court in Baltimore, on liquor charges. Melvin Washington, colored, | Indians. o by Levin, was fined $250 and ' the mond being developed as a —Sketch by Daniel Cox Fahey, jr. Offered New Job PAUL MORTON., MORTON OFFERED PETERSBURG PUST Alexandria City Manager Urged for Similar Position in Dinwiddie County. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25—City Manager Paul Morton has received a verbal offer from the City Council of Petersburg, Va., to fill the position of city manager of Petersburg, and is an- ticipating a letter confirming the offer within the next 24 hours. Members of the Petersburg council visited this city Monday and inspected the street and sewer work and other improvements made here since Morton became city manager four years ago. The council later called on Morton and offered him a salary said to be much in excess of the $6,500 he receives here, to take charge of Petersburg. Petersburg _paid its retiring city manager $10,000 a year. Morton would not divulge the particulars of the prop- osition made him, preferring to await until utnlg lem‘r !dlrom the Petersburg counc] received. The city manager did not intimate whether he would accept the position, but stated that he wculd appear before the Alexandria City Council and present the letter when it is received. Local persons, hearing of the offer, are circulating a petition which will be submitted to the Alexandria Council, asking that every effort be made to re- tain his services. ‘Morton, who is 36 years old, is thought to be one of the youngest city managers in the country. He came here in Jan- uary, 1923, as director of public safety after attending a fire and police train- ing school in New York City. He sue- ceeded City ‘Manager Wilmer M. Rich on May 1, 1925. Morton is a native of Louisville, Ky., and is & World War veteran. Prior to coming here he was engaged mainly in railroad construction work with the Chesapeake & Ohlo and Southern Rail- rodd Companies. He was assistant en- e & Ohio at Richmond when appointed direc public safety of Alexandria. TABLET WILL PAY HONOR TO MEMORY OF INDIAN Surry Courthouse Will Erect Marker to Man Who Saved Colonists. By _the Assaciated Press. P RICHMOND, Va., April 25.—A bronze tablet. in memory:of Chanco, Indian, who saved a settlement of Virginia colonists from an Indian massacre in 1620, will be dedicated ai 3 pm. to- morrow at Surry Courthouse, Was the d- . He was wounded by the . The attack was made, but settlers, darned by Chanco, were able to repulse the Indians, MARYLAND MAN IS HELD GUILTY ON ARSON CHARGE Bender Wiley Is Sentenced to Six Years in Prison by Judge Doub at Cumberland. Special Dispatch to The Star. CUMBERLAND, Md., April 25— Bender Wiley, formerly of Hagerstown, | found guilty .of arson Tuesday, yester- “UNTZ” BREWER ecoommme - W. A. BOBB 6th & H Sts. N.W. CR AUTOWORKS | "ciopry co. D. .C, THURSDAY, day was sentenced to six years in the Maryland Penitentiary by Judge Albe: A. Doub. ' ¥ Three barns and a tenant house were burned near Rawlings on the night of March 25. The muddy shoes of Wiley were shown to the jury and the testi- mony was that the shoes fitted the im- prints in the soil around the barns. ‘Wiley claimed an alibi. Frank F. Barbour, clothing salesman, Connellsville, Pa., who pleaded guilty to forgery, was ordered to leave the State in 12 hours, Because of his phys- ber center of the world. In this city the bulk of the world’s tires are built. Akron people knowrubber. They build tires. Thus—they are the most critical of Akron’s largest tire dealer is the Miller dealer. More Miller tires, we believe, are sold at retail in Akron than any otherkind. _APRIL 25 ical condition he was not wanted in Maryland or in the penitentiary, he was_ told. Albert Kitzmiller was given three years for store robbery. His brother, who pleaded guilty to recelving the stolen goods, was ordered to leave the State in 24 hours. A Massachusetts trapper sometimes finds a gun superfluomv.penecently he brought in two fox skins, one slain by |* a wildcat and one a victim of starva- tion. SUBURBAN NEWS." WOMAN’S CONFERENCE WILL CONCLUDE TONIGHT Final Session at Danville Will Be Featured by Telling of Experiences. Special Dispatch o The Star. DANVILLE, Va., April 25.—The fif- teenth annual session of the Woman's Methodist Conference concluded its 0" T0ld & Bl mEnt Tacebing. to Bens 0] al night meef to ‘hear additional missionary experiences. Miss Dora Armstrong, back from Africs, and Miss Constance Rumbough, who has served in Manchuria, will speak. Eynchburg Girl Dies. .YNCHBURG, Va., April 25 (Spe- cial).—Miss Harriett Yanccy Scott, 21 years of age, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Y. Scott, died Wednesday after \Missionary Conference of the Virginia 'an illness of 11 years. UNO SERVICE, Incorporated 14th and Corcoran Sts. N.W. 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