Evening Star Newspaper, April 26, 1929, Page 10

10 * SUBURBAN NEWS. THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTO N: D€ ERIDAY, A RRID 26 '1509 EXTORTON PLOT SEEN N COUNTY Parked Motorists Reported Victimized by Band of Black- | mail Racketeers. BY WILLIAM J. WHEATLEY, Staff Correspondent of The Star. SILVER SPRING, Md., April 26.— Prevalence of a band of racketeers in the metropolitan district of Mont- gomery County, who have been prey- ing upon persons found parked in au- tomobiles in that area, has been dis- closed as a result of the investigation donducted by Montgomery County Po- liceman Charles Barnes of the local substation. The man arrested by Barnes and held here for investigation was subsequently released, with in- structions to leave the county. _ There were two reasons for the re- lease, it was disclosed. In the first place there was not sufficient evidence to prosecute on any charge, and | further, persons who had made reports | of the activities of three men and who | were called to the station to identify ! did not show a disposition to prosecute. | However, since the investigati Barnes was disclosed in the newspapers, it has come to the attention of police and others in the county, that the practice of demanding money from these people on the threat.of exposure has been widespread in the metro- politan district, and it is not believed that its working was confined to the | three men who were observed by Offi- cer Barnes early this week. Bamesi chased the men before they had had | an opportunity to make any overtures. | Some Said to Have Paid. It has been disclosed by reports sub- sequently received that business and professional men of -the Capital City | have been sought out as victims of the | badger operators, and it was said that | in some instances the people have paid the demands of the men. Considerable of it has been done in the west metro- | politan district, it is said, but the | practice there was not so bold as that | of the band said to be operating in the | territory east of Silver Spring. The practice in the west end, it has| been disclosed, was for the band to go around and take the numbers of auto-| mobiles found parked on the roadside | and then obtain the names of the dwn. ers from the registration lists. Subse. quently, and usually the following dny.} they would call up the individual and seek a money payment on a threat of | publicity. | It was pointed out that the practice was one of the safest from the view- point of ‘the perpetrators, because the individual .concerned in most instances would not inform the police, and would not want any. matter divulged, whether the circumstances were true or not. Two Report Extortion Attempts. Practically all day yesterday informa- tion flowed into ‘various offices in Sil- ver Spring from people who said they had been victims ‘of the ‘racketeers. ‘Two professional men called up a friend in this section yesterday and told of ex- periences they had had with the band. ©One of them said that the day follo ing a night he was parked in the west end he was called on the telephone and informed as to where his car was parked, and it was suggested that pub- licity was not desirable. He asserted that a large money payment was de- manded, but that he refused. the other hand, it was learned . JUNIOR WOMEN HOLD SESSION Junior Women’s Club, photographed at the residence of Miss Gene White- side, 5817 Chevy Chase parkway. Front row, left to right: Madeline Adams, Mary Jane Allen (president), Barbara Dyson (treasurer) and Sarah Fulton (secretary). Second row: Katherine Ireland, Peggy Cromwell, Francis Phillips (secre- tary) and Alleen Arone. Third row: Dorothy Potbury, Helen Chaffee and Eleanor Rose. Fourth row: Jane Louise Stein, Sue Owens, Eilleen Hayes, Mrs. Hoover Hanger, director of the Junior Women's Club. Back: Gene Whiteside. —Star Staff Photo. ooking into the situation say that a number have paid. However, the polic now are determined to break up any such practice, and if they can find any ‘Ifm of publicity. Those who have been } ROCKVILLE FIREMEN LAY BENEFIT PLANS one to aid them in a prosecution they | will take cases into the courts. Even the police, while out on investigations involving search for house robbery sus- pects, have noticed men crawling near their cars, and have made them move on. Several of them when approached by the police merely explained that they were spying on members of their families. | PRISONER IS DELIVERED TO PROVIDENCE POLICE| Man Arrested in Takoma Park Must Answer Charge of Embezzlement. SILVER SPRING, Md., April 26— Edmund M. Sartorious, who was arrest- ed several days ago in Takoma Park by Sergt. Burdine of the Montgomery County police, was turned over yester- day to the Providence, R. I, authorities, where he is wanted to answer a charge of embezzlement and fraudulent conver- sion of securities amounting to $11,632. Sartorious, according to the lice, has been sought by the Rhode Island authorities since early in 1927. He moved into Takora Park three weeks 2g0. As s00n as he was arrested the Montgomery County police informed the police of the New England State. Ligh T sie B loe o\-e nt Cetre ' Annual Suppers to Be Held May 14 and 15, Organization Decides at Meeting. ROCKVILLE, Md. April 26.—The annual supper for the benefit of the Rockville Volunteer Fire Department will be held Wednesday and Thurs- day, May 14 and 15, it was decided at the monthly meeting of the organiza- tion last night. | _F. Barnard Welsh, president of the fire department, who heads the gen | eral committee of arrangements, will meet with the women of the town Mon- day night, when committees will be named to lay plans for the events. A| portable pump has been added to the | department’s equipment, it was reported. | Dr. George L. Edmonds, a member of | the House of Delegates from this | county, gave a resume of legislation | ORTHOPEDIC CLINIC 0 BE HELD MAY 5 |State Medical Expert to Ex- | amine Children and Adults in Arlington County. BY LESTER N. INSKEEP, Staff Correspondent of The Star. ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT: | HOUSE, Va., April 26—Dr. P. M. Ch} | chester, county health officer, today completed plans for an orthopedic cilinc | to be held Sunday, May 5, at the Wood- | row Wilson School, Fort Myer Helghts. The clinic, which will be held by an| g | orthopedic surgeon from the State | Health Department, is for the benefit | of children and adults who are crippled {or suffering from any bone disease or | deformity. In stressing the importance of the clinie, Dr. Chichester sald that there are many people who have been erip- pled by injury, infantile paralysis or other diseases who have accepted their | conditions as hopeless when by a visit | to the clinic they may learn that science | has discovered a way to cure them. ‘ Many Absolute Cures. | The records of these clinics show an, unusual number of absolute cures and | many more eases in which apparently hopeless cripples have been given the use of their limbs. Another service rendered by the clinic is the careful study of children who may have had a slight attack of in- | fantile paralysis without the knowledge of their parents or attending physician, Dr. Chichester said. In many such cases the attack is so slight as to pass practically unnoticed at the time, but eventually results in partial disability. An orthopedic surgeon would be able to detect the symptoms that remain | after even a slight attack and prescribe | treatments that may prevent the victim | from becoming either a partial or total cripple. Includes Flat Feet. | The clinic, Dr. Chichester pointed out, is not only for those who are notice- ably crippled, but for those who have | any trouble that may be traced to bone | disease or deformity. In this respect he stressed the seriousnesse of what is | ordinarily termed flat feet, with the at- | tendant neryousness. When taken in | the early stages flat feet may be en- tirely cured, he said, and suggested that any resident of the county who is tired and nervous for no apparent reason visit the clinic, where it can be deter- mined whether their trouble may be | traced to flat feet. | . The clinic will be held from 9 o'clock | in the morning until 4 o'clock in the | afternoon and is open to any one living in the county. A. A. YOUNG DIES AT 50. Cumberland Man Was Member of | Bar 20 Years. affecting fire department: | . Bridge Hearing Monday. | FREDERICKSBURG, Va., April 26 (Special).—A" public hearing will be | beld at Tappahannock Monday by offi ( clals of the War Department on the application of the State Highway Com- mission for permission to construct a bridge over Mount Landing Creek, in Essex County. gning we M M"\es PENN OIL COMPANY CUMBERLAND, Md., April 26 (Spec- ial).—Archibald A. Young, 50, a lead- ing member of the Allegany County | Bar for 29 years, died at his home Wednesday night. Mr. Young was an active Republican and planned to enter the race for the ]noml.mtlon for mayor next Spring. iDurlng the World War he was special | assistant to _the Attorney General of |the United States. He is survived by | his widow, two sons and a daughter. FEMININE DRYS 10 FIGHT RITCHIE |President of Enforcement | Organization Charges Him | With Violating Oath. | Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, April 26.—Mrs. Jesse W. Nicholson permitted herself to be e-elected president of the United Dem- ocratic Women's Clubs of Maryland yesterday for the sole purpose of “ridding the State of Gov. Ritchie.” The feminine dry leader from Chevy ase, who organized the State group and has been its president since its in- ception, had Intended to retire from of- fice, she said, during the annual meet- ing of the organization at the Lord Baltimore Hotel. Upon the unanimous request of the members of her body, however, Mrs. Nicholson again accepted office, in spite of the duties that are now hers as th head of the National Womien's Demo- cratic Law Enforcement League. Cites Group’s Influence. “I am only staying in office,” the president said, “to help get rid of our present governor. “When_that piece of work is accom- plished I shall resign from office feel- ing that I have done something.” and of “making history since our organ- ization” went on to express her opinion of the present administration in the State of Maryland. She referred first to the influence her group had wielded in the last presiden- | tial election, and then declared that the | movemnent begun three years ago “will be finished or about completed in our next State election, when we turn out | who have brought humiliation and dis- grace to our State in the greatest road scandal in the history of Maryland. Declares State Is Dry. we heiped elect the present governor, who ran on a law-enforcement plat- form; how he disregarded his oath of office soon after we put him i office and accepted a case of liquor. ‘The speaker referred to the governor as the “mouthplece of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment” lnd"declnred further that “Maryland is “The last election proved that.” she of the State tried to have passed at the recent Legislature an enforcement act mr'fn" were defeated by the Ritchie ma- chine.” Other officers re-elected were Mrs. E. Allen Craig, chairman for Baltimore City; Miss Helen Pumphrey of Rock- ville, chairman for Western Maryland: Mrs. Edward C. Wells of Havre de Grace, chairman for Central Maryland; Mrs. J. C. Grimm of Linthicum Heights, chairman for Southern Maryland; Mrs. P. Conrad Stoll, recording secretary; Miss Isabel Parr, correspond secre- | tary, and Mrs. L. M. Cleveland, treas- urer. Mrs. A. Morris Carey was elected | auditor. —_—t Work has been begun on an exten- sive irrigation plan for Algeria, streams in the northern section of the country being dammed and wells drilled in th southern. Law Enforcement | “You doubtless recall,” she said, “how | sald, “conclusively, beyond the shadow | of & doubt. Yet, when the moral forces | | club members; V. P. 1. DEAN OF ENGINEERING ' COMING HERE FOR ARMS STUD |Ordnance Expert Will Confer | on Problems of Making Big Guns. Ez.’> B. Norris Will Spend | Two Weeks in National Capital. Special Dispatch to The Star. BLACKSBURG, Va., April 26.—Earle B. Norrls, dean,of the Engineering | School at Virginia Polytechnic Insti- | tute, will leave here Sunday for Wash- ington, where he will attend a two- week conference of the Reserve and Regular. Army officers of the ordnance department. Dean Norris, who holds | the rank of lieutenant colonel in the | Reserve Corps, would be in charge of the design and manufacture of large | guns in a war emergency. Part of the twoeweek conference at the ordnance department will be de- voted to making plans to strengthen | the Reserve organization. An enlarged | Reserve officer personnel in ordnance | is expected to be recommended. | | Dean Norris is an authority on the | working of steel and Ias done a great deal of study In connection with the | problems of making, Jarge guns. He is the author of iastic Flow and | Strength of Cold-worked Steel,” “Me- | chanical Effects of Cold Working of | Combined Sttesses in Steel.”* SUBURBAN NEWS.’ EARLE B. NORRIS. During the war Dean Norris served as captain and major in the ordnance department and as such was engaged for 16 months in technical service in the A. E. F., for which he was cited by Gen. Pershing for exceptionally meritorious service. At present he is a lleutenant colonel of Ordnance Re- serve and has been on active duty at Mrs. Nicholson in her opening ad- | Steel” “A Study of Experimental Data | Watertown Arsenal and assigned for dress and afte Tspeaking of “blazing the | O Cold Working of Steel Cylinders by | emergency duty in charge of the design trail for clean democracy in Maryland” | Internal Pressure” and “A Study of | section, artillery division of ordnance department. {ANNUAL 4-H BANQUET [ HELD AT ROCKVILLE | of office, from the governor down, those Dr. Thomas B. Symons of Univer- Qut-of- | sity of Maryland Is Princi- | pal Speaker. Special Dispatch to The Btar. ROCKVILLE, Md., April 26.—Eighty | members of the various constituent or- | | ganizations in attendance at the fourth | annual banquet of the Montgomery | County Federation of 4-H Clubs was | held in the assembly hall at Washing- ton Grove last evening. David Trundle of Poolesville, prom- inent . club worker, was toastmaster. | The principal address was delivered by Dr. Thomas B. Symons, director of ex- tension service of the University of | Maryland. He traced the development | |of 4-H Club work, stressed its - | portance in the development of its members and complimented those in charge in this county. | Others who spoke were Dorsey Howes, | Lee Howes and Charles Hines, activi O:. W. Anderson, county | agricultural agent, and Albert A. Ady, assistant county agricultural agent. The talks were interspersed with literary and musical numbers, principally by 4-H Club members. A number of per- sons prominently interested in club work in the county and State were present. | ‘The banquet was served by the Ladles’ | Ald Socfety of the Washington Grove | Methodist Church. PSR, T Florentine records show thal there | was a thriving ice cream trade in Italy !in the fifteenth century. SHORTER SCHEDULES "NEW YORK New Morning Train Will leave Washington Asive Philadelphia Arrive New York (Jersey City Terminal) . Carries Parlor Cars; Seat Coaches. +10:00 AM. 1:00 P.M. 3:00 P.M. Dining Car and the new Individual Yolarh XN BID FOR PURCHASE OF WATER COMPANY Town Interests Negotiate to Buy Alexandria Private Concern. ALEXANDRIA, Va. April 26—Con- firming reports that out-of-town in- terests were negotiating for the purchase | Y RELIGIOUS PARLEY TOBEHELDMAY 10 Young People’s Division to Confer on Church Educa- tion in Mount Rainier. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. MOUNT RAINIER, Md., April 26.-- Conferences on five important present« day religious subjects, addresses on the organization’s work in Egypt, & banguet id motion pictures will feature the annual conference of the young people’s division of the Prince Georges County Council of Religious Education to be held in the Mount Rainier Methodist Church May 10. | " Registration closes May 1 and by that time it is expected 200 delegates from Sunday schools of all denomina- tons in the county will be booked for the conference. Public school pupils attending the conference as delegates will be glven credit for attendance at the county schools, it is announced. Rev, Joseph H. Cudlipp, superintend- | ent of the young people’s division of the Maryland-Delaware Council of Re- | ligious Education, will lead one of the conference groups in a discussion of “Personal Problems.” Other confer- erce period leaders are Miss Mabel ‘Thurston, Mrs. Irene Cudlipp. Miss Bess C. Miles and Mrs. Frank M. Stephen ‘The conference will be an all-day affair, starting at § a.m. and continuing until 8:30 pm. The delegates will be welcomed by Rev. J. Herndon Billings- | ley, pastor of the conference church. | Rev. Mr. Cudlipp will deliver an ad- | dress on the Maryland-Delaware Coun- | ¢if's work In Egypt and in its Summer | camp. i |~ Following the banquet, Rev. Ksith Custis of the Riverdale Presbyterian Church will give a stewardship talk, with stereopticon viaws, while at 7: p.m. moving pictures of activities at the Summer camp will be shown. MRS. PAYNE IS ELECTED | AUXILIARY PRESIDENT Ballston Volunteer Fire ment Group Selects Officers at Annual S Depart- ion. of the Alexandria Water Co.,.a. privately | owned utility, stockholders were advised today by the board of directors that the American Water Works and Electric | Co. will offer $300 per share for stock in the company providing it.can obtain at least 95 per cent of the 4,000 shares. The offer is subject to decrease or increase as the current assets exceed or | fall below the current liabilities, as of’ April 30, 1929. {STANDS FOR RE-ELECTION Speclal Dispatch to The Star. BALLSTON, Va., April 26—Mrs. Ruth McClellan Payne was unanimous- | ly elected president of the auxiliary of the Ballsion Volunteer Fire ment yesterday afternoon at. its meeting held at the firchouse. officers elected were Mrs. Sadie Eilis, first vice president; Mrs. Lillain | tow, second vice president; Mrs. Edna Sealock, treasurer, and Mrs. Beatrice Upfold, Secretary. annual Other 'HORSE SHOW DUE MAY 25. | Managers of Bluie Ridge Hunt Club George P. Lyon Candidate for Vir- ginia House of Delegates. lsmfi)m_%:xsw%ch Va., April 26 pecial) —George P. Lyon of Wood- | . ford has announced his candidacy for . BERRYVILLE, Va., April 26 ( re-clection to the House of Delegates ial).—Announcement has been made as Representative from Caroline and |the mansgement of the Blue Ridge King George Counties. Clarence A.|Hunt Club Horse Show, that Safur- Jones, representing Spotsylvania Coun- |aay, May 25, has been selected as the ty and the City of Predericksburg, is date of the annual horse show, which Announce Program. expected to announce his candidacy in a few days. Dan M. Chichester will probably come out for re-election to the House from Stafford and Prince Wil- liam Counties. New Afterncon Train Will leave Washington . . . . Arrive Philadelphia will be held in Carter Hall Grove at Millwood. ' This will be the thirty-sixth ammual show held by the club. The hunters are esvecially, featured. .« . 400PM. 6:37 PM. Arrive New York (Jersey City Terminal) . 8:30 PM. Carries Observation-Parlor Cat, Dining Cat, Parlor and the new Individual Seat Coaches. The “will to please” would be an empty phrase if it were not made constantly evident in terms of service—service provided to meet travel needs—to afford greater convenience, comfort and satisfaction to the traveling public. These two new trains to New York, equipped and scheduled to meet travel convenience, are further evidence of the “will to please.” The good meals served en route are a feature of Baltimore & Ohio service that has won no little commendation. ‘On arrival in New York, you have the convenience of Train Connection Motor Coach Service which takes to the Heart of New York or Brooklyn. Effective April 28th, trains will leave Washington for New Yorkat 7:35 A.M., 9:00 AM., 10:00 A.M., 11:55 A.M., 2:00 P.M., 3:00 P.M,,4:00 PM., 5:00PM,, 12:25 AM., 250 A M. For other changes in service ask Ticket Agents. BA D. L. MOORMAN, Assistant General Passenger Agent LTIMOR A O passengers and their hand-baggage direct from the trainside ‘TRAVEL BUREAU and City Ticket Office, Woodward Bldg., 15 and H Sts., N. W. Phone Main 3300 10