Evening Star Newspaper, May 10, 1929, Page 11

% SUBURBAN NEWS. . - GOUNTY TO OPEN -~ HEALTH GENTER Dental Clinic to Be Initial Unit in Prince Georges. BY GEORGE PORTER, Etaft Correspondent of The Star, BRENTWOOD, Md., May 10.—Prince Georges County's first health center which will serve the communities of Brentwood, Mount Rainier, Cottage City and Colmar Manor, will open in the Brentwood School next Thursday after- noon, when a dental clinic, initial unit of the center, will be inaugurated. ‘The center will be conducted in a ToOm on the second floor of the Brent- wood School which the Board of Edu- cation has set aside for the work. Plans for the center, as announced by Dr. Willlam S. Keister, county health officer, consist of eventual widening of the scope of its activities to include every phase of public health work. A baby clinic, in which children of pre- school age are examined, will be one of the first projects held there, he declares. Citizens Procure Clinic. ‘The dentai clinic has been secured through the combined efforts of the Brentwood - Mount Rainier _Parent- Teacher Association and the Women's Civic League of Mount Rainier. By means of card parties and other enter- tainments these two organizations have raised sufficient funds to purchase the necessary equipment for a modern dental clinic, including a dental- chai. With the assistance of the county health office, the sponsoring organiza- tions have secured two dentists who will conduct the clinic, which will be held on Thursday and Friday afternoons. Dr. Robert E. Green will have charge one afternoon and Dr. Arnold Lewin- sohn the other. Miss Ruth Tighe, public health nurse | for the upper portion of Prince Georges County, will assist at the initial clinics and train members of committees from the Parent-Teacher Association and Women's Civic League to help the den- tists, as they will take over this work a8 soon as the clinics get under way. According to Dr. Keister, this assisting work will consist principally of keep- ing records of the children's dental de- fects and getting them back and forth between the clinic and their classes. Declared Need. ‘The county health officer sees in the Brentwood health center the filling of a long-felt public heaith need, and hopes that its inauguration will lead | to the establishment of others in vari- ous parts of Prince Georges. i At present Riverdale has a dental | clinic, the first ever established in the county. which is operating very suc- cessfully, Dr. Keister states. In Hyatts- ville, he says, it has been decided, at least temporarily, to send the school children to dentists rather than set up | & clinic. The town of Laurel is dis- cussing plans for a clinic, he reports. Several other towns, according to Dr. Keister, need these clinics, and the citi- zens favor them. but are handicapped by not having -any suitabie place to hold them. He feels that the room obtained at the Brentwood School, | which was formerly used as a class- room, is highly suitable and that citi- zens were fortunate in obtaining the Board of Education’s permission to use it permanently for public health work, VOLUNTEER FIREMEN DISCUSS CONVENTION Prince Georges Association to Es- tablish Campaign Headquarters at Lonaconing, Md. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. BOWIE, Md., May 10.—At a meeting of the Prince Georges County Volunteer Firemen's Association, held ‘Wednesday filzhi in the local schoolhouse, arrange- -tuents were made for establishi asso- ciation headquarters at the nnn‘?xil con~ vention of the Maryland State Fire- men’s Association in Lonaconing, Md., June 12-14, to further the campaign of Chief V. A. Simmel of Cottage City for Kle presidency of the State organiza- lon. Past President George Finger, Chiet H. L. Leonard of the Prince Georges County Rescue Service, and Chief W. E. Hardester were appointed a commit- tee to take up with the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. and the Mary- land Public "Service Commission the establishment of special rates for main- taining electric power sirens and tele- phone service by volunteer fire com- panies. Chief Leonard announced that the rescue service will place its second am- bulance in service today, and under supervision of Assistant Chief Willlam J. Tierney of Greater Capitol Heights will operate in the Capitol Heights-Seat Pleasant district. An ambulance serv- Ice in the Hyattsville section was in- stituted several months ago. The meeting, attended by delegations THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1929 i | trucks and motor cy In the picture Representatives of the American Automobile Associati: metn of the Alexandria Police Department, in conjunction w the frec tests be this week are testing the brakes of the motorized equip- ing made in that city of all automobiles, es. “above, left to right, are: Charles Quertermeus, driver of the patrol car: Motor Cycle Policemen Wesley | i | Snoots, Clarence McClary, Edgar Mayhugh, Ernest Suthard, Ronald Mullen, Lawrence Padgett and Patrol Wagon Drivers Julian Rawlett, Henry Boley and Allie Jones. | st JUDGE MAKES PLEA FOR DVORCE FEE Continuation of Arlingto System Urged as Curb on Mills. n BY LESTER N. INSKEEP, | H I Correspondent of The Star. ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT- HOUSE, Va, May 10.—A grave situa- | tion faces Arlington County in the res- | olution passed on March 6 by the Arlington County Bar Assoclation, in| which it requested the court to revoke| the order requiring the plaintiff in a di- | vorce sult to pay a fee of $5 to cover the cost of an investigation as to the legality of residence, Judge Howard W. Smith told the association yesterday at its monthly luncheon meeting. Despite the question of the legality of the order, Judge Smith said, he fears | & recurrence of the “divorce mills” that | once operated in both Arlington County ! and Alcxandria if the “bars are drop- | ped” in this or any other way. Legality at Issue. As explained by Charles T. Jesse, | president, and the other members of the association, the request for a revocation of the order is not based upon the $5 fee with which to pay the sheriff for the investigation, but rather upon the legality of his evidence after the inves- tigation. Three reasons are set forth in favor of the revocation. The first is that his testimony must necessarily be “hearsay. The second is that what he has to say | on the stand is “opinion evidence,” and the third is that the attorneys for the | plaintiff have no opportunity to cross-| examine the people from whom the in-| formation is derived. | ‘The members of the bar unanimously | stated that they are no more in favor | “letting down the bars” than fis| as evi- | denced by the passage of the resolu- | tion, are of the opinion that the pres-| ent method is unlawful and that some | more suitable means be found with| w‘gkil to verify the residences of plain- | tiffs, To Fight Divorce Evil. In referring to the rule, Judge Smith said that he would do everything in his power to prevent a recurrence of the past_divorce evil and would not be a party to any situation that would bring it about. “Whether I take the sheriff’s testi- mony as legal evidence or not,” he is quoted as baving said, “it acts as a ‘red flag’ in putting the court on guard. | If we say that the sheriff’s testimony is not legal evidence and exclude it en- tirely, the order still permits him to in- vestigate the legality of residence and produce the actual witnesses in court, where the judge can himself examine and cross-examine them. “There is nothing to prevent the ap- pointment by the court of an ‘amicus curia’—friend of the court—to make an investigation and report to the court the result of the findings,” he said. Speaking in favor of the order, State Senator Frank L. Ball sald that it serves to put a check on the illegal granting of divorces, whether it is legal or mot. Judge Smith saild that he wanted more time to consider the resolution before passing on the legality of the ordet, from 16 companies, was addressed by District Forester Walter Quick of Upper Marlboro, John H. Fainter, past presi- dent of the Maryland State Firemen's Association; Dr. James H. Truitt of Glendale and officers of the local de- partment. W. R. Beattie, president of the Blad- ensburg Department, will represent the association at the semi-annual meeting of the Prince Georges County Commun- ity Council, to be held Saturday in St. Luke'’s Parish Hall, Bladensburg. ASSIST HEALTH OFFICERS Medical Specialists Help in County Children's Examinations, By a Stafr Correspondent of The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., May 10. Dr. M. N. Puterman of the medical de- partment of the University of Maryland, Baltimore, and Dr. Katherine G. Sym- mons, child specialist, of Washington are co-operating with County Health Officer Willlam S. Keister in conducting a county-wide examination of children who will enter school next term in Prince Georges. The examinations are being held at two schools a day. The series started ‘Tuesday and will require three weeks to complete. WATCHMAN KILLED. CUMBERLAND, Md., May 10 (Spe- cial) —Clarence E. “Jack” Crowe, 69, of Meyersdale, Pa., Government. watch- man at the Overholt distillery at Broad- ford, was instantly killed yesterday when run down by a Baltimore & Ohio freight train, 38 cars having passed over him, Within 27 days he would have retired on pension. He had been employed as gauger for 30 years. _———— DRIVER IS EXONERATED. Special Dispatch to The Star. MARTINSVILLE, Va., May 10.—Wil- liam Marshall has bben exonerated in the accidental killing of Roy Spencer near here. Spencer was riding a motor cle, with Philip Brown as a passenger, when there was a collision wiih Marshall's Top, left to right: E. Lee Trinkle o and Robert D. All aspects of the industrial develop- ment of Virginia are being discussed today at a mesting at Virginla Beach sponsored by the Virginia State Cham- ber of Commerce, to determine just where the organization should center its activities during 1929, Ex-Gov. Trinkle is presiding at the session and three addresses will be delivered, car, the impact crushing Spencer's skul and causing 2lmost instant death. Brown was injure¢ R I T The first will be “The Local Aspects of Industrial Development of Virginia,” by ‘Mr. Ramsey. .He will be .follo | the Blind of the District; INDUSTRIALIZATION SPEAKERS , business manager of the Lynchburg Chamber of Commerce. Bottom, left to right: Douglas S. Freeman, Richmond editor, and J. Gordon Bohannan, chairman of the State port authority of Virginia. MEETING POSTPONED. | ‘Sp-r‘:d Dispatch to The | FAIRFAX, Va, May a terly meeting of the Fairfax Count Home Demonstration Agents’ Advisory Council, which was to have been held today at the home of Mrs. J. U. Kin- | cheloe, has been postponed until later |in the month so as not to conflict with | the May day, Health day and Patrons’ day programs, which are to be held in | many of the schools of the county. WOMAN WOULD AID FORME Mrs. Merritt Urges Receiving Home for Men Released From Occoquan. Member clubs of the District Federa- tion of Wemen's Clubs were urged by Mrs. Edgar B. Merritt, president of the federation, to concern themselves with | ‘Rf'curing the establishment of a receiv- ing home for men released from Occo- quan who now are let out utterly desti- tute, many to become society's charges, in a recommendation made this morn- ing to the second session of the annual meeting of the group at the Hotel Roosevelt. As an immediate remedy, Mrs. Mer- ritt_recommended that the women of | the Federated Clubs start a fund within their groups which could be given to the men through the district attorney, Pearl McCarl, until congressional ap- propriation could be obtained for the establishment of a home. Annual reports were heard from the following club presidents: Mrs. Sidney | R. Jacobs of the Aid Association for rs. LeRoy Palmer, chapter B. P. O. E; Mrs. W. V. Wheeler, for the Clover Club: Mrs. Henry F. Sawtelle, Excelsior Literary | Club; Mrs. Thomas E. Robertson of the Florence Crittenton Home Board; Mrs. May D. Lightfoot, Abraham Lincoln Circle, No. 3, Ladles of the G. A. R.; Mrs. George Evans, the Park View Women's Club; M F. G. Hammer, Petworth Women's Club; Mrs. R. Bruce Bare, Philo Classics; Mrs. R. E. Bondy of the Rowac Club; Mrs. William Trauty of the Sixteenth Street Heights | Club, and Mrs. Mary S. Parger, William | H, Beck, Circle No. 4’ Ladies of G.| A. R.: Mrs. N. M. Pollock, Women's | Christian Temperance Union for the | District; Mrs. Nevins of the Entre Nous | Club; Mrs. Alexander Wetmore of the Takoma Park Wemen's Club. Department and committee reports | were made by: Mrs. Gertrude Bischoss, department of public welfare; Mrs. | Otto L. Veerhoff, chairman of the de- | partment of fine arts; Mrs. S. A, St. Clair, committee on temperance; Dr. | Laura Brennon, committee on 'anti- | tuberculosis; Mrs. Robert J. Bates, chairman of the division of child welfare. | The meeting, which convened yester- | day, was to close this afternoon with an address by Mrs. B. F. Langworthy, | president of the Woman's Clubs of | Chicago. ‘The members of the federation were | received by Mrs. Hoover at the White House at noon yesterday. At the recent opening of the Austral- | ian Parliament two paintings of _the | Duke of York were unveiled in the Par- liament Building, Canberra, o f Roanoke, former Governor of Virginia, |by Dr. Freeman, who will speak on the | ‘Relation of Agriculture to the In- dustrial Development of Virginia.” The tast address will be made by Mr. Bo- hannan, whose topic will be “The Re- lation of Hampton Roads to the De- velopment o _All-Virginia.” Many members of the Virginia State Chamber |of Commerce and the entire new com | mittce on industry of the Virginia State R PRISONERS LAWYERS DISCUSS TECHNIGALPOINTS Law Institute Holds Secopd Day’s Session—Study Legal Simplification. | Discussions of highly technical points in eriminal procedure, participated in by leading lawyers of the country, with a view to making recommendations for simplifying law in order that justice might be dispensed more speedily, fea- tured_today’s session of the American Law Institute, in the Hotel Mayflower, in the second day's program of its seventh annual meeting in this city. The topics under discussion under the head of criminal procedure were pre- sented by William E. Mikell and Edwin R. Keedy, both of the University of Pennsylyania, who had been authorized by the institute to prepare the subject, with nine advisers. The latter include Robert W. Millar of Northwestern University Law School; Charles C. Nott, jr., Court of General Sessions, New York; Joseph F. O'Con- nell, Boston; Harry Olsen, Municipal | Court, Chicago: Rollin M. Perkins of the Ohio_College of Law; Timothy N Pleiffer, New York; Floyd E. Thom son, Chicago; John B. Waite, Universi of Michigan' Law School, and Tyrreil Williams, Washington University Law School. Plane “Laws” Discussed. One question taken up pertained to | crimes committed in connection with eirplanes flying across country. It be- ing proposed to make the law read: “Any person who commits an offense in or against any aircraft while it is in flight over this State may be tried in this State. The trial may be in any county over which the airplanes passed during the course of this flight. At noon, the assemblage took up a discussion of “torts,” the subject pre- sented by Francis H. Bohlen, Univer- sity of Pennsylvania Law School. The tentative draft as proposed covers, gen- crally, all violations of right which give rise to a cause for action for dam- ages, whether wrong by the common law or by statutes, and crimes, with the measure of damages for such wrongs. Additional discussions on “torts” and other technical points of law are being held by the general assemblage of the institute this afternoon. Officers to Be Selected. At 5 o'clock, the institute’s council will meet in the Mayflower to elect offi- |cers of the institute for the coming year. Announcement was made today that Judge Arthur J. Tuttle of Michi- gan, has been elected a member of the council to succeed Henry M. Bates, while Thomas W. Shelton of Norfolk, Va., was elected to sycceed Representa- tive Andrew J. Moniague of Virginia, Whose terms have just expired. Mem. bers of the council, whose terms e: pired, but who were re-elected, are: George E. Alter, Rosseau A. Burch, H. M. Garwood, Daniel N. Kirby, Owen J. Roberts, Marvin B, Rosenberry, Arthur P. Rugg and Elthu Root, jr. Monte M. Lemann of New Orleans was elected to the council to fill a vacancy caused by the death of James P. Hall last year. In addition to the couricil meetin, the other institute members will par- ticipate in a reception and tea in the Mayflower at 5 o'clock. Received at White House. Yesterday afternoon the delegates were tendered a reception and tea at the White House, where they were ceived by President and Mrs. Hoover. The affair was largely attended, al- though a number of the members of the institute did not know about it until too late to attend, the reception not having been previously a part of the program. Further technical discussions tomor- row morning and afternoon, with a banquet tomorrow night, will bring the convention to a close. Speakers at the banquet will be: Newton D. Baker, former Secretary of War; learned Hand, judge of the United States Circuit Court, second ‘circuit, and United States Attorney General William D. Mitchell. FOREST FIRES THREATEN WIDE AREA IN CANADA Indian Families Flee as Blaze, 5 Miles Across, Sweeps North With Wind. By the Associated Press. The Pas, Manitoba, May 10.—Raging for two days in the north and still unsubdued, forest fires today threatened heavy damage in the Flin Flon and Cold Lake areas. Indian families fled to safety as the sweeping flames con- sumed their shacks at Mile 83 and Mile 85. Five miles wide, the blaze was be- ing swept northward by a stiff breeze. The mining settlement at Mile 83 was in danger for a time but was saved by a change in the wind. The log office and barn of the Ross Navigation Co. and the headquarters of J. Duncan, mining engineer, were reported to have been destroyed. A high blaze was reported in the neighborhood of the Mandy Mine, but its " extent could mnot be determined. Other fires were at Mile 69 and near Cranberry Portage. Government plancs have been directing the activities of forest patrols, and squads of men have been despatched to halt the progress | of the fires. Rickard's Holdings to Be Sold. NEW YORK, May 10 (#).—The per- | sonal effects of the late Tex Rickard, including mementoes of his early career in Western gold fields and souvenirs gathered while head of Madison Square Garden, will be sold at auction here next Wednesday. — Firemen Appoint Warden, RIVERDALE, Md., May 10 (Special). —At the bi-monthly meeting of the rdale Heights Volunteer Fire De- partment Capt. W. H. McGinty was ap- pointed forest warden for the depart- ment. It was announced that upward of $25 was cleared from the dance held Chamber of Commerce are in attend- e e SRR 2l R I GG i St recently for Ament ia te the benefit of the depart- fire bouse, . S [HIGH SCHOOL JUNIORS ' GIVEN HEALTH CARD ! Students of Washington Lee Pre- sented Certificates by County Department, | | | Special Dispatch to The Star. ‘ | CLARENDON, Va. May 10.—Sixty- | | eight juniors of Washington Lee High | School were yesterday awarded five- | point health certificates by the Arling- | {ton County Health Department. Those who have successfully met all of the | health requirements of the department | are: Ruth Chapman. Jewell Logan, | | Ruth Marie Logan, Evelyn Lusby, Hilda | Mathews, Dorothy Thomas, Lilith Wood, Margaret _ Kirschner, Helen Lynch, | | Florence Sequin, Doliy Byrnes, Evelyn Carpenter, Sylvia_Cullen, June Settle, Esther Dorman, Helen Edelin, Eunice Eleanor Janson, Mildred Swice- good, Estelle Bayne, Margaret Bailie, | | Beatrice Kisseliff, Virginia Davis, Vir- | ginia Hains, Charlotte Kline, Loraine Zile, Rebecca Hensley, Ada Jones, Lu- | elva Mateer, Virginia Rees, Kathryn | PFrances Hodges, Margaret Jane Reed ) 3 ecial g p‘;‘.“‘er’ S "a’ Also in two PO ]C;:‘océlfl‘es Most poP package i Assorte Milk_Chocola the worl and Nu! Whitman's# sampler Famous cisl Mothe! 8 acidi, Cla m 50..,, 4 [ 13th & H Streets 11th & Pennsylvania 1. Full pound 8ys "u.r',';fl;ef:gfix. n Keep Your hang, Youthfyy MBER ND Lo Helen Stewart, Violet Dewey, Miriam Kress, Margarét Lanham, Katie Pyles, Elsie Milburn, Maude Doyle, Virginia Griffin, Elizabeth Jones, La Verne Thompson, Eugenia Powell, Myrtle Bacon, Inez Brown, Eunice Green, Evelyn Loveless, Kathryn Lusby, Ruth Pheips, Mary Davis, Ruth Havener, Ethel Beach, Alice Crawford, Doris Dungan, Virginia _Johnston, Pegay Mansfield, Dorothy Moreland, Virginia Palmer and Zelda Thomas CHEVERLY CITIZENS' BODY ASKS FOR SEWER SYSTEM for Night Transportation Service Has Been Granted by W. R. E. Co. Spectal Dispatch to The Stor. CHEVERLY, Mc., May 10.—Imme- diate installation of sewerage in their community was requested by the Chev- erly Citizens' Association at its mect- ing in the residence of Robert Marshall. The request was made after discussion of the subject had brought out the urgency of the need for such sewerage. The meeting was informed that the association’s request for night, transportation service had Association’s Request T northeast at 10 p.m. Luxe o9 Package 1 ‘of choicest und boxes ¢+ * * angeline Sl ular dollar v chocolates O a te Fruit 30 candy i sPe r's Day wrap- S IINES)A Waregs 1e8 digey; . n, soup .,',‘,';,“;clzl‘nd:, lovely with, Y and LAL, Tioy | | th & Pvnnsylvnlnia Ave. Phone Fr. 3219 Phone Fr. 6767 . Phone Fr. 6394 SUBURBAN NEWS, 1rc COUNTY ROTARY CLUB | | ELECTS COMMITTEE Newly Formed Association Will Be | | Guest of Alexandria Club | 1 | Tuesday Evening. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. CLARENDON, Va., May 10.—The ap- | pointment of permanent committees took place at the meeting of the new | organized Arlington County Rotary Club yesterday at the Washington Golf and Country Club. Dr. R. N. Sutton, presi- dent, made the appointments. The committees and their personnel | follow: Aims and objects, Keith A. | Brumback (chatrman), | and M. E. Church; | Jesse (chairman). Dr. S. T. Noland and Thomas W. Phillips; classification, B. | M. Hedrick (chairman), Fred A. Gos- | nell and J. Hammond Brewer, ; mem- | bership, Robert H. Forman (chairman), { D. R. Collins and R. C. L. Moncure; ram, Charles T. additional | fellowship, C. L. Kinnier (chairman), T.| Briley Clem and Leon Arnold; public id, Pauline Nash, Elva Carl, Tilda | sulted in the Washington Railway & | relations, Charles W. Healy (chairman), g:% H’v"llr‘n Mohr, Violet. Powers, Ruth 1 Electric Co. putting on another bus|H. B. Mitchell and E. G. Baldwin; vo- . A Shrout, Elizabeth Bayne, Helen Brage,| which leaves Fifteenth and H streets | cational service, John A. Deuterman |ground places in London suitable as | (chairman) and Ernest M. Shreve; clup = ke Sp, Dod‘“ Lighterg % esk L,'g,""s or Extrg = ?8 Tat gold gy, Certificatey &iven “_'e: tri; " 14th & H Streets 18th & Columbia Road 9th & F Streets Frank L. Ball | . A. F. Thieldaner (chairman), mith and A. C. Millan. The local club will be the guests at 6:30 Tuesday evening at the Belle | Haven Country Club of the Alexandris Rotary Club. OFFICERS ELECTED. !Rockville Company Stockholders Rename Board of Directors, Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md, May 10.—Stock- holders of the Farmers’ Banking & Trust Co. of Rockyille at their annual meeting re-elected directors as follows: Alton C. Bell, Albert M. Boule, Dr. Ernest L. Bullard, Richard E. Darby, Thomas D. Darby, William W. Darbyi Dr. James E. Deets, Robert G. Hilton, Dr. Eugene Jones, Thomas W. Perry, John W. Walker and Horace D. Waters. Directors re-elected Robert G. Hilton. president and secretary; Albert M Bouic, first vice president; John W. Walker, second vice president; Dr. James E. Deets, treasurer; F. Bache Abert, assistant treasurer; J. Hampton Jones, assistant secretary; Miss Lyndell Baker and Hilton Darby, clerks, and Mrs. Frances Lyddane, stanographer. A survey is being made of under- elters from aerial bombing in war. 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