Evening Star Newspaper, May 17, 1929, Page 10

L SUBURBAN NEWS THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO JUSTICE TO IGNORE - THREAT IN LETTER No Guard Is Asked for Mi. Rainier Arraignment This Evening. By & Rtaft Correspondent of The Star. MOUNT RAINIER, Md., May 17.—Al- | though the justice of peace who will| preside at the arraignment tonight of | Edward M. Martin, on a manslaughter | charge growing out of the death Tue: day of Prohibition Agent Dano M Jackley, received a threatening let there will be not extra precautions taken | to station armed men around the town | Rhall, scene of the hearing, it was an- | nounced this morning. Robert Joyce, Mount Rainier justice of peace, who received the letter, said today he was used to getting missives of that sort and would ignore it. No appeal for protection has been sent to the sherifr.” Jovce said. and the only armed men in the hall will be the police officers summoned for the hearing. Text of Letter, The letter which Joyce is ignoring was penciled and mailed in Washington. It said: “Don’'t you or any one else have anything to say in regard to the driver in that rum case, We are tired; and have been for some time. So let | this be your warning. Cut it out, for we_are becoming tired.” Joyce declared the note was written by some filliterate person and the en- velope was liberally sprinkled with tobacco_ juice. | In addition to arraigning Martin on the mansiaughter charge, the justice of the peace will conduct an inquest into the death of Jackley. Although Sheriff Charles S. Early announced following the fatal accident that an inquest would be futile, Paul Hart, an investigator for the Maryland State commissioner of motor_vehicles, asked that one be held, and State'’s Attorney J. Frank Parran ordered Joyce to swear in a coroner's jury, which Wednesday viewed the body in a' Washington undertaking establish- ment. Four Additional Witnesses, Hart has supplied the names of four witnesses, other than Jackley's three E:nhibx(ion agent assoclates, who have en summoned for the inquest. Deputy Prohibition Administrator Ford has also obtained a warrant for Martin, charging assault and interfering with an officer, the Prince Georges authorities were advised yesterday. The warrant, which was obtained from United States Commissioner Supplee, in Baltimore, will act as a detainer for the man, it was explained. Martin is at liberty under $1.500 bond on the manslaughter charge. He is rep- resented by Attorney Harold R. Stephen- son. ROCKVILLE, ROCKVILLE, Md., May 17 (Special). The first annual banquet of the Beulah girls’ class of Epworth Methodist Sun- day school, Gaithersburg, was held in the Sunday school rooms Tuesday eve- ning, with the members of the young men’s class and a few others guests of honor. Miss Eleanor Spielman was toastmistress, and talks were given by Mrs. Ray Wachter, teacher of the class, and Rev. A. E. Spielman, pastor of Ep- worth Church. During the evening a pleasing pro- gram of music and other features were given. Mrs. Dahn of Washington con- tributed instrumental solos, Miss Flora Sibley recited, Mrs. Wachter gave a reading, Miss Ruth B. Byrne and Miss Ethel Schwarz contributed vocal duets and Miss Helen Becraft. gave & reading. Following a long iliness, Mrs. Laura A. Davis, wife of John H. Davis, died Wednesday night in a Washington hos- pital, aged 49 years. She is survived by her husband and several children. funeral will take place at 3:30 o‘clock, Sunday afternoon, from the home, urial to be in the cemetery at Neeles- ville. Mrs. Davis was formerly a Miss Matthews of Virginia. She was at one time a resident of the Germantown neighborhood. Licenses have been issued here for the marriage of Ralph L. Brandt, 24, and Miss Margaret Catherine Nolan, 21, both of Washington; Ernest J. Smith, 21, and Miss Jeanette K. Hayes, 18, both of Washington; Edward William Lech- lider, 21, and Miss Catherine Pauline Johnson, 21, both of Colesville, Md.; Raymond B. Fink, 25, and Miss Mary Louise Adamson, 18, both of Washing- ton; Charles R. Sangster, 21, and Miss Dorothy H. Ritter, 18, both of Washing- ton, and Albert Henry Callon, 35, of Virginia Beach, Va., and Miss Elsie Oliver, 22, of Berkley, Va. Miss Mary C. P. Darby of Kensington died Wednesday night in the Sandy Spring Hospital, aged 55 years. The funeral will take place this afternoon from the home, in Kensington, burial to be in Washington, Conn. John E. Oxley of the Rockville bar delivered the address at the monthly meeting of the Comus Community League, held in the Comus public school auditorium, and largely attended. Officers were elected and a program of ‘music, recitations and other features was given by pupils of the school. Windsor W. Jodges presided. For violations of motor vehicle regu- lations, the following have paid fines or forfeited collaterals in the Police Court here: Willlam C. Barnes, $50; G. W. Bayley, $12.50; Charles J. Lanks, jr. Ralph L. Bethwith, Linwood R. Haw kins, Charles E. Mitchell, j Leo H. Mattingly, Henry J. Lenovitz and Gor- don Ford, $7.50 each; Victor Joffe and Elwin L. Woodall, $3.50 each, and Vance Boardbert, $5. At & joint meeting in the Montgom- ery County Farm Bureau headquarters here of the Montgomery County Jersey Breeders' Association and the 4-H Jer- sey Club of the county, which was at- tended by 40 members of the two or- ganizations, it was decided that only the finest Jersey cattle owned in the county should be placed on exhibition at the annual Rockville Fair, to be held in | August, and a committee, consisting of F. A. Heitmiller, John C. Stiles, Mrs. A. H. Shutz and O. W. Anderson, was named to make selections. The question of holding a State sale of Jersey cattle, preferably at Timon- fum, was discussed, but no definite ac- tion was taken. James Leo Buono and Rudolph Vier- bucher, charged with disorderly con- duct, were not in the Police Court here when their cases were called for trial yesterday, and their collaterals, $12.50 each, were declared forfeited by Judge Samuel Riggs. CONVICTION APPEALED BY HYATTSVILLE MAN ‘Walter Lancaster Is Fined $100 on Charges Growimg Out of Liquor Raid. By & Staft Correspondent of The HYATTSVILLE, Md., May 17.—Con- victed of illegal possession of liquor, Walter Lancaster of Maryland avenue, Hyattsville, Wednesday was fined $100 and costs by Police Court Judge J. Chew Sheriff. He appealed the conviction, Lancaster’s residence was raided by Chief of Police C. M. Blanchard and Town Balliffs C. O. and W. C. Proctor on May 11. About 12 pinis of liquor were found. Attachme and Walter ounty, who forfe omery $25 each on HYATTSVILLE POLICE REAPPOINTED Town officers of Hyattsville, reappointed for another year by the newly elected mayor and council. and W. C. Proctor. Left to right: C. O. Proctor, Chief C. M. Blanchard ARLINGTON LIBRARY DFEWED FALURE Monarch Club Hears Reason From Clarence Lester, - Noted Authority. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. CLARENDON, Va, May 17—A li- brary supported by public subscription and operated by volunteer workers, as is the present one in Arlington district, is doomed to failure, members of the Monarch Club were told yesterday by Clarence Lester, chairman of the Ameri- can Library Association committee on library extension, at a meeting of the club at the Boulevard Bakery. Lester, who has been attending the convention in Washington of his as- sociation, stated that an extensive study of library conditions throughout the United States showed that few library systems operated as is this one can exist and urged members of the club to foster a movement for a county owned and operated library. Need Trained Librarian. A library operated in a rural com- munity or one such as Arlington County should be in charge of a highly trained librarian who can properly distribute the books to the various communities and supervise the purchase of new vol- umes and replacement of those made useless by hard wear, he said. Too many people associate the word “library” with a building, Lester de- clared. This is entirely wrong since the library can be maintained in any coun- ty-owned building, such as the court- house or a school. There one person familiar with the work can care for the library without the-expense of a special building to house the volumes. Library Truck Required. He also emphasized the value to a rural community of a library truck that can’ distribute books to the more in- accessible communities and of the de- sivability of distributing points in the more settled sections. These latter could be handled by volunteer workers, under the direction of the librarian, he said. Mrs. Mary Morris Lockwood has been appointed chairman of & special com- mittee of the Arlington District Library Association to put on a drive for a county library, the club was told, and is to hold a meeting with delegates to the convention of the American Library Assocfation to formulate a definite pro- gram of action. The Monarch Club members were entertained at yesterday’s meeting by several solos by Mme. Regina Vicarino, the head of the music department of Arlington Hall. She was accompanied by Miss Elizabeth Whipper. Plans were discussed for the “Ladies’ night” meeting, which is to take place on May 24 at the Ashton Heights Wom- ens’ Club clubhouse. — M’LEAN TEACHER QUITS FRANKLIN SCHOOL POST Miss Mary Snead, Principal, Re- signs Following Seven Years of Service. Special Dispatch to The Star. McLEAN, Va, May 17.—Miss Mary M. Snead, principal of the Franklin Sherman High School at McLean, has handed in her resignation, effective at the close of the present school term. Miss Snead has served the McLean School as principal for seven years with a two-year intermission between her third and fourth sessions. During her first three-year term, the school had a two-year high school course only, with an enrollment of 298 pupils in grade and high school work when she left. Following two years spent in other parts of Fairfax County, she returned to McLean and built up the school from the 260 enrollment to which it had de. creased to its present registration of 338, where it rivals Falls Church for the honor of being the largest school in Fairfax County. The high school en- rollment has increased from 25 to 100 under her jurisdiction, and the course from two to four years, ranking now as one of the high schools accredited by the State. Records kept by Miss Snead show that under her direction the Ju- nior League has raised over $3,000 for school improvements. U. D. C. Chapter Elects Officers. LYNCHBURG, Va, May 17 (Spe- cial).—Old Dominion’ Chapter, United aughters of the Confederacy, has elected the following officers for the coming vear: President, Mrs. C. R. Shumate; vice presidents, Mrs. Atwood, Mrs, C. H, Almond and Mrs, Ella N. Diliard; > Mrs. Richard Booth; corresponding se retary, Mrs. George V. Venable; trea urer, Mrs. J. B. Wood; registrar, Mr: W. S. Anderson; historian, Mrs. C. L. DeMott: chaplain, Miss Mollie Lowry; custodian, Mrs. S. L. Stroud: recorder, Mrs. Nobel M. Jordan, and chairman of the Children of the Confederacy, Mrs. John H. Davis. BAN INSTALLATION OF GAS STATIONS 'Erection of Plants on Wash- ington Street Halted in Alexandria. Special Dispatch to The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va, May 17.—The city council yesterday erected a barrier which will forestall the erection of any more gasoline stations on Washington street until after negotiations are closed with the Department of Agriculture for construction of the Mount Vernon Boulevard, which will pass through this city on Washington street. ¥ A permit was granted E. Burnett Ale, whose application has been pending before the council for the past 18 months, for the installation of a gaso- line station at Washington and Wilkes streets after which the council passed a resolution that no more applications for gasoline stations on Washington street will be considered until plans for the boulevard are completed. Resolution Is Passed. A resolution appropriating $3,800 for paving three streets in Johnson's sub- division, . Rosemont, was passed.on its final reading. The measure provides that two-thirds of the cost of improving the streets is to be borne by the prop- erty owners, the remaining one-third to be borne by the city. The streets to be paved are Rucker place, from the Adams estate to Narth View terrace; North View terrace, from ‘Walnut street to Morgan place, and Johnson place, from Elm street to Mor- gan place. Bituminous macadam will be used on & concrete base. A resolution appropriating $1,115 as the city’s share of paving the 400 block of North Alfred street and another ap- propriating $1,781 as the city’s share of extending a sanitary sewer to the 800 block of North Washington street were introduced and held over. ‘Want Resolution Designed. The council decided to request Carl Budwesky, acting corporation attorney, to design a resolution adopting the Dis- trict of Columbia building code until City Engineer E. C. Dunn completes work on a code he is now working on. A special meeting ‘was scheduled for June 3 to hear Frank Bain, State com- ‘missioner of public welfare. It was announced that a corporation attorney would be elected at the regular council meeting June 6 to succeed Al- bert V. Bryan, who resigned to accept an appointment.as commonwealth's at- torney. ALEXANDRIA. ALEXANDRIA, Va, May 17 (Spe- clal) —Miss Virginia Coffman, Robert Duncan, Clyde Lamond, jr., and Slater Lamond left here today to represent the Christ Episcopal Church at the sixth annual convention of the Young Peo- ple’s Service League of the Diocese of Virginia to be held at St. Mark’s Church in Richmond. The parley will open to- night and will adjourn Sunday morning. Funeral services for Willlam E. Creel, 68, who died Wednesday at the home of his daughter, Mrs, Elizabeth Ander- son, 221 North Pitt street, were held today at Demaines’ mortuary chapel by the Rev. Ryland T. Dodge, pastor of Baptist Temple, and interment was in the Bethel Cemetery. ‘The deceased is survived by three sons, Claude Creel of Remington, Hubert, and Edward Creel of this city, and three daughters, Mrs. Elizabeth Aaderson, Mrs. Della Gray and Mrs, Mary Bur- ton, all of this city. ‘The public school board has re-elected all of the teachers of the current term ‘who applied for contracts for next term. Eighty-seven of the 99 teachers applied for re-election. The board decided to open Summer school immediately after the regular closing, June 14, and named Henry T. Moncure principal of the high school; Irving Lindsey, Miss Kroes Ficklin, Mrs. Helen Springman and Miss Margaret Helm to teach. ‘The degree team of Vienna Council, Order of Fraternal Americans, con- ferred degree work upon a class of can- didates for Alexandria Council, No. 5, last night in Odd Fellows' Temple. Harry K. Green, grand senior deacon of the State Lodge of Masons, addressed Andrew Jackson Lodge, No. 120, here last night. City Manager Paul Morton, who will leave here July 1 to become city man- ager of Petersburg, Va., will make an address at Gray's Armory, in Petersburg, tonight at a mass meeting arranged by the Chamber of Commerce of that eity. The Virginia trip of 200 students of George Washington High School of New York City has been canceled, according to a telegram received here today by J. T. Preston, secretary of the Alexandria Chamber of Commerce, from R. F. Nel- son, director of publicity of the Virginia State Chamber of Commerce. The New York school children were to have arrived here tonight and attend a dinner and dance at the George Mason Hotel. A tour of the historic points of interest in this vicinity was scheduled for tomorrow. By & Staff Correspondent of The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., M: e fabled “10 o'clock scholar” comes at noon” will be much in evi- dence in Southern Prince County within a few weeks. And straw- berries will be responsible. Every year when the berrles ripen farmers are hard pressed for pickers. T— who Prince Georges County Schools Start At 1 P.M. in Strawberry-Picking Season This year, following an experiment | along similar lines last year, the edu- cation board has ordered that during Georges | strawberry picking season the schools | will hold session from 1 to 5 p.m., with | the understanding that those who em- | schools by the afternoon opening hour conduct charges [ The women of the farm household and | and that the attendance laws will be riot at a dance night. the children and the neighbor’s chil- | dren are pressed into service. The only | trouble i3 that, undsr the compulsory bumped fenders with a car y Donald aud Harold Haidy Pasige - school aftendence Jaw, the farmers are cution if they keep the Joungsters out of school, 2 | enforced during those hours. ‘The order of the board affects th Accokeot and Piscataway whife scho and the Accokeet and Shapersville ¢ ploy children shall have them at the | ored schools, About 130 students lre‘ afect ARLINGTON BEGINS EXPANSION PLANS |Five-Year Program Is Laid| by Chamber of Com- merce. BY LESTER N, INSKEEP, Staff Correspondence of The Star. CLARENDON, Va, May 17—With the zoning of the county well under way, a task toward which it turned its entire effort for a long period. the board of directors of the Arlington County Chamber of Commerce has started preparation of a five-year de- | velopment program, it was®announced at the regular directors’ meeting last night. The first step toward this program | is contained in communications that are being mailed out to the presidents of each of the civic associations, the Civic Federation, the Monarch and Ro- | tary Clubs, and the Ministerial Union. The officers of these organizations are advised of the desire of the Cham- ber of Commerce to co-operate with them in the formulation of a general plan for the future development of the county, a plan that is made much easler under the zoning ordinance, and | are invited to a get-together meeting that will be held in the near future at the Washington Golf and Country Club. Co-operation Desired. According to P. P. Woodbridge, exec- utive secretary of the trade body, there has always been a lack of co-operation | between the trade and civic organiza- tlons in the county. and it is the hon- est desire of the latter to work har- moniously with the former. It was announced at last night's meeting that the zoning fund has now reached a total of $3.256, actually paid in. This leaves $1.744 yet to be col- lected, a task that is to be immediately undertaken by a special collector em- ployed for that purpose. There are a number of pledges that are still unpald, Woodbridge said, but not a sufficlent amount to make up the difference. $2,000 Expense Increase. The joint report of the membership | and finance committees shows that, in | order to carry out a number of projects proposed for this year, it will be neces- sary to increase the operating expense | of “the chamber by approximately $2,000. A renewal of the membership | | drive is planned to make up this | amount. A hundred new members at $20 each would care for it, Woodbridge pointed out. A plan was suggested at last night's meeting to arrange a county clean-up campaign, and was referred to the com- mittee on public safety and sanitation for consideration. It was suggested that the chamber father a movement to have | the county authorities purchase and put |into operation some modern _street- | cleaning machines and corner waste | | baskets. There is not now such a serv- ice in the county. FRIDAY, MAY 17, COUNTY ASSURED GARBAGE SERVICE Contract Given Charles and Samuel Stoneburner by Arlington Board. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT| HOUSE, Va., May 17.—With the sign- ing of a contract with Charles and Samuel Stoneburner the board of coun- ty supervisors has assured the first reg- ular garbage collection that Arlington County has ever had. The collections will start as soon as the final details have been completed. Under the plan, which was presented by Attorney J. Hammond Brewer, jr., and approved by C. L. Kinnier, county engineer, and Commonwealth’s Attor- ney William C. Gloth, the two men, who own a fleet of trucks, will make weekly collections of garbage at every :'musc in the county desiring such serv- ce. ‘The service will not be compulsory and will be rendered on a quarterly basis at $2.50. Any person taking ad- vantage of it may have it stopped at the end of any quarter. The plans proposed by the collectors VENU E of NINTH® They really outclass the price P-B Super-Value Suits with two pairs of trousers 338 Whatever the Nationally Known Store under- takes, it strives to make it outstanding in conception and production. © Super-Value Suits, therefore, are deserving of underscoring as really remarkable, both in artistic and intrinsic value. We put woolens into them that definitely belong to higher ranges. Our craftsmen give them their best skill in designing and draping. ~ And we provide lavishly—in variety, to meet every taste. Plain and unfinished Worsteds, Cheviots and Cassimeres; in every size up to 50. 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A clause in the contract is to the effect that any violation of the contract immediately terminates it, and that the board of supervisors i3 to be the sole judge of what constitutes a violation. ‘The collectors are to furnish a bond for the faithful performance of the duties specified. Persons desiring the service will deal solely with the county authorities. No- tices will be distributed as soon as the collections are to start. HUGE STRAWBERRY CROP. Maryland Product Present Year Estimated 25,000,000 Quarts, Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, May 17.—Maryland's strawberry crop this year, which is esti- mated at 25,000.000 quarts, will show an increase of about 331; per cent over last year’s production, according to reports from county agents to the extension service of the University of Maryland. ‘The bulk of the crop is produced in ‘Wicomico, Somerset and Worcester Counties and last year the crop har- vested in these three countles totaled 16,000,000 quarts NEV LYNCHBURG ASKS PROBE TO IDENTIFY DEAD MAN Special Dispatch to The Star. LYNCHBURG, Va., May 17.—Acting under the belief that an unidentified Wwhite man, who was found murdered in a car on the Southern Railway at North Garden, that county, may have been a resident of Lynchburg, au- thorities of that county have asked Chief of Police D. C. Smith here to cause an investigation to ascertain if a Lynchburg weaver is missing. The only clue the authorities have is that the man may have been a textile ‘weaver. The investigation is being made by the local police department. IN DRIVE FOR $100,000. Spectal Dispatch to The Star. DANVILLE, Va., May 17.—Plans are being drawn here for a campaign to raise $100,000 to retire a long accumu- lated debt carried by Randolph Macon Institute, a Methodist preparatory school for girls and part of the Ran- dolph Macon system. Official boards of the local Methodist churches are now studying the plan, They would be asked to give $42,000, the general Randolph Macon system board, $8,000 and the people of Danville, $50,000. John C. 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