Evening Star Newspaper, June 25, 1929, Page 11

SUBURBAN NEWS. BACKTOD.L.CLUB ELUSIVE KID'LILLY " LISTS 31 MEMBERS Arguments For and Against I. Retrocession Heard at Initial Meeting. @pecial Dispatch to The Star LYON PARK, Va, June 25—A gratifying beginning was made in the | formation of a “Back to the District Ciub” last night in the Lyon Park Community House when 31 members were enrolled following a number of speeches both for and against the pro- posal of the retrocession of Arlington County to the District of Columbia. Clayton E. Emig of Washington, was unable to attend the meeting but prom- ised to speak before the club at a future date. R. L. Eacho of Ashton Heights, who is sponsoring the movement and arranged last night's meeting, presided and in his opening address cited many reasons why he favored the return of | the county to the District. He outlined the procedure to be adopted by the club in that it would make an appeal to Congress by special resolution calling for the return of Arlington County to the National Gov- ernment. It is expected that the Con- gress will act favorably upon the pro- posal and request the Attorney General to institute proceedings before the Supreme Court to test the constitution- lity of the act of 1864. The speaker d it was his conviction that Arlington County would be back in the District at the time of the celebration of the George Washington anniversary in 1932. Advantages Cited. Speaking of the pecuniary advantages to be gained, Mr. Eacho said there are , approximately 10,000 automobiles in the county paying an average tax of $20 each, and of this $200,000 paid in taxes only about 5 per cent was returned to the county, and compared this with the $1 tax in the District. Telephone, elec- tric light and gas rates in the District were also said by the speaker to be much lower than in Arlington County. He sald the merchant license tax in Virginia is $200 a year and in the Dis- trict of Columbia it is $5 a year and the merchant can do three times as much business. He stressed the need for an adequate sewerage system in the county and said that it would be neces- sary to float a bond issue of between $3,000,000 and $4,000,000 to install a plete system. Immediate relief, Mr. ho sald, would be provided by the District at a much lower cost after re- n. Lower water rates, increased fire and police protection and better health !l;:flll.\unwerz also included in the list of benefits. Taking issue with Mr, Eacho, Frank G. Campbell, referring to the returns from automobile taxes, said he did not need a road when he was at home. A good road was of value only when it enabled you to get to some place, and therefore was of value to him in any part of the State. If his tax helped %o build the road to Richmond, every time he traveled over it he would get some of the tax back. He launched into an attack upon the claim of pro- ents of the retrocession movement m‘ taxes would be lower, and said that they closed their eves to the fact that the people of Ariington County are not assessed for road, street or alley improvements, while in the District of Columbia they may be assessed for these at such a figure that the total tax paid is substantially higher than the: tax in the county. v He pointed out that the front foot as- sessment for water in Arlington was $1 as compared with the average charge in the District of sewer and water com- Mned,{u uum;ud‘b’y lt Teal estate ex- Tt Of r front foot. P m‘zanmph he cited that the peo- Anacostia section have been and sewer that their tax money mm&d to the improvement of the morthwest section. While beau- tiful ornamental lights were being doub- Jed in number along Sixteenth street, he 7 lights along the Ridge yoad in Anacostia were being discontin- wed or limited ip number, Answers Argument. ' Answering the argument that the ‘county government is unprogressive and incompetent, Mr. Campbell said we have three supervisors, elected by the people, while the District of Co- Jumbia has three commissioners, ap- pointed by the President. Arlington County people can change their repre- sentatives on election day, but the Dis- trict cannot. Both have a commis- sion form of government, conceded to be one of the most desirable. He sald the county supervisors’ powers are not limited and under a special act of the Virginia Legislature may do anything that a city council may do. Mr, Camp- |bell compared the speedy justice meted out in several cases in the courts of Yirginia with the delay experienced in e District courts and said the con- dition was due to a “delay-minded” machinery because it was used to it. The people of the District are not to blame for these conditions and he did not criticize them. They are the vic- tims of a pernicious system grown up ,through the years which can only be porrected by Congress. | In closing, Mr. Campbell referred to |the legal aspect and cited the Consti- tution giving Congress exclusive juris- diction over such territory, not exceed- dng 10 miles square, as authority for fixing the District at such size as it sees fit mot exceeding the 10 miles square limit. He said there were none of the things the advocates of retro- cession claimed that could not be ac- complished under the jurisdiction of Virginia, and the National Capital Park and Planning Commission recognized this when it fixed the metropolitan dis- trict within a circle with a radius of 20 miles, Cloyd F. Byars devoted his talk large- 1y to a discussion of the legal phases and suggested that the people of Ar- lington County might make a con- dition precedent to going back into the District, provided it was done through legislation, and reserve the right of suffrage to vote in national elections for President and Representatives in Congress, Arthur Orr, Miss Bessie Christian and Col. J. C. Pepper also addressed the meeting. _ H. E. Hay was nominated by Col. Byars as temporary secretary, but declined, and Mr. Eacho suggested W. E. Sias be asked to serve and he ac- cepted. A meeting of the club will be called shortly after July 4, Mr. Eacho pays, to formally organize and elect pfficers. | KILLED IN SAWMILL. h e sl el Ppecial Dispatch to The Btar. . | _STAUNTON, Va, June 25—Martin Rexrode, 22, was killed in a sawmill sccident near . Monterey, Highland | County. * He was standing near the mill when he was caught in the main belt, ,ecarried across the pulley and flung |against the smokestack of the steam e. xrode was a son of Mr. and Mrs. PBurton Rexrode of Highland County. i Miss Corbin’s Will Filed. STAUNTON, Va,, June 25 (Special). e—Seven thousand dollars in life insur- snce, about $1,500 in real estate and 1 mertya and 3 re Determined to put a stop to speeding and reckless driving through their paved streets, the towns of Mount Rainier and Brentwood recently purchased motor cycles for their police. Frank Bell (upper), town officer of Brentwood, and Eugene Plummer (lower), chief of police of Mount Rainier, are the men who are curbing the traffic violators. —Star Staff Photo. PURCELLVILLE G. 0. P. HOLDS MASS MEETING Delegates and Alternates Are Se- lected gor State Convention at Richmond. Special Dispatch to The Star. PURCELLVILLE, Va., June 25.—A Republican mass meeting was held here to elect delegates and alternates to the Republican State convention to be held in Richmond, Va., tomorrow. N. C. Nichols of Leesburg was appointed chairman, and L. P. Hickman of Lov- ettsville was elected secretary. ‘Thirteen delegates- and 13 alter- nates were elected to the convention. The delegates are: Leesburg, F. D. Paul, and N. C. Nichols; Broad Run, C. M. Page; Mount Gilead, A. E. Lybolt, Shir- ley Piggot and A. M. Janney; Jefferson, Robert Abel and S. B. Davis; Mercer, Diggs Gray and M. S. Reed, and Lovetts- ville, T. C. Orrison, R. G. Johnson and Silas Wolford. Alternates are: Lees- burg, Mrs. N. C. Nichols and Ray Lam- bert; Broad Run, Ross S. Newman and Henry Piggott; Mount ‘Gilead, W. A. Pearson and Rebecca Hoopes; Jefferson, Rufus Love, Mercey Crim and Charles Baber; Mercer, Mrs. Sadle Reed an Roy Seaton, and Lovettsville, John Wol~ ford and Mrs. H. W. Beatty. The following committee was appoint- ed to consider the advisability of nam- ing a candidate for the House of Dele- gates: A. E. Lybolt, A. M. Janney, F. D. Paul, Shirley Piggott and N. C. Nichols. - The meeting indorsed the appoint- ment,of Diggs Gray for the Middleburg Post Office. P : "ROCKVILLE. ° ROCKVILLE, Md., June 25 (Special).. —Charging _cruelty, non-Support and desertion, Mrs, Maude T. Schaeffer of Bethesda, this county, has filed suit in the Circuit Court here for a_limited divorce from George W. Schaeffer, also of Bethesda. She is represented by Attorney Albert M. Bouic of Rockville. The couple, according to the bill, were married April 10, 1912, lived together until July 11, 1928, and have one child, Guy Schaeffer, aged 16 years. » Mrs. Schaeffer also asks to be awarded ali- mony and counsel fees. Licenses have been issued here for the marriage of Raymond Earl Taylor, 21, of Washington, and Miss Helen Elizabeth Welsh, 20, of Alexandria, Va.; Thomas D. Turnbull, 21, and Miss Dolores Adelle Wolfe, 18, both of Takoma Park, Md.; Michael La Gasso, 36, of Washington, and Mrs. Nellie Scott, 38, of Lynchburg, Va., and Robert D. Green, 22, and Miss Jenness E. Holmes, 18, both of Washington. The annual children's day exercises of the Free Methodist Sunday School, Rockville, were held in the church Sun- day evening in the presence of a large gathering. Miss Mamie Garrett, super- intendent of the Sunday school, con- ducted the program, which included music, recitations and other features. ‘The approximately two miles of re- cently completed concrete highway be- tween Potomac, this county, and the Conduit road was yesterday thrown open to travel. It shortens the distance between Potomac and Great Falls by several miles. It is expected to be a much-traveled thoroughfare when the proposed bridge across the Potomac River near Great Falls is constructed. THE EVENING BTAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY, JUNE 25 1929. 4 (CLOUDBURST SWAMPS MOUNT SAVAGE ROAD Much Damage Done in Wellers- burg Area—Traffic Blocked by Debris. Special Dispatch to The Star. CUMBERLAND, Md, June 25.—In the five-mile area between Wellersburg, Pa, and Mount Savage, this county, much damage was done by & cloud- burst Sundey night, - ‘The Mount. Savage road was inun- dated to a depth of four feet at some points and traffic was blocked by debris washed on the road. Part of the bed was torn out in places and travel was difficult after the water receded. Small streams flooded the village of Barrells- ville, this county, while the two-span bridge at Corrigansville, about four miles west of Cumberland, was damaged. Poles of telephone, telegraph and power lines were washed out and service was cut off for several hours. o MEETING TO BE HELD OF MEDICAL SOCIETY By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md. June 25. —State Senator Walter J. Mitchell of La Plata, Md., will be one of the speak- ers at the semi-annual meeting of the Southern Maryland Medical Soclety at Chapel Point, July 13, Dr. William 8. Kelster, Prince Georges County health officer ‘and chairman of the program committee, announced today. Senator Mitchell's address will open the meeting, which is scheduled to start at 11:30 a.m. It will be followed by & business meeting, presided over by Dr. V. H. de Somoskeoy, at which officers will be elected. Following & chicken and sea food dinner there will be a sclentific session in the afternoon with addresses by Dr. Preston A. McLeadon, Dr, Harry M. Robinson and Dr. J. A. Flynn. “Fresh Air Kid" of Half Century Ago Leaves Town Community House Fund Special Dispatch to The Star HARRISONBURG, Va., June 25.—A half century ago a New York “fresh- air kid” came to Burketown, located on the Valley pike midway between Harri- sonburg and Staunton, to enjoy the country life unknown to him. The community befriended the lad and he remained there for 10 years before re- turning to the metropolis. 3 ‘That the “fresh-air” kid” never for- got his friends in Burketown and the inspiration he derived there for a suc- cessful business career was revealed in the will of Francis Wsight Clinton, president of the Danbury Hat Co., which was filed in New York Thursday. The residue of his estate was left for the establishment of & community building at Burketown to be known as the Clin- ton Memorial. Clinton was the “fresh-air kid” who came to Burketown as a lad of 10 years. Becau: His will provides that the Clinton Me- morial Building shall contain a library and recreational facilities to make the life of the country folk more enjoyable. He also left bequests to the two churches at Burketown. Just how much the Clinton Memorial at Burketown will receive from the estate has not been determined. His estate is valued at between $150,000 and $200,000 and the bequests to be made total $110,000, thus leaving a good sum for the community project. During his last years in Virginia Clinton worked as a clerk in a Harri- sonburg store. When he returned to New York he entered the employ of the Danbury Hat Co., rising to the presi- dency of the firm, the position which he held at the time of his death. Clin- ton visited Burketown about a month previous to his death to renew old acquaintanc se there's nothing else that, even on the hottest day, cools and invigor- ates with such instant swiftness. But, for the finest delicacy and flavor, M by 1o be sure to ha ik o e throughout the world as the most delicious tea that's grown., ® , D. ! late filed in_the count; L A , R. H. Corbin of nearby brother, 1'07&-00‘::;!» mlmecuuee% el s Lipten's Te Knevm 1S STILL AT LARGE Alexandria Police Puzzled as| to Where to Look for Him. Special Dispatch to The Star ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25.—Having exhausted every lead as to the possible whereabouts of “Kid” Lilly, colored, who is sought in the murder of Police Sergt. Charles McClary Thursday night, local police today are frankly puzzled as to where to turn next in their search for the colored desperado. ‘The police have been working dili- gently since the crime was committed and bave run down countless “tips,” but admittedly are now as far removed from apprehending Lilly as ever. Relief Committee Meets. A meeting of the citizens’ committee conducting & campaign to raise funds for the widow and five children of the slain police officer was held at the | George Mason Hotel last night and Judge Howard W. Smith, Charles H. Callahan, C. C. Carlin and Fred C. Goodnow were appointed trustees of the fund to pay off the mortgage on the McClary home and use the re- mainder of the money as they see fit. ‘The committee zoned the city and assigned groups to each zone to solicit contributions. The drive will close Thursday and & meeting will be held at the George Mason Hote] that night at 8 o'clock, when final returns will be made. Benefit Ball Game. A meeting of the committee which is handling the arrangements for the benefit base ball game Saturday at Baggett's Park between Alexandria Fire and Police nines is set for tonight at 8 oclock at No. 4 Engine Company. Gerard Edwards, chairman, has ob- tafned the Citizens’ Band to play, while Mayor William Albert Smoot will toss out the first ball. Proceeds from the game will be turned into the fund being raised by the citizens’ committee. Found With Throat Cut. ‘WARRENTON, Va, June 25 (Spe- cial) —P. E. Thyson, 8, prominent mer- chant and coal dealer here, was found in the back room of his store this morn- ing with his throat partially cut. He is in the hospital in a serious condition. other American pleasure as Reo. We don’t know whether any accurate gauge of truck life t! are absolutely confident that For Reo Speed Wagons, built twice as far as the average same age. facturer. Sales Department Shrewd buyers of commercial transportation are not interested in the mileage record of 1 truck, 10 trucks, or even 100 trucks. But they are keenly interested in the average life, under all conditions, of all the trucks made by an individual manu- Check again the facts quoted above.™ Here is definite, concrete proof of the long life which has 1509-11 Fourteenth St. N.W, WILSON BOULEVARD 10 BE RESURFAGED Arlington County Highway Repairs to Be Made This Summer. BY LESTER N. INSKEEP, Staff Correspondent of The Btar. ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT- HOUSE, Va., June 25.—Wilson boule- vard, the heaviest traveled county- owned and maintained highway in Arlington County and for a long time in a sad state of disrepair, is to be widened and resurfaced this Summer from Rosslyn to Clarendon. ‘The announcement of Supervisor B. M. Hedrick of Arlington district, to the effect that the highway is to be rebuilt came as a distinct surprise to various organizations, who have been advocat- ing the work and who had feared that it would not be done this year. Other Highways to Be Treated. In addition to the Wilson boulevard project & number of other highways in Arlington district will be hard surfaced, the principal of which will provide a direct connection between Clarendon and Arlington. According to Hedrick, the plans for the Wilson boulevard work have been under way for the past two months, but definite action has been delayed to await the outcome of the county’s efforts to acquire a sufficient right of way down Pickett’s Hill, in Rosslyn, to make a direct connection with the Mili- tary road and eliminate the dangerous curves now in use. A commission recently set a valua- tion of 40 cents per square foot for the land desired, but Capt. Crandal Mackey, attorney for the owner, announced that the amount was not sufficient and that he would appeal the case to the Circuit Court. Hedrick felt that he could wait no longer, so ordered the immediate completion of the widening plans. ‘The road will be 28 feet in width, with concrete shoulders and & macadam surface. If the finances permit, Hed- rick said, the widening will run the entire distance from the Military road to Clarendon. From that point on to Lubber Run the road will be given a surface treatment. Twenty-eight feet is the same width as the Lee highway, which was reconstructed to Cherrydale last year by the State. Hedrick sald that he hoped to have plans completed to ask for bids at the NOT long ago Reo proved by facts that no car was as long-lived Now—based on registration figures compiled by a totally disinterested statistical firm— (Reuben H. Donnelley Corporation)—Reo announces a record in long-lived commercial vehicles that we believe to be without parallel in the industry! That'’s the record—in terms of years. other manufacturer, likewise figuring in terms of years, can equal that astounding record of longevity or not. But whether he can or not, when we reduce longevity to miles instead of years—an even more han mere years—we no other truck built can match the record of the Reo Speed Wagon. to deliver passenger- car speed, cover more miles per hour, per day or per year than do the conventional, plodding type of motor truck; so that the probability is that a Reo Speed Wagon, five years old, has traveled motor-truck of the always been an outstanding feature of Reo Speed ‘Wagons. Proof—based on the registration records of all Reo Speed Wagons in all lines of industry. There is just one reason for this almost unbeliev- able record of continuous service: Reo early recog- nized the need for tremendous stamina combined with balanced light weight in commercial vehicles —the need for sizing and powering trucks to do their job economically, efficiently and over a long board of supervisors’ meeting Saturday and that the work would be gotten under way as quickly as possible. ‘The widening of Wilson Boulevard is one of two large projects undertaken by the county this year. The other, under the supervision of Supervisor Edward Duncan of Jefferson- district, is the widening and repaving of Mount Vernon avenue, & project that is al- ready under way. Other work contemplated for Ar- lington district, Hedrick revealed. is the surface treatment of the follo roads: Clarendon aven from Wilson A Record Established By Reo Speed Wagons—OF Interest To Every Truck User. 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In addition to the county projects, the State is already widening and rebuild- ing Glebe road from the Lee highway to & point near Columbia pike and has announced that the Lee thway will be continued to a point beyond Halls ‘Was! n-Alexandria pike from South Wi to Four- mile Run. o 7 4 Many to Attend Conference. LYNCHBURG, Va., June 25 (Special). —Registration for the young -peoples conference of the Christian churches of the Chesapeake area, which is to be held this week at Lynchburg College, is 115, The last session of the conference will be held next Sunday. Dr. Ritchie Ware of Beckley, W. Va., formerly pastor of First Christian Church here, is to be the speaker at the vesper services each evening at 7 o'clock. ‘These services are to be held on the college campus, if the weather permits. Arwarer Kent CREEN-GRID RADIO i HILE the very air trembles with claims and counter-claims, here’s one fact to guide you: The radio most people are actually buying is the Atwater Kent Screen-Grid. 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