Evening Star Newspaper, July 22, 1929, Page 7

FARFAX CHAMBER NAES WORKERS {Presldent Allen Announces | Committees to Carry on Year’s Activities. Bpeclal Dispatch to The Star. FAIRFAX, Va. July 22.—President E. H._ Allen of the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce last night an- nounced the appointments of his stand- ing committees at the meeting of directors held in the office of Thomas R. Keith at Fairfax. Martin T. Webb of Annandale was reappointed chair- man of the finance committee. Other | Sasre of Centerville district, J. 8. Wiley, { Lee dictrict; George F. Harrison, le district; E. C. Gibbs, Mount cn district, and Thomas R. Keith, idence district. Thurlow White of Baileys Cross Roads was reappointed chairman cf the publicity committee. with Mrs. } M. C. Vosbury of Merrifield, Herbert | Blunt of Groveton and Miss Ludema | Bayte of Fairfax as his assistants, Education Committee. Education committee—F. S. McCand- lish of Fairfax, chairman; George C. Smith of Franconia, Willie Sipes of Annandale, C. C. Carr of Legato, Mrs. G. Ashley Money of Colvin Run, Mrs. J. H. Mack of McLean, Herbert Haar of Lorton. Public_utilities—Edward C. Gibbs of Mount Vernon, chairman; George B. Robey of Fairfax, Thomas R. Keith of Fairfax, J. W. Rust of Fairfax and M. E. Church of Falls Church. | George Harrison of Herndon was sppointed chairman of the highways, parks and planning committee, assisted bv Joseph W. Cox of Woodlawn, Car. | 101l V. Shreve of Falls Church, John | W. Brookfield of Springfield, John W. Rust of Fairfax and J. A. Wheeler of Colvin Run. Agriculture and mar- kets committee—Franklin Willlams of Vienna, chairman: T. Bently Mason of Accotink, H. B. Derr of Fairfax, R. Colton Lewis of Clifton, Senator Joseph 1. Bristow of Annandale, W. M. Mc- Nair of Floris and Harvey S. Clapp of Woodlawn. Dr. Harry Walker, new health officer of Fairfax County, will be asked to head the health and_ sanitation committee, assisted by Dr. W. P. Caton of Wood- Jawn, Dr. Willlam Meyer of Herndon, Miss Gladys Winfield of Fairfax, and Benjamin Nevitt of Fairfax Station. Thomas R. Keith was appointed chair- man of the committee to study the problem of county tax reassessments, with power to select his own assistants. | Inasmuch as all county real estate | will be reassessed next year, it is plan- | ned to have this committee start an | educational campaign this Fall to work ‘fnr an increase in the assessment of | real estate from the present one-fourth actual values to one more nearly indi- cative of actual worth, accompanied by ! & corresponding decrease in the district | tax rates. Named Representative. Capt. Thurlow White was reappointed the representative from Fairfax County | gn the inter-relations committee of the airfax, Arlington and _Alexandria Chambers of Commerce. The commit- tee on the industrial development of Cameron Run was expanded to include the entire county, with Edward C. Gibbs a5 chairman, assisted by M. E. Church, George B. Robey, Mason Hirst of An- nandale, Miller S. Kielsgard of Fairfax, John C. Mackall of McLean, George K. Pickett of Groveton, and C. H. Powell of Baileys Cross Roads. J. M. Beattie of McLean, chairman of the county~ | wide fire protection committee, will be assisted by Lewis Coyner, secretary of the Fairfax Fire Department; W. R. Fravel, secretary of the Falls Church | Fire Department; Herbert Walker of | Mount Vernon, M. W. Barnard of | Lorton, superintendent of the District | of Columbia penal institutions: L. L. | Freeman, president of Vienna Fire De- | partment; George Harrison of the ‘yiaerndon Fire Department. A new committee on Community | League activities was formed to act as a _connecting link between the leagues affiliated with the chamber: C. C. Carr of the Legato League, chairman; Willie Sipes, Annandale; Mrs. G. Ashley Money, Colvin Run: Stanley Gardner, Dranesville; Miss Nellle Lee Nevitt, Potters H Herbert Blunt, Groveton; Rev. J. G. Sadtler, McLean; Mrs. B. F. Salsbury, Merrifield, and Edward P. Monroe, Woodlawn. Elected Director. Fdward C. Gibbs of Mt. Vernon' was | elected a director at large to fill a va- cancy. Mrs. M. C. Vosbury offered her | resignation as secretary of the cham- | ber, effective as soon as her successor can be secured. Opinion as to the ad- | visability of appointing a full-time sec- [retary at this tfme was divided, Mrs. [Vosbury refusing to be a candidate for "this position. _President Allen, Mr. | Reitly and Mr. Webb were appointed & | speci®® committee to investigate the | available sites for a central office in | Pairfax and to report on both office and | secretary at a special meeting of the di- | xectors to be called before August 1. Capt. White was appointed chairman of a special committee to interest high | class developers of real estate subdi- visions in the possibilities of Fairfax | County. According to Mr. Keith, the | time is ripe for bringing into the county | capitalists from Washington, Maryland, Philadelphia and New York who are | engaged in establishing highly restricted | first-class subdivisions. John W. Rust presented to the di- | rectors the plans being made by the Lee | Boulevard Association for continuing the 200-foot boulevard from its present terminus at Fort Buffalo, through the | Camp Alger tract near Merrifield to the { junction of the Lee Highway and the Jackson Highway one mile west of Fair- |fax. The original route of thc Lee | Boulevard through Fairfax County via | Tida on the Little River pike and fol- jowing the Braddock road to Centerville | having been turned down last year by the State Highway Commission, Dr. S. M. Johnson, W. S. Hoge and other of- ficlals of the Lee Boulevard fation ’n\:w are working to secure a 200-foot | right-of-way through the county fol- [ lowing an approximately straight line { from Fort Buffalo to Centerville. The | connecting spur authorized by the State | Highway Commission from Fort Buf- | falo to the Lee Highway at Falls | Church, following the 60-foot right-of- fAvay of the Leesburg pike they regard as |y emporary expedient only and state | that with the opening of the Shenan- ! doah National Park this narrow road- | way wili be unable to accommodate the affic. [ The Boulevard Association, through LsMr. Rust, asked the chamber's aid in "having the State Highway Commission establish this 200-foot road as far as Fairfax or Centerville. The question | was referred to the highways commit- !qee for investigation and report, with | the sugestion from Mr. Keith that the | chamber endeavor to interest the | governor personally in the necessity { of providing through Virginia a proper approach to the Capital City of the | Nation and the benefit to be derived I'py the State as a ‘whole from such a ‘boulevard, Mr. Keith pointed out that | this would in no way affect the regular | mileage added to the State system in | Fairfax County each year under the 21, per cent clause, as there is al- “Ways a certain amount of general mileage available for allocation where- the State Highway Commission t. best. The directors agreed to offer the game premiums at the county fair in September which were offered last , year. These are in the 4-H Club De- partment and include $15 to the club with the highest percentage of mem- pers making exhibits and winning the Jargest number of prizes; $10 to the ¢lub winning second place. Mrs. G. Ashley Money reported plans for the tablishment of a Chamber of Com- Sierck Dooth "4y the fakr, - it ! WY R BN, TOBIEST Answel_'s 0 IROCKVILLE GROWTH " 4| SBEING PLANNEDY members are, including Miss Ludema | | | | A valuable setter, owned in Fred- ericksburg, V which was lost and arrived at its home two days later with a copy of the newspaper, in which a notice of its loss had been printed, tucked in its collar. —Wide World Photo. ROGKVLE FAR USTS OFF PRES Catalogue Show’s Women’s Club Federation Will Di- rect Women’s Section. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE. Md,, July 22.—The cat- alogue, just lssued, for the seventy- sixth annual fair of the Montgomery County Agricultural Soclety, to be held here August 90, 21, 22, 23 and 24, shows that the Montgomery County Federation of Women's Clubs will again be in charge of the women's section. Mrs. George M. Hunter of Rockville has again been named general superin- tendent of the women’s department, and those selected to assist her are: Fancy work, Mrs. Howard Larcombe and Mrs. James W. Brown; growing plants, Mrs. Vivian Hedgman and Miss Cary Blunt; antiques, Mrs. Josiah J. Hutton and Miss Mary Lyddane; culinary, Mrs. Walter Cashell, Mrs. Robeft E. L. Smith and Mrs, J. C. Newell; works of art, Mrs. William Farquhar; preserves, jellies, etc., Mrs. James Barneley, Mrs. M. J. Boland and Mrs. Willam B. Mobley; canned goods, Miss Lulu Bell and Mrs. Harry B. Humphrey; children’s department, Mrs. Thomas T. Barnsley; handmade rugs department, Miss Josie Higgins and Mrs. Samuel Riges. Miss Blanche A. Corwin, home dem- onstration agent for the county, will be in charge of the home demonstration club section and the exhibits of the 4-H Girls’ Clubs. The veteran superintendent, Turner W. Welsh, will, according to the cata- logue, again be in charge of the horti- cultural building. ‘Walter Cashell will be chief marshal and his aides will be Robert Chichester, Thomas A. Barnsley, Edward Snowden, Josiah J. Hutton, jr.. James W. Barns- ley, Charles Brown, Everett Beall, Frank Cashell, G. D. Moyer, Otto Hewitt, John Moyer and Ridgely Chichester. . The catalogue shows that something like $7,500 in race purses and premiums will be awarded. The purses for the 14 fours days aggregate $2,875. ROCKVILLE. ROCKVILLE, Md., July 22 (Special). —Mrs. C. V. Rind, 74, of 703 Lawrence street northeast, Washington, was in- jured late Saturday when an automo- bile in which she was riding, and which was being operated by her son, B. O. Rind of Martinsburg, W. Va., crashed into a tree on Frederick avenue, Gaithersburg. Although there were no external evidence of grave injury, it was feared the shock might prove seri- ous, in view of her age. None of the others was hurt. The accident was caused by the car being 'pulled too sharply to one side of the road to avoid colliding with a truck. Policeman Robert Darby made an in- vestigation and preferred & charge of reckless driving against the Martins- burg man. He deposited collateral for his appearance in the Rockville Police Court for trial. Rev. Bertham H. Osgood of the Bap- tist Church officiated at the marriage here Saturday evening of Carl J. Hil- land of Bode, Jowa, and Miss Ruth D. Weills of Washington, the ceremony taking place at the parsonage. Earlier in the day, Miss Thelma E. Schoenhauer and Richard E. Shontere, both of Baltimore, were married here by Rev. Henry K. Pasma of the.Presby- terian Church at the manse. ‘The County commissioners have signi- fied their purpose to improve the Mo- hican road, in Glen Echo Heights, for a distance of about 2,000 feet, and to as- sess the cost, estimated at $1,200, against abutting property, atcording to front footage. To enable the interested property owners to be heard, a public meeting will_be held in the county building at Bethesda the evening of Monday, August 19. One half of the assessment will be against 22 property owners. The tax may be paid in five annual installments, beginning next year, or in full at any time. St. John's Unit of St. John's Episcopal Church, Olney, has begun preparations for its annual supper and bazaar to be held Saturday, August 10, to be followed by a musical and literary program. The chairman of the various committeec have been announced as fololws: Pub- licity, Mrs, Josiah W. Jones; fancy work Miss Elsie Hutton; entertainment, Miss Edgar Jones; tables and waitresses, Mrs. Earl Nicholson; cakes, Miss Annie S. Riggs; candy, Mrs. Thomas Ladson; ice cream, Mrs. S. J. Finneyfrock; light- ing, Henry Howard; meats, Mrs. Henry L. Benson; chicken, Mrs. Howard Craver; bread, butter and cream, Mrs. F. Pole Robison, and salads, Miss Lily Cashell. ‘With an enrollment of approximately 100, the, Twombly-Holland Vacation School is in session in the Knights of Columbus Hall, at Silver- srflnz, under auspices of Court Forest Glen, Catholic Daughters of America. Sewing, manual training and kindergarten work are under the auj)ermlon of members of the court, and the spiritual instruction is in charge of sisters from St. Mary’s- of-the-Woods. The school is open each day of the week excepting Saturday and Sunday, from 9 to 12. It will close August 2. Mrs. Grace Braddock Green, widow of James Frank Green of Rockville, died Saturday in a Baltimore hosnital, aged 72 years, following a long illness. She is survived by a son, Scott Green: two brothers, Ale: r A. and F. Cushman Braddock, and three sisters, Mrs. Irving Creamer, Mrs. Kate Pyles and Miss Eulalie Braddock. Mrs. Green was a daughter of the dock of Rockville and m?fifi“ her entire life in the coun! A neozd stroke of which she suffered Saturday , caused the death at her home at Brookeville of R. Baker, 64. running races scheduled for three of the | Commission to Work on Plans for Town’s Future Expansion. BY WILLIAM J. WHEATLEY, Staff Correspondent of The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., July 22.—Foresee- ing rapid growth and expansion of this town into city proportions, following the erection of the proposed new court- house and county building, which was ordered by the building committee on Friday, immediate steps will be taken for the planning of this town, so that when the growth actually comes it will | be taken care of in orderly way. So that the planning and building of the courthouse will not be taken as just one project to be handled alone, the ultimate development of the town is to be taken into consideration to avoid the haphazard conditions which some cities have found themselves in because of the lack of planning. Task Given Mr. Root. ‘The task of providing a plan for the orderly development of the whole area adjacent to the courthouse has been assigned to Irving C. Root, chief engi- neer of the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission. Mr. Root said today that he would imme- diately begin an investigation to pre- pare data from which ultimately the plans will be made. As the matter is one of importance to the county seat of government, and is to be considered in eonnection with the plans for the county building. which are to be pre- pared within the new few months by the architects, under the direction of the building committee, the city plan- ning will go forward simultaneously with the building plans. Mr. Root indicated that the first plan to be produced will be that covering the territory in the downtown section im- mediately adjacent to the courthouse. He pointed out that the town is growing so in importance that plans must be made for diverting some of the traffic from the main street, which carries the national highway between Washington, D. C, and the West through the town. Must Provide New Streets. While no details have yet been worked out by the park and planning engineer, he indicated that new streets must be provided on either side of the present main artery, for the purpose of carry- ing the expected heavy increase in traffic. One of these will be a proposed road on the east side of the railroad tracks, which will take the traffic com- ing by way of Norbeck, and carry it to the national highway west of the town. This would entirely avoid the main artery, but, of course, involves the pro- vision of a new crossing of the raflroa west of the town. ‘The plan for the territory immediately adjacent to the county building must be prepared promptly, he said, because of the fact that the bullding committee wants it for their next meeting, which will be held as soon as the architects give notice that they have completed designs in accordance with the general order for a long, low, white limestone building to occupy the enlarged site to be made of the junction of the square now occupied by the courthouse and the area in the square west of the courthouse to be obtained by condemna- tion and to be effected by the closing of Court street, a public highway now existing between the two blocks. While the plan is to be developed by Mr. Root, when completed, he indicated that he would call into consultation Charles W. Eliot, 2d, city planner of the Federal Park and Planning Com- mission, with which the Maryland body works in close harmony in the planning of the Maryland metropolitan ~district in co-ordinating the city development of the National Capital in the outlying sections. Particularly the area to the rear of the proposed new site is to be studied in the planning, it was said, as it is in that direction that that any expansion of the county public buildings will take place, and where also it is tentatively proposed to provide a new means for vehicular traffic to pass through the city. ‘Will Spread to Large Area. Ultimately, it was said, the planning would be carried into a larger area, as soon as the downtown section is taken care of, so that the development will be in an’ orderly way in conformity with the best ideas of modern city planning. Of course, this work will be done with the full co-operation of the mayor and council of the town, who will be con- sulted throughout the period of the preparation of the plans. Any changes made in street plans must be carried out by the town officials, who have full power in street planning under the corporation charter. The council has shown a spirit of whole- some co-operation in the development work, having already taken steps to carry out the wishes of the board of county commissioners in the suggested closing of Court street to make it avail- able as a part of the new site for the proposed new county building. 1t was said, however, that 1t is likely that no definite action will be taken in this regard until the county authorities actually acquire all of the land in the square west of the courthouse, proceed- ings for the obtaining of which will be started next week by Cissel & Wood- ward, counsel for the board of county commissioners. It was predicted at the meeting of the building committee, by Charles W. Woodward, of the law firm, that the proceedings would be complet- ed within 90 days. By that time, it is hoped to have the plans completed for the building and the letting of con- tracts, and actual construction is expect- ed to be started soon after this, it was said. o YOUTH NEAR DEATH AFTER SHOOTING FRAY West Virginia Boy Wounded as Aftermath of Quarrel With Colored Lad. Special Dispatch to The Star. MARTINSBURG, W. Va., July 22— Marshall McDonald, 18-year-old quarry worker, of Engle, W. Va, Jefferson County, is at the point of death in Charles Town (W. Va.) General Hospital as a result of a shooting affray at Engle Saturday night, and Connie Jack, colored, same age, is in the Jefferson County Jail charged with shooting. Jack is alleged to have fired three bul- lets from a .32-caliber revolver at Mc- Donald, one of them lodging in the youth’s stomach, the other two going wild. 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