Evening Star Newspaper, July 25, 1929, Page 6

N DROP 4 WARRANT N CROS CASES Only One of Five Charges Re- mains When Case Comes Up at Hyattsville. By & Staff Correspondent of The Sta HYATTSVILLE. Md., July 25 much-advertised ‘“‘cross-fire” tris 2 tween the political leaders of Mount Rainier failed to materjalize in the Prince Georges County Police Court esterday, when, at the last minute, Iaur of the five warrants in the case were withdrawn, The remaining war- rant merely involves a technical charge of violating a town building ordinance | against Willlam F. Keys, county dele- gate to the State Legislature, which has developed into & test case. | With the courtroom crowded with spectators, including members of the | Mount Rainier Town Council. #nd | practically all the other officials of that town, Charles B. Calvert. defense attor- ney, and complainant in a disorderly conduct case against Mayor John H. Beall, sprang something of a surprise by announcing at the beginning of the aft- ernoon session of the court that he would not impose on the judge's time requiring him to listen to cases that were purely personal grievances, and ukzd permission to withdraw the war- ran Dolby Follows Suit. This was immediately followed by a similar request by Bird H. Dolby, cor- poration counsel for Mount Rainier, who advised the court, that, in view of Cal- vert’s attitude, the mavor would be will- ing to withdraw disorderly conduct war- rants obtained by him sgainst Calvert, James E. Degges and F. Fred Johnson, | all of Mount Rainies Commending the spirit thus shown by both sides, Judge J. Chew Sheriff, or- dered the warrants withdrawn and the cases dismissed. ‘The charge of violating the building ordinances of the town against Dele- gate Keys was continued two weeks after Calvert had flled a motion to quash the charges on the ground that the building ordinance of the town is | in conflict with the requirements of the Maryland National Capital Park and | Planning Commission. The motion was argued by Arthur Keefer, associate defense counsel, and | answered by Corporation Counsel Dolby. ‘who was assisted in the prosecution by | State’s Attorney J. Frank Parran, | Two Hours of Debate. Nearly two hours were consumed in | debate on the legal aspects of the case | and concluded with an order from the court for the defense to file a brief in support of iis views within a week. ‘The prosecution will then be given a ‘week to answer. The charges against Keys are the| result of a building operation at Thirty- | fourth and Perry streets northeast, without a permit from the town, al- though a permit from the Park Com-| mission was secured. After Keys was arrested he brought charges of disorder- 1y conduct against Mayor Beall, claim- ing the latter used unbecoming lan- guage in ordering Town Bailiff Henry Cleveland to arrest him. Degges, Joh: son and Calvert were also arrested as a result of the same incident. ‘The case was orginally scheduled to be tried before Justice of Psace Robert | E. Joyce of Mount Rainier, but the lat- ter certified it to the county Police | Court on request of Delegate Keys, who | claimed he could not obtain a fair trial | in Mount Rainier. DROUGHT HITS CROPS AROUND MARTINSBURG Corn .Prospects Affected by Lack! of Moisture and Garden SUBURBAN NEWS. THE EVENING' STAR, DIFFERENCES ARE SETTLED Mayor J._H. Beall of Mount Rainer (right) and State Delegate William F.| Keys. leaders of opposing poiitical factions, whe by mutual consent withdrew disorderly conduct warrants in Prince Georges County Police Court yesterday. 40000 BILLS TO BE MAILED TO COLLECT $1.500.000 TAXES 18,000 Accounts Must Be Prepared for State and County Levies at Rockville. Others for Special Imposts. Special Dispateh to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md. July 25 —The | clerical force in the office of the county treasurer here is in the midst of prepa- | preparation and are expected to go out | | started. ‘The approximately 9.000 bills for special taxes against the numerous sf!cll] taxing areas in the lower sec- t on of the county are in course of ation of bills for State and county | shortly. T taxes for the fiscal year, which began July 1. According Forest Walker. close to 40,000 bills will have to be prepared for the approxi- mately $1.500.000 to be collected, and he plans to have the 18,000 or more | bills for State and county taxes on real and personsl property and securities in the mails by August 1. The bills for taxes on automobiles, of which there will be, it is estimated. around 13.000, will be mailed later, the | work of preparing them not having e i to County Treasurer J.! All taxes, excepting those on automo- biles, draw interest at the rate of 6 per cent after September 1. They may be | pald at any of the banks of the county {or at the office of the county treasurer at Rockville, Owners of automobiles will ‘be un- able to obtain license markers for the year 1930 until the taxes on their ma- chines are paid. Al real property upon which axes are not paid by January 1 will be dvertised for sale at public auction, the law provides. Seige of Vicksburg News, Printed on | . Wall Paper, Found Colored Man Produces ‘ Publication Gotten Out Before Capture. CULPEPER, Va., July 25.—A veritable curiosity in. the shape of a journalistic and historic wonder, was exhibited here this week to a number of people by R. L. Lewis, a colored farmer of the Richardsville neighborhood, who stated that a white man had given him this paper snme vears ago and he had kept it “because it was so different.” { ‘This paper;is a copy of the Daily | Citizen, & single sheet printed on the | pr "Bromley found a final check of the | back of a strip of old-fashoined wall- | paper. and issued during the seige of Vicksburg, Miss., in July, 1863, to the | people in that beleaguered city, which | COLMAR MANOR PLANS Mayor Releases Treasurer From Past Accounts — Council Activities. By & Staft Correspondent of The Btar. COLMAR MANOR, Md. July 25.— | Definite plans for the collection of cur- rent taxes for the year 1920 and for he collection of the outstanding taxes due the town for the years 1927 and 1928 were formulated at a special meet- ing_of the mayor and council Tuesday night. %-llvlng refused to release K. D. Karn and W. J. Cook. town clerk and treas- urer, respectively, during the past ad- ministration, from their bonds, because | of alleged cierical inaccuracies in thelr accounts two weeks ago, Mayor Burt records was satisfactory and signed the men’s releases. A special committee re) d_‘the Washington Suburban Sanitary Com- EOMONSTON AVODS SPECAL ELEGTION Compromise Is Reached Be- tween Candidates Tied in Recent Voting. | Special Dispatch to The Star. EDMONSTON, Md., July 25.— To complete organization the new mayor and Council of Edmonston will meet tomorrow night at 8 o'clock in the Ed- monston School. What appeared to be a difficult prob- !lem arising out of the election July 1 | has been solved. W. W. Lewis, a former counciiman, and Martin U. White, run- ning for & seat in the Council from | the second ward, each received 38 votes. It was thought that another election would be necessary to settle the contest, but Mr. Lewis, explaining that ne wished to promote harmony among members of the town's governing body, suggested that Mr. White be elected by the mayor nad Council for the two- year term to succeed Councilman W. C. Weber, who wished to resign, and he (Lewis) be named for the one-year | remaining on the term of B. M. Mc- in, who died last Fall and whose place on the Council has never been | filled. The old council elected Mr. | Lewis to the one-year term and the | new Council, after organizing, accepted | the resignation of Mr. Weber and elect- ed Mr. White as his successor for two years. Another Election Avoided. ‘Had not. this method of solving the difficulty been adopted no doubt an- ! other election would have been neces- sary, as the old Council upon receiving the returns showing Mr. Lewis and Mr. Martin to have recelved an equal number of votes declared the contest Following his resignation as council- man, Mr. Weber was appointed by the mayor and council as chief marshal to | succeed George Page, resigned. Mr. | Page was named assistant marshal | various other town officials and com }mlntfif:l will be appointed tomorrow | night. | Members of the new governing body { of the town besides Councilmen Lewis and White are Mayor Adolphus E. Bost. Councilman Charles C. Martin_of the first and Councilman Willlam | Page, also of the first ward, who is a | hold-over member, having a year more | hi; | to serve. All have taken the oath. as | has Henry A. Eberle, re-elected town | treasurer. Planned Contest. Friends of former Councilman Milton | M. Clark announced some time ago | their intention of contesting the elec- tion of Councilman Martin on_the ground that the name of Mr. Clark | had been illegally omitted from the | official ballot by the |board. It was contended that Mr. | Clark’s petition of candidacy, which was filed six days before election,.com- plied with the provision of the town | charter which stipulates that petitions shall be filed within 15 davs of elec- tion, holding that the word “within” meant any time before election within 15 days rather than 15 days prior to election. The election board, however. did not concur in this view and omitted | Clark’s name from the ballot. Whether this fight is going to be pushed against + Mr. Martin is not certain. though it is understood that it is likely to be dropped town election | HELD ON LIQUOR CHARGE. Two Prince Georges County Youths | Arrested Near Baden. finally capitulated before Grant's army | misison had made the necessary repairs | Special Dispatch to The Star. on the 4th of July, 1863. it. unigue is the fact that the ecity was | Produce Soars. | MARTINSBURG, W. Va. July 25 (Bpecial) —Drought became evident in | acute fashion in this section today when | corn prospects were found to be suf- | fering from lack of moisture, and pre- | dictions were for a short crop unless | Tain arrived within a few days. ' Summer apple production” has been | materially cut also. Garden and truck | patches are showing injury and the | mulk and butter suaply is jeopardized through burned-out pasturage. The Mexican bean bettle has ag- gravated the garden damage and sent the price of green string or stringless beans on the open market soaring to $3 | 8 bushel. The beans ordinarily sell for | 81 a bushel. Lima beans have been | similarly affected, one trucker today selling fresh limas at 80 cents a quart. No effect on the Fall and Winter apples hes been noted as yet, except in a slowing-up of sizing processes. Rain has been officially measured but nine days this month, with s total | freciplutlon for the 24 days of 105/ inches. Temperatures have ranged 'hllv‘hh. aggravating the draughty condi- CAPT. PAUL KOENIG TO HAVE RECEPTION; Commander of Wartime Submarine | Deutschland to Be Feted in Baltimore. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE. July 25.—A public re- ception to Capt. Paul Koenig, who | commanded the German commercial submarine Deutschland on its voyage in 1916, will be given this evening in the Hotel Emerson. Baltimoreans who were associated with Capt. Koenig in that wartime visit 13 years ago, will take part in the ceremonies and an opportunity will | be given to those of the general public | who wish to meet him to shake his hand. He came to America on the North German Lloyd steamer Bremen. which arrived at New York Monday after the shortest, ocean voyage in history. He | is the manager of the nautical depart- captured after this paper had “gone to | ress” and before it could be issued, | and that the captors wrote the last item ! as follows: “Note: “July 4th, 1863. i “Two days bring about great changes. The banner of the Union floats over Vicksburg. Gen Grant has ‘caught the rabbit’; he has dined in - Vicksburg, and he did bring his dinner with him. | The ‘Citizen’ lives to see it. For the last time it appears on ‘wallpaper.’ No more will it eulogize the luxury of mule meat and fricaseed kitten—urge South- ern warriors to such diet never more. This is the last wallpsper edition, and is, excepting this note, from the types | as we found them.” { This was probably in answer to an | editorial utterahce, headed “On Dit." | which said: “That great Ulysses—the Yankee generalissimo. surnamed Grant | | —has expressed his intentions of din- | ing in Vicksburg on Saturday next and | celebrating the Fourth-of July by a grand dinner and: so forth. | “When ed,” ‘if he would invite J. O. Johnston to join him.' he | 0. for fear there would be a row at the table!’ Ulysses must get | into the city before he dines in it. The.’ way to cook a rabbit is ‘first catch the rabbit.’ etc. | Reflection of the hardships being endured by both citizenry and soldiers | and of the high spirit which was being maintained up to the very.end was in | an item which said: “We are indebted | to Maj. Gillespie for a steak of Con- | federate beef, alias meat. We have tried it and can assure our friends that | if it is rendered necessary they mneed | have no scruples at eating the meat. It is sweet, savory and tender, and so long | as we have mule left we are satisfled | our soldiers will be content to subsist upon it.” | ‘The proprietor and editor of the Daily | Citizen was J. M. Swords, surely a most appropriate name for one whose jour- nalistic career was cast in such warlike times. HENHOUSE RAIDED BY SEAT PLEASANT DOG Residents of Neighborhood Up in What makes | gver its trench on Lenox avenus, but | ir work needed on Pershing ad not been begun. Cox was that re, avenue Councilman committee of one to obtain emergency | the Federal grand | for | sidewalk repairs on Danlels street. MTe. | United States Commicines snoerory, | Anna D. Millhouser, newly appointe town health officer, was given the oath of office. Stunt Per{ol”mzrr ul‘189A2 Dies. POTTSVILLE. Pa., July 25 (#).—In 1892 a keg of beer was pushed to Chi- cago from Pottsville in a wheelbarrow. has just died. Your cru BALTIMORE, July 25.—Roderich E. Orme and Carlton Scott, both 17, of appointed a Prince Georges County were held for sultant and make them public in time | ble on charges of manufacture and pos- session of. liquor. Bail was fixed at $500. Goldsmith, arrested with | the youths, was released. ‘The arrests were made July 17, when ‘thnfltlun sgents raided an 800-g: {lon still near Baden, Prince Georges | County. |, Orme and Scott admitied they had | Charles Guetling, who did it in 28 davs, ' hauled liquor from the still, but daniec having manufactured any, agents said own 1se WASHINGTON, no election and Mr. Weber still in office. | " would more than offset the extra taxes D. C. THURSDAY, SEWER PROBLEMS PUTUPTO PEOPLE | Question of Making Arlington County One Sanitary Dis- trict Passed to Voters. BY LESTER N. INSKEEP, Btaft Correspondent of The Star. | o ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT HOUSE, Va., July 325.—Deciding to | “put the matter up to the people, since it is they who must be uthflu&" Judge Howard W. Smith, in Circuit Court, yesterday, approved a petition to con- | sider the entire county as one unit |in the matter of sewer construction !and instructed Commonwealth's Attor- ney Willlam C. Gloth to prepare the |order for his signature. | Judge Smiths decision brings to an |end the question of sanitary district | boundaries, one that has been before him in various forms for more than a year and that has presented many pe: plexing angles as to finance and engi- neering questions. Original Petition. The original Remum. which was pre- sented by Hugh Reid, member of the House of Delegates, was that the coun- ty be divided into separate sanitary dis- tricts, beginning with districts Nos. and 2, which would take in the thick populated sections of Cherrydale, Clar- endon, Ballston, Ashton Heights, Lyon Park, Lyon Village and a number of other communities. Under the original plan the question |of bond issue to finance the laying of | the sewer mains would e been put before the citizens of each district for their vote as to its passage, the work | to have been done in the district re- | ceiving a favorable vote and to have | been left undone if there were a district in _which the vote was unfavorable. Difficulties were encountered, how- ever, when the residents of Ashton Heights and Lyor® Park petitioned the court to be included in district No. 1, in ‘which it was planned to make the first installation. | Because the first and second districts | were separated by a natural drainage | division it was found almost impossible | to_act favorably on this petition. | It was after hearing arguments on | this latter petition that Judge Smith expressed himself as favorable to the |inclusion of the entire county in one | distriet, refusing to make a decision (until both plans had been submitted to m. The petition accepted yesterday was prepared by Gloth and State Senator Frank L. Ball. It was opposed by Reid. who said that, although he had no wish {to stand in the way of the best plan | for the sewers of the county he .S {not persuaded - that the citizens nof | immediately ssrved would cast their votes for taxation that would benefit only those in the favored territories. Reid was the only person present who | voiced oppesition to the single unit | plan. County Directing Engineer C. L. Kinnier and Sanitary Engineer Tho! | N. DeLashmutt both stating that there vould be no additional cost under the single unit plan and that it would prove | more satisfactory. Charles T. Jesse. Edgar W. Pumphrey, Hugh C. McGrath and Lawrence Douglas, local attorneys, all spoke in | favor of it. Value Offsets Taxes. _ In making his decision, Judge Smith said that he thought the increase in the value of all property in the county | that would be paid by those not receiv- |ing immediate benefits. 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