Evening Star Newspaper, August 2, 1929, Page 7

SUBURBAN NEWS. " INQUEST ORDERED | " INTO GIRL'S DEATH 'Demise Followed Administra- tion of Drug Before Ton- sil Operation. BY GEORGE PORTER, Staff Correspondent of The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md. August| 2. —Repeated requests by the family of Miss Myra Norton, 19, of Fairfield, Md., who died from the effects of a drug ad- ministered prior to a tonsil operaticn, that a further effort be made to learn the exact cause of her death, have re- gulted in State's Attorney J. Frank Par- ran of Prince Georges County ordering 2n inquest into the case. The date on| which the inquest will be held has not | been set, but will probably be decided | upon today, according to Parran. A coroner's jury was impaneled by Justice of Peace H. W. Gore, and viewed the body at a Washington undertaking | establishment. Dr. James I. Boyd of | Forestville has performed an autopsy | and will reveal his finding at the in- quest, which will be held at Marlboro. Death Held Unavoidable. Although the results of the autopsy have not been revealed, it is understood | they show the girl's death to have been unavoidable. The parents of the dead girl were of the opinion the doctor who gave her the drug was negligent, ac- cording to Dr. Boyd. Following Miss Norton's death last Saturday, State’s Attorney Parran made | an investigation which, he reported, showed the girl died from a weak heart. He said he interviewed several physi- cians at Garfield Hospital, where she | was taken when desperate efforts to ""\ vive her failed, and was told her death was accidental. Under these circum- stances the State's attorney believed there was no purpose in carrying the | matter further and announced the case | was closed as far as his office was con- | cerned. The family, however, did not | appear to be satisfied, and enlisted the support of a former State’s attorney of Montgomery County in securing a more extensive investigation, including an autopsy and inquest. Died After Anesthetic. Miss Norton succumbed after Dr. Bryan P. Warren of Laurel had given her a hypodermic of hydro-bromide- hyoscnie in his office, preparatory to re- moving hel tonsils. The girl is said to have become drowsy immediately after 1he injection, and all efforts to revive her failed. Dr. J. Ramsay Nevitt, District coroner, who was summoned to view the body at Garfield Hospital, issued a tentatice cer- | tificate of death from hydro-bromide- | hyoscine poisoning. Miss Norton is survived by her par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. John Norton, and several brothers and sisters. She was buried in Rock Creek Cemetery Wed- nesday. b SHENANDOAH SUNDAY SCHOOL RECORD HIGH! Report Presented to County Asso-| ciation in Session at Strasburg. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. STRASBURG, Va., August 2—Fifty- five per cent of the people of Shenan- doah County who can attend Sunday | schools have their names on rolls, and | of this number exactly five-eighths at- | tend regularly, E. Z. Dingledine, secre- tary of the county Sunday School As- sociation, told 300 members in their | annual meeting at Wakeman's Grove | Church yesterday. The fact that this | ranking ‘was above the average in the | State of Virginia was attributed to the work done by the organization. An increase of 616 pupils over last year was shown. Officers for the coming year were' elected. Lester C. Huffman of New | Market, retiring president, announced | that a training school, similar to that | at which 133 Sounty people were en- a ‘oodstocl ast year, wi be held this Fall, 7 o ._The passing of the Bible as a factor in modern education was declared to be the case by the Rev. Minor C. Miller of Bridgewater, who addressed the convention. LEGION GARDEN PARTY. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. SILVER SPRING, Md., August 2.— A garden party will be held at the | yesidence of Mrs. J. H. Cissel, Georgia {avenue and Oak street, here, tonight, under the auspices of the American ;;)gl:;n Auxiliary of Cissel-Saxon Post, There will be the usual booths, free dancing on the poren of the Clng home. There will be card games inside the house. One of the principal attrace tions will be a fortune-teliing booth, |The party will be in charge of Mrs. Lauman Faulconer an s, d Mrs. James ROCKVILLE., ~— ROCKVILLE, Md., August 2 (Spe- cial) —When Chief of Police Alvlep:. Moxley and Pvts. Roy Bodmer and Robert Howes yesterday afternoon dis- covered Buck Queen, 55, of the vicinity of Boyds, this county, in a woods near Boyds with a 17-year-old girl, who had been missing from her home for sev- cral days, the man was brought to Rockville and committed to jail to await an investigation, e man had with him when lo- | cated by the officers a loaded double- barreled shotgun, but made no attempt to use it as the officers approached. A short distance from where the man and i girl were found were several barrels of alleged whisky mash and evidences that | & still had been in operation there, and the man was noticed by the officers to | drink from & pan contalning some of the mash, The officers were looking for the girl ,When the pair were discovered, her par- | ents having reported her disappearance. | She was turned over to the Montgom- | ery County Social Service League to be | cared for temporarily. Rev. Henry K. Pasma of the Presby- itrrinn Church officiated at the marriage here yesterday of Miss Ellen Eleanor | Senger and George Thomas Walker, | both of Washington. Licenses were issued here yesterday | afternoon for the marriage of Fred D. | Volker, 42, and Miss Ruby L. Welch, 26, both of Washington: Maurice Q. Leaman, 21, of Washington and Miss | Nettie May Sampson, 21, of Riverdale, | Md.; John A. Milburn, 24, of Washing- | ton and Miss Virginia Fairfax Bla | istone, 22, of Chevy Chase, Md.; Thorn- | ton E. Robinette, 70, and Mrs. Annie R. { Karn, 67, both of Washington: George | Thomas 'Walker, 25, and Miss Ellen | Eleanor Senger, 18, both of Washing- ton:“Osear H. Gynn, 24, and Miss May | E. Tredke, 22, both of Baltimore; Ed- ! win Vincent Byrne, 32, and Miss Lucy | Neal Arnold, 21, both of Washington, 1 and Louis S. Olafson, 24, and Miss Pearle M. Petersen, 26, both of Ro: seau, Minn. A 'suit for an absolute divorce has been filed in the Circuit Court here by | Willlam H. MeCrossin of Travilah, this county. against Mrs. Grace McCrossin of Bethesda on the ground of deser-| N tion. The plaintiff is represented by A_lfiomey F. Barnard ville. According to the bill, the couple were married in April, 1903, and have five children. A cross-bill filed by the de- fendant, through her attorney, Harold .C. Smith of Rockville, asks that the be dismissed, # Welsh of Rock- | fired ANOTHER CHAMPION THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGILUN. CROWNED AVON 0. FOREMAN, Fifteen, of Baltimore, slides down pole in his back yard and proclaims himself champion juvenile flag pole sitter after having spent 10 days 10 hours 10 minutes and 10 seconds on the skyward end of a 22-foot sapling. Ruth McCruden, 10 years old, became Baltimore's first girl flag pole sitter Wednesday and was still sitting strong today. And in the meantime 10 other embryonic champions have appeared in other sections of Baltimore, aiming to better record. —Wide World Photo. young Foreman's ANOTHER ARREST INRAID KILLING [Norris Clark, Taken in Ha-| gerstown, Believed Man Who Fired Shot. Epecial Disatch to The Star. FREDERICK, Md., August 2.—Norris Clark, alias Bennett, 27 years old, was arrested in Hagerstown early this morn- ing in connection with the slaying of Deputy Sheriff Clyde L. Hauver, during a raid on a mammoth still, five miles west of Fairmont, Wednesday evening. | The arrest was made by Lieut. Frank K. Williams of the Hagerstown police force, and Officer Claude Cubbage of the State police. Clark was lodged in the Washington County Jail and held for the Frederick County authorities. His arrest is con- sidered the most important made, as it is said he may be the man who fired the shot that killed Hauver, Clark is a brother of Russell and Waverley Bennett, now in jail for com- plicity in the slaying. William McPherson Miller of Hagers- town, one of the eight men taken into custody yesterday. was released on $2.500 bond yesterday afternoon. The charge against him is violation of the prohibition law. Charles Lewis of Fair- mont, whom the officers claimed was the “tip-off” man for the moonshiners, was released Thursday afternoon. Those now being held are: Paul and Floyd Williams, brothers, of North Carolina; Waverley and Russell Ben- nett, Hagerstown; Lloyd Lewis, and Oscar McAfee, near Foxville, CABINET OF BOLIVIA EXPECTED TO RESIGN Foreign Minister to Quit Soon. Arica Treaty Protocol Brings Considerable Resentment. By Cable to The Star. LA PAZ, Bolivia, August 2.—Foreign Minister Tomas Manuel Elio will pre- sent his resignation to President Har- nando Siles on August 7, according to reliable sources. It is believed that the rest of the cabinet may resign when Congress convenes. There has been considerable resentment here in con- nection with the protocol of the Tacna- Arica treaty between Peru and Chile, which nullified any hope of landlocked Bolivia to gain an opening to the cific Coast. The newspaper La Razon, referring to the protocol, which was made public last Sunday, said: “The Yale protocol is a good name in view of the fact that it locks Bolivia's ambition for an outlet to the sea.” The editorial also ex- pressed puzzlement as to whether United States officials, who acted as arbiters in settling the border contro- versy, knew of the protocol or whether it was “deceitfully hidden.” MARYLAND BOYS WIN 4-H SCHOLARSHIPS Selected for College Park Course Because of Prominence in Club Work, By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. COLLEGE PARK, Md., August 2.— Selected because of their prominence in 4-H Club work, Charles Hines of Olney, Md,, and Jack Price of Darling- ton, Md., have been awarded scholar- ships to the annual State 4-h Club week to be held at the University of Maryland August 8 to 13. The scholarships defra@ all expenses for the week and are given by an agri- cultural magazine. Young Hines has the distinction of being the first boy ever to be called before a Senate committee to speak on 4-H Club work. The occasion was a hearing of a special Senate committee on the Capper-Ketcham bill. The boy manages his mother's farm at Olney as part of his club work. Price is rapidly becoming one of the best known club members in the State through his activities in county affairs and leadership. in his own or - tion. He is working his way ugh high school. LIGHTNING HITS HOMES. One Residence Damaged at Fred- _erick, and Barn Destréyed by Fire. " | Special Dispaten to The Star. - FREDERICK, Md., August 2—Two buildings. here were struck by lightning during a here reeently. The home of former State Senator Frank C. lorwood, this city, was struck by a bolt and damaged. The residence was not ‘The barn of former Sheriff Charles H. Klipp, near Urbana, was struck by lightning during a severe storm last ht and entirely destroyed by fire. The loss was set at about $7,000. A g shed adjoining the barn was also KENSINGTON LAND OWNERS WIL SELL ‘Those Interviewed on Bridge | Right of Way Offer No Opposition to Project. By a Btaff Correspondent of The Star. KENSINGTON, Md., August 2.— | When Lacy Shaw, county commissioner | in charge of the northern suburban | district, and E. G. Duncan, district | engineer ‘of the State Road Commis- | sion, visited owners of property here last night to determine whether they | | the approaches to the proposed over- | head traffic crossing at the intersection of Lincoln avenue and the Baltimore & Ohio Rallroad tracks, opposition to the project, according to Mr. Shaw. All of the owners who were approached last night, Mr. Shaw said, | were favorable, Only those owners having land in the | | proposed new right-of-way for a new | street continuing Lincoln avenue to the intersection of Connecticut avenue | |and Baltimore street were approached last night, Mr. Shaw said, and the others will be seen on Monday night. | ‘The committee was accompanied by | Town Councilman Hartshorn. Mr. Shaw said that no offers of dedication of land were obtained from owners on the Connecticut avenue side of the tracks, but on the east side, the owners | of which will be visited Monday, he had been' informed that some dedications would be received. There are said to be two houses within the proposed right-of-way on the new street on the west, or Connecticut avenue side of the tracks. The interviewing of the property owners is to be pushed as rapidly as | possible so that the right-of-way of approaches can be settled promptly, and work instituted on the new project, which is to be built for the purpose of closing the dangerous grade crossing at the end of Wheaton road in the town. AHALT’S 'HAT IN RING. Arlington Citizen Enters Race for | they found no | Delegate Nomination. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ARLINGTON RIDGE, Va., August 2. —Clarence R. Ahalt, attorney, civic worker and former member of the board of county supervisors, last night announced that he will be a candidate for the Republican nomination for the House of Delegates when the convention is held on August 8 at the Lyon Park Community Hall. Ahalt, who has lived in the county for 17 years, was one of the organizers of the Arlington Chamber of Commerce and of the National Monarch Club, hav- ing been first president of both organ- izations. Ahalt will be opposed for the nomination by at least two other can- didates, Carl Marshall and Louis Mc- Mahon, having already announced their CITIZENS T0 FIGHT ‘FIREHOUSE SITE Clarendon Residents and Church Join in Opposition to Location of Structure. BY LESTER N. INSKEEP, Staf Correspondent of The Star. CLARENDON, Va. August 2.—The apparently well laid plans of the Clar-| endon Volunteer Department to erect a new building on a lot on Lawton avenue between Taylor and Washing- ton avenues, disregarding the offer of the board of county supervisors to share in the project and take title to the building, has stirred up such opposition that it is second only to that used to defeat ‘the efforts of the District of Co- lumbia to erect a fire engine house on fashionable Sixteenth street. Despite the fact that C. L. Kinnler, county directing engineer, has approved the plans and location, because he has issued a permit for the new structure, a group of citizens has combined to de- feat the project, and thz officials of the Clarendon Methodist Cliarch are among the strongest opponents of the location of the fire engine house at that par- ticular site. Petition Prepared. With the Zoning Commission meeting tonight, a petition has been prepared op- posing the structure and already 45 persons have affixed their signatures thereto. According to Mrs. Ruth W. Trone, who lives at 19 Taylor avenue and who is one of the leaders against the new firehouse, there has been but one per- son jn the immediate vicinity of the site who has refused to sign the petition of proteat, and this one man’s own wife and daughter have signed it. Four reasons are set forth in the pe- tition to show cause why the building should not be located at this point. The first is that it is a strictly resi- | would sell land for rights of way for | he | dential section and the second that the | building will be located on a narrow | street and narrow lot, both being of {such a nature as to necessarily en- langer the lives of the many children {of the neighborhod when the engine re- | sponds to an alarm at the usual rate of speed. The third reason is that the building | would be located within 150 feet of the | largely attended Clarendon Methodist | Church and that during services at the church there is always a line of cars on either side of Lawton avenue, mak- ing it a most dangerous route for fire | apparatus; also the siren would inter- rupt the services. emphasis upon the fact that it does not refer to the firemen . themselves, the fourth reason is a statement to the ef- fect that it will provide a loafing place for many persons who make a practice of hanging around public buildings at all hours of the day and night, and that | residents and their children would be annoyed by bosisterous and unpleasant language. Among others who have joined Mrs. Trone in the fight are Rev. George H. Flelding, pastor of the church, and J. C. Boss, owner of a theater here and | of property near the proposed fire ouse. Minister Organizing Protest. ‘The minister spent a greater part of yesterday in assisting to organize the concentrated .opposition of said. Boss, it is understood, has stated to several persons that he will seek an injunction the minute an effort is made | to start the building. In explaining his reason for granting | the building permit Kinnier said that | while no zoning ordinance has yet been | adopted for the county, the zoning not having been completed, ‘most zoning | classifications do not apply to fire [ houses or police stations, and that he acted under the assumption that the same practice would be followed in the zoning of Arlington County, which is now under way. He indicated, however, that the matter will probably be put before the Zoning Commissicn at its meeting tonight, with a request that the commission take a definite stand in the matter. Today's situation is but one of a number of difficulties that have been faced by the Fire Department since it found itself homeless some months ago by the sale of the Clarendon Com- munity House, in which it had been quartered for many years. GIRL, MISSING SINCE TUESDAY, IS TRACED | Cousin Declares She Is Safe Withl Priest—Police Search Is Called Off. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, August 2.—Twenty-year- old Margaret Severeld, supposedly miss- ing since Tuesday and thought to have been abducted by & man posing as a priest, is safe, and police search has been called off. Mrs. Emil Morrell, wife of the girl's cousin, told inquirers Miss Severeid was in the care of a priest of the church to which she belongs. She would give no further information. Heads Debt Delegation. BELGRADE, Jugoslavia, August 2 (). —Foreign Minister Marinkovitch of Jugoslavia will personally head the Jugoslavian delegation to The Hague candidacy. Reparations Conference August 6. v OW delicious any % meal becomes when Simpson’s Golden Flake Butter- milk is served. If you like real, country-style buttermilk, you'll like Golden Flake—{reshly churned and pure—fla- vored with yellow i} flakes of golden butter —your most nourishing Summertime drink. Golden Flake is sold at all Simpson Dealers. Phone Atlantic 0070 for Special Home De- livery Service. FAMOUS HOSTESSES HISTORY /II////,'/ One of New Eng- land’s famous Co- lonial Hostesses was Mrs. Sareh Hull. Many famous figures of early American “history were guests at her delicious dinners. .. Gollen Fake BUTTERMILK “Bright and Airy—the Daylight Dairy” As cited in the petition, with special | operty | owners and civic organizations, it was | FAILURE TO IDENTIFY TWIN BREAKS UP TRIAL Case Is Dismissed When Witnesses Cannot Tell Which Brother ‘Was in Fight. Special Dispatch to The Star. WINCHESTER, Va., August 2.—In- ability of any one in a crowded court- room ' to. identify the twin brother charged with starting a fist fight st a lawn festival of the Patriotic Order Sons of America, at Whitacre, west of here, the other night resulted today in all charges being dismissed and the trial terminating in a fiasco. Five hundred residents of the north- ern section of ' Frederick County swarmed into the courtroom for the trial. Alfred Kipps has been named in t warrant as defendant and was charged with fighting with one C. R. Johnson. When Alfred's twin brother, Allen Kipps, was placed alongside Al- fred and witnesses looked at both, none would say which was engaged in the fighting. It was said afterward that while Al- fred was named in the warrant it was actually his brother who was present at the lawn festival, while Alfred was not there at all. When Johnson was asked to identify the man who fought him, he said he could not “tell t'other from which.” Do O FREAYS, AUC o 2 1929, ROCKVILLE T0 GET NEW WATER SUPPLY Mayor and Council Decide to Sink Another Well in Fair Grounds. Special Dispatch to The Star. » ROCKVILLE, Md, August | Rockville’s water supm, which has long been regarded as dequate, is ex- pected to be considerably increased by last evening immediately to sink another a pump there to force the water into the town’s 75,000-gallon cement storage tank, adjoining the power house. The town already has five wells from ‘which it obtains its water and the sup- ply is barely enough for the com- munity’s absolute needs. It is believed that a sixth well will “ease” the situa- tion somewhat and prove a precaution against possible disastrous consequences should an occasion arise for the need of an unusual amount of water. That the additional well is intended a decision of the mayor and council | well in the fair grounds and to install | SUBUKBAN as only temporary relief was evidenced at the mee last evening, when the members of S t board discussed a length the feasibility of hooking the | town up with the mains of the Wash- | ington Suburban Sanitary Commission of Maryland. unanimous feeling seemed be that to become a water customer of the Sanitary Commission would a business-like proposition and the clerk was directed to arrange a conference with a representative or representatives of the commission with a view to entering into such a contract. The conference will, Mayor J. Roger Spates, stated today, be held in the very near future, the exact date and place to be left to the commission. CARNIVAL ENDS SATURDAY Arlington Social Club to Present| Cup to Most Popular Lady. | Special Dispatch to The Star. BALLSTON, Va., August 2.—The car- nival and exposition of the Arlington County Social Club, being held on the field at the intersection of Wilson Boule- vard and School street throughout the week, will close Saturday evening after a successful two-week run. The pres- entation of the silver loving cup to the most popular lady will be made at the close of the events. | Miss Elizabeth Norton is leading the | contest, with Miss Vivian Myers a | ! close second. DMore than 30 others | follow. | NEWS, ¥ 7 VOTE DOWN COAL STRIKE. Company Cuts Pay 10 Per Cent. * ‘Workers Idle for Day. BELLAIRE, Ohio. -August 2 (#).- Representatives of 900 men employed in three mines of the Rail & River Co. yesterday voted down a resolution to strike against a 10 per cent wage rTe- duction now in force. The shafts were idle for the day, less than 200 diggers reporting at the three operations. 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