Evening Star Newspaper, August 21, 1929, Page 6

B2 SUBUR BAN NEWS. BIGGER AIR GORPS st - WHE EVENING PRIZE-WINNING YARD * PLANNED BY GOOD ,Service Will Be Augmented by ! Transfers From Battalions | " Ordzred Dishanded. The Army Air Corps will be aug- , mented by the transfer of the personnel | i3 of five battalions of infantry, which will | Dbs disbanded, and 1004 enlisted men | from the Cavalry, Field Artillery, En- P Corps, Ordnance and Chemical | Waziare Service, following orders given | yesterday by Sccretary Good of the | War Department in connection with the five-year Army aviation expansion pro- | gram. $ The battalions selected for disband- ment are: Ist Battalion, 13th Infantry, | Fort Strong, Mass.; 3rd lion, 8th Infantry, Fort Moultrie, S. C.; 1st Eat- talion. 10th Infantry, Fort Thoma XKy.; 3rd Ba ion, 6th Infantry, J ks, Mo and 2nd Batt ntry, Fort Des Moines, Iowa. | the transi from the other erms of the service, men wil! be | drawn from &ll the Cavalry unils in the country; by reducing the 15th Field | Artillery from a regiment to a batalion | 547 men will bs taken from the Field :©. 141 men from the Engineer | Corns, 75 men from th> Ord~ance De. periment and 10 men from the Chem- | ical Warfare Service. Meanwhile at ths War Department offices of the gencral staff are secking | means of paring down the Army's ex-| penditures as proposad by President Hoover. A vast compendium of facts | and statistics s bsing essmbled from all Armv vnits and services throughout the United States and American pos- sessions in the office of Brig. Gen. Si- monds, The survey is expected to be com- pleted by Novembor 1 and after the general staff has drafted its report the Army's war council, consisting of Sec- retarv Good. Assistant Secretary Hur- lev, Gen. Pershing and Gen. Summer- all, chief of staff, will transmit a final report of the department to Congress. PIONEER NEWSPAPE WOMAN PASSES AWAY Mre. Lillian Craigen Adams Dies in Hospital at Baltimore—Born in Capital. @pecial Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORZ, August 21.—Mrs. Lil- lian Craigen Adams, pioneer Baltimove newspaper woman, died in Union Me- morial Hospital yesterday. Born in Washington, D. C., she spent the larger part of her girlhood in Cum- berland, where her iather, William T. Craigen. was a phvsician. She came to Baltimore in 1890, when newspapers were just beginning to give special attention to the interests of women, and became associated with the Balti- more News. In 1911 she married the late John Haslup Adams, who for 15 years before | his death, nearly two yoars ago. was managing editor of the Sun. Her first | husband was the late P. Thompson | Coyle. ELDERS’ TERMS EXPIRING. | Four Presiding Officials of Metho- dist Church Completing Tours. STAUNTON. Va.. August 21 (Epe- clal).—Terms of four presiding elders of the Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South ex- pire this year. The presiding elders whose terms ex- ire are Rev. Dr. Hubert Sydenstricker. ockingham district: Rev. D. L. Woolf, FRoanoke district: Rev. Dr. H. V. Wheel er, Moorefield district, and Rev. Dr. H. M. Canter, Winchester district. The conference will meet in Cumberland, -4, September 25 L. C. Shumac, 835 Richmond venue, Gets Sweeps(a[(es Prize at Blair. Special Dispatch to The Star. SILVER SPRING, Md., August 21.—| L. C. Shumac, 835 Richmond avenue, | Blair, has been anounced as the winner | >f the lawn and garden contest sponsor- ed by th> Blair Citizens Association. R. L. Ferguson of 823 Violet place is the winner of the first prize in class 3 for | the lJawn and garden showing the most | improvement. There were 150 entrants in the contest whose placs had been | | judged from time to time by a com- | mittee from the association and who | had selected 40 places to contest in the | final judging. Committee of Judges. A committee composed of Dr. Fu Lioyd Mulford, Dr. Royal J. Haskell | and Roland W. Rogers were the final | judges. Dr. Mulford, a horticulturist | of the horticultural and pomological n- vestigations office, Bureau of Plant In- dustry, United States Department of Agriculture, is well known as a land- | scape designer, who has devoted his at- | tention to various phasss of ornamental horticulture for 18 years. He is a past president of the American Horticulture Society and is now vice president. Dr. Haskell, who is vice president of the National Capital Federation of Garden Clubs, is a pathologist in the | Bureau of Plant Industry, United States | Department of Agriculture. Mr. Rogers | was an alternate judge in place of Iry- ing C. Root. chief engineer of the Maryland National Capital Park and Planning Commission. He is a grad-| uate in landscape architecture and a { past professor of the subject in Ameri- | can and European colleges. He is now | consulting landscape architect to the | commission and is designing the widely- heralded Maryland park system. Other Winners. Others who were winners in cla: 1, general, were Mrs. J. B. Hutt. E. G. Royster, W. A. Taylor, W. A. Bradle; Emilie 8. Mitchell, L.'G. Bates, Eliz beth Hollage, G. P. Merdell, Mrs, W. J. Kelly, L. V. Kreh, Henry A. Deeble, F. D. Worden, C. W. Hafle and Dr. Howell Forsyth. ~ Honorable mention class: G. Arnold. R. W. Hodge, C. 1 Lawn and garden of L. C. Shumac. 835 Richmond avenue, Blair, which | won the contest ponsored by the Blair Citizens' Assoclation. Lower: Mrs. Mary | Donahue. all of Richmond. STAR, WASHINGTON, ner. D...C FIGHT IS PLANNED ON GAS STATION Lyon Village Citizens to Seek New Hearing Before Zoning Board. By a Staff Correspordent of The Btal LYON VILLAGE, Va., August 21.-- Plans for & concentrated effort to pre- vent the erection of a filling station on the Lee highway, opposite the offices of Lyon & Fitch, by Mrs. Marie Clark Bell are to be made at a special meeting ot the Lyon Village Citizens' Assoctation, which has been called for tomorrov night by Robert N. Anderson, president. Since the Board of County Super- visors has ruled that the permit will be granted automatically by them unless | the previous indorsement of the Zoning Commission s rescinded at Friday night's meeting, Anderson, Louis C. Carl and other affected properly holders ave lanning their appearance at the meet- le with a large delegation. The permit was approved by the Zoning Commission at its last meet- ing, despite the appearance of Ander- gon and Carl to present their objec- tions. When questioned as to why therc were none of the property holders most directly afiected present at the meet- ing, Anderson explained that there had not been sufficient time for the prepara- tion of a program of opposition, since the application for the permit was not filed until the Thursday preceding the meeting on Friday. Carl explained today that a greater number of the persons owning homes directly opposite to or ahove the pro- site of the filling station were out of town at the time the protest was made to the Board of Supervisors. Many of these have now retu he said, and will be present at Friday night's meeting of the Zoning Commission. A peculiar situation now cxists with regard to the building permit for the filling station. The Zoning Commis- sion has approved the permit and the Board of Supervisors has 1efused to overrule the former body because of a desire to uphold it whenever posstble. | LAWLER RITES TOMORROW Services for Former Alexandrian to| Be in Richmond. ALEXANDRIA, Va., August 21 (Spe- cial).—Funeral services for John M Lavvler, former resident of this city, who | died at his home in Richmond yester- | day, will be held tomorrow morning at |10 o'clock at the Sacred Heart Cathe- | dral in Richmond and burial will be | |in the Mount Calvary Cemetery in that | city. The active pallbearers will be Oscar | 1. Bryan of Norfolk, W. L. Wornan of | Newport News, Robert Haugh, Fred H. | Powell, John J. Curley, John' M. Pur- cell, Willlam F. White and James E. ‘The honorary pallbearers will be Sen- ator Claude A. Swanson, C. C. Carlin, Hand holding the cup awarded the win Archer, L. G. Beers, W. Mitchell, G. Risley, A. 8. Edwards, 8. G. Lefferts, E. M. Sanford, P. A. Schlerf, A. C. Hunter, H. E. Randall, Mrs. Mary Dif- fenbaugh, F. J. Brown and Capt. E. C. Gare, ‘Winners in class 2 for improvement shown in their places were R. L. Fer- guson, H. O. Thompson, G. E. Pink, D. P. Busby, G. T. Day and E. D. Galigan. A silver cup and cash prize will be given to the winner of class 1 and | cash prizes and other prizes donated by the leading firms of Silver Spring will be presented to the winners at a meeting of the association to be held in the near future. Certificates of merit will be presented with each prize awarded and these are being given by the National Yard and Garden Contest . The winner of this con- will be entered in the national contest. The association committee nsisted of Capt. Herbert Mitchell, Be an Energetic Girl! New Fall fashions in the shoes that prevent ““heart-aches” of the feet and “head- aches” in YOU. NEE one’s D NO LONGER BE TOLD THAT YOU HAVE AN EXPENSIVE FOOT ) Sizes T to 12 AAAA 10 EEE 7Th & K 3212 14th “Women’s Shop,” 1207 F St. N.W. ,chairman; Edwin G. Rovster, George | P, Woolls, Marshall L. King and Wil- S. Day. C. O. Todd, Frank D. Worden, | liam H. Sweeney, all of this city; Col.| George Merdell, Alien E. 8. Edwarda.i E. Neweomb and G. Arnold. The anti-knock qualities of Esso are constantly being tested in the “Standard” " laborato- ries on “knock-testing” machines like that shown in this picture. This is one of the many precautions taken to maintain in Esso the lowest of all knock ratingss Price, 23¢ 2¢ Road Tax Included Judge Howard W. Smith, Judge William | Joseph Button and C. C. Barksdale of | Richmond. FE I8 R RS WEDNESDAY, AUGU “Miss Chesapeake Beach,” Foundling, May Have Name Changed to Peggy Mae| T 21, 1929. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., August 21.—Her name is officially inscribsd in the court records as “Miss Chesapeake Beach,” but if the plea of the couple who wish to become her parents is granted it will be changed to Peggy Mae Gray. As explained in the testimony filed in Circuit Court today, “Miss Chesapeake Beach,” when only about three weeks old, was found abandoned in the auto- mobile of a colored laborer at Scuth Beach, Md. At that time she was wrapped in a flower sack with just a SUBURBAN NEWS. little blue blanket around her, accord- ing to the testimony. After being turned over to police authorities and admitted to the hos- pital at Prince Frederick, the town | authorities of Chesapeake Beach raised | $250 for her, and this led to her being christened “Miss Chesapeake Beach.” ‘Townson C. Gray of Capitol Heights saw newspaper accounts of the abandoned infsnt, and, with his wife, Mrs. Edna May Gray, arranzed with authorities to obtain temporary posses- sion of her. At the same time the Grays, through State Senator Lansdale G. Sasscer, filed petition to adopt her | in the court at Mariboro. | FAUQUIER COUNTY FAIR OPENS GATES Record Sized Entry List for Annual Event to Be Held at Marshall, Va. Special Dispatch to The Star. WARRENTON, Va., August 21.—The Fauquier County Fair opened this morning at Marshall with a record- sized entry list. Classes in the horse show depariment and woman's depart- ments are specially well filled. The fair will continue three days. Horse show classes furnish entertain- ment during the mornings and four| races are run each afternoon, two flat- races, a steeplechase and a mule race. Cattle classes are also judged on the field. A silver cup is offered by W. W. Gu- | |lick for the boy winning most {;umts in the Smith-Hughes agricultural course. J. R. Graham, principal of Marshall Agricultural High School, is in charge of this department. RICHMOND, Va. August 21 (#)— Nelson Richards, for several times ad- jutant of Robert Y. Conrad Post, No. 21, American Legion, has been elected commander of that post, State Legion headquarters here have been informed. Mr. Richards served the post in several offices prior to his election as adjutant. Other new officers of the Conrad Post, located in Winchester, are: Frank Lovett, first vice commander: Edmund C. Lupton, second vice commander; Lawrence C. Hollis, adjutant; Edward W. Goss, finance officer; Dr. B. B. Dutton and Dr. Hugh Clark, service | officers; Col. Bryan Conrad, historian Rev. E. T. Clark and Rev. R. B. Nelson, | chaplains, and James Loy, sergeant-at- arms. Train Conductor Dead. WINCHESTER, Va., August 21 (Spe- cial). —Masonic funeral rites are to be held tomorrow for Stanley F. Harmer, 63, Baltimore & Ohio train conductor, whose death at his home here followed several months’ illness. He had been in the railroad service since he was 14 years old. having entered as a tele- graph messenger. Surviving are a wid- ow, formerly Miss Katherine Frye: one daughter, Mrs. W. Warren Sager, Wash- ington, and one son, Don G. Harmer, Atlanta, Ga. PING, PING, PING, spells Lost Power FIREHOUSE PROTEST MEETING IS CALLED Conference to Be Held Tonight to Iron Out Differences in Arlington Row. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT | HOUSE, Va,, August 21 —Arrangements were completed this morning for a joint | | meeting at the courthouse at 8:30 o'clock tonight of the Board of County Supervisors, officers of the Clarendon Volunteer Fire Department, and the | trustees of the Clarendon Methodist Church for the purpose of ironing out the difficulties with regard to the con- tested erection of the new Clarendon | fire engine house, According to Supervisor B. M. Hedrick lof Ariington district, tonight's meeting is expected to be amicable and to bring to a definite close the arguments that | have ensued as a result of the close proximity of the new engine house 10 the church. ROTH REUNION HELD. Annual Fete of Clan Takes Place on Oakland Fair Grounds. | Wilco: | War and Navy OAKLAND, Md., August 21 (Special). | —The annual reunion of the Roth family was held on the Oakland fair- grounds with more than 250 from ‘Mfllyllfld. ‘West Virginia and Pennsyl- vania attending. The following officers were elected: Alpheus Roth, president; Stewart M. Roth, vice president; A. R. Martin, sec- retary; Earl Roth, assistant secretar Wwilliam Hauser, treasurer, and D. Roth, Cumberland, historian. Wilson Estate Valued at $40,295. | MARTINSBURG, W. Va., August 21 | (Special).—Appraisers _have _reported | | the estate of the late Frank E. Wilson, | who died some weeks ago, as valued at | $40,205. l | Grantham Reunion Held. MIDDLEWAY, W. Va. August 21| (Special).—The descendants of the late John 8. and Mary Ellen (Sharfl) Gran- | | tham met here for a week's visit and | tamily reunion. Forty-nine were pres- {ent for the affair. | Protestant | ground of its o | former bank president and cashier here, | = BALTINREPLANS B BCENTENNAL Elaborate Program of Pag- eants and Parades to Be Held Next Month. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, August 21.—Baltimore, the metropolis of Maryland, is 200 years old, and on September 12 to 13 will celebrate its birtihday in an elaborate manner. The celebrati~n is being arranged by & committee of 400, named several months ago by Mayor William F. Broen- ing. The general chairman is Henry B. The tentative program is as follows: September 12—In the afternoon the biggest and most spectacular military parade in the history of the city will be held. It will comprise men of the Regu- lar Army, National Guard, Marines, Anerican Legion and sailors from the warships that will be in the harbor at the time. The marchers will go to Fort McHenry, where a special observance of the day, known to Marylanders as Defenders’ day, will be held. President is Invited, President Hoover, the Secretaries of and other dignitaries have been invited to attend these cere- monies. In the evening there will be a bombardment of the old fort in com. memoration of the repulse of the British fleet in 1814, when Francis Scott Key, who was detained on board a British warship during the battle, wrote “The Star Spangled Banner.” September 13—In 80,000 persons will gather in _the Municipal Stadium, where from 3.000 to 5,000 children will give a program prepared by the Plavground- Athletic League. In the evening the fraternal orders of the city will parade with music and fioats. Masons, Odd Fellows, Knights of Columbus, Hibernians and numerous other organizations wiil march_together with bands and floats in order to display their respective strengths. Pageant to Be Held. September 14—In the afternoon a mammoth pageant will be held com- prising 56 floats. These will depict the y's history and growth industrially, commercially, governmentally, educa- tionally and otherwise. 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