Evening Star Newspaper, August 23, 1929, Page 11

THE "EVENTAG NTAR., WASHINGTON. . 3/ORURBAN NEWS. v isited th di - LEESBURG GARDENERS | o T e e APt | B e apeciuumt wi seatn vist | Sabice. soown, o, seiectcn 30: 'ar- | ADMITS WRECK HOAX. GET 4-“ CLUB SCORES accompanied by Miss Cocke, the second | the gardens in September for the final lnn&emem. 10: cultivation, ;1. i — Special Dispatch to The Star. ’ * 41 admitted, according to a railroad detective, that he had told a false story | of finding 100 caps of dynamite in an effort to impress his emplogers. | _He had first said he found the dyna- ., FRIDAY. AUGUST 23. 1929, CITIZENS PROTEST | Fackso. prsen] FILLING STATION Lyon Villagé Association Votes to Oppose Location on Lee Highway. BY LESTER N. INSKEEP. Staft Correspondent of The Star. 1YON VILLAGE, Va. August 23.— Meeting last night in special session, the Tyon Village Citizens' Association voted { nnanimously to oppose the erection of a filling station on the Lee Highway oppo- site the intersection of that road by, Virginia and Rucker avenues and com- | pleted plans for the appearance before | the Zoning Commission tonight of a Jarge deles tion to present their views. | Opponents Encouraged. fertili- week in July. 'score. Every garden club member has | zation, 10; pest control, §10; record | Those scaring t that time 0 or over | the oppormity 1o BUINE Wp the. scors | Book, 10, & T A [EAOn CiS a0 Maxs Saxad e, Then Changes Story. | mite lying on a trestle on the Seaboard LEESBURG, Va., August 23.— Miss | james Pomeroy, Alpheus Robey, Robe§ tracks. Yesterday he confessed he had Harriet T. Cocke, county home demon- | Gheen, Garland Ridgeway, Roland are Charles Edwards, Herbert Edwards, | by special care of the garden for the ATLANTA, 2% | TLANTA, Ga., August 23 (P).—A picked them up nearby. where they had stration agent, has just received the | Ridgeway, Lawrence Lee Taylor, Inez | ing the gardens: Harold Paxson, Frederick Schneider, | next month and making the late plant- Durlnfgthe past eight years there has who, it appeared, had been left by railroad workmen. He was score of the 4-H Club gardens, which ' Surface, Robert Downs, Brooks Grimes, member, 20; ing. 1 The following score was used in rat- | been at least one bank faijure for every | colored boy, Work done by club difficulties overcome, ]s(:‘ a.‘r.:fml institutions 1':. the United ‘t’::/&{ud An attempt to wreck a Sea- | employed by a grading firm on & project 7 t pays you train near here last night, has | adjoining the tracks. DR. FRANK T. STONE, President of the Clarendon Trust Co., The opponents of the fling station were encouraged in their stand when advised by the president of the asso- ciation, Robert N, Anderson, that he had | received a communication' from A. J. Webb, secretary of the Zonifl§ Comm sion, advising” him that the associa tion' will be granted a reheaing and auoting an_extract from a resajution passed by that body on June 22, raguir- ing the signatures of approval of 175 per cent of the adjacent property hof ers to accompany applications for p its for the erection of business build ings The applicants did not have a petition signed by these property owners, it was zald, but the association now has the | who has just been anpointed nresident of the Back-to-the-District’ Olub, which will work for the retrocession of Arling- ton County to the District of Columbia. STABBED TO DEATH IN DRUNKEN BRAWL Houstbn Morris signatures of all but a very few to peti- !BOdy of tions of protest that are to be handed | the Zoning Commissioh tonight. | Found in Field—Louis Roach While the opponents believe that the ation of a filling station at that point would materially reduce the value of their residence property, their principal | objection, as voiced at the meeting, 18 that it woiild, because of its location, be & menace to public safety. Herbert Smith of the Clarendon Vol- nnteer Fire Depariment stated that each new filling station placed in_the county presents an additional fire haz- ard and that the proposed station in question is particularly objectionable because it is located on an alleged curve and because the fire apparatus from both Clarendon and Cherrydale use Virginia and Rucker avenues, which enter the Lee Highway at that point, on their regular runs. Precedents Cited. Henry Young, an attorney and mem- or of the assoclation, mentioned simi- 1'}\ es in other States in which the dangur to public safety has been the mm.&bgl reason for adverse decisions. The preacnt location is dangerous, both bocauss Tb.is on a curve and a grade, he_declared: Petitions, slyned by about 80 residents of the vicinity\Of the site, will be pre- gented to the ZdOINg Board, according to Louis C. CarlNgrho is directing this end of the work. The applicant, Mre\Marie Clark Bell, i< represented by the law firm of Jesse, McCarthy, Phillips & N'Inge. That Jesse and Phillips, who penonally ap- peared at the meeting of tW> Zoning Commission at which the peryit was granted and before the meeting\Of the Board of County Supervisors whei refused to approve it until the Zof Commission had been given ‘an op tunity to grant a rehearing, will offer stiff fight to the rescinding of the per- mit Is a certainty. RIVERDALE FIREMEN CARNIVAL TOMORROW ; Fete to'Be Held to Raise Funds - to Pay for Hose of Com- Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. ] RIVERDALE, Md. August 23.—The | carnival grounds of the Stephens | Citizens Association, East Riverdale, will | be the scene of the fourth annual carni- | val to be held by the Riverdale Heights ; Fire Department tomorrow and Mon- day. In addition to the usual carnival features the program Saturday will in- clude the following field events: Fifty- vard dash for girls under 12; 100-yard dashes for boys and girls under 18, respectively; sack race for boys and | girls, shoe race for girls, 100-yard dash | for boys and girls, base ball throwing | contest for ladies, rolling pin contest ! for married women. Prizes will be | awarded the winners of all events. A | £5 prize will go to the winner of the | men's horseshoe pitching contest, also to the fire department of Prince | Georges County having ihe most men on_the grounds Saturday evening. | The purpose of the carnival is to | liquidate a balance of $650 due on fire | hose purchased recently. Chief H. E. Stansfield is general chairman, and | C. S. Kernan. chairman of the executive committee, business manager. Other committee assignments are: Thompson, W. E. Hardester, 3 Closuit, T. C. Gardner, Rex Henderson, L. W. Nelson, Stanley Kernan, Floyd Thompson, Steven O'Dea, W. H. Mc- Ginty, Clinton Taylor, Dr. E. A, Le Tacheur, C. L. Brady, Frank Kraus, K. L. Thompson, E. C. Southcomb and P. H. Hitaffer. ‘Luncheon will be served | by the ladies’ auxiliary both evenings | with Mrs. Genevieve Stewart in charge | of the food stand. ROCKVILLE. ROCKVILLE. Md., August 23 (Spe-| cial).—In the Circuit Court here.Judge i Robert B. Peter has signed a decree | granting to Mrs. Marguerite L. Dalby | of Takoma Park an absolute divorce from Bertram J. Dalby of Washington. The plaintiff was represented by At- torney Harold C. Smith of Rockville and the defendant by Attorney Ken- | neth Lyddane of Rockville. The bill charged adultery and sel forth that the couple were mariied in Alexandria, Va., September 7, 1917, and have no children, Desertion also was alleged. Miss Ruby E. Estes, 18, and Clarence W. ‘Street, 21, both of Charlottesville, Va., were married in Rockville yes- terday by Rev. Frank A. Tyler of the Methodist Church. Rev. Henry K. Pasma of the Presby- terian Church, officlated at the mar- riage here of Miss Annabelle Greenc of Washington and Charles T. Johnson of Olivehill, Ky. The annual picnic for the benefit of. St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Aspen, will be held at Aspen the afferncon and evening of Wednesday, September il. The various committees will be an- nounced in a few days. Maurice Lee Wright of Bethesda, this | county, has filed suit in the Circuit Court here for an absolute divorce frem Mrs. Anne Mae Wright, also of the Bethesda neighborhood. The bill, which charges adultery and names a co-respondent, sets forth that the couple was married at Potomac. Md., July 11, 1927; lived together until July 27, 1929, and have no children. The plaintiff is represented by Attor- ney Kenneth Lyddane of Rockville. A license was isued here yesterday for the marriage of Willlam H. Weigand. 28, and Miss Hermenia V. Vila, 21, both of Quantico, Va. ‘Woman Feted on 91st Birthday. | Held for Killing. Special Dispateh to The Star. | HARRISONBURG, Va., August 38— | Louls Roach, 45, is being held in the | Greene County jail at Stanardsville in connection with the stabbing to death {of “his friend and neighbor,” Houston Morris, 58, during an alleged drunken brawl in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Roach denies any knowledge of the .stabbing, as do his two companions. Zach McDanlel, aged 80, and his son John, at whose residence the stabbing is alleged to have occurred. Mrs. John McDaniel discovered the lifeless body of Morris lying in a field when she re- turned from milking. She had left Roach, Morris and the two McDaniels in the house a few minutes earlier when | she went to milk. Morris was stabbed in the breast and his throat was slashed. A blood-stained knife was found on Roach, leading to his arrest. He and the McDaniels were asleep when Sheriff Russ Malone of Greene County reached the scene, 'HOSPITAL PATIENT HANGS HIMSELF Loudoun County Resident Commits Suicide in Orchard Near Staunton. Dispatch to The Star. UNTON, Va. August 23.—Stat- nother patient at the Western that he was going “to N. R. Harris, about 47 la™of Loudoun County, disap- peared to be_ found some hours later Grom\y lmb of a peach tree hanging trom\ (o0 et e hospiia, in one of the 0 i . dead for several The man had by’ hours when found \according to Dr. J. B. Catlett, Augusta \County coroner, who pronounced Harris\} suicide. Harris, who had beer\#& Ppatient at the asylum for some timé\ Was known to be subject to spells of mxlancholia, with_suicidal intent. e When found shortly before 3\o'clock yesterday afternoon, the man way, rest- ing almost on his knees, his »flds hanging clasped, his whole attiti\le suggesting one of prayer. ALEXANDRIA. ALEXANDRIA, Va, August 23 (Spaclal) —Miss Estelle Moon, 18 years old, of 515 South Alfred street, was fined $120.50 by Acting Justice John W. Brookfield, jr., in Police Court here this morning when arraigned ;on charges of violating the prohibition law and destroying evidence. Cruising around in a police car yes- terday morning, Detective Sergt. Edgar Sims and Police Sergt. Lawrence E. Padgett observed the girl enter a col- ored dwelling and deliver a package. Deciding to investigate, they searched Moon's automobile and found two one-half gallon jars of whisky, they testified, in & basket, one of which had been broken and from which liquor was No. 5 Engine Company of the Alex- andria Pire Department will stage & buffet supper and reception in its en- gine house tomorrow night in hogor of Alexandria’s new city manager, llace Lawrence. Megpbers of the city council, Fire Chief James M. Duncan, jr., and officers of other fire companies will be invited to attend. An inspection of No. 5 company will be made by Capt. C. D. Moore and Fire Inspector Frank R. Cockrell preceding the supper and the company's guests will be invited to view the inspection. The firemen will wear their new uni- forms which they have recently pur= chased to wear at the annual State convention of the Virginia State Fire- men's Association at Lexington next week. ‘The pulpit committee named by the First Baptist Church to recommend a suecessor to the Rev. P. L. Vernon, who is now pastor of the United Baptist Church st Lewiston, Me., is expected to make its report to the church at a meet. ing September 8. The committee is (&m posed of Carroll Plerce, Miss Mary bt liamson, Blair McLeod, J. C. Gaines and Melvin Pitts, Potomac Lodge, No. 38, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, will meet tonight at Odd Pellows' Temple at 7:30 p.m. Funeral services for. G. C. Williams, 33, who was fatally injured while at work in the Potomac Rallroad Yards esday morning, were held this after- noon at Demaine's chapel and burial was in the Ivy Hill Cemetery. The rites were conducted by Rev. John S. Bowers, pastor of the Del Ray Baptist Church. Mr. Williams is survived by his father. J. C. Williams; two brothers, B. and J. L. Williams, all of Wilmington, N. C., and a sister, Mrs. Frank Jones of Rose- ville, N. C. The deceased was a wid- ower, his wife having died about two years ago. They had no, children. Several North Carolina men are being { held here for the suspected larceny of n automobile following their arrest yesterday afternoon on the Alexandria- Fort Humphreys road by Deputy In- spector Edward McDermott of the division of motor vehicles, They. are Edward Reld, 18, and T. C. Ledwell, 20, of Charlotte; M. V. Heavner, 25, of Lincolnton, and Dock Heffner, 24; Reid Putman, 20, and Dock Hawkins, 19, all of Hickory. B.;n and Sile Burned. CUMBERLAND, Md., August 23 (Spe- cial).—Fire of unde ‘ 14th & Pennsylvania Ave. | . 13th & H Streets . " Phone Fr, 6767 3 Days Only | Gci\a Sterno Store FREE . with purchase of 3 cans of o for DB Special for a few days only. Sterno fuel boils, broils, fries steaks, chops, eggs, bacon—dozens of delicious , dishes. Makes toast, coflee, tea. Fine for hiking, picnics, Yy trips. Heats flat irons, curling irons. Safe—burns solid. \ »),‘g‘_},‘_‘ No smoke, sparks, cinders. >is ramous STEELS’ piPes = L S | | Ansco : Camera Bargain of the year! 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