Evening Star Newspaper, October 8, 1929, Page 11

SUBURBAN NEWS. / THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY., OCTOBER 8. 1929, - NATIONAL DEFENSE [Pocm ook pronce *URGED BY MITCHELL Secretary to Representative Gam- brill Files Petition Charging Abandonment. . Stresses Need at Raliy of American Legion at : Leesburg. By & Staff Correspondent of The Star. UFPER MARLBORO, Md., October 8. —Edward M. Fugitt of Seat Pleasant, Md., secretary to Representative Gam- brill of Maryland, has filed a petition in Circuit Court here for divorce from his wife, Mrs. Ethel Hl\)fifl% Fugitt. ‘The bill of complaint charges aban- donmal.hm couple have two children. La STONE FACING PLAN FOR NEW VIADUCT Embellishment of Concrete Work at B. & 0. Bridge Proposed to State Board. Special Dispateh to The Star. LEESBURG, Va, October 8.—An American Legion rally, under auspices of Loudoun Post, No. 34, was held at the Leesburg Opera House here yester- day evening, when Gen. Willlam Mitchell of Middleburg and _State Comdr. Branch M. Roszel of Winchester, Va., were the principal speakers. Harry G. Breckenridge, post com- mander, presided. Invocation was made | by the post chaplain, Campbell Mayers, of Middleburg. Musical number were given by Mrs. Arthur S. Jenkins, Mrs. John B. Clemens and At Wells Rangers. ‘The speakers were introduced by Maj. ‘W. H. Cliffords of Oatlands. Urges National Defense. Gen. Mitchell spoke on national de- fense and he declared that the late World War furnished specific evidence that our Army and Navy were inade- quate for our own protection from a foreign foe. He said before our entrance in the war Germany had the allies lick- ed and we were next in line; that vic- tory for the allies was only possible through assistance given by American forces. He said it is utter folly to mini- mize the importance that aviation will play in future wars. Through pictures shown on the screen the accuracy and effectiveness of air bombardment on th heaviest armored war vessels was de Ipicted. These pictures were taken in 1923, when tests were made under authority of Congress at Hampton Roads, Va. ! Objectives of Legion. | State Comdr. Roszel, who was recently elected at_the national meeting at | Loulsville, Ky., spoke on the four objec- I | ' By & Staft Correspondent of The Star. SLIGO, Md., October 8—Facing of the concrete work of the new viaduct which will carry the new east-west highway under the Metropclitan branch of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad west of this place with native biue stone has been proposed :0 the State Roads Com- mission. Commissioner Lacy Shaw of the northern metropolitan district; Irving C. Root, chief engineer, and Mr. Rogers, landscape engineer of the Mary- land-National Cupital Park and Plan- ning Commissim, went to Baltimore yesterday with plans prepared by Mr. Rogers for the facing of tle cohcrete. Following a preliminary discussion of commission decided Yo come here today and went over the whole project, work on which is rapidly going forward. ‘The county is paying for the work out of an appropriation ¢f $100,000, and it was said that there will be sufficient funds with which to purchase the stone and place it. ‘The plans drawn indicate that the facing of the concrete with stone will make a considerable improvement in the appearance of the project, and it was sald tha® was decided to urge the improvement as the viaduct will be on the road to rhe Sixteenth street portal of the District of Columbia. tives of the American Legion: mt. “Rehabilitation of Disabled Veterans”; second, “Welfare of Children Whose Fathers Were Wounded in the World War”; third, “Legislation by Congress of the United States in Behn,ll of Dis- ‘ abled and Injured Veterans,” particu- larly stressing the fact that the Legion was not asking anything for able-bodied veterans, and, fourth, “Americanism, the work, the engineers of the roads | pov: ’ captain; Archie Norford, ALEXANDRIA FORMS SCHOOL PATROLS Boys Will Direct Pupils to Safety at Busy Street Intersections. Special Dispatch to The RIA, Va., October 8—Or- ganization of schoolboy patrols to direct schoolchildren in crossing intersections in the vicinity of the local public schools has been completed at four institutions by Willlam L. Leitch, Alexandrla Boy Scout official, who was designated by the District of Columbia branch of the American Automobile Association to take charge of the work. The boys assigned to duty by Leitch will have absolutely no control over vehicular traffic at any point, but are zlmd on guard for the sole purpose of eeping the children out of the inter- sections until they are cle: trafic and safe to cross. 3 ‘The patrols appointed follow: Alexandria High—Leonard Jackson, captain; Narvel Herring, licutenant; Robert Arnold, ToPplnz Bradley, Wil- liam Stephens, Ralph Suthard, Stuart Abrahams, Willlam Duty, Samuel Ed- wards, Carl Hammersley, Jack Lawler, Ralph Payne, Willlam McGowan, pa- trolmen; Ha Spear, personnel officer. Jefferson Elemenetary—Ernest Cor- of such nell, captain; Zora Wells, lieutenant; Clarence Wilkerson, Ralph Howard, Moxley Irving., Kenneth Smith, George Jennier, patroimen. ‘Washington Elementary—William Ma- son, captain; David Briscoe, lieutenant; John Briar, Joseph English, Clarence Flick, Chester Rose, Willlam Quinn, Franklin Payne, James Adams, Bernard inson, George Enoch, Frank Daw- son, Harold Fagelson, patrolmen. Lee Elementary — Robert Roberts, lieutenant Chester Anderson, Llewellyn Wood, Billy Ale, Walter Carlton, James Dove, James Hughes, Bobby Nightengale, Ronald Sisk, Robert James, Leonard Blondheim, Franklin Keeny, patrolmen. Maury School and West End School patrols will be selected today, it is thought. War on Modernization. SERAJEVO, Jugoslavia, Octcber 8 (#). —Where the war started Moslem women are warring on modernization .oc mer- BURIAL AT LYNCHBURG FOR YOUNG ENGINEER Marshall C. Trundle Found Mor- tally Wounded in Bed at New Hzaven, Conn. Special Dispatch to The Star. ' LEESBURG, Va, October 8 —Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon at Exeter, residenc oef H. H. Trundle, for his son, Marshall Clement Trundle, 26 years of age, who was found shot and mortally wounded in his bed at New Haven, Conn,,‘on Friday. ‘There were two bullét wounds from a large automatic pistol in' his left breast and one in left arm. Young Trundle was employed as an engineer by the Koppers Co., and had been in Connecticut for the past year. He was a former student of V. M. I., Lexi n. Surviving him. are his father, stepmother, and a half brother and sister. Services were conducted by Rev. Craighill, pastor of St. James' Episcopal Church, with burial in Union Cemetery. CLARENDON CITIZENS GET NEW QUARTERS Association Will Meet Tonight in Chamber of Commerce Rooms. Special Dispatch to The Star. CLARENDON, Va., October 8.—The Clarendon Citizens’ Assoclation, which has heen without & home since sale of the Community Building, has arranged with the board of directors of the Arlington County Chamber of Com- merce for gratis use of the latter’s quar- ters in the Rees Building for its meet- ings until plans can be made for new and permanent quarters, First use of the chamber’s rooms will be made to- night when the association members assemble for their monthly meeting. ‘The Woman's Auxiliary of the Clar- endon Volunteer Fire Department will meet tonight at the home of Mrs. Sara E. Carl of Lyon Village, Among a number of important questions to be considered will be plans for a benefit card party to be held in the near future. Mexicans May Rob for Food. MEXICO CITY, October 8 (#).—The official Gazette yesterday, in publishing another installment of the new penal code promulgated by President Emilo Portes Gll, disclosed that hereafter a- poor person who robs once to appase his hunger of that of his family and SECTION PLANNING WL BE DISEUSSED League of Virginia Munici- palities Will Debate Future " Development. Special Dispateh fo The Star. ALEXANDRIA, . Va, October 8— Forgseeing the need of a co-ordinated system of devel it to insure the proper growth of Virginia’s cities and towns, the of Virginia Muniei- palities will discuss regional planning at length during its annual convention in this city next Tuesday and Wednesday. Arrangements also have been for several addresses from authorities on the subject, one of which is to be:de- livered by Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d, director. of Public Buildings and Public Parks in Washington. The city of Roanoke has devised a splendid plan of municipal development, it is said, and several officials from there will ‘speak before.the convention, | be including Mayor Fox, City Manager Hunter, Edward L. Stone, chairman o the Roanoke City Planning Commis- sion; members of the city council and Corporation Attorney R. C. Jackson. Municipal Airports. A talk on municipal airports will be made by A. Pendleton Taliaferro, jr., chief of the fleld service section of the Bureau of Aeronautics, Department &f Commerce, at the dinner which will be given by the city of Alexandria at the George Mason Hotel Tuesday night in honor of the delegates and guests at- tending the parley. A sightseeing trip preceding the din- ner has been arranged for by the gen- eral entertainment committee, appoint- ed by City Manager Wallace Lawrence, including _J. Willlam May, chairman; Charles W. King, Harry B. Caton, Francis H. Fannon, Everett A. Hell- muth and Roger C. Sullivan. It has been announced that the re- sponse to the address of welcome, which will be made to the delegates at the opening session of the convention Tues- day morning, will be made by City Manager Paul Morton of Petersburg, former city manager of Alexandria. The address, of welcome will be delivered by Mayor William Albert Smoot or City Manager Lawrence. Police Executives to Meet. Many of the members of the league | tive Association on Thursday ai . One of the features of the ice convention will be the discussion of the establishment of regional police schools. Police Chief Jordan of Richmond, Lawrence B. Dunham, director of social in New York: Cornelius F. Chaiane of the Holland Tunnel Com- mission of New York City will speak on regional schools. e Capt. W. W. Campbell, chief of the local force, is in charge of the con- vention, which will be presided over by Chief McPherson of Newport News, president of the assoclation. ‘PEEPING TOM’ ARRESTED Colored Man Taken in Potomac Says He Plied Tactics Several Years. Special Dispatelr to The St POTOMAC, Va., October 8.—A col- ored “peeping Tom,” who admits, police say, to maintaining nocturnal watches .over the second stories of a number of local residences for several years, was arrested here early yesterday and has been taken to Arlington County Court- house to await arraignment on' the “peeping” charge. The man, Oscar G. Edwards, 24 years old, of Washington, is alleged to have en surprised by police while peering in the window of a home on East ¢ | Howell avenue and was apprehended by Policemen George W. Embrey and Walter Wright at Russell and Glebe roads after & chase of more than a mile through the streets of Potomac :nd fields leading to the point of cap- ure. CLUB TO BE GUESTS.” Civitans of Washington to Be En- tertained by Arlington Officials. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. CLARENDON, Va, October 8— Members of the Civitan Club of Wash- ington will be the guests at the Wash- ington Golf and Country Club tonight of Keith A. Brumback, president of both the local chamber of commerce and real estate board, and W. 8. Hoge, another local realtor. Preceding the dinner, the members of the Washington body are to be taken for a tour of the county, when an effort will be made to show them the progress of the county, especially with regard to highway construction during the past six months, . Forty per cent of the electric power in the United States last year was pro- SUBURBAN NEWS. .1 DETECTIVE BEGINS SERVING SENTENCE Former Lynchburg Officer Goes Up for Withholding Facts in Hit-and-Run Fatality. Special Dispatch to The Star. LYNCHBURG, Va. October 8.—H. W. Gilliam, former plain clothes detec- tive in the Police Department here, to- day went to the city farm to begin serving a sentence of two months and a $50 fine, having withdrawn his appeal ;o the corporation Court for trial by a ury. Gilllam was arraigned on the charge of withholding information relative to the hit-ahd-run case which resulted in the death of Mrs. E. W. Crowder here the night of August 19, for which R. Emmett Casey was given two years after trial in the Corporation Court. Casey's counsel are perfecting a petition for a writ of error and new trial. Gilliam, the evidence showed, knew of the hit-and-run case a few minutes afterward, but he did not disclose his information for two days, and not until after Casey had left the city. At the trial Gilllam made complete denial of the charge and appealed the case, but yesterday decided to withdraw it, and this was done during the afternoon. CADET OFFICERS NAMED. AN ol Formation of Clarendon Companies Completed by Instructor. Special Dispatch to The Star. CLARENDON, Va, October 8.— Formation of three cadet companies at Washington-Lee High School was com- pleted yesterday with the appointment by Maj. C. S. McNeill, U. 8. A, of the following _corps d cadet officers: ‘Walter E. Horn, major; Arthur Bellfield, captain and adjutant; Walter Thomas and Roger Deebe, color sergeants; Win- gert Harrison, captain of Company A; Alton Wise, lieutenant; Arthur Ham- mond, second lieutenant; Benjamin Clarkson, first sergeant; George Mc- B; Wwil- 3 ank Scott, second lieutenant; Robert Rollins, first sergeant; Rue Hq , captain of Company C; Randolph Follin, first lieutenant; Edward Leigh, second lieu- tenant, and FPrancis Follin, first 161, have been ordered out for drill three afternoons each week. A band is being formed at the school and Maj. McNeill announces that the sergeant. The cadets, numbering in all | M .|CANDIDATE BROWN’S SPEECH TO GO ON AIR Independent Voters’ League Meet- ing at Alex:andria to Be Broadcast. Special Dispatch to The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va., October 8. —Ar- rangements to broadcast the speech which Dr. William Moseley Brown, coalition candidate for Governor of Vir- ginia, will make here Thursday night at a mass meeting Armory Hall have been made with Radio Station ‘WJSV, at Mount Vernon Hills, Va., by the Independent Voters’ League of Alex- andri; The broadcasting will begin simul- taneously with the opening of the meet- ing at 8 o'clock. In addition to the talk to be made by Dr. Brown there will be an address by Frank Lyon, State chairman of the Anti-Smith Demo- crats, and music by the Citizens’ Band. C. H. Brown, president of the Inde- pendent Voters’ League, will preside. HUNCH BRINGS ARREST OF ALLEGED ROBBERS Alexandria Policeman Follows In- tuition and Lands Trio and Loot. Special Dispatch to the Btar. . ALEXANDRIA, Va., October 8— Playing a “hunch,” Motor Cycle Police- man Clarence J. McClary solved & rob- bery less than one hour after two youths and a 28-year-old man had entered the Bluebird Barbecue opposite Hoover Air- port, at South Washington, Va., early this morning and stole 10 cartons of cigarettes, a cooked ham. four boxes of candy, chewing gum, bread, mints and matches in addition to smashing two check-vending machines and tak- ing more than $10 in nickles. McClary was riding his patrol at 2:30 this morning when the trio passed hi in a machine on the 100 block of North ‘West street. Following an' intuition that warned him that something was amiss, McClary wheeled sharply and commanded the occupants to halt. His search led to the discovery of the arti- cles, which one of the youths confessed had been stolen. ‘The two boys gave their names as Anthon Hampton, 18, of Hoadley, Va. and A. W. Monroe, 18. of Manassas, Va., while the man is T. H. Athey of anassas. Eskimo boys are assisting in building the wooden houses being erected in stressing the teaching of ideals for which the American flag stands and a comprehensive knowledge of the his- | tory of the American people. Mr. Roszel spoke of the growth in ' membership of the Legion, an increase of 2,000 during the past year, making Pastor Going to New Charge. POTOMAC, Va., October 8 (Special). —Rev. W. R. Hardesty, pastor of the Del Ray Methodist Episcopal Church South for the past four and one-half years, will leave here tomorrow with his Alaska under the supervision of Ameri- county school board will furnish a com- can builders and school teachers. plete set of instruments. tuted in Turkey. Only a few girl stu- largest dents go unveiled. without resorting to violence will not be punished. are expected to stay over for the an-|duced by water power, the nual convention of the Virginia Police water power ratio ever reached. Ty in the United States. He closed his ad- I st with the motto of the Legion for | M 1929, “Patriotic Preparedness Produces Peace.” . HERNDON FARMER DEAD. William Albert Thompson Suc- cumbs at His Home. jal Dispatch to The Star. EWI;ERNDON. Va., October 8 —William Albert Thompson, about 70 years old, one of the most prominent farmers of this section, died at his home near here at an early hour this morning. He is survived by his widow, four daughters, Mrs. Myrtle Gulic of Aldie, Va.; Mrs, Zona Fox and Mrs. Edna Dove, both of Navy, Va., and Miss Hattle Thompson, who resides at the parents’ home, and two sons, Earl Thompson, who lives with the parents, and Williaa Albert Thompson, Jr., of Pender. HELD ON SERIOUS CHARGE. Danville Youth Accused of Statu- tory Offense by Girl. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. DDANVILLE, Va., October 8.—Indicted by a special grand jury for a crimiral attack on Loveline Heffinger, Purcell Nester has been remanded for trial on ber 21. - o‘i‘l‘fidge Henry C. 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