Evening Star Newspaper, November 2, 1929, Page 5

ENSINGTONGADEE ARGLNENTSHEAR Demurrer of State Board| Against Injunction Petition Taken Under Advisement. £pecial Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., November 2.— Arguments of counsel on the demurrer of the State Roads Commission to the petition of former Mayor Edgar W. Moore angd eight other well known res dents of Kensington to restrain the commission from constructing a bridge over the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad tracks at Lincoln avenue, Kensington, to replace the dangerous grade cross- ing several blocks away. were heard by Judge Robert B, Peter Court here yesterday. ‘The petition was filed several weeks ago, numerous reasons being assigned why an injunction should be granted, and the demurrer is a denial of vir- | tually all of the many allegations. Plaintiffs in Case. Besides former Mavor Moore, the plaintifis are William A." Chapman. Harry M. Corrick, C. M. Dyson. John A Feency, Joseph C. Murray, Charles D. Phillips, Frank S. Shipley and Frank P, Welsh. Arguments were submitted by former State’s Attorney Joseph C. Cissel and Assistant Attorney General Robert H. | Archer, representing the commisston, | and Miss Vivian Simpson. Rockville'’s only woman lawyer, and John E. Oxley | on behalf of the petitioners, | The principal contention of counsel in the Circuit | | Marshall, were alone in the house at “HE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. €. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2. 19 ARRESTS ARE EXPECTED | IN HALLOWEEN PRANKS | i | Cheltenham School Broken Into| | and Looted and Property ! Destroyed. | By a Staft Correspondent of The Etar. | CHELTENHAM, Md., November 2.— | Prince Georges County police today ex | pect to take several suspects into cus- | tody for questioning in regard to the | looting of the Cheltenham two-teacher | school Halloween night. According to reports given Constable | John Wilson, the school was entered by | ] | breaking in the door, all the desks and | chairs overturned, a piano broken, and | papers and maps torn and scattered | over the classrooms. | One of the teachers' desks was said | to "have been broken and the other | carried down in the basement. Teachers | at the tchool are Miss Aline Connick and Miss Louise Robertson. 'AROUSED BY BLAST, | FAMILY FLEES FIRE| Mother and Children Escape in| $30,000 Blaze, Which De- stroys Home. | | Special Dispatech to The star. | "HERNDON, Va. November 2.— | Aroused from sleep by an explosion. a mother and her two young children | | made their way to safety in night | clothes last night when a 14-room frame dwelling on the Dan Hall estate, near Forestville, was destroyed by fire. The mother, Mrs. Orland Robbins, and her children, Mary Elizabeth and the time, the husband and father be- 'Coalition Candidate Attacks | BROWN ENDS FIGHT IN'UPPER VIRGINIA Democratic Machine in Arlington Speech. Special Dispatch to The Ster. CLARENDON, Va., November 2.— Closing his campaign in Northern Vir- | ginia, Dr. William Moseley Brown, | coalition candidate for governor. speak- ing before a large and enthusiastic audience of supporters in Washington and Lee High School auditorium last night, branded the Democratic party in | the State as a machine “that would | put party above principal even to the extent of moral suicide, if necessary, to | secure a party victory.” Dr. Brown declared that the machine leaders have but one motto: “Political Expediency.” Hence, he added, lhnsP‘ who vote for the Democratic nominee | will be voting, not for “Pollard and progress,” but rather for “Pollard and political expedien The rally, which was held under auspices of the Arlington County Re- publican committee, was preceded by a noisy and colorful parade, headed by the Balston Independent Band. L. C. McNemar, prominent county Republican leader, presided. MacMahon Speaks. Louis A. MacMahon, Republican can- didate for the House of Delegates, also | spoke, briefly setting forth his plat- | form. | “What is needed in Virginia,” Dr. Brown continued, “is an_increased and | rights he 1s sadly mistaken. | taxes on incomes less than $5,000 and T on the part of the people. If any one | thinks that this result can be effected | by depriving the prople of their political | Popu'ar | government can exist only so long as | people are trained, educated and en- couraged to take part in their govern- ment in a sensible and intelligent man- ner. “Our schools must be kept out of politics and politics must be kept out of the schoo's so far as possible. Th~ people themselves should determine th~ | principles on which their schools should be conducted and should always have a direct vote in the conduct of educa- tional matters. But since June, 1928, the people have had no direct voice in these affairs. Th~ passage of the ‘shot ballot' amcndments took away from the citizens of the State the last direct contact which they had with | their school officials. From top to bottom the entire school syst-m is now open to the gravest political machina- tions, | Wants People in Power. | “We advocate the return to the | people of the power to elect their own State superintendent of public instruc- tlon, a right which was taken from | them by the short ballot amendments. | | We favor the election of all local school | trustees by a direct vote of the people themselves, “We demand an immediate and thor- | ough revision of the election laws. | Certain features now make them an abomination. I believe in the primary stem, but a primary such as that | nducted by the Democratic machine | last August was a travesty on the elec- | tion laws and on the good name of our | commonwealth.” | Dr. Brown declared the Democratic | administration in Virginia had revised the tax laws so as to relieve the rich and place an added burden on the backs | of the poor. He favored reduction of | TROTTMAN ADMITS PAMPHLETS' ISSUE Former Anti-Smith Man Says He Gave Out De Priest Circulars in Virginia. By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va.. November 2.—I. C. Trottman of Suffolk, former member of the anti-Smith State committee, who resigned at the Roanoke convention, last night issued a statement asserting | he was the man who issued the “De | Priest circular” resulting in a spirited exchange of letters by State Republican and Democratic party leaders. “I am the Democrat who has been circulating the so-called De Priest pamphlets over which the Republican machine boss, Mr. Henry W. Ander- son, has been making such a stir,” Mr. Trottman said. “He has asked who is doing it and I am answering him with no_apologies.” | The circular, which contained pic- tures of Oscar De Priest, colored Repub- lican Representative, and his_wife, as well as printed excerpts from De Priest speeches, set forth that Mr. Anderson, the State Republican platform and Dr’ William M. Brown, coalition candidate for governor, advocated the repeal of the poll tax as a_prerequisite to voting. Anderson termed the poll-tax state- ment false and accused Democratic headquarters of issuing the pamphlet, a like reduction in the gasoline tax |gn eusation that was vigorously de- | and taxes on automobile license plates. | jjed, Anderson later made public affi- SRR = | davits seeking to prove his charge: The reason it is held unlucky to spill | Trottman, in his statement. said: salt is that salt is the symbol of hospi- thought when T issued this pam- of Virginia should know what the Negro Congressman Oscar De Priest has said and done in Virginia and else- where since the opening of this cam- paign, a campaign in which the elec- tion laws that preserved Virginia's civ- ilization from destruction are at stake. I think, too, the people of Virginia should know what De Priest looks like and what De Priest's wife looks like.” One Error Cited. “It fis particularly important that Virginians know these things, in view of the Republican attack upon the elec- tion laws which prevented Virginia and the South from degenerating into a| Haiti or a San Domingo.” Mr. Trottman said he wished to ac- knowledge “one unintentional error” in| the headlines of the pamphlet. He said the pamphlet was wrong in the state- | ment that the poll-tax repeal was advo- cated in the Republican platform. MISS McCULLOUGH WED. Washington Girl Marries Annapolis Man in Potomac Ceremony. Special Dispatch to The Star. POTOMAC. Va., November 2.—Miss Ida McCullough of Washington and H. K. Keys of Annapolis, Md., were mar- | ried here last Sunday afternoon at the Del Ray Baptist Church parsonage by Rev. John S. Sowers, the pastor, assist- ed by Rev. Lambert of the Mount Ver- non Place M. E. Church of Washington, it was learned today. Friends from Roanoke, Annapolis and Washington attended the wedding and the reception for the bridal couple which followed at the parsonage. Mr. and Mrs. Keys will make their home in Annapolis. 'NEW SCHOOL HEAD | ASSUMES DUTIES Clarence H. Strader of Alexandria Succeeds W. H. Thomas as Prin- \ ciral at Potomac. Special Dispatch to The Star. POTOMAC. Va., November 2.—Clar- ence H. Strader, principal of the Jeffer- | son Elementary School in Alexandria for the past four years, assumed his new duties here yesterday as principal of the George Mason High School and Mount Vernon Elementary School. Strader succeeds W. H. Thoma resigned to accept a position as T- intendent of public schools in Fauquier County, Va. Thomas had been a mem- | ber of the George Mason faculty for | five vears and principal of the two local schools for three years. The new head, a graduate of the University of Virginia and a teacher in Giles County and Newport News High Schools for a few years before going to Alexandria, was named by the Arlington County School Board after a confer- ence with Alexandria school officials, it is believed. Alexandria will gain Potomac through annexaticn proceedings on January 1 and it is known that the county school heads were anxious to please Alexan- | dria in its selection of a new principal | so there would be no occasion for a | change when the city takes over this | town at the beginning of the new year. | A. G. Cummings of Lexington, Va., will succeeed Strader as principal of | the Jefferson School in Alexandria. * 5 POLICE FOR MARLBORO. By a Staff Corresponaent of The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md.. November 2.—For the first time in several months | a State policeman will be stationed here next week when William T. Booker of Queenstown, Md.. reports for duty. Officer Booker has been serving with the race detail at Laurel. L. E. Dutrow, the last Stat» patrolman here, resigned | several months ago and the vacancy |caused by his resignation is just being filled. Telephone Men Have Oyster Roast. By & Stafl Correspondent of The Star. HAZARD BEACH. Md., November 2. —An oyster roast and short dinner was given by the man employes of the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. here “today. ~ Walter 8. Studdiford, president of the Washington Telephone Societv. was in_charge. FOR RENT Three Rooms, Kitchen, Bath and Reception Room. Electric Refrigera- tion. $80.00 2001—16th St. for the plaintiffs was that the commis- and I still think, that the people gion was guilty of exercising arbitrary | ing away on a hunting trip. Having | ever increasing political consciousness | tality and friendship. discretion in not giving proper notice | of a hearing on the proposition to con- struct the overhead, namely, by pub- lication in a newspaper published in the county; in failing to submit plans of the proposed structure to the county commissioners, in not advertising for bids the required number of times and in seeking to take property without due process of law. at the point regarding the notice, Judge Peter having indicated early in the proceedings that to be the only ques- tion raised about which there would be any difficulty deciding. Hearings Held, Counsel for the commission held that even though the statute as to notice had not been strictly complied with, so far as technicalities were con- cerned, hearings were held and the commissior: placed in possession of the same evidence as would have been forthcoming had the exact language | of the statute been followed. | It was further held that publication | as news in papers circulating in the | neighborhood of the proposed bridge that hearings would be held was com- pliance with the law as to notice. Judge Peter took the case under ad- visement and is expected to render a decision at an early date. DEFENDANT WHO FLED BOND FINALLY TAKEN By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. | UPPER MARLBORO, Md., November | 2.—Walter L. Selby, 1300 block of G street southeast, who has been the | object of a three-week search since he “skipped” his bond, was _yesterday taken into cus near the court- house by Constabie A. C. Thompson ;:nd turned over to Sheriff Charles 8. arly Selby was convicted by ‘Police Court Judge J. Chew Sheriff early in Sep- tember for assault and battery on Mrs. | Clara V. Huntt and sentenced to 18 | months in the House of Correction. | The man appealed andswas at liberty | under $1,000 bond furnished by Elmer | Pumphrey, professional bondsman. He appeared at the opening of Circuit Court and obtained a continuance of his case to obtain witnesses. When the case was called, however, Selby was not in court and his bond was ordered forfeited. | Yesterday he drove to Marlboro with his father. The bondsman recognized nim in a parked machine and had him taken into custody by the officer. | TEACHER SUSPENDED. Py a Staff Correspondent of The Star. UPPER_MARLBORO, Md., November | 2.—Elsie Young, colored, teacher at the Accokeek Colored School, was yesterday | suspended uhtil the next meeting of the | County Board of Education, following her conviction in Police Court of com- | mitting assauit and battery on a 7-year- old white boy. According to the testimony before Judge J. Chew Sheriff, the teacher plac- | ed her hands on Douglas Leo Gosnell, 7, and shoved him. The the boy had been She was of Accokeek, teacher claimed throwing stones at her car. fined $5. Her brother, Waverly Young. was giv- en a similar fine for being disorderly on 2 public highway. Mrs. Louise Gosnell, mother of Douglas, was the complain- ant At the conclusion of the case Judge Sheriff directed the parties to lay the case before Supt. of Schools Nicholas Orem, and the teacher’s suspension fol- lowed. WoOoDWARD AxD G Strrers | surance. 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