Evening Star Newspaper, January 7, 1930, Page 11

SUBUR BILL IS APPROVED | FOR REASSESSMENT Fairfax Supervisors Favor Measure Prepared by Chamber of Commerce. tch to The Etar. FAIRFAX, Va., January T7.—The Fairfax County board of supervisors s indorsed the outline of the provisions of the bill changing the pres- ent method of making the quinquennial real estate assessment in Virginia, which the Falrfex County Chamber of Com- merce ‘« endeavor to have passed at! the coming session of the State Legis- lature. F. S. McCandlish, R. 7. Buck- ley and J. U. Kincheloe, commissioner of revenue, left last night tor Rich- mond, where they will hold a confer- ence today with State Tax Commis- | sioner Morrisett. | The bill as outlined will be brief and will leave to the supervisors of each county power to set up their own ma- | chinery, decide the number of assessors, salary and other details. It was felt that the fewer details to be included in this organic law the greater its chance of immediate approval. It merely pro- ssessment shall be made ns or officers as may be dge of the Circuit tion to be fixed the | 1] that 1930 assess- m that thes shall afford a “reasonable opportunity” to all parties to protest a ssment and that tax- payers shall be entitled to appeal to the Epecial Disj | Will Not Raise Taxes. Commonwealth’s Attorney Wilson M. Farr, in urging indorsement of this bill, stated that in his opinion there was nothing more important to Fairfax County than a fair distribution of the burden of taxation and that justly the greatest present basis of dissatisfaction was the inequality of taxation. “If A man is fairly assessed now this will mean no increase in taxation. It will mean a difference if he is unfairly assessed, whether too high or too low,” he stated He assured all taxpayers that the su- pervisors would not take advantage of such reassessment to raise taxes. The supervisors followed their indorsement of the bill by inserting in the tentative | budget an appropriation of $14,500 with which to meet the expenses of such re- asscssment. A proposal from County Treasurer F. W. Huddleson that a clause be inserted in this proposed law, reducing the pres- ent maximums which the supervisors are allowed to levy, basing the reduction on a sliding scale of total valuations, similar to the manner in which the State now regulates salaries of county officers, was disapproved. Both Farr and Candlish felt that it would be impossible to work out such a sliding scale until after the first assessment has been made on the new basis. In their opinion no intelligent fixation of maximums would bs possible before 1932. The supervisors concurred in their opinion that in matters solely affecting Fairfax County, the board was better | able to judge local needs than the Leg- islature at Richmond. Mr. Farr pointed | out that the rvisors had never yvet he ma: um authorized by law Wwas no reason to supposs would depart from past cus- t year. was ff that inclusion of ld kill the bill's chances adopted a_tentative hearing will be held ate and the requisite levies at the April meeting. In- budget are several ap- T new projects. but, inas- her appropriations have omitted or increased, and | 0 account the normal increase s, it is not expected tha. 11 show an increase. inserted in the riation of $1.800 for work now being car- Leon Manghum, su- nte! This includes $1,500 for salary and £300 for expenses. The re- t was presented by R. R. Buckley, n of the county board of public a; and by Juvenile Court Judge A. C. Ritchie. Four thousand five hun- dred dollars was inserted for fire pre- on, to be epent for hose and equip- nt, under the direction of the county eer, and apportioned among the nteer companies. J. H. Beattie, ittee from the Assoc The superv budg : | rvisors accepted the request chool board for a 90-cent levy expenses, with a 5-cent sink- for the construction at some future date of a central vocational high school. An appropriation of $5,000 for & county emergency fund was included upon recommendation of Common- wealth's Attorney Farr, who pointed out the danger run by the supervisors in attempting to run the county busi- ness with no margin for unforeseen contingencies. In order to simplify the bookkeeping in the offices of the treas- urer and county engineer, and to effect savings in operation, the road appro- priations for next year will be based on a flat county road tax of $1, witn a 1-cent district tax. The average road levy last vear amounted to 97 cents. This will insure an appropriation of $4,000 for emergency road work to take care of contingencies such as have arisen this year when two county bridges had to be repaired out of funds which would otherwise have been ex- pended for road construction. Items in Budget. The budget as now outlined calls for 8 total appropriation of $581,198.87, dis- tributed as follows: County fund, ad- ministrative expenses—Board of super- visors, $1,000; county cierk, $900; sher- 1ff, $1,200; sheriff’s jail expenses, $1,000; Commonwealth attorney, $1,200; treas- urer and his assistants, $11,022381; commissioner of revenue, $6.500; spe- clal officers appointed by sheriff, $1,200; office supplies, theriff, treasurer, com- missioner of revenue, clerk, $4.000; ju- diciary _expenses, Judge Smith, $800; Judge Ritchis, $420; jury commission- ers, coroners, jurymen, $750: public bulldings, janitor's salary, $1,080; con- struction, ~repairs, lights, telephone, $7,000. of the for sch ing BAN NEWS. BOY LIVES FOUR HOURS WITH A BROKEN NECK Fall From Horse Proves Fatal tol Lovettsville Child—Dies in Frederick Hospital. Special Dispatch to The Star i LOVETTSVILLE, Va., January 7.— Living four hours with a broken neck caused by a fall from a horse, Howard Ritchie, 11 years of age, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Ritchie of near Lovettsville, died Sunday night in Prederick City ital, Md. Hn’l'sge :b’n' was riding his horse to town from his home near here. when it stum- bled, throwing him to the ground. He was able to get up, mount his horse and continued riding for half an hour. He became violently 1ll, stopped at the | home of a neighbor, and Dr. A. B. Sp Fri of sum- THE EVENING. STAR, HAMILTON BANK BANDIT ARESTE Francis Lindsay, Capture After Chase, Said to Have Confessed to Officers. ecial Dispatch to The Star. HAMILTON. Va January 7 ancis Lind: on of Wilbur Lind: Lovettsville, this county, who is a leged to have held up Theodore Reid, cashier of the Farmers & Merchants National Bank of Hamilton, on Friday, Householder of Lovettsville was later from a broken neck. officiating. ville Union Cemete: ed. The boy was then removed to :‘l"l:nhnspxul. where he died four hours | His funeral will be held Wednesday | morning at 11 o'clock from his late| home, Rev. Mr. Morton of Waterford Burial will be in Lovetts- locking Reid in the vault and taking | yesterday _atternoon near ~Woodboro, Md., not far from his wife's home, by Deputy Sheriff Edward L. Stiley, Harry Gracus, justice of the peace, and James Reddick, who first recognized Linds He was taken to Leesburg last nigh s. $4,300 of the bank's money, was captured | un | WASHINGTON, Sheriff Bernard A. Redman and Sergt. | W. O. Wortenbaker, according to the officers. He also said: “Had it not been | for the love I have for my wife I| wouldn't have come back to this sec- | B | tion. I don't want my freedom without | her.” | According to authorities in telling his | story of his dash for freedom on Fri- day afternoon when he saw officers approaching the car in which he and his wife were riding near Yellow prings, about six miles from Fred- | erick, he said that he spent the first night in a barn near Liversville and the next day followed the mountain range to Thurmont, where he again, saw officers. He went back into the| mountzains, spending the next night in a barn. He lived on hickory nuts while | in the mountain and these were very scarce. He was also cold, as he had neither hat nor coat. | Went to Philadelphia. On Sunday morning he went to 1Gem-sburg by bus from there to Har- | risburg, where he took a steam car to Philadelphia. He bought clothing there and went to Baltimore, where he regis- tered at the Baltimore Hotel as E. F.| Maney. At 11 o'clock he drove in a taxi to his wife's home at Walkersville and, seeing cars there, did not stop. He went on to Woodboro and stopped at a D. €. TUESDAY, Two thousand three hundred and sixty- seven dollars had been found in the car which he abandoned. Lindsay was well dressed and disguised by a false mustache. When asked why he com- mitted the crime he declared he couldn't understand his actions at that time. ‘JAMES URGESFALL Civic BODIES BE ORGANIZED Expects Committees to Select Of- ficers Before Montgomery Fed- eration Meeting Monday. Epecial Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md, January 7.— | Stephen James, president of the Mont- gomery County Civic Federation, is, so 0. M. Kile, corresponding secretary, has informed all delegates and alternates, hopeful that all committees be or- ganized before the January meeting of the federation, to be held at the Bethesda school house, Wilson lane and Old Georgetown road, next Monday | evening, o that the names of the offi- | cers of the various committees may be announced. JANUARY by | Cor Pays for Ride on Glider. | en ROOSEVELT FIELD, N. Y., January 7.—Arthur Lynch, publisher, is the first paying passenger on a glider here. A 10-second trip cost him B For election expenzes, $1,200 was al- lowed; $5,000 for the poor, 85500 for public health, $300 compensation for animals killed by dogs, $1,500 for boun- ties on predetory animals and birds, $100 for predatory animals and other expens Under education, $1,035 was allowed for basic salary of the division super- intendent; $125724.97 for salaries of teachers, $76,544.20 for administration expenses, $3,980.94 for school indebt- edness in Dranesville district, $5,884,89 for school indebtedness in Falls Church district and $9,467.94 for school indebt- edness in Providence district. Under road expenditures $4,100 was allowed for superintendence, $6,200 for salaries and special payments, $700 for telephone and office supplies, $300 for engineering equipment, $31,000 for equipment, bridges and construction and 8135745 for other road ‘work. Additional expenditures to be paid for from the general county fund in- clude $984 for the farm demonstration ROBERTS, JOH STLO agent, $1,100 for the home demonstra- tion agent, $200 for forest fire protec- tion, $14,000 for reassessment of rea! estate, $2.000 for police patrol of the roads, $3,500 for prevention of bovine tuberculosis, $260 fees to the State ac- countant’s office, $1,800 for public wel- k fare, $4,500 for fire protection and $35,~ Sheriff E. S. Adrian of Loudo unty and Dep ity Sheriff D. H. Coo d lodged in jail there. Confession Reported. He made a full confession of his deed before S iff W. C. Roderick Frederick in the presence of Dep: NSON &RAND vIs store run by Harry Gracus, who is also justice of the peace. From th-re he telephoned his wife, who refused to answer the phone, It was there that James Reddick | recognized *him and he began another flight for freedom, only to be captured oon after. He had $1,626 when found. ley of Secretary Kile has also suggested to the delegates and altsrnates that “this | is the logical time for ths introduction | of recolutions initiating new lines of wor | The meeting next week wiil be the fortieth to be held by the federation. T, 1980. ONEKILLED, 5 HURT, - AS 3 AUTOS CRASH |Police Charge Driver With| Larceny and Manslaugh- * ter After Mishap. | | | Special Dispatch to The Star. | FREDERICK, Md., January 7.—One | person was killed and five were injured, | |one critically, in & triple automobile | crash on the Baltimore boulevard a few | miles east of here last night. The dead man is_George Hartstock, [of the” Fairfax County Chamber of| SUBURBAN Gulf Refining Co., which is gaid to have caused the accident. At the time of tho crash Morningstar was taken to the hospital with the other injured. While awaiting his turn to receive medical at- tention he disappeared. He was located several hours later at the home of his aunt, four miles south of this city. Charges of manslaughter, larceny and unauthorized use of an automobile are being preferred against him. The wreck was the result of the car operated by | Morningstar side-swiping the vehicle driven by Hartsock, hurling it inte the on-coming truck driven by Davis. Al of the machines were demolished. TO ELECT SECRETARY. Fairfax Chamber Called to Meet on Friday. Special Dispatch to The Star. FAIRFAX, Va, January 7.—President E. H. Allen has called the directors NEWS. ® AL 'COURT BANS SALE | OF RUM TO MINORS Warns Druggists They Must Not Fill Prescriptions for Persons Under Age. ‘ Gpecial Dispatch to The Star. | FREDERICKSBURG, Va., January 7.—Summary notice was given by Judge | Frederick W. Coleman to druggjsts deal- ing in medicinal whisky that they must not sell liguors to minors even though: | it is prescribed by physicians. Viola- | tions "of this order, Judge Coleman | said, would cause the license for han- | aling liquor to be revoked. | ~ Heretofore any person could secure whisky by presenting a doctor’s pre- scription. In some cases youthful per- 39, who died at the Frederick City Hos- | Commerce to meet in executive session | sons of both sexes have obtained liquor pital about three hours after the acci- dent of a fractured skull. The injured: Miss Margaret Perkins, 8 years old, fractured skull, lacerations about head; condition critical. James H. Robingon,. 21, Kemptown, lacer: tions about head and body bruises. Mrs George Hartsock, 39, cuts and bruises. W. K. Davis, 63, Kemptown, lacerations about face. Herbert Morningstar, 22, Mount Pleasant, hurt about body. Several hours after the accident po- lice arrested Morningstar on a charge | Friday afternoon, January 10, in the | ehamber’s office at Fairfax at 3 o'clock. [ The meeting is called to consider the | | appointment of a sercetary to take the | place of Mrs. Kathleen Clarke, who is | restgning January 15 to become seere- tary of the Arlington County Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Allen asks that all applicants for the position file thelr statements_prior to that time, elther with Mrs. Clarke | of stealing the automobile from the!or with one of the directors. | in this manner, and it was not always | used for inedicinal purposes. Unds | the court ruling druggists will now risk losing their license if they fill a liquor | prescription for a person under 21 | vears of age, even though the doctor | declares it necessary to health in cascs of mino lutely in need of alee- holic st | Judge Coleman said the whisky must | be secured by the parents. 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