Evening Star Newspaper, February 22, 1930, Page 7

B POOL RASED 70 REOPEN BANK March 10 Set as Tentative | Date Southern Maryland Trust Will Open. 7 a Staft Correspondent of The Star. SEAT PLEASANT, Md., February 22./ ~Uniting in a vigorous effort to raise the $100,000 pool needed to reopen the Soul Maryland Trust Co., stock- bolders of the institution succeeded in having that amount subscribed at a| largely attended mass meeting in Com- | munity Hall last night. As a result it was announced today that March 10 had been set as the tentative date for the reopening, al- every effort will be made to col- lect the money subscribed and get au- thority from the Circuit Court to open bank sooner if possible. | Announcement was also made that n raising the $100,000 the stock owned by former F. H. Smith Co. officials con~ nected with the l».nk had been pooled and absorbed locally, so that they have no further connection with the insti- tution. Also, it was pointed out that with few exceptions all the stock of the trust company is now owned in Prince Georges County. While it is a matter upon which the #tockholders will have to vote, it ap- peared to be the general opinion at the meeting that A. O. Dille, for the Past 30 years manager of the Union Stock ‘Yards at Benning, D. C, who has lived in Prince Georges County, managed 2 Jarge farm near Marlboro and is well acquainted locally, would be chosen president .of the institution. At the outset of the meeting Frank Hill of MarlBoro, reporting for the stockholders’ pool committee formed at a mass meeting two weeks ago, declared about 65 per cent-of the amount re- quired had been raised since, and it was the problem of the meeting to raise the Temaining 35 per cent. This was accomplished in about two hours, many | of the stockholders making their sub- scriptions in cash. In addition to Hill, speakers at the meeting included L. S. Perkins, George N. Wells, former Prince Georges County | commissioner, who presided, and Allen MacCullen, sécretary and general man- ager of the company. In spite of the fact that today is a legal holiday and banks throughout | ‘Maryland are closed MacCullen plans to | wvisit Baltimore to see W. Page, bank commissioner, and receiver for the institution, to immediately inaugu- rate arrangements for the reopening. The banks of the trust company at Seat Pleasant and Upper Marlboro have been closed since December 13. Samuel J. ‘Henry, former president of the F. H. Smith Co., was president of in- stitution until a few days before it went in the hands of the receiver be- cause of frozen assets. BURDETTE FUNERAL SERVICE TOMORROW Rites for Rockville Postmaster to Be Held at 3 P.M. at Metho- dist Church. Epecial Dispatch to The Star. Md., February 22— Puneral services for Willis B. Burdette, of Rockville, who died sud- denly at his home here yesterday, will be held in the local Methodist Church tomorrow at 3 p.m. Mr. Burdette was long active in civie, ' fraternal and religious activ- ities at . perint enmk, a member of the town council, & member of the House of Delegates and a member of the State Senate, He was also a leader in the Rockville Methodist Church and the Rockville Lodge of Masons. B ) ROCKVILLE. ROCKVILLE, Md., February 22 (Spe- cial) —Mrs. Eliza Miller Griffith, wife iBATTLE OVER QUARTER - BRINGS YEAR IN JAIL Colored Man Alleged to Have Slashed Another After Dance Near Mitchellville, BY a Staff Correspondent of The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., February 22.—An argument over 25 cents yester- day cost Wesley Spriggs, colored, 12 months in jail. According to the testimony before Po- lice Court Judge J. Chew Sheriff, Spriggs became embroiled in an argu- ment over that amount after a dance near Mitchelville. He was convicted of assault and battery on John H. Jones, also colored, who was badly cut about the face. Two other colored men were convicted of assault and battery as a result of the same affair and fined $25 | each. 'RUM SENTENCES GIVEN [ TO FOUR OF FAMILY Brother, Get Three-Year Term in Virgimia Court. By the Associated Press. BOYDTON, Va., February 22—Four members of one family, W. J. Smith and his sons, and R. L. Smith, his brother, all of Mecklenburg County, were con- victed in the Circuit Court here yester- day on charges of manufacturing ardent spirits, following the capture of a still December 29, when two officers were shot. Each of the four was sentenced to serve a prison term of three years after they pleaded guilty. Their_trial followed that of Garland Smith, 22, another son of W. J. Smith, concluded when he was convicted of slaying Sheriff Ben Puryear and Police~ man Mack Tuck, shot from ambush as they, with other officers, r.ided the still resulting in Smiths Sentenced yesterday. Garland Smith was sentenced to die in the elec- tric chair, June 2, and was removed last night to the State prison in Richmond. g DAVIS SUGGESTS BYRD TRY FOR PRESIDENCY Former Democratic Nominee Makes Proposal Before Virginia Senate. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. RICHMOND, Va., February 22.—Ac- | companied by John W. Davis, Demo- cratic nominee for President in 1924, W. A. McCorkle, former Governor of ‘West Virginia, aj before the Vir- ginia State Senate terday and sug- gested that former Gov. Harry F. Byrd be named as a candidate for President. Without calling Gov. Byrd’s name, McCorkle said, “during the last few years you have had a governor who has put Virginia on the map in a material way. I hope that before long Virginia will once more have the distinction of being the mother of a President.” The two distinguished visitors were presented to the Senate by Senator Saxon W. Holt, president pro tempore. During the 10-minute recess that was ordered, Mr. Davis asked to see how the voting machine worked. “That is interesting to a resident of New York,” he said, “where we have no_machines in politics at all.” Before the House, Mr. Davis warned against over-regulation of nal liberty, stating that he would like to write over every legislative «door Jeffer- son’s old motto: “The world is gov- erned too much. Let the man alone.” Special Dispatch to The St BLADENSBURG, Md., February 22.— Funeral services for Jules Dieudonne, 43 years old, son of the late Jules and Ju- liana J. B. Dieudonne, of Bladensburg, who died Tuesday at Walter Reed Hos- pital, Washington, after an illness of more than two months, vere held from St. Luke's Episcopal Church here. In- terment was in Rock Creek Cemetery. of Seth W. Griffith, died early yester- day at her home in Brookeville, this shehadbeenfl!s!o‘:g rifith was fofmerly & -Miss Hopkins of Brookeville and was twice married, her first husband being the ite Willlam B. Miller. She also leaves = brother and a sister. The last of a series of pre-Lent dances under the auspices of the Young ’s Society eof St. Mary's Episco- | pal Church at Aspen will, it has been | announged, be held in the parish hall | Wednesday evening of next week. It | be in charge of a committee of ‘which Miss Margaret E. Carroll is the head. Rev, Prank A. Tyler of the Methodist Chureh officiated at the marriage here of Ladson E. Kirk, 22, and Miss Jean N. Shank, 19, both of Washington; J. Ready, 21, of Cottage City, Md., and Miss Elizabeth A. Smith of Tenleytown, . C., and Hillman Cornell, 27, and Mr. and Mrs. F. Bache Abert enter- tained at dinner and bridge in their home in Rockville Thursday evening in celebration of Mr. Abert’s forty-third birthday anniversary. Their ' guests were Dr. and Mrs. Willlam A. Linthi- Douglas M. Blandford and Mr. and Mrs. Dnlv& Bowman. Mrs. Violet L. Mobley of Washington has field suit in the Circuit Court here for an absolute divorce from Willlam M. Mobley of this county, to whom she ‘was married, so the bill sets forth, Octo- ber 31, 1921. She charges that more than three years ago she was deserted without cause. She is represented by Attorneys Lemuel Oliver of Washington and P. Barnard Welsh of Rockville. Ac- cor to the bill no children were borp of the mlrflue,] A ok Through Attorney John E. Oxley of Mrs. Anna Katherine Giil of K ton, this county, has instituted suitdn the Circuit Court here for an ab- solute divorce from Roy Lee Gill of Washington. She charges in her bill that“the defendant, to whom she was in Rockville March 26, 1921, d @ her in July, 1923. The couple havé & son, Charles Lee Gill, aged 8 , 80 the bill states. les Porter Mullican, a native and formjer long-time resident of this vicin- ity, @led early in the week in Norfolk, Va, where he had made his home for the dast 25 years, aged 64 years. He is survived by his widow, formerly a Miss Parsley of Brookeville, this county, and ‘Sons and_daughters. The funeral on Thursday from Burrows Mr. Dieudonne was first stricken early in December while at work in the Post Where he burg, and two sisters, Mrs. Margaret A. Hartman of Washington and Mrs. Amelia Potts of Dela B 7 Strictly, a parrot doesn't talk: it merely repeats sounds. This it can do because it has a thick, fleshy wnfl:e and a larynx which lends itself to the W. J. Smith, His Two Sons and |naq Burton Smith, 24, and Ferrell Smith, 16, | design the capture of the four | Said JULES DIEUDONNE BURIED. |3 . THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON; D. C, ARCHITECT RESIGNS INBUILDING DISPUTE Delos H. Smith Named Suc- cessor to Carry on Plans for Rockville Edifice. . BY WILLIAM J. WHEATLEY. Staff Correspondent of The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., February 22.— Differences of opinion over the design for the proposea new county building to be erected here resulted last night in resignation of Rossell Edward Mitch- , the architect, who prepared the original design, which was submitted tu” the National Commission of Fine and which did not meet with the approval of that body. Lacy Shaw, vice President of the Board of County Com- ers, announced that Mr. Mitchell because of tl.e recommen- dations of the Fine Arts Commission of a type of architecture, which had been accepted by the building comimttee, and Wwith which he was not in accord. ‘Troubles over the design of the pro- Posed building have been brewing for months, but the committee had made every effort to conceal them. The mat- ter came to a head when the original Wwas sent to the National Com- mission of Fine Arts,.and that body recommended that in place of the lime- stone facing, it should be of brick with limestone trim, a type of architecture known as the Georgian style, similar to that used in school houses, police sta- tions and en, house: the Di o Columbu.me s in the District Design Approved. The building committee yesterday ap- proved the new design-submitted as a result of the Fine Arts Commisison dis- approval of the first design, but this is to be entirely limestone facing. It was that the committee unanimously approved this design. When the second design was submitted to the Fine Arts !?Od]. that o ization said that it was architecturally sound,” but at the same time reiterated its opinion that the Georgian style should be followed in the Pproposed county building. After accepting the resignation of Mr. Mitchell, the committee named Delos H. Smith of Washington, architect for the building, and gave him instruc- tions to proceed with the preparation of the detailed plans. It also appointed the following committee on Ppreparation of plans to meet weekly with Mr. Smith, and go over them as they progress: Capt. Chester Wells, George P, Sacks, Berry E. Clark, clerk to the board of county commissioners; Preston B. Ray, clerk of the Montgomery County Circuit Court; e E. Hamilton, Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor, Lacy Shaw, vice president of the board of county comissioners; Otho H, W. Talbott, H. F. Taff and J. Roger Spates, mayor of Rockville. Changes Made Necessary. The new exterior design has made Decessary a considerable number of changes in the interior of the buil and a reduction of the size of the struc- ture as a whole to keep it within the money available at this time. ig- inal design for the building called for 227 feet and a deptH of 60 . The new designs will provide for a width of 180 feet, with a possible re- duction to 160 feet and a depth of 54 feet. The present court house will be allowed to stand until some future time when money is available to replace it with one wing. The new design is what is termed the Greek revival style of architecture in the early nineteenth century. There will be a portico with § columns in the front and 11, steps leading up to the entrance. In olden days a brook was called a “rival” Afterward the Unexcelled ‘Comblete change every 1% minutes (COLUMBIA RD.x 18 ST OPPOSITE AMRASSADAD Special Holiday Today, 4 Until 8 P.M. A delicious 5- course dinner of varied - menu and choicest foods. u oysters are fam iyle or boxed to WE SHUCK DAILY COLUMBIA 5042 imitation of sounds. * * WASHI he left it to become our his two terms were up, he of HOME which has be nation. Baptist Church, Norfolk, being in that city. . “Mullican was the eldest son of Salathiel T. Mullican, at oné of George W. Mullican, assistant m_nnnzr of Rockville, and Mrs. Lucy jch of Fort Wayne, Ind, Giido Calligaro of Washington, and Miss Emma Wonder of Clifton, N. J., were married in Rockville on Thursday by Rev. Bertram M. Osgood of the Church, at the parsonage. * GTON LOVED HIS Following his triumphs in the Revolutionary War, George Washington retired to the peace and beauty of his Virginia homestead. Six years later first president, but when returned to it, once more. Today that spot, “Mount Vernon,” is a na- tional shrine, an enduring monument not only to the Father of His Country but also to the love en the foundation of our As we honor George Washington on the #nni- versary of his birth, let us follow his example and place our home first in our thoughts. House & Seventh Herrmann at Eye BILL PLANS STUDY OF COMPENSATION Virginia Measure Would Cre- | ate Commission to Weigh. and it Was emanimously passed by the House. 'When it reached the se::u it was referred to committee for study. The resolution calls for a commission of five members, three to be appointed from the House and two from the Sen- ate, who, “together with the Industrial Commission, Department of Labor and Industry and Department of Insurance and Banking, shall make a thorough study of this question, looking toward the creation of a State insurance fund for the workmen's compensation act and to Teport on same at the . next Gem“rll A;seflmbly." In the t part of the resolution Reid states that relations existing be- SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, Who ject. | tween _employer and employe in" Vir- 'e Sub|ect |ginia have always been of cordial co--| operation, but that the awards under the Virginia act are among the lowest | of the 44 States in which similar acts | BY LESTER N. INSKEEP, Stafl Correspondent of The Star. 1930. DR, FRANK GAINES MADEW. & L HEAD Succeeds Dr. H. L. Smith. | Was President of Wake Forest, N. C., School. By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va., February 22—Dr. RICHMOND, Va., February 22.—With the amended workmen'’s compensation | bill out of the way, leaders of hoth | contingents, those seeking additional | compensation and those opposing it, | yesterday signed a truce and combined in offering a resolution for the forma- ough study of the situation with a view | to establishment of a State insurance | fund to lessen the present high cost to the —employers, thereby permitting | greater advantages to the employes. The author of the resolution was Hugh Reid, delegate from Arlington County, who was the principal sponsor of the workmen's compensation act in the House, Senator Frank L. Ball of | Arlington being the Senate sponsor. Coleman Is Co-Sponsor. Following his preparation of 'the measure, Reid submitted it to I. N. Coleman of Dinwiddie, who had led the fight against increased compensa- tion on the grounds that it would place on industry a heavier burden than they | could at the present time carry. Cole- are in effect and the insurance rates| among the highest. Employe Would Benefit, ‘The employers, Reid said, are appar- ently satisfied to pay the present rates f they are not made higher, so if it is possible to make the insurance cheaper he | le will s tion of a commission to make a thor- | o, P V¢ benefic by the differ- | nce. West Virginia, Reid declared, hoe much lower rate and much higher awards than Virginia tarov., s« s State insurance fund. He added that | high rates are “an embargo against re- | at Richmond. lief, for the employer is unable to pay much more than he is now paying for the insurance. FLAMES DESTROY HOUSE Special Dispatch to The Star. LEONARDTOWN, Md., February 22. | Prank P. Gaines, president” of Wake | Forest College in North Carolina, was | yesterday elected president of Washing- |ton and Lee University, Lexington, Va. to succeed Dr. Henry Louis Smith. retired. Dr. Smith was elected presi- | dent emeritus. Dr. Gaines came to Wake Forest | recently after a long period of service as a professor at Furman University in Greenville, 8. C. He is a graduate of | the University of Richmond and is a | brother of Dr. R. E. Gaines, a professor | Board Lauds Gaines, “The decision was reached after full |and mature deliberation and the board feels that the university will be most fortunate in securing the services of Dr, Gaines,” an officlal statement from the board of trustees said. is_scholastic achievements, his executive experience, | his demonstrated ability and his high —A $10,000 house, belonging to Thomas | standing in the educational world give Lawrence, at Mount Airy, near here, was | every assurance of a successful and pro- completely destroyed by fire originating | gressive administration of the affairs of man signed the resolution as co-sponsor Green Bag from a defective flue. Lawrence’s children were sick, but escaped injury. the university.” The trustees meeting yesterday repre~ sented many sections of t! Coftee Has Pleased an Ever- increasing Number of Washington Coffee Drinkers Since Nineteen Hundred and T hirteen. Aroma and You, Too, Will Like the Mild Flavor of. This Wonderfully Good Colffee. On Sale Only at A * A—7 - 1 Democrati , Richmond, and A w\:nlaff!'%::wm Va. Nyt r- ;i Smith Quit January. ja. Mr. Davis and Mr. McCorkic | fi'm the General Assembly today ana | Dr. Henry Louls Smith has been presi- delivered addresses in both Houses | lent of Washington and Lee for Other trustees present included W. McC. ;St 18 years. He resigned in January, Martin, St. Louis; Dr. George Boliing Daving reached the age of retirement, Lee, grandson ofi Gen. Robert E. Lee, | Dr. Robert H. Tucker of Washington New York; G, W. St. Clair, Tazewell, 20d Lee, was named acting president of Va. rector ' Dr. W. Mec. White | the institution after Dr. Smith's retire- Raleigh; Harrington Waddell, Lexington | ment. Ve.; Charles J. McDermott, New York; | James R. Caskie, Lynchburg; Dr. W. L | Carson, Richmiond; Paris are complaining expenses are mounting. | Workers ot Judge' Louis ' S.' that their living February 22nd IRST IN QUALITY— FIRST IN DURABILITY— IRST IN THE MINDS OF MUSICAL PFOPLE— STEINWAY “THE INSTRUMENT OF THE IMMORTALS" Exclusive Washington Representatives THE POUND u “Sanitary’’ and Piggly Wiggly Stores 040849454044 04044 o e