Evening Star Newspaper, April 8, 1930, Page 7

SUBURBAN NEWS. RITCHIE ANNOUNCES HE IS CANDIDATE \ ,Governor Issues Long-Await- ed Statement on His Posi- tion on Fourth Term. By & Btaft Correspondent of The Star. BALTIMORE, Md, long-awaited announcement by Gov.{ Albert C. Ritchie that he would be a candidate for a fourth term as Gov- ernor of Maryland was made yesterday. In a formal statement saying he would be a candidate for the Democratic nom- | tnation for governor, Mr.. Ritchie de- | clared he had waited until sentiment in the State, particularly within the Demo- cratic party, had crystallized. | The governor's declaration followed | closely an announcement last week that | David G. McIntosh, jr., had withdrawn his bid for the gubernatorial nomin n and the publication of reports indici ing Mr. Ritchie would receive State- wide support from the Democrats. Battle Is On. Within a few minutes after the go ernor announceéd his candidacy the b tle within the Democratic party over | the nomination for State controller was on. A conference of several hours’ dura- tion was held by Democratic leaders, during which E. Brooke Lee, speaker of the House of Delegates, is said to have | vigorously and determinedly advocated J. Enos Ray of Prince Georges County for the controllership. Frank A. Furst, the adviser of Mary- | land demoeracy, who attends confer- ences away from his office only in a crisis, was present at the session. He has taken the view that the Democratic organization should support all the State-wide elective incumbent Demo- crats for re-election. Thus he is sup- porting Willlam 8. Gordy, jr., of Wi- comico County for renomination as con- troller. In the conference an effort was made to get Gov. Ritchie to arbirate the con- troversy, but he declined to take sides. ‘The meeting ended without definite ac- tion, but the impression was given that Mr. Ray was a serious contender, and might within a few days announce him- self as a candidate. Governor's Statement. Gov. Ritchie's statement, announcing his candidacy for the Democratic nom- ination for a fourth term as governor follows: “I will be a candidate for the Demo- cratic nomination for Governor of Maryland. “I have made this decision only after very long consideration. This has not been at all due to any uncertainty about the way I fegard the governorship of Maryland. T have always sald that next to the presidency I regard it as the greatest honor that can come to an American citizen. This is so because the office not only administers the af- fairs of the State, but it is represent- ative of the Maryland ideal of govern- ment, which is the life of democracy and liberty everywhere. So, naturally, there is nothing I had rather have than the opportunity of serving my State as M governor for another term. “But the people of Maryland have honored me in very full measure and I would have no right to ask the public for another term, until sentiment on the question, particularly in my own party, had had very full opportunity to crystallize, one way or the other. Thinks Opportunity Given. “1 think every one will agree that there has been’ this opportunity. If there was any advantage to me in get- ting into the field quickly, as many of my friends strongly urged, certainly I “have not taken-advantaage of it. “For months now the public have been discussing available candidates and | the character of government which Maryland has had during recent years, and particularly have the public been discussing whether they wanted to con- tinue me at the head of this great bus ness of theirs—which is what the Staf government really is—with the experi- ence I have acquired by working for 11 years on the job. “The fourth-term question in particu- lar has been not only discussed, but rubncly debated, and men like Dr. Wil- lam H. Welch, Mr. Randolph Barton, jr.: Mr. Sylvan Hayes Lauchheimer, Dr Cary B. Gamble, jr.. Mr. W. Irvine Cross, Mr. Waldo Newcomer, Mr. Fran- cis King Carey, Mr. William L. Mar- bury, Mr. R. Howard Bland, Mr. Jamex M. Easter, Mr. Frank Novak and others, disposed of any objection on this point effectively. Gives Basis of Decision. “Every one in the Democratic party who would like to be governor has had the opportunity to be considered. Some of the most influential men in the rty, after canvassing the available eld, did, in fact, support another can- | didate, behind whom, for a very con-/ siderable time, opposition to me has had the fullest opportunity to center. Thic candidate has now withdrawn. “These and . “er occurrences dur- ing the past montus, the support whick has been offered me from so many sources, and particularly recent develng- ments, including the open letter pub- lished Sunday and signed by 1,500 rep- resentative citizens of both parties, have finally decided me to become a candi- date for another term. “I cannot express in any way at all adequate the gratitude I feel for these evidences of confidence in me. It is something I never can forget. “There is ample time to discuss the issues of the campaign and all perti- nent subjects, so I need say nothing about them at this time. ° “I have an intense pride in my State. and its political ideals are the: sum and substance of the only political g\llomphy I know. I have been proud proclaim them wherever and when- ever I could, both at home and abroad, because I believe that in them lies our best hop® of political salvation. “If the people honor me with another nomination and election I will continue during the next four years to devote my life exclusively to the service of the State and to trying to make it a mode! of good government and of sound political doctrine. “And as 1::116 as 1 am Governor of Maryland 1 do my best to preserve April 8.—The | k County to Receive This Sum as County will receive from the State this year 85,859 as its share of the fund for standard elementary schools. This rep- resents an appropriation of $63 for each of the 93 standard elementary rooms in the county. Of this total $630 goes to the school board of Falls Church, leav- room varies each year according to the number of rooms in the State which meet standard requirements. The total appropriation is fixed by the Legislature. AUTOMOBILE When this coupe left the Marlboro Pike near Meadows, Md. it landed in a pile of junked automobiles. Graninger, 3300 block of Georgia avenue, to whom it '|l listed, was treated at Casualty Hospital, but was reported as not seriously hurt. MARLBORD COURT HEARINGS BEGUN Civil and Jail Cases Are Presented to Juries. By a Btaft Comrespondent of The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md, April 8.— After completing preliminary organiza- tion yesterday, the April term of Prince | Georges County Circuit Court began work in earnest today, the petit jury| hearing civil appeal cases while the grand jury considered evidence against about 20 prisoners at the county jail. Petit Jury Members. Members of the petit jury, selected yesterday, are: John E. Luers, M!hul‘ . DeMafr, Roy L. Allen, 3 Higbee, J. Ernest Cook, Daniel Shorter, Julian White, John H. Austin, Reginald C. Taylor, Thomas D. Johns, Joseph L. Cross, Columbus Richards, Henry J. Forney, Jeremiah J. Crowley, Richard Fulton, Herman C. Wienecke. William T. Alvey, Raymond W. Bellamy, J. Burrus Waters, Louis Cross, Samuel E. Thomas, Rennell H. Willett, Jefferson | Beall, George 8. Parker and James R Ridgely. | After having been told by W. Mitchell | Digges, chief judge of the circuit, in| his charge, that organized crime is tak- ing advantage of a peculiar human trait | which sympathizes with the criminal shortly after the enormity of the crime is forgotten, the grand jury, headed by Joszr H. Blandford, foreman, began considering evidence presented to it by | State's Attorney J. Frank Parran yes- | terday afternoon. Three Murder Cases. The present grand jury will be called upon to investigate three cases of mur- der and two of manslaughte.. One of the murder cases involves Lawrence Leroy Brady, Washington automobile mechanic, who is accused by police with being responsible for the Seat Pleasant bombing which resulted in the killing of three members of the family of John Hall. The other two murder cases in- volve colored defendants. Evidence in one of the manslaughter cases, that against Edward Rawiings, Bethesda taxicab driver, who is alleged to have run over and killed Paul Goode of Capitol Heights, was presented to the jury yesterday afternoon. Evidence against offenders under bond will be given to the jury after it completes its investigation of those held in jail. $5,859 SCHOOL FUND GIVEN TO FAIRFAX Share From State for Elemen- tary Grades. Special Dispatch to The Star. FAIRFAX, Va, April 8—Fairfax in~ $5,229 for county schools. The State's allotment per standard each room getting an equal share. H. Harrls Hart, State superintendent of education, in notltfvtn( Division Supt. Woodson of this allotment, states the State Board of Education has more standard schools than the money for the purpose will adequately care for. It therefore becomes necessary to reduce the appropriation per school. All except 14 elementary rooms in “JUNKS” FREED SOLDIER ASKS NIGHT’S LODGING IN CELL Released After Serving Term, He Reappears for Place to Sleep. ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 8.—Jullus Goulson, 29, of Fort Humphreys was released from jail here at 4 o'clock yes- terday after after serving out a two- week sentence in place of a $14 fine for | being drunk. Last night Goulson walked into head- | quarters and asked to be placed behind the bare fo- the night. For his night's | lodging : - was placed with the other | risoners in the “bull pen.” He had t on the others, however, a5 he did not have to face the judge this morning. BRAND JURY GETS WILD PARTY ECHO Club Mirador Raid Data Pre- sented in Request for Inquiry. By a Btaft Correspondent of The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., April 8.—An echo of an alleged wild party in the Club | Mirador, on Bradley boulevard in | Bethesda, last May 3, which culminated | in a raid by the Montgomery County | | police, was heard yesterday befare the | grand jury when that body was asked | to investigate the matter to ascertain whether it could return indictments for arson and unlawful entry of the premises. Inquiry Asked. Harold C. Smith, Rockville attorney, representing Miss Julla Walker, owner | of the property, appeared before the | inquisitorial body and asked it to make | an investigation. He was followed by Miss Walker, who told the jurymen, she said, that the house was used without her permission, not merely for a stag party, but for a “terrible affair.” She testified, Miss Walker said, that the | house was broken into and some one had even gone to the electric power company, using a fictitious name, to have the lights turned on for one night. A refund check of the deposit money has since come to her. | Miss Walker says that she also told the jurymen that those who were in the house on the night in question ran- | sacked everything in it and after the police arrived on the scene some one | set fire to the property, causing about | 81,500 damage to the house and $500 | damage to the contents. Many Arrested. When the police raided the place they brought in nearly fourscore people, charged with disorderly conduct. So far as known, all of them gave fictitious names, but Miss Walker says that she has ascertained the real names of some of those in the place and that she gave this list to the jury and it contains the names of some prominent citizens of Montgomery County. Tickets to the party, according to the police, were sold in the name of the Jefferson Democratic Club, which, like the names of those arrested, police say, is fictitious. —————— Play at High School. CLARENDON, Va., April 8 (Special). —"A Little Clodhopper” is the title of a play to be presented Friday nighf at ‘Washington-Lee High School by the students of the school, under the direc- tion of H. T. Stuckey. Principal roles will be rtrayed by Gordon Walker, Lloyd arrington, Sylvia Shipman, Dorothy Moreland and Doris Hopkins. In addition, there will be music by an or;he:cu composed of students of the school. NEW GERNAN POCKET APPA- RATUS AIDS THE DEAFENED | $100 assessment. ITSELF Henry S. —Star Staff Photo. FOUR SPECIAL TAX RATES ANNOUNGED Edmonston Road No. 1 Levy Only Change Made by Prince Georges Commissioners. BY GEORGE PORTER, 8tast Correspondent of The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md, April 8.— | Having last week fixed the general county tax rate at $1.35 per $100 as- sessed value on real and personal prop- erty, the Prince Georges County Com- | missioners today announced four spe- cial taxes effecting the metropolitan l;!l, All but one were the same as in 1929. The single change was in the tax of Edmonston road district No. 1, which | was increased from 18 to 28 cents per | This increase, it was| explained, was mandatory under the| law, which provides that after the first few years the serial bonds which fur- nished the revenue for the road must be retired. It is for this purpose that the additional 10-cent tax is imposed. Of particular interest to residents in the county's suburban area will be the decision to maintain the Park and Planning Commission tax at 3 cents per $100. This action, predicted in The Star several weeks ago, postpones for another year the possibility of inaugu- rating a fund for park development of the county. Considerable effort was made to have the commissioners make an additional 7-cent levy for park development pur- poses as has been done in Montgomery County. Following an explanation of the commissioner’s attitude on the sub- | ject in The Star, and an announcement by officials of the park commission that the additional tax would not be timely, the agitation for the additional tax was postponed. The other two special taxes announc- ed by the commissioners are 7 cents per $100 for the Washingtun Suburban Sanitary Commission and $1.10 for Ed- monston road district No. 2, both of | which remain unchaned from 1929. The State tax, which is also collected by R. Ernest Smith, county treasurer, is slightly reduced, the commissioners point out being 25 cents per $100, as against 25.74 cents per $100 last year. For Correctly‘ MARYLAND STORM DEATH TOLL FIVE == Motor Boat Capsizes With Three Aboard—Two Blown Into Bay. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, April 8.—Five deaths were charged today to the swift wind and rain storm which cut a path across Maryland yesterday. Three Negro oyster tongers were thought to have drowned as the storm struck their motor boat in Chesapeake off the mouth of West River. The sunken boat was found last night and it was thought the bodies would located in its cabin. Two Negro steve- dores were drowned in Baltimore when the wind hit a scow they were trying to drag closer inshore and threw them into the harbor. Six women were hurt when a big late-glass window blew out where they ad sought shelter (n the vestibule of an office building. Uprooted trees and damaged farm buildings marked the storm’s path through other parts of the State. TELEPHONE LINES WRECKED. Wires in Maryland and Virginia Re- paired Following Blow. ‘The storm wrought havoc with tele- hone communication in nearby Mary- land and Virginia, but most of the trouble had been cleared this morning. Altogether 175 telephones were re- ported: out of order the Northern Virginia district, which includes Alex- andria, Clarendon, Falls Church, Fair- fax and Winchester. Sixteen trunk lines were affected, but all were in operation again this morning. At Winchester 30 telephone poles were reported down. Crews from the telephone company made them safe during the night and began work re- placing them this morning. A tree fell across a telephone cable at Silver Spring putting 204 telephones out of order temporarily. Five poles ‘were damaged by the Wind. DAMAGE IN MONTGOMERY. Roof on Sanitarium Building Blown Off; Other Structures Wrecked. By a Btaft Correspondent of The Star. BETHESDA, Md., April 8.—Consid- erable damage was done to property by the heavy gale which passed over the county yesterday. The plate glass window in the Piggly Wiggly store on Georgetown road was blown in, several holes were blown in the roof of the home of Dr. Thomas Arm- strong, & sign of the Griffith Con- sumers’ Co. and the down spouting on the county building were wrecked and a tree was blown across Edgemoor lane and another across River road. The roof of the elevator shaft and boiler room of the Washington Sanitar- jum at Takoma Park were torn off by _the wind and blown to the ground. In the Silver Spring district two buildings were unroofed and the street car and bus waiting station at Georgia Your OLD HAT .\ MADE NEW Again S Py Vienna Hat Co. 435 11th Street Are recommended by the most conservative financiers as a safe in- vestment. They pay a fixed re- turn of 6%%—and may be purchased in amounts from $250 up. B. F. Saul Co. National 2100 925 15th St. N.W. o¢ NINTH- the . 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Four calves in the stable were unhurt, although the roof collapsed on them, and a viclous bull stood still while his was blown away from him, leaving standing in the open. The wind first hit a large apple orchard, razing numerous trees before it dipped again to strike the building. Rain, hail, snow and a severe thun- derstorm accompanied the blow, which also demolished a barn on the farm of James Prench, near the village of Worton. The path of the tornado, which was about 50 feet, narrowly missed the dwelling on the Sutton farm, raising into the air before reaching the farm of George Sutton across the road. ‘Trees were blown down all over Kent County. Numerous boats aléng the Chesapeake Bay and Chester River water front were blown up on shore, some of them damaged. Damage on the Sutton farm is estimated at $2,000, not covered by wind insurance. Easton and vicinity were heavily hit, the gale tearing many roofs off houses. bl Numbers of trees and telephone lines lepl es | O ‘The storm was the heaviest at Ham- - Jfrom SUBURBAN ‘artney roof off of Walter Hugh's residence and ripped the roof off of Charles W. Sullivan's large cattle barn. Trees in yards were uprooted, but no loss of life to persons or live stock has been reported. AUTO WRECK VICTIM IN SERIOUS CONDITION Frank Money, Hurt in Cedar Hill Crash, Suffers Internal Injuries. By a Staff Correzpondent of The Star. SUITLAND, Md., April 8—Brolight to Casualty Hospital in an unconscious condition after the automobile in which he was riding crashed into a telephone | pole near Cedar Hill yesterday, Frank | Money, 35 years old, of Twining City, ;u l-uu %? ; serious wn;!flltlon this | orning. He is reported suffering from internal injuries. s Otto Kuell, 42 years old, of the first block of Fourteenth street northeast, sald to have been the driver of the car, was given treatment for minor in- juries at the hospital and sent home. e g Woman's Auxiliary to Meet. HYATTSVILLE, Md., April 8 (Spe- cial) —Mrs. Benjamin Hu&hlmon. pdei- rector of the church Periodical Club, and Mrs. Henry Cook will speak at regular meeting of the Woman's Aux- iliary of Pinkney Memorial Episcopal Church to be held Friday night at 8 o’clock in the parish hall of the church. Persons having used magazines or books are asked to leave them in the vestibule of the ‘hall that night for shipment to persons in remote places. Persons who wish to send magazine subscriptions to such wreople are asked to get in touch th Mrs. C. B. Tavenner, Hyattsville. éa NEWS LA L NEW PRISON ORDERED IN FREDERICK COUNTY Judge Requests Erection of Jail to Supplant Small and Anti- quated Institution. Special Dispstch to The Star. 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