Evening Star Newspaper, October 18, 1930, Page 4

but upon me as one individual who is ; { candiaates selected/by & majority of # ’u,m Democrats in a direct primary, TOG. 0.P.CHARGES @ov. Ritchie Speaks at Ral-| fies Yesterday in Mont- gomery. BY WILLIAM S. TARVER, Staff Correspondent of The Star Maj. E. Maryiand State campaig: plied yesterday and last night to charges of vote buying, administrative corrup- tion and arrogance made by Repub- licans against himself and the Mont- gomery County political organization of | which he is the head. No counter-charges were enunciated, Maj. Lee contenting himself with an-, swering allegations made in the Mont- | gomery Republican platform and at mass meetings Wednesday night by Representative Frederick N. Zihiman and F. Barnard Welsh, candidate for State’s attorney. The Democratic léader’s defense was made yesterday afterncon at Kensing- ton and last night at Silver Spring and Beth:eca, where rallies were held.in honor of Gov. Albert C. Ritchie, who spent the day in Montgomery County in the course of his campaign for re- election. Must Work Hard. Although predicting an easy victory for Gov. Ritchie, his campaign manager told Montgomery Democrats that they will have to work hard if they are 1o be successful in the county election November 4. He predicted that the Republican candidates would receive 4,000 white and 3,500« colored votes of their own party and in addition all the members of the progressive faction of the Democratic party which its leaders: S20ea L% took up the i % up charges against himself and the county government one one. The first was the often- 'IM allegation that he was arro- hf'A.m;n who sttempts to do anything cs and is arrogant is stupld,” ), oo caciared, “and thes. dent o cuse me yet of being stupid. For a Emchn to be arrogant would be po- ical suicide. If I am arrogant, what are you? You must submit to my ar- Togance. If the charge is true, it is as much against you as against me.” Greeted With Applause. As if to refute cl of a personal nature made against the county leader, the audiences in all ‘where he spoke greeted Maj. Lee with loud and prolonged cheers when he entered when commenced to speak. Bearcely "I’ lhmne:t he fmndz butum some sign of approbation. Concerning charges of Representative Zihiman that votes are bought in pri- mary and general elections and that . | total taxable basis of the county, and Lee, Democratic | erators have been taxed not only to n' manager, re- | pay the entire cost of their own local | against the lots of the subdivision. not running in the obvious hope that unsupported attacks upon me will be good bait for my factional enemies who participated in the recent Democratic primary. Says Tax Plan Fairest. He characterized the basic tax plan and general improvement program of Montgomery County for . the past 10 years as ‘the fairest to the gemeral taxpayer that can be found anywhere.” The real estate industry in the sub- utrban sections of the county, he as- serted, is the lafBest business in the county, but, differing from the practice in many localities, it is not favored. but is made to bear the greatest tax burde: He pointed out that real estate o] improvements, but also to pay the «n- tire gost of the county’s general im- provément and county bond issue pro- grams, as well as for the increased teachers’ salaries and the county's new police force. New Subdivisions Taxed. “This has been done,” Maj. Lee ex- plained, “by requiring the land in all new subdivisions to pay, through front foot benefit taxation, the entire cost of the street, sidewalk, gutter, curb, water and sewer extensions. That is, all money spent within the subdivision is produced by direct special taxation levelled in equal annual installments The subdivision of land and the building of houses and the increased business values in the suburban busi- ness cepters, due to the increased popu- lation of the adjacent developments, has for the past six years in Mont- gomery County produced $3,000,000 in- creased county and State taxable basis a year. This equals the total taxable basis of any two average north county election districts. “This $3,000,000 increase in taxable basis produced annually by the real estate and building industry results in $60,000 new tax money being paid into the county treasury each year, which money is spent for general county operating purposes or to carry county bonds. “This $80,000 a year contribution from the bullding industry, however, was not enough to carry the county im- provement program of the legislative session of 1927, which was the first Legislature of which I was’ elected a member. Raise Taxable Basis. “It was impossible, politically speak- ing, to raise additional county taxes from either the farms, the suburban homeowners or the business people of the county. Consequently, the only| possible source left which would permit political survival was to raise the tax- able basis of the unimproved land of suburban Montgomery County edjacent to the existing Maryland towns and the District of Columbia in the gen- eral reassessment of 1928, This, also, was not unfair, because this land value enjoyed a vast increase during the five-year period preceding the 1928 general reassassment. Conse- quently, the county assessors appointed by the present Democratic Board of County ioners did in 1928 in- ere the assessment of unimproved 1and in the suburban county by $18,- 000,000, which is 25 per cent of the .1 tax ‘money produced for the county unt.rumdimtem‘o( insults against the Church Transactioh Detailed. ‘The charge made by Mr. Welsh Wed- mesday night that the Presbyterian Church of Rockville was deceived in a price for its property in of the new Court House site representation of the price h was to be paid to the Farmers’ & Trust Co., and that the iyment to the bank represented a gift county commissioners and the House Building Committee to 1t G. Hilton, Democratic candidate State Senate and president of , was answered by a detailed it of transaction. “The Court House Building Commit- tee told the pastor of the Presbyterian Church what the county’s offer to the Farmers’ Banking & Trust Co. then and that it had not been accepted,” Ma)j. Lee explained. “The Presbyterian . Church sold its property, an inside lot, for $32,000, which enabled modern that patish to build a and large stone church on a good lot in the residential part of Rock- vilie and have considerable money left. ‘The old building was a much smaller mbhn bullding of antiquated design and Action of Bank Directors. “Dr. Eugene Jones of Kensington, candidate against Hilton in the recent Democratic primary election, and direc- tors and large stockholders of the Farmers’ Banking & Trust Co. voted to ask $60,000 for the bank site. Albert M. Bouic voted to accept $42,000. “The majority of the directors voted to accept $50,000 for the bank property. “Hilton did not vote, as he was a voting member of the Court House Building Committee. ““The county raised its offer from $38,000 to $42,000, which was Bouic's figure, and -was able to purchase the y at $45,000. “Lack of an adequate condemnation law, which passed the House of Dele- tes in 1929 and was killed in the tate Senate by Senator Jones, clearly the county commissioners in acq: the property in the square ‘west of the old court house as an en- largement of the court house site. Forced by Emergency. *“Such payments as might have been regarded ‘as h by a condemnation jury were forced upon the county’ ad. ministration through the present rei A court house to protect the land, testa- mtgy mdl’h.: nw&ax of the county su) equate working quart- ers for Igg efficlent handling (; the county business. “Welsh eays he will prove the county . Other than| Theater. consequently produces the last 25 per cent of every county tax dollar. “No tax money of any general tax- payer, resident in Montgomery County before 1928 is spent to finance the county road, school, court house honds, because these bond issues are being carried and paid off by the new county treasury by the increased suburban land assessments and new house and store values. Suggestions Now Law, Maj. Lee declared that the Repub- lcan charges that the affairs of the county are administered in an “in- efficient and unbusiness-like way” amount to “some general talk about systems of bookkeeping.” Ninety per ::m :yt &f" mne:uou.“he said, are el law and practice. Answering blican criticism of the county bonding policy, the er pointed out that “Montgomery ity paid off $97,000 of county bonds in 1929, $100,000 in 1930 and will pay off $103.- 000 in 1931. The average requirement of the future is $142.000 a year for county bond payments,” he declared. ‘This, he , repersents but a 33 per cent increase for the future while the| ty's taxable basis has increased 400 | o Sk 30 vears ahd.can be expected the past 20 years can be e conservatively to maintain a similar rate of increase. He flatly denied allegations that the schools were inefficient or poorly eq:ltg- ped and that the police force and Wash- ington Suburban Sanitary Commission do not function properly. “ Ritchie Boasts of Roads. Ninet; cent of the area of Mary- land mydp'e:per cent of its population are within 2 miles of a modern, im- proved State highway, Gov. Ritchie as- serted. This is a record, he declared, of which n;gsther tflu'.e u‘: boast. ‘ Quoting figures of a recent survey o Montgomery County, he said that in 1920 but 67 per cent of its area was within 2 miles of a State highway, while at the t time 95 per cent of its territory is within that radius. The real issue of the present cam- ign, Gov. Ritchie told his audiences, B here wit you get the best govern- ment?” If the Republicans are vic- torious, he said, it will mean a trans- fer of the policies of the Baltimore City Hall to Annepolis. He charged the Re- publicans in Baltimore with locating parks miles outside the city limits and with splitting up contracts so as to avoid the provisions of the law re- quiring competitive bidding. Discusses Own Record. The governor discissed the record of his own administration, particularly in regard to teh development of schools, public_health and roads. W. Preston Lane, Hagerstown lawyer and newspaper publisher, who was chosen Democratic candidate for attor- ney general Thursday, was the only State candidate to speak other than the gov- ernor. He condemned what he said was the invasion of fundamental rights, particu- larly of liberty and the pursuit of happinefs, by national Republican ad- ministrations and laid at the same door the present unemployment situation and | economic_depression. Capt. Joseph C. Cissel, who presided at the afternoon rally in the Kensing- | ton National Guard Armory, charged | the Republicans with conducting a/ “criticism, vituperation and slander,” necessitated, he said, by their inability to point, out deficiencies in the record of the Democrats. Smoot Tariff Attacked. The Smoot tariff was termed “phe- nomenal in its excesses” by David J. Lewis, candidate for the House of Rep- resentatives from the sixth Maryland congressional district, and blamed for unemployment and farm depression. Miss Lavinia Engle, candidate for the House of Delegates, lauded the Ritchie administration for its development of educational and social welfare systems in the State. Capt. Cissel presided at the meeting in Silver Spring as well as at Kensing- ton. Emory Bogley was chairman of the Bethesda meeting, held in the State the field of covers an Scientists estimate tha ice at the North area of 1,000, uare FOR RENT 2 Rooms, Kitchen, Bath and Reception Room Eleetric Refrigeration r|Head Announces Inability to| MISION 10 SEE BGEER QUARTERS Care for Increased De- mands of Jobless. With the October “bread and bed line” breaking all records at the Cen- tral Union Mission for previous years, Supt. John 8. Bennett said soday the unemployment situation in Wl.shlnmnl would compel the massion to seek ad- | ditional quarters to provide temporary Tgemr for jobless men during the com- g ter. “Already this month we have had to | sup{aly indoor space at the mission bui dlnf for an overflow of men to eleep sitting up,” Mr. Bennett said. Compared with an average of 825 beds provided monthly last year, the highest up to that time, Mr. Bennett pointed out, the Central Union Mission during the first 12 days of this month has provided free beds to 1,001 men. Of this number 446 men registered had never before applied to the mission for aid. The number of free meals fur- nished during the 12-day period was 2,162, compared with a monthly aver- age of 1,130 last year. With the approach of cold weather, Mr. Bennett said, it will be necessary for the mission to rent additional quar- ters to take care of the great number of jobless men. Washington is the gate- way between the North and South and consequently many jobless men are drl(filng -through the city looking for work., The Central Union Mission will cele- brate its forty-sixth anniversary as the evangelistic and welfare mission of the Protestant churches of the District on October 25 and 26. The mission’s board of directors will give a testimonial din- ner next Saturday night at the Raleigh Hotel for Mr. and Mrs. Bennett, who took ¢! of the mission 15 years ago. Dr. Earle-Wilfley, pastor of the Na- tional City Christian Church, will be the principal speaker at the testimonial dinner and other pastors associated with the mission will pay tribute to the long years of labor on the part of the super- inténdent and his wife, who nas charge of the children’s home. MANSFIELD TO FACE POLICE TRIAL BOARD Detectve Charged With Assault on|® Chauffeur of Treasury Department. Harry M. Luckett, chief clerk of the Police Department, today began the preparation of formal charges against Detective A. D. Mansfleld of the first precinct, whom Ellsworth Groomes, colored, a Treasury Department chauf- feur, has accused of assaulting him with a blackjack. ‘The charges .will be based on an affi- davit given Inspector Albert J. Head- | ley by Groomes and two other employes of the Treasury, who were with him on October 10, when Mansfleld is alleged to have struck him with a blackjack. Mansfield will answer the charges be- fore a Police Trial Board. ‘The charges are an outgrowth of an alleged altercation between Mansfield and Groomes. Groomes accused the ficer of assaulting him during a dis pute over the king of a motor truck leld took the Treasury employe into Police Court on charges of assault- ing an officer and blocking traffic, but both cases were dismissed. Groomes, in Police Court, charged ;.hn Mansfield beat him with a black- field, however, told Groomes had resisted arrest, kicked him several times and tore his vest and shirt. James Ford, president of the Union Iron Works, whose machine is said to have been in collision with the Treas- ury truck, is to be Mansfield’s principal witness at the trial. He sald Mans- fleld’s conduct in the arrest of Groomes was not subject to criticism. SOUTHEAST CHILDREN PERFORM IN CIRCUS| | Fall Season of Friendship }Iome} Officially Opens With Pleas- ing Program. Children of Southeast Washington | appeared in the role of circus perform- ers last night, when they donned the costumes of clowns, freaks, acrobats and dancers for the circus, which of- ficially opened the Fall season of Friendship House, the Settlement House, | 326 _Virginia avenue. The miniature circus grounds, which had so carefully been préepared by the children under direction of the Friend- ship House instructors, had to be aban- doned ot to the weather, but the show was held inside the house. ‘The following acts featured the sho Juggling by Percy Oliver, Mme. Pisalski, fortune teller, by Clarisse Hale: clown- ing by Prancisco Partello, and the main | rformance by younger members. Sing- E:c by Walter Doe also was very popu- | T. Dancing was held from 9 to 12 o'clock. It was announced that dancing would be held every Friday night, from 9 to 12 o'clock. Sy Business Men to Meet. ‘The Northeast Business Men’s Asso- clation will hold its first meeting of this season in the Blair School Tuesday night at 9 o'clock. John M. Beane, president of the association, and Robert W. MecCullough, secretary, urge a large attendance. Woopwarp & LoTHROP U™ F avp G STrEeTe Afitique Furniture Repaired Precious | garcon’s ear. |HALIDAY, VET FIREMAN, | | it to the ground, fracturing his skull. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WOMAN FOUND SHOT IN PHILADELPHIA HOTEL | Registered as Mrs. Riley of Wash- ington; Bullet Lodged in Her Chest. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, October 18.—A oman believed to be Mrs, D. L. Riley » ‘Washington, D. C., who was found in her room in a hotel with a bullet wound in her chest last night, is in a semi- conscious condition in a hospital today. At the hotel it was said she registered Wednesday with her husband, who left the next day after paying her room rent until yesterday. Police said Mrs. Riley had only a small amount of money and expresssd the opinion that she might have shot herself over ina- bility %o pay the hotel bill for Friday. A revolver was found on the bed in her room, with four shells exploded. She is about 35 years old. The name of Mrs, D. L. Riley is not listed in the city directory hewe. ARTS CLUB FAIR SWEPT BY WIND' Miniature Tornado Badly| Damages Appointments of Picturesque Village. A miniature tornado, descending with- out warning_upon 'the miniature Paj of the Arts Club's Foire aux Croutes at | dusk last night, wrought considerable damage within an incredibly short space of time: In the twinkling of an eye, the tower of the famous Hotel de Sacre Coeur was | dislodged, crashing down upon the help- less heads of fleeing citizens. Hard upon this catastrophe came a second, as the roof of the adjoining maison was carried away bodily—a roof just fresh from the paint brush of M. Felix Ma- hony, landscape artist, who, however, took this and the succeeding malheureux with his usual calm—“N" importe, we'll have another roof tomorrow, mes en- fantes! he gathered up the pieces, As the velocity of the wind reached its height, books, paintings and other wares of the merchants of the market place were scattered nither and yon, | while sewer rat, bourgeois and grande | dame alike, dashed for cover in the wel- | come shelter of the catacombs, which offered the nearest refuge from the torm. With its dying gasp, the baby tornado puffed off an arm of the windmill, an | ancient landmark of one of the rues| de la ville. An arm, afas, lengthened | and painted to suit the artistic eye of a great master no longer ago than day before yesterday! Even the sign of the mad cow “La Vache Enragee” failed to escape in the melee. Raging and | snorting as only a vache enragee can, | she was picked up, literally by the tail, and hurled against an unoffending Late news from the stricken area in- dicated, however, that the City of Paris | would be completely restored, tower, windmill, cow and all, today and that the Foire aux Croutes wouid open on | scheduled time this afternoon. One has M. Mahony's world for it. He ought to know; he built this Paris, SUCCUMBS HERE AT 52| Funeral Services Set Monday for Man Who Fought Blazes for 28 Years. James W. Haliday, District fireman, | died yesterday a ergency Hospital, after an iliness of four months. He | was 52 years old. Mr. Haliday, & native of Washington, was educated in local public schools. | He was appointed to the District Pire | Department in 1902. The Haliday resi- | dence is at 1390 E street northeast. Besides his widow, Mrs. Lillie May Haliday, he is survived by his father, | James B: Haliday; a brother, Dr. Earl | Haliday, and four daughters, Mrs. | Helen Dogett, Mrs. Russell, R. B. Davis, | Miss Marion Haliday and Miss Doris Haliday, all of this city. | Funeral services will be held Monday | afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Rosedale M. E. Church, 414 Tennessee avenue | northeast. Interment will be at Cedar | Hill Cemetery. | RO g S MAN’S DEATH PROBED Coroner’s Inquiry Follows Fall of Samuel Marks at Building. conducting an inguest for the purpose of having a jury determine the question of responsibility for the death yesterday afternoon of Samuel Marks, 51 years old, of 1215 Pennsylvania avenue south- east, who died at Providence Hospital from injuries received in an accident at Pennsylvania vaenue and Elevent] street southeast. Marks and others were employed on a building which was being razed and was at work removing the fire escape when the structure fell, taking him with He died two bours later. ENTERPRISE SERIAL BUILDING ASSOCIATION 7th St. and La. Ave. N.W. e st Money loaned to members on easy monthly payments James E. Connelly James F. Shea President Secretary family heirloom pieces . . . have them refinished or repaired in our modernly equipped Cabinet Shop, with the assurance that expert craftsmen will do the work. Phone District 5300. Our representative will call. WOODWARD & LOTHROP ALLEGED “PEEPER” CALEHT BY WOMAN Wife of Maj. Gen. W. A. Bethel Seizes Youth Seen on Fire Escape. A colored youth, said to have climbed the fire escape ‘of an apartment at 2116 Kalorama road last night for the purpose of peering into the windows, was captured after a thrilling chase through the corridors by a tenant, Mrs, Walter A. Bethel, wife of Maj. Gen, Bethel, U. 8. A, retired. “I just felt like going ‘after him,” Mrs. Bethel said. She overtook and seized the youth near the front door, Just as her ‘son-in-law, Capt. Hugh W. Rowan of the Army Chemical Warfare Service, dashed up. Capt. Rowan in Action. Capt. Rowan took a swing at the fugitive, knockihg him partly through the plate glass of the front docr. The glass shattered and the youth was glad enough to remain until police from No. 8 precinct could arrive.. i He was held for investigation at the | precinct, where he identified himself as William Reid, 1900 block of Twenty-third Police were informed that street. the youth | was observed by Mrs. Bethel on a rear fire escape two floors above her own apartment. Enters Through Window. The boy is said to have climbed into the apartment through a lower window in an attempted get-away. Complaints that a young colored man had been seen on the same fire escape were made to police last Monday. Similar reports had been made by pupils at a young woman’s boarding school in the same block, who said they saw a man loitering in the vicinity. Woobpwarp 16 years old, of the | SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1930. POLICE ARREST FORMER PASSER OF BAD CHECKS | Man Released From Occoquan Al- leged to Have Admitted Further | Guilt Since Then. Max Thompson, 37 years old, giving his address as 304 G street northeast, who wés released from Occoquan last December after serving a term for pass- Wing worthless checks, was arrested yes- teriay afternoon on F street by mem- bers of the police check squad. Thomp- son, it is alleged, has passed a number of checks on local merchants since his release. Police say he admits his guilt, but is unable to approximaté® the num- ber of checks he has passed. The prisoner is allegéd to have made purchases at groceries and at drug stores and also to have had coal deliv- ered at places other thag where he re- sided, giving checks in “excess of the price’ of the commodity and receiving the difference in cash. y Police allege that he used a number of fictitious names, among them R. Thompson, Harry Millner, H. H. Thomp- son, C. B. Cooke, H. G. Pringle and H. B. Cooke. le checks were given on the Riggs National Bank, Union Trust | Co. and the District National Bank, MORGAN SELECTED | TARIFF SECRETARY | Pennsylvanian Succeeds John F. | Bethune on Commission—Ex- perience Extensive. The Tariff Commission today ap- pointed Sidney. Morgan of ArgmmPe, Pa., as secretary of the commission. He succeeds John F. Bethune, re- cently named the commission’s Euro- pean representative. Morgan has had a variety of govern- mental connections. 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