Evening Star Newspaper, January 20, 1931, Page 30

el TH PLAN RATE FIGHT IN HYATTSVILLE Chamber of Commerce Ses- sion Adopts Resolution After | Hearing Potomac Official. Special Dispatch to The Sta: HYATTSVILLE, Md. January 20— That the consumers of electricity fur- nished by the Potomac Electric Power | Co., in Hyattsville and contiguous communities wil. make a speedy and determined fight to continue to be benefited by the rate reduction: | nounced by the power compan tive January 1, was made clear at a largely attended meeting of the Hyatts- | ville Chamber of Commerce held in the | Municipal Building here last night C. Melvin Sharpe, executive of the company, was the guest speaker of the evening. He reviewed ai some length the various stages of the litig tion which resulted in reductions of rates in the District of Columbia and Maryland from 10 cents per kilowatt hour in 1924 to 4.2 cents per kilowatt hour in 1931. He cited the decree of | the Supreme Court of the District of | Columbia in which it was held that| | in Maryland, and declared ! Cheap Current Resulted. “Cheap current and harmonious re- lations with consumers have resulted, thus justifying the fairness of the pres. ent arrangement. If these things are ssistant | E still desired they can only be had un- der the existing profit-sharing plan. Following Mr. Sharpe's talk he was given a rising vote of thanks, and reso- lutions protesting against_the abolition of the present rate reductions, and pointing out that the exclusion of the value of property located in Maryland from the total value of the property of the utility would disturb and prejudice the rates available to the consumers in Maryland, were adopted. tion further declared that ™ sense of the Chamber of Commerce o Hyattsville that any case pertaining to the value of the property of the utility, or of rates to be charged upon the basis of such value, should be the subject of joint hearing and decision by the Public Utility Commission of the Dis- trict of Columbia and the P\X.IJI(C Serv- ice_Commission of Maryland.” The Public Utilities Committee of the | R: chamber, _ superintendent of ~county schools, chairman, drafted the Tesolu- ions which were presented by com- mitteeman M. T. May. President Arthur P. Owens, Decatur Heights, appointed the following com- mittec to personally present the reso- lutions to members of Congress. Irvin Owings, Dr. H. T. Willis, Nicholas T m The resolutions were signed by J; Sampson, mayor of Brentwood; r H T. Willis and Councilmen H, A. Harrison and Perley F. Brookens representing Hyattsville; W. J. Schock and County Commissioner George N Bowen, Taxpayers' Association, Univer sity Park; A. Seidenspinner, vice president Exchange Club of Princ Georges County; Arthur P. Owens, tow] commissioners of Bladensburg; Max Vollberg, mayor of Riverdale; Arthur G. McCall, College Park Home and School Association; W. F. Mulligan. Branchville Citizens' Association and the Beltsville Grange; Bird H. Dolby, corporation counsel, mayor and com- mon council Mount Rainier: E. J. Can- non, John R. Riggles and Bert H. Wise, Prince Georges County Federation of Citizens' Associations; Mark M. Moran ‘u‘nd R. Henry Lewis. Stephen Citizens’ | Association, Inc. East Riverdale, and George M. Harris, president Decatur Heights Citizens' Association. Officers Elected. The following officers of the chamber were elected for the current year: Wil- m T. Jennings, president, succeed- iug Arthur P. Owens, who asked that | e’ be relieved from further service as president; Dr. Ira K. Atherton, vice president; William Bowie, treasurer; C. | D. Anderson, secretary: Executive Com | mitteeman A. H. Seidenspinner; Na. | tional Councilor M. T. May and Asso- ciate National Councilor Daniel Cox Fahey, ir. President Jennings announced the | following standing committees: Legisla- {tive, S. Marvin Peach, chairman; Charles W. Clagett, H. C. Byrd, J. Enos ay, Irvin Owings, Nicholas Orem, B. Furman, Waldo Burnside. ss_ Promotion, A. H. Seidenspin- chairman; Ssmuel H. Harvey s L. Ervin, Dr. H. T. Willis, John 'T. Norman, G. Hodge: r. J. Henry Hiser, Harry A. Cooper, J. M. Botts.” Publicity, E. A. Fuller, chairman; Frank B. Smith, W. L 1 W. H. Anglir . Daniel Cox Powers, s, Frank S. Grooms, D Public Utilities, Nich Russell _Hardy Dwight B. Galt, Robert. W. McCullough, . Bert H. Wise. Civic, L. 1 rman; Irvin Owings, H. W. Spicknall, F. P. Brookens, Frank M. Stephen, H. P. Howard. Chosen Deicgates. D. C. Fahey, jr. was chosen delegate to the Third ~National Chamber o Commerce Conference to be held in Washington May 28 and 29 next. An_appropriation’ of was made by the chamber to the rescue squad of Prince Georges County, the secre- James E. Sampson of Brentwood, ring that if aid was not forth- coming from the peopic, the ambulance George Busin Gray, chat EVENING STAR, W. 1 | | [ | I | ASHINGTOX, will have to be discontinued or the work | stopped. | Mr. Jennings reported that a joint| committee from the Chamber and Ex- | change Club would confer with the | State Roads Commission Wednesdny} in Baltimore concerning the elimina- tion of dangerous conditions at Burgess corner, Hyattsville, on the recently completed extension of Rhode Island | avenue. He also stated the Roads Com- | mission would have the lights on the ' recently completed bridge over the rail- | road tracks in Hyattsville lighted dur- | ing January he hoped to have| the plant in operation next Monday, the date of the chamber’s banquet. | el | | MISéTONARY RETURNS Nervous Breakdown Follows Mas- sacre of Three in Brazil. NEW YORK, January 20 (#).—Bear- | ing fresh details of the massacre of | three Americans, including a baby girl, by Indians in the Matto Grosso region | of Brazil, Rev. Willlam E. Hasker, a missionary, has returned from South America because of a nervous break- down. Rev. Arthur F. Tylee of Worcester. | Mass, and Miss Mildred Kratz of Wheaton, 111, missionaries of the In- land South American Missionary Union, | and his daughter Marion were killed in | their sleep, along with three Brazlians, | last November at Juruena. Mrs. Tylee | of Memphis, Tenn., was wounded, but scape | present, and his place was D. O, TUESDAY, J MEETINGS HONOR LEEAND JACKSD Only One of Seven Camp Lee| Veterans Able to Attend Alexandria Dinner. Adjt. Edgar Warfield was the only one of seven surviving members of Robert E. Lee Camp, United Confeder- ate Veterans, who was able to attend the annual dinner or the camp last night in Lee Camp Hall, Alexand Va Comdr. E. C. Graham, who was scheduled to preside, was unable to be aken by R. commander of the erate Veterans of Alex- Samuel Luckstt, Sons of Confe andria. Other Veterans Present. The late Confederate hosts were rep. nted by two other veterans—Gen S. Simmons, commander of the Pa- fic Division of United Confederate Veterans, who lives in Bell, Calif., and Crawford Crook, formerly of Alexandria and now a resident of the District. E. V. Regester, p the Alexandria re: S rict, M ANUARY 20, 1937 ot ATRORNIETY 3 TGy Ve Church South, pronounced the invoca- tion, and Rev. Edgar Carpenter, rector of Grace Episcopal Church, the bene- diction. Mrs. Margaret Bailey sang “Carry Me Back to Old Virginia.” | . An address on Gen. Robert E. Lee was I delivered by Representative John J. | NEW SITES URGED FOR ARTS GOLLEGE McSwain of Scuth Carolina, while Rep- resentative iLa Fayette Patterson of Ala- | bama Gen. “Stonewall” Jack- | son | ‘The dinner was served by the local chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy under the direction of its president, Mrs. Charles Lee Howell. Representative John E. Rankin of Mississippi la: rial meeting spoke on |Locations in Fairfax and Ar- | lington Counties Suggested United Confederate Vet- erans Camp, No. 171, at the headquar- | ters building, 1322° Vermont _avenue, honoring the birthdays of Robert E. Lee and Stonewa!l Jackson. Mrs. Maude Howell Smith read Lee's FAIRFAX, Va, January 20.—The farewell address to his troops at Appo- mattox Court House, and musical num- | Arington and Fairfax County Cham- bers were rendered by Dr. Clifton P,|Dbers of Commerce and the Arlington | Clarke and Mrs. Benjamin S. Ganz, |County Civic Federation have jointly Gen, W. L. Wilkerson, commander of |sent a request to the committee ap- the local group of veterans, presided. | posrted by the last Leglslature to rec e R \ommend”a site for ‘the proposed Liberal i i | Arts College for Women in Virginia, Army Joins Relief War. asking that a_representative be sent 10 BERLIN, January 20 ().—Ger- | this section to inspect a number of | many's armed forces yesterday were |sites in Fairfax and Arlington Countie ordered to join the war against hunger| The Fairfax chamber last year se- and distress. |lected three sites in Fairfax County as The Reichswehr ministry instructed | peculiarly suited for development as a | garrison "commanders and naval com- | college campus, but abandoned the ef- | mandants to co-operate to every pos- | fort when informed that no sites would | | sible extent with municipalities and re- | be considered unless free title could be | lief organizations. ~This involved the |offered or an equivalent in money. The | | offering of field kitchens for the prep- | project was later revived at the request to Virginia Board. Special Dispatch to The Star. | night addressed a memo- i or collection and dell | curred in the view previously expressed by the Fairfax chamber that the cole lege should be so located &s to allow the girls to enjoy the opportunities af- forded by proximity to the Nation's Capital. Appended to the letter 1s & @escrip- tion of three sites which the commise sion is particularly urged to inspect. The first is Arlington Hall School for Girls, on Glebe road, in Arlington County. It is understood that another site for this school is available in the county if the commission should favor this site for the college. No price is given for this property. The second location is 300 acres on the Lee High- way between Falls Church and Fairfa which is offered to the State at $300 per_acre. The third suggestion is the offer of 100 acres, withcut cost to th t ifrom a 650-acre tract near Station owned by W. §. Hoge the tracts are accessible to h boulevards, street cars and bus third tract is in addition act the Southern Railroad. committee comes it will prol inspect the three sites originally ommended by the Fairfax Chamber the Willard estate at Fairfax, the Leiter estatc on the Potcmac River near Langley, and a large acreage on the Richmond road between Alexan and Mount Vernon A farmer of Alberta last Summer drove to market 36 horses, pulling siding Md; aration of food and transport service of the Arlington chamber, which con-| 8 wagonloads of wheat, handling all the rei self. ( Wo0ODWARD & LOTHROP 10™ 11™ F aAND G STREETS . 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