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[ THE EVEN 4 NG STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1931. ‘A-§ COUNTY WELFARE BILL INTRODUCED Funeral Held for Fairle Woman Who Succumbs at Home. Special Dispatch to The Star. CHESTERTOWN, Md., February 28. —Funeral services for Mrs. Addalean R. LeCompte, 52, wife of W. Beauchamp LeCompte, who died Monday at her home, near Fairle, were conducted yes- terday in Wesley Chapel Methodist Montgomery Measure at An- Protestant Church by Rev. J. W. Bax- ley, assisted by Rev. W. S. Grant. napo"s WOUId create Burial was in Wesley Chapel Cemetery. . She was a doughter of Mrs. Susan New Office. !Hnguv and the late Perry Hague. Be- sides her husband, she is survived by the 'Lzllnwl[ngpgk‘llflgrrl‘niis. xauchlhpi BY GEORGE PORTER, Compte _of ladelpbia, Mrs. e Staft Correspondent of The Star. Townsend, L. Nelson ILeCompte, W. Harvey LeCompte. H. C. LeCompte, ANNAPOLIS, Md., February 28.—Two | Miss Aline M. LeCompte, Alfred W. Le- of the major measures which Mont-|Compte and Raymond M. LeCompte. gomery County expects to have enacted | She also leaves her mother, & slster| fnto law at the present scssion of the | i 3 eziature—calling for the creation of tae office of superintendent of county welfar and establi-ming a county en- aneerng department—were intrcduced in the upper branch of the Gencral As- sembly yesterday by Senator Robert G. Hilton, FISH URGES LAW o mureres 1) qNTTUTON BILLS ARE OFFERED Maryland Put Up to Legislature. By the Associated Press. ANNAPOLIS, February 28—Admin- istration measures providing for the calling of a constitutional convention in 1932, were introduced in both houses of the General Assembly yes- terday. The bills were an aftermath of the November elcction, the question whether sufficlent votes were cast to require convening of such a convention having been widely discussed. Convening of Convention in| The welfare bill, regarded by county leaders as a most progressive step in county administration, would empower the commissioners to appoint a * super- visor of county aid,” whose duties, as his title implies, would consist mainly | of directing the activities for the as- sistance and care of the aged and poor. As far as can be learned, no other | ‘ounty in Maryland has such an official. Would Supervise Commitments. ‘The supervisor would investigate and | approve or disapprove all applications | for commitment, at county expense, to the State Insane Asylum and other 1n- | stitutions, The expenditure by the State and county of money for the care | of indigent county patients in Mont- gomery County and Washington hos- Ppitals would also be placed under his | Jurisdiction. He would be trustee for all persons receiving county aid, replacing a larg: | group of individuals appointed now in each case, and known as “trustee for the oor."” | PO e supervisor of county aid would be the representative of the county com- missioners on the board of the Social Service League of the county end help supervise the $10,000 appropriated an- nually for disbursement by that organ- tion. Agent Is Authorized. According to Capt. Joseph C. Cissel, attorney to the Board of Countv Com- missioners, who drew the bill presented | by Senator Hilton, the commisioners | were authorized in 1929 to designate en | agent to supervise the expenditure of | the $10,000. Heretofcre, he savs, the commission- ers have designated the Social Service League as their egent. They do not want to change their agent, but wish to | have a representative on the board of | directors of the league, Capt. Cissel ex- plained. The bill further specifies that the supervisor shall file a report of his ac- tivities with the county commussioners. | It fixes his salary at $2.100 a vear, and | Tequires that bond of $10,000 e posted | for the “faithful performance of his| duties.” | Abolishment of the office of Mont- gomery County road _superintendent and the establishment of a county en- gineering department is authorized in the other bill introduced by Senator | n. County Engineer at Head. At the head of the engineering de- partment would be a county engineer, ‘whose duties would include the inspec- tion and supervision of public work chiefly roads, bridges, streets and side- walks. The county engineer and his assistants would prepare specifications and plans for public works, act in an advisory capacity to the county com- missioners and perform other miscel- laneous functions relating to an en- gineering office. The bill gives the county commis- sioners the power to appoint the engi- neer and assistants, but does not spe- cifically fix the amount of their com- pensation nor the number of assistants to_be employed. -In the House, Montgomery County Delegates George L. Edmonds, Lavinia Engle, O. W. Roby and Marvin Far- rington introduced a bill authorizing the county commissioners to designate one of their members as road super- visor and to pay him $4 a day while acting in such capacity. JAMES 1. PRITCHETT ELECTED MILL HEAD M. K. Harris Named Assistant President and Treasurer of Dan- ville Cotton Industries. Methodist Episcopal Church. Up to Appeals Court. Gov. Ritchie, in_sending the meas- ure to the Legislature, declared he T0 DEPORT RS New York Representative Ad- | dresses Anti-Communist Meeting at Silver Spring. He said that only the Court of Appeals Special Dispatch to The Star. SILVER SPRING, Md., February 28. —Enactment of a Federal law author- izng deportation of all alien Com- munists and barring prospective ia- migrants known to be Communists was ! urged last night by Representative Hamilton Fish of New York in an ad- dress at a patriotic meeting sponsored by the American Legion Post of Mont- gomery County in the National Guard Armory here. Representative _Fish _also rapped opponents of the bonus bill which was passed yesterday over the President's veto, saying that their charges that the loans to the veterans wquld necessitat¢ an increase in taxation were untrue and made for their own seifish ends. He asserted that the Government is merely loaning at 4'2 per cent interest money for which it pays 3 per cent and that there ere ample funds now in the Treasury to finance the loans. Red Issue. Most Serious. Representative Fish called the issue! of Communism ‘the most important, | the most far-reaching and the most serious in the world today in its eifect on civilization and the safety and hap- pness of the people of the civilized | nations.” Moscow, he said, is concentrating on sowing the spirit of revolution among the 12,000,000 colored people of Amer- | ica, and this movement is helped by men like Clarence Darrow, who recentiy made addresses in colored churches here. Despite Soviet propaganda, Rep- resentative Fish declared, he is con- vinced the colored race in America is loyal to the principles of American Government. Mrs. Walker Speaks. Mrs. William Sherman Walker, chair- man of th: National Defense Commit- ice of th: Daughurs of the American Revolution, tola of the Russian five- year plan. She decried the tendency among American businss men to scoff at the thrat of Communism in this country, Mrs. Charles C. Conrad, State com- mander of the American Legion Auxii- lary extended grectings. His experienc:s in a Siberian prison camp, w re detailed by Arthur A. Kop- man, who was arresied in Russia on suspiclon of being a spy. He finaily succeeded in smuggling a_message to the American consul in Poland who secured his relcase. The m eting was arranged by Maj. Howard W. Cutler, commander of the Cissel-Saxon American Legion Post of Silver Spring; Mrs. Paul Clark, presi- dent of the Silver Spring Auxiliary; Warner E. Pumphrey, commander of the Hend-rson-Smith-Edmonds Post of | Rockvil'e; Mrs. Helen Weadon, head of the Rockville Auxiliary, and Albert Willson, commander of the Norman B. Trice Post of Sandy Spring. The program commenced With a pa- triotic concert by the United States Army Band and_invocaton by Rev. T. A. Calnan of St. Michael's Catholic Church. Lieut. Col. George Hender- son, department commander of the American Legion of Maryland, presided. There were two vocal solos by Mrs. Estelle Hunt Dean, accompanied on the piano by her daughter, Miss Helen Dean. Benediction was pronounced by | Rev. Ralph D. Smith of the Woodside | @pecial Dispatch to The Star. DANVILLE, Va. February 28—The Riverside and Dan River cotton mills, | Danville’s $15,000.000 textile corpora- tion, today was headed by James I Pritchett, sr.. who was elected pres’dent 1o succeed the late H. R. Fitzgerald at a meeting of directors late vesterday. The board also elected M. K. Harr attorney* for the corporation, assistant | resident and treasurer. The decision each case was unanimous and but| one nomination was made. { No salarics were set. It is expected | they will be decided upon at another | BIRTH-CONTROL BILL MAY REACH ASSEMBLY | % 2 ll Measure Being Drafted for Precen- tation by Baltimore County Delegate. could really decide the question, and the best policy was to let the ‘Legis- lature pass the measures and place them before that tribunal for a ruling. The bills, drafted by Attorney Gen- eral Lane, provided the machinery for the election of delegates and the method of holding their sessions, and these provisions, “the executive 'said, should be carefully considered by the Assembly before any action is taken. Under provisions of the bills as_pre- sented by Senator McIntosh and Dele- gate Lindsay, both of Baltimore Coun- ty, the delegates would be elected at the primary of May, 1932. Would Serve Without Pay. Candidates for the posts of delegate would be listed on ballots separate from the regular ones used at the pri- None of the candidates would be re: | quired to post any fee for filing their | candidacies, and would serve without ay. Each county and district of Balti- more City would be entitled to the same number of delegates as they have com- bined members in the House and Sen- ate and ,qualifications governing _elec- ;tlon of embers of the General As- | sembly would apply to the convention | aspirants. | Members of the Assembly | placed in an anomalous | through introduction of the bil position " ered entirely in Baltimore City. mary, and would be counted separate, | and placed in separate ballot boxes. which, for the most part, has never been discussed in the various phases of development of the project over nearly a dozen years. “Nobody knows yet whether or not the bridge is wanted,” the Frederick County Senator said. ‘With the hearing of what he termed opponents of the bridge yesterday, the legislative body has done all it can do, Senator Coblentz said. ‘The problem, the Senator said, is an engineering one, which is beyond the powers of the members of the commit- tee, most of whom are lawyers and bankers. MORE TIME ASKED BY BRIDGE BOARD Report on Chesapeake Span, 'Ready for Legislature, Urges Further Study. ACCUSED OF HOLD-UP Two Warrenton Colored Men Held for Robbing ungineer. Special Dispatch to The Star. ‘WARRENTON, Va, February 28. | William Wheeler and Charles Wash- ington, colored, of Warrenton, arrested by Officers 8. 8. Hall and W. 8. Woolf on suspicion of having as- saulted and robbed Thomas Bruce, By the Associated Press. ANNAPOLIS, Md., February 28.— | The Joint Legislative Chesapeake Bay | Bridge Committee has completed its | work as far as it can, and a tentative | report has been drafted for presenta- tion to both Houses and Gov. Ritchie | next Wednesday, Senator Emory L. | Coblentz, chairman, said yesterday. The report, it was said, will recom- | mend a further study of the plan in the | two-year interim between this and the (Sunday night. were | engineer on the Southern Railway, | were | 1933 session of the Legislature, during sentiment’ for or 'Every | apainst _construction of the span will could not ignore the fact that the|county in the State voted against cali- | be sought. majority of the votes cast on the ques- | ing the convention, and the majority | tion were in favor of the convention. | by which the proposal passed was gath- | ator Coblentz said, would go into the public opinion thoroughly as a matter | which time public The continuation of the study, Sen- After examination both men are said to have confessed to the charge. Th had part of the money in their pos house. The money, amounting to $74, has all been recovered and the men are in jail. session and part buried under an out- | CULPEPER’S LEADING | Jackson L. Fray, Banker and Capi- | talist, Expires Following Illness i of Several Months. Special Dispatch to The Star. CULPEPER, Va. February 28.—Jack- son L. Fray, president of the Second National Bank of Culpeper and leading citizen, died yesterday at his home, on East street, after an illness that began |in the early Autumn, in the sixty-ninth | year of his age. Mr. Fray was a native of the adjoin- ing Couaty of Madison and a descend- ant of the early German settlers who colonized that region in 1724, and, | although making his home in Culpeper for many years, had always retained his membershin in historic Mount Herbron Lutheran Church of Madison. In addi- tion to being president of one of the leading banks, he was also the founder and principal owner of the Culpeper | Telephone Co.. operating over a large | | area of Northern Virginia and sold two | years ago to the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. He was the founder and owner of the Fairfax Theater, owned | large interests in the Culpeper Silk Mills and in a wholesale grocery concern of | Culpeper and many other interests. He G STREETS CITIZEN DIES AT HOME ', also 0 In"Meadiaon and valuable reu eeate 1n was t X, “ Crigler, who some y ,, leaving one Ruth, and later to Miss - ing of Culpeper, who survives him. His children are Mrs. Ruth Fray Eckman of Baltimore, Mrs. Ewing Wall of Quantico, Miss Virginia Fray of Culpeper, Miss Ellen Fray, a student of Goucher Col- lege, Baltimore: Jackson L. Fray, Jr., a amuel Browning Fray of 3 He was a member of hn?::"ladn of Masons and was a Knight Templar and Shriner. ‘The funeral will be held on Sunday afternoon from his residence and inter- ment will be in the Masonic Cemetery. MRS. WILLIAMS HONORED | Special Dispatch to The Star. | CHESTERTOWN, Md., February 28. Mrs. Harry Williams of Worton yester- day was elected president of the Mary- land Turkey Growers Association of Kent County at a special meeting called | to discuss the cost of production of holi- day birds this year. Other officers chosen were Albert Jer- | vis, Still Pond, vice president; Mrs. Nell C. Westcott, Chestertown, secretary, and | Mrs. Linwood A. Sutton, Chesterfown, | treasurer. | Linwood A. Sutton was appointed chairman of the Marketing Committee. WooDWARD & LOTHROP 10™ 11™ F AND meeting of directors to be held shortly, | BY ® Stafl Correspondent of The Star. Mr. Pritchett was senfor yice president| L ANNAPOLIS, Md., February 28— of the mills and is also president of | Announc ment’ that he will introduce the Pirst National Bank, prosident of |# birth-cntrol bill “if he can get the the Piedmont mills, in Lynchburg, and | Proper support” was made yesterday by chairman of the board of the Dan Val- | Delegate Holmes M. Alexander of Balti- ley mills here. | more County. Mr. Harris had for many years been| , The —proposed mezsure is being counsel for the mills. He will not give | ¢Fafied by the department of legis'a- up his practice. George P. Rav was live refercnc> and would authorize the automatically moved fo senior yiee| Stite department cf health to create presicent and Rdbert R. Wect next vice 8 Dirth control bureau. D:ssiminati-n president as a result of the on. | of literature and advice probably would The board adopted resolutions de-|be the function of the proposed State ploring the death of Mr. Fitzgerald and | he2lth bureau, the del-gate said. jons These Are the Smart Sp —At Their Smartest—in BLUE ring Fash The Redingo?e in Blue. . . navy Blue wool coat with a printed frock that echoes the Vionnet pink of the patent leather belt . . . the coat sleeves are the new bracelet length, $39.50. Copy of Agnes’ milan and crochet brim hat with tiny feathers, $18.50. 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ANNAPOLIS, Md., February 28— ‘The D'Alezandro bill, granting Balti- more City “home rule” in regard to Sunday amusements, will be submitted t a group of Baltimore lawyers for study as to its validity, it was revealed | when the General Assembly recessed over the week end yesterday. Although | the attorney general's office has not been as:ed for an opinion, the lawyers | ‘who will scrutinize the bill are said to| be_constitutional experts. The Baltimore City delegation voted to report favorably the measure. which | ‘was sponsored by Delegate Thomas ' D'Alesandro less than an hour after | the opponents were granted a hearing | on the bill Priday. Only two of the! city's 36 Delegates falled to vote in fa- | 'on’hue“ “bikie 1a ) | nother “blue w” repealer, State- N, wide in scope, has been introduced by I3k an8 5 X Ave. NI Speaker Prancis A. Michel. 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