Evening Star Newspaper, July 1, 1931, Page 6

- $676.900 HIGHWAY. 711-Carat Opal - Is' Discovered. In Australia PROGRAM DRAFTED | ...z | CANBERRA. Australia, July 1. | —Discovery of what is belleved to be the largest o] n existence at ‘Mon!gome_r’y Holds $98.500.; Lightning Ridge was revealed to- in Reserve From Bonds ‘ liant colors. ts and to be a mass of bril- for Emergencies. By 2 Btaff Correspondent of The Star CKVILLE, Md.. July 1.—A tenta- | tive pregram for road construction and improvement in the sections of Mont- | gomery County north of the suburban | . districts for 1831 and 1932 was np-i AUDIT IS ORDERED exependiture of $676,500 of the $775,- | At SRR RIS Ao fron EhIAT Wit County Commissioners Take Action to Silence Fund Misuse Charges. The difference between the two sums 18 to be reserved to meet unforseen con- tingencies as they develop. BY WILLIAM S. TARVER. ‘seven-tenth: i 716 tont onncrete Staft Correspondent of The Star. n-tenths mile of -foot concl 2 Foad and two small bridges, $35,000; Sun- | ROCKVILLE, Md, July 1.—A thor- shine through Unity toward Etchison, ough audit of all expenditures of Mont- with spur at Mount Zion, to be Tesur- gomery County for the past 16 years Program by Districts. road construction by districts | New follows: | Laytonsville—Unfinished gap on Da- mascus - Woedfield - Laytonsville road, l | Pirst National Bank of Sandy Spring; *| president Takoma Park Bank. THE president First National Bank:of Giajth- ersburg; Frederic L. Thomas, presifient EVENING A. R. Selby, president Germantown Bank; James H. Cissel, president Silver Spring National Bank, and H. F. Taff, FALL INJURES FIREMAN Blipping on e crcase pen while at- tempting to leap upon the rear of No. 16 engine, as it was leaving its quar- ters at Fourteenth and Ohio avenue yesterday, Pvt. Charles E. Wright, 28, fell to the brick flooring and was severely cut and bruised. The engine was pull fire station in respo when the accident occured. Wright was treated at Emergency Hospital. g out of the —— Ty STAR, D C FIREMAN HELD Washington Woman May Lose Arm as Result of Wreck at Special Dispateh to The Star. SEAT BLEASANT, Md, July 1.— Douglas Lemmons, 32-year-old District fireman, killed by a train at Landover two years , was being held at Bladensburg jail today for investigation in connec- tion with the serious injury last night @ to_an alarm | ago WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, JULY 11931 of Mrs. Loretts Beits, 47, of the 1300 | ment block of Park road. | today Mrs. Beitz, mother of three, injured when an automobile in which she was riding along Central avenue, nere, was overturned after being side- swiped by another machine which failed to stop. Riding With Children. Mrs. Seitz was riding with her three Seat Pleasant. children, James, 9; Charlotte, 11, and Ehe Margaret, 13, in an automoblle driven by a Mr. Russell, described as a friend of the Seitz family. Russell took Mrs. Seitz to Casualty Hospital following the accident. There it was found her shoulder and arm, which were pinned beneath the car, had been badly crushed, and she By® S IN HIT-RUN CRASH whose wife and child were also sustained probable internal in- juries. Her husband, Fred H. Seitz, employed in the circulation depart- his les was | the injured arm. 'LEGS CRUSHED, MAN RESCUED FROM FIREllel?.:l;n"'nulilkl'.';l‘:hduxroyed by’the fire. | Vehicle Wrecked on Baltimore MUIRKIRK, Md., July 1.—With both | of & Washington newspaper, sald 4t may be necessary to amputate more Boulevard, Daniel Brown, 1300 block of 8 street, barely escaped death yesterday. as the vehicle burst into . g tricated f: le was extrical rom the wrecl by bystanders and taken to Dr. BbgPe ‘Warren of Laurel, who ordered him re- moved to mfl'"flmflmnim. longed to a trans- Smut Hits Wheat. LURAY, Va, July 1 (Special).— Boulevard at Muirkirk Pifty per cent of the wheat crop be- Bursts in Flames. ot with smut, sccording to inspection made by County Agent G. H. Clark. Other ‘sections of the county are com- paratively free, however. Many records gs crushed when the heavy truck | for production are being broken as there taff Correspondept of The Star. he was driving overturned on the Balti- has been no destructive wind or hail. CUT PRICES tween Luray and Stanley is affected ' TWO WORKMEN HURT Carpenter Falls From Scaffolding on Red Cross !ufidin‘. | Carol Compton, 31-year-oid earpenten | of 641 F street southwest, was seriouse 1y injured yesterday afternoon when he fell 14 feet from a scaffold while worke ing on the Red Oross-Bullding, eighe teenth and D streets. He was taken ;w Emergency Hospital. A brick falling from the top of building under construction at ’Fwenty’ second street and Pennsylvania avenue injured Aaron Phillips, colored, 28, of 754 Girard street. Phillips, employed at the structure as a laborer, was treated at Georgetown University Hospital yese | terday for cuts and bruises. faced for the mile of county macadam road and the balance to be of nine- foot ‘concrete, $30,000, and a 10-foot macadam road from Etchison toward Unity, $8,000. Damascus—One and one-half miles of nine-foot concrete road from Da- mascus-Laytonsville road to Howard Chapel toward Patuxant River, $30.000:- seven-tenths mile from Purdum to Lewisdale, nine-foot concrete, $15,000; one-half mile of nine-foot eoncrete: to finish the highway to Browningville Church, $12,000. Clarksburg—One mile of concrete from improved highway to- ward King's Distillery, $20.000. one mile of nine-foot concrete from Old Germantown to Boyds, $20.000, and second mile of nine-foot concrete from Old Germantown-te Boyds, $20.000. Barnesville Roads. | Barnesville—One mile, nine-foot con- | nine-font | | was authorized vesterday by the Board of County Commissioners for the ex- | pressed purpose of silencing charges of | corruption and misuse of county funds which have been made by political enemies of the present Democratic ad- | mimstration. | In their zesolution sanctioning the | audit, the commissioners express their | confidence in the “efficiency. . integrity and corstructive record of the govern- ment of Montgomery County,” but say that if “from such audit. inefiiciency. wastefulness or guilt shall appear. the commissioners will remove the ineffici- ency, eliminate the waster, order im- provement. and aid in the punishment of the guilty by presentation to the prosecuting officer of the county.” Audit Lists Offered. 1t is provided that the auditing firm EFFECTIVE EVERY DAY erete, Comus to Sugarloaf Mountain, or individual to make the investigation $20,000; one mile, nine-foot concrete. be chosen from two lists of 12 names Dickerson toward Frederick County | each, one prepared by the officers and line, $20.000. and resurface Blacktown- Executive and Adiisory Committees of Slidell County macadam road, $8.000. the Montgomery County Civie Federa- Poolesville—One mile, nine-foot con- | tion and the other by the presidents crete, Dickerson toward Whites Ferry, or acting presidents of the 11 Mont- $20,000, and one mile. 16-foot concrete, gomerv County banks. Martinsburg to Whites Ferry, $30,000. Each list is to contain the names of Darnestown—One mile, 15-foot con- | 12 firms or individuals of nationally crete, Bentons Corner toward Old Ger-» known certified public accountants with mantown, $30,000; second mile, 15-foot the best reputations available. all of concrete, Bentons Corner toward Old said firms or individuals so named to Germantown, $30,000: macadam road, be as free as possible from any politi- Old Germantown toward Whiteland. |cal connection in any way with Mont- $6.000; Travilah to Hunting Hill. actual gomery County or the State of Mary- SAVE ON HOUSEHOLD AND VACATION NEEDS Hephese Purty 3 cost of bringing existing county mac- adam highway to State requirements. estimated coet $3.500 per mile, one-half to Darnestown. cne-half to Rockville; Darnestown’s half, $3.750 Potomac—Twelve-foot macadam high- way beginning on each end and work- ing toward the center on Travilah. Glen to the Potomac-Rockville road. with a spur from Glen to the north, $40.000 Olney—Southern end of Redland- Norbeck or Muncaster Mill road. shoul- ders with backfill, 2 7-10 miles, $40.000. Brookeville—Sunshine to Brighton, 1 mile, 9-foot macadam. $20.000. Colesville District. Colesville—One remaining mile, 15- foot macadari, Burtonville-Browns _Corner road, $20.000: to resurface Avenel-White ‘Oak road, bringing it to Stafe requirements, $24,000. Gaithersburg—County macadam road resurfacing from = Rockville-Gaithers- burg highway to Gaithersburg-Laytons- ville highway, through Washington Grove, $8,000; to extend in the town of : Gaithersburg with concrete shoulders and backfill, Brook avenue, and-im- prove Rockville-Gaithersburg-Prederick road between grade crossing elimination and northern town boundary, $40.000, and Gaithersburg-Barnesville by way of Cloppers, bringing first mile of county meacadam road to State requirements land " ! Sixteen-Year Audit Planned. Prom these two lists the county com- missioners will select an auditing firm |or individual and require “a compara- tive, complete advisory audit” covering | the past 16 years. | The# resolution states that the com- | missioners realize that such an audit will require an expenditure, perhaps in | excess of $25,000, but that they con- sider such an expenditure well worth while to the future of the county if it “shall cause a discontinuance of the repeated charges of corruption against county officials.” For several weeks an anoymous peti- | tion addressed to the judges of the Cir- cuit Court has been in circulation re- questing the judges to recall the grand jury to conduct an investigation of the county administration. The petition also asks that a firm of public account- | ants from outside the State be employed | to make a thorough audit. | $6,000 for Auditors. Six thousand dollars was incorpo- rated in the annual levy for 1931 for | auditors. 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Wheaton road by way of Vier's Mill, | ham, treasurer; Col. Alvin B. Barber, - o $30,000; Rockville district is also| John A. Dickinson. Ralph Lee, Frank chargeable with cne-half of the cost of | A. Severance, Emory H. Bogley, Oliver — koA . size 39¢ Quart Chocolate, Strawberry and Vanilla size 35¢ 15¢ 30c 21¢c 10c 21¢c 59¢ 42c 73¢ 23¢c 49¢ Energine o S Diamond Dyes Cubona . . . . . 75c Fly -Tox, pint : -.'s 60c Black Flag Liquid, pint 1.00 Larvex, pint . . . . 35c Peterman’s Discovery . e Bl Pint. . v d. s o 28¢c 29¢ 34¢c 73¢c . 8ic 79¢ 15¢ 64c¢c 63c 19¢ Teconstruction of the Travilah-Hunt-| Owen Kuhn, George H. Lamar, J. Bond ing Hill road, $8.750 | Smith, C. A. Korbly, Charies H. Hop- Wheaton—First mile, 15-foot con- | kins, Oliver F. Bus Robert E. Bondy, erete on_ Wheaton-Rockville road by|J Harry Welch and Dr. L. M. Christie. way of Viers Mill. Start at Welsh's| The following, bank presidents and gate and go north. $30.000; and resur- | vice presidents compose the other group: face ahd widen southern 2 miles of | George M. Hunter, president Mont- Viers Mill road with maradam, $8.000. | gomery County National Bank; Albert The county commissioners also di- | M. Bouic, first vice president Farmers® rected counsel to prepare advertise- | Banking & Trust Co.; George P, Sacks, ments for bids for 100,000 in county | president Bank of Bethesda; W. R. De bonds. One issue is for §70,000, and is | Lashmutt, president Bank of Damascus; a police and Police Court deficiency | Howard M. Spurrier, president Pooles- issue. The other is for $30.000 to re- | ville Branch of the Central Trust Co.; fund the debt on the Bethesda and Sil- | L S. Cannon, president Citizens' Bank ver Spring police stations. lof Takoma Park; C. H. 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