Evening Star Newspaper, July 2, 1931, Page 3

" STIRWANDHEN | . CALSE 2 DEATHS Nearby Areas Suffer Heavy Damage From Wind and Lightning. B a Btaff Correspondent of The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., July 2—The storm and the intense heat which pre- ceded it yesterday afternoon caused two deaths in Montgomery County and Te- sulted in considerable property damage. “Telephonic communication _between | Washington and Western Maryland was | interrupted for almost four hours when a falling tree tore down the wires along the Rockville Pike. The heavy rain left a number of county roacs dotted with stranded automobiles. Christopher Sapgmeyer, a_native of McKeesport, Pa., employed on the farm of Walter Gates, near Ednor, was killed instantly by a bolt of lightning as he was leading a horse across a field. The #nimal also was killed. | Rice Phelps, 45 years old, of Takoma Park. a conductor for the Capital Trac- tion_Co.. fell dead yesterday afterncon on Carroll avenue, near Columbia ave- nue. in Takoma Park. Death is thought to have been due to a heart milment aggravated by the heat. He was taken to the Wastington Banitarfum, where he was pronounced dead. It was lcarned that he was a war veteran and had been undergoing treatment at the Veterans' Bureau for some time for his heart. H2 is sur- vived by four small children. Earl Burdine of the Montgomery Cou ty police, a member of the American gion, volunteered to attend to the fu- neral arrangements. Driving through the storm shortly pfter having been married vesterdav afternoon Sergt. and Mrs. Clayton E. Marcum were injured when their ma- chine skidded and struck a lfl(-phone' , pole. §_ Marcum and his bride, formerly Miss | ary E. Biser. 21 years old. of near Bivattstown, went to Rockville yester- afternoon and obtained a license to arry. about 4 o'clock. Rev. Bertram sg00d performed the ceremony and the uple headed toward the bride's home ith the young woman driving. .~ As they neared the outskirts of Rock- Wille the automobile skidded and struck | & telephone pole. Sergt. Marcum, who 15 24 years old, and a patient at Walter | Reed Hospital, where a broken leg, still | 4n a plaster cast yesterday, was being | treated, sustained an added injury to ithe same limb. His bride was slightly | {eut and bruised. Friends took them | %o Mrs. Marcum's home, after first- : pid had been rendered by Dr. Willlam . Linthicum of Rockville. Telephone service between .Washing- #on and Rockville. Gaithersburg, Fred- erick and Cumberland was interrupted shen the wires along the Rockville Pike | mear here were torn down by a falling| gree. More than three hours elapsed before workmen repaired the damage. | Suburb in Darkness. ! Cabin John Park was in darkness all! Sast night and the community was cut off from telephonic communication with | the outside as a result of the storm. ALEXANDRIA MAN HURT. i i | Heavy Wind Blows Fisherman Through Boat Window. | By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 2—Damage | which rough estima place high in the thousands was do: in_this seclion‘ o Z AL _NOTICES. i OFFICE OF THE FIREMEN'S INSURANCE COMPANY OF WASHINGTON AND GEORGETOWN. A spectal meeting of the stockholders of this company is hereby called to_take place in_the offices of the company, 303 7th st. n.w. Washington, D. C. on the seventh «7th) day of July. 1931, at twelve (1: o'clock noon, to consider and act upon the Tesolution which was unanimously adopted by the Board of Directors at a regular meet- ing held on June 22, 1931, for the purpose ol amending the charter of the company to permit it to underwrite additional forms of surance and to increase its capital stock. ALBERT W. HOWARD. Secretary. #HE UNDERSIGNED, HERETOFORE GEN- u with offices at 1704 Connecticut ave. n.w.. this announce the dissolution of the Dart- S e 22, 1931. Outstanding ac- HAVING SOLD MY BUSINESS AT 826 D & ne. on and after June 27. 1931 I will o longer be responsible for debts contracted other than by my: N. H. MILLSTEIN. NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY BILLS CON- tracted by any one other. than mysell E PLUMER. 3534 34th st.. Mt. Rainier. I WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY debts contracted by any one other than my- gif.” WAYNE A. LEAVITT. Room 3330 Na I WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY debts contracted by any_one other than 1. JOHN ROBISON. Colbert st., Ariin 5. S adjus ‘Alsofolding_chairs. UNITED STATES STORAG! 418 10th St. N.W. i ] TWANT TO HAU LL_OR PART, o or from New York. Richmond. Boston. Pittsburgh and all way points: special rates. NATIONAL DELIVERY ASSN.. INC.. 1317 N._ Y. ave.. Nat. 1460. Local movine also. DoN; ER! 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Well, there was elected to a very high of- fice president of the Educational Association just a plaia, pleasant looking fat {and enjoying it) com- mon-sense woman. She is head of the rural schools in Maine and when you are rural in Maine you are rural. Now she is head of all th> teachers in our land. I guess from her name, “Miss” that she is an old maid, but, darn it, I just liked her looks in the paper this morning, and I believe she could teach these young modern heathens of ours some sense. by the electrical storm and cyclonic | wind_ which struck here shortly before 6 o'clock last night. One person was injured during the | storm, the greatest effect of which was felt along the river iront. Thomas M Cuen, 50, of 210 Queen street, & fisher- man, received severe lacerations when he was blown through the window of his boat which was tied up at the Queen street wharf. He was treated at the Alexandria Hospital. - Numerous small boats alongside of | Potomac River wharves were sunk by the force of the wind and the waves it created. A large wooden tower, about 40 feet high, at the unloading wharf of the American Agricultural Chemical Co., | was totally wrecked and blown back | through a portion of the wharf inshore Telephone lines south of the city, in- cluding those to Fort Hunt, Fort Hum- | phreys, Lorton and Fort Washington, were cut out by the storm and many were out all night. Radio broadcast | from_Station WJSV wzs also knocked | out by the crippling of the telephone | lins to their transmitting station at | Mount Vernon Hills. 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Using the authority given in the n°w billboard law the State Roads Commis- slon yesterday began taking down signs of this type, while a grateful public, long weary of the dilapidated and dis- tracting structures, looked on. ‘Toiling in the' torrid temperature, crews of men working under the di- rection of maintenance inspectors yves- terday began a tour of every mile of State highway, tearing down the “snipe” signs and making a complete list of all ‘The voluminous undertaking will continue today and possibly several other days will be devoted to it, if it is found the roads cannot be completely covered in two days. Later the large billboards which have not been licensed will be removed. Small signs of the type now being removed have long been considered as particularly objectionable, Delegate Oliver Metzerott of Prince Georges County pointed out, and their elimina- tion is sought in both the billboard laws enacted by the recent Legislature. 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