Evening Star Newspaper, September 16, 1931, Page 20

TELEPHONE RATE CHANGES LISTED Mileage Fees in Arlington i Will Be Discontinued in December, Proposed changes in rates and im- provements in service for all of Ar- lington County, Va., and the territory served by the Hyattsville and Capitol Heights exchanges in Prince Georges County, Md., were announced today by the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. The reductions, which will include optional local Washington service, will amount to approximately $30,000 yearly in Arlington County and $23,000 in | Prince Georges County. | In Arlington County the present mileage rates will be discontinued and the service divided into three zones in addition to the present base rate area. In Prince Georges County the mileage rates will be maintained. New Rates Submitted. ‘The new rates were submifted to the Arlington County Public Utili- ties Commission last night by C. H. Weber, general manager of the Chesa- peake & Potomac Telephone Co. of Virginia, and J. A. Deuterman, local manager for the company. A study of the situation has been under way br the local Utilities Commission, by whom the request for a reduction in Tates was made. According to officials of the com- pany, it is planned to make the new service effective in December, when the mew directories will be published. The present rates will be maintained 4n the base rate area, which includes Clarendon, Ballston, Cherrydale, Lyon Village, Lyon Park and Ashton Heights. | The only change in this area will be that for an icreased monthly charge unlimited zervice to Washington may be obtained. At the present time all calls to Washington from Arlington County are subject to a 5-cent toll charge for each 5 minutes of con- versation, Additional Charge. The three zones will each carry & 50- cent additional charge per month for individual service in place of the pres- ent mileage rates, which in some in- stances are very high. For instance, in the base rate area the individual flat rate for residence telephones will be $2.75 and in the first zone, $3.25; d $3.75, and third zone, $4.25. nt time there are no two-party in Arlington County, the smallest number on any party line Under the new plan there business and residence | two-party lines, the first on & basis of | $3.75, with an increase in rate of 25| cents for each zome, and the second, $2.50, with a like s0ne increase. The four-party flat rate will continue &t $2, with a 25-cent zone increase. | For local service to Washington the | rate for business phones will be 85| » limit of 50 calls and | srale of reductions for addi- | calls. Individual residence | al‘;nu will be on the same basis, except for $6 monthly unlimited service to Wi may be obtained. The two-party rate for the Washington service will be $3.50, with a limit of 35 calls monthly, Avold Toll Calls. Subscribers taking advantage of the *loeal-to-Washington” service will fim eliminate a toll call for persons calling them from bV7 . lil‘el‘l:‘ev |;I‘ ‘Washington business man living Arunm‘rcoumy would have unlimited seryice between his office and home. - ‘Telephone company officials point | out, that it has been impossible to pre- pare a schedule showing the present EErEletuss cause erence eage Tal charges. However, in some sections, such as Virginia are now n‘m.u vfium service. Under the mnew schedule the former will be reduced to $2.75 monthly and the latter to $4.25 monthly. The first sone will include such sec- tions as Lee Heights, Halls Hill, Glebe- wood and Penrose; second, Leeway, Country Club Hills, Jewel Station, Bar- Alcova :m&hu 4nd ‘Arlington; Highlan irgin: ds, Nauk, Green Valley and Glen Carlyn. In some instances small portions of some | of these subdivisions may extend into | o i e designate | L wi necessal to designal a | new exchange name Toe. Aubucgn to | the dew “local-to-Washington' vice, | but there will not be another switch- | board. The new exchange name, which | has not been decided upon, is neces- | na in distinguishing between calls for which a toll charge must be made and | those for which no charge is made. Fill Subscribers’ Needs. According to C. 1. Kephart, secretary | @f the Arlington County Public Utilities | Commission, the increased variety ol‘ service, in the opinion of the com- mission, will more completely fill the meeds of the people of the county than that new furnished and no difficulty is anticipated in having the changes| approved by the State Corpora | Commission. | Between now and December the tele- | phone users of both counties will have | the opportunity of cl the class | of service they now receive if they so | desire, a full exghmwon of each serv- | ice being available-at the local offices of the telephone company. In the Hyattsvile and Capitol ‘Heights, Md., exchanges, where the only (‘hAnfl is in the furnishing of optional “local-to-Wi " service, the new rates will be $4.50 monthly for business telephones, with a limit of 50 calls monthly and a sliding scale of redu tiens for additional calls; a like | ington this Winter. Most Feted Deb MAKES BOW IN WASHINGTON THIS WINTER. LOUISE BROOKS, Granddaughter of Mrs. Edward Stotes-. bury of Philadelphia, will be one of the most feted debutantes in the Ea: She will make her debut in Wasl and like service for individual message rates for residence telephones; a $5.50 charge for unlimited residence tele- phones and a 83 rate for two-party Iines, with the messages limited to 35 monthly. As will be the case in Arlington County, Washington subscribers may be connected without a toll charge with those Hyattsville and Capitol Heights subscribers who choose this optional service. RICHMOND COAL FIRMS JOIN IN RATE FIGHT I C. C. Authorizes 16 to Intervene in Case Iavolving West Vir- ginia Product. By the Associated Press. ‘The Interstate Commerce Commission today authorized 16 Richmond coal dealers to intervene in a case attacking ! coal rates from points in West Virginia to Richmond as )njust and unreason- able and in violaflon of the Interstate Commerce act. The Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, Kanawha Central Railway, Kanawha, Glen Jean & Eastern Railroad, Wini- frede Railroad and Richmond, Fred- ericksburg & Potomac Rallroad are de- fendants in the case. L D. Wingfield and James L. Hatcher, trading as: D. Wingfleld- Hatcher Coal Co, filed the original petition. Philipsborn ELEVENTH ST. = BETWEEIN FaG .. The sweater sketched has the new-old leg-o’-mutton sleeve with vee neck and rib- bed waistband. Others at $5.75 Sport Shop, First Floor P e s THE EVENING YOUNG COMMITTEE WILL CONFER HERE Group to Raise Funds for Jobless Relief to Come to Capital Friday. Owen D. Young of New York and members of his committee, appointed by President Hoover and Walter S. Gif- ford, national relief derictor, to raise funds locally to relieve distress arising from unempioyment this Winter, will meet here for the first time Friday, it was announced today. The purpose of the meeting, accord- ing to officials of the President's Organ- ization on Unemployment Relief, will be to map out campaign plans. Group to Meet Here. Meanwhile, Eliot Wadsworth, chalr- man of the committee charged with co- ordinating activities of organziations, announced his group would meet here September 25. A few days later another group, headed by Harry A. Wheeler of Chicago, will meet to devise plans for creating employment. Simultaneously with these committee announcements, the President's organi- zation made public reports from 40 lo- calitles in every section of the country indicating little change in general busi- ness and employment conditions during the past week. The American Legion, through its na- tional commander, Ralph T. O'Neil, a nounced today that the forthcoming re- .. of its employment commission ould hold the immediate unemploy- ment situation to be “largely a commu- nity problem.” Will Offer Suggestions. ‘The ccmmission, Comdr. O'Neil sald, will recommend increased public im- provements, creation of work as direct charity and steps to prevent the migra- tion of unemployed. Yesterday O'Neil and other Legion officials met with President Hoover and the national commander later said the President would be in accord with prac- tically all the Legion's suggestions. He emphasized there would be “complete co-operation” by the Legion with the President’s relief organization to the end that “all who are able and willing to work will have it provided for them.” Results from the relief group's cam- paign to keeg young people in school to prevent them from competing for jobs with heads of families and rml.nx STAR. WA SHINGTO Volunteers Aid HENRY HADLEY OFFERS SERVICES FOR BICENTEN- NIAL CELEBRATION. HENRY HADLEY, Associate director of the New York Philharmonic _ Orchestra, who has | agreed to conduct any of the Bicen- tennial orchestras and to aid in the program for Washington's celebration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of George Washington, under the di- rection of the District of Columbia Bi- centennial Commission, of which Dr. Cloyd Heck Marvin is chairman. educational advantages were being Te- ported to headquarters here. The organization made public com- munications from all secuions of the country commending the movement, ledging co-operation and telling of | Tocal plans for promoting school at- tendance. Civic Group Meeting Delayed. BLADENSBURG, Md., September 16 (Special) —Because of the inability of the scheduled speaker to attend, the meeting of the Federation of Citizens’ Associations of Prince Georges County, listed last night in the parish hall of St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal Church here, was postponed until next Tues- day night at 8 o'clock_at the same lace. Judg> Alfred D. Bailey of ladensburg is president of the fed- eration. WoopwARD & LoTHROP U7 awp 6 Stazere New Hats Use Many Mediums for Greater Chic These hats have the new and feminine de- tails, bows, ostrich, im- ported feather birds and pads—new square crowns—and the artis- try of putting them to- gether to achieve the most outstanding mod- els of the season—the work of the leading Paris milliners . of which these hats are copies. $12.75%0 $22.50 Mruinery, THmp FLOOR. Hatter's Plush Velvet Felt Soleil Velour These Fall RAILS WOULD CUT FARM RATE RAISE Short Lines Say Agriculture Could Be Left Out of Pro- posed Increase. By the Associated Pre: Short-line rallroads said in a brief h the Interstate Commerce Com- that it would be possible agricultural products from the 15 per cent rate increase and still give needed rellef to the roads. One hundred and fifty-three short-line rallroads through their attorney, Ben B. Can, expressed the bellef that the car- riers had proved the urgent need for added revenue and that the commis- sion was obligated to nt_it. ‘The brief was one of three filed today, the others opposing the increase. The N, D. C, WEDNESDAY, SEIT"I‘HMVBER 16, 1931. Youn, Chamber of urged that no increases be granted on coal, iron ore, limestone, coke and scrap iron or on steel and finished steel = ucts, Stich increases, it was ¢l A would divert business from the Youngs- town ared to competitors on the Great Lakes, ‘Three hundred and fifty protesting firms, representing 110 commodities, urged the commission not to it any increase beyond the Eastern class rates which become effective December 3. The brief filed g] Charles E. Cottrell of New York did not name the firms, merely stating they had been inserted in the record at Chicago hnnngm ‘The brief said “hand-to-mouth” buy- ing was causing much diversion of freight from railroads to trucks, and that in the East two subsidiaries of railronds were turning to the use of trucks as more economical. The Short Line brief said it was “fair to state that agriculture (which should be enlarged to include fruit and vege- Cibport of"the. proposition that.n. in: su of the pre n that an in- crgm as -ppllog to that industry would not result in- & substantial increase of revenue.” “While 1t may be conceded that ag- riculture as a means of livelihood and in terms of created wealth is the Na- tion's greatest industry, nevertheless it “It .thu appears that other indus- tries and less than carload freight will approximate 90 per cent of the tonnage movement.” BENEFIT DANCES TO OPEN B7 & Btaff Correspendent of The Star. SILVER SPRING, Md., September 16.—A series of benefit dances, to be held by the Service Company, 1st In- fantry, Maryland National Guard, will open in the armory here October 17, Capt. Ward W. Caddington, commander | of the company, announces. ‘The dances will be held to raise funds to furnish the enlisted men's club room at the armory. Non-commissioned officers of the company comprise the | committee in charge of dances, with Miss Katherine Mack as chairman. Service Company has 60 ‘members. 10™ 11™ F AND G STREETS SAFE IN POST OFFICE TAKEN OFF IN AUTO Strong Box Found Looted of $400 in Mountains Five Miles From Charmi Special Dispatch to The Star. HAGERSTOWN, Md., September 16. —The post office at Charmian, Sum- mer resort town in the mountains above here, was robbed early today, the safe being carried away and blown open and the $400 in cash and stamps removed. ‘The it office and general store is sperated by C. B. Shover, postmaster. The building was entered through a window, the door then being opened and the safe being carried out. The empty safe was found this murnm, in the moun- tains about five miles from the scenec. Generally, literature written by Irish- men in English is known in Ireland as Anglo-Irish literature, whereas Irish literature is taken to be the literature :l"en in the Irish language and that alone. 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