Evening Star Newspaper, November 6, 1931, Page 5

THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6. 1931. NEW ALEXANDRIA BUS LINE PLANNED New Company May Begin Operations December 1, President Says. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. | ALEXANDRIA, Va, November 6.—A | new bus line between this city and Washington, known as the Alexandria- Washington Busses, Inc, will begin operating December 1, Charles P. Orr of this city. president of .the new com- pany, notified City Council yestercay, with the request for a route through Alexandria Although the Virginia Corporation Commission has not vet granted the new line the intrastate permit it has requested, the new line will begin opera- tion under a Federal injunction which prohibits restriction of interstate traffic, Mr. Orr sald Fare to Be 15 Cents. Six new 17-passenger busses, designe: for fast transportation, are to be used. The route will be over Russell road, ‘Washington, Mount Vernon and Hume avenues to Potomac Yards and _the Alexandria-Washington rpad. with a fare of 15 cents, or eight tokens for $1—the same fare as is now being charged by the A. B. & W. Bus Co. be- tween here and Washington. Under its interstate permit the new bus line will be allowed to carry only passengers who cross the District line Transportation of passengers from one point within Virginia to another, or from one point within the District_to another will not be permitted. Be- cause of this the Alexander-Washington busses will not be in direct competition with the A. B. & W. bus line, which operates under both intrastate and in- terstate permits. May Solve Problems. In view of the possible abandonment | of the Mount Vernon, Alexandria & Washington Railway between this city | nd Washington because of its in- ability to obtain a new terminal north of Pennsylvania avenue, the announce- | ment of additional bus service between | Virginia and the District is being wel- comed as a possible solution of the present transportation situation. In taking Mr. Orr's application for a route through Alexandria under con- sideration, council advised him of the possibility that all busses here would be rerouted ol King street to relieve the present congestion on Alexandria's main street. Orr stated that if the present bus company was rerouted, the use of | less “congested streets would be agree- | able to him. Application has also been made w the District Utilities Commission for & | route through Washington and a ter- nrinal in the District, the president of | the A]exlndxll-Wuhlnmn busses said. | ARLINGTON COUNTY VOTE CANVASS ENDS Election Commissioners Announce | Official Returns of Tuesday Balloting. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star, ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT | HOUSE, Va, November 6.—The com- missioners of election, consisting of R. Trice, B. 8. Kidwell, Harmon Swenk, jr., and R. P. Balinger, jr., completed the | official canvass of the Arlington County | vote late yesterday afterncon. It is as follows: State Senate—John W. Rust, 5,434; L. C. Painter, *81; J. M. Jones, 87, and | William L. Norford, 940. House of Delegates—Hugh Reid, 4,585; J. Foster Hagan, 2,093. Trial justice—B. M. Hedrick, 2,18 Bryan Gordon, 913; H. W. Dudley, 30! W. Thomas French, 173; Hugh M. Mc- Caffrey, 97; Melvin' G. Ely, 101; Walter U. Varney, 1788, and J. Hammond Brewer, jr, 975. i Commonwealth’s attorney — William ©. Gloth, 1,892: Amos C. Crounse, 217; Lawrence W. Douglas, 2,700; Clarence R. Ahalt, 1,561; Emery N. Hosmer, 317. Treasurer—E. Wade Ball, 6,525, with one ballot for C. T. Merchant written in Clarendon precinct No. 1. Commissioner of revenue—Harry K. Green, 5944; C. W. Clever, 720. Sheriff —Howard B, Flelds, 3,737; A. ©. Clements, 2,260; Z. O. Kines, 11 supervisor from Jefferson district, 469; Carl A. Schulze, 78. Pive ‘county board winners—Fred A. Gosnell, 2,088; Harry A. Fellows, 1,832; Mrs. Elizabeth B. Magruder, 1641; .lm‘hur; C. Gall, 1577; Lyman M. Kelly, New Zealand has lbout 3, 500 miles of {iways. i GREATER VALUES Bring Big’ger Business SILK-TRIMMED TOPCOATS 9. Slayer and Captor INDIAN CONFESSES KILLING OF GIRL STUDENT. Golney Seymour, 22-year-old Apache (above), who confessed November 2 to the murder last July of Henrietta Schmerler, Columbia University anthro- | | pology student, and his captor, J. A. | Street Department of Justice, who passed the | (below), special agent of the Summer in disguise among the lndians to work on the case. OFFICIALS 0F DEFUNCT OIL FIRM INDICTED Charges Withheld, but Trio Had | Been Mentioned in Connection With Alleged Shortage. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, November 6.—Three high officials of the defunct Richfield Oil Co., which collapsed in January with & three-year operating deficit of more than $54,000,000, were indicted yesterday by the county grand jury. They are C. M. Fuller, former presi- dent; J. A. Talbot, former chairman of the board, and R. W. McKee, former vice president and assistant to Talbot. The charges were not made public, but the three men previously had been mentioned in connection with an alleged shortage of $400,000. Flood: Drown Six in Algeria. ‘TUNIS, Algeria, November 6 (#) — persons were drowned in severe floods Six |in South Tunisia today and railroad service was seriously interrupted. TRUSSES EXPERIENCED FITTER LADY ATTENDANT BEUCHLER'’S 1224 14th St. N.W. —A. P. Photos. | TRIAL OF SlAYER OF FOUR SHIFTEI] | Ades Fails to Appear in Snow l Hill Court for Yuel Lee i Hearing. By the Associated Press | 'sNOw HILL, Md. November 6—A change of venue, sending the trial of | Yuel Lee, colored, confessed slayer of Worcester County farm family of four, to Dorchester County was granted to- day by the Circuit Court of Worcester County. The change was granted on petition of F. Leonard Wailes, abpointed by the court to defend Lee. He contended a | fair and impartial trial cou'd not be nhtaml‘d in the county where the crime ! was committed Judges Joseph L. Bailey and Robert F. Duer granted Mr. Wailes' petition without takirg cognizance of a second document, presented by Bernard Ades, attorney for the International Labor Defense League and voluntary counsel for Lee. Ades Keeps Promise. Bailey yesterday said Ades had no standing before the court. Ades was not present in court today, keeping his promise never to return to Worcester County, made Wednesday after he and two companions were beaten by an angry mcb. He and other representatives of the league had been | warned by officials to stay out of the county The Dorchester County Court con- venes Monday, State's Attorney God- frey Child seid the case piobably would be called at Cambridge the following week Judge Lee Left in Baltimore, Helen Ma representative Jeague as a “protector” for Ades when \ho came here Wednesday, did not ap- pear to answer to charges of carrying a Geadly weapon. Officials indicated the | Gead, e when & pistol was found |in her ' possession during the mob scene | of Wednesday, would be dropped. Ades | furnished $500 bail for her. A crowd which had milled about the | court house during the night under the | belief Lee was to be brought here to- day, dispersed shortly before court con- vened when it was made clear Lee would | be left in the Baltimore City Jail, where | | e has been held for :nlrkeeplng W()MAN DIES SUDDENLY | Spm.x Dispatch to The Star. WARRENTON, Va., of the November 6.— Miss Margaretta Barbare Bartenstein, | | 75 died suddenly last night in the Fau- | quier Hospital. Funeral will be tomor- | row at 11:30 trom Warrenton Presby- terian Church. She was the last surviving child of the late Ferdinand Bartenstein, a Ger- man musician, and his wife. who was Elizaveth Cole Gordon of this county. She had been a teacher all her life and nieces. 2 Day Sale BRAND NEW SMALL SIZE 1340 G St. N.W. leaves a large number of nephews and | Stieff Piano Manufacturers Factory to Your Home Targets of Mob WOMAN AND LAWYER ESCORTED FROM TOWN. Miss Helen Mays and Bernard Ades, | said to be representatives of the Inter- national Labor Defense, who vere cs-orted out of Snow Hill, Md. when | Ades voluntarily appeared in defense of Yue!l Lee, alias Orphan Jones, colored, | confessed s'ayer 6f a family Ades was beaten and Miss Ma rested on a charge of carrying a pistol | —A. ?. Photos. Gramdi Sees Mussolini. | ROME, November 6 (#).—Foreign | Minister Dino Grandi conferred with | Premier Mussolini today on his forta- lcnmmg conference with President Hoover, preparatory to sailing tomor- row on’the S. 5. Conte Grande for the United States T oday nd Saturday PIANO To acquaint the public with the enormous advan- tage of buying drrect from the m an ufacturer, we are making this extraordi- nary offer for s limited time. Terms as low as $2 per week Chas. M. Stieff, inr. Washington, D. C. Open Evenings Until 9 P. M. Well, Folks— Business Is “Darn” Good!!! Folks seem to have caught their USE Head Pay Onl Bal 75 10 Weekly or 5 Semi- Monthly “Jes Depends on the Way CREDIT Dress Well wind,” so to speak. Ailg “second Courage, Confidence and Calm seem to be following the “storm.” YOUR to Foot y Y4 Cash ance payments “9-Pants” ‘O'Coats. Tuxedos 25 oo m Suits IREPORT SAYS BOND SAFETY OBSERVED Montgomery Issues Adhere to Recommended Standards, Federation Asserts. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. BETHESDA, Md., November 6.— Standards of safety for Montgomery County bond issues as recommended by the Montgomery County Civic Federa- tion have been substantially observed, a report of the Committee on Public Finance and Budget of the Federation, approved at mittee at the University Club in Wash- ington last night, shows. This report will be presented to the federation meeting to be held here Monday night. | The recommendations of the federa- tion, which the report shows have been substantially observed, are that bonds should be in serial form, the last series to mature not later than 30 years from the date of issue in case of road, scho.l or public building bonds: that payments of principal on the total bond issue for the county for 1931, 1932 and 1933 should be substantially as follows:. 1933 to 1938, $50,000 a year, and thereafter $85,000 a year, and that the aggregate {amount of bonds.outstanding at any one time should not exceed approxi- | mately 10 per cent of the assessible values of the county at the time. 10 Per Cent of Value. The total amount of outstanding long-term bonded indebtedness of the county is $7,136,700, the report shows, while the assessible basis of tangible real and personal property for 1931 is $84,558,190, making the amount of the bonds less than 10 per cent of the assessible value of the property. There still remains to be issued in 1932 and 1933 under the authorizations | bonds, the report states, bonded indebtedness to form, the report states. While one of the issues is for a term of 39 years, the | report_continues, which is longer than the 30-year provision recommended, the proceeds of these bonds are to be used solely for the purchase of land and not_for the construction of build- | ings._ “Inasmuch as land usually has| of absence from the meeting. ____ibefore killing Thone. | e a meeting of the com-| h 0 he M land Legislature | g g Sl B | required as in the case of bonds issued | of the 1931 Legislature $1,089,000 in|tion for that year. which when | payments on principal prior to the end issued will bring the total long-term | of 1933 is $48,000 or $9,000 more than $8,225,700, | required by the federation's schedule.” which the report shows will still be; under the 10 per cent safety limit set.| mittee of which Frederic P. All of the bonds issued are in serial | chairman. Police Halt Autos In Futile Effort To Find Robbers By a Btaff Correspondent: of The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md., November 6. —Attempting to apprehend three colored men who held up and robbed & tourist camp proprietor near Muir- kirk, Prince Georges County police stop) all southbound cars on_the Baltimore Boulevard here for a short period last night. Edward Gibson, propfletor of the camp, phoned the local police sta- tion that the trio had held him up and taken $55. Gibson said the three escaped in an automobile headed for Washington. ‘The officers estimate they stop) about 500 cars, but failed to the highwaymen, who lppfll‘enfly took another road. Workmnn Hun in Fall. ALEXANDRIA, Vi, November 6 (Special) —Falling from a ladder while working on & house in the 900 block King street, R. J. Wood, 52, a_carpen- ter, received a fractured ankle and bruises about the body. He was car- ried to the Alexandria Hospital for treatment. no limit to its useful life,” the report states in this connection, “no such lim- itation as to the life of the bonds is for roads and buildings.” Payments of principal on the total bond issue would be approximately | $39,000 a year from 1933 to 1938 and $66,000 a year thereafter, as against the safety limit recommendation of $50.000 a year for the first period and $85,000 a year for the second period, the report shows. 1933 No Exception, “It is obvious,” the report states, “that the recommended standards of safety as to annual payments of prin- cipal have been substantially observed for every year except 1933. However, this is not really an exception, for & payment of $14,000 is made in 1932, no payment being specified by the federa- The total of the ‘The report was prepared by the com- Lee is Signing the report are Mr. Lee, W. B. Armstrong, Robert E. Bondy, L. H. Christie, John_A. Dick- inson, John A. P. Farnham, C. A. Kor- bly and E. Brooke Lee. Two other members of the committee, Charles W. Hopkins and Frank Severance, did not participate in its preparation because of absence from the meeting. eer Builders | T MURDER SOLUTION 1S BELIEVED NEAR Key Witness in Thorne Death Declared Found by Officers. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., November 6.—As the sheriff's office, relieved of court routine by the conclusion of the October term, renewed its investigation of the Thorne murder case today, Prank Prochanzka of Greater Capitol Heights, who is charged with the murder, an- nounced through his attorney that he would wait until November 16 before asking that the warrant against him be_withdrawn. Prochanzka is scheduled for a hear- ing before Justice of Peace Thomas D. Grifith on that date, and his attor- ney, Arthur C. Keefer, is confident the charge will be dismissed then. Pro- chanzka is at liberty on his personal bond. New Witness Located. As Sherif W. Curtis Hopkins and Chief Deputy Thomas H. Garrison re- newed their investigation, they an- nounced a new witness had been lo- cated in a Maryland city and would be questioned today or tomorrow. This witness, a woman, is said to hold the key to the identity of the murderer. An arrest before the week end is also predicted by Garrison. The deputy says he has convinced ‘Washington police his theory that the same person who killed Emmanuel Thorne, a U. S. Marine, also murdered Beulah Limerick, is correct. District detectives also agree with his belief that the Limerick girl was murdered in | Maryland, he declare;. Crime Reconstru.ted on Theory. As Garrison now reconstructs the crime, a man who was jealous of Thorne attended a party with him and the Limerick girl in Capitol Heights on December 31, 1930. On the way back to Washington Thorne, the murderer, the Limerick girl and others were rid- ing in the same automobile when the man fired a shot at Thorne, but hit Beulah Limerick by mistake. 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