Evening Star Newspaper, April 10, 1932, Page 19

ANNUAL AT INCOUNTY LRGED Proposal Will Be Introduced at Montgomery Federation Meeting Tomorrow. BY HOWARD M. BAGGETT, Staff Correspondent of The Star. BETHESDA, Md., April 9—The con- tinuation annually of the audit of county funds by a nationally known firm of accountants and the acceptance of the principal recommendations con- tained in the audit for the past 16 years, recently published, will be rec- ommended to the county commissioners in a resolution which will be intro- duced at the meeting of the Mon! gomery County Civic Federation Mon- day night. The resolution will be introduced by the Committee on Public Finance and Budget, of which Stephen James is chairman. The continuation of the system of having the county funds audited annually will be urged for three Teasons, that it is information which the citizens should have, that it is for the protection of the county officials and that it is good business. Call for Resolution Issued. ‘The meeting, which will be held at the Bethesda Elementary School, will be next to the last before the Sum- mer recess, and O. M. Kile, correspond- ing secretary, has urged in his notice to members that all new resolutions on which action is desired this Spring be introduced at the meeting. The Legislative and Legal Action Committee will report that the date for the general meeting on the subject of Tenaming and renumbering streets will be held April 27. This committee will also report on the subject of compelling sewer connections where facilities are available, declaring that the present laws are inadequate and urging a fur- ther study. A subcommittee will rec- ommend trash and rubbish ordinances for enactment by the county commis- sloners. Report on County Health. ‘W. H. Reynolds of the Committee on Sanitation and Public Health, will re- am on the new budget for the admin- ration of the County Health Depart- ment recently adopted by the county commissioners and the appointment of & new health officer and a sanitary in- spector. A subcommittee of the Committee on Public Finance and Budget is expected to report on the Huntington resolution calling for an investigation of facts re- lating to water supply and reasons for any discrepancy between costs and dis- tribution charges. TRANSIT MERGER ASKED IN REPORT GIVEN TO HOUSE (Continued Prom First Page.) the question to ‘Commissi the Public Utilities on. The commission opposed the amendment on the ground that fre- quently it is desirable to establish new bus lines into new territory. Such lines do not immediately pay. To require such free transfers by law would often prevent such new bus lines being estab- lished. It is clear that the commission, when it deems it in the public interest, may require such free transfers.” Reduced Fares for Children. Regarding reduced fares for school children, the Black report explains that “by an act February 25, 1931, Congress made effective a 3-cent fare for school children. While the compa- nies have appealed to the courts against this law, tl is no reason to antici- at this time any modification of it. would be idle for the Congress, once having passed a law, to pass another to become operative if the first were de- clared invalid. The committee has, tfl;r’:!flore, rejected amendments on this Regarding power, the report explains &5 follows: “Practically all street car riders are electric light and power con- sumers, but there are many electric light and power consumers who never use the street car companies. “Under the resolution, as recom- mended by the Public Utilities Commis- sion and approved by the companies, there would be a contract .for 63 per cent of the power used by the unified company and the price of the remain- ing 37 per cent would be fixed by the | commission. Under the arrangement suggested the cost of the 63 per cent undoubtedly will be low, which would favor the car riders. Amendments were proposed leaving the price of all to be fixed by the commission. The commit- | tee does not believe the issue important e the commission, with the power to fix the price of 37 per cent, could make the average cost to the unified company at any reasonable rate it saw fit to approve.” Discussing the expense of crossing po- lice and paving, the Black report is as follows: “The resolution as reported follows the original recommendation of the Public Utilities Commission. Previ- ously, exactly the same provisions have been ‘approved by the District commit- tees of both Senate and House. The policemen provision haf the indorse- | ment of the District Commissioners and of the Budget Bureau, but the Commis- sioners and the Budget Bureau have recommended & provision on paving not 80 favorable to the efficient operation of Gang CHICAGOAN SEES RACKETEERING DESPITE CAPONE CONVICTION. By the Associated Press. Robert Isham Randolph, chairman of | Chicago's “Secret Six,” which is co- operating with public authorities to control organized crime, believes it will take more than the conviction of Al| Capone and his allies to bresk up the t. | -y pone’s crime ring was a “real business organization, with a board of directors’ and that other men were ready to step | into his place. “The convictions that have already been secured of Capone and his agents | like Guzik and Nitti will have a salu- | tary effect,” Randolph said, “but they | don't break up the criminal syndicates. | “They are going to continue as long | as the big profits and the huge rewards are to he had from violations of the eighteenth amendment and the Vol- stead law.” Here on Business. Randolph, in Washington on other business, answered questions about jcrime conditions readily. He was far | from the mysterious figure he migh: |be pictured as head of the famous “Secret Six.” The amazing story told by District Attorney George E. Q. Johnson of Chi-~ cago before a Senate committee about the power of Capone and his gangster group was described by Randolph as a “splendid picture of the situation.” He said he was glad Johnson had made public the details of the agree- ment under which Capone was to plead guilty and receive a comparatively short sentence of two and a half years. | “That has taken the curse off the story that a deal was made,” he said. “There was nothing sinister about it and heretofore it has had a slmster} aspect. Randolph said probably if Capone had not been “such a braggart” and announced the terms of the agreement, Judge James H. Wilkerson, who over- turned it and gave him 11 years, would have given it serious consideration. Witnesses Were Hidden. Describing the efforts of his own or- ganization to protect witnesses and produce evidence against gangsters, Randolph said it had kept one of the Capone witnesses in hiding for 18 months. Before the gangsters learned that he had been found by the Government, Randolph said, his group took the man to a hotel in another city and paid him THE SUNDAY sters Not Crushed STAR, WASHINGTON, ] 30 HELD IN CUBAN RIOT Workmen Accused of Red Sympa- D. C, APRIL 10, PART ONE. men fl rocks through the plate glass windo::‘zo! a branch of the National City Bank of New York. After the attack on the bank's Gali- ano street branch this afternoon the LEGION TO BROADCAST 10,400 Posts to Participate Stevens, national commander, The pro- gram will be broadcast. Mme. Schumann-Heink and ether artists will be invited to take part. The meeting will be held between 10 in B3 Gunmen Active in Paris. Paris has had a wave of crifle re- cently. It started with a bank robbery, when bandits got away with $7,500. * ROBERT I. RANDOLPH. I | 10 a day to stay in confinement. When he got tired of that they sent him on | a trip to South America in the ruslud)’} of a ship captain. He is now free, in another city, but is under the constant protection of the “Secret Six,” Randolph added “Why can't the Government protect the witnesses?” Randolph was asked “Because the Goyernment has got to account for every cent it spends.” he replied. “My organization doesn't want any accounting.” Randolph said the new municipal ad- ministration in Chicago was improving conditions through reorganization of the Police Department and a police chief who is “capable, competent, hon- est and fearless.” “Why don't the gangsters get you and District Attorney Johnson?’ he was asked. “They realize it would be very unwise to do anything to us,” he said. “The heat would-be too great.” MISSION HOSPITAL 10 BE DEDICATED $20,000 Structure Will Re- place One Destroyed by Fire in Blue Ridge. Special Dispatch to The Star. CULPEPER, Va., April 9.—The new preventorium at the Mission Home in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Greene | County, erected at a cost of $20,000 to take the place of one destroyed by fire December 2, 1930, will be dedicated on April 15 with impressive ceremonies | by the Right Rev. Henry St. George | Tucker, Bishop of Virginia, assisted by Right Rev. Frederick D. Goodwin, bishop coadjutor, who officiated at the laying of the corner stone on May 15 of last year. Others who will take part in the service of dedication will be Arch- deacon Roy Mason, administrative head of the archdeaconry of the Blue Ridge, and Archdeacon Frederick Neve, founder of all the mountain work in the Virginia diocese. Contributions for this new building, with an added sum of $5,000 for equip- ment, have come from many States and from England; among the con- tributors being Lady Astor and her sister, Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson of New York City; Mrs. Roland Tree of Mirador, the old Langhorne home in Albemarle, and many others in Balti- more, Washington and Richmond. Built of native stone, the preven- torium, used for rebuilding and caring for delicate mountain children, is 300 feet in length, and has two sleeping porches, providing ample space for 30 beds, 15 for boys and the same number | for girls. This work, begun in smaller | way by Rev. Frank Persons, now a missionary to Cuba, at Yancey, an- other mountain mission, 10 years ago, was transferred to the Mission Home in 1928. Workers from all of the 30 mis- sion fields conducted throughout the Blue Ridge Mountains by the Episcopal Church will attend the dedication cere- mony, and many visitors from outside | are also expected. MIDSHIPMEN’S CRUISE WON'T BE TO PACIFIC Arrangements Diplomatic Delay | Announcement of Itinerary. Trip to Be Divided. Special Dispatch to The Star, ANNAPOLIS, Md., April 9—The an- nual cruise of Naval Academy midship- | men will not be to the Pacific Ocean, as e unified company.” [ Commissioners’ Letter. | Mr. Black includes the letter of the Commissioners on this subjec “The charging of paving costs against street car companies,” he points out, “goes back to horse-car days, when the | pavements were worn out by the tram of the horses. Similar provision to that | Exact plans for departure of the regi- | for Henry L. Doherty & Co. and veteran contained in the statutes are still to be found in the laws of many States. But | 2l50 reported that plans to keep the |of influenza. in recent years, there has been a dis- tinct tendency toward street railways of their paving burden either in whole or in part. “As compared with the figures on | lkely the first half of the students will | champion's activities for the Associated paving costs given by the District Com- missioners, President Hanna of the Capital Traction Co. testified that the annual reduction in paving costs, which the new company would enjoy under the amendment submitted, would be not more than $125000 per year for the two companies Mr. Black attaches a memorandum prepared by Mr. Hanna showing the tendency in recent years in all parts of the United States to relieve street railway companies from paving costs. In his general conclusion, Mr. Black emphasizes that “The committee be- lieves strongly that the merger resolu- tion should be adopted so that this question, which has been before Con- gress for 25 years or more, may be disposed of without further delay. Its peeds, as pointed out by the park and planning commission, have been greatly intemsified by the Government's devel- opment in the triangle south of Penn- sylvania avenue. It should also be pointed out that the present widespread ‘economic depression s bearing so heav- ily upon these companies that this measure may be very properly desig- nated as one of economic emergency.” 0. E. S. PLANS DANCE Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. HERNDON, Va., April 9.—Herndon previously announced, it was learned today. However, the itinerary cannot be revealed at this time, because of dip- | lomatic arrangements necessary to be made in the foreign towns and ports the naval students will visit. | It was definitely announced that the cruise would be in two divisions. Only the U. S. S. Wyoming will be used.| ment have not been completed. It is second class here for aviation instrue- | relieving the | tion may be changed, although such a | himself to journalism until 10 years ago. | He toured the country with John L. move is not anticipated ‘With graduation set for June 2, it is | leave June 3. They will be at sea two | months. The other half of the regi- | ment due to make the cuise will leave here on the date the first division re- turns. While each division s at sea | the others will be vacaticning 'SCIENTISTS TURN ‘ WASTE INTO Agricultural By the Associated Press. Sugar cane waste has been turned by the Agriculture Department into a new source of rayon—a silky dress ma- terial for the women folks. Department chemists, using low- priced nitric acid, succeeded in devel- oping a process by which high-grade cellulose, base material for rayon, is produced from bagasse, the waste from sugar cane after the sugar has been extracted. The discovery is regarded as impor- tant, as most rayon manufacturers de- pend upon wood pulp for cellulose and |New Source of Rayon Announced by Experts of VRGN HGHYAYS N ED0D CORDTON Roads Are Expected to Stay in Excellent State for Garden Week. By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va, April 9—Virginia highways are expected to be in excel- lent condition to accommodaie the caravans of automobiles to visit the State's famous gardens during Virginia Garden week, April 25 to 30. The Highway Department announced today that road conditions now are| good, with the exception of a few short sections of construction which will cause little trouble. On U. S. Route 1, Washington to Richmond, there is no construction, and the road is in good shape. From Rich- mond to the North Carolina line some construction is under way, but not of a nature to seriously interfere with traffic. Construction Progresses. Construction work under way else- where in the State is progressing rapidly, the department said. On U. 8. Route 29, construction work of surfac- ing with stone, north of Amherst, will be finished in about a week, and in the meantime traffic is accommodated over a detour paralleling the main highway. Soil surfacing on the same route south of Madison has been completed. Grading on Route 307, south of Ben Creek, has been finished, and good progress has been made in the work on Route 13, between Amherst and Buckingham, On U. S. Route 11, through the Shenandoah Valley, two sections of | widening construction between Win- chester and Staunton are a little rough in places, but cause no trouble. From Staunton to Roanoke and Roanoke to Bristol the valley pike is paved and clear of construction. U. S. Route 17 Paved. U. S. Route 17, from Fredericksburg to Tappahannock, Saluda, Gloucester Point, ferry to Yorktown, thence to Newport News, then across the James River toll bridges to Portsmouth, and to the North Carolina line is all paved and in good condition, with no construction. State Route 17, from Gordonsville to Harrisonburg, Churchville, Goshen, Millsboro Springs, is paved and in good condition. Route 39, from Richmond via Ash- land, Louisa and Charlottesville, to Staunton, is all paved and no eon- struction. Saunton to Monterey also hard-surfaced. VETERAN OF PRESS DIES R. L. Burch Toured Country With John L. Sullivan. CHICAGO, April 9 (#)—Robert Lee Burch, 61, Western syndicate manager Tennessee newspaper man, died today A native of Nashville, Burch devoted Sullivan, covering the _heavyweight Press. He 15 survived by two sons, two brothers in Memphis and one in Nash- ville. His father, Col. John C. Burch, was one of Nashville's most prominent citizens. SUGAR CANE DRESS MATERIAL Department. | nually. Much of this material has been used in manufacturing insulating building material. Other quantities have been used as fuel in the mills, D. F. J. Lynch and M. J. Goss of the color and farm waste division of the department’s Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, made the experiments with bagasse and nitric acid. The method, known as the nitric | acid pulping process, consists of soak- |ing the raw material in a weak nitric acid solution for several hours at a | medium temperature, then heating it for an hour and finally washing and boiling in dilute sodium hydroxide to produce a soft, bleachable pulp. The process increases the potential value of bagasse and at the same time offers a new and steady source of raw point Where commercial interests can work out the practical probl-zs of menufacture, | By the Associated Press. thies—Bank Windows Smashed. 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