Evening Star Newspaper, November 27, 1932, Page 15

ARLINGTON FACING | FINANCIAL PLIGHT Only Collection on Bonds for Alleged Shortages Would Help. BY LESTER N. INSKEEP, Staff Correspondent of The Star, ARLINGTON COURT HOUSE, Vn,.l November 26.—Arlington County will | find itself in serious financial straits | during the first part of the coming | year even if tax collections reach thl‘ir“ usual total before December 5, it l‘asi indicated today by estimates received from the treasurer's office. The oniy ray of hope is the possibility of the collection from-the bonding companies of a substantial portion of the alleged shortages in the accounts of the former | treasurer and former clerk, it was said. | Collections of 1932 levies, which have been under way but a short time, have Teached a total of $90,000 and are ex- | pected to reach approximately $380,000. or 60 per cent of the total levy, by December 5, it was stated in the treas- urer's office. | The expected total of $380,000 will | be supplemented by about $8.000 in de- linquent tax collections, it is believed, bringing the total collections to De- cember 5 to approximately $388,000. O this term is the Chevy Chase E Tight: Raymond Hart, rear, director of militar; James Lewis, James Kupa, Doris Pitts a band, were not present. NE of the first bands to be organized in the Montgomery County schools | members are, front row, left to right: Vincent O'Brien, Robert Keene, Herry Pitts, Robert Davis and Richard Sawyer. Frank White, Donn Tucker, Fritz Esch, Bobby Sullivan and THE | 1 i | lementary School Band, shown above. Its| Second row, left to y band instruction in the county schocls. nd Marcella Hodge, other members of the —Star Staft Photo. BETHESDA MARKET MANAGERIS NANED {Mrs. J. E. Shillinger Appointed Head of Farm Women's Establishment. $255,000 Must Be Deducted. Prom the total, it was pointed out, | there will have to be deducted the sum | of $255,000 in County Board and School Board notes required by law to be paid by December 15 and two pay rolls total- ing approximately $8,000 each, before the county and school boards can an- ticipate the amount of money available to_run the local government. If the collections run as high as ex- pected by the treasurer’s office, the county, therefore, will find itself with approximately $117,000 after the heavy tax collection period, an amount be- lieved to be so small as to require the utmost care in expenditures to prevent & deficit and the necessity for further loans. It is expected that the remaining 40 per cent of taxes will be slow in coming in, since those who failed to pas by December 5 will already have | SPecial Dispatch to The Star. BETHESDA,” Md., November 26.— MOTOR TAX BLS - PLACED I S spatch to The Star. November 26— | special ROCKVILLE, Md., ad a 5 per cent penalty added to their bills and will not be subject to | an additional penalty before next June, County Now Can Make Loans. In view of these circumstances, it is believed certain that additional loans will have to be made if any major | programs of improvement or construc- tion are to be attempted by the county prior to next June. Until last year the county could not have negotiated new loans until the end of the fiscal year, June 30, but by an act of the General Assembly is now permitted to make loans after January 15. The treasurer’s office today talled at- tention to the fact that all tax bills have not been -sent out because the addresses of some property owners are not known. In other cases bills have been Tagyrned undelivered. Persons who haye uot reccived their bills are not exempted fro mthe penalty for failure to pay their taxes on time. TWO ZAPOTEC WARRIOR SKELETONS DISCOVERED Tomb No. 11 ‘on Monte Alban in Scuthern Mexico Yields s Morz Ancient Relics. By the As £d Press. OAXACA CITY, Mexico, November 26 —Skeletons of two apparently im- | rtant warriors of the ancient Zapotec ibe of Southern Mexico were found today when Prof. Alfonso Caso's expe- dition opened tomb No. 11 on Monte | Alban. (Government _archeologists have de- scribed the finds made in Oaxaca. early this year as the richest on this con- tinent. Ten tombs previously had been revealed. Examples of the highly civi- lized art of relief painting in brilliant colors were discovered last Tuesday.) Excavation was begun today on the | long mound in the center of the great piaza, called the Patio of the Sun, and & series of terraced pyramids at the north and south ends of the platform | were being uncovered. | The skeletons discovered tcday were | buried as bones, not as corpses in ac- cordance with the ancient Zupotecan custom. Pottery dishes fourd beside ;::dskeletons appear to have contained ‘The long mound is the fucal spot of the city’s acropolis and is being washed carefully by archeologists. The pyra- mids appear to be in excellent condi- tion and were described as important architecturally. EX-LEGISLATOR'S TRIAL NEARS END IN ALABAMA Denial of Bribery Charge Met by | Theater Man’s Repetition of | Mrs. J. E. Shillinger of Somerset was | More than 15,000 bills for motor vehicle 20 DEGREES RECORD $25],[m IN WATER OF WINTER FOR D, C. BONDS TOBE SOLD ™= &xemes Rise Tomorrow. | _With an overnight drop to 20. the Capital was due to have the coldest | weather of the season early this morn- ing, it was said last night at the Weather Bureau. The forecast for to- | day was for continued cold, and fair. The break is due tomorrow, when warmer weather is promised. . The previous low for this Fall was iast Wednesday, when 27 degrees was registered. Sanitary Commission Plans to Increase Pumping Capac- ity at Burnt Mills. BY GEORGE PORTER, Staff Correspondent of The Star. . HYATTSVILLE, Md,, November 26—| The municipality of Oslo, Norway, The long-discussed new pumping sta-| has completed a large number of low- tion at Burnt Mills and connection with | TRt apartment houses. the Patuxent River water supply may| become a reality within the next few | months, it appeared today, with the an- | nouncement by the Washington Subur- ban Sanitary Commission that it woull offer a $250,000 bond issue for sale on | December 5 to finance the project. | Officials of the commission said they | hoped to begin construction soon after | the sale and have enough of the new | plant built to care for any emergency caused by hot weather next Summer. [ Bonds Authorized in 1927. The bonds were issued under authori- ty of an act of the 1927 Maryland Leg- | islature and hence do not require the approval of the State Public Service | Commission. That act authorized the issuance of $500,000 in bonds to estab- | lish a water system. An issue of $250,- 000 was floated shortly after the act was passed, the receipts being used to build the Burnt Mills dam and present pumping station and filter plant. Although it was at first estimated that the proposed plant and Patuxent River cut-off would cost about $270,000, the lower cost of labor and materials leads officials of the commission to be- lieve they can complete the project for $250,000, J. Darby Bowman, secretary, said today. When completed the plant will have a normal capacity of 10,000,000 gallons a | day, with a maximum capacity of 12,- 000,000 a day, according to present plans. The plant now in use can pump | about 3,500,000 gallons a day, but con- sumption for 1932 averages about 4,000,- 000 & day, according to Robert B. Morse, | chief engineer. Would End D. C. Purchases. | The new plant would not only care | for the needs of the territory served by the Sanitary Commission “for many vears to come, it is believed, but would also eliminate the necessity for pur- chasing water from the District of Co- lumbia, as has been necessary in re- cent years during hot weather. DAYS OF SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., NOVEMBER 27, 1932—PART ONE. VICTIM OF $91,000 SWINDLE HOPEFUL “I'll Get It Back in My Own Way,” | Says Oklahoman, on Chicago Visit, By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, November 26—Minus $91,000 lost in & confidence game, A. A. Dtfummond left for his Oklahoma home | tonight convinced he'd get the money back “in my own way” without aid from police. Drummond deserted ranch life some time ago for oil lease deals and opened offices in Tulsa. A man giving the name cf Edward B. Ritchie appeared N I’X MORE PRICE REDUCTIONS Typical P. J. Nee Co. Values Representing the Utmost in Style and Quality The same high standard of merchandise that has made the P. ]J. Nee Co. successful in 52 years of service saying he represented a syndicate deal- ing in oil leases, Drummond , and in several deals with Ritchie the former rancker made money. ‘Then came the big deal “At Ritchie's request,” Drummond said, “I raised $76,000 while he went to New York to put the last big deal through. I met him there about Octo- ber 20 and gave him the money, and was told to meet him in Cleveland for final settlement. I was to get $91,000, including my commission.” Drumm said he was given $91,000 in a Cleve- land telephone booth and came.on to Chicago. Thursday night when he lcoked in the money belt where he put the money, it was gone. Police here said it was just the old quick change confidence game. Gobbling of turkeys recently aroused John Hayes of ea, Ireland, in time for him to give the alarm and save his farm buildings from being burned. * B-3° AUTO VICTIM BURNED ——— Denver Business' Man Dies Pinned in Wreckage of Car. OTIS, Colo., November 26 (). —Stuart O. Parsons, 33, Denver businessman, was burned to death near here last night when his overturned automobile caught fire. He was pinned beneath the wreckage. | Parsons was born in Detroit and at- | tended Virginia Military Institute. He was a graduate of the University of Missouri. He is survived by his widow, a 6-year-old son, his mother, Mrs. B. A. Parsons of Detroit, and a sister, Mrs. Earl McCarthy of Michigan. Baythrope Prison, in England, which has been closed for some time for lack of prisoners, has been reopened as & reformatory. 2J.Nee Co. FINE FURNITUR eventh o treeteztgf appointed manager of the Women's Farm-to-Home Market at a meeting of the Board of Directors of the mar- ket held here today. Her service with the organization will begin at once and she will be in full charge of plans for the transfer of the market from its present location on Leland street, where it has been for the past 10 months, to its new quarters on Wisconsin ave- nue. The new building now bsing completed for the market will be ready for occupancy Saturday, and will be formally opcned -to the public Friday evening. Mrs. Shillinger, who is well known in Montgomery County, is a graduate in home economics: from the Carnegie Institute ef Technology, was formerly director of nutrition for the Pittsburgh Dairy, ‘Council, and seyeral years ago lectured on nutrition in the Mont- gomery County public schools for the American Red Cross. With the appointment of the new manager, the extension division of the Tniversity of Maryland, under whose auspices the market was established, will continue to act in an advisory capacity, Miss Edythe M. Turner, home demonstration agent for Montgomery County, said today. bzen working with the Farm-to-Home Market as adviser since August, and as the representative of the university will continue to render any assistance possitle: U. S. WOMAN LINKED TO TRUNK MURDER Syracuse Music Student Disap- pears—Sought by Milan Police. By the Associated Press. tonight were seeking Miss Anna Dor- sher], 41, of Syracuse, N. Y., in con- nection with the attempt to sclve the mysterious arrival in two cities of suit & woman. ‘The disappearance of Miss Dersherl was one of many angles under in- vestigation. Two suit cases containing parts of the body arrived in Naples November 16, and a third suit case with the rest of the body in Rome next morning. Police believed the third was sent after the slayer was aware authorities were on his trail. of which passed through Genoa and Pisa, where the police believed the slaying occurred. Miss Dersherl was reperted to have gone to Genoa, which Accusation. By the Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala., November 26 —The trial of E. Jerdan, former State Senator, charged with agreeng to accept a $250 bribe during the 1932 special session of the Legislature, neared a Montgomery Circuit Court jury latc today after two days of testimon: Jordan, who pleaded not guiity a the trial opened yesterday, resigned frcm the Alabama Senate November 2 ut th height of a Rules Committee hearing on charges that he requested Lee Castle- berry, Gadsden theater manager. to sup- ply him with $250 as “expens> money” for the passage of a Sunday amuse- ments bill for Gadsden. The State placed Castleberry back on the stand for rebutial and he testi- fied Jorden made repeated demands for the expense money over the tclepho from Montgomery to Gadsden. thre; ening to “kill the bill” unless the money ‘was forthceming. STRIKE OF 2,000 WORKERS | MAY COME N CLEVELAND“ By the Associated Press CLEVELAND. Nowember 26.—A gen- | fi eral strike in Clevel ufacturing workers, ; manager | of the Garment W Jnion, caid | today. 1 “The manufacturers are refusing to renew the agreement contains the guarantee of 38 weeks' work a year, Katovsky said. “That is a principle for | which we will fight to the last ditch.” Non-union shops have refused to en- ter into contractural relaticns with the Workers® organization, Katovsky con- tinued. He said David Dublinsky of New York. veneral president of the In- termational Union, which already has | Fromised its support in the event of a focal strike, would come here next week %o conduct an investigation. Student Sentenced as Bandit. LEXINGTON, N. C, November 26 (%) —Russell Mahoney, 17-year-old Bay City, Mich., high schcol student. who pleaded guiity yesterday to holding up & local grocery store, was sentenced to to return here in a few days. Her friends here were unable to identify phetograpts of the body of the victim, g it was too mutilated. Dersherl came to Milan to study staying in a hotel here. BOLIVIA BANé TRAVELERS LA PAZ, Bolivia, November 26 (/) — The government forbade all civilians today to travel in Southeastern Bolivia, embracing the entire disputed Gran Chaco area end its environs. Special permission must be obtained from the minister of war by any one who desires to go there. The purpose of the order was not explained ASUNCION, Paraguay., November 26 (#)—A war min: communique said today that Paraguay ntinued to take the initiative against the Bolivian army in the Saavedra sector of the Gran Chaco, where several Bolivian machine gun nests were destroyed yesterday. WIFE IS DIVORCED LOUISVILLE, Ky., November 26 ( Frai pen, 39. of Lousville, mogths zgo v Elsie Tappen of to prosecute him was granted a div day ed » that Mrs. Tappen in Woodclif} N whom he N. J. in 1914, n I 1 I trace of h came here prosecute Tapoen, his second wife n Mrs. Tag y and sought to was Jiving with Mrs. Estelle Tappen, | whom he married in 1022 Student Kills Girl For Going to Party With Another Boy By the Associated Pre: Nev., November 26— going to he: first th cnother b tone, 22, Uni sity of Nevada student from Turnersville, Tex., shot and killed jfive years in the State penitentiary doday. posing sentence Judge W. F. inted out it was the mini- Barng mum the State law for robbery her here last night and then fatally wounded himself. The shooting occurred at the hcme of the girl's grandmother, Mrs. Ben Leon. Miss Turner has | MILAN, Italy. November 26—Police | cases containing a dismembzred body of | The suit cases arrived on trains both | is near Pisa, on October 13, intending | taxes due the State and county for the | current fiscal year have been placed in| the mails, it was announced by County | Treasurer J. Forest Walker today. They | represent more than $40,000 due the | county and State and may be paid at| the office of the county treasurer in the | Court House here or at any of the banks | of the county. { | The state motor vehicle commis- sioner, according to County Treasurer | Walker, has sent out the application blanks for the 1933 motor vehicle license | tags, and these, he stated, should reach | | the owners about the time the tax bills | are received. |~ When the tax bills are paid, the tag | application blanks should be taken | along to be perforated to indicate to the | motor vehicle commissioner’s office that | the State and county taxes for the year | have been paid. License tags for 1933 | will not be issued on unperforated ap- | plication cards, Treasurer Walker made | clear. SAILOR CHANGES SHIPS AT SEA FOR OPERATION Transferred From Freighter to Liner After Being Stricken With Acute Appendicitis. | B the Associated Press. AN PEDRO, Calif., November 26.— William E. Anderson, 21-year-old sea. man, is recovering from an operation for acute appendicitis performed by four surgeons aboard the Dollar liner Presi- dent Coolidge after he was trans-ship- ped at sea from the freighter Dakotan. Anderson, an oller abcard the freighter, was stricken last Tuesday morning while his vessel steamed off the lower West Mexican coast. The southbound Dakotan communicated by radio with the President Coolidge, 210 | miles south. Nine hours later Anderson had been taken aboard the northbound passenger | vessel and operated upon. The sur- geons said his appendix was about to rupture. | _Dr. Rosetta A. Scottner of Mt. Sinai | Hospital, New York City, who is en route to Arizona, assisted in the oper- ation. . Anderson was taken off the liner |upon fits arrival here today and sent | to his home In Lomita, Calif. | |TWO ROBBERS KILLED BY EX-ARMY OFFICER Pair Are Slain in Attempt to Hold Up Druggist in Downtown St. Louis. By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, November 26.—Two rob- bers were shot and killed by Joseph Pa- lermo, former Regular Army officer, as they attempted to hold up Victor Dies- ing, 71, in his drug store in downtown St. Louis today Palermo, now a restaurant proprie- tor, became suspicious of two men as they passed his restaurant. He got his revolver and started down the street, but the robbers hed disappeared. Dropping in at the drug store a few dcors away he found the robbers at- tempting to gag the druggist. One of them drew a revelver and Palermo fired three shots, killing one robber, Francis Trudell, 35, and mertally wounding Ben Joseph, 41. Both men were former convicts. ‘The revolver dropped by one of the rs gave evidence he had tried to the weapon, but the mechanism | was clogged by heavy oil BIG BUILDING PLANNED Buenos Aires Structure to Be South America’s Highest. BUENOS AIRES, November 26 (#).— Plan; for the highest office bullding in South Americe, with a mast for moor- g dirigibles, were announced today by the Huguier Building Corporation. The building will be 34 stories high about 500 fext—and will cost about | 00,000 pesos, the equivalent of about | $4,000,000. It will stand on the cor- | ner of Sarmiento and Leandro Alem | streets, facing the harhor. It i3 ex- | pected it will serve to moor the Graf | Zeppelin, which has been’ making transatlantic crossings. COFFEE QUOTAS ORDERED RIO DE JANEIRO, November 26 (#). | —The government today authorized the National Coffec Council to set annual quotas for purchases from coffee states : itz control. It also was cuthor- » fix the purchase price indefi- if necessary on purchases from d coffes. While limited amounts of coffee are being permitted to leave Sao Paulo, blockaded during the three months’ revolution in thit state, the National Coffee Council was last reported to have £.000,007 sacks of Sao Paulo coffee in Engineering difficulties will make it impossible to build the entire new Burnt Mills plant at once, Mr. Morse said. A portion capable of handling | present needs will be erected first. The | old plant then will be torn out and the rest of the new equipment installed. | The Patuxent River cut-off, involving | a small pumping station and 2-mile | pipe line somewhere in the vicinity of | Snells Bridge, in upper Montgemery County, will divert water from that| river to the Northwest Branch water- Sold Exclusively by the P. J. Nee Co. Charles of London design. Hair filled — special South American tail and mane long hair. Selected kiln-dried hard- wood frame. Upholstered with sll-ned, assuring an abundant water sup- ply. 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NEW YORK, November 26.—The Fed- | eral Government, sifting charges of election frauds, today served a subpoena duces tecum on the chief clerk of the board of elections, calling for the pro- duction of voting machines from sev- eral New York City districts. One of the districts was that in which Walter S. Mack, jr., ran for the State Senate on the Republican ticket, and after a conference with Federal prose- cutors today, Mack issued a statement. | He said much of the evidence on which the Government now was working was | the result of his own investigation and of affidavits which he had submitted. 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