Evening Star Newspaper, February 24, 1935, Page 19

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¥, FEBRUARY 24, 1935—PART ON ARLINGTON SPLTS | INTO THREE GANPS Democratic Decision for Primary Developes Third Party. B & Staff Correzpondent of The Star. ARLINGTON COURT HOUSE, Va., February 23.—The decision of the Democrats of Arlington County to hold @ primary election this year—after neglecting such a method of choosing candidates for about 30 years—has di- vided the county into three political camps, instead of the cufiwmnry two. One favors the primary. It is headed “by the majority of the county Demo- eratic Executive Committee, which voted, 14 to 2, to hold the primary. The second camp is strongly against the primary, and is made up largely.| of Government employes, who fear that the primary will inject partisan- ism into the election to such an ex- tent that they will lose their jealously guarded right to participate in local government. Committee Says Nothing. The third, of course, is the Repub- lican camp, which has made no offi- cial statement concerning the coming county elections, but which primary opponents maintain, was happy to hear of the Democratic decision. Since making its decision to hold the primary, which is set by law for August 6, the Democratic Committee has said nothing, officially. Only two candidates have an- nounced, both “subject to the pri- mary.” They are Harry W. Fellows, present board member, who seeks the nomination for county treasurer, a post now held by Charles T. Jesse, and Emory N. Hosmer, who asks the Dem- ocratic nomination for post of com- monwealth’s attorney. Most of the public utterances made since the primary decision have been by those opposed to its being held. Meetings Are Held. Meetings have been held by various groups, chief among which was the Special Elections Committee of the county Civic Federation, which voted to recommend to the federation that it oppose the primary, and that its representatives meet with Democratic chieftains in an effort to bring about a change in policy, as well as to con- fer with Republican leaders to fore- stall any move by that party to hold a nominating convention. Government employes, whose rights the Federation Committee seeks to uphold, maintain that they were granted the right to participate in local elections only if they were non- partisan in nature. They said the executive order giving them the right to run for local government offices was predicated upon the representa- tion that the county had not held a convention or primary to nominate county officers for some 30 years. A primary, they fear, would take from them the right to run for county posts. Opinion Divided, Charles R. Fenwick, chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee, told the special Federation group that the holding of a primery by the Democrats, or a convention by the Republicans, would not preclude any Government employe from running as an independent, if he so desired. However, the primary opponents say that if they do run as independents egainst the regular nominee of a major party, they will be placed in the position of working for the de- feat of that nominee in order to bring about their own election, and hence will be participating in party politics. Another school of thought in the pro-primary group is represented by those who maintain that county offices are too important to be treated as “sidelines” by the Government work- ers whose reguler work is in Wash- ington. They point out that even the County Board posts will take so much time away from the regular job of & worker in the Government, should he be elected to one of them, that in properly caring for one job he necessarily would neglect the other. Meetings Exceed Leave. During the past two years the County Board has averaged 46 meet- ings per year, and each meeting has averaged well over three hours in length. Thus board meetings alone consume 138 hours annually, at a conservative estimate. This is ex- clusive of the time spent going and coming from Washington and “extra” leave. The annual leave of a Govern- ment employe is 15 days, they point out. * Besides these meetings, several of which each year require a full day’s time, the board makes inspections Trom time to time, and the chairman’s time is further taken up by signing the several hundreds of warrants issued each month. Democratic leaders say one of their chief reasons for determining to hold Essay Contest Medal Awarded 5 Miss Louise Fox of Holy Cross Academy, who won first prize in the Sons of the Revolution essay contest on “Benjamin Franklin’s Con- tribution to the War of the Revolution,” receiving the winner's medal from Charles F. Diggs, who had charge of the contest. Leroy Leibel was given honorable mention. The presentations were made at the George . ‘Washington birthday anniversary celebration in Memorial Continental Hall. Left to right: Leibel, Miss Fox and Diges. —Star Staff Photo. ELEGTION STOLEN, CISSEL CHARGES Fusion Neither Giving Nor Receiving Co-operation, Democrats Hear. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., February 23.— Charges that “the Democrats did not lose the November 6 election, but it was stolen after the polls closed,” were made by Cept. Joseph C. Cissel of Silver Spring before the Democratic organization of Montgomery County in its first post-election meeting here tonight. Cissel declared that the Democratic party is stronger than ever, and as- serted that “as I predicted before the election, the Fusion party is neither receiving nor giving co-operation with either the national Democretic admin- istration or Maryland's Republican Governor.” Merger Is Opposed. Numerous speakers who addressed the meeting opposed any merger with the Democratic forces of the Fusion party, which has been rumored ‘Lhmuahout the county since the elec- tion. It was asserted by Cissel that the Fusion county * commissioners are even at “loggerheads” with their two Delegates in the State Legislature. He declared that Delegate Joseph A. Cantrel is the only Fusionist trying to keep his campaign pledges, and “his policies are being forestalled by the members of his own party.” During his talk Cissel paid tribute to State Senator Stedman Prescott and other members of the county delegation at Annapolis for the excel- lent bills they have presented and had passed. Prescott, leader of the Democratic organization, declared he had grea difficulty in getting the Ilegislative program of the Fusion commission- ers, and said that, despite their cam- paign pledges opposing additional bond issues, they sought to refund all maturing bonds and even to ask for an additional $750,000 school bond Pprogram. Job Pledge Hit. He declared further that they had not advocated the abolition of a single Jjob or commission as promised during the campaign. Senator Prescott charged that dur- ing the campaign the Fusionists advocated keeping the police force out of politics, but begged Gov. Nice to veto the bill which he introduced to place the police under civil service. He said the Fusion party had can- vassed both the Senate and the House in_an effort to defeat the measure. Prescott declared the contracts which the county commissioners have entered into with a number of their new appointees are “absolutely illegal.” —_— PRINCE GEORGES LEADER TO SPEAK IN BERWYN Dr. C. P. Close Will Address P.-T. A. Tuesday Night—S8ing- ing to Precede Talk. @ primary was to cut down the num- | Special Dispatch to The Star. ber of candidates. candidates for the five-man board. 41 BOOKS OF RAGE TICKETS IN CREEK Boys Fish Out Bundles Believed Discarded by Person Fearing Seizure. By the Associated Press. ‘BALTIMORE, February 23.—Balti- more police today were in possession of 41 books of tickets on the Grand National Sweepstakes at Aintree, Engiand, found floating on Curtis Creek near here. The officers said they were en- deavoring to discover whether the bundle of tickets was thrown or drop- ped overboardy from a boat in ge Chesapeake Bay and washed with the tide into the creek. Tickets on a French sweepstakes were said to have been seized in Philadelphia yesterday and it was believed possible that the Grand Na- tionsl tickets may have been discard- ed by some one on a boat near Balti- more on learning that sale of such tickets was officially prohibited here. “Two 16-year-old boys, Norman Seott and William S. Zymoski, dis- covered the water-soaked bundle in the creek, fished it out and turned 1§ over to the officers, who held it an investigation. FEach of the tickets is valued at $2.50 the total value for the bundle was estimated at $2,152. The Grand National will be run March 29. ? Textile Activity Climbs. :m #ilk reeling and rayon pro- duetion are increasing in Ttaly. 4 At the last county | election there were more than 50 BERWYN, Md, February 23.—Dr. C. P. Close of College Park, prominent civic leader of Prince Georges County, will be the guest speaker before the Berwyn Parent-Teacher Association Tuesday night in the school at 8 o'clock. There will be community singing. ‘The Ways and Means Committee of the association is sponsoring a turkey dinner Thursday night. The proceeds will be used to beautify the school grounds and buy playground equip- ment. s A. J. Thomas recently was elected president of the association, with Pred Frost, vice president; Mrs. Jean B. Brown, secretary, and Walter Long- necker, treasurer. GAITHERSBURG WOMEN HEAR TALK ON POETRY Report on Educational Project Is Presented at Meeting of Club. Speclal Dispatch to The Star. GAITHERSBURG, Md., February 23.—Miss Julia Collins, an instructor, in the Takoma Park High School, was the guest speaker at the semi-monthly meeting of the Gaithersburg Woman's Club this week. Mrs. Sydney H. Karr followed with an instructive report on the educa- tion project which is being sponsored in Rockville by the Board of Educa- tion and the County Welfare Board, whereby a group of women on relief rolls are being given employment four days per week as seamstresses, the finished work being turned over to the ‘Walfare Board for on among the needy. issue when they finally submitted the | VIRGINIA HIGHWAY PLANS ANNOUNCED Extensive Road and Bridge « Program Is Pro- posed. By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va, February 23— The State Highway Department has submitted to Virginia P. W, A. head- quarters a proposed public works pro- gram involving $26,500,000, divided almost equally between road construc- tion and bridges and grade-crossing elimination, H. G. Shirley, highway commissioner, announced today. Included in the estimate of what may be spent in Virginia if Congress passed the $4,000,000,000 work-relief bill is a $3,000,000 bridge across the Rappahannock from Grays Point to Whitestone, a $700,000 bridge across the same river at Cherry Point, an- other at Fredericksburg costing $15¢ 000 and a fourth at Falmouth at & cost of $100,000. A $2,000,000 bridge across the York at Yorktown and a $1,000,000 span over the James at Jamestown also are proposed. The estimate provides for spending $150,000 on the Gresham Bridge across the Mattaponi River at ‘West Point, and the same amount on a structure connecting Gwynns Island, Mathews County, with the mainland. The Rappahannock bridges were termed desirable by Mr. Shirley be: cause they would connect the north- ern neck more closely with the rest of the State. Should the funds asked be made available, it would be apportioned among districts for road construction as follows: Bristol, $2,600,000; Salem, $1,520,- 000; Lynchburg, $1.800,000; Suffolk, | $1,200,000; Fredericksburg, $650,00 | Culpeper, $1,650,000; Staunton, $1,- ;mo,ooo; Richmond, $1,200,000. FEDERAL SPEAKERS ON C. OF C. PROGRAM Prince Georges Organization to Hear Joseph K. Gilchrist and James E. Woodruff. Special Dispatch to The Star. LANDOVER, Md, February 23— Joseph K. Gilchirst, director of Fed= eral Housing Administration activities for the District of Columbia, and James E. Woodruff, an official of the same administration, specializing iny the modernization campaign, will speak before the Prince Georges Chamber of Commerce Monday night at 8 o'clock at the Beaver Dam Coun- try Club. Prior to the meeting dinner will be served at 6:30. Dinner reser- vations must be filed with C. D. An- derson, secretary of the chamber, Baltimore street, Hyattsville, before midnight tomorrow. Vincent L. Tompkins, jr., chairman of the chamber’s Better Housing Campaign Committee, will report at the meeting. Another interesting fea- ture will be a report by S. Marvin Peach, chairman of the Legislative Committee, regarding proposed legi lation being considered by the Gen. eral Assembly now in session at An- napolis. 4-H CLUB TO MEET Special Dispatch to The Star. FAIRFAX, Va., February 23.—A 4-H Club leaders' training meeting will be held in the Fairfax Elementary School Monday morning, beginning at 10:15 o'clock, it has been announced by Miss Sarah E. Thomas, county home demonstration agent. Miss Janet Cameron, State food specialist, will give a demonstration on preparing and serving dinners, and a representative from the Virginis Public Service Co. will give a-demon- stration on desserts. Miss Sarah Cox, president of the County Leaders’ As- sociation, will speak to the group. BUYRIRECT AND SAVE! . D0GS BARK FORIT!... . MY FRIENDS 'SAY IT IS THE BEST FOOD THEY EVER TASTED! DERWOOD DOC FOOD] For All Dogs and Puppies This food has been de- veloped over 10 years of kennel-testing. A scien- tifically prepared food ¥ith s fine meat base and necessary cere: 'n;ul minerals. Ready Miss Olivia Myers, president, con- | B ducted the meeting. —_— Australia Escapes Drought. Unlike most of the world, Aus- tralia had little drought last year. THE DERWOOD MILL DEPT. S DERWQOD, MD. . Ly 4 WILL TESTIFY IN ELEGTION SuIT Taking of Testimony in Con- test Opens Tomorrow at Rockville. By & Staff Correspondent of The Star. 'ROCKVILLE, Md., February 23— The taking of testimony in the elec- tion recount suits instituted by Dr. Llewellyn Jordan and John Imirie, defeated Democratic candidates for the House of Delegates, against Joseph A. Cantrel and Walter M. Magruder, will be begun before Judge Donald A. De Lashmutt in the Police Court room here Monday at 10 o'clock. 34 Witnesses Called. Thirty-four witnesses have been subpoenaed by Dr. Jordan and Imirle to testify regarding the alleged elec- tion irregularities that are blamed by the two Democrats for their defeat at the hands of the Fusion candidates, who have assumed their seats in the lower branch of the Legislature. It is expected that several days will be required to take the testimony, the transcript of which will be forwarded to the House of Delegates Committee on Elections. The committee will de- termine whether or not the evidence is sufficient to warrant the granting of a recount of *he November 6 bal- loting to the tw. contestants. Will Represent Selves. Dr. Jordan and Imirie, both of whom are graduates in law, will rep- resent themselves. The firm of Peter & Simpson and Kenneth Lyddane and Ralph S. Fowler will represent Cantrel. while John E. Oxley is to serve as counsel for Magruder. The cases will be handled simulta- neously as the testimony offered in both Imirie and Dr. Jordan's suits is to be identical, they say. Choir to Give Comedy. BRANCHVILLE, Md., February 23 (Special) —“Beantown Choir,” a mu- sical comedy, will be presented by the Hyattsville Baptist Church Choir for the benefit of the local church at the Methodist Church Hall March 8, it was announced tod: €« VERY working day, more than five thousand New Ford V-8 roll off the assembly line and into the service of Ford owners. It has been a long time since people have taken to a new car the way they have taken to the New Ford V-8. Ford production in January was upwards of 100,000 units. For February it is set at 130,000. There haven’t been figures like that since 1930. ‘That means jobs and wages for increasing thousands of automobile workers. Ford employ- ment in the United States is more than 114,000 — over 74,000 at Dearborn and 40,000 in Ford plants throughout the country. This activity reaches out to many hundreds of thousands of men in allied industries. They are busy when Ford is busy. The story of the Ford V-8 is one of progress. Before it came along the V-8 cylinder engine was always associated with high price. It was beyond ¥ B3 Families Reunited After Many Years Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. At left: Alonzo Gehrman of Kan- sas City, Kans., who has arranged a vacation from his refinery job, starting May 1, so he can go to Irwin, Ohio, to visit his daughter, Mrs. Anna Scott, whose where- abouts he had not known since she was 9 months old. A recent want ad brought about the reunion. Upper right: The daughter, Mrs. Anna Scott, reading a letter from Gehrman. With her are her chil- dren, Edith, 4, and Homer, 5. Lower right: Mrs. Woodson Cooke, left, of Valley City, I, with Mrs. George E. Laney, right, her daughter, and Lois Jane Laney, grandchild. Photo taken at Kan- sas City shows first meeting of the women since Mrs. Cooke, ill and poor, gave up her daughter in Chi- cago in 1913. Illinois Children’s Hospital Home records made re- union possible. about sales. Forp MQTOR COMPANY GIRL SCOUTS POSTPONE CAMP THORN REUNION Await Return of Commissioner of Council Before Holding Sec- ond Annual Event. Special Dispatch to The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md., February 23. —Postponement of the second annual reunion of Camp Thorn, Prince Georges County Girl Scout camp, from March 2 to March 9, has’been an- nounced by Miss Doris E. Jarvis, chair- man of the Committee in Charge of Arrangements. The affair will be held at 1:30 pm. in the PFirst Methodist Episcopal Church South of Hyatts- ville. The postponement was decided upon because Mrs. Louis Dashiell, com- missioner of the Prince Georges Coun- ty Girl Scout Council, who i5 in Florida, will be unable to return by March 2. Indications, based on ticket returns, are for an attendance of 200 or more from various parts of the county. ‘Troops 3, 21 and 55 will help the counselors furnish the entertainment. The newly organized Maryland Park High School troop will make the . | placards for the speakers and mem- bers of the council. Other troops have been placed in charge of various de- tails. Miss Jarvis will serve as master of ceremonies The purpose of the reunion is to renew the friendships made the past Summer at Camp Thorn, located at College Park, and to acquaint parents and friends with the county'’s Girl Scout activities. . Farmers Face Poverty. Many farmers in France are face ing want. 'STRAWBERRIES PAY Allen’s 1935 Berry Book Describes Best Methods Blants. Varieties: Fairfax, Dorsett. Catskill. etc Copy Free. Write Today The W. F. Allen Co. 309 Evergreen Ave. Salisbury, Md. FORMAN AND BILLER Tree Expert Co. 16 Years' Satisfactery Service Telephone Clarendon 567 Five Thousand More Since Yesterday the reach of the average motorist. The Ford Motor Company believed this was “the coming car for the majority of drivers.” It set to work to build it at low cost. When you give the people something better there’s never any question It is interesting to note that more than 1,400,000 Ford V-8 cars and trucks have beecn built in the last three years. Each year has seen a sharp increase—the V-8 production in 1934 being approximately 103% ahead of 1933. More important than sales, however, is service to owners. What the car does on the road is what counts. Actual usc is the truc test of an auto- mobile. It has proved that the Ford V-8 engine has certain distinct advantages in performance and that it is economical too. Fact is, the Ford V-8 costs less per mile than any other Ford ever built. Cost records of owners show that to be so.