Evening Star Newspaper, August 18, 1935, Page 18

VIRGINIA'S GUARD " BEG TRANIG Force Encamped on' Hill Near Alexandria—Busy Program Ahead. By the Associated Press. ALEXANDRIA, Va., August 17.— Starting its most arduous National Guard movement since the World War, Virginia's “unwanted” Field Ar- tillery was concentrated here tonight on a hill overlooking Alexandria and Washington. Converg ag from six Virginia cities, the 111th Field Artillery, reinforced by the 54th Pield Artillery Brigade headquarters battery, was under can- vas near mid-afternoon. Soon kitch- ens were operating and a piping hot supper was served. Batteries from Norfolk, Portsmouth, Hampton, Newport News, Richmond and Fredericksburg are in camp under command of Col. William H. Sands. The Tidewater units, having the long- est distance to travel, were the last to arrive. The Field Artillerymen, numbering 650 officers and men, will be almost | constantly 1 the move for 15 days, | with daily changes of bivouac areas. Front Royal will be the railhead and | supply base for the operations, most | of which will be conducted in the | Massanutten Mountains and Shenaa- doah National Park. During the entire period actual field | conditions will prevail, even down to | securing supplies. | Early tomorrow moraing the Artil-| lervmen will start packing for the next move, which will carry the re- inforced regiment td the vicinity of | Front Royal, where one night will be spent. The move into the mountains will start early Monday The Artillery movement is due to the refusal of Pennsylvania and Ma land health authorities to permit V ginia troops to enter their States for training as a part of the First Army which is engaged in a large-scale war game. PUBLIC PAWN SHOP | NEARS 400TH YEAR Rome Institution Was Set Up in 1539 to Guard Against Usury. ROME (#.—Rich 'nan, poor man, beggar man, thief—not to mention royalty and princes—ihe Monte di Pieta. or “mountain of piety,” has had them all as clienls in its nearly four centuries of doinz business, pret- ty much at the same old stand. The Mountain of Piety is a huge gemi-publicly owned pawnshop and bank where, according to tradition, one can raise money on anything from & needle to an anchor. The total capitalization is over 400,- ! 1. Generol view of the W., B. & A. terminal at Eleventh street and New York avenue, from which the last train will depart for Baltimore at 12:30 a.m. Wednesday. 2. Ralph V. Snyder, 1220 Morse street northeast, a conductor on the line since it started 27 years ago, who will lose his position when the trains stop running. 3. R. W. Hawkins, 618 Minnesota avenue northeast, city passenger agent, who has been associated with the railroad for 22 years. 4. Motorman Wiliam Loefler, 1012 Upshur street, another veteran of 27 years' service, who will make his final run between the two cities Tuesday. Last Trains on Tuesday Night —Star Staff Photos. Operations of 27 Years Will Cease—100 Keep Jobs on Short Line—400 to Lose Employment. Another casualty of the automotive | Station In the latter city a5 its termi- | night. {age will be recorded Tuesday mid- | nal. About 100 employes will be retained 't' West Virginians Fight to Rise From “Permanent” Depression Ten-County Area; With Population of 340,000, Seeks Substitutes for Lost Coal and Lumber. By the Associsted Press. Roy R. Hornor of Clarksburg, replied, CLARKSBURG, W. Va., August 17.— This Allegheny Mountain table iand, alrhost forgotten by the twin kings— coal and lumber—hunted around to- day for ways to bring them back or get new occupants for the throne. The idea is to find out whether a section of the country, battered by adverse economic forces for years, can by its own efforts lift its people to the plane of living they once knew. In & 10-county area, from the head- “We'll do just that.” 8o with $15,000 collected from their own pockets for preliminary expenses they got under way. They pledged co-operation with all State and Fed- eral agencies in the drive. “The stronger and more populous communities must not seek to gain advantage over the weaker and less populous communities,” warned Chair- man Hornor. “We must keep in mind at all times that this development is ‘waters of the Monongahela River and | regional and not local.” stretching down to the very heart of - West Virginia, there are 92 communi- ties listed ss permanently or tempo-| Southern Beauties rarlly “stranded”—their populations without any certain means of sup- port. Of these communities 62 were once dependent upon mining and 23 upon the lumber industry. The Upper Monongahela Valley As- men of the 10 counties and supported by them and the Industrial leaders, acted on the recommen- & drive to carry them through. in the drea. Richardson Saunders of the Depart- sociation, created by the newspaper | Confederate dations and today is in the middle of | Of 2 Generations To Attend Reunion Veterans, Sons of Veterans Meet In Texas Sept. 3-6. AMARILLO. Tex., August 17.—Hun- More than 340,000 persons reside | dreds of Southern belles of today and of yesteryear will be in attendance Two members of a special Presi- | during the forty-fifth annual reunion dent’s committee, John F. Carter or‘iM the United Confederate Veterans the Department of Agriculture and | here September 3-6 They will include many who were ment of Labor, first looked over the left behind when the “boys in gray” workless and drab mining camps, the | answered the call to arms, more than second growth unmarketable timber- | 70 vears ago. It is estimated that lands and the unhappy factory situa- | 2,000 sponsors, matrons of honor, maids tion. They then advised: | of honor and chaperons. and wives “Get some new industries to utilize | Widows, daughters and granddaugh- local raw materials, encourage small- | ters of veterans will attend unit industries to balance big-scale One chaperon, one sponsor, one | industrial economy, and establish co- | matron of honor and three maids of | operative associations for developing honor may be named by the com- and marketing handicraft products. mander n chief: the armies of “Develop a recreational area, similar ' ginia, Tennessess and trans-Missis- to the Adirondack State Park in New '5ippi; the divisions of 16 Souther York. Attract visitors from the met- | States, the District of Columbia. New | ropolitan area of Pittsburgh, Washing- | York and the Pacific; the brigades ton and Baltimore. within each State and by each local { “Create artificial lakes for tourists. camp. 2 Lake Lynn power reservoir -near Mor- Simultaneous with the reunion wil |gantown and the projected Tygart be the fortieth annual meeting of the flood control reservoir near Grafton Sons of Confederate Veterans and the are the only possibilities now. | thirty-eighth annual session of the | “Purify your streams of mine and | Confederated Southern Memorial As- industrial waste which has destroyed sociation. their allure. For the war veterans it will be trul: “Remove the stranded coal miners & reunion. Only one session durine At that hour the Washington, Balti- | to operate this line. Twenty-one cars more & Annapolis Railroad, unable | will be used. | longer to compete with private auto-| There is much uncertainty about mobiles, will cease operations—27 years | what will become of the other prop- {and six months after it began. | erties which the bondholders bought. Departure of the last train from Their attorneys, Simms, Bowen & Baltimore at midnight and of the simms of Baltimore, say merely they | last train from Washington at 12:30 | wii] dispose of it to the best interests am. will be just another incident in of all concerned, including the public. the history of the two citles, but to| 1t is impossible for the bondhoiders most of the 514 employes of the W.. B. | {5 operate the railroad between & A. it will be a tragedy and a life| washington and Baltimore, they said, | Return of Famed Blue Crab from congested camps and get them the four days will be devoted to speak- on small farms. ing. That meeting, the night of Sep- “Encourage development of hydro- | tember 3, will be addressed by Presi- » dent Roosevelt either in person or by lectric power. The Upper Valley group, headed by | telephone-radio. Aim of Somerset County Move By the Associated Press. 000,000 lire (more than $33.000.000) | climax. and it has “societies” in every munic- ipality of any importance throughout the kingdom. with the larger cities having a number of oranch offices. The institution was founded pretty | and Baltimore over the “Short Line” | jocated and probably will be sold for ©Of Somerset County. much in its present term in 1539 as the “Mons Pletatis” to protect poor borrowers against usury, and its guid- lished a sort of charitable bank for the poor. Despite its huge financial growth, the Monte di Pieta is still primarily | charitable and non-profit making in its functions. On the 400,000.000 lire of capital, less than a nullion lire of | profit was realized in 1934, for exam- | ple. WILL ADDRESS CLUB | By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ] COLLEGE PARK, Md., August 17. | —Prof. S. S. Steinberg. head of the| department of civil engineering, Uni- | versity of Maryland, and consulting | engineer of the American Road Build- | ers Association, will address a lunch- | eon meeting of the Exchange Club of Prince Georges County at Lord Cale vert Inn here Wednesday. | He will discuss county, State and | National highway problems, Zita’s Son ARCHDUKE FELIX CARRIES OWN GOLF CLUBS, s round of golf at Vichy, France, where he is an annual visitor. —aA. P, Photo. » Fewer than 100 of them. chiefly | young men, have been employed by | a new company. which will continue |to run the trains between Annapolis| {imore and Annapolis are centrally | and Federal Government in the waters | | route. Velerans Feel Lost. although they would like to see some| CRISFIELD, Md. August 17.—A other concern take over its opera- tion. | The terminals in Washington, Bal- business properties, it is expected. Highway Urged. twofold purpose was seen today in | the oyster-shell planting project being | carried on co-operatively by the State | | | The program, in the opinion of Isaac H. Tawes of Crisfield, chairman The others, including many veterans | Fate of the 60-foot right-of-way is | of the Legislative Committee of the ing idea comes down fiom the fourth|of 15.years' service or more, face & |the subject of much speculation. | Tri-State Sea Food Association, not century when a group of priests estab- | future of uncertainty. They can hard- | There is considerable sentiment in only will aid in the rehabilitation of ly be blamed for saying they fecl that | communities beside the tracks in fa- they, like the cars they ran so long, | vor of having the right-of-way con- are bound for the scrap heap. | verted into a State highway—a new The patrons, too, who have com-|link between Baltimore and Wash- | muted on its trains for years, are “all at sea,” puzzled over the problem of finding other means of transporta- tion. Both patrons and employes of the line cannot realize the railroad is so near death. It has been such a funda- mental part of their lives they regard the arrival and departure of its trains as a certainty—something to be relied upon as surely as the inevitable se- quence of daylight and darkness. , “Something will happen at the last minute,” people in the terminals say to one another. “The W, B. & A. must go on.” Emotions Hidden. But at the headquarters of the rail- road in Baltimore there is no such fatalism. Hiding their feelings, the men who have directed the operation of the trains for more than & quar- ter of a century have arranged for | the final runs with the same unemo- | ington—but the bondhoiders have little hope this will be done. | In many cases the right of way. given for the operation of a jailroad, will revert to the original owners or have indicated-a desire to purchase some of it. The cars appear destined for dis- mantling and sale to steel mills for many of the rails and ties can be soid for replacements to other rail- roads. The rest will go for junk. Into the hands of the company he directs has fallen the task of cis- mantling the bands of steel that for so long linked Washington, Baitimore and Annapolis—bands proven entirely their heirs. Adjoining land owners ! the oyster industry but also will speed | materially the return of the famous | ! blue crab to local waters. | The drop, he said, was due to the | ! presence of a parasite which has de- | stroved the grass on the bottoms of | the rivers in this section and the lower Bay. | *With the planting of oyster shells | tions in which oyster shells were| |on the bars and rocks in various | county waters,” Tawes explained, “and with proper cultivation, vegeta- tion will begin to grow on the river beds. | “Where there is vegetation, there is | bound to be animal life, and eventuslly | a sanctuary will be built up. The | crabs then will have feeding and | breeding grounds, and in a few years, with a cessation of the wasteful and destructive practices of catchers and packers, and with rigid enforcement | of the conservation laws, Somerset’s blue crab industry will return to its | | pre-eminence as the greatest produc- | ing center for this valuable sea food in the world.” Tawes said there already has been a noticeable return of grass in sec planted by the State last year. POLICEMAN KILLS MAN MOLESTING HIS SON| |Shot Fired in Pittsburgh Park | Declared Justified as Prisoner Gives Battle. By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, August 17.—A po- loe bullet killed 2 man in McKinley | Park today who had been accused of molesting small boys. Inspector Samuel E. Wheeler said Police Sergt. Ralph Barton told him he thought he fired the fatal shot | boys. The dead man was Adam Staab, 42. | Barton said he and Detective Harry | Hart went to the park after his son | had told him the molestor would be there at 2 pm. The officers arrived late, but found Staab with a group of | They claimed Staab kicked Barton and broke away after a tussle. Toss-| ing back rocks on an order to surren- | der, the inspector said he regarddd | the shooting as justified. He said Staab had served prison terms. — e Saves Church Plate. * The Rev. R. J. Macridge saved the | tional efficiency that, in past years,| unnecessary since the three Ccities | they arranged for special trains (0| have been tied together with ribbons arry the Annapolis midshipmen to| of concrete and macadam. Baltimore or Washington. Deciding special ceremonies would | be inappropriate, Harry Connelly, gen- }enl manager, announced the regular | | crews will make the final runs. Connelly himself was among those who rode the first train over the new line when it was opened in February, 1908. Officials of the Midwestern syndicate who constructed the rafl- road, together with city officials of ‘Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis were with him on that trip, the man- ager says. Others now at the helm of the line, who have been with it since it started business, include E. A. Gannon, gen- Jenl passenger agent; Carson Schu- macker, superintendent, E. W. Wei- | nond, chief engineer; T. S. Barrow, passenger and (nwht&mt, and a number of trainmen. road never had a pension or retirement system, Connelly stated. Soon in Receivership. He and the other old employes, | many of whom, the manager believes, | never will have another day's employ- ment, saw the railroad go into receiv- ership four years after its inaugura- | tion, pass into new hands and flourish during the World War, only to decline as good highways were built within sight of its tracks and chesp automo- biles covered them. The receivership which terminated in a court order to sell the railroad’s property and stop its operation began in January, 1931. The same year the Maryland General Assembly voted it tax exemption. This exemption was continued by the 1933 Legislature, and would go out of existence if the tax exemption were not continued. The delegation from Anne Arundel County, which had the heaviest tax on the railroad’s properties, termed such pro- phecies false and persuaded the As- sembly to terminate the exemption. Barely three months after the legis- lators left Annapolis, the road was sold at auction, almost within the shadow of the State Capitol Building. | after grappling with the man he | com=union plate from a blaze which | claimed had been bothering his 11- | year-old son and others. Take advantage of our easy terms! Here you pay Nothing Down As little as 15 Cents a Day Jordan’s answer the demand for the average requirements in a NORGE. Ask us! 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