Evening Star Newspaper, August 25, 1935, Page 20

ARINGTONG.0.P HEADING FOR FIAT Dispute Over Full or Par- tial Slate Faces Con- vention Tuesday. By » 8taff Ccrrespondent of The Star. ARLINGTON COURT HOUSE, Va, August 24—Republicans of Arlington County, however hopeful they once were of escaping a bitter family row such as that staged by the Democrats in their recent primary, appeared to- day to be headed for a fight of large proportions when they gather Tues- day night to nominate a slate for the November general election, unless some agreement can be reached in the meantime on the issue precipitat- ing the battle. Two factions are leading their fol- lowers into the fight on the all-im- portant proposition of whether or not the party shall place a full ticket in the field. One group 1is protesting vehemently against a full slate and seeking to put up only a limited number of candidates. On the other side is the faction which with equal vehemence is demanding that the Repubicans name a candidate for every office available. Both Sides Working. Both camps are out working among the voters who Monday night will se- lect delegates to the convention at mass meetings in their own precincts. No contests for nominations are looming tonight on the convention horizon unless some develop for the five County Board places. As a mat- ter of fact, it is over the County Board nominations principally that the “full-slate” fight is being waged. One prominent Republican admits he would like to be a candidate for the board, but only as an independent. He is endeavoring to persuade the party to the position of not naming any candidate for the board, in which event he will make the race. Should he be overruled, however, he will not announce as an independent and will support the ticket nominated. In opposition to this view is the position taken by Horace L. Wood- ward, a patent attorney of Virginia Highlands, who announced that he is a candidate for the Republican nomination for the board. Col. J. G. Pepper of Barcroft is another can- didate for a board nomination. Brown Undecided. Dr. William Mosley Brown, who has been urged to accept the nomination for county clerk, has not made up his mind on the matter and will not make known his answer to the invitation until the night of the convention. Dr. Brown is a vigorous campaigner and has a reputation of being one of the best orators in the State. He car- ried Arlington County by 500 votes when he ran for Governor on the Republican ticket against John Gar- land Pollard. | Dr. Brown is not inclined to make | the race, but may consent to be a candidate if there is a clear party call fog him. If he does not permit the presentation of his name to the con- vention, it is problematical to whom delegates will turn for a candi- .& (- "the other hand, it is more or less certain that Judge B. M. Hedrick will be nominated for another term on the County Court bench and that Frank G. Campbell will be named to make the race against Treasurer Charles T. Jesse. Both have announced their candidacies for the nominations and 1o one has offered against them. | Judge Bryan Gordon, a former Democrat, who left the -party last | year because of his opposition to the ' New Deal, has joined the Republican ranks and will probably be nominated | for one of the county or legislative | offices. Judge Gordon opposed Hed- rick for the County Court judgship four years ago and the coming elec- tion may see them fighting together. Capt. J. H. De Baus, a retired Army officer with a long war record in France, China and the Philippines, is s candidate for the nomination for sheriff, and it is considered likely that he will be chosen to oppose Sheriff Howard B. Pields. Candidates for commissioner of revenue and commonwealth attorney have not appeared yet and nomina- tions for these offices may depend on whether a full slate is ordered by the convention. ARMY PROBES CRASH OF BOMBING PLANE By the Assoclated Press. HONOLULU, August 24 —Army au- thorities pressed an investigation today into the crash and burning of a bomb- ing plane last night at Luke Field, near here, in which one soldier was killed and three other men injured. Pvt. Hicks G. Wilson, 29, of Mills Bpring, N. C., was killed. James Monroe and Martin J. Costello suffered burns and cuts, and Maj. Arthur G. Liggett, squadron com- mander, was burned slightly. The plane was from the 23a Bombardment Squadron, and the ac- cident occurred as it made a forced landing. THE SUNDAY STAR Tuberculosis Hospital Center Expands has reached an advanced stage, as Construction of the two new wings to the Children’s Tuberculosis Sanatorium at Glenn Dale, Md., now The wings were a part of the original plan, but were dropped tor lack of funds. Last year Congress appropriated $400,000 for this work, and $100,000 for drafting of plans for the adult tuberculosis hospital, for which foundations now are being laid on a nearby site. The additions to the children’s building will greatly increase the number of beds for youthful patients and afford more adequate medical and curative facilities. shown. D. C. Bills (Continued From First Page.) required the District to put up half the cost, or about $825,000. Senator Copeland of New York, chairman of the Commerce Commit- tee, took the view the project should be wholly Federal because the United States owns the water front property and because the improve- ment is part of the plan to beautify the National Capital. In conference a compromise was arrived at, chang- ing the District’s share to $389,000, or about one-fourth. The money will | have to be appropriated at a later | session before the project starts un- less an allotment for the purpose is made from the $4,880,000,000 work- relief appropriation. | Other local laws enacted during | the session were: An amendment to the District public works loan act, authorizing the Commissioners to apply to Ad- ministrator Ickes for funds to erect a group of buildings in Judiciary Square to provide adequately for the police, juvenile and municipal courts. The loan has not yet been approved by the Public Works Ad- | ministration. New Divorce Law Passed. | A new divorce law for the District. Under the old law an absolute di- | vorce could only be obtained on the ground of infidelity. The new law would permit divorces also following desertion for two years, voluntary separation for five years, and when one of the parties has served not less than two years in prison following conviction of a felony involving moral | turpitude. Establishing the excess condemna- tion method of acquiring land for | the opening of streets or for munici- pal buildings so that small, irregular- shaped parcel of land adjoining such | improvements can be acquired, used for park purposes or replatted and disposed of. A revision of the Union Station | law of 1903, to require the railroads to construct one new bridge and one new underpass across the tracks lead- ing out of the station, to open up ad- ditional traffic arteries through the eastern section of the city. The new bridge will extend across the railroad vards from Brentwood road and T| street northeast to & point beyond New ! York avenue northeast, and the underpass will be built at Eighteenth street northeast, to open up a new traffic artery running from Fourteenth street and Rhode Island avenue to New York and West Virginia avenues. Open Bar Authorized, | ‘The open bar bill, authorizing| hotels and restaurants to display and | mix drinks in full sight of the pur- chasers. | A new law for the condemnation of | insanitary buildings, end one for re- | moval of dangerous or unsafe struc- tures. A new law relating to the ducent“ and distributions of estates, to give | equal rights to the male and female | heirs of a deceased person. A law to fix definite penalties for the offense of unlawful entry on un- ocupied private property. Increasing the fees to be charged in the recorder of deeds office. To provide for the conservation and | settlement of the estates of absentees | and absconders. An act defining the charter powers | of Trinity College. An act authorizing the payment of a District salary of not to exceed $1,800 a year to one retired Army offi- cer, detailed as military instructor in the public high schools. To change the name of the German Orphan Asylum Association of the District to the German Orphan Home. An amendment to the street paving | assessment law, to provide that the ban against a second assessment for the paving of the same street shall not ‘apply to streets paved prior to January, 1885. Authorizing the Philadelphia, Bal- Nominated NAMED BY PRESIDENT FOR FEDERAL BENCH. Superior Judge Michael J. Roche of San Francisco, who has been nominated by President Roosevelt to the Federal bench for Northern California. He will succeed the late Judge Frank H. “Kerrigan. Judge Roche, a Repub- lican, is a friend of long standing of United States Senator Hiram Johnson., He is a native of Ire- land. ‘—A.P.th‘ timore & Washington Railroad Co. to do away with the substation main- tained at Seventh and C streets south- west, provided a substitute walting room for passengers is established in| the same vicinity. Bridge Is Authorized. *Authorizing the Pennsylvania Rail- road to build an overhead bridge across New York avenue nc theast, in the vicinity of West Virginia avenue, to carry & rallroad siding into s com- mercially zoned area. Authorizing policemen and firemen to reside in adjacent counties of Mary- land and Virginia. Amending those provisions of the District’s organic act of 1878 relating to the posting of bond by certain Dis- trict officials. Extending until December the life of the District of Columbia-Virginia Boundary Commission. Authorizing the Commissioners to make special regulations for the sev- entieth National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, to be held in Washington in September, 1836. To change the name of Leffler place, from Oglethorpe to Peabody street northwest, to Second place. An act making 10 changes in the District liquor’ law, most important of enacted. Improving INSPECTOR LAMB UNDER- GOES THROAT OPERATION. INSPECTOR B. A. LAMB. Following a serious throat operation last week, Inspector Benjamin A. Lamb, commander of the Traffic Bu- reau, is reported improving yesterday in the Presbyterian Hospital at New- ark, N. J. Inspector Lamb, who is 55 years old, was appointed to the metropoli- tan police force in 1905. GILL NET FISHING VERDICT DELAYED Anne Arundel Judge to Give Test Case Decision Tuesday. By the Associated Press. ANNAPOLIS, Md., August 24.—Af- ter hearing argument in a test case involving the legality of using gill nets to encircle schools of fish, Judge Linwood L. Clark, in the Anne Arun- del Circuit Court, today postponed de- cision until Tuesday at 10 a.m. W. C. Jackson of Tilghmans Island went on trial yesterday charged | with “fishing by use of destructive | devices similar to drag nets or drag seines hauled by power boats.” A similar charge against John Knpluk.‘ W. R. Roe and Frank Scharch, all of Tilghmans Island, was dropped through agreement. ‘Witnesses testified that the gill nets were dropped about a school of fish from two power boats, the weighted | bottom sinking and the upper part of | | the net being kept up by floats, one | of the boats circling inside the net before coming outside. Meyer Rosenbush of Baltimore, who assisted State's Attorney Roscoe C. Rowe, declared that the provision of the law prohibiting purse nets and drag nets and “similar destructive de- vices” made the method of fishing il- legal. In announcing postponement of his decision Judge Clark said: “This matter is of vital interest to the whole' Chesapeake Bay territory, there never having been a Circuit Court construction of the legislative act.” ~—Star Staff Photo. BOULEVARD ROUTE 1S URGED BY BLOG 122 Maryland and Pennsyl- vania Towns Favor Direct Course. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. MOUNT AIRY, Md, August 24— | A strong bloc composed of civic lead- | ers from 22 Maryland and Pennsyl- vania towns was formed here last night to urge that the so-called air | line route be followed in construct- | | ing the proposed Lincoln Memorial | boulevard between. Washington apd Gettysburg. Organization of subcommittees in{ each of the communities along the ' proposed route will be undertaken im- | mediately and plans for the opening of the campaign are to be formulated at a meeting which the Union Bridge | Chamber of Commerce will sponsor at Taneytown on September 6. Olney Man Chairman. Josiah W. Jones of Olney, president of the Montgomery County Farm | Bureau, was elected chairman of the bloc, which chose for its name the Organization of Maryland and Penn- sylvania for the direct line Washing- | ton-Gettysburg Lincoln Memorial | boulevard. Former Representative A. R: Brod- beck of Hanover was named vice chairman; C. Edwin Engel of Union Bridge, treasurer, and Donald Bowie, | jr. of Aspan, former counsel to the Montgomery County election super- visors, secretary. Harry M. Martin of Kensington | was chosen to serve as chairman of | the Executive Committee, which will be composed of chairmen of the vari- ous subcommittees to be organized in the Pensylvania and Maryland towns urging the air line route. The towns embraced by the move are Kensington, Olney, Laytonsville, Woodfield, Damascus, Ridgeville, Poplar Springs, West Falls, Watersville, Tay- lorsville, Middleburg, Johnsville, Union- ville, Liberty, New Windsor, Linwood, Detour, Keymar, Union Bridge, Union- town, Harney and Taneytown. | For Direct Line. The organization will urge that the | boulevard be built in virtually a direct line that would bring the road into close proximity to each of the 22 communities. | It was said last night that none of | the communities would be able to ac- commodate the proposed 200-foot | highway within their actual confines, but it was decided to advocate that the road be built as close as possible | to each of the towns and villages. ‘The proposed route would carry the boulevard into Rock Creek Park at Kensington and on into the National Capital over park drives, which would | be widened to accommodate the heavy | increase in traffic. TRIP TO HAVANA COSTS BRONX GIRL 75 CENTS: By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, August 24 —Two ven- turesome maidens from the Bronx, Marion Kahl, 18, and Sylvia Prucht- man, 17, returned home today from a | $300 trip to Havana at a total cost of | 5 cents. | They were stowaways. Two days out of New York they summoned the | courage to tell the captain of the| Oriente they had just come along for | the ride, and instead of making them swab decks he treated them royally. ‘They have more nerve than brains, commented Harry Fruchtman, father of Sylvia. We just wanted the trip, explained Marion. What they spent the 75 cents for was undisclosed. Mprs. Ickes Finds Hopis’ Dance Intensely Interesting Ritual (Editor’s mote: The following story of the Hopi snake dance, which ends tomorrow, was written especially for the Associated Press by Mrs. Harold L. Ickes, wife of the Secretary of the Interior, who has witnessed the ritual several times.) BY MRS. HAROLD L. ICKES. WALPI, Hopl Reservation, Aris, August 24—The snake dance of the Hopis in Arizona is a recurring rite which many whites look forward to year after year. And 50 in the latter days of August 8 congenial group gathers on hos- pitable housetops of the Hopis to ex- change greetings as they wait for the beginning of the most intense primi- | tive ritual left on our continent. ] i i i g EfRE gk For days before the public perform- many days, unseen by prying eyes. We climbed up on the housetops or seated ourselves about the dance plaza, ready for the long wait, pre- ceding the ritual, a colorful group of writers, painters, sculptors, Govern- ment folk. It is quite & social event, yearly dance. Ei; E -1 i 8§ g5 g g gk : § : § IAGRUDER NANED 10 REVENLE PLS Democratic Leader to Be Collector for Maryland District. M. Hampton Magruder, Southern Maryland Democratic leader, yester- day was nominated by President Roosevelt to be collector of internal revenue for the district of Mary- land and promptly confirmed by the Senate. He will succeed his friend, J. Enos Ray, who died last September. The office has been vacant since that time. Magruder was backed for the po- sition by Senator Millard E. Tydings, but the Treasury Department with- held favorable action for several months. No reason was revealed for the delay. Since Ray's death his chief deputy, Lewis M. Milbourne, has been serving as collector for the district, which embraces Washington, D. C., as well as the State of Maryland. Milbourne also was said to be a candidate for the post, but Magruder was the only official candidate. Prince Georges Leader. “The new collector is one of the recognized Democratic leaders 'of Prince Georges County. He has been counsel to the county commissioners for many years, a position he will have to relinquish to accept the Fed- eral post. He is a former State's attorney for the county and a former chairman of the county Democratic State Cen- tral Committee. Magruder also is president and gen- eral counsel of the Southern Mary- land Agricultural Association, which operates the Bowie Race Track, and | president of the First National Bank | of Southern Maryland, | A member of a pioneer Southern Maryland family, the new collector belongs to the Southern Maryland so- | clety and many other organizalions. | His father was clerk of the Court of | Appeals for several years. | Brothers in Offices. One of his brothers, Arthur, is a deputy collector in the department | Magruder will now head. Another} brother, Thomas, is deputy treasurer of Prince Georges County. Magruder's home on the Crain Highway, at Upper Marlboro, is one | of the show places of Southern Mary- | | land. ‘While his appointment as collector of internal revenue has been antici- | pated in the county for months, no official announcement has been made | as to who will succeed him in the im- | portant office of counsel to the county | commissioners; | Sources, usually well informed, said | the post would go to Ogle Marbury, now counsel to the County School Board, but it was uncertain who would | take Marbury’s place. Among the can- | | didates said to be given favorable con= | sideration is Waldo Burnside, former Police Court judge. LEAGUE FACE-SAVER PROPOSED IN PARIS Officials See Problem Solved if Il Duce's Fight Is “Punitive Expedition,” Not “War.” By the Assoctated Press. PARIS, August 24—Some French officials suggested today “a new word for war” might settle the Ethiopian | problem. If Premier Mussolini waged “war” against Ethiopia, they said, it would automatically require action by t. League of Nations, but if the “war” can be called a “punitive expedition” | or a “police measure” the League might tolerate it, even if it did not | approve. { “What is war?” asked one official. “Japan went into Manchoukuo, and it was not called war. Why cannot the | word war be ignored in Italy’s case?” e WIFE GONE 23 YEARS \ Man, Tired of Waiting for Her Return From Visit, Asks Divorce. JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. () .— Richard P. Turner’s wife left him 23 | years ago to visit relatives. Turner, tired of waiting for her return, has filed suit for divorce. | Goes Abroad U. S. FUNGUS EXPERT TO ADDRESS BOTANISTS. DR. CHARLES DRECHSLER. Agriculture Department scientist and expert on fungus diseases of plants, has just sailed for Amster- dam where he will be an official delegate to the International Bo- tanical Congress meeting the week of September 2. He also will at- tend the meetings of the Botanical Institute at Cologne. Dr. Drech- sler will discuss before the congress his recent discovery of species of fungi, & type of plant life, which capture and eat minute animals such as nematode worms and amoeba. —Harris-Ewing Photo. WASHINGTON, D. C, AUGUST 25, 1935—PART ONE Brand-New—1935 Model RCA-VICTOR “Magic Brain” RADIO 5 Bands Guaranteed All Wave—World-Wide Reception A Real Bargain So Hurry! Quantities Limited LIST PRICE, $225 REDUCED $80 You Pay 145 And a Liberal Allowance for Your Old Radio NO MONEY DOWN 1, 2 or 3 Years to Pay On Sale at Your Nearest George’s Store