Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-01
ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS
Trades Council Makes Plans
for Labor Day.
HEARING ON RECEIvERsHIP
Case Against Stockholders of the
News Publishing Company Il
Set for Next Monday.
Special Correspondence of The Star.


ALEXANDRIA, Va, July /, 1913
Plans for celebration of some char
acter Labor day were discussed In
formally last night at the annual meet
ing of the Alexandria Trades Council
and a committee of six was appointed
to prepare for celebration. This COM
rnittee wiz make it's report at the next
meeting.
1t is expected that the affair will
be held at either the Dyke or Luna
Park and that speakers will be OBJ
tanned to deliver orations and also that
there will be athletic events and other
sports to complete the program. 1t is
customary each year for this organi-
cation to hold a celebration of some
character.
The Trades Council elected the fol-
lowing officers to serve for the year:
III. w. Collins, president; Orlando Studs,
vice president; Thomas Zones, record
ing secretary; John I. Harrison. finan-
cial secretary and treasurer: c. A.
Howard. sergeantat-arms; Frank Dee
ton. doorkeeper.
Asks Receiver for Newspaper.
The application filed yesterday after
noon in the corporation court by Mrs.
Nellie " Ramey. asking for the appoint
ment of a receiver for the News Pub
fishing Company, Incorporated, publish
ers of the Alexandria Daily News. an
afternoon newspaper. will be heard next
Monday morning in the corporation court
before Judge L. c. Barley. Mrs. Ramey
holds $1,000 of the s25,OO0 capital stock
of the concern. She is represented by
Attorney Edmund Burke of Washington
Mrs. Eamey alleges the concern Is in
solvent and going deeper in debt and that
its circulation has fallen off over Atty
per cent and that its debts now amount
to 81, 450.
The petitioner asks that the stockhold-
ers be enjoined from selling or disposing
of their stock. and 1t is ALSO asked that
they pay into the treasury Of the COM
is alleged they still owe. In the suit are
included the following alleged stock
holders: Carroll Pierce. NJ. L. Dinwiddie.
Robert E. Knight. Lewis H. Machen.
George D. Hopkins, Louis n. Duffey, H.
Noel Garner. Robert 8. Jones, James NJ.
and also A. 8. Doniphan and c. 8. Tay-
Tor Burke. who are alleged to have been
former stockholders.
Gases in Police Court.
+ Charles Scott. charged with disorderly
conduct. was fined $40 In the police court
today. Scott, 1t was testified. resisted
the officers while in house in tho north
eastern section Of the city late last
night. He was struck on the head and
received a bad cut.
Kitty Leonard was badly beaten last
night in the northeastern section OF the
city by Maggie Smith. Hor upper lip
was cut and right eye badly blaekcncd.
The Smith woman was fined $40 for the
assault.
Other cases disposed OF follow: Henry
Gilbert. coiored. vagrancy. acquitted;
wife and children. acquitted: George
Monday colored. disordcriy conduct,
fined IS: John High. drunk on the street,
acquitted.
The Alexandria Light Infantry at Its
attending the annual state encampmsnt
at Virginia Beach, beginning next Sun
day. The new olive drab khaki uniforms
for the company have arrived and were
mand will leave here Sunday. 1t Is ex-
pected. with the Leesburg company.
Prizes for Fly swatters.
Prizes were awarded yesterday by the
city health department to the eight lead
ers in the fiy-swatting contest under the
auspices of the health department. The
children receiving prizes and the number
of flies swatted by them. together with
the prizes, follow: Catherine Page. first
prize, $40, 294.5OO flies: Leola Cockrell.
second prize IS. $50, 100 flies: Margaret
Schuinan. third prize. 81. 162EOo flies;
Naomi Massey, fourth prize. $3.50; 90. 100
flies: Reuben Hayman. first prize, order
for half dozen cabinet photographs, $4,000
flies: Alton Dodd.. Ethel Jett and Helen
Pottsw re also awarded cash prizes of IL
each for swatting.
Rev. c. Kelly Hobbs. pastor Of the
Second Baptist Church. has. it is under
stood, received a call to assume the pas
torate of a Baptist Church in certain
section of Piedmont. Va. He is as yet
undetermined as to whether or not he
will accent the call.