Evening star., 1915-02-01
ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS
Many Candidates for Com
monWeaIth Attorney Expected
CHARITIES ASK FOR FUNDS
Body of Boy Burned to Death at
Richmond Taken to Old
Home for Burial.
f.,iaI corrc>rcnlcnrr Of The star.

fi"'ial Correspondence or III" Star.
ALEXANDRIA. Va, February l.-Can-
fIdatcs for the office Of commemorative
sttorncy of Alexandria are already groom
ing themselves. although the election will
not he held until next November. The
Indications are that there will he num-
her of candidates in the field.
r Gordon Finney, who has resigned
as county police justice. effective March
]. will he a candidate for the position
filed by Capt. Crandal Mackey for twelve
years Capt Mackcy has not publicly
announced his candidacy. On numerous
occasions he has had strong opposition.
Others whose names have been men
tioucd as possible candidates Charles
IT. Jesse, Frank J.. Ball and Claude o.
Thomas.
The vacancy caused by the resignation
Of Justice Fiuuey has been filled by Judge
J. 4. 7. Thornton by the appointment of
William G. Cloth, an attorney of Alex
sndr:L county.
y copy of the resolution adopted by
city council Saturday night urging
State Senator Thornton and state Dele
gate Birre1l to use their influence to
have the legislature pass at this ses-
sion the law repeating the civil police
justice bill for Alexandria was for
warded today to the legislature by
Clerk d. r. Stansbury.
Robert D. Kenyon, charged with big
amy. and recently sentenced in the cor
ooTation court to serve three years and
whose sentence was afterward COM
muted to one year. was taken to the
peaitentiary this afternoon.
Appeal for Funds.
IN appeal has just been issued by the
cooperative Charities Association,
signed by Mrs ]. f. .exander. secre-
tary. asking for aid. 1t is set forth
that funds are entirely exhausted and
that calls for assistance this year have
been more numerous. owing to the
large number out of employment. I'm
less help is given. the appeal sets forth.
the association will be compelled to
close its doors.
Owing to the illness of DR.. ]. w.
Flanagan of the state board of health,
the sanitary inspection of the public
schools of Alexandria county has been
Indefinitely postponed.
During January y. S. Greenaway,
clerk of the corporation court, issued
fifty-tive marriage licenses to forty
white and fifteen colored couples. He
also recorded thirty-one deeds.
Judge J. Robert Anderson of the, De
partment of Justice, Washington, yes
terday afternoon delivered an address
before a mep's mass meeting in the
Westminster building of the Second
Prcsby terian Church. taking for his
subject The Measure of Man.
Body Brought to Alexandria.
The body of Melvin 3. Entwisle. the
three-year- son of William B. Ent-
wistle, formerly of this city, who died
In Richmond yesterday as a result of
burns. was brought here this afternoon
and prepared for burial. The child's
clothes were ignited from a burning
gas jet, he having stuck a WhiSk broom
to the gas flame. The fathers hands
we're badly burned in an endeavor to
eXtInSuish the fire.
Marshall Phillips. a colored boy four
teen Years old. was fined $3.50 in the
police court here today for the lar
ceny of a Sunday newspaper. He was
arrested by Policeman Roland.
Thomas Marshall Chapter, Daughters
OF the American Revolution, has COM
pleted arrangements for a euchre
Thursday night in the auditorium of
the Elks' Home.
Officers will be elected tonight by
the trustees of the Alexandria Hos
pital at its annual meeting at the
chamber of commerce rooms