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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-01-22

executive committee, was called on
! for an address. He reviewed the
! work Of the commuters association
since It's inception. Among other
! things aIr. Birrell said that poor
man steals he goes to jail and ne
added others can wreck railroads
and raise fare. Concluding Mr.. Bir-
rell asked all present to give what
they could TO the fund to employ
| legal counsel for the commuters.
! Ashby Bladen told of the early ac-
| tivities CT the association of commu-
ters and of the ten per cent increas"
given the railway company less than
Ia year ago, and Of the assistance
rendered the association in its last:
! fight by the Chamber of Commerce.
| The address of Mr.. Bladen was prac-
tically the same as he delivered be-
fore the city council at its recent
meeting. Tn this fight he said the
commuters are going against the
best auditor in the state of Pennsyl-
vania and he appealed to all to help
in the fight. Mr. Bladen quoted 4
prominenet Washington business
man as saying the Washington-Vic-
einia Railway was in excellent physi-
cal condition and was good paying
propositio'. The point the commu-
ters made lie said is they should not
be conlDelled to shoulder the burden
of bad investments. The road he
said enioys., the most liberal fran
! chise CT any suchaline in the state Of
virgiaia
"a committee composed of Capt.
+ William n, King Edwin f Birrsll,
| P.yJ. Dempsey andT. Clifton. Howard.
w7ls' appointed TO distribute the
pledge cards
They proceeded with tteir work
and in comparatively short time
had cash and pledges amounting to
several hundred dollars in hand
! The members feel confident that
/, they will raise several hundred dol
| lars more for their work and that
sufficient funds will be in hand when
| the fight begins, Subscriptions Of
/ s25 eacn from number of business
| firms were announced by the asso-
cations president.
Capt. George H. Evans, business
| manager of the Chamber of Com
nerce. said that the Chamber Of
| Commerce is vitally interested IN
this matter and already has prac-
tically employed counsel TO look
out for the peoples interest. He
also called attention TO alleged dis
crepancies in the statement made
by the trolley company regarding
its increased cost of current.
H. f. Burke, president of the
common council, told the commuters
that the proposed raise IS very
important thing fop the people OF
| Alexandria ard he expressed graft
fication at the large attendance and
| he expressed hope that their efforts
| would be successful bfore the IN
terstate Commerce Commission.
| Certain statements made in cir
cular printed in order to float a bond
issue some time ago were read by
Mr.. Rladen. The statements made
i. therein were amazing TO the commu-
! ters present and caused much mer-
rimert..
/ On motion of sr. Birrell commit
tee of three was appointed to draft
suitable resolutions epressing to the
Alexandra Gazette the Endorsement
Of its work in The fight being made
By the. ccpnluters TO prevent The
/ proposed increase i,t fare: *:a:s
] President Stahsbury named on tlns
i committee Edwin IF. BireH, P. ).
i Denpseyzand Miss Lucy Graves.
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Chamber of Commerce Of
tn United States in D.
G., Jan. 27-2S
HOUSING PROBLEM UP.
Subject VIII he Discussed Under
Three Hsadings-C Construction, Fin
ance and Industrial. s.

Alexandria has been asked to take
art in the conference of the Nation
Council of the Chamber of Com
nerce of the United States, to be hell
n Washington, January 27-28, when
he formulation of constructive ma
ional program for relief of the hous-
ng shortage will De undertaken.
Responses to the invitations sent
but by the National Chamber indi-
ate that there is great interest in
The heus ng shortage, and very de-.
Htite Willingness on the part of busi-
hess men everywhere to jcin hands
| an effort to work out plan for lis
Notation. The actual shortage of
EweEEng houses is estimated to oe
more than 1 ,3500Oo.
The program arranged for the con-
Ference takes up the various phases
BIZ the housing problem. The subject
w:ll be discussed under three main
headings, construction, finance, and
pdustr,al housing. with the social and
a:vic side of the question running
hnough the entire conference.
3Rusmess men from practically
every part of the United States win
hssterss These iEwited from here, are:
q. Y. Williams, President and Ma
|siorsal Councillor; J. 7. Preston, Sec
|retary, representing the Alexandra
lghamoer of Commerce; Waster K.
Handy, National Councillor, represent
ing the Arlington County Chamber of
commerce; Harry Hammond, Nation
|al Councillor, representing the East
|enn Ice Manufacturers Association.
The subjects and the speakers on
Ithe program arranged fer housing
conference are as follows:
The Housing Problem and Its Re-
bald ;sssss toashe Welfare of the Ameri-
(cans People, R. Goodwin Rhett, Char
keston, S. c., former president of The
Chamber of Commerce of the United
States.
The Housing Shortage and the Pro-
gram Of the Construction Industries,
Ernest T. Trigg, Philadelphia, Pa,
President National Federation of Con-
istruction Industries.
Legislation That Will Divert Capt.
| tai to House Building, Hon. VIM. NJ.
celder, U. S. Senator from New
York, Chairman Senate Committee
on; Reconstruction.
How Can The Necessary House
CONSTRUCTION Best Be Financed?
Walter C. stabler, Comptroller, Metro
pclitan Life Insurance Company.
Labor's Part in a House Building
Program, j. A. Vol, Member Form
Ter u. S. Commission on Living Con-
citizens. representing Samuel Com
apers, President, A. F. of l..
s Effect cf the Housing Shortage
upon Standards of Living and Ulti-
)mately upon Industry, Julia c. Lath-
1rcp, Chief. CEldren's Bureau, Unted:
States Department of Labor.
1 Standardization of Manufactured
Products Entering into House Cen
strucbion, A. NJ. Maddox. Chairman,
! Standardization Com. Of National
Federation of Construction Industries,
Thomas Maddox Sons & Co., Tren-
tor, N. j.
CONTINUED On Page Five)
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-01-22

A CAPACITY crowd last night at
tended the mass meeting held in tha
auditorium of the Chamber of Com
me1re under the auspices of the
/ Mount, Vernon Division Commuters
| Association of the Washington-Vir-
ginia Railway Company to protest
against the proposed increase, in
rates over that line which the rail
way company seeks to put into op-
eratio, February 13.
The commuters decided to protest
and will shortly arrange to file their
! petition with the Interstate Com
! meree Commission. 1t wass}Annoua-
ced that the protest must be filed
! not later than February g. Follow
irg the filing Of the petition date
will be fixed by the Interstate Com
mercc Commission for hearing both
sides and then will come the big bat
/ tie When it will decide whether or not
the commuters Of tbs city and vicin-
ity will nave to pay more money 20
the Observation-Disclosures Railway
! Company to, haul them.
A special meeting of the executive
/ committee of the Commuters and
! the committees from the Chamber OF
Commerce and Citizens Association
will be held at s o'clock Monday
night IN the Westminster Building
at which time plans for securing
the services! Of legal counsel and and
other plans in aonnectionHwith the;
campaign viii be mapped out. This
meeting will not.be open tosthe pub
lie. J,
The meeting was presided, over by.
Daniel R. Stansbury, president Of the
association. Miss Margaret Ger
nlond was secretary and report
was submitted by Captain William
NJ. King, treasurer Of the associa-
ton.
/ The auditorium was packed to its
capacity and the overflow filled
Lfoom in the chamber of commerce
connected with the assembly hall and
heard tie addresses made. The
gathering was a representative one,
embracing some Of the oldest and
youngest commuters on the line to-
eether with large number of wo-
men Also attending were group
of colored commuters.
The meeting was called to orde"
shortly after o'clock by D. R.
Stansbury, who in a short address
outlined the purpose of the gather
ing. He said the railway company
calls on the people when they are
short cf funds. The speaker SAID
.he association had done considerable
work in keeping down the fares and
members of the association were
very much surprised at the now
schedule CT rates asked for. The as
sociation he explained proposes to
fight to finish. The commuters ne
said could not so before the associa-
ton on hearcsay but will have to
have figures.
Miss Margaret Germond, secre-
tay of the association, told OF the
| work necessary in connection with
such case and she said the confmu-
ters will have to cooperate with the
officers Of the association in order 10
obtain results. She told of the IN
difference of some people regarding
the proposition quoting young
lady whom she asked about attend
ing the meeting. The youEg lady,
she said. replied, "I:guess it went 90
any good" She urged all who :coul
!, | to contribute to the cause and 4bfie1-
~ outlined the preparations neees-
sary Tor filling tina case before the
Interstate Commerce Couimfssion.
Edwin F. BirrelI, a me pber OF the
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FIRST AID AT DIZZY HEIGHT

New York, Jan. 22.--Dangling
from 30-foot rope held:by several.
Iaborcrs, Or. Donnelly of the Ford
ham Hospital, early yesterday adj
min:stered first aid to- three men
pinned under an automobile truck
that had plunged over Grock en-
oankment on the Outskirts of the
city.
The men were rescued later, taken
10 a hospital and probably will re,
cover. :t-c ~
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NOTICE

The members Of Alexandria Coun-
Gil, No. 5. Order .Flaternal Ameri-
cans, are requested to meet Monday
Afternoon, January "a, at 2:9o o'clock,
for the purpose of attending the
funeral of our late brother, John L.
Cornwell
BY order of the President,
N1,. James R. Mansfield, Sec.
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Echoes OF Meeting

ILlNUCO VI IASIllN6
I Splendid meeting! That was the
unanimous verdict Of all who attend
!. ed.
There was no oratorical effort at
/ last nights meeting, but It was con-
Quoted on safe and sane lines.
The Commuters made no effort to
show their hand in this case. This,
however, is being held in reserve
The meeting of the executive COM
Imittee al. 8 o'clcck Monday night in
| the Westminster Building will be
private.
The only employee of the Wash
ington-Yarginia Railway Company
who attended the meeting was Thos.
Travers, claim agent for the railroad
company
| The railroad company had a ste
|nographer present who took notes Of
/ the addresses made.
| Many of those who were unable to
be present at the meeting last night
propose to sign pledge cards and
join the commuters in their fight
against the railway company.
In addition to the crowd of men
| ! s x
and women who filled the auditor
ium of the chamber of commerce to
Its capacity, large crowd also stood
in the room adjoining the assembly
hail.
Officials of the commuters associa-
ton feel gratified with the large at
tendance apd feel satisfied that with
such people behind the movement
they cannot fail in their efforts to
prevent an increase in fare.
IF there is anyone in Alexandria
in sympathy with the move of the
railroad company to raise the fare
the Gazette has been unable to find
them. Sentiment against the move
continues unabated.
With the continued cooperation Of
all the commuters, Alexandria will
put up such a fight that the railway
company will fail on this PROPOSE
ton
Ali VINO did not attend the meet
ing last night should not delay in
joining the commuters association.
There are no fixed dues and no obi
cations. All they ask is to give
what you can afford Better give to
the association than later to the
railway company in the shape Of
increase fare.
A representative gathering of col
ored commuters also was on hand
and every enc present joined the as
sociation.s
Many of: those present at last
nights meeting privatcl5 expressed
themselves in favor of reduced fare
jnow that wages are dropping and
everything else in proportion.
The commuters of the Washington
Virginia Railway Company are now
pretty well organized and there is
nothing that beats organization.
Some of the best known account
ants in Pennsylvania it is reported
have been secured by the railway
company to present figures to the In
.terstate Commerce Commission and
they will have some expert lawyers
on railroad matters to present their
case, The public, however, hope to
be ready at the proper time.
The petition of the Alexandria
commuters praying for hearing on
this.case will be presented not later
than February 8.
The story told at the meeting by
Miss Margaret Germond of young
lady who was indifferent about at
tending the meeting is the trouble
with too many Alexandrians when q
fight is on by the p5ople to hold
down the fares. Fortunately, how
ever, everybody does not view the
matter in the same light Judging
from the big crowd in attendance.
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DIED

SUMMERS-The infant son of
Harvey W. and Dora F. Summers.
died at 4 p. M, January 21, at ia
Commerce street. Funeral Satu~-
day. January %. at. p. M, from
Whaatley's chapel. 19-ip
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Auditorium OF Chamber OF Commerce
Packed When Plans Were Dis
cussed For Fight Against ".
V. RWy., Company Fare Raise
GENEROUS FINANGIALRESPONSE

Several Hundred Dollars In Cash and Pledges Raised and
Many More Expected to Join Association-A-F Few
Short Addresses Made by Members of the Association
Thanks rendered Gazette-Executve Committee
to Confer Monday Night With Committees From
Chamber of Commerce and Citizens Association at
Westminster Building.
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DIED

CORNWELI-John L. Cornwe.l,
aged So years, of l2l5 Prince
street. at 7:15 a. M, January %,
1891. Leaves "a wife three
brothers and one sister. l9-lp
The Washington times., 1921-09-18

IN find a man wanted for some Of
fense or other sitting on his door
step waiting to surrender to him.
The Washington times., 1921-09-18
HUSBANDS EMPLOYE
ACCUSED OF ATTACK
Woman Assaulted in Near-Beer
Bar Identifies Him As
AssaiIant.

Recovering from the effects Of an
anaesthetic administered to her when
ri : underwent an operation for In
juries received when attacked by Il
negro In the near-beer salon OF her
husband shortly before noon today
Mrs. Ida Rosenthal wife Of Louis Fl.
Rosenthal, North Capitol and Hanover
streets northwest, told the police that
her assailant was Frank a. Raymond
twGnty-ycars old, 1928 Fourth street
northwest. She said that she knew
Raymond because he had been en-
ployed by her husband for several
days
While Mrs. Raymond was at the
Sibley Hospital, Raymond walked in
to the Second Precinct Police Station
and told Capt. Charles Peck that
he believed he knew the man who
had attacked the saloon keepers wife.
He claimed that he had gone into the
saloon to get a half pint Of gin and
found Mrs. Rosenthal lying behind the
bar suffering from wounds she had re-
ceived from an iron bar. Captain
Peck locked Raymond up as mater
lal witness. Later when Mrs. Rosen.
thai said that Raymond was her as.
sailant, the charge against him was
changed to that Of assault. Raymond
denies the charge.
Mrs. Rosenthal was attending bar
in her husbands place shortly before
II o'clock yesterday morning when
negro walked in and struck her across
| the face with an iron bar. Her nose
and jawbone were broken. The negro
rlfled the cash register as Mrs Rosen-
thai lay unconscious behind the bar
and escaped with about $40 and a
loaded revolver. Raymond had neither
revolver or money when he walked
| into the police station.
The Washington times., 1921-09-18

the bottom OF the plane and was Sc.
curely pinned in the wreckage. Above
me. in jagged blotches, could see the
SKY. Ten minutes later l again
lapsed into inconsistencies.
The next thing remember was on
the following day. l later found out.
i heard shouts of people hunting for
US. ! answered and the searchers
came up to the wrechage. They
questioned me, and tried to tell them
what they wanted to know. They
then proceeded to pull me from the
wreckage.
Il was shocked to find that my four
buddies were dead. They took me to
Virginia hospital. l never lost con,
seriousness again. After preliminary
treatment they brought me to Walter
Reed Hospital"
Lieutcnants Speck and Fitzpatrick
Corporal Arthur Brown and Private
Howard-the other fliers-were all
dead when the searching party To-
Gated the machine.
Corporal Hazelton has been in the
army for five years. During the
war he served in the infantry, and
suffered injuries to his wrist while
doing service in France.
He Is optimistic about his recent
injury and said yesterday he ex,
poets to see three more years in the
army. He was a member of the
Fourteenth bombing squadron, Lang
ley Field. Va. The plane that
crashed was Martin type bomber
Last night a long distance tele,
phone call was received at Walter
Reed from the corporal's sister. She
had just heard Of his injuries. Rela.
tives from Wilmington, Del, the
home Of the injured airman, are
with Hazelton here.
The Washington times., 1921-09-18
|Sergt. Sweeney Has Dodged Many
Bullets In His Career AS Officer
WeII-Known D. c. Detective Is
Popular Even Among Minor
Lawbreakers, Some of Whom
Have Been Known to Wait
on His Doorstep to Surrender.

Detective Sergeant Thomas F..
Sweeney. Of District Commissioner
Oysters Flying Squad" claims to
have had a charmed life. During
his twenty-one years Of police expert
ence with all types Of criminals, he
has been shot at a score OF times and
attacked. but he has always escaped
unscathed.
On one occasion. Detective Sergeant
Sweeney was rushing in an automo'
bile with two other officers to aid a
fellow policeman who was being mob
bed by a crowd OF negroes at Eleventh
and NJ streets northwest.
As the machine sped through Elev-
enth street, II collided with a street
car, causing serious injury to Joseph
Coghlan, the chauffeur, and Police
man Robert Bursey, both OF the
Eighth precinct. Coghlan and Bursey
were confined in a hospital for several
weeks from injuries they received, but
Sweeney escaped unharmed.
A dozen shots were fi~ed at Swee'
ney, Sergeant Dunnigan and Officer
Waldron several years ago when they
arrested Hecho Wallace, who was
wanted for attempted attacks on girls.
The detectives went to Wallace's 8
house to arrest him and as they en-.
tered the door Wallace opened fire
on them. Regardless Of the fusillade
of shots. Sweeney and his fellow
officers rushed" Wallace, and
landed him at the Eighth precinct po-
lice station.
Another occasion when Sweeney
narrowly escaped being shot to death
was when he ARRESTED William
Wright, who was wanted for mur.
der. Wright killed a fellow work
man at the District pumping sta
ton and was traced by Sweeney to
a barn near Rockville. Montgomery
county. When Sweeney. with two
other officers, entered the barn they
were fired on by Wright, but the
bullets went wild.
Sweeney captured his man, who II
now serving a term in the Federal
prison at Atlanta.
1t has been said that Sweeney has
more "tipsters" than any other men,
ber Of the Police Department. Half
the success OF a detectives work Is
that Of getting information. Sweeney
has been able to get more information
from colored people than any other
The Washington times., 1921-09-18
LONE SURVIVOR
Of PLANE CRASH
., SM|LESATFATE
Corp. HazeIton, Back Broken
Talks Hopefully Of Longer
Army Service.

Through the haze that comes to
man for whom the inevitable Is 80
near the sole survivor OF the West
Virginia mine war air-crash lies on a
freakishly fashioned bed az Walter
Reed Hospital and sees on the ceiling
the face of baby girl who made him
a daddy the morning he took OF from
Langley Field.
In the Inflated chip that plunged
Corporal Alexander Hazelto1 into the
valley Of the shadow, four flying pals
met the fate Of the luckless.
Hazelton-his back broken-cannot
quite understand the luck that has
let him live. But the same baby face
that sent him away with smile Is
keeping him hopeful with smile
smile more grim, perhaps, but one
that refuses to fail.
Faced with the break so seldom re-
sponsive to their surgical craft the
doctors endeavoring to mend the brok-
en- man quite frankly admit in the out
er corridor that the smile cannot lin
ger long.
Corporal Hazelton was brought to
Washington five days ago, after
week of care in a Virginia hospital.
From his own lips comes the only
story of the crash in Nicholas county,
w, Va, where he was found In the
planes wreckage forty-eight hours aft
er his buddies had met instant death.
Il went to sleep in the rear cock
pit of the bombing machine on the
return flight to Langley Field" said
Hazleton. The next thing l knew
was twenty-four hours later, when l
opened my eyes and regained con-
sciousness.
I'VE had fallen in the wilderness Of
West Virginia. 1t was Sunday.
could not move. being paralyzed from
the waist down. l had fallen through
The Washington times., 1921-09-18
CARD OF THANKS

sCALCO. We wish to express our sin
cere thanks and appreciation to our
relatives. friends and neigh bors, both
in this city and out OF town, for their
kindness, sympathy and beautiful floral
tributes at the death or our beloved son.
brother, husband and father, Joseph r.
Scalco. SALVATORE SCALCO.
The Washington times., 1921-09-18
Glad to Be Sent
to Prison So He
Can Be a Writer

NEW ORLEANS, Sept. II.
ROBERT HOLLAND, SEN
~ fenced to serve from eight
to twelve years for the robbery
of the Hibernia Bank, said he
was glad to be sent to the peni-
tentiary so he could fulfill his
boyhood ambition to become a
writer.
II am going to read and
study for the first four or five
years." he said, "and then I'm
going to try to write. I've al
ways had a hankering to write.
Just watch my smoke when l
get started"
The Washington times., 1921-09-18
DEATHS.

FARMER. Killed in action October 9.
nSRet sls MrsGHRf THRMER Esan9s comD.n1 rT,v'se
l16th Infantry, 2eth Division. beloved
son OF William c. and Mary Z. Farmer.
Body will lie In state Sunday at the
state Armory, Hyattsville. Nd. Funeral
services Monday, September 10. at 1880
q. M, at the armory. under direction OF
Snyder-Farmer Post, No. 3, American
Legion. Interment Arlington Cemetery
Relatives and friends invited. Auto
mobiles will leave from Mrs. Perry's
Monday morning.
la BILLIE. on Saturday. September IT.
1921. at her residence, 2l6 Eleventh
street southeast. at 6Ib p. M, JULIA
A., beloved wife OF the late Louis s,
la Billie in her eighty second year
Notice OF funeral hereafter.
The Washington times., 1921-09-18
DEATHS
COL. ii. II. SARGENT

Word was received here last night
that Col. Herbert Rowland Sargent,
who served at the War College during
the world war, died of heart disease
Friday at his home in Jacksonville,
Fla, while fighting a brush fire. He
was stxty-three years old.
Colonel Sargent served in the In
d an wars, the Spanish American wal
and the Philippine insurrection. He
was nationally known in military cir
ces and had a host Of friends In
Wellington.
The Washington times., 1921-09-18
Potato Shipment SOS, 900.

HOUITON. Me, Sept. 1.-Two hun.
dred and seventy-four cars OF pota-
toes, containing 68 500 barrels. ship
ped from here established a new rec
ord, J. P. Darling. superintendent Of
the Bangor and Aroostock railroad,
said today. At So a barrel. the con.
signment represented s205.5
The Washington times., 1921-09-18
WILLIAM ID. KYLE.

The body of William D. Kyle. chief
personnel auditor Of Section 5. Income
Tax Unit of the Bureau Of Internal
Revenue, will be sent to his birth
place, Sweetwater, Texas, for inter-
ment. Mr.. Kyle died Thursday night
at the Brentwood Sanitarium after
an extended illness.
He was born August II, 1885. He
entered the revenue service on March
., 1918. He was considered an ac-
countant of great ability and was a
recognized authority on income tax
laws. Surviving Mr.. Kyle are his
brother, Raymond Kyle.