The Washington times., 1925-03-28
MON 7 GOMERY
YOUTHS HELD
FOR Theft
Volunteer Firemen OF Two
Counties Cooperate to De-
feat Paid Dept. Plan


ROCKVILLE, Nd, March s.-The
various volunteer fire departments
| OF Montgomery county have been.
asked to unite with the volunteer
fire departments Of Prince Georges
county in an effort to thwart the
reported plan OF the Washington
Suburban Sanitary Commission of
Maryland to have law enacted by
the next legislature providing for
the establishment of two or three
paid fire departments in the Wash
ington sanitary suburban district OF
Maryland.
A committee representing the
Prince Georges County Volunteer
Firemen's Association recently call
ed upon r. Howard Duckett, chair
man of the sanitary commission,
and learned, it is said, from him
that the plan Of the commission is
to maintain the proposed paid de.
partments by a special sanitary tax,
and that the establishment Of such
departments would probably mean
the doing away with the. existing
volunteer fire departments in the
sanitary district.
The volunteer fire Departments
of Prince Georges county are, ac-
"
tary Of the Prince Georges County
Volunteer Firemen's Association.
unanimously opposed to the propo-
sition and have arranged for a
meeting at Riverdale, Wednesday
evening, April 5. to take steps look.
ing to the defeat Of the scheme.
Following an investigation OF nu.
merous robberies in the Bethesda
neighborhood. which was conducted
by States Attorney John A. Gar
rett and Sergeant Charles T.
Cooley and Private Dean Wilker-
son, of the Montgomery county po-
lice force, and which covered a
period Of several months, eighteen
youths Of the yicinities of Bethesda
and Woodnnont, who range IN ages
from seven to eighteen years, have
been rounded up and will soon have
to face Judge Robert B. Peter in
the juvenile court here.
Armstrong; drug store, Beall's
and Imirie's general stores, the
store OF William Counselman,
and Adams garage are among the
places that have been robbed.
Numerous automobiles OF the
neighborhood are said to have been
stripped" Candy, cigars and
cigarettes are, 1t Is said, about the
only things taken from the stores
carrying such stock.
After weeks Of work the investi-
gators were, it is said, almost ready
to give up when Joseph Plummer,
only seven years old and the young
est Of the band, spilled the beans.
and furnished information which
enabled the mystery to be solved.
That he came across however,
was, it is understood, due to the.
good offices Of Miss Ella. Umberd,
principal Of the Bethesda public
school, which the boy attends. In
some way she conceived the idea
that the little fellow knew some
thing about the depredations and it
was to her that he finally made a
statement in which he is said to
have admitted his guilt and to have
implicated seventeen others.
Laura Stone, of Washington,
whose arrest several months ago
followed a visit to Montgomery
county officers to the home Of Clin-
ton Creamer, near Travilah, this
county, where she was housekeeper,
was found not guilty by jury in
the circuit court here yesterday OF
violating the local option law Of
the county by having intoxicating
liquor in her possession with the
intention Of selling it.
For permitting man under the
influence of liquor to operate an
automobile he owned and In which
he was riding at the time, Augustus
Awkward, colored, Of Olney district,
was fined 500 and costs by Judge
Robert B. Peter in the circuit court
here.
A license has been issued by the
clerk Of the circuit court here for
the marriage Of Charles Smith,
twenty-five, and Miss Agnes Moore,
nineteen, both of Washington.
The following cases have been
disposed OF in the circuit court now
| in session here: Bryan A. Abel VS..
Albert w. Cowell, verdict for plain
I tiff for $4,000; Continental Trust
| company VS.. Maggie Burgdorf, YER
dict for plaintiff for $500; William
II Fulks VS.. William McBain and
| T1ayid McBain, verdict for defend
ants: Eugene S. walker vs.. Charles
Miller and wife, verdict for defend
ants.