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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-21
MOUNT RAINIER RATED
AS AIRPLANE TOWN
Painting of Name on Roof Gives
II This Designation-Mail
Service Improved.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
MOUNT RAINIER. Md.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
MOUNT RAINIER, Md, October 81
Mount Rainier now is a designated"
commercial airplane town. It has thus
been recorded by the United States De-
partment of Commerce following the
painting on the roof of the Cameo
Theater Building here of the words
Mount Rainier, Md" in letters 8 feet
long. Official notice Of the recognition
which has been accorded Mount Rainier
has been given Joseph Haas, postmaster
in letter from the Guggenheim
Aeronautic Funds Association, which
through the Post Once Department
has asked the cooperation of post
masters along all airplane routes In
having painted on the roof Of some
suitable building Of the town a guide
sign giving the name Of the town
With the recent advancement of the
Mount Rainier Post Once to the city
carrier class the service here has beer
remarkably improved. An additional
carrier has been provided whose duties
are to deliver to homes all parcels
which under the former village deliv-
cry service" had to be called for at the
post Office.
Additional equipment. including ar
electric cancelling machine and an add
ing machine, have been installed in the
office and new mail deposit boxes or
various street corners will be erected as
soon as the present program OF street
and sidewalk work Is completed. accord
ing to Postmaster Haas plans Many
more boxes than we're available under
the former village" system are expected
to be erected
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-21
SUNDAY SCHOOL
BOARD IS ELECTED
Falls Church District Associa-
ton Chooses Officers; Week
day Instruction Discussed.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

FALLS CHURCH, Va, october al
r. S. Holmes of Falls Church was re-
elected president Of the Falls Church
District Sunday School Association at
the annual meeting held yesterday aft
ernoon at Crossman M. E. Church, in
Falls Church. other officers selected
were: Vice president. Thomas Wright of
Seminary, senior Theological Seminary
student, in charge of St. Pauls Episco-
pal Mission at Baileys Cross Roads;
secretary-treasurer, Gordon Nicholson
of Washington, superintendent Of the
Falls Church Episcopal Sunday School.
Mrs. r. E. Ankers was elected superin-
tendent of the childrenS department;
Rev. Alton B. Altfather, superintendent
of the young peoples department; Rev.
George E. Conner, superintendent OF
the adults department; Edward T. Fen
wick, superintendent of the teacher
training department, and Mrs. Carroll
v. Shreve, superintendent of the home
department. All superintendent are
from the town of Falls Church. The
nominating committee included Gordon
Nicholson, E. T. Fenwick, Miss Bessie
Stewart, Miss Carrie Weeks and A.
Griffith.
r. S. Holmes, who presided, asked all
new department superintendent to
map out an outline of what they con-
slider the duties of department super
intendent should be.
This main topic Of discussion was the
proposed weekday school Of religion,
which is to be inaugurated in Fairfax
and Arlington Counties this year. Rev.
- priI fa,v.
secretary of the Virginia Council Of
Religious Education, outlined the pur-
poses and manner of conducting such
instruction. He introduced Miss Grace
Click, who is now engaged in this work
in Rockingham County. Miss Click
stated that sos of the 1876 fifth and
sixth grade pupils enrolled in public
schools OF Rockingham County were
voluntarily enrolled in the School of
Religion.
Mr.. Minor next introduced Miss
Isabel Latimer of New York, who has
been in charge of similar work for the
past five years in Youngstown, Ohio
Miss Latimer had been invited to Fair
fax County to confer with those who
are taking the lead in this section and
at committee meeting following the
close Of the association meeting the
position was formally offered to Miss
Latimer. The committee representing
the two counties includes E. T. Fen
wick. Rev. A. B. Altfather. Rev. G. c.
Conner and Rev. Ralph Wott of Fairfax
County and c. r. Kincheloe, w. K
Handy and Miss A. Linn of Fort Myer
Heights. representing Arlington County
Miss Latiner has promised TO decide
within few days. Miss Latimer's
services will also be available as a
speaker at all special meetings and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-21
TWO ALLEGED DESERTERS
ARRESTED IN ALEXANDRIA
Said to Have Confessed to Theft
of Automobiles and Robbing
Gas Stations.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, october al
Two alleged deserterS who, police say
have confessed to the theft of two
automobiles and the robbing of three
gasoline stations, were captured here
late Saturday and were turned over to
Detective C. B. Richards of Newport
News, Va, for arraignment in that city
for the filling station robberies.
The men, Steve Fagity, %. Of Nun.
ston, Pa, and George Drake, Ia. OF
Pittsburgh, we're captured by Detective
.Sergt. Edgar Sims and Police Sergt
Lawrence E. Padgett after the younger
of the two had eluded arrest by Motor
Cycle Policeman Clarence McC1ary,
after a wild chase in the southern
section of the city.
Under grilling yesterday, Fagity and
Drake told police they escaped from
Fortress Monroe, Va, nearly q week
ago and hitch-hiked to Altoona, Pa,
where they stole an automobile and
drove to Hampton, Va. At Hampton
they abandoned the first car and took
another and then went to Newport
News.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-21
Special Dispatch to The Star.

WESTMINSTER, Md october 2l--
A writ of mandamus to compel Sheriff
George C. Fowble to admit relatives and
counsel of Mrs. Viola M. Spurrier,
charged with the murder Of her hus-
band, to her cell in the jail here with
out the sheriff or his deputies being
present will be sought in the Circuit
Court for Carroll County today.
Mrs. Spurrier has been held in Jail
since July %, when she is alleged to
have shot and killed her husband
Ernest, 81, in the course of an argu-
ment in front of their home, near
Finksburg. Mrs. Spurrier. the mother
of three children, has admitted that the
pistol used to kill her husband was in
her hands, but insists that it was dis
charged accidentally in scuffle.
Prayer Of Petition.
Her petition for a writ of mandamus
was filed by Edward o. Weant and
John Wood, her counsel, and asserts
that Sheriff Fowble has consistently
refused and still refuses to permit your
petitioner to see and communicate,
either in her cell in the Carroll County
Jail or in any other place, any of her
relatives or witnesses, except in the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-21
-FOUR INJURED IN MONTGOMERY.
Quartet Hurt in Three Traffic Accidents
in County.

Four persons were injured in three
automobile accidents in Montgomery
County last night according to reports
TO the Montgomery County Police sub
station at Sligo.
F. SheSeldine, Washington, and Roy
c. Gooding, North Woodside, were in
jured when caught between two cars,
one of which had been ramed by a
third machine, on the Brookville pike
last night.
Two men who were in the car which
collided with the machine which was
at rest were taken into custody by
Montgomery County Policeman Charles
T. Barnes. One of them. Leroy Bow
man of Norbeck, Md, was charged with
operating on an expired license and
with being under the influence of liquor
while the other, William George Ches-
key, 1920 Jopes Mill road, was charged
with reckless driving. Bowman was re-
leased today after putting up a $500
bond and Cheskey is being held for
500, both pending their trial in Rock
Vile later in the week.
Both Cheseldine and Gooding had
stopped on the road TO adjust a tow
chain between cars which they were
operating, according to Officer Barnes
when the other car crashed into it
catching the two injured between them
Both were taken to Walter Reed Hos
pital by c. c. Fox, 6703 Georgia ave-
nue., where they were given first aid
treatment for Commissions about the legs
and abdomen.
Miss Muriel Rawls, 1882 I street
was injured in an accident at Coles.
vile last night when her head was
thrown through the windshield of ar
automobile driven by M. W. Kennedy
who gave the same address, according
TO Corpl. Roy Snyder Of the Montgom-
cry County police
The car driven by the latter was ir
collision with one operated by Alder
P. Payne, l441 Girard street, Washing
ten. Both cars were seriously damaged
An automobile said by police to have
been driven by David l.. Riordon, 10lt
Vermont avenue, Washington, while
proceeding along the Colesville roaC
list night demolished car driven b.
IT,. Adams, colored, of Browns Corner
anh buggy owned by William Butte
Of aErookville. Adams was cut on tn
head.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-21
WOMAN TO CONDUCT
LABOR DEFENSE TRIAL

NORFOLK, Va, october 2l.-Jennie
Cooper, secretary of the Philadelphia
district of the International Labor De-
Tense, which embraces territory in the
Eastern States from Philadelphia to
Wilmington, N. c., arrived in Norfolk
to conduct the defense of Stephen
Graham, secretary and organizer in Nor
folk and Portsmouth for the Interna-
tional Labor Defense, who was arrest
ed on the night of october Is on a
charge of "inciting to riot" during an
address to q crowd Of colored people.
Graham, who told the police he came
here from Ohio, was docketed as
Stephen Graham, alias Jack Robinson.
He was arrested In the colored district
while addressing a gathering of $50
or more colored persons. According to
the detectives, he was urging racial
equality as well as propounding COM
munistic doctrines. Ir Police Court
the following morning his case was
continued until october 90.
Miss Cooper stated that she was sent
here from the Philadelphia headquar-
tiers to conduct Grahan's defense and
! to take action against the officers who
! made what she termed an illegal ar
rest" and continue with the series OF
| meetings that Graham, as local or
CARRIER, had planned when the police
interrupted his activities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-21
FAMILY SUES TO TALK ALONE
WITH ALLEGED WOMAN SLAYER
Counsel and Relatives of Mrs. Viola NJ
Spurrier File Bill in Westminster.
Accused of Shooting Husband

presence and hearing of the said
sheriff"
The petition adds that Sheriff Fowble
has been absent from the Jail for I'M
reasonable and unnecessarily long pc
RODS of time" during which she is pre-
vented from comforting with her attor-
neys.
Trial to Be in November.
THE refusal of the sheriff." the petit
ton continues, Ito permit her to con-
suit and confer with her counsel in the
presence of her witnesses to be used
in the trial of her case, out of the pres
ence and hearing of the sheriff, is an
obstruction of justice and makes it i'm
possible for the prisoner to properly
prepare for her trial, and If such inter
ference and obstruction continue 1t will
be impossible for her to have fair,
just and proper trial"
Mrs. Spurrier's trial is set for the
November term of court, which begins
November IL. A petition for a writ of
habeas corpus to obtain her release in
bail was denied by Judge F. Neal Parke
nearly two months ago. States Attor-
ney Theodore F.. Brown will represent
Sheriff Fowble in the hearing of the Pc
tition tomorrow morning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-21
ARLINGTON LOSES
TAX ARREARS SUIT
Virginia Court of Appeals Re-
fuses to Review Case From
Lower Tribunal.
BY LESTER N. INSKEEP,
STAFF Correspondent OF The Star.

ARLINGTON COURT HOUSE. Va.
october 21.-By the refusal of the
Virginia Court of Appeals to review the
appeal Of the board Of county supervi-
SorS over the recent decision of Judge
Howard w. Smith, in Circuit Court,
Arlington County has lost a desperate
effort to collect many thousands of
dollars in delinquent real estate taxes
through suit, 1t was learned today from
Commemorative Attorney William C.
Cloth.
Filed Many Suits.
Early in the year the board of SUI
Circuit Court between 400 and 500 suits
for the collection of delinquent real
estate taxes covering a long period of
wears. In the case of George w.
Ingram and others Attorney H. S.
Rucker applied for and obtained de-
murrer on the grounds that the suits
were brought under a law of 1901.
which, he claimed, became unconstitu-
tional through the revision of the con-
stitution OF the State.
Judge Smith, in granting the de-
murrer. made invalid all of the rest of
the suits, and the county, anxious to
take every step possible to collect the
taxes, which would have turned in a
large amount OF money to both the
county and State, appealed the case.
Cloth Advised.
Cloth stated today that he has been
advised of the refusal of the Court of
Appeals to review the case and will i'm
mediately take an order to dismiss the
remaining suits Persons against whom
the suits were brought, however, shoulo
not get the impression that the country
will abandon efforts to collect the taxes,
since there are other ways of forcing
payment, he said.
The refusal of the, Court of Appeals
to review the case will bring to a close
the practice Of county authorities to
collect delinquent taxes under this law,
it is said.
The unconstitutionality Of the law is
based upon the provision in the new
constitution that prohibits the collection
Of taxes by special or local law.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-21
OCTOGENARIAN BURIED.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
RIVERDALE, Md, October 21.-Fl-
neral services for CaSsius M. Carpenter,
81 years old, who died at his residence,
362 Buchanan avenue, Friday, were
held at Gasch'S Funeral Parlors this
morning at 10 o'clock. Rev. Keith
Gusts Of the Riverdale Presbyterian
Church of1ciated and interment was in
Fort Lincoln Cemetery.
Mr.. Carpenter is survived by his
widow. Mrs. Sarah Nicholson Carpen-
ter, and a sister, Mrs. E.. j. Hawkins
of Philadelphia. He had been in Ill
health for several months.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-21

asked for a manslaughter indictment.
The girl shot Sullivan, an alleged I'M
welcome sutton, when he approached
her at dusk in the back yard of her
home on Pine avenue. she declared at
the time Of the shooting. The girl
claims that Sullivan had tried to force
his attentions upon her. She declared
she feared him and obtained the pistol
because he had threatened to call that
night and do some shooting"
At the time Of the shooting the girls
mother, Mrs. Jasper Miller, was in jail
at Bedford, Pa. on charge Of larceny
of an old organ from the abandoned
Reformed Church at Clareysville, Pa,
not far from the Maryland line. Mrs.
Miller was released on bail.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-21

drives, work with the young people and
as a teacher in the annual teacher
training institute to be held in Falls
Church the first week in December.
Mr. Fenwick states that the school
board of Arlington County has already
approved unanimously the installation
of this work Rev. G. C. Conner, Rev.
A. B. Altfather and Rev. Ralph Wott
were appointed a committee to inter-
view Division Supt. w. T. woodson
and the Fairfax County School Board
to secure their formal ratification.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-21
HELD IN HIT-AND-RUN CASE.
Bon Air Youth Accused Of Leaving
Scene Of Accident.

ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT
HOUSE, Va, October 21.-A smashed
windshield resulted in the arrest last
night of Jesse James Huddle, 20, Of
Bon Air, Va, after he is alleged to have
fed the scene of an accident on the
Wilson Boulevard near Glebe road that
resulted in the injury of three persons
beside himself.
The others injured were r. Wilbert
Donaldson, SO, OF Cherrydale, Va. his
wife and 14-year- son, Earl Donald
son.
According to the information received
by police, Hubble fed the scene after
his automobile crashed into the car
driven by Donaldson.
When an examination Of the car
driven by Huddle revealed a broken
windshield, Constable A. D. Langley
went to Emergency Hospital, while
Policeman w. E. Thompson waited at
the Key Bridge approach in George
town. Upon his arrival at the hospital,
Langley found Huddle being treated
for severe decorations to the nose and
face. After bringing him back to the
Jail, where he was booked on technical
charge of dead tags, the police took
Huddle to the Alexandria Hospital and
left him under guard
The three members of the Donaldson
family are being kept under observa-
ton in the Georgetown Hospital to de-
ternine the full extent of their injuries,
which so far are believed to consist of
cuts and bruises.
Huddle told police, they say that he
fed because of the fact that he knew he
would be arrested for operating on the
dead tags.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-21
DRIVE TO ELIMINATE
ARLINGTON SPEEDING
Heavy Fines Assessed by Judge
Thomas Against Violators in
Police Court.
BY a STAFF Correspondent of The Star

ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT
HOUSE, Va, October 2l.-Putting into
practice his announced intention to
eliminate speeding on the highways in
Arlington County, Judge Harry r
Thomas in Police Court this morning
assessed unusually heavy fines against
three persons charged with speeding.
The heaviest fine was drawn by George
Hall. who was fined $25 and costs. or a
total of $34.25. Elmer Harvey and Al
fred Humphrey each drew fines of SIS
and costs, or a total of $2425 each. c.
l.. Edmonds forfeited SIS collateral oil
a speeding charge and Aubrey Good
forfeited like amount on an improper
license charge.
It has been the practice of Judge
Thomas to assess the minimum fine OF
SIS and costs, total Of SLABS, for speed
ing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-21
Woman's Club to Meet.

ASHTON HEIGHTS, Va, October q
Especially The Woman's Club of Ash
ton Heights at its regular meeting to-
morrow evening. october %, will have as
their speaker Miss Jennie Hedrick. an
instructor of Washington. Miss Hedrick
will speak on Corrective Speech for
Children"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-21
Mouit Rainier to Light Homes.

MOUNT RAINIER, Md, October q
(SpeciaD In honor of the anniversary
of the turning on OF his incandescent
electric lamp by Thomas Edison or
October 81, 1879, the Woman's Civic
League of Mount Rainier has asked its
members and other citizens of tht
town to illuminate their homes tonight
as brightly as possible.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-21
ROBERTSON
PLEADS NOT GUILTY
Girl Slayer to Fight Charge Of
Manslaughter in Cumber-
land Court.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CUMBERLAND. Md, october 21.-
Eula Robertson. 16. who shot and killed
Thomas Sullivan. 49, September IS, en-
tered a plea Of not guilty to an indict-
ment of manslaughter when arraigned
with other prisoners at the opening of
the criminal term of the Circuit Court
Saturday. The murder charge was drop
ped against the girl, and the State
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-21

All postwar records for the course
were recently broken by T. w. Green,
who walked the so miles from London
to Brighton, England, in hours Is
minutes Al seconds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-21

Because Of the recent Kwangsi-
Kwangtung clash, all. highway con-
struction has been stopped in K4angsl
Province, in China, where / 500 miles of
roads were built In the last two years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-21
MORAL STANDARDS
SCORED BY BISHOP
1--WE Can't Reform World by
Resolutions" Says COL
Inns Denny.
BY the Associated Press.

by inc ASSOCldJeQ HFeSS.
RICHMOND, Va, October 2f.-Bishop
Collins Denny in the Sunday sermon
OF the 147th session of the Virginia An
nual Conference of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church South, here today, scored
loose moral standards, Americans who
censure the bootlegger, while they
themselves break the laws Of the land
and persons who go crazy over political
contests.
He referred to the idea of some
people, that the world can be reformed
by resolutions" and said 1T can't be
done"
Action Of Board Not Involved.
Following his sermon he said the &C
ton Of the Conference Board of tenn
perance and Social Service, which in
dorsed and pledged the unStinted sup
port of the conference to President
Hoover. the Anti-Saloon League, the
Women's Christian Temperance Union
and other agencies for the suppression
Of liquor traffic, had nothing to do
with remarks in his sermons.
I'VE have standards in the State gov
eminent, and in the National Govern
ment," Bishop Denny said, in his SER
mon, "a great many people don't like
them. We need them.
The trouble is that so many choose
the standards they want to follow. We
can do more by the example OF our
own actions than by all the resolutions
you can pass. We think we can reform
the world by resolutions" he said, I'VE
can't, we never have done 1t.
I'VE had presidential contest last
year over which some people went
crazy. We are now having guber-
material contest over which some people
have gone crazy. I don't want to 90
crazy over anything"
Last as Bishop for District.
Bishop Denny's sermon was his last
before the conference as its bishop. He
Is completing his fourth year as bishop
of the district comprising Virginia,
Baltimore and West Virginia confer
ence Custom in the district prevents
a bishop from presiding more than four
consecutive years. He has been a
bishop in the Methodist Episcopal
Church South since 1910, and recently
celebrated his fiftieth anniversary in
the ministry of the church.
New Britain herald., 1929-04-27

i ing his vacations as the guest of his sister. Mrs. Carrie Lawrence. He resided here some years ago. He is a member of the Boston Chapter. 5. 4. R.. and is chairman of the board of trustees of the Orient Heights NJ. F.. church and director of the Har- yard Cooperative Bank of Dorches- 1 ter. He IS also member of Ham, matt lodge of Masons and Alpha | lodge. N. E. O. r.
 The women of Sacred Heart church will hold a whist in the ! church social rooms Monday evening at 8 o'clock. daylight saving time. Mir. and Mrs. Joseph Ryan of Meri- den will be host and hostess for the occasion.
 James Ross is still confined to his nome by illness.
 The Parents-Teachers association held a meeting last evening in the Hubbard school electing a committee of three members to bring in slate of officers for the next scheduled meeting. The committee is composed of Mrs. George Demore Mrs. Frank l Potts and Mrs. George Dalbey. The matter of securing better lighting fa- cilities for the school came up but no definite action was taken as the school board has the matter under consideration. Pupils from the grades of Miss Mabelle Barnes, Miss Edith Northrop, Miss Ryan and Mss Nelson recited and sang several se- iections. The program was unusually good and showed the thoroughness of the work now being done.