Evening star., 1930-06-08
Tag War Conference Is Ar
ranged by Commemorative
Attorney Cloth.
BREAK IN RELATIONS
WITH VIRGINIA FEARED
Arlington Official Sees Discontin.
nance of Deliveries by Wash
ington Merchants.


ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT
HOUSE, Va, June Through the ef.
forts Of Commonwealths Attorney Will
liam G. Cloth, who opposes the move.
the wholesale arrests by State officers
Of trucks carrying District of Columbia
tags has been called to a halt to await
scheduled conference between State,
county and District of Columbia on
cialS, 1t was made known today
Acting under instructions from his
Super1ors, E. J. McDermott, inspector
for the office Of the commissioner Of
motor vehicles Of Virginia, who is in
charge of this district, started this week
arresting certain types of truckers who
are operating In nearby Virginia on
District tags. Up to the calling of the
halt today some 20 arrests had been
made but none Of the cases brought
into court.
Declared Outrageous"
Declaring that the practice was Out
rageous' and that the trucks were OPP
Grating in Virginia under a reciprocity
agreement between the two jurisdic-
ttonS, Cloth yesterday called upon Gov.
John Garland Pollard and placed the
situation before him. AS a result, the
chief executive ordered that no fur
ther arrests be made until conference
has been held between T. Mccall Frazier,
motor vehicle commissioner; Cloth and
M. E. Eldridge, assistant traf1ic director
Of the District of Columbia. This con-
ference is now being arranged.
The arrests came as a complete sur
prise, county officials not being notified
until owners of the trucks made known
their predicament to Cloth, the entire
affair being in the hands of the State
officials.
While admitting that the action Il
contrary to an agreement made between
Virginia officials and the District OF
Columbia, State officials claim that the
legality OF the agreement Is question
able and should be tested In the courts.
1t is said.
Reasons Explained.
The reason for the sudden campaign
is explained in the following manner:
There are q number of Washington
concerns who are claimed by State
off1cialS to have all of their supplies
shipped to Virginia railroad sidings and
then to use Virginia roads regularly to
transport them, making use OF trucks
with District of Columbia tags; that
there are Virginia concerns engaged In
the manufacture of bricks and other
articles who sell their products t. o.. b.
ana GI6I 10TH SuUSlQldIy CIuChu1S OOA-
Germs, in Washington in order to trans
port their goods in trucks carrying tags
that cost only 81 each; that in one case
1t was found that resident Of Virginia
was using District of Columbia truck,
belonging to his brother, to haul wood
from his home to Washington.
In expressing his opposition to the
campaign, Cloth declares that IF 1t
continues it will destroy the pleasant
relationship existing between ofhcials OF
the District of Columbia and Virginia,
and Washington merchants, rather than
refuse to make deliveries in the State"
In Virginia, prices of truck tags are
SIS a ton until the four-ton class Is
reached, when the rates are higher per
ton, tags for a f1ve-ton truck being
5000, as against the 81 charge for all
classes by the District of Columbia.
INVESTIGATION TO BE MADE.