Evening star., 1932-02-29
FRIENDS Of BALL
TRY TO SAVE HOME
Popular Subscription Started.
Jesse Takes Office as
County Treasurer.
BY a staff Correspondent Of The Star

by Stau correspondent OF Inc star.
ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT
HOUSE. Va. February ga concerted
movement was started in Arlington
County today among friends of E. Wade
Ball to raise suf1cient funds by popular
subscription TO save his home. which he
Is faced with losing. among other assets,
as result of the reported shortage in
his accounts while serving as county
treasurer.
In the meantime Charles T. Jesse,
appointed to succeed Ball, who resigned
last week, qualified on a temporary
s4o0 900 bond and took Office as county
treasurer. Steps were then Immediately
taken to float an emergency loan Of
s140, 600 to pull the county through its
temporary period of financial stress
growing out of the alleged shortage in
Balls account. The loan was author
lied by the county board at a special
meeting Saturday night.
A group of about 18 of Balls most
intimate friends will meet tonight at
o'clock in the home of Charles D.
Boyer on Glebe road to map out plans
for raising popular fund to buy Balls
home in the event it is seized by the
Fidelity & Deposit Co. of Baltimore, the
organization which bonded the former
coutny treasurer for 100000. 1t is es-
timated that approximately $4,000 VA
be needed.
Friends Stand BY.
Ball has a wife and two children,
both boys, who would be deprived Of q
home, according to his friends, should
the bonding company take over his as
sets partially to satisfy his bond.
Despite the trouble which forced Ball
TO resign the position he held for "a
years, his friends are still legion and
have announced their intention of max
ing a sacrifice to provide him and his
family with a nome regardless of the
outcome Of the present investigation
being made by i've auditors from the
office of the Virginia State auditor of
public accounts.
AS soon as Jesse took the oath as
Balls successor, the office of county
treasurer, which had been closed sew
feral days, was reopened for business.
Although Jesse has planned a reor-
ganization Of his staff. he announced
he had not yet completed the details,
but expected to do so within few days.
The oath of office was hurriedly ad-
ministered about 9 O'Clock this morning
after Jesse had qualified on the tenn
porary 100000 bond, the amount hav-
ing been fixed by the court last week.
The procedure was rushed to permit
county officials to complete negotia-
tions for the $4,000 loan to preclude
any delay in meeting the county pay
roll and other expenses, which fall due
tomorrow.
Duncan Administers Oath.
The oath was administered by Will
liam H. Duncan, county clerk. after
Circuit Court Judge Walter T. Nc
Carthy, who appointed Jesse, had ap-
proved temporary bond furnished by
four ndividuals-Carroll Pierce, presi-
dent of the Alexandria Citizens Bank;
C. C. Lamond of Alexandria, a stock
holder in the Clarendon Trust Co.;
Ashton c. Jones, prominent Arlington
County real estate man, and Crandal
Mackey, Arlington County attorney and
newspaper editor.
The bond was arranged to avoid any
further delay in placing Jesse at the
head of the county treasurerS office. It
will be held in effect until Jesse's ap-
plication for a permanent bond Is ap-
proved by q Massachusetts, bonding
company.
Within an hour after Jesse had
taken the oath of office, County Man
ager Roy S. Braden and Fletcher Kemp,
superintendent of public schools, went
to Alexandria and completed negotia-
tions for the $40, 900 loan. The County
Board borrowed 100000 and the pub
lie schools negotiated an independent
lean for $4,000.
The money was advanced by two
Alexandria banks, the Citizens Ma
tional and the First National, which
last week promised to loan the county
funds Seventy thousand dollars was
borrowed from each Of the banks.
Upon the return to the court house,
Braden and Kemp went into confer
ence with Jesse and Commonwealth
Attorney Lawrence Douglas and drew
up formal loan resolution for the
County Board to sign.
Harry A. Fellows. chairman of the
County Board, announced that special
meeting of his board would be held to-
morrow morning at $50 o'clock at the
court house to put finishing touches on
the note and sign the county pay roll.
Under new accounting system
adopted by the County Board on recon-
mendation of County Manager Braden,
checks will be issued hereafter instead
OF warrants. The checks will be signed
by three persons-the chairman of the
County Board, the clerk Of the board
and the county treasurer.