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Evening star., 1936-09-01

seen from the windows. Forty-nine
Of these housing projects are now in
various stages Of construction or ex-
finished early in 1887.
Halt q million New York families
are still living In $4,000 "old law tene-
ments." In the 70s New York built
railroad tenements." five or six
rooms deep, only the front and back
rooms having windows. In between
were the celebrated dark rooms"
with whole families living in one
windowless room. In the sos and
90s came the dumb bell" tenements
where rooms not in the front or rear
could have windows on narrow, airless
shafts in the elliptical space afforded
by the buildings wasp-waist.
In Philadelphia, the "City of
Homes" where the $1,S00,000 Hill
Greek project is now under way. the
commonest slum houses are the "hand
box" or high hat" tenements. Three
small, dark, low-ceilinged rooms. one
above the other. are connected by .
narrow, spiral stairway in one corner.
In Midsummer such rooms duplicate
the climate Of the stoke hole in q
coal-burning ship.
Picturesque Names.
Slums have always had picturesque
names. The "Arks" Of Memphis and
New Orleans, the "Corras" Of San
Antonio, the Monkeys Nest" OF
youngstown and the "Jungles" along
the river bottom in Cincinnati-all
have been eyesores on the landscape.
Williamsburg, New York City, was
the largest of all Uncle Sans housing
projects, with 20 apartment houses,
including 1927 apartments Of three
or four rooms each-about 1856 rooms
in all. These are four story walk up
buildings. The project covers 20
acres and will cost $l2,153, 900. 1t
will stand upon the site Of IL blocks
of slums. Over $500 families have
already applied for the 1927 apart
ments. The operators hope to offer
Evening star., 1936-09-01
Gibraltar Once Kalpe.

The Rock Of Gibraltar was know
in ancient days under the name Of
Kalpe.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1936-02-20
WE ARE SORRY!

The delay in the delivery of The
Sentinel this week was occasioned
by the desire to publish the County
Delinquent Tax List. Before the list
could be legally printed in The SEN
tinel it was necessary to await a
decision of the Maryland Court of
Appeals. This decision, as it hap
pened, was handed down Thursday
as THE SENTINEL was ready to
go to press. In order to make the
necessary arrangements for includ-
ing the sales tax supplement in
this weeks issue, a delay of an
other day was unavoidable. Then,
too, the fact that Saturday is holi-
day, results in additional delay in
delivering the paper throughout the
county.
We are sorry that you received
the paper late and trust that the
situation amply explains itself.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1936-02-20
Farmers Club Asks
That Trapping Law
Be Amended Soon
Delegate To State Legislature
Urged To Work Against
Present Regulations

That an amendment to the trapping
law in Montgomery County as it now
stands should be passed at the next
session of the Legislature, was a mo-
ton adopted at a meeting of the
Montgomery Farmers Club, which was
entertained at Stanmore by Thomas
Hyde w, as host, on Saturday even
ing.
T. Yellott Candy, member of the
Legislature from Montgomery Coun-
ty, was urged to use his influence to
have the proper changes made in this
law.
The general discussion on wild life
and with the scarcity of quail featur-
ed the meeting.
A request from the WPA Of Mary
land was made in letter asking for
the history of any organization or in
stitution for publication and for any
original manuscripts.
A. Douglas Farquhar presided over
the meeting and adjournment was
made to The Briers, in March, with
]. w. Jones as host.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1936-02-20
Continued Cold
Halts Anticipated
Ice Jams Here
Situation At Seneca And Great
Falls Relieved For The
Present

The fact that freezing weather is
still prevailing has temporarily halt
ed anticipated ice jams at Seneca,
Great Falls and other dangerous spots
on the Potomac above Washington
This Winter has proven to be one of
the most bitter ever experienced by
Montgomery County citizens now liv-
ing.
A number of the county roads have
been practically impossible because OF
snowdrifts and packed ice. The
streets in Rockville have been danger.
GUS at times although the Town Coun
Icil has been busy attempting to keel
the thoroIghfares clear of ice. Tht
recent thaw filled the cellars of Rock
lville with icy water and in many
cases the fire department were called
out to pump the easements free.
In the upper end of the county
particularly around Poolesville, Dick
erson and Damascus, the weather has
worked real hazards for the people
who are compelled to drive miles tc
their work.
Those country-store hangers-on who
have always been prone to boast OF
Eye old TYNE winters" are strange.
ly silent this year and, indeed, the ma
jority of these current weather pro
gnosticators agree that this has beer
the most severe winter since 1912.
Farmers in the outlying districts
have been able to fill their ice houses
for the first time in several years.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1936-02-20
Residents Must File
Their Schedules For
Personal Property Tax

Tangible personal property in
Montgomery County and intangible
personal property owned by residents
of this county are taxable according
to law.
Ira c. Whitacre, clerk to the coun-
ty commissioners, has announced that
complete and accurate schedules of
such properties must be filed with the
county commissioners and that fail
ure to do so within ten days of re-
ceipt of such schedule blank will sub
ject these properties to an estimated
assessment under Section 43, Article
81, of the Maryland Code.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1936-02-20
Recount Ends AS
Two Drop Fight
For Commissioner
John B. Diamond And Raleigh
Chinn Terminate Controversy
Over Election

The legal battle waged by the Demo-
cratic organization in an effort to re-
gain it's lost power as the controlling
factor in the Board of Montgomery
County Commissioners came to an end
yesterday.
Proceedings that had been hang
ing fire in the Circuit Court for IA
months were halted abruptly when
former Commissioner John B. Dia-
mond and Raleigh S. Chinn withdrew
the petitions in which they contested
the elections of Charles E. King and
Frank H. Karn.
It was the victories scored by King
and Karn in the elections of 1884 that
terminated the Democratic organi-
zation's 15-year reign over the County
Board and gave the newly organized
Fusion party the controlling vote in
that body.
Declaring that while they still be-
lieve their cause to be right, Diamond
and Chinn, who had charged Their
defeat to irregularities at the polls
issued a statement in which they said
that the recount suits had been so de.
layed the term Of the contested Offices
will be completed before the case
could be settled.
after careful consideration Of the
situation" they said, I'VE have come
to the conclusion that the best in
terests Of the county will be served
by dismissal of our petitions for q
recount"
Withdrawal Of the suits auto
matically brings to an end proceed
ings instituted by the Board of Elec-
tion Supervisors in an effort to have
the ballot boxes impounded as a re-
suit Of the contests released for the
Forthcoming presidential and con-
gressional primaries.
The court had ordered that prin-
cipals in the recount suits show cause
by today why the ballot boxes should
not be released.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1936-02-20
Land Bank Plan
Not Unfamiliar
To Many Farmers
Local Representative Empha'
sizes Fact That Set Up
Is Permanent

c. C. Dobbins, special representative
of the Federal Land Bank of Balti-
more, spent Saturday in Cedar Grove
and Rockville, conferring with Talm-
age L. Watkins, Secretary Treasurer
of the Western Maryland National
Farm Loan Association, and o. W.
Anderson, County Agent of Mont
gomery County, regarding an educa-
tional program being undertaken in
Bank loans.
Mr.. Dobbins said, "We find there
are large number of farmers in
the state who do not know of the
Federal Land Bank or the type of SER
vice we are offering to farmers. eve
are endeavoring now to bring before
them as directly as possible just what
the Federal Land Bank is doing"
The Federal Land Bank is not a
new institution. We were organized
about 20 years ago and have extended
during that time, millions of dollars
in long term mortgage credit to
farmers.
eve are not an emergency set-up,
but permanent organization, ready
at all times to help responsible farm
ers with their financial problems"
"The Bank through National Farm
Loan Associations, loans money to
help refnance farm debts, buy equip
ment, livestock and fertilizer and to
purchase land for farming uses. These
loans at present carry an interest rate
of only 40, and may be repaid over
period of up to 34h years."
'The National Farm Loan Associa-
tions are owned by farmers, and the
money loaned is not Government
Money, but is obtained from the in
vesting public purchasing Federal
Land Bank Bonds.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1936-02-20
Ministers Union To
Meet Monday Evening

Next Monday at 7:30 P. M. the
Montgomery County Minister'S Union
will meet at the Rockville M. E.
Church. Laymen are also invited, to
discuss the possibility Of organizing
a County Church Federation. There
will be special speaker. By direction
of the Ministers Union, the Secretary
invites all Catholic clergy and the
COlOred ministers Of the county to
join and to attend all meetings.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1936-02-20
Valentine Party At
Frank Higgins Home

Mr.. and Mrs. Frank H. Higgins en-
tertained at a Valentine dinner party
on Friday evening in honor of their
son, Frank and also Mrs. Thomas M
Garrett whose birthdays fall on Val
entine's Day.
Their guests included Rev. and Mrs
J. Lloyd Black, ]. Lloyd Black, Jr.,
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas M. Garrett,
Miss Mary Margaret Garrett, and
Messrs. Ashton and Thomas Garrett
Montgomery County sentinel., 1936-02-20
Commissioners To
Complete Study OF
Liquor Regulation
Board Will Present Seven-Point
Program At Special Legis-
lative Session

County Commissioners Paul Cough
Ian, of Silver Spring and Robert D.
Hagner, of Bethesda, have been nam
ed to make thorough study of the
proposed seven-point program which
the liquor control board hopes to have
enacted at the special session of the
Maryland Legislature now set for
March.
The program, which was presented
to the commissioners earlier in the
meeting Tuesday, urges a number of
radical changes in the handling of
beer and wines, including an exten-
sion of the closing hours of beer es-
adjustments from midnight to 2 A.
M. and the sale of fortified wines by
merchants who now are restricted to
the sale of light wines.
Other features include a change in
the financing system which would per-
NIT the liquor board to operate as an
independent business, collecting and
disbursing from its own account in
stead of through the county treasurer,
as at present, turning over net profits
to the treasurer at the end of each
month.
1t would also be possible under the
program for the holder of a beer
license to add wine without going
through the formality of advertising.
During the meeting the legislative
program of the Montgomery County
Civic Federation, which opposes these
features advanced by the liquor con-
troll board, was presented with the
request that it be indorsed by the
commissioners. It was taken under
consideration.
The federation also is urging that
a bill be enacted which would take the
appeals of beer and wine license ap-
plicants out of the hands of the
State license board and have the coun-
ty commissioners pass upon them. The
State board handles appeals from the
liquor control boards decision on
license applications at present.
Members of the civic group are op-
posed to enactment of the park area
bill which would permit the Maryland
National Capital Park and Planning
Commission to develop public parks
throughout the county and assess the
costs against abutting property own
Iers.
The federation also is endeavoring
to have the State Legislature put
through a bill for a general equaliza-
tion of all real property assessments
in Montgomery.
Delano Ames, president of the Bal
ltimore Criminal Justice Division, and
C. K. Tatum, of the Chesapeake &
Potomac Telephone Co., appeared be-
fore the commissioners and explained
the Statewide police teletype system
advocated by the Maryland States
Attorneys and Police Chiefs Associa-
tions.
The State Legislature will be asked
to make an annual ALLEGATION of $685.
900 for the operation of such sys-
tenn in police departments throughout
Maryland.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1936-02-20
Josiah w. Jones Is
Farm Bureau Head

The recently elected directors of the
Montgomery County Farm Bureau
Tuesday unanimously reelected JOS
iah W. Jones, president; Windsor w.
Hodges, vice president; George c.
Fry, secretary-treasurer, and Miss
Katherine R. Benson, assistant secre-
tary-treasurer. Jones has been presi-
dent of the bureau ever since it was
organized II years ago.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1936-02-20

adjoining counties of Montgomery ana
Prince Georges.
Morris Stern, chairman of tho
Better Business Committee of the
Rockville Chamber of Commcrce.
said yesterday: Montgomery County
Iis perhaps unfortunate in that it lies
adjacent to Washington City. People
who are enabled to get into town win
undoubtedly buy there when there il
an added tax on necessities IN
Rockville. The only fair tax would
be a Federal sales tax, applicable
everywhere and fair to every class.
There are two mail order houses
located Within easy driving distance
of Rockville. They get a large
amount of the county business and
yet they pay no part of this tax
which comes back to the county for
relief. Indeed, it is many of these
persons on relief who use the mail
order houses. There certainly should
be some more equitable means OF
raising taxes in Maryland for our
Iunfortunates."
The meeting Monday night will be
held at the Bethesda Elementary
School, Georgetown Road and Wilson
Lane, Bethesda. The meeting is
scheduled to begin promptly at 8
o'clock. Prominent speakers will be
on hand to address the audience.
Leading merchants from all over the
county have been invited to attend
and express their views in the mat
ter.
The Governors committee studying
Maryland's relief needs today recom-
mended enactment of a per cent
general sales tax to provide relief
revenues. The tax yield was estimated
at $5,OOO,0OO.
Tn committee, headed by William J.
Casey, Baltimore banker, outlined In
detail relief program for Ia months,
extending from April 1, 1886, to May
81, 1887. It estimated State funds
needed for that period, if the wPA or
its equivalent is continued, would be
81, 10000
The per cent gross receipts tax
now furnishes State funds for relief.
The per cent sales tax would be
mandatory upon the purchaser, which
means that all purchasers would be
informed by merchants that the price
for an article was so much plus the
tax.
The committee made no attempt to
formulate definite, permanent relief
policy. It confined its recommenda-
tions for the ID months ending May
81, 1887.
1t estimated that proceeds from the
sales tax and the titling tax and
revenues from other sources and local
and Federal contributions would pro-
vide a total Of $10,1S1, 900 for the
period.
The committee recommended that
the State attorney general be instruct
ed to prepare legislation to carry out
its proposals for submission at the
special session Of the Legislatur- next
month.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1936-02-20
Aounty Kuryosities
BY Hillbilly Hill.

We s'a4, gaze on fields of drifting snow,
|we t"a, sa,cn the glaciers sluggish flow
|ws t sel the bite of stinging sleet.
TIM anOw , frost bitten ears and feet.
|Tbe .,,,a passes |, in dull gray haze,
'Is tb;s sn does not appear for days.
|No '9ls ms. Arctic drearylandY
1riend' its sunny Maryland.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1936-02-20
Protest Meeting Against Sales
Taxes Called For Monday Niqhf
AT Bethesda Elementary School
Rockville And Upper County Business Men Plan To John
Fight On Any Plan Discriminating Against Mont
gomery County Chamber of Commerce And
Anti-Sales Tax Association Are
Sponsors Of Program

Every merchant and property in Montgomery
county urged to attend protest meeting Monday night
against any sales tax plan which proves discriminatory to the
business men OF this county The meeting has been called for
O'Clock at the Bethesda Elementary School will be spo
oed py the Bethesda Chamber of Commerce the
oales lax Association The latter group headed by
Walter Bachrach who is leading the fight against the sales tax
movement. - -
Inc Rockville Chamber of Commerce the merchants of
Rockville and the section of the county are cobnno
with suburban merchants in opposition any sales tax plan
winch Will work hardshps the business men, It has BEEN
pointed out that because of the proximity of Montgomery Con
y to the city of Washington considerable of paonae
will likely be incurred if sales plan goes through M
special session Of the Maryland Legislature which is scheduled
Tor next month In ways, business men saw general
sales tax for Maryland will equally obnoxious as the
present gross receipts tax at least Montgomery County
is concerned
Montgomery County sentinel., 1936-02-20
Miss Ardean Owings Is
Back From Trip West

Miss Ardean Owings, assistant
clerk to the County Commissioners
has resumes her duties at the court
house after spending a week In
Chicago. Miss Owings lives near
Etchison and is an alumnus Of Rock
vile High School.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1936-02-20
Lyddane Trial Will
Be Heard In April

Mrs. Anne Lyddane's second trial
on charges that she conspired to
murder her husband, Slom Lyddane
of Rockville, Wednesday was post
poned from March 2 to sometime in
April.
Several weeks ago, Mrs. Lyddane,
was moved from Rockville to Hagers-
town.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1936-02-20
AS WE SEE IT
BIZ MoNTco
THERE is so MUCH controversy

THERE IS SO MUCH controversy
nowadays revolving around the ques-
lion whether or not business is bet
ter. Despite the addition of new bus
mess and new buildings in Rockville,
Ahere are those calamity howlers who
say that the depression still remains
n our midst. Here in Rockville we
have had several changes which can
hot help but aid business. We have
The new Milo Theatre, Murphy's 5 and
1O cent store and other contributions
to the town. The same thing applies
Generally throughout the country. The
City of Baltimore is an outstanding
example Of progress during the past
year,
Montgomery County sentinel., 1936-02-20
Junior Shakespeare Club
Holds Regular Meeting

A regular meeting of the Junior
Shakespeare Club of Rockville was
held yesterday at the Rockville High
School. Excerpts from the Mid
summers Night Dream were read by
the director, Miss Martha Williams.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1936-02-20

members OF the county delegation
ito the General Assembly, State Sem
ator Stedman Prescott, are under
stood to be against any proposal
tending TO hurt business in the
county. They are believed to be in
accord with the sentiment which
arises from the realization that Mont
gomery County people will buy in
Washington City if prices rise in the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-12
NEW SNOW STORM
 | THREATENS WEST

Chicago, Feb. i2. (up)-Inured to cold after 2i bitter days, middle western rural communities suffering from fuel and coal shortages huss tied to obtain supplies today while Q new sncwstorm threatened. 1ub- zero cold continued over the north central and great plain states aiid colder weather and snow were foFes cast for tomorrow. Main commit ,icatlcn lines were cleared Of deep drifts which parAiyzed the midwest for four days but blows were bat. ting toward areas served by branch railroad tracks and side roads when more snow was predicted.
 New Geld Wsve
 A new cold wave spread over northern Wyoming, parts of Mon. tana and southwestern, Nebraska. Temperatures moderated i1 other states but the mercury will drop again tomorrow. weather fcFecastefs said, Coal shortages remained acute in Iowa and parts Of Illinois. Mayor H. N. Woodruff of Peoria sald the city hail and Aye staticsls would ns turned into dorniItOries for families without fuel, PecFia schools were tcontlnsled on Page lO.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-12
Van SlOeringen Says Fruit Jar Maker Came To Rescue

100000 in collateral to J. P. Nor. gan. Tn September of last year. the Mid. America Corporation, formed {. weeks before by J. A. Ball, the fruit jar maker, and one associate, brought the $50.000,000 in securities for about $3.0o0,000.
 Van swerIngen said the only stockholders in the company were George A. Tomlinson and Ball of Muncie, Ind.
 Making one Of his few public ap- pearances in 6 temptestuous bust. ness life. Van Sweringen became entangled in such maze of stock control negotiations that he was forced to admit he did not know some of the answers.
 He was led through c detailed ac- count of the shares owned by the various holding companies and the railroads in his system. Complextiy of these deals was illustrated by this question:
 Are the shares of the Chesapeake and Ohio in the Erie owned by the Virginia Transportation Go, or by the c and o direct?"
 The man who rose from newsboy to Spectaculeg financier removed his heavy black trimmed glasses, pom dered c moment and admitted: T frankly don't know"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-12

Washington, Feb. i2- tUP) - 0ray-haired Oris P. Van swerin- gen sat before the Interstate Com Inerce Commission today and told in 0 barely audible voice how e fruit jar manufacturer came to his rescue last fall when the Van Swer- ingen transportation empire was tottering.
 That and other chapters of the Van Swerlngen financial history were told by the Cleveland flnancier as he testified at the hearing on the mid-American poration. which was formed last September in one of the most unusual ma neuvers in the history of American finance.
 The hearing was called to de- termine whether riid.America has control over the Van sweringen railroad properties. It was formed to buy ct auction the Van swerin- gen railroad properties on which J. P. Morgan O., foreclosed at loss of s47.O0o,0OO,
 Van eweringen sat in q chair too small for his bulky frame and talked in c voice 50 low that even his attorney, Andrew ?. Martin, had difficulty hearing him. | Van gweringer and his late bro- ther, M. J., had pledged some sOO''
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-12
ICE BLOCKADE IS
 FEAR IN BOSTON

Boston, Feb. i2.-(UP)-shipping authorities feared an ice blockade might close Boston's inner harbor today as tho cold spell entered it's 20th day. The harbor was frozen over with ice one to three inches thick yesterday for the first time this winter, but . shift of tide and ship movements quickly broke 1t up.
 Shippers were apprehensive. how. ever,' lest the predicted continued cold weather completely seal the inner hrabor. Meanwhile, coast guard craft were breaking tip ice fields oil along the New England coast, Most seriously affected was Huzzards Bay. The tug Plymouth with two barges In tow was the only craft to attempt to blow through the bay. She was assisted to the western edge of the fec rim by the cutter Algonquin. Lynn harbor was broken open again yesterday to per- init the collier Hartwelson to pro- ceed to sea.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-12
Supreme Court Again Under Harsh Attacks
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace Warns Against Judicial Dictatorship '-Senator Norris Called
 on Congress to Cutail Powers of Court

Indianapolis, Ind, Feb. i2-tUP) Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace, defending constitutionality of the administration new farm billy, warned today of dangers of Q "judicial dictatorship"
 He asserted 1t is "the duty of cit- izens and officers of government to point out the error of the court" when 1t makes decisions which these citizens and officers believe crrone- ous in the light of changing condi- tons.
 "Unless we can do this, preferably in the calm, matured way in which Lincoln did 1t. then we have Q ju- dicial dictatorship" Wallace said
 No Dictatorship
 "Whatever else the founding fathers may have intended, they did not intend Q dictatorship by any one of the three branches of gov- ernment, least of ail by the branch most removed from contact with or restraint by the people,
 Wallace spoke before the In- diana farm bureau. He recalled the manner in which Lincoln led the iia-
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