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Maryland State Archives Jeffersonian, Towson, Maryland mdsa_sc3410_1_63-0349 Enlarge and print image (6M) |
| NOW LET'S SEE IF PRICES COME DOWN AND ALL OTHER EXISTING EVILS ARE BANISHED SINCE A REPUBLICAN ADMINISTRATION HAS BEEN ELECTED. IT WILL PAY YOU TO PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS THE SOMAN Equal and exact justice to all men of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political. —Jefferson. "WITH THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE" VOL. IX. No. 47 "It Covers The Community Like The Dew' TOWSON, MARYLAND, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1920. MARYLAND JOURNAL ESTABLISHED 1865 I CONSOLIDATED 1915 BALTIMORE CO. DEMOCRAT ESTAB. 1885 i WITH THE JEFFERSONIAN. Lawlessness By "Bootleggers" In Back River Section Very Much Exaggerated—Merely An Effort On The Part Of The Marshal Of Police In Baltimore City To Direct Public Attention From The Lamentable Failure Of His Force To Break Up The Deplorable Conditions In The City BUILDING UP OUR FIRE FIGHTING FORCES TO MEET FUTURE EMERGENCIES This is the latest photograph taken of the Towson Fire Engine •Company, which shows the modern aparatus installed here a few years ago. Just recently the County Commissioners ordered from the American La France Fire Engine Co., of Elmira, N. Y., two "pumpers" of this type, to be delivered within 150 days and upon arrival from the factory to be placed into service at the combination Are houses and police .stations being erected, one on the Washington Road, near Halethorpe; the other at Fullerton. As annexation confiscated the largest part of Baltimore county's Are fighting forces, the authorities are now endeavoring to build up gradually a department adequate to take care of all sections of the county. In addition to -new apparatus, a fire alarm system will be installed, with headquarters on the upper floor of the Towson Fire Engine house. AM it stands now the county rents wires and boxes from the city of Baltimore, and it is estimated that this can be taken care of cheaper under local supervision. SNAP SHOTS OF NEWS Current Events In Brief Paragraphs From Many Sections Bearing Bo Various Subjects. Ge' George N. Niv^lle, former com-m? .cler-in-chief of the French Army, visited Annapolis to inspect the Naval Academy. John W. Davis, United States ambassador to Great Britain, and Mrs. Davis arrived in London from New York. Dr. Francesco Orlando, son of the former Italian premier, inflicted two wounds upon Lieutenant Costamagna in a duel. Wellington Koo. former Chinese Ambassador to the United States, married the daughter of a Chinese sugar planter at Brussels. One person was killed and nearly 40 injured when a staircase at the city hall collapsed at Clermont-Ferrand, France, during a ceremony. J. D. Piaz, administrative director of the Compagnie Generale Trans-Atlan-tique (the French line) was appointed president of that line. Superintendent Crabbe, of the Md. Anti-Saloon League, announces that a plan is afoot to have Congress pass a law for the destruction of all whiskey in bond. Camille Barrere, French ambassador at Rome, is being considered by the government as the successor of Paul Gambon, French ambassador to Great Britain. Anti-Bolshevik forces under command of General Wrangel still safely hold Perekop and Salkovo, keys to the isthmusi leading from Crimea to the mainland of Russia. Governor Ritchie, in an address to members of the Maryland Agricultural Society, who are holding their annual convention in Salisbury, urged extensive bank credits to the farmers. A police motor patrol ambushed in Dublin, reversed the usual result of such attacks by the policemen killing two of the attacking party and wounding one and taking two prisoners). Resolutions definitely breaking with the Moscow internationale and expelling Joseph Prey and Franz Rothe from the party were adopted at a meeting of the Social Democrats in Vienna. The Duchess of Marlborough, formerly Consuelo Vanderbilt, daughter of W. K. Vanderbilt, was awarded a de~ « cree of divorce from the Duke of Marlborough in the London Divorce Court. (Continued on Page 8—Col. 1) OPENED WEDNESDAY AID SOCIETY MEETS Report Read. Directors Elected To Serve During Ensuing Year. The annual outing of the Children's Aid Society of Baltimore County was held at the Court House, Towson, on Wednesday last, at which directors were elected for the ensuing year, and the report of Miss Katherine Kirwan, the local head, wa's submited. The Society handed 883 cases during the year, among which were 127 in-volvng family problems, 619 with children and 42 appeals from outside the county; 204 wards of the Society were placed in foster and boarding houses. The directors elected are as follows: Miss Fanny King McLane, Mrs. Robert Deford, Mrs. Albert S. Cook, Mrs. John Ridgely, Jr., Mrs. Samuel M. Shoemaker, Mrs. David G. Mcintosh, Jr., Mrs. Donald Symington, Miss Isabel Sailer, Mrs. William Cochran, Mrs. Joseph Blair, Mrs. J. Murray ^..eele, Mrs. Myers Pearce, Miss Eleanor Green. Mrs. Carroll Brown, Robert De-ford, Redmond C. Stewart, T. Edward Hambleton, John T. Hersvhner, George R. Jones and Dr. William Burdick. Shooting Of Birds Legal Now. Many Gunners' Licenses Issued In County. As a result of the season for shooting partridges, pheasants, squirrels and wild turkeys, which opened Wednesday, the Clerk's Office at Towson has been extremely busy issuing gunners' licenses, there being a rush every .day. Gov. RJtcliie evidently does not know that the Baltimore City-Police Department has "more than it can chew" in coping-with boot-legging in its own territory; otherwise the Chief Executive of the State would not have been so eager to offer the Baltimore county authorities any number of men they desired to subdue the activities of whiskey peddlers in that section of the county adjacent to the city. As a mater of fact, the reports which have appeared in the Baltimore City .papers are .very much exaggerated, and from an investigation made by The Jef- , fersonian it ,has been found that most of the rumpus connected with the theft of liquor recently has been three-quarters pf a mile inside the city limits. Baltimore county is once again being made the dumping ground for Baltimore City as to its lawless element, and until boot-legging, gambling and things immoral are checked by the Baltimore City police in their own territory Baltimore county will have no peace. Dame rumor has it, and there Is every reason to believe it is true, that liquor is sold openly within a stone's throw of Police Headquarters in Baltimore City; that gambling runs rampant in the neighborhood and other carryings-on which should be cheeked by the police goes unnoticed. Before the police authorities of Baltimore tender help to other communities they had better clean their own house. NO MEETING IN TOWSON Taxpayers' League Will Gather At The City Club In Baltimore. No meetings of the Taxpayers' League will be held in the Court House at Towson unless a ruling handed down by the County Commissioners on Tuesday last, is changed. As a result the gathering scheduled for next Tessday evening will be held at the City Club in the Munsey Building, Baltimore. It is nderstood the sole purpose of the meeting is to determine whether or not the fight to have a charter form of government in Baltimore county shall be continued, notwithstanding the fact that the few men wh oreally constitute the Taxpayers' League met with decided defeat at the polls on election day. The citizens of Baltimore county "Doc" Oavis las A "Fat" According To All Amounts. (Prom the Annapolis Correspondent of The Jeffersonian.) Dr. W. W. Davis, Superintendent of the Lord's Day Alliance, has a job equal to that of a Congressman or a Judge with regard to salary, according to a report filed on Tuesday with the Secretary of State at Annapolis, for the Reverend gentleman receives a salary of $7,000 per year. The Secretary of State has succeeded in securing reports from almost all of the counsel and reports of organizations and corporations which have interests in the Legislative proceedings. According to his.: reports, there were 26 who registered! as legislative counsel and 20 as legislative agents, three as representing municipal or acting public bodies and three as appearing on their own initiative. He said that statements required by law have been filfd by representatives of associations and corporations. These statements cover i the expenditures of the persons registered and those who employed them, ^frnly through con-istant efforts was he able to secure the statements. He added that the Legislature has failed to enforce the rules ¦which it has laid down regarding the employment of legislative counsel and agents: MAKES "GET-AWAY" Negro Who Committed Crime In "Upper End" Of County Still At Large. present form of. government, a*d_j£ having committed a serious crime Price, Watson, Dietz & Hatch crawl out from underneath the avalanche of ballots and again try to put one over on the people of the county the^ will be buried deeper under a pile of ballots against their pet scheme. IDENTIFIES NEGRO Catonsville Girl Says Ulan Arrested At Riderwood Is One Who Attacked Her. Marshal of County Police Stansbury in company with two City detectives, arrested Charles Henry Dorgey (colored) on the farm of Mr. W. A. Fowke, at Riderwood, this county, on Wednesday morning, on the charge of having committed a serious crime on Miss Delsa Tweedel, of Catonsville. which occurred on Friday of last week. Fearing that residents of the neighborhood would become aroused and make an attempt to lynch the negro, he was immediaely taken to Detective Headuarters in Baltimore, where he I was identified by the girl. Miss Twee-|del, still carrying the purple marks on I he rneck, caused by the brute's fingers ; when he attempted to choke her, and j with evidences of other rough handling, confronted the negro, who assumed a defiant attitude and looked the girl squarely in the face, "You got me wrong, girl," said he. "Since you spoke I am more positive ¦that you are the man," ^answered Miss Tweedel. In speaking of the arrest to a rep-resentotive of The Jeffersonian, Marshal Stansbury said, "Before we had a chance to say anything to- the prisoner he said 'you fellows want me for that assault at Catonsville. don't you.' You're right, we replied." Dorsey is the fourth negro to be apprehended following the crime, and there seems no doubt in the minds of the authorities but that he is the guilty person. PREPARING FOR LEVY upon a 10-year-old white girl. Although Baltimore County Police, headed by Marshal Stansbury, arrived upon the scene an hour after the crime occurred, scoured the country nearby until midnight without results. Every barn, corn crib, hay barracks and other available hiding places were searched for the culprit. The assault occurred at the home of Dr. P. G. Mitchell and the victim was Anna Harman, 10 years old, who was turned over to Dr. Mitchell two years ago by one of the children's societies of Baltimore 0^ Dr. Mitchell is bringing- up the "e-«;id. The negro accused of the assault is James B. Dawson, alias Nelson, 20 years old. Dawson was sentenced to Cheltenham some y.ears ago from Baltimore. He went to Dr. Mitchell's home about the same time the girl did and was* in the custody of Dr. Mitchell's son, F. Dorsey Mitchell, who runs the farm upon which he and his father live. After the assault became known in the neighborhood Dr. Mitchell learned that about a month ago the negro assaulted a small colored girl and that the assault had been kept quiet by his frightening her so that s|he did not tell. Shortly before 9 o'clock F. Dorsey Mitchell left the farm to go to church. A few minutes later the little girl went out to feed the chickens. She had been out of the house only a few minutes when Dawson followed. Dr. Mitchell became •worried when Anna did not return to the house in a few minutes and went out to look for her. He did not see her and went to a shed where he found Dawson and the girl. She is in a highly nervous condition and has been unable to tell anything of the affair other than that Dawson went into the shed and called her in. When he saw the negro Dr. Mitchell rushed upon him and grappled with him. The negro is only 20 years old, and very large and strong, and was easily able to throw off the physician. Dr. Mitchell chased him as he ran from the place into the woods. It is about a mile through the woods to the railroad tracks. Dr. Mitchell, seeng that he was unable to overtake the negro, returned to the shed and carried the child to the house. He then phoned to Samuel Wilhelm, the agent at the railroad station at Glencoe, and asked him to watch the railroad tracks for the negro. INCREASE IN SALES Towson Heights Plant Goes Way Beyond Record Made Last Year. That the Black & Decker Mfg. Co., with a big plant at Towson Heights is growing by "leaps and bounds" is best evidenced by the general activity at at the big industrial enterprise. The concern is recognized as! the largest manufacturers- of portable electric drills in the world and the net sales, as of October 1 last are 163 per cent, of the total net sales of the previous year. In other words, in 8 months this year the net sales have been almost two-thirds greater than the net sales during 12 months of 1919 —and the prospects are that the sales for the entire year of 1920 will have increased 100 per cent, over 1919. Alhough the company, as has many other manufacturing concerns, experienced a considerable increase in sales resistance, this has been met to a large extent by the increased efficiency throughout the entire organization. TURNS "DEAF EAR" TO SUGGESTION THAT CITY POLICE DE SENT TO COUNTY FOR EMERGENCY. REFUSE AID County Authorities Feel Able To Remedy Conditions In "Lower End." Governors Ritchie's offer to have the police of Baltimore City co-operate in the supression of boot-legging in the lower end of Baltimore county, was refused by the Board of County Commissioners, as from investigation it was found tha t conditions were very much exaggerated. The offer was turned down because the Board felt that the City police were not coping with crime in the city of Baltimore and that they had their hands full in taking care of thei rown community. President of the Board Wm. F. Coghlan notified the Governor's office that the Commissioners, after a conference with the Chief of Police for Baltimore county, felt that they' were adequately equipped to deal with the situation without outside help. Reinforcements have been sent to "the scene of action" and favorable reports are expected to be forthcoming shortly. "Rainy Day" Philosophy— "For this information you don't have to pay, It should keep you in fine feather; Lay something by for a rainy day, And you'll always have dry weather." —Luke McLuke in Cincinnati EnQtiirer. There are so many better reasons for saving money that we do not like to urge people to save for the proverbial "rainy day." However, it is well enough to be prepared for any contingency that may arise, and ready money is usually a great help in time of trouble. If in your own particular case you can nnj^ other reasons for saving, then by all means saw A a "rainy day." And may you "awaysl have dry weather!" Second National Bank of Towson HARRISON RIDER, Prest. ELMER J. COOK, NOAH E. OF PUTT, Vice-Pres'dents. JOS. B. GALLOWAY, Cashier. THOS. J. MEADS, Asst. Cashier. County Commissioners Will Soon Begin New 1921 Budget. Rate May Be Bit Higher. As the fiscal year of Baltimore county begins now on January lsit instead of May 1st, as formerly, the clerks in the office of the County Commissioners are busily engaged in preparing the tax books, so that the annual levy can be made up by the Commissioners. With the demand which has been made by the School Board for running expenses and new buildings, and the appeal in every section for roads there is no doubt that the rate will be advanced next year a bit over the prevailing rate. From an official source it was ascertained that the Commissioners would work diligently to keep the rate for 1921 as low as possible, and to substantiate this word has been handed down to each branch of the administration to retrench and purchase nothing which absolutely could be gotten along without. WILL ELECT TWO JUDGES Voters Of Third Judicial Circuit Will Be Called Upon To Pass On Two Candidates Judge Frank I. Duncan, who was appointed recently by Governor Ritchie to serve on the bench until the election in November' next year, his 15-year term having expired on the 7th iof this month, took the oath of office before Clerk of the Court Wm. P. Cole one day this week. The Third Judicial Circuit, -which comprises Baltimore and Harford counties, will elect two judges at the next election. Chief Judge T. Scott Offutt was apointed to succeed Judge N. Charles Burke, resigned, until the next general election. —Mr. Arthur Steuart is confined to his home with illness. ¦—Mrs. A. J. Tarbert, who has been on the sick list, is improving. —Miss Dorothy Sparks, of "My Lady's Manor," is the guest of Miss Catherine O'Hara. —Miss Riley, of Baltimore, is spending the winter at the home of Mrs. P. H. Hartley. —Mr. Victor Clunett, of Baltimore, was a visitor at the home of Mrs. A. C. Litsinger. —Mr. and Mrs. Hershel Allen are receiving congratulations upon the birth of a little daughter. —The first snow of the season fell on Wednesday last, when a few flakes drifted to earth. —Towson guards, wake up! There is entirely too much rowdyism here, especially on Saturday nights. —Register of Wills Wm. J. Peach was confined to his home by illness the latter part of this. week. —A demonstration supper will be held at Calvary Baptist Church here on the evening of November 16. —The stork visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Green one day this week and left a bouncing baby girl. —Followed by a social session, 7 new members were initiated Tuesday evening by the Towson Lodge of Elks. —The Clerk's Office here was "packed and jammed" with applicants for gunners' licenses every day this week. —Miss E. Belle Perine, who has been OCCURED INSIDE CITY Tnrtore Of Soldiers By "Bootleg-gers" Took PiaceThree-fourths Of Mile Over Coonty Line. That the band of boot-legging gunmen planned the murder of two soldiers from Camp Holabird as an example to other Holabird soldiers who might make up a party to enforce the "dry laws," two soldiers were kidnapped near the camp and tortured inside the limits of Baltimore City without a policeman interfering. The mystery surrounding the shooting of Sergt. William J. Gaffney and Private Daniel McMillan was cleared when Captain Mabbutt returned from Washington, where he interviewed the wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Hospital. Both soldiers were suffering from their wounds when they were thrown from the gunmen's automobile near CamD Holabird Apartments. Uncovering of information concerning the kidnaping of the two soldiers by the gunmen has opened up a field of crime in the Back River and Middle River Neck sections. One of the most astounding features of the raid engineered by Captain Mabbutt between 1 A. M. and 5 A. M. was the fact that in less than an hour after the officers and armed soldiers left for the Bird River cabin information of the expedition reached the members of the bootlegging gang. Six men armed with 45 calibre pistols actually waylaid Captain Mab-butt's party returning with the two soldiers—Eaton and Jordan, who were captured at the Bird river shanty. At the minute that the three army staff carA passed the black automobile, the gunmen had Sergeant Gaffney and Private McMillian prostrate on the floor of the car, with pistols at their chests and hands over their mouths, threatening hem with instant death if they made an outcry. FIRST GUNNING VICTIM William F. Coghlan, President of the Board of County Commissioners, speaking for that body, in answer to Gov. Ritchie's offer to stend as many city police as desired to the Back River section of Baltimore county to help check lewless "bootleggers," said that the Baltimore City Police Department had as much as it could do to stop lawlessness and "boot-legging" in the city, as conditions there were very bad and the reports of conditions in the county extremely exaggerated. WILL REORGANIZE PARTY Governor Cox Undismayed By Defeat At Polls—Plans For The Futore. (Special Correspondence to The Jeffersonian.) Governor James M. Cox, apparently undismayed by the rout of the Democratic forces at the polls last Tuesiday, indicated that he will attempt to reorganize the party of which he is the head for political combats of the future. His first step along thisMine was to make it plain that he does not believe the Democratic party will cease to exist as the result of its overwhelming defeat. "Talk of a new party isi absurd," he said. Showing that his fighting spirit has not been crushed, the Governor characterised the election result as a defeat," but not a "surrender." "In spirit I am as proud as when the fight started," he said. "I would not retrace a step nor yield a single jot in principle. It was a privilege to make the contest for the flight in the face of overwhelming odds. There is a distinct difference between defeat and surrender. The flag of Democracy still flies as the symbol of things more enduring than the passions and resentments that come with the afer-math of war. Cox'si statement was the first since election day. It is the belief of the governor that the overwhelming defeat will result, during the next four years, in a party more united than ever before, the Democrats realizing that their hope for any future success lies in complete unity. On the other hand, he is certain that views of various Republican leaders, such as Senator Johnson and ex-President Taft, are so divergent that they will cause serious dissension in the ranks of the new administration. ¦ The governor has received hundreds of messages assuring him that his defeat was not personal, but due to a widespread desire of the country for a change from the administration in power during the war. COWENTON. The Ladies' Aid Society will hold a Church was entertained last Thursday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Proctor. Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Edwards/ spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Harry Francis. Rally day was observed Sunday at Cowenton M. E. Church. FIRE IN VALLEY Hay Barracks With Contents Are Completely Destroyed On Belt Property. Fire, which for a time threatened to ignite the home of Mr. Randall Moale Belt, St. Thomas' Lane, in the Green Spring Valley, completely destroyed a large hay barrack on Wednesday, including farming implements and machinery. Our experience as Tire dealers is invaluable to you) Child Of 14 Years Walks Half Mile After Shooting Self In Foot. The first accident due to the hunting season in Baltimore county was reported on Wednesday when little Marie Heinicken, aged 14 years, who was out hunting with her father, Henry Heinicken, near Catonsville, stumbled and accidently discharged the gun she was carrying, the bullet entering her foot. ith no assistance near the girl was cmpelled to walk to a residence half a mile away. She was given first aid ?? t]i? sick nst,. reported for work at b D Cnaries Macgill, and then taken he Towson Heights plant yesterday t<* gt Agnes' Hospital, where an oper-(.briaay.). ation was performed, after which she (Continued on Page 8—Col 2.) jwas taken home. Our close contact with the tire industry gives us a fund of knowledge invaluable to you. Wc know personally the men behind the different tire organizations — their ideals — their policies — their plans. And because of this, coupled with our daily observation of tires in actual service, we know we arc selling you a tire that will deliver more than average service when we put on— Ct?RD' THIS' For a long time we made exhaustive tests on the Marathon Tire, we placed'them on trucks, busses and uther cars where we knew they would be subject to unusual punishment, and then we waited. X-__ / The unusual extent to which the Marathon Tire stood up under this gruelling punishment was a revelation—it confirmed our belief that a tire could be built which would surpass by far. the average of tire service. CROOK CO., Inc., Distributors W. Oliver St., BALTIMORE, MD. Phone, Mt. Vernon 3713. © Maryland State Archives mdsa_sc34io_1_63-0349.jpg |