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ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO PRINT. THE JEFFERSONIAN "WITH THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE" VOL XII—No. 30. t5* "It Covers The Community Like The Dew' TOWSON, MARYLAND, SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1924. BALTIMORE COUNTY'S ONLY SUNDAY NEWSPAPER. If Thomas Jefferson And Andrew Jackson Should Return To Life And Meet Some Of The Gentlemen Now Parading Around As Jeffersonian And Jacksonian Democrats, They'd Be Tempted To Organize A Third Party SPEED MANIACS TERRORIZE PEDESTRIANS IN COUNTY TOWNS Kind Including Heavy Trucks Dash Through Towson And Other Towns At Miles An Hour, Endangering Lives Of Men, Women And Children. STRINGENT REGULATIONS MUST 8E CREATEO TO . COPE WITH SITUATION, AND BE ENFORCED HAS IT THAT RITCHIE WILL RUN EOR UNITED STATES SENATE governor Will Seek To Wrest Post From Republican Candidate-Efforts To Obtain Presidential Nomination Gives Him Wide Publicity. ?:-:-:-:-h-h-h-x-k-k-k-k-k-m-K' ALWAYS GIVE PEDESTRIAN RIGHT OF WAY. Inasmuch as pedestrians have right of way at all street intersections, it is incumbent upon all motorists to bear this thought in mind and give such right of way. This rule seems to hold good almost throughout the entire country, as the courts of various States have upheld it, and in all instances the law for the protection of the pedestrian seems to remain in force. California has always ruled that charges of carelessness against the pedestrians cannot be made. In view of these facts there is only one thing for the motorist to do, and that is always give right of way to the pedestrian at street intersections. .>:«i^~x~>A^^^^ MEETING FRIDAY Members Of Farmer's Club * To Arrange For White Hall Fair. A meeting of the members of the White Hall Farmers' Club and Improvement Association and their wives will be held next Friday night in the hall for the purpose of arranging for and discussing plans for the White Hall Seventeenth Annual Fair. The meetings are held annually and have proven of great benefit, and the advice of the ladies in these matters have been of great help, as they present an exhibit of the finest quality and large in numbers. (Special to The Jeffersonian) Governor Ritchie practically is certain to be the next Democratic candidate for the United States Senate, his friends assert. He will enter the lists for the post now held by Senator O. E. Weller in an attempt to wrest it from the Republican party, they say. Some prominent politicians think Senator Weller will not seek re-election and some other Republican will be Ritchie's opponent. Although the election is two years off, the "Senator Ritchie" talk is one of the high lights of the aftermath of the Democratic National Convention, in which Ritchie was a candidate for Presidentiaal nominee. The State and national publicity attending the rare effort of a Mary-lander to snare the big nomination has placed Ritchie in a commanding position in his State, his friends say. His personality dominates others in both paarties in the State to an extent that makes him the logical choice of the voters, they hold. Some have gone so far as to say that while in New York at the convention "Ritchie really was running for the Senate." They hold, further, it would have been good politics for the convention to have complimented Ritchie with a big block of votes on some of the ballots in order to aid his expected Senate candidacy. The importance the Democrats attach to Senate seats was evidenced when Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana declined to become Vice- (Continued on Page 4-—Col. 7.) SEEING THINGS AGAIN CAMP FIRE GIRLS TO HOLD LAWN FETE. The Camp Fire Girls of Towson will hold a lawn fete on the lawn of Trinity P. E. Church here on Wednesday evening. July 3rd. Roslyn Man Insists He '' Lamped" Two Bears In Second District. Not satisfied with having killed and eaten the lonesome little bear that threw the Pikesville-Harrison-ville section into fits, John T. Allen, of Roslyn, now insists he saw two more, much bigger and fatter than the critter killed and perhaps it's Maw and Pa. J. Herman Arndt, of Harrison-ville, is another who thinks there are other bears in the neighborhood, for a comparison of the slain bear's tacks do not correspond with those left on his farm. OLD TIMONIUM PREPARING TO THROW OPEN GATES FOR 1924 EVENT Machines Of Every 25 To 30 POLICE FOIL PLOT Attempt To Rob Gwynnbrook Distillery By Six Men Frustrated. What is believed to have been an attempt to raid the Gwynnbrook Distillery at Gwynnbrook, was frustrated early one morning recently by county police, whose quick response to a telephone call from a watchman at the distillery caused six men, two of them armed, to flee in an automobile. The watchman told Pikesville police the men had been loitering police the meen had been loitering in the vicinity of the distillery since daybreak. Three times the large touring car, occupied only by the driver was seen to speed by the plant, police were told. Two of the men walked with pistols in their hands. SUICIDE PREVENTED Police Foil Girl's Attempt And "Nab" County Men At Scene. "Here, take this. I was awaiting a chance to kill myself, but you watched me too closely." And Katherine C. Ruddy, twenty-one, 1507 Madison avenue, Baltimore city, handed a loaded revolver to Detective Lieutenant Michael J. Cooney. For an hour and a half Cooney had been questioning the woman in her room. Both stood during the interview, and Cooney, noticing she held her right hand under a wide pleat in her dress, kept his eyes on her. Cooney and Patrolman Martin-dale, attached to headquarters, had gone to the house to investigatae a complaint of a neighbor. While Cooney talked to the young woman Martindale stood in the vestibule. He arrested Frank Shea, twenty-five, and Martin Kilmurray, twenty-two, of Cockeysville, who called at the house in an automobile. Miss Ruddy and the two men were taken to the police station. Shea and Kilmurry were later released, the woman being held pending an investigation. MAKE IT HURT. Twelve To Fifteen Miles Is Plenty Fast Enough For Anyone Through Towns, Unless It Be Traffic Cop After Bootlegger —But That Never Happens. Unless something is done to cheek the speed of motor vehicles on the York road through Towson, and likewise through other villages and towns in Baltimore (Continued on Page 4—Col. 7.) CRUMB OF COMFORT Farmers Will Find Consolation In Wheat And Corn Advance. DAVIS PLANNING TO WIN PROGRESSIVES FOR PARTY-ELEMENTS IN EAST PLEDGED TO TICKET CHAS. F. WHALEN DIES Democratic Candidate May Find It Necessary To Make First Campaign Tour In West And Middle West—Now Taking Short Vacation. Originally A Baltimore County Institution It Is Now Recognized As National Affair—Scope Is No Longer Limited. Old Timonium Fair is preparing to throw open its gates once more. It is being tidied up for the forty-sixth annual show, which will open on Labor Day. Yearly harbinger of this, one of the few great agricultural fairs of the United States, are the first fragrant breezes from field and meadow, woodland and pasture. Redolent with the perfume of incipient harvest, they come to announce the RAILROADER DROWNED After Dive In Creek, Man Fails To Reappear—Police Find Body. Leaving a party of friends who were swimming in the shallow waters of Bear Creek near Turner's Station, Michael Waldhauser, 37 yeaars old, 907 South Streeper st., Baltimore city, dived to his death in the deep channel of the stream. His body was recovered by the county police. Waldhauser had been bathing for about half an hour before the fatality occurred. Members of his party saw him swim midstream. He is said to be an expert swimmer and there was no concern for his safety. Suddenly he was seen to dive, and when he did not reappear on the surface, efforts were made to rescue him. approach of Maryland's annual glorification of the goods and beauties of rustic nature. Timonium has long since come to be much more than a local tribute to Ceres. A Baltimore county institution originally, it is now a national institution also. Its scope is no longer limited; it is as broad as the immense field to which it renders service. The slogan for every annual renewal of the exhibition is "a bigger and better fair," and this objective has never yet failed of realization. Therefore, officials of the Cociety are paving the approach to the 192 4 event with unusual effort, and already they can foresee a culmination fitting as a reward for the most fastidious impressario. A six-day program filled with interest-holding events has been (Continued on Page 5—Col. 1) JAMES H. WILSON IN SUIT FOR DIVORCE, ALLEGES ABANDONMENT. Alleging abandonment and infidelity, James H. Wilson filed suit for an absolute divorce from Mrs. Anna Wilson in the Circuit Court at Towson. The bill states that the parties were married at Elkton on December 2, 192 2 and separated during the following January. Mrs. Wilson is now said to reside in Philadelphia. Man Who Saw Train Kill His Daughter Succumbs At Granite. Charles F. Whalen, who a year ago last spring saw his daughter and grandchild killed and another grandchild crippled when their automobile was caught between two trains, died suddenly as he sat on the porch at his farm. Dr. H. F. Shipley of Granite, was called and pronounced death due to cerebral hemorrhage. Mr. Whalen was moving to his present home when the trains killed two and crippled the third member of the family. He had crossed the tracks with a truckload of furniture and the other machine, following not far behind, was driven onto the tracks before the danger was realized. LLOYD WILKINSON DEAD Man Who Opposed Simpson In Republican Primary Dies At Seashore. 410 STUDENTS ENROLL Registration At Normal School Not Reduced By Recent Merger. Enrollment of city students at the Maryland State Normal School. Towson, for 1924-25 has not been reduced as a result of the merger with the Teachers' Training School, according to William R. Flowers, Assistant Superintendent of Baltimore City Public Schools. "Approximately 410 students from the city have enrolled at the Normal School for the coming year," Mr. (Continued on Page 5—Col. 1) PHOENIX WOMAN VISITS SWEET AIR RELATIVES. Mr. and Mrs. John Bork, of Sweet Air, had as their recent guest Miss Gertrude Bork, of Phoenix. Lloyd Wilkinson, one-time Democrat, and the man who opposed E. Ridgely Simpson in the Republican primary for nomination to Congress from this district died suddenly at a sea-shore resort. Mr. Wilkinson ran as a "dry," while Mr. Simpson ran as a "wet," the latter winning by a "handful" of votes, and so close that Mr. Wilkinson asked for a recount. After the recount had been conducted in Baltimore county, Harford county and a part of Baltimore City Mr. Wilkinson conceded Mr. Simpson's nomination. When William H. Anderson, now (Continued on Page 4—Col. 7) Democratic Mr| McAdoo left for Europe after pledging for himself a second time the support of his followers to the (Continued from Page 4) Having healed the wounds of Mr. Davis the normal three big factions in the Democratic vote, party, John W. Davis will start out next week to capture the support if possible, of the fourth, the biggest and most discordant element of all—the Progressive Democrats of the West. The Smith element in New York was pledged by Governor Smith to support the nominee in the speech which Smith made from the rostrum of Madison Square Garden the night of the nomination. "I am the leader of the Democratic party in New York," Governor Smith said, thus inviting for himself personal criticism if New York should fail to give STUART S. JANNEY NAMED New Welfare Director Plans Survey Of All Penal Institutions. A survey and inspection of the five insane and two penal institutions under the Board of Welfare will be made by Stuart S. Janney, newly appointed State Director ofo Welfare, immediately after he succeeds Emory L. Coblentz as director this week. Mr. Janney is studying Maryland laws affecting the Board of Welfare and the institutions. He says he expects to pursue the policy of his predecessoor in administration of his office. Change in policy cannot be decided upon until after an inspection of the institutions and study of the conditions he finds, Mr. Janney says. LITTLE DAUGHTER OF ELMER R. HAILE SUSTAINS FRACTURED ARM. Miss Genevieve Haile, the nine-year-old daughter of Attorney E. R. Haile, while visiting her aunt at Catonsville, fell and fractured one of her arms at the elbow. She was taken to the Union Memorial Hospital, and has undergone several operations. WOMAN INSANE Philadelphian Who Murdered Lansdowne Man Sent To Asylum. Miss Katherine Miller, who was convicted of shooting and killing Harry Kabernagle, of Lansdowne, in Philadelphia last January, was transferred from Moyamensing Prison to an insane asylum by a court order, according to information received here from Philadelphia. The girl claims that Kabernagle is haunting her. A commissioon which investigated the woman's sanity reported that she is deranged, (Continued on Page 4—Col. 7) ATTENDING SUMMER SCHOOL IN NEW YORK. Wheat and corn took quite a jump on Wednesday at the Exchange in Chicago. It was brought about by the receipt of official reports of crop conditions in Canada, and the American spring wheat belt in the Northwest near the Canadian border. It seems they have had long continued drought and it has materially affected ithe wheat and corn crop. Rye is affected by the same report. On Tjuesday last September wheat closed at 121 l-<8; on Wednesday it closed at 12 7, an increase of 5 1-8 cents. September corn closed on Tuesday at 1.01; on Wednesday it closed at 1.05, an increase of 4 cents. September rye closed on Tuesday at 83 and on Wednesday at 85 1-4, an increase of 2 1-4 cents.. These are (Continued on Page 5—Col. 1) AVERAGE COST OF RUNNING A CAR 7 CENTS A MILE. Uncle Sam has just made his estimate as to the cost of op- ?£? eration of an automobile on a mileage basis. In preparing the annual budget the Government experts have figured original cost, depreciation, gasoline, tires, etc., and report that the cost a mile for motorcars is 7 cents and for motorcycles 3 cents. Allowance is made for certain conditions, such as mountainous regions and poor roads, but while the figures may be high in some localities and low in others, the experts state ?*? that the 7-cent figure is adequate and fair and that it has been accepted by the budget committee in figuring estimates. ?Vx-k-:-x-k^k-h-:-:-k-:-k»*k-k-> EFFORT UNSUCCESSFUL CHECKING "GAS" TANKS Inspectors Of State Comptroller's Office At Work In County. Inspectors from the office of Wm. S. Gordy, Jr., State Comptroller, began this week a check up on all gasoline filling stations in the county to determine if any "gas" is being sold with the 2-cent State tax unpaid. The tax produced a revenue of Man Sent To Jail For Court Contempt Must Remain Behind Bars Charles Marx, of Rossville, who was committed to jail by the Orphans' Court of Baltimore County for contempt for refusing to answer suestions relative to the estate of his father, the late John Marx, of which he was formerly administrator, was unsuccessful in an effort to secure his release under habeas corpus proceedings heard on last Wednesday by Judge F. Neale Parke in the Circuit Court at Westminster. It was decided by Judge Parke that the Orphans Court had legal authority to commit Marx for contempt, and j he was remanded to the Towson jail. Marx was succeeded as adminis- I trator of the estate by Attorney L. ! E. Ensor, and William P. Cole, Jr. $555,595 during the montths of this year. first five appeared as counsel for the latter at the hearing. THE BEAR DEAD, NOW SHARKS ARE REPORTED BASKING IN MIDDLE RIVER Like Grizzly, They Grow in Lap Of Dame Rumor—Boats Manned By Residents Of "Lower End'' Fail To Even Sight Critters. The little black bear that scared all Harrisonville and vicinity nearly to death—now dead, and eaten up in sandwiches at a public "free lunch" recently is but a matter of history, but right on top of this episode in Baltimore county comes the alarm from the "lower end" that there is a shark in Middle River. The Middle River shark, like the Harrisonville bear, is an expert at multiplication. The bear multiplied so that although it has disappeared in the stomachs of those who partook of the sandwiches, it is still the object of an enthusiastic, if unsuccessful hunt perennial. RURAL MAIL CARRIERS TO GATHER AT REISTERSTOWN TUESDAY. On Tuesdday next the annual meeting of the Rural Letter Carriers' Association will be held at Reisters-town. At tmis time the election of offi- ! cers will be held, also the election of Miss Anna Trent, of Sweet Air, isi delegates to the State convention in attending summer school in New j Baltimore city, to take place July York. 26th. •a one While one shark was reported as "flipping the flop" in the waters of Middle River off Kingston Park, yesterday the sharks "lamped" ranged from 5 to 10. Boats manned by residents along that part of the water front hunted the shark or sharks by sunlight and moonlight, but without success. TWO LADS INJURED One Knocked Down By Auto, Other Is Struck Riding Bicycle. Two boys struck by automobiles are at St. Joseph's Hospital in a serious condition. Arnold Fritze, 2616 East Preston Street, Baltimore city, ran across the Belair road in front of a machine driven by James B. Schaffer, 723 North Appleton street, Baltimore. He suffered a fractured skull concussion of the brain and possible! internal injuries. Justus Wirschnitzer, 17 years old, 2029 East Hoffman street, Baltimore city, while riding his bicycle on the Harford road, was struck by an automobile driven by Henry J. Carroll, 1108 N. Charles street. He suffered a fractured collar bone and lacerations on the body. This Generation Can Drive Automobiles, Fly Airplanes, Talk By Radio And Do Many Other Things—But It Is Not Quite So Sure That It Knows How To Bring Up Children.