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ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO PRINT. irlrl/ JH/rrlilYoU AN "WITH THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE" =p r9T XII—No. 42. "It Covers The Community Like The Dew* TOWSON, MARYLAND, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1924. BALTIMORE COUNTY'S SUNDAY NEWSPAPER After All, When You Think Of Our Automobile Casualties, Prohibition And The Chicago Murder Trial, It Almost Seems As If The Japs Should Thank Us For Keeping Them Out DAVIS MAKING SPLENDID PROGRESS-REPUBLICANS WORRIED Recruits From G. O. P. Forces Marching Into Democratic Camp Daily OR. HARRY GARFIELD, PRESIDENT OF WILLIAM'S COLLEGE. TELLS WHY RE'S FOR DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE BONO ISSDE FOR SCHOOLS NECESSARY TO PROVIDE FOR EVER INCREASING POPULATION Best Means Of Taking Care Of Needed Expansion Of Physical Facilities—Will Work Least Hardship On Taxpayers-Cost Distributed Over Period Of years. WILLIAMSON VENEER CO. FILES BILL AGAINST MARYLAND CALCITE CO. A bill was filed in the Circuit Court at Towson by the Williamson Veneer Company against the Maryland Calcite Company at Texas, asking that the defendant be restricted from blasting at its quarry so as to endanger lives of the complainant's employees, and its property. Judge Frank I. Duncan signed an order granting the injunction as prayed, with leave to the defendant to move for dissolution. It is alleged in the bill that showers of blasted stone had fallen on to the buildings of the Veneer Company, a large stone had fallen through a roof, and that an employee had narrowly escaped being struck by a stone. Attorney Elmer J. Cook appears for the plaintiff. MERCHANTS ACTIVE County Establishments Preparing For Late Fall Trade. Summer is over and Milady is already considering plans to adorn of the approaching season and step forth prepared to enjoy the keen cold winds of the winter, wrapped in warm and charming clothing. For her benefit Baltimore county merchants have put on display the new and lovely wearing apparel from which may be selected any kind of a costume to fit any kind of a purse. Store windows of merchants througnout the county are offering alluring glimpses of rich and colorful coats and dresses, smart hats in shades of blending hues and stylish hues and stylish, trim footwear in street and dress designs. Most of the merchants in Towson (Continued on Page 5—Col. 2) Baltimore county needs new school buildings and substantial additions to otners. There is no doubt about tnis, and at next month's election voters will be called upon to sanction a bond issue of $1,500,000 tor tne purpose. Two years ago the voters passed a bond issue, out of which the sum of $1,000,000 was allotted for the construction of new scnool buildings and with it the Board of Education has constructed or contracted for approximately 140 additional school rooms. A careful survey shows that 150 additional rooms are needed at this time to take care of the requirements of the various school aistricts. From present indications, within five years time at least 100 more rooms will be required to take care of certain sections near the new city line, wnich are very rapidly building up. The Board of Education will be able to provide from the proposed bond issue the land and the 150 rooms required at twenty-seven points located in eleven election districts of the county. If building costs remain where they are, or become somewhat lower, the board hopes to be able to take care of the future need of the growing centers for the next three or four years at least. That the facilities are needed can be verified by anyone who will investigate the conditions at any of the scnools where the proposed new buildings or additions are planned. Present rooms are badly over-crowded; many pupils are housed in temporary structures poorly ventilated (Continued on Page 8—Col. 2) LOSES DAMAGE SUIT Woman Sues For $10,000—Jury Returns Verdict For Park Owners. A verdict for Mary F. Fitzsim-mons and William J. Fitzsimmons was rendered in a suit for $10,000 damages brought by Mrs. Ruth R. Payne for injuries sustained by her at River View Park. The verdict was rendered by a jury. Mrs. Payne's claim was for injuries sustained by her July 25, 1923, while alighting from the carrousel at the resort. She alleged the machine was started prematurely. SANCTIONS TAL'S" SILENCE SAILOR BADLY INJURED Member Of Crew Of Steamer Lying- Off County Water Front Struck By Boom. Julius Zaskewski, a member of the crew of a foreign steamer anchored off the county water front was struck by a boom and badly injured. Other members of the crew summoned the police and the injured man was removed to a hospital. SPECIAL SESSION OF GRAND JURY TO ACT ON SHOOTING AFFAIR MONDA Y Fedeli Case Recalls Other Tragic Scenes In County— Wife Held In Towson Jail, Son Freed On Bail. A little, seemingly unconcerned, woman is held in the Towson Jail, and on Monday a special session of the grand jury will act on her case. The case of Mrs. Antionette M. Fedeli, who shot her husband, a weathly contractor, to death, when she and her young son trailed him SUPPER AT CEDAR GROVE OCTOBER 25. The Sunday School of the United Brethren Church at Cedar Grove will hold an oyster supper on Saturday night, October 25th. -----------------¦?----------------- STEAMER FOR BAY SERVICE Excursion Co. Asks Right To Operate Between Bay Shore And Rock Hall. Application of the Bay Shore-Brighton Excursion Company to operate its steamer General Lincoln between Chestertown, Rock Hall and other points on the Chester River and Bay Shore Park was set for a hearing before the Public Service Commission October 17. The application, filed by Charles Jackson, attorney for the steamboat company, says: "This service is needed for the residents in the neighborhood of the Chester river and the merchants of that locality and Baltimore." The Rock Hall and Baltimore Transportation Company, through E. E. Cohee, manager, filed a protest against the granting of the application to the Bay Shore-Brighton Company. to a lonely road in the Green Spring Valley, where he was accompanied by another woman, has created quite a bit of excitement. What passed between husband and wife and his companion will be revealed at the trial. Arthur Fedeli, the son, was released on bail as was Hermine Ull-man, the woman in the case, Dr. A. C. McCurdy, of Towson, being her bondsman. Homicides, the result of domestic disagreements, jealousy and other reasons, are disclosed by the records of the Courts everywhere, and Baltimore county has had its share. And they will continue and probably increase until both parties to a marriage contract, fully understand the great and serious responsibility of the obligations they assume and then for better or for worse live up to them. The earliest homicide of this character in the County, of which we have any record was in 1840. Adam Horn killed his wife, was found guilty of murder in the first degree and executed. It was a most cruel and diabolical killing. Horn was a shoemaker and had a little (Continued on Page 5—Col. 3) Simpson Says Any Utterance By President Would Be Undignified' Mr. Simpson, the Republican candidate for Congress in this District in an interview in the Baltimore Sun gives his views on the President's silence on his attitude toward the Ku Klux Klan. He says "any utterance by the President on that subject would be unlignified and entirely out of place," and since Mr. Simpson did not give expression to his views on the Klan, by the same reasoning it is fair to assume that he also withholds his views because it would be undignified for him as a candidate for Congress to express them. Well, that's that. The Klan is opposed to the Catholics and the Jews because of their religion, and opposed to the Negroes because they are Negroes. An organization holding any such views is un-American, inasmuch as the Constitution guarantees civil and religious liberty to everyone. Mr. Davis, the Democratic candidate for President, and Mr. Tydings, the Democratic candidate for Congress are opposed to the Klan because it is un-American and in conflict not only with their spirit spirit, but the letter of the Constitution. Mr. Coolidge, the Republican candidate for President, and Mr. Simpson, the Republican candidate for Congress, are silent—and surely, in this case, silence gives consent. While Mr. Coolidge remains silent on the question the Klansmen evidently have a tip on his attitude toward them, for they are for him. Mr. Simpson might also give us his views on the President's silence on the oil scandal and the appointment of the rather notorious Slemp as his private secretary. Does M.r Simpson also think it beneath the dignity of the President to speak of these blots on his administration? And does Mr. Simpson think it beneath his dignity also, as a candidate for Congress, to refer to them WELL! THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE'S "UP A TREE." COOLIDGE AONIINISTRAIION BOASTS OF ECONOMY, WHEN IT HAS AODED $15,000,000 TO PAY ROLLS JOHN POGOWSKI, ALLEGING ABANDONMENT, WANTS DIVORCE. Alleging that she abandoned him in November, 1920, John Pogowski filed a bill in the Circuit Court at Towson against Mrs. Mary Pogowski in which he asks for an absolute divorce. The bill states that the parties were married April 17, 1910, and that they have two minor children. G. 0. P. Guilty Uf Everything It Denounced In 1920 Six Months Ending June Thirlieth, 10,315 Extra Employees Were Given "Plums". luring Says He's More Than Dissatisfied With Action And Attitude Df Party During Last Four years— Is Also Against Tariff Act. The campaign from a Democratic standpoint is progressing most favorably. Probably the greatest asset the party has in this contest is the warm and vigorous support of the New York Times. For years it has been the political bible of the great Independent vote and it exerts a (Continued on Page 7—Col. 1) 1HERS NOT BENEFITTED WILL OF MRS. SARAH B. HEAD PROBATED. Big Miller Who Imports Wheat Has String Tied To Tariff Tax. (From the Washington Correspondent of The Jeffersonian) The big miller who imports wheat has a nice, strong string tied to the tariff tax he pays and pulls the money right back into his own pocket. The string is the "drawback" clause of the Republican tariff law. But the string does not work for the farmer. If he imports a little wheat for seed, he pays the full tax and gets none of it back. Representative Rufus Hardy of Texas tells how the skin game works. Mr. Hardy says: "The Republican farmers emerg-(Continued on Page 5—Col. 2) MAN'S BODY FOUND (From the Washington Correspondent of The Jeffersonian) One of the indictments Republican campaigners brought against the Wilson administration in the 1920 campaign was that it had too many people on the Government payroll. In their pledge of an era of rigid economy, the Republicans promised to sever federal employees from their jobs with a severity that considered only the public purse. The Coolidge administration is guilty of the very thing it denounced ending June 30, 1924, it added 10,-315 employees to the Federal pay- TO CAMPAIGN VIGOROUSLY County Democrats Will Hold Meetings In Various Communities. A vigorous campaign will be waged by Baltimore county Democrats from now until election. Meetings have been planned for various communities, the schedule to be published in the next issue of The Jeffersonian. • roll, figures from the Civil Service Commission show. At the height of war work, on November 11, 1918, there were 917,-760 employees of the Government, of whom nearly half were temporary employees put on by war necessity. By mid-year, 1921, or about the time the Harding-Coolidge administration came in, the Wilson administration had cut the number of employees to 597,482. By July 1, 1920, the Wilson administration cut the number of employees to 691,116, a decrease of more than 225,000 employees. When the Harding-Coolidge administration came in, the number had been reduced to approximately 600,000, a decrease of more than 300,000 in a little more than two years. Up to January 1, 1924, nearly three years, the Harding-Coolidge administration had cut the number of Federal employees only about 50,000, despite all its economy boasts, and since that time has increased the number of employees more than 10,000, and has added more than $15,000,000 to the public payroll the taxpayers must shoulder. Joseph Klobik, Missing" Since Oct. 3rd, Located Along County Water Front. The body of Joseph Klobik, 32 years old, missing from his Baltimore city home since October 3rd was found floating off the county water front by police. Klobik, who is married, left his home to report for work at the Baltimore Copper Works, but failed to show up. The will of Mrs. Sarah B. Head, of Catonsville, was probated in the Orphans' Court at Towson. A bequest of $5000 is made to Mrs. Edith P. Head, widow of the testatrix's deceased son, Henry P. Head, provided that she has not remarried; $1000 to a niece, Katherine Oler. The residue of the estate is given, one-third to a daughter, Mary E. Head; one-third to a son, William O. Head, and one-third in trust for the three children of the testatrix's deceased daughter, Anna B. Hel frich, until they arrive at twenty-one years of age, when each shall receive their share of principle. The testatrix's daughter, Mary B. Head, and son, William O. Head are named as executors of the will. RETAINS CROWN 'Champ" Hawk Killer Of "Lower End" Slaughters 920. Andrew Tolley, of Jones' Creek, again will wear the championship crown for killing the greatest number of hawks during the State's fiscal year of 1924. Tolley, who was the winner last year, killed 920 hawks this year, according to the State Game Department, for which he received $460 in bounties. His nearest competitor,AmosPhil-lips, killed 410 hawks. Lloyd M. j Parks, of Hooper's Island, killed 222. ! The hawk hunters reap a rich harvest during the fall and winter months. State Game Warden E. Lee Le-compte said the department paid approximately $8000 in hawk bounties during the fiscal year ended September 30. Principals In Valley Shooting Affair What This Country flLEjCMPER fifZDZU KU KLUX KLAN RAPPED IN TYDINGS REPLY TO ANONYMOUS ATTACK Congressional Candidate Calls Writer A "Coward' cause He Lacked Courage To Sign Name To Document. Be- Millard E. Tydings, Democratic I ment of °ur national Constitution, candidate for re-election to Congress from this District, in a formal statement denounced the Ku Klux Klan by name, outlined his position on the prohobition question and defended his World War record. The statement was prompted by a letter appearing in one of the newspapers signed "A Democrat," in which the writer challenged Mr. Tydings to make a clear answer on the Klan question and referred to the candidate's wet-and-dry attitude. Opening his statement with a discussion of the Ku Klux Klan proposition, Mr. Tydings said: "I am not a member, never have been a member, have never been asked to become a member of the Ku Klux Klan and I am opposed to the Ku Klux Klan without any reservations whatsoever; and to each every and all other oranizations which raise the issue of religious or racial prejudice or which seek to proscribe any person from the privileges and advantages of citizenship in this country on account of the religion, race or birth of said citizen. It is contrary to the First Amend- MRS. MAGGIE A. MEADS SEEKS ABSOLUTE DIVORCE. 1 c t Mrs. Maggie A. Meads fitM 1 bitf> in the Circuit Court at Towson in which she asks for an a vorce from Fraancis M. Me leged grounds of cruelty aaT#' donment. The bill states that t*Dft, were married December :4^ny^g and that they lived togetttS*^ which guarantees religious freedom to all citizens. "It is contrary to Americanism because it sows the seed of hatred among and divides our citizenship. (Continued on Page 8—Col. 3) CRIMINAL DOCKET TO BE TAKEN UP MONDAY. The criminal docket will be taken up on Monday in the Circuit Court at Towson. GIRL FOUND LYING IN ROAD Eighteen-Year-Old Lass Says She Jumped From Man's Auto. Found lying on the Washington, Boulevard, near Elkridge, Juanita Long, 18 years old, 1200 block Glyndon avenue, Baltimore city, was picked up by a passing motorist and taken to St. Agnes' Hospital, where she was treated for cuts and Bfmises. O^pC said she and another girl were riding with two men and she ed,from the car to escape be- yed by them. rncBrft Avara, 23 years old, 1200 block Washington Boulevard, was arrested as one of the occupants of maw and wife till September, 1921. Thei parties live at Phoenix, this county. into •the automobile. He refused to tell the name of his companion, police said. e More Law-A Law To Make Folks Obey Laws.