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THE JEFFERSONIAN
"WITH THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE"
VOL. xn—No. 46. "it Covers The' Community Like The Dew*
TOWSON, MARYLAND, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1924.
BALTIMORE COUNTY'S PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER.
The Hardy Pioneers Suffered In Cold Weather, But Not For The Same Reason As Our Modern Folks—
To Show Their Ankles.
RS. FEDELI ACQUITTED
CHIEF ENGINEER OF COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT
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Flames Sweeping Over Hundreds Of Acres In Various Sections,
Responsible For Authorities' Action—Sections In Back
River, Middle River And Loch Raven, Sutter
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25 PER CENT. DROP SEEN ?*?
IN APPLE CHOP.
The Maryland apple crop this year is approximately 25 per cent, less than the 1923 crop, according to estimates made hy John S. Dennee, agricultural statistician of the United State Department of Agriculture for this district.
Surveys made hy Mr. Dennee estimate the total crop this year at 1,749,000 bushels, as compared with 2,300,000 bushels last year. The new estimate is 100,000 bushels less than estimates made in September, due to damage by scab and other disease.
Cold, wet weather in the spring served to cause the apple crop shortage, according to Mr. Dennee.
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WOMEN BEWARE
'Lady Nicotine'* Injures Complexion, Says County Health Officer.
Don't smoke if you would be beautiful, warns Dr. Josiah Bowen, County Health Officer.
Rosy lips fade away and the corners of the mouth show wrinkles prematurely, features become sharper and the skin grows taut after a few dozen packages of cigarets, according to Dr. Bowenn. A gradual change makes the smoker masculine, often producing a pronounced beard growth.
Who smoked the extra billion cigarets last year in France? The women, answer the proprietors of, tobacco shops. They are responsible! for the yearly increase of 25 per j cent. of tobacco sales. French women now enter cigar stores (in;
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Blaming autoists for many of the field and forest fires that have swept hundreds of acres throughout the county recently, Chief Engineer Philip G. Priester of the Baltimore County Fire Department, intends to make a vigorous war on all criminal neglect, and has instructed the men in his department to make careful investigation of all blazes with a view to prosecuting those responsible for same.
The Back and Middle River sections as well as the Loch Raven district, suffered terribly.
Bull Neck, Middle River, reports more than 50 acres swept. Fires of great dimensions were seen in the deserted stretches where Middle and Back Rivers meet the Chesapeake Bay. Farmers estimated this fire-swept area at several hundred acres.
Fires also were reported at Loch Raven and Stemmers Run. Every fire company in Baltimore county was on the scene of a woods fire through Sunday. The Dundalk company was summoned to seven fires. A volunteer company of 100 farmers assisted the' Dundalk company.
The North Point battlefield woods fire started last Saturday afternoon. It was extinguished the same night.
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EXTRA!
Mrs. Antoinette Fedeli, charged with the murder of her husband on a lonely county road in company with another woman after she had trailed the pair from the city, was acquitted by a jury in the Circuit Court at Towson.
The jury got the case at 11.15 P. M. last night (Friday) and returned its verdict at 12.35 A. M.
Notwithstanding the fact Judge Duncan requested no demonstration there was cheering and hand clapping that made the walls of the court room vibrate.
DAY IS SET
CELEBRATION PLANNED
MAN HELD FOR GRAND JURY ACTION.
. Archie Russell was held in $1000 bail for the action of the December term of the grand jury by Justice Andreae at Catonsville, on the charge of larceny. The man is now locked up in the Towson Jail due to the fact that he could not raise the amount.
15th Anniversary Of Bishop Murray's Consecration To Take Place Nov. 25th.
The fifteenth annive'rsary of the consecration of the Right Rev. John Gardner Murray, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Maryland, will take place November 25.
In the morning of that day there will be special religious services at St. Michael and All Angels' Church, Baltimore city, of which the Rev. Wyatt BroWn is now the rector, a~d from which church Bishop Murray was elevated to the office of Bi3hop. Iu the evening there will be a recep-tio nin honor of Bishop Murray at the Lyric Theatre. The Bishop will be presented with, a gift of gratitude and esteem by the Protestant Epis-
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Thanksgiving To Se Observed On
Thursday, November
27th.
(From the Washington Correspondent of The Jeffersonian)
President Coolidge issued a proclamation setting aside Thursday, November 27, as Thanksgiving Day. He said:
"The year has been marked by a a continuation of peace whereby our country has entered into a relationship of better understanding with all the other nations of the earth.
"Ways have been revealed to us by which we could perform very great service through the giving of friendly counsel, through the extension of financial assistance and through the exercise of a spirit of neighborly friendliness to less favored people.
"We should give thanks for the power which has been given into our keeping, with which we have been able to render these services to the rest of mankind.
"At home we have continually had an improving state of the public wealth. The production of our industries has been large and our harvests have been bountiful."
"We have been free from disorder and remarkably successful in all those pursuits which flourish during a state of domestic peace.
"Ann abunndant prosperity has overspread the land. We shall do well to accept all these favors and bounties with a becoming humility and dedicate them to the service of the righteous cause of the Giver of all good and perfect gifts.
THE ONLY THING THAT WILL STOP HIM.
KLECKA SHORE CASE HELD OVER UNTIL
DECEMBER TERNI OF COURT
State's Attoroey Charges State's Witnesses Rave Been Spirited Away
Or Intimidated—Man Fined For Barring Way Of
Deputy In Serving Summons.
COURT ROOM PACKED TO HEAR CASE OF MRS.
FEDELI, CHARGED WITH MURDER OF HUSBAND
Hermine Ullman, "Woman In Case," Testitied Woman Shot Mate
After Struggle, In Which He Pulled Hair
And Abused Her.
Mrs. Antoinette Fedeli, charged with the murder of her husband, Alexander F. Fedeli, whom she shot to death after finding him riding in his automobile with another woman in the Green Spring Valley on the
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The case of James F. Klecka, charged with keeping a disorderly house at the Belle View Shore, along
MAN, EIGHTY, KILLED
THREE COMETS ARE DUE TO VISIT EARTH BEFORE NEW YEAR BEGINS
However There's No Need To Become Excited Over
Astronomical Guests—Six Smaller Ones
Expected During 1925.
Earth is expected to have a number of astronomical visitors in the near future. Some of them made calls not very long ago, others have not appeared for a considerable number of years. These visitors are periodic comets, for which the approaching months will provide a particularly full season.
The list of 1924 comets prepared by the Naval Observatory includes
SEEK MISSING MAN
County Police Requested To Look
For Baltimorean Believed
Intent On Suicide.
a Baltimore county police are ' searching for Vasil Raszewicz, 29 years old, 400 block Grindall street, Baltimore city, who, it is reported, disappeared from his home after leaving a note to -his uncle, Stephen Raszewicz, that "he would end it all."
With the note was a bank book and strips from Raszewivz's clothing bearing identification marks. In the note Raszewicz asked that his savings of $300 be sent to his mother in Poland.
Encke's comet and Temple I for November and Tuttle's comet for December. In 1925, according to this list, six comets are due in March July, August and October.
The comets of this month and next, however, according to Dr. R. W. Wood, professor of experimental physics at the Johns Hopkins University, "are merely telescopic objects and nothing about which to get excited."
Much speculation has been advanced frequently in both scientific and lay circles as to what would happen if a comet, dashing through space, were to strike the earth. It has been pointed out, however, that the chances of such an occurrence are very remote. Some of the comets are calculated to move at a rate of 120 miles a minute on an orbit
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DRUNKEN DRIVER FINED $100 AND COSTS.
Charged with operating an automobile while under the influence of liquor, William R. Hudson was fined $100 and costs at the Catonsville Police Station.
TRACKLESS TROLLEY, LOSS
Gwynn Oak-Randallstown Line
Costs Too Much, Says
United.
The United Railways is seeking a way to abolish the trackless trolley between Gwynn Oak Junction and Randallstown, or in some way to minimize its losses on the line.
General Manager L. H. Palmer is preparing a statement of the situation to be presented to the Public Service Commission.
Should the company decide to ask the Commission's permission to abolish the trackless trolley as a failure, it will accompany the request with a plan for the substitution of some other satisfactory form of transportation, probably gasoline motorbuses.
When the trackless trolley was first proposed, Liberty road residents made a contract with the United Railways in which they agreed to make up deficits in the operation of
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David Todd Struck By Train
While Walking Tracks
Near Halethorpe.
Struck by a Pennsylvania Railroad train while walking the tracks near Halethorpe, David Todd, 80 years old, of that village, was injured fatally.
It is believed by members of the victim's family and Pennsylvania Railroad authorities who investigated the accident that Mr. Todd was walking down the track to visit the home of his daughter, Mrs. Bessie Meredith, who lives a short distance from the scene of the accident. Train No. 5117, en route from Baltimore to Washington, in charge of C. E. Halley, engineer, struck Mr. Todd.
The train was stopped and the injured man taken aboard. In Washington he was taken to a hospital, where he died several hours later. Mr. Todd is survived by two sons, Arthur Todd, of Houston, Texas, and Harry Todd, of Louisville, Ky., and two daughters, Mrs. Bessie Meredith and Mrs. J. H. Kenning.
the county's water front, which was to have been tried on Wednesday, was postponed until the December term of court.
Abraham Rubin, foreman at Mus-kin Shoe Company, was fined $25 for contempt of court on a charge of preventing a deputy sheriff from serving a summons on Louise Phillips, a witness in the case. The girl is now missing and deputy sheriffs are searching for her.
Charges that important State's witnesses had been spirited out of jurisdiction or intimidated were made by H. Courtenay Jenifer,
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CARRIES COUNTY BY 2300
COLGATE MAN WEDS INDIANAPOLIS GIRL.
Miss Bessie McCain of Indianapolis became the bride recently of Mr. j Charles T. King, of Colgate, this ) county.
BALTIMORE COUNTIANS GET FIRST REAL
TASTE OF ELECTION NEWS SERVICE
Street In Front Of "Jeff" Office Crowded—National, State
And County Returns Flashed On Screen—Special
Wire Used To Secure Results.
Tydings Receives This Number
Over Simpson For
Congress.
While Baltimore city went for Coolidge, Baltimore county gave Davis a plurality of 43.
Tydings, Democratic candidate for Congress, received in this county a plurality of over 2300.
The school loan won a sweeping victory.
The Baltimore City State's Attorney amendment and the Soldier's Bonus Amendment were approved.
The official returns were: Davis, (Dem.) 9,424; Coolidge, (Rep.) 9,383; La Follette, (Prog.) 2, 824; Johns, (Labor) 30.
Congress—Simpson, (Rep.) 7,116; Tydings, (Dem.) 9,42 2.
School Bond Issue—For Bond Issue, 12,877; Aggainst Bond Issue, 3,609.
State's Atty. Amendment— For Amendment, 5,522; Against Amendment, 2,218.
Soldiers' Bonus Amendment—For Amendment, 5,367; Against Amendment, 2,871.
WALTER S. BRINRMAN MADE
DEFENDANT IN FOUR
SUITS.
Never before in the history of Baltimore county was there more interest displayed in the receiving of election returns than Tuesday night when hundreds and hundreds of people thronged Washington avenue in front of The Jeffersonian office to watch the results displayed on the movie screen. By special arrangement with**the Western Union Telegraph Company The Jeffersonian was connected with an open telegraph circuit over which national,
State and county results were reported.
The crowds cheered as their fa-(Continued on Page 8—Col. 2)
WASHINGTONIANS WED AT TOWSON.
Mr. Thomas B. Brewer and Miss Emily L. Barrich, both of Washington, wended their way to Towson, where they embarked upon "the sea of matrimony."
Walter S. Brinkman, of Catonsville, is the defendant in four suits filed at Towson in which $100,000 damages are claimed as the result of a collision between the automobile of Mr. Brinkman and Raymond C. Salter, in which the latter, his wife, Mrs. Alice Salter, and his daughter, Miss Patrica J. Salter were injured.
Mr. Salter sues for $75,000 damages; Mrs. Salter for $10,000 damages, and Miss Salter for $10,000 damages. Mr. Salter also sues for $5,000 damages for injuries received by his wife. Attorneys Albert S. J, Owens and John I. Rowe appear for plaintiffs. The accident occurred at Catonsville on September 15, 1924.
TO BE UNCHANGED
To Be Made Autu License Fees For 1925.
No reduction will be made in automobile license fees for 1925, it has been announced by the office of the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles. The present rate of 32 cents per horse power for pneumatic tire cars, will remain the same, as will also the rates for the other various classifications.
It was the original intention of State officials, it was said, to reduce the license fee, but owing to the expansion of the State's road system and the consequent mounting costs of maintenance it was found impracticable to make further reductions. 4 The reduction from 60 cents per horse power to 32 cents went into effect the first of this year.
Applications for automobile licenses will be mailed November 29 and on December 8 the work of issuing the licenses will be started. About 300,000 applications, it was said, will be mailed out this year.
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ASK $5000 BOND
"THERE'S SOMETHING ROTTEN IN DENMARK."
There's something radically wrong with the mail service at Towson. What it is, The Jeffersonian is unable to say, but perhaps things can be explained if The Towson Town Club interests itself and gets its secretary, who is also our postmaster, to explain.
Remote villages like Whit© Hall, Stemmers Run and others receive their mail at 7 o'clock in the morning, while at Towson, the county seat, folks are lucky to get their mail by 10.30.
The Postoffice officials should bear in mind that there are a great many attorneys her© and it is essential that their mail be delivered early, so that it may be gone over before they enter court, which begins at 10 o'clock.
There's something rotten in Denmark—and it's about time we found out just what it is.
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WILL SAIL FOR INDIA
Towsonite Accepts Missionary
Post 281 Miles From
Bombay.
Fedeli Administrators Take Action In Court To Recover Securities.
Vincent L. Palmisano and Primo Lacchi, administrators of the estate of the late Alexander P. Fedeli, applied in the Circuit Court for the appointment of a trustee to take charge of $5,000 in Liberty bonds held by the New Amsterdam Casualty Company of Baltimore city, and to have the court decree that the bonds belong to the Fedeli's estate. Fedeli's wife is charged with shooting and killing him, and was on trial at Towson this week.
According to the bill of complaint* Fedeli was president of the A. F.
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Rev. Paul M. Cassen, son of the Rev. and Mrs. Samuel F. Cassen, of Towson, plans to go to India as a missionary.
He will sail November 15 from New York city on the steamship City of Benares. Mr. Cassen will be stationed at Dhulia, 281 miles from Bombay, where he will engage in general evangelistic work and teach.
Accompanied by his wife, who before her- marriage was Miss Elizabeth Clunet, of Towson, Mr. Cassen
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MRS. BERTHA A. STRONG SEEKS PARTIAL DIVORCE.
Mrs. Bertha A. Strong filed a bill in the Circuit Court at Towson against Hugh F. Strong in which she asks for a partial divorce and alimony on alleged grounds of desertion and non-support. The bill states that the parties were married May 10, 1922. The defendant resides at Woodlawn.
REPEAL OF RUM LAW INVALID, RULES JUDGE DUNCAN IN COURT A T TOWSON
Appeal Filed To Determine Status Of Hartman Liquor
Measure —States' Attorney Declares Title
Of 1920 Act Is Defective.
Judge Frank I. Duncan in the Circuit Court at Towson declared unconstitutional an act of the Legislature in 1920, which repealed and amended the sections of the Hartman liquor law regulating the sale of intoxicating liquor.
By his decision the county still has a prohibition enforcement measure under which persons may be arrested and fined or imprisoned for the sale of intoxicating liquors.
Under the provisions of the Hartman law as it stood before it was changed, four years ago by the Legislature, Judge Duncan fined James W. Shea, Jr., of Towson, $300 and sentenced him to six months in the House of Correction on a charge of selling intoxicating liquor without a county license.
Judge Duncan's ruling, however,
will not become immediately effective in similar cases pending, nor will it be resorted to in making other liquor sales arrests at present, as attorneys for Mr. Shea filed an appeal to the Court of Appeals. He was released in bond of $1500, pending hearing of the appeal.
C. Gus Grason and James P. Ke'i-ley, counsel for Shea, argued that the Hartman law as amended pro-continued on Page 7—Col 4)
MAN KILLED BY TRAIN
FOREIGN STUDENTS TO INSPECT COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
A delegation of foreign students will inspect Baltimore county's school system on November 1.4th. Eighteen foreign countries will be represented.
60-Year-Old Victim Believed To
Be David Tarrel, Struck At
Patapsco.
A man believed to be David Tarrel was struck and fatally injured by a Pennsylvania Railroad Train, bound for Washington, D. C, as he was walking on the tracks near Patapsco. He was taken to a hospital, where he died shortly afterward.
Hospital authorities said the man was about 60 years old. He had few means of identification in his clothing and the authorities have not been able to find his residence.
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