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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1921-05-28
Governor Richie Formulating Plans
To Unite Faction Ready For
Fall Election.

The condition of the Democratic
falty in Baltimore city, and the rela-
lion of the two factions, into which
the city Democratic organization is
divided, to the democracy of the whole
State, is attracting much attention at
The present time. In view of the fact
that the General Assembly to be cleo
ted this year, the whole membership
of the House of Delegates and half
Of the Senate, Democrats generally
throughout the State are greatly in
terested, and no little concern is felt
over the possibility that the unfortu-
nate divisions in the City democracy,
may net only jeapordise the election
CT a Comptroller to succeed Major
Lee, but may render it uncertain as to
which party shall control the Legis-
lature next winter. How to change
the precent condition, and bring about
a state of harmony and union, is a
problem which the rank and file of
the party as we'll as the leaders,
would Ike to see solved, and it will
tax the skill and tact of the wisest of
ihem to find solution of the difficult
ties which are of several years stand
ing, and which are apparently no
nearer solution now than they have
been ever since the beginning of Gov
ernor Harrington's administration.
AS usual party troubles of the sort
row vexing the city democracy, are
based almost entirely on the division
CT the official spoils. If there is any
question of real principal evolved, no
one has ever been able to discover it.
II involves not only the distribution
of the offices within the gift of the
Governor, but also the large number
CT lucrative offices dependent on the
Mayor of the city, and in the latter
particular the troubles go back to the
Preston administration, when the for
mer Mayor bestowed his favors large
ly on one element of the party, to
the almost total exclusion Of the 9th
er, and when Governor Harrington,
possibly in order to offset the effect of
the policy of the City Hall officials.
gay, out his favors to the faction
which had been ignored by the May
or. Other matters of less import
ancc have from time to time entered
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1921-05-28
GOES TO PRISON UNESC0RTED
Minnesota Man Has to Put Up Argu-
ment to Get Admitted to State
institution.

Saltwater, Minn.-Upsetting prece-
dents in Minnesota and nearly refused
admittance to the state penitentiary
here, Clarence Hines, twenty-three,
an automobile mechanic of Candy,
Mimi, convicted of manslaughter, sur
rendered to Warden J. J. Sullivan
after travelling unescorted from Can
by to this city.
Hines conviction last September
followed death of woman run down
by his automobile.
When Hines arrived at the prison
Warden Sullivan at first was reluctant
to admit him. He communicated with
Lyon county authorities and was as
sured that Hines had made the trip
from Candy alone.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1921-05-28
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
MUST GET TOGETHER
Suicides Dance of
Death StunS Guests

Kalamazoo, Mich.-While the
poison she had swallowed slow
ly drove life from her body, Mrs.
Neva Fraser, eighteen, a bride
of few weeks, performed a
veritable dance of death in the
midst of a party of guests.
EXcusing herself, she had
gone to her room and taken a
few grains of Strychnine. She
returned moment later,
walked over to the monograph
and started playing Till We
Meet Again" explaining it
was the piece played at the
dance at which she met her hus-
band.
Her friends were ignorant of
the tragedy taking place when
she began dancing. but before
the last strains died away they
saw her fall in a crumplcd heap.
Death sealed her lips before she
could explain her motive.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1921-05-28
Returns After Years.

Allentown, Pa.-ThOught dead FOR
many years, Peter Smith, who, as a
boy, ran away from his home in this
city Is years ago and was not heard
from since, surprised his relatives by
appearing at the home of his brother,
Theodore Smith. one night recently.
He explained that he had been West
the greater part of the time, but had
gone to France early in the war and
fought through the entire conflict.
The family had no fatted calf to kill,
but Smiths first meal Mt home was
an elaborate chicken dinner, which
was attended by all his relatives.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1921-05-28

Governor Richie, and the other
real party leaders, who are vitality in
terested in the welfare of the State
are already at work to bring about a
state of harmony in the city. To that
end his Excellency is holding confer
ences with the leaders, and, he in
tends to do all in his power to get
them together. Efforts will be made
TO present a list of candidates for
nomination which will be acceptable
to both sides, and in some instances
where it is impossible to arrive at an
agreement as to the nominees, and If
primary contest appear inevitable, a
committee may be chosen to repre-
sent both sides, who's decision it is
expected will be concurred in by ALL
The Governor, with the great power
which has controlled over the official
forces of the State gives him, may be
able to bring about order if not real
harmony, and there is no doubt that
but if he takes hold of matters with a
strong hand he can bring the oppos-
ing forces to terms-for in the end
the real cause of the trouble is based
en- the men who are in office by grace
of the Executive appointment, ana
nearly all these who are showing a
disposition to prevent party harmony,
have as (. basis of their influence,
certain men who hold important plac-
es under the State Government. I'm
Ger Maryland laws and customs
these men are very largely amenablc
to the executive influence when Gov
crnor chooses to exert it, and there is
very little doubt as to what he can do
should he take hold of the situation
with a firm hand and resolute deter
mination to bring party order, if not
absolute harmony, out of the present
situation which borders almost on
party chaos. The class of men who
gre now openly threatening the Demo-
cratic party with defeat this year, are
really very small in number, but they
have considerable in1uence-but the
one man who has it in his power to
bring them to terms and reduce to q
minimum their power for harm, is the
Democratic Governor Of Maryland,
and the belief is becoming general,
that he will take the necessary action.
drastic as it may be, when the proper
time comes along, should they show
any disposition to carry out their
threats.
1t is not up to the Governor now
but it may be up to him later on to
save his party from defeat this year
and that he will size up the situation
there is no doubt.
PAUL WINCHESTER.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1921-05-28

into and accumulated the differences
between the factions, but, as usual,
the real basis of the political diff
culties which called for solution here
is the past and the prospective future
division of the spoils of office
No question of real principal enters
into the case in the slightest degree,
and the remedy can easily be found,
il there is any sincere desire to find d
remedy, and. either end the troubles
or reduce them to an ineffective and
valueless minimum. The Democratic
Party in the counties, taking the
State as y whole, is united and in eX-
cellent shape at the present time. II
is true some of the counties have
trining local troubles to settle, but
there is no difficulty in any of these
counties which can be of any serious
danger to the general result. The
Democrat citizens of Maryland are as
Democratic now as they have beer
any time since the Civil War, and are
as devoted to their party and its prin-
cipals as their fathers were. The only
troublesome spot is Baltimore city
with its large alien and really undem-
ccratic and mcrcenary foreign vote
How to get that in proper and effect
i've shape is the problem before tho
leaders for a solution.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-08-04
Find LOtus-.Juice
Vas Only HOOch

When Elmer Bertson of Winthrop
Harbor appeared in police court at
Zion, Tuesday morning, he claimed to
have had such an experience as came
to ancient lotus eaters.
"a great forgetfulness came over me
at Kenosha," was his plea before the
judge trying him on charges Of drunk
enness.
The arbiter in the case was Justice
w. E. Schmalfuss, who has a way OF
belying his name and making big fuss
over little disorders in Zion. Although
trained in the classics, he refused t.
believe Bertson's story of a lotus-lapse
of memory He called more witnesse;
in the case and obtained a less poetic
account of the prisoners cruise along
the river Lethe
"Just Green River of the old brand ;
was the judges decision on the matter
And the prisoner was given the con
ventional, if unclassical, "ten anc
costs"
The new lotus beds proved to BE-
merely a hooch dispensary somewhere
in Kenosha.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-08-04
.SOX AND JURORS
HOLD JAMBOREE
Acquitted Ball Players and the Men
Who Freed Them Celebrate in
Italian Restaurant.
by Associated Press Leased wire.)

Chicago.-In a little Italian restau-
rant on Chicago's west side, the former
White Sox players indicted in the base
ball scandal early today accidentally
met the twelve jurors who last night
found them not guilty of the charges
brought by the state and the twelve
judges of fact in the case Joined with
the men whose fate had been in their
hands for five weeks in celebration
which did not end until sunrise.
The jurors went to the restaurant
for farewell dinner before returning
to their homes. The players and their
attorneys went for the same purpose.
After time the two parties discovered
each other in adjoining rooms, the
doors were thrown open and the party
became one.
If this jury could decide whether the
acquitted players would be permitted
to return to organized baseball, there
would be no doubt Of favorable YER
dict for each of the twelve went to the
players as they separated and express
ed a desire to see him on a major
league team again. The jurors and the
defendants left the restaurant togeth-
er singing Hail! Hail! The Gangs
All Here!"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-08-04
STORE BURGLAR
MAKES GET AWAY
Store of Lutfey Mahfuz
Entered Today But no
Loot Secured.
FLEES AT DISCOVERY

Burglars broke into the general
store of Lutfey Mahfuz, at the corner
Of Grand and Maplewood avenues at
an early hour this morning, but it is
thought that they were frightened
away without any loss to the store.
The burglar entered the place by break
ing open screen which had guarded
the transom of the front door. He
made his exit through the rear door
of the store after his presence in the
place had been discovered by the own
er of the store who lives in an apart
ment above it. The case was reported
to the police just before eight o'clock
this morning and no suspects have
been picked up in connection with it.
1t was declared that the burglar
made an attempt to open two cash
registers in the store but the cash
boxes withstood any efforts to open
them and an inventory this morning
indicated that the burglar got little
for his trouble. 1t was just half past
two o'clock when Mr. Mahfuz heard
the burglar getting into the place and
he hurried to go downstairs. AS as
entered the store the man leaped out
Of the rear door and escaped. There
was nothing left behind which might
served as a clew to the identity of
the burglar.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-08-04

At the Offices of the Cooperative
Society of America in Kenosha this af-
ternoon E. E. Petersen, who is the
manager for the Wisconsin Rochdale
Corporation which is held to be close
~ affiliated with the COOPERATIVE So
ciety of America and which followed
the organization in the field in Keno
sha following a squabble with the at
torney general as to stock sales, said
'"This petition is filed by these three
men with the purpose of throwing the
organization into the hands of re-
ownership. 1t is one of the several at
tempts to gain the same and made by
interests opposed to the cooperative
movement and according to our best
information their claim for receiv-
ership is based upon nothing"
Six Hundred Stockholders Here
Mr.. Petersen said that the Cooper
ative Society of America had very
few stockholders in Kenosha but that
the Wisconsin Rochdale Corporation
had some six hundred stockholders in
the city. The store on Westp Prairie
avenue he declared, was under the di-
rectlon OF the Co-OperaClVe STORES
company "a receivership for the Co
Operative Society of America would
not have any effect upon our business.
We buy from the company only when
we can buy to the best advantage"
The long squabble over the sale of
stocks of the American Cooperative
society in Kenosha is still fresh in the
minds Of many people. It should be
said to The. credit of the company that
several efforts have been made to
force the company into bankruptcy.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-08-04
KenOsha Man is
Punched i'm Zion
Russians Out for Celebration Forced
% Pay Fine in Zion
Police Court.

Jack Kusmech, residing at No. /
North Main street, Kenosha, and a
cousin of his residing in the City of
Zion and named Zosim Rutchie, were
both fined for being drunk and dis
orderly. Kusmech and Rutchie, both
Russians, had been drinking in sa-
loon owned by Kasmech and they came
to Zion on Sunday night under the in
fluence of liquor. They started quar-
reling as soon as they got off the car
at Salem Station and disturbed the
neighborhood with their wrangling.
The police were called up and both
men were arrested, and kept in jail
overnight till they sobered up. They
were tried yesterday by Justice Ern-
est HARDWOOD and warned not to come
before him again for the same offense
or he would impose stiff fine.
Both men paid their fines and prom
ised to behave in the future.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-08-04
.CLUBMAN GETS
WAUKEGAN PAIR
Mysterious Blackman, Seen
in KenOsha, Turns Up
in Illinois.
COUPLE BADLY BEATEN

The blackman with the gnarled club,
who recently terrorized Kenosha moon
admirers on the lake shore above st.
Mary's home, is believed to have trans
ferred his field of activities to Wauke-
gan. At least man closely answering
his description is now being sought in
connection with a sensational hOldup
perpetrated in that city just after nine
o'clock Monday evening.
The new victims of the bogey-man
are Joe Bizjak and Miss Jane Petric,
who were returning to the latter's
home in Waukegan when "the black
man came" He stepped out Of line
of bushes fringing the sidewalk and
commanded the pedestrians to halt.
"Give me twenty-five dollars and be
quick about it," he demanded in a
hoarse whisper.
Bizjak was too startled to reply i'm
mediately
Without more ado the negro drew
a gnarled club of the sort that has
figured so prominently in descriptions
of the prowler recently seen in Keno
sha. He struck Miss Petric over the
neck with it and left her fainting on
the sidewalk.
When Bizjak sought to protect her,
he was given several crushing blows
on the head and face until he also
dropped to the ground.
The blackman then proceeded to
search the clothing of his victims and
obtained little over five dollars in
cash. He then disappeared in the
darkness. Too weak to make an out
cry the victims of the attack managed
to drag themselves to their HON es
where they were cared for by physi-
clans.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-08-04

lRquiriRg Reporter
TODAY's QUESTION :

Do you think that President Harding
should pardon Eugene V. Debs and
other war prisoners now serving SEN
tence in federal penitentiaries
ANSWERS:
E. Cavendish, 300 Sheridan road, cleo
trician-I think there is just as much
wisdom in pardon Tor Debs and the
|. w. w. as there is for murderer
Debs himself says that he is not sorry
for anything he said and that he would
repeat them again to anybody That
certainly is anything but making the
world safe for democracy"
EMIL Kessler, 25 Edward ST., laborer
No, sir. don't think that they
should be pardoned. They were SEN
fenced to terms in prison for bucking
the country, and they'll begin all over
again if they get out of prison and
get chance.
J. Barry, 953 Prairie ave-. binder-I
am not in favor of freeing Debs. The
other prisoners are not so important
but Debs is for the Socialists what Nc
Swiney was for Ireland, His place is
in prison until his term is filled.
Mrs. Caroline j. Keene, Anton St
No, 1 don't think the president should
free the war prisoners. The American
Legion is strongly against it and for
good reason, too. And besides l DOM
think Harding would be responsible for
such an act.
Henry CASTOR, South ST., street car
employee-The war is over now, and it
is time for this country to come back
to peacetime spirit. believe that
Debs would serve his country much
better out of prison than behind the
bars, and he at least ought to be given
chance to prove it.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-08-04
ALMOST BURIED
in QUICkSANDS
Miss Marie Writ Narrowly
Escapes Death in Mire
at Twin Lakes.
CAUGHT JUST in TIME

To be rescued from sinking to death
in mire and quicksand was the expert
ence of Miss Marie Writ, a we'll
known Kenosha young woman, on last
Sunday afternoon at Twin Lakes ac-
cording to information which reached
Kenosha this morning. Only the quick
action of Harold Tacki and Harold
Borkenhagen, two members of the
party which was enjoying an outing
at the lakes, prevented Miss Writ
from drowning in the Shiny water on
the edge of the lake.
The near-drowning and the rescue
were kept secret until this afternoon
when news from Twin Lakes brought
the first word of the accident and
later prompted Miss Writ to tell
what had happened.
Slipped Entering a Canoe.
Miss Writ with a number of friends
had been spending the day at Twin
Lakes and they were ending up the
outing with a canoe ride about five
o'clock in the evening. Miss Writ
started to climb into a canoe when
her footing slipped and she fell into
the water, She had been previously
warned that the spot where the canoe
had landed was swampy and as soon as
she fell into the water she began to
struggle and this only made her con-
dition more hazardous.
Meanwhile Tacki and Borkenhagen
had hurried to her rescue, but could
not pull the young woman out of the
mire until after she had sunk above
her waist in the mire. Miss Writ
was then taken into the hotel where
she was cared for by friends. She
suffered no injuries except the nervous
strain which was caused BY the ad.
venture and returned to Kenosha later
in the evening
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-08-04
City Washed Away
By Wall of Water

Canon City, Colo. - Flood waters of
the Arkansas river which swept down
upon South Canon, suburb, and the
lower part of this city yesterday, had
disappeared today, leaving nearly a
score of families homeless and caus-
ing damage unofficially estimated at
more than 100000 Prompt action of
rescue parties in boats prevented loss
of life here last night when a 14-foot
wall of water swept down the Arkansas
river out of the Royal Gorge. Several
residences were destroyed, manufac-
turing plants were damaged and the
city water system put out of com
mission. The flood was caused by a
cloud burst above here in the Royal
Gorge. Considerable damage also was
done at Florence.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-08-04
Spurgin Thought to
Be i'm Mexico
by Associated Press Leased Wiral


Ell Paso, Tex-Immigration officers
along the border today believed War
rem C. Spurgin, missing Chicago bank
er, is somewhere in Mexico, probably
with friends he. is known to have been
associated with, who used to make FL
Paso their headquarters.
Posing as a mining man, person
who answers the description of the
missing anker, got off the train at
Maria, Texas, July 10, hired an auto
mobile, drove to Preside and on July
20 crossed the river into Mexico.
% The report received here said that
the stranger who answered Spurgin s
description, presented passport made
out in the name of "Scott." He said he
was a mining man. His suit case re,
sembled one, immigration men report.
ed, said to have been carried by
Spurgin.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-08-04
STANDING BAR
GETS new BUMP
Morgan Says He is in Ac-
cord With Prohibition
Commissioner.
NARY A DRINK THERE
Opinion Sent from Attorney
Generals Office Discussing
Distance from ''RaiP'.
(By Associated Press Leased Wire.)

Madison Attorney William
Morgan and Prohibition Commissioner
w. Stanley Smith are in full accord on
Interpretation of every aspect of the
enforcement provisions of the Seyerson
law, Atty.-Gen Morgan said in a state
ment today
I'm news story appearing in yester-
days papers, the order known as the
Camels is represented as quoting Dis
trict Attorney label to the effect that
the taking out all standing bars is not
required under the so-called Severson
act" the attorney-general said in his
statement.
at further said that such bars may
be maintained so long as they are not
used as place where Notwithstanding
liquors or beverages are consumed and
DO not obstruct the view of the in
terror of the place of business wherein
they are contained and that the Camels
had sent attorneys to the attorney
general in an endeavor to have him
take the same view of the law.
GAS a matter of fact, the attorney
generals department in an opinion
rendered July 9th held That stand
ing bar or counter of any description
cannot be maintained at which the
purchaser drinks or consumes the
liquor, nor can such bar be so placed
in the room that it obstructs the view
from the street Of the space behind
the bar, but that if it does not obstruct
the view from the outside of parts OF
the room, and if the liquor is not per-
mitted to be consumed at the counter
or bar from which it is sold, then 1t
need not be removed.
with this opinion the prohibition
commissioner is in thorough accord
and he has in fact had it printed and
distributed throughout the state.
GAS l understand the purpose of the
Camels, it is to secure a construction
of the law that will permit non-intoxi-
eating liquors to be sold and consumed
at an ordinary bar. This construction,
the prohibition commissioner and the
attorney-general's department. have
thus far held is directly contrary to
the plain words of the statutes"
Opinion Handed Down.
Drinkers of notwithstanding liquor
in Wisconsin must stand far enough
away from the bar to be unable to
place their foot on the rail or to set
the glass on the counter in order to
keep from violating the law, an opin-
ion of ]. E. Messerschmidt, assistant
Encouragement to M. J. Paul, district
attorney of Green Lake county, holds
The question of how far the drinker
must get from the bar when he is con-
Stunning liquor so that the law is not
violated, reminds me of the story of
the man who was about to hire coach
man, and put the question to each APP
plicant as to how he would drive to a
precipice," the opinion said "The ap-
plicant who said that he would stay
as far away from it as possible, got
the job"
It is held further in the same opin-
ion that bars located at right angles
to the street which permit view bach
of them from the outside, do not OBJ
struct the view and need not be re,
moved.
until the court passes on this CUES
ton, it will not be definitely settled
however" the opinion stated.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-08-04
LIGHT LOOT For FoRGER.

Final check-up on the gold-bricks
passed out in Kenosha by "the paving
king" show that the artful forger was
successful in securing only $17Q on his
bogus checks. This is relatively light
loot when it is considered that the
lithographing Of the checks alone must
have cost him in the neighborhood OF
$50. At late hour this afternoon the
local police officers had no clue to his
whereabouts and were giving his vic
Tins little hope that he would be over
taken, captured and brought back to
Kenosha for trial