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The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1921-02-25
IMPORTANT news
QUICKLY TOLD
Happenings In Various Sections Of
Old Maryland


Hagerstown.-The brave fight of
Hazel Miner, 16-year-old North Da-
kota girl, to save the lives of her lit
tie brother and sister, which cost the
child her life, when the three became
lost during a blizzard. is told in let
ter received here by C. E. Steele, of
Hagerstown, secretary of the Young
Mems Christian Association, and an
uncle of the girl.
The three children were attending
school a few miles east of Center, N.
D., their home. When school was dis
missed for the afternoon the three
started for home in a sleigh drawn
by the faithful family horse. After
going few miles the harness broke,
and Hazel, the eldest, got out in a
water hole and tried to repair it. She
got in water to her knees and the
water froze. Later the sleigh was
overturned in ditch.
With the fierce wind and cold the
girl was soon benumbed and unable
W SSL luO olClSu OH IuC IOdu o6dIh.
She took a piece of canvas and seated
the smaller children on it in the
shelter of the upturned sleigh. TAX
ing off her own heavy coat, her fur
collar and other wraps, she put them
on the children, and then tried to
quiet them.
The strong wind blew the blankets
and clothing from the sister and
brother and in trying to protect them
she lay down partly on top and part
ly on the side Of them and with hands
benumbed tried to hold the blankets
over the children. Gradually life
ebbed away.
The children were frozen to their
knees. They were found the next aft.
ernoon-Hazel, her body coated with
ice with her sheltering arms still hold
ing the covers over her little brother
and sister
The horse was frosted badly.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1921-02-25
STATE
CAPITAL

Ninety-Two Days OF Racing.

Ninety-Two Days OF Racing.
Annapolis
There will be go racing days in
Maryland this year, according to the
decision of the Racing Commission.
The Commission has allotted racing
dates as follows:
Bowie-April to Is, November Is
to 26.
Havre de Grace-April 16 to 80, Sep
tember 21 to October 1.
Pimlico-May to 16, November
to II.
Laurel-October 4 to 49,
All dates are inclusive and Sundays
are excepted.
The Commission issued the follow
ing statement:
In awarding the dates for racing on
the one-mile tracks of Maryland for
the year 1921 the Commission feels
that it is wholly within it's powers of
regulation to reduce the number OF
days below the 100 named as maxi
mum by the last Legislature.
Racing grew in Maryland year by
year until finally one-third of the cal
endar year, and not so very far from
one-half of the week days in the year,
were devoted to racing. Everyone real
lied that this was far too much and
that in the end it would kill the sport
With this in view, the last Legislature
made 100 days of racing on the one.
mile tracks the maximum
The Maryland Racing Commission
feels that 100 days are too many, and.
as an initial step has curtailed that
number by eight for the current year.
The Commission feels that the best in.
terests of racing are served by having
less of it, and feels, further, that all
who have the interest of racing at
heart will realize that only through
gradual curtailment Of racing in Mary.
land can the best interests of racing
be served.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1921-02-25
Highways Bids Postponed.

The State Roads Commission, upon
the suggestion of Chairman Mackall.
postponed for another week his inten.
tion of asking for bids upon the nu.
merous contracts for road construction
for which it's engineering force has
prepared the specifications.
For some months past the Commits
sion has pursued the policy of asking
bids about once in six weeks, and
promptly rejecting them so long as
they remained up around $4,000 and
$4,000 per mile. 1t is now figured
that at $4,000 to $4,000 per mile, fol-
lowing sharp cuts in the prices of &C.
ment and labor, somewhere near the
low level has been reached. But for
the recently imposed per cent. in
crease in freight rates, which consti
tutes an apprecia5le portion Of the
cost of road building, the figure might
readily have gone to $4,000 to 100000
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1921-02-25
FOREIGN

Pierre Cartier, director of a New
York jewelry company, was appointed
Knight of the Legion of Honor in
Paris
Rivalry between the ancient army
clan of Choshu and the navy clan of
SatSuma is declared to be partly be-
hind the alleged movement to anuui
the betrothal of Crown Prince Hiro-
hito to Princess Nagako of Japan.
Acting in behalf of former Emperor
William, General Won Gontard assured
both the German and Dutch govern
ments that the royal fugitive never had
received or been interviewed by any
newspaper man while in Holland.
The International Hygiene Congress,
which was to have been held in Gene
va next May and which fully 600 dele
gates were expected to attend, has
been abandoned.
General SHUTS, premier of the Union
of South Africa, is now expected to at
tend the next Assembly of the League
of Nations, to take place in Geneva in
September.
Hope that the allied delegates would
enter the Near Eastern Conference to
be held in London with a spirit of COM
promise was expressed at Constanti-
nople by Abdul Mediid Effendi, heir
presumptive to the Turkish throne.
A regular air service between Lon
don and Amsterdam will probably be
instituted this spring. A fleet of wood
en-wfnged monoplanes is being built
for the service.
Because of the renewed activity of
the volcano Of Popcatapeti. the Mex
lean government -,aS appointed a COM
mission of engineers and eeClogists to
make observations TO ascertain wheth-
er the tremors felt recently in nearby
towns were due to the mountain.
The Greek offensive on the Smyrna
front is temporarily halted, pending
the bringing up Of new divisions. The
Greeks now have six divisions engaged.
Polish troops are masSing along the
German border, the German foreign If
flee reports.
Exports from the city of Vancouver
to the United States during 1920 to-
tailed more than $53,OO0,OOO.
A crisis in he japanese cabinet is
imminent. Viscount Mazda. member
of the house of peers and the Diet is
calling f.. dissolution of the Hara min
istry.
President Laguia Of Peru has for
warded message 10 Admiral Wilson,
commando. Of the Atlantic fleet. e2-
pressing the apprec ation If the nation
for the visit Of the Apericql Feet,
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1921-02-25
State To Get. 1863, 900.

Chairman Mackau, of the State
Roads Commission, received notice
that the House of Representative had
passed the bill for Federal aid for
roads by 27S to So, all six of Mary.
lands representative voting for it,
and that the bill had been referred in
the Senate to the Committee on Post.
Offices and Post Roads, of which SEN
ator France, of Maryland, is a mem
ber. Mr.. Mackall said he felt sure
Senator France would make vigor-
GUS fight fer the bill in committee,
that it would be quickly and favorably
reported Under this bill, which con-
tinues the Federal aid for State roads
for another year, Maryland will re-
ceive from the Government s869,000
for the fiscal year, which begins on
July l next, which amount must be
matched by the State, provision for
which has been made.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1921-02-25
FIotsam and Jetsam of Live In
terest Caught From the Wires
and Boiled Down.
LATE DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE
important Happenings in the Forty
eight States of the Union-Occur-
rences at the CapitaI-Latest
Gable Condensations.
WASHINGTON

Prices in the provision market have
advanced in sympathy with the upturn
of hogs and higher prices for grains
and some talk of export lard demand
from the Continent.
There was not much change to note
in the local flour situation as far as
business was concerned, buyers con-
tinuing to adopt Il cautious policy.
Senator Kenyon of Idaho has intro
duced in the nenate the rural credit bill
which was presented in the house by
Representative AcFadden.
President Wilson has been asked to
take immediate steps to protect New
York city and the country at large from
q typhus epidemic.
Senator Smo,t, of Utah, will urge
Congress to levy u general sales tax
as q substitute for the excess profit
tax.
A flood of petitions asking the re-
peal of the war time tax of ice cream
sodas is reaching Congress daily.
Secretary Colby refused TO transmit
to the Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee information regarding negotia-
tions with Japan looking to the franz
Ing of a new treaty to meet the situa-
ton created by the adoption of the
California Anti-Alien Land law.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1921-02-25

Grantsville.-A negro did quick
work in leaping from passing freight
train as Miss Julia Melik, aged 20, was
crossing the tracks, beating and rob-
bling her and jumping back on the
same train as the girls screams at
tracted the attention of persons
nearby.
She had been visiting relatives and
was returning home by a short cut
over the railroad. A slow freight held
her up. . Only few cars had passed
when the negro leaped from the train
and struck her on the head with
black jack He removed the money
from her stocking. Noise the train
drowned her cries, which finally
reached persons on the other side of
the tracks as the train passed. The
negro hoped the train as it picked
up speed.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1921-02-25
TYPHUS DANGER MAY
STOP IMMIGRATION
DR.. Copeland Asks Wilson to
Close New York to Ships From
Region of the Epidemic.

New YOrk-As a result Of the dis
covery of twenty cases Of typhus on
board the Italian steamship San
Guisto, which is held under strict
quarantine by health officials, follow
ing her arrival here DR.. Royal S. Cope
land, Health Commissioner announced
that he had asked President Wilson to
declare an embargo upon immigrants
coming from the infected parts of Eu-
rope.
ut is my understanding" declared
DR.. Copeland, "that under the Quur-
antine Law of 1898 the President has
the power to declare such an embargo.
1t is about time that the United States
woke up to the danger it is facing from
these immigrants"
The San GuistO arrived from Trieste,
Naples and Palermo. In addition 10
the twenty typhus cases on board,
three deaths occurred during the voy-
age from the dreaded disease. The
bodies were buried at sea.
Not a passenger is to be permitted to
land from the San Guisto.
The ship is now tied up off Quar-
antine under the careful watch Of
health officials. The sick are to be re-
moved to Swinburne Island, according
to DR.. Leland E. Cofer, health officer Of
the port of New York. The remainder
of the passengers, 1875 persons in all,
will have to stay ~on board the San
Guisto until suitable arrangements can
be made for them on Hoffman Island.
This will take several days.
The passengers of the San Guisto
will be held up until it is absolutely
certain that all danger of infection Is
past, DR.. Copeland declared. This
may take two or three weeks or it may
take longer, he said.
Meanwhile the passengers and The
ship will be carefully disinfected.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1921-02-25
WORLD NEWS In
CONDENSED FORM

RERLIN.-German students of eco-
nomics declare 100000 Germans are
preparing to leave the country for the
L. s., Mexico and South America.
GAPEST.-Hungaria returning
from the United States are being lured
by members of an organized band, dis
guiSed as guides, to out-of-th -the-Way
places robbed and murdered
LONDON.-Paris and London police
are cooperating with DR.. Simon, spe-
cial deputy police commissioner of
New York, fighting the international
ring of drug smugglers. 1t has been
found Germany and Turkey are
sources of the American supply.
AUGUSTA. Ga.-Police Judge Lewis
L. Kent found himself guilty of violat-
ing the traffic law on evidence submit
ted by the policeman who docketed the
case and imposed the usual fine. He
paid it,
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.-Georqe T.
LippincOtt, banker, died here of sleep
ing sickness" He fell i'll about a
month ago on his yacht in Florida wa
terS. \ week after he became ill he was
brought here to the home of his bro
ther-in-law, William II. Bartlett Spe-
cialists from New York and Phiadel-
phia pronounced his illness sleeping
Sickness.
RIGA, Latvia.-Signing of a Perma-
nent peace treaty between Poland and
Soviet Russia has been deferred until
March, at the earliest, delegates to the
peace conference now being held here
announced.
YONkERS, N. Y.-PoIlce and fed
eraI agents in raid on fourteen places
in Yonkers cOntiscated whisky and
wines valued at $4,000
LONDON-A regular air service be-
tween London and Amsterdam will
probably be instituted this spring. A
fleet of wooden winged monoplanes is
now being built for the service and
will soon be ready.
BROOkLYN-Fifte persons were
seriously injured and about 200 others
cut and bruised when an express train,
inbound from Hampstead, l.. l., collid-
ed with a local train at Railroad ave
nue..
GREENWICH, conn.-Eight bandits
held up about forty men in the saloon
of j. ]. Jewett at Glenville, near Green
wich, and escaped in an automobile
with $4,000 in cash and jewelry.
PORTLAND.-The Oregon House
passed the bonus bill giving to Ore
gon ex-service men $15 month for
each months service in the World
War.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1921-02-25
GENERAL

Average strength of the army for
the coming fiscal year will be 1Sl 900,
according to Brigadier General Lord,
chief of the Finance Bureau, War De-
partment.
The 1921 legislature of New York
will adjourn in April, according to the
prediction of Speaker Edmund Mac
Hold of the assembly, and Senator
Clayton Il. Lusk.
Intrastate passenger and freight
rates in Nebraska must be raised to
the level of the interstate rates by
March L, under orders issued by the
Interstate Commerce Commission to
conform with rates in other states.
Department OF Agriculture announc-
ell that farm cattle are now selling be-
low pre-war levels.
Paul NJ. Warburg will become chair
man of the board of directors of the
new corporation to be organized in
New York and to be known as the In
ternational Acceptance Bank, Inc
Police and federal agents i'll ID raid
cn fourteen places in YonLers contis
Gated whisky and wines valued at $45,-
600
Secretaries Daniels and Meredith
will retain Their cabinet chSirs They
arranged to purchase and remove them
to their homes as souvenirs.
The Oregon house passed the bonus
bill giving to Oregon eX-Service men
SIS q month for each months service
In the world war.
Fire destroyed the plant of the
Nonatiquot Rubber Company, South
Braintree, Mas causing a loss f
S125,O00.
The heaTiest mai in France, Pierre
Guindolet, weighing $50 pounds, has
died
Senator Kellogg, speaking at din
ner of the Portland (Me) Lincoln Club.
said that Amer, a must exert its in
nuence to stabilize governments of the
Near East"
A reduction of 10 per cent in the raw
of 10000 employees at the plant of the
General Electric COmpany's Lynn,
Mass, was announced.
Traffic has been resumed over the
susitna River Railroad bridge, said to
he The second longest span in the
world, near Anchorage, Alaska. It was
constructed in temperature averaging
10 degrees below zero.
A survey cor'utted by Samuel Il.
Montgomery, commissioner of labor,
shows Employment is widespread
throughout West Virginia, with hun
t,reds Of men and women working half
time
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1921-02-25
DENIES REQUEST
OF EXECUTIVES
Immediate Abrogation of Nation
al Agreements Is Refused
by Railroad Board.

Chicago.-The Federal Railroad La
Dor Board denied the request of the
American Association of Railway En-
ecutives for immediate abrogatiOn of
the national wage agreements with
the brotherhoods and establishment of
new basic rate for unskilled labor
predicateG on local conditions.
The decision came before B. NJ.
Jewell, spokesman for railway labor,
had started his reply to the statement
made for the railway executives last
week by w. w. Atierbury of the
Pennsylvania Railroad. 1t was totally
unexpected, but Mr.. Jewell filed his
statement with the board nevertheless.
He explained that in view of the
boards decision, time would be saved
by not reading it.
In announcing the decision of the
Board, Chairman II. NJ Barton re-
viewed the powers of the board under
the Transportation Act of February %,
1920. He said the act imposed upon
the board the duty of deciding dis
Of what shall constitute just and
reasonable wages, salaries, and stand
ards of working conditions. The pres
ent hearing separated by agreement
rules and working conditions from
wages. The decision of wages was
rendered last July, Judge Barton said,
and the rules hearing convened on
January 10.
"The board assumed as the basis of
this decision the continuance in full
force and effect of the rules, working
conditions, and agreements enforced
under the authority of the United
States Railroad Administration, Judge
Barton said. He made an exception
of any mutual agreement between car
riers and employees, and declared it
was the boards desire to render de-
cision at the earliest possible date.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1921-02-25
Kennedy May Be Candidate.

The virtual certainty that Major e.
Brooke Lee will not be candidate for
nomination for the Office of State
Comptroller has raised the question
as to candidate in his stead. In this
connection the name of Joseph P. Ken
nedy, member of the Racing Commits
sion, is gaining prominence. Mr.. Ken
nedy is identified with what might be
called the Gubernatorial group and,
should be considered the candidacy
the presumption would be that he
would be assured the administrations
support Mr.. Kennedy will probably
make up his mind one way or the other
in the next day or so.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1921-02-25
No "Dry" Law Session.

Governor Ritchie will not call an
extra session of the Legislature in
compliance with the request made OF
him by Superintendent George w.
Crabbe of the Anti-Saloon League. DR..
Crabbe wanted the Governor to assem-
Bile the legislators for the purpose of
enacting a state prohibition enforce
ment statute.
The Governor declined to make a
statement pending drafting of his re-
ply, it is said, he found nothing in the
request to lead him to reverse his
previous refusal to call an extra ses-
sion, which he announced some months
ago.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1921-02-25

Centerville-With the church rolls
of Sudlersville showing a record of 95
conversions and scores of renewals of
membership, the series of evangelistic
services conducted by Rev. S. B. Golf,
Jr., under the joint auspices of the
closed at Calvary Methodist Episcopal
Church The closing of the campaign
marks the conclusion of one of the
largest and most successful revival ef-
forts ever attempted in Queen Anne's
county. Rev. Robert Lawson is pastor
Of the church in which the services
were held.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1921-02-25

Cambridge.-A proceeding novel to
the courts has just been started in
this city. Herbert Jews, a 17-year-old
colored boy, has been living with Mr..
Charles H. Seward, prominent farm
er of the Bucktown district, for about
three years. The father of the boy,
Adams Jews, says he needs the boy on
his farm and has demanded his sur
render several times. When the boy
did not return the father went before
Justice Collins and got out writ of
replevin, but the sheriff has SHE'D at
the idea of taking boy with writ
of replevin and refuses to serve the
writ
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1921-02-25
Crisfeld.-The f1fty-third annual ses.

Crisfeld.-The fifty-third annual ses.
sion of the Wilmington Annual Confer
ence of the Methodist Episcopal
Church will convene in Emmanuel
Church here March 80. According to
reports made at the fourth quarterly
conference of Emmanuel Church held
Friday evening plans are practically
completed and arrangements have
been made for the entertainment of
the delegates and visitors, who will
number about 400. Bishop William
Frazier Mcdowell, resident bishop of
the Washington area. will preside over
the conference and make the appoint.
ments for the ensuing year
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1921-02-25

rantsvil1e.-Domesti troubles are
given as the cause of the tragedy in
which Mrs. Madge Van Sickle, aged
80, was shot four times and instantly
killed by her husband, William Van
Sickle, aged 81. who then ended his
own life. The shooting followed
brief conversation when husband and
wife met on a road. The woman was
called from a party, the members Of
which drew to one side while the con-
versation was in progress and were
startled by reports of the revolver.
Van Sickle was a mine foreman. Mrs
Van Sickle is survived by two chill
dren by former marriage.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1921-02-25
x-RAY FOR CANCER
Results of Experiments Considered Big
Contribution to Science.

Cambridge, Mass.-Discoveries made
by William Duane, professor Of bio
physics at Harvard, working in col
IabOration with research students of
physics, have made it possible, accord
ing to Harvard physicists, to secure
x-rays of more penetrating quality
than have ever before been obtained in
this country, and these new rays arc
now to be used for the first time In
America for the alIsviatiOn of cancer.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1921-02-25
HARDING PRoDs CONGRESS
Wants Appropriation Bills Out of Way
of Extra Session.

WashingtOn.-In urgent messages
sent from st. Augustine, Fla, to Sen
ator Lodge of Massachusetts, Repub-
Representative Frank Mondell of
Wyoming, who occupies the same pc
sition in the house, President-Elect
Harding asks them to speed up con-
sideration of the supply bills ''to sim
plify the important work" that will be
laid before it at the special session
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1921-02-25

Rockville-The dwelling and store
of Mrs. Bessie Collins, on the main
street at Rockville, was destroyed by
fire, together with the buildings en-
tire contents, including household fur.
niture, wearing apparel, about 5000 in
cash and the stock of confectionery,
periodicals. etc. Tie loss is placed at
about $4,000, partly covered by insur-
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1921-02-25

nnapolis.-Governor Ritchie, DR..
A. F. Woods, of the University OF
Maryland, and ex-States Attorney Jo-
seph L. Donovan, Of Howard county,
will deliver addresses at the annual
banquet of the Howard County Farm.
ers' Association, which will be held in
Ellicott City next Saturday.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1921-02-25
BEEF AT BETTER PRICES
Decrease in Value Continued All Last
Near

Washington.-Cattl on farms are
now valued at less than pre-war prices,
the Department of Agriculture an
nounced Tie drop in value, the de-
partment said, began in January, 1919,
and continued throughout 1920 The
decrease in value not only resulted in
the loss Of all the increases sustained
durin. the war. but an additional 50
per csnt. Hogs nave lost So per cent
Of the gains rsrSa
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1921-02-25

Easton.-Local Gamers for the past
two or three days have been contract
ing with Talbot county farmers for
the growing of peas at $50 per ton
for this years pack This is $40 less
than the Gamers paid last year, but
the packers say it is all they feel
justified in offering now
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1921-02-25
COOLIDGE ENDS VACATION
He and Mrs. Coolidge Had Restfu Two
Weeks in South

Weeks IN SOUTH.
Asheville, n. C.-Vice-president-e
Coolidge has brought his vacation to
close and with Mrs. Coolidge and their
friends, Mr. and Mrs. Frank w.
Stearns, are now at his home in North
ampton, Mass.
The vice-presdentelect spent two
weeks here 1t was the first real rest,
he said, he had been able to obtain
natiOn last June