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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1923-02-10
PRESTON ANNOUNCES HIS CANDIDACY.

EMayor James H. announced his candidacy for
the Mayory Baltimore city, He will not enter the primaries
but will run independent ticket By doing he cuts loose
from the party organization and trusts to win by votes obtained
those who dissatisfied with existing party management
be they Democrats Republicans.
will have rather substantial following but both
they just present. to rather apologize
attitude himself says speaking of his former adminstra
tion There things would do differently had them
do again. acknowledges mistakes but these and
the good he accomplished "are open book"
apparently thinks it is to justify his action IN
running for the office evidently right at the beginning
the defensive.
The Baltimore News declared for Mr. Preston But it
feels necessary explain why opposed him former
pagns The for this backing that Mr. Preston
during became "a profound student Of munich
pal He learned the News Ito turn the
power derived parsanism to the nonpasan municipal
good"
He hen proved during administration he learned
all News thinks ideal candidate should be-
though he possessed apparently such qualities when the News
saw oppose him in his first efforts at election.
This be wonderful transformation If Mr. Preston
elected it will be surely platform composed OF planks
solid that makes for good municipal MATERIAL carefully
for all political budng sound in all political WISDOM
that he must be than to them they or
naly intended
There tendency at times to cothe such candidates with
covering Of political purity which conceal great deal of
political mpurity great to think that
something somebody different something somebody better
the somebody but he sailing under different
must be better Here's hoping he u.s. but he will
have great deal better than either Mr. Jackson
Broeng draw enough votes from the two old parties
Mr. Prestons only satisfaction be such
him. may be that he may his democratic opponent beaten
general election of the split VOTE The chances
that the republican candidate slip between the two demo-
cratic men, provided always that the promised republican indie
pendent vote will materialize for Preston.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1923-02-10
BIG LIQUOR STEALS.

The of the big steal Of whskey from the Stewart Co.
warehouse Hghandown this week. by which liquor valued at
dence Of the fact that long noxcants
will be found place them in the hands of the people,
And many of these populations have occurred is
tempted think that collision exists between the guards the
thieves the police and everybody else who be concerned
the profits of the sales.
tefts consummated successfuly-the burglars
getting away completely that is almost impossible to believe
the rogues working alone.
40 nGs % any s ne s
mark that it is time the country waking realization Of
the universal disregard that for the Eighteenth Amend
en and this disregard engenderng widespread contempt for
all law
The people this country divided in their upon
prohibition question Those opposed to existing restrictions
frequently charged with being hostile to the Constitution of the
United States because they favor repeal of the prohbtoy
tce Certain extremists to think the whole National safety
lies in that provision opposition signifies opposition
to the rest
That is to the least partisan They shortsighted
citizens and open to only consideration
time Congress acting Either enforce the law
forceent is possible enact legislation which will put comod
ties legally within the hands of those who purpose have Them
illegally if necessary,
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1923-02-10

rive appreciate all such encourage
1nent from our subscribers, and they
can be assured our every effort will
be to make the Democrat grow in the
estimation of it's patrons.]
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1923-02-10
Oysters

Best Seaside Oysters delivered any
where in town. Dry measure.
Dec. %, If. E. K. HILLMAN,
Phone 23O 4O8 Clarke Ave.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1923-02-10
EWELL & CHILD, Solicitors.
Mortgage Sale
OF VALUABLE
FARM PROPERTY

By virtue of the power of sale con-
tanned in mortgage from Sadie A.
Blades and Ira Blades, her husband,
to Elizabeth J. Pilchard and by her
assigned to Godfrey Child for fore
closure said mortgage bearing date
June %, 1919 and recorded among the
land records of Worcester county,
Maryland, in Liber O. D. C. No. SO
folios 40 etc., default having been
made in the payment of The debt Sc
signee will offer for sale at public
HOUSE, POCOMOKE CITY, MARY
LAND, on
SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1928
at or about o'clock P. M.
All that tract or parcel of land in
Stockton Election District, Worcester
county, Maryland, called "Spences
Good Luck" or by whatever name or
names the same may be known or
called and being located on the Coun-
ty road leading from Cross Roads to
Matthew's Mill containing 1872 acres,
2 roods and poles more or less, and
being all and the same land by said
mortgage conveyed and all and
the same land conveyed to- the said
Sadie A. Blades by deed from Charles
w. Pilchard ct al, dated OH or about
June IL, 1919.
TERMS OF sALE:A CASH.
Title papers and revenue stamps at
the expense of the purchaser.
GODFREY CHILD, Assignee.
John S. Melvin, Auctioneer.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1923-02-10

NOTICE-We will furnish to the
purchaser a reasonable amount of the
purchase price of the above named
property to be secured by mortgage
on the same.
EWELL & CHILD.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-09
DEPoSED TURKISH SULTAN
QUITS MECCA IN ILL HEALTH

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, May o.
The deposed sultan Mohammed vi
Of Turkey arrived here from Mecca,
where. he has beer the guest of the
king of the Hedjas. It is said
he has been suffering with heart
trouble, accompanied by frequent
fainting fits, and it is assumed that
the state of his health prompted
him to leave Mecca, rather than
any hope of retrieving his lost
throne.
Mohammed VI never has been in
very vigorous health, and the hot
climate Of Mecca acted unfavorably
on him. After a few days rest here
he will leave for Italy, thence to
Switzerland
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-09
\. Irwin
Gets DIVORCE
DECREE
Suit REEVES Mysterious Sui
eide Of Naval Man in New
port, R. l., in 1919.

Another echo of the mysterious
suicide of William w. Henricksen
chief boatswans mate, u. s. ~.
a former Washington youth whose
body was found in front of a pri-
vate residence in Newport, r. J..
in January, 1919, with bullet in
his head, was revived in Equity
Court yesterday at the hearing OF
the suit for absolute divorce brought
by Leslie v. Irwin against his wife
Mrs. Margaret Irwin.
Reference was made in the suit
by the husband, who is an employe
of the Navy Department, to the
findings OF naval board of in
curry which investigated the un'
usual circumstances surrounding
the suicide OF Henricksen, Mrs
Irwin having appeared before the
naval board as a witness in the
matter. The husband. represented
by Attorneys Raymond Neudecker
and Leo e. Simonton, charged that
his wife had misconducted herself
In Newport before they came to live
in Washington in the latter part OF
1919. 1t was charged by Irwin
that his wife deserted him the last
time on March 81, 1921.
Two supplemented complaints
we're filed by the Navy Department
employee, as the suit against his
wife progressed, naming two men
correspondents. After the hearing
of testimony yesterday, Justice Sid
dons awarded the husband an in
terlocutory decree Of divorce and
gave him the custody of the two
children Of the marriage.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-09
WAR LORD
BLOCKS
EFFORT
Continued from First Page.)

Continued from First Page.)
Verea,. Of Guadelajara, Mexico, a
rich globe trotter; H. NJ Bimbe, of
Shankhai; G. D. MussC, an Italian.
and Emile Gensburger, a broker,
who is believed to be a French ma,
tional.
Six Reach Picking.
Six Americans are said to have
reached Picking. They emphasized
the harshness of the treatment they
received. They said they were re-
leased when q magistrate at Tengh-
sien offered himself as security for
them.
They described how the bandits
with savage greed stripped jewelry
from the women and then forced
them to walk barefooted or in thin
silk stockings through the rough
and rocky mountain trails.
Many Face Death.
Foreign captives, including a
number of Americans, who were
seized by Chinese brigands and car
ried into the Shantung mountains,
are in perilous condition from -ex-
posture, lack of food and sleep and
forced marches across broken coun-
try, according to word received here
today from r. F. Naill, Of the Asia
Development Company.
Nall was released from his duties
on the Yellow river dixie project to
aid the Chinese regular troops in
running down the bandits. After
talking with one OF the captives
who managed to escape Nail sent
the following message from Lin
Cheng, near the Shantung border:
Ready to Bargain.
"Just returned to Lin-Cheng from
the bandits outpost near Ys-Chen.
Three thousand brigands are NOV
ing northward. Chinese regular
troops are continuing the pursuit.
"All the foreign prisoners are al
most dead from fatigue, hunger and
exposure on the long, forced
marches. They are without food or
clothes.
THE bandits are willing to me-
gOtiate, but the troops are under
orders to capture them, not nego-
tiate with them.
"An the women missionaries in
this region are being sent to Tsin-
An-Fu for protection"
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tendant evils which it was thought
the Washington conference had abol-
ished, looms close at hand today as a
result OF the Shantung train outrage,
and the apparent impotence Of the
Picking government to rectify the
wrong.
Al virtual ultimatum already has
been served on the Wabbly govern
ment at Peking by the foreign diplo-
mats there. Picking has been in
formed that unless the Americans,
British, French and Italian nationals
held for ransom by bandits are re-
turned unframed and speedily. the
governments concerned will have
to take approximate action. Appro-
pirate action means punitive ex.
petition made up Of foreign troops,
and it would be q severe blow to
Chinese sovereignty"
Also, it appeared certain today
China must go deeper in the mire Of
international debt. A foreign loan,
made by d consortium Of world fl
nancial bankers. totaling SIS, 600, 600,
is being preached in world financial
quarters. The Chinese debt already
is in excess Of $1,000. O0O. 900. and
under present conditions there is
plan for its liquidation.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-09
BAKER APPEARS
IN CON TEMP
ACTION
Represents Birmingham News.
paper Men Cited for Publica-
ton OF News Article.
81 Intarnatlenal SCI. serrlee.

BIRMINGHAM Ala, May a.
Newton b. Baker, former Secretary
of War, appeared here today as
counsel for e. T. Leach, Jack
Bethes and Leroy Robinson, of the
Birmingham Post, unit of the
Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance.
The Post is defendant in con-
tempt charge growing out Of the
publishing of news in connection
with the trial of w. NJ. Yerby on
charge of murder.
The Post published a review Of
the indictments against Yerby in
connection with the kidnapping Of
Ed Herman Daniels and the abduc-
ton and flogging Of DIR. J. ID. BOWL
ling, United States Public Health
Officer, and the trial of Yerby on
the murder charge was postponed
on motion of the defense counsel.
who maintained q fair trial was i'm
possible in view of the published
review of the other indictments.
The postpOnement was granted and
the members of the staff Of the
paper were cited for contempt of
court.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-09
u. S. To Send Radio
Signals Of Standard
Frequency

Radio signals of standard
frequency will be transmitted
at regular intervals from the
Bureau Of Standards during
the remainder of May and until
June 10, the Department of
Commerce announced today.
These standard frequency
signals are intended to be used
for standardizing wave meters
and adjusting transmitting and
receiving SETS the announce
Tnent said. 1.-THE proper adj
justment of such apparatus is
particularly important in con-
nectiOn with the reaIlocation of
wave lengths as recommended
by the National Radio Con-
ference"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-09

Concerts

BY the United States Marine Band
Orchestra at United States Ma
rtne Barracks, tonight 1t
o'clock. William H. Santelmann,
leader; Taylor Branson, second
leader. Program:
ov'rsuF'-I'0n0re'" NJ a.s :;
Nocturne Monastery Bells"
(Chipes oSligato by Musician w.
Kieffer.)
Scenes from THE Merry Wiaow.
waltz-'The Rosenkavalier..'
symphonic Roem-"Dansc Maca-
bre" dance Of the Deathl.
Opus &C.: saint Saens
BALLET Russe;" Opus 2s: :LuiE gin
c. 'Mazurka." Moderate.
d. ''Marche Russo" Allegro non
Marines Hymn-"The Halls Of
M0ntezuma.h
'The Star-spanalsd Banner
BY the United States Soldiers
Home Band, this evening At the
bandstand, beginning at $3.50
o'clock. John s. M. Zimmermanns
bandnaster.
March-"The World In Arms"
MISUNDERSTANDING for Luck"
Suppe
Two numbers from Suite =
''L'Arlesienne" .........,. Rizet
n. "Adagietto.''
b. 'sMinuetto.''
Scenes from Comic Opera-"Chimes
of Normandy ..s. PlanQuetts
(Requested.)
Fox Trot Speciat--"ROmany Love.
ZamOcnik
Valse FrancaRse-"La Valse One
Nous AiIm0nRs .VecSey
{The Waltz We Love.)
Finale---"By the Sapphire Sea"
Ted Snyder
THE Star-SpAngled Banner"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-09
Chinese Bandits Safe
For Months If They
Retreat in Mountains

Chinese bandits whose spectacular
raid on the Picking express resulted
in the capture Of a number of
Americans and other foreign
citizens. win be able to hide in.
definitely in the Kishan mountains
unless surrounded before they reach
their mountain retreat.
This statement was made today
by F. r. Eldridge chief of the far
eastern division, of the Department
Of Commerce, who has Travelled
extensively in that region.
The spot chosen for the bandit
raid was ideal for making a quick
getaway" EIdridge said. This
territory il probably one Of the
most uninhabited and barren por.
tons Of Central China, although
within radius of fifty miles the
country side is thickly inhabited"
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ers and Chinese were lined up and
told to march ahead of the robbers.
They were menaced with rifles
when they looked back"
Stopped Mediation.
The missionary at Taian-Fu, Shan
tung, was on the point Of sending
Chinese in an effort to mediate
with the brigands when the tuchun
arrived with his troops. The war.
like tuchun frowned upon q peace
full settlement. He gave orders for
immediate pursuit.
The latest direct word from the
foreign prisoners was received at
noon Tuesday. The foreigners are
in 4 pitiful condition from exposure
and starvation. All they had to eat
was q sort Of bread made OF mOuldy
rice flour mixed with water.
1t was not believed here that the
bandits would voluntarily put any
of the prisoners to death. They
had already moved on, leaving
stragglers to be picked up by pur-
suing troops.
A member of the Chinese cabinet
said the robbers had been located in
the rough country northwest Of Lin
Cheng and southeast OF Soa-ChOW.
Feeling Runs High.
Feeling is running high in foreign
circles in Picking, especially Ameri-
can.
One foreign representative pro-
posed that an appeal be made over
the head of the Picking government
direct to the tuchuns, particularly
Tsao-Kun, tuchun of Shantung. It
was feared that the government
would not be able to get any effec-
tive action for g. week or 30.
The correspondent on two Occa-
sions this year travelled through the
interior provinces where he noticed
many signs Of revival OF the old
Chinese secret defense societies SIM
liar to those that sprang up just
before the Boxer outbreak. Aver
sion to foreigners is growing. In
fact, the lives Of foreigners in China
are far from safe away from the
large cities where there are COM
pounds and military safeguards.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-09
PATENTSWORTH
M|LL|ONSSOLD
FOR s25O,OOO
Or. Karl HOlderman, OF Ger
many, Examined in Suit at
Wilmington, Del.
BY Interna4lonal News Service.

.
Forty of the 1000 patents sold
to the Chemical Foundation, Inc.
headed by Francis p. Garvan
former alien property custodian, FOL
$3.50, 00O, were valued at $4,000, 600
according to testimony given in the
United States court at Wilmington
Del.,l it was announced today by
Col Thomas w. Miller, the alien
property custodian.
The testimony was offered by DR.
Karl Holderman, of the BadiShe
Analine Company, of Ludwigshafen
Germany. The patents were seized
from him during the war and later
turned over to the Chemical Foun
dation by the Government
The trial OF the Government
suit against the Chemical Founda,
ton to recover the patents will
start in Wilmington on June 4. The
testimony of DIR. Holderrnan was
taken in advance to enable him to
return to Germany.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-09
WOMAN SUES SON FOR
HURT IN AUTO WRECK

NEW YORK, May 9.-Henry
Benzenga, a wealthy member Of the
italian colony at Asbury Park, N.
j., was named defendant in q suit
instituted by his mother, Mrs. VIM
cenza Benzenga, q New York, for
$4,000 damages for injuries receiv.
ed in an automobile accident on
the Freehold Hamilton road July 8,
1922.
mobile in which his mother and Mr..
and Mrs. Peter Iannicelh were pas
sengers, when the car struck a tele-
graph pole. All the occupants were
injured. Iannicelli and his wife
filed joint suit for $S2. 900 against
Benzenga which is still pending.
Mrs. BenZenga, in her complaint,
said she had been incapacitated for
household and other duties.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-09
ARRESTS AFTER BATTLE
At HOME OF THIEVES

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, May o.
Smashing in the doors of house
at Franklin and Vine streets, detec.
tives early today captured three
men after a gun fight at close quar-.
tiers, and solved what Is believed to
be a series of parcel post thefts
that have mounted into thousands
of dollars during the last year.
Sixteen thousand dollars worth of
stolen goods were found in the
house.
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nounced today by the National Mo
torists Association.

nOunced today by the National Mo.
florists Association.
Attempts are being made to have
all, detours eliminated for this
period, and it is urged that all de-
tours which cannot be closed be
put in the best possible shape and
adequately marked.
All road forks within 100 miles
of Washington which are liable to
cause confusion are to be marked
prominently with electrically lighted
signs.
An urgent appeal to every Wash.
ington home and store owner to com.
p1ete cleaning up and painting up
of all property was issued today by
George Pitt, chairman of the citi-
zens' committee on city beautiful.
"The reputation of Washington
depends in large measure upon our
efforts along this line," Mr.. Pitt
declared The man who leaves his
home and yard or his store property
in unclean and unattractive condi-
ton is a detriment to the city and
is certainly not a good citizen.
These tens upon tens of thou
sands Of visitors are coming here
with the thought in their minds that
Washington is the most beautiful
and the cleanest city on earth. We
will have fallen down on our re-
sponsibilities IL we fail to sustain
this reputation"
The work of decoration is now get
ting into its fulIs stride. One Wash.
ington contractor has signed con-
tracts to decorate 1.400 downtown
buildings and another has contracts
for more than 200 of the largest
business properties in town. All of
this work Is to be completed by
May 25.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-09
NEWPORT NEWS TO GET
BUCHANAN CONTRACT

NEW YORK, May 9.-The liner
President Buchanan Of the United
States Shipping Board Will be re-
conditioned at Newport News, de-
spite the protest from the Brooklyn
navy yard, lit was learned here
today.
The navy yard protested that il
could do the work contracted for st
Newport News several hundred
thousands of dollars cheaper. but
"A. ID. L.asker. chairman of the
Shipping Board, does not consider
the Brooklyn offer satisfactory
from the point of delivery. it was
said. The matter will be definitely
settled late today after a conference
between the President and Lasker
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-09
kills BOY
THROWN BY
CAR SLOT
Alfred A. Dawson Was Riding
Bicycle to School at
Rockville, Md.

Alfred A. Dawson. ten-year-old
son of j. SomervilIe Dawson. of the
District disbursing office. was in
stantly killed at $50 o'clock today
at Rockville. Md, when he was run
over by a motor truck driven by
William johnson, produce merchant.
The boy was riding his bicycle to
school when the tire caught In Q
street car slot, throwing the young
rider forward in the path OF the
machine. The tragedy 30 distressed
the boys companions that school
was dismissed for the day.
Alfred lived on the Potomac road,
outside of Rockville. Johnson was
driving the truck full of produce to
Washington. He was passing the
court house when the accident oc-
CURED.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-09
China Losing Gains at
Arms Conference Here;
Intervention Seen Near
By GI1UkVN6 NJ hAUA1NAa2I1
WwNnrnmAaoY,Ml News Service.


Sleepy, lethargic China, sprawl
ing Riant.wise across half Of Asia,
is literally kicking away the ad-
vantages which her delegates at
the Washington arms conference
fought so hard to obtain a year
ago.
This represents the well nigh
universal opinion in Washington
today among officials and diplo-
mats who have watched with
growing concern the development
Of a state of governmental chaos
in Picking, the fruit Of which now
appears IN the spectacular Shantung
bandit raid.
China came to Washington a
year and a half ago seeking q
definite prize-relief from foreign
interference in her internal affairs.
Thanks to the magnificent fight
put up by her delegates. in which
they were aided by the United
States, tile Chinese were successful
in removing most OF the foreign
grip that had been strangling their
country since the Boxer rebellion
in 1909.
Powers Gave New Charter.
The great world powers, some re.
luctantly. some willingly, agreed at
the Washington conference to take
their fingers out Of the Chinese
pie, adm the result was embodied
in q. series Of treaties which Score.
tary of State Hughes described AS
"a new Magma Charta" OF Chinese
liberty.
The powers agreed to let go most
Of their hold on China. the British
giving UP Wei-hei-wei, the japanese
-relinquishing Shantung, ETC., Gus
toms were raised to give China
more revenue, the open door was
re -affirmed, foreign pOstoffices were
to be abolished, extra-terrttoriality
was started for the discard. and H.
nally, all of the powers agreed to
respect the sovereignty and 1nde'
pendence" OF China, to provide the
fullest and most unefnb0rrassed
opportunity to China to develop"
and to refrain from seeking ad'
vantage, either as to trade or OPP
portunity.
The treaties were heralded as
constituting Chinese bill of
rights and all Of the powers were
to lend China a helping hand.
China. on her part, guaranteed to
protect foreigners, and put her own
house In order. particularly her
military, judicial and financial at
fairs.
The powers have observed their
part Of the bargain, and China has
failed in hers. 1t was declared to.
day by administration officials.
Consequently. international inter
vention In China, with all Of the at.