The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-09-12
Reckord Heads Group to Ad-
minister $25,0O0 Fund
TO STUDY RACE PROBLEMS
coblentz ls Made Chairman OF
Board To Manage War
MemoriaI-Others
.s Named.

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Governor Richie appointed eight
| State commissions with total of IS
| members, all authorized by acts Of
the Legislature.
Among them is the Soldiers Relief
Fund Commission, which will admin
lister $4,000 year for three years
appropriated by the State to aid needy
veterans of the World War in tenn
| porary straits.
George Weems Williams heads the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Centen-
| NAL Commission and Emory L. Cob
lentz the commission to manage the
| War Memorial Building.
| Other commissions named include
that for the bi-centennial, of George
Washington's birthday in 1882. One
to buy the White Ferry bridge over
| the Potomac, one for equalization Of
| short-haul freight rates and one to
| investigate vocational training and
| rehabilitation in industry.
| A large commission to study inter-
| racial problems between whites and
negroes also was appointed, with
Judges Charles w. Heuisler and Nor
ris A. Soper among the members.
The personnel of the commissions is
| as follows:
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Gen.
| tennial Commission, to cooperate with
the railroad and civic and commercial
! organization to organize the B. & O..
centennial celebration in 1927-George
| Weems Williams, John w. Garrett,
Jacob Epstein, Alexander Brown, Van
Lear Black, Holmes D. Baker, Oliver
H. Bruce, Jr.
! War Memorial Commission, to man
age the War Memorial Building in Bal
timore-Emory L. Coblentz, William L.
Norris, Richard c. O'Connell, DR..
Hugh H. Young, E. Brooke Lee.
lnter-raciaI Commission, to consider
! the welfare of the negro race in Mary
land and report to the Governor and
| Legislature in 1927-Judge Charles w.
Heuisler, Judge Morris A. Soper, John
M. Requardt, Harry e. .Parkhurst, B.
Howell Griswold, Jr., Leon G. Cob
lentz, Charles M. Cohn, Ralph P. Gill
more, Overlea; State Senator George
c. beverley, Mechanicsville; John J..
Stump, Cumberland; Mrs. Daniel
| Miller, Mrs. George H. Van Hollen,
Mrs. Theodore Van Doren, Hyattsville
Colored: The Rev. George F. Bragg,
| Carl J. Murphy, Thomas J. Galloway,
| Truly Hatchet, William L. Fitzgerald,
H. M. st. Clair, the Rev. A. ]. Mitchell.
Anna McMechen.
Whites Ferry Commission, to meet
a like commission from Virginia and
consider joint purchase of the Whites
| Ferry bridge, between Montgomery
county, Md, and Loudoun county, Va,
and report to the Assembly in 1927
Howard w. Spurrier, Poolesville; Sen
ator Eugene Jones, Kensington; J..
Lee Simmons, Adamstown. Frederick
county.
Commission for Bi.centenniaI Of
George Washineton's Birthday, to CO.
operate with national organizations in
4 anniversary of the birth of George
| Washington. Named in the act: Gov
ernor Richie, David G.. Mcintosh, Jr.
| President of the Senate; Francis P.
| Curtis, Speaker Of the House. APP
| pointed by the Governor: William P.
| Cole, Towson; A. J. Dimarco, Mrs.
4 Frank P. Scrivener, Miss Elizabeth
Chew Williams, Mrs. Charles w. D.
Lyon, Ellicott City. Appointed by
President of Senate: James F. Thrift.
Allen Bowie Howard, Annapolis:
Harding Tull: Princess Anne. APP
pointed by Speaker of House: Daniel
C. Joseph, Alexander R. Hagner,
Hagerstown; Lawrence P. Williams,
Wynee, st. Mary's county.
Commission on Equalization of
Freight Rates. to cooperate with Pub
lie Service Commission to reclassify
agricultural products and adjust
freight rates on them for short hauls
in Maryland: Edwin Warfeld, Jr,
Woodbine, Howard county; DR.. Thos.
B. Symons, College Park; Andrew ].
Cohill, Hancock; J. e. Tritt, Cumber-
land; Charles T. Cockey, Jr., Pixies
Vile.
Vocational Training and RehabiIta-
zion Investigating Commission, to in
vestigate conditions surrounding in
dustrial workers disabled by injury or
disease and to make recommendation
for State aid by June 1, 1926-Dr.
Charles w. Sylvester. A. S: Colds
borough, Peter M. Siewierski, Omer F.
Hershey, Henry F. Rroening, Mrs. Viii
liam Bauernschmidt, Miss Gertrude
Mentally, Beltsville.
Soldiers Relief Fund Commission.
to administer $4,000 fund annually
for three years to alleviate the condi-
tions of World War veterans unable
to obtain necessities or proper care or
for funeral expenses for such veterans
-Adjutant General M. A Record,
| chairman. Col lanes r Ahhoft No.