Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1924-09-12
R|TCH|E NAMES
new COMMISSIONS
Reckord Heads Group TO Ad-
minister $25,O00 Fund
TO STUDY RACE PROBLEMS
TO STUDY RACE PROBLEMS
coblsnsz Is Made Chairman OF
Board To Manage War
memorIal--others
Named.

Annapolis
Governor Richie appointed eight
State commissions With a total of s5
members, all authorized by acts Of
the Legislature.
Among them is the Soldiers Relief
Fund Commission, which will admin
lister s25.O0O 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-
nial Commission and Emory L. Cob
lentz the commission to manage the
War Memorial Building.
Other commissions named include
that for the hlcentennial Of George
washington's birthday in 1892. One
to buy the White Ferry bridge over
the Potomac, one for equalization Of
short-haui 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 Chagles w. Heuisler and Nor
ris A. Soper among the members.
The personnel of the commissions is
as follows:
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Cen
tennial Commission, to cooperate with
the railroad and civic and commercial
organization to organize the B, & 0.
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 /,
Norris. Richard C. O'Connell. DR..
Hugh H. Young, E. Brooke Lee.
inter-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
NJ. Requardt. Harry E. Parkhurst, B
Howell Griswold. Jr., Leon C. Cob
lentz, Charles NJ Cohn. Ralph P Gil
more, 0verleaS State Senator George
C. Peverley, MechanicsviIIe; John J
Stump. Cumberland: Mrs. Daniel
Miller. Mrs. George II Van HolIen
Mrs. Theodore Van Doren, Hyattsville
Colored: The Rev. George F. Bragg
Carl J. Murphy, Thomas ] Galloway
Truly Hatchet, William L. Fitzgerald
H. NJ. St Clair, the Rev A. j. Mitchell
Anna McMechen.
Whites Ferry Commission, to meet
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. Poolesvilles Sen
ator Eugene Jones. Kensington; j
Lee Simmons, Adamstown, Frederick
county.
Commission for Bi-centennIai oi
George wasH;assoH.s Birthday. to co
operate with national organizations IN
celebrating in 1889 the two-hundredtF
anniversary Of the birth Of George
Washington. Named in the act: Gov
ernor Ritchie, David G. Mcintosh, Jr.
President OF the Senate; Francis P
Curtis, Speaker of the House. Ap
pointed by the Governor; William P
Cole, Towson. A. J. Dimarco, Mrs
Frank p Scrivener, Miss Elizabeth
Chew Williams, Mrs. Charles w. d
Ligon, Ellicott. City. Appointed by
President Of Senate: James F Thrift
Allen Bowie Howard. Annapolis
Harding Tull; Princess Anne. Ap
pointed by Speaker OF House: DAME
c. Joseph. Alexander r. Hagner
Hagerstown; Lawrence p. Williams
Wynee, st. Mary's county.
Commission on Equalization o.
Freight Rates. to cooperate with Pub
lie Service Commission to reclassify
agricultural products and adius
freight rates on them for short haull
in Maryland Edwin Warfieid, Jr.
Woodbine, Howard county; DR.. Thos
B. Symons. College Park. Andrew J
Cohill, Hancock; J. E. Tritt. Cumber
land Charles t. Cockey. Jr.. Pixies
vile.
Vocational Training and RehabiIlta
tion investigating Commission, to in
vestigate conditions surrounding in
dustrial workers disabled by injury o.
disease and to make recommendation
for State aid by June /, 1926 Or
Charles w. Sylvester. A. S. Colds
borough, Peter M. Siewierski. Omer F
Hershey, Henry F. Broening, Mrs. vii
liam Bauernschmidt. Miss Gertrud,
Mentally, Beltsvi1le.
Soldiers Relief Fund Commission
to administer a s25,O00 fund annual.
for three years to alleviate the condi
IONS of World War veterans unabl,
to obtain necessities or proper care O
for funeral expenses for such veteran
-Adiutant General M A., Record
chairman; Col James f. Abbott. De
partment Commander American
Legion, Annapolis, and Lieut. Georg'
g. Neumann, Department Commando
Veterans of Foreign Wars. Annapolis