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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-01-23
REPENTs KILLING OF MOTHER.
Fired In Moment OF Anger At Attempt
To Curb Night Life.

| San ENTHUSIASTICALLY ElliEgson
Is, who confessed to the police that
she shot and killed her mother last
Tuesday morning in a fit of anger, is
sorry.
IS When the girl was arrested in a
rooming house, where she had reg
istered under an assumed name, she
appeared calm and unconcerned. For.
mally charged with murder and placed
behind the bars, she became remorse.
full. To relatives and newspaper men
she expressed sorrow. She told a
straightforward story.
Miss Ellingson told the police that
she had no deep-seated grievance
against her mother, but that she shot
her in moment of anger and resent
ment because her mother demanded
that she cease running around SC
much late at night" The girl con
fessed being frequenter of San
Francisco's night-life cafes and dance
halls. In diary found among her be-
longings after the shooting was mar.
ration of adventures in the city's
night life and the names of many well.
known "jazz musicians" in the city
some Of whom have been summoned
by the police.
| A man known as Harry Lesser and
also as Harry Chinetz has been ar.
rested on charge of contributing to
the girls delinquency and warrant
has been issued for Keith Lord. a
musician, said to be in Los Angeles, on
a similar charge.
Because Dorothy is under Is she
cannot be hanged in California. as the
law prohibits the execution of minors
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-01-23
.sLEMP QUITS
AS SECRETARY
Everett Sanders, Of Inolana,
Who Served Four Terms In
House, Succeeds Him.

Washington.-"The post of secre-
tary to the President is the most at
tractive position in the public serv-
ice!"
So declared Bascom Slemp, after he
had formally announced his resigna-
.tion as President Coolidge's secre-
tary. He said:
Frankly, hate to leave. There is
no other position in public life so in
teresting or attractive as that of sec
rotary to the President"
| Slemp predicted his successor,
Everett Sanders of Indiana, would
have little difficulty in familiarizing
himself with the work. He will have
the aid, Slemp said, of an unusually
remarkable set of men-the attaches
of the White House Office staff. The
retiring secretary was particularly
loud in his praise Of Rudolph Forster,
executive clerk"
Slemp, in the years he has lived in
Washington, first as a Representative
from Virginia and later as one of the
principal factors in the executive
branch of the Government, has be-
come greatly attached to the city and
it is possible he will make the Capital
his permanent residence.
He will have charge of the Wash
ington office Of the law firm Of Good,
Childs, Bobb & Wescott.
\ The fact that Slemp intended ito
resign has been generally known and
predicted since Mr.. Coolidge's election
to the Presidency last November.
The election successfully ended the
major political task of the millionaire
secretary, the carrying out of which
was the primary reason for his ap-
pointment.
I Slemp's withholding Of his resigna-
ton until this time is believed by some
observers to be due to the fact he had
hoped to step from his present posi-
ton into Cabinet post.
1t is also recalled that there was
definite lack of harmony between
Mr.. Slemp and Senator William M.
Butler, close friend of the President
and chairman of the Republican Ma
tional Committee.
This friction burst into the omen at
the Republican convention and almost
resulted in Slemps resignation at that
time.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-01-23
Fowl EMBARGO Cut.

Modification of the poultry embargo,
which was placed December IL to pre-.
vent shipments of chickens into Mary
land from other States, has been made
by the Maryland State Department of
Agriculture.
Under the notifications, shipments
are now barred from only five States.
These States are Pennsylvania, New
York, New Jersey, Connecticut and
Rhode Island.
Shipments. for immediate slaughter
may now be made into Maryland from
all other States, it was announced.
Such shipments, however, must be IN
der Federal supervision and inspec-
ton, and crates and other containers
must bear Federal inspection seals
before the shipments may enter this
State.
Chickens shipped into Maryland for
breeding purposes must be subjected
to additional supervision, it was said.
Besides bearing the Federal inspection
seals necessary for shipment between
States, these shipments will be in
spected by Maryland authorities be-
fore the chickens may be received
here.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-01-23
PREPARATIONS
PACT SIGNED
Complete Agreement Reached
ON Paris Protocol
D. S. HAILED As PARTNER
Logan Has Limit Removed From
American Claim For War Dam
aees-ResuIts OF
Farley.

PRriS.-Eleven powers participating
in the Paris Conference of Allied FL
nance Ministers signed the protocol
for distribution of the Dawes plan an
nuities in which the United States
shared The final plenary session of
the conference at the Quai d'Orsay
occupied two hours.
1t was a week to a day since the
conference began and it was the first
conference of 20 since the Armistice
to end before the date scheduled, and
the only one in which every delegation
returned home apparently satisfied.
The most notable achievements OF
the conference were:
First, the determining of the dis
tribution of Dawes plan annuities be-
tween the Allies and their associates;
second, the obtaining of the United
States as a partner with the Allies in
the collection of payments from Ger
many under the Dawes scheme, and
third, the liquidating of the Ruhr oc-
cupational account.
The question of the American claims
was the hardest for the conference to
settle These claims were the subject
of long and tense, but always friendly
bargaining, and /. a compromise was
reached that satisfied all concerned.
The fact that America is joining the
Allies in the reparation syndicate for
the entire period of the Dawes plan
is regarded here as an event of the
first political Importance.
No important reservations were
made by any of the powers in affixing
their signatures to the protocol The
final session. which was expected to
be mere formality OF signatures
complete agreement on all questions
having been reached-was marked by
one of the most important develop
ments of the entire conference when
James A. Logan, Jr., of the American
delegation, sprang surprise by OBJ
tanning further concession to
America.
The agreement before the confer
ence provided that the amount of war
damage which should go to America
should not exceed 350,000,O0O. Mr..
Logan succeeded in having this clause
stricken from the protocol.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-01-23
s15 Cases Heard BY p. S. c.

Report of the work of the Public
Service Commission during the year
1924, as submitted by that body to
Governor Ritchie, discloses the fact
that S15 petitions and complaints were
brought before the commission during
the year.
There were III cases on the COM
missions formal docket, the report
stated. In addition, there were 800
cases on the correspondence docket,
and As cases, such as rate changes by
carriers and other utilities, on the
so-called Preparations docket.
Two hundred and ninety informal
complaints were investigated during
1924, the report continued.
During 1924 there were 1872 utility
companies that came under the COM
missions jurisdiction, the Governor
was informed.
The commission closed 103 cases
during the past year, and in the same
period granted authority for exercise
of franchise to utilities in 81 cases.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-01-23
1924 LEGISLATURE
CALLED INCOMPETENT
Tax Reform Association AS
sails Session In General, But
Lauds Certain Acts.

The Legislature of 1924 was 'gen.
orally conceded to have been the most
incompetent that has met in recent
years" and proved more amenable to
selfish interests than to those con-
cerned with the good Of the State"
according to the Maryland Tax Reform
Associations annual report just made
public.
I'm spite of this difficulty, however,
something was accomplished" the re-
port states.
Blocking the proposed State income
tax. proposed by the State Tax Re-
vision Commission, in which it en-
listed the support of several other or
CARNATIONS, was its principal achieve
ment, the report sets forth.
During the year it called attention to
the Maryland municipalities outside Of
Baltimore that they have the right to
do away with the tax on merchandise;
had bill introduced in the City Coun-
Gil to impose a license tax on bill
boards, and assisted its members with
legal advice on personal taxation.
The report commends the Legisla-
ture for exempting Baltimore shipping
from taxation, which it calls "a step in
the right direction" but condemns the
Assembly for failing to equalize the
Old Annex tax rate in Baltimore city.
The taxation of merchandise and
other personal property is condemned
by the report, which declares that tax
payments should be according to ben
efits received" 1t points out that mer-
chandise does not advance in value
through expenditure of taxes, while
real estate does and therefore should
bear the tax burden.
Alfred S. Niles, former member of
the Supreme Bench of Baltimore, was
elected president during the year to
succeed Jackson H. Ralston, who
moved to California.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-01-23
SHOALS LEASE
BILL IS PASSED
Upheld In Senate 46 To 80
After Being Defeated By
Jones' Measure.

Washington.-The Senate passed
Senator Underwood's bill for leasing
the Government property at Muscle
Shoals to a private corporation by a
vote of 43 to 38, defeating the Jones'
bill, which proposed commission to
investigate and report to the Senate
next December.
The astonishing thing is that the
same Jones' bill, beaten 43 to SO by the
Underwood bill, beat the Underwood
bill the day before by a vote of 46 to
33.
The Underwood bill, though it
becoming law. It must first run the
passed the Senate, is still far from
gauntlet of the House, which last
spring passed a Muscle Shoals bill
proposing to lease the property to
Henry Ford for 100 years. Ford, dis
gusted by the Senate's delay, withdrew
his offer.
Administration leaders in the Senate
predict the House will pass the I'm
derwood bill with such notifications
as the President wants. These modi-
fications will, it is foretold, be &C.
cepted by the House and Senate con-
ferees and before the session is over
conference measure will be enacted
into law by both houses, which will
be ''just what the President wants"
The one event which could upset the
established program would be the
re-entry of Henry Ford into the field.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-01-23
Business Men Form Association.

Sharptown.-A number of local men
met at the Sharptown Bank of the
Eastern Shore Trust Company and or.
ganized the Business Mems Associa-
ton, with Joseph P. Cooper, president;
Wildly d. Gravenor, vice-president; DIR.
Howard S. Bennett, secretary; L. T..
Cooper. assistant, and Purnell T.
White, treasurer
Walter C. Mann and Gravenor and
Cooper were appointed committee to
prepare bylaws.
The object is to improve the general
condition of the town, solicit indus
tries, encourage the building of homes
to meet the demand and to provide a
better lateral road system leading to-
ward the Delaware line and the outly-
ing districts.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-01-23
Study OF Backward Pupils.

Causes of backwardness in children
below their normal school grades will
be sought in survey started Monday
in Montgomery county, in which the
Board of Mental Hygiene, county
health officials and the State Depart
ment of Education will cooperate.
The survey will be in charge of DR..
Fannie Haines, and the first clinic will
be established at the Woodside Public
School, according to DR.. A. P. Herring,
director of the Board of Mental Hy-
giene.
Children who have been unable to
keep pace with their normal school
grades will be examined and subjected
to tests.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-01-23
CROSS ON WILSON'S TOMB.
Design on sareophasus In National
Cathedral Causes Confusion.


Washington.-W on the sarco.
phagus of Woodrow Wilson in the Ma
tional Cathedral here is nearing com
pletion.
The top, bearing Crusaders cross,
beneath which are the name and dates
of the birth and death of the war Pres
ident, has just been put in place. The
sides Of the sarcophagus, which fits
into a window niche in Bethlehem
Chapel. beneath which the body now
lies, are of Minnesota limestone. An
iron grill and canopy will complete
the work.
The design of the cross on the tomb
which closely resembles sheathed
Crusaders sword, has led to consider
able confusion among those who have
viewed the top of the sarcophagus
no authoritative explanation of the
symbol having been made.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-01-23
S320,803,862,000
As U. S. WEALTH
Increase in Wealth of Country
is IL Per Cent. Over 1912
APPARENT GROWTH ~ P. c.
Decrease In Value Of Dollar Response.
BILE For Difference In Fig
ures-value OF Rail-
roads.

Washington.-The United States is
worth $320,S03, 1862, 900, the Census
Bureau announced on the basis of 1922
a This is an actual increase Of IL per
cent. over the wealth of the nation in
1912. The figure itself represents an
apparent 70 per cent increase during
the 10-year period, but when the 1922
value of the dollar is reduced to its
value in 1912, the actual increase is
reduced.
The increase in wealth just about
kept even with the population growth
of the country, and enabled this ma
ton to hold her place as the richest
on earth on per capita basis.
Taxable real estate made up $780,.
90S,625,O0O, nearly one-half of the
total. NoE-taxable real estate was
$40, 5,S19,0OO. Live stock was valued
at nearly six billions, while motor We
hicles were placed at four and one
half billions,
The value of the railroads and their
equipment was nearly $40 100000, 900;
that of the street railways, shipping,
waterworks, canals and irrigation was
SIS, 100000
Agricultural products were worth
$5,465, 1860 manufactured products,
S2S. 422,S4S,000, and clothing, adorn-
ments, furniture, horse-drawn vehicles
and other personal property mounted
to $39,S16,0 O1 900.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-01-23
HEALTH BOARD
HELD BLAMELESS
Governor Answers Letter Sent
To Him BY L. g.
Quinn.

Annapolis
Governor Richie, in statement
declared that the State Department OF
Health, the Conservation Commission
er and he himself had taken promptly
the only steps possible to counterfeit
the effect of unfounded reports from
Chicago that Maryland oysters were
infected with typhoid germs.
: The Governors statement was is
sued in answer to letter addressed
to him by l.. c. Quinn, of Crisfield, who
asserted that as result of the in
activity of officials of the State Depart
ment of Health following the Chicago
reports the oyster industry of Crisfield
had been destroyed.
From the very first" Governor
Richie said, "the Maryland authorities
have been doing everything humanity
possible to remedy the situation
caused by the Chicago reports.
There is no respect in which any OF
our officials are subject to the slightest
criticism in this matter; on the con.
trary, they ought to be commended for
the prompt way in which they are and
have been meeting the situation.
"As a matter of fact, they are com
mended by every fair-minded person
who knows the facts"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-01-23
CROKER MEMORIALS.

Museum In Central Park, At New York,
And Library At Palm Beach.
West Palm Beach, Fla.-Mrs. Bula
Croker announced at her winter home
in Palm Beach that she plans to spend
half of the many millions left her by
her husband, Richard Croker, for three
memorials in his honor.
The memorials are to be erected in
New York City, Ireland and in Palm
Beach, the three places in which Mr..
Croker spent most of his life.
To perpetuate the memory of Mr..
Croker his widow plans to build a
museum in Central Park, library in
Palm Beach and to turn over the
Croker estate in Ireland to the Sisters
of Charity.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-01-23
FIRST DAY OFF in % YEARS.

Anderson, S. C.-Miss Lenora Hub
bard, a teacher in the city schools, Gel
ebrated her SEVENTEEN birthday Thurs
day by taking day off from her work,
the first time she has asked leave of
absence since the city schools were
founded some % years ago.
Miss Hubbard has taught schools
continuously for nearly so years. She
is now teaching great-grandchildren of
some of her former pupils.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-01-23
$40 DIE IN CAUCASUS QUAKE.
Four Villages Destroyed And 1000
Made Homeless.

London,-Four villages have been
destroyed and 140 persons killed in an
earthquake at Ardahan, in Trans
caucasia, says dispatch to the Daily
hail from Constantinople. The dis
patch adds that 1000 persons are
homeless with the temperature % de-
grees (FahrenheiD below zero. Earth
shocks are continuing internationally.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-01-23
LOWER RATE ON RAIL LOANS

Washington. = President Coolidge
was asked by Alfred P. Thorn, general
counsel for the Association of Rail-
way Executives, to approve legislation
to lower the interest rate on Govern
ment loans to railroads.
Such legislation is pending, and Mr..
Thorn before the Senate Interstate
Commerce Committee declared it's en-
actment was necessary, particularly in
the case of the Chicago. Milwaukee
and st. Paul Railroad.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-01-23
FISH FORCE MILL TO CLOSE.
More Than Ton Of Suckers Jam Water
Wheel.

West Swansey, N. H.-The Home
stead Wooden Mills here were COM
PEELED to shut down because the water
at CRATE leading the waterwheel was
shut off by jam of fish. More than
a ton of fish, suckers weighing from
one to two and half pounds, were
raked out.
A Waterman has been placed at the
gate to rake away the fish and prevent
another jam.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-01-23
JARs MAKE ARMY CUT.

Tokio.-The War Department has
announced that more than 10000 sol
diers are to be dismissed from service
next May as result of the Govern
ment's policy of economic retrench-
ment, which resulted in cut in the
military and naval budgets for the
coming fiscal year, starting in April.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-01-23
WORK DELAYS COAL SESSION.
Majority OF Governors Invited Toe
Busy To Attend.

Washington. Secretary Work post
poned indefinitely conference pro-
posed by President Coolidge to discuss
coal mine safety measures. The ma
jority of the Governors of the "a coal
producing States who were invited to
attend the meeting, tentatively set for
January 26, notified the Secretary they
would not be able to be in Washington
on that date because of legislative ses-
sions.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-01-23
cLEvELAND's SON TO WE'D.
Francis Grover To Marry Miss AIic,
Erdman, OF Princeton.

T New York.-The engagement of
Francis Grover Cleveland, youngest
son of Grover Cleveland, to Miss Alice
Erdman, daughter of the Reverend
Doctor and Mrs. Charles R. Erdman,
OF Princeton, N. j., is announced.
Cleveland is senior at Harvard
University. His mother, now Mrs.
Thomas Jex Preston, Jr., lives in
Princeton. The Rev. DR.. Erdman is
pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church of Princeton.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-01-23
NOTED cARIcATuRIsT DIES.
Harry Furniss Was Also An Author
And Lecturer.

Londonderry Furniss, noted carl
caturist, author and lecturer, died at
Hastings, aged 70 years. He was for
many years contributor to the prin-
cipal magazines in ENGLAND and Amer
lea. He had also written and produced
many photo plays and had acted
in them both in the United States and
England.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-01-23
Two Drowned As Boat overturns.

Cambridge.-Capt. H. L. Pope, Ok
ford, and an unidentified colored man
were drowned off the Dorchester
county shore when their motor yawl
overturned. The crew of the little
Choptank river police boat witnessed
the accident. Pope's body has been
recovered.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-01-23
SOUTH AMERICAN AIR SERVICE

Rio Janeiro-Three hydro-airplanes
hoped off here Wednesday morning
for Buenos Aires, thus inaugurating
the first aerial mail service between
Brazil and Argentina. The planes are
expected to stop en- route at Sac Paulo,
Curityba, Florianapolis and Monte
video.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-01-23
DAWES QUITS MINUTE MEN.
Resigns As President OF Illinois Or
ganization.

Chicago. - Vice President elect
Dawes has given up his job as presi-
Dlent of the Minute Men of the Con-
MUTTON. Labor union leaders here
It the organization was formed to
strikes, but this charge was
by Mr.. Dawes. The minute
continue to function when
Norge A. Paddock, of Evans
" president. said.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-01-23
Auto Kills Boy, II.

observation-disclosures Hite, IL, died
here of injuries received when his sled
crashed into an auto driven by Walter
Lee, colored. The auto was wrecked
in trying to avoid the boy
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-01-23
NEW GOVERNOR IN cARoLINA.

. Raleigh, N. C.-Angus Wilton Nc
Lean. chairman of the United States
Finance Corporation under the Wilson
Administration, was inaugurated Gov
'ernor Of North Carolina. He succeeds
Cameron Morrison.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-01-23
NATIONAL ARRoRETuM URGED.
House Agriculture Committee Hears
Witnesses For Plan.

Washington.-A national arboretum
near Washington was advocated be-
fore the House Agricultural Commit
tee which started hearing on bill to
authorize expenditures of 100000 for
the purchase.
Establishment Of the arboretum,
various witnesses pointed out, would
enable the Agriculture Department to
conduct a more thorough investigation
and study of trees and plant life and
also would permit comparisons of va
rious plants and trees to be made
when grown side by side.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-01-23
Fined Under State oyster Law.

Fined Under State Oyster Law.
Swepson Earle, State Conservation
Commissioner, reported that William
c. Todd, of Chance, and B. F. Tull, OF
Crisfield, had been arrested by E. j
Plowden, a former commissioner OF
the State Department of Conservation
now deputy commander of the depart
ment, on charge of violating the
oyster law.
Todd and Tull were accused OF
using push-boats in taking oysters
from bottoms in the Potomac river
Mr.. Earle said. Arraigned before a
justice of the peace at Leonardtown.
st. Mary's county, each was fined
$500.
Todd at one time was an applicant
for the position of conservation COM
missioner and made an address on con-
servation before the Merchants and
Manufacturers Association of Balti-
more.
"These arrests are significant in that
they resulted from cooperation of Vir-
ginia authorities with our department, =
Mr.. Earle said. 1.-THE agreement made
between the two States to arrest VIC
iators of oyster laws common to both
Maryland and Virginia is bearing fruit,
and think it happy sign