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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-05-22
LAUDS LIFE OF
JUDGE BR|SC0E
Leaders Of Bar Attend Memo
rial For Late Jurist, Thirty
Years Member Of Bench.

The Court of Appeals of Maryland
devoted a portion of the session OF
the afternoon to eulogies upon the life
and services of the late Judge John
P. Briscoe, for more than thirty years
a members of that tribunal.
Judge Briscoe died at his home,
Prince Frederick, on the 14th of April
last, having retired from the judiciary,
on account of passing the age limit a
short time before.
The death was announced to the
court by Attorney General Thomas H.
Robinson. Other speakers were
Sylvan H. Laucheimers and Shirley
Carter, of Baltimore; General L. Al
lison Wilmer, La Plata; W. Hampton
Magruder, Upper Marlboro, and Jonn
B. Grey, Prince Frederick.
Chief Judge T. Carroll Bond, re-
sponded on behalf of the court and
announced its adjournment in respect
to the memory of Judge Briscoe.
Attorney General Robinson made a
concise statement of the life and ac-
tivitieS OF Judge Brlscoe, IN particular
his work as a member of the highest
State court for so many years. He
also paid a tribute to Judge Briscoe's
great energy, saying he had taken up
active practice after retiring from the
bench.
In replying to the addresses of the
members of the bar, Judge Bond ex-
pressed his appreciation of the work
of Judge Briscoe and called attention
to the fact that he had occupied a
seat on that bench for nearly quar-
ter of its, whole existence.
He said that the most marked char
acteristic of Judge Briscoe was his
keen sympathy and his keen appre-
citation of the human relationship OF
his work as judge.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-05-22
Named Y. M. c. A. DELEGATE.

H. R. MacCubbin, of Owings Mills,
junior at Harvard University, has
been appointed to the committee in
charge of the Harvard delegation to
the annual Young Mems Christian AS
sociation conference at Silver Bay, N.
y, according to a dispatch from Cam
bridge, Mass.
The conference, which will take
place June IL to 10, will be attended by
delegations of college boys from all
parts of the country.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-05-22
Garrett Clerk At Prison.

John e. Garrett, who for more than
year was States Attorney of Mont
gomery county, now is clerk in the
6ffice of an overall factory in the Mary
land Penitentiary.
He was assigned to that position by
Assistant Warden Patrick ]. Brady
after he had been QUILTED with the
regulation gray garb.
Garrett was sentenced to eleven
years in the prison after he had plead
ed guilty in the Circuit Court of Mont
gomery county, at Rockville.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-05-22
NEGRO Gets Life Term.

Isaiah Butler, colored, found guilty
at Annapolis of the murder of Joseph
H. Ching, Leonardtown lawyer and
politician, was sentenced to life i'm
prisonment in the Maryland Peniten-
tiary by Judge Robert Moss.
Butler, who is So years old, said he
had no statement to make.
In pronouncing the sentence Judge
Moss declared that Butler had COM
mitted the crime out of jealousy over
intimacy between Ching and negro
woman.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-05-22
Boosts cordy For Governor.

Loire c. Quinn, Jr., of Crisfield, lead
er of the Quinn faction of the Demo
cratic party in Somerset county, in a
statement came out for State Comp
troller William S. Gordy, Jr., for Gov
ernor. The faction is opposed to the
Joshua Miles faction and to Governor
Richie.
Mr. Quinn denied reports that his
father, Loire G. Quinn, will seek the
nomination for Comptroller, but an
nounced that he himself will be a
candidate for the State Senate in 1926.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-05-22
MarxIand crop Season Ahead.

Maryland's crop season continues 10
days ahead of the normal season and
much planting has been done, the May
report Of ]. S. Dennee, U. S.-Maryland
agricultural statistician, shows.
Winter grains and pasture are in
very good condition, he said. Egg pro-
duction and milk production both in
Maryland and Delaware are unusually
good.
Farm labor is more plentiful than
last wear
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-05-22
Four Drivers Sent To Jail.

Four autoists were sentenced to jail
during the week ended May Is, and
the licenses of Fl revoked, Auto Com
missioner Baughman announced.
Traffic fines imposed in Baltimore
totaled S2,055, and in the rest of the
state S4,70S, total for the week of
$6,75S.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-05-22
Child Killed BY Truck.

Frostburg. = Evelyn, 7-year old
daughter of Joseph Miller, was fatally
injured when struck by motor truck
driven by Walter Williams.
Her sister, Gladys, II years old, was
injured, but not seriously. The girls
were crossing. the street from a store.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-05-22
NEWS review OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Governments Grand AS
sault on Demon Rum
Hits Land Traffic.
BY EDWARD w. PIcKARD

T INCLE SAM, as represented by the
~ Treasury department, feels that
he has rather effectually checked the
smuggling of illicit liquor from the
rum fleet on the Atlantic coast, and
now Is going after the land traffic in
booze with every agency at his COM
mand. President Coolidge is taking
an active interest in the crusade for
enforcement of the prohibition law
and has, asked Secretary of the Treas
ury Mellon to forward it by every
available means.
Every dry agent will be employed in
the campaign, and the support of the
general public is to be sought through
posters and bulletins that will be post
ed throughout the country. This bill
board propaganda, setting forth the
Course of intoxicating liquor" is the
pet idea of Prohibition Commissioner
Haynes and has been approved by his
superiors only after long argument.
The combination of bullets and bulle-
tins" it is hoped, will prove doubly
effective. Under the supreme COM
mand of Assistant Secretary Of the
Treasury Andrews in directing the
campaign are Rear Admiral Billiard,
commandment of the coast guard; Com
missioner Haynes, and E. G. Yellow
ley, head of the field forces. David H.
Blair, commissioner of internal rev.
enue, will give whatever aid is re-
quired from his bureau.
Admiral Billiard is not letting the
public know just now what the dry
navy is doing, but it is known that the
blockade of the rum-running fleet has
proved quite effective. Many of the
vessels have departed, and though a
few new ones have appeared in the
line, so close a watch is kept that very
little liquor has reached the shore.
The blockaders are aided by batteries
of searchlights so powerful that their
beams pierce the fogs on which the
smugglers had counted. There are
current many stories of attacks on the
coast guard men and threats against
them, as well as Of attempts to cor
rupt them. But the booze runners are
not getting far on those lines. Natur-
ally their activities were diverted to
a considerable extent to the Great
Lakes, but there, too, the dry forces
are preparing to combat them. Many
more patrol boats will be in commits
sion there and it is not likely that
Canada will object to the arming of
such vessels.
On the coast of southern California
conditions are reported to be bad, from
the prohibition point of view. There
are only two coast guard cutters there
and the smugglers, it is said are land
ing between $4,000 and $4,000 worth
of whisky every day in the vicinity
of San Pedro. The dry officials admit
they cannot cope with the traffic ex-
cept on land.
Secretary of Commerce Hoover in a
trade report includes in the invisible
foreign trade of the United States for
1924 an item of $40,000,O00 of snug
gled liquor. This sum is vastly more
than is admitted by the prohibition Of
fcials but far less than the estimates
of the bootleg syndicates.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-05-22

co are proceeding successfully, though
4, the tribesmen are putting up stout
resistance. Wednesday Of last week
there was a series of lively battles
along a wide front. The French used
all branches of the service and drove
back the Rifiians with heavy loss, re-
lieving all but two of the beleaguered
outposts. General de Chambrun. who
used to be military attache in Wash
ington and married Nicholas Long
worth's sister. is in command Of the
French forces. With the assurance
from the government OF large rein
foreements, he is preparing to Dust the
invading tribesmen entirely from the
French zone.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-05-22
Lag In Joining Training Camp.

rs
Maryland youths are slow to en-
roll for this summers Citizens Mill
tary Training Camps, but Maj.-Gen.
Samuel. d. Sturgis, commanding officer
of the Third Corps Area, asserted he
was sure the response from this State
will be up to quota.
But he emphasized that the time
for enrolling is passing quickly, and
only three weeks remain before the
lists will be closed. Late corners are
likely to find the coveted places in
the Army tents taken by youths from
Pennsylvania, Virginia and the Dis
trict of Columbia.
The application lists probably will
be CLOSED by June 6, according to an
nouncement at Third Corps headquar-
ters. This is twenty-four days before
the opening of camp.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-05-22

MAKING public preliminary re-
lN1 port of the Department Of Agri-
cultures investigation into the extraor-
binary fluctuations in future grain quo
tations between January and April
8, Secretary Jardine warned all grain
exchanges designated as contract mar
kets that they must either put into
effect stricter rules looking toward
the prevention of price manipulation
or else face the probability of further
and more stringent legislation govern
ing the trading in futures. BY all
those concerned the warning was con-
strued as a threat to revoke the char
ter of the Chicago board of trade as a
contract market unless II promptly
provided remedies for existing eondi-
lions. Indeed. Mr. Jardine already had
issued a similar warning TO represents
tives of the Chicago board. The sec
rotary made It plain and emphatic
that if that organization wishes to con
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-05-22

Travel Quarantine For State Refused.
The State Department of Health has
refused to place a quarantine against
travel into Maryland from cities af-
fected with smallpox epidemics, as re-
ouested by several deputy and county
health officials.
County officials on the Eastern
Shore and in several Southern Mary
land counties recently requested DR..
John S. Fulton, State health Director,
TO prevent persons from Philadelphia
and Washington entering Maryland.
They also asked that the department
move to have the various railroad COM
panies cancel excursion trains.
DIR. Fulton issued circulars, sent to
all State and county health authorities,
in which he said that the situation is
not serious enough to warrant quaran-
tine. Widespread vaccination, which
has been effected in Maryland, makes
the danger of an epidemic in this State
very slight, according to Dr. Fulton.
He said that placing of quarantine
would be a RELAPSE to mediavalism. .
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-05-22

~ LEM FRANK, editor Of the Gen.
" fury Magazine and only thirty
eight years old. has been invited by
the board of the University of Wiscon-
sin to become the president of that In
stitution. Mr.. Frank is a native of
Missouri and received his education in
Northwestern and Lincoln Memorial
universities. For several years he was
assistant to the president Of North
western.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-05-22

TN TENNESSEE they are about to
try a test case in which an instruc-
tor is accused of violating the state
law forbidding the teaching of the
theory of evolution In state schools. A
preliminary hearing of the charges re-
suited in the instructors being held
to the grand jury. The fundamental
lists of the country are intensely inter-
ested in seeing that the statute is up
held, and William Jennings Bryan.
their high priest among the lalty. has
offered his legal services to the pros
ecution. He says the scientists of
America are dishonest scoundrels"
who are afraid to tell their beliefs and
"burrow in the ground and steal away
the faith of our children"
N EATH removed last week several
- notable\ persons. Among them
were Miss Amy Lowell, an eminent
American poet and critic and sister Of
President Lowell of Harvard; Sir
Henry Rider Haggard, celebrated Eng
lish writer of tales of romance and ad-
venture; Herbert Quick, American au-
thor and editor; General Mangin, who
gained undying fame by his defense
of Verdun in the World war; Rt. Rev.
Mgr. Charles A. O'Hern. rector of the
North American college at Rome, and
William F. Massey, premier Of New
Zealand.
A S HAD been expected, the SEN
"A fences passed on the two sol
diers at Honolulu, convicted of trying
to organize communist league among
their comrades have been greatly re-
duced. Maj. Gen. w. r. Smith, after
reviewing the court-martial proceed
ings, cut the sentences from 40 and 20
years to three years and one year.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-05-22

ERENCH operations against the Riff
L dans in the French zone Of Moroc-
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-05-22
ALONG
LIFE'S TRAIL
By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK
Dean Of Men. University of Illinois.
THE LOUD VOICE

"a Isss. western S.wsp.per union.I
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-05-22
|ABES' SLAYER
CHILD IN Mind
Governor Considers Sending
Montgomery County Girl
To Home AS Defective.

Following claims made by a Mont
gomery county delegation that Eliza
beth M. King, now serving 1O-year
sentence in the House of Correction
Nor the murder Of her two infants, has
the mind of an eight-year-old child,
Governor Richie took steps to deter
mine whether to transfer the girl to a
Florence Crittenton Home in Virginia.
The Governor will ask Mental
Hygiene Commissioner Arthur P. Her.
ring to examine the girl and make a
report on her mental condition. He
will ask DR.. Herring to visit the Iva
kota Farm in Fairfax county, Virginia,
to determine whether the institution
is the proper place for her, and the
Governor will confer with the judges
of the Circuit Court for Montgomery
county, who imposed the sentence, to
learn their views.
If it is found, he said, that there is
no objection and that the girl is of low
mental caliber the transfer will be
arranged.
The delegation which called on the
Governor was headed by Mrs. John
Boyle, Jr., of Chevy Chase, and in
cluded the Rev. w. w. Shearer, Mrs.
Shearer, Mrs. Thomas E. Robertson,
Col. James Abbott, U. S. A., retired !;
Mrs. A. B. McManus and others, most
of whom are connected with the Flor
ence Crittenton Mission. They car
ried letter from the Ri. Rev. James
e. Freeman, bishop of Washington,
who Endorsed the transfer.
The members of the delegation de-
clared that the girl was, in their
opinion, totally irresponsible. They
told the Governor that they believed
more good would be accomplished if
the girl is sent to the Virginia institu-
ton, where she could be given train
ing which would fit her for some use
full vocation when her term expires.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-05-22

FOREIGN MINISTER BRAND and
L Finance Minister Calllaux have
let 1t be known that they are in favor
of reaching an agreement with the
United States on the debt question
within fifteen days, and there is great
satisfaction felt thereat In Washing
ton. 1t is understood that Ambassa-
dor Daeschner will conduct the negO-
tiations for France. Jean Parmentier.
a skilled French financier, has just ar
rived in this country and 1t may be he
will help. NJ. BRAND thinks the Sc
curity question can be settled on the.
five-power treaty basis proposed By
Germany, together with another treaty
making safe the eastern frontier.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-05-22

T EON TROTZKY'S return to Mos
IL COW is having some interesting re-
suits. He has been elected men,
Der Of the soviet cabinet and is being
figuratively patted on the back by his
late foes, who seem TO have modified
their ideas of relations with the outer
world. But a confidential agent Of the
British government gives out a warn
ing. He says soviet operatives all
over the world, and especially in Lon
don, Paris and America, have been
making use Of "TrOtzky's return" for
purposes of political propaganda. This.
and this only, was the actual motive
of the triumvirate ruling Russia in
bringing back Trotzky to power. BY
masking Trotzky as an economic ex-
pert''-similar to Joseph Caillaux of
France-the Moscow rulers hope to
use him to regain absolute control of
the army. In the meantime they are
spreading the false news that the for
mer army leader has become less radi-
cal, hoping it will help them to obtain
loans. especially in London and Paris.
Evening star., 1925-08-13
TWO KLANSMEN MISSING
SINCE CELEBRATION HERE
Police Asked to Look for R. w.
Pelley of West Virginia and
N. o. Hunter of Pennsylvania.

Two KlanSmen mySteriously dis
appeared since the celebration here
Saturday and police today were asked
30 search for them.
l.. A Mueller, in charge of Klan
activities here. today called on In
spector C. l.. Grant, of the detective
bureau, requesting him to investigate
the disappearances.
First word of a disappearance came
from J. c. Mellot. agent of the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad at Glene-
aston, w Va, asking that +. w.
Pelley, also known as Coon, who
took the K. X X. special from that
point Friday, be located if possible.
The letter from Mr.. Mellot stated
that he was last seen in Washington
Saturday night. He is described as
being five-feet six inches in height,
ITO pounds in weight, and when last
seen was wearing a black soft hat.
tan shoes and no necktie. His age
was not given.
The other missing klansman is n.
O. Hunter, so, of Tarentum, Pa. He
is described as being $50 pounds in
weight, of medium build. with mixed
gray hair, light blue eyes and with a
portion of the fingers of his left hand
amputated. He had on a dark blue
suit when last seen.
Evening star., 1925-08-13
Wrecks Window After Feat
OF Leaping Sidewalk From the Avenue

denly came to life. and the next
thing he knew he was chasing il.
Over the curb it jumped in de
n1oniacal fashion and, as Carson
shut his eyes, crashed headlong
into the handsome plate glass show
window of the Federal Auto Sup
ply Co.
Carson opened his eyes, surveyed
the ruins with the help of rapid
ly gathering crowd of sympathiz-
ers, and smiled family in contem-
plation of the thought that surely
there was not any other kind of
trouble left to happen. But he was
wrong.
1t seems that Traffic Director
Eldridge does not approve of auto
mobiles using the sidewalk, so a
policeman happened along and ar
rested the unlucky motorist for fail
ing 70 give right of way TO a show
window, or something like that.
Now Carson is marshaling his
troubles for presentation in court.
confident that the worst that can
happen is a fine from the judge, a
suit for damages by the store own
er and a neat repair bill from his
garage man.
Evening star., 1925-08-13
EARLY-M0RNING FIRE
FORCES NUNS OUT
Slaking Lime in Basement of Home
Is Cause-Slight Dam
age Results.

Terror seized a group of Catholic
Sisters sleeping at the Vineyard, a
building on Harewood road, near Sol
diers' Home and Catholic University
shortly after l o'clock this morning,
when a fire starting in the basement
sent clouds of smoke pouring into the
sleeping quarters.
The Sisters fed to safety on the
first floor of the building and on the
sidewalk. Firemen of No. II Engine
Company extinguished the blaze be-
fore great damage had been done.
The fire was caused by shaking lime
left by workmen in the basement OF
the building, they reported. Damage
was estimated at $25.
A short circuit of electric wires
started a fire In the garage in the rear
OF Sl6 Second street southeast last
Evening star., 1925-08-13

Trouble descended upon Oscar F.
Carson of 350S o street in triple
distilled, double-barreled doses last
night.
First, he couldn't get his automo-
bile to run after it had stopped in
front of AT Pennsylvania avenue,
so he turned on the ignition,
climbed out and tried pushing.
AS he set his jaw and showed
with might and main his car sud
Evening star., 1925-08-13

discovery of whose tomb at Luxor
three years ago created a sensation
throughout the world.
The statue is above life size and is
evidsntly an exaggerated caricature.
it is the most notable example yet
found fer the conventional art Of
the Akhenaten period.
psychologists regard il as curious
that the statue was found at Karnak.
as tho Heritic King removed his CAPT
tai from Thebes to Tel-ei-Amarna. The
statue is being brought to the Cairo
museum, where, when deciphered, the
inscriptions of it may reveal why it
was discovered at karnak instead Of
at Tel-el-Amarna.
Evening star., 1925-08-13
COSTLY RUM CAR SEIZED.
Liquor Is Found in Deserted Auto
Owned by Rental Firm.

Investigation of the abandonment
of an automobile containing four cases
of whisky in the freight yard in Ken
ilworth the morning of July 28, led to
the arrest early today of Alfred
Evans, colored. 1905 r street, by mem
bers of Capt. Burlingame's flying
squadron. Charges of illegal posses
sion and transporting were preferred
against Evans. and he was similarly
charged by police of the fourth pre-
cinct.
Members of the flying squadron
seized an abandoned automobile and
four cases of whisky on Ridge road
southeast early this morning. Two
men were seen TO leave the car. The
automobile, an expensive one and
practically new, belongs to rental
firm.
Evening star., 1925-08-13

night which damaged the automobile
of w. A. Brown, 325 Second street
southeast, housed in the garage, and
building about $500.
James Freeman, 10 years old, 316
Second street southeast, was burned
on his arms while trying to prevent
the spread of the flames. He was
treated at Providence Hospital.
Evening star., 1925-08-13
S6,5OO,O0D SOUGHT
FOR BRYAN SCHOOL
Association Formed to Push
Project Hears DarroW At
tackled as Menace.
Ry the Associated Press.


DAYTON. Tenn. August l3.-Or-
Sanization Of the Bryan Memorial AS
Socistion last night was marked by
sCathinE Remuneration of Clarence Oar
row by 4. T. Stewart, prosecuting at
tornoy in the Scopes evolution trial
Judge John +. Raulston, who presided
denied charges made by Mr. Darrow
that he had used the trial to further
his political interests.
The association. formed to erect a
fundamentalist school here in memory
Of William Jennings Bryan, set as a
goal the raising of 81 500, 600 for build
ings and S5.00O.OOO for the endow-
ment OF the proposed institution.
MIR. Darrow. who was a defense at
torney in the Scopes trial. was de-
nounCed by Mr.. Stewart as the great
est menace present-day civilization
has TO deal with"
Doctrine Is Curse"
Il do not believe there would be
serious clash between religion and
science" the attorney said, IF it were
not for the Goddess Darrow and his ilk
spreading their Propaganda and try
ing to destroy faith in the Bible"
His doctrine is a curse. Unless the
people of this land suppress him. more
evil will be done"
Judge Raulston declared the state
ment that he had used his fundamen-
talist beliefs 70 further his political
interests was without justification"
IF ] seek election" he said, 1T
will be wholly on my record as judge,
and I don't believe Mr. Darrow's sar-
casm can prejudice the minds of the
neople against me.
Mr. Darrow now refers TO me as
being ignorant and intimates that I
am unworthy of the office which | now
hold. ! prefer that the latter question
he referred to the people in my dis
trict rather than to him"
Evening star., 1925-08-13
STATUE OF KING TUFTS
FATHER-lN-LAW FOUND
Grotesque Caricature of Ancient
Heritic King Dug Up at Luxor,
Far From Akhenaten S Capital.

By the Associated Press.
CAIRO. Egypt, August 13.-While
digging among drains in Karnak, near
Luxor, workers found a grotesque
statue Of the Beritic King Akhenaten,
father-in-law of Tut-ankh-Amen, the
Evening star., 1925-08-13

A respiratory gauge to indicate the
amount of oxygen consumed by a pa
uent is being used by a New York
hospital as an aid in determining the
diet necessary.