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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-10-28
MASONIC HOME DEDI-
GATED

Cecil county was well repre-
scented by Masons in attend
ance at the dedication of the
Masonic Home at Bonnie
Blink, Cockeysville, Md, Sat-
urday afternoon. 1t is esti-
mated 10000 gathered for the
ceremonies.
The gray stone structure,
with it's massive tower, is on
an elevation in the 300-acre
tract and provides a command
ing view of a broad expanse of
surrounding countryside.
Construction work, which
began in 1881, was completed
at a cost of more than $780,
900.
The ceremonies, which were
held on the portico of the main
entrance, began at 1880 p. M,
with a concert by the combined
bands Of Boumi Temple, Yedz
Grotto, Baltimore Forest Tall
Cedars and Knights Templar.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-10-28
DEMOCRATIC RALLY AT

Our community was we'll rep
resented at the Democratic
Rally, held in the Armory at
Elkton on Friday evening.
There was an outpouring of
voters to hear the speakers,
the capacity of the large Arm
DRY being taxed.
Addresses were made by U.
S. Senator Willard e. Tydings
and Congressman T. Alan
Goldsborough.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-10-28
CHILDREN SUFFOCATED
Bodies Found After Fire In
Negroes Home

Following a fire in the home
of Martha Baccus, colored, in
the rear of East Main street,
Elkton, on Saturday night, the
bodies of three children, rang
ing in ages from one to five
years, were found, having been
suffocated. The mother had
gone out, leaving the little ones
by themselves. The origin of
the fire is not known.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-10-28
NEGRO BANDIT CAPTURED
Gunfght And Holdup In Rising Sum- Officers
Fist Plays Prominent Part-Four Cars Stolen

| Sub-station, to get details of
the gun fight and capture, to
report to the city press.
On his return to his home.
as he stepped from his car, he
was confronted by the bandit
who had escaped in the dark
ness and had lain in wait, and
at the point of a gun compelled
to surrender his pocketbook,
containing $1.00, and his keys.
The negro then jumped into
Mr.. Johnson's car, and drove
off, Mrs. Johnson losing no
time in getting out of the car
as the hold up man got in.
Mrs. Johnson Immediately
telephoned to the Village Res
taurant, having seen officer
Anderson enter the place as
she and her husband were driv-
ing home. Mr.. johnson also
called the Sub-station at Con-
owingo. Officer Anderson, ac-
companied by H. M. Duyck-
inck, gave chase to the negro.
who drove toward Conowingo.
When near the Conowingo
bridge, the fleeing bandit dis
covered officers blocking the
roadway and abandoned the
car, and disappeared into the
woods, shooting and being shot
at, as he ran. He. however,
made his escape.
There followed an all-night
search of the underbrush by
six State policemen under
Sergt. E. S. Haddaway. The
patrolmen, carrying flashlights
and guns beat the wood for
hours, but at dawn they decid-
ed their quarry had escaped.
They were convinced of this
when S. D. May, of Kilby's Cor
ner, about a mile and a half
from the scene of the hunt, no.
titled the police that his auto
mobile had been stolen at
about 5 a. m.
At Fair Hill, about eleven
miles East of Rising Sun, a
bandit believed to have been
Swan blocked the road with the
car and walked back some dis
lance to wait for the next car
to come up. 1t was a Buick
sedan, owned by Milton Reeser,
of 913 Walnut street, Denver,
Lancaster county, Pa. Rees-
er's wife was riding in the car.
When Reeser saw his way
blocked he tried to back away
and turn around, but Swan held
him up with a revolver.
After taking So from Reeser,
the police say, Swan moved the
Chevrolet out of the road, took
Reeser's car and drove away.
This was about 500 Sunday
morning.
Reeser was headed toward
his summer home on the Sas-
safras river, but had gotten
confused and drove past Fair
Hill by mistake.
When Swan was, last seen he
was headed in the direction of
Newark, DEL. in the Buick, the
Pennsylvania license number
of which is KJ93. 1t is light
blue in color.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-10-28
MASQUERADE PARTY

The masquerade party held
in the public hall here, on
Tuesday evening, under aus
pices of the Fire Company,
was well attended and proved
very enjoyable. Most of those
in attendance where masked,
and many ludicious' as we'll as
fancy costumes were to be
seen. Mrs. Vernon B. Garvin
was awarded a prize for fancy
costume, Miss Maude McCum-
mings for most ludicious, and
Miss May Cox the prize in the
cake walk.
Dancing and cards were en-
joyed and refreshments of cake
and cocoa served.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-10-28

FOllOWlnS a SunHSnC IN
front of the residences of M. F.
Johnson and Mrs. Lillian Rob-
erson, on East Main street, in
this town, at $40 Saturday
night, between officers G. E.
Minnick and A. F. Anderson, Of
the State Motor Police force,
and two negro ban dts,
one of the negroes, Blame
Swan, aged 20, a native Of the
West Indies, was knocked
down by officer Anderson and
captured, the other negro.
whose name was given by the
captured bandit as Preston
Swan, his cousin, escaping in
the darkness.
The bandits, driving what
proved to be a car. that had
Deen stolen October IS from
ODDS Longest, of Furnace
Branch Road, Baltimore, had
bumped into the rear of a car
driven by Willard S. Yeakel, Of
Norristown, Pa, and when Mr..
Yeakel got out to determine
the damage to his machine,
had held up and robbed him of
the sum of $27, at about 1880,
jumped into their car and driv-
en- off. The holdup took place
near Porters Uridge, west of
Rising Sun.
Mr.. Yeakel reported the hold
up to the Police Station at
Conowingo, and officers Min
nick and Anderson were i'm
mediately dispatched to the
neighborhood.
After getting the direction
the bandits were travelling, the
officers started in pursuit.
East of Rising Sun they saw a
car approaching, and ascer-
tanned, by the license tag, that
it was the one driven by the
negro bandits.
Turning their auto about
they gave chase, catching up to
the negroes on East Main
street, here.
The bandits jumped from
their car and began shooting
at the officers, who returned
the fire and gave chase.
In the rear of Mrs. Rober-
sons dwelling, officer Ander-
son caught up to one Of the
bandits and struck him with
such force, with his fist, as to
knock him down.
The negro, knowing when he
had enough, surrendered. He
was searched and a revolver
found upon his person. Later,
a second revolver was found
upon the ground, where the
man had been felled by the Of
ficer. Examination of the
weapon revealed the fact that
three chambers had been fired,
the firing pin having damned
on the fourth cartridge.
The captured bandit was
taken to the Conowingo Sub
station, and all available offic-
ers organized into details to
patrol the roads and search for
the fugitive bandit.
Everett F. Johnson, accom-
panied by his wife, drove to the
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-10-28

Rev. Edward Minor has filed
suit in the Circuit Court for
Cecil county contesting an or
der aimed to force him to eva
cuate his present strategic 10
cation at East Main street and
Delaware avenue, in the town
of ElktOn.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-10-28

Colora Work and Fun Club
will hold a masquerade square
dance in the schoolhouse at
that place, Friday evening,
October %. Prizes for the best
and funniest costumes will be
awarded. Refreshments will
be for sale.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-10-28

The date for the Mems Bible
Class Pancake and Sausage
supper at West Nottingham
Presbyterian Church has been
changed to Wednesday eve
ming. November 2, 1882. Sup
per from 5 to 8 o'clock. Price
so cents. including pie,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-10-28

A poultry shoot will be held
at lakewood on Saturday, be-
ginning at IL o'clock noon, I'M
der management of w. J. Dali
ton. All kinds of poultry will
be given as prizes,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-10-28

h0nn0fy Ol isaac oyAO, ASos.
Blue Ball, on Thursday, and
carried off a number OF fine
chickens.
Calvert School Improvement
Association has elected Mrs.
Norman Fell, president; Miss
Lillian McInturff, secretary;
William Little treasurer.
The Elkton Supply Company
is preparing to erect two new
buildings at their plant in Elk
ton. to replace the ones de-
stroyed by fire some weeks ago.
The faculties of Rising Sun
High School and the Element
ary School attended the ses-
sions of the State Teachers
Association, in Baltimore, on
Friday.
The annual convention of
the Cecil County Cuncil of Re-
ligious Education was held at
Zion M. E. and Presbyterian
churches on Wednesday of this
week.
The pointing of the brick
work on the public hall build
ing was completed on Thurs
day. The work was in charge
of contractor Edward Nesbitt,
of Colora.
Ira Moore has sold his resi-
dence property, on Locust Lane
in Elkton, to Howard Davis, of
the Davis Supply Co., and will
move to his farm near Glas-
gov, Del.
According to sportsmen wild
fowl of every description is
more plentiful on the Susque-
hanna flats than has been not
ed at this time of the year for
many seasons.
Miss Nina A. Calvert, of Per-
ryville. a senior at the Wom-
ems College, University of Del
aware, at Newark, has been
elected commuter representa-
tive to the Students Executive
Council.
The annual meeting of the
Cecil County Unit, Maryland
State Normal School Alumni
Association, will be held at the
home of Miss X. M. Bratton,
Elkton, October 20, at three
o'clock.
Mrs. George Buck, of Port
Deposit, met with a serious ac-
cident at her home in that
town, by falling down a flight
of stairs. No bones were brok-
en-, but she suffered painful
cuts and decorations.
Some time late Thursday
night or early Friday morning,
thieves forced a window of the
store of Robert Brown, near
Charlestown, this county, and
carried off a lot of cigars, ciga-
rettes, chewing gum and other
articles.
Thieves broke into the
American store also the A. and
P. store in Chesapeake City,
this county, early one morning
last week, and carried large
amount of goods from each
place. Both robberies, it is be-
lieved, were done by the same
parties.
Dewey Haines, known as the
pretzel king of Lititz, Pa, was
king of the fishermen Saturday
when he landed an immense
black eel with hook and line,
with a worm as bait, while
fishing near Fishing Creek,
Pa. 1t tipped the scales at
91s pounds.
Members of the Occupational
Therapy Department of the U.
S. Veterans Hospital, Perry
Point, and their wives rendered
Mr.. Lee R. Payne, of Perry
Point a testimonial dinner at
the Colonial Hotel, Havre de
Grace, Friday evening. Mr..
Payne has been chief aide of
the department at the hospital
for six years and has been in
the hospital service for twelve
years.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-10-28
TOWN AND COUNTY
Short Paragraphs of Recent Events of
Interest to Our Readers
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

Mrs. Paul Mckee has been
entertaining Miss Margaret
| Mccormick, of Red Lion, Pa.
Mrs. Clara B. Keen enjoyed a
visit to her daughter, Mrs. Ar
thur Irwin, in Altoon, Pa, the
past week.
Mrs. Harry Fox has returned
from a pleasant visit to rela-
tives at Valley Forge, Media
and Philadelphia.
Mrs. H. B. Patten, DIR. and
Mrs. T. B. Moore and B. l..
Keilholtz were Sunday visitors
of Emerson X. Patten and fam
lily, of Baltimore.
Mrs. Joseph Cameron enter
tanned the Foreign Missionary
Society of the M. E. Church, on
Wednesday afternoon, at her
home on South Queen street.
Mrs. VIM. M. Workman and
daughter Adelaide, of Mt. Joy,
Pa, spent the weekend with
the formers sisters, Mrs. Mary
Cherry and Miss Louise Wor-
Ellington.
DR.. R. C. Dodson and Cecil
E. Ewing attended the lunch
icon and meeting of the Lions
Clubs of the Eastern District,
held at the Southern Hotel,
Baltimore, on Tuesday.
Among those from Rising
Sun to attend the dedication or
the Masonic Home, at Bonnie
Blink, on Saturday were Mr..
and Mrs. H. M. Wilson, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. Paul Keen, Claude c.
Buck and family, Mr.. and Mrs.
Richard Lane, Rev. A: B. Frye,
John E. Boyle, H. L. Shepherd.
After crashing into the fence
OF Mrs. Margaret l.. Wells, in
Elkton, the driver of a Ford
car abandoned the machine.
Night Officer Randolph later
arrested a young man who
gave his name as Russell Sch
wall, of Staten Island, and adj
mitted stealing the car in Will
mington. The owner of the
machine not caring to prose-
cute, and the boy having a pre-
vious good record, he will be
paroled in the custody of his
father.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Fulton,
of lakewood, celebrated their
fiftieth wedding anniversary,
Friday evening, at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Curtis Hall, near
Rowlandville. About seventy
five guests were present from
York, Lancaster, Wilmington,
Rising Sun, Port Deposit. Oak
wood. RoWlandville and other
points, to offer congratulations
and help the bride and groom
of fifty years celebrate the hap
Ply occasion.
There are one son and two
daughters, John Fulton. of
Wilmington; Mrs. William
Grubb, of lakewood; Mrs. Cur
tbs Hall, of Rowlandville.
Mr.. and Mrs. James G. Shib-
ley, Of Washington, announce
the engagement of their
daughter, Betty, to Mr.. Will
liam T.-Fryer, son of Mrs.
Fryer, formerly of Colora, and
the late Mr.. William T. Fryer.
Miss SHIRLEY is a graduate of
Western High School and at
tended Gunston Hall. Mr..
Fryer, after graduation from
the George Washington Uni
versity and the George Wash
ington University Law School,
completed year of graduate
work at the Yale School of
Law and engaged in the prac-
tice of law in Baltimore. He
is now an associate professor
of law in the George Washing
ton University Law School.
The wedding will take place in
December.
The Republicans of Cecil
county held a rally at the New
Theatre, Elkton, on Thursday
evening of this week. The
speakers included former May
or of Baltimore, VIM. F. Broen-
ing, and former Attorney Gen.
Iaral Of MARYLAND Fl Alavand-
The Washington times., 1932-12-30
ITURI FOREST WOMAN WHO SQUEEZEs HER INFANTS
SKULL HOW FAR SHE ABOVE THE GORILLA? HOW
:. FAR ARE WE?

The other day you may read here about the photo
graphing Of goras in Africa by Lady Broughon adven
turous English Lady Broughon described the Afri
savages killing and eating their alleged cousins, the
gorlas though the white mans law strictly forbids it.
The picture published above showing native Of
the 1tur forest and her poor little baby its head abominaby
squeezed, was also taken by Lady Broughton.
This interesting picture may you ask yourself how
far this native is above the gorilla.
There u.s. of course an immeasurabe distance in mental
development shows you compare the low forehead
Of gorilla with the forehead of the native mother Millions
Of Of primitive thinking have raised that forehead and
increased the size Of that brain.
The little child in the is be ptied,
for as you see its head tightly wrapped around with cord
with wire in order squeeze it into long shape
that the natives consider beautiful.
Concerning this Disagreement Lady Broughton writes
MANY strange curious an exaggerated elongation of
customs the skull, considered them
natives Of the forest oe Speclal 1orH OF peauCy
tcuary useless nfortnste nfan s Tent m % s
Is the practice s Of tightly bind awake at nights until
S Se @ oS benr hor TO atan a pssa camping near
It is horrible think of the thousands miserable little
babies living in the dark forest suffering agonies
having their skulls squeezed out Of shape
is equally horrible to think of the hundreds of millions
OF little Chinese girls that have suffered torture having their
feet compressed to keep them small spite of Nature
great British naturalist said the difference between the
lowest savage Bushman and highly developed white man
greater than the difference between that savage blade
Of grass
That be true with very highly developed white
Our own proud supply many instances of
brutality.
mob of 200 savages, numbering the gorilas and
eating them very much worse than one of
mobs engaged in lynching enterprise
All Of us human beings not far from alleged
"cousins, the higher apes.
However have excuse-we are only $4,000 years
from the Stone Age and done fairly well those
$4,000 short years. We shall do better in the hundreds of
millions of years that stretch ahead of the earth
The Washington times., 1932-12-30

beaming a ELSIE ROBINSON
you, across the old kitchen
stove?
Better still, remember the
first time you made buck
wheats yourself, Maryland
you a young bride in your
own new home? Real buck
wheats; not the fancy pack
age kind.
How was it they went?
! pint milk
! pint water
/ yeast cake
Chats how the recipe ran,
didn't it?)
/ tablespoon molasses
12 teaspoon soda
Buckwheat flour
(How it all corles back,
doesn't it, MaryO
Dissolve the yeast cake in
lukewarm milk and water. Sift
in enough buckwheat to make
a good batter and set to rise
overnight in an earthen crock"
(You used a big yellow bowl,
didn't you? So did t.
I'm the. morning add salt,
molasses and soda dissolved in =
! cup hot water.
Batter not too thick. Fry
on hot creased griddle."
Remember? How can you
forget! Out of the past it all
comes rising-the joy and the
peace you knew in that little
shabby room.
Have you ever known such
joy since, Nary Never! Not
with all your striving and con-
triving. Rich years since then.
Years when you've been able to
pay for a cook to fry your buck
wheats, or you've bought them
in the gilded dining rooms of
big hotels. Years that swept
you far past those early hard
The Washington times., 1932-12-30
A Singular Item
When You Think of It

Among minor items of you may have this yester
day:
"The work of digging up more than lOOOAdO
cats, canaries and horses from their graves at one
end of the sixteen-acre Pet Memorial Park at Wan
tGgh, L. l., and reburyng them the other end
announced Monday. .t 49,.
"The task took almost tHO years and more
than $I5,OOO The Long Island Park Commission had
condemned SIX of the land for construction of
spur betWeen the Southern State Parkway and
Jones Beach Causeway. .'..
"The last animal to be r,OOed a goat. Many,
cats and canaTies dug up and transported, as
welI as 100 dogs and a number of horses"
Every normal person likes PETS but
reader nowadays especially if he knows anything about the
human misery and suffering in this other ce-that
profitable could have been found for this $50O
The would feed hundreds of undernourhed children
cche hundreds of ragged bring hope hundreds of
less families
Persons who have money entitled to spend they wish
and the of this at least gave jobs to the burial squad
To most of however strange which places
sentiment for dead animals above the desperate need Of live
human beings
The Washington times., 1932-12-30

We cannot balance the
budget by a greater increase
in income taxes.
Nor by a greater increase
in corporation taxes.
Nor through revenue to be
brought. in through the Gus
tom houses.
Nor through a tax on
beer-as it looks now.
And yet the budget must
; be balanced if the nation is
not to 60 into bankruptcy
with all that means in gen.
eral ruin.
Under these circumstances
it is inevitable that recourse
must be had to a sales tax.
The press would have us
think that this was the
Hoover or Administration
plan last year and that the
Democratic leaders are now
going over to the Hoover
Mills plan. The answer to
that is that it simply is not
true. The Democratic leaders
in the House stood for, and
fought for, a sales tax last
year and the support they
got from the Administration
was nil.
The Washington times., 1932-12-30

with her time all day." And,
if a man happens to be OF a
jealous disposition, his wife's
life-struggle is not to keep him
coming home, but to keep him
from hanging around the house
all day.
Of course, there will be some
cynical wives, who will be
amazed to learn that there ARE
any husbands who DO come
home, every evening.
But, you'd be surprised! The
world is full of them! Patient,
plodding, harness-broken hus-
bands, who would as soon
think of committing hari-kari
or of wearing their coats
wrong-side-out as of not going
$ straight home from the office.
It's just the old "homing in.
stinct"! Which is strong in
every normal man.
Copyright, 1882. King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1932-12-30

TT is doubtful whether the
i strenuous effort to en-
force a quorum in the House
during the holidays will be
worth the effort. No one
has any reasonable founda-
tion for the hope of prevent
ing an extra session after
the 4th Of March. The beer
bill has not yet passed the
Senate, and if it does, there
is no longer any doubt that
President Hoover will veto
it, and the two-thirds vote
necessary to pass the meas
ure, despite the veto, can
not be mustered. A large
portion of the public will
not be content to wait a
year for the enactment of a
beer revenue bill, and the
party soon to assume power
is pledged.
Nor is there any sound
reason to hope that an ade-
quate farm relief measure
can be framed and passed
during the next 10 weeks.
The plan is still in a nebu-
lous state.
The debt question is out
of the way for the present
session; and, aside from
routine legislation such as
the passing of the usual ap-
preparation bills, it is inn
probable that anything can
be accomplished beyond the
passage Of a tax measure to
balance the budget. That,
however, is imperative.
The Washington times., 1932-12-30
Only One Way to
"Soak the Rich"

1t is evident from the way
the deficit is piling up that
it will be impossible to raise
the money to wipe it out
without resorting to new
sources of taxation. It can
not be done by increasing
the income taxes again. The
income taxes last year for
New York alone were off
more than $2,OOO,O0O,00O!
Nothing worth while can be
hoped for from heavier cor
poration taxes. The record
shows that in New York
$4,000 firms showed a deficit
instead of earnings. When
there is no income nothing
can be had from an income
tax. When corporations
operate at a loss a corpora
tion tax brings in no money.
Because of the economic
conditions we have here
reached the point Of dimin-
ishing returns.
In a community I know I
can think of eight men who
were rich four years ago
and paid a handsome income
tax. All eight of these have
been utterly ruined during
the last two years and will
pay no income tax at all.
That is one community and
there is a similar condition
in every community.
There is only one way to
"soak the rich" under pres
ent conditions, and that is
through a capital tax, which
is not in the least likely.
We cannot hope to bal
ance the budget through
another increase in the in
come and corporation tax.