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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-07-19
Officers Raid Liquor
Ageing Plant
Hundreds OF Gallons OF lie
legal Wet Goods Seized
And Poured Out

Sheriff Eugene Racine, deputy
Lewis Seth and a Federal Internal
Revenue officer made raid on an
ageing plant in the Porters Bridge
section Saturday night, and con-
fiscated between 500 and 500 gallons
Of wet goods" The officers found
the place in full operation, and
nearly a hundred kegs OF moon
shine" going through the process OF
ageing.
The officers carried the kegs out,
knocked in the heads and poured the
contents on the ground.
The ageing plant was described by
the officers as being a large room,
where the kegs were placed upon
each other in such manner that
they could be heated, just as in a
regular distillery. The room was
kept tightly closed and a coal fire
kept going so that the temperature
was about 200 degrees.
The place, it is alleged, was oper-
ated by Fred Randolph, formerly OF
Massachusetts, who was placed UNI
der arrest and taken to the county
iaiB at Elkton. Two young women,
Pauline Finnefrock and Stella Simp-
son, found at the place, were also
taken to jail, to be held as witnesses.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-07-19
LIQUOR LAW VIOLATOR AR
RESTED

Harry Woolman, 25 years old, of
EIkton, alleged to have been the
auto driver who escaped shots from
State Liquor Investigators Daley,
Jewell and McCloskey in a chase
June IL near Iron Hill, was arrested
last week by Sheriff Racine of Cecil
county, in Elkton, on warrant
issued by Federal Alcohol Tax unit
investigators charging him with pos
session and transportation of twenty
gallons of liquor.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-07-19
HAND CAUGHT IN ELECTRIC FAN

Mrs. William Robinson, of this
town, who is employed at Rising Sun
Hotel, met with a serious accident
some days ago, when her left hand
was struck by the blades of rapidly
revolving electric fan. The hand
was badly lacerated, the forefinger
being broken in two places. flesh
torn from it, and the tips of two
other fingers severed
She received immediate medical
attention and will be carrying her
hand in a sling for some weeks.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-07-19
GIRL sWIMs sUsQUEHANNA

Miss Edna V. Keen, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Keen, of Havre
de Grace, on Saturday, July 6, start
ed out from PENIS Beach, swan
across the river to the Perry Point
side and without stopping returned
again to PENIS Beach, She made
the round trip in hour and 20
minutes. AS a safety measure Miss
Keen was followed by her brother in
a row boat.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-07-19
NJ. r. CONFERENCE WILL MEET
AT DELMAR

The commission on conference en-
tertainment of the Wilmington M. e.
Conference, meeting in Wesley M. E.
Church, Dover, Del, selected Delmar
as the place for the 1896 annual
session which will be held the latter
part of March, although no definite
date was fixed.
At the last Conference invitations
for next years meeting were receiv-
ed from Union M. e. Church in
Wilmington, and the Delmar M. E.
Church. The selection of the place
was left with the entertainment COM
mittee.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-07-19
KNIFE wIELDER FINED

Magistrate Walter c. Miller, of
Elkton, fined Clarence Craven, col
ored, SIS and costs for assault on
another colored man, Sam Jones'
During an alteration between the
and lost a large amount of blood,
but admitted that he had struck
Craven first and knocked him down,
which was borne out by other
witnesses.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-07-19
STATE PARENT-TEACHE CON-
FERENCE

The annual Maryland State Parent
Teacher Conference closed it's five
day session a. the University of
Maryland, College Park, on July
18th. The conference was held I'M
der the auspices of the, state con-
gress of Parents and Teachers.
Cecil county was represented by
Mrs. Chester Neal and Mrs. Russell
F. Byrne of Perry Point.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-07-19
COCA COLA BOTTLING WORKS
SOLD

The sale of the Coca Cola Bottling
works, in Havre de Grace, Is report
ed 20 have been made by the pro-
prietor, ]. c.. Hebditch, to Rich
mond, Va, concern for 100000.
1t is also reported that Mr.. Heb
ditch has purchased a Coca Cola
plant in Terre Alta, w. Va, for an
amount said to be in the neighbor-
hood of $4,000.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-07-19
DROWNED IN oCToRARo CREEK

While in swimming with several
other men in Octoraro creek, near
Rowlandville, Thursday evening,
Clarence Haines. colored. aged %,
of Mt. Zoar, was drowned. His
body was found shortly after the
accident. Coroner Stanley LETTERS,
of Elkton, deemed an inquest un-
necessary, and gave certificate of
accidental drowning.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-07-19
SHORE FARMERS TO MEET AT
RASKOB FARM

Plans for a Farmers Field Day
at the Pioneer Point Farms OF Mrs.
Helena S. Raskob, near Centreville,
have been announced and August
has been set as the tentative date for
the affair with Invitations being ex-
tended to farmers from all sections
of Maryland and Delaware.
The event is being staged to cele-
brate Mrs Raskobs tenth year OF
farming in Queen Anne's County
and all departments of the vast es-
tate will be thrown open for inspec-
ton, according to Ernest W. Grub,
superintendent of the farms. II IS
expected that two Thousand people
from the twenty-siX counties in
Maryland and Delaware to which invi-
tations have been extended will at
tend the affair and plans for the day
are being based on this estimate.
Farmers and their families are in
vited to spend the day at Pioneer
Point to inspect the equipment, live
stock and various farm operations
which will be on display throughout
the day. A number of demonstra-
lions of farm practices will comprise
the program arranged.
Mrs. Raskob's estate is one of the
show places on the Eastern Shore.
1t is comprised of approximately l.
500 acres of land and boasts one OF
the finest pure-bred Guernsey herds
in the East
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-07-19
SENT TO REFORM SCHOOL

Harry Cole, Negro, aged Is, charg-
ed with robbing a number of motor
boats and summer cottages along
North East River, has been SEN
fenced by Magistrate Davis 20 the
House of Reformation until he is 81
years of age.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-07-19
Personal And Social
Items

Mrs. J. Earl Tyson is enjoying a
motor trip, with friends, through
Canada.
Miss Edith Mitchell, of Aberdeen,
is visiting her cousin, Miss Hope
Reynolds.
N. B. Williams and family are
spending some time with relatives
in Wytheville, Va.
Miss Dorothy Cameron has been
spending some time with friends in
Newark, New Jersey.
Miss Helen Dickey, of Wilmington,
Del, has been visiting her sister,
Mrs. M. E. Founders.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Evans Patten, of
Philadelphia, were weekend guests
of Mrs. Walter E. Patten.
Mrs. Effie K. Evans entertained
last week her niece, Mrs. Lawrence
Keller, of Saginaw, Mich.
Miss Mary Elizabeth McFalls, of
Oxford, Pa, spent last week with her
aunt, Mrs. Curtis E. Irwin.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sanford Davis, of
Bridgeton, N. j., were Sunday guests
of DR.. and Mrs. T. B. Moore.
Mrs. A. E. Brown and daughter,
Miss Arlena Brown, have been spend
ing a, few days at Atlantic City, N. j..
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Ward and
children, of Wilkes Barre, Pa, spent
the week with relatives in and near
town.
Mrs. Mary Cherry and Miss Louise
Worthington had as guests last week
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Ford, of Bal
timore.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard A. Lane and
son Richard are enjoying sojourn
by the seaside at Ocean City, New
Jersey.
Mrs. Harris Nicely and daughter
Barbara, of Oak Park, ILL.,, were
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Curtis E.
Irwin during the week.
Everett F. Johnson, of Centerville,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. M. F. Johnson
of this town, was taken to Easton
Hospital on Wednesday, suffering
from typhoid fever.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde K. Keilholtz
entertained a number of guests at
their home last Tuesday evening in
honor of their daughter GATHERINGS
birthday anniversary.
George Kirk, of near Pleasant
Hill, suffered a severe attack Of
appendicitis early Sunday morning
and was rushed to a Wilmington
hospital for an operation.
Mrs. Nellie Wagner and Miss
Eudora Sheridan joined MIR. and
Mrs. Melvin Thompson in New York
on Wednesday for an extended motor
trip through the New England States
and Canada.
About forty members and friends
of the Missionary Society and Ladies'
Aid Society of Rising Sun M. E..
church, enjoyed picnic at Maple
Lawn, the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Ralph T. Wilson, near town, on We'd
nesday afternoon last.
Mrs. Jennie Robinson of Ridley
Park, Pa, has announced the mar
riage of her daughter, Mrs. Flora
Robinson Maughn, widow of Thomas
H. Maughn, to Mr.. Joseph P. Fahey,
proprietor of Hotel Lafayette and
Hartford House, Havre de Grace.
Mrs. Fahey is a radio star of note,
broadcasting frequently over station
WCAU, Philadelphia. Mr.. Fahey is
the son of the late John T. and Mary
E. Fahey.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-07-19
PWA PROJECTS IN MARYLAND

More than forty Maryland projects,
including school buildings, sewerage
systems, waterworks and roads, have
been sent to the Public Works Ad-
ministration at Washington for ap-
prevail, Abel Wolman, Maryland
PWA Administrator, reports.
Final approval or disapproval of
these projects, which Mr.. Wolman
said marked the beginning of the
new PWA, is expected in about ten
days.
In describing the new PWA, which
will operate with funds left from the
old PWA, which it supplants, Mr..
Wolman said all projects would carry
a grant of forty-ive per cent, and,
in general, would cost more than
$4,000. Projects costing less would
come under the classification of the
Works Progress Administration, he
explained.
Wages TO be paid ON the PWA pro-
jects will be determined by the
group submitting the plan, subject to
the approval of Mr. Wolman's office,
it was said. In most cases, the adj
ministrator pointed out, the pay
scale would be based on the prevail
ing wage rates in the communities in
which the work is to be done. If
this is considered less than living
wage" however, Mr. Wolman has
the right to reject the project.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-23
A Thought for Today
Would Be An Addition

Watertown residents who are protest ing the acquisition of land within their township for the construction of home for the feeble-minded are probably not quite aware of the extent to which the state would go in the erection of this in- stitution. It's cost, as we recall 1t, would be close to $4,000,000. Any town that doesn't want a nice new $4,000,000 home in it's midst is either laboring under an illusion or else displaying few traits that don't set well with the average man.
 If anybody wanted to figure out just how much business might be brought to town by the addition of home like this, we don't doubt but what it would mount up to sizeable figure. Of course, there's the fact that it removes from the tax lists a certain amount of property, but we'll wager that the property that might be un- der consideration for the home isn't bring ing in such terribly large amount of taxes today. And what would be lost In taxes would be made up in other ways.
 Some people have the idea that our state institutions are detriment to their imme- diate neighborhood. That shows how lit- tie they actually know about Connecticut and the development of it's institutions. In the old days perhaps such homes weren't what you might want for next door neighbor, but times have changed and state institutions have kept pace. Any body who has seen any of them con- pletely modernized, serviced, etc, can vouch for that.
 4 In reality this home for the feeble minded is nothing more than a school, training school It would house 1000 in- mates. Waterbury would have been glad to have been considered for the site of the home. We had some hopes at one time of offering inducements. We don't think any town in the state need blush at admit ting that it houses home for the less fortunate members of society.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-23

would have built up reserve fund of no less than $5O,000, 100000. This, to begin with, would provide fund 4with which the government could buy it's own securities, thereby paying inc terest to itself and mixing up the 0rdin- ary debt0r-creditOr idea in a way to make 8 man dizzy. Tn addition, the surplus could be used for investment in other types of securities, these securities to be sold when the money was needed. But at this point new complication arises.
 David Cushman Coyle points out, in an article in the March issue of Scribner's Magazine, that to handle any big security fund in this way will be to accentuate the swings of the business cycle which sec curity fund is supposed to guard against. One great cause of depression, MT Coyle remarks, is over-investment during boom periods. If the governments security fund is to be put into securities, this ten dency will be tremendously accelerated.
 Nor is that all. When the crash connes things are made worse, because security holders hasten to unload for what they can get. It would be right at such moments that the government, needing cash money for it's security payments, would be obliged to sell the securities iC had bought. Thus, bdyb INIT OOylc, Lnc luHu WOuIu UC c H!O"pc of aggravating the instability of business with one hand, while preparing to relieve the casualties with the other.
 It is MT Coyle's idea that such fund should be simply hoarded - kept in the sock, so to speak, drawing no interest, iil- vested in nothing. This may seem to defy all principles of sound finance; yet money, and the way it works in human society are mysterious and sometimes illogical things. If we are to get away from these disastrous swings of the business cycle, we may have to follow some such seen1- ingly unsound course as MT Coyle has outlined.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-23
They Mean It, Too

That the State Motor Vehicle Depart ment is in earnest in it's campaign to pre- vent operators of private motor vehicles using them as public service cars is seen in the recent arrests in New Britain by department inspectors. Seven were taken in the drive. They were charged with carrying passengers in their automobiles from New Britain to Hartford and with accepting fares for the trip. However all denied the charge, claiming that the passengers only paid for the oil and gasoline.
 For some years now the state and local authorities have been endeavoring to curb the establishment of private bus lines, which is just what they amount to, by men who drive regularly over certain routes in going to and from their places of en- ployment. It has become their custom to pick up at certain points friends or ac- quaintances who might work in the same plant or office. It has been known that good many of these operators actually collected fares for the trip under the guise of it being fair share of the cost of gas and oil consumed in the round trip.
 The Motor Vehicle Department isn't trying to prevent neighbor being kindly disposed towards the friend who may not have car. Free rides with all concerned sharing the expenses are perfectly all right and above board. But there is q difference when regular fares are charged. It is simply an encroachment upon the rights of regularly established bus and trolley privileges. Perhaps we shouldn't blame man for trying to increase his earnings in these hard times, but after all there are certain laws and regulations that we must observe. If everyone took the attitude that transgression was per- -missible on the grounds of hard times, we wouldn't have much left of the good old U. s. A. We don't blame the Motor Vehicle Department one bit for cracking down" on those who seek to escape the definition of public service carrier.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-23
So They Say

We can investigate Jim Farley for less money than was spent Investigating me. We ought to pass these Investigations around. don't think ought to hog the whole show.
 -Huey Long. The United States military service has not one plane in service which is suitable to engage in against frst-rate power.
 Brig Gen William Mitchell. The presidents opposition to immediate pay ment of the entire face value of the bonus certih cates is based sound principles and deserves 60 be upheld,
 American Liberty League. There is tension today between Catholics and Protestants but only between them and heathensm.
 Cardinal Faulhaber, archbishop of Munich.
 
 The pink slip income tax provision in effect furnishes Q who's who list of prospects for every gangster, racketeer, and kdnaper in the country.
 Rep Robert L. Bacon New York.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-23
U. s. Insurance Funds

Before we get through with the vexing issue of unemployment and social security insurance, we are likely to find that our. education on the subject of money and the way it works has been considerably ex- tended. If the insurance and security measures pending in Congress should be adopted in their present form, they would eventually roll up an enormous federal fund which would have some of the char acteristics of bit of radium
 .>i That is, it would be continuously active, and unless insulated pretty carefully it might have effects not counted on by it's posSessors Congressman Robert l.. Doughton and Carl Vinson, of the House Ways and Means Committee, estimated recently that by 1880 the security plan
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-23
A Book a Day
How Amazon Rubber Serfs Are Exploited
BY BRUCE CATION

Jungle" by Ferreira de Cas- tro, is 8 rich and powerful novel which examines region so strange tnd' unlike our own that 1t almost seems to belong &o another planet.
 It deals with the rubber plafita- tions of the Amazon jungle; and while 1t is chiefly concerned with the human values in the situation the mistreatment of the serf-like rubber workers, and the way in which greed for gain has cursed the owners and manhgers--it pre- sents the very earth itself as some thing different from anything we know or can imagine.
 For here we have q soil of unbe- lievablc, almost malignant, fecun- dity; q land of rank lush growths, of overpowering heat and tremen- dous floods, of ocean-lilse rivers yond belief, of strange plant and animal and insect growths, all com bining to mako nature seem con- temptuously hostile to man and all his works.
 In the midst of this setting we get q high pressure industry which used to Dc enormously prOHtADle and which foreign competition hts put into long depression. so that the plantation owners. only re- course is to bear down on the peons who collected the rubber.
 Phe result, as this author shows 1t. is viliainous and brutal exploi- tation.
 We get the story in terms of a young Portuguese exile whom force of circumstances turnssin to rub Der workers. The tale of his mis- adventures makes strong retdins--- too strong, perhaps, for some stonl- achs--- and the whole is welded to- gether into q forcefui. breeding novel of great power and often of great beauty.
 Published by Viking, the book sells for s2.50.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-23

The recent dirigible disaster in which the Macon crashed into the Pacific Ocean recalls the interest displayed by Connec- ticut in the naming of this air vessel. Connecticut people must surely remember it. It was just by stroke of luck tor politics) that the dirigible was named Macon and not Hartford. Our capital city requested the honor of having it's name conferred on the airship, because a good many parts for it had been manufactured there We don't just recall why the name Macon was finally chosen, but we do know that Hartford made a strenuous effort to claim the honor of supplying the name. And now the airship is probably resting on the bottom of the ocean. And it doesn't make bit of difference whether it was called the Macon or Hartford. So what's in a name after all
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-23

We rather like the appearance of the Connecticut tercentenary coin. At first we weren't so sure in our own mind that the Charter Oak would set off the coin, but the illustrations to date are very encouraging. And we rather predict that the coin will become one of the favorfte ones in the collections of those who go in for this style of commemorative pieces. Issuance of the coins is expected almost momentarily Everybody in this state ought to aid in their circulation by secur- ing a few and keeping them moving. It keeps the thought of the tercentenary to the fore.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-23

fight from the floor Few know it, but Robert Jackson, now handling the government's cases in the Mellon tax suit, is the principal author of the ad- ministration's drastic holding corporation bill under which such organizations would be taxed out of existence in five years Asked how he liked his office in the new Labor De- partment building, press chief, James Fitzgerald replied: I'm still a little hofnAsick for the old place. I can't get used not to having cockroaches jumping out and trying to bite me"
 ROCKIES
 Rookie Congressme have just uncovered a cushy pork grab quietly pulled off last year by the previous congress. In an amendment to the postal appro- privation bill, defeated members of congress were given franking privileges on official" mail for six months after retiring from office Privately, mem- 'bers of the Securities Exchange Commission believe the flew York Stock Exchange is prepar- ing for court test of their power. To this end they have retained John W. Davis to ex- anime the commissions recom- mendatoins for changes in the election of Exchange officers.
 Copyright, 1885, by United Fea-
 turc Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-23

Washington, Feb 23.-Latest cloakroom report is that the government has eonnpletey it's protracted secret probing Of Huey Longs financial affairs and sensational denouement is due. Administrationites contend Huey knows this and that is why he Is raising such an uproar for an investigation of Big Jim Farley. He can then claim that any administration attack on him is in retaliation for his attacks on Farley The Kingfish is more closely guarded than the president. Several of his body guard accompany him every. where, armed with sawed off shotguns carried in specially made brief cases To friends who ask him why his wife and children are rarely seen with him Huey explains that he is in con- stant danger of physical attack and does not want to place them in jeopardy When Huey takes to the senate floor for one VI HID AAi 0u6 dcbt IhC pICbiulup officer abandons all attempt to preserve order in the visitors galleries. With senators laugh- ing 50 uproariously over Huey's antics it would be impossible to obtain silence from onlookers. The large staff of extra clerks and stenographers in Huey's office, needed to take care of his daily flood of mail, are on the payroll of the State of Louisiana. No other member of Congress enjoys such priv ilege. If they hire extra cleri- cal help they pay for 1t out Of their own pockets.
 MIRA PROBE
 Senators who demand a sweeping investigation of the NRA tell their friends that the resolution Is sure of senate~ap- proval. Their confidence is , based on a secret poll of the sen. ate finance committee, where the resolution is now under con- sideration. An unhcralded but major intention of the investign- ton seekers is to plump "Asso- ciate President" Don Richberg into the witness chair and put him over the jumps :. The $4,S00,000,000 work-reiief bill has been nerve-wracking or- deal for Maine's stocky Senator