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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-05-26
Woman Dies In Crash

Miss Stella Sampson, OF Berk-
ley, Hartford county, 20, was fatally
injured Sunday morning May IA,
when a machine in which she was
a passenger, ran into fence. Miss
Sampson was pinned beneath the
car and died instantly. The accident
occurred ON Route near Thomas
store.
Tilford Lutman, of near Como
wingo, also a passenger, suffered a
fractured skull and fracture of
the right arm and shoulder and is
in a serious condition at Hartford
Memorial Hospital.
James RAINBOW, of Castlet0n, a
third passenger, was only slightly
injured. .
Apparently the car was being
driven at a high rate Of speed as it
failed to negotiate a turn In the
road, skidded and overturned.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-05-26
Court Reverses Decision
In Kennard Case

The Court of Appeals on Tuesday
of last week, reversed the lower
Court decision in the suit of the
Elkton Banking G Trust Co. vs. j.
Otis Kennard and Anna r. Kennard,
his wife, and dismissed tina bill of
complaint.
When the case was heard before
the Cecil Circuit Court, in equity,
the court ruled in favor of the
plaintiff. About $1,000 was involved
in the matter.
The suit was to recover on certain
notes given by J. Otis Kennard to
the Trust Company with stock Of
plaintiff as collateral security-the
said stock being valued at the time
by the the Trust Company at $1,000
per share, but when Kennard failed
to pay the notes the plaintiff sold its
stock held as collateral security, at
public sale and bought it in at $1.OO
per share. Kennard had invested,
it is alleged, about $4,000 of his
wife's money in real estate and
mortgages in his own name and the
plaintiffs sought to subject these in
vestments to the payment of the
debt due from him to it.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-05-26
Wagner--Hilton

The wedding of Miss Kathryn
Hilton, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Ernest Hilton, Peach Bottom, Pa,
and Emory d. Wagner, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Judson e. Wagner, of
Quarryville, took place in Pleasant
Grove Methodist Church Thursday
evening, Rev. George Overley, Elver-
son, former pastor Of the church,
officiating. The bride wore gown
of powder blue lace over taffeta
with matching accessories and
corsage of yellow rosebuds and
baby's breath. The attendant, Mrs.
Bertha Armstrong, Lancaster, wore
a gown of pink lace over taffeta, with
matching accessories and corsage
of sweet peas and rosebuds. Oliver
Armstrong, Lancaster, was best man
and the ushers were Roy Wagner,
Quarryville, brother of the BRIDE
groom, and Harold Herr, Quarry
Vile. Miss Peggy Whitman, of Ian
caster, sang, accompanied on the
piano by Miss Helen Shenk, Mechan-
les Grove, who also played the we'd
ding marches. Following the cere-
mony the couple left for q "trip
through the Southern States and
upon their return will reside at
Kirkwood, Pa, where Mr.. Wagner
is engaged in the general store
business.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-05-26
Newell--Janison

The marriage of Miss Ruth Mar
garet Jamison, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. William Jamison, 637
Market street, Oxford, Pa, and Ray
mond e. Newell, SON of Mr.. and Mrs.
George e. Newell, Chrome, Pa,
was solemnized on Saturday morn
ing May 10, at the Church of the
Sacred Heart, Oxford, with the rec
tor, Rev. Daniel J. Dunno, oficiat-
ing.
They were accompanied by Miss
Agnes Alderdice and Charles Fol
ker, Oxford.
The bride was becomingly gown
ed in blue lace with white acces-
series and wore a corsage of pink
rose buds. Miss Alderdice wore
navy blue suit with a corsage OF
pink rosebuds.
On their return from wedding
trip through Virginia, Mr.. and Mrs
Newell will reside with the bride
groom's parents at Chrome.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-05-26
Boys Wreck Beer Joint

Edward Motley, Otto Strugler,
Arthur Vandegrift, Alexander Kra-
iewski, Patrick McRussell, Walter
]. Bojaski, Eugene Marshall and
John Lloyd, all of Wilmington, and
ranging in age from 16 to "a Years,
upon being given hearings before
Police Magistrate Warren E. Malin,
Elkton, were each fined $40 and
costs.
1t is alleged they visited the beer
parlor Of Rudolph Wharton, near
Chesapeake City, Saturday night
and demanded beer. Upon being re-
fused on account of their youthful
appearance, it is charged the youths
broke glasses and turned over tables.
John Lloyd, it is said, escaped from
a reform school in Delaware. He
was turned over to officers from
that state.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-05-26
Shore Congressional
Campaign
Three Aspirants For The I'm
expired Term--June 6
Date OF Election

with a Congressional special cleo
tion set for June and with a Dem
ocrat: a Republican and an lnde-
pendent candidate in the field, lead
ers have opened the campaign foi
their respective candidates.
The political factions hope that
Inv carving out some Intensive
campaign programs, a fatf vote
will be cast UP and down the nine
Shore counties of Maryland,
A record vote on June Is mol
expected in any county in The hrs'
Maryland Congressional distric,
leaders points out, due to seasonal
employment conditions and BUSY
era for Eastern Shore farmers
many of whom may be too occu-
MED with work at home to go 10
the election polls.
Unexpired Term
The special election will be held
to select successor in the House
of Representatives to Federal
Judge T. Alan Goldsborough. who
resigned recently to ascend the
Federal District Court bench IN
washington. Mr.. Goldsborough
was reelected to Congress in the
1898 general election for two
wear term, expiring in 1910.
Three candidates to date seek
election to Congress to serve the
unexpired Goldsborough t e m
They include State Senator David
]. Ward of Wicomico county, the
Democratic candidate; A. Stengle
Marine of Dorchester county, chos-
en- by the Republicans as theil
candidate, and c. Davis hewitt oil
Queen Anne's county, who has nieo
for Congress as an Independent
candidate.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-05-26
Boy Scout Troop

The meeting of the Troop on
Monday evening was called to order
by Scout Master Warren. Seventeen
members of the Troop, Scout Master
Warren and Assistant Scout Master
Shingler were present.
The matter of collecting money
for tents and cooking kits for the
Troop was discussed.
Dues were collected and the rest
of the evening was spent in passing
tests. A number of the Scouts at
tended the Jamboree of the Chester
County Scouts at Longwood Gar
dens, the beautiful estate of Pierre
du Pont, near Kennett Square, Pa,
on Saturday.
John w. Sebold,
Troop Scribe
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-05-26
Personal And Social

Miss Jane Jenkins has accepted o
position In Wilmington.
Mrs. Marian e. Fehr spent Sun
day with Mrs. Claude Lerch, Potts
town, Pa.
Miss June Rose Mays, of Roanoke,
Va, is visiting her sister. Mrs
Arthur Ryan.
Sunday visitors of Mrs. Sara Wag-
ner were Mr.. and Mrs. M. D.
Thompson, of New York.
The Woman's Bible Glass held q
very enjoyable social on Friday eve
ming last at the home of Mrs. Jen-
ME w. Taylor.
Mrs. Frances Campbell and Geo.
M. Smelling, Of Liberty Grove, were
married May IL, by Rev. H. N.
Bailey, of Perryville M. e. Church.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Horenberger
were weekend guests Of Washington
friends and ON Sunday visited Mrs.
Horenburger's brother at the Naval
Academy, Annapolis.
Mrs. Clara r. Biles, Mrs. Ralph
Reed and Mrs. Clyde Keilholtz en-
tertained the Foreign Missionary
Society at Mrs. Biles' home on
Thursday evening.
Announcement has been made OF
the marriage of Miss Pauline q.
Crithberston, of Keen Mountain,
West Virginia, and Rev. Wilbur w.
Pickett, pastor Of Conowingo Bapt-
list Church.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. B. Fassitt NOV
ed on Tuesday from their farm east
of town, recently sold by them, to
their newly-purchased dwelling in
Rising Sun, the Ryan property, on
Cherry street.
Mrs. J. Horace Hawley, Of West
Nottingham, is entertaining her sis
ter, Mrs. ]. H. Willis, of Everette,
Washington, and niece, Mrs. Thelma
Miller of Boise, Idaho. This reunion
of Mrs. Hawley and Mrs. Willis, Is
a doubly happy one to each, as they
had not seen each other for peri
cd of twenty-six years.
Invitations have been issued for
the marriage of Miss Margaret Corn
brooks, daughter of Mr.. aud Mrs.
Ernest Cornbrooks, of Ceilings
wood, New Jersey, and M. Harry
Russell Young, in the Collingswood
Presbyterian Church, on Saturday,
June 8, at seven o'clock p. m.
The mother of the bride to be IL
the former Miss Margaret Vanne-
man, Of Port Deposit.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-05-26
Cecilton Gets Library
Through Gift

Through the generosity Of bene-
factors whose name has not been
divulged, the town of Cecilton, this
county, will soon have an up-to-date
library. 1t will be known as The
Community Library, Inc, of First
District of Cell County, and it has
been incorporated with George K.
Bailey, Maj. Alfred M. Phillips, Jr.,
Harold w. Cheyney, Miss Margaret
England, and James Weinr0th as
sponsors.
A tract of land has been acQuir-
ed and the building will be erected
as gift to the people of the First
District.
The directors for the first year
are: Mr.. Bailey, Mrs. Marion Bailey,
Major Phillips, Miss England, Car
roll C. Short, Rev. William Wylie,
Mrs. Josephine Cochran, Mrs. Kath-
crime Bishop, and Edgar P. Bishop.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-05-26
Poppy Sale To Aid
Disabled Veterans
Buy One Of The Little Red
Flowers And Help With
The Buddy Fund

For the relief and welfare of more
than 100000 disabled and unem
than 100000 disabled and unem-
ing any government compensation,
the veterans of Foreign Wars Of the
United States will conduct its
eighteenth annual buddy poppy sale
during the month Of May.
Locally, the sale will be sponsor
ed by Montfaueon Post, No. 482,
Perry Point, Saturday, May ~.
Wear Buddy Poppy on Memorial"
Is the slogan of the local campaign.
The monies accruing from the
purchase of the peoples is divided
between the v. +. w. National Home
for the Orphans of War Veterans.
maintained by the Overseas Veter-
ans Organization In Eaton Rapids,
Mich, and the rehabilitation and
service programs of the national or
ganization and it's respective state
units.
The v. F. w. Buddy Poppy sale
always has a strong appeal for the
American public. All of US. except
the younger generation, wildly re-
member the World War and what 1t
meant to more than four million
boys and young men who were mo-
bolized for action. We remember
too, the casualty lists, the sacrifices
and sufferings Of those boys. To
purchase in 1889 Buddy Poppy in
memory of those sufferings and sac
rifices and of Americas war dead, is
a tribute which most of us are glad
to pay ON Memorial Day.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-05-26
Meet OF Colored Schools

A dual track and field meet be-
tween the Colored Schools OF Ce-
ell and Hartford Counties was held
at the Havre de Grace ball park
Saturday morning last, beginning at
1880.
The program included thirty three
events. Prizes were awarded the
first three winners in the individual
events, and members of the winning
teams. A prize was awarded the
county winning the highest number
of points.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-05-26
Foreign Study Group

According to DR.. Walter Hullihen,
president of the University Of
Delaware, Newark, 1t will De deter
mined within a week or ten days
whether the foreign study group will
be sent to France.
There have been 80 applications
received from students throughout
the country, although at least As to
so students in group are needed to
make financial ends meet.
Students who have satisfactorily
completed two years at their home
colleges may join the foreign study
group. They spend their junior year
abroad for which they receive
credit, and then return home for
their senior term.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-05-26
Perry Point School To
Close Permanently

The final commencement exercises
of the Perry Point School will be
held on Friday, June 16, when GER
tificates will be handed to the chill
dren completing the elementary
grades. The school will be perman-
emily closed on the above date, no
further classes being held on the
reservation. Children at Perry Point
will be entered in the Perryville and
Havre de Grace Schools.
Leo M. Moore, member of the
Maryland House of Delegates, has
accepted an invitation to address the
graduates on June 16.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-05-26
Tome Commencement

William X. Cumming, supervisor
of Jacob Tome Institute, Port De-
post, has announced DR.. Fred G..
Holloway, president of Western
Maryland College, will deliver the
commencement address at the in
stitute June Is, Supervisor Cum
mings will award diplomas to TWEEN
ty-five seniors.
The commencement sermon will
be delivered Sunday, June IL, in
Tome Memorial Church by the Rev.
DR.. Samuel McWilliams, pastor of
the Methodist Church at East Lans-
downe, Pennsylvania.
Commencement week activities in
clude the junior-senior prom June 8,
the senior class night program June
IL and the alumni banquet and
dance June II.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-05-26
Missing Heirs In Suit

Suit for the completion OF ad-
ministration by the court OF the
estate of the late Isabella Thomp-
SON and John Thompson has been
fled in the Circuit Court for Cecil
County, at Elkton.
The bill contends that Isabella
Thompson and John Thompson dis
appeared In 1920 and their where
abouts have been unknown since
that time. Bessie THOMPSON, a
causin to both, is alleged to be the
only living heir.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-05-26
Fire Sweeps Lumber Mill

The three-story frame lumber
mill Of John H. Myers & Son, in
Delta, Pa, was totally destroyed
by fire ON Tuesday morning Of last
week. Sparks from a small stove In
the office are belived to have caused
the fire, which resulted in @ loss of
fully $4,000.
This is the third time within the
past three years that the firm has
sustained q fire loss
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-05-26

The p. T. A. will hold .ts final
meeting of the school year in the
high school auditorium on Friday
evening. May 26, at eight o'clock.
The main features of the evening
are the election of new officers to
serve for the ensuing year, and a
short program of songs given by q
group of singers from the Easton,
Maryland, High School. Everybody
is invited.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-05-26
Briefly Noted News

Ernest X. Taylor has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Perry Point.
The Howard I. Foreaker farm,
embracing 59M acres, in Elk Neck,
has been purchased by N. w. Green
wood, of Philada.
The committee in charge of the
bazaar held at the Church House in
Elkton by the Women's Auxiliary OF
Union Hospital, report the affair
netted the sum of $188.
John e. Seminar, engineer on
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad for
fifty years, son of the late Evan G.
Seminar, of Hnear Principle Furance,
has been placed on the retired list.
The application of Mabel e. Jen-
ness for beer license near Rising
sun, was refused by the Board of
License Commissioners OF Cecil
county, ON the grounds it was not
needed.
On Saturday, May 27, the Cecil
County Historical Society will be
the guests of the officials of West
Nottingham Academy, the oldest
preparatory school in the United
States.
Principle Furnace Mite Society
has elected Mrs. Mary Reynolds,
president; Mrs. Cornelia Nickle,
vice-president: Mrs. B. H. Owens,
secretary; Mrs. A. e. Jackson,
| treasurer.
Wayne Reynolds, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Norris j. Reynolds of this town
and a student at West Nottingham
Academy, suffered fracture ankle
on Thursday afternoon, by sliding
into a base while playing BASEBALL.
Miss Bertha M. Tyson, Maryland
State President of the w. c. T. IT,,
spoke before the Sunday School at
Rising Sun M. e. Church on Sunday
morning.
At 1880 in the afternoon she
spoke in Trinity M. E. church,
Chesapeake City.
Mrs. Robert Foard has been elect
ed president of Chesapeake City
Civic Club, Mrs. Nellie Reed, Vice
President; Mrs. Albert Stapp, sec
Rotary, and Miss Katie Loveless,
treasurer. The club voted the sum
of $50 to the cancer contr u fund,
Samuel Davis, 20 years old, solI
of Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Davis of
Waterford, is in Union Hospital,
Elkton, suffering from a fractured
jaw and other injuries sustained
when his automobile crashed into
telephone pole on the Elkton-Fair
Hill road.
The members of the Community
Fire Company of Rising Sun attend
ed morning worship at the M. E.
church here in body, Sunday,
when Rev. j. B. Dickerson, pastor OF
the church, delivered special SER
mon. More than forty of the fire.
men were present.
At the annual commencement ex-
ercises of Delaware Hospital School
of Nursing, held Wednesday night
at the New Century Club, Whining
ton, the scholarships were awarded
to Miss Jean Burlin, of Port De-
post, and Miss Caroline Maykowski,
of Claymont, Delaware.
Dick Abrams, of Bay View, ma
son employed on the Chesapeake
City high school building, was seri-
ously injured last week, when a
brick fall ON his head. He was re-
moved to the Union Hospital, Elk
ton, for examination as to possible
conclusion Of the brain.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-05-26

A pretty home wedding was sol
emnized on Wednesday afternoon
at two o'clock when Miss Margaret
Crowl, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
Eben Crowl, became the bride OF
Walter Stewart, of Port Deposit
son of Mr.. and Mrs. James Stew.
art, near Kirkwood, Pa.
The ceremony was performed by
Rev. G. Raymond Campbell, pas.
tor of Oxford Presbyterian Church
and Rev. George w. Marston, pas
tor of Kirkwood Pre- IS byteri a I
Church, offered prayer.
A piano recital by Mrs. Violet
Thompson Andrews preceded the
ceremony. .s3aD
The house was beautifully dec
GRATED with dogwood and lilacs.
The birdie, who was given in mar.
rage by her father, wore gown
of white mousseline de sole and
carried bouquet of white roses.
Miss Helen Crowl, Lancaster, sis
ter of the bride, was maid of hon
or. She was attired in char.
treuse chiffon gown, and carried O
bouquet of mixed carnations.
James Stewart, of Kirkwood,
brother of the bridegroom. was
best man.
On their return from wedding
trip by motor to northern New
York and Connecticut, Mr.. and Mrs.
Stewart will reside at 'Maplewood
Farm" near Port Deposit.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-05-26

Conservation Commission Of
ficials predict the lower SusQuehan-
ma river will be fisherman's Par
adise this summer.
Kenneth Perkins, fish warden In
the area, and Frank Bentz, COM
mission secretary, reported the riv-
er between Conowingo dam and
Hogback shoals was literally bub-
bling with Susquehanna salmon,
rock and bass.
Bass and salmon may be caught
after July /. Hickory shad, and her.
ring may be taken with rod and
reel between March Is and June 20,
and with rods or nets after July J.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-05-26
Baldwin Mfg. Company

The meeting of the stockholders
of the Baldwin Mfg. Co. operating
the Elk Mills Textile factory, result
ed in the resignation of Albert
Stevens, president, and the election
of his SON, Robert Stevens, in his
stead.
John Lawrence resigned his posi-
ton as General Manager and was
succeeded by John Stevens, a broth
er of the new president. Mr.. Stevens
reports the plant is now working
day and night with about $50 people
employed.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-05-26
Resort Property Changes
Hands

The Betterton Beach-Boardwalk
Cooperation has sold the Erricsson
Company steamboat wharf property
in Betterton to j. HI. Watt of Pen
nsylvania who will convert the pier
and beachfront into rendezvous for
visiting yachts.
Besides the pier, the purchase in
cludes the stretch of beach from the
boardwalk to the property of the
Groves estate.
The Washington times., 1939-01-09
MRS. CARRIE GAIT, 80,
SEES A DARK WORLD
Lifelong Optimism
Broken by War
Clouds

NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y, Jan.
9 SD.-MrS. Carrie Chapman
Gait, celebrating her eightieth
birthday at her home here today,
sees a dark future for the world.
I've never in all my life been
anything but optimistic, but I do
feel doWncast now" the veteran
suffrage leader and honorary
chairman of the National Com
mittee on the Cause and Cure
of War. said. Il can't see how
it's all going to come out"
Mrs. Gait added
WAR must be abolished. as
war Furnishes us every time,
bringing crime, poverty, un-
employment and turmoil in it's
wake.
End war and We'll end our
unemployment troubles. Of all
things. the most important is to
bring about an abiding faith in
treaties
But, should she live to be 100,
Mrs. Gait doesn't think she would
see permanent peace. She re-
flected
War is so thoroughly fixed
in the minds of nations that
many repairs must be accom-
The Washington times., 1939-01-09
us. WASTING
:Ti11eASkinQ
Questions

(I.N.S.) The country no
longer needs a good five-cent
cigar. What it needs now is a
good questiOnnaire getter-
outer.
This was the advice today
of the Central Statistical
Board which disclosed that it
has been busy counting up
the number of forms and
queStiOnnaires Uncle Sam re-
quired his citizens to fill out
in 1887.
No less than 135,5OO,OOO
fOrmS-nOt one leSS-did the
good burgherS of the land
labOriOusly scratch out in '37,
the board reported, and much
of the scratching was a waste
of time, because the Govern
ment either already had, or
was simultaneously getting,
the very same information
from another group of blank
filling citizens.
Not only time, but many
dollars we're wasted by this
duplication, SSerted the
board, recommending IN a t
President Roosevelt create
a S "a tiSti i cal COOrdinating
agency,
The Washington times., 1939-01-09
ABOLISH nee,
BARTON URGES

Q.N.SO Accepting President
Roosevelt's challenge to Congress
to say where economy shall begin,
Representative Bruce Barton (RD
of New York today proposed i'm
mediate abolition of the National
Emergency Council.
Barton asserted that the staff
of the council in reality consti-
tutes a corps of publicity agents
for the Democratic party"
Though composed officially of
heads of the various departments
of the Government together with
the administrators of the miscel-
laneous New Deal bureaus, the
council practically never meets.
said Barton.
Its distinguished m m b r
ship is only a front for band
of 290 press agents engaged in
dissemination of publicity and
propaganda for the New Deal.
1T will presently have ex-
pended in the neighborhood of
$3,850,000, and there is every
indication that the Administra-
ton has every intention of max
ing the emergency for which
it was created, permanent"
Barton said that Eugene Leg
gett, former director, testified be
fore a House committee that the
council would need more money
in the fiscal year of 1889 because
OF the election.
The Washington times., 1939-01-09


managed to promote one of his
boys to the Supreme Court
Associate Justice Stanley Reed,
former Solicitor General.
The legal arm, of course, has
been one of the busiest depart
ments of the New Deal, since
New Deal foes, failing politically,
carried the fight to the courts
on every opportunity.
Attorney General Murphy, one
of the most ambitious as well as
one of the ablest men ever to
strike the Nations Capital, prom
ises to increase even the present
busy tempo. His first act was
to persuade the President to
make the many judicial appoint
ments which have been painfully
dragging for months-to the
jeers of the foes of the Roose-
welt plan to speed up judicial
processes by increasing the size
of the Supreme Court.
Preceded by a reputation OF
being a lone wolf" politically,
Murphy has also established a
liaison with Capitol Hill and
the Democratic national COM
mittee which will smooth his
path considerably.
Admiring friends of the new
Attorney General insist there
are no limits to which he won't
rise. One of his college class
mates tells the tale that when
Murphy arrived at the Univer-
sity Of Michigan he didn't stop
to unpack his suitcase before
beginning to campaign for the
presidency Of the freshman
class
A classmate, Jim O'Hara. now
a Detroit broker, gazed after the
agile young red-head with
amusement and admiration as
Murphy pursued his campus
campaign.
"There he goes" predicted
OHara. "the first Catholic Pres
ident of the United States!"
O'Hara hasn't changed his
mind.