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THE SUN, BALTIMORE, FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 3, 1947 PAGE 26 The Slippery Streets Of Old Annapolis Whodunits, Or Whydunits, Here To Stay-Or Are They? MARKET GALLS ON SENATE FOR LANE ELECTED GOVERNOR BY CP oo KELLY SCORES BOARD MOVES AS ILLEGAL Charges Estimates Unit Members Try To By-Pass City Commission Vv it LANE 'II 11PJOltftlT5' If Three of Maryland's mystery writers ardent "whodunit" readers themselves are convinced that detective stories are here to stay. And they can't see any mystery about that. But Col. Van Wyck Mason who sometimes writes them but never reads them isn't so sure. In London yesterday Msgr.

Ronald Kno and Dorothy L. Sayers, both writers of thrillers, declared that detective stories are in danger of going out of existence although Agatha Christie asserted that more people are reading mysteries than ever before. Should Be 'WhydunitsV Colonel Mason agrees with Leslie Ford (Mrs. Ford K. Brown), Hilda Lawrence and Katherine S.

Daiger that people are hungrier than ever for good mystery stories. But, he says, the mysteries should be "whydunits," not whodunits. People today are more interested in finding out why somebody committed a crime than in finding out who committed a crime. MOTHER ACCEPTS OFFER OF HOME Destitute Woman And Baby To Go To Lebanon, Pa. Mrs.

Elizabeth Schafer. 22, who with her 22-month-old baby, was found homeless and living rail road stations by police during the holiday season, yesterday acceptea an offer from a Lebanon (Pa couDle to live with them. One of five offers received by Mrs. Schafer since her plight be came known and she was taken into the Salvation Army Home for Women and the Lebanon offer came from a couple who de scribed themselves as "good peo ple who will take care of you. Another Child Expected The? couDle.

Mr. and Mrs. Albert Rnhr. said thev would cive Mrs Schafer a furnished room and pro vide clothes for her child as wen as for another child, expected some time next month. I Offers to help the mother and child came from Pasadena, and as well as Baltimore, and one was received from Monroe, Mich.

Found In Lunchroom The Monroe offer came from a familv which said it already had two adopted children and was anxious to help still other people. Mrs. scnater was founa eariy in the morning a week ago in a small lunchroom at Pratt and Eutaw streets. She told police that when she ran out of money, she took shelter in bus and railroad stations and sympathetic restaurant owners had been civing her and her child food. PAYMENT OF Semi-Annual Dividend at rate of per annum as of January 1, 1947 Funds received on or before the tenth of the month receive dividend for the full month.

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5-dsv week Opportunity (or advancement Good startln pay. Bos 18B0. Sua. A QUIET MAY VOTE RECOUNT Charges Irregularities, Citing Small Margin Of O'Conor Victory Maryland's congressional delegation in Washington ready for opening today Page 8 Washington Bureau of The Sun Washington, Jan. 2 Requesting a recount of the vote in his recent election contest with Gov.

Herbert R. O'Conor, D. John Markey, the Republican candidate, today formally filed a petition with the Secretary of the Senate. Mr. Markey noted in the petition, which will go before the Senate Monday, that Mr.

O'Conor had been reported the victor by only 2,232 votes, or less than one half of one per cent of the total vote cast. The Republican candidate charged that Democratic election officials, in some instances, counted more votes for O'Conor than were cast, that they failed to seal voting machines in Baltimore, as required by law, and that other irregulari ties and errors occurred which af fected the result of the election. State Law Failure Cited He asked the Senate "to employ its power and authority for the pur pose of effecting a fair and lawful recount of all ballots cast at said "The failure of the laws of Mary land to make a provision for a recount In the election of United States Senator, the close reported vote, the control of O'Conor of the election machinery of the State of Maryland, the political domination of the State government and its agencies by O'Conor, the false and corrupt reports by election judges of the O'Conor vote in certain pre cincts of Baltimore, together with the political climate prevailing make the meager reported majority for the claimant O'Conor suspect. "Interests Of Integrity" "The interests of the preserva tion of the integrity of free elections require the Senate to proceed with a fair and lawful recount of all ballots cast for senator at said election," the petition stated. It was also noted that the Re publican party was ineffectively organized in Baltimore and in most of the counties, with the result that there were no watchers at many of the polling places Mid in some precincts there were not the required number, of Republican judges.

Detailing charges, the petition asserted that in some precincts votes cast for Markey were counted for O'Conor; that many ballots were improperly rejected and not counted at all; that many ballots were counted for O'Conor which should have been rejected and that in certain precincts all lights were turned off while the vote count was in YOUNG WOMEN STEADY EMPLOYMENT PERMANENT WORK s28 s42 STARTING PAY 8-DAY WEEK INCREASES FIRST YEAR TO) CONTINUING TO TE2 CHBSAFEAKE AMD POTOMAC TELEPHONE CO. OF BALTIMORE CITY WANTED AT ONCE Carpenters and Joiners Electricians THE MARYLAND CO. Apply Pier 3, Pratt Street i .30 YEARS SALES MANAGEMENT OF REAL ESTATE B. J. G.

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73 Qreenmount Ava, VErnoa S86T I Employment Office 320 ST. PAUL PLACE LEGISLATURE Fill O'Conor's Unex pired Term When Latter Resigns At Noon Today By THOMAS O'NEILL lAnnapolis Bureau of The Sunl Annapolis, Jan. 2 For the first time in 62 years, the General As sembly of Maryland was called upon today to elect a Governor of the State. In the performance of this rare function, the Assembly Republl cans as well as Democrats voted unanimously for William Preston Lane, of Hagerstown, to sue ceed Governor O'Conor at noon to morrow, the hour at which Mr. C'Conor will claim the seat in the United States Senate he won No vember 5.

Governor O'Conor Is resigning five days in advance of the end of his elective term. To Take Oath At Noon The oath of office required of the new Governor will be administered to Mr. Lane at 12 noon tomorrow by Chief Judge Ogle Mar- bury of the Court of Appeals. The scene will be the Senate chamber in the State House. Both time and place are speci fied by statute, which sets down that an incoming officer shall swear to uphold the constitution and laws of Maryland and the United States before a Judge of the Court of Appeals between the hours of 12 noon and 2 P.M.

In the meeting place of the State Senate. Not since 1885 had a Governor of Maryland left office before the end of the term for which he was elected. That last occasion was the resignation of Robert M. McLane to become Minister of France. Minimum Of Ceremony Searching for precedents to follow in the departure of Governor O'Conor and the election of Mr.

Lane, legislative authorities went back even farther to a parallel case in which a governor resigned to become United States senator. That happened in 1874 when Gov. William Pinkney Whyte was elected by the Legislature to represent the State In the Senate. Governor Whyte sent his resignation to the General Assembly on January 27 of that year to be effective March 4, which was then the date on which sessions of Congress began. A week later the Legislature elected on of its own members, James Black Groome, of Cecil county, to succeed Whyte.

As was done then, the Senate and House of Delegates today met In Joint session to receive nominations. The meeting was in the chamber of the House of Delegates. The legislators appeared hurried, and (Continued on Page 8, Column 6) 200 File Federal 1946 Tax Returns Nearly 200 Baltimoreans started the New Year right by getting their 1946 income-tax reports out of the way yesterday, according to George Hofferbert, collector of internal revenue for Maryland. Yesterday was the first day that the income-tax office in the Court Square Building had the special deputy collectors on hand to assist with last year's reports, and the "turnout was very good surprisingly so, considering it was the first day and the weather was particularly bad," Mr. Hofferbert said.

These deputy collectors will be available in the Baltimore office until the last day the taxes can be filed March 15. SPECIAL NOTICES Holiday heidarhe. George? George had a rlp-roarlng holiday. Now George baa a (putting headache. Better roll out of bed.

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3S3S. In one of the most controversial meetings of the Board of Estimates held in months, C. Markland Kelly, its president, yesterday charged other board members with attempt ing to bypass the City Servies Commission and to employ Felix A. Leser illegally as consultant at the Druid Hill Park zoo. Mr.

Kelly also charged bis col leagues with circumventing the actions of the City Council by sav ing the job of A. M. Anderson, deputy director of parks in charge of engineering, and his department, which were eliminated by the Council in the 1947 municipal budget. Allowed Fund Transfer The Board of Estimates allowed a transfer of Park Board funds that permitted the retention of Mr. An derson, who automatically would have lost his post on New Year's Day, and the newly created engineering department he heads.

The transfer involved $22,000 from the expense account to the salary C. Kirk Straub, Park Board president, appeared before the Board of Estimates and requested the transfer, thereby starting a heated argument. During the discussion Mr. Kelly for the first time brought into" the open whispers current for some time of friction between Mr. Anderson and E.

Brooke Maxwell, park director. This was verified by Howard E. Crook, city, comptroller, and Nathan Smith, chief engineer of Baltimore. "One Ought To Bt Fired Mayor McKeldin told Mr. Straub "to see if you can't get them to work together" and later said that if they are not working together one of them ought to be fired.

Following heated discussion oa both the Leser and Anderson subjects, the Board of Estimates voted to allow both, with Mr. Kelly the only member voting in the nega tive. At one time Mr. Kelly charged Mr. Smith with voting affirmatively because he is 'a Republican.

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Few ring followers knew Ben nett's real name William H. Has- kins. The fighter's four bouts at the Coliseum with Georgie Kochan in 1943 and 1944 were described as one of the most sensational series ever staged here. Won Last Fight Kochan won three of the four bouts but all of the fights had the fans standing in the aisles as Ben- (Continued on Page 15, Column 5) TENNYSON WAS RIGHT! "Late, late, so late! but we can enter TENNYSON Funds received on or before the 1 Oth of the month iearn dividends for the entire month. Open your insured Druid Hill Federal Savings Account.

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8 By ALBERT W. QUI Annapolis Bureau of The Sunl Annapolis, Jan. 2 Machinery for enacting into law several recommendations of the Sherbow commission was set' in motion by the Legislature today the second day of the 1947 session. Three bills dealing with the re port's proposals for educational funds were introduced In the House, and others dealing with the distribution of income-tax col lections by the State, license taxes and recordation fees went into the Senate hopper. The bills on the distribution of State-collected revenue were among 50 measures introduced during the day In the two houses.

All were recommended by the Legislative Council and introduced as admin istration measures by the presiding officers of the two branches. More Sherbow Bills Several more bills including more sections of the Sherbow re port are expected to be. intrO' duced tomorrow In a short session that will precede the swearing in of William Preston Lane, as uovernor for the Interim between Friday noon, when the resignation of Governor O'Conor becomes effective, and January 8 when Mr. Lane's regular term as Governor by virtue of his election by the peo ple will begin. Among the bills introduced yes terday was one that, for the first time, makes it a violation for any person under the influence of in toxicating liquors or narcotic drugs (Continued on Page 9, Column 2) OPEN TO.

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2 Waiting for Governor-elect William Preston Lane, to say the word that would resolve a political struggle. the House of Delegates tonight at the end of its second day was still without a majority leader on the floor. The place stayed vacant while Lane and his advisers pondered conflicting claims for the post. There were grumblings tonight that the incoming Governor was unnecessarily holding up a start on legislative work, and muttered predictions of trouble in the legislative halls before the end of the 90- day session, but neither brought results. Funk Was Liaison Man Mr.

Lane sent an emissary to sound out sentiment among the Democrats in the House of Dele gates concerning the majority leadership, but the Speaker of the House said tonight that he still had no word on the choice to be made. Acting for Mr. Lane, who stayed in Baltimore, was former State Senator John B. Funk, of Frederick county, who is slated for an important place in the new ad ministration even though he was on a ticket opposing the Lane forces in last year's primary elec tion. An engineer by profession and a recognized authority on State finances.

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CASE APPOINTED AS HAMMOND AIDE Succeeds Harrington As As sistant Attorney General Appointment of Richard W. Case as an assistant attorney general to succeed T. Barton Harrington, who resigned recently, was an nounced yesterday by Hall Hammond, Attorney General of Maryland. "I am happy to be able to secure for the State the legal services of Mr. Case," Mr.

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