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I—View1 —View in the great British Empire exhibition soon to open in Wembley, near London. 2 —The Grevy man
sion In Paris bought by Ambassador Herrick for the United States for its embassy. 3 —The Minute Man statue
at Lexington, Mass., where the one hundred and forty-eighth anniversary of Paul Revere’s ride and the Battle
of Lexington will be celebrated April 19.
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURBENTEVEHTS
Attorney General Daugherty
Resigns at the Request of
President Coolidge.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
AT LAST President Coolidge has
rid himself and his administra
tion of the incubus of Attorney Gen
eral Daugherty. Last Thursday the
President Jn writing ashed the resigna
tion of Daugherty from the cabinet.
The resignation was received at the
White House next morning and was
immediately accepted. It went into
effect at once.
Mr. Coolidge’s immediate reason for
requesting Daugherty to get out was
the position the latter had taken in
refusing to open the confidential files
of the Department of Justice to the
Brookhart investigating committee.
Daugherty made good in his expressed
determination not to leave the cab
inet unless the President directly
asked him to do so. Now he and his
supporters feel that he has not been
fairly treated, in that the investiga
tion Into his conduct has not been
completed.
AL JENNINGS, evangelist, politi
cian and former train robber,
presented to the senate oil committee
his promised “whale of a story.” It
was to the effect that In 1020 the late
Jake Hamon, then Republican national
committeeman from Oklahoma, told
him that Harding was to be nominated
for president and that it had cost
Hamon $1,000,000. He 6aid that $250,-
000 of this was given to the late Sen
ator Penrose of Pennsylvania 'and
$25,000 to Will Hays. Hamon told
him, continued Jennings, that he was
to be made secretary of the Interior
and was to share in public lands.
However, be was killed soon after the
election.
Jennings also quoted Hamon as hav
ing said that with the money he would
make he eventually would become
president of the United States.
“Wasn’t Hamon for Wood at the
start?” asked Senator Bursum.
“He never liked Wood,” Jennings
replied. “He said Wood was too much
Impregnated with the d—d fool hon
esty of Theodore Roosevelt.
Roxie Stinson told the senate com
mittee Investigating Attorney General
Daugherty a lot more alleged facts
damaging to the reputation of him and
his associates, and some of them were
confirmed from other sources. Her
most sensational story was about a
“$33,000,000 oil stock deal” carried out
in the fall of 1922 by five men of na*
tlonal prominence, whom she declined,
for the time being, to name. She said
Daugherty and Jess Smith, her di
vorced husband, were sore because
they were not in on 1L This alleged
deal was In Sinclair stocks, but Roxle’s
story was so vague that it was re-'
garded generally as fanciful.
Harry Sinclair’s refusal to answer
any more questions of the Teapot
Dome committee was reported to the
senate and tliat body, by a vote of 72
to 1, decided to turn the matter over
to the federal grand Jury. The ques
tion is one of the constitutional limi
tations of the powers of congress, and
ft will ultimately be carried to the
Supreme court for decision. C. C.
Chase, son-in-law of Albert Fall, also
refused to testify, and as be held the
position of collector of customs at El
Paso the senate voted for his impeach
ment for conspiracy by the house. It
vfas informed that Chase had already
resigned, but, as Senator Heflin
boomed, “too late, too late, the day
of judgment has come.”
The President still, to all appear
ance, Is not disconcerted by the
oil and Daugherty revelations. Last
week, at the suggestion of the general
board of the navy, he appointed a
comgnissioner to determine the best
means of conserving the nation's oil
supply. The members are George Otis
Smith, director of the geological sur
vey; Rear Admiral Hilary P. Jones,
U. S. N., president of the general
board and former commander in chief
of the United States fleet, and H. D.
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Bush of the bureau of mineralogy of
the state of California.
I T> EPRESENTATIVE LANGLEY of
| Jtv Kentucky and five other men
(were indicted in Washington for con
spiracy to interfere with the operation
of the prohibition law and to defraud
the government.
JUST as plans for the peaceful set
tlement of the reparations atd
other post-war troubles of Europe
were beginning to move steadily
* toward accomplishment, M. Lasteyrie,
French minister of finance, “pulled a
boner” last Wednesday and compelled
, Premier Poincare and his cabjnet to
' resign. There was considerable dis
may in diplomatic circles, but this’wus
| allayed when M. Poincare, after con
| suiting the presidents of the senate
i and chamber of deputies, yielded to
' the request of President MlUerand
ahd consented to form a new ministry.
The incident, after all, turned out ad
-1 vantageously, for the premier was en
abled to get rid of several ministers
’ whose unpopularity has hampered him.
Lasteyrie’s failure to control the
financial situation had made him the
object of frequent attacks, and when
oh Wednesday he demanded an imme
diate vote by the deputies on the gov
ernment’s pension bill the chamber
sent it to a committee for Investiga
tion. Lasteyrfe thereupon called f<y
a vote of confidence —a parliamentary
blunder —and this was refused, 264 to
271. The resignation of the cabinet
followed as a matter of course. Poin
care, however, felt that he must retain
the reins of government until the re
port of the committee of experts has
been published and also believed he
should carry on the series of conver
sations with Prime Minister MacDon
ald concerning French security. There
fore he undertook the formation of a
new cabinet.
THERE seems to be ground for the
hope that the Anglo-French con
versations will lead to an agreement
giving security to France and. In con
junction with the Dawes plan, to a
sqtflement of the reparations prob
lem. It is taken for granted that Ger
many will accept the experts’ report,
bqt It will urge that the German rail
ways be heavily mortgaged and put In
thp control of a board of trustees In
stead of being internationalized. The
Berlin government announced that the
agreement between the Ruhr indus
trialists and France, which provided
France and the allies with coal. In
exchange for which the manufacturers
were allowed freedom of operations,
could not be renewed on April 15.
when it expires, because the govern
ment could no longer pay for the prod
ucts delivered. The Association of
-Rhineland Industries therefore offered
the following basis for a new agree
ment:
The German Industrialists will de
liver 12% per cent of the coal output,
as called for In the previous agree
ment, provided France and Belgium in
turn facilitate Ruhr production by re
ducing the reparations coal tax and
the cost for the transportation of
freight, on the Franco-Belgian con
trolled railway system in the Rhine
land and Ruhr.
Poincare, according to Paris dis
patches, has an ambitious program by
which he hopes to save Europe. If a
pact for French security can be ar
ranged with Great Britain, he will
soon meet Premier Theunis of Belgium
to consolidate their positions, and
then will call three great conferences.
The first will Include the allies, the
second the allies and Germany, and
the third, Intended to make a com
plete settlement of the European
tangle, will include the allies, Germany,
the United States and the larger neu
tral nations.
Prime Minister MacDonald appears
to be working along the same lines,
for it Is stated that he hopes, soon
after the experts’ report Is submitted,
to bring about a new allied conference,
in which the United States would be
asked to participate.
AT THIS writing the Incomplete re-.
turns from the South Dakota pri
maries indicate that Hiram Johnson
has defeated Coolidge for the Repub
lican preference by a small majority.
Belated reports may change this, but
in any case the Coolidge campaign
managers profess indifference. They
MIDLAND JOURNAL, RISING SUN. MD.
assert the President already has 250
delegates In hand and 350 more In
sight, outside of contested states, and
that with this minimum total of 000
votes he Is assured of nomination on
the first ballot In the Cleveland con
vention.
Some of the Coolldge leaders are
talking quietly of the advisability of
nominating 'John Lewis, president of
the United Mine Workers, for the vice
presidency. They believe this would
be good politics and would in a meas
ure offset the influence of Samuel
Gompers, who each year comes nearer
to becoming a Democrat. Lewis is
held In high esteem by all union labor
except the rabid radicals and by the
people of the country generally. There
is gpod reason to believe that he
would accept the nomination.
TEN million dollars was voted by
the house last week for the relief
of hungry women and children in Ger
many. Only 97 members had the nerve
to vote against the measure, 240 vot
ing for it. The bill stipulates that the
money is to be expended for food
stuffs in this country anp the food Is
to be transported in shipping board
vessels. Wherever possible the sup
plies are to be bought through farm
ers’ organizations. Since the house
repeatedly has been informed that
there is no real food shortage In Ger
many, only a failure of proper dis
tribution, it must be admitted that
Representative Tucker of Virginia
had reason for his assertion that the
measure was designed to consolidate
the German vote.
TWO more monarehs have been de
posed—King George of Greece and
the shah of Persia. In the former case
the Greek national assembly voted for
the deposing of the entire Glucks
bourg dynasty and its exile, and in
favor of the establishing of a repub
lic, subject to the decision of the peo
ple in the coming plebiscite. George
is quoted as saying that he will not
abdicate because he believes the
Greeks want him and will vote to
keep him on the throne. In Persia the
assembly deposed the shah, who has
spent most of his time In Europe of
late, but the republicans were for the
present outnunjbered so the shah’s
infant son was proclaimed ruler un
der a regency.
WrTH all the pomp and splendid
ceremony that surrounds such
occasions. Archbishops Mundelein of
Chicago and Hayes of New York were
elevated to the cardinalate by Pope
Pius XI. First came the secret con
sistory, in which the pope proposed
the names of the two Americans to
the sacred college and tjie cardinals
formally acquiesced, after which the
new princes of the church were noti
fied, appeared and delivered addresses.
Three days later. In public consistory,
the pope invested them with the pur
ple cloaks and red blrettas. Seated
on his scarlet draped throne, the holy
father delivered a lorn: eulogy of
America in which he declnred that
America’s "miracle of charity saved
millions from starvation, just as the
entry of the United States into the
World war decided the fate of Europe
and the world."
Grover Cleveland berg
doll, draft dodger and deserter,
is said to be on his way from Germany
to America, ready to serve his sen
tence in order that the estate of his
family may be untangled. Maybe he
will be met by a reception committee
from the group of half-bnked student
pacifists of Northwestern university
who so gratefully listened to an anti-
American lecture by a youth who
served time in prison for refusing to
serve In the army, and then hissed
the American flag and its bearer, an
ex-service man. But the less said
about these young creatures the bet
ter, for they are untouched by denun
ciation and thrive on publicity.
MEXICO’S revolution has almost
wholly collapsed. De la Huerta,
its leader, has fled the country aboard
a small vessel which may have been
sunk in a recent storm. ’ Nearly nil the
other chieftains have run away or
surrendered, and the government
forces are proceeding to clean up In
Frontera, Chiapas and some other lo
calities where there are still bodies of
rebels.
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Farm Machinery Big
Aid to Agriculture
Professor Compares Hoe to
Latest Implements.
New York. —The importance qt 'im
proved fnrm implements to successful
agriculture is discussed by E. K. dross,
professor of rural engineering. In an
article prepared for an agricultural
publication of New Jersey. The ar
ticle refers to the days prior to the
coming of farm machinery, which were
the days of the hoe. spade, cradle and
fluil. Mr. Gross mentions the many
different kinds of farming machinery,
and then he writes:
“The man with the hoe could be
hired- for $3 a month; later he received
$lO a month, but as machinery came
into use labor became more skilled
and wages Increased. To produce a
bushel of wheat by hand required
three hours and three minutes, but
with machinery it can be done in less
than ten minutes. Besides this, the
qualfty of grain has been improved by
the use of machinery; for the seed
may be planted In proper season, thus
giving the full-length growing period.
In early days much grain was harvest
ed greeny resulting in shriveled grain
of poor quality.
"The cutting and curing of a ton of
hay used to take 11 hours of man la
bor; now it requires übout an hour
and a half.
“Machinery has increased also the
production per capita in this country.
In 1850, 5.43 bushels of wheat per cap
ita were produced. In 1900, produc
tion had reached 8.66 bushels per
capita.
Workers Released to Cities.
“While machinery was saving time
and increasing production per capita It
was also releasing people from the
farms to work in the cities. In 1800
probably 97 per cent of the population
of the country was on farms; by 1900
this was reduced to 35 per cent, and
now some estimate that only 10 per
cent are actually engaged In the pro
duction of food, though there may be
a slightly higher per cent living on
farms. All this Indicates the tremen
dous influence farm machinery has
bad upon civilization. Probably not
over a million Indians lived on the
North American continent, yet at
times they were in want of food. Now
the United States alone supports a
population of 110,000,000 and Is a
food-exporting nation.”
The State college of New Jersey of
fers to students an opportunity to
study farm machinery in a practical
way which x ls explained by Professor
Gross in this fashion:
“This work consists of a study of
the principles of construction and op
eration of the common farm machines.
A textbook is used, but the machines
themselves are found In the laboratory
and careful examinations are mnde of
all adjustments. The student farmer
learns that a chilled plow is better in
sandy soil, but thnt a soft-center steel
plow is better in heavier soil. lie com
pares various makes of plows with a
They Catch Fish as Well as Men
Rev. Harman Rockwell Potter, D. D. (left), moderator of the Congrega
tional Churches of Americu, and Rev. Kerrlson Juniper of St. Petersburg,
Fin., and their big catch of groupers, hooked In one afternoon spent on the
Gulf of Mexico near St. Petersburg.
FORMER RUSSIAN NOBLES
TO SEEK WORK IN THE U. S.
Baron and Wife Lost $lO,-
000,000 in Revolt
New York.—Baron and Baroness
Michael Royce Garrett, Russians, refu
gees, arrived in New York. It took
them four days to convince Ellis
island authorities that they ought to
be admitted, but what with the petite
and charming baroness singing for
them and the baron lecturing gravely
on philosophy, there was nothing to
do but let them Into the country.
To refuse them admission, in fact,
would hove rendered them homeless.
The ancestors, mdny generations back
of the bpron, were English, he said,
hut that is quite out of date. The
Garretts of England were invited to
Russia by Peter the Great and knight
ed. They prospered In the transplant
ed home until prior to the war. ,
Ruined after the bolshevik revolu
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view to selecting the one he would
purchase.
“Unfortunately, schools and colleges
must do most of their work during the
winter season when field work Is at a
minimum. However, in fall and spring
opportunity Is afforded to see field op
erations. Many laboratory operations
illustrate field conditions. Thus the
knotter of the binder may be studied
almost as well as under field condi
tions. Straw may be fed into the ma
chine and bundles tied so that causes
for failure to tie the knot may be ob
served and the remedy be applied. In
this way proper adjusting is taught.
Leaves College Prepared.
“This same general plan is carried
out for all farm machines studied. It
is always kept in mind that the first
essential Is the thorough mastery of
the underlying principles of mechanics
which govern the work of the m ichine.
The student leaves the college under
Find Modern Fagin
Has Crime School
—a
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Baltimore Police Say Thief
Coaches Boys to Rob.
Baltimore, Md.—A school of crime
in which a band of boys were taught
burglary, pickpocketing and shoplift
ing was described by the police fol
lowing a series of arrests and alleged
confessions.
The teacher of the school, whom po
lice termed a “modern Fagin," held
classes nightly and taught secrets of
. the “underworld,” they say, that he
had learned during a life of petty
thievery between periodic years of im
prisonment.
The teacher taught his pupils well,
Lieut. William Forrest declared after
he had struggled with each •of the
young prisoners in verbal duels for
hours to force them to yield the se
crets of thte school.
Many Thefts Solved.
More arrests are expected to clear
up a series of mysterious burglurles in
the wholesale district, whose clever
ness for months has baffled attempts
to solve them, police believed. The
loot, police said, would exceed $5,000.
The known organization of the
“school,” they said, was something
like this:
John Besisi, thirty, alleged teacher,
who was confined at St. Mary’s indus
trial school from the tipje he was thir
teen until he Was twenty-one. He
since has been arrested several times,
records show.
Rosario Provenzo, seventeen, at the
head of the class, with a record of ar
raignments in juvenile court for throw-
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tion, the couple escaped penniless.
The baroness, a coloratura soprano of
distinction, hopes to obtain a theat
rical engagement here. She is twenty
five years old.
The baron Is thirty and hopes to
become a professor and, lecturer. Of
course, if a business opportunity were
proffered to him he said he would ac
cept it. A. E. Johnson, a theatrical
manager, of 1500 Broadway, assured
the Ellis island authorities, however,
that there was no likelihood of them
becoming public charges. The baron
lost a leg in the service of the White
army. He is an aviation engineer and
hopes to perfect some airplane devices
on which he has been working. Both
he and the baroness declared they had
been well treated at Ellis Island.
They said the food was good, “although
there was not enough of .it."
Baroness Garrett was Miss Vassilleff
Novossilitzeff of Petrograd. Her fa-
standing these principles and there
fore becomes a skillful operator. v
“Mnny farm boys are not fortunate
enough to lake a four-year courte at
college. To meet the practical prob
lems of such farm boys short courses
k are offered each winter at the State
college. New Brunswick. Here the
. farm boys gather from all parts of the
state and study crops and animals.
1 They also receive training In the oper
ation and cnre of fnrm machines.
* "Students who take such a course
! will not do as Farmer John did. He, hav
-1 ing been Induced by the wideawake
> salesman to buy a new plow and dls
‘ cnrd the old, was found a few days
* later ag'.in using the old plow. The
! salesman seeing this called: ‘Good
1 mornlrig, John; how’s the new plow?’
■ The snappy answer was; ‘No good.
■ This one does better work.’ After
1 some argument, Mr. Salesman induced
■ John to hitch on the new plow again
1 and give It another chance. The new
plow was of the same make as the old,
but being Improved it had adjust-
I ments not possessed by the old. John
■ was competent to handle the old, but
* had not attempted the adjustment of
" the new, preferring to discard it in
i stead. After careful adjustments had
. been made by the salesman, the new
- plow far outclassed the old.
I * n ß stones at trains and for petty lar
ceny.
Joseph Auchukaitis, fifteen, also
having a record, chiefly for truancy.
Frank Muffalato, fifteen, still In
short trousers, who, police said, was
the most hardened of the gang.
Long Battle of Wits.
Sergt. James Cain and Policeman
Anthony McHale uncovered what they
describe as a “modern Fagln" gang
with the arrest of Provenzo.
A long battle of wits resulted In the
arrest of Besisi and the other boys.
When faced with part of the alleged
loot, said by police to have been found
in their homes, they confessed bur
glarizing warehouses of the Baltimore
Candy and Tobacco company and the
Lee Morgan Coffee company.
The school of crime was organized
so carefully, police said, that chances
of the students being caught in the _
act were few.
The boys would enter a building
near the one to be robbed, make their
way to the roof and climb in the sky
light of the place where the real
“haul” was to be made. From a place
of concealment, nearby, according '' ,
the police, the teacher would sigifal I
danger or snfety with a flashlight. 1
Sense of "Loyalty." I
Even after their arrest loyalty to
Besisi was unbroken until they de
scribed how the teacher divided the
spoils. Sergeant Cain said. He added:
“Then they ‘squawked.’ They ac
cused him of taking clocks, pistols
jewelry and other loot and selling it
They would get a few trinkets and a
dollar or two to keep quiet.
“If they protested he would threaten
to have them turned over to the po
lice, they told us. They never dared
refuse to do ills'bidding.
“The romance of having a room In
Beslsl’s flat as a rendezvous also had
Its lure. They used to meet there
regularly, they said, and lear.. how to
steal without getting caught”
Awed Explorers Gaze for
Three Days at Phenomena
Washington.—Robert F. Griggs, pro
fessor of botany at George Washing
ton university, the first white man to.
set foot in the Valley of Ten Thousand
Smokes, Alaska, spoke on his Initial
trip into the valley at a meeting in the
Cosmos club. ,
t Motion pictures of the mnny phe
nomena in the valley were exhibited,
and Doctor Griggs told of the many
experiments made by his party. He
said that when the valley was first
viewed it was three days before any
of the party could do more than gaze
in wonder.
No living creature or any indication
of plant life was found in the area
covered by volcanic ash thrown off by
Mt. Kntmni, but on the edges of the
valley, trees grow In abundance, the
explorer said.
The Intense heat has no effect on
the perpetual snow banks that abound
on the fringes of the valley, he said.
ther wns nn editor and was, killed In
the war. Her husband, after being
wounded, became president of the Red
Cross In southern Russia. All of these
things now are a past to them, and
they expect to wipe the slate clean
and begin life all over again.
Finds North Australia
Holds Many Surprises
Sydney, N. S. W.—Edward A. Cook
recently completed a lelsdre stroll of
more than 2,000 miles, as the crow
flies, from Melbourne to Darwin In
the north of Australia. His object was
to make an examination of mid-Aus
tralia and the northern territory to
substantiate his contention that those
sections were not worthless wastes.
He took more than 300 pictures of
scenes along the route.
Speaking of his experiences with
natives In northern Australia he said
they appeared to be of a better class
than those of the south.
“The territory Is full of surprises
from the pastoral viewpoint," said Mr.
Cook, “being well watered and sut>
stantlally grassed and timbered.