The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-10-31


ly took complete control Of the city,
cutting communications and closing
the gates. A proclamation was issued
stating that General Feng did not wish
to make war and had called confer
ence between the government and the
Manchurians. 1t was said he also de-
manded that President Tsao Kun re-
sign, and reports from Tokyo said
Tsao had fled from Picking.
Earlier in the week General Chang
fought two bloody battles with the
Peking forces in the Shanhaikwan re-
gion and, according to the most reli-
able reports, defeated them with
heavy losses. Part of the Manchurian
army reached the sea near Chinwang-
tao and thus had about $4,000 Picking
troops virtually surrounded. It was
believed General WI would fee on a
warship.
Sun Yat-sen, having worsted the
merchants volunteer corps in Canton,
is having as many of its survivors as
he can catch strangled and their fam
lilies are being tortured to obtain in
formation. Gen. Chen Chiun-ming is
advancing on Canton and Doctor Sun
says If he is attacked by Chen he will
burn what is left of the city.
TN THE United States, also, the Chi
4 nese are fighting for the tong war
which broke out several weeks ago
has not been stopped, although the po-
lice Of New York, Chicago and other
large cities have arrested hundreds of
Chinese gunner. Every day or two
there is new killing or bombing, and
as the Chinese, like the Italians, never
will tell on one another, the authori-
ties have great difficulty in sup
pressing the outbreak.
"A TTORNEY GENERAL STONE, in
4 \ brief filed in the Federal court
at st. Paul, MIMI, seeks for effective
dissolution" of the International Har-
vester company's alleged monopoly Of
the farm machinery business. The
proceedings are supplemental to the
consent decree in dissolution entered
in that court in 1918. This, Mr.. Stone
holds, did not go far enough, and he
asks that the court give proper pro-
lection "to the farmers and land own
ers who are dependent upon agricul-
tural machinery and implements OBJ
tainable at reasonable prices" Dur
ing a test period which ended IS
months after the declaration of peace,
according to the brief, eight of the
Harvester cOmpany's competitors
went out of business, and in 1922, the
last selling season under the test
period, the defendant company's bust
ness actually increased. The govern
ment's plan for dissolution has been
worked out by the federal trade COM
mission.
SHENANDOAH has been having
- rather rough time on the Pacific
coast, what with hard winds and fogs.
Last week she started on the return
flight from Washington to the east
coast. In crossing the Rockies her
gas cooled so rapidly that it was nee
essary to drop much of the water and
gasoline carried. ZR-3, now known as
the Los Angeles, has been Debated and
will soon be refilled with helium gas
made in Texas. The big dirigible has
been officially inspected as prelimi-
nary to her formal surrender to the
United States navy.
ORGANIZED labor won victory
~ when the Supreme court of the
United States last week handed down
an opinion to the effect that Federal
courts must not refuse jury trials in
contempt cases growing out of labor
disputes. The decision is in two cases
arisings from the railway shopmen's
strike and holds that the section of the
Clayton act requiring jury trial in
certain specified kinds of contempt is
constitutional that railroad workers
on strike are employees" within the
meaning of that law; that the con-
tempt charged constituted criminal
offense, and that trial by jury was
mandatory when demanded.
n N EXPLOSION aboard the scout
"A cruiser Trenton, as yet unex-
planned, killed four men outright and
injured sixteen others, of whom ten
have since died. The vessel was on
target practice at the time of the dis
aster.
n NTARIO, the only remaining dry
~ province in Canada, decided last
Thursday to remain dry. The tenn
perance act was retained by major
ity of about $4,000. The cities and
towns voted wet, but the rural dis
tricts carried the day for the pro-
hibition side.