The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-02-13

Fla. 3--Nova Scotia schooner Frances
m.
Senator Cameron of Arizona intro
duced resolution calling for an inves-
tigation by the federal trade commits
sion into alleged improper practices in
manipulation of prices Of wheat. -four
and bread. An Illinois state senator
lays the blame on the Grain Marketing
corporation, which he calls gigantic
marketing monopoly. and has asked in
vestigation of that concern by the leg
islature.
G EORETARY OF STATE HUGHES
~ transmitted to the senate the Off
cial copy of the Paris Preparations
agreement, and with 1t went repeti-
ton of his denial that the United
States. by participating in the pact,
had become unduly entangled in the
affairs Of Europe. He asserted the
agreement neither surrenders nor
modifies any treaty right of the United
States, and that our participation in
the conference was not In violation of
the reservation, attached by the senate.
to the treaty of Berlin. But the Sec
rotary made no mention of the alleged
attempt Of Ambassador Kellogg to at
tach reservation to the agreement to
the effect that the United States does
not assume any responsibility for any
part Of the understandings, save that
pertaining to payments to the United
States. 1t was this especially that in
terested the ''frreconcilable" senators.
Senator Hiram johnson made a
warm speech in the senate in which
he combated the view of Mr.. Hughes
and declared loudly that America has
become dangerously entangled in
European affairs by the Paris pact.
1.-TWO years in federal penitentlary
= and $4,000 fine-thate is the pen
atty that Col, Charles r. Forbes. for
mer head Of the veterans bureau, and
John w. Thompson, wealthy St. Louis
contractor, must pay for conspiring to
defraud the government on contracts
for soldiers hospitals, unless the ver-
dict reached by jury in Chicago is
reversed by higher court. The SEN
tence was imposed by Federal Judge
Carpenter and he deniedsa motion for
new trial. When Forbes attorneys
made plea for mitigation of punish
ment based on his excellent war rec
ord, Judge Carpenter said: "You are
offering evidence in aggravation of pun
ishment-not mitigation. Because he
was wounded and gassed does not en-
title him to the privilege of coming
back and betraying the buddies with
whom he served"
CASTOR B. Means, who was convicted
in New York of conspiring to obstruct
the course Of justice, drew the same
sentence as Forbes and Thompson;
and his fellow defendant, T. B. Fielder,
was fined $4,000. 1t would be great
relief to the country If Means were
safely behind the bars of the peni-
Tertiary.
n IACOMO DI MARITIME has been
~ formally appointed Italian ambas-
sador to the United States, and Prince
Caetani, his predecessor, already has
taken his departure from Washington.
1t is understood MARITIME will bring
some concrete proposals for the settle
ment Of Italy's war debt to America.
once more the soviet rulers of Rus
~ STA have made great concession
to the people. Premier Rykoff has an
nounced the extension Of amnesty to
all those who during the civil war were
identified with the anti-soviet armies
of Deniken and Wrangell or who were
connected with the counter-revolution-
airy movement. Rykoff said: 1.-The
past must be buried; we must tighten
the labors of the people; we must for
get all that occurred during the civil
war; we must establish the electoral
rights of the whole population"
n URKEY has expelled the patriarch
4 of the Greek Catholic church from
Constantinople and says other officials
of that church will be sent out of the
country. Greece is furious and talks
of war, and officially proposes to lay
the matter before the League of Ma
tions. Turkey, however, maintains Its
action is not violation of the treaty
of Lausanne and is purely domestic
matter. There were riotous demon
STATIONS in various Greek towns, and
it was believed the affair would result
in the fall of the cabinet.
A LBANIA seems to have settled
= down to peaceful conditions again.
and>Ahmed Zogu. the leader of the re-
volt that upset the government of Fam
Nolli, has been elected president of
the republic.