The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-04-17

tested at Roosevelt field, Long Island;
Complete mobilization has been or
dered, Premier Ismet Pasha admitting
that the revolt Is much graver than
newspaper reports have indicated.
EMUI.ATING the examples set by
IL Mrs. Mae Nolan and Mrs. Julius
Kahn, both of San Francisco. Mrs
Edith Nourse Rogers of Lowell. Mass.
has announced her candidacy for the
seat in congress left vacant by thu
death Of her husband, John Jacob
Rogers. She would continue the poll
cies established by Mr.. Rogers.
NAVY airplanes manned by volup-
IN teer navy flyers will be a part of
the Donald Macmillan Arctic explOra-
ton expedition that is to start for the
polar regions this summer. and the
expedition. though private enterprise.
has the Endorsement of President Cool
idge. The explorers will have the use
of two planes of the amphibian type
with cruising radius of more than
thousand miles and speed of 40
miles an hour.
One of the chief objects Of the ex-
petition aside from scientific discovery.
radio research and search for his.
torical data concerning the original
landing Of the Norsemen, will be the
hunt for the Unknown Arctic continent,
an Elusive domain which has: been re-,
ported several times by explorers. but
never set foot on by man.
MacMillan's ships plan to leave
Maine about June Is. and proceed
northward, skirting the Labrador coast.
then across Davis strait to the Green
land shore. In Labrador and Green
land the ancient Morse ruins will be
explored to connect them, If possible.
with Eric the Red. AS soon as the ex-
ploring ship has pushed Its way north
ward through Baffin sea and across
Melville bay to Etah in the far north.
an attempt will be made to reach Axel
Heiburg land Safely anchored there,
it is planned to establish the airplane
base some $50 miles away from the
ship at the northern point of the land.
Working from this advance base. the
planes will strike first in the direc-
tion Of Crockerland, the problematical
continent Of the Arctic.
CPEAKING of the Arctic, DR.. Fred
" erick A. Cook, who said and still
says he discovered the North pole be-
fore Peary, left his home in Fort
Worth, Texas, last week for sojourn
of IA years in the federal penitentiary
at Leavenworth. He was sentenced
for fraudulent use of the mails and
already had spent 16 months in Jail.
Petitions to the President asking par
don for Cook are in circulation and
many signatures have been obtained.
DOLLTELY but firmly, President
l Coolidge refuses to reconsider his
| award In the Tacna-Arica dispute be-
| tween Peru and Chile or to comply
with the conditions asked by Peru,
which included the dispatch of United
States forces to displace Chileans in
control of the disputed territory until
after the plebiscite is held. In his
reply to the Peruvians the President
| assures them that their interests are
fully safeguarded and that the powers
of the pleblscitory commission headed
by General Pershing are ample.
| A MONG the well known persons
"A taken by death during the week
were Mahomet Ali, former shah Of
Persia; Albert Dickinson, head of big
grain and seed business in Chicago;
Archbishop Alexander Christie of the
| Roman Catholic archdiocese of Oregon
City. Ore. G. S. Fernald. general coun-
sci Of the Pullman company, and Most
Rev. DR.. Tikhon. former patriarch of
all Russia. whose struggle against the
soviet government attracted so much
attention in recent years.
| DLANS are being perfected for a
non-political Pan-Pacific confer
ence in Honolulu from July to 10.
Seven countries will be represented by
] prominent men and it is hoped the
gathering will take on much of the
character and Importance of the Insti-
tute of Politics at Williamstown,
Mass. and will become a permanent
forum of all peoples of the Pacific.
THE American Cotton Manufacture
i ers' association held its annual con-
vention Friday and Saturday in New
Orleans with all the leading cotton or
ganizatlons of the. country represented
Edwin 7. Meredith. former secretary
of agriculture. was the principal speak
er on the opening day.