The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-07-17

CUCCESSFUL bank robberies have
~ become so common that bankers
all over the country have been seek
ing some means TO combat the ban
dts. Those of Cook county, Illinois.
have gone. to the extreme of offering
bank robber. Meanwhile device
tried in Elnora, Ind. seems to offer
the way out. Lewisite, the most dead.
ly of gases invented during the war,
is placed in glass containers which
shatter at the least disturbance OF
the vault. The Elnora robbers were
put oAf1ight by the gas without any
plumber.
FEDERAL prohibition officers on the.
L shore of Lake Ontario were making
all preparation last week to try 10
drive back tidal wave of liquor from
Canada but admitted they were handi-
capped by lack of facilities They had
received word that an armada of II
vessels was loading at Port Colborre.
Ont. and would soon make dash for
the United States with cargoes valued
at more than $250,000. The chief en-.
forcement agent at Buffalo said his
men could do nothing until the liquor
was landed.
BY order of Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury Andrews. there will he
no more speechmaking by women pro-
hibition agents designed as educational
efforts to create sentiment in favor o.
enforcement.
THOMAS LEE WOOLWINE. whose
l. name was familiar throughout the
country few years ago when he was
district attorney of Los Angeles. CAL.
is dead at his home in Los Angeles.
He was prosecutor in the sensational
trials of Madalynne Obenchain, ac-
cused of the murder of j. Bolton Ken
nedy. and for long time he was n
prominent figure in California politics.
ID E0A USE of its "inability to com.
ID ply with the provisions of the Cap
per-Volstead act, under which it was
incorporated" the Grain Marketing
company. that ambitious cooperative
enterprise which took over several
large grain companies of the Middle
West, is TO liquidate and dissolve. The
properties and business contributed
by the component concerns will be re-
turned to them and already two of
them, the Armour Grain company and
Rosenbaum Bros, have been readlnir-
ted to membership in the Chiiago
Board of Trade clearing house and
will resume trading. The Grain Mar
keting company, it was announced
would pay its bank debt and other
Indebtedness as it natures.
1.-THE plan to sell the properties to
the farmers Vas too ambitious" said
Emanuel F. Rosenbaum, export direc-
tor of the concern. "There was con-
siderable doubt as to whether the
properties were worth $4,000, 900.
There isn't much doubt that some of
the elevator values were inflated"
Directly resulting from the nom
success Of this enterprise came the
failure of the big Chicago and New
York brokerage house of Dean, Ona-
tivia & Company. which handled the
Rosenbaum stock in the concern. II
went into the hands of a receiver with
liabilities of approximately $50. 900, 900.
but it was believed the net loss would
not exceed $5,000.000. Creditors of
the company and bankers made q de
termined effort last week to rehabill-
tate 1t.
RESIDENT COOLIDGE plans to
l spend some of his vacation time In
trying to develop a farm legislation
program that will satisfy all groups
and stand chance of getting through
congress next winter. He has invited
number of Middle West senators. rep
resentatives and farm experts to con-
fer with him at White Court. One of
the first of these to visit the Presi-
dent will be Senator Curtis of Kansas
CPEAKING of grain and farming. It
- is interesting to read that the
rulers of soviet Russia are planning
to export immense quantities of grain
from that country next winter, de-
spite the--aear-famine that prevails
every year in various districts. With
that end in view the authorities have
been importing vast deaf of agri-
cultural implements and are encourage
ing the farmers to raise large crops.
However. the peasants may hang back
for they do not relish the way IN
which the government takes tleIr
grain at fixed prices.