The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-05-08

lected president of Germany
receive the medals, which were award
ed by special act of congress.
JAMES NJ. BECK'S resignation as
- attorney general has just been ac-N
cepted by President Coolidge. Among
those said to be under consideration
for the place are William d. Mitchell
Of st. Paul, Mimi, and Charles, w.
Waterman of Denver, who managed
the Coolidge preconvention campaign
in Colorado. Former Representative
Harry E. Hull of Iowa has been rec
commended for the position of assist
ant secretary of labor to succeed E. J.
Henning, who has been given federal
judgeship in southern California.
IN A MANIFESTO the Agrarian party
L of Bulgaria, or peasants union, has
denied any connivance in or sympathy
with the attempt on the life of King
Boris and the bomb outrage in the ca
thedral 1t denounces these acts Wig
orously and declares they were perpe-
trated bye individuals tempted by
Moscow gold" The party admits that
among the exlled Agrarians and former
members of the party were some who
were implicated in the crimes but re-
fuses to accept responsibility for their
acts. The leaders Of the party, who
were arrested Immediately after the
cathedral explosion, have been re-
leased. The police are running down
and capturing or killing the ringlead-
ers in the outrages one after another.
The Labor members of the British par
lament who accused the Bulgarian
government Of ruthless slaughter Of
suspects have returned from Sofia to
London and repeated their charges.
One of them adds that nearly every
government in Europe is about to start
d roundup and expulsion of Reds.
In the chief cities of Europe the
authorities kept close watch to pre-
vent Communist outbreaks on May I,
and in some of them, notably in Italy,
numerous arrests were made and all
parades and demonstrations were for
bid~,.
Already the Persian government has
begun cleaning up of the bolshevik
agents who have been operating there.
When one leader of intrigues was ar
rested the soviet legation in Teheran
locked his papers in its vault The po-
lice cracked the safe despite the angry
protests of the Russians.
MISS MARY MacSWINEY, rabid
lVl Irish Republican and foe Of Eng
land, has been featuring in the United
States for some weeks and gathering
funds for her pet plan. Someone told
the State department that she has no
passport and inquiries were started.
interviewed in Chicago.I Miss Mac
Swiney Enthusiastically said she not
only had no passport, but she did not
need any and had no intention of ever
getting any. She added that If she
were arrested she would start a hunger
strike. Immigration officials in Wash
ington said If Miss MacSwiney had no
passport her presence in the country
was Illegal and she might be deported.
nRvILLE WRIGHT announces
~ that the original Wright airplane,
which made the first successful flight
on December IL, 1908. has been pre-
scented by him to the Times museum
in South Kensington, England. Sew
eral museums in this country, he says,
offered to take 1t, but only one of
them was national in character and
he would not trust the historic ma
chine to that institution because 1t
had permitted the Langley machine
of 1903 to be taken out and mutilated
for the purposes of private parties
to a patent litigation. Therefore the
priceless relic built by the Wright
brothers is to be lost to the United
States.
TN THE eastern part Of the country,
especially in Washington. there Is
smallpox scare of considerable pro-
portions. All government employees
IN the capltai were asked TO submit
to vaccination. and 1t was reported
that President Coolidge was one of
the first to undergo the operation.
Other cities where the dread disease
was prevalent were Birmingham
Ala; Richmond, Va. and Philadelphia.
Further west only Milwaukee reported
many cases. In New York and Chi.
cago conditions in this respect were
normal.
CIR EYRE GROVE. British perma-
- nent undersecretary for foreign
affairs, Is dead in London. He held
that post of very high responsibility
for years and was widely known and
greatly respected.