The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-10-08


adopted a dry platform and blamed
the Republican administration for fail
ure to enforce prohibition.
Complete harmony In the Michigan
Republican convention was obtained
by the process of excluding the two
contesting delegations from Wayne
county, which includes Detroit, one of
which was In favor Of re-nominating
Governor Groesbeck. The remainder
Of the delegates, almost without ex-
ception, were anti-Groesbeck and the
nomination of the ticket headed by
Mayor Fred Green of Ionia was put
through with ease. The Groesbeck
machine Is wrecked and the Green fac
ton Is In complete control In Mich
igan.
HARRY F. SINCLAIR and his asso-
4 4 ciates met with signal defeat in
the United States Circuit Court of APP
peals in st. Louis when that tribunal
reversed and remanded the decision of
the district court at Cheyenne, Wyo..
unfolding the Teapot Dome leases Sc
cured by the Sinclair group. The APP
pellate courts decision is sweeping In
effect and instructs the lower court
Immediately to cancel the Mammoth
Oil company's lease and to enJoin 1t
from further trespassing on govern
ment lands. 1t declares the lease to
have been fraudulent and orders that
the Mammoth Oil company be asked
for an accounting of all oil and
petroleum products taken from the
governments naval oil reserve during
Its tenure. Discussing the lease, the
decision says: "The entire transac-
ton is tainted with favoritism, collu-
sion and corruption" but 1t also says
there Is no corruption in the case as
to. any officers Of the government ex-
cept Albert B. Fall.
IN THE conspiracy trial Of Harry
NJ. Daugherty and T. w. Miller,
former attorney and alien property
custodian respectively, the govern
ment closed Its case after presenting
a mass Of testimony to show that
many Of the Liberty bonds paid to
John T. King by Richard Merton,
German copper magnate, for expedit-
ing his claim to stock in the Ameri-
can Metals company, found their way
into the hands of Miller and the bank
in Washington Court House, Ohio,
where Daugherty had an account.
Motions for dismissal Of the case were
denied by Judge Mack.
VXIHAT might have been a terri
w BILE mine disaster, at Ironwood,
Mich, was averted by the persistent
and skillful work Of rescue crews.
There was a cave-in in the shaft Of
the Pabst iron mine which killed three
men and imprisoned 43 others hun
dreds Of feet below the surface. Work
at all mines in the vicinity ceased and
all the men united In efforts to save
the entombed miners. They were d.
rected by experts Of the federal bu-
reau Of mines and for five days la
bored increasingly. At the end of that
time the, 43 were reached and brought
to the surface, somewhat exhausted
but otherwise unhurt. Air and water
for them had been plentiful, and
birchbark pulled from the snoring Of
the drift and boiled had furnished
food.
COUTHERN Florida is pulling itself
- together and removing the debris
Of the terrible hurricane, and mean
while the people of the country are
continuing to contribute to the relief
fund. which necessarily must be very
large. Another tropical storm last
week struck Vera Cruz, Mexico, and
did great damage there and in the
vicinity. though few lives were lost.
Banana and sugar cane plantations
were severely damaged over an area
extending hundred miles inland.
VXTMLIAM T. DEWART, formerly
w employed as a bookkeeper by
the late Frank Munsey, announces that
he has purchased the New York Sun,
the New York Evening Telegram and
the Mohican chain of New England
grocery stores from the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, the residuary legatee
of the Munsey estate. which is esti-
mated as high as $40,00O,OOO. The
properties in question are valued at
$13,000,000 and will be mutualized I'M
der plan of employee control spon-
sored by Mr.. Munsey.
THE Department Of Agriculture an
i nounced its issuance of citation
against the Armour Grain company of
Chicago, charging an attempt to man.
ipulate the market price of grain on