The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-08-27


stalled will represent an investment
Of $20OO0.O00.
Another Chicago institution that
will be Of national interest, the Shedd
aquarium, soon to be built in Grant
park, was given an additional $1,000
600 by Mr.. Shedd last week. making
his total gift $3,O0O,OOO. It is planned
to make this aquarium the greatest.
from a scientific standpoint. In the
world.
+ United Spanish War Veterans
~ held their annual encampment in
Des Moines, Iowa, and elected United
States Senator Rice w. Means of Col
orado their commander in chief. He
served in the Philippines during the
war with Spain. Mrs. Jennie R. Dix
was chosen president Of the Spanish
War Nurses. Detroit was selected for
the 1927 meeting, and Havana, Cuba.
for 1928.
DROSPECTS for peaceful settle
ment Of the British coal strike are
good, for the miners voted in favor
Of resumption Of unrestricted negotia-
lions with the mine owners, and con-
ferences between the latter and the
miners executive committee were be-
gun. It was presumed the government
would name a neutral chairman. Win
ston Churchill, chancellor Of the ex-
.chequer, said the governments good
offices were available to both sides
but that whatever happened. there
could be no more subsidy. He added
that the strike had already cost the
taxpayers Of the country f23,000,OOO.
and asserted that If all the miners re-
turned to work at once additional tax
alton could be avoided only with the
greatest exertion, for funds needed
for cultural and economic development
had been consumed in the internal
warfare.
TROUBLE Is brewing in Tangier
L and British and French warships
are there to meet the situation. The
population is In a state of great
excitement. due partly to the tor
turing Of native prisoners by the
international police and partly to
the statement Of Gen. Primo de
Rivera, Spanish dictator, that, Tan
gier should be included in the Spanish
zone In Morocco. This is SPANS price
for the REIMBURSEMENT Of her claim to
a permanent seat In the League Of Ma.
tons council, and If 1t is not conceded
there is a chance that she may veto
the admission of Germany to the
league or more likely follow the ex-
ample Of Brazil and withdraw from
the league. An italian cabinet mem
Der says any solution Of the Tangier
question which does not include con-
sideration of Ltaly's rights as signer
of the treaty Of Algeciras and as
Mediterranean power will be protested
to the League of Nations.
ACK DEMPSEY and Gene Tunney
y will fight for the heavyweight title
in Philadelphia on September %, in
stead of in Chicago or New York.
Tex Richard has made arrangements
with the Sesquicentennial authorities
for the use of the stadium and the
contest has received the O. K. Of the
Pennsylvania boxing commission, Gov
ernor Plnchot and Mayor Kendrick.
That's the status of this momentous
affair at this writing. There may be-
a change any day.
A LIED armies of Marshal Chang
"A and General Feng, after siege
lasting 112 days. drove the Koumin-
chun or national forces out Of their
strategic position in Nankow pass.
The losers, however, retreated in good
order while their heavy guns slaugh-
tered the Manchurians. Foreign mill
tary observers say that in this cam
paign the Chinese employed modern
war methods with notable skill.
The Kuominchun are said to have
received DolSnevlk support from Rus
STA. The same influence is said to be
animating the march Of the Cantonese
government troops in southern China
against the central provinces con-
trolled by WI Pei-Fu.
DR. HENRY WADE ROGERS, for
~ mer president of Northwestern
university and also former dean of the
Yale law school, and since 1913 a
judge of the United States Circuit
Court of Appeals in New York. died
in Trenton. N. j., at the age of seven
ty-three years. During his ten years
at Northwestern he raised that insti-
tuition from the status of suburban
college to that of metropolitan unis