The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-07-23

with the financial problem and food
supplies we ask these powers"
M. Caillaux is Frances financial
start by running over to London and
signing, with Winston Churchill, chan
cellor of the exchequer, the definite
arrangement for funding the French
debt to Great Britain. The scale of year
ly payments is that proposed last Au-
gust. The so-called safeguard clause,
which France wishes incorporated in
the agreement with America, provides
that If Germany defaults in its repara-
ton payments to France, the latter
country will be entitled to ask for re-
consideration of the terms in the light
of all circumstances then prevailing.
THIRTEEN men, including six mem
l. bers of the Turkish parliament,
were hanged on the waterfront at
Smyrna for conspiracy to assassinate
President Renal Pasha. All protested
their innocence. The trial of the con-
demned men, who were charged with
plotting the death Of Renal Pasha on
his arrival at Smyrna on June is last,
disclosed that the very existence Of
the new Turkish republic was threat
ened by the plotters.
ID ASTILLE day in Paris was the oc-
~ casion for great military parade
with all the splendor Of the days be-
fore the war. The guests of honor
were Moulay Youssef, sultan of Moroc-
. co who is the protege of France, and
Gen. Primo de Rivera, dictator of
Spain. Communists and other liberals
did not like these two autocrats and
expressed their feeling by kissing, for
which lot of them were dubbed by
the police and locked up. In other
respects it was big day for the peo-
pie of Paris. In an interview Dictator
de Rivera warmly defended his rule
in Spain and declared the recent
abortive rebellion did not amount to
anything. Generals Weyler and Agui-
lera, leaders of that revolt, frankly
admit their part In the plot and main
tain that what they did or attempted
was constitutional, since their attack
was not against the king, but against
the dictator who, they assert, repre-
sents neither the king nor the country.
CHICAGO entertained another great
~ host last week-the members OF
the Benevolent and Protective Order
Of Elks in national convention. Fully
10000 Of them, from all parts Of the
land, were present and they had
joyous time, besides dedicating the
beautiful building which is both a
memorial to the Elks who died in the
war and the national headquarters Of
the order. Amusements of all kinds
were provided, including parades,
dances, competitive drills and a fine
balloon race. Charles H. Grakelow of
Philadelphia was elected grand ex-
allied ruler and Cincinnati was award
ed the next convention.
G IXTY-FOUR banks in Georgia
~ and the Bankers Trust company,
the operating company for 100 banks
in the state, have closed their doors,
the action being due to the appoint
ment of receiver for the trust COM
pany. The receivership was granted
on the petition of the Bank of Umatil-
Ia, Fla, which alleged the trust COM
pany had obtained $49l,5OO from the
Umatilla bank to be placed on invest
ment.
GAN FRANCISCO will benefit i'm
- mensely from the action taken last
week by fourteen of the city's wealth.
lest men whose combined fortunes are
more than $1OO.OOOO0O. Led by C. w.
Merrill, w. H. Croker, Mortimer
Fleischacker, Paul Shoup and Clay
Miller, these men formed a founda-
ton under which billions Of the sur
plus wealth of their families will be
donated to the benefit of the COM
munity. Each will make specific gifts
for specific purposes and a self-per-
petuating board Of trustees will ham
die the requests after the donors
death.
John w. WEEKS, former senator
- and secretary of war In the cab
met Of Presidents Harding and Cool
idge, died at Lancaster, N. H.. after
a long illness. He was an able and
loyal citizen and an unusually COM
petent public official.
Another man taken by death last
week whose name was familiar to all
was Lincoln J. Carter. writer of pop
ular melodramas and inventor of much
stage machinery.