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


ton calls on the company to show
cause why an order should not be
issued, under the grain futures act,
directing all contract markets to re-
fuse trading privileges to the COM
pany. The hearing will be in Chicago
October IL.
The charge of mixing rye screen
ings into the regular grain, on which
the citation is based, was investigated
by the Chicago Board Of Trade d.
rectors and the company was exoner-
ated BY an almost unanimous vote.
DREMIER MUSSOLINI Of Italy and
Sir Austen Chamberlain, British
foreign secretary, held a conference
Thursday at Livorno and various
matters of great moment were dis
cussed by them, though at this writ
ing the topics considered are not
known. Reports from London and
Rome were that the statesmen were to
take up chiefly Mediterranean prob
lens, including the disposition Of the
international zone Of Tangier; and
there we're other reports that they
would discuss the Balkans and also
Abyssinia.
A LFONSO'S seat on the Spanish
"A throne is getting shaky and his
crown is wobbling bit. Recently the
dictator, Primo de Rivera. announced
that he would summon hand-picked
! constitutional assembly and the lead
ers Of the old parties at once rose in
opposition, burying their differences
and agreeing that the proposition was
utterly illegal. Some of them are said
to have called on the king and warned
him that If he persisted In backing
the dictator In this plan they would
drive him from the throne and either
give 1t to his third son, Juan under
the regencyfof his mother, or aid in
the establishment Of a republican form
of government. It is reported that
Alfonso, who has been amusing him
self at San Sebastian, told the dis
gruntled ones to "go to it."
Poland's parliament. resenting Pill
sudski's methods, refused to vote as
much for the budget as the dictator
demanded, whereupon the reappoint-
ed Bartel cabinet resigned. The mar
shall had threatened to dissolve the
! parliament If this happened, but
changed his mind and let the cabinet
60.
G HERWOOD EDDY'S group of in
~ vestigators into conditions in Rus
STA has sent to President Coolidge a
letter urging conferences with the
ignition of that government by the
United States These gentlemen were
In Russia a month and were shown
all that the soviet rulers wished them
to see. But one of their number, Will
liam Rosenwald Of Chicago, remained
some investigating on his own account.
In an interview in Berlin he says the
mission was filled full of bunk. He
says that although there are many
signs of economic and financial re-
vival and the soviet government seems
to be permanently established, DOL
shevik terrorism still is implanted in
the souls Of the Russian people, there
is no individual freedom, and fear and
intimidation still are the weapons by
which the soviets rule"
UEEN MARIE Of Rumania has
" left Bucharest for her projected
tour of the United States, and officials
Of the Leviathan announced that she
would occupy the presidential suite on
that vessel with deck exclusively for
her party. Landing at New York, she
will go at once to Washington to visit
President Coolidge. The Pennsyl-
vania railroad has put at her dis
posal q special train for her trip
across the continent.
The queen has decided on the fol-
lowing itinerary: New York, Wash
ington, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Pitts
burgh. Cleveland, Detroit, Seattle, San
Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, and
st. Louis. She will be accompanied
by her youngest daughter, Princess
Ileana, Prince Nicholas, the Infanta
Beatrice of Spain, the court aids, the
secretary of the Rumanian delegation
at London, and Bucharest professor.
DRESIDENT COOLIDGE has an
pointed Charles Evans Hughes
member of the Permanent Court of
International Justice at The Hague to
succeed the late George Gray. The
other American members Of the court
are Elihu Root and John Bassett
Moore.