The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-06-03

missioner, although general determine
ton Of policies will remain in the
hands of the secretary of the treasury
The date of Haynes retirement was
not indicated.
GERMANY claims that with the re-
~ cent blowing up Of the q concrete
dugouts on its frontier at Koenigsberg
it has completed the disarmament pro-
vided for by the Versailles treaty, and
is now demanding, that the allied
troops evacuate the Rhineland prov
inces. The allies are insisting that the
interallied military commission must
inspect the work Of dismantling the
fortresses, but Germany holds that the
interallied military control commission
expired on February 1, as promised by
the allies, and that for reasons of
prestige, Germany cannot permit re-
newal OF the interallied control. There
the matter stands with nothing definite
as to when the remaining French
troops will march out of Germany.
FLOODS continue to ravage Louisi-
l. ana parishes. Five additional par
ishes, with an area of / 100000 acres,
and the homes of $4,000 people were
thrown openIto invasion by the inland
sea when the river tore aside the pro-
lection barriers at McCrea and spread
over the low lands of Pointe
Coupee parish. Before the flood waters
have vanished into the Gulf of Mexico
they will have cut a path 80 miles
wide and 200 miles long from the
Arkansas border to the gulf.
AT WASHINGTON Justice William
"A Hitz sentenced Harry F. Sinclair,
millionaire oil operator, to serve three
months in Jail and to pay a fine of
$500 for contempt of the United States
senate in refusing to answer questions
in connection with the investigation of
the Teapot Dome lease scandal in
1924. The sentence was more severe
than had been generally expected by
those who have followed the case and
who did not believe that the term of
Imprisonment would exceed the min
imum Of one month which had been
imposed, in an earlier case, on Elver-
ton r. Chapman, New York stock
broker, in 1896 In sentencing Sinclair,
Justice Hitz declared that he believed
the decision of the United States Su-
preme court in the Nal Daugherty
case was binding on him.
Pending an appeal to the United
States Supreme court Sinclair was re-
leased on $1,000 bail.
DAYNE WHITNEY, prominent sports
L man, one of the richest of Ameri-
cans, son of the late William C. Whit
ney and brother of Harry Payne Whit
ney, died suddenly May 26 on the ten
mis- court of his country home at Man
hasset, L. l., of acute indigestion.
Payne Whitney was born in New
York 81 years ago, the second son of
William c. Whitney. Like his father
and elder brother, he went to Yale,
where he was graduated in 1898.
While there he achieved fame as an
oarsman and was captain Of his col
lege crew.
After leaving Yale he took a law
course at Harvard, and in 1902 he
married Miss Helen Hay, daughter of
the late John Hay, secretary OF state
and at one time ambassador to Great
Britain.
Mr.. Whitney was for many years
power in financial circles, although
comparatively little was heard of him
in that field. He was an active phi
lanthropist in a generous but unosten-
tatious way, so that almost nothing
was known of his benefactions.
Wall street estimates his wealth as
more than $3OO,O00,0OO basing the es-
innate on the income-tax payments
that Mr.. Whitney made for the years
1924 and 1925.
GONE progress was made at Phila-
~ delphia in the efforts of the union
min