The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-08-19

| QUIT has been filed in Cleveland
~ against the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers, alleging that notes,
properties and securities "of little or
no value had been "unloaded" by the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Cooperative bank there on the Broth
erhood Investment company, the hold
ing company of all the brotherhood's
| financial undertakings.
The suit, brought by two stockhold-
ers of the investment company, asks
for an accounting of all profits made
by the bank in it's dealings with the
investment company, and that all
transactions be declared null and void
which resulted in loss to the invest
ment company.
/ a SSISTANT SECRETARY OF
"A THE TREASURY LOWMAN an
nounces that the treasury's plans for
| the resumption of the manufacture of
4 medicinal whisky this fall have been
abandoned, because there is no short
age now and supplies in government
warehouses should last for seven or
| eight years. Although no recent
gauge of the amount of whisky actual
ly on hand had been taken, it is esti-
mated that at least 20,O0O000 gallons
of aged whisky is now safeguarded in
bonded warehouses. Another 10000
600 gallons of brandy and other me-
dicinal beverages are available for
prescription use. The Withdrawals
during 1926 were 1.SS9.33S gallons.
| CTANDARD OIL COMPANY of New
| ~ Jersey got ahead of all other SINH
lar concerns the other day when it's
| president signed an agreement with
the German dye trust for the mutual
exploitation and development of pat
ents. The dye trust owns the Bergius
process for making crude oil and gaso-
line from coal and Ignite. The prod
ucts of this process, it is expected,
| will be on the market soon. Also, the
chemists predict that the by-products
will yield rich returns. Although the
details of the agreement were careful
ly guarded, there is conjecture that
many millions of dollars will flow from
the United States to the fatherland as
compensation for the dye trusts CIV
ing the Standard Oil the use of its
patents.
| KING FUAD of Egypt, on his way
IN home from England, stopped in
Rome for visit and achieved the dis
tinction of being the first sovereign;of
non-Christian country to be formal.
~ received in private conference by
the pope. Moreover, Plus XI decorated
Fuad with the order of the Golden
| Spur, and the two exchanged minia-
ture oil portraits of each other. The
pope sent an elaborate escort for
Fuad, but the latter, who had been the
guest of the Italian government, had
first to move to hotel.
D ESUMPTION of military opera
IN tons in the Chinese civil war
were seen in the mobilization by the
Christian general, Feng Yu-hsiang, Of
$4,000 of his best troops on the border
between Honan and Shantung prov
inces. He plans a flank movement
against the northern troops controlling
Shantung.
Seemingly the Japanese have failed
to force a compromise between Gen.
| Chang Kai-shek, the Marking COM
mander of Nationalists, and Marshal
Chang Tso-lin. A Shanghai CORE
spondent says:
"Since the Japanese are policing the
entire Shantung railway for the obvi-
GUS purpose of blocking movement
northward. complications are almost
inevitable. particularly since General
Chang already has declared his inten-
ton of treating the Japanese troops
the same as the northern militarists
if the Japanese try to interfere. Gen.
eral Chang recently seized several
shiploads of German war supplies in
tended for Marshal Chang"
INDIANA vets rejoiced when Rev.
L E. s. Shumaker, superintendent of
the state Anti-Saloon league, was ad-
judged in contempt by the state Su-
preme court and was sentenced to go
days on the state farm and fined $3.50.
Jess f. Martin. an attorney for the
league. also was found guilty of con-
tempt. but was not sentenced. being
absent from the state. Legal steps to
save Shumaker from serving his SEN
tence were taken at once. The prohi-
bitionists of the state and some minis
terial organizations rallied to his sup
port with offers of sympathy and
money.