The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-11-04
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,ENATOR NYE of North Dakota,
~ as spokesman for the radical Re-
publicans, has called on Frank o.
Lowden to make plain his stand on
various issues which are of especial
interest to the West, and intimated
that if he fails to satisfy the radicals
in these matters, they will give their
support to Senator Norris Of Nebras-
ka for the Presidential nomination.
"There are such problems as those
involving freight rates, discrimina-
lions in freight rates, inland water
way improvements, permanent i'm
provements growing out Of any flood
control program, the conduct of the
federal reserve banking system, the
administration of the federal farm
land banks-all of these problems
bearing directly upon the measure Of
prosperity which may accrue to the
agricultural states," said Senator
Nye. "Then, too, there are great ma
tional problems in which the West is
vastly interested.
upon these problems the whole
West knows well the position Of one
like Senator Norris, but it does not
yet fully know the position of Gov
ernor Lowden, except that he is be-
lever in and an advocate of farm re-
Of &c &c
in the McNary-Haugen BILL"
Senator Walsh of Montana, Demo
crat, prophesies a political ''revolu-
tom in the Middle West if the Re-
publicans nominate man whose
views on farm relief are the same as
those of President Coolidge.
Two other Democratic senators,
Copeland of New York and Pomerene
of Ohio, have Endorsed the candidacy
of Gov. AL Smith. With the backing
and support of the South, said Cope
land, Smiths nomination and election
are assured. He declared that south
ern opposition was mot so strong as
it has been represented" and looked
hopefully for assistance from Dixie.
He believes the Republicans will
nominate Charles E. Hughes.
Pomerene's Endorsement was in a
magazine article in which he praised
Smiths accomplishment in New York
and defended his attitude toward pro-
hibition. He declared. however, that
there were so many able leaders that
he did not want to seem unequivocal-
ly committed to Smith.
Mrs. Florence Atkins of Georgia, a
leader among Democratic women,
said the nomination of Smith would
mean party suicide" since the South
would not support him if he were
named.
TRIAL of Albert B. Fall and Harry
i F. Sinclair in Washington on
charges of conspiracy to loot the
navy's oil reserves got under way
before a jury which included two
young women. Owen J. Roberts and
Atlee Pomerene are handling the case
for the government, and the former
made the opening statement for the
| prosecution. Edward G. Finney, first
assistant secretary of the interior now
| and during Falls regime, was the first
| important witness. He described the
unusual secrecy which distinguished
the Teapot Dome lease transaction
from dozens of others in the depart
ment, and asserted that the transac-
ton was taken entirely from the
| hands of himself and his associates
and conducted personally by Fall.
His testimony purported to show fur
Their that for days the lease itself lay
locked in a drawer of Falls desk while
members of congress and other Off
Gals asked in vain for information
as to whether such lease had been
executed or was in contemplation.
| II IGHTY thousand soft coal miners
II of central Germany went out on
strike last week, and many industries
| were threatened with disaster be-
cause of the lack of electrical power.
| The men had been earning an average
of So week and asked that this be
increased to $S.64. The ministry of
labor approved the demand but the
mine owners would not grant it unless
they were permitted to increase the
price of coal accordingly. This the
minister of economics vetoed. The cen
trail German chemical industry, the
sugar industry and the paper mills
began shutting down, and the beet
sugar refiners told the government the
entire industry would be ruined I'M
less the strike were stopped. Food
prices in Berlin and elsewhere began