The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1927-03-24
TOPICS OF THE DAY

Seeger failed to find any of Mrs.
Browning's charges of cruelty sup
ported by the evidence and granted
a separation to Browning on the
ground his wife had abandoned ''his
bed and board forever"
Washington, March 19.-Cleve-
lands bid for the next Republican
national convention was handed to
President Coolidge today by Carmi
Thompson, Ohio Republican leader.
Mr.. Thompson said Cleveland also
was anxious to get the Democratic
convention.
Little Rock, Ark, March 19.-Suc-
cessive tcrnadoes left areas of suffer
ing today in Southwest and Central
Arkansas. At least % and probably
more were dead. Visitors leaving the
isolated town of Green Forest, had
heard of Is bodies found and of so to
rs injured. Twelve of the dead were
named. Doctors and nurses have been
rushed to the scene of the disaster.
Baltimore, Md, March ia reso-
luton recommending a state law re-
quiring all teachers of public and
private schools to take an oath of al
legiance to the United States Govern
ment was adopted today by the
Maryland state conference of the
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton.
Washington, March 22.-Additional
federal judges for Maryland and
Western New York will be named
soon by President Coolidge. Several
names have been submitted for each
post but Mr.. Coolidge expects to
reach decision at an early date. He
is prompted to make The recess ap-
pointments by the crowded condition
of the dockets in both states.
Shanghai, China, March pa
detachment Of forty United States
Marines this morning was hurried out
to reinforce the British troops hold
ing the Markham bridge, on the
border between the international
settlement and native district of
Chapel.
Cumberland, Nd, March 23.-Mrs.
Ruth Pearl Franklin, now of Hagers
town, was granted partial divorce
from DR.. A. Leo Franklin, Of Cumber-
land, in a decree filed yesterday in
the Allegany County Circuit Court,
by Judge Albert A. Doub. In bring
ing to an end the long pending divorce
litigation, Judge Doub awarded Mrs.
Franklin custody of her infant child,
Ruth Yvonne Franklin, and $4,000 a
year alimony, payable in monthly in
stallments, until further orders of the
court. Maintenance and support of
the child is included in the alimony
allowance. DR.. Franklin was ordered
to pay the costs of the litigation. The
decree was passed by the court after
DR.. Franklin withdrew his cross bill
for divorce, abandoning his charge
of infidelity. Mrs. Franklin filed suit
for partial divorce from DR.. Frank
lin last September, alleging that he
forced her from their home and would
not permit her to return. Soon after
wards DR.. Franklin entered cross
bill asking divorce on the grounds of
infdelity. The main difference at the
time the couple separated was over
the custody of the infant daughter.
The court finally awarding the child
to Mrs. Franklin pending the outcome
of the divorce litigation. Since that
time Mrs. Franklin and her daughter
have been making their home with
the formers parents, Mr.. and Mrs. ].
H. Funkhouser, in Hagerstown. Prior
to her marriage Mrs. Franklin was
Miss Ruth Funkhouser.
indianapolis, Ind, March %
With the expiration of the present
wage contracts ten days away. both
union miners and operators in bit
luminous districts do not know wheth-
er tie-up will occur on April LIST,
and if it does, to what extent. Dis
stricts outside the Central COMPETE
tive Field, whose contract is a basis
of all fields, have been discussing
of the present relations
will determine the action of the policy
committee. A general strike is re-
garded as likely, if operators repre-
senting less than 600OO,O00 tons pro-
duction reject that tentative agree
ment. The miners are pledged to
stand firm on the present scale. While
operators and miners in several out
lying districts have agreed to contin-
ne temporarily the present contract,
the Indiana overture is the first in
the central field, the coal industry's
battlefield.
Baltimore, Md, March 23.-Twenty
new locomotives, to be delivered to
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad by
the Baldwin Locomotive Works next
u,oo1 will ho r,1ooad in nascannar