The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-04-22
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sirable, no matter how impracticable
they seemed to the United States"
@ TORMS, floods and heavy SHOWS af-
- flicted the West and Middle West
last week. The most serious of the
disasters was a tornado that utterly
destroyed the town of Rocksprings,
Texas, Tuesday evening. About sixty
of the residents were killed and near
ly two hundred were injured. Red
Cross and volunteer relief workers
and cavalrymen from Fort Clark
were soon on the ground and cared
for the survivors.
AS the week closed the lower Mis-
sissippi valley was threatened with
one of the worst floods in its history,
though the big government bikes were
still holding back the rushing waters
of the Mississippi into which were
pouring the rain-swollen tributary
streams. Conditions in Arkansas
were most critical, and the town of
Columbus, KY, was menaced with de-
struction. In the Rocky Mountain
states there were heavy snowfalls
which interrupted traffic and endan-
gered live stock, though they were re-
garded as an aid to crops and ranges.
The snowstOrms moved eastward, the
highways being completely blocked in
western Kansas and Nebraska.
A a
severe earthquake in which twenty-one
persons were killed and many hurt.
Dispatches from Madrid say bitter
cold prevails in southern Spain and
scores of poor persons are perishing
from exposure.
PROSECUTIONS for dry law viola
L lions brought against the crews
of vessels seized under anti-rum rum
ming treaties on the high seas were
upheld by the United States Supreme
court in a decision affirming the con-
viction of the captain and crew of the
British ship Quadra, seized off the
California coast in 1924.
The court held that the men could
be punished for criminal conspiracy
as soon as they came within jurisdic-
ton of the United States, and that
the whole purpose of the rum-running
treaty with England would be defeat
ed if contraband liquor could not be
confiscated and the crew punished.
Prohibition enforcement in south
10 Sc OF Twin fron
row. Prohibition Administrator Nc
Reynolds has charged the customs Of
ficials with hampering and resisting
the enforcement Of the dryslaw and
now Sheriff Byers of San Diego de-
clares conditions along the Mexican
border are deplorable and appeals to
Secretary Mellon for an efficient and
effective customs service there.
ID ERT ACOSTA and Clarence D.
ID Chamberlain, American civilian
aviators, set new mark for endur-
ance flights by staying in the air 81
hours and - minutes. The previous
record for continuous flying made in
1925 in France, was 45 hours, II min
utes and SO seconds. Starting from
Roosevelt field, Long Island, in a
Wright-Bellanca monoplane, the two
Americans flew most of the time over
a triangular course and landed at
Mineola aviation field with all rec
ords broken. On the basis of the AL
cock-Brown flight from Newfoundland
to Ireland, they had been in the air
long enough to have flown almost
thrice across the Atlantic They trav-
eled far beyond the distance of a
flight from New York to San Francis
co and return.
Frank Lockhart, young Los An
geles motorist, attained a speed of
171.02 miles an hour, the greatest
ever made by an American driver, on
dry lake bed at Muroc, Calf. He
was attempting to equal or better the
record made by Major Segrave, Eng
lish pilot, at Daytona Beach, Fla.
G ENATOR McNARY Of Oregon, at
- ter a breakfast and conference
with President Coolidge and several
Republican leaders of congress, went
to his home state, stopping long
enough in Chicago to tell the report
ers that he was trying to work out
farm relief measure that would be &C.
ceptable to the President. He added,
in effect, that no man can hope to be
elected President of the United States
who is hostile to agriculture, and IN
less relief measure satisfactory to
the farmers of the country is worked
out between now and 1923, Calvin
Coolidge will have bitter trouble, first
to get enough delegates to nominate
him and then to get elected if nomi-
mated.