The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1930-08-01

that he will be present and speak at
the dedication of the Roosevelt arch,
where the Roosevelt highway crosses
The date of the dedication, which orig
inally was to have taken place the past
week, Is to be fixed to suit the Presi-
dents convenience.
CENATOR ARTHUR CAPPER of
~ Kansas wants the farm board to
buy 100,O00,O00 bushels Of wheat, in
addition to that already purchased,
and he put his plan before President
Hoover. The Chief Executive, how
ever, had just had talk with Secre-
tary Of Agriculture Hyde who had re-
turned from trip to the wheat belt
and who was understood to be opposed
to such a scheme as Capper proposed.
So the President declined to approve
the plan, though he told the Kansan
he was anxious to do anything desire
able to relieve the plight Of the wheat
growers.
Chairman Legge of the farm board
made public his correspondence with
Governor Reed of Kansas who criti-
cized the boards plan for reduction
Of wheat acreage and criticized its
activities, or inactivities. In his let
ter Mr.. Legge makes it plain that the
grain sterilization activities Of the
board have undergone no appreciate
change in policy in spite of the gov
ernor's charges of its having broken
the market and caused a record-break-
ing slump in wheat.
CENATOR Nye of North Dakota,
~ chairman, of the special senate
committee to investigate campaign ex-
penditures, was in Chicago last week
holding hearings all by himself on the
expenditures in behalf of Mrs. Ruth
Hanna Mccormick, Republican nom-
inee for senator. Nye and Mrs. Nc
Cormick haggled lot concerning the
factions and organizations that sup
ported her against Senator Deneen,
and various witnesses testified to their
contributions to her campaign fund.
But it was not apparent that anything
was brought out discreditable to Mrs.
Mccormick.
That lady while on the stand de-
manded that the committee summon
her Democratic rival for the senator
ship, James Hamilton Lewis, and ask
him to explain statement he made in
Springfield to the effect that it cost
$1,000,000 to win the Republican NOM
nation. She said Lewis must have
knowledge of expenditures Of well
over 100000 more than I have in
cluded in my accounting. He should
be subpoenaed If he has any knowl-
edge of that sort" 80
Drank ]. DORGER, majority stock
L holder in the closed Cosmopolitan
Bank and Trust company of Cincin-
natl, filed petition in bankruptcy.
Immediately thereafter O. G. Gray,
state banking superintendent, stated
that a,shortage of $2,0OO,217 existed in
the bank. The institution closed sew
eral weeks ago as the alleged result
of the 100000 check kiting opera
lions Of A. w. Shafer. Examiners also
found Dorger's bank accepted $685.
600 in fake securities from Shafer.
Common Pleas Judge Stanley Stru-
bel said he would consider contempt
of court charge against Dorger and his
daughter, Martha, who also filed bank
ruptcy proceedings, because the state
had been granted temporary injunc-
ton restraining the Dorgers from dis
posing of their personal assets.
A CTIVITIES of Communists in the
"A United States are being investi-
gated by congressional committee
which was busy last week in New
York city. Most important of the
witnesses heard was Charles G. Wood,
commissioner of Cancellation of the
Department of Labor. He said the
Communists at work among the labor
groups were chronic trouble makers,
and described strikes in Passaic, New
Bedford and Gastonia, N. c.. each Of
which was either started or influ-
enced by the Reds. He declared the
strikes, like other activities of the
Communists, were but means of at
lacking the government of the United
States.
ORANGE and Italy last week reached
L 'gentlemen's agreement" to take
naval building holiday for six
months, and there was great relief in
European diplomatic circles. The
agreement means little from a naval
standpoint, for neither nation intended
to lay down any more vessels this
year. but it was of immense impor-
lance psychologically. The statesmen