The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1930-11-28

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other Indians. present at the round
table, all insist on full dominion status
as minimum. This the present Brit
ish government is pledged to grant,
and the task Of the conference is to
work out the multitudinous details.
M ARSHAL CHANG, the young war
1V1 lord of Manchuria who by his
Intervention ended the civil war in
China, went to Marking last week to
confer with President Chang Kai-shek
on program of reconstruction. The
finance problem presents the greatest
difficulty, for the Marking government
hopes to persuade the Manchurian fac.
ton to surrender the customs and salt
gabelle revenues which Marshal Chang
is cornering. Chang also is asking
Marking for $5,O00,000 monthly for the
upkeep Of Manchurian troops within
the great wall.
XX7ET Republicans are demanding
w that Senator Simeon D. FesS Of
Ohio resign as chairman Of the Re-
publican national committee because
he said that the party must remain
dry or face a split and be defeated In
1882. The senator declares that this
was merely his personal opinion, and
that while he will continue to do all
he can to combat efforts by the vets
to weaken prohibition, he may be
ready to support any recommendations
made by the Wickersham commission
that would tend to make prohibition
more enforceable. He more than init.
mates he will not give up the chair
manship, but there are those, who be-
lieve he will soon be forced out and
that Robert II. Lucas will succeed him
and conduct the next Presidential
compaign.
DIR. Nicholas Murray Butler, presi-
dent of Columbia university, says tina.
if the Republican party'si platform in
1882 does not call for repeal Of the
Eighteenth amendment "there will
come in the following November the
biggest political smash-up that has
taken place in the history of any Amer
can now living"
AS a matter of fact, the leaders Of
both parties are greatly concerned
over the problem of adjusting their
platform on the liquor issue so as to
retain their respective strengths.
The Wickersham commission, trying
to get together on report concerning
prohibition enforcement, continued its
hearings and deliberations until Thurs
day and then adjourned until Novem-
Der "a. Among the witnesses it heard
were DR.. William @. Woodward of
Chicago. legislative counsel for the
American Medical association, and DIR.
William NJ. Mayer of Pittsburgh, Pa.
Both doctors were understood to have
told the commission that they felt the
present dry law provisions are OBJ
noxious to their profession generally
and a burdensome interference with
the practice of reputable physicians.
CEN. TASKER Fl. BLISS, who was
" chief of staff Of the United
States army during the World war,
American representative on the su-
preme war council and one of the
American peace commissioners In 1918,
died in Walter Reed hospital, WASH
ington, at the age of seventy-six years.
He was buried in Arlington with full
military honors.
Thomas Coleman du Pont, former
senator from Delaware, financier and
for years head of e. l. du Point de
Nemours & Co., passed away at his
home in Wilmington, Del, Other
notables who died included DR.. Julia
Holmes Smith of Chicago, pioneer suf-
fragist and philanthrOpist John Les
Mahin, noted advertising man; Sidney
NJ. Colgate, soap magnate, and +. NJ.
Hubbell of Des MOines, reputed to be
Iowa's wealthiest citizen.
THREE landslides in rapid success
l. sion, caused by heavy rains, buried
part Of Fourvieres, densely popu-
lated industrial suburb of Lyon,
France. Scores were buried alive and
it was thought the death list might
run as high as one hundred. Mem.
bers Of rescue parties that began work
after the first landslide were among
the victims of the later ones.
DREMIER Yuko Hamaguchi of Js.
L pan was mortally wounded in a
Tokyo railway station by young
member of reactionary patriotic So
ciety. He was shot in the abdomen.
The premier. known as the Lion o.
Japan" was considered a financial
genius and was popular.
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