Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1930-07-04

100000 by the Grigsby-Grunow
company.
The petition contains many of the
allegations made in petition filed by
the United States government in the
federal court Of Delaware on May 10,
1880. That petition. they said. asked
for dissolution of the illegal combina-
ton which this petition also alleges.
r oTARY International celebrated
N its silver jubilee last week in Chi
cago, the city of its birth. Members
to the number of some $4,000 assem-
bled from all parts of the world, with
their families, and the doings included
not only banquets and other festaI
events but also sessions in which the
problems of the trades and professions
were seriously discussed and many
social questions were debated.
CHESTER H. GRAY, Washington
" representative Of the Farm Bureau
federation, has given out an analysis
purporting to show that agriculture
benefits much more from the new tariff
law than does industry.
Duties on raw agricultural products
have been increased on an average by
SIG per cent over the rates of the
1922 law, tabulations made by Mr..
Gray indicate. The industrial rate In
creases have averaged 14.6 per cent,
the agricultural increases being mora
than three times as much as indus
trial increases.
uOUSE and senate conferees agreed
! 1 on the rivers and harbors bill ex-
actly as it was passed by the senate,
and 1t was sent to the President for
his approval. 1t is estimated that the
bill authorizes the expenditure of more
than $135,O00,000 on projects which If
completed will cost In excess of $780,
100000. Actual expenditures must be
made from the lump sum annual APP
preparation of 100000 at the dis
posal of the army engineers.
a MOS W. w. WOODCOCK was
selected to be director Of the bu-
reau of prohibition in the Department
Of Justice to begin his work on July
/, the date of transfer of prohibition
enforcement from the Treasury depart
ment. Mr.. Woodcock has been United
States district attorney at Baltimore,
is forty-slx years old and served
through the World war. He will be
the chief aid Of G. A Youngquist, as
sistant attorney general in charge of
dry law and income tax prosecutions,
in the latter's initial drive to better
dry law enforcement.
DUPLICATION of the second section
4 of the report of the Simon COM
mission on India served only to ac-
centuate the rage Of the Indian Ma
tionalists. The commission recon-
.mends primarily that there be fed
eral organization of all the Indian
states; that the new constitution
should, so far as possible, contain
within itself provision for its own de-
yelopment, allowing for natural growth
and diversity; and that during the
period in which India is progressing
on the road to complete self-govern-
ment, there must be full provision
made for the efficiency of the funda-
mentals of government. which means
that for many years the presence of
British troops, and British officers
serving in Indian regiments, will be
essential.
Hindus, Moslems and Parsees are
united in condemning the Simon re-
port and the Nationalist have re-
newed their demand that the London
round table conference in October be
boycotted unless the British govern
ment promises to discuss ways and
means for dominion status for India.
Prisoners in the central Jail of Ran
COON, Burma, mutinied, armed them
selves in the prison armory and fought
a desperate battle with the guards and
military police. Before they were
subdued 45 men were killed, most of
them convicts, and II wounded.
D EPORTS Of the serious illness Of
~ Pope Plus N alarmed Rome and
the whole Catholic world. 1t was said
he was suffering from an acute blad-
der trouble and that uremic poisoning
was threatened. The Vatican, how
ever, gave out information tending to
show the reports were exaggerated
and indicated that his plans for GER