The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1930-08-22

@. P. Summerall when the latter re-
tires in November. General MacAr-
thur, who is head of the army de-
partment in the Philippines, is now
on temporary duty in China. He is
fifty years old, the youngest army Off
Ger of his rank in active service, and
was advanced over the heads of sew
eral older officers, the President said,
because he is the senior major gen.
eral whose age would permit him to
serve the full four-year term as chief
of staff. He graduated from West
Point in 1903 and his career, especial
ly in the World war, was brilliant.
At the same time the President ap-
pointed Brig. Gen. Ben H. Fuller to
be commandant of the marine corps
to fill the vacancy left by the death
of General Neville.
y EAL foreign Intervention in China
N may soon result from the bloody
doings of the Chinese Communists in
Human province, if it is not already
in effect. The British are leading the
way, sending a considerable number
of soldiers up the Yangtze to Hankow,
which was threatened by the Reds.
The troops were to be placed on
cruiser ready to be landed if necessary
to protect British property. The
American gunboat Tutuila left for up
river to reinforce the Palos, and the
flagship Pittsburgh of the Asiatic fleet,
with destroyer division, was on the
way from Tsingtao to Shanghai. ia
pan also was in action, sending a num-
Der of destroyers with landing parties
of marines to Hankow, Kiukiang and
other river ports threatened by Com
munist invasion.
The Nationalist government had ad-
mitted it's inability to guarantee pro-
lection for foreign residents Of Han
kOw, though it was sending additional
troops to that region and had re-oc-
cupied Changsha. The Communists
were still entrenched in the hills about
the city and were continuing their
sanguinary course, having already
slain two thousand Chinese residents
of the place and captured four thou
sand. OutrageS against British Ma
tionals included the sending of a Sc
vered finger of Miss Edith Nettleton,
missionary, with demand for $4,000
ransom for herself and Miss Edith
Harrison, held captive month"; to the
British legation
+ UNEMPLOYMENT in Great Brit
~ ain has reached the highest point
since July, 1921, the number regis
tered as out of work being 2,011, ACT.
Last week hundreds of railway en-
ployees were laid off because of the
falling off in traffic. Official reports
show that unemployment in Germany
is decreasing slightly, in France is
negligible, and has decreased in Den
mark, Sweden, Holland, Italy and Aus
tria.
In the United States the situation
was frightened somewhat by resump-
ton of work in the automobile fac
tories of the Detroit area and other
places and by several of the biggest
railway shops. The Chicago region
saw good prospects for revival of the
building industry.
John HENRY MEARS and his pi-
- lot, II. J. Brown, who intended to
make a record-breaking airplane flight
around the world, have had to post
pone it, for their plane was wrecked
as 1t was leaving the runway at Har-
Dor Grace, Newfoundland.
The German aviators, Hirth and
Weller, who were on their way from
Berlin to Chicago by way of Iceland
and Greenland, reached Reykjavik.
Iceland, safely, but abandoned their
project for want of suitable landing
place In Greenland and because their
supply of gas did not arrive.
Capt. Frank Hawks set a new rec
ord for flight from New York to Los
Angeles. making the distance in a
swift little monoplane in IA hours, so
minutes and 43 seconds. with five
stops for refueling. His average speed
was about ITO miles an hour.
| ~ FFICIAL but unrevised census
" figures give the total population
of continental United States as 1922.
729472. The outlying possessions
bring the grand total to. 137, sol, 561.
| this including an estimate for the
Philippine islands where an enumer-
alton has not been made for several
years. The proportions of population
east and west of the Mississippi have
shifted less than one-half of per cent
in ten years. being respectively 696
! per cent and 1914 per cent