The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1930-12-05

Mr.. Jayakar, brilliant young lawyer;
DR.. B.. S. Moonje, Hindu leader;
Muhammed Ali, prominent Moslem,
and the beautiful Begun Shah Nawaz.
The attitude Of the Tories of Eng
land was set forth by Lord Peel, for
mer secretary Of state for India, who
surprisingly asserted that no promise
Of dominion status, now or in the near
future, had been given by Great Brit
ain. After defending the British rule
in India he suggested that beginning
be made by giving the provinces GER
tain amount of autonomy, while main
tanning a strong central government
unchanged from the present one
There would be time enough to change
the central government after the prov
inces had proved their capacity to
rule, he said.
(TRIKES and riots prevailed in
- many cities of Spain for a week
and strenuous efforts were made by
the Republicans and Communists to
convert them into political demon
stration that would overthrow the
monarchy. But the government adopt
ed stern measures and succeeded In
quelling the disorders. The biggest Of
the strikes was in Barcelona, always
center of disturbance, but after
several days its abandonment was
ordered by the labor federation that
started it. In Madrid and Salamanca
there were strikes by students, who
demanded republic. The wiser anti
monarchists in Spain believe they will
succeed before very long in their aims
but that the time is not yet ripe.
CTENIO VINCENT, editor Of the
~ Haiti Journal, lawyer and for
mer diplomat. was elected President
of Haiti by the national assembly to
succeed Eugene Roy. Vincent is one
of the most strenuous opponents of
American occupation and his victory
was rather surprise. He is the first
regularly elected President of the re-
public since American Intervention in
1916. Following the recommendation
of the Hoover commission that went
to Haiti in February, that the office
Of American commissioner general be
terminated, Brig. Gen. John FL. Russell
lean minister, Dana G. Munro has ar
rived in Port Au Prince, the capital.
CEN. CHARLES P. SUMMERALL
~ on Thursday concluded his four
year term as chief of staff of the
army, and was succeeded by Maj. Gen.
Douglas Macarthur. In his farewell
statement General Summerall spoke
enthusiastically of the reorganizations
that have given the country its best
organized army since the armistice.
and gave high praise for the officers
and enlisted mems intelligence, loyalty
and devotion to duty.
D ESULTS of the prohibition refer
IN endum held by the American Bar
association show that 1879 of the
members voting are in favor of repeal
of the Eighteenth amendment. while
6340 are against repeal. Judge Orrie
L. Phillips, chairman of subcom-
mittee that handled the matter. says
that whether the association. in view
of the referendum result. will take
steps toward repeal of the Eighteenth
amendment probably will not be known
until the next annual meeting in At.
lantic City next September. He also
said it was possible that no definite
action would be taken then.
CMUGGLING of liquor and aliens
~ by airplanes from Canada by two
powerful combines has been exposed
with the indictment of fourteen men
by a federal grand jury at Detroit
Although the operations of the flying
rum runners were confined for the
most part to the Detroit area, plane
loads of whisky and fancy liquors oc-
casionally were flown across the Dor.
der direct to fields in the vicinity of
the larger cities in Ohio, Indiana. and
Illinois. 1t is charged that aliens
sometimes were carried as extra car
go on the liquor trips, and that special
trips were occasionally made for aliens,
A BOUT a score of men. women and
"A children were killed and hun.
dred others injured by a tornado that
struck the little church colony of
Bethany. a few miles from Oklahoma
City, Okla. More than two hundred
buildings were destroyed by the twist.
err. The storm first struck country
school house. where four pupils died
t@.l 1880. Western Newspaper UniOnl