The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-09-08

M $%3 six months sentences
at Ahmedabad so they
mana.'na could attend him.
eahon' Gandhi had been Of
fered his freedom if he would remain
in Poona and refrain from conducting
civil disobedience propaganda. He re-
fused. He demanded that he be given
unlimited facilities to conduct from
prison his campaign in aid of the Hin
du untouchables He was told he could
carry on the campaign only If he kept
1t free of politics.
Il might as well be dead If can't
work for them,' he said and began
his fast, vowing he would maintain it
until death unless the government re-
Tented.
NORMAN DAVIS, Ambassador at
~ large" called on President Roose-
welt in Hyde Park and departed with
fairly complete instructions for his
course in the disarmament conference
which reassembles in Geneva on Oc-
tober 16 In general Mr.. Davis will
support the British plan for limita-
ton of offensive weapons; but both
Mr.. Roosevelt and he believe the
French proposal for supervision and
control of world ornaments would be
a big step toward an agreement This
plan calls for a permanent disarma-
ment commission that would act as
the official body in complaints against
one signatory power by another. It
also would provide the manner and
shipment Of arms from one nation to
another, make inspections of world
ornaments and carry out system
attic check on the manufacture Of Of
fensive and defensive weapons.
ENGELBERT DOLLFUSS, the d.
~ minutive but nervy chancellor of
Austria, assured of allied support,
took steps to check the German Nazis
along the Bavarian border, where, he
was informed, the latter were TO-
menting trouble and planning inva-
sions of Austrian territory for next
month. Dollfuss ordered the mobiliza-
ton Of more than thousand picked
marksmen in the home guards and
prepared to rush them to the frontier
to reinforce the troops patrolling there
If the Nazi campaign continues The
Vienna home guard includes only two
battalions, but thousands of volun-
teers are being recruited in eastern
and southern Austria, and all of them
are dead shots.
CEN. OWEN ODUFFY'S blue
~ shirted National Guard of Ireland
paraded in defiance of President De
Valeras prohibition, and the Free
State government declared it an lille
gal organization. A military tribunal
was set up under the public safety
act and all blue shirts who do not re-
sign from the guard are to be ar
raigned before it and will be liable
to death sentence. De Valera's gov
eminent charges the National Guard
was organized for the purpose of set
ting up, dictatorship. Minister Of
Justice Ruttledge said he had evidence
that the guard was heavily armed and
was importing arms.
OCIALISTS are not happy these
" days, and when the Second Inter-
rationale opened its world congress
in Paris there were a lot of gloomy
faces among the delegates. However,
the executive committee firmly op-
posed the defeatists and pessimists
In the party. The bright spots on the
Socialist map were said to be Spain,
where the tide of Socialism is stead
lily rising; and the United States,
where in the opinion of American men,
bers. the new deap is leading to
Socialism.
looming up from the Caribbean, a
~ tremendous storm swept the At
lantic coast of the United States from
Virginia northward. About a dozen
lives were lost and immense damage
was done to property. Yachts were
wrecked and several liners were In
peril.
The storm played havoc in scores
Of communities in southern New Jer-
sey as well as surrounding states.
From Atlantic City to Cape May ev-
cry seashore resort had flooded streets
and homes. Beach front hotels were
virtually marooned. Ocean City. N. J.,
was cut off from rail communication
with the mainland.
QY A vote of about to /. Mis-
- souri, decided that prohibition
should be repealed and thus became
the twenty-second state to line up in
the wet column. Ratification by only
fourteen more states Is needed to re-
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