Evening Star Newspaper, May 19, 1925, Page 22

MINE BLAST PROBE STLLISUNDERWAY Police Investigating Explo- sion at West Virginia Plant Make No Disclosures. By the Associgted Press. + MOUNDSVILLE, W. Va., May 19.— State police nvestigating an explo- sion that wrecked a company bunk: house at the Panama mine of the Ben Franklin Coal Company yesterday had made no arrests in the case early today. Lights were strun 1bout the prop: night and all shrubbery was clear Aaway. Suyp John E. Quade announced that the lizhts would be burned on mine property each night unt selit_unrest in the lelds subsides. Resumption of Work Halted. The Panama’ mine has been closed during the present strike and offic had planned to resume operations terday. Last night a terrific expl sion rocked the bunkhouse and_threw ‘eight men from tb beds. No one was injured, but asiderable prop- erty was demolished. Belief ex pressed that the explosion was caused by a bomb hurled from surrounding shrubbery. Situation at Fairmont. At Fairmont last night 142 men and women who had been in jail for some time on charges of picketing and intimidating non-union mine; were free under bond. Counsel for the United Mine Workers, appearing for them, have entered pleas of not guilty. The attorneys have been granted until Frid: complaints of the New England Fuel and Transportation Company against those under bond. The Mineral State Coal Company’s Parrs Run mine is now reopened on an open shop basis, being the eighth of the larger mines in Marshall Coun- ty that have resumed operations, LAW TO BE TESTED Colored Voters in Richmond to Seek Places on Democratic Ticket for Magistrates. $8pecial Dispatch to The St RICHMOND, Va., May 19.—Colored yoters of the city are preparing to Make a test of the primary laws of the Democrats. The colored voters, having in large severed relations with the licans, are to make a demand for places for their race on the ticket o be voted in the primary next August. They want to elect colored magistrates for the @olored section of the city. : The law has been attacked on a previous occasion, and, as the primary s held under the general terms of the State law, but applicable to the white Democrats, the courts have held that the Legislature has a right to allow a primary to be held under party fegulations, and that the party can make whatever restrictions it sees fit to impose. The colored voters are meeking by this means—participation in the primary—to have a voice in public affairs,” inasmuch as the pri- mary is really the election. Record Vote in Sight. Speeial Dispatch to The Star. : FREDERICKSBURG, Va., May 19. *The I number of voters eve eligible to go to the polls in Fred- ericksburg are registered and paid up for the August primary and the elec- fion next Fall, the to qualified yoting strength of the city being 1,804. Of these 1,682 are white and 122 col- OLDFIELD DISCHARGED. Arkansas Representative, Operated Upon, to Remain at Home. Representative Oldfield of Arkan- , who was operated on for appen- dicitis, was discharged from ¢ Hospital vesterda He will at home here for about two weeks. On advice of his physician he will then go to Atlantic City, where he Wwill remain for about two weeks. His physician states he will not be per- mitted to attend his office for about two months, g = Because she is unable to laugh or [&ry since being injured in an auto- Bmobile accident, May Gothar of Eng- Jand was awarded damages of §25,000. to_answer the | EMBODIED IN Internal BY FRANK H. SIMONDS. of The French campaign in Morocco, which is steadily taking on more con- siderable importance, has three sep- arate angles, only one of which is military, the others being political— domestic politics in the case of France and international politics, since Brit- ain, Spain, Italy and France are all concerned. Of these three aspects, the military is perhaps the least important, al- though the most spectacular. The eruption of the forces of Abd-el-Krim |in the French portion of Morocco is an inevitable consequence of the suc- cess of this Moorish leader in driving Spanish out of the larger part of protectorate. Flushed with vie- y over the Spaniards, furnished with every sort of weapon taken from the Spanish, he is obviously seekings to repeat his triumphs, this time at the expense of the French and with the idea of conquering all of Morocco and making himself sherif or em- peror. Country Mountainous. The geographical circumstances of the operations are these: In the larger part of what the French call Africa Minor and we still name the Barbary States, “the High Barbaree’ of our old Navy, the Mediterranean seaboard is dominated by high ranges of mountains. these fall down to a chain of v | which run east and west—th: paraliel to the sea. Behind these v vs rise the main Atlas mountai which in Morocco reach Alpine heights. The main railways and highroads from east to west, connecting the cities of Tunis, Algiers, Oran and Fez, burrow these valleys. In the division of Morocco Spain received that part of the old Sherifian empire north of the range of coastal mountains, ex- tending from the mouth of the Muluya River, just west of the Algerian frontier, to the Tangier Peninsula. This strip is less than a hundred miles long and nowhere more than fitty deep. The actual frontier be- tween the Spanish and French zones is the crest of the coastal hills, the Anti-Atlas of some geographies. Fez’s Importance Wanes. Less than fifty miles south of this crest runs a deep east and west valley through which pass the railway and highroad connecting Oran, in Algeria, with Fez and the Atlantic seaboard For Relieving HEADACHE NEURALGIA TOOTHACHE RHEUMATISM Ask Your Druggist Get Your U. S. Royal Cord Tires By a Special Budget Plan Many motorists avail themselves of this spe- cial method of monthly payments. 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This valley begius in the east near the fortified city of Taza and ends near Fez, the old capital of Mo- rocco, today of less importance, since the French have concentrated the government of the protectorate at Rabat on the Atlantic coast. ‘What the Moorish tribes are trying |z to do is: Attacking on a very wide front, almost the distance between Fez and Taza, they are striving to cross the crests of the Anti-Aflas, which mark the frontier, and push down the southern slopes into the FezTaza corridor, thus cutting the raflway and isolating Fez from Al- geria, and then close in on the city itself, What the French are under- taking to do is to hold the line of blockhouses, which they have estab- lished just south of the crests, check advance of the Riffs and presently throw them back across the frontier. French Force 85,000, France has in Motocco some 85,000 troops of all arms and some 65,000 in Algeria and Tu not all of whom can be used, of se, but the avail- able forces surely supply sufficient numbers to deal with the Riffs, who what is now y to the real ake their main rench seem to b into three The inevitable defeat of ed, but it ¢ ). 0., TUESDAY, be long postponed because the French have all the resources of modern war, including afrplanes and gas; the coun- try in which they operate, of course, is too rough to permit much use of tanks, unless the Riffs penetrate into the valley itself. But once the Riffs have been thrown back into their own villages, the prob- lem becomes more difficult. This is true first because of the character of the country, and secondly because the conquest of the Riffs would entail a long campalgn, much expenditure of money and not a little of life, and it would at once precipitate discussions of & political characier. Yet it is equally clear that the French cannot endure permanently attacks which can_hardly be held by the line of blockhouses ~established along the frontier. Course Ts Undecided. Should the French decide to go into the Spanish zone they might under- take a purely punitive operation. But could they retire afterward and would they? This question would roncern You note we say “true” low pressure Here is the reason N theory, all balloon tires are run at low air pressure. In practice, however, the recommended pres- sures for many balloon tires are too highto give ideal balloon cushioning. This is because many tires wear excessively when run soft. U. S. Royal Balloons are built to give long service at the low pres- sures necessary to ideal balloon cushioning and comfort. TheyhavethenewU.S. “Low-Pressure Tread”. Thistread givesamuch greaterarea of road con- tact than a round tread. It distributes the load evenly over the tread surface. MAY 19, the British, who are nervous about the security of Gibraltar and would strongly object “to the French an- nexation of the Spanish zone between Melilla and Ceuta, the zone which was bestowed upon Spain to avoid just this contingency. Thus the Painleve ministry will find itself in difficulties with several These stains European nations if it sends French troops into the RIff. But it is just as likely to get into hot water at home, because the Nationalist op- position will use any weakness as a basis for fresh attacks, while the main bulk of Painleve's own sup- porters in the chamber would oppose any kind of military operation save give purely defensive. Indeed, Painleve has already been at some, pains to ex- plain that defense is the sole plan, (Copyright, 1825, by the McClure News- paper Syndicate.) One cupful is equal to 16 table- spoonfuls of liquid; also to 8 heap- ing tablespoonfuls of dry material. 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