The Alamance gleaner ?. ? ? * ?? i > i , fc 0 VOL. LXI. GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY AUGUST 1, 1935. NO. 26. News Review of Current Events the World Over President's Way of Ending Virgin Islands Row Arouses Criticism?Senator Black Probes for Truth About Utilities Cigar Box. By EDWARD W. PICKARD ? Western Newspaper Union. THAT row over the administration of the Virgin islands was so un pleasant that President Roosevelt felt Impelled to settle it himself. So he removed frflm office the two chief battlers, Gov. Paul M. Pearson and Judge T. Webber Wilson, had other jobs found for them, and nominated as Pear son's successor Law rence W. Cramer, who was serving as lieu tenant governor of St. Croix Island. Confir mation of this appoint ment was not imme dlate. The senate committee investi gating the islands affairs was slow in making up its mind about Cramer, and from St Thomas came the news that the foes of the Pearson administration there, together with a delegation from St Croix, were protesting vigorously against the President's selection of a new governor. i The Emancipator, opposition paper, said editorially: "The islanders would about as soon have Pearson, for under Cramer no change of policy can be expected. Poor and unknown as the humble people of the Virgin islands may be, they are en titled to an example of honor and cour age from the President of the Amer ican Republic." The disposal of Pearson and Wilson also aroused criticism in Washington. The former had been attacked stead ily by Pat Harrison of Mississippi and other Democratic senators, but Secre tary of the Interior Ickes had defended him warmly, so he was given a job un der Ickes, being made assistant direc tor of housing In the PWA at $S,000 a year, a place not previously filled. In order to provide a Job for Judge Wilson, a former congressman from Mississippi and a protege of Senator Harrison, a woman was forced off the federal parole board. Attorney General Cummings requested and obtained the resignation of Dr. Amy A. Stannard, a psychiatrist who has been in the gov ernment service 12 years with a civil service status and had been a member of the parole board since 1930. Wilson was sworn in as her successor. Since Wilson's qualifications for the place ap peared to be chiefly political, observ ers In Washington noted sadly that the parole board was getting back into po litical hands. WHAT was In the cigar box wrapped In a newspaper? That Is what Senator Hugo Black, chairman Of the senate lobby committee, want frt lrnnw Bnfnrn the committee for questioning was John W. Carpenter of Dall as, president of the Texas Power and Light company. He ad mitted freely that he and other utility men had hotel conferences, dinners and a trip down Chesapeake bay with congressmen dur the fight over the Wheeler-Rayburn bill, and that he himself had centered his efforts on Texas congressmen. But of the mys terious box he could or would tell nothing. Black probed and probed, and finally asked: ? *'Do you still say that In the morn ing (of the day before the vote on the utilities bill 'death sentence') you didn't give a congressman a box wrapped up In a newspaper?" Carpenter replied quietly: "I don't think I did, unless it was a few ci gars." Senate and house conferees met to consider the utility control bill, but there were small signs that they could get together, and one session ended abruptly in a real row. Two admin istration lobbyists, Benjamin Cohen and Dozier A. De Vane, were brought into the executive session by Senators Wheeler and Barkley and though Rep resentative George Huddleston pro tested, their continued presence was insisted upon. Whereupon the fiery Alabama congressman and his fellows from the house walked out and broke up the meeting. Cohen is generally given credit for writing the measure. After leaving the committee room, Huddleston said flatly that the house conferees woud not recede from the position that the "death sentence" must be eliminated. r\ PPONENTS of the AAA amend ments designed to strengthen the powers of Secretary of Agriculture Wallace decided to let the basic act go up to the Supreme court, so the ad- ! ministration bill was passed by the | senate with only 15 adverse votes. I Both Republican and conservative Democratic toes of the AAA are con fident that the Supreme court will hold , the basic act unconstitutional and an early test is assured by a senate amendment permitting suits to recover processing taxes that have not been passed on to producers or consumers. One of the major purposes of the amendments was to close the courts, but the senate rejected this scheme by a vote of 41 to 23. As a result, the Hoosack Mills case, in which the Bos ton Circuit Courts of Appeals held the AAA unconstitutional, will not be thrown out and the highest tribunal will have a chance to pass upon It. Amid so much adverse criticism, the action of the Midwest farm leaders gathered In Chicago must have been soothing to Mr. Wallace. Resolutions were passed praising the secretary and congressional leaders for their ef forts in behalf of "agricultural equal ity." The farm leaders urged senate ap proval for the commodity exchange bill, passed by the house, and asked re-establishment of the Pacific North west Wheat Export corporation under the AAA to prevent wheat surpluses In that area from competing with Mid west wheat and other grains. IMMEDIATE convocation of the League o'f Nations council to deal with the Italo-Ethioplan question was demanded by Uaile Selassie, emperor of Ethiopia. On his behalf the demand was telegraphed to the league secretariat at Geneva by Tacla Hawariat, Ethiopian minister to France and delegate to the league. He insisted that the council pro ceed to the examina tion of the situation under article XV of the league covenant, Ethiopia invoking this article because of the "threat to her Independence from Italy." British dispatches said Prime Minis ter Stanley Baldwin and leading mem bers of his cabinet were believed to favor full league action, If other na tions agreed, as a last resort to avert the threatened conflict Diplomatic quarters in London heard that the British government probably would al ter its policy and permit the export of arms to Ethiopia. The emperor's new minister there, W. C. Martin, had a conference at the foreign office and came out smiling happily but saying nothing. DERMANENT federal control of the liquor business is provided for In a bill which was passed by the bouse and sent to the senate with prospects of early adoption by that body. The meas ure, which creates within the treasury a new agency to be known as the fed eral alcohol administration, was asked by the President to replace the FACA killed by the Supreme court's NRA de cision. Mr. Roosevelt wanted the new agency to be an independent office, but the house decided otherwise. FARMERS in the Middle West, ready to harvest their crops, found they couldn't get hands to do the work. The idle men ordinarily counted on for this were on the relief rolls and declined offers of farm labor for two reasons: The wages paid by the farm ers were less than the sums received from the relief organization or for government works, and if the men once went off the dole they feared they would have trouble getting back there when the harvest was over. The sit uation was desperate and emergency relief commissions were urged to take action. This they did in the states af fected and it was announced the "re volt" was under control. The Illinois commission stopped all relief works in the rural areas until I after harvest In Kansas persons re fusing any temporary employment were removed from the relief roils. In Ne braska 26 counties were cut off from federal relief allotments and In 15 oth ers the allotments were cut in half. In nearly a score of Iowa counties officials denied relief and able-bodied men on relief rolls were admonished to accept employment in the harvest fields. In North Dakota ail but specialized projects were halted and the state ad ministrator announced that as soon as the harvest was over the new works progress administration would take care of nnemployables. ."IHESTER a DAVIS. AAA admlnls- I AJ trator, and his fellow officials wera grevlously shocked when they were shown this classified real estate adver tisement In thd Globe of Joplln, Mo.: "Dandy way to make money: Buy this 13 acres for hog raising. Sign up with the government to not raise, say, 500 hogs. It will pay you $1,000. That will pay for the acres and have some j left." I "It's preposterous!" exploded Mr. Davis. "It's at least preliminary to fraud. It's deliberate misrepresenta tion and not In any way possible. I shall begin an Investigation at once." ETERMINATION of the Nazis to | ^ put an end to "political Catholi cism" In Germany and their consequent drive against Catholic youth organlza nun s may oring on results more serious even than has the Nazi antl-semltlsm. General Goerlng, head of the secret police, gave out a warning to' Catholic priests to be careful In their com ments from the pulpit, and Franz Guertner, minister of Justice, Is sued a decree threat ening prosecution for any ' priest violating Goering's injunction. Throughout the country generally the Catholic clergy was cautious, but in Freiburg, Baden, where the Goering order had not been published before Sunday, the priests read in their pulpits a letter from the episcopate calling the Nazi action a violation of the concordat with the Vatican. To this charge the Nazis re ply that the Catholics were the first to violate the concordat by making at tacks on the Hitler youth movement In their parish papers. This new "purge" by the Nazis in cludes a renewed crusade against the Jews and dissolution of the Steel Hel mets, veterans' organization, in vari ous provinces. The Jews are helpless and. If Juljus Streieher has his way, will be all driven out of Berlin or se gregated in ghettos. But the Steel Hel mets, whose chief is Minister of Labor Franz Seldte, are likely to cause the Hitler government a lot of trouble. A/f AYOR LA GCARDIA of New York A'-a has created an International in cident all by himself. He backed up License Commissioner Paul Moss in his refusal to license one "Mr. K" to work in the metropolis as a massage oper ator because he is a German. The German diplomatic officials were pre paring to complain to the State de partment that the city was violating the German-American commercial treaty of 1925. But Mr. La Guardla declared the treaty is null and void "because Germany has discriminated against American citizens of Jewish origin." He Indicated that not even the State department can force him to back down. TP HAT wholly un-American proce dure, the general strike, was tried out by organized labor In Indiana and the 67,000 Inhabitants of Terre Haute were deprived of all food supplies. The local authorities of Vigo county called on the governor for help and Mr. McNutt promptly ordered 14 com panies of the National Guard to tho scene. Brig. Gen. Wray De Prez, in command, promised the merchants who had been bullied Into shutting their shops would be given protection, and said his first endeavor would be to restore the milk and Ice service. This bad been cut off even from hospitals. The general strike was called by 48 unions without warning, because labor leaders had been unable to reach an agreement with the Columbian En ameling and Stamping company. Some 600 of that concern's employees went on strike In March and the plant was closed down, but the union leaders thought It was about to be reopened by strikebreakers. Conciliators from the Department of Labor arrived and within 48 hours the general strike collapsed and was called off by the union officials In charge. The strike at the stamping company, how- I ever, continued in effect and several times the troops were forced to use tear gas bombs to disperse riotous mobs. Terre Haute merchants estimated that the two days' strike cost them at ' least half a million dollars. The state spent probably $.70,000 In maintaining order by use of the troops. The state federation of labor asserted the sym pathy walkout was unauthorized. DROPPING all their rebellious In dignation, the Democrats of the house did everything the admlnlstra- | tlon wished In considering the social security bill as altered by the senate. ] The conferees had settled all dif ferences after two weeks of hard work, but one of the amendments they ac cepted was that permitting private pension systems to function under the measure. The majority members of the house were Informed that Presi dent Roosevelt was opposed to this, so they refused to accept it The senate would not permit the elimination of the amendment so back to conference went the bill. L. W. Cramer Mill. I ? Senator Black Emperor Haile Selassie Franz Guertner Where Uncle Sam Will Bury Billions of Gold IN PREPARATION for another major transfer of the government's huge gold reserve, secret orders have been Issued In Washington for the rush construction of a subterranean vault In the center of Fort Knox (shown here from the air), an army post 31 miles from Louisville. Into the vault will be transferred a good portion of the billions In gold now held by the government In New York and Philadelphia. The structure will be built In continuation of the policy of moving precious monetary reserves away from vulnerable cities on the coast to more Isolated Inland territory. Bedtime Story for Children By THORNTON W. BURGESS DANNY FINDS A REFUGE AS DANNY MEADOW MOUSE anx iously looked this way and that way for a place to hide from Buster Bear, a sharp, squeaky voice almost In his very ear made him Jump. "What are you doing over here. Cousin Danny? Aren't you lost?" said the sharp, squeaky voice. Danny turned quickly to find a lit tle round hole In the ground between the roots of the tree, and Just inside was the trim little head of his cousin, Whltefoot the Woodmouse. "Oh 1" cried Danny. "Buster Bear is trying to catch me and I don't know what to do." "Come in here," replied Whitefoot promptly. Danny didn't need a second invita tion. He darted In Just as Buster Bear reached the tree on the other side. Buster promptly tried again the trick by which he had so nearly caught Danny. He reached a great paw around the trunk of the tree and brought it down swiftly. But he was too late. There was no one under that big paw. Buster watched and listened, but he saw nothing and heard nothing. Then he walked around the tree to investigate. There was no sign of Danny Meadow Mouse. But between the roots of the tree was a little round hole. "Huh!" grunted Buster Bear and began to dig furiously. Now Buster Bear's claws are long and stout and when he sets out to dig he makes things fly. But Whltefoot the Woodmouse knows all about those great claws of Buster, and when he made that little round hole he made It right under the big roots of that tree. It didn't take Buster long to find out that It was quite useless to try to dig out Danny Meadowmouse. You see, those big roots were In the way. So after a minute or two of useless digging Buster gave up. It was foolish to waste time there when he might be I hunting for and finding sweet little beechnuts. So, grumbling deep In his throat. Buster walked off and once more began to rake over the leaves In search of beechnuts. Meanwhile Danny Meadow Mouse had followed his cousin, Whltefoot the Woodmouse, along a little tunnel among the roots that led him some distance away from where he bad en tered. It was a very nice little tunnel. Danny said as much as he scampered along after Whltefoot. Whltefoot was pleased but he didn't say anything. He just scampered along and Danny followed. After a while they came out in the heart of a big, hollow stump. "Now," said Whltefoot, "you have nothing to worry about from Buster Bear. Tell me what happened and what you are doing so far away from home." ?, Y. W. Burgess.?WN'U Service. UbihirjsCooKBook OUTDOOR MEALS A S PICNIC days are here again, we ** turn to our lists of good things which we have enjoyed and plan a picnic lunch. Those who find some food hard to digest will enjoy them and have no discomfort when eaten out of doors after a brisk hike, or even a stroll through the woods. When packing a lunch, remember to put some of the goods that add zest such as green onions, fresh rad ishes, cucumbers and a few pickles, sweet and sour. Pickled beets, onions, chow, are all relishes which are en Joyed with the other food. The sandwiches may be cut and made just before serving, with let tuce, a slice of cucumber and onion, as filling. Baked bean sandwiches are always enjoyed for a hearty meaL Serve them with sliced sour pickle. Most picnic lunches are made up of starchy and sugar foods. Some of these are needed but the alkaline foods will be needed or headaches and Indigestion will result. Fruits, green vegetables, celery, to matoes, are all good to combine with the sandwiches, rolls and cakes. Meats are acid forming foods and should be used sparingly. With the crisp lettuce carried In a towel, well wrapped, add sliced oranges or tomatoes or apples and serve with a french dressing all pre pared and carried in a tight Jar or bottle. With ail the disadvantages, snakes, mosquitoes, poison ivy. the more we go on picnics, the more we learn ^you Know? I That the chrysanthemum be came the national flower of Japan in the Fourteenth cen tury? It is called Kiku there. Some botanists say that it was once only a common daisy. C McClure Newspaper Syndicate. WNU SarTica. Question box b, ED WYNN, The Perfect Fool | Dear Mr. Wynn: I am a coed, at a well known col lege, and am crazy about a boy my own age who goes to the same col lege. He gave me a lovely cigarette holder for my birthday and his birth day Is next Saturday. I saw a whisky flask. In a shop window, which was made to look like the seven of spades. Don't you think that Is a cute present to buy blm? Sincerely, LILY KUPrS. Answer: The present Is all right, but he's liable to leave It on a table In some fraternity bouse, and some other student might come along with the eight of spades and take It. Dear Mr. Wynn: I hare been engaged to a young man for nearly six months and we were to be married In June, but last night he confessed to me that he had a wooden leg. What shall I do? Tours truly. DOUA KNOB. Answer: Break It off. Dear Mr. Wynn: My wife and I had an argument last night about the army. My wife says, In order for a man to be burled with "military honors" he must be a cap tain, while I say he must be a general. Which If us Is right? Tours truly. LEW TENANT. Answer: Tou are both wrong. In order for a man In the army to be burled with full military honors he must be dead. Dear Mr. Wynn: Every month, a club I belong to, bolds a meeting at which all the mem bers bare to tell a story on a subject which Is told us a week before the meeting. The subject, for our next meeting. Is: "The Stingiest Man I Know." Will you tell me the stingiest man you ever met? Truly yours, O. COMM TELLMEE. Answer: The stingiest man I ever heard of was a man who fell over board and as he was swimming ashore a policeman hollered to him that It was $50 fine for swimming In that river and when the man heard that he just threw up his hands and sunk. Dear Mr. Wynn: I bought a new suit, the other day, and the first time I put It on. the coat split up the back. Bow do you account for that? Yours truly, L PICTICT. Answer: The buttons were sewed on too tight. C Aaa