The Alamance gleaner
VOL. LXII.
No. 53
News Review of Current
; Events the World Over
Disastrous Flood Moves Down the Mississippi ? Mass Evac
uation Prepared ? Secretary Perkins Moves to
Compel General Motors Strike Parley.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
? Western Newspaper Union.
GRADUALLY the terrible flood
in the Ohio valley subsided,
but the yellow torrents were pour
ing down the lower Mississippi and
the nation was mo
bilized to save the
people there. By di
rection of the Pres
ident and Gen. Mal
ta Craig, chief of
staff, the army
made all prepara
tions for the evacu
ation of all inhabi
tants along the riv
er between Cairo,
111., and New Or
leans. The details
for this mass move
General
Malin Craig
ment were worked out to the last
point by commanding officers in the
region and thousands of motor
trucks and railroad flat cars were
collected. Headquarters for the
evacuation were set up at Jackson,
Miss.
Lieut. Col. Eugene Reybold, dis
trict engineer at Memphis, ordered
the prompt delivery of 5,000,000 bur
lap sacks for the erection of sand
bag bulwarks, 15 cars of lumber, 210
outboard motorboats, 300 small
boats, 300 life jackets, and 1,500
lanterns.
The secretary of war authorized
the use of not only regular army
troops but also members of the
Civilian Conservation corps, the
National Guard, and the Red Cross.
General Craig said that if the bil
lion dollar levee system, erected
after the great 1927 flood, failed to
hold, about the same area affected
then would be inundated. Many
thousands of people already had
been removed from homes along the
Mississippi, but cities like Memphis
and Vicksburg, being on high
ground, were believed to be safe.
At New Orleans river experts re
fused to admit danger of a super
flood along the lower reaches of the
river. But Secretary of War Wood
ring in Washington had reports
from engineers which said the
levee system on the lower Missis
sippi probably would not be able
to withstand the present flood when
it reaches its crest.
At this writing the effects of the
flood may be thus summarized:
Homeless, nearly a million. Dead,
probably more than 500, including
200 in Louisville. Damage, conserv
atively estimated at more than $400,
000,000.
Congress hurried through a defi
ciency appropriation of $790,000,
000 which the President promised
would be made available for flood
relief; and the American Red Cross,
working at high speed, was raising
a fund of $10,000,000 to which the
people of the entire country con
tributed liberally. Supplies of food,
drinking water, clothing and medi
cines were poured into the stricken
areas.
Cincinnati, Louisville, Ports
mouth, Frankfort and Evansville
were the worst sufferers; but every
city, town and village along the
Ohio and its tributaries shared in
the disaster. Fires broke out in the
Mill Creek district of Cincinnati and
destroyed property valued at $1,500,
000 before the flames could be con
trolled. Throughout the entire re
gion transportation was crippled,
pure water and fuel supplies were
shut off or greatly reduced.
FORTY THOUSAND employees of
1 General Motors returned to part
time work in reopened plants in
Michigan and Indiana, and were un
A. P. Sloan
molested by the
strikers. But the
deadlock was not
broken, and the sit
down strikers con
tinued to occupy the
plants they had
"kidnaped." Presi
dent Alfred P. Sloan
Jr., of General Mo
tors had refused the
invitation of Secre
tary of Labor Per
kins to meet John L.
Lewis, chief of the
siriKing unions, wnue tne sirucers
were still in forcible possession of
plants, and President Roosevelt
ominously termed this refusal "a
very unfortunate decision on his
part," intimating, also, that there
was a prospect of labor legislation
unfavorable to the corporation and
to employers generally.
Sloan persisting in his attitude,
.Secretary Perkins started a move
tor legislation that would compel
him to meet Lewis. In identical
letters to Speaker Bankhead and
Senator Joe Robinson, majority
leader of the senate, she asked the
prompt passage of a bill empower
ing her department to subpoena per
sons and papers in connection with
investigations of strikes.
Sloan had posted in all General
Motors plants a denial that the cor
poration was responsible for the
breakdown of negotiations and was
"shirking our moral responsibil
ities." He reiterated his refusal to
treat with the union so long as
the sit-down strikers held the plants,
and continued with a promise to
employees:
"We shall demand that your
rights and our rights be protected"
against "a small minority who have
seized certain plants and are hold
ing them as ransom to enforce their
demands.
"I say to you once more, have no
fear. Do not b? misled. General
Motors will never let you down. You
will not have to pay tribute for the
privilege of working in a General
Motors plant."
Governor Murphy of Michigan
had not modified his refusal to per
mit the National Guardsmen sta
tioned in Flint to be utilized in
carrying out a judicial order that
the plants be vacated by the sit
down strikers.
TPHE six-week strike of 7,100 em
ployees of the Libbey-Owens
Ford Glass company ended with ap
proval by the union committee and ,
company officials of a wage agree
ment giving a flat eight-cent-an-hour
increase in all plants of the com
pany. A one-year-contract was
signed.
The agreement provides for ap
pointment of a committee of five to
investigate wage rates of the Pitts
burgh Plate Glass company with a
view to establishing uniformity of
rates throughout the flat glass in
dustry.
MAYBE it was just a promotion
stunt for the book, but Senator
Joseph F. Guffey of Pennsylvania,
Democrat, introduced in the senate
Sen. Galley
a resolution calling
for an investigation
of the truth or falsi
ty of scurrilous
charges made
against the Supreme
Court in "Nine Old
Men," a volume au
thored by two con
ductors of a Wash
ington gossip col
umn. In offering the
resolution Guffey
made a bitter attack
on the Supreme Court, saying:
"The President of the United
States, with his characteristic frank
ness and courage, has opened for
debate the most troublesome prob
lem which we must solve if we are
to continue a democracy.
"That problem is ? whether the
Supreme court will permit congress,
the legislative branch of our gov
ernment, which was equally trusted
with the Supreme court by the
framers of the Constitution, to per
form its duties in making democra
cy workable and effective."
The senate heard GuiTey's speech
in silence and referred his resolu
tion to the judiciary committee.
A RTIFICIAL scarcity of farm
** products is abandoned as a pol
icy for the time being by Secretary
of Agriculture Wallace. He said in
Washington that the two drouth
years of 1934 and 1936 have brought
more thought on farm production by
consumers and farmers than ever
before. While a year or two of nor
mal weather would tumble wheat
prices, if full acreage is planted, the
time has come for a lifting of the
restrictions, he said.
"In the year immediately ahead,
I feel that farmers should think
primarily of their duty to consum
ers," Wallace said. "I think that in
the coming year it is wise for us
to produce as much as we can. We
should, of course, divert a certain
amount of com and cotton acreage
to soil conserving c[ops, because
that will make for greater long time
productivity of our farm land.
"But for the most part, let's fill
up the storage bins this year. It is
good policy to vary the plans for
storage ?f crops in the soil accord
ing to the state of supplies in the
granary above th? (round."
Q BTAINING of a sweeping fed
eral injunction against the
Tennessee Valley authority by nine
teen utility companies has put an
end to efforts to form a public
private power transmission pool.
President Roosevelt declared in a
letter written to federal power ex
perts and private company officials
that the utility action in securing
the injunction, "precludes a joint
transmission facility arrangement,
and makes it advisable to discontin
ue" any conferences planned to
gain that end.
The injunction which drew Mr.
Roosevelt's fire halted the TVA
from new construction or from so
liciting additional customers for its
power.
ARL RADEK, noted soviet Rus
sian journalist, and 16 other
men more or less prominent in the
affairs of Russia, went to trial as
Karl Kadek
conspirators against
the Stalin regime
and the soviet state,
and all freely con
fessed their guilt.
They readily told
the details of the
amazing plot and as
serted that the ex
iled Leon Trotzky
was its chief mover.
Eadek described the
scheme by which
fho Tllrtttope ViArvft/1
overthrow Stalin and bring back a
modified capitalism to Russia. It in
volved the wrecking of the nation's
railway system and the bringing
about of war on Russia by Japan
and Germany. Japan was to be
given the maritime provinces i n
Asia and Germany was to be per
mitted to grab the Ukraine. But
Radek added that the conspirators
hoped the war would result in a
new revolution in Russia and that
thereafter those territories could be
regained. "I am guilty of all the
charges," said the once powerful
editor.
Gregori SokolnikoS, former soviet
ambassador to England, declared
he knew as early as 1932 of a plot
to assassinate Stalin, and admitted
he was guilty of plotting to betray
>the Soviet union to Germany and
Japan.
Scores of persons implicated by
the confessions of the defendants
have been arrested. Among them is
M. A. G. Beloborodoff, the veteran
Bolshevist who ordered the execu
tion of Czar Nicholas and his fam
ily.
The prosecutor asked death for
all the defendants.
D RESIDENT ROOSEVELT sent to
* the senate the name of James
A. Farley as postmaster general for
another term, and the senate
yiumyiiy tuiuuiucu
the nomination. It is
believed Mr. Farley
will not long remain
a member of the
cabinet, for he wants
to return to private
work. He told report
ers in New York
that he was looking
for more than a job
as a salesman.
"If I should return
to private life." the
J. A. Farley
postmaster general said, "I would
like an opportunity to build up an
equity in a business, so I would
have something more than just a
salary for security for my family.
"I liave had several offers al
ready, but they haven't been just
what I would want."
IF REICHSFUEHRER HITLER
* will co-operate with other nations
in the interest of peace, France will
help Germany to overcome her pres
ent economic difficulties. Such was
the offer made by Premier Blum
in an address at Lyons. Blum, how
ever, warned the Nazis that France
cannot and will not co-operate with
Germany economically or politically
"while the possibility continues to
exist that this help may be some
day turned against the country
which gave it."
He expressed opposition to Hitler'*
policy of making bilateral pacts,
and added: "I believe I am practic
ing realism when I declare we do
not wish to separate French security
from European peace."
HAMBURG, Germany, for cen
turies a "free city," has lost
its freedom. Reichsfuehrer Hitler
and his cabinet have decreed that
it shall be known henceforth a s
Hansa City Hamburg and placed
under control of Col. Gen. Hermann
Wilhelm Goering in his capacity as
commissar for the new four year
plan for self - sufficiency, together
with Rudolf Hess, deputy leader of
the Nazi party; Wilhelm Frick,
minister of interior, and Count Lud
wig Schwerin von Krosigk, minister
of finance.
The cabinet also took away the
freedom of Luebeck and incorporat
ed the city with Prussia, and tha
same fate was decreed for Eutin,
Cuxhaven and Birkenfeld. Wilhelms
haven is absorbed by Oldenburg
province.
?
California Gambling Ship Comes to Grief
Here is the $100,000 pleasure craft, the Monte Carlo, aground on Coronado Beach after being torn from its
anchorage by high winds and heavy seas. In the foreground are officers loading aboard trucks some of
the gambling equipment confiscated from the ship
Bedtime Story for Children
By THORNTON W. BURGESS
THE FARMER GUESSES THE
TRUTH
IF BILLY MINK had known that
1 he had been discovered by the
farmer under whose woodpile he
was living, it is probable that he
would have moved on in search of
new adventures just as soon as the
Black Shadows had crept out across
the barnyard that night. But Billy
didn't know. He had been living
there so comfortably that he had
grown a little careless, otherwise
he never would have ventured out
in broad daylight.
That night he decided he would
have another chicken for dinner,
so he ran over to the henhouse, in
tending to slip through the hole in
the dark corner just as he had done
the night before. But the minute
Billy poked his nose through that
hole he knew that something was
wrong. There was a queer smell.
Billy tested it very carefully with
his nose. It was the man smell.
That was enough to make Billy sus
picious.
In less time than it takes to tell
it, he found a trap in that henhouse,
so placed that he couldn't possibly
get in through that hole with
out stepping in it. Right away Billy
decided that he didn't care for a
chicken dinner that night. He would
go back to the big barn and try to
catch a mouse.
Now, when the farmer had first
discovered Billy Mink his one
thought had been to catch Billy.
He knew that Billy's brown coat
could be sold for enough to pay
several times over for the hen Billy
had killed. So he had set a trap
in the henhouse. That night the
rats in the house were noisier than
ever. For a while the farmer for
got Billy Mink trying to think of
some way to get rid of those rats.
Then his thought came back to Bil
ly Mink and all in a flash he
understood why those rats had de
serted the big barn and come over
to the house.
Linen Eiusmble
Plaid Irish linen in white, wine
and navy is cut on the diagonal in
the dress of this ensemble. The
jacket, belt and pockets are wine
colored linen with the plaid form
ing the collar on the jacket.
"It was that mink!" he exclaimed
right out loud.
"What are you talking about?"
demanded his wile whom he had
awakened from a nap.
"That mink I saw today going
under the woodpile, the one who
killed the chicken last night," re
plied the farmer. "That fello-v must
have been living around here for
some time and he chased those rats
out of the barn. There isn't a doubt
about it. He hunted those rats in
the barn until he frightened them
so they moved over here. Tou see,
he could follow them everywhere,
and there was no getting away from
him. The pesky robbers simply de
cided they had to move and our
house was the best place to move to.
"It's all as plain as the nose on
my face. If the rats had remained
in the bam I don't believe that
mink would have bothered the
chickens. Probably he doesn't dare
come over here to the house, or
else he doesn't know where the rats
"The politicians who have prom
ised economy in oar Government
expenditures seem to have pat it to
practice," says reiterating Rita,
"judging by the quality of their
campaign clears."
WNUSerric*.
went to. II he would just come over
here (or a while we would soon be
rid of those pests, and I would for
give him for killing that hen."
C T. W. Burs MS. ? WNT Serv!c?.
? MOTHER'S ?
COOK BOOK
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ABOUT FROZEN DISHES
D Y ADDING a little quick-cooking
^ tapioca to various frozen dishes,
the cream may be thinned and the
product just as good or better for
most occasions. The tapioca pre
vents the formation of ice crystals,
and so makes it possible to use
combinations of milk and cream.
When using a mechanical refrigera
tor, simply set the control for
freezing desserts and forget all
about it until the freezing is com
plete.
Frosen Podding.
Add three tablespoonfuls of quick
cooking tapioca to two cupfuls of
milk, with one-fourth of a tea
spoonful of salt; cook in a double
boiler for 15 minutes, or until the
tapioca is clear and the mixture
thickened. Add one-half cupful of
milk, three tablespoonfuls of corn
sirup and cook until smooth. Cool
and strain through a sieve, then
Thoughts on Thinking
By DOCGLAS MALLOCH
\\7 HAT I think of thinking
* * Is rather hard to print.
And what I know of knowing
I'd hardly dare to hint.
What I see of seeing
Would open up your eyes,
And how I'd talk of talking
Would fill you with surprise.
For I have talked to talkers
Who only thought they thought.
And I have seen the seeing
See only what they sought.
Although I've known the knowing,
I've known but very few
Who really knew how little
In fact they really knew.
And so I think our thinking
Is hardly worth the name.
And so I know our knowing
Is very much the same.
And all we see when seeing
Is what we want to see,
And all the talkers talking
Talk very much like me.
? DmsIm Mallock.? WXU torrta*
chill; add the tapioca mixture; add
two egg whites beaten stiff with two
tablespoonfuls of sugar. Fold in
one cupful of cream whipped, one
teaspoonful of vanilla, twelve
i blanched, sliced and toasted al
monds, two tablespoonfuls of can
died pineapple, diced. Turn into
a freezing tray and freeze three to
four hours.
To prepare toasted coconut
bisque, use the above recipe, add
ing one cupful of toasted coconut,
crumbled, in place of the fruit and
nuts.
Frozen ginger pudding is pre
pared in the same way, adding
four tablespoonfuls of ginger sirup
and one-fourth of a cupful of pecan
meats coarsely chopped. Serve as
usual.
e?WNU Scrvtc*.
L1NGUAGI _
OF TOUR HJUVD
By Leicester K. Deri*
? Pifl>lkMnt.iw
npHE affectionate side of ooa'a
character is, of course, one at
the most important erf tempera
mental qualities. Affection is ex
pressed in many ways, rhe form
it takes is invariably indicated by
the thumb.
The Affectionate Thumb.
The thumb of this type irvrli>-?t?g
a well-balanced and normal degree
of affection coupled wife a generous
disposition. It is easily recognized.
Such a thumb is always well set
and pleasingly proportioned. This
is notable in its length and in the
equal or nearly equal lengths of the
nail and middle joints. The first,
or nail, joint is firm and resilient
under pressure towards the wrist.
Its underside curves gracefully to
the nail tip and the sides are mo
ally slightly tapered The wmf,
or middle, joint is straight, aWhmgh
with a thumb of this type it may
be slightly inclined toward slender
ness.
The third, or paim. Joint ia
straight without a hint ?( irregular
ity. The underside at this joint ?
that is, the surface nearest Ik*
palm, is inclined toward Mta mm
but blends smoothly into the palm.
The position of such a thumb am
the hand is also at importance in
gauging the qualities of affectioa. IT
lying close to the side of the hand
when in repose, you may be cer
tain that its possessor has a warm
and loyal heart but gives his or her
affection with discrimination If,
tiowever, the thumb stands far
away from the hand, the rmrta
sion would be that here was a man
>r woman who found it easy to be
stow love more generally. This lat
er characteristic also indicates a
tendency to be overgenerous where
Lhe affections are concerned.
WHO Seme*.
I PAPA KNOWS-)
"Pop, what is harass?"
"Last straw.*9
C Beli Syndicate. ? WNU Sftrrtc*.
Students Enjoy Winter Sports
Girls riding over a bump on the toboggan slide at the Northamp
ton School for Girls, Massachusetts. Tobogganing, skiing and other
winter sports take up a good part of the free time of the students.