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UE The Alamance gleaner Vol. LXIII ?GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1937 No. 14 News Review of Current Events the World Over Dirigible Hindenburg Destroyed by Explosion, Two Score Persons Perishing ? Economists and Spenders Continue Their Battle in Washington. By EDWARD W. PICKARD ? Western Newspaper Union. I ? iiu yi tuc inajur irageaies 01 aeronautical history occurred when the big German dirigible Hindenburg exploded and fell in a blazing mass at the landing field in Lakehurst, N. J. At this writing the exact number of dead is un known, but it probably is more than forty. American passengers who in the early reports were unaccounted for and presumably killed were: Burtis Do lan, Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. John Pannes, New York City; Moritz Feibusch, Lincoln, Neb.; Edward Douglas, New York; James Young and Birger Brinck, addresses not given. The airship, just arrived from Eu rope on its first transatlantic trip of the year, was about to land when there was an explosion toward the stern. Instantly flames broke out and ran the length of the ship. The tail sagged first, then the nose crashed down and the split sections telescoped as they fell. A few of the 44 passengers and some mem bers of the crew were able to jump to safety, but many of the others aboard hadn't a chance for their lives. The navy men of the ground crew heroically plunged into the flaming wreckage and dragged out those victims who could be reached. The screams and cries of injured In agony were "terrible," the hard ened sailors and marines who did the rescue work reported. The cloth ing was completely burned off one man. An explosion of the No. 2 gas cell toward the stern of the ship was named as the cause of the dis aster by State Aviation Commis sioner Gill Robb Wilson, who called the blast "strange." Some authorities scouted the the ory that the explosion could have been caused by the ignition of hy drogen inside the gas cells. They said a mixture of 20 per cent free air with hydrogen would be neces sary to cause an explosion, indicat ing the first blast must have oc curred outside one of the gas cells. Aeronautical experts said the only way they could explain an explo sion inside the ship would be that free hydrogen had in some way es caped and was lying in the stern of the ship where it was accidentally ignited. Capt. Ernest Lehmann, who pilot ed the Hindenburg last year, was aboard it on this fatal trip, but its commander was Capt. William Pruss, just promoted to the post. He is a veteran in working dirigi bles. HOW to economize by cutting down government expendi tures, as the President has demand ed, and at the same time to continue penditures as the billion and a half dollars Mr. Roose velt asked for relief is a puzzle that con gress doesn't know how to solve. Harry Hopkins, Works Progress adminis trator and most ac complished spender ,, . ? oi me aammisira H. L. Hopkins t.on took a hand in the discussion, telling a house appro priation subcommittee that unem ployment is a permanent problem, that the government should be pre pared to support seven million job less persons at all times, and con sequently that congress must ap propriate the billion and a half for relief instead of cutting the sum down to a billion. Both Democrats and Republicans on the committee pretested, and Chairman Woodrum of Virginia told Hopkins he would use every endeav or to have the appropriation re duced by at least a third. He chal lenged the figures and arguments submitted by Hopkins, contending that if the extravagance of the work relief principle and the padding of relief rolls with undeserving cases were eliminated and the states re quired to assume a greater share of the burden the cost to the federal government would not exceed one billion. Senator William H. King of Utah, Democrat, not only disagrees with Hopkins as to the amount needed for relief, but isn't satisfied with the way the administrator has been conducting the work. He introduced resolution* in the senate calling for an investigation of the works prog ress administration and taking the future spending of relief money out or Hopkins' hands. King said his purpose was to abolish the WPA. In the house economy received a wallop on the head when the re forestation bill was passed, 171 to 153. This measure would appropriate $2,500,000 annually (or government aid to farmers who wish to turn part of their farms into woodlands. It was fought by a bloc led by Representative J. J. Cochran of Mis souri, Democrat. "It has a worth while objective, but it is one of those expensive measures which we can defer passing for a while until the budget is in balance," declared Cochran. DEWILDERED members of con . gress were still further dazed when they learned that the admin istration was moving to obtain ap proval of the Florida ship canal project which will call for $197, 000,000. This was revealed when Secretary of the Navy Swanson sent to the house rivers and harbors committee a letter urging that the canal scheme be approved. It was assumed he would not have done this without the approval of the President. Mr. Swanson argued that the canal would be of value during war for the shipment of materials. Testimony labeled "confidential" was also heard by the committee from Gen. Charles. P. Summerall, retired chief of staff of the army, and Rear Admiral Frederic B. Bas sett, retired. Both declared that the canal would serve as "a most im portant exement of the national de fense in time of war." Representative Beiter of New York, Democrat, called upon the budget bureau to make known its stand on the Florida canal question. FREQUENT reports have been ' heard in Washington that gov ernment employees, including some high officials, took advantage of their "inside*' knowl edge that the attor ney general was go ing to file suit to dis solve the Aluminum Company of Ameri ca by selling the common stock short, thereby making im mense profits. Just the day before the suit was filed Pres ident Roosevelt is Rep. Rogers sUed his order against stock speculation by em ployees of the government. Attention of congress was called to the matter when Representative Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachu setts, Republican, demanded an in vestigation. "I hold no brief for the Aluminum Company of America," Mrs. Rogers told the house. "I know nothing about the institution, but I am very anxious to know why the common stock of this huge enterprising cor poration should decline over 300 per cent more than similar industrial stocks in the period just prior to an nouncement of the government's suit. "To the 825,000 employees of the government the President's an nouncement was a most czaristic order," Mrs. Rogers declared. "I believe the money paid to federal employees is just as much their money to do with as they please as is the money paid to any employee working at any job in any place in the United States." But government employees, she added, certainly ought not to have the advantage of .knowledge with held from the public. HP W E L V E American women reached what some people con sider a social climax when they were received by King George and Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain at the first court of the new reign. These fa v o r e d matrons and debutantes had been carefully coached at the American embassy and were presented by Mrs. Robert W. Bingham, wife of the American ambassador. They were: Eleanora Bowdoin of Aiken, S. C.; Mrs. George Temple Bowdoin of New York City; Catherine M. Ma her of Lincoln, Neb.; Mrs. George W. Norton Jr., of Louisville; Mrs. John Perrin of Boston ; Anne Schenck of New York City; ^ Vesta Putnam Culberson of Chicago; Mrs. F. Vernon Foster of West Orange, N. J.; Lydia Fuller of Bos ton; Mrs. Dozier L. Gardner of Philadelphia; Mrs. Byron Hilliard of Louisville, and Mrs. Julia Henry of Philadelphia. C* OR three days Premier Mussolini ' of Italy coiiferred in Rome with Baron Konstantin von Neurath, for eign minister of Germany. Then an official communique was issued in dicating that the two countries were determined to prevent the creation of a communist state in western Europe, holding "a complete paral lelism of views" on this and other subjects. It was added that the Ital ian and German governments will "continue to follow a concordat pol icy on all major questions." It was understood in Rome that, though Mussolini and Hitler were eager to work for peace with Britain and France, they were prepared to take open part in the Spanish war if other means fail to prevent the establishment of a regime sympar thetic to soviet Russia. The Italian parliament passed Mussolini's national defense budget carrying $289,300,000 for 1937-38. Ad miral Cavagnari, undersecretary fo? the navy, told the deputies the Italian navy "from now on must be an ocean going navy" rather than one confined to the Mediterranean. Gen eral Pariani, for the war depart ment, said Italy was taking no chances concerning protection of hei frontiers. The government, he said, intended to build up in the Italian peninsula an army which would be able to paralyze an enemy's ad vances and "win the war in the shortest possible time." 1V/IRS. WALLIS SIMPSON was granted an absolute decree of divorce in London, and within a few hours Edward, duke of Wind oAr nrae am hie i?aw from St. Wolfgang, Austria, to visit his fiancee at the Cha teau de Cande near Tours, France. The former king of Great Britain had been waiting impatiently, baggage packed, for word that Wallis was entirely free, and he lost no time Mrs. Simpson when his solicitors telephoned him from London. It took only 25 seconds to make absolute the decree nisi which Mrs. Simpson obtained last October 27. The king's proctor had been satis fied with the lady's behavior in the interval, and Sir Boyd Merriman, president of the divorce court, per sonally granted the decree along with a lot of others. The date for the wedding of the duke of Windsor and Mrs. Simpson has not yet been announced, but it probably will be in the week begin ning May 24. Edward was willing to wait until all the coronation hul labaloo was over for he did not wish to annoy his royal brother in any way. D EICHSFUEHRER ADOLF HIT **-LER was informed by Pope Pius XI that the Roman Catholic church must be free to fulfill its mission in Germany. This reply to the German church note, which itself was a re ply to the pope's pre-Easter ency clical accusing the German govern ment of violating the 1933 church state concordat, was delivered by Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli to the Ger man ambassador to the holy see, Diego von Bergen. The note was rather moderate in tone, but insisted that economic pressure must not be brought to bear against Catholics in Germany; that Catholic schools and the Cath olic press should not be hampered. ELEVEN unions of the Federated Motion Picture Crafts, with about 6,000 members, went on strike in Hollywood, Calif., and the great film industry there was in serious difficulties. The strikers counted heavily on co-operation by the Screen Actors' guild, but that body, which has 5,600 members, delayed action until it could confer with the pro ducers. The guild already had pre sented a number t>f demands regard ing working conditions and hours and overtime pay. Fifteen of the largest hotels in San Francisco were practically tied up by a strike of 3,500 employees. The strikers were given the active sup port of 13 unions. They insisted that hotel owners had refused to agree tc preferential hiring and a five day week for clerks, although other groups of hotel employees had been awarded such conditions. SOME of the most desperate fight ing of the Spanish civil war was taking place in the struggle for Bil bao between the sturdy Basques and Gen. Emilio Mola's veterans, reput edly mostly Italians and German*. The insurgents had promised not to bomb the center of the city but bombarded its environs heavily from the land and the air. By fierce attacks they broke through the Basque lines on the Bay of Biscay coast, reaching Bilbao's seaports at the mouth of the Nervion river. Disregarding the protests of Gen eral Franco, Fascist chieftain, the British and French governments undertook to remove from Bilbao a large number of women and chil dren. Three Hambletonian Colts in a Work-Out Three of the candidates (or the $40,000 Hambletonian Stake to be trotted at Goshen, N. Y., in August, lim bering up at Seminole park, Longwood, Fla., during a recent work-out. From left, are: Schnapps, driven by his owner, Will N. Reynolds, Winston-Salem, N. C.: Harvere, driven by Will Rosemire and owned by Henry Warwick, New Hamburg, N. Y? and Lawrence D. driven by Ben White and owned by W. N. Reynolds. This trio is expected to be tough to beat on the 1937 Grand Circuit and in the Goshen Derby. ) Ay, Thor nton W Burgess EVERYBODY TEASES PETER RABBIT " U AD any more dreams, Pe 11 ter?" "Tell us about those tracks again!" "Better find out what's the mat ter with your eyes, Peter. They see too much!" This was what Peter heard every time he met any of his friends. They all laughed at him, every one of them, and all because he had tried to tell them that there was a stranger deep in the Green For est who made tracks ever and ? V "Better Find Oat What's the Matter With Your Eyes, Peter. They See Too Much." ever so much bigger than those of Bowser the Hound. No one ever had heard of such a thing in the Green Forest, and no one believed Peter. At first they thought he was joking, but when he grew indignant and they saw how very earnest he was they thought that he had been fiightened and had imagined that the tracks were a great deal big ger than they really were. Of course they were made by Bowser the Hound, and timid Peter had just Rote Point Lace The pattern of ro3? point lace is faithfully copied in this unusual print on black silk crepe. The bor ders of the print form double pan els down the front of the dress, which is buttoned from neck to hem. the rest of the dress has spaced motifs of the lace design. I thought that they, were bigger and different. That's what everybody thought. So whenever they saw him they teased him until it got so that Peter wouldn't stick his head out of the dear Old Briar Patch until after dark. You see, he didn't like being teased and laughed at. No one does. Of course not. But it was great fun for the others. Once Jimmy Skunk came to the edge of the Old Briar Patch and pretended to be terribly excited. "I've found some tracks, great big ones, down on the Green Mead ows," he cried. "Come with me, Peter, and see if they are like the ones that you saw in the Green Forest." Right away Peter was quite as excited as Jimmy seemed to be, and he hurried to follow Jimmy down across the Green Meadows, which, you know, were not green then at all, but all covered with snow. Peter was so excited he didn't know what to do. It seemed to him that Jimmy Skunk, who, you know, never hurries, moved slower than ever. "What did I tell you, Jimmy Skunk? Now, perhaps, you'll believe me the next time I tell you a thing," he whispered as they drew near the place where Jimmy said the tracks were. "Ho, ho, ho! Ha, ha, hal" laughed Jimmy Skunk. There are your tracks of the Green Forest, Peter Rabbit. Look at them, so that next FIRST AID TO THE AILING HOUSE By Rogar B. Whitman REPAIRING A GARAGE NOT iong ago a friend told me that the doors of his one-car frame garage were beginning to stick; that he was having more and more trouble in opening and closing them. We examined the garage to gether, and found that the trouble lay in the rotting of the bottom of the post on one side of the door opening ? a timber four inches square. The garage floor was con crete, but at that particular ipot water had collected, and the bottom of the post was rotted to such an extent that the whole corner 01 the garage was beginning to settle. To repair the damage, we screwed a 2-foot length of a 2 x 4 to the post, with the bottom 18 inches or so above the floor and well above the rotted portion. Putting an automo bile jack under this screwed-on piece, we raised the post to its origi nal position, in which the doors opened and closed freely. We then cut off the rotted portion, and re placed it with concrete. For this we built a box of light wood, about 6 inches square inside, directly under the 4x4 door-post. This we filled with concrete, using a mixture of 1 part cement, 3 parts of sand, and 6 parts of gravel, with only enough water to make a thick mixture. Tne box was filled full, so that the con crete came up to the cut-off bottom of the door-post. After three days, the box was removed, ?nd the jack worked to let the door-post come down on its new base. This move ment was hardly one-half inch. Pro tected by the concrete, there is no chance that there will be any further rotting. Later, my friend did the same thing to the post on the other side of the door frame. The doors of my garage swing outward. In a heavy storm the catch of one of them slipped, and QRUpejP I : * : ' I "The groom of today guarantees his bride of all the Inxnries of her single days," says soliloquizing Elis abeth, "that is if her job and sal ary permits." WNU Service. time you will know them. Ho, bo, ho! Ha, ha, ha!" But Peter was too disappointed and too angry to say a word. He just turned his back on Jimmy Skunk and started back for the Old Briar Patch as fast as he could go. "I don't care," Peter would say over and over to himself when he was alone. "I did see those tracks, and there is a stranger in the Green Forest, and he has got terrible great claws. I wouldn't go up there again for anything! No, sir, I wouldn't go up there again if I was starving and there was no food anywhere, but there. I ? I do wish that some body would believe me." e T. W. Burgess. ? WNU Service. Now She'a a Rider Maria Solivieff Rasputin, daugh ter of the "Mad Monk" of the Czar ist regime, after a career as a Hon tamer which nearly ended fatally, has returned to America to enter the circus ring in the less hazard ous role of an equestrienne. its door was slammed so hard that j the horizontal pieces at the top and in the center were broken away from the vertical side piece to v/hich the hinges are attached. At first it seemed that a new door would be required; but before go ing to this expense, a repair was made that has now stood for four years. The main part of the door was blocked up and the horizontal pieces forced tightly against the vertical side piece. Two 1-inch holes were bored into the edge of the door ? through the hinged side piece, and into the end of the horizontal tip piece. Two similar holes were also bored through the side piece and into the end of the horizontal piece in the center of the door. One inch dowels of hardwood were then driven into these holes, and secured by nails. This repair was a com plete success. ? Br Rof?r B .Vhttmaa VKVSerlct. A BABE* IS BORN By DOUGLAS M ALLOC II A BABE is born, and life begins With trouble, though it's only pins. Already culture hovers o'er him And clothing has provided for him. Ij he has been so ill-advised. He happens to the civilized, Conspiring persons on the quiet Already start to plot his diet. The babe, the boy, and then the man, They civilize him all they can. He must have certain fixed persua sions, And certain clothes for some occa sions. Created in the image of His God, or something else above. He soon becomes, while Satan chor tles. The image of all other mortals. The babe becomes, of many a thing, A subject, who should be a king. And life, that should be all enjoy ment. Becomes his regular employment. And then some day he lays it down, A stranger in some crowded town. And often wonders, wher it's ended. If that was just what God intended, e Doulu M?lloch.? WNC Svrlc or tour iiam A By L*ic?>t?r K. Davis 0 PoMkc Ltdfr. lac. s The IHofical Saturn DEAR in mind, before forming definite conclusions from you r study of fingers, that not only the characteristics found in the finger itself must be relied upor for a cor rect analysis of the inner self; its position on the hand, degree at flex ibility, and, second only to shape and length, the inclination toward or away from the fingers next to it are highly significant. Here is the second of seven types of second fin gers which you will frequently find in your analyses of hands. The Illogical Finger of Satan. The outstanding characteristics of this type are shortness and thick* ness. This finger is decidedly pudgy or peglike in appearance. With the fingers closed side by side the tip is found to be even with, or per haps well below, the tip of the fore finger. The whole finger has an over fleshed look, although this is most noticeable on the under side of the nail tip. The nail is usually flat and inclined to be dish-shaped, and sometimes appears to be sunk be low the surrounding flesh. The man or woman with this type of second finger can almost invari ably be placed as one who does lit tle constructive thinking and finds it extremely difficult to concentrate the mental faculties on matters re quiring reflective comparison or prolonged analysis. If such a finger is unyielding un der backward pressure, the indica tions of a narrowed mentality are emphasized. If overflexible, the mentality is more responsive, though governed by externals. Of course, with a second finger of this rather disappointing variety, there may be other compensating influences shown elsewhere in the hand. So do not be too hasty in forming a discouraging verdict until the absence of these has been es tablished beyond a doubt. WNU Service. imopsyI ' Tfc AT WON'T \ HELP VCHJ- I'M pretty 5Tueeo?* WHEN I MAKE Uf> KV MINO / >^SL
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