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The Alamance Gleaner
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GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1937 No. 18
News Review of Current
Events the World Over
Windsor and Wallis Are Married, Anglican Church Out
witted ? Tax Dodging by the Rich to Be Investi
gated ? House Rebels Yield. - .
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
? Western Newspaper Union.
EDWARD, duke of Windsor, and
Mrs. Wallis Warfleld, the Amer
ican woman for love of whom he
gave up his throne, were married in
Duchess
of Windsor
the Chateau de Uan
de, Monts, France,
and are now spend
ing their honeymoon
at Wasserleonburg
castle in lower Aus
tria. Almost at the
last moment the
Church ot England
was outwitted by
the action of an ob
s c u r e provincial
clergyman from the
north ot England,
and the civil cere
mony performed by the mayor of
Monts was followed by a religious
wedding conducted by that same
minister, Rev. Robert Anderson
Jardine, in flat defiance of the pro
tests of the leaders of the church.
Sixteen principal guests were
present in the chateau when Mayor
Mercier, pronouncing the English
names with difficulty, and speaking
in French, performed the civil
ceremony and pronounced the duke
and Wallis man and wife. Vicar
Jardine, who had volunteered his
services, recited the solemn reli
gious rites as prescribed by the
church, the duke placed the ring
on the duchess' fourth finger, and
they knelt on white silk cushions
while the minister prayed. Through
out the entire service the famous
organist. Marcel Dupre, played soft
ly. The duchess, who cannot be
called "her royal highness," wore a
gown of Wallis blue and the corre
spondents privileged to be present
were agreed that she was a beau
tiful, gracious and serene woman.
The- Chateau de Cande, owned by
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bedaux of
. New York, was lavishly decorated
with flowers.
Vicar Jardine was reproved by
the church dignitaries for perform
ing the religious ceremony, but the
Bishop of Fulham, who has juris
diction over Anglican church af
fairs in France, after sending a
telegram of protest, admitted the
vicar might not be disciplined. He
insisted the only valid service Mr.
Jardine could perform was bene
diction after the marriage. All
Anglican church ministers on the
continent had been warned not to
marry the duke and Wallis.
A DMINISTRATION leaders, from
the President down, "turned
the heat" on the rebellious mem
bers of the house, and the latter
sullenly gave in and passed the bil
lion and a half dollar work relief
bill about as Mr. Roosevelt and
Harry Hopkins wanted it. One after
another the restrictive amendments
earmarking $505,000,000 of the total
for projects of a solid type, flood
control and highways, which had
been adopted in committee of the
whole, were called up again and
voted down by substantial majori
ties. The final vote by which the
measure was sent on to the senate
was 323 to 44.
The revolt collapsed after Majori
ty Leader Sam Rayburn, Democrat,
Texas, outlined Mr. Robsevelt's po
sition. He said the President had
agreed to provide adequate funds
from the relief bill for PWA proj
ects, highways, grade crossing
elimination, flood control and water
conservation work.
Taunted by Minority Leader Ber
trand Snell, Republican, New York,
for the general character of his
-statement,- Raybumc^-fltted-hedH.
not know the exact amount of
money that the President would
divert to the various projects, which
have been described as "vote-get
ting" and "pork."
Still sore, especially at Harry
Hopkins, the congressmen discussed
the need for investigation of the
relief administration, and a resolu
tion calling for such action was in
troduced by Maury Maverick of
Texas.
CECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR
? HAROLD L. ICKES was taken
to the Naval hospital in Washing
ton to be treated for an intestinal
disorder. Physicians said he prob
ably would be absent from his of
fice for several weeks, a protract
ed rest being imperative.
D Y HUGE majorities in both sen
u ate and house congress over
rode the President's veto of a bill
to extend the war risk insurance act
for Another five years. It gives that
additional time in which war veter
ans may exchange their govern
ment held term insurance policies
for other forms of life insurance and
affects about 23,000 men who have
not converted their policies.
DRESIDENT ROOSEVELT sent a
* message to congress asking for
legislation creating seven regional
power authorities patterned after
the TVA. He proposed the country
be divided into these regions:
The Atlantic seaboard.
The Great Lakes-Ohio valley.
The Tennessee and Cumberland
river basins.
The Missouri and the Red River
of the North basins.
The Arkansas, Red and Rio
Grande river basins.
The basins of the Colorado and
other rivers flowing into the Pacific
south of the California-Oregon state
line.
The Columbia river basin.
TAX dodging by wealthy men and
women, excoriated by President
Roosevelt in a special message, is
going to be investigated speedily by
Sen. Harrison
a joint committee of
congress. The reso
lution for the in
quiry was intro
duced in the senate
by Senator Pat Har
rison of Mississippi,
chairman of the fi
nance committee ;
and in the house by
Robert L. Doughton
of North Carolina,
chairman of the
ways and means
committee. The in
vestigation is designed both to focus
public attention on the extent of
the alleged tax evasion and to pro
vide congress with information nec
essary for the drafting of corrective
legislation. Senator Harrison said:
"I am sure that congress Qxpects
that, where the law has been vio
lated, prompt action will be taken
by the government against the mal
efactors."
He added that men and women re
ferred to, not by name, in the
President's message, would be giv
en the opportunity to testify before
the committee if their names were
disclosed.
Accompanying Mr. Roosevelt's
message was a long letter to him
from Secretary of the Treasury
Morgenthau in which were outlined
eight devices which he said are be
ing employed by a minority of rich
individuals to evade taxes.
Legislation asked by the Presi
dent would be an emergency meas
ure. It is not to be confused with
legislation to revise tax schedules,
the President said.
p ENERAL HAYASHI'S semimili
tary government of Japan was
forced to resign by the major politi
cal parties, and Emperor Hirohito
summoned Prince
Fumimaro Konoe,
president of the
house of peers, to
form a new cabinet.
This the prince pro
ceeded to do, and
he was meeting with
almost complete
success in finding
men who would ac
cept office. Tempo
rarily he had trouble
in getting a finance
Prince Konoe
minister, rne new government m
.cUfdea. representatives at y- ^big
Seiyukai and Minseito parties and
is considered, therefore, a national
coalition cabinet. Presumably it is
committed to a large army and
navy, a strong foreign policy and
drastic administrative reforms.
BEFORE adjourning to October
the Supreme court overruled a
government request that it refuse to
review litigation challenging the
constitutionality of federal financing
of municipal power plants. By con
senting to pass on the controversy,
the court deferred a final verdict in
the case until next fall, after argu
ments are heard.
The Department of Justice con
tended this would postpone the em
ployment of many thousands of
men. Officials of the Public Works
administration declared the court'*
action means that "at least another
six months" will elapse before ques
tions affecting the release of $51,
000,000 for fifty-four public power
projects are settled.
URGED on by C. I. O. organizers
and other agitators, a mob of
some 1,500 steel strikers and their
sympathizers undertook to .invade
the Republic Steel plant in South
Chicago and drive out the loyal em
ployees. The rioters were met on
company property by 150 city po
licemen and warned to turn back,
but they replied with a shower of
missiles. The police first used tear
gas, but when the strikers began
shooting they opened fire in earnest
and a desperate battle ensued. Seven
men were killed and nearly a hun
dred, including 26 officers, were
hurt.
Authorities blamed Communist
agitators for the riot.
Loyal workers in Republic Steel
plants at Warren and Youngstown,
Ohio, were besieged by strikers and
were supplied with food with diffi
culty. At first food was mailed to
them, but the government refused
to guard mail trucks in Warren
which the pickets stopped, and the
acting postmaster there said United
States District Attorney Freed at
Cleveland had authorized him to re
fuse packages of food intended for
delivery through the picket lines.
The Republic Steel was continu
ing to operate, but the Inland Steel
and the Youngstown Sheet and Tube
corporations, the two other com
panies against which the S. W. O. C.
had declared strikes, had closed
down their plants.
THE A. F. of L. executive coun
cil closed its conference in Cin
cinnati with the heads of affiliated
unions, after directing President
Green to push vigorously the cam
paign against Lewis and his C. I. O.
First steps were to order the Chi
cago and New York labor federa
tions to expel all unions affiliated
with the Lewis organization. Sim
ilar orders were to be sent to all
other central bodies and state fed
erations.
The C. I. O. replied with an
nouncement of 'a drive intended to
penetrate every industry which has
no organization or where existing
unions "are not taking care of their
members." An impending contest
between the two factions is for con
trol of the maritime workers.
V/fOST of the ingredients of
a good European war were
tossed into the pot by loyalist Spain
and Germany, but it seemed likely
Adolf Hitler
the statesmen or
England, France
and other countries
would be able to
prevent the lighting
of a fire beneath the
pot. To start with,
two Spanish air
planes dropped
bombs on the
German battleship
Deutschland, killing
23 men and wound
ing 83. The German
vessel, participating in the interna
tional naval patrol, was lying off
Ibiza island, one of the Balearics
under rebel control. It replied to
the attack with anti-airplane guns,
and the claim of the Valencia gov
ernment was that the vessel was
the first to fire.
Nazi Germany was tremendously
aroused by the incident and Reichs
fuehrer Hitler and all other promi
nent government leaders gathered
at once in Berlin. Immediate re
venge was demanded by all Nazis,
so the pocket battleship Admiral
Scheer and four destroyers shelled
Almeria, southern Spanish loyalist
port, without warning, killing twen
ty or more citizens and destroying
many houses. Coastal batteries re
plied, probably without effect, and
after 90 minutes of firing the Ger
man vessels departed.
Germany announced it would no
longer participate in the interna
tional patrol of Spanish coasts until
it could be assured such incidents
as the bombing of the Deutschl&nd
would not be repeated; and Italy
announced it also had withdrawn
from the international committee.
Italian warhips were ordered to
stop and search any Russian ves
sels suspected of carrying war sup
plies to Spanish loyalists, and the
German fleet in Spanish waters was
reinforced. German- War Minister
Von Blomberg went "to Rome to
confer with Premier Mussolini and
it was believed they were laying
plans for concerted action in sup
port of General Blanco's siege of
Bilbao.
Great Britain submitted to
France, Germany and Italy a three
point plan designed to restore
friendly relations in dealing with
the Spanish situation and to induce
Germany and Italy to return to the
nonintervention committee. The
plan provides guaranties against
further interference with noninter
vention patrol ships.
Gen. Emtio Mola, director of the
Bilbao campaign and the most ca
pable of the rebel commanders, Was
killed in the crash of an airplane in
which he was flying to Valladolid.
Franco thereupon split the com
mand of his northern forces between
General Davila, who will operate
against Bilbao, .and General Sa li
quet, who will command on the Ma
drid front.
Japanese Rooster Needs Four Train Bearers
Four Japanese children seem to get a big thrill from acting as train-bearers to this prize rooster, held
by the proud owner. This type of fowl is common in rural areas of Japan, where the hobby of the farm
folk is raising long-tailed chickens. The longer the tail, the more valuable the bird. They take extraordinary
care of their pets to preserve the luxuriant appendages.
Bedtime Story for Children
By THORNTON W. BURGESS
PETER RABBIT WATCHES
FOR SIGNS
COME people never see things be
J cause they never look for them.
Peter Rabbit isn't that kind. My
goodness, no! Peter is all the time
looking and listening. You see, he
is dreadfully afraid that he will miss
something. So every minute that
he is awake he is looking and lis
tening. It was this way more than
He Would Carefully Cover Her Oyer
Again With the Dead Leaves That
She Might Not Catch Cold.
ever now. Sister South Wind had
arrived and said that Mistress
Spring was not far behind, and that
she had come to waken all the sleep
ers so that they would be ready to
greet Mistress Spring when she did
arrive.
What puzzled Peter was how gen
tle Sister South Wind, whose voice
was hardly more than a whisper,
waked all the sleepers. Hough
Brother North Wind had roared and
Shadow Effect
Garlands of white handkerchief
linen flowers are embroidered on
brown marquisette for the shadow
effect of this gown. It is made over
a brown taffeta slip and has stiff
ened puff sleeves. Emeralds and
diamonds are worn with It and
the bag is emerald green.
whistled and bowled through the
Green Forest and over the Green
Meadows all the long winter with
out waking one. In fact, the louder
he roared the farther into dream
land the sleepers seemed to go. But
when the gentle Sister South Wind
wandered through the Green Forest
and over the Green Meadows call
ing in Just the lowest, softest voice,
Wake up. wake up. you aleeperal
Com* open wide your peeper*!
why, one after another they did
wake up. Peter couldn't understand
it, and finally he gave up trying to.
But it was great fun to go about
watching for signs that the sleepers
had heard gentle Sister South Wind.
Peter would listen with one long ear
against a maple tree. He would
hear just the softest little sound un
der the bark, so soft that you and I
couldn't hear it if we tried. Then
Peter would kick up his heels for
joy. It was the sap running up
to all the branches and out to the
tiniest twigs of the maple tree that
Peter heard, and he knew that the
maple tree was awake.
Then he would go over to a
swampy place where the ice had
melted away and hold his nose while
he peeped into the brown hood of
the skunk cabbage to see if there
were any signs of flowers there. It
had a dreadful smell, and yet it
made Peter feel glad all over, be
cause it meant that the queer little
plant was awake. Then he would
go up in the Green Forest to a
warm, sunny place he knew of and
there he would pull away the dead
leaves of last summer until he
found a tiny, furry cap peeping up
above the ground. Then he knew
that dainty little Hepatica was
awake. He would carefully cover her
up again with the dead leaves that
she might not catch cold, after which
he would kick up his heels in
the funniest way, just because it
made him feel so good.
Everywhere there were signs, if
you had eyes to see and ears to
hear them. And Peter had both. The
Laughing Brook, which had been
silent all winter because Jack Frost
had bound it with ice, was laughing
a great roar of a laugh, for its banks
were very full, and that was a sign.
The brown buds on the willows,
which all winter long Jack Frost
had pinched his hardest and failed
to open, had split their little brown
jackets at the first touch of the soft
fingers of gentle Sister South Wind,
and out of them had popped little
gray pussies, and that was a sign.
Farmer Brown had began to clean
up his cornfield, and that was a sign.
There were signs everywhere, and
every one of them made Peter feel
happier. r
But most of all Peter listened for
something that he longed to hear.
Every little while he would sit up
and listen and listen, with his long
ears standing straight up. Some
times he would think he heard it,
but he couldn't be sure. Then he
would hold his breath and listen and
listen and listen. Whaf was he lis
tening for? Why, for "the loveliest
sound he knows of? the voice of Win
some Bluebird.
"If I could only hear that," sighed
Peter, "then I would know for sure
that Mistress Spring is almost here,
for Winsome Bluebird is her herald
and she is never far behind." And
this is how Peter Rabbit happened
to forget all about those strange
tracks he had found deep in the
Green Foreat.
C T. W. Barfm ? WSV Same*.
First Aid Roger B. Whltmaa
to tlie Ailing House
CLEANING A BOILER
LAST winter a neighbor of mine
began to complain about bis coal
consumption. He said that he was
burning more coal than be had the
previous winter. As the months went
?oa-he-gcowled note and more J
the quantity of coal that he was
shoveling. I finally went to his house
for a look at his steam boiler.
My first move was to open one of
the clean-out doors above the firing
door. As I suspected, I found the
interior so clogged with dust that I
wondered that the fire was able
even to smolder.
I asked him why he had not kept
the interior of his boiler cleaned
out, and he said he had no idea it
was necessary; that no one had
ever told him anything about It. I
found a flue-cleaning brush in a cor
ner of the cellar, and poked it in to
show him that what seemed to be
a solid wall of dust was actually a
passage With a few explanations
of what to do, I left him to give the
boiler a thorough cleaning. He
called me up the next morning to
say that his fire was burning more
briskly than it had been all winter,
and that steam had come up in
what was an incredibly abort time.
His was an extreme case, for to
all appearances the boiler had been
running for years with no cleaning
out of the dust that had collected
within it. The cleaning of the in
side of a boiler is of much more im
portance than home owners in gen
coal develops a fine dust that set
tles in the upper part of Hie Uiilgi.
When the inside surfaces of a boil
er are clean, the metal absorbs a
maximum amount of heat from the
gases and flames that pass over
them. There is little waste of heat
up the chimney. When dust is al
lowed to collect on the inside pas
sages, it has the effect of insulation.
Less of the available heat is ab
sorbed by the metal, and the waste
of heat up the chimney becomes
greater. Consumption of fuel nat
urally goes up.
For economy of fuel, and for
quick response to the opening of the
draft dampers, a boiler should be
frequently cleaned during the heat
ing season. The common practice
of a cleaning only at the beginning
of a heating season is not enough;
tor efficiency, the inside passages
should be cleaned at least once a
month.
We Fool Ourselves
By DOUGLAS MALLOCH
WE? LIKE to fool ourselves. We
The clock ahead, and to we get
Up ev'ry morn at break of day ?
We could have done it anyway
Sent by the clock we set ahead.
We at "eleven" go to bed.
But really go to bed at ten ?
Although we could have don* it
then.
We like to fool ourselves, and so
Say things we "own" for which we
owe,
A lot of little things we craved ?
We might have owned them had
we saved.
Then, when a panic comes along.
We say that specula ting's wrong.
To buy on margin is a shame ?
Although, of course, we did the
same.
We like to fool ourselves. To tell
The truth, we like to lie as well.
Deceive the others so and thus ?
But no one quite as much as us.
We strut around, talk long and load.
And hope to hypnotize the crowd.
But this is really why we boast ?
We like to fool ourselves the most.
? M?lh?r> -WOT Sarrtea.
UNGU1QI.
or TOUR HUfS
A By Leicester K. Dm
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Scheming
of Saturn
""THE method and manner at one's
A thinking play important parts
in making life a success or failure.
A life that is filled with the content
ment which comes only from com
plete expression of the inner self,
or one that is restless and dissatis
fied through lack of it.
To the experienced palmist, the in
dication of the outlets through which
both conscious and subconscious
thought are striving to fiction are
clearly indicated by the character
istics of the finger ot Saturn.
The Scheming Finger at Satan.
The predominant characteristics
of this type are: (1) straightness,
(2) the manner in which the finger,
with hand extended, clings to the
side of the forefinger.
As a rule, such a finger at Saturn
seems extremely long when com
pared with the length at the
forefinger. Its knuckles are full, with
somewhat pronounced slenderness
in the spaces between the joints.
The entire finger, despite its length
and prominence of the knuckles, is
pleasing in contour. And while de
cidedly not overfleshed. neither is it
what might be termed "skinny."
The nail tip is inclined to taper, and
the nail is usually of oral shape,
well set. Under backward pressure
the entire finger mght be considered
still were it not for just a hint ot
flexibility.
A Satumian finger of HtwI
without unfavorable indications in
the pahn or elsewhere, denotes a
clear-thinking, ambitious mind that
plans its purposes with care and
somewhat selfishly and keeps them
very much a secret until the time
for action arrives.
WNU ScnrlM.
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