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The Alamance gleaner Vol. LXIII GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1937 No. 39 ISeirtt Review of Current Events NO LABOR PEACE YET A. F. of L. and C. I. O. Reject Each Other's Proposals . . Japs Drive Back Chinese . . Will Not Attend Parley The news eanfcra man took his life in his hands to secure this ex cellent photograph of Japanese "mopping up" operations in the Chapel district of Shanghai. "Mopping up" Is the military euphemistic term for stamping out whatever life is left after the artillery bombardment has done its work. TiM W. PuJazxA SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK C Western Newspaper Union. Labor Parley Deadlock T EADERS of the American Fed eration of Labor and the C. I. O. couldn't get anywhere in their peace conference in Washington. So thev adjourned tem porarily, and some of them said the parley might not be resumed. George M. Harrison, head of the fedration dele gation, said that un less the C. I. O. at titude changed there was no prospect of peace. Both sides had made offers, but Philip Murray these were scornfully rejected by the opponents. The A. F. of L. proposed that the fate of the C. I. O. affiliates organ ized since the split be decided at an immediate conference "between representatives of organizations chartered by the A. F. of L. and organizations chartered by the C. I. O. and which may be in conflict with each other, for the purpose of bringing about an adjustment to bring the membership into the A. F. of L. on terms and conditions mutually agreeable." This clause of the fedration pro posal brought a denunciation from Philip Murray, chairman of the ten man C. I. O. peace committee, who asserted that it asked "desertion and betrayal" of these unions. The C. I. O. proposal was that its unions should return to the federa tion and that a new autonomous de partment should be created, to be known as the C. I. O., to have com plete and sole jurisdiction over its policies and operations. This plan represented no concessions. Japt Smash Chinese JAPAN officially declined the in J vitation to the nine-power treaty conference in Brussels, and her forces went ahead fast in their op erations in China. They had been checked by a desperate stand of the Chinese defenders of Shanghai, but launched a new offensive that forced the Chinese to abandon Chapei, the native section, and fall back to a new line to the west of the inter national settlement. There they en trenched with their backs to the Soochow creek on the other side of which were the United States ma rines. These American troops had orders from Admiral Yarnell to shoot at any planes attacking them or at non-combatants. The British troops in Shanghai had similar orders, and the inter national tension was brought nearer to the breaking point when a Jap anese tank fired on a British infan try detachment of which Brig. Gen. A. P. D. Telfer-Sollett, British commander in chief, was a member. A few days before a Japanese ma chine-gunner in a plane had killed a British soldier. In refusing to send a delegate to Brussels the Japanese government said the conference was inspired by the League of Nations and would "put serious obstacles in the path of the just and proper solution of the conflict." Japs Mobbed in Frisco FIVE eminent Japanese citizens, sent out on a good will mission to the world, arrived at San Fran cisco and were at once besieged on their steamship by a howling mob which struggled with the police for two hours. The demonstration was sponsored by the district council of the Mari time Federation of the Pacific, com prised of seagoing unions affiliated with the Committee for Industrial Organization. But about a third of the crowd was comprised of Chi nese, who streamed out from the city's vast Chinatown to vent their rage at things and persons Japa nese. since the slump in the stock market began the government has been urged to do something about it. Finally the administration yield ed to the demands and the federal reserve board of governors reduced margin requirements on stock pur chases from 55 to 40 per cent and imposed a 50 per' cent margin on short sales. The new requirements went into effect November 1 and are not retroactive. No official explanation was given for the board's action but it was un derstood that it was designed to ad just the margin requirements to current stock market conditions. Imposition of the increased mar gin requirements on short sales was an innovation from the board's standpoint, a stock exchange rule requiring only 10 point protection on short sales. Yardstick for Power PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, In * conference with J. D. Ross, ad ministrator of the Bonneville dam project on the Columbia river, es tablished the "yardstick" rate by which the charges of privately owned utilities for electric current are to be judged. The formula is to pay operating charges, amortize the federal in vestment in power generation in 40 years and provide a net return of 3V4 per cent. For the present the formula is to apply only to the Bonneville project, but Ross recommended that the same principle be followed with re spect to power from the TV A and other government plants. Miss Roche Quits Treasury X/fISS JOSEPHINE ROCHE, first woman to be an assistant sec retary of the treasury, has resigned that post and returns to the pres idency of the Rocky Mountain Fuel company of Denver. The position will be left unfilled, for the ad ministration hopes she will resume it later. She was appointed by Pres ident Roosevelt three years ago and has been in charge of the treasury's public health and other welfare ac tivities. Help for Stock Market Mussolini's Bold Talk EARLY a million Italians gath ' ered in Rome to celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of th^ Fascist march on the Eternal City, and heard Mussolini declare that bol shevism must be driven out of Eu rope, meaning primarily that the rebels must win the Spanish civil war. Among the invited guests was a delegation from Nazi Germany, and for their benefit II Duce assert ed vigorously that Germany must obtain colonies, peacefully or other wise. "The motto of the sixteenth Fas cist year is peace," shouted Musso lini. "There has been much use and abuse of this word by the bleat ing of the so-called reactionary democracies. But when it comes from our lips ? the lips of those who have fought and who are ready to fight again ? this word attains its real, solemn, original, human defi nition. Because to obtain a durable, lasting peace it is necessary to eliminate bolshevism from Europe. It is necessary that some absurd clauses of the treaties of peace be revised. It is necessary that great peoples like the German people have again the place to which they are entitled, and which they once had, under the African sun." The presence of the official Nazi delegation, led by Rudolph Hess, deputy leader of the party, demon strated "the ever closer political bond uniting the two people," Mus solini said. Cha Litem ps Gives Warning IF THE necessity arises, France * is prepared and ready to employ force in defense of her vital inter ests. At the same time she offers peace to all nations "that will prove by their acts their de sire to keep their en gagements loyally." Such was the warning, evidently directed especially to Italy and Ger many, which Pre mier Camille Chau temps uttered be fore a congress of M.unautemps y,e centrai federa tion of his Radical Socialist party. "I hope especially in the grievous affair of Spain this pacific, prudent, and courageous action will succeed in cutting short the violations of jus tice which cannot be renewed with out constraining France and Britain to renew their liberty of action," Chautemps said. The premier's declaration recalled French insistence that unless the nonintervention committee soon pulled foreign troops out of Spain France would open her frontier to aid the Spanish government. _* ? Franco's Progress Generalissimo franco, having completed his conquest of Gijon and the rest of the loyalist territory in northwest Spain, began moving his insurgent forces east ward to the Aragon front, where his officers said the "decisive offensive of the war" would be begun. The loyalist government moved from Valencia to Barcelona. * Windsor Talks of Trip *TPHE duke of Windsor, speaking ^ at a dinner of the Anglo-Ameri can Press association in Paris, said that he wanted to make it clear that "in any journey I have undertaken or may plan in the future, I do so as a completely independent observ er without political considerations of any sort or kind and entirely on my own initiative." He added that "I am a very hap pily married man, but my wife and I are neither content nor willing to lead a purely inactive life of leisure. We hope and feel that in due course the experience we gain from our travels will enable us, if given fair treatment, to make some contri butions as private individuals to solving of some of the vital prob lems that beset the world today." Noted Editor Dead I EATH chose a shining mark when it removed George Hor ace Lorimer, retired editor of the Saturday Evening Post. He suc cumbed to pneumonia at his home in Wyncote, Pa. Honorary pall bearers at his funeral included for mer President Herbert Hoover and other men distinguished in public life. Ecuador Coup de'Etat GEN. ALBERTO ENRIQUEZ, war minister of Ecuador, and officers of the army executed a coup d'etat which forced Provisional President Federico Paez to resign and leave the country. Enriquez at once assumed power as "supreme chief with a cabinet composed largely of army officers. He de creed the establishment of a popu lar tribunal to deal with persons accused of tampering with public funds and announced "a national po litical purge." D1 Bedtime Story for Children By THORNTON W. BURGESS WHY JUMPER THE HARE WAS NOT AFRAID most surprising thing about WIC meeting of Buster Bear with the other little people of the Green Forest was that he was introduced by Jumper the Hare. Now you know, Jumper the Hare is very, very timid. Everybody knows that. He is so timid that some people say he is afraid of his own shadow. Of course, this isn't true, but it is true that he is very, very timid. So no one could understand how it hap pened that he dared to introduce Buster Bear. In fact, he didn't seem any more afraid of Buster than were Jimmy Skunk and Prick ly Porky the Porcupine. But every one knows why they are not afraid; Jimmy has a little bag of scent and Prickly Porky has a thousand "Why," Said He, "Buster Bear Comes From the Great Woods, Where I Came From." little spears to make other people, even those a great deal bigger than they are, respect them. But Jumper the Hare has nothing of the kind. He has nothing with which to win respect save his long legs, and as he uses those to run away with, of course, he never wins respect with them, for you know people who run away are seldom respected. So it was that when Jumper appeared not in the least afraid of Buster Bear and intro duced him as a friend, the other little , people, most of whom were frightened almost to death, couldn't understand it at all. Peter Rabbit wasn't there at the time, but, of course he heard of it, and it puzzled him more than it did anyone else. He is timid himself, is Peter Rab bit, but he isn't as timid as his big cousin Jumper. And yet here was he himself having little cold chills of fright at the very thought of those great claws of Buster Bear, while Jumper was not afraid at all. It was too much for Peter, and the first chance he got he asked Jump er about it. Jumper smiled. "Why," said he, "Buster Bear comes from the Great Woods where I came from, and I know all about him and he knows all about me. So we are friends." Peter scratched his head thought fully. Somehow he didn't under stand any better than before. "Aren't you afraid of those great big, cruel claws?" he asked. lumper shook his head. "No," She Means Business The butterfly existence is not (or this workmanlike student at the Uni versity of Nevada in Reno. Gene vieve Wines plans to forge ahead in life as a mechanical engineer. She is shown learning the practical side of her business at the anvil. said he. "Why should I be afraid of them?" "Because they can tear you all to pieces!" yelled Peter promptly. "But they can't!" cried Jumper happily. That ft just what they can't do, and that is why I am not afraid!" "I don't see why they can't," per sisted Peter. "Because they can't catch me!" Jumper made a long jump, a very long jump, twice as long a jump as Peter could make, as if to show why those cruel ? claws could not catch him. Peter began to see what Jumper the Hare meant. "You mean you are not afraid of Buster Bear because you think Bus ter cannot catch you; is that it?" asked Peter. Jumper nodded his head so fast that he made his long ears flop. "That's just it!" said he. "Buster Bear can't catch me. I know it and he knows it, and so he doesn't waste any time trying. Instead we are very good friends. The only things to be afraid of in this world are things you know may hurt you, no matter how sharp you watch out. Now, I am afraid of Granny Fox and Old Man Coyote because they are so sly and swift that I am never "It seems to be getting to the point where the farmer's vote," says reiterating Rita, "is worth more to him than his crops." WNU Service. sure that I am safe from them. But Buster Bear is not swift enough or sly enough to make me afraid. When you have known Buster as long as I have you will know that he isn't half so terrible as he looks, and that he really can be very nice and no end of fun. I'm not afraid of Buster because I've learned how to keep out of his way, and when you've learned the same thing you won't be afraid either." Peter looked as if he would like to believe it, but found it a little more than he could quite credit. c T. W. Burgess.? WNU Servlcs. CHOCOLATE EVER POPULAR FLAVOR H| Be Sure It Blends Properly With Other Ingredients. By EDITH M. BARBER T HE Spaniards, when they con *? quered Mexico, took back to Spain gold and other treasures. Nothing, however, was appreciated so much by the Spanish people as a whole, as the chocolate, which soon became the national drink, as it had been and still is in Mexico. This was accomplished in spite of the fact that church officials con sidered it a wicked luxury, especial ly when it became the custom to have it brought during long serv ices to church. lit commenting up on this custom. Or. Doran in his "Table Traits" announces, "A cup of good chocolate may indeed af ford the drinker strength and pa tience to undergo a bad sermon." "To make really good chocolate." says Brillat-Savarin, "one must solve a number of very subtle equa tions. The roasting of the cocoa bean is an operation so delicate as to require a tact bordering on in spiration." The roasting of the beans is very important whether they are to be used for manufacture of cake, chocolate or cocoa, as line flavor is developed by the roast ing process just as it is by roasting coffee. In this country cocoa Is used for the preparation of beverages more often than is chocolate". In the preparation of cocoa powder, a large part of the cocoa butter is removed. The quality of the cocoa bean and the amount of cocoa but ter extracted as well as the roast ing are all important. When chocolate is used care must be taken that it is prepared in such a way that it will blend smoothly with the other ingredients of the recipe. For cake and cookies it may be melted over hot ? not boil ing ? water. When it is used with hot milk for pudding or for bev erages it may be cut into smaller pieces and melted in the milk. In stead, it may be cooked with a small amount of cold water over direct heat until the mixture is smooth and thick. A cake of chocolate has usu ally been marked off in squares which weigh one ounce. Recently one of the oldest manufacturers [r=AIUlltlAM.= Br WARREN GOODRICH ?? > tarn "8 win* tt, boy? !" WNU S*rrtc?. has marked it into half ounce pieces, which allows us to measure even more accurately than before. In order to have a smooth beverage when cocoa is used cold water should be added and stirred with the powder over the direct heat until the mixture is smooth and thick after which it may be boiled a mo ment before the cold milk is added. This method allows us to make co coa with the use of only one uten sil. As soon as the milk begins to steam the mixture should be beaten until foamy with a heavy beater in order to prevent the scum's forming. Whipped cream is usually served with both chocolate and cocoa. In stead a marshmallow may be put into each cup before the beverage is poured. This garnish is particu larly favored by the children. Chocolate Creole Cake. 2 cups sifted cake flour 1 teaspoon soda % teaspoon salt % cup butter or other shortening 1V4 cups brown sugar 2 eggs, unbeaten 3 squares unsweetened chocolate, melted. 1 cup milk 1 teaspoon vanilla Sift flour with soda and salt. Cream butter, add sugar gradually and cream together until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add chocolate and beat well. Add flour, alternately with milk. Add flavoring. Bake in two greased ten inch layer pans or three nine-inch layer pans in a moderate oven (32S degrees Fahrenheit) thirty minutes. Chocolate Delicacy. tt cup butter % cup powdered sugar 3 eggs 2 squares chocolate, melted VSt cup dry sifted bread crumbs Cream the butter with the sugar, add the egg yolks, slightly beaten; the melted chocolate and bread crumbs. Beat the egg whites and fold into the mixture. Grease two shallow cake pans and pour one third of the butter into each, reserv ing the rest for the filling. Bake in a slow oven (325 degrees Fahren heit) twenty minutes. Remove the pans and put together with the re served filling. Serve garnished with whipped cream. C Bell SyndlcaU.? WNU 8*rrlc?. The United States Constitution The United States Constitution Is the basis of government in this country and is the highest and most permanent law. It was adopted Sep tember 17, 1787, by the federal con vention and ratified the following year. It may be amended by a vote of two-thirds in congress, followed by the approval of three-quarters of the state legislatures or state con ventions. It specifies how congress and the President are elected, the powers and duties of President, con gress and the judiciary and the rela tion between state and federal gov ernments. By Roger B. Whitman SMALL COAL SIZES DECAUSE of the demand, stove u size coal sells at a higher price than nut coal and pea coal, which are smaller. There is, of course, a desire to use these smaller sizes because of economy. Under certain conditions this is quite possible, al though if the conditions are not met, coal gas is produced. This may re sult in puffs and even small explo sions in the fire-box, or the passing of the coal gas through the house. With coal of stove size and larger, the spaces between the lumps per mit the free passage of air, and coal gas is burned off as fast as it is produced. The flickering blue flame above a bed of fresh coal is burning coal gas. As small coal sizes pack more closely, air cannot pass through so freely, and the gas, which can not burn without air, may collect in the fire-box. Later, with a spark, there may be a puff that will blow open the fire-door. A strong chimney draft may poll air through a bed of packed coal, but if there are thin places, air will rush through them with the effect of a blacksmith's forge. This is ? cause of clinkering. Forced draft is sometimes used through an elec tric blower that forces air into the ash-pit. With this there is also the possibility of clinkering. But there is also a risk of coal gas trouble. If the fire has been stoked some little time before the blower -J turned on, the space above the coel bed becomes filled with coal gas; then, with the starting up of the blower, sparks passing through will ignite the gas, and there may be an explo sion. A blower is safe only with skilful stoking and with watchful ness. When small sizes are used, stok ing should be by what is called the "hot spot" method. The first step in stoking is to rake the glowing coals into a sloping bank with the top at the level of the firing door. This leaves a cavity at the back, which is filled with new coal. Gas that is produced is then ignited by the "hot spot" While there is economy in buying coal of small size, there may not be economy in using h. Unless a furnace is adapted to it, much at the small coal will drop through the grates unburned. Besides that, much more attention is required in maintaining a good fire. WKU atiiki. MANNEKS OF THE MOMEIT By JEAN T HE people who always have to have two seats apiece whenever they ride two miles on a train ... we could crown them. Sometimes, we'll admit we envy them. We've tried ourselves by stacking magazines and hats and umbrellas all around us, to dis courage people from trying to sit with us. But somehow a mother I Seat Horrtoj. We'd Can It. with a baby, or an old lady with ? cane, always comes aloof and looks wistfully at our pile at be longings. And we're finished. By the end of the journey we're hold ing the baby or the cane. So maybe it's sour grapes. But we've come to the conclusion that one seat is all a person with one ticket should try to fill. And the people who spread themselves out so comfortably over two should be firmly handled. If by scornful look, or gentle questioning we can't make them budge, we intend to sit right down on their feet, or their hats. That ought to teach them. WNUSwtIm.
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