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The Alamance Gleaner Vol. LXIII GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1937 No. 42 JVeiva Review of Current Events CHINESE QUIT NANKING Chiang Wiil Lead His Armies Against the Invaders . . . Congress Is Expected to Enact Tax Law Revision Looking as If he had just bitten into a soar, very soar, pickle, Norman H. Davis, ehief of the American delegation to the nine-power conference in Brussels, is pictured chatting with British foreign minister Anthony Eden (left) and French foreign minister Yvon Delbos (right). iv. puuiaA 4^ SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK 6 Western Newspaper Union. Chinese Flee From Capital "RANKING, capital of China, was ' abandoned as the seat of the government because of the rapid ad vances westward of the Japanese fnrppR Officials we being scattered in several cities, the central point being Hankow, on the Yangtse 300 miles west of Nanking. One army of the in vaders was moving from Shanghai on Nanking, and anoth er was about to at tacK Tsinan, capital K.j Si of Shantung prov ince in North China. China, however, was far from giving up the fight. It was reported in Shanghai that Generalissimo Chi ang Kai-Shek had resigned as pres ident of the executive council in or der to lead his troops in a final ef fort to stop the Japanese and win the war. H. H. Kung, it was said, would succeed Chiang in the presi dency. He is finance minister Thousands of civilians and for eigners were fleeing from Nanking. But military authorities remained there and declared the city would not be surrendered to the Japanese without a desperate fight. If the Japanese penetrate the pow erful "Hindenburg line" anchored on Soochow, Changshu, and (Cash ing, the Chinese were expected to fall back to new positions stretching from Kiangyin, on the Yangtse riv er, to Wusih, 100 miles east of Nanking. Paris heard that Japan was threatening to establish a naval blockade of the Chinese coast if any nations attempted to send supplies to the Chinese armies. Airplane Crash Tragedy Grand duke george of HESSE, his wile, mother and two little sons and six other persons were killed when a Belgian air liner crashed and burned near Os tend. They were on their way to attend the wedding of the duke's brother Ludwig in London. Ludwig succeeded to the title and the mar riage ceremony was performed pri vately with him and his bride, Mar garet Campbell Geddes, daughter of Sir Auckland Geddes, in deep mourning. Ludwig was the third grand duke of his line within a - week, tor father died only a few days before the alrpl*ne~iragedy. ? ???? Leaving It Up to Uncle Sam I TNLESS congress changes the ^ neutrality act, it Is probable the nations that signed and adhered to the nine-power Pacific treaty will ? nn nAeitiuA aft. ______ tion against Japan for violating that pact. The delegates to the Brussels con ference, with the ex ception of Italy, vot ed to censure the Japanese for mak ing war on China, and then adjourned to get further in AX A. At X sinicuons irom uieir w _ _ governments. N" H* D,T" Great Britain and France screed to Join in any effort "abort at war", which the United States may de cide should be made, this meaning economic sanctions against Japan. But the isolationist policy of this country would have to be abandoned if sanctions were to be of any avail. Norman H. Davis, chief Ameri can delegate, in addressing the con ference, was rather conciliatory to ward Japan, but he said: "The question in its final analysis, is whether international relations shall be determined by arbitrary force or by law and respect for in ternational treaties. In fact, that seems to be the greatest issue fac ing the world today." Britain Woos Hitler yiSCOUNT HALIFAX, lord presl * dent of the council in the British cabinet, was in Germany ostensibly for the purpose of visiting a hunting exhibition but actually to negotiate with Hitler and other Nazi chiefs for the establishment of more friend ly relations between Great Britain and Germany. Public belief was that he was authorized to hint to Hitler that there was hope Ger many might regain some of its lost colonies if Germany would abandon its economic isolation and co-operate with other European pow ers in a revised League of Nations. The British want to detach Ger many, and Italy, too, if possible, from their alliance with Japan. Hal ifax was a fitting messenger to send to Berlin, for he is an outstanding friend of Germany among British officials. Extra Session Opens WITH the evident intention of doing what it can to aid busi ness, congress began its extraordi nary session. Its first business was a ..ik er long message from Mr. Roosevelt in which the Chief Executive commit ted himself to limit ed tax law revision for the purpose of removing admitted injustices suffered especially by small business and non linpriilative inves tors. ~ President Mr. Roosevelt Roosevelt proposed tax "modifications ade quate to encourage productive en terprise," but explained that he sought primarily to aid at the ex acaae nL incUvidual _or partnership undertaking. " ' The President said exercise of "ordinary prudence" would protect the nation against prolonged busi ness recession. He reiterated his intention to bal ance the next fiscal yea r budget, and demanded that congress find and provide new revenue for any added expenditures authorized now. The President asked congress to provide: 1. Wages and hours legislation. 2. An "all-weather" crop control program. 3. Reorganization of executive de partments. 4. National planning for better use of natural resources. It appeared certain that a vig orous opposition to ^11 or part of this program would arise, but near ly everybody seemed in favor of tax law revision. "Firetide Chat" OALLING on the nation for full co ^ operation in the taking of tha voluntary census of the unemployed, taken by the Post Office depart ment, President Roosevelt in a "fireside chat" by radio said that permanent cure of the unemploy ment problem lies in finding jobs in industry and agriculture. Neverthe less, he said, it is still the policy of the administration that no one shall starve through lack of government aid. He gave assurance that the gov ernment will try to stimulate pri vate industry enough to enable it to re-absorb the jobless; and after the results of the census are tabulated, a long-range program will be launched. This program, he said, will apply to employers as well aa to workers, and in this was per ceived a note of encouragement to business. The President said prosperity of the nation depended upon national purchasing power, and added: "Our far-sighted industrial lead ers now recognize that a very sub stantial share of corporate earnings must be paid out in wages, or the soil from which these industries grow will soon become impov erished. Our farmers recognize that their largest customers are tha workers for wages, and that farm markets cannot be maintained ex cept through widespread purchasing power." Mr. Roosevelt emphasized that America will not try to solve the employment problem by a huge armament program, as other na tions are doing. Thalberg's Millions A N INVENTORY filed in probate court at Los Angeles placed a gross value of $4,469,013 on the es tate of Irving G. Thalberg, motion picture producer. The net estate will amount to about $2,244,000. After several cash bequests to members of the family the remain der will be divided into three trust funds of about $629,000 each. The income from one of those will go to Norma Shearer, his widow, for the remainder of her life. Their two children are to receive the income from the remaining two funds until they are thirty-five years old, then the principal. Lewis Back from Europe CENATOR LEWIS of Illinois re ^ turned from a tour of Germany in which he sought to arrange for payments to American holders of German municipal bonds. The group of which he was a member has sub mitted a report to Secretary of State Hull. In France, England, and Germa ny, the senator said he found a strong increase in American exports to the three countries but expressed himself at k loss to see how the na tions could pay for their purchases. Row in Coal Bureau GEORGE E. ACRET, acting di rector of the division of exam iners of the bituminous coal com mission, resigned and suggested a congressional investigation of the agency. He says it has almost com pletely broken down, and for this he blames Senators McAdoo of Califor nia and McGuffey of Pennsylvania. Acret revealed that there has been a row in the commission for several months over patronage, which he alleges has been "hogged" by the senators; and that another cause of dissension has been the fact that the commission has been seeking to grant railroads below-cost fuel at the expense of general consumers. Here's Wallace's Program SECRETARY WALLACE offered a program which he said would "promote security for both farmer* and consumers" in his annual re port to the President. To finance it he recommended a moderate proc essing tax on cotton only. Crop con trol when necessary, and the "ever normal granary" are parts of his plan. These are the six points of the program which Wallace said would harmonize with the general welfare: 1. Farmers should have a share in the national Income to re-estabiisir the prewar ratio of the average farmer's purchasing power to that of the average non-farmer. 2. The people who live on the land must have security of tenure, either as owners of land or renters on a long-time basis. 3. The soil must be used properly and conserved for future farmers and future city dwellers. 4. Farmers through sound co-op eratives must come into control of those marketing, processing, pur chasing and service functions which they can manage efficiently. 5. Family sized farms should be favored by federal programs, bene fit payments and other such aids to rural income. ?. Federal and state funds should continue to be spent to promote ag ricultural research and farm effi ciency. Thornton W Burgess JUMPEF THE HARE CANNOT SLEEP JUMPER THE HARE was grow J ing thin. Yes, sir, he was grow ing thin. He never had been very fat, but now he was thinner than ever and getting more so every day. What was making him? Why, just worry. That is all? just worry. Here it was the beautiful spring time and plenty to eat, yet Jumper was growing thin. Very few people have a good appetite when they are worried. It was that way with Jumper. He just couldn't eat much, and what was almost as bad, he Tod Know Reddy Can See in the Night. couldn't sleep much. Now eating and sleeping are what make people fat, and whoever cannot eat and cannot sleep is bound to grow thin. And so Jumper grew thinner and thinner, while almost everybody else grew fat. It was all because of Heddy Fox. . Reddy had made up his mind that he was going to catch Jumper the Hare and Jumper knew it. Now Jumper can outrun Reddy Fox, and when it comes to a race he isn't the least bit afraid. But Reddy is sly, very sly. He knew better than to try to catch Jumper by chasing him. He knew that he would have to catch him by surprising him when he was asleep, or by hiding close to some place where Jumper was in the habit of eating. Jumper knew that, too. Of course he did. He knew just as well as Reddy did that Reddy couldn't catch him in a race. He felt per fectly safe as long as he could see Reddy or knew exactly where he was. But at all other times he worried. You see, he didn't know but Reddy might jump out from be hind any bush or tree, and so he had to be on watch every minute he was awake. That was bad enough, but what was worse was the fact that he didn't dare sleep. Of course, he had to sleep some, but it was in little naps from which the merest rustle of a leaf would waken him all ready to jump and run for his life. Now you know little naps like that give very little rest. And it it dreadful to close your eyes wonder ing if you will ever open them again. It was no wonder that Jumper grew thin. It would not have been so bad if Reddy had been content to hunt him in the day time only. But he wasn't. You know Reddy can see in the night. And so he hunted by Charlie in Tpyland None other than the very sophis ticated Charlie McCarthy, wooden pal of Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen, is pictured her* as he visited the toy center in New York for the pre view of good things for Christmas of 1037. Alex Wanamaker, Ave, is enacting the role of Charlie's boss here. day or night, whenever he felt like it, and so of course poor Jumper never knew when he might safely sleep. He kept to the deepest part of the Green Forest, hoping that Reddy would not hunt for him there. You know Reddy is more fond of the edge of the Green Forest than he is of the deep, dark lonesome parts. But he had made up his mind to catch Jumper, and so now he fol lowed Jumper to hii most lonely hiding places. It really was quite dreadful for Jumper, and yet it would have been worse for some others had they been in his place. You see, bad as it was, it wasn't quite as bad as things had been in the Great Woods, where Reddy had lived before coming down to the Green Forest. There he had had to watch out ev ery minute for Tufty the Lynx and Howler the Wolf and Mr. Fisher and Mr. Wolverine, which was, of course, much worse than having just Reddy Fox to watch out for. So he had grown used to being al ways in danger. But since he had come to live in the Green Forest he had felt so much safer and life had been so much easier that now =AIUlli?AM.= CRACKERS By WARREN GOODRICH "Why did my best friends tell met" WNU Strrlca. it came very hard to go back to the old way of living. So Jumper the Hare lost his appe tite and couldn't sleep and grew thinner and thinner in the beautiful springtime. And so it was that the fun that his friends and neigh bors were having in teasing and making fun of Reddy Fox was really the cause of all the trouble that had come to Jumper the Hare, and he was too polite to tell them about it. 0T. W. Burgesa. ? WNU Scrrlca. RED SNAPPER IS GREAT DELICACY Expert Tells How to Cook and Serve This Fish. By EDITH H. BARBER "IS STEAK fish the same as red * snapper?" asks a reader. "And how should it be cooked?" I have heard almost every fish which is large enough to be cut into steaks called by this name. Snapper is often Imown as redfish in the South, where it is considered a delicacy. Almost any method may be used for cooking it. I have recipes for boil ing, baking, and broiling in my files. In New Orleans the snapper is called, "the king of the fish mar ket." Spices are usually used in its preparation. They are put into the water when the fish is "poached" or a cut, the shape of a letter S, is made on the back and then this is stuffed with thyme, cloves and bayleaf. The body of the fish may then be stuffed with a highly seasoned bread stuffing to which, in season, oysters are often added. It may then be rubbed thor oughly with butter or oil and baked in a hot oven, or it may be baked instead in a Creole sauce. The sauce may be made separately and served with the fish. Creole Sauce. 1 tablespoon olive oil 1 chopped onion . 1 tablespoon flour 2 cups tomatoes V4 cup chopped mushrooms Thyme Bayleaf Cloves Cayenne pepper 1 clove garlic, minced Heat the olive oil and brown the onion in it. Stir in the flour and let brown slightly. Stir in the other in gredients and let simmer half an hour. Red Dressing. V4 cup vinegar V4 cup olive oil % cup catsup 1% tablespoon salt 1 teaspoon paprika 1 hard-cooked egg (chopped) 1 green pepper X tablespoon chopped chives or onion- tops Mix the ingredients, add ? small piece of ice and beat one minute until thick. Baked Staffed Fish. " I tluee- pouml Bah ? ? 3 cups soft bread crumbs 1 teaspoon salt Pepper 4 tablespoons melted butter 2 tablespoons lemon Juice 3 small tomatoes 6 onion rings Salt, pepper Split and clean fish. Mix crumbs and seasoning, add 2 tablespoons of melted butter and lemon Juice. Mix well and stuff fish with mixture. Sew split edges together and place fish on oven-proof platter. Halve toma toes, place around Bah, sprinkle with salt and pepper and arrange an on ion ring on each hall Pour remain ing butter over flsh and tomatoes. Bake in a hot oven (450 degrees Fahrenheit) about fifteen minutes until flsh is tender^ Remove from J oven and garnish with sliced lemon and parsley. ? ? ? OTHERS WORTH TRYING Potato Dunplings. 6 medium boiled potatoes 2 eggs IVi teaspoons salt 1 cup flour % teaspoon sugar % teaspoon nutmeg Vt teaspoon cinnamon y? cup butter Mash potatoes, add eggs, salt, flour and seasonings and mix well. Knead lightly until smooth. Shape into one long thick roll, cut into pieces one-half to one and ? half inches and roll into dumplings the length of a finger. Cook in boiling salted water ten minutes. Drain, pour melted butter over them so they will not stick. Raisin and Not Pie. 1 cup sugar 1 tablespoon butter a eggs H teaspoon nutmeg % teaspoon cloves 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 tablespoon vinegar H teaspoon salt % cup seeded raisins Vk cup chopped nuts Cream the sugar and butter and add the beaten egg yolks. Stir in the spices, vinegar, salt, raisins and nuts and cut and fold in the beaten egg whites. Pour into a pie plate lined with pastry and bake at 450 degrees for ten minutes, then at 350 degrees for about 25 minutes longer. ? B?U Syndicate.? WNU StrrlM. FIRST AID TO THE AILING HOUSE By Roger B. Whitman AUTOMATIC HEAT Q NE of the greatest advance* in ^ house heating in recent year* is in so-called automatic heat; that is, an arrangement by which a house is maintained at an even temperature with no thought or ef fort by any member of the house hold. The most important device is a Thermostat, which tran be applied to a heater of any kind; a heater that burns fuel of any description. A thermostat is an electric switch that is operated by the temperature of the air that surrounds it. This electric switch controls a mechan ism at the heater that opens and closes the dampers, or turns a stok er or an oil burner bn and off. The thermostat is put on a wall five feet from the floor, in a part of the bouse where the temperature is average for all of the rooms. As the temperature of the air rises to the degree for which the thermo stat is set, usually 70 degrees, the switch acts and shuts off the draft, or turns off the motor of an oil bur ner or stoker. The house then cools off; but when the air around the thermostat has dropped ? little. usually by two degrees, the switch again works, and the heater starts up. With a clock attachment, a ther mostat does even more, for it starts the heater early enough in the morn ing for the house to be warm by getting-up time. Also, at any de sired hour in the evening, it will shut off the heater for the night. As showing the watchfulness of a thermostat, I recall an unusually cool spell in summer when on the Fourth of July, we awoke in the morning to find the radiators hot and the chill of the rooms pleasantly taken off. For many years, both with steam and with hot air, when all heaters were stoked by hand, I had great satisfaction with thermostats. The labor of caring for the fire was re duced to putting on coal and shovel ing ashes; there was no running downstairs to turn on the dampers when the house became too cool, or to shut them off when it began to overheat. I found also that tat checking a fire at just the right time, there was a distinct saving in fuel. Later, I used thermostats in con nection with a buckwheat stoker and an oil burner. With either of these, ' house heating is really automatic and it is even more so with gas as the fueL A important point in automatic heat is the placing of the thermo stat. In one bouse that I know, there was trouble because the up stairs rooms were never quite warm enough. On looking the place over, I found that the thermostat was oa the wall of a small room, so near the boiler that its radiator was the first to heat As a result, the room warmed up to the temperature at which the thermostat acted, long ? before the upstairs radiators Had had time to beat This was quickly proved to be the fault by turning off the radiator in the thermostat room. The permanent remedy was to remove the thermostat to the wall of a larger room, where the tem perature was more nearly average for the entire house. O By Roger B. Whitman WNU S?rvic*. MANNERS OF THE MOMENT By JEAN Oi>n?* TTHERE'S only one thine to do, when you're caught red-handed in the midst of forgetting a date. You simply have to do your best to hide the evidence. If, for example, it was a dinner date, and the lad turns up just as you are about to pop a potato on the stove of your own little kitch enette, dump everything down the sink, and tell the boy friend that I ^ T X When I Forgotten Date Tons Up. Bide the Evidence. you were just fixing up some face lotion . . . That you won't be a min ute. And then, (or land sakes, hur ry with your dressing. U it's a steak you're cooking, that's harder. But maybe you can persuade him it was for a dog or a cat or a side neighbor. Do try. We hate to see these crestfallen lads who lose their assurance because girls forget dates with them. Some girls, we know, forget dates purposely. But this is a habit we frown upon. If that's the way they feel, they shouldn't make the dates Tn ffife'flrti* place. - We believe- ia. honor among the parasites. WW U 8*rrfc?. Greatest Pitch Lake Trinidad, an island of the British West Indies, and off the coast of Venezuela, is noted principally for the 312 feet high Haracas falls, and Pitch lake, from which more than 200,000 tons of asphalt, for paving purposes, are exported each year, principally to the United States. The supply is inexhaustible. Any bole made by removal is filled by nature in action near the center of the lake, bubbling up in a liquid state. A steel pipe one inch tn diameter has been thrown into the lake, which covers three acres, and weeks after wards waa found in a distant part, bent and twisted.
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