sThe Rocky Mount Herald
VOLUME 2, NO. 36
Dental Clinic
For Edgecombe
Tarboro, Aug. 31.—Dr. A. D.
Gregg, Edgecombe health officer, has
announced that beginning Monday
there will be a 20-weeks dental clin
ic conducted in the county
for the benefit of the school chil
dren in the lower grades. The State
Department of dental hygiene, will
have charge of the clinic. All chil
dren up to 12 years of age will be
examined and treated.
, Entertain At
Barbecue Dinner
Mr. and Mrs. John Hines, of Oak
City, entertained about two hun
dred friends and relatives at a bar
becue dinner at their plantation
near Oak City, Thursday, August
29. The menu included barbecue,
brunswick stew, boiled country ham
and friend chicken. Also several
varieties of cake and pickles were
served.
This dinner was one of the most
delightful gatherings that Martin
county has witnessed in many sea
sons.
Their guests included the family
and relatives, county officers of
Martin county, and a large number
of the county's leading citizens.
There were also a number of per
sons from Scotland Neck and Tar
boro. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel, daugh
ter and son-in-law, Marshall Spears,
R. T. Fountain attended from Roc
ky Mount. The occasion was most
delightful and everybody present en
joyed the gracious hospitality of
Mr. and Mrs. Hines.
Rogers Praises
Weekly Papers
Everything the late Will Rogers
said was not funny, but the things
which were sweetened with humor
and tempered ith philosophy will
be recorded as his best. The cow
boy-comedian wrote this tribute to
the home-town weekly not so long
before his death:
"Take away my ham, take away
my eggs, even chili, but leave me
my newspaper. Evfcn if tt has such
purely local news as 'Jim Jones
came home last night unexpectedly,
and bloodshed ensued' or 'Jesse
Bushyhead, our local M. D., ia Hat*
ing one of the best years of his
career, practically speaking—but
they just won't pay him when they
get well' 'the county seat was pack
ed yesterday with prominent people
from out of town, attempting to
renew their notes' and 'election
ain't far off and everybody is up
for office that can sign an applica
tion blank.'
: "Now all that don't seem much
news to you. But it is news to you,
especially when you know the peo
ple and they are your own folks. So
no matter how punk you may think
your local newspaper is getting,
why just take it away from you and
see how you feel. The old newspaper
I think, is just about our biggest
blessing.
fe "So let's all read and bo merry,
J for tomorro the paper may not have
■ enough ads to come out."
FEW CONFEDERATES
ARE LEFT IN STATE
Less than 500 Confederate veter
ans of the big army tliat defended
the Stars and Burs in 1861-65 are
now left in North Carolina. In the
pension bureau, at Raleigh it is re-
SUBJd}3A fQf j£[UO 3JU P3183A
■ on the state pension roll today.
The state of North Carolina gives
each veteran one dollar a day as
long as he lives. It's for his ser
vice in the "dark days" of '6l and
*62 when the star of the Confed
eracy was setting behind a horizon
of blue.
North Carolina veterans will re
ceive $166,710 this year. Fifty-seven
negro body servants who accompan
ied their masters to war will re
ceive $11,400 Class A and class B
widows of veterans will receive $423,-
Pensions amounting to $601,910
700.
f. will be paid out tlijs year. Next
year the amount will diminish as
the list grows smaller.
There are something oved 2,000
widows of Confederate veterans on
the pesion list but these too are
fast passing away.
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| MORNING MUSINGS
It is easier to borrow than to
pay back. Interest is an eating
cancer, and debt is a hard task
master. It is easy to sign your
pme on the dotted line, but it
'% J|»netimes costs your life's savings.
, Think twice before you sign once,
is a mighty good motto to follow.
S Credit has probably ruined more
men than it has helped, by being
persuaded by slick-tongued sales ar
tists to buy on credit something
:!d do without, and would
do without if you had to pay cash.
"Pay as you go" and "do without
if you haven't the money to pay"
ia a sure and secure policy to fol
' low.
• , "• Yours,
■ i Uncle Fred
Rites For Halifax
Woman Saturdiy
Miss Linda Johnson Of Scotland
Neck Succumbs
Funeral services for Miss Lindn
Johnson, of Scotland Neck, were
conducted from the Williams Bap
tist church, near Speight's chapel in
Edgecombe county, on Saturday af
ternoon at 2 o'clock, with Elder Ju
lius Moore in charge. Miss Johnson
who was 71 years of age, succumb
ed in Greensboro last night at 8
o'clock, while on a visit to a sister
there, Mrs. B. J. Thigpen. Remains
were brought to this section for
burial and the funeral cortege was
joined by relatives here who attend
ed the final rites.
The deceased is prominently con
nected in Rocky Mount and in East
ern Carolina, being a member of
an old Edgecombe family. Her
father, the late Elder J. W. John
son, was for many years pastor of
the Williams Primitive Baptist
church, from which the funeral
rites were conducted.
Miss Johnson is survived by one
sister, Mrs. R. N. Cutchin, of Rich
mond, and six half sisters and two
half brothers. They are Mrs. E. D.
Gordon and Mis Eula Johnson, of
this city; R. B. Johnson of Scotland
Neck with whom she made her home
for a number of years; A. W. John
son and Mrs. J. F. Read, of Rich
mond; Mrs. J. H. Roberson, of Rob
ersonville; Mrs. B. J. Thigpen, of
Greensboro and Mrs. C. H. Gorham,
of Scotland Neck.
Batts Service
Conducted Sat.
Sarah Batts Buried At Plnevlew
Kincheloe Officiates
Funeral rites were held Saturday
afternoon for Miss Sarah Batts, 45,
who succumbed here at her home,
No. 538 Marigold street Friday af
ter a long period during which she
was practically bedridden. Rev. J.
W. Kincheloe, pastor of the First
Baptist church, officiated in the ser
vices and burial followed at Pine
view cemetery.
Miss Batts belonged to the First
Baptist church here, and had be
fore her illness been employed by
th» late. J. H- Dauiels in. hi* busi
ness establishment here.
Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. O.
Batts, survive here, as do her five
sisters, Misses Ella, Sudie and Mary
Batts, Mrs. Harriett B. Cobb, and
Mr. I. M. Batts. All live in Rocky
Mount.
Active pallbearers included the
following local men: L. B. Hoggard,
J. M. Baker, Z. V. Straughu, L. A.
Grimes, R. L. Price, and L. H. Dowl
ing.
MRS. O. B. HARRIS
BURIED WEDNESDAY
Rev. Kincheloe And Rev. Craighill
Officiate At Grave
Mrs. O. Beaman Harris, who lived
here for many years, was buried at
Pineview cemetery late Wednesday
afternoon beside her husband, the
late 0. B. Harris, after J. W.
Kincheloe, pastor of the First Bap
tist church, held final rites at the
grave, assisted by Rev. F. H. Craig
hill, rector of the Church of the
Good Shepherd.
Mrs. Harris, 5(5, died Monday
morning in Winnsboro, S. C., at her
sister's home, that of Mrs. Percy
Dees, after she had a brief illness
there.
She had spent more than three de
cades here and left only a few years
ngo.Formerly Miss Belle Gulley, of
Raleigh, she was prominently known
in Methodist church work and be
longed to the First Methodist church
and the United Daughters of the
Confederacy.
Surviving relatives include her
children, Mrs. Sam Fowler, of Bal
timore, Maryland, and Perrin Har
ris, of Washington, her sisters, Mrs.
Dees and Mrs. Haywood Crosson,
Sumter, S. C., and one brother,
John Gulley, of Norfolk, Va.
Pallbearers included the following
men:
Active—Henry Owens, William
Williford, J. W. Thurman, C. H.I
Harris, Byron Hilliard, and Joe
Brewer.
Honorary—Dr. J. L. Lane, Dr. L.
W. Kornegay, W. E. Fenner, Tom
Battle, Dr. R. L. Savage, W. W. Ricks
Lindsay Matthews, Dr. Ivan Battle,
C. W. Coghill, George Wilkinson,
Herbert Weathersbee, Fred August,
Paul Morgan, C. C. Harris, B. I.
Conn, L. L. Gravely, P. K. Gravely,
and Fred Wiggins.
MISS FANNIE GARDNER
DIES AT FOUNTAIN HOME
Tarboro, Aug. 30.—Miss Fannie
Ella Gardner, died at her home near
Fountain Wednesday following a
lingering illness, aged 21. Surviving
is her father, J. L. Gardner. The
funeral service was held at the
home Thursday afternoon and the
interment was in the burial grounds
near the home.
BY SEPT. 12TH
Application for money under Jlie
works«relief program must be made
by September 12th.
ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1935
Much Activity
Being Planned
Tarboro, Sept. 4.—Complete plans
for Junior Order activities for the
remainder of the year were announc
ed by E. B. Harris in a meeting
at the Junior Order hall.
A committee was named for each
meeting and many programs were
planned, one of which will be an
amateur night for October 11. At
this time the talent of the members
and of many local people will be
demonstrated and prizes will be
given.
A field day was suggested, to be
entered into by the council and
other local organizations.
Mr. Harris said that the 18 coun
cils of the Twenty-third District
would meet in Tarboro in the early
part of November and that two of
the former State councilors have al
ready agreed to address the body.
Story Of The
Constitution
What Congress May And May Not
Do
The powers granted by the States
to the Congress under the Consti
tution are strictly defined and lim
ited. In brief, they include the
following:
1. To lay and collect taxes, duties
imposts and excises.
2. To pay the debts and provide
for the common defense and gen
eral welfare of the United States.
3. To borrow money on the cred
it of th United States.
4. To regulate comerce with for
eign nations and among the several
States.
5. To coin money and fix stand
ards of weights and measures.
6. To establish postoffices and
post roads.
7. To grant patents to inventors
and copyrights to authors.
8. To declare war, and to raise
and support armies and a navy and
makes rules for the government of
military forces.
9. To call out the militia in case
of emergency.
In general, Congress has author
ity to make all laws necessary to
carry into execution the powers
granted to the Federal Government
•by th«r But throughout
the document the rights of the in
dividual States are carefully safe
guarded.
For example, each State has the
sole right of appointing the officers
and prescribing the training of its
militia. East State can determine
for itself who constitutes its mili
tia. In New York the Militia con
sists of every able-bodied male be
tween the ages of 18 and 45, wheth
er enrolled in the National Guard
or not. Congress has exclusive juris
diction over military reservations,
but has no power to establish tliem
except by the consent of the States
in which they are located.
Congress was given power to es
tablish a uniform rule of naturali
zation, but that does not carry
with it the right to say who may
vote in any given State. Each State
sets up its own qualifications for
voters and can change them at will.
At the time of the adoption of the
Constitution practically every State
limited the franchise to taxpayers
or property holders.
Other important restrictions are
placed upon the power of Congress 
by the Constitution. It cannot en
act a law retroactice in its applica
tion— an "ex post facto" law. That
is, it cannof make illegal any act
committed before the law prohibit
ing it was passed. It cannot im
pose taxes or duties upon articles
exported from any State. It cannot
suspend the writ of habeas corpus.
This does not sound so important
today, but the framers of the Con
stitution had a vivid recollection of
the custom of their British rulers
of putting people in jail and refus
ing to produce them in court.
The purpose of the Constitution
to vest supreme power in Congress,
except for the rights reserved to
the States, is indicated in the pro
vision for the passage of the laws
over the veto of the Executive. An
act of Congress does not become ef
fective until it has been signed by
the President, with the exception
that if the President refuses to
sign it, Congress may, by a two
thirds vote, repass the bill. It there
upon becomes a law regardless of
the President's dissent.
It is also within the power of
the Congress to dismiss from office
any member or executive or Judi
cial branches of the Government, in
cluding the President. This is done
by the process of impeachment, in
which the House of Representatives
has the sole right to indict and the
Senate the sole power to try any
official indicted or impeached by
the House. Numerous Federal judg
es have thus been impeached and
dismissed from the public service
and one President, Andrew Jackson,
was impeached by the House of Rep
resentatives but was acquitted by the
Senate.
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WOMAN DIES IN RAPIDS
Lake Lure, N. C.—Slipping into
the rapids, Miss Leila Thomas, 28,
of Lima. Ohio, was swept to her
death over a 50-foot drop into deep
water.
Car With Eight Wheels Makes Debut
Hp fIHHHP' :
Herr Gottharflt Rlmmek, Berlin automobile engineer, Is shown here
with the new eight-wheeled passenger car which he has designed. He
claims that the car offers greater security and Is better equipped to take
bumps. He explains this by the fact that the wheels of the car do not
go through the depressions, but pass over them. Furthermore, a breaking
of the axles or a blow-out of a tire will have no serious effect since the
car will continue on seven wheels.
The Senator Call
Politics?
Representative Hancock a few weeks back charged Sen
ator Bailey with undertaking to build a political machine
out of the relief money to make political appointments. Sen
ator Bailey upi'aised and lectured Representative Hancock
for bringing this matter out in the open through the news
papers and said that this matter should have been taken
up with Mr. Hopkins. The Senator said there was no poli
tics in it, but there is an inconsistency in this statement
for in the same article he stated that recommendations of
the Senators and the Congressmen were to receive prefer
ential consideration. Now is this not politics? Just what Mr.
Hancock charged Senator Bailey was getting all the ap
pointments. Even Tuesday of this week we find Mr. Coan
ignoring Mr. -Hancock and adopting the senior Senator's
recommendation, yet the senior Senator says there is no
politics in it. We would like to know what Senator Bailey
considers politics. If that is not politics what is politics?
The administration of the relief is being criticised
more than any other department of government yet the
President we .know did not intend the relief money to be
used for political purposes. He intended for it to be used
for the help of the needy and the improvements of living
standards for needy Americans.
Honorable EL L. Doughton in a recent address stated
that it was ynfortunate that so many of our people were
undertaking t# rely on reliei agencies without making in
dividual effects to help themselves.
But it is natural that Mr. Coan should recognize Senator
Bailey before anyone else, because Senator Bailey had him
appointed according to statements that the Greensboro
News offered, by request of Honorable Clay Williams, for
mer president of the Reynolds Tobacco Company and head
of the NRA.
CURB MARKET LOCATION
The sellers at the curb market last Saturday passed a
unanimous resolution requesting the board of aldermen to
purchase if possible and if not to condemn sufficient land
of the vacant lot that lies directly back of the police sta
tion on Washington Street.
In accordance with the resolution a committee composed
of Mrs. Matthew Strickland, Mr. Goff and Mr. Bone were
appointed to present the resolution to the Mayor and the
board of aldermen.
The curb market in Rocky Mount has been a great suc
cess and beneficial to the farmers and to the purchasers,
but one of the great causes of its success has been that it
was centrally located. It is just possible that if this market
is put on some side street that it will eventually be the
sdeath of the curb market in Rocky Mount.
There was some talk of it being placed behind the China-
American Tobacco Company, but we are informed that the
board of aldermen declined to entertain such a proposi
tion. The main thing the curb market needs is a good shel
ter and sufficiently inclosed to be pz'otected from the heat
in the summer and the cold in the winter.
Now if it is the idea just to build a club house why, of
course, it is all right to be on the back street, but a club
house and a great market place are two entirely different
things, and a suitable location for a club house would not
be a suitable location for a city market.
The whole group were unanimous in asking the board
to acquire the place on Washington street back of the po
lice station. One Nash county lady suggested that she want
ed it on Nash County soil. This local county pride is noth
ing unusual. She had no suggestion to offer that Washing
ton street location was not ideal.
However the first consideration should be the place that
would attract the most buyers whether it be in Nash, Edge
combe or any other location.
MORE ABOUT COWS AND DOGS
Our editorial clipping from the Williamston Enterprise
which shows that Martin County had 8 dogs to every milk
cow, caused one of the leading public officials to comment
on the great necessity of milk cows in order to keep a well
balanced diet and have a healthy population.
Our esteemed friend editor Manning of the Williamston
Enterprise was writing on this very subject and deploring
the largeness of the number of dogs and the fewness of
the number of cows.
Now Eastern Carolina is a great section and the Lord
has smiled on us with a great crop of cotton, tobacco, and
peanuts. Now we can eat the peanuts, but we cannot eat
the cotton and tobacco. Sometimes when we have large
money crops, we are largely inclined to over look the im
portance of food crops. Cows require attention. She has to
be milked and in order to give milk she has to be fed and
by reason of this trouble, people sometimes have dogs
instead of cows. The failure of milk supply is visited upon
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PARAGRAPHS
PROBLEMS AT
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Discretion Best
Part Of Valor
Looming Contempt Proceedings By
The Senate Has Enabled Holding
Company Hopson To See A
Light
Washington, Aug 21. H. C. Hop
son, utility magnate and grand pan
jandrum of the Associated Gas
and Electric Company, after play
ing hide-and-go-seek with Senate
process servers for days and thumb
ing his nose at the Senate in his
leisure moments, appeared before
the Senate committee for question
ing.
Hopson's persistent difiance of the
Senate summons was not the most
remarkable feature of this tussle,
Others have defied the Senate —and
repented in jail for their temerity.
But Congressman John J. O'Connor
of New York, Tammany favorite and
chairman of the Rules Committee of
the House, deliberately intervened
to keep Hopson out of the Senate's
custody—and nothing quite like
that has ever been in Washington
before.
An official of one of the two
houses of Congress deliberately set
ting himself to thwart the other
house! —that is something new un
der the Capital dome. If the House
had backed O'Connor as he demand
ed it should do, the end of such a
row would have been difficult to
guess. As it is, the House refused to
back O'Conner beyond a certain
point.
So much smoke has been raised
by the antics of Hopson and his
pals that the reader may forget why
the Senate wanted that fat man.
The reason is that when the holding
company bill was up in the Senate
a perfect flood of telegrams poured
into Washington, demanding that
senators should vote against the
bill.
Senator Black of Alabama headed
an investigating committee which
very soon discovered that a large
proportion of these telegrams were
fakes. Few of the men whose names
were signed to them ever sent them
or even heard of them. The wholt
business was a propagandist effort
to head off the bill; and it devel
opened very early the A. G. &E. com
pany was furnishing the cash and
the idea for these telegrams. Black
has brought out evidence to show
that the A. G. & E. monopoly spent
more than SBOO,OOO of its stockhol
ders' money in the effort to scare
senators and congressmen out of
voting for the holding company bill.
Naturally, Black wanted to put
Hopson on the stand and ask him
questions. Hopson objected. He
dodged, squirmed, hid out, bluffed
in the effort to keep from being
asked questions. For a while he
evaded the witness stand —except
before the lobby committee of the
House, where O'Connor eased off
the quizziug in every possible way.
Hopson is probably the biggest
utility magnate in the country, nmv
that Insull has been overthrown. The
Associated Gas and Electric, itself
probably the hugest holding concern
known, is controlled by another
holding company, which is controll
ed by another holding company,
which is controlled by H. C. Hop
son.
The A. G. & E. is big; but it isn't
prosperous. Not so the stockholders
can notice it. Its Class A stock,
which some of the poor fish bought
at $72.62 a share, is now selling
around a dollar a share, and has
been down to 25 cents a share. Hop
son claims not to be rich; he says
he has given his pickings to hie
family; but Senator Black wants to
get the particulars.
Resort Stores
Opened Aug. 30
Wilson, Aug. 30.—The Wilson co
unty alcoholic beverages control
board today opened a store in Sou
thern Pines and announced one
would be opened in Pinehurst with
in two or three weeks.
The announcement said the stor
es would be operated under a su
pervisory board composed of D. G.
Stutz, and Dr. W. C. Midgett, of
Southern Pines and James W. Tufts
Pinehurst with B. H. Lewis, South
ern Pines, as supervising manager.
The Wilson board was asked to
operate the stores by Moore county
citizens. The two townships were
included in the county liquor con
trol act passed by the 1935 legisla
ture.
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PICK NEW FARM AGENT
IN EDGECOMBE COUNTY
Tarboro, Sept. 4.—The Edgecombe
County commissioners Monday
night elected Joseph C. Powell to
succeed Herman Taylor as County
Farm Demonstration Agent. Mr.
Powell has been acting in that ca
pacity for more than a year while
Mr. Taylor was engaged in work
with the Agricultural Department
in Washington, D. C.
The commissioners approved the
erection of a new school building
for the Mayo school near Conetoe,
SI.OO PER
ON NATIONAL
WASHINGTON
LEGISLATIBE RESULTS
FARM BOARD'S LOSS
PROTEST TO SOVIET
MONEY BILL FAILS
INVESTIGATIONS
NEUTRALITY PROBLEM
1936 CAMPAIGN ON
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By Hugo SI ma, Special WaahlngtMft
Correspondent
The Congress, held in session by*
the President's insistence) for ae*
tion on his so-called "must" pro*
gram, passed many laws of far
reaching importance before going
home for a few months' rest
get ready for the next session iu
January. It seems a long time ago
that the $4,880,000,000 work-relief
program was authorized and a men
list of some of the niore import*
ant measures emphasizes the uiagni*
tude of the legislative task regard*
less of what one thinks of the re*
suits. Here is the record:
(1) Wagner labor disputes men*
sure, outlawing company union*
and enforcing collective bargaining
by a labor majority.
(2) Banking reform, bolstering
Reserve Board's control of credit
and retaining ban on banks under
writing security issues.
(3) Social security act, designed
to remove the economic hazards of
old age and unemployment.
(4) Regulation of holding compan
ies, with the modified "death sen
tenee."
(5) Ban on gold-clause suits af
ter January 1, 1936, before which
date few holders can prove "dam
ages" as defined by Supreme Court
opinion.
(6) Wealth-Sharing, or soak-the
rich, taxes.
(7) Amended AAA to meet, if
possible, constitutional defects.
(8) Guffey bill to regulate soft
coal industry, a "little NRA," of
doubtful constitutionality.
(9) Neutrality resolution designed
to keep us out of war by restrict
ing arms shipments, passenger trav
el and aid to belligerents.
(10) Eleven appropriation bills in
addition to the huge work-relief
fund, aggregating about $10,000,000,-
000.
11) A mass of other laws includ
ing skeletonized NRA, extension of
nuisance taxes, liberalization of farm
loans, "hot oil" bill, increased home
loan bonus, modified Frazier-Lemke
farm mortgage measure, pensions
for rail workers, extension of COC>
FERA, RFC, PWA and rail co-or4i«
nator, TVA amendment, crop loans,
"baby bonds," pink slip repeal, bua
regulation, air mail act, liquor con*
trol, railroad bankruptcy and pen*
sion for Spanish-American War Vet-,
erans.
The Federal Farm Board, creat»
ed by Congress in 1929, and given
a revolving fund of $500,000,000
suffered a loss, actual and pros
pective, of about $344,000,000, ac
cording to a report of a senate
committee headed by Senator Char*
les NcNary of Oregon, who declar
ed that "inexperience, extravagance,
avarice, and in a few cases, dishon
esty in the part of officials and
employes of some of the cooperativea
increased these losses." The analy*
sis of the losses through the Stabi
lization Corporation purchases of
cotton and wheat have been calcu*
lated up to June 30, 1935.
The senate document, declares
that the Farmer's National Grain
Corporation made huge profits as
agent for the Stabilization Corpora
tion, that it made a large profit
selling wheat, without deliveries and
buying it back at lower prices and
condemned the inter-relationship
which made possible these profits,
saying that the Stabilization Cor
poration could have performed all
of the services rendered.
Pointing out that the two units
were in the same hands and that
a profit for Farmers National went
to stock holders while losses to the
Stabilization Corporation were
charged to the Treasurer of the
United States the report concludes:
"With remarkable accuracy of fore
sight, transactions that turned out
profitable were undertaken by the
Farmers National, while those that
eventuated unprofitably either were
relegated to Grain Stabilization Cor
poration or were undertaken by
Farmers National under some spec
ial arrangement with the Farm
Board which limited the coopera
tives' liability for losses,'
The reports points out that the
two organizations were instruments
in the same hands, the officers were
practically the same, the offices were
in the same rooms and that the cor
porations shared rent, light, tele
phone and telegraph charges, pos
tage and supplies, exchanged em*
ployes and services.
The general idea, as this is writ
ten, is that nothing dramatic will
follow the exchange of notes be
tween this country and Russia con
cerning communistic activity in thU
country. It seems that an interna
tional convention was recently held
in Moscow and that speakers there
revealed actHify' underway in the
United States. The American gov
ernment called attention to a pledge
given before Russia was recognized,
which was construed to prevent such
occurences abroad, but the Soviet
demurs to the construction of the
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