the Alamance gleaner _ - V VOL. LIH. GRAHAM. N, C., THURSDAY JUNE 9, 1927. NO. IV. 1 DOINGS OF THE WEEK NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENTEVENTS Lindbergh Is on Way Home ?Flood Control Confer ence in Chicago. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. Captain Lindbergh is on his way home, due to receive a wel come that will throw Into the shade even the remarkable ovations given him In Paris, Brussels and London. Sailing from Cherbourg, he is a pas senger on the United States cruiser Memphis at the express invitation of President Coolldge and will go direct to Washington to be the President's guest and to receive the Distinguished Flying cross and to be promoted, pre sumably to the rank of colonel. The young aviator's mother was Invited to visit in the temporary White House at the same time. The President ap pelated Secretary of War Davis, Sec retary of the Navy Wilbur, Secretary of State Kellogg, and Secretary of Commerce Hoover a cabinet commit tee in charge of the welcoming ar rangements, but details were turned over to the District of Columbia com missioners. One of the plans already agreed upon includes the gathering of the largest group of aircraft ever assem bled to greet a distinguished visitor to Washington, which will meet the Mem phis at a point about fifty miles at sea and convoy the ship to Washing ton. As the cruiser enters Chesapeake bay the escort will be joined by nine oavy torpedo, bombing, and scouting planes, and further up the Potomac more than a score of army planes from Langley Field, Va., as well as sea planes from Hampton Roads and the naval air station, will be added. After a day in Washington, Lind bergh will fly to Staten island and put himself in the hands of the New York ers, who have planned a tremendous reception. The international political impor tance attached to Lindbergh's flight was responsible In part for his speedy return. He earnestly desired to visit a lot of countries in Europe, feeling that it might be a long time before be got over there again. But it be came evident that the nations he did not visit would feel slighted, and he "as persuaded to give up his. plans. Besides, President Coolldge was de sirous of receiving the air hero before leaving for his vacation in the Black Hills of South Dakota, his departure 'or that place being scheduled for Insin 10 ? IIUC AO. Lindbergh flew from Paris to Brus ?els, where he was received in state by King Albert, who made him a Chevalier of the Royal Order of Leo pold. Then he flew over to Croydon, England, where a mob of hundreds of thousands welcomed him so vig orously that he and his plane barely Neaped serious damage. In London Ambassador Houghton presented him to King George and other notables I tad the king awarded him the air force cross. He attended various ban kets and other functions and went to the Derby as the guest of Lord Lons to'e. Meanwhile his plane was being dismantled for shipment to America, ?o he borrowed a plane and flew back to Paris to say farewell to the French i*?ple and to Ambassador Herrlek. ?hose tactfal guidance meant so much 'o the aviator during his stay in ftance. j Cite leading American engineering ?ooletles last week gave to Lindbergh. Otvllle Wright and his late brother, ?ntrar Wright, the Washington award tof outstanding engineering accom plishment. Lindbergh's plane was ?Wpped with a Wright motor. "THOUSANDS of prominent men, 1 Answering the call of the mayors ? Chicago. New Orleans and St. Louis, lathered In Chicago to discuss the P*" Mississippi valley floods and to to devise methods of preventing teenrrence of the disaster. The JhrtHpants In the conference Included Mted States senators and eongress ? forernors, mayors and other oifl ^*7' business men of all varieties, Jwhjhen and labor leaders Senator Harrison of Mississippi as chair i?*>e Chad" Awarded Dead Father'? Estate Suzanne Holloway, thirteen, out of wedlock to the late Col. E Holloway of Berkeley, Calif., the two,000 estate of her fa >*^w?lon by the United States So rj* conrt Anally ends the Aght ; JJttd over the fortune, and the trua l ?''|t senate most now torn orer I 'Wh.000 to the child. L thu strange legal battle. Win. man of the organization committee called the assemblage to order and Secretary of War Davis delivered a message from President Coolldge. Among the other speakers were Secre tary of Labor J. J. Davis, MaJ. Gen. Kdgar Jadwin, chief of army engi neers; Senator W. L. Jones and Rep resentative Frank R. Jones, chairmen of the congressional flood control com mittees, and Speaker Nicholas Long worth. Before leaving Washington for Chicago, Mr. Longworth had a con ference with President Coolldge and said afterward that flood control leg islation, together with tax reduction would be given the right of way by the house when congress meets in December. Conditions in the flood area Im proved slowly, but the "sugar howl" parishes of Louisiana were being con verted into a huge lake as the blanket of water moved gradually to the gulf outlet. A/IAKSHAB (HANG TSO-LIN'S northern Chinese armies met with (treat defeats in Honun province, through the forces of both the Han kow and Nanking factions of the Na tionalists advancing In the cam paign against Peking. The northern ers retreated to the north of the Yel low river and Chang prepared for des perate resistance at Paotlngfu and Tehchow. The peril of foreigners in the Peking area was so imminent that nearly two thousand American marines were sent there from Shanghai and about as many more were en route there from the Philippines. This will make a force of more than 4,000 Amer icans in Peking and Tientsin. The British and Japanese also were send ing large numbers of troops there, together with many planes to patrol the railway betweeft1* the two cities. Japan also landed considerable forces at Tsingtao, which action provoked both the northern and the Nationalist authorities. The diplomatic corps in Peking de termined on plans for the defense of the legation quarter in the event of a crisis, but dispatches from Washing ton say President Coolidge decided that If disorders occurred Minister MacMurray and the American lega tion should be moved to Tientsin or possibly Shanghai, the navy believing it will be much easier to defend Amer icans at those points than at Peking. Senator Hiram Bingham of Connectl . cut, who has heen traveling in China, was caught In the disorders resulting from the rout of Chang's troops in Honan. He escaped unhurt but he and his party were robbed of all their valuables. SOVIET RUSSIA, extremely sore over the break with Great Britain, is determined to keep the Chinese situ ation as bad as It can. The execu tive committee of the Third Inter nationale decided to make a more in tensive campaign in support of the Chinese revolution and to appeal to the workers of the world to assist soviet Russia to sabotage other na tions in the coming "inevitable war." Alexis Itykov, president of the coun cil of people's commissars, addressing a plenary session of the Moscow so viet, declared that the British rupture with Russia was a prelude to war. The international situation therefore, was threatened with grave complica tions. The British government, he as serted, wished to Improve Its position by provoking war, in which it hoped to play a leading part, leaving "the dirty part of the work" to other peo ples. who, being thereby weakened, would be subordinated to Great Brit ain. To this danger the soviet union opposed a steady policy of peace. PRESIDENT COOI-IDGE in his Me morial day address at Arlington told his audience that the United States must maintain armed forces sufficient to protect It from attacks, or expose itself to aggression and de struction. He added to this warning a pledge of his leadership In an effort to end war through International agreements. But while he spoke of the country's desire to discard the ele ment of force and deal with other powers on the basis of understanding and good will, he cautioned that "we could no more dispense with our mili tary forces than we could dispense with our police forces." Ambassador Herrlck, speaking in France, created something of a sensa tion by making a strong attack on Marie Calon, the girl's mother, noted French beauty, opposed Colonel Hol loway's widow, Mrs. Anne McCelland Holloway, his brother, Clarence, and his slater, Mrs. Jones. Colonel Holloway died In California in 1925 and left his entire estate to the "ioye child." Legal action was at once instituted to break the will. Judge Stanton of the Maryland Cir cuit court decided against the child, holding that, under tho laws of Mary land. she was Illegitimate. The case I was taken to the Court of Appeals, j soviet "Russia lor Its attempts To un dermine other governments. FIFTEEN balloons started from Ak ron, Ohio, In the annnal elimina tion race, and the three winners all landed In Maine. W. T. Van Orman with the Goodyear entry won first place with 727 miles; E. J. HU1 with the Detroit Flying club's balloon was second with 06o miles, and Capt W. \V. Kepner, pilot of the U. 3. Army No. 3, took third place with 002 miles to his credit. Not an accident of any sort marred the event. RIOTOUS mobs In Tampa, Fla., made three determined attacks on the Jail with the Intention of lynching a prisoner who had confessed to murdering five members of a fam ily. The crowds were repulsed first by the police and then by members of the National Guard; the soldiers were forced to fire on the attackers and killed four persons. /GOVERNOR FULLER of Massa chusetts, who la studying the Sacco-VanzettI case, has appointed an advisory committee to aid him in de termining his course In that puzzling matter. Its members are President Abbott Lawrence Lowell ^of Harvard, President Samuel W. Stratton of Mas sachusetts Institute of Technology and Judge Robert Grant. o CHARLES P. TAFT, publisher of the Cincinnati Times-Star, and Mrs. Taft have given their valuable art collection, their residence and $1.- j 000,000 to the people of Cincinnati. Announcement of the gift, made at a , meeting of the Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts, said it was given for the advancement of "the artistic and mu sical education and enjoyment of the people of Cincinnati.** EGYPT is In danger of losing her independence again. The govern- j raent, under, the Influence of the Wafd nationalists, a wealthy Moslem organi zation, announced plans to reorganize the army without consulting the Brit ish and to refuse credits for the Brit ish sirdar. The British government sent a prompt warning against such action, accompanied by threats and re inforced the latter by dispatching three battleships to Alexandria and Port Said. Sir Austen Chamberlain, Brit ish foreign secretary, explained to the house of commons that if the Wafd politicians got control of the army It would become a potential hostile force and would complicate Great Britain's task of defending the Suez canal. BhLGILM and Italy arc on the verge of a quarrel, the trouble starting with the attitude of the Bel gian foreign minister, Vandervelde, who is a Socialist, toward Fascism. ! His attacks were brought on by Italy's j demand that Belgium expel Italian po- , litical refugees. Mussolini recalled the Italian ambassador, Marquis Cam binso. leaving the embassy to a charge d'affaires indefinitely. Vandervelde re fused to modify his attitude and was supported by the Socialist deputies. OPENING of the sale of liquor In Ontario province uncfer govern ment control attracted crowds of thirsty Americans to Windsor and To ronto, and they, together with equally thirsty Canadians, almost mobbed the liquor stores. The demand for bottled j booze and for the permits without * which it could not be purchased was so great that some places had to close until more supplies could be obtained. PRIMO DE RIVERA, premier-dicta- I tor of Spain, ha* called a national assembly to meet September 13 for the purpose of drafting a new constitution and a new electoral law giving univer sal suffrage and absolute freedom of the ballot George soccers of ijfajette won the r>OI>-mlle automobile race 1 at Indianapolis on Memorial day, driv ing his little Duesenburg car at an av erage speed of 97.54 miles an boar and going the whole route without relief PRESIDENT COOI.IDGE*8 selection of the Black hills as his vacation place gave great Joy to South Dakota. He will occupy the state game lodge near Rapid City, and the executive of fices will be established In the new engineering building of the State School of Mines In Rapid City. which reversed Jade Stanton. In this decision It wax held that the child waa competent to Inherit the property un der the will, because her father and Mile. Calou. her mother, had acknowl edged her nnder the legttlmattzatlon laws of Nevada, where she was born, and that she was recognized nnder the California laws as a legitimate child. Colonel Holloway met Mile. Calon at Biarritz. Later he brought the French beaoty to America and nettled at Reno. Nev. There the daughter was bora. LuSorto Khartum r at*l\ Group of Nativaa of Sudan. (Prepared by the National Geographic Society, Washington. D. C.) i A TRIP from central Egypt to /\ Khartum, disclosing life along / the Nile and In the desert, la described by a recent traveler. "We traveled south," he writes, "In a . little white train, with blue glass win dows to lessen the shock of the rush I Ing sunshine. "Before we were a mile from the station at Luxor the desert began to assert Itself. The temperature In the coach climbed to almost unbearable heights; yet when we opened the win dow for what we thought wonld be a breath of fresh air, the glare of the sun struck us like a blow In the face. We had never conceived of such vio lent sunshine. "Late In the afternoon we reached Shellal and transferred to a boat on the Nile for Haifa, whence stretches the railway to Khartum, completed by Kitchener between 1897 and 1899, when be made war on the forces of Mohammed Ahmed, the 'Mad Mahdi,' concentrated at Omdurman. "The Nile trip from Shellal to Haifa lasted from five o'clock one afternoon to noon of the second day. The boat was too small to permit the passen gers to move about There was noth ing to do bot sleep and eat read and talk. "For half the distance to Haifa the desert was saffron-colored, sienna, burnt orange; In the high light of noon It was golden. Most of us think of the Sahara as composed of white or gray sand. To the contrary. U Is colorful. Often the 'sand' Is broken rock, and there are many ledges and ridges. Everywhere the ground heaves and swells "The desert Arabs live In desperate squalor, on the fringe. On what they subsist Is more or less a fhystery. The Nile flows close by, but It la not used for bathing. Half the Inhabitants seem to baye sore eyes, and the sight less ones are everywhere. Sunrise Over the Desert. "The heat In the cabins of the small boat was almost unendurable. BO w? turucu vui bi uajuirok anu went oo deck to breathe. "We M? the ran rise orer the des ert. A ha{e brassy disk slid Into place with astonlshlnf rapidity. One moment there was a soft hate; the next, a bright, hot sun assaulted the land. "Alone the thore small palm trees grew delicately out of tba water ltaelf and gently wared green branches at as. OS toward the horizon were ham mocks and pyramids of crumbly rock. Near at hand an Arab mod Tillage slept soundly and odoroosly. Swarms of wispy gnats moved down from no where to settle In onr hair for addi tional warmth. "The steersman, a Mohammedan, came oat of the little deckhoate to say his prayers on the roof of the lower deck. It was the season of the ?east of Bamadan. Be laced Mecca. He stood. He lifted both giant banda He dropped his bands. He bowed. He kneeled. He prostrated himself. He laid his forehead to the deck. The only animals we saw la the desert were 'lean white camels. They browsed and erased, apparently on nothing, or redlned on slit del pes sands hot enoegb to bnrn the skin from one's bands. History Along the Nile. "The banks ef the Nile are a pano rama of history. passed Pbtlae, the ancient shrine of Ma, which since the building of the Aswan darn Is submerged almost half the year. We passed a Roman fort high on a rocky and desert shore, set there to watch over the barbarians while Antony's romance with Oleopnra flourished. We passed a temple supposedly erected by Cleopatra herself?in a fit of re morse, we presumed to think. "When we came to a Temple of the Sun. carved out of rock, we were given an opportunity to land, and we entered Its cavernous depths at night with torches that threw weird shadows. "We passed Kitchener's camp, where the great British soldier spent something like three years equipping an army with machine guns and ar tillery to go into the Sudan to suh due a religious zealot and his fanati cal followers "The train from Haifa to Khartum was scheduled to leave at 1 :.T0 p. m. one day and to arrive at Khartum at 4 the next afternoon. We arrived at our destination 18 hours late, having been marooned an afternoon and n night in the desert with masses of sand hurtling over and around us. "We did not dare to go forward, for when these desert storms swirl, often they blow the roadbed out from under the crossties and leave the rails suspended in the air, like bright steel ribbons. Kventually, before the full train was permitted to proceed, a band-car had to he sent ahead as a scout to see If all were well. It was I late In the afternoon when the full force of the sirocco struck us, turn ing the daylight to darkness. "Khartum was a welcome sight! j Luxor, Aswan, Haifa. Omdurman and Khartum are rlrer-bank villages. lie cause of their fame, one thinks of them as cities. Khartum plays at be ing the capital of the Sudan; Omdur man, Just across the Nile. Is an all mud native village covering a vast . area. "Khartum Is 1,000 miles south of J Cairo. This was the frontier, the end , of civilization. I ? t A ?n ang nwvwi r\?i?i twin. "Late afternoons w# rude donkeys alone the Nile, past the palace of the fosernor general, where Gordoo waa killed by the Mad Mahdl'a men. to ward the statue of Gordon sitting on a camel, looking out across the desert. "The Gordon hotel, where we stayed, faced on the public square, I perhaps a hundred yards across. There was no crass. There was only sand. Step out Into this square under I the midday aun without one's pith helmet and one may hare a sunstroke before he takes a hundred steps. A short time before our antral a Greek trader attempted to cross the equate at noon on a rush errand, wlthoot hts topee. He was stricken and died be fore be reached bis destination. 'With ereninc came relief. A gen tle breeze blew from the Nile and we sat on the earth terrace In front of the hotel from dinner until midnight, drinking lemon squashes and whlakys and-sodas. OS across the square, tom-toms beat perpetually and white figures of dervishes danced to the wild music. During Ramadan, every day la a fast and every night a festi val. "A delegation went over to watch the show. Three musicians shuffled backward la ? perpetual circle. They thrummed tom-toms?shallow boopa with skin stretched taat serosa Tbey sang; tbey chanted." HE WAS MRS. NYE'S ' HUSBAND : 4