The Alamance gleaner^! - ,? : v VOL LIII ' .* . ^ * GRAHAM, IN, C., THURSDAY AUGUST 18, 1927. V HQ/T? . 1 ??? I&umB WHAT'S GOING ON j NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Sacco and Vanzetti Given Twelve-Day Reprieve? Gen. Wood's Death. By EDWARD W. PICKARD SACCO and Vansettl, who were to have been executed August 11, were granted 12 more days of life by Governor Fuller of Massachusetts, af ter Justice Holmes of the United States Supreme court and Judge An derson of the Federal '"?client work that the Islanders will '*er revere hlS| memory, and already 5' are preparing to erect a monu- I tent to him. President McKinley *"*de Wood a major general In the 1 establishment, and previous to | ? h orld war he was the most vigor- < Proponent of preparedness. When ( America entered the war, General 1 *"ed trained the Kighty-nlnth divi- I I 0 with characteristic skill and I horoughness, but President Wilson and Secretary Baker did not permit him to go to France as its commander. In stead he was kept In this reentry ex rept for one observation trip to Bo rope. In 1920 he was a popular but ansuccessful candidate for the Repub ican Presidential nomination. Presi ient Harding appointed him governor teneral of the PhUipplnes. and he held that troublous post until his death, ad ministering the affairs of the islands with the greatest ability and firmness in the face of the continuous opposi tion of the native advocates of inde pendence and of a change In the form Jf government. THAT President Coolidge meant his "do not choose" to be a positive lecllnatlon of a renomination is now iccepted by nearly every one, but some >f his strongest supporters still have Pope that he can be successfully "drafted." Senator Simeon D. Fess of Jhio, who himself has been mentioned is a likely possibility for the nomlna :lon, visited the President in the Black hills and pleaded with him not to make his decision Irrevocable. "If they can't get along without me row, what will they say four years from now?" the President replied, ac rording to Senator Fess. Mr. Coolidge reiterated his thought :hat "this is n?t a one-man country," ind gave Mr. Fess the impression that te wanted to be relieved of the bur lens of the office. ? Senator Fess told the President that be logic of the situation called for lis nomination by the convention, and laid he believed the convention would seek to draft Mr. Coolidge. "Don't eclio that sentiment," the 'resident replied, according to Sena ;or Fess. Whatever the attitude of the Presl lent, Ohio will Instruct her delegation 'or Coolidge or nobody, the senator laid. On Wednesday Mr. Coolidge went o Rushraore mountain, on the face of vhich Gutzon Borglum Is to carve the leads' of Washington, Jefferson, Lin coln and Roosevelt, and dedicated it is a national monument, delivering an iddress on "The Spirit of Patriotism." VICE PRESIDENT DAWES, in his address at the dedication of the 3eace bridge between Buffalo and fort Erie, Ontario, created something >f a sensation by his comments on the ?ecent futile naval disarmament con 'erence. Though he said the parley vas not altogether a failure, he plain y indicated his belief that the Inabli ty of the American and British defe cations at Geneva to agree was due to nsufflclent parliamentary preparation ind the preoccupation of the conferees vith the needs of their own countries, lis implied criticism of the American lelegates was resented by administra :ion officials In Washington! Secretary of the Navy Wilbur con ferred with the President and It was itated that they saw no need for radi cal change in the administration's na val policy because of the failure of !he Geneva conference. This policy Is the completion of the moderate build ng program determined upon long be fore the conference at Geneva was called, and now to be carried out by congress as If this conference had lever been held. The President sees nothing alarming in the situation. He ioes not think the Geneva conference will make an Increase over this flve tear program necessary. Consequent y, there is a prospect of another con test in congress next winter between those who approve this moderate pro p-am and the advocates of a bigger lavy. WITH about a dozen planes almost ready for the race from Califor tia to Honolulu in competition for the dole prize of $35,000, the flight com lTlttee and the Department of Com nerce recommended that the start be postponed for not more than two weeks because some of the planes nnd crews were believed to be not yet properly equipped or qualified. The Honolulu committee vetoed the post ponement, but 111 the pilots signed an agreement not to start before ntvnn of August 16. The demand for better preparation was partly due to the leath of two contenders, I.leuts, Jeorge W. D. Covell and Richard 8. Waggener of the navy, when their transoceanic mount crashed near San 3Iego and burned. r ] ? J SUIT has been filed in Cleveland against the Brotherhood of Loco motive Engineers, alleging that notes, properties and securities "of little or no value" had been "unloaded" by tha Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Co-operative bank there on the Broth erhood Investment company, the hold ing company of all the brotherhood's financial undertakings. The suit, brought by two stockhold ers of the Investment company, asks for an accounting of all profits made by the bank in Its dealings with the investment company, and that all transactions be declared null and void which resulted in loss to the Invest ment company. Assistant secretary op THE TREASURY LOWMAN an nounces that the treasury's plans for the resumption of the manufacture of medicinal whisky this fall have been abandoned, because there Is no short age now and supplies In government warehouses should last for seven or eight years. Although no recent gauge of the amount of whisky actual ly on hand bad been taken, it Is esti mated that at least 20,000,000 gallons of aged whisky Is now safeguarded in bonded warehouses. Another 10,800, 000 gallons of brandy and other me dicinal beverages are available for prescription use. The withdrawals during 1926 were 1.880,338 gallons. STANDARD OIL COMPANY of New Jersey got ahead of all other simi lar concerns the other day when Its president signed an agreement with the German dye trust for the mutual exploitation and development of pat ents. The dye trust owns the Berglua process for making crude oil and gaso line from coal and lignite. The prod ucts of this process. It Is expected, will be on the market soon. Also, the chemists predict that the by-products will yield rich returns. Although the details of the agreement were, careful ly guarded, there Is a conjecture that many millions of dollars wUl flow from the United States to the fatherland as compensation for the dye trust's giv ing the Standard Oil the use of its patents. KINO FUAD of Egypt, on his way home from England, stopped In Rome for a visit and achieved the dis tinction of being the first sovereign of a non-Christian country to be formal ly received In private conference by the pope. Moreover, Pins XI decorated Fuad with the order of the Oolden Spur, and the two exchanged minia ture oil portraits of each other. The pope sent an elaborate escort for Fuad, but the latter, who had been the guest of the Italian government, had first to move to a hotel. Resumption of military opera tions in the Chinese civil war were seen in the mobilization by the Christian general, Feng Yn-hsiang, of 50,000 of his best troops on the border between Honan and Shantnng prov inces. He plans a flank movement against the northern troops controlling Shantung. Seemingly the Japanese have failed to force a compromise between C!en. Chiang Kai-shek, the Nanking com mander of Nationalists, and Marshal Chang Tso-lin. A Shanghai corre spondent says: "Since the Japanese are policing the entire Shantung railway for the obvi ous purpose of blocking a movement northward, complications are almost Inevitable, particularly since Ceneral Chiang already has declared his Inten | tion of treating the Japanese troops : the same as the northern militarists If the Jupanese try to Interfere. Gen eral Chlnng recently seized several shiploads of German war supplies In tended for Marshal Chang." Indiana wets rejoiced when I}ev. 1 E. S. Shumaker, superintendent of the state Anti-Saloon league, was ad- . Judged In contempt by the state Su- i preme court and was sentenced to 00 i days on the state farm and fined 1250. . Jess E. Martin, an attorney for the league, also was found guilty of con tempt, but was not sentenced, being absent from the state. Legal steps to save Shumaker from serving bis sen tence were taken at once. The prohi bitionists of the state and some minis terial organizations rallied to his sup port with offers of sympathy and money. j ^ Indian Victimized, | Say? a Federal Jadge , Jsekson Harnett, an aged Creek In- 1 ~*n made wealthy by discovery of 1 . ?n his land In Oklahoma, was "'ted and importuned for dona- I * kidnaped and married by an '??"'ureas, and harraaaed and an- i JT"1 by hla attorneys." Federal < fort* John Kno* declared In New < J"* ln ordering Harnett's funds and i turned over to the secretary I ?be Interior for administration and I tafe keeping. Judge Knoj's decision declared null and void a reputed gift at $550,000 made by Burnett to Bacon university In Oklahoma, and tlie trans fer of a like sum to his wife. The suit, which was started some time ago at the Instigation of the Pnlted States government, with Bar lett made plaintiff through his guar dian. Elmer & Bailey, was brought igalnst the Equitable Trust company ind the Baptist Home Mission society, ;he bank having had custody of the funds Involved In the donation to the Baptist society as the controller of the university. The alleged Incompetency of the Indian was stressed In Judge Knox's decision. In reviewing the case, he said : "Here Is an Illiterate Indian, now In the neighborhood of seventy-seven or seventy-eight years of age. who. nntll he became wealthy, was allowed to shift for himself. Oil was fonnd upon his land. From that time nntll the present he has been the shuttle cotfk in a game of battledoor in which the stakes were high." I ALL THINGS END ?B bj D. J. Walsh.) ELS IK BOYD wiped dishes with M occasional glance at the heavy snowstorm which was enshroud ing everything In a wintry fleece. Upon a day like this her mother was always worse. Mrs. Boyd was the kind of sick woman whose system de mands sunshine quite as much as medicine. Knowing this, Elsie had not dared tell her that something had gone wrong with the furnace, that the gro cer had presented his bill and that she had found a damp spot on the bedroom celling where the roof had sprung a leak before a mild rain had turned Into the present snowstorm. To Elsie, washing dishes, these things mattered terribly. Moreover, It was left for her to And a remedy for the pressing necessities that threatened them. It was winter, their Income was Just half big enough. El sie could not leave home because she had to look after ber mother. There were no boarders to be had or even roomers. It all seemed discouraging enough. Besides? "Elsie 1" called a voice from the downstairs bedroom. "Yes, mother 1" Elsie dropped the glass pitcher she was polishing and entered the room. Her mother lay bolstered up with pillows. She didn't look to be a vital ly sick woman; a nervous one, per haps, but not one near death. "I've Just been thinking," Mrs. Boyd said to her daughter, who leaned on the footboard of the old-fashioned bed. "Mrs. Scott told me something yester day. I don't know as I ought to tell you. I thought maybe I wouldn't at first, but you ought to know." "Well, what Is It, mother?" Elsie gripped the footboard, but her wide gray eyes did not waver before her mother's dark puzzling gaze. "Francis Hurd Is going with Julia 8cott?you didn't know It, did you?" "Why, yes," Elsie answered care fully. "I've known It a good while. He hasn't been here In a long time, you know, mother." "I thought he hadn't, but, of course, I didn't know. What was the matter? For my part I'm glad It's all ended. I didn't see how I was going to let you get married with my health the state It's in. I need you to take care of me. Elsie." Elsie drew a long breath. Without replying she did some little soothing things about the bed and passed out of the room. But Instead of return ing to her dishwashing she flung a shawl about ber and ran out of doors, out Into the storm. The touch of chill snowflakes cooled her burning cheeks, their envetoplng softness soothed her. A sound drew her attention from herself. It came from the foot of the garden. It resembled a child's voice. The brook! Where the children waded in summer and skated In win ter. She ran toward It as fast as she could go. The fence across the back of the garden did not stop her, nor the steep bank that Jutted out over the brook. She could not see for the storm, bnt she called cheerily, "I'm coming! I'm coming!" How could she grope her way to the place where an accident might have happened, especially as the child ish voice bad ceased? Oh, If she could but brush away the opaque veil of snow I Something Beam pored to her feet barking. A little dog! He ran away from ber, atlll barking, urging her to follow. He led her to the apot where rain and enow had rotted the Icy covering of the brook. There In a deep hole where he had broken through wax a email boy, exhaoeted. ready to let go of the drooping branch that kept hie bead above water. She pulled him ont all eodden aa he wax, et ripped the ehawl from her own ehouldere and wrapped him In It. She ran all the way bark to the houee. The little dog followed, the anxloua bark becoming a note of Joy at the rescue. In the warm kitchen .Rlale allpped the child's clothing from hie body, wrapped him In a warm blanket, placed him close to the oven door and gave him a hot, stimulating drink. Even then she did not recog nize the little fellow. He told her hie name but It did not convey any meaning to her. She had never heard It before. Neither had her moth er. Fright and exposure and a peculiar Impediment In his speech made It Impossible for h|m to express anything further than bis name. Noon came. The little boy, looking like a tiny Indian In bis blanket, be gan to show signs of wakening Inter est In his dog. In Elsie, In the food that she prepared for him. "You better go over to Mrs. Scott's and see If she's beard of a boy being lost," Mrs. Boyd suggested. But Elsie shrank from going u> in. Scots. "I'U go down to the grocery anil Inquire there," she said. She put on her bat and coat and again entered the storm. At the cor ner grocery the found a group of man about the little coal store talking ex citedly. "You haren't beard whether they hare found the Walls boy yet, hare you. Elsie 7" old Mr. Stern asked. "The Wells boyT" Elsie stared at the old man. "Yes, Mary Wells' boy. Francis Hurd has got the police looking every where. His sister Is going crasy, they say, unless they hear something be fore long. She thinks the child fell Into East .creek. They couldn't keep blm away from IL Probably that's where he is?Hey I What's up7" But Elsie had gone. Down the street she sped until she came to the dingy office which bad Francis Hurd's name on the window. She could see him within at the telephone. There was a man with him. As she opened the door he turned his fine grave face upon ber. "Elsie?" "I've got him, Francis!" In her ex citement she forgot everything hut her mission "He's all right Only he called himself Bob Bell, so I did not know." Francis Hurd smiled. Without douht the strain had been very great. 'That Is ltobert. all right He can't say W and he prefers to be called Bob. All tight, Ben. You can call In your rescuing party. I'll telephone his mother. Then I'll go home with you. Elsie, and recover my nephew." He told her more about It as they walked through the storm together. His mother wasn't well and his sister hod come on to stay with htr for a few days, bringing four-year-old Rob ert Mrs. Wells lived In a city apart ment and the glassy brook had fas cinated Robert He had stolen away with his little dog. They had been searching for hours. Rut for Elsie he would not have been found alive. Robert pranced Into his uncle's arms from the rocking chnlr trailing his blanket behind him. As Francis held him close he looked over the sunny towseled head at Elsie. Mrs. Wells was very grateful to Elsie. She sent her a beautiful gift of a fur neckpiece and made her come to dinner. She had never seen the girl before, for the Hurds were new comers In the town, and she was charmed with Elsie's gentle, beauty and sweet personality. "Mother Isn't going to be here long." she told her brother. "I am sorry to have to tell you. dear, but It Is a fact we must both fare. And you'll need a wife In this house, because I can't be running down constantly to look after you.' If you are wise you will stop letting Julia Scott make trouble between you and Elsie." Fjpncls flushed. "^sle?Elsie Is so difficult. She never acted as If she cared whether I went to see her or not?" "Of course she wouldn't. She Is a nice, modest girl. Yet all the time she might he breaking her heart over you." "I'll find out If what you say Is true." declared Francis. The night Elsie told her mother she was going to marry Francis Hurd Mrs. Boyd sat upright "Well, I see what I've got to do." she said. "I've got to get out of this bed." Tactful Cucat A Park avenue hostess. who gave a dinner tor a friend who had loxt hi* entire family In the sinking of an ocean liner, naked all her guests to avoid the nubject of boata und water travel. One of the guests happened lo be an Englishman who bad Just ar rived In New York, and when the situ atlon waa explained to him be natnr ally agreed to refrain from comment ing on hla sea trip. After dinner the hoateaa Inquired If any one had aaked blm about hla croaaing. "Yea." he ad mltted. "hut I gave them the Imprea alon I flew over."?New York Evening World. Cray Wolvca Vanquithed Depredutlona of the large gray wolf are believed to be almoat at an end In the Weat becauae of the unremit ting activities of the United States biological survey and other agencies against them, says Popular Mechan ics Magazine. ? In New Mexico, only eight were caught last year and thirty one the preceding year. Arizona re porta that no wolves are now known to be within the borders of thnt state. A constant patrol Is kept along the In ternational boundary to prevent Inva sions by timber wolves and mountain lions from Mexico. . .. Eel', Two'Heart, The Smithsonian Institution says that the eel baa an organ In Ita tall that pulsates, and fishermen consider It a second heart This, howerer. Is not a real heart On the other hand. 1 it an eel Is struck In this regjoa It has the same fatal effect as a blow acroaa the heart Vienna Still Beautiful a Balvadara Pa I act la Vlanna. (Prepared by th? National Oaographlo Society. Washington. D. C.) VIENNA, tfrn by recent riots, has had since the World war a vastly different atmosphere from that which enveloped It a decade and a halt ago under the Haps burg*. But physically it has remained the same beautiful city. Until recently one of the richest and gayest cities on the continent and the center of Europe's oldest empire, she Is today the capital of a few mountains and rivers that occupy a small corner of her former dominions. The disso lution of an Immense polyglot empire has brought Austria close to rnln and put Vienna largely In pawn to the world. On the edge of a shriveled little re public of 6,000,000 Insolvents, Vienna for several bitter years lived on alms, while her currency dropped until It took many thousand of her twenty cent pieces to make one American dollar. Surrounded by countries that nursed ancient grudges against her, dependent on them for nearly all her food and fnel, and with only worthless money with which to pay her bills?this was the fate which brought almost un paralleled national misery upon a highly civilized people In a famous center of learning, art, and culture. Hecent years, bringing a loan guar anteed by the League of Nations, and a replacement of -worthless money by new units, have seen considerable bet terment over the dark days Af seven years ago; but even so, Vienna, and the sadly shrunken territory of which It Is the capital can hardly' be said to be wholly out of the economic woods. Despite the tragic atmosphere that has clung round her recently, Vienna Is still a beautiful city, with the cos mopolitan charm of 1'arls. In area she can compete with London, for her limits embrace more than 1IX> square miles. The city, however. Is not built up to Its limits, bnt is surrounded by a belt of meadows and wooded hills known as the Wiener Wald, from which many of the beautiful trees bare been cut down In recent years. Many Beautiful Buildings. No Uner buildings can be found In Europe than in Ibis city of the Haps burga. Several races labored at build ing Vienna for more than a thousand years, and the artistry of many peo ples Is represented here. The buildings are a record of the changing taste of western civilization. t Baroque architecture, which came to grief in Home and to perfection in Vienna, has many brilliant examples, particularly In the Inner city. This is the oldest part of Vienna and Is In closed by the famous Rlng-Strasse, a boulevard 187 feet wide, with double rows of trees, and built, like the old boulevards of i'aris, on the site of fortifications which once extended for three miles about the core of the city. Within or oo the King are tlie Im perial palace buildings, the great Untitle cathedral of SL Stephen, the celebrated university, the parliament building?that Ureek temple where the national ussembly of the republic now sits?the Immense twin museums, the Exchange building which Is the city's pulse, tlie opera and the Hofburg the ater, all in a setting of linden and horse-chestnut trees, which frame the boulevard and avenues and line the walks of Vienna's lovely parks. Outside the confines of the Ring are many, palaces, embassies, chateaux, museums, hotels, and hnndsome stone apartment bouses like those of Berlin. In this splendid setting an economic upheaval after the armistice complete ly overturned every normal social con dition and changed the destinies of all classes of the popolation. The work ing man is now oo top of the heap and will be provided far aa long aa the Social Democrats are able to make tbelr governmental machine function. Next down the new economic ecale come the titled aristocracy and the other npper classes who used to Hve by "unearned increment.'' llany ef these huve spent their principal since the revolution and bare come to bitter poverty. ' * Lowest on the scale is the middle? class?the real tragedy of Vienna. Forming a fourth of the population and Including the intelligentsia, this entire class, te whom the city In large measure owes its greatness, has suf fered greatly since 1918. The plight ef this middle class Is the last thing the traveler seea If he la a casual person, who Uvea en sur faces, be may even leave the city with the Impression that all is going well with the Viennese. There Is nothing lu the hotel district en the King te Indicate to him that here is a city r that Is running along oa mere hope Hew It Looks te the Tourist. He will be served plenty ef good food. He will see many luxuries in the shop windows priced beyond his pocket book. Opera tickets are unob tainable, he may find, unices be' tips a hotel porter to stand in line at seven o'clock In the morning. Oay crowds that bet freely will surround him at the raeea. If he wishes to take tea at a smart cafe, be will have to get there early or he will find all the tables filled. Strolling about the King afterward, be will see scarcely a person who la not well dressed and well fed. But all this Is seen In the Vleqm of the tourist, near the Ring. Dollars, pounds, francs, and lire keep the hotels and shops running at a profit Here, too, come the exchange and war profiteers, known aa the schlebera. who became wealthy while the rest of Vienna starved. The gaiety which has always char- * acterlzed the soul of the Vlennesd has an elastic quality which has enabled tbem to survive the most extraor dinary hardships and soul-racking, times without depressing their bub bling spirits. A* loot a* a man has hut old Ty rolean hiking coatume of leather breeches and a feathered cap, and a woman her peasant'a costume, with Its black bodice and red apron, they will pack raincoats, bread, and cbeeae Into a knapsack, take their children by the hand, and start off for the country. Every Sunday and holiday is spent In care-free tramping. Laughing and romping, the bare cupboard af heme forgotten, they hike to the country, through sun or rain, to some favorite spot In the Wiener Wald. At nightfall they turn back, enter ing the city as the opera and theater crowds are rushing to catch the last trams for the suburbs. Perhaps a bottle of wine has prepared them far their long walk back in the darkness and Inspires theiu to shout and sing ah they return to the scene of their priva tions. Their sufferings have left no deep or hitter impressions. Like Irrespoh- . slble children, many seem to regard the aftermath of the war as bard pun ishment, after which they were asm to bed without any supper. But tomor row surely they will be forgiven and the good old times of plenty will come back. Political changes have not altered the city's geographical situation, and the Danube still flows to Vienna. through the opening In the mountain ranges, bearing ships and their car goes for distribution In eastern Bo- - rope. Vienna Is still and must remain a sort of inland seaport on the Urgent^ commercial waterway In. Eursfln Mfe'>: eept the Volga In Russia). VURnhV. position on the map girts