% *** . /' * * iS jThe Alamance gleaner 1 ir/\T T TT f " YUli. Xjlll* ' ' ? ? ?"** _ GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 1, 1927. NO. 31. DOINGS OF THE WEEK NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Sacco and Vanzetti Execu tion Marked by Many Riots by Radicals. By EDWARD W. PICKARD EVERY moans of saving their lives having failed, Sacco and Vanzetti, the Massachusetts anarchists convict ed of murder, were executed in the state prison at Charlestown. Madeiros, the Portuguese murderer, went to his death in the electric chair at the same time. Thus, so far as the agencies of justice are concerned, ends this seven year incident that has caused such a rumpus in America and throughout the world. But the radicals and senti mentalists who assert that the execu tion was a judicial murder propose to keep the case alive Indefinitely. They announce plans for raising a fund to create a memorial to the two men and to endow Mrs. Sacco and her chil dren, and an organization that will un dertake to establish the Innocence of the "victims" and to expose the al leged conspiracy that sent them to their death. The bodies of the men were cremated, and the ashes of Van zetti, It is planned, will be exhibited in various European cities. Immediately before and after the execution there were violent demon strations In many cities here and abroad, though those In the United States were efficiently handled by the police. The radicals In Paris were especially active, staging several riots in which they fought the police and troops, barricaded streets and looted shops. Scores were Injured and the property damage was large. The mob besieged the American embassy but It was adequately guarded. Leaders of the French Reds loudly proclaimed that the meeting of the American Le gion in Paris would be ruined, but these threats are In the main disre garded. Other ribts, carefully prepared in advance, were put on in London, Leipzig, Amsterdam, Lisbon, Warsaw, Brussels, and Geneva. In Johannes burg, South Africa, an American flag was burned on the steps of the town kail. Peaceful demonstrations were made in Berlin and Sydney. It is probable that a vast majority of Americans, convinced that Justice, long delayed, was done In the Sacco Vanzetti case, are tired of reading about it. pAUL R. REDFERN started in the * plane "Port of Brunswick" from Brunswick, Ga., for a nonstop flight to Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. If he makes the 4,600-mile trip successfully, he will have established a new record for nonstop flights. UOPE of finding the five lost trans ** pacific aviators and their two would-be rescuers, Captain Erwin^and A. H. Eichwaldt, who went out in the Plane Dalla3 Spirit to aid in the ?earch, was virtually abandoned, though the vessels of the navy may keep up the hunt for some time yet The sea between San Francisco and Hawaii was scoured for any sign of the missing flyers but no trace was found. During the week there was a rport that a flare had been seen on the slopes of Mauna Kea and it was msidered possible that either the Pjune carrying Pedlar, Knope and Miss Boran or that carrying Frost and k?tt had swung south of its course crashed on the mountain. There for. searching parties were started Jjt, but at this writing no word of ?elr success has come. As for Erwin J"1 Eichwaldt, their location at the they Bent their SOS as they "at Into a tallspln Is known approxl and boats that were hurried I e found not even an oil spot. ?pKESlDKNT AND MRS. COOLIDGE wee* *n Yellowstone ?L0nal Park, viewing Its many won an<3 thoroughly enjoying them ?L* Respite the swarms of tourists JDa^e ^ *?? muc^ ?* a Puh" BLvJnt *? suit the Chief Executive. and Mrs. Coolldge tried the ? ?^,n Advertising | ? Canadcts Goods Abroad ?fc ( (-*n:>'Jian government has $100. K,J "P^nd on advertising Canada's but not a cent of it can K?, urs"'l under the present con ^Bhliln a* voted for foreign ad ?ht,. * wltl1 the express stipulation ^K,, *?u'd be available if matched nill,lr amount by producers of - produceri have refused to meet trout fishing on Lake Yellowstone, and both were eminently successful in hooking the speckled beauties. SECRETARY OK COMMERCE HOOVER, returning to Washing ton, declined to comment on Ills re ported Presidential candidacy. On his behalf It was stated that he was giv ing thought only to the duties of his office. His friends denied that he had authorized anyone to form an organi zation to campaign for delegates to the Republican national convention. It" was specifically denied that W. Ward Smith, former secretary to Na than L. Miller, former governor of New York and now counsel for the United States Steel corporation, was authorized to do anything in Mr. Hoover's behalf. Mr. Smith and Mr. Miller were both active in promoting a boom for Mr. Hoover for President at the time of the 1920 Republican convention. Vice President Dawes, in a letter to Douglas T. Atkinson of Cincinnati, judge advocate of the Young America Union, secret nonsectarian political organization, relating to the possibility that he might run for President, said: "I am nof a candidate for the nomi nation." Minneapolis has notified the Repub lican national committee that It is a contender for the 1928 convention, and that It has a fine new auditorium and ample hotel accommodations. Wheth er or not Minneapolis Is ready to make a financial guarantee was not Indicated. San Francisco thus far Is the only city which has come forward with the necessary $250,000 guarantee. DUBING Japanese naval maneuvers off the port of Maizura the cruis er Jintzo collided with and sank the destroyer Warabl In the night Ninety men and petty officers and 12 officers of the destroyer's company were drowned. About the same time the cruiser Naka collided with the de stroyer Ash!, cutting through her afterpart, which resulted in the loss of 27 other men. The Naka was not seriously damaged and proceeded to port after temporary repairs, but the Ashi was towed in. This was the second disaster In the Japanese navy in August. On the first day pf the month 38 men were killed and 47 wounded when a mine explod ed on the deck of the minelayer Tokl wa. The explosion occurred while the vessel was engaged In maneuvers off Kiushiu Island. ACCORDING to the Washington Post, the State department has learned from trustworthy sources thut Great Britain and Japan came to a mutually satisfactory secret under standing regarding future naval su premacy when it finally became ap parent the United States would not accept the British program at the re cent Geneva conference. The gist of the secret understanding has not been divulged, the newspaper adds, declar ing that it Is doubtful if much definite Information on its contents Is avail able to the officials of the American government Mayor -jimmy" walker of New York,- touring European countries, was something of a Joke in Great Britain, but when he reached Germany there were complications. These developed from the refusal of the hotel where he was stopping In Berlin to fly the German republic flag alongside the American flag when a banquet was given him, as he had re quested. The owners and managers of all the big hotels had promised the American club that they would show the flag of the German republic and then reneged because they feared their established clientele, made up largely of monarchists, would object. The city administration Immediately declared that all officials must boycott those hotels, and republicans throughout the country took up the Issue. CHARLIE CHAPLIN'S divorce case is ended, so far as the film come dian Is concerned. After the long months of bickering and recrimina tion, an agreement was reached and Mrs. Chaplin was granted a divorce decree and the custody of the children. The grounds were "mental cruelty," and Chaplin put on no defense, though four of his attorneys addressed the this requirement They declare they are spending money overseas to adver tise their own trade-marked goods, but they have shown no enthusiasm re garding a plan for general advertis ing of Canadian products. The reason is obvious, they main tain. Those trying to create a perma nent market on an enlarged scale know they can do It only by mainte nance of high standards of quality and continuity of supply. By co-oper ating with the government In any gen eral advertising plan they feel they court Id his behalf, for the apparent purpose of winulng public sympathy. Chaplin agreed to pay to hts wife $625,000, and to establish a trust fund of $200,000 for the children, the prin cipal to go to them when the youngest Is thirty-five years old. W. I. Gilbert and Herman Spltzel, receivers, who handled the property of Chaplin and defendant movie corporations during the divorce negotiations presented a bill for services to the court and were awarded $45,000. Counsel for both Chapllns protested and Lita's lawyers obtained a 15-day stay on the order for payment of fees. Reunification of the Hankow and Nanking factions of the Chi nese Nationalists was announced by the bureau of foreign atlulrs In Shang hai In a statement which said: "While the details have not been worked out, the unification of the two factions Is now a certainty." It was also an nounced that T. V. Soong, considered one of the best financiers In China, probably would be finance minister of the Nationalist government. That gentle man told the press It was likely the Na tionalist tarlfT autonomy would be modi fled in order not to disrupt business but that the principle would not be surren dered. The Nationalists are retrench ing on military expenses and concen trating their troops south of the Yangtse, and presumably will leave the northern campaign In the hands of Gen. Fehg Yu-lisiang. MEXICO hiis n hard time handling her bandit8. Just after Gen. Manuel Reyes, leader of the gang that kidnaped and murdered Jacob Rosen thal, American millionaire, had been executed, another band of several hun dred men attacked a train between Guadalajara and Mazntlun and fired more than 40 shots into the cars be cause the engineer refused to stop. Miss Florence M. Anderson of Los An geles, a school teacher, was wound ed and died a few days later. J. Wlnsor Ives, American vice consul at Mazatlan, made vigorous demands upon the Mexican government for the capture and punishment of the bandits. Reports reached Nogales, Ariz., of a Yaqui rebel concentration in the Sierra De Bacatetes mountains of So nora nnd of three towns In southern Jalisco, Mexico, being captured by revolutionary bands. The Yaquis were reported to have committed depreda tions within sight of El Palme, rail road division point. Buenos Aires, Mazamatla and Conception were oc cupied by the rebels In Jalisco. CARDINAL RIEG Y CASANOVA, archbishop of Toledo and primate of Spain, died In Toledo after a lin gering Illness. The cardinal, one of the greatest prelates of the Catholic church, attended the Eucharistlc con gress in Chicago lust year and made many friends In America. He liked the United States, and lauded Its youth. Hurray Roe, son of E. P. Roe, the once-popular novelist, and himself a famous engineer and a social figure In New York, was found dead in Cen tral park, New York. Years ago, after his wife divorced him, Roe went to South America, where he lost both his health and a fortune of about $1.0(10.- { 000. Since his return In 1913 he had been employed In a theater. Other deaths worthy of mention were those of Mrs. Fannie Bloomfleld Zeisler of Chicago, one of the most noted pianists In the world, and of Zaghlul Pasha, former premier of j Egypt and leader of the Egyptian Na tionalists. IN MISSISSIPPI'S second primary ' for the Democratic gubernatorial election incomplete returns Indicated that Theodore G. Bilbo had defeated Murphree by something like 10,000 rotes. Of course the nomination Is equivalent to election. "I am the hap piest man In the state of Mississippi." Mr. Bilbo said. "In all my experience In politics this Is the greatest victory I have ever won because of the great odds against me." INFORMATION has been received by Acting Secretary of the Navy Robinson that American marines la Nicaragua, acting with the constabu lary, killed two more bandits In an engagement near Jlcaro. I would only be opening op the way for unscrupulous exporters to dump In ferior goods and destroy tbe market already existent. The exportera say they would co operate with the government If the government will establish and main tain export standards, which would be proof against Inferior products get ting overseas. To this end a national trade mark, supplementing tbe Arm mark and giving a national guaranty of quality, could be affixed which would give the necessary protection. ? WHEN LANCELOT RETURNED " ?? FANNY FIIY sat at her spinet desk looking over the month's accounts. She nibbled the top of her pen rellectively, aware that she had committed an extrava gance In buying another rug which she did not need. She seemed unable to resist a rug If It hud a Persian de sign und came within the means of her purse. (. Fanny Fry was forty-six, a slender woman with a touch of gray in her hluck hair, but with a still youthful spurkle In her black eyes. She was an old maid, not a bachelor girl or even a spinster. Just an old maid. And she was^not ashamed of the fuct although she sometimes wished?. tier glance, lifting from the pages of figures before her to the blue Jar, rested there wistfully. Spring was in the blue Jar, at least so much of spring us may be expressed by a big bunch of catkins slowly coming to willow consciousness. Mrs. Hall's little hoy hud brought them to her that morning. Now It would take a lively imagination to Invest Harry with the witchery of a cupid for he tfis tow-haired and minus his front teeth, yet in presenting the catkins he had offered Funny Fry spring? and something more, a memory and a desire that was teasing her at this Instant. The door opened and Clementine North entered. Clementine was a widow of long standing, plump, san dy-haired, rosy. For some years now she and Fanny had lived together In the old Fry house. Clementine had been out thut afternoon doing a hit of shopping and she brought a breath of the spicy air In with her. "Say, Fan!" she exclaimed. "What" do you know about that? Lancelot Otis Is here in town." "Clem!" ? Fanny started violently. She turned a pale fuce upon her friend and housemate. "I met him lust now," Clementine sat down. "He Is staying at the Cen tral house. I asked him up tonight to dinner. He wanted to see you." "Clem!" repented Fuuny In fainter tones. ^ "There Is plenty of chicken nnd cream and a fresh cuke. I stopped In at the grocery and got a head of let tuce and some tomatoes. Ouess we'll have plenty even for a man who looks as much like, enjoying victuals as he does." "Has?has he changed much?" whispered Fanny. "Who wouldn't change In thirty years? He has filled out and got a little bald. Hut for all thut he's the same Lance," she sighed. Fanny sighed, too. "How ciuoer? for us three to he to gether ngnln," she said. "How nice you mean, how like old times!" Clementine studied her friend thoughtfully. "Tell me. Fan. I>ld you slay single on his account?" Funny Unshed. "Well?maybe I did," she confessed. "Awfully silly in you. I got mar ried." Clementine tapped the rug with her neat foot. "Out of spite. I wasn't going to let Lance Otis find me wearing dust und ashes for hint If he came hack." "He Is back now. And he's coming to dinner!" Fanny sprang up. "I must set the table. There are a thousand things to do?" Ske rushed out of the room while Clementine fol lowed more slowly, a serious hsik on her pink. face. Funny (lying from task to tank with nervous . Mootness had nut one thought. Lancelot had returned. What should she feel at sight of him? What would he feel ut sight of her? Or?her heart sank?perhaps he would prefer the plump ane an upper berth In u sleep ing cur." Lost Her Memory? "I go <*Hd all over when I think of rny fortieth birthday." Her friend (sun-astleulfy) ? Did something dreadful hap[?eti then, dear? Inventive Woman Women are snld to have little In ventlve cenlu*. hut well bet that one of them Invented allmonj.?Florence Herald. Remains ?f the Mayas - 111 A Maya of Today Boaid* a Carving of Hit Ancastors. /n a i... .l _ , , _ _ . . irr?|iarm ojr in? national uensrapQie Society, Washington. D. C.) FEW civilizations of the past In any part of the world have been so worthy aH that disclosed by *? the ruined cities of the Mayas in Central America. From about .r>d& B. C. until sometime between 471 and f?30 A. D. the Muyas lived in the re gion now included in the states of Tabasco and Chiapas in Mexico, the department of I'eten in Guatemala, and Just along the western frontier of Honduras. There a magnificent civilization had been developed. This region, now overgrown with a dense tropical for est, had been cleared aiol put under Intensive cultivation. Great cities flourished on every side. Lofty pyra mid-temples and splendid palaces of cut stone, spacious plazus and courts filled with elaborately carved monu ments of strange yet Imposing dignity, market places, terraces, causeways, 1 were to be counted, not by tens and scores hut by hundreds and thousands. Indeed, it is not improbuhie that,tiHs was one of the most densely populat ed areas of its size In the world during the first Ave centuries of the Christian era. the seut of u mighty American empire. Nor did other arts and sciences lag behind architecture and sculpture in I the Mayan cultural procession. Metal, | It Is true, the Mayas of the Old Em pire did not have, hut the lack of It | did not prevent them from carving j such a hard substance as Jade, which : they made Into beautiful pectoral plaques sometimes six Inches square, showing their principal deities and rulers in acts of adoration or sacri ' flee. Necklaces, .anklets, wristlets. earrings, nose ornaments, beads, and 1 pendants were fashioned ? from the same refractory material. Exquisite wood carvings, delicate ' modeling In stucco ceramics, painting, : weaving ami gorgeous mosaics made of brilliantly colored feathers were some of the other arts In which, so far as the native races of the New I World ore concerned, the Old Empire i Maya acknowledged few equals and. with the possible exception of the Inca In the art of weuving. no superiors. And when one comes to a knowledge of the abstract sciences, such as arith metic, chronology and ustronomy, they had few peers among their contempo raries. even In the Old World. Great Mayan Exodus. But the Mayan Dark Age* were ap proaching. Art, architecture und | learning were soon to suffer a tem porary eclipse?one. Indeed, from which the first never again fully re covered. The Mayas during the .Sev enth century were forced to abandon the Old Empire region, where, they had wrought so laboriously und had achieve*! so splendidly, and to seek new homes elsewhere. The cause, or perhaps better, causes of this great Mayan exodus are as yet I obscure. Climatic changes rendering the region unfit for further habitation. Internecine strife, foreign invasions, intellectual and social exhaustion fol lowing hard upon such rapid esthetic development, devastating epidemics of yellow fever, even such a modern man ifestation as the high cost of living, have been suggested to account for this great historic event. Whatever may have been respon sible for this migration, the fact Itself is sufficiently clear that Yucatan was discovered as early as the latter half of the Fifth century, by advance par-\ ties of Old Empire Mayas pushing northward along the then, and even still, unexplored forests of southern Yucatan, looking for a new and more promising land in which to live. Yucatan must have held not a few disappointments for these early ad venturing Americans. It Is at beat but a parched and waterless land. There Is no surface water, tad there are no rivers or streams and only one or two hikes. The country la of limestone formation, with only a subterranean water supply and relatively few places where this may be got at naturally. ' * < And these first Mayan explorers had neither time nor means for drilling wells. . Cities by Water Holes. Here and there about the country ? few natural openings or wells have been formed, great holes in the ground, sometimes several hundred feet in diameter, places where the limestone crust has become under mined and has fallen through, expos ing subterranean water. Tliese the Mayas called cenotes, and wherever they existed, there, by very force of circumstance, important centers of population were established and nour ished. The place where Chlchen Itza the great city of the New Kmplre. was later to be founded, was peculiarly fa vored In this respect, for here the waterless plain of Yucatan Is pierced by two of these great natural wells within half a mile of each other. Un der primitive conditions, this fact alone determined that an Important city would one day grow up around them. In the late New Empire five centu ries and more after the cities of the Old Empire had been abandoned and lay In desolation, buried beneath a vast tropical forest. Chlchen Itza had , grown to lie the largest city of her I ^ lodged, more?the holiest city of I her times, the Mecca of the Mayan world. In 1(*>| A. I), the three largest clty states?Cblchen-Itza. Uxmal und May apan?formed a triple alliance, under the name of the League of Mayupan. hy which the government of the |s>n-' Insula was divided equally among them. - This Is the period of the true Mayan Itenalssance. Under the peaceful con ditions und general prosperity brought about hy the league, art and architec ture revived. But not yet had Chlchen Itza reached her greatest development, her crowning glory as the holy city of the Mayas. In 1201 A. D. the ruler of Mayupan made successful war on Chlchen Itza. and from this time until Ita flnnl abandonment. In 1448. the city was held In thrall by foreign rul ers. the Toltec-Aztec allies of tiunnac Ceel. This foreign influence from the dis tant tale of Anahuac gave to the city not only new rulers, but also new cus toms. new esthetic Inspirations, a new architecture, even a new religion, all of which reacted powerfully upon the Ftzu people and raised their capital to a position of honor and sanctity never enjoyed by It or any other Mayan city before or since. The conquerors brought with them the worship of the fair golden-haired god, Quetzalcoatl, the -Feathered Ser pent. Kemoved to Chlchen Itza, this Toltec Zeus became Kukulcan, a direct Mayan translation of Qnetzalcoatl; and presently all over the northern part of the city, which dates principally from this last period, temples and sanctu- t arlea were rising to the new god, all adorned with highly realistic repre sentations of the Feathered Serpent? In columns, balustrades, cornices and bas-reliefs?until his sinuous trail was to he *een on every side. In two and a half centuries, 1201 1448 A. D? more buildings wint up lp the ciiy than had been built since It? foundation, close to six centuries earlier. A considerable part of Chichen Itza has been bronght to light by the exca vations of the Carnegie institution of * Washington, begun in 1021. One of the principal structures found, wlkii* U h*sJ*?o named the Cdurt of IhqMyJB