The Alamance gleaner VOL. LIIl. GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY OCTOBER 20, 1927. NO. 38. WHAT'S GOING ON | NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENTEVENTS Teapot Dome Lease Is Can celed?Woman Fails in Atlantic Flight. By EDWARD W. PICKARD FINAL victory has beeo scored by the federal government In Its three years' fight to regain the valuable oil fields that were leased to others by Albert B. Fall when he was secretary of the Interior. Last week the Su preme Court of the United States viti ated the Teapot Dome lease held by Harry F. Sinclair. The decision sus tained the ruling of the Circuit Court of Appeals which reversed a Wyoming federal court that upheld the validity of the lease. This brings back to the government Wyoming oil lands esti mated to be worth $100,000,000, plus $3,000,000 In cash now in the hands of the court's receivers; $2,000,000 worth of oil taken out by Sinclair be fore suit was started and for which he must make restitution, and more than $1,000,000 worth of oil tanks, pipe lines and other improvements con structed by Sinclair, but for which the court denies him equity because of the leasing form. The court's decision last March, sim ilarly denouncing the Doheny lease of the Elk Hills (Calif.) naval reserve as illegal and fraudulent, restored even more valuable oil lands to the navy. A survey just completed by oil experts estimates that the Elk Hills lands con tain 720,000,000 barrels of oil, or near ly three times the amount previously estimated. Its value U place at fully $300,000,000. The government also re covered $24,000,000 for oil drilled out by Doheny and for value of tanks, etc. Last week's decision, which was unanimous, branded Fall as "a faith less public officer." It held that the Teapot Dome lease to Sinclair's Mam moth Oil company was contrary to the oil conservation policy of the govern ment Fall's contention that develop ment of the reserve was necessary to prevent drainage was denounced- as a representation made in "bad faith." RUTH ELDER, daring and skillful Florida aviator, almost achieved her ambition to be the first woman to fly across the Atlantic. With George Haldeman as co-pilot, she drove the plane American Girl to within about 1,000 miles of Paris despite strong head winds that forced them off their course, and then a broken oil line forced them to come down In the ocean. Fortunately the Dutch tanker Barendrecht was close by and picked np the two flyers unhurt An attempt to salvage the plane was made, but a gasoline tank exploded and it was burned. The rescue took place about 300 miles northeast of the Azores and the aviators were taken to the islands, whence they were to continue their trip to France by steamer. Miss Elder and Haldeman were In the air more than 41 hours and flew 21574 miles?a record for all-water flights. The storm they encountered reduced their average speed from the expected 100 miles an hour to about 72. The last five hours of their flight was made with no oil pressure in their motor. A MERICAN workers still yearn for ^ their beer and have not given up hope of getting It The American Fed eration of Labor, in convention In Los Angeles, adopted by viva voce vote a resolution demanding that congress Modify the Volstead act "so as to per mit the manufacture and sale of whole sale beer." President Green's policies were up held when the convention voted, 135 to 32, against application of the fed oral quota .law to Mexican Immigra tion. The executive council, after a year'g investigation of the relationship between labor and the government in Mexico, reported that it did not con oider the Mexican government a trades ^ion regime, though the relations be tween it and the labor movement are ^ory intimate." Max S. Hayes of Cleveland, who was 'armor-Labor candidate for vice presi in 1920, offered a plan for a labor Arrange for Airplane Route Across Andes * r?iralaV, airplane route will soon j*?*? the Peruvian Andes and shorten I sbont 20 days the trip between WUtos, small town center of a rich fricnitural region, and Lima, the thflc coast capital and Industrial tenter. Of? about 800 miles separate Iqol 3 ? the headwaters of the Amason. ^-Uing. Br peasant methods of party, but the convention almost unanimously supported Mr. flreen's al ternative proposal that "we work for the friends of labor in both national parties at the polls." The delegates also rejected resolutions denouncing the government's policy In Latin Amer ica and China, and approved the Mon roe Doctrine. MEXICO'S latest revolutionary movement is, as predicted, effec tively suppressed and Calles is more firmly in dhe saddle than ever, with Obregon assured of the succession to the Presidency. Ceneral Gomez and his band of followers in the state of Vera Cruz were attacked at Chualulco by loyal troops under General Escobar and utterly routed, bombing planes playing a considerable part In the en gagement. Gomez and his staff offi cers, seeing the day was lost, lied into the hills. Felix Palavicini, a journal ist who has been deported, lays nil the blame for the mutiny on General Ser rano, who was caught and executed. Obregon says that when he becomes President he will follow Calles' policy in compelling Catholics and other re ligious denominations to respect the laws, since this policy has the support of the majority of the people of the country. VTUGO-SLAVIA and Bulgaria have * practically settled their row over raids by Bulgarian comltadjls or ir regulars along the border, but now Poland and Lithuania are on the eve of a break which may have serious consequences. The Lithuanian gov ernment has closed Polish schools and confiscated Polish estates In Lithu ania, and plans to declare Vilna the capital of the country, despite the fact that that city was seized by Poland seven years ago. Then, last week, a number of Poles were arrested In Lithuania on charges of having plotted the assassination of President Srae tona. The Polish government sent an ultimatum to Kovno threatening ac tion unless Lithuania should radically alter its policy within one week. Mar shal Pilsudskl, dictator of Poland, wishes to avoid the use of force If possible, but the British minister to Warsaw reports that the situation Is fraught with danger. OVER in China the pendulum has swung back and the Shnnsl armies that had defeated Marshal Chang's troops and threatened to take Peking have themselves been beaten in battle and at last reports were retreating westward in considerable disorder. About 10,000 of the Shunei soldiers were captured and sent into Manchu ria. The northern forces began opera tions for the capture of Shansl prov ince and against Gen. Feng-Yu-hsiang in Honan province. Peking's feeling of relief was modified by the knowl edge that it had been saved partly by the calling in of a horde of 15,000 Mongol cavalry, reputed to be the fiercest and most cruel fighters in all Asia. SPAIN began Its return to a consti tutional parliamentary government last week with the formal opening of the new national assembly by King Alfonso. But it was only a faint start that way, for the assembly member ship is picked by the dictator, (Sen. Prlmo de Rivera, and so seems certain to do tbe bidding of the directorate which he heads. Two of the women delegates, the duchess of Parcent and Countess San Luis, resigned just be fore the assembly opened. SENATOR JAMES A. REED of Mis souri, who stands ready to accept the Democratic Presidential nomina tion if Gov. Al Smith cannot get it, was endorsed as a candidate by the Missouri state committee at Sedaila, and then delivered to a big assemblage of Democrats what was considered the keynote speech for his party In the coining campaign. He denounced Re publican rule as no less corrupt now than during the Harding administra tion and scored Mellon, Dougherty and Fall. Making a plea for nnity, the senator said: "Let us make our fight beneath ban ners proclaiming the right of each citizen to regulate his own personal conduct?chart his own course through life?determine his own habits and to control the affairs of his own house bold, free from all restraints. "If this people are to remain free, railroads. 21 to 2S days of exposure to malaria, yellow feTer, mosquito-In fected marshes and the extreme cold of mountain air are required for the Journey. By air It can be made In a little more than two days. Lieut Frank B. Tyndatl. United States army air corps, at the request of the Peruvian government baa been granted three months' leave to assist Capt H. B. Grow, director, of naval aviation Ih Pern, In the establishment of the ?Irw-v. local self-government and the sover eignty of the states must be preserved. The march of centralization mutt bo arrested. Government by boards and bnreaucracles must cease. "Let ns demand: "The bonest administration of gov ernment. "The swift and sure punishment ol all public plunderers, bribemongera and other malefactors. "The equalization of the burden of taxation. "The repeal of all laws creutlng spo clal privileges. "The dismissal of an army of spiea snoopers, sneaks, and Informers." T> ADICAL Republican senators havs been holding a series of confer ences in Washington, and It was re ported their purpose was to promote the Presidential boom of Senator Nor ris of Nebraska. But some of them issued a signed statement disclaiming any "third party" intentions and de nying they planned Insurgency within their party. Their purpose, said these gentlemen?Borah, Norrls, Frazler, Nye and Brookhart?was to form a strong Western bloc and "get soma unity of purpose and some solidarity of action" among Western senators and to Impress upon the Eastern states and their representatives in congress that, as Senator Borah explained It, "a large portion of the United States lies west of the Allegheny mountains." Friends of Norrle, It Is said, intend to enter his name In these fourteen preferential prlmury states: California, Illinois, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsyl vania. South Dukota, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. MAYOi: DUVALL of Indianapolis, convicted of political corruption, was sentenced last week to thirty days in Jail and fined $1,000, and disfran chised for four years. He will appeal the case and says he will not resign until this appeal has been carried through the State Supreme court. Th? prosecutors believed he would bo forced to quit office. In which case his wife, now city controller, would suc ceed him. Numerous civic groups art determined to oust both the Duvalls. Federal judge f. p. schoon MAKEK at Pittsburgh Issued one of the most sweeping injunctions in the history of labor disputes, restrain ing the United Mine Workers of Amer ica, its officials and Its members. Virtually every activity of the union against the nonunion Pittsburgh Terminal Coal corporation was for bidden. The nnion and Its members were restrained from violence of any sort against company employees and prespective employees and against company property. Union pickets wers restrained from putting their foot oh company property, but were allowed to establish a single picket post on each road leading to the mines. Such picket? were cautioned against using abusive language, but were permitted the use of peaceful persuasion. The long strikes of coal miners has been ended in Illinois, Indiana, lows and other Middle Western fields, the men temporarily receiving the wages called for by the Jacksonville agree ment until the question of pay has been settled by commissioners to be appointed. WILLIAM T. COSORAVE, Presi dent of the Irish Free State, ob tained a majority of six rotes in the new Dall Elreann and was re-elected The followers of De Vaiera and the Labor party voted solidly against him, and the Redmondites refrained from voting. The chief attack on Cos grave was delivered by Sean T. O'Kelly, a De Vaiera man, who declared the Presi dent was the tool of England and at tacked his financial and economic poli cies. Next day Cosgrave announced his cabinet, which was approved by the same vote, and also announced that the Farmers' party bad fnsed with the government party. They ?re of welded tnbe steel construction and powered with tha Wright 220-horse power air-cooled mo tor] almllar tp those aaed in the transoceanic flights. Four of the planes hare been fitted with pontoons. For the first time In the history of commercial aeronautics, the super charger will be applied to regular aerial transportation work, where al titude flying, snch as crossing the Andes mountains, la necessary. ? I -i itiii a rumniA nia Jhii DEATHS of the week Include thou of Bishop P. J. Moldoon of Rock ford. 111.. * leader In the Catholic church; Col. F. J. Dillon, member of the federal radio commission; T. D. Stoat, one of the ten wealthiest men of Chicago, and Dom Miguel, duke of Bragauza and pretender to the throne of Portugal EACH WOMAN'S WISHES : ???_ , J have extended the barrier until the tribes men are shut off from civilization. Heavily guarded gates at frequent In tervals permit the savages to trade with the Formosans but no savage Is allowed to come Into the "foreign" territory and uo "foreigner" Is al lowed to enter the snvages' domain without special permission of the Jap anese police and a well-armed guard, flack In the mountain recessev the ' trlhesmeu live In compact villages, so j camouflaged that one Is within their I 1 conllnes befoae realizing It. The huts are built of large slnhs of slate with thatched roofs that resemble the thick j foliage of the forest There-Is no furniture. When the savage rests, he squats as If ready to spring upon his j prey, or lies on the floor. No tribesman's hut Is complete 1 without a skull shelf Just outside the door. Ills shelf may linve a hundred pigeonholes, each containing the skull i of a human being. It Is ss Indicative '] of Ids glory as the trophy cabinet of I a modern Olynfplc star. tanlcal garden give It mofe of a West ern than an oriental appearance.. For a busy city of 180,000 Inhabitants. It Is unusually quiet There are no street cars, and automobile traffic Is not yet large enongh to disturb the population. Hundreds of jinriklshaa are propelled through the streets by Kormosan "chauffeurs* in spotlessly clean white uniforms and large pic-' turesque mushroom bats. Save for the pitter-patter of their soft shoes as they carefully transport their fares, and the occasional rumble of a heavy wooden-wheeled cart, one hears only the sing-song of oriental tongues. Its Product! Are Largo. Although thousanda of miles of the Island hare scarcely been touched by civilization. In a recent year Formosa produced approximately 23,000,000 bushels of rice, 23,000 tons of sugar, 12,000 tons of tea, 1,000,000 tons of cool, 3,000 tons of camphor, and 5,000 tons of camphor oil. Petroleum, gold, silver, copper. Jute, opium, tobacco and salt also are Important prod ucts. Opium Is sold only to old licensed smokers and the number of users Is reduced eacb year. Among the na tives both men and women smoke to bacco in long-stemmed bamboo pipes and many chew betel nut The need for new sources of cam phor has been one of the principal causes for the development of the Island. When the trees on the civil ized side of the boundary fence bare been leveled and supplies diminish, the fence Is moved back Into savage territory; for the constant demand for tbe product Is too great to await the maturity of new trees that tbe Japanese hare recently planted. This grndunl encroachment on the savage domain and tbe plan to penetrate cer tain parts of the interior with roads and ral.roads, should bring the entire isliind under Japanese cobtrol la a few years. Women Insist on Heads. The women have been blamed for | maintaining thin ghastly custom, for among some tribes the maidens will' not listen to the pleadings of a suitor until he has at least one skull on his j shelf. When there are no victims 1 within easy reach of the village the ' ardent swain goes to the borderland 1 of civilization, sometimes digging his may under or climbing over the fence. The first person who crosses his path Is his victim. Falling In this, he may attack a member of a neighboring tribe. It Is so common for a Chinaman liv ing near the savage border to lose his head that little attention Is paid to the Incident unless his relations band together to avenge the mnrder. freshly severed beads must be dis played at various savnge festivals, re ligious rites and on other occnslons too nnmeroos for the safety of the Formnsans. Since the Japanese have owned Formosa, towns more modern than those In Jnpnn and Chlnu have been hulll. schools established, harbors im proved. and a railroad built nearly the entire length of the Island. Now there are approzlmntely 4.1100.000 In ' habitants. More than three-fourths of them are natives who are of Chinese extraction or an admixture of Chinese and aborigines. The aborigines num ber about 84,000. The remainder of the population Is made up of Jap anese and foreigners. \ Tolhokn, the capital, lying 18 miles Inland from the port of Keelung, has been called the most modern city of the Japanese empire. Wide, well paved streets, Una parks, large hand some government buildings and n bo ' Peril of Camphor Workers. Many of the camphor stations are ?ear the head-hunters' district. While the Japanese are bringing the sarages more under control each year, und a heavy guard is constantly on duty among the workers, raids on these stationr are not uncommon occur rences. The huge trees are felled and then chipped with a scooplike cutting Instrument. When small cars, that the workers push on a narrow gauge' track, are filled, the 'oad is consigned to a camphor still where the puttings are transformed into pure camphor by a boiling process. At&ched to the still bamboo pipes take off the cam phor oil. A large quantity of the world production of camphor of which about three-fourths conies from For mosa. Is used In the manufacture of celluloid, perfumes and drugs. As is the case with many of the larger In dustries of Formosa, the Japanese government hat a monopoly of the camphor business ahd dictates its own price by which the product Is purchased from the Individual pro ducers. In the wilderness, one cannot mis take a head-hunter for a harmless na tive If he keeps his head long enough to see one approach. For clothes they wear e single piece of cloth that reaches from their armpits to their knees, a roue.' their hips la a huge knife encased In a tamboo scabbard, and some of them carry bows and ar rows to assist them in their head hunting activities. Most of them are tattooed with a blue substance that adds to their at-' ' ready uncomely features. Every h<- i sge child Is forced to subaiit^^ife^