THE ALAMANCE GLEANER VOL. LV. GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY APRIL 18, 1929. NO. 11. WHAT'S GOING ON | NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT_EVENTS Hoover's Choice of Dawes as Ambassador to London Pleases Everybody. By EDWARD W. PICKARD PRESIDENT HOOVER S selection of Gen. Charles G. Dawes for the high post of ambassador to the court of St. James was a happy one. It meets with the general approval of the people of the United States, If newspaper comment Is Indicative, and the government and press of England give assurance that Mr. Dawes will be enthusiastically welcomed In Lon don. In accepting the appointment IIr. Dawes made the stipulation that he be given time to conclude his work in Santo Domingo, where he and a commission are establishing a budget system for the government. This Job will be ended In four or five weeks. Then be will visit his Chicago home and go to Washington for conferences with President Hoover and Secretary of State Stlmson on policies to be fol lowed, so It Is likely he will not as sume his duties In London before the end of June. Special gratification over Mr. Dawes" ?election was expressed by the British government in reply to the formal in quiry by the State department It Is understood that President Hoover is counting upon Mr. Dawes to bring about a new era of good feeling be tween the two nations. Friction has arisen recently over a number of mat ters, Including the question of naval construction. Mr. Dawes will be par ticularly qualified to deal with ques tions relative to German reparations. The London newspapers say that while England Is sorry to part with Ambas sador Alanson E. Houghton, who has been quite successful there, no suc cessor could be more welcome than Mr. Dawes. t"*VERYTHING was made ready dnr ing the week for the special ses sion of congress, and the President let It be known that he especially desired the enactment of a farm relief meas ure before June 1 so that the relief organization may be functioning In time to help in marketing the next harvest. The administration bill is based on the McNary measure which was indorse^ by Secretary of Agricul ture Hyde. TarifT revision is likely to cause more trouble in congress than the farm legislation. Urged on by the sugar beet growers and beet sugar producers of the West and the cane sugar men of Louisiana and Texas, the Republicans of the lower house, it Is expected, will make a determined light for substantial Increases In the duties on sugar. The battle In both bouse and senate over this is likely to be prolonged. The proposition to re vive the tariff on long staple cotton, which was abolished in 1921, has brought from the General Agricultural Syndicate of Egypt an earnest plea in opposition. The measure, says the syndicate's president, not only would be Injurious to Egypt and to the re lations between the two countries, but It also "wonld inflict harm on Ameri can spinners of fine cotton, purchasers of fabrics made from It, purchasers of automobile tires and other commodi ties in which long staple cotton la used. It would make the United States lose the place which her cotton fab rics have obtained abroad where they bave succeeded In competing seriously with other countries." President Hoover received a large delegation of union labor leaders who asked that the views of labor be taken Into consideration In the working oat of the new tariff schedules. The dele gation also urged the appointment of a representative of organized labor on the tariff committee. SECRETARY OF STATE STIMSON, appealed to by Vice President Cur tis to rescind the ruling of bis prede cessor concerning tbe official status of Mrs. Gann, the Vice President'! sister, and also asked by the diplomatic corps to determine the question, skillfully dodged tbe Issue by telling Mr. Curtis that he would not accept Mr. Kellogg's ruling, and replying to the diplomats American Planes and Pilots Equal of Any Although Europeah commercial a elation ha* many refinement* lack ing oo American air lines, the United States has the planes and flyers to develop an air transport system equal to anything abroad, MaJ. Clarence M. Young, head of the Commerce depart ment's bureau of aeronautics, said. Major Young has just returned to this country from n survey of Eu ropean airways, during which trip be th?t they would have to aolve fbr themselves the problem of where Mrs. Ganu was to be seated at official din ners. So the foreign ambassadors and ministers got together and after dis cussing the matter for several hours, notified the State department that un til some definite ruling was laid down by that department Mrs. Gann would be accorded the rank and social status cf the wife of a Vice President at all official and ceremonious diplomatic en tertainments. This means tbat Mr. Curtis has won his fight, at least for the time being, and his sister will rank, at such functions, above all other women except Mrs. Hoover. Both Mr. Hoover nnd Mr. Stimson were annoyed by the affair Into which the State de partment had been drawn, and the secretary said that his department would no longer act as social secretary for Washington hostesses, though It will aid Mrs. Hoover In arranging her dinner parties. The triumph of Mr. Curtis was first celebrated at a din ner given by the Chilean ambassador at which Mrs. Gann was seated as the ranking woman guest. TTARRY F. SINCLAIR may have to ?*?1 reside for three months In the District of Columbia jail and pay a fine of $500, for the Supreme Court of the United States upheld hla convic tion for contempt of the senate In re fusing to testify before the Teapot Dome Investigating committee five years ago. The decision, read by Just tlce Pierce Butler, was a complete victory for the government It sus tained at every point the powers claimed by the senate to compel testi mony deemed necessary as the basis of possible legislation. The jail In Washington Is an old structure with no exercise yard and Is a decidedly uncomfortable place In which to live. Sinclair may be sent to the prison farm Instead. Leviathan, which together with ten other ships of the govemment owned lines, was bought by the U. S. Lines, Inc., last week started for Southampton on her first trip as a privately owned American vessel, and as she got beyond the twelve-mile limit she became a "wet" ship. Her medical llqnor supplies were opened for sale to passengers. Chough there was no public bar. The same course wilt be taken on the other ships purchased by Paul W. Chapman's company, a legal opinion that the plan adopted would be no violation of the law having been obtained. Before the Leviathan's de parture from New York a federal or der was obtained granting the ship the right to enter the port on return with a certain amount of liquor under seal. When the ship reaches the twelve mile limit on return that amount will be stowed away, and If any liquor re mains It will be dumped overboard. SECTIONS of north central Arkan sas were ravaged by a terrific tor nado Wednesday night, and abont fifty persons were killed and a hun dred injured. The village of Onion was blown completely away, five per ishing, while In a farm settlement near Swlfton more than a score of men, women and children were killed. Because the districts where the storm struck were rather sparsely settled the property loss was not great Tornadoes also struck In Minnesota and Wisconsin, resulting In the deaths of abont ten persons and considerable damage to property. r\ EFEATED at Jlmlnez, repulsed In *** their fierce attacks on Naeo and forced to evacuate Juarez and Chihua hua City, the Mexican rebels began moving such troops as they could toward the west, apparently Intending to concentrate their fight In the state of Sonora. General Escobar, who was elected "provisional president" by the revolutionary leaders, started his army toward the coast, abandoning the entire state of Chihuahua, and him self arrived In Agua Prleta. on the border Just east of Naco, by airplane. General Calles with six troop trains arrived at Mazatlan, Slnaloa, and or ganized bis forces for the campaign on the Pacific coast. Though the federal garrison In Naco had withstood the assaults of the rebels. Its situation was becoming In creasingly desperate, for Escobar was gathering about 8,000 men to besiege the place and these troops bad good artillery and airplanes. To protect flew2^00 miles and surveyed six coun tries. Much of tills flying be did him self In s Stearmsn plane which he took abroad, t hooch he flew also In the passenger planes of the principal European lines. "Europe has done a wonderful Job under trying etrcnmstancea In the commercial ariati on field." Young said. He was particularly Impressed with the Croydon alrdome In London and the Temptehof field In Germany. the American border, MaT Gen. Wil liam Lasslter, commanding the Eighth Army corps area, ordered approxi mately 1,500 United States soldiers to Arizona and New Mexico points close to the International line. Eighteen army planes patrolling the border had or ders to shoot any Mexican planes fly ing over American territory. COL. CHARLES A. LINDBERGH doesn't care to have all bis move ments followed by a public that be comes alarmed for hi) safety as soon as he Is out of Its sight Last week after a visit with his fiancee. Miss Anne Morrow, he took olf from Mexico City for the north. Because he did not show up In Texas when expected, there were rumors of disaster and sug gestions of searching parties. But he finally landed at Brownsville, unruf fled except by the public concern, and more than Intimated that where he had spent the night was his own con cern. Then he again took off on his way to New York, where the body of his friend, the late Ambassador Der rick, arrived on Saturday from France. DEV. SIDNEY J. CATTS, the plc turesqae former governor of Flor ida, la In deep trouble. A federal grand Jury In Jacksonville Indicted him on the charge of having financed a ring of counterfeiters In Tampa who planned to make vast quantities of bogus $20 bills and "shove" them through the assistance of a bank em ployee In New York. Catts Is charged with having given the counterfeiters $5,000 In return for which he was to receive $25,000 In the fake notes. HERE'S something novel in the way of speculation "squawks." Congressman L. C. Dyer* of St. Louis, Mo., took a flyer in the stock of Hiram Walker, Inc., Canadian whisky distillers, and sayr he did it In com plete ignorance that the company manufactured and sold liquor contra band In the United States. As soon as he learned the truth, he says, he sold, and so eager was he to get rid of the stock that he did not bother about the price, and lost money. Now he has demanded that the governors of the New York curb exchange re imburse him for the loss, contending that the exchange has no right to deal in whisky securities. OlXTEEN members of the Chicago ^ Association of Candy Jobbers, tried In Federal court In Chicago on charges of violating the Sherman antitrust law, were found guilty and face sentences of one year In Jail and $5,000 line each. Eighteen others were acquitted. The defendants were charged with conspiring to fix prices in the candy Industry and to stifle competition In violation of the law prohibiting the restraint of trade. CALVIN COOLIDGE, ex-President of the United States, has accept ed an invitation to become a member of the board of directors of the New York Life Insurance company and will be elected at the May meeting of the board to succeed the late Myron T. Herrick. In a letter to the presi dent of the company, agreeing to serve, Mr. Coolldge wrote that to him a great life insurance company Is the very symbol of thrift, a co-operative society for the advancement of the pnblic welfare, and a character builder. LOST since Marcb 31 Id the wilds of western Australia, the trans pacific plane Southern Cross has been found bj a searching airman on a mud fiat, and Its crew of four men were reported to be alive. Food was dropped to them. The crew consisted of CapL Charles Klngsford-Smlth, G T. O. Clm, a navigator named Litch field and a radio man named Mc Wllllam. GOV. HtTEY P.LONG of Louisiana was Impeached by the state boose of representatives on one of nineteen charges and the legislators continued consideration of the other charges. GEN. CHIANG KAI-SHEK, Nation allst President of the Chinese republic, has announced that be will resign as soon as h? returns to Nan king. He says he la not big enough for the Job and plans a tour abroad for rest and study. Both, he laid, hare elaborate admin istration buildings and provide amply for the air passenger's comfort on the fields and In the planes. Contrasting European and Ameri can airways, Major Young aald be believed our planes and pilots were the equal of those abroad, but the foreign lines operate with more re finements, have perfected their or ganization better, and provide more carefully for the passenger's comfort. The Romans never Invaded Ireland. II1111111111111111111111II I rita's white hands ::| T| I I I I I I I I I | I I I I I I | | I I I I 14 sed of a group of climbers who ped to enter the sacred portals of elety by clinging to her scanty but ceedlngly expensive skirts. Rita d been presented to her as a strlv 5 young person, who constantly tched for the better things of life, d who?this was the part that tased the prudent Mrs. Tremalne? uld give readings absolutely without rrge. because she wished to read fore the best people. 'Beautifully Interpreted," wheezed a 7 thin old man with a dyed tnus he of an unnatural black. "She isps the fundamentals of the better ls George dazzedly turned his head see who had made the comment he ird tbls tart whisper; "That's the a who lives In the flat above us; beats bis wife every Saturday bt?" eorge wondered savagely why be Ited this exercise to Saturday its, then blushed at bis elemental are. Too did very well, my dear," Mrs. xremalne's voice rang out. "Tour In terpretation of a woman's place In life la charming. Tour husband Is very much to be envied?" a ponderous hand was playfully wagged In George a direction, who weak-mlndedly smirked back?"come and sit with me while I talk to you a bit." Rita, blushing at the flattery, swam along In the wake of her patroness. George, convinced that the evening would never end. had stifled three yawns more or leas successfully when he was again aroused by Rita's name: "Tea, my dear, she Is the wife of a common carpenter. He works fn hla own shop. Some one said he was here tonight, our I hardly think Mrs Tremalne would permit that. I'm go lug to Invite her to read at my ete nlog In Woodlawn. She lao't well enough known to charge anything and a reading la aa good aa anything else. George aat digesting hla atatua In the society of climbers. He bad built his shop on the aide of a large lot which he owned, planning to put up a modest home Ou the other half. Itita, however, had been so expensive a proposition aa tc prevent the carry ing out of the plan. The shop was far out and so far she had succeeded In coaxing him to rent an apartment nearer the city. It kept her In touch with Important people and he could Just as well take the car to work, she had explained. He had given In weak ly at first, thinking that he could save the money to build, but her clothes had cost a great deal, reading tn wealthy bouses necessitated many changes and she hated sewing. In fact, their life was given over to her art. 'To the Interpretation of the beautiful," he told himself grimly as he placed her handsome evening cape over her shoulders as she had shown him how to do. t She was very silent on the way home. Once inside the uncared-for flat she sat down and began pulling out her hairpins. She had an odd look on her face. "George. Mrs. Tremalne made a suggestion tonight. She said she had done a great deal for me?" George, getting a drink of water at the sink, turned and stared at this. "I thought It had been the other way around," went on Rita doubtful ly, "but she said that she thought It about time I showed a disposition to reciprocate. She wants you to do over the library." "I haven't applied for any work," interrupted George. "I have more now than I can do." Itltn's white hands twisted together painfully. "Why, she doesn't mean to make an estimate and be paid. She wishes It done as a token of?" "The beautiful, I dare say, Rita, this Is the last straw. I have weakly hesi tated because I wanted you to he hap py, but as you said yourself tonight, 'Life Is what we make It; each duy should be filled with beauty.' Now,.l propose to run things hereafter. There Is no beauty in this dusty untidy house. You are going to throw away your limp volumes of scarlet leather and bilious greens, put away your ridiculous silk dresses and wear good, sensible ginghams or whatever women wear to work In. We are going to have real breakfasts and you are go lng to be neat?" Rita's eye hod begun to flash and now she rose so that her eyes were nearly level. "George, have you been dreaming, or what Is ltT" "Just woke up!" he snapped, thank ful she hadn't cried; that was whal he had dreaded. "No more sickly poetry for you. What has It gained for you except snubs? Who cares any thing about yon except that you fur nish a free entertainment? And now this Tremalne woman tries to fool you Into giving her a token"?he stamped his foot as be spoke and there was a prompt knocking ou the radiator be low; fiat dwellers respond Instantly to noise. 'That's another thing You Imven't helped me any so far, but I'm going to see to It that you stop being a drag. 1 shall sturt the collage at once am] the day It's finished we move In. So more paying rent and carfare when I have ground paid for and ready. If you ure too proud to live next door to a carpenter shop, why?" He stopped, longing to give In and eat his words as he saw her astounded face. She was his wife and he loved her, but yet; "Life seems to me an awful muddle," he thought drearily; "Rita could be so fine?In fact, she Is," he finished loyally and turned to her. She looked so slight and frail that he could not lay down the law any further. Rita had been running ber hand ab sently over the dusty wlndowsllls. She was very white but there were no signs of tears. "George," she said clearly, "I never noticed before how tall you were, you look splendid. Why didn't you tell me you didn't care for my readings? I liked to be praised and I guess I thought you would care more for me If other people thought me talented, but tonight when Mrs. Tremalne spoke of some return do you know I began to. as you say, 'wake up'? Poetry la all very well, but after all, one's husband?" She seemed to be searching for words as she exam ined her dusty finger and the man listening experienced a great throb of thankfulness. 'This flat doesn't look as It should, I think It will be a dis tinct relief to move and start fresh and have no foolish pretenses." 'Then you won't feel badly?" be knew he was weak, hut he wnnled to make sure. All the enthusiasm that she had poured Into her readings seemed to have been deflected Into thlk new Idea ?that of making home life pleasant. Rita wasn't stupid?she Just hadn't thought "I wonder If It's too late to look over those plana you have for the cottage? I think I can promise you a different looking place tomor row night" Her face told him that she had changed ber Interpretation of life. ZTfeBluetianube Atrial View of Budapeat in the Danube. (Prepared by the National Oeographle Society. Washington. D. C) EUROPE'S -temporary Ice Age"? the moat severe winter that has been known for many decades? gave the role of destroyer to the stream that Is normally the Beautiful Blue DnDube. The stream was frozen so solidly that Ice dams were formed, Imprisoning millions of cubic feet of water. When milder weather caused a break In tbe Ice barriers, the result ing flood damaged hundreds of the riv er boats that bad been Imprisoned In tbe Ice. Economically the Danube Is to the land-locked nations of Europe wbat the Mediterranean Is to tbe countries of southern Europe. Once the North ern frontier of the Roman empire; la ter the path for conquering hordes.of Huns Slavs and Magyars; now the commercial Main street of Central Eu rope, the Danube may claim to be the most Important river of Europe, though It Is exceeded by the Volga In length. i Human activity attains extremes along the Danube's course even more marked than the contrasts along bi zarre Broadway, N. Y. Its waters see the revels snd destitution of Vienna and flow by flat rocks on whlcb Hungarian women pound their clothes with wooden mallets and bear them away In tubs on their heads. They pass mills like those of Mlnneatiolls, bear vessels like those on the Hudson, snd turn the wheels of boat-borne wn ter wheels to which peasants bring grain In primitive ox carts with even the wheels kept In place by wooden pins. The river halves Budapest and courses by busy Belgrade where It receives the waters of the Save. It carries barges on which families live as they do on canal boats. Grim cas tles, great estates, and tiny cottages stand along Its banks. | Scenlcally the Danube possesses vn rlety almost as Infinite. Rising In the Black forest, some of Its waters seep through underground fissures to a j stream of the Rhine basin. Sometimes 1 It Is pressed between high hills Small er craft appear on Its waters In Ba varia. In Austria It splits Into many | arms and forms a whirlpool. In Hun gary plains It sprawls wide, receiving many Important branches, remnant of a prehistoric Inland sen. It resumes a wild, torrential aspect again when it pierces the Kazan defile and the Iron gates It receives nearly as many tributaries as there are days In the year, and drains an area almost equiv alent to that of Egypt. Along the steep right bank of the Kazan defile can be traced a road built by Trajan early In the Second century. Not until recently baa the construction of a modern road made tbe defile pass able upon either hank. Recognition of the International Im portance of the Danube was attested by placing It under a commission In 18S0. and further provisions regarding It are contained In subsequent treaties Including that of Versailles In 1019. The Scenic Glorias. Tbe scenic glories of tbe Danube are chiefly to be seen along the up per reaches of tbe river; but the broad highway of the lower reaches Is eco nomically of more Interest, because of the traffic It carries Below Glnrgevo, Romania, and Rot schuk, Bulgaria, the Dnnnbe widens to about three miles from bank to bank. Glnrgevo, a point of great strategic Importance, Is accessible by river steamers at high water snd has an auxiliary port about two miles fur ther down stream. Tbe lower Danube haa a very slight fall, only 120 feet In the last 000 miles of Its length, bnt because of the great volume of water. Increased as It goes on by the Alt. tbe Argescb. the Jalo mltza. the Sereth. and the Prulh. as well ss smaller streams It (lows with great force. Tbe Bulgarian banks are high; the Romanian ahnre la low and flat and often overflown. Slllstrla, the "fortress of the Da nube" alDce Roman times, though of less military Importance than Gains, is the next place of Interest below Rutschuk. A Roman relic, "Trajan's Wall," may be seen frotn the river be low Slllstrla, and forty miles from that city there Is a railroad bridge over two and a half miles long and the only one below Belgrade, connecting Bach- ' arest and the Black sea port of Coo stanza. This la one of the moat re markable examples of Its kind of en gineering and was built at a coat of J7.000.U00. Illrsora and Cura-Jamolltza are the < next places of Importance. Tbe river at Hlrsova broadens like a sea with many Islands. Tbe town with Its for tified castle Is prettily situated on a hilltop above the anrronndlng flats. Important River Port. The more Important of the river's ports are next approached. Bralla, unlovely and monotonous of aspect, la, however, the chief Rumanian port ot entry, before the war a town of ovor 50,000 Inhabitants and a renter of tha grain and timber trades. Between Bralla and Galatz are the ruins of an ancient bridge said to have been built by Darius the Great. Tbe latter city, about ten miles be low Bralla, Is a very thriving port. Vessels of 4,000 tons can come ap the river to the point Between Ga latz and the confluence with the Pruth the Danube makes Its turn to tbe east. On Its left bank lies Bessarabia, for merly Russian territory, but annexed during the World war by Rumania. After sprawling In a great angle around the barrier of Dobrudja, the so called blue Danube drops Its load of mud and sand gathered from eight na tions of Europe In a large delta at the western end of the Black sea. This delta takes the form of a huge, eqnl lateral triangle SO miles long on each side. Of all the varieties of earth surface, deltas rank high as the most useless to civilization. Mountains are admired for their Inspiration, deserts hold rare beauty for those who seek It, but few people go to a delta even to hunt ducks If they can help It The Da nube's delta Is particularly unattrac tive since the peasants have not beeu able to adapt It to agriculture, as sugar-cane planters have large parts of the Mississippi delta. Some del tas, such as those of tbe Amazon and the Tangzte. consist of large Islands surrounded by considerable water; bot the Danube's waters run through ? vast swamp which was almost a com plete barrier to navigation before tbe European commission of the Danube took a band. In country that is neither land nor water, the reeds and willows take command and do not catch malaria. Deprived of timber the peasant fish ermen put tbe reeds to many uses. Willows are used for basket making and for flab weirs A plumed reed Is cut for fuel and still another kind Is woven Into mats or used as thatch. Those who are irritated at fishing re strictions In the United States can ap preciate what s fisherman's paradise they live In by comparison. The Ru manian government considers fishing a government monopoly, and every com mercial catch must be brought to a government customs house to be auc tioned off. By the construction of levees and piers, the European commission of tbe Danube has opened a channel to Ga latz, the Romanian naval port, capa ble of receiving shipping up to 4,000 tons. Tbe traffic In and out the river amounts to more than 5,000,000 toaa annually. Appropriate Nun Theodore Rooeerelt Kara the um "Switzerland of the Tropica" to Porto Rico became of It* high monntalaoee taterlor and beautUM eceocrj, \