The Alamance gleaner i f * ' | ? ? | - ? .j i ' J. VOL. LV. GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY JUNE 13, 1929. NO. 19. / HAPPENNINGS OF THE WEEK I : ? NEWS REVIEW OF GURRENTEVENTS Progress of the Farm Relief Measure?MacDonald Now British Prime Minister. By EDWARD W. PICKARD NOW known as the agricultural marketing act, the farm relief bill tame out of conference last week and was then accepted by both the house and senate. It was scheduled to be In the hands of President Iloover for signature about June 12. From the blU as modified the export debenture plan was omitted, all the conferees ex cept Senators Xorrls of Nebraska and Smith of South Carolina voting for this course. On other features the measure represents a compromise be tween the senate and house bills, the essential points of the latter being re tained. Provision is made for a farm board composed of the secretary of the treasury and eight members appointed by the President at salaries of $12,000. the President will designate the chair man of this board. Commodity advis ory councils are to be set up to advise the board on methods of dealing with crop surpluses. Commodity stabilization corpora tions, all the stock of which Is owned by co-operatives, are authorized to buy, ?tore, and market surplus commodi ties. The stabilization corporations will be able to obtain loans from a $500, 000,000 revolving fund at the dis posal of the farm board. Only such part of this fund as congress appro priates will be Immediately available. The board may make loans for the handling of crop surpluses and also for the purchase of warehouses and other physical market facilities and may make advances to co-operatives for various purposes, Including loans for insurance against price decline. The board may fix the terms of the loans, the Interest rate being limited lo an amount approximating the rate on outstanding government securities. President Hoover let It be known that the administration would ask con gress to appropriate, before recessing, as much as $100,000,000 from the half billion fund authorized, with a view to having it available for handling the wheat surplus. Department of agriculture experts said this Immedi ate appropriation should be $200,000, 000, for they believed more than half that sum would be needed for wheat alone, the price of which has fallen very low. This doefj not mean neces sarily that the entire amount will be loaned to the wheat stabilization cor poration to be set up by co-operatives with the approval of the farm board. Borne of the supporters of the Hoover farm relief program believe that If a stabilization corporation buys as much as 25,000,000 or 50,000,000 bushels of wheat it will have a tremendous effect on the market, provided It Is known that the corporation can borrow un limited additional funds from the farm board. SENATOR SMOOT, chairman of the senate finance committee, an nounced the make-np of the fonr groups of subcommittees which will consider various schedules of the tariff bill. They are to hold bearings simul taneously. beginning Jane 13. The free list and administrative provisions will be handled by the full committee. Paris Industrial newspapers urge the French parliament to find some means of erecting retaliatory tariff barriers against United States products. In deed. throughout most of Europe there Is deep resentment against the pro posed American tariff measure. The presidents of the European chambers of commerce In a report stated that the policy of the United States is In comprehensible "If one considers Its Onandal requirements," for this coun try Is not only Europe's creditor but also la the holder of the greater part of the world's gold; and If American ports are closed to European merchan dise the debtor countries are cut off from their only means of raising money to settle their debts. PRESIDENT HOOVER In a message to congress asked that the senate and house appoint a select committee to study the matter of concentrating and reorganizing the bureaus charged with enforcement of the dry laws In co-operation with his special commis sion on law enforcement. At the same time the Treasury department an nounced the opening of a new drive to stop liquor smuggling In the Detroit area. pASSAGE of the census and reap portionment hill was accomplished In the house, but only after the ma jority leaders had freed the measure from negro disfranchisement and alien exclusion amendments that threatened to bring about Its defeat. The final tote was 272 to 105. ^"JERMAN reparations are now up w to the governments of the allied nations and Germany, for the commis sion of experts has concluded Its great task with the adoption of the Young plan, the main features of which were given In these columns a week ago. Seventeen weeks of nerve wracking discussion thus came to an end, and while it could not be said every one was satisfied, all at least were re lieved. 44Well, are you glad It is over?" some one asked Dr. HJafmar Schacht, the chief German delegate. "Who would be glad over the pros pect of paying $487,900,000 in the next thirty-seven years and then not be through?" he snapped back. The Belgian representatives at a creditors' meeting in Paris announced that they would accept the German offer for settlement of the Belgian claims for compensation of the Belgian worthless German marks unloaded in Belgium during the war. This settle ment is to be negotiated directly be tween Germany and Belgium and must be completed before the Young plan goes into effect next September 1. In Berlin it is thought that a politi cal conference will be called In July to sanction the report of the experts and to take up the question of evacua tion of the Rhineland. President Hoover and Secretary of State Stimson cabled their congratula tions to Messrs. Young, Morgan, Per I kins and Lamont, the Americans on the experts' commission who really brought about the settlement. DAMSAY MAC DONALD, chief of the Labor party, is now prime minister of Great Britain and his cab inet has been sworn in. Stanley Bald win handed In his resignation Tues day and the king Immediately sum moned MacDonald to form a new gov ernment. He submitted the names of the principal members of his cabinet and they were approved by his maj esty, who sat up in bed and chatted and joked with the new prime min ister for a hour, for they are very good friends. It was reported In London that Lloyd George was willing to give the Laborites the support of his Liberal following on condition that an electoral reform bill be Introduced and no real ly contentious legislation, such as widespread nationalization schemes, be proposed. The question of the min ing industry may present difficulties In which the Laborites and the Lib erals cannot agree. The biggest mat ter on which they are agreed Is un employment relief. The schemes of both parties include large appropria tions for building of new houses, slum clearance, drainage of land and rec lamation, construction of new roads, electrification and reorganization of the railways, and afforestation on a wide scale. In foreign affairs the Lib erals an1 Laborites are in complete accord. THREE months In Jail are not enough for the punishment of Harry F. Sinclair, the oil magnate. The Supreme Court of the United States last week unanimously upheld the decision of the District of Colum bia Supreme court which sentenced Sinclair to serve six months In jail for hiring detectives to shadow the jury In the first Fall-Sinclair criminal conspiracy trial almost two years ago. Henry Mason Day, vice president of the Sinclair Exploration company and Sinclair's personal representative In the shadowing of the jury, must serve a jail sentence of four months. Wil liam J. Burns, head of the detective agency which supplied the detectives, was sentenced to serve 15 days at the same time Sinclair and Day were sentenced by Justice Frederick I. Rld dons. The Supreme court reversed the Burns sentence, but permitted ? One of *1,000, Imposed on Ills son, W. Sherman Barns, secretary of the de tective agency, to stand. CHARLES G. DAWES, onr new am bassador to the Court of St. James, sailed for England after > final conference with President Hoover and Secretary Stlmson. On June 26 General Dawes Is to receive the de gree of doctor of civil law from Ox ford university. COLONEL AND MRS. LINDBERGH finally were found, not by re porters but by a steamer captain who discovered the moneymooners aboard Llndy's express cruiser Mouette wben he helped moor the craft at a pier at Block Island. The Mouette was pur chased by the colonel just before his wedding, and he and his bride boarded it at -?-Jonely spot on the Long Island shore. Tuesday the little craft put to sea again, apparently headed for the Maine coast, and aguln Llndy dodged the press and camera men by going around Cape Cod Instead of through the canal. Newspaper re ports said a piece of canvas was draped over the stern of the Mouette, hiding Its name, and coast guards In Boston declared the colonel for this reason was Incurring the danger of being fired on by their patrol boats. WHILE the Shriners were gather ing In Los Angeles for their an nual meeting and joyfest, the Supreme court In Washington handed down an opinion that gives the negro organiza tion known as the Ancient Egyptian Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine the right to continue the use of Its name and Insignia. White shriners In Texas had objected to the activities of the negro organization and to Its insignia. They won In the lower courts. Justice Van Devanter In delivering the opinion, to which no dissent was announced, said the white shriners by their failure to object within a reasonable time bad lost their right to act PORTERS and maids In the employ of the Pullman company have won their three years' struggle for higher pay, having been given a wage In crease of *5 a month and various Im provements In working conditions. The agreement was reached In a con ference between officials of the com pany and 21 elected representatives of the 12,000 porters end maids. The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters was Ignored by the company. Big building operations In Chicago were held up for several days by a strike of the bridge and structural Iron workers. In which the architec tural Iron workers Joined. The former demanded a wage scale of *13 a day, an Increase of *1. This was soon agreed to by the Steel Erectors' asso ciation, but the Iron league held out longer. Thousands of Italian* who lived on the alopea of ML Vesuvius were driven from their homes when that volcano Indulged In another big erup tion and poured rivers of Inva down Its sides. The property damage was Immense but the loss of life was kept to a minimum by the precautionary steps of the authorities. Tourists were prohibited from approaching the danger zone. THOUGH the Vatican and the Ital ian government last week ex changed ratifications of the Lateran pact, the relations between Plus XI and Premier Mussolini are not cor dial. The duce addressed the parlia ment recently on the treaty, and the pope, In a letter to Cardinal Gasparrl, characterizes the dictator's speeches as "heretical, modernistic, ponderous ly erudite but full of errors and In exacL" The letter Indicates that there may be a long period of disputes over details and expresses the church's resentment of the fact that the state's bills giving effect to the Lateran treaty are not conceived In the same spirit as that pacL NOBLE BRANDON JCDAH has re signed as ambassador to Cuba; and Dr. Hubert Work has resigned as chairman of the Republican na tional committee. There were rumors that. Work thought he had been Ig nored by the Hoover administration, but the correspondence between him and the President contained no hint of this. Long-Time Forecasts of Rain Possibility The possibility of charting accurate rainfall forecasts for years In advance bas led Dr. Dlnsmore Alter, professor of astronomy at the University of Kansas, to plan a year's study of Brit lab rainfall records. 8everal of bis test predictions, com puted mathematically from statistical reports, have correlated so exactly with actual rainfall that be believes further data will expedite the malting | of serious, possibly perfectly accurate, long-time forecast!. With data from six places od the British Isles, covering years from 1834 to 1924. Doctor Alter has computed a pertodogram with a doxeo or more peaks When the fonr principal peaks were applied to actual data, the re sulting chart of departure from nor mal rainfall was found to follow close ly the actual charted departures. Many of Doctor Alter's test predic tions up to 1040 have been published by the United States weather bureau. Be hat written several papers on pe riodicity In rainfall, baaing bla studies on records from tbe Pacific coast of North America, Chile, Siberia, Austra lia, Jamaica, Madagascar and tbe Pun jab In India. Excess rainfall In England for 1928 waa predicted by Doctor Alter a year before, and actually occurred to a greater extent than predicted. Bis forecast deficiency for this year was borne out by reports showing an ac tual deficiency of 90 per cent for tbe first three months ? ANNE I I GETS A ? 1 JOLT | CHMaaoMMoaaaaoaaooaocHMKi (? 1>7 D. 1. Walita > ANNE SCOTT was working at her "yellow sheets" that morn ing when she happened to glance up and find the eyes of Miss Waterman, her superior In the stock room, fixed upon her. 'Miss Wa terman had bright black eyes, and at that Instant they held something that was so much more noticeable than brightness or lackness that Anne was startled. She thought, "Bunny bates me." Bunny was the name that Miss Waterman went by In the big factory; there was do reason for It other than that Lucia Hooper had once given Anne; "She nibbles?when you aren't looklDg." It came to Anne that she had caught Miss Waterman nibbling now?nibbling Anne herself. Anne's glance escaped Instantly and returned to her work. That morning the superintendent bad sent In a com mand for 200 dozen to fill the big or der. Tbe work was going on with n rush, and Anne was checking up as fast as she could with care. A single mistake might entail lots of trouble, even the loss of her job. And she wanted so much to keep her job. The money she earned was more necessary now than ever since ber mother had had that Illness. But that look of Bunny's?that nib bling look I "She hates me," thought Anne again. "But why?" At that Instant Roland Wight came Into the room. Anne kept ber eyes down and pretented not to see him. Yet somehow she knew that he was there, knew, too that he was looking at her, knew that Miss Waterman was looking at blm with that curious bright, blackness of her eyes. She could see just how be paused, Irreso lute, then turned toward Miss Water man. She could hear them talking In low tones. "Nine and seventeen?are twenty six," Anne said to her pencil and bent ber bead lower. But she could not help bearing tbe tonea of the two In the room behind her. All the racket of the factory couldn't drown them. "They're quarreling," she thought "Eight and nineteen are?" Miss Waterman was angry. Roland gently pacific. But at last he went out rather suddenly. Anne could hear Miss Waterman come close behind her, breathing hard. She felt uncom fortable, as If she were about to be struck, but she kept on figuring. "If you make a single mistake," said Miss Wnterman, tersely. 'TU?I'll see that you're discharged." Anne lifted her head. Ber gray, still eyes met the bright black ones. She smiled. "Ob, I shan't make a mistake," she replied. "You know, that's the one thing I'm really sure of?the multi plication table." Miss Waterman Jerked. But she went away silent. As her solid, blocky figure receded Anne looked aft er her contritely. "Ob, what made me say that?" she sighed to herself. For Miss Water man was stupid at flgores and only held her Job by sheer force of will power and experience. Anne bad pricked her with a particularly sharp little pin, and fear of the effect she might produce troubled ber. The other person In the stock room had. In her usual way, kept out of all this. Mrs. Keene was middle-aged with a son In college, a fine young ster, a year or so older than Anne. Indeed, Anne thought him one of the nicest. If not quite the nicest, young fellow that she bad ever met. And his mother was good to her. Mrs. Keene was one of those calm, sensi ble little women who go about light ing the way for the Ignorant and In experienced. Anne looked at her wist fully, and as soon as Miss Waterman was out of the room for an Instant she ran across to where Mrs. Keene was at work. "I've done something to offend Bun ?Miss Waterman," Anne whispered. "I can't think what It is. I wish I could. Haven't you an Idea?" Mrs. Keene turned and looked Into Anne's honest, questioning eyes. She looked deep. But still she did not speak. "Do yon snppose she Isn't having good luck with her love affair with Roland Wight?" asked Anne. "Still, I don't see what I've got to do with It If she Isn't." Mrs. Keene smiled and tucked back ? loose strand of Anne's bslr. "You haven't anything to do with It, I can see that," she replied. Then she returned abruptly to her work as Miss Waterman came trotting In. Anne pnzzled about the matter till business drove It out of ber head. It was business first every time with Anne. At noon as she came out of the door Roland Wight stepped up to her. "Come on. Anne, have lunch with roe today at the Rlalto, won't you 7" be pleaded. Anne looked at him In her direct we;, lie was rather nice and a sub boss, but she had no mind to lunrb with him In so public a place as the Rlalto, or anywhere else, for that mat ter. She shook her bead, trying to be kind. "No, I'm going home," she said, and sped away. Over ber shoulder she could see blm drop his head, see also that Miss Waterman, following close behind, saw him also. When Anne entered the stock room after lunch she was ten minutes late, end breathless. There had been an errand to do for her mother and sbe bad lost time on the way. The Instant she saw Miss Water man's face she knew that something had happened, or was about to hap pen. In her hand she held Anne's own "yellow sheets," nnd her hand trembled. "I can't put up with such work as this any longer," she said, pantlngly. "I've passed over your blunders as long as I can, or lJlll. And so I hare told Mr. Deavenport. I showe