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The Alamance Gleaner V0L- LV- GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY JANUARY 2, 1930. NO. 48. ? ?~ i 1?Engines typifying 100 years of railroading crossing stone bridge of Baltimore and Ohio railroad, cnlied the Carrollton viaduct, on the hundredth anniversay of its completion. 2?Col. C. D. 11. MacAlplne (third from left) and his companions who were lost for two months while making a prospecting flight over the shores of Hudson bay. 3?Opening the great golden padlock of Tasadena to welcome the throngs to that city's Tournament of Roses on New Year's*day. NEWS REVIEW OF CURBENTEVENTS Discord Among Senate Drys and Officials Over Law Enforcement By EDWARD W. PICKARD DISSENSION among the dry lead ers of congress and dissatisfac tion with President rioover's law en forcement commission marred the good will toward men that is sujj^v posed to characterize the Christmas season. United States District Judge Paul J. McCormick of Los Angeles,' a member of the commission, who had been sitting on the federal bench in New York, started the fireworks when on his return home he found occasion to make some very caustic remarks concerning the prohibition problem. "A man's home Is his castle," said th*e Jurist, "and the practice of enter ing It in the course of prohibition en forcement without legal procedure should be abolished." The national commission, the judge said, already has determined that two major problems require immediate settlement: One is the solution of pro hibition enforcement and the other is the removal of "governmental law lessness" and restoration of consti tutional rights to citizens. "Speaking as an individual," Judge McCormick pronounced fanaticism one of the most serious enemies of pro hibition. He said fanatics were to be found in the ranks of both wets and drys. William J. Harris of Georgia, one of the leading drys in the senate, was roused to immediate action and de manded that the President remove the Los Angeles jurist from the commis sion. "Judge McCormlck's statement shows that Just what I feared was being done is being done," said Sen ator Harris. "It really is an encour agement to violators of the law and it shows Judge McCormiek to be such a partisan against the prohibition en forcement law that, no matter how honest he may be, he is unfitted to hold offide on the commission. Un less the commission stops its secret sessions and comes out -tn the open, its usefulness is impaired to such an extent that its report will be given no weight. The prohibition forces of the country will be greatlf disappointed if the President does not remove this man, who has encouraged anti-prohlbl tlonlsts as well as violators of the law." ? Harris was Joined by other senate drys urging that Mr. Hoover ask the commission to make an early report on the liquor question. Senator Glass of Virginia wants to hear from the com mission soon, but he does not think Judge McCormiek should be removed from that body. Senator William E. Borah of Idaho, another dry leader, expressed the opinion that' a eapcrt from the crime commission would be of little value In obtaining better dry law enforce ment conditions. What is needed, he said, is an improvement in the per sonnel of enforcement officers. "If the commission report," Borah said, "they will not tell us anything we do not know, either as to the law or as to the facts. We still will be back to the proposition that with the present personnel nothing will be ac complished." This brought a sharp retort from Prohibition Commissioner James M. Doran, who declared that such a "awceplng condemnation" of the pro hlhition unit "is most unfortunate ana bound to have a disheartening effect upon the morale of the service." "To say that prohibition cannot he enforced with the present personnel." the prohibition director added, "comes perilously near to saying that It can not be enforced at all." NE more killing by prohibition enforcement agents marked Chrlstmns day. Coast Guardsmen at Buffalo fatally shot Eugene F. Dow ney, Jr., son of a policeman, In a motor boat on the Niagara river. They de clared he did not heed their signals to stop, but It was said they found no liquor in Downey's boat. The mail was arrested recently in connection with Jlquor smuggling and was out on i bail. CHRISTMAS Joy at the White House was almost ruined by a Are tjiat completely wrecked the interior of the executive offices wing of the mansion. Mr. Hoover helped In the removal of his personal and business papers and then stood In the cold for two hours watching the firemen fight ing the flames. The cause of the fire was found to be an overheated fire place chimney In the office of Secre tary Newton. Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant III, director of public buildings and public parks, estimated the damage to be approxi mately $50,000. Inspections showed that, although It will be necessary to completely rebuild the structure, there was no irreplaceable damage. At the time of the conflagration Mrs. Hoover was hostess of a chil dren's party In the White Honse din ing room. While the President and the other men present hurried out, Mrs. Hoover, In order not to frighten the children, had the Marine band strike up n lively air and then pre sided over the celebration without a hint of what was happening a few hundred feet away. On Christmas day there a happy family party in the White House, followed by a din ner to members of the cabinet and their families. TERHIF1C gales with rain and cold carried disaster and death to the Atlantic coast of Europe from the Orkney Islands to Spain on Wednes day. The worst accident reported was the loss of the Norwegian steamer Aslaug near Vigo, Spain, with Its en tire crew of 24. Many other steam ships were reported in trouble. One went aground near Blnnkanese, Ger many. blocking the River Elbe, and two were driven on the rocks off Porspol, France. , SENATOR BORAH, chairman'of the senate foreign relations commit tee, and the United States Depart ment of the Interior appealed to Rus sia for help In searching for Carl Ben Eilson and Earl Borland in the wastes of Siberia, and the Soviet for eign office replied that an airplane had been dispatched to hunt for the two missing American aviators who failed to return to Alaska six weeks ago from a flight to aid an Icebound fur ship. They are believed to have been forced down near North cape. The foreign office announcement said also two other afrplanes would be dispatched Immediately to aid In the search for the airmen. Semyon Shestakov, national air hero of Soviet Russia since bis flight from Moscow to New York, was selected to head the rescue expedition. Three powerful cabin planes and Ave experienced Can adian aviators were conveyed to Alaska from Seattle on a coast guard cutter to help In the search. GENERAL RICO, military com. mander at Nogalea. says, in a report to the Mexican government on tlie recent execution of Gen. Carlon Rouquet, that Rouquet made a signed statement that he had heen cotamis sloned by Jose Vasconctlos, defeated candidate for the presidency, who now Is In the United Stntes, to recruit rev olutionlsts on the Mexican Pacific coast and that he had gone to N'ogales to receive orders, money and muni tions from a revolutionary directorate established at Tucson, Ariz. IRWIN B. LAUGHI.IN, our new am bassador to Spain, presented his I credentials to King Alfonso on Tues day, was Introduced to the queen nnd I exchanged formal calls with Premier i Primo Rivera. He Is now engaged In | a long series of calls on government ; officials nnd the heads of all the other embassies and legations. , The king received the American am bassador in the uniform of a captain general, with red trousers, n blue coat and many decorations. He made a striking martial figure. The simple evening dress of Ambassador I.augh lln and his staff was in contrast with the gorgeous uniforms of the Span ish court. ORTIZ RUBIO, president-elect of Mexico, visited Washington last week and was accorded all the honors due the head of a state during his three days' stay. He made a formal call at the White Mouse, and Presi dent and Mrs. Hoover departed from long established precedent by return ing the call at the Mexican embassy. On Friday Senor Ortiz Rublo and his wife were entertained at a state din ner at the White House. ONE of the great disasters of the dying, year. If measured by loss of life, was the foundering of the Chinese steamer Lee Cheong. plying between Hongkong and Swabuc, In a heavy storm. Two hundred and fifty Chinese passengers perished, as did the members of the crew and 44 In dian guards. Only two men escaped, by clinging to a raft. WAIl Id Manchuria between China and Soviet Russia appears to have come to an end. The foreign commissariat In Moscow announced that Slmanovsky and Tsnl Yun-Shen, plenipotentiaries of the Soviet union and Mukden governments, had signed a protocol at Habarovsk, Siberia, re storing the status quo ante on the Chinese Eastern railway and imme diately restoring Soviet consulates and commercial organisations In the Soviet Far East. It was stated that peace would fol low on thq frontiers, to be followed by withdrawal of troops of both sides. All prisoners are to be released and the Chinese'- promised to disarm the White Gnard Russians. Full restora tion of diplomatic relations will not be brought about until after a confer ence that will open In Moscow on January 25 for the settlement of all outstanding questions. GERMAN Nationalists made a dis mal failure of their latest at tempt to prevent adoption of the Young reparations plan. In a public referendum their bill "against the en slavement of the German people," which would have the Young plan re jected, failed to obtain more than one fourth of the vote required to give It effect. The relchstag last November defeated a similar measure by an overwhelming majority. Henry d. clayton, who while a member of congress framed the anti-trust art that bears his name, died at his home In Montgomery. Ala., after an Illness of three weaka. He was seventy-two years old and was serving as a Judge of the middle fed eral district of Alabama. (C, ISIS, v?un Nwrssaser Ualaa.) I SURPRISE 1 WEDDING | (SXBaxSXSGXS???^^ (? by D. J. WaUh.) MR. AND UR8. DAWSON were sitting quietly reading after dinner when there was a ring at the door bell. lira. Daw son answered and found a special mes senger with a letter. Such messages were no novelty, so she tore open the envelope cnrelessly to read this amaz ing letter: "My Dear Mother and Father: "As you are reading this Rodney and I are being married at Calvary church. You see, we love each other so much that we cannot wait to grow older and wiser and perhapp miss each other In the end. We have decided to marry now while we are' young In order to enjoy every thrill In life to gether. 1 would rather be poor with Rodney thnn rich with any other man. "After we are married we nre go ing to drive out by the house. We would like to come home, but If the place Is In darkness we will know that you are Angfy with us and do not want to see us, so we will drive on by and never bother you again. If you love us and can forgive us, please, Mother dear, leave the,lights burning. "We wanted yon with us at our wedding, but you so strongly disap proved of our getting married now, .And vye simply cannot wait, so we had to-go alone. Uncle Tom and.Aunt Bess Young will be our only wit nesses. "Love from your daughter Cornlyn, who by the time you have read this far will be the happy wife of Rodney Johnstone." Mrs. Dawson sank very suddenly Into the nearest chair. What time was It? 7:301 She wrung her hands. Her only little girl married without 'her knowledge and consent! It couldn't be possible! No time for tears now. There was an Important decision to be made and made quickly. What effect would this news have upon her Invalid husband and what was going to be. his attitude towurd the runaways? The doctors had warned her that any shock might prove fatal, yet time was flying and with so much at stake she could not wait to break the news gently. She must take a chance and let him read the letter for himself so they could decide as quickly as possible what was the best thing to do. Deliberately Mr. Dawson rend the note through, with his wife waiting anxiously beside him. He took off his glasses and tapped them absent-mind edly upon the book laid across his knee to mark the place. "Foolish, foolish youngsters," he murmured at last, "to rush Into re sponsibilities before they are titled for them, ltudney's a nice enough chap, clean-cut and well educated. It wasn't as If we hatf any real objec tion to him, but they're only children. They're too young to know their own minds and Just as liable to fall In and out of love a dozen times before they're ready to settle down. "What do you want to do, Janey?" "Leave the house lighted, Dan, so the children will be sure to come home. Oh, Danny, If we let our pride bold us back now we'll lose our little girl and she'll need us more than ever these next few years." "Suits me, Jnney," Dawson replied, leaning over to pat his wife's hand cnmfortinelv. "Do you feel equal to a little com- ' panj tonight, dear? I've been think lng I would like to make n gay affair ot their home-coming?Invite aa many of their frlendi aa poeslble and per haps a few of ours." "Not a bad idea, Janey. Sort of take off the raw edge and aet the affair atralght for them. No one need know we were left out of their plana; doc tor's orders, no excitement, save ex pense while I'm laid op. liather con venient to have a bad heart Just now, eh what, old girl?" "Tou're one In a thousand, Danny," exclaimed his wife, stooping to klaa hlfi affectionately. "I'm sure we'll never regret It Please turn on every light In the bouse, will you. dear, while I run over to Mrs. Robblns'? I'll need ber assistance to pull off this stunt I property. And, yea, you'd better tele | phone Klml and tell ber to come back ; at once." After a sketchy explanation of the situation Mrs. Itobblns entered en thusiastically Into Mrs. Dawson's plans and added a few clever Ideas of her own In order to make the young couple's marriage seem as natural as possible. Hastily compiling a list of tbose to be Invited, the ladles sep arated to do the necessary telephon ing. Thirty friends acceded the Invita tion, palpitating with curiosity to | learn what was the surprise Mrs. Daw son had In store for them. The question of refreshments was easily solved by Mrs. Robblns driving Into town where she bought Ice creem ?od cuke, one of which (Mla a real wedding cuke, elaborately frosted and decorated with silver hells and other bridal jlmmy-flxlngs. While she was gone Mrs. Dawson got out china mid silver und arranged tables so that, by the time the first guest arrived, the house presented a gala appearance with no vestige of the scurry there bad been to prepare things. It was nine o'clock when the bride and groom, wondering just what uttl tude Father and Mother Dawson might tuke concerning their precipitate tnnr. rlage, drove slowly and fearfully up the avenue, almost shrouded In dark ness. "Oh, oh, Rodney, hurry, hurry," cried Cornlyn, ecstatically squeezing her husbnnd's arm. "Look, I do be lieve every light In the house 1s turned on. Did you ever see such a blaze of glory? Why. It looks as If mother Is having a party! Just see all the automobiles lined up In front of the house. Oh. Rodney. Do you suppose It's for us? I an so happy, happy P Aguln It was Mrs. Rohblns who had the Inspiration to turn on the phono graph so that the newlywcds came up the steps to the strains of the wed ding march from "Lohengrin." With a gasp Mrs. Dawson asked herself If this radiant, beautiful young woman were her very own baby?she seemed so mature, so womanly, so self possessed. She had not realized that she was so grown up or how lovely she was with that mop of brown curls framing her small, delicately molded face and blue eyes looking wistfully out from under long, curling lashes. And that blue dress I llnw beautiful It was! Little had she suspected when she was making It thai It was to be her daughter's wedding dress. On the top stair Rodney and L'ora lyn hesitated for a moment, looking at the smiling faces waiting to receive them, then, just like the little girl she was, the bride broke away from her husband nnd, with a few running Steps, was In her mother's arms. If It had cost Mrs. Dawson a pang to be magnanimous no one suspected It and she felt more than repaid when she felt her daughter's strong, young arms about her and heard her whisper In her ear. "Oh, Momsle dear, you're the best mother a girl ever had nnd I do love you so. I'll try to he more worthy of yottr love nnd forgiveness." "Daddy, Daddy," she cried as she flew to kiss her father, "isn't this just the very nicest surprise one could iiiiutjiur ? Rodney Johnstone did not sny much but his eyes were very tender when he kissed "Mother" and promised that she should never regret their good ness to them that night. Ills warm handclasp meant more to "Father** than a lot of gushing apologies. "I hope, Janey, that you under stand that Tom and I did not approve of this way of doing things." said Mrs. Young sot to voice, "but when we real ized that they were determined to get married tonight, we thought It was better for us to go with them than some scatter-brained youngsters." "We understand perfectly, Hess, and If we could not be with my daughter when she was married, we would rather It were you than any one else we know!" After the bride and groom had left In n shower of rice purloined from Mrs. Rabbins' kitchen and the last guest had departed, the Dawsons sat down to discuss the amazing Inci dents of a hectic evening. "You're the best little sport In town, Janey," concluded Dan Dawson, as he rose to shut up the house for the night, "and I take my hat off to you for the superb way you carried a trying and difficult situation through to a happy finale.** To* and Brain Allied According to n medical opinion, quoted bj counsel in an action heard at Shoredlleh County court, the be havior of the bis toe la an Infallible criterion of the condition of the hrnln, says the London Star, This author ity atated: If the bottom of the foot Is gently stroked or tickled fbe big toe will prob ably stick upwards when the brain Is bealthy. If It corls downwards Instead this la a sign of nn Injury to the brain. Attention should be directed to the big toe. The action of the other toe* can be Ignored. World's Biggest Monitor The hugeat of all the dinosaur* were the sauropods, giant vegetarians walk ing heavily on all fours, with pillar like legs, long, snake-like necks, far reaching tolls and a brain weighing less than a pound to govern a body with an estimated weight of 40 tons.? American Magazine. Ireland's Bottomless Bogs The Irish bogs are almost as great In extent aa those of Germany. While Ihe latter are from 9 feet to 20 feet deep, the Irish varlely often reaches 40 feet and are sometimes apparently bottomless. It has been calculated that each acre of bog contains 1S.231 tons of peatstuff. Jugoslavia's Coast 111 Dalmatian Peasant Women. irrvpnrcu D7 me nauunai uru|iat>u? Society, Washington. D. C.I IF ONE enters Jugoslavia uy rail at the northeast corner where Italy and Austria meet that country, his route follows the gray-green Suva ?nstwurrt to Zagreb, the old Agrara of Austro-IIungarlan days. If one then turns westward toward Flume, the tharp detour crosses the panorama of Jroatla'8 inagnlllcently forested moun .aln country as the train climbs to the regional watershed before descending to the Adriatic. The route holds Its surprises. Im agine a mountain town halved by s ?ushlng river which p'unges 40 yards uto a crevasse under the sidewalk ind then, three miles further on. pops jp unexpectedly, to resume Its surface course. Vet such fluvial feats char acterize not only Croatia, but the en tirety of those barren highlands which extend southward behind the Jugo slav coast. They fcrm the so-called Karst re gion, whlrh geologists have compared :o a vast petrified sponge. Such are the tricks that time and rushing itreams have played with the Knrst's easily decomposed limestone. "Now you see us nnd now you don't I" gur gle In chorus a whole system of such lack-ln-the-box rivers, as they plunge into the mountains' enstern (lank, tri umphantly reissuing, scores of miles westward, as feeders of estuaries or. In one case, as a fresh water spring emerging from sen bottom. Had some Slnrco f't-lo left ns an ac count of the marvelous Land of Spongy Mountains, whose rivers cut through the bases of ranges 1,000 feet high, we might have dismissed him as a fabulist; yet In sober fact a Montengrln river has performed that Identical fenL While descending through the In describably sterile looking Karst, one puts to himself the question: "Why, In this desert, build those Innuwer able, circular stone walls to Inclose at most a bit of grass?" Farming In Holes. But you learn th.it what you aee are karat holes?ix'remely rich oases ?and that. In this land of Jack-in-the box rivers, natural precipitation. In stead of draining Into streams, sinks through the porous stone, carrying vegetable matter along with It, and enriches a regional series of funnel like ditches. Thus, "farming In holes" ?the karat holes, which sometimes number several hundred within a small area?provides grain for the Inhab itants of this mountain side desert. The blinding, sizzling Karat comes to a spectacular end when you espy from nearly half a tolls above, what appears as a gigantic relief map, the Istrlan mountains curving around the Gulf of Quarnero, and to the south ward the Veleblt mountains outflung ridge spanning the rim of Illimitable Adriatic blue. In Flume, yon lean: that the city has Its front doors on the sea and Its back doors among the mountains. Any prospective visitor to Flume who may question this has only to climb up 423 certain steps, taking them In cool weather and "on low." He will find himself among the city's back doors, overlooking the Veleblt ridge. A turn about will give him an airman's view of the terraced hillside by which Flume-Susak descends to Its far-stretched curve of wharfage; and from one's feet there plunges headlong the mere ribbon of watei that divides what Is practically one city Into two ports. Flume and Susak ?the former In Italy, the latter In Jugoslavia. When yon buy and tussle with a map of the Jugoslav const. It will givs you that hopeless feeling which pos slbly overcame the first explorer whe attempted to chart Ualne's coast line Also, yon sriU sympathize with thai omcr explorer, who, weary 01 cuum ing Islands in the St. Lawrence, prob ably said, "Oh, let's name 'em the Thousand Islands and call it a day's work V Queer Coast, Queer Names. Even Maine's shores are rivaled in their zigzag conformation by those of Dalmatia. While a direct course along the Jugoslav littoral measures 300 sea miles, the indented length of that coast is almost three tiroes as long. As for the man-sized Job of counting Dalmutia's islands, that has t>een sim plified by ignoring insignificant islets and putting the archipelago's units at 000 and Its area at 2,000 square miles. The locally published maps present other difficulties. The kingdom of the Serbs, Croat- and Slovenes (Jugo slavia) has made a clean sweep of former Austro-Uungarian place names In favor of their Slav equivalents. Like the out-of-luck American tourist who wouldn't stop oft' at "Praha" be cause lie wanted to get on to Prague, the traveler today often needs a bilin gual key to ascertain where he Is. Here is a list of some Jugoslav place names, with their prewar equivalents bracketed: Lake Bled (Veldeser See), Lake BohlnJ (Wochelner See). Za greb (Agram), Zadar (Zaro), Sibenik (Sebenlco), Trogir (Trail), Solin (Salona), Split (Spalnto). Gruz (Gra vosa), Dubrovnlk (Itagnst), Kotor (Cattaro). As neither railroad nor motor trail spans the Jugoslav coast, one had best take the oldest and most appropriate of routes, the sea lane, to rediscover those shores whose maritime fame' antedated England's by centuries. From among luxurious liners, more modest steamers, and fleets of sailing craft, one may choose one's traveling style along what Is one of the best served llttornls in sooth European wuicn. As Susak fulls nstern. Italy dlsnp penrs behind Islands. With an archi pelago barring the open sea nnd with the Veleblt's barren heights rising be hind the narrow coast, It seems as If one Is navigating a succession of blue, (lawlessly calm lagoons. Along the lllyrian Coast. Vow and then your boat touches port l.i some deep-set bay with Its hill-perched townlet?often an almost streetless clump of vine-clad houses? which had dug Its heels Into the Vele blt and held on while as yet Venice was unheard of. Yet the specter of the lagoon republic, medieval Dal matian protestress, still haunts every nook and corner of the Jugoslav coast. Small steamers wind through the narrow lagoonlike waters, known along the coast as "cnnals," which were once ruled by those petty poten tates for whom, Croatian tradition as serts, mourning weeds have become perpetuated as a national costume. As one sails along, now the Veleblt range, Its barren, slate-gray flanks queerly diagramed with walled karat holes, thrusts menacingly forward, barring Croatia from ths Adriatic. Occasionally there appear V-sbaped valleys where some tiny, stucco port nestles among a luxuriance of trees, hedged gardens, and terraced vine yards. A wild strip, this, of the ancient Illyrian coast. Wild, too, were the flrst Illyrlans, a mixture of pre Homeric Greeks and those wandering Asians, the Llburnl, after whom Rome called the country Llburnia. Legend says that from Cadmus and Harmonla, through their son Rlyrlus, sprang the tribes that perpetuated his name. Just north of Znra (Zadar) one en ters the waters of ardent Dalmatia. Ranging In width from 1 to 35 miles, this little silver of a state en Joyed a well-developed coast which played Its famous role In the see commerce of the Middle Ages.
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