The Alamance Gleaner
V0L- LV- GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY JANUARY 2, 1930. NO. 48.
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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.
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SURPRISE
1 WEDDING |
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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
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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.