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The Alamance gleaner 1 =======^ VOL. I<VI. GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY JUNE 19, 1930. NO. 20. I 1?Former President and Sirs. Coolldge In the grounds of "The Beeches," the new home In Northampton, Slass., which they have Just occupied. 2?Medal to be presented by the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America to Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd and his crew of Antarctic explorers oh June 25. 3?Crew of the Swordflsh. schooner which Is on [its way from Chicago for a three-year cruise around the world on behalf of the Chicago Centennial exposition. I NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENTEVENTS Carol's Romantic Coup Wins for Him the Throne of Rumania. By EDWARD W. PICKARD /"^AIIOL CARAIMAN, once crown ^ prince of Rumania, then an exile from his country, Is now King Carol II after one of the most romantic and spectacular coup d'etat of modern times. Everything being arranged by his friends, he flew to Bucharest In an airplane and was immediately wel comed by the parliament, which voted to give him the crown and to make the little king, Michael, Carol's son, the heir apparent. Practically the entire population of Rumania seemed to be glad to have Carol back, though the Liberal party voted his return was a "dangerous ad venture" and refused to accept the new order of things. Carol signed a law legalizing all acts of the regency In the name of King Michael and also approved a general amnesty act; but he then proceeded to punish certain prominent politicians who spoke against him after his return. He told cor respondents he would work constitu tionally through parliament and that he had no idea of establishing a dic tatorship. At latest reports he was having some difficulty in forming a government, since the National Peas ants' party decided not to participate and therefore Juliu Maniu could not accept his former position of premier. Carol's future family concerns were somewhat , doubtful. Ills mother. Queen Dowager Marie, hastened to Bucharest from Oberajnmergau to wel come him, and there were confident predictions that he would be recon ciled to Princess Helene, his former wife, their divorce having been annulled. * /CHICAGO has been sroured to a tre mendous anti-crime spasm by the cold-blooded murder of Alfred J. I.ingie, veteran police reporter of the Chicago Tribune. Rewards totaling $33,100 have been offered for information lead ing to the conviction of the slayer; the city authorities have been sub jected to the severest criticism for not suppressing the gangsters, and the po lice department is apparently devoting most of its attention to rounding up the known criminals or frightening them out of the city. Lingle was a remarkably well posted crime investigator and was Intimately acquainted with the affairs of both the underworld and the police. Presum ably because he knew too much, he was shot down in broad daylight by one of two men, who made their es cape in the crowds on Michigan ave nue. The press of Chicago and of the entire countiy looked on the murder as a bold challenge of the gangsters to the press and there was a universal demand for the arrest and punishment of the slayer. HALF a hnndred lives were lost by fire and drowning when the steamer Fairfax of the Merchants' and Miners' line rammed and sank the tanker Plnthls, laden with 500,003 gal- I inns of high-test gasoline. Id Massa chusetts bay off Scltunte. In the midst of ? dense fog. Two minutes after the collision the tanker exploded and flames swept over the liner. The sea around the two vessels was imme diately covered with blaring oil and many panic-stricken passengers and memben of the crews who Jumped overboard were burned to death. The * tanker speedily went to the bottom and her entire crew was lost. About eighteen persons on the Fairfax died in the accident and others were so badly burned that recovery was doubtful. Federal authorities started an in vestigation of the disaster in Boston and had for consideration serious charges including the allegation that the Fairfax was traveling at almost top speed despite the fog, and that the liner's officers failed to give an ade quate idea of the extent of the acci dent in early radio messages. Capt. S. J. Brooks of the Fairfax asserted, according to a federal steamboat in spector, that D. C. McNeil, vice presi dent of the Merchants' and Miners' line, instructed him to send the mes sage to the company's offices in code instead of broadcasting an S O S call. CONGRESS has finally disposed of the tariff bill after months of hear ings, debates and discussions. The measure passed the senate by a mighty slim majority. Senators Reed and Grundy having decided to vote for it despite their belief that it was unfair to eastern industrial Interests. The bill's passage through the house was of course much easier. D ISHOP CANNON of the Methodist Church, South, and of various dry organisations, probably will not be pun ished for contempt of the senate com mittee on lobbying, but his conduct has been reported formally to the senate. He appeared again voluntarily last week and repeated his refusal to an swer questions relating to his political activities in the 1028 campaign. lie already bad explained that he did not intend to express contempt by walking out of the hearing without being excused. The committee In pri vate conference decided it would be fruitless to attempt to punish the bishop for an alleged contempt com mitted before less than a quorum of the committee or to seek additional authority from the senate to pursue the Inquiry and perhaps force Cannon to testify. DISCUSSION of the naval treaty was complicated by the Presi dent's refusal to let th{ senate foreign relations committee have all the docu ments concerning the pact and the London conference on the ground that this would be Incompatible with the public interest. Senator Johnson of California was especially Insistent that the committee should have these papers since the senate has equal power with the President In the mak ing of treaties. After much talk Sen ator Peed of Pennsylvania, one of the delegates to the conference, offered to turn over the secret correspondence on the treaty to Johnson on condition that the documents should not be made public. The Callfornian re jected this offer, and the committee adopted a resolution setting forth the contention that It Is entitled to ex amine all documents relating to the London treaty. PRESIDENT HOOVER nominated YV. Cameron Forbes of Boston to be ambassador to Japan, and reap pointed Chairman Legge and C. C. Teague members of the federal farm board. REGULAR Republicans of Wiscon sin held their state convention in Oshkosh and indorsed Gov. YY'alter J. Kohler for renomlnatlon. The dele gates adopted a platform embodying what Is called the "new progress!vlsm," the aim of which Is to provide a com mon meeting place for folks In the middle of the road between reaction aries and radicals. It reiterates the petition of the Wisconsin legislature asking congress to authorize a na tion-wide referendum on prohibition. Another plank calls for restrictions on the operations of chain stores. The Democrats of Indiana also met, put out a state ticket and assailed the Republican party for all kinds of alleged misdeeds, charging that the people no longer govern themselves. OBI.ES of the Mystic Shrine in great numbers gathered In Toron to. Ont., for their annual convention, staged a wonderful electric parnde that was almost wrecked by the im mense throng of eager spectators, and enjoyed themselves generally In a city where they were not hampered by prohibition laws. Thursday they dedi cated a peace memorial, the principal speaker being Senator Joseph T. Rob inson of Arkansas. Tbe Imperial council elected Esten A. Fletcher of Rochester, N. Y., Imperial potentate and selected Cleveland, Ohio, as the scene of next year's convention. PRESIDENT HOOVER awarded the Charles R. Walgreen prize of $500 for the winning essay in the second an nual Gorgas memorial essay contest to Pauline Lodge of Lnkewood, Ohio, a high school senior. She captured the prize in a field of 5,000 high school students all over the country. In ad dition to the five $100 bills handed her by the President, she received $250 for travel expenses to the National Capital. JUI.IO PRESTES, president-elect of Brazil, returning Mr. Hoover's visit to Brazil last year, was the guest of the President and the government 111 Washington last week. Secretary of State Stlmson and other high officials met Doctor Prestos at the railwny station and he was escorted by ma rines, cavalry and artillery to u pri vate residence placed at his disposal by the government. The chief feature of his visit was a state banquet Thurs day evening. WHAT may prove to be one of the greatest discoveries of medical science Is announced by Dr. J. A. Pfeif fer of Baltimore. He says he has Isolat ed the microscopic organism that Is the cause of the common cold which Is esti mated to cause the American worker [ a loss In wages alone of two billions a year. With tills micrococcus n vac cine has been worked out that has proved successful In a long period of tests and that Doctor Pfelffer and his associates say will Immunize people against catching colds for one to three years. SOUTH FLORIDA'S oldest financial Institution, the Rank of Bay Bis cayne, and three of Us subsidiaries In the Miami district failed to open their doors last Thursday. Notices posted on the doors said the action was taken for protection of depositors and be cause of recent substantial with drawals. Heavy withdrawals were re ported hy other Miami banks, but the fears of depositors were allayed by the arrival of $8,000,OCX) sent by air plane from the Federal Reserve bank at Atlanta. The Bank ot Bay BIs cayne listed total resources of $17, 182.202 and deposits of $1,-.,037,108 as of March 27, 1030, In Its last quarterly report. The Ohio state banking department closed the Cosmopolitan Bank and Trust company of Cincinnati and Its seven branches because Its $037,577 capital was Impaired by the unsuccess ful stock market gambling of A. W. Shafer, discharged district manager of the Henry L. Doherty company. New York, one of its largest depositors. After an Initial survey, examiners said Sbafer was short $623,000 in his ac counts with the bank. (ft nil, Western Newspaper Union 1 i ;i^^STELLA?|i i ili NEEDED a|| j|\ ^VACATION J i: iiRAND REST 7jp |aooooo<><><><><>o<><><>o<K><><>o<><>oS <? bv D J Walsh.) Stella; lee smiled with antici pation as she descended from the pullinan at Craig station. The air was fresh from a recent shower and the countryside seemed friendly and Inviting. a neat, shin ing car slid to a stop by the train platform and a tall, sun burned man Jumped out and approached her. "Cousin Stellar I'm so glad to see you 1' k "Cousin James I This Is a pleasure! Where Is Rose?" "Frying a chicken for your supper," James answered. "These yours?" It was a seven mile drive to Clear Spring farm. Stella was glad that she had come. She was fond of Rose and Jim. Her middle-aged childless cousins. It had been a hard year at the office and Stella was sick of hurry and noise and jazz. She would sleep late every morning, take long walks through the woods and pastures and rock on the front porch. That evening was all Stella had anticipated and more. First came a delicious supper of fried chicken and gravy, hot rolls and honey and Iced milk. Stella talked little, but her cousins hung on everv word, eager to learn morn about the new sound pic tures, which they had never seen, and to glimpse big business through the eyes of an efficient secretary. Later Stella went with Rose and Jim after the cows and when they re turned the purple and gold of sunset was fading into soft, quiet pastel shades. She watched Jim turn the separator, helped Rose feed the portly white cat and then sat in a comfort able old chair and watched the moon climb the sky. Quiet and peace; no noisy neighbors or shrilling radios or clanging traffic. Next morning Stella was awakened at six o'clock by a strident voice: "One two, bend left; three-four, bend right." A radio? Horrors! But Rose re ferred to the Innovation with frank pride. "Jlmmle Just got new bat teries. Now we can have music and programs nil day long. He likes the stock reports and the jazz, but I enjoy the cooking chats most of all." "Things might be worse." Stella was thinking optimistically, and before noon they were. She heard an ex cited telephone conversation and gath ered that Sllns Smith, the 'nearest neighbor, was III, and his wife ter ribly worried. Leaving Stella to pre pare herself a cold snack. Rose and Jim hurried over to the Smiths. They returned late In the afternoon and when the car stopped it seemed as If s dozen children tumbled out. "Sllns has acute appendicitis," Rose said breathlessly. "Doctor Carr took him to the city for an operation. Bes sie went along, of course, and we are going to feed the stock and look after the children." "Too are certainly good neighbors,'1 declared Stella. "Come here, little girl, and tell me your name." "Jlggs," answered the six-year-old towhead, "and I want to go with my daddy." She began howling lustily and It re quired the combined elTorts of Rose, Stella, and the ten-year-old twins, Dick and Bob, to comfort her. "Turn on the radio," Jim suggested. "That will drown her out" From that hour bedlam reigned. The boys raced shouting through the house and Jiggs and Tramp, a nonde script dog chased the terrified chickens from the front yard to back. Stella peeled a mountain-high pile of pota toes to the accompaniment of an ama teur Jazz orchestra aome fifty miles away. "How long will you keep the chil dren?" she Inquired of Rose, who was baking plea. "Until Bessie and Silas get home, probably ten days or so. You'll get used to their noise before long." That evening Stalls and Rose washed diahes. while Jim went after the cows. The -portly cat did not come for her evening milk; she had disappeared. Later the twins rocked vigorously In Stella's comfortable rocker, wlHle the cold, chaste moon climbed the sky and looked down dis approvingly on the noisy group. Jlggs sat In the squeaky porch swim beside Stella and Tramp was close by scratch ing fleas. Stella ,-ose wearily. "I have a head ache," she said; "J believe Til retire." "Let me sleep with her, Mrs. Bibber -oased Jlggs loudly. "Well, you do have to sleep some where, that's a fact," smiled Rose. "How about It Stellar "Whatever you suy," Stella an swered weakly. Jtggs slept soundly, her limbs out flung In childish nbandon, but Stella lay wide-eyed. She could never en dure this for two weeks, but how could she get nwuy without ofTendlng Hose and Jim? She awakened still undecided, but desperate. Fortun v ately, the arrival of the moll offered a solution of the problem. She hud a letter from the ofllce, merely a friend ly note from the filing clerk, but she seized on It as a mrans of escape. "1 must go buck," she tcld Itose. holding out the envelope with the Arm name engraved In the corner. "An emergency has arisen and I must take the next train 1" "Ob. what a pity I" cried Itose. "We were going to have such fun." Late that same evening Stella en tered her apartment. She flung wide the windows and a cool breeze cntne In, bearing a faint, pleasing hum of traffic. Taking up the phone, she called a nearby restaurant, ordered her dinner und while she waited for It sorted ber three days' accumulation of mall. Iler favorite magazine bad come, she noted, and thd book of the month. Turning the dials of the radio expertly, she allowed a silvery thread of music, poignant und beautiful, to enter the room. This was quiet and peace. The bridge-playing couple who lived In the apartment across from her, she recalled, had gone to the mountains on their vacation. The radio fans who lived helow her had gone to the seashore. Stella tasted her shrimp cocktail and as she savored Its cool, delicious flavor she let Iter eyes linger with pleasant anticipation on the wailing book and the soft, in viting couch. 3be, too, bad em barked on her vacation; a vacation? with rest. Africa'* Sausage Tree ' One of Oddest Known A tree which bean fruit apparently only to deceive Is the so-called "sau sage tree" of East Africa, a queer tree If a queer ODe Is to be found. As the sausage tree is approached while bearing fruit often reaches a length of two feet, with a most Invit ing look but a most disappointing re sult upon Inspection. The exterior seems to be edible upon a glance, but the Interior is hard and weedy pulp, neither tempting to the pnlate nor edible. The tree, which Is a member of the catalpn family, has a use, however, and enters Into both the religious and medical life of the natives of the country where It Is found. The negro tribes of Nubia consider the tree sacred and hold re'lglois festlvalsVn the moonlight beneath its branches. Poles made from the trees are erected before the houses of the chiefs and are worshiped by other members of the tribe. The natives cut and roast the sau sages and place the tut shies against pnrts of their bodies afflicted with rheumatism and similar complaints.? Washington Star. In Barren Soil Huge trees growing without any visible means of support are one of the queer sights of the Zapata swamp of southern Cuba, which is nearly 1.800 square miles in extent. .Many varieties of trees, some 4 feet in diam eter, are found growing in limestone areas where not so touch as a single spoonful of Soil can be gathered from an acre. The trees make a start In small pockets and holes In the lime stone, where collections of leaves and dlstlntegrated rock furnish them with cover for growth. In their search for food the roots stray about over the surface of the rock, finally plunging through holes to find sustenance In soil hidden deeply In the cavernous recesses of the coral stone. New Jersey Oyster Race In Net* Jersey the sowing of oysters hiss become nn annual event In the form of u race. The sce<] beds offshore ere under the protection of the New Jer sey board of shell fisheries. It Is against the luw for fishermen to gath er oysterlets to renew their leased beds close In until May 1. So on that day the oysterrnen line their sailing vessels up at Bivalve, N. J., and when the const guards signal by firing a gun the oyster crafts are off to the seed beds. Faithful Day Doctor Dunlap of Klngfield. Maine, made a call and left his tubbers on the porch. Ills dog. Peter, a cocker spaniel, was with him and took It up on himself to watch those rubbers, which he did until the latter part of the afternoon, going without his din ner to do so, until the doctor's family was notified and came and took Peter and the rubbers home. He had not noted the doctor's departure from an other door. Carpe Diaml Seize the day, handcuff It. place It under arrest, lock It up and then sen tenre It to hard labor for your own benefits, lest It run away and leave you In the night. \ Poland Today A Village Street In Rural Poland. (Prepared by the National Geographic Soclet>. Washington. D. C.) POLAND'S Importance among the nations of Europe lias been rec ognized by the United States by the raising of the United Stages legation at Warsaw to the status of ?n embassy. There has been a marked friendliness since the World war be ween the great republic of the West ern hemisphere and the new republic >f Central Europe, and a loan of many millions has gone from the for mer to help place the latter on a itrong financial foundation. American business methods bare -aptured the imagination and admira :lon of the Poles, and scarcely a work >n scientific management is published n America today that Is not trans nte-J into Polish. Poland has indus :rles that were begun before the dis covery of America, but some of them ire being rejuvenated by American methods under the guidance of Amer can engineers. Oldest of Poland's industries to be iffected by new methods are her salt mines which were adding to the savor ?f Central European - foods as early ts the Tenth century. The first Iron 'orge began operations In 1333 and mny be looked upon as the beginning >f the iron founding industry which now contributes millions of dollars worth of values each year to Polish manufacture. An Important lumber Industry, based od timber lands cov ?ring 52,000 seres, was begun In the Eighteenth century. A tree must be ninety years old before it is cue The entire forest area of the country Is more than 22,000,000 acres. One of Poland's most Interesting In dustries is a plant for building rail way equipment that was started to Napoleonic times as a wagon factory. The textile Industry keeps more than 1.000,000 spindles busy, and there are numerous factories for the manufac ture of paper, chemicals, and metal articles. Germany, which Is Poland's learest western neighbor, exports more goods to the couDtry than does the United States, in a recent year he United Slates furnished approxl mately 18 per cent of all Polish mports. Old Poland Resurrected. The Poland of today Is not an en tirely new entity. She Is rather a resurrection of the old Poland which once was one of the greatest nations of Christendom. Id size she out ranked nearly every nation of the con tinent. iiussla slone of the European nations Is larger than Poland was at her greatest In population she stood st the forefront of Europe: only Rus sia and Germany had greater popu lations before the war than are to be found In the lands that once were Poland; for unpnrtitloned Poland bad an area of 282,000 square miles, and the lands that once lay within her boundaries support a population of approximately 50.000.0u0. Poland was three times partitioned, and these partitlonlngs were read justed between the partltloners by the congress of Vienna In 1815. Where the original partitions had given Rus sia 181,000 square miles. Prussia 54. 000 square miles, and Austria 45,000 square miles, the reapportionment of the Vienna congress gave Russia 220, 500, Prussia 2G.000. and Austria 35, 000 square miles. Much of the land which Prussia secured, and particu larly Kiev, had been Identified with Russia generations before. Poland, In the days of ber greatest area, extended from a point within 50 miles of Berlin, od the west, to the mertdlaD of the sea of Axor on the east; on the north It reached Dearly to the Gulf of Finland and on the south down to the Khanate of Crimea. Former Russian Poland. What was knowD before the World war as Russian Poland Is that neck of territory stretching westward between the Prussian and Gallda. This terri tory has an area almost exactly equal to that of New Tork state, yet. In spite of the fact that Its extreme southern boundary lies north of the latitude of Winnipeg, its population Is as great as those of New Tork and New Jersey combined. Former Russian Poland. In this lim ited sense, consists of a treat plain, somewhat undulating, with an ittt age elevation of about *?> feet, slop ing upward toward the highlands of Galicla on the south and toward the swelling ground paralleling the Baltic on the north. It Joins the low lands of western Germany with the great plain , of western Russia. Its titers are alas* and sluggish. with their months often but a few dozen feet below their sources and seldom more than a few hundred feet below. Russian Poland usually has a winter somewhat similar to that of .lew Eng land. There Is an even cold, with not a great deal of snow, but often with razoredged winds from the northwardl The rivers of this region usually freeze over about the middle of Dp cember, and tbe Vistula is under Ice for approximately 80 days during the average winter. In the Eighteenth century, when the city of Warsaw, nevt to Paris, was the most brilliant citg in Europe, this flat plain was unusually rich in kentn and geese flocks, though almost bare at manufactures. Poland's history has been a tragic one through the ages. Xert to the Itussians. they are numerically the most Important of the Stars. They first appeared In Great, or North, and Little, or South. Poland In the Teeth ceDtury. where they found other Slavic tribes in possession. The wise policy of their kings early Induced the whole nation to profess Christianity. People Have Changed Little. Of medium size, with round heads and healthfnl faces, the blood more common than the brnnet. their physi cal appearance has apparently changed little. The working classes, who con stitute nine-tenths of the nation, hare always been laborious, frugal, endsr ing. temperate rather than abstemious, and intensely patriotic. Their niacin, or nobles, hare shown tiiemseivjj im petuous. brave to rashness, chivalrous. Insubordinate, emotional, artistic During the formative period Poland was consolidated by the dynasty ?f the great Lithuanian. Jageiion. the Polish Wadislaus II?a succession of princes unsurpassed In constructive ability. Union with the Lithuanians doubled the population and the na tional resources. Together they crushed the Teutonic knights at Tan nenberg In 1410 and half a century later at the peace of Thorn pushed them east of the Vistula. The Polish lands oo the Baltic, together with Danzig and Marienberg. were recov ered. The Duchy of Uazorta. of which Warsaw was the center. Ive centuries Independent. voluntarily joined the kingdom which a few years later spanned Europe from the Baltic to the Black sea. The Reformation, regarded with a suspicion as having a German origin, only for a time dis turbed the country. The advantageous situation of the kingdom, the admirable qualities of Its common people, and the development already attained, seemed to assure the greatness am] permanence of the Polish state. Tet In Poland's history there is disappointment on every page. The brilliant passages are episodes without connection or result. No where else is so mnch valor wasted. The chasm waa always widening be tween the nobles and the common people. The people paid all the taxes. The nobles, all equal, pos sessed all the wealth and power, bat had no sense of obligation or respon sibility. Intrepid in battle, they were ready to fight for the country only when so inclined. The system of government waa oligarchic In the extreme. Succession to the powerless throne waa elective, native or foreigner alike ellgiblw Each election was an orgy of tur bulence and bribery. Twice the throne was put np at auction. The liberuaa veto, established In 1652, whereby the negative vote of a single member of the diet nullified any act or all the acta of all the rest, culminated In anarchy and eventually brought about the destruction at Poland.
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