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The Alamance gleaner 1 VOL. LVI. GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY JULY 3, 1930. NO. 22. 1?Maj. Charles Kingsford-Smith and his companions who flew In the plane Southern Cross from Port Marnoek, Ireland, to Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, and thence to New York. 2?Sea Scout Paul SIple telling his fellow scouts in Washington about his ndyentures with the Byrd expedition to the Antarctic. 3?Silver peak of the Chrys ler building in NeW York, just cleared of its sheath of scaffolding. NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENTEVENTS Southern Cross Makes West ward Flight Across the Atlantic Ocean. By EDWARD W. PICKARD ONCE again the Atlantic has been conquered by aviators, and this time it was the westward passage, made successfully but once before, that was negotiated. MaJ. Charles Kingsford-Smith of Australia and three companions flew the famous plane Southern Cross from Port Mar nock, Ireland, near Dublin, and made a. safe landing at Harbor Grace, New foundland. Their intended destina tion was New York, *but when they neared the Newfoundland coast they ran into dense fogs and for six hours flew blind, losing their course and wan dering aimlessly. Meanwhile their fuel was running low and their pre dicament seemed serious. FTowever, their radio was efficient and the op erator, John W. Stannage, kept in constant communication with ships and shore stations. A relief plane was about to take ofT from Harbor Grace when the Southern Cross came in out of the fog and dropped gracefully to earth. While Kingsford-Smlth, Stnnnage and their companions, Evert Van Dyk and Capt. J. Patrick Saul, rested after the two thousand mile flight the plane was refueled, and next morning at daylight the trip to New York was resumed. Major Klngsford-Smith said they would fly later to San Fran cisco, completing a round the world flight for him and the plane. New York city gave the gallant avi ators its customary reception, with pageant, parade, luncheons and din ners. The pilot brought across a letter from President Cosgrave of the Irish Free State to President Hoover, which he planned to deliver in person at the White House. The directors and executives of the National AJr races sent Major Kings ford-Smlth a telegram of warm con gratulation and invited him to remain over In Chicago or to return from the Pacific coast to be their guest during* the races, which begin August 23. COL. ROBERTO FIERRO. now Mex lco's air hero, made a non-stop flight from New York to Mexico City In 16 hours and 3.1 minutes, a new record and ten hours less than the time taken by Colonel Lindbergh for the trip from Washington to Mexico City last December. Y"ET another most auspicious event * In aviation circles, so to speak, was the birth of a fine son to Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh at Englewood, N. J. - The glad news was given all the world Immediately by newspaper bulletins and radio broadcasts, and congratula tory messages poured In on the happy parents. The colonel was character istically reticent, but Ambassador Morrow proclaimed himself the hap piest grandfather In the world. In filling out the birth certificate Mrs. Lindbergh designated herself as a pro fessional flyer and gave her home as St. Louis, Mo. Rear Admiral Byrd and Colonel Lindbergh met In a New York hotel and exchanged congratulations. Byrd mentioned the birth of Lindbergh's son and the colonel's high altitude coast to coast flight. Lindbergh spoke glow ingly of the aerial trip to the Sonth pole. He left his congratulations for Bernt Balchen, tlie pilot of Byrd's plane on its polar dash. PRESIDENT HOOVER last week was compelled by his honest con victions to veto another pension hill, and this time the veto was upheld by the house of representatives. The measure was the World war veterans bill originating In the house and passed by the senate despite Mr. Hoover's warning that he would not approve It. Only six senators voted against the bill, which the President said was "bad legislation," against the best Interests of the veterans them selves and placing "an unjustified load upon the taxpayers at a time every effort should be made to lighten It." As soon as the senate had acted, the Republicans of the house held a caucus and enough votes were pledged to sustain the veto. To facilitate ac tion the house accepted the senate amendments and the measure was sent to Mr. Hoover. Then, Immediately aftqr his veto message was received, the vote sustaining It was taken. A substitute bill was then rushed through the house, with the prospect of definite action on it by the senate within a few days. The new measure embodies the pension system. Its Initial annual cost to the government will be $50, 000.000, which will Increase to $80, 000,000 In three years. It will apply to probably 200,000 veterans (In addi tion to 243,000 now receiving compen sation) whose pensions will range from $12 to $40 a month, depending upon the degree of disability. The vetoed bill, according to Director Hincs of the veterans' bureau, would have Cost $102,000,000 the first year and ultimately would have added $223, 000,000 annually to the present ex penditures for veterans. DT A vote of 16 to 4 the senate for " eign relatione committee reported the London naval treaty to the senate for approval. Neither Chairman Borah nor the warmest advocates of the pact on the committee submitted any writ ten report explaining and commend ing It. The four who refused to recom mend its ratification were Johnson of California, Moses of New Hampshire. Robinson of Indiana and Shlpstead of Minnesota. President Hoover remained stead fast In Ids Intention of calling an im mediate special session of the senate to act on the treaty, although twenty four senators signed a round robin petition asking him to abandon this plan and allow consideration of the pact to be postponed until after the November elections. Administration leaders are confi dent the treaty will be ratified event ually. but admit the controversy will be long and hUter. The opposition has prepared proposed reservations which would include the following declarations: That the treaty Involves no per manent surrender of the previously claimed right of the United States to build as It pleases. That under the so-called "escape clause" America can build whatever type of ship It desires In the event of England or Japan building beyond the treaty limits because of the construc tion programs of nations not signa tory to the pact. That under the replacement clauses Great Britain ran replace her 6-Inch gun cruisers with ships of that category. CUIT for triple damages of $30,000, ^ 000 was filed In Kansas City by the Grlgdby-Grunow company of Chi cago against the Radio Corporation of America, the General Electric com pany. the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing company and others, ? and the plaintiff concern ailoges the existence of a vast pool of radio patents created in violation of the Sherman anti-trust law. and says the defendants thus illegally compelled the payment of royalties of almost $6,000,0(X) by the Grigsby-Grunow company. OOTARY International celebrated ^ Its silver Jubilee last week in Chi cago, the city of its birth. Members to the number of some 18,000 assem bled from all parts of the world, with their families, and the doings included not only banquets and other festal events but also sessions in which the problems of the trades and professions were seriously discussed and many social questions were debated. CHESTER H. GRAY, Washington representative of the Farm Bureau federation, has given out an analysis purporting to show that agriculture benefits much more from the new tariff law than does industry. Duties on raw agricultural products have been increased on an average by 51.6 per cent over the rates of the 1022 law, tabulations made by Mr. Gray Indicate. The industrial rate in creases have averaged 14.6 per cent, the agricultural increases being more than three times as much as indus trial increases. HOUSE and senate conferees agr-jed on the rivers and harbors bill ex actly as it was passed by the senate, and It was sent to the President for his approval. It is estimated that the bill authorizes the expenditure of more than $135,000,000 on projects which If completed will cost lii excess of $300, 000,000. Actual expenditures must be made from the lump sum annual ap propriation of $55,000,000 at the dis posal of the army engineers. Amos w. w. woodcock wan selected to be director of the bu reau of prohibition In the Department of Justice to begin his work on July 1, the date of transfer of prohibition enforcement from the Treasury depart ment. Mr. Woodcock has been United States district attorney at Raltlmore, Is forty-sit years old and served through the World war. He will be the chief aid of O. A. Yoimgqulst, as sistant attorney general In charge of dry law and Income tax prosecutions, in the latter's Initial drive to better dry law enforcement. PUBLICATION of the second section of the report of the Simon com mission on India served only to ac centuate the rage of the Indian Na tionalists. The commission recom mends primarily that there be a fed eral organization of all the Indian states; that the new constitution should, so far as possible, contain within Itself provision for Its own de velopment, allowing for natural growth and diversity; and that during the period in which India Is progressing on the road to complete self-goTern ment, there must be full provision made for the efficiency of the funda mentals of government, which means that for many years the presence of British troops, and British officers serving In Indian regiments, will be MBPnllfll REPORTS of the serious Illness of Pope Pine XI alarmed Rome and the whole Catholic world. It wa? eald he waa Buffering from an acute blad der trouble and that uremic polaonlng waa threatened. The Vatican, how ever, gave out Information tending to show the reports were exaggerated and Indicated tlint hla plans for cer tain Important ceremonies had not been altered. ito mi xvaaurn Ncwtoaosr Valoa.1 | INJURED, 'CI! 1 BROKEN, ^|; I MENDED f | I HEARTS ? - 11 <? bv D. J. Walsh.) STEVEN sat In the little summer house on the hank of the lake, stricken. Aghast, he watched the green and white blot which was Susan's canoe grow smaller as It head ed for her home dock. In all the years since they were children and had been coming with their families for the summers at Crescent lake he had never seen her so angry with him. At his feet on the plank floor glittered the platinum ring, with Its square diamond, over which she had been so happy a few months before when their engage ment was announced. With a little groan Steven twined one arm around the rough bark of the railing and dropped bis head upon It. Life without Susan was unthink able. Susan?the girl whose lithe form could shoot through the water with a speed equal to his, who quar reled with blm and laughed with him, but who he had felt certain always loved him! Her words still rang In his ears. "I won't marry a jealous man 1" she had cried. "The Idea of your object ing to my going around with George Banderpool when we've known his people so well and everything! I had to be polite to him, didn't I, while he was bere at the hotel?" Perhaps some of Susan's wrath came from the fact that secretly she felt a little guilty. Evdn the most loyal young woman may not be able to resist frank admiration such as had been expressed by Randerpool's dark eyes looking Into her pansy-blue ones. And perhaps she had wanted to torment Steven a trifle. Be was so sure of her. And the little quarrel had ended by her breaking tbelr en gagement. Slow resentment was beginning t<J stir within Steven when he dimly was aware that hla name was being called from the door of the little snmmer house. He looked for some seconds at Isabel Dewey, teetering back and forth on ber rubber heels, before he com prehended that she wanted his at tention. "Gracious 1" she said at last In her singularly low voice. "Are you asleep? We want a fourth at doubles?come on!" It would always be like that, Steven thought bitterly as be got to his feet Life always would be Interrupting a man's tragedies by a call to dinner or something equally silly. He at tacked the ball vigorously and he and Isabel won three sets. "lou were a champion last year at college, weren't youV she asked admiringly when It was over. There was something very gratifying to him in her frank admiration Just then, although before today he had not beeu attracted to her. Before he knew It, as they walked along, be was tell ing Isabel about his broken engage ment. Why not! By tomorrow all the summer resort would know the news. Isabel Dewey bent on him a look which was a combination of surprise and sympathy. "Now, you've got to be brave, Steven," she told him. "Yon can't let this wreck yonr life! When ever you Just have to talk abont It yon dome to me I" It was really very decent of her, Steven thought, to appreciate hla trou ble so keenly. There was more to Isabel than he had thought There was. It la one thing to make kittenlike dabs at another girl's prop erty and entirely different when the property Is delivered Into one's hands. Before Steven realized It he was spending most of his time with Isabel Dewey, and her mother rocking on the hotel veranda was already plan ning Isabel's tronsseau and fnrnltnre. It would be a triumph for her daugh ter to capture Steven Bllssmer, hand some, charming and hitherto consid ered as hopelessly ensnared by Susan Card. Susan, much to Mrs. Dewey's relief, had removed herself from the scene the day after her quarrel with Steven. She had gone to Banton for an Indefinite visit?and had left no word for Steven. He told himself that he had definite ly put her out of his mind, was finding out what a wonderful girl Isabel Dew ey was?sympathetic to a degree never betrayed by Susan, a true woman I They canoed In the moonlight after tbelr dally tennis and Insensibly their talk drifted from Steven's broken ro mance to Just romance. There are some girls to whom moonlight lends added beauty and Isabel was one of these. With her dark eyes raised to bis, her face cameo-pale In Its light, She was enough to thrill any young man's heart. After all, Steven began to think when he at last tired of wait ing dally for what the postman never brought, after all It was Just as well he had found out In time that he and Susan were not suited to each other. The cause of their quarrel, George Randerpool, was back at the hotel, bat on blm Steven bent an Indifferent eye. Be was too dapper to suit a brawny athlete like Steven, but he was popular with the women and gtrls. It did not occur to Steven that Isabel might be attracted because she had so devoted herself to him since his trouble. And when one night. In stead of finding her waiting for him In their special veranda corner, Stev en stumbled upon Isabel standing In the moonlight with George Itander pool, her hand In his, the same light In her eyes she had bent on himself. It was a distinct shock. Tirls was too much. He felt that he was through with women forever and all of Isabel's efforts to talk to him tbe following day he successfully foiled. That It was Injured pride In stead of a broken heart In this rase waa what he did not realize. Very tall, very white, be stalked about the woods, solitary, musing upon life In general and girls In particular. There was a dull ache within him which he could not Identify, but of one thing he was sure. He did not care tf never again he laid eyes on Susan Card or Isabel Dewey or any girl whatever! Steven made things very difficult for his family during those weeks elapsing before he should lenve for his last year In an eastern college. His patient mother thought grimly of the things site should like to say to both the young women who had brought him to this pass. And Susan, In ber opinion, was pre-eminently the one and only girl for her son. But she learned not to mention her name. She kissed him goodby and sent him on his way at last. He sat Id the little launch bearing him away to the village and the train. His mother stood, a placid, middle aged figure, on their dock, waring longingly In his direction, a tiny s|>cik of white In one band occasionally dabbing lies eyes. Tbls was the fourth year she hnd waved him geodby and Godspeed?and It was the first time that another figure, slighter, taller, golden, had not waved more vigorous ly but as yearningly from the end of the Cord's dock. Steven's lips were set hard as he wared his hat In re sponse to his mother. The unidentified ache rolled over and through and well-nigh obliterated him. The con stant nagging at his Inmost soul which had tortured him for weeks suddenly grew Into an Intolerable hurt and his throat swelled as It might have done ten yeurs before. Man though he was, there was a film over bis eyes and the launch ap proaching them from the direction of the village was almost abreast be fore Steven noted its single passeoger. As he recognized Susan Card In the stern seat, Susan a trifle thinner and very sober, the unidentified ache wltn In him suddenly vanished. The mere sight of her cured It. She saw him at the snme moment. Both of them sprang to the sides of their boats, reaching out to each other?and becanse the boatmen knew the affairs of the take people, and these two especially, with no direc tions whatever from their fares they Jockeyed tlreir crafts about an<L*hut off their engines. In the stillness the two launches drifted together and two haods clasped at Inst. There were tears in Susan's eyes. "Wh?what an Idiot I've been, Stev en I" she gasped. "You've nothing on me." Steven stammered In his relief and excite ment. And there In the middle of Crescent lake they kissed each other for all the world to see If It chose. Astronomical Watch An astronomical *Watch, the gem of the Packard collection, now In the Smithsonian Institution, strikes the hour and minutes and has a perpetual calendar and a miniature sky In which 500 stars appear In true relation with one another?concealed machinery keeping them In their correct positions each hour of the night. The watch shows the time of sunrise and sunset, and has a separate minute hand which shows the difference between the reg ular time of day and the time es IT appears on a sundial. Tiaiaat Hiau Baiag There la great Joy In a Budapest clinic beeauae Mancl la beginning to walk and talk. Mancl la believed to be (he tlnleat norma] baby erer born. Inatead of weighing about 120 ounrea. ahe weighed 21 ouncea, and at three weeka old waa only Juat over 12 Inchea long. Doctori from Vienna. Berlin and Parla went to Inapect the world'a tlnl eat baby, and no one held much hope of her aurrlral. lint the good folk at the cllnrc worked to none Mancl, and they hare triumphed. Trondhjem, * Viking ferity L? f I 1 ' ii ?? Haymaking In Norway. ? (Prepared by the National Geographic Soelety. Washington. D. C.) TltONDllJEM, old Viking capital, mid (lie surrounding country of central Norway, recently cele brated the nine hundredth anni versary of the death of Norway's patron. Saint Olnf. the Ming who es tablished Chrl tlanlty In Europe's northwestern corner. The city's name was officially changed a few months ago to Nldaros, Its ancient designa tion; but the Inhabitants are not unanimously pleased witli the change, and "Trondhjera" continues in partial ose. Modern Trondlijem la built on ? peninsula formed by the Uiver Nld and the Trondhjetn fiord which In dents Norway's west roosL Its houses are cheerful frame structures painted In white or tight colors, with potted plants making colorfnl spots nt their windows. The royal palace. ? huge, white building, la one of ihe largest wooden buildings in the world. The shops hare many unusnal wares for visitors. Kurs are sold and there Is a demand for blue and silver fox, polar bear and ermine. Eiderdown quills, bear skin rugs, embroideries, carved wood souvenirs, and stiver carved In old Norse designs are pop nlar with tourists. Many of the larg er shops are on Olnf Tryggvesson street, which was named after the tojvn's fonnder. Although It lies In the same lati tude as southern Iceland. Trondhjetn hns summers like those of England, and Its winters are no more severe than those of Oermnny. The river and Ihe fiord are seldom frozen. In summer nnmerons trees and shrub bery give the town a semltroplcal ap pearance which the visitor bad not expected. The Iqng Arctic summer daylight has Its effect on the farmlands sur rounding Trondhjetn. Often there are two crops a year of produce which yields but one crop In temperate cli mates. Norte Coronation Place. Trondhjetn was the coronation place of ancient Norse kings; and the present king, Haakon VII, was crowned there In 1906 when Ihe union of Swollen and Norway was dissolved. The city has a population of some 5/1,000. Much of its life centers ahont the water front. The ship building Industry Is tirtsk and there Is a hoat serrlce between Trondhjetn and Bergen and the North Cape. Nu merous fishing boats come In with their cargoes of salted herring to be deposited In the tall, quaint gabled warehouses which line the quays. The lofty Gothic spires of Trond hjem cathedral rise shore the sur rounding low buildings of purely Norse architecture In striking con trast to thetn. The cathedral looks tike a transplanted English church In s Norse setting. Its Gothic style may he attributed to Norsemen, living In England when the Gothic architecture was attaining Its vogue, who preferred It to the simpler Norse style and In corporated It Into the cathedral. The structure was begun during the reign of Olaf the Quiet between 1068 and 1008. All the excltment which marks our most generally observed holiday, Christmas, attends the Day of St. John on June 24. While It bears a Christian name, the holiday and Its customs go back to pagan origin. In effect the day still Is a festival of the sun. Green birch trees adorn every house and children carry evergreen bftnehc* through the streets. The analogy to Christmas breaks down, however, when younger folk crowd Into bonis on the (lords or hike to the mountain woods which, at twi light, are flecked with bonfire*. Alt night long these beacons barn, aw ghostly figures of the merry makers dance and sing around them. Life In Central Norway. Yearly more visitors are strapping on their knapsacka for walking trips through the rugged countryside of cen tral Norway, where erery rock-hewn road seems to leed to a fiord, and where the natlre customs defy the In roads of such driblets of trace! as now sift through. The visitor goes to charch. and tte simple services seem stereotyped enough oatll ? bit of statuary de scends from the cell ins. The Score of an angel, supported by a rod. boide a bowl filled with water. The war prlsed Visitor realizes this theatrical appurtenance la a baptismal foot. The simplicity and innocence of the country folk In the remote and Iso lated sections Is betokened by their promiscuous bathing. And by "bath ing" is meant Just that; not the tHver ston of water splashing and sand Ven ning. but getting oneself dean. A log but Is the village bathhouse A furnace of stones Is heated and wa ter poured over the red-hot surface. Into this steam steps a family? men. women, children, visiting rela tives and neighbors. The bathers switch each other with birch twigs te induce more perspiration and gleeful ly throw buckets of cold water over each other when the heat becomes toe Intense. All of this is nothing of an orgy?but as prosaic as our daily bath. The rural Norwegian would see noth ing immoral nor funny in an Ameri can botel which inadvertently adver tised "1.0001 rooms, and batli." in a Vermont village each family once had Its horse and buggy, a ve hicle now supplanted by the automo bile. In a Norway hamlet a boat Id the principal family conveyance Id summer. There fishing takes the place of fanning and the bouses are strung around a bend of a fiord In stead of along a rambling main street. Grazing herds of gnats is the prin cipal land Industry of Norway's hilly north country and these flocks give rise to the picturesque goat-girl. The mountain pastures usually ire far re moved from the villages and each spring sees the yonng farm women driving their herds np the mountain paths to some lofty bat sheltered val ley among the glistening, snow-capped peaks. There they remain ail summer long, camping In wooden bats, vtfited occasionally by tbelr men folk to car ry away the butter and cheese. Goafs Chew Is a Staple. Goat's cheese, a delicatessen deli cacy In the United States, Is a prin cipal article of Norwegian diet. It has the rich, brown color and some thing of the flavor of peannt batter. It is not eaten on crackers as a sup plementary coarse hot. sliced and laid on large cross sections of brown bread, is a staple of the meal. Characteristic of Inland Norway la Ltllebammer which lies at the north ern end of MJosen lake. Norway's largest body of fresh water. The town Is a gateway to the Gndbrands dal. In this valley many ancient cus toms and costumes of the country are still In vogue. The town Itself Ilea on the north and sonth rail route from Oslo to Trondhjem, and Is visited an nually by thousands of tonrlsts. This region differs markedly from the flord country bordering the At lantic coast and the "land of the mid night snn" whlcb lies farther to the north. In spite of Its blgh latitude Mllehaminer enjoys a comparatively mild climate, resort hotels being open for visitors the year round.
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