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The Alamance Gleaner ? ?. t ? VOL. LVI. GRAHAM, IN, C., THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 11, 1930. NO. 32. 1?Argentine presidential palace In Buenos Aires which was heavily guarded because of threatened revolution ary activities. 2?Col. Walter L. Bell of New York who has taken the job of establishing central stations for the feeding of the people of Soviet Itussla. 3?Scene during the fire that destroyed the temporary building of the federal trade commission in Washington. NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENTEVENTS Santo Domingo Destroyed by Hurricane?Great Feat of French Flyers. By EDWARD W. PICKARD CANTO DOMINGO, capital of the ^ Dominican republic and oldest set tlement of the white race in the New world, was almost entirely destroyed by a tropical hurricane which swept tlie city for four hours. Nearly every building was razed and the number of dead in the city alone is believed at this writing to be about 800. The scenes of horror and distress are de scribed In brief dispatches that came through after communication witli the Island had been partially restored. President Rafael Trujillo himself took charge of the relief work that was started Immediately, and the en tire army of the republic was put to work to aid the suffering. Officials and newspapers of Santo Domingo ap pealed for help to the United States, and the Red Cross was quick to re spond, as it always is. American Minister Curtis cabled the State de partment at Washington regarding the situation. He said he had not re reived reports from the interior of the island but that the loss of life there probably was small. In the neighborhood of the capital all bridges were wrecked, roads rendered impass able and telegraph wires had vanished. It was estimated that the speed of the wind was 150 miles an hour. The terrific storm, moving in from the southeast, was headed for the eastern end of Cuba and the Florida straits. Communications throughout the entire region "were disrupted for many hours. The Porto Rico liner Coamo, which was on its way to Santo Domingo, had a narrow escape, pass ing through the very center of the hurricane. It turned back and man aged to reach San Juan in a battered and stripped condition. There were indications in reports received by the weather bureau in San Juan that the storm might turn out into the Atlantic and endanger shipping lanes. The Washington weather bureau believed the Florida coast was not endangered. FOR the first time the Atlantic ocean has been crossed In a nonstop flight from Paris to New York. The feat was accomplished by Capt. Dieu donne Coste and Maurice Bellonte in their famous plane Question Mark in 37 hours, 18 minutes and 30 seconds. During this time, in fair weather and fog, daylight and night, their single motor never missed. Following gen erally the great north circle route, they averaged more than 100 miles an hour and landed at Curtiss field. Val ley Stream, Long Island, at dusk, tired but jubilant. Great crowds greeted the aviators at the field and In New York city, and they and the French government re ceived the congratulations of high offi cials from President Hoover down and of our leading airmen. Among those who welcomed them as they landed were Col. Charles Lindbergh and his wife. Captain Coste. who had been planning the flight for a long time, i said they were forced to dodge through dense mists and around storms, and their first American land fall was the coast of Nova Scotia. Be ing informed that Col. \V. E. Easter wood of Dallas. Texas, had offered $25,000 to them if they wofcld fly their plane to Dallas, they took off for tliat City early Thursday morning. This, according to hastily made plans, was to be the start of a tour of the coun try, toward the close of which the Frenchmen will he entertained at luncheon by President Hoover in the White House. The Question Mark will be flown back to Paris by Paul Codos and a mechanic, but Coste and Bellonte will return by steamship. Naturally the people of France were Jubilant over the flight made by their countrymen. Some of the Paris news papers thought the chief importance of the flight was the demonstration to the Germans and the Italians that French aviators were not so helpless as was supposed. It was announced that Coste, who is an officer of the Legion of Honor, would be made a commander and that Bellonte, who is a chevalier, would be made an officer. At the same time they are to get army promotion, Captain Coste to become a major and Bellonte, who is a noncom missioned officer, to become a second lieutenant. FOLLOWING the successful revolu tion in Peru, there is threat of a similar movement in Argentina, and also reports tell of decided unrest in parts of Brazil. In Buenos Aires ex traordinary military precautions were taken, apparently for the protection of President Hipolito Yrigoyen, and the press demanded the reasons. Then the students began demonstrating against the President and they and various leaders of the country demanded that he resign or take a vacation, leaving the executive power in the hands of Vice President Martinez. There was much confusion in the cabinet, from which General Dellepiane, minister of war, resigned, and the government didn't seem to know just what to do. The public was nervous, too, and busi ness suffered severely. Yrigoyen, who remained in his residence, was report ed to be seriously 111. With Col. Sanchez Cerro firmly es tablished as President of Peru, con ditions there settled down to approxi mate normalcy. Leguia, the deposed President, was taken from the warship on which he attempted to escape and put in prison to await trial. A decree by the revolutionary junta created u national tribunal of accounts to inves tigate all charges of graft made against former government employees, and those with whom they did busi ness. Sweeping economies in the gov ernment services were made and all licensed gambling was suppressed. Lieutenant Commander Harold B. Grow, the American who was director general of the Leguia government's air forces, was still held in prison un der threat of court-martial proceed ings on charges of violating the mili tary code. Charles W. Sutton, Amer ican engineer, was in the national penitentiary accused of mishandling funds on an Irrigation project. The Brazilian trouble centers in the state of Rio Grande do Sul and Dr. Osvaldo Aranha was said to be lead- | er of a discontented faction that threatened a revolutionary outbreak. INVESTIGATION of campaign ex penditures In Illinois by Senator Nye's committee has developed a cu rious situation. Ituth Ilanna McCor mlck. Republican candidate for the senate, felt the Inquiry Into her dis bursements In the primary campaign had become persecution, and charged that her office had been broken Into and her papers ransacked by agents of the committee. So she employed a detective agency to Investigate the North Dakota senator and Ids em ployees; and then her slenths In turn were shadowed by other detectives. Mrs. McCormlck openly admitted her action and asked: "What Is Senator Nye going to do about It?" In his reply Mr. Nye culled the method and practice of Ruth's agents "shoddy, scabby, unprincipled, uncon scionable and contemptible," and he called a special session of bis commit tee in Chicago for the purpose of questioning those same agents. The information they gave only served to make the situation more confused, with charges and countercharges of shadowing, proposed treachery and threats. Nye then announced an ad journment to September 15, declaring that the committee would not he "di verted from its clearly defined duty by any smoke screen laid down through a will to threaten, intimidate and influence." CHAIRMAN LEGGE of the federal farm hoard made a speech before the New York state grange at Syra cuse that aroused the protests of or ganized labor. He said the farmers' increased tax rates are due "largely to the advance in labor rates," and added that "on many manufactured articles 80 per cent of the wholesale price can be directly traced to some body's pay envelope." President William Green of the American Federation of Labor Imme diately telegraphed Mr. Legge asking him to correct the statement because it was "neither justifiable nor cor rect." Mr. Green said: "Since 1014 the cost of wages to employers has changed five-tenths of 1 per cent only. In 1913 employers in the United States paid 1G.8 per cent of the wholesale price of their products to workers in wages. In 1927 they paid 17.3 per cent. WARD T. VAN ORMAN, Ameri ca's leading balloonist, won the International balloon race for the Gordon Bennett trophy with the Goodyear VIII. The contest started near Cleveland, Ohio, and Van Or man landed his hag near Canton, Mass., having traveled approximately 550 miles. Capt. Ernest Deinuyter. pi lot of the Belgian entry, the Belgica, was second with 435 miles, but It was snid he might he disqualified because an assistant left the halloon via the drag rope to give it a longer flight. SECRETARY of Agriculture Arthur M. Hyde fears the drought in the Middle West is to continue and to spread northward. He called a meet ing of th\s state chairmen of relief for September 10 In Washington. "The drought is not over yet," said Mr. Ilyde. "It seems that a new drought may he starting in the area north of the belt so hard hit In July and the first part of August. Fortu nately, a large part of the production of wheat and small grains Is har vested." The rising prices of corn, live stock, and other commodities due to the drought partly has compensated farmers in the central states for their losses, Mr. Hyde said. MA J. GEN. HENRY T. ALLEN, re tired, who commanded the Amer ican army of occupation in Germany after the armistice, died suddenly of heart disease at Ruena Vista Springs, Pa. The general was horn at Slmrps burg, Ky.. in 1859 and graduated from the military academy at West Point in 1882. Soon after this lie made an excursion into Alaska as an explorer, and then. In rapid succession, his army assignments carried him to Rus sia. Germany, Cuba and the Philip pines, and into Mexico with Persh ing's punitive expedition. lie went to France as a division commander, and later was a corps chieftain in the A. I E. F. Distinguished service won for [ him the coveted honor of heading tlie American forces on the Rhine. I <?. 1530. WMttra Ntwspft&cr talon.) | GRANNY'S | 11 CARAWAY | if SEED | 11 COOKIES | I oooooooooooooooooooooooo (IE1 bv D. J Walsh.! MAIiV GOKDON climbed upon h chnlr nnd began to haul things down from the top cupboard shelf?dishes Hint had belonged to her grandmother nnd were too precious for every day use. The china was worth little, hut everv bit was redolent of that rich person ality which had met every trial of life bravely and calmly. Grundmotlier had bequeathed more than her blue eyes and pink cheeks to Mary. And In this present trial of hers the Utile woman gained strength and courage from the mere touch of the battered blue leapot. Henry Gordon's sudden death had left his family of three with no asset save a small life insurance. Neces sary expenses had taken the life In surance money almost to I he last dol lar. Mary soon found that there was no work for her to do In a tiny ham let like Sidney Center. So she was preparing to move Into the next town, a good-sized, bustling place, where a steady, honest, determined little wom an must certainly Hnd ofllce scrubbing to do If nothing else. A few hours later Mary, her thlr teen-ycar-old son, John, and her nine year-old daughter, Helen, rode to town on an old truck that carried every article of household furnishing they possessed. Granny's old blue dishes went In a basket, which Mary bore tenderly upon her knee. The small apartment of four rooms which was their new home bore the dingy scars of ninny coming nnd going tenants. But Mary heated a boiler full of water and soon hnd everything shining with soup nnd cleanliness. When the children came home from school that first day they found pleas ant cheer, some warmth, but very lit tle food. "I call this fine!" cried John. He was slim and pink-cheeked, an ugly, honest youngster with a discordant changing voice. "Mother, you're the best ever. Isn't she, Helen? Mother, I've been doing some hard thinking, as well as studying, this afternoon. You've got to find something to do that will let ire help you. I'm the mnn o? the family, you know." John strut ted about, squaring Ids shoulders In a way that wns Intended to make his mother smile, but only set her to crying. For she could not tell her children at this moment when a thousand things were needed for the comfort of the tiny bDme that the old trouble with her knee hud developed again, making it almost Imiwissible for her to move about. How could she carry buckets of wafer, kneel upon hard floors, climb upon steplndders In order to wusli windows? She was almost us helpless as the one-legged hen which John had tenderly Insisted upon bringing from Ids old home. Somebody had given him a chicken with a frost bitten leg. Instead of consigning the plump fowl to the kettle he had made a brace for the useless leg and she now found life so agreeable that she was laying an egg every other day. "Very soon, son," she stid, brush | Ing away her tears, "I'll get n Job at which you and Helen can botli help me. We'll begi t tomorrow." That night Mary lay awake. Her knee wa3 painful, but even more pain ful were her milling thoughts. What could she find to do In this big place where she knew nobody? But some money must come from somewhere, or the children would have no food t<* In tlie early morning hours .Maty arose softly so as not to disturb Hel en, alio slept oeside her. flashlight In hand, she found her^frnndmother'a little worn ISIble, a treasure even more precious than the battered blue dishes. Shutting her eyes tight, she opened the book at random and placed her fingertip upon a passage. Grandmother had always done this when In perplex ity or trouble nnd often she had de clared that she had found an Illumi nating message. Opening her eyes, Mary now rea. with the aid of the flashlight the words upon nhlcb her linger rested. They were: "And Han nah made cakes." Pressed between the pages wus s small paper, folded, and yellow with age. She opened It won derlngly. Written In faded brown Ink with s painstaking hand was a re cipe for caraway cookies. Mary crept back to bed. shivering, bnt there aa? a look of hope on her tired face. Well she remembered gran ny's tasty cookies. The recipe had been ! missing i long time la ? moment she wus sound asleep. When she awakened next morning she felt more rested than for weeks. "Well, mother! Have you decided what we're going to do to earn a liv ing this winter?" demanded John as they sat eating their makeshift break fast. "I've an Idea, son. It appears to be a good one. I'll let you know about ll this noon when you get home from school." That noon when John entered the apartment she handed him a basket covered daintily with a white towel. Her face was flushed with heat and excitement, her eyes dark with earnest purpose, hut her voice was clear and steady. "Here are a couple of cookies for you to eat, son. The basket is full of them. Run out aind see If you can sell some." "You bet I'll so 11 them!" cried John, with his mouth full. He dashed down stairs. Alary went to the window and watched him come out from the gloomy doorway Into the sunlit street below. The first person he met was an elderly business man hurrying to lunch. "Good morning, sir!" cheerfully croaked John. "Don't you want to see what I've got In my basket?" lie lifted a corner of the snowy towel. "Carnway cookies. My mother made them. She's the best cook In Hals town. They're warm yet from the oven." The keen-eyed, grn.vhalred man looked from the fragrant brown con tents of the basket Into the boy's honest face. IJc reached Into Ids pocket. "Give me a dozen. How much?" he asked. John was staggered for an instant, for Ids mother hud not set any price. "How much do you think they're worth?" le asked anxiously. "Here's cents. Hi, Bill!" the man motioned to another hurrying to busi ness. "Here's something you want." And he went on with the neat paper hag in his hand while the other man took his place. Mary fumed from the window, her heart heating fast. Within ten minutes John was hack, basket empty, his fare glowing with succors. 'Those cookies took like measles, mother," he said us he poured a silver stream of coin Into her linmls. "HelenI Here!" Mary's voice rung. "Take this money und run out and get a pound of frankfurters, a can of beans and a loaf of brei 1. You kids have a good, heartj lunch today." She gave the child a ray little push to ward the door. Her little venture had won with John's help. She had sold granny's old Mue teapot to the sec ond-hand ilimiture dealer across the way, who had paid her Just enough to I get the flour and other things she I needed for the few dozen e??okles she hnd made. Now sin had money enough to buy more supplies, as well as give her children food. That night when John came home from school he found Ids mother tak ing the Inst of a delicious hatch of cookies from the oven of the old stove. "Huh! I'll sell those in huff an hour." John promised "I've got to!" "You've the makings of a tine busi ness man In you. son." Mary said fondly. "That's what Mr. Wright said," re plied John. "He's the man I sold that first dozen cookies to. I met him again as I was g'dng to school and tie said If I'd call round at his store at f> o'clock he'd give mi. a Job. So you see I've got to hustle with these cookies, mother." Helen cniiie running In, her fare alight ??I've got n Job, mother!" she shout ed. "I asked n lady that I n?et wheel ing a Imby If she's let nie mind her bahy on -e in n while. Ami she said I could come every day after school and she'd fay tne 2f> cents an hour. Mother I It's the cutest bnhy. With brown eyes. And a dimple. Ills name is CJeorge Ec ward Hall.** Mnry laughed with a note of Joy In her voice. "Well. I guesj we're all going to he busy as beet this winter," she said. "If we don't look out we'll be million aires before we know It What do you and John want for supper, Helen? We'll have something to celebrate with. Name a real treat." Helens blue eyes sparkled merrily up Info her mother's face. She gave ttie Anal aware' to Mary's difficult labor. "Caraway cookies," she said. Soviet Symbol* The symbols which occur on the Standard of the ting of the U. S. S. I(. represent the laboring element of the Russian |ieople to which the Soviet government Is dedicate*!. The sickle slmlfies the |?eusunt, the hammer the factory worker and the star the fu ture of the Soviet enterprise. Improvement in Dairying A hundred years ago the best cows did not give to exceed 2.(MU pounds of milk a year, whereas the liest dairies today average 7V.UU0 pounds per cow. hxiMm&m The Thames at the Tower Bridge, From the Air. <Prepared by the National Geographic Society. Washington. D. C.) LONDON the city is a Mecca for travelers and Is known, from hooks and stories, throughout the world, i^ondon the port Is -?omparatlvely little known, yet In world economics It Is even more Im portant than London the city. The story of this great port Involves the ships that crowd the Thames from the Seven Seas, the varied piles of prod ucts from all corners of the world that are set down on London quays and docks, and the facilities for han dling this mighty business of provid ing necessities and luxuries for a great block of the world's consumers. The port of London has developed as her ships have developed. In her 2,000 years of history she has known the long, rakish Viking hosts, the lit tle wind-driven ships of the Continent, smacks, frigates, clippers; and since the advent of steam and the gas en gine. great mechanical greyhounds of the sea of ever-Increasing size. The smaller ships of the past cen turies found it possible to anchor in the Thames or to tie up to her wharves and quays. Rut as ships be came larger and more numerous the great tidal range of the river was found to he more and more trouble some. It was then that London began the construction of the groat closed dock system which gives her the most extensive area of artificial ship basins in the world. A quay or wharf is merely n wall or platform along the shore of a river or Inlet. A true dock is constructed by \ digging into the bank to construct a basin Into which the harbor water 1 flows. A lock and water gates usually connect the basin with the outer wa ter. When ships are floated Into the dock ut high tide the gates can he closed, shutting In enough water to float the ships even when the water has dropped far below the necessary level outside. In some modem docks the water level can be maintained or even raised above the high tide level, by gigantic pumping plants. j Growth or the uock system. London's system of dorks, now so extensive and elaborate, grew by very slow degrees. The first little wet dock, dug at lilnckwnll about 1005, was used merely to outfit ships. Samuel I'epys men'ions it In Ids diary. Next, about 1700, cnme a larger dock used merely as a protected anchorage for sMps that were to be long In port. This basin came to be frequented by whal ing ships in the Greenland trade and was long known as the Greenland dock. The whalers soon realized that unloading and the taking on of sup plies could be better accomplished in the dock than in the river. Blubber factories, storage facilities, and nil tiie ill-smelling accessories of whaling grew up around the basin, which thus was lirst to take on what are the ele mentary docking activities of today. These beginnings of the dock sys tem were constructed within a few miles of I/Ondon bridge. From them the system has developed, principally down the river Into deeper and deep er water. The West and Fast India docks were built about 1800. They now embrace 127 acres of water ba sins, millions of square feet of ware bouse space, and more than five miles of quays. The so-called Ixmdon docks, the nearest basins to the bridge, are relatively small, covering 35 acres of water and 05 acres of land. The Sur rey Commercial docks, built around the original Greenland dock, consist of 147 acres of water, 230 ucres of land, and 5 miles of quays. Royal Docks the Largest. The Itoyal docks, six or eight miles below London bridge, are the heart of London's dock system, and the most extensive inclosed docks in the world. They consist of the Itoyal Victoria dock, built in 1855; the Itoyal Albert dock, completed in 1880; and the King George V dock, opened in 1021. To getlier they embrace 245 acres of wa ter and extend along the river for three miles. More than half a million tons of shipping has been berthed in these connected docks at one time. Twenty-six miles below London bridge is the most remote of I^ondon'a shipping basins, the Tilbury docks. These were opened In 188C to accom modate the largest of the vessels en tering the port and those of the deep est dru't. Its new entrance lock is approximately of the dimensions of the great locks of che i'anamu canal, with a depth of 45 feet 6 inches be low high water. It is in the Tilbury docks that the greatest of the trans ocean passenger steamships berth ships of close to 22,000 tons. London is not dependent alone on inclosed docks. Along the CO miles of rivet which supply the city with po tential port facilities, are many miles of open wharves and quays. To these comes a constant procession of barges, coasting boats, and even sizable steamers. For the past 19 years the great dock system of London has been under pub lic ownership, managed by the Fort of London Authority, a corporate body, whose members are In part appointed by the admiralty, the London County council, and other public organiza tions ; nnd in part are elected by tax pnjers and groups particularly inter ested in the port business. The Port Authority also controls some open wharfage. Vast Streams of Trade. With its river. Its scores of miles of wharves nnd docks and Its vast ware houses and vaults, the port of Lon don Is a gateway and a treasure house through which and into which pours a stream of goods ranging from the barest necessities and the crudest raw materials to the most costly products of loom and factory, artist and crafts man. In part the value nnd volume of London's sea-borne trade are owing to lis geographic situation between continental Europe and the Americas; in part to the city's status as head and heart of the world-wide British empire. Many <if the ilocks and warehouse* devote themselves to certain special ties. The old Greenland dock and its neighbor* are concerned largely with the liable. White sea, and Canada trade, for the most part made up of timber and grain. To the West India ?locks come thousands of tons of sug ar, scores of thousands of gallons of ruin, and hard woods. Sugar Is also unloaded hy the thousands of tons at the East India docks along with the spices, silks, rugs and dozens of other commodities from the East. The quantities of goods that pass over London's docks nnd wharves is stupendous. The leading Import In quantity Is grain and meals; close to 70,fXi0,0(J0 bushels are brought in year ly, their value reaching *123,000,000. Such dissimilar articles as tea and fresh and frozen meats lead all Im ports In value. More than *103,000,000 worth of each arrives annually. The greater part of the tea is for consump tion, the balance for re-export. The meat Is practically all for consump tion, and It Is supplemented hy a con siderable quuntlty of home-grown meat. On to the docks pour each year tons and tons of butter valued at more than *100,000,000, y.Y>,000,000 worth of cheese, nnd more than 1.000,000,000 eggs. There Is a steady stream of wines nnd spirits In hogsheads, "pipes," barrels and bottles. Although the London water front ts called upon to care for ships and goods from sll the world's continents and sens, It has not wholly a commer cial flavor. The most Important build ings In the empire, the houses of par liament, front on the river, and for miles along the banks extend the beautifully laid oat embankments which furnish stately drives along the winding course of the river.
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