The Alamance gleaner VOL. LVII. GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY FEBRUARY 12, 1931. NO. 2. News Review of Current Events the World Over Congress and Administration Reach a Compromise Over Relief Appropriations?Terrible Earth quake in Ncfw Zealand. By EDWARD W. PICKARD COMPROMISE on the drought relief program was reached by the Republican and Democratic lead ers in congress after days of argument, re crlmination and threat. The settle ment of the dispute was virtually a victo ry for President Hoo ver over those who had insisted that the Rep. TMaon government should adopt what would be really the dole principle in reliev ing the distress of the people. Unless radical Republicans carry on a fili buster against regular appropriation bills, the danger of a special session ?eems to be passed. Under the compromise there will be a broadening of the credit machinery set up for the drought area. The sum of $20,000,000 will be added to the $45,000,000 already appropriated. The money will not be available for char ity, but will be loaned to individuals or to agricultural credit corporations and secured by liens on crops or oth er security. The loans may be used for "agri cultural rehabilitation" In addition to ?eed, feed and fertilizer, to which the money provided by the original act was limited. Under the guise of "agri cultural rehabilitation" some of the money may be used by farmers for food und clothing, but It will not be intended as chnrity or as a dole. The plan was Incorporated In an amendment to the senate's amend ment to the Interior department appro priation bill appropriating $25,000,000 for the purchase of food and medical supplies and for other forms of relief. The $25,000,000 amendment was re jected by the house, after which the bill was sent to conference. The pro cedure will be for the conferees of the senate and house to offer the com promise as a substitute for the senate amendment. Technically the con ferees will report a disagreement. Representative L. C. Cramton of Mich igan then will move in the house that the substitute amendment be accepted. This will be followed by its acceptance by the senate. The final touches on the agreement were given at conferences partici pated in by Senator James E. Watson of Indiana, majority leader of the senate; Senator Charles L. McNary of Oregon, assistant majority leader; Speaker Longworth, and Representa tive John Q. Tilson of Connecticut. Another compromise, also acceptable to the administration, was in prospect 'n the matter of soldiers' bonus legis lation. The house ways and means committee planned to report a bill In creasing borrowing privileges for World war veterans holding bonus cer tificates, from 22 per cent, as at pres ent, to 50 per cent of their face value. This was the suggestion of Owen D. Toung and apparently was approved by Secretary of the Treasury Mellon. It was estimated that the cost to the government would be upwards of $500,000,000. r\ F F I CI A L an nounoement was made In Washington that the administra tion of the Virgin Is lands was being trans ferred from naval to civilian rule. Soon afterward President Hoover appointed Paul Martin Pearson of Swarthmore, Penn sylvania, to be the first civilian governor of the territory. Mr. Paul M. Pearson Pearson Is well known as an eoucntor. lecturer and author. Is a native of Illi nois and Is flfty-nlne years old. The Virgin Islands were purchased from Denmark In March, 1017. and since then have been under the control of the Navy department. Capt. W. Evans was the last naval governor. D El'EATED earthquake shocks of ** great severity wrought havoc In the Hawke's bay province of the North Islnnd of New Zealand, and were fol lowed by conflagrations and tidal waves that added to the destruction. The large towns of Napier and Hast ings and -at least three other towns were virtually ruined. The number of the dead will not be known for some time, hot It probably Is nearly a thou sand. Other thousands of persons were Injured. All means of rommunl r cation In the stricken area were da stroyed and the only news reached I Wellington nnd the outside world from Bhip wireless station- and eyewitnesses who had tied from the scene. At Napier, the c< pltnl of the prov ince, which has a population of 20,000, all the stone and brick buildings fell with a terrltlc roar, oil tanks exploded, nnd dames consumed most of the re maining structures. Bluff hill, which stood high above the city, collapsed and toppled into the sea, and the bot tom of the harbor rose 18 feet, the anchorage pool becoming an Island. Hastings, a plains town 12 miles from Napier, where most of the buildings were of wood, wan razed by temblors and fire. The hospital and nurses' home collapsed on the Inmates. The towns of Walroa, Walpikuron and Walpnwa also were wrecked. The Hawke's bay province Is a rich agricultural, pastoral and fruit district andlias, at Walkaremoann, one of New Zealand's largest hydro-electric devel opments. Napier, which Is 210 miles northeast of Wellington, is an Impor tant export and manufacturing city. Martial law was proclaimed for the ravaged district, and the immediate evacuation of Napier was ordered by the authorities because of the danger of an epidemic. The city's water and drainage systems were entirely de stroyed. Several British cruisers reached Napier harbor and Commodore Bloke took charge of relief measures. Other vessels carried many refugees to Auckland. Property dnmage In the Napier area alone was estimated at $10,000,000. NE of those fa nious leaky con fresslonni trunk crises that amused the coun try some time ago |? going to get a further alr.ng. Justice Joslah Van Orsdel of the Dls trlct of Columblu Court of Appeals has made a ruling that, Representative E d wnrd E. Denlson of Illinois must go to E. E. Denlion trial on an Indictment charging him with Illegal possession of liquor In his office on Capitol Hill. Representative Denlson was In dicted by the district grand Jury on November ID. 1929, eleven months aft er a leaking suitcase addressed to him was discovered by federal agents In the union station in Washington. An investigation led to the discovery of a trunk containing liquor in Mr. Denlson's office, and In spite of the representative's assertion that both the trunk and suitcase were mistaken ly delivered to him. an indictment was brought. PRESIDENT HOO\ER was advised by R. C. Stephenson of South Bend, Ind.. president of the American Banker's association, that business conditions are improving In all parts of the country and should continue to get better during the rest of the year. Mr. Stephenson expressed the opinion that the business depression struck bottom on December 20. and that conditions have been on the up grade since that time. He said also that If there were less talk of unem ployment those wiio are employed would spend more WHEN MaJ. Gen. Smedley D. But ler <>s I'hlladelphla's director of public safety six year* ago he naturally made en emies of a number of bootleggers. It la re ported that one of these disgruntled In dividuals first railed the attention of tbe Italian government to the general's speech General Butler In which Premier Mussolini wm de pleted a* a hit and run motorist and which la causing the gallant marine so mnch trouble. General Butler will go on trial be fore a court-martial board In Phila delphia February 10. and the public will be admitted to the proceedings. Meanwhile he la tree to go where he pleaaea In preparing hla defense. He has engaged Roland Morris, former ambassador to Japan and a prominent Pennsylvania Democrat, as bla chief counsel. Mr. Morris la assisted by MaJ. Henry Leonard, Col. A. M. Hold ing and Col. Jesse F. Dyer. From close friends of Butler It was learned that he will argue that the Mussolini story was simply an Illustration, used ( In a military preparedness speech. It will be urged that no offense against the Italian premier was Intended. BISHOP JAMKS CANNON. JR.. ap pea red In Washington before twelve traveling elders of the Meth odist church. South, to answer to grave charges the exact nature of which was not made public. If the elders And the ncrusuttons have suf- 1 ftclent merit, they will order a trial which will he held at the next general conference of the church in 1It34. The bishop, who Is undergoing treatment at a hospital for arthritis, waa accom panied l?y two of his sons. I For. some yenrs I Mrs. Mary lien- ( derson. ninety ? yen r- | old social leader In Washington, wealthy widow of John It. Henderson who was a senator from Missouri. < has grieved because Uncle Sam does not provide a residence for the Vice Presi dent. She has made several attempts to remedy this at her Mrs. Mary Henderson own expense, once offering a fine house when Calvin Coolldge was Vice Presi dent. Its upkeep was too expensive and he declined. Now Mrs. Henderson Is trying again, offering to present to the government a handsome residence valued at something like $300,000 and situated on one of the exclusive streets of the Capital city. At the writing congress had not de cided whether or not to accept the gift, hut Mrs. Henderson's grand daughter, Mrs. Beatrice Wholean, has asked the District of Columbia Su preme court to prevent the aged lady from disposing of any of the real estate belonging to the estates of her former husband and son. According to Mrs. Wholean. her grandmother Is mentally Incompetent properly to per- i form her duties and functions as trustee under the wills of her hus band and son, and her removal as trustee is asked. FOR the second time the senate voted on the appointments of Smith. Garsnud and Draper as mem bers of the power commission, and the Democra lie-radical Republican coalition rejected Smith by a vote of 40 to .'13. The two others, however, were confirmed. The administration considers all three are legally mem bers of the commission. The leaders o' the coalition irad that this latest action perfects the senute's record In case the matter Is taken Into court. C A MICRON M O It rison. appointed recently to succeed the Inte Lee S. Overman as senator from North Carolina, disregarding the senate tradition that new members must sit silent for months, arose to warn his fellow Dem ocrats that the De mocracy of the South would not submit to 8sn. Morrison the wet wing of the pnrty. and to call for the appearance of a dry leader for the party. Said he: MI am a party Democrat And I am also a dry. I believe that millions of Democrats in this country feel as I do. If the great city organizations in array against the Eighteenth amend ment seek to capture the Democratic party and put a wet plank In ItR plat form they will 1nl us resisting. We will not he driver, out of the party, neither will he submit to such domi nation. They will i.ever override our consciences on that matter or forc?* us to bow to party decree.** BY NO means satisfied with the prospects for self rule In India held out by the British government j and the plans devised by the round j table conference. Mahatrna Gandhi j and his lieutenants have decided that their campaign ot civil disobedience I shall be continued. A resolution to ! this effect was adopted at a meeting I of the working committee of the All- | India National congress, the members j of which were released from Jail when | Gandhi was set free. It looks now as j if they and the "holy man" will be In ' durance again before long. The No- | tionalists derided that all political I prisoners must be freed before they J will treat with the government, and j that meanwhile the picketing of for eign cloth, narcotic and liquor shops I and the illegal making of salt shall j he continued. GERMANY'S big flying ship, the DO-X, which Is on Its way to South America, made the first Jump j from Spain to the Canary Islands , without mishap, but in attempting to take off for the Cape Verde islands It was damaged by a wave. Repairs, It was believed, woold take at least two weeka aa It was necessary to get new parte from Germany shire. who Is doing a four-year term for forgery, has been conducting a wholesale forgery busi ness while behind the bars. Maltais flooded seaboard cities with letters or dering goods to he delivered to the prison. A Philadelphia firm, Stearns and company, delivered some rugs and chairs to an astounded fellow convict of Maltais r.n one of Maltais' clever orders. The guards say they have been Innocent dupes. They have relayed Maltais' letters along. The police say that during his career, "inside and outside," Maltais has collected $UO,OOU on forged orders. Hunter Tells of Being Treed by Bear Family Berwick, Pa.?William Temple, vet eran Benton hunter, returned front the woods with a bear story hy which he stands firm In guaranteeing the au thentlcity. Temple said that while hunting on North mountain he stepped Into a clearing Just ns four bears, two adults and two cubs, appeared. The larger bears charged, he said, und he fired, killing one of them. The other bear continued on, step ping over the body of Its comrade, to pursue Temple, who took refuge In a tree. The bear and the cubs stood guard around the tree until dark, when they disappeared. Virginians Will Erect - Monument to Cornwallis Richmond, Va.?A memorial to Lord Cornwallis, commander of the defeat ed British army, will he unveiled next year at the celebration commemorat ing the one hundred fiftieth anniver sary of the American victory at York town. I School Boy Kills | .? Bandit With Stone X Seattle. Wash. ? A stone X y thrown hy a schoolboy, Irving J* X Stanb. seventeen, Unused the X % death of Dan Bunker, one of two % X bandits who held up a store J. A here. X As the men left the store. A / Stanb hurled the stone, hitting f X Bunker In the head. The other X ? man escaped. X ERIKSON MEMORIAL The Norwegian National league ha? completed plana to erect a S400.UUU memorial In Chicago to Lief Erikson. It will consist of two obelisks, IJ7 feet high, flanking the bronze figure of Lief Erikson, 18 feet high, shown ( above. Hospital to "Brand" Babies With Sun Lamp Newark. N. J.?Beth Israel hospital. Newark, adopted an entirely new sys tem for the Identification of hnhief born in the Institution. A few minutes after the child has been horn, a sten cii containing the initials of the moth er will he placed on an arm of both the mother and child and will he sun burned onto flie skin by exposure to an ultraviolet ray latnp. The hospital considers the method a perfectly harm less and satisfactory scheme. The slightly red initials wllj re main visible for ten days and If ttie patients are placed in n dark room the letters may he detected for several weeks longer Or. Paul Keller of the hospital sti.ff developed the system. Professor Deciphers Puzzling Inscription Dighton. Mass.?Miquel Corte Ileal, Portuguese explorer, landed here In 1.102 and lived in this vicinity until 1.111, according to an Inscription on Dighton Bock, recently deciphered by Professor Delahnrre of Brown univer sity. The import of the Inscription had been a mystery for more than four centuries. To commemorate the landing. Dr. Ollbert Marques of New York, took two small cedar chests full of dirt from near Dighton Bock for prcsenta tlon to the (leogrnphlc Society of Lisbon. Portugal, and the Corte Real museum at Tercerln, In the Azores. Man Pays 35-Year-Old Meat Bill With Interest Sprlnglleld, M?.-The McCoy broth ers are hailing one man as the origi nal honest man. They recount the story of how, thirty-live years ago, a man entered their meat market and ordered $4.45 worth of meat on credit. He failed to pay the hill. Just the other day the same man walked In and asked for a hill. Old ledgers were dug out and a hill was given him. He paid It with Interest. Anchorage of the Hudson River Bridge .la* I 'WWHBBI The ea?t or New tork anchorage of the irjjeatlc new Hudaon river bridge, which connect* the statea of New Jerae; and New Tork, at teen from the top of the bridge tower. P Daddy's 4 Eveixi i\^, Fairy Tale ^.WARY GRAHAM BONNER ? ? carr*c?tT m wnium mwtifu uanow ? GNOMES' PARTY "We are (tiring a chariot race en tertainment," said Peter Gnome to Witty Witch, "for Dur friends and cousins, the Bogey family. "Will you come und tell us some of your wonderful sto ries after we hare had the race?" "I will be de lighted to come," said Witty Witch, and then Peter Gnome Invited Mr. Giant and many other friends and they all accepted with pleasure. ?Then Its all settled," said Pe ter Gnome. "This afternoon at three "Will You Comer ?'clock. That will be the hoar when he party will commence." Three o'clock is an boor when the airies, gnomes, brownies and elves >ften start their parties. At three o'clock promptly the char ot race began. Oh. how thrilling were he races, for nothing is quite so ex iting as a chariot race. They all took part In It and the voods were filled with chariots. You see. in Fairyland, they can do jo much. When trees got in their way hey Just Jumped over the trees. Two gnomes were In one chariot On heir heads were green wreaths of )ine needles and their reins were nade of green and gold ribbons. Next came the fairies in white, with vhite and silver ribbons for reins. The elves wore bright red costumes, ?ed wreaths and red berries. The brownies were in deep brown relvet, with brown oak leaves around heir heads, and reins of brown with folden bells which tinkled so cheer fully. ? Other gnomes, of course, took part, >esides the two who were starting )ff the races. The bogey family sat in a gallery made through riie woods. Mr. Giant was at one ena and Witty Witch at Ihe other. The bogey cousins were delighted with the races and at times almost fell over with excitement. Hut Mr. Giant stretched out his long arm, which held them all back, for his arm reached all along the line where the bogey family snt After the chariot race was over one final race was to take place between the two who had been In the lead. Two of the brownies and two of the elves were chosen. They started off after Mr. Giant had blown a big whistle. But what do you think happened? You can never guess, so I'll have to tell you. The bottom of the char lot In which the brownies were riding fell out, and they had to run along with the rest of the chariot and Just behind the ponies which had been pull ing the chariot. Of course, the ponies never stopped to turn around to see If the brownlea were all right, and they did not know that the bottom of that chariot had fallen out. But the others all thought It was one of the funniest things they had ever seen. Naturally, the elves won the race, but when they saw that the brownies had kept up, even though the bottom ^ of their chariot had ? fallen out. they i ? a 1d that they ; should he given the prize. Mr. Giant, how- - ever, gave them all prizes of fine sticks : made out of birch bark, which would be useful ^when the early spring came along, and they all wanted to take i spring walks. Then Witty Witch told stories and she told them all what they al ready knew, too? what a fine family the bogey family Mr. Giant Wu at On* End. was and how meaD and unfair it was when grown-ups said bogeys would eateb children and were mean. They all agreed to that and the bogey family was Indeed happy to have the truth told about them. THE RIDDLE BOX 1. What la the difference between 'f a man atrnck with amazement and a leopard'* tail? j 4