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The Alamance gleaner f - '"1* "? "' "? 1 1 ?? I. 1 l.n J mm ] ?* ... ... ?? III M I IH y ... I ? 1 ? VI. a ? ? ? . - ? . - ? ? ? ? mm* r ?'?? VOL. LVII. GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY MARCH 26, 1931. NO. 8 News Review of Current Events the World Over President Hoover on Business and Pleasure Trip to Porto Rico and Virgin Islands?Mayor Walker Under Fire. j ' . - By EDWARD W. PICKARD PRESIDENT HOOV * , er and a "stag patty" sailed from Norfolk, Va., Thurs day morning on the reconditioned l??t tie ship Arizona for a twelve day trip on which the Chief Ex ecutive planned to combine rest and pleasure with husl f nnllwl Ail I VI lh> Gov. Theodore party were Secretary Roosevelt 0f War Hurley. Sec re tary of the Interior Wilbur, Capt. Wil liam Furlong, who handles navy Island matters; Capt. Charles K. Train, naval aide; Col. Campbell Hodges, army aide; various other officials from tha White House, and a hunch of newspa per men and photographers, ("apt. C. S. Freeman was In command of the Ari zona and the vessel carried a full complement of JH) officers and 1,244 men for It was making a shaking down run after being rebuilt. The first stop was at San Juan. Porto Rico, and the President for two days was to be the guest of Governor and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt at I*a Fortaleza, the old mansion In which governors of the Island have resided from the early duys of the Spanish regime. It was planned that Mr. Hoover should make a tour of the is land in order to observe Industrial, agricultural ami social conditions, meet the leaders of the political par ties and gain a general Idea of the success Governor Roosevelt has at tained in meeting the problems of the Porto RIcans, which are many and serious. The governor in his official reports and In communications to the Ameri can papers has given detailed pictures of the distress obtaining in the Island. Sixty per cent of the people are out of work, he said, either all or part of the year. The'population density Is exceeded by few countries. It is 44(1 to the square mile and even Intensive agri culture would not support this popu lation. So It Is Incustries that Gov ernor Roosevelt says must be devel oped. More than 3f>.000 persons are suffering from tuberculosis. 200.000 from malaria, and 000,000 from hook worm. From Porto Rico the Arizona was to proceed to St. Thomas, principal port of the Virgin Islands, where Mr. Hoover was to be met by Dr. Paul M. Pearson of Philadelphia, the recently appointed civil governor, and Waldo Evans of the navy, the retiring gov ernor. With them he was to $tudy the problems of the group, which are as serious as those of Porto Itico. The Virgin Islands used to prosper on the manufacture of rum and the trans shipment of European cargoes for the entire Caribbean region. The prevail ing economic distress is the result of prohibition and the conversion of coal burning vessels to oil consuming ships. Only a few days ago the control of the Virgin Islands was transferred from the Navy to the Interior depart ment, and now in Washington it is suggested that one result of the Presi dent's visit may be the amalgamation of the group with Porto Rico as a single political unit administered by one governor. Developments Id the campaign to clean up New York city politically are I coming rapidly. Our- | Ing the week formal j charges of neglect and unfitness were : filed against Jimmy j Walker, the dapper \ and debonair mayor j of the metropolis. : now regaling himself In California. The rthartroa n'PTP nrPRPflt ed to Governor Roosevelt by leaders of the city affairs committee and were said to be of snch a nature as to com pel the governor to take some action toward widening the Investigation now being conducted by Samuel Seabury and confirmed by police and magis trates. Governor Roosevelt had let It be come known that be would not re spond to any public clamor for a city wide Investigation ani that he would act only upon specific charges, such as led him to appoint Seabury to in vestigate the cooduct of Ijlstrlct At torney Thomas C. T. Train. Previous ly Seabury bad been put in charge of aa Investigation of police frameupe Samuel Seabury In vie? cases and of the conduct of city magistrates. The governor was asked by Craln to revoke the appointment of Seubury on the ground of bias, but refused, and Crain was summoned to appear and/ answer the charges made against him by the City club. Republican members of the state legislature were sJII trying to put through a resolution for a general Inquiry into New York conditions, hut were blocked by several recalcitrant members of their own party. Theodore o. josmn, washing ton correspondent of the I'.oston Transcript, has been made secretary to President Hoover to succeed George Akerson, resigned. Mr. .loslin Is a close personal friend of Mr. Hoover. His main duties will be arranging the President's calling list, handling visi tors at the executive offices and main taining contact between the President and the correspondents. The new secretary Is an experi enced political reporter and has a wide acquaintance among public men. He Is a native of Massachusetts and I Is forty-one years old. SENATOR HIRAM Johnson of Cali fornia. who is one of the most Independent members of the upper house thinks the re cent conference of progressive leaders was a "fine thing" and that the leaders of the Republican party should call a similar meeting, add ing: "Only good can come from such gath erings. tie is convinced tnat "some thing is radically wrong somewhere" with the Republican party. Mr. Johnson gave out a statement in which he agreed with some of the progressive doctrines and disagreed with others, but said that "public con sideration, study and discussion con stitute the contribution and value of the conference." fie asserted the coun try was naturally Interested In unem ployment, representative government, the power question, monopoly's en croachments and public utilities, add ing: "Some of our Republican brethren not only belittle the effort hut would transmute it into the one public mat ter of concern to them?politics. Rut a philosophic onlooker who long ago marked his own course, and prefers in his own way to follow It. might sug gest that only progressives, in the In terim between sessions, bring these vital questions up in public meeting for public discussion. Can any one imagine the stnndpat wing of either party meeting together with earnest and able experts and publicly discuss ing economic problems?" DEATH once more has changed the political make-up of the house of rcpresen tat Ives which will ussetnhle in December. James B. Asweil of I,oulBlana, Democrat and ranking minority member of the agricultural committee, passed away at his apart ment in Washington after a heart at tack. H* was sixty-two years old and had served in -ongress for nine con secutive terms. Mr. Asweli's death leaves In the house 217 Republicans, 215 Democrats and one Farmer-I-aborlte. Rcpresen tatives John F. Quaylc and David J. O'Connell. both Democrats of New York, died last <vi\ter. Their succes sors. Matthew V. O'Maley and Steph en a. Rudd. are both Democrats Rep resents live Henry Allen Cooper. Re publican of Wisconsin, died Isst March 1. His successor ' as not been chosen. PROBABLY twenty men perished when the sealer Viking was blown up In White bay, Newfound land. Of the survivors 118. many of them badly injured, managed to reach little Horse island, where a few in habitants tried to care for them with Inadequate food and no medical sup plies. Several others were picked up by vessels that sped to the rescue, called by the messages of the young girl radio operator oo the island. Be sides the large crew the Viking car ried the members of s moving picture expedition. Everyone has now tiled his in come tax return, or should have done so. and the experts in Washing ton are busy figuring up bow oiucb Senator Johnson Uncle Sam will receive. Treacury of flclals could not yet make definite pre^ dictions as to the collections for the first quarter, hut they hoped that the receipts for March would run above $400,000,000 and those for the first quarter, ending March 31. well above *>00,000.000. At .east one-fourth of the total tax due was paid with the income tax returns filed, so that col lections for the first quarter will run somewhat above the average for the four quarters. Indications are that the higher tax rate for 11130 Incomes will fail to off set the losses caused by the economic depression by around $100,<XX).tXXI. I*ast year's collections for the first quarter were $G28,(MX).000. ONK of t!ie earnest hopes of the American Federation of Labor?the aflilia tion of tlie Brother hood of Hallway Trainmen with the federation?Is soon to he realized, according to dispatches from Washington. Itepre sentatives of both bodies and of certain affiliated railway workers' unions were engaged during the week in drafting the terms of an agreement for the amalgamation. Representing the fed eration in the conference were Presi dent William Green. Secretary Frank Morrison and Vice President J. M. P?u geniazet. who also is secretary of the International Brotherhood of Klectri cal Workers. Sitting in for the train men were President Albert Whitney and James Farquarson. legislative agent. The drafting conference was the culmination of negotiations that have been in progress for a year, in which Secretary of Labor D<Tak, in his for tner capacity as legislative agent of the trainmen's organization, is said to have played an Important part. I TNBXPECTED! Y heavy demands ^ by World war veterans for loans have made It necessary for the treas ury to raise $200,000,000 In less than a month. Secretary Mellon ant ounced a request by Veterans' Administrator Hines for $.")00.000,000 to cover pay ments on 1.372.000 applications re ceived up to March 15. It had been estimated $300,000,000 would suflice. and P/6 per cent treasury certificates were issued to get that sum. Illnes said, however, the $500,000,000 would be needed by April 11. The veterans' administrator also told Mellon $1,000,000,000 would h* required to pay all loans. MAL DAUGHKHTY. brother of former Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty, was sentenced at Washington Courthouse, Ohio, to ten years in prison and a fine of $5,000. | He was convicted recently of ab 8trncting funds from the now defunct Ohio State hank of which he was president and was refused a new trial. Secretary Doak PIETRO CARDI nal Mnffl, arch- j bishop of IMsa and tine of the most emi nent members of f lie sacred college, is dead In Pisa at the age of seventy-three years, .n liis earlier years he j gained fame an as tronomer and teacher j of philosophy; he i was n.ade archbishop in 1903 and four years later was raised to the purple by Pope Plus X. The same pope. It was ru mored, considered deposing him be cause he supporte the modernists In a contest with the reactionaries in the church. Twice, afterward. Maffl was considered a papal possibility. He was always a great friend of the Ital ian royal family, and he officiated last year at the marriage of Crown Prince Humbert of Italy and Princess Marie Jose of Belgium. For this he was given the Collar of the Annunr.iafa. Cardinal Math's death reduces the Italian membership in the sacred col lege to 28. against 80 foreign mem bers. Therefore It Is expected II Home that a consistory will be held before long at which the pope will create a number of cardinals and give the Italians at least equal strength with the foreigners. SO VARIED are the Interests of dif ferent countries that the tariff armistice convention called at Ceneva by the League of Nations Is forced to report that It has failed to reach an agreement, though It has hopes that within a few years enough nations will ratify the pact to make If effec tive for Europe. The conference was calied by the league lo an effort to secure a truce on the raising of tariffs and later to obtain a general reduction of tariffs Only eleven countries ratified the truce clauae and all eleven made lm portant reservations. The usual res ervatlon was. "If surrounding coon tries would also ratify.*' <?> 19S1. W?*c?ra Swimpw La**.) Cardinal Maffl Folding Plane Designed for Submarines to Carry This Is the monoplane designed by Grover Loening and tested at the Curtiss airport. New York, by navy officials. It Is so small that It can be folded up and codded in an eight-foot tube in a submarine. Its wing spread is 38 feet and It has a cruising speed of 100 miles an hour. It can be assembled or dismantled in three minutes. Kills His Brother And Hides Body Boy Confesses to Ghastly Murder Following Quar rel Over Car. Stevens Point, Wis.?The murder of his brother. In cold blood, was con fessed here recently by Anton Riske, seventeen, after a neighbor's boy on the way to school found pools of froz en idood on the road, mingled with bits of brain tissue which proved upon examination to be human. The body of the slain youth was recovered later from the Wisconsin river. Itlske said that he and his brother John, twenty-five, who lived with their widowed mother, Mrs. Mary Riske, on a farm In the town of Carsons, had been having trouble over use of John's car and that he determined to kill John. ?'When we went out In the car," he told District Atorney John Meleskl and Sheriff John Kublsiak. "1 took my shotgun along and sat In the back seat 1 said I would use It to scure some dogs that always ran out at us. I loaded the gun while John drove and when we got by a big stubble field I aimed at the back of his head an 1 | pulled the trigger. Put Body Through Ice. ??John didn't move, but the car ran into the ditch and stopped. I could see some lights coming and I was afraid somebody would see thnt he was dead, so I dragged him around back of the car and fastened him by fhe leg to the buinper with a lire chain. Then I drove away hack In the stubble field and turned out m\ lights." Anton said thnt he unfastened the chain In the field and loaded the body Into the back seat of the car. Then, when the approaching car had pussed. he drove out of the field and over to highway 10. from which a small side road took him to a river landing. lie drove a mile up the river on the Ice to a spot where he knew a hole wur< kept open to water teams. With a pole kept there for the pur pose. he broke the thin Ice on the water bole and pushed his brother's body head first Into the river. He pointed out the plnce and at the first lunge with a long pike pole a deputy sheriff brought up the body. John Riske had been shot In the right temple. Anton went home and wiped out the car with rags. He hid the bloody rags, including nig nanuKercmei, un der the hay In the barn, with one of John's oxfords which had come ofT in the car. He put his brother blood stained overshoes in the house. Then the slayer wrote a note and signed his brother's name, saying that John had gone away with another fel low and would never return. He ad | dressed it to his mother and she found | It the nest day. When Joseph Olszewski, seven, ran home to his father and said that some I body bad been killed on the road. Adam Olszewski put him off with the remark that a dog probably had been hit. The boy. however, was so excited and so Insistent that the father finally went with him to the spot. He trailed the bloody circle through the field and remembered that he had seen the lights of a car there the night before. Olszewski picked up pieces of brain tissue and brought them here to Dr. Carl Von Neupert. cojunty physician, who said at once that they were hu man tissue. Discover Bloolstains. The discovery led to rumors that Mrs. Riske had been killed. Only two fanns.arc on that road, the Rlske an I tbs Olszewski places. Officers went I to the ltiske home and found Mrs. Illske there. She said that everybody whs all right on her farm except that John had gone away. Anton was taken from a wood-cut ting Job and questioned. lie said that he had taken John over to a neigh bor's place but the oflicers found that this neighbor hud left for northern Wisconsin the day before. Then An ton said that John had gone to a dance with the car and must have got Into a fight becuuse the cur was bloody. County authorities were thoroughly suspicious of Anton by this time and they went to the Riske farm again for a thorough search. This time they discovered blood at the pump and the j things hidden In the barn. The Rents of John's car were found to have been saturated with blood. When Anton was confronted with this evidence, he confessed. Beetle, Farm Pest, Is Parasite's Meal Ticket Washington.?-All human effort to stay ttie aggressive Japanese beetle has failed, but he Is being mowed down by a parasite, the tlppia popll liavora rohwer. This parasite Is particularly adapted for use in the natural control of the | beetle because It Is a specific parasite of tliis pest in Its native land, and In this country the tendency Is preserved. Soil temperatures here appear to be favorable for Its normal develop ment. The adult, wasp like parasite shows a decided preference for the flowers of wild carrot, as food, and fortunately this plant Is abundant In the region now infested with the bee tie. Dentist Pulls Own Teeth and Then Fits Bridge Omnho.?Dr. II. K. Newton, Omaha dentist, recently pulled two of his own front teeth. After the gum* healed Doctor Newton made a bridge for the cavities. The doctor, however, didn't pull the teeth A3 an advertising stunt. The re?t of the world probably would never have known that the doctor did Ids own dental work if It hadn't been for I.. C. Chapman, In surance man, who held the mirror while the doctor performed the oper ation. oooooooooooooooooooooooooo I Automobile on Fire; 2 Drives It to Firemen o Lynn, Muss.?Jacob Qinz left a Ansha Sholurn Synagogue only v to discover that his automobile, a parked outside, was ablaze. 9 q lie hopped Into the driver's <5 x sent, drove to the nearest flre 9 o station and had the flumes ex- O x tinguished. 5 6 o 00000000000000000000000000 II Duce Plans to Start a New Gambling State Paris.?While the rulers of Monaco are squabbling as to how to use the' gambling spoils, Mussolini has heen planning to become dictator of the green tables, according to re[n?rts. It Is said that he plans to create an "independent gambling state" of San Itemo to rival Monte Carlo. Creation of this new country would enable San Itemo to devise gaming laws of her own. Introduce every known kind of game of chance, at tract big finance, and. last but 001 least, probably bring to the new cast nos the famed Creek banking conces sion, which went on a strike more than six months ago against the French government's new taxes on the baccarat bunk. There have been rumors for a long time of an Italian attempt to cut In on the French Riviera's profits by cre ating a new world of entertainment on the Mediterranean. It Is said that the authorities on the other side of the border now consider the time ripe to I make war on Monte Carlo and that the independent state of San Uemo will result. Defendant'* Joy Over Verdict I* Short Lived Columbus. Ohio.?"Not guilty!" read the clerk of the court from a Jury's findings. The youthful defendant sighed In relief and sagged down In Ms chair. "Ladies and gentlemen of ?he Jury, is that your true verdict?" asked Judge Mahaffey as a matter of rou tine. "No," emphatically answered the Jurors. The foreman then explained the 4e fendfant hail been found jfullty?but the wrong verdict was signed. The error was corrected. Main* Grow* Lemons Rath. Maine.?Miss Jane Murphy has at her home here a tree which this year produced eight lemons, two of which weighed I pound, 11 ounces each and were 15 Inches In circum ference. Building First Cobweb Dome in Chicago Lie ' for the flrst time In architecture, the so-called cobweb dome la being constructed for the Travel and Transportation building of tbe Chicago Con tury of Progress exposition. DaiUyrfvHiing Fairy Tal^aL -^ttary Grahara^^^Jm A LOVELY PLACE Now some boys and girls want to know about the lovely sun parlor a lady had for birds. She had the roof of her house made Into a sun parlor. There were little trees all around, and moss, and little pools of water which she had fixed to make look as much like the out-of doors as possible. The sun parlor she had enclosed In glass. Of course the glass made the sun shine through all the brighter. And she had little wee doors that the birds could get through?but so small that a cat could never get into this bird home?as you know birds hate cats and are terribly afraid of them as they have every reason for being nervous. Oh, it was a lovely, lovely place. But still more wonderful was a Wg cellar where all kinds of good apples, bread crumbs, more water, and count less goodies were kept. The lady had it all so beautifully arranged as to the route the birds could take to get from the roof to the cellar. In the sun parlor were tunnels which led down into the cellar, and the birds | used to love to go through these dark passages Into the place where ail the goodies were kept. At first the birds were tempted Into their winter home by the bread crumbs that were in the sun parlor. For. of coarse, as you can imagine, it took the birds some time to get used to a beautiful summer home in the winter that was really Just for them. Soon, though, little birds know when people are being kind to them and where they may expect kindness and help and bread crumbs. The news spreads around Birdland very quickly. Of course the lady let all the birds who wanted to come in hare Just as - ? ? ? Oh, It Wat a Lovtly. Lovtly Place. ? good a time and sta.v Just as long as they wanted. But she especially want ed to help little sick birds who had. perhaps, fallen out of their nests, and who could not he watched over all day long by the mothers who had to | think of getting food and all such things as breakfast for her other Ht ' tie children. One day the lady came across a ; baby robin whose family had arrived ! before the warm weather. The baby robin had fallen from its j nest, and very gently the lady picked ' him up and took him to the sun par ; lor. The mother was crying nearby, for | she saw her baby being taken from | her and she couldn't help at all. But she saw. from the top of a i tree. Just where her little sick baby was taken. How happy and relieved she was? for, of course, she had to be In her nest with all the other little robins. But she sang every day the most wonderful songs for the lady who watched over her baby robin until it was quite strong and able to fly. It was a lovely, lovely place as all the birds knew. RIDDLES Why Is a washerwoman like Satur day? Because she brings In the clothes (close) of the week. ? ? ? Why Is a leaf of a tree like the hu man body? Because it has veins in It. ? ? ? Why is a nobleman like a book? Besanse he has a title and several pages. 0 0 0 What tree Is of the greatest Im portance In history? Thfe date. ? ? ? What miss la alwaya making blun ders* Mistake. ? ? ? What hooka are Influenced bv hard times? Pockecboooks. 0 0 0 What ia the beat key to ? good dinner? Turkey. _ . e