The Alamance gleaner 1
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VOL. LVII. GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY JUNE 25, 1931. NO. 21.
News Review of Current
? Events the World Over
president Hoover Delivers Addresses in Three Middle
Vest States?Moves Toward Restoration
of Economic Prosperity.
,?' ' By EDWARD W. PICKARD
Responsibility
for the existing
economic depression
In the United States
should be laid to
frozen confidence
rather than to frozen
assets, according to
President Hoover,
who addressed the In
diana Republican Edi
torial association and
Its guests In Indian
apolis. The Chief Ex
ecutive expressed his
H.
President
Hoover
uopes anu piuns ior reneweu pros
perity which shall be wrought out of
the nation's great natural resources
by a people with renewed courage;
and he vigorously defended the course
of his administration in the crisis
and denounced panaceas for recovery.
After alluding to the Russian five
year plan, Mr. Hoover proposed what
be called an American plan. Said he:
"We plan to take care of 20,000,000
Increase in population in the next 20
years. We plan to build for them 4,
000,000 new and better homes, thou
sands of new ahd still more beau
tiful city buildings, thousands of fac
tories; to Increase capacity of our
railroads; to add thousands of miles
to our highways and waterways; to
Install 25,000,000 electrical horse pow
er. We plan to provide new parks,
schools, colleges and churches for
this 20,000,000 people. We plan to se
cure greater diffusion of wealth, a de
crease in poverty and a great reduc
tion in crime."
From Indianapolis the President and
his party, which included Mrs. Hoover
and their son Allan, went to Marlon.
Ohio, and took part in the dedication
of the magnificent memorial to War
ren G. Harding. Mr. Hoover deliv
ered the chief address in which he
severely condemned the "friends"
who betrayed Harding's trust. Former
Senator Freylinghuysen, president of
the memorial association, presented
the memorial to the association, and
Calvin Coolidge. who succeeded Hard
ing in the presidency, replied in ac
ceptance. Gov. George White ac
cepted the structure on behalf of the
state. Immediately after the cere
monies Mr. Hoover went to Colum
bus and reviewed a parade of Civil
war veterans attending the Ohio G.
A. R. encampment.
Next day the presidential party
Journeyed to Springfield, 111., for the
dedication of the remodeled tomb of
Abraham Unco In. Mr. Hoover was
the guest of Governor Emmerson and
again delivered the main speech at
the Imposing ceremonies.
The politicaal implications of Presi
dent Hoover's trip to the Middle West
were evident land not denied. # The
three states he visited have all caused
alarm among the Republican leaders
by their votes in recent elections.
Only last November Illinois replaced
a Republican senator with a Deim*
crat and sent five more Democrats to
the house in place of Republicans;
Ohio elected a Democratic governor
and sent six Democrats to congress
In place of Republicans, and Indiana
replaced six Republican congressmen
with Democrats. The Republican man
agers hoped the presidential tour
would have effect to bringing these
states back into the fold, and there
was also the expectation that It would
help In promoting Mr. Hoover's pros
pects for renominatlon and re-elec
tion. That he is a candidate Is no
longer in doubt. If It ever was. ^The
recent conference of young Repub
licans In Washington, under the guid
ance of Senator Pest, national Re
publican chairman, made that certain.
IN A letter to lead
ers of American In
dustry and organized
labor the National
Civic federation takes
the first step In set
ting up a ten year
plan of systemtslng
production, eliminat
ing unemployment
and Integrating the
Industrial and eco- *
nomic structure of the
nation. The letter was
J. W. Gerard
signed by James W. Gerard, roriner i
ambassador to Germany and now the |
chairman of the federation's commit- i
slon on Industrial Inquiry- It If based |
on a proposal made by Matthew Woll,
?lea president of the American Feder- i
atlon of l?ahor, and urges the calling
of a national congress to discuse and
formulate a program of Industrial re
adjustment and create permanent ma
chinery for this purpose.
i
Mr. Oerard'i letter wai addressed
to all leading manufacturer! In the
country, officials of the American Fed
eration of Labor and heads of all
International anions. The letter de
clnrea that Mr. Woll'a proposal for
a great congress of Industry has
received the Indorsement of the na
tional civic federation and expresses
the readiness of the federation to
summon such a congress "If It can
have reasonable assurance that the
response will be such as to make
success probable." Manufacturers and
labor leaders were aelced to state
their opinion and that of tbelr organ
izations on the proposal and to advise
whether they would participate In a
preliminary meeting that might be
held before the formal calling of the
congress.
( "What Is desired Is to draw to
gether a great conclave of delegates,
not a mere collection of Individuals
without representative character,"
Mr. Gerard's letter declared.
EUROPE rathe* ex
pects that when
Secretary of State
Stlmson gets over
there tor his visits to
various capital cities
it will be revealed
that the United States
government will con
sent. under certain
conditions, to alter Its
stand on reparations
and war debts. And
In this counti j there
W. A. Castle
are Indications that this may be true.
Undersecretary of State William A.
Castle gave out a statement the other
day to the effect that the government
does not consider its position as sig
nifying an Inflexible thesis, and there
have been strong hints at the White
House that President Hoover would
not oppose the scaling down of war
debts if he were assured this would
be followed by ample reductions In
European armaments.
" Mr. Castle said the government Is
and alway# has been open minded on
the war debt question and has been
watching the situation abroad very
carefully; he added that no crisis hns
yet arisen of a nature that would
call for any action by this country
on the war debts. If such a crisis
should arise, he said, it was obvious
this government would have to con
sider whether a temporary change was
necessary. Official opinion In Wash
ington was that Mr. Castle's state
ment was designed to help Chancellor
Bruenlng of Germany in the troubles
that beset him.
MISS ANNA ADAMS GORDON,
former president of the Nation
al Woman's Christian Temperance
Union and of the World W. C. T. U..
died in Castile, N. Y.. at the age of
seventy-eight years. She was a close
friend of the late Frances E. Wlllard.
helped her organize the W. C. T. U.
and for many years was her secre
tary. She was one of the best known
of temperance leaders of this gener
ation.
Franklin D.
Roosevelt's presi
dential boom ru giv
en a decided boost In
Massachusetts by the
luncheon given by
Col. Edward M. House
at his summer cottsge
near Manchester-by
the-Seo. The gover
nor of New Tork was
the guest of honor
and among those
present were the most
Influential Democrat
Cel. E. M.
Heine
lc leaden of the Bar atate. Ui[ue waa
said about polltlce during the lunch
eon. hut the feeling waa genenl that
the affair waa of conalderahle po
litical elgniAcance. and frlenda of Mr.
Itooaevelt are of the opinion that the
Mnaaachuaette delegation In next
gear 'a national convention will be In
line for hla nomination. J net before
the partr roe# from the table Colonel
Hnuae offered a toaet to the governor
aa the man on whom the eyee of the
nation are focuaed.
It will be remembered that Colonel
Houae recently announced that he waa
eorreapondlng with leading riemocrata
with a view to promoting itooaevelt'a
prealdentlal proapecta. Among the
gueeta at the luncheon waa Henry
Morgenthau. Ilka Houae a clone friend
of Wood row Wllaon. and It la believed
be haa aaaoclated hlmaelf with Houae
In thla movement with the auction
of Roosevelt, although the governor
ha* not yet declared himself a candi
date for the preaidentlal nomination.
AL CAPONE, the world'* most no
torious gangster, will hare to
spend some years In Leavenworth
penitentiary. Before Federal Judge
Wllkerson In Chicago he pleaded guil
ty to Indictments for evaslona of In
come tax payments and for conspir
acy to violate the prohibition law. Ha
will be sentenced on June 30, prob
ably to from two to four years In
prlaon. Sixty-eight members of Ca
pone's gang also are under Indictment
for the liquor law conspiracy. Ca
pone's rule as Icing of gangland is
ended.
T UAN BAUTISTA
Perez, obeying a
demand made by the
congress of Venezuela,
resigned ' from the
presidency of that, re
public, after evading
for some time the
oral and written sug
gestions of members
of congress that he
step out of office. The
drive against him
was managed by sup
Juan Vicente
Gomez
porter* or juon Vi
cente Gomez who were determined
that the veteran should resume the
place he held (or 20 years from the
time of Castro's downfall until May,
1020. He retired then on his own mo
tion and when Perez was elected to
succeed him the constitution was
amended to permit Gomez to become I
commander-in-chief of the army and
to be responsible only to congress. I
An academic, rather than active type, .
President Perez left the task of put- ,
ting down Insurrections?three of
which have occurred since he took
office?to General Gomez and his army
of 12,000 men.
Gomez, In fact, has been almost as
much the ruler of the country since
retiring as he was before, and his re
turn to the presidency In the election
set for June 19 was considered certain.
He Is getting to be an old man hut ?
retains bis youthful vigor and plctur- <
esqueness, and probably Is the man
Venezuela needs.
WITH all the tra- 1
dltlonal splendor m
and ceremony Paul ||
Doumer was Inaug
urated as the new i
president of the ||
French republic, sue- j|
ceedlng Gaston Dou- E
mergue. Premier Lav- fl
al called at the sen- E
ate for M. Doumer I
and took him to the
presidential palace,
their automobile be
ing escorted by cavnl
:
Paul j
Doumir
ry through throngs or cneering cms
eua, aa the artillery fired the 21 gun
salute. At the palace the retlrliig
president transferred his ofllce to his
sui-iessor, and M. Doumer received
the insignia of grand master of the
legion of Honor from the hands of
General Duball, head of the organis
ation.
President Doumer's first official act
was to go to the city hall and be re
ceived by the council, after which he
proceeded to the Arc de Trlomphe
and there. In a solemn ceremony, re
lighted the eternal fiame at the tomb
of the unknown soldier. This rite was
especially moving, for M. Doumer lost
four Of his five sons In the war.
NEAItl.Y 500 persons, most of them
women and children, perished
whfti a French excursion steamer cap
sized near 8t. Nazalre during a storm.
Only eight of those aboard the vessel
were saved.
The submarine Nautilus, carrying
Sir Hubert Wllklns' under-lce polar
expedition, was disabled In mld-At
lantlc by the breaking down of her
engines, and was taken In tow by the
American warship Wyoming.
CARDINAL SEGURA, the exiled
primal", slipped back Into Spain
the other day but was promptly appre
hended and ushered out again across
the French border. His presence In
Spain threatened a recurrence of the
attacks on church Institutions, for
the radicals were enraged by the news
of his return. The Vatican protested
his expulsion.
ONE more member of the federal
fhrm board?the third within a
few months?has resigned from that
body. He Is Samuel R. McKelvle. the
wheat member of the board, and he
said that as his term had Just ended
presidential acceptance of his resig
nation was not necessary. S. la succes
sor has not yet been announced. Mr.,
McKelvle, who took part In the re
cent grain conference In l-nn.lon. will
retire to his large live stock ranch
In Nebraska. \
NETTA DCCHATEAU of Belgium
was selected as "Mlse Universe"
at the International beauty pageant
In Galveston. Texas She Is seventeen
years old and has long, dark hair,
't UI1 Waun SmMMi liala.1
Design for Belleau Wood Memorial ||
This Is the design for the memorial to be erected at Alsne-Xlarne ceme
tery, near Belleai Wood, France, to the memory of the American soldiers
who fell In battle, by the American battle commission. It will be 110 feet
high. Including the tower which rises 80 feet
Expose Suicide
Club in Probe
- ?? ?.
Twenty-Four Already Hare
Taken Their Lives; Seek
to Save Others.
Amltyvllle, N. Y.?Startled by reve- '
latlona of a anlctde club of which
twenty-four members already are
laid to have taken their own liver,
police are making atrenuoua effort!
to prevent the self-destruction of the
twenty-alz persons whose names have
been given to them aa the aurvlvlng
members.
Expose of the alleged club came
from the reluctant lips of Miss Lou
ise Schwartz after ahe had been tak
en Into custody and threatened with
a charge of murder growing out of
the death of her flfty-flve-year-old
brother. Edward, a wealthy business
man.
Ulss Schwartz later was Indicted
on a charge of murder In the sec
ond degree, accused of shooting her
brother to death on orders of the
club after prayers for his relief from
chronic rheumatism had failed to ef
fect a cure. Miss Schwartz, plead
ing not guilty at her preliminary
hearing, said that her brother had
committed suicide and that she had
not slain him because, as the authori
ties believe, his nerve failed when he
was told that the time had come for
him to die by his own hand.
Bslleve Story True.
Not only were authorities of Nas
sau and Suffolk counties Inclined to
believe the Octlon-llke organization
exists, but Dr. Theodore Heed, owner
of a private hospital, said he be
lieved. from revelations of mental pa
tients fronl surrounding towns, that
Miss Schwartz's story Is true.
The same opinion was given hy Dr.
Richard H. Hoffman, an alienist who
examined Miss Schwartz. Although
he found her the victim of "delusions
and obsessions." Doctor Hoffman said
the woman apparently was speaking
truth In mentioning the suicide club.
The club was formed seveml years
ago, Miss Schwartz told authorities,
after members had "delved Into the
history of suicide" and were "con
vinced that scientific Christianity did
not prohibit self-destruction."
The club's specific aim. Miss
Schwartz said, was to bring about
cures through prayers. If the prayers
were unavailing, then suicide of sn
ailing member was the only alterna
tive. or If he failed to take his life
then a member of the cult was chosen
to put him to death.
Mostly the suicide club was com
posed of elderly members and among
the names she mentioned was that of
George Brltenbach. who committed
suicide by hanging last April 28.
Found Many Recruits.
Within s short time after Its for
mation, there were thirty members
of the club. Miss Schwartz said.
"We formed the dub four or live
years ago," she said. "All the mem
bers are along In years and III men
tally or physically. Every Sunday
night we met at tbe home of a mem
ber to pray for a period of four
hoars that ona of as would be cared
of our feeblesness. There were many
members, and twenty-six are still Us
ing.
"If the member for whom we
prayed was not helped by our
prayers, he was bound by oath to
commit suicide. If he failed to end
his life before the next meeting, he
was to be slain by a chosen member
of the cult.
"When we met at the home of
George Brltenbach, we found he was
not receptive to prayers. So he com
mitted suicide."
When prayers failed to cure her
brother. Miss Schwartz said, he com
mitted suicide after she reminded
blm of his duty to the cult.
Circumstances, however, pointed to
murder, police say. They claim thnt
Miss Schwartz was the member des
ignated to end the life of her broth
er after he balked at taking It blm
self.
He Was a Cripple.
Schwartz had heen a sufferer from
chronic rheumatism for ten years. As
a result, he had become crippled In
arms and lege Police, rolled to In
vestlgate his death, found he had
been shot three times hy a revolver
which was found beside him. Any
of the three wounds, medical experts
said, would have prevented the oth
er two from being self indicted. One
wound In tha top of tha head could
not have been fired by (Schwartz's
>wn band.
Miss Schwartz admittedly was the
only other person In the home prior
to the finding of the body, tier story
Is that she had gone out, leaving her
brother alone, and returned to dl?
cover his body.
School Finance Survey
of U. S. Starts in July
Washington.?A four-year national
study of the tax dollar spent oo
schools wHI be started July 1. accord
ing to Secretary of Interior Wilbur
The survey, which will be known as
the national survey of school finance,
was authorised by the last congress.
William J. Cooper. United States
commissioner of education, will be di
rector of the survey, but the active
work will he In charge of Dr. Paul R.
Mort, recently of the Colombia Univer
sity Teachers' college, who has been
appointed associate director.
The survey Is expected "to produce
comparative Information on the sources
and uses of the 12,450,000.006 spent
annually for educational purposes" for
the use of congress, state legislatures
and school boards and officials. Con
gress appropriated (350,000 for use In
the investigation and $100,000 a year
more Is expected for tbe next four
years.
Pays Inventor's Heirs
for Fuse Used in War
Paris.?The heiri of Andre Lefevre,
who perfected a shrapnel fuse used
by allied armies daring 1017 and 1018.
hare been awarded 137200 damages
from Hie French rovcrnment and the
costs of their salt as payment for the
Invention.
M. Lefevre, former minister of war.
finished work on the L A. L fas* la
August, 1916, and presented the plan
to the Ecole Pyrotecbnlqae de Boorgea.
The fuse was accepted and manu
facture and nse of It began, bat the
rights of the lnrentor were not pro
tected. After the war M. Lefeere
sough: payment from the Allied
armies, hat all except Belglnm re
fused. He obtained a decision from
the war ministry that payment was
dne him, bat the - mount could not be
decided. The petitioner died soon
after, and the question was dropped
until his heirs brought salt against
the government e short time ago.
President of Chile Is
an Airplane Enthusiast
Stratford. Conn.?Capt Boris Ser
glev&ky. chief test pilot for the >1
korsky Aviation corporation, has made
cn aviation enthusiast of the president
of Chile, Don Carlos lban*-x Del Cam
po, according to a report received
here.
Serglevsky told factory officials he
took the president for a two nnd ooe
half-hour flight In a Sikorsky amphi
bian which he recently flew in Chile.
Youth Routs Shark
in Hand-to-Fin Fight
Brisbane, Australia.?Stanley Roser,
an eighteen-year-old boy, 'jeet off a
shark which attacked him while be
was swimming.
A man-eater bowled him erer with
a furious rush, but Roser Jammed his
thumb In the shark's eye and It beet
a retreat. Roser walked to a hoepItaL
Robot Opens New Air Service
Thla mechanical man summoned the passengers, delivered a speech and
started the motors of the first plane to leave the airport at Newark. N. J,
at the opening of the Sl-hoor tranacontlnental service.
DADDY'S
EVENING
FAIRYTALE
? _
^Mary Graham Bonner
INTERESTING LOOKING
"It's a perfect sharae," laid the
mails in the small aqnarlam in the
boose.
GoidfiahM ? a 4
two aliTcr fishes
Used la this aqua
rium.
"Ton're syppoosd
to keep this rteaa.
or at least, job
are suppoasd to
help us, and 7eo*m
growing Cat aad
lasj
' The Ppillwog
listened sad said:
*T don't see at
all why I dmU
da so moeh wort.
The goldfish re aad
the sUeer Mot
are very lasy.
"Jest becaasa
they are beaatlfai.
they think It is
quite enough."
Th# Polliwog
LlsUntd.
"Well, and so It to." Mid the saalla.
Sow you can't tor a moment esea
make yourself bell ere that 70* aea
beautiful, can youT
"I'm not ao fore about that." aaU
the poUlwog. 1 am moat interesting
looking at any rate."
"Nonsense." said the snails. "Tea
are no more Interesting looting than
we are.
"Now. maybe we are slow, bat wo
do get there In the end. We <0 ear
work each day.
"We keep the plants dean and the
glass, and yea should keep the giasat
In good, dean condition.
"Ton should, but yon deal. Vh
eery bad of you."
"It seems to me," aaid the poOlwug.
"that you are rery cross today."
"No, we're not. but the tshsa aren't
soVelL And Ifs alt your fault.
"Ton don't do your week. Ton real
ly must keep thinks dean. Tan have
your work to do erery day, aad you'd
better do K. or our Uttle charges will
not lire." %
"How do yoa know the ashes
aren't well?" asked die potBwst. Ho
nau Kovtau w ig,
(llng and was lis
tening to the three
snails, who talked
In turn as they
came out quite far
from their shells.
-The sil?er fishes
hare red marks
around their heads
and (ills.' said the
first snail, who
was more cross
and annoyed with
the polllwof than
the others.
-And their fins
aren't tip as they
should be.' said fc
the second snalL J
-Their tails are
growing toe ether."
said the third
km# tma#i
tnalL "ill ma: means inrj are wot
well."
"WeU. ni Improve my way*." mid
the polllwog. "and 111 do math better.
"But at all events I etlll say that 1
am Interesting looking, and I doat
think anyone can dray It
"There aren't many creatures la the
world who look like poUlwoga. No,
Indeed.
"After all. It's a distinction owned
and possessed only by the poillwog (
family !"
PUZZLES
What Is that which It often given,
which yon tierer hare, yet which yon
often fire up? A conundrum,
eae
What trade Is certainly one In which
c man never will make a cent except
by sticking at It 7 Bill posting,
a a a
Why may carpentera reasonably be
lieve there la no ancb thing as atooe?
Because they never saw It.
a a a
What does a stone become when In
the w alert A whet atone (wet stoaie).
e a a
If yon throw a stone that la white
Into the Red ten. what will It become?
Wet.
e e e
What was the color of the wind and
wavea in a storm 7 The wind bine?
the wavea roee.
a a a
Why la a miller like a cook? Bo
cause he prepares the meal.
a e a
Why la a at eel-trap like the amall
pox? Because It is catching.
a e e
What Is tha best weather for hay
making? When It rains nltchfoeha.
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