The Alamance gleaner i
VOL. LVII. GRAHAM, IN, C., THURSDAY AUGUST 20, 1931. NO. 29.
News Review of Current
Events the World Over
/ ?
Revolutionary Movement Threatens Machado's Regime
in Cuba?German Reich Saved by Defeat
of Radicals.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
GERAUDO MACH
ndo, president of
Cuba, not long ago
scofTed at the danger
of revolution In his
tight little Island. But
the threat has materi
alized In a way to
make him sit up and
take notice. Rebels
In various regions
staged outbreaks that
alarmed the govern
"""? ment find martial
law was declared In the effort to stave
off civil war. Maehado and his cabinet
ministers conferred with military and
clrll advisers, and the martial re
sources of the republic were hastily
mobilized. Troops were sent to the
troubled areas and an effort was made
to Improvise a navy by commandeering
private yachts and arming them with
eighteen pound guns.
Meanwhile the authorities were
gathering up all the known and sus
pected rebels they could catch and
putting them In Jail. Hundreds were
arrested and charged with treason.
Former President Menocal and Colonel
Mendleta were credited with the lead
ership of the revolt and especial ef
forts were made to get them, bnt at
this writing they are still at large.
The most active of the rebels were
In the province of Plnar del nio, and
It was reported to President Maehado
that they, with Gen. Balderno Acosta,
mayor of Mariano, as leader, were pre
paring an Invasion of Havana province.
Indeed, there were several sanguinary
skirmishes only a few miles from the
capital, which was Isolated by the
cutting of communications.
Col. Julio Sangully, chief of the
army flying corps, ordered every avail
able plane to keep on constant patrol
along the north coast, especially In
Pinny del Itlo, and for several miles
ont at sea. In search of both Cuban
and foreign organized filibustering ex
peditions. Several craft that attempted
to escape the navy patrol ships were
bombed by the fivers.
FOR the time being, at least, the
" German republic Is safe, for the
latest attempt to wreck It lias failed.
This was the move to dissolve the
Prussian diet through a plebiscite,
which. If It had succeeded, would have
Imperilled the Retch. The scheme was
devised by the Hitlerites or National
ists, and that other set of radicals,
the Communists, joined with them, al
though their ultimate alms are utter
ly diverse. But even with the aid of
the National Socialists the comblnatlou
fell some 3,500,000 rotes short of ac
complishing Its purpose.
The French goverment was almost
as pleased by the result of the Ger
man plebiscite as was that In Berlin,
for It meant that the growing accord
between the two nations would not be
broken, and It was said In Paris that
the proposed visit of Premlel Laval tg
Berlin was now a certainty.
INTERNATIONAL experts charged
with the task of dovetailing the
Hoover moratorium plan and the
Young plan announced In London that
they had reached a complete agree
ment. which was signed at the treas
sry office. Their communique said:
"Complete agreement was reached,
as regards the detailed measures re
quired to give effect to President
Hoover's proposal In case of payments
by Germany under the Hague agree
ment of January 20, 1930.
"Recommendation of the experts In
regard to suspension of these pay
* menta hare been approved by the gov
ernments of Australia, Canada,
Czechoslovakia, Greece, India, New
Zealand, Portugal, Rumania and South
Africa.
"Agreement also was reached In re
gard to detailed measures for suspen
sion of Interallied war debts to the
United Kingdom, France and Italy of
payments under agreement with
Czechoslovakia.
"Agreement also was reached on the
principle that payments due by Hun
gary under the Paris agreement of
April 28. 1930. and payments by Bul
garia under the Hague agreement of
January 20. 1930. should be suspended
during the year ending June 30. 1932.
"But In this ense certain adjust
ments must be made, as complete sus
pension of these payments might re
sult la suspension of certain classes
of payments to Individuals. Accord
ingly, the committee agreed In prin
ciple that all payments to funds 'A'
and 'B' under the agreement signed
at Parts on April 20. 1930, should be
continued during the Hoover year.
"NegotIatlons",are confirming In re
gard to adjustments required In the
case of Bulgaria."
pi.ANTERS of the fourteen cotton
* states of the South are asked by
the farm board to plow under one
third of their crop Immediately, In or
der to enhance the price of the other
two-thirds. The board sent telegrams
to the governors of the states urging
that this course be adopted. Ih re
turn, said th^ board, the cotton stabili
zation corporation will ngrc6 to hold
olT the market Its 1,300,000 bales until
July 31, 1032, and will urge the cot
ton co-operatlvea financed by the
bonrd to do likewise.
EDWARD A. O'NICAL, president of
the American farm Bureau fed
eration, announced at a meet'ig of
state farm bureau leaders In Ml, "au
kee that the federation "must renew
Its demand for an equalization fee"
and that the present marketing act
was Inadequate to cope with agricul
ture's "most acute problem?control
of Its surplus crops." The announce
ment was said to be unexpected by
the farm board officials and the ad
ministration In Washington.
"The federation hns always stood
for the principle of the equalization
fee, as expressed In* the old McNary
- Haugen bill, which provides thnt each
unit of a commodity produced shall
bear Its fair share of the cost of dis
posal of surplus," O'Neid said.
"Desiring to see the marketing act
fully tried out, the organization for
two years has not Insisted upon en
actment of the fee principle. It now
appears all too plain that the present
act does not adequately provide for
the needed surplus control."
pROBABLY to his
' own surprise,
quite a vigorous
though small boom
has developed for
Melvln A. Trnvlor,
Chicago banker, as the
Democratic nominee
for the Presidency In
1931. It was started
In Malone and Hills
boro, Texas, where
air. irayior. lormeny
A. Tray I or ?ved and w))ere he ,g
most popular. Then, a few days
later, Daniel Upthegrove, president of
the St. Louis Southwestern railroad,
announced that he would support the
banker for the nomination, ahd that
a committee was being formed to fur
ther Traylor's candidacy. It Is not
likely that Mr. Traylor takes the mat
ter seriously except as a compliment,
hut those who know him and his abili
ties feel that the Democratic party
might go further and fare worse. He
Is president of the First National bank
of Chicago and has been prominent In
national and International flnancial
affairs.
Representative wiluam e.
Hull of Illinois Is another of the
members of .congress who has been
studying things abroad, and lie has
just been heard from. The special
object of Mr. Hull's Investigation has
been the Bratt system of liquor con
trol In force In Sweden, and his con
clusion Is that Sweden has solved the
problem with which this and other
countries are struggling. In a word,
he finds the Bratt system works well.
SENATOR FELIX
Hebert of Rhode
Island, chairman of
the senate committee
o n unemployment
spent the week end at
the Rapidan camp and
then gave out appar
ently as President
Hoover's spokesman,
an attack on the Ideas
of a government dole
niiu i ruci ? i uiiem
ployment Insurance.
He asserted that the Habert
latter would Inevitably lead to the
dole ps It operates in England. Mr.
Hebert based hla conclusions upon a
study of the dole abroad made daring
a trip from which be recently re
turned. He visited most of the coun
tries of western Europe for the spe
cial purpose of InTestigatlng unem
ployment Insurance, and he predicts
now that there will be tittle clamor
In congress for the establishment 'of
such a system. He said of the dole;
"The main difficulty with the dole
system, as It operates throughout Eu
rope, with the possible exception of
Itnly. Is thnt It Is Intertwined with
politics."
ORGANIZED labor In certain parts
of this country Is not doing ntucb
to help solve ths question of unem
ployment. Quite the reverse. Take
the Hoover dam. for Instance. The
workers on that big project made
wage demands that construction com
pany holding (lie contract considered
extortionate, so 125 men quit work.
The superintendent Immediately shut
down operations and about 1.000 men
were thrown out of work. The com
pany, he said was six months ahead
of schedule and could afford to refuse
concessions that would cost $2,000
dally or $3,000,000 during the seven
years nllowecffor completion of the
dam. Living conditions for the work
ers on this desert Job are admittedly
rigorous.
In Chicago thousands of men and
women were thrown out of employ
ment when more than one hundred
small movie theaters closed rather
than submit longer to the demand
of the motion picture operators' union
that two operators be employed * at
each house. The managers said this
was unnecessary and that tbey could
not afford It.
Extensive highway construction op
erations In Illinois are delayed and
may not get under way before next
spring, because labor organizations
objected to the rulings of a stale board
as to the "prevailing wage" In vari
ous districts, which must be paid for
the work according to the luw au
thorizing It
These are only a few Instances of
the many thut might be cited. It
would seem to the ordinary citizen
that organized labor might well strain
a pointer two In such a time of stress.
The executive council of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor adopted a
declaration to the effect thnt there
must be no reduction of wages.
MISS MARY AN
derson, head of
the women's bureau
of the Department of
Labor, is a woman of
Ideas and the ability
to express them. Hav
ing returned from
Europe, she gives out
an address urging a
modern era for cooks
and maids, a higher
status lor umnesuc
Mary aervlce In keeping
Anderson w|(h m0(leni lndll5.
triallsm. Her program Includes the
establishment of training schools to
fit the worker to the position through
the federal employment service, nnd
an employees life Independent of the
employer's household. She thinks mod
ern apartment living means not the
eventual extinction of the worker in
the home hut added advantages for
her.
Miss Anderson also points nut that
apartment living must necessarily
give opportunity for much part-time
work.
PRESIDENT HOOVERS flfty
sever.tn birthday came on August
10, hnt he entirely disregarded the
anniversary. Returning from the
Itapldan camp, he spent the remain
der of the day In work as usual, nnd
though Mrs. Hooter had hurried hack
from Akron, there were no guests for
dinner.
COL. LUKE LEA. Nashville pub
lisher, his son, Luke Lea, Jr. and
four others were Indicted by the grand
Jury In Nashville on charges of con
spiracy In connection with the nlTnlrs
of the defunct Liberty Rank nnd Trust
company.
SHARPLY criticising "third degree"
methods In police force adminis
tration, which It found to he wide
spread In both cities and rural com
munities, the Wlckerslinm commission
reported to President Hoover that "It
remains heyond doubt that the prac
tice Is shocking In Its character and
extent, violative of Amerlcnn tradi
tions and Institutions, and not to be
tolerated."
Citing many Instances of polfre
brutality and unfair tactics by officers,
the commission declared that the
trend toward "lawlessness In law en
forcement" has resulted In "a deplor
able prostration of the processes of
Justice." and urged that congress en
act a code of federal criminal pro
cedure whlcb might serve as a model
for the states.
DARKER CRAMER, the svlalor
? who was mapping out a northern
Sir mall route to Europe, got as far
as Lerwick lr the Shetland islands
safely on his way to Copenhagen and
then ran Into trouble that. It Is feared
at this wrpjbg. results.: in m. death.
Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh were
held up at Point Barrow for three
days by adverse weather conditions,
and they took off for Nome. However,
dense fogs compelled them to come
down on the north roast of the Se
ward peninsula, abont 7ft miles from
Nome, which Is on the south coast of
that peninsula. When the fog lifted
they went on *o Safety bay, near
Nome.
I at till. Waetsrs Wewsoeaw Galea.)
| He's All Ready With an Ark for Second Flood ^ J
WILLIAM GREENWOOD, a resi
dent of Olympla, Wash., of ad
vanced years, says his ? home city and
Seattle, San Francisco and Los An
geles are so wicked and corrupt that
God has decided to wipe them off the
face of the earth. This, William be
lieves, will be accomplished through*
a second flood that will inundate the
whole Pacific coast of the United
States. Put William has imitated
Noah and has built for himself and
perhaps a few chosen friends an elab
orate ark In which he hopes to ride
the waters when that flood comes. The
vessel, here shown with Its builder. Is
0T? feet long, 15 feet wide and 18 feet
high.
| SUPERSTITIOUS 3
i? ? ? SUE ' * < i
SHE HAS HEARD THAT?
Among tho mountaineers If a gal's
lovsr gets thirsty she never, no, never
?allowe him to take a gourd of water
from her hand, for if ehe does, hs is
llabls to becoms a ripsnortlng water,
bug.
((E). 1131. lfcClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
(WNU Service.)
O
For Sports
A most effective sports frock con
sists of a white jersey pleated skirt
and a navy Jersey blouse made on the
lines of a polo skirt. There Is also a
white leather belt.
?
Mr. A. A Claims the Shortest Name
?
? w mm I ? ?ii i?????? m
WHO has the shortest name in the United States? This question arose on
the deatli of a man named Ite, and up to date Mr. A. A of Chicago is
holding his own against all other claimants. It is .hard to see how he can be
beaten. Mr. A, whose first name is Aaron, is seen here wit Ii a message of
congratulation from J. Ur of Torrington, Conn.
c BEDTIME STORY FOR CHILDREN
By THORNTON W. BURGESS
FLATHORNS THE MOOSE
, IS SMART
' v
PETER RABBIT was so excited that
he couldn't sit still as he listened
to the story told by Honker the Goose
of how Elathorns the Moose had got
even with the hunter and had kept
him In a tree all night. When Hon
ker paused as if that were the end of
| "Did the Hunter Get Away?" He
Asked Breathlessly.
the story, Peter's cariosity prompted
him to ask s question right away.
"Did the hunter get aweyf' he
asked breathlessly.
"I guess that hunter would be
there yet. If It hadn't been for other
hunters," said he. "Every little while
nil night he would shout at the top of
his lungs. I guess It made old Flat
horns grin to hear him. Every time
i
he shouted Flathorns would come out
of hiding and miort and butt the tree.
Just after daybreak I heard an an
swering about way ofT In the distance,
and I knew then that some one was
coming. I wondered If Flathorns
heard or If he waa ao filled with rage
that he had forgotten to watch out,
or If he thought because he hod fright
ened this hunter almost to death he
could do the same to any other hunt
er. The one in the tree began to
shout a great many things. 1 guess
he was warning whoever was coming
to look out for Flathorns. y
"Flathorns rushed out and stamped
and snorted just as he had been do
ing, but he wns smart He usually
Is. While he was doing everything he
could to scare that hunter he was
watching even If he didn't seem to bo.
By and by I saw another hutiter with
a terrible gun creeping up very slowly
and carefully so as not to make m
sound and got where he could shoot
Flathorns. I had Just opened my
mouth to warn Flathorns when I saw
him stop stamping and stand perfect
ly still looking and listening. I knew
then that he knew that danger was
near, so I held my tongue, I wanted
to see If he would try to chase this
other hunter up a tree, but he was
too smart for that. He knew that this
hunter would be ready with his Are
stick, so he Just melted away. Yes,
sir, that is what he did. Just melted
away. One minute he was there in
plain sight, and the next he was no
where to be seen. He had stolen off
through the woods so quietly that he
didn't make a sound. I don't know
how such a i>lg fellow as he is can
do It. but be ran. There wasn't a rus
tle of a leaf to tell where he had
gone.
"When the other hunter came up
there wasn't a sign of Flathorns ex
cepting the smashed flre-iytlck and the
torn-up ground and the bark rubbed
off the tree by his horns. The hunter
in the tree scrambled down, and after
a little the two of them went off. but
the one who had been In the tree kept
turning his head every other minute,
and he looked scared to death. I
guess he won't hunt Flathorns again
In a hurry. I don't know how Flat
horns knew when It was time to slip
away, for after the first shout the
second hunter made no sound.
He seemed to know Just how long
he could safely stay and Just when
It was time to go. He's smart, Flat
horns Is."
"He has to be in order to live,"
growled Buster Hear In his deep
gnimbly-rumbly voice. "I wish he
had chased that other hunter and
taught him a lesson too. If a few
more hunters were hunted, I guess
these men things would learn how
It feel* and then we people of the
(Jreat Woods and the Green Forest
might ha\e a fair chance."
Peter drew a long breath. "That
was a splendid story," said he. "I
would like to see old Flathorns. Tell
us some more about the Great Woods."
"Not tonight." replied Honker. "I
came here to rest, for I've had a long
Journey, and I'm very tired." With
this Honker settled himself to sleep
in the middle of the pond of Paddy
the Beaver.
<? by J. O. Lloru )-WNU K?rvle?.
O
Crisp Organdie
Organdie, sheer, crisp and flower
like in Its colorings. Is destined for
an Important part In summer fashions.
It Is used for simple tailored morning
frocks, for roffly afternoon gowns and
for ankle-length eveniog dresses.
rfotMS&Book 1
I ?zl
VACATION DISHES
FOE a picnic or afternoon gardes
party, try these little cakes: *
Cup Cakes.
Sift two cupfuls of flour, four tea
spoonfuls of baking powder, one tea
spoonful of cinnamon, one-fourth tea
spoonful of saIt. Add one cupful of
chopped nut meats, one package of
dates, sliced; mix these well with the
flour mixture. Cream one-fourth of a ^
cupful of butter, add one cupful of su
gar gradually, then two beaten eggs.
Add the dry Ingredients alternately;
with one cupful of crushed pineapple,
Ilake in small cups, cover with icing
and sprinkle with coconut In any de
sired color. This recipe makes four
dozen cakes.
Collegiate Sandwiches.
Spread one slice of bread lightly
buttered with peanut butter. Cover
with a layer of dates. Spread a sec
ond slice of buttered bread with cur
ia ut or cranberry Jelly. Put the
slices together in pairs. One-half
package of dates, one-half cupful of
peanut butter, will be sufficient for
dozen sandwiches the size that college
boys and girls like.
Graham Cracker Pie.
Roll one and one-half dozen grahan
crackers, mix with one-third of a cup
ful of melted hotter, two-thirds of a
cupfnl of sugar and one tablespoon
ful of cream. Line a pie plate with
this mixture, pressing hard to the bot
tom and sides. Fill with the following
filling: one pint of milk, three table
spoonfuls of cornstarch, three beaten
egg yolks, one-half cupful of sugar,
with salt and flavoring to taste. Cook
until thick and cover the cracker mix- #
Hire. Top with a meringue, using the
three egg whites to which has been
added three tablespoonfuls of sugar.
Sprinlrle the top of the meringue with
finely chopped nuts and graham crack
er crumbs. Bake long enough to brown
the meringue.
<?. 1931. Western Ntwiptpw Union )
O
GlOUGAGvP
?dr
"There it no reason to believe a
ch?p is airminded," says Knowing
Nora, "merely because he is windy."
<?. 1931. Bell Prndlrate.>?WNU Servtc*.
<)
Bracelets Again
The fashion for wearing several
bracelets is being revived now that
the varicolored Is preferred to the
matching ensemble, and shorter sleeves
are in vogue. Flexible and Jointed
gold bracelets enameled In two or
three colors are a fancy for the day
time.
Setting New Record
Mlrs N. Hnlstcad setting a near
world's record for women In the 440
yard ran at tl-e Women's A. A. rham-'
plonshlp* st Stamford Bridge, Eng
land, of 58 4-5 seconds. The former
record was held by M'ss M. E. King?
?50 1-5 asrnndji
1
. -MM