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VOL. LVIII. GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY APRIL 21, 1932. ._ ?. NO. 11.
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News Review of Current
Events the World Over
Senate to Rewrite Revenue Bill?Lindberghs Still Hope
Despite Double-Crossing?April Market Crash
Cost Six Billion Dollars.
T^ETE senate will rewrite the billion
* doljar tax bill passed by the house,
Chairman Reed Smoot of the senate
finance committee announced. After a
long delay in getting down to busi
ness on the budget balancing measure,
action at last appears in sight.
Many of the soak-the-rich provisions
of the tax bill may be eliminated In
the upper house's revision.
Sraoot's announcement followed a
bitter partisan debate In the finance
committee.
For nearly two hours. Secretary of
the Treasury Mills and Senator Harri
son, Mississippi Democrat, sparred for
political advantage over the revenue
measure.
Harrison sought to have Mills sub
mit a tax program which could be
labeled an administration bill. Mills
declared that the treasury sticks to
Its original recommendations presented
to the house ways and means com
mittee, and rejected.
Millls promised to submit to the
committee two new proposals, minor
modifications in the treasury's first pro
gram. These, he indicated, would be
for lower taxes on home consumption
of gas and electricity, and for a tax
on wort and malt.
He also told Harrison he would
point out specific flaws in the house
tax bill and suggest corrections. This
action, he warned, could not be con
sidered as offering a treasury pro
gram, because the treasury is bitterly
opposed to the house bill.
The general manufacturers' sales
tax as carried in the bill reported by
the ways and mean? committee is ac
ceptable to the treasury, Mills re
iterated. He suggested that the treas
ury would like to have the committee
accept a 1^ per cent manufacturers'
sale tax, estimated to yield $350,
000.000.
Mills was optimistic over the federal
economy drive, saying a minimum ap
propriations slash of $200,000,000 is
"definitely in sight" after conferences
between the President and the house
economy committee.
THE senate banking committee was
advised -by Richard Whitney,
president of the New York Stock ex
change. that stock and bond values
had depreciated at
least six billion dol
lars during the April
collapse in security
values.
Testifying as the
principal witness In
the committee's in
vestigation of short
selling on the stock
exchange, Mr. Whit
ney said that the drop
in securities values
had been as drastic
during the past week
as during any other
Richard
Whitney
period of Hie depression. He con
curred in an estimate by a committee
member that stock market and bond
losses from the peak of high prices
In 1929 had dropped $43,000,000,000.
Mr. Whitney's estimates were made
at the conclusion of the second day
of the committee's attempt to pin re
sponsibility for recent stock market
losses upon the activities of Wall
street bears engaged in short selling
operations. At the conclusion of the
day's bearing the Investigation was
adjourned until Monday, when Mr.
Whitney is expected to place be
fore the committee a complete record
of the short sales during the last
week together with a list of the prom
inent bears who have been on the
short side of the market.
Mr. Whitney vigorously denied that
short sales. had anything to do with
the recent drop in security values,
asserting that widespread liquidation
and unsettling business developments
rather than bear raids were respon
sible for the drop. He asserted, and
produced figures to prove his point,
that during the first week of the
April decline, the reduction in stock
prices was accompanied by a decline
In the short Interest or short sales.
In response to questions, Mr. Whit
ney said he thought between fifteen
and twenty million persons were trad
ing on the stock market when the
crash came In 1929.
DKSITTE the failure of the kid
napers to restore the Lindbergh
baby after the $50,000 ransom was
paid by Colonel Lindbergh, the be
lief persists in official circles that the
child will be restored to its parents.
The optimism seemed to spring
chiefly from faith In the ability of Dr.
Jobn F. Condon of the "Jafsle" con
tact to re-establish communication
with the gang which li believed to J
be holding the baby, stolen from his
parents' home near Hopewell. N. J.,
on March 1.
Doctor Condon Is reported to have
told the members of some of his
classes at New Rochelle college that
he had recognized the penmanship in
all the notes from the kidnapers as
the handwriting of a former pupil.
It was supported, too. by the grow
ing conviction that the kidnapers as
well as the baby's father were double
crossed by the mysterious individual
who received the $50,000 In currency
from the hands of Doctor Condon on
the night of April 2 in a lonely cor
ner of St Raymond's cemetery In the
Bronx.
No word has come from the crimi
nals, however, since the money was
paid.
In order that Doctor Condon can
pursue his efforts to recover the baby
tree of official interference, represen
tatives of Colonel Lindbergh have re
quested Bronx officials not to question
him. They agreed to heed the re
quest ?
pLANS for retaining the full fight
? ing strength of the United States
fleet in the Pacific, while conditions
remain unsettled in the Fai East, are
being considered by administration of
ficials. At present the scouting, as
well as the battle force, is operating
in Pacific waters. Orders, however,
call for the return of the scouting
fleet with its big eight inch gun
cruisers in May. It is expected these
orders will be canceled.
Th- State department, it is reported,
notified Navy department officials that
if practicable it would like to have
the scouting force retained in the
Pacific following the Hawaiian and
west coast maneuvers which were con
cluded several weeks ago. The under
standing is that the State department
officials took the position that main
tenance of the fleet at Its full strength
In Pacific waters would have a bene
ficial effect on the far eastern situa
tion.
PRESIDENT PAUL VON HINDEN
burg who was re-elected president
of Germany In the run-off election by
an overwhelming majority, issued a
proclamation accept- _____
ing tne election ana
thanked the German
people for their re
newed expressions of
confidence. He
pledged himself "to
continue to serve my
fatherland and folk
with all my power."
"True to my oath,
I will continue to ful
fill my duty of re
mainiug above all Pre,iden,
partes with Justice HindenbuI,
dominant, and with a
fixed desire to help our fatherland to
freedom and equality externally, and
to unity and progress at home," be
said.
The eighty-four-year-old president
again urgently appealed to the Ger
man people to unite.
"I implore all German men and
women, whether they voted for or
against me, to cease their wranglings
and close their ranks," he said.
"Again, as seven years ago, I appeal
to the entire German people to co
operate. It is necessary to unite all
powers in order to surmount the pres
ent confusion and distress. Only by
standing together are we strong
enough to master our fate. There
fore. in unity, let us go forward with
God."
ADOLF LIITLEH has been ordered*
by the German government to dis
pand his army of 400.000 national
cialist shock troops and to end ter
rorizing activities for which It holds
them responsible. This sodden blow
it the strong Fascist organization
came in the form of an emergency de- .
cree signed by President Von Hinden
burg. This decree dissolved Immedi
ttely all "quasi military organizations"
)f the national socialist workers
party.
THB battle over Immediate cash
payment of the soldiers* bonm
lared Id both houses of congress Tues
jay as the house ways and means
committee began hearings to deter
mine whether the public should be
isked to assume an additional rwo
billion four hundred million dollar
:asb burden to enable the World war
reterana to cash their adjusted com
pensatloo certificates.
The advocates of legtslsrlon per
sitting veterans to cash io Lbeir
bonus certificates at once disclosed
that thej hope to float (tie bonus Inw
through congress as *a rrosperlt.v
measure" rather than as simply a bill
to advance veterans upwards of two
billions In cash. Spokesmen for the
bonus law asserted its passage would
start the United States back toward
prosperity by increasing money in :lr
culation. boosting prices and reducing
the value of the dollar.
Shortly after the bonus udvocntes
had had their say the movement for
full payment of the bonus was assailed
in three quarters. Senator Joseph T.
Robinson (Dem., Ark.), senate Demo
cratic leader. Issued a statement In
which he asserted that payment of the
adjusted compensation certificates
would produce harmful results. Ma
jority Leader Henry T. Italney (Dem.,
III.), and Representative Hamilton
Fish (Rep., N. Y.), also attacked the
bonus laws.
JUSTICE FIERCE BUTLER of the
United States Supreme court
handed down a decision that throws
a further safeguard around the Amer
ican home against
uiimn iui ocnrviies mill
seizures. The decision
affirmed the circuit
court's decision that
the prohibition agents
who raided, on t mere
arrest warrant, the
New York premises
of Daniel M. I^f
kowiz and Pauline
Paris, used by them
ae headquarters for
Pierce Butler noon eg
liquor orders, and
then took possession of all the pa
pers and documents in the rbom, were
not legally justified In so doing. The
Supreme court holds the arrest of
Lefkowlz was properly made, but
says:
"There Is nothing In the record to
support the claim that at the time of
the arrest the offense for which the
warrant was issued or any other
crime was being committed in the
presence of the officers. The mere so
liciting of orders from the room in
connection with the other uses alleged
in the complaint is not sufficient to
constitute the maintenance of a nui
sance thereon."
PRESIDENT HOOVER and Gover
^ nor Roosevelt won favor of the
electorate In primary elections and
conventions in five states.
In Illinois, although the delegates
to the state convention are unin
structed it is believed that a majority
of those chosen favor the President.
For governor. Judge Henry Horner of
Chicago won the Democratic nomina
tion. while the Republicans chose
former Gov. Len Small.
In Nebraska's preferential primary.
Governor Roosevelt was the winner
for the Democratic nomination by a
substantial margin. The slate of Re
publican delegates favors President
Hoover, whose name did not appear
on the preferential ballot.
The prospects of both President
Hoover and Governor Roosevelt were
strengthened by the action of three
state conventions.
In Missouri the Republican con- I
vention instructed the entire state j
delegation of 45 to vote for Hoover. I
The Florida Republican convention j
pledged nine delegates at large to !
Hoover. District meetings gave him
four more and two other district dele- j
gates remain to be chosen.
Kentucky's entire Democratic delega
tion of 2C was instructed by the slate |
convention for Governor Roosevelt to J
vote for him as long as his name is j
before the national conventioul.
FRANCE does not take a fancy to j
the American proposals for dis- j
urmameDt as presented by Hugh S. j
Gibson, the American representative.
Premier Andre Tar
dieu of France, rep- n
resenting his govern- ?
inent, bitterly assailed W
the plans at the Ge- ?
neva conference, BP
Mr. Gibson pro- I
posed that tanks, big ?
guns and gases be B
abolished in the inter- I
ests of security, but B|
he made no mention ^
of battleships, "the B
most odvious ?|T?
,, ,, .. Hugh Gibson
Rive weapon, said M. "
Tardieu. Abolition of certain types
of aggressive arms will not neces
sarily provide ?ecurity. he Raid, but
might, on the contrary, be dlsad
vantageou* to an invaded country.
The only means to security, he de
clared, is common action against an
.aggressor.
This was generally accepted as a
restatement of the French proposal
for placing offensive forces at the
disposal of the League of Nations
In any case, the premier reminded
the conference, this disarmament
meeting Is under the auspices of the
League of Nations, and he suggested
that nonmembers of the League keep
this in mind.
Mr. Gibson's proposals were In line
with plans worked out by Norman H.
Davis In conference with President
Hoover and Secretary gtlmKm.
i& Hit. w?tera Newspaper L'aloa.) (
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, BEDTIME STORY FOR CHILDREN
By THORNTON W. BURGESS
nHPHREE times I've turned upon
A my tall,
And crossed my toes, but still I tall
To win from Luet tot-simple wish
For just one single little flab."
As he said this, Buster Bear sot
and stared Into the Laughing Brook
with wrinkled brows. He had set out
thgt morning to get fish for breakfast,
and' because he bad s$t.hls heart on
fisb, nothing else 'would da Ton
know. Buster Bear Is sometimes what
is called pig-beaded?that Is, he starts
to do a thing, and no matter what hap
pens he persists In trying to do it.
He had started out for fish that morn
ing, and fish he would have or else
go hungry. Now, everybody knows
that It Is of no use to try to drink
from an empty pall, and every fisher
man knows that It Is of no use to
fish when the fish have gone away
from their favorite places. Buster
Bear knew that for some unknown
reason there were no trout In the lit
tle shallow pools where he does his
fishing. Of course, he didn't know
this when he started out that morning,
but It didn't take him s great while to
find It out Not so much as a glimpse
of a fin or tall had Buster had, and he
had followed the Laughing Brook al
roest to the place where it leaves the
Green Forest on its way to the Smiling
Pool In the Green Meadows.
And just because he couldn't have
fish. Buster wanted fish more than
anything else In the world. People
are that way sometimes. So Buster
persisted In wandering along the
Laughing Brook, hoping that luck
would turn. Fishermen, you know,
are great believers In luck, and Buster
is like the rest That Is why he said
that foolish little verse at the begin
ning of this story. Of course, he
knew It was all foolishness to turn
around- three times and to cross his
toes, and when he did these things
he looked around first to make sure
that no one would see him. And, of
course, his luck didn't change. Tou
see, there isn't any such thing as that
kind of luck. No matter what hap
pens there Is a cause, a reason for It.
The reason Buster Bear saw no fish
that fine morning was that there were
no fish to see. They had all gone
down to the Smiling Pool because, the
water there was deeper and cooler
than in the Laughing Brook. Tou see,
the weather had been so hot for so
long that the Laughing Brook was
growing smaller and smaller, and so
the fish had moved down to the Smil
ing Pool for comfort and safety. If
Buster had used his common sense
he would have known this and given
up all thought of fish.
At last he sat down In a little open
place close hy the Laughing Brook and
not far from where Plunger the Fish
Hawk bad built bis nest. Buster sat
down to rest and cool off. He bad
not been there long when he heard
voices, harsh, screaming voices. They
came from high up In the nlr. Buster
tipped his head back and looked up.
There he saw Plunger the Fish Hawk
and King Kagle, and they were quar
reling. Plunger was dodging this way
and that way, now up, now down, now
to this side nnd now to that. And
clutched in Plunger's claws was a
great, big. fat fish. At the sight of
that fish It seemed to Buster that his
stomach Just flopped right over. Yes
sir, that Is the way It seemed. Water
began to trickle from the corners of
his mouth, water of pure longing.
Plunger was high In the nlr, nnd if
that fish was hlg enough for him to
see at that distance It must he very,
very much bigger than any fish Buster
had ever caught in the Laughing
Brook. Buster could hot keep his
greedy little eyes otf It. He knew by
what he saw that King Eagle was try
ing to make Plunger give up that fish.
"Bobber!" grumbled Busier Bear,
quite forgetting that were he in King
Eagle's place he would he doing the
same thing. "Bobber! I hope Plun
M.
* w
Butter Tipped His Head Back and
Looked Up.
ger gets away from him." A sudden
thought came to him. What if King
Kagle should make I'lunger drop that
fish! Would King Eagle be nhle to
catch that fish before It reached the
ground? Decidedly this was a quar
rel worth watching. They were al
most overhead now ond not so very
far up In the air. Plunger made a
sudden swoop that brought him still
nearer the tree tops, and at the same
Instant King Kagle swooped with a
scream so fierce that it gave even
Iiuster Bear a funny feeling. And
then, right then, something silvery,
something shining In the rays of Jolly,
bright Mr. Sun, dropped straight to
ward Buster Bear.
<? 1931. byT. W. BurgMi l-WNU Service.
Gray and Red Join in
New Spring Ensemble
A new spring ensemble features a
gray and garnet red printed dilk dress
with a gray fox collar and a long,
straight coat of garnet Lyons velvet.
The fur collar on the frock Is worn
outside the coat, which Is collarless.
Virtu* and Wickedness
To err Is human; but contrition felt
for the crime distinguishes the virtu
ous from the wicked.?Alflerl.
Organdy and Felt
From Paris comes this charming
spring dress for a little girl. It Is of
white organdy and orange felt dec
orated with varicolored flower designs.
I PAPA KNCWSH
1 1
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"Pop. what la auavar*
"Promotar with a elaan ahava."
.m titi i?ii in<iwt wvvn a??iM
Botanist at Four
VZl&ZTto I ??jy
Although he is only four years old
little CTare Boeder, Jr., of Arvada.
Colo., knows the botanical names of
more than GOO uncommon plants and
can make difficult distinctions at a
glance, lie is already experimenting
with grafting and is particularly in
terested In hybrid rose and geranium
species. The little boy, who has a
collection of plants which rivals that
of many of the nation's foremost plant
specialists, is hailed as the Luther
Burbank of the future.
cooking for invalids:?
"VTEARLY/every home maker at some
tlme*fn her life finds it necessary
to cook for and prepare food for a
convalescent who cannot eat the food
prepared for the family.
The returning strength and good
health of the Invalid depends in a large
measure on the fod which he eatslihd
assimilates. His appetite should be
tempted.
Custard should he velvety as cream
If it Is to be served: one that Is over
cooked and separated into whey should
be eaten by some other member of the
family and a fresh one prepared for
the one who is ill.
For the person who Is ill in bed. the
meal time should be the Joyous time
of the day, an oasis in the monotony
of the long day.
It Is worth while to bring to bear
upon this matter all the artistic in
genuity one possesses, as variety and
element of surprise and making the
tray and all food appealing to the eye,
ore most important.
Never serve an invalid pie or pud
ding which Is rich and not easy of di
gestion. Pastry Is for those who are
well and able to digest It. One may
\r?urchase small cartons of Junket tab
Tfcfts^f various flavors or the plain
ones. Add. after dissolving In a table
spoonful of water to milk that has
been warmed, flavor and sweeten and
pour Into a pretty cup or sherbet
glass to stiffen. If cream is allowed,
a spoonful will top the junket when
served. Have all such foods nicely
chilled and garnished.
<?. 1932. Western Nowspap*r Union.)
Man who says he doesn't believe
anything he reads doesn't expect any
i body to believe It.
A LITTLE WHILE::
By DOUGLAS MALLOCH |
ALONG, long time is soon * little
while,
And every footstep makes a shorts*
mile.
[f we woold think In days Instead
of years,
res, even minutes as each day ap
pears,
No time would then he long, or Jour
ney far.
Whatever are our days, how few
they are!
So step by step I try to walk my way.
Accept my sorrow, and with Joy be
cay.
Each day is shorter as the sun as
cends,
And never yet a Journey but It ends.
I try to live each minute more and
more.
Climb hills when I come to them, not
before.
And so each mile has roses here and
there;
Then, if the Journey's long, I do not
care.
And so each minute has some beauty in.
Some treasure that I need not wait
to win.
Wait not for tardy time some gift
to give
How much there Is In life If life we
live I
(C. 1??. Dousla* Mslioch.l?WNU Berries.
Babe in Big Trade
Rab? Herman, former star slugger
and outfielder of the Brooklyn Dodgers,
who was traded to the Cincinnati
Reds In one of the biggest baseball
deals of recent years.
Coffee Once Medicine
Before coffee became the beverage
known today, the berries were first
used as food, and later were pre
scribed as medicine.
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Washington s Surveying Pegs Are Used Again
C*OUR collateral descendants of George Washington are here wen using the
* same surveying pegs he once user!, to lay out tho hit of ground on which a.
reproduction of the school Washington attended will be erected. At the left
is Uenry Woodhouse. collector of Washingtoniana. The women are (left to
right) Mrs. II. II. Williams, great great great granddaughter of Betty Wash
ington Lewis, only sister of George
Washington: Mrs. Frank Taylor, great- .
great-granddaughter of Betty Lewis; ^ .'JsA
Mrs. Margaret Turner, groatgreat- W J \ '*5m
grand niece of George. ^Washington; ?* \
and Mrs. Catherine Knox-Gore, sj?ter 1
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P-PJP O O P
of Mrs. Taylor and great-great-granddaughter of Betty Lewis. The school will be built on a site near Little Hunting
Creek on the nlantation owned b? Mr. Woodhouse.