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The Alamance gleaner VOL. LVIIL GRAHAM, N, CM THURSDAY APRIL 28, 1932. NO. 12. ' . ???m : News Review of Current. Events the World Over Secretary Mills Offers Treasury's Tax Bill?Congress Slashes More Supply Measures?Developments in the Presidential Campaign. By EDWARD W. PICKARD SECRETARY OGDEN L. MIL1.S and his associates In the Treasury de partment have laid before the senate finance committee their revised pro gram tor raising 51, 033,000.000 for the purpose of balancing the national budget. The bill they offer re jects those features of the measure passed by the house wijich makes extreme raises In normal income tax rates, surtax rates corporation income taxes and estate taxes. Ogden L. Mill. ,rM,,?r'Ds1 thMe f,a"* to the level of the rates as they were In 1824. Mr. Mills proposed a compromise on taxing stock sales. The house bill provides a tax of one-fourth of 1 per cent, but not less than four cents a share. The secretary would make It a straight four cents a share tax. Most of the excise taxes in the house bill he rejects, but proposes a tax of three-fourths of one cent a gallon on domestic gasoline, which Is not taxed In the house bill. Mr. Mills" program does not differ much from the last recommendations he submitted to the house ways and means committee. It is now too late, he says, to apply Income taxes retro actively to 11)31 incomes, but the loss occasioned thereby will be offset by ? ^tightening of the law through admin istrative changes." The secretary now believes that It will be possible to reduce government expenditures $200,000,000 instead of $120,000,000. Articles not taxed In the house bill on which Mr. Mills would impose taxes are tobacco, checks and drafts, and domestic gasoline. WHAT Representative l.a Guardla of New York called "an epidem ic of economy" continued its course in congress, to the disgust of some In dividual members and of certain gov ernment officials. Drastic reductions in budget estimates were made and further slashes were In prospect. The house created precedent by accepting without conference the entire 10 per cent made by the senate In the appro priation hill for the Interior depart ment and as the budget bureau al ready had made heavy reductions from the department requests and the house had previously knocked off some millions. Secretary Wilbur spoke of "the odds and ends that are left." He called the $4,000,000 reduction in funds for the Boulder canyon dam "hocus pocus," and then took the diminished hill to President Hoover for a confer ence. The senate instructed its appropria tions committee to reduce the treas ury-post office supply bill by 10 per cent, and also approved a reduction of $1,000,000 In the prohibition en forcement fund, the only Important Item which the house left at the bud get estimate. Next came the slashing of the navy appropriation bill by the bouse. The appropriation measure for con gress itself was put aside for one week or more to give the special economy committee time to perfect an amendment carrying the entire re trenchment program of pay reductions and abolition and consolidaton of fed eral activities. The decision of the economy committee to put all the pro jected savings into one bill to be a rider to the legislative supply measure, as President Hoover wished, was reached over the protest of Chairman McPuftie of Alabama. MoDuffie said his proposal to cut federal wages 11 per cent after exempting the first $1, (*10. would go into the bill, and that advocates of the Hoover live-day work week and furlough without pay plan would have to offer it as a substitute. Mr. Hoover thinks his plan would save between ;223,000.000 and $2.30,000,000 a year. ONE more attempt to get Thomas J. Mooney out of the California penitentiary has failed. Following the counsel of his legal advisers. Gover nor Rolph denied a pardon to the man who la serving a life term for participation In the 1916 Preparedness day bombing In San Francisco which resulted In ten deaths. rr HAIR MAN NORBECK of the sen ate committee Investigating short selling of stocks and President Whit ney of the New York Stock exchange aid not get along well together last week. Mr. Whitney gave a list of 24,000 shorts as of April 8, and the names, made public after a few days,, were found to Include several promi nent Americans and some foreigners. Among the former was Arthur Cut ten. Norbeck said the inquiry would be greatly extended. WHEN the Republican national convention meets in Chicago It will have for its temporary chairman and keynoter Senator L. J. Dickinson * - of Iowa, whom the ar i ungeiueins cuuium tee selected for the post with the approv al of President Hoo ver. "Hell-It a i s i n g Dick," as he is known In his home state, has been one of the strongest defenders of the Hoover adminis tration and can be counted op to set Sen. Dickinson Iortn vigorously the issues on which the Republican party will base its appeal for the favor of the electorate. Lie was in the lower house for six terms, a prominent member of the farm bloc; then was elected to the senate to succeed Dan Steck, Democrat. Other appointments made for the convention were: Sergeant-at-arins, Everett Sanders of Indiana, former secertary tr President Calvin Cool idge; secretary, Lafayette B. Gleason of New York; parliamentarian, James Francis Burke of Pennsylvania; as sistant, Lehr Fess, Ohio, son of Sen ator Fess; chief doorkeeper; Col. Glenn Haynes of Iowa; assistant, J. N. Johnston, Kansas. FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT is deter mined not to have a quarrel with A1 Smith If he can help it. and in his campaign for delegates the New York governor ls^>ecoming most conciliatory and cautious. Up in St. Paul, Minn., he replied in a way to Smith's attack in which that leader of Democracy more than Intimated that Roosevelt was a demagogue trying to set class against class. This Franklin dis claimed, declaring pleasantly that he favored a national policy that "seeks to help all simultaneously"?an aim with which no one could quarrel but a pronouncement that is scarcely rea son for Smith to abandon his announced intention to take off his coat und tight to the bitter end the nomination of the governor. On the whole, the pres ent situation Is such that Democratic leaders fear a repetition of the con vention deadlock of 1924. WARNING that wet planks In both party platforms this year would cause the prohibitionists to get togeth er and eleci a dry President was is sued from the woman's i^atioual com mittee for law enforcement. Mrs. Leigh Colvin of New York made the statement before the wom en's convention, at the same time claiming definitely that President Hoo ver Is a supporter of prohibition. She predicted his defeat, however. If the party adopts a wet plank. Senate committees considered va rious proposals relating to prohibition and heard the views of many persons. Matthew Woll of the American Feder ation of Labor warned the lawmakers of a potential revolution by labor un less the beer industry is revived Bishop Cannon appeared before the judiciary subcommittee to advocate making the man who i buys liquor as guilty as the one who sells it. The manufacturers' committee, by a vote of 4 to 7, turned down the Bingham beer bill for 4 per cent beer. Secretary of state stimson is now at Geneva and apparently already is up to the neck in matters relating to disarmament, reparations, .?. mr\A tho nri. IBCUUIIIJ B?U ental iituation. Hp I* quart ed in a tine villa and is doing a lot of entertaining. hut also he is attending to business. As one real achievement, the dis armament conference approved the princi ple of reduction of armaments "to the lowest [>OIDl CUUSIBI' ent with national safe- . . . . . See'y Stimson ty and the enforce ment by common action of Interna ttonal obligations." Approval of tbe principle ras op posed only by Maxim Litrlnov. head of tbe Russian delegation, who said the action was not related to any ef I fort to secure genuine disarmament. j Following up the American and J Italian proposals. Sir John Simon, \ British foreign minister, proposed a 5 resolution Indorsing the principle of * "qualitative" disarmament?that Is. the prohibition of certain classes nnd types of weapons. This was sup ported by Germany and Italy but op posed by France. THE interstate commerce commis sion, In a report that marked the culmination of a nation-wide survey of the highway-rail transportation sit uation, recommended legislation regu lating Interstate bus and truck car riers. "Unrestrained competition is an Im possible solution of the present trans portation problem and is incompatible with the aim of co-ordination under regulation," declared the commission. Hall roads, whether steam or elec tric, and water carriers, the commis sion asserted, should be specifically authorized to engage In the trans portation of both persons and proper ty by motor vehicles in interstate commerce over the public highways. A much milder form of regulation for the interstate truck carriers, com mon or contract, was recommended. THE senate adopted and sent to the house a resolution calling upon the secretary of agriculture to investi gate the cost of maintaining the sys tem or tutures traaing In agricultural prod ucts and to ascertain what classes of citi zens bear the cost. Wheat and cotton fu tures both are cov ered in the terms of the resolution, which was formed by the agriculture committee by combining meas ures sponsored by j Sen. Capper Senators Capper, Re publican, Kansas, and Sheppard, Democrat, Texas. Profits and losses by various classes of traders in wheat and cotton fu tures since July, 1920, together with short sales volume and" commission paid by traders, would be gone Into. MRS. 1.0WELL F. HOBART, re tiring president general of the Daughters of the American Revolu tion. addressing the continental con gress of the organization In Washing ton, asserted that alien International ists, pacifists and criminals are un dermining the security of American Institutions. Backing up her plea for a united front against these influ ences, Mrs. Hobart sketched a sordid picture of conditions which she said I existed in this depression period. The congress was peaceful this ; year, the only ticket in the field being headed by Mrs. Russell William Mag na of Holyoke. Mass. Great Britain's budget, ai-1 most balanced, was introduced to the house of commons by Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamber- [ lain, and the Brit- j ish found there would be no relief for the in come tax payers or the beer drinkers for another year. A deficit of about $7,000,000, Mr. Chamberlain esti mated. would he eas ily made up by a new customs tax to be ar^ nounced and a tax of eight cenis on foreign ? 1 tea with a preference .. ... . . ' Neville of four cents on em- ... Chamberlain pire grown ten. The income tax remains at about 25 per cent. Of especial Interest to America was the fact that the budget makes no ' provision for $171,500,000 which will he due the United States in the next twelve months on the war debt ac count. Neither does It list in the items of expected revenue the equivalent amount which will be due Britain from German reparations and from the Eu ropean allies on their war debts to Britain. Chamberlain said he felt it would be wi ser to leave all these war debt and reparations accounts out of con sideration until after the Lausanne reparations conference. After a de cision is reached at Lausanne and after It Is known whether the Hoover moratorium will be extended, there will be a suppler ..-alary Ilritlsh budget to tnret the conditions then existing, he said. A JAPANESE foreign office spokes man has warned ftuasla of the danger of war If there Is aa.v recur rence of alleged Soviet-Inspired out rages against Japan In Manchuria. He referred specifically to the wrecking of a troop train near Harbin recently. In which 14 Japanese soldiers were killed, responsibility for which Japan flatly charged to Russia. The spokesman pointed out that It must be remembered that while Japan j is not sending new troops to the SI- i herian border, the Rnssians are con tinuing to concentrate their forces. I ill}. Wer.tro Ntwrptps: Ualoa I | : SEASONABLE GOOD | | THINGS I SO MANY housewives like to serve a meat loaf, because the man of he home can make no reasonable ex ruse for not wishing to carve It. Ham Loaf.?Take two pounds of imoked ham, one and three-fourths pounds of lean fres., pork, one green pepper and one-half an onion, all rhopped fine. Mix with oue cupful of Wend crumbs, two beaten eggs, one cupful of milk and seasoning of salt jnd pepper. Make a loaf. Place in a pan, cover with cracker crumbs which lave been molste ied with milk. Bake n a moderate over one and one-half Sours. Serve with a tomato or mush room sauce. Chicken Croquettes.?Make one cup rul of white sauce using chicken stock and mix, add two cupfuls of chopped chicken, one-half teaspoonful of salt, the same of celery salt and onion salt, one-fourth teaspoonful of paprika. Let it cool and form into cone shaped croquettes. Roll In slightly beaten egg to which two tablespoon fuls of water has been added. Then roll In bread crumbs. Set away to chill. Fry In hot fat and serve with mushroom sauce. Perfect Pancakes.?Beat two eggs, yolks and whites separately, add one tablespoonful 01 sugar, one and one half cupfuls of rich sour milk, two and one-fourth cupfuls of flour, one half teaspoonful of salt, two tenspoon fuls of baking powder and three fourths teaspoonful of soda. Beat the egg yolks, add the sugar, beat until dissolved, add sour milk to which the soda has been added. Sift flour with salt and baking powder and add to the sour milk, fold in the stiffly beaten whites and bake on a hot greased griddle. If the milk Is not rich add two tablespoonfnls of shortening. Nowadays there are so many good commercial salad dressings, that are about as reasonable in price as the good materials would cost, it Is economy for the busy housewife to keep a bottle or two on hand. Add a bit of chopped pickle, capers, onion and a little vinegar or lemon juice and one has a very good fish sauce made very quickly. CHILDREN'S STORY ?By By THORNTON W. BURGESS OUSTER BEAU had had no luck at all in either his fishing or his wish ing. He rather felt that this was a contrary day. which means a day in which everything goes Just the wrong way. It didn't occur to him that the contrarines? was In him, which It was. If lie hadn't persisted in keeping on fishing when it was perfectly clear that there were no fish In the little pools of the Laughing Brook, he might have found something else to eat and had a pleasant, comfortable morning Instead of one disappointment after another which had neither filled his stomach nor Improved his temper. So he had stopped to rest and grumble to his heart's content. Right into the midst of his gruin bling had broken angry screams, and he had looked up to see King Eagle trying to make Hunger the Fish Lfawk give up a big, fat fish. Of course, they were up in the air, and they were al most over Buster's head. He forgot his own troubles and disappointments in the excitement of watching Plunger 6>ap! That Big, Fat Fish, Dropped From High Up in the Air, Had Hit Buster Full in the Face. try to sc* away from Kins Eagle. At first he had hoped that Hunger would Set away from Kins Eagle. Then as he saw how nearly over him they were he wished that Plunger would drop that flsh. If he should drop that f.sb perhaps, he. Buster, might dine on fish after all. And such a flsh as ft was! The very sight of It was enough to make Buster's mouth water. And Just then Barter's wish came true. You know wishes do come true once In a while. Buster's did then. Be saw King Eagle rush at Plunger and beard him scream something In a very angry sounding voice. And right then Plunger let go of that fish. It surprised Buster so to have his wish come true that he Just stared open mouthed at that shining silver thing dropping out of the sky straight to ward him. lie saw King Eagle sud denly turn in the air and shoot down after the fish. Be SAW Mrs. Plunger sweep across in front of King Eagle and bother him for just an instant. It was Just enough to prevent King Eagle catching that fish before it reached the ground. Open-eyed and open-mouthed Buster stared up at the strange thing happen ing right above him. He was so inter ested that his wits almost forgot to work. That fish was dropping right straight at hi in" yet he made no move j to get out of the way. You see, he was so Interested In watching King Kagle and wondering If he would be able to catch that fish that until It was too late he didn't once think of what might happen to him if King Eagle didn't catch that fish. lie had Just taken it for granted that King Eagle would catch It. When he saw that King Kagle wasn't going to he suddenly realized that while he I wanted that fish very much Indeed he didn't want it In Just the way he was likely to get IL He started to jump to one side, but he was not quick enough. Slap! That big. fat fish, t dropped from high up in the air, had hit Buster full In the face. In fact. It | almost knocked him over. For Just ! one minute he couldn't see anything. He heard the swish and rustle of King Eagle's great wings as he spread them and brought himself up short to keep I from striking Buster Bear, for King Eagle knew better than to run the risk of a blow from one of Buster's great paws. When Buster got his wits together and could see straight he saw that the fish had fallen a little to one side aft er hitting him, and he also saw that King Eagle was hovering over It and Just reaching down to seize It in his great flaws. Now Buster miry he clumsy I looking, hut I know of no one who can move more quickly than he can. He moved quickly now. 'That's my fish!" he roared. rush Ins at King Eagle so suddenly that King Eagle didn't have time to gpt the fish, and was thankful to get out of Buster's reach. "It Isn't your fish at all; It's mine!" screamed King Eagle, hovering over Buster Bear just out of r*?.*ich, and all the time threatening to claw Bus tor's eyes out. "No such thingroared Buster, slowly turning so as always to face King Eagle. "I wished for that fish and my.wish has coine true. I wished that Plunger would drop It, and he did ?' "He did because I made himP* screamed King Eagle. And tills was the beginning of a dreadful quarrel over something that didn't belong to either of them. Wasn't It foolish? <?. 1932. by T. W. Burgess )?WND S?rrle?. | Hopes to Find "Pig-Headed" Indians $ ALONE trek through the hostile Jungles of northernmost Brazil's pristine "Half World," In search of new light on the savage tribes infest ing the dark recesses of that most in accessible of territories, has been be gun by Desmond lloldridge, twenty four-year-old leader of the Brooklyn Museum's Brazil expedition, accord ing to a cablegram received by Lee Trenholm, the expedition's New York manager. "Leaving for Catrimany" was the brief text of the message, dispatched from Mnnaos, an Inland metropolis at the confluence of the Negro and the Amazon 1,000 miles from the Atlantic. It laconically imparted the information that lloldridge, nccompanled by a na tive mechanic and Emerson Smith, ex pedition motion picture cameraman, had set out from Manacs In their 32 foot cnhin cruiser Itio-Mar on a 000 inile water Journey up the Negro and Branca rivers to the head of naviga tion of the Itio Catrimany. At this point, lloldridge hat long planned to plunge westward alone In to the enveloping silence of the unex plored and deadly "Melo Mundo" or Half World. Somewhere within the fastness he hopes to locate "pig-head ed" Indians and to establish definitely that their porcine ceremonial masks rather than actually misshapen cranl ums have been responsible for reports of their existence. It will be about four months before lloldridge is to emerge 300 to 4(J0 miles to the west on the Venezuelan side of the I'arima mountains and descends the Orinoco watershed to keep a rendezvous with Smith and the Rio-Mar where the River Turuaca, tributary of the Amazon, meets the Cassigulare canal, an anomaly of na ture connecting the headwaters of South America's two mightiest streams. In June, Smith is to start from Manaos for the meeting place, going via the Negro and Siapa rivers. Sharing with Col. P. II. Fawcett, lost British explorer, the belief that the fastest progress through the Jungle can be made with a smr.il party and light equipment, Holdridge is stripping his outfit and personnel to an irredu cible minimum for his arduous Journey through the Melo Mundo. Antl-ven om, medicines, sidearms, notebooks, a hand movie camera and trinkets to propitiate the natives are the bulk of his impedimenta. For sustenance, be will depend on the rivers, the forest and friendly In dians. Enlisting two native aides, he intends making his way by dug-out along the waterways whenever feas ible or over rough trails hewn from the wilderness by njaehete when river travel becomes unsafe or imprac ticable. Among the hidden Indian vil lages which dot the region days are to be spent taking photographs, as sembling data and seeking news of unreported tribes. On the cruise from Manaos to as far as the Rio-Mar's 3-foot draught permits them to ascend the Catrimany, Holdridge and Smith were to make a detailed motion picture record of the extraordinary native and animal life to be found on every hand, seeking especially a scientifically complete camera study of a rare bird popularly known as the "Cock of the Rocks." 111111111111111111111111II MORE OR LESS | By DOUGLAS MALLOCH t I I I I I I 1 I 1 I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I MORE truth Is written than la ever read. More thanks are thought of than art ever said. More fame Is luckv than la ever won. More things are started than are over done. More trails are taken than are trav eled far. More gold is gaihered than real rlcbea are, More fortunes bullded than a wealth of mind. More would be powerful than would be kind. More make acquaintances than make a friend. More hearts are broken than we ever mend. More scandal whispered than Is ever true. More kindness needed than we ever do. More tell their troubles than their pleasures share. More urge the others than would ever dare. More preach than practice, criticize than plan? These are ti>e fallings, more or less, of man. (6 1S32 DduiIu Mailoch.)?WNO SvrvtML KITTY McKAY i! By Nina Wilcox Putnam \ | ? < ) ii <5=i_ itfiiiMi i*\. The girl-friend says that the big difference between a saint and a sin ner is that one has a past and the other has a future. <?. 1932. Oell Syndicate.)?WXC Service. Its Glory Departed ?Mogul has a little-known link with western vocabularies, says an artlde in a Boston paper. When the luxury markets of Europe began to draw on the resources of the East, Mosul quick ly earned fame through a special cam bric of finest lamb's wool, which the French christened Moussoul lalne. It is the modern muslin, and for cen turies the town rivaled Bagdad as a great eastern trade depot; but today it is in the doldrums. Libraries Libraries are the wardrobes of liter ature, whence men, properly Informed, might bring forth something for orna ment, much for curiosity and more for use.?Dyer. Let's Tell Them This Down Below UNITED AIR LINES stewardess gives pilots information on passengers to phone down to ground stations which are spaced 150 miles apart. Through the headsets pictured here, the pilots can not only keep In continu ous contact with the ground stations but can converse with pilots of other ? planes in flight, getting the latest Information on wind velocities, visibility and weather conditions The pilots' compartment in which the crew of three are shown has 90 controls and instruments to aid In aerial navigation.
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