The Alamance gleaner 1 VOL. LVIII. GRAHAM, IN, C., THURSDAY MAY 12, 1932. NO. 14. News Review of Current Events the World Over Massie Case Defendants Set Free by Gov. Judd?House Nearly Ruins the Economy Bill?Capone Begins His Term in Atlanta. By EDWARD W. PICKARD SWIFTLY and unexpectedly came the climax In the Massle case at Honolulu. Two days In advance of the time set for the passing of sen tence on the fonr con ?1V.ICU VI UJUUSIUUgll ter In the killing of Kahahawnl, Judge Davis called the de fendants before him and sentenced them to ten years in prison at hard labor. Imme diately thereafter Gov. Lawrence M. Judd commuted the sen tence to one hour In the custody of a bail 1IT, and this time hav ing passed, trie navy lieutenant, his mother-in-law, Mrs. Fortescue, and Seamen Lord and Jones were set free. Tills procedure was In accord with an arrangement made by Governor Judd, Judge Davis and attorneys on both aides. The governor had been sub jected to great pressure to pardon the defendants, and it was held that his action was In accord with the Jury's recommendation of mercy. Sentiment In Hawaii was diverse, many of the natives being extremely dissatisfied with what they considered a miscarriage of Justice, and most of the whites feeling that the governor should have pardoned the four out right. thus preserving their civil rights. In Washington the latter view seemed to prevail, several senators and repre sentatives being outspoken In the mat ter. Congressman Summers of Texas Introduced a bill granting the Presi dent power to pardon defendants in the territories, and before the action In Honolulu was known bills had been Introduced In both houses for a congressional pardon for the four con victed. Also a petition for a pardon was signed by eighty members of con gress and cabled to Governor Judd. Whether Lieutenant Massie will re main In the navy apparently was left up to President Hoover. In cases where naval officers are convicted In civil courts and sentenced to Imprison ment the naval regulations authorize the President to drop such officers. Naval officers In Washington were hopeful that Mr. Hoover would not take such action In Massle's ease. Dispatches from Honolulu said It was likely the prosecution of the four remaining youths accused of attack ing Mrs. Massie wquld now be dropped. The young woman had said she was ready to go to the stand against them and once more tell of her terrible experience, but Clarence Dnrrnw. her attorney, advised her to come home with her family and forget nil about it. MARYLAND'S preferential primary was made Interesting by the contest for delegates between Presi dent Hoover and Dr. Joseph I. France, the only avowed rival of Mr. Hoover for the Republican Presiden tial nomination. Though France is a Marylander and was that state's senator a dozen years ago, he was turned down by the home fol^s, losing to Hoover by a sub stantial majority. | This setback, however, 1 will not serve to put a stop to Doctor trances campaign. He will keep right on trying to corral delegates elsewhere and has engaged convention headquarters In a Chicago hotel. He Is his own manager. Baltimore voters paid iwire atten tion to the matter'of repealing, so far as that city Is concerned. Maryland's 200-year-old blue laws than to the Presidential choice. On this question they cast more than 142.000 ballots and the repeal was passed by a ma jority of 83.900. The repeal became Immediately effective, so Baltlmoreans may now transact business, go to movies or ball games ami even kiss their wives on Sunday?all of which and much more was forbidden by the ancient blue laws. CALIFORNIA Democrats dealt a rather severe blow to the aspi rations of Governor Roosevelt, the third within a short time. In the preferential primary they gave Speak er John N. Garner a plurality of more than 40,000 votes over the New York er. Al Smith came In third, some 75. 000 votes behind the Texan. Though Mr. Garner has not been an avowed candidate for the nomination, this makes him more than a favorite son 1 and Insures the continuation of the campaign In his behalf. ?'resident Hoover was unopposed In the Republican primary and plied up a big vote. In Alabama the slate of Democratic delegates Instructed for Franklin D. Roosevelt beat the list of unlnstrqcted delegates by about three to one. The New Vork governor also captured the South Dakota delegation. Republicans of the latter state favored a delega tion Instructed for Hoover and also voted to send Senator Peter Norbeck back to the senate, defeating Harry F. Brownell of Sioux Falls. j WHEN the Tiouse of representa tives, disregarding the leadership of both parties, got through mauling the economy measure that was de signed to contribute $200,000,000 sav ings toward balancing the budget and handed It over to the senate as an amendment to the legislative appropri ation bill, there wasn't much left of the product of the special economy committee. Indeed. It was about $160, 000,000 short of the mark. By limiting government pay reduc tion to 11 per cent of salaries In ex cess of $2,500 the honse knocked out $55,000,000 of the $07,000,000 It was proposed to save on pay roll cost. The house also rejected savings on veter ans' benefits estimated at more than $48,000,000 and turned down the pro posed consolidation of the War and Navy departments which the economy committee promised would save frem $50,000,000 to $100,000,000. While administration leaders laid plans to salvage some of the wreck age on the senate floor, the appropria tions committee was confronted with the task of revamping the shattered measure. Meantime, prospects of lengthy con tests over each side of the triangular problem of balancing the budget?tax ation, reduction In appropriations and economy?cast a fresh shadow of doubt over probability of completing the necessary session work before June 10. FOR several years, at least, the peo ple of the United States need read little If anything about A1 Capone, for that eminent gentleman Is now behind the bars of the fed erai penitentiary at Atlanta, serving a term of 11 years for Income tax fraud. The United States Su preme Court curtly refused to review "Scarface's" case and his attorneys could devise nothing more to keep him out of th? penitentiary. Ills sentence. Imposed by Federal Judge Wll serson, is len years in Atlanta ana one year In a county Jail, besides a fine of $50,000. If Al behaves himself he may be free again In about seven and one-half years, but It Is unlikely that be will ever again be a power In the world of gangsters. On leaving Chicago, where he had been In jail for six months. Capone said, graciously, that he was not sore at anybody and that he hoped Chicago would be better off and the public clamor would be satisfied. SKNATOR CAKL HAYDKN of Ari zona put forward a project of the silver states to boost the price of sil ver. offering a resolution that would authorize the President to accept, up to July 1. 1936, silver In payment of debts owing the United States by for eign governments. The silver would be accepted at the rate of one and one half ounces for each dollar of Indebt edness discharged, provided the debtor nations agree to not melt or debase their own coins to obtain silver for debt payments. FJR about ten years there has been before congress, in one form or an other, s measure designed to make steady the value of the dollar. The other day the house, after brief con sideration. passed such a bill, known as the Goldsborough bill, and turned it over to the senate, where It seems doomed to defeat by the Republican ma jority. The proponents of this meas ure say It will restore the purchasing power of the dollar and stabilize com modity prices through the open mar ket operations and rediscount facilities of the federal reserve system. The bill declares It to be "the pol icy of the United States," that the average purchasing power of the dot lar based on the 1921-1929 level of commodity prices. *slmll be restored and maintained by the control of the volume of credit and currency." It charges the federal reserve board, the federal reserve banks ami secretary of the treasury with the duty of "making effective this policy." Opponents of the measure, who In clude Secretary of the Treasury Mi IN. say It Is "it mandate to the federal re serve board to Issue tint money." and "the greatest scheme of Inflation ever proposed In any country." PRELIMINARY elections In France Indicated that Premier Tnrdieu might be ousted and a liberal govern ment Installed with Edouard llerrlot. veteran leader of the Radical Social ists and former premier, at its head. The Issue was to be decided In the run-off elections May 8. but already Herrlot's party had made gains In par liamentary seats and the left Repub licans led by Tardieu had lost heavily. Tardleu himself was re-elected by a sound majority, and so were most of t the members of his cabinet. O EPRKSENTATIVE8 of the Jnpa ^ * nese and Chinese governments, propped up in their hospital beds, signed an agreement which ended hostilities In the Shanghai area. A Japanese surgeon amputated the right leg of Minister Mamoru Shlge mitsu soon after he signed the agree ment. He was the most seriously hurt of the Ave highest Japanese officials who were wounded in a recent bomb ing. The Japanese volunteered to start withdrawal of their troops at once "as the first step in the faithful ex ecution of the agreement." Withdraw al is to be completed in abont four weeks. In Manchuria the Japanese claimed to have routed the Chinese "insur gents" In bloody encounters, but the revolt against the puppet Manchurlan government was not quelled. SEVERAL highly Important decisions were handed down by the United States Supreme court. One of them, read by Justice Benjamin Cardozo, re jected modification of tho nnpl'ore' onn oon f decree of 1920 to per mit packers to deal at wholesale In grocer ies and other lines not related to the packing-house Indus try. In January, 1931, the District of Colum b 1 a authorized the modification. Cnder . the Supreme court's ruling, the packers will be prohibited from continuing In their nresent lines nf must comply with the terms of the consent decree, which restricted their activities exclusively to meat and oth er slaughter-house products. The tremendous business of the packers was emphasized by Justice Cardozo, who pointed out that the original decree was Insisted on be cause of fear that the companies would otherwise he able to crush their smaller rivals. He said the packers were in a position today to do under the modified decree what was feared when the consent decree was entered. | Justices Butler and Van Devanter dls- I sented. Ruling on a case from Texas, the court decided. 5 to 4. that the state Democratic executive committee had acted illegally In barring negroes from participating in the party's primaries. The majority opinion, handed down by Justice Cardozo. and concurred in by Chief Justice Hughes and Justices Brandeis, Stone and Roberts, held that the party committee lacked this power even though authorized by statute to prescribe the requirements for party membership. President Hoover was upheld In his controversy with the senate over the case of his appointment of George Otis Smith to the federal power com mission. The case arose when, in De cember. 1030, the senate consented to Smith's uppolntment, then in January, 1831. requested the return of the nom ination and voted to reconsider its vote of consent: During the Interim. Smith had angered radical senators by dismissing certain power commission employees. The President refused to accede to the senate's request. HOPE for an adequate American navy was revived when the sen ate by a rote of 40 to 2T? made un finished business the Hale bill author izing construction of all ships needed to bring the fleet up to the tonnage limits of the London and Washington naval treaties. The measure un doubtedly will be roughly treated by senators who advocate other legisla tion and will be displaced from time to time, but Senator Hale expressed confidence that it will come to a vote and be passed before congress ad journs. The opposition seeks to pre vent early enactment of the bill on the ground that Its passage would embarrass the American delegation In the disarmament conference at Genera and violate the spirit of the naval building truce. (% till Wwun N?w?p*.p*r Union.) Gov. Judd I J. I. France . Al Capone Justice Car dozo hn?lnp?ia nnH Astronomer Discovers New Planet DR. A. C. D. COMMELIN, former president of the Royal Astronomical society, at the Instrument which aided him In locating a new planet, which he claims Is nearer to the earth than any other, lie jays It Is only abont three miles In diameter. THE CHILDREN'S STORY By THORNTON W. BURGESS WHAT hail become of the big, fat fish tbat Plunger tlie Fish Hawk bad caught in the Big River, that King Eagle bad forced him to drop, that Buster Bear had claimed for his, and over which Buster Bear and King Eagle bad been quarreling most shamefully? When King Eagle had seen his chance he had swooped down to the place where the fish bad fallen, his claws outstretched to seize it But there was no fish there. No, sir, there wasn't a sign of a fish. King Eagle flew up to the limb of a tree out of reach of Buster Bear Just as Buster, snarling and growling all sorts of dreadful things, came rush lng over. When Buster could find no fish King Eagle had somehow got It after all, and this put him Into still more of a rage if possible. But as he glared at King Eagle he saw that there was no look of triumph In King Eagle's face, as there surely would have been had he obtained the fish. Instead there was a look which said as plain ly as words, "Where has that fish gone?" Buster stared up at King mgic, aim siurtru aowu at Custer, and for a few minutes neither said a word. The anger died out of their faces, and into each In its place crept a look of foolishness. "What are we quarreling about?" aaked King Eagle mildly. "Nothing, for there 18 nothing to quarrel about." replied Buster Bear quite as mildly. "Did I dream that a big, fat fish tell from the sky and hit me?" "Not unless I dreamed that 1 watched Hunger the Fish Hawk catch one and then make blm drop It," chuckled King Eagle. "I had set my heart on a fish dinner." "No more than I had," replied Buster Bear. "What we should have done was to divide that fish Instead of quarreling over It" "I wonder," said King Eagle slowly, looking this way and that way suspi ciously, "If that fish swam away, ran away, or flew away. It's gone, and the question Is how did It go? It had to go somehow." Buster Bear was very busy sniffing where the fish had fnllen. Sniff, sniff, sniff! Buster's nose Is very keen, and It tells him a great deal. Sniff, sniff, sniff! A frown gathered on Boater's face. Sniff, sniff, sniff! The frown grew heavier and his little eyes be gan to snap. It was plain that Boa ter Bear was once more growing angry. "That fish RAN away," he growled In his deep grombly-rombly voice. "I thought as much," said King Eagle. "It ran away on four legs," contin ued Buster Bear. "Whose legs'/" asked King Eagle. ?The legs of old Granny Fox," growled Buster Bear. "And that means that she will have the dinner you cheated me out ofl" "You mean that you cheated me out of." retorted King Eagle promptly. And then what did these two. Buster Bear and King Eagle, do but fall to quarreling again quite as fiercely as before over something which neither of them never had had. Meanwhile Granny Fox and Reddy Fox were sitting down to the finest: fish dinner they had had for many a day. 'The way to get on In this world," said Granny. "Is to keep your eyes open for the mistakes of others and then Just step In and take ad vantage of them. Of course Buster Bear and King Eagle will say that I stole this fish, but I didn't It dldnt belong to either of them. It be longed to Plunger the Fish Hawk, but be lost It, and so then It belonged to whoever could get It Remember this, Reddy: Quarreling Is bad business for those engaged In It but It Is likely to be very profitable to some one else. Al ways try to be that some one else. Keep out of quarrels yourself, but be on hand when others quarrel. Did yon ever taste a finer fish?" "I never did." replied Reddy. (C. 1 111. bjr T. W. Burx-ta.)?WKC Sarrlc*. - W ^ Meanwhile Granny Fox and Reddy Fox Were Sitting Down to the Finest Fish Dinner They Ever Had. Pn?1n nn.1 I- 1- > -? The Retreat From Lexington By DOUGLAS MALLOCH THEY called them "minute men," my son, The minute men of Lexington, And yet I wonder, In their smoke. How many generations spoket For heroism Is not made And taught to youngsters like a trade: The spark must burn, a constant fire, In father's son and father's aire. Today we need not talk of war. Now through, pray god, forever more. We need not talk of yesterday. But of the present well we may. What fenerations will it take Their heroism to unmake. What generations like our own To make us soft and bring us prone? What brought the Roman to his knees? It was not enemies, but ease. It was not poverty, but gold. For hearts grown greedy soon grow cold. The moral letdown of a race Does more than cannon to efface A nation from the crowded earth, Where wealth Is honored more than worth. Our generation. Is It then A builder or the bane of men? Not Just to honor, but to learn We need the page of time to turn. Our generation to compare With those who now He sleeping there. Do we march onward, upward, son, Or now retreat from Lexington? (Ol 1131. DdukIu Malloch.)?WNTJ Servlca. Latest From Paris Here li the very Latest spring styles, direct from Paris. The gown Is of black wool, with a jacket of tba tame material In yellow. The Jacket Is trimmed with leapard skin. It is a creation by Klein. I CAP A KNCWSHI I . -t'MJJ UIL-l "Pop, what it genius?" "Smallest harvest from the largest crop."