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VOL. LVIII. _ GRAHAM, IS, C., THURSDAY AUGUST 25, 1932. NO. 29. |
News Review of Current
Events the World Over
Business and Industrial Conference Called bv President
Hoover?Smoot Predicts Revision of Revenue
v Law?Walker Case Developments.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
IN THE nature of a culmination of
his program for economic recovery
will be the conference which Presi
dent Hoover has called to open Au
gust _o in w ashing
ton. Those summoned
are the members of
the business and in
dustrial committees
recently set up in
the twelve federal re
serve districts, and
the purpose an
nounced by Mr. Hoo
ver is to start a "con
centrated campaign
along the whole eco
Franklin nomic front.'
Fort Continuing the Pres
ident said: "The con
ference will deal with specific proj
ects where definite accomplishments
!n business, agriculture, and employ
ment can be attained, and will co-or
dinate the mobilization of private and
governmental instrumentalities to that
end."
Committee chairmen and officials
who were to hold the preliminary or
ganization meeting were:
Carl P. Dennett, Boston; Owen D.
Young, New York; George 11. Houston,
Philadelphia; L. B. Williams. Cleve
land : Edwin C. Graham, Richmond;
George S. Harris, Atlanta; Sewell L.
Avery. Chicago; J. W. Harris, St.
l^>uis; George D. Dayton, Minneap
olis; Joseph F. Porter, Kansas City;
Frank Kell, Dallas; K. R. Kingsbury.
San Francisco; Secretary of the
Treasury Mills; Secretary of Agricul
ture Hyde; Secretary of Commerce
Chapin; Secretary of Labor Donk:
Eugene Meyer, governor of the fed
eral reserve board; Atlee Pomerene,
chairman of the Reconstruction Fi
nace corporation; Paul Bestor, chair
man farm loan board; Franklin Fort,
chairman federal home loan board.
' and James C. Stone, chairman of the
federa I farra board.
Much is expected to he accom
plished by the home loan banking sys
tem created by congress, of which
Franklin Fort of New Jersey has been
made chairman. In a radio address
Mr. Fort explained that the home loan
banks will have the power to make
direct loans on first mortgages up to
the same percentage of the value of
the property that they may loan to
institutions.
"We shall all he greatly disappoint
ed," he continued, "if the home loan
bank system does not put under the
real estate and mortgage structure of
America the type of underpinning
which not only will prevent its col
lapse In those troubled times, hut will
form a foundation for the continued
expansion and growth of home own
ership."
SENATOR SMOOT, chairman of tlie
senate finance committee, realiz
ing there are many inequalities in the
now revenue law, expresses the opin
ion that congress, when it reconvenes,
will find necessary a revision, of that
n:easiire to fit business conditions as
tl'.oy will thou oxist. And ho believes
the plan of a general manufacturers'
sales tax will bo revived. "Personal
ly" s:fid the Utah senator. "I think
that the bottom of the business de
prossion has been ireached and that
conditions are getting better every
where in the country."
The Chaml>er of Commerce of the
United States has announced forma
tion of a special committee on taxa
tion to examine "the manufacturers'
sales tax and other possible ^sources
of federal revenue" as a moans "of
curing inequities in the taxation sys
tem as set up in the last session of
congress."
VICE PRESIDENT CURTIS was
formally notified of his renomina
tion by the Republican party at his
home in Topeka, Kan., The cere
mony was notable for its simplicity,
for "Charlie" had said he did not wish
his friends and neighbors to go to a
lot of expense. There were no pa
rades. hut the Topeka Post band of
the American Legion played and the
Siiiue post provided a color guard.
Senator Dickinson, chairman of the
nntifieation committee, spoke for about
ten minutes, and Mr. Curtis then de
livered his address of acceptance, an
effort that received high praise from
his fellow Republicans.
SOUTH TRIMBLE, clerk of the
house of representatives, decided
that Speaker Garner and Represent
ative Ralney were right and that it
was mandatory en him to make pub
lie the details of loans made by the
Ileconstruction Finance corporation
since July 1. In this he disagreed
with President Hoover, who sought to
avoid this publicity and who thought
further congressional action was nec
essary if the transactions were not to
be held as confidential by the clerks
of the senate and house,
FIVE distinguished engineers will
pass on all applications for loans
for self-liquidating projects as pro
vided for in the relief act carrying a
f 11 rvH nf 9* 1 rnnnAA
J C?,<WU,UW,
000 for construction
work to aid the un
employed. At the |
head of this commit
tee of five is Dr.
Charles David Marx,
one of the foremost
engineers of Califor
nia. He is a personal i
friend of President j
Hoover, who esteems
him highly and has
utmost confidence in Dr. C. D. Marx
his ability to handle
the big job put in his hands. Doctor
Marx, who was born in Ohio in 1837.
was educated in Cornell university and
In Germany. He was United States
assistant engineer on Missouri river
improvement fifty years ago, and after
ward was on the faculties of Cornell,
Wisconsin and Stanford universities
His home is in Palo Alto.
ONE of the strange developments cf
the times is the farmers' strike
that was started in Iowa for the pur
pose of forcing higher prices for farm
produce and that spread to some ex
tent in other states of the central west.
The Iowa farmers undertook to com
pel all agriculturists of the state to
withhold their products from market,
and In some regions, notably about
Des Moines, picketed the highways and
stopped nearly all trucks carrying
vegetables and live stock to the city.
Deputy sheriffs were instructed to
keep the roads open, but few farmers
cared to run the blockade. City milk
distributors obtained sufficient supplies
by train, but urbanites had t< rely on
home gardens for their vegetables.
In North Dakota the farmers united
to withhold their wheat from market
until the price shall reach $1 a bushel,
and their leader said this movement
had made progress in eleven states.
Plans for financing the threshing bills
of farmers who promised to hold back
their wheat were being worked out.
MAYOR JIMMY WALKER of New
York put in another strenuous
week trying to convince Governor
Roosevelt that he should not be re
moven irom onice.
The examination con
ducted hv the gov
ernor went into all
facts connected with
Walker's relations
with Russell T. Sher
wood. who handled
the mayor's financial
affairs and has lone
been missing; and
with many other
charges made by
Mayor Walker Namuet seauury. cur
ing the questioning
there was a lot about an "unnamed
woman" who was unofficially admitted
to be Betty Compton, an actress now
lirlng In England. The evidence be
fore the legislative committee had
shown that this person, whos. name
was not then revealed, .received a
check for $7,500 from a brokerage ac
count of Mayor Walker's and that
cash and stocks valued at $75,000 were
turned over to her from the various
accounts of Sherwood.
The mayor in his testimony referred
to the "unnamed person" as having
been his personal friend: he offered
to explain his "arrangement" with her.
as it was expressed on one occasion,
but the governor refused to permit
an explanation
Supreme Court Justice Staley is
sued an order competing Itoosetelt to
delay his decision in the case until
after a hearing on a writ of injunc
tion. and there was a good prospect
that court proceedings would block
removal of the mayor. If that is de
cided upon by the governor, nntil after
the Presidential election
NfEWS of Interest to all the country
' came from Englewood. S. J. There,
in the Morrow home, a second sou
was bom to Col and Mri Charles A.
Lindbergh, and It was annonnccd that
mother and child were doing well.
The happy event came Ave months
and sixteen days after the kidnaping
of the first Lindbergh boy from their
home In Hopewell. Colonel Lindbergh
Issued a plea to the press not to in*
vade the privacy of his home, reel In*
that the publicity to which the family
had been subjected was in large meas
ure responsible for the tragic death
of their first child.
O CMORS that Theodore Roosevelt.
^ governor general of the Philip
pines, would be called home to take
part In the Presidential campaign on
behalf of Mr Hoover were strength
ened when it was announced that John
II. Holliday of St. Louis, Mo., had been
appointed vice-governor of the islands
by the President. He lias been acting
as legal adviser to Colonel Roosevelt.
The managers of the Republican cam
paign felt tha: a few speeches in the
middle and far western states by Gov
ernor-General Roosevelt would greatly
help the Hoover cause because it had
been found that many voters out there
were going to cast their ballots for
Franklin D. Roosevelt under the im
pression that lie is the son of former
President Roosevelt, to whose mem
ory they are devoted.
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STATE politics in New York is get
ting lively, and the Republicans
are preparing to select their candi
dates at the convention, which meets
in CnntnmKn.. ??.
IU CC|'ICUIUCI . J ? "I'
pose United States I
Senator Robert F ?
Wagner, Democrat I
who seeks re-election, i
it is likely Charles S. *
Whitman will he
picked by the (*. O.
P. lie is a veteran
in politics, having
been elected governor
in 1914 anil re-elected
two years later; but
he was dereated in c. 8. Whitman
1918 by Alfred E.
Smith, since when he has not held or
sought office. Mayor Kollin B. Mar
vin of Syracuse is another possibility
for the senatorial nomination.
For the Republican nomination for
governor the most conspicuous aspi
rant to date is Col. William J. Dono
van of Buffalo, who acquired the nick
name "Wild Bill" in the World war.
lie commanded the old "fighting Six
ty-ninth" and won the Congressional
Medal of Honor, the Distinguished
Service medal and other decorations.
During the Coolidge regime he was
assistant attorney general and was
noted as a trust buster.
WITH economy in mind, Italy is
about to reorganize her navy and
will retire about 130,000 tons of her
fighting ships. These will include two
battleships, three heavy cruisers, nine
light cruisers, twenty-five destroyers
and a dozen submarines, all reason
ably old. but still within the age limit.
The ships will be stripped of their
crews, but not immediately scrapped.
In this condition they will continue
to serve as a bartering point when
the world disarmament conference re
sumes its discussions at Geneva, Swit
zerland. this fall.
GEN. KURT VON SCHLEICHER,
minister of defense In the Von
Papen cabinet, is moving steadily
toward realization of his ambition to
______ become master of
Germany. It e p o r 11
from Berlin intimate
that out of the politi
cal chaos may emerge
a new government
with that "strong
man" as chancellor
and Franz Br.nht as
premier of the state of
Prussia. Von Schleich
er is much more high
ij u,uiuni i II.i it % mi
Gen. Von Pa pen b.v the Junkers,
Schleicher who have been urging
that all pretense of
parliamentary government be dropped.
Adolph Hitler, leader of the Nazis,
fft conference with President Von llin
denburg, demanded not only the chan
cellorship but the same power assumed
by Mussolini after the march on
Rome. This the aged president curtly
refused, but he did offer to make
Hitler, vice chancellor and give his
party other cabinet offices. Hitler
would not accept the minor post, pre
ferring to remain opposition as the
prophet of the Nazis. The National So
cialists thereui?on began an attack on
the Von Papen government, and they
n??w have the assistance of the Com
munists, numbering s??me 8,100.000.
The 1 rttor tie* .ded to institute a na
tion-wide strike to forofe'the govern
ment to lake action for relief of un
employment. Their leader, Ernst
Thaelman. ordered economic strikes,
rent strikes and general agitation by
the Jobless in all cities
EUSEB'fO AY ALA, who lias become
president of Paraguay. Is as firm
as his predecessor in detorfaination
not to yield to the demands of Bo- !
livia concerning the Gran Cbaco. but
in a public statement he declared that
war between the two nations over that !
issue would be "an absurdity" which 1
was encouraging for the cause of
peace.
e. 1922. f?un Kt'iC4?w DIM.
Where Farm Board's Free Wheat Is Going
A PICTURE of the wide distribution of Red Cross flour, manufactured from 40,000,000 bushels of farm board wheat
** voted b.v congress for the needy and distressed. Is given in American Red Cress records, and is illustrated by the
map above. The dark areas show counties to which free flour has been shipped; the white, those which requisitioned
none. Since the first shipment 10,000,000 bushels of the wheat have been nanufactured into flour, and shipped in
to five-sixths of the counties In the United States. More than 3,000 chapters have requisitioned flour for the need*
of 2.836.771 families. Stock feed consumed 11.108.051 bushels of the wheat, and was shipped to 184,188 stock owners
of the drought territory, all west of the Mississippi river. The method of distribution has been standardized as fol
lows: Application blanks were sent each of the 3,600 Red Cross chapters. Requisition of flour was made through
chapters, and the chapter chairman was the responsible oliicer for signing the blank before a notary to testify to
the needs in his community. Distribution is through the recognized family welfare agency or agencies.
OUR BEDTIME STORY
By THORNTON W. BURGESS
Patience Is a virtue possessed by very
few.
I try to cultivate it and so. I hope,
will you.
PETEII RABBIT was cultivating It.
To cultivate anything is to make
it grow. Peter is naturally impatient
when his curiosity is aroused, and so
I he was finding It very hard worl^ id
cultivate patience when he wanted
much to find out where Rattles the '
Kingfisher had made his home. But
he was beginning to suspect that Just
as the longest way round is sometimes
the shortest way to a given place, so
the practice of patience is sometimes
the quickest way of finding out a
thing you want to know. So now sis/
he lay in the long grass on the 77!TTtk
of the [jiughfng Brook a little way be
low the Smiling Pool watching Rattles
pass up and down Just above the wa
ter he felt sure that he was doing the
wisest thing.
When Rattles flew down the Laugh
ing Brook he always had a minnow
or a liny trout in his big spear-like
bill. When he flew past toward the
Smiling Pool he carried nothing. "Just
as sure as Jenny Wren flirts her tail
he takes those little fish home to his
I babies, and that means that his home
Is down the Laughing Brook slill far
j ther." muttered Peter. "I'll go a little
1 farther down and watch again." So
| Peter did. This time it was not near
ly so long after Rattles disappeared
j with a fish rfII he flashed past on his
I way to I he Smiling Pool "That
means fhat I am getting nearer.'
thought Peter. "It can't he very far
j.
from here. I'll so a little farther and
wait again." So Peter waited until
Rattles the Kingfisher* had gone hack
to the Smiling Pool, and then scam
pered along down the hank of the
Laughing It rook. This time he went
farther than before, and once more
hid In the long grass, lie waited and
waited and waited, hut not a glimpse
of Rattles did ho get although now
^inrl then ho heard his harsh rattle
fVther up the Laughing Brook. After
he\iad waited a long, long time, or at
least what seemed to him a long, long
timl. he thought of sometlhng. It must
he/that ho had passed the home of
/fatties without knowing it. ^He had
conie too far. Yes. sir, that must he
the reason that he no longer saw Rat
tles the Kinflgsher coming and going.
That home must he somewhere be- i
tween the place where he had last
hidden and the place where he was
then hiding.
Once more Peter decided to change
his hiding [dace. He poked his head
out over the edge of the hank and
looked up the Laughing Brook. A lit
tle way above was a bend In the
Laughing Brook which shut off the
view, l-'rom just beyond that came
the sound of the unmusical voice cf
Rattles. "That's the place for me."
thought Peter. Til hide Just where
I can see around the bend and see
what I shall see."
Now all this time Peter hadn't once
thought of how unfair it was to be
spying on a neighbor in this way. He
was Just trying to satisfy his curiosity.
He didn't once think that it was not
the way one Quaddy should treat
another On.'irldv Sn hi* ronsHonre.
which yon know is that small voice In
sine, fjiriri r nomer rum a mr as ne nur
ried over to his now hiding place.
There he could see above the bond In
the Laughing Brook, and almost the
first thing he noticed was n big sandy
hank on the other side. But Peter
had seen big sandy hanks before, and
he didn't think anything about this
one. Then he saw Blliy Mink swim
ming up the I^iughing Brook. He was
j tempted to call Billy, but decided not
to it would he fun to watch Billy
' and see what he was up to. So Peter
held his tongue and used his eyes
Instead.
Billy Monk seemed to he looking
for something. As he swam along he
kept watching the hanks ofnhe Laugh
ing Brook, first one and then the
other. Where the water was deep j
he swam, but where It was shallow
he ran swiftly over the rocks or along
the shore, every few steps stopping !
to look and to sniff. It was very
clear that Billy was hunting for some
thing. Suddenly a harsh rattle sound
ed from the direction of the Smiling |
Pool. Flatties the Kingfisher was
coming. For a moment Peter forgot
Billy Mink. When he thought of him
again Billy had disappeared. You i
know Billy Mink can disappear the
quickest of anyone unless It is Shadow
the Weasel.
"Now where did he go?" muttered
Peter, and then straightway forgot all
about him as he saw Rattles the King
fisher coming swiftly down the Laugh
ing Brook with a little fish In hit bill
Peter felt sure that at last hit pa
tience was to be rewarded
(tUUbfT V BarimHWSUMfTki.
Lovely Summer Garb
vi i lit cuuiu?| ? una .?
produced this cliarmlng summer <ire*a
of white silk cotelr with ? black Jack
et In Yernl material
HOT WEATHER DRINKS
DURING the summer weather cool
drinks are used more freely and
it Is a great satisfaction to have some
thing good, cold, and palatable ready
to serve one's frelnds. Lemon sirup,
aside from Its being more delicious
than ordinary lemonade, gives one the
assurance of Its always being ready
to serve at Just a moment's notice.
Lemon Sirup.
Squeeze the Juice from enough
lemons (probably five dozen) to make
two quarts of the Juice. Add enough
of the grated rind to suit the taste,
six pounds of sugar, and two and one
half quarts of water, neat to the
boiling point, strain and bottle. Keep
cold. When serving pour a table
spoonful or two of the sirup over
chipped Ice In the glass, add water
and serve.
Fruit Punch.
Make a sirup by boiling one cupful
of water, two cupfuls of sugar until
smooth, add one cupful of strong tea.
two cupfuls of strawberry sirup, the
Juice of five lemons, five oranges and
one can of chopped pineapple. Mix
and let stand until cool. Strain, add
three quarts of chilled water, one
quart of mineral water, one cupful
of cherries. Serve In a punch bowl
with ire.
Currantade.
Take one quart of currants, one pint
of raspberries, one quart each of wa
ter and sugar boiled to a sirup; cool.
Serve in a punch bowl with ice. Strain
before putting In the bowl.
Add ginger ale to grape Juice for a
n-ce drink,
<?. 1*12. Wtntern Nnnptper Union.?
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ANOTHER
By DOUGLAS MALLOCH
MEN say "another llllfjT?
But there was only one;
Men say another something
That some one else has don?;
And yet the world will never see
Another Michaelson.
There may be greater Rileys,
But never one as great;
There may be greater Llncolns
To better serve the state, .
For genius always must surpass
Or 'allure is its fate.
The man who is "another"
Is not, and never will.
Be better than the master
Or you're apprentice stilL
Seek not the level of the rest
But pass them on the hill.
Be not another some one,
Be something all your own.
You're not another Lindbergh
Till farther you have down.
There are a thousand little hills.
The peaks all stand alone.
ifc 1932 Douxlaff M*lloch.>?WNTT 8?rrtc?.
BONERS
Man alone is a perfect beast.
BONERS are actual humorous
tidbits found in examination pa
pers, essays, etc., by teachers.
Parellel lines never meet unless you
bend oue or both of them.
see
King Richard was captured and put
in prison by the German emperor, but
the English people were very fond of
their ruler, so they boiled him out.
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Figurative language Is when you
mean a rooster and say chandelier.
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Teacher's dictation: "His choler
rose to such a height that passion well
nigh choked hirn."
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Pupil's reproduction: "His collar
rose to such a height that fashion well
nigh choked him."
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Appendicitis is caused by Informa
tion In the appendix.
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An epicure is a poet who write?
epics.
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One argument 'or the abolition of
the Jury system Is that It costs too
much to buy chairs and to hire a room
for thern.
(?. 1932. Bell Syndicate.)?WNU Service.
An Oriental Isn't thoroughly up to
date until he reads the newspapers.
King Opens a New Thames Bridge
KING GEOItGE and Queen Mary. In (be carriage at tbe lower left corner,
are seen accompanied by fntl military escort crossing the new Lambeth
o ridge over the Thames in the ceremony marking the opening of the head
tome structure.
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