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1 The Alamance gleaner ! . ? ? * ? -1 VOL. LVIII. GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 1, 1932. NO. 30. News Review of Current Events the World Over I Mayor Walker Presents His Defense?Progress of the Mid-West Farmers' Strike?Business Conference Opened by President Hoover. By EDWARD W. PICKARD MAYOK JAMES J. WALKER opened his defense before Gov ernor Roosevelt, and numerous wit nesses were called to testify to the purity of his actions mil motives. At the >eglnninp of the week Walker's chief coun^ Bel, John J. Curtin. dosed his plea to Su jrerae Court Justice Staley to halt the re moval proceedings, md with what seems ;o be his usual lack >f tact wound up with he statement: "We L. F. Lcrec can only go to court to avoid a physical conflict that might well ensue if a re moval order were made without juris diction." Henry Epstein of the at torney general's staff challenged the authority of the court to limit the gov ernor's power. ? ? The mayor's first witnesses were the men hers of the city taxi hoard of con trol. one of them being L. V. I.oree, president of the Delaware and Hudson railroad. He and his colleagues testi fied that Walker did not attempt in any way to limit the number of cabs after the bond transaction with J. A. Sisto which is the basis of one of Mr. Sen bury'8 most serious charges. Four independent taxicab operators were called and swore the board of control had not tried to create a monopoly for the larger companies. Paul Block, the newspaper pub lisher. was a loyal and stubborn wit nors /or the mayor. Concerning their Joint stock account, he testified that each took SI02.000 from It in one year, and he told the governor that he never entertained the thought that his per sonal or business friendship for the mayor might be used to trade for "fa vors." Governor Roosevelt's question ing brought forth Illuminating testi mony regarding $140.000 that Mr. Block had put into a tile manufac turing concern In which Senator John J Hastings, another of the Walker croup, owned a large interest. It was brought out that none of the tile ever was sold to the city. It was also shown that If the plans to manufac ture the tile had not been dropped the city would have been interested In the product. Walker's claim lias been that the en tire Investigation was inspired by the Republicans to embarrass the Demo cratic party In the November election. In the attempt to bolster up this claim he summoned eight Republican state binders, at the head of the list being W XlngsUind Mnc.v. state chairman. The governor, however, blocked this move by refusing to hear testimony regarding the motives of the legisla tors who ordered the investigation that resulted In the charges against the mayor. The hearing has taken much more time than had been expected. so the g? vernor decided to hold night ses rfons. A I.FRED E. SMITH, whilom na tional leader of the Democratic party, is now an editor. When the outlook, now re-named the New Out i?i? mi. resumes puun cntion onk October 1 \l will be filling the editorial chnlr. once occupied by Theodore Roosevelt. In his an nonnceinent of the fact he said he would carry on the tradi tions of Roosevelt rod strive to make magazine "a plat form for the free and i "*'nii expression m ?-*. k.. emiln progressive thought on the economic, civic anil spiritual problems of the day." As to its po litical complexion he had nothing to 5J! f The Outlook, which suspended pub |i.-:itlon last spring. was recently pur cbrsod by Frank Tichenor. publisher o' tlio Spur, Aero Digest and other magazines. It was founded by Henry Ward Iteecher in 1500 and has includ ed among its editors Lyman Abbott as well as Theodore Itoosevelt. Four joars ago It was combined with*the Independent, which was founded by II. Bowen as an anti-slavery organ. FVJtMEKS of the Middle West were meeting with considerable success in their "strike" designed to force produce prices to higher levels. The movement, which started In lows, jfreed to other states, and two vie tories were scored Id Nebraska where milk producers gained higher prices. At Omaha officials of the fawn-Ne braska Co-Operative Milk association consented to pay $2 per hundredweight for milk, compared with a previous figure of $1.45, while at Lincoln milk dealers agreed to pay $1.80, an in crease of 40 cents oVer the previous figure. More than 1,000 agriculturists were assembled in camps along the main highways leading into Omaha, hut there were reports that some of the picketers were in a dispute as to the best method of enforcing the farmers' "holiday." Despite warnings from federal offi cials, the farmers in several instances interfered with rail shipments of live stock in Iowa and Nebraska. Wiscon sin and Minnesota dairymen were planning meetings to decide whether or not to join in the strike. Tear bombs came into use at Coun cil Bluffs, Iowa, when sheriffs' depu ties employed them to scatter a crowd of 1,000 farm "strikers" and specta tors who were blocking a highway. Each trucker en route to market was given a deputy escort and no violence resulted. WHEN the White House confer ence on business and industry opened Friday with more than one hundred prominent men in attendance. President Hoover started the proceed ings with a statement outlining the scope of the parley. He proposed sev eral specific lines of action. One aims to bring about increased em ployment and includes the five-day week, though Mr. Hoover did not rec ommend its adoption universally. A second deals with easier and cheaper credit for certain industries that have not benefited by the loosening up that already has taken place. A third proposition is to seek better credit fa cilities for marketing of farm prod ucts and live stock, both in the United States and abroad. Other speakers of the opening day were: Secretary of the Treasury Mills, Gov. Eugene Meyer of the fed eral reserve board. Chairman Atlee Pomerene of the Reconstruction Fi nance corporation. Secretary of Com merce Ralph D. Chapin. Chairman Franklin W. Fort of the home loan bank board and Paul Bcstor, farm loan commissioner. SOUTH TRIMBLE, clerk of the Itouse of representatives, made good his promise and gave to the pub lic a statement of the transactions of nit; uei-uu?i uiruuii r i nance corpora tlon from July 21 to July 31 Inclusive. During those eleven days, the directors of the cor poration authorized 437 new loans aggre gating $45,057JMG. and increases of for | mer loans totaling $l,Go3,50U to hanks and other credit In stitutions ami to rail- South Trimble roads. The total so loaned was $46,711,050. Later it was revealed that some of the loans au thorized to hanks had not been drawn upon. Chairman Steagall of the house banking committee, said he believed the publicity given the loans would tend to strengthen the confidence of depositors In the banks concerned. Mr. Trimble was amisecfhv Con gressman Tread way of Massachusetts of acting as he did -In order to gain favor with Speaker Garner, who ad vocated publicity for the reports. In reply the house clerk said this charge was ridiculous and that he acted on the legal advice of his son. who held the law gave him no discretion in the matter. CONGRESSMAN SHANNONS coir. ^ mlttee investigating the results of federal competition with private con cerns in business went to South Bend. Ind.. and there heard a lot more com plaints against Uncle Sain as a trader. Manufacturers, business men and rep resentatives of various industries de clared they were being pushed to the wall through competition from gov ernment boards and bureaus that are financed by Taxpayers' money. Their wall was presented by the Federation of American Business, and the lines of competition ran all the way from pick to* and rubber stamps to depart ment stoma, wheat, coffee and cotton. The Association of Railway tUecti tives presented a brief attaching rne Inland Waterways corporation, the government barge line that operates on the Mississippi, Illinois and Warrior rivers. The railway men argued that the government should get rid of the barge line as an unfair competitor of the rails. Manufacturers in Illinois presented a brief giving specific lines in which competition hy the government is re ducing their business, cutting into the normal revenues, reducing their pay rolls and number of employees, mean while piling up the lax burden. One item of complhlnt is the growth of prison industries. \ FTItUBKK DAVISON, assistant ? secretary of war, has announced that he is a candidate for the guber natorial nomination at the New York state Republican convention. The an nouncement followed formal notilica tion to him that the executive commit tee of Nassau county Republican com mittee had adopted a resolution pro nouncing him the candfdate of the Nassau county Republicans. Prospects for civil war in npr many were heightened when a court at Beuthen, Upper Silesia, sen ' tenccd live National Socialists to death in tuiiuet-iiun ?uii mo killing of a Commu nist. Seven other Na zis were sentenced to prison at hard labor. Immediately Adolf Hitler and bis followers arose in mighty wrath, de nouncing the sen tence, Chancellor Von 1'apen and the entire government of the Franz von reich and demanding Papcn pardon for the five. There were riotous demonstrations in Beuthen and other places, with attacks on Jews and So cialists, and the police and more con servative Nazi leaders had a hard time curbing the enraged Hitlerites. Hitler issued a statement declaring the condemned men to he "martyrs" and assuring them that their freedom "from this minute is a question of our honor." He added: "It is our duty to battle the government which made this monstrous blood sentence possible. Heaven may send us tor ture upon torture, but the National Socialist movement will soon be able to finish this guillotine government led by Von Papen." To meet the storm of protest and de nunciation, the governments of the reich and of Prussia issued a Joint manifesto that made it plain Von Pa pen's cabinet would not tolerate any revolt against the laws of the reich. It declared that the severest penalties would be invoked against "every law breaker, regardless of person or party," , and thgt the government would yield to no political pressure in considering the cases of the five condemned men. PERHAPS the best piece of news of the week was the announcement by Myron C. Taylor, chairman of the board of the United States Steel cor poration, that it would Immediately spend $3,000,000 for replacements and new equipment. The expenditures are to be made in the corporation's plants in Ohio. Illinois. Indiana. Alabama and Pennsylvania. "It would seem the buying move ment' cannot long be delayed," said 1 Mr. Taylor, and his further remarks i indicated that the directors of the < huge corporation believe It is now safe : for them to plan for better times In the Industrial world. LONDON again hears that the prince ! of Wales is going to take u bride. ? and again the rumor is that (he lady chosen is Princess Ingrid of Sweden. ... i hp prince is i<? open a British exhibition at Copenhagen on September 24. and he is to attend the wed ding of I'rinoe Gnstnf of Sweden at Coburg on October 2<>. Be tween those dates, ac- i cording to tlie uncon firmed story, he will pay a visit to Stock I holm, and It Is ov ! ported the marriage Prince of , will lhen be arranged. Wales The prince of Wales was thirty-eight years old last June, j Ingrld. a pre;,y tdnnd. Is twenty-two. She is distantly related to the prince and Is a frequent visitor In London, where she Is often the guest of the British royal family. She is also one of the most eligible of the princesses In Flu rope. CAPT. JAMES A. MOI.I.LSON of Great Britain put his little Moth plane down at Roosevelt field. New York, and went on record as the first person to make the solo flight west ward across the Atlantic, His start was from Ireland and he landed first forty miles from St John.-N B. Re planned to fly hack to Ireland as *000 as the weather was propitious. %. list- Westtra N?w*p*?er L'stea. Modernistic Observatory Dome I? IIIST photograph of the architect's drawing of the proposed new telescope * dome to be erected soon at the naval observatory in Washington. Built in uiodernistic style, the dome will be made of welded steel and will be .'10 feet in diameter, with an Inner shell for ^ventilation and cooling. It will be operated by machinery and will house a new photographing telescope now un der construction by Prof. George W. Rltchey. READY FOR GUESTS TPUEKR are so many dishes which *? tna> be prepared the day before, saving the time and nerves of the hostess that one should gather as many of such recipes together for time of need. Here .are some suggestions: Chicken Salad in Cracker Boxes. Soak one teaspoonful of gelatin In two tablespoonfuls of water and, dis solve In two tablesponfuls of boiling water. Take 24 small square crack ers and put four of tliern together in a box shape, open top and bottom. Set on lettuce lined plates nnd till with chicken salad. Mix two cupfuls of fine ly cut chicken with an equal amount of fine celery, a few nuts and any salad dressing desired to moisten, us ing salt and cayenne to season. The genatin is used to fasten the crackers together In the shape of boxes. The crackers are to he eaten with the salad. Whole Wheat Bread Sandwiches. Cut quarter-inch slices of whole wheat bread and spread with butter. Mix salted peanuts, finely chopped, with cottage cheese and spread as filling. ?> 1132. Western Newspaper L'nton. I PAPA rN?HS-| ' I "Pop. what it elaborate?" "A preacher's treat/nent of hit text.' f? 1932. Bell Sjm?11ctte.> ? WN'U Mnlc*. "You can't be sure a chap will make a good match,** tayt romantic Ro ma in e. "until you know whether he j will loee hie head If he's rubbed the ' wrong way." ft- l?lt B?n Syndicate l-WJOJ Serrloe. I KONERS Seafaring men in the habit of drluk ing nre liable to collide with other ves sels. BONERS are actual humorous tidbits found in examination pa pers, essays, etc., by teachers. Faith is that quality which enables us to believe what we know to he un true. ? ? ? A jieriwl is a <l??i at the end of a sentence. ? ? ? Period cost tunes are dresses all cov ered with dots. ? ? ? A pol.tgon is a mart who has ninny wives. ? ? ? A sinecure is a disease without a cure. (? 193? Hell Syndicate ) ? WT.VU Ber\!ea. BEDTIME STORY FOR CHILDREN % By THORNTON W. BURGESS PETER DISCOVERS THE SECRET OF RATTLES DETER RABBIT was so excited that * he almost forgot that he was spy ing and that if he showed himself he might miss the very thing for which he had waited so long. There was Rattles the Kingfisher coming straight down the Laughing Brook with a min now In his bill, and of course he was bringing it to his babies in their secret home! In a minute or two he, I'eter, would know the secret! In his excite ment Peter started to sit up so as to see better. Just in time he remem bered that l>e wasn't supposed to be there at all. If Rattles should see him he certainly wouldn't go to his home in spite of the hungry babies Peter knew must be there waiting for iish. He wouldn't be so foolish as to show where ids borne was by en Then, As If Satisfied That No One Saw Him, He Shot Out Into the Air. tering It when he knew that he was being watched. To do such a thing wouldn't be good sense. So Just in the very nick of time Pe ter ducked down among the grasses and. peeping between them, watched Rattles. lie could see the sharp eyes of Rattles looking suspiciously at both banks as he came swiftly on. Peter knew without being told that Kattles was trying to make sure that no one was watching him. and he chuckled as he snuggled down a little closer to the warm earth among the grasses. "I wonder what he would do and say If he knew he was being watched." thought he. Rut Kattles didn't know, and he saw nothing to make him the least bit sus picious. lie came straight on until he was right opposite the big sandbank across from Peter. Then he turned and flew straight toward It. and a sec ond later had disappeared. Peter couldn't believe it, hut It was so. It seemed somehow as If that hank of sand had swallowed Rattles the King fisher. He had disappeared so quickly that Peter hadn't seen exactly where he did go. Peter raised his head and stared acrqss at the sandbank. It was yellow and smooth, and now here could he see a hole. "Great Jumping Jupiter!" exclaimed Peter, and rubbed his eyes that he might look better. Rut this didn't help liirn any. Kattles the Kingfisher j had disappeared as completely as If i he never had been. Peter was still staring foolishly when he saw a few grains of sand trickle down from the very edge of the bank where some grass and weeds hung over the edge. Without thinking why he did It, he ducked down out of sight and then peering between the grasses watched the spot from which he had seen the sand trickle down. Was there a dark spot there just below the edge of the bank half hidden by grass and weeds? Peter Blinked and stared again. Yes, there certainly was a small dark spot there. Could it he a hole? It might be. Peter decided he would watch it. ! lie didn't have to watch long. In fact. It was hardly a minute before he saw something move over there. He held his breath. Then what do you think he saw? Why, he saw tirst a big stout spear-like bill thrust out and then a head with a queer rough top knot. it was the head of Rattles the Kingfisher! There was no doubt about this, for no one else had a bend like his. For a moment Rattles was per fectly still, looking this way and look ing that way up and down the Laugh ing Brook. Then, as if satisfied that no one saw him, he shot out Into the j air and was away toward the Laugh ing Brook, rattling as only he can rat tle. There was no doubt In Peter's mind now. He had found the home of Rattles, and It was in a hole In the ground. Just as he had been told. "I never I" exclaimed Peter as he sat up arid stretched. "1 never! Can you heat that? A real bird living In a hole in the ground! I never!" What more Peter might have said will never be known, for a movement down below the Laughing Brook caught bis attention. It was Billy .Mink, and It was very clear that Billy had also discovered the home of Rat tles the'Kingfisher. His bright, beady eyes were fixed on that hole in the bank, and he was swimming straight ocross to the shore Just below. Peter wondered what would happen next. <?. IS"J. by T. W. Rurge*s.)?WNTIIcnrtet, YOU CAN'T STOP WOMEN By DOUGLAS MALLOCH YOU can't stop women working. No matter how you try. They see a cobweb lurking? Why, they would sweep the sky If brooms were ever made that long For women folk to buy. You can't stop women dusting. And moving things about They all must think that rusting Is worse than wearing out But that's another truth that men Are much Inclined to doubt You can't stop women mending Things men would .throw away. Their labor is unending. The way they often say. They'd strike If they were not allowed i A twenty-four-hour day. i You can't stop women taking This most peculiar view Of mopping, sewing, baking? Yet there's one way, it's true: The only way would be for men To make them less to do. IS*.:. Dour I a* Xlalloch.? ? WNU Serric#. Betty Is a Genuine Bovine Laboratory wmmwmamM. i ? COMPARED to "Betty," the cow here shown. the goldfish lives a cloistered life. For she Is hot only visited dally by scores of persons In St Paul, Minn- but all are eager to take a glimpse into ber Interior. Betty Is a Jersey cow owned by Dr. F. L. Clausen (right), a veterinarian. He recently cut a hole in the cow s side. 1Hx3 Inches In dimension, and a hole the same size In her stomach. He sewed the flap of the stomach tissues to the open ing Id the side and then affixed a glass window, framed In silver, through which he could watch her digestive apparatus function.
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