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"71 . . . ~ ' ? ? - | The Alamance Gleaner 1 VOL. LVin. GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 15, 1932. , NO. 32. News Review of Current Events the World Over Farm Board to Sell No More Wheat or Cotton This Year ?Iowa Farmers Still "Striking"?Germany Demands Arms Equality. By EDWARD W. PICKARD VALES of Us wheat anil cotton have ^ been stopped by the federal farm board until next year, according to the announcement made by Chairman duiuca v. ouiuc. iic said the board and the American Cotton Co-operative associa tion had agreed to the terms laid Sown by the Reconstruction Finauce corporation for a loan of $50,000, 000, stipulating that their holdings of near ly 2,000.000 bales of couon oe utkvn ?n J. C. Stone the market until 1033. Mr. Stone also an nounced that the board bad sold all Its stabilization wheat except 3.000, 000 bushels. This means the grain sta bilization corporation has disposed of more than 2^,000.000 bushels of wheat since July 1, 1931, and more than 18G.000.000 bushels since Novem ber 1 last. The stabilization corpora tion. therefor, is no longer a factor In the grain market It still holds what Mr. Stone called "a certain amount of futures contracts" which will be held at least until after the beginning of the next year. A loophole for the disposal of the cash wheat was left by the provision that, though this wheat would be kept off the market until the new year, this limitation would not apply to possible sales to foreign countries not reckoned as important buyers of American grain. In making the ar.nounceme.it. Chair man Stone explained that the purpose of the arrangements was to make a better market for the farmers. The cotton growers, he pointed out, will get the full benefit of the market for their crop of this year without the price-dulling interference of the hold over crop. The Cotton Stabilization corporation and the Cotton Co-oper ative association. Mr. Stone said, would gradually liquidate their hold ings "during periods when more active demand is anticipated.'* IOWA'S striking farmers did not ap prove of the truce called by the head of their "holiday" association and uiade preparations to renew the pickeling of the highways arounu the larger cities. They also called on Gov. I>jiii Turner to try to induce the gov ernors of several middle west states, at a conference in Sioux City, to In stitute an embargo "upon all food stuffs from the middle western states at less than production costs." Pickets outside Sioux City wrecked a number of trucks and injured the drivers, hut the sheriff's forces then got lutsy and dispersed them and re moved fr? ni the roads the formidable obstructions placed by the farmers. In Nebraska the picketing was aban doned for the present. FffKD UOVKY of Omaha, Neb., has been appointed head of the agri cultural credit organization of the Keconstriiction Finance corporation aim aireauy is hum In liis ofiice In Wash ington. l or in a n .v year* Mr. Ilovey ha* tmeii connected with the Stock Van Is Na tioiial hank of Small Omaha, lie is so fa miliar with conditions and the needs of the stork misers of the Wist that officials of the corjHiration fee' he la especially well rreo Hovey titled to carry out the live flock feeders' loan program. This Is to he the first work undertaken by the new Agricultural Credit corpor ation and Is looked on as of vast im portance. FINANCIAL circles of the country were Intensely interested to read of the uew plans for the Continental Illinois Bank and Trust company of Clihago. largest bank outside of Ni-w York city. The directors voted to na tionalize the institution and to set up special reserves of S40.dUU.UWI out of surplus to cover losses incurred. As a further mark of conservatism tliey voted a quarterly dividend id S'J a share in comparison with in each of the two preceding periods and with a former annual rate of *16. The bank's capital remains unchanged at ST.VUNI.UO. The directors explained to the stock holders that The development of a plan for nationalising the bank was suggested by recent legislative pro posals regarding the hanking system of the United States, all of which in dicates a distinct trend In the direc tion of a more unified national struc ture, strengthened and controlled by the federal banking authorities." "THUS year's national air races at ^ Cleveland wound up in a blaze of glory for Mnj. James 11. Doollttle, who won the free-for-all race and the handsome Thompson trophy with his Gee Bee racer. His average speed for the 100 miles over a triangular course was 252.686 miles an hour, and he broke all American records for speed around a closed course. Three days previously Doollttle with the same barrel-shaped plane set a new record for land planes, his average speed on four consecutive laps being 292.2S7 miles an hour. Mrs. Mae Halzlip of St. Louis broke the women's world speed rec ord for land planes by attaining an average speed of 255.513 miles an hour in four dashes over the three kilometer course. She won the Shell gold plaque. MEXICO has a new president In the person of Gen. Abelardo L. Itodriguez, who was chosen for the position by the congress after I'ascual | urtiz Kubio resigned because of political differences and his 111 health. Rodriguez, who has been holding the portfolio of min ister of war, is one of the strong military figures in the repub lic and In 1929 sup pressed the Escobar revolt On taking of fice he issued a state President ment In which he Rodriguez said: "Naturally I shall continue the same friendly, cordial relations with the United States that have existed." In the new cabinet Manuel Tellez remains as foreign minister and Al berto J. Pant as secretary of the treasury; several others were reap pointed. Gen. Pablo Quiroga wag given the war portfolio. The entire diplomatic corps In Mexico City called on President Rodriguez, and hundreds of congratulatory messages were received by him. Including oae from President Hoover. BOLIVIA was reported to have flat ly rejected the plea of the neutral Latin-American nations for a truce with Paraguay In their dispute over the Gran Chaco. The Paraguayans assumed that this meant war was certain and went ahead with their preparations. It was officially an nounced in I .a Paz that a Paraguayan force had attacked a defense post on the frontier and was repulsed by j Bolivian troops. WHILE the Germans were prepar ing for the crucial session of the reichstag. called for September 12 by Hermann Goering. the National socialist presiaent or the parliament, the Voii Papon govern ment was keeping the rest of the world greatly interested If not excited by its demand for the arms equality which Ger many Insists was iwomised her in the Versailles treaty. The demand had been sunmirtea to trance Hermann In the form of an aide Goermg ?nemolre and some days later was (riven to the public by Baron Von Neurath, foreign minister. It Is really an ultimatum, announcing that unless the equality In armaments Is granted by the powers. Germany will quit the world disarmament con ference. Before and after the publication of the note Gen Kurt von Schleicher minister of defense, declared In ad dresses and interviews that if the de mand were not granted Germany would arm anyway, and he was most emphatic In his statements. To newspaper men in Koenlgsberg he as serted stormily: "J mean everything I have said. We will no longer stand for being treated like a second rate nation." Premier Herriot decided that France's reply to the Germans should he a refusal to discuss thely demands and in this be was upheld by the cab inet. Be also disapproved mixing up modification of the Versailles tresty with the disarmament conference, and in his answer said that If the tier mans questioned the accepted Inter pretation of the Versailles treaty and th^ League covenant, the matter must be referred to arbitration by the League council or the world court. Some stress was also placed on the fact that the military clauses in the treaty of Versailles form the basis of many other post-war treaties and that the entire edltice of post-war Europe will he Imperiled If they are i tampered with. JOSEPH V. McKEE. who became mayor of New York on the resig j nation of Jimmy Walker, was in formed by the citizens' budget com mission that the city pays more than $1,000,000 every day in the year for salaries for its employees. Therefore he got busy at once on economies in a way that made the politicians gasp. First he announced that his own sal ary was reduced immediately from $40,000 to $25,000 a year. Then he served notice that, after October 1, no city commissioner appointed by the mayor would receive more than-$12, 000 a year. And more,of the same sort was expected to folTovv, The budget commission pointed out that in the six years of the Walker administration 32.380 extra positions . had been added to the city pay roll at a total cost of $120,635,223 a year? u practically a third of the year's en j tire payment for personal service. SCANDAL concerning labor em ployed on government jobs has been transferred from western proj ects to the lower Mississippi river vnl ley. Charges have been made that work ers In river flood con trol construction camps down there are held by contractors In a virtual state of peonage; that the men are working 15 hours a day and 7 days a week at very small wages. Since this falls in the prov ticn. l. Brown ince or we oeiwn* ment of War, Secre tary Patrick J. Hurley took cogniz ance of the charges and sent Gen. Lytle Brown, chief of array engineers, to make an Investigation. LOS ANGELES, the prolific source of tragedies, provided another? the suicide ot Paul Bern, moving pic ture executive and husband of Jean Harlow, a famous screen actress. For reasons that at this writing are unknown, Mr. Bern shot and killed himself in the beautiful home he pre sented to his bride when they were married two months ago. He left a note that only added to the mystery. It said he was making good "the frightful wrong 1 have done you" and wiping out his "abject humiliation.*' and Miss Harlow insisted she did not know what he meant and that they i had been perfectly happy together. Mr. Bern, who was born in Germany i 42 years ago. had been actor, stage manager and director, and In his work in pictures was very successful I aud popular. His associate*? said he had been acting strangely of late, and that his mother and three of uis siS- i ters had committed suicide. \ One possible explanation for I.ern's suicide was revealed when it was j learned that for years before his mnrv riage to Jean Harlow he lived with ( another woman. His brother asserted ] Bern continued to support her In n sanitarium after she had a nervous i breakdown, and that Miss Harlow | knew all about it. For ten years this I woman lived at the Hotel Algonquin j In New York city as .Mrs. Paul Bern and paid her hills with checks sent to her fortnightly from Hollywood by 1 the movie executive. Slip left the ho tel last winter and had her trunks shipped to San Francisco. RAPID progress on the govern ment's $700,000,000 public build ing program was reported by the Treasury department in a review of authorized projects. The re|?ort said that specific au thorizations aggregated $400.40:1.042 and that 210 buildings costing $71. 400.219 had already been completed. It further reported .182 projects with a total cost limit of $324..188.123 were under contract either In whole or In part. In regard to 136 projects costing $42,172,1)00, the treasury Raid they either were in the specification stage , or that bids had been received for ! their construction. ! It was explained that Secretary | Mills had not yet determined on the expenditure of the $100 WUHXI pro vided in the relief net for public buildings MOST Widely known of those who died during the week was Sir Gilbert Parker. Canadian novelist, traveler, lecturer and politician, who passed away In l^ondon at the age of sixty-nine years. He first gaIn~J fame aa the author of -The Right of Way* and other novel*. ?. 1*12 Wftfluiu Ntvapap r L'alo*. * I I CHILDREN'S STORY ?tfy? THORNTON W. BURGESS BILLY MINK'S MISTAKE PETER RABBIT had been quite right about Billy Mink. Billy was hungry. He was especially hun gry for a dinner of tender young birds. He had eaten fish until he felt ns If he would turn Into a fish him self. He was tired of fish and want ed a change. I guess you know how he felt No matter how fond of a thing we may be there comes a time when our stomachs grow tired of It. This Is true even of candy and ice cream when we have too much of them. And It was Just that way with Billy Mink. When he had started out that morn ing Billy hud had no particular plan. He Just trusted to luck to tlnd some thing besides fish to eat. He had stopped at the Stirling Pool to pass the time of day with Jerry Muskrat. and it was while he was there that he had noticed Rattles the Kingfisher fly ing down the Laughing Brook with a tiny fish In his bill. It wasn't long before he was back watching for an -Hth?E_ fish, jtnd^when he caught It he rook It off down the Laughing Brook. This was enough for Billy Mink. He knew right away what it meant. It meant that somewhere down the Laughing Brook was a home with babies in It. The very thought made Billy's mouth water. He cut his visit with Jerry Muskrat short and started down the Laughing Brook. Now. unlike Peter Rabbit, Billy knew Just what to look for, and where lo look for If. lie knew nil about the wnys of Unttles the Kingfisher, and just what kind of a place he would choose for a home, and lie didn't have a doubt of being able to find It. But he took precious good care not to let Battles the Kingfisher catch a glimpse of him. He knew that If Battles once saw him going down the Laughing Brook he would mount guard over his home, and Billy was of no mind to face that sharp, speitr-llke bill which Battles possesses. So whenever he heard Battles coming, Billy hid until the way was clear once more. You remember that Billy was hid ing right near the sandbank where Battles had made his home at the time Peter Babbit, watching from the opposite shore, discovered It. All that Peter saw Bill Mink saw. too. He saw the little hole close up under the edge of the high sandbank where the grasses hung over and partly hid It He saw Battles go In and come put again. Ami when he swam across to the foot of the hank and tested the air with his keen lit tie nose he smelled young kingfishers. Before he had made up his mind just what to do he heard Rattles returning, and once more hid. The instant Buttles de parted again for another tiny fish for those hungry babies, Billy scrambled up the hank. There was no time to lose. He wanted to get those babies and get away before Rattles should return. He had nothing to fear from the little kingfishers, they would be quite helpless and harmless. So Billy scrambled up the sandbank and Into the hole. The instant he got his head Inside he forgot everything but the feast he would hove, for his nose told him that way way back at 1 the end of a Ions hall who a nestfui of young birds. If lie had slopped to smell a little more carefully that oom of his might have told him something else. But he was so eager that he didn't stop to rind out all that h!e nose might have told him. That was where he made a mistake?a very great mistake. If he had heeded his nose he would have remembered something which be bad quite forgotten in bis greedy haste. He would have remembered that he hadn't seen any- J thing of Mrs. Rattles, and Mrs Rat tles carries quite as big and sharp a bill as docs Rattles himself. But Billy had forgotten all about this and lr his greedy haste pushed in along that narrow hall where there wasn't room to turn around. It was s mistake, a very great mistake. Halt way to the nest at the end of that long _ hall Billy found It out <e 1132. byT. W Bur gem ) ? WNU Serrlc?. Most Valuable Man Moses (Lefty) (Jrove, star twirier ' -of the I'hDadelphia Athletics, who was | voted the American league's most val ' liable player for llttl. Is shown here holding the trophy that was presented to him. The decision was made by | baseball writers. i SEVERAL GOOD THINGS SALAD dressings are a food acces sory which we find a dally neces sity and when one presents one that is different we hail it with Joy. Sour Cream Dressing. Mix together one tahlespoonful of flour, one-half teaspoonful of salt, one eigthth teosi>oonfiil of pepper and one half cupful of vinegar. Stir until smooth. Add one cupful of sour cream, stir over water In a double boiler until It begins to boll. Iteinove from the fire immediately. If sour milk is used add two tablespoonfuls of olive oil and cook as above. Veal a la King. Take two pounds of lean veal, cut Into cubes about one inch square. Add water to cover after it has been well browned In one*fourth cupful of but ter. Add six medium sized carrots, two onions, one sweet pepper?all minced; one bay leaf, four cloves and cook until the meat is tender. Keep enough water to make a pint of liquor during the cooking. Add one quart of scalded sweet cream thickened as for gravy, add one can of mushrooms ' cut fine and one can of sifted peas. Season to taste with salt and paprika 1 and serve on noodles. A dainty and pretty as well as an easy dessert is prepared thus: Bake small cupcakes, cover wltb thin slices of candy bar?any with or without nuts. Four a hot custard over them or a lemoD sauce. Serve hot or cold. Cut cake Into layers with sliced candy bar between, serve with whipped ' cream or any desired snnce. 0 St. Louis Has Colony of Clay-Eaters IN ST. LOUIS, MO., there has been discovered a colony of clay-eaters. Their source of supply Is an ideal clay mound about which tbey gather to scoop it up and consume It They claim that they do not eat It because of hunger but because It leaves n pleasant "tang" In the mouth and is a desirable food. Persons of various ages admit eating this clay and some have done It for years. This particular mound Is most favorable because Its clay Is not gritty. Our photograph shows two youngsters sampling the clay. GIDU?W> "Modesty isn't dead," says impecu nious Imogene. "There is still a lot of it In pay envelopes." Q. 1932. Bell Syndicate. ? WNO Serrlca. Photographed the Eclipse in Color REV. THOMAS D. BARRY (left) and Dr. Caul A. McNally of Georgetown university wltb the equatorial telescope equipped with two sstrogrsphlc lenses which they used In photographing In coior the recent eclipse of the sun. The expedition did Its work at Fryeburg. Maine. " V EACH HAS HIS PLACE By DOUGLAS MALLOCH THE sen looks up to the hills. The hills look down to the sea. Each looks upon the place it fills And thinks the other free. The waters ehb and flow. The slaves df wind and tide; The mountains may not move, and so They are dissatisfied. The ocean longs to rest, The hills to wander far. Though each is serving God Its best. As men and all things are. Yet men grow discontent. And envious, and sad; So many a weary hour Is spent. An hour that might be glad. 1 know not what the case. Your duty sea or hill. But this I l^iow: It is a place That no one else can AIL Pnrh hns wimp tnsk to do. Each has some thing to be? You look at me. I look at you. And think the other free. 6 1932 Douglas Malloch.?WJfU Serrtco. || KITTY McKAY | By Nina Wilcox Putnam | The girl-friend says the film she sim ply hates the worst, is the one on her teeth. l& l>:i B?n Syndicate?WNU 8?rv1e?. KONERS The Pharisees were bad people who I used to wash. I BONERS arc actual humorous I tidbits found in examination pa- I pers. essays, etc.. by teacher*. I The possessivejpf "It" Is s girl like I Oars Bow. ? ? ? I Minors are cold diggers. I ? * * I The general direction of the alps la n straight up. I ? * * I The four principle occupations of ''I people are. addition, subtraction, mid- I tlpllcation and division. I ? ? ? I A philanthropist Is one who has the J power of throwing his voice. ? see I What do the people of norther* New. I Vork raise? Children. I ? ? ? The humsn skin Is a tough palatabia V substance. I I <?L Bail arsdlesto?'CKC 111 ill ; I
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