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The Alamance gleaner \ ? ? . ?' y\' VOL. LVIII. GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY DECEMBER 8, 1932. NO. 44 News Review of Current \ Events the World Oyer More Squirming to Avoid Payment of War Debts to America?Repeal and Beer Worry Members, of Congress Assembling for Session. By EDWARD W. PICKARD Great Britain n> stin hopeful that the United States would not Insist that the $1)5.550,000 war debt principal and Interest, due December Neville Chamberlain 15. must be paid. She had the money neces sary, and would pay If there was no way out of it, but kept on trying to find a way. The cabinet approved the terms of a new note to Washington and even King George took a hand and helped decide what was best to be done. The king had a long Interview with Neville Chamberlain, chancel lor of the exchequer, who laid before him the proposal of the treasury which Is dominated by Montagu Nor man. head of the Bank of England. This presumably was that Britain should refuse to pay now or. at least, should pay into a blocked account, not transferring any money to Amer ica at this time. Opposed to this view was that of the foreign office, upheld by Prime Minister MacDonald. that payment should be made promptly if the new request for postponement were re fused. and that the entire matter of International debts be Liken up with the Roosevelt administration when it comes into power. It was indicated that the foreign office had won out In the controversy. France, the 'most determined of the opponents of payment, was passing the buck to England, Premier Her riot's government seeking to hold off decision and even parliamentary dis cission until the British course was announced. Many of the deputies, however, were rebellious and sought to force the government to a show down. ' DIRECTLY connected With the war debt affair was the fall of the pound sterling, long the unit of in ternational finance, to unprecedented ly low prices. By the middle of the week the European gold standard ex changes also weakened considerably, and at the same time the Japanese yen and Chinese currencies broke badly. From London came reports that there had developed a sudden scarcity of ffvailable dollars in the world mar kets that Britain may purchase to pay the United States. The evidence was that American currency had heen bought up in France and elsewhere by exchange brokers as part of a scheme to depress the pound for the benefit of bears on sterling. BEER would seem to be occupying too prominent a place in the American public mind, were it not for the national income and employment re net features in volved In the restora tion of the beverage to a legalized status. Early In the week Speaker Garner de vised a plan to put the hesitant legisla tors on the spot. The drys and seini-drys had been asserting that a measure legal izing beer and possi bly light wines should not be pressed to pas sage until a resolution Speaker Garner for repeal of (he Eighteenth amend ment had been put through. So Hr. Garner drew up such a resolution and announced that be would insist on Its being put to a vote In the house on Monday, the first day of the short session. It was a resolution for flat'repeal, with no mention of pro tection for the dry states. Many congressmen, both Ikemocrats and Republicans, called on the speak er with protests and pleas for delay, and Mr. Garner began to weaken, say Ing that If he found there was con siderable objection to consideration of his resolution he would Just as soon back up and say: "We will wait." Fred Britten of Chicago and other eminent wets tried to keep the speaker to his determination. Britten assuring him that the Republican side of the house would supply more than 100 rotes for the repeal resolution But there was no certainty of more than 130 Democratic votes, so It was doubtful whether the necessary two thirds majority could he obtained I-ater In the week some or the dry members from the South were re ported to be sliding over to the re peal side and the prospects of the resolution were considered brighter. Representative cari. Vinson of Georgia, chairman of the house poinmittee on naval affairs, had a long talk with President-Elect Roosevelt at Warm Springs, and came away with his former "big navy" attitude consid erably changed. He did not quote Mr. Roosevelt, but announced that he would favor drastic cuts in the naval build ing program and general economies. He declared at least $100,000,000 could be pared from the naval budget and sjyjd he was now willing that the build ing program should be reduced to a point far below the maximum set by the treaty of I^ondon. From what Mr. Vinson said it was ap parent that Mr. Roosevelt hopes to provide the United States with a small but powerfully effective navy. He thinks, too, that economies can be ef fected by the consolidation of some bureaus and a better control of all purchases. PRESIDENT-ELECT ROOSEVELT held a series of conferences on farm relief with farm organization leaders anl legislators, including Senators Rob inson, Wheeler and ^Bankhead. and Henry Morgenthau, and the net result seemed to be a probability that noth ing would be done during the short session except the enactment of some emergency measures such as price fix ing and perhaps mortgage refinancing Mr. Roosevelt declined to announce his j own plan in advance, saying "That would be too much like telling con gress what to do." Farm lenders in Washington said they thought Mr. Roosevelt wants to ? meet the 1033 crop emergency and that they are willing tofnecept temporary measures such as the price-fixing bill that was proposed in the previous ses sion. * HENRY FORD spent the week In the Detroit hospital thai bears his 1 name, recovering from tin operation j for strangulated hernia. The opera Henry Ford fion, which included removal of the appen dix. was pronounced a success, and within three days the auto mobile manufactur er's temperature, pulse and respiration were hack about to normal. By that time the hospital physi dans ' and members of the Ford organi zation felt assured that the multi-million aire's recovery was a matter only of rest and quiet Members of his ira mediate family, who visited liira daily, were no longer anxious about his con dition. By the time this is read he may have been permitted to leave the hospital for his home. DEATH took another congressman, ; this time the victim being James <1 Mclaughlin. Republican represent- ! ative from the Ninth Michigan district i and dean of that state's delegation. Stricken with heart disease while on a lour of Virginia, he died at Marion. Mr. McLaughlin, who was a member of the ways and means committee, was defeated in the recent elections by Harry W. Mussel white. Democrat His death makes the party lineup in the house at the "lame duck" session 208 Republicans. 220 Democrats, one Farmer-I-abor, and six vacancies. DONAL BUCKLEY, a retired shop keeper who was a rebel against British rule for years, was appointed by King George to be governor gen eral of the Irish Free State, on the advice of President De Valera. whose close friend he is- London was rath er shocked by the appointment, many regarding it as a distinct attempt to belittle the king and bring the oHIro of governor general Into dlsrepnte. Buckley succeeds James McN'eilL PRESIDENT MACHADO of Cuba Is not afraid of his" political foes, who hare so often sought his life; and he Is determined to restore Internal peace If possible He ordered Gen. Alberto Herrera, chief of staff, to re lense 80 political prisoners, and the following day he directed that 00 nth er oppositionists be let out of the penl tentlnry on the Isle of Pines. Mill tgry rule wss discontinued throughout the Island except In Havana. Uacb8do's enemies ssld his mag nanlmtty was due to unofficial pres t sure from the United Stntes, but he denied this flatly. THROUGHOUT nnother week Pres Ident I'aul von Hlnderliurg sought lo find a man who could form a new ministry for Germany. Ilis best l>et Gen. Von Schleicher of the seven days wai ^ Gen. Kurt von Schlel f cher. the minister ol | defense, who is prob ably the strongest i man In public life In [ the relch. The gener ai was willing to tin i dertake the task, but : needed llie support of the Nazis, and this was denial him by I Adolf Hitler who con j tinned to hold the j ground ,that there should be no govern rnent unless bended by himself. How ever. there was hope that Hitler would yield in later conferences. If not. there was a chance that the President might instruct Von Schleicher to form a cabinet and dissolve the reichstag. Or else, he might create a "business cabinet" under Von I'apen and let It carry on, regardless of public opinion. The Nazis said if the government dissolved the reichstag forcibly, this would be considered by them an Ille gal act and would evoke an "illegal answer." G\AMON DIv VALERA, president of the League of Nations council, passed the Lytton commission report on Manchuria on to the league assem bly, calling that body to convene in special session on December 6. The Japanese spe c I a I representative, V o s u k e Matstinka. made the usual reser vation to tills action iD line with the Tokyo contention that the as sembly is ,not com petent to handle the > Sino-Japanese affair, including the status of Manchuria. The council cits Yosuke Matsuoka missed the Lytton commission, but stipulated that it should consider itself subject to recall to submit whatever Information the assembly may require. To this also Matsuoka objected with out avail. "As you know." he said, "we have heen taking the view that the commission is no longer in exist ence." The committee of nineteen of the as sembly met Thursday to prepare the program for the special session. Then some of the great powers will have to make clear their attitudes toward the far eastern situation and If the smooth spoken Matsuoka cannot prevail It may be Japan.will withdraw entirely from the league. Certainly she shows no Intention of letting go her hold on Manchuria, whatever the rest of the world may do. PREMIER HEyiUOT of Prance and Ambassador Dovgalevsky of Rus sia signed In Paris the new Franco-Rus sian treaty of nonaggression and con ciliation. It is the first such pact that the Soviet government has completed with any of the great powers. Agricultural depression did not seem to hurt the Interna tional Live Stock show in Chicago, for this year the affair was bigger and better than ever. The title of grand champion steer of the world was awarded to a Hereford from Texas the selection being made as usual by Judge Walter Riggnr of Scotland -The animal was raised and exhibited by Will fgirgent of Merkel. Texas, and after Its brief reign It went through the customary process of sale by auc tion. slaughter and consumption by Chicago gourmets. Herman Trelle of Wembley. Alberta. Can., won the crown of world wheat king for the third successive year, the Judges pronouncing his wheat the finest they had ever seen. The new hay king Is M. V Gillett of Nebraska. Coincident with the stock show was the congress of 4-H clubs, attended by mjny hundreds of young agricul turists of both sexes who conqieted for the usual fine prizes. HKAIiTILY hacking up the demands of President William Green, the American Federation of tabor in con vention in Cincinnati adopted h resolu tion calling for the universal adoption in industry of i':c live day week and the rix hour d:iy Stirring the delegates to wives of applause Mr. Green said labor's pa tience with industrial management was at an end. Labors paramount policy, he said, henceforth would be to resort to "forceful methods." If necessary, to establish the shorter work week By 'those methods he meant use of every weapon In the union armory?economic, political and Industrial It was Indicated by Mr. Green that ! the spearhead In the movement for the thirty hour week would he a de j mand on the federal government that It set an example by establishing that reform. ? 1*12 We*t?rts Ntwspcpsr Union. Prince Louis Sells Monaco to France VIEW of the beautiful city ot Monte Carlo, capital and principal part of ? the principality of Monaco, and at the right, Prince Louis of Monaco, whose family has ruled the small country for many years. It 'has Just been an nounced that the republic of France has purchased the entire principality for the sum of $o20,(MH) and $150,000 yearly forever to Prince Louis' family. Monte Carlo Is the location of one of the most famous gambling casinos In the world. LITTLE STORY FOR BEDTIME By THORNTON W. BURGESS JOHNNY CHUCK HAS SOME THING ON HIS MIND JOHNNY CHUCK sat on his door step down in the far corner of the Old Orchard trying to make up his mind. Yes, sir, that Is Just what John ny Chuck was trying to do and he was making hard work of It. You know how it sometimes is when you are a little undecided. First you think you will, then you think you won't, and finally you begin asking everybody around you for their opinions and wind up by being no better off than you were in the beginning. The matter on Johnny Chuck's mind was whether he was fat enough to sleep comfortably all winter. That seems like a funny thing to have wor rying one, doesn't it? Hut It wasn't funny to Johnny Chuck. No, Indeed, it wasn't funny at all. It really was very serious. He knew that a great deal depended on the amount of fat I i stored away under his skin before, he said good-by to everybody and went to bed deer in the ground to sleep until spring. If he were fat enough it : wouldn't make much difference to him how cold tin winter might be or how "I With I Could Know If the Winter It Going to Be Hard and Long," Said Johnny. i late sweet Mistress Spring might he in coming to wake him up. Hut if he didn't have fat enough tucked away upder his skin he might not he warm enough, and If Mistress Spring should happen to he very late he would he so weak when he awoke that he might ' not have strength enough even to i crawl out of his house. Or it might happen that hunger would awaken him before Mistfess Spring arrived and then he might freeze to death try ing to find something fit to put in a Woodchnck's stomach. So you see the matter was really very Important to Johnny Chuck. The fat under his skin was both a blanket and food. That seems queer, but it Is true. The fatter he was the warm J er be would keep and the more com fortable hr would be. In this way the ! fat was like a blanket. While he slept through the long, cold months of course he would eat nothing. In the first place he wouldn't he awake to eat. and you know people do not eat while they are asleep. In the second place there would he nothing to eat. anyway. So wise Old Mother Nature has provided that the fat Johnny , Chuck lays up shall take the place of food. You know how it is with food. We take It Into our stomachs and from there It Is taken Into our bodies to build them up and to make the heat I which keeps us warm. In Johnny ? V Chuck's case Old Mother Nature has fixed things so that the body can get what it needs from the fat with which it is covered. It needs only a very little at a time during the winter, be cause you know Johnny is asleep; curled up quite motionless. A great deal of the food we eat is used up In what is called energy, which is the power of moving about and doing things. You know how it is when you ? are sick and cannot eat- In a little while you have no strength to move. You are very weak. Rut if you did not have to move at all you could live a long time with very little food, be cause none o? It would be used for en ergy. It is the same way with Johnny Chuck. Sleeping and lying perfectly still, he needs no food for energy, and so his body gets all it needs by ab rorbing it from the fat. Absorbing means taking in the way a sponge soaks up water. So you see it was quite as irapor tant to Johnny Chuck that he should be fat enough as it was to Striped Chipmunk that he should have his storehouse filled before the coming of Rough Brother North Wind and Jack Frost. It was this that Johnny had on his mind as he sat on his door step, that bright, cool autumn after noon. There was still plenty of food, lie could eat more if he really needed it. To be sure he was tired of eating. For a long time he had been eating, not because he was hungry, hut to store food away in the form of fat. ilis neighbors didn't understand this. They ivatrhed him eat and grow fatter and they called him piggish. Of course, this was very unfair. "I wish I could know If the winter is going to he hard and long," said Johnny as lie wnddJod over to a patch of clover, lie was already so fat that he was roly-poly and waddled when he walked. "I'm sleepy enough to go to bed right now, hut I want to he sure that I am fat enough." 1532 r.r T. W. Hursess. ? WNU 8?rv1c?. COSMOPOLITAN DISHES AS A Mi; ft [(.'A has been called the melting [Kit of the world, so are we cosmopolitan In our national fare. It Is not strange, as our foods, drinks, condiments and fruits come from all parts of the globe. Ily association with foreign people, travel and reading, we are becoming international In our recipes as we have been with our frocks. At our breakfast tables we use tea from China or India, coffee from South America, and fruit from the West Indie's. With the Increasing transportation facilities, we will be able to enjoy many of the perishable fruits that have never before been shipped to northern points In America. Panama Salad. Place a slice of pineapple on a bed of lettuce, cover with alternate seg ments of grapefruit and orange, us ing six slices of pineapple, one grape fruit and two oranges. Fill the cavity in the center with a pitted date that has been stufTed with cream cheese, which has been softened to a paste with the juices of the fruits. Porto Rican Sandwiches. Cut slices of pineapples Into halves, making them half their original thick ness. Split canned plmientoes Into halves and drain between absorbent paper. Spread thin slices of bread cut Into rounds of the same size as the pineapple?with softened butter. Cover one round with a layer of mayonnaise, on a second place a slice of pineapple and a round of plmlento. f) 1932. Western Newspaper Union. 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Yet in that cleft there grew ? rose. I looked for greatness in a man, And found one who with gold began. And all the nation knew his name, Paid tribute to his purchased fame. And then, amid the huts and streets, I found a man who met defeats. Yet made a little, millions less. And did not think if was success. I looked for greatness In a soul And found a singing oriole Upon the stage, whom crowds ap plaud. Yet whisper when she walks abroad. Then, by a little thoroughfare, I found a spotless mother there Whose songs, remembered by a son. Had brought him to that Other One. e lla Douslli Malloch. ? WNTU Serrlea. KITTY McKAY By Nina Wilcox Putnam The girl-friend says that money certainly talks especially when it's the wife who has it. ?. 19T2. Bell Syndicate.?WNTJ Service ? To Manage Reds Owen Joseph Bush, known Co base ball fans as "Donle." has been engaged as manager of the Cincinnati Reds of the .National league. lie succeeds his old friend Dan Howley. Bush la for ty-four years old and has been em ployed In baseball since he was slx i teen. [yew Champion ot Cornhuskers CAUL sf.ILEK of Kdox county. Illinois, won the national cornhusklng cham pionship when he defeated 18 state champions In the tournament at Galea, 111 Carl established a new world record of 36.014 hushela husked In 80 rafn utes. He lg unmarried, twenty-nine years old and Urea on his rather*! fans. -
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