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-I ? The Alamance gleaner j YOT IYPT == ? GRAHAM, N, Cm THURSDAY AUGUST 10, 1933. ~ ^ 11L/ ? i ? News Review of Current Events the World Over Recovery Act Blue Eagle Becomes the National Bird? Code Making Continues?President Plans War on Kidnaping and Racketeering. By EDWARD W. PICKARD BLUE eagleg of NRA by the hundred thousand are flying all over the United States; Innumerable men and women, jobless for long, are going g?>. iUSD H. 8. Johnson back to work; short er hours and higher pay are being in stalled in factories, shops and offices. American commerce and industry is fast being regimented. President Roosevelt and his whole ad ministration are push ing forward In the re covery campaign do terminedly. ? ?Rn Opucidant'o nrr?. ruiiuwxug UUl UIC 1 ICOIIIVUI B f* gram, Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, national recovery administrator, has "drafted" citizens in all the states to lead the great drive. Nine members were ap pointed on each of 48 state "recovery boards." and seven members were named for service on 26 district "re^ covery hoards" for the recently made codes. The telegraphic notice sent each of the former by General John son was: "President Roosevelt has drafted you as one of the nine members of the stale recovery board for the state of ... us explained In bulletin No. 3 of July 20. He has requested you to volunteer your services without com pensation in this great drive for na tional rehabilitation. As a member of this board your duties will be to get every patriotic American citizen, em ployer. and consumer to co-operate in this program. Please wire acceptance immediately and you will receive fur ther instructions." The advisory board for public works is doing its part in the re-employment campaign by dealing out further large sums from the public works fund. Its head. Secretary of Interior Ickes. an nounced allotments totaling $118,282, 000 for one state and five federal proj ects. Added to allotments already made, brought the total thus far ear marked out of the three billion three hundred million dollar fund to $1,05S. 106.201. The state project to be financed by the government was beneficiary of the largest allotment. Sixty-three million dollars. Secretary Ickes announced. ?s allotted for construction af the Grand Coulee dam in the Columbia river basin. The upper Mississippi 9-foot, channel project, already approved by President Roosevelt, was allotted $11,300,000. This is a federal project to be under taken under the government's rivers and harbors program. Another $22,700,000 of the public works fund was earmarked for the Caspar-Alcove reclamation project In Wyoming, for many years the pot scheme of Senator John B. Kendrick of Wyoming. The federal forest service was allot ted $15,282,743; the coast and geodetic survey $2,600,000, and the geologic sur vey $2,500,000. D KPKESKNTATIVES of the oil. ^ coal, steel and many other indus tries were busily trying to agree on their codes In Washington. In each there were factions with conflicting Ideas, and it was uot easy to reconcile them. This was especially true of the ?11 men. Among them were many ad voentes of federal regulation of pe troleum prices, but they were told by Administrator Johnson that he would not recommend to the President any price fixing until the effect of produc tion control has been determined. Formation of the coal code was com plicated by the riotous strike in the mining zone of southwestern Pennsyl vania. JN BOTH the coal and steel code dis cussions there was controversy over the open shop versus unions. The steel men took the open shop clause our nf ? 1 limn code to facilitate set tlement hut they de clared plainly that they would stand for the present systems of employees' councils in Che Industry to carry on collective bargaining. Mr. Johnson said he w?uld not approve any code that does not provide for ad R. P. Lamont '?ory councils. On the old issue of how collective bargainings should be earried out, the administrator reiter ated that N. I. B. A. provides for col lective bargaining through employees chosen by the workers. Robert P. Lamont, former secretary of commerce and now president of the American Iron and Steel Institute, which represents OS per cent of the country's producers of pig iron and steel Ingots, was the chief spokesman for the iron and steel iudustry at the hearings. William Green, president of the A. F. L-, challenged various sec tions of the offered code, especially the minimum wage and maximum hours provisions. Secretary of Labor Perkins, who had been making a tour of the Pennsylvania steel mills, wanted the wage rates altered, especially criti cizing the 2f> and 27 cents minimum hourly rate set up for the southern and Birmingham districts. Shortly afterwards Mr. Lamont an nounced the Industry had agreed to raise the minimum pay In those two districts to 30 cents an hour. Both Green and Miss Perkins urged that the 40 hour week would not bring about sufficient re-employment In the industry. Defending the proposed code, Mr. Lamont said: "It is estimated that on the basis of a 60 per cent rate of operations and a 40 hour week, substantially all the 40,738 employees who were not re ceiving work July 1, 1933. would be given employment. On less than a 40 hour week the industry positively could not operate the mills and meet any demands on them In excess of present production. "The code establishes a minimum rate of 40 cents an hour for common labor in the Pittsburgh. Youngstown, north Ohio, Canton. Massillon, Cleve land, Detroit-Toledo, Chicago and Col orado districts. This rate is only 9 per cent less than the highest base rate paid during tjie last 11 years, where living costs were above the present level." PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, contin uing his vacation at his home In n.vde Park, N. Y- called Into confer ence there Assistant Secretary of Raymond Moley vrfioro nnH hn ?iaie iiaymonn Moiey and discussed with him a plan to put ail the force of the fed eral government into a campaign to wipe out the two great evils of kidnaping and racketeering. Profes sor Moiey was then relieved temporarily from his departmental duties and placed at the head of a special survey to determine to thf? fpdprnl nnwpr run best be used as a weapon against the criminal. He is well fitted for this work, for he Is an expert criminologist, was an adviser to the New York crime commissioner and is the author of nu merous surveys of crime, notably in Ohio and Missouri. I As for racketeeririg, both the Pres ident and Moley see In the new re covery act the authority, which the federal government has heretofore lacked, to intervene in criminal cases Involving business conduct. Until now, unless a criminal act infringed upon some specific federal statute, such as one of the postal laws or the Internal revenue act or a law based on inter state commerce, the federal govern ment had no means of Jurisdiction. In the past the anti-trust laws have prevented the smaller industries and business units from banding together. Such a condition provided a fertile field for the racketeers, for illegal combinations, and for violence. The national recovery act, however, provides directly for the abrogation cf the anti-trust laws In cases where they Interfere with the working of the re covery program. Industry and busi ness are forced Into trade agreements. The federal government sanctions and Imposes those agreements and any a : in violation of such agreements or tending to destroy the effect of the recovery act Is made a crime. Against kidnaping, the President Is counting on a super police force mod eled in a general way on England's Scotland Yard, the postal regulations, the income tax law, and the recently enacted kidnaping statute. Recent Instances of kidnaping are familiar to all newspaper readers Tlte "snatchers" have received large sums for the release of their victims In several cases. The relatives of John J. O'Connel!, Jr.. of Albany. N. Y? paid 140.000 for his freedom, and the ransom of Charles F. Urschel. mil lionaire oil operator of Oklahoma City, Is said to have been {200,000. I CHESTER S. LORD, who as man- ; aging editor of the New York Sun ' for nearly a quarter of a century wal admired and loved by two generationi I of newspaper men. died at the age of eighty-three years. In his home In I Garden City, N. Y. The "Boss," ps one of his reporters once wrote, "wls never known In all the years of his managing editorship to utter an un kind word to any man on the paper, no matter how humble his station." RESULTS shown by the Civilian conservation corps are deemed so satisfactory by the administration that plans are being made to continue | the experiment for another six months, j Orders are to be sent out for the re enlistment of ail those who desire to go on with the work. Enlistment Is on a six months basis. The first "hitch" expires in Novem i her. There are at present 310,575 men in the corps. Including 25,000 former service men. The forestry army is located in 1,438 camps in all parts of the country. The cost to the govern ment Is approximately $20,000,000 a month. POLITICS and sugar are mailing the * Cuban situation very difficult for the administration In Washington. nnr! fnr Amhnscmlnr Qnmnor U'nTlao Sumner Welles ' 1 nnt nnfri anil Though It was an nounced that the po litical situation on the Island was clearing up. and though Presi dent Machado Issued an amnesty proclama tion. the troubles there are continuing. The Cuban people are in distress, the school teachers in Havana have been demonstrat ing because they are --- - i me iciciaus ui iue war of Independence undertook to hold a parade to call attention to their Inability to collect their pensions. The old soldiers were attacked by police and severely beaten, right under the eyes of Mr. Welles, and It was report ed the ambassador would demand that Machado revamp his cabinet and dis miss Gen. Alberto Herrera. the cause I of much of the recent disturbance. The Cuban ambassador in Washing ton Is persistently demanding a larger import quota for Cuban sugar. This and this alone would make the island fairly prosperous and would lead to the subsidence of the political disor ders. At present the sugar conference has tentatively set Cuba's sugar exports to the United States at 1.700,000 short tons of raw and only 110,000 tons of refined. Ordinarily United States im portation of Cuban refined sugar is about half a million tons. SENATOR HUEY P. LONG'S arbi trary rule in I/)uisiana was seri ously threatened when District .fudge A. C. O'Donnell began an open court Investigation into the election of last fall in which Ixuig's gang is alleged to have resorted to fraud in order to win. The Judge ordered fifteen elec tion commissioners, arrested on charges of certifying to false returns, brought before him; and he granted permis sion to District Attorney Stanley to examine ballot boxes in open court. Governor O. K. Allen, a Long henrh man, in trying to halt the Investlga tlon. had declared New Orleans under martial law. but revoked1 the order after eight soldiers had been derailed to guard the grand Jury. The latter body appeared to be dominated by the Long crowd. The United States senate committee announced it planned to resume its investigation of Louisiana elections within two months. The Times-Pica yune called upon President Roosevelt to take note of "political racketeering" In Louisiana and not to overlook It In his "war on gangsters." THE apprehension of war between the United States and Japan, en tertained by not a few Americans. Is apparently felt in Japan also, despite official denials. The army and navy heads of the island empire have Just submitted to the finance ministry es timates for the 1034 .15 defense ex penditures larger than any In prevl ous history and 45 per cent greater than the appropriation for the current year. These estimates included lW. 000.000 yen (*50.4"0.000 rnrrent ex qhange rates) for new naval construe tlon and 75.000.noo yen (*21.000.000) for modorn:~aiion of capita! ships. The navy ministry asked for the fiscal year beginning next April 1 the sum of C80.000.000 yen (*100.400.000). which is 30 per cent more than the es timntes of 1921-22, the largest prevl ous estimates for the sea forces. The combined Japanese fleet began preparations for maneuvers several hundred miles southeast of Tokin. In which the major problem will be * battle with a hypothetical enemy. FOR the first time since PJ12 Eng land's tennis team has possession of the historic Davis cup. The island ers won the trophy, by defieating the , French players at Auteuil In the chal lenge round France had held the cup for six years. Q, 1911, WssUrm N?w?pap?r Unlom. THE CHILDREN'S EVENING TALE By THORNTON W. BURGESS HOOTY, THE OWL, DISCOV ERS WHAT IS GOING ON To whoo! To-whoo; To-whoo-whoo whoo I Whal may a hungry fellow do? SO SAID Hooty the Owl as he wait ed for the Black Shadows to creep out from the Purple Hills. It was Just the hour when Hooty always is hun gry. Vou see he had had nothing to eat since Just before daylight that morning, and then It had been a mere Now He Was Wide Awake and. Waiting ^ Only for Mr. Sun to Go to Bed. bite, a careless little mouse. All day Hooty had slept In the top of his fa vorite tree in the lonesomest part of the Green Forest, Now he was wide awake and waiting only for Mr. Sun to go to Bed, taking with hlin Ids chil dren, the Jolly Little Sunbeams. You see Hooty the Owl does not like them. They try to blind hiin. They never succeed, for though many people don't think so, Hooty can see very well In deed in daytime, hut the dusk is easier on his big eyes, and so he.waits until Mr. Sun has gone to bed, to do his hunting. Now one of the first places Hooty visits every night Is the Smiling Pool. Hooty always has taken great inter est id all that goes on In the Smiling PooL Had he a mind to, Hooty conld tell dark stories of things which have happened in the Smiling Pool, strange disappearances among the little people who live there. At least they were strange to all but Hooty. The troth Is, in or around the Smiling Pool Hooty has found many a good dinner. In his own peculiar way Hooty Is clever. He Is very clever Indeed. You know how he flies without making a sound, for nil the world like a drifting shadow. But with all his cleverness Hooty never had been able to catch Jerry Muskrat. He had tried times enough, goodness knows. Ever since Jerry was hlg enough to leave bis mother, and even before, Hooty had tried and tried to catch Jerry. At first It was because Jerry was young and tender. Now It was because he was so big and would make such a satisfying dinner. As he waited for the change to the Black Shadows, Hooty was thinking of Jerry and wondering why It was he had seen him so seldom during the past summer. The reason was that having no house In the Smiling Pool. Jerry had lived In his castle In the bank of Hie Laughing Brook. Hooty had not known this. At last It was dark enough to suit him and on silent wings Booty sailed out from the Green Forest straight for the Smiling PooL As he drew near be saw right away that the water was qnlte muddy and that It waB mud diest near a certain place beyond the Big Rock. Hooty was Interested. He turned so as to sail over the Big Rock and then saw that something was go ing on underneath. For Just an In stant Jerry's head appeared. That was enough. Hooty understood. Chuckling softly. Hooty turned back toward the Green Forest "I know what's going on," he chuckled. "I know what's tol-ig on. He's building a new bouse. By and by It will be above water. He will be so busy building he may forget to watch out If he does I am Just the fellow who wants to be around. Just let him once forget when I am about and he will have no more use for a new house. Now I'll stay away from the Smiling Pool for a few nights. It won't do to have him see me about" ?. 1933. by T. W. Burgess.?WNU 8ervlcs. EYOU Know? | [?aT types of dogs similiar I in general appearance to those of the present day ex isted in Egypt from 4,000 to 5,000 years ago. In 1492, twenty bloodhounds were part of the outfit of Colum- f bus when he discovered ' America. e - - I fQ. by Mcdure .Newxpaptr Svndlrat* WNU S?rvlc* T ~ c FOR SUMMER MEALS COCKTAILS are always a refresh c Ing beginner for a luncheon or f dinner. During the warm weather the c melons of various kinds make espe- s clally attractive cocktails or fruit c salads. Scoop out the halls of melon, c using a small French potato cutter; d serve with any sauce that appeals to t he taste. A lemon sirup over musk nclon is well liked as is a ginger Irup, using some of the preserved ;Ingcr as a garnish. Red Raspberry Whip Set a bowl into a pan of crushed ce. Into the bowl put one and one lalf cupfuls of ripe berries, one cup ul of powdered sugar and the white if an egg. Dent with a wire egg beat r until the mixture holds Its shape, 'lie lightly on a fancy glass serving lish and surround with fresh maca oons. Serve with a chilled boiled rustard. Frozen Plum Pudding. Melt three squares of chocolate iver hot water, add one-fourth cup ul of sugar and one-fourth cupful if boiling water, stir and cook until imooth and glossy. Scald one quart if milk, one cupful each of heavy ream and one cupful of sugar in a louble boiler. Add the chocolate mlx ure and a tablespoonful of vanila. one Junket tablet dissolved In one tn blespoonful of cold water. Set the mixture In a warm place until It Jel lies. Add one-half pound of mixed fruits soaked over night in a thin sirup to cover, seeded raisins, shred ded candled cherries, candled pine apple and shredded citron. Drain and pack In a fluted mold lined with lady Angers, cover and let stand In equal measures of Ice and salt. ? by Wintern Newspaper Union IGraphicGolfI w ? o CORRECT STROKING THERE are various ways of prac ticing putting. Walter Travis used to use a miniature cup and stroke the ball b; Imagining he was driving a tack Into the back of it. Other players have laid out a chalk line and putted along It or parallel to It Many players have practiced only on the green Itself, sometimes using a spot In direct line to the bole to putt over. All good golfers are agreed however that the ball must be struck accurately and precisely to gain best results. Some golfers have gone so far as to use this phase alone In their practice with beneficial re sults. Instead of aiming at some par ticular target and gauging the range accordingly, they practice only correct stroking and accurate contact with the balk Their whole mind Is con centrated on the stroke with no at tention at all as to where the ball may finish. In this way a sound put ting stroke Is soon achieved. e. D?. Bell Syndicate.?WNU Service. DONERS The parts of the respiratory system are the skin, ducks under the arms, and soles of the feet BONERS are actual humorous tid-bits found in examination pa pers, essays, etc., by teachers. The catacombs were where the early Christians lived when they were put to death by Nero. ? ? ? Correct the sentence?"My mother's taste Is better than her sister." "Sly mother's taste Is better than my aunt's." ? ? ? The French revolution was caused by overcharging taxies. ? ? ? After undoe erposnre to air, fatty substances become ransom. ? ? ? One puts food Into the Ice-box be cause of the low climate there. ? ? ? He played the part of the English man fine, but he would have looked more natural with a molecule. -* ? ? ? One of the three decisive battles of the Civil war was fongbt above the clouds atop of Teapot Dome. Useless S. Grant commanded the anion troops, ?. test. Ball Syndicate.? WNU Sai-rlce. TO GET IT DONE By D0UGLA8 MALLOCH THOUGH doing something here and there ArouDd the house takes thought and care And time and strength, the greater task Is not to do It bat to ask. Though doing something seems to be A burden, we shall learn to set There always Is a greater one. And that Is getting something done. There always Is a thing or two Around the bouse the rest could do, And so we say to someone near. "1 wish you'd fix this matter here." If they would only Just refuse We'd save a lot of time we lose; Would say they won't, we'd go ahead; Alas, they say they will Instead. And, making this a better earth. Their promises have equal worth. Whoever may perceive the need Must do the thinking, then the deed The rest our wisdom may approve But always nod and never move. We must not ask of anyone. Must do a thing to get It done, C 1?11. Oooglu M allocs.?WttU Service, * ta Procession of Nazi Couples to Mass Marriage = ???;. r. v ti t ? '?? ra?TT?iirai 1 ? ,i 1 IP FORTY-seven Nasi couples march " ing to the Lazarus church In Ber in for a mass wedding as the popu ace cheers. The ceremony took place it noon, the couples being married n groups of five pairs nt a time. The rldegrooms, all members of Chancel or Hitler's storin troops, led their irides to the church rnil wearing their irown uniforms. After the ceremony reception was held In a brewery nt khlch over 1,000 guests were present. John D., Jr., Helps Save the Palisades Hhlih is an interesting view of the land, extending thirteen milea north from the new lieorge Washington bridge across the Hudson, which has been given to the I'allsades park commissioners by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. The tract is 265 acres In extent and Its acquisition by the commissioners Is a great aid In the movement to save the picturesque Palisades for the public:
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