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The Alamance Gleaner 1
VOL. LVIX. GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 14, 1933. NO. 32.
News Review of Current
Events the World Over
Cuban Radicals Oust De Cespedes, Setting Up Junta Gov
ernment?"Buy Now" Campaign Organized by
NRA?Vermont Votes for Repeal.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
SOLDIERS, sailors, students and the
radical wing of the ABO revolu
tionary organization that upset the
Machado regime In Cuba decided that
- the methods and pro
Carlo* da
Cespede'S
gram of President
Carlos Manuel de Ces
pedes were too mild.
So they staged a sec
ond revolution while
the president was far
from Havana Inspect
ing hurricane damage
and forced De Ces
pedes and his entire
government to step
out The affairs of
the island republic
were placed in the
hands of a commission consisting of
the five lenders of the revolt, Sergio
Carbo, Ramon Grau San Martin, Guil
iermo Portela, Porflrio Franco and
Jose Miguel Irizarri. This junta an
nounced that the five would serve with
equal power except that Portela would
be the "nominal president before the
diplomatic corps."
This revolution, the second within a
month, was accomplished without
bloodshed, but the rebels, after arrest
ing their officers, had posted machine
guns at strategic points in Havana
and guns from the fortifications were
trained on the presidential palace. De
Cespedes hurried back to the capital,
met the junta members and turned the
government over to them after they
had rejected as unsatisfactory his ex
planation that It was impossible to ac
complish all the revolutionary aims In
twenty-five days.
Ambassador Welles was formally
notified of the change, but had nothing
to say to the press. The news sur
prised Secretary of State Hull in
Washington and it seemed all the good
work of Mr. Welles and Assistant Sec
retary Caffery was being undone.
President Roosevelt Immediately or
dered four warships to Cuban ports,
but this. It was explained, was only to
protect American lives and property
and did not constitute armed interven
tion. Privately, however, some offi
cials admitted that Intervention un
der the Piatt amendment was nearer
than It had been for many years.
Much was made In the newspapers
of the fact that Secretary of the Navy
Swanson went to Havana just at this
time, but It was credibly explained
that he was on a previously arranged
trip to the Pacific coast and that his
call on Ambassador Welles had no
connection with the Cuban crisis.
Carbo, one of the Junta and a maga
zine editor and leader of the youth
movement, said the overthrow of De
Cespedes was determined upon when
It was discovered that Mario Menocal,
lately returned from exile, was organ
izing a counter-revolution. The rad
ical leaders, also, were utterly dissat
isfied with De Cespedes' appointments
to his cabinet, some of his ministers
having been too closely identified with
former administrations of which the
radicals did not approve.
1UST before the revolution Cuha
" had been swept by a tropic hurri
cane that took the lives of yet un
counted scores of Inhabitants and did
vast damage. The storm moved to
ward the northwest and struck Flor
ida and Texas. In the latter state
perhaps a hundred lives were lost
and the beautiful lower Rio Grande
valley was devastated. The cities of
Brownsville, Harlingen and Rio Hon
do suffered severely. Relief for the
stricken districts was swiftly organ
ized by Governor Ferguson and the
federal authorities. Troops were hur
ried into the valley, where a flood
followed the hurricane. On the Mex
ican side of the river the destruction
of life and property was as great as
In Texas. f
LT UGH S. JOHNSON. NRA admin
^ * istrator, has organized his forces
tor a nation-wide campaign for "Buy
N'".v Under the Blue Eagle," and In
V: _
111* la Dor day ad
dross at the World's
fair in Chicago he set
September 20 as the
due for Its starting.
II* and his numerous
aids will endeavor td
Persuade the people
H'jit to buy things at
this time Is not only
fi patriotic duty but
a prudent use of their
money. indeed, they
?tress the latter point
?specially. The worn
CTi nn rtim.u-i.. ? i
Miss Mary E.
Hughes
t..l Amnl'a
i-<?. m-uiuny nre retitru uu iu uiunc
this movement a success and many
thousands of them, under the leader
ship of Miss Mary E. Hughes, are en
listed in the campaign to secure from
consumers pledges to support with
their custom the manufacturers and
merchants who are entitled to display
the blue eagle.
In his Chicago address General
Johnson warned his hearers that the
process of economic recovery neces
sarily entailed the raising of prices,
but gave assurance that this would be
controlled by the government
Two troubles the recovery adminis
tration has run into were described by
Mr. Johnson as, first, the failure of
some employers to live up to "their
agreements under the blue eagle, and
second, misunderstanding of the codes
between employers and workers, with
some resultant strikes and lockouts.
"Our chief reliance is in the force
of public opinion," he said. "We know
that to take away the blue eagle is a
more severe penalty than any puny
fine. It is, we think, enough, but if
it should prove not enough, there are
plenty of penalties in tlie law.
"In stating this plan we have been
accused of Inciting a boycott. Of
course, what people are doing is not a
' boycott. No willing employer who
complies with this great national pur
pose can live in competition with a
cliiseler who does not. The whole idea
is based on unanimous agreement and
action. It is for the benefit of the
American people. It is their plan or
It is nothing.
"It cannot last a month if a few
unwilling or cheating employers are
permitted (by the advantage of lower
costs) to ruin the business of their
willing and honest competitors."
RETURNING from his short vaca
tion cruise. President Roosevelt
was handed by General Johnson a
number of serious problems concern
Henry Ford
ing the NRA codes.
M o s t important of
these was the dead
lock in the soft coal
negotiations caused
chiefly by the labor
union issue; and this
labor problem also en
tered into various oth
er troubling disputes
that probably will
have to be settled by
the President himself.
President Green of
the American Federation of Labor was
determined that the provision in the
automobile code, permitting employ
ers to deal with workers on the basis
of their individual merit, should not
be included in any other agreement,
and he promised union labor he would
sjek its elimination from the automo
bile code.
Henry Ford was another problem,
but it was indicated the government
would not take any immediate action
In his case. The whole country
watched Interestedly to see whether
he would sign the code within the al
lotted time, and when he failed to do
this and said nothing about his ulti
mate intentions, Johnson was besieged
with questions as to what he would
do. Talking to the press in Chicago,
it seemed that the administrator was
weakening a little in this matter. He
said Ford did not have to sign the
code, and if he went further than its
provisions, that would be ail right
with the government. The NRA could
Intervene, he said, only If a group of
Ford's employees complained to it of
unfair treatment Johnson did reit
erate his opinion that Ford would be
brought to time by the force of public
opinion.
Dispatches from Detroit said a wage
revision was in progress at the Ford
plant. No formal announcement of
this was made, but officials said It was
a gradual process and that about one
fourth of the 40,000 workers had re
ceived increases from $4 to $4.80 a
day. The code specifies a 43-cent an
hour minimum wage for the Detroit
area. It also specifies a 33-hour week,
while Ford employees who are on full
time work five eight-hour days a week.
D EVERTING to the union labor
t* problem. It Is interesting to note
that Henry I. flarriman, president of
the United States Chamber of Com
nierce. has Issued to all Its members
an appeal to stand firmly in defense
of the open shop and in opposition to
an interpretation of the labor clauses
In the national recovery act which, he
saj-s, would be writing into a law a
mandate for a closed shop.
[?resident llarriman asserted that
employers throughout the United
States had shown a splendid spirit of
co-operation In preparing and adopt
ing cod?s of fair competition. .In re
turn, he declared, Industry should be
given adequate assurance that the re
covery program Is not to be turned
Into a Vehicle for forcing the closed
shop upon the country.
ERMON'T, which was one of the
* few states that the prohibitionists
really thought might vote against re
peal of the Eighteenth amendment,
disappointed them by going for repeal
by a vote of more than 2 to 1. This
despite the fact that election day was
fair and the hopes of the drys were
based largeljr on good weather that
would bring out a large rural vote to
offset that of the wet cities and towns.
Even though prohibition should be
repealed this year Vermont would con
tinue witfiout hard liquor under its
present state law. Beer and wine of
3.2 alcoholic content were authorized
by the legislature this year, but a state
enforcement act prevents anything :
stronger.
Formal ratification of the repeal I
amendment was completed by the j
state conventions of Arizona and Ne- |
vada, the vote In each case being
unanimous.
*TpVVO deaths marred the otherwise I
successful international air races i
held at Glenview, a Chicago suburb.
Roy Liggett of Omaha was killed when ,
his plane fell from an altitude of 200 |
feet at the start of a race, one of the
wings breaking off. Miss Florence
Kiingensmith of Minneapolis, an entry
in one of - the last final races, was
dashed to instant death when fabric
on the right wing of her fast plane
tore loose and she lost control. Jimmy
Wedell of Texas, a self-made aviator,
was the star of the meet, for he set a
new speed record for land planes. He
flashed along a three kilometer course
four times at an average of 803.33
miles an hour. The previous record,
established by MaJ. James H. Doolittle.
was 204.38 miles an hour.
MANY famous pilots assembled in
Chicago to do honor to the
pioneers of the air mall and especially
to pay a tribute to the memory of Max
Miller, who just fifteen years before
landed on the lake front with the first
regularly scheduled air mail from New
York to Chicago. Many military air
planes took part in the ceremonies,
and there was an impressive program
at the Century of Progress. Capt.
Eddie Rlekenbacker was chairman of
the day, and beside him were such
noted air men as Jimmle Mattern and
Bennett Griffin, around the world fly
ers ; Tito Falcone, Italy's stunt ace;
Ernest Udet, German war ace; Jim
mle Doolittle, Jimmie Hazlip, and
Col. Roscoe Turner.
FIFTEEN hundred delegates to the
convention of the National Fed
eration of Post Office Clerks In Chi
cago adopted a resolution urging con
gress to put postal employees on a
Ihirty-hour week.
NOT long ago the League of Na
tions organized a gendarmerie in
the Saar for the purpose of gradually
replacing the French troops that have
Joseph
Paul-Boncour
been policing the re
gion that Is to deter
mine Its nationality
by plebiscite In 1935.
Dispntches from Paris
say the league officials
are losing confidence
In the new police as
a result of a cam
paign against It by
the left press, the as
sertion being made
that It Is fnst falling
under the Influence of
the German Nazis.
Therefore the gendarmerie may r>e |
dissolved, although to do this and
again charge French troops with j
maintenance of order would probably
Increase the Nazi strength In the Saar.
Speaking at the dedication of a
monument to Aristldo Brtand, French
Foreign Minister Joseph Paul-Boncour
attacked the recent Nazi demonstra
tions at the Niederwald monument
near the French frontier and declared j
In so many words that France was
not Intimidated. ITe said the situation
would be grave "If our patience was
horn of a knowledge of our weakness.
Hut that Is not so. for France knows j
she Is strong enough to resist vio
lence."
The foreign minister reaffirmed I
France's Intention not to swerve from I
a policy of safeguarding Austria's in ]
dependence and of building a centraj
European economic union.
Chancellor Hitler told 100,(100 of his
storm troops at the Nuremberg Nazi
party convention that Cermany was
not looking for war.
BECACSE an engineer did not see !
or did not heed a flagman's red j
lantern, 14 persons were killed and ,
25 Injured in a rail disaster at P.ing
hamton. N. Y. The Atlantic express, a |
Chicago-New Vork passenger train on
the Erie road, stopped by an automatic !
block signal, was struck In the rear |
by a milk train add n wooden car was j
completely telescoped by a steel coach. I
Most of the dead were residents of J
Susquehanna. Fa.
Q, 1131. Western Newspaper Cnioa- I
Fine Bridge PFas Built by Unemployed Labor
BOLT entirely by unemployed labor,
the Soldiers' Memorial bridge over
the Catawba river on C. S. highway
No. 20. between Charlotte and Gas
tonla. N". C-, la now completed. It cost
4173,000 and la the widest bridge on
the roote from New York to Xew Or
leans. The old bridge Is seen at Its
BEDTIME STORY FOR CHILDREN
By THORNTON W. BURGESS
THE BLACK SHADOW WITH
GREAT CLAWS
To-whoo, to-whit! To-whit, to-whoo!
I know what I am going to do,
The Smiling Pool no more I'll fret
Till Jerry Muskrat shall forget.
THIS Is what Hooty the Owl bad
decided in his own mind when he
discovered that Jerry Muskrat had be
gun to build. So he had kept away
from the Smiling Pool, going each
night just near enough to see but not
near enough to be seen. So Jerry
Muskrat had worked in peace and, be
cause not once bad he seen even a sus
picious black shadow, he had almost
forgotten that there was such a person
as Hooty the Owl.
The night when he raised the walU
of his house above the surface of the
Smiling Pool so that he could sit on
them without wetting his feet be quite
forgot You remember he was so
sleepy that be fell to dreaming dreams
of building the most wonderful house
that ever a muskrat built. Now there
Is a time for dreaming and a place for
dreaming, but for a muskrat that time
is not when gentle Mistress Moon Is
flooding the earth with silvery light
and that place Is not right out in the
open for whoever comes along to see.
But that Is Just the time and the place
Jerry had chosen.
Now and then a little cloud drifted
across the face of Mistress Moon, and
when this happened it made a black
shadow that drifted across the face
of the earth and sometimes drifted
straight across the Smiling Pool.
After thla had happened once or twice
Jerry Muskrat, dreaming his pleasant
^dreams, took no notice of these drift
ing shadows. They were harmless.
There was nothing to worry about.
By and by a shadow a tittle blacker
than the others but just as silent
drifted out from the Green Meadows
toward the Smiling Pool. It didn't
hurry. It seemed to drift along Just
as the others had drifted. If Jerry
saw It he gave It no heed. So It
drifted out over the Smiling Pool and
across to where Jerry sat dreaming.
He bad reached the point in his beau
tiful dream where his tog cousin. Pad
dy the Beaver, the most famous of
all builders of bouses, bad come to
ask him for advice on the building of
a new house, when he just happened
to look np.
That shadow was right above him,
and It was black, very black. Then
Jerry came out of his dreaming with
a cold chill that ran down his back
bone to the very roots of his tail. That
shadow had two great round flerce
eyes, and reaching down from It were
great carved cruel claws. Those claws
were reaching for him. There wasn't
a bit of doubt aboot that. Do you
wonder that a cold chill ran down
Jerry's backbone to the roeta of his
tail? Do yon wonder that for Just t
wee, wee bit of time he was absolutely
still because he was too frightened to
move?
Jerry's eyes grew wide with sheer
terror as he saw those great cruel
claws stretched wide to seiie him, and
Hooty the Owl hissed:
"I've waited a long time. Jerry
Muskrat, but I've got yon this timei"
g. 1?3'. bJ T. W Bs.-issj.?WNT Stn'ss
IVDNERS
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The men milked the cow end then
put it Into the bottles.
BONERS ire actual humorous
fid-bits found ia examination pa
pers, essays, etc., by teachers.
To Emerson and Hawthorne nature I
was beautiful, quite and sacred.
? ? ?
The Colosseum was epilepcical ia
form.
? ? ?
The Classic symphony reached its
blithest point in the work of Bee
thoren. an innovation of his beieg deaf
ness.
? ? ?
Tlx Pyramids are a small race of
black reople.
? ? ?
Mohammed was a craven driver
across the desert.
? ? ?
The Cro-Magnpn man drew picture*
in caves to pass the time while he
was waiting for the ice age to go
away.
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What are mammals?
Mammals are a sex animal, usually
a female.
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Famous Castaway Islands
Four hundred miles from the coast
of Chile lies the mast famous of all
castaway Islands, where Alexander
Selkirk, the original of Rrhiuson Cru
soe, lived an e\lst? nee that still con
tinuos to electrify the world.
?
Borrowed From Java
The Javanese influence Is apparent
In the four upcurled points on the
crown of this visor turban.
\
All of Our Little
By DOUGLAS MALLOCM
YVe have a Little, fneven these
* v timea;
We all sell a Little, some even seil
rimes.
We re making a little. In even these
days;
Men mast have a Ettle, la various
ways.
We all make a Ettle. though little ;
we've jot.
And all of ocr little's together a lot. i
Bat some with a little the little won't
spend.
And so they make little, make less in
the ec?L
If I spent a little, a little hit more.
And yon left a little at some little
store.
That little together, depression or aof
And all of oar little, woald make 1
*uite a lot.
We're wa.ting a little, not pertain Jt?t
why;
We sell very little, for Little we hay.
We're hi-Lng a Ettie. the tfmid of
men;
That helps very little to lift is
again.
I? all of oar little |<ist busier got.
Then all of oar little woald make 'jolte
a lot.
C. *.533. D<ja#!aa HaIIocIl?W^CV 3?r*r?ea.
ITolhgriGiolBook
SOME GOOD RECIPES
L_J ELR.E is something different to
* * serve with a lamb roust instead i
of the usual mint jeily: Cut grape
fruit Into halves and remove every
other section, ui the cavity place a [
wedge-shaped piece of mint Jelly. Mold
(be Jelly Id one Half grapefruit (bell
and the wedeea will be of the same
size. These are delightful substitutes
for a fruit cocktail when serving lamb
or fowl.
Banana.Lemon Cake rilling.
Take three eupfuls of mashed ripe
bananas, add six eupfuls of sugar, the
Juice of one lemon and one-fourth of
a teaspoonful of butter. Mix and bring
to a boil, stirring constantly to pre
vent sticking. Add one bottle of pectin
and bring to a rolling boll, stirring
constantly. Remove at once, cool and
stir occasionally for eight minutes to
keep the fruit from floating. Cover
with paraffin and it will keep Indefi
nitely. This rule requires eight to
nine bananas or one and one-half
pounds and makes nine or ten eight
ounce glasses.
Rhubarb Betty.
Mix one quart of dry bread erumbd
with one-fourth of a capful of me!red
butter. Place a layer of sweetened
rhubarb sauce in a baking <?sh and
cover with the buttered crumbs; re
peat. adding a dash of cinnamon or
nutmeg until one quart of sauce and
all the crumbs are used. Bake ifteea
minutes. The fresh rhubarb may b?
used, adding sugar foe each layer and
baking twentv-five minutes. Serve
with a hard sauce.
Psacn Dairrty.
Cream two tafllespoonfuis of barter
with one cupful of sugar and add the
yolks of two eggs lightly beaten. 5ow
add one pint of whipping cream heat
en stiff and one quart of sliced
peaches. Serve over sliced angel food
oc sponge cake.
P. Hit W-Hirers Vrtwipaour Cnian.
Graphic Golf"
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WEIGHT ON BALLS OF
FEET HELPS PIVOT
%
STEWxHT HA ED EX famous golf
mentor, is a hrm believer in haw
ng the weight leaning forward in the
stance. In iiii? way me retains a sort
of moving baanee with knees slightly
bent and muscles relaxed. With the
weight bach ?n the heels a player lb
more or iess set, the eg muscies are
taut so that a proper golf swing is
made difficult. Also when the weight
s )a*:h on the heeis the. pivot at the
hips is made harder. In the above
illustration Clarence GainOer is malt*
ng one of his typically long dtim
The weight is forward on the bails of
tile feet, evenly distributed, between
the two. In the upper panel the full
buckswing s portrayed showing the
hip and sbouider pivot. With die
weight back on the heels there is dan
ger of turning the shoulders alone
while neglecting the hip pivot.
6. 1986. 3t*il Syndicate.?W>U Service,
Their Grandpa H as a Sailor. Too
MAO. Juanita and llill Moore, grandchildren of the late Admiral William A.
MofTett. I'. 8. >?? photographed when they visited the I*. 8. 8. Arkansas
at anchor at Oitatina Island. The Arkansas was first command xl by their
distinguished grandfather, and later their father. Lieut. Cow. K. McKarlane
Moore. a bo senred on the battleship until HOI The children, dressed In uni
form, were permitted to board the big battleship with their father for the
purpose of Inspecting the stateroom once occupied by both granddad and da<l