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V0L- LX- GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY FEBRUARY 22, 1934. NO. 3.
News Review of Current
Events the World Over
Bloody Socialist Revolt in Austria Imperiling All Europe;
Senate Sentences MacCracken to Jail; Permanent
PWA Program Taking Shape.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
TS AUSTRIA again to be the starting
* point of a great European war?
That was the question that was wor
rying all the nations of the world as
tne civil warfare be
tween the Austrian,
government and the
Socialists proceeded.
On the side lines
watching events close
ly and biding their
time, were Nazi Oer
many, Fascist Italy,
France Just recovering
fyom its own internal
row, and the rather
.. i w .. - irigntenea memtiers or
. Maj. Emit Fey the utUe entente
Great Britain, determined that Ger
many and Austria shall not be united,
was warning Hitler to keep his hands
off. Soviet Russia would like to put
*:flnger in the pie but Is fully occu
pied with the threat of war with
Japan.
Vice Chancellor Emll Fey and Prince
Ernst von Starhemberg of Austria
were determined that the Socialists
should be driven out or exterminated
? * and the country made wholly Fascist,
and Chancellor Dollfuss was going
i along with them. The revolt of the
Socialists was evidently carefully
planned and the rebels were well
armed and capably led. But at this
writing they had won no victory of
moment and their strongholds in
Vienna, mainly the huge communist
apartment buildings, had been smashed
by the government artillery. In Llnz,
Gratz, Steyr and other centers the re
sults were the same. After several
days of fighting, in which two or three
thousand persons were killed and
many more wounded, Dollfuss gave the
Socialists five hours in which to lay
down their arms on promise of par
don excent for the chief lenders Thla
brought Insufficient response, and the
government troops went into action
again in the suburbs to which the
rebels had been driven. The latter
met the attack stoutly, especially In
the section Just across the great
Belchsbridge where they were occupy
ing big building' and trenches. Major
Fey was in charge of the operations
In and about Vienna, and Prince von
Starbemberg was in command at I.inz
and Steyr.
Though the German government was
not openly mixing in the mess, the
official Nazi newspapers were egging
on the Austrian Socialists. Hitler and
bis comrades claim that a majority
of the Austrian voters are Nazis and
prophecy that the time Is near when
Dollfuss will fall and the Austrian
Nazis will be in control.
Reports originating in Paris said 75,
000 Italian troops had been massed at
strategic points along the Austrian
frontier and that they and the Fascist
frontier guard were ready for any
eventuality. The Italian government
officials said this troop movement had
been going on for some time and was
only nart of a fundamental change In
Italian military policy.
London correspondents dug up a
story, from an Austrian source, to the
effect that the Austrian Socialists ob
tained the arms with which they had
been fighting from Czechoslovakia,
either from the Czech government di
rect or with its connivance. A railroad
from Prague to the south runs
through a part of Austria, and the
story goes that trains loaded with
arms and ammunition consigned to
some place in Czechoslovakia were
emptied of their cargoes somewhere
between Gemundt and Presshurg.
It Is also alleged that arms have
been shipped up the Danube from
Presshurg to Vienna or nearby points
and smuggled ashore.
TEN days in Jail was the sentence
pronounced by the senate on Wil
liam P. MacCrncken for having tam
pered with correspondence in his flies
arter me nies nan
been subpoenaed by
the special committee
investigating airmail
contracts. The same
punishment was
awarded L. H. Brit
tin. vice president of
North wost AI rw a y s.
Two other defendants
were acquitted. Mac
Crncken already had
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District Supreme Gen- Wc*tover
court for misrepresentation in obtain
ing a writ of habeas corpus before ac
tually being arrested. He was given
time by the senate to perfect an ap
peal from its verdict.
The army went ahead rapidly In Its
preparations for carrying the air mails
after the cancellation of contracts by
Postmaster General Farley. Head
quarters for this sendee were opened
In Washington and put under the com
mand of Brig. Gen. Oscar Westover by
Gen. Douglas MacArthur. chief of staff.
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh's telegram
to the President protesting against the
summary cancellation of contracts led
Postmaster General Farley to make
public his report to Chairman Black's
investigating committee justifying his
action. Ln this Farley made sensa
tional charges that the government
had been defrauded to the extent of
$16,800,000 in the letting and opera
tion of air-mall contracts. He assert
ed that his predecessor, Walter F.
Brown, had joined In and directed a
conspiracy by which competition was
smothered and all contracts were
awarded by secret agreement to cer
tain favored air lines.
Secretaries ickes, Wallace,
Dern and Perkins were named by
the President as a committee to draw
up definite plans for his permanent
public works program. This is intend
ed to effect great economic and social
changes and will cost probably more
than half a billion dollars yearly. Mr.
Roosevelt and his advisers take It for
granted that even after business has
achieved recovery there will be from
three to five billion persons still un
employed and that they must be cared
for by something like the Civil Works
administration.
This new project as now conceived
includes these major undertakings:
Methodical development of water
ways, water power, flood control, soil
erosion preventives, reforestation, and
other public works. On these works
employment would be furnished in the
manner of the present CCC and CWA.
Decentralization of industry through
establishment of small industries in
rural regions to enable people to make
a living partly by farming and partly
by factory employment. A start In
this direction is now being made in
the subsistence homesteads, for which
twenty-five millions of recovery funds
have been allocated.
Government purchase of submar
ginal lands unfit for cultivation, which
would be added to the public domain
and devoted to forest development.
For this purpose twenty-five millions
already have been allotted.
TI1E Civil Works administration ob
tained from congress an appropri
ation of $50,000,000 for its immediate
uses and its workers, numbering 3,800,
(XX) persons, received
their pay. But at the
same time Adminis
trator Harry Hopkins
began the task of cut
ting down the forces,
ordering reductions of
from 50 to 90 per cent.
He directed that work
cease on ail federal
civil projects not on
federal or other pub
lie property. By Hop
[Ty kins' plan of cutting
Hop ins down the total num
ber of employees about 10 per cent a
week, the CWA army will be virtually
out of existence by May 1.
The largest force affected by the
nonpublic property order is in the pub
lic health service. Hopkins ordered it
to stop malaria control efforts employ
ing 20,779 men, rural sanitation using
32,010 and the sealing of mines by
0,571 workers to prevent water acidity
in the Ohio valley.
COL. HORATIO B. HACKETT of
Chicago was appointed director of
the housing division of the Public
Works administration by Secretary of
tbe Interior Ickes. He succeeds U<4>
ert D. Kohn, a New York architect,
who has held the position for the last
nine months.
Selection of Colonel Hackett. a mem
her of the Chicago architectural firm
of Holabird A Root, was regarded in
Washington ns a move to speed up the
mjnui IM>U?I II?; i ??. > 11
of public works money for
low cost housing developments, it has
spent very little.
pitKMIKR TSALDARIS of Greece
* doesn't accept the verdict of sev
eral government physicians, that Sam
uel Insull is well enough to stand de
portation without danger to his life.
Tsaldaris said It would be "murder"
to compel the fugitive American to
travel In his present physical condi
tion, so lie will be permitted to remain
in Greece until his health improves.
As Insull is se\enty-fnur years old and
has clever advisers In Athens, his ex
tradition may not be obtained for a
long time If ever.
Melvin a. traylor, president .
of the First National bank of I
Chicago and one of the country's lead- 1
log financiers, died at his home of |
pneumonia after fighting the disease
bravely for several weeks. Mr. Tray
lor was born in a log cabin in Ken
tucky 55 years ago and made his way
to leadership in business by sheer
ability. He also became prominent
enough In politics to be considered
favorably for the Democratic nomina
tion for President in 1932. Chicago and
the country sustained a considerable
loss in his death.
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JAPAN'S new ambassador to Wash
ington, Hirosi Saito, presented his j
credentials to President lloosevelt, and j
the two gentlemen exchanged assur- |
ances of friendship and mutual confi
dence between their countries.
Saito said he was sure that "what
ever question, either political or eco
nomic, may arise between our two
countries, can and will be amicably
composed in a spirit of friendship and
mutual confidence?the spirit that has
characterized our relations ever since
Japan made, at the instance of the
Unietd States, her formal entry into I
the family of nations."
"I share fully," the President said ]
in reply, "the view which you have
expressed that all questions which
may arise between our two countries
will be resolved in a spirit of friend
ship and mutual confidence. You will
find this government devoted now as
In the Dast to the nrincinle of main
tninlng peace Id the Pacific region as
elsewhere and ready to co-operate cor
dially and sympathetically with your
government in all of the many lines
of .endeavor which are possible in pur
suance of and toward making prevail
that principle. It is our constant de
sire that, by co-operation, all the coun
tries of the Pacific region may continue
to enjoy peace and may attain con
ditions of abiding prosperity."
INDEPENDENTS and Insurgents In
* congress have long advocated an
amendment of the Constitution provid
ing for direct election of the President,
and at last the first step toward this
change has been taken. Senator
George W. Norris' resolution proposing
the amendment was approved by the
senate Judiciary committee, with only j
Senator Stephens of Mississippi voting
in the negative.
Should the amendment be written |
into the federal Constitution it would
abolish the present system by which
citizens vote for Presidential electors
Instead of for the candidates them
selves. Under the amendment the
names of Presidential and Vice Presi- i
dential candidates would be written I
on the ballots and the votes cast di- |
rectly for them.
The amendment would also do away
with the present system by which a
states whole electoral vote (equal to
its representation In both houses of j
congress) is cast for the candidate re
ceiving a plurality of votes cast with- i
In the state. Instead a states e!ec- |
toral vote would be pro-rated accord
ing to the proportion of the entire vote j
which each candidate received.
I
GOVERNORS of all.the states have
received from the administration
a draft of a model state recovery law
which would make all national codes
of fair competition automatically ef- j
fective within the states. It would re- j
move the threatening possibility of a
constitutional barrier to the enforce- j
ment of those codes among concerns
that do not deal In Interstate com
merce.
The model law would authorize the '
state governor to consent to the utili
zation of state and local officers by the j
I'res I dent of the United States "in
effectuating the policies of the nation
al industrial recovery act." A viola '
lion of a code would be made a misde
meanor in the state with a penalty of 1
$500 a day for each offense and for
each day the violation continues.
Representatives of business
groups in Washington said tliey
were fairly well satisfied with tiie new
revenue bill which was brought before
the house, though there were some ol>- !
jectionable provisions which they
hoped might he removed by the senate
finance committee later. The hill now
represents a compromise between the
recommendations of the iiill sul
mittee and the 'suggestions of the
Treasury department. The' chief
changes are those with respect to de
preciation. consolidated returns arid
corporate reorganizations. The hill
Goes nni reuurt; ueprrcinuou anoy
ances as did the subcommittee recom
mendations. Nor does it aladish con
solidated returns for Affiliated corpor
at ion a. While it Imposes an extra tax
on corporation earnings when consoli
dated returns are filed, this is not so
objectionable as the entire eiimina- i
tlon of the privilege.
While the upper surtax brackets I
hnve l>een scaled up somewhat they
do not Increase greatly the tax apply
ing to a person who has an earned
income credit. The tax burden is in
creased somewhat on a person with
out earned Income, but with corpora
lion dividends and government bonds
not subject to normal taxes which are
reached by commencing surtaxes
above a single 4 per cent normal tax
Instead of above normal rates aggre^
gating 8 per cent
? by WnUrn N?wspap?r Unto*. '
CHILDREN'S
STORY
?By
THORNTON W. BURGESS
HOW NIMBLEHEELS GOT
AWAY
DETER RABBIT was nil a-shake. It
* was partly excitement, partly fear,
and partly hope. You remember how
he had gone back to the dear Old
Brier Patch without a doubt In his
mind that little NImbleheels had been
caught and carried away to the Green
Forest by Hooty the Owl. You re
member how sad I'eter was and how
he had sighed and sighed again, and
how a thin, high, squeaky voice had
asked If he was In pain.
That voice made Peter Jump. It
sounded exactly like the voice of lit
tle NImbleheels. If Peter hadn't been
absolutely sure that by this time NIm
bleheels must be In the stomach of
Hooty the Owl he would have said
that this was the voice of Nimble
heels. But how could It be? It
couldn't His ears must have fooled
him or else?"Who are you?" whis
pered Peter. "Are you a ghost?"
"I should say not!" exclaimed the
same thin, high, squeaky voice Indig
nantly. "There is no ghost about
me! For goodness sake, what Is the
matter with you, Peter Rabbit?" Out
In front of Peter hopped NImbleheels.
Peter backed away hurriedly. "Go
away," said he "This Isn't you. It
can't be. You were caught by Hooty
the Owl and carried away for Ills din
ner. You can't be In his stomach and
here, too, so this can't be you. Go
away, please."
"Pinch yourself and wake up,
Peter," squeaked NImbleheels. Then
he began to laugh with all his might.
Peter frowned.
"I don't see anything to laugh at,"
said be rather crossly, for he still
couldn't believe what his eyes saw.
NImbleheels kept right on laughing
until he was quite out of breath. "I
may not be myself," said he, "but I'm
quite sure I'm not anybody else. As
for Hooty the Owl, if his stomach
feels any fuller on my account I'm
willing to make him the same kind of
a meal every day. Go over and ask
him. I'd like to know what he says.
Just touch me, Peter. You'll find I'm
real enough."
Very cautiously Peter reached out
and touched Nimbleheels. Then his
face cleared and he began to laugh
himself. "I never was more sure of
anything In all my life than I was
GIPUffAGP
"Early to bed and early to rite,"
says stepping Stella, "and the neigh
bort would have nothing to talk
about."
?. Bell Syndicate.?WNU Service.
Scottish Jumpers for Roosevelt
I^lU.SK two Fair Isle Jumpers were made In Inverness, Scotland, on order .
from President Roosevelt and have been shipped to him. The wool was j
rarded and spun In Inverness mills ( ? .
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First Vessel to Founder in Panama Canal
THE Dutch freighter Brion has the distinction of being the first vessel to founder In the Panama canal. She went
down In (Jatun lake about half a mile south of the lock after having developed a dangerous list that led her com
mander to try to beach her. The crew was rescued by Panama canal launches.
that you had been caught and carried
away by Hooty," said he when he
could stop laughing long enough.
"You asked what was the matter with
me. I was sighing on your account,
NImbleheels. I was sighing because
my heart was so sad at the thought
that you had been killed and that 1
should never, never see you again.
When you spoke I thought my ears
must be playing tricks on me. I cer
tainly did. IIow did you get away?"
"With the help of a friendly Black
Shadow," replied NImbleheels. "But
for that 1 might be Just where you
thought I was. 1 was getting very
tired, and two or three times Booty
almost caught me. Then Just as I
Jumped that Black Shadow swept
over us and Ilooty couldn't see where
I landed. I Jumped twice more be
fore the Black Shadow passed over,
and by that time I was safe. Then I
hurried over here to the dear Old
Brier Batch to wait for you. You
were very wise not to move when you
sat out there In the moonlight, I'eter
Babbit. I never could have sat like
that right In plain sight. I never
could have, possibly."
"That was nothing," replied Beter
modestly. "I learned when 1 was very
young that there are times to run and
times to freeze and sit tight. This
was one of those times. Tell me.
Nimbleheels, doesn't such a long tall
bother you?"
?. T. W. Burgeu.?WNU Service.
STUFFED DATES
DO WE ever tire of the delectable
dates? They are so good to serve
with the afternoon tea, in salads, as
desserts, as a confection, or stuffed
wifh various fillings, one has an In
Unite variety and they are always
welcome. The following are a few
fillings for stuffed dates:
Orange Peanut.
To one-third of a cupful of peanut
butter add slowly five tablespoonfuis
of orange Juice and one half tenspoon
ful of grated orange rind. Fill the
dates and roll them In chopped salt
ed peanuts.
SOLDIER BOY!
By ANNE CAMPBELL
SOLDIER Roy, are the days too
long?
Is the sun too bright on your nar
row walls?
Are you weary now of the robin's
song.
And the wind's soft voice as the
evening falls?
The lightest breath Is too hard to
bear
When a little life Is so filled with
care.
Soldier Roy, you are ten years old.
And your boyish soul has a cross to
hold.
Soldier Roy, It's a bitter fight.
Rut your smile Is valiant for those
who come
Hoping to make your day more bright
With n gift to add to your meager
sum.
You have a dally bout with pain.
And the years will drag till you run
again.
With Health's quicksilver In your feet.
And a cry of joy for the friends you
meet!
Soldier Roy, 1 would gladly give
My heart's firm heat and the
strength of my hands.
If it would mean your right to live.
And scamper with Joy on the sum i
mer sands.
Soldier Roy. It's an eagles flight
To the lovely land where there Is no
night.
And the wings of your spirit are firm
and true.
As onward and upward they carry
you!
(Copyright.) ? WNU Sorvlco.
Apricot Coconut.
Wash one cupful of dried apricots.
Stoarn over boiling water to soften,
then run through n food chopper with
one-half cupful of nut meats and two
thirds of n cupful of coconut. Add
two talilespoonfuls of orange Juice I
and one teaspoonfiil of orange rind.
Mix until well blended. Stuff dates
and roll in sugar.
Marshmallow Coconut.
Cut one-fourth pound of marsh
mallows Into quarters with wet scis
sors. Stuff each date with a piece of
nwrwbmaliow, pIsrtM t&e cot side up.
Dip the sticky surfnce of the marsh
mallow Into the shredded coconut.
Jumbo dates are prepared by press
lng the edges of two dates together
and stuffing as one.
Parisian sweets.
Take one package of dates, one
package of coconut, one-fourth pound
each of figs and dried apricots, put
through a food chopper. Add a table
spoonfttl of orange Juice and a tea
spoonful of the grated rind. Mix well
and divide Into parts. For fruit cara
mels pack the portion into small pans
lightly oiled or buttered, crease Into
[ squares, and place a nut meat on each
square. Chill, cut Into cubes with a
sharp knife that has been diprvd Into
water.
Dried fruits may lie use I for fruit
favors, turtles, animals; and various
attractive things like ginger bread
men may he made irom flgs. raisins,
dates and nuts.
C by Western Newapaper Union
BONERS
liy the Treaty of L'trecht it was pro
vided that the thrones of France and
Spain should never rest on the same
head.
BONERS are actual humorous
tid-bits found in examination pa
pers, essays, etc., by teachers.
The hut overhead was a place where
the ascents and descents of gods and
goddesses were kept.
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The square of the hippopotamus of
a right triangle is equal to the sum
of the squares of the other two aides.
? ? ?
llomony Is some food made of corn.
?? Bell Syndicate?WNU Service.
Shorts for Sports
Here, modeled by Miss Charlotte
Young, is a shorts costume of shorts
I and blouse that is characteristic of
j the styles for the spring and coming
summer. It was shown at the spring
! fashion promenade in New York spon
,? sored by the women's apparel division
of the National Retail Dry Goods as
| sociation.
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