The Alamance Gleaner
VOL. LX. GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY MARCH 22, 1934. NO. 7.
News Review of Current
Events the World Over
St. Lawrence Waterway Treaty Rejected by Senate Despite
President's Efforts?Revamping of Air Mail in
Progress?House Passes Bonus Bill.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
DESPITE the fact that President
Roosevelt phoned personally to
a number of senators of both parties
seeking to persuade them to vote for
Senator Lewis
ratification of the St.
Lawrence waterway
treaty, the pact was
defeated in the sen
ate by a vote of 4G to
42. Tfms the affirma
tive vote was^far he
low the required two
thirds of those voting.
Party lines were dis
regarded. Twenty-two
Democrats voted
against ratification,
along with 20 Itepub
licans. In favor of the pact were 31
Democrats, 14 Republicans and 1
Farmer-Laborite.
Mr. Roosevelt, It was said in Wash
ington, was decidedly vexed by this
defeat of a major administration
measure, and he began preparations to
resubmit the treaty at a future session
of congress. Senator James Hamilton
Lewis of Illinois, Democratic whip of
the senate and one of the leading op
ponents of the rejected treaty, pre
dicted that Canada would soon offer
the United States a substitute treaty.
This may be true, but dispatches re
veal that in Montreal, at least, the de
feat of the pact was hailed with joy
because business men there think the
project too expensive to be undertak
en at this time. The President's warn
ing that Canada would, on its own
Initiative, build an all-Canadian water
way seems to be met by this news
from Montreal.
Chicago and the Mississippi valley
are blamed by Mr. Roosevelt for the
rejection of the treaty, and there is no
doubt that their arguments against
the proposed restriction of diversion
of water from Lake Michigan to 1,500
cubic feet a second were potent This
amount, according to Senator Lewis
and other Middle West senators, would
be wholly inadequate to maintain nav
igation in the Mississippi waterway
The Atlantic seaboard senators, too,
were almost solidly against the treaty.
If the treaty is resubmitted, the
clauses concerning the sovereignty of
Lake Michigan and the Chicago di
version may be omitted; but Senator
Lewis said: "So far as I am concerned
?and I believe I speak also for sev
eral others?I shall not be satisfied
with a mere omission, but shall de
mand that internationalization of Lake
Michigan and the limitation of the
sanitary district diversion shall be
specifically renounced by Canada."
SENATOR WAGNER of New York,
chairman of the national labor board,
has put forth a warning that unless
"misconstruction" and "evasion" of the
collective bargaining provisions of the
National Industrial Recovery Act are
checked "we may expect to witness a
vast swelling of industrial unrest with
the coming of spring."
Secretary of Labor Perkins Joined
with Wagner and other witnesses be
fore the board in urging the passage
of Wagner's bill which would create
a permanent labor board and outlaw
employer Influence over the organiza
tion of employees. Representatives
of the American Federation of Labor
demand that employers be forced to
recognize the unions and predict gen
eral strikes especially in the automo
bile industry unless prompt action is
taken to satisfy the men.
BV DIRECTION of the President, all
air mail operations by the army air
corps were suspended by MaJ. Gen.
Benjamin D. Foulois, chief of the
corps, and the draft
ing of a new sched
nle that would Insure
greater safety for the
flyers was begun.
When the news
reached him of the
deaths of the ninth
and tenth army mall
carriers within three
weeks Mr. Roosevelt
sent out word: "The
continuation of deaths
in the army air corps
must stop.'* He or
Gen. B. O.
Foufoie
dered that the carrying of air inail
cease except "on such routes, under
such weather conditions and under such
equipment and personnel conditions as
will insure, as far as the utmost care
can provide, against constant recur
rence of fatal accidents."
General Foulols, Prig. Gen. Oscar
Westover. chief of air mail operations,
and various Post Office department
officials built a revised "safety" route
with the trans-continental line from
Newark to San Francisco as the main I
line, other routes feeding into it The |
intention was to reduce the number i
of trips on all schedules and to permit
less night Hying.
Colonel Lindbergh aroused interest
by visiting Washington for two days
and conferring with Secretary of War
Dern. Soon after the secretary named
the colonel. Orvllle Wright and t'lnr
ence Chamberlain on a committee to
Investigate the army carrying of the
air mail.
Lindbergh, however, declined to serve
(>n the committee, repeating in his let
ter to Secretary Dern his severe con
demnation of the plan to have the
army carry the air mail. Mr. Dern
urged him to reconsider. Meanwhile,
the colonel appeared before the senate
post oliice committee to testify con
cerning permanent air mail legislation.
General Foulois has been working
on a plan by which army flyers could
join with commercial pilots in receiv
ing training. The step follows a sug
gestion by Mr. Roosevelt that "because
military lessons have heen taught us
during the last few weeks," army avi
ators should train with those who
"later on will fly the mail" In "night
flying, blind flying and instrument
flying."
i
npVYO hundred and thirty-one Demo
* cratic members of the house kicked
over the traces and, with the aid of 50
Republicans, passed the Patman bill
calling for the immediate payment of
the veterans' bonus with greenbacks.
The President has repeatedly ex
pressed his opposition to the measure
and indicated that he would veto it if
it got through congress. Its passage
by the senate was unlikely.
There were only two reasonable ex
planations for the revolt of the Dem
ocrats. One was put in words by Rep
resentative John Y. Brown of Ken
tucky, a Democrat, who was in oppo
sition. He said: "You are buying
veterans' votes. You are holding out
this piece of bait to get veterans* votes
this summer. There is not a man in
the house who believes this bill will
ever become a law, and yet you sit
here and vote for it for your own po
litical welfare."
The other explanation was that
many of the Democrats are resentful
of the "rubber stamp" label that has
been put on congress and welcomed
an opportunity to break away from
dictation and, as one of them said,
vote as their consciences directed.
IN A new revolt against adrainlstra
* tion policy the house insisted on
adding more-than $200,000,000 in vet
erans' benefits and government pay to
the federal outlays in the next fiscal
year. However, this was a compromise,
for the amendment adopted by the
house involves a total annual expendi
ture of approximately $00,000,000 for
veterans as compared with the $118,
000,000 called for under the veterans'
amendment adopted by the senate.
Briefly summarized, the house meas
ure as sent to conference provides:
1. That all Spanish-American war
veterans be restored to the pension
rolls on a basis of 75 per cent of what
they received prior to enactment of
the economy bill last session.
2. That all World war veterans with
service connected disabilities be re
stored to the rolls on a full basis.
3. That World war veterans with
presumptive disabilities be returned
to the rolls on a 75 per cent basis.
In addition, it eliminates pensions
for emergency officers, pensions for
the widows of the men lost in airship
disasters, and knocks out the so-called
Borah amendment limiting the resto
ration of the federal pay cut to per
sons receiving less than $C,000 a year.
OAMUEL INSTILL, whose deporta
^ tion was ordered by the Greek g?Tv
ernraent. his ticket bought and his
train selected by the officials, vanished
from his residence In Athens between
midnight and morning, and for hours
the police of the country were fran
tically searching for him. Then It was
announced that the fugitive had been
arrested aboard the Greek freighter
Meotfs. which had been pursued by a
torpedo boat destroyer. Insull was
bound for Kessy. Egypt, near Alex
andria. and presumably was heading
for either Persia or Afghanistan.
The Athens police learned from the
Insull household nothing of the way
In which Insull escaped from the city.
They thought he was aided by "Inter
national crooks.*
The Greek government decided that
Mrs. Insull was an undesirable resi
dent and should be ejected from the
country.
WALTER J. CUM MINGS, chair
man of the Continental Illinois
Bank and Trust company of Chicago.
t
Is the new treasurer of the TVmo
cratic party. The place was first of
fered to John S. Cohen, Atlanta pub
lisher, but he rejected It. Mr. Cu tu
rnings' first task will be the raising of
funds with which to help along the
election of Democratic senators ami
congressmen this fall. Supposedly he
will also raise the money for the next
('residential campaign.
Q\' JULY 1 the University of 1111
nnis will have a new president In
the person of Arthur Cutts Willard,
now dean of the college of engineering
In the university. Mr. Willard. who is
fifty-five years old..-is a graduate of
the Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology and Is Internationally known as
an authority on heating and ven
tilation.
TV IF gunboat Fulton, known as the
"grief ship" of the American navy,
caught fire during a storm oJT the
China coast and had to he abandoned
The crew of 1ST officers and men was
rescued h.v two British vessels and
taken to Hongkong. Only three men
were injured.
JOSEPH B. EASTMAN and the Inter
state Commerce commission have
Joined In recommending to congress
legislation that will place under "the j
guiding hand of government control" ,
the transportation agencies that use ,
the highways and waterways of the
country. Their report, which was sub- i
mitted to the President, declares that
regulation of motor and water trans- j
portation Is necessary "if a threaten
ing chaos is to be transformed into
order." Such regulation they said,
should he concentrated in the Inter- i
state Commerce commission.
SECRETARY OF COMMERCE RO- 1
PER obtained the approval of Pres- j
ident Roosevelt for a new program for
subsidizing the American merchant
marine which he will submit to con- i
gress.
CRIMINAL action for alleged eva- j
slon of the federal income tax law ,
was ordered by Attorney General 1
Cummings to be brought immediately .
against Andrew w.
Mellon, former secre
tary of the treasury
and one of the world's
wealthiest men; T. L.
Sidlow of Cleveland,
law partner of New
ton D.Baker; Thomas
S. Lamont, son of the
noted financier Thom
as W. Lamont and a
member of the J. P.
Morgan banking house,
and James J. Walker,
former mayor of New
York.
Andrew W.
Mellon
Mr. Cumralngs announced that the
Department of Justice had conducted
a secret investigation of the tax af
fairs of these four men and had
turned the information gathered over
to United States attorneys In New
York, Cleveland and Pittsburgh. Grand
jury action in each of those cities was
expected to result. Cases against more
than a score of other men were being
prepared by the department's tax divi
sion.
Mr. Mellon was quick to place his
case before the people. In a long
statement he denied ever having failed
to pay his proper income tnxes nnd said
that in the last twenty years he had
paid more than $20,000,000 In this form
of rates. He characterized the attor
ney general's action as "politics of the
crudest sort."
By order of the President a new in
come tax procedure was put in force,
designed to break up so-called "neg
ligent" evasion of taxes. All tax re
turns which the government suspects
of embodying willful evasion will be
referred to grand Juries for Investiga
tion of possible fraud.
LA LIBERTAD, most Important sea
port of the republic of Salvador,
was almost destroyed by an explosion
of dynamite on the docks and the re
sulting conflagration. It was believed ?
at least l.V) persons tvere killed.
ONE of Japan s now torpedo boats,
the Tomonirn. of f.JT inn*, wo*
wrecked mysteriously off the Sasebo
naval ha.se ami jt was believed most of ;
Per new of 1 l.'t men wc-c h.sr "|"Ji?
vessel was completed only February
2G Inst and was a new tyi*\ carrying
the heaviest armament ever given a
ship of its size. It was considered a
triumph of Japanese naval architec
ture. Several others of the same tyj?e
are under construction.
Harry iter font, one of john
Oillinger's gang, was convicted at
Lima, Ohio, of the murder of Sheriff
Jews Sarber in a Jail raid in which Ihl
linger was set free by his comrades,
and was sentenced to death In the
electric chair. The commander of the
Ohio National Guard took every pre
caution to prevent the rescue of Pier
pont by his resourceful chief, for Oil- j
linger was still at large, presumably j
In or near Chicago.
At Crown Point, Ind.. a special :
grand Jury began Investigating the j
easy escape of IMIIfnger. a sfiecial 1
prosecutor having been named to con- j
duct the Inquiry.
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Pope Celebrates Coronation Anniversary
PUPE PIUS XI and the Vatican
clergy are here seen at mass lr the
Slstlne chapel celebrating the thir
teenth anniversary of the coronation
of the holy father.
BEDTIME STORY FOR CHILDREN
By THORNTON W. BURGESS
NIMBLEHEELS JUMPS
BLINDLY
A FUNNY thing about this world is
the unexpectedness of things.
Have you ever noticed that? Good
things come to you unexpectedly and
bad things happen in Just the same
way. Some folks are always expect
ing bad things to happen, and it
sometimes seems as if they were Just
the people to whom bad things do hap
pen.
Nimbleheels, the Jumping Mouse,
for his size the most wonderful of all
Jumpers, is one of the most timid
members of a most timid family. Not
even his cousin. Kibbler the House
Mouse. Is more timid. So, like a I)
timid people, Nimbleheels is all the
time expecting something to happen.
Anyhow, that is the way it appears
to his neighbors.
To be sure, Nimbleheels has enough
to make him timid. Like the rest of
his family, he is forever being hunted.
In the daytime he never knows when
rhp keen eyes of a member of the
Ilawk family are upon him. At any
time of day Clack Pussy the Cat may
come stealing through the grass look- i
ing for him. At night Ilooty the Owl,
Reddy Fox and Old Man Coyote hunt
for him Just as they do for his cousin,
Danny Meadow 'Mouse. So Nimble
heels Is always ready to jump at the
least hint of danger.
You mustn't understand from what
I have told you that Nimbleheels al
ways goes In great long Jumps when
he moves about That Is what Peter
Rabbit thought at first, and Peter was
quite surprised when he discovered
that Nimbleheels runs about on the
ground in much the same way as his
relatives. It is when he Is startled or
in great danger that Nimbleheels
Jumps.
He is much like Peter Rabbit In that
he prefers the night to the day for
traveling about. That Is one reason
why he is not better known by the little
people of the daytime. That is the
time he likes to sleep curled up in a
snug little nest under a grassy tus
sock or upturned sod. This is Just
what he was doing one day not long
after his visit to the dear Old Crier
Patch. He was fast, very fa*t asleep,
dreaming the dreams that mice love
best. Not a single soul knew where
his cozy little bed was. He had slept
there for so many days without once
being disturbed that be felt quite ptfe
there. Whenever be went out looking
for food he expected something to
happen, but there in that carefully
hidden little nest he never expected
anything to happen.
This being so, perhaps you can Im
agine how Ximbleheels felt when he
was wakened from those beautiful
.Mouse dreams by the shaking of the
ground by heavy footsteps very near
him. Ilis eyes flew open, but down
there among the steins of the tall
grasses he could see nothing. Swish,
swish, came through the grass and
something very big and terrible
seemed to be right over him. Nlm*
bleheels was too frightened to think.
Rut if he couldn't think he could
Jump, and Jump he did. without once
looking where he was Jumping, lie
said afterward that there wasn't time
for that lie Jumped blindly and then
wished he hadn't. He landed In the
queerest place you can imagine. Can
you>gJiess where?
?. T W. UiirntM ?WNtrSvrvIC*.
WITTY KITTY
By NINA WILCOX PUTNAM.
The Girl-Friend tayt nothing it ever
iost through politeness, except a sub
way teat.
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SET MY FEET IN
THY WAY
By ANNE CAMPBELL
SET my feet In thy way. dear God!
It will he easy then
To tread the paths the saints have
trod
Far from the haunts of men.
There are two roads that 1 may take.
One climbs to starry heights.
And one. pursued for the vain world's
sake.
Is lost In bitter nights!
Set my feet In thy way, oh Lord.
And let me see the sweep
Of white-clad angels moving toward
Thy presence, still and deep.
There Is a loveliness scarce seen
Except by Inner eyes.
That lifts our souls beyond the mean,
And makes us fine and wise.
Set my feet In thy way, dear God,
And may my spirit find
In reaching upward, with the clod,
The growth for rne designed.
There Is a fuller life for me
? mon day.
Help me to reach it finally!
Set my feet In thy way!
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SUNSHINE SPICE CAKE
AND OTHER THINGS
TAKE one cupful of brown sugar
one-half cupful of shortening, one
cupful of sour milk, one-half teaspoon
ful of soda, two eggs, reserving one
yolk for the frosting, two teaspnonfuls
each of cinnamon and baking powder,
one tesspoonful of cloves, one-half ten
spoonful of nutmeg, one and seven
eighths cupfuls of flour. Mix in the
order given a*.d bake In layers.
Frosting for Sunshine Cake.
Mix one and one-third cupfuls of |
confectioner's sugar, one teaspoonful |
"The Joy of bicycle riding," says ex
flivvering Flo, "ie to circle around a
traffic cop on two wheels and laugh at
his big feet at the same time without
getting a ticket to traffic court."
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of melted butter, one egg yolk and
enough thin cream to make of the con
sistency to spread. Place between lay
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Orange Fudge. ,
Take one well wushed orange, re !
move seeds and put through the f?M>d j
chopper, after grating the rind. Meas* !
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and Juice and cook until tender; add I
one cupful of the liquid with enough
of the juice to make with water a full
cup. add four rupfuls of sugar and
one small can of condensed milk. Boil
to the soft ball stage. Beat until cool.
Corn Dodgers.
Take three cupfuls of cornmeal. sift
with cne half teaspoonful of salt, one
u spoonful of baking powder, add
three tahlespoonfuls of lard well
rubhed Into the dry mixture. Add but*
termiik with a little soda to make of
the consistency to handle. Shape Into
small Hat cakes and place on a greased
When the hook says that Sir Philip
Sidney was an artlstocrat it means
that he did stunts in a circus.
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tid-bits found in examination pa
pers. essays, etc., by teachers.
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applied to a bad case of measles or
smallpox.
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with mustard on it.
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Minnehaha Is the feminine form ot
horse-laugh according to modern slang.
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When Bassanlo said "As 1 lire. I
am upon the rack." he meant, "Wher
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Vitamin is a kind of coal mined in
Iowa.
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The prehistoric Egyptians dressed
in skin.
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LThnt the Humming Bird,
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discovery of America, is
about the smallest of all
birds, and wben stripped
of their feathers are
not any larger than a
bumblebee.
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baking sheet. Bake in a hot oven un
lit a golden brown.
Cheese Dish.
P.roak Into a glass baking dish one
fourth pound of rich cheese, add one
fourth of a cupful of cream and place
in the oven to melt. Stir occasionally.
As soon as the mixture is smooth add
salt and three well beaten eggs. When
the eggs are Just ready to set, sprinkle
with paprika and serve at once.
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