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The Alamance gleaner VOL. LX. GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY MAY 3, 1934. NO. 13. News Review of Current Events the World Over President Shows Confidence in Tugwell by Promoting Him?High Tax Senators Win a Victory?National Milk Control Program Withdrawn. i ? By EDWARD W. PICKARD PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S reply to the attacks on Rexford Guy Tug well, which were renewed hy oppo nents of the administration after the Wirt' story was made puuuc, cuiues m me form of promotion for the head of the brain trust He has been serving as assistant secretary of agrlcul ture, and Is now ad vanced by the Presi dent to the newly cre ated position of un dersecretary of agri culture, his salary be ing Increased from $7, ow to gio.ooo a year. A new as sistant secretary can now be appoint ed who will relieve Mr. Wallace and Mr. Tugwell of Borne of their heavy dntles. The department has been con sidered understaffed. The post of undersecretary was created by a re cent act of congress. Tugwell's appointment will have to be confirmed by the senate, and It was considered certain the Republicans would take advantage of the opportu nity to make fresh attacks on him and bis theories of government. The President also advanced Thom as Jefferson Coolldge, a Boston bank er, from assistant secretary to under secretary of the treasury, which posi tion had been vacant since Raymond Moley stepped out. The higher per sonnel of that department Is now be ing placed on a permanent basis for the first time since Henry Morgenthau, Jr., became Its head. VICTORY In the conference was won by the senate high tax bloc, for the house conferees accepted virtual ly all the senate Increases In estate and gift taxes, the capital stock and ?xcess profits taxes and liberal com promises over Income-tax publicity and consolidated returns. The conference agreement was com plete except for the Couzens amend ment, adding 10 per cent to all Individ ual Income-tax returns next year. The house will take a separate vote on this, and It was believed the senate would not Insist on It If It were re jected by the bouse. With the revenue bill thus disposed of, the senate finance committee be gan public hearings on the adminis tration's reciprocal tariff bill, which the house has passed. SENATORS who urge the remonetlz atlon of silver held a conference with President Roosevelt but received from him no encouragement for sliver legislation, though no conclusion was reached. The possibility of silver pur chases was discussed and the President Indicated a disposition to give this matter consideration. The sliver senators were not at all satisfied with the President's attitude and held a meeting at which eight Toted to support mandatory legisla tion for the benefit of silver. Later It was reliably stated that the President was maturing a plan for in ternational stabilization of currencies and that silver figures prominently In it Mr. Roosevelt, it was revealed, fa vors the Inclusion of silver in the met al base of currency issues to the ex tent of 30 per cent, the remaining 70 per cent to be gold. This change can be safely made, however, the President points out only by international agree ment whereby all the signatory nations would admit silver to their reserves against which paper money is Issued. In the London economic and mone + tary conference Senator Key Pittman offered such a plan, proposing that cen tral banks keep 20 per cent, or one fifth, of their metal cover or reserve for currency In silver. The proposal was not acted on at the conference. CHESTER C. DAVIS, head of the Farm Adjustment administration, announced that the national milk con trol program designed to help dairy farmers had been withdrawn ''because we do not feel that it has sufficient support from the farmers." If senti ment changes it may be revived later, but for the present, only minor fea tures are to be carried out. These include dairy purchases for relief pur poses and reduction In the number of diseased cattle. The program, worked out after months of study and argument, called for benefit payments of from $105, 000,000 to $300,000,000 to dairymen who Joined In the plan. In return, the producers were to reduce their milk flow 10 per cent below the peak months of the 1932-1933 period. As In the case of other farm pro grams, the funds for benefit payments were to come from a processing tax. Tills was to be one cent a pound on hutterfat and the figure was to be raised gradually to five cents a pound. OSCAR DE PRIEST, negro con gressman from Chicago, won a victory In his fight to remove the house restaurant bar against members of his race. He obtained adoption of his resolution for Investigation of the right of Lindsay Warren of North Carolina to fix the rules and regula tions for the restaurant?which of course doesn't mean that negroes will be served In that dining room. The vote was 237 to 114, and the balloting followed the Mason and Dixon line al most without exception. Mr. De Priest showed his wisdom when he learned that some Commu nist organizations were planning to take advantage of the occasion by staging a demonstration against "Jim Crowism." He said no friend of bis would take part In this. CUBA asked for the extradition of Gerardo Machado, deposed presi dent of the Island republic, so a gen eral police alarm was sent out from Washington for his arrest. United States marshals went first to the apartment he had been occupying In New York, and were told by his secretary, Julio Fernandez, that he had left for parts unknown. Federal port authorities and .border officials were told to watch for the fugitive. If they can get him back, the Cu unu umiiui lues jiucliu lu ir> Jiuiuiiu'i on charges of murder based on whole sale shootings which occurred a few days before he fled from the Island. They also plan to ask extradition of Gen. Alberto Herrera, Macliado's for mer chief of staff, who like his master took refuge In the United States. Machado has lived In seclusion with members of his family In the Ba hamas, Canada and this country since his flight from Cuba. He established his New York residence about six months ago. WITH unexpected celerity the rail way executives and rail union chiefs readied an accord In the wage dispute, and the danger of a strike was averted for another year. At the instance of President Roosevelt but without government interference they worked out their own settlement after the federti negotiators had failed to get results and Co-ordinator Joseph B. Eastman had withdrawn as mediator. Under the arrangement decided npon the 10 per cent wage cut which has prevailed in the railroads during the last two years Is to be gradually wiped out in the next twelve months. Two and a half per cent of the exist ing wage cut Is to be restored July-1, another 2V4 per cent on January 1, and the remaining 5 per cent on April 1, 1935. In other words, Instead of a 10 per cent cut rail workers will have only a 7t4 per cent cut prevailing between July 1 and January 1, a 5 per cent cut prevailing between January 1 and April 1, and full pay restoration after April 1. These terms worked out by the em ployers and employees are actually more favorable to the workers than the terms which President Roosevelt twice asked them to accept When Informed of the settlement Mr. Roosevelt said: "I am very glad that the railroads and their employees have been able to' settle their wage dispute by mutual agreement The country should be, and will be, grateful to them for this disposition of what might have de veloped into a troublesome' contro versy. I congratulate both sides on the wisdom and restraint which they have exhibited. They have set a good example." OPEN hearings will begin May 2 by the senate committee on privi leges and elections on petitions for the removal from oflice of Huey P. I-ong, senator from Louisiana. Walter P. George of Georgia gave out notice that "only charges sufficient In substance and form" and which were not consid ered by the special campaign expendi tures committee last year would be In vestigated. Notices were sent to Mrs. Hilda Phelps Hammond. Mrs. Ruffln O. Pleasant and former Governor of Lou isiana John M. Parker, all of whom have filed petitions seeking removal of the "kingflsh." In the run-off Democratic primary In the Sixth Louisiana district to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Repre sentative Bolivar E. Kemp, Senator Long's candidate, Harry D. Wilson, was decisively beaten by Jared Y. San ders. Nomination In the primary Is equivalent to election. JOHN DILLINGEH, the notorious outlaw, and several members of his gang fought their way out of a trap laid by federal agents and possetnen ren nines easi or Manitowlsh, in north ern Wisconsin. In three desperate gun battles three men were killed and eight wounded, and the bandits escaped into the woods. Three wom en who had been with the Dlllinger gang were arrested. Two others were believed to have fled with the desperadoes. These iwo came rrom Minneapolis ana were thought to have warned Dlllinger of the Impending raid on the camp where he had been for several days. Some hours after the battles in Wis consin three members of the gang were seen by three deputy sheriffs in a suburb of St. Paul, Minn. A running gun fight ensued and one of the gang sters apparently was wounded, but the trio escaped and stole an automobile in which they headed for the bridge across the Mississippi river. Federal and local officials through out all that region were on the lookout for the Dillinger gang with the tacit understanding that the desperadoes would be shot on sight A MERICAN Federation of Labor chiefs have begun a drive to unionize the telephone workers of the country. They charge the American Telephone and Telegraph company is violating the NRA laws through Its company unions. It Is also asserted that financiers are buying up small telephone companies in the Middle West and Chicagoland at unreasonable prices and then forcing the stock on their employees at fat profits for themselves. Besides demanding that stock sales to employees be outlawed under the pending NRA code for the telephone industry, the A. F. of L. workers told Deputy Administrator L. If. Peeples that the NRA should force the tele phone companies to stop expansion of dial telephone systems until such a time as employment conditions become normal. OFFICIALS of the Department of Agriculture believe the wheat carry-over into 1935 may amount to 340,000,000 bushels, and are studying the export markets to find a possible outlet for part of it. But they cannot develop an export policy until the work of the International wheat con ference at Rome is completed. The wheat carry-over on July 1 this year is expected to be about 205,000, 000 bushels, to which may be added 75,000,000 bushels surplus from this year's prospective crop of 700,000,000 bushels. Secretary Wallace has suggested that processing taxes on wheat might be Increased and that the amount of the tax ear-marked to promote ex ports might be raised from 2 to 4 or even 5 cents. A 5-cent tax on the 400,000,000 bush els yearly processing of taxable wheat would return approximately $20,000, 000, compared with the $7,000,000 to be spent In exporting wheat this year. This total would be sufficient to ex port about the 00,000,000-bushel quota given the United States under the In ternational agreement on the basis of the differential of 22,/& cents between the domestic and world prices. PASSAGE through the Panama canal of the American fleet of 111 vessels, | on the way from the Pacific to the At lantic, was carried out successfully, but not in the hoped for 21 hours. The time consumed was almost double that, [ which led the Tokyo press to declare the movement was a "failure." IN AN exteiuimraneott* address at ar? exhibition in connection with the ,federal subsistence homestead proj ects, Mr. Itoosevelt anwered various critics of his administration with the | declaration that the New Deal is a | program of evolution, not revolution. Praising the homestead system as one of the administration's foremost achievements in helping depression stricken families to gain a fresh start in life, Mr. Itoosevelt denied charges that the program contemplated "regl j mentation" of great numbers of people. "There Is no regimentation," the President said. "We are not going to take people by force from one com munity and put them In another." In the long run. he said, the sub sistence homesteads will cost the gov ernment less than It would cost to keep [ these families on direct relief. "We will work out a system for those families, brain trust or other wise. In an effort to discover n**w things for communities to do." he acid. C by Western New*poper Union. I R. Q. Tugwell Gerardo Machado John Dillinger Site of the Grand Coulee Project on the Columbia MORE than 4,000 men will be given Jobs on the Grand Coulee project on the Columbia river In the state of Wash ington. This power development project which has been described as "the Muscle Shoals of the Northwest'' is being built and will be operated by the federal government. The Public Works administration has made nn allotment of $15,000,000 to the bureau of reclamation, Department of the Interior, to carry the work forward. The dam and power plant will cost about $63,000,000. The picture shows a portion of the east excavation. The dam will create a lake in the river 50 miles long. It will be built to a height of 335 feet It is proposed to Install eight generating units with a I capacity of 700,000 horsepower. . BEDTIME STORY FOR CHILDREN By THORNTON W. BURGESS * THE SQUEAKY VOICE "TITUO'S that?'* Peter Rabbit ? V pricked up his ears and stared up at the tops of the trees in the Old Orchard. Instantly Jenny Wren popped her head out of her doorway. She cocked her head one side to listen, then looked down at Peter. "I don't hear any strange voice," she snapped. "The way you are staring, Peter Rab bit, one would think you were hearing ; something new and worth while." Just then there were two or three sharp, squeaky notes from the top of one of the trees. "There!" cried Peter. "There! Didn't you hear that, Jenny Wren?" "For goodness sake, Peter Rabbit, you don't mean to say that you don't know whose voice that is?" cried Jenny. "That's Rosebreast. I didn't suppose there was anyone who didn't i know that sharp, squeaky voice. It rather gets on my nerves. What any body wants to squeak like that for when he can sing as Rosebreast can. Is more than I can understand." At that very instant Mr. Wren be gan to scold as only he and Jenny can. Peter looked up at Jenny and winked slyly. "And what anyone wants to scold like that for when he can sing as Mr. Wren can is too much for me," retorted Peter. "Rut you haven't told me who Rosebreast is." "The grosbeak of course, stupid!" sputtered Jenny. "If you don't know I Rosebreast the Grosbeak, Peter Rab bit, you certainly must have been blind and deaf ever since you were born. Listen to that! Just listen to that song!" Peter listened. That song was com ing from the very tree from which had come those squeaky notes a few minutes before. Peter looked puzzled. "Do you mean Welcome Robin's song?" he asked sheepishly. "No, I don't mean Welcome Robin's song," snapped Jenny. "What good are a pair of long ears If they can't tell one song from another? That i song may sound something like Wel | come Robin's, but it's different, and it's . better. That Is Rosebreast singing, and there he is right In the top of that tree. Isn't he handsome?" Peter looked up to see a bird nearly the size of Welcome Robin. Ills head, tbroat, and back were black. His wings had patches of white on them. But his breast made I'eter catcli his breath with a little gasp of admira tlon. It was a beautiful rose red. The rest of him underneath was white. It was Itosebreast the Grosbeak. "Oh 1" cried Peter. "Isn't he love ly?" ?. T. W. Burgess.?WXU Service. e?YOl J Know? I ****** | Mthat the first acco^^^fl j any dock on record is of one sent by the Sultan of Egypt 'o the Emperor Frederick II., in the 13th century. The oldest public I dock still in service?with its original mechanism?is the one in Rye Parish Church, England. It was | built in 1515 and cannon \ balls were used as weights. I J ?mi S?n ' EONECS ? AVriSry A foible Is a tale or story which gen erally bas a moral as in Aesop's Foibles. BONERS are actual humorous tid-bita found in examination pa pers, essays, etc., by teachers. New Zealand Is an island off the coast of Maine. ? ? ? Orion Is a gaily plumed bird. ? ? ? Nome Is a character In the Bible. ? ? ? A filibuster Is a wild part** ? ? t Lenin Is a kind of d ? ? ? Prlmo Rivera Is a winter resort. ? ? ? Jenny I.Ind was a midget In Bnrnuni and Bailey's circus. ?. Doll Syndicate ?WNU Service. TlblhensCooK Book NEW DISHES WITH macaroni, spaghetti and noo dles pushing themselves into our menus from soup to de.-aert. we are obliged to note Mne hew wa; serving these most wholesome foods, if we keep up to date. Spaghetti Alaska. Cook one-half pound of spaghetti In boiling salted water until tender. Drain, cut Into pieces and chill. Re move the bones and skin from a large can of salmon and shred Into fine pieces Add one teaspoon of grated onion, one tablespoon of lemon Juice, one-half cup of chopped celery and season to taste with salt. Pour boil ing water over a package of lemon gelatin, using one cup of water, stir until dissolved, then add three-fourths of a cup of cold water and set aside to thicken. Mix one-third of a cup of mayonnaise with the salmon and gelatin and pour Into a mold and chill. Whip one cup of cream until stiff, add two tablespoons of vinegar, salt and paprika and the cooked spa ghetti. Unmold the salad and serve on ? bed of lettuce with the spaghetti and cream in a ring around it Sprin kle with paprika. Fried Macaroni Slices. For variety tills makes a most tnst} breakfast dish, served with broiled slices of bacon. Cook one-half pound of macaroni In salted water until ten der. Drain and blanch, add two beaten eggs, one-half teaspoon of salt and one-half cup of milk. I'ress into a greased pan and bake in a hot oven for an hour. When cold unmold, slice and fry a golden brown. Spaghetti Muffins. Cook two ounces of spaghetti until tender, drain and cut into half-inch pieces. There should be three-fourths of a cup. Sift one-fourth of a cup of sugar, one teaspoon of salt, five tea spoons of baking powder and two cups of flour. Mix spaghetti with one beaten egg, three tablespoons of melt ed butter and one cupful of milk. Add the liquids to the dry Ingredients and beat well. Hake in greased muffin pans In n hot oven for 30 minutes. ? by Western Newspaper Union. I PAPA KNOWS-1 i ?Top, what is an apparition?'' "Caesar's ghost." ?. Bell arfedleate.?WXU Service. Where Tarantula Gets Name The giant spider tarantula gets its nam? from Tarentum, ancient seaport of southeastern Italy, where the pests were common years ago. Sheep in the Rain By ANNE CAMPBELL TUE sheep on the hillside are caught In the rain. Like ns they are powerless under its beat. We push on the starter and struggle in vain To climb the tall hill where the two roadways meet. The car and Its master, impatient and worn. Seem helpless as sheep, and almost as forlorn. But soon we will be at the top of tho hill. And the sheep without shelter will face the storm still, iteslgned to their fate, with a patience as vast As the world, they will wait till the tempest Is past. They are wiser than we, for they know?the storm done? Their Shepherd will send them bis blessing?the Sun! Copyright.?WNU Service. All-Weather Coat An all-weather coat of wool tweed, man-tailored, raplan model, cravenet ted. A topcoat which can be used for clear and stonny weather, the year round. GICIPSP K L ? "Those of us that had 6aved for a rainy day," says stinting Stell, "never expected it to be a cloudburst." Dell Syndicate.?tTNC Service. Mighty Rock and Mighty Thoroughbreds EVEN the mighty rock of Gibraltar cannot put the ever popular sport of horse racing in the shade. The quaintly situated course where weekly meets are held Is well known to men of the British navy, who patronize the track when ever they get the opportunity.
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