THE ALAMANCE GLEANER
VOL. LX. GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY MAY 24, 1934. NO. 16.
News Review of Current
Events the World Over
Reed's Victory Over Pinchot Delights Opponents of New
Deal?NRA Will Abandon Codes for
, Small Businesses.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
i ? by Western Newspaper Union.
SENATOR DAVID A. REED of
Pennsylvania, fighting In the Re
publican primaries for re-nomination,
emerged from the hectic battle vlcto
rlous over his rival.
Gov. Gilford Pinchot
Reed's majority was
In the neighborhood
of 100,000, and long
before all the returns
were In Governor Pin
ehot gave up and
wired his congratula
tions to the senator.
Since Senator
Reed, one of the Old
Guard conservatives,
has been an unrelent
Senator Reed
lng critic of the New Deal, and Gov
ernor Pinchot, a "progressive" Repub
lican, has given his full support to
President Roosevelt's policies, the re
sult of the primaries was hailed with
glee by opponents of the national ad
ministration. Both the candidates
made the New Deal the issue In their
campaign, and when the governor was
prevented by illness from making
speeches, Mrs. Pinchot took the stump
and vigorously defended the Presi
dent's programs of recovery. Notwith
standing all this, Postmaster Farley
said: "I do not regard the defeat of
Governor Pinchot as a New Deal test,"
and Senator Joseph T. Robinson, Dem
ocratic leader, took the same attitude.
President Roosevelt refused to Com
ment
Senator Daniel O. Hastings of Del
aware, chairman of the Republican
congressional campaign committee, is
sued a pronouncement that the Penn
sylvania primary result was "a great
victory for the American citizen who
wants a square deal and not a New
Deal."
Governor Pinchot, who has tried
twice before to get into the senate,
said he would continue to fight for the
interests of the people against concen
trated wealth, and it was reported that
he would run independently in Novem
ber.
Joe Guffey, Democratic leader in
Pennsylvania, easily won his party's
nomination for the senate, but the Re
publicans claim he will have small
chance against Reed in the election.
New Jersey also held a primary elec
tion. The Republicans nominated Sen
ator Hamilton F. Kean for re-election
and Harold G. Hoffman for governor.
The Democrats who will oppose them
are Gov. Harry A. Moore and Judge
William L. Dill.
LEADERS of the Republican party
in Indiana turned down Senator
Arthur R. Robinson quite decisively.
They not only defeated his plan to
gain control of the party organization,
hut also refused to give assurance that
he would be unopposed for renomina
tion in the state convention June 5.
The best the senator could get was an
indorsement of his fight in the senate
"for constitutional government" and
for his stand "against bureaucracy as
exemplified by the Democratic party
and its administration."
Among those mentioned as possible
rivals of Robinson for the nomination
are former Senator Jim Watson, for
mer Representative Frederick Landis
and former Gov. Harry G. Leslie. Rob
inson angered the state committee by
attacking its officers.
IN ORDER that congress may ad
journ June 5, the President and sev
eral congressional leaders got together
and pared down the legislative pro
gram. They agreed to limit the "must"
bills to four measures. These are:
The one billion, three hundred mil
lion-dollar emergency appropriation
bill carrying funds for the continua
tion of the New Deal relief activities.
The communications control bill pro
posing the consolidation of federal reg
ulation over all communications.
The loans to Industries bill, author
izing RFC and federal reserve bank
advances to smaller industries on in
termediate credit terms.
The deposit Insurance extension bill,
continuing the temporary federal bank
deposit guarantee plan for another
year In lieu of putting the permanent
program contained in the Class bank
ing bill into efTect at this time.
Mr. Roosevelt sent to congress a
message explaining why the first
named bill is necessary, and urging
that no more than the amount asked
be appropriated.
One other measure that may be put
through at this session is the silver
bill opon which the President and the
silver bloc agreed and which was to
be Introduced with a message from
Mr. Roosevelt As predicted, this Is
a compromise containing these pro
visions :
A declaration of policy that the gov
ernment recognizes silver as primary
money and that the nation's metallic
reserves shall be 25 per cent silver
and 75 per cent gold. This is manda
tory.
The secretary of the treasury is au
thorized and directed to purchase sil
ver until it reaches $1.29 an ounce or
until its metallic reserve strength
reaches 25 per cent. This is both per
missive and mandatory.
The President is authorized to na
tionalize silver through condemnation.
This is permissive.
CONSIDERATION of the records of
three Chicago federal judges in
receivership and bankruptcy cases were
under consideration by the house judi
ciary committee, with the possibility
of impeachment in prospect. A sub
committee turned in a report on the
jurists, Charles E. Woodward, James
H. Wilkerson and Walter G. Lindley,
making no recommendations for or
against impeachment but criticizing
sharply their allowances for attorney
and receiver fees.
With respect to Judge John P.
Barnes, who has handled several re
ceiverships and bankruptcies in the
federal courts at Chicago since 1933,
the subcommittee declared it had "no
criticism as to his conduct in these
matters."
GENERAL JOHNSON and his as
sistants in the NRA are tired of
trying to enforce the multiplicity of
codes for small groups, and therefore
the administration has
decided to abandon
thousands of those
arranged for lesser in
dustrial plants and
service establish
ments. In fact, to
regulate prices and
trade practices and
innumerable details in
countless small busi
nesses has proved to
be impracticable and
the effort has taken
Gen. Johnson
an outrageously large percentage of
XRA work and funds.
Johnson said he was working on
arrangements to substitute simple
agreements for codes covering small
Industries. These agreements mere
ly will cover wages, hours and the
collective bargaining guarantees of
the recovery act.
The silk textile industry found
itself overloaded with surpluses of
goods, and the NRA permitted all the
mills to shut down for one week, dur
ing which time 30,000 workers are un
employed. The shutdown was ordered
by the silk textile authority.
cip NATCHERS" are not faring so
^ well in the far west and south
west. Six-year-old June Robles, who
was kidnaped from Tucson, Ariz, was
found in a tomb-like hole where she
had been kept chained, and there were
good chances that her abductors would
be caught. The child was weak but
uninjured.
Los Angeles police in a sudden raid
freed William F. Gettle, oil millionaire
who had been kidnaped and held for a
large ransom, and arrested three of
the men who abducted him. The trio
confessed, were promptly given life
sentences and are now In the San
Quentin prison.
STRIKES In many branches of the
automobile industry will occur un
less the striking employees of the
Fisher Body plant at Flint, Mich., win
their demands, according to President
Green of the American Federation of
Labor.
"The strike of the workers em
ployed at the Fisher Body plant at
Flint, Mich., reflects the spirit of un
rest and discontent which prevails
among the automobile workers at the
present time," Green said in a state
ment
"There will be no peace in the au
tomobile Industry," he added, "until
the grievances of the workers are fair
ly settled, discrimination and coercion
stopped, the right of collective bar
gaining established and company
union domination and intimidation
stopped."
Dissatisfaction has been accentu
ated, be added, "because of the failure
of the automobile labor board to func
tion properly and effectively."
Labor troubles along the American
waterfronts increased daily. On the
Pacific coast thousands of seamen quit
work In sympathy with the striking
longshoremen, and the mayor of Se- I
attle usked Secretary of the Interior j
Ickes for federal troops to protect non- !
union workers. In the ports of the
Great Lakes a general strike of tug
men was threatened. At Galveston the
longshoremen were still out, and hun
dreds of other workers went on strike.
CAPT. GEORGE POND and Lieut.
Cesare Sabelll opened the ocean
flying season with an attempt to make
a nonstop hop from New York to
Rome?a thing that has never yet been
done. They ran Into dense fogs and
head winds over the Atlantic and then
had such serious engine trouble that
they were forced to land their big Bel
lanca monoplane, the Leonardo da
Vinci, on the west coast of Ireland.
According to their stories the aviators
were mighty fortunate that they did
not fall into the ocean and drown.
BY A vote of G2 to 13 the senate
passed the Fletcher-Rayburn bill
which places the securities markets of
the country under the regulatory con- !
trol of a federal commission. The
measure already had passed the house,
but with the provision that the federal
trade commission should be the regu
latory body, and this difference, to
gether with the house's provision for a
fixed margin requirement, caused some
delay In the conference. At a press
conference President Roosevelt stated
that he preferred the house version of
the bill in those two particulars and
that he had told the chairman of the
committees so, although he had kept
his hands ofT the measure until it was
passed by both house and senate.
TIIE White Star liner Olympic, com
ing slowly Into port In a fog,
rammed and sank the Nantucket light
ship, seven of the latter's crew being
killed and four, including Capt. George
Braithwaite, saved. Captain Binks of
the Olympic blames the accident on an
error In the radio direction beam
which he was following, though this
device has heretofore been considered
infallible. He admitted, however, that
at the time of the collision he was five
miles off his supposed course and that
his radio signals, submarine signals
and reckoning all misled him as to his
real position.
SECRETARY OF THE NAVY SWAN
SON announced that as soon as
funds can be obtained from the public
works appropriation asked by the
President, the construction of twenty
warships will begin. These vessels, It
is estimated, will cost $40,000,000.
This building program will include
twelve destroyers, two destroyer lead- j
ers, and six submarines, forming the
first year's progranTunder the Vinson !
act, which authorized the replacement j
of 102 ships to bring the navy up to j
full treaty strength by the end of 1939.
The policy of the administration Is to
lay down the rest oT the 102 replace
ment ships in the next four years.
"TI70RLD Good Will day" was
* * May 18, and to mark it stu
dents from colleges in all parts of the
j country gathered in Washington and
staged a demonstra
tion In support of
world disarmament.
Miss Elizabeth
Wheeler, daughter of
United States Senator
Burton K. Wheeler of
Montana, was chair
man of the affair, and
after the meeting
Miss Wheeler led a
delegation to the
White House and pre
sented to President
Roosevelt a petition
Miss Eliza
beth Wheeler
asking hira to take the lead in seeur- j
ing a world treaty for complete dis
armament.
News from abroad Indicates that
this Is imposing a tremendous task on j
Mr. Roosevelt, for the prospects of (
disarmament are growing slimmer
daily. There is no abatement of the
quarrel between France and Germany
over German rearming, and France
has lengthened the term of service of J
Its soldiers, which example Belgium
probably will follow. Hungary and
Jugoslavia are engaged in a bitter j
border dispute and the former has ;
asked for help from the League of f
Nations council, which has opened an- I
other session in Geneva. Japan, still
stubbornly aloof, seems to be soaking
a new cause for hostilities against
China, alleging that a number of Jap
anese soldiers were killed by Chinese
troops.
The League's commission on the
Paraguay-Bolivia war In the Gran
Chaeo submitted a re[?ort recommend
ing that all nations of the world, espe
cially the American republics, be
asked to Join In an effort to shut off
from the two South American coun
tries all the materials necessary to
carry on a war.
W.Vlt In Arabia has come to an end
for the present, an armistice hav
ing been officially announced. King
Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia, apparent
ly is the victor, for It was stated his
terms had been accepted by the Imam
Yabya of Yemen, though the terms
of the treaty were not made public i
Immediately. I
Fish Come to the Rescue of the Unemployed
ON TUE Willamette river In Ore
gon a record run of salmon was
welcomed by the unemployed, provid
ing many of them with a temporary
income. The boats of the anglers
were so close together that one could
cross the river by stepping from one
to another.
BEDTIME STORY FOR CHILDREN
By THORNTON W. BURGESS
AN UNEXPECTED FRIEND
WHILE Redcoat the Tanager was
telling Peter Rabbit of his dread
ful accident, Mrs. Tanager was flying
about in the treetops nearby, calling
anxiously. She did not look at all
like Redcoat, for she was dressed al
most wholly in light olive green and
greenish yellow. "He can't even fly up
Just a little way so as to get ofT the
ground!" she cried anxiously. "Isn't
it dreadful, Peter Rabbit, to have such
an accident happen? We've Just got
our nest half built, and I don't know
what I shall do if anything happens to
Redcoat. Oh, dear, here comes some
body! Hide, Redcoat! Hide!"
Poor Redcoat, with the old look of
terror in his eyes, hurried along, try
ing to find something under which
to hide. But there was no way of hid
ing that wonderful scarlet coat. Peter
heard the sound of heavy footsteps,
and looking back saw Farmer Brown's
Boy coming. "Don't be afraid. Red
coat," he whispered. "It's Farmer
Brown's Boy, and I'm sure he won't
hurt you. Perhaps he can help you."
Then he scampered off a short dis
tance and sat up to watch what would
happen.
Of course, Farmer Brown's Boy saw
Redcoat. No one with any eyes at all
could have helped seeing him because
of that wonderful scarlet coat. lie
saw, too, by the way Redcoat was act
ing, that he was in great trouble. Il?
understood Instantly that something
was wrong with one wing, and run
ning forward he caught Redcoat.
"You poor little thing. You poor
beautiful little creature," said Fanner
Brown's Boy softly as he saw the
cruel twig sticking through Redcoat's
shoulder. "We'll have to get that out
right away," continued Farmer
Brown's Boy, stroking Redcoat ever so
gently. Somehow at that gentle touch
Redcoat lost much of his fear and a
little hope sprang Into his heart. This
was no enemy, hut a friend. With his
knife Farmer Brown's Boy cut off the
twig on the upper side of the wing.
Then, doing his best to be careful and j
to hurt as little as possible, he worked |
the other part of the twig out from
the under side. Carefully be exam
ined the wing to see If any bones were
K^That the Albatross is one ?
6 of the largest sea-birds I I
h known, some measuring J /
|> 17 feet from tip to tip of J j
V expanded swings. It has ? I
I remarkable powers of H I
U flight and has been known J
/ to accompany ships for I
I days without ever resting I I
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broken. None was, and after holding
Kedcoat a few minutes, he carefully
set him up In a tree and withdrew a
short distance. Itedcoat sat there for
some time as If fearful of trying
that Injured wing. Meanwhile Mrs.
Tanager came and talked to him and
fussed about him and coaxed him and
made as much of him as if he were a
baby.
After a while he ventured to try his
wing and found that he could fly. Then
he and Mrs. Tanager disappeared In
the Green Forest.
"I knew Farmer Brown's Boy would
help him, and I'm so glad he found
him," cried peter happily and started
for the dey Old Brier Patch.
?. T. W. Burgess.?WNU Scrvlc?.
THIRST-QUENCHING DRINKS
LONG ago before a mixed drink was
ever thought of, the lemon wus
the king of fruit, used for refreshing,
healthful drinks as well aR served hot,
for medicinal purposes. Today it Is
more popular and more widely used,
as it Is needed to give zest to almost
any other fruit drink.
For those who like to have a tink
ling drink to offer a friend In a hurry,
BONECS
An epicure Is a man who claims he
has a cure for all mankind.
BONERS are actual humorous
tid-bits found in examination pa
pers, essays, etc., by teachers.
Fish In the sea are not "economic
goods" because they are no use to peo
ple If they haven't them.
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What does the executive department
of our government do? It executes
people.
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Diabolic was a man who went
around with a lantern searching for
an honest man.
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A mop Is a bunch of anything that
Is disorderly.
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An auger la a chill caused by a cold.
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A bridle Is something pertaining to
a bride.
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Chromium Is a poison gas or the
lightest metal known.
t Bell Syndicate ?WNU terrta*.
GCUGtGjO
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"After teeing the attention that it
showered upon the poodle," says Reno
Ritzi, "men begin to think the only
thing bad about leading a dog's life is
that the average twelvq years Is too
short."
?. Bell Syndicate?WNU Service.
the fruit Juice mixed with the sirup
Is a great convenience. Take one and
one-half cupfuis of lemon Juice and
add three cupfuis of sugar. Bring to
a boil and cook for ten minutes, then
bottle and place in the ice chest Use
the sirup in glasses of water and Ice
without any further preparation. A
tablespoonful or two to a glass is suf
ficient.
lemons as well as oranges are rich
In vitamin r. They are recommend
ed as the best kind of a preserver for
the teeth. Mix lemon Juice and salt
and use as a cleanser of teeth and gums.
Add water and use as a mouth wash.
It leaves the mouth feeling refreshed
and stimulated, is especially good for
the gums, to harden and keep them
firm and healthy.
s
Raisins.
Put one pound of raisins through
the food chopper, add a quart of water
and bring to a boll, then let stand over
night. Add the Juice of two lemons,
two tablespoonfuls of the sirup and
pour Into glasses half filled with
cracked Ice.
Coffee Caramel Parfait.
Scald one and one-half cupfuis of
milk with two tablespoonfuls of ^
ground coffee, add one-half cupful of
BUNDLE OF JOY
By ANNE CAMPBELL
MARILYNN'S her name, but we
Have another we employ!
It describes her perfectly!
Bundle of Joy!
There are sacks of shining gold.
There are silks of rarest dye.
There are bundles, which unrolled.
Capture the eye.
But a priceless tapestry
Spread against the blue of day
Does not mean as much to me
As one clear ray
From a baby's azure eyes!
With a glance both pure and coy
She can bring me Paradise!
Bundle of joy!
Copyright.?WNC Service.
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"Pop, what is ominousF*
"Blond's eyebrows."
?. Bell Syndicate.?WNU Service.
For Rainy Days
4 ! * _ _*_L . * ' I .'<^"54 . - . I .?*
Hero Is a neat raincoat of rubberized
eersuckcr in the English wrap-around
uodel. It is light in weight and at
ractlve.
laramelized sugar, one-fourth tea
poonful of salt to Uje strained milk
ind coffee. Beat two egg yolks with
?ne-half cupful of sugar and add to the
?tber Ingredients. Cool, add a tea
poonful of vanilla and one and one*
ialf cupfuls of cream. Pour Into a
nold and pack In Ice and salt for four
iours.
? by Western New*paper Union.
This College for Girls Has a Bar!
IT SOL.VDS startling to say that a girl student can amble rlgbt up to a bar
* in her college and order a drink. However, this new bar in Barnard college.
New i'ork City, serves only milk, which the girls bay for three cents a drink.