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THE ALAMANCE GLEANER VOL. LX. GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY MAY 31, 1934. NO. 17. News Review of Current Events the World Over House Committee Votes to Impeach Judge Woodward? Troops Suppress Labor Riots in Two Stated Chicago's Fair Reopened. By EDWARD W. PICKARD ? by Western Newspaper Union. FIFTEEN' of twenty members of the house committee on judiciary voted for Impeachment action against Fed eral Judge Charles E. Woodward of Judge C. E. Woodward Chicago, and it was announced that for mal charges against hlra would be drawn up and presented on the floor of the house within a few days. The house must then decide the matter of impeachment and if it finds the charges sub stantiated the Jurist will be tried at the bar of the senate. Ac cording to reports in ?i aoniiigiuii, iia&iaiJi uepuuaiu ??a iu be the major charge against Judge Woodward, this being based on evi dence showing he appointed the law firm of Loucks, Eckert & Peterson to many lucrative attorneyships in bank ruptcy and equity receivership cases; that his son, Harold, was employed by this firm, and that Harold's compensa tion was raised from about $2,000 to $13,000 a year soon after Judge .Wood ward began making those appoint ments. The vote In the committee was non partisan. Three members were absent. Eleven Democrats and four Republi cans vote<k for impeachment Of the five casting their ballots against im peachment four were Republicans, one was a Democrat LABOR troubles became so serious that state troops were mobilized In Minneapolis and in Toledo, Ohio, and despite the presence of soldiers there was a great deal of rioting and violence. In Minneapolis the striking teamsters and building tradesmen re jected an order of the regional labor board to end the strike immediately and Insisted on fighting to a finish. The employers had accepted the labor board's terms. Governor Olson had brought 3,700 men of the National Guard to the city. In the midst of the disorder on the streets, Congressman Francis H. Shoemaker was arrested for inciting violence and was found guilty, being given the choice of ten days' confinement in the workhouse or a $50 fine. Toledo's battle centered about the plant of the Electric Auto-Lite com pany in which 1,800 non-striking em ployees had been besieged for fifteen hours by a great mob of riotous strik ers and frequently fired upon by snipers on the roofs of nearby build ings. The windows of the plant were all broken by stones, and torches thrown through them started many fires. The police used tear gas bombs but were roughly handled by the mobs, so six companies of state troops were called out and they, marching with fixed bayonets, scattered the strikers and released the imprisoned employ ees. Later the strikers and their friends gathered again and fought furiously with the troops, showering them with bricks and paving stones. Dozens of soldiers were injured and finally the exasperated guardsmen fired on the mobs, two rioters being killed and many wounded. Tear gas and the more powerful "knockout" gas were freely used by both sides. Charles P. Taft, son of the late President, was sent from Washington to Toledo as special mediator for the national labor board of the NRA. S:\ATOR ROBINSON. majority leader, heard rumors that some senators were planning a filibuster for j the purpose of killing the administra tlon's tariff bargain ing bill. lie said he was ready to squelch any such scheme by prolonging the daily sessions of the sen ate. "If that Is the Intention we will meet at 10 a. m, and stay until 8 p. m.t" he said. "And, if that d o e s n't work, we'll come here at 9 a. m. and stav till the Sen. Robinson game hour Id the evening." The house, after two days of work, passed the administration's Industry loan bill and sent It back to the senate. The senate had approved a bill fixing the maximum total RFC five-year loans at $250,000,000 and limiting the amount the twelve federal reserve banks could advance to $230,000,000. But the house discarded the senate provisions and Inserted Its own. which Increase the RFC total to $300,000,000 and cut the reserve bank maximum to $140,000,000. The differences were to be adjusted In conference. CLARENCE DARROW'S report on the NRA, submitted some time ago to President Roosevelt, has been made public, and In the main it was Just what was expected from the Chicago lawyer and his colleagues. It analyzed eight of the more Important codes and found that seven of them foster monopolies, help big business and do a lot toward putting small concerns out of business. These seven codes are: Electrical manufacturing, foot wear division, rubber manufacturing, motion pictures, retail solid fuel, steel, ice, and bituminous coal. The report found no monopolistic features In the cleaners and dyers' code. Administrator Johnson and his chief counsel, Donald R. Richberg, had been given the report previously for the purpose of composing a reply to It This they did, to the extent of 50,000 vigorous words. They answered all the Darrow charges and asserted the report was "superficial," "intemperate," "inaccurate," "prejudiced," "one sided," "inconsistent," "nonsensical," "insup portable," "false," and "anarchistic." Darrow came back with a caustic answer that drew further violent lan guage from the NRA chiefs, and the battle then became general. Senator Gerald P. Nye, Republican, of North Dakota, a supporter of Darrow's views, spoke for hours in the senate, demand ing that congress stay in session until the existing "abuses" are corrected. Next came a bitter attack from or ganized labor, asserting that the Dar row board's report was "a disservice to the nation and its citizens in a time of great economic stress." A row broke out In the Darrow group that left several members not on speaking terms with one another. William O. Thompson, a member of the board, accused Lowell Mason, the board's counsel, of tampering with the records, and Mason's one-time connec tion with the Insull interests was brought up. Darrow and General Johnson, strangely enough, took a social ride to Mount Vernon In the administra tor's car, but seemingly ail they talked about was history and religion. DAT HURLEY, former secretary of * war, appeared before the senate civil service committee In a warlike mood and angrily demanded that Patrick J. Hurley eral who inn rip there be a full exami nation of charges that he was party to a patronage plot hatched by Republicans at his home In Virginia. He declared that it should be determined whether the Depart ment of Justice is out to smear all members of the preceding administra tion or whether A. V. Dalrymple, the special assistant attorney gen thp la 'Mnct an Irresponsible falsifier In charge of the wooden pistol section of the De partment of Justice." Mr. Dalrymple read to the commit tee letters from C. \V. Broom and Lee Shannon, who told the Justice department assistant that persons whom they declined to name had In formed them of the meeting at Hur ley's home, where prominent Repub licans were alleged to have planned how they could hold on to patronage Jobs despite the change in administra tion. Dalrymple denied that he had made the charges himself. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT told con gress what kind of silver bill he was willing to accept?the compro mise explained In this column recently ?and such a measure was promptly Introduced by Senator Key I'ittman. Some members of the silver bloc were far from satisfied with the bill, but there was every Indication that It would be passed before the end of the session, the senators from the silver states accepting It In lieu of anything better from their point of view. If they sought to defeat It the probable result would be a long fight and no silver bill whatever. The bill really leaves to the discretion of the Presi dent the making of silver a part of the monetary system and the stabiliza tion of Its price. CHICAGO'S exposition, A Century of Progress, was reopened for an other summer with a big military parade and much ceremony. The fair has been reconstructed and redecop a ted and is a bigger and better expo sition this year than the one that called . forth so much enthusiastic praise in 1933. The best of the former ex hibits and features have been retained, but many new ones have been added and everything has been brought up to date. There are 12 new foreign villages for the edification and amuse ment of visitors; the Chicago and De troit symphony orchestras will give long series of fine concerts; the scien tific and manufacturers' exhibits have I been vastly Improved and enlarged; the "Midway," bettered in various ways, has been moved to the lake front of the island; and the entire ex position Is resplendent with new colors and new lighting. IF REPORTS from Peiping are true, the Japanese have perpetrated an- : other outrage on the helpless Chinese in Manchukuo. The story Is that Chinese farmers in the southeastern part of the puppet state refused to give up their arms on demand of the Japanese troops and that as a result army planes bombed twenty farm vil lages, killing a thousand persons. In juring hundreds oft others and destroy ing all the homes. CONSTITUTIONAL government has been discarded by another Euro pean nation. In a bloodless coup d'etat the Bulgarian army took control of King Boris \rnmKnl.a ? V, tnat country unaer a military dictatorship. King Boris either sponsored the move ment or quietly yield ed to it. He promptly signed about thirty decrees that were pre pared in advance, dis solving the parliament and putting the new government in power, with Kimon Guero guieff as premier. mciuucio vi IUC iviujci gu>ciiiuicui and several other persons were ar rested. Not only in Sofia, the capital, but throughout the country the mili tary leaders were In control. The program of the new govern ment was set forth In a long mani festo calling for the creation of a dis ciplined, orderly state. The principal alterations in the structure of the gov ernment include a sharply reduced membership in the legislature, which is to be under firm control of the administration, a reduction In num ber of the country's political sub divisions, a general weeding out of municipal and provincial authorities, and an Intensification of attention upon the interests of villages and rural regions. Boris, the forty-year-old king, may i be relegated to a position of compara- | tive unimportance, as was the king of Italy by Mussolini and his Fascists. But Boris is known as a good fighter i and perhaps he can keep himself at the head of his people in fact as well as In name. FOR more than thirty years the rad ical La Folletteites of Wisconsin have been operating as Republicans and under that label have competed, oiten witn success, j for control of the \ state. Now this Is to be changed. With the aid of delegates from labor and farm or ganizations. the fol lowers of Senator La Foliette, assembled In convention in Fond du Lac, formed a new party and named it the Progressive party. No statement of prin ciples was made, all Senator La Folletta attempts to bring one forth being squelched. Senator La Follette kept In the bark ground until questions of organiza tion were settled. With the party name decided, the senator came into the picture with a prepared speech. The period called Republican pros perity, he said, had culminated In the collapse of the country's economic life. "The disaster of 19*29 and the acute distress and suffering of the American people that followed, were made pos sible by the betrayal of the people's trust by men in both parties, con trolled through their party organic tlons by privileged interests." A few hours later a state central committee was formed, with former Gov. Philip La Follette an Its chair man, and In Milwaukee It began map ping out the campaign for the autumn congressional and state elections. Approximately $8,000,000 dam age was done by a conflagration In Chicago that was described as the worst that city had experienced since the great fire of 1871. It started In the Union Stock Yards, familiar to all visltora to the city, and within a few hours had swept over an area equivalent to about eight city blocks. The flames also leaped across Flalsted street, destroying many shops and res ldences. Happily only one human life was lost, though the Injured, mostly j flreroen. numbered some 1,100. As the stock pens were comparatively empty over the week-end. the loss of live i itock waa restricted. , I Tercentennial of the First Passion Play I I THREE hundred years ago, In 1634, the pious peasants of Oberammergau, a little village in the Bavarian Alps of southern Germany, gave the first presen tation of the Passion Play. This was In fulfillment of a vow made the previous year for relief from the plague that had devastated Europe following the Thirty Years war. For three centuries the folk of Oberammergau have kept the vow and the performance this summer marks the tercentennial of the play. Oberammergau is prepared to take care of a great throng. This illustration shows, above, the scene of the Last Supper; and below, left I to right, Alois Lang, woodcarver, who \ portrays Christ, and Annl Rutz, an office worker, who has the part of the Virgin Mary. BEDTIME STORY FOR CHILDREN By THORNTON W.BURGESS AN ALL-DAY SONGSTER OVER in a maple tree on the edge of Farmer Brown's dooryard lived Redeye the Vireo and his little mate. Peter Rabbit knew that they had a nest there, because Jenny Wren had told him so. He would have guessed it anyway, because Redeye spent so much time in that tree. No matter what hour of the day Peter visited the Old Orchard, he heard Redeye singing over in the maple tree. He thought to himself that if song is an expression of happiness, Redeye must be the hap piest of all birds. Redeye was a little fellow of about the size of one of the Warblers and quite as modestly dressed as any of Peter's acquaintances. The crown of his head was gray with a little black ish border. Underneath he was white. For the rest, he was dressed In light olive green. The first time he came down near enough for Peter to see him well, Peter understood why he is called Redeye. His eyes were red. Yes, sir, his eyes were red, and this fact alone was enough to distinguish him from any other members of his family. But It wasn't often that Redeye came down so near the ground that Peter could see his eyes. He pre ferred to spend most of his time in the tree tops, and Peter only got glimpses of him now and then. But if he didn't see him often, it was less often that he failed to hear him. "I don't see when Redeye finds time to | eat," declared Peter as he listened to the seemingly unending song In the | maple tree. "Redeye believes In singing while he works," said Jenny Wren. "For my part, I should think he'd wear his throat out. Just listening to him makes my own throat sore. When other birds sing they don't do anything else, but Redeye sings all the time he Is hunt ing his meals, and only stops long enough to swallow a worm or a bug when he finds it. Just as soon as It Is down he begins to sing again while he hunts for another. I must say for the Redeyes that they are mighty good nest builders. Have you seen their nest over in that maple tree, Peter?" Peter shook his head. "You prob ably couldn't see it anyway," declared Jenny Wren. "It is high up, and those leaves are so thick that they hide it. It's a regular little basket fastened in a fork near the end of a branch, and it is woven almost as nicely as Is the nest of Goldy the Oriole." "What's it made of?" asked Peter. "Strips of bark, plant down, spider's web, grass, and pieces of paper," re plied Jenny. "That's a funny thing about Redeye?he dearly loves a piece of paper in his nest. He's as fussy about having a scrap of paper as Cres ty the Flycatcher Is about having a piece of snakeskin. I had just a peep Into the nest a few days ago, and un less I am greatly mistaken, Sally Sly the Cowbird has greatly imposed on the Redeyes. I am certain I saw one of her eggs in their nest." ?, T. W. Burgeu.?WNU Service. rfofeCooPoolt DAINTY DESSERTS THERE Is no dessert which so ap peals to the appetite as ices or other frozen dishes, during the warm days. Here are half a dozen that will be appreciated by both the children and their elders: Three Fruits Ice. Put three cupfuls of cold water, three cupfuls of sugar and the grated rind of one orange and one lemon Into a saucepan. Add one tablespoonful of gelatin dissolved In one cupful of boil ing water. Simmer five minutes. Cut the pulp of three oranges, three grape fruit and three lemons Into small pieces and add to the sirup when cold. Stir In the stiffly beaten whites of three eggs, freeze and serve with the meat course. Fruit Potpourri. Cut one and one-half cupfuls of orange into small pieces discarding all the membrane, but reserving the Juice. Mix with one cupful of sliced peaches, three tablespoonfuls of pine apple Juice and arrange In glasses. Add onettrtrd of * cupful of sugar, one half cupful of crushed pineapple, mix well and garnish with a maraschi no cherry. Banana Cream for Cake Filling. Cream oho-fourth of a pound of but ter, add gradually one and one-fourth cupfuls of powdered sugar and one half cupful of banana pulp. Mix well and use as rake filling or pudding sauce for cooked rice or cottage pud ding. Add any flavoring desired. Simple Fruit Salad. Take two cupfuls of orange sections, one-half cupful of peeled and halved grapes, two tablespoonfuls of grape Juice and serve with french dressing. Fruit Ice. Rub three peeled bananas through a sieve, add the strained Juice of three oranges and three lemons, two cupfuls of sugar, three cupfuls of water and a pinch of salt. Freeze. Add thin cream Instead of the water and one will have a delightful cream. Milk Sherbet, Three of a Kind. Mix the juice of three oranges and three lemons with the mashed pulp of three bananas, add three cupfuls of sugar and three cupfuls each of milk and cream. Stir until the sugar is dissolved and freeze. ? by Western Newspaper Union. (QUESTION BOX By ED WYNN ... Tfc? Ptrftrt Fool Dear Mr. Wynn: Apropos of the milk question, one thing has always bothered me. Could you possibly tell me why "cream" is always more expensive than "milk?" Yours truly, SUE PERRIN TENDANT. Answer?The reason cream is more expensive than milk is simply because it is harder for the cows to sit on little bottles. Dear Mr. Wynn: When I was in England, last sum mer, I was simply fascinated by the uniformed policemen in London. What struck my fancy most were the hats they wore. Every hat I saw had a chin strap on It. What I want to know is this, do they wear those chin straps | to keep their hats on? Truly yours, SIM PILTON. Answer?Don't be silly, of course not. Those chin straps are for the policemen to rest their jaws on after answering foolish questions. Dear Mr. Wynn: I bought a horse from a man who ^you Know? ~ L I -4"hat April, the fourth I month of our year waa the aecond month of the an cient Romans. Authorities differ as to the origin of thf tmrna, but it is poasfhle diet April was origlnaJhr Aph rifls, from Aphromta, the Greek name of Venus. ? kdoimsiM'i WNU Servic* The Blacksmith's Daughter By ANNE CAMPBELL L_T OW many times she watched him, as a child, Shaping a heavy shoe. The forge was hot . . . the sum mer morning mild. . . , The anvil's ring was true. And now that she is older, she knows well. As he has turned the steel. So had he cast her heart?a sounding bell? That makes him her Ideal! The years have touched him lightly. . . . They betoken. As evening colors blend. She Is, as she was then?with faith unbroken? OIs daughter and his friend! ? br Western Newspaper Union. told me the horse could beat anything In his class. The first race I put him In, he losL Can you account for that? Tours truly, I. M. MORVICH. Answer?He was out of his class. Dear Mr. Wynn: I noticed a great number of young boys selling newspapers on the streets. One lad I saw could not hare been more than ten years of jge and he was carrying about fifty newspapers. Wouldn't you think they would make the poor little fellow tired? Sincerely, HUGH MANNY TAIRIAI*. Answer?Not necessarily. He prob ably doesn't read them. Dear Mr. Wynn: My boss Is going to gi.e me a day off nest week. I would like to go some place, but I haven't any clothes to wear. What shall I do? Truly yours. TY PRYTER. Answer?If you really haven't any clothes to wear, spend the day at Coney Island. e the Associated Newspapers WNU Service 1 "Tell a woman she doesn't look well/' says catty Katie, "and she will try a new hat before she will a doc tor." ?. Bell Syr.dlcate.?W>X Service. Mississippi River Widths The Mississippi river at its extreme mouth Is not very wide. The different openings through the delta are called passes and none of them is more than two miles wide at any point, while most are much narrower. "Flipper" Likes His Milk and Water nrLU'l'KK," two months old baby seal, was rescued at Long Beach, Calif., " ay Carl Johnson, nineteen-year-old school boy. Hipper, who was marooned on a float, climbed on Johnson's back, was safely brought to shore and after several weeks of being fed two quarts of milk every day from a bottle, has be come strong and very much attached to his young master. He follows him around like a puppy and both enjoy swimming together.