The Alamance Gleaner^
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VOL. LX. GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY OCTOBER 25, 1934. NO. 38.
News Review of Current
Events the World Over
Kidnaped Louisville Woman Ransomed for $50,000?
Jugoslavia's Murdered King Buried?Collective
Bargaining Plan of General Motors.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
? by Western Newspaper Union.
LOUISVILLE'S sensational kidnap
ing ease came to a climax with the
return of the victim, Mrs, Berry V.
Stoll, to her home. The young society
....... motrnn horl huan hold
captive for six days
in Indianapolis by
Thomas H. Robinson,
Jr., a maniac who had
twice been held in in
sane asylums. She was
treated rather roughly
but not really injured,
and was set free after
Mr. Stoll paid $50,000
.ransom. Robinson fled
?i*>, .11 hut Win nf
J. H. Rob n- tljjg gum an(j a coun.
?on, Jr. try-wide hunt for him
was at once begun. His wife and
father were arrested, charged with
complicity in the kidnaping. Mrs. Robin
son, however, was said to have protect
ed Mrs. Stoll to the best of her ability
and it was she who returned the ab
ducted woman to her relatives, aban
doning her crazy husband.
In Detroit one Edward Liekwala, a
youth with a police record, was ar
rested for attempting to extort $5,000
from Edsel Ford under threats of death.
He was promptly Indicted by a federal
grand Jury, pleaded guilty and was
sentenced to serve ten years in the
Leavenworth penitentiary. .
WITH overpowering pomp and cere
mony Alexander I, assassinated
king of Jugoslavia, was laid to rest
with his "lathers, the founders of the
Karageorgevitch dynasty. Nearly every
nation on earth was represented at the
funeral rites. King Boris of Bulgaria
and King Carol of Rumania were there,
as was President Lebrun of France.
King Victor Emmanuel of Italy was
represented by the duke of Spoleto,
and Chancellor Hitler of Germany by
(Gen. Hermann William Goerlng, premier
of Prussia, who flew from Berlin. Eng
land sent Prince George, now duke of
Kent Other notables present were
Prince Cyril of Bulgaria, a delegation
from Poland, Foreign Minister D. Maxi
mos of Greece, Foreign Minister Dr.
Tevflk Rustu Bey of Turkey, Foreign
Minister Dr. Eduard Benes of Czecho
slovakia, Foreign Minister Nicholas Ti
tnlescu of Rumania, Prince Nicholas of
Rumania, and Undersecretary of Jus
tice Karl Karwinsky of Austria, with
many others. ?
I Belgrade was thronged with many
thousands of Serbs, Croats and
Slovenes. One entire village of 900
peasants arrived ?from Herzegovina, a
picturesque crowd many of whom had
sworn not to shave for three months In
token of their grief.
1 For two days Alexander's body lay
In state in the palace while the people
passed by the bier. Then it was re
moved to the cathedral for requiem
high mass, after which there was a two
mile procession to the railway station.
From there the body was conveyed to
Topolo, 53 miles from the capital, and
Interred In the family mausoleum.
rMiENCH police having caught three
i"of the companions of "Kalemen,"
really Tschernocemskz, who slew Alex
ander and Louis Barthou in Marseilles,
the authorities of half a dozen coun
tries were making progress in unraveli
ng the assassination plot.
I From the confessions of those cap
tured and from the Investigations of
the police of France and Belgrade it
*as learned that Kalemen was a no
torious Macedonian terrorist named
Vaida Georgeff Tschernocemskz who
killed two Bulgarian political leaders
several years ago. He and his asso
jtiates in the plot were directed In their
murderous work by a mysterious "mas
ter mindjV and the aiilhorities-Ji&aert_
thia man. whom the assassins knew
as "'the doctor," controlled the activi
ties of several distinct terrorist bands
,*ho were ignorant of one another's
moves.
I Br. Ante .Pavelic, described as the
leader of the Croatian terorists,
^and Eugent Kvaternik, his aid,
*ere arrested In Turin, Italy Just
?a Alexander was being buried in Jugo
slavia. Kvaternik was known as the
delegate" and was supposed to have
acted as liaison man for Pavelic, mak
ing contact with the Marseilles as
massing.
The police had hunted them through
fcut Europe. Kvaternik was trailed as
far as the village of Etaples in France,
*here the trail was lost Pavelic, bow
ser. was known to be in Italy, and
the search turned there, on the theory
that the two would get together.
Continental police were still hunting
for Maria Vjoudroch, blond siren, who
? supposed to have smuggled into
i
France the murder weapons, and Ons
tav Perehec, alleged to have conducted
the Croatian exile "murder farm" at
Janka Bufta, Hungary, where the as
sassins held target practice.
Premier Doumergue's French cabi
net was considerably changed as a re
sult of the tragedy In Marseilles. Al
bert Sarraut, minister of the Interior,
and Henri Cheron, minister of Justice,
resigned and were replaced respective
ly by Paul Marchandeau and Henri
Lemery. Laval was made minister
of foreign affairs to succeed Barthou
and his place as minister of colonies
was given to Louis Rolltn.
PRANCE lost another of her elder
" statesmen in the death of Raymond
Polncare, who was president from 1913
to 1920 and returned later to public
service as premier. It was during that
period that he seized the Ruhr in an
effort to compel Germany to pay the
war reparations to France. Polncare
was born In Lorraine, and that fact ex
plained In part his unrelenting-attitude
toward Germany In dealing with post
war problems. Entering political life
in 1887, be was mixed up in many
prominent "affaires" and made a rec
ord as an intense patriot and a liberal
republican. In 1926, when he was
called out of retirement, he succeeded
In saving the country from Its dis
astrous financial state. Polncare was
seventy-four years old when he died,
and had been in poor health for some
years.
SECRETARY OF STATE HULL is
vexed by what he calls the "inde
fensible practice" of certain countries
In boosting tariffs or other restrictions
to obtain concessions by reducing them
again in negotiations with the United
States for trade agreements. He made
a statement about it, intimating that
under such conditions there may be a
failure of negotiations.
Although no nation was named, Ger
many has begun a program of con
trolled Imports and has denounced its
most-favored-nation treaty with the
United States, and France is increasing
tariffs.
FIRST shot in the coming contest be
tween the automobile manufacturers
and the American Federation of Labor
was fired by the General Motors cor
poratlon in the form
of an offer to Its 130,
000 employees of Its
own plan for collec
tive bargaining. In a
letter sent to every
worker President Al
fred P. Sloan, Jr.,
said: "We of the Gen
eral Motors recognize
?collective bargaining'
as a constructive step
fnriraril hnth fna ths?
' employees and the
management. Regardless of any obli
gations that may exist, we propose not
only to continue the Idea, but to de
velop it"
The plan, which actually Is already
In effect, was designed to meet all re
quirements of section 7A of the Na
tional Industrial Recovery act Though
the company In Its communication did
not mention the A. F. of L., It declared
that "membership In a labor union or
other type of labor or employee or
ganization does not In Itself establish
the right of aqy inch union or other or
ganization to represent employees In
collective bargaining negotiations. Rep
resentatives for such purpose must have
been specifically chosen by the em
ployees they are to represent and the
fact of such choice must be,estab
lished." /
Employees must be given Complete
freedom in. setting ua.._cQlAecUve..bar
gaining organizations and choosing
representatives, the company declared.
The management may, however, as
sist any employee organization In
plans for employees' mutual benefit,
provided that id the determination of
the right of employees to participate
In the benefits there Is no discrimina
tion by management on the ground of
affiliation with any labor organization.
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT went to
Williamsburg, Va., and took part
In the ceremonies attendant on the In
auguration of John Stewart Bryan as
president of the old College of William
and Mary. In return for his courtesy
Mr. Roosevelt was given the honorary
degree of doctor of laws The same
honor was conferred on Gov. George
C. Peery. The exercises were conduct
ed In the reconstructed main building
of the college, designed by Sir Chris
topher Wren.
On the same day took place the for
mal rededicatlon of Duke of Glouces
ter street, the city's main thorough
fare, which has been restored nearly
to Its original appearance as the last
major construction project of the res
toration of colonial Williamsburg.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., financial back
er of the restoration which already has
cost approximately 115,000,000, was
among the distinguished visitors pres
ent, along with cabinet members, con
gressmen, diplomats and educators.
ALL the members of the German
cabinet took the oath of loyalty
to Chancellor Hitler at their first fall
meeting, and then Dr. Hans Helnrlch
Lammers, chief of the chancellery of
fice, announced that "Adolf Hitler la
fuehrer for life." He added that the
Weimar constitution no longer exists.
Many laws were decreed by the cabi
net to carry on Hitler's policies These
Included laws reducing the tax burdens
of the big families and the cost of tax
administration, laws reorganizing co
operative associations and "purifying
the auctioneers' trade," laws altering
bankruptcy sales, reorganizing the traf
fic In grain "to enable the National
Grain company to control grain even
when the harvest Is reduced."
p EPUBLICAN senatorial candidates
a'v in nve states hare Incurred the
displeasure of organized labor, and
President Green of the American Fed-"j
eration of Labor has called on the
members to work for the defeat of
those men in the November elections.
The five are Senators Reed of Penn
sylvania, Walcott of Connecticut, Hat
field of West Virginia and Fess of
Ohio, all seeking re-election, and
George M. Bourquin, Republican nomi
nee In Montana.
Circular letters signed by Green re
view the records In congress of Reed,
Walcott Fess and Hatfield. They say
the candidates voted against the 30
hour work-week bill, for reduction of
federal salaries, for the sales tax and
for confirmation of Judge John J.
Parker of North Carolina to the Su
preme court after he had upheld what
union men call the "yellow dog" con
tract between employers and workers.
ORGANIZED labor doesn't like S.
Clay Williams, chairman of the
new national Industrial recovery board
recently appointed by President Roose
... valt it tha Sf?r?
Francisco convention
of the American Fed
eration of Labor, a
resolution was adopt
ed demanding an In
vestigation of Mr.
Williams' attitude as
vice chairman of the
board of the R. J.
Reynolds Tobacco
company of Wins
8. Clay Wll- 1 ? D"? * 1 e ?? u,
llama the char?e being that
. . he wag ? opposed to
traae anions ana to collective bargain
ing with them. The federation's exec
utive council Instructed President Wil
liam Green to present the matter to
Mr. Roosevelt on his return to Wash
ington, and be promised to do so. In
cidentally, It should be recorded that
Mr. Green was re-elected president
without opposition.
It Is not considered likely that the
federation will get far with Its fight
on Mr. Williams. Be was deliberately
selected for membership on the board
because his conservatism will be a foil
to the comparative radicalism of other
members, especially Sidney Hillman
and Leon C. Marshall.
TO THE White House correspond
ents President Roosevelt said that
a federal housing program with a
great many ramifications undoubtedly
would be submitted to the next con
gress and also would constitute an im
portant part of the administration's fu
ture relief policy.
The President expressed approval of
the latest undertaking of the Federal
Emergency Relief administration,
which Is to develop small communities
of from 100 to 500 families. The fami
lies are taken off the direct relief rolls
and moved Into small houses, where
they are Intended to become self-sup
porting on communal rarma proviaea
by the government
NEARLY fifty persona lost their
Urea in a tTnhnop 'frft yw?pt
Manila and nearby province^ of the
Philippine Islands. Property damage
In the city was estimated as high as
(2,500,000, and undoubtedly was heavy
In the country.
TWELVE hundred coal miners at
Pecs, Hungary, won a sensational
fight for better wages, risking their
11 res on the outcome. They Impris
oned themselves far underground for
days, declaring they would die there
voluntarily unless the employers would
raise their pay, which had been only
(2 a week. Food sent down by their
friends was returned, and many of the
men were era red and nearly dead be
fore the company was forced by the
government to make a settlement the
workers would accept.
The owners agreed to eliminate a
wage cut, to raise the working time
from two to three days a week, and
to pay a bonus of (3 a man to help
tide over the winter.
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Mother and Three Consecutive Sets of Twins
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MUS. HENKi BATES of ileber Springs. Ark., Is one ot the few mothers in the United States with three consecu
tive sets of twins. The twin boys, aged four, are Earl and Murrill; the twin girls, aged three, are Leola Fay and
Naomi Ray; and the three-months'-old babies are a boy, Billie Jean, and a girl, Willie Dean. The mother is thirty
four and the father forty-two.
Bedtime Story for Children
By THORNTON VV. BURGESS
JENNY WREN GOSSIPS
ABOUT HUMMER
AS PETER RABBIT sat staring up
at the tiny nest of Hummer the
Hummingbird, which he had Just dis
covered, Jenny Wren came along. Be
ing quite tired with the feeding of her
seven babies, Jenny was content to
rest for a few minutes ana gossip. Pe
ter told her what he had discovered.
"I know all about that," retorted
Jenny. "You don't suppose 1 hunt these
trees over for food without knowing
where my neighbors are living, do you?
I'd have you understand that this Is
the daintiest nest in the Old Orchard.
It is made wholly of plant down and
covered on the outside with bits of
that gray moss-like stuff that grows on
the bark of the trees and is called
lichen. That Is what makes that nest
look like nothing more than a knot on
a branch. Chatterer the Red Squirrel
made a big mistake when he visited
this tree. Hummer may be a tiny fel
low, but he isn't afraid of anybody un
der the sun. That bill of his is so sharp
and he is so quick that few folks ever
bother him more than once. Why,
there isn't a single member of the
hawk family that Hummer won't at
tack. There isn't a cowardly feather
In him."
"Hoes he go very far south for the
winter?" asked Peter. "He is such a
Tiny fellow I don't see how he can stand
such a long Journey."
"Huh !* exclaimed Jenny Wren, "dis
tance doesn't bother Hummer an}-. You
needn't worry about those wings of his.
He goes clear down to South America,
where he has ever so many relatives.
You ought to see his babies when they
first hatch out. They are no Jflgger
than bees. But they certainly do grow
fast. They are Hying three weeks from
the time they hatch. I'm glad 1 don't
have to pump food down the throats of
my youngsters the way Mrs. Hum
mingbird has to down hers."
i'eter looked perplexed. "What do
you mean by pumping food down their
throats?" he demanded.
"Just what 1 say." retorted Jenny
Wren, "Mrs. Hummer sticks her bill
right down their throats and then
pumps up the food she has already
swallowed. I guess it is a good thing
the babies have short bills."
"Do they?" asked I'eter, opening his
eyes wide.
"Yes," replied Jenny. "When they
hatch out they have short bills, but it
doesn't take them a great while to
grow long."
"How many babies does Mrs. Hum
mer usually have?" asked I'eter.
"Just two," replied Jenny. "Just
two. That's all that nest will hold.
But goodness gracious, I'eter, I can't
stop gossiping here any longer. You
have no Idea what a care seven babies
are."
With a Jerk of her tall off flew Jenny
Wren and I'eter hurried back to tell
Johnny Chuck all he had found out
about Hummer the Hummingbird.
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(QUESTION BOX
By ED WYNN...
Th, Period Fool
Dear Sir. Wynn:
In our town there Is a burglar who
is causing considerable troume as wen
as curiosity. The police can't catch
him. The report is that he travels
around absolutely nude. What I want
to know Is this: What shall I do If
some night I find the robber In my
house and be Is really naked?
Tour? truly. ; -
D. TECTIVE.
Answer: Cover him with your re
volver.
Dear Mr. Wynn:
I'm the fellow you hollered at last
night In the automobile. I was in a
hurry so could not stop to help you. I
saw you and your wife slip and fall
and also saw the lamp post fall over
on top of you both. Sorry I couldn't
stop to help you. How did you get out
of your trouble?
Yours truly.
I. ACTO STOPPED.
Answer: We didn't slip. It was the
wind which blew us over and also blew
the lamp post over on top of us. I sent
for the postmaster and he took the
post office, (off us.)
Dear Mr. Wynn:
I have Just arrived In this country?
my first visit here since 1003. Kindly
tell me: When the prohibition law was
passed was It a bis surprise to the
people?
Truly yours,
C. CAPTAIN'.
Answer: I'll tell the cock-eyed world
It was a surprise to the people. jn
fact. It took most of the people's breath
away.
Dear Mr. Wynn:
Do you think It Is possible to go 20
miles on a gallon?
Tours truly,
OTTO MOBEEL.
Answer: With the kind of stuff you
get today some folks get to heaven
on a quart
Dear Mr. Wynn:
Will water always put out a fire?
Tours truly,
N. Sl'ItANCE.
Answer: Not always. I know of a
case where a man threw a match off
the Brooklyn irldge and it lit on the
water.
Dear Mr. Wynn:
I hear you are a student of econom
ics. 1 want you to advise me on one
point. As an example, say that wheat
was selling retail at $2 a bushel. Say
a farmer sold 3.000 bushels of wheat
to a wholesaler. What would the farm
er get?
Tours truly,
E. KOXOMIST.
Answer: He'd get an automobile.
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WNU Service.
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DISHES FOR ALL OCCASIONS
FOR a Sunday night lunch a simple
dish which Is easy to prepare and
serve is the following:
Sunday Dish.
Melt one-half of a tabiespoonful of
butter, add one cupful of grated
crumbs, mix well, add two cupfuis of
milk with one well-beaten egg. Mix
and cook; when hot, add one-half eup
ful of grated cheese, a bit of salt and
a dash of paprika and cayenne. Serve
on crisp rounds of buttered toast. Mus
tard, too, may be added if desired.
Date Puff.
Beat six eggs separately, add one cup
ful of powdered sugar to the yolks of
the eggs, one-half cupful of walnut
meats and half a package of dates fine
ly cut Add four heaping tablespd&n
fuls of bread crumbs to which one tea
spoonful of baking powder is added.
Mix well, then fold In the stiffly beaten
whites of the eggs and bake half an
hour in a slow oven. Serve with
whipped cream.
Buttered Parsnips.
Cut the parsnips Into even-sixed
pieces and place in a heavy kettle with
two or three tablespoonfuls of batter,
depending upon the amount of pars
nips. Stir and cook without adding
any water, if possible. When tender
the parsnips will be a light brown and
most delightful flavor. Season with
salt and pepper and serve.
Salmon Sandwiches.
Add a sour, chopped pickle to two
or three tablespoonfuls of flaked salmon
mixed with salad dressing. Spread on
buttered bread and serve with a hot or
cold drink.
A. Western Newspaper Unioa.
Doy{Jl J Know
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That exact evidence as to
the origin of the nickname
"gob" in connection with
sailors of the U. S. navy is
lacking, but the term was (
applied to the English coast
guards many years ago. An
old meaning of "to gob" is
to spit and the name may be
from this source.
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GIRLS SEEM
DIFFERENT
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By DOUGLAS MALLOCtt
GIULiS seem different about
The time a fellow enters high.
Wben you start to take them out
Girls seem?well, 1 can't say why, .
Can't say what.
But they're different a lot
In the grades you called them names.
Didn't care much what you did.
When you're through with schoolyard
games
It makes a difference to a kid?
Now you know
You mustn't treat them so.
Seems you've sort of put them on
A kind of pedestal, perhaps.
When the schoolyard days are gone
Girls are different, and chaps.
Here Is how
All the girls are different now:
Once you used to pull their hair;
Now a fellow understands.
Now you know you wouldn't dare.
Even dare to touch their hands.
Now they are
Something worshiped from afar,
e. Douglas llalloch.?WNC Ssrrlcs.
WITTY KITTY
By NINA WILCOX PUTNAM
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The girl chum says having torn*.
; thing on foot it drawing a clumsy
dance partner. ?
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Baby Leroy and Shirleyr Have a Date
H KICK'S food for tbe scandal columnists I Baby Leroy and Shirley Temple,
the little movie stars whose weekly salaries come In four figures, were
spotted on their first "date" when tiey stopped for a milk on their way to the
theater In Hollywood.
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