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VOL. LXI. GRAHAM, IN, C., THURSDAY APRIL 18, 1935. NO. 11.
INews Keview of Current I
Events the World Over
Prime Ministers of Three Nations Confer at Stresa?Presi
dent Roosevelt, Busy With Work Relief
Program, Prods Congress.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
?, Western Newspaper Union.
SIX of Europe's foremost statesmen,
with experts and secretaries, sol
emnly considered peace plans and se
curity pacts on Isola Bella, a lovely
little Island In Lake
Magglore off Stresa.
Italy. The conference
was momentous, but it
was of an "explora
tory" nature, and no
definite results were
expected. Prime Min
ister Ramsay MacDon
aid and Foreign Sec
retary Sir John Simon,
representing Great
Britain, were willing
to carry out that na
tion's military obliga
Premier
/ Flandin
tloris under the Locarno treaty but
balked at further commitment in con
tinental affairs.
Anyhow, they had promised to enter
Into no new agreements without the
consent of parliament, which cannot be
consulted until after the Easter holi
days. Premier ?Fiandin and Foreign
Minister Laval of France sought to per
suade .England to line up with France
and Russia rather than with Germany,
and they presented as one argument a
new mutual assistance pact they had
Just signed with Russia. Premier Mus
solini, solemn and pessimistic, handled
matters for Italy with the help of
Fulvio Suvich, undersecretary of for
eign affairs. He had already warned
the world that the issue of war or
peace probably could not be settled at I
Stresa.
Of course, the chief question was the
attitude of other nations toward the
constantly growing Pan-Germanism of
the reich under Hitler, and the first
concrete problem taken up was
France's appeal to the League of Na
tions against Germany's repudiation of
the military clauses of the Versailles
treaty. Mussolini and MacDonald were
Inclined to accept Hitler's rearmament
If there could be an agreement against
further military expansion, but Flan
din stood in opposition. The Italians
urged a three-power alliance for protec
tion against Germany, but England ob
jected and France was uncertain. All
three nations rather favored the re
armament of Austria, Bulgaria and
Hungary, and the Danube pact which
Italy especially has been promoting.
TV/f USSOLINI'S pessimistic frame of
mind was illustrated by an an
nouncement in his newspaper, Popolo
cTItalia, that Italy would keep 000,000
men under arms "until the horizon is
well cleared, and give them all modern
weapons." Both the Italians and the
French are convinced that Germany is
maliciously stirring up the troubles
that confront them in northern Africa
with the purpose of weakening their
position in Europe. This matter was
discussed privately by some of the
participants in the Stresa meeting.
THE new mutual assistance agree
ment reached by France and Russia
wag at first supposed to be merely an
agreement on sanctions to be taken
against an aggressor once the latter
has been determined by the League of
Nations. But Paris correspondents as
sert that it Is In effect a military alli
ance such as Russia had been urging
on France and that In certain cases the
signatories will determine for them
selves who Is the aggressor, without
waiting for word from Geneva. The
agreement is, of course, directed pri
marily against Germany. It is believed
in Paris that Russia will soon con
clude similar alliance with Czecho
slovakia and the Baltic states, thus
completing a steel ring around Ger
many's land frontiers.
That Russia still seeks "to maintain
and strengthen the general peace" was
shown by the signing of a Russo-Ger
man trade treaty which it is believed
will greatly Increase the volume of
Russia's orders in the relch.
A NNODNCEMENT was made by the
government that it had uncovered
extensive frauds in the Immigration
and naturalization service from 1923
to 1933, and steps were taken for the
ousting of a number of employees and
for criminal prosecutions. It was es
timated that a ring of bribe takers and
fixers had received as much as a mil
lion dollars from persons illegally en
tering the country.
"Revelations so startling In character
have come to light that investigators
believe the actual extent of corruption
and fraud has been but partially dis
closed," said a statement Issued by the
Labor department after a secret inves
tigation ef alleged frauds in the New
Tork district.
"Sums ranging up to $100 are alleged
to have been paid in cases involving
false witnesses or passing of an appli
cant who had failed in his test of
knowledge of the government or his
ability to speak English.
"It is alleged that fees ranging from
$300 to $1,200 were levied in cases In
volving fraudulent or altered manifest
records, where it was desirable to ob
tain a record that would safeguard an
alien from deportation or procure citi
zenship status by showing his legal ad
mission at the port of New Tork for
permanent residence."
XTEW dust storms, the worst of the
destructive series, swept over
Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, New
Mexico and Texas, completing the vir
tual ruin of the wheat crop and caus
ing great losses and suffering among
live stock. Schools and shops were
closed, airplanes grounded and train
and bus schedules disrupted. Some
regions were being abandoned by all
Inhabitants.
A delegation of senators and repre
sentatives from four, of the stricken
states called on President Roosevelt
and asked him to earmark $150,000,
000 for a land program for the next
two years. He did not indicate what
amount would be allocated, but wa3
said by the delegation to have given
assurance that he would permit the
expenditure of all the money that was
necessary.
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, deeply
* tanned and In good physical con
dition, was landed at Jacksonville,
Fla., by the destroyer
Farragut and started
Immediately for New
York, to attend the
funeral of his cousin,
Warren Delano Rob
bins, after which he
returned to Washing
ton. Aboard his spe
cial train the Presi
dent read through the
$4,880,000,000 work re
lief bill as it was final
ly passed by both
Harry Hopklni
nouses or cODgress, called for pen and
Ink and appended his signature to the
largest appropriation measure ever
enacted by congress. There were some
features of it, agreed upon in the sen
ate and house conference, which he did
not like, but he said those who had
studied it recommended its approval.
The President at once signed two al
locations from the amount appropri
ated. The first was $125,000,000 to the
administrator of the Federal Emer
gency Relief administratoin, in order
that relief might not stop. The sec
ond was $30,000,000 for continuation
of the emergency conservation work.
In Washington the Republicans and
some others discussed with dissatisfac
tion the probability that Harry L. Hop
kins, relief administrator, would be the
President's chief assistant in carrying
out the vast work relief program.
IN HIS first post-vacation confer
? ence with congressional leaders,
President Roosevelt disregarded their
fears of a prolonged session and in
sisted on enactment of his legislative
program. Especially he wanrs legisla
tion dealing with extension of the
Nit A, social security, utilities holding
companies, extension of federal au
thority over banking, ship subsidy re
adjustment and extension of $416,
000,000 in nuisance taxes.
Later the President conferred with
Senator Joe Robinson, who said both
of them felt that very satisfactory
progress Is being made. To the cor
respondent Sir. Roosevelt said he hoped
to have the work relief program at
its peak by the middle of November,
at which time 3,500,000 unemployed
should be at work under Its terms.
He indicated this program would be
carried out as far as possible by ex
isting governmental agencies. He will
seek to avoid moving workers from
one area to another, and will take
care of as many "white collar" work
ers as possible.
The social security bill finally was
produced on the floor of the house of
representatives. There were several
blocs against It In its form as re
ported. These included representa
tives who want higher unemployment
and old age payments; members from
the poorer states, who want the fed
eral government to bear the entire cost
of the program, with the states re
lieved of any contribution, and the
conservatives, who are opposed to the
"government going into the insurance
business" and exacting a pay roll tax
during the depression.
GEN HERMANN WILHELM GOE
RING, the dynamic premier of
Pfussla and air minister of Germany,
and Emmy Sonnemann, thirty-seven
year-old actress, were married In Ber
lin, first In the city hall and then In
the evangelical cathedral, with Relchs
fuehrer Hitler acting as groomsman In
both ceremonies. It was a most spec
tacular wedding, with many famous
Germans and a grand opera chorus In
attendance, a triumphal procession
through the crowded streets and a
display of the Nazi air force.
SOCIALISTS and Catholics of Dan
zig combined to give Chancellor
Hitler of Germany his first big set
back. In the free city's parliamentary
election tbe Nazis
polled 00.6 per cent
of the total vote, but
failed to get the two
thirds majority of the
seats that would give
them complete con
trol of parliament
Hitler and his follow
ers had hoped Dan
zig would follow the
lead of the Saar and
return to the reich,
and this may yet be
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Paul Goebbelt
the result, for the population of the city
is mdre than 90 per cent German. But
the Nazis were defeated In their at
tempt to lay the groundwork for the
suppression of all other political par
ties and the establishment of a dicta
torship. Presumably their next step
will be to vote for a change In the
Free City's constitution and to ask
the League of Nations, which admin
isters the city through a commissioner,
to permit a plebiscite on return to the
reich. This was openly discussed by
Paul Joseph Goebbels, German propa
ganda minister, during the hot cam
paign In Danzig carried on by the
Nazis. Poland was enraged by the j
violent methods of the Hitlerites In
the campaign and demanded an apol
ogy from Berlin. The whole affair i
endangered the new friendship between
Poland and Germany, and probably
this was not mourned by the other |
nations of Europe.
WITH the rubber workers In the
tire plants of Akron, Ohio, ready
to quit their Jobs, the American Feder
ation of Labor pledged itself to finance
the strike, which President Green de
clared would be a crucial attempt by
organized labor to force on industry
the collective bargaining provisions of
the NRA. He announced his organi
zation would "support the rubber work
ers of Akron for as long a time as may
be necessary."
Green definitely marked out the tire
strike as a test of labor's ability to
make good on the promises held out
to it by the New Deal. The national
labor relations board, he pointed out,
had ordered the big tire companies,
Goodyear,- Goodrich, and Firestone, to
allow their workers to elect represent
atives for collective bargaining. The
companies have refused and labor now
takes into its own hands the enforce
ment of the NLRB decision, Green ar
gued.
Tire manufacturers, on the other
side, recognize the threatened strike
as a key move in the New Deal pro
gram for regimentation of labor and
Industry and are fighting back.
POSTMASTER GENERAL JAMES A.
FARLEY went to New York to
study the political and legislative sit- |
uation there, and It was declared by
local Democratic lead
ers that he would re
tire from the cabinet
soon after the ad
journment of congress.
Mr. Farley neither af
firmed nor denied the
story.
He has been bitterly
attacked for retaining
his cabinet post and
at the same time con
tinuing as chairman
of the Democratic na
tional committee and
James A.
Farley
of the New Torlc Democratic commit
tee, despite the edict of the President
against such double holding. Mr.
Roosevelt wants Mr. Farley to remain
head of the national committee and to
conduct his campaign for re-election,
so he will give up his post office Job;
but he did not wish to resign while
still under fire from Huey Long and
others.
OUR minister to Canada, Warren
Delano Robblns. succumbed to
pneumonia In a New York hospital aft
er a week's Illness. He was a first
cousin of President Roosevelt and bad
been In the diplomatic service for more
than 25 years, being one of the most
distinguished of the "career" men.
Adolph S. Ochs, veteran owner and
publisher of the New York Times, was
stricken with cerebral hemorrhage j
while visiting old friends in Chatta
nooga, Tenn., and died without regain
ing consciousness. He was seventy
seven years old and had been in poor
health for some time. ?
Another notable man taken by death
was Edwin Arlington Robinson, gen
erally considered the foremost Ameri
can poet. He won the Pulitzer prize
for poetry in 1922. 1928 and 1928.
Pre-Fabricated House of Concrete Panels
AMONG the newest developments In the attempt to
transform residential construction into a mass-produc
tion Industry Is a pre-fabrlcated house of concrete panels,
the first example of which has Just been completed on
Colesville Pike, In the outskirts of Washington, D, C.
With 32 panels of concrete, each 2 Inches thick, 9 feet
high and from 4 to 10 feet wide, John J. Earley has assem
bled the walls of a five-room bungalow, for which many
advantages are claimed In the way of low initial cost, low
apkeep cost and permanence. The window casements are
cast solidly into the panels In the course of their pre
fabrication In the factory, so that when the walls are
assembled and the roof Is on the workers may proceed
with the Interior finish regardless of exterior weather
conditions. After the foundation is made, a skeleton of
studding, either of wood or steel. Is set on It to furnish
a frame against which the panels are placed. Light rein
forced concrete columns are then cast behind the Joints
between the panels, which are attached firmly to the col
umns. The panels of the average Infuse can be put in
place In one day, according to the sponsors of the new
method.
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BEDTIME STORY FOR CHILDREN
Dy THORNTON W. BURGESS
SURROUNDED BY ENEMIES
ft does no good to Just regret
If your mistakes you soon forget.
Danny meadow moose had
learned this by hard experience.
Now whenever he makes a mistake he
wastes no time regretting that mistake,
but neither does he forget it. He tucks
It away" ia his memory so that he
never will do the same thing again,
and then he puts his wits to work to
get him out of the trouble his mis
take has got him into.
As he peeped out of the hole In the
far bank of the Smiling Pool, where
"I Certainly Have Got Myself Into
a Heap of Trouble This Time,"
Thought He.
he had found safety, he wished with
all his might that he had stayed at
home. But he wasted little time that
way. He hadn't stayed at home, so
the thing to do was to try to find a
way out of his present difficulties. His
home was some distance away on the
Green Meadows on the other side of
the Smiling Pool. On the other bank
he could see Beddy Fox. Down In
the Smiling Pool he could see the Big
Pickerel, who had so nearly caught
him when he was swimming across.
There also was Snapper the Snapping
Turtle. To make matters worse he
caught a glimpse of Billy Mink swim
ring along closer to the opposite bank.
A fat Meadow Mouse for dinner would
tickle any of these.
Then to make matters worse he hap
pened to look up and there sailing
round and round high overhead was
Itedtall the Hawk, and there Is noth
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Ing in the world that Redtail likes bet
ter than Meadow Mouse for his meals.
Danny sighed, but he took care that
that sigh couldn't be heard more than
a few inches away. It was a very
gentle sigh, a very gentle sigh indeed,
but in It were expressed all Danny's
feelings?fear, worry and vain regret.
"I certainly have got myself Into a
heap of trouble this time." thought he.
*Tm surrounded by enemies. Yes, sir.
I'm simply surrounded by enemies, and,
if I don't watch out there won't be any
Danny Meadow Mouse. I had no busi
ness to come over here to the Smilln*
Pool, but here I am. I got myself into
this trouble and now I've got to get
myself out of it. Nobody else can or
will. If a fellow didn't have to eat
things would be easier. I could stay
right here until I could be sure of
a safe trip home. But goodness knows
when that time will come and I'm hun
gry this very minute."
Then as once more he caught a
glimpse of Billy Mink a dreadful
thought came to him. Billy Slink might
take it into his head to come over on
that bank of the Smiling Pool and peep
into all the holes there, a way he
has of doing. "He would surely find
me then," thought Danny, "and that
would be the end of me. I don't dare
go and I don't dare stay. Whatever
shall I do?"
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Because You Lose Me
By ANNE CAMPBELL
BECAUSE you love me, I can bear
The lack of everything I thought
I ahould possess to make life fair.
The trifling gift that you have
brought
Is lovelier In my fond sight
Than Jewels sparkling In the light.
The gentle touch of yonr dear hand,
A tender glance from yoor wand
eyes,
And somehow I can understand
The quality of Paradise.
Just to sit near you Is to be
A part of divine harpony.
Because you love me, I can And
A rainbow In the darkest sky.
The troubled days I do not mind
As long as you are standing by.
My smiles will always shine througtf
tears.
If you will love me down the yeaC
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SEASONING AND FLAVORING
THE most delightful dish otherwise,
may be ruined by the addition of a
bit too much or a bit too little of Just
the right seasoning or flavor. Brown
ing was not using It In this connection,
but how well the couplet expresses
just the Idea of well-seasoned foods:
Oh, the little more and how much
It is!
And the little less, and what worlds
away!
Success In cookery depends upon the
nice ta^te of the cook in the adding of
seasoning, spice or flavoring, without
which the food is zestless and flat.
Here are a few hints gleaned from va
rious sources which will be suggestive
when serving these famili - dishes. A
mere trace of nutmeg added to fresh
lima beans improves them. A trifle
more may be added to the dry ones.
Add a small piece of mace to panned
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or creameil oyster*. Remove It before
serving. Add both ginger and mus
tard In Boston baked beans. Ginger
for rest, mustard for flavor. The gin
ger takes the place of pepper.
Drop a small piece of cinnamon In
the oatmeal while cooking. Remove
this so that no one will discover what
makes It taste so good. Add a bit of
grater lemon rind to the mush that
Is to be fried for breakfast.
Grated orange pee! or the preserved
skin added to ginger bread makes a
most delectable flavor; add It to a
spiced cake or currant or raisin loaf
flavored with lemon extract.
A small bit of sugar, half a tea
spoonful or less added to vegeta- 1
bles while cooking will improve the!
flavor, also It improves soups, roasts
are glv^n a more appetizing brown.
A pinch of salt improves almost any
food, custards, applesauce, and other
stewed fruits. Add a few grains of
salt to cocoa, coffee and chocolate for
cake filling, to fudge and to Icings as
well as all forms of candy. When but
ter is not used more salt wCl be need
ed. Adding salt to cooked fruits will
save on sugar, for salt brings oat
sweetness.
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Question box
b, ED WYNN, The Perfect Fool I
Dear Mr. Wynn:
On my next jirthday I will be twen
ty-one years clcL 1 am torn between
two thoughts. I am keeping company
with a girl and expect to marry her.
On the other hand my father wants
me to Join the army. What shall I do?
Yours truly,
LEW TENNANT.
Answer: The only difference is. that
If you Join the army you'll get paid for
fighting.
Dear Mr. Wynn:
A crowd of boys and girls are go
ing on a picnic next Sunday. We most
each bring something to eat. I am
supposed to make some "hash." Can
yon tell sue the best way to make
"hash"?
Truly yours,
IKE A.NTCOOK.
Answer: My dear boy. "hash" is not
made. "Hash" is an accumulation.
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