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VOL. LXI. GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY AUGUST 8, 1935. NO. 27. I
News Review of Current
Events the World Over
Statesmen in Geneva Struggle to Prevent Italo-Ethiopian
War ? Progress of the New Deal
Measures in Congress.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
? Western Newspaper Union.
CAPT. ANTHONY EDEN, British
minister for League of Nations af
fairs, was exceedingly busy in Geneva
trying to find a way to avert the war
hptwppn Italv And I
Ethiopia. He was
aided and abetted by
Premier Laval of
France and together
they evolved a plan
for procedure by the
league council which
appeared promising,
until It was communi
cated to Premier Mus
solini. Then Baron
Aloisl. Italian dele
Anthony gate, announced the
Eden Eden-Laval formula
was "entirely unacceptable." How
ever, hope was not abandoned for there
was a chance that modifications could
be made that would satisfy the de
mands of the Italians.
Unofficially, It was said the British
French formula dealt with these
points:
L Conciliation and arbitration Is to
continue.
2. Neither Italy nor Ethiopia Is to
resort to war measures in the mean
time.
3. Appointment of a fifth arbitrator
to the deadlocked Italo-Ethiopian con
ciliation commission.
4. Signatories of the 1906 treaty?
Great Britain, France, and Italy?will
lend their good offices to obtain a gen
eral broad solution of the conflict.
Italy was expected to protest against
time limits fixed in the draft of the
projected peace formula.
One deadline was set for September
1, by whlc^ time the arbitrators on
the Italo-Ethiopian conciliation com
mission, who would resume their work,
would be required to report to the
league council.
Another time limit was set for Sep
tember 4, when the three powers and
Ethiopia would be required to report
their findings to the league council.
In any event the council would be
scheduled to meet September 4.
One Important concession was made
to Italy in the formula. It was agreed
that the ownership of Ualual, scene
of the frontier conflict Involved, should
not be discussed. The Ethiopian con
tention has been that responsibility for
the border clash could not be estab
lished without the ownership of the
locality being first determined.
LED by George Huddleston of
Alabama, the members of the
house who opposed the "death sen
tence" in the utilities bill scored an
other victory over the supporters of
that plan of the New Dealers. Sam
Rayburn's motion that the house agree
to the senate action on the bill was
defeated, 210 to 155. Rayburn ar
gued, pleaded and threatened, but to
no avail He warned the represent
atives that those who voted against
his motion would be incurring the
wrath of the administration, and at
the last moment had read testimony
before the senate lobbying commit
tee to the effect that a New Jersey
man had suggested the utilities com
panies start a whispering campaign
regarding the sanity of the New Deal
leaders. Still the big majority In the
house Insisted on rejecting the Ray
burn motion.
Then the house, by a vote of 183 to
1~2, adopted a resolution which vir
tually called for the exclusion of Ben
Cohen, administration lobbyist, from
future conferences on the bill.
T*\EM0CRAT1C congressmen started
the week briskly determined to
push through the President's "soak the
rich" tax bill at this session. Opposing
thom with equal de
termination were a Wffi' ?
number of the hardest W ^
h-fbting Republicans f *
"ho insist that con- ^
sideration of taxation Jpj
he postponed until I / W
next winter and that &
meantime the question p||k
he studied carefully in
connection with the I
budget for the next
fiscal year. These Re
Publicans are urgently Senator
^ling for an early Vandenberg
sojournment of congress. Senator
Hastings of Delaware has Introduced
? resolution setting August 10 as the
oay for quitting and was trying to
h#ve it brought up for consideration
before passage of the tax measure.
Senator Vandenberg of Michigan, often
mentioned as a Presidential possibility,
? 80 demanded postponement of the
41 legislation until January, and he
gave out a statement denouncing the
administration's plan as a "sterile po
litical gesture" which would raise "only
a little extra pocket change" and de
clared that "we chatter of taxes in
millions to offset known deficits in
billions." ?
"The pending tax bill, as It is being
developed," said Senator Vandenberg,
"will not produce appreciable revenue
for Cncle Sam. It will not pay the
President's deficit even for the period
while the bill is under consideration.
As a contribution to the public credit,
it is as grim a hoax as was ever per
petrated on the country. As a 'dis
tributor of wealth' it is a mere vagrant
flirtation with this left wing idea."
Nevertheless, it appeared probable
that the tax measure would be enacted
before adjournment, for the adminis
tration leaders had promised this to
Senator La Follette and other "liber
als," and besides that, they have no
desire to pass a taxation bill in a
Presidential election year. As pro
duced by the house ways and means
committee after great travail the mea
sure embodies an 87 per cent confisca
tion of large fortunes and Increased
lpvies on the rich which would produce
perhaps $250,000,000 of additional an
nual revenue.
CONGRESS has passed and the Pres
ident has signed a bill which as
sures promotion in the near future for
about 5,000 army officers. It acceler
ates the advancement of commissioned
officers below the grade of colonel and
takes effect September L
OENATE and house committees In
LJ vestigatlng the actiTities of lobby
ists went their separate ways, neither
thinking very well of what the other
was doing. Senator Black's quiz oc
cupied itself much with the doing of
representatives of the Associated Gas
and Electric corporation. An execu
tive order from the White House di
rected the secretary of the treasury to
make available to the senate commit
tee all incomes, excess profit, and cap
ital stock tax returns to the extent
necessary In the investigation with the
so-called "holding company bill or any
other matter or proposal affecting leg
islation." Simultaneously President
Roosevelt approved a new treasury
regulation authorizing the release of
this Information to the committee.
Representative Patton of Texas went
before the house committee again and
satisfactorily explained how he had
been able to buy $3,000 worth of bonds
out of bis savings. As to the cigar
box he carried away from the hotel
room of John W. Carpenter, president
of the Texas Power and Light corpora
tion, It contained nothing but cigars,
Patton said.
SENATOR GLASS scored perhaps
the greatest victory In his long
public career when the senate, without
a record vote, passed his draft of the
1935 banking act, re
jecting the central
bank features urged IK" ?'
by Gov. Marriner S. jgf|. T
Eccles of the federal Mr/. ]
reserve board and fa- at 1
vored by the admlnis- ,1
tration. The doughty R J
Virginian, who was M
once secretary of the
treasury, bad fought
desperately against ^
the Eccles scheme and ?
his triumph was de- Senator Gla"
cisive. There was no demand for a
roll call on the final vote, for the fate
met by the proposers of various amend
ments showed this procedure would be
futile. Senator La Follette sought to
strike out a provision permitting com
mercial banks to underwrite securities
and his proposal was beaten, 39 to 22.
Senator Gerald Nye of North Dakota,
another radical Republican, offered the
central bank plan of Rev. Charles E.
Cougblin, radio priest, which would set
up a government owned and wholly
dominated system. It was voted down,
59 to 10.
FROM the Communist Internationale
in Moscow comes the word that
the reds are planning a strike "of un
precedented scope" by seamen and dock
workers on the Pacific coast of the
United States, beginning in September
| Sam Darcy of San Francisco, an
American delegate told about it. He
repeated what had already been said
by Earl Browder, general scretary ol
the Communist party in the United
States, that Communists were respon
sible for the seamen's and dock work
ers' strikes last year.
PASSAGE of the bill to restore $46,
000,000 of Spanish war veterans' 1
pensions was completed when the sen- ,
ate accepted the house measure, the
only opposing vote being cast by Sen
ator Hastings of Delaware. This nulli
fies the various adjustments made by
the President for the purpose of econ
omy to carry out the party pledge of a
reduction of at least 23 per cent In the
cost of administration of the federal
government.
FREDERICK H. GILI.ETT, who rep
" resented Massachusetts In the
house for many years, for six years
was speaker, and thereafter served as
United States senator, died In Spring
field, Mass., at the age of eighty-three.
Able, dignified and unfailingly courte
ous, Mr. Gillett was highly esteemed
by his fellow congressmen, whatever
their party affiliation. In his home
town he was known as a politician who
said little and did much.
JAPAN will probably have anotlie*
cause for complaint against the
United States. Secretary of the Navy
Swanson has announced that strongly
fortified naval Dases
will be established In
the Pacific ocean up
on the expiration of
the naval limitation
treaties on January 1,
1937. He said he con
sidered the creation of
naval stepping stones
In the Pacific an
inevitable result of the
| treaties' expiration. He
_ , _ icveuieu iuat me ua?j
Sec'y Swanson ]ong has g,veQ consld.
eratlon to Pacific fortification problems
and that impetus had been given to
the study since Japan's abrogation of
the naval treaties.
The necessity for adequate bases in
the Pacific was demonstrated forcibly
Inst May during the annual fleet ma
neuvers off Hawaii and the Aleutian
islands. According to reports, the
navy high command in a report of the
lessons learned in the exercises strong
ly recommended an Aleutian Islands
base.
The United States naval bases are
few and far between as against those
of Japan and Great Britain, which Ue
along the principal courses of English
and Japanese traffic lines. The Ameri
can bases are relatively obsolete.
GERMANY'S diplomatic note con
cerning the Communist attack on
the liner Bremen In the port of New
York took the form of a request that
the offenders be punished but asked
for no apology. Acting Secretary of
State William Phillips, In bis reply
handed to the German charge d'Af
falres. Dr. Rudolf Leltner, told briefly
the efforts of the New York police to
guard the vessel and to subdue the
mob, and pointed out that some of
those who took part In the attack
were arrested. The German note said
the Incident constituted an Insult to
Germany.
In his press conference President
Roosevelt declined to comment on the
affair. Asked about the protest of
Jewish organizations against the Ger
man government's religious attitude,
the President Intimated that the ad
ministration's view was fully expressed
by Mr. Phillips' reply In which he ex
pressed sympathy for anyone who was
denied religious liberty.
Representative Dlcksteln of New
York told the house that no apology
was due to Germany for the Bremen
Incident and that neither the federal
nor the local authorities were to blame
for It He asserted the attack was
made possible by "a selfish desire on
the part of the skipper of the Bremen,
who would not take police advice to
halt visiting to the ship and lose the
revenue of visitors."
Over In Germany the saner men In
authority recognized that the Nazis
were going too far and were probably
headed for a fall If not restrained.
Dr. HJalmar Sehacht, president of the
Relehsbank and economic dictator of
the relch, uttered a solemn warning to
the antl-Jewlsh and anti-Catholic
forces, declaring that the great task
which the German people must fulfill
to comply with the wishes of Hitler
cannot be fulfilled unless "all distur
bances are ended, be they In the Intel
lectual or economic field."
MORE disasters In tbe Far East.
Antung, an Important city In
, Manchukuo, was engulfed by a terrific
flood; a thousand persons were
drowned and practically the entire pop
ulation of 110,000 was rendered home
less. Formosa was ravaged by another
typhoon which took many lives and
did vast damage. Along the Han and
Yangtse rivers the surviving Chinese
were striving to keep alive and at the
same time to bury the tens of thou
' sands who died In the floods there.
1 ' A LONG the line of providing help
ai for white collar workers. Harry
i j L. Hopkins appointed four technical
t assistants to direct the employment
I of painters, musicians, writers and
' actors. They are: Nikolai Sokoloff
I for music, Hallle Flanagan for the
theater, Holger Cahlll for painters and
sculptors, and Henry G. Alseberg tor
| writers.
Oil Wells at Sea Are Expensive but Pay Out --sate
BEDTIME STORY FOR CHILDREN
By THORNTON W. BURGESS
%
A PLEASANT VISIT
SITTING safe and comfortable In
the hollow stump to which White
foot the Woodmouse had led him, Dan
ny Meadow Mouse told Whltefoot all
about bis adventures from the time
he had visited the Smiling Pool right
up to the moment when Whltefoot had
come to his rescue. Whltefoot listened
without saying a word until Danny's
story was ended. Then he gravely
shook his head.
"It was a crazy thing to do, Cousin
Danny. It certainly was a crazy thing
to do," said be,
"What was a crazy thing to do?"
demanded Danny, looking puzzled.
"Going so far away from home when
there was no need of It," replied
Whltefoot. "I thought you were too
wise to take such foolish risks. At
your age you should know better. It
?1 i ? '
"What Wa? a Crazy Thing to Do?" De
manded Danny, Looking Puzzled.
might be excusable In a youngster wit!
no family to think of, but one of you
age should hare known better."
"I guess you are right. Cousin White
foot," replied Danny meekly. "IV
learned a lesson I'll never forget. IV
had frights enough to last me all th
rest of my life and If I ever get bom
I'll never leave It again. I guess
ought to be starting along right now.
"I guess you ought to do nothing o
the sort," retorted Whitefoot promptlj
"The thing for you to do now Is to res
and get yourself In condition."
Danny sighed. "I don't know bu
what you are right, Cousin Whitefoot,
said he. "I really don't feel as If
could face danger again this nigh:
iyou Know
r ?
That the wedding veil is a
relic of the canopy that used
to be held over the bride to
seclude her from profane
gaze? The ancient Romans
looked upon it as a protection
against the evil eye, a super
stition current among many
tribes and nations.
Q JfcClur* Newapaper Syndicate.
WNU Service.
My nerves are rather upset This Is
a very nice, comfortable place you have
here. It Is one of the most comfort
able places I've been In for a grea'
while."
Whitefoot looked pleased. 'Tm glad
you like It," said he. "I think It la
rather good myself. I have two or
three other places quite as good. Now
the thing for you to do, Cousin Danny,
Is to stay here the rest of the night
and make yourself right at home."
To this Danny agreed, for he really
did not feel equal to going any farther
that night So he and Whitefoot slept
a little and talked a great deal. Dan
ny learned many things about the
Green Forest and In turn told White
foot many things about the Green
Meadows. Whitefoot was sure that
the Green Forest was the finest place
In all the Great World In which to live.
Danny was sure that It dldn"t compare
with the Green Meadows, and they ar
gued the matter over and over. But
the argument was quite good-natured
and simply showed that the things one
Is used to are the things one loves
best To Danny the Green Forest was
filled with terrible dangers. To White
foot the Green Meadows seemed a
place where there could be no such
thing as real safety. So they argued
and argued and had a perfectly splen
did time.
C T. W. Burteas.?WNU s?rvlc*.
THE tremendous output of oil wells
drilled at sea has justified the ex
pense of this unusual undertaking
near Ventura, Calif. A rich stratum
of oil-bearing sand was discovered
more than a quarter of a mile off
shore. Drilling was started' shortly
afterward and the resultant wells far
beyond the breaker line have been a
highly successful venture.
nptKg|&a^Book
GOOD ICE CREAM SAUCES
A SIMPLE Ice cream of plain flavor
served with a good sance makes a
most delightful dessert and Is always
enjoyed.
Fruit Punch Sauce.
Cook together one cupful of sugar
and one-third cupful of water until It
spins a long thread. Add one cupful
of crushed pineapple, one-third cupful
of maraschino cherries chopped, add
some of the Juice, two tablespoonfuls
of lemon Juice and a few grains of salt
Bring to the boiling point and chilL
Caramel Sauce for Ice Cream.
Put Into a saucepan one-half cupful
each of sugar and corn sirup and one
cupful of cream. Mix and boll, stir
ring occasionally until It Is of the right
consistency. Add three-fourths tea
spoonful of vanilla and a few grains
of salt Leave over hot water until
ready to serve.
Maple Pecan Sauce.
Boll three-fourths of a cupful ol
maple sirup with two tablespoonfuls
of butter until It makes a soft ball
when dropped Into cold water. Re
move from the fire and add slowly one
fourth cupful of cream. Keep hot ovei
water until ready to serve, then add
onefourth of a cupful of broken pe
can meats.
Pear Sultan.
Top vanilla Ice cream with a pea
Question box
b, ED WYNN, ' he Perfect Fool
Dear Mr. Wynn:
I have a puzzle for you to aolve for
s me. I like to bet on horse races bu:
e always break about even. Here's how
? It Is: One day I win but the next day
s I lose. What can I do?
I Yours truly,
WILL L EVERWYN.
f Answer: That Is very simple, Just
play every other day.
t
Dear Mr. Wynn:
t My father says It costs from $3 to $3
" to have a tooth pulled by gas. Don't
I you think It could be done cheaper If
t the dentists used kerosene?
Yours truly.
? A. KEETOOTH.
? Answer: If you're not having the
tooth pulled, why worry?
Dear Mr. Wynn:
We are a New York family, and my
son, who has Just graduated from high
j school. Is preparing for college. I
asked him what course he Intends to
study, and be says he thinks there Is
a great field for civil engineers. Do
you agree with him?
Truty yours,
L M. A. BRAKEMAN.
Answer: What New York really
needs Is civil taxicab drivers.
Dear Mr. Wynn:
I am a man forty n'ne years of age.
I have traveled all over the world and
have Just returned to settle down in
America. I have a big problem to
solve first I have spent nearly all my
money, but still have enough, if prop
erly invested, to keep me for the rest
of my life. I think 1 have a bright
Idea. I Intend opening a school for
"Stuttering." What do you think of
my Idea?
Truly yours.
IGO BACKEN FORTH.
Answer: Your Idea is all right bu: J
?
ONE SUMMER
NIGHT
By ANNE CAMPBELL
SITTING beside yon on tie cool pty
stone,
I saw through yonr dear eyes the
summer night
The trees were shadowy, their dark
leaves blown
By perfumed breezes . ? ? In the
misty light
Of the far moon, I caught the pars
white gleam
Of your iOYed profile. , , . With
your quiet gaze
Turned on the stars, lost In a happy,
dream.
You wandered far from earth's per
plexing ways
i
I saw the world beyond yon see
reaching space.
The silhouette of trees against the
sky . . .
And knew that nothing counted bat
your face.
Yon were my world. . . , The
moon that rode so high.
The stars, as lost as I in mists of bine.
Were nothing. There was only lose
and yon.
C W?sc*m X?wsp?p?r Ualom.
cooked In a sirup colored pink. Stick
quartered blanched almonds into the
pear and poor an apricot puree around
the cream.
Cream Chocolate Sauce.
Mix one cupful of sugar, one-fourth
cupful of water and three tablespoea
ful of corn sirup. Boll mntll a sod
ball Is formed, add slowly four squares
of chocolate melted over hoc water,
one cupful of cream and one-half cap
ful of fondant; boil one minute, stir
ring constantly. Add a teaspoonful eC
vanilla and serve hot or cold.
C Western N't*ipt9?r Uiioa.
For Informal Hoars
who wants to go to school to learn to
stutter?
Dear Mr. Wynn:
Can you help me? For the past two
weeks I hare been despondent and
have the most peculiar feeling. Some
times I sit in a chair for hoars and
suddenly something within me seems
to rise, then go down again, and a
little later It rises again. What do you
think Is the matter with me?
Sincerely,
WRIGHT MESOON.
Answer: From your description, I
should say you swallowed an elevator.
? Aooclattd N>*spif-er?,
VVXU S?rvlc?.
When she has nothing in particular
to do, Ann Sheridan wears a washable
cotton dress?like this white cottoa
broadcloth with a crossbar pattern In
brown and red. A kerchief tie ef
brown linen matches a belt of the
same material, supplying the neces
sary contrast.
Mother Who Boasts Double Quintuplets
HERE Is a proud mother cat, the pet of the Stnyvesant Neighborhood house
at 74 St. Marks place, New York city, with the 10 survivors of her latest
Utter of 11 kittens.