The Alamance gleaner
VOL. LXII. GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY MARCH 26, 1936.
NO. 8.
XMJ ^mneur
By Edward W. Pickard
<g) Western Newspaper Union
Situation in Europe Is
Still Threatening
SIXTY thousand German troops In
the Rhineland that was supposed
to be demilitarized. Practically the
entire French army In and behind the
vast system of fortifi
cations along France's
eastern frontier. The
French government,
backed by the other
signers of the violated
Eocarno treaty and
by the little entente,
Poland and Russia,
demanding that Ger
many withdraw her
troops from the Rhine
land or that sanctions,
economic and possibly
M. Flindln
military, tie Imposed by the League
of Nations. Great Britain trying hard
to keep the peace, reproving Germany,
supporting the French demands In
great measure, but urging that Hitler's
proposal of new non-aggression pacts
be given consideration. Relchsfuehrer
Hitler reviewing his forces In the re
occupied territory and receiving the
loud. plaudits of the Inhabitants for re
storing their military sovereignty.
Tbdt in a nutshell was the perilous
situation in Europe as the representa
tives o ? the Locarno nations and the
council of the league assembled In
Loridon to consider what to do next.
Foreign" Minister Plerre-Etlenne Flan
din of France was there with the full
support of Premier Sarraut for his de
mands that immediate action be taken
lo bring JHltier to time.
The Franco-Russian treaty came up
In the French senate and was ratified
by a huge majority. It Is this pact
that Hitler gave as his excuse for re
militarizing the Rhineland, asserting
that it was a violation of the Locarno
treaty, being aimed at Germany. It
is the final link In the ? "iron ring"
around the relch.
Great Britain, France, Belgium and
Italy, signers of the Locarno treaty,
agreed that Germany had violated that
pact and the Versailles treaty and re
ferred the matter to the council of the
league. But Britain, still striving to
find t*ie peaceful way out of the row,
was averse to the immediate imposi
tion of sanctions, and naturally Italy,
herself suffering from that form of
punishment, felt the same way. For
eign Secretary Eden of England con
tinued his efforts to persuade Hitler to
withdraw the troops from the Rhine
land pending discussions, and urged
upon Fiandin the advisability of con
sidering the German chancellor's pro
posals for a 25-year peace pact
Co-operating with the British for
peace, the league council Invited Hit
ler to send a representative to Its
meeting. His reply was considered
"unsatisfactory" by the British and
enraged the French. He said, in ef
fect, that he would send a represent
ative to the council's deliberations only
on condition that the other powers
m?et It there on a basis of full equal
ity and promptly consider new treaty
negotiations to replace the Locarno
pact
French Premier Sarraut and his
cabinet, according to officials In Paris,
at once instructed Fiandin to fight to
th-? bitter end for the punishment of
Germany, deciding that it would be
better to take such a stand, even If
It "wrecks the league," rather than
bargain away "the nation's Just right"
by accepting Hitler's proposals for a
new Locarno. Sarraut was reported
to be ready even to quit the league,
taking France's allies with him. If the
council did not accede to his demands.
Germany's "army day" celebration
was much quieter In the Rhineland
than had been planned, owing to the
tense situation. Troops at Frankfort
were Inspected by War Minister Werner
von Blomberg and there was a speech
by Hitler; but the military parades and
other features were canceled. Else
where in the relcji the day was duly
observed, but the feeling of anxiety
was general and unconcealed.
New York's Building
Service Strike Ends
CiMPROMISE brought to an end
tbe two weeks' strike of building
service workers in New York and thou
sands of elevator operators and other
employees returned to their Jobs In
some 2,400 apartment bouses and
business structures. The settlement
provided for immediate re-employment
of all strlCers and arbitration of wages
and hours, and It was hailed as *
"great tictory" by James J. Bam
brick, bead of tbe local union and
leader In tbe strike.
Arbitration of miolmum wages and
maximum bours under supervision of
Ferdinand A. Jjllcor, chief of tbe
United States forestry service. Wages
and hours are to be fixed at the end o f
each of the next three years od the
basis of prevailing economic condi
tions.
In signing a three year contract
with the realty advisory board, rep
resenting the employers, union lead
ers abandoned their demand for a
closed or preferential shop. Building
operators, in their turn, agreed to rein
state all strikers Instead of insisting
on the retention of 15 per cent of the
replacement workers hired during the
strike.
Prince Serge Mdivani
Killed by Polo Pony
PRINCE SERGE MDIVANI, one of
the more or less famous brothers
from the Russian province of Georgia
who have married so many American
heiresses and movie actresses, was
killed by the kick of a polo pony at
Delray Beach, Fla., during a game with
Cecil Smith's Texan team. Only five
weeks before the prince became the
husband of Louise Astor Van Alen,
and she and her mother witnessed the
fatal accident Serge was divorced by
Pola Negri and Mary McCormic, and
then married Miss Van Alen, who had
divorced his brother Alexis. The lat
ter was killed some months ago in a
motor accident in Spain shortly after
his marriage to Barbara Hutton
had ended in divorce. The third of
the brothers is Prince David, former
husband of Mae Murray.
Leftist Riots in Spain
Arouse the Army
SINCE the recent elections In Spain
the riots staged by the leftists
have been growing more vicious dally,
and after disorders at Logrono in which
a number or persons
were killed the Span
ish army was aroused
to vigorous protest.
Premier Manuel Azana
was told by the offi
cers that UDless his
new left government
adopted measures to
stop the widespread
violence the army
would take the main
tenance of order Into
its own hands. Gen.
Manuel Azana
Carlos Masquelet, minister of war, was
said to be in sympathy with the army's
demand.
Azana held a heated conference with
Francisco Largo Caballero, president
of the Socialist party and is said to
have told him that he believed revolu
tionary Socialists were responsible for
most of the disorders, demanding that
the violence cease immediately.
Despite strict censorship imposed
by the governor of Logrono it was
learned tbat Incendiaries there set fire
to sii convents and churches, four
Tightest centers and a rlghtest news
paper, and then attacked the army
barracks, attempting to seize artillery.
Destruction by Floods
in Eastern States
SPRING thaws and heavy rains cre
ated a serious condition throughout
the northeastern states and as far
southward as Pennsylvania and New
Jersey, and In the Maritime provinces
of Canada. The number of reported
deaths was not great but many cities
and towns were threatened by great
ice packs that were swept down the
swollen rivers, and vast areas of the
countryside were under water. Tex
tile mills and other industrial plants
were forced to close down and railway
traffic was handicapped.
Britain Names Inskip
to Co-Ordinate Defense
PROCEEDING with Its great re
'armament 'program, the British
government bas named Sir Thomas
Inskip. attorney general since 1932, to
be the co-orilinatpr
of tbe entire scheme,
giving him a newly
created cabinet post
This selection by Prime
Minister Baldwin was
a surprise. It had
been thought tbe place
might go to Wins
ton Churchill, Neville
Chamberlain, Alfred
Duff Cooper or Sir
Samuel Hoare,
Sir Thomas Is known
as an "auU-JInzolst,"
Sir Thomas
Intklp
Ii sixty years old and always Is calm
and unruffled In tbe boose of commons
or at tbe bcr. It will be bis duty as
defense co-ordinating minister to syn
chronize activities of tbe army, nary,
and air service*.
Newton Jenkins, Chicago,
Out for Presidency 1
Newton Jenkins of Chicago, who
as an independent candidate for.
the mayoralty of that city last April,
received 11 per cent of the votes cast,
has announced that be is a candidate
for President of the United States.
"The Third party will nominate a
President," he said in a mimeo
graphed statement sent to the news
papers.' "I am a candidate for that
nomination."
Legal Measures to Step
Seizures of Telegrams
CHIEF JUSTICE ALFRED A.
WHEAT of the District of Colum
bia Supreme court checked the tele
gram-selzing activities of the Black
senate committee on lobbying. He
granted the Chicago law firm of Silas
H. Strawn an injunction restraining
the Western Union Telegraph com
pany from giving the committee copies
of the firm's telegrams.
The Judge said the subpoena served
on the telegraph company by the com
mittee, calling for copies of telegrams
"goes way beyond" the committee's
powers.
Next day William Randolph Hearst,
newspaper publisher, began a fight in
court to keep an original confidential
telegram out of the hands of the
Black committee; and the American
Newspaper Publishers' assoclaUon de
nounced the reported seizure of that
telegram, which was to one of Mr.
Hearst's editors.
Franco Makes Paraguay
Totalitarian State
r^OL. RAFAEL FRANCO, who be
1 came provisional president of
Paraguay after the recent revolution
there, has set op a totalitarian gov
em men t modeled after
German Nazism and
Italian Fascism. He
Issued a decree which
declared the state and
the "liberating revolu
tion" of February 17
as Indivisible and
banned for one year
political, labor, or
other unions which
"do not emanate ex
plicitly from the
state."
Rafael Franca
Paraguay, the government asserted,
will be purged of "endemic, demagogic,
Industrial, and sectarian evils."
Franco's government was formally
recognized at Asuncion by diplomatic
representatives of the United States,
Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Uru
guay, Great Britain, France, Germany
and Spain.
Death of Earl Beatty,
British Navy Figure
EARL BEATTY, commander of the
British war fleet in 1916-18 and
afterward first lord of the admiralty,
died in London after a long illness at
the age of sixty-five. Rising from a
sick-bed to attend the funeral of Earl
Jeltlcoe last November, be predicted
that he would soon follow his col
league. Lord Beatty had a meteoric J
career as a naval commander and dis
played his ability in the battles of
Heligoland Bight and Dogger Bank,
and especially in the battle of Jutland
where he commanded the first battle
cruiser squadron. His wife, who died
in 1932, was Ethel Field, daughter of
the Chicago merchant prince, Marshall
Field.
Davis Sent to Europe
to Study Condition-i
CHESTEB a DAVIS, head of the
invalidated AAA, is not going to
administer the soil conservation pro
gram devised as a substitute. Presi
dent Roosevelt announced that Mr.
Davis would leave soon on a trip to
Europe to make a special stndy for
the government of economic conditions
bearing on the agricultural plans for
this country. Critic* of the adminis
tration immediately assumed that Mr.
Davis and Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace had disagreed and tbat the
former was being gently edged out of
the picture. This Mr. Wallace warmly
denied, asserting there bad been no
friction.
England's Bachelor King
Hints He May Marry
Great Britain is interested ?nd
pleased to learn that King Edward
VIII may abandon bis state of bach
elorhood and take unto himself a wife.
Thla was revealed when the king au
thorized these lines In the message
submitting the civil list to the house
of commons: "His majesty desires that
the contingency of his marriage should
be taken Into account so that. In that
event, there should be a provision for
her majesty."
Five princesses of Europe are con
sidered most eligible to become Ed
ward's spouse. These are Irene and
Catherine of Greece (whose ancestry
la Danish), Jallana of the Netherlands,
Eugenia of Greece, and Kyre of Rus
sia, daughter of Grand Duke Cyril of
Russia who la pretender to the Rus
sian throne.
Digging Uncle Sam's Gold Vault in Kentucky
WORKMEN are bere seen construct
ing the vault at Fort Kaox, Ky.,
in which the United States government
will cache more than $3,000,000,000 In
gold. The vault, which will be beneath
a baLlding of bomb-proof granite, will
be completed late In May.
BEDTIME STORY FOR CHILDREN
By THORNTON W. BURGESS
LICHTFOOT MAKES A
SHOCKING FIIID
THE game of bide ant seek betwen
LIghtfoot the Deer and the beau
tiful stranger whose dainty footprints
had first started LIghtfoot to seeking
ber had been going on for several days
and nights when LIghtfoot found some
thing which gave him a shock. He
had stolen very softly down to the
Laughing Brook hoping to surprise
Miss Dalntyfoot, for that was ber
name, drinking there. She wasn't
there.
LIghtfoot wondered if she bad been
there, so looked In the mud at the edge
of the Laughing Brook to see If there
were any fresb prints of those dainty
"He Hud Come Here to Seek That Beau
tiful Stranger I Have Been Hunting
For," Muttered Lightfoot.
feet Almost ot once ne discovered
fresh footprints. They were not the
prints he was looking for. No, sir,
they were not the dainty prints he had
learned to know so well. They were
prints very nearly the size jf bis own
big ones, and they had been made only
a short time before. ~ _
The finding of those prints a
dreadful shock to Lightfoot He un
derstood instantly what they meant.
| They meant that a second stranger
had come Into the Green Forest, a
stranger with antlers like his own.
Jealousy took possession of Llgbtfoot
the Deer; jealousy that filled his heart
with rnge. "He has come here to seek
that beautiful stranger I have been
hunting for," muttered Lightfoot. "He
has come here to try to steal her
ANNABELLE'S
ANSWERS
B? RAY THOMPSON
DEAR ANNABELLE: DO YOU
THINK A FONDNESS FOR
CLOTHES WILL HELP A GIRL
TO GET AHEAD IN LIFE?
MOLLY THE MODEL.
Dear Molly: YES?BUT SHE
SHOULDN'T BE TOO MUCH
"WRAPPED UP" IN THEM!
Amabcil*.
away from me. He has no right here
In my Green Forest. He belongs back
up on the Great Mountain from which
he must have come, (or there is no
other place he could have come from.
That Is where that beautiful stranger
must have come from, too. I want
her to stay, but I must drive this fel
low out I'll make him fight. That's
what I'll do; I'll make him fight. I'm
not afraid of him, but I'll make him
fear me."
Llghtfoot stamped his feet, and with
his great antlers thrashed the bushes as
If he felt that they were the enemy
he sought Could you have looked Into
his great eyes then yon wonld have
found nothing soft about them. They
became almost red with anger. Light
foot quivered all over with rage.
The hair on the back of his neck
stood op. Llghtfoot the Deer looked
anything bnt gentle then.
After he had vented his spite for
a few minutes on the harmless, help
less bushes he threw his bead high In
the air and whistled angrily. Then
he leaped over the Laughing Brook
and once more began to search
through the Green Korea t. But this
time It was not for the beautiful
stranger with the dainty feet He
had nqt time to think of ber now. He
must first find this ncweomer, and he
meant to wnste no time In doing it
? T. W. Bumeu. ? WNU Servlc*.
RY THIS TRICK
By PONJAY HARRAH
Copyright by Public Ledger, lac.
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cloth
THE SURPRISING CIGARETTE
THE magician who performs this
trick Invariably causes commotion
as well as surprise. While smoking a
cigarette he nonchalantly places the
lighted tip against a tablecloth.
Despite the fact that the magician
holds the cigarette In that position,
even extinguishing It by pressure if be
so wishes, the cloth does not burn.
The secret of the trick Is a bit of
previous preparation. The magician
places a large coin beneath the table
cloth, before he shows the trick. He
presses the cigarette against the spot
where the coin is located.
The metal of tbe coin absorbs the
heat through the cloth and the tip of
the cigarette does not burn the cloth.
WNU Service.
* MOTHER'S ?
COOK BOOK
UNUSUAL AND NEW RECIPES
T*HE following It a cake worth cher
Isblng Id your card Index. For
thoM who like chocolate It will be
very popular.
Black??one Cake.
Cream together one-half cap of
shortening with one cap of sugar, add
two well beaten eggi and the follow
ing second mixture: Sift tird and one
fourth cups of flour with four teaspoons
of baking powder and one-fourth tea
spoon of salt, add alternately with half
a cup of milk; flavor with one tea
spoon of vanilla.
Second Mixture.
Cook a'll together In a double boiler,
two squares of chocolate, ooe-half
cup of powdered sugar, one-half cup of
hot water and one egg slightly beaten.
When cool add to the first part Bake
In layers for 25 minutes.
Ashevllle Salad.
Take one-half a can of tomato soup
or puree, bring to a boll and add
three mashed cream cheeses or Its
equivalent In cottage cheese. Work
until smooth, cool slightly. Soak one
envelope of gelatin In one-balf cup of
cold water and dissolve over hot wa
ter. Add one and one-half cupa of
cucumber, one-fourth cup of chopped
green pepper, one-half cup of celery
chopped* one teaspoonful of onion
Juice and one cup of stuffed olives,
cut fine. Mix all well and pour Into
Individual molds. Turn out on lettuce
and serve with mayonnaise.
Blackatone Icing.
Take two squares of chocolate, melt
?nd add two tablespoons of butter, oDe
?Kg well beaten, one-half cup of milk,
one-balf cup of near. Cook Id a
double boiler six minutes. When cool
?dd confectioner's sugar to spread.
Lastly add a teaspoon each of vanilla
and vinegar. Beat well before spread
ing. ?
Broccoli With Spaghetti.
Cook one-fourth pound of spaghetti
In salted water until tender. Blanch
and drain. Cook broccoli cnt Into
small pieces. In salted water until
tender. Drain. Mince one clove of
garlic, add one-fourth of a cup of
olive oil. Cook the broccoli In the oil
for Ave minutes. Serve with the
spaghetti. One bnnch of broccoli will
be sufficient.
? Wei tern Xewvpaper Union.
DUTCH WIVES
By DOUGLAS MALLOCH
1 '
? LIKE the portraits of Dutch wives :
' A picture here and there survive*
That shows them with unpointed
fapes.
And modest dress, and other traces.
And always at their waists they wore
A key to household gate and door.
That gave their garb the added
beauty
Of their authority and duty.
A bunch of keys still woman wears.
But keys quite different from theirs:
A latchkey for a late home-coming
(It's quite ? lark, this going slum
ming).
This the garage, and these the car,
lies, keys that do not bolt and bar.
Their only keys forever showing
Some way to leave, some means of
going.
I often weary of the praise
Of these the new and better days
Of looser ties and lighter duties.
I like to feast upon the beauties
Of old Dutch wives who wore their
keys
Like queens their crowns, old mem
ories
Of old Dutch wives who thought
the making
Of home life's dearest undertaking.
?> Douglas Malloch. ? WNU Service.
Seams and Buttons
This youthful Chanel suit is la
beige woolen. Intricately seamed and
with down-the-front buttons. The col
lar of the cotton blouse Is worn oyer ?
the boyish collar of the Jacket Band
sewn eight-button gloves of doeskin,
twin link bracelets, and a small rlnc
set with pearls complete the outfit:
Eve's EplGrAT^s 1
An irypolaiva
CJocopwi _
like a lend,
?pencil ?
(jv^ke ? nnrl
WvdL to the
other to
Goes to one
extrecoe to
eradicate it.
Not What Henry Expected to Catch
HEN!!! WEIL of Philadelphia, while Ashing off Palm Beach. Fla.. had the
unlqoe experience of hooking a pelican. The big bird went after the lire
,ait that was on Henry'* hook and was promptly booked himself.