The Alamance gleaner
VOL. LXII. GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY APRIL 2, 1936. NO. 9.
? Western Newspaper Union
Mussolini Abolishes
Chamber of Deputies
Benito Mussolini evidently ex
pects another European war, and
In preparation for It be announced
?everal drastic measures on the seven
teenth anniversary of
the founding of the
Fascist party. He
abolished the chamber
of deputies, substitut
ing for It a council of
guilds; and he also
eliminated the coun
try's large industries,
leaving the medium
and small private In
dustries in existence.
This latter move, be
Benito told the council of the
Mussolini ^ gulIds 0( the cor.
poratlve state, was to Increase the na
tion's economic self-sufficiency. "When
and how war will come, one does not
know," he said, "but the wheel of fate
turns fast"
Mussolini asserted the large indus
tries, particularly those working for
thj( defense of the nation, would be
totaled Into organizations called "key
Industries." These, be said, "will be
run directly or Indirectly by the gov
ernment Some will have mixed or
ganization."
He drew tremendous cheers from the
audience, rising in the gorgeous Julius
Caesar hall of the capltol building, on
Capltollne hill, when he declared that
with this reform, the Fascist party
reached fulfillment of Its purposes.
Kussia and Poland Don't
Trust Negotiations
EASTERN Europe, especially soviet
Russia and Poland, Is distrustful
of the negotiations among the Locarno
powers. Russia, according to Earl
Badek, authoritative writer in Mos
cow, Is convinced she must rely for her
safety mainly on her own resources
for defense, and accordingly will
Strengthen her armed forces, already
numbering 1,300,000 men. Be de
scribed commitments of the four Lo
carno powers In regard to future ac
tion as "so uncertain that they can be
discounted as not existing at all."
Suggestions offered In London for
the summoning of an International con
ference to discuss new agreements Ba
dek found to be "so vague" as to ap
the world to know we will never capit
ulate before the resolutions and for
for which Hitler has expressed no par
ticular love."
The Polish government was decided
ly worried by reports of secret negotia
tions in London behind the scenes of
the conference of the Locarno pow
ers. These reports were forwarded by
Col. Josef Beck, the foreign minister,
wbo scented a plot to secure peace in
western Europe at the expense of east
ern Europe by granting Germany a
free nand in the latter region. Beck
thought there were possibilities of
revision of the Versailles and other
treaties
Hitler Considers Reply
to Peace Proposals
REICHSFUEHBEB HITLER re
called Joachim von Rlbbentrop
from London, where that diplomat had
heard Germany condemned as a treaty
violator by tbe coun
cil of the League of
Nations, and with
him spent several days
carefully planning his
response to the pro
posals of the other
four Locarno powers.
Others of his advisers
participated In the con
ferences, but there was
no doubt that Hitler
himself wouM deter
mine the course of the
relch, and from the
Joachim von
Ribbentrop
demonstration* In his honor over the
week-end It appeared certain the Ger
man people wonld sustain him In hl?
decision. Going to Breslau, still ac
companied by Van Blbbentrop, Hitler
told a big gathering of citizens: **We
will not make a single compromise In
Internal or external politics. We want
the world to know we will nerer capi
tulate before the resolutions and for
mulations of others."
Declaring the world is getting It
self entangled In military alliances.
Hitler promised: "We Germans will
not allow ourselves to be entangled
because we have reconquered our sov
ereignty and Intend to keep It*
The Fuehrer answered charges that
his peace proposals were merely a
gesture by saying: "I make no empty
rsa. These were proposals to la
sore the peace of the world (or 2S
years. Let other statesmen ask their
peoples to express their opinion in
votes as to whether they want war
or peace. Maybe then the nations
will come to agreement. Ma/ God
show us the right way."
Parts of the peace plan offered by
the four Locarno powers that were
most objectionable to the Germans
were the creation of an International
police zone 12 miles wide along the
Rhlneland frontier, and the submis
sion of the Franco-Russian mutual aid
treaty to the world courts
Foreign Secretary Eden urged
Von Rlbbentrop before the latter left
London for Berlin to prevail on Hitler
to submit counter proposals. Eden
emphasized that the four power pro
posals were not Intended to be flnaL
Isabella Greenway Will
Retire From Congress
ISABELLA GREENWAY, the capable
lady who has represented Arizona
In congress since October, 1933, has
announced In Tucson that she will re
tire from public life
at the conclusion of
her present term. Sbe
was first elected for
the remainder of the
term of Lewis Dong
las, who resigned to
become director of the
budget, and was re
elected In 1934.
Mrs. Greenway owns
and operates several
Mr. Gr?nwav ranches In Arizona
Gre?nway and New Mellco an?
a hotel in Tucson, and Is also Inter
ested In some mining companies. Un
doubtedly she could go back to con
gress without opposition, but she says
she wants to devote more time to her
private activities.
Great Floods Recede and
Reconstruction Begins
T NTREPID citizens of scores of cities
1 and towns in the eastern and New
England states which were devastated
by the unprecedented floods were dig
ging out their homes and places of
business from the mud and debris as
the turbulent waters of many rivers
subsided. Reconstruction and refitting
began everywhere immediately, and
this, as well as the relief of the suffer
ing thousands, was aided by funds to
taling more than $43,000,000 allocated
by President Roosevelt before he left
Washington for Florida.
Rough estimates were that the total
dead in 13 states were 169; the home
less were 221,500, and the total prop
erty damage, $271*500,000. The last
figure probably would be tripled if one
took into account the losses from in
terruption to industry and trade and
the stoppage of the wages of labor.
Cities along the lower Ohio were
threatened as the flood waters raced
down to the Mississippi and the Gulf
of Hexico, but they had had plenty
of warning and were in a measure pre
pared. Of course many communities
were submerged, but the residents had
moved to higher land
Everywhere In the devastated re
gions the Red Cross workers were
busy with food, clothing and medical
supplies, and in many places National
Guardsmen were kept on duty to pre
vent looting. The people of the na
tion were responding liberally to the
call of President Roosevelt and Ad
miral Grayson, head of the Red Cross,
for a fund of $3,000,000.
Doings of the Senator*
and Representatives
STILL refusing to appropriate $12,
000,000 for the Florida ship canal,
the senate passed the army bill carry
ing approximately 1611,000,000. More
than half the sum goes for the military
activities uf the War department
There will be do reduction In the
number of COO camps during most of
the coming fiscal year, and the en
rollees will be kept op to about the
350,000 mark. This was the decision
of President Roosevelt after a threat
ened revolt of Democratic representa
tives Induced him to change his mind
In the matter.
Senator Black, chairman of the sen
ate lobbying committee, has added the
Wichita Beacon to the papers wfiose
telegrams he has seized or attempted
to seize. The list also includes the
Hearst publications, the Cowles pa
pers, and the Times Publishing com
pany of Wichita Falls, Tex. John
Henry Klrby. an anti-Roosevelt Demo
crat of Texas, learned Black had sub
poenaed all his telegrams and warned
the senator not to exhibit to anyone
any family or orlvate business mes
sages.
Three Powers Agree to
Limit Battleship Size
Great Britain, the united states
and France, the only nations re
maining In the London naval confer
ence, accepted the final draft of a new
treaty limiting the sice of battleships
te 35,000 tons, retaining 10,000 tons as
the maximum for cruisers and provid
ing that none of that size shall be
built for six years.
Norman H. Davis, chief of the Amer
ican delegation, served notice thst the
United States would consider herself
free from the large cruiser limit If
Great Britain should build more than
70 cruisers.
Unsuccessful In keeping Japan and
Italy pledged to naval limitation, the
conferees wrote escape clauses la the
treaty which would permit them to
disregard the limits If Japan and other
nonslgners exceeded them.'
Dr. Townsend Comes Out
for Senator Borah
SENATOR WILLIAM E. BORAH Is
campaigning earnestly for the Re
publican Presidential nomination, and
has Just received a big boost for bis
cause In the announcement that Dr.
Francis E. Townsend, founder of the
old age pension plan that bears his
name, will give the Idahoan all his
support Repudiating President Roose
velt and changing his registration at
Long Beach, Calif., from Democratic
to Republican, Townsend said Borah
was the only Republican candidate
who "even approached" the standard
of the Townsendltes, although the sen
ator has refused to Indoise the Town
send pension plsn as It stands.
Hitherto the Townsend organization
had favored circulation of third party
petitions In every state to enlist mil
lions of people as a demonstration of
strength.
Plans Announced for Soil
Conservation Program
SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE
WALLACE announced the estab
lishment of five regions for adminis
tration of the soil conservation and
domestic allotment act,
snbatltnte for the In
valid AAA. a R. Tol
ley, administrator of
the new plan, said tha
department already
has begun a field serv
ice to administer tha
program In rarlona
states. As under the
AAA, the leading part
within the states Is to
H R Tollav 58 Plajed 'arm
n. H-iouty en> conntj, aD(j jom
manlty committee*.
Mr. Wallace also directed discontin
uance of the four commodity division*
whose work of liquidating AAA pro
duction control programs will be taken
over by the regional directors. The
order leaves intact other administra
tive units of the AAA.
Billion and a Half Asked
for Relief for Year
ONE and one-half billion dollars will
be needed to carry the Works
Progress administration through the
coming fiscal year, according to P resi
dent Roosevelt's figuring. Therefor*
he asked congress to appropriate that
sum. He thought It would be sufficient
to care for the destitute unemployed,
together with (1,000,000,000 In unex
pended previous appropriations and the
$600,000,000 carried In the budget for
the civilian conservation corps and
various public works.
Limitation of federal relief expendi
tures to this figure, however, Is de
pendent upon re-employment of sub
stantial numbers of the Idle by private
Industry, the President said.
As the President's message was pre
sented, Speaker Joseph W. Byrns re
vealed that Mr. Roosevelt had advised
bis leaders that any Increase In the
appropriation over his estimates must
be accompanied by new taxes to pro
vide revenues to cover the added cost.
Effort to Keep Politic*
Out of WPA Administration
RUSH D. HOLT, the young Demo
cratic senator from West Virginia,
gave notice that he would continue to
hammer at the Works Progress admin
istration until a senate Investigation
was ordered. He demanded an Inquiry
into all relief activities under charge
of Administrator Harry L. Hopkins,
and other agencies affecting relief, the
BFO, CWA, and FERA.
In reply to some of the charge* ?
Mr. Hopkins Issued this bulletin:
"No employee of WPA Is required to
make any contribution to any political
party. No WPA employee's Job will be
In Jeopardy because of failure to make
such contribution.
"No employee of the WPA shsn at
any time solicit contributions for any
political party, and evidence of such
solicitation will be cause for Immediate
discbsrge. The question whether or not
to contribute to any political party Is
* matter entirely for the voluntary de
cision of employees.
"No person will be employed or dis
charged on the ground of his support
or nonsupport of any candidate,**
One of the Modern Villages in the Netherlands
THREE modern Tillages already have
been ballt In the Netherlands and oc
cupied. This photograph shows De Terp,
in the province of Wlerlngermeer, Just
completed. It consists of a hundred
houses, shops and a school. When the
picture was made the Inhabitants of the
new Tillage were moving In with their
household goods.
1
BEDTIME STORY FOR CHILDREN
By THORNTON W. BURGESS
L1GHTFOOT IS RECKLESS
IN HIS search for the new stranger
who had come to the Green Forest,
Ughtfoot the Deer was wholly reck
less. He do longer stole like a gray
shadow from thicket to thicket as be
had dona when searching for Miss
Dalntyfoot. He bounded along, care
less of how much noise he made. From
time to time he would stop to whistle
? challenge and to clash his horns
There |? Going to Be Some Great Ex
citement Here When Lightfoot
Discovere Thie Fellow," Thought
8ammy.
against the trees and -stamp the ground
with hla feet
After such exhibitions of anger he
would pause to listen, hoping to hear
some sound which would tell blm
RY THIS TRICK
By POHJAY HARRAH
Copyright by Public Lmdgt, lac.
COIN, HAT AND CLASS
DERBY bat la resting upon a
large glass. The presence of the
bat make* It Impossible (or any object
to enter the glass.
Taking several pennies, the ma
gi dan shows them In bis right hand,
while be steadies the bat with bis left
Be flings the coins Into the hat One
coin travels straight through the crown
and arrives, with a clink. In the
tnmbler.
Hat, coins and glass may be exam
ined. How, then, was the trick accom
plished? Very simple ? so simple. In
fact, that you can learn It with but lit
tle practice.
Wedge a coin between the hat and
the glass rim, where It stays hidden,
before the trick. A* your right hand
flings the Coin, your left ? steadying the
hat ? raises just a trifle and the hidden
coin clinks into the tumbler.
WXU S*rrlc\,
where tbe stranger was. Now and
then be found tbe stranger's tracks,
and from them he knew that this
stranger was doing Juat what he had
been doing, seeking to And tbe beauti
ful Miss Dalntyfoot. Each time he
found these signs, Llgbtfoot's rage In
creased.
Of course It didn't take Sammy lay
long to discover what was going on.
There Is Uttle that escapes those sharp
ejes of Sammy Jay. As yon know, he
had early discovered the game of bide
and seek Ltghtfoot bad been playing
with the beautiful young visitor who
had come down to the Oreen Forest
from the Great Mountain. Then, by
chance, Sammy had visited tbe Laugh
ing Brook Just as tbe big stranger
had come down there to drink. For
once, Sammy had kept his tongue still.
"There Is going to be excitement here
when Llghtfoot discovers this fellow,"
thought Sammy. "If they ever meet.
and I have a feeling that they will,
there Is going to be a fight worth see
ing. I mast pass the word around."
So Sammy Jay hunted op his cousin.
Blacky the Crow, and told him what
he had discovered. Then be hunted up
Bobby Coon and told him. He saw
'Unc'Billy Possum sitting in the doorway
of his hollow tree and told him. He dis
covered Jumper the Hare sitting un
der a little hemlock tree and told
him. Then he flew over to the dear
old Brier Patch to tell Peter Babbit
Of course he told Dnimmer the Wood
pecker, Tommy Tit the Chickadee, and
Yank Tank the Nuthatch, who were
over la the Old Orchard, and they at
once hurried to the Green Forest, for
they couldn't think of missing anything
so exciting as would be the meeting be
tween Llghtfoot and the trig stranger
from the Great Mountain.
Sammy didn't forget to tell Paddy
the Beaver, but It was now news to
Paddy. Paddy had seen the big stran
ger on the edge of his pond early the
night before.
Of course Llghtfoot knew nothing
about all this. His one thought was to
find the big stranger and drive him
from the Green Forest, and so he
continued his search tirelessly.
C T. W. BirlM ? WHU SlllU
? MOTHER'S ?
COOK BOOK.
DESSERTS NEW AND OLD
SUNDAY desserts are the kind that
can be made the day before and
Sire mother a r$al day of reaL The
following are tone which will be en
joyed by the whole family:
Ptanut Brittle Parfait.
Take one-third of a cupful of brown
sugar, one tablespoonful of butter and
blend well In a saucepan. When
smooth add one-fourth of a cupful of
water and cook, stirring constantly.
This makes a sirup. Beat the yolks of
two eggs until light In the top of a
double boiler, then add the sirup grad
ually and beat until light and fluffy.
Set aside to cool. Beat one cupful of
heary cream until stiff, add a pinch
of salt and a scant cupful of ground
peanut brittle. Mix well and pack In
Ice and salt or freeze In a mechanical
refrigerator.
Chocolate Blanc Mang*.
Soak three tablespoonfuJs of gelatin
I GIOUGAG^ I
"If It's the bathing suit that makes
the dfffe pence," says pertinent Polly,
"a lot of us ju?t fail to be a nudist by
a mere thread."
e Belt syndicate. ? WXU S?nr!c?.
In one-half cupful of cold water for
ten minutes. Add one-half cupful of
lugar to a melted chocolate candy bar;
add one cupful of icalded milk. Cook
until smooth, then add three more cup
fuls of milk, the soaked gelatin and a
teaspoonful of vanilla. Stir until well
mixed, remove from the fire and pour
Into a mold to chllL
Porto Rican Baked Bananas.
Select underripe bananas; put them
without removing the skins Into a very
hot oven to bake until the skins burst
Serve In a folded napkin ? do not re
move the skins until the moment of
eating. Serve with plenty of butter.
Alabama French Dressing.
To the french dressing add two ta
MORE TO DO
By DOUGLAS MALLOCH
SAT not tonight that jou art
through ;
There will be something more to d4
Tomorrow morning. Only they
Are ever through to whom the dai.
Suggest* no deed that may be don.
Tomorrow with the rising con.
. ' -
For those who do the things worf^
while
Are not the one* who en<^ a mil*
And see no new mile on ahead;
There Is a valley yet to tread
Beyond the crest of er'ry hill
To those who follow heaven's jrtlL
We're never through while there's 4
thing , ?
To do, while there's a song to sing*
A pray'r to otter, or a friend
To hearten even at the end,
Tes, even deeds God understand* ?
The old can do with folded hands.
For, be they little, be they great
Each morning our new tasks awaK
A word to say, a smile to give
That makes life easier to lire.
How young or old, or I or yon.
There will be something more to
? DoosIm Matlock. ? WNTJ s?rrlo*.
?
Novelty in Hats
Feathen trim thla brown tm hat
with the Interestingly stitched crow*
and small upturned tela. It to worn
by Maureen O'SulUran, screen player,
with a sporti sweater and tweed Jactet
1 Eve* s EptorATQStl
The likmG- of
too Oooen
is neve* -
rouiuni
unless both.
thi*iK the. j
othars f
inferiority ^
is evident tc v
eve*y Uody.'
eUa.: i
bleapoonfala of ketchup, four drops oi
tabasco sauce, two tablespoonfola at
chopped olive* and mil well. Sens'
on any green or Tege table salad. ??
Banana lea Cream. "
Scald one quart of thin cream, adt
one and one-half capfuls at sugar,'
When cold add a pint of chilled crea*
and freeze. When the cream la partly
frozen add one and one-half cupfoto of
banana pulp put through a rlcer with
tbe juice of one and one-half lemon}
Finish freezing and let stand wd
packed to ripen for several hours.
? WaaUrv NmDU?r Umlom.
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Cowboy Sculptor Models Will Rogers
HUGHLETTE WHEELER, cowboy sculptor of Arirona and Florid*, I
his ctny model of Will Bosers In the saddle, which Mrs Wheeler tor
Yellow Springs, Ohio, to be cast in Drome in the Antloch college art :
The licure of the ^ead humorist is considered an excellent ilk--***