Alamance gleaner
VOL. LXII. GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY AUGUST 27, 1936.
NO. 30.
News Review of Current
t
Events the World Over
Russian Conspirators Against Stalin Plead Guilty ? Italy
and France Sparring Over Spain ? Roosevelt
Primed for Drouth Area Tour.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
C Western Newepaptr Union.
CIXTEEN men, arraigned In Mos
J cow on charges of plotting the
assassination of Dictator Josef
Stalin and the seizure of power in
tne soviet republic,
calmly pleaded
guilty. Two of them,
Gregory Zinoviev
and Leo Kamenev,
were members with
Stalin 13 years ago
of a triumvirate
that governed Rus
sia and are well
known to the outside
world. The confes
sions did not end
the trial, for the de
fendants contradict
Gregory
Zinoviev
ed and accused one another until
the case was in a jumble. Some
of them, like Zinoviev, proudly ac
cepted responsibility for. the plot,
which was said to have been engi
neered by the exiled Leon Trotzky.
It was believed all sixteen would
face the firing squad.
Twelve more men and one wom
an, the government announced,
were held for examination and
probable trial. Some of these were
involved by the confessions of the
sixteen conspirators.
In the case on trial the defend
ants revealed the fact that not only
were they plotting the assassination
of Stalin and four others, but
planned also to betray Trotzky and
place Zinoviev and Xamenev in su
preme power.
Trotzky, at Hoenefoss, Norway,
scoffed at the Moscow proceedings
as "humbug." "For political ven
geance," he said, "the trial puts
the Dreyfus scandal and the reich
stag fire in the shadow. The confes
sions were forced by the 'Ogpu'
(secret police), which gives the ac
cused a choice between confession
according to the Ogpu's desires and
taking lesser penalties or death."
DREMIER MUSSOLINI, insisting
' that neutrality in the Spanish
war must mean absolute noninter
vention, suddenly put Italy's air
force of 1,500 war planes in readi
ness for flight to the aid of the Span
ish" rebels if France would not
abandon her support of the Madrid
regime.
News of this stirred the People's
Front government of France to in
dignation. Officials in Paris said if
Italy sent arms and munitions to
the rebels in Spain or otherwise
openly aided them, France would
have to abandon her neutral posi
tion and help the socialists.
For a day this situation alarmed
the statesmen of Europe, but soon
it was stated in both Rome and
Paris that negotiations for the neu
trality accord were going forward
nicely with prospects for a satis
factory agreement that would in
clude botl. Italy and Germany.
Whether Germany would come in,
however, was still in doubt. Ber
lin was further provoked against
the Madrid government by the stop
ping and search of the German
steamer Kamerun by Spanish war
ships off Cadiz. German warships
were ordered to protect German
shipping "by all means" and the
German charge d'affairs at Madrid
was instructed to "protest imme
diately and in the sharpest form
against the action of the Spanish
warship, which constituted a vio
lation of all international law."
DISPATCHES from the French
*-* border said Spanish rebel war
ships finally had begun the long
threatened bombardment of San
Sebastian ana irun,
and that the loyal
ists were carrying
out the threatened
execution of the
1,900 Fascist hos
tages they were
holding there. The
battleship Espana
fired a lot of heavy
shells toward Fort
Guadalupe but for a
time at least was
apparently not try
ing to hit that
Virfilio
CtbtieBn
stronghold because many of their
sympathizers were held prisoners
in the fort. The Guadalupe garri
son was hesitant in returning the
fir* for fear that shells would fall
on French territory. Already the
French government was angered
by the dropping of bombs on French
border towns, though it was disput
ed whether they came from loyalist
or rebel planes.
The Fascists captured the impor
ts nt town ot Badajoz, near the Por
tuguese border, at the point of the.
bayonet, and were reported to have
executed 1,500 government adher
ents taken there. The rebels also
reported a victory near Zaragoza
after a bloody battle. General
Franco met General Mola and
"President" Virgilio Cabanellas at
the northern rebel headquarters in
Burgos and planned for further ad
vances of their southern and north
ern columns on Madrid.
/"?ATALONIA, which for four years
has been an autonomous region
within the Spanish state, and which
has been supporting the Madrid
government against the Fascist reb
els, sees in the present conditions
the opportunity to establish its full
independence. The generalitat or
government council decreed confis
cation of all private property;
and then, "to eliminate dual con
trol and place all responsibility in
one place," all magistrates, judges
and others appointed by the Madrid
government were relieved of their
duties. The council also announced
it would act henceforth in complete
independence in maintaining order.
The Catalonian decree promulgat
ed plans for a single tax and speedy
suppression of multiplt taxation.
The basis for the new tax plan, al
though undecided was presumed
to be income, not land, as the large
agricultural properties are to be
collectivized.
PREPARATIONS for President
* Roosevelt's trip through the
drouth region of the Middle West
were practically completed artJ the
Chief Executive was supplied with
all the facts and figures needed to
give him a comprehensive under
standing of the situation before
starting. This information was fur
nished mainly by WPA Administra
tor Harry Hopkins, who was select
ed to accompany Mr. Roosevelt on
the tour. Mr. Hopkins told' the
President that in the drouth area
90,000 persons already are on the
WPA payrolls and that the number
eventually will be 120,000 to 150,000,
the relief work being continued
through the winter. At this tim< the
cost per man is about $50 a month.
Estimates of the amount of mon
ey deemed necessary to meet the
situation in the "dust bowl" were
given the President by Secretary
of the Treasury Morgenthau and
Acting Budget Director Daniel Bell.
KT EITHER Fascism nor Commu
^ nism will be tolerated in Czech
oslovakia, which is "a firm, inde
structible lighthouse of democra
cy, saw fresiaeni .
Eduard Bene3 in a
speech at Reichen
berg. But he told
the German minori
ty which he was ad
dressing particular
ly, that he hoped
that in the fall "the
Locarno powers will
be able to work out
a plan for general
European co-opera
tion and that good
neighborly relations
will Dc established between uer
many and Czechoslovakia."
Leaders of the German minority in
Czechoslovakia charge that unem
ployment in their part of the coun
try is greater than anywhere else in
Czechoslovakia ? 73 unemployed per
1,000 population, compared with the
state average of 38 per 1,000.
They charge that this is partly
the result of the government's fail
ure to place orders in German Bo
hemian factories and failure to give
state jobs to members of the Ger
man minority.
COIL conservation compliance is to
" be checked by a system of aerial
photography, if the experiments
now being carried on by the AAA
are satisfactory. The plan is still
only on trial but several millions
of acres have already been photo
graphed, it was learaed today. So
far it is proving cheaper and more
efficient than the usual way of
checking farmers' soil conseiVation
compliance.
CEVEN minutes of lively fighting
*3 put Joe Louis of Detroit once
more on the road to the heavy
weight championship. He made his
come-back by knocking otit Jack
Sharkey, one time title holder, in
the third round at New York. The
Lithuanian sailor from Boston waa
plucky enough but proved no
match for the much younger negro.
THERE is enough wheat in the
* United States for the usual do
mestic requirements of the season
of 1936-37, according to the mid
summer report of the bureau of ag
ricultural economics, but the supply
of red spring wheat and durum is
short and consequently importation
of those varieties will be continued.
The amount, however, will not be
large. Secretary Wallace stated.
"It is probable the spring wheat
mills in the 1936-'37 season will use
a larger percentage of hard red
winter and Pacific northwest wheat
than last year," said the report. "A
larger than usual quantity of soft
red winter wheat is also likely to
be used iij bread flour. As a re
sult, imports of milling wheat may
be less than in 1935."
Wheat prices in the United States
may be expected to average about
as high relative to world price lev
els as during the 1935-'3S season,
when the price of No. 2 hard winter
at Kansas City was 15 cents over
Liverpool, the bureau said. During
the last three years short crops to
gether with other influences result
ed in wheat prices in the United
States being maintained unusually
high relative to the world market
price.
"Farm prices probably have been
20 cents to 30 cents higher than
might have been expected with
more nearly normal yields in the
United States," the report contin
ued. "A return of average or great
er than average yields in the United
States would result in an export sur
plus and prices would adjust to
ward an export basis."
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT was at
r his best as a radio orator when
he addressed the summer camp at
Chautauqua, N. Y., on foreign rela
tions. Hp expressed
President
Roosevelt
his deep concern
about tendencies in
other parts of the
world and spoke bit
terly about the vio
lation of boLh the
letter and the spirit
of inter national
agreements "with
out regard to the
simple principles of
honor."
"Our closest
neighbors are good
neighbors," the President said. "If
there are remoter nations that wish
us not good but ill, they know that
v.-e are strong; they know that we
can and will defend out self and de
fend our neighborhood."
Mr. Roosevelt said he had seen
war on land and sea.
"I have seen blood running from
the wounded," he said. "I have
seen men coughing out their gassed
lungs. I have seen the dead in the
mud. I have seen cities destroyed.
I have seen 200 limping, exhausted
men come out of line ? the surviv
ors of a regiment of 1,000 who went
forward forty-eight hours before. I
have seen children starving. I have
seen the agonies of mothers and
wives. I hate war!"
Germans felt that Mr. Roosevelt's
speech was aimed at them and re
sented his criticism. A Mexico City
newspaper saw in it evidence that
the Monroe doctrine was to be re
vived.
OTARTING its 1?37 building pro
^ gram, the Navy department
opened bids on twelve new destroy
ers and six submarines. The bids
came from private shipyards and
estimates were submitted by navy
yards, according to law. The latter
were not made public.
It was found that the cost of con
struction has advanced approxi
mately $1,000,000 per vessel in the
last year. A year ago contracts for
destroyers averaged $4,000,000, and
$2,500,000 for submarines. Present
bids were about a million dollars
higher on each type of craft.
FOLLOWING the recommendation
" of Father Charles E. Coughlin,
the National Union for Social Jus
tice, in convention in Cleveland, in
dorsed the candidacy of Represent
atives Lemke and O'Brien, heads
of the Union party ticket. But, also
on the advice of the priest, the
Lemke platform was not indorsed.
The 29,000 members of the N. U.
S. J. present enthusiastically and
unanimously elected Father Cough
lin president of the organization.
A N EQUITY suit attacking the
constitutionality of the com
modity exchange act, chiefly on the
ground that it seeks to regulate in
trastate rather than interstate com
merce in violation to the Constitu
tion, was filed in the federal dis
trict court in Chicago.
The suit was instituted by Wil
ilam S. Moore, ? member of the
Chicago Mercantile Exchange, and
names the exchange, its board o I
directors, and the following as de
fendants: Henry A. Wallace, secre
tary of agriculture; Leslie A. Fitz.
supervisor of the commodity ex
change administration in Chicago;
Daniel C. Roper, secretary of com
merce; Homer S. Cummings. Unit
ed States attorney general; Michael
L. Igoe, United States district attor
ney of the northern Illinois district,
and Ernest J. Kruetgen, Chicago
poetmaster.
Norwegian Scouts Honor Unknown Soldier
Gunnar H. Chris tensen, scoutmaster
of the Oslo (Norway) troop No. 31. is
shown placing a wreath on the tomb
of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington
cemetery, Washington. The Oslo troop
has been on a tour of the United States,
the trip being sponsored by the Inter
national League of Norsemen.
^ Thornton A^T Burcfess j
JERRY MUSKRAT NURSES A
SORE TAIL
JERRY MUSKRAT was caught in
** a cruel steel trap. He was
caught by his tail. It was a for
tunate thing for him that it was by
his tail and not by a leg. But
right at this time Jerry couldn't
see anything fortunate in it. In
fact, to Jerry's way of thinking it
was unfortunate.
Now Jerry Muskrat is much
more at home in the water than
on land, and his first impulse in
So He Polled and Polled and Palled
time of danger is to get into the
water at once if he is not already
there. So when that cruel steel
trap caught him by the tail in its
wicked jaws Jerry plunged back
off the old log into the water and
tried to swim away.
If he had only known it, this was
iust what the trapper had expected
lim to do and hoped he would do.
rhat trap had been fastened with a
:hain in such a way that Jerry
:ould get into deep water. You
tee, the trapper hoped that Jerry
vould drown himself, and Jerry did
:ome pretty near doing just that
'.hing. He swam with all his might,
but the trap held him, and as he
struggled he lost his breath and
water got up his nose in such a
way that he choked.
It didn't take him very long to
realize that he couldn't pull him
self free in the water. At first
ANNABELLE'S
ANSWERS
By HAY THOMPSON
DEAR ANNABBLLE: A WRITER
RECENTLY SAID A WOMAN S
CLOTHES SHOULD BE LIKE AN
EDITORIAL. CAN TOW TF.*.L US
WHAT HE MEANS? PUZZLED.
Dear "Puzzled": PROBABLY
THAT THEY SHOULD BE
LONG ENOUGH TO COVER
THE SUBJECT BUT SHORT
ENOUGH TO SUSTAIN IN
TERESTI
Aaubtlla.
he was in such a panic of fright
that he didn't use his wits at all.
But after he began to realize that
by struggling in the water he would
simply drown himself, Jerry's wits
began to work. He turned about
and swam back to that old log and
climbed out on It. There he squat
ted down and rested to regain his
strength and get his breath.
"It's of no use for me to try to
pull myself free by swimming,"
thought Jerry. "I'm a pretty strong
swimmer but not strong enough to
do that. Perhaps I can pull my
self free up here."
So when he had rested, Jerry
dug his claws into the old log and
pulled and pulled. It seemed to
him that he certainly was pulling
his tail out by the roots. But it
would be better to do that and have
no tail at all than to lose his life.
So he pulled, and pulled, and
pulled. By and by it seemed to
him that he felt his tail slip a lit
tle. That gave him courage and he
pulled harder than ever.
Suddenly he pitched right over
cm his head, and at the same time
there tfas a little snap behind him.
He had pulled his tail free and the ;
jaws of the trap had come together.
You see,, Jerry's tail tapers, and ,
he had Weeta , caught not very far '
GIPllGAGxf^ I)
"One thine about a woman," says
Reno Ritzi, "the better her line?
the better her catch."
C Ball ?jrndlctM.? WND ferric*.
from the end of it. It was this
which had saved him.
As soon as he felt himself free
Jerry plunged into the water and
swam over to his house. Not until
he was safely inside his bedroom
did he look at his tail. The skin
had been torn by the jaws of that
trap, and the end of his tail was
raw and bleeding. It was dread
fully sore and ached. Jerry be
gan to lick it very gently. For the
rest of that day and the following
night Jerry stayed right in his
house and nursed that sort tail.
But he had saved his life, so a
sore tail didn't matter much.
C T. W. BurffMa. ? WNU 8#nrlc?.
* MOTHER'S ?
COOK BOOK
HINTS FOR HOUSEWIVES
IT IS generally conceded an effi
cient housekeeper is one who
cannot be moved from her serenity
by an onslaught of unexpected com
pany.
The hostess who tries to be cor
dial and hospitable while her mind
is traveling in circles as to what
she is going to feed them, should
after one experience learn to pro
vide for the unexpected.
With a well-stocked emergency
shelf (if sht hasn't a corner gro
cery at her finger's end), she may
be serene and happy with no
strain on her hospitality.
The list of staples to be kept for
such occasions will vary with the
taste of the housewife; however,
there are some things which are al
ways in order, such as cheese,
crackers, cookies, pickles, olives,
as well as the good things from the
fruit shelf. Desserts and salads
may be quickly prepared from a.
can of peaches or pears.
Did you ever add coconut (wash
ing off the sugar if it is the dried
kind), with a few chopped pickles ?
sour ones, to a salmon salad, in
a nest of shredded cabbage or let
tuce. It is good and not common.
A farmer's wife, though she is
far from the corner grocery, has
much the advantage of a city
dweller She will have chicken,
canned, fried and stewed; hams
from her own smoke house and
such foods, though common enough
| to her will be most appreciated by
her city guest. From her fruit
closet she will bring canned corn
and other vegetables that are so
much likp the fresh ones that they
are most welcome. Fruits and ber
j ries, jams and jellies, are always
provided in the farmhouse. With
I the fresh thick cream, an omelet
or scrambled eggs, a slice of nicely
cooked home-smoked ham, hot bis
cuit, berries, either fresh or
canned ? could anyone ask for a
daintier or more appetizing meal?
If the farm wife would just remem
ber what is common to her is a
treat to her city friend, her meals
would lack that "trying to do some
thing and can't" effect so often
given.
? WnnUrn Nnirspnpnr Union.
/"\NLY alone man ever knows tbm
" truth,
Too many friends to flatter us i0
youth,
Too many foes to criticize in ift.
For us to really read life's opea
page.
Only alone a man admits his sin
And ever dares condemn the man
within.
At other times he listens to his
friends.
Among his foes too much himself
defends. Si
Only alone a man is ever fair,
Fair to his foes, whatever faulta
they wear.
Fair to himself, his virtue may ad
mit.
The greatness or the littleness of it.
Only alone a man can weigh the
sweets
Of flattery, if flattery he meets.
Knows which was admiration, which
was guile.
What flow'rs will wither, which will
last awhile.
ONLY ALONE
By DOUGLAS MALLOCH
Only alone a man is ever true,
True to himself, and all the whola
world through.
There he will know the rigbtneas at
his cause.
Unswayed by criticism, or applauae.
Only alone, and this the reason is:
Because a time alone is never his
Apart from men, he kneels upon th?
sod.
Only alone in company with God.
C Doosl&a Malloch. ? WND Scrrlc*.
Chic Mink Coat
Here is a mink coat that is very
young in style. It is swagger-lengtb
with a flaring line in the back full
ness. The sleeves are set in ragUn
effect. The collar is the Peter Pan
type.
No Mound Builders' Notes
It is not believed that the mound
builders had any written language,
as no inscriptions or tables indicate
this, the inscriptions on rocks so
common in the country they oc
cupied being regarded by the high
est authorities as of "doubtful par
entage."
Barnegat's Pet Deer Sick in Bed
Pete, a one-year-old buck deer orphaned by one of last year's forest
fires in Ocean county, N. J., and since adopted as a pet by the entire
community of Bamegat, is sick in bed ? pining for local school children
on vacation. Pete follows the children to school every day. He sleeps
in a regular bed, and is here shown being attended by Miss Dolores
Madden, county nurse. jfi.