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1 GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1936 NO. 40
News Review of Current
Events the World Over
Trade Balance for Nine Months Is Unfavorable ? Mrs.
"Wally" Simpson Gets Divorce ? Goering
Launches Nazi Economic Plan.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
? Western Newspaper Union.
L" XPORTS of manufactured goods
and raw materials exceeded im
ports into the United States during
September by more than four mil
r,.. < lion dollars, accord
ing to a report re
leased by Secretary
of Commerce Roper.
But the flow the
other way was so
strong during the
previous three
months that the
country suffered an
unfavorable balance
of trade during the
ance of $66,496,000 in the correspond
ing period of 1935.
Roper minimized the situation, de
claring that heavy exports of raw
cotton, tobacco and automobiles
would probably bring the trade bal
ance more into line with previous
years. Pressed for further explana
tion Roper insisted that "our govern
ment as such does not compete with
other governments in the selling of
goods, "/? and this was the province
of private business. On reciprocal
trade agreements he was mum.
"We'd like to end the year with a
favorable trade balance, naturally,"
he said, "but we are going through
a period of study and readjustment
in world trade."
In fact, Roper found the increase
in import trade to be "encourag
ing." He said that it showed our
industries were buying raw ma
terials abroad for expansion of their
production in this country. Heavy
increases in wheat and meats re
sulted from the drouth, according
to Roper, rather than from the kill
ing of six million pigs and non
raising of grain under the AAA.
NCLE SAM'S nephews and
nieces now number 128,429,000,
according to the estimate of Direc
tor William L. Austin of the bureau
of census. The new figure, as of
July 1, represented an increase of
908,000, or 0.71 per cent, since July
1, 1935. It was based on the num
ber of births and deaths during the
year ending June 30, 1936, and the
excess of immigration over emigra
tion.
Births exceeded deaths by 899,956
and the net immigration was 8,044,
according to the data taken by Aus
tin. The population figure on the
basis of the 1930 census was 122,775,
046, and the biggest annual increase
since then was 1,022,000, for the year
ending July 1, 1931.
The bureau of agricultural eco
nomics also has been doing some
population estimating. It says the
back to the farm movement of the
depression years has halted and
that the farm population remained
practically stationary during 1935,
being 31,809,000 at the end of that
year. This figure, the bureau says,
was only slightly greater than in
1920 and "somewhat less" than in
1910.
p ROCEEDINGS lasting nineteen
* minutes in the court of assizes
at Ipswich, England, sufficed to
give marital freedom to Mrs.
"Wally" Simpson,
Justice Sir Anthony
Hawke heard neatly
arranged evidence
of the infidelity of
Ernest Simpson, who
was not represented,
and gruffly gave a
decree nisi to the
attractive American
woman who has
been and is the close
friend of King Ed- c
ward VIII. For six Mrs. Simpsoo
months she will be on probation,
technically chaperoned at all times,
and if her behavior satisfies the
king's proctor she will be unquali
fiedly free April 27 to marry again.
Whether or not her new husband,
if she takes one, will be King Ed
ward is a question that only time
and the two persons most directly
concerned can determine.
Mrs. Simpson returned from Ips
wich to her London residence on
Cumberland terrace, Regents park,
and there told interviewers that she
was angered and humiliated by the
international sensation her divorce
has caused. She said she might go
abroad for a time but that she would
never return to the United States
because of "all the nasty things"
said of her here.
The Week, a radical London week
ly, was the first English newspaper
to carry an ope? reference to Mrs.
Simpson's friendship with King Ed
ward. The article was at the same
time a denunciation of the American
press for giving the story such prom
inence and of the British press for
suppressing it entirely.
C PURRED to quick action by the
^ new accord between Germany
and Italy, Leon Blum's popular
front cabinet approved a large in
crease in France's military air
force, already reputed to be one of
the most powerful in the world. To
modernize and build up the aerial
squadrons the government will
spend $230,000,000 at once. It was
reported, too, that the cabinet de
cided to ask parliament to vote ex
traordinary funds for the fortifica
tion of the northern frontier because
of Belgium's reversion to a policy
of armed neutrality.
DENITO MUSSOLINI rattled his
sword again on the occasion of
the fourteenth anniversary of the
Fascist march on Rome. "The Ital
ian people," he proclaimed, "today
are ready and determined to defend
as never before ? with all their force
right up to the last drop of blood ?
victory and empire."
As for Fascism, he said, "When it
finds obstacles in its path, it throws
itself against them and bums its
bridges behind it."
NOT to be outdone in martial
gestures by other nations,
Japan trotted out her entire navy
for review by Emperor Hirohito.
It was the greatest fleet ever
brought together in Asiatic waters,
comprising 108 warships aggregat
ing nearly 700,000 tons and manned
by 40,000 men. Large numbers of
aircraft also took part in the evolu
tion in Osaka bay.
GEN. HERMANN WILHELM
GOERING, German minister
of air and now the director of the
Nazi four-year economic scheme to
make the reich in
dependent of t h ?
rest of the world in
raw materials,
launched his
program at a great
Nazi rally in Berlin.
"We shall hack fin
ger after finger off
the foreign hand
clutching at
Germany's throat
within the next four ^
years," he declared. *
Outlining his plans, Goering said
no German had starved, nor would
starve. The high seas fishing fleet
will be increased, he asserted, so
the people can eat fish when meat
is not available. Whale fishing will
be developed for the margarine it
can produce, he promised.
Goering urged all Germans to fol
low the example of Reichsfuehrer
Adolf Hitler who, he said, eats nei
ther meat nor butter. The audience
yelled with delight when the robust
Goering told them he had lost 22
pounds by eating less butter.
Germany would prefer the old sys
tem of international exchange of
wares, but this now is impossible in
a mad world, so Germany will build
her factories, produce her own syn
thetic rubber and her own sub
stitutes for cotton and other ma
terials for which she now must spend
millions of dollars yearly, the gen
eral declared.
\ /I ANY American traveler* Join
the English in moilrning the
death of Sir Edgar Britten, com
mander of the great liner Queen
Mary and commodore of the Cunard
White Star lines. He was stricken
with paralysis in Southampton and
died within a few hours. Sir Edgar
was sixty-two years old and first
want to sea as a lad of eighteen
in sailing ships. He was knighted by
King George V in 1934.
EIGHT armored cars escorted by
armed private guards and state
police, carried a fortune of $25,000,
000 from the estate of the late CoL
E. H. R. Green in South Dartmouth,
Mass., to the First National baak of
Boston. -<
The fortune, which consists of the
famous coin collection, valued at
5 millions; the stamp collection,
valued at 3% millions; - ?- large
amount of cash and securities, and
a quantity of uncut diamonds, has
been under constant guard at the
Green home since his death.
J UST .bout everything necessary
? general European war is
now ready. At this distance it
??t Josef Stalin, dictator of
Soviet Russia, will be the man to
?tar?n? pistol; and he is
ST2 . convinced that an
other great conflict U unavoidable,
rhe nations of the continent are
eHhJt f *1 Communist or Fascist,
either in the constitution of their
gOTernments or in their active
sympathies. The immediate occa
wa? ins th6ir ^i,putes ? the civil
nrataf aulv Nearly all the conti
5? governments and that of
Great Britain joined in an agree
Tac" is a^?'Tt?rVentl0n' but toat
Pact is about played out. Russia
alv ^fniw?rtuga1, Germany and It
rebel* 016 Fascist SP^"
rebels, has denounced the agree
E2 "nd declared ^e reserves
mem??h help 11,6 Madrid ?overn"
M ^ accused nations deny the
wmf? charges- and the noninter
S' ^"committee voted that Italy
and Portugal were not guilty, the
accusations either not being proved
fore th? mg ,t0 What haPPened be
wlnt wternational agreement
went into effect. Italian counter
charges, detailing 20 alleged acts
?'^ufsian,ald to Spanish Socialists
action ? the committee for
"vered diPlomatic rela
Madrid government,
and the representatives of the two
fs we.r" recalled. Dr. Ar
mindo Monteiro, Portuguese foreign
^dfntr'/?r0Wed up ^ action by
Ifrd Plymouth, British
of,the nonintervention
a long document accus
ing Russia of having planned and
brought about the Spanish civil war.
aeit^1 j Russian diplomats,
agitators and soldiers who, he
charged, were directing the opera
so?i^ht iUeged that Moscow
* start a revolution in Por
^tf^van J?1"3 Provide a base for
General Franco's insur
m 111 rear.
Nazi Gennany and Fascist Italy
ti? ^ their differences for the
time being and reached an agree
tmtlL^din UIUted policy- This was
outlined in a communique published
j**" Italian Foreign Minister Gale
azzo Ciano had conferred with
Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler. In the
wi P.i?CC H\Uer and Mussolini in
form the world that they intend to
^e insurgent government
headed by General Franco as the
legitimate regime in Spain, but they
promise to respect the terms of the
nonintervention agreement.
Other important declarations of
policy by the two states are:
1. Co-operation to protect the
fface of Europe and "the holy
family ?UfeUr?Pean <^vUlxaaon" and
r.L^nd^SeTent oi a conference to
rewrite the Locarno pact guaran
teeing European borders, but only
in the west.
3. Co-operation for the rehabilita
tion of the Danubian countries
gT clause of the agreement
Germany recognizes Italy's sover
eignty over Ethiopia.
pOPULAIRE, the organ of Pre
nuer Leon Blum's Socialist par
ty, alleges that a shipment of sub
machine guns from the United
States has been added to the secret
armaments of the Croux de Feu in
preparation for a civil war in
France. The Croix de Feu, a Fas
cist organization headed by Col
Francois de la Rocque, was di*.
solved recently by the government
and was succeeded by the new So
cial party.
Populaire, referring to the sub
machine guns, said these "terrible
weapons used by American gang
?.te?' arrived from America
through the port of Havre and
through Holland. The paper added
that the weapons are being planted
in caches in Normandie and else
where in the north of France. Fur
thermore, according to Populaire
great quantities of tear gas bombs'
and tear gas pistols are arriving
from Germany for the use of the
Fascists. ?
p REMIER MUSSOLINI, talking
* at Bologna, said that Italy's "ol
ive branch grows out of an immense
forest of 8,000,000 bayonets"; and
next day at Imola he told 70,000
listeners that he hoped for long pe
riods of peace, but not for "eternal
peace, which is absurd and impossi
ble."
"The Italian people, which gava
its blood for the empire, is ready
for any other trial when the crucial
hour approaches," the Fascist chief
shouted. "In order to make peace
?just as to make love? it is neces
sary that there be two."
BELGIAN Fascists, known as
Rexists and led by Leon Deg
relle, clashed with the police in
Brussels and Degrelle was jailed
for a night. He said the motive of
his demonstration was to show that
ex-soldiers were backing the Rex
ists, and he announced that he
would carry out his threatened
"march on Brussels" with 150.000
followers and overthrow the gov
ernment.
Grants Birthplace Returned to Original Site
The little cabin where Ulysses Simpson Grant first saw the
light of day has been ret trued to its original site with appropriate
ceremonies. For many years the cabin stood on the grounds of
the state capital at Columbus, Ohio. It has now been returned
to Point Pleasant, 30 miles east of Cincinnati. The birthplace of
the baby who grew to be "Unconditional Surrender" Grant of
Civil war fame and eighteenth President of the United States,
is the simple little -white building at the right of this picture.
Bedtime Story for Children
By THORNTON W. BURGESS
A DEN OF KOBBEBS
\J7 HEN Billy Mink started to ex
v * plore the big barn in the
farmyard where he had decided to
stay for a while he didn't know
that he was entering a den of rob
bers. But that is what he was do
ing. Yes, sir, that is just what he
was doing. You see, that barn was
the home of ever end ever so many
of the tribe of Robber the Rat, and
each one of them, big and little,
was a robber. They lived by rob
bery, which, you know, is another
name for stealing.
Now those robbers had lived in
They Become Bobbers u Soon u
They Can Bon About.
that big barn so long that they had
come to look on it as belonging to
them. They knew every nook and
comer and cranny in it and under
it The farmer who owned it had
tried his best to drive them away.
But those robber rata simply
laughed at all his efforts. They
were smart. Oh, yes, indeed, they
were smart. Robbers often are quite
as smart as honest people. They
were too smart for that farmer.
All those rats belonged to the
Brown Rat tribe. Not that they
Caracul and Marten
Black caracul is aliraly fitted and
widely flared in this handsome coat
for afternoon wear. It ia lavishly
trimmed with sable dyed baume
marten. The little toque combines
the same two furs.
were all brown. The tact Is, the
older ones were quite gray. But
that was because they were old and
had grown gray with age.
Not all rats are bad. There are
Brush tail the Wood Rat and Miser
the Trade Rat and their families.
They are honest and respected by
their neighbors. But all the Brown
tribe are outcasts, despised by all
the little people of the Green Mead
ows and the Green Forest, and hat
ed by man. There is no good in
them. They become robbers as soon
as they can run about, and they
remain robbers as long as they live.
There is not an honest hair on one
of them. They hate the sunlight,
for their deeds are deeds of dark
ness. They are savage.
But with all this, they are clever,
very clever indeed. They are so
clever that in spite of all man's ef
forts to kill them their tribe has
increased until it is probably the
largest tribe of little people who
wear fur in all the world, excepting
the Mouse tribe.
The farmer who owned that barn
had set traps of many kinds, but
the wise old leader of the rats had
found each trap and warned all his
relatives. The farmer had tried to
poison them, but somehow their
wise old leader always knew where
the poison was and warned them
against it A cat had been brought
to catch them, but the tough old
fighters among the rats had driven
the cat oat.
So, the rats had increased and the
greater the numbers the' more they
stole. They gnawed holes wherever
there was a chance of getting food.
They got into the farmer's house
and did great damage there. In
"Water is water," u;i pertinent
Polly, "bat Joo't try te teU yoor
Hlf that splashtaf * round in an in
door dish pan Is as pleasurable as
splashing aroamd te aa outdoor
swim mine pool."
# B?II ?yndlcaU. ? WND ImtM.
Eve's EpIgtatos
* no
[ ODooftn
/ about
IreinG
thirty ,
oniil she&
p?ot it
the spring they killed young chick
ens in the henhouse. They stole
eggs. In (act, these robbers did
about as they pleased and the big
barn was their den.
? T. W Burfm ? WNU Bwnei,
THE LANGUAGE _
OF YOUB HAND *
? By LeicMtw K. Davis
C PtfMlc Lad far. lac.
*gAM?NTALTYPE
U OW often you meet interesting
1 people, socially or in business,
whose true traits and character you
would give almost anything to see
delineated. This isn't difficult if you
are on speaking terms with the lan
guage of the hand. But before you
attempt a verdict, be sure that you
are familiar with the characteristics
of type.
The Temperamental Type at Hud
Graceful symmetry is the out
standing feature of this type. The
fingers, particularly, impress the
observer with their smoothness and
delicate modeling from root to nail
tip. Hands of the temperamental
type are in general quite small,
though there may be exceptions to
the rule; are plump but not over
fleshed and have a responsive, resil
ient feel when grasped.
The fingers of this type are of
moderate length in proportion to the
length of palm, which is usually
neither square nor elongated, but
rather full and oval in shape. The
thumb, like the fingers, is well pro
portioned, of moderate length, and
in many instances has a markedly
tapered nail joint, with the joint
below it of unusual slenderness and
WORK YOUR GARDEN
By DOUGLAS MALLOCH
UNLESS you work your gardes
You can't expect a rose.
The poorest little pansy flow"r,
Or anything that grows.
Unless you work a little
But little you will win.
For all that's worth the havinf
- comes
To those who toil and spin.
Unless you work your garden
You can't expect the joy
Of those who grow the growing
things
That busy hands employ.
Unless you give a little
But little will be yours.
Although you live a life of ease
But littla that endures.
Unless you work your garden
You can't expect to reap
The things that are the beautiful.
Or friends that you can keep.
Unless you love a little
And kindly say and do,
The rose of life wJl be for some.
The weeds of life for you.
C Douclu M alloc Il?WNU hrrta.
ANNABELLE'S
ANSWERS
By BAT THOMPSON
D? Afln?t*lW- WW IS tr VE'KE
HAVING SUCH A RUN OF COS
TOME PLAYS RECENTLY? <8~/l
our'&wA:- possible to
COMPENSATE FOR ALLTWOSE
LACKING COSTUMES/^
sometimes corseted in appearance.
The firm hand of temperamental
type indicates the emotional, dra
matically inclined, artistic man or
woman, with far greater endow
ments along these lines than aver
age. But if overlleshed, the indica
tions are that indolence and love o I
ease will be serious drawbacks to
emotional and artistic expression.
Possessors of the temperamental
type of hand are natural artists and
actors, who, although they may
-ever follow their natural inclina
tions, nevertheless are oiJy truly
happy when in an artistic or "dr?
c atic" environment.
WNUSvoin.
Originated the Toddy
Toddy was originally an alcoholic
drink made by South Sea Islanders
from the buds 01 flowers of certain
trees. Early explorers. Cook, Dam
pier and Herbert, identify toddy;
with the fan and date palm trees,
and Dampier speaks of the tod jy,
tree, probably also a palm.
Inside Indiana's Dental Trailer
View of the interior ot the dental office trailer that the state at
Indiana has sent on the road to treat needy children from three to ten
years old whose parents are on relief. The trailer has one chair, a
divan, hot and cold running water, sterilizer, and other equipment, all
of the latest design. Services are limited to prophylaxis, cement
amalgam fillings, and extractions.