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The Alamance gleaner VOL. LXII. GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1936 NO. 44 News Review of Current Events the World Over Droath Commission Gets Data for Program ? Britain Moves to Protect Her Shipping From Spanish Fascists ? German-Russian Break Threatened. By EDWARD W. PICKARD ? Western Newspaper Union. /CHAIRMAN MORRIS L. COOKE and other members of the fed eral great plains drouth commis sion are holding a series of meet ings m the drouth blighted states for the purpose of for mulating a relief and control pro gram and are call ing in the farmers to consult with them. At the first of these sessions, in Bismarck, N. D., of ficials and agricul - _ . turists ol Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska and North and South Dakota heard O. W. Roberts, federal meteorolo gist, give the encouraging promise that "greater than normal precipi tation is anticipated in those states next spring on the basis of light precipitation this fall." Reports of existing conditions, however, showed that the situation | is serious. Gov. Walter Welford, of North Dakota, told the conference that water levels throughout his state are seriously diminished, con stituting a major problem for the state and federal governments. Another official declared t h a t | North Dakota's live stock situation is "most deplorable," that virtually no live stock is left on ranges in western sections of the state and that feed is seriously scarce in all sections. 'TpHE Mississippi Valley associ ation, meeting in St. Louis, adopt ed a resolution calling for rejection of the St. Lawrence seaway treaty unless the crown colony of New foundland and Anticosta island are ceded to the United States by Great Britain. Of course no one thinks for a minute that Britain ever would do that. "The position of Newfoundland, astride the mouth of the St. Law rence, is an insuperable obstacle to the treaty in its present form," the resolution said, "inasmuch as New foundland is a crown colony of Great Britain and is entirely sep arate from Canada. "This crown colony as well as the St. Lawrence plug of Anticosta Island should both be ceded to the United States to guarantee our safe ty in case of war." The new president of the associa tion is Arthur J. Weaver, former governor of Nebraska and now president of the Missouri River Nav igation association. /~>NE thousand banqueters in " Washington celebrated the hundredth anniversary of the American patent system and an an nouncer from a transport air liner gave them the names of America's "twelve greatest inventors" as se lected by a secret committee of prominent men. These are the in ventors and their inventions: Robert Fulton, steamboat; Eli Whitney, cotton gin; Samuel F. B. Morse, telegraph; Charles Good year, vulcanized rubber; Cyrus Hall McCormick, grain reaper; Etias Howe, sewing machine; George Westinghouse, airbrake; Alexander Graham Bell, telephone; Thomas Alva Edison, electric lamp, phono graph, motion pictures, and many other devices; Ottmar Mergen thal er, linotype; Charles Martin Hall, process for making cheap alumin um; Wilbur Wright, co-inventor with his brother, Orville, of the air plane. OEATTLE has a habit of recall ^ ing its mayors when they are not satisfactory. One was thus oust ed in 1911 and another in 1931. Now a movement has been started for the recall of Mayor John F. Dore, who is accused of incit ing acts of violence in a labor dispute. Formal charges of misfeasance, mal feasance and viola tion of the oath of office were con tamed in a petition signed by fifteen women and eleven Mayor John F. Dore men. It asked the corporation coun sel to draft the charges in con densed form so that an effort could be made to obtain the 24,000 signa tures necessary for a special recall election. Dore, fifty-four, was elected in March over Arthur B. Langlie, can didate of the New Order of Cincin natus, an independent organization of young voters seeking better mu nicipal government. JOSEPH E. DAVIES, wealthy . ** lawyer of Washington, has served the Democratic party in va rious ways for many years and has | contributed liberally to its campaign funds, and now he has been rewarded. President Roosevelt has appointed him American ambassa dor to Soviet Russia, to succeed William C. Bullitt, who was transferred to the Paris embassy. mr. uavies, wnose wife is the former J. E. Davie* Mrs. Marjorie Post Hutton, heiress of the big Post cere al fortune, is a native of Wisconsin and practiced law in that state un til 1913, when he went to Washing ton. He was chairman of the fed eral trade commission under Presi dent Wilson in 1915-'16, and was taken along by Wilson as an eco nomic adviser to the Versailles con ference. Before that he had served as western manager of Wilson's campaign and as secretary of the Democratic national committee and he was offered in 1918 the am bassadorship to Russia, to Italy and the governorship of the Philippines. rjREAT BRITAIN asked Gen. ^ Francisco Franco, leader of the Spanish rebels, to establish a safety zone for neutral ships in Bar celona harbor which the Fascist chieftain had declared blockaded. Franco's reply was not satisfactory, and besides, one of his vessels sank an unidentified ship off the capital of Catalonia. Therefore the British government promptly started a con siderable number of warships toward the Mediterranean, cruisers and submarines being included. Foreign Minister Eden already had assured parliament that British shipping would be protected on the high seas with all the might of the British navy ? which is something to give the Spanish Fascists pause. France took the same stand, but warned its merchantmen to conduct themselves "with extreme caution." Excitement over the torpedo at tack on a loyal Spanish cruiser by a submarine which the Madrid gov ernment more than hinted was a German vessel was allayed by the report that the undersea boat was a Spanish submarine that had gone over to the rebel side. Madrid was being continually hammered by rebel shells and bombs, and there was intense fight ing daily in University City, the northwest section of the capital, where the insurgents had penetrat ed. The American embassy was closed on orders from Washington and Eric C. Wendelin, charge d'af faires, gave protection to those Americans who wished to go to Va lencia to board a United States war ship. The German and Italian em bassies, abandoned by their staffs, were seized and sealed by the de fense junta and a number of Fas cist refugees were arrested in the former. Berlin scoffed at this ac tion but Rome called it banditry. p I. STICKLING, a German en gincer, was sentenced to death in Russia for sabotage which he was said to have confessed. Hitler had his ambassador in Moscow make earnest demands for postponement of the execution, and then suddenly announced that if the sentence were carried out Germany would sever diplomatic relations with' the soviet government. Great Britain feared such action would seriously aggra vate the European war situation and so Prime Minister Baldwin in terceded. He asked German Am bassador Von Ribbentrop to urge Hitler not to bring about the open break with Russia, and he instruct ed the British ambassador at Mos cow to appeal for mercy for Strick ling. Thereafter the Soviet govern ment commuted the German'* sen tence to ten years in prison. Sev eral of his fellow plotters were shot. The agreement directed against the communist internationale, which angered Russia, was signed by Japan and Germany in the Ber lin fore%n office. Under it the two nations are to co-operate in a cam paign against communism, and they invite other nations to join them. D EPORTING on its annual sur vey, the National Child Labor committee says the improved busi ness activity has been accompanied by a general increase in the use of child labor, with "appalling con ditions" in some industries. "It appears to be hard for the individual who sees business and trade reviving," the repprt said, "to pause to consider the extent to which this process of creating wealth is being built upon the backs of children who need to be in school instead of having their youth ground out of them at labor." V"ARL VON OSSIETSKY, Ger man pacifist who has been im prisoned by the Nazi government after being convicted of treason, has been awarded the Nobel peace prize for 1935 ? and the Nazis are exceedingly indignant, looking up on the award as "an impudent chal lenge and insult to the new Ger many." Ossietsky, who is seriously ill, was released from prison recent ly but is under guard by the secret police. His "treason" consisted in printing an article some time ago saying the German army was sec retly rearming. The peace prize for 1936 was giv en Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argen tine foreign minister, recently pres ident of the League of Nations as sembly and active in ending the Chaco war between Bolivia and Par aguay. rjRIS P. VAN SWERINGEN, the ^ Cleveland financier who, with his late brother M. J. Van Swerin gen, created a great railway em pire, died suddenly while on a rail road trip to New York. In his 57 years of life he rose from being a newsboy to a commanding position in American transportation. The great depression almost ruined the brothers financially, but Oris was well on the way to complete finan cial recovery. r\ICTATOR JOSEF STALIN, in ^ one of his exceedingly rare public speeches,- presented to his fellow countrymen the proposed constitution which he himself has written for the U. S. S. R. The document promises many new lib erties and privileges to Russian cit izens. These include equal suffrage, the secret ballot, the right to work, leisure, material security in old age, education, equal rights for women, universal equality of citi zenry, freedom of conscience and the right to worship, freedom of speech, press, assembly and meetings and the right to organize into any group except political bodies. '?PHAT work relief as adminis tered by the federal govern ment be gradually discontinued is the recommendation of the board of united states Chamber of Com merce. The board adopted a report ot a committee headed by John W. O'Leary of Chicago which held that the work relief "proves in op eration to tall far short of its purposes and to create new ?" u "The committee," said the report, "does not propose sudden and instantaneous stoppage. Those gradual steps should be taken which are always essential when ad justments have to be made upon ? considerable scale. "There is at present danger that, ceasing to have work for unem ployed persons as its function, this activity will undertake to replace some of the functions of private en terprise in advancing recovery. There can be no substitute for pri vate enterprise in the development of improved economic conditions." ?^EW YORK'S state's unemploy- j ' merit insurance law was up- : held by an equally divided United ! States Supreme court, Justice Har lan Fiske Stone being absent on [ account of illness and taking no part in consideration of the case. There was no formal opinion and no announcement of the lineup of the court. In the opinion of legal experts the court's action has wide, implications affecting not only state employment insurance and other social legisla tion, but also the administration's social security program. D Y A vote of 21,679 to 2,043 the convention of the American Federation of Labor approved the action of the executive council in suspending the ten union that are with John L. Lewis in his Com mittee for Industrial Organization movement. However the convention accepted the advice of President Green and voted to renew the coun cil's offer to talk peace with the rebel unions and to give the council power to call a special federation convention and expel the rebels. The convention approved the exec utive council's decision that no steps should be taken to form a labor po litical party. Officer Demoted; Failed to Kill Dog Detroit. ? Sergt. Alex Kennedy is without his stripes now be cause he failed to apply the "coup de grace" to a wounded mongrel dog. The dog had taken a piece out of Kennedy's trousers. Kennedy shot it, but ignored a woman's plea to put the dog out of its misery with another bullet. The veteran police officer was demoted to a patrolman when Mrs. Sophia Liaca, owner of the dog, complained before the police board. FREED OF MURDER; FACES STARVATION Released From Prison, Once Wealthy Man Is Broke. Marseilles, France. ? Death ? not by the guillotine ? but by starvation faces Jean-Baptiste Sarrazin, a pen niless old man, \yho was recently cleared here of a nineteen-year-old conviction of murder. Sarrazin was sought by police in 1915, accused of the murder and robbery of the wife of a wholesale butcher of Paris; but, before he could be caught, fled to Panama. A sentence of death by default was passed against him. In Panama Sarrazin built up a thriving perfume business and be came wealthy. Finally, .after eighteen years, his identity was established by the French police, an extradition order brought him back to France. For long months he remained in prison while his case was reopened and refought in the courts. At last it was determined he had nothing to do with the murder. He was ac quitted by the court and exonerated of all suspicion of guilt. Since then, as a free man, he has been trying without success to get back the property taken from him at the time he was thrown into prison. As the property of "doubt ful origin," it is still being held by the state. Without home or funds, Sarrazin is up against it ? he has neither mon ey enough to get back to Panama, where his perfume business is prac tically on the rooks, nor the means to continue living where he is. So ? an aged man ? the death that once threatened in the form of the guillotine returns again in the guise of slow starvation. Girl, Asleep Since 1932, Shows Signs of Rousing Chicago. ? Patricia Maguire smiled and winked broadly at her mother to assure her that she is rousing ? slowly ? out ol the strange sleep into which she dropped in February, 1932. , The grip of the sleeping sickness is still overpowering, but she is "a whole lot better" now than at any time since she was taken ill, Pa tricia's mother, Mrs. Peter Miley, said. "Pat is more alert and seems more interested in what's going on around her. She is more attentive." Mrs. Miley sat at her daughter's bedside in the room where intimate friends are allowed to visit occa sionally. She asked the "sleeping beauty" to raise her hand. Pat raised her hand, wearily. "Now wink at me," Mrs. Miley said, taking her daughter's head in her hands. Pat shook her head free, smiled and winked. She appeared interested for a moment when her mother spoke of her illness. Then she yawned, turned aside, and dropped back to sleep. Patricia's increasing alertness is most evident during her daily baths, feeding, massage and being propped in a chair for exercise. Her sweetheart visits her weekly. Freak of Nature Appears to Be Cat-Rabbit Hybrid Chicago. ? Motorist* (topping at Ed Wesemann's filling station in Udina, a small hamlet four miles west of Elgin, look at his three months-old pet and ask in astonish ment, "What is it?" Ed shakes his head, admits he's puzzled and then says be guesses it is a cross between ? cat and a rabbit. Ed, Jr., twelve years of age, has adopted the strange animal as a pet. It was found hopping about the prairie by some other children. The front quarters and head of the animal are those of a tabby cat; the rear those of a rabbit. It has the forepaws of a kitten and the long-jumping hind legs of a rabbit. It walks awkwardly, but hops about like a bunny. Mrs. Wesemann says the pet meows like a cat and drinks milk, but also relishes lettuce and cabbage. It is whit* with yellow spots and a cotton tail. COVERED WAGON URGE REVIVESI "Home, Sweet Home" Has an Odor of Gasoline These Days as' Gypsying DeLuxe Captures Fancy of American Public. Home, Sweet Heme As the Poet Never Imagined It. By WILLIAM C. UTLEY < AMERICA must be moving in cycles, for we're back to the covered wagon days again. But such covered wagons! There are those, to be sure, who will say that pioneers have lost their salt since the prairie schooner has gone stream line. But the real hit of this year's automobile shows in both New York and Chicago is the trailer. The sudden craze of the American people to become nomads ? albeit, of the de luxe va riety ? may soon bring $100,000,000 in annual business for the automobile trailer manufacturers. Already you'll find thousands of5 these 1937 prairie schooner* with shower baths making camp in as many places in the United States every day ? by rippling streams, in sylvan dells, at Aunt Molly's Bida-a Wee Tourists' Haven, on cliffs over looking the Grand Canyon, the great ditch's awe-inspiring silence broken only by the swing music which blasts from the home on wheels. A recent issue of the New Yorker magazine reports that there is even a family living in a trailer in a parking lot off Broadway. The daughter of the house is a pretty photographer's model, fond of going out in higb-heeled slippers and eve ning gown when the Gay White Way lights up. Boy friends in silk hats bid her good night on the door step of the family trailer. All she has to do to lose a too-attentive beau is persuade dad to move the family hearth to some other park ing lot. Statistics Are Unavailable. Roger Babson, the eminent statis tician, not long ago voiced his pre diction that Americans were des tined to become more and more a nomadic people. The apparently haphazard growth ot the trailer in dustry from a fad that pleased the fancy of a few to an important in dustry seems to indicate a trend which may bear him out. So rapidly has the business grown ? and so surprisingly ? there are few statistics to measure it. Just what the saturation point for the trailer industry may be. not even the manufacturers themselves can be sure. For one thing, they have not had time to do any figuring. For the last two years they have been too busy filling orders. But with the interest in the life of the open road intensified by the trailer exhibits in the current automobile shows, they are now attempting to plan for the future. ' There is really no mystery to the beginning of the movement. It prob ably etarted something like this : Joe Doakes, a mechanic over on Avenue B in American town, who like* to go touring with the wife and kids in the summer, got tired of pitching a tent and decided to build himself a little cabin with four solid walls that could be set upon a chassis and towed by the family flivver. Many Factories in Garages. Being a good mechanic, Joe did a pretty good job of it and spent an enjoyable rammer. His accounts of the trip impressed some of the neighbors. Probably the Smiths, down the street, got him to build them a trailer. Then the Joneses and the Browns. It came to pass that the fees Joe was receiving for his labors were more remunerative than his regular shop. So he quit his job and started a little trailer "factory" in his garage and went f ? into the business in earnest. Multiply Joe's case by a consider able number and you will have an idea how the factories in garages and barns sprang up over the coun try. Some of them of course folded up as the automobile companies and the body builders began to see the possibilities in the product. But there are today approximately 300 companies engaged in building trail ers. They are scattered all over the United States, but the greatest center for them is in Southern Mich igan, where most of the automobile plants are. Three of the latter are now in the field. There are several dozen leaders in the industry which make trailers exclusively. It was not until last year that trailers really became numerous enough to warrant public attention. Sees Sale of Million. Manufacturers themselves cannot agree upon just what the future of the trailer is. One leading engi neer and automotive designer, Wil liam R. Stout, attributes its popu larity to the rising to favor of porta ble homes. Reasons for this, he says, are the housing shortage, fluctuating employment and taxation of property. Undoubtedly, if the trailer craze continues to grow. Un cle Sam will have to devise some new way of taxing these nomads who have no real estate. If he can catch 'em often enough to col lect. Another manufacturer believes that Americans will buy a million trailers. "This may seem a little optimistic," he admits, "but with a continued tendency toward the so cialistic state, you are going to find a large part of the population at tempting to And an 'out' to their economic problems, and the trail er offers a wonderful solution to the low-cost housing as well as travel problems." Coach trailers find their way from manufacturer to consumer in three ways, chiefly. Most of them are sold through automobile dealers, but some are sold by independent dealers who handle trailers exclu sively and some through factory representatives. About 60 per cent, the New York Times reports, are sold through the regular car deal ers. The makers of the more ex pensive trailers favor sales through direct factory representatives. They have to be expert at estimating costs on custom-built jobs. The principal buyers of trailers today are footloose persona or fami lies, especially those whose bread winners have retired from work. Some of them have small pensions, or have accumulated a modest sav ings; others are wealthy. Most of them travel aouth to avoid the un pleasantness of northern winters, and those who do not would like to. Nearly half ita output, one manufac turer reports, is sold to persons just about to retire. The average age at a buyer of a trailer is between forty and fifty years, says another man ufacturer, who admits there are quite a few sales to persons of sev enty-five. There is virtually no limit to ttaa variety of the trailers. In the New York show there were exhibited some SO different models, the prod ucts of half that many factories. Displayed ingeniously in attractive, if synthetic, rural settings, they gave the spectator a real idea at their usefulness on the road. Some of the less expensive trail ers were merely carriers for bag gage, folding tents and beds. At the top of the cost chart are the pala tial "land yachts" with real beds, kitchenettes, refrigeration and radi os. Some have even air condition ing and structural insulation. Price Determine* La nrj. Trailers are usually 18 to 30 feet long. One type, which ranges in price from $499 to $1,015, has Pull man type windows in double group* with sashes and frames of steeL The body is mounted on a steel chassis and running gear, with tongue and groove flooring. Con cealed in the rear "of the interior is a kitchen which boasts a combina tion cooking and heating stove, table high, porcelain sink, work tables, cupboards and a refrigerator. Ad jacent to the kitchen are Pullman seats; when a folding table is as sembled they make up an attrac tive dinette. These also make up into a double bed. A studio couch converts into another double bed. Most of the remainder of the mod els exhibited are variations of the one just described. Their differ ences often lie in mechanical im provements. Some have two rooms, with a door in each. They like wise vary in degree of streamlining. Some of the cheaper models are hardly more than box-shaped, but the more expensive ones are de signed to cleave the air with the greatest of ease. Quite comfortable models are available at less expense than the uninitiated would suppose. One line, which starts at $275, has streamline design, air conditioning, modern In teriors designed by women, adjust able road clearance for wilderness driving, low floor level and overall height, chrome molybdenum, springs, rubber mounted, and metal cabinets. Pastel shades are used in the decorating and windows in some models are of the run-down type used in automobiles. The cheapest model at the show cost $119.50, but it was not a cabin type trailer. It has air mattresses and pillows for two. The top, when opened may be converted into a waterproof tent. A far cry from this is a palace on wheels which sells for $12,000. Six persons can sleep in it It has everything you would expect to find in a small modern home. There are shower baths, radio, telephone com munication with the driver, heating systems and accessories such as card tables, foot rests, speedome ters and altimeters. Even the automobiles themselves have begun to show the influence of the trailer. Two of this year's mod els are so constructed that the seats may be folded into beds for "camp ing out." ? W?n Kmtw UliMk
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