The Alamance gleaner
Vol. LXIII GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1937
News Review of Current
Events the World Over
European Powers Agree on Blockade of Spain to Insulate
the War ? Farm Tenant Program ? Supreme
Court Controversy Grows.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
? Western Newspaper Union.
CO FAR as the international non
^ intervention committee can do
it, the war in Spain is now insulated.
Representatives of 26 European na
tions agreed that no more volun
teers for either side in the civil
conflict should be permitted to en
ter the Iberian peninsula, effective
at midnight February 20; and they
laid plans for a complete blockade
by land and sea that would pre
vent the importation of any more
men or war munitions. Only Portu
gal dissented, objecting to estab
lishment of frontier guards on her
territory; Great Britain, France,
Germany, Italy and Russia ig
nored the Portuguese protests and
went ahead with the blockade plans,
which are to be put into effect by
March 6.
The decisions were reached after
France delivered a virtual ultima
tum to her fellow committee mem
bers to end their bickering and
warned Italy she would not stand
for "open invasion of Spain." The
French were quick to place guards
at all strategic points along the
Franco-Spanish frontier.
The International naval patrols
presumably will not have authority
to stop vessels suspected of carry
ing arms and men to Spain, but
will report ship movements to the
committee for action and will place
observers on the vessels to check
cargoes.
Supposing this blockade to be suc
cessful, it may well be that the
Spanish civil war will die of inani
tion. Then may be brought about
that which the international com
mittee seeks ? international media
tion between the insurgents and
the loyalist government.
For the present both sides are re
newing their efforts for decisive vic
tory. The fascists, still driving hard
at the "life line" that connects Ma
drid and Valencia, also are attack
ing the capital itself again. Their
airplanes made two night bombing
assaults on the city and its envi
rons, killing a number of persons;
and their artillery constantly shells
the highways to Valencia.
The loyalist government, at its
temporary seat in Valencia, took a
new mandate of absolute power
from all Popular Front parties
and mobilized all available man
power to oppose the insurgent
forces. All military classes of the
last five years were drafted for im
mediate war service.
PRIME MINISTER STANLEY
BALDWIN'S government of
Great Britain is asking for $7,500,
000,000 to finance its "war plan in
time of peace," and is meeting
with determined op
position from the
Liberals, Laborites
and others in par
liament. These es
pecially object to
the plan for en
largement of the
nation's land, sea
and air forces by a
$2,000,000,000 loan
and increased taxa
Sec'yofN.vy Commenting on
S wins on the British naval
construction program, Admiral Wil
liam D. Leahy, chief of naval oper
ations of the American navy, served
notice that any foreign nations ex
panding their navies beyond the
standards of recent treaties might
expect that the United States would
match their construction. He said
it was his understanding that this
nation was definitely committed to
the maintenance of a "navy second
to none." To maintain that prin
ciple, he declared, it would be
come necessary for the United
States to build new ships if other
powers did.
The present United States build
ing program calls for start of con
struction this year on two new cap
ital ships. Great Britain already
has laid the keels of two new craft
and the program announced in Lon
don calls for the start, after April
1, of construction of a third new
vessel. When Britain lays a third
keel, then this government is likely
to start similar construction.
Fl A special message to congress
President Roosevelt urged legis
lation to "improve the present in
tolerable condition" of 3,000,000
farm tenants, presenting this four
point program:
1. Action to open the doors of
ownership to tenants who now have
the reauisH* abiiitv and experience.
2. Modest loans, with the neces
sary guidance and education to pre
vent small owners from slipping
into tenancy.
3. The retirement by public agen
cies of land proved to be unsuited
for farming and assistance to the
families living thereon in finding
homes on good land.
4. Cooperation with state and lo
cal agencies of government to im
prove the general leasing system.
T" HOUGH President Roosevelt
persisted in his intention to force
through congress his measure to
"reform" the federal judiciary,
law-makers who
have been his warm
supporters are com
ing out one by one
in hot opposition to
his plan to pack the
Supreme court.
Among them are
Senator Bennett C.
Clark of Missouri
and Senator Burton
K. Wheeler of Mon
tana, both leading
Senator Clark Democrats. They
studied the scheme
carefully before issuing their state
ments. The announcements of these
men was scarcely offset by a radio
address by Attorney General Homer
S. Cummings, dutifully defending
the President's plan.
Senator Clark said he was entire
ly in accord with the minor pro
posals in Mr. Roosevelt's scheme,
but was totally unable to agree with
the provisions for packing the Su
preme court.
Then came Senator Wheeler, stal
wart radical, with a statement
which it was reported he made pub
lic over the protests of the White
House. He said in part:
"I am, always have been, and
will continue to be opposed to the
usurpation of legislative functions
by the courts; I am, have been, and
will be opposed to usurpation of leg
islative and judicial functions by the
executive branch of the govern
ment.
"There Is nothing democratic,
progressive, or fundamentally
sound in the proposal advanced by
the administration."
Attorney General Cummings ad
vanced these two reasons for sup
porting the Presi
dent's proposal:
New blood should
be injected into the
judiciary in order
that the Constitution
shall be construed
in keeping with the
changing needs pro
duced by new com
plexities of national
life.
The congestion of
dockets in the feeler- vr ?n*
al courts is largely Cummings
due to the inability of aged and
infirm judges to perform their share
of the work.
Investigation has shown, however,
that the second reason is unsound.
Commenting on Mr. Cummings'
speech, Senator Glass of Virginia
said: "I think it indicates that the
country is in infinitely greater need
of an attorney general than of addi
tional judges on the Supreme court
or of judicial wet nurses for six of
the present members of the court."
Other senators who came out
against the President's plan were
Nye of North Dakota, radical Re
publican; Bone of Washington,
Democrat; Burke of Nebraska,
Democrat; and Van Nuys of Indi
ana, Democrat. On the other tide
were McAdoo of California; Thomas
of Utah and La Follette of Wis
consin.
Senators Bone and Wheeler intro
duced a resolution for a constitu
tional amendment that would give
congress the power to override Su
preme court decisions by a two
thirds vote of both houses, but only
after a national election involving
congressional seats has intervened
so that the people have had a
chance to speak on the issue.
The American Federation of La
bor and Labor's Nonpartisan league
declared their support of the court
packing scheme, and the National
Grange expressed its opposition.
Mr. Roosevelt received several
groups of senators, some of whom
are among those opposing the pack
ing of the Supreme court, and re
iterated his intention to push his
plan through congress without mod
ification
Representatives of the soft
coal operators met with John
L. Lewis, president of the United
Mine Workers, in New York to start
negotiations for a new wage and
hour agreement for 400,000 miners.
Mr. Lewis said to the operators:
"There is no friction in our indus
try. Peace dwells in the coal fields.
I hope this conference will be suc
cessful in working out a new agree
ment without loss of time to a sin
gle worker."
Thereupon he presented the de
mands of the union, which were
promptly dubbed "utterly impossi
ble" and "quite amazing" by
Charles O'Neill, president of the
Eastern Coal Sales corporation.
Chief demands made by Lewis
are:
1. A six hour day and a five day
week in place of the present work
week of 35 hours.
2. An increase in daily wages
from $5.50 to $6 in the north, and
from $5.10 to $5.60 in the south.
3. Time and a half for overtime
and double time for Sundays and
holidays.
4. A minimum of 200 days' em
ployment each year.
The operators proposed a 40 hour
week with no increase in wages.
CCAFFOLDING on the Golden
? Gate bridge at San Francisco
collapsed and crashed through the
great safety net, carrying with it
thirteen men who plunged 200 feet
into the bay. Ten were killed and
the others seriously injured.
The tragedy, first major accident
during construction of the $36,000,
000 span, which is to open next
May, was caused by a broken roll
er caster. The state industrial ac
cident commissioner said an inspec
tor had twice reported that the
scaffolding was unsafe, but this
was emphatically denied by Philip
Hart, president of the construction
company.
DAUL V. McNUTT, former gov
* ernor of Indiana, has been ap
pointed to the desirable post of
high commissioner to the Phil
ippines, at a salary of $18,000 a
year and with residence in a huge
palace in Manila. Mr. McNutt is
still considered one of the possibil
ities for the Presidential nomina
tion by the Democrats in 1940. It
had been thought he might get a
place in the present cabinet.
HIRTY-EIGHT Germans have
been under arrest in Russia for
several months and are held with
out trial. The German ambassador
to Moscow, Count von der Schulen
berg, has made "serious" repre
sentations to the Soviet government
and demanded that a representa
tive of the embassy be permitted
to interview the prisoners. Presum
ably the men are suspected of es
pionage and sabotage, in connec
tion with the anti-Stalin conspir
ONE officer and five enlisted men
of the marine corps were killed
and ten others were injured when a
5-inch shell exploded in the improp
erly closed breech of a gun on the
battleship" Wyoming. The accident
occurred during battle maneuvers
off the coast of southern California.
The men killed were: Capt. Ed
ward J. Trumble, Alexandria, Va.;
John Bauer, Cincinnati, Ohio; Al
bert Enos, Cambridge, Mass.; Jos
eph W. Bozynski, Pittsburgh; Clin
ton Walker, Boykin, S. C. ; and Rich
ard Frye, Johnstown, Pa.
GEN. SENJURO HAYASm, pre
mier and foreign minister of
Japan, in a formal statement of
prticy to the parliament, said his
government would
"pay special atten
tion" to the adjust
ment of the em
pire's relations with
soviet Russia and
China, and urged
those nations to
cease their quarrels
with Japan and try
to comprehend
Japan's position and
aims in East Asia.
He called attention Sofiyam*
to the (act that
Japan no longer is bound by any
naval limitations treaty but de
clared "there shall be no change
in our policy of strict adherence to
the principle of nonmenace and non
aggression."
Hayashi's cabinet decided on a
budget reduction of approximately
8V4 per cent; Lieut. Gen. Hajime
Sugiyama, the new war minister, ob
jected to any cut in the huge army
budget, but it was reduced slightly.
Restoration of the Hapsburg
dynasty in Austria was openly
advocated by Chancellor Kurt
Schuschnigg, who committed his
government party to that proposi
tion. He intimated that a plebis
cite would be held to decide the
question.
The chancellor asserted that in
creasing official support would be
given to the campaigt. to plact
Archduke Otto on the throoe.
Building the Paris Exposition of 1937
View of the square in front of the
old Trocadero in Paris, which has
been demolished to make room for
the buildings of the great exposition
of 1937. In the background are the
Pont de l'Alma, which has been wid
ened, the Eiffel tower and the
Champ de Mars. This picture was
taken from the hill on which the
Trocadero stood, and shows the
Seine in the foreground.
Br
Jjy Thornton W Burgess
BILLY MINK TRAILS HIS
BREAKFAST
D ILLY MINK had overslept. This
was very unusual for Billy.
Usually he was watching for the
farmer to bring him his breakfast.
But this morning Billy had over
slept. He knew it the minute his
eyes opened. Right away he scram
bled out to see what had been left
him for breakfast. He found noth
ing. He blinked two or three times,
for he had become so used to find
ing his breakfast right there at the
edge of the woodpile that he
couldn't believe there was none
there for him that morning. But
there wasn't a thing. There wasn't
even the tiniest scrap. Billy began
to wonder if someone had stolen his
breakfast while he slept.
Right away he put his nose to
the ground and began to run about
this way and that way. He was
trying to find out if something had
been put there and then taken away.
He knew that if anything had been
there he would be able to smell it,
for he has a very wonderful little
nose.
Presently a very delicious smell
tickled that wonderful little nose.
That is, it was a very delicious
smell to Billy. It wouldn't have
been delicious to you. You would
have called it a very bad smell. It
was the smell of fish, and not fresh
fish at that.
Billy began to gallop along with
his nose to the ground following that
smell. He didn't care who saw him.
You see, he had become so at home
in that farmyard that he felt quite
safe there. He and the farmer had
become very good friends. There
was no dog to fear, and Billy wasn't
Of Spaced Print
Spcced prints are in high favor
(or winter wear under fur coats.
This one is black silk crepe with bell
shaped flowers in chartreuse yel
low. The bodice and sleeves are
draped, the skirt bias sunburst
pleating.
afraid of the cat. He had just one
thought in mind, and that was to
find out what had become of that
fish. He was sure it had been
meant for him. Whoever had taken
it away had dragged it along the
ground, so it was easy for Billy to
follow the smell.
He was trailing his breakfast in
just the same way he had followed
the rats in the barn. Straight across
the barnyard the trail led and over
to the shed at the back of the house.
There, just in front of a hole under
the floor of the shed, Billy found
the fish. His eyes sparkled and he
wasted no time. He began to eat
that fish at once. He didn't stop to
wonder who had dragged it there,
he didn't care. It was his fish, and
he intended to make sure of it.
When he had finished that last
scrap Billy felt so stuffed that he
didn't want to move any more than
he had to. He looked over to the
woodpile and then he looked at the
hole under the shed. The woodpile
was too far away. He felt sure
"It's going to be a pretty tough
winter for husbands who have been
promising the wife a new fnr coat
for the past years," says ironic
Irene, "who find there is nothing
left to do but come across this
time."
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that he would find a nice, comforta
ble, dark place under that shed.
Without hesitating a second he dis
appeared through the hole.
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MOTHER S COOK BOOK
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SHRIMPS AND OYSTERS
IF THERE is any salad that ap
* peals with a greater thrill to the
eye and taste than the pink, tender
and meaty shrimps served in a nest
of crisp lettuce, there is something
still worth looking forward to in
the culinary line.
Served as Madame Begue in New
Orleans serves them with a simple
french salad dressing with a dish
of Worcestershire sauce, it is a salad
0- one's dreams. With a platter of
french bread, it is a meal.
Shrimps in a cocktail are always
appetizing; dressed with a dash of
horseradish and chili sauce with a
squeeze of lemon, they make the
best of beginnings to a meal.
Where shrimp may be bought
fresh, they are of course at their
best. Drop them into boiling water
and cook them until they turn pink,
then remove the shells. In most
fish markets they may be bought
already cooked, and kept well
chilled for the daily markets. Here
is another way of serving them that
is worth the effort:
Baked Shrimp.
Butter a deep dish and put in a
layer of baking powder biscuit
dough, on this place a layer of
shrimp, dot with bits of butter, pep
per, salt and cover with another
layer of the dough. Add another
layer of the shrimp and cover the
top with small biscuits. Bake in a
hot oven for forty-five minutes and
serve very hot.
Sauce for Raw Oysters.
Take two tablespoonfuls of tar
ragon vinegar, three tablespoonfuls
of olive qil, one and one-half tea
spoonfuls of Worcestershire sauce,
one-fourth of ? cupful of lemon
juice, ? few drops of tobasco sauce
salt mod two tablespoonfuls of
grated onion, mix well and serve
on the oysters.
Oyster Dressing.
This is good in any fowl or with
roast pork: Take a quart of bread
crumbs, cover with cold water and
soak. Drain and squeeze dry, add
tvto well beaten eggs, salt and pep
per, one-fourth of a cupful of melted
butter and a cup of drained oysters;
add a dash of sage if liked or ?
bit of onion.
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? By L*icMt(r K. Daria
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Th? Impulsively
^ \ ARwkiontU
T OVE is a powerful impulse, but
one which should be properly
controlled. However, just as there
are natures sadly incapable of af
fectionate expression, so there are
others in which an overmastering
desire for love may prove to be a
serious defect in temperament.
Do not be too hasty in forming
your conclusions in mattery which
concern the "love life" of the indi
vidual whose hand you analyze. In
dications of unstable affection arc
THE PROPER
SHARE
By DOUGLAS MALLOCB
VI AN is a mixture of all things:
No sorrow but some sweetness
brings.
No pleasure but a little pain.
No loss but something will remain.
Unthinkingly we wonder why
There is some cloud in ev'ry sky.
Why ev'ry heart some hurt has
known.
And why especially our own.
And yet we know life has all these.
Its discords and its harmonies.
Its sunlit noon yet misty morn.
Its prizes won, its burdens borne.
And would you have yourself the
blest.
Put all the burdens on the rest.
Let others bear the load each day.
Yourself exempted all the way?
I find this comfort in my woe.
That life was never ordered so.
That I should always find it sweet.
While others tread a darkened
street.
Since there is sorrow on this earth,
God, give me something more than
mirth.
Since there are burdens men must
bear,
God, give my heart its proper share.
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PAPA KNOWS
"Pap, what is a mongrel?"
"Sansase."
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Winter Queen
Hiss Dorothy Lustig, seventeen
year old blonde from Petoskey,
Mich., who reigned over the tenth
annual Michigan Winter carnival.
Winter Queen over girls from ten
other cities in the state.
often but tendencies which may be
under firm control.
The Thamb of ImpalsiTe
Affection.
Before analyzing that portion of
the thumb which gives us a real
clue to the affections, consider oth
er influencing elements ? the form
and flexibility of the thumb as a
whole, as well as its position on
the hand.
Excessive suppleness marks the
thumb of an impulsively affection
ate nature. Its shape is usually not
able by a combination of smooth
ness, fullness and grace. The first,
or nail, joint may be quite tapered
at the sides but is invariably in
clined to over-fullness on the under
side portion opposite the nail. With
a thumb of this type the third, or
palm, joint is always over-fleshed,
assuming a pillowed appearance
when the thumb is pressed closely
into the palm. While extended, the
thumb stands almost at right angles
to the palm.
Without other compensating influ
ences within the hand, a thumb at
this kind is sure to indicate a love
nature inclined toward extra*
gance.