The Alamance gleaner
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VoL LXIH GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1937
No. 9
News Review of Current
Events the World Over
Franco Combating Revolt in Spanish Fascist Army ?
Developments in Labor Situation ? President's
Farm Purchase Plan Opposed.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
? Western Newspaper Union.
#"2 ENERAL FRANCO'S revolution
^ in Spain, already checked by
serious defeats on both the north
ern and the southern fronts, was
further embar
rassed by spreading
revolt among the
Fascist troops. His
agents uncovered
the plot and numer
ous arrests were
speedily followed by
numerous execu
t i o n s by firing
squads. The mutiny
first broke out in
Spanish Morocco,
and Franco himself
hurried there by
Gen. Franco
plane. There were persistent re
ports that 1,000 Italian soldiers had
been landed at Ceuta and were be
ing used to crush the mutiny. This
was denied by the Fascist high com
missioner of Morocco.
More than 100 high-ranking offi
cers, most of them belonging to the
air force, were said to have been
implicated in the plot which was
seemingly well laid in all parts of
Spanish Morocco and the southern
tip of European Spain.
Government troops were said to
be pushing back toward Cordoba the
Fascist forces which were trying to
break through for capture of the
rich coal and mineral territory
about Pozoblanco. The insurgent
army there, alleged to include 10,
000 Italians and Germans, was in
danger of being surrounded and an
nihilated.
Great Britain and France official
ly warned Franco that they would
no longer tolerate the stopping and
searching of British and French
merchant vessels by his warships.
T~\EADLOCK over a new wage
*-* agreement brought about a
walkout of soft coal miners in the
Pennsylvania and West Virginia
fields and its spread to other fields
was certain unless the controversy
were settled. The mine operators
and officials of the United Mine
Workers of America have been long
in negotiation, with John L. Lewis
dictating the stand taken by the
latter. Edward F. McGrady, assist
ant secretary of labor, was trying
hard to help bring about a settle
ment and kept the White House in
formed of developments. Mainten
ance men were ordered to stand by
in the mines, but about 400,000 men
quit work.
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT dis
* cussed the labor situation with
Secretary Perkins and Sidney Hill
man, chief organizer of the C. I. O.
drive to unionize the textile work
ers. Hillman told him he was hope
ful the problems of the textile indus
try could be settled by co-operation
and arbitration, and it was report
ed that he promised the textile
workers would not attempt to use
the sitdown strike.
Senator Wagner of New York de
livered an address in the senate on
the sitdown stijke situation, charg
ing that the blame of it rested on
a few giant corporations which, he
said, have "hamstrung" the labor
relations board by invoking injunc
tions in the courts and "who have
openly banded together to defy" the
labor relations law.
Deriding the call for new federal
legislation to meet the crisis, Sena
tor Wagner declared that "the lack
of power in the federal government
to enforce the labor relations act
and not any weakness in existing
law is the root cause for the present
economic warfare."
Representative Martin Dies of
Texas appeared before the house
rules committee and urged action
on his resolution for a congressional
investigation of the strike situation.
He again called upon the President
to intervene and pointed to section
5299 of the revised United States
statutes as giving Vie chief execu
tive authority to take action in the
event of such an occurrence as the
Chrysler strike.
Negotiations for settlement of the
General Motors strike were pro
gressing slowly, and officials of the
corporation said that 10,100 em
ployees were idle in four plants be
cause of strikes in Pontiac and
Flint, Mich.
UNDER pressure from his advis
ers to take a public stand con
cerning the sit-down strike. Presi
dent Roosevelt immediately after
his return from Warm Springs held
a conference with Vice President
Garner, Senate Majority Leader Joe
Robinson, Speaker Bankhead and
House Majority Leader Sam Ray
burn. At its close Senator Robin
son, presumably voicing Mr. Roose
velt's views, said:
"The government cannot initiate
action under the circumstances thus
far presented. It is felt that the sit
down strike situation in a general
sense is improving.
"There are two conditions under
which federal action may be in
voked in case of acute strike condi
tions; namely where federal laws
have been violated or where federal
property, including the mails, is in
terfered with.
"Neither condition has so far aris
en. Except in instances where in
terstate commerce is interfered
with, where a federal law is disre
garded, the federal government
does not, and cannot under the Con
stitution, initiate action."
CEVEN Democrats Joined the six
^ Republicans on the house agri
culture committee and disapproved
the President's proposal to al
lot $50,000,000 to assist farm tenants
to buy farms on easy credit terms.
This majority of the committee ob
jected to the program because it
would put the government into the
real estate business. The proposition
is contained in one section of the
farm tenant bill and would author
ize the secretary of agriculture to
buy farms for resale to tenants on
terms that would give them as long
as 45 years to pay. The interest
rate would be 3 per cent. Sponsors
of the measure probably will try
to get it through the senate, and
after house refusal to agree it would
then go to conference.
SENATOR GEORGE NORRIS of
Nebraska is intent on his plan
for the creation of a national power
authority similar to the Tennessee
Valley authority,
and he intends to in
troduce a bill for
this during the pres
ent session of con
gress. This he an
nounced after con
ferring with the
President, and he
intimated the idea
was approved by
Mr. Roosevelt. He
has experts at work
investigating its
feasibility and map
ping out the details.
Sen. Norris
"All rivers of the United States
should be controlled by the nation if
their nature is subject to it by na
tional flood control policy," the sen
ator said. "Whenever the river will
develop power, we should take ad
vantage of it. I've always regard
ed power as a subsidiary or by
product of flood control."
A LINK with a past era was
broken by the death in Wash
ington of Mrs. Robert Todd Lincoln
at-the age of ninety years. She was
the daughter-in-law of President
Lincoln and the mother and grand
mother of his only living descend
ants, Mrs. Charles Isham, Mrs. Jes
sie Randolph and their three chil
dren. Mrs. Lincoln was the daugh
ter of James Harlan, who was a
senator from Iowa and later sec
retary of the interior. In 1888 she
married Robert Todd Lincoln, the
martyred President's son. In the
administrations of Presidents Gar
field and Arthur her husband served
as secretary of war, and under
President Benjamin Harrison, he
served as minister to England. Aft
erward he was general counsel and
then president of the Pullman com
pany.
DICTATOR JOSEPH STALIN of
^ Russia, in his official capacity
as secretary of the central com
mittee of the Communist party, de
mands a new purge of the party,
so we probably will read soon of
another mass execution of hundreds
under arrest. "I think it is clear,"
said Stalin, "that the present wreck
ers and diversionists ? no matter
whether they have masked them
selves under the flag of Trotzkyism
of Bukharinism ? have lost their in
fluence in the worker's movement
and have become simply an unprin
cipled and idealless band of profes
sional wreckers, diversionists, spies
and murderers.
"It is quite clear these gentlemen
should be destroyed, exterminated
mercilessly as enemies of the work
ing class and enemies of our coun
try."
ACCORDING to a survey made
(or the Corn Belt Farm Dailies,
an increasing share of domestic
meat requirements is coming from
European countries and Canada; at
the expense of American live stock
producers.
Importations of pork from Poland
early in March were running at rec
ord high levels, while increased
shipments were unloaded at New
York from Denmark, Lithuania, It
aly, Hungary, Holland, Germany,
Estonia, Czechoslovakia, Canada,
and Argentina. The United States in
normal times supplies Europe with
meat, the farm papers pointed out.
"It must be obvious that through
restricted production and reciprocal
tariff agreements we have adopted
policies in this country that have
opened our doors to the importa
tion of meats in substantial vol
ume," the survey commented.
THREE famous Americans, with
their aides, will represent the
United States at the coronation of
King George VI of Great Britain
in Westminster Ab
bey May 12. They
were selected b y
President Roosevelt
and pre: James W.
Gerard, former am
bassador to Ger
many, special am
bassador; Gen.
John J. Pershing,
commander of the
A. E. F. in the war,
and Admiral Hugh
Rodman, U. S. N.
Gen. Pershing
retired, special representatives.
Curtis Bok of Philadelphia will be
secretary of mission. Col. James L.
Collins will be aid to Gen. Pershing,
and Commander Frank E. Beatty
will be aid to Admiral Rodman.
TPHREE New Deal acts of legisla
tion were upheld by the Su
preme court in decisions that in
dicated that tribunal was becoming
almost liberal enough to suit the
administration. Two of them were
unanimous. The third and most sig
nificant was rendered by five of the
justices, with four dissenting. This
last opinion was given in the case of
the Washington state law establish
ing a minimum wage for women and
the court reversed its position taken
a year ago in upsetting similar leg
islation passed by the New York
legislature. Justice Owen J. Roberts
had swung over to the other side,
but Justices Sutherland, Butler, Mc
Reynolds and Van Devanter dissent
ed from the present judgment, de
claring that "the meaning of the
Constitution does not change with
the ebb and flow of economic
events." This was a slap at the
majority opinion, which was read
by Chief Justice Hughes.
The court unanimously upheld the
provisions of the railway labor act
requiring railroads to engage in col
lective bargaining with their em
ployees for the purpose of settling
labor disputes. The opinion was read
by Justice Stone and was closely
studied by leaders of the ad
ministration who hoped to glean
from it an indication of what the
court might decide concerning the
Wagner labor relations act, now in
litigation. The Wagner act does not
apply to railway workers.
The Supreme court also upheld
the constitutionality of the new
Frazier - Lemke farm mortgage
moratorium act. The decision, read
by Justice Louis D. Brandeis, whose
opinion condemned the earlier Fra
zier-Lemke act, was unanimous.
SENATORS, some fifteen in num
ber, who have not committed
themselves on the President's bill
to enlarge the Supreme court.
are earnestly trying
to bring about a
compromise that
would enable them
to go along with Mr.
Roosevelt without
laying themselves
open to charges of
supporting a plan to
pack the court. Sev
eral compromise
measures have been
devised, one of
which is that of Sen
ator Carl Hatch of
Senator Hatch
New Mexico, ? Democrat and a
member of the Judiciary committee
that is holding hearing* on the ad
ministration bill.
Mr. Hatch proposes to modify the
President's bill so that no more
than two additional Justices could
be appointed in any on* year. Furth
ermore, it would provide for a flex
ible court with a membership vary
ing between fifteen and nine Judges.
The additional appointments, mad*
upon the failure of justices past TO
to retire, would not become per
manent increases. They would be
offset by failure to fill an equal num
ber of vacancies caused by sub
sequent retirements.
Further witnesses for the opposi
tion, appearing before the judiciary
committee, included Dr. Irving Gris
wold, professor of constitutional law
at Harvard; Dorothy Thompson,
prominent journalist; Walter F.
Dodd of Chicago, constitutional au
thority, and Dean Henry M. Bate*
of the Michigan university lav
school.
Home That the Duke of Windsor May Lease
There are reports in Baltimore that the Duke of Windsor is negotiating a lease on this home of Mr. and
Mrs. Sumner A. Parker on the Falls road, in the picturesque Green Spring valley where Wallis Warfleld
Simpson spent many happy days during her childhood. Although these reports have been denied by a spokes
man for the former British king, it was still regarded as probable that the duke plans to bring his bride to
her native land for their honeymoon.
Thornton W Burgess
PETER RABBIT BEGINS TO
HAVE DOUBTS.
DETER RABBIT had been very
' much excited when he had seen
poor, helpless Mrs. Grouse carried
away by Farmer Brown's boy.
When he had led Farmer Brown's
boy to the place where Mrs. Grouse
was a prisoner under the hard, icy
snow crust he had supposed that
when he broke through it Mrs.
Grouse would promptly fly away.
He hadn't dreamed that she was
too weak to fly. And so when she
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"What Did I TeU Son?" Said Sam
my With a Wicked Chuckle.
had been picked up and carried off
Peter hadn't known what to think.
Somehow he felt quite sure that no
harm would come to her, for erer
since he had seen Tommy Tit the
Chickadee eat from the hand of
Farmer Brown's boy, Peter had
thought more kindly of him. And
then, too, during these hard times
when food was so hard to And Farm
er Brown's boy had left cabbage
leaves and turnips and carrots
where Peter Rabbit could find them.
In Black and Pink
Black and pink are effectively
combined in this tiny (elt breton
It is black on top with a fillet and
facing of pink. The suit is sheer
black woolen made with a knife
pleated skirt and having a blouse
of pink crepe. Pink suede gloves
are worn with it.
No, he couldn't believe that any
harm was going to come to Mrs.
Grouse and he said as much to
every one who repeated to him the
dreadful, false story Sammy Jay
had told of how Mrs. Grouse had
been killed and taken home by
Farmer Brown's boy for his dinner.
But when one day went by, and
then another and another, without
any sign of Mrs. Grouse, and when
Tommy Tit had made several trips
up to Farmer Brown's dooryard and
reported that he saw nothing of Mrs.
Grouse, although he looked every
where, Peter began to have doubts.
Yes, sir, Peter began to have
doubts. He even went up to the
dooryard himself one moonlit night
without any result save to have
a terrible scare when Bowse* the
Hound surprised him and drove him
into the old stone wall on the edge
of the Old Orchard.
Every day Sammy Jay hunted up
Peter, and said unpleasant things.
"What did I tell you?" said Sammy
with a wicked chuckle. "What did
I tell you, Peter Rabbit? If Mrs.
Grouse hasn't been killed and eaten,
where is she? What has become of
her? Tell me that!"
Of course Peter couldn't. It was
what he wanted to know himself.
All he could say was "I don't believe
it, and you haven't any business to
tell such dreadful stories when you
don't know any more about it than
I do; so there, Sammy Jay!"
Sammy would fly away laughing
a harsh, unpleasant laugh. It always
tickles him to tease Peter and make
him feel uncomfortable. And Peter
did feel uncomfortable. You see, in
spite of himself, that little doubt
kept growing and growing. He just
couldn't help it. Peter wouldn't
harm anybody for the world, and
he wouldn't bring harm to anybody,
not even to Reddy or Old Granny
Fox unless it was to save his own
life and yet he has reason enough
to wish them harm, for they had
given him enough terrible frights
to have made any kind of bad wish
es excusable. But Peter isn't that
kind. And now he was beginning to
blame himself for having led Farm
er Brown's boy to the place where
Mrs. Grouse had been a prisoner.
"She might have got out some
other way." said Peter to himself,
though right down in his heart he
felt sure that she couldn't have.
"Oh, dear, I wish I knew what has
become of her. I don't believe any
harm has come to her, and yet ?
and yet?dear me. I just don't know
what to believe."
"Just think the best of everyone;
You'll find it always pays.
It helps folks try to do their best
And mend their evil ways."
It was Tommy Tit speaking, and
you know Tommy practices what
he preaches. Peter sighed. "I'm
trying to, Tommy, I'm trying to!
But what do you suppose has be
come of Mrs. Grouse? Sometimes
I think she is safe and sometimes
I think ? well, I don't know what I
do think. I'm full of doubts," said
Peter.
"Dee, dee, think the best, Peter!
Think the best! That's what I do."
And with this Tommy Tit flew over
to the Old Orchard.
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FIRST-AID TO AILING HOUSE
?r ROGER I. WHITMAN
RENOVATING OLD FLOORS
A WELL made floor, properly
finished and kept in good con
dition, is an asset to a house, and
contributes greatly to its appear
ance. On the other hand, floors that
are in poor condition, rough and
worn, give an air of shabbiness to
a house and its furnishings.
A floor of good wood can be done
over at no great expense. The job
should start with scraping, which
is easily and quickly done by an
electric floor machine. This ma
chine cuts off the old finish, grinds
down the roughnesses, and discloses
a new wood surface that can be
finished in any desired color and
manner. Such cleaning sometimes
brings out unknown beauties. I know
of one century-old house that was
being renovated by a new owner.
The floors of the living-room and
dining-room were almost black with
many coats of stain and varnish.
On resurfacing them with a floor
machine, the floors developed to be
of exceptionally fine parquet.
Old floors of soft wood may be
too badly worn for much to be done
with them. Also, in such floors,
cracks are likely to have developed
between the boards. In such cases
new flooring can be laid on top. The
first step should be the scraping of
the old floor to provide a smooth
and level surface on which the new
can be laid.
Flooring of oak and maple in any
one of several grades can be had in
thin boards to be nailed on the old
floor over a lining of building paper.
With the eld floor oroviding the
necessary strength, the new is lit
tle more than a finish to take the
wear. Parquet flooring can also be
used.
For many rooms, linoleum makes
an excellent finish. Rubber or as
phalt tile can also be used. These
materials, especially linoleum and
rubber, can be had in good design
and color, and will give long serv
ice. Another flooring is made of
cork in compressed blocks. This
material is quiet and has the great
advantage of providing a high de
gree of insulation. It Is especially
good for rooms that for some rea
son of construction have cold floors.
C By Roger B. Whitman
WNU Service.
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SOMEWHERE
THE ROSES
By DOUGLAS MALLOCH
THE woods will soon be full of
flow'rs,
Blossoms that never will be ours.
Chained to the city by some duty.
But I am glad that there is beauty
In this old world, however far
From all things beautiful we are.
And I have never been ao sad
That one thought has not made me
glad:
That in the world were fairer
places,
And in the world were happier
faces,
Whatever trouble I had known.
The disappointment was my own.
Whatever griefs may overcome
Myself, it is not so with some.
Somewhere the woods are full of
roses.
Someone at night in peace re
poses, - .
Somehow the world is very blest,
If not for me, then for the rest.
C Doutlu lialloch. ? WNU Svrrtoa.
THE LANGUAGE .
Or TOUR BAUD W
A By Laicaatar K. Davia
? FMkMni. la*.
Tht Painstaking
fingar of Jupiter
D Y NOW, 11 you have been read
u ing the preceding lessons atten
tively, and have made practical ap
plication of the principles outlined,
you will have found the forefinger
uncanny in its disclosures of pow
er and purpose. For these two qual
ities of the personality are here,
perhaps, more definitely indicated
than in any other major element
of the hand.
The Painstaking Finger at Jupiter.
Until one has learned to differ
entiate the characteristics found in
this element of hand-study, there is
a tendency to confuse this type with
the Overcautious Finger of Jupiter
described in Lesson 25. In both
these types the outstanding feature
is the irregularity of the finger it
self and its decided bend toward the
second figure.
The painstaking type, however, is
indicated by length that is far great
er than that of the overcautious fore
finger. Also its inclination toward
the second finger is much less angu
lar. The joints are knotty, which
gives the finger its irregular coo
tour, and the space between the nail
joigt and the nail tip is often of quite
unusual length.
A forefinger of this type often has
the thumb lying close to it, even
when the hand is widely extended,
a characteristic which emphasizes
the indications of slow tat sure
thoroughness.
The man or woman with this type
of forefinger is sure to be scrupu
lously exact in all matters intrusted
to his or her care. And while ini
tiative may seem to be lacking, per
severance and clear thinking may
be counted upon to compensate for
what otherwise would be a real defi
ciency in the personality.
WNUScrrlea.
Taking No Chances
The mother of this charming
baby, photographed in London, waa
do chances with the epidem
ic of flu in the English capital. (