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The Alamance gleaner Vol. LXIII GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1937 No 12 News Review of Current Events the World Over President Demands Economy, Predicting Deficit of $418,* 000,000, but Asks Billion and Half for Relief ? Franco Creates ^Authoritarian State. By EDWARD W. PICKARD ? Weitern Newspaper Union. REVISING his budget estimates for the fiscal year 1938, Presi dent Roosevelt told congress in a special message that the deficit prob ably would amount to $418,000,000 ex clusive of debt re tirement payments of $400,000,000, in stead of the "lay man's" balanced budget he predicted in January. "He rec ommended the ap propriation of $1, 500,000,000 for relief; and he demanded ngia economy to combat an antici pated drop in federal revenues amounting to $600,000,000. Mr. Roosevelt also said there must be a careful survey of the nation's tax structure, and intimated that a new tax bill would be introduced at the next session of congress. In correcting the over-estimation of revenue and the under-estima tion of expenditures, the President indicated that the national debt will rise over the 36 billion dollar mark. Though he made no specific rec ommendations jas to economy, the President spoke sharply about "spe cial groups" who are exerting pres sure to bring about increases in government expenditures. It was understood he referred especially to the farm tenancy program, propos ing an annual expenditure of $135, 000,000; the Wagner housing bill, calling for an expenditure of $50, 000,000 a year, and the Harrison Black education bill, calling for allocations among the states begin ning at $100,000,000 for the first year and reaching a maximum of $300, 000,000 a year. Mr. Roosevelt had rejected these measures at a White House confer ence and his attitude provoked va rious prominent senators and rep resentatives so much that they de clared they would favor cutting down the relief appropriation he asked to one billion dollars. Among the Democratic leaders taking this stand were Senator James P. Byrnes of South Carolina, represent ing the appropriations committee, and Senator Pat Harrison of Mis sissippi. Said Senator Byrnes: "I think the President's estimate of one and a half billion dollars for work relief is too high. It would make possible a monthly expendi ture of $125,000,000. Each month it will be possible for Mr. Hopkins to further reduce the number on the relief rolls and consequently reduce the expenditures. "It is my purpose not only to urge that the work relief appropriation be limited to one billion dollars, but that the law require larger contribu tions from the sponsors of projects. If the sponsors could be required to put up 50 per cent of the cost of the projects, we would not have appli cations for a billion dollars during the next fiscal year." Senator Joe Robinson, majority leader, made an earnest plea for economy in all directions; and Sen ator Charles L. McNary, Republi can leader, assured Senator Rob inson that the Republicans would co-operate in every way possible <|fith the Democrats in their "be lated" efforts to balance expendi tures with income. In the house the economy pro gram lost a point when Represen tative Vinson of Kentucky succeed ed in getting through his $1,000,000 stream pollution bill. p RESIDENT ROOSEVELT an 1 nounced his plans for another fishing trip, to begin April 28 and last two weeks or longer. This time he is going to angle in the Gulf of Mexico while congress struggles with his latest recommen dations. After leaving Washington his first stop will be at Biloxi, Miss. From there he will go by motor to New Orleans, pausing en route at Beauvoir, the old home of Jefferson Davis that is now a home for Con federate veterans. At New Orleans Mr. Roosevelt will board the Pres idential yacht Potomac and cruise out into the gulf after tarpon. A navy cruiser will accompany the yacht. The fishing trip will end at Galveston and Mr. Roosevelt will go from there to Fort Worth to visit his son Elliott. While the Potomac is at sea Sec retary Mclntyre will maintain head quarters at Galveston with a small staff. XT EVILLE CHAMBERLAIN, Brit ish chancellor of the ex chequer, introduced tn parliament the biggest budget since World war times, and gave warning that na tional finances for several years to come would be dominated by ex penditures on armaments. He said that the government will require an outlay of 862,848,000 pounds (about $4,314,240,000) to carry out its plans and pay its expenses dur ing the next year. Revenue obtain able he estimated at 847,950,000 pounds (about $4,239,750,000), leav ing a prospective deficit o 1 14,898,000 pounds (about $74,490,000). Chamberlain said the taxpayers would have to pay 3 pence more on each taxable pound of income, bringing the tax up to 5 shillings, or 25 per cent. He also announced a new tax on business profits, and this especially was bitterly attacked by the Conservatives, led by Sir Robert Home. They argued that it would demoralize industry. Francisco franco is well on the way to becoming a real dic tator of the part of Spain his insur gent forces control, and of the en Gen. Franco tire country if they win the war. By de cree the general has merged the two chief rightist fac tions under his lead ership and has out lawed all other par ties, thus creating a one - party authori tarian state. His de cree left open the way to restoration of the monarchy in Spain "if the nation needs it," and the monarchists of the Carlist and Bourbon persuasions agreed that if this takes place, the king shall be Prince Juan, youngest son of Alfonso XIII. He is known as prince of the Asturias and is twenty-three years old. "The new Spain needs a new king," said a Carlist leader. "We traditionalists prefer the prince of the Asturias, who is a known sym pathizer with the ideals of the new Spain." rjOV. LEWIS O. BARROWS of Maine has lined up with other state executives who will not stand for riotous and illegal tactics by strikers. When an unruly mob of 1,000 men tried to storm two of nineteen factories in Auburn in volved in a general . shoe strike and the local authorities were un able to handle the situation. Gover nor Barrows ordered out eight com panies of the National Guard. "I'll order out the entire military forces of Maine, if necessary to pre serve constitutional authority," the executive said. "When there is open defiance to the orders of our courts and our officers of the law, there is little difference from anarchy. We shall not tolerate this situation for a moment." The trouble followed a state Su preme court injunction, issued by Judge Harry Manser, outlawing the shoe strike which affects about 6, 500 workers. The mob had been aroused by speeches by Powers Hapgood, New England secretary for the C. I. O., and other organ izers. FORBES MORGAN, who * was the able treasurer of the Democratic national committee during the 1936 campaign and who resigned to take the presidency of the Distilled Spirits Institute, died suddenly in a committee room of the Ohio state capitol in Columbus. Mr. Morgan, a relative of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt by marriage, was a major in the World war. BY UNANIMOUS vote, nearly 4, 000 Daughters of the American Revolution, in their forty-sixth an nual congress in Washington, adopt ed a resolution opposing the Presi dent's Supreme court enlargement bill. It declared against "unbat ancing" the federal tripartite sys tem of government and favored sub mission of the issues raised by the President to the people through a constitutional amendment. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT aent * to the senate the nomination of Mrs. Florence Jaflfray Harriman of Washington as minister to Norway. She is the widow of J. Borden Har riman, New York banker, and has been active in politics for a num ber of years. Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, Jr., who now holds the Nor way post, was nominated to be am bassador to Poland. OPEN hearings on the Presi dent's Supreme court bill wer? ended by the senate judiciary com mittee, which is now engaged in Smith W. Brookhart considering the measure in execu tive sessions. It wai believed the com mittee would debata the bill for several weeks. Boxes full of peti tions against the measure were pre sented to the com mittee. Senator Hi ram Johnson of Cal ifornia handed in a volume signed by 75,000 voters of his state, and a series numbering 25,000 came from the Women's National Committee for Hands Oft the Su preme Court and Women Investor! of America, Inc. One witness heard in support of the bill was Smith Wildman Brook hart, radical former senator from Iowa. He said the President's pro posal was an issue in the campaign because the opposition declared what he would do to the Supreme court. "It was specifically made an is sue in the campaign," said Mr. Brookhart. "The President himself did not so urge it because he prob ably had not fully made up his mind, but former Senator James A. Reed, the ablest, most brilliant and most forceful opponent the Presi dent had in the whole campaign, did present in detail the President's plan upon accurate information. He dared the President to deny his statement. "There was no denial because Senator Reed was telling the truth and the President was content to submit the issue upon the violent arguments against it "atone." Judge William Denman of the United States Circuit Court of Ap peals at San Francisco, an ap pointee of President Roosevelt, ar gued against Chief Justice Hughes' contention that a Supreme court working in two or more separate panels would be unconstitutional. IN THE last five months strikes in * the automotive industry hav* cost the workers between $65,000, 000 and $70,000,000 in wages. And still, at the behest of John L. Lewis and his C. I. O., they are planning further strikes. What they gain, beyond recognition of their union which probably could be obtained by negotiation wherever it is de served, is problematical. The fig ures are from Ward's Reports, Inc., which says of losses to companies affected that the net volume of busi ness "delayed" by the strikes would approximate $200,000,000, but what proportion of this actually is lost cannot be calculated. Keeping "foreign agitators" out of the picture, the representatives of General Motors of Canada and of the workers at Oshawa, Ontario, reached a sttlement of the strike in that plant. The company agreed to raise wages and shorten work hours, but does not recognize the United Automobile Workers of America. J. L. Cohen, Toronto at torney who represented the strikers, said the settlement was "eminently satisfactory." The executive board of the union at a meeting in Washington decid ed to postpone until November th? drive to unionize the Ford company plants. '"pEST flights by the army air A corps' new big bombing plana were being made at Seattle, Wash., where it was built by the Boeing Aircraft company. This machine is the largest military airplane in the world, with an all metal fuse lage 100 feet long, a wingspread of 105 feet, and a cruising range of 6,000 miles. It weighs about 40,000 pounds unloaded and 75,000 pounds when carrying a full complement of fuel and armament. It has four twin row engines of a new type which will deliver 1,400 horse power each for takeoff. The speed is about 250 miles an hour. There are five streamlined blisters on the new ma chine which are emplacements for small, quick firing cannon, instead of machine guns. i DATROL of the coasts and bor ' ders of Spain by the navies and land observers of Great Britain, France, Italy and Germany, as ar ranged some time ago by the in ternational non - intervention com mittee, is now in effect. Under the command of British Vice Admiral Geoffrey Blake, aboard the battle cruiser Hood, the British fleet patrols the northern coast on the bay of Biscay. Ger many patrols the southwestern coast while France guards Spanish Morocco and the Balearic islands and Italy the eastern Mediterrane an coast. Merchant vessels of the commit tee's 27 members entering Spanish territorial waters must first call at specified ports and take aboard non intervention committee supervisors who will have the right to examine the cargo Foreign Governments Buying American Bombers m Orders have been placed In the United States for more than $3,000,000 worth of Vultee attack bombers like the one shown above. This fighting plane, of all metal construction, has a high speed of 237 m. p. h., a cruising range of 2,700 miles, and carries 1,100 pounds weight of Bombs as well as a full crew and machine gun equipment. >r? ?- >"> ? '7*?rri Thornton W Burgess STRANGE TRACKS IN THE GREEN FOREST "P HERE were strange tracks deep in the Green Forest. Of course, U was Peter Rabbit who found them first. None but Peter or some one with curiosity as great as his would ever have been wandering about so c.eep in the Green Forest at that time of the year. It had popped into Peter's head one day that he would like to see how that part of the Green Forest way in deep at the very foot of the mountain looked when everything was cohered with s.iow. So off he started, lipperty It Looked as if Some One Had Brushed the Snow Off the Lever Branches of the Hemlock Trees in Passing. lipperty-lip, as fast as he could go. The farther in he got, the fewer little people he saw and the fewer tracks to show that others had been there. By and by he saw no tracks at all. It was very, very still in the great white woods, so still that it seemed to Peter that he could ac tually feel the stillness. It gave him a creepy, lonesome feeling. The farther he went the more the creepy, lonesome feeling grew. Two or three times he almost decided to turn back, but each time his curiosity drove him on. "If I could sing, I would," thought Peter, "for if I heard ever, my own voice it wouldn't seem so lonesome. There's nothing to be afraid of. Of course not. I'll go a little ways far ther and then I'B go back." So Peter went on, but every two oi three hops he stopped to sit up and look and listen. It was so still in the great white woods that he could hear hi* own heart beat, and |if wsTy that creepy feeling had grown until ii he had heard even a tiny noise he would have jumped almost out of his skin. ' He had just decided that no one ever came way off there so deep in the Green Forest in the win ter, and had about decided to turn back, when he saw something just ahead of him. It looked as if some one had brushed the snow off the lower branches of the hemlock trees in passing. Peter hopped over there. And then he saw the strange tracks! At first Peter thought that they had been made by Farmer Brown's boy, because they were so big. He stared at them. They looked some thing like the tracks Farmer Brown' ? boy left in the mud around the Smiling Pool when he went in swimming in the summer, but Peter knew that Farmer Brown's boy nev er went barefoot in winter. Of course not. Peter scratched his long left ear with his long right hindfoot and looked puzzled. Then he discovered something that made his heart jump right up in his throat. Whoever made those tracks had claws! Peter almost turned a somersault in his haste to get away. He ran a little way as fast as he could and then stopped and sat up, looking and listening. No one was U be seen. Not a sound was to be heard. Peter slowly hopped back for another look at these strange tracks. But when he got near them the sight of thenri frightened him again just as before, and away he scurried. He did this several times, for no sooner would be get away than his curiosity would tempt him to go back. Finally, he ventured to sniff at them, but whoever had made them had done it so long be fore that there was no odor in the tiacks and Peter was no wiser than before. But he felt no easier in his mind. It was too dreadfully still! And those strange tracks were so dreadfully big! "This is no place for me," decid ed Peter, and started back for the dear Old Briar Patch as fast as his long legs could take him, for he had great news and it seemed to him that he should burst if he didn't find some one soon to tell about the strange tracks he had found in the Green Forest. O T. W. Burgns.? WNU Scrvlc*. "Working poor old Dad," Bays sagaeloas Soe. "still tetmi to bo the most popalar way of working one's way through college." WITI ferric*. University of Genoa The University of Genoa, Italy, waa founded in 1343, while that at Macerata came Into existence In 1390. - BING AND BAM By DOUGLAS MALLOCB \ITE USED to hear a swinging gate, But now we hear a car door slam, For it seems ev'rything of late At least goes bing, and often bam! We used to warble "Sweet and ? tow"" Or "In the Gloaming" in the gloom, But now an eight-tube radio Lets loose a brass band in the room. We used to hear a neighbor's knock. But now we hear a doorbell ring That you can hear a half a block. For things go bam, at least go bing. We used to talk but now we yell. You have to in a noisy flat, For even people now as well Go bing and bam and things like that. We used to have one noisy day, The good old Fourth went bing and bam. But now the whole year is that way. Except the Fourth, that's like a clam. We used to live here 'way back when, A place where noise is never known, And so we've moved out here again ? One minute, there's the telephone! ? Douglas Malloch. ? WNU 8*rrlo?. [Graphic Golf Br BEST BALL LEFT ARM SLIGHTLY BENT AT ADDRESS A T ADDRESS the body should be in a comfortable position with the body slightly bent forward at the waist and the arms hanging in an easy, non rigid state from the shoulders. In fact, there should be a slight bend in the left elbow to avoid any semblance of tenseness and this point by the way often causes a confusion in the golfer's mind. He has heard so much about the straight left that his own inter pretation of these words, in terms of his own game, are taken to mean that the left arm should be abso lutely straight at this point. If the left arm is to guide the stroke un erringly in the same groove re peatedly it must be a fixed radius in a circle, i. e., the actual stroke. If the left elbow is bent to allow a measure of freedom it means that on the downswing the clubhead, due to the straight left at this point, will be slightly further out than the position at address and contact the ball wrongly. On the face of the stroke as they know it this sounds like logical reasoning. However, they fail to take into consideration one thing. At impact the left shoul der is lifted upward which takes up the alack of the bent elbow at address and keeps the clubhead THE LANGUAGE Or TOUR HIND A By Loicottor K. Davis e Public 1+6*1, lac. TnePleasurg fin^rof Jupitcp DY NOW, of course, you have found analysis of forefingers a fascinating study in itself. And doubtless you have acquired some skill in placing them by type. The preceding group of lessons has en deavored to cover most of the class ifications of types which you are likely to contact in your readings of hands. The list would not be complete, however, without a final forefinger type which is growing more common every day. Pleasnre-lovtng Finger of Jupiter. This type of forefinger has, like the other types, its own group of characteristics which may be quick ly recognized. The most impressive, are the smooth, plump appearance and symmetrical taper from root to tip. - The Pleasure-loving Finger of Ju piter is usually a shorter-than-aver age forefinger and is well fleshed. The knuckles have little prominence and are more evenly spaced than those of other types. The nail is usually well formed and free from ridges. When widely extended, this type of forefinger stands away from both the thumb and secohd finger. Under' pressure it is found to possess a sur prising degree of flexibility, being easily bent far backward toward the wrist. With such a finger you may place the owner as one whose main pur pose in life is having all the fun that life can give. Coupled with an over-fleshed, flexible thumb, not one but many pleasure-loving purposes are indicated, with over self indulgence likely to cause diffi culties. ?? WNU Service Collarless Suit The collarless suit (or town or country is interpreted here in buff colored woolen. Hand stitching edges the jacket and pocket flaps. Fastenings and accessories are black antelope. Ancient Letter Forms Martine's Sensible Letter Writer of the year 1866 contained form let ters by which one could correctly address "a daughter, from a moth er in town"; the proper way for a gentleman to write to his daughter on her preference to a suitor; "from a young gentleman clerk to a mer chant in the city; to his father in the country soliciting more pocket money," or " to a friend who has traduced you." hitting straight on line. For consist ent results the left arm must be straight as it hits the ball but it only straightens after the down is wall underway. BUI Sywacat*.? WTTO Sarrtn. iM M .4 Jkisia ^
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