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The Alamance gleaner Vol. LXIII GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1937 No. 19 News Review of Current Events the World Over Refusal of Postal Employees to Deliver Mail to Stricken Plants Stirs Row ? Labor Flare-Ups Continue ? Britain Blames Franco for Naval Blast. By EDWARD W. PICKARD C Western Newspaper Union. AS A senate committee pondered the advisability of an investi gation into the attitude of the post office department with respect to deliveries 01 man to strike - crippled in dustrial plants, new incidents among em ployers, loyal em ployes and strikers flared up on hall a dozen fronts. When John L. Lewis gave the or der throwing 70,000 men out of work in the plants of Repub lic Steel, Inland : Jk Farley Steel and the Youngstown Sheet and Tube company, hard-boiled Tom Girdler, president of the American Steel and Iron institute and chair man of the board of the Republic Steel corporation, kept loyal work ers housed in the Republic plants in Ohio and Illinois, so that despite the strike Republic was still turning out steel. ? In Warren and Niles, Ohio, postal authorities refused to deliver parcel post packages containing food and clothing to workers inside the plants. This action brought from Republic a protest to Postmaster General Farley, requesting that he issue orders to postmasters to see that all legally presented and post paid mail be delivered regardless of picket lines. "Unless you see fit to comply with this request, which we believe to be entirely within our legal rights," the message said, "we shall feel compelled to take such legal steps as may be available to us in the premises." Capitalizing on the action of local postmasters, Ohio pickets issued a printed ultimatum to loyal steel em ployes. "Four departments of the United States government are fight ing on our side," it said, and added: "Extra precautions will be taken throughout the next 12 hours to guarantee your safety in leaving the plant. After that time your safety will be your own responsibility." The four departments of the gov ernment believed to have been re ferred to are the post office, labor department, labor relations board and interstate commerce commis sion. It was Sen. H. Styles Bridges (Rep., N. H.) who presented the case for an investigation to the senate committee on post offices. D EPUBLIC'S plants continued to ^ be beehives of excitement. At Youngstown there was a pitched battle between pickets and police after a company truck carrying food for the employes in the plant had successfully run through the picket lines, accompanied by a cor don of police. As shots were ex changed one man was wounded. A dozen others received cracked skulls. Fifty strikers, many of them suffering from tear gas, were taken to jail. In Chicago State's Attorney Court ney continued investigations of the re cent riot in which C. I. O. strikers attacked police at the Republic Steel plant in South Chicago, result ing in seven deaths. Here, also, the company was housing loyal em ployes who remained at their work in its plant. Mayor Kelly ordered them removed on the grounds that such housing violated the city sani tation code. Republic countered by having Pullman cars moved into its plant yards and housing the em ployes in them. The mayor ad mitted he couldn't see anything wrong in that. POUR hundred C. I. O. power 1 company strikers taught the 450,000 inhabitants of the Saginaw valley in Michigan what it is like to feel the power of organized labor when they sat down at their jobs for 15 hours. Electricity was shut off from 200 communities ; hospi tals as well as factories were with out current befoi* an agreement was reached and the strikers went back to work. St was a day's pay lost for 100,000 workers whose em ployers' plants depended on "juice" for life. General Motors employes alone lost $454,000. Mayor Daniel A. Knaggs of Mon roe, Mich., called for 100 war vet erans as volunteer police to aid his force of 20 in preserving the peace as 782 strikers at the Newton Steel company returned to work. The C. I. O. had threatened to send 8,000 to 10,000 members from Detroit to enforce the employes' demands. In Detroit, the Ford Brotherhood of America, Inc., was organized with a reported 7,000 members signed in two days, as an answer to attempts of C. I. O.'s United Auto mobile Workers' Union to unionize Ford. Byrd W. Scott, ? Ford ma chinist, for 20 years, explained: "The F. B. A. was started by my self, John B. McDowell, Benjamin Love and a number of Ford em ployees who have worked for the company from ten to twenty years. The organization was formed be cause we wanted an independent labor organization, not one affiliated with any national union." READING the election returns of an overwhelming Democratic landslide last November, Charles Michelson, publicity director of the Democratic national committee, said: "We will regret this." The great party majorities in both houses now show signs of splitting into regional and economic blocs, which is exactly what he was afraid of. Biggest wedge in forcing the split among the party ranks was, of course, the President's bill for the reorganization of the Supreme court. This led a long list of bills, many of them expected to evoke heated con troversies in congress, which threat ened to postpone adjournment to mid - winter. Indeed, it was believed by some that if part of the program were not postponed, this session would run continuously into the next, beginning in January. Besides the Court bill, there are to be acted upon measures for the establishment of wage and hour standards for interstate industries, the curtailment of tax dodging, re organization of the executive -branch of the government, helping farm tenants, conservation of soil, water power resources and housing. AS THE American Federation of Labor began its "purge" to eliminate member locals suspected of dealings with the C. I. O. from John L. Lewis i t s membership, John L. Lewis and his Committee for Industrial Organiza tion showed signs of retaliation other than snorts of dis gust and derisive laughter. The Chicago Fed eration of Labor be gan it when, acting on the suggestion of President William Green, it ousted 27 local unions, comprising 20,000 to 30,000 members, charging that they had been active in behalf of C. I. O. A day or so later Lewis admitted in Washington that his organization may enter the field of civil service. The move, which had been dis cussed by Lewis and his associates for several weeks, would be in di rect opposition of two established A. F. of L. unions. TN A scorching protest to Gen. 1 Francisco Franco, Great Britain blamed the rebel regime for the death of eight and the wounds of 24 sailors when the destroyer Hun ter ran into a mine off Almeria, Southern Spain, May 13. The protest called the affair an accident, but reserved the right to claim dam ages of $350,000. Meanwhile rains were bogging down the rebels' northern offensive against Bilbao, but the Fascists launched a violent new offensive in the Pozoblanco sector about mid way between Toledo and Seville in southern Spain, aiming for the rich mercury mines near Almaden. A STRONOMERS were treated to the feast of a lifetime in the South Seas as they were permitted by almost perfect weather condi tions to photograph the longest total eclipse of the sun in 1,200 years. On Canton island the United States Navy and the National Geographic society, with eleven tons of equip ment, took unusual pictures and radioed a description of the mag nificent scene to millions of listen ers back in the states. The scholars of the American Museum of Natural History viewed the eclipse from an airplane 25,000 feet abqve Lima, Peru. Other scientists made obser vations from ships in the Pacific. The time of the total eclipse at the various place of observation ranged from three and one-half minutes to seven minutes. ON December 13. 1936, Pilot S. J. Samson, operating a Western Air Express liner from Los Angeles to Salt Lake City, with four passen gers, co - pilot and stewardess aboard, reported by his radio to the caretaker of the airport at Milford, Utah, and asked that his position be checked. His voice was never again heard. Now after nearly six months the wreckage of the air plane has been found high in tha Wasatch mountains, 25 miles southr east of Salt Lake City and 35 miles off the regular airline course. So shattered was the plane that the largest single piece of debris was a part of a propeller. Bodies of all aboard were buried 25 to 50 feet in the drifts of snow. With a rich jewelry shipment re ported to have been aboard the ship, a guard was placed around the wreckage and given orders to "shoot on sight" until the wreck should be recovered; four souvenir hunters were shot at three times. Ronald Dyche, of the national for est service, who aided in the long search, revealed how close the air travelers came to escaping death. "If they had just been flying 25 feet higher," he said, "they might have made it over the peak and possibly reached safety." /CERTAIN British and French news papers of late have seen fit to "pooh-pooh" the naval strength of II Duce in the Mediterranean. It is II Dace not altogether im possible that this de-, precation may have made Adolf Hitler a little uneasy about his alliance with the Italians. So Premier Mussolini i n v it e d Field Marshal Wer ner von Bomberg down to the blue southern ocean to see for himself. More than 70 sub marines were massed as the feature of a mock combat oS Naples. The grand fleet of ISO warships sum moned for the maneuvers went through their exercises at a mini mum speed of 30 miles an hour. The German registered delight continually as II Duce pointed out to him every phase of the sham battle. Italian officers boasted: "On ly Fascist Italy can mobilize so many underwater craft at a mo ment's notice." The day before, Galeazzo Ciano, Italy's foreign minister, had in formed the British ambassador, Sir Eric Drummond, that Italy accept ed in principle all points in the British proposals to assure the safe ty of international naval patrols off Spain. It was understood that the Nazis had tendered the same ap proval. The three main points of the Brit ish proposal were: That both Span ish belligerents be required to give formal solemn assurances that they will respect international patrol ships; that safety zones for patrol ships be established at certain speci fied ports of the two belligerent parties; and that the four naval powers engaged in patrol duties consult each other on measures to be taken if any of their patrol ships should be attacked. The Italians and Nazis wanted the third point to per mit any ship attacked to retaliate at once. But they weren't insistent. TP HE Reich's ministry of the in terior was reported considering plans to control the utterances of Roman Catholic priests of Germany and to regulate Catholic cloisters. It is believed the declaration will be that any document not pertaining entirely to church matters will be regarded as outside the concordat with the Vatican and will not be per mitted a reading from the pulpit. It was reported that five cloisters involved in immorality charges will be closed and that the Nazi govern ment will take over the parochial schools. Ten Roman Catholic priests were arrested as the dissention between the government and the church was fanned to a white heat, culminating in several fights in Munich. Priests replied spiritedly to charges of im morality within their ranks charges made by Minister of Propa ganda Goebbels in reply to a verbal attack upon the Nazis by Cardinal HARLOW, one of the most B.o.norous characters in life to millions of Americans, died of uremic poisoning in Hollywood. The impetuous actress who started the platinum blonde craze was only twenty - six, but she had known tragedy. Born Harlean Carpentier in Kansas City, she came to the movie capital in 1927. She had been twice divorced and once widowed. JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, who ?J died May 23, left his residuary estate, estimated at $25,000,000 in trust for his granddaughter, Mrs. Margaret Strong De Cuevas, her two young children, Elizabeth and John, and the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. The will wai filed in the Westchester county sur rogate's court at White Plains, N. Y Mundelein of Chicago. Kentucky Opens McGuffey School Memorial The McGuffey log school, a primitive schoolhouse which was brought to Ashland, Ky., from the moun tains and re-erected near the suburban home of Miss Jean Thomas, the donor, as a shrine to William Holmes McGuffey, who, while living in Paris, Ky., conceived the idea of his famous readers. The school was dedi cated with a pageant showing McGuffey and his pupils. PETER BABBIT KEEPS WATCH EVERY minute that Peter Rabbit was awake he seemed to be watching for something. Even when he was eating he seemed to be all the time looking and listening. If he was in the Green Forest he would sit up every few minutes and look and look. And he always looked in one direction, and that was the direction from which gentle Sister South Wind came. "What are you watching for?" asked Jimmy Skunk after he had seen Peter sit up and look half a dozen times. "Reddy Fox isn't any Every Minnte That Peter Babbit Was Awake He Seemed to Be Watching for Something. where around. Old Man Coyote has gone up to the Old Pasture, and Roughleg the Hawk hasn't been around there for several days. I guess he's gone away until next winter. There isn't anything for you to be afraid of just now, Peter." "Oh, I'm not afraid," replied Peter. "Then what under the sun are you watching for so sharply?" per sisted Jimmy. "I ? I ? Oh, Jimmy, do you know if anybody has seen or heard Win s o m e Bluebird?" Peter fairly hopped up and down as he asked this. "No," said Jimmy shortly. "What difference does it make whether they have or not?" "Why, if they have, Mistress Spring is almost here, and that's the most splendid news of the whole year!" cried Peter. "She is never far behind Winsome. I ? I would like to be the first to see or hear Win some and that's what I'm watch ing for. It's great fun to go about telling good news. I think I'd rath er be Winsome Bluebird than any one I know of, because everybody is so glad to see him. Excuse me, Jimmy! I think I see something blue up there in the Old Orchard!" Off scampered Peter Rabbit for the Old Orchard as fast as he could go, lipperty-lipperty-lip. Jimmy Skunk grinned as he watched him. "Peter Rabbit is just as foolish and crazy as ever," he grumbled. "That's nobody but Sam Jay and Peter is running his legs off for nothing. I'll be just as glad as anybody to have Mistress Spring get here because then maybe I can get some fat beetles, but what's the By Roger B. Whitman WOMEN CAN DO GOOD PAINT JOBS. A FEW days ago a woman asked me where she could go to have some kitchen furniture repainted. I asked her why she did not do it herself. She said that she had never done any painting, didn't know any thing about it, and was afraid that she would make a mess of things. I told her that she would find it simple enough; that commonsense was about all that she would need. I gave this would-be painter the following pointers. First, get the old furniture ready for painting by washing it with soap and water, and rinsing off all of the soap and dirt with clear water, then, after drying, to go all over it with fine sandpaper to cut the remaining gloss of the old finish, and to smooth the edges of cracks and chipped places. The floor under the furniture should be covered with newspapers to catch spatters. On opening a can of paint or en amel, stir with a stick to mix the hard lumps at the bottom.witfi the liquid floating on top, so that the entire canful is blended to an even smoothness. Paint or enamel should not be put on too thick; not so thick that it runs and forms beads. Two thin coats last longer and look better th*n one thick coat. Two coats will probably be need ed; maybe even three. When en amel is to be used, the undercoats should be of a kind that dries with out gloss; a kind called enamel un dercoater, for instance, or flat wall paint. Each undercoat should b ? use of getting excited? Winsome Bluebird will come and Mistress Spring will come when the; get ready and not before. Meanwhile I'm more interested in getting some thing to eat. I wonder if it's safe to go up to Farmer Brown's hen house. From the racket those hens made this morning there must be some fresh eggs there." It was just as Jimmy had said. Peter reached the Old Orchard only to find it was Sammy Jay and not Winsome Bluebird who was there. He pretended that he had come up to see if Jimmy Chuck bad waked yet, and as soon as he could he stole away by himself to watch and listen some more. But it was all in vain. Not a glimpse did he get of Winsome, nor a sound of his sweet whistle. That night Peter sat in the dear Old Brier Patch think ing it all over. "Perhaps," Mid Peter slowly to himself, "perhaps there is some one else just as eager to be the first to hear Winsome Bluebird and I am a little bit selfish in trying so hard to be the first. I hadn't thought of that before. I guess that tomorrow I'll just go about my business. Then if I do hear Winsome first I'll be glad, and if some one else hears or sees him first I'll be glad too." ? T. W. Bur gear.? WNU Service. thoroughly dry and hard before the next coat goes on. In painting a chair, do the legs first; turn the chair upside down on another chair or a table. For kitchen furniture, use the best enamel that can be had; some kind that dries with a surface like porcelain. This resists soiling and is easy to clean. Of course, it should be of the quick drying kind; the kind that dries in four hours or so. For another pointer, if there is an interruption in the middle of a job, the paint can should be tightly closed to keep the paint or enamel in good condition. TTie brush should be wiped off, rinsed with turpentine, shaken out and wrapped in waxed paper. That will keep it soft for several days. ? By Rocer B. Whitman WNU Servlc?. THE LANGUAGE or YOUH HAND ? By Leicester K. Davis ? Public L*d*.r, lac yThe Creative \ AFin^er of Saturn pVERY kind of mentality seems to have a niche into which it must be fitted before its possessor can function with the satisfaction that follows complete self-expres sion. These lessons have described THE SECOND LOOK By DOUGLAS MALLOCH p OOD taste is hardly taught in schools: It is a matter of the mind And heart and instinct ? yet ha* rules. And rules not difficult to find. Whatever you may choose to wear. Whether a countess or a cook. It is not good if people stare And turn to take the second look. Good taste is unobtrusiveness : No band precedes it when it comes. They who that quality possess Need never be announced with drums. It is the unassuming charm. As pure and lovely as a brook. That does not sound a loud alarm To stop and take the second look. Good taste is something of the soul. It is a modesty of mien. Of dress, of poise ? an aureole Of beauty rather sensed than seen. And not admiring, men today That startled inventory took: It is the violation they Observe, who take the second look. e Dsuilu Halloed. ? WNC ferric*. the various types of mental expres sion indicated by the Finger of Sat urn. And now, before progressing to further revelations of the inner self given by other fingers, we shall consider the final and, in many ways, one of the most interesting types of second finger. The Creative Finger of Satan. The strength and capability com bined in this exceptional second fin ger are its most outstanding char acteristics. This and its pronounced inclination toward the third or Fin ger of Brilliance. Such a Finger of Saturn is straight, well-formed, moderately fleshed. The length is greater than either the first or third finger. Usu ally the middle knuckle is very prominent, though smoothly round ed and perceptibly larger than the nail joint The nail tip is gracefully but not excessively tapered, and the nail is rather oval in shape, slightly convexed and well set. Under back ward pressure, the entire finger has a lithe, resilient feeL A Finger of Saturn at this kind and so placed is almost certain indi cation of a mind that has unlimited possibilities for creative expression in the arts, literature or drama, or in the fields of invention. wmjStnric*. Porcelain Print Many prints, this season, imitate various porcelains. This one, from Maggy RoufT. is ? real blue and white china design, printed on a fine silk jersey, rather heavy in weight, so that it will tailor well. The jacket and skirt are quite plain, and the blouse is made of deep blue organ die, with a matching lace jabot of fine Chantilly in the front, held at the neck by a new Maggy Rouff clip, three flowers studded with strass, with "rubies" in their center. The plain white panama hat is from Agnes, Paris designer. Peace of Mind We never get peace of mind when we give "a piece of our mind." Pieces of mind are usually thrown off in a state of anger or excite ment. At such times we say things that we are sorry for afterwards. We wish that we* might recall the harsh and bitter words that were spoken. But they are gone forever. We know that they have made their impressions and that a heart has been mundod. Peace of mind is the result of self-control.