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The Alamance Gleaner . i ? ? Vol. LXIV GRAHAM. N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1938 No. 4 ?????? ? > -- * \eac? Review of Current Event a DEALS WITH DICTATORS Chamberlain Planning Anglo-Italian Agreement and Four-Power Pact . . . France in Dilemma Chancellor Hitler delivering the sensational speech In which he detted the world, declaring Germany was not afraid of war. Abovs him is seen General Goering. This Is a radiophoto from Berlin. w. plcLixA ? SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK C Weetern Newspaper Union. Anglo-Italian Plans OUPPORTED by a large majority ^ in the house of commons, British Prime Minister Neville Chamber lain moved rapidly toward realiza tion of his plan for European appease ment, the basis of which was to be a speedy truce with Italy, to be followed by a four - power pact including Brit ain, France, Italy and Germany. Chamberlain aban doned entirely the British foreign pol icy based on collec tive security. He got Neville Chamberlain rid of Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, putting in his place Lord Hal ifax, outspoken friend of Nazi Ger many, and defied the opposition of the Labor party in parliament. The earl of Perth, British am bassador to Rome, had conversa tions with Italian Foreign Minister Ciano and was then called to Lon don for further instructions. It was said Perth and Ciano agreed the fol lowing points must be discussed and, if possible, made a part of the London-Rome treaty: Britain must recognize the Italian conquest of Ethiopia. An Anglo-Italian Mediterranean pact should be arranged to include Italian naval parity with Britain in the Mediterranean, reduction in It aly's troops in Libya, and British assurances that the Suez canal will be safeguarded against closing or air attack. Immediate cessation of anti-Ital ian propaganda in the British terri tories in the Near East in return for which Italy will guarantee not to include anti-British propaganda in its Bari radio broadcasts. * Withdrawal of foreign "volun teers" from Spain was to be de manded by Britain, and it was un derstood in London that Chancellor Hitler of Germany had agreed to that, and that Italy would not re fuse, although Mussolini especially wishes that Franco be granted bel ligerent rights. France in Tight Place ENHANCE, it was expected, would 1 adopt a course parallel with that of Britain, for, as Foreign Minister Delbos said, she might otherwise And herself isolated in Europe. How ever Premier Chautemps served no tice on Chamberlain that the French would join in the proposed four power pact only if protection were assured for Czechoslovakia and Austria. The French secret defense committee met to organize an arms expansion program involving $855,400,000 and to lay plans for de fending the Czechs against German aggression. The Chamberlain plan leaves out Soviet Russia, an ally of France; and the French also seemed likely to lose another ally, for Poland, it appeared, was about to enter into an agreement with Germany against Russia. Field Marshal Goering, Hitler's right-hand man, was in Warsaw, entertained by President Moscicki, Foreign Minis ter Beck and Field Marshal Smigly Ridz, head of the Polish army. That soldier and other leading Poles be lieve war between Germany and Russia will break out before long. They don't like the Germans but fear that if Stalin lost the war Hitler would proceed to grab Poland. ? ?* ? Isolationists Cheered A MERICAN isolationists saw in ** the new European develop ments the eclipse of the interna tionalism fostered by President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull, and were greatly encouraged in their determination to keep the United States free from foreign entangle ments. At the same time the pro ponents of powerful national defense were elated and the administra tion's big navy program received a great boost. The house naval af fairs committee was about ready to report favorably the billion dollar navy construction bill, which may include provision for the establish ment of more naval bases, mainly in the Pacific. Hitler Defies the World DOLITICAL turmoil spread over 1 Europe after Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler, in an address to the reichs tag, declared his intention ,to make Germany one of the most powerful na tions in the world, gave warning that it was re-arrrting and did not fear war though it desired peace, and demand ed the return of Germany's lost col onies. Furthermore, Hitler upheld the ag gressive actions of Italy and Japan, Adolf Hitler and asserted that Germany would not tolerate ultimate victory of the loyalist faction in Spain over Fran co's rebel forces. The Fuehrer told with gratifica tion of his success in compelling Chancellor Schuschnigg to give the Austrian Nazis representation in his cabinet and to permit them to act as a political party. He gave no assurance that the independence of Austria would be preserved. He openly threatened similar action against Czechoslovakia unless the Germans in that country were granted "political liberty." Hitler's speech might be summar ized as a declaration that Germany will ignore Great Britain, France and other western powers in carry ing out her international policies, will continue her efforts to destroy the last vestiges of the general set tlements which followed the World war; will insist that the "have not" nations must be restored to a basis of equality with the "have" pow ers, and is prepared to defy any combination of powers which may be formed against her. Green Hits Lewis' Plan \/f OVING to stop John Lewis and ' his C. I. O. from gaining polit ical control of Pennsylvania, the American Federation of Labor re voked the charter of the state fed eration. President Green announced that action with a declaration that the votes of 400,000 "loyal" federa tion members in Pennsylvania "cannot be delivered" by '"self-con stituted labor leaders, ambitious for political power." Lewis and bis unions are planning to elect Lieut. Gov. Thomas Ken nedy to the governorship. He is secretary-treasurer of the miners' union. McNutt Hullabaloo p AUL V. McNUTT, hifh comml? 1 sioner to the Philippines, came home to report to the President, and as soon as he arrived in Wash ington his enthusiastic friends staged a big reception for the pur pose of booming him as Democratic nominee for the Presidency in 1940. All experienced politicians agree that this is most premature, and in the capital it was felt that it was decidedly distasteful to Mr. Roose velt, who doesn't wish to be hurried in picking his possible successor. No member of the cabinet except Secretary Roper and no important man of the administration attended the reception. McNutt said he was not a candi date for any office, but Senator Sher man Minton, Governor Townsend and other leading Democrats of In diana insist he should be nominatad-j in 1940, and no one doubts that he would like to be so honored. Crop Insurance Manager T> OY M. GREEN of Missouri has been made manager of the $100,000,000 federal croft insurance corporation, the agency created un der the new farm law to insure wheat growers against crop fail ures. The appointment was made by the board of directors, which also selected Cecil A. Johnson, formerly of Ames, Iowa, as its secretary. Green has been chief of the Agri culture department's division of fi nance in the bureau of agricultural economics since 1935. Coal Prices Revolted PACED with growing litigation, 1 the national bituminous coal commission announced it had taken the advice of producers and labor unions and voted unanimously to suspend its schedule of soft coal minimum prices, marketing rules and regulations. The prices had been set aside by the courts in nu merous cases. Rumania Goes Fascist RUMANIA is now a Fascist cor porative state of guilds pat terned after Italy. This was settled when King Carol proclaimed the new constitution, which provides for a parliament com posed of guilds of farmers, workers and intellectuals. Both the chamber of deputies and the senate are reduced in size and election of members is to be by trades and pro fessions, not by po litical parties. The King Carol king will appoint half the senators and will have veto power over all legislation. All Rumanians are de clared equal, with radical distinc tions, and religious freedom is granted with the Orthodox Ruma nian church as the state religion. Trials by jury are abolished and the death penalty reintroduced for certain crimes. The constitution was created by Rumania's' powerful crown council, a special body established by King Carol to define general policies. Franco Regains Teruel FRANCO'S insurgent forces recov 1 ered possession of Teruel, Spain, and continued their progress toward the Mediterranean coast. In the re captured city they took mote than 16,000 prisoners and buried 9,000 government dead. Rebel warships bombarded the coastal cities of Va lencia and Sagunto and were in turn attacked by government bombing planes. Hungary Offers Pay I OHN PELENYI, minister from J Hungary, revealed that his gov ernment has proposed a readjust ment of its "war debt" whereby it would repay the United States the full amount of its original loan but without interest. Parker Gilbert Diet S PARKER GILBERT of New ? York, who at the age of thirty two won fame by his brilliant work as agent general for war repara tions, died of heart disease. After completing his job in Berlin he be came a partner in J. P. Morgan h Co., dealing especially with matters j of international finance. Army Planes' Great Right CDC bombing planes of the United " States army air corps success fully completed an epochal mass flight of 6,000 miles from Miami, Fla., to Buenos Aires. The only intermediate stop was at Lima. Peru. From there the bombers roared over the snow-capped Andes and landed at the Argentine capi tal, where thousands cheered the aviators. The planes carried 48 met besides the flight commander UnL Col. Robert Okts - - Safety Workers Recruit Science In Battle on Highway Fatalities Automatic Gadgets Will Eliminate Human Element in Autos of the Future, Say Pioneering Engineers ? Read and Gasp at Their Elaborate Precautionary Plans ! By JOSEPH W. LaBINE Automobile accidents dealt sudden death to 39,700 persons and cost the nation two billion dollars last year. That is not news. It is an all-time record and a disgrace which should be emblazoned in letters of fire along every high way of the land, although it already has screamed from many headlines in the last few weeks. But today, for the first time, there is a definite, organized war being carried into every corner of the United States by an army of 8,000,000 who, with their families, make up a quarter of the nation's population, in an effort to drive the grim reaper from the highway once and for all. THAT is NEWS. And scientists today are able to predict confidently that the time is in sight when science will take over the con ??*?1 ? ? ? ? t- ? ? ^ I nui ui a uiuvuig ktii wuen it is nut i | safe to leave the control in the | driver's hands ? and restore that | control to the driver at times when nature would ordinarily take it I away from him. THAT is news, too. Twelve far-seeing national, civic, educational and business organiza tions are recruiting the troop* for the war on death. One would expect to find lined up j in such a campaign the American Automobile association, the Auto motive Safety Foundation, the High way Education board, the Interna tional Association of Chiefs of Po lice, the National Automobile Deal ers' association and the National Safety council ? and so they are. But it is encouraging to learn that : the banner is also being carried by such ordinarily independent group* as the American Legion, the Gen eral Federation of Women's Clubs, the National Congress of Parent Teachers and the National Grange. Particularly the National Grange, for in the rural areas more auto mobile accident* result in *wift and horible death, relatively, than in the more crowded thoroughfares of the citie*. Science Takes a Band. And it is especially heartening to discover that two active group* rep resent the scientific resources of two great universities. These are the Traffic Safety institute of North western university in Evanston, HI., and the bureau of street traffic re search of Harvard university at Cambridge, Mass. Two "crystal-gazers" of science ?Dr. Miller McClintock, director of the Harvard bureau, and Prof. John M. Lessells, of Massachusetts In stitute of Technology? recently star tled the automotive world with vi sion* of the day science will make highway accident* next to impossi ble. Dr. McClintock speaks of the day to come when invisible "electric bumper" rays will prevent one mo torist from colliding with another, no matter how careless he may be. "It is possible to lay in the pave> ment itself electrical cables which, when a car comes to a dangerous curve or around an obstruction, would automatically take the steer ing from the driver by radio con trol and thus center the car over the cabl4 and steer it safely around the curve or obstruction," Dr. Mc Clintock explain*. Pointing to the success of "1d visible eye" controls in other fields, the scientist predicts the use of electric bumpers. This would be made possible by installing infra red lights in the rear of automo biles, which would actuate photo electric cells in front of other cars. This "invisible eye" would reduce the speed of a car overtaking an other too rapidly. Lighting the Way. Cart of the future may them selves turn on and off the lights used to illuminate highways at night, it is predicted by Dr. Mc Clintock. This development will also make use of infra-red light rays and photo-electric cells, he says. When the first "one-lunger" chugged down Main street, a speed of 30 miles an hour was considered remarkable, and as a result, no par ticular demand was put on the brakes. Nowadays, stock cars are manufactured with much greater speeds, and more efficient brakes have followed ? brakes which can bring cars to a stop in less than half the distance formerly required, if the proper traction can be ob tained on the road surface. Such traction is a simple matter when road surfaces are dry, ac cording to Professor Lessells, edi tor of the technical journal of the American Society of Mechanical En gineers. f Eliminating the "hazard zone"? where wet pavement causes skid ding accidents ? will be one of sci ence's greatest contributions to traf fic safety, according to Professor Lessells. Pointing out that the solution of the problem must be found at the point where the car makes con tact with the road. Professor lies sells adds: "If we can instantane ously create a dry surface, over which the tire is always passing, the car's brakes will keep it under control. I anticipate that some way will soon be found to make this possible." Autos oa Increase. The car owner who thinks that traffic safety will come only when fewer autos are on the highways is in for a big disappointment, if a recent survey of automobile and traffic experts means anything. They expect, on the basis of pres ent trends, that the next 10 years will find 37,000,000 motor vehicles or the road ? 10,000,000 more cars than now cboke the highways I Here are traffic developments 1 predicted (or the (store: (1) Guid ing ears automatically by invisible rays from cables in a street, (t) Ending motoring 's "hazard sone" with ? in effect ? a battery of wind shield wipers through non ? skid methods. (J) Infra-red rays (rem ear to car to slow down vehicles approaching too rapidly. (4) Radio beam warnings (rom one car to an other. (S) Electric eyes to control highway lighting so that any given area is illuminated only when traffic requires it. However, the future is not as black as it might seem, ^or engi neers are already at work making driving along the highways safer. Plans for complete separation of opposing traffic, and provisions for eliminating of intersections, with adequate roadside protection and no cross streams of traffic, are among the projects for tomorrow's "super highways." Except for the relatively few heavy traffic routes which are prop erly lighted, the inadequate systems used for illuminating the highways, and the blinding glare of head lights on the road, are two chief reasons given for rural roads being the scene of most fatal auto acci dents. Science is developing a new sys tem of highway lights for certain areas which will supply long-range visibility without "glare ? illuminat ing the road so that a driver can see as far ahead as in clear day light. Glareless Headlights. Because the taxpayers would groan if all highways were flood lighted by this new lighting sys tem, traffic experts say that glare less headlights will be necessary on 90 per cent of the highways. Here, too, science has the answer in de velopment of polarized glass for headlights and windshields to elim inate glare without reducing the amount of light on the road ahead. The car of the future will con tinue to reshuffle the life of the country by moving more of the pop ulation away from cities and con gested areas, say the prognostica tors. Traffic congestion and park ing problems are expected to great ly influence the trend away from city life. Looking to the car of the future ttself, the public is assured by the auto makers that the cars of the next few years will make the pres ent models look more antiquated than the first horseless carriages. A crystal-gazing picture of what | kind of ? car today's driver may 1 be riding in tomorrow, is given by Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, World war ace, and engineering "proph et." Captain Rickenbacker predicts: j "It will be an attractive car to ride in. In size and appearance the in terior will be like a small living room. It will be air-conditioned and there will be no noise or vi bration. "You will have to look twice to j find the engine. It will be less conspicuous than in cars today. It | may be x-shaped or it may be radi- | al like certain airplane engines. It may be in front or it may be be hind. In any case, it will be lighter and more compact but just as pow erful as the engines you ?r* used Cow Causes Motor Wreck and Perils 12 Sacramento, Calif. ? Plenty of things happened when a car driv en by Theodore J. Hartman at Vallejo struck a cow. Mrs. Hartman suffered ? sprained leg. The cow had to be shot. The auto was wrecked. A bus plunged halfway off the Sacramento river levee. Ten bus passengers were badly frightened. The bus, closely following Hartman's car, attempted to avoid a more serious wreck by swerving off the road. Only its rear wheels remained on the levee. SPECTER MOOSE IS MAINE SENSATION Lengthening Lore of Forest Begun in 1901. Bangor, Maine. ? For more then a generation Maine baa bad a "spec ter moose." There was one 38 rears ago, another in 1917, still another in 1932 and now he is stalking again, this time in the Chesuncook region along the west branch of the Penob scot river. Always banters get near enough to be appalled by this gigantic beast, but seldom within range for an effective shot. In the accumu lating lore of the forest he is de scribed as ten to fifteee feet high, "dirty white" in color, brandishing immense antlers. Not only his ghostly hue but also his keen scent, acute bearing and seemingly magical power of instant disappearance have built up the leg end of a wraith. Skeptics say there ; "ain't so sich critter." but a man named Houston brings the story of the latest visitation. On his way to camp after a tim ber cruise around Chesuncook lake. Houston came to an open bog of about 30 acres where 16 moose were feeding. Standing just inside the edge of the timber within SO yards of the herd, he noticed three big i bulls. He almost had the ague when he saw that two of them were like pygmies beside the third, monarch ; of the herd, which he declared was a monster. Besides the spectral col oration, there were the antlers again. 20 points on one side. 21 on the other, with a palm at least 18 inches wide in the velvet. This giant moose, or one a f his progeny, has been a wonder and ? mystery of the Maine woods since the fall of 1901, when M. A. Cash ing, a Boston sportsman, reported sighting him near Chairback moun tain in the Katahdm region. In the years since thai Gilman Brown of West Newbury, Mass., and Granville Gray, a Bangor taxi dermist, have been among those who have shivered at the appari tion in the dusk. Can't Stare Down a Bull; Farm Youth Finds It Out Manitowoc, Wis. ? After readme ? magazine article that said "One need have no fear of animate, un less perhaps the brown, polar or grizzly bear, that is, if you show no signs of fear of them," Joe Brennan, a farm youth, went out in the barn yard and looked a four-year-old Guernsey bull in the eye. Although badly injured, Brennan was able to escape. He now refers to the maga zine story as a "lot of hooey." Judge Finally Manages to Express Self to Transient Omaha, Neb. ? James D. Upah, transient charged with disturbing the peace, interrupted the Judge's lecture to complain he couldn't hear. The judge began to write a message that would suspend a 15 day sentence if he promised to be have, But Upah interrupted again to say he couldn't read. "Then get out!" shouted the judge. Upah left the courtroom while spectators roared. Pet Sparrow Returns to Cage for Its Daily Meals St. Louis. ? Thirteen-year-old Lor raine Decker's pet sparrow, Pritzy, is still wild but enjoys all the com forts of a home ? including three square meals a day. Every morning Lorraine releasesv the sparrow from its cage. Prompt ly at 11:30 a. m. Pritzy returns for dinner. At 4:30 p. m. it returns again, is fed and placed in the cage for the night after a day spent among wild friends.
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