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The Alamance gleaner Vol LXIV GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1938 ? New * Review ot Current Event a 12 MILLION JOBLESS One-Seventh of Population Receives Public Aid . . . First Report of Senate Committee on Relief f mm Emergency rationing of troops by airplane and parachute was suc cessfully accomplished in Texas by the army air corps during maneuvers. This picture shows metal food container for personnel rations, bale of hay and a 130-pound sack of oats, with parachutes attached, ready to be loaded on the bomb racks of the Martin bomber seen in background. IV. PitLuuL SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK 0 Western Newspaper Union. One in Seven on Relief '"pWELVE million American work -*? ers are totally unemployed. More than 18,000,000 persons, or one seventh of the population of the ing public assist ance from the fed eral, state or local governments. From 1933 to 1937 inclusive the federal and state governments have spent $19,400,000,000 for work relief and other forms of pub lic assistance. __ ' . . i nese iar irom Harry Hopkins cheer(ul figure? were in a preliminary report of the senate committee on relief and un employment submitted by Chairman Byrnes. At the time the report came in, Harry Hopkins, WPA administrator, was telling the house appropriations committee, holding hearings on the administration's recovery-relief pro gram, that the proposed $1,250,000, 000 relief appropriation would en able 200,000 to be added to federal aid rolls, bringing the total, number to 2,800,000 persons. This money, he said, would last only for the first seven months of the coming fiscal year. He refused to estimate how much would be needed thereafter. The senate committee report in general absolved the WPA from charges of graft, waste and ineffi ciency, but in some respects it sharply criticized the administra tion's relief policies. To the discomfiture of administra tion leaders, the committee recom mended that the senate's revenue bill repealing the undistributed prof its tax and modifying the capital gains tax be adopted as a major aid to economic recovery. Retention of those taxes is in the house bill backed by President Roosevelt. * One Spending Bill Passed X\7 ITHOUT a record vote the " * house passed the first of the new spending bills, appropriating $903,000,000 for the Pepartment of Agriculture during the next fiscal year. Of the total sum, 201 millions are for the building of new roads, this being one of the President's pump-priming suggestions. * Help for Utilities PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT now is * planning to extend government aid to the public utilities, which have suffered severely from govern ment competition. This was learned after he had conferred with RFC Chairman Jones, and Douglas and Hanes of the SEC. The purpose is to aid the utilities in financing new construction, through the RFC lend ing program. Employment of now idle workers is the aim. ? $ A.F. of L. Follows C.I.O. Lead A MERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR, following the example of the rival C. I. O., entered politics on a national scale by forming an organization to back selected can didates for public office. The action, emphasizing anew the split between the two labor associa tions, indicated that the labor vote will be divided in many state pri maries and November congression al elections. Fight in Pennsylvania r\ EMOCRATS of Pennsylvania *-* are split wide open over the campaign for the May primaries, and Gov. George Earle is in the middle of the hot fight. He is seek ing the nomination for senator. May or Wilson of Philadelphia, support ed by Senator GufTey and John L. Lewis, is opposing him. Wilson charged ? that Earle had borrowed large sums from M. H. McClos key, contractor and co-leader of the Philadelphia- Democratic organiza tion, and Chairman Green of the Re publican state committee promptly demanded that Earle resign or face impeachment. The governor admit ted financial dealings with McClos key but said his debt had been re duced to $6,000. ? * Hitler Reviews Army D EICHSFUEHRER HITLER cel ^ ebrated his forty-ninth birthday by reviewing his new Pan-German army, and it developed that he and his military leaders are expecting that open warfare will be the form of future conflicts. The 10,000 troops that marched along Unter den Lin den, led by an Austrian battalion that had not yet learned the goose step, -were equipped for mobile fight ing and armed with a new machine gun. In the parade were 500 tanks of medium size and armored cars with radio. It was announced in Vienna that a warrant had been issued for the arrest of Archduke Otto, pretender to the Austrian throne. A Berlin newspaper said the Austrian proper ties of the Hapsburgs had been con fiscated. * TVA Investigators AX^HEN Sen. James J. Davis of Pennsylvania, Republican, consented to serve on the joint con gressional committee to investigate the Tennessee Val ley authority, that group was complete. Senator Bridges of New Hampshire, au thor of the resolu tion calling for the inquiry, was left off the committee, con trary to precedent. The other senators named by Vice Pres ident Garner are : sen. uonaney yjc Donahey of Ohio, Fred H. Brown of New Hamp shire, H. H. Schwartz of Wyoming, Democrats; and Lynn Frazier of North Dakota, radical Republican. House members are J. M. Mead of New York, W. J. Driver of Ar kansas, R. Ewing Thomason of Tex as, Democrats; C. A. Wolverton of New Jersey and T. A. Jenkins of Ohio, Republicans. It was presumed that Senator Donahey would be chairman of the committee. He is not marked as prejudiced either way. * Turkey Quake Kills 800 E*ROM Ankara, Turkey, comes ' news that an earthquake in Ana tolia killed at least 800 persons and destroyed many villages. Whole families were buried under moun tainous debris, and some 50,000 per sons were rendered homeless. Terrific underground rumblings were accompanied by intermittent shocks over a wide area of western Asia bordering the Aegean sea. Anglo-Italian Treaty Neville chamberlain1: dream of security for peace ii Europe through amicable arrange ments of the democratic* govern ments with the dictators may yet be realized. Anyhow, consumma tion of the deal was brought nearer when Lord Perth, British ambassa dor to Rome, and Italian Foreign Minister Ciano signed the treaty of friendship which had been under negotiation for weeks. The pact is designed to end the long feud be tween the two nations, and it is probable France will join in after negotiations with Mussolini already suggested by Foreign Minister Bon net. The British prime minister, of course, hopes that later Hitler can be brought into the group and that there will be formed a London Paris-Rome-Berlin quadrangle in place of the Berlin-Rome axis. Temporarily, the treaty provides 1 for friendly relations between Britain and Italy in the Mediter ranean and the Near East, but it j does not go into full effect until j "such date as the two governments together shall determine." In other words, Italy must first have with drawn its troops from Spain and Britain must have recognized Italy's j conquest of Ethiopia. The former may be delayed until France has won final victory. The latter de pends upon permission from the League of Nations council. "In essence, the treaty is a prom ise by each side not to attempt to change the status quo in the Medi terranean or Red sea areas nor to j injure each other's interests there in any way. Italy is to reduce her forces in Libya to peace time strength, and will adhere to the London naval treaty limiting the size of warships. The Suez canal is to be open to all nations equally in war or peace. Italy will abide by the international nonintervention committee's ruling on volunteers in the Spanish war and in case to withdraw from Spain entirely when the war is ended. Italy declares it has no territorial or political aims and seeks no privileged economic position in Spain, the Balearic islands, Spanish Morocco or Spanish possessions overseas. tt; Plot Against Carol Foiled A/f EMBERS of the Iron Guard of * Rumania formed a big con spiracy to seize King Carol and pro claim a Fascist state. But the auiuuiiuca gub wmu of it and Corneliu Codreanu, leader of the Iron Guard, and 1,500 of his followers were thrown into jail. A black list was found in Iron Guard headquarters, po lice said, containing the names of 2,000 Rumanian leaders King Carol wh0 were to be ar rested once Codreanu was in power. Huge quantities of arms and mu nitions also were seized. In Paris it was believed the plot was a de velopment of the efforts of Nazi Germany to win a hold in Rumania. * Dr. Town$end Pardoned ]~)R. FRANCES E. TOWNSEND, carrying a pair of socks and a typewriter, arrived at the jail in Washington, ready to serve his thir ty day term for contempt of con gress and become a martyr. But the old age pension planner was in formed that President Roosevelt had pardoned him. The pardon was issued upon the urgent request of Representative C. Jasper Bell, chairman of the investigating com mittee before which Dr. Townsend refused to testify. * Barcelona in Peril CPANISH insurgents, having ^ reached the Mediterranean at the port of Vinaroz, spread north and south along the coast and ef f^rtivplv rut nflP fat alonia from the rest of loyalist Spain. Veteran Spanish and Italian troops, led by Gen. Garcia Va lino and Gen. Migu el Aranda, blasted their way into Vina roz in a single day of severe combat, and Valino then Biarieu a nonnwara _ drive on Tortosa, Gen- V"llDO where important coastal highways converge. Franco's next great objective was Barcelona. His forces were begin ning a new movement against that city from the west, and his naval and air fleets left their bases to co operate. ? * ? Mayor Dore If D?ad CEATTLE'S spectacular mayor, 'J John F. Dore, died after a long illness. He had failed of re-nomina tioo in the recent primaries. Dore was a brilliant lawyer and a fight ing executive. He was allied politi cally with Dave Beck, labor leader. BATTLE OF MICROPHONES Government Short Wave Propaganda Machines Now Fight Wars Once Waged With Guns; ? Even Uncle Sam Docs His Part! By JOSEPH W. LaBINE One hundred years ago Italy and Great Britain might have gone to war over their current differences in northern Africa. Today they foresake armed force in favor of a more subtle ? and more effective? weapon. Short wave radio broadcasts are fighting the war in Palestine, just as Russia and Germany are adopting an aerial offensive against each other. The whole world is engaged in a terrific battle of microphones, fighting with unending streams of propaganda that preach con flicting political philosophies into the beleaguered listener's ear. Americans know of this battle; they know how Russia, Great Britain, Italy and Germany are leading the attack with powerful transmitters tnat emu propa ganda 24 hours a day, aimed at every nation on earth. What many Americans do not realize is that their own nation is in the thick of the fray, preaching the "Ameri can way" to impress foreign listeners with the soundness of democratic government, i When President Roosevelt delivered > his state-of-the-Union message to congress last winter, his words were sped to every corner of the earth by the National Broadcasting cbm pany and the Columbia Broadcast ing System, in a series of trans missions and re-transmissions that lasted until noon next day. Yet this display of propaganda ing is but a tempest in a teacup compared with Europe's business like procedure. Almost every Old World nation has its governmental department devoted to preaching political doctrine. Germany, like other nations, has a definite "policy" of propaganda. Its broadcasts, by intensely power ful short wave, are directed to reach "colonies" of overseas Ger mans wherever they may be, mak ing them conscious of their ties to the fatherland and preaching Nazi philosophy. "Jamming" the Air Waves. Naturally, one of Germany's big gest radio battles is with Russia, from whence come mighty surges of propaganda daily, aimed at Nazi receivers and preaching the Com Haft short wire antennae, the weapon In this modem struggle between democracies aad dictatorships. These aro the nsaata at a Polish govern ment station. munist doctrine. Germany's coun ter procedure is to "jam" the air by filling the wave length with a noise so loud that it drowns the Moscow speaker. More dramatic by far was the recent radio clash between Great Britain and Italy. In Palestine, where revolts between Arabs and Jews have been commonplace and distressing, Great Britain charged Italy was fomenting trouble, wooing the Arabs via short wave broad cast. It was discovered that some one had thoughtfully provided Arabs with hundreds of radio sets, con veniently locked so that only Italian stations could be tuned in. Great Britain immediately leveled powerful transmissions at the Arabs. She, too, distributed receiv ers, locked so the owners could tune only British programs. Few continents are more courted by broadcasters than South Amer ica. Mussolini, catering to the Lat in kinship of his listeners, is mak ing a heavy play for our southern neighbors. But he must combat equally strong efforts on the part of Moscow, Germany and Great Brit ain. The latter nation has just com pleted new stransmitters for broad casts in Spanish and Portuguese to 85,000,000 South Americans. But the United States, conscious of South America's proximity, is not twiddling its thumbs. Both NBC and Columbia have es tablished international broadcasting departments. The former operates 16 hours a day via short wave in six languages, Spanish, Italian, French, German, English and Portuguese. The programs are "designed to pro vide America's challenge to elabo rate short wave systems broadcast ing programs throughout the world from powerful stations in Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Russia, France and Holland." Licensed Receivers. By contrast, two other democra cies ? Great Britain and France ? have government-operated systems which derive their revenue from listeners' licenses. With domestic ' radio under federal control, foreign short wave broadcasts can easily be justified as a supplementary serv ice to colonists and other "interest ed parties." In the world's mad attempt to contact people with short wave can be read two opposing purposes. The kindlier explanation is that foreign broadcasts are breaking down na tional boundaries and creating a greater understanding among the peoples of the earth. Unfortunately, such is not the case. Observers are convinced that in the last analysis radio is being boomed as part of a general prepa ration for war. When and if a con flict does come, these vast com munication systems will be of in estimable importance. Some say that radio favors the democracy In propaganda wars, be cause dictators refuse to risk the loss of that hypnotic effect afforded by personal appearances. If such is the case. Great Brit ain, France and the United States may come through victorious in the current hostilities. But who can dis count the threat of Europe, where only three out of thirty national broadcasting systems are privately owned and operated? ? Western Newspaper Union. "Do Not Operate," Note Tells Doctor Vienna. ? Lack of confidence in the surgeons of the Vienna am bulance stations was exhibited by a man who fell unconscious on the street recently, according to a medical periodical. Brought to the ambulance sta tion the doctor who undressed him for examination found a note attached to his shirt with this inscription: "This is a simple epileptic fit. Do not operate. My appendix is perfectly all right. It's already been removed twice." DAUGHTER OF VILLA TURNS TRICK RIDER Taught Riding Stunts by Her Bandit Father. Los Angeles. ? "Always have I loved horses," says the black-eyed daughter of Pancho Villa, the Mex ican bandit general who was lulled in 1923. "When my father was alive we had to keep on the go all the time. We never did know when somebody might cut our throats. "I did not know or care for dolls. When mamma and papa left me alone and asked me what they should bring me I always wanted a gun and a horse." Born in Jalisco, Mexico, which was her nominal home until her father's death, was Alicia (Panchi ta) Villa, twenty-five years old, a professional dancer and circus equestrienne, who is shifting her emphasis now from dancing to trick riding. Many of the tricks she does she learrted as a child under the instruc tion of her hard riding father. For the last three years there has been a great demand for Panchita, dancing gayly with flying shawl and shiny red jeweled heels, with casta nets cracking rhythmically in her red nailed hands. But always there was that desire to ride ? to dance on the broad back of a trained circus pony. So now she spends her days culti | vating Lotus, the hippo; Joe, the orang-utan; the 28 elephants, and the several hundred horses. "I love it," she says enthusiasti cally. "I have tried circus life be fore, but not riding." English was for a time her main stumbling stone. "I'm getting so I talk it pretty good now," the dark eyes grew se rious. "At first I'd talk for ten minutes and no one could under stand me. My accent. But I was eight months with a show and there was only one Mexican family ? they were wire walkers ? so I had to speak English. Do I sound all j right?" With eyes like those, and shiny black hair, a red valentine mouth that smiles like that! With a voice that is low and soft, and an accent that intrigues! With the figure of a movie dancer! Does she sound all I right? Thin Ice Break* ; Six Risk Lives to Save Mongrel Dog St. Paul, Minn. ? Five firemen and a passerby risked their lives the other day to save a mongrel dog from death in the Mississippi river. The dog, belonging to a house boat man, fell through the ice about 80 ; feet out from the Jackson street levee. ' Spectators on the Robert street bridge called the fire department rescue squad, but the firemen were unable to cross the rubbery ice. They then put in a call for a hook and ladder truck and started searching for a boat. Meanwhile Oscar Anderson of St. Paul noted the failure of the fire men's efforts, so he attempted to rescue the animal himself. Ly ing prone on a nine foot ladder, he inched his way toward the flounder ing dog. Suddenly the ice gave way and Anderson found himself in the same plight as the dog. It remained for Fireman Daniel Looney, who laid two 35-foot ladders on the ice and tied a rope around his waist, to effect Anderson's res cue. Laffert Veich, rescue squad captain, rowed out in a boat and fi nally was able to return the animal, shivering and near exhaustion, to its owner. Cat, Lost in Texas, Back in Home Town in Illinou Mount Vernon, HI. ? Michael, the family cat, came home to the resi dence of Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Smith after wandering for two years. He was lost in El Paso, Texas, in 1936. Michael made his presence known by scratching at the front door and then calmly renewed his associa tions with the other household fe line as if there had never been a separation. "He was a slow hitch-hiker," Mrs. Smith commented.
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