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The Alamance Gleaner VOL. LXXII . GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1946 No. 22 LOST COLONY, drama, presented on Roanoke bland, N. C. Above are scenes of dances, open air theater, the stage, an In dian god, and the sign that stands on the site of the first settlement. LIST COLONY Historic Roanoke Island Has Opened Summer Theater Season MANTEO, N. C.?With a new and spectacular stage which in cludes Roanoke Sound, "The Lost Colony," Paul Green's great drama, has been revived ,for the 1946 summer season and is now playing to capacity crowds. It is an epic of the first attempted set tlement of the Carolinas. First shown in 1937, this symphon- < ic drama became nationally famous and was seen by more than 400,000 people before the war forced its sus pension in 1941. The story of Sir Walter Raleigh's attempt to plant an English colony in the New World is presented in a large amphitheater on the site of the original settlement itself. Perform ances will be given each week, Wednesday through Sunday, during July and August. The audiences of the new perform ances will see the first colonists raw, in small boats, right up to their ?ret at the very spot the landing was made in 1585. The new plans fulfill the original staging ideas of Playright Paul Green, who wrote the opus in 1936 to commemorate the 350th anniversary of the first English attempts to settle America. Will Play Forever. At first only an "extension" of the anniversary celebration, the produc tion of the play is now a North Caro lina state agency by special act of the legislature, and "Lost Colony" will be played forever on this wind swept island. "Lost Colony" re-enacts one of the most poignant tragedies in Ameri can history, but leaves unanswered a mystery which has fascinated his torians for over three centuries. It is the mystery of "CROATAN," the word found carved on a tree in Fort ?Raleigh by a relief expedition in ISM, only legacy of the men and women who had dared the wilds of America. It was the only clue to the disappearance of Raleigh's colo nists and little Virginia Dare, first child of English parentage to be born in the New World. Hundreds of stories based upon possible solutions to the mystery have been written and legends about it still abound in the region of the Dare country, but Paul Green wrote the drama which was so com pelling that it grew from a one season commemorative drama into an institution. And it was Green who set the piece to music and dance, music of the old Elizabethans and the wild dances of American Indians with a background of organ and choir, in a combination which was > described by Dr. Herbert Graf, stage director of the New York Met ropolitan Opera house, as the "basic art form for the new American op era." Over 200 in Company. As staged by Sam Selden, head of the University of North Carolina dramatic school, "Lost Colony" is sheer spectacle. A company of 200 is employed, and they play on a stage where scenes are shifted by strong spotlights which effectually black-out all but the playing scenes. A narrator, mounted in a cupola cm the side, keeps the action moving in the brief interludes, and the West minster choir and the organ pro vide a most impressive background. With the new shifting facilities, the lights will play upon the waters of the sound and bring spectacular realism to the presentation. Paul Green's story of the "Lost Col ony" is an historical rendering of his version of the fate of the colonists. But it has within it all the elements of romance, of strife, of tender pas RIGHTLY PRO CD . . . Thi* chubby Car Heel has jut eaarht a trout. He used a hook, pole and wora in the UartDe rirer In North CaroUma. sion, of final tragedy in a new land. It starts with the historical landing of the colonists and their establish ment of a new homeplace in cabins around the chapel in which they give thanks to Providence for a new life. It proceeds with the little things which go into the making of homes, and a nation, and to the birth of Virginia Dare, first new life in a new world. Finale is Tragic. Mysteriously, the brother of Chief Wanchese is killed; the Indians be come hostile, and the tragic finale of the "Lost Colony" plays itself out in mystery. But the dramatist's epi logue, rampant with stirring lines and inspiring music, leaves no doubt that the colony was really the begin ning of a new nation, of America. Paul Green wrote "Lost Colony" as his contribution to the culture of his home state. He presented it in toto, to the people of the Virginia Dare country, and received no roy alty from its production, nor has he allowed rights to any dramatic or cinema companies. The entire per formance was broadcast by the Columbia Broadcasting company in 1939, and the author has prepared a book on the test which is on gen eral sale. FDR Saw It. First presentations were spon sored and managed by the Roanoke island historical society, a local group organized to take care of the multitudinous details of the actual staging. In five years, almost a half million spectators, mong them President and Mrs. Roosevelt and Lord Halifax, brought an estimated 93,000.000 in total revenue to the Island of Roanoke and the Dare country. As it begins its new, "per petual" series of seasons, the books of the organizations are evenly bal anced. The new association, headed by former Gov. J. Melville Broughton and operating under especially en acted laws of the North Carolina state assembly, present the opus through a five-man committee, all of whom reside in Manteo, near Fort Raleigh, scene of the production, during the season. Melvin R. Dan iels is chairman of the committee, which is composed at I. P. Davis, secretary, C. S. Meekins, treasurer, Theodore S. Meekins and Dr. Sel den, the director. "totes of Man in Shower: The dispute between Justices Black and Jackson isn't the first time a High Court member has been involved in a public squabble. Ted dy Roosevelt and Justice Holmes carried on a bitter personal feud (or many years. . . . After one o( Holmes' dissenting opinions riled | Teddy, he blasted the famed Jurist with: "I could carve out of a banana ?a judge with more backbone than that!"" Times Are Getting Better ? Or Something! The top exec of a famed hotel told the col'm last night: "With reference to general conditions, as I see them, this is very noticeable. That the so-called big j shots who played the black mar kets are now -around borrowing money on their autos or peddling their gems. For instance, I*was just offered a $1,500 wrist watch for $600." Booth TarUngton was one of those . who urged a tough peace for Ger many. When a friend remarked we should teach the Germans to love ' peace, Tarkington pointed out: "It would be better If we educated the ' Allies to realize that Germany has j never been peaceful." ' I The latest quip in diplomatic cir cles is this: A foreign journalist remarked to a French embassy of- 1 ficial: "The House of Franco has been condemned. Why, then, has it not been torn down?" "It appears," was the salty reply, "some of the building inspectors do not have the heart to destroy an edi fice they helped erect." At a Memorial Day ceremony, a veteran told a buddy: "I under stand that some at the Brass and several noliticians nlaced wreaths on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington." "Yeh," wee the response. "Do you think they'll ever get around to properly - honoring the KNOWN sol dier?" Some at the nation's leaders were discussing Russia's renewal of dip lomatic relations with Argentina. An Isolationist seized the opportunity to - damn it as another instance of Rus sia's un worthiness. "Haybe," sarcasm'd a diplomat, "ifs Russia's way of showing us she's Anally getting into line with our State Department." A correspondent . Just returned from the Palestine front told his publishers the reason for his copy being heavily censored. "The British aren't afraid of a revolution in Arabia," he reported. "What they're afraid of is a revela tion in America." The Broadway Lights: The 1949-40 show season had its usual whoops and groans. One click for every Ave Hops. About a dozen plays per ished in the provinces before reach ing Broadway. . . . The column's candidates for Very Bests include "State of the Union," "Born Yes terday," "Call Me Mister," "Annie Get Your Gun," "Anna Lucasta," "Dream Girl" and "Ray Bolger to Make-Ready." . . . Although the Theater prides itself on its tall-brow reputation only one serious opus, "Deep Are the Roots," hit pay dirt. . . . The profession's chief ex citement was the skirmishing be tween showmen and critics which I started with the failure of "Truck line Cafe." . . . "Around the World" I is the latest to come up out of the resin to fight a stubborn battle against the Grand Muftis of the Aisles. Variety report it is attract ing sugary biz. Between the Acts: It was over heard at a recent opening. Dur ing the 2nd act one of the reviewers got up and said to a critic across the aisle: "Will yo9 watch the seat for me?" . . . "Sure," whispered the other, "if you'll watch the show for me." Qootation Marksmanship: N Cole: Some women don't care whose means they live beyond. ... I G. B. Shaw: The more things a man's ashamed of?the more re spectable he is. ... L. Beecher: Eloquence is logic on fire. ... Ed Howe: Every time I have caught hell it has been the result of pur suing it. . . . Vina Delraar: An ache has come to live in her heart. . . . M. Rubin. All I can say about Great Britain's foreign policy is thst it makes Russia's look good. . . . N. Corwin: We've learned that the Germans came close to winning the first time, even closer the second time, and might damn well win if i we give them the third time. I WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Heavy Farm Debt Retirement Near End; Latin America Hikes Famine A id; Russ Want A tomVeto ???????? lUiMHd by Western Newspaper Union. ??????1 (EDITOR'S NOTE: Thii eplaleas are expresse4 la these celestas, they are these ef (Westera Newspaper Helen's news analysts aaf aet aeceaeartly ef this aewspaper.) PERCENTAGE CHANCE IN AVERAGE VAIUE PER ACM OP J^^^^M^^UESTATE FROM 1939-39 AVERAGE FARM DEBT: Decline Slows Smaller declines in mortgage re duction within the last year and an increase in the number of states showing larger indebtedness sug gest that the period of heavy retire ment of farm debt since 1923 may be ended, the department of agri culture reported. Despite signs of increasing indebt edness, however, the record for the war years shows an overall cut of ltt billion dollars in debt in sharp contrast to the 43 per cent rise dur ing the 1913-19 period. As of the first of this year, total indebtedness stood at 5 billion dollars, half of the 1923 figure of 10% billion. Slowing of debt reduction was re flected in the 100 per cent drop in repayments last year in compari son with 1944. At the same time, 20 states showed increases in indebted ness in contrast to 8 the preced ing year. Higher acreage values as of March, 1943, over the 1933-39 pe riod ranged from 113 per cent for Tennessee to 28 per cent for Mas sachusetts. FAMINE AID: South America Helps J Winding up a 13,000-mile food survey in South America, for mer President Herbert Hoover re ported that as a result of increas ing their exports and cutting down m their own imports, our good neighbors will Increase the avail ible supply of foodstuffs for a hun gry world bf 800,000 tons. In reporting on his South Amer can siring as chairman of Presi lent Truman's famine committee, Hoover warmly praised the relief Efforts of Juan Peron's Argentine government. Despite ? partial crop failure, Argentina will supply 90 per tent of South American grain ship nents during the next four months, with exports expected to rise to 750, 100 tons monthly following emer fency measures. As aids to overseas relief, Colom bia, Venezuela, Chile, Peru and Uruguay agreed to slash their cere al and fats imports to a minimum luring the next few critical months, Hoover said. Mexico, Ecuador, Uhile, Peru and Uruguay will hike heir shipments of beans, rice, meat, fats and sugar. In all, the Latin Americans agreed to Increase ex- t ports approximately 460,000 tons and ? lecrease their own imports 580,000. t UNRRA Aid In asking congress to appropriate ' :he remaining 405 million dollars of ' he 244 billions it authorized for the 1 United Nations Relief and Re ha bill- 1 latlon administration. President rruman disclosed that the U. S. ac- ) counted for 71.7 per cent of the ton- ' tiage already distributed by the ' UNRRA and 85.8 per cent of its 1 ralue. Pointing out the need for addi- ' tional relief, Mr. Truman declared ' that many of the countries receiving > UNRRA aid have only a few weeks 1 stocks of food remaining. In some countries minimum rations may not ' even be met for people who have ? been living on the borderline of i starvation. t With 7 million of 27 million people i In Hunan province alone facing star- i vation, famine conditions are worse i in China, the President said. Be- ? cause of poor crops in the Hunan I rice bowl, men. women and chil dren arc eating grass, roots, dry 1 bark and even clay. The situation is i further aggravated by the lack of i adequate' transport facilities to ? distribute available supplies. < RUBBER: , Boost Price i Taking cognizance of the heavy 1 world demand for natural rubber < and increased costs of postwar op- 1 1 - < srations, the U. S. agreed to a 2V* 1 :ent pound boost in the price of i he commodity in negotiations with he international rubber monopoly embracing Britain, the Netherlands end France. With the U. S. able to produce tynthetic rubber for most of its leeds at approximately 16 cents a pound from its tremendous capac ity of 1,000,000 tons annually, the agreement to pay the monopoly BH | cents a pound represented a move | to maintain foreign revenue for , U. S. trade. Natural rubber from tar eastern sources will provide the ' bulk of U. S. supplies, with this t country continuing production of , 290,000 tons of synthetic annually. Synthetic plants with a capacity of 150,000 tons will be kept in a stand Py condition. Under the U. S. agreement with he British, Dutch and French, the nonopoly will continue to make al locations of rubber to various users, ["hough this country will be able to puy rubber directly from Malay a, he British will peg prices there by paying 234 cents per pound for the tommodity. ATOM CONTROL: Rum Proposal t Hanging on to the veto preroga- , live of the major powers at the Unit- , id Nations, Russia's counter-propo- i lal to the U. S. plan for control at , ?tomic energy hit the U. S. provi don requiring the surrender at the ] privilege in atomic supervision. , In jealously guarding its veto pow- 1 ir even in atomic affairs, Russia iontinued to insist upon the means ' if offsetting any voting combine- \ ions against it. Reflecting Moscow's < xincern over such a development, j Andrei A. Gromrke p?r? b he London Daily Worker (tated: ' There la within U. N. and its aecu- ' ?ity council an Anglo-American bloc . igainst the Soviet union. . . . With he veto power removed, the U. S. ind Britain, with their satellites, rould be able ... to carry the day 1 igainst the USSR." Soviet Delegate Andrei A. Gromy co skirted the real issues in insist- < ng upon retention of the veto power n an atomic control commission plan. He repeated Russian press alk by declaring that removal of j he veto prerogative constituted ef lorts to undermine the principle of i mity of the big five on all mter istional questions. I Aside from the thorny issue of the reto, the Russian counter-proposal resembled the U. S. control plan n major respects. The Reds sug [ested conclusion of an in tenia tian il agreement to prohibit use of itomic weapons, forbid production ind maintenance of such ann iment, and force destruction of all docks of A-bombs. The Rusa plan would also estab ish two committees, one far study ng the control of atomic develop nent for peaceful use, and the oth rr for guarding against production >f atomic weapons. Early reaction to the U. S. plan bund Britain pleading its co-opera ion for atomic control without fiat y endorsing the American proposal md China, Brazil and Mexico sup porting the U. 3. proposition. PALESTINE: Hot Spot Great Britain atood right in thw middle of the fevered struggle ha Palestine over large-scale Jew ish immigration to the Holy Land so bitterly contested by the predom inant Arab population. Following the pacification of the Arabs by Foreign Minister Bevin's blpnt rejection of the proposed im migration of 100,000 Jews to Pales line, the moderate Jewish resist ance movement joined with extrem ist groups in a reign of terror, blow ing up bridges and rail yards, fir ng at British troops and kidnap ping officers. The violent outbreaks of the Jew sh elements were seen as pressure noves designed to bring about a nodification of the British stand, ["hough the proposal to admit 100, 100 Jews to Palestine did not meet rith complete approval of Jewish eaders when first presented, they ettled for it and may fight for ac reptance of a similar compromise FEWEL THEFT: Tn Indies The theft of $3,000,000 of crows ewels and heirlooms of die royal Jesse family of Germany was opped by the stealing at tSJBOOJSOS jf gold, curiemy and gems by a British, Dutch and Japanese ring n the East Indies. Special British paBce wees called ia te crack As case after learned at the whereabouts at d!vM,th^eat1Cetwe2e5eas!< Originally, the Jan had headed IB iteel trunks and 9 crates of gold, currency and gems to Us mistum* Iwellmf after V-J Day and told her to take her pick at the loot. After the had chosen jewels rained at ant million dollars the Jap then turned the remainder at the cache esti mated at taeiitj two lofflena to his niperior. w'ttaa iptntoft I asa ga a Dwteh drtha pkai kv m m a^ Dutch enribans darioc the Nippon ese occupation at the East ladies. RED ARMY: righten Discipline Completing the swing from a 'democratic" to the traditional au thoritarian type of army. Buasia ar lered the tightening ap of todplha n military ranks sod the cattm ion at respect and pride to the pr* ession of asms. First steps in the Wnaaian pro rere thc"ra eitahiktonSd of rank, cultivation of old military uaditk? tnd the reward of merit. This sig nalized a radical dspmtnis tram the >ld bolshevik petoupis of cqpaBty if men to the aerrice. with its at lendant lack of diwipHna The latest orders iasaad from to* Kremlin scree to still further tight smoother staking military machine. iers ore now required: ooMiera must bear difficulties aithuut pro test and be ready to shed thetr blood; the men moat knnrtlr down to aeriooo consideration of military technique, and troops mnot respect their nuerun and nliaai ? ? ah **? rules of military etiquette, such as Minting CONGRESS: Report on Reds Two Democratic congressmen joined two Republicans in hitting at Russian politics in eastern Europe and sharply criticizing XT. & diplo macy in a report filed with tea house foreign affairs committee summar izing their findings of an overseas tour last fall. Listing their observations. Repre sentatives Ryder (Dem.. Coon.), Gordon (Dem., 111.). Bolton (Rep.. Ohio) and Mundt (Rep.. Minn.) de clared: ? Soviet secret police and agents have conducted a reign at terror in Poland in support of the Russian backed provisional government a U. S. concessions to Russia havw weakened the hand of Communists friendly to the U. S. on the all powerful politburo ruling the So viet s U. S. inability to claim credit for vast lad-lease shipments have enabled Soviet officials to accredit the supplies to Russian production and strengthen their own political position.
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