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\’ y/'; THE BURNSVILLE EAGLE VOL. 39. BURNSVILLE, N. C., FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1931. NO. 17. Navy to Excel In Air Combat United States Can Launch More Planes Than Any Other World Power. Washington. — The United States iiavy cow is in a position to plane more planes in sea combat tlian any •other world naval power. From the decks of three great air craft carriers, and from the catapults of cruisers and batieships, hundreds of fighting, scouting, bombing, and torpe do planes can take off tor au aerial offensive so powerful that navy ex perts hesitate to prophesy the effect «f a concentrated attack. This development of navy aircraft strength comes as the result of a care fully planed and well executed five- year building program inaugurated in 1920 and reaching its climax at tlie end of the present fiscal year. Cost $63,000,000. The program has been effected at 4 cost of approximately $61?,000,000, nearly $25,000,000 less than the orig inal estimates approved by congress. In the brief space of five years the navy has raised the effective force of Its aircraft by over 200 per cent and has increased the number of its planes from .H50 to over 1,000, However, the completion of the pro gram will find no letup in navy aero nautical activities. Navy officials are hopeful of secur ing additional appropriations from fu ture congresses for at least 500 more planes and four new aircraft carriers. In recent public anouncements. As sistant Secretary Ingalls has stated the aircraft carrier is the most effi cient and powerful weapon of offense and defense yet developed by the navy. Admiral Moffett In a recent speech declared that “surface vessels that put themselves within range of aircraft will assuredly be obliterated unless adequately protected by aircraft.” Authoritatively representing the views of a large section of naval ex perts, Admiral Moffett later declared that “our navy should have the maxi mum possible number of aircraft on its ships. Aircraft had a comparative ly minor nole in the last war. but it will profoundly change the methods of all future wars to an Infinitely great- er,.degree,than we .'an vision'today.'* Ga* Bag Expansion. Naval ofliciuls also are wholeheart edly in favor of rapid expansion Iti lighter-than-air craft. They point out that with the virtual menopoly of heli um, nonexplosive lifting gas. this coun try Is in a position to seize doiuiuance in the military dirigible field. The favorable showing of the vet eran dirigible I.os .4.ngeles in the re cent war game off Panama greatly heartened navy officers who were los ing faith in the military value of the airship. An integral part of the five-year building program is the construction of two additional dirigibles. One of these, the Akron, is rapidly nearing completion, and is expected to be ready for trial flights in July. The second, designated as the ZRS-5, will he as sembled by the Goodyear-Zeppelin cor poration as soon as the Akron has been formally accepted by the navy. The Akron and its sister ship will be equipped as the most powerful fighting aircraft the world has ever seen. They will be in a position for combat as well as scouting and obser vation work, carrying powerful bat teries of supermachine guns and five fighting aircraft. Honor Paid Designer of Confederate Flag Montgomery, Ala.—Gov. B. M. Miller has accepted for tlie state a marble tablet, designating Nicola Marchail, Marion, Ala., as the designer of the first Confederate flag. The tablet was presented to the state by tlie women of the Alabama division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Jean Hopkins, Montgomery, a great- granddaughter of Mrs. Napoleon Lock ett. Marion, who suggested the design of stars and bars to Marchail, un veiled the. memorial. The flag was raised first on the Cap itol here March 4, 1861, following its adoption by the Confederate congress. Seize Four as German Spies on French Border Strasbourg.—The French police have arrested three German spies, claiming that the culprits were caught, in the act of obtaining plans of-'the new French fortifications along the. frontier. ' , The arrested Germans, the French^ police allege, have confessed that they- have in the past successfully csirried to Stuttgart a number of such re ports. Tlie I'^ench police are now searching for a score of the accom plices of the men already under ar- rpst. , _ *, Stowaway Hides 9 Days Without Food or Drink San Francisco.—For nine days and nights a sixteeu-year-old South Sea Is land native boy lay without food and water In a canvas-covered lifeboat, a stowaway aboard the liner Makura, bound from Papeete to San Francisco. The boat docked. Deckhands began Thirteenth Infant ^ Born on Thirteenth ^ Wheeling, \V. Va.—The stork -j brought the thirteenth child to J Mr. and Mrs. Norman Peabody -j . on the thirteenth of the month. J Little No. 13 was a boy. The stork's selection broke a J ; tie of six boys and six girls In J • the Peabody family. J inspection of the lifeboats. When they lifted the cover which concealed him, the stowaway was too weak to es cape, too exhausted even to give his name. Much of the time he had been in the boat a blistering tropic sun had beaten down on ids canvas sealed, cramped quarters. He was removed from the ship on a stretcher and taken to Angel Island immigration depot. He was sent back to Papeete when the Makura made its return trip. STUDIES SLEUTHING A sleuth would be Priscilla Higin- botliam, daughter of one of Chicago’s socially prominent families, and to realize her ambition she has enrolled as “Isabel Hall” in the Northwestern univereity crime detection laboratory, where Lieut. Col. Calvin Goddard ex pounds the scientific way to catch s bad man. New Precious Metals Mine Believed Found Okemah, Okla.—Gold and silver, be lieved to be in paying quantities, have been discovered near here. The gold bearing quartz Is deposited about 23 feet under the surface. Traces of platinum and iron also were found In the ore. Laboratory tests are to be made to determine advisability of mining the metals. British Ambassador Greets Good Will Elnvoys BIG DRY ENFORCEMENT DRIVE STARTS SOON The 22 young American scnooi children who have been selected by the United States Flag assoclaciou as good will envoys, and who will visit various Kuropean countries as representatives of American youth, were received by Sir Ronald Lindsay, British ambassador to the United States, at the British embassy in Washington. Training Course Is Given to Agents in Washington. Washington.—Three hundred and fifty prohibition agents have been learning here how to do bigger and better’ enforcement work. Training schools for the additional men were opened to prepare them for the fed eral dry forces’ biggest campaign be ginning July 15. Prohibition Director Woodcock, who has been inspecting conditions in the South, has let heads of the training schools as well as tfis 'present agents know that he expects improving re sults in the forthcoming campaign. He added that .jje wants activities concentrated agnins* ll*'''h-ups._ It is expected till!:' shtej^two of the new agents will- art their work in New York. The I'cinoinder are to be distributed as follows: Thirteen in Boston, fifty in Pidtadeiphia. fifty- four in Chicago, twenty-eiglit each in Richmond, New Orielins, Cincinnati, St. Paul: tw-enty iii Kansas City, eleven in Denver, anJ fourteen each In San E’rancisco zx\f Seattle. While the pruhibifhfVbureau was dispatching its concluding orders to the school teachers, the association against the prohibition amendment is sued a statement In which it said repeal of the BiglUeenth amendment would provide additional revenue suf ficient to wipe out the more than .$800,- 000.000 deficit. “Our latest revised estimate, based on the 1930 census.:’ the association said, “puts the provable federal rev enue from alcoholic beverages at -$906,402,224.” New York.—The Women’s Moder ation Union announced that it will petition congress and the President over the signatures of more than 1,- 000,000 American women urging repeal of the Eighteenth jypendment. The petitions, authorized by M. Louise Gross, national chairman, ap peal on behalf of mothers “who feel deeply the responsibility for the wel fare of the coming generation,” and have watched with “greatest anxiety the growth of intemperate habits in this country.” MOST PROSPEROUS NATION IS FRANCE, FIGURES SHOW Dr. Juliua Klein Assemble* Data Re vealing Remarkable Progress in Past Few Years. New York.—Prance is today the most prosperous nation In the world, according to figures assembled by Dr. Julius Klein, assistant secretary of commerce. “In a world harassed by depression and economic anxiety, France’s well being is conspicuously impressive,” Doctor Klein writes in Collier’s Week ly. “Measured by almost every index, she has stood forth in the past few years as the most prosperous of na tions. “Until recently her unemployment has been practically nil, whereas the Jobless armies in America, England, Germany and Italy, totaled this win ter at their peak some 14,000,000 or more. Her per-cap'':a gold holdings at tills writing are about $6", as against $42 tor Switzerland, $39 for Argentina, $34 for the United States, with England, Germany and Italy straggling far behind. In iron and steel exports, that great staple indi cator of power in world trade, she has in the past five years stood at the head of the exporting nations. “In telegraph wire mileage, her peo ple are now better equipped than any In Europe, with a per-caplta aver age nearly three times that of Ger many or Italy and TO per cent great er than that of England. Her roads in proportion to population are like wise far and away the most adequate on the globe; her improved road mile age per 10,000 of population is 99, whereas that of the United States is 01, England 39, Germany 34 and Italy 28.” Hers Is the second greatest colonial empire on the globe aud it is worth noting that practically all of it has X Burns to Death on X Barbed Wire Fence X Nellch, Neb.—Trapped In a •f barbed wire fence, Charles X Brown was burned to death, y Brown was burning trash In his X garden, A .shift in the wind y caused the flame to ignite his X clothing. He started to run and X *»* became entangled in the fence. ^ Third Party Movement Is St •te'V in Chicago Chicago.—Wi Tding of a con- venfLon by^ the rCHIN Cook counry’^ ill'll®**, . hns’ nail, the third party moviri''' '-’‘it under way in Chicago. ' V'" The old Farmer-Labor party died some years ago. following the de feat of the late Senator La Follette for. President. David A. MeVey was elected chairman, and Edward Hammond sec retary. L. P. Straube, editor of the Fed eration News, organ of the Chicago Federation of Labor, in his “key noter” declared that both of the old parties are virtually' one and have failed to make any provision to furnish employment to the idle. The party adopted principles In cluding opposition to all wars, and de claring for free speech, government ownership of public utilities, and the six-hour day and five-day week. Rare Sea Otter Killed on Vancouver Island Victoria. B. C.—The only specimen of a sea otter killed on the Pacific ocean in recent years was brought to the legislative building by B.vran Wil liams, provincial gnAe commissioner It will be preserved.: The animal was kiled by an Indian on the west coast of'.Vancouver island and was confiscated because the sea otter Is strictly priiected. Six feet eight inches long. vJth hair of a dun color and of remarlably silky texture, the pelt is unlike .hat of any other fur-bearing animal, it is valued at $2,000. Williams snJI the species had been considered vhnally extinct and few Indians had evk seen specimens. A gift by the chhf of the Haidas of four pelts toQneen Victoria at ihe time of her julilee was considered a great rarity. been acquired since her debacle in 1871. The vital significance of that empire as an element in her present- day economic pre-eminence is all too frequently overlooked; Indeed, her colonial commerce Is the most im portant single factor in her external trade, outranking that of any other geographic entity both as a market and as a source of supply for the mother country. There is more fiction there is fact in fiction. I fact thar Boy Resevid from Well AfterM Hours of Work Ottawa. I,—Howard Smith, six teen. who ws imprisoned by a well cave-ln on a'arm 12 miles from here, was rescud after nine crews had toiled ceaseissly for 24 hours. Despite *3 harrowing experience, the hoy ws-conscious and smiling. “Gee. it’,good to be out,” he man aged to sa “I knov now how Floyd Collius felt.” Collins led In the famous Kentucky cave episle. “Me g'to sleep?” Howard scoffed. “No, slrl’m not going to sleep. It feels toigood to be alive. Imagine being ale after that!” Mrs. larriman Sues R. J. Baker Wa^gton. — Friendship or no friendfip. Mrs. J. Borden Harrimnn la suing aymond J. Baker, former dir'^c- toi olhe mint, for $20,000 damages, cause she says, by a pile of dirt dumul from his property onto hers. The rt—nearly 4,500 cubic feet of it —cae from an excavation for the newdaker residence, adjoining her estn. and was depoiited, she alUges, upoa cultivated section of the prop- ert' The dispute has been going op for^veral weeks. CORN CROP HELPED BY HEAT AND RAIN Weather Aids the Farmers of Middle West States. Chicago.—The record-breaking hun dred-degree temperatures that have baked the entire Middle West, preceded by heavy rains, have gladdened the hearts of farmers throughout the corn belt. .Almost without exception, reports received indicated the heat had been beneficial to the growing corn crop. Some damage to oats, where the grain was in tlie milk or dough stage, had been caused by the extreme heat, farm ers reported. The official government report on the size of the 1931 corn crop is not Is sued until July 9. However, private crop reporters have indicated that the corn acreage this year is the largest in 15 years, with prospects for a bump er yield; The high temperatures were de clared by Charles D. Reed, federal meteorologist at Des Moines, Iowa, as beneficial to most of the leading corn growing states, particularly In the southwestern sections, where ample spring rains had taken up the de ficiency in soil moisture, caused by the winter drought. Corn is much ahead of normal. Mr. Reed indicated. ‘"There may be some damage in the northwest counties, where there has been little moisture, but -we have no reports of it as yet.” Mr. Reed as serted. "The worst of the heat wave seemed to center near Waterloo, where an ali-time record of.106 was set. Our records of previous hot spells at this time show that the oat crop, in the dough stage, Is injured materially by hot weather late in .Tune.” The corn crop is in excellent condi tion in the northern illinois and In diana couniies. according to observers who drove through the country from the Mississippi river to Fort Yayne. Ind. Much of the corn met the old rural rule of "knee high by the Fourth of July” with a safe margin, due to favorable early spring planting condi tions. V A. J. Surratt, federal crop statists clan at Springfield, with two assist ants, surveying the datpage to oats in centra! and southern Illinois. Corn In these areas, while in need of rain, has not suffered materially, early reports indicated. A bumper crop of apples, peaches, and small fruits is approach ing the harvest stage unharmed by the “Four of our officials who returned from trips into central, western and northern Illinois all reported tlie crop in fine condition but in need of rain,” said George Tliiem of the Illi nois Agricultural association's Chica go office. “Some losses to live stock were noted.” Coalition Triumphs in Spanish Election Madrid.—xVlthough complete returns from the general election are not yet available it is evident that the Re publican-Socialist coalition has scored a big victory, Alejandro Lerroux, for eign minister in the Republican inet headed the poll here and is looked upon as the outstanding figure of the election. He is talked of now as ture president. In Catalonia the followers of Col. Francisco Macia triumphed easily. In Navarre and Guiposcoa the Catholics won the day. The Communists were everywhere swamped. Among the old-line politi cians who have gained seats in the constituent cortes are Count Roman- ones. Sanchez Guerra and Molchiades Alvarez. The Commerce department an nounced leaf tobacco exports of 4S,- 912,000 pounds in May, a gain of 70 per cent over May 19.30. The Wickersham commission on law observance and enforcement dissolved and only Chairman Wickersham will remain In the Capital. He has another report, the fifteenth to be made ty tlie group, to write. President Hoover telegraplied Jol L, Lewis, head of the United Mine Workers of America, that the admin istration would favor any constructive program joined in by operators and miners. Mr. Lewis had suggested the President c 11 a coa) conference. Her Running Days Are Over Chicago.—Miss Betty Robinson, girl Olympic champion, was reported well on the road to recovery at the Oak Forest infirmary from injuries re ceived in an airplane crash, but phy sicians declared she would not be able to run again. An X-ray examination showed no skull fracture, but her hip was found fractured in three places and it was declared one leg would be shorter when she reebvered. Winnipeg Fears Reds Winnipeg, Man,—The govern, lent recalled the Winnipeg garrison, In training at summer camp 150 miles west of the city, following Commu nistic threats of violence to the police forci and property after riots in which 20 policemen were Injured. Peacemaker Is Bitten San Francisco,—Attempting to break up a tight between five orang-ii-tans and three chimpanzees, George Bis- laney, Flelslihacker zoo keeper, was severely bitten. ITALY PUTS DEBT PLAN INTO EFFECT France Refuses to Make Fur ther Concessions. Rome.—The Italian government pro visionally put into effect the debt mor atorium proposal of President Hoover, at least as far as it is concerned with the reparations payments under the Young plan, by notifying the govern- ' ments of Germany, Austria, Hungary and Bulgaria that It would not claim . the regular July 1 reparations pay ments. At the same time the government notified its war debt creditors. Great Britain and the United States, that the sums due to them on the same date were being held “awaiting in structions.” Although the official communique said the government had acted “while awaiting the outcome of negotiations now under way,” it was said that its course would not necessarily be al tered should the conversations held by Andrew W. Mellon, American secre tary of the treasury, with the French government, fail to win France to an acceptance of the Hoover plan. According to an authoritative expla nation, Italy would be willing to al low the suspension of reparation pay ments to continue in effect even un der a partial application of the Hoover plan so long as the United'States and Great Britain did not claim debt pay ments from Italy. Paris.—The senate, by a vote of 197 to 5, voted emphatic approval of Pre mier Laval's stand in the war debt moratorium negotiations with Secre tary of the Treasury Mellon, giving Laval a free hand so long as he does not recede from that position. Aside from a nearer approach by the State department to the formula con tained in the French counter-project of June 24, the only hope seen in Paris for making possible France’s adher ence to the Amercan proposals was the new and active interest of Germany t-ansiated into conciliatory diplomatic intervention. Washington. — President Hoover sent to Secretary Mellon in Paris a memorandum that In effect served no tice to France that if she didn't accept his war debt plan she might be left ii' \ in the cold. He warned France if his project should fail, Ger- * ^.undoubtedly would be compelied ''•'^-4. herself of a moratorium on '.ipns.^as jirovi^led by^fhe Young ptan. (under such circumstances, the Pres ident calculated, France, obliged to priy Great Britain and the United States on her war debts from an in- co^ne curtailed by suspension of rep arations, would be worse off by more than $100,000,006 than she would be under the Hoover moratorium. The memorandum dealt In detail with the concessions the President was willing to make to France and the concessions he expected from her in return. He was willing to agree that Germany shall be required to deposit the unconditional reparations but he wanted them loaned back in full to Germany and to the German govern ment instead of German industrial concerns as France proposed. He also objected to the segregation of $25,000,- 000 to be loaned to central Europe. As to the period Germany is to be allowed to repay the postponed repara tions the President suggested 25 years compared with the five proposed by France but intimated he would com promise on a shorter period if France yielded on other points. MacDonald Calls for World Arms Reduction London.—Prime Minister MacDon ald, laying the statistics of world ar maments before the house of com mons asked pledges of support from ail political parties to a British policy of drastic reductions in naval, military and air forces at next February’s dis armament conference His figures shower Great Britain to he the only world power which has reduced its naval and military expen ditures in recent years, while the United States, France, Italy and Japan all were increasing theirs. But Great Britain has gone as far as It can go unless the other nations follow suit, he said, expressing confi dence that next year's disarmament conference will bring just such a de velopment. Dog Saves Boy’s Life From Enraged Bull Keota, Iowa.—Beaver, a ten-year- old shepherd dog. Is a hero on the Dan Kleinschmidt farm. Richard Fos- dick, twelve, who had come to the farm to spend the summer, was at tacked by a vicious bull. Tbe bull had knocked the boy down and was trampling him when the dog rushed to the rescue. The boy, though badly hurt, will recover. Rancher Kills Wife and Self Ekaiuka, Mont—Bodies of Oliver M. Heieie and his wife, Pearlette, were found at a ranch house 25 miles south of Eklaka. Officers believed Heieie shot his wife and then killed himself with a rifle. A note Indicated jeal ousy. Snow in Wenatchee Mountains AVenatchee, Wash.—Snow fe!) for an hour and a half in portions of the Wenatchee mountains. It was the first June snowfall there in 23 years. PROVES HIS SKILL Secretary of the Interior Ray Ly man Wilbur used to be an eminent physician and surgeon, and the other day he had a chance to prove he had not lost his skill. In tlie Mesa Verde National park he performed success fully an emergency operation for ap pendicitis. INCOME TAX RATE EXPECTED TO HOLD Little Reason to Fear an In* crease Next Year. Washington.—In spite ef the Hoo ver debt holiday proposal, which prom ises to add to the governmeiit’s finan cial burden, there continues to be little reason for taxpayers to fear an increase In federal taxes at next win ter’s session of congress. The close of the fiscal year shows a treasury deficit of somewhere near $900,000,000. This deficit, the first since the war, will be followed by another of sizable proportions in the fiscal year 1931. The 1931 deficit will be increased by more than $245,000,- 000 by the postponement of foreign debt payments. Noth withstanding this unfavorable situation, taxpayers may feel fairly iiiaf...rh.e JndlviduaL apJ. cor-. poration Income tax rates, on earn ings of the calendar year 1931 to be reported In 19.32 will remain as they are at present. The treasury will provide for its needs by increased borrowing, which means in effect that it will be drawing on the huge sur pluses which were devoted to debt retirement during the years of pros perity. The policy to be pursued will ac cord with that favored by the board of directors of the Chamber of Com merce of the United States. This forecast does not mean that there will be no agitation for higher taxes. The radicals In congress will probably demand a scaling up of the tax rates affecting the wealthier classes. There will even be further suggestions from the administration looking toward a complete revision, of tar laws. Catholic Clergymen in Convention at Niagara Niagara Palis, N. Y.—Leading Ro man Catholic clergymen from all parts of the world gathered here for the seventh national convention of the Catholic students’ mission crusade, wljich opened at Niagara university. Mgr. Frank A. Thill of Cincinnati, national secretary-treasurer of the mis sion crusade, presided at the conven tion sessions. Mgr. E, J. McGulnness. vice presi dent and general secretary of the Catholic Church Extension society and executive secretary of the American Board of Catholic Missions, delivered the keynote address of the home mis sion section. The principal address of the foreign mission section was given by Mgr. William Quinn, national di rector of the Society for the Propaga tion of the Faith. Rides to His Death Over Niagara Falls Niagara Falls, N. T.—Believed by authorities to have been a smuggler of liquor or of aliens, an unidentified man perished over the Horseshoe falls when his disabled motor boat was caught In the swift current above the cataract. He disappeared as firemen arrived with ladders and ropes. Onlookers saw the man rise In his boat, wave his arms and disappear over the cataract, about 500 feet from shore. Police believed he was returning to Canada after landing whisky or aliens in the United States. Panama Canal Income Drops Balboa Heights, Canal A-’ine.—The Panama canal's seventeenth financial year ended June 30. The year’s net income from tolls, as well as other revenue, was about $2,500,000 less than last year, when it was $18,082,- 000. Wisconsin Heat Kills Lion Madison, Wis.—Nero, lion at a zoo here, once withstood the blazing sun of the tropics. The other day he died, Zoo attendants 'flame.the heat.
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