THE BURNSVILLE EAGLE
BURNSVILLE, N. C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1931.
News Review of Current
Events the World Over
Mrs. Hoover Christens the Navy’s Big Dirigible Akron—
President Forms Relief Plans
for Next Winter,
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
fES. HERBERT
Ho
jour
neyed from Washing
ton to Akron, Ohio,
and there graciously
christened the world’s
' ; iargest dirigible, the
Akron, which has been
k /•* built for the United
: States navy. As the
; First Lady pronounced
^ the name of the huge
airship, the tradition
al ceremony of releas
ing a flight of white pigeons was ob
served. Before the christening the
monster was brought to life by the in
flation of twelve of Its cells with heli
um gas, enough to raise it about ten
feet from Its cradle. It was then
“Walked” sideways forty feet and
secured as in actual operation by sand
ballast, so It was really afloat when
Mrs. Hoover set free tlie homing pig
eons to carry messages of the event
to the various navy stations.
The trials of the Akron will take
■place in the latter part of August or
early In September, under supervision
of a board of Inspection and survey.
They will consist of five or sis flights
of variovis duration, including one of
forty-eight hours, to determine speeds,
fuel consumption, endurance, structur
al Integrity of parts and other details
of performance and handling.
If the trials prove satisfactory the
Navy department will accept the Ak
ron and have it flown to Lakehurst
for commissioning and docking.
M ore trouble for the federal farm
board developed during the week
in the form of “civil war.” It is now
under fire from within its own ranks
as the result of the fight between the
farmers’ National Grain corporation
and the Farmers’ Union iferroinal as
sociation of SL Paul, on the one hand,
and the Northwest Grain association
on the other,
Like others the Northwest Grain as-
' sociatlon protests that ■ the govern
ment’s helping hand Is not being
stretched out to all ailke. Ten other
co-operatives and farm organizations
have supported a resolution to that
effect.
The side the board has taken is that
of the manageinent of the Farmers’
National. Chairman James C. Stone
reiterated that tlie board would not
finance competition among the north
west co-operatives, which was tanta
mount to saying that the Northwest
Grain association must come into line
or it will not have its loan renewed.
The Farmers’ Union Terminal asso
ciation contains many of the old Non
partisan league crowd. Among its ac
tive supporters has been Senator Ger
ald P. Nye, Insurgent Republican of
North Dakota.
While tlie'row goes back to funda
mental differences between the two
groups, the more Immediate cause of
the crisis lies in the recent policy of
the Farmers’ National to take over
the marketing activities of the twen
ty-five co-opernllves composing Its list
of stockholder members.
The Farmers' Union Terminal asso
ciation was the first co-operative In
the Farmers’ National and it now owns
30 per cent of the Farmers' National
stock outstanding. Acceding In the
program of the central organization,
it sold out its marketing facilities to
the Farmers’ National. The North
west Grain association, however, re
fused to ,sell. Briefly, it gave as its
reason that with the power exercised
by the Farmers’ Union Terminal as
sociation in the National and the close
ties existing between the terminal as
sociation and the National manage
ment, it soon would be forced entirely
out of the picture.
PRESIDENT HOO-
in
long
Sec’y Doak.
conference at his Vir
ginia week-end camp
with Secretary of La-
bor Doak. virtually
completed his plans s;
for the organization »
of government and .
charitable agencies to
care for the unem
ployed and others in
distress during the
coming winter. Mr.
Hoover Is unchanged in his opposition
to anything like a dole, or direct gov
ernment assistance, and will continue
to rely on organized charity. He is
willing, however, that the army should
be used as a distributing agency, as
it is in the times of flood disasters,
and to communities where distress is
acute there will be loans of army
blankets and supplies. The Red Cross
will be, as heretofore, the backbone of
the relief organization.
Mr. Doak presented t- the President
a report from the recent survey of
conditions throughout the country.
Neither of them would make public
the estimate of the number of people
who would be out of work during the
coming winter, but both admitted thar
It would be little different from last
year.
However, ft was learned that the
President, as head of the Red Cross, has
directed the Red Cross to start a new
drive to raise funds and that the ma
chinery has already been set in mo-
A. H. Wiggin.
tion. He also h.is l.ssued the neces
sary instructions to the army to have
concentrated at the various bases,
most of which are located near the
big industrial centers, all of the sur
plus property available should they be
called upon to use it.
B y AN almost unanimous vote in a
provincial plebiscite Catalonia
gave its enthusiastic approval to a
constitution which defines the liber
ties of the people and fixes the status
of the province as antonomous within
the Spanish republic. If this is not
granted by the new government of
Spain, the Catalonians seem willing
to fight for it under the leadership of
that elderly patriot, Col. Francisco
Macia. The apparent danger of Cuta-
ionia lies In the fact that Macia and
his followers have given commitments
to the syndicalists who form the huge
labor organization and who are al
ready threatening a general strike if
ihei.' demands, including higher wages
for family men, are not granted. Macia
promised his friends he would be able
to get out of this difficulty when the
time was ripe.
F urther relief
was given Ger
many, in accordance
with the decisions of
... ■ the London confer-
^tce, when the board
* of governors of the
B Bank for International
Settlements at Basel,
: Switzerland, ordered
the extension of its
^ ■PiB one-fourth share of
the $100,000,000 loan
to Germany for a
ma.ximum of three months beyond Au
gust 5, the date it fell due. It was
assumed this action would be Imitated
hy the other participants in the loan,
the American Federal Reserve bank,
the Bank of England and the Bank
of France. '
The governors Set yaturday, August
8, as the date for the committee of
Inquiry Into German credit needs to
begin its work. The meeting was de
layed until then to await the arrival
of Albert Henry Wiggin, the American
member. It was believed that Mr.
Wiggin. who is chairinao of the board
of the Chase National bank of New
York, would be selected as chairman
of the committee. There are ten mem
bers in all, and their principal task
will be to study the possibilities of
converting a portion of Germany’s
short-term credits into long-term cred
its. There were indications that the
French would try to convert the com
mittee into an inquisitorial body.
New York bankers delegated to
study the same question of German
short-term credits were busy through
out the week with the technical details
of the problem, but the prospects of
reaching an agreement were said to be
small.
Through Ambassador Sackett the
suggestion was made to Berlin that
Germany purchase large amounts of
wheat and cotton now held by the fed
eral farm board, and It was promised
that long-term credits would be ar
ranged. The administration in Wash
ington thought this would both aid
Germany and relieve the farm board,
and the idea was well received in Ber
lin. Germany is especially eager to
get American cotton and for this rea
son might also take the wheat, al
though unofficial reports said she had
already contracted with Rumania for
wheat. She needs, in addition to her
own production about 23,000,000 bush
els of the grain.
Wlien it seemed such a deal might
be put through, objections to the sale
of the farm board’s cotton to Germany
came from the southern producers.
Senator William J. Harris of Georgia
said he had received a protest to the
effect that such a sale would tend to
depress the world price of cotton and
Chat the policy of the farm board
should be to hold its cotton and en
courage purchases direct from the pro
ducers. There were Indications, too,
that some foreign countries would op
pose the wheat and cotton proposal on
the ground that it would be tanta
mount to dumping and would put Ger
many in an advantageous position over
competitors.
T here w
versal grief and
anxiety wlien it was
reported that Thomas ;
A. Edison had coi- -x
lapsed at his home in .,'4
Llewellen I'nrk, West
Orange, N. J., and was
at the point of death.
Members of the aged ..™
inventor's family were
summoned in haste
and his personal phy
sician, Dr.
Howe, sped to his bedside by air
plane. Mr. Edison was Indeed in a
precarious state, but three doctors,
after thorough exaniination, said he
was not in Immediate danger of
death. He is eighty-Sve years old and
Is suffering from diabetes, bright’s dis
ease and stomach ulcers, as well as
uremic poisoning, but he declared he
was too busy to die now and that he
would soon be able to resume his
Gov. Roosevelt.
T. A. Edison.
work. His determination apparently
conquered and and within a few days
Doctor Howe acknowledged that the
“Wizard” had a good chance of being
able to return to his laboratories.
Mr. Edison soon was recovered suffi
ciently to sit in his library and read
the newspapers, and he wanted to
smoke, but this was forbidden. He
was sleeping well, and his son Charles
said his father was “In good spirits
and feeling very chipper.” His health
had been falling since his return from
Florida seven weeks ago and the col
lapse was no surprise to the phy
sicians or his family.
C HARLES BOYD CURTIS of New
York, minister to the Doroinicau
Republic, has been appointed by Pres
ident Hoover to be minister to El Sal
vador. His place in Dominica Is filled
by the appointment of H. F. A. Schoen-
feld of Rhode Island as minister there.
T WO more reports from the Wlck-
ersham commission were made
public. One deals with the federal
courts, those of Connecticut having
been studies in especial detail, and the
conclusion is reached that prohibition
cases dominate “the whole character
of the federal criminal proceedings.”
Prohibition cases in the Connecticut
district Increased from 69 per cent of
the total number of cases in the first
year of the study, the commission re
ported, to SI per cent in the study’s
tht'-d year which ended June 30, 1930.
The total increase in cases had been
furnished by prohibition cases, it was
explained; other types remained sta
tionary.
The other report deals with the po
lice of the country, and it is asserted
that they have forfeited the public
confidence because of their “general
failure” to perform their duty. This
is blamed mainly on political power,
pull and protection, the short tenure
of office of the average police chief
and the burdening of the police with
a multiplicity of duties. Milwaukee
was landed as a city with an enviable
record for the prevention and prompt
detection of crime, and the reason was
found In the fact that It has had only
two chiefs of police in 46 years.
N ew YORK Is in
the throes of
epidemic of infantile
paralysis, the total
number of cases re
ported since July 1
being well over eight
X~ ^3 hundred. The death
||BL ^ I rate is about 12 per
I cent. The other day
I Gov. Frankli "
Roosevelt gave
pint of blood to aid
in the fight against
the disease. It went to the state health
department for use as a serum. The
governor was attacked by the disease
some ten years ago, but has practical
ly recovered, and doctors consider his
I case remarkable. Since blood from a
victim who has recovered is consid
ered the best serum for treating oth
ers, the governor's action will prove of
tangible help to the state authorities.
Dr, lago GaldstOD, secretary of the
medical information bureau of the
Academy of Medicine, announced that
more than 100 former paralysis suf
ferers had donated from 250 to 300
cubic centimeters each, of their blood
at the Cornell medical school.
Mayor James J. Walker of Ni
York city, threatened with a physical
breakdown, sailed for Germany to take
the water cure at Carlsbad. His blood
pressure is low and his heart is weak.
OVERNOR MURRAY of Okla-
homn, having been somewhat
worsted In the “war of the bridges''
he waged with Texas, found use for
his National Guard In the oil contro
versy. He made good his threat to
close down all the oil wells In the
state except the small strippers if the
price of crude oil were not put at $1
a barrel. A proclamation to that ef
fect was Issued and martial taw
declared within fifty feet of each of
the 3,106 wells within the proration
area. National Guardsmen with fixed
bayonets were placed in control of 'che
twenty-seven oil fields designated.
In his order the governor defended
his actions on the grounds that he
is protecting the natural resources of
the state. A considerable portion of
the proclamatioD was given to an at
tack on the Harry Sinclair Interests.
?,'he governor charged that Sinclair at
tempted to bribe forty members of the
legislature and to Impeach the gov
ernor; that Sinclair maintained a
large oil lobby during the last session
of the legislature and that the Sin
clair company has continually attempt
ed to break down proration of produc
tion.
I T WAS an eventful week in aviation.
Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh flew up
beyond the Arctic circle with success
and precision and rested at Aklavik
before proceeding to Point Barrow.
Parker Cramer was found to be mak
ing an unannounced flight to Norway
by the northern route, the news break
ing when he landed at Angmagsallk,
Greenland. He was attempting to biaze
an air mall route to Copenhagen foi
the Trans-American Airlines. Hern
don and Pangborn reached Tokio on
their world circling flight, and planned
to try for a nonstop trip from there
Seattle. Just before their arrival in
the Japanese capital Amy Johnson, the
English aviatrLx, also landed there.
N otable among the deaths of the
week was that of D. R. .Anthony,
who for years represented the First
Missouri district in congress. lie was
a very active and Influential member
of the lower house. Mr. Anthony was
a nephew of Susan B. Anthony, the
noted suffragist.
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WHEAT AND COTTON
WANTED BY BERLIN
MRS. HERBERT HOOVER
Fa/m Board , Negotiating,
Producers Protest.
Washington.—Germany will pur
chase large amounts of American cot
ton and wheat if credit can be ar
ranged, according to Information given
out in responsible quarters here.
Since the announcement that this
government was ready to sell farm
board wheat and cotton to Germany
on long-term credits, it has been gen-
•ally understood that there was little
prospect of selling wheat, but that
sales of cotton could probably be ar
ranged. High officials have asserted
there was likelihood of selling wheat
also. The amount of wheat needed by
Germany, in addition to her own pro
duction, Is estimated at 25.000,000
bushels.
Neither the State department nor
the farm hoard made any prediction
as to sales to Germany, At the State
department. It was indicated' the mat-
was one to bo^*^it with between
Germany and the flrm board.
Unofficial reporfl were that Ger
many has contracifed with Rumania
wheat, but in^other quarters it
was declared GerinBny was anxious to
get American cotton and for this rea
son would stretch a point in the pur
chase of American wheat
Meantime, opposliion to the idea of
selling farm board cotton to Germany
came from southern cotton producers.
Senator William J. Harris. (Dem.)
Georgia, backed up by Senator Ellison
D. Smith (Dem.), South Carolina, ob
jected to the proposition and carried
his objection to the President.
Senator Harris said Germany, or
German buyers of cotton, had begun
cancelation of orders for this year’s
crop and he cited a telegram which
he received from the Oeorgia-Alabama
Cotton company of Albany, Ga„ say
ing an order from Germany for 3,000
bales had just been canceled.
“The announcement of the plan to
sell farm board cotton in Germany
on long-term credits hns destroyed the
market for this year's cotton crop in
that country,” said Senator Harris.
“Of course the German manufac
turers will not buy cotton from the
producers if they can buy it at better
terms from the farm board. The farm
board should keep Hs cotton off the
market and tlieiV iivernment
should arriy*ge/j£]Ji|\''i ^>iluccrs in
aiiovYTiig S11 I'llys 'iciiijr-tHrin
credit. That wo^N JB nelpfu! to the
cotton producers.
“The situation '*'4 cih.stai'tially the
same as to wheat! 'The farm hoard
should keep its supplies of both these
commodities off the market.”
The farm board’s response to the
protests was a promise not to make
s.ales that would depress tlie market
for producers of cirts year’s crop of
cotton.
Green Warns of Peril
of Labor Rebellion
New Bedford, .'Uass.—President Wil
liam Green of the American Federation
of Labor, warned of “a rebellion of
the army of unemployed which will
upset our present political system un
less industry and government co-oper
ate with labor” in the current indus
trial depression. Green spoke before
the forty-sixth annual convention of
the Massachusetts Federation of La
bor.
The federation adopted a resolution
asking congress to modify the Volstead
act to permit the sale of light wines
and beer.
Hunter’s Shot Glances
Off Ground and Kills Son
Sparta, N. J.—Samuel Goble, went
home happy after he had killed a
woodchuck, unaware that one of his
shots had richocheted and killed his
son,
Harold Coble, elglit, and his lirotlier,
Aaron, five, had been trundling a
wheelbarrow along a road at the side
of the woods.
“Something flew up out of the
ground and hit Harold.” the younger
brother told ids father later. “I put
him in the wheelbarrow and took him
home.”
Buys Entire Town to
Give His Children Jobs
Wichita, Kan.—George Washington
Winters, Wichita realtor, has solved
the problem of supplying summer jobs
for his children by buying a tow-n.
Mr. Winters purchased Waco-Wego.
a small town twelve miles south of
Wichita—that is to say, he purchased
the garage, filling station, grocery
store, soda fountain, lunch room, oil
station, and a home, which constitute
visible Waco-Wego.
Then he moved his family there so
his three boys and one daughter now
have a variety of jobs at their dis
posal. The town is on a main high
way between Wichita and Wellington.
Walter P. Cooke Is Dead
Buffalo, N. Y.—Walter I’latt Cooke,
who had served as president of the
arbitral tribunal of interpretation of
the Dawes plan and on the reparations
commission in Europe, died at the age
of sixty-two.
Brazil Refuses Daylight Time
Rio de Janeiro.—The Brazilian na
tional observatory refused the propo
sition to advance the time one hour to
conform with daylight saving time
elsewhere.
CO-OPS ASSAIL GRAIN
POOL AS MONOPOLY
Mrs, Herbert Hoover, wife of the
President, christened the navy’s new
giant dirigible Akron at Akrou, Ohio,
where it was built.
OKLAHOMA OIL WELLS
CLOSED BY GOVERNOR
Murray Insists Price Must 1
One Dollar a Barrel.
Tulsa, Okla.—Making good his chal
lenge to major crude oil purchasing
companies in Oklahoma that he would
close down the oil wells of the state
if a $1 a barrel price was not posted
for crude oil. Gov. W. H. Murray de
clared martial law within 50 feet of
.3,106 oil wells in the area now under
prorating.
The governor placed armed guards
men with fixed bayonets in control of
the twenty-seven oil fields designated.
The order became effective when
guardsmen entered the Oklahoma city
field and closed down the wells of the
Champlin Refining company. In rapid
succession the wells of the Sinclair
Oil and Gas company, H. F, Wilcox Oil
and Gas company, and Oil.s, Inc., fol
lowed.
The executive order charges that
Harry F. Sinclair, chairman of tlie
hoard of Sinclair Consolidated Oil
i'orpnratij'n. il'-bl -I.soci-Pt mpotjris in
Tulsa last March “to consider the pos
sibility of impeaching the governor
who had blocked the company’s efforts
to repeal the prorating laws.”
Adjt. Gen. Cliarles F. Barrett was
ordered to place guardsmen in control
of the twenty-seven fields and hold
them against all authority and to main
tain military control “against all or
ders whatsoever except an order of the
President of the United States or t
Supreme court of the United States.
Only stripper wells, as classified fay
the Oklahoma corporation commission,
are exempt from tlie order.
Heiress Blocks Eviction
of Families of Miners
Charleston, W. Y.—Mrs. Ethel Clyde.
New York heiress, saved from eviction
the families of 59 striking coal miners
hy posting bonds totaling 88,850
guarantee rent payments for a y
The homes from which the miners
and their families were moving theii
furniture were company owned. Mrs.
Clyde, who was touring here, said
“I’m interested in fair play. Un
fortunately, the resident.s of West Vir
ginia seem to take far less interest in
these poor miners than I. a stran
I don’t represent any charitable or
philanthropic group.”
Col. and Mrs. E. M. House
Observe Golden Wedding
Manchester, Mass.—Col. and Mrs.
Edward M. House observed' their fif
tieth wedding anniversary quietly with
family and friends, but the world re
membered them.
. To Overiedge cottage, the simple
New England seashore home where
Colonel and Mrs, House have spent
the last 35 summers, came messages of
congratulations from President and
Mrs, Hoover, the king and queen of
England, the king and queen of Bel
gium, the prince of Wales, and states
men of many countries.
Farm Bureau Will Bid
to Rent Muscle Shoals
Florence, Ala.—S. F, Hobbs of Sel
ma, Ala., new chairman of the Muscle
Shoals commission, announced the
commission will receive proposals for
leasing and operating the Muscle
Shoals project “in the Interest of fer
tilizer production and agriculture” at
Washington September 1.
Edward A. O'Neal announced short
ly afterward that the American Far
Bureau federation, of which he
president, will submit a bid to lease
the project.
D. R. Anthony Passes
Leavenworth, Kan.—Daniel Read
Anthony, representative in congress
from the First Kansas district from
1907 to 1029, died at Hilltop Camp,
near Leavenworth. lie would have
beeu sixty-one on August 22.
Nine Farm Organizations
Protest to Hoover.
■Washington.—A farm revolt of se
rious proiwrtions was threatened with
nine strong western co-operatives ap
pealing to President Hoover to inter-
5 to stop the federal farm board
from putting Into effect its plan to cen
tralize marketing control in the Farm
s’ National Grain corporation.
These nine co-operatives, formerly
strong supporters of the federal board,
protested bitterly that they were about
to be eliminated from competition so
that the board’s grain subsidy, the
Farmers’ National, might assume un
disputed control. The plan, it is
charged, has the earmarks of a grain
monopoly.
The nine co-operatives which are
fighting for their lives and plainly in
timate that they are prepared to carry
the battle into the 1932 campaign if
they are squeezed out are: The Farm
Bureau of Minnesota; Twin City Milk
Producers, Land o’ Lakes. Central Live
Stock Co-operative, South Dakota
Farm Bureau, Minnesota Wool Produc
ers, South Dakota Wool Pool. North
west Grain association of Minneapolis,
and the American Wheat Growers ol
Aberdeen.
Supporting the belligerent co-oper
atives are two powerful farm Journals,
The Farmer, of St. Paul, edited by
Dan Wallence, and the Dakota Farm
er of Aberdeen, South Dakota, edited
by John Dinwoodie. Both papers here
tofore bad been warm supporters of
the farm board.
The Farmers’ National Grain cor
poration Is the national marketing set
up. When number of co-operatives in
the Northwest got Into financial diffi
culties last fall. Farmers’ National
took over their elevator facilities and
established its own marketing agency
in each section. It decided to estab
lish a central marketing organization
Instead of depending upon its affllated
co-operatives to bring in the farmers’
grain.
C. E, Huff, president of the corpora
tion, explained that this woxild bring
the central body direct to the farmer
and make for more efficient and cheap
er marketing The co-operative re
mained In the field only to recruit
more and more member farmers, thus
assuring tlieir grain rearliing the cen
tral marketing orgalflzation. Carry
ing this plan more f iily into execution,
Mr. Huff went to SL Paul and pur
chased all of the marketing facilities
of the Farmers’ Union Terminal asso
ciation, of which M. W. Thatcher was
general manager. M.'Thatclier also is a
member of the board of directors of
the Farmers’ National.
Immediately it was charged that the
purpose was to eliminate all other co
operatives, regardless of whether they
held stock in the Farmers’ National
Grain corporation.
Hoover Completes Plans
for Winter Relief Work
Washington.—President Hoover has
virtually completed the organization
of government and charitable agen
cies to care for unemployed and other
distress sufferers during the winter.
The Red Cross and the army will
form the backbone of the organiza
tion. Both will seek the co-operation
of local agencies and where possible
the army will furnish tents ond dis
tribute supplies.
The PreMdent is still determined
to prevent o'rect government assist
ance. or a dole, and will rely upon
organized charity. He will, however,
consent to use the army as a distrib
uting agency, as has been the policy
In flood disasters and will loan the
necessary tentage, blankets and sup
plies to the various communities where
distress is acute.
Federal Job Service
Gives Work to 638,689
Washington,—Progress in employ
ment, with 638,689 persons placed in
jobs since last April I, according to
tl.e reorganized federal employment
service, was reported by President
Hoover.
The President also called attention
to the expanded public building pro
gram now under way, fifty-seven of
the 758 federal building projects hav
ing been completed, at a cost of 825,-
326,876 as shown by Treasury depart
ment reports.
Business Man Admits
Heading Robber Gang
Grand Rapids, Mich.—A career of
crime that included five holdups, four
of them hijacking jobs, and several
warehouse burglaries, was uncovered
by police when John Gogo, forty-eight,
former local business man and Wex
ford county dairy farmer, confessed.
Gogo in his confession admitted he
headed a gang.
Moses Wants Fourth Term
Concord, N. H.—Senator George H,
Moses announced he would seek a
fourth term. He made it plain thal
the Vice Presidency had no attractions
for him.
Brutal Mother Jailed
Rayraondville, Texas.—Mrs. C. C. Mc
Donald was convicted of brutally whip
ping her six-year-old daughter, Liicile.
She was sentenced to serve two years
in jail and to pay a fine of $1,000.
• Kidnapers Beat Rich Man
St. Louis.—Oscai Johnson II, twen-.
ty-six, son of the late Oscar Johnson,
one of the founders of the Interna
tional Shoe company, was robbed and
severely beaten by two men who at-
'.empted to kidnap him,
TWO SOCIETY GIRLS
TAKEN ON RUM SHIP
Trip on Yacht Is Ended by;
Coast Guard. •
Cape May, N. J.—Two women of
New York society families, on the
word of Commander William Shea,
spent four days at sea as adventurous
as though Captain Kidd were on the
bridge.
Their story is the capture of the
yacht Allegro, a 125-foot steam-driven
craft that Donald MacMillan once
sailed in the Arctic. Two thousand
cases of supposed liquor were seized
on the yacht.
At the coast guard base here, their
identities shielded by the government,
the young women told their story. One
Is twenty-three, the other twenty-five.
Their story Is this:
“We were Invited on a cruise to At
lantic City. We boarded tke yacht Al
legro in New York. We cruised along
the Jersey coast, then headed out to
sea. It was au amiable cruise, un
til ,we got far out. to where we later
learned the new Bum Row was located
60 miles off the Jersey coast.
“There we came upon a big ship.
Case after ease was lowered to the
yacht and taken below. Our company
was not so amiable now; everything
was business. The men on the yacht,
dressed as gentlemen yachtsmen, were
gruff.
“When the yacht was lowered, It
was headed for shore, full speed.
When we got close to shore a coast
guard boat (Patrol boat No. 103)
started after us, The captain turned,
the yacht again to sea, and there was
a race for three hours, with the patrol
boat shooting at our ship. We were
down In the cabin but we heard the.
shots.”
Commander Shea, commanding the
Cape May base, said the shots were
all blank.
When Boatswain’s Mate, Becker,
commanding the patrol boat, came
aboard, he elected to tow the Allegro
here. Twelve men of her crew and
the two women were taken ashore.
The skipper was Capt. William Shea.
The owner said he was Charles Ab
bott.
Before the Allegro was brought here,
the girls dived overboard. Coast
guardsmen fished them from the water.
Explaining their leap, the girls said;
“We were frantii’ IVhnt
folks say? it was a chSi\?e, tha...
all.”
Mrs. Cooper Is Candidate
for Seat in Congress
Racine, Wis.—Mrs. Henry Allen
Cooper, widow of the former congress
man from the First Wi.sconsin district,,
announced her candidacy to fill his
unexpired term. She was closely iti
the confidence of her husband for
many of his years in office.and her
familiarity with Wi.sconsin affairs and
her acquaintance with the people of
the district will give her candidacy
strength, her supporters say.
The First district comprises Kenosha,
Racine, Walworth, and Rock counties.^
Kiss While Driving Costs
California Autoist $11,846
Sacramento, Calif.—The Appellate,
court ruled J. A. Fitzgerald must pay
Slj.846 damages because he kissed ai
woman while driving an automobile,'
causing the car to overturn. Damages
were, awarded to Mrs. Julia William
son, who was Injured iu the crash,'
which resulted In the death of Gusi
Klein.
Mexico has Issued a drastic decree,
which would exclude American la
borers from that country, the State
department announced. '
President Hoover sent a telegram
of thanks to Gazi Mustafa Kemal,
president of Turkey, for the courte
sies shown the American flyers, Board-,
man and Polando.
The United States census bureau
announced that the rate of Increase
in negr^ population was 13.6 per cent
In the last decade, against 6.5 per cent
in the preceding ten years.
The timber conservation board, ap
pointed by President Hoover to rec
ommend means of aiding the lumber
industry has reported the need of re
striction of output and easier mort
gage terms.
Automobiles in the United States In
1930 were taxed to the extent of more*
than SI .000,000,000, or 18.3 per cent
of their total value, according to aa
announcement by the American Auto
mobile association.
President Hoover congratulated
King Haakon of Norway on his fifty-
ninth birthday. "The American peo
ple join with me,” the President said,
“in extending cordial felicitations oa
this your majesty’s birthday.” ,
St. LewU Take* U. S. Post
Washington.—Roy St. Lewis of
Oklahoma City took the oath as as
sistant attorney general In charge of
admiralty, alien property and war
claims.
J
Morrow Boom Launched
Sacramento, .C^lif.—A Presidential
boom for United States Senator
Dwight Morrow of New Jersey was
launched here with filing of incorpora
tion papers of the Dwight W. Morrow
(or President Club, Ltd.