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ro-i?r. ■I'U THE BURNSVILLE EAGLE VOL. 43. BURNSVILLE, N. C., FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1935 NO. 8. - News Review of Current Events the World Over President Reveals Plans for Work Relief Program—Frank Walker His Chief Aid—Auto Workers Strike in Toledo. By EDWARD W. PICKARD ®. Western Newspaper Union. P LANS for spcDdlng the $4,880,000,- 000 work relief fund are being made rapidly, parts of the general scheme being revealed to the public almost every day. The Presi dent will be the final ; arbiter but practically i all the federal agen- j cles will participate I and three new ones I have been announced I 'by Mr. Roosevelt.These ! will handle rural re- I habilltation, rural elec- triflcatlon and grade crossing elimination. “ ““ S t a n d 1 n g. at the Frank Walker president's right hand (s Frank C. Walker, former treas urer of the Democratic party. He has replaced Donald Rlchberg as chairman of the National Emergency council and is the head of a new division In that body known as the division of applica tion and Information. Under his direc tion all proposals will be sorted out and data on them from various gov ernment units will be co-ordinated. Then they will be handed on, with Mr. Walker's recommendations, to a new works allotment board which Is headed by Secretary Harold Ickes. These two additions tO’ the alphabet groups In Washington are known as DAI and WAB. In a press conference the President named these eight types of work which will be undertaken, with the amount of money to be spent on each: 1. Highways, roads, streets, grade crossing elimination, and express high ways, $800.cf00,000. 2. Rural rehabilitation, relief in stricken agricultural areas, water con servation, water diversion. Irrigation, reclamation, rural Industrial communi ties, and subsistence homesteads, $500,- UOO.OOO. 3. Rural electrification, $100,000,000. 4. Housing, low cost housing In rural and unlvan Bre>\s. recrii)iU'«nlng. •hiI'I remodeling, $450,000,000. ^ 5. Assistance for educational, pro fessional, and clerical persons and other “white collar" unemployed, $300,- 000,000. 6. Citizen Conservation corps, $000.- 000,000. 7. Sanitation, soli erosion, stream pollution, reforestation, flood control, rivers and harbors, $350,000,000. 8. Loans, grants, or both, to cities, counties, states, and other political subdivisions for public works, $900,- 000,000. The rural rehabilitation work will be directed by Kexford G. Tugwell, un der-secretary of agriculture, and he will not be responsible to Secretary Wallace but will have a free hand to carry out his schemes for moving fam ilies from marginal lands, shifting stranded Industrial workers to new, planned rural communities and build ing cities outside of large urban cen ters to relieve slum congestion. Asked as to how much was ready to be spent the President recalled that $600,000,000 already had been put for ward for the CCC and that Public Works Administrator Harold L. Ickes had applications totaling more than $1,000,000,000. In conclusion, the Chief Executive said that there was a tendency to make loans instead of grants wherev^ possible, the loans to be long-term ones at low interest rates. Appointment of Mr. Walker leaves Mr. Rlchberg free, as the President said, to devote his time to the NRA during the period of pending legisla tion In congress and litigation in the Supreme court /'^RGANIZBD labor opened Its at- tempt to obtain recognition in the automobile industry with a strike of workers in the Toledo plant of the Chevrolet Motor company. The fac tory was closed down immediately, though only a part of the force joined in the strike. Union pickets were placed about it, but city police and deputy sheriffs were on hand to see that there was no disorder. President Sloan of General Motors .corporation Issued this statement in New York. “The vital question Involved Is whether General Motors corporation Is willing to sign an agreement for a closed shop recognizing the local union as the exclusive representative of all the employees of the Toledo plant. This General Motors will not do.” The union, in a lengthy statement, said Its committee "has done every thing In its power to meet with the management and to secure an amicable .and fair adjustment of the matter of wages, hours and union recognition and various other grievances. “The management refused to sign a contract of any kind and flatly refused every section of the proposed contract with the exception of two minor points,” The company offered to make wage readjustments and give a 5 per cent general wage increase, show no dis crimination against union men, and agreed to respect seniority rights as provided by the automobile labor board. Secretary Perkins sent Thomas J. Williams, Labor department concilia tor, to Toledo to see what might be done. President Green of the A. P. of ,L. said there was grave danger that — ] Speaker Byrns the Toledo strike might spread to other automotive plants. Leo C. Woilman, chairman of the National Automobile Labor board, re ported that that body had completed a canvass of 163,150 workers In -Amer ican automobile plants and found that 68.6 per cent of them showed no afliliation with’ any labor organization. The various employees’ associations grouped together ranked second with 21,774 members, equal to 13.3 per cent of the total. The American Federation of Labor was third with 14,057, or 8.6 per cent, while the Associated Automo bile Workers of America were fourth with 6,083, or 3.7 per cent. The re mainder of the vote was split between the Mechanics Educational society and ten other unions. W ITHOUT benefit of gag rule but with perfect party discipline, the administration’s social security bill was jammed through the house sub stantially as President Roosevelt wants The final vote was 372 to 33. It may be some weeks before it is passed by the senate, for the senate finance committee, to which it was referred. Is busy just now with NRA extension and veter ans’ bonus payment. Leading features of the measure as passed by the house are: Grants to states for old age assist ance (pensions) on a 50-50 basis, but for no Individual will the federal gov ernment’s share exceed $15 per month. Compulsory old age benefits for per sons over sixty-five on basis of salary earned during working lifetime, pay ments ranging from $15 to $85 a month. Income tax on pay roU-; of employees stErting wJ(ii 1949; excise tax on enjjg.yers in same amounts. This will mean a total pay roll tax of 6 per cent by 1949. Unemployment insurance. Tax on employer of 1 per cent on pay rolls in 1936, 2 per cent for 1937, and 3 per cent thereafter. Social security board as new bureau of government In the executive branch with three members appointed by the President. Federal grants to states for mater nal and child health service, an appro priation of $3,800,000. Federal grants to states for public health service, an appropriation of $8,000,000. Speaker Byrns and other majority leaders were elated by the immense majority by which the bill carried be cause, as they asserted. It was put through without any pressure from the White House. Mr. Byrns said: “We got no orders from the President, so help me Almighty God." ^BN. W. W. ATTBRBURY, veteran ofllcial of the Pennsylvania rail road, has retired as president of the company eight months before that would have been nec essary under Its regu lations, because of 111 health. The directors unanimously elected Martin W. Clement to cceed him. The new president of the great sj’stem was born 53 years ago in Sunbury, Pa., and entered the service of the road In 1901 as a rodman. His promotion was steady and nine years ago he became the vice president. General Atterbury had this to say of his successor: “Since he became vice president, Clement has been Intimately associated with me in conducting the company’s affairs and In our relations with the other railroads and with the govern ment. "The remarkable results achieved by the company last year, one of the most difficult periods the railroad has ever experienced, were largely due to Clement's leadership. His manifest capabilities have commended him not only to his associate directors and offi cers, but also to the executives of other railroads with whom he has been working in recent years in the interest of the railroad Industry as a whole. "Moreoi-er, he enjoys the confidence, respect and co-operation of the entire Pennsylvania railroad organization." Ti^oIlE than three thousand persons lost their lives in a series of ea-U.q«ake shocks that occurred In the most thickly populated section of For mosa, the island off the Chinese coast which Japan acquired In 1895. It was the worst disaster of the kind In the Orient since the Tokyo-Yokohama quake of 1923. The number of Injured was estimated at fully 12,000, and a q..arter of a million were rendered homeless. Property damage was placed at $28,000,000. Half a dozen sizable towns and many villages were com pletely destroyed, and tires and heavy rain added to th« dangers and distress of the afflirted poople. eight M. W. Clement F ather COUGHLIN, the “radla priest" of Detroit, staged the first state meeting of his Nattonhl Union for Social Justice In Olympia stadium la his home town, and more than 150,000 enthusiastic supporters crowded into the edifice to hear him tell how be pro posed to right the wrongs of the peo ple. On the platform with the cru sading cleric were Senators Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma and Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota, and Represent atives William Connery of Massachu setts, Martin L. Sweeney of Ohio, Thomas O'Malley of Wisconsin and William Lemke of North Dakota. The priest put forward the National union as a definite political weapon aimed at the money power and at standpat partyism. Father Coughlin has been endorsed by the bishop of Detroit, Rt. Rev. Michael Gallegher. “I pronounce Father Coughlin sound in doctrine, able in its application and interpretation,” the bishop said. “Free ly 1 give him my imprimatur on his written word and freely I give my ap proval on the spoken word. May both be circulated without objection through out the land. Under my jurisdiction he preaches the just codes of the old law and its commandments. Until a lawful superior rules otherwise, I stand steadfastly behind this priest, Father Coughlin, encouraging him to do the will of God as he sees It and I see it." GOVERNOR TALMADGE of Geor- gia, one of the most vociferous Democratic denouncers of President Roosevelt and the New Deal, has a strong supporter In Tom Linder, the Georgia commissioner of agriculture. In the department’s official farm bul letin, that gentleman sent to the farm ers of the state a message that “we still have the right to secede” from the Union. The statement was carried in a foot note to a long article written by Lin der in which he drew a comparison be tween the Democratic administration in Washington and the Russian gov ernment. The secession reference was in the nature of resentment against a recent ruling by the United States Supreme court reversing Alabama courts ki the Scottsboro case on the ground colored citizens were excluded from Juries. S ENATOR HUEY LONG delivered his much advertised attack on the President and the administration be fore a crowd that Jammed the chamber. He was lira- pr- Ited to 40 minutes, but I 4 •u Liiai, viiue lie "Oovu a lot of language. Aft er describing Ickes, Farley, Wallace and , General Johnson in terms not very funny, the “Klngflsh” assailed > Mr. Roosevelt as per sonally responsible for what he called a plan to force the state of Louisiana to yield to corruption and debauchery. He threat ened a tax rebellion In his realm If there were further federal encroach ments In the matter of controlling the expenditure of federal loans for state projects. Huey charged that the administra tion was concerned solely with con trolling the expenditures in Louisiana In such manner as to insure winning the election in 1936.' "They could go down there and spend the whole five billion and they could not win that election,” he said. Senator Long now Indicates that he has no desire to head a third party next year unless that should be necessary to bring about the defeat of President Roosevelt. He says he would gladly join with the Republicans If they would nominate Senator Borah. U .NDER a new law the German Nazis are suppressing the entire church press of the country. Catholic and Prot estant, and also all Jewish organs, either religious or racial. The edict, signed by Max Amann, president of the retch press chamber and manager of the Nazi party’s publishing organiza tion, is designed to monopolize the reich’s publication'* for Nazi ideas and make them legally subject to Nazi dic tatorship. The law provides that “church or professional newspapers as well as pa pers intended for groups of subscrib ers with certain interests, henceforth are forbidden.” The Nazi party and Its organizations are not subject to the new law. K ing GEORGB of England, It ap pears, had no desire for an elab orate and costly celebration of his sil ver jubilee, such as was planned by the cabinet committee, and now he and Prime Min Ister MacDonald have ordered that the affair shall be very "quiet.” Ilis majesty not consulted at first, and when he heard there were strong protests from the northern shires es pecially against such p wasteful e.xpendl- ture of money In hard times, he was exceedingly irate and wanted to call off the whole affair. This could not be done, but the cele bration will be Ufithing like what the cabinet committee bad intended. The king has forbidden garter king at .arms, the duke of Norfolk, and oth er high officers of state ol the cere monial department to have anything to do with the jubilee. He has refused to have the peers of the realm in their robes for the presentation of addresses from the houses of parliament. He has refused to robe himself for the oo- casion. Senator Long King George 200 AMERICAN FAMILIES WtU START LIFE ANEW IN ALASKA Federal Emergency Relief Commission to Supply Work Animals and Necessary Farm Tools for This Sensational Pioneering Adventure. By WILLIAM C. UTLEY P ROBABLY countless times since depression and drouth struck sub-marginal lands and poor farming country, farmers and their families, discouraged and in some cases destitute, have prayed for a chance to go away 'omewhere—any where—and start all over again, with nothing more perhaps than the strength of their hands and a tew fundamental pieces of equipment, but with a clean slate and an equal footing for all. In one of the most' spectacular ex periments the Brain Trust has yet de vised, the Federal Elmergency Relief commission Is trying to determine whether a literal answ ir to that prayer Is not, after all, the solution to the farmer’s plight In many an advanced case of economic colUipse. The FERA is taking 200 families from drouth-stricken uirms in nortlieni Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan, families who had jast about given up all hope of ever again "making a go” out of their farms, herding them and a few of their effects into a boat and shipping them aw.ay ' o a brand new stake and a new life -in Alaska. Here is a land wiiich Co most of them Is one so cold that Ice cream bars are named after it, so wild that most of the life consists of Eskimos, caribou and grizzled orospectors pan ning for gold. But ti!-y c.are not. Fo- them it is the land of new hope, and In it they are going to build a Utopia In the wilderness, where everybody starts from scratch and where, they are certain, reward will come in actual proportion to sweat and sincerity of efforL The exodus has. n. newspaper ac counts somewliut colored, been called the “exiling of families to bleak terri- ple new farm lands In the United States proper. This, officials declared, would be simply handing out alms, and one of the objects of the entire experi ment is to find out whether such fam ilies can be rescued without alms. The same officials admitted that the payment of the passage In Itself con stituted alms, but they claimed that the situation was modified considerably by an agreement that the money will be paid back when the new farm land produces more tlian a living for its people. If it ever does. Besides this. It is argued, the colonists will have a new mental outlook they could never attain were their new lioines estab lished in one of the states. The move ment will further serve a iisefui pur pose by helping to build up .4Iaska. Bound for Seward. On steel rails, over the Oregon trail famed In pioneering history, the ad venturers and their meager accoutre ments will go to Seattle, where they will board a steamer for Seward. -Alaska. Some of them are already on their way as you read this. Perli.aps a good share of these peo when the second half of the mlgratloa arrives. Alt of this land of new hope is en tirely overgrown with spruce, cotton wood and birch. This must all be cleared away, and with the help of the (XK) workers, the families hope to have a large share of the work done before the short Alaskan summer draws to a close. Log dwellings will be erected at first, from the gleanings of the timber clearing. According to the plan, the women folks will have to pitch right in, wi'jybe even swing an ax or two, and help the men with their work. FERA architects have designed a sort of hamlet for the center of the colony, and the CCC workers will begin upon this project soon after their ar rival. A modern schoolhouse, accom modating 480 children, will be erected first, for these people have no Intention of robbing their offspring of the cul tural and educational benefits of the civilization back home. The schoolhouse will serve in sev eral other capacities. It will be the center of all community life. It will have a community hail and a gymnasi um where meetings, dances and enter tainments of various kinds will be held. If the workers are able to maintain the schedule laid out for them, the coming of the next winter will also find a comfortable dormitory for the teachers In the school, and a home for the manager of the colony. Tliere will be a community industrial build ing which will Include a creamery and a greenhouse. Construction will be speeded on a barn for 40 teams of horses, a wareliouse, shops, garages, a community poultry farm and othnA essential community projects. torlal outposts," inferring a parallel to the exile of Russian peasants into Siberia. It Is not like that at all. No body has to go who doesn’t want to— and everybody In the party seems to be tickled to death of the chance. Selecting the Company. For the past few months FERA work ers have been going about quietly selecting members of the company. This has been an exacting task, for only the purest American farming stock will be allowed to settle in the Alaskan colony. They must also be healthy and well equipped physically to stand pioneer life and temperatures which sometimes fall to 40 degrees be low zero. Most of them are families that have been entirely dependent upon the government for their exist ence. Along with the 200 families, 400 sin gle men, CCC workers, are being sent to help in the hard work of starting the frontier Utopia. They will help la the clearing of government land and In the building which will be necessary. Each family is allowed to take but 2,000 pounds of belongings. Many an heirloom. Itself carried west in an earlier day by an earlier pioneer, Is being left behind, making way for equipment that will be of greater value in the new life. There Is not room for an unnecessary pound. Live stock and machinery are being disposed of, for at the end of their journey these fam ilies will get tools and equipment bet ter suited to Alaskan climate and ter rain. Not a few heartaches ma.y be imagined as some treasured possession, of great sentimental but no practical value, is kissed good-by. But then, moving day is always a house-clean ing for non-essentials. The average family making the trip has four members. Each family will have the benefit of a government draw ing account of $3,000, which must be paid back in 30 years with 3 per cent interest. To finance the project the government has set aside $500,000. Tn some quarters it has been suggested that half a million dollars might be more wisely spent In buying these peo ple will never again pass south of their point of entry into the Alaskan peninsula. At any rate, they will never again return to the farms they have left, for these, in accordance with the FERA plan of relocation of desti tute farm families In many sections of the United States, will be turned Into bird refuges, wild life preserves, forests and other adaptations, but will never again be farms. Up in this rugged country Arctic winds chill the climate but at the same time warm Pacific currents from .Tapan temper it. It Is not really as bad as imagined by those not familiar with Alaska. The winters are not really much more severe than those of many well-populated parts of Canada, and the summers are quite comparable to those of the Middle West, although the winters are longer and the summers shorter. From Seward the little band will pass onward through Anchorage, which Is the southern gateway to the rich Matanuska valley. They will travel by train to Palmer, a little village 150 miles north. It Is in the wild country near Palmer that their new plots of land will be staked out. Leader of the party is Don L, Irwin, son of a man who was among the lead ers in the Oklalioma land rush. Be Is superintendent of colonization In Alas ka. The organization itself is known as the Alaska Colonization corpora tion. Draw for Locations. Not untii it has reached Palmer will the party settle the question of loca tion of Individual farms. There a drawing will be held which will assure the dispensation of land with complete impartiality to all. Slips of paper, numbered, will be mixed up In a hat, just as at a raffle. The number on each slip of paper will correspond with the number of a plot of 40 acres of unsettled, wooded land. For temporary dwellings the Alaska Colonization corporation will have set up a tent on each plot. Each family, when it draws a number, will move into the tent designated b.v that num ber. The process will be repeated The permanent Iiouses of the fami illes will be equipped as are many modern farm houses in the states, with running water, wood-burning stoves, chemical toilets and other conven iences. About the only thing that will be lacking Is electric light. Kerosene or oil lamps will be used. Just as tbeir cousins who attend the consoli dated schools In the states, the chil dren will be taken to their lessons each day by motor bus. Each family will keep one mllch- Longhorn cow, supplied by the govern- menL which, in fact, will supply all work animals and tools. Even here, however, the farmer-citizens will not be free from close government super vision over their industry, for the gov ernment reserves the right to regulate strictly the crop production of each farmer. Reason for this regulation Is said to be that the colony is being formed to supply stores In the Matanuska valley with $1,000,000 worth of goods an nually. The valley now imports this amount of goods every year from the United States and Canada. The land in the Matanuska valley is fertile, and is especially good for dairy and truck farming. Although the sum mers are shorter the days are really much longer than they are In the states and give about twice as much sunlight The land is rich in natural and mineral resources. The rivers and streams abound In fish and there Is plenty of game in the wilds. Alaska could support a population much larger than the 60,000 it now does, and It is quite possible that this colony may he the start of a progres sive growth. It Is at least the largest attempt the federal government has yet made to colonize the northern possession. Alaska needs more people to make use of Its vast agricultural and min eral wealth. It is the only part of the United States where unemploy ment does not exist, although It is not hard to get a job in -Hawaii, either. It Is one of the very few parts of the world which Invites immigration. ® W«etern Newapafier Union, SILENCE CURE FOR LONG IS ADOPTED Democratic Leaders Decide Not to Answer Huey. Washington.—Democratic leaders In the senate decided to apply the “silent treatment" to Senator Huey Long (Dem., La.), who cut loose with a new assault in which he flung such words as “chinch bug” and "Ignoramus” at New Deal chiefs. After experiencing some dtffcuit.v and mental strain In remaining in their seats while Long voiced his threat to take Louisiana out of the tax-paying Union, the leaders were said to have reached the conclusion that better re sults would De obtained by silence than by returning shot for shot. Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the Democratic leader, was all set to re ply to Long at one point. But he con sulted associates first and changed his mind. Vice President Garnet advised against a reply on the ground that Long could he handled better if let alone. Whether this agrees with the future strategy of Secretary Ickes, public works administrator, and Harry L. Hopkins, relief chief. It was said au thoritatively to be the policy of senate leaders—at least for the present. There was no sign that ickes and Hopkins were changing their stand on the subject of federal funds for Louisiana. The relief administration has put a man of its own choosing in charge of relief money in the delta state, and Ickes threatens to withhold PWA funds if Long's state government insists on controlling the expenditures. Declaring states’ rights were being violated. Long shouted: “It is a new kind of a Boston tea party that has been decreed by the President of the United States, in whicn he says to Louisiana: 'Yield in this Instance to the corruption and de bauchery from which you have freed yourself; yield,’ says he, ‘to this squan dering set that afflicted Louisiana wlfii a curse worse than Che yellow fever, worse than a flood; yield,’ says he, ‘to this rampant state of debauchery, to utter degradation. The states must not only be taxed without their con sent, but the states must allow the money to be spent only by surrender ing their sovereign rights,’ Boston tea party which Mr. P vcif is creating,” Long argued, that party can work two ways. Don’ forgot yourselves; when you strip the states of their sovereignty . . . they will strip themselves of the sov ereignty in another way. "You have got to go into these states to collect .vour taxes the same as you have to go there to spend it.” A special coniniitree of the senate was named to determine how to deal with personal attacks in the senate on the President and caltinet members. WASHINGTON BRIEFS President Roosevelt nominated for mer Senator I’liiliips Lee Goldsborough, (Rep,, Md.) to be a member of the board of directors of the Federal De posit Insurance corporation. Tile house military committee decid ed to give the War department until May 1 to report on its investigation of charges of “gross misconduct and In efficiency” made against Maj. Gen. Ben jamin D. Foulois, chief of the army air corps. Representatives Rayburn of Texas and Sandlin of Louisiana, urged Presi dent Roosevelt to allocate $40,000,900 of work-relief funds for a navigation and flood control project on the Red river in Texas. President Roosevelt’s executive or der 6767 of June 29, 19,34, permitting bidders on public contracts to quote prices not more than 15 per cent be low those allowable for private pur chasers under the order has been “ignored or disregarded," according to a report of the NRA research and plan ning division. President Roosevelt initiated his first detailed program under the $4,880,000,- 000 work-relief fund with the planned distribution of an expanded CCO forca of 600,0(X) men in such a way as to give new emphasis to a fight against dust storms and soil erosion. T'wo Greek Generals Shot Dead at Dawn Athens.—Two generals convicted by court-martial of participation in the Venlzellst revolt were executed by a firing squad at dawn. The pair were General Papoulas, for mer commander of the Greek forces in Asia Minor, who emerged from retire ment to engage in the short-lived rebel lion, and Brigadier General Kimisis. Dog Saves Boy as Little Master Drowns Hamden, Conn.—A ten-year-oJ4 hoy was saved from the waters of Turner’s pond here by an iiiredale dog but the animal’s master, Robert Weiss, seven, was drowned when the crude boat In which the two boys were floating cap sized. The dog was left on shore when the two boys iiut out in the boat. The an imal plunged into the water when the craft overturned about 20 feet from shore.