5
Lindbergh Baby Kidnaping
i
Brought Near Solution by
By EDWARD
W. PICKARD
ITH the arrest of Bruno Richard
Hauptmann in New York city, the
government agents and state police ap-
peared to be well on the way toward
solving the Lindbergh baby kidnaping
and murder mystery. The prisoner, a
German allen thirty-five years old, was
nabbed after he had given to a filling
station man a $10 gold certificate that
was found to be part of the ransom
paid the kidnapers by Dr. John F. Con-
don—*“Jafsle"-——over a cemetery wall
in a vain attempt to get the baby re
turned. In Hauptmann's garage in the
Bronx the police found $13,750 which
also was identified as part of the $50.
000 Jafsie had paid. Then circum-
stantial evidence rapidly was gathered
to prove Hauptmann was one of the
guilty men, and he was partially identi-
filed by Doctor Condon, as well as by a
taxi ead driver who said the prisoner
was the man who gave him $1 eleven
days afler the kidnaping to carry a
note to Jafsie.
Officials of the department of jus-
tice announced that Hauptmann's hand-
writing tallied with that of ransom
notes sent by the kidnapers.
Police Commissioner John F. O'Ryan,
who made the official announcement
of the developments jointly for New
York an@ New Jersey authorities as
well as for the federal Department of
Justice, declared that Hauptmann ad-
mitted under severe questioning that
be had been employed as a carpenter
pear the Lindbergh home at Hopewell
O'Ryan also asserted that police had
established that Hauptmann had had
access to the lumber yard In which
lumber was found bearing a peculiar
mark, similar to that found on the
ladder left at the scene of the kidnap-
ing. Hauptmann, he added, is in this
country illegally. He is married and
has a ten-year-old son.
Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh, who
were in Los Angeles, were sald to have
known in advance that the arrest was
expected. They secluded themselves
and would say nothing for publication,
JPEUERAL JUDGE W. CALVIN
CHESNUT of Baltimore handed
down an opinion holding that the farm
moratorium amendment to the federal
bankruptcy act passed by congress
Jast June Is unconstitutional. This
amendment, known as the Frazier
Lemke law, authorizes debt-ridden
farmers to go into federal courts
and reduce their obligations, The
judge held that it violates the rights
of creditors as outlined In the
fourteenth amendment to the Consti-
tution and that it seeks to supersede
the rights of state courts
The court pointed out that each
state has laws to protect both the
creditor and the debtor. The Frazier-
Lemke act, it was stated, wiped away
the safeguards for creditors and
amounted to confiscation of property.
EACE In the textile Industry was
almost in sight after the President's
special mediation board reported to
him its plan for ending the bloody
strike that has been
going on for weeks
The report was carried
to Mr. Roosevelt at
Hyde Park by Secre-
tary of Labor Perkins
and Gov. John G. Wi-
nant, chairman of the
board. It proposed the
following four point
program:
1. Appointment by
the President of a tex-
Gov. Winant .... labor relations
board of three members to settle all
questions of union recognition at the
several textile mills and to handle all
other employer-employee disputes in
the industry.
2. An investigation by the Depart-
ment of Labor and the federal trade
commission of the textile industry's
ability to meet the higher wage pay-
ments which the union is demanding.
3. A moratorium on the “stretch.
out" system, whereby, the union
claims, employers are adding to the
work load of their employees; during
the moratorium the textile labor rela
tions board shall appoint a textile
work assignment control. board to plan
a permanent control of the stretchout.
4. An Investigation by the Depart.
ment of Labor into the various classi.
fications of work In the textile Indus
try and the wage scale for each classi
fication.
President Roosevelt was highly
pleased with the 10.000-word report, of
the board and expressed his hope that
it would show the way to end the
strike. F. J. Gorman, leader of the
strike, submitted to the nslon's execu
tive council the question of having the
workers return to the mills pending
final arrangements,
Immediately preceding these devel.
opments the mills had been reopening
under military protection, and In con-
sequence the strikers had resumed
their acts of violence, There were nn.
merous bloody encount between
them and National Guardsmen in New
: New Tor Penney ania,
the
the strike to all branches of the tex.
tile Industry, Gorman sent out orders
for 20,000 dyers to quite their jobs,
The unlon workers were still en-
raged at Gen, Hugh 8. Johnson, NRA
administrator, for his attack on the
strike at a meeting of code authorities
in New York. He charged that the
walkout was In “absolute violation” of
an agreement made by the United Tex
tile Workers with the government last
June, This the union leaders flatly de-
nled, and they demanded the resigna.
tion of Johnson. Gorman sald:
“We will not join In submitting any
issue to the NRA as long as Genera}
Johnson is administrator or occuples
a position of determining Influence in
the recevery administration, We sald
he ought to resign and we meant it
Since that is our view, we could not
Join In any submission to the NRA
while he has the power to make NRA
decisions.”
If present plans sre carried out, a
quarter of a million cotton garment
workers will go on strike throughout
the country on October 1. This strike
is called, according to the union lead-
ers, because the manufacturers refused
to comply with NRA's order to reduce
the weekly working hours from 40
to 36.
NE of the sharpest thorns in the
side of the Roosevelt administra.
tion will not be in the next congress
to give pain to the New Dealers
James M. Beck of
Pennsylvania, leading
authority on the Con-
stitution has an-
nounced he will not
seek re-election be
cause congress has
become *“a rubber
stamp.” He had been
renominated, but pre
fers not to run. How
" ever, the administra
3 tion will not be re
J. M. Beck yoveqd from his ate
tacks, for he Intends to continue them
in the courts,
“1 syn not retiring from public life”
Mr. Beck explains. “This Is no time
for any citizen to lessen his activities
in defense of our form of government.
I am retiring from congress because
I believe I can help In this great cause
more effectively in the federal courts,
where I have practiced for more than
fifty years, than in congress, where the
minority is gagged and reduced to lm
potence.
“Our form of government can only
be saved by restoration of the Repub
lican party to power, and 1 hope with
my pen and voice to serve that party
as effectually In the ranks as in con
gress.”
ISCONSIN'S state primary was
especially interesting because of
the fact that the Democrats polled
the Jargest vote by a wide mar
gin, the La Follette Progressives
and the Republicans trailing. The
Democrats re-nominated Gov. Albert
G. Schedeman, vigorous supporter
of the New Deal. He will be op
posed by Phil La Follette, who received
the Progressive nomination without
contest, and Howard T. Greene, Repub.
lican, who qefented former Governor
Zimmerman and J. N. Tittemore,
John N, a former national
committeeman, was named for the sen
ate by the Democrats, and John B.
Chappelle was the unopposed choice of
the Republicans. Senator Robert M.
La Follette, Jr, was of course nomi
nated by his new party.
RUSSIA was daly admitted to mem-
bership In the League of Nations,
only three votes In opposition being
cast, and then was given a permanent
seat in the council of the league. Max-
im Litviney, Soviet commissar for for.
eign affairs, pledged his nation to work
through the league for world peace,
Declaring flatly that Russia would
give up no attribute of its social sys
tem, Litvinov warned the assembly
that “peace and security cannot be or.
ganized on the basis of shifting sands
and verbal promises.” It should be
established, he sald, “that any state
is entitled to demand reasonable se
curity from its near and remote neigh-
bors.” This, however, should never be
thterpreted as distrust, Litvinov ddded.
Next day, after a debate on plans
to end the war between Paraguay and
Bolivia, spokesmen for Russia private.
ly asserted that the danger of war In
the Far East has lessened, relations
between Japan and Russia having im-
proved.
OME, the once famous gold city
of Alaska, lies in ruins, having
been swept by flames with damage
estimated at $3,000000, Four hundred
persons were homeless, and
most of the food supplies were burned
up. Relief vessels with food and med
ical supplies were rushed to the place
and there was no fear of shortage, The
government at Washington granted
£50,000 in direct assistance and planned
other relief gin sir The citizens
AMES A, MOFFETT, federal hous-
ing commissioner, announced that
on November 1 he would begin releas
ing funds for the construction of at
least a million new homes,
Concerning the home modernization
and repalr phase of the program, the
administrator declared that more than
1,000 communities have set up or are
setting up committees to direct the
program locally, He predicted that by
Thanksgiving more than 5,000 muniei-
palities will have established such com.
mittees,
Financial support, he said, has come
from 7,000 banks, and such loans have
been made in all states but three,
“From fleid reports we estimate that
one million dollars a day of loans are
being made under our plan; and from
experience in past community modern.
ization campaigns we are sure that
double that amount of cash business
is being done.”
J 5aueo, which is the third largest
crop lr the United States, has al-
ways been without an organized fu-
tures market. But it has one now,
for the New York Tobacco Exchange,
Ine, on Broad street, has opened for
business after two years of prelimi.
nary organization work in which the
federal department of agriculture co-
operated.
The contract basis is United States
standard flue cured type 12, grade BAF,
There are nine types and numerous
grades deliverable under specified dif-
ferentials under the form of contract
that has been adopted. The unit of
trading is 10,000 pounds and quota-
dredths of a cent per pound,
points have been
Delivery
established to date
and Lonisville, Ky.
EW YORK'S city assembly has
adopted a lottery scheme for the
purpose of raising relief funds, a way
having been devised to circumvent the
law. The business men god the clergy
are protesting violently,
REMIER MUSSOLINI repeatedly
war, but he is taking no chances. In
an order designed make Italy an
“armed pation,” his cabinet has direct
ed that all males above the age of elght
and below thirty-three, shall receive
military training.
At the same time
that Italy's farming
brought into strong national organiza-
fo
it was revealed
tem, to be inaugurated November 10.
manager class in another. The two
corporations,
Two major national co-ordinating
rate groups. These are
Confederation of Agriculturists, for the
owner-managers, and the Fascist Con-
federation of Agricultural Workers
future, it is likely to be
slavia., Just now the two nations are
quarreling bitterly. Mussolini is espe
cially vexed because Jugosiavia is har.
boring 2.500 Austrian Nazis close to
the border and not curbing their plans
for another putsch.
USTRIA Is thoroughly aroused by
seemingly authentic reports from
Brussels that former Empress Zita in-
tends to establish her residence in Aus
trina, along with ber
eight children, includ-
ing Archduke Otto,
pretender to the
thrones of both that
country and Hungary.
It was asserted that
this Hapsburg family
had been granted per
mission to return as
plain citizens If Otto
would promise not to
seek in any way to
ArchdukeOtto |, ..c about restora
tion of the monarchy.
Quite unofficially, it is sald restora-
tion of the Hapsburg monarchy would
not be opposed by either France or
Italy, but the British foreign office
scouted the idea. The little entente
nations would be strongly against it
but might net hold the Vienna gov
ernment entirely responsible,
In Vienna a spokesman for the for-
eign office said that the return to Aus.
tria of the Hapsburg family, even as
private individuals, is “still impossi-
ble.”
Some member of the Hapsburg fam.
fly may be allowed to return to repre-
sent the family in the long pending
lawsuit over the Hapsburgs' proper
ties, he said. but this is not likély to
be Archduke Otto, because of the dan-
ger that disturbances might result from
his presence, Socialists and labor un.
fons would surely start trouble,
A, COBB, chief of the cotton pro
+ duction section of the farm ad
ministration, announced that the third
cotton “parity” payment due in De.
cember would be combined with the
second rental payment and that both
would be distributed in October, The
total thusto be paid out will approxi
mars $72,500,000,
Mr. Cobb” sald that tenants and
share ecroppers had an interest In the
“parity” payment and that to put off
payment until December, the usual sea.
gon for many tenants and renters to
move to other farms, would cause un
necessary complications,
LAWSON LITTLE, a husky San
* Francisco youth, bas accom
plished the feat of capturing the Brit
lish and American national amateur
golf championships in one season, This
has been done only twice before, Lit
defeated Dyvid Goldman of
in the finals of the na
Brookline,
lm
Washington.—~As ‘plans for the ex-
pansion of the New Deal program go
- on, it becomes more
Railroad
and more evident
Legislation that the session of
congress convening
in January Is due to take up the ques
tion of rallroad legislation. Its nature
is yet undetermined. Its scope Is still
velled in secrecy, There Is the certain.
ty, however, that the Roosevelt admin.
istration is prepared to present far-
reaching proposals dealing In a new
way with the railroads of the country.
The first intimation of this probabil.
ity eame recently through a visit to the
President by Joseph B. Eastman, fed-
eral co-ordinator of rallroads. Mr,
Eastman let It be known after an ex-
tended conference with the President
that raliroad legisiation was being
drafted and that it would be presented
to congress with the request that it be
Eastman's visit to the summer
facts respect.
ing the raliroad program being worked
On unquestioned authority, never.
or his professor aides,
have an idea that there ought to be an.
the secretary
On equally good
stated that the
transportation,
it can be
of
notice—are designed to give the federal
government additional supervisory au-
thority over: the raliroads. Indeed,
may go as far as proposing that the
government buy the raliroad properties
back to the railroad
corporations for operation, This phase
of the program remains wholly undis-
It is my understanding that numer
fzing for a bitter fight. It is well
that the raliroads
sociation into one solid and substan
tinl agency which Is to act as thelr
spokesman. Indications are that out
known as the American Railway insti.
tute, which will serve as the spokes
Plans
enll for establishment of headquarters
in Washington where the group will
be In close contact at all times with
the shifting trends of governmental
maneuvers respecting the railroads,
* . .
Coupled with the certainty that there
will be raliroad legisiation considered
by the forthcoming
Federal
session’ of congress
Ownership !s a strong renewal
of activity among
advocates of government owner&hip.
In previous letters, 1 have reported
ownership advecates In and out of the
administration were sald to be working
on plans for legisiation designed even
tually to result in federal ownership of
the transportation systems, How far
this has gone cannot now be stated.
It can be sald definitely, however, that
the movement is gaining force and ob-
servers well acquainted with the an
dercurrent of government plans insist
that the rallroads have a battle on
their hands that Is larger than the Im.
mediate prospect of additional restrict
ive legislation,
In some quarters in Washington we
bear the expression that the adminis
tration plans to seek enactment of reg
ulation for the bus lines and other car
riers that are in competition with the
railroads, This has been tried several
times before, but nothing has come of
it because congress heretofore has re
fused to be serious about legislation for
control of the bus lines operating over
state and national highways, It is to
be recalled, - though, that congresses
heretofore have noi been as subservi
ent to the Chief Executive as has been
the care since the New Deal became
operative a year and a half ago. So,
the extent to which the administra.
tion will or ean go respecting control
of the bus lines seems at this writing
to be highly problematical. Authori
ties tell me, however, that the Eastman
plan, which must be assumed to have
Presidential approval, will be compre.
hensive and of [teelf, should give an
indication of the severity of the fight
that Is to come. :
*. .
The argument that, I am told, is go-
ing to be advanced for further federal
encroachment on pri.
In Sorry vate management of
State
the railroads has to
do with the sorry
state in which It is claimed the roads
find themsalves as a result of the de
vocates are using the argument and
rallroad executives find thelr case is
difficult to prove, because the average
individual does not understand the ins
and outs of such financial problems.
On the side of the railroads, the ar-
gument is being advanced that the car-
riers for the most part are In fairly
good financial shape and that as soon
as there is any sign of recovery they
will benefit by an incrzased volume of
traffic which, of course, means more
revenue, The railroads claim further
that there is too much restrictive legis-
lation anyway, and that additional
steps by the government in the nature
earn sufficient revenue to pay thelr ex-
penses,
There is still another phase of the
raflrond question that is causing some
Less Milk Used
When Not Fresh
Adequate Cooling, Bottling,
Will Cause Cream to
Rise Faster.
By A,
North
Service.
The rapid souring of milk handled
| carelessly has been given as a chief
reason why milk consumption is low
on many farms.
Unsanitary and slightly soured miik
is not palatable and it is easy to see
why farm families whose milk is not
cared for properly do not use as much
milk as they should,
To keep milk clean and fresh, ft
should be strained through at least
three thicknesses of fine cheese cloth
should
then be poured In standard-size quart
C. Kimrey,
o Extension
Carolina
Dalryman,
Blate
College. WHNU
of transportation. It is that, if the
present set-up of Interstate Commerce
Then the bottles should be placed in
the coldest water available and al
re
The
water should be
perature of
the walter,
On farms where ice Is kept, the milk
is disturbed, the chances are great that
think most persons agree that the rail
roads have kept out of politics to a
large extent in the last ten or fifteen
years, but the students of transporta-
tion insist to me that if such an office
as secretary transportation with
cabinet membership is created right
then the railroads again will be
in politics up to their ears. Poll-
ticlans will not long overlook the op-
portunity to dig thei ers into such
a luscious situation. They will see
how they can manipulate freight rates
to the benefit of thelr own di stricts or
states or other areas, they will likewise
see numerous Jobs, and politics with-
out jobs sinks to a low ebb, It is thus
made to appear, and in this statement
I am volcing the consensus of numer.
ous observers, that we are on the verge
of 8 crucial decision. It Is one that
may mean as stated a transfer of
8 gigantic industry into the hands of
politicians or the framing
policy for the future. The forthcoming
congress must decide,
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The Agricultural Adjustment admin.
istration has Just published a treatise
on the plan and phi-
of
r fing
hove,
it has been cooled by water, Where ice
is not kept, the milk should be left in
The cream
bottles and
PUrpOSEs,
can be poured from the
kept for churning or other
The rapid cooling of milk in
bottles will the
and comp
milk
stored
cause cream to rise
ietely than Is
is not cooled and
in
ckiy
the case when
where it is
large vessels,
completely
sealed fr
of
ire, or other form
contamination, will be fount
wife to hs
usual way,
n in the
Itself Deal for
agriculture in the
form of a Bl2page booklet which is
entitled "Achieving a Balance In Agri-
culture.” In issuing the booklet the
Adjustment administration at the same
time released a statement describing
the treatise as a statement
language of the principles of econom-
ies and social welfare which the Agri.
cultural Adjustment administration has
followed In carrying out the adjust.
ment program in agriculture” The
booklet is being distribnted In numbers
running Into the tens of thousands as
a means of getting the story over to the
people. It was printed at government
expense in the government printing
office.
The respongible officials In the Ad
American
are trying to do.”
ington freely are saying that it is one
of the most elaborate documents to be
released as a means of disseminating
to the public the theories upon which a
governmental activity Is based,
Five chapters treat the historical
backgrounds of American agriculture,
the development of the country’s eco-
nomic system and emergency of the
situation which brought forth the agri-
cultural adjustment act. These see
ment act, and an attempt then is
made to summarize the gains claimed
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“The agricultural adjustment act”
perience of the past; it was framed to
treat the farm problem as a whole and
elements in our national life,
“The long time goal, the national pol
fey of which these measures were an
increasingly clear expression, Is a bal
ance between the production of the
between the income of the farmers and
the Income of their neighbors In the
cities and towns. Insofar as we are
successful in achieving and maintain.
fair share of our national income to
the producers of the farm commodities |
on which our basic national welfare |
to a large extent depends.”
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The Department of Agriculture has
made & complete compilation of statis
ties showing that farm production in
the United States during 1033 was val.
ued at $5,085.000,000, or approximately
$655,000,000 greater than in 1632, But
the farmers received an additional
ing
The department's statistics indicate
that the farmers, after paying their
to the Tomato Profits
Care! gradin r of to-
matoes may
tween profit and
J. W. ]
rkeling
table mark
nice he
at the College of Agri-
of Iilin
oes may look un
the vine, hn
University
Some tomat such alike
on it thelr appearance aft-
er reaching the market may be quite
another thing fact, it un-
usuil for well-graded and packed to-
matoes to sell for twice as much as
ordinary stock the same market,
Furthermore, well graded tomatoes
deserve careful handling and packing,
This vegetable is
inet, easily bruised and
is like iy to spread
ack and make the
le packag re Uns ht! y and unsavory.
irket valve.
crushing, tomatoes should
shallow pack-
which the
two
the
8 hot
on
points out Lloyd
a tender pro
crushed. The
over others in
fey
juice
the Pp
joes the ma
To
be pl
Ages,
tomate
ers
low “to
AYO
aced oniy in
preferably those In
wi are packed iy
These includ
box” of about
third bushel capacity, the four-basket
tomato flat formerly used extensively
in shipping early tomatoes, and the shal
low splint baskets used in shipping hot-
house tomatoes. The excellent sp
pearance of the tomatoes after reach-
ing the market has popularized these
containers.
Berry Likes Acid Soil
The huckleberry, of which 40 vari
eties are known in the United States,
goes also by many names which in-
clude tangleberry, whortieberry, blue-
berry, farkieberry and others, Usually
it is found in an acld soil, In fact,
treatment with acid results in a crop
of berries often approaching the cherry
in size, Because of their tendency to
soften under weight and warm tem-
peratures, the huckleberry does not
find {ts way to market as readily as
other types, The berries, If kept at
temperatures around 50 degrees, will
remain fresh for several weeks after
being picked, however,
deep,
ato one
Soy Beans for Paint
The soy bean growers have a new
for It has
been found that the bean is valuable
fn the mixture of paint. Manufae-
ation of paint and excellent results ob-
It has been found that soy
bean oil makes the paint film glossier,
tougher and more durable. The bean
oil In semidrying.
Horse Has 40 Teeth
In order to help the purchaser of
age of the animals being bought, the
Department of Agriculture has issned
. a bulletin which illustrates the shape
and condition of the teeth of the an-
imal from the milk teeth on to the
age of twenty, The male horse has
40 teeth If equipped with his fall com-
plement, while mares for some reason
have four less, »
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