CENTRE HALL, PA. Governor Hoffman—Plan ESS than thirty hours from the time when he was to die In the electric chalr, Bruno Richard Haupt- mann, convicted kidnaper and slayer of the Lindbergh baby, was given a thirty-day reprieve by Governor Hoffman of New Jer- sey. This means he will have at least six- ty more days to live, because he will have to be resentenced. The governor did pot give specific reasons for his action. He did say: “A reprieve is an act of executive clemency rather than judicial clemency. I am not required to give a reason, but I might say that there are grave doubts in this case, not only in my mind, but in the minds also of our citizens.” There will be only the one reprieve, “unless the evidence should warrant” another, the governor sald.. If Haupt- mann is to be finally saved it must be through the presentation of sufficient new evidence to warrant Justice Tren- chard granting a request for a new trial, or for a new plea for clemency to the state pardons court. The stay came after the United States Supreme court at Washington refused to admit attorneys to file a petition for a writ of habeas corpus for Hauptmann. That closed the door to all further legal action designed to delay the execution, Various stories about the crime, some new and others old, are going the rounds and are being Investigated by authorities and by the forces of the defense, They are too complicated for summary here. Hauptmann ITERARY DIGEST'S Presidential straw vote has been concluded, and the final returns indicate a grow- ing opposition to the New Deal. A total of 1,907,681 ballots was received, and of these 62.66 per cent were cast against the President's policies and acts, and 37.34 per cent were for the administration. Thirty-six states gave majorities against to eleven still in favor of the President and his policies. Among the pro-Roosevelt states was Utah. The others were classified In the release as “southern and border” states, Of the different sections of the coun- try, New England cast the heaviest “No” vote, going 77.98 per cent against the administration. The Middle Atlan. tic states from New York to West showed 68.80 per cent of the voters against Mr. Roosevelt and his recov. ery schemes, while the Middle Western states In the farm belt and the Rocky Mountain states indicated a ratio ap- proximately the same as the nation at large—3 to 2 against, The three Pacific coast states totaled 58.04 against the New Deal. HERE will be no new legislation to continue the aims of the AAA, if the plans of the administration are adopted, for it has been found by offi- cials that the soil con- servation act of 1985 will permit the under. taking of about every- thing In the bill that the house and senate agriculture commit- tees were drawing up. In a White House conference the new program was agreed upon by President Roosevelt, Senator J, T. Robinson, majority Sen. Robinson leader; Secretary of Agriculture Wal. lace, Attorney General Cummings, Chairman Ellison D, Smith of the sen- ate agriculture committee, Chairman Marvin Jones of the house agriculture committee, Speaker Joseph W. Byrns, Senator John H. Bankhead (Dem. Ala), AAA Administrator Davis, and M. G, White of the AAA. The administration will work out a system of granting farm subsidies to farmers restricting acreage under aun thority of the soll conservation act of 1935. In connection with the program the administration will make provision for obligations Incurred under the AAA, In a radio address Herbert Hoover offered the country his own plan for bringing recovery to the farmer. As serting that a new road must be built by which agriculture can “get back onto the solid ground from the quick- sand of the New Deal” Mr. Hoover outlined three general or group pro- posals for farm recovery, They were: 1. The restoration of the home mar- ket to American farmers, 2. The retirement of “thin” and sub- marginal acres, along with a slowing np of reclamation of projects, 8. Encouragement of cooperative marketing and the further Improve- ment of farm credit machinery. EVENTEEN persons met a tragic fate In the worst airplane accl- dent that the United States has had. A big transport plane of the Ameri can Alrlines, en route from New York to Los Angeles, crashed In a swamp near the village of Goodwin, Ark, and jts 14 passengers, two pilots and stewardess were killed. With great difficulty the bodies of the victims were brought out of the marsh where their bodies were found scattered among fragments of the shattered plane, Officials of the government and of the airline company immediate. ly started an investigation, but the cause of the disaster could not easily be determined. LL the air lines of the country have united in the formation of the Air Transport Association of Amer- Ica, whose president and “czar” is Col. Edgar 8. Gorrell, chief of staff of the army alr service during the World war. Fowler W. Barker, war pilot and former secretary of the transport branch of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce, was elected secretary and treasurer. Co-ordination of schedules, credits, advertising, engineering data, and pur- chasing power among the various op- erators prompted the organization of the new assoclation which is Intended to be an “ideal trade association” Its functions will be similar to those of the North Atlantic steamship con- ference and Colonel Gorrell will have powers approximating of Will Hays of the movies and Judge Landis of baseball, those GENATOR PAT HARRISON'S com- promise bonus measure, in the senate its passage seemed certain after a brief and lively debate. The pe and whose bill had been passed by the house accepted the compro- mise, so It evidently was on its way to the White House for ac- tion by the President. What Mr. Roosevelt would do was not known, reports that he would veto the bill being offset by rumors that he would approve it de spite the disapproval of treasury offi. cials. On the eve of action by the senate every member of that body received from the Economy league a letter writ- ten by its president, Henry H. Curran, warning that the bonus legislation would “destroy any chance for confi. dence In the finances our govern- ment that Is necessary if we are ever to regain pational prosperity.” The letter said that the national budget is unbalanced, national credit slipping, taxes Increasing, purchasing power of the dollar declining and In flation drawing near, “But that Is not all” Curran de- clared; “the veterans’ organizations, as soon as the prepayment of the bonus is authorized by you--if it is—are go- ing after you for servie® pensions, that is to say, for money pensions to vet. erans just because they are veterans, even though they were never touched by the war. “And this means more billions hand. ed out to a special class at the unjust expense of all the rest of our people who are trying, in the face of heavy taxes and financial uncertainty, to struggle up out of five years of hard times.” Sen. Pat Harrison of APPY days are nearing for the indigent, for the Social Security board Is beginning to operate. It has announced the appointment of five per. sons who will administer the social security act. >» Murray W. Eatimer of Mississippl was appointed director of the bureau of federal old age benefits, R. Gordon Wagenet of Berkeley, Calif, was ap pointed director of the bureau of un- employment compensation. Miss Jane M. Hoey of New York was made di: rector of the public assistance burean of the social security board. Louis Resnick of New York was named di rector of the informational service bu- rean. The board also announced the ap- pointinent of Robert E. Huse of Cam- bridge, Mass, as assistant, AVING spent about $22.000,000 in connection with the steamship Leviathan, the government will now spend approximately £0.000,000 more on the building of a new vessel to take the place of the great ship that was taken from Germany in wartime. Secretary of Commerce Roper ane nounced the acceptance of a contract submitted by the United States Lines for construction of a sister ship to the Washington and Manhattan, The contract was executed by the shipping line with the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock corporation for 311,000,000 for the new ship. Un. der the new agreement the government may lend ug to 75 per cent of $9,000, 000 of the cost of the vessel 8. THOMAS D, SCHALL has filed nomination papers as can. didate for the senate seat made vacant by the death of her husband, the late senator from Minnesota. Ars Nehall says if elected she will carry on “the same vigorous fight” against the New Denl as was waged by her husband. Rains in Ethiopia Stop the Italian Operations THIOPIA'S “little” rainy senson tinuous, roads are must cease, even in the south where the rains are not so heavy. The “big” rainy season is due to begin in May. Dispatches received In Rome sald 50,000 native troops under General Granzianl and 60,000 Ethiopians com- manded by Ras Desta Demtu, son-in- law of Emperor Halle Selassie, en- gaged In a desperate battle along the entire southern front, and that the Ethiopians, who had been converging n the Itallan army at Dolo, were In “full retreat” The Ethloplan government an- nounced that a Red Cross unit headed by Ma), Gerald Burgoyne of England had been bombed and destroyed by Italian planes at Waldia, 90 miles north of Dessye, the communique sald sev- en women and seven old men were killed and half the town burned, and added that the unit was plainly marked with the Red Cross insignia, Massolinl continued the dispatch of fresh troops to Ethlopla, despite un- favorable conditions. He postponed the meeting of the Fascist grand council from January 18 to February 1, by which time the League of Nations council, it is presumed, will have de- cided whether to Impose an ofl em- bargo on Italy. The league council would very much like to have the Unit. ed States congress pass its neutrality legislation before the oll embargo ques. tion Is settled, Dr. Marcel Junod, International ted Cross delegate, announced at Ad- dis Ababa that he would recommend withdrawal of all Red Cross units from Ethiopia unless Italy definitely prom- ised not to bomb them, AILING In thelr demand for the right of full equality of naval strength for Japan with Great Britain and the United States, the Japanese delegates withdrew from the confer. ence in London and prepared go home, The American, British, French and Italian delegates, however, re fused to let the parley collapse and constituted themselves a four-power conference, heir hope is that they may arrive at some agreement on the size of warships and on limitation of gun calibers; but any real building limitation agreement Is admittedly impossible without Japan. It is tha intention to Invite Germany and Rus sia to take part in the deliberations, and later the Balkan nations may be invited to participate, The Japanese, In withdrawing, em- phasized their desire to avold a build. ing race. Their demand is for equal- ity with other powers, on the ground that if the big navies were equal, nono could attack another In the defender's home waters. The American argon ment Is that equality does not mean real security, because the United States is so situated geographically, and has such possessions to defend, that it needs a navy superior to Japan's to feel secure, to OVIET RUSSIA expects to be at. tacked on both flanks, and is mak- ing ready for the conflict, feeling that it can count for defense only on its own forces, The government's news paper, Journal de Moscou, asserts that Germany and Japan have com. pleted a military coalition or are about to do so, and that it appears Italy wishes to Join that alliance, The Soviet Union already has de livered its answer to alleged war threats with the announcement that its army--the greatest in the world-- has been increased during the last year to 1300000 men. The bolshe. viks estimate they also have a trained reserve ns large as that under the czars, when 10000000 were called to arms, If this expected war comes In the east It will start because of the at. tacks by Manchukuo on the Mongolian frontier, where there have been re peated viashes, In the west it may begin with an attempt of Germany and Poland to conquer the Ukraine. Ma). Gen. Hayao Tada, commander of the Japanese in North China, pre. dicts that a Russo-Japanese war will begin with a Russian offensive when the soviet's secon five year plan is completed, possibly this year, HARRY L. HOPKINS, WPA admin istrator, has sent to state admin. istrators a set of regulations intended ing” employers and to keep up wage stand ards. In his letter to the state officials Mr. Hopkins sald: “1 want to make per. fectly clear the policy of the works progress administration rela. tive to private em ployment or employ. ment on contract jobs under the direction of other federal depart. ments which may be offered the WPA workers, “It Is expected that WPA workers will accept avallable jobs In private employment, whether of a permanent or temporary nature, provided : “(1) That the temporary or manent work shall be a full-time job. “(2) That such work shall be at a standard or going rate of wages. *(#) That such work shall not be in conflict with established union re Iationship, “{4) That workers shall be offered an opportunity to return to the WPA wpon completion of temporary jobs.” Harry L, Hopkins NATIONAL CA PITALA FAMOUS WASHINGTON CORR Washington, ~ Disappointment of many Democrats at the Jackson day dinner speech of President Hoosevell was natural enough, but the fact is that the President was very much on the spot, and best political opinion here Is that he acted wisely In refus- fag to be rushed Into any statements which, however much enthusiasm they might have aroused among his follow. ing at the time, he would regret later. And, more Important to those enthu- giastic Democrats who applauded and cheered, but were disappointed, the party might regret very bitterly next November! For the Mr, go to that to plain truth Is Roosevelt was not prepared bat on the point that his huge radio audience wanted to hear. What they wanted was a definite program follow- ing the Supreme invalida tion the Agricultural Adjustment act, The chief difficulty lay in the fact that the President, Secretary of Agri culture Henry A. Wallace, and AAA Administrator Chester C. Davis, one and all, and all their leutenants and advisers, never dreamed that the Su preme court would invalidate the bene fit payments to farmers. As to processing taxes, they were all a it tie dublous. And as a matter of fact, they had their program all worked out, Farm payments would go right ahead. Money for them would be found by additional taxes. Even the was pretty well on court's of the variety of taxes agreed upon, They were to be large ly additional sales taxes, on luxury products. chiefly ut along came the court and upset the very fundamentals of the whole AAA system, not only of farm benefit payments but of the plan for restrict. ing crops with a view to maintaining fair prices. Plenty of schemes had been suggest. ed, and seriously considered by the President and his advisers before AAA was born. Some of them wee hurried- ly revived In the 48 hours after the Supreme court handed down its de. cision at noon on January 6 before the President started, after lunch on Wednesday, to write the speech he wns to deliver that night, Needs Careful Study Bat the President has a constitution al objection to approving a whole pro- gram without careful study, advice from a number of different sources, and criticism from widely varying an. gles, This explains his love for ap- pointing two or three sets of commit. tees to study, independently, any given proposal-—-a practice sometimes very annoying and hardly flattering to those involved, but rather beneficial, at times, to the President himself, And there was no time for any such functioning before the time set for the big speech—bearing In mind that the whole groundwork had already been laid for the entire campaign, but that this groundwork was totally destroyed by the Supreme court decision. Not only had the cqurt knocked the AAA higher than Haman is sald to have been hanged, but from the decision the inference was clear that a number of other New Deal fundamentals were scheduled for the same fate, One plan that has been under con- sideration for some fifteen years, the so-called McNary-Haugen equalization fee system, is believed by shrewd con stitutional lawyers to be sure of run. ning the Supreme court gauntlet suc cessfully. But there are several ob Jections to it, some political, some economic, In the first place, it bears the name, branded In so to speak, of two Repub L. McNary, actually the minority lead. er at the present moment, In the second place, the fundamental idea of the scheme would be to solve the farm surplus problem, but to make the farmer pay for it. Whereas the Roosevelt ldea has been to solve the farm surplus problem and make the rest of the country pay for it, on the “parity.” Hence the necessity to raise him up. Townsend Plan The Townsend plan l= unconstite- in the light of the Supreme court decigion on the Agricultural Ad- Justment act, according to sore of the best constitutional lawyers in Wash The part of the decision that sus. it is contended, would effectively har the taxing of all the people for the benefit of those more than sixty years old, Incidentally this will not be the first time Doctor Townsend has heard the point. It was made to him rather ef- fectively last year by Senator William E. Borah, himself rather highly re garded as a constitutional lawyer, Senator Borah wrote Doctor Townsend setting forth this argument, and sug- gesting that It would be wise for the doctor to have a thorough study of this question made, It is known that Doctor Townsend did have a lawyer go Into the subject, and forwarded to Senator Borah this lawyer's opinion that the Townsend plan was constitutional. It is also ESPONDENT known that Senator Borah did not find this opinion very convincing. Not only that, but he let Doctor Townsend know of his skepticism, After this there were no develop ments, so far as Senator Boralh's col leagues know, Asked about the mat- ter, he merely sald he would want to study the majority and minority opin- fons of the Supreme court in the AAA case thoroughly before making any comment, But most lawyers to whom the point has been put since the Supreme court decision have no doubt at all about the point made so long ago by Borah. They think the language of the major- ity opinion unescapable—that the welfare clause of the Constl- in the opinion of six justices Supreme court, not nearly to permit the federal to embark on the Town is general tution, of the broad government send plan, is enough Provides an Excuse All of which is apt to change entire ly one of the biggest possibilities for headaches to jegislatures in the pres ent of Also to change the entire line of the Presiden tial campaign. Thus many senators and represent- atives will be able to use the excuse that under the Constitution as it now stands It would be sheer folly to pass the Townsend plan, Many of them will be delighted to find some such ex- for at present they of them at least—that it is little short of political suicide to commit them- selves either for or against the doe tor's proposal to grant $200 a month to the aged. jut the rabld Townsendites, If they convinced that the Supreme court would knock out their plan even If they win a majority of the house and senate and the President, will nat. urally turn the constitutional amending method, In the event that President Roose- velt to make his fight this year on amending the Constitution or curbing the powers of the Supreme court—the Townsendites will be behind him, and the fight will be more than ever a battle of the conservative ver- sus the radicals. session CONETress, cuse, feel—gome become {io decides How Farmers Stand? The thing President Roosevelt most wants to know right now is whether the farmers, deprived of their farm benefit payments, will place the blame on the Supreme court or on the Presi | dent, Whether they will think a Con- stitution which outlaws such a system as Roosevelt and Secretary of Agricul- ture Wallace set up under AAA should be changed, or whether Roosevelt and Wallace should be criticized for hav- ing sought what has proved an illegal way of raising the farmer out of his slough of despond. If the White House and Farley scouls report back in the next few weeks that the farm belt is ripe for amending the Constitution, the Presi- dent will resume his abandoned drive in that direction. It will be recalled that after the high court's NRA deci- sion the administration was all set to rewrite the historic charter. jut that time there was no mistak- ing the popular reaction. The folks rallied round the old document. Peo ple who approved everything done by the NRA suddenly did not want the Constitution changed so as to permit the continuance of those very things. Which would seem to prove that it is not always possible to predict ac curately what the reaction of the American people will be, No one was more surprised than Mr. Roosevelt himself that the Su- preme court AAA decision went so far, Actually the President had anticipat- ed that the high court would outlaw the processing taxes, He had a pro- gram all ready for that. He Intended to ask congress to substitute luxury and other specific sales taxes for the processing taxes outlawed by the court, in all amounting to something approaching $600,000.00 a year, But he never dreamed that the court would upset the farm benefit pay- ments, Decision Settled It Had he anticipated that the high court was going so far he would not have laid so much stress in his regular message to congress, delivered before the joint session and over the radio to the country, on whether opponents of his measures would vote to repeal them. The Supreme court decision, coming so quickly after it, settled that question, Constitution amended is how to pay the farmers to whom the government fs now under obligation. The court has held that the obligation has no Justification In law, which would seem to throw it out the window. But the administration is not anxious to risk so much displeasure In the farm belt, even on the chance that such resent. ment may le against the court and the Constitution rather than against Roosevelt and Wallace, Also there must be worked out some new farm plan. Even those inside the administration who have been least enthusiastic about the AAA system have agreed that something had to be done for the farmers, Copyright. ~WNU Bervice, | Preparatory to Olympics | The Olymple games will take place { In the 300-acre Relchssportfield giin- | ated In the west end of Berlin. The ; huge stadium, which is 85 per cent | completed, has seats for 100.50 spectators. The stadium arena con- tains a running track 400 meters long, The swimming stadium eon- tains a 65-1065-foot pool, a large restaurant overlooking the pool. The Dietrich-Eckert open-air the- ater in the form of a Greek bow! will be used for dramatic productions and assemblies. The Olympic bell which will peal to open the games Is of steel and welghs 16 it was removed from its casting last August. The altar on the stadium tower will be lighted on August 1, of this year, by the Olymple fire, the flame of which will be brought from the site of the original Olyny games by 3000 runners who travel! in relays Washington Star. tons Stern Nature There Is no trifling » is always true, grave, ar ith nature: il severe: it is always In the right, and the fa and errors fall to our share, It fies incompetency, but reveals [tf crets 1o the competent, the truthful, and the pure. DOCTORS KNOW Mothers read this: THREE STEPS A cleansing dose today; a smaller quantity tomorrow; less each time, until bowels need no help af all. Why do people come home from a hospital with bowels working like a well-regulated watch? The answer is simple, and it’s the answer to all your bowel worries if you will only realize it: many doctors and hospitals use liguid laxatives. 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