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.
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is always true, grave, ar
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il severe: it
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and the pure.
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Mothers read this:
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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.
If you knew what a doctor knows,
you would use only the liquid form.
A liquid can slways be taken in
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dosage is the secret of any real relief
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Ask a doctor about this. Ask your
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right kind of help, and right amount
of help. The liquid laxative generally
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It contains senna and cascara — both
natural laxatives that can form po
habit, even in children. So, try Syrup
Pepsin. You just take regulated
doses till Nature restores regularity.
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