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Show News Review of Current ! Events the World Over Ilanptmann Reprieved by Governor Hoffman Plan Devised to Avoid New AAA Legislation , Bonus Bill Favored in Senate. By EDWARD W. PICK ARD ' i Western Newspaper Union. LESS than thirty hours from the time when he was to die in the electric chair, Bruno Richard ! Ilaoptmnnn. convicted kidnaper and ETHIOPIA'S "little" rainy season has come, and the advances of the Invading Italians are therefore stopped effectually for several weeks at least. The downpours are heavy and continuous, roads are being be-ing destroyed, especially in the northern part of the country, and landslides In the mountains are frequent fre-quent Foreign observers were of the opinion that all fighting must cease, even In the south where the rains are not so heavy. The "bis" rainy season Is due to begin In May. dispatches received lu Koine said fHJ.000 native troops under General Granzlanl and 00,000 Klhioplans commanded by Ras Desta Demtu, son-in-law of Emperor llalle Selassie, Selas-sie, engaged In a desperate battle along the entire southern front, and that the Ethiopians, who had been converging on the Italian army at Dolo, were In "full retreat." The Ethiopian government announced an-nounced that a Red Cross unit headed head-ed by MaJ. Gerald P.urgoyne of England Eng-land had been bombed and destroyed de-stroyed by Italian planes at Waldia, 00 miles north of Dessye. The communique com-munique said seven 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. Mussolini continued to dispatch fresh troops to Ethiopia, despite unfavorable un-favorable conditions. He postponed the meeting of the Fascist grand council from January 18 to February Febru-ary 1, by which time the League of Nations council, it Is presumed, will decide whether to Impose an oil embargo em-bargo on Italy. The league council would very much like to have the United States congress pass Its neutrality neu-trality legislation before the oil embargo em-bargo question is settled. Dr. Marcel Junod, International Red Cross delegate, announced at Addis Ababa that he would recommend recom-mend withdrawal of all Red Cross units from Ethiopia unless Italy definitely promises not to bomb slayer of the Lindbergh Lind-bergh baby, was given a thirty-day reprieve by Governor Gov-ernor Hoffman of New Jersey. This means be will have at least sixty more days to live, because be-cause he will have to be re-sentenced. The governor did marketing and the further improvement improve-ment of farm credit machinery. C EVENTEEN persons met a tragic fate in the worst airplane accident ac-cident that the United States has had. A big transport plane of the American Airlines, en route from New York to Los Angeles, crashed In a swamp near the village of Goodwin, Ark., and Its 14 passengers, passen-gers, two pilots and stewardess were killed. With great difliculty the bodies of the victims were brought out of the marsh where their bodies were found scattered among the fragments of the shattered shat-tered plane. Olllcials of the government gov-ernment and of the airline company Immediately started an investigation, investiga-tion, but the cause of the disaster could not easily be determined. There was definite evidence that the two motors of the plane had not failed. The giant French seaplane Lieutenant Lieuten-ant Vaisseau Paris, which crossed the Atlantic to South America and thence flew up to Pensacola, Fla., came to grief at that point when It was struck by a gale and upset In the bay, Its six motors burled In the mud. No one was aboard at the time. C ENATOR PAT HARRISON'S compromise bonus measure, providing pro-viding for payment in baby bonds redeemable on demand, was given inn the right of way in the senate and its passage was assured after a brief and lively debate. de-bate. The veterans' veter-ans' organizations whose bill had been passed by the house accepted the compromise, com-promise, so It evidently evi-dently was on its i . not give the spe- ? .' Bruno clflc reasons for his Hauptmann acti0n. He did say: i A reprieve is an act of executive clemency rather than Judicial clera-: clera-: ncj. 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 one reprieve, y "unless the evidence should war-; war-; rant" another, the governor said. ! If Hauptmann is to be finally saved ; It must be through the presenta-tion presenta-tion of sufficient new evidence to ; warrant Justice Trenchard granting grant-ing a request for a new trial, or for' a new plea for clemency to the state pnrdons court. The stay came after the United States Supreme court at Washing-; Washing-; ton 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, eoroe new and others old, are going the rounds and are being Investl- gated by authorities and by the forces of the defense. They are ' i too Complicated for summary here. LITERARY DIGEST'S Presidential Presiden-tial straw vote has been con-1 con-1 eluded, and the final returns lndl-' lndl-' cate a growing opposition to the ' ,Kew Deal. A total of 1,907,GS1 ballots bal-lots was received, and of these C2.CC ' per cent were cast against the 1 President's policies and acts, and , 87.34 per cent were for the admln-flstratlon. admln-flstratlon. Thirty-six states gave majorities against to eleven still in favor of the President and his policies. Among the pro-Roosevelt states was I Utah. The others were classified I In the release as "southern and 1 border'" states. Of the different sections of the ' i country, New England cast the 1 : heaviest "No" vote, going 77.08 per j cent against the administration. The , v Middle Atlantic states from New i Tork to the west showed C8.80 per ; cent, of the voters against Mr. Eoosevelt and his recovery schemes, while the Middle Western states In the farm belt and the Rocky Moun-: Moun-: tain states Indicated a ratio ap-? ap-? proximately the same as the na-itlon na-itlon at large 3 to 2 against. The three Pacific coast states totaled .68.04 against the New Deal. ifTPHERE will be no new leglsla-" leglsla-" , Uon t0 continue the alms of the AAA, if the plans of the administration ad-ministration are adopted, for it has them. FAILING in their demand for the right of full equality of naval strength for Japan with Great rrlt-aln rrlt-aln and the United States, the Japanese Jap-anese delegates withdrew from the conference In London and prepared to go home. The American, British, French and Italian delegates, however, how-ever, fefusod to let the parley collapse col-lapse and constituted themselves a four-power conference. Their 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 the intention to invite Germany and Russia to take part In the deliberations, and later the Balkan nations may be invited in-vited to participate. SOVIET RUSSIA expects to be attacked at-tacked on both flanks, and is making ready for the conflict, feeling feel-ing that it can count for defense only on Its own forces. The government's govern-ment's newspaper. Journal de Mos-cou, Mos-cou, asserts that Germany and Japan have completed a military coalition or are about to do so, and that it appears Italy wishes to Join that alliance. The Soviet Union already has delivered 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 1,300,000 men. The bolsheviks estimate they also have a trained reserve as large as that tinder the czars, when 10,000,000 were called to arms. If this expected war comes In the east It will start because of the attacks at-tacks by Manchukuo on the Mongolian Mon-golian frontier, where there have been repeated clashes. In the west It may begin with an attempt of Germany and Toland to conquer the Ukraine. LTARRY L. HOPKINS, WPA ad-" ad-" minlstrator, has sent to state administrators a set of regulations intended to nrotect WPA workers c. do. t0 tne White HnrVlan- ll0USe fr aCtlQ Harmon by the 1resident What Mr. Roosevelt would do was not known, reports that be would veto the bill being offset by rumors that he would approve It despite the disapproval of treasury officials. On the eve of action by the senate sen-ate every member of that body received re-ceived from the Economy league a letter written by its president, Henry Hen-ry H. Curran, warning that the bonus legislation would "destroy any chance for confidence in the finances of our government that is necessary If we are ever to regain national prosperity." The letter said that the national budget Is unbalanced, national credit cred-it slipping, taxes increasing, purchasing pur-chasing power of the dollar declining declin-ing and inflation drawing near. "But that Is not all," Curran declared de-clared ; "the veterans' organizations, as soon as the prepayment of the bonus is authorized by you If it is are going after you for service pensions, that Is to say, for money pensions to veterans Just because they are veterans, even though they were never touched by the war. "And this means more billions handed 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 'been found by olli-ciala olli-ciala that the soil conservation act of , 1935 will permit the undertaking of about everything In the bill that the bouse and senate agricultural co m-mittees m-mittees were drawing draw-ing up. j In a White nouse uncertainty, to struggle up out of five years of hard times." TT ArPY days are nearlng for the 1 1 Indigent, for the Social Secur-Ity Secur-Ity board Is beginning to operate. It has announced the appointment of five persons who will administer the social security act. Murray W. Latimer of Mississippi was appointed director of ine bureau bu-reau of federal old age benefits. R. Gordon Wagenet of Berkeley, Calif., was appointed director of the bureau bu-reau of unemployment compensation. compensa-tion. Miss Jane M. Hoey of New York was made director of the public pub-lic assistance bureau of the social from "chiselinR" employers and to keep up wage standards. stand-ards. In his letter to the state officials Mr. Hopkins said : "I want to make perfectly clear the policy of the works progress administration adminis-tration relative to private einulov- conrerence the new program was Sen. RoDinson agreed upon by President Roose-velt,' Roose-velt,' Senator J. T. Robinson, majority ma-jority leader; Secretary of Agriculture Agri-culture Wallace, Attorney General Cumminfis, Chairman Ellison D. Smith of the senate agriculture committee, Chairman Marvin Jones f the house agriculture committee. Speaker Joseph W. Byrns, Senator John II. Bankhead (Dem., Ala.), AAA Administrator Davis, and II. G. White of the AAA. 5 The administration will work out a system of granting farm subsidies subsi-dies to farmers restricting acreage nder authority of the soil conservation con-servation act of 1935. In connection connec-tion with the program the administration adminis-tration will make provision for obligations Incurred under the AAA. f In a radio address Herbert Hoover Hoov-er offered the country his own plan for bringing recovery to the farmer. farm-er. 'Asserting that a new road tanst be built by which agriculture Ban f "get back onto the solid round from the quicksand of the New Deal," Mr. Hoover outlined three general or group proposals for farm recovery. They are: J 1. s The restoration of the home jnarket to American farmers, f 2. The retirement of "thin" and mbmarglnal acres, with a slow-g slow-g Bp of reclamation of projects. . Encouragement of co-operative I I it ment or employment employ-ment on contract Harry L. jobs under the dl- Hopkins rection of other federal departments which may be offered the Wl'A workers. "It Is expected that WPA workers will accept available jobs in private employment, whether of a permanent perma-nent or temporary nature, provided: "(1) That the temporary or permanent per-manent work shall be a full-time Job. "(2) That such work shall be at a standard or going rate of wages. "(3) That such work shall not be In conflict with established union relationships. re-lationships. "(4) That workers shall be offered of-fered an opportunity to return to the WPA upon completion of temporary tem-porary jobs." XTRS. THOMAS D. SCHALL has filed nomination papers as candidate for the senate seat made vacant by the death of her husband, the late senator from Minnesota. Mrs.. Schall says if elected she will carry on "the same vigorous fight" against the New Deal as was waged ' by her husband. security noaru. j,ouis Itesnlck of New l'ork was named director of the informational service bureau, created to answer all inquiries concerning con-cerning the act. The board also announced the appointment ap-pointment of Robert E. Huse of Cambridge, Mass., as assistant. For the past eight years he has been with the New England council. TTAVING spent about $22,000,000 A-l In connection with the steamship steam-ship Leviathan, the government will now spend approximately $0,000,000 more on the building of a new vessel ves-sel to take the place of the great ship that was taken from Germany In wartime. Secretary of Commerce Com-merce Roper announced the acceptance accept-ance of a contract submitted by the United States Lines for construction construc-tion of a sister ship to the Washington Washing-ton and Manhattan. The contract was executed by the shipping line with the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock corporation for $11,!H)0,000 for the new ship. Under the new agreement agree-ment the government may lend up to 75 per cent of $0,000,000 of the cost of the vessel. |
