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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Ilauptmann Reprieved by Governor Hoffman Plan Devised to Avoid New AAA Legislation Bonus Bill Favored in Senate. By EDWARD W. PICKARD Western Newspaper Union. T KSS than thirty hours from the ' time when lie was to die In the electric chair, Ilruno Richard Ilauptmann, convicted kidnaper and y.,; slayer of the Lind- ?" . .. Iicruli baby, was . ... . given a thirty-day '. reprieve hy Oov-4 Oov-4 ernnr IIolTnian of New Jersey. Tins s 1 means he will have t-V"' ff at least sixty more V days to live, he-, he-, , tll j cause he will have -.' ' '! to he re-sentenced, il if, Lji The governor did not River the spe-Bruno spe-Bruno ci(1(, ,.easnns for nis Hauptmann ac(on He g.ly . "A reprieve Is nn net of executive clemency rather than Judicial clemency. clem-ency. I am not required to give a reason, hut 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, "unless the evidence should warrant" war-rant" another, the governor said. If Itanptmnnn is to be finally saved it must be through the presentation 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 pardons court. The stay came after the United States Supreme court at Washington Washing-ton refused to admit attorneys to file a petition for a writ of habeas corpus for Ilauptmann. 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 investi-gated by authorities and by the forces of the defense. They are too complicated for summary here. LITERARY DIGEST'S Presidential Presiden-tial straw vote has been concluded, con-cluded, and the final returns indicate indi-cate a growing opposition to the New Deal. A total of 1,907,CS1 ballots bal-lots was received, and of these 62.0G per cent were cast against the President's policies and acts, and 37.34 per cent were for the administration. admin-istration. 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 co-.intry, New England cast the heaviest "No" vote, going 77.9S per cent against the administration. The Middle Atlantic states from New York to the west showed GS.S9 per cent of the voters against Mr.' Roosevelt and his recovery schemes, while the Middle Western states in the farm belt and the Rocky Mountain Moun-tain states indicated a ratio approximately ap-proximately the same as the nation na-tion at large 3 to 2 against. The three Pacific coast states totaled 5S.0I against the New Deal. 'TpUERE will be no new iegisla-lion iegisla-lion to continue the aims of the AAA, if the plans of the administration ad-ministration are adopted, for it has been found by olli- wvmmKr,x cials that the soil f -conservation act of 'V" s 1935 will permit L' 'l the undertaking of f , N j about everything in ? - 1 the bill that the y M house and senate " r agricultural com- f1 N rnittees were draw- v J ing up. I In a White nouse J, 1" j conference the new , . Sen. Robinson program was agreed upon hy President Roosevelt, Roose-velt, Senator J. T. Robinson, majority ma-jority leader; Secretary of Agriculture Agri-culture Wallace, Attorney General Cumniings, Chairman Ellison D. Smith of the senate agriculture committee, Chairman Marvin Jones of the house agriculture committee. Speaker Joseph W. I'.yrns, Senator John II. ISankhead (Do in., Ala.), AAA Administrator Davis, and M. G. White of the AAA. The administration will work out a system erf granting farm subsidies subsi-dies to farmers restricting acreage under authority of the soil conservation con-servation act of 193."). In connection connec-tion with the program the administration adminis-tration will make provision for obligations incurred under the AAA. In a radio address Herbert Hoover Hoov-er ofTered the country his own plan for bringing recovery to the farmer. farm-er. Asserting that a new road must be built by which agriculture can "get back onto the solid ground from the quicksand of the New Deal." Mr. Hoover outlined three general or group proposals for farm recovery. They are: 1. The restoration of the home market to American farmers. i. The retirement of thin" and sulnnarginal acres, with a slowing slow-ing up of reclamation of projects. ii. Encouragement of co-operative marketing and the further improvement improve-ment of farm credit machinery. SEVENTEEN persons met a tragic fate in the worst airplane accident ac-cident that the L'nited States lias 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 ditliculty 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. Ollieials 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 sis motors buried in the mud. No one was aboard at the time. C ENATOIt PAT HARRISON'S compromise bonus measure, providing pro-viding for payment in baby bonds redeemable on demand, was given the right of way itr m tue senate and its passage was h assured after a brief and "ly 3e- "j bate. The veter- V ans' organizations bj.v - whose bill had been f" -SkSrf passed by the house -Wjs accepted the com- " promise, so it evi- y&k.A., dently was on its way to the White ben. Pat nouse for acHon Harrison by the PregIdent What Mr. Roosevelt would do was not known, reports that he 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 uncertainty, to struggle up out of five years of hard times." TTAPPY days are nearing for the T1 indigent, for the Social Security 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 the 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 security board. Louis Resnick of New York 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. HAVING spent about $22,000,000 in connection with the steamship steam-ship Leviathan, the government will now spend approximately $9,000,000 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 $11,900,000 for the new ship. Under the new agreement agree-ment the government may lend up to 75 per cent of $9,000,000 of the cost of the vessel. ET'MOPIA'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 "big" rainy season is due to begin in May. "dispatches received in Rome said fill. 000 native troops under General Granziani and G0,0iK) Ethiopians commanded by Itas Desta Demtu, son-in-law of Emperor Ilaile Selassie, Selas-sie, engaged in a desperate battle along the entire southern front, and that the Ethiopians, wiio 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 Burgoyne of England Eng-land had been bombed and destroyed de-stroyed by Italian planes at Waldia, 90 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 IS 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 them. FAILING in their demand for the right of full equality of naval strength for Japan with Great Britain Brit-ain 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, refused 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 he 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 under 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 Foland to conquer the Ukraine. HARRY L. HOPKINS, WPA administrator, ad-ministrator, has sent to state administrators a set of regulations intended to protect WPA workers from "chiseling" r mSm employers and to ' j keep tip wage stand- t, ' j ards. In his letter pSI to the slate officials W'Xi;-jS:jM Mr. Hopkins said : f'SiillHfl "I want to make mMli perfectly clear the policy of the works ? tlNls'v S m progress adminis- 'J tration relative to t i private employ- y ment or employment employ-ment on contract Harry L. jobs under the di- Hopkins rection of other federal departments which may be offered the WPA 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." MRS. 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. |