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Show THE RICH COUNTY HEAP EK, RANDOLPH, ' UTjn Secrets of AAA Hopkins Talks; Not in Public Come to Light But Critics of New Deal Are Pilloried While Crowds Watch Show. Wallace, Under Pressure, veals Big Gifts to Having blocked any effective partisan investigation of the VVPA situation throughout the country Senator Joseph T. Robinson, leader of the New Deal forces in the Senate, has been delaying Senate action on the demand for facts about large beneficiaries of Enthusiasm over the new AAA has been somewhat dampened by disclosures about the old AAA that was knocked out by the Supreme Court When the Administration hastily threw together a new farm bill Congress asked a few general questions about whether it would stand the test of constitutionality and then swallowed It whole. Without public hearings of the chiefs of the Agricultural Department and, with no debate on specific details of the plan, Congress later turned over $470,000,000 to Secretary Wallace. It was a blank check rushed through so that benefit payments to farmers might be Cowing generously just before election time next November. One of the witnesses before the subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee on March 10 was Chester, C. Davis, administrator of the old AAA. At this closed House hearing Administrator Davis was asked if he could supply a list of farm owners who had received more than $10,000 under the old AAA. Mr. Davis said it would be a colossal clerical job. In answer to questions he said he would be very much surprised if payments to single individuals or properties ever ran as high as $200,000. Facts Are Demanded. After the new AAA was launched and thousands of employees were at work preparing to start the gentle, election time, rain of checks, Senator Vandenberg of Michigan offered a resolution in the senate demanding information on payments to farmers of $10,000 or more. Immediately Senator Joseph T. Robinson hastened to the rescue of the New Deal and its politically important record of gifts to farmers. He used parliamentary tricks to delay any probe. Secretary Wallace, of the Agricultural Department, was inclined to be humorous about it. He told the press that if the amounts paid were made public it might tempt evil persons to kidnap the farmers daugh- N J Farmers. bi- . AAA. , , Demands had been made by Senators Davis (Pennsylvania), Vandenberg (Michigan), and Holt (West Virginia) for a thorough sifting of country-widcharges of politics, waste and ineffie ciency in work relief. They produced a mass of documentary evidence in support of their charges. - Senator Robinson, by a clever maneuver, was successful in having recalled an orig-- . inal report of a Senate committee favoring a real investigation. He then had two additional New Deal Senators added to the committee. This seemed to assure success for the New Deal faction in their effort to suppress the . . 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Very Nice for Old Honus! $25,-000,00- 0 for Fairs Shrubs $58,000 DALLAS, Texas. The City of Dallas Park Board has let a $58,000 contract for shrubs and flowers to be used in landscaping the citys section of the grounds at the Texas Centennial Exposition, the $25,000,000 Southwest Worlds Fair, which opens here June 6 :uk continues until Nov. 29. rs ters. The demand for facts, however, and the reluctance of the New Deal to supply them, attracted so much attention over the country that Secretary Wallace was forced to reveal some of the Items on the public records of disbursement of public funds. Following ae some of the facts admitted by the Secretary. Some Huge Awards. One large cotton plantation operator received $123,747 in one year, for not growing cotton. comThe worlds largest pany received $157,000 in a year. This was the companys reward for feeding its hogs with garbage instead of hog-farmi- corn. Sugar benefits of $1,067,665 went to Florida company, $961,064 to a Puerto Rican producer and $1,022,037 to a Hawaiian concern. The payments were benefits for not growing sugar a cane. A Florida concern received $41,194 for not raising tobacco. 8 A California concern received for not growing rice. Peanut growers did not fare so well. The largest payment for not growing Gold Mines on Display DALLAS, Texas. The most elab- peanuts was $3,000. orate exhibit of precious metals to One of the items on the Secretarys come from Texas earth is being as0 list was a payment of more than sembled for exhibition at the Texas wheat to Thomas D. Campbell, Centennial Exposition at Dallas. Here Mr. Campbell and his assoTera3 gold mines will snow their stuff king. have raised wheat and flax on ciates for the first time in the history of their own properties for years and they the state. also have rented extensive acreage. He has rented land from the Indians to Meet Druggists in the west at bargain rates, ranging DALLAS, T e x a s. S i x National from 50 cents to $1.50 an acre. On hold will convenannual drug groups this Indian land Mr. Campbell was 1936. meetin All tions Dallas during ings will be held on the Centennial paid about $7 an acre for not growing Exposition grounds in the Federal wheat. Government building. In view of the importance of this belated information on AAA some Senators and Representatives point to the Syria Syria Is a former province of the old wisdom of thoroughly airing VVPA beTurkish empire, made an independent fore more billions are thrown into that state by the Treaty of Sevres, August program. 10, 1920, and administered under the mandate given to France by the suThfe Downy Woodpecker preme council of the allied powers, the The Downy Woodpecker is black and mandate becoming effective September white. On the males there is a smalt 1923. Syria is divided into the re 29, patch of red on the back of the head. sition, $25,000,000 Worlds Fair openLebanon and the republic of His dark, gray feet have sharp claws ing at Dallas June 6, visited the public of teams San Antonio training camp. Syria. The central administration of for clinging to the bark of trees. The the mandatory power is at Beirut, the The girls invited President Bill piece of decaying tree trunk bn which and the members of his team capital of the Lebanese republic. The Downy perches is, usually, a variation . to attend the Exposition. capital of the Syrian state is Damas-of berk, gray patches of bark and cus. weathered wood, with some rich, colov where there is much decay. 1 The Flag of France 1 Vodka The flag of France during the first was the Criminal second Common alcholic drink, Not and Murderer Vodka is a distilled empires The majority of murders are not (divided vertically into three parts of termed a harsh, noxious, fiery spirit, equal width blue, white and red, the containing about 40 per cent alcohol. committed by common criminals, a fact red forming the fly, the white the midIt is prepared mainly from rye, but that is confirmed by a study which dle, and the blue the hoist of the flag) also from a mixture of barley, oats shows, writes John Piquet, Knoxville, having in the center of the white stripe and rye, from potatoes and from in Colliers Weekly, that two out of an eagle; and all three stripes were maize. 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While there is no criticism of an appropriations subcommittee following the usual procedure of bolding executive sessions, critics of VVPA declare that Administrator Hopkins should also appear before a committee authorized to invesiigate They say a public hearing of the charges would be a far different matter than an executive session of a House committee which does not pretend to investigate, and which meets behind closed doors. A Different Scene. A strikingly different picture was presented in an ornate chamber in the Senate Office Building on the same afternoon. The Black Lobby (ornmittee was Investigating the activities of an organization that had been critical of the New Deal. Policemen handled the crowd that sought admittance. As witnesses took the sraind, in front of the high dais on which the Senatorial investigators sat. photographers for and magazines came and went, punctuating the proceedings with flashlights. Reporters representing all the national news services and many individual newspapers sat nea. the committeemen, busily taking notes. This was a colorful political melodrama, staged in a room with richly draped fluted columns., gleaming windows, chandeliers The New 'Deal believes in the glowing light of publicity for any Investigation of those who criticize New Deal policies. Tt will not submit Mr. Hopkins to public questioning if, it can avoid it. It makes a difference whose baby has the measles. ; Only WITH Hopkins Testifies. As usual with subcommittees on the doors were closed. Stenographic reports were taken of the proceedings but the printed report of the hearing, as usual, was not expected to reach the public for some weeks. Even when printed and made public the report probably will have been edited- - ' four and work-relie- f news-pape- S FINE MAGAZINES )All THIS NEWSPAPER, 1 year facts. Washington observers have pointed out the picture presenter; several days ago when two committees were in session on Copitot Hill. In the Capitol a subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee for five hours questioned Administrator Harry Hopkins about AAA. Mr. Hopkins in three years had administered the expenditure of almost 8.0(H) million dollars on projects and other relief. President Roosevelt had asked for an appropriation of 1,fi00 millions more. work-relie- Re- Kiss Lasts 2,000 Year Laborers, conducting excavation work near Szentes, Hungary, found themselves witnesses of a kiss which had lasted 2,000 years. In an ancient Celtic grave they found ' two human skeletons, one male and one female, each other, the faces embracing pressed close together. According to archeologists, the grave dates back to the last century B. G ' ; tri-col- -- red-brow- n |