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SHINER GAZETTE. SHINER, TEXAS
News Review of Current
Events the World Over
Hauptmann Reprieved by Governor Hoffman—Plan
Devised to Avoid New AAA Legislation—
Bonus Bill Favored in Senate.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
© Western Newspaper Union.
Bruno
Hauptmann
t ESS than thirty hours from the
Lj time when he was to die in the
electric chair, 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 re-sentenced.
The governor did not
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 said. 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.
T ITERARY DIGEST’S Presidential
straw rote 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
fothers 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 68.89 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
toast states totaled 58.04 against the
New Deal.
Sen. Robinson
hpHERE will be no new legislation
i-K- to continue the aims of the AAA,
If the plans ©f the administration are
adopted, for it has been found by offi-
cials that.the soil con-
servation act of 1935
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
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 au-
thority of the soil 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
OP' of reclamation of projects.
\ Encouragement of co-operative
marketing and the further improve-
ment of farm credit machinery.
OWENTEEN persons met a tragic
^ fate in the worst airplane acci-
dent that the United States has had.
A big transport plane of the Ameri-
tan Airlines, en route from New York
to Los Angeles, crashed in a swamp
near the village of Goodwin, Ark., and
It* 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.
A 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 S. Gorrell, chief of staff of the
army air 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 association 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 those of Will
Hays of the movies and Judge Landiy
of baseball.
SENATOR PAT HARRISON’S com-
^ promise bonus measure, providing
for payment in baby bonds redeemable
on demand, was given the right of way
in the senate and
its passage seemed
certain after a brief
and lively debate. The
veterans’ organizations
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 of our govern-
ment that is necessary if we are ever
to regain national 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 service 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.”
TTAPPY days are nearing for the
•El 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. Latimer of Mississippi
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 ©f New York was made di-
rector of the public assistance bureau
of the social security board. Louis
Resnick of New York was named di-
rector of the informational service bu-
reau. ' ®
The board also announced the ap-
pointment of Robert E. Huse of Cam-
bridge, Mass., as assistant.
T T AVING spent about $22,000,000 In
-El connection with the steamship
Leviathan, the government will now
spend approximately $9,000,000 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 an-
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 $11,900,000 for the new ship. Un
der the new agreement the governmem
may lend up to 75 per cent of $9,000,
000 of the cost of the vessel
TV/TRS. THOMAS D. SCHALL has-
•L»l filed nomination papers as can
didate for the senate seat made vacam
by the death of her hnsband, the lat<
senator from Minnesota. Mrs. Schal
says if elected she will carry on “th<
same vigorous fight” 8gainst the New
Deal as was waged by her husband.
WASHIN6T0
DIGEST
by WILLIAM BRUCKART
NATIONAL PRE55 BLDG.
Washington.—The dictionary says the
word confusion means mixed indis-
criminately; disor-
Cor\fusion dered, deranged ;
Is the Word perplexed; bewil-
dered, or discon-
certed.
There probably is no better word to
describe the situation in Washington
over the past three weeks than the
word confusion. If one keeps an eye
haTf open, one cannot help seeing all
of the things mentioned in the diction-
ary definition of the word. There might
be an addition. If I were to expand
the definition and make it just a little
more applicable to the circumstances
in the national Capital, I would add
“running around in circles.”
The reconvening of congress always
is a signal for commotion, and con-
fusion and taut nerves. The opening
sessions, nevertheless, usually have
been mild for a few days. The climax
was reached by a gradual building up
of excitement to the moment of the
annual message of the President on the
state of the Union. This-time, how-
ever, the climax came quickly and in-
stead of a subsidence, as we usually
have seen, the crest of the wave of ex-
citement continued. If this is a baro-
metric prediction of what we may see
in the forthcoming political campaign,
there will he, indeed, a battle.
That the picture of Washington con-
fusion may be pieced together, let us
review in briefest form some of the
things that happened:
Congress reconvenes at noon on a
Friday—orders go from the White
House to the Capitol that the Presi-
dent desires to deliver his annual
speech on the state of the Union im-
mediately — arrangements are made
promptly for a night session (the sec-
ond of its kind in history)—President
Roosevelt delivers a masterful dis-
course on international affairs, virtu-
ally naming names of autocratic rulers
throughout the world and demanding
that they cease arbitrary programs
leading to war, and follows that with
a plain political speech regarding do-
mestic affairs, challenging New Deal
opponents to undo what the New Deal
administration had done—Republican
National Chairman Fletcher bitingly
attacks the political phases of the
Roosevelt speech on the state of the
Union and demands that radio broad-
casting companies give New Deal op-
ponents the same time and the same
stations for broadcasting a political an-
swer—broadcasting company replies
show a desire to be fair with radio
time and toss back to Mr. Fletcher the
difficult task of selecting individuals to
answer Mr. Roosevelt.
* * *
The Supreme court in a momentous
decision Invalidates the Agricultural
Adjustment act,
Rail at key measure of
Supreme Court New Deal reform
—Mr. Roosevelt
declines comment on this decision but
New Deal spokesmen otherwise settle
down around the ears of the nine jus-
tices with vitriolic comment—New
Deal critics ©f the court and the in-
stitution move swiftly to revise the
Constitution to fit New Deal theories
and to curb the power of the judiciary,
preventing it from interfering in their
determination to remake America—
Agriculture Secretary Wallace and Ag-
ricultural Administrator Davis call
farm leaders to consider ways and
means for reviving or superseding the
“gentle rain of checks” that was AAA
—the annual budget of estimates for
expenditures from July 1, 1936, to June
30, 1937, carrying $6,752,606,000, Is sent
to congress—relief appropriations are
omitted; result, no one can tell yet how
lalrge the next year’s expenditures will
be—house and senate agriculture lead-
ers scurry hither and yon, hold confer-
ences, discuss political repercussions
from the Invalidation of AAA and get
nowhere very rapidly.
* * *
Wheelhorses of the Democratic party
rush through plans toi and hold the
annual Jackson day
At $50 dinner on the anni-
per Plate versary of the battle
of New Orleans.
Word leaks out that Postmaster Gen-
eral Farley, who is also chairman of
the Democratic National committee
and chairman of the New York State
Democratic committee, has fixed a
price of fifty dollars per plate to those
joining in the No. 1 Jackson day din-
ner at which the President spoke—the
American Liberty league charges Mr.
Farley with violating the corrupt prac-
tices act which says in effect that no
government official may solicit or cause
to be solicited funds from government
jobholders—the answer of the Demo-
cratic National committee is that Mr.
Farley has no part in ticket sales—
Liberty league officials cite the com-
mittee’s own press statement quoting
Mr. Farley’s conversation with 48 state
presidents of Young Democrat clubs
that they should charge enough per
plate to help defray the deficit of the
Democratic National committee besides
the cost of their dinners in the vari-
ous sections of the country—Demo-
:ratic National committee meets and
selects Philadelphia as the site of the
Democratic National convention, fixing
rune 23 as the date after Philadelphia,
with a certified check of $200,000, out-
bids all others to be host—Republican
WASHINGTON. D.L
Chairman Fletcher issues denial that
the Republican National committee had
anything to do with the use of stamp
stickers ridiculing the New Deal.
Lobbyists for the ex-service men
reach an agreement on the type of
legislation for immediate cash payment
of the bonus and the legislation passes
the house—Senator Nye and his pub-
licity seeking Senate Munitions Investi-
gating committee take the partners of
the bouse of Morgan over the grill in
an attempt to show that this great
financial institution led the United
States into the World war—Morgan’s
answer links officials of President Wil-
son’s administration with the develop-
ment of sentiment favorable to Ameri-
can participation on the side of the
Allies—Senator Nye gains much pub-
licity for himself and the neutrality
bill which he sponsors in the senate—
many- new representatives of business
arrive in Washington, open offices,
prepare to fight against further New
Deal encroachment upon private busi-
ness, and everyone runs around in
circles.
* * *
At the outset of this discussion, 1
suggested that if events of the last
several weeks form
Looks Like a proper criterion,
Rough Battle the Political cam-
paign-that is now un-
der way is going to be rough. I base
that prediction upon the view taken
of it by Postmaster General Farley, the
king-pin Democratic politician and the
reactions that have come editorially
and in news columns to the President’s
Jackson day dinner speech and the
political phases of his message on the
state of the Union. Mr. Farley made
no bones about the prospect. He fore-
sees all kinds of mud slinging, mis-
representation and personal attacks.
Aside from' his statesmanlike discus-
sion of international problems, Mr.
Roosevelt’s message to congress de-
scended to the point where he was defi-
nitely cataloging all opposition to the
New Deal as “greedy and selfish” men
and women. Every one of them, In the
President’s ©pinion, has a personal as
of avarice to grind. He intends, ap-
parently, to make that his theme song.
Whether his conclusions are right or
wrong is not in question here. The
point is that since Mr. Roosevelt has
opened the fire in that manner, he can
naturally expect the same type of fire
to be returned. In the language of the
twelve-year-old ruffian: "He asked for
it.” There was another striking thing
about the Roosevelt speeches to con-
gress and to the Jackson day diners.
For the first time since he has occu-
pied the White House, he gave every
evidence of being nettled and nervous.
He spoke in a voice that appeared to
be tired; there was lacking that buoy-
ancy, that smile, when he spoke that
used to characterize his expressions.
You will recall undoubtedly that for
a long time in the early part of his ad-
ministration he was wholly unmindful
of his enemies, ignored them complete-
ly, and plowed straight ahead with a
determination that won him many
friends. Lately, however, there has
been unmistakable evidence of a mar-
tyr complex in his manner.
* * *
Referring again to the two speeches,
I have heard any number of observers
comment, first, on
Laying his almost tearful
His Lines aM>?al a‘thc
elusion of his speech
to congress, and secondly, to his thinly
veiled comparison between himself and
President Jackson when he spoke to
the Jackson day diners.
I am not making any predictions as
to where this trend will lead. It is
important to note, however, that It is
an old political trick to impugn the
motives of the opposition. Such was
the mood into which former President
Herbert Hoover fell when in 1931 it
became apparent his political life was
on the skids and slipping fast. When
he was “on his way out” Mr. Hoover
became so pieayunish that even his
own associates found it difficult to do
the things he wanted done in the way
he desired. This condition continued
to develop until he began to complain
personally about the “hair shirts” that
he had to wear. The “hair shirts” In-
cident probably was the best tip-off to
the sinking feeling that had begun to
permeate Mr. Hoover’s outlook at that
time. The rest is history.
As to the course which Mr. Roose-
velt is following in impugning the mo-
tives of his opposition, one can hardly
take objection because It has been
done so often and for the further rea-
son that neither Mr. Roosevelt nor
Mr. Farley is a political novice. I be-
lieve that Washington observers gen-
erally give each of these men credit
for being thoroughly versed in politics
and since Mr. Roosevelt is “dimly con-
scious that a campaign is under way
and an election is scheduled,”* he nat-
urally is layifif his lines. They will be
pulled from time to time with a re-
sultant display for public view intend-
ed to convince the person of small
means or no means at all that he is
their savior; that he intends and seeks
at all times to protect them from those
selfish and greedy groups who seek to
grind down the population for the sake
of profit.
© Western Kegannner Unit)*-
BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
Not Spoiled by Money
j Freedom of the Air
i 500 Air Miles for $6
Jones Still Will Lend
Another airplane record. Howard
Hughes, flying 18,000 feet up much
of the way, came
from Los Angeles
to Newark in 9
hours 27 minutes
10 seconds. High
up, where air resist-
ance is less, using
a super-charging en-
gine and helping
his own lung9 with
oxygen from a tank,
Mr. Hughes beat
the existing record
held by Col. Ros-
coe Turner of 10
hours 2 minutes 51
seconds.
Mr. Hughes proves
that being rich does not always spoil
poung Americans. He flew from
ocean to ocean without a stop, 2,450
miles, at an average speed of 260
miles an hour.
Arthur Brisbane
Big broadcasting companies refuse
to allow the Republican party to broad-
cast "laughable- skits” on the “New
Deal.”
Now, or after some worth-while up-
heaval, “freedom of the air” will have
to be dealt with as was “freedom of
the press” when the Constitution was
tvritten.
For radio companies to say to the
party in power, “Because we fear
pou we shall take you to every home
In the country and let you say what
pou please, and shall refuse to give
the same publicity to your opponents,”
might not suit the American idea.
It is good news that Henry Ford’
has gone back to airplane building.
His last trimotor plane was produced
In 1931.
His new two-passenger plane, with
F-8 engine turning the propeller 4,000
times a minute, carries 30 gallons of
gasoline, with a flying range above
500 miles. Five hundred miles of air
travel for $6 worth of gasoline for
two passengers would be cheap trans-
portation.
Henry Ford will begin manufactur-
ing planes seriously, “if and when con-
ditions demand volume production
worth while.”
Jess Jones, chairman of Reconstruc-
tion Finance corporation, tells the
banks that he will go on lending gov-
ernment money until they make credit
fcnd loans easier.
Mr. Jones says-: “The big fellow,
with unquestionable credit, borrows
on his own terms, at low rates. Credit
for the average business is too spar-
ingly given, at much higher rates.”
There is rioting in Porto Rico, num-
bers killed and wounded in various
places. It Is said a Porto Rico "Young
Men’s party” has decided to separate
Porto Rico from the United States, In-
spired perhaps by the departure of
the Philippines.
It is supposed that this government
will tell the “Young Porto Rico” gen-
tlemen that they will not be allowed
to separate, and might as well forget
about it.
This country, in the way of protec-
tion, resources, education and civiliza-
tion, is necessary to Porto Rico, and
strategically Porto Rico is useful to
the United States.
What would England say if Ja-
maica should announce “We wish to
leave the British Empire?”
The beginning of the new year in
Germany sees the death of 1,000 news-
papers, “suspended” by official order
because they opposed Nazi rule. Chan-
cellor Hitler perhaps remembers Na-
poleon’s statement: “If I granted lib-
erty of the press, my government could
not last three weeks.”
He might also remember that some
governments that refused liberty of
the press have also failed to last The
government of the czars was of that
kind. Sitting on the safety valve is
one way, but not the safest
Mr. S. L. Rothafel, known to theater-
goers as “Roxy,” is dead at fifty-three.
While he slept his heart stopped, like
a watch not wound. Men die too young
in America, and weakened hearts kill
many. Life spent without exercise or
an adequate supply of oxygen explains
the deaths. Man is physically a ma-
chine; his heart is the engine, and
heart disease kills more useful men
than any other disease in - modern
times.
Signs of recovery, most Important,
are increased sales of automobiles, in-
creased use of telephones. Mr. Gifford
of the big telephone company shows
that In December, 1935, the number of
telephones increased 47,848, against a
21,146 increase in December, 1934.
“Little rains,” which we should call
hard rains in this country, Interfere
with Mussolini’s operations in Ethiopia.
Soon will come the “big rains,” torrent-
ial downpours, making roads impass-
able, except concrete roads. The Ital-
ians have built some highways. There
are, however, other roads, unknown to
ancient Ethiopia—the roads of the air.
Mussolini’s men may continue on
those roads, with disastrous results
for Ethiopia, In spite of rains, “little’'
and “big.”
© King Features Syndicate, Ine.
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