Huntingdon Daily News (Newspaper) - June 22, 1935, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania SHE NEWSPAPER WHEREVER ITS READ The Daily News THE WEATHER f Partly Slightly Cooler Sunday Fair With Blow ly Rising VOL. 14. JUNE 22, 1935. NO. 122. BUDGET ASSEMBLY AWAITS ADJOURNMENT New NRA Legislation Jo Be Urged On Present Session Of Congress THREE TO COLLABORATE ON RECOVERY PLAN BABY SENATOR'S PARTY BOSS Labor And Industry Prepare To Lay Program Before President Next Week AIM TO SERVE ALL INTERESTS By LTLE A. BROOKOVER Staff Correspondent 1935, United June 22. - New NRA strongly backed by and the will be asked of the present session of according to authoritative plans revealed today to the United Although officials generally refused discuss specific legislative plans to continue benefits derived from NRA authoritative sources described the method by which the three interests expect to collaborate on a more permanent recovery The American Federation of Labor was near completion a proposal to regulate all interstate commerce industries through a federal licensing Business leaders in the commerce department advisory council are drafting a widely divergent Present strategy will take both groups to the White probably next to lay their plans before the If a compromise proposal on which all can agree is not worked out in the President likely will ask each group to work separately toward an agreement and report back at an early Since new legislation is the common participants in the plan believe a middle ground will be gained and that President Roosevelt will give his approval and send the suggested law to Capitol probably accompanied by a special Leaders in the two groups believe a new law will be sent to Congress within 15 ean be passed within three one spokesman the industry and labor asking for it will be like getting money from Harry F. Boston and chairman of Secretary Roper's business and Henry I. former president of S. Chamber of slated to succeed are leaders in drafting the business Harriman met with the NRA advisory council Thursday and described industry's while George L. labor advisor to labor federation outlined labor's New officials of NRA are keeping the legislative question A tabulation Is being made of In labor standards since the codes were The President's executive order reestablishing NRA contained a phrase generaly interpreted as revealing his hope for new on Page WALEY BEGINS 45-YEAR TERM IN PEN ON im ISLAND Capital society acquired another beauty as well as the younges senatorial hostess when Rush D. Holt of West Virginia attained senatorial She is Jane 21-year-old sister of the baby who has moved to Washington to supervise his home and arrange those social parties so important in SWIGART FIRM IS HOST AT DINNER TO AGENTS AND GUESTS Public At New Building Being Held Afternoon And Evening MINISTER'S CASE IN HANDS Judge W. W. Uttley Among Elders Named To Commission 1. re- 22. 2,a controversial case ot Dr who was fused transfer from New to the Philadelphia rested today with a judicial commission of the Pennsylvania Synod of the Presbyterian Dr. Machen in i Presbytery trial was found guilty of for refusing to dissolve his independent board of foreign Of which he was the Members of the created for the purpose of handling controversial cases arising within the L. Forty Roy F. William M. David K. Wesley L. John Clark North William R. and G. Karl West On Pace With directors and officers of the insurance companies they represent present as special the Swigart Associates entertained one hundred twenty-five members of their their families and a few other guests at a dinner in the Juniata College dining hall yesterday afternoon at 1:00 This delightful occasion was part of the special celebration being held Friday and Saturday to mark the public opening of the new insurance building of this aggressive firm at 409-411 Penn This afternoon arid this the public is invited to attend the be ing given by Swigart Associates and the lovely building with its collection of beautiful objects of art and old is well a close in Mr. Swigart's mother and Rev. and Mrs. W. J. Swigart were special guests at the dinner yesterday quite ap Rev. Swigart was called upon for the invocation and a few words about the Words of cordial greeting were extended by Mr. W. Emmert the host who alio acted as master of In his speech of he reviewed briefly his career in the the opening of his former partnership in 1907 with on Test Your Knowledge Can you answer seven of these test Turn to the classified page for the 1. Name the first important battle of the Civil 2. What ks a Who was Guido 4. Can water have a temperature higher than its boiling 5. In which state is the city of Old 6. Who wrote the novel of Moll 7. What is an 8. Where is the famous the 9. What is another name for common 10. Where is Oneida Kidnaper of Weyerhaeuser Heir Pleads For Mercy For His Wife JUDGE REJECTS PLEA OF WIFE Per Capita In New Taxes CUPPER FOLLOWS SAILING ROUTE IN HOP OVER PACIFIC Pan American Plane Bucks Stiff Winds Along Course From Honolulu To California By RICHARD C. WILSON Staff Correspondent T. June 22. - Pan American oriental Clipper plane followed a route laid out by sailing ships in the days of ships and iron in flying hack to California from Honolulu Bucking stiff head the crew of the plane grooving the route for commercial flying service across the Pacific flew eastward on a line 300 miles north of the Great Circle path followed by the steam ships of The course they to add to their knowledge of flying conditions over the western was the route the original clipper ships followed in their dash es across the Pacific to bring back to America the teas and spices of old Cathay and the sugar and pineapples of on Page By ARTHUR L. Staff June 22. - Less than one month after he had prided himself on the success of his first major Harmon Metz 25-year-old small town bad began a 45-year prison term today for the kidnaping of George Weyerhaeuser son of a Tacoma Through an apparent deal with the government agents who ar rested him in Salt Lake City two weeks after the the six-foot desperado pleaded guilty to the charges against him and received a sentence which spared him the life term might have received under the Lindbergh law had he chosen to stand Waley was taken to McNeil land Federal penitentiary in Puget Sound to being his It was indicated he might later be transferred to Alcatraz Island or some other federal After being dressed in at the island prison where fences replace Waley was given a cell which overlooked much of the country in which he made hig bid for a place in the top flight of American South of him was the city of where on May 23 he and William now a picked up the nine-year old boy on the Far to the east of the snow-tipped ranges of the Cascade was the city in which his 19-year-old wife and Mahan held the boy a prisoner until ransom was paid one week later for George's While her husband was led off to McNeil blonde Margaret Waley remained in the Thurston county jail at still waiting to learn her She may find out today when she will appear for the third time before federal Judge E. E. for The Waleys were together yesterday when they were into udge Cushman's courtroom for Steven Tacoma was at their side as their legal In another room in the Federal afraid to trust herself to come into the was on Page June 22.-Peansyl-vanians will be compelled to pay or approximately per in new taxes during the two-year period from June 1, 1935, to June 1, 1937. According to the enactments of the 1935 General ending the biennium budget of the Commonwealth was balanced with the following new revenue totaling for the two year Repeal of exemption to 5-mill capital stock Six mill increase in gross receipts tax of Six per cent levy on net corporate Cigarette 2 cents a Documentary stamp 5 cents per increase in gasoline Equalization of foreign corporation Escheat of unclaimed bank Four per cent tax on personal property GOVERNMENT ACTS TO WITHHOLD CITY FROM LONG'S NEW RIVER BRIDGE AT MOUNT UNION TO BE ILLUMINATED YOUNGSTERS SHOW GAINS IN WEIGHT Despite Inclement Weather Kiwanis Campers Enthusiastic The Huntingdon Kiwanis Health Camp at the Stauffer Lodge in Diamond Valley has completed its first week very sue in spite of continued in. clement weather with its result ant difficulties of launching the outdoor program as The staff and visiting Kiwanis mem bers express themselves as well pleased with the results thus far and even those few children who were at first homesick have be acclimated to the extent of thoroughly this new mode of The physical check up on the thirty youngsters a gain in weight from one three pounds on all but three Regular balanc ed plus the daily quart of milk per child and long hours of rest in the open air have already effected good results in spite almost five days without sun. The daily program has been carried out as scheduled except on Page U. S. SENATE NOW HAS FULL QUOTA June 22. - Rush Dew W. began his first full day as a United States Senator bringing the Senate to its full quota of 96 for the first time this Holt waited two days beyond his 30th the constitutional age limit for U. S. Senate while his elders argued his The issue never was greatly in doubt and on the vote he was seated 62 to 17 In taking a seat and full voting Holt became the youngest Senator since Henry He established precedent by discharging all the duties of a except voting prior to being The seating of Holt brought the majority te the Senate to 70, the largest any party has ever FERA Funds Advanced To Continue Operation of Ten New Orleans Services SENATOR'S BLOCKADE HOLDS UP CHECKS Liquor Law and Constitutional Bills Tied Up Last Minute Business Centers Principally On Revision Of State Beer Licensing And Proposed Tax On Out-Of-State liquor Handled In Stores New June 22. - The federal government intervened with funds and moral support today to prevent the New Orleans municipal government from falling into the hands of Sen. Huey P. vocal and indomitable enemy of the Roosevelt The Federal Emergency Relief Administration advanced funds that assured continued operation of 10 vital municipal Observers generally agreed that had the federal funds not been the old CLOCKS NOT YET AT FRIDAY At Boro Council Decides To Pay For Cost of Electricity to The Daily Mount June 22.-The fine new river bridge at Mount Union which spans the Juniata and which is nearing will be This question was decided at a special meeting of the borough council Thursday evening when the President E. N. Preston and every member of council voted unanimously in its Because of the expense of illumination it was not a certainty until the Council met. Burgess E. Clark Fields also present at the The Chamber of Commerce will Install the lights and the expense of the electricity will be maintained by the The completion of the bridge is very near and it is believed that it will be opened for traffic about Fourth of A big celebration to fittingly observe the opening of this beautiful bridge is being planned and a number of state and national figures will be on the program for that political in nominal control of municipal would have been forced to surrender within a few days to its implacable Sen. Long. Garbage collectors went on strike leaving refuse to accumulate throughout the Because of the blockade the Long controlled legislature had around the municipal together with all other city had not been paid in two In any city this would have been but in New with its summer it was doubly so. The citizenry was as greatly alarmed as the old regular officials waiting in city hall for something to Then came the order from Frank H. state director of now in to prepare their payrolls so that this organization could meet Also in Washington was Mayor T. Semmes leader of the old and bitter enemy of Long. He went there to solicit funds from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation with which to operate the municipal government and was turned Members of the Long political which is in virtually absolute political control of all were For months Sen. using the militia and laws passed at his dictation by the had tried to force the resignation of Mayor Walmsley and other officials elected with The municipal fire and police departments had been transferred to Long control by virtue of new The city's tax collections had been all but completely stopped by laws that transferred assessment powers to state board appointed by Gov. O. K. a Long While a number of city in addition to on Page By ROSS DOWNING Staff Correspondent June 22. - Last minute business of the 1935 tenth longest in the history of the which ended an 8-hour recess at 10 centered principally around liquor law changes and regular I constitutional DOG WONT ALLOW COLONEL TO LAND North June 22. The German shepherd dog that watches over two-year-old Jon Lindbergh wouldn't let Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh land his airplane here Colonel flying here to join his son and members of the Morrow circled the island several times and then dropped toward the private landing field near the Morrow Little Jon's pet and constant companion was loose and didn't like the aerial He raced onto the and the flier had to zoom upward again to avoid killing the A caretaker had to lure the dog away and tie him before Colo nel Lindbergh could glide to a World Leaders To Study Problems Of Juveniles By LUCA United Press Staff Correspondent June 22 - Two international conferences of outstanding interest to students of throughout the world are scheduled here between July 15 and 21. They are the of judges and magistrates who preside over juvenile snd a congress of the International for the Protection ot The former conference will last from July 15 to 17. It will be followed immediately on July 18 by the second of the two gatherings which will continue until July 21. Fifteen countries will be represented at the conference of justices of juvenile are Great Portugal United States and Yugo Important Papers to Be Kead It is expected that chief in terest at this conference mil be focused on the paper to be read by the Hungarian delegate Pierre de on the effects of economic distress on criminality among Another eagerly awaited paper will be that of Mme. of the first woman appointed as judge in juvenile courts in She is now juridicial counsellor at the Pol ish Ministry of Social Assistance and is a recognized authority on criminality among on Page Barring unforeseen a weary group of law makers expected adjournment of this 131st session before the end of the They have been working feverishly since Monday afternoon to clear the legislative jam. Sine die adjournment was set for noon the clocks in both assembly chambers were not allowed to reach that final Neither house could be adjourned last but recesses allowed the members a good nights They awaited the action of a joint conference committee on the liquor and beer approved by both houses but hung up over The Senate insisted upon a tax on out-of-state liquor handled through the state stores and a provision that the county treasurers should retain the power of issuing beer The House refused to accept the changes and the went to a conference committee which worked through out the night in an effort to iron out the Since the bills provide liquor and beer law changes found to RECEIPTS BALANCE EXPENDITURES By MOREY POTTER Staff Correspondent * June 22. - Pennsylvania's estimated biennium receipts and expenditures were in balance today as the General Assembly deliberated overtime Restoration of equilibrium in treasury intake and output 1. Revision of the estimated yield of three new taxes already 2. Passage of a increase in the personal property 3. Discarding of the mercantile license tax and the on cosmetics and bank The was accompanied by three related maneuvers which increased the flexibility of the commonwealth's financial allowing fiscal officers wide latitude in meeting They 1. Authorization to issue up to in tax anticipation providing cash to meet past-due 2. Passage of bills to hasten the flow of revenues by allowing a four per cent discount for payment of certain taxes not due until near the end of the present fiscal 3. Ent of measures lowing postponement until May 31, 1937 of repayment of about borrowed from special which payments are due before Dec. 31, 1935. Having added the finishing be advisable by the special House touches to the financial committee which investigated the liquor control board their approval in one form or another is considered The House has approved the conference report on the Ruth constitutional revision and both houses gave attention today to legislative including controversial issues to be ironed out in conference committees and routine concurrence in Scheduled to adjourn sine die the Senate was to add its noon the YALE MAKES CLEAN SWEEP ON THAMES tive vote today Coming from the conference the remained largely as it had passed the Re publican controlled The question of holding a constitu tional convention would be voted on at the September If approved by the the political parties would select I candidates for 10 at large and two from each ot the 50 state senatorial districts so far as its records are today was extending its Friday forenoon The chamber clocks were held between 11 and 11:30 a. m. Prior to passage of the personal property tax the administration revised its estimate of the biennium yield of nine already to and held for an aggregate of as the bottom The delegates would be elected har necessary to balance the at the November New June 22.- Yale gained a clean sweep of the Thames river in its 73rd regatta with Harvard today when its varsity shell defeated the crimson boatload in the pull up the river from the bridge to Bartlett's Yale won by almost a quarter ot a convention would be called in December and the voters would act upon the new constitution either at next year's primary or general as stipulated by the constitutional convention Other conference reports by the two houses today The difference was to come from a increase in the present 4-mill levy on personal county bonds to yield The increase in the present levy and used by the counties in before the Senate early MINISTERS OUTING AT CAMP involved but a provision for the signed to allow the state and on Page to float loans in obtaining federal funds for work relief permanent on Page STOCK MARKET LIBRARIAN SPEAKS COUNTY BOOKS Mount Union Pastors Families Meet At M. E. Grounds Mount June 22.- The Ministerial Association of Mount Union and vicinity held the monthly business meeting Thursday in the form of an outing at the Methodist Training Camp at Newton This is the first outing this association has held for some years and with the families of the ministers the affair proved to be New June 22.-Stocks advanced fractionally at the opening today in fairly active Bonds were quiet and Cotton was unchanged to 7 points The dollar Du Pont opened at 104% up Ys and a new high since 1931; U. S. Steel 33% up Union Pacific 205% up American Smelting 42% up % General Motors 1,000 shares at 32% up % Johns 52 % up American Telephone 128% up Chrysler 2,-000 shares at 49% up International Telephone 2,000 shares Miss Evans Tells of ing Library In Maryland very A good dinner was served under the direction of 10% up % and a new high for the management of the I the and Kennecott Copper 18% up Prices firmed further In the early International Telephone was active at rising Oils advanced fractionally after a steady American Telephone extended the last meeting of the present 10c ia initial reaching 128% Consolidated Gas held at its initial and the comforts also of the hotel were placed at the disposal of the ministers for their business A business meeting was held with the Dr. R. Skyles in the This being year the M. S. gave a detailed report of the covering expenses in connection with Community Standard Training School held in Letters of appreciation were read from en Page price of 26 up U in a steady to firm utility North American touched 17% equaling the high for the Trading turned dull Hi the general list A meeting in the interest ot the mr County was held yesterday at the County Superintendent's office at 11 Dr. I. Harvey Brumbaugh of Juniata College acted as temporary chairman of the Miss Lillian Librarian at Juniata gave an interesting account of the services rendered by county libraries in other Miss Evans dwelt particularly on the services rendered by the Washington County Library of She told how every home in the county is served by a library truck which takes books for all ages out to the people at intervals during the She said that such service is not a remote possibility for Huntingdon Miss Evans pointed out that a county library means free public library service for everyone in the county - books for That it serves erybody in the On Page
