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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1935
Page
2
Brisk collage of reflections on impending war, economic shifts, and public attitudes. Notes Babe Ruth’s sale, lunar pull on Earth, Dempsey, Hitler’s fitness orders, relief depictions, and debates on gold versus fiat money, ending with a call to press on with American ingenuity.
Edward Pickard reviews Washington battles over the Works Progress Administration budget and McCarran amendment fate. He notes Byrnes doubts revival, Long push for highway spending, and Roosevelt’s possible shift to direct subsidies for shipping.
Celebrations marked the seventeenth anniversary of the military establishment as Soviet Russia renewed its defiance of imperialist nations. Across the country fetes unfolded and speakers praised the Red Army while elevating its role.
Richard Hauptmann escaped the electric chair when a writ of error earned a temporary stay of his March 18 execution in Trenton New Jersey. The Bronx carpenter’s fate rests on further appeals to the Court of Pardons if the Court of Error and Appeals fails to uphold the writ. Lawyers Fisher Pope and Edward J. Reilly clashed over the appeal as a May 21 court session looms for a probable hearing.
Missouri Representative Bell urges immediate passage of a bill to repeal the publicity provision of the 1984 revenue act. He warns of fears among the public and businessmen about rivals accessing private tax files while noting the 1926 act keeps intact access for government officials. Raymond Pitcairn calls for withholding tax returns until March 15 to allow debate and repeal, challenging Senator LaFollette to a national radio debate, which he ignores.
Former President Herbert Hoover calls for immediate reestablishment of the gold standard to restore confidence in U S currency and put 12,000,000 unemployed back to work. He says the United States should act without waiting for foreign nations and backs strong enforcement of anti trust laws and labor protections.
Actress Fay Bainter recalls a haunting linked to her mother’s death and a troubled period after childbirth. She and her husband heard rattling noises and a heavy night table crashed to the floor, yet no intruder appeared. The couple offered no explanation. the event remained an unresolved mystery.
A Chicago Tribune writer notes most early cannons were smoothbores firing round shot, first stone then metal. Round shot flew lifelessly with little spin, rising on an air cushion and dropping quickly, unlike rifled projectiles that bores through the air.
Manuscripts state the English longbow of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth centuries could reach 300 yards. An arrow with a sharpened steel broad head or bodkin point was heavy enough to pierce armor at short range or kill at distances near its maximum range.
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