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THE LAMPASAS LEADER
News Review of Current
Events the World Over
President Asks for Nationalization of Gold Supply—Not
Yet Ready to Fix Exact Value of Dollar—Carlos
Mendieta Is Given Cuban Presidency. <
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
pRESIDENT ROOSEVELT sent to
congress his long-awaited message
on monetary matters, and it should be
in a measure reassuring to business
and finance. He asked
that the gold supply
of the country be na-
tionalized and that his
powers be redefined to
enable periodic reval-
uation of the dollar
within a range of 50
to 60 per cent of the
present gold content.
He already had the
power to devalue the
dollar down to 50
per cent, but he does
not do so yet, saying
that “because of world uncertainties,
I do not believe it desirable in the
public interest that an exact value be
now fixed.” He added that careful
study had led him to the conclusion
that any revaluation at more than 60
per cent would not be in the public
Interest.
The President asked full power to
take over the last outstanding supplies
of gold in the country, much of which
belongs to the federal reserve banks.
The legislation he requested, he ex-
plained, “places the right, title and
ownership of our gold reserves in the
government itself; it makes clear the
government’s ownership of any added
dollar value of the country’s stock of
gold which would result from any de-
crease of the gold content of the dollar
which may be made in the public in-
terest.”
The profit that may result from cut-
ting the gold content, the President
proposed should be used to set up a
two-billion-dollar fund for purchases
and sales of gold, foreign exchange
and government securities.
No further recommendations concern-
ing silver were made in the message,
the President saying he believed “we
should gain more knowledge of the
results of the London agreement and
of our other monetary measures.”
In talking with the correspondents,
Mr. Roosevelt explained once more
that the objective of his monetary pro-
gram is to bring the purchasing power
of the dollar back to the level at which
the average debts of the country were
incurred, so that these debts may be
paid off with a dollar equal in value
to that at which the debt was incurred.
He made it clear that his program
does not call for a resort to green-
back currency.
Immediately after the Reading of the
President’s message, Senator Duncan
U. Fletcher of Florida, chairman of
the senate banking and currency com-
mittee, introduced the administration’s
bill to effect the monetary changes
proposed. He called his committee to-
gether the next day to consider it, and
Secretary Morgenthau was the first
to be heard in argument for the legis-
lation asked.
Only two Democratic senators came
out in the open promptly in opposition
to the President’s program, Carter
Glass of Virginia and Thomas P. Gore
of Oklahoma. Both declared that the
appropriation of the reserve banks’
gold was unlawful and immoral. Most
of the Republicans were cautious in
their expressions of opinion.
However, Attorney General Homer
Cummings rendered to the senate
banking and currency committee a
formal opinion upholding that section
of the proposed bill.
“The monetary gold stock (of the
federal reserve system) may be taker*-
by the government in the exercise of
its right of eminent domain,” the at-
torney general’s opinion declared.
“Such power,” he went on, “extends
to every form of property required for
public use.”
Gov. Eugene Black of the reserve
board was heard by the committee in
closed session and Senator Fletcher
said Black was unchanged in his op-
position to the seizure of the federal
reserve gold and the loss of the profit
which would accrue from the devalu-
ation of the dollar.
Senator McAdoo of California was
veraciously reported as sharing the
views of Senators Glass and Gore, but
later sought to silence the rumor, as-
serting that he had not yet made up
his mind.
««TI7HO is president of Cuba this
» * morning?” asks the man in the
street, and there is reason for his un-
certainty. At this writing the head of
the island republic is
Col. Carlos Mendieta,
conservative leader of
the Nationalists and
presumably accept-
able to the adminis-
tration in Washington.
Ramon Grau San
Martin, unable to
hold on any longer,
resigned and some of
the factions united in
choosing as his suc-
cessor the youthful
Carlos Hevia, secretary of agriculture
in Grau’s cabinet and a graduate of
Annapolis Naval academy. Hevia ac-
tually was sworn in before the • Su-
preme court, but he lasted only one
day. Then Col. Fulgencio Batista,
powerful commander of the army, took
command of the situation. There-was
Carlos Hevia
President
Roosevelt
a loud demand that he resign his mil-
itary post; a strike to force this was
started by Antonio Guiteras, late sec-
retary of war and navy, and Hevia or-
dered that Fulgencio get out.
But the army leader promptly
brought 3,000 of his troops from Santa
Clara province to reinforce the 5,000
at Camp Columbia, on the outskirts of
Havana, and compelled Hevia to re-
sign. He then declared that Mendieta
was the only man capable of contin-
uing the junta’s revolutionary program
without the extreme measures that
had prevented recognition by the
United States; that, he, Batista, rec-
ognized the costly mistake the junta
had made in installing Grau and would
now rectify it. He ordered govern-
ment employees to remain at work on
pain of losing their jobs, but the strike
went into effect far enough to tie up
Havana’s power, light, gas and trans-
portation systems. Batista ordered the
arrest of Guiteras, whom he held re-
sponsible for this. A bomb exploded
near Mendieta’s residence but no one
was injured.
Mendieta was assured the support
of the Nationalists he leads, the polit-
ical societies ABC and OCRR and the
newer revolutionary organizations.
Moreover, he had performed the high-
ly difficult feat of reuniting the army
and the navy. They had been split
apart previously over the breach be-
tween Guiteras and Batista.
/GERMANY’S great church quarrel
AJ goes on unabated and the Evan-
gelical pastors are still determined
that their religion shall not be nazi-
fied. Reichsbishop
Ludwig Mueller, who
is a confidant of
Chancellor Hitler, is-
sued a decree forbid-
ding pastors to criti-
cize the Nazi Protest-
ant church adminis-
tration from the pul-
pits under pain of
dismissal from the
church. But the re-
bellious ones, organ-
ized as the Pastors’
Emergency league, de-
fied Doctor Mueller and for the sec-
ond time read to their congregations
a manifesto demanding his resignation.
It was up to the councils of the
churches to enforce the reichsbishop’s
decree, but several of the councils de-
clared openly they would not do so.
Bishop Mueller showed some inclina-
tion to recede from his position, but
the militant Nazi German Christian
pastors brought great pressure to bear,
telling him they would support him
only so long as he stuck by his de-
crees. The bishop also seeks to annul
all church laws passed in 1933 so he
can proclaim new ones.
Reverend Doctor Richter, who is
highly considered by President Von
I-Iindenburg, declared in the Berlin
cathedral that “a storm is brewing in
Germany—a fight between Christianity
and heathendom.” In this contest,
however, Hitler appears to have much
more influence than the aged presi-
dent, who is more and more becoming
a figurehead.
DESIGNATIONS from the Demo-
A'- cratic national committee seem to
be in order and some have already
been received. The President let it
be known that he did not approve of
members of that body opening law
offices In Washington and apparently
trading on their supposed influence
with the administration. Robert Jack-
son announced his resignation as sec-
retary and committeeman from New
Hampshire, and Frank O. Walker said
he had resigned as treasurer in order to
devote full time to his work as chair-
man of the President’s national execu-
tive council. J. Bruce Kremer, prac-
ticing law in the Capital, resigned
some weeks ago as member for Mon-
tana. Postmaster General Jim Far-
ley, it was said, wants to quit as na-
tional chairman, but Mr. Roosevelt
may not permit this. Arthur Mullen,
committeeman from Nebraska and vice
chairman of the committee, and Or-
man Ewing, member from Utah, both
have established law offices In the
Capital and it would not be surprising
if they resigned from the national com-
mittee.
SENATORS BORAH ,of Idaho, Nor-
^ ris of Nebraska and Nye of North
Dakota, all independent Republicans
whose support has been counted on
generally by the administration, have
started a concerted attack on the NRA,
charging that its codes foster monop-
olies and result in forcing the small
dealers out of business. Their fight
is not against the President and his
policies, but against Gen. Hugh John-
son, NRA administrator, upon whom
they place the blame for the faults
they say have developed.
DRACTICALLY without opposition,
* a measure was put through the
house and senate extending the life
of the Reconstruction Finance corpora-
tion for another year and providing it
with $850,000,000 of new capital. There
was little debate, and in the house
only Louis T. McFaddeh of Pennsyl-
vania voted against the bill.
Dr. Ludwig
Mueller
DIRTH control has been put up to
A-A both congress and the President.
A bill designed to promote it by re-
pealing certain clauses of the penal
code has been introduced and hear-
ings started; and a committee headed
by Mrs. Thomas N. Hepburn of Con-
necticut and Mrs. Margaret Sanger
carried to the White House a resolu-
tion from the birth control and na-
tional recovery conference in Washing-
ton asking Mr. Roosevelt’s support for
the measure.
TTALO BALBO, the bearded Italian air
A marshal Who commanded the great
mass flight from Italy to Chicago and
back last summer and thereby became
too popular to suit
Premier Mussolini,
has made his peace
with the Duce and has
assumed his new du-
ties as the governor
of Libya in north Af-
rica. He crossed the
Mediterranean in state
on the new cruiser Al-
berto di Giussano with
\ another cruiser in es-
cort, and when he
landed was received
by all the Italian officials in the colony
and a colorful gathering of the native
troops.
Balbo, who is just thirty-seven years
old, replaces Marshal Pietro Badoglio
as Libyan governor. While a new line
of activity, it will be a job with an
opening for him, for Mussolini wants
to make Africa in time an outlet for
Italian emigration.
Balbo will keep up his interest In
aviation, even though he is just gov-
ernor of the sandy North African
coast.
D EPUBLICAN members of the house
Ax ways and means committee pro-
posed two important tax reforms. A
constitutional amendment authorizing
the taxation of federal and state gov-
ernment bonds was suggested by Rep-
resentative Allen T. Treadway, with
the statement that there are now some i
$40,000,000,000 of such securities out-
standing and free from taxation.
Representative Isaac Bacharach pro-
posed the restoration to the federal j
tax laws of a credit against earned !
income. His plan, Mr. Bacharach de- j
dared, would lighten materially the
tax burden of the small salaried class
without seriously cutting into present
income tax revenues.
'T'WO thousand or more persons were
A- killed and 10,000 injured by violent
earthquakes that shook all parts of
India. The full measure of the dis-
aster will not be known for some time,
but airplane surveys revealed that
many cities and towns had been vir-
tually destroyed. In some regions the
devastation was Increased by floods
resulting from the temblors. Com-
munication system were shattered and
there was great danger of pestilence
and starvation among the survivors.
DUERTO RICO has a new governor
A who may please the islanders better
than did Robert H. Gore, He is Gen.
Blanton Winship, former judge advo-
cate general of the army, and a man
of experience in insular affairs. He
served in Cuba and the Philippines as
an adviser to the highest American
officials in those parts. Also he was a
military aide to President Coolidge.
His home town is Macon, Ga. Mr.
Gore, whose administration was bit-
terly and constantly attacked by Is-
land politicians, resigned, stating his
reason was ill health.
President Roosevelt also selected a
new chief of the weather bureau in
Washington in the person of Willis G.
Gregg. He succeeds Dr. Charles F.
Marvin.
/^AMILLE CHAUTEMPS, fighting
x-1 desperately to save his French
government after the great Bayonne
pawnshop scandal, promised the cham-
ber of deputies to
clean up that affair,
and thereupon was
given a vote of con-
fidence, 360 against
229. The vote came
on the government’s
opposition to the cre-
ation of a parliamen-
tary commission to in-
vestigate the collapse
of the Bayonne insti-
tution, the death of
its founder, Serge
(Handsome Alex) Sta-
visky, and the part several deputies
have accused high officials of taking
in the affair. The premier insisted
that such a commission would not get
to the bottom of the charges.
The premier promised to investigate
the affair personally and to spare no
names. During the heated debate he
admitted there had been looseness and
poor functioning of various services,
but denied the charges of government-
al and police conniption. The opposi-
tion deputies were furious and there
were open declarations that the coun-
try faced a dictatorship. Chautemps re-
plied vigorously and made the assertion
that« coup had been prepared several
days previously to put the government
in the hands of a few “energetic” men
to act as a directory.
/'CHINESE Nationalist forces after
severe fighting captured Foochow,
the headquarters of the rebels in Fu-
kien province, and it was reported that
negotiations were proceeding to settle
the dispute between the Nanking gov-
ernment and the leaders of the rebel
movement. There was great disorder
in Foochow, for all the officers of the
Nineteenth route army except its com-
mander, Gen. Tsing Ting-kai, had fled
and the leaderless soldiers were run-
ning wild. On the request of Vice
Consul Gordon Burke, an American
naval party was ordered ashore from
the gunboat Tulsa to protect 144 Amer-
icans in the city.
© by Western Sewspap«r Union.
Premier
Chautemps
Italo Balbo
This Week
by Arthur Brisbane
Six Months, 5 Presidents
Mrs. Roosevelt on War
It Is Constitutional
The Judgment of God
Carlos Mendieta, new President of
Cuba, is the fifth President within the
last six months. Sixty years old, Men-
dieta succeeds the youthful Carlos
Hevia, who started his Presidential
tern] last Monday and did not last
long. Various revolutions in , Cuba
have been largely the work of young
men, including students, enthusiastic
promoters of a “youth” movement.
But to keep a government going, aft-
er youth establishes it, experience ap-
pears to be needed. The new Presi-
dent Mendieta has been battling in
Cuban politics for forty years.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt says war
Is “utter futility and deadly stupidity.”
In her opinion, “anyone who thinks
must think of the next war as he
would of suicide, but most people don’t
think.”
Mrs. Roosevelt’s observation on
thinking is even more important than
her condemnation of war. If people
really did think, that would settle war
questions.
President Roosevelt is glad to learn
from Mr. Cummings, United States at-
torney general, that his monetary plan
for a less expensive dollar and more
expensive gold is constitutional. It is
constitutional, also, for the govern-
ment to take any gold that citizens
may have and pay them at the old
twenty-dollar-an-ounce price. It is per-
haps advisable for congress to pass a
law endorsing the money plan and the
attorney general’s decision. The Con-
stitution says something about con-
fiscation “without due process of law.”
Legislation by congress will fix that.
Mohammed Hessein, an Arab, as you
will guess, told the judge he was not
lying, and to prove it he would place
his tongue on a red hot iron. His
tongue would not be burned, proving
that he had told the truth.
This revival of the ancient “judg-
ment of God” was rejected by Judge
Ferguson.. Once such tests, also com-
bats between plaintiff and defendant,
were almost universal. A man ac-
cused of robbing the widow and or-
phan could challenge his accuser to
mortal combat. If he won he was in-
nocent. The accuser, if old or crip-
pled, might appoint a substitute to
fight for him.
Ladles accused of being no better
than they should be were invited to
walk barefoot over red-hot plowshares.
If their feet were not burned they were
innocent. In at least one case a lady,
of considerable charm, walked on the
plowshares with perfect success and
was declared innocent. The plowshares
had been painted red, not heated.
Mr. Brodnax of the United States
secret service reports great activity
arqong manufacturers of counterfeit
money. They sell imitation money at
40 to 20 cents on the dollar, and many
are distributing it. Detectives even
found one lady with counterfeit bills
hidden in her shoe.
An intelligent counterfeiter selling
dollars at 40 to 20 cents should hurry
and get rid of his stock before Uncle
Sam begins selling real dollars cheap-
er than the counterfeiter can manufac-
ture and distribute them.
During the war conscripted millions
were subjected to “intelligence tests,”
and you learned with anxiety that the
adult American has an average intel-
ligence of a twelve-year-old-cliild.
Now, to cheer you, the bureau of
education says that is a mistake. Only
about 3,000,000 adult Americans have
twelve-year-old intelligence, not many
more than enough to cover all those
who think they understand money and
know what the government ought to
do about it.
Forty million adult Americans have
seventeen-year-old intelligence, 10,000,-
000 average about twenty-three-year-
old intelligence.
There is no real intelligence stand-
ard, and as we are all only 12,000
years from the late Stone age, what
we call “highest intelligence” will
seem amusingly ignorant a few mil-
lion years hence.
Margaret Sanger, her specialty birth
control, which in this country can be
taught legally only to the rich, with
expensive doctors, is running a birth
control convention in Washington. A
banner with an ingenious device shows
the NRA eagle, its lightning bolt aimed
at numerous storks, supposed to bring
too many babies.
Mrs. Sanger says the time is not
far off “when this government will be
called upon to face the question of
birth control and sterilization as well.*
Under the new scheme for insuring
deposits in banks, the substantial total
of $15,210,000,000 is now insured. The
insurance plan is interesting, and the
fact that people have more than $15,-
000,000,000 in deposits is extremely in-
teresting, for the insurance guarantee
is limited to $2,500, so that all the
really “big money” in bank balance^ is
excluded from the insurance scheme.
Roy Barton White, the brachy-
cephalic head of the Western Union
company and its 50,000 employees,
says: “There can no longer be any
doubt that the United States is on
the upgrade. Business is coming bad
with a bang.” That is cheerful.
©, King Features Syndicate, lno.
WNU Service
* ■~
Washington. — In my ramblings
around Washington, I find a consider-
able number of Re-
Republicans publican leaders who
Chuckle seem t0 be chuckling
about their loss of
the election to the Democrats in
November, 1932. They are, or seem
to be, quite well satisfied at having the
country pick Franklin D. Roosevelt
over Herbert Hoover, and they seem
to be equally well satisfied that the
President has such a vast majority in
the house and senate of congress.
Campaign threats and promises just
will not down. The victors have to
make good or the vanquished in poli-
tics pick up the failures and call at-
tention to them. Consequently, as con-
gress begins to grind away on the big-
gest federal budget ever submitted in
peace time, the Republicans are find-
ing juicy morsels to talk about. And
don’t think they are overlooking op-
portunities to do so!
All of which Is by way of leading
up to the fact that Candidate Roose-
velt told the country over and over
again in the fall of 1932 that he pro-
posed to cut government expenses by
one-fourth. He started out like he in-
tended to do it by compelling the ex-
tra session of congress to trim every-
where, but the trimming seemed only
to cause fresh sprouts to shoot up,
and they constitute items of expendi-
tures that, when totaled, cause one to
wonder why the President ever made
his declaration as to reduction of ex-
penses while he was a candidate.
Nine months of the Roosevelt ad-
ministration have elapsed; nearly ten
months are passed, but official figures
are available lor only nine complete
months, and so we have to rely on
those. And the expenditures keep on
going in the general direction of the
sky.
Assuming that the previous adminis-
tration should accept responsibility
for commitments that were fulfilled in
expenditures made prior to the end of
the fiscal year that ended in June,
1933, we can analyze figures from
July 1 to December 31, or a half of
one fiscal year over which Mr. Roose-
velt has had complete control. The
total outgo from the treasury during
those six months was $2,621,S70,537.
In the corresponding six months of the
previous year, or from July 1 to De-
cember 31, 1932, the total outgo was
$2,659,305,964. These figures are tak-
en from the treasury’s official state-
ment of condition and they cannot be
wrong.
* * *
I do not know whether Mr. Roose-
velt’s reference to the 25 per cent re-
duction was meant
Little Change only to apply to
in Outso what he calls “ordi-
nary” expenditures,
as distinguished from those payments
that are used in the emergency spend-
ing. If that be the case, the assertion
that the expenditures would be cut by
one-fourth was not understood by a
good many people, including myself.
Further, if that was the application,
then I can ask only what has been ac-
complished by cutting one item and
Increasing another so that the total
Is approximately the same over the
six months under review?
The figures for the six months show
that for “ordinary” governmental
costs, the outgo was $1,466,045,214,
whereas for the six months ending De-
cember 31, 1932, the “ordinary” ex-
penditures were $2,1S2,172,342. There
has been no 25 per cent reduction
there, either, although it still is possi-
ble for accomplishment of that prom-
ise before the current fiscal year ends
next June 30.
It happens that through more than
a decade I have been in close contact
with the treasury and government
financial questions, generally. Through
that period and for two score years
before, there was no material change
in the form in which the treasury pub-
lished its fiscal condition statement, a
daily statement. But Mr. Roosevelt
brought about a change. He contend-
ed, and with just grounds, that the
expenditures for relief from the de-
pression constituted outgo that will
not recur each year. It is the Presi-
dent’s view, therefore, that the relief
expenditures should be accounted for
separately. He chooses to call them
“capital expenditures.” So the change
in the treasury’s statement shows the
“ordinary” expenditures of the regu-
lar governmental agencies such as the
executive departments, congress, the
White House, and permanent bureaus,
boards and commissions, and itemizes
the “capital expenditures” separately.
His budget that was sent to congress
when it convened was a reflection of
this view. There was the “ordinary”
budget and then there were the “cap-
ital expenditures.” We actually have
two budgets for our government now,
yet as I said earlier, the expenditures
of the government must be totaled
eventually, and that total must come
out of the taxpayers’ pockets, call
them “ordinary,” “capital expendi-
tures," “extraordinary” or what have
you.
* * *
The thing that appears to puzzle
most of the observers in Washington
is how the adminis-
Puzzles tration is going to
Observers succeed in spending
such a vast sum as
16,357,486,700 between now and June
30, the end of the current fiscal year,
as the President announced. The new
budget lists that amount for emer-
gency expenditure in the remainder of
the fiscal year, and in addition con-
gress is asked to appropriate $3,533,-
691,757 for the “ordinary” running ex-
penses during the twelve months be-
ginning with next July 1. There is
the basis in those two items that has
given rise to the expression: “this is
a ten-billion-dollar congress.”
The budget lists the “ordinary” ex-
penditures as follows: Departmental
(the various executive departments),
$2,899,116,200; legislative, (congress
and its staff) $17,718,500, and for in-
dependent establishments, boards, bu-
reaus and commissions, $616,S57,067.
The category of independent establish-
ments, of course, includes the heavy-
spending veterans’ administration
which is scheduled to have $553,210,-
091 for payment for compensation and
for the medical and hospital treatment
for veterans in the year beginning
July 1. The veterans’ administration
has appropriations available in the
present year, or funds to use until
next June 30, of $602,838,000, so that
there has been a reduction, but not
the full 25 per cent. My information
is, however, that congress may boost
that total somewhat. The veterans
obviously will obtain more if any
group can do so, for they always cause
cold chills to run up and down the
backs of politicians, especially just
ahead of an election. So the veter-
ans’ funds can reasonably be expected
to be greater than the President pro-
posed.
* * *
In addition to the dissatisfaction at
seeing the proposed present reduction,
veterans are still
Veterans rankling under the
Still Sore sharP cut in funds
given them under
the so-called economy act last year.
It was advertised as a cut of $400,000,-
000, but “readjustments,” reviews of
“border-line” cases and other methods
have been used in straightening out
the tangle resulting from an injudi-
cious application of the economy law
until the cut of $400,000,000 is said
now to represent actually a cut in
total funds for the veterans of less
than $200,000,000 from the high-water
mark. What I am trying to say is
that a perpendicular slash was made
into the pile of money hitherto voted
to the veterans, and administration
officials have been busy since that ac-
tion in putting it back, bit by bit. I
have heard no particular criticism of
the restoration of funds where they
are needed; the criticism seems to be
directed at the attempted showman-
ship, instead of statesmanship, em-
ployed at the expense of the veterans.
But, adverting to the emergency
or the “capital expenditures” section
of the budget, few of the officials of
the government are willing to admit
. that they know how six and one-third
billions are going to be spent, or even
how they can be spent in the five
months remaining of the fiscal year.
It is to be assumed that the President
has plans for the expenditures, and
that they will be disclosed in due
course.
• * *
The military affairs committee of
the house has voted a trip for itself.
The congressmen de-
Plan Junket termined it is neces-
to Florida sary to S° down to
Florida to inspect
Chapman field, an air base, with a
view to making it “into the first of a
series of army sea frontier defenses.”
They are going in an army airplane,
“if one is available” which, of course,
it will be, and how onerous the bur-
den is going to be on them! My spies
on the frontier tell me that the base
is still there and that the congress-
men will surely find it when they go
down to Florida, even though they will
arrive in balmy climate just at the
time the “winter season” of the re-
sorts is in full swing. Besides, from
what I hear, one can go bathing down
there now and otherwise enjoy the de-
lights of summer in the midst of win-
ter.
It is to be remembered that only a
short time ago, a congressional com-
mittee had to make the junket across
the continent to see whether the Pa-
cific fortifications were still there.
They were still there; so the congress-
men came back. It was only a year or
so ago also that a senate committee
found it necessary to go down to Flor-
ida to inspect the everglades. The
senators found the everglades even-
tually, I learn, but according to the
expense account that the committee
filed with the senate, the way they
proved that the everglades were still
intact was by hiring the best hotel
suites in the best and most fashion-
able hotels, buying mineral waters to
drink because they must not change
water so suddenly, hiring glass-bot-
tomed boats with which to view the
glade mud and pay for a dirigible to
ride over the morasses for an accurate
view. The current inspection of Chap-
man field won’t cost much, either, only
$200 an hour while the plane is flying,
several hotel suites for several days
and several other items. I certainly
hope this country will not be attacked
from Cuba or Haiti, or Bermuda, be-
fore fflose congressmen get to see
Chapman field.
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