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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Governor Landon Accepts Republican Presidential Nomination Organized Labor Schism Widens Spain Torn by Bloody Civil War. By EDWARD W. PICKARD Western Newspaper Union. GOV. ALF. M. LANDON now knows officially that he is the Republican nominee for President f ' 1 I "1 of the United States. Before more than 100,000 of his fellow citizens he stood at the south entrance of the Kansas caj-.tol in Topeka and received re-ceived the formal notification from Congressman Snell of New York, who was petmi nent Gov. Landon , . , chairman of the Cleveland convention. Around him were grouped a thousand leaders of the party, and in front of him were the throngs of his supporters and admirers who had gathered from far and near to do him honor hon-or and to witness the ceremonies. Trains, automobiles, buses and airplanes air-planes had been pouring them into Topeka for several days and the i gaily decorated little city was j crowded to the limit. Everyone j was happy and enthusiastic and ev- j eryone appeared confident that . Landon would be the next chief executive ex-ecutive of the country. The nominee's speech of acceptance accept-ance was the plain spoken, outright kind of talk his hearers expected. Asking divine guidance to make him worthy of the faith and confidence confi-dence shown in him, he said: "This call, coming to one whose life has been that of the everyday American, is proof of the freedom of opportunity which jelongs to the people under our government " Pledging complete adherence to the party platform, the governor said he intended "to approach the Issues fairly, as I see them, without rancor or passion. If we are to go forward permanently, it must be with a united nation not with people peo-ple torn by appeals to prejudice and divided by class feeling." Here, briefly, is what Mr. Landon Lan-don had to say on some of the more vital issues: Recovery "The record shows that these (New Deal) measures did not fit together into any definite defi-nite program of recovery. Many of them worked at cross-purposes and defeated themselves . . . The nation has not made the durable dura-ble progress, either in reform or recovery, that we had the right to expect . . . We mus. be freed from incessant governmental intimidation intimida-tion and hostility. We must be freed from excessive expenditures and crippling taxation. We must be freed from the effects of an arbitrary ar-bitrary and uncertain monetary policy, and from private monopolistic monopo-listic control." Relief "Let me emphasize that while we propose to follow a policy of economy in government expenditures, expendi-tures, those who need relief will get it. We will not take our economies econ-omies out of the allotments to the unemployed. We will take them out of the hides of the political exploiters." Agriculture "We shall establish effective soil conservation and erosion ero-sion control policies in connection with a national land use and flood prevention program and keep it all out of politics. Our farmers are entitled to all of the home market they can supply without injustice in-justice to the consumer. We propose pro-pose a policy that protects them in this right ... We propose to pay cash benefits in order to cushion our farm families against the disastrous dis-astrous effects of price fluctuations and to protect their standard of living." Labor "The right of laboi to organize or-ganize means to me the right of employees to join any type of union they prefer, whether it covers their plant, their craft or their industry. It means that, in the absence of a union contract, an employee has an equal right to join a union or to refuse to join a union." Constitution "It is not my belief be-lief that the constitution is above change. The people have the right, by the means they have prescribed, to change their form of government govern-ment to fit their wishes . . . But change must come by and through the people and not by usurpation. . . . The Republican party, however, how-ever, does not believe that the people peo-ple wish to abandon the American form of government." State Rights "There has now appeared ap-peared in high places a new and dangerous impulse. This is the impulse to take away and lodge in the Chief Executive, without the people's consent, the powers which they have kept in their state governments gov-ernments or which they have reserved re-served in themselves. In its ultimate ulti-mate effect upon the welfare of the whole people, this is the most important im-portant question now before us. Shall we continue to delegate more and more power to the Chief Executive Execu-tive or do we desire to preserve the American form of government?" govern-ment?" Preceding the notification ceremonies cere-monies there was a huge parade I that Included more than a nundred ' bands and drum corps, an ele-j ele-j phant, hundreds of Indians, cow-I cow-I boys and cowgirls in full regalia, and other hundreds of men and i women garbed to illustrate the his-' his-' tory of Kansas. j LEATHER COUGHLIN, the De-! De-! troit "radio priest" who in a ; speech before the recent Townsend-! Townsend-! ite convention called President : Roosevelt a "great betrayer and liar," has realized the impropriety of his language. He has published an open letter to the President offering his "sincere apology." The priest also says: "As my President I still respect you. As a fellow citizen and as a man I still regard you highly, but as an executive, despite your excellency's ex-cellency's fine intentions, I deem it best for the welfare of our common com-mon country that you be supplanted supplant-ed in office." Dispatches from Rome said Father Fa-ther Coughlin's speech caused a "painful impression" at the Vatican, Vati-can, and Bishop Gallagher, the priest's ecclesiastical superior, leaving for a visit to the Vatican, intimated he might report on the incident. IT SEEMS at this time that nothing noth-ing can prevent the great schism in the ranks of American organized labor. John L. Lewis, head of the United Mine Workers, and his followers fol-lowers in the industrial union movement, are determined to go ahead with their plans for he organization or-ganization of steel workers into a mass union, and now have expanded expand-ed their program, proposing to unionize un-ionize thus the employees of steel fabrication and processing plants. Moreover, Lewis and his associates asso-ciates have declared they will not appear before the executive council coun-cil of the American Federation of Labor to stand trial on charges of "fomenting insurrection," so it appears the council can do nothing but suspend the rebels and their unions, these constituting about one third of the federation's membership. member-ship. If this is done, the final decision de-cision as to expulsion of these unions un-ions will be made by the national convention in Tampa in November. The members of the Committee for Industrial Organization, the Lewis group assert the contemplated contem-plated proceedings of the council are unwarranted by the constitution of the federation. Philip Murray, vice president of the United Mine Workers, gave out the news of the CIO drive to gather gath-er in the steel fabricators and processors, proc-essors, who number between 300,-000 300,-000 and 400,000 men. As there are about 446,000 employees in the steel mills, the goal of the CIO is now the organization of more than three quarters of a million steel workers. Murray also disclosed that the CIO was looking into the feasibility feasi-bility of organizing the 40,000 workers work-ers of the aluminum industry. Drives also have been started in the rubber, automobile, and rayon industries. SPANISH Fascists and royalists, in rebellion against the leftist government, were temporarily in control of most of the northern part f 1 of the country and were moving o n Madrid from Burgos and Segovia, threatening threat-ening to bomb the capital from the air if the government did not capitulate. In Barcelona, capital capi-tal of Catalonia, fierce fighting was reported, and at the request of the u- Bowers Washington authorities authori-ties a vessel of the American Export Ex-port line was hastening there to evacuate Americans, whose lives were in danger. Catalonia had declared de-clared against the rebels. The rebels gained possession of San 'Sebastian, near the French border, and the loyalists were said to be making a desperate attempt to recover that town. This is the place where Claude G. Bowers, American ambassador, is in summer sum-mer residence, and as communications communi-cations were completely disrupted there was much anxiety in Washington Wash-ington as to Mr. Bowers' safety. Socialists, Communists and workers work-ers in large numbers were joining the loyal troops for the defense of Madrid, and also helped in crushing crush-ing the rebellion in several towns, according to the claims of the government gov-ernment In the south, where Gen. Francisco Fran-cisco Franco commanded the revolutionaries, revo-lutionaries, there was almost continuous con-tinuous fighting, and in the engagements engage-ments between rebel planes and loyal warships some bombs and shells struck the Rock of Gibraltar Gibral-tar and others fell close to a British Brit-ish destroyer. The latter fired warning shots and the acting governor gov-ernor of Gibraltar protested to General Franco. pXPLANATIONS and apologies are - not enough for J. Edgar Hoover, head of the federal bureau of investigation, in-vestigation, who was angered by the revelation that the doings of his "G men" had been under investigation investi-gation by secret service men of the Treasury department. His strenuous protests started an inquiry in-quiry that at this writing is still going on. Mr. Hoover also heard a rumor that some one was probing prob-ing his "brokerage accounts," and this didn't help to calm him. Said he: "Anybody making such an inquiry in-quiry is wasting his time. I have no brokerage accounts, so any effort ef-fort to find them will be futile." It is admitted by the Treasury that the secret service has no legal le-gal right to investigate the actions of any other government department. depart-ment. The inference has been that several slayings by Hoover's men j were unwarranted. SCATTERED rains over limited areas brought only temporary relief from the heat and drouth, and then warm weather started a new advance over the corn belt. The federal crop report- : mg board in Wash- ! ington said t h e i drouth was as se- vere as that of 1934 j and worse than any previous drouths since the western country was settled. The serious condi tions prevauea over M.L.Cooke practicaIly the en. tire area from the ilocky mountains moun-tains in Montana to the Hudson valley in New York and southward over western Pennsylvania, central Maryland, the Ohio valley, parts of Arkansas, and most of Oklahoma. It was announced in Washington that President Roosevelt had created creat-ed a national committee to study measures for remedying conditions in the drouth region through utilization uti-lization of natural resources. The committee is headed by Morris L. Cooke, rural electrification administrator. admin-istrator. Other members are CoL Richard C. Moore of the army engineers; en-gineers; John C. Page, acting commissioner com-missioner of the bureau of reclamation; reclama-tion; Frederick H. Fowler of the national resources committee; Rexford G. Tugwell, resettlement administrator, and Harry L. Hopkins, Hop-kins, works progress administrator. Mr. Roosevelt intends to make a trip through the drouth area late in August. SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE WALLACE addressing the International Inter-national Baby Chick association in' Kansas City, discussed at length the drouth situation and the measures meas-ures taken or contemplated for relief. re-lief. He suggested this four-point program for the protection of both farmers and consumers: 1. Judicious commodity loans, especially in years of excessive supplies. 2. The ever normal granary. 3. Crop insurance. 4. Government purchase of land which definitely never should have been plowed. COL. AND MRS. CHARLES A. LINDBERGH flew in a borrowed bor-rowed plane from London t' Berlin, Ber-lin, and were given a big reception by high Nazi officials, the press and the populace. The colonel was the guest of the air ministry at a luncheon attended by Germany's best aviators. It was expected that Reichsfuehrer Hitler and Air Minister Min-ister Goering would go from southern south-ern Germany to Berlin to meet the Lindberghs before they left the country. THROUGH an executive order of President Roosevelt, all post-mastership post-mastership appointments in the future fu-ture are to be subject to civil service serv-ice examination. The order affects 13,730 postmasterships of the first, second and third classes as vacancies vacan-cies occur. Incumbents chosen for reappointment must pass a noncompetitive non-competitive examination, as must employees promoted to postmaster. In other cases the examinations will be open and competitive. Fourth class postmasters already were under civil service. I N OLYMPIA, Greece, scene of 1 the first Olympic games, a torch was lighted by the rays of the sun and a Greek runner seized it and started it on a 12-day relax to the sports field in Berlin where the Olympic flame is to be lighted on August 1. Five thousand distinguished distin-guished persons were selected to carry the torch, these including King Boris of Bulgaria, King Peter Pe-ter of Jugoslavia, and a long list of princes, statesmen and sportsmen. sports-men. On the last let, it was to be borne by S. Loues of Greece, winner of the marathon in the games of 1896. A hundred thousand thou-sand Hitler youths will accompany Loues in a triumphal parade to the stadium. Five thousand torches to carry the flame were donated by the Krupp works, so each oi the bearers bear-ers will retain one as a souvenir. EIGHT signatories to , the Lausanne Lau-sanne post-war treaty have granted to Turkey the right to remilitarize re-militarize the Dardanelles, and they, with Turkey, have signed a convention covering the matter. During wartime belligerents will be prohibited from using the straits unless acting for the league or under un-der the obligations of a regional pact of which Turkey was a signatory. |