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Show I TREND Hott; fie wind is blowing . . BUSINESS The commerce de oartment reported a 48 per cent rise to U S exports to Latin America during the first six months of Europe's war. Big gest gains: Mexico and Argen lina. 55.7 and 54 per cent, re spectively. SCIENCE Announced by Du Pont was a rayon cord tire, claimed to be 3.000 per cent sturdier stur-dier than cotton, having greater great-er tensile strength than structural structur-al steel and capable of running 80.000 miles under conditions which destroyed an ordinary tire in 3,000 miles. AVIATION Braniff airways asked for permission to extend its lines eastward from Kansas "ity to Washington. POLITICS: Fourth Try Thrice white-haired, silver-tongued Norman Thomas has run for the presidency on the Socialist ticket. In early April, when his party inaugurated inaug-urated the 1940 national convention season, Socialist Thomas came back again. At Washington, the convention named as his vice presidential running run-ning mate a 34-year-old economics professor from the University of Chicago. Chi-cago. Maynard C. Krueger (pronounced (pro-nounced Kreeger). Backed by a $100,000 campaign fund yet to be ! Jfx f 'Tl f T - e aJ THOMAS AND KRUEGER They have a program. raised. Candidates Thomas anc Krueger promised to stump the country from May until October on a two-point program: (1) complete isolation from the war. and (2) socialization so-cialization of major U. S. industries. Other political news: C. in Illinois. Lieut. Gov. John Stelle. who rebelled against the Kelly-Nash-Horner machine, watched painfully many months while Gov. Henry Hor-I Hor-I ner, ailing badly, let a "regency" run the state. Finally, feeling his oats a few days before the primary election. Stelle took an unprecedented unprecedent-ed step. He declared himself governor, gov-ernor, summoned the legislature in special session and "fired" Samuel L,. Nudelman. state finance director direc-tor and right-hand Horner man On election day. Stelle lost the Democratic Demo-cratic gubernatorial nomination to Harry Hershey, machine candidate, ft In both Illinois and Nebraska pri-maries pri-maries G. O. P. Hopeful Tom Dewey rolled up impressive primary votes, unopposed in the first More noteworthy note-worthy in both states was the way Franklin D. Roosevelt's supporters won delegates to the national convention. con-vention. Biggest upset: Nebraska's defeat of Sen. Edward R. Burke. AGRICULTURE: 1 Wheat Forecast With Europe's war apparently spreading, the U. S. took stock of its cupboard. Released was a periodic agriculture department forecast on winter wheat production, heavy with bad news. Statisticians figured about 29 per cent of the 45.014.000 acres seeded last fall had been abandoned for lack of moisture and other unfavorable un-favorable conditions. Total wintei wheat production, therefore, will be 426.215.000. lowest since 1933. But this, added to a normal spring cron of 200.000.000 and a carryover or about 300,000.000, will leave Uncle Sam's granary in good shape. MEXICO: Rebuke For almost three years the U S has sought vainly to secure a settle ment on American-owned oil lands which Mexico expropriated Though arbiters have been near the Ea, posts several times, negotiations have Invariably broken down In early April. Secretary of State' Cor dell Hull got angry. Forwarded to Mexican Ambassador Castillo Na Jen. was an unusually sharp note which the state department made public a week later. One rebuke During the past 25 years, one American hipr i Dne .. , in iviexico after another has suffered at the hands of the Mexican government." LABOR: Republic Loses For "unfair labor practices" re suiting in the Little Steel siriir. , 1937. the Republic Stee, cor u wa, handed a labor boarS ord"" last year directing reinstatement o about 5.000 C. I. O. striked Zun back pay of more than $5.001, 0U0 Republic protested, but the third clr cuit court of appeals upho,d NLRb's decision. This motuh R,puL. case reached the U. a. sl |