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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Wallace Asks 15 Per Cent Wheat Acreage Reduction NRA Campaign Among Consumers Raymond Moley's Resignation Washington for Repeal. By EDWARD W PICKARD WHEAT farmers of the nation, In order to receive federal rash benefits under the domestic allotment plan, must agree to re- -Is . , ... ,, celved. The secre-SeCy secre-SeCy Wallace tary ttat this reduction will mean a cut of about 9,600,000 acres In wheat plantings and of more than 124,000,-000 124,000,-000 bushels In the 1934 wheat crop, provided all the farmers sign up. This they were being strongly urged to do In appeals that were broadcast broad-cast throughout the wheat belt Under the allotment plan, the machinery of which Is now completed, com-pleted, the government will pay the farmer 28 cents per bushel on 54 per cent of his crop, or that portion destined for consumption In this country. In return the farmer must agree to cut his 1934 wheat plantings plant-ings by 15 per cent. Some $120,-000,000 $120,-000,000 In compensating payments pay-ments Is expected to be paid tills year. If all wheat farmers sign government contracts promising promis-ing to reduce their next year's planting by the stipulated amount Funds for the payments are expected expect-ed to be raised by a 30-cents-a-bushel processing tax on the flour millers. The application each farmer signs obligates him to sign a contract con-tract with Secretary Wallace when his application Is approved In Washington. It must be- accompanied accom-panied by a map of his farm, showing show-ing location of all buildings, his crop system, and legal description of his location. It must also have a slgDed statement of the thresher-man thresher-man as to how much wheat came off the farm In the last three years and a certificate of the elevator or railroad official who bought the wheat it DY under the blue eagle," was O the slogan with which Administrator Ad-ministrator Hugh Johnson opened the great drive to persuade the entire en-tire nation to give Its full support to the N'RA. The cry was taken up by an army of a million and a half volunteers who started out to canvass can-vass the households of the country, coun-try, to tell the people what the recovery re-covery act means and to enlist the Individual citizens under Its emblem, em-blem, c General Johnson warned the people peo-ple that "even a shadow" of boycott boy-cott Intimidation and violence would wreck the whole endeavor; but he Insisted that confining one's patronage to dealers who fly the blue eagle would not be boycotting the others and would be not only Justifiable but necessary to the campaign's cam-paign's success. Completion of the automobile code and Its acceptance by President Pres-ident Roosevelt was counted a great achievement by NRA. and the manufacturers man-ufacturers were fairly well satisfied satis-fied with the compromise on the union labor problem which gave them the right to deal with their workers on a basis of merit and efficiency. President William Green of the American Federation of Labor La-bor was quick to take advantage of the provision of the code which, he held, permits the workers to organize. or-ganize. He wired the general organizer, or-ganizer, William Collins, In Detroit De-troit to appeal to auto employees to "unite with labor." Pessimistic observers see In all this the seeds of future conflicts. Henry Ford was still silent on his Intentions concerning the code. General Johnson said emphatically that If he did not sign he could not get the blue eagle; that outdoing the code with shorter hours and higher wages would not be compliance. com-pliance. JOSF.ril 15. EASTMAN, who as federal coordinator of transportation trans-portation has perhaps the hardest lob In the administration. Is pro moting a freight car equipment pro-g pro-g r a in, believing this would be a great contribution toward the Increasing Increas-ing of employment as It undoubtedly undoubted-ly would. lie him asked the executives execu-tives of class 1 railroads "to make duce their 19J4 wheat acreage by 15 per cent This was the announcement announce-ment made by Secretary Sec-retary of Agriculture Agricul-ture Wallace, after the news of the International In-ternational wheat agreement reached In the London con-f con-f e r e n c e was re- V , , , . J- B. Eastman of existing freight car equipment and to submit at the carlfc-st practicable date their views as trt t lie repair or retirement of wornout and obsolete curs." Tim railroads are nsketl to submit sub-mit tlK-lr recommendations for re-tnilrs re-tnilrs and retirements of each year up to and including 1938 with the average cost for each car. Mr. Eastman wants the railroads to retire and destroy or rehabilitate rehabili-tate the thousands of cars whose period of service has expired. He also asks them to consider the voluntary vol-untary restriction to service on their own lines of cars of light construction con-struction and cars of larger capacity ca-pacity that are not good for more than two and a half years of further fur-ther service. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT selected select-ed Secretary of the Interior Ickes to be administrator for the oil Industry, In-dustry, and then selected the other 14 members of the planning and conservation con-servation committee to assist Mr. Ickes In this work. The President also took steps to relax the gold embargo for the benefit ben-efit of the mine owners. He Issued two orders, one allowing the sale In foreign markets of gold mined In the United States and tlie other stringently binding the antl-hoard-lng regulations to safeguard the national na-tional supply. He made sure that this permission permis-sion to give gold producers the advantage ad-vantage of the higher prices available avail-able abroad would also be shared by the refiners, and his two orders made this possible. Then Mr. Roosevelt cleaned up his desk and began a week-end vacation. vaca-tion. He attended the Dutchess county fair at Rhinebeck, and next day embarked on Vincent Astor's yacht for a cruise that was to last until after Labor day. F AYMOND MOLEY, regarded as the "ace" of the Roosevelt brain trust is no longer assistant secretary secre-tary of state or In any other way k r i connected with the administration. Following Fol-lowing a call at the snmmer White House In Hyde Park, Professor Mo ley announced his resignation and his plans to become the editor of a new weekly magazine to be established by Vincent Astor. His mT associates wlU be y W. Averill Harri- man and V. V. McN'itt The publication pub-lication will be devoted to controversial contro-versial articles concerning politics and economics and Moley said one of Its purposes will be to Interpret the Ideas of the Roosevelt administration, adminis-tration, though It will not be In any sense an agent of the NRA. Both Professor Moiey and Secretary Secre-tary of State Hull denied that the former's resignation was caused by the disagreements between those two gentlemen which culminated at the London conference. Many Independent In-dependent commentators held that Moley's retirement from the administration admin-istration heralded the passing of the regime of the professor and tlie return re-turn of practical politicians to the direction of the nation's affairs. n EI'EALISTS were unnecessarily worried about the state of Washington, partly because the vote on wiping out the Eighteenth amendment was in the form of referendums In each of the legislative legisla-tive districts. This scheme, however, how-ever, availed the drys nothing, for the state voted for repeal about 5 to 2. Nearly complete returns showed that only one district with two delegates, went dry, so the repeal re-peal amendment will be ratified by the other 97 delegates when the convention meets October 3 in Olympla. The state emergency committee, a retentlonlst organization, fought repeal. re-peal. It contended that In the event of abolition of tlie prohibition amendment the state would be without with-out liquor regulation, except laws prohibiting sale of alcoholic beverages bever-ages to Indians and minors, until the legislature meets again In 1935. The state bone-dry law, passed In 1917, was repealed last November. npHIRTEEN deaths are to be laid to a storm In New Mexico. The Golden .Slate Limited, a transcontinental transconti-nental passenger train, plunged through a weakened bridge Into an arroyo near Tucumcarl, eight persons per-sons being killed and many Injured. During the same storm a night mall and passenger transport plane crashed against Mesa mountain not far from Quay, and tlie two pilots and three passengers perished. Two pursuit training planes collided col-lided In rnld air over Randolph field, San Antonio, Texas, two cadets and an Instructor losing their lives. Another An-other Instructor leaped with his parachute par-achute and was saved. SENATOR IIUEY LONG of Louisiana Loui-siana attained the front page ngaln twice. First, at a charily party at the Sands Point Hath club on Long Island, lie gave deep affront af-front to an unnamed gentleman and In turn received a black eye. His explanation, quite Incredible, was that he was "ganged'' by eue-mies. eue-mies. Thence he hurried to Milwaukee Mil-waukee to address the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and he opened his speech with a virulent attack on the press reporters present because they had sought the truth about tlie former Incident. For this tlie officers of the organization publicly public-ly apologized. It remains for them to explain why they ever invited the "Kingfish" to address them. He is neither a statesman nor an economist, and. In view of political conditions in Louisiana, the fact that he is a senator confers no distinction dis-tinction on him.. TpEA and conversation were all that Montagu Norman, governor of the Bank of England, obtained when he visited President Roose- velt at Hvdfi Park. He was a c c ora-panled ora-panled by George L. Harrison, governor of the New York federal reserve bank, and he hoped to talk about stabilization sta-bilization of the currency. cur-rency. But there were various other guests present, and Montagu stiU more droPPei Norman ln durinS e after-noon after-noon and Mr. Roosevelt had no desire to talk about stabilization or any allied matters. So It was Just a pleasant social affair, and Mr. Norman left early. The eminent Londoner, however, did have a number of conferences with financial men, Including Secretary Secre-tary of the Treasury Woodin, and monetary problems were discussed, but the results, If any, were not made public CUROPE Is not feeling at all peaceful these days, and this is due largely to the doings of German Chancellor Hitler and his Nazis in their conflict with the government of Austria. The Austrian Nazis are hurrying across the border to Join their comrades In Germany, and the threat of Invasion grows day by day. But, If it comes, the invaders will be met at the frontier by a vastly Increased Austrian army. Among other steps by the Vienna government Is tlie decreeing decree-ing of a new short-term enlistment force In which from 16,000 to 20,- 000 men will be trained annually and a second army created. President Von Hindenburg and Hitler attended a huge meeting of Germans at Tannenburg to celebrate cele-brate the German victory there over the Russians, and the former, accepting as a gift from East Prussia Prus-sia a forest estate, said: "I am thinking with reverence, fidelity and gratitude of my kaiser, the king and lord, ln this hour, when 1 am thinking also of my deceased comrades In arms, and when I proceed pro-ceed to thank you for the gift" The chancellor, flying the same day to Nlederwald, near the Saar frontier, told a crowd of 200.000 that Germany would never give up the Saar. At the time of the latter demonstration there was a secret meeting of Nazi chieftains to whom Saar State Councillor Simon said : "Wherever the German language Is spoken, wherever German blood runs ln the veins, greater Germany extends. We will not be content Just with the Saar. The German language Is spoken as far west ns Metz and Mulhouse. The Saar, Al sace, Lorraine and parts of Bel glum and Hollnnd formerly were German and the German character .still lives there today In the people. "Germany will no longer be a people of 60.0O0.IXX) inhabitants, but of 90.000.000. The conquest of the Saar will be the point of depar ture for other political successes on the western frontiers of Germany Tlie Nazi, the relch and Chancellor Hitler will Dot rest until this alm-a alm-a Germany of 90,000,000 Inhabitant. has been achieved." UNCLE SAM Is determined to bring Samuel Insull back home to answer for his alleged sins. At the request of American govern ment agents tlie Greek authorities again arrested the former utilities magnate, and the Appeals court In Athens sustained this action and rejected re-jected Insull's plea for release on bnIL The fugitive from ChicaL'o will have to spend nnother ' , Samuel Insull month under restraint re-straint pending the result of the second effort to extradite him, but being In poor health, lie Is kept under un-der guard In a clinic. Insull's lawyers Indicated that lie will first seek to have himself made a Greek citizen, and, falling this, will attempt to show that the extradition treaty between the United Slates and Greece Is contrary con-trary to the provisions of the Greek constitution. lie Is now accused of violating the American bankruptcy bank-ruptcy law. The extradition proceedings may be long drawn out. Insull can only be extradited IT the charge against I) I in Is an offense against Greek as well as American law. Lawyers In Athens say that violation of the bankruptcy law Is a much milder offense under Greek law than embezzlement em-bezzlement and larceny, with which insull was charged In the earlier proceedings. . 1931. Wontoro NWJnftPr Union. |