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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Lanaon Is Republican Nominee Britain May Alter Sanctions Policy Mussolini Makes Sweeping Sweep-ing Changes in Cabinet. By EDWARD W. PICKARD Western Newspaper Union. IV ONK of the greatest demon-Hlriitluns demon-Hlriitluns of popular acclaim In tlie history of American politics, Oov. Alfred M. Laiidon was noml- nut (Ml for President of the United States by the Itepulillcan national convention meeting In Cleveland. Cleve-land. Nominated on the first ballot, Governor Gover-nor Landon received the unprecedented number of 084 out of a possible 1,003 votes. The nonnna-Gov. nonnna-Gov. Landon Uon wna ma( unanimous. Although his name had not been placed In nomination, Senator Sen-ator William K. Borah of Idaho received re-ceived 10 votes, Including 18 from the Wisconsin delegation and one from West Virginia. Col. Frank Knox of Chicago, publisher pub-lisher of the Chicago Dally News, was nominated for vice-president on the ticket, receiving the unanimous unani-mous vote of the delegates. Party rmlty and harmony were the watchword of the delegates. The action of the three other lending candidates for the Presidential nomination nom-ination Col. Frank Knox of Chicago, Chi-cago, Senator Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan and Senator Borah ' In withdrawing In Landon's favor paved the way for a militant and united front In the coming campaign by the Republican party. The convention adopted a platform plat-form of "Americanism," pledging a board farm relief program, repeal of reciprocal tariff bagainlng, the elimination of monopolies and opposition op-position to American entry Into the League of Nations and the World court. Condemning "waste and extravagance" extrava-gance" of the Democratic administration, adminis-tration, the platform declares for economy by reduced expenditures and for a balanced budget. Adequate relief for the unemployed and cooperation co-operation of the states is provided. The platform demands the repeal of the present social security program for a simplified "pay-as-you-go" old-age old-age pension plan. Without proposing propos-ing a constitutional amendment, It pledges support to states' minimum wage nnd working hour laws, abolition aboli-tion of sweatshops nnd child labor, Improvement of working conditions and the right of labor to bargain. Tr calls for restoration and mainte nance of the merit system In civil service, regulation of business by a tribunal whose actions would be subject sub-ject to court review and federal supervision su-pervision of interstate utilities. The platform demands adequate national defense, right of free enterprise en-terprise without competition by government, gov-ernment, free speech, pledges care of the veterans and calls for efforts to collect the defaulted war debts. Governor Landon in a telegram read to the convention by his campaign cam-paign manager, John Hamilton, placed his own interpretation on certain cer-tain planks In the platform. Under the title .of labor he advocated a Constitutional amendment permitting permit-ting the slates to adopt legislation necessary to protect women and children' chil-dren' in the matter of maximum hours, minimum wages and working conditions, provided it is not possible possi-ble to do so under the Constitution as it now stands. lie likewise advocated n currency expressed in terms of gold and convertible con-vertible intd gold, adding: "I recognize, rec-ognize, however, that this requisite must not be made until and unless It can be done without penalizing our domestic economy and without Injury to our producers of agricultural agricul-tural products and other raw materials." mate-rials." Concerning the merit system In civil service, he suggested that it should Include every position in the administrative service below the rank of assistant secretaries of major ma-jor departments and should cover the entire Tost Office department IX A long expected cabinet shake-up shake-up in Italy, Premier Mussolini gave out three of. his eight portfolios. port-folios. There nre 15 posts In the cabinet. II Duce appointed ap-pointed his son-in-law. Count Galeaz-zo Galeaz-zo Ciano, as foreign for-eign minister. Ciano, Ci-ano, only thirty-three, thirty-three, is the world's youngest foreign minister. lie moved up from the cabinet post of propaganda. Mussolini nlso gave nr tho minlQrripa nf colonies and cor- Mussolini porations, these posts going respectively respec-tively to Ferrucia Lantini and Ale-sandro Ale-sandro Lessona. Count Ciano's former for-mer ministry was taken by DIono Alfierl. Giuseppe BastianinI, ambassador am-bassador to Poland, was made undersecretary un-dersecretary for foreign affairs. He is only thirty-seven. Elsewhere In the vvorld govern ments were experiencing changes. In Nicaragua, Dr. Carlos Brenes Jar-quln, Jar-quln, completing the unexpired term of the deposed President, Dr. Juan B. Sacasa, announced his cabinet. The cabinet Included Dr. Luis Manuel Man-uel Debayle, minister of foreign relations; re-lations; Dr. Geronlmo Itamirez Brown, prime mnister; Jose Roman Gonzales, minister of public works; Benito Itamlrlz, minister of finance; Dr. Lorenzo Guerrero, minister of education; Dr. Roberto Gonzalez, minister of health; Dr. Alejandro Sequelra Rivas, sanitary director. LARGER loaves of bread at no increase in-crease in price to the consumer were being offered by leading baking company chains selling their product prod-uct in large cities of the United States. One company Increased the size of Its 10 cent loaf by 25 per cent, and another by 15 per cent. The saving to consumers was made possible by the invalidation of the AAA processing tax, according to an official of a baking company. The tax was 30 cents a bushel on wheat, he said, and was reflected in an Increase of from $1.28 to $1.40 a barrel for flour. At the same time, the threat of a possible potato famine, due to drouth that is seriously curtailing crops In the Southeast, caused uneasiness among housewives. Prices rose precipitately, pre-cipitately, but eased off, because immediate im-mediate demand from consumers declined. de-clined. The seriousness of the situation sit-uation was reflected In reports from the crop division of the Department of Agriculture that unless rains fell soon an acute shortage will boost the price of potatoes. The carryover carry-over this year was small, it was revealed, re-vealed, and Maine reported only 100 carloads of last year's holdover on hand. DEATH came to John Hays Hammond, Ham-mond, eighty-one, internationally-famed mining engineer, economist econo-mist and writer, at his home at p.-..v...www Gloucester, Mass. He had lived a life high in adventure and rich In experiences. experi-ences. He was a friend and confidant con-fidant of Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, H. Rider Haggard, Cecil Rhodes and many other figures cele brated in world John Hays history in the past Hammond hnlf centUry. Mr. Hammond was born in San Francisco, where his parents settled after the Mexican war in which his father served as a major. It was the era of the spectacular California gold rush. He watched miners pan for gold dust as a boy. After graduation gradu-ation from Yale he set himself up as a mining engineer. Soon he visited vis-ited the west coast of Mexico, believing be-lieving it could be developed as a mining country. He became known as an expert judge of mining property and was sent to South Africa by "Barney" Barnato, great speculator of the last ceutury. Hammond experienced some romantic adventures including an acrimonious encounter with Paul Kruger, president of the Transvaal republic who sentenced him to be hanged and relented only on the intervention in-tervention of the secretary of state. AFTER settling a general strike in which 1,000,000 workers had paralyzed the Industrial life of France, the new "popular front" government gov-ernment under Premier Leon Blum was faced with further difficulties in the form of a series of new strikes. Although the government had toiled day and night trying to adjust disputes dis-putes and though most of the demands de-mands of strikers had been satisfied by employers, there was a smaller return to work than had been expected. ex-pected. It was reported that as fast as strikes In some industries were settled, others were affected. The extent of the permanent ravages rav-ages which will be left in the wake of this upheaval will only become apparent later on. Some observers predicted that private industry would be forced into bankruptcy so as to secure operation by the state. But whether Premier Blum and his "popular front" government were prepared for such extreme measures was not at all certain. TnE Supreme Court of Illinois upheld up-held the constitutionality of the state's fair trade act in a decision affirming the opinion of the Cook County Circuit court. The court held that Carl W. McNeil, in the liquor business in Chicago, could not sell his product at less than the wholesale list price. Said the opinion opin-ion : "The fair trade act has for Its major ma-jor objective the preservation and protection of property Interests of the producer and his distributors in the good will represented by brands, trade marks and trade names. " INDICATIVE of the rising title of business recovery, the Western Electric company, a subsidiary of the American Telephone and Telegraph Tele-graph company, one of the largest employers of labor in flie Middle West, resumed its common dividends. divi-dends. The action followed restoration restor-ation of the company's operations to a profitable basis in 1035, with gains in both sales and employees. Practically the entire payment, amounting to $3,000,000, goes to American Telephone and Telegraph, which owns more than 00 per cent of Western Electric's stock. At the company's Hawthorne works, near Chicago, 10,500 employees employ-ees were on the payroll on June 1, an Increase of 1,730 since January 1. This compares with a low of approximately approx-imately 0,700 during 1033. A VITAL alteration of Great Britain's foreign policy, particularly par-ticularly as It affects Anglo-Italian relations, was Indicated by Chancellor Chancel-lor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain Cham-berlain in an address in which he Implied broadly that England may soon move to end sanctions against Italy. Regarded by many experts as likely to become Britain's next prime minister, Chamberlain said: "Collective security based on sanctions sanc-tions has failed." This was taken to mean that England Eng-land may reverse the policy which had supported the League of Nation's Na-tion's futile sanctions campaign to halt Mussolini's conquest of Ethiopia. Ethi-opia. In authoritative diplomatic circles in London It was reported that Mussolini Mus-solini had definitely served notice on Britain that Italy will leave the league unless the assembly meeting at Geneva on June 30 drops the anti-Italian anti-Italian sanctions program. AGRICULTURE was given representation repre-sentation on the federal reserve re-serve board through the appointment appoint-ment by President Roosevelt of ifllii Chester C. Davis, administrator of the AAA to that body. In discussing h i s appointment, Mr. Davis said: "The fiscal policy of the federal- government gov-ernment has never been tied in closely enough with agricultural agri-cultural problems." s. Mr Dav,g nag gpent Doctor Tolley most of nis llfe ln agricultural activities. He was born on a farm in Iowa, was graduated from Grinnell college and later owned and operated a farm. For some years he was a newspaper publisher and then became editor of the Montana Farmer. Mr. Davis was succeeded as AAA administrator by Dr. Howard R. Tolley. Nationally known as a soil expert, Doctor Tolley helped Mr. Davis draft the soil conservation plan, enacted after the United States Supreme court decision invalidated inval-idated the AAA. He has been carrying carry-ing on this program during the absence ab-sence of Mr. Davis in Europe. : Another important agricultural post was filled when the President nominated Emil Schram, grain elevator ele-vator operator and farmer of Hill-view, Hill-view, 111., for the post of director of the Reconstruction Finance corporation. cor-poration. THE New Deal was made the Issue Is-sue of a congressional campaign in Alabama with the result that Luther Patrick, an ardent supporter of the administration, defeated Congressman Con-gressman George Huddleston, an incumbent in-cumbent for 22 years. Patrick, a forty-two-year-old lawyer, won the Ninth district nomination by about 6,000 votes after a spirited campaign cam-paign in which he charged Huddleston Huddle-ston with disloyalty to the New Deal. CALLED back to the British cabinet, cab-inet, which he left some months ago as a political scapegoat, Sir Samuel Hoare was made first lord of the admiralty, to succeed Viscount Monseli. Sir Samuel, Sam-uel, who boldly faced a hostile house of commons last December to defend his part in the Anglo-French peace plan which would have given Mussolini only a f part of Ethiopia, . . .,. .... . i Sir Samuel will face the task of solving prob- Hoare lems arising out of British-Italian fleet difficulties In the Mediterranean. Mediterra-nean. The biggest task facing Hoare, however, is restoration of the British Brit-ish navy to an undisputed position of supremacy on the seas. When the Washington and London naval treaties expire six months hence, observers believe that Britain may embark on a gigantic naval building build-ing program. TEXAS celebrated the one-hundredth annlersarj of Its independence inde-pendence by orening a $25,000,000 centennial exposition in Dallas. Foremost among distinguished visitors vis-itors attending the world's fair the first week was President Roosevelt To obtain the centennial exposition Dallas made available more than $9,000,000 in cash and property. The exposition will be open until November 29. Numerous other celebrations cele-brations marking the state's 100 years of freedom have been held In various cities and towns of Texas. The exposition presents educational, education-al, historic and recreational features. |