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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Crop Damage From Drouth Mounts Assassin Tries to Kill Edward VIII Townscnd and Coughlin Form Alliance. By EDWARD W. PICKARD We.itorn Newspaper Union. THE nation's drouth worries continued con-tinued unnbated after scattered showers in widely separated areas of the Midwest and the Northwest '- & failed to eliminate the heat. Regions bordering the Great Lakes enjoyed cool breezes brought by a hi;;h pressure area from Hudson Bay. But the meager rainfall in the drouth-stricken belt did little toward bringing relief and JJr.mgwell erop dcterioration continued on a vast scale throughout through-out the parched states. Loss of life thioughout the United States from the unprecedented heat wave exceeded 3,i50, an all-time high. Agronomists in Minnesota, Nebraska, Ne-braska, Iowa, Illinois and Ohio expressed ex-pressed apprehension over the outlook out-look for the corn crop unless general gen-eral rains should develop rapidly. In principal cities the price of milk was advanced one cent a quart as the result of drouth conditions. condi-tions. Prices of meat, however, dropped with the influx to market of drouth cattle. The possibility of an upward trend later on was seen, however. Completing a tour of the drouth areas, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace declared the nation need have no fears of a food shortage, and assailed those "who have tried for their own purposes to scare the consumers about food scarcity." scarci-ty." He added: "There is no excuse ex-cuse for substantial increases in food prices now." Arriving at Bismarck, North Dakota, Da-kota, to help co-ordinate drouth relief re-lief enterprises, Rexford G. Tug-well, Tug-well, resettlement administrator, was informed that approximately 60,000 farm families in the state were among the needy. A conference confer-ence of stale and federal officials in Bismarck developed a three-fold plan for the relief of dwellers in the desolated areas of the Dakotas, western Minnesota, eastern Montana Mon-tana and Wyoming. These included: includ-ed: Immediate advancement of money mon-ey to needy families, repayable out of WPA earnings; granting of fluids to farmers desiring to keep small livestock herds for the purchase pur-chase of feed and subsistence to be repaid by work on WPA projects; proj-ects; loans and grants to owners of large scale cattle enterprises to cover the cost of shipping animals to other states for feeding. THE attempted assassination of King Edward VIII of England in London brought great alarm to the English speaking world. The attempt was made near Hyde Park and the monarch's life was saved by a woman bystander who grappled with the would-be assassin assas-sin and wrested a pistol from him. The king was returning re-turning to Buckingham Bucking-ham palace from Hyde Park, where . , . . King L-dward on horseback he had presented new colors to six battalions of the Grenadier, Coldstream Cold-stream and Scots guards. There was unrest in other European Euro-pean capitals. In Madrid, Jose Cal-vo Cal-vo Sotello, one of Spain's most powerful pow-erful monarchist leaders, was kidnaped kid-naped and murdered. Precautions were taken to guard other political politi-cal figures, lest the assassination open a new period of disorder between be-tween the leftists and rightists. The crisis was heightened by the threat of the Socialists to establish estab-lish a dictator. In Paris, the celebration of France's national holiday, Bastille day, saw the Champs Elysees a scene of rioting with rightists and leftists in combat with each other and the police. The disorders began be-gan when leftists were returning from their own parade in the eastern east-ern section of the city. Seeing red flags borne in the procession, the fightists greeted their opponents Kith cries of "Soviets everywhere." IMMEDIATE splitting of the American Federation of Labor Into two rival groups was averted by the action of the Federation's executive council in voting i: bring to trial on August, 3, the union leaders led by John L. Lewis on charges of "dual unionism." It had been reported earlier that the council had voted to suspend the 12 unions grouped as the Committee Commit-tee for Industrial Unionization. The council's action was looked upon as a peace move in the crisis that threatens open warfare in the labor movement. It was precipitated precipi-tated by the drive to organize 500,-000 500,-000 workers in the steel industry into one big industrial un!on by John L. Lewis, president of- the United Mine Workers and his followers. fol-lowers. The charges against the Lewis group include "competition as a rival organization with the A. F. of L."; fomenting an insurrection within the Federation; violation of contracts they have entered into with the Federation when granted their charters. While the council deliberated the fate of the so-called "insurgent" unions, Mr. Lewis denounced both the steel industry and the Federation, Federa-tion, declaring: "Neither the American Federation Federa-tion of Labor nor the steel irdustry can stop the organization of steel workers in our organization. I am for the millions of American workers work-ers who have been denied the right to organize and who have been scorned by the industrialists." A N ALLIANCE between Drl Francis E. Townsend, Father Charles. E. Coughlin and the Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith in the interests of a third party was announced at the Townsendite convention conven-tion in Cleveland, attended by 12,000 followers of the California d o c t or who advocaws pensions pen-sions of $200 per month for every person over 60. In an address before be-fore thp pnnvpnlinn Ir. I'ownsend Father Coughl; , bit. terly denounced the present administration admin-istration and President Roosevelt and called upon the delegates to follow Dr. Townsend in endorsing the candidacy of William Lemke for the presidency on the Union ticket. Earlier the New Deal had been the target of both Dr. Townsend and the Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith, now leader of the late Huey Long's share-the-wealth movement. Townsendite candidates who must run on the Democratic ticket planned a pro-Roosevelt demonstration. demon-stration. Pro-Roosevelt delegations representing 11 states signe- a resolution res-olution urging that no "merger or fusion" with a third party be made. A tactical victory was won by the New Deal forces in the election of Willis Mahoney, Townsendite-Dem-ocratic candidate for senator from Oregon, as chairman of the resolutions resolu-tions committee. THE arrest of former Lieut. Commander John S. Farnsworth of the United States navy on a charge that he had sold confidential confiden-tial naval data to a Japanese officer of-ficer marked what observers believed be-lieved was the beginning of a roundup of persons suspected of supplying navy secrets to foreign powers. Declaring that he had obtained nothing of importance from the navy and gave nothing to the Japanese Jap-anese that "could not have been obtained in the public library in Washington," Farnsworth at first pleaded not guilty to the charges. Farnsworth is charged with taking tak-ing from the Navy department and later selling it to the Japanese government, gov-ernment, a book entitled "The Service of Information and General Security." The book is on naval tactics and according to officials, is rated as "confidential." It was claimed that Farnsworth's technical training in the navy would make it possible for him to piece together information picked up from former fellow officers. of-ficers. HENRY FORD, approaching his seventy - third birthday envisioned en-visioned the eventual decline of farm animals as a sourcj of the world's food and predicted that grains and other crops will largely be substituted for them. "We can, I believe, be-lieve, get a more plentiful supply of food cheaper and better," he said, "by processing the products of the soil instead of asking UTord cows and chickens to do it for us. In the future farm animals of all kinds will decline in numbers. We won't need them. The farm animal will go, but the farm will become larger." Business, according to the great industrialist is "doing all right." He criticized governmental interference inter-ference with private business, "particularly "par-ticularly through the attempt o international in-ternational bankers to control all business." He said the "financiers' only idea is to get in and make money. They are not much interested inter-ested in production at lower costs. The better you can make a thing and the cheaper you can sell it, the larger will be your production and the higher the wages you can pay." AFTER dedicating New York's new $54,000,000 Tri - borough bridge, attending the wedding of Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, minister to Denmark, to Captain B o e r g e Rohde of the Danish Dan-ish court and spending spend-ing two days at his Hyde Park home. President Roosevelt embarked on a r utical vacation in Maine and Canadian Canadi-an waters. On the bridge dedication program Y J &r--'ri--i 'irfflftn .wl with the President rresideut were Secretary of Roosevelt the Interior Ickes, Gov. Lehman of New York, Senator Wagner and Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia of New York City. The bridge is the largest larg-est completed public works administration admin-istration project in the East. It comprises four spans in it. three and one-half miles of elevated ways and connects Manhattan, the Bronx and Queens, Long Island. Its cost is second only to that of the Golden Gold-en Gate bridge at San Francisco. On the cruise of the Sewanna, a 50-foot schooner yacht, President Roosevelt vvill act as skipper and helmsman. Three of his four sons, James, Franklin Jr., and John are members of the crew. The cruise will carry the President along the Maine coast to Campobello Island, New Brunswick, where his mother has a summer home and off Nova Scotia where he expects to do some deep sea fishing. A destroyer, destroy-er, the presidential yacht Potomac and the schooner Liberty carrying newspaper men are trailing the Sewanna. Se-wanna. Before he returns to the White House, the President will pay a visit to Lord Tweedsmuir, governor-general of Canada at Ottawa, the Dominion's capital. PREDICTING 1936 will be the best business year since 1930 and "possibly since 1929," Colonel Leonard Leon-ard P. Ayers, economist of Cleveland, Cleve-land, declared that statistics on all important business had shown substantial sub-stantial and "healthy increases" since the first of this year. Strikes, drouth and other difficulties have not affected increases in employment, employ-ment, markets and security exchanges, ex-changes, the economist said. "More steel has been produced in the first half of 1936 than in all 1932," he pointed out. "A major factor in the increased steadiness of business has been well sustained employment among the factory workers making durable goods. "Workers in the durable goods factories fac-tories suffer most from lay-offs and shut-downs, but such has not been the case in the first hall of this year and of last year." COMPLETE, endorsement of the presidential candidacy of Gov. Alf M. Landon of Kansas was given giv-en by former Gov. Frank O. Low- den of Illinois following fol-lowing a conference in Topeka. Following Follow-ing the conference former Governor Lowden announced that he and Governor Gover-nor Landon were in "full accord" on the question 0 f farm relief. The Illinois farm leader revealed Frank O. that he had dis-Lowden dis-Lowden cussed soil erosion, reciprocal treaties, conservation of farm population, government aid in marketing surplus crops, centralizing centraliz-ing of federal power and reduction of federal expenditures with Gov. Landon. Mr. Lowden declared: "We are in accord on the important impor-tant agricultural issues. I shall support him and campaign for his election." Payment of cash federal bounties boun-ties to soil - conserving farmers through a plan contemplating state administration was one of the farm principles advocated by Mr. Lowden Low-den which received the verbal support sup-port of Gov. Landon following the conference. With the Republican presidential nominee at work on his acceptance speech, conferences with other leaders were scheduled. Important among these was the visit of George N. Peek, former AAA administrator ad-ministrator who resigned his post following a break with Secretary of Agriculture Wallace and is now a New Deal critic. Also on the program was the visit oi Col. Frank Knox, Governor Landon's running mate. In the meantime members of the Kansas legislature had departed for their homes after submitting two constitutional amendments to the state's electorate. One of these would authorize state aid for the needy and the other would approve ap-prove state participation in the federal fed-eral social security plan. Both amendments were recommended by Governor Landon. FIFTEEN Japanese army officers who were leaders in last February's Febru-ary's bloody rebellion in which four high-ranking government officials met assassination, were executed by a firing squad in Tokyo. Two other officers condemned to death were not shot and no explanation expla-nation was made by the war office. They were Captain Yoshiaki Naka-mura Naka-mura and Captan Asiachi Isobe. Unofficial observers believed their lives were temporarily spared so that they might testify in trials of other men accused of complicity in the uprising of February 26 which pushed Japan close to the brink of civil war. |