Show news review of current events the world over r landon Is republican nominee britain may alay alter sane eions policy Alus mussolini makes sweeping alian changes es in cabinet by EDWARD W PICKARD C western newspaper union IN N ONE of the greatest demon stra eions of popular acclaim in the I 1 Is tory of american politics gov alfred 11 landon was nominated for prest dent of the united states by the ilean national conven tion meeting in cleve land V nominated on the first ballot governor I 1 k landon received the number of out of a possible 1003 votes the nom 1 nation was mad unanimous although gov landon his name had not been placed in nomination senator william E borah of idaho received 19 votes including 18 from the wisconsin delegation and one from west virginia col frank knox of chicago pub usher lisher of the chicago daily news was nominated tor for vice president on the ticket receiving the unanimous vote of the delegates party unity and harmony viere nere the watch watchwords of the delegates the ac tion of the three other leading bandl dates for the presidential nomination col frank knox of chicago senator arthur of Michl michigan gan and senator borah in withdrawing in lan dons favor paved the way for a mill tant and united front in the coming comin campaign by the republican publican Ke party the convention adopted a platform of americanism pledging a broad farm relief program repeal of necip bocal tariff bargaining the elimination of monopolies and opposition to amer lean ican entry into the league of nations and the world court condemning waste and gance of the democratic tra tion the platform declares for economy by reduced expenditures and for a bal alced budget adequate relief for the unemployed and operation cooperation of the states is provided the platform demands tt ti e depear ot of the present social security program for a simplified pay as you go old age pension plan with out proposing a constitutional amend ment it pledges support to states min icum wage waie and working hour laws abolition af of sweatshops and child la bor improvement of working condl eions and the right of labor to bargain it calls for restoration and malate nance of the merit system in civil ice regulation of business by a tribunal whose actions would be subject to court review and federal supervision of interstate utilities the platform demands adequate na lional defense right of free enterprise without competition by government free speech pledges care ct ef the vet erans and calls for efforts to collect coiled the defaulted war debts governor landon in a telegram read to the convention by his campaign manager john hamilton placed his own interpretation on certain planks in the platform under the title of labor he advocated a constitutional amend ment permitting the states to adopt legislation necessary to protect women and children in the matter of maximum hours minimum wages and wor lino conditions provided it is not possible to do so under the constitution as it now stands he likewise advocated a currency ex pressed in terms of gold and convert ible into gold adding I 1 recognize however that this requisite must not be made until and unless it can be done without penalizing our domestic econ omy only and without injury to our ers of agricultural products and other raw materials concerning the merit system in civil service he suggested that it should include every position in the adminis service below the rank of as secretaries of major depart ments and should cover the entire post office department IN N A long expected cabinet shake shale up in italy premier mussolini gave out three of his eight portfolios there are 15 posts in the cabinet 11 II duce ap pointed his son in law count galeazzo clano as MW foreign minister t clano only t thirty b I 1 r t y three Is the world worlds s youngest oun gest foreign min ister he ile moved up from the cabinet post of propaganda mus bolint also gave up the ministries of colo nies and corporations these posts going re ively to fereuc mussolini a cla lantini and alesandro lessona bessona count clano s former ministry was taken by alono alfieri giuseppe bas ambassador to poland was made undersecretary for foreign at fairs he is only thirty seven the action of II 11 duce gave rise to talk of his successor observers point ed out that because of the importance of the post of doiel foreign agn minister clano ciano Is believed to be in closest succession to mussolini 0 elsewhere in the world governments were experiencing changes in nica bagua dr carlos brenes jarquin corn com plating the term of the de posed president dr juan B announced his cabinet the cabinet included dr luis vanuel manuel debayle minister of borei foreign n relations dr ge eronimo ramirez brown prime minis ter jose roman gonzales minister of public works I 1 benito minister of finance dr lorenzo guerrero min ister of education dr roberto gon zalez minister of health dr alejandro sequeira Sequel ra rivas sanitary director L loaves loanes of bread at no in crease in price to the consumer were nere being offered by leading baking company chains selling their product 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 corn com sumers was made possible by the in validation of the aak processing tax according to an official of a baking company the tax was 30 cents a bushel on wheat he said and was re fleeted in an increase of from to a barrel for flour at the same time the threat of a possible potato famine due to drouth that Is seriously cur curtailing talling crops in the southeast caused uneas uneasiness iness among housew housewives hes prices rose precipitately but dewied off because immediate de mand from consumers declined the seriousness of the situation was re fleeted in reports from the crop divi slon sion of the department of agriculture that unless rains fell soon an acute shortage will boost the price of pota toes the carry carryover over this year was small it was revealed and maine re ported only carloads of last year years s holdover on band while weather con dillons up to the middle of july will determine the extent of the shortage it was believed by farm experts that the later crops will meet the august and september demands DEATH D EATH came to john hays ham mond elgh eighty tyone one internationally famed mining engineer economist and writer at his home at gloucester mass he had bad lived a life high in adventure and rich in expert IM ances he was a friend and confidant of k theodore roosevelt MarkT mark twain waln H rider haggard cecil rhodes and many other fig ures celebrated in world history in the past halt half century mr air hammond was john hays born in san francisco hammond california in 1855 where his parents settled after the mexican mexican war in which his father served as a major it was the era of the spectacular california gold rush he watched m ners pan for gold dust as a boy after graduation from yale he set himself up as a mining engi neer soon he visited the west coast of mexico believing it could be devel 1 aped as a mining country he ile became known as an expert judge jude of mining property and was sent to south africa by barney barnato great speculator of the last century hammond experienced some romantic adventures including an acrimonious encounter with paul kruger president of the transvaal republic who sen fenced him to be hanged and relented only on the intervention of the secre tary of state after developing mining property in many parts of the world mr ham mond was appointed by president taft in 1911 as special ambassador and per bonal representative at the coronation of king ring george V AFTER FTER settling a general str ke in which 1000 workers bad had par the lal ial life of france the new popular front government under premier leon blum was faced with further difficulties in the form of a series of new strikes although the government had tolled day and night trying to adjust disputes and though most of the demands of strikers had been satisfied by employers there was a smaller return to work than had been expected it was reported that as fast as strikes in some industries were settled others were affected the extent of the permanent ravages 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 oper atlon by the state but whether premier blum and his popular front government were vere prepared for such ex measures was not at all certain THE HE supreme court of illinois up held the cons constitutionality of the states fair trade act in a decision at firming the opinion of the cook coun ty circuit court the court held that carl W mcnell mcneil in the liquor business in chicago could not sell his product at less than the wholesale list price said the opinion the fair trade act has for its ma jor objective the preservation and pro lection of property interests of the pro ducer and his distributors in the good will represented by brands trade marks and trade names I 1 indicative of the rising tide of business recovery the electric company a subsidiary of the A american merican telephone and telegraph company one of the largest employers of labor in the middle west resumed its common dividends the action fol lower restoration of the comp company anys s operations erat ions to a profitable basis in 1935 with gains in both sales and employees practically the entire payment amount ing to 3 goes to american tele phone and telegraph which owns more than 90 per cent of western electrics electric s stock at the company s hawthorne works near chicago 10 employees were on the payroll on june I 1 an increase of 1730 since january I 1 this compares with a low of approximately 6 00 during 1933 employment Is now the highest since 1932 A A VITAL alteration in great brit 1 JL aln ains s foreign policy particularly as it affects anglo italian relations was indicated by chancellor of the exchequer neville chamberlain 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 brit ains allis next prime minister chamber lain said collective security based on sane eions has failed this was taken to mean that eng land may reverse the policy which had supported the league of nation s fu tile sanctions campaign to halt mus conquest of ethiopia in authoritative diplomatic circles in london it wig reported that mussolini 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 sane eions program agriculture agriculture was given re presen tation on the federal reserve board through the appointment by president roosevelt of chester 0 da ass vis administrator of the AAA to that body I 1 in discussing bis his appointment mr air davis said the fiscal pol icy ley of the federal gov eminent has never been tied in closely enough with agrical tural problems mr mir davis has spent most of his life in agrical r tural activities he doctor tolley was born on a farm in iowa was graduated from grinnell col lege and later owned and operated a farm for some years he was a news paper publisher and then became editor of the montana farmer mr davis was succeeded as AAA AA administrator by dr howard it R tol ley nationally known as a soil expert doctor tolley helped mr davis draft the soil conservation plan enacted at ter the united states supreme court decision invalidated the AAA THE irhe new deal was made the issue A of a congressional campaign in ala bama with the result that luther pat rick an ardent supporter of the ad ministration defeated congressman Con ressman george huddleston an incumbent for 22 years patrick a forty two year old lawyer won the ninth district nomona tion by about 6 votes after a spirit ed campaign in which he charged hud aleston with disloyalty to the new deal C CALLED back to the british cabinet which he left some months ago ap as a political scapegoat sir samuel samue I 1 hoare was made first lord ot of the admiralty to succeed viscount monsell sir samuel who boldly faced a hostile house of corn com mons last december to defend his part in the anglo french p peace e a c e plan which would have given mussolini only a part of ethl ethiopia opla will face the task of ing problems arising out of british italian fleet difficulties in the sir samuel mediterranean the hoare biggest task facing hoare however Is restoration of the british navy to an undisputed position of supremacy on the seas TEXAS celebrated the one hundredth A anniversary of its independence by opening a ao 20 centennial exposi tion in dall dallis is foremost among dis visitors attending the world s fair the first week was president roosevelt to obtain the centennial exposition dallas made available more than 9 in cash and property the exposition will be open until november 29 numerous other celebia eions marking the states years of freedom have been held in various cities and towns of texas the exposi lion presents educational historic and recreational features associated with a major worlds fair THE HE senate passed the compromise revenue measure by a vote of 38 to 24 the bill then went to conference with the house of representatives senta tives which had enacted a rev denue measure carrying out tax pro made by prelim president dent roosevelt the senate leisure called for a 15 to IS 18 per cent tax on net corporate in comes as compared with the present 1212 12 to 15 per cent levy a new type of 7 per cent tax on undistributed profits repeal of the existing exema tion of dividends from the 4 per cent normal income tax an Ine increase reasi of I 1 per cent in th individual income sur tax on surtax brackets between and 50 va L |