Show woodly ne vs review darnt problem still unsolved after five years three bills aay alsop ls op 1 I A agriculture gri culture since 1933 franklin Roosevel ts administration has enacted three major agriculture laws spending 1 1 3 to end the woes boes ol of 3 30 people on oooo american farms chief victim of this headache is iolas onetime republican henry A wallace who turned new dealer in time to become president Roosevel ts one and only secretary detary of agriculture no business c can n live IV by spending alone to match its outlay farm five year income has been only collected in processing taxes before the supreme me court outlawed AAA in m 1936 to replace AAA congress enacted a soil conservation measure calling for periodic land retirement last spring this was incorporated in a an n intricate cr crop OP control law drafted by the farm bureau federation era tion by last week it looked like this latest panacea was failing to henry wallace in washington came reports of good weather and bountiful crops surpassing last springs most fervent hopes prices were dropping but bu t that was only part of the problem foreign nations that once bought U S wheat corn cotton and tobacco have started buying from other surplus producing countries some are even growing their own crops approaching self sufficiency that henry wallace deserved sympathy was plain whether he would get it was something else to his office he called reporters defending his department against char charges aes that farm income has agricultures AGRI CULTURES WALLACE he needed still more panaceas dropped back to 1932 levels his figures 1938 income would be against not forgotten was the fact that this years income is weighted with government subsidies already seeking new ways of bolstering U S agriculture to a prewar status secretary wallace left for montreal there to discuss with canadians a way of splitting the world export market between north americas two nations when he gets back there will be more in investigation vesti gation into the mcadoo eicher bill for price fixing and export debentures ben tures generally opposed on the grounds that price fixing against processors would place a new hidden tax on an consumers but next winter when farm relief is again thrown at congress there must be discussion of the only panaceas yet remaining export subsidies federal price fixing and compulsory limitation Dor domestic since 1927 mexico has seized in american owned farm lands last spring mexico did even better confiscating worth of american owned oil lands A month ago secretary of state cordell hull addressed a courteous note to mexican president lazaro cardenas asking what his nation intended to do by way of repayment A few days later came the blunt reply stating in effect that there is no law or treaty making compensation obligatory liga tory but evincing a desire to pay when and if it is economically feasible cordell hull mulled mailed this unprecedented answer through his mind for two weeks then decided to try again with another tack scolded he it is proposed to replace the rule of just compensation by the rule of confiscation fis adoption of any such theory would result in the immediate breakdown of confidence and trust between nations politics not since early july had franklin roosevelt seen james A parley farley since then the former had made a cross country tour fished the pacific and wished for the defeat of anti new deal legislators in georgia south carolina maryland new york the other had been on h his S own fence mending expedition soothing ruffled new deal nerves as only jim F parley arley can do it last week teacher parley farley came to hyde park to see his most su successful access political student once more behind closed doors the president and postmaster general talked all afternoon all evening part of the next morning though no early official announcement was forthcoming newsmen got their heads together decided jim parley farley had urged the president to push his purge of rylands Ma sen millard E tydings less enthusiastic thought newsmen was jim Far parleys leys reaction on to purge efforts against georgias georgia s sen walter F george and south carolinas sen ellison D cotton ed smith 0 in mississippi where democratic nomination is tantamount to election all seven incumbent congressmen were by primary voters R religion elig ion in a cabin near merced calif mrs ola irene harwell sat reading the bible to her husband and two small sons in the bo book ok of matthew chapter she read the eighth verse therefore if thy hand or thy illy loot foot offend thee cut them off and call them from thee it is is better belter for thee to enter tile life halt or maimed than having haring two tivo hands or feet to be cast into everlasting fire she read the ninth verse and if thine ee offend thee pluck it out a 49 and cast it from thee it is better belter for far thee to enter into life with arith one eye rather than hating two eyes to be cost cast into hell fire finishing mrs harwell picked up her scissors walked to the woodshed and gouged out one eye hacked off one hand next day at a merced hospital physicians said she would live M miscellany is cellany by seven one night last week Chi cagos mammoth soldier field was filled with jitter bugs come to enjoy a jani jam session outside as police closed the gates milled thousands of other swing addicts who could not get in to hear 20 prominent dance orchestras or watch amateur swing swing it the mob grew stormed the gates tore across the carefully turf where bedlam reigned until early next morning when the last of music mad youngsters had gone home sad eyed city officials found soldier field needed re many other repairs oln 0 in rome the imperial japanese empire bestowed on benito mussolini its highest decoration for a foreigner the supreme order of the chrysanthemum foreign I 1 to cope with military mad adolf hitler has been frances biggest problem since the nazi war leader quit the league of nations As germany advanced her fortifications along the french frontier paris took counter steps designed her magnificent maginot line but fortnight ago when adolf hitler began drilling troops in germa nys largest peacetime war games premier edouard deladier Da ladier was frightened jerking vacationing frenchmen from their midsummer sluggishness he suddenly proposed extending the 40 hour week to 48 hours thereby boosting war industries increasing general manufacturing output and aiding recovery it if he expected radical france to take this pronouncement quietly al M deladier Da ladier was badly mistaken two cabinet members quickly resigned next day socialist leader leon blum whose cabinet was over A I 1 4 SOCIALIST LEON BLUM the hour is zoo too grate thrown last spring threatened to withdraw government support of his party paris labor unions met planning a countermove two hundred thousand miners threatened to strike by september 15 along the mediterranean coast all stevedores struck and troops took their places by weeks end a potentially dangerous situation was apparently smoothed out said leon blums party newspaper we do not exploit the difficulties which deladier Da ladier himself has created the hc hour aur is too grave for that next evening M blum and M deladier Da ladier ladler talked half an hour over the telephone seeking conciliation to avoid a crisis while germany is strutting her military strength still unsolved however y was the problem ol of finding jobs for unemployed now on relief more than a year ago apparently a longer week would only make this number larger labor last week american workers could look to september as the biggest month of their year that widely observed labor day falls in september was incidental what promised to make news was another outbreak I 1 of the tiff between william greens american federation of labor and john lewis committee for industrial organization at atlantic city A F of L s executive council made plans for its annual meeting in houston at washington C 1 I 0 thought about 5 az k 6 aft e 11 C 1 I 0 S JOHN LEWS LEWIS will he bow to the ladies its first constitutional convention scheduled tentatively in Sep september r or october that each group would lambart the other was a certainty but the biggest lambasting lam basting could be expected not at houston or washington but at mexico city there on september 5 mexican and south central american labor unions meet under leadership of vincente lombardo toledano a mexican labor chief whom mr green says is either communist or extremely radical since mr lewis will attend the mexico city affair his A F of L foes decided last week that C 1 I 0 plans expansion into new fields competing with the dormant pan american federation of labor which has mr greens blessing only one ray of hope appeared for labor peace to C I 1 L Os 0 headquarters came david dubinsky whose international ladies garment workers are still technically affiliated with A F of L despite their suspension in august 1936 since the garment workers decided last may to make one more overture to close the breach between labors two battling factions observers thought mr dubinsky and mr lewis had talked of peace if so perhaps garment making ladies ca can it succeed where war making labor leaders have failed war sweltering in degree heat japanese troops captured Jui chang for their first notable victory since the occupation of Kiu kiang on july 26 still miles from their objective bankow nipponese warriors could anticipate strong resist resistance ance from soldiers and civilians which china had reportedly mobilized 9 0 for more than one year england has labored to perfect a 27 nation plan for withdrawal of borei foreign agn troops from war torn spain last eastertide the anglo italian fr friendship bend pact carried an 44 unwritten agreement that benito mussolini would operate cooperate co in this ambitious plan but fortnight ago rebel generalissimo erali asimo francisco franco bluntly rejected the nonintervention intervention non idea effectively shattering the an glo italian pact at rome one day last week british charge dAf faires sir noel charles paid a visit to count galeazzo ciano italian foreign minister surprise stole across his face as count ciano formally announced that rome is sending new reinforcements to generalissimo franco hoping to end the war before winter simultaneously rebels were hurled against catalonian Cata lonias western boundary driving back eight loyalist divisions aviation at east aurora N Y aviator frank hawks and broker J hazard campbell entered an airplane delayed their takeoff while a friend gave commander hawks a four leaf clover for good luck minutes later their ship soared tripped over telephone wires crashed at a buffalo hospital died the man who set a nonstop non stop los angeles to new york record in 1929 later broker campbell also died forty five per cent of the stock in china national aviation company belongs to pan american airways one day last week pilot hugh L woods was flying a china national liner near canton when japanese warplanes war planes hove into sight forcing him to the ground while pilot woods watched helpless 14 chinese passengers were machine gunned to death next day pan american asked the united states government tor for protection j people in january 1937 columbia uni vers itys roswell magill left hi his s academic post became the united states treas chief tax expert last week roswell magill made use of his previous understanding with franklin franki in roosevelt resigning to tear tearh teach h i law once more |