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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Eugrnc Black to "Sell" New Deal to the Banks I'resident Warns Again.st Food Profiteering Cotton Textile Strike Voted. By EDWARD W. PICKARD by Western N;w.i:ater L'nSon. Ere KMO 11. I'.t.ACK Ims resigned I ns K"ViTiinr uf the federal re-ncrvo re-ncrvo b 1 1 : i r 1 1 , luid 'resident Kuose relt ti.'ia lvt-ri tilm n new iiosltion ( ( ) I! I il ( I UIMLI'I IJ. tivi'Wi the banks and the government. govern-ment. This means that Mr. I'.lack Is experted to "sell" the New Deal to the llnanclal institutions, insti-tutions, which In the past have been iimoiig the severest sever-est crilicis of many f o n t n r p a of the Eugene R. Black President's program pro-gram for recovery. U-II K.N the Nit A Is reor-anb.e.l and mt under conirul of a imirni-sion a change that is sunn due Geu. Ilugli Johnson in it s r i : J he In the i:ture, decile the belief that he would retire cuin jletely. He told something of the plans for the shakeup, and ut the . same time said: "if the President , wants rue to stay, I might serve as chairman of the board, provided It did not take all of my time." i Johnson said he expected the whole reorganization of the NKA : to be completed within the next (SO or DO days. The first step, he said, will be the formal submission of j plans to the President. Congress will bg asked next winter to enact i the revised NKA setup as a perina- : nent government control over in- 1 dustry, Johnson disclosed. It will be the New Deal for business which ; President Rooseve't will try to tix on the country for all time. This "permanent" NItA, as sketched by Johnson, would consist of a general gen-eral governing board, a single administrative ad-ministrative oflicer to carry out j th'- board's dictates, and a long i string of government representatives representa-tives sitting on code authorities as umpires in disputes between employers em-ployers and workers and between Industry and the public. Broadly speaking, the NRA might retreat and allow business greater freedom. A POUT COO grizzled members of ; the Grand Army of the Republic Repub-lic were able to attend the sixty- ( eighth encampment at Rochester, N. and many of them even insisted in-sisted in marching In the parade, scorning the automobiles that carried car-ried their feebler brothers. Commander-in-Chief Russell C. Martin presided over the sessions and the j chief speaker was Secretary of War Dern. Mr. Dern told the veterans vet-erans that the world was seething with unrest and that weak nations might become involved In chaos and war. America, he asserted, is in the grip of another kind of war one against economic adversity intensified in-tensified by the terrific drouth but he expressed confidence "Amer.'can character, American grit" will win out. He added: "We will surmount the obstacles ahead of us. And because of this period of trial, ours will be a stronger nation, more ready to meet the other crises which lie in the future. fu-ture. We must be strong." SENATOR HUEY LONG was marching rapidly toward victory vic-tory over his arch foe, Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley of New Orleans, and there didn't seem to be anything any-thing the latter could do to stop the Kingfish. The state legislature, safely in the control of Long and his henchman, Governor Allen, was swiftly pushing through a series of measures designed to put every parish par-ish and city in Louisiana in the grip of those two gentlemen before the state primary on September 11. The legislators also passed a bill for an investigation into the affairs of New Orleans, patterned after the famous Seabury inquiry in New York. ADMINISTRATOR JAMES A. MOFFETT has Inaugurated the housing administration's billion-dollar billion-dollar home repair program, the first loan being made by a Wash- gestlon telegrams were sent to relief re-lief directors and workers everywhere every-where telling them to keep out of partisan politics and to resign If they wish to run for ollice. One of the plans that is being worked out by Mr. Williams Is the mobilization of 40.000 unemployed school teachers next winter In a campaign against Illiteracy and to lit tlio workless for jobs when pros-perlly pros-perlly returns. The program Includes In-cludes vocational training, vocational vocation-al rehabilitation, general adult education edu-cation and nursery schools. UNLESS President Roosevelt can prevent It, about half a million workers In the cotton textile industry indus-try will be on strike on or about September 1, because they are utterly ut-terly dissatilied with their NRA code. The convention of the United Textile Workers of America in New York voted mandatory instructions to the union's executive council to call this general strike, nnd if It goes into effect it may later spread to other branches of the Industry, Involving an additional 250,000. Leaders In the strike movement are Norman Thomas, former Socialist So-cialist candidate for President, and the younger element in the union. The specific aim will be to obtain a reopening of the textile code and Its revision along lines demanded by the union. Demands will be made for the 30-hour week with 40-hour 40-hour pay, elimination of the stretchout stretch-out system with corresponding readjustment re-adjustment of machine loads, and a universal system of collective bargaining bar-gaining on the basis of free choice of representatives by the workers. Support of the strike by the American Federation of Labor was promised by George Goode, who appeared before the convention as a representative of President William Wil-liam Green of the A. F. of L. Goode expressed the hope, however, that timely intervention by President Roosevelt may avert the strike and give the workers the relief they are demanding. PRIMARY elections in several states brought about interesting results. In Nebraska, Representative Representa-tive E. R. Burke of Omaha, advo- He returns to his former position of governor of the Atlanta Federal Reserve bank which lie left In May, UK;::, to assume the direction of the whole reserve system. Mr. Black himself said his new assignment Is "to muster the Klrenglh of our financial Institutions Institu-tions behind recovery In America." Some observers in Washington thought the move indicated that tho administration was going to make nnolher attempt to thaw out Hie vast sums In commercial credits cred-its that are lying Idle In the banks. "You can do much good," President Presi-dent Roosevelt wrote Black In accepting ac-cepting his resignation, "by presenting pre-senting the recovery program to the country's reserve banks, commercial commer-cial banks and other llnanclal institutions, insti-tutions, by acquainting them with the successive steps taken by the administration which have resulted in the present prosperous condition of these Institutions and which iniike possible their co-operation with the administration in Its program pro-gram of complete business rehabilitation. rehab-ilitation. "I am pleased to think that your position as governor of the Federal Reserve bank at Atlanta will give you opportunity to undertake this work and that that bank, together with the federal reserve board, will co-operate with you in its performance." perform-ance." Among those mentioned as likely to succeed Black aa governor of the federal reserve board was Marriner S. Eccles, Utah banker, who la now a special nssistant to Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau. He Is close to Rexford Guy Tugwell. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, It turns out, Is not at all dismayed by the catastrophic drouth that has afflicted a large part of the country. coun-try. To the White House correspondents corre-spondents he indicated his belief that the drouth was In a way a blessing, in that It was wiping out farm surpluses two years sooner than could have been done by the Wallace crop reduction plan. He expressed the belief that there will be plenty of food for all, and made It clear that the administration would not stand for any profiteering profiteer-ing in food prices or grain speculation specula-tion to the detriment of the farmer and the public. "Chlselers," it was promised, will be promptly and severely punished. The federal grain futures administration admin-istration directed by J. M. Mehl, it was revealed, is watching grain trading closely. The first evidence of manipulation will bring punitive action. cate of the New Deal, won the Democratic Dem-ocratic nomination for senator, defeating defeat-ing Gov. Charles W. Bryan by an astonishing aston-ishing plurality of more than G6.000. The Republicans nominated Robert G. Simmons. It was predicted by friends of Senator Norris, radical Re- E. R. Burke publican, that the progressive Republicans Re-publicans would support Burke, for Simmons, a member of congress, con-gress, had been attacking the NItA and the AAA. Ohioans are given their choice between two veteran politicians in the race for the senate. A. V. Donnhey, three times governor of the state, was made the nominee of the Democrats, running far ahead of Gov. George White and Charles O. West. The last named was the choice of the national administration, administra-tion, but he made a poor showing. Senator Simeon D. Fess, one of the ington bank to Miss Alma McGrum, a home owner, in the presence of many bankers and government officials. offi-cials. Mr. Moffett said credit facilities facil-ities were available In cities and towns with populations aggregating aggregat-ing 39,9S0,56S. WITH the sanction of the American Amer-ican Federation of Labor a strike was called in the plants of the Aluminum Company of America, Amer-ica, which Is controlled by Andrew W. Mellon, former secretary of the treasury, and his family. Six of the plants, at New Kensington. Arnold Ar-nold and Logan's Ferry, Pa.; Alcoa, Al-coa, Tenn. ; East St. Louis. 111., and Massena, N. Y., were closed, and those at Fairfield, Conn., and Baden, N. C, were about to shut down. The company normally employs em-ploys about 15,000 persons. Proposals Propos-als offered by the workers' representatives repre-sentatives late in July were flatly rejected by the company. PRINCE RUDIGER VON STAR-HEMBERG STAR-HEMBERG of Austria, who has just een In Italy consulting with Premier Mussolini, says the Aus- The consumers council of the AAA under Dr. Frederic C. Howe, is charting food prices. Housewives House-wives will be warned of any In- . crease out of line with market supplies. sup-plies. Secretary Wallace has admitted that there will necessarily be increases in-creases in food prices, and figures released by his department show they are already beginning to go higher. A gradual Increase until next summer is expected. WHILE Harry Hopkins, federal relief administrator, Is vacationing vaca-tioning in Europe, his placets taken by Aubrey Williams, his assistant. most vociferous opponents of the Roosevelt programs, easily won re-nomlnation re-nomlnation by the Republicans. For governor the Democrats nominated Martin L. Davey, the "tree doctor," and the Republicans put up Clarence Clar-ence J. Brown. Gov. J. M. Futrell of Arkansas was renominated, as were all but two of the state's congressmen who sought re-election. Democrats of Idaho are so well satisfied with Gov. Ben C. Ross, former cowboy, that they renominated him for a third term. The Republican nominee nom-inee there is Frank L. Stephan. Looking over these primary results re-sults and considering the prospects all over the country. Democratic leauersin Washington predicted their party would gain six senate seats. Republican campaign managers said the G. O. P. will hold its own. As for the house, the Democrats admit they will lose at least twenty-five seats, and their opponents claim the Republican gain will be between be-tween fifty and seventy-five seats. I 1 ! - s -Vl 1 w ;i liiak ..A;.; taajji t r I a n government expects a new Nazi outbreak in that country within the next few months. He says he has Information In-formation that a putsch is being prepared pre-pared and that he distrusts the peace talk of the German government. He also doubts the reports of the dissolution of the Austrian bos. 1 k Mr. Williams has been in conference with the President, laying out the plans for drouth relief and the conservation conserva-tion of food supplies. sup-plies. Among the first things the relief re-lief administration will do Is to buy up bay and fruit that otherwise might go to waste. Hay on public Prince Von Starhemberg Aubrey Williams RELATIONS between Russia and Japan have been further strained by the arrest of 17 Soviet subjects, all officials and employees of the Chinese Eastern railway, by Man-chukuo Man-chukuo authorities. They are accused ac-cused of plotting against Manchu-kuo Manchu-kuo and Japan and of being in collusion col-lusion with bandits in recent attacks at-tacks on the railway. The Russian consul general at Harbin vainly demanded de-manded the release of tho prisoners. prison-ers. In Moscow the arrests gave rise to rumors that Japan was preparing pre-paring to declare military law and take over the railway, the sale of which has long been a subject of fruitless negotiation. j Nazi Legion In Germany, and believes be-lieves the reich is still financing the" Nazis in Austria. The prince's statements state-ments are borne out by the fact that Austria has sent a note to Great Britain, France and Italy, asking permission to enlarge Its army because it fears another Nazi putsch is imminent. Starhemberg asserts that hd overwhelming majority of the Austrian Aus-trian people are in favor of the Hapsburg restoration, that the Vatican Vat-ican is for It, and that Italy and England are neutral; but that France and the little entente woultf oppose it lands also will be cut and baled. The complete program was being formulated by Mr. Williams nnd Secretary Wallace. It was expected expect-ed this would include expenditure of ?350,000,000 left In the special drouth appropriation, nnd distribution distribu-tion of food and clothing to the needy by th surplus relief corporation. corpora-tion. Aid for live stock Is to be provided. Mr. Roosevelt is determined that the relief administration shall be kept clear of politics. At his sug- |