Show news review of current events the world over eugene black to sell new deal to the banks president warns against 0 food profiteering cotton textile strike voted by EDWARD W PICKARD 0 by western newspaper union UGENE R BLACK lias has resigned aas EUGENE as governor of the federal re serve gerve board and president roose relt has given him a new position contact officer be tween the banks p and the government this means that mr air black Is expected to sell the new deal to the financial institutions tut ions which in the past have been gg among the severest crit criticos critic icis ls of many features of the eugene R presidents pro black gram for recovery ile he returns to his big former position of governor of the atlanta federal reserve bank which he left in may 1933 to assume the direction of the whole reserve system mr black himself said his new assignment Is to muster the strength of our finan financial cral lions behind recovery in america some observers in Wasi washington lincton thought the move indicated that the administration was going to make another attempt to thaw out the vast sums in commercial credits that are lying idle in tile the banks you can do much good president roosevelt wrote black in accepting his resignation by presenting the recovery program to the count rys reserve banks commercial banks and other financial institutions tut ions by acquainting them with the successive steps taken by the administration which have resulted in the present prosperous condition of these institutions and which make possible their operation cooperation co with the administration in its pro gram of complete business rehabilitation 1 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 operate cooperate co with you in its performance among those mentioned ns as likely to succeed black as governor of the federal reserve board was marriner S eccles utah banker who Is now a special assistant of the treasury lie he I 1 Is s close to rexford guy tu tugwell mv well P PRESIDENT RESIDENT ROOSEVELT it turns out Is not at all dismayed by the catastrophic drouth that has h as afflicted a large part of the country to the white house correspondents spon Uon dents he indicated ills 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 ile he expressed the belief that there will be plenty of food tor for all and made it clear that the administration would not stand for any profiteering in in food prices or grain speculation to the detriment of the farmer and the public chiselers it was promised will be promptly and severely punished the federal grain futures administration directed by J M uehl mehl it was revealed Is watching grain trading closely the first evidence of manipulation will bring punitive action the consumers council of the AAA under dr frederic rr ederic C howe Is charting food prices housewives will be warned of any increase out of line with market supplies secretary wallace has admitted that there will necessarily be increases in food prices and figures released by his department show they are already beginning to go higher A gradual increase until next nest summer Is expected W WHILE narry hopkins federal relief administrator Is vacationing in europe his place Is taken by aubrey williams his assistant mr williams has been in conference with the president laying out the plans for drouth relief and the conservation y of food supplies 71 among the first things the relief administration will do Is to buy up hay and fruit that otherwise autdrey re might go to waste williams illia 9 hay y on public lands also will be cut and baled the complete program was being formulated by mr williams and secretary wallace it was expected this would include expenditure of left in the special drouth appropriation and distribution of food and clothing to the needy by the surplus relief corporation aid for live stock Is to be provided n mr roosevelt Is determined determine that the relief administration shall be kept clear of politics at his sug telegrams were sent to re lief directors and workers every where telling them to keep out ol of partisan politics and to resign if 11 they aliey wish to run for office one of tile the plans that Is being worked out by mr williams Is the mobilization of unemployed school teachers next winter in a campaign against illiteracy and to fit the workless for jobs prosperity returns the program includes vocational training vocational rehabilitation lIlt aaion general adult education and nursery schools aass president roosevelt can U UNLESS prevent it about halt half a million workers in the cotton textile industry will be on strike on or about september 1 because they are utterly with their code the convention of the united textile workers of america in new york voted mandatory and atory instructs instructions ills to the unions executive council to call this general strike and if it goes into effect it may later spread to other branches branc lios of the industry involving an additional 2 leaders in the strike movement are norman thomas former socialist 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 icek with 40 hour pay elimination of the stretch out system with corresponding re adjustment of machine loads and a universal system of collective bargaining 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 flo ode who appeared before the convention as a representative of president william wilbam 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 elections in several estates PRIMARY states brought about interesting results in nebraska representative E IL burke of omaha advocate of the new deal won thede the democratic m nomination for senator defeating a t gov CON charlesw charles W bryan by an astonishing plurality of more than the republicans nominated robert L G simmons it was predicted by friends of senator E R burke norris orris radical republican that the pro progressive 1 dessive lie ile publicans public ans would support burke for simmons a m member ember of congress had been attacking the and the AAA ohioans are ghen their choice between two veteran politicians in the race for tile senate A V donahey three times governor of the state was made the nominee of the democrats running far ahead of gov george willie white and charles 0 west the last named was the choice or of the national administration but he made a poor showing 9 senator simeon D fess one of the most vociferous 01 of the loosevelt Koos Ioos ovelt evelt programs easily won by the republicans for governor the democrats nominated Alti martin rtin L davey the tree doctor and the republicans put up clarence J brown gov J M futrell of arkansas was as were till all but two of the states congressmen who sought reelection election re democrats of idaho are so well satisfied with gov ren ben C 0 ross former cowboy co that they him for a third term the republican nominee there Is frank L stephan looking over these primary results and considering the prospects all over the country democratic leaders in washington predicted their party would gain six senate seats republican republic an campaign managers said the G 0 C P will hold its own As for the house the democrats adroit admit they will lose at least t twenty wenty five seats and their opponents claim the republican gain will be between fifty and seventy five s seats e ats RELATIONS between russia and japan have been further strained by tile the arrest of 17 soviet subjects all and employees of the chinese eastern railway by man chukuro authorities they are accused of plotting against manchu chu kuo and japan and of being in collusion with bandits in recent attacks on the railway the russian russan consul general at harbin vainly demanded the rele release age of the prisoners in ID moscow tile the arrests gave rise to rumors that japan was pre paring to declare military milli ary law and take over the railway the sole scle of which has long been a subject of fruitless negotiation W WHEN the Is 13 and put under control of a commission a change that Is soon due uen gen hugh S johnson may still be in the picture despite the belief that he would retire com plemely ely lie told something ol of the plans for the shaken sha keup and at the same time said it if the president wants me to stay I 1 might serve as chairman ot of the board provided it did not take all of my time johnson said gald he expected the whole reorganization of the to be completed within the next CO 00 or 00 days the first step he said will be the formal submission of plans to the president congress will be asked next nest winter to enact the revised setup as a permanent government control over industry johnson disclosed it will be the new deal for business which president roosevelt will try to fix on the country for all time as sketched by johnson would consist of a general governing board a single administrative officer to carry out the boards dictates and a long string of government representatives sitting on code authorities as umpires in disputes between employers and workers and between industry and the public broadly speaking the NIZA might retreat and allow business greater freedom athe ABOUT BOUT GOO COO grizzled members of the grand army of the republic were able to attend the sixty eighth encampment at rochester N Y and many of them even insisted S in marching in the parade scorning tile the automobiles that carried their feebler brothers cow com mander in chief russell C martin presided over the sessions and the chief speaker was secretary of war dern sir dern told the veterans that the world was seething with unrest and that weak nations might light become involved in chaos and war america lis h asserted Is in the grip of another kind hind of if war one against economic adversity intensified fied by the terrific drouth but lie he expressed confidence confluence Anie american rican character american grit grill will win out ile 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 domeet to meet the other crises which lie ile in tile the future we must be strong SENATOR S i LONG was marching rapidly toward victory over ills arch foe mayor T semmes Vl almsley of new orleans and there seem to be anything the latter could do to stop the kingfish the state legislature safely in the control of long and his henchman governor allen alien was swiftly pushing through a series of measures designed to put every parish rish and city in Louls louisiana laDa in the grip of those two gentlemen before the state primary on september 1 11 1 the legislators also passed a bill for an investigation into the affairs of if new orleans patterned after the famous seabury inquiry in new york AMO administrator JANIES JAMES A FrETT ling has inaugurated the housing administrations billion dollar home repair program the first loan being made by a washington ID ton bank to miss alma magrum a home owner in the presence of many bankers and government officials mr Sl moffett offett said credit facilities were available in cities and towns with populations I 1 irp bican the sanction of the theamer amer ican federation of labor a strike was called in the plants of the aluminum company laY of america which Is controlled by andrew W mellon former secretary of the treasury and his family six of the plants at new kensington arnold and logans ferry ila ia alcoa tenn east easl st louis ill and massena Mas senn N Y were closed and those at fairfield conn anil baden isadean N C were about to shut down the company normally employs about persons proposals offered by the workers representatives senta tives late in july were inere flatly rejected by the company PRINCE RINCE VON STAR of austria iho has just been in italy consulting with premier mussolini says the austrian aust t r I 1 a n government governa ent expects a new nazi outbreak in that country within tile the n next ext few months mantl s 00 ne lie says he be has I 1 information that a I 1 putsch Is belag belu 1 prepared and that lie ha distrusts tile the peace talk of the german government he also rince prince von non doubts the lepor of tile the dissolution Star ta rh hemberg emberg of the austrian nazi legion in germany and bea klevos eleves the retch Is still financing the nazis in austria the princes statements are arc borne born e 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 Star hemberg asserts that an overwhelming majority of the austrian ll 11 people are in favor of tile hapsburg that tile the vatican Is for it and that flint italy and england are neutral but that france and the little entente would oppose it IL |