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o II H o N I (’ I' K By E D W A R D W. P IC K A R D © Western Newspaper Union. Landon and Lowden Are In Accord on Agriculture endorsement of the C OMPLETE presidential candidacy of Gov. Alf M. Landon of Kansas was giv en by former Gov. Frank O. Low den of Illinois fol lowing a conference in Topeka. Follow ing the conference former Governor Lowden announced that he and Gover nor Landon were in “full accord” on the question o f farm relief. The Illinois farm leader revealed Frank O. that he had dis Lowden cussed soil erosion, reciprocal treaties, conservation of farm population, government aid in marketing surplus crops, centraliz ing of federal power and reduction of federal expenditures with Gov. Landon. Mr. Lowden declared: “We are in accord on the impor tant agricultural issues. I shall support him and cam paign for his election.” Paym ent of cash federal boun ties to soil - conserving farm ers through a plan contemplating state administration was one of the farm principles advocated by Mr. Low- den which received the verbal 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 ad- ministrator who resigned his post following a break with Secretary of Agriculture Wallace and is now a New D eal critic. Also on the program was the visit of Col. Frank Knox, Governor Landon’s running mate. At Governor Landon’s office a letter was made public from Wil liam Cabell Bruce, former Dem o cratic senator from Maryland, say ing that he was “bitterly disap pointed” in President Roosevelt and “deeply gratified” at Governor Landon’s nomination. In the paeantime members of the Kansas legislature had departed for their hom es after submitting two constitutional amendments to the state’s electorate. One of these would authorize state aid for the needy and the other would ap prove state participation in the fed eral social security plan. Both amendments were recommended by Governor Landon. freely on politics, civic affairs, lit erature and crime as well as reli gious affairs. His last public ad dress dealt with “The World at the Crossroads." New Austro-German Pact Makes Diplomatic History era in European diplo A NEW m acy was heralded with the signing of a treaty between Ger many and Austria, re-establishing peace and normal relations be tween the two nations. Since Italy has been acting in the role of big brother to Austria in the past two years it was re garded as a virtual certainty that Premier Mussolini had sanctioned the new pact. Observers pointed out that with Germany, Austria and Italy in accord and with Po land friendly to Hitler’s aims, Eu rope now has a prospective alli ance more powerful than the triple alliance of Germany, Italy and Au stria-Hungary preceding the World war. By the terms of the new Austro- German pact, the sovereignty of Austria is guaranteed, a friendly attitude by Austria toward Ger many ¿s promised, amnesty to Nazi agjtators in Austria is given and free(jom 0f Austrian Nazi now in terned in Germany is permitted, In seaijng the Austro-German agreement Chancellor Kurt Schus- chnigg of Austria wired a mes- sage Qf congratulations to Chancel- jor expressing his conviction that the agreem ent “would be to the advantage of the whole Ger- m an people.” In replying Hitler expressed the wish “that this agreem ent will re-establish the old traditional relations springing from racial unity and the centuries long common history” of the two peo ples. It is understood that both Hitler and Schuschnigg will meet in the near future, probably at Hit ler’s sum m er home at Berchtesga- den. In diplomatic circles the signing of the new pact was regarded as another shrewd coup by Chancel lor Hitler and Premier Mussolini. The German and Italian dictators have thrust a dictatorially gov erned F ascist and Nazi wedge through central Europe from the North Sea to the Mediterranean. In Paris, French officials were quoted as seeing in the new agree ment an initial step toward Ger man annexation of the Austrian republic without resorting to war. They declared their belief that Hit ler’s actual entry into Vienna is now only a question of time. They expressed their belief that Hitler had signed the accord merely to Dr. S. Parkes Cadman have his hands free for action Is Taken by Death against the free city of Danzig and R. S. Parkes Cadman, who rose Czechoslovakia. from the mines of England to international fam e as a pulpit ora tor, died in Plattsburg, N. Y., at President Roosevelt Leaves the age of seventy-one. for Nautical Vacation Dr. Cadman was pastor of the A FTER dedicating New York’s Central Congregational church of - t x new $64,000,000 Tri - borough Brooklyn and was a former presi bridge, attending the wedding of dent of the Federal Council of Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, minister Churches. to Denmark, to In his youth, Dr. Cadman worked Captain B o e r g e as a “pony boy” in a mine in Rohde of the Dan Shropshire, England. At fourteen ish court and spend he began to read theology; at sev ing two days at his enteen he joined the church and at Hyde Park home, eighteen preached his first sermon. President Roosevelt He came to America in 1890 with embarked on a less than $100 m his pocket. nautical vacation in Through a bishop whom he had m et Maine and Canadi in London he obtained his first pas an waters. torate. On the bridge In his later years, Dr. Cadman dedication program President had for his congregation all the with the President Roosevelt people of the North American conti were Secretary of n e n t He w as the first of the “ra the Interior Ickes, Gov. Lehman dio pastors” and his Sunday after of New York, Senator Wagner and noon serm ons reached the ears of Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia of New millions. York City. The bridge is the larg His eloquence as a preacher est completed public works admin brought him a steadily growing istration project in the East. It fam e. Peace and tem perance were comprises four spans in itc three the keystones of his philosophy, a l and one-half m iles of elevate i ways though he expressed his view s and cpnnects Manhattan, the Bronx D and Queens. Long Island. ^ is second only to that of the Gold en Gate bridge at San Ftrancisco. Before leaving to board the schooner S e w a n n a , President Roosevelt conferred with a group of eastern state representatives on the matter of flood controL ReP* resentatives of New York, Penn sylvania, Ohio. West Virginia and other states hit by disastrous floods early this year met with the President On the cruise of the Sewanna, a 50-foot schooner yacht President Roosevelt will 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 No va Scotia where he expects to do some deep sea fishing. A destroy er, the presidential yacht Potomac and the schooner Liberty carrying newspaper men are trailing the Se wanna. Before he returns to the White House, the President will pay a visit to Lord Tweedsmuir, gover nor-general of Canada at Ottawa, the Dominion’s capital. basket— had begun to suffer like their neighbors in the United States. Except for scattered lo cal showers, there had been no rain from Ontario westward to the Canadian Rockies lu ic e June 16. With the full extent of the dam age In the “dust bowl” area of the Northwest not yet known, the fed eral government m ade plans to deal with a long-range disaster. President Roosevelt, taking person al command of the relief program in Washington, announced that he would make a personal tour of the drouth-stricken areas within the next few weeks. The President announced that the federal government had pre pared a comprehensive plan w’here- by 170.000 out of 204.000 farm fam i lies impoverished by the drouth in the Northwest would be given im mediate cash assistance. He de clared that he will make his trip after the relief program has had an opportunity to get under way, to see for him self exactly how much damage was caused by the drouth and whether financially-ruined fam ilies are receiving the proper a s sistance. Fifteen Jap Army Officers Ruth Bryan Owen Becomes Bride of Danish Officer outmaneuvered diplo R OMANCE macy when Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, minister to Denmark, be came the bride of Captain Boerge Rohde, gentleman- in-wraiting to King Christian of Den mark. The w’edding took place in S t James Chapel at Ï Â h: Hyde Park, N. Y., in the presence of President Roosevelt who n o m i n a t e d \ Mrs. Owen as the country’s first wom an minister. A few days after Ruth Bryan Owen Mrs. Owen returned to the United States for the sum mer, the announcement of her en gagement was made in Denmark by Captain Rohde’s mother. A day o: two later, Captain Rohde ar rived in America and plans were made for an immediate wedding. Mrs. Owen, who has announced that she will campaign for Presi dent Roosevelt’s r:-election after her wedding trip, will resume her post in Denmark later, continuing the use of the name Ruth Bryan Owen, in official life. As attendants at the wedding, Mrs. Owen and Captain Rohde selected Fannie Hurst, the novelist, and Robert Lehman who is the bride’s son-in-law and a cousin of Governor Lehman of New York. Promise of Rains and Cooler Weather for Drouth Areas \ A 7 ITH a recession of the ex- * » tremely high temperatures promised and the prospect of rains, some measure of relief was in sight for the sun-parched drouth areas of the Great Plains. Rains which fell in portions of the Northwest revived scattered areas. But for day after day a record-breaking heat wave had brought temperatures ranging from 90 to 114 from the Rocky Mountains to the Appalachians. Twenty-three states, eight of them in the South, were listed as suffering in some degree from the drouth. Ten of them—North and South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Minnesota, Missouri, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Virginia and South Carolina—were already in n criti cal stage. Five others-Kentucky, Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina and West V irginia-were borderline cases. Eight others where the full severity of the drouth had not yet been felt were: Nebraska, Wiscon- sin, Iowa. Michigan, Illinois, Kan- sas, Indiana and Ohio. The sweltering heat and drouth spread into Canada. The prairie provinces of Manitoba, Saskatche wan and Alberta-^anada’s bread Are Put to Death Japanese army officers F 'lFTEEN who were leaders in last 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 exp la nation was made by the war office. They were Captain Yoshiaki N aka 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 com plicity in the uprising of February 26 which pushed Japan close to the brink of civil war. The condemned men were charged with murder, rebellion and disobedience to the commands of Emperor Hirohito. Prison term s were meted out to 44 non-com missioned officers and eight civil ians for their complicity in the mu tiny. The drastic action of the high command in the name of the em peror in imposing so many death sentences was regarded as a strong effort to end political terrorism in the ranks of the Japanese army. Threat of Farm Strike Worries French Nation ITH the threat of a farm W strike hanging ominously over France, riots in French cities and street clashes between the leftists supporting the popular front social ist regime of Prem ier Leon Blum and rightists who oppose it added to the unrest The governm ent made anxious efforts to dissuade farm workers from going on a strike for higher pay and better wages. On five farms near Paris strik ing farm hands had actually oc cupied the land. While this was a localized situation, it was fraught with dangerous possibilities be cause the area affected not only provides most of the French cap i tal’s fresh vegetable supply but is an important wheat growing re gion as well. Due to heavy rains and hot weather the wheat has ripened at an abnormally rapid rate. Should a widespread strike of farm hands occur that delayed the wheat cut ting only a few days, experts were of the opinion that the entire crop of the region would be lost. It was reported that agitators were circulating through the rural districts generally inciting farm la borers to organize for a strike and urging them to take over the em ployers’ fields in the sam e way city workers occupied factories and shops in the recent “ fjtay-in” strikes. * »’KII i AY, Ji I-Y a. Green-Lewis Rift B rin gs Labor Crisis lon*awaited ci * A X ? to THE unionize th# industry was under wav m ost serious crises in th.00** the American labor m ovem ent a r o s e when strife broke out between Wil. liam Green, presl- dent of the Ameri can Federation of Labor and John L. Lewis, president o f the U n i t e d Mine Workers of America and head of the Committee for In- d us trial Organiza tion, who has pro moted the unionization drive ■ steel industry. Meeting in Washington, the utive council of the America eration of Labor considered m atter of su.spending eight i and international union* x ground that these eight have begun the formation i val, or dual labor federation John L. Lewis announced would not respond to a of the executive council to charges that he had violated federation’s policy by trying ganize 500,000 steel worken one big industrial union several unions divided by Should the rift widen aodi occur, observers believe it split the organized labor mor and affect its prestige tod at a critical time. Denouncing the action i Lewis group, President Green: clarcd: “ It is sincerely to be r that the committee for organization thwarted the of the American Federation) bor to inaugurate an or campaign in the steel lnd1! “A very serious if not i m istake was made when it the decision of the last coo of the American Federation bor „ . . and prevented the tive council from carrying convention’s instructions to urage, manage, promote ud duct an organizing «0 among the iron and steel at the earliest possible date' Back of the collision over tempted unionization of the dustry are two contending of thought over the future ganized labor in America, that sponsored by Mr. Green rose to power on a policy ol craftsmen, trained by crate other is championed by J Lewis who visions a powerful m achine organized regar crafts, which includes the skilled and unskilled wo well as the trained r The success of either G Lewis, it is believed, will - turning point in the American labor. Rockefeller Celebrates His 97th Birthday a big cake to C JTTING his ninety-seventh John D. Rockefeller pre* he would live to be one D espite temperature o shade, the famous "T donned a sun helmc doors on his summ Lakewood. N. J- ¡. The multimillionaire o ^ philanthropist did not bration of his b.r ^ with his daily nap ° ernoon automobile . , Mr. Rockefeller Ion« given up all forms £ ities, including 6° ■ favorite pastime. ^old he was down to a t 1 day' r .xts.» UP “ '’ a his ,o " spend hi* wirurs •< »
