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.
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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
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