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member of the League of Nations.
out of WPA earnings; granting of
The convention grants complete
funds to farmers desiring to keep
liberty to merchant marine pas
small livestock herds for the pur
© Western Newspaper Union.
sage through the straits in peace
chase of feed and subsistence to
its executive board, spreads news be repaid by work on W PA proj time and wartime, even with Tur
Bloody Civil W a r
key at war, provided the com m er
“ endangering the state interest.”
ects; loans and grants to owners
Rages in Spain
cial vessels do not assist the fight
2. Prohibition of review by the
IV IL war, desperate and bloody, courts of police measures of a po of large scale cattle enterprises to ing powers.
cover the cost of shipping animals
broke out in Spain, and though litical
The Russian navy is granted com
nature,
including
those to other states for feeding.
the government in Madrid declared aimed at the right of assembly,
plete freedom in peacetime to leave
it was in control of the situation, the press, and free speech.
and enter the Black sea through
such news as got
the straits, but nations outside will
3. Prohibition of Jewish ritual Doings of Towsendites
through the censor
be subjected to limitations on pas
slaughtering for food purposes.
in Their Convention
ship indicated that
4. Imposition of three month pro
N ALLIANCE
between
Dr. sage of fighting ships through the
the struggle was by
tective custody on persons declared
Francis E. Townsend, Father channel.
no means ended. On
to be “ endangering the public Charles E. Coughlin and Rev.
During wartime belligerents will
one side w ere the
Gerald L. K. Smith in the interests be prohibited from using the straits
peace,”
Fascists and royal
Thus the city’ s constitution is
of a third party was unless acting for the league or un
ists led by Gen.
virtually set aside, and the Poles
announced at the der the obligations of a regional
Francisco Franco;
Townsendite conven pact of which Turkey was a signa
especially, having extensive eco
jxl the other were
nomic interests there, are indig
tion in Cleveland, tory.
.the loyal troops and
nant.
The League of Nations,
attended by 12,000
the workers, Com
which holds a protectorate over
followers
of
the Army to Get Many N ew
munists and Social- _ _
Danzig, may be called on to act . > ; tv
California d o c t o r
ists. The r e b e l s L * Companys.
Fast Fighting Planes
in the matter. Of course there is K ;
who advocates pen
started the game in Spanish Moroc talk of Poland resorting to arms,
ERFECTED plans of the War
sions of $200 per
co and the Canaries and were soon but this is not likely a t present
department for procurement of
month
for every
in control there. Then Franco, who
airplanes provide for the acquisi
person over sixty.
• 4» ®nly> forty'-ehree years old but .a
tion of 60 new fast fighting planes
In an address be
Nanking
Troops
Take
dynamic character, crossed over to
every month during the rest of
fore the convention.
A lgecira a ,. followed by the Foreign Control of Canton
this year. This has been made pos
EVO LT
of
the
Cantonese Dr. Townsend p alher Coughlin bit sible by the smooth functioning of
Legion and a lot of Moors, Moroc
against the Nanking govern terly denounced the present admin a new purchasing plan started by
cans and black African troops. A ft
ment
has collapsed and latest re istration and President Roosevelt Harry H. Woodring, assistant sec
er a sharp battle at La Linea, close
ports
say government troops have and called upon the delegates to
to G ihralian these contingents be
retary of war.
entered
Canton and taken over follow Dr. Townsend in endorsing
gan a march northward toward Se-
Before the end of tne year, 500
T,yille and C adiz., There was severe maintenance of peace and order. the candidacy of William Lemke new planes will be ready for ac
fighting in San Sebastian, where There was no opposition and the for the presidency on the Union tion, officials said. Plans have been
ticket
the Am erican embassy is located city was quiet
made for the purchase of more
Chen
Chi-tang,
the
Cantc-
war
Lemke himself appeared before
in summer, and in other border
than 600 planes of vari ms types
towns. M alaga was reported to be lord, deserted his followers and fled the convention before it adjourned
to Hongkong on a gunboat There and made a speech in which he in 1937.
in flames.
. Commanders of the rebels assert was a scramble to find Chen’s al pledged himself to “ stand four
ed their' atfh was to “ save the re leged silver hoard, said to amount square behind the old age pension Attempt to Kill King
and denounced the Edward of England
public,” to keep order and to de to many million dollars, but much movement”
stroy the Marxists. In Barcelona of it is believed to be deposited in present administration as “ nation
HE attempted assassination of
al lunacy.” The delegates applaud
their attack was directed especially foreign banks.
King Edward V III of England
The Nanking government gains ed the first statement, but other in London brought great alarm to
against Luis Companys, president
of the Catalonian parliament, who possession of Kwantung province’ s wise were rather apathetic toward the English speaking world. The
was said to be besieged in his of- fleet of more than 300 fighting the Union party leader.
Doctor
attempt was made
planes, and also of extensive arm Townsend made no plea for him but
' fiées. * * * " •• ■ '
near
Hyde
Park
Jose M aria G il Robles, leader aments. These latter include quan merely urged his followers to con
and the monarch’ s
o f the Catholic C. E. D. A. (Con tities of heavy artillery, field ar centrate on the election of senators
life was saved by a
federation of Autonomous Right tillery and machine guns, nearly and congressmen.
woman
bystander
Parties) fled to Biarritz, France. half a million rifles, numbers of
Father Coughlin’s attack
on
who grappled with
An.-aviator who escaped the rebels anti-aircraft guns, tanks, the south President Roosevelt drew fire from
the would-be assas
in Morocco declared G il Robles had west’ s navy, two arsenals and one various sources. Bishop Michael
sin and wrested a
airplane factory.
instigated the re v o lt
Gallagher of Detroit, as he sailed
pistol from him.
, Prem ier Santiago Casares Qui-
for a visit to the Vatican, admit
The king was re
roga resigned in favor of Diego Hot and D ry Spell Broken
ted he had “ chided” the priest for
turning to Bucking
Martinez-Barrio, speaker of parlia-
using “ language that was a little
ham palace from
by Rains and Cool W inds
- jogent, but the latter held the office
too
strong” but denied he had dis
Hyde Park, where
E L IE F for the drouth stricken
oply a few hours. Then Jose Giral,
horseback
he
regions in the Middle West ciplined him or that he would re King Edward on
form er minister of marine, formed
port
on
the
affair
to
the
Vatican.
had presented new colors to six
came with rains in many sections
a cabinet with General Pozas, who
Earler the New Deal had been battalions of the Grenadier. Cold
and cooling winds that sent the
has the support of both the power
temperature
down the target of both Dr. Townsend stream and Scots guards.
ful Civil Guard and Republican ele
and Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith, now
toward
normal.
In Paris,
the celebration
of
ments of the army, as minister of
leader of the late Huey Long’s France’s national holiday, Bastille
However,
it
was
too
war.
late to save the share-the-wealth movement
day, saw the Champs Elysees a
The rebels sent word to the gov-*
Townsendite
candidates
who scene of rioting with rightists and
crops
in
ma ny
em m ent that u nless it capitulated
states, and prices must run on the Democratic ticket leftists in combat with each other
they * wottld‘ 'b om b Madrid from
of foodstuffs con planned a pro-Rcosevelt demon and the police. The disorders be
planes. «
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tinued to advance. stration. Pro-Roosevelt delegations gan when leftists were returning
The farmers began representing 11 states signed a res from their own parade in the east
• Olympic Torch Started
to receive aid from olution urging that no “ merger or ern section of the city. Seeing red
to Berlin Games
the government in fusion” with a third party be made. flags borne in the procession, the
the form of cash, A tactical victory was won by the rightists greeted their opponents
I N O L Y M P IA , Greece, scene of
and no one could New Deal forces in the election of with cries of “ Soviets everyw here.”
the first Olympic games, a torch
Dr. Tugwell
deny that they need- Willis Mahoney, Townsendite Dem
v Was lighted by the rays of the sun
ocratic candidate for senator from
and a Greek runner seized it and ed this help.
Lewis and O th e rs Are
sfairted it on a 12-day relay to the
Loss of life throughout the United Oregon, as chairman of the resolu
Summoned for Trial
sports” field in Berlin where the State: from the unprecedented heat tions committee.
IM M E D IA T E
splitting
of
the
Olympic flame is to be lighted on wave exceeded 3,850, an all-time
American Federation of Labor
Atfgdst 1. ‘ F ive thousand distin- high.
Communist Campaign to
into two rival groups wag averted
‘ gufshett’ persons were selected to
Agronomists in Minnesota, N e
by the action of the Fedeiation’ s
carry the torch, these including braska, Iowa, Illinois and Ohio ex Open on August 5
King Boris of Bulgaria, King P e pressed apprehension over the out ^M ATIO N AL campaign headquar executive council in voting to bring
ters of the Communist party to trial on August 3, the union
ter Cf Jflgo§lavia, and a long list look for the corn crop unless gen
' u f -princes, statesmen and sports eral rains should develop rapidly. h ve been opened in New York city leaders led by John L. Lew is on
men»» -On the last leg it was to
It
Completing a tour of the drouth and it is announced that Earl charges of “ dual unionism.”
be borne- by S. Loues of Greece, areas, Secretary of Agriculture» Browder, candidate for President, had been reported earlier that the
- winner o f the marathon in the Wallace declared the nation need will start his speechmaking in Den council had voted to suspend the
games- o f 1896. A hundred thou have no fears of a food shortage, ver on Augus. 5. From there he 12 unions grouped as the Com m it
sand -Hitler youths will accompany and assailed those “ who have tried goes to Salt Lake City, Los Ange tee for Industrial Unionization.
> Loues i n - a triumphal parade to for their own purposes to scare les, San Francisco, Portia id, Ore.,
The council’ s action was looked
the stadium, *
the consumers about food scarci Seattle, Butte, Bismarck and Min upon as a peace move in the crisis
F iv e thousand torches to carry ty.” He added: “ There is no ex neapolis. All his speeches will be that threatens open warfare in the
the flame were donated by the cuse for substantial increases in broadcast.
labor m ovem ent
It was precipi
Krupp works, so each oi the bear food prices now.”
James W. Ford, colored, the tated by the drive to organize 500,-
e r * , w ill reta in .one as a souvenir.
Arriving at Bismarck, N. D., to Communist party’s candidate for 000 workers in the steel industry
help co-ordinate drouth relief en vice president, will open his tour into one big industrial union by
terprises, Rexford G. Tugwell, re August 5 with an appearance in John L. Lewis, president of the
N azi Decrees in Danzig
settlement administrator, was in Scranton, Pa.
United Mine Workers and his fol
Crush--Opposition
lowers.
formed that approximate!; 60,000
T TNLESS ■ the protests of Poland farm fam ilies in the state were
Turkey Given Right to
The charges against the Lewis
Vi
effec^vg, all .opposition to among the needy.
A conference
group
include “ competition as a
„ N azi Rovyej^ iq the F ree City of of state and federal officials in Bis- Rearm the Dardanelles
rival
^organization
with the A. F.
Danzi^ is due to be crushed. Dr. pjarck developed a three fold plan PLIGHT signatories to the Lau-
sanne post-war treaty have c* h " ; (orienting an insurrection
^Arthur^K arl ^Gr^iser, president of for the relief of dwellers in the des
granted
to Turkey the right to re within the Federation; violation of
the p a rizig senate, which is con olated areas of the Dakotas, west
contracts they have entered into
trolled b y Nazis, has issued ad ern Minnesota, eastern Montana m ilitarize the Dardanelles, and
with the Federation when granted
they,
with
Turkey,
have
signed
a
m inistrative decrees ordering:
and Wyoming. These included:
their charters.
,
1.
Dissolution of any organization Immediate advancement of mon convention covering the matter.
While the council deliberated the
whose members, with knowledge of ey to needy families, repayable Only Japan made slight reserva
fate
of the so-called “ insurgent”
tions because it is no longer
unions, Mr. Lewis denounced both
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the steel industry
tion, declaring:
lhe
“ Neither the Amerlr*
tion of Labor nor the ate*] ?****
can stop the organua
workers in our organizing* *
for the millions ^
I «1
ers who have been denied J *0ri
to organize and who ^
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scorned by the i n d u s t r i a l , 1
Henry Ford Has Vision
Concerning Foods
p jE N R Y FORD, approach«, ll
1 1 «eventy - third birthda. ^
visioned the eventual dJ £ *
farm animals as a
*
w orld’ s food and
predicted that the
grains
and other
crops will largely
be substituted for
them.
“ We can. I be
lieve, get a more
plentiful supply 0f
food cheaper and
better.”
he said,
“ by processing the
products of the soli
instead of
asking H«ryF*rt
cows and chickens *o do it for a
In the future farm animal» of
kinds will decline in Humbert Vi
won’ t need them. The farm »me*
will go. but the farm wiil oecotna
larger.”
Business, according to the
industrialist, is “ doing all right"
He criticized governmental inter
ference with private busine»t "pu
ticularly through the attempt of»
tem ational bankers to control »1
business.” He haid, “ the financier*
only idea is to get in and mala
money. They are not much inter
ested in production at lower costs
The better you can make a thug
and the cheaper you can seD it,
the larger will be your product»
and the higher the wages you cu
pay.”
Former Navy Officer
Accused as a Spy
HE arrest of former Lieut
Commander John S. Farnsworth
of the United States navy ot i
charge that he had sold confides*
tial naval data to a Japanese of
ficer marked what observer* be*
lieved was the beginning of i
roundup of persons suspected of
supplying navy secrets to foreign
powers.
D eclaring that he had obtained
nothing of importance from the
navy and gave nothing to the Jap
anese that “ could not have beet
obtained, in the public library in
Washington,” Farnsworth at M
pleaded not guilty to the charge»
Farnsworth is charged with tak
ing from the Navy department and
later selling it to the Japanese go*
em m ent, a book entitled
Service of Information and Genera-
Security.”
The book is
naval
tactics and according to officials, u
rated as “ confidential"
It was claimed that Farnswo
technical training in the na
would make it possible for m*
piece together information PlC
up from form er fellow officers.
T
on
L . P. Ayers Predicts Big
Business Im provem en t
tht
P R E D IC T IN G that 193 « will be
I best business year since
“ possibly since 1929,” Colone
ard P. Ayers, economist « ^ ^
land, declared that statists «¡b-
im portant business had s 0
,,
stantial and “ healthy inC ^
since the first of this y «8*»
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drouth and other difficu
not affected increases in
ment, markets and secU .
changes, the economist st »
^
“ More steel has been prod c ^
the first half of
than ^
1932,” he pointed out.
^
factor in the
ot business has been we
em ploym ent among
20od»
worker, making
making d u r a b ^ »s l fac-
workers
W orkers in the durable
tories suffer most t r o m w . ^
shut-downs, but such
^ thii
the case in the flrst„ h
yea r and oi last year.
1936
increased