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I, K I) \ M O II H O N I T II E B O X N K V I I- TWO----------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------- ---------------------- ---------------------- Review of the History E C S W -------------"• Making Events of the Wor! these, he points out. has Its roots in the New Deal financial schemes By E D W A R D W. P I C K A R D and he finds that particular Influ C Western N»w»papor Union. ence a bad one because it creates conflict the two reports presages a Jeffersonian D em ocra ts and heated discussion at tiie as- a temporary fool’s paradise in which sales and earnings are bal Band T o g e th e r sociation meeting. looned by extraordinary govern ORTY-THREE Democrats, most ment expenditures. of them prominent nation Asserting that political extrava ally or locally and representing A m erican T ra ck Team gance has created a highly unde twenty states, gathered in Detroit V ic to r in O lym pics IGHT days of track competition sirable and artificial stimulus. Mr. to tell one another that brought out many record- Sloan urges that such spending be and the world how breaking performances showed that much and why they halted before it is too late to stave disliked t h e New the American team was unbeatable off disaster. Deal. After two in the matter of total points. These days of conferring, Yankee athletes piled up a total of Oil Men and Companies t h e y organized 203 points. Finland was second themselves as the with 801«. Germany third with Accused of Conspiracy HARGED by the government National Jefferson 69*i and Japan fourth with with conspiracy to violate the ian Democrats and 51 13-22. Jesse Owens, the marvel anti-trust law by combining to dom n a m e d Former ous colored lad from Ohio State Senator James A. university, captured four g o l d inate the purchasing of oil in the T e x a s , Louisiana Reed of Missouri as medals for firsts in the 100 meter J. A. Reed and Oklahoma fields their national chair- and 200 meter runs and the broad and to fix prices of man. They decided to establish jump and for pacing the winning gasoline in the Mid headquarters at once in St. Louis American quartet in the 400 meter dle West. 58 per and to set up an organization in relay. The decathlon was won by sons. 23 petroleum every state. Then they gave out Glenn Morris of Denver. concerns and three a 1,500 word declaration or plat Japan captured the most highly publishing compa form in which they declared they prized Olympic championship when nies were indicted “ will not support for re-election the Kitei Son, young Corean student, by a federal grand candidates of the Philadelphia con won the marathon race over a very vention for President and Vice tough course and in the record time jury in Madison, President, and we call upon all loy of 2 hours 29 minutes 19.2 seconds. Wis. Among the al and sincere Democrats to con The distance was 26 miles and 385 prominent defend- H. M. Dawes ant* are Edward cl. sider the question of their duty to yards. Among the women contestants Scubert of Chicago, president of their country in the approaching election with the same earnestness Helen Stephens of Missouri distin the Standard Oil Company of Indi that has guided our deliberations— guished herself by breaking the ana; Henry M. Dawes of Evanston. joining with us if they feel that our world record in two heats of the 111., president of the Pure Oil com conclusions are sound and our anx 100-meter dash. pany, and many officials of Stand Ohio State will have to get along ard Oil Pure Oil Deep Rock. So- iety for the future of our party without Owens next season, for he cony-Vacuum and various other oil and our country is justified.” The name of Governor Landon announced that he would turn pro concerns and their subsidiaries. Al was not mentioned in the declara fessional after completing a post- so in the list are Warren C. Platt tion, but a number of its signers Olympic tour that will take him to of Cleveland, publisher of the Na are openly supporting the Republi many European countries. tional Petroleum News and Platt's can candidate. Among these are Oilgram; his two publications and Joseph B. Ely, CoL Henry Breckin the Chicago Journal of Commerce. ridge, John Henry Kirby of Texas C om m erce Departm ent on The indictment charged that the and Robert S. Bright of Maryland. R ecov ery and P ublic D ebt defendant oil companies formed However, the avowed prime ob ECRETARY OF COMMERCE pools in the east Texas and mid jective of the Jeffersonians is the ROPER'S department has just continent fields for the purpose of defeat of President Roosevelt and put out a "world economic review” purchasing gasoline at artificially the restoration of the Democratic for 1935 which contains many high prices from independent pro party to its status before the New interesting state ducers, and in furtherance of such Dealers captured it. Their declara ments. It says, for a scheme were members of associ tion is unsparing in its denunciation instance, t h a t ations which included the indepen of Mr. Roosevelt’ s course and the f u t u r e business | dents. policies of his administration. prospects are condi- I This, said Mr. Platt, is exactly tioned in part upon \ what the oil companies did with the narrowing the gap j ) approval of Secretary of the Interi B ar A sso cia tio n Split on between g o v e rn- or Harold L. Ickes, administrator N e w D eal L eg isla tion ment expenditures of the NRA petroleum code, when HEN the American Bar as and receipts. It as efforts were being made to limit the sociation convenes in Boston serted t h a t "the production of gasoline, prevent the soon it will receive two widely dif government deficit flow of excess quota oil into mar fering reports from a special com springs f r o m the ket channels, and raise prices in mittee named to study the effects root of unemploy- P• Sloan of New Deal legislation on the ment, which Is still the major that turbulent industry. rights and liberties of citizens. They problem confronting the country,” were made public in Washington. and continued: Congressm an Zioncheck The majority report, signed by "Most of the recent increase in John D. Clark, Cheyenne, Wyo.; the public debt has resulted from Commits Suicide ZI ONCHECK Fred H. Davis, Tallahassee, Fla.; emergency expenditures which will \/IARION A. George L. Buist, Charleston, S. C., be reduced as the need diminishes. XV1 brought to an end in char and Charles P. Taft II., Cincinnati, At this date the evidences of need acteristic manner his checkered career and his life. He leaped to Ohio., “ deplored” the action of are still manifest.” President Roosevelt in reducing Saying the public debt "has con his death from a window of his congress to a “ rubber stamp” body tinued to mount rapidly, notwith office in Seattle shortly after he had to carry through his program of standing the substantial increase in filed for re-nomination to the con legislation. the national revenues,” the report gressional seat he had held for two terms. His friends attributed the “ Novel legislative and govern added: suicide to w o r r y over a psy mental trends of the New Deal are “ Future business prospects are in just as uncertain today as they a degree conditioned upon the pos chiatrist's advice that he take a were tjvo years ago,” the report sibility of bringing expenditures long rest from politics. His trouble said. “ Laws specifically proposed more in line with receipts and thus had been diagnosed as dementia as emergency measures with limit eliminating, partially at least, the praecox. ed life have been declared by im uncertainties prevailing in connec portant members of the administra tion with future taxation and other T w o Am erican Authors tion to be the beginning of perma budgetary problems.” Called by Death nent changes in national policy. As to “ the part played in the re “ There has been a continuing covery to date by the heavy govern I INCOLN STEFFENS, long prom- conflict between such officials as to ment expenditures," the report said: ^ in e n t as a journalist, writ whether a new social and economic "This question is not easily an er and lecturer, died at Carmel, order is in the making or the old swered, but it is certain that such Calif., at the age of seventy. He institutions are being perfected so outlays have had an influence, was creator of the so-called muck- that they may be preserved.” in many directions — for example, raking school of Journalism and in These findings were challenged on retail sales, on farm income, on many magazine articles he exposed by Kenneth Wynne, New Haven, the growth of bank deposits and on the corruption in municipal politics. Another well known American Conn.; Fred L. Williams, St Louis, the prevailing level of interest writer, Arthur B. Reeve, passed Mo., and James G. McGowen of rates.” Jackson, Miss. In their minority The latter statements may well away at his home in Trenton, N. J. report they said: “ If the purpose be compared with the report of He gained fame by his crime and of the resolution creating the spe Alfred P. Sloan, president of Gen mystery stories. cial committee was to get the opin eral Motors, to the stockholders. ion of the American Bar association Business recovery throughout the President Resents Charge regarding legislative trends de world — in which the United States of Politics in Relief signed to meet changing economic has participated — is being gen conditions, the report is superficial. It erated by a combination of various PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT was does not deal with the problem but factors, Mr. Sloan explains. In * visibly aroused by Republican concerns itself with a short range this country the automobile indus charges that the New Dealers were attack on surface trivialities.” try has been helped, he says, by seeking to reap political profit from The sharp divergence between influences. Only one of the drouth conditions. At his press conference he broke with the usual F -------------------------------------------- -------- rule by permitting himself to be or more . rei(|h directly quoted as saying: compem, „ for Corn £ £ "It is a great disservice to tho United State* „,4 Euro* proper administration of any gov ernment to link up human misery with partisan politics." The ¡’ resident announced that he would hold a series of regional con ferences with governors of states T ,,K ,( K ** ttnoth*r dicuia 1 in the drouth area, and naturally O e n . J 'm Metaxas. Governor Landon. his Republican opponent, will be among those he nounced that a gener»! ft* tered ty will m eet It was believed they niuniiti *u would come together about Labor to lead 1* day In Des Moines, with the gov diMurbaocti, ernors of Iowa, Nebraska, Oklaho with th* , ma and Missouri. Mr. Landon 1,1 Km g Cr^i said he would accept tho Pres he declared — ident's invitation to such a confer law, d4ioh,< ence. lament pc Dictatorship in Greet* Set Up by Metaxai pro election* Fierce F ig h tin g in the ly and worker* in Spanish C ivil W a r e s p e r a t e fighting for posses (irn. M r liu i aervice* net railway*, B sion of the passes In the Guadarrama mountains north of that called to th# colon, Madrid was going on between the would be directly under ment control. government forces and the rebel Strong guards were troops. Loyalist soldiers were hur power »’. r.i, gai works** ried to that region, and Madrid vital ; U.U and *11 Kiidiai claimed some victories. However, guard duty *e the Fascists on the northern side lice not r idy for tetxa of the range were said to be within In b.irr.i Mctaxas promlMd th# sight of the capital and in position ment ' f an r.ght hour day, for a vigorous advance. On the twentieth day of the re imum w.igr and a social bellion the government announced syatem. He remodeled I it had captured the provinces of iru-t. taking for htmtelf th Catalonia. Valencia. Murcia. Mala navy, air and foreign »5» ga. Ciudad R eal Guadalajara. full»». Dir patches to B Uadajoz and the northern resort said there had been claihr northern provinces of Or city of San Sebastian. tween workers and the forces. T en •‘R eb el” U n ion s A re Suspended F rom A. F. o f L . D istressed Farmer* Mi« |NLESS John L. Lewis and his B ig Reduction in Debt* ' associates in the Committee for VOLUNTARY cut of W Industrial Organization repent and of 33M cease their "rebellious” activities trc»s men w'*i reperti] before September 5, the Resettlement * the ten unions they The debts, it »aid. were head will be under down by creditors, tnroei suspension from the work of voluntary farm d*H American Federa mittccs in bringing farm« tion of Labor. Such their creditor* ' together to » was the verdict of tral atmosphere” during i* th e federation's months ended June 30. executive council Exjienscs of ice king ■» which passed on the adjustment'), taken froe^l charges of John P. provided by President Frey, president of September 1 last yesr, IP the metal trades 1 per cent of the total 1 J. I*. Frey division, that the debts involved, the id®- CIO was "fomenting insurrection said So far. »1.100 000 of * and rebellion.” David Dubinsky. located »2.WJ0.000 had be« head of the garment workers, cast the only vote against the suspen pended. sion order. Lewis having definitely set him C ol. Roosevelt Willing« self against any peace overtures, Run for Governor it appeared that the suspension cer v je w YORK Republican* tainly would be put into effect The 1% to nominate a cand) next move will be up to the Tampa governor at their party c0* convention in the fall, which will be in September, and C* asked to vote the expulsion of the Roosevelt has »aid refractory unions. In a letter that wa* made public that he Is willing to ac Senator K eyes, N ew H a m p sh ire, cept that honor to Retire F rom O ffice the party »° SENATOR HENRY W. KEYES of sires. New Hampshire has announced Colonel Ro fc%clt that he is not a candidate for re- n o w forty - eight election by the Republicans, prefer- years old. was th# ing "to retire from active partici Republican candi pation in public affairs.” The Re date for governor IB publicans therefore will choose be tween former Senator George H. 1924 and was '« CoL feated by Alfred E. Moses and Gov. H. Styles Bridges, Smith. Since then he h»» both of whom have announced their ernor of Puerto Rico an candidacy for the nomination. general of the PhiUPP^ Kansas Republicans renominated Senator Arthur Capper, and the Democrats picked Omar Kctchum E ig h t Men Are Killed«1 ( Topeka. In Kentucky the Demo C rash of Air Liner crats renominated Senator M. M. g jix passenger* Logan, whose Republican opponent O were in: t intly 1 of th* in November will be Robert H. Lockheed Klectra p ‘‘ Unel crT Lucas. cago and S o u t h e r " «• a few minutes afU ‘ the airport of St 1 Corn C rop E x p erts Say this writing then *** Y ield W ill Be Sm all L'XPE R T crop statisticians estl- for the dlsasl^r|h wcathtr «•* mate that, as a result of the most new and the record breaking drouth, this year's though skies *cr* «J ' The plane was b #y|(g corn crop will be reduced to 1,572,- Orleans for C h le s l* «“ ,, 000,000 bushels, which would be the smallest yield since 1881 except for the disastrous drouth year of 1934 Argentine farmers are expected to profit to the extent of 150,000,000 D L A
