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Review of tlie History*Making Events of the Woij
By
EDWARD
W.
PICKARD
© W estern N ew spaper Union.
ents taken there. The rebels also
reported a victory near Zaragoza
after a bloody battle
General
Franco met General Mola amt
"President” Virgilio Cabanellas at
the northern rebel headquarters In
Burgos and p'aiUied for further ad
vances of their louthem and north
ern columns on Madrid. These »ill
be supplemented by 4.000 Moors
and foreign legion veterans march
ing eastward from Badajoz.
greatest “surplus population ” He
urges a migration of 12.200 fami
lies from Texas and 7,360 from
North Dakota. Heavy removals al-
sc are suggested for South Dakota.
Nebraska. Kansas. Oklahoma, Wy
oming. and Colorado.
AAA M.,y Ablndon
Of Gram Crops
1 ( y ? ‘,ALS * «• tpr
y
,u,,n;™« ■dmuuiiSi
h i !.’"*'
w,,hS S its
b" “ y of ,|r«»tlc«Uy r«W
mov*nic altogether the ¡ ?
»trictions on corn andw-,
ond largest in history, and seedings
as large for the 1937 crop would
produce fully enough wheat for to
RESIDENT ROOSEVELT was at tal domestic utilization even if
his best as a radio orator when yields should turn out to be one-
he addressed the summer camp at fourth below average.”
Borah and Robinson Are
year
No decision wu
Chautauqua. N. Y., on foreign rela
farmer. w,U h* eca*M
R
enom
inated
for
Senate
tions. He expressed
'“pWO veterans of the senate. Wll- any changes ire ordered ,
his deep concern Father Coughlin’s Group
1 liam E. Borah of Idaho, Republi however, definitely
about tendencies in Indorses Lemke
can,
and Joseph T. Robinson of wheat ... reage will be
OLLOWING the recommendation
other parts of the
Secretary of Agriculture
Arkansas.
Democrat and majority
United
States
Will
Not
world and spoke bit
of Father Charles E. Coughlin,
leader, won Uioer fights for re- passing through Chics*«
terly about the vio the National Union for Social Jus Interfere in Spain
lation of both the tice, in convention in Cleveland, in EFFORTS of European nations. nomination without much difficulty. back frorn lows, mg *
letter and the spirit dorsed the candidacy of Represent Ea notably France, to persuade the Borah defeated Byron Defenbach. government-cue trolled cm
of i n t e r national atives Lemke and O'Brien, heads United States to Join in a neutrality who was backed by the Townsend- once would prevent wild
agreements “with of the Union party ticket But, also pact concerning the civil war In Ites. His Democratic opponent at tuations m farm product, fig
the polls in November wiU be Gov. he ».i d. has not pnge?
out regard to the on the advice of the priest the Spain are not likely
yond Ha- embryo .up, but
C. Ben Ross.
simple principles of Lemke platform was not indorsed to succeed. Howev
honor.”
In the Presidential contest the ly would entail slora* g
The 25,000 members of the N. U. : er it is the intention
President
“Our c l o s e s t S. J. present enthusiastically and of our government
American Federation of Labor, as government granaries L kj
Roosevelt
neighbors are good unanimously elected Father Cough not to interfere in l
an organization, will maintain its cr. dejending on the per
neighbors,” the President said. “If lin president of the organization. the situation in any *
traditional non-partisan policy, ac- ! his normal crop be wal_
there are remoter nations that ws'h Lemke and O’Brien both appeared way whatsoever. In
cording to the firm declaration of sure, w .uld make his “sgp
us not good but ill, they know that before the convention, delivered structions to this ef
President William Green. The fed payments in the form of br*
we are strong; they know that we speeches and were given a rousing fect were sent to
eration. said he. Is not In the Non- be stored in a common pod
Tlie plan, preventing /y
can and will defend ourself and de reception.
Partisan Labor league, which Is
all American repre
and
fat years,” would leads
fend our neighborhood.”
The final episode of the meeting sentatives in Spain
backing President Roosevelt “We
lire
market
prices becauMl
Mr. Roosevelt said he had seen of the Coughlinites was sensational. by William Phillips,
will not formally indorse any candi
war on land and sea.
The militant priest was delivering acting secretary of
date this fall." Mr. Green contin assure a continual sirpa
“I have seen blood running from a dramatic address before a vast state. While assert-
Phillip« ued. “Our non-partisan committee ply of whatever commodaj
the wounded,” he said. “I have throng in the Cleveland municipal ing that the American neutrality ; will merely prepare parallel reports be Insured. Gradually, ht
seen men coughing out their gassed stadium when suddenly he faltered, law prohibiting assistance to war- I on the labor records of the two might be worked out to at
lungs. I have seen the dead in the begged pardon and announced ring nations does not apply to the chief candidates and of the plat major farm product.
mud. I have seen cities destroyed. weakly that he could not finish be Spanish civil war. Mr. Phillips said forms. We will send out all data
I have seen 200 limping, exhausted cause of illness. He was half car that the United States intended to ( to our membership. They will have
C iv il W a r Breaks Out
men come out of line—the surviv ried to a car that hurried him to conform with its “well established to make up their own minds.”
ors of a regiment of 1,000 who went his hotel. There it was said his policy of noninterference with In- >
Among Townsendites
forward forty-eight hours before. I indisposition, due to the heat and temal affairs in other countries, ei
ebellion among um
have seen children starving. I have overwork, was not serious, and next ther in time of peace or civil No New Taxes Promise
s. smolder. {rmi
for Coming Year
seen the agonies of mothers and day he returned to Detroit
t h e i r ( . eland c»mm)
strife.”
ALLOWING a conference of broken out into civil war. Or.
wives. I hate war!”
Most of the nations Invited to
President Roosevelt Chairman cis Townsend has just
Germans felt that Mr. Roosevelt’s
participate in the non-intervention Harrison of the senate finance com ousted from the org
speech was aimed at them and re Commodity Exchange Act
agreement were willing, but Ger mittee. Chairman Doughton of the of the eleven directors,
sented his criticism. A Mexico City Attacked in Court
newspaper saw in it evidence that
N EQUITY suit attacking the many temporarily blocked the plan house ways and means committee the reason is that they in
the Monroe doctrine was to be re
constitutionality of the com by announcing that its answer | and Secretary of the Treasury Mor- Ing President Roosevelt ltd
vived. The press of Buenos Aires modity exchange act. chiefly on the would be delayed until Madrid gave grnlhau, the administration's fiscal to Townsend's effort to
warmly applauded the address, one ground that it seeks to regulate in a satisfactory reply to German pro program for the coming year was followers to the support of
Journal saying:
trastate rather than interstate com tests regarding the execution of four thus outlined:
Tlie three men thrown out
“Without the intention of making merce in violation to the Constitu German nationals in Barcelona.
1. Assurance that no request will Clinton Wunder, • former
a parallel between discourses re tion, was filed in the federal dis France set August 17 as the dead be made to the next congress for preacher, now living in So*
line for completion of the agree the levying of additional taxes of in John B Ki. fer, Chicago
cently heard from Rome or from trict court in Chicago.
Berlin and which proclaimed vio
The suit was instituted by Wil ment, and it was expected that, if crease of present tax rates.
rector, and MaJ- William
lence and expansion as the two liam S. Moore, a member of the general neutrality failed, the
2. Launching of an Immediate New York, eiitem regmd
sole aims of the modern states, we Chicago Mercantile Exchange, and French government would lend aid study by treasury and congressional
;
recommend reading this dignified names the exchange, its board of to the Leftist government at tax consultants of present revenue tOr.
I„ Ne « V rk city Watfj
and sincere Roosevelt speech, en directors, and the following as de Madrid.
laws as a basis for recommenda out n written statement
nobled by the spontaneity of hu fendants: Henry A. Wallace, secre
American Ambassador Bowers tions to the next congress for elimi
“I am fired.” It read.
man content and with which Roose tary of agriculture; Leslie A. Fitz, abandoned his “floating embassy” nation of Inequitable taxes, espe
I
objected to Dr. T(h
velt raised his figure above the supervisor of the commodity ex aboard the coast guard cutter cially those unfair “to consumers or
Gerald
Smith doing the v«T
stature of all dictators.”
change administration in Chicago; Cayuga and went ashore at St. Jean to trade."
they
new
accuse me ot wj
de
Luz,
France,
by
advice
of
the
Daniel C. Roper, secretary of com
3. Treasury assurance that "with sold the Townsend orpt,
merce; Homer S. Cummings, Unit Department of State in Washington. continued recovery” the revenue
Wheat Supply Adequate,
ed States attorney general; Michael According to the Army and Navy yield is approaching the point where down the river to Coug)*|
Says Federal Report
L. Igoe, United States district attor Journal, Mr. Bowers had tried to it will cover government costs and Lemke.
HERE is enough wheat in the ney of the northern Illinois district, assume the role of commander of
“Townsend has con,‘1**,
United States for the usual do and Ernest J. Kruetgen, Chicago the American fleet In Spanish wa provide a surplus for reduction of jected to the fact that
the public debt
mestic requirements of the season postmaster.
have insisted he give the
ters, and when the officers politely
of
his movement to the 15-
of 1936-37, according to the mid
In his petition Mr. Moore asked told him they took orders only from
summer report of the bureau of ag that the commodity exchange act the Navy and Treasury depart- j Reds Waging W ar to Win
clubs who pay his Mi -
ricultural economics, but the supply be declared unconstitutional, void, ments or the President, he protest- j America, Says Hobson
public as a jury decide tw}
of red spring wheat and durum is and unenforceable.
ion of this man Townsend w-
DMIRAL
RICHMOND
P.
HOB
ed hotly to Washington, with the
short and consequently importation
takes his third walk »*
SON,
now
head
of
the
Public
result recorded above. Meanwhile
of those varieties will be continued.
Welfare association of New York, away from Kiefer and
the
embassy
in
Madrid
has
been
The amount, however, will not be San Sebastian Shelled,
in charge of Eric C. Wendelin. told the National Conference of only two leaders
large, Secretary Wallace stated.
Hostages Are Slain
the young third secretary, who has Clergymen and Laymen at Ashe him In walking out on
“It is probable the spring wheat
ISPATCHES from the French handled its affairs skilfully and has ville that Comintern, the interna mittee and therefore **«
mills in the 1936-’37 season will use
border said Spanish rebel war
most of the Americans tional Communist propaganda agen congress and now *n
a larger percentage of hard red ships finally had begun the long evacuated
cy. is waging “scientific warfare” indictment and impns
from
the
city.
winter and Pacific northwest wheat threatened bombardment of San
to gain control of the United States.
than last year,” said the report. “A Sebastian and Irun.
He said the board of strategy of
larger than usual quantity of soft and that the loyal
Migration From Drouth
his association, after exhaustive C o m m ercial Failure«
red winter wheat is also likely to ists were carrying
studies, has collected evidence that Few est Since 1920
States Is Urged
be used in bread flour. As a re out the threatened
r \ R C. W. THORNTHWAITE, for- a competent Communist general C M G U R E S complied w
sult, imports of milling wheat may execution of the
mer climatologist of the Uni stalT has been at work and has suc * .........« " ¿ ¡ ¡ 2 >
be less than in 1935.”
1,900 Fascist hos
versity
of Oklahoma, has made a ceeded to the extent of casting cline in commercial« ^
Wheat prices in the United States tages they were
study
of
the drouth area of the widespread doubt on the Constitu lowest figures since ■
may be expected to average about holding there. The
Great
Plains,
and his interesting tion and bringing discredit on the Unuation of
as high relative to world price lev battleship España
shown for the first i « * ,
conclusions
are
published by the Supreme court.
els as during the 1935-’36 season, fired a lot of heavy
On the basis of a ^ i
John
A.
Lyon,
New
York
attor
University of Pennsylvania. Brief
when the price of No. 2 hard winter shells toward Fort
ney and a leading Methodist lay the agency *mce
|t ~
ly,
Thornthwaite
recommends
that
at Kansas City was 15 cents over Guadalupe but for a
man, supported Admiral Hobson by July insolvencies ^
^
59,000
migrate
from
the
farms
of
Liverpool, the bureau said. During time at least was
citing
the
success
of
pacifism
nual
rate
of
33
the
damaged
region.
He
contends
Virgilio
the last three years short crops to apparently not try
that wind erosion has damaged 65 throughout Methodist youth organi firms in hissincss. H ^ l
gether with other influences result ing to hit t h a t Cabanellas
44.« in June ami ^ ^
ed in wheat prices in the United stronghold because many of their per cent of the plains region, ex zations.
In January. J*»’ * ferf,
tending
from
the
Canadian
border
States being maintained unusually sympathizers were held prisoners
heading
for the
into
the
Texas
panhandle.
A
long
Railroads
Seek
Increase
high relative to the world market in the fort. The Guadalupe garri
range
government
program
for
the
was
above
l'°- ,, r((j 0
in
Freight
Rates
price.
son was hesitant in returning the
July failure* numt
“Farm prices probably have been fire for fear that shells would fall return of millions of acres of wheat
EADING officials of Class I rail
t
20 cents to 30 cents higher than on French territory. Already the land to its native sod, he says,
roads, meeting in Washington, ure exceeded on
f<>r the n ^ «
might have been expected with French government was angered might be the only means of check voted to petition ihe interstate com twice
spite the growth °'n^ . „
more nearly normal yields in the by the dropping of bombs on French ing the devastating dust storms.
merce commission for an advance
Observing
that
long
dry
spells
United States,” the report contin border towns, though it was disput
in freight rates to replace the tem business in the • Jinj
j* .
ued. “A return of average or great ed whether they came from loyalist have been frequ-nt in the history porary surcharges which expire at pared with «M ^
of
the
plains,
Thornthwaite
predicts
er than average yields in the United or rebel planes.
the end of this year, and to meet
that “the present drouth might be the rising expenses of the roads.
States would result in an export sur
The Fascists captured the impor prolonged for 20 or more years.”
plus and prices would adjust to tant town of Badajoz, near the Por
The petition also will ask the
The weather expert estimates commission to give the railroads
ward an export basis.
tuguese border, at the point of the that
a minimum of 12,610 families relief on the long and short haul
“The acreage seeded for the 1936 bayonet, and were reported to have
crop, 74,000,000 acres, was the sec- executed 1,500 government adher should move out of Montana, the clauses in the various commodity
state in which he reports the classifications.
President D inounces W ar
in Chautauqua Speech
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