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NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Smith Selects J. J. Raskob,
Big Business Man, as
National Chairman.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD.
OHN J. RASKOB, head
finance committee of the General
Motors corporation and a resident of
Delaware, was elected chairman of
the Democratic national committee at
the behest of Gov."Al Smith. He is an
active Catholic and has given much
money to the church and to the anti-
prohibiti but the Presidential
‘andidate made it plain that he select:
ed him to conduct campaign not
for these reasons but because he is a
big business man,
In accepting
Raskob declared
mud-slinging and no pussy- ing in
the campaign on the part
and he wa
spoken as to
of the
ion cause,
the
the chalr inship
Mr.
there sh be no
ocrats, 8S sur
pris
the wet and
“Governor Sr " he
ident of these ni ited St
the reson then
able to give the people
sald. “as Pres-
ates,
roes
wii be
ture of
er the |
tion laws.
nd control o » liquor quest
way that il
return of
ahsol utely
saloon, el
its accompanyin
store tempe
then ’
: plan and to advo-
cate sucl h res In
Constitut 1y be
its adoption. This Is leaders
pussy-footing.
“Mud-slinging always makes
enemies than friends, I should like to
every speaker and worker for
our cause to constructive policies,
“In our business life today we suc
ceed by constructive work and by hav-
ing better goods to sell than our com
petitors. There Is every reason why
Democratic party should follow
this constructive business poliey In
this campaign. This is our job. Let
others sling the mud.”
Col. Herbert P. Lehman, New York
nanker, succeeded Jesse Jones as
chairman of the finance committee of
the national committee, James W,
Gerard and Charles A. Greathouse
were re-elected treasurer and secre-
tary respectively. Raskob was author.
ized to appoint an advisory campaign
committee and selected as chairman of
that body Senator Peter Gerry of
Rhode Island, who had rather expect-
ed to be made chairman of the nation-
al committee, The five national vice
chairmen chosen were: Frank Hague
of New Jersey, Gov. Harry Byrd of
Virginia, former Congressman Scott
Ferris of Oklahoma, former Gov, Mrs.
Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming, and
Mrs. Florence G, Farley of Kansas, It
was decided that main headquarters
should be in Naw York city, but that
Governor Byrd should have special
headquarters in Richmond, since the
campaign in Virginia is expected to be
quite Impesiant.
our laws and
necessary for
p—not
more
pledge
the
HOUKH Al Smith, In conference
with his running mate, Senator
Itobins™n, declared that If he were
electe”r the first thing he would do
would de to start on plans for relief
of the farmers, the Farmer-Labor par-
ty, in Aational convention in Chicago,
was fot won over to his support. In-
stead it selected as Its candidate for
the President Senator George W, Nor
ris of Nebraska, The choice was made
on the third ballot, which was 16 for
N¢ ris and 14 for Norman Thomas,
nd ainee of the Socialist. Will Vereen
of Moultrie, Ga., wealthy cotton mill
owner, was nominated for vice pres-
ident. Both Norris and Vereen sald
they would not accept the nomination,
The Prohibition party convention,
algo held In Chieago, nominated Wil.
liam ¥. Varney of Rockville Center,
N. Y.. for President and James A.
Edgerton of Alexandria, Va, for sec.
ond place. An attempt to stampede
the convention for Hoover falled, but
the Republican candidate received
votes on the deciding ballot.
=
JH ERBERT HOOVER, who already
has sent to President Cooll
his resignfftion as
merce, left Washington
the West, On the way he
ences with party le
secretary of com-
Saturday for
held confer
veral see-
and be spent Sunday afternoon
Vice President Dawes in Evans-
considering the difficulties that
confront the Illinois Re ppbliegns,
largely to the wet
cago and county. Mr.
further plans Included a
vizit with President and Mrs
on the Brule river In Wisconsin
continuation of 1} ip to Califo
anders of s
tions,
with
ton,
due
sent
Cook
and
8 trig
with a brief stop in Omaha,
fication ceremony is no
August 11 at Lel
versity, and at that
says, he will
w schedule
Hoover
outline his position
relief,
ied of hi
presidency on the eve
farm
notif § nom
Topeka, Kan,
National Chairman Work, In
nery,
10 at his home in
1g the party machi
ranging to give more authority
to the natl
men and state organ
Moses of New Hamp
pointed
ever before
“contact
Wi N the dirigible
aster in the
the YOrs
neteorolog
pilot, and
gator, started on
reach the
last week, 42 days
the
was unable to
Russian
aviator discovered
the ice but
Next day the
Krassin reached the grou
and Zappl,
gren had been dead about a
his body having carried
along by his half-frozen arving
companions. The
as it had rescued the
again turned its prow toward
and a few hours later reached 3
rescued the five had been
left by 1
floes,
cued inne
that Ma
month, been
and st
jcebreaker
two
men who
Nobile near Foyn island,
Arex the half-dozen victims of
girplane accidents during the
week was Morris Titterington, inventor
of the earth inductor which
Lindbergh used on his transatlantic
flight and of other safety devices for
airplanes. He and Mrs, Patricia An.
drews, a pupil, were killed when their
plane crashed near Snyders, Pa, in a
storm,
Despite the various stories to the
effect that Captain Loewenstein land-
ed alive in some way or another from
his plane and is in hiding, the Belgian
court that Investigated the cage de-
cided that the famous Belgian finan-
cier really fell into the sea and is
dead. The insurance companies re
fused to pay until proof of death was
given and the capitalist's family sta-
tioned boats along both coasts of the
English channel to get the body if it
was washed ashore. In Lendon it Is
believed Loewenstein's disappearance
is either a fake or suicide, .
Countess Brandenstein, daughter of
Count Zeppelin, christened the world's
largest airship, named after her fa
ther, at Friedrichshafen, Germany, and
it was announced that the huge di-
rigible would make three trips to the
United States this year.
compass
NE of the worst sea disasters of
recent years occurred off the
coast of south Chile when the Chilean
army transport Angamos girtick a
rock after losing her rudder in a
storm and speedily sank. More than
three hundred lives were lost, the list
of victims including a number, of po-
litizai dignitaries. The other passen-
gers were laborers and their families
on their way to the nitrate fields In
northern Chile, The crew numbered 215.
Lifeboats were smashed by the heavy
seas as fast ne they were launched
and only a few persons were washed
ashore alive, The captain shot him.
self on hia bridge. \
The schooner. Rofa, one of the
entrants In a race across the Atlantie,
ran into rough weather and lost her
masts when about 800 miles out. The
six members of the crew, including
Capt, William Boos of Pelham Manor,
the owner, and Mrs. picked
up by the oil tanker Tuscarora and
brought back to New York. An at
tempt to tow the schooner In failed
and she was abandoned.
KELLOGG'S pr
war i= well on its
Boos, were
JCECRETARY
act to outlaw
0 acceptance by all the
h it was submitted. Germany has
already sent a fav and
last the ministerial
council authorized Minister
Briand to
France's
the
his rev regtions showed
giderate tation of
reservations | espect to her conned
tion w the Locarno pact and the
League of Nations. This action fol-
lowed a Parley ¥y In Geneva by Sir Cecil
Hurst, M. geot a err Gaus
representing el
opposed
powers (0
orable reg
French
Foreign
Mr.
unconditional
week
notify Kellogg of
acceptance of
treaty i present
ised
* restrict
Americal
ut ther
indication
mw
consent to al
HoSTRInES
its tari
etween Paragon
Alres
porte Ȣ] that a vis
ienog
I was rn
the front
f war existed on
troops had
fone v
dopted
rulations,
country’s financis
ina were a
Inde detalled reg seeking
the
elim
provement of
administration, ination of
for the
fit ith ori ity
and other regal
increased
ministry, ook.
ing to the development of China's re
sources and trade
ations
NVESTIGATION of Republican
tronage in Georgia,
pas
cond: jected by a
subcommittee, vealed that
postmasters, whether Hep oho or
Democratic, had been in the habit of
contributing from thelr salaries to the
Republican state party fund. Some
of the witnesses more than intimated
that they were virtually compelled to
make the contributions, while others
said the money was not “demanded”
but that they were told the gift of §
per cént of the salary was customary,
In Mississippl a federal grand jury is
inquiring into Republican methods of
distributing federal patronage and
about two hundred postmasters as
sembled in Biloxi to give evidence,
senate
NCREASING speculation in stocks
in Wall street is causing thé fed-
eral reserve board a lot of worry and
some method of checking it and avert.
ing a great crash is being sought, Last
week a step in that direction was
taken when the Chicago and New
York Federal Reserve banks increased
the rediscount rate from 4% to 5 per
cent. It was expected this example
would be followed hy the other re. |
serve banks, The Chicago action re-
suited in a wild break in prices on
the New York exchange, declines
ranging from 1 to 18 points, Wiping |
out millions of paper profits,
Charles BE. Mitchell, president of the
National City bank of New York, in a |
recent warning sald that the heavy |
borrowing of the banks through redis- |
counting and their relending of the
money on stock and bond collateral,
which is not rediscountable at the re.
serve banks, are reducing the liquid.
ity of the banks and creating a situa.
tion which, if not actually dangerous,
reflects a trend that is unfortunate,
LKS, in national convention In
Miami, Fla, elected Murray Hul-
bert of New York as grand exalted
ruler for the ensuing year. They vot.
ed to establish a £20,000,000 trust
fund for use In charitable, edn
cational and benevolent enterprises.
It will be known as the Elks’ ndtional
foundation, .
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Most Famous Tapestry
Gobelin tapestry is ao (npestry
in Faubourg, St. Marcel, Paris,
so-called from the brothers
dyers from Relms, who made a for-
tune rom thelr scarlet dye in the
reign of Francis 1, In 1667 Louis XIV
converted the busifiess Into a royal
manufacture and employed eminent
artists like Lebrun to Invent designs.
made
and
Gobelin,
Twig Grew Into Forest
The weeping willow was introduced
into England from the East in
and into the United States in 1770 by
& British officer who came to Boston
with the army, bringing a twig. This
twig into possession of John
Parke Custis, who planted It on his
estate in Abingdon, Va., where it
came the progenitor of this species in
the United States,
1722,
came
bitre
Fun for Photographers
Butterflies and moths are not only
exceedingly beautiful, but the various
stuges of the development are most
interesting bserve, Nature
furnish wonderful
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