By EDWARD W. PICKARD BE ONE of the greatest demonstra- tions of popular acclaim In the his- tory of American politics, Gov. Alfred M. Landon was nominated for Presi dent of the United States by the Repub- lican national conven- tion meeting In Cleve- land, Nominated on the first ballot, Governor Landon received the unprecented number of 984 but of a possible 1,008 votes. The nom- ination was made > unanimous. Although Gov. Landon his name had not been placed in nomination, Senator William E. Borah of Idaho received 19 votes, including 18 from the Wisconsin dele gation and one from West Virginia. Col. Frank Knox of Chicago, pub- lisher of the Chicago Dally News, was nominated for Vice President on the ticket, receiving the unanimous vote of the delegates. Party unity and harmony were the watchwords of the delegates, The ac- tion of the three other leading candi- dates for the Presidential nomination— Col. Frank Knox of Chicago, Senator Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan and Senator Borah—In withdrawing In Lan- don’s favor paved the way for a mill tant and united front in the coming campaign by the Republican party. The convention adopted a platform of “Americanism,” pledging a broad farm relief program, repeal of reclp- rocal tariff bargaining, the elimination of monopolies and opposition to Amer- jcan entry into the League of Nations and the World eourt. Condemning “waste and extrava- gance” of the Democratic adminlstra- tion, the platform declares for economy by reduced expenditures and for a bal- anced budget. Adequate relief for the unemployed and co-operation of the states is provided. The platform de mands the repeal of the present soclal security program for a simplified “pay- as-you-go” old-age pension plan. With- out proposing a constitutional amend- ment, it pledges support to states’ min- imum wage and working hour laws, abolition of sweatshops and child la- bor, improvement of working condi tions and the right of labor to bargain, It calls for restoration and mainte- nance of the merit system in civil serv ice, regulation of business by a tribunal whose actions would be subject to court review and federal supervision of interstate utilities, The platform demands adequate na- tional defense, right of free enterprise without competition by government, free speech, pledges care ~f the vet- erans and calls for efforts to collect the defaulted war debts. Governor Landon In a telegram read to the convention by his campaign manager, John Hamilton, placed his own interpretation on certain planks in the platform. Under the title of labor he advocated a Constitutional amend. ment permitting the states to adopt legislation necessary to protect women and children in the matter of maximum hours, minimum wages and working conditions, provided it is net possible to do so nnder the Constitution as It now stands, He likewise advocated a currency ex- pressed In terms of gold and convert- ible Into gold, adding: “I recognize, however, that this requisite must not be made until and unless it can be done without penalizing our domestic econ- omy and without injury to our produce ers of agricultural products and other raw materials” Concerning the merit system In elvil service, he suggested that It should include every position in the adminis trative service below the rank of as sistant secretaries of major depart ments and should cover the entire Post Office department, bl A long expected cabinet shake-up in Italy, Premier Mussolinl gave out three of his eight portfolios, There are 15 posts in the cabinet. 11 Duce ap- pointed his son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Clano, as foreign minister, Clano, only thirty. three, Is the world's youngest foreign min ister. He moved up from the cabinet post of propaganda. Mus solinl also gave up the ministries of colo. nies and corporations, these posts going re- spectively, ta Ferrye- Mussoll Elsewhere In the world governments were experiencing changes. In Niea- ragua, Dr. Carlos Brenes Jarquin, com. pleting the unexpired term of the de- posed President, Dr, Juan B. Sacasa, announced his cabinet. The eabinet included Dr. Luls Manuel Debayle, minister of foreign relations; Dr. Ge- ronimo Ramirez Brown, prime minis ter; Jose Roman Gonzales, minister of public works; Benito Ramiriz, minister of finance; Dr. Lorenzo Guerrero, min. ister of education; Dr. Roberto Gen- zalez, minister of health: Dr. Alejandro Sequeira Rivas, sanitary director, — ARGER loaves of bresd at no In- crease In price to the consumer were being offered by leading baking company chains selling thelr product In large cities of the United States. One company increased the size of its 10 cent loaf by 25 per cent, and another by 15 per cent. The saving to com- Sumers was made possible by the In- validation of the AAA processing tax, according to an official of a baking company. The tax was 80 cents a bushel on wheat, he sald, and was re- flected In an increase of from $1.28 to $1.40 a barrel for flour, At the same time, the threat of a possible potato famine, due to drouth that Is seriously curtailing crops in the Southeast, caused uneasiness among housewives. Prices rose precipitately, but eased off, because Immediate de- mand from consumers declined. The seriousness of the situation was re flected in reports from the crop divi sion of the Department of Agriculture that unless rains fell soon an acute shortage will boost the price of pota- toes. The carry-over this year was small, it was revealed, and Maine re. ported only 100 carloads of last year's holdover on hand. While weather con- ditions up to the middle of July will determine the extent of the shortage, it was belleved by farm expests that the later crops will meet the August and September demands, EAH came to John Hays Ham. mond, eighty-one, Internationally- famed mining engineer, economist and writer, at his home at Gloucester, - Mass, He had lived a life high in adventure and rich In experi ences. He was a friend and confidant of Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, H. Rider Haggard, Cecil Rhodes and many other fig ures celebrated in world history ian the past half century. Mr. Hammond was born In San Francisco, California, is 1855 where his parents settled after the Mexican war in which his father served as a major. It was the era of the spectacular California gold rush. He watched miners pan for gold dust as a boy. After graduation from Yale be set himself up as a mining engi- neer. Soon he visited the west coast of Mexico, belleving it could be devel oped as a mining country. He became known as an expert judge of mining property and waa sent to South Africa by “Barney” Barnato, great speculator of the last century. Hammond experienced some romantic adventures including an serimonious encounter with Paul Kruger, president of the Transvaal republic who gen- tenced him to be hanged and relented only on the intervention of the secre tary of state, After developing mining property In many parts of the world, Mr. Ham mond was appointed by President Taft in 1911 as special ambassador and per. sonal representative at the coronation a. John Hays Hammond AER settling a general strike In which 1,000,000 werkers had par alyzed the Industrial Hfe of France, the mew “popular front” government under Premier Leon Blum was faced with further difficulties In the form of a series of new strikes. Although the government bad tolled day and night trying to adjust disputes and though most of the demands of strikers had been satisfied by employers, there was a smaller retura to work than had been expected. it was reported that as fast as strikes In some Industries were settled, others were affected. The extent of the permanent ravages which will be left In the wake of this upheaval will only become apparent later on. Some observers predicted that private industry would be foreed into bankruptcy so ss to secure oper ation by the state. But whether Pre mier Blum and his “popular front” government were prepared for such ex- treme measures was not at all certain. Tae Supreme Court of Iilinols ap held the constitutionality of the ty Circuit court. The court Carl W. McNell, in the | in Chicago, could not sell at less than the wholesale Sald the opinion: NDICATIVE of the rising tide of business recovery, the Western Electric company, a subsidiary of the American Telephone and Telegraph company, one of the largest employers of labor In the Middle West, resumed its common dividends. The action fol lower restoration of the company's op- erations to a profitable basis in 1935, with gains in both sales and employees, Practically the entire payment, amount. 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This compares | since 1082 VITAL alteration In Great Brit. a8 it affects Anglo-Itallan relations, | was indicated by Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain in an | address in which he Implied broadly | that England may soon move to end | sanctions against Italy, Regarded by many experts as likely to become Brit. i ain's next prime minister, Chamber. lain sald: “Collective security based on sane | tions has failed.” This was taken to mean that Eng. land may reverse the policy which had supported the League of Nation's fu- tile sanctions eampalgn to halt Mus solinl's conquest of Ethiopia. In authoritative diplomatic circles in London It was reported that Mussolint had definitely served notice on Britain that Italy will leave the league unless the assembly meeting at Geneva on June 30 drops the antl-Italian sane tions program. A GRICULTURE was given represen. tation on the federal reserve board through the appointinent by President Roosevelt of Chester OC. Da- vis, administrator of the AAA to that body. In discussing his ap- pointment, Mr. Davis sald: “The fiscal pol- icy of the federal gov. ernment bas never been tied In closely " enongh with agricul a tural problems.” Mr. Davis bas spent most “dl of bis lite in agricul. " tural activities. He Doctor Tolley born on a farm In lowa, was graduated from Grinnell col | lege and later owned and operated a farm. For some years he was a news paper publisher and then became editor of the Montana Farmer, Mr. Davis was succeeded as AAA administrator by Dr. Howard R. Tol ley. Nationally known as a soll expert, Doctor Tolley helped Mr. Davis draft the soll conservation plan, enacted af. | ter the United States Supreme court decision invalidated the AAA. HE New Deal was made the lgsue of a congressional campaign in Ala- ; bama with the result that Luther Pat- | rick, an ardent supporter of the ad. | ministration, defeated Congressman | George Huddleston, an incumbent for 22 years. Patrick, a forty-two-year-old lawyer, won the Ninth district nomina- tion by about 6,000 votes after a spirit ed campaign In which he charged Huod- | dieston with disloyalty to the New Deal. ALLED back to the British cabinet, which he left some months ago as a political scapegoat, Sir Samuoel Hoare was made first lord of the admiralty, to succeed Viscount Monsell. Sir Samuel, who boldly faced a hostile house of com mons last December to defend his part in the Anglo-French peace plan which would have given Mussolinl only a part of Ethiopia, will face the task of solv. ing problems arising out of British-Itallan fleet difficulties in the Sir Samuel Mediterranean. The Hoare biggest task facing Hoare, however, is | restoration of the British navy to an | undisputed position of supremacy on | the seas. "| =X4S celebrated the one-hundredth | anniversary of its independence by opening a $25,000,000 centennial expost- tion in Dallas. 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