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.
Ing to $3,000,000, goes to American Tele.
phone and Telegraph, which
Electric's stock,
At the company's Hawthorne works,
near Chleago, 10,500 employees were
hirred Sleeves, Wide Cuffs
Feature This Comfortable Frock
DOGS’ TEETH AS MONEY
Dogs’ teeth are stated to be used
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Barbara Bell Pattern No, 1846-8 is
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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. Foremost
exposition Dallas made available more
than $9,000,000 in cash and property.
The exposition will be open until No-
vember 20. Numerous other celebra-
cities and towns of Texas. The exposi-
tion presents educational, historie and
recreational features associated with a
major world’s fair,
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in its being handed on from one gen-
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“We have used Black Draught for twen-
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