By EDWARD W. PICKARD RESIDENT FRANKLIN D. ROOSE- VELT was renominated by the Dem- ocratic convention in Philadelphia in a demonstration of great popular ac- claim, The convention unanimously adopted a strong New Deal plat- form and voted the abolition of the his- toric two-thirds rule, The sessions were marked with extreme enthusiasm, Party harmony and a deter- mination to stand militantly on the ad- ministration’s record in the past three years and present a united front in the com- ing campaign characterized the con- vention, The abolition of the two-thirds rule for the nomination of candidates was one of the significant achievements, This rule, which had been in use for more than 100 years, was superseded by the adoption of the rules committee's report recommending that at future conventions only a bare majority be required for nomination, While some southern and the eastern and western states opposed abrogation, they were reconciled to it ty the commitiee’s recommendation that changes be made in the apportionment of delegates, The platform pledged continuance of soil conservation, benefit payments to farmers, a sound currency, a balanced budget and a constitutional awmend- ment if necessary, to sachieve the party's broad social program, It praised the accomplishments of the New Deal in a laring that it planned to co } m in interest of the nation, The platform's Keynote was that the Rooseve istration has put and will nat “on the road prosperity.” Reg form lican tional arate states, the De smocratic pe hat mi child labor, monopolistic dust President Roosevelt nre on pre Ge the the admin- Keep the ion the garding the Cor declared platform problems by act while the Repub- na- that proposes to meet on of th ognizes imam wages, mum and storms, handled by states, “If these fectively solved in the Constit such clarifying a ndments as assume hours, unfair drouth business practices, and floods could It stated: problems cannot by ution, be with we shall to the legisiatures of the sev- eral states and to the United States each wit Jur laws con hin isdiction, the power to enact those which the state and federal leg- islatures within spheres shall find der adequately to regulate con protect public health safeguard economic we propose to maintain the let spirit of the Constitution.” In addition to soil conservation benefit payments, the farm pledged the Democrats to financing share-croppers and tenants In buying lands; favored commo ity loans on farm surpluses and retirement of ten isiilion acres of submarginal land from production and rural rehabilita- tion. Reiterating the the foreign relat reaflirmed the party's neutrality gram pledged to keep the nation out of foreign entanglements. It reas- serted the reciprocal tariff policy, but demanded “adequate™ to farmers and manufacturers against unfair foreign competition, Denouncing monopolies and concen- tration of economic power, the plat- form declared that the administration would “vigorously and fearlessly en- force the criminal and eivil provisions of the existing anti-trust laws.” Other planks pledged: Expansion of the social security program; con- tinuance of rural electrification; pro- tection of the rights of fabor to har gain collectively ; extension of federal housing projects; just treatment of war veterans and their dependents: extension of the merit system through classified civil service: freedom of speech, press, radio, religion and as sembly; projection of public works projects to ald unemployment; oppo sition to Communism and “the menace of concealed Fascism, respective wessary, in merce, security. ter and and plank hbor" plank pro- “good nelg policy, ions protection HE specter of drouth stalked in the Northwest. Damage to crops on heat-parched farms in South Da- kota, Wyoming and Montana caused great concern and recalled the disas- trous drouth conditions of two years ago. Rallroads serving the drouth areas agreed to place emergency freight rates into effect on live stock shipments to other grazing areas. Wheat and corn crops have suffered severe damage, re- ports indicate, In Washington, a relief program ‘or the drouthstricken northwest states was mapped out by Relief Adminis trator Harry L. Hopkins, Work relief projects designed to give work at once Yio 5,000 farmers in the Dakotas and parts of Wyoming and Montana, whose crop lands have been laid waste for the seventh consecutive year, were planned, In the Middle West the fact that June of 1036 has been cooler than the the serious effects of lack of rain, Flg- ures on June rainfall for 1936 and 1034 compiled by Nat C, Murray, crop au- thority of Chicago, showed that Ohlo had 39 per cent of normal this year and 90 per cent In 1034 : Minnesota 46 per cent in 1036 and 92 per cent in 1934 ; Missouri 26 per cent in 1936 and 62 per cent In 1034; and Kansas 37 per cent in 1936 and 65 per cent in 103 Added to the seriousness of the drouth situation was a plague of grass- hoppers that swept over eastern Ne- braska, threatening to destroy hun- dreds of square miles of crops. The swarm was reported to be 100 miles long. In spots the insects were sald to be so numerous that they hid the sun as they passed over valuable farm lands, EETING in Montreaux, erland, an Internationa) ence sought settlement of military and naval problems in the Mediterranean. The conference had been called by the powers as a result of Turkey's request to fortify the Dardanelles, which were demilitarized under the Lausanne treaty of 1923 The possible threat of ing naval ment of the Switz confer- tussia's grow- caused an align- British and Japanese. Japan announced it was willing to ac- cept any limitation on Japanese war- ships authorized to enter the Black providing similar restrictions were placed on Russian warships leaving it. Russia demanded free westward pas- sage of warships and submarines out of the Black sea through the Darda- nelles, adding she was unable to see why other powers not bordering on this body ynlimited pas- sage to It of her mutual as- the Soviet, France strength sea, of water desired Been 118$ glstance pact with same month two years ago has offset was expected to side with Russia. EPRESENTATIVE LEMKE of North Dakota an- nounced that he would run for the Presidency as candidate of a new po- litical group known as the Union party. Father Charles E. Coughlin, priest, sponsor candidacy. Charles O'Brien of loston will be the vice-presidential didate on the ticket, it was announced, Mr. Lemke made public a 15-point plat- embodying demands for re farm mortgages, old age living wage for all work. ers, limitation on individual Incomes, establishment of a central bank, issuance by congress of all cur WILLIAM of Lemke's Thomas Rep. Lemke of all the money, Plans were made for the new party to hold a national convention some time doring August In Cleveland, Mr. Lemke said the Union party has the support of farm unions, labor, the National Unlon for Social Justice es tablished by Father Conghlin, the Townsend old age pension movement and “all other liberals who have been driven from the old parties” Mr. Lemke was coauthor with Sen. ator Lynn J. Frazier of North Dakota of a £3.000000000 farm mortgage re. financing bill defeated in the house of representatives, RTHUR W, CUTTEN., who achleved spectacular wealth as a grain trader, died of a heart attack In his home In Chicago. He was sixty-five years old, An exponent of Individualism, Mr. Cutten went his way alone In the grain market, playing his “hunches” against the field. In 1924, he made a profit estimated at between $1.500000 and £2.000.000 in a corner on the corn mar ket. He repeated his success with a coup In the wheat market the follow- ing year, With a group of associates, he en. tered the stock market In 1028 and during the boom months made millions of dollars, Most of his life Mr, Cutten was a “long” trader, who bought for the rise in the market, but following the crash, he is sald to have become a “bear” or short seller. His operations as a bear In the Chicago Board of Trade brought his suspension by the grain futures administration for two years, but he won a reversal of this ruling In the United States Supreme court. TRIKES and industrial difficulties continued to harass France, al though their ultimate solution was forecast In a conciliatory attitude as- sumed by the new “popular front” gov- ernment toward the French chambers of commerce. Representatives of the chambers of commerce received assure ance from Premier Leon Blum that no further manufacturing plants would be tied up by “folded arms” strikers, whose number at their peak reached approximately 1,000,000 employees, In the meantime a strike of sallors in Marseilles was settled after a three. day refusal to work, when the ship owners capitulated to the strikers’ de mands. Fifty ships were affected by the walkout. The sallors demanded a 40-hour week, vacations with pay and bedsheets on their bunks, HE death of Bernhard W. von Bue. one of the most skilled of Europe's one, was an expert on the League of sider rejoining the league. noted as a studious and hard-working official, with a vast amount of detailed information always readily avallable. A "“blueblood” of the German no- bility, the diplomat was a nephew of the late Prince Bernhard von Buelow, imperial chancellor. He was one of the first of the German nobles to associate himself with the republican regime af- ter the coliapse of the empire in 1918, Although different in background from Hitler, he nevertheless enjoyed the chancellor's confidence, In Russia, Maxim Gorky, early foe of the czars who became a hero of the Soviet regime and {its outstanding writer, died of Influenza at the age of sixty-eight. Although not a member of the Communist party, Gorky had a preeminent position in Soviet life and was a former member of the central executive committee. Moscow honored him with a public funeral and inter- ment in the Kremlin in a niche facing Lenin's tomb. HE Seventy-fourth congress ad- Journed after a session lasting five and a half months during which it ap- propriated nearly $10,000,000,000 and was faced by some unexpected legis- lative complications. In the closing hours the emergency tax bill which is expected to produce $800,000000 In revenue was passed. Supreme court invalidation of the AAA and Guffey coal bills and the passage of the cash soldiers’ bonus over the President's veto upset the budget plans and made such a bill necessary, Although it was passed by the house, the amended Guffey coal bill designed to remove the objections of the Su- preme court falled of passage In the senate. Similarly, the Wagner slum housing bill, which had passed the sen- ate, failed in the house. Larger than normal appropriations for governmental activities were passed. The bonus, farm payments, re- lief and the greatest national defense program.in peace time history helped swell the total, Funds for continuing the present re- Hef program were voted: the public works revolving fund was amended to permit more heavy construction proj- ects. But congress failed to approve Florida canal and Passama- quoddy tide dam. Invalldation of the AAA brought a revised and expanded soil conservation and domestic allotment act: the rural electrification administration and elec. tric farm and home authority were both placed on a permanent basis: the Commodity Credit corporation was ex- panded; two flood control bills were passed. Labor received attention through the Walsh-Healy bill dealing with working conditions on govern ment contracts. A compromise ship subsidy bill was rushed through in the closing hours, Financial legisisfion In- cluded expansion of the jurisdiction of SEC. Important among business legls- lation was the Patman bill amending the Clayton anti-trust act regarding price discrimination, A number of important bills falled of enactment. Among these were the Pettingill long and short hauls bill, stockyard regulation, Frazier-Lemke farm mortgage bill, and bills on the 30. hour week, extension of the railroad co-ordinator's tenure, anti-war profits, alien deportation, enlargement of the federal trade commission's power and treasury agency service, the ship OLLOWING the lead of Great Brit. ain, the United States formally re- voked all sanctions Imposed against Italy during the recent Italo.Ethiopian conflict. A proclama- tion by President Roosevelt declared all previous communica. tions dealing with the gale of munitions of war, loans and travel by Americans on Ital fan ships was revoked. Although the sane. tions were against both Italy and Ethl opia, In practical ap- Stanley plication they were Baldwin used only against Italy, since the United States did not supply the African nation with any war materials and the empire of Halle Selassie had no ships of its own, The French cabinet agreed to abide by any action which the League of Na- tions may take In cancelling sanctions agninst Italy, abandon sanctions was defended in an address by Prime Minister Baldwin as vent a suicidal war plunging western civilization Into “barbarous anarchy.” Baldwin asserted: effective, taken place, That is by going to war. “I do not know a single nation In Europe that ia prepared for that, 1 would not cyst my vote for that course.” A BATTLE to recover all the proce essing taxes pald to the govern- ment under the invalidated AAA was undertaken by the “big four” of the packing Industry—Swift and Company, Armour and Company, Wilson and Company and the Cudahy Packing company. 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