By EDWARD W. PICKARD HE nation’s drouth worries con- tinued unabated after scattered showers in widely separated areas of the Midwest and the Northwest failed to eliminate the heat. Regions bordering the Great Lakes enjoyed cool breezes brought by a high pressure area from Hudson Bay. But the meager rainfall in the drouth-stricken belt did little toward bringing relief and crop deterioration continued on a vast scale through- out the parched states. Loss of life throughout the United States from the unprecedented heat wave exceeded 3,850, high. Agronomists in Minnesota, Ne- milk was advanced one tions. Prices of meat, of drouth cattle. however. Completing a tour of the drouth areas, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace declared the nation need have no fears of a food shortage, and assailed those ‘‘who “ave tried for their own purposes to scare the consumers about food scarci- ty.” He added: ‘‘There is no ex- cuse for substantial increases in food prices now.” Arriving at Bismarck, North Da- kota, to help co-ordinate drouth re- lief enterprises, Rexford G. Tug- well, resettlement administrator, was informed that approximately 60,000 farm families in the state were among the needy. A confer- ence of state and federal officials in Bismarck developed a three-fold plan for the relief of dwellers in the desolated areas of the Dakotas, western Minnesota, eastern Mon- tana and Wyoming. These includ- ed: Immediate advancement of mon- ey to needy families, repayable out of WPA earnings; granting of funds to farmers desiring to keep small livestock herds for the pur- chase of feed and subsistence to be repaid by work on WPA proj- ects; loans and grants to owners of large scale cattle enterprises to cover the cost of shipping animals to other states for feeding. HE attempted assassination of King Edward VIII of England in London brought great alarm to the English speaking world. The attempt was made near Hyde Park and the monarch’'s life was saved by a woman bystander who grappled with the would-be assas- sin and wrested a pistol from him. The king was re- turning to Bucking- B ham palace from J of Hyde Park, where a on horseback he King Edward had presented new colors to six battalions of the Grenadier, Cold- stream and Scots guards. There was unrest in other Euro- pean capitals. In Madrid, Jose Cal- vo Sotello, one of Spain's most pow- erful monarchist leaders, was kid- naped and murdered. Precautions were taken to guard other politi- cal figures, lest the assassination open a new period of disorder be- tween the leftists and rightists. The crisis was heightened by the threat of the Socialists to estab- lish a dictator. In Paris, the celebration of France's national holiday, Bastille day, saw the Champs Elysees a scene of rioting with rightists and ieftists in combat with each other and the police. The disorders be- gan when leftists were returning from their own parade in the east- ern section of the city. Seeing red flags borne in the procession, the rightists greeted their opponents with cries of ‘Soviets everywhere.” Hopeful signs for European peace were seen in the withdrawal by Italy from Lybia of the first units of 40,000 troops from the Egyptian frontier. The withdrawal of the troops from the North African col ony was Italy's answer to Britain's action in recalling its home fleet from the Mediterranean. —— JMMEDIATE splitting of the American Federation of Labor into two rival groups was averted by the action of the Federation's executive council in voting to bring to trial on August 3 the union leaders led by John L. Lewis on charges of ‘‘dual unionsn.” [It had been reported earlier that the council had voted to suspenu the 12 unions grouped as the Commit- tee for Industrial Unionization. The council's action .was looked upon as a peace move in the crisis that threatens open warfare in the labor movement. It was precipi- tated by the drive to organize 500, 000 workers in the steel industry into one big industrial union by John L. Lewis, president United Mine Workers and his fol- lowers. The group against “competition charges include as a of L."”; fomenting an insurrection within the Federation: violation of contracts they have entered into their charters. N ALLIANCE Francis E. Townsend, between Dr. Father of a third party was announced at the Townsendite conven- tion in attended followers California 12,000 the by of sions $200 month for person over sixty. a In an address be- # fore the convention, Dr. Townsend py. 0r Coughlin bit. terly denounced the present admin- istration and President Roosevelt and called upon the delegates to follow Dr. Townsend in endorsing the candidacy of William Lemke for the presidency on the Union ticket, Earlier the New Deal had been the target of bota Dr. Townsend of share-the-wealth movement. Townsendite candidates who planned a pro-Roosevelt demon- stration. Pro-Roosevelt delegations representing 11 states signed a res- olution urging that no “mer er or fusion" with a third party be made. A tactical victory was won by the New Deal forces in the election of Willis Mahoney, Townsendite-Dem- tions committee. HE arrest of former ficer marked what observers be- lieved was roundup of persons suspected of supplying navy secrets to foreign powers. Declaring that he had obtained nothing of navy and gave nothing to the Jap- anese that “could not have been obtained in the public library in Washington,” Farnsworth at first pleaded not guilty to the charges. Farnsworth is charged with tak- ing from the Navy department and later selling it to the Japai.ese gov- ernment, a book entitled “The Service of Information and General Security.” The book is on naval tactics and according to officials, is rated as “confidential.” PREDICTING 1936 will be the best business year since 1930 and “possibly since 1929,’ Colonel Leon- ard P. Ayers, economist of Cleve- land, declared that statistics on all important business had shown sub- stantial and “healthy increases’ since the first of this year. Strikes, drouth and other difficulties have not affected increases in employ, ment, markets and securit- ex- changes, the economist said. “More steel has been produced in the first half of 1936 than in all 1932,” he pointed out. “A major factor in the increased steadiness of business has been well sustained employment among the factory workers making durable goods. Workers in the durable goods fac- tories suffer most from lay-offs and shut-downs, but such has not been the case in the first half of this year and of last year.” JH ENRY FORD, approaching his seventy - third birthday en- visioned the eventual decline of farm animals as a source of the world’s foou and predicted that grains and other crops will largely be substitutec for food cheaper and better,” he said, PE ee the ue e 80 products of Henry Ford cows and chickens to db it for us. In the future farm animals of all kinds will decline in numbers. We won't need them. The farm animal will go, but the farm will become larger.” new $64,000,000 Tri « borough bridge, attending the wedding of Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, minister to Denmark, to - Captain Boerge Rohde of the Dan- ish court and spend- ing two days at his Hyde Park home, President Roosevelt embarked on a nautical vacation in Maine and Canadi- an waters. On the bridge a | dedication program gb with the President President were Secretary of Roosevelt | the Interior Ickes, Gov. Lehman of New York, Senator Wagner and Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia of New York City. The bridge is the larg- est completed public works admin- istration project in the East. It comprises four spang in its three and one-half miles Shading ways and Queens, Long Island. Its cost On the cruise of the Sewanna, a schooner yacht, President Roosevelt will act as skipper and helmsman. Three of his four sons, James, Franklin Jr., and John are members of the crew. The cruise will carry the President along the has a summer home and off No- va Scotia where he expects to do A destroy- er, the presidential vacht Potomac and the schooner Liberty carrying newspaper men are trailing the Se- Before he returns to the White House, the President will pay a visit to Lord Tweedsmuir, gover- nor-general of Canada. NEW era in European diplo- macy was heralded with the signing of a treaty between Ger- many and Austria re-establishing peace and normal relations be- tween the two nations. Since Italy has been acting in the role of big brother to Austria ir the past two years it was re- garded as a virtual certainty that | Premier Mussolini had sanctioned the new pact. Observers pointed out that with Germany, Austria and Italy in accord and with Po- rope now has a prospective alli- | ance more powerful than the triple war. presidential candidacy of Gov. | den of Illinoiz fol- | lowing a conference | in Topeka. Follow- | ing the conference former Governor | Lowden announced | thal he and Gover- | nor Landon were in “full accord” on | the question of | farm relief. : The Illinois farm leader revecled that he had dis- Lowden cussed soil erosion, ing of federal power and reduction | “We are in accord on the impor- | tant agricultural issues. [ shall support him and campaign for his election.” Payment of cash federal boun- ties to soil - conserving farmers through a plan contemplating state | administration was one of the farm piinciples advocated by Mr. Low- den which received the verbal sup- port of Gov. Landon following the conference. With the Republican presidential nominee at work on his acceptance speech, conferences with ‘other teaders were scheduled. Important | among these was the visit of ° George N. Peek, former AAA ad- ministrator who resigned his post | following a break with Secretary | of Agriculture Wallace and is now i a New Deal critic. Also on the program was the visit of Col. | Frank Knox, Governor Landon's | running mate. At Governor Landon’'s office a | letter was made public from Wil | liam Cabell Bruce, former Demo- | cratic senator from Maryland, say- | ing that he was “bitterly disap- pointed” in President Roosevelt and “deeply gratified” at Governor Landon’s nomination. In the meantime members of the Kansas legislature had departed for their homes after submitting two constitutioral amendments to the state's electorate. One of these would authorize state aid for the needy and the other would ap- prove state participation in the fed- eral social security plan. J IFTEEN Japanese army officers who were leaders in last Febru. ary’s bloody rebellion in which four high-ranking government Jfficials met assassination, were executed by a firing squad in Tokyo. Two other officers condemned to death were not shot and no expla- nation was made by the war office. 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