By EDWARD W. PICKARD J.FFORTS of European nations, notably France, to persuade the United States to join in a neutrality pact concerning the civil war in Spain are not likely to succeed. Howev- er it is the intention of our government not to interfere in the situation in any way whatsoever. In- structions to this ef- fect were sent to all American repre. sentatives in Spain by William Phillips, acting secretary o W. Phillips hg While assert- ing that the American neutrality law prohibiting assistance to war- ring nations does not apply to the Spanish civil war, Mr. Phillips said that the United States intended to conform with its ‘“‘well established policy of noninterference with ternal affairs in other countries, ei- ther in time of peace or civil strife.” Most of the nations invited to participate in the non-intervention German nationals in general neutrality failed, French government would lend aid to the Leftist government at Madrid. Dispatches from Seville said Gen- eral Franco, rebel commander-in- chief, had received a large num- ber of German and Italian planes manned by aviators from those countries, and was about to launch an attack on Madrid from the air. The fighting for possession of San Sebastian and in the mountain passes north of Madrid continued unabated and losses were heavy on both sides. General Queipo, rebel commander at Seville, announced he was about to adopt new colors of the rebellion, red and yellow, which are the colors of the Spanish monarchy. FFICIALS of the bility of drastically reducing or re- moving altogether the planting re- strictions on corn and wheat next year. No decision was made and farmers will be consulted before any changes are ordered. It was, however, definitely stated that wheat acreage will be expanded. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, passing through Chicago on his way back from Iowa, said he believed government-controlled crop insur- ance would prevent wild price fluc- tuations in farm produce. The plan, he said, has not progressed be- yond the embryo stage, but probab- ly would entail storage of crops in government granaries. Each farm- er, depending on the percentage of his normal crop he wished to in- sure, would make his “insurance” payments in the form of bushels to be stored in a common pool. The plan, preventing “lean years and fat years,” would tend to stabi- lize market prices because it would assure a continual adequate sup- ply of whatever commodity was to be insured. Gradually, he said, it might be worked out to include all major farm produce. OLLOWING a conference of President Roosevelt, Chairman Harrison of the senate finance com- mittee, Chairman Doughton of the house ways and means committee and Secretary of the Treasury Mor- genthau, the administration's fiscal program for the coming year was thus outlined: 1. Assurance that no request will be made to the next congress for the levying of additional taxes or in- crease of present tax rates. 2. Launching of an immediate study by treasury and congressional tax consultants of present revenue laws as a basis for recommenda- tions to the next congress for elimi- nation of inequitable taxes, especi- ally those unfair “to consumers or to trade.” 3. Treasury assurance that “with continued recovery” the revenue yield is approaching the point where it will cover government costs and provide a surplus for reduction of the public debt, Governor Earle and others, and on to Cleveland for a visit to the Great tauqua, N. Y., to deliver on foreign affairs. [FIGURES compiled by Dun tinuation of the rate of decline was shown for the first week of Aug- ust. On the basis of an index kept by the agency since the end of 1932, July insolvencies were at the an- nual rate of 38.2 for each 10,000 firms in business. It compared with 44.6 in June and 52.8 in July, 1935. In January, 1933, as business was heading for the banking holiday, it was above 170. July failures numbered 639, a fig- ure exceeded on the downside only twice for the month since 1894 de- spite the growth of population and business in the meanwhile. It com- pared with 902 in the same month last year and 2,596 in July, 1032, around the peak of the depression liquidation movenient. For the year to August 8 failures totaled 6,157 against 7.355 in the corresponding 1935 months, a drop of 16.3 per cent. ORTY - THREE Democrats, most of them prominent nation- ally or locally and representing twenty states, gathered in Detroit — to tell one another a and the world how r much and why they disliked the New Deal. After two days of conferring, they organized themselves as the National Jefferson- ian Democrats and named Former bs. Senator James A. Reed of Missouri as J. A. Reed their national chair- man. They decided to establish headquarters at once in St. Louis and to set up an organization in every state. Then they gave out a 1,500 word declaration or plat. form in which they declared they “will not support for re-election the candidates of the Philadelphia con- vention for President and vice presi- dent, and we call upon all loy- al and sincere Democrats to con- sider the question of their duty to their country in the apprcaching election with the same earnestness that has guided our deliberations— joining with us if they feel that our The name of Governor Landon can candidate. Among these are Joseph B. Ely, Col. Henry Breckin- ridge, John Henry Kirby of Texas and Robert S. Bright of Maryland. WO veterans of the senate, Wil liam E. Borah of Idaho, Republi- can, and Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas, Democrat and majori- ty leader, won their fights for re- nomination without much difficulty. Borah defeated Byron Defenbach, who was backed by the Townsend- ites. His Democratic opponent at the polls in November will be Gov. C. Ben Ross. In the Democratic primary to select a congressman to succeed the late Joseph W. Byrns of Tennessee the Townsend influ- ence gave victory to Richard M. Atkinson of Nashville by the nar. row margin of 13 votes. In the Presidential contest the American Federation of Labor, as an organization, will maintain its traditional non-partisan policy, ac- cording to the firm declaration of President William Green. The fed- eration, said he, is not in the Non- Partisan Labor league, which is backing President Roosevelt. “We will not formally indorse any candi- date. this fall,” Mr. Green contin ued. “Our non-partisan committee will merely prepare parallel reports on the labor records of the two chief candidates and of the plat. forms. We will send out all data to our membership. They will have to make up their own minds.” —— REBELLION among the Town- sendites, smoldering ever since their Cleveland convention, has broken out into civil war. Dr. Fran. cis Townsend has just summarily ousted from the organization three of the eleven directors. Apparently the reason is that they are support- ing President Roosevelt and object to Townsend's effort to swing his followers to the support , The three men thrown out are Dr. Clinton Wunder, a former Bap- tist preacher, now living in New York; John B. Kiefer, Chicago re- gional director, and Maj. William Parker of New York, eastern re. gional director. W HEN the American Bar as- sociation convenes in Boston soon it will receive two widely dif- fering reports from a special com- mittee named to study the effects of New Deal legislation on the rights and liberties of citizens. They were made public in Washington. The majority report, signed by John D. Clark, Cheyenne, Wyo; Fred H. Davis, Tallahassee, Fla.; George L. Buist, Charleston, 8. C., and Charles P, Taft II., Cincinnati. Ohio, ‘deplored’ the action of President Roosevelt in reducing congress to a “rubber stamp’ body legisiation. “Novel just said, nent changes in national policy, “There has been a whether a new social and economic order is in the making or the old that they may be preserved.” These findings were challenged by Kenneth Wynne, New Haven, Conn.; Fred L. Williams, St. Louis, Mo., and James G. McGowen of Jackson, Miss. report they said: “If the purpose of the resolution creating the spe- cial committee was to get the opin- ion of the American Bar association regarding legislative trends de- signed to meet changing economic conditions, the report is superficial. It does not deal with the problem but concerns itself with a short range attack on surface triviali- ties.” The sharp divergence between the two reports presages a conflict and heated discussion at the as- sociation meeting. REMIER BLUM made good one of his campaign promises by putting the French leftist govern- ment in control of the Bank of France. The board of regents, in existence for a century, was abol- ished and replaced by a council of seven headed by Leon Jouhaux, president of the conference of la- bor. The others are representatives of the ministry of finance, savings banks, consumers’ co-operatives, handicrafts, chambers of commerce and chambers of agriculture. The new board is expected to continue the anti-devaluationist pol- icy of the retiring board of the insti- tution. H ENRY MORGENTHAU, secre- tary of the treasury, and the national commission on fine arts have given their approval to the design for a memorial half dollar which will bear the likeness of Phineas T. Barnum. The coin will commemorate the centennial anni- versary of the establishment of Bridgeport, Conn., as a city, and Barnum is honored not for his achievements as a showman but for his great philanthropies and rich gifts to Bridgeport. SECRETARY OF COMMERCE ROPER'S department has just put out a “world economic review" for 1935 which contains many interesting state , ments. It says, for instance, t h a t future business prospects are condi- tioned in part upon the possibility of narrowing the gap between go v e mn- ment expenditures and receipts. It as- serted that “the government deficit springs from the b A. P. 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