By EDWARD
W. PICKARD
Jf RANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT and
Alf M. Landon, rival candidutes
for the Presidency, met in some-
what dramatic fashion in Des
Moines, Iowa; but
they met as chief
executives of the
United States and of
Kansas respectively
for the purpose of
discussing plans
for the relief of
drouth stricken
farmers. The con-
ference, held at Mr.
> Roosevelt's sugges-
¢ tion and including
Gov. Landon the governors of the
other states that had suffered espe-
cially from the drouth, began in
the state house in Des Moines,
where Governor Herring enter-
tained the distinguished visitors at
a luncheon. The President and Mr.
Landon, it was said, did most of the
talking at this repast and exchanged
a lot of joking remarks. Then the
conference was started in earnest,
each state being taken up in turn.
When it came to Kansas, Governor
Landon presented in manuscript
form a definite plan, in large part
the same as he submitted to Harry
Hopkins two years ago.
Early in the evening Mr. Roose-
velt entertained the governors at
dinner aboard his spegial train. On
that occasion he and Mr. Landon
had their most intimate talk. Re-
sults of the conference, if any, were
not made public at once, the Presi-
dent reserving announcement of his
plans for a radio address.
ARRY RICHMAN, night club
entertainer and aviator, and
Dick Merrill, veteran pilot, success-
fully flew across the Atlantic in
their monoplane Lady Peace, but
failed to reach London, their desti-
nation, by some 200 miles.
ning into a hard rainstorm over
Ireland, they lost their way and
were forced to land near Llandilo,
Wales, because their fuel was ex-
the plane were injured.
the way.
EVISING the 1937 budget fig-
ures he submitted to congress
in January, President Roosevelt
now estimates that expenditures
caused by the bonus 2
and the AAA invali-
dation will put the
public debt atthe
all-time high figure
of $34,188 543,494.
He says, however,
that better business
will run tax receipts
up $12,000,000 high-
er than was expect-
ed. The President's
revision covered the
fiscal year that be-
gan July 1 last and
President
Roosevelt
Daniel W. Bell.
estimate were:
1. Receipts, fixed at $5,665,839,000.
2. Expenditures at $7,762,835,300.
3. Gross deficit Jor the year at
$2,006,996,300.
4. Public debt on June 30, 1937,
at $34,188, 543,493.73.
January figures as follows:
1. Receipts of $5,654,217,650.
2. Expenditures of $7,645,301,338.
3. Deficit of $1,008,388,720.
4. Public debt at end of year of
$31,351,638,737.
The $2,000,000,000 deficit Mr.
Roosevelt estimated is the lowest of
the New Deal. Regarding this fig-
ure the President said:
“The estimated deficit for i937 is
$2,096,996,300 which includes $580,-
000,000 for statutory debt retirement
and $560,000,000 for further pay-
ments under the adjusted compen-
sation payment act.
“Deducting the amount of the
statutory debt retirement leaves a
net deficit of $1,516,996,200.
‘“This does not mean that there
will be an increase in the public
debt of this amount for the reason
that it is contemplated during the
year to reduce the working balance
of the general fund by approximate-
ly $1,100,000,000.”
What Mr. Roosevelt meant by this
was that instead of borrowing mon-
ey to cover the difference between
receipts and expenditures, the
Treasury would dip into the general
fund for $1,100,000,000,
IT WAS Benito Mussolini's turn
to go into the European version
of the Indian war dance, following
Hitler and Stalin, and he gave a
great performance. At Avellino,
center of the Italian army maneu-
vers, Il Duce announced to a cheer
ing throng that he could mobilize
8,000,000 soldiers,
premier declared the
world is in the throes of an irresisti-
ble re-armament race and Italy
must the eternal
peace, be said is “foreign to
.
our creed and to our temperament.”
He asserted that the armed forces
of Italy are more efficien. than ever
as a consequence of the Ethiopian
war and that the 60,000 men en-
gaged in the maneuvers are but a
modest and almost insignificant part
of the country’s actual war strength.
“We must be strong,” cried Mus-
solini. “We must be always strong-
er! We must be so strong that we
can face any eventualities and look
directly in the eye whatever may
befalll”
Germany's new army of a mil-
lion men, created by Hitler's order
doubling the term of compulso-
ry military training, is to be fi-
nanced by increased taxes on all
companies and corporations by 25
per cent for 1936 and by 50 per
cent for 1937.
APAN proposes to build up a
submarine fleet approximately
30 per cent larger than that oi either
Great Britain or the United States.
Such was the substance of a note
delivered by the Japanese embassy
in London to the British foreign of-
fice. The decision replaces the sub-
marine parity among the three pow-
ers established by the 1930 London
naval treaty.
Japan notified Great Britain that
it was determined to keep afloat
11,060 tons of destroyers and 15,-
508 tons of submarines above the
1830 London treaty quotas. This
tonnage, if the treaty's provisions
were carried out, would be scrapped
at the end of this year.
The Japanese note was in reply to
Great Britain's memorandum of
July 15, 1936, invoking the ‘‘escape
clause” of the first London treaty in
order to increase its destroyer ton-
nage above the pact's allowance.
Japan gave the lack of sufficient
excess destroyers as its reason for
retaining a surplus in submarines.
The United States, like Great Brit-
ain, has decided it must keep in
service after the end of the year
40,000 tons of over age destroyers
in excess of the total permitted by
SHOULD war break out in Europe,
France counts on having the
powerful Polish army on her side.
Consequently the week long visit
of Gen Edward
Rydz - Smigly, in-
spector general of
army, and a
Polish military mis-
sion to France was
made the occasion
of elaborate cere-
The train
carrying the Poles
crossed the border
General Rydz-Smig-
commanding
generals of the area and reviewed
thousands of troops of the frontier
regiments. Going thence to Paris,
est military honors and the crowds
in the decorated streets cheered
Dinners for the guesis were given
Franco-German frontier
and steel strongholds and passages.
A great military review at Nancy
ended the tour.
| AN appeal to the Supreme
Court of the United States the
Virginian Railway company made
an attack on the provisions of the
railway labor act authorizing collec-
tive bargaining between representa-
tives of the employees and the car-
riers.
The railroad appealed from rul-
ings by the Eastern Virginia Fed-
eral District court and the Fourth
Circuit Court of Appeals re-
quiring it to negotiate concerning
disputes with a unit of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor. It con-
tended the legislation, passed in
1926 and amended in 1934, violated
the Constitution by depriving it of
liberty and property, and attempt.
ing to regulate labor relations with
employees engaged solely in intra-
slate activities.
BECAUSE labor costs in New
York city are too high, the
Charles Schweinler Press, largest
magazine printing house there, has
decided to close the plant in which
it employs 1,000 men and women
and move where costs are lower.
Executives of the company said
they did not object to the wage
scales imposed by New York un-
ions, but found the differential be-
tween the local scale and the rates
in force elsewhere so great that it
was “impossible™
NITED STATES DISTRICT AT-
TORNEY L. C. GARNETT of
Washington was asked by Vice
President Garner to present to the
federal grand jury the case of six
Railway Audit and Inspection com-
pany officials who failed to appear
before a senate committee some
two weeks ago. Those cited by Mr.
Garner were: W. W. Groves, presi-
dent of the company; W. B. Groves,
vice president; Earl Douglas Rice,
vice president; J. E. Blair, secre-
tary-treasurer; R. S. Judge, direc-
tor, and J. C. Boyer.
The committee, headed by Sena-
tor La Follette, is investigating the
alleged use of labor ‘“‘spies’ by em-
ployers in disputes with their em-
ployees. At the time of the hearing
ords,
life guards, has resigned
can minister to Den- pug
mark in order to be |
free to campaign as
a private citizen for
the re - election of
President Roosevelt,
and the President
has accepted her
resignation. This
was done in an
exchange of tele-
grams, that from ; Sh
Jas Roosevelt say- Ruth Owen.
“While I am very loath to have
you discontinue the very fine serv-
ices you have been rendering as
United States minister to Denmark,
I appreciate your reasons for want-
ing to resign and the motives that
prompt you. I therefore reluctant.
ly accept your resignation.”
Mrs. Rohde, daughter of Wilham
Jennings Bryan, has had a long
career of public service. Before
entering the diplomatic service she
served in the Seventy-first and Sev-
enty-second congresses, 1929 to 1933,
from Florida. Captain Rohde, to
whom she was married in July last,
is her third husband.
“.
Sx bombs dropped from an un-
identified Spanish airplane fell
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Five years after the discovery
of the persistence of vision in
1826 by Peter Mark Roget, the
first attempts were made to show
series of
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drawings. With
stroyer Kane, which was en route
from Gibraltar to Bilbao to help
in the removal of Americans from
the war zone. The Kane fired sev-
eral rounds from an anti-aircraft
gun at the plane. Naturally our
Secretary of State Hull instructed
his agents abroad to request both
the Spanish government and Gen.
el forces, to “issue instructions in
the strongest terms’ to prevent an-
other “incident of this character.”
Irun, scattering many bombs on
that border city, and an assault by
The government
troops there had refused to sur-
render and their officers said right.
ist prisoners, including some prom-
inent men, would be exposed in
the most open places during the
bombardment.
its troops had sustained an “im-
portant reverse” in a battle at Oro-
pesa, 100 miles southwest of the
capital and were driven back to
Talavera. Later a loyalist victory
at that place was claimed, though
London heard the rebels had scored
another victory there. The fighting
in the Guadarrama mountains con-
tirued indecisively.
RESOLUTIONS adopted by the
American Bar association at its
meeting in Boston declare firmly
a~ainst any attempt to limit the
power of federal courts to pass on
the constitutionality of laws. The
association avoided what had been
expected to be a lively debate by
taking a noncommittal attitude on
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which denounced in great part the
alleged invasion of the rights of citi-
zens by the New Deal.
port appended, was received and
duty.
president of the association for the
coming year.
PERHAPS the farmers of Ameri
ca don’t realize it, but during Ju
ly they enjoyed the largest cash in-
ures given out by the Department of
Agriculture show the sales of farm
products brought them $711,000,000
against $582,000,000 in June and only
$451,000,000 in July, 1935.
To their income from sales, the
farmers added $24,000,000 in various
forms of government benefits, bring-
ing the total cash at their disposal
to $735,000,000. The rental and oth-
er benefits totaled $57,000,000 in
June and $10,000.000 in July, 1035.
““The sharp increase in cash farm
income in July was mainly due to
the pronounced gain in income
from grains, chiefly wheat,” the re-
port said. “Receipts of wheat in
the principal markets in July were
the fourth largest for the month on
, despite the relatively small
on farms this year,
“Prices of meat animals in July,
while averaging slightly lower than
in June, were nevertheless higher
than in July, 1935, so that income
from meat animals was considera.
higher than a year
income from dairy ucts in-
creased more than seasonally.”
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