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VOLUME 2—NUMBER 158
OPEN DISSENSION
BURSTS FORTH IN
ORGANIZED LABOR
RIVAL GROUPS TAKE MIL
ITANT STAND ON
VIEWS
WASHINGTON, July 2 (TP).—
John L. Lewis's insurgent labor chiefs
will gather around a conference table
today to plot their defense of an
American Federation of Labor discip
linary threat.
Lewis, head of the United Mine
Workers, is joined by ten other A.
F. of L. union heads in the commit
tee for industrial organization. Presi
dent William Green of the A. F. of L.
is fighting the Lewis group in a
drive to continue his craft union poli
cies against Lewis’s industrial unioni
zation campaign. The latest move
in the intra-federation fracas is an
order from the A. F. of L. executive
board, calling on the Lewis-allied
unions to appear next Tuesday to
show cause why their charters should
not be suspended.
Many observers who have kept
close tabs on the progress of the
Green-Lewis battle say the industrial
organization committee probably will
defy the A. F. of L. executive board
at their meeting today. If the Le*is
group refuses to defend their st...nd
at next week’s federation hearing,
the ten union charters may be sus
pended. pending an expulsion vote
by the next A. F. of L. convention.
The union banded under the Lewis
banner represent ten of the federa
tion’s strongest and wealthiest affi
liates. Some labor experts think the
suspension of their A. F. of L. char
ters would lead to the immediate es
tablishment of a rival labor organi
zation and split the federation ranks '
wide open.
GUARDSdPfCKET
BIG STEEL PLANT
BUILDINGS RAKED BY
GUNFIRE OF SNIPERS
DURING NIGHT
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., July 2 (TP).
An armed guard of deputized offi
cers is stationed around the building
of a Birmingham steel pla»t today.
The buildings were raked by the gun
fire of snipers during the night.
The factory belongs to the Tennes
see Coal, Iron and Railway Company,
a subsidiary of United States Steel.
It became the center of a violent dis
pute more than a month ago when
red ore workers went out on a strike.
Periodically the labor tension has
blazed up in violence. A band of
snipers surrounded the plant build
ings last night. They sent more than
a hundred bullets ripping into wood
work and through window panes.
Men on duty inside the walls took to
cover until the gunfire was stopped.
The strikers are protesting a com
pany order that wages be based on
production. They want a flat weekly
rate of pay.
MAYOR~APPROVES
PARK SPOONING
HAMMOND, Ind., July 2 (TP)
Mayor Frank Martin of Hammond is
one man who is heartily in favor of
a young fellow taking his girl to the
park to hold hands. The mayor put
himself on record today.
Some members of the Hammond
Park board wanted to install electric
light in the city park, to prevent
youns couples from spooning in the
park shadows of the tres. Mayor Mar
tin was outraged at such a thing.
‘ What’s the harm in r. little spoon
ing?" the mayor asked. "What do you
think the moon was made for any
way? Electric lights! indeed!”
REAL FRIENDS!
“COPS” CHIP IN AND BUY
LICENSE FOR BOY’S
DOG
CHARLESTOWN, Mass., July 2
(TP).—Little eight-year-old Johnnie
Coburn is Charlestown’s happiest boy
today—thanks to a lot of hard boiled
coppers.
Someone told police that Johnnie’s
scotch collie "Laddie” was roaming
around without a license. A police
man came to the boy and said, in
no uncertain manner, that the .dog
must have a license if Johnnie want
ed to keep hm.
The boy was all but broken down
at that one. He had no money to
buy the license. He ran to the po
lice station, sobbing as if doom was
full upon him.
Johnnie burst into police head
quarters.
"It's about my dog. Laddie,” he
cried out at the copers. Then he
threw himself on the floor, after the
manner of a sinner before the heat
of judgment. The boy made a tear
ful plea to keep his collie.
The "hard boiled” police melted
like butter. They chipped in the
money to buy "Laddie” a license.
That dried Johnnie’s tears. He
picked himself up and muttered
"thank yous” as he backed toward
the door. One copper reached a lit
tle deeper into his pocket as Johnnie
left. He tossed the boy another
quarter—“ Here boy,” said the officer,
"take that and buy your dog a new
©ollar.’’
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Thelma Lady Furness, twin sister
of Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt is
shown with her son, Tony, arriving
in New York from England. The
lad is the favorite playmate of little
Gloria Vanderbilt, whose custody
fight has attracted world-wide at
tention.
(Central Press)
LABOR CHIEFTAIN
WARNS AGAINST
TERROR SYSTEM
LEWIS ASSERTS UNDER
COVER WORK BEING
USED
NEW YORK, July 2 (TP)—The
mine chief, John L. Lewis, set down
his arguments for industrial unions
today in an article written for the
magazine, “The Fight.” The publica
tion is issued monthly by the Ameri
can league against war and fascism.
Lewis declared that there are forces
at work in the United States, trying
to stifle free • speech and free news.
The same forces, he said, are attempt
ing to build up a spy and terror sys
tem against workers and their unions.
"The hope of labor,” Lewis writes,
"lies largely in its right to an op?n
forum, a forum where it can present
its problems and their proposed solu
bions, from every viewpoint.”
He believes labor can best find its
voice and make it heard if large mass
unions are organized in the various
industries. He criticized the present
Amrelcan federation of labor craft
union set up as not large enough to
bring workers together in one great
force.
Lewis said:
"Only about 10 per cent of the
workers are organized. Ninety per cent
are unorganized and subject to con
tinuous exploitation by every hostile
interest that seeks to exploit them.’
FRENCH TO AID
MARINE DEFENSES
SENATE DETERMINED NOT
TO BE CAUGHT NAPPING
PARIS, July 2 (TP).—French
army leaders went ahead today with
a program designed to strengthen the
forces defending the Marne .
A French senate vote decided in fa
vor of a commission to study defense
needs on the Swiss border. The sen
ate action gave rise to the report
that the famous "Maginot line,” com
prised of steel and concrete forts
spread along the German border,
will be extended to guard against in
vasion from the southeast.
At the same tme, the French min
ister for national defense, Edouard
Deladler, anonunced that the two
year conscription term, which went
into effect last year, will be continu
ed until the European situation calms
down. New officers’ training schools
for enlisted men will be set up, De
ladler anounced, in a drive to raise
the general standard of the army
ranks.
GRIM REAPER CUTTING WIDE SWATH
AS FLOOD WATERS RAVAGE TEXAS
AUSTIN, Texas, July 2 (TP)—The
death toll mounted to 21 today as
flood waters swept a 200-mile front
In south Texas. Sixteen others are
missing.
Cloudbursts changed a parched land
of heat-seared cotton fields and sage
brush to a sea of rushing waters in
48 hours. Scores of homes between
Austin and San /.nt »nio were swept
away by swollen streams.
Transratflo’s correspondent report
ed several persons were marooned on
housetops and swept down the roar
ing currents. A family of sou was
wiped ut at Hady’s Bluff by the Big
Sandy ceek.
Ab Kyle, a freight train crashed
“NATION’S DEFICIT
SOON WIPED OUT”
SAYS MORGENTHAU
TREASURY HEAD GIVES
DETAILED STATEMENT
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WA£MTNGTO> t .Ti’’v 2 (TP)
Uncle Sam’s stockholders have the
word of the country’s secretary of
treasury that th? nation's finances
are on the m-n'L
Secretary of the Treasury Morgen
thau • outlined the nation’s financial
position in a nation-wide radio ad
dress which marked the start of the
fiscal year. His address displayed an
optimistic trend tnroughout.
Morgenthau admitted that the na
tion's $4,800,000,000 deficit is the
largest industry. However, he said,
tax revenues are rising, the national
income is rising and federal expendi
tures . are going down steadily.
The secretary listed the $1,700 000,-
000 veterans’ bonus outlay as an ex
traordinary expense, along with a
$400,000,000 debt retirement item,
thus bringing the actual deficit piled
up by the Roosevelt administration
to only $2,700,000,000. The national
debt he placed at $33,750,000,000,
from which he deducted a $2,700,000,-
000 treasury balance; two billon in
gold devaluation profits and four bil
lion in loans to states, cities, rail
roads, banks, farmers and home-own
ers. Interest on federal borrowing, he
said, had been reduced by 25 per cent
during the new deal admin stration.
Morgenthau pointed to decreasing
federal expenditures in a w«y that
was taken by many to constitute a
pledge that expenditures would con
tinue to drop if the new deal is re
turned to office in November. Beyond
that, the secretary of the treasurj’
failed to predict he financial course
to be taken by the administration in
the case of re-election.
BOY IS PLACED
IN FATHER’S CARE
CHICAGO POLICE STILL
PROBING MURDER OF
JIMMY’S MOTHER
CHICAGO, July 2 (TP).—Seven
year-Qjd Jimmy Thompson who amaz
ed police by his calm story of how
he witnessed the, murder of his moth
er, was placed in the care of his fa
ther today.
Jimmy’s mother was Mrs. Florence
Thompson Castle, a nightclub hostess
She was beaten to death in her ho
tel room. The boy was with her. He
told officers that a "blackfaced”
man killed his mother.
The boys father was divorced from
Mrs. Castle. Jimmy was given back
into the fathers care when police des
paired of getting the boy to tell a
story of the slaying which would
check with the evidence in the case.
Detective Chief John Sullivan said
today: “My hunch is that Jimmy is
guessing. We are turning him over
to his father.”
Sullivan said that two men ac
quaintances of Mrs. Castle are being
sought on the belief that they can
clear up the mysterious career of the
woman—a career which ended in a
violent death.
McNAIRSEEKING
TO OUST DUNN
PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 2 (TP).
The city safety director, Thomas
Dunn, set up a line of detectives to
day to prevent Mayor William Mc-
Nair from ousting him from office.
Dunn’s detectives will work in
three separate shifts, day and night,
to keep the director from losing the
battle he’s been fighting with the
mayor ever since last March. Dunn
gave support to an inquiry into the
mayor's magistrate courts. The
mayor countered by putting Dunn on
furlough and giving the police de
partment a shakeup. Then he order
ed Dunn to resign. Dunn refused.
He still refuses. He said he’s going
to stay in office until his successor
is appointed, has been approved by
the city council, and has posted $50,-
000 bond. Said ’tunn: “The only way
they can get m* out of office is to
have the sheriff serve a court order
on mqk
thrugh a weakened trestle into a
creek, killing two of its crew. Rescue
v.orkers are battling swift currents to
search .or victim.s Many of those res
cued were children who were found
clinging to tres and rooftops.
Gonzales and Austin are almost
completely surrounded by water. The
damag? to the south Texas cotton
corp is estimated at more than $1,500,-
000. Adedd to the flocd cost are the
hundreds of drowned cattle, ruined
highways and shattered homes.
The Guadalupe river is fiv? feat
above flood stage and rising steadily.
Plum creak, bone dry only a week a
ago, is a wild torrent today. Fourteen
persons were sw>ept to their deaths by
the Plum crek flood waters.
SAVANNAH, GA., THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1936
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Paying little attention to the
proceedings, Peter Voiss, aged
prospector, is pictured in court
at San Jose, Cal., where he is
on trial charged with the slay
ing of Dr. Jasper Gattuccio,
Voiss allegedly shot and killed
Dr. Gattuccio when the latter
attempted to take a picture of
him. —Central Press
AGED PROSPECTOR
MAY KNOW FATE
SOMETIME TODAY
COUNSEL SAYS KILLING
OF DOCTOR WAS ACCI
DENT, NOT MURDER
SAN JOSE, Cal., July 2 (TP).—A
jury will be asked today to decide
whether the old prospector, Peter
Voiss, pultetf the trigger of hi* aboU
gun by accident or in a fit of anger,
when he and his donkey were photo
graphed.
Peter Voiss made his living by ab
lowing tourists to snap pictures of
him and his donkey and his prospec
tor’s cart. Peter always collected a
fee before ’ striking a pose. Several
months ago Dr. Jasper Gattuccio
snapped a picture without paying a
cent. The old prospector was dis
pleased. He killed Dr. Gattuccio
with a shotgun.
In the courtroom, the prosecutor
handed the jury the picture that Dr.
Gattuccio had snapped. It showed
old Peter Voiss with his shotgun
raised and ready to fire.
“I think that this picture is final
proof that murder was committed,’’
the prosecutor said.
The defense argued that the aged
man had no intention of killing the
tourist, that the gun was discharged
by accident.
Peter Voiss may know t his fate be
fore tonight.
ZEPPELIN BREAKS
OCEANIC RECORD
BERTHED IN LAKEHURST
AFTER EPHOCAL TRIP
LAKEHURST, N. J.. July 2 (TP)
The German Zeppelin Hindenburg is
tied snugly in her berth today after
a record-breaking flight from the
fatherland.
The airship crossed from Frankfort
in 51 hours and 19 minutes. The fast
time was attributed in part to th?
fact that the Hindenburg took a new
course. She flew ever Quebec and then
down over the Atlantic coast to New
York. The Zeppelin will leave for
Germany tomorrow night with all of
her passenger berths filled.
HOLIDAY WARNING
CHICAGO, July 2 (TP) —The
national safety council predicted
today that nearly 600 people
throughout the country are mark
ed for death on July 4 and the
Sunday following.
The council’s statistics expert.
R. L. Forney, told Trar.sradio that
death would have its greatest
"field day” of 1936 during the
week-end when 20,000,000 automo
biles jam the nation’s highways.
Said Forney: “It is reasonable to
assume more people will be killed
during the two-da y celebration
than during any other 48-hour pe
riod of the year.”
He estimates
will drown at nation's beach?:,
and in lakes and rivers. Another
300 will be killed in traffic acci
dents. At least 30 death: and 8,000
injuries are expected to be caused
by fireworks accidents.
GENE PLANNING
TO RUN AGAINST
DICK FOR SENATE
REPORTED ACTIONS OF
GOVERNOR HAS EXPERTS
IN MUDDLE
ATLANTA. July 2 (TP)—A source
close to Governor Talmadge reliably
Informed Transradio today that the
antl-New Deal governor of Georg a is
planning to run for the United States
senate in the coming primary elec
tions.
Such an election would put Tai
madgfc against Russell, who is seek
ing re-election. Russell is an ardent
New Deal supporter and a friend of
President Roosevelt. This would
again bring the Talmadge-Roosevelb
battle in the state of Georgia out into
the open.
If Talmadge runs for the senate
this will add another tangle to the
already complicated Georgia Demo
cratic situation. Hug How; 11—a close
friend of Talmac’gu for the past three
years—has announced that he will
also run for governor. If Talmadge
backs Redwine, a split between Howell
and the»N;w Deal foe is inevitable.
As Talmadge and anti-Talmadge
forces gathered their workers today
for the campaign which opens Satur
day and will continue until Septem
ber 9 when voters go to the polls a
definite split loomed in both camps.
With the passing of each hour be
fore the opening guns, it appeared
more certain Talmadge will oppose
United States Senator Russell, throw
ing his support for governor to
Charles D. Redwine, president of the
senate.
Meanwhile it became known that
Hugh Howell, heretofore staunch
supporter of the governor, will bolt
the Talmadge party and run for gov
ernor on his own.
It was al o learned that the three
anti-Talmadge candidates will stay
in the governor’s race, making a run
over almost sure. They are Ed
Rivers, speaker of the house of rep
resentatives; Judge Blanton Fortson,
of Athens, nominee of the Weltner
movement convention, and Judge W.
W. Larsen of Dublin.
Hugh Howell, it was learned today,
has engaged an Atlanta radio sta
tion for one hour each Saturday aft
ernoon from July 1 until September
5. It was also understood he had
maped his campaign and would an-
While Howell today still maintain
ed he would not oppose Talmadge,
Senator Redwine maintained the si
lence he has stuck to ever since his
name was mentioned as a possible
candidate.
Redwine has been a staunch sup
porter of the Talmadge regime, and
several times the governor has prais
ed the work of the senate during tho
last term. It was undstood he has
bene given generous time on the gov
ernor's program at Mcßae Saturday.
PROBE CONTINUES
IN TENNESSEE
GOVERNOR TAKES HAND
IN ALLEGED FLOGGINGS
• AT REFORMATORY
NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 2 (TP).
Governor Hill McAlester started his
own investigation today of reports
that young boys are being flogged in
the Tennessee state reform school.
The Davidson county grand jury
investigated first, and said strong
evid?nce was . produced that guards
unmercifully beat the inmates for mi
nor infractions of rules.
A farmer living near th*e school
testified that he watched guards urge
more than a score of boys hoe corn
an the institutions fields. Said the
farmer: “One guard was snapping a
long strap on the little fellows'
backs.” •
Governor McAlester Intends to
confer with the school sperintendent,
G. Newt Choate. The grand jury re
ported that Choate was fully aware
of the conditions and unfit to hold
his office as keeper of the wayward
boys.
CONGRESS PROVIDES FOR
AVIATION FACILITIES
WASHINGTON, July 2 <TP) —The
navy department announced today
that the record peacetime navy ap
propriation passea by the la?t con
gress carries nearly $4,000,000 for an
aviation cadet > program. This pro
gram is part of the naval reserve or
ganization—which was allotted a lit
tle under $8,00C,000.
The total allocation for the reserves
was more than a half million dollars
above last year's appropriation. Part
of it will be spent for increases in
the man power of reserve aviation
and fleet divisions.
FLAMES TRAP MAN
NEW YORK, July 2 (TP)—Fire
hissed through a Bronx boarding
house today, burning one man to
death. The victim was Michael Gaff
ney. A 65 year-old woman. Bessie
Kain, was rescued by firemen from
her third floor room. She was uncon
scious from bums and smoke. The
fire was extinguished after it burned
two uon’r fi— —
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FORMER SENATOR IN DIVORCE SUIT
Thomas A. E. Lally C. C. Dill
Seeking a divorce from his wife, charging cruelty and deser
tion, former U. S. Senator C. C. Dill, now a Washington, D. C.,
attorney, is pictured, right, as he confers with his attorney,
Thomas A. E. Lally, in a Spokane, Wash., court. Mrs. Dill is the
former Rosalie Gardner Jones of New York, militant campaign
er for women’s rights. ’ —Central Press.
CAVE-IN IMPERILS MINER’S LIFE
RESCUE CREWS DIGGING FRANTICALLY IN RACE
AGAINST DEATH AS VICTIM PLEADS FOR HELP
SHAMOKIN, Pa., July 2 (TP)—
Hard coal miners dug desperately to
day to save a miner trapped in coal
and rock nearly 50 feet underground.
The miner is Enoch Kuklinski, who
was "bootlegging" coal with his fa
ther when the cave-incaught them.
The .father was nearer the surface
Rescuers got im out. But the son
was imprisoned in a dark ’’Ole where
slate and earth threaten to crush out
his lie.
The rescue workers are being di-
LANDON AIDE
IN NEW ATTACK
ON ROOSEVELT
HAMILTON HITS AT PLAT
FORM ADOPTED BY
DEMOCRATS
CLEVELAND, July 2 (TP)—Gover
nor Alf Landon s campaign manager,
John D. M. Hamilton, left an aroused
Ohio Republican party behind him
today when he arrived in Chicago to
open the G. O. P. fight in Illinois.
•Hamilton, chairman of the Repub
lican national committee, used two
fisted terms as he addressed the stabe
G. O. P. convention at Colubmus,
Ohio.
The dynamic committee chairman
termed the Philadelphia Democratic
convention a display of “Mumbo-
Jumbo" and maintained the Demo
cratic platform was evasive.
"The Roosevelt platform," he told
the Ohio Republicans, “shows no con
fidence in the citizens’ ability to solve
their own problems. It demands that
the citizens look to Mr. Roosevelt
himself for solution of those prob
lems.”
Hamilton drew rounds of applause
when he said the candidates selected
at Cleveland were noted for th:ir
integrity, ability and their desire to
serve, rather than for a record of
broken contracts, quick-change poli
ces and an eagerness to rule. He in
sisted that the Democratic chiefs are
frightened at finding the Republican
party solidly reunited at the Cleve
land convention. This fear, Hamilton
said, was responsible for what he
termed "a flood of intemperate lan
guage” in which Democratic state
ments were couched.
The Republican chairman paid
elaborate tribute to the G. O. P.
standard bearer, Governor Landon,
labelling him a man who believes in
keeping his word, and a man who
tempers his own self-confidence with
a belief in the ability of other men.
He ended with th? phrase:
"He is not the kind of a man that
Jim Farley understands.”
Before his address, Hamilton con
ferred lengthly with the new Ohio
Republican national committeeman,
F. F. Taggart; the G. O. P. guber
natorial candidate, Attorney General
John W. BYicker, and other state Re
publican leaders. Tentative plans for
the Ohio campaign were drawn up at
the conference.
BABY IS KILLED IN
LOUISIANA TWISTER
MANGHAM, La., July 2 (TP)—
Workers are repairing damaged homes
today, and clearing away debris which
was left in Mangham by a freak tor
nado. The twister killed the baby son
of the Ernest Bradford family. Four
women were badly hurt.
The storm wrecked several homes
and tore down communication lines.
It was many hours before neighboring
.nn’tles learned of the traq?cy.
rected by mine experts from the Ste
vens Coal Company. There is need
for the greatest care. A r w cave-in
mig*:l trdp the rescue crew.
The work continued thro.ighout the
night. Workers whose arms ached
from the difficult digging, rubbed
their palms togsther and carried on.
The piteous cries of the imprisoned
Kuklinskie caused the rescu>rs to for
or ignore their own fatigue.
"Help me,” "save me,” the victim
cried-
ARABS FINED FOR
ATTACK ON BRITISH
PALESTINE GOVERNMENT
IMPOSES HEAVY
SENTENCE
JERUSALEM, July 2 (TP)—The
Palestine government held an entire
Arab town responsible today for the
attempts on the lives of two'British
soldiers. A collective fine of about
SIO,OOO was imposed on the town of
Hebron where snipers wounded two
members of the Cameron highlanders.
Captain Sorel and Lance Corporal
Fraser were ambushed and wounded
in the streets.
British officials announced that
one of the leader of the Arab fight
against Jewish colonization died to
day of injuries suffered wh?n a bomb
of his own making blew up. The lead
er was Farid Floury, president of the
Modem students committee. Floury
has been active for months in the
Arabian anti-Jewish fights.
FARLEYCONFERS
WITH ROOSEVELT
RETIREMENT OF GENIAL
JIM IS PROBABLE
TOPIC
WASHINGTON, July 2 (TP).—
President Roosevelt and the Demo
cratic chieftain, James Farley, are
holding a double-edged conference to
day—to discurs last night’s speech of
the young Republican leader, John
Hamilton, and Farley’s possible re
tirement as a member of the presi
dent’s cabinet.
Hamilton is the G. O. P. national
chairman and thespear-head of Gov.
Landon s campaign. In a speech in
Columbus, Ohio, Hamilton described
the Democratic platform as a patch
work of generalities, designed to give
President Roosevelt greater powers.
The president is to make speeches
in Virginia tomorrow and Saturday.
He and Democratc Chairman Farley
are expected to lay out their reply to
Hamilton today.
Both Farley and Mr. Roosevelt
have declined to give any confirma
tion to repeated rumors that “Big"
Jim will resign as postmaster gen
eral. Farley has shown clearly, how
ever, that he wil head the Democrats
in their campaign. It is believed this
will necessitate withdrawej from post
office work—either by resignation or
through a leave of absence until the
election is held.
STRIKE SETTLED
AKnRON, Ohio, July 2 (TP).—A
strike of the workers at the Babcock
and Wilcox Company of Barberton
was settled today when strikers voted
to accept an agreement offered by
the employers. The workers will re
turn to their posts at once. Both
sides to the dispute declined to re
veal terms of their agreement. They
merely stated that the terms were
"satisfactory.”
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DROUGHT AREA
MAIN QUESTION IS: HOW
MUCH MONEY CAN
BE SPENT?
CHICAGO( July 2 (TP)—The gov
ernment buckled down today for •
bitter war against the ravages of the
drought.
Agricultural experts are frankly
fearful of the effects which two more
weeks of dry weather might have on
the nation’s food crops. President
Roosevelt and his advisors are scan
ning reports which speak of the ruin
facing thousands of farmers unlens
Uncle Sam steps in to help them at
once.
First steps in the government’s bat
tle against the drought was the Agri
cultural Adjustment Administration’s
decision to lift soli conservation re
strictions. Farmers pledged to cut
their acreage to conform with soil
conservation programs will be permit
ted to raise mere crops and, at the
same time, will not forfeit their gov
enment benefits
Budget officials have orders to
hunt through the nation’s books to
find just how much money can be
thrown into the drought area. The
Triple "A” and the WPA have been
caleld upon to lend all the help they
can in relieving the drought suffer
ing. . ,
Farm heads in the federal govern
ment termed the present dry spell
more far-reaching and disastrous
than the 1930 and 1934 droughts.
They suppled the president with fig
ures which showed that livestock and
crop loses are mounting dally, with
no relief in sight. Unless there is
rain within two weeks, agricultural
officials admitted, the greater part
of the country’s corn crop will be
lost. Wheat crops also are hit hard.
Needy farmers, who have watched
their fields burn up under a merci
less sun will soon be put to work on
WPA projects, according to tentative
plans drawn up at a White House
conference. WPA funds already are
being rushed into the states hardest
hit by the dry spell, and more will
follow as relief observers send their
appeals to Washington.
The 1936 draught, AAA heads
pointed out, is especially damaging
because it started so early in ths
yepr. The 1930 and ’34 droughts,
they pointed out, did not reach ths
intensity of the present dry spelt “un
til August. The earlier dry weather
has destroyed young crops which
might better resist a drought later in
the year.
LEAGUE RESUMES
DISCUSSIONS ON
TRADE SANCTIONS
SELASSIE’S CAUSE LOST
AS DELEGATES DROP
SUBJECT
GENEVA, July 2 (TP).—With Em
peror Haile Selasse’s cause hopelessly
lost, League of Nations diplomats
turned towards the subject of revi
sion of the league covenant today.
Selassie’s plea for a continuation
of anti-Italian sanctions and further
steps to return his government to
power in Ethiopia were crushed by
British. French and Russian state
ments to the effect that continuation
of the sanctions was futile. Only the
Union of South Africa raised Its
voice in a plea for extended sanctions.
The question at Geneva now ap
pears to be whether the sanctions ar
ticle of the league covenant, Article
16, shall be modified or strengthened.
Great Brtain apparently wants the
article revised to require only certain
nations to enforce sanctions in cer
tain crises. Russia, on the other
hand, wants the article strengthened
to require all league nations to apply
rigid sanctions against an aggressor
nation. France favors revision of the
sanctions article, but is less definite
regarding her stand.
British Foreign Minister Eden ex
pressed sympathy for Ethiopia’s
plight, but maintained that only mili
tary moves could change the East
African picture now. This step, he
said, was impossible at this time.
France and the Soviet agreed with
Eden, and, by so doing, effectively
killed Selassie’s hopes.
Rusian Foreign Commissar Litvln
of was acid in his criticism of the
manner in ifiich anti-Italian sane
tiontions had been attempted. The
sanctions drive, he said, had failed
because they had not been fully ap
plied by all league nations and ignor
ed byat least four nations.
FISHERMEN PAY TRIBUTE
TO MEMORY OF CAPTAIN
GLOUCESTER, Mass., July 2 (TP)
Cape Cod fishermen lowered their
flags to half-mast today. The famous
racing skipper, Clayton. Morrissey, is
dead.
The 63-year-old captain died of a
heart attack. He was a veteran of
the fishing banks and was known
the world over for his skill in a fish
ing boat race. An international fish
erman’s race without Captain Morris
sey was like a catboat without a sail.
He was skipper of the "Henry Ford”
in 1922 when that gallant vessel tried
to wrest the international fisherman’s
cup from the speedy “Blue Nose” at
the Nova Scotian fishing fleet.