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VOLUME 2—NUMBER 166
LEWIS FACTION
FINALLY WINS IN
WORKER STRIKE
WHEELING STEEL COM
PANY TO RESUME OP
ERATIONS
PORTSMOUTH. Ohio, July 11 (TP)
—Four thousand striking steel work
ers at the Wheeling Steel Company
plant in Portsmouth rejoiced today
over the announcement that terms
have been reached with their em
ployers.
Joseph Gaiter, an associate of John
L. Lewis announced the; settlement.
He said: "Employes wil-lstart return
ing to work on Sunday.”
The 4,000 strikers met Friday night
to vote. Oh :a proposed settlement of
their demands for revised working
conditions. They voted in favor of
the terms offered.
The Portsmouth* strike started last
May 22. The hngh Wheeling plant
normally employe* 5,500 men.
The settlement was hailed as a first
favorable outcome for the Lewis
forces which are trying to unionize
the great army of steel workers from
coast to coast. Terms of the settle
ment were withheld.
A tentative agreement earlier this
week fell through when the head of
the steel union charged the company
with failure to keep its pledges under
the proposal.
He announced at that time that
the Portsmouth strike was a rallying
point in the present steel unionization
drive. That drive is headed by mine
union president, John Lewis, and his
committee for industrial unionization.
Union workers in Portsmouth said
their settlement incorporated favor
able terms of a peace pact drawp up
In Pittsburgh on Friday.
BOMBING THREAT
FRIGHTENS TOWN
EX TORTION IST MAKES
BOLD BID TO PROPHET ’S
TOWN MAYOR
PROPHETSTOWN, Hl.. July 11
(TP)—The entire population of
Prophetstown is ready for rapid flight
tonight.
Prophetstown’s mayor received a
threat that he’d have his town blown
to bits by dynamite bombs tonight if
he didn’t come across with $1 000.
The deadline is set for 7 o'clock, Cen
tral Standard time. Either Mayor
George S. Brydia must meet the ex
tortionist and hand over the money
then, or his town is threatened with
being blown right off the map.
The mayor says he’s not gs-ng to
pay the SI,OOO. All day today, insur
ance agents in Prophetstown have
been doing a capacity business. The
population is taking out every dollar’s
worth of insurance it can afford to
protect itself from serious damage by
the extortionist.
Meanwhile, as the zero hour ap
proaches, some of the more timid—
or perhaps more cautious—are quietly
leaving Prophetstown until things as
mme a normal attitude.
BRIDGES TO HEAD
DOCKMEN’S UNION
LABOR ELECTS NATIONAL
FIGURE AS LEADER
SAN FRANCISCO, July 11 (TP)
'The International Longshoremens
Association announced tonight that
the labor leader, Harry L. Bridges,
has been elected president for the
Pac-fic coast district. Bridges bested
Cliff Thurston of Portland in the dsi
tfict balloting. The final count for
(he whole coast was: Bridges, 7,150
rotes; Thurston, 2.550.
The new I. L. A. president is an
Australian born ex-sailor. He went to
lea when he was 15. He is only 35
low. In addition to the presidency
)f the coast I. L. A., Bridges is presi
lenb of the San Francisco local, and
)f the San Francisco council of the
Maritime federation of the Pacific
toast.
Bridges has been a longshoreman
iver since he quit the sea in 1922.
He steered the waterfront strike which
Ater tied up all Pacific coast shipping
Vnd led Xo San Franciscos general
itrike in 1934. Although Bridges has
lob taken out his final citizmship pa
tors, officials say he can stay in
Ihe United States as long as he reg
iters with federal authorities once
(very seven years.
LABOR LEADERS DELAY
LONGSHOREMAN’S STRIKE
WASHINGTON, July 11 (TP).—
The labor department announced to
lay that a Longshoreman's Union
itrbce that would have tied up ship,
ping on the Atlantic coast from Wil
mington, N. C., to Pensacola, Fla.,
has been postponed for two weeks.
The strike had been called by the
International Longshoreman’s Union
ind was scheduled to start Monday.
The labor department explained
that the delay came as the result of
mediation efforts on the part of As
sistant Secretary of Labor, Edward
McGrady—the New Deal's ace labor
Arbiter,
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Granted a four months’ leave of absence so that he can de
vote his time to the Democratic presidential campaign, Postmas
ter General James A. Farley, left, wishes luck to the man who
will act in his stead, W. W. Howes, first assistant postmaster
general. Farley not only is national Democratic chairman, but
New York state Democratic chairman as well. —Central ?ress.
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A NEW IDEA!
BOSTON, July 11 (TP)—The
70-year-old elephant at FrankLn
Park zoo is developing a taste for
linament as a hot-weather drink.
The elephant is called Waddy.
Recently she contracted rheuma
tism in her right leg. Curator
Harkins has been trying to treat
it with linament. He puts on a
pint of the fiery stuff at one ap
plication.
Says Harkins: "But using lino
men t externally isn’t a success. As
soon as we rub it on, Waddy takes
it off with her trunk and then—
whoops! she sprays it into her
mouth.”
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RADIO DISPATCHES
DRAWS PROTESTS
WILL UNITED STATES AL
LOW SHORT WAVE
CENSORSHIP?
WASHINGTON, July 11 (TP)—
The State Department today refused
to say whether America would follow
the lead of Great Britain in protesting
an Italian ban on the use of legation
wave radio sets in Addis Ababa.
Marshal Rodolfo Graziani —Italian
Viceroy of Ethiopia—has ordered the
American, British, French, and Ger
man legations in the Ethiopian Capital
to keep their private radio stations
1 silent for 15 days. The British gov
ernment promptly protested the order.
The State Department however,
said it had no comment to make on
the general situation. American Min
ister Van Engert in Addis Ababa is
understood to be obeying the order.
It is believed the Italians issued the
ban because of reported Ethiopian
uprisings against their rule.
Diplomatic officials explain that
since America has not recognized
Italian domination over Ethiopia, a
formal protest would tavolve several
perplexing questions.
The order means that all messages
from Van Engert to Secretary Hull
can be censored by the Italian govern
ment. They will have to be transmit
ted by the Italian owned commercial
station at Addis Ababa.
During the Addis Ababa uprising
‘ the American radio station was the
only means of communication be
tween Washington and Ethiopia.
SEARCHERS SEEK BURIED TRIO
EXPL°SI°N CRUMBLES ALCOHOL WAREHOUSE; RESCU
r ERS HUNT FRANTICALLY FOR MISSING WORKERS.
• BALTIMORE, July 11 (TP).—The
terrific heat of the smouldering ruins
. of three Baltimore buildings tonight
i hampered searchers hunting for three
• missing persons whom they fear may
have been killed. A dozen persons
. were injured in the explosion and
• fire that wrecked the buildings late
J today.
1 The cause of the sudden explosion
has not been determined. The ware-
1 house of the company roared open
f and crumbled. Walls cracked and a
• shower of bricks and glass rained on
i the street crushing everything in its
r path. Persons in a building across
the street were thrown against the
PEACE EFFORTS
ARE FAILING IN
PROPOSED TRUCE
LEWIS AND GREEN CON
TINUE TO TAKE ADAM
ANT STANDS
WASHINGTON, July 11 (TP).—
Reliable reports from labor quarters
say that administration efforts to ef
fect a truce between warring fac
tions of the American Federation of
Labor have failed thus far.
At present the break between the
A. F. of L.’s executive council and
John Lewis’s committee for industrial
organization is as wide as ever. Both
groups are at odds over union or
ganization policies. The council met
four days this week to decide on
punitive action against Lewis’s group
for repeated defiance of A. F. of L.
orders.
Those seeking a compromise settle
ment were successful in delaying the
final council decision until next
Tuesday. In the meantime, the ad
ministration—tnrogh its ace labor
arbiter, Assistant Secretary of Labor
Edward McGrady—has tried to find
a compromise formula to bring the
two warring factions together.
The situation is so grave that last
night. McGrady held a midnight con
ference 'with President Roosevelt at
Union Station in Washington as the
executive was starting on his three
week vacation. Today McGrady con
tinued plugging ahead with his ef
forts. Numerous conferences, how
ever, have all failed to break the im
passe.
RAND FAILS IN
STRIKE BREACH
CINCINNATI, July 11 (TP)—Pres
ident James H. Rand, Jr., of the
Remington-Rand Company failed to
day in an effort to end the strike
at the company’s plant in Norwood,
O. The strike has resulted in out
breaks of violence. Similar strikes
have been in progress in Remington
Rand plants in other cities.
Rand is said to have offered to re
employ the Norwood strikers, but to
have refused to m°et with the heads
of ’.heir union. This offer was re
jested.
President Rand said the strikers
to’d him their wages were satisfac
tory, but that they would not consider
the settlement until the strikes were
se’t.’ed in all Remingon Rand plants.
walls by the force of the blast. Sheets
of flame followed the explosion and
spread to two adjoining buildings be
fore firemen could get the fire under
control. The three-story warehouse
which was used to store alcohol, was
completely destroyed. Manhole covers
were blown up out of the pavement.
One of the three mising persons is
a woman—the other two are men.
The woman is 22-year-old Augusta
Renner, an office worker in the
Webb building. Miss Renner’s fath
er, William Renner, joined in the
search tonight for his daughter and
other possible victims. It is feared
the three missing persons were
trapped by falling debris.
SAVANNAH. GA., SUNDAY, JULY 12, 1936
LONG TRIP FOR NEW ENACTMENT
BILL FOR PUNISHMENT OF WITNESSES TAKES 3,000
MILE JOURNEY TO SECURE FINAL SIGNATURES.
WASHINGTON. July 11 (TP)
There is one bill’ passed by the last (
session of Congress that had to take i
a 3,000-mile trip before it became
law. The measure strengthens the
procedure by which congressional
committees can punish witnesses who
refuse to appear or give testimony. It
was passed after Dr. Francis Town
send —head of the S2OO-A-Month Pen
sion Fund—defied the Bell Congresss
ional Committee.
Somehow however, capitol attaches
forgot to get Speaker Bankhead and
Vice-President Gamer to sign these
AUSTRIA BURIES
FEUDAL HATCHET
WITH GERMANY
MUCK REJOICING IN BOTH
COUNTRIES AS NEWS
ANNOUNCED
BERLIN, Germany, July 11 (TP)
Austria and Germany tore down hos
tile barriers tonight and paved the
way for a strong union.
The momentous reconciliation be
tween the two European nations was
proclaimed simultaneously in Berlin
and Vienna. The Austrian chancellor,
Schuschnigg, announced to his peo
ple that the time had come for Aus
trians and Germans to bury the
hatchet—not only for their welfare
but for the peace of Europe. In Ber
lin. the Nazi minister of propaganda,
Paul Goebbels, pledged that Germany
would respect Austrian independence.
Both government spokesmen were
heard in nation-wide broadcasts.
Chancellor Schuschnigg explained
that both nations pledged themselves
not to interfere with the domestic
policies of the other. Germany hence
forth will cease all attempts to foment
the Nazi movement in Austria. The
last bold attempt ended in the as
sassination of Chancellor Dollfuss of
Austria and the complete estrange
ment of the two German-speaking
countries.
Schuschnigg proclaimed tonight—
"We Austrians are Germans. We have
a German country.” So, said the
chancellor, Austrian Nazis will tak- 3
up their responsibilities in political
life as members of the sole Austrian
party—the patriotic front.
The Austrian government will pro
claim a general amnesty for all Nazi
prisoners. -Both governments planned
tonight’s action to lead to a solid al
liance. The existing peace pact does
not alter the previous pacts Austria
made with Hungary and Italy. These
nations had signed strong protocols
to protect Austrian independence.
The reconciliation of the pre-war
powers was regarded as a great con
tribution towards European peace, in
Paris, relief was expressed that the
old World war allies could not discuss
German rearmament without the
threat of a German military thrust
at Austria. However, grave doubts
were expounded by French diplomats
as to the future of the new alignment.
It was pointed out that the pact
might lead Germany to launch a tre
mendous economic drive on -Austria
which end up in the virtual submis
sion of Vienna to Berlin. London ob
servers noted that Premier Mussolini
must have had a hand in the new
arrangement. The threatening al
liance of Germany. Italy, and Austria
loomed darkly in lheir minds.
GEORGIA WOMAN
BRUTALLY BEATEN
NEAR DEATH FROM THE
EFFECTS OF BLOODY
STRUGGLE
(Special to Savannah Daily Times)
TOCCOA, Ga„ July 11.—Mrs. Jo
seph Herren, wife of a retired army
major, was found brutally beaten and
near death in' the rear of her Toc
coa Falls cottage shortly after noon
today.
Her husband found her when he
returned after a trip to town.
From the spot where the woman
was found a trail of blood led to a
flower bed in front of the modest
home where there were signs of a
struggle. A bloody mattock was
nearby.
Chief of Police W. H. Scott .said
she had probably been attacked while
working the flowers and then drag
ged to the rear of the home.
At the hospital here doctors said
her condition was very critical.
BOSTONSWEPT BY
SERIES OF STORMS
BOSTON July 11 (TP)—The fourth
electrical storm in little more than
48 hours swept down upon Boston
this morning.
The fourth storm broke over the
Merrimack Valley and assisted by a
cool breeze, moved over Boston, Essex
County and down the south shore.
Lightning struck in three places.
State police teletype service was again
disrupted.
The temperature in the hub at nine
as 70. The sky was overcast. The
weather man had little encourage
ment. The forecast is "fair today and
tomorrow, not much change in tem
perature.”
bills before the heads of both Houses
of Congress left town. Without their
signatures, the bill could not go co
the White House for President Roose
velt's approval.
A huge army transport plane was
pressed into service. The plane first
went to Birmingham where Speaker
Bankhead’s signature was secured.
Then the transport sped to Uvalden.
Texas, where Garner affixed his sig
natures. The bill was then hurried
to Washington and to the White
House —after a trip that totaled over
3,000 miles.
IL DUCE STATES
HARD FACTS TO
GREAT BRITAIN
MUSSOLINI THROWS DOWN
GAUNTLET TO ENG
LAND
ROME. July 11 (TP)—Premier
Mussolini threw down the gauntlet
to Great Britain tonight.
For all practical purposes, the Ital
ian Premier told Britain that Italy
could not take part in any further
international peace discussions until
Britain eased her grip on the Medit
erranean. Italy demands that Brit
ian’s naval pact with Mediterranean
powers be renounced. The pact was
signed at the height of tension be
tween the two nations during the
Ethiopian war.
Tonight Premier Mussolini sent
word to the Belgian Premier that
Italy might not attend the forthcom
ing Locarno conference. The Italian
note said: "Certain Mediterranean
obligations create an obstacle to par
ticipation in the conference."
Italy previously refused to attend
the conference so long as the British
fleet patrolled the Mediterranean. A
few days ago the fleet began to leave
the waters flanking Italy.
Italian officials said that Italy could
not talk peace arrangements with
Britain until the last vestige of anti-
Italian acts had died.
The Italian note to the Belgian
Premier Van Zeeland also suggested
that Germany be invited to the Locar
no conference. The meeting will
open at Brussels next Wednesday The
problems created by Germany’s de
nunclating of the Locarno Pact ana
the remilitarization of the Rhineland
will blaze again at the conference.
But without Italian attendance, the
meeting may collapse.
BRITAINTOKEEP
MASTERY OF SEAS
SO SAYS SIR SAMUEL
HOARE IN PRAISING
BALDWIN
SOUTHAMPTON, Eng., July 11
(TP) —The First Lord of the Admiral
ty, Sir Samuel Hoare, promised Eng
land today that Great Britain will
keep her mastery of the seas.
Sir Samuel first pointed out that
Britain depended for her very exist
ence on the strength of her battle
fleets.
He said: "If our sea communications
are cut by a foreign power, we only
have enough raw materials to last
three months, six weeks afterwards
we should all be dead of starvation.”
The First Lord declared it was,
therefore, a matter of life and death
that Britain should build her new
fleet upon the right lines. Sir Samuel
then assured Britons that the new
fleet would be “strong enough to go
anywhere and carry out its duties
under any conditions.”
Sir Samuel concluded with a tribute
to his friend and chief, Prime Minis
ter Baldwin. The First Lord declar
ed that Baldwin represents the forces
of security.
RACING PIGEON RETURNS
AFTER FOUR LONG YEARS
BRYANTVILLE, Mass., July 11
(TP).—A homing pigeon, released
in New York in September. 1932, is
cooing on its roost at Bryantville to
day.
The pigeon is owned by Albert Ran
dall. Four years ago Randall shipped
the bird along with several others to
Herkimer. N. Y., for a race. The
bird never returned. Randall figured
the pigeon had lost its bearings or
been killed by a storm. But today—
after four years, the homing pigeon
came home.
AIRPLANE CRASH KILLS
EXECUTIVE AND FRIEND
EAST ST. LOUIS, 111., July 11
(TP).—Two men were killed today
when their airplane crashed in a
field near East St. Louis.
They were Harvey A. Parks, broth
er of the president of an aviaiton
school, and Charles L. Parsons, vi
Harrison, Neb.
The cause of the crash is not
known. The plane was flying at an
altitude of several hundred feet. It
suddenly dropped into a nose dive
and crashed to the ground wita the
motor running full speed.
The fliers were killed instantly.
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AID F. D. R. IN DROUTH PLAN
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Rexfbrd Guy Tugwell Aubrey Williams
Rexford Guy Tugwell, left, under-secretary of agriculture
and administrator of the Resettlement Administration, and Au
brey Williams, right, assistant to Harry L. Hopkins, relief and
PWA chief, emerging from the White House in Washington fol
lowing a conference with President Roosevelt on the drouth,
stop to discuss certain phases of the President’s plan of relief.
At the conference President Roosevelt launched a vast program
for immediate cash relief of 204,000 farm families in the drouth
stricken area and disclosed he will go to the drouth region late
in August to review the effect of the relief program and to chart
plans for the future. —Central Press.
WEATHER MAN
SAYS NO RELIEF
HEAT SUFFERERS
NATIONS MILLIONS SEEK
_ NEAREST AIDS IN FREN
ZIED ESCAPE
WASHINGTON, D. C„ June 11
(TP) —The weather bureau warned a
sweltering nation today that there
would be no break in the heat for
several days.
Millions of people who have a week
end holiday are heading for bathing
beaches to escape the relentless sum.
In Chicago and New York so many
people took to the water that swim
ming was impossible. Most of the
bathers just stood in the cooling
waves.
Inland cities from the Rockies east
reported another day of temperatures
ranging from 85 degrees to well above
the 100 marU Boston, Mass., got a
cooling ran, but the mercury is ex
pected to jump skyward again.
The Ohio and Mississippi rivers,
that were swelled with Easter flood
waters only a few months ago, are
well under their normal water lines
today. Mississippi boats are loaded to
draw less than five feet of water in
upland channels.
Deaths from the oppressis? heat
are nearing 500. Prostrations number
in the thousands.
To the drought stricken farmer,
the warnings of continued dry weath
er meant a promise of even more de
struction. M.dwestern farmers already
have lost $300,000,000 in crops and
livestock.
Temperatures in cities throughout
the heat belt remained, generally, to
day at yesterday’s hihg levsM. The
mercury in virtually every sect.on of
the United States, from Montana to
the Atlantic and into the deep south,
has reached the highest levels in
weather bureau history.
ALABAMA FACES CRISIS
WITH PARALYSIS WAVE
MONTGOMERY, July 11 (TP).—
Alabama health authorities are using
every means in their power today to
stop the wave of infantile paralysis :
sweeping the state.
More than 105 cases havs been re
ported. mostly in the TVA section
near the Tennessee border. A half i
dozen youngsters died from the as- i
fliction. ]
PUBLIC SERVICE SETTLES ROW
GRASS-HOPPERS CAUSE LEGAL QUESTION WHEN ACTS
ARISE OUT OF RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION.
DENVER, Colo., July 11 (TP).—
The Public Service Company's legal
department is rejoicing tonight be
cause they avoided a row over grass
hoppers.
An indignant woman telephoned
the company to complain that the
hoppers hopped off their land into
her garden. After eating their fill of
vegetables and flowers, she said, the
hoppers hopped back to the Public
Service land.
The company denied responsibility
A GOD SEND
SCOTTS BLUFF, Neb., July 11
(TP) —The first general rains in
more than a mont hare reported
sweeping the farming district be
tween Cheyenne, Wyo., and Scotts
Bluff, Neb., tonight. The weather
bureau forecasts further down
pours.
Farmers hope the rain will save
the sugar beet crop as well as the
rain harvest.
ROOSEVELT OPENS
TRI-BOROUGH SPAN
IN SIMPLE RITES
$60,000,000 BRIDGE FORMAL
LY DEDICATED BY
HIGH OFFICIALS
NEW YORK, July 11 (TP)—Presi
dent Roosevelt, New York’s governor
Lehman and a hGdc of other public
officials stood in a blazing sun this
afternoon and dedicated one of the
New Deal’s greatest public works
They opened the $60,000 000 Tri
borough bridge, which links the New
York city boroughs of Manhattan,
Queens and the Bronx.
Both President Roosevelt and New
York's Mayor LaGuardia cited the
bridge as a symbol of two elements
in the New Deal philosophy. First,
they said, it typifies the need for mod
em changes to meet the more com
plex modern needs of life. Second, it
symbolizes the efforts to provide con
structive work to unemployed men
whowere victims of a great economic
collapse.
Public Works Administrator Ickes
told the crowd that the bridge bears
testimony to ulhat can result from a
"partnership between the nation, the
states and the municipalities.”
Ickes turned to President Roosevelt
and said:
“Mr. President, it is my pleasure to
report that this great project has been
built not only well, but hones-iy and
efficiently.”
The president told how his grand
father once owned a farm not far
from the bridge. The structure was
not dreamed of then, he said, but lb
has become essential to the more com
plex life of the people tod>ty.
“And as the life of the people be
came more complex,” the president 1
added, "government also has new and
more complex concerns.”
-for the hoppers. However, they sent
investigators to look into the case.
The investigators reported that the
hoppers were riding to the woman's
property on cars operated by an in- <
terurban railway. The injects hopped
off the trains when they saw the i
gardens and swarmed over'to eat like <
a crowd of hungry tramps.
So the Public Service officials got
in touch with the woman again <
They told her she'd have to take the i
hopper question up with the railway 1
company. j
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BITTER ATTACK
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GUBERNATORIAL CANDL
DATE OPENS FORMAL
CAMPAIGN
(Special to Savannah Daily Times)
WASHINGTON, Ga., July 11.—
Judge Blanton Fortson, of Athens,
returned to the scenes of his boy
hood here today to open his cam
paign for governor. . ' ’
Speaking before a goodly crowd of
enthusiastic supporters, the nominee
of the Weltner convention said his
was the only platform among the
candidates for governor which was
in full accord with the Roosevelt ad
ministration.
Without calling any names. Judge
Fortson lashed out at two of his op
ponents of “the man at Mcßae.”
Charles D. Redwine. Judge Fortson
said, "the candidate named by our
governor said in the three mmiites
allotted him at Mcßae that he stands
for the policies of the man who put
him in the race. Ths means, I take
it. that he is inaitemably opposed not
only to the policies of the Roosevelt
administration, but to the platform
upon which I stand, for it stands
squarely upon the president's poll
cies-” • ” .
Referring to the “man at Gaines
ville.” Speaker E. D. Rivers, Judge
Fortson said:
“He promises to give the people of
Georgia every conceivable blessing
except good weather, while at the
same time advocating measures,
which will reduce the public revenue
by some 20 to 30 million dollars."
Judge Fortson pledged hincself tb'
support the platform adopted by the
Weltner convention which nominat
ed him at Macon, and said he was
opposed to adoption of the 15 mill
tax limitation amendment to the
‘state constitution.
DROUGHT RAISES
FOOD PRICES IN
’ LARGE CENTERS
EXPERTS EXPECT A NEW
HIGH IN COST OF
COMMODITIES
NEW YORK, July 11 (TP)—The
withering drought and heat wave are
playing havoc with America's fp7d --
crop. Wholesale prices of some
stuffs have advanced as much as 50
per cent and experts say the end is
not in sight.
With the possible exception of rice
and pears, every important item on
the nation’s food list has been seri
ously damaged. Wheat is estimated
to be at least 225 million bushels be
low the five-year average. Corn, oats
rye and barley are far below the;
average yield. Potatoes, apples, swee
potatoes and beans have been badl;
damaged. Grapes are drying up and
dropping from the vines, with the
probability that the yield will be hun-,
dreds of thousands of tons short
Peaches have been so badly damage*
that the crop is expected to be «
least three million bushels shor-
Tomatoes and many other g f dr
crops are burned to a crisp,
canners anticipate the smallest
in several years.
A general advance in food prices
is considered inevitable by officials Os
the national industrial conference
board. No attempt is made to esti
mate just how much more food will
cost this winter, but authorities agree
ton ght that all time highs may be
reached by many staple foods,
SCHOONER WAITS
FOR ROOSEVELT
DARK HARBOR Me., July 11
<TP) —A 56-foot schooner named the
“Sewanna”, is at anchor off this
Maine town today, awaiting arrival
of a famous passenger, President ’
Franklin D. Rcosevelt.
The President's three sons are \
aboard. They bioughu the Sewanna
up the New England coast from Forts
mouth and are standing by for their
father's arrival, expected on Tuesday
or early Wednesday morning.
When the President and his party >
climb on deck, the Sewanna will be
cast off for a leisurely cruli* along ■
the Maine shoreline. The Roosevelts
nave a family home, at Campobello
Island, in an area which is famous
for summer vacationers.
CANADA SUFFERS””
INTENSELY FROM
EXTREME HEAT
TORONTO, Ont., July H (TP).
Canada counted 50 deaths today in
the heat wave which is sweeping the 3
dominion’s eastern and central prov
inces. The bake-oven temperatures
continued without let-up and with
end Promise of relief over week*
n O Tin e ercU x ry at Toronto climbed (
a o ain tocay to 100. Crop and fores« V
is running into many roil. 3*
on. of dollars. So intenss is ths |
hat tnat industrial activity
come to a virtual standstill. Faitaiß
worker re C L osed ln many cities
workers showed signs of collama
from the high temperatures.