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NEW TREATY WITH
CUBA IS PROCLAIMED
SLASHES TARIFFS
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PRKHIDKNT PROCLAIMS NKW"
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TRKATV WITH (XHA
(By The Associated Press'
WASHINGTON. Aug. 25, Presl- j
dent Roosevelt last Friday night j
^proclaimed tk.*. new Cuban-Amerl-1
cau trade treaty, designed to stiin !
ulate shrunken commercial liusi-,
ness between the two countries. I
by knocking, holes in the- tariff
walls of both nations.
Recoprocal pgrepments specie
ally called for knocking down
high American tariffs to permit
the easier entrance of Cuban j
sugar, rum, tobacco, and winter)
vegetables to the United States.
On Cuba's part, she is to slash
ber duties to facilitate tile sale
there of American lard, wheat.
flour and other agricultural pro
ducts, in addition to automobile*
and scores of manufactured art
icles, which the state department
already has under negotiations
for plans to initiate a revival of |
American trade. |
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SAVS UNITED STATES IS
FREE FROM RED MENACE
(By The Associated Press)
CHICAGO. Aug. 25. This coun
try is free ofany “Red Menace."
said Representative Carl Weide
man. democrat front Detroit, *n
conclusion of a co igressional ’n
"estlga.ii n in relation to “suhver
evt- conditions.” He do’-arel
that ihc foes of Kr. terelt w
responsible for “the how! ’ j : ut
com mu' ism.” I
WINDS DYING DOWN FIRES '
MAY BE CONTROLLED
(By The Associated Press)
SPOKpVtNE. f Aug. 25. Forest
fires situations are better today
with the abating of the winds.
Foresters however are still wor
ried about the tpwn of Avery and
fires in one or two other pointH.
TEMPERATURES (SUSTAIN
GREAT DROP HIGH
TO LOW
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(By The Associated Press)
UNDATED, Aug. 25, With the I
perspiration from the record break
ing heat wave hardly dried on
their brows, farmers in the mid- I
west today shivered in frost-nipp
ed fields. Prophets saw a long,
severe winter ahead in the sudden j
plunge of the temperature. Re
cords fell as the thermometer
went to twenty-efgth in North Dak
ot«. Many other readings were
made from that point to fifty
six in* the middle west.
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BODY OF MAN IS
FOUND DISMEMBERED
IN NEW YORK
BODY DISMEMBERED MAN
IS IDENTIFIED
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(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Au*. 25, The body
of the man found in a trunk In
the aresway of General Louis
Stotesbury’s home, was identified
today thru his fingerprints as Ber
nard McMahon, aged forty-one, an
ex-convict. Both of his legs were
amputated above the knees.
MRS. SINCLAIR LKWIS IS
ASKED LEAVE GERMANY
(By The Associated Press)
BERLIN, Aug. 26, Mre. Sin
clair Lewis, who writes under the
name of Dorothy Thompson was
ordered by the secert police to
leave Germany within twenty-four
hours, because of her alleged hos
tile attitude toward the country.
She recently wrote magazine art
icles about Hitler and Germany.
NRA WILL BE
CHANGED QUICK
COMPLETING ARRANGEMENTS
WITH JOHNSON ABOUT NBA
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(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. Aug. 25. Presi
dent Roosevelt arranged todav
with Johnson for a quick reorgan
ization of the National Recovery
Administration, under a board with
the present administrator to re
main in the new set-up.
Plans for tlie reorganization of
the NRA withia the ngxt tw;o
weeks, were made the subject of
a lengthy conference between the
two. at the White House. John
son gaid he did not know' whe
ther he' would be itbe new chair
man of the proposed board, but
he d'd state that he would be on
the board.
STOCKS MOVE HK1H lit
9
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(By The Associate 1 Press)
NEW YORK. Aug. 25 As an
early indication of winter, hesi
tancy of< stocks moved higher in a
less active trading session today.
Packing issues and other special^
ex-convict. Both of the legs were
and Utilities improved. The close
was firm. Sales were six hun
dred and fifty thousand.
COULDN’T BLUFF HIM BY
NON-UNION SYMPATHIZERS
(By The Associated Press)
MARION, Ohio, Aug. 25. Clubb
ed and spirited out o-f town uy
non-union sympathizers, Akev
O'Dell returned to this strike
ridden village a few hours later
and armed himself with a pistol.
He then dared any person to come
and take him from his front
porch, O’Dell Is the leader of a
large group of agricultural work
ers. He had a lai(ge gash in Ills
face.
QUEEN NETHERLANDS ILL
(By The Associated Press)
ASOAARDSG-RAND. Norway,
fcug. 25, The condition of Queen
Wilhelmln? of the Netherlands
who has been ill for past five
lays, today became slightly worse
She has been on a tour of Nor
way.
ANOTHER TRUCK HOLDUP
(By The Associated Press)
BUTLER, Pa., Aug. 25..Three
gunmen held up an unarmed
mail truck driver and escaped
with a fifty thousand dollar pay
roll. A plane which circled over
head was believed to have picked
up the robbers.
PRESIDENTIAL OUTLOOK
RECORDS SETTER SUSINESS
CONDITIONS IN AMERICA
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PKKSlDKNT SAYS AMKRHAV
Bl’SIXKSS BOOKS BFTTKR
< B.v The Associated pre^s)
W ASHINGTON, Aug. 25. “ Presi
dent Roosevelt says he believes
American business on a whole
looks (Iromising, declaring that
conditions appear to be better
itha-n he expected. He also took,
the occasion to reassure the. spec
ific branch o.f the department or
commerce merchant marine. Tiiis
was by way of a reply to critics
regarding the recent pronounce
ment by Secretary Wallace in
which he questioned whether a
further extension of subsidies
would be a good thing.
The President said since ar
ri-ving back from his trip, that In
had received reports from banks.
indostrits and transporation busi
nesses that these had shaped up
better than he expected.
Secretary Wallace’s- statement
raised a storm of protest when
he suggested .that if other coun
tries were given more chance at
transporting American ocean-borne
commerce, they would have more
pioney to- buy American goods.
Both the President and Wal
lace agreed that while this was
an economic problem, which must
be weighed, there were other
factors such as national defense
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to be included in the considera
tion.
SAYS TURN FOR BKTTKK ’
IN .MANY BUSIN KSSSKS
' Dy The Assoefatad Frui)
NBVV YORK, Aug. 25, 111 many
!.• *
divisions of business said Dun
Bradstreet Review, there lias been
a decided turn for the -better this
week. . '
In addition "There has been a
strong revival of sentiment re
V
garding a more vigorous* expan
sion of fall business, more than
appeared to tie the prospect a •*
month ago. Farming districts are
in a more cheerful mood over the
outcome. Harvesting is now In
full swing and is running ahead
of quotas set early in the summer
due to tile results in the drought
stricken stales.
WAS SIGNS KK4 OG.MZKI) BY
Ml'SSOMN'l OK ITALY
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(By The Associated Press)
ROME, Auk. 2 5. “The idea of
Was is floating in the air of Eu
rope," Mussolini told five thousand
officers as he said it behooves Italy
to become a military and even
Warlike nation.
‘ XA one wants war he said in an
address at the A.oiose of Italian
army maneuvers, but the thought
of it is all around us. It is not
necessary to be ready for war to
a.
( m hi
morrow, but for war today, he
, • ,
said.
ST. PA IT, ttIRfj IMPI.U'ATKI)
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(By The Associated Press)
ST. PAl Ij, Aug. 25. A pretty
St. Paul girl, name withheld, was
seen with Vanmeter several times.
She was placed under arrest. The
girl lives only two blocks from
where he was shot. " He may "tvare
.been on the way to her home'
iwhen killed.
lltlOT l\ STATE 1‘RISON
j KANII.V Ql'EIXKII
( by The Associated Press)
('OJ.LEGKVIM.E. Po„ Aug. 25,
About two. hundred convicts riot
ed at the new East “in state ori
son at (irate,ford. - last night, start
ing severa I tires, which destroy
ed one smaller structure Inside
the walls. State troopers arrived
r - ‘ •
in riot helmets carrying shot
guns. Peace soon followed. Only
a few were injured and no ona
was killed.
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AMERICAN LIBERTY LEAGUE
RECEIVED AS CHALLENGE
f BY DEM. ADMINISTATION
PRESIDENT ACCEPTS LIBERTY
LEAGUE AS CHALLENGE
AND ANSWERS
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Aug, 25, Presi
dent Roosevelt accepted the form
ation of the American Liberty
League as an Invitation to do
battle, late Friday night. It an
nounced two purposes he said to
newspaper men are axiomatic of
American principles subscribed to
by the entire citizenry, but, he
added, figuratively, the organiza
tion should not be for one or two
of the ten commandments. It
should go “whole hog or none."
He cited the4 two command
ments "Love thy God and love
thy neighbor.” Laughingly he re
called that a friend of his bad
Bald with a ribald sense of hu
mor, while commenting on the
new League “Love thy Ood and
ignora thy neighbor.”
The President emphasized and
agreed that the League’s aim was
to protect Individual property*
rights, but added that the gov
ernment has an even added res
ponsibility such as protecting all
the elements of a community
against those ^ho would meek try
enrich themselves at the expense
of others.*
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