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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1935
Page
2
Brisbane column surveys international tensions Italy and Abyssinia, U.S. policy views on Africa, and domestic crime fighting in New York led by Mayor LaGuardia. It weighs Roosevelt relief spending and British finance, plus social glimpses from Fort George Wright to church prayers for peace. The piece blends opinion on war, immigration shifts, and reform rhetoric.
Benito Mussolini addressed 15 000 Black Shirt volunteers and the world stating a government and people will not back down in Ethiopia. He warned Emperor Haile Selassie to bow to the Duce or war will begin after the rainy season ends. Allies advised evacuations as Scheveningen talks falter with Ethiopia asserting borders in Yalnal.
In Cleveland Ohio a second grass roots Republican convention convened with six states Michigan Ohio Pennsylvania West Virginia Kentucky Tennessee represented. George H. Bender of Ohio chaired and urged reviving party interest as resolutions denounced the New Deal and defended constitutional free institutions. Old guard fears of losing influence simmer beneath the enthusiasm. The Pennsylvania delegation included many of the state's old guard.
The legislature approved 25 bills to curb local political patronage and bolster Senator Huey Long's control. He now holds tools to challenge Mayor T Semmes Walmsley of New Orleans and his supporters.
The Army reports the death of Maj. Gen. Stuart Heintzelman at the Army and Navy Hospital in Hot Springs Arkansas. A West Point graduate of 1890 he served in the Philippines and China and served as an observer in France during World War I. He earned the D S M and was decorated by France and Italy. He headed federal reclamation projects in Missouri for the CCC before taking command of the Seventh Corps Area at Omaha last February.
A Chicago conference forms the American Common Wealth Political Federation with officers including Thomas R. Amlie and Alfred Bingham. The group aims for a 1936 convention to create a new party, endorsing relief labor wages and a wealth tax while opposing war. Vito Marcantonio withdraws from the effort amid protests over communist exclusion. F. George faces divorce, Elizabeth of Hohenzollern, and rumors of a remarriage and new model farm venture.
A committee report on the LDERMANIC relief inquiry in New York city urges paying relief workers less than private industry. It seeks prosecution of alleged 24,000,000 year relief fraud and halting out of town executives carpetbagging. Weekly single allowances average 7.45 dollars, up to 19.40 for a nine person family. About 1,400,000 people are on relief.
Charles H. Sabin Jr leads the Committee of Americans to back a federal sales tax and abolition of nuisance taxes. He aims to present a million-name petition to the President and Congress, with wealthiest families represented but denied as a wealth lobby. John D. Rockefeller I V celebrates his 96th birthday quietly at his Lakewood estate as health improves.
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace announced the creation of an AAA adjustment program for the 1985 rye crop with forthcoming benefit payments. Representatives from 16 rye growing states met in Washington to discuss the program and plan its operation.
Hugh Johnson assumes the federal works relief administrator role for New York City. He complains to reporters that the program is failing to help and fears jobs will disappear when funds run out, leaving the city back to square one.
Washington discusses the rise of the national debt from 1916 to 1935, noting a public debt of about 28.8 billion and a 3.5 billion annual deficit. The piece contrasts Hoover and Roosevelt eras, questions fiscal sustainability, and reports on calls for lobbyist investigations and senate activity. It also includes a science note on noise and ultrasound dangers.
In a Boston Sunday Globe piece Uncle Dudley argues that modern graduates must become social pioneers to reorganize the nation. He notes the frontier now lies in addressing urgent societal problems through workable reforms led by educated youth.
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