The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 12, 1937, Page 1

Telephone 2200 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1878 BISMARCK, N. D., THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1937 The Weather Partly cloudy tonight and Friday; not much PRICE FIVE CENTS change in temp. enator Black Named to Cour 9 Killed as RESCUERS SEARCH ROUGH WRECKAGE OR MORE BODIES hree More Missing; Four Fight for Lives in Staten Island Hospital UILDINGS CRUMBLE IN RAIN 'ragedy Described as ‘Worst in Years’; Most Victims Said Killed Outright New York, Aug. 12.—(7)—At least 19 prsons were crushed to death in their eep early Thursday, amid a smoth- c ing avalanche of bricks and debris, hen three Staten Island tenement dings collapsed during a violent inst 6 Tons of water, roaring down from mn overflowing storm sewer about dnight, struck the ancient brick yellings and ripped them asunder. Rescue squads of police and fire- jen pulled at the tangled wreckage x additional victims. ‘Three persons were still missing. pur others, who escaped from the ttered structures, were taken to Staten Island hospital with serious Yuries. Patrolman Joseph McBreen of hergency squad No. 10, the first uer on the scene, died a hero, He nged into one of the buildings after e first structure collapsed. Search- squads found him later, buried in wreckage. In his arms, with her curled tightly around his neck, the body of 4-year-old Virginia Swept Metropolitan Area e disaster struck at the height of | thunder and electrical storm that pt the metropolitan area and Long ind, in which four other persons ‘killed by lightning or were olice Commissioner Lewis J. Val- ine, directing the rescue work, ied the tragedy “the worst of its id in years.” he trapped victims were crushed d then buried beneath wreckage in 30-foot cellar filled with muddy iter. Most of them apparently ver knew what struck them, being d outright. Btaten Island, the scene of the dis- r, lies five miles from The Battery, lower tip of Manhattan, in lower y York harbor. It is 14 miles long d nearly seven miles wide at its Hest place, with 160,000 residents, y of them commuters who work New York. The tragedy occurred ectly across the Kill Van Kull, a ow strip of water, from Bayonne, Not One Board Intact he three buildings, erected nearly Bf a century ago, were hit by a foam- torrent rushing down a steep hill- from a storm sewer. They were led as if struck by a tornado or explosion. Not a board stood t. feighbors said the houses collapsed jout warning, One minute there s only the steady din of rain pour- from black skies. Then came & ‘ific roar as the first two struc- crashed, nds of residents rushed to B scene, creating such chaos that ice fought to hold them back. Two sts stood with the rescue workers he Rev. Edward Gobin of St. Peter's h and the Rev. Edward Jordan Sacred Heart church. They ad- Inistered last rites to victims brought ym the death-trap still breathing. wo of the victims, Mr. and Mrs. ph Coral, of Staten Island, were iting friends in one of the buildings, iting for the rain to let up so they hid go home, when the structure mt down with a roar. Police, Firemen to Rescue Rescue squads comprising 350 po- e and firemen, worked feverishly picks and shovels throughout the ht. A searchlight, brought from nhattan, glared on the wreckage. he dead: Mrs, Virginia Budnick, 28, her son, jomas, 2, and two daughters, Helen, and Virginia, 4. Melvin L, Decker, 35. ineis Carsten, 16. ouis Coral, a month, lary Peterson, 44, “and her daugh- Louise. ony Pizypelski, 22. ohn Stokes, 72. Patrolman Joseph J. McBreen. Silva, 25, and Mary Louise, 40. District Attorney Frank H. Innes, Preliminary investigation de- ty if ‘facts are revealed indicating may have been criminal neg- nce, the case will be put before grand jury.” oincidently, dings, but after going over one the buildings which collapsed jursday pronounced it safe. inted Henry Longwort! d superintendent of buildings. was the work of elements beyond Atrol. Few buildings could with- ter like that.” Man Arrested As Vagrant Claims He Was Kidnaper Hearing Reveals Relief Story Told in Court Emphasizes Problem Non-residents Offer County By GEORGE MOSES The complicated problem that re- lief is—its human tragedy, its legal complexity and its burden—is now being emphasized by the removal pro- eedings against non-resident in- digent families in Burleigh county. The’ proceedings have not been brought because of the inhumanity of any person or persons but because the force of circumstances and a bet- ter economic condition here than in other counties and other states in the past few years have brought many here in the vain hope of obtaining work—an influx of jobless who have increased the taxpayers’ burden to the breaking point. There never were enough jobs in city or county to take care of all the longtime residents of the county, let alone furnish employment suf- ficient to care for the jobless of other areas, The problem was spotlighted Tues- day as Judge Fred Jansonius listened to the county’s story and a family’s story in the district court ghambers at the courthouse, Three in Family She was tall, slender, and erect, with bright red hair that 62 years have failed to whiten. Her husband, 57, is a helpless par- alytic. His mother, who is 81, lives with them. She worked in a shop for $9 a week vntil her husband suffered the stroke which forced her to give up-her job.: Now she stays home to take care of him and of her aged mother-in-law. Burleigh county, fearing that they will become public charges, wants to send them back to the state of their legal residence—to the state from which they came to Bismarck seven months ago, She stood before Judge Jansonius and told why they didn’t want to go. ‘They have actually taken relief only once during the seven months they have been here—and that, she says, @ $3 grocery order, was thrust upon |7 them. “We don’t want relief.” How did they live? * Been Working at Home She had worked in a shop for $9 a week, she reminded the judge. Since her husband’s illness kept her home, she had been making. knick-knacl selling them, and doing sewing. They lived in a rent-free house— a house owned by her sister, who lives south of Bismarck. “We haven't asked for relief, and we won't have to.” Why did they want to stay in Bis- marck? The climate of the state from which they came was not as healthy for any of them as was the climate of North Dakota. Her sister and her friends lived in Bismarck, and there was the uncertainty of getting relief if they were sent back. On the judge’s bench as she spoke was @ letter from welfare authori- ties in the county where they had lived before coming to Bismarck. The letter, sent in answer to s query by Burleigh county authorities, vouched that the three were quali- fied residents of that county and said they would be cared for if Burleigh county paid their transportation back. May Lose Residence But they must return by next Jan- uary, @ year from the time they left, or they will have lost their residence there. If they can live here a year without relief they will be residents of Bur- leigh: county. To drouth-stricken, debt-ridden Burleigh county, the family repre: sents a potential cost of at least $5,000 —probably several thousand dollars more. ‘There are other families like it who ave come here within the ‘ast few years. Most of them have come seek- ing work in the Capital City, failed to find it, and became county charges. For some of these fs Burleigh county has residence agreéments—by which the county from which they came agrees to pay Burleigh county for their livelihood here. For others it has not. It has none for this family. The Grand Forks Police Probe Death of Man Grand Forks, N. D., Aug. 12.—(7)— Authorities continued an investigation today into the death of an unidenti- fied man, whose body was found Wed- nesday in the Great Northern railroad yards. An investigation by a coroner’s jury yesterday failed to bring out any additional facts regarding the Kents of the man or the manner of his death. Tragedies G.N.D. A: BOARD HITS AT POLITICAL PLAY IN ROAD TROUBLES Takes Steps to Get Release of Federal Funds After Meet- ing With Langer Jamestown, N. D., Aug. 12—(P)}— The board of directors of the Greater North Dakota association, conferring with Gov. William Langer, Wednes- day sifted controversial features of the present highway problems in the state and adopted a program of pro- cedure which, it is hoped, will result in the release of federal funds for highway projects. The board of the state body held, among other things, that: Charges of politics, now being hurled back and forth from Washington and Bismarck, must be terminated in the interests of the 700,000 residents of this state, and the present investment of $125,000,000 in the highway system of this state. Present or future highway com- Ree He roads jointly owe it to-the state to specifically name personnel which is unsatisfactory, per- mitting their discharge by the com- missioner. Governor Langer authorized the committee on his behalf to examine factual data now in the hands of the bureau, to which reference was made Ee recent correspondence by Chief MacDonald. H. Finding it necessary to raise further funds for its highway department the state mapped out a program which included refunds for gasoline not used in motor vehicles on the highways. being limited to $500,000. The pro- gram also called fer the issuance of gas tax debentures comprising a lien ks, against future gas tax collections, to be retired largely from maintenance savings. SEEK RELATIVES OF TRINKET SALESMAN Itinerant Killed on Road Near Cando When Car Pass Over Prone Figure Cando, N.'D., Aug. 12.—()—Autho- rities ‘Thursday were still seeking relatives of Sohn O’Brien, itinerant trinket salesman who died in @ Cando hospital early Tuesday morning after being run over on the highway near Egeland Monday night . N. D. Traffic Toll Reconstructing the accident, offi- cials believe O’Brien, who they said believed to have been overcome by the liquor and laid down on the road. Tony Weiss, farmer near Egeland, returning to his farm from town, O'Brien was brought to Cando short- ly before midnight and died the fol- lowing morning at 6 o'clock of a crushed chest. :|7 Laborers Strike On Highway Project Fargo, N. D., Aug. 12—(#)—Seven laborers employed by the state high- way department on culvert and ditch- work on U. 8. highway No. 81 between Fargo and Harwood went on strike Thursday, tying up the project. Officials of local 116, General Driv- ers union, called off the men. ‘The laborers have been drawing 35 cents an hour, working 10.hours a day and six days a week. Although the strikers have made no specific wage demands, J. J. Callahan, secretary of the local, informed highway depart- ment officials that the union scale for common labor is 65 cents an hour, Lemmon, S. D., Police Pick Flaws in Story That He Stole Mattson Child Lemmon, 8. D., Aug. 12—()}—Quoted by Chief of Police Pat Jones as hav- ing said he participated in the kid- naping and slaying of Charles Matt- son at Tacoma, Wash., last. Decem- ber, a man who gave his name as Floyd Hutchinson of Alliance, Neb., ‘Thursday faced questioning by fed- eral investigators. Although Hutchinson was quoted by Jones as declaring, “I'll go crazy unless I can get someone tot believe me,” investigators were prompt to Pick flaws in his story. According to Jones, Hutchinson, taken into custody here late Wed- nesday on a vagrancy charge, insisted he and a companion visited Dr. W. W: Mattson, father of the kidnaped boy, at his Tacoma office last December to obtain narcotics. A few days later, Hutchinson told Jones, they abducted the boy, took him to Everett, Wash., and tried to collect ransom. Failing, Hutchinson said, the other man stabbed the boy, threw dirt and leaves over his body, and left him. Federal investigators at Seattle were skeptical of the story, pointing out that when the Mattson boy’s body was found there were neither leaves nor dirt on it. , Dr. Mattson added to the skep- ticism by asserting he did not recall any pair of men asking him for nar- cotics during December. He said he believed the story “another publicity attempt.” At Alliance, Police Chief ©. A. Laing said Hutchinson was “pecu- Har,” and that he had been arrested in several places on charges of vagrancy and intoxication, He added Hutchinson had previously told au- thorities he was wanted by Alliance police for crimes he was not charged Chief Jones, following his ques- tioning of Hutchinson Wednesday night, said: he-had-no- assurance: the: nae story was true, but added “he seems to about it to be worth checking.” He said the transient bore a close resemblance to descriptions of the man ies in connection with the kidnaping. MAYER SERVICES 10 BE HELD ON FRIDAY Stroke Early Wednesday Morn- ing Was Fatal to Former Bismack Hotel Man Grand Forks, N. D., Aug. 12—()— Funeral services for Ralph Mayer, 59 years old, manager of the Frederick hotel here, who died early Wednes- day after suffering a stroke peonsay, have been set Friday at 2 p. m., the Pierce funeral parlors. Rev. M. W. Weinands of Holmes, N. D., a lifelong friend of Mr. Mayer, will officiate. The body will le in state at the funeral parlors from 4 to 9 p. m. Thursday. Burial will be in Memorial Park cemetery. Mayer was one of the most widely known hotel men in North Dakota, having been connected with that busi- ness for 30 years. He hag operated the Sevilla, Great Northern and Mayer hotels at Devils Lake and the Patterson at Bismarck before coming to Grand Forks four CENTRAL CHINESE TROOPS CONVERGE TOWARDS SHANGHAI Fear Expressed Wealthy City May Be Doomed to Same Fate as in 1932 JAPS RUSH TROOPS TO ZONE Major Battle Beirg Fought Along Great Wall in North Nankow Province (By the Associated Press) Fast moving developments increased tension in the embattled Far East to a new point Thursday as the Japanese armies struck heavily at Chinese po- sitions along the Great Wall near the {city of Nankow and troops of the Central Chinese army poured rein- forcements into Shanghai. In Shanghai, the Chinese Central army struck against the threat of attack from Japanese warships lining the wharves of the greatest commer- cial port of China, Troops of the central government poured into the Shanghai danger zone by every railroad and highway to as- sert China’s mastery over the area which Japanese warplanes devastated ‘n_an undeclared war in 1932. Ranks of Japanese bluejackets moved into battle position in Shang- hai to face Chinese regulars and the garrisons of the United States and three other nations mobilized “for the worst.” A “peace” conference intended to ease the crisis in the panic-stricken city ended in failure. Backed by 21 warships at Shang- hai’s wharves, Japanese naval forces, estimated to number between 5,000 and 8,000, moved into the same posi- tions they occupied during 1932's Chinese-Japanese hostilities, ‘The tension which had been whipped. to fever heat throughout a day of ramatic developments was further at dusk Rildpeckseeaeal reports that two Japanese army trans: ports were steaming at full speed from the island empire, carrying all the troops that could be crowded aboard to bolster the Japanese garrison in troops blocked off virtually the entire country around Shanghai and iso- lated hundreds of American and other foreign families in the war years ago. Born in Freeport, Ill., he was first associated with the hotel business in North Dakota when he came to Devils Lake to manage the Sevilla hotel. When the Great Northern hotel was opened there in 1911, he was mana- ger of it. He later operated the hotel there named after him. In 1931, he: went to Bismarck as manager of the Patterson hotel, re- maining there two years. He came here in April of 1933 to take over the management of the Frederick. In adition to his wife, he is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Lew Devener of Fargo, Iraq High Officials Reported Murdered Jerusalem, Aug. 12.—(?)—Reports from Bagdad said Thursday that Maj. Gen. Bekr Sidki Pasha, Iraq] ve, minister of defense, and Col. Mo- hamed Ali Jawad, chief of Iraq's air force, had been asassinated. ‘The reports said a soldier shot the two men at the Mosul airport at sun- set Wednesday. Mosul is 220 miles northwest of Bagdad. (The kingdom of Iraq — Mesopo- tamia—formerly was a part of Tur- key but now is an independent state. It borders Syria on the southeast, em- braces an area of 116,600 square miles. King Ghazi is its ruler). An official announcement, issued later at Bagdad, said the soldier fired many bullets into the minister and that Col. Jawad was killed when he tried to save his chieftain’s life: The assassin was seized and the au- thorities were trying to find out why he did it. SPANISH PRINCESS MARRIED Lausanne, Switzerland, Aug. 12—(?) —Princess Dolores of Bourbon, daugh- ter of the Infante Carlos of Spain, was married Thursday in a civil cere- mony to Prince Auguste Czartoryski of Lithuania. danger zone. Both foreign and Chinese sources confirmed that great numbers of Chi- nese soldiers, with full equipment for war, were choking the highways and railways, advancing on the city from Hangchow, Soochow, Wushih and other points in the interior. The entire area outside the foreign settlement and the French conces- sion was reported alive with Chinese troops, from the Shanghai-Hangchow railway on the south to the Yangtze river to the north, Japanese marines, reinforced by in! 2.000 bluejackets rushed down the Yangtze from Hankow and from Ja- pan proper aboard the warships which arrived in Shanghai Wednesday, were drilling in the Japanese area and on the wharves. Americans Flee American residents outside the for- eign settlement fled to safety within the settlement after an urgent warn- ing issued by the American consul general, Hundreds of them, however, were cut off by the suddenness of the Chinese advance. This was said to be led by the 87th and 88th Nanking divisions. Americans to the north of Shang- hal, in particular, were cut off from the city and were in the center of the present danger zone. American women and children were caught within the barricades of Kiang-Wan village on the northern outskirts. Foreign observers expressed fear Shanghai would see a repetition of the undeclared: war of 1932 between China and Japan in which hundreds of thousands of persons were slain and hundreds of millions of dollars of property damage was done. According to foreign. estimates 24 Japanese warships are now swinging at anchor either off Shanghai proper or under the guns of the Woosung forts at the confluence of the Whang- poo and Waneae zivere noe or her: Roadways Choked ‘The Chinese population was in full flight, choking the roadways and omg for places on all outgoing Lr rep battle was being fought 40 miles northwest of Peiping Thurs- day as the Japanese army counter- attacked in force to drive the Chinese 89th division out of its strongly-forti- fled positions along the Great Wall. Just before dawn the Japanese Suzuki brigade, the advance guard of the reinforced Japanese army thrust- ing from the south, launched a heavy artillery attack on the strategic rail- way division point at the city of Nankow. Throughout the night the horse- drawn batteries had been moving into Position in the Pataling foothills over which the Great Wall snakes its way along the northern border of Hopeh Attack Changping Just a few moments after the first shells crashed into the railroad yards the Japanese infantry attacked Changping, 10 miles southeast of Nankow. The Chinese replied with mortar fire and the engagement be- came general. - The Chinese 89th division, of the (Continued on Page Two) Three Tenement Houses Collapseconti rmation Is | coutoninee J} Delayed As Two Voice Objections Nomination Is Sent to Senate With Routine List of Other Appointments; Was Not Made Public Until Revealed in Congress Alabama Solon, 51, Has Been in U. S. Senate Since 1926; Supported Roosevelt in Recent Fight to Enlarge High Tribunal Washington, Aug. 12.—(7)—President Roosevelt nominated Sen. Hugo Black of Alabama to the United State supreme court Thursday. His immes diate confirmation was blocked by Senators Burke (Dem.-Neb.) and John- HUGO L. BLACK NADINE O'LEARY HAS COMMANDING LEAD IN FINALS Bismarck Girl 5 Up on Agnes son (Rep.-Calif.). The nomination to the place formerly occupied by Willis Vandevanter was sent to the senate in a routine list of other appointments. The White House did not make it public, leaving newsmen to learn of the designation at the senate. Black has been a leader in advocating the administration's wage and hour legislation. The senator was a World war captain. He started law practice in Birmingham immediately after graduation from the University of Alabama in 1906. He has served in the senate since WALLACE PREDICTS AGREEMENT TOWARD Murphy at End of 18 in Title Match Grand Forks, N. D., Aug. 12.—(>)— Nadine O'Leary of Bismarck was five up on Agnes (Pat) Murphy of James- town after the first 18 holes of their 36-hole match of the women’s state golf tournament, played over the course of the Grand Forks Country club Thursday. After halving the first hole with s golf, although Miss O'Leary seldom second hole with a par four, and the Jamestown girl never caught her op- ponent all morning. golf, although Masi O'Leary] seldom made any bad mistakes, She had a 43 for the first nine and a 44 the second for an 87, while Miss Murphy took a 47-46—93, having most of her trouble with her short game. Both girls putted badly. FIRE RAZES FAMED HOSPITAL SHIP AS THOUSANDS WATCH One Fireman Asphyxiated as Boat Which Carried Wound- ed Italians Burns Naples, Aug. 12.—(7)—A spectacular fire which threatened all the shipping im Naples harbor destroyed Italy's prize hospital ship, the Helouan, early Thursday while tens of thousands of persons, including hundreds of Amer- icans, watched. One fireman was asphyxiated in the desperate and successful battle to save the waterfront. The wrecked ship, which had car- ried thousands of wounded and sick men from Ethiopia during the con- quest of that African empire, and, more recently, had served to evacuate wounded Italian soldiers from Spain, where they had been fighting in the civil war, was towed in flames into deep water and sunk. The fire began at 4 s. m. while Naples slept, but before the blaze was ended practically- every resident of the city was out-of-doors. The blaze was so intense and the flames so high that the spectacle rivaled the periodic eruptions of Mount Vesuvius over- looking the city: The majority of Americans wit- nessing the blaze were awaiting the arrival of the liner Conte de Savoia which takes them to New York. The liner was kept from entering the har- bor until the blaze was under control. Amorg the Americans was Dennis Cardinal Dougherty of Philadelphia, homeward bound from an audience with the Pope. Authorities said the fire originated in the ship’s medical department, either from a short circuit or the spontaneous combustion of medicines. Hunt Missing Minot Liquor Truck Driver Peoria, Ill, Aug. 12 — () — Police searched Thursday for Herman Jen- son, 31, a Minot, N. D., liquor truck driver, whose partner reported him missing since Monday night. Harry Alberta said he and Jenson drove here from Minot for a load of liquor and that Jenson was carrying $500. Investigators said Jenson was a temperate man and had a good record with his employers. Alberta started back for Minot alone. TO MAKE SURVEY Washington, Aug. 12—(#)—Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana said Gen. G. B. Pillsbury, acting chief of army engineers, informed him the war department will undertake a flood control survey on the Powder CONTROL OF CROPS|=: Roosevelt Has Indicated Admin- istration Wants Power to Control Surplus Washington, Aug. 12.—(#)—Secre- tary Wallace went before the senate agriculture committee Thursday to production. ‘Wallace, asking a check rein on sup- plies, satd Wednesday he wants leg- islation that will make rich harvests “a blessing instead of a.curse” for the nation’s farmers. He and other administration offi- clals expressed confidence they can set up @ definite control program for cotton, and possibly wheat and corn, to operate next year. In congress, however, they ran up against an apparent disinclination to enact any crop control legislation un- til the 1938 session. Both administration leaders and farm ee eat ch sereed eat price-pe; loans, or a combination of loans and cash subsidies, would meet the problem of sagging markets as far as this year’s crops were con- cerned. President Roosevelt, however, has indicated he would approve the loans or subsidies only on condition that congress first enact legislation giving the administration power to control surpluses. Wallace, agreeing with Mr. Roose- velt, said in his press conference Wed- nesday that if loans are to be made on this years’ crops, congress must remain in session or come back be- fore next year. Possibility of a compromse depend- ed largely on the senate agriculture committee conference with Wallace on a bill requiring the commodity credit corporation to grant farmers loans and subsidies. Wallace, however, said such a pro- gram would cost the government up- wards of $490,000,000 on cotton or $2,- 280,000,000 on all crops this year. The senate bill, which also was be- fore the house agricuuture committee, would authorize loans of 10 cents on cotton, 70 cents on wheat, 50 cents on corn, 8 cents on tobacco and 65 cents & bushel on rice. END COMPULSORY FEES FOR ALUMNI Sum May Still Be Paid Volun- tarily, Administration Board Chairman Says Fargo, N. D., Aug. 12—()—The board of administration Wednesday abolished compulsory alumni fees at the North Dakota Agricultural college and the University of North Dakota, Chairman Jennie Ulsrud announced in Fargo Thursday. “This was not done with any thought to eliminate the alumni! asso- ciatjens,” Mrs. Ulsrud said. “The fees may still be paid, if students and their parents wish it, on a voluntary basis. All we have done is to remove the compulsory feature.” The alumni fee at NDAC was $5, paid by the student on his ehtrance into college, making the student a member of the alumni and former students’ association as soon as he left the institution and providing for the expense of the association. At UND the fee was $1.25 = semes- ter, devoted to the same purpose. FAVOR 30-HOUR WEEK Denver, Aug. 12—(7)—A 30-hour week proposal bore the stamp of ap- proval of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers tion of uniform workmen’s compen- sation laws throughout the country. river in ireming and Montana “probably next year.” « Butte, Mont., was selected for the 1938 convention. 1926. He is 51 years old. As a justice of the court Black will have an opportunity to pass on con- stitutionality of Roosevelt adminis- tration laws on which he voted in the senate. They include the measures regulat- ing public utility holding companies, authorizing federal loans and grants for publicly-owned power plants, and fixing prices in the soft coal indus- Supreme court experts said there was no law or regulation to prevent a senator from participating in de- cisions affecting legislation he assist- ed in having enacted. Whether jus- tices disqualify themselves from pass- ing on certain, litigation is up to the individual jurist, it was explained. Chief Justice Hughes last term failed to take part in a decision on litigation in which his son, Charles Evans Hughes, Jr., was one of the attorneys. Washington, Aug. 12—()—The fe, in brief, of Sen. Hugo Black of Alabama, nominated Thursday ig ora Clay county, Als. 1906—Graduated, University of Alabama law school. 1910—Birmingham police judge. 1915—Prosecuting attorney, Jef- ferson county (Birmingham), Ala. ee do field artillery, A al—Married Josephine Foster of Birmingham. 1926—Elected U. S. senate. 1932—Headed senate air and ocean mail investigations. 1933—Chairman labor commit- tee. 1935—Conducted senate lobby investigation. rie cas labor commit- 1937—Nominated associate jus- tice, U. 8. supreme court. Black, if confirmed by his col- leagues, will become the fifth mem- ber of the United States senate to step directly from the senate to the su- poe court, The supreme court Plaes & salary of $20,000 a year, or ny twice the senator's pay of $10,000. The wiry Alabaman was named by Mr. Roosevelt to succeed Willis Van- devanter, retired, in unusual secrecy. It was listed among other routine nominations but was not made public at the White House as is the custom. Creates Stir The nomination immediately cre- ated a tremendous stir in the senate. Chairman Ashurst (Dem., Ariz.), of the judiciary committee demanded immediate approval of it, without ref- erence to committee, the usual pro- cedure for nominations. Senator Burke, one of the leaders in the recent fight against the su- preme court enlargement bill which Black supported quickly objected. He was joined a moment later by John- son, who said he would object to im- mediate action. Their objection forced the nomina- tion to go over for action until at least tomorrow. tier action on the nomination delayed, Ashurst at once ap- pointed a subcommittee of six mem- hers headed by Senator Neely (Dem., Va.), to consider it. Other members of the committee are: Logan (Dem., Ky.); (Dem., Ill.); McGill (Dem, Kas.); Borah, (Rep. Idaho); and Austin (Rep., Ver.). Only a few minutes before the nomination went to the capitol, a White House aide had told reporters in effect that the President had con- sidered no other man for the post but Senator Robinson of Arkansas up until the time the senate leader died consideration of the nomination. Although Ashurst assumed to say the nomination would go to commit- tee, there was no official announce-