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WEATHER. (U. 8 Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair today; tomorrow partly cloudy and Full Associated Press News and Wirephotos warmer; gentle, variable winds, becoming south. Temperatures yesterday—Highest, 84. at 4 pm.: lowest, 66, at Full report on Page B-2. (UP) Means Associated Press. 5 am. No. 1,691—No. 34,074. Entered as second cla Post_office, matter Washington, D. C. ~| The WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION g U. S. FLEET READY TO REMOVE 4,000 IN SHANGHAIL 3 AMERICANS AMONG Fighting Slows as Typhoon Sweeps Ravaged City. AIR BASES HIT, JAPANESE SAY Foreign Casualties in Plane Attack Put at 40. By the Associated Press. SHANGHAT, August 15 (Sunday).— | A Chinese typhoon today swallowed the war horrors of Shanghai where Chinese air bombs killed 863 civilians, including three Americans, and in- jured at least 1,140 in this teeming international city. Police of the international quarter gald 40 foreigners were among the dead, but that a complete check had not been completed Japanese naval guns thundered spas- | modically from ships anchored in the Whangpoo River and machine guns rattled an answer in isolated sections. Otherwise blood-soaked peace settled on the stricken city, heaped with the broken bodies of bombing victims and its hospitals crowded with suffer- ing wounded Tension Appears Relieved. Tension in the international quarter, scene of the worst carnage in Satur- day's tragic aerial attack lieved as heavy wind and rain swept fn from the sea. Fxiremelt poor vis- ihility seemed to allav fears of any | immediate renewal of action by either contending forces. Japanese sources declared the island | empire’s naval hombers had penetrat- ed into the interior behind Shanghai and destroved at least 40 Chinese planes at aircraft bases. The Japan- | ese reported they had effected the destruction of the two Chinese bomb- ers blamed for the lethal attack on Shanghai's foreian section The Chinese bombs fell into the city of 3300000 persons when the airmen missed their Japanese warship target anchored near the Japanese concession Inquiry Reported Under Was. Chinese sources said Generalissimo | Chiang Kai-shek, strong man of the Nanking regime. was conducting a | £trict inquiry into the bombing. These | sources said that Japanese anti-air- | craft bullets striking bomb racks of | the low-flying planes released the| projectiles prematur: ‘ | Whatever the cause of the attack, | two or more Americans were wounded in a Shanghai Saturday of suffering that drove scores of others from their homes. Ever— one of the 4.000 Americans in the bleeding in- ternational community was in grave | peril Destruction spread through Shang- hai as Sunday dawn approached. At 2:30 am. (1:30 pm. Saturday, E. S. T.), machine guns were chattering fiercely along the land battlefront on Shanghai's northern fringe and big guns of Japanese warships on the Whangpoo River fired steadily at land targets. Chinese or Japanese aln| Fires Increasing in Chapei. Fires were increasing, noticeably in Eastern Chapei, Chinese section, and apparently were eating into northern | parts of the International Settlement. The Americans were drawn into the | tragic vortex of the undeclared yet | undisguised Chinese-Japanese war when the warbirds of the Chinese gov- ernment, aroused at long last, struck | back at the Japanese foe. Three recklessly-dropped Chinese bombs plunged into densely packed | street intersections of Shanghai's for- elgn areas. Apparently they were aimed from high aloft in a heavy, murky sky, at Japanese warships on the nearby Whangpoo River or Jap- anese land concentrations. But the victims of the resulting holocausts were mostly innocent Chi- nese civilians. Many other foreigners, besides the Americans, were killed or ‘wounded. Great buildings, including two fa- mous hotels, were shattered. Mounds of dead littered the pavements. The American dead were Dr. Frank J. Rawlinson, 35 years a missionary leader in China; H. S. Honigsberg, wealthy motor car dealer who had made Shanghai home more than (See SHANGHAI, Page A-5.) FARNSWORTH ASKS FREEDOM IN ATLANTA Assails Indictment in Espionage Charge—Case Is Taken Un- der Advisement, B7 the Associated Press. ATLANTA, August 14.—A writ of habeas corpus for John 8. Farnsworth, former naval officer under sentence ,of from 4 to 12 years for violating the espionage act, was taken under advisement by Federal Judge E. Mar- vin Underwood today. Farnsworth was convicted in Wash- ington last February 15 on a charge of giving a confidential naval pam- phlet to Yosiyaki Itmiya and Akira Yamaki for transmission to the Jap- anese government. He was indicted August 2, 1936, about three weeks after his arrest. Gray-haired and alert, Farnsworth appeared before Judge Underwood to make his own plea, contending the indictment on which he stood trial was “insufficient in allegations or arguments to identify or allocate any act of the defendant.” The former lieuterant commander hand-printed his petition in the Fed- eral penitentiary here, where he start- ed serving his term March 3. seemed re- | tions, AMBASSADOR NELSON JOHNSON Sent to trouble area. | U. S. Officials in DR. ROBERT K. REISCHAUER, 2ANATIONS BACK HULL PEACE AINS Italy, Germany and Japan' Among Those Formally | Stating Accord. BACKGROUND— ! | Secretary of State Hull issued a | statement of policy July 16 adro- | cating abstinence by all nations | from wuse of force in pursuit of and from interference in the mternal aflairs of other nations This statement was circulated 1 foreign capitals for comment, and a week ago nations expre: attitudes in harmony with it. | polic, B3 the Associated Press Secretary Hull's plea for “mterna- | tional self-restraint” drew from Italy, | Germany and Japan vesterday formal | expressions of accord with America’s peace policy Replies from these countries—where militaty matters play important parts in foreign policv—accompanied those from 21 other nations agreeing with Hull's peace enunciation. Reaction also included diplomatic notes from the Spanish Loyalist gov- ernment, currently battling an insur- gent army. and from China, now en- | gaged in hostilities with its neighbor, | Japan. American professor, killed. ARGTIC 1S COMBED FOR SOVIET FLYERS U. S. Planes Search Alaska | Areas as Moscow Pushes Own Hunt. BACKGROUND— Soviet Russia has been engaged in the last few months in explor ing the possibilities of a commercial airline from that country to the United States across the North Pole. The first fight was made last June 20 between Moscow and Vancourer. Wash. The pilots fiew 5,300 miles in 63 hours Three weeks later a second Soviet trio roared out of Moscow along the new airline and ecxtended it 974 miles before bringing their mono- plane down at San Jacinto, Calif. Distance covered was 6,262 miles time, 62 hours. By the Associated Press. FAIRBANKS. Alaska, August 14.— | Three groups of “mercy fiyers” searched | futilely through the arctic wilds of Northeastern Alaska today for a miss- | ing Soviet trans-polar plane and then | returned to Fairbanks. leaving the hunt to comrades on the other side of the world. While Russian airmen were reported In a terse note, Germany informed the United States its “basic principle is, as is generally known, directed to- ward the regulation of international | regulations by pacific agreement and | hence coincides with the ideas devel-' oped by the Secretary of State.” | Italy voiced appreciation of the | “high value” of Hull's principles, | saying “The Fascist government favors everything which may conduce to the | pacification and to the political and | | economic reconstruction of the world. ! “Therefore, it regards with sympa- thy every initiative which tends to| achieve that end by meahs of the| limitation of armaments, by means of economic understanding among na- | non-intervention in the inter- | nal affairs of other countries, and| any other means which may now or | in the future appear responsive to this objective.” | Japan “Concurs” Generally. After expressing general "conrur—} rence,” Japan informed Hull jts gov- | ernment believed his peace objectives will “only be attained. in their ap-, plication to the Far Eastern situa- | tion, by full recognition and practical consideration of the actual particular circumstances of that region.” China and Spain, their homelands | torn by conflict. sent statements simi- lar to each other, Spain expressing “lively sympathy” and China “full harmony. Hull said expressions of more than 50 governmenis had enunciated “a common theme of approval of funda- mental principles which are given new strength and increased vigor when they are thus jointly reiterated and proclaimed.” Accord with the policy came also from Canada, Costa Rica, Czecho- slovakia, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Finland, Greece, Honduras, Iraq, Irish Free State, Liberia, Lithuania, Mex- ico, Norway, Panama, Poland, Ru- mania, Siam and Switzerland. CRASH FATAL TO GIRL; DISTRICT MAN HURT Miss Neileen Cooper Loses Life, Sylvan Schwartz Injured in Virginia. By the Associated Press. FREDERICKSBURG, Va, August 14 —Miss Neileen Cooper, 21, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Abe Cooper, Co- lonial Beach, was fatally injured in an automobile crash near King George court house this afternoon. Sylvan Schwartz, 25, Washington, | was seriously hurt. The car hit a culvert on a straight stretch of high- way, officers reported. Miss Cooper died in Mary Washing- ton Hospital here of multiple injuries at 10 p.m. Schwartz received a broken leg and a fractured skull. The young woman was conscious when she ar- rived at the hospital and said she was asleep at the time of the accident. She is survived by her parents, a brother, William Cooper of Colonial Beach, and a sister, Mrs. Jean Huff- man of Baltimore. e TR General Held Insane. KRAKOW, Poland, August 14 ().— Gen. Joseph Roja, one of the late Marshal Joseph Pilsudski's best known officers, was transferred to the in- sane ward of a hospital today. | moving out of Moscow to comb the | polar regions for Pilot Sigismund Levaneffsky and his five companions, American planes with famous Alaskan pilots at the controls and Russian rep- resentatives as observers scanned the area from Fairbanks to the Arctic Ocean. Weak radio signals received early in the day indicated the flyers, who left Moscow at 10:13 p.m. (E. §. T.) Thurs- day, were safe somewhere in the great Northland. The Alaska planes searched as far as possible without hazarding opera- tions over the treacherous ice of the Arctic Ocean. Meanwhile eight planes and two ice- breakers were ordered into the hunt by the Soviet government and shortly thereafter Mascow reported three of the aircraft were believed to be on the way from the Russian capital to Ru- dolf Island, 560 miles from the pole. Pole Camp Is Air Base. The floating Soviet North Pole camp was advised to convert its station into a base for the rescue operations. For clues the searchers had only fragmentary messages from the plane, | which was bound for Fairbanks, 4,000 | miles away. The last of these messages was picked up at 9:53 a.m. (E. 8. T.) today by the United States Army Signal Corps station in Anchorage. The sig- nals were so weak that only a part of the message was received. As trans- lated, it said: “No bearings * * * having trouble with * * * wave band.” The Soviet Flight Committee con- cluded that ice forming on the plane's wings had forced it down on a floe in the Arctic, and added that polar con- ditions at the time were ‘“compara- tively favorable” for an emergency landing on the ice. ‘There had been no position reports ‘(See FLYERS, Page A-7.) BALL BEARING IN LUNG Surgeons Remove It in Operation at Atlanta. ATLANTA, August 14 (#).—Sur- geons working with fluoroscope and bronchoscope removed a small ball bearing today from the lung of J. B. Starnes, 25, radio repair man. The bearing slipped into his lung while he was at work. Starnes formerly lived in Asheville, N. C. Plea to Bar New Bombing Sent Mme. Chiang by Mrs. T.R., Jr. By the Associated Press. SHANGHALI, August 15 (Sunday) — Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, jr., a visitor in Shanghai, today telegraphed Mme. Chiang Kai-shek in Nanking, urging that there be no repetition of Satur- day’s bombing of foreign areas in Shanghai, in which nearly 600 persons were killed. Mme. Chiang, Wellesley-educated wife of the head the Chinese gov- ernment and army, herself is secre- tary-general of the national air forces. Mrs. Roosevelt said she entreated Mme. Chiang “as a sincere friend” to make sure that the Chinese air force does not bomb the international areas b 863 KILLED BY BOMBS ~ 'Aiding 4,000 Up to Battle Zone. HULL DEMAND CITY BE SPARED Neutrality Action May Be Taken Tomorrow. BACKGROUND— | Sino-Japanese “undeclared war” grew out of clash of Chinese and Japanese armed forces July 7 near Peiping and refusal of Hopeh- Chahar Political Council to yield to demands of Tokio, which would have set up another puppet regime in North China. Kuilling of Jap- anese officer in Shanghai last Mon- | day broughc confiict to the Chi- I nese metropolis with its thousands | | of foreigners. | | Orders of the State and Navy De- partments hold America’s Asiatic fleet ready to evacuate American citi- zens from war-endangered Shanghai. D.C.ARMORY FUND Secretary of State Hull said last | night the Governmant had directed naval and consular officials in the troubled areas to determine when and how many of the should be e At the same time, the Secretary said. this Government made “earnest | representations” to both Japan and China against “any kind of military | operations or military bases at Shang- hai.” The United States, “lost no opportunity” to impress this | demand on Japanese and Chinese | officials in Tokio, Nanking, Shanghai, Peiping and Tientsin. Quiet on Neutrality Act. Hull made no comment on the pros- pect of invoking the neutrality act but Chairman Pittman of the Sena Foreign Relations Committee pre- he said, has hai continue, President Roosevelt will make a statement tomorrow or Tues- dayv Senator Pittman, who has acted as A semi-official spokesman for the ad- | ministration in the Far Eastern crisis, | defended the President's failure up to now to find that China and Japan are at war, but said, “Things are very rapidly reaching a state where an armistice is impossi and it therefore, will become necessary for | the President to proclaim the exis- tence of a war and invoke the Ameri- can neutrality act Secretary Hull said American diplo- mats are conducting the “fullest con- | ferences in collaboration” with repre- | sentatives of other governments in- terested in the international city with A View to protecting nationals from any violence He admonished American officials to { close their offices and “‘unhesitatingly | leave” whenever they consider danger | imminent. | Standing instructions have been is- ism’d to American officers to warn all | citizens to leave dangerously threat- ened places and seek reasonable safety. Extent of Danger Weighed. The extent of possible danger and the best means of safety for Inter- national Settlement residents have been carefully weighed by the United States and Great Britain in Shang- | hai conferences, Hull said Nelson T. Johnson, Ambassador to | China, who was ordered to the “war” | zone, told Hull he was constantly | conferring with local American offi- cials at Shanghai on consolidation of all plans to preserve safety of Amer- icans. The Far Eastern turbulence, Hull said, provoked more active efforts on the part of the Government for safety of its citizens than did the revolu- tion outbreak in Spain. Hull personally deplored the deaths and injuries of Americans in Shang- hai during the last 48 hours, pre- sumably caused by aerial bombings. All the Government can do, he said. |is to be prepared to evacuate na- tionals on short notice and to provide every possible encouragement and warning them to leave. The State Department, Hull said, was holding itself “in readiness day and night” to co-operate with the Navy in any evacuation crisis. Ships (See CHINA, Page A-7.) To Investors Dividends and earnings to date of 125 represent- ative stocks, compared with like period in 1936, appear on Page 1, Finan- cial Section. again, pending arrangements to in- sure the safety “not only of foreigners but of your own refugees.” She added: “Saturday we witnessed with our own eyes casualties and destruction beyond description among these peo- ple.” Nearly all the Shanghai victims were Chinese. Recently Mrs. Roosevelt, touring the Orient with her 19-year-old son Quentin, was Mme. Chiang's dinnér guest. She is familiar with the Orient, having spent much time here while 4,000 nationals | cuated | dicted that if the hostilities at Shang- | { Guard armory. | sion, after an extensive study in co- | 11,118, 1,119, {Congress Asked to l\ppro-| | priate $210,000 for Pur- | chase of Site. After years of discussion, a definite step toward providing a suitable armory for Washington's National Guard was taken vesterday when President Roosevelt asked Congress to appropriate $210.000 for purchase of a site at the end of East Capitol | street | The fact that private building development has been started recently | on the site which Government officials | have in mind was indicated by Budget Director Bell as the reason immediate action is being sought The budget estimate, which will be considered for inclusion in the last deficiency supply bill this week, re~| { ommends acquisition of four squares {adjacent to the area, which National | Capital planning agencies hope to | develop as a stadium and sports field. Bell's letter of transmittal, in V\'hirh’ the President concurred, read in part | | as follows: | “For many years, consideration has been given to the location of the pro- | posed District of Columbia National | In 1933 the National | Capital Park and Planning Commis- | operation with the District National Guard and the District Commissioners recommended that the armory be con- | structed at the end of East Capitol | street, adjacent to the proposed sta- dium and sports field development | planned for that area, and chose as a site the area composed of squares 1125 and 1.126. Situation of Tract. “The site chosen is so situated as to form an integral part of the adjoining park area now owned by the Federal | Government, and all late plans for the | development and use of this area have | contemplated that the four squares | mentioned would be used as an armory ‘ site, or at least be in public ownership. “Until recently the site has been vacant. In the last few months, how- ever, private building development has | been started on two of the squares | and is continuing rapidly. While de- i velopment has not vet reached the | | point where the acquisition of this | site would appear uneconomical as | | compared with other possible but less | desirable sites, indications are that it | will do so in a relatively short time. | “To delay the purchase of this prop- | erty until its cost becomes prohibitive | not only would mean the probable fu- ture purchase of a less desirable site for the armory at a cost not less than that for which the present proposed site may be acquired, but also would jeopardize the whole plan for the East Capitol street terminal development. It would seem, therefore, that the ac- quisition of this property should not be delayed, even though the District of Columbia may not be able to finance the constrution of the armory for some time."” E The budget message also recom- mended a change in the terms of the 1938 District appropriation act to en- able the Health Department to appoint physiians to all of the six new medi- cal inspector positions created by that act. In its present form the act re- quires four of them shall be dentists. The inspectors are to perform hygiene work in public schools. Another recommendation in the budget message was that $4,206.19 be appropriated to meet a ourt judgment for refund of gasoline taxes erroneous- ly paid to the District on gasoline sold in Maryland. - MAIL PILOT EJNREPORTED IN NORTHERN CANADA Air Transport Officials Think He Landed to Await End of Rain and Fog. EDMONTON. August 14 (Canadian Press).—Pilot Leonard Waagen, fly- ing the regular airmail route from Edmonton to Northern British Co- lumbia points, was unreported today, but believed delayed by rain and fog which followed heavy smoke clouds yesterday. United Air Transport officials here said they believed he was down at some isolated post awaiting better weather. (British Columbia police at Pouce Coupe, British Columbia, in the Peace River district, reported the United Air Transport plane which left there yes- | 24 hours. her husband, now in New York, was governor-general of the Philippines. terday for Fort Nelson, British Co- lumbis, was missing.) w . - Star WASHINGTON, D. €., SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 15, 1937—108 PAGES. * Sunday Morning and Every Afternoon. FIVE CE INGTON AND. NTS UBU. | TEN ] CENTS sl FLEFWHERR WHATS THE CORRUPT PRACTICES ACT AMONG FRIENDS ? PRESIDENT URGES | Legion Bars Fascist Salutes From Future District Parades Resolution Raps Unnamed Veterans Who Marched Thursday and Attacks Nazis—Mason Is Elected New Commander, All foreizn salutes were from future Ameriean Legion parades here in a resolution adopted at the closing session of District ment’s anr convention last night after it was t a veterans' organt in Thurs- ation party day night's parade had used what ap- | peared to be a Fascist or Communist | salute The action was taken at & meeting in the Mavflower Hotel. during which Police 1ieut. Thomas Mason, jr., was elected commander of the department, succeeding Horace Lineburg, lieutenant in the Police Department Mason and his entire slate were swept into office by a decisive vote on the first ballot barred | depart- | ! this country, also a | convention, The vote on the salutes came on an amendment by J. J. Murphy of George Washington Post to a motion sharply eriticizing Nazi activties in gation by the Legion in New Jersey of a Nazi camp in that State, While Murphy did not name the organization involved, spectators on | the reviewing stand Thursday night commented on salutes by some of the | members of the Italian war veterans | when they passed “We should have the salute in our parades.” he “and no other Demonstrating by the use of his righ hand. Murphy said: “You could "(See LEGION, Page A-7) American told the SINKING OF LAND N DAHO SPREADS Farmers Worried, Fearing! More of Valuable Area May Be Ruined. (Picture on Page A-3) By the Associated Pr » BUHL. Idaho, August 14 —Harried farmers of this Southern Idaho agri- cultural region were alarmed tonight over a strange geological quirk that may turh their productive land into | | useless canyon bottoms. The farmers, who have triumphed over climatic conditions by irrigation faced an uncombatable foe—land sinking That the subterranean disturbance 8 miles northwest of here is far from finished was shown when a new “sink- g canyon” formed within the last An area 20 yards wide and 70 yards long sank 73 feet in a single day. Farmer H. A. Robertson, on whose land the phenomenon is occurring, said the new canyon gives every evi- dence of continuing to spread. The new depression, which started from a crack in the ground. is separ- ated from the original “sinking can- yon” by a 25-foot wall. The first de- pression, covering five acres, has sunk to the 200-foot level and is still set- tling. Land cracks have spread in all directions. Baffled farmers found little solace in geologists’ explanations that col- lapse of the upper lava crust of a sub- terranean.cavern is causing the land to sink. They expressed concern fur- ther openings might cause the little Salmon River, which borders the dis- turbed region, to follow an under- ground source and deprive them of part of their irrigation water supply. The rim of the infant canyon is but a quarter of a mile from Robert- son's farm house. Small crops—mostly vegetables— are raised in the affected area. BANK ROBBER IS SUICIDE Plunges From Third to First Floor of St. Paul Jail. ST. PAUL, August 14 (#,—Clair Gibson, bank robber, killed himself today by plunging down an areaway from the third to the first floor of the Ramsey County Jail. He died a few minutes after he was taken to a has- pital. Arrested in Roseburg, Oreg., Gibson was returned to Minnesota by Federal authorities. Wednesday in Minneap- olis he was sentenced to 40 years in Federal prison, and waived extradi- tion to Hancock County, Towa, where he was wanted for murder. (SRR SRR e Mission Boat Stops for Wedding. BAR HARBOR, Me., August 14 (#). —The “mercy” boat Sunbeam of the Maine Seacoast Mission paused on its coastal trips late today while Miss Elizabeth Workman, volunteer mis- sion worker, and Edward Hyde, both of Loudenville, Ohio, were married on her bow. The bride is a teacher in Louden- ville. Hyde is a Johns Hopkins Uni- versity student. Radio I’ro(ra.ms, Page F-7. Complete Index, Page A-2. CONFEREESTOGET D. C. AIRPORT BILL Copeland-May Measure Passes Senate in Amend- ed Form. BACKGROUND— For a decade controversy has re- volved around proposals for a per- manent National Capital airport. Washington Airport, one of the bustest commercial fields, is called dangerous for use by large trans- ports. A month ago pilots served notice they would refuse to use field unless new provisions were made promptly. Congress hastened consideration of bills for permanent field at Camp Springs, Md., and for emergency enlargement of Washington port and closing of Military road. House and Senate conferees will seek an agreement this week on the details of the Copeland-May bill enlarge and promote safety at Wash- ington Airport. The measure passed the Senate yesterday in amended form. Meanwhile, the fate of the King bill for development of a new Govern- ment-controlled $3.286,250 airport at Camp Springs, Md. in accordance with the recommendation of the Dis- trict Airport Commission, rests with the House, which has not acted on it. The King bill passed the Senate Friday. In this connection, a new proposal to develop a 1.030-acre air terminal for the Capital on the site of the historical College Park, Md., Airport was laid before the Airport Commission yester- day. That commission already has made its recommendation for Camp | and | Springs to Congress, however, there did not appear to be much chance for consideration of the latest proposition unless the Camp Springs measure should be delayed until the next session. Copeland Measures Substituted. Taking up the May bill as it came from the House, the Senate struck out all after the enacting clause and sub- stituted the provisions of the measure introduced by Senator Copeland, Dem- ocrat, of New York. This would make possible a more complete develop- ment of the landing facilities at the Virginia end of Highway Bridge than would be possible under the House terms. The Senate immediately asked for a (See AIRPORT, Page A-6) ARTIST WEDS HIS MODEL FOR “MISS GALLAGHER” By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Pa., August 14— Artist Malcolm S. Parcell and the girl who posed for many of his paint- ings, Helen Gallagher, were quietly married today. The ceremony was performed at the bridegroom’s home by his father, Rev. 8. L. Parcell, retired Bapuist pastor. The couple left by automobile for a honeymoon of several weeks, with- out announcing their destination. Parcell, 41, is a nationally known portrait painter. His bride, when she was 16, posed for a painting en- titled “Miss Gallagher,” which won for Parcell the Saltus gold medal of the National Aiademy of Design. ] and indorsing investi- | salute.” | to | HOPES ARE RAISED FOR ADJOURNMENT BY CLOSE OF WEEK 'Apparent Death of Wage- Hour Bill Makes Quick End Seem Likely. THREAT OF BLACK FIGHT | FAILS TO DIM PROSPECT Move to Force Public Hearings on Court Nomination Made by Senator Bridges. Spurred by the apparent death this session of the ze-hour hopes for an early adjournment, pos= st by the end of this week, ran high in branches of Congress yesterday, despite the of a fight in the Senate azainst confirma- tion of the nominat Senator Hugo L. Black reme Court. A move to force public hearings on the selection of Black for the seat va= cated by Ju Van Devanter de- veloped late vesterdav, after Speaker Bankhead 1ally conceded ti House w bill th “There s both of appearance the Rules ication that some Hou his announcement began to plan homeward trips head would not for by Saturd But there is chance by that time, the hesitate to order night sess House. The poss eadership pletion of Senate b Quick Report Seen. Majority Leader Ba the nomination wou ported by the hours” this, i the deficiency | taken in ence can between Senate and House v the housing bill. This, heves, is all th; s necessary to ase sure adjournment Other members of the Senate, how- ever, did not share his view that Black's appointment can be eon- firmed by Tuesday. of ! Committee, one of ator's strongest s bate on the nomina he could not agree wit would in no the adjournmen The effort t on the qu day by Sen of New Hamp: licly comm nomination. Bridges' Move Thwarted. Bridges rose in the Senate to pres his demand. but before he could ge | the floor a quorum was called and, | because an insufficient number ans- | wered, the Senate adjourned for the week end t Bridges told reporters he would have | demanded that the Black nomination | be handled the same way as oth | pointments to the Supreme Co and a dded y that B: i ire, one of those p to oppose Bl He said hearings had been held on all such nominations, including the ap- | pointment of Chief Justice Hughe |and that the same treatment sho | be given to Senator. He was prepared. he zaid, to submit | to the Senate many telegraphic de- mands for hearings on the nomination. It became apparent y rday that the position expressed by Senator Bridges was being taken by seve: others of the Democratic and Repub- lican Senators who fought President Roosevelt's original court bi; If un- successful in forcing hearings in the committee, it was indicated they would, nevertheless, attack the nom- ination in the Senate on the ground that Black was a member of the Sen ate which passed the Sumners-Mc- Carran-Ashurst act, under which Jus- tice Van Devanter retired Telegrams Assail Black. This view also was taken by Senator McCarran, Democrat, of Nevada, a member of the Judiciary Committes, who, as co-author of the retirement | act, is inclined to believe that the question of appointing justices to the Supreme Court except when a vacancy occurs from impeachment, death or resignation is one that can be dealt with only by constitutional amend- ment. The recommendation of a judiciary ubcommittee that the nomination be reported favorably goes to the full com- mittee tomorrow and there was every (See ADJOURNMENT, Page A-12.) STATE TROOPER DIES OF HOLD-UP WOUNDS Might Have Been Able to Help Identify Pair Who S8hot Him in Back. By the Associcted Press WILKES-BARRE, Pa., August 14— State Trooper John J. Broske died to- day 10 hours after he had been shot down in a hold-up without being able to assist his fellow officers in identi- fying the bandits. District Attorney Leon Schwartz said he believed Broske knew the two men who swaggered into the Boulevard Inn early today and shot him down before he could turn around. The men escaped with $40 taken from the inn cash register and $35 taken from a salesman. They jumped into an automobile and sped away, while Mrs. Grace Geick, the proprietor, and two men in the room rushed to help Broske. d the nomination of a £