Evening Star Newspaper, August 24, 1937, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8 Weather Bureau Forecast.) Cloudy, continued cool; probably occa- sional rains tonight and tomorrow; gentle northeast and east winds. Temperatures today—Highest, 67, at 10:30 a.m.; lowest, 64, at 1 am. Full report, page A-10. Closing N.Y. Markets—Sales—Page 16 85th YEAR. No. 212 FLEEING AMERICANS PERILED AS JAPANESE OPEN AIR-LAND ATTACK - U. S. Warship 34,083. Entered as second elass matter post office, Washington, D. C. Convoys Liner Carrying Refugees Through Heart of Woosung Offensive. “SUICIDE” BAND LEADS LANDING IN WITHERING FIRE OF CHINESE Fighting Rages 12 Miles Along Banks of Yangtze and Whangpoo as Far as Shanghai. BACKGROUND— Shanghai battle has raged nearly two weeks with loss of four Amer- fean lives and thousands of Chinese, military and non-combatants. Japanese have sent 50.000 troops of home army to Shanghai, a portion of which were landed yesterday near Woosung. In the north the Chinese are holding the Japanese at Nankow Pass and preparing for attack around. Tientsin. BY JAMES A. MILLS. SHANGHAI, August 25 (Wednesday) .—Chinese air- | planes swept over international Shanghai early this morn- ing on awe-inspiring reconnaissance flights while Japanese naval guns crashed in prolonged bombardment of Woosung and Shanghai's Yangtze River outlet to the sea to cover the | landing of fresh Japanese troops. The Chinese air force, following the example of their Japanese enemies, scouted the heart of the city after mid- night. The planes dropped no bombs, but the roar of their engines threw Shanghai into a new state of fearful tension. Japanese anti-aircraft guns barked out at them. Opposing land forces hemming the international area seemed | content to hold their lines while Japan's big guns, planes and | landing parties roared in offensive tempo to the north about Woosung, at the confluence of the Whangpoo, Shanghai’s harbor, and the Yangtze. Many Planes Catapulted by Carriers. I saw iwo Japanese airplane carriers anchored near Saddle Islands at the mouth of the Yangtze catapult plane after planeI into the air to bomb Chinese machine gun positions near the! ‘Woosung shore. In the midst of exploding bombs and artillery shells 212 Ameri- cans were evacuated aboard the liner President Pierce for Manila. The battle raged down the Whangpoo and along the Yangtze. Japanese landed thousands of reinforcements. suicide detachments of the “White Band of Death.” The Japanese were driving In from the North to assault the | Chinese left flank. Japanese Army spokesmen declared reinforce- ments they landed in the Woosung area Monday and yesterday already had advanced at different points from one to two miles. Gen. Matsui Commands All Japan’s Forces. Gen. Iwane Matsui, former commanding general on the Island of Formosa and a former member of the Supreme War Council, | came out of retirement to take command of all Japanese forces in the Shanghai area. A member of the Japanese staff declared: “Our forces will meet the Chinese troops, regardless of the time and place.” I sailed down the Whangpoo with the American refugees who boarded the President Pierce. For the first time United States officials decided the refugees should be convoyed with a warship. Against the clear sky, Japanese sea and land planes em- blazoned with the rising sun insignia darted over Chinese positions, dropping bombs and swooping down to blast machine gun bullets into the Chinese lines. After the party of refugees was transferred to the President Pierce the destroyer uncovered her guns and escorted the liner through the raging battle to the sea. Shell Hoies in University. . Coming back, I saw four huge shell holes in buildings of the University of Shanghai on the Whangpoo River. is run by American Baptists. The institutidbn The battle area immediately about international Shanghai was vastly different from Monday. Because of the flanking movement, Chinese forces in the Yangtzepoo and Ward Road Jail areas withdrew to new positions north of the International Set- tlement boundary. ‘The districts of Hongkew and Yang- tzepoo, which 24 hours before had been in the center of machine gun and shell fire, were as quiet as a grave. Today only ruins and scores of burned buildings were left to be guarded by street corner Japanese sen- try posts. Where the Whangpoo meets the Yangtze the battle developed into the most terrible fighting of the war, when the Japanese Army units began pour- (See SHANGHAI, Page A-3.) LEHMAN APPEALS T0 LABOR GROUP Urges State Federation to View Strike as “Last Weapon” in Disputes. By the Associated Press. JAMESTOWN, N. Y., August 24— Gov. Herbert H. Lehman urged the New York State Federation of Labor today to view the strike as the “last weapon” in industrial disputes. “Happily, our State agencies pro- vide media which can be used to clar- ify and adjust labor disputes” the (Governor told the annual convention. “Their services are available at all times.” He referred chiefly to the State Labor Relations Board and the State Mediation Board, established by the 1937 Legislature, and characterized by the Governor as “a new type of social institution.” “While the right to strike is ex- pressly and wisely preserved by the State laws,” the Governor declared, “I feel strongly that the strike should not be looked upon ss the first and only weapon in labor disputes, but rather as the last weapon when all other ns' of peaceful settlement h* - | This and That. Summary of Page. B-14-15 | Radio ... B-16 | Short Story._A-11 Editorials A-6| Sogiety ___ _ B-3 Finance ... A-15| Sports A-12-13-14 Obituary -.. A-10 | Woman's Pg..B-10 Lost & Found B-M Comics Drama . FOREIGN. Peace in Far East is urged by Secre- tary Hull. Page A-3 Chinese maneuver to trap enemy in north. Page A-1 Raging battle perils fleeing Ameri- cans. Page A-1 Shortage of water hits besieged San- tander. Page A-2 NATIONAL. i Indications are President will call spe- cial session of Congress. Page A-1 Tammany to unite behind mayoralty primary winner. Page A-1 Renewal of rioting feared at Heppen- stall steel plant. A-2 Green urged A. F. of L. union support by maritime group. A-2 Only 30 States eligible for grants under new housing program. Page A-§ A. P. of L. Cbuncil to probe Lewis’ po- litical activities. Page A-S Pittman, Forum speaker, praises Presi- dent’s Far East stand. Page A-11 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. ‘Warrants charge restaurant sanitary code violations. 3 Page B-1 Two Government agencies object to airport plan. B-1 Agreement may speed water front im- provements Page B-1 Ickes asks immediate parley on slaugh- ter house operation. Page B-1 Heavily guarded by police, 2,500 W. P. A. marchers parade. Page A-1 EDITORIALS AND COMMENT. Editorials. Page Page -6 -§ ch They were led by | 6 | Political Mill. WASHINGTO CHINESE CIRCLING TOENTRAP ENENY, HALTED BY RAINS 10uarter Million Men Face on 150-Mile Front in the North. By the Associated Press. TIENTSIN, August 24.—Crack Chi- nese advance guards swept around both flanks of the Japanese Army southwest of Peiping today and struck simultaneously in an effort to pinch off the 30.000 Japanese troops immo- billized there by torrential rains. A major battle, with at least a quar- ter of a million men engaded, was developing along a 150-mile front. China’s modernized army was attack- ing from four directions to thrust the Japanese Army out of conquered Northeast China. (In Tokio the Domei (Japanese) News Agency reported that Kalgan, controlling an important communi- cation route from Mongolia through the Great Wall, had been taken by the Japanese. The report said that at least six, possibly eight, Chi- nese divisions now were trapped be- tween mechanized Japanese armies at Kalgan and at Nankow Pass, to the south.) The Japanese front 30 miles south- west of Peiping was in danger of being snapped off by the surprise Chinese strategy and grave apprehension was apparent in all the Japanese areas south and west of Peiping. All Japanese troops were hurriedly | withdrawn from their extended posi- tions west of Peiping and concen- trated on the east bank of the Yung- | ting River, in the Pengtai and Wan- | pinghsien suburbs of Peiping and in Peiping proper. Japancse Bomb Entire Area. Japanese war planes were bombing | | the entire area from Mentoukow, 20 miles west of Peiping, to a point 40! | miles to the southeast on the Peiping- | Tientsin Railway. From a strong advance base at | Chochow, only 30 miles southwest of | | Peiping, the Chinese Army thrust | three divisions against the Japanese | positions at Lianghsiang, 5 miles to | the north. One division made a show of force | | against the Japanese frontal positions | | while one sped past each flank and then struck. The Chinese left wing | advanced as far as Mentoukow be- fore it pivoted, while the right wing | penetrated to Kangchia, 10 miles | south of the Marco Polo Bridge | | across the Yungting at Wanpingshien. | This placed both arms of the pincer well in the rear of the main body of Japanese at Lianghsiang. It was almost impossible for reinforce- ments and supplies to reach the main army. Roads to Lianghsiang were | choked with hundreds of Japanese | trucks stuck in the mud and abon- doned. All Traffic Mired. Nearly all trafic was mired at Changsintien, just bevond Marco Polo Bridge, and the Japanese were com- mandeering mules and donkeys and all kinds of carts and wagons in an effort to get through to the front. Japanese dead and wounded were being brought into Peiping, indicat- ing that a battle of major proportions was being fought to the southwest. Twenty truckloads of dead were brought into Peiping today in one convoy, black flags dipping somberly as they chugged slowly over the rut- ted roads. In the Tientsin sector of the huge semi-circular front Chinese forces (See TIENTSIN, Page A-3) Today’s Star Questions and Answers. Stars, Men and Atoms. David Lawrence. H. R. Burkhage. Mark Sullivan. Jay Franklin. Delia Pynchon. SPORTS. Hartnett, Di Mag rated base ball's most valuable. * Page A-12 Griffmen primed for best inland tour of season. Page A-12 Giants facing desperate stand against Chicubs. Page A-12 Salary squabbles mark start of Red- skins’ training. Page A-13 Louis-Farr title scrap may draw only $200,000 gate. Page A-13 Doering, Strafaci alone beat par in amateur opening. Page A-14 Armour’s tutelage making real golfer of Babe Didrikson. Page A-14 FINANCIAL. Federal bonds improve (table). Page A-15 1 ?Db??>>> Ghdbhbbeaa Page D. C, | Possibility of “Pocket Veto” Gets ‘WITH SUNDAY ‘MORNING EDITION ROOSEVELT ACTION TODAY T0 DECIDE COURT BILL FATE Ten-Day Deadline on Pro- gram to Revise Procedure Expires at Midnight. SIGNING OF MEASURE BELIEVED CERTAIN Scant'Attention—Statement Indicated. BACKGROUND— President Roosevelt precipitated historically bitter congressional fight last February by proposing re- organization of Federal judiciary. Features of plan were increase of Supreme Court to 15 members and compulsory retirement of justices at 70. After months of fighting, with opposition led by Democratic Senators, compromise bill directed at lower Federal Courts was brought in and passed. Many feel that President will continue fight for revision of highest court. By the Associated Press. President Roosevelt has until mid- night—if he means for it to be- come law—to sign the bill revising procedure in the lower Federal courts. The 10-day dead ine for the meas- ure, often referred to as the “minor four-fifths” of his judiciary reor- ganization program, expires at that | time. Statute allows him 10 days after passage to act on a bill. There was a possibility, given scant attention, that he would allow the bill to suffer a “pocket veto,” dying | for want of a signature. The fact that he took advantage | of the full legal period allowed | prompted some -observers to specu- late on a possible statement accom- panying announcement of the signing. Measure Quickly Passed. The non-controversial measure was passed through both houses quickly after a determined bloc of Democratic Senators forced the shelving of the | “big fifth” of the President's pro- gram—an enlarged Supreme Court. The bill provides: 1. Speeding up of final adjudica- tion of constitutional questions by permitting direct appeal from lower courts to the Supreme Court of cases involving constitutionality of acts of Congress. 2. Intervention by the Attorney General in lower court cases brought to test the constitutionality of congressional laws. 3. Three-judge lower courts to sit in suits for injunctions to block enforcement of Federal laws, 4. Shifting of judges within cir- cuits to relieve congested dockets, A House-Senate committee launch- ed meanwhile a Nation-wide survey of the judicial system, with partic- ular reference to congestion in the courts and the need for new judges. The study, an outgrowth of the Roosevelt court bill controversy, will be conducted by members of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees. Arrangements were completed for it yesterday at a conference between Senators Hatch, Democrat, of New | Mexico and Burke, Democrat, of Ne- braska and Chairman Sumners of the House Judiciary Committee. Hatch and Burke are the sponsors of a Senatelinquiry into the problems raised by the court controversy and Sumners is heading a similar inquiry | in the House. Conditions in the 10 judicial cir- cuits will be studied personally by members of the two committees, Hatch announced. Then, about November 1, there will be a meeting of the speci Senate committee here and all the proposals for judicial reform will be | considered. Course to Be Followed. Hatch said that tn addition to con- ferring with judges in the various districts, members of the committee will seek the advice of the Attorney General and members of the Supreme Court, “It is our desire to have whatever program is agreed upon ready for the next session of Congress,” Hatch said. The special tnquiry was ordered by the Senate at the suggestion of Hatch, & supporter of the modified Roosevelt court bill, and Burke, a leading foe, after the President’s measure had been sidetracked. Although one of the chief argu- ments made by the President for the bill was court congestion, the bill finally enacted made no pro- vision for new judges. The original bill called for 50 new lower court Judges. e FOUR INJURED AS BUS UPSETS ON BOULEVARD Vehicle Goes Down Bank at Am- mendale—Driver Says Wheels Locked. (PRicture on Page A-2.) Oil output again jumps. Page A-15 Rising costs cast shadow. PageA-15 Stocks edge up (table). Page A-16 Curb list drifts down (table). “Page A-17 Shoe. prices to be maintained. Page A-17 MISCELLANY. Wi Wayside. Vital Statistics. Shipping News. Traffic Convictions. Nature’s Children. City News in Brief. Dorothy Dix. Betsy Caswell. Cross-Word Puzzle. Bedtime Stories. Letter-Out. ‘Winning Contract. Page B-10 Page B-10 Page B-14 Page B-14 e B-15 B-13 By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. AMMENDALE, Md. August 24— Four persons were alightly injured TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, ¢ Foening Star 1937—THIRTY-FOUR PAGES. #x#» JIM. ALL IT NEEDS IS ANOTHER NAME POLICE ON GUARD AS JOBLESS MARCH 600 Officers Flank Ragged | Army of 2,500 on Its Protest Parade. Flanked by 600 uniformed police- men and scores of detectives, the job- | less army of 2,500 paraded from its | West Potomac Park camp today at | noon, Ranks moving raggedly to the tune of martial music provided by a sound | truck, the procession headed up Seven- teenth street and out New York ave- nue past W. P. A. headquarters. The original line of march was to have terminated at the White House, after a visit to Capitol Hill, but it was be- lieved this might be altered because | of the presence of 50 many policemen. In previous demonstrations of this kind, police have shunted the marchers | away from the Capitol and White House. Determination to carry on the fight in Washington for reinstatement of dismissed W. P. A. workers until their funds are exhausted was expressed last night at a mass meeting in the Belasco Theater. The delegates heard David Lasser, Workers' Alliance president, assail “reactionaries in Congress” as “wolves of economy,” responsible for dismissal | of half a million W. P. A. workers and defeat of the Supreme Court bill, the Political Reaction Threatened. Enlivened by a 60-plece band that played classical and light opera tunes, the assembly lustily cheered Lasser's | announcement that “we will work to- ward the building of a Farmer-Labor party to put into officc men and women who are representative of the | mass of the American people.” “Pending that,” Lasser said, “we will seek to defeat every member of Congress who has shown himself as opposed to progressive legislation. Let the Glasses and the Byrds across the river and the Woodrums be warned that their days are numbered—we're through with them.” Lasser said the march to Washing- ton has proved successful in that Harry Hopkins, W. P. A. administra- tor, had assured Senator Schwellen- bach of Washington there will be no more lay-offs of W. P. A. workers dur- ing the next nine months. Hopkins had told Alliance leaders that he did not want workers to look upon W. P. A. jobs as a ‘career.” Most of those released from the rolls in recent weeks were inefficient work- ers, he said, adding that a study of the rolls indicated that between 10 and 15 per cent regard it as a career. “Many people think the percentage is much greater than that,” Hopkins said. : Schwellenbach Unable to Attend. Schwellenbach, co-author with Rep- resentative Allen of Illinois of a bill to prevent further reductions in W. P. A. rolls, cause restoration to the rolls of those unemployed unable to find work in private industry, and to provide for a furlough status for those finding temporary employment in pri- vate industry, was unable to appear at the meeting. In a letter which was read, Schwel- lenbach informed the alliance he would make every effort toward the adoption of hi: bill in the event of a special session of Congress. Representative Jerry Voorhis, Dem- ocrat, of California told the delegates there was urgent need of a construct- ive works program and the means to enforce it, which he believed should be done through taxes. “A grave injustice is being done,” Voorhis declared, “when persons con- aclentiously seek work and are unable ‘o find it. The time has come, too, when & man who does a constructive job as a Government employe re- ceives the same honor and respect as & man who works in another kind of ‘employment.” Lasser said a letter was being sent to the President appesling to him from the refusal of Hopkins to make possible the reinstatement of the dis- today when a Greyhound bus, bound for Baitimore, overturned on the Bal- timore Boulevard near here, Paul E. Cutchin, the driver, told Hyattsville police the - accident oc- curred when the front wheels locked ww&d the brakes. The bus » off the road, crashed through & guard rail, knocked a telephone pole down and then turned over on its side down a steep embankment. Police listed the injured as Prank B. Bomberg. College Park, Md.; M. A. Glazebrook, Richmond, Va.; W. M. Daugherty, Winchester, Va., and O. C. Everhardt, Catonsville, 2d. Seve eral other persons were up, po- lice reported. charged W. P, A. workers. “We believe the use of your execu- tive power,” Lasser quoted from the letter, “to reinstate W. P. A. workers unable to find private employment will meet with the approval of the overwhelming majority of the Ameri- can people, and would be objected to only by those whom you aptly termed the Lord Macaulays of American life.” g 16 Sleeping Sickness Cases. TOKIO, August 24.()—Metropoli- tan police announced that 16 cases of sleeping sickness had been registered today, bringing to 85 number re- ported since August 1. Divorced Wife OfA.T.T.Head Killed in Fall By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 24.— Mrs. | Florence P. Temple, 45, former wife | of Walter 8. Gifford, president of the | American Telephone & Telegraph Co., was killed today th a fall from her eleventh-floor apartment in a West Fifty-seventh street hotel. Her mar- riage to Gifford ended in divorce at Reno in 1929, Mrs. Temple later married John Temple, an electrical engineer. » For some time she had been in ill health and had been treated at vari- | ous sanitariums for a nervous dis- order, according to her father, Walter Pitman, a Jersey City, N. J., manu- facturer, and his attorney, Ernest E. Wheeler. Recently she had been living in a | two-room suite at the hotel. | | This morning George Olsen, man- ager of the hotel, glanced from a window and saw a body on the second- | story extension in the rear. Mrs. Temple's. LIGHTNING BLAMED FOR FOREST BLAZE| Park Official Says Bolt Striking in Canyon Caused Wyoming Fire, Killing 14. By the Associated Press CODY, Wyo., August 24.-—Super- visor John Seiker of the Shoshone Na- tional Forest said today lightning, | striking a remote pine-filled canvon, “unmistakably” caused the savage for- est blaze that took the lives of 14 fire- fighters. Seiker reported 500 weary and smoke-choked men on the fire line now had the blaze under complete control. He estimated the flames had | swept over 2,000 acres in the Absaroka Mountains. Seiker said investigators spotted the | fire source definitely in this canyon, surrounded by high rock walls on all except one side. “Lightning is the only possible thing that could have started a fire in there,” Seiker declared. “There is no human habitation within 7 or 8 miles of the canyon en- trance,” he said. “We are sure, too, that no party of humans went into the canyon before the fire started.” The fourteenth victim of the fire died last night in a Cody hospital. He was Abriocio Garza of Corpus Christi, Tex, member of the Ten- sleep C. C. C. Camp. SOVIETS OUST CHAIRMAN OF MOSCOW COMMITTEE | PFilatoff Denounced for Neglect at Meeting of Provincial Execu- tive Unit. By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, August 24 —Nikolai Alexeievich Filatoff, a member of the presidium of the Soviet Union Central Executive Committee, was ousted to- day from the chairmanship of the Moscow Provincfal Executive Com- mittee. He was denounced at a meeting of the Provincial Committee for losing contact with the masses, permitting “enemies of the people” to get into provincial organizations and neglect- g industrial, agricultural, educa- tional and housing programs. Filatoff, as chairman of the Mos- cow group, was administrator of one of the largest regions in Russia, con- taining one-fifth of the Union's in- dustry. L. 8. Khokhloff succeeds him. e COOL WEATHER HERE IS DUE TO CONTINUE Cloudy Skies and Occasional Rain Today and Tomorrow Are Forecast. The Capital will enfoy at least a day or so more of continued cool, ac- cording to the Weather Bureau predic- tion this morning. Cloudy skies, with occasional rain both tonight and tomorrow, were fore- cast, with gentle northeast and east winds. Rain yesterday kept the thermom- eter in the 80s most of the time, the highest point ry ed being 72 at mid- night and the point of 63 occur- ring at 9:15 am.~ The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. | Sullivan said “every leader in the Tam- It was | Yesterday’s Circulation, 136,281 (S8ome returns not yet received.) UP) Means Associated Press. WIGWAN T0 BACK PRIVIARY WINNER Tammany to Unite Behind | Copeland or Mahoney After Party Vote. By the #ssociated Press. NEW YORK, August 24 —Tammany Hall will give united support to the winner of the Democratic primaries for the New York mayoralty on Sep- tember 16, Christopher D. Sullivan, | Wigwam leader, announced today. In pledging the hall's allegiance | many organization will support the | ticket,” whether won by United States Senator Royal S. Copeland, outspoken foe of President Roosevelt's New Deal regime, or by the pro-New Deal candi- date, former Supreme Court .Yusme‘ Jeremiah Titus Mahoney. “Tammany Hall has always been | regular,” Sullivan said. “It has always supported those nominated in the Democratic primaries.” Sees Copeland Victory. “However, there is no need to wor- ry,” he added. “The ticket headed by | Senator Copeland will be nominated. | It won't even be close.” Sullivan’s declaration cleared the air | somewhat as to the line to be taken | by faithful Tammany ‘braves,” since: local Democratic ranks have reported- | 1y been sharply split over the major is- | sue of the campaign—the New Deal. | | Mahoney, himself & Tammany dis- | trict leader, has been a severe critic | of Wigwam leadership and has come | out in favor of the New Deal, while Senator Copeland has been on the other side of the fence. Strikes at La Guardia. | Copeland struck yesterday at the labor policies of his incumbent-oppo- | | nent, Fiorella H. La Guardia, and | made plain he would make those poli- | | cies a leading issue in his campaign. “I want the police free to maintain order,” the Senator said, indicating he | was speaking mainly of their activities in connection with labor strikes, and adding: “Frankly, I don't think the police are now free to do their duty. How- ever, their job is to do what their boss tells them, and their boss is the Mayor of New York.” “Certain strike activities were un- doubtedly illegal—I shall enlarge upon that subject later,” he said. He promised, too, a full answer to charges from amongst his pro-Roose- velt Democratic opposition candidate that the Copeland candidagy is favored by Nazi sympathizers in New York City. GANGSTER SUSPECT IS HELD BY G-MEN Anthony Amersbach Termed “One of Remnants” of Barker- Karpis Mob. Anthony Amersbach, under indict- ment in Ohio on charges of harboring various members of the Barker-Kar- pis gang and with being an accessory after the fact of kidnaping, was ar- rested yesterday in Indianapolis, Ind., by special agents of the Federal Bu- reau of Investigation, it was an- nounced today by the bureau. A Nation-wide search had been conducted for Amersbach since June 10 of this year when the indictments against him were returned in United States District Court at Toledo, Ohio. Amersbach’s alleged offenses were committed at Cleveland, the bureau announced, when he became involved with the Barker-Karpis gang when they frequented a gambling house of that city, where he was employed. Members of the Barker-Karpis gang were convicted of the kidnaping of Edward G. Bremer, St. Paul banker, in January, 1934. CARDENAS ENDS TOUR En Route to Mexico City After Inspecting Southeast. MERIDA, Yucatan, Mexico, August 24 (#).—President Lazaro Cardenas Was en route to Mexico City today on the gunboat Durango after touring the Southeast in furtherance of his agra- rian program. Before leaving Merida last night he issued a message to residents of the federal territory of Quintana Roo, as- suring them that the land program would be ca there. Yucatan's TWO CENT SPECIAL SESSION 10 BE DISCUSSED AT WHITE HOUSE Roosevelt Meets With Floor Leaders at Luncheon Con- ference Today. HIGH ADMINISTRATION QUARTERS HINT NEED President Convinced Legislation of Vital Importance Should Be Enacted. BACKGROUND— Failure of Congress to act on several major issues raised by Pres- ident during session just closed precipitated speculation that ertra session would be called. Among things hanging are wage- and-hour bill, departmental reor- ganization bill and farm legislation, President Roosevelt planned to dis- cuss with Congressional fioor leaders today proposals for an extra session of Congress, with indications that the administration is supporting the move- ment. The whole matter, a subject of increasing debate between opponents and proponents of the plan, was ex- pected to be tnreshed out at a lunch- eon conference at the White House attended by the President, Senator Barkley, administration leader in the Senate, and Representative Sam Ray- burn, House majority leader Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, upon emerging from a presidential conference yesterday, said he favored an extra session, and so did Speaker Bankhead, according to dispatches. A group of other legislators, however, 1s campaigning against the plan. Urgent Need Hinted. It was hinted in high administra- tive quarters today that need for an extra session is urgent, in view of the large mass of important measures in need of legislative action, before the regular meeting of Congress in Jan- uary. It is known the President is convinced there is legislation vital to the welfare of the country that should be enacted before the first of next year. Meanwhile, Mr. Roosevelt had be- fore him today 158 bills awaiting his signature or veto after signing 17 this morning. Of the total, 91 ar- rived from the Capitol last night and 66 Saturday night. The others have been awaiting action for several days prior to that. The White House was advised today by the clerk on the Joint Committee on Enrollment that all bills passed at the late session have now been sent to the White House, White House officials said the Presi- dent has 10 days in which to act, ex- cluding Sundays, but not other holi- days. Labor day is counted as a work- ing day. Today is the last day, how- ever, for action on the substitute court bill. Opposition in House. A group of influential House Demo- crats expressed strong opposition meanwhile to a special session in the Fall on the grounds it might increase party dissension. One leader, who preferred not to be mentioned by name said “no prac- tical good and maybe some harm" would come from a special session on farm and wage-hour legislation. He said he and others of the same view would so advise President Roosevelt before leaving the Capital. He argued time was needed to al- low heated tempers to cool and that it would be poor policy for the Presi- dent to run the risk of reopening party strife in October or November. Many members, he said, might feel none too kindly toward the adminis- tration and its legislative program if they were summoned back to Wash- ington while in the midst of building political fences for next year's elec- tion. To the contention that action on & farm bill and a wage-hour measure in the Fall would permit shortening the regular January session, this party chieftain retorted that a special ses- sion would not mean “taking 15 min= utes off the regular session.” Representative Miller, Democrat. of Arkansas said he thought a special session might be desirable. Miller talked to the President yes- terday and predicted afterward that Mr. Roosevelt would announce in & few days whether he will call one. New Discord Feared. Those arguing a special session might create new party discord pointed par- ticularly to the strong opposition from Southern Congressmen to the wage- hour bill. This measure, passed by the Senate, was withheld from the House floor by & combination of Republicans and Southern Democrats on the Rules Committee. Since the next session, special or reg- ular, will be a continuation of the pres- ent Congress, the legislation will have the same status, when it begins, that it held at adjournment last week. Botn houses have agreed to make farm legislation the first order at the next session. Members of the Senate Agriculture Committee, arranging to work during the recess, said they would have a farm bill ready by November. HOPKINS WILL FILED Atlanta Capitalist's Estate Val- ued at $3,650,000. MIAMI, Fla., August 24 (#).—The will of Lindsey Hopkins, sr. Atlanta capitalist, was on file here today with a preliminary estimate of $3,650,000 as the estate’s worth, Hopkins died in Atlanta August 17. ‘The document named Lindsey Hop- kins, jr., administrator and directed the widow was to receive her personal effects, jewelry and household goods and the remainder was to be equally divided among Mrs. Hopkins, the son and a daughter, Mrs, Sara Hopkins Ludwig of Miami Beach. Hopkins held an interest In several henequen planitions now are being divided an . [easant workers. Iarge hotels E\rr buildings and more than 90 re~®%nts in South Florida.