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in 8 Weathir Bureau Forecast.) Mj4 k Full ASSOCiated PreSS
Fair today; tomorrow partly cloudy and V s M XT J sir
warmer; gentle, variable winds, becoming H I JNeWS and WirephotOS
r,^rrCr.r;rf^H1!he!t- I I Sunday Morning and
run report on Page B-2. ▼ 1 Every Afternoon.
(A’) Means Associated Press. ' ----—
Xo. 1,691—Xo. 34,074. * FIVE CEXTS !TEX CEXTS
■- ■■ ■ ■ — ■ : _IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS' FTjiFWHfvnr
U. S. FLEET READY TO REMOVE
4,000 IN SHANGHAI; 3 AMERICANS
AMONG 863 KILLED BY BOMBS
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Fighting Slows ai
Typhoon Sweeps
Ravaged Citv.
AIR BASES HIT.
JAPANESE SA\
Foreign Casualties
in Plane Attack
Put at 40.
By the Associated Press.
SHANGHAI. August 15 (Sunday'.
A Chinese typhoon today swallowp
the war horrors of Shanghai wher
Chinesp air bombs killed Rfi3 civilian:
including three Americans, and in
jured at least 1.140 in this teemin
international city.
Police of the international quarts
said 40 foreigners were among th
dead, but that a complete check ha
not been completed.
Japanese naval guns thundered spas
modically from ships anchored ii
the Whangpoo River and machin
guns rattled an answer in isolate:
sections.
Otherwise blood-soaked peace settle:
on the stricken city, heaped wit]
the broken bodies of bombing victim
and its hospitals crowded with suffer
ing wounded.
Tension Appears Relieved.
Tension in the international quartet
scene of the worst carnage In Satur
day's tragic aerial attack, seemed re
lieved as heavy wind and rain swep
In from the sea. Extremely poor vis
lbility seemed to allay fears of an:
Immediate renewal of action by eithe
contending Chinese or Japanese at
forces.
Japanese sources declared the islam
empire's naval bombers had penetrat
ed into the interior behind Shangha
and destroved at least 40 chines'
planes at aircraft bases. The Japan
ese reported they had effected th'
destruction of the two Chinese bomb
ers blamed for the lethal attack oi
Shanghai's foreign sertion.
The Chinese bombs fell into th:
city of 3.500.000 persons when tht
airmen missed their Japanese warshij
target anchored near the JaDanest
concession.
Inquiry Reported I'nder Wav.
Chinese sources said Generalissimc
Chiang Kai-shek, strong man of tht
Nanking regime, was conducting t
strict inquiry into the bomhing. Thest
sources said that Japanese anti-air
craft bullets striking bomb racks oi
the low-flying planes released tht
projectiles prematurely. »
Whatever the rause of the attack
two or more Americans wert
wounded in a Shanghai Saturday oi
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 a.m. (1:30 p.m. 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.
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
eign 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 his home more than
(See'SHANGHAI. Pace A-5J
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FARNSWORTH ASKS
FREEDOM IN ATLANTA
Assails Indictment in Espionage
Charge—Case Is Taken Un
der Advisement.
9f the Associated Press.
ATLANTA. August 14.—A writ o:
habeas corpus for John S. Farnsworth
former naval officer under sentenc*
of from 4 to 12 years for violatins
the espionage act, was taken undei
advisement by Federal Judge E. Mar
vin Underwood today.
Farnsworth was convicted in Wash
ington last February 15 on a charg<
of giving a confidential naval pam
phlet to Yosiyaki Itmiya and Akin
Yamaki for transmission to the Jap
anese government. He was indictee
August 2, 1936, about three week:
after his arrest.
Gray-haired and alert, Farnswortl
appeared before Judge Underwood t<
make his own plea, contending th<
indictment on which he stood tria
was "insufficient in allegations o
arguments to identify or allocate an;
act of the defendant.”
The former lieutenant commande
hand-printed his petition in the Fed
eral penitentiary here, where he start
serving his term March 3.
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AMBASSADOR NELSON
5 JOHNSON
Sent to trouble area.
ii__m_i_i
DR ROBERT K. REISCHAVER,
American professor, killed.
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• Italy, Germany and Japan
Among Those Formally
Stating Accord.
BACKGROUND—
I Secretary of State Hull issued a
| statement of policy July 16 advo
j rating abstinence by all nations
from use of force in pursuit of
policy and from interference in the
I internal affairs of other nations.
This statement mas circulated in
. ! foreign capitals for comment, and
a meek ago 37 nations expressed
attitudes in harmony with. it.
' By the Associated Press.
Secretary Hull's plea for "mterna
1 tional self-restraint'' drew from Italy,
j Germany and Japan yesterday formal
' expressions of accord with America's
1 peace policy.
Replies from these countries—where
military matters play important parts
in foreign policy—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.
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
tions, 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 "concur
rence." Japan informed Hull i's 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
Hull said expressions of more than
50 govemmen.s 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.
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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
1 brother, William Cooper of Colonial
' Beach, and a sister, Mrs. Jean Huff
man of Baltimore.
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, General Held Insane.
KRAKOW. Poland. August 14 UP}.—
■ Gen. Joseph Roja, one of the late
• Marshal Joseph Pilsudski'a best known
■ officers, was transferred to the In
sane ward of a hospital today.
I
) 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 flight uas made last June
21) between Moscow and Vancouver,
Wash. The pilots flew 5.300 miles
in 63 hours.
Three weeks later a second Somet
trio roared out of Moscow along the
lieu- airline and extended it 974
miles before bringing their mono
plane down at San Jacinto. Calif.
Distance covered was 6.262 miles;
time, 62 hours.
Bj tie Associated Prrss.
FAIRBANKS. Alaska. August 14 —
Three groups of "mercy flyers" 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
moving out of Moscow to comb the
polar regions for Pilot Sigismund
LevanefTskv and his five companions,
| Ameriran 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 Ipft
Moscow at 10:13 p.m. (E. S. 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,
role Camp Is Air Base.
The floating Soviet North Pole camp
was advised to convert its station into
a base for the rescue operations,
j For clues the searchers had only
j fragmentary messages from the plane.
I which was bound for Fairbanks, 4,000
miles away.
The last of these messages was
picked up at 9:53 a m. (E. S. 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.
Aiding 4,000 Up to
U. S. Officials in
Battle Zone.
HULL DEMANDS
CITY BE SPARED
Neutrality Ac t i on
May Be Taken
Tomorrow.
' BACKGROUND—
Smo-Japanese "undeclared uar”
grew nut. of clash of Chinese and
Japanese armed forces July 7 near
Peiping and refusal of Hopeh
Chahar Political Council to yield
to demands of Tnkio. which would
have set up another puppet regime
in North China. Killing of Jap
anese officer in Shanghai last Mon
day brought conflict to the Chi
nese metropolis with its thousands
j 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.
Seeretary of State Hull said last
night the Government had directed
naval and consular officials in the ■
troubled areas to determine when and '
how many of the 4.000 nationals !
should be evacuated.
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- j
hai."
The United States, he said, has j
"lost no opportunity" to impress this
demand on Japanese and Chinese
officials in Tokio, Nanking. Shanghai,
Peiping and Tientsin.
Quiet on Neutrality Art.
Hull made no comment on the pros
pect of invoking the neutrality act, !
but Chairman Pittman of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee pre- ,
dieted that if the hostilities at Shang- [
hai continue. President Roosevelt will
make a statement tomorrow or Tucs
riot*
Senator Pittman, who has acted as \
a semi-official spokesman for the ad
ministration in the Far Eastern crisis. I
defended the President's failure up
to now to find that China and Japan j
are at war, but said. “Things are
very rapidly reaching a state where !
an armistice is impossible'' 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
sued 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 passible 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.
Plea to Bar New Bombing Sent
Mme. Chiang by Mrs. T. R.. Jr.
By the Associated Press.
SHANGHAI, 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
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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 dinner
guest.
She is familiar with the Orient,
having spent much time here while
her husband, now in New York, waa
governor-general of the Philippines.
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Congress Asked to Appro
priate $210,000 for Pur
chase of Site.
After years of dismission, a definite
step toward providing a suitable
armory for Washington's National
Guard was taken yesterday whpn
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 thp reason immediate
action is being sought.
The budget estimate, which will be
considered for inclusion in the last
deficiency supply bill this week, rec
ommends acquisition of four squares
ad.tacent to the area, which National
Capita! planning agencies hope to
de\elop as a stadium and sports field.
Bell's letter of transmittal, in whirh
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
Guard armory. In 1933 the National
Capital Park and Planning Commis
sion. after an extensive study in co
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
1.118. 1.119. 1.125 and 1.128.
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
velopment has not yet 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.”
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 UNREPORTED
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
terday for Fort Nelson, British Co
lumbia. was missing )
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Legion Bars Fascist Salutes
From Future District Parades
Resolution Raps Unnamed Veterans Who Marched
Thursday ami Attacks Nazis—Mason Is
Elected New Commander.
i'ii null oojuin er i r
from future American Legion parades
here in a resolution edopted at the
closing session of District depart
ment's annual convention last night,
after it was charged that a veterans'
organization partinnatmg in Thurs
day night s narade had used what ap
peared to be a Fascist or Communist
salute.
The action was taken at a meeting
in the Mayflower Hotel, during whieh
Polirp Lieut. Thomas Mason, jr., was
fleeted eommander of the department,
succeeding Horace Lineburg, also a
lieutenant in the Police Department.
Mason and his entire slate were
swept into nffire by a decisive vote on
the Amt ballot.
i J.UT- vutr un me ^luiro camr oil
an amendment by J. J. Murphy of
George Washington Post to a motion
| sharply criticizing Nazi artivties In
i this country, and indorsing invest!*
i gation by the Legion in New Jersey
j of a Nazi ramp in that State.
| While Murphy did not name the
I organization involved, spectators on
| the reviewing stand Thursday night
commented on salutes bv some of the
members of t.hp Italian war veterans
when they passed.
"We should have the American
salute in our parades." he told the
j convention, "and no other salute."
Demonstrating by the use of his right
j hand. Murphy said: "You couldn't
(See LEGION. Page A-7~l
SINKING OF LAND
IN IDAHO SPREADS
Farmers Worried. Fearing
More of Valuable Area
May Be Ruined.
(Picture on Page A-3.)
By the Associated Press.
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, j
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
ing canyon" formed within the last
24 hours. An area 20 yards wide and
70 yards long sank 75 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.
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BANK ROBBER IS SUICIDE
Plunges From Third to First
Floor of St. Paul Jail.
ST. PAUL, August 14 (4=).—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 hos
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, Iowa, where
he was wanted for murder.
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Mission Boat Stops for Wedding.
BAR HARBOR, Me., August 14 (A>).
—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 Programs, Page F-7.
! Complete Index, Page A-2.
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CONFEREESTOGET
0. C. MORI 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
busiest 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 to
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
Springs to Congress, however, and
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.
S. L. Parcell. retired Baptist 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 Paroell the Saltus gold medal of
the National Aariemy of Design.
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HOPES ARE RAM
FOR ADIOURNMENI
CEOSE 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 for
this session of the wage-hour bill,
hopes for an early adjournment, pos
sibly by the end of this week, ran
hizh in both hranehes of Congress
yesterday, despite the threat of a
fleht in the Senate against confirma
tion of the nomination of Senator
Hugo L. Black to the Supreme Court.
A move to force public hearings on
the selection of Black for the seat va
cated by Justice Van Decanter de
veloped late yesterday, after Speaker
Bankhead had virtually conceded the
House would not pass the wage-hour
bill this session.
“There Is every appearance of a
definite impasse in the Rules Com
mittee and no indication that mem
bers will change their minds, at least
at this session.'' he told reporters
Although some House members,
after this announcement, immediatelv
began to plan homeward trips. Bank
head would not forecast adjournment
by Saturday. But he added tha» if
there is aify chance of ad’ournmg
by that time, the leadership will not
I hesitate to order night sessions in the
i House.
The possibility of a protracted fight
azains' Blacks confirmation appeared
the only serious obstacle to early com
pletion of Senate business.
Quick Report Seen.
Majority Leader Barkley pred;c*ed
the nomination would be favorably re
ported by the Senate Judiciary Com
mittee tomorrow and approved In the
Senate Tuesdav after "two or thr°e
hours" of debate. If he is right in
this, it is expected the tax bill and
the deficiency appropriation can be
taken in stride, and that a confer
ence can smooth out the differences
between Senate and House versions of
the housing bill. This. Barkley be
lieves. is all that is necessary to as
sure adjournment.
Other members of the Senate, how
ever, did not share his view that
Black's appointment can be con
firmed by Tuesday.
Chairman Ashurst of the Judiciary
Committee, one of the Alabama Sen
ator's strongest supporters, said he
looked for two or three days of de
bate on the nomination, and added
he could not agree with Barkley that
it would in no wise interfere with
the adjournment drive.
The effort to force public hearings
on the question was marie late in the
day by Senator Bridges. Republican,
of New Hampshire, one of those pub
licly committed to oppose Black's
nomination.
wufin .nutp in«diiea.
Bridges ro.se in the Senate to press
his demand, but before he could get
the floor a quorum was called and.
because an insufficient number ans
wered, the Senate adjourned for the
; week end.
Bridges told reporters he would have
demanded that the Black nomination
j be handled the same way as other ap
pointments to the Supreme Court. He
said hearings had been held on all
such nominations, including the ap
pointment of Chief Justice Hughes,
and that the same treatment should
j be given to the nomination of a
Senator.
He was prepared, he said, to submit
j to the Senate many telegraphic de
mands for hearings on the nomination.
It became apparent yesterday that
the position expressed' by Senator
Bridges was being taken by several
others of the Democratic and Repub
lican Senators who fought President
Roosevelt's original court bill. 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 Decanter retired.
Telegrams Assail Black.
This view also was taken by Senator
McCarran, Democrat, of Nevada, a
member of the Judiciary Committee,
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
subcommittee 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 Shot
Him in Back.
By the Associated 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.
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