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VOLUME 49—NUMBER 133

BLACK NOMINATION APPROVAL HELD UP: SENATE FIGHT SEEN

Subcommittee Votes Appointment Seen as

Favorably on Court | Roosevelt Appeal to

Appointment. Southerners.

LEGALITY UPHELD NOMINEE LIBERAL

Test of Public Opinion White House Strikes May Be Asked by | Back at Foes of New Deal.

By THOMAS L. STOKES

Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.— By United Press | President Roosevelt struck WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.|out again at his foes in and —Senate confirmation of the out of the Democratic Party nomination of Senator Hugo | by his nomination of Senator L. Black to the Supreme Black of Alabama, aggressive

Opposing Bloc.

(Editorial, Merry-Go-Round and Gen. Johnson, Page 16; Photo, Page 3; other stories, Page 2.)

Court faced delay today until | next week when Chairman Henry F. Ashurst said he would not call a special meeting of the Judiciary Committee to act on the nomination. Following approval of the nomination by a judiciary subcommittee it had been indicated a

be summoned to speed action on the nomination. A bloc of Republican and Democratic Senators who fought President Roosevelt's Supreme Court program were seeking to delay action, but friends of Senator Black were eager for a speedy vote on confirmation expressing confidence he would be given a strong majority. The next regular meeting day of the full committee is Monday.

Opposition Overridden

The subcommittee action taken despite a motion by Senator Austin seeking to delay a vote until investigation was made of the Constitutional eligibility of Senator Black to hold the Supreme Court post. Senator Austin cited a constitutional provision prohibiting members of Congress from holding offices created or whose emoluments (Turn to Page Two)

BOB BURNS

Says: Aug. 13.—It's

perfectly natural for a husband to wanta be a hero in his wife's eyes and they hate to have their wives think that some other fella can beat ‘em at somethin’. I know I don’t

to walk around the golf course with me unless I happen to be plavin’ some poor dub thatI know I can beat. I had an aunt that was very particular about her house. One day she found a little place on the wall where a piece of plaster had fallen out about an inch square and she told my uncle to call in a plasterer to patch it up. My uncle says, “Oh,.I can fix that, myself!” So he took the day off and drove 30 miles into town and brought a sack of plaster and step ladder and all the tools a plasterer would need and he comes back and went to work. Just as he finished making’ a botchy job of it, the ladder slipped and fell, spillin’ plaster all over the

special | meeting of the full committee would |

was |

[ew Dealer, to the Supreme | Court.

| But there was adroitness in the ‘blow. By naming a Southerner, he made it difficult for disgrunted | Southern Democrats to do more | than mutter privately. The deep | South, not now represented on the | Court, has long been crying for a | seat. While softening the blow for the { South by this recognition, he defied | party conservatives by selecting the | man who led the Senate fight for | the Wage-Hour Bill, which drove | Southern conservatives into an open | rebellion that is still raging in the House, not to speak of the Alabama | Senator's championship of crop- | control legislation and his staunch support of the now defunct Supreme | Court Reform Bill. In effect, the President hurled back the challenge flung at him recently by the conservative wing of his party. Simultaneously, he carried a step further his campaign for realignment of party forces.

Masses Are Recognized

For, in the selection of Senator Black, the President recognized the urban and rural masses of the South for whom the Alabama Senator has been a champion, in distinction from the industrial element which long has had a grip on most southern political machines. The President and some of his advisers believe that Senator Black | is more truly representative of the South, especially of the increasingly industrialized South, than are some southern leaders who have had more say than he in Congressional | affairs. | Further, Senator Black has been | one of the links with progressive | forces outside the party, such as [those led by Senators Norris (Ind. | Neb.) and La Follette (Prog. Wis.).

like for my wife | He attended the meeting of Pro- |

| gressive forces held in Chicago last | summer under La Follette auspices. The appointment will take Senator Black out of what promised (Turn to Page Two)

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

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By United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.—Congressional adjournment prospects

| lution of the crop loan-production | control deadlock.

brightened today with apparent so- |

Agreement was |

fell against the piano and broke | 5; i or Wagesthat. The piano hit the parlor lamp | dispute continued over wages-hours. and knocked it through the window |

: (D. Miss.) after and my uncle broke his arm. My | a conference with Mr, Roosevelt, |

gui ‘picked him up ant my uncle | provides that the White House Will |

stood there and ‘pointed with his authorize loans to insure a 12-cent |

good arm at this spot on the wall | a pound return on cotton.

he says, “Now, wouldn't it have : i and Ae to call a plasterer in | The loans will be authorized if |

floor and the ladder and my uncle reached on a tax loophole bill ot | |

The farm compromise, announced by Senator Bilbo

FORECAST: Fair tonight and tomorrow; not much change in temperature.

‘Swing’ Tunes Are Urged for School Pupils

By United Press NEW YORK, Aug. 13.—Forces were afoot today in New York to make such classroom songs as “Good Morning, Dear Teacher” as outmoded as the George Washington cherry tree legend. Irving Caesar, Broadway lyricist who wrote the words for such songs as “Just a Gigolo,” “Tea for Two” and “Is it True What They Say About Dixie?” is about to publish a book of “Syncopated and Sophisticated” songs for school children. The title will be “Sing a Song of Safety” and some of the tunes, revamped by Gerald Marks of Tin Pan Alley, will have definite traces of “swing.” Caesar went over some of the songs in a lecture to music teachers at Columbia University and got lots of applause and many demands | for encores. It was his idea, Mr. Caesar said, that children would like music and words a trifle modern. Some of the titles are “Keep Away From the Railroad Tracks,” ‘Ice Skating Is Nice Skating” and “An Automobile Has Two Big Eves.”

SECURITY SETUP TWO YEARS OLD

Rush for Cards Reflects | Gain in Jobs, Office Here Maintains.

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By LEO DAUGHERTY An overall-clad worker walked into the office of the Social Security Board on the second floor of the Meridian Life Building. “I'm going to work again,” he said, “The new boss told me I better get a social security number. But he didn’t need to tell me. I'd have gotten it anyhow. Man, if I can hold this job, or even any other job, I know that when I'm 65 the wife and kids will have an income.” Peter J. Van Geyt, director of the Social Security Board here which keeps the records for 49 counties in central Indiana, observed the applicant and listened to the conversation. “He's a typical number applicant,” said Mr. Van Geyt. “Words can’t describe what a fine thing it iS.” Act Two Years Old And as the Federal Social Security Act approached its second birthday tomorrow, he pondered the feeling of security which Hoosier workers are guaranteed under its provisions. The line formed at the right to file for security numbers. “We hit a new record last week,” |said Mr. Van Geyt. “There were | something like 7244 who got cards | last week. That means that many | more people went to work. It {wasn't just because of Indiana's | canning industry swinging into ac(Turn to Page Three)

PARAGUAY REVOLT FORCES OUT CABINET

| By United Press | ASUNCION, Paraguay, Aug. 13.— { The Cabinet resigned today after | an early morning revolt by the | Army and Navy.

Indicated on 2 Measures

| by the Senate Agriculture Commit- | tee, which makes production control | legislation the first order of business | at the January session of Congress. | This agreement, it was believed, | might aid in solving the wageshours deadlock. Southern and farm congressmen have opposed enactment of the Wages-Hours Bill unless crop loans were authorized. The Wages-Hours Bill is now held | up by a deadlock in the House | Rules Committee which is preventing approval of a rule to allow consideration of the measure on the House floor.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 183, 1937

He Slings Arrow at Fate

GOOD MAY ASK LOWER SCHOOL CITY TAX RATE

Valuation Increase Makes Estimate Toe Large, He Declares.

CIVIL DECREASE HINTED |

Reduction of Cent and Quarter ‘Probably’ Possi- | ble, Says Official.

Business Director A. B. Good to-

{day said he probably would ask the

Marion County Tax Adjustment Board to reduce the School City 1938 property tax levy from $1.07 to $1.05%.

This levy, placed on each $100 |

worth of taxable property within the

city limits, can be reduced, he said, | because the total valuation of prop- | erty subject to 1938 taxes is $507,- |

765,580 as compared with a valuation for this year of $501,414.410. Mr. Good said when he estimated | it again would take a $1.07 tax rate

to produce enough revenue next | year for School City needs, he as-

sumed the total city property valuation would be $501,665,000. Under his original estimate, each

cent in the tax levy would have |

raised $50,166, while under the new valuation, certified today by Chief Deputy County Auditor Fabian Biemer, each cent will raise $50,776. More Revenue Possible

Under the $1.07 rate, then, the School City wourd receive $65,000 more revenue because of the valua- | tion increase then it budgeted for, and consequently a 1's cenj reduction can be made in the levy, Mr. Good said. The 1937 School City levy was $1.07. Similar reductions may be made

ment Board in the 1938 rate for

levy 273% ceats higher than this year’s $1.14. The Civil City budget

Board. Mr. Biemer also certified today

erty valuation subject to next year’s

uation against which this year's

taxes were levied. *

STARES OF CURIOUS GIVE QUINS JITTERS

Life in ‘Goldfish Bowl’ Too Much, Dafoe Says.

By United Press CALLANDER, Ont, Aug. 13.— “Life in a goldfish bowl” is proving | too much for the Dionne quintuplets, it was revealed today. The famous five are suffering from slight colds, Dr. Allen Roy Dafoe said. But—their major trouble is a case of jitters and general | irritability caused by being stared

at daily by thousands of visitors. | The “crowd problem” is so serilous, Dr. Dafoe said, that he and

| the other two guardians—Judge J. | A. Valen and Percy D. Wilson—are trying to figure out a plan how the public can see the children at play without the quins knowing it. Dr. Dafoe pointed out that he, and the guardians, know that [should one of the babies die, the | whole world would be shocked; that [even a hint of lack of care not only | would be a terrible indictment against them but against Canada

| itself,

COY IS EXPECTED "TO RETURN TONIGHT

Times Special WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.—Wayne Coy, administrative assistant to] High Commissioner Paul V. McNutt of the Philippines, today concluded a series of conferences with State Department officials on Island af-

the Civil City, which has requested a |

that the total Marion County prop- |

taxes is $601,529,760, an increase of | $8,127,790 over the $593,401,970 val- |

| Interstate Commerce

[O. P. and M. J. Van Sweringen.

fairs and will return to Indiana to- | night. He will fly back to Manila, |

Ente at Postoffice, Indianapolis,

Times Photo Friday the 13th holds no terrors for Don L. Foxworthy—even Hit is his birthday. Just to prove it, he's shown here with his pet black cat, which runs back and forth in front of him several times daily. And that isn't all. Young Don—there are 13 letters in his name —lives on R. R. 13, just off State Road 13. He was born on Friday, the 13th. There are 13 members in the household and—his present occupation is caring for 13 little ducks, honest. Don is the son of C. T. Foxworthy, Roy Wilmeth Co. vice president.

Wind Cuts Soviets’ Speed

After Passing Over Pole

By United Press FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 13.—The big Russian four-motored plane, | making a scheduled one-stop flight over the top of the world trom Moscow to the United States, bucked a 60-mile headwind today that was cutting down its speed. The plane averaged about 180 miles an hour during the earlier stage of the flight and reached the North Pole in about 16 hours. Coming down this side of the world, however, the wind picked up. It was indicated it probably would be mid- &—-—— -— ——

afternoon before the fliers land here | to refuel. Previous estimates had CONTINUE Quiz OF

placed the landing around noon (4 p. m. Indianapolis Time). Police Believe Gunmen Have Left Baltimore.

by the Marion County Tax Adjust- |

awaits approval of the City Council | before it can be sent to the County |

Sigismund Levanevsky, one o Russia’s greatest aviators, was in charge of the ship. He radioed the Nome station of the Army Signal Corps that he was holding the plane at 18,000 feet altitude and that despite the wind and cold the motors were functioning perfectly. The temperature was around 35 degrees below zero outside the plane, he said, and the cabin windows were frosted. With Levanevsky were five com-

| By United Press BALTIMORE, Md. Aug. 13.—Police searched underworld haunts for panions, including a co-pilot, a the notorious Brady gang today on navigator, a radio operator and two the theory that some members who mechanics. | escaped after a gun battle last Sat- ‘ TE Tie RO Bt on | arday might still be in the vicinity. - gt Now York 4 Officials continued to question g : 2 wives of two of the gangsters, who were charged with conspiracy to Weather Is Ideal obstruct justice, and two other perAt Fairbanks sons who were arrested in three By United Press

hideouts of the gang here. Police believed that the gangsters FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 13.—| ’ Ground observers at this interior | ip I MAR Alaska airport where a Soviet trans- Rite

: : fuel | timore, but maintained surveillance Polar plane was scheduled to refuel, | or yh qerworla hide-outs because of

noted ideal flying conditions early f(y, possibility they may have backtoday. [tracked into the city. The ground temperature Was re-| The women held are Mrs. Minnie ported to be 44 and a six-mile|pjley who was married to Shaffer northeast wind was blowing. under his alias as Mickey Riley; Russian flight attaches here re-|zrs Mary Schwartz who married fused to divulge any information | pojhover under the alias of Herb about the fliers’ plans. | Schwartz, and Mrs. Catherine EcoTr Ti ep { nomidis, sister of the two women. ©. INVESTIGATES | rmeta. tote of the fun vou HUGE RAIL EMPIRE MOWS GRASS IN TOP ; HAT, STRIPED PANTS

Aug. 13.—The | Commission | Joseph Page, 2f, Negro, 514 W, today instituted an investigation to | Michigan St., who is stopping at the determine whether it has jurisdic- | Marion County Jail for a year or so, tion over the 23,000-mile railroad | stopped Alabama St. traffic today empire built up hy the late brothers, | when he mowed the front lawn at- | tired in top hat, striped morning | pants and a striped sweater.

By United Press = ji WASHINGTON,

The Commission, in ordering the inquiry, indicated it also would seek | Page made the top hat from some to determine whether a, proposed | cardboard, black paint and a black merger of Allegheny Corp. and | ribbon he found in the jail. As soon Chesapeake Corp., big holding com- | as the grass was mowed, Page, a

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CHINESE

Nipponese Troops at Nankow Pass Bomb Defenders.

SEND UP PLANES

Circling of Railway Tunnels Believed Present Aim.

By F. M. FISHER (Copyright, 1937, by United Press)

JAPANESE ARMY

FIELD HEADQUARTERS, SOUTH OF NANKOW, Aug. |13.—Japanese troops occupied Nankow, 25 miles northwest of Peiping, today and pressed on in face of deter- | mined Chinese resistance to storm the Nankow Mountain

pass. Chinese resistance, which had

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ARTILLERY FIRE UPON JAPANESE

‘Machine Guns, Tanks In Action North of Shanghai.

CHAPEI BURNING

Naval Patrols on Guard in U. S. Section.

By H. R. EKINS

Not until parts of Chapei north of the International Settlement had

retroactive for the last three weeks.

seemed at an end, had stiffened. | been set afire and two Japanese Japanese commanders brought | gunboats, the Seta and the Kuri, into the battle their airplanes and anchored in the Whangpoo River, [tanks in an effort to throw the | Ma earted hele She. shore Chinese from the pass, key to all gijjery AES Yaz Pe the country to the north, hefore the | But tonight their batteries let go. Chinese blew up mountain tunnels. | Their fire was directed at Japanese This, the first formal battle of ( DoSItiOns Du ide Shangha (tive | sity, jacent to which their - Tan undeclared war, was to have ing forces were attempting to oN ended in a Japanese parade into | struct an airfield. Nankow today. Naval patrols were landed from But during the night, the Chinese, [the U, 8. S. Sacramento, station who had retired from Nankow, sent ship, and proceeded to their posts forward some of their best men. as guards over the American-owned They took positions southeast of Shanghai Power Co. the Soconys | Nankow, | Vacuum Installation and the Shange hai branch of the Texaco Co.

At dawn the Japanese outposts Smoke Lies Over City found the Chinese there, and found Smoke from flaming buildings their own field telephone lines had | blew from the Chapei and Kingwan been cut during the cloudy, foggy | sections-—-native quarters. night. With the Japanese artillery bomOne correspondent managed to | barding Kiangwan, gravest concern reach a front line bridge position | was felt for the American Oriental three miles southeast of Nankow, | Missionary Society, located in that There he found that for the first | section. The organization cares for time Chinese artillery shells were | foundling children. falling into the Japanese positions.| The U. 8. Consulate advised It was evident that the Chinese | Americans to evacuate the area, but were defending this vital area in | Was uncertain whether 10 Americans strength and with a determination | Normally stationed there had been that was not lessened bv the | able to leave before the bombards knowledge that Japan had a for- | He. : midable military machine. | Glare of the conflagrations blotted ai (out a pale crescent moon and red|dened the skies as if a portent of

Japanese Cabinet the blood to be shed. ‘Called On War Issues Japanese reinforcements crame

(ming camions on which machine By United Press guns were mounted rumbled TOKYO, Aug. 13. — A second

through the streets, even those of emergency session of the full Japa- | the settlement in the Hongkew nese cabinet was announced today | Section. for tomorrow to consider the latest |

Chinese Shell Foes

| Midget two-man tanks hastened reports from Shanghai, The Gov- [behind foot patrols and went into | ernment will deliberate what meas- | action, moving deeper into Chinese | ures are to be taken in view of the | territory. [Chinese attitude, it was stated. | Six hundred miles to the north mm | Japanese and Chinese armies met

lon three fronts, northwest of PeiGROCER WAREHOUSE (osc simesns "acecsih TRUCKERS RETURN

| of Tientsin, in battles that were still

| developing. Correspondents who reached the Retroactive Wage Rise Settles Dispute.

great Chinese base at Shihehia«

[chuang, found Chinese armies | (Turn to Page Three)

ON INSIDE PAGES TIMES FEATURES

Indianapolis wholesale grocer warehouse truck drivers returned to | work today after employers agreed | ooks upon a new wage scale last night, | Bridge ..... Broun Although the wage scale was Elapper agreed to last night between em- | comics ...... ployers and union officials, the men | Orossword

Merry-Go-R'd ve Movies Mrs. Ferguson Mrs. Roosevelt Music Obituaries ...

approxiamtely a |

refused to go to work today until | curious World the back pay item was settled, Members of the Warehouse Association and Teamsters & Chauffeurs Union officials signed the agreement to end the week-old strike affecting dozen Indianapolis firms. Police and deputy sheriffs escorted three food trucks out of town

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SOCIAL SECURITY TWO YEARS

“Social Security Board”—the

certain of that income when he’s beyony 65. On the right is Peter J. Van Geyt,

{and when Congress approves the | Bilbo resolution, favorably reported

average worker finds it.

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He has a job. He wants to make

The situation on other measures | leaving San Francisco next Wednes- | panies of the system, would be in

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director.

day, he said.

This is a typical Hoosier “going-back-to- work” type. He lost no time in applying for his number and Miss Thelma Hill, lost no time in making it out and presenting it to him,

trusty, into the jail.

{ the public interest. | Traffic moved on reluctantly.

When hundreds apply for numbers every day it takes quite a few stenographers the records. Here is a battery of them wo in the regional Social Security

last night. | Johnson ..... 18 Wiggam .....

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