Bakersfield Californian (Newspaper) - August 13, 1937, Bakersfield, California EDITION COMPLETE PRESS CEASED WIRE THt LEADING OP THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY XLVII 18 PAGES AUGUST 1M7 EDITION FUU ANb EXCLUSIVE UNITED REPORT SHANGHAI 9 9 Given Senate Committee Approval on Court Seat RUSSIAN PLANE BUCKS HEADWINDS OVER POLE Cummings Says Nominee Legally Can Hold Job on High Bench Picture on Page Other Stories on Page 2 Senate confirmation of the nomin ation of Senator Hugo to the Supreme Court today faced delay until next week when Chairman Henry Ashurat said he would not call R special meet ing of the Judiciary committee to act on the Associated Press Leased Wire A Senate judiciary sub committee swiftly approved today the nomination of Sen ator Ala to the Supreme It acted only minutes after President Roosevelt told a press Attorney General Cummings had in formed him that it was perfectly legal and constitutional to appoint Black of Alabama to the The Judiciary subcommittees 61 six members voted to report Blacks nomination after rejecting a move by Senator Aus to hold up action pending study of legal questions All of the subcommittee except Austin ed for approval of the nomination and rejection of the New England ers proposal for Austin questioned Blacks ity under the recent act of Congress providing for retirement of Supreme Court justices at full He sug gested it might make any member of Congress ineligible either on the basis of creating a new or of Increasing the emoluments of the Question Eligibility Questions of his eligibility had been raised from the first by some senators like cited his membership in the Senate during action on tho Supreme Court retire ment It was to answer these that tho President made known the opinion expressed lo him informally by the attorney The President at the same time said there as no truth in reports that he as going to press for a con amendment on Supreme Court The President disclosed the attor ney generals views on the Black nomination at a press conference which began simultaneously with the meeting of the judiciary sub committee named to consider the se the subcommittee hearing Aus tin demanded that public hearings be held on the nomination after Senator Illi had moved to report the nom favorably to the full judi ciary Amendment Hinted The President said opinion on Black had been given to him Informally and He did not elaborate his remarks about denying reports that he wouk submit a constitutional amendment Continued on Page INDEX TO ADVERTISERS ARVIN ASSOCIATED LIQUOR I BAKERSFIELD HARDWARE BAKERSFIELD MEMORIAL BAKERSFIELD SANDSTONE BRICK 2 CITY MERCANTILE 6 FOX FOX HOGLE JOHN V KERN AIR I KIMBALL 0 NATIONAL DOLLAR 7 NILE PHILLIPS MUSIC POO WAH HERB t DON I REX RIALTO 4 SKIPPER 4 0 UNION VAN VI MINI A JEWELRY 0 MOTHER DIES PEIRSON He Lost His Job and Parent Peirson Halls Parent Dies Same Day McAdoo Ousts Him From Job Press Leased Wire LOS body of a 71yearold woman at the county morgue waa identified early today as that of Mary mother of United States Attorney Peirson for whom a suc cessor was nominated Hall died almost at the same lour as news carne from ton that Roosevelt had sent tho name of Benjamin Harri San Bernardino to the Senate for confirmation United States She collapsed In the neighborhood of her home and was taken to Geor gia Street Receiving where she succumbed shortly after resulted from natural attaches Identity the body waa removed to the last night after a careful check of another Charles learned of the came to the morgue and made the A third Robert also were that returning from a shopping no headlines concerning the Unit ed replacement In office and the shock induced her She had just purchased chickens to fry tomorrow for her when they attended her seven birthday dinner at her She the widow of Robert a pioneer in western South who died 42 years The Weather San valley Fair to night and slightly cooler tonight and In south portion 8at Southern California to night and but morning fog near no change in tem E DELAYS ARRIVAL Al ALASKA PORT Soviet Ship lo Stop in Fly to California army signal corps here reported that the Russian transPolar piano was bucking terrific headwinds In Its flight toward and that it could not reach that refueling point earlier than 4 Pacific standard United Pirut Leaned Wirt a head wind of 60 miles velocity and sub zero a Russian monoplane carrying six men on a flight blazing a possible passenger route from Mos cow to the United passed the north pole today and headed here for n refueling The plane passed over the north pole after more than 16 hours In the A message intercepted by the Nome station of tho United army signal ismund hero of the Soviet and chief pilot of the was keeping the giant ship at an altitude of ab ut of the plane were frosted by the 35 degrees below zero tem Despite bad flying the plane was functioning the message Alaska Air Good Conditions here were Tho temperature was 44 degrees above a 6mile northeast wind was and tha Alaska range of 19 miles was clearly Three thousand of were ready for the transpolar ship al a mile from the After the piano will head Immediately for San Francisco or Earlier reports gave Chi cago or New York as possible Soviet engineer nan transmission of weather to tho said Moscow had in formed him the plane would go to said he did not know If the would take the in Continued on Zionist Delegates in Zurich Guarded Prut Leand Wire Zurich police took added to guard delegates to the Zionist Con dress today after a number of them were molested on the streets by young Swiss of a nationalist Rabbi Wolf formerly of New Tork and now a resident of Palestine and president of the World Orthodox Jewish was among the annoyed Wed His hat was torn off by a group of A British delegate wan Lacerated Body of 4Year Girl Found NEW lacer aled body of 4yearold Joan Kulebu missing from her aunts home al South Staten since yesterday found to In an abandoned house not far from the The body had been clashed with a knife from throat to It was lying face downward with several piled on the Truck Driver Gets Life for Kidnaping 13YearOld Girl Earl 26yearold truck sentenced to Im prisonment by Judge Hat ton for enticing old Olive Carr from her home and hitchhiking with her to Earl had pleaded guilty to the kidnaping charge late Hg the first person to be sentenced under the states 1937 kidnaping The youth nearly broke with emo tion he thanked Judge He obviously relieved that he had a sentence of death in lethal death sentence may Imposed In where the kidnap victim suf fers bodily A broke He for writing paper and an en he In a county jail cell awaiting transfer t the state penitentiary et Carson City tomorrow made no Cavanaugh charged with lur Ing the high school girl from the home of her Carr and on July and taking her on a 2000 mile hitchhike interrupted by auth in and Texas week Valley Cotton Land Taxes Attacked by Supervisors ent methods of In ml used for growing cotton were under fire today by county supervisors of the San valley its they dis cussed the acute problem caused by thousands of transients entering the valley for work in the cotton Before adjourning last members of tho SHU Val ley Supervisors Association prom ised drastic action to change tax assessments on cotton It was explained that cotton cannot be as sessed as other raw In ml he cause it Is always In that state on March 20 when assessments are Supervisor Jay Brown of Tu lure county nnd Stanley Abel of Kern county led protests on the assessing Some proposed a tax against haled cotton at the gins but this might be classed as a processing It was pointed The supervisors argued the tre mendous Increase In cotton plant ing had attracted surplus labor here but was not helping carry the burden of relief and wel fare A was passed urging that the relief program IMS assumed by the federal U was learned that the valley will enter a group exhibit In the Golden Onto Exposi tion In San In 1939 with the probable exception of Merced and Stanislaus The latter has already heroine affiliated with the Alta or northern California group for an exhibit and Merced is considering similar White Negro Gassed to Death Prison white man and a Negro were P gassed to side by as the penally for today in lethal execution The two were Uort who killed a man In a saloon and Ernest who mur dered his Three women and 37 watching through windows In the gas cham the pair Before so other convicts In tho state prison would not be dis the two were led up the 12 to tho second story gaa room of the death rawboned ex Quick Revolt Unleashed on War Heros Ministers by Own Troops United Wirr The Paraguayan army and navy revolted today against President Franco and forced his cabinet to Groups of rebel which for merly belonged to thn regular army In the entered the capital bringing to a climax a situation that had been reported as The Interior ministry yesterday had Issued a communique saying the government had adopted meas ures to revent a confused situa tion on the port of a sector of regu lar troops in the This communique was the first In of any trouble although rumors of rebellion had circulated for several The communique said the entire country was The Association of consisting of veterans of the Chaco war with pledged Its support to President Franco against any Paraguayan hero of the Chaco became president as a result of a coup against the then established Report Is Favorable to Close Loopholes United Wire The House ways and means committee agreed today to report favorably an to close tax loop Tho is designed to seal loopholes through which an esti mated or more of rev enue It will be brought up In the House early next It Is one of the major on which the lead action before adjourn LATE NEWS EIGHT GERMANS SLAIN and en were killed here today when a German crashed and burst Into while on a flight from the local TAX mix The House and com formally approved to day a designed to loop in the revenue Chair man vote WHS HAY STRIKE SAN An agreement was readied today between 00 strikers and the oper of IS San five The will reopen 4 smoked a cigarette and chatted puffing a trembled and his lips shook Both wore stripped to their shorts and They were strapped to Mde by and at Warden Barnes cut tho string thut dropped cyanide pellets Into a bucket of acid beneath tho Spurned LaRt tho deadly fumes rose about both men appeared to breathe easily and Others In the past have held their breaths In a laat effort to prolong A and a slight coughing waa the only death Anderson died five minutes after tho pellets Just before bin head he anal out the cigarette on which he had continued Tha Negro died five minutes Stethoscopes wero taped to their with long rubber tubes lend Ing outside tho where Dr prison physician listened for the double heart beat to sink to and then to Both men scoffed at any at dying on the Thanked Warden At the death room Anderson shook Warden Barnes He said youve been one of tho of under difficult con Youve been a real God replied the war and turning to Bald God be with re plied The 200pound filled with and he trem bled he and entered the death went to bin death hop Ing that tho double execution would last capital Being isnt he He slept soundly for three hours and after a farewell dinner party In his Ho was host to his her the war and David another convicted due to die in a BY COTTON PACT Action Pegs Price al 12 Cents Surplus Law New Plan Wire A Senate delegation re ported after a While Mouse conference today that Presi dent Roosevelt had agreed to make immediate federal loans on cotton to farmers who pledged to comply with n surplus control program to be enacted next ses Senator Missis said a resolution putting Congress on record to control parly In would bo taken up in tho Senate Mo the President had agreed to make which In effect would peg the price at 11 cents a Bilbo added Unit tho amount of the loan hud not yot boon but If It 10 a pound the government would grant a subsidiary of two Thin in line with the federal loan program of Senator said subsidies would be with IN EARNEST Troops Well as Get STORY IN COLUMN I Marines Guard Life of Aliens Fierce War Encircles North Picture and Other Newt of War on Page 3 CROPS This Is how crop advocates explain their theory When federal crop loans arc In a farmer need not sell his if open prices are lower than the figure set In the Ion 11 For If the loan speci fics a 10rent on a pound of the grower does not to sell to buyers offer ing 8 Unless better offers I ml urc him to sell he can repay the by turning his cotton over to the governments commodity credit Thn corporation holds such cotton until the market can ab sorb It at a price equal lo the held until had actually com PleU with the program to bo en Others who called on the President were Senators Dem and f Continued on fapt Figures 13 Figure in Blaze Win 13 minutes before 10 the Ihn thirteenth fire alarm of tho year turned in from alarm box Tho fire al the residence of Herbert whone name contains 13 Fire falling Into thn of the oc estimated the damage at CHINA Chinese regular army one hundred eighteenth division was reported en route to Nanking today from Han Sports Flashes COMPLETE ON SPORTS Major veek Iodine and laceration Wrestling World Bronko former champion Son neb rg here to county up hall game for Interest in feature game here tomorrow to equal angle worm Ih expectancy according to Jim ON Nations Last Kidnap Gang Faces Prison d Win Eight men federal agents are of thn last or kidnap ring faced today prison of from 28 to 77 yearn for tho 1933 abduction of John OConnell of BATTLE IN Insurgents Push Back Loyal Forces hut Retreat Under Counterattack M Arm slopes or the ensiled city of In province WHS re ported a after bitter fighting In which government nnd insurgent troops alternately pro It changed hands twice but the were re ported to have found their position untenable and to be moving out of the southern A government attack drove out tho in the by nn over powering by Insurgent re the with Government artillery went Into action all along the front between Lopera and and thn Insurgents were reported evacuating both these The Insurgent from Ar jonn to were do as In view of new government If their troops are able to about 89 square of additional territory will fall Into government It was reported that the Insurg ents claim complete success the counter of fensive In the Cucalon but tho of the gov attack in the south was Madrid remained but Turnout were successful In foray D insurgent positions at Burgos and two roll road on the central artillery firing was resumed at today after a midnight lull in fighting be tween Chinese and Japanese By EKINS bj Culled Crau cruisers to day shelled between the river and Kiang as an un declared war raged in the streets of The warships Seta and which have hitherto kept cleared their decks for action late in the day and suddenly let Japanese bluejackets and Chi nese troops fought through the Great sections of the Chapel native section in flames machine guns clattered and the Howitzers Tanks were rushed up by the Jap Antiaircraft guns were set Six hundred miles to the north German Seaplane at Horta in West Dash Prut The The German reached here today to the sec ond leg of her maiden survey flight from Ger to New Tho hugo shin arrived at Eastern Standard Time approximately ilx and onehalf hours after the takeoff from Por From the Nordmeer will hop to Port northwest of southwest of and south of In battles that were devel oping Huge Armies Massed A United Press staff correspond ent who reached the great Chinese base at on the found that Chinese armies were mossing In astonishing number all through tho But the war wip brought to one of the worlds rich and a catastrophe was Skirmishing In the streets turned Into a formal battle In the northern section and United and troops and marines and sailors of other foreign nations were ready to Join the Shanghai volunteer corps In protecting Admiral Harry In his the cruiser Au steamed at full speed down the coast from to take com mand of the American naval and marine Japanese Surprised The Japanese anger and anxiety at the sudden resistance of the CM ncst made One Jacket fired half a dozen warning shots at John Morris of the United Press staff and me to drive away from the where we were watch Ing detachments with rifles and ma chine guns attack Chinese Finally we were warned to go Toward the Japanese rein forcements began arriving in big numbers along with ef Dyer Returned to Scene of Prosecution Claims LOS The sought today to show Albert WPA crossing a stayer who returned to the of Deputy Sheriff John tes yesterday two men with WPA crossing guard helped remove the bodies of three Inglewood from a ravine In the Baldwin last June Ono of them a little Prosecuting would identify Dyer Dyer on charged with the murder of Melon and Madeline and Jeannette ranged from 7 to 9 They were strangled with of Shirley one of thn near M 4 viewed the revolting photographs taken of the bodies they lay in the where they were found by eight Boy Bhe In her seat and a fellow juror hurried for a glasa of Proceedings were delayed a few min while All the were visibly shaken by the grisly together with the unsparing testimony of to the treatment of the bodies by the man who lured children from an Ingle wood Park Into the on tne pre text of hunting Laying the ground work with the testimony of who removed the bodies from the toe prose cution had ready for witnesses it would trace and the from the into tha SHOP IN THE OP THE SPOT SPECIALS ON Local Store Page Next Monday 30 ADVERTISERS Brandt Investment Hardware Com Colt Walter City Furniture Com DrinkO Jimmy Cleaner Jeanne Beauty Plumbing Blurry Onus dall King Fur Appliance Comi City Howard 8 Beauty U Thrasher Roy Com SI White Spot V
