Morning Herald (Newspaper) - August 13, 1937, Hagerstown, Maryland Good Morning your today I It In Friday the nth MORNING HERALD Weather Forecast Partly cloudy probably Friday partly cloudy not Chanel in temperature VOL NO Hull HAGERSTOWN MARYLAND IK Associated Pren SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS BLACK NAMED FOR VACANCY BY PRESIDENT Alabama Senator for Supreme Court CONFIRMATION BY SENATE DELAYED Nominee Liberal Would Succeed Justice Van Washington Aug 12 President Roosevelt Senator Hugo L Black Alabama Democrat who pions government regulation of industry and agriculture to the Court today in a surprise move that split Con- gress wide open ranged from tions to complaints that Hie appointment was an insult Signs of a com- ing against confirmation but few legislators doubted that Black's name would he Court Nominee BLACK PENAL FARM WORK TO START AT ONCE Additional Funds ed to Complete All Units at Farm Work of constructing the main institution building of the proved by tho required majority vote after a fairly short argument Some opponents of the dent's proposal to reorganize the high tribunal charged that by nam the left-wing Democrat to sue coed the retired Willis Van Devan the Chief Executive was trying again to dominate the a n d a ssn re its a va 1 of adm i n enactments Sent to Committee The nomination was sent to the judiciary committee for study A sub-committee scheduled a meeting tomorrow for its consideration Two leaders of the opposition to Iho beaten court Ron a Johnson and immediate tion of the nomination They ed postponement of Senate action at least tomorrow Rut another leading foe of the court legislation Senator declared the nominee a very able individual and that Continued on Page 20 SOVIET AIRMEN ON NEW POLAR FLIGHT and Compan ions Start Polar Hop to California Aug 12 inn official Soviet representative reported tonight I lie fliers radioed at P Al K S T they were over Barents i miles from Moscow and flying nt a speed of miles an hour a I nn elevation of four miles said an official change had boon made in tho plane's nation and Iho fliers eventually would make their destination land Calif airport Ho said the fliers definitely would not go to New York or o hut would first fly to iks stopping thorn only long enough to lake on gasoline and heck motors and fly down tho coast Is ng fho lingo plane is accompanied hy a crew of Ivo on a across thc North ole The most famous of Soviet non however will not attempt n flight to United States feat accomplished twice in tho ast I hs hy Russian start was made at P M A Al K S T mid in off s Icy estimated hi would re- about hours to roach Kinks Plans for the adventure were opt secret until two hours before lie said ho Would not ry for a speed record hut tils was an experiment o study conditions affecting a liar service across thc Polo to tho United Slates Ho said Iho speed with which hn could refuel at Fairbanks nnd Continued on POLITICAL LEADER DIES AT AGE OF 84 land State Penal Farm this county will begin at once cording to Superintendent Elmer B Carl who made the announcement yesterday shortly following the news that State bonds to furnish funds for the construction had been sold The Maryland Legislature authorized some time ago a bond issue fo raise for tion and maintenance at the farm Construction of buildings and taking over of the large farm at Roxbury was begun during the ad- ministration of the late Governor Albert C Ritchie minimum security It is the first type of penal institution in the State of land Prison experts all over the country have watched the progress made at Roxbury The additional funds will make possible probable completion of most units tit the farm Most of the barn units have been constructed along with the superintendent's residence and staff houses The institution building also includes the ad ml nisi ration section will be of native stone from two to stories It will include a large auditorium din ing hall recreation room and H brary chapel hospital laundry and kitchen There will also be tories and rooms for inmates ly of the minimum security type The building will have a capacity of from 750 lo 1.000 inmates Superintendent Carl said that he number of inmates now a little over 300 will ally be increased to over -100 A part of this number will he used for construction although about 150 will he retained work The many different trades taught at the farm educational subjects and the employ men t of idle prisoners at the institution been looked upon by as nn ideal situation for the ual reformation of ninny of the inmates Long-term offenders are not sent lo farm Night Club Burned With A Heavy Loss The Along the Williamsport Pike Totally by Firt of Undetermined Origin Thursday Evening popular night club I biles were strewn on Williamsport about mi lea son Hi oC was destroyed hy firo which broke out yesterday about o'clock The loss was estimated in Iho vicinity ot the Always for a distance of one mile Kven pine shrubbery rounding Hie building was con- by lie names together with nl covered by in- j electric light poles Said to have started in a room on thc second floor of building tho lire spread rapidly j and within i half hour hud con- the large frame structure All that remained last night was the dunce floor of the garden a tion ot the fence surrounding the garden the hand shell and chairs Two pianos and several ments of the hand were saved The Always was purchased eral years ago by fid ward A I ham Jr and Cyrus Everhart from Other illusion 1 instruments were de- by the flames A1 though no box alarm was sounded word of the blaze spread rapidly and by 7 o'clock j ago the Always was destroyed hy fire on the same site but it was immediately rebuilt Mr had just completed arrangements yesterday afternoon for the appearance of Ted Lewis and his band the National Antietam Celebration 31 r Everhart said last night there was little likelihood that the club would be rebuilt Mr hart added that tho cause of the Tire had not been determined though a circuit was given as a probable cause 19 ARE KILLED IN COLLAPSE OF TENEMENT Four Inquiries Are Ordered into Stolen Island Crash TWO ARE MISSING AND FIVE INJURED Eight Families Housed in thc 40 Year Old Building New York Aug 12 Weary searchers and official investigators focused their tention tonight on the debris of thc Island tenement building in which at least 19 TANKER REPORTED SUNK BY ITALIANS Tunis Aug 12 tain Felix Clary of the Spanish gov eminent tanker report ed to French officials tonight his vessel was torpedoed and sunk h the Italian destroyer Twelve members of tiie were lost five of them when the first torpedo hit the en jine room Two other torpedoes struck the vessel The captain declared he look place at 8 P M last off 50 miles northeast 01 here with the vessel he identifie is the Saetta flying a war flag Drive Is Renewed by Rebel Forces Border Aug Insurgents re- their drive of obliteration today while air forces repeatedly cities west nid of Madrid of the drive Were withheld although the daily of I was under way i if had scored important ad- Til la campaign is designed to wipe out all remaining Government along Spain's northern now lo Iho city of and ils surrounding and west Prince Mil 12 Will lero ill 11 i yours n lod In iy who or al I llo iil nn rur nn In- llo lind oy for Cn I county of Iho of Com- to Iho Cardinal Hayes Is Hospital Patient New York Aug 12 secretary to Hayes tonight for a slight Indigestion suffered Wednesday Tho Cardinal Is much Improved nnd to leave Iho In a few days lary said Illness nl the hena while ho was at MM N Y Monsignor nnd It was not at nny Hum considered Ions his Dr P thought M wine In bring him in the hn would be donor to medical cure OFFICIALS CONFER ON PROJECT HERE Elizabeth St Underpass Plans Discussed with Rail Officials The Mayor and Council i Hoard oC Street Commissioners conferred yesterday afternoon City flail of Uie West ern Maryland Hallway to construction of the street underpass Tlie railway officials expressed no opinion 113 to tha company's willingness to give financial aid in tlie project anil there appeared tle likelihood of an immediate grant The project considered for 25 years as a short cut from the southern to the western section ot the city would have its western In the ol ington and Elizabeth streets and would connect with the proposed Memorial Boulevard which connect the Frederick pike The underpass proposed several times hiring the tration of Mayor W Leo while he served as from the Second Ward During tlie campaign for Mayor he included the underpass in his platform and Democratic orators assured the voters that Federal money for all worthwhile projects would mediately secured il the tration were elected lo ever the present Democratic ad- ministration lias secure funds for a lieen unable to ny major project Early Settlement of Strike Is Seen New York Aug 11 or Iho Textile Workers Organizing loft of silk nnd man hero with i prediction thai agi tg of tho workers on In industry would lie reached within a few days Approximately iO of Ihn 120 or morn from New ley ami the forma tion il an association which will at- lo with tomorrow The announcement slated nore than half the ho low had its lo collectively with the T W 0 C DENIES HE SIGNED FOR Aug 12 Mayor Thomas W Koon still ho ii with union on behalf of K Ic mild lodny he WHB confident thn company would larry out the of Union who bat Koon us n Ivo of said they In- to curry out part of he mid of hi N 0 Taylor In mill would remain it work ORDINANCE RULED INVALID BY JUDGE Cumberland Regulation Is Voided in Opinion by Judge Sloan Cumberland Md Aug 12 Circuit Court Judge D Limlley Sloan today declared invalid an ordinance which would have forced pickets in labor disputes to get permits fron the chief of police and would have limited the number of pickets He handed down his decision a few hours after the N and G lor Tin Mill strike which gave rise to the ordinance was settled The employes returned to work despite a dispute as to whether Mayor Thomas W Koon represented the company and its owner the Re- public Steel Company in signing an agreement which settled the strike Judge Sloan's opinion covered many new legal aspects of labor activity The case was brought hy two tin mill employes who were on strike and were arrested under ordinance enacted shortly after strike began One of the major provisions of the limiting the number of pickets was upheld hy Hie judge There is no he said why there should be more pickets than arc sufficient to inform the public that there is a strike or that the employer or proprietor is unfair To permit large hers to gather iu any one entrance even if nothing be said is dation He upheld a no HIP r section viding that pickets shall he ited sufficiently to leave the walk clear A requirement that chief of police shall pass on tlie wording of signs carried by pickets be said is not authorized He also said the provision that ets should not carry cameras wa improper so long as camera was not aimed at persons entering place picketed The ruled the city had right to pass ordinances to protect property and lives without waiting for damage to be done them -lie added that a or threat of has a tendency to violence unless there is control somewhere either self-control in the pants or regulation by the ties If if lie added he purpose of picketing is lo in- the passage info or out if the works by other than means it is illegal If the of picketing is to see who can be the object of sive inducements such picketing In the absence of any or si alii lory prohibition i gal nst the passage of an nance regulating not forbidding tu labor disputes in city of Cumberland I am of the opinion that the Mayor and City of Cumberland has ample to deal with the matter by persons lost their lives One official called it the worst tragedy in years Five were injured Two were possibly missing and being sought in the wreckage of the structure which collapsed last night after flood waters undermined its dations Fallen bricks ami splintered wood still filled the deep cellars under the building which housed eight families and which went down in the rushing stream flowing down the narrow street after a thunder shower In this mass of wreckage the workmen believed they might find the bodies IUr and Mrs Joseph the couple reported missing Four Inquiries Police Commissioner Lewis J Valentine called the tragedy the worst of its kind in years Four inquiries were ordered Sigmund Zackowski who lives nearby was standing across the street from the tenement ing at the time it fell Jt was raining hard and was very he sold 1 saw a blinding Hash that must been when the electric wires went out TROOPS MASSED AS WARFARE THREATENS TO REACH SHANGHAI United States Marines Mobilize Along with Other International Acute as Chinese Troops Move to City Shanghai Aug 13 Friday broke out In the northeastern quarter of Shanghai's international settlement today as Japanese blue jackets on patrol and Chinese exchanged fire The conflict developed in a tion made acute hy the arrival of Japanese reinforcements in the last two days and the moving in yesterday of detachments of If Chinese regular troops Shanghai Aug 12 men of many nations took up defense positions in and around Shanghai tonight as ominous movements of Chinese and Japanese threatened to with deaths under strange engulf the city in a repetition of their bloody Shanghai war held in of two of her tances and illnesses of others AJ grand larceny warrant was sworn out for her in Colorado Springs Colo whore she pawned jewelry FIVE ARE DROWNED WHILE IN BATHING Youths on Sunday School Picnic Drown at Ocean City City Aug 12 Five young persons between nnd 22 years old frolicking in thc wa- the Bay while on a Sunday school picnic stepped in- to deep water today and drowned Only tlie outcry of the eldest Daniel West was heard as the five disappeared into water The bodies of two were recovered before nightfall as parents of the missing paced tlie nearby shore The five victims were attending tho annual picnic of the St tin's Church near lin the children ami parents j at the picnic 10 decided to go swimming although only one could swim at all ALL TIME PEAK Washington Aug J2 increase on Tuesday the public debt lo new Iran peak or A Treasury report lie debt was over ho dale n your UK over the line GIVEN TWO YEARS Alfred 44 Liberty street to two yearn in tlie nf Correction by Micks In illo Court for contributing lo the of his ho would fake itn hy Attorney D Angle on Page 20 The dead Daniel West 22 s sister West Iti e Davis 33 All were children of fanners residing near St three miles oT Worcester county Clifford who could swim n little said 30 of the dren put on their swimming suits nnd went into wafer He said all of them were playing about in tho water and looking for clams were walking along in the wafer about waist deep he re- lated Tlie five who were drowned were further out than the rest of Then everything was dark again I could hear women screaming and moaning There was hardly any aril IK sound a crash just a grinding 1-L and West crushing sound Searchers several times thought they had discovered additional bodies but later foil ml that only pieces of clothing were buried Badly splintered pieces of hold furniture were pulled out from time to time but a large mahogany cross with a bronze crucifix was found intact and undamaged Patrolman Joseph oC Emergency No 10 the first rescuer on the scene died a hero He plunged into one of the ings after the first structure col- lapsed Searching squads found him later buried in the wreckage hi his arms with her arms curled tightly around his was the body of Virginia nick Six of the dead were women six were children the others men Relatives of the dead or dying struggled to get through police Hues as bodies wore brought out Some slipped under the ropes ing off the disaster scene and ed at the jumbled tons of smashed brick and rain-soaked timbers Adam one of the few tims to be rescued from age died a few hours later in Stalon Island hospital Throughout the early morning as searchers probed the ruins ning f hi rod and rain slashed down incessantly Shivering hundreds soaking to the skin stayed us Suddenly T heard Daniel call for help I looked and only could see their hands waving above the water Then they dis- appeared I saw Daniel came fn the face once He had a hold of I wo of tlie girls hut I couldn't see who hey were 1 swam out and got hold of Margaret and tried fo carry her fo shore But I was nearly ex- hausted and had lo let go of her Hoi Iowa y said thn had i stepped into a deep hole along the channel of the bay him Of United Marines strong were mobilized along British French and other international forces to protect the foreign communities of China's largest city in- Americans Foreign officials feared their nationals might be in even greater clanger than in 1032 for Chinese leaders indicated they were unwilling to respect the neutrality of the controlled sections of international settlement and the French they did in 1032 Thc present Shanghai phase of the undeclared Japanese war full of tension since the lulling of two Japanese naval men and a Chinese gendarme Monday night became acute today when it was established that strong forces of Chinese regular troops under direction of the Central ment were moving into the Shanghai area The Japanese immediately mobilized all their available power Backed by 21 warships lying in Iho just off Shanghai they arrayed their formidable naval landing party for combat This force estimated at from to took up battle positions along the northern fringe of the Japanese section of the international settlement and on the roads extending into areas to the north An international peace conference Irving in find a peaceful solution broke flown Chinese soldiers and Japanese facing other from behind sandbag and machine trim ments along Shanghai's northern fringe Northern Shanghai tonight had heroine virtually a no-man's-land Tlie civilian had disappeared All stores were closed and On the international side of the line grim Japanese naval sentries were on patrol Just arross the boundary in Chapei scene of fighting in 1032 men of Nanking's crack SSth Division patrolled the empty streets An uncanny silence ruled Authoritative estimates were I lacking of how many Chinese troops j hovered at the gates of Shanghai or gathered nearby The Chinese re- fused to disclose any figures anese said there were at least Peace Hopes Fade Occidentals Chinese and anese agreed the prospects for peace were dark There were un- confirmed reports that the Chinese planned to jit the relatively small Japanese force in Shanghai before reinforcements could be brought in from Japan Japanese officers indicated they were prepared to fight when the storm broke All railways and roads leading bore from Nanking Hangchow and other interior points WIVES OF PUT UNDER ARREST Gun Shop Found by Police in Hunt for Brady Gang Baltimore Aug 12 gun shop equipped with motors tools ami machinery capable of the found iness of firearms was hy police ing the activities here of the Brady gang sought in the mid-west for robbery murder and As charges of conspiracy to in i unlit finu interior points struct justice were placed against reported choked with Chinese he wives of two members if the fugitive band their sister and their Acute Situation brother police discovered the Hundreds of motor trucks were prison lOd Powell ami Harold SURVEY MADE Capt of Police Carl H Medea ry and other city of Ii rials yesterday conducted a survey of 12 ness blocks in 1 pre- paratory In making tions for parking meiers here DAMAGE IS CAUSED BY HEAVY DOWNPOURS IN THE COUNTY Rains of Cloudburst Proportions Fall in Boonsboro Keedysville and Traffic Halted for While Thn and sections were swept hy a wind and rain storm afternoon leaving in its wake flooded roads and damaged Held and garden crops broken fences find Tilling about was a virtual over the district for about an hour a brief followed by sevora storm nt thn CCC nl was indies while J A Miller ob- server measured during Iho period tins the rain fill I The flat of boro tike were with nearly three feet of will or lit lie height oT Ihn storm nnd hundreds of were Corn WM In lie K port lie volM few equipped gun repair shop iu the j Kaid to be carrying Chinese casement of the house in which thc and heir equipment Into had lived with their j Shanghai's western suburbs wives in Nanking the foreign office de- Au rifle wilh its dared the Shanghai crisis had be- increased from Jn so acute that there is no way lo shorn worn Francis tn 50 jn secret toft for hut to resist Japanese Holland Lawrence in a sedan tho trio j aggression ami violence abandoned after a running gun Responsibility for this ominous with unsuccessfully situation the statement said rests ing police officers a few days entirely with Japan Deputy State's Attorney William Shanghai a four-hour peace II placed thn conference in which American against the four members of and other foreign officials family Mary and Minnie j sat with Japanese and Chinese no- who married Clarence ended In complete failure hover and James Dalhover The Chinese said they could do and a sister Mrs Josephine nothing to slop the convergence of They were hold headquarters police at a l ion Previously the police had found nl n not her address four hand j a machine gun slock rounds of machine gun n in- muni tion and the pistol hols to they said belonged lo P V mau an Indiana policeman killed in a gun battle with the Ring Horn i nick 13 told Federal Huron 11 of In vest i Cation men that and Shaffer j with their loader Alfred Brady j built Hie gun shop several months ago He said the door was kept and the worn at the Chinese army on Shanghai i Thai they said was completely un- der authority of the Central mom's high command Japanese said that if thn continued they would tute violation ot the truce which ended tho Shanghai war and Continued on Page 10 from bad only a Flight sprinkle of ruin nnd Mt fared little hotter In rainfall moderate while spring and reported substantial showers In the Monroe section about two j miles west of rains were accompanied hy wind ol clonic proportions AV mor superintendent Iho San liar Orphans 1 loino reported n largo tree blown down on the He properly out Km ported fences blown down Y oat rahin brought tho tal for Hut month so Inches nl Into REMOVAL OPPOSED BY tin Home Annapolis Aug 12 Many Holds were washed I Sanitary Service of of unit HIM for the month is 4.15 rainfall amounted Inches and yesterday's rains wore the first of any con so nu once his month The rains were or little benefit to sweltering lures continued high even tho In More with little e Hoard of Agriculture and Hit Maryland Society day Informed thc Hoard of Works that they preferred In re- lain headquarters In or nt College Ilian move Into Iho proposed Slate here Tho Sanitary Service pays IH annual rent and has em- Klvo of Ihn employes nro nl College Park Union Slock or In Iho Tho remainder work In tho office Lynching Measure Delayed in Senate Washington Aug 12 lenders ended the over hill Unlay hy giving the pre- ferred status for next session Senators und Vnn to their for faced a by Senators which was nil legislative mado fho motion to Hie hill He said Ibis Iho would lie passed early In Ihn next session and law Ho were 70 votos fw It In tho motion chonn of lint f turner It hid
