Salt Lake Tribune, The (Newspaper) - August 18, 1937, Salt Lake City, Utah The Weather Unsettled Wednesday and Thursday fair except local showers Local Metal Market Gold Silver newly Silver foreign 4475o Copper Lead lural Sell lenient Black Receives Approval of Senate 63 to 16 SALT LAKE CITY UTAH WEDNESDAY MORNING AUGUST 18 1937 Court Appointee Gets Confirmation After Fiery Debate WASHINGTON Aug 17 L Black aggres sive new dealer stood ready Tuesday night to take the oath of office as an associate justic of the supreme court of th United States The last obstacle to his assuming the judicial robes was removed b a senate vote of 63 to 16 approving his nomination the first to be made to the court by President in three years of conflict with the tribunal In confirming the appointment the senate brushed aside charges that Black has been a member o the Ku Klux Klan that he is of a temperament ill suited to the ju office and that he is ble for the post for reasons Bitter Minority These accusations were with vigor and occasionally wilh bitterness by the small but reso lute band of those who opposed con throughout a day of forth right debate The spectacular charges that Black had been associated wilh the klan were raised at the outset of the debate by Senator Copeland of New York and emerged sibly throughout until just before the voting began Senator Burke Nebraska asserted If the senate will join me in sending this nomination back to committee for investigation I will produce two witnesses who have told me that they were present when Senator Black was initiated into the klan Recommittal was urged as well by Senators Bridges New Hampshire Austin Vermont and the ground that the committee should make a thorough of the fitness of the nominee Borah Idaho and Glass Virginia opposed it on the ground that all necessary information was at hand though they voted No on the question of confirmation Doomed to Defeat With such defections as these the opponents of confirmation who had counted on making a strong show ing upon the motion to recommit were quickly doomed to disappoint ment An almost unbroken series of Noes quickly showed the trend The vote was 66 to 15 A roll call on confirmation fol lowed immediately Tge 16 who vot ed against Austin Borah Bridges Davis Hale Johnson of California Lodge Steiwer Town send and White and Burke Byrd Copeland Gerry Glass and King During the debate defenders of Black assailed the opposition to him as based on occasioned by his liberal legislative career They said he was a man well fitted to on the highest bench Senator Black quietly awaited the outcome in the nearby office of Edwin Halsey secretary of the sen ate Reporters found him there smiling his pleasure when the had been taken I am very much gratified at the confidence shown in me by my col leagues he said To Quit at Once He was uncertain he said as to when he would take the oath of office as a member of the court but intended in any event to resign from the senate at once and take a vacation before assuming his new duties Excitement mounting swiftly as the day of debate advanced reached a high point in this half hour before the voting began Within that time no less than a senators delivered speeches A member of this body may be an able senator and a poor judge Bridges shouted from his desk at the extreme left of the chamber No man should become a member of the bench under a cloud and charges have been made He may be a1 good prosecutor but a man may be a good tor and not a fair judge not a judge who has fairness and human un Then Bridges submitted the mo tion for recommittal Senator Tydings was up at once In support of it I look on the supreme court as the last court between here and the hereafter where every citizen may have to go on lrial for his property or his life The committee should investi gate he said the charges that had been made any other course was unfair to Senator Copeland for fhe second time brought up the klan issue Some may feel that it makes no difference he said but to me it makes a vast difference It would be a very simple thing for the com to ask Mr Black himself Glass and unsmiling announced simply that It Li my Irrevocable intention to Continued on Paff Two How Senate Voted On Black Ballot on Confirming Of Alabaman in Summary WASHINGTON Aug 17 Here is the vote by which the senate confirmed Tuesday the nomination of Senator Black Alabama to be a member of the supreme court For confirmation 63 Democrats Adams Andrews Ashurst Bankhead Barkley Ber ry Bilbo Bone Brown of Michi gan Brown of Now Hampshire Bulkley Bulow Burns Caraway Chavez Clark Connally Diete nch Donahay George Gillette Green Guffey Harrison Hatch Herring Hitchcock Holt Hughes Johnson of Colorado Lee Lewis Logan Lonergan McAdoo McGill McKellar Minton Moore Murray Neely Overton Pepper Pittman Pope Radcliffe Reyn olds Schwartz Sheppard Smathers Thomas of Oklahoma Thomas of Utah Tru man Van and Republicans Capper Frazier and Farmer and Against confirmation 16 Byrd Cope land Gerry Glass and Republicans Austin Bridges Davis Hale Johnson of California Lodge Steiwer Town send and Paired or announced for confir mation were Senators Russell Georgia Norris Nebraska OMahoney Wyoming and Hayden Arizona Paired against Vanderberg Michigan and Tydings Maryland Paired but positions not an Wisconsin Gibson Vermont and Mc Nary Oregon Nations Chief Leaves for Fete WASHINGTON Aug 17 President Roosevelt left here by special train at p m Tuesday for Roanoke Island N C where he will deliver an address Wednesday afternoon He will speak at ceremonies com memorating the 350th anniversary of the birth of Virginia Dare the first child of English parentage born on this continent The speech will be at p m 2astern standard time p m Salt Lake City and will be broadcast The setting will be a amphitheater constructed in he sand dunes where Sir Walter second ion established itself only to dis completely a few years later Officials would make no forecast f the tenor of the presidents ad dress They indicated however hat aside from a parallel it might Iraw from sixteenth century ex it would not touch on any controversial issues Because of the rouble the president changed his original plan to return to Washing on by yacht f roi n Norfolk Instead ic will come back by train arriving Thursday morning House Passes 98 Million Fund Measure Chamber Sets Aside for Farm Tenants Plan WASHINGTON Aug 17 boisterous house passed the ses sions final big appropriation in an overtime session Tuesday night after increasing it by to start the administrations farm ten ancy program Carrying a total of the appropriation went through without a record vote The house overrode tions of its appropriations commit tee and pleas for economy in grant ing the agriculture departments re quest for to start tenancy aid Half of this fund was asked for farm purchase loans to tenants and half for converting portions of the western dust bowl into a vast pasture Bipartisan Opposition An amendment by Representative Starnes Alabama providing the millions for tenancy aid won despite vigorous bipartisan oppo sition Farm state members demanded hat something be done for these farmers The also carries to egin a threeyear program of post office and other public building con struction Members said the pro gram will permit erection of ap proximately 330 structures costing 70000000 As passed the was mately larger than the total recommended by the committee Part of the increase was due to restoration of which the committee had cut from an for the national labor rela ions board Labor Fund Fought The fund for the labor board was the subject controversy If you want to give life to the labor relations act urged Representative Mead New York rise in your places and support this amendment Representative Rankin Mis accused the labor board of fomenting strikes and increasing abor unrest This money is being wasted he declared I am in favor of a labor oard but I am in favor af an lonest board He demanded to know whether he members of the board ire members of the C I O If they are he shouted they ought to be fired The committee slash in the boards und was overridden finally by a Ote of 125 to 112 During debate on the farm ten incy fund appropriations commit eo members argued that the ten ancy program is nebulous and in definite Representative Wood um asserting that difficulties are ahead unless congress balances the budget as speedily as possible declared the plan is the craziest thing I ever heard of Quotes Scripture Accused by Representative Mc Farlane Texas of lining up with Republicans in most questions Woodrum retorted quickly Oh I dont know about that The good book says join not the multi tude to do evil 1 h t a aa matter under act of March 8 24 CENTS Offends Host Jolin Roosevelt requited offer of flowers with insult mayor chums Roosevelt Son Accused in French Mayor Says Youth Hurled Champagne in Face CANNES France Aug 17 UP Pierre Nouveau mayor of Cannes said Tuesday night that John Roose velt 20yearold son of President Roosevelt hurled a glass of cham pagne in his face when he offered the youth a bouquet of flowers on of the city The incident occurred Sunday night in front of the fashionable Carlton hotel during the annual Battle of Flowers festival of this Riviera resort according to the mayor Touring Europe The youngest son of the presi dent who is touring Europe during his vacation from Harvard univer sity and has had gay times in the company of several young compan ions was said by the mayor to have hurled the champagne glass while a group of distinguished visitors looked on He said that one of young Roose velts friends threw the bouquet of flowers into the gutter Every one at the Battle of the Flowers was celebrating in the streets and Mayor Nouveau was unable to say whether young Roose velt deliberately aimed the glass at his face It was an unfortunate occurrence the mayor said I tried o hush the matter calmly but the incident occurred in front of the arlton hotel where myself the prefect general and distinguished vistors occupied the reception stand Seen by Foreigners Many foreigners saw it and were most angry The mayor cautioned newspaper men to be careful what you say The mayor said he left the review ng stand without making any com ment on the occurrence because he did not wish to create any scandal Yesterday Nouveau said the presidents son grabbed a who tried to snap his picture sut bystanders intervened and res cued the cameraman The Virginian warned his col leagues that eventually 2800000 farmers will be running their farms on government subsidies Then youll have an opportunity to explain to the other 90 per cent of your farmers where the justice and equity come in he said The house cut much of the red tape out of its complicated mentary rules to speed up business so that it may adjourn Saturday In Todays Tribune Salt Laics City F an Historical Clip and Pasts Dally NATIONAL U S sends 1200 marines to augment armed forces in Shanghai Page 1 W A allocates school funds for intermountain states Page 1 ctic pilot fails to discover Russian fliers trails organizations plan for Black confirmed by senate for U S supreme court 1 rench mayor says John Roosevelt hurled wine in his face Page 1 test proves value of graz ing law says author Page 2 Two appointed by president on U S communications board Pnge 2 cooks confession solves New York trunk murder Page C workers feared loss of jobs toils labor board Page 8 FOREIGN Chinese mobs slay water poisoning suspects as war grips Shanghai Pnge I 37 American women children leave Shanghai for Manila Page 0 halt drive toward San Pnge C LOCAL ash premiums of offered at lander county fair Pnge 9 annual meeting Page 24 Mountain Oil company of at tacks state fuels statute Page 21 Salt Lake City residents contribute to iron lung fund Page 24 German consul praises United States in visit to Salt Lake City Page 24 INTERMOUNTAIN Preparations completed for survey of wests phosphate beds Page 13 Logan health board ordered to com bat influx of rats Page 13 SPORTS D R G W takes lead in base Page 14 ball Dutch Brandt hurls Bucs to win over Cubs Don Budge off tennis meet Yankees take double header from Page 16 form in Newport Page 17 Nats 80 64 Page 17 Pinney Beverage Equitable in soft ball title game 17 FEATURE INDEX Editorial Society Dorothy Health 14 Sportin n 1 A 20 14ifMM 211 Hay 221 H Kent Ul Bunko Carter in 21 Pope Blesses K C Parley SAN ANTONIO Texas Aug 17 of Columbus assem bled Tuesday night for the high point of their interna tional states din an apostolic blessing from the Vatican to cheer them A message from Cardinal papal secretary of state conveyed the blessings of Pope Pius XI and his best wishes for completion cf a program for the good of the church principal speaker for the dinner was United States Senator Joseph A OMahoney of Wyoming The program included also speeches by Governor James V Allred and Mar tin H Carmody Grand Rapids Mich supreme knight of the or OMahoney shortly before the din ner announced that his talk im would be on Constitu tional Liberty and Government Democracy is cm trial for its life in the world today he said The democracy and the preserva tion of personal and governmental liberties upon which our constitu tion is based is in turn based on certain precepts of religion The socalled dictatorships in the world have discarded these pre of religion and liberty and threaten the foundation of democ racy and our democracy must be saved from the isms of these other nations Keynote of the convention was sounded at a pontifical mass in San Fernando cathedral Tuesday by Archbishop Arthur J of San Antonio Schools Get PWA Cash Allocated Utah Wyoming And Idaho Projects By HARRY J BROWN Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON Aug 17 Three states Utah Idaho and Wyoming Tuesday were allo grants totaling by the public works administration for nine public school projects to be constructed at a total cost of The nine projects were among 280 allotments totaling approved by President Roosevelt for school construction purposes in 41 states The allot ments provide for grants of 658 and loans of Total cost of the projects in the 41 states was estimated at All on the first listof approved projects grants and total cost of school construction in the three states are Four in Utah Utah Four projects Brunts total cost Idaho Two projects grants total cost Wyoming Three projects grants total cost Heading the list of Utah projects was a grant of toward con two school buildings and repairing the high school at Provo at a total cost of The proj ect also includes one small grade school and an addition to an exist ing school The San Juan school district at Blanding was granted toward erecting a new high school building to cost including equipment and furnishings The old high school was destroyed by fire last March District The school district will re a grant of as part of a project to erect a grade school building a shop building and to make alterations to the high school at Eureka The Garfield county school dis will receive a grant of for a project to build a two story high school at Panguitch and a high school at Esca lante The old school at Panguitch was destroyed by fire Largest single grant in the three states went to Pocatello Idaho where the present high school will be reconstructed and enlarged at a total cost of wings will be added to each end of the building and in the rear a and auditorium will be TU i lie LU Shanghai Mobs Kill Beat Scores as City Writhes In Grip of Growing War V S Orders Marines To Aid of Nationals American Armed Forces in Shanghai To Be Boosted by 1200 Troops By Instruction of President Roosevelt WASHINGTON Aug 17 UP to appeals from Ad miral Harry E Yarnell com mander in chief of the Asiatic fleet President Roosevelt Tues day ordered 1200 marines to snil from San Diego to Shanghai as quickly ns possible to guard Americans whose lives arc en dangered by the war The order was issued through Secretary of State Cordell Hull who said the devil Sixth regiment and headquarters company of the Second marine brigade will reinforce the Fourth marine regiment and blue jackets now on a continuous alarm basis in Shanghai and environs Hull said that the administra tion would seek a to finance relief work and removal of Americans from the war zones especially Shang hai He said the marines would sail aboard the transport Chau mont in about 10 days and should reach Shanghai in five weeks Will Have Convoy The Chaumont will be convoyed by the light cruiser Marblehead which will augment the 34 United States battleships and destroyers now in Chinese waters President Roosevelt acted in his capacity as commander in chief of the army navy and marine Noted Airman Fails to Find Russians tals Plummer Project The second Idaho project includes a grant of to Plummer toward construction of a 50909 grade and high school Wyoming will receive a grant of 81000 toward constructing a 300 grade and junior high school at Other Wyoming grants were to Gillette toward construction of a grade and junior high school and a grant to Cokeville for a grade school building and gymnasium to cost Public Works Administrator Har old L said the funds set aside were to aid in erecting fireproof and sanitary school buildings to re Continued on Two Column Four Three Perish In Air Crash ALHAMBRA Cal Aug 17 Three persons died late Tuesday in the crash of a rented plane near the Alhambra airport The plane burst into flames as It struck a thoroughfare in Monterey park and the bodies were burned beyond rec Identified from personal effects were Crawford Waterman 38 of Glendale the pilot Mrs Gladys Reynolds Altadena his fiancee and a man named Myers believed to have been a former army flier Bobby Reynolds 17 son of the woman watched the plane go into a spin after it circled orce over the airport It dropped about 300 feet Employes of an airplane firm at the airport where Waterman rented tho craft said Waterman had a pri vate pilots license with about 250 hours of solo flying to his credit They said Mrs Reynolds was taking lessons and had about 20 hours time to her credit FAIRBANKS Alaska Aug 17 noted arctic pilot shot bis plane over northern wastes Tuesday seeking six missing Rus sian fliers while other aviators waited for clearing weather condi tions here to permit them to par in the northland search The sole plane in the air was that piloted by Bob Randall Mac kenzie Airlines ace who was op from considerably to the cast of Fairbanks Carrying a copilot and an Eskimo interpreter Randall skimmed over the coasts of Alaska and the Yukon Territory where they touch the Arc tic ocean seeking some trace of the Russian Lindbergh and five companions forced down Friday on an attempt to fly across the north pole to the United States The Canadian flier notified his headquarters he would establish camp on the ice Tuesday night in order to extend his search farther into the frozen wastes While flying conditions had im proved sufficiently around to permit Randall to go into the air storms here and held Jimmy round the world flar Joe Crosson famed Alaskan mercy pilot and other northland aviators on the ground Skies were overcast here and rain fell intermittently Matterns red nosed Lockheed Electra plane was in a hangar ready to take off as soon as weather per We will fly north as soon as the weather clears enough for visibility to land and establish a base on a sand spit along the Arctic coast said My plane is poised for taking off If possible on this trip we will the ice cap 200 or 300 miles off the Alaska coast searching east and west from the 146th meridian to the 150th meridian Estate Left LONG BEACH Calif Aug 17 Codona once interna famous circus who killed his divorced wife Vera and himself recently left his estate to his two brothers and three sisters corps after receipt of request for reinforcements and following emergency conferences with Hull Secretary of War Har ry H Woodring General Malin Craig chief of staff of the army Rear Admiral James O Richard son acting head of naval opera tions and Stanley K Hornbeck veteran state department expert who Tuesday advanced to the rank of adviser on far east ern affairs The chief executives major con cern is for the safe removal or protection of the 4000 Americans in Shanghai and other beleaguered cities Although hundreds have fled and others were boarding out hound ships Tuesday the govern ment has no authority to remove its citizens by mandatory action Reluctant to Leave Advices Tuesday indicated that at least 1200 of the Americans were reluctant to leave many be cause they have lived in Shanghai for years and have businesses there or are without funds The state department has no fund for relief and repatriation activities and must obtain the money from some unexpended governmental appropriation President order came as no surprise It had been reported that he would either dis on face Six Two Tokyo Cabinet Urges Call Of Parliament TOKYO Aug 17 Japa nese cabinet Tuesday proposed the summoning of parliament into an extraordinary session September 3 to erect a wartime economic structure and pass other measures vital to Japans campaign in the undeclared war with China The session the third meeting of the legislators within 10 months a record will last only five days It will be called formally by Emperor Hirohito Confronted with the task of pro viding essential appropriations and taking kindred steps for the prose cution of the campaign parliament was expected to establish a record also in the passage of more impor tant measures in a shorter time than any of its 71 predecessors Must Rush Program The opening day of the session according to the program will be given over to organization with an address from the throne the fol lowing day This program will leave only three and a fraction days in which to enact war measures Tokyo prepared to curtail next years budget by 60000000 yen 400000 in order to divert funds for war purposes Vessels were rushed to China with supplies for Japans fighters and to evacuate Japanese refugees The Domei Japanese News agency reported from Shanghai that the evacuation of all Japanese wom en and children from that city as quickly as possible had been de upon Evacuation Nears Three vessels were due to arrive in Shanghai Wednesday It is be they are capable of accom 6000 refugees The total Japanese population there swollen to 30000 by the in flux of refugees from Chinas inte rior was expected to be halved be fore the end of this week Rail Revenue Rises WASHINGTON Aug 17 Association of American Railroads estimated Tuesday thai operating revenue of class one railroads to taled in July an in crease of 26 per cent over the 924271 reported for the same month last year HardBoiled Marine Calls Chinese Bluff SHANGHAI Aug 18 day Chinese officer tried to bluff a United States marine failed The Chinese officer saw a ma rine of the Fourth regiment stop a Chinese ambulance from cross ing a bridge connecting the Chinese quarter and the in settlement Marines are guarding the joining Chapei and the northern interna tional zone The Chinese officer walked across from nnd with a precise English accent told the marine commander Ill give you people ten min utes to go or Ill blow up the bridge The marine commander an swered Ill give you ten seconds to go or Ill blow the hell out of you The Chinese officer went hur riedly Natives Suspected Of Plot Against City Water Supply SHANGHAI Aug 18 Wed AP Mobs stole through the streets of Shanghai Wednesday searching beating and killing natives they sus peeled of plotting to poison the citys water supply while thou sands of homeless refugees clamored for food at the barri gates of the international settlement The bitter battle between Chinese and Japanese with its toll of 1400 noncombatant Chinese and foreign dead burst again at dawn along the slithering murky river that winds about Shanghais famous waterfront Bund and hence to the mighty Yangtze exit to the sea The first American marine wound ed In the Shanghai fighting was hit by shell fragments He was Phar Mate Floyd Arnold of the Fourth U S marines wounded in the hip while on duty in the Amer ican sector of the International Set bordering on Soochow creek U S Cruiser Moves As the battle progressed day the American flagship of the Asiatic fleet the cruiser Augusta moved up river and anchored off the settlement Bund Japanese warships led by the flagship began bombard ment of Chinese positions along the river at early morning Chinese guns spoke in answer from a new position established during the night in east ward across the from Shanghai proper Native newspapers had carried rumors unconfirmed that nese tried to influence natives to poison the citys water supply Natives Killed Infuriated menacing mobs acted upon the rumors and many natives were killed or beaten Scores of Chinese stopped and searched by the raiding gangs If they pos sessed powders or medicines of any kind the victims were beaten Fif teen innocent Chinese police said were killed and at least 40 in jured The problem of caring for the hundreds of thousands cf homeless refugees became pressing These stolid hungry people vic tims of an undeclared war that ap pears primarily as a test of strength for two armies of traditional enmity have been living in vacant lots in alleys or even sleeping on sidewalks since the conflict drove them from their homes six days ago To Be Isolated Authorities of the French con cession and the International Set began rounding them up Wednesday They will be isolated south of the concession given food and a measure of protection Ten thousand tons of rice are on the way from Hongkong one item in the food program But hunger drove some of them to attack They tried to seize two truck loads of rice Ar mored cars drove them back Two Japanese planes were the first to appear in Wednesdays bat tle They circled over try ing to spot the new Chinese gun po sitions From a rooftop on the Shanghai side of the river one gua could be appeared only a quarter of a mile from the Poo tung river front indicating that battle Wednesday would be at much closer range than heretofore Bomb Airdrome Two other Japanese planes bombed the vicinity of airdrome a few miles from the southwestern limits of Shanghai The detonation echoed loudly through the French and interna tional zones rudely awakening the foreign populace to another day of intensive warfare fires which blistered the heavens at nightfall Tuesday had died to ashes Wednesday morning in Japanese sections smoldering ruins could be seen in the once thriving vast industrial districts The city of 3500000 fearful people had spent a nervous night in eerie darkness slit now and then by fingers of light from the 20odd Jap anese warcraft along the seeking with floodlights to search out Chinese attempts to blow them up Several score of International Set police caught in Tuesdays fighting in northeast Shanghai reached safety Dodging shellfire they ran a to the water front and commandeered a tugboat Escape Fire The police force included 30 Brit 250 Chinese 60 Japanese and 18 Sikhs Miraculously they ma their tug safely through withering Two British destroyers moved into position on the around Continued on Pace Six Column One
