Show news airs Kevic iii of current carrent events BLACK NAMED FOR COURT choice surprise to senate chinese central army clashes with japanese legislation in tangled mess I 1 is A 4 i i I 1 japanese soldiers bring biln their own beer to Pei peeping ping A lut W U r summarizes THE WORLDS WEEK 0 western newspaper Neus paper union nominee draws rebuke W WITH ITH his cus customary customer tomar y exercise of the dramatic president roosevelt nominated senator hugo L black dem alaj ala to fill the vacancy on the supreme court bench caused 1 by the retirement of justice willis senator black had not even been mentioned for consideration previously and the appointment was a complete surprise to his colleagues for 20 years it has f n senator black been en a custom when a senator is appointed to high office for his nomination to be com in open executive session but when senator ashurst dem ariz proposed this in senator B I 1 a c ks nomination objections came forth immediately from senator burke dem neb and senator johnson rep calif they asked that the nomination be referred to the senate judiciary committee for careful consideration this was viewed in the light of a distinct rebuke for the nominee senator black has been a militant leader in the light fight for the presidents wages and hours legislation As a justice he would have the opportunity port unity to pass upon measures regulating public utility holding compa companies nies authorizing f federal e d e r a I 1 loans and grants for publicly owned power plants and fixing prices in the soft coal industry ile he was as the chairman of the bla black ck committee to investigate lobbying the center of a storm of public opinion during the early months of 1936 black practiced law in birmingham after being graduated from the university of alabama in 1906 at fifty one he is one of the younger members of the senate shells pepper great wall A war was lutill with about 1 out benefit of official declaration the army of the chinese central government clashed with the japanese invaders for the first time the eighty ninth division from the provinces of shuiyuan and shansi began the attack at the bankow pass of the great wall 30 miles northwest of Pei neiping ping the japanese said through this pass the japanese have been able to move reinforcements from manchu kuo it its s protectorate and the chinese wanted to gain control of it they wiped out a whole att battalion alion of 1 japanese japanese soldiers in the opening battle the japanese opened up immediately afterward with heavy artillery fire which the chinese failed fail ed to return indeed the latter were silently retreating I 1 into n t 0 positions t they h e y thought more secure As shells fell in the city of bankow fires were seen to arise from heavily populated areas the chinese however were said to be well equipped with trench mortars with which to defend th the e pass once they considered their position satisfactory japanese warned that all of their forces in north china some fighting men would be loosed upon the chinsee if they made any attempt to return to the old capital in neiping Pei ping now held by the invaders south demands crop loans regarded adjourn J merit ment as possibly farther off than ever as the wage hour bill got all tangled up with surplus agricultural control and cotton loans in what looked like a hopeless mess with the depart department merit of agriculture estimating a 15 bale to totton crop about bales more mor e than can be consumed south southern rn representatives representative s and senators w were ere demanding surplus crop loans loan S the commodity credit corporation has authority to make such loans loa ns in a press confer conference ence pres president dent roosevelt indicated that he haid had no intention of permitting a 10 cent cotton loan until congress passed the agricultural control program and ever normal granary bill which secretary of agriculture wallace s says ays is necessary before the new session in january trouble is the house committee know how to write such a bill and make it stick in view of the supreme courts decision on the AAA now the southern bloc has made it clear that it will not push through the presidents much desired wages and hours bill as dictated by william green president of the american federation of labor unless southern farmers get their cotton loans furthermore the southerners under the capitol dome are now asking for loans as high as 15 cents a pound and in some cases even 18 cents the south is not any too well in accord with maximum hours and minimum wages anyway the result of the whole aff affair air is a complete stalemate somebody will have to give in somebody probably will and there will be old fashioned hoss boss trading on a wholesale scale for congress wants to adjourn before the snow flies southerners in the senate were also worried when senator robert P F wagner of new york succeeded in winning recognition to debate an anti lynching bill the type of which the south has been successful in blocking since the civil war some were of the opinion that the bill already passed by the house might be defeated by filibuster senator bilbo of mississippi threatened to filibuster until christmas but more believed that the southern members would consent to its passage to put president roosevelt on the spot they explained that if he did not sign it he would lose the negro vote so essential to the third term that is being whispered about and that if he did sign it the democratic south would drop him like a hot potato c senate OK s court reform A LL that was left of the admin adain Aist tx rations sweeping court reform proposals passed the senate in in an hour without a record vote th this Is was the procedural reform bill for the lower federal courts it was in the nature of a substitute for the bill in the house of representatives senta tives and went back to the house for what was expected to be a peaceable conference the bill as summarized by sen warren R austin rep vt who wrote most of it included provision making it the duty of the district court in any constitutional suit between private citizens to notify the department of justice that upon a showing by the attorney gener general al that the united states had a probable interest the government would be made a party to the suit permission for the senior circuit judge to reassign district judges within that circuit for the purpose of clearing congested dockets if necessary a judge may be transferred from one circuit circuit to another permission for direct appeal to the supreme court if 30 day notice is given from any decision of a district court against the constitutionality tiona lity of an act requirement that all suits for injunction against the operation of federal statutes to be heard by a three judge court including at least one circuit court of appeals judge 0 shanghai smells smoke aman A JAPANESE officer and a sea rv man tried to enter the shanghai airport now under chinese military control in a high speed automobile chinese guards after trying to halt them shot and killed them the japanese cl claimed aimed the road on which the men were traveling was part of the international settlement tl ement and threatened the severest reprisals unless the chinese made satisfactory explanation the incident bid fair to touch off a terrible conflict on the scene of the war of 1932 when japanese warships threatened the shanghai wharves chinese national troops began pouring into the city from every direction simultaneously came reports that two boatloads of nipponese soldiers were headed to augment the garrison in shanghai and that the sudden ingress of chinese troops had virtually blocked off the entire city isolating thousands of foreigners lor eigners from the outside world cutting madrid from sea SLOWLY but determinedly gen F francisco francisc 0 francos rebels are pressing their campaign to cut madrid off from valencia and the sea latest advances of well mo and mechanized troops following up coordinated co attacks brought the insurgents near to the capture of Salva canete which is only 30 miles from cuenca cuenca is the provincial capital and from it emanate most of the roads upon which the loyalist government is depending to keep open the traffic between the two cities reports revealed that the rebels were also opening a new drive on santander last government stronghold on the northern coast and had already made important advances the drive followed an attack made upon them by asturian miners fighting under the loyalist colors the miners acted quickly in a surprise move advancing far enough to throw hand grenades into the insurgent trenches then the rebels opened up with machine gun fire and halt half the attacking band was killed francos officers claimed that all might not be going as well as general franco insisted was indicated when he was forced into the paradoxical act of shelling one of his own cities segovia this was done it was reported to quell a rebellion among the insurgent forces it was also said that the insurrection had been spreading among several provinces meanwhile other nations were on the point of being involved again there was a riot among rebel troops at toledo and italian soldiers were alleged to have aided in quelling the uprising four merchant ships one british one italian one french and one greek were attacked in the mediterranean by three mystery planes great britain blamed the rebels and demanded an answer to its protest italy blamed the red loyalists the loyalists blamed the rebels the rebels blamed the loyalists there were lots of talk and back talk and nobody got anywhere ft neiping gets protection A A is pre sparing ls paring to wage a destructive war do not be afraid the japanese army will protect I 1 you leaflets containing these words fluttered im from the skies to come to rest in the hands of res residents of the ancient chin chinese ese capital neiping Pei ping As the air airplanes which spread the news hummed overhead a brigade of japanese emperor soldiers in in com kan ten teh mand of maj gen g Tor ashimo kawabe marched through the city taking possession of it in the name of tokyo what would be the result of the new japanese domination apparently begun by maj gen kawabe was a matter for speculation chinese residents long since convinced that the inevitable would happen took it calmly enough some of them voiced their belief that the former boy emperor of china tsuan tung henry puya pu yi since 1934 emperor kang tell teh of Manchu kuo would return to his throne in neiping Pei ping he would then rule over north china as well as Manchu kuo as a puppet for whom japan would pull the strings v new yorks share cut SENATOR ROBERT F WAG u NERS dem N Y housing bill was passed by the senate 64 to 16 but the senator scarcely recognized it when his fellows were done with it senator wagner and other administration leaders struggled frantically to defeat an amendment by harry F byrd dem va limiting the cost of housing projects to 1000 a room or a family unit result of the struggle the upper house which originally passed the amendment 40 to 39 defeated a motion to reconsider by 44 to 39 the bill originally called for expenditures tures up to 1500 a room or a family unit opponents conceded that the byrd amendment w would prohibit the building of the type of houses senator wagner had in mind in new york city 4 purge toll to date TWO russians in east siberia were lined up and shot by the government bringing the total number of eastern executions in dussias Rus sias purge of to the 72 described as rightist terrorists were charged with operating along the siberian railroad for the japanese secret service it was alleged the accused had wrecked a train killing 14 persons and in juring injuring 40 ar arrests rests of officials in charge of various branches of the soviet economy who had failed to make their production quotas continued f memorial for will rogers T THE HE memory of will rogers A Anie americas ricas lately belov beloved e d gum chewing philosopher will be en shrines in fitting manner near his claremore okla home after the president signs a bill which has now been pas passed sed by both houses of congress it appropriates for a memorial to will the state of oklahoma also will be required to furnish |