Washington, May 20.
Without a record vote, the Senate to-day confirmed President Hoover's nomination of Mr. Owen J. Roberts to be associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. He had received the committee recommendation At no time had any genuine fight against Mr. Roberts, " Philadelphia. Iawyer who won fame as a Government prosecutor in the famous "oil cases" of 1924, been in prospect. The only word heard against him was from certain prohibition quarters which sought to resurrect, an old speech by Mr. Roberts which they believed indicated a "wet" Teaning, but this was not pressed.
Administration quarters, anxious because of the Senate's recent rejection of the nomination of Judge 43. J. Parker of North Carolina, expressed relief to-day at the confirmation—United Press.
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