The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 5, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY “ALL THE NEWS FEDERAL COURT MACHINERY T0 BE REORGANIZED President Recommends Sweeping Changes in Judicial System DRAFT OF BILL | | ! | | | | | IS SUBMITTED | Would Increase Number ofi Judges, Supreme and Lower Courts WASHINGTON, Feb. 5. — Presi- | dent Roosevelt, in a surprise mes- | sage to Congress today, recommend- | ed a sweeping reorganization of the Federal Court machinery including an increase in judgeships in the Su- | preme and lower courts as a method of speeding high court decisions on | constitutional questions. | In a tentative draft of a bill, ac- companying the message, the Presi- | dent would be given power to in- crease the Supreme Court by a max- imum of six Justices to fifteen and lower courts by two members each, unless judges over 70 are retired. Proposals Made | “These proposals do not raise any | issue of constitutional law,” the President said, as he listed four| specific recommendations, which in- cluded: | First—Power of the President to| nominate an additional judge in| any court when the incumbent has | reached the age of 70 and has| neither resigned nor retired. ! Second — Power of the Supreme Court to appoint an Administrative assistant or “Proctor” to watch lower court calendars, and permit the Chief Justice to assign District | and Circuit Judges temporarily to| areas where dockets are congested. Message Broadcast The message was considered of | such importance that broudu.su.ng" equipment was hastily installed in the House chamber for a broadcast to the Nation. ‘The message was also accompan- ied by a letter from Attorney Gen- eral Cummings asserting that the delay in the administration of Jus- tice is “the outstanding defect of | our Federal Judicial System.” Previously the President read the entire message at a press conference | and explained to the newsmen he was urging no compulsory retire- ment of any judges. EVICTION ORDER GRANTED GMC IN STRIKE TROUBLE * Report from Detroit Says| Agreement on Settle- ments, Dispute, Near FLINT, Mich., Feb. 5—The Gen- | eral Motors Corporation has ob- tained writs of eviction requiring the ejection of the sit-down strikers in two of its Fisher Body plants. Announcement is withheld when service is to be requested. Conferees at Detroit, seeking basis for settlement of the General Mo- tors strike, Guard headquarters here this af- ternoon that they were nearing an agreement. Word came as Sheriff Thomas Wolcott was holding an eviction order against sit-down strikers at the Fisher Body plants and conferring with Cal.'Joseph Le- wis, commanding officer guardsmen. ———— Germans Prohibited Willing Jews Money BERLIN, Feb. 5—Germans are no longer permitted to bequeath money to Jews. A Leipzig court recently declared a will null and void which made a Jew a recipient of the property of an Aryan woman. It was recognized that the will was formally made and was the express wish of the deceased woman but the court held that it was “con- ALL THE TIME” MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS _ ALASKA EMPIRE PRICE TEN CENTS IVEN CONGRESS THE PRESIDENT IN PROFILE | This striking new profile pose shows President Roosevelt at the start of his second term in office. This picture was one of the last formal poses In his first term. (Associated Press Photo) Roosevelt Cracks Down on Those Who Write “Closest Advisers” to the President| | WASHINGTON, Feb. 5. — Presi-| dent Rosevelt has cracked down on| |those who write as ‘“one of thel | President’s closest advisers.” | March, 1933. He now announces | the passing of the so-called author- | The President his issued this | blunt statement: EXTENSIVE | itative spokesman and those who| | write as one of the President’s clos- “The President announced the |death of the official spokesman in Dr. Bunnell Receives Re-|est aavisers.” Presidential aides declined to say jRoosevelt and O’'Connor, in which . | Beach five years ago. MISSISSIPPI | Collection Is Important port of Workers—Church | |aimed but its appearance followed losely the publication of an article| |against whom the statement was | - e {by Dr. Stanley High, declaring Vice- Five yea;‘s lskthe estlmatle(: "g:eir’ressdent Garner appeared likely to that it will take to complete ¢ lead the old line Democratic lead- translation from the Russian of the o i\ o movement to “dismantle” | pulsed FORMER JUDGE IN ALASKA IS DEAD IN SOUTH George D. Schofield Passes Away at His Home in Long Beach, Cal. SEATTLE, Feb. 5—Judge George D. Schofield, aged 72, former Alaska and Seattle attorney, is dead as the result of bronchial pneumonia which attacked him at his home in Long Beach, Cal, according to advices received here by his friends. He was born in Nebraska on Auge ust 23, 1864. : After serving as District Attorney in Nebraska City in '94, he moved to Chehalis, Wash., and became Pro- secuting Attorney in '96. He moved to Nome in 1900 and entered the mining business. He also practiced in the Admiralty Court. District Judge at Nome He was a past president of the Alaska Bar Association and also Dis- trict Judge at Nome, Alaska’s Sec~ ond Judicial District. Later he prac- ticed law during the summer in Al- aska and came to Seattle in the | winter months and made his home | here since 1930. At one time he rep- resented the New York law firm of the present President was a partner. | Goes to California | Judge Schofield moved to Lonu was one of a party of five from the be left to seek aid. Prettyman, ¥ an'airplare after the ‘The widow, Sarah Schofield, a| son George in Seattle and a daugh- | ter, Miss Mary Gwen Schofield, of | Porterville, Cal., survive. George Schofield is going to Long Beach to assist in the funeral ar- | | rangements. { FLOOD WATER | IS REPULSED Levees Reported Holding— Relief Problem Arises Ohio River Valley MEMPHIS, Tenn., Feb. 5.—A bat- tered but unyielding levee line re- the Mississippi’s greatest crest while redistribution of control and relief problems engaged atten- Photo) FAIRBANKS MAN DIES OF BURNS | IN CABIN FIRE Lewis Curtis Victim When | He Attempts to Start Fire with Kerosene FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Feb. 5. Lewis Curtis who was badly burned when his cabin burned, died early | |today in the hospital here. While his body was a mass of burns, his feet were frost-bitten from ex- | posure before he was secued by Dep- uty Marshal Pat O'Connor. Curtis had attempted to start a fire in his| stove with kerosene, it was rdeport-| ed. ESCAPED DEATH IN SNOW Mrs. Lee Prettyman, shown here with her husband and their pet dog, Nevada-Maryland mine marooned in the snow for several days. Fred Miller, one of the five, lost his life , a mine operator, spotted the dog ‘ghelter at the Kelly mine. Rescuers brought the survivors to Las Vegas, Nev. (Associated Press Ship Owners | To Broadcast This Evening SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Feb. 5.—| Ship owners have engaged time on a National Radio network at 7:30 o'clock tonight to express their at- titude of gratification at the end| of the Pacific Coast Maritime strike. | .- - | PLANT PLANS RESIGNING JOB ( Te;ntafive Agreements Over Strike SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Feb. 5. — The tentative agreements accepted by the Pacific Coast maritime strikers assured the workers of the following: Generally higher wages. Union control of hiring agen- cles, except Masters, Mates and Pilots. Eight hour day or less. Adjusted working conditions. Licensed officers and engin- eers received wage increases and union recognition. CREWS RUSHING BACK TO JOBS ONWATERFRONT Ship Owners Vie with Each Other to Get First Ves- sels Underway SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Feb. 5.— The ninety-eight day coast maritime strike, which cost an estimated six ‘hundred and eighty-six million dol- lars, paralyzed commerce at sea and slowed industry on the land, was dissolved yesterday and the men be- gan rushing back to work today. Disputees - involving ~waterfront workets - remained unsettled in“two ports but the signing of new con- |tracts last night by the ship own- ers and seven striking unions, clos- ed the disputes. Today ship owners vie with each {other to get the first vessels under'- way. Rush For Joobs Longshoremen and seamen be- sieged the hiring headquarters for available jobs. Merchants completed service in obtaining strikebound cargoes and booking space for shipments. One line has invoked the “senior- ity rule.” Harry Bridges, President of the Pacific Coast International Dong-' shoremen’s Association said: “Forty thousand men are grateful that the strike hg# been settled. I am only one of them.” Irritants The strike of tugboat deckhands at San Pedro and the stand of the East Coast seamen who said they| will not permit work on East Coast ASSPOKESMAN reported at National | material on which the Alaska His- | torical Research workers are now | engaged in the Library of Congress, in Washington, D. C., according to Dr. Charles E. Bunnell, president of ; the University of Alaska, who re- turned recently from a trip to Washington and New York. Members of the research, which financed by an appropriation from the Rockefeller Foundation, now working in Washington, are Dr.} Tikhon I. Lavrischeff, translator of Russian, and Warren R. Reid. Miss Hilja Reinikka, of Douglas, a grad- uate of the University of Alaska, is secretary. | While in New York City Dr. Bun- |nell met Dr. David*H. Stevens, di- |rector of the Division of Humanities of the Rockefeller Foundation, who went to Washington with him to |inspect the work being done and to| |see the amount of material avail- |able. “Chureh Collection” Large The largest collection of manu- |scripts is the “Alaska Church Col |lection” which is stored in 702 box- es in the manuscript division of the |Library of Congress. It contans about one million pages of records; vital and financial statistics; his- tory of the establishment and devel- {opment of the various missions, |churches and societies; diaries of | the missionaries; reports on condi- tions in the Russian settlements, native settlements, etc. This collection is a recent acqui-, sition of the Library of Congress use of these documents. \ The collection of manuscripts in the archives of the Department of! State contain, according to a letter trary to good morals” and to the interests of the community.” (Continued en Page Seven) DUKE, WALLY !Windsor, former King of England, the New Deal. Dr. High's article appeared in the Saturday Evening Post which said in an accompanying Editor's note that he “has in Washington the reputation of being one of the Pres- ident’s closest advisers.” SO0N TOWED Reliable Sources Claim Wedding to Take Place April 27 VIENNA, Feb. 5—The Duke of plans to marry Mrs. Wallis Simpson on April 27. The wedding will take place at \either Enzfeld Castle, owned by Bar- .on Eugene Rothschild, where the Duke is visiting, or in Vienna. | The plans are disclosed from re- {liable sources. SOME OPPOSITION LONDON, Feb. 5—Informed cir- ,cles sald some individual members of iPflrnamem are attempting to pre- ivent the marriage of the Duke of ' Windsor and Mrs. Simpson by mar- shaling opposition to the proposed $150,000 annual allowance. and is as yet unknown to research| One observer said: “If he holds|in debris filled passageways of an workers, The University of Alaska to his decision he must support her|abandoned mine, was this morning |arrived on the Gen. W. C. Gergas| will be the first institution to make from his own funds without help|carried to safety, alive and puffing| from the British treasury.” — e — Kansas ranchers lost 50,000 cat-|Johnson. tle in the famous New Year's Day to Dr. Bunnell from Dr, Lavrischeff, blizzard of 1886. Dead cattle were|nearly two miles from the entrance| the following: 25 volumes of the piled so thick along the railroad of the old mine. He had been cart- letters, orders an dinstructions of tracks they had to be cleared off |ing coal out of the mine in his spare before trains could go through. time for sale and became lost. tion of the flood scourged Ohio Valley. ! The toll of flood deaths has reached 392 known victims. The Mississippl River is receding at Cairo, Illinois. The crest of 48 feet is due at Memphis within a few days. He came here in April and was a| former employee of the engineering | department of the Northern Com-| mercial Company. He is reported to have come to Alaska from Jack-| son Hole, Wyo.,, where he was. a | garage owner. His family lives there |and he has relatives in Los An- | BLAST KILLS POLICE | geles. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Feb. 5—A ter- | rific explosion of gas accumulated | in a flood-shattered three-story brick building here today killed sev- | eral policemen. It was not imme- — e — diately known how many but au-| Name Twu New thorities estimated that from two| to 14 had died. More than a score h' U. S. Warships of other persons were. injured. : —————— | Considering Claims Present- RESCUED ALIVE Chief Representative of| Ship Owners in Two Strikes, to Quit SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Feb. 5.— Thomas G. Plant, chief represen- tative of the ship owners during the 1934 strike and also the 98 day strike just ended, will retire from his post if a successor satisfactory to the ship owners can be found, says the San Francisco Chronicle today. Almon Roth, Controller of Stan- ford, is considered a possible succes- sor to Plant, the Chonicle further adds. LIBEL SUIT OF BISHOP CANNON vessels tied up until the operators meet the terms awarded the West Coast seamen, and the strike of truck drivers here, are Irritants of the situation. Rush To Waterfront Workers flocked to the waterfront along the Pacific Caost and started commerce whirling again. Fires were started under cold boilers, the winches were oiled to move the piled up cargoes and hatches were opened by longshoremen. Sunshine bathed the San Francisco waterfront as workers hurried to the piers from dispatching halls where approxi- mately 5000 men had congregated. Sailors and cooks had their duffle bags prepared to board vessels and 87 gangs of longshoremen of 16 men each were sent out to handle the cargo of 22 ships. EIGHT HUNDRED AFTER LOST FOR OVER ONE WEEK Salvager of Coal Is Found| Two Miles from En- “trance, W. Va. Pit FLEMINGTON, W.Va., Feb. 5. —| ed by Thirty-three States —Keels Laid in June WASHINGTON, Feb. 5. — Presi- dent Roosevelt, with two new bat- tleships to name, is considering claims of thirty-three states not now represented in the Navy's battle| line. Decision as to the names must be made by the President before the keels are laid in June. Iowa, Missouri, Rhode Island, South Carolina and Virginia have already asked to be honored. ISKNOCKED OUT ey u7 o, | HUNDQQ!UPURT Representative Tinkham Wins as Result of Di- rected Verdict WASHINGTON, Feb. 5-—Repre- sentative George H. Tinkham, of| Massachusetts, has won a directed . verdict in the half milliori dollar Cast Last Night libel suit brought against him by AT 4 W Bishop James Cannon, Jr. HONOLULU, Feb. 5—Eight hun- Justice Jennings Bailey, in the Fed- | dred jmaritime workers returned to eral District Court, ordered the jury |work today after unanimously bal- After Unanimous Vote Men Return Provisionally| TWO VESSELS SCHEDULED TO LEAVESUNDAY Yukon First of Regular Lines to Come North After Strike ZAPORA, NORTHLAND ARE NEXT SERVICED Evelyn Berg, then Alaska Are Being Prepared for Trips With the 98 day maritime strike ended, Seattle operators of steam- ers plying to Alaska are reported to- day reservicing their vessels, sign- ing on crews and schedules are an- nounced. The steamer Yukon is scheduled to sail from Seattle “not later" than 3 o'clock next Sunday after- noon for Alaska ports and as far westward as Kodiak. Capt. Charles A. Glasscock will be in command. The Yukon is at a Seattle dock. The Zapora 15 also scheduled to sail late Sunday night from Seat- tle. The Northland is scheduled to sail from Seattle next Wednesday night, the Evelyn.. on_ nexk -, February 13. Subsequent Sailings An Associated Press dispatch an- nounces subsequent Alaska Steam- ship Company sailings as follows: The freighter Depere and another vessel, not yet selected, will sail for Southeast and Southwest Alaska about the middle of next week. The Northwestern February 20, Victoria February 27, Alaska again on March 6, Mount McKinley March 13 and Yukon on her second trip, March 20 The Alaska Steamship Company is sending crews to Vancouver, B. C., to bring ships tied up there to Seattle, Longshoremen Busy Associated Press dispatches to Thw Empire from Seattle stated that more than 20 crews of longshoremen moved today onto the piers to begin loading or discharging 23 American vessels now in that port. Crews of seamen went to ships to recondition them from bow to stern and also fire cold, dirt-cov- ered boilers. ‘The Seattle waterfront is reported as a scene of beehive activity. All lumber mills are reported to have resumed operations. COSTLIESTOF WATER STRIKES IS NOW AT END Two H;}?d;eg‘— ané:l Thi_i'ty- nine Ships Are Speedily Being Commissioned SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Feb: 5.— The costliest maritime strike in American history ended at 2:45 o'- clock Thursday afternoon and the call to return to work is destined to send 40,000 men and 239 ships into action. The men were ordered to return to work beginning at 8 o'clock this morning. “The Pacific Coast Maritime strike is ended,” said Strike Publicity Chairman Henry Schmidt, at 2:45 o'clock yesterday afternoon. That was the only direct an- nouncement to come from the room where union leaders had reached their decisions. One of seven major unions in- volved, the Marine Firemen, rejected Robert Johnson, aged 36, rural mail | carrier, who has been lost eight days VALDEZ MAYOR HERE C. J. Egan, iMayor of Douglas, on his way to the Sitka Hot Springs for a vacation. ———e—— ILL AT HOME Miss Gladys Forrest, in the office of Gov. John W. Troy, has been con~ t to her home with a bad cold uenza for the past two days. happily at a cigaret. “I had given up all hope,” said Rescue workers found Johnson to find for Representative Tinkham |loting last night to provisionally after a lengthy argument which |man the tied-up ships. ended Wednesday. | The spokesman said the workere { The suit was filed as a result of "voted to return with the understand- tsmtemenw Representative Tink- |ing the employers will not discrim- {ham made about the Bishop’s hand- |inate against them “because of their ‘hng of the Anti-Al Smith Campaign | union activities.” {funds in 1928. | Randolph Sevier, spokesman for the | ———————— {ship owners, reiterated the employ- Tom Brown gets a dozen letters ers will not discriminate against the |a week advising him not to marry| men but the union will not be rec- 'for at least five years. the tentative accord negotiated for them. They voted in favor of arbi- trating their differences with their employers but in the meantime re- turning to the ships. ————————— A $300,000 huilding, said to be the first university building erect- ed exclusively for education in social . © work, has been completed on the « campus of Washington University in St. Louis.