The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 10, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” HOW LIQUOR IN TERRITORY IS T0 BE HANDLED Commission Is Named to Act on | Ship Subsidies ASSAILANTS OF FITTS ELUSIVE INLOS ANGELES Control w“h Federal Court|President Appomts Joseph| Trail Cools for Capture:of Under New Rivers Bill Now Approved Making statutory the present reg- ulations and throwing control into the District Court, the Rivers li- quor bill passed the Territorial House yesterday by a vote of 11 to 5. It had previously passed the Senate where it was introduced by Senator Victor C. Rivers of the _Fourth Division, The House has in- serted one wofd for purpose of clar- ification, which is expected to be concurred in by the Senate, and it will then go to the Governor. The vote in the House, where the McCutcheon high license saloon bill had previously passed, but is now slated to die in the Senate, was: For—Anderson, Coffey, Dan Green, Kennedy, Lafblin, Nerland, Race, Rogge, Ross, Tolbert Scott and Smith; agaist — Davis, Lichten- berg, McCutcheon, Nell Scott and Speaker Joe Green. The complete provisions of the new law are as follows: That no person. f{irm. corpora- tion or company shall manufacture, sell, offer for sale, or keep for sale, traffic in, barter, or exchange for p 800ds in this Territory, any intox- icating liquor except as hereinafter provided; but this shall not apply to sales made by a person under provisions of law requiring him to sell personal property. Whenever the term “intoxicating liquor” is used in this Act, it shall be deemed to include whiskey, brandy, rum, gin, wine, ale, porter, beer, hooch- inoo and all spirituous, vinous, malt and other fermented or dis- tilled liquors. That the licenses provided for in this Act shall be issued by the Clerk' of the Distriet Court, or any sub-, division thereof in compliance with| the order of the Court or Judge' thereof duly made and entered;| and the Clerk of the Court shall keep a full record of all applica- tions for licenses, and of all recom-| mendations for and remonstrances against the granting of licenses and of the action of the Court there- on. That before any license is grant-! ed, as provided in this Act, it shall be shown to the satisfaction of the Court that a majority of the citi- zens over the age of twenty-one years residing within two miles of the place where intoxicating liquor is to be manufactured, bartered, sold and exchanged, or bartered,| sold or exchanged, have in good' faith consented to the manufac- ture, barter, sale and exchange, or the barter, sale and exchange of the same; and the burden shall be upon the applicant or applicants| to show to the satisfaction of the| Court that a majority of the citi-| zens over twenty-one years of age have consented thereto and no li- cense shall be granted in the ab- sence of such evidence; provided that when it is made to appear that| a majority of said citizens over the age of twenty-one years of any one place have consented to the manu- facture, barter, sale and exchange or the barter, sale and exchange of Intoxicating liquor, no further proof of the consent of the citizens of the place where such intoxicating li- quor is to be manufactured, bar- tered, sold and exchanged, or bar- tered, sold and exchanged, will be required for twelve months there-| after. References Provided, however, that any ap- plication for a license coming Irom within an incorporated town shall have attached thereto in lieu of a majority of the citizens of that dis- trict, a list of at least five refer- ences as to the integrity of the ap- plicant and the desirability of the issuing of a license for the prem- ises mentioned therein. The Clerk of the Court, upon receipt of each application from within an incor- porated town, shall notify the City Council of that town of the neces- sity for action on the application by the Council, in regular or spec- ial meeting and the filing with the Clerk of the Court of a certificate showing the action taken. A fail- ure of the municipal officers to act upon applications for licenses within the period specified in the notice furnished them shall be con- sidered a default and shall subject the city to the penalty of losing the right to a refund as herein pro- vided. At the time set for the hearing, the Court shall consider (Continued on Page Two) ennedy as Chairman of Maritime Group WASHINGTON, March 10.—Pres- ident Roosevelt has nominated members of a permanent five man Maritime Commission headed by Joseph P. Kennedy, former chair- man of the Securities Commission on which he served the remainder of the unexpired term of George Landick, Jr. Other memrbers of the Maritime Commission are Thomas M. Wood- ward, Pennsylvania; Admiral Hen- ry Wiley, retired; Admiral Ermery Land; Edward Morgan, Jr., former Democratic Congressman from Maine. The Commission is charged with administering the Ship Subsidy Act passed to replace the existing ocean mail contract subsidies. EJECTION OF SITDOWNERS Case in Court—Hear- ing Set Saturday DETROIT, Mich., March 10.—B. E. Hutehinson, Vice-President of the Chrysler Corporation announc- ! ed this afternoon that a suit for an injunction to force the sitdown strikers to vacate its several plants ihas been filed against the Automo- \bile Workers of America. A conference between the cor- ,poration and union officials is slat- ed to continue, however. IS REQUESTED, Chrysler Corporation Files! Night Riders—He Suf- fers from Wounds LOS ANGELES, Cal, Mar. 10.— The trail for the night riders who ambushed and shot District Attor- ney Buron Fitts in the arm last Sunday night, grew colder today. Fitts said he will leave the hos- pital next week although the pain in the left arm as the result of the bullet wounds, is still very painful. ‘The Los Angeles County Supervi- sors have offered a reward for the arrest of Fitts’ assailants but re- ferred the reward announcement to the County Counsel for a legality ruling Globe cm:Img Plane Is Tested LOS ANGELES, Cal, March 10. — Amerlia Earhart's $80,000 flying laboratory made a test flight over San Francisco yesterday with Capt. Harry Manning at the controls. The aviatrix remained at home. She iplans soon to start on a 27,000 mile with any national union. —— o —— U WASHINGTON DRILLING HARD FOR BIG GAME Basketball Champlonshlp of Pacific Northwest Is at Stake SEATTLE, Mar. 10.—The Univer- | © The suit filed names all officers sity of Washington basketball team of the union as well as John L. drilled hard today in passing free Lewis, organizer of CIO, and Judge throws in preparation for Friday’s Allan Campbell ordered thé strike jleaders to appear Saturday and ex- plain why a temporary injunction |should not be issued. Homer Martin, President of the Union said: “Again we see the !same mistake as other corporations that are trying to institute the law by the mjuncnon A ELECTRA BACK TO FAIRBANKS AT NOON TODAY, Bouguet and Seven Pas- sengers to Interior Carrying a truly royal bouquet sent by the Juneau Florists to be presented to the Queen of the Fair- banks Ice Carnival, the PAA Elec- tra piloted by Jerry Jones and Walt Hall, which arrived here late |yesterday afternoon, took off to- today at noon for its return flight from Juneau to Fairbanks. Seven passengers bound for the Interior left Juneau aboard the Electra today. For Fairbanks were: |Miss E. Meywell, R. E. Douglas, J. W. Gucker, George Karabelnikoff, Eugene Uotila, Mrs. M. J. Wilcox, and Al Lowe was a passenger bound for Whitehorse. AAT NUGGET FLIES TO CHICHAGOF AND SITKA Tl THIS A. M. With three passenxers for Chich- agof and two for Sitka, Pilot Shel- don Simmons put the Alaska Air Transport Lockheed Vega seaplane into the air from here this morn- ing at 9:15 o'clock, and headed out for the island points. Simmons is expected to arrive back in Juneau this afternoon at about 2:30 o'- clock. Passengers with Simmons on the flight out today were: For Chich- agof—Miss Annabel Freeburn, An- gus McDonald, and Frank Hulse. For Sitka—Carl Edson and Ray- mond Beck. {PAA Plane Flylng Bridal game against Washington State College. | The University of Washington Huskies won three of the four games from Washington State during the regular season. |Chrysler Corporation making the! OFF FOR SEATTLE PULLMAN, Wash.. Mar. 10.—Ten W&shington State College basket- ball players leave tonight for Seat- {tle where they will meet the Uni- | versity of Washington Friday in a | title playoff. The winner meets Oregon for the | Championship of the Pacific North- west Conference championship. The Staters will hold a stiff work- out in the r!u.sky gym tomorrow. MUSSOLINI ON TEN-DAY TRIP e Vide Uis Pt T Ten Years—Review His New Navy GAETA, Italy, March 10,—Premier Benito Mussolini left today aboard a heavy cruiser on a ten-day mili- tary and political tour to the Ital- lian Province of Libya. He is ev- |pected to arrive at Tobruk, the ex- treme eastern of the Province on Friday. While there, Mussolini, as Min- ister of the Navy, will make his first visit in more than ten years and also review naval maneuvers of more than fifty of Italy’s new- est warships. San Francisco Bond lmle Turned Down SAN FRANC!BOO, Cal,, Mar. 10. —The voters yesterday rejected the fifty million dollar bond issue au- thorizing the ¢ity to acquire an elec- tric: power distributing system and also repealed the ordinance which restricted picketing in labor dis- putes. —— IN HOSPITAL E. A. Jewell, a medical, patient, entered St. Ann's Hospital yester- day. jSenate Sustains First Veto by Governor Troy First veto by Gov. John W. Troy of acts passed by the Territorial Legislature was returned to the Senate yesterday and immediately sustained by that body by unani- mous vote. The Governor rejected Senate Bill No. 31 with this message: “This bill is in conflict with Sections 2703 and 2704, Compiled Laws of Alaska, 1933. I understand the Legislature did not mean to repeal those sections of the Compiled Laws.” The bill proposed that U. Commissioners who issue and lect license fees for the Territory should deduct the amount provi by law for their services and the balance to the Treasurer. Hot ever, the present statute pi that all money thus collected be sent into the Treasury once month and appropriations are to handle payment for services. FOR BUSINES Former Alaskan Who Has Won Fame as Election Prophet to Resign WASHINGTON, Mar. 10. — Emil Hurja, who called the turn on three elections for the Democratic Na- tional Committee, is going back’ to private business, it was announced today. The gentle voiceG expert on prop- hecy and patronage, who voll teered his. services to National Committeeman James ‘A. Farley in 1932 said that he wounld quit politics within sixty days. Friends reported that he would go to work for a New York insur- ance firm. Commenting o~ now he guessed right on election results, Hurja once said that “politics are a matter of geography.” Hurja's first job was as office boy for a Fairbanks, Alaska, news- paper. He worked his way through the University of Washington. ‘Twenty years ago Emil Hurja was in Juneau working on The Empire during the 1917 session of the Leg- islature. Charles A. Sulzer, then a member of the Senate, appointed him secretary when he went to Washington as Delegate from Al- aska during the 1917 session of Con- gress. Mrs. Hurja was Miss Gudrun An- derson, of Fairbanks, who also at- tended the University of Washing- ton where both were prominent in campus activities. Mr. Hurja when a student at the University of Washington was ap- pointed by President Henry Suzal- lo of the University to represent the institution as a member of Henry Ford's Peace Commission that went to Europe on the King Oscar in 1915, with the object of organizing a peace conference to influence belligerent nations to end the war. The ship went to Christi- ana, Norway, and members of the party proceeded to Stockholm, Co- penhagen and through Germany to The Hague. After leaving the University of Washington, Mr. Hurja engaged in newspaper work in financial and|E mining analysis in New York City. d ————,o——— PLANE PLANT UNION BEING FORMED NOW Douglas Corporahon Wwill Have Own Organiza- tion, Is Report LOS ANGELES, Cal., March 10.—|. The Douglas Aircraft Corporation employees have elected department representatives from the Aircraft Workers’ Union which organizers claim will be recognized as the col- lective bargaining agency. The plant has orders for $24,000,- 000 worth of planes. It is said the proposed union will be sponsored by the company and the union will have no affiliation with any national unon, | vage of ‘TODAY’S OBTAINED BY SPAN. REBELS Tusurgent C_rTiser Seizes . Transport with $2,700,- 000 Munitions Cargo ARCACHON, France, March 10. —The munitions transport Mar- cantabrico is reported to have been saved from destruction and has been convoyed as a war prize to an Insurgent port in Spain for sal- her $2,700,000 cargo of American made munitions consign- ed to the Spanish Government. The ship was first reported to have been sunk by an Insurgent cruiser. The vessel carried 42,000,000 cart- ridges, 7,000 rifles, 1,000 machine guns and 37 dismantled nrplanes. GANCELLATION OF RA, STRANDS ! ALASKA QUEENS| Anchorage T‘\—t;nlctes, Miss Alaska Contestants May -Miss Fairbanks Carnival ANCHORAGE, Alaska, March 10, —The special train to the Fair- banks Ice Carnival and Dog Derby was cancelled by the Alaska Rail- road when officials said that insuf- ficient tickets had been sold to war- dent editor, inscribed a picture of professional dancer. —— ( HOT TIP’ “Today's Hot Tip,” was the way Dan Anderson, Drake University stu- Heloise Martin (above), co-ed and Ernest Bergmann, a football man about the col- lege, was exceedingly wroth when he saw it and “socked” the editor. The editor complained to authorities and the judge slapped a 15-day msnuulnd sentence on Ber‘mann. (Associated Press Photo) rant operating the train. _The cancellation leaves two Al- Queen centestants stranded, Miss Eleen Bogey, representing An- chorage, and Miss Virginia Brown, representing Matanuska Valley. The Carnival Queens may go to Fairbanks by airplane. Twenty-seven members of An- chorage athletic teams are also un- able to go to Fairbanks because of the train cancellation, but efforts Ten Unions May Be Expelled for Backing Lewis are being made to collect more CIO Woukfacome Rival | funds with the hope that the rail- road will reinstate the special. of A. F. of L. If Plan People in towns along the rail- belt, many of whom had planned to attend the carnival, are depending on the train, George Karabelnikoff, son of| Frank Karabelnikoff, left Juneau today by airplane to represent Fair- banks in sports events. A mem-< ber of the Fairbanks hockey team,! he is on his way back to the In- terior after a tour of the states‘ with the team. Word has been received here that | Miss Mary Joyce, of Juneau and' Taku, in Fairbanks now, will par- ticipate in the women’s snow shoe race and will drive team No. 13 in| Is Completed WASHINGTON, March 10.—The |decision of the Committee for In- dustrial Organizations to charter ilocal state central labor bodies led American Federation of Labor of- ficials to consider expelling ten un- (dons that are backing John L. Lewis, organizer of the CIO. The CIO would become a rival of !the ALF if the plan should be com- | pleted CIO today steered the course of |unionization of 2,200,000 textile and oil workers, APPROPRIATIONS LEGISLATURE ON AS END NEARS Tomorrow Is Is Final Day .of 13th Session — Senate Trimming Expense Sheets BULLETIN—By a vote of 4 to' 3, the Senate this afternoon killed the Dimond Bond pro- posal. e, SO Eby. Many CIO affiliated groups are participating in strikes affecting |100,000 workers. About 55000 Chrysler automotive workers are idle while the Chrysler |Corporation reiterates refusal to SRR Is HEI.D uP recognize the United - Automobile |Workers of America as sole bar- |gaining agency of its 67,000 em- [ployee& | Ten thousand are idle at the Hud- son Motor Car Company, Detroit; SEATTLE, March 10.—Rivalry be-110,000 employees of the Firestone tween two maritime unions today| | Tire and Rubber plants are idle at halted the sailing of the Vm,lma Akron, Ohio. Federal conciliators . cannery tender for the Alaska|bave been asked to settle the taxi Pur:ilic Salmon Corporation for the'cab strike at Chicago where 450 north. |freight handlers and motormen are The dispute arose when the Al—iaLso striking to prevent the move- aska Fishermens' Union challenged ment of merchandise through Chi- the right of the Masters, Mates and Pilots’ Union to operate the| craft. W. H. Lape, Secretary and Treas- urer of the Mates’ Union said tie| group was ted an ALF charter | last week, free to aperate Alaska | fishing vessels. Leaders of the Fishermens' union | claimed prior rights, saying they held membership rights of all Al- aska Pishermen, cannery tenders, beach workers and net men for 25 years. ! s CHAPELADIES TO MEET Mrs. A. Peterson is to entertain the Chapeladies this evening at 7:30 o'clock at the home of Mrs. Joe Kendler. A short business meet- ing will be held followed by a social. - MRS. COOPER BACK Mrs. J. C. Cooper, wife of the prominent Juneau auditor, arrived in Juneau ‘from the South aboard the steamer Princess Narah. cago's 60-mile freight subway. Rsaan 0 o o d TRUCK DRIVER LOSES LIFE IN GASOLINE FIRE +|Car Overtul;;:m Columbia River Highway, Bursts Into Flames CASCADE LOCKS, Oregon, Mar. 10.—The Columbia River Highway was blocked for several hours last night by a gasoline truck fire in which George Clark, driver, of Portland was killed. The truck crashed into a guard rail, overturned und then burst in- to flames, With tomorrow the last day of the 13th Territorial Legislature, both houses primarily were concerned to- day with getting together on the ap- propriations for the coming bien- nium. The Senate was actually at work on the bill, which already has passed the House, calling for a total appropriation of $3,186,000, as a committee of the whole and the trimming shears were being wielded ln & great many places, indicating that a free conference committee from the two houses may finally de- termine just what the appropria- tions are to be. The House was acting on minor bills, but keeping itself acquainted with what the Senate was doing to various items in the appropriations. The Rivers liquor bill was back before the House with a message from the Senate that it did not concur in the lone House amend- ment, the insertion of the word wholesaler in one section for pur- pose of clarification, and announced it had appointed Senators Rivers, Cochran and Walker as a confer- ence committee on the measure. There was indication in the House, however, that it would never go to conference, the House sentiment ratheér being to recede from the amendment and hand the bill back to the Benate as written with its approval and blessing. Rumors were rife in the House that the Senate wanted to get the bill into canfer- ence for purpose of changing some of the features it already had passed upon. Voting for coucurrence in the House amendment in the Senate were Patterson, Rivers, Roden and ‘Walker. Not concurring were Coch- ran, Powers and Brunelle with Sen- ator Devine absent. The House was expected to act during the afternoon on whether to recede from the amendment or go to conference. Not yet half through the appro- priations bill, the Senate early this afternoon had slashed several thou- sand dollars from the amounts as they passed the House and it was anticipated © wouid be greatly (Continued on Page Bight) PRESIDENT SAYS TIME TO SAVE CONSTITUTION Declares Co_u; Setting It- self Up as Policy-making Body, Not Judiciary NEED GOVERNMENT OF LAWS AND NOT MEN Executive Declares Present Set-up Leading to Hard- ening of Arteries WASHINGTON, March 10, President Roosevelt called for swift enactment of his court reorganiza- tion bill last night to “save the Constitution from the Supreme Court and the Court from itself.” In outspoken fashion, the Chief Executive asserted the Tribunal had “improperly set itself up as a super- legislature” and had read into the Constitution “words and Iimplica- tions which are not there and which were never intended to be there.” At the same time, the President disavowed any intent to pack the Court with “spineles puppets who would disregard the law” and decide cases as he might wish them decided. The President asserted that the process of Constitutional amend- ment is too slow for the pressing problems of the day. Appeal to Constitution “We must find a way to take appeal from the Supreme Court to the Constitution itself,” said the President. “We want a judiclary which will % 4 _Constitution . want government of laws, not of men. “I want as all Americans want, an independent judiciary as pro- posed by the framers of the Con- stitution. That means a Supreme Court that will enforce the Consti- tution as written; that will refuse to amend the Constitution by arbi- trary exercise of judicial power, or by judicial say-so. It does not mean a judiciary so independent that it can deny existence of facts universally - recognized.” The Chief Executive declared that “if we have learned anything from the depression, it is not to run around in circles.” It is the purpose of the President and Con- (Continued on Page Eight) ——————— ATTORNEY GEN. URGES PASSAGE OF COURT BILL Appears _é—e_fore Senate Judiciary Committee— Repartee Takes Place WASHINGTON, March 10.—At- torney General Homer S. Cummings today pleaded before the-Senate Ju- diclary Committee for adoption of President Rogsevelt’s Court bill as a means of injecting “new blood” into the judiciary and avoid “tore tured construction of the Consti- tution.” The Attorney General said the “proposed increase in the number of Judges is-not for the purpose of enslaving the judiciary but for the purpose of making it an adjunct to the Executivé. The purpose to rejuvenate the judiciary machinery is to speed justice and give to the court new men with a fresh outlook who restrain from infringing upon the powers of Congress.” Four Listings The Attorney General listed four pillars upon which he said the plan of reorganizing the judiciary rests, as follows: First—Impossible situation creat- ed by reckless U. 8. injunctions in restraining the operafion of Federal laws. Second—Presence on the Federal Bench of aged or infirm Justices. Third—Crowded condition of the Federal docket and delays in the lower courts which impose a heavy burden upon the Supreme Court. Fourth—Need for an effective system and infusion of new blood m the judiciary. “(Gontinued on Page Five)