The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 16, 1939, Page 4

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Matlonal Newspaper Representa- ves. with offices tn San Francieeo, Los Angeles, Portland, Beattle, Chicago, New York and Boston SRATTLE REPRESENTATIVE Gfibort A. Wellington, 1011 THE SUPREME COURT KEEPS | CHANGING The death of Associate Justice Plerce Butler gives President Roosevelt his fifth opportunity to appoint a member of the Supreme Court and weighs | the balance definitely in favor of New Deal liber- | alism. Of the nine man Court, five will now be | Roosevelt appointees, For several years ps Administration has had a friendly Court as a 1 of fact, as several of the appointees former Pre dents have swung around from “horse and bu conservatism One who did not swing around was Butler. He. with Justice McReynolds, was one the two die- hards on the Court. He was one of targets of the court reform proposal of the President in 1937 Though a strict interpreter of the law of the land Butler was a lover of the jest and appreciated as much as anyone a sly jibe which Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes took at him in the majority opinion upholding the right of Virginia to sterilize its men- tal defectives. Butler cast a lone dissenting vot and Holmes ended the majority opinion Three generations of imbec are enough Mr. Justice Butler dissents.” Butler, unlike most of those named to the bench, had never served in Congress or the was known to his colleagues by r pearances before them as counsel In the New Deal arena Butler, although voting against the Administration on 17 of the 27 such cases decided by the court prior to the 1937-38 term, was in the minority only times. These were part of the 16 cases which the Administration won and included the overthrow of the gold clause pay- ment in contracts, the gold bullion case, the appli- cation of the Wagner labor relations act to manu- facturing companies and the unemployment and old age pension provisions of the social security act In the last case on this list he and McReynolds were the only dissenters. In the other four decisions, these two were joined by Sutherland and Van De- vanter. Cabinet but he on of his ap- from 1894 on. six Closely allled to the Federal Administration’s program for social reforms we several state laws which came before the Court Butler wrote the 1936 decision which on technical grounds, invali- dated a New York statute establishing minimum wages for women. A few months later a similar Washington state enactment was upheld. Even before he came to the Supreme Court, Butler's conservative viewpoint had brought sharp public criticism. While he was serving on the Uni- versity of Minnesota's board of regents in war time, a heated controversy developed over its attitude toward certain faculty members. Several professors were dismissed allegedly for their political views. Writing to Senator Ladd of North Dakota about the situation at the university, an embittered faculty member said of Butler Everything seems to in- dicate we have here a person of» intense and unmiti- gated prejudi When Butler was appointed to the court in 1922 this was brought out at public hearings along with Fire Fighters Use Parachutes, Mountain Blazes Forest fires in high, inaccessible mouvnts from planes into burning timber, Photo shows Frank Derry, Los Angeles "chute jumper, climbing into a U. 8. country which would take days to reach on foot, ing fighting chemicals. stuck in a tree top. blazes. i w4 | ‘he | mittee has experiment success fully Forest Service plane at Methow Valley, Second phote shows Derry landing in thick brush, carry- A harness allows him to release himself quickly from the 'chute in case he gets Dozens of fighters can be transported in this manner. in case of serious mountain soring the state’s anti-sedition laws under which several leaders of the Nonpartisan League were im- prisoned Though a Harding appointee, Butler was nom- inally a Democrat. No one could have been farther ! out of step with present day Democratic reform. The matter of a successor is of immediate in- | terest to the Nation. One outstanding candidate probably will be Senator Lewis Schwellenbach of | Washington, a good friend of Alaska. Rumors from Washington a few days ago indicated that Schwel- lenbach would retire from the political arena and accept a Federal judgeship in his own State Supreme Court appointment would be more appro- priate to his talents. He was mentioned as a pos- sible appointee the last time there was a vacancy Only one of President’s Roosevelt’s four appointees. Hug Stanley Reed, Felix Frankfurter e william Douglas—was called from Congress. If ""‘]’(‘*’]‘“" Ford “F“k:‘“‘ ]”" ",;_':Lf" 2 Senator is appointed this time, Schwellenbach may |™"UPW UDCer ‘“l il ‘d o M well be the man {an auspicious wedding day and a returned on the Admiral Watson| u g |lucky date for social matters. En-|from a tour of the country and both o o | tertainments should be successful. were glad to be back. They visited Wrong Method Business Affairs: This is a favor-| New York, Washingtow, Chicago % N 5 |able date for merchants and manu- and other Eastern cities as well as (Cleveland Plain Dealer) ‘r cturers, but the stock market may | Southern California and San Fran- Some of the members of the Dies committee are’ roate sensational mnews, Money | cisco. so in the habit of seeing red wherever they look that|.omes under sinister directions. Cer seem ready to dress up J. Edgar Hoover's fam- s C men minions of Moscow. A witness before the committee is wanted in' New Orleans in connection with a murder When v Washington police lieutenant, at the request of Department of Justice, arrested the man Chair- man Dies and his associates immediately denounced it as a Communist plot! The charge, of course, is' as fantastic as last year’s Shirley Temple and Gypsy > Lee episodes which brought ridicule upon the Dies committee methods. Conceivably. a an wanted for murder might | e useful and ve ious testimony on other mat- ters. But the Dies committee cannot seem to take this sensible attitude. Instead, it immediately jumps to the conclusion that the bold, bad Bolsheviki are trying to discredit their investigation The incident is laughable, but it illustrates a deplorable lack of discrimination. The Dies com- the opportunity to render a useful public most P y at present when subversive bring international complications. In- performing this duty resolutely and effec-' thé committee goes off on hysterical tangents s alien subversive activities with domestic | m, and denounces its critics as agents of In this it parallels the activities of the lady red hunter who a few years ago sought to pin a Communist label on Newton D. Baker and William Allen White | If the Dies committee is to accomplish anything service, wctivities may stead of ively Moscow shrill-voiced useful, and deserve the respect of thoughtful Ameri- cans, it will end such silly performances as trying to paint G-men as Communist tools. It has been | liberally supplied with public fun A current | Gallup poll indicates a majority roval of the continuance of its work. Its members should realize that something more serious and i tant expected of them than a hobgoblin hysteria more suggestive of Hallowe'en hooting than conscientious investigation. Death by Blackout (New York Times) England is finding the remedy almost as bad as the | disease, as far as civilian precautions against enemy air raids are concerned. The blackouts of September doubled - the rate of fatalities on British roadway: bringing ‘the total to 1,130. “That toll,” says The | London Evening News, “if it continued for a year, will be heavier than Hitler's figure for the deaths in the German Army during the whole Polish cam- paign.” Of course the trouble is not confined to the United Kingdom. France and Germany are experiencing the | same difficulties, and no one has been able to point a way out of the darkness. So far as we know, there has not been a single civilian death from air raids in any belligerent nation except Poland. But there the destruction of life from the air was so gruesome that | it horrified the world. If air raids over French, Ger- man and British cities ever start, the blackout acci- dents will seem insignificant. But the danger of | retaliation is so great where the air fleets are near an | equality that the raids may never start. Hitler in his speech at Danzig mystified everybody by \peakmg‘ of a weapon “which cannot be turned against us.” He | was certainly not referring to the bombing plane | y on F: (Philadelphia Record) The 1939 Nobel Prize in physiological medicine has been awarded to Professor Gerhard Domagk of Ger- many for his discovery of prontosil, used in the treatment of various infectious diseases and a fore- runner of the many sulfanilimide compounds. The prize committee and the world honor Dr. | Domagk for his work, but the Nazi Government, unless it teverses its previous ban, forbids him to accept the prize money that goes with the citation. | The Nazi Government is mad at the Nobel committee, because in 1935 it awarded its peace prize to the German Carl von Ossietzky. The Nazi Government hated the pacifist, Von Ossietzky, for | his opposition to its policies centration camp and left him there to die bec he thought the Nazi Government was leading G many into war It sent him to a con- use a battery of fighters parachuting recently near Wenatchee, Wash. clad in a specially designed sponge and rubber suit, Wash. He leaped out of the ship over comple |tain states will suffer | islative innovations. Butler Il e /'/noccopc “The stars incline but do not com.pel' FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17 seem to balance each other today | The morning has a distinctly adverse influence, but benefic stars rule later |in the day. In the early hours per- The |sons in authority may be dominger- | |ing. Mars is in a sinister sway which | threatens naval operations. Heart and Home: Women' should be fortunate in the afternoon.Many ang |voung folk will indulge in hasty the absence of Gov. through lack of funds as their relief burdens continue, despite widespread em- ployment of young and middle-aged 1 persons. There may be a fuel short- ,age in the winter. National Issues: Increase of popu- larity is presaged for the President of the United States. Third term advocates will be more optimistic but political programs. Unexpected de- velopménts will interfere with well- laid pial International Affairs: Secret di- plomacy will continue to ~madke lightning changes in European alignments. Although statesmen have predicted a long drawn out war there may be an armistic before a real victory has been achieved by either side. The seers foretell fright- ful suffering before lasting peace is attained. Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of steady pro- | gress. Marriages among the young are foretold. Caution should be used | in operating motorcars. Children born on this day will be vigorous and animated. Subjects of Scorpio may be talented in music or other arts. (Copyright, 1939) -e>s - - Associate Justice Butler Passes Away (Continued rrum rage One) voted more often against these leg- 17 times against the administration and 10 for it in the first 27 tests to reach the court. Opposed “Dole” Law He wrote an outspoken dissent to a majority opinion holding consfi- tutional the unemployment insur= ity Act “The constitution, to the United States no power to | pay unemployment persons or to require the states to enact laws or to raise or disburse money for that purpose.” Because of Butler's known con: servative vie west attacked him as a “reaction- ary”; the City Council of Minneap- olis adopted a resolution criticizing the selection. Legal Learning, Skill None, however, charged that the new Justice lacked legal learning and skill. He held high rank and respect in the Minnesota bar and numbered .among his clients the Great Northern, Northern Pacific, Burlington, New York Central and Chicago, St. Paul Gas and Light Company. He had won a national reputation | in 1901 for his handling of the Min- nesota rate case for the northwest railroads. This case attracted atten- tion because it was the first real test of the power of a state to regu- late intrastate rates. Butler won in the lower courts but lost in he Su- preme Court, But Butler’s talents as a lawyer were not confined to railroads. The government utilized his skill in the 1909-10 bleached flour cases under the food and drug act and in the first prosecutions under the Shers man anti-tr act, the defendants being Armou Swift’s and other meat-packing concerns. rly Contacts with Taft Canada retained him as its coun- sel in arbitration proceedings to de- termine the price it should pay in Taft. Butler was a member of President Wilson'’s conference committce on federal valuation of railways, from 1913 to 1918, Butler's parents, Patrick and Mary Butler, worked a farm near Naorth- field, Minn. They were Irish and Patrick’s Day, March 17, 1866, He attended a pioneer school, did chores on the farm and then at 15 en- | tered- Carleton College at Northfietd: Good and evil planetary aspects of which was in fish the stars seem to frown upon | Early This Morning| balloted | ance provisions of the Social Secur- | " he said, “grants | s his appointment to | the Supreme Court in 1922 by Presi- | dent Harding aroused bitter opposi- | | tion. The progressives of the north- | Minneapolis and | Omaha railroads, and the St. Paul | + | suffering the purchase of the Grand Trunk Railway. The packers and the Canadian cases brought”Butler under the ob- servation of William Howard Taft, with whom he later was to serve on the highest court. The packers were prosecuted while Taft was President and in the Grand Trunk Pacific ar- bitration he was one of the com- missioners. Butler won his points in that proceeding over the dissent of | their son Pierce was born on St. THE DAILY Al ASKA FJVIPIRE, THURSDAY NOV. 16 1939 «dams part as @ member of the Minnesota bar in spon- | - NOVEMBER 16, 1919 The total value of the exports| | shipped from Alaska for the month | |of October reached $14,507,448, most Among the other exports were manufactured Alaska wood, Alaska fruit, turnips, and canned halibut, eggs, crabs, stearine, fishmeal and minerals. R. J. Sommers, Surveyor-general |and ex-officio Secretary for the Territory of Alaska, was for the| time being Acting Governor due to| Parents and all others who were | interested in the welfare of the school child were earnestly requested | to attend the meeting of the Par- ent-Teacher Association in the school auditorium. The Court House had been receiv- ing some extensive renovating the interior since the court had been | in session at Ketchikan. Capt. C. H. Gallagher arrived here on the Estebeth from Killisnoo. He was at the Alaska Hotel. R. E. Murphy, Alaska manager for the Dupont Powder Company, who had been in Ketchikan on a business trip for his company, re- turned on the Admiral Watson. The Helen D. of the Hanam Salt- y Company left with a load of suppl Weather: highest 45 rain. lowest 38, SCRAP [RON FOR JAPAN {State Department Will Ad in January Declares Magnuson SEATTLE, Nov. 16.—Representa- tive Warren G. Magnuson, Demo- crat of Washington State, told the ‘Washington Commonwealth Federa- tion today that the State Depart- ment en' January 26 will invoke the embargo on scrap iron to Japan. This action, Represgntative Mag- |nuson said, is to be taken partly through the efforts of the delegation | from this state. | Frequently, loading of scrap iron | has caused trouble at Pacific Coast | points, picket lines being established by sympathizers of China in the present Oriental conflict. Minn. There he rustled milk cans in a dairy to pay his expenses. Law Office in St. Paul He was graduated from Carleton in 1887, went to St. Paul to read law | in an attorney’s office and the next year hung out his shingle continuing in active practice until his appoint- ment to the Supreme Court. One of his early partners was William De- Witt Mitchell who became Attorney General of the United States in the Hoover administration. A fellow rail- road attorney in the Minnesota ’capilux who also gained fame as | a “trust buster,” was Frank B. Kel- logg, Secretary of State in the Cool- | idge Cabinet. The only elective office Butler ever held was that of County At- torney of Ramsey County. 1893-97, after he had served two years, 1891- 93, as Assistant County Attorney, an appointive post. He was prosecuting | attorney for the city of St. Paul for six years and, from 1907, was a re- gent of the University of Minne- sota. In 1891 he married Annie Cronin of St. Paul. They had eight children. | One daughter, Mary, died while serving as an army nurse in the World War. Four sons also served in the military forces. R NAZIS GLOW | R BERLIN, Nov. 16 After two weeks of stumbling over each other in the pitch black streets, Berliners— silently a night-after- night blackout—have found a rem- edy for pedestrian accidents. Round buttens the size of a penny | are being sold, to be worn around the neck or in the button hole. Cov- | ered with phosphorous, they glow in the blackness. They have cut down | the number of kicked shins and | head-on rolllslmn RELEASED BASEL, Switzerland, Nov. 16. Switzerland has released its first interned prisoner, a German soldier, who fell asleep on a train and was carried over the border, in | EMBARGOED oo || H Fappy } glrthday | The Emp:n extends congratula- tions and best wishes 1~day, their | bicshday anniversz.,, to the roi- lowing: | NOVEMBER 16 George A. Getchell Fred W. Orme Clarence F. Vasser Nedford Zenger Mrs. Alvin Anderson | C. J. Bergstrom | Armene J. Stenger —— D B LOOK and LEARN L3 | By A. C. Gordon 1. What early great American was a statesman, editor, philoso- pher, and scientist? 2. At which temperatures is water warm, tepid, and hot? 3. What is an embargo? 4. Which was the first state to be admitted to the original thir- | teen? 5. What was the name of the rlrs! | American automobile? ANSWERS 1. Benjamin Franklin. 2. Warm at 98 degrees F., at 87, and hot at 105. 3. The authoritative prohlbmom of foreign commercial trade. 4. Vermont. 5. Haynes. DAILY LESSONS IN ENGLISH * By W. L. Gordon tepid | | | Words Often Misused: Do not say, “The arm of the coat is torn.” Say, “The sleeve of the coat.” “The boy put his arm into the sleeve of the coat.” Often Mispronounced: Dog. Pro- nounce the o as in cost, not as in of. Often Misspelled: Ante (a prefix | denoting before). Anti (a prefix de- |noting opposite, or against). Synonyms: Celebrated, distin- guished, renowned, famous, eminent, illustrious. Word Study: “Use a word three |times and it is yours.” Let us in- crease our vocabulary by mas!ering‘ one word each day. Today's word: Complnmmv; atisfaction; content- ment; serenity. “We must not lower the level of our aim, that we may more surely enjoy the complacency MODERN ETIQUETTE * By Roberta Lee Q. Is it true that religion is very seldom encountered in social circles? A. No. While the subject of re- ligion should not be discussed in a group of people, it certainly does not imply that it is or should be disre- garded. Guthrie says, “Religion is the mortar that binds society to- gether; the granite pedestal of liber- ty; the strong backbone of the so- cial system.” Q. When a man is registering at a hotel for his wife, sixteen-year- old daughter, and himself, how should he sign? A. Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Allen, Miss Betty Allen. Q. When two men and two wo- men are dining in a public place, at a small square table, how should they be seated? A. The two women each other. should face | B Lode and placer location notices for sale at The Empire Office. NOTICE OF SALE In the Commissioner’s Court for the Territory of Alaska, Division Num- ber One. Before FELIX GRAY, Commissnoner and ex-officio Probate Judge, Ju- neau Precinct In the Matter of the Estate of PETE RAKOVICH, Deceased. NOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN that in accordance with an order of the above entitled court, Nick Rocovich, administrator .of the estate of Pete Rakovich, deceased, will sell the fol- lowing described real and personal property, to-wit: Miscellaneous lot of tools and household furniture, fixtures and appliances; All of Lot 6, Block 48, of the Alaska Douglas Addition to Douglas, Alaska, as designated on the official plat of survey of said lot, formerly recorded and known as the Alaska Doyglas Gold Mining Company’s lode claims, and fraction purchased by Town of Douglas at a tax sale held Feb. 14, 1924, for de- linquent taxes for 1923; at public arction, to the highest and best bidder, for cash, on the premises above described in Douglas, Alaska, on November 28, 1939, at 10 o'clock A. M. The personal property will be sold separately from the real prop- erty. GIVEN under- my hand and the seal of the Probate Court above mentioned this 25th day of October, 1939. 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