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Vol- 38. No. 56 NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday March 10, 1937 Per Copy 15cts
District Court To Issue Licenses Instead of Board
Roosevelt asks Quick Action Court Reorganization
Grand Jury Now
Session and Will
Investigate Here
The Federal Grand Jury re
turned to District Judge J H S
Morison this morning four in
dictments as follows:
Daniel Aimuktoolik and Harry
Boone were indicted on a charge
of larceny in a warehouse at Gol
ovin. They waived time for ar
raignment, pleading and passing
of sentence. Judge Morison sen
tenced each of them to 90 days
in the federal jail in Nome.
An indictment charging lar
ceny in a dwelling at Nome was
brought in against Henry Amos.
Joseph Richards, another native
was indicted on a charge of lar
ceny in a store at Candle.
Catholic Ladies
Give St. Patrick
Dance Nome
Nome Catholic Ladies are ousy
this week completing arrange
ments for the mammoth St. Pat
rick’s Day card party and dance
which will be held next Wednes
day, March 17, in the high school
gymnasium.
The affair will begin promptly
at eight with tables of contract
bridge and whist in play. Follow
ing the cards refreshments will
be served. For the remainder of
■the evening there will be danc
3ng.
The card party and dance is, as
usual, for the benefit of the Pil
grim Springs Mission. The Ca
tholic Ladies are hoping for a
very large attendance as the Mis
sion is in need of money.
Since the depression funds us
ually sent to the Springs from
friends outside have shrunk, yet
the enrollment at the Mission
has increased- At present seven
ty children are being educated
and cared for at the Mission.
Admission tickets will go on
sale probably tomorrow, the cost
being 75 cents for adults. This
>s a genuine worthy project and
deserves the support of everyone
in this section, so give the ladies
a big hand and make it the suc
cess it is entitled to.
NOTICE
The Foil Book is now open In
the office of the City Clerk for
tke Registration of Voters at the
annual Municipal and School
Board election, to bo held April
«, 1937.
M. J WALSH, City Clerk
Court Fight Has
Clear-cut Lines
Opinion Voiced
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON,, D. C., March
—If Roosevelt wins what he calls
“the fight of my life,” to revamp
the supreme court, he will win
with the air of the liberal mem
bers of congress and with the aid
of many other members who are
not progressive but are democrats
and for one reason or another
will decide to stand behind the
President.
Liberal and conservative lines
are being drawn. There would
not be the slightest doubt as to
the outcome if a bloc of conser
vative democratic senators were
girding themselves in opposition.
On the other hand, Roosevelt
would have to resign himself to
defeat if he had to depend solely
on liberal and progressive mem
bers who were not swayed by
possibilities of patronage or other
attractions attaching to party loy
alty.
Whether or not true liberals
should stand against the plan on
the ground that it is forerunner
of dictatorship and fascism is at
least a debatable point. The cold
fact is that the battle will be one
between conservatives and liber
als in the sense that Y/ashington
knows those groups, always re
membering that Roosevelt com
mands a certain percentage of
conservative democrat support
which he can swing in with the
liberals.
High Gees to Doghouse
It will be instructive at this
point to bring up the incident of
Dr. Stanley High, who was pub
licly and obviously—although not
by name—rebuked by Roosevelt
because of an article in a weekly
magazine whose editors proclaim
ed him as a "dose” presidential
advisor. He had confidently fore
cast a complete break between
Roosevelt and such administra
tion leaders as Vice President
Jack Gamer, Senate Majority
Leader Joe Robinson, Senator Pat
Harrison and other southern and
northern conservative democrats.
High was correct in so far as
he tagged the bulk of the south
ern democrats as conservatives
who look askance at Roosevelt’s
New Deal. But this assertion of
that much truth was ondy one
mistake he made. Southern dem
ocrats such as Robinson knew
High as one who helped write
presidential campaign speeches
and had intimate conferences with
Roosevelt since the election. They
I (Continued on Page Three)
ROOSEVELT EXPLAINS
PURPOSE OF COURT
PROPOSALS
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C. March 10
President Roosevelt called for
swift enactment of his court re
organization bill Tuesday night
“to save the constitution from the
Supreme Court, and the Court
from itself.”
In outspoken fashion the chief
executive asserted that America’s
highest tribunal had “improperly
set itself up as a super legisla
ture”, and had read into the con
stitution, “words of implication
which were not there, and which
never were intended to be there”.
At the same time he disavowed
any intention to pack the Court
with “spineless puppets who dis- |
regard law” and decide cases as
he might wish them decided.
He assarted the processes of a
constitutional amendment were
: too slow for the pressing prob
lems of the day.
His address, “a fireside chat"
was delivered from the small ov
al room on the ground floor of
the White House.
"We must find a way to take
an appeal from the Supreme
Court to the Constitution itself.
“We want a judiciary which
will do justice under the consti
tution, not over it. In our courts
we want a 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, and that means a Sup
reme Court that will enforce the
constitution as written—that will
refuse to amend the constitution
by the arbitrary exercise of ju
dicial power, thus an amendment
by judicial say so. It does not
mean a judiciary so independent
that it can deny the existence of
facts, universally recognized.”
Basketball Team
I Left Nome For
I Play Fairbanks
Bringing a public subscription
drive to finance transportation for
a Nome basketball team to go
to Fairbanks and compete with
other Alaskan cities during the
lee Carnival there this week end,
seven players comprising the
team, left by Mi row Air Service
planes today.
They were Captain Jimmy Dav
idson, Mgr. Jack Humling, Tony
Rolando, Herschel King, Andy
Roberts, Carl Wourinen & Chuck
O’Leary.
The promise of sufficient funds
to pay the transportation costs
was secured Monday night and
yesterday. At a rally and practice
held last night the above seven j
were selected to represent Nome
on the quint floor.
The $300 guaranteed by Fair
banks, it is believed will be am
pie to defray the expenses of the
team in the interior city.
They were wished all luck in
their coming games. It was un
derstood basketball games were
scheduled in Fairbanks, a double
header on each of three nights:
Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
The Nugget has asked the Fair
banks News-Miner to keep us ad
vised of games played by the
Nome team while there.
Attorney Gen.
Talks Judiciary
Comm, on Bill
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C. March 10
Attorney General Homer S. Cum
mings pleaded before the senate
judiciary committee for the ad
option of the Roosevelt court
bill, as a means of injection of
“new blood” into the judiciary
and to avoid “tortured construc
tion of the constitution”.
He said: “the proposed increase
in the number of judges was not
for the purpose of enslaving the
judiciary nor was it for the pur
pose of making it an adjunct to
executive purposes. It is to re
juvenate judicial machinery and
speed justice, besides giving to
the courts men with a fresh out
look who can restrain from in
fringing upon the powers of con
gress.”
He listed four pillars upon
which he said the plan for reor
ganizing the judiciary rests—1st
an impossible situation created
by the reckless use of injunctions
in restraining the operation of
federal laws: 2nd the presence on
the federal bench of aged or in
firm justices crowded the condi
tion of the federal dockets and
delays in the lower courts were
a heavy burden to impose upon
(Continued on Page Three)
AFL And CIO
Engage Bitter
Fight for Lead
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 10
The Committee for Industrial
Organization’s decision to charter
local, state and central labor bod
ies, led American Federation of
Labor officials to consider expell
ing ten unions backing John L
Lewis.
The CIO would become an AF
of L rival organization if the
plan is completed.
The CIO has steered a course
for the unionization of two mill
ion two hundred thousand textile
and oil workers. Many CIO affil
iated groups are participating in
strikes affecting a hundred thou
1 sand workers.
About fifty five thousand Chry
s!'W> automotive workers are idle
while Chrysler reiterated his re
fusal to recognize the United
Automotive Workers of Ameri
ca, as the sole bargaining agency
for its sixty seven thousand em
ployees.
Ten thousand are idle in the
Hudson Motor Car Company, and
another ten thousand are idle at
the Firestone Tire and Rubber
plants at Akron, Ohio.
Federal conciliators have been
asked to settle the taxi cab strike
in Chicago Where four hundred
and fifty freight handlers and
motormen are also striking to pre
vent the movement of merchan
dise in a sixrty mile freight sub
j way.
Settlement Auto
Fight Predicted
(Bv ’Die Associated Press)
DETROIT, March 10, —A fin
al agreement "some time today"
in negotiations to settle strike*
remaining in effect in the Tecenl
i nation-wide General Motors auto
| workers strike, appeared as a
I possibility, unions sources repre
sented.
Only the problem of a nation
al minimum wage remained foj
a decision.
Fifty five thousand workers in
[nine Detroit plants of the Chry
sler corporation are sitdown strik
ers, while other are out in fact
ories which supply Chrysler bod
ies. Ten thousand are still ou1
in the Hudson motor plants.
Chrysler executives repeated
their refusal to grant United Aut
omobile Workers of America
their request for exclusive recog
nition.
Rivers’ Liquor
Bill Passed By
House Juneau
(Special to the Nugget)
JUNEAU, March 10, — By a
vote of 11 to 5 the House passed
the River’s liquor bill which pro
vides for making statutory, the
present regulations, with some
new changes to eliminate causes
of complaints, one of which is
that the District Court will issue
j the licenses instead of the liquor
board.
The measure was returned to
the senate where it had already
been passed, for their approval
of the slight amendment, and
jthen is will be ready for the gov
ernor to sign.
The senate passed the house
bill approving of the approria
tion of one hundred and ninety
I five thousand dollars for a pow
jer plant and girls dormitory at
the University of Alaska.
The Senate killed the fifty thou
isand dollar appropriation for an
Alaskan exhibit at the San Fran
Icisco exposition in 1939. The body
i passed the Nerland bill licensing
public accountants and requiring
ithem to pass examinations.
The Coffey blue sky bill was
killed by being indefinitely post
poned.
Munitions Vessel
Not Sent Bottom
(By The Associated Press)
ARCHAOHON, France, Itudk
10, —The munitions transport.
Mar Cantrabrico, is reported to
have been saved from destruction
and is being convoyed as a war
prize to an insurgent Spanish
port for salvage of her two mil
lion seven hundred thousand doll
ar cargo of American made muni
tions consigned to the Spanish
government.
The ship was first reported to ~
have been sunk by an insurgent
cruiser.
The vessel carried forty two
million cartridges, seven thousand
rifles, a thousand machine guns,
and thirty seven dismantled air
planes.
INFORMATION WANTED
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soon. All my love. Signed
LULU CHASE,
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St. Joseph, Mo.
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