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VOL. 38. No. 186. NOME. ALASKA. MONDAY. JUNE 14. 1937. Per Copy lOcts
President’s Court Bill Turned Down
JURISDICTIONAL LABOR DISPUTE SETTJ ED
Awarding of Contract for Federal Building is Near
UNCLE SAM MOVES WEALTH
This was the start of spring moving for the San Francisco United
States mint, and shows employes starting to move gold, silver and
other metals from the historic Fifth and Mission street mint to
the new burglar-proof structure on upper Market Street.
Senate Judiciary Committee Reports
Against Court Bill Blistering Language
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 14—The Senate Judic
iary Committee recommended the rejection of Presi
dent Roosevelt’s Court Bill in blistering language,
branding it as “ needless, futile and an utterly danger
ous abandonment of the Constitutional principle.” The
report was signed by seven democrats and three repub
licans, and said: “it should be emphatically rejected and
that its parallel never again should be presented to free
representatives of a free people of America.”
The ten thousand word report echoed with virtually
all objections that were raised during the seven weeks
hearing, and said the bill would not accomplish its pur
pose but would destroy the independence of the judic
iary and make the government ‘one man, rather than
the law”. The majority of the committee insisted that
the bill “contains the germ system of centralized admin
istration of labor, that would enable an executive, so
minded, to send his judges in every judicial district of
the land, a hint in judgment controversies between the
government and a citizen”.
Administration Senators said that they had virtual
ly abandoned the proposal of adding five new judges to
the Supreme Court at once, trying instead to work out
a compromise, whereby elderly Justices would be aug
mented or replaced at the rate of one yearly.
The Senators signing the majority report were: King,
McCarran, Vannuy’s, Hatch, Burke, Connally, O’Ma
honey, Borah, Austin, Steiwer. Those favorable were,
Neely, Logan, Dietrich, McGill, Pittman, Hughes, Ash
urst and Norris.
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(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 14—Secretary Swan
son will open private ship companies bids Thursday for
a 35,000 ton battleship estimated to cost complete, fifty
five million dollars. He will also open the Navy Yard
bids on the second ship, estimated about the same, soon.
Secretary Swanson said he hopes the keels will be laid
soon for just one of these ships, the first to be built in
fifteen years
AW ARD READY BE
MADE ON NOME FED
BLDG—CLEAR TITLE
Indications Saturday late point
ed to the fact that construction
on the proposed Federal Building
for Nome would start at an early
date, judging by information re
ceived by the U. S. Attorney’s
Office and also news from Dele
gate Anthony J. Dimond to the
l\ S. Marshal's Office, which was
made public today.
A 1 that remains to be done be
fore the award of contract is
made to one of the bidders is that
the federal government secure
certificate of clear title to the
■Ifrrrd in question upon which the
bin ding is to be constructed.
A telegram from Carl McFar
land. Assistant Attorney General,
Washington, D. C., to the District
Attorney here said,'“imperative
that title to certain land in Nome
. . . . be approved immedi
ately by attorney general Con
tact city attorney and secure cer
tificate . . . that valid title
i is vested in United States under
deed from city date January 17th.
1936. Advise of contents of city
attorney’s certificate by wire and
incorporate in wire your certifi
cate that valid title is vested in
United States. Deed and neces
sary papers for recording will be
furnished at later date. Give
matter immediate attention.”
City Attorney Leroy Sullivan
.spent much time Sunday deter
mining the actual status, which
he declares is clear, and the infer
mation was wired by the U. S.
v : o' Attorney today: "City
..it ii'iiey and 1 agree that govern
ment has perfect title to land in
question. However, think govern
ti.un: sh uld accept deed. City
at! <rne.v has given me certificate
' ".at effect which is being for
•\ inled to you. Signed: O'Neill".
Delegate Dimond also wired re
questing that every possible ef
t t be made to expedite in order
u ustruction may go forward this
.-ummer Delegate Dimond also
w.red U S. Marslial Thos. Gaff
' _y asking him to give any aid
in "his power in securing neces
sary information and expediting
speedy delivery to Attorney Gen
eral's office, Washington, D. C.
Tiie telegram received by U. S.
Marshal Gaffney declared that
the Procurement Division was
ready to award the contract un
der bids recently received upon
receipt of approval attorney gen
eral of title land,therefore prompt
action was suggested.
City Attorney Sullivan stated
in his opinion that the title to
the land was valid and vested in
the United States and has render
ed certificate to that effect.
In view of the speedy action on
all sides, it is expected that news
of the contract will come through
shortly and that Nome may ex
pect construction to commence at
an early date—a decision which
has long been sought, and which
will be welcomed with glad tid
ings here.
Matt Meehan of
Longshoremen is
Sending Regrets
SEATTLE. June 14. — Matt
Meehan, West Coast secretary
treasurer of the longshoremen's
union, sent regrets to the team
sters convention over the “pres
ent strained circumstances which
exist between the respective or
ganizations.”
,Dave Beck, teamsters head said
he may respond * with a letter
stating that the teamsters can't
deal until the longshoremen ob
serve American Federation of La
bor laws.
Beck also threatened the news
paper guild, if the latter tries to
get the drivers in an expansion
program.
Mouse Trap Is
Object Interest
At Exhibition
NEW YORK, June 10—A “per
petual motion” mousetrap which.
catches rodents by the dozen, was j
displayed at the National Inven
tors Congress yesterday. The de
vise lures the mouse through a
door by the smell of cheese or
bacon. When the door shuts be
hind it, the mouse, alarmed, runs
through a corridor looking for a
way to escape. That's where the
“catch" comes in. The corridor I
i
is so wired that it catapults the
I
mouse into an adjacent ante
chamber, throwing the entrance
open again for the next victim.
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Married to llie IJuke oi York when lie was the ob-eure younger
brother of Edward, then Prince ol Wales, Elizabeth, ot Scottish
birth, was crowned England's queen by (he Archbishop ol Canter
bury. This radio picture from London shows the archbishop as
lie placed the crown upon her head
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK. .June 12—A quest for records left by
an unknown American explorer, and one of the first
white men to penetrate far into the Arctic Circle, was
announced by Arnold Haverlee. aged 34. leader of an
expedition who are planning to explore Lapland.
Haverlee said: “nobody seems to know who the
American was, I was exploring the Arctic several years
ago one hundred miles North of the Circle and found a
cabin containing the puzzling inscription scratched on
a rock reading: “W. Langhorne. U.S.A., July 23, 1787 ”
SAN FRANCISCO, June 12—Fred Apostoli, of San
Francisco, a ranking middleweight, decisioned Dale
Sparr. a former Navy champion, in ten rounds.
EVERETT, Wash., June 12—A marriage license was
issued here yesterday to Frank M. Reed of Anchorage
and Maxine McGary of Anacortes.
NEW YORK, June 14—Oppressed principally by
widening labor rifts,the Stock Market suffered its heav
iest break in several weeks through transfers of one
million three hundred thousand dollars, making it the
largest month of loses of from one to seven points in all
departments. Steels and motors being prominent on
the decline.
LOS ANGELES, June 14—Five airplane joy riders
were killed in two crashes in this area, three of the oc
cupants in an old biplane, died when the plane lost a
wing and fell five hundred feet. A Sanmarino training
plane tailspinned, killing two at Glendale
DARLINGTON, England, June 14—Reverend R.
Anderson Jardine who married the Duke of Windsor to
Mrs. Wallis Warfield, resigned as vicar of St. Paul s
church. He denied that the wedding or church had
any connection with his resignation.
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 14th—Senator Norris
who fostered the Nebraska unicameral legislature, pre
dicted that many States will abolish the two houses and
pointed to the “great superiority” of Nebraska’s recent
first unicameral.