Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent

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LEWIS PLEDGES MINERS TO CURB COURTS
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SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
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THE WEATHER
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TLe    O.iiy   Sundsy    Newspspsr Covt^lng   the   Wyoming   Valley
WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, JANUARY  10, 1937
Entered   at   Wllkes-Barrr,    Pa. As   Second   CUss   Mall   Matter
PRICE TEN CENTS
GERMANY WILL SEIZE COLONIES
BRITAIN'S ANSWER
BLOCKADE
Two Are Killed In Plane Crash
Birmingham, Ala., Jan. 9. (UP)—Edwin C. Grounds, 29, and John McCarty, 24. both of Birmingham, were killed to¬ night when the two - seated monoplane which McCarty had borrowed for a brief flight crashed in a vacant lot of a resi¬ dential section near the local airport. Grounds' father, David R., saw the plane fall and help¬ ed recover his son's body from the  wreckage.
Workers  Chief   Is  Backed B y   Congress   Liberals; In  Broadening Of Lawsj
SEE LABOR IN PERIL
Lewis, Norris And Others Propose To Take Reform To The Lower Judiciary
WANT CONGRESS VETO
Washington, Jan. 9 (UP)—John L. Lewis, president of United Mine Workers, urged immediate and drastic action to curb the powers of the Supreme Court to¬ day and promised the support of his vast I^bor or(aniiiation to as¬ sist in-swy few'Ahr^hmi^^, v. ,. -,,<^
Lewis .spoke on a luncheoii pro¬ gram with Sen. George W, Norris, Rep. Maury Maverick, Morris L. Ernst and Rep. David Lewis.
The meeting, attended by Lib¬ erals and Progressives In various fields, vigorously applauded attacks on the court and charges that It had usurped Its power to declare acts of  Congress  unconstitutional.
A contention by Congressman David Lewis that Congress should have the power to pass laws over veto of the Supreme Court received the friendliest reception of the many changes offered which, pre¬ sumably, would be in line with the course suggested by President Roosevelt in his annual message to Congress.
Lewis Oppoitps Court
"The people 1 represent will give their full support to any action which will support the power of Congress to legislate for our people," John L, Lewis said.
"We are only waiting for the crystallzatlon of a definite view¬ point and a definite mode of pro¬ cedure," said the miners leader. He continued: "The.se five-to-four and four-to-four decisions leave a scorching, searing scar on the minds of the laboring men of the country. The whole judiciary Is falling into disrepute because of the feeling that they form a con¬ clusion and then read the law¬ books to iuslify .'onclusions made in accordance with their previous beliefs.
"The Congress cannot act on any Important matter without the feel¬ ing that they will be put on trial and on the defensive before the court  itself."
Cites Congress Power
Congressman David Lewis as¬ serted that Chief Justice John Marshall, who fir.st put forth the theory that the court should de¬ clare acts of Congress unconstitu¬ tional, had, in another opinion, in¬ dicated that Congress could go ahead and pass such laws over the Supreme Court veto,
Ernst urged that Congress should have the power to override the court's veto just as it has that of the President.
Norris recommended action at ¦ this session of Congress and plead- (Continued on Page A-10)
AT OF HEART AHACK
Veteran Court House Worker Well Known To Politics Throughout  The  County
WAS 65 YEARS OLD
IS FEARED
Federation Of Labor Orders Men Under Its Control To Return To Auto Jobs
HITS LEWIS STRIKE
Challenge Given Government As Great Motor Plants Fight Sit-Down Workers
I     Charles     Guscott,     65,     Minute ! Clerk   in   Luzerne   County   Courts i and a veteran political figure, died i suddenly yesterday afternoon as he L«a^^)n. h.U jautoniQbile '04 ;^t. End rbo'ulevaVd.    A'heart ittSc^, which prompted him to stop his machine and ask for medical aid at a road¬ side stand, was the cause of death. He  resided "at  88 North  Franklin street, city.    The body was taken to Hazleton for burial.
Mr. Guscott's death came at 3:15 oclock as he was returning from a drive to Bear Creek. Frequently subject to heart attacks, he rarely used his machine, it was said, but yesterday decided to get some fresh air. While descending Hairpin Curve he apparently felt one of the attacks creeping over him. He managed lo drive as far as the roadside stand of Daniel Robinson, opposite the Sky Club. Robinson anc! Mr. Guscott had been friends for years.
"Drive me to a doctor, quick," Mr. Guscott told his friend.
Before Robinson could get to a telephone to summon aid, Mr. Gus¬ cott slumped down behind the steering wheel. Stimulnnts were administered until Dr. A. L. Cor¬ son and Deputy Coroner Emmett Brislin could arrive. They pro¬ nounced him dead and termed the cause heart disease.
Familiar In Politics
For the last six years Mr. Gus¬ cott had been Minute Clerk in the Luzerne County Courts, but for nearly thirty years prior to that time had nisi- been actively con¬ nected with Courthouse offices. Starting as a school teacher in Hazle Township, he first entered politics in 1904 when Jonathan Davis, then Sheriff, named him a deputy. For the next fifteen years he remained as a deputy sheriff, later moving to the County Asses¬ sors office. More recently he was appointed Minute Clerk In the various courts and in that position became a familiar figure at many of Luzerne County's noted criminal trials. His duties consisted of ad¬ ministering oaths to jurors and re. cciving their verdicts. The latest outstanding verdicts which passed through his hands from the jury to the judge came in the trials of Michael Fugmann and Emerson Jennings.
Mr. Guscott is survived by two daughters: Mrs. Lee Bittenbcnder and Mrs. Earle Mann, both of Hazleton. The body was taken for burial by Undertaker Bachman of Hazleton.
BOYS AND COLLEGES TO GET 50 MILLIONS
Nev/ 'York, Jan. 9. (UP)—Har¬ vard University, Massachusetts In¬ stitute of Technology, Boys' Clubs and Boy Scouts will receive large shares of the estimated $50,000,000 fortune of the late Charles Hay- ilen, 66, his friends believed today.
A few years ago the banker said he intended to leave the bulk of his estate to the two schools and to boys' movements in which he had been interested for years.
Hayden, senior member of the New   York   and   Boston   banking
firm of Hayden, Stone & Company, died yesterday after an operation which followed an illness of sev¬ eral weeks. Funeral services will be held Monday.
The banker was donor of Hay¬ den Planetarium and was credited with being the most influential man on Wall Street next to J. P. Morgan. He helped manage more than 70 of the world's largest cor¬ porations and was a director in 52.
He was a bachelor. A brother, J. Willard Hayden of Boston, sur¬ vives.
NO PEACE IN SIGHT
Washington, Jan, 9, (UP) — Threat of civil war in organized Labor ranks was projected into the embattled automotive industry to¬ night as American Federation of Labor ordered workers of two powerful craft union departments to returtt |»;«>MHayJi;»~it^U(£''«lQied General Motors plants.
The order, made public by John P. Frey, gray-haired president of the Federation's Metal Trades Division, covers thousands of Unionists in the metal trades and building  trades  departments.
The action was regarded here as bolstering the cause of the $1,500,- 000,000 General Motors Corporation in its fight against John L. Lewis' Committee for Industrial Organiza¬ tion which is sponsoring the spreading strike.
Frey insisted that he was not seeking to "split" the strike. He said he was confident that Federa¬ tion members affected by his order and that of J. W. Williams, chief of building trades unionists, would not use force to break through picket lines or work in plants operated by strikebreakers. Lewis  .^len  Angry
Frey said his decision undoubted¬ ly represented the position of President William Green of A. F. of L.
Angry C. I. O. officials pointed out that the two Federations divi¬ sions were led by the same men who were instrumental in forcing suspension of the CIO unions from the Federation last September on charges of fostering dual-union¬ ism.
Theae Labor chiefs — William ("Big Bill"! Hulcheson, G. M. Bugniazet and Arthur Wharton - banded together in the move to oust the C, I, O. Frey waa prose¬ cutor at the  trial.
Frey, who has acted as Federa¬ tion spokesman while Green re¬ tires from the active scene, rc- 'Vcaled the order after a series of meetings among high craft union officials. He outlined a position of adamant opposition to the insist¬ ence of the Lewis-led United Auto¬ mobile Workers that they be granted the right to represent all General Motors workers in col¬ lective bargaining negotiations. Big   Company   ORerN   Aid
A message from H. W. Ander¬ son of General Motors Labor Re¬ lations Department, to Frey, said:
"In life with the established policy, you may rest assured that General Motors has no intention of entering into any agreement with any other organization inter¬ fering with legitimate jurisdiction of international mions affiliated with the Metal Trades Department of American Federation of Labor."
A telegram sent by Frey to the local office of his division in Cleve¬ land pointed out, in reference to department unions, that:
"Neither these members nor their international unions were consulted or given any voice in de¬ termining whether or not there should be a  strike.
Government Challenged
"Our members are unemployed because of this strike which has not been endorsed by their inter¬ national unions. This strike move¬ ment aims to put our unions out of existence and force the members to become members of some other organization or to be represented by some other organization.
Other developments in the Labor situation  included:
1.   The    Carnegie - Illinois    Steel (Continued on Page A-IOJ
Stork Hovering For Lindberghs
London, Jan. 9. (UP)—The Sunday Referee, one of the more sensational British news¬ papers, said tonight that reports are spreading through the vil¬ lage of Weald, Kent, that Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh ar expecting another child. The Lindberghs, who came to Eng¬ land a year ago with their in¬ fant son, Jon, live in an ancient country place, "Long Barn," at Weald.
The Sunday Referee said "Mrs. Lindbergh has been lead¬ ing an even more secluded life than usual, resting indoors most days." The paper's report con¬ tinued: "Lindbergh always seems to be in a hurry lo get home. A married couple has been en¬ gaged as servants at Weald and their small son is believed in¬ tended to be a playmate for Jon. At Long Barn, 'no state¬ ment could be made' regard¬ ing Mrs.  Lindbergh's health."
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BROUGHT TO HALT IN FALL OF SNOW
Family And Federal Agents Are Left Without Word Of Fate Of Ten-Year-Old
TROUBLE FOR F.O.R
WPA Losses Arouse Protest By A Bloc In Congress From   Northwest  States
FIGHT FOR BOOST
Addition Of Forty Millions To Monthly Allotment Is Declared A Necessity
CITE DROUTH NEEDS
MISSING TWO WEEKS
Tacoma, Wash, Jan. 9 (UP)--Dr. W. W. Mattson tonight demanded of the kidnaper of his 10-ycar-old son, Charles, proof that the child is alive and well
The physician, frantic from fear for the safety of the boy who has been missing almost a fortnight, made his demand known througli the personal classified advertising columns of The Seattle Times.
The new ad, the seventh of the scries of "Mable and Ann" notices regarded as the contact between the kidnaper and the family, said:
"Mable—We are waiting. All ar¬ rangements have been carried out in accordance with Instructions. In view of the lapse ot time I also desire new proof my son is alive and well—Ann."
The last sentence was the new addition to the previous ad and established definitely that the series of notices was written by Dr. Mattson.
Storm  Hampers  Search
A snow storm tonight halted all apparent attempts to negotiate with the kidnaper of 10-year-old Charles Mattson. At the same time the near zero weather brought new anxiety to the family of the boy who has been missing almost a fortnight.
Tortured by lack of word from the man who stole his son for $28,000 ransom, Dr, Mattson look¬ ed anxiously at the icy scene out¬ side the window of his comfort¬ able home,
"I hate to see It," he said. He knew his son, none loo strong for his age, was scantily clad when the bearded abductor broke into the home during the family's ab- j sence and seized Charles, who, suf- fer'ng from a cold, had just taken a warm bath,
"I had hoped that there would be some progress by now, but there just isn't. There have been no de¬ velopments,"
Law enforcement agencies have withdrawn from the case at Dr. Malison's request so that the kid¬ naper may have an open channel for negotiations.
Washington, Jan, 9 (UP)—A re¬ bellion of western Congressmen against Relief appropriation cuts threatened trouble tonight for the President's drive toward a balanced budget.
With Congress shiftin|f its la¬ bors toward «9i>(er,«.)^e Wid com¬ mittee rooms in prepaimtion for speedy action on emergency meas¬ ures, a series of developments gave advance notice of probably Ad¬ ministration headaches in the 75th session.
They included:
1. Formation of a bloc of Sen¬ ators and Representatives from Washington, Oregon, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho and California to protest the President's proposed reduction of WPA expenditures from $170,000,000 a month during 1936 to $1.30,000,000 a month for the next five months. They will demand at least as much as $170,- 000,000 on the grounds that the mi¬ gration of farm families from drought areas to their states has intensified   their   relief   problem,
2. A conference in wiiich WPA Administrator Harry L, Hopkins and Chairman James P, Buchanan of the House Appropriations Com¬ mittee, indicated an agreement in principle on clearing the way for quick action on the Work Relief emergency appropriation. Buch¬ anan suggested the Relief-Defici¬ ency Bill would be the subject of hearings next week and might be ready for the House in another week.
Relief Fund Disappoints The President's Budget recom¬ mended a Deficiency Relief ap¬ propriation of $790,000,000. of which only about $650,000,000 would be spent before July 1, the end of the fiscal year.
3. Rumblings of dissent, particu¬ larly in the Senate, against the President's request for a lump sum Relief appropriation for 1938. A group including Sen. Bennett C. Clark, D.. Mo.; Sen. Harry Byrd, D„ Va,; Sen, Robert J. Bulkley, D„ O.; and possibly Chairman Carter Glass of the Appropriations Com¬ mittee, was described as opposed to the lum- -ium appropriation, but whether t ^^ would actively seek separate consideration of appropri¬ ations for each Relief department and agency was uncertain.
The western bloc, formed to press the case of their States, in¬ dicated hope that they could get the necessary funds within the Budget recommendations, but the prevailing opinion was that an in¬ crease of the $650,000,000 suggested by the President to be spent in the next five months would be re¬ quired.
The    President's    supplementary
Budget  estimate   for  a  $790,000,000
Deficiency Relief fund Is expected
to call for $655,000,000 for the WPA
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Prayer For Snow Is Led By Mayor
Melrose, Mass,, Jan, 9. (UP) —Clutching skis, snowshoes, to¬ boggans, sleds and skates, more than 50 children knelt on bare ground today and prayed for snow.
Their prayers had at least a fair chance of fulfillment. Tho weather bureau predicted the temperature would tumble from today's high of 54 to between 15 and 25 tomorrow, possibly accompanied   by  snow.
Leading the prayer at Mount Hood, the city's recreation cen¬ ter, was 79-year-old Mayor Robert A. Perkins. Beside the kneeling group rose the wooden framework of a toboggan chute.
CRAZY WEATHER IS EXPECTED TO END
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NEW DIFFICULTY ANNOYS LEADERS IN PEA CE CRISIS
France Reports Ruse By Hitler To Get Foothold In Morocco In Ad¬ vance Of Powers' Decree On Lost Colonies And Stage Is Set Again For An Open Conflict In Europe
REBELS GAIN IN SPAIN
Climate In Reverse Gear Is Likely To Travel Out On Rain And Sleet Storm
BRACER FOR HEALTH
Climatic conditions that made Wyoming Valley's mid-Winter weather appear like something left over from a Summer thunderstorm crossed by hail are scheduled for a change sometime today or tomor¬ row—unless United States Weather Bureau experts are wholly mis¬ taken in their prognostications Californians, where seekers of sun¬ light have been mussing around under clouds and low temperatures, and States nearer the Rocky Moun¬ tains, where sub-zero snow has been piling up all kinds of dis¬ order, are hoping the weathermen are right. So is Wyoming Valley's population.
It is very likely the forecasters are right. How could they be wrong when their predictions for today and tomorrow are almost identical for northeastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, western Pennsylvania, most of New England, and New York? Rain should arrive some time today, and on its heels should come temperatures sufficiently cold to turn the rain into sleet, Condi- lions somewhat similar should con¬ tinue tomorrow, with temperatures continuing on the toboggan from the high levels of the past few days.
It's going to be bad for motor¬ cars, good for garages and acces¬ sory stores and. according lo the doctors, the kind of change needed to turn back the threatened in¬ vasion by the bacilli of la grippe and influt'iza. The Weather Bureau doesn't promise that the cold weather will last very long- not yet.
POPE PIUS IMPROVES FORBIDS X-RAY TEST
Vatican City, Jan. 9. (UP)—Pope Pius XI was said tonight by a trustworthy Vatican source to be showing steady improvement in his lengthy illness fro.n the infirmities of old age.
Prof. Aminta Milani, personal physician to the Pontiff, was forced to abandon a plan to X-rsy the heart   and   vital   oigvaa   »t   hi*
patient when the Pope indicated he would rather die than submit to this type of examination.
Prof. Milani had set great store by what he might learn from X-rays and had even approached a noted expert prior to asking the Pontiff's permission. The refusal j he received was said to have been 1 unefuivocaJ. '
Somewhere There's Snow
A blizzard which raged for three days in the northwestern fourth of tho nation, taking a toll of at least a dozen lives and causing acute suffering from intense cold, swept eastward Saturday night toward the Atlantic coast, which was bask¬ ing in Indian Summer weather.
Snow and sleet covered about half of continental United States. The blizzard and sub-zero temper¬ atures left broken communica¬ tion lines, sleet-covered highways, stranded motorists, snowbanks that hailed trains and intense suffering among the needy.
Highway plows burrowed through drifts in the mountain passes of the West and on the flat prairies of Great Plains States to effect numerous rescues.
Five persons died in the western mountain area. Four deaths were reported from Texas. Two men perished in train derailments in Missouri caused by sleet and snow. Other fatal accidents were re¬ ported from the score of Stales feeling the brunt of the storm which formed in the Canadian Northwest and pushed eastward and south against an ocean of wet, warm air that blanketed south¬ eastern United States and North Atlantic seaboard.
After being anoivbound 24 hours in a bus on the mountain pass south of Cedar City, Utah, 15 passengers and the driver reached safety early Saturday. Only ill effects were minor frost-bite and mild exposure.
Henry Stroeble. a brakeman. died ^Continued on Page A-6)
Paris, Jan. 10—(Sunday)—(UP) Germany apparently has decided to seize several of Spain's North African provinces instead of wait¬ ing for England and France to answer her recent request for a return of her pre-war colonies, Genevieve Tabouis said in the newspaper L'Ouevre today.
The article claimed that Nazi militarists are working feverishly to gain a foothold in North Africa and already have built "numer¬ ous" oil and gasoline depots on adjoining   Portuguese   islands.
The well known political writer warned that if the German activi¬ ties were not opposed Franco might find herself with four "fron¬ tiers to defend—Belgian, German, Italian,  Spanish."
"For six weeks," Mmc, Tabouis aaid, "there has been strange ac¬ tivity in tho Portuguese islands at Cape Verdi as well as at Funchal, Maderia, where the Germans al¬ ready have succeeded in install¬ ing numerous oil and gasoline depots.
"It would seem that the Reich has decided to give the right of way to activity of its people with¬ out wailing for France and England to decide to give them colonies.
"This method of exploiting the colonies of others and gaining a foothold there entails less danger and more profit and even if we have the right to demand complete evacuation of Spanish Morocco, we have no rights in Rio de Oro, or Ifni (two of Spain's North African colonies) which are situated south of our own Morocco, none of these territories being really comprised in Franco-Spanish treaties.
"Therefore, it is probable that Germany will continue to install itself in Rio de Oro,"
Great Blockade Planned
London, Jan. 9. (UP)-The Sun¬ day Referee's diplomatic corre¬ spondent reported tonight that lie "understands" the members of the British Cabinet met today to "hear and approve" a plan proposed by Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin providing for a British naval blockade of the entire Spanish coast unless intervention by inter¬ ested powers is ended.
"France already has agreed to this startling decision," the dis¬ patch said, "and all other nations will be asked to cooperate,
"Tlf':" exact form of blockade will depend upon whether they (Ger¬ many, Italy and Soviet Russia) as¬ sent, but already the Admiralty ex¬ perts are working full speed on a detailed plan, . . . The Cabinet is prepared, if necessary, to search every ship going into Spain,
"Any German, Italian or Rus¬ sian protest will be ignored,"
Hitler Charges Lies
Berlin, Sunday, Dec, 10, (UP) — The German Government, through its officially-inspired press, today described  French charges  of Nazi
military activities in Morocco as "Jewish and Bolshevistic lies."
Newspapers elaborated bitterly upon the Propaganda Ministry's denial that any German troops were landing or already were pres¬ ent in Spanish Morocco, or that German barracks were being built there.
The D.N.B. (semi-official) news- agency charged that France had launched a "new lie campaign" against the Reich. Chancellor Adolf Hitler's Voelklscher Beobach- ter said in big type:
"Anti-German horror stories from Morocco in Parisian Press!"
Discussing a report in the Paris newspaper, L'Oeuvre, written by Mme Genevieve Tabouis, the Voel¬ klscher Beobachter said her statei- ments alleging the construction of Nazi barracks in North Africa was "drivel."
The Lokal Anzeiger said the French were "concocting criminal lies about Germany" and spreading "red hate in a campaign against peace."
Rebels Near Goal Madrid, Jan. 9. (UP)—Rebel bombing planes dumped more ex¬ plosives on Madrid today in a grim "adios" to 500,000 wretched citizens who were packing their belongings for a mass evacuation of the Capital.
London, Jan, 9, (UP)—An Ex¬ change Telegraph dispatch from Madrid tonight said the Rebels on the Madrid front had reached the important San Fernando bridge across the river Manzanares and had captured an iron gate as well as   a   large   petrol   depot.
Italy For Expansion
Rome, Jan, 9. (UP)—Premier Benito Mussolini got Cabinet ap¬ proval today of his "Billion Dollar Budget" for 1937-1938, which shows an estimated deficit of approxi¬ mately $167,058,4150 for the com¬ ing fiscal year. The Cabinet meet¬ ing lasted two and one-half hours at Plazzo Viminale. Details of the financial schemes were thoroughly discussed. The Ministers also ap¬ proved a series of administrativ* measures.
The Budget included an esti¬ mated appropriation for Colonial expenditures four times greater than last year's. It totaled $84,« 977,100-  or  1,614,000,000 lire.
The revenue estimated for th« fiscal year was given at 20,596,000,- 000 lire ($1,084,379,400): the estim¬ ates of expenditures were 23,789,- 000,000 lire ($1,251,437,850)—or a deficit of 3,317,000,000 lire <$18V 058,450).
The increases for the military services are substantial—in the case of the Aviation Department the appropriation has been trebled.
The War Ministry receives $131,« 115,115 compared to $120,621,180 ia the current fiscal year, the Navy Department receives $94,348,800 compared with $81,291,600 and Avfktion $65,812,500 against $21,481,^ 200,
The new Budget includes an Wf (Continued  on   Page  A-6)
CITY POLICE CAPTIVE CHARGED IN STABBING
Sought for more than twelve hours as the assailant in a stabbing affray which sent one man to General hospital, Frank Hallix, 56, colored of 190 Lincoln street, was captured yesterday afternoon on South State street by Detectives William Schwab and Thomas Nolan,
Hallix was named by WiUiam Hall, 45, also colored, as the man who inflicted severe stab wounds on his head and wrist yesterday morning at 4 oclock in the Uncoln
street home. After the figtet disappeared.
Hall was taken to General hoapl* tal and after treatment was r«« turned to police headquarters pend¬ ing investigation of the stabbing. Detectives Schwab and Nolan started a search for Hallix which led to South State street where th« capture was made.
He was locked in police he«d- j quarters and will be arraigned tn , pohce court this morning on • I charge ot felonious woundlBf.