
    Eric J. SCHMIDT, an individual, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. WALLENIUS LINE, a corporation, Fred F. Noonan Company, Inc., a corporation, Defendants and Appellees.
    No. 25674.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Feb. 15, 1972.
    Ernest M. Thayer (argued), San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiff-appellant.
    Richard E. Gutting, Jr. (argued), Gilbert C. Wheat, of Lillick, McHose, Wheat, Adams & Charles, San Francisco, Cal., for defendants-appellees.
    Before CHAMBERS, Circuit Judge, MADDEN, Judge of the United States Court of Claims, and TRASK, Circuit Judge.
    
      
       J. Warren Madden, Senior Judge of the United States Court of Claims, sitting by designation.
    
   PER CURIAM:

The order dismissing for want of diligent prosecution is affirmed. The trial court has a broad discretion in such matters and we cannot say its action was clearly erroneous.  