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Give the Bridge Fiesta-Bound Motorcade a Hearty Welcome in Roseburg Today, and Plan to Repeat When California Come for Bonneville Dam Opening THE WEATHER Highest lemitoritiui'ft vest onlay 7S Unvct teiiiiifi-jmno last nlhl 47 IVei'ljultitlUm fur 24 Iiuura u liv. niiut fir.si of jiKiuili I 'S'.i I'lf-rir. fitim S.-pi. 1. WStl 1 k Moloney rinvt tfpjil. 1, 7.05 Unsettled; possibly showers, - HEADLINES They (nil In a nutshell the day's biggest uowb, aH given first In tho local field by Ihu NBWrfc RRVIRW. Will today's docliloai end the supremo court roorganl zillion fight? Follow develop mollis in your hoine-clty dully. VOL. XLI NO. 23 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW ROSEBURG, OREGON, MONDAY, MAY 24, 1937. VOL, XXVI NO. 252 OF THE EVENING NEWS nil N THE DOUGLAS COUNTY DAILY 111 AGE PENSIONS 3 3 ' R00 MINIMUM PAY LISTED AS ONE AIM Message to Congress Also Requests Ban on Products of Child Labor. Halting of Exploitation of Non-Unionizcd Workers by Employers One Cited Purpose. WASHINGTON, May 21 (AP) President RoosavhH nslred con gress today for a flexible labor law providing minimum wages, maximum hours and a bun on pro ducts of child labor and of em ployers who exploit unorganized labor. "All but the hopelessly reaction ary," the president said in a, spe cial message, "will agree that to conserve our primary resources of man flower, government must have Home control over maximum hours, minimum wages, the evil of child labor and the exploitation of tm Drganked labor." Me did not specify any standards In bis long awaited substitute for Lhe invalidated national Industrial recovery art. Me left this for con gress to work out. A tentative draCt of a bill was ready, however, for Introduction in both houses detailing those stan dards. Chairman Connery (I-Mass.) of the house labor committee, who introduced today the legislation to implement President Roosevelt's uage and hour program, announc ed a five-man labor standards hoard would be created to ad minister it. Purposes Stated "Prlefly stated, without regard In qualifying detail," Connery said in a statement, "the bill proposes to bar from the channels of inter state commerce the products of child labor and of workers em ployed for unduly low wages, un duly long hours, or under condi tions which violate the lights of labor by the use of strike breakers or spies." Connery told newsmen the bill would establish a -lb-cent "floor" lielow which "the hourly wage ought not to fall" and a :i5-40-hour work week "beyond which the (Continued on page 3) CHILD DROWNS ON FAMILY OUTING SALEM, Muy 24. ( AP) Whlit Blurted out to lie u happy family outing ended In tragedy in south ern Polk county yesterday when Vein Klrku'ood, 12, daughter of Mr. nnd Mr.H. Eugene Kirkwood of. Dnllns, slipped into the Luckia niute river and drowned. The tragedy occurred nbout-six miles north of Huskies. Editorials on the Day's News Dy FRANK JENKINS "THF. next time somebody telis yon (or you read) that this is a TBHItlHLK country, full of ex ploitation of common men. and ought to bo MADE OVER after the pattern by which Europe lias been mnde, consider these facts: OTEEIi workers In Pittsburgh can buy a pound of bacon rnd a dozen eggs with the money they earn for only 36 minute -work. To gel the money to buy n pound of bacon and a dozen eggs Ilelginn steel workers have to la bor SIX AND A HALF HOURS. Gerni:-.n steel workers three and a hair hours and English workers tivo hour?. FOR lhe equivalent of 14 minutes labor, the American steel worker can buy a pound of broad and a qu.-.rt of milk. . In Uelclum. nn hour would be John D. Rockefeller, Retired Oil Croesus, Passes On at 97 "Relatively Small" Estate Left Out of $2,400,000,000 Amassed, Spokesman of Family Says. tnv.tho Associated Press) OlIMOND BEACH, Kin., May 21. John D. Rockefeller, Sr., the founder of the world's greatest "dollar dynasty," lay stilled 111 death today just 2fi months short of his cherished desire to live to be 100. He would have been f)S years old July 8. The aged capitalist died Sunday at his winter homo, "The Case ments," drifting peacefully oft" to his final sleep after complaining that he felt "very tired." Mis physician, Dr. Harry L. Merryday, attributed death to sclerotic myocarditis, a hardening of the heart muscles. The nonagenarian croesus, who rose from a $4.50-a-weok clerk to mastership of a fortune estimated as high as $2,400,000,000, died ft comparatively "poor man." A family spoknsmnu Raid lie left a "relatively small, . very liquid"' estate. Long ago, slneo his rotironiont from nVllvo business at tho age of 57, he bad turned, the hulk, of Ills -fabulous riches over to his only son, John T). Rockefeller, 1 Jr., or spread-eagled It in pbtlanthronie endowments to the far ends of the earth. Gave Away Millions. In his life-time, out of tho gol den torrent that gained him the soubriquet of the greatest "money titan" in all history, lie had given away tho amazing sum of $.r:iO, x:to,ooo. Other gifts by his sou ra'.sed the total to more than $700,000,000. A special train was ready today to take the elder Rockefeller's body to his home in Pocantico Hills. N. V., where a siinnlc private funcrnl will bo held Wednesday. Burial will follow on Thursday In Cleve land, where in 1S65 he trudged the streets for six weeks before he landed his first job as a book keeper's assistant. Despite his age, ho had been in (Continued on page 6 JOHN MOFFITT DIES AT OAKLAND HOME John Moffitt, 64, a native of Douglas county, died at Ills home near Oakland, Saturday evening. He was horn in Hoseburg .March 29, 1X7.1, and resided here until 10 years ago, when ho moved to Oak land and operated the Shndy Doll service station. He was one of 13 children. He was married May 1G, 1S!)7, to Mollie Caldwell, who survives him. He also leaves a In-other, Willis .Moffitt, Eugene, and n sister, Mrs. tieorge W.. Kezartee, Itnsehurg, A sister, Anna Carroll, died In Hose burg Mny-'10, last. Funeral services witl he held at 2 i. m. Tuesday at the Hoseburg Undertaking company chapel, with Dr. It. I.. Dunn officiating. Inter ment will be In the I. O. O. F. cemetery. . required to earn the money to buy the Bame things, In Germnny 35 Minutes and in England n little less than a half boar. PNGLANI) Is the home of good rniiRt beef. ' Hut in England a steel worker requires about 20 minutes of labor to earn a pound of beef, while in Germany 38 minutes are required and In Ilelgium nearly two hours. In thia country, a steel worker can earn a pound of beef in 12 minutes. IN THIS country, a steel worker can earn a pound of butter In 26 minutes. In Germany it requires two hours. In England almost an hour anil In Belgium FOI It hours. W" ABE speaking here of steel workers, because steel worn- era are a typical class whose earn- (Continued on page 4) WrJjLD John Davison Rockefeller, above, as he looked in the last year of his retired life, following one of the most remark able industrial careers in history. Inset is his son, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who succeeded to the management of his father's vast financial interests years ago. Rockefeller Started With Nothing at 16, Made Enormous Fortune and Gave Away at John Davison Rockefeller spent the first half of his life making money and the last half giving it away. "1 believe it Is n duty," he said many times, "for a man to get all the money he honestly can and to give away all he can." His careor described an almost perfect arc. At the age of 3(i he began with nothing. He was paid $60 for his first three months' work, as as sistant bookkeeper In a produce commission warehouse on the lake front in Cleveland, O. Py the tlmo he had reached middle age he had amassed what many persons believed to be the largest fortune ever controlled by a private individual in the history of the world. ' At the age of 57 ho began to withdraw from active business life and started giving money away. In 35 years he gave away consider ably more than half a billion dol lars, and one of IiIh associates remarked that tho world would bo surprised at tho comparatively small estnto he would leave when ho died. ' The size of Mr. Rockefeller's fortune has been a subject for public conjecture for many years. It has never been revealed. While COWBOY CHAMPION KILLED BY HORSE HAYWARD, Calif.. May 24. (AP) Thrown nnd trampled by his horse, Pete Knight, 33, world cham pion bronc rider nnd former nil around cowboy champion, was kilt ed yesterday as 5.000 persons saw tho finals of the ISth annual Hay ward rodeo. Knight was (brown over the head of the horse, Slowdown, as It reared, one of Its hoofs roming down on Knight's body. Knijrht died soon afler in n horpilal from a liver rupture. Knight and his wife established their home here two months ago. He was a regular performer nt northwest rodeos. winning the world's bucking contest at Pendle ton, last fall. GRANGE HALL IS PREY OF FIREBUG El.'GENE. Mny 21. (API Offi cers Fought today a firebug who 1 destroyed the Creawell cranco hall Friday nlnht, and then fired tho Crnawell union high and crude school, causing little damage. mm labor Least Half Billion some estimated it as high as S2, 100,000,000, poisons close to Mr. Rockefeller place it at a much lower figure. Mis son, John D. Rockefeller Jr., once suid that it had never reached a billion. War many years, however, Mi-. Rocke feller paid the highest personal property (ax in Now York City. It ran to moro than $1,000,000 a year. Millions Given Away A statement given out at the Rockefeller offices In 102$, on his RStli birthday, revealed that in the 18 years since 1010 he had given awav publicly $443,832,044. Mis largest gift had been $182,704,1:24 to the Rockefeller Foundation, chartered "to promote the welfare of mankind In all parts of the world." Other great gifts included, in round numbers, $129,000,000 to the fieneral Kducntlon board; 874,000, 000 to the Laura Rpelman Rocke feller Memorial, founded to per petuate the charity practiced by bis wife; $40,000,000 to the Rocke feller Institnle for Medical Re search and $35,000,000 to the Uni versity of Chicago. John D. Rockefeller Jr., follow ed his father's example and in the Continued on paei fil POLITICAL RUMOR SPIKED BY MARTIN MILTON-FRKE WATER, May 21. ( AP) Governor Martin denied rumors he would stay out or the democratic gubernatorial primary next year nnd enter the finals as independent, asserting "yon don't desert the party that you were with when you got Into of fice." Rumors were current, that he would not entrr tho race until the finals to permit his republican sun norters to aid him. which some fe( they could not do if he ran In the primary ns a democrat. o- GOSSI.IN REPORTED SLATED FOR CHANGE PORTLAND, Mnv 21. (AP) A report that W. T. Onsslln, Private seerntnrv to Governor Mat-tin would resign or be trnnpferred to another state detriment within iX weoVs wns nnbH,,el yentnrdnv In the Orrpnntnn. which Mid bin nnnltlon would ho left varant. his dntlpfl to be taken over by Mrs. Mnrrnret T.nngnn, chief ftenng rnnher in the executive department. FOUNDER OF in. oil DIES AT 1 DO Alonzo F. Brown, Pioneer Douglas Merchant and Land Owner, Mason Since 1866. Alonzo V. Hi-own, 100-yoar-old Douglas county pioneer, died Fri day at Pasadena, California, whore lie made his home for the past 30 years, according to word re ceived here today. The body is be ing brought to Roseburg and fune ral services will be held at Oak land Thursday. ? Mr. Brown was tho founder of the town of Oakland, Oregon, in 1S71, and at one time owned more than C.i KH) acres of land in that vicinity. He was born in New Hampshire and left home at the age of 14 years to make his own way in the world. (ioing to Post on he found em ployment In a . private club lor about six mouths, afterward work ing In a boot and shoe store for 51.fi0 a week. He .waited on tables to pay -ior hU . board'." He Hater gaged in (ho mercantile business in New York ami Saratoga Springs until 1S50, when he came overland to Oregon and engaged In farming at lOHUon with Ills brother, H. (!. Hrown. Once LiVd" In Roseburg He then located in Roseburg for a short time, renting a ranch of (M0 acres and engaging in farming and slock raising. His stock was reduced to one cow in the severe winter of lStil-02 and lie uit ranching. He became in terested In mining in Oregon and (Continued on page 6) THIS AFTE1Q01 Roseburg will he the gathering place tonight lor one of the sev eral units of the Oregon cavalcade to tho Golden Gale bridgo fiesta at San Francisco. Governor Charles II. Martin and a party of state officials will ar rive in Ibis city this afternoon, and will be joined lie re by groups rrom Portland nnd other Will amette valley cities. The governor s party will be en tertained at a reception and ban quet at lhe Umpnua hotel at 7:00 o'clock lonlghl, the reception to be preceded by a concert by the Roseburg school band at (1:30 o'clock. A n eastern O regon unit will meet the governor at Grants Pass tomorrow morning, and tho entire state cavalcade will form at Cres cent City Tuesday afternoon, when the cars from the coast sec tion will lie Included. Latest reports wero that liters will be more than 2f0 cars In (he caravan, nnd that Oregon's dele gation will be the largest from uiiy of the eleven western slates. The governor and Ills party will not arrive In Roseburg until 0:30 o'clock, it was announced Ibis af ternoon, and the banquet was postponed until 7 p. in. The school band is to meet the traveling unit at the Deer creek bridge and will escort (he governor ami parly to the hotel. A Portland band, ac companying the delegation, will bring up the rear. 3-LEGGED COYOTE CAPTURED ALIVE 3 T.KflflKI) coyote no A p 1 A tlirce-lcKr.cd cnyolo wim cup lured nllvn Hiindny by O. C. Thompson nnd C'hnrlns Joelnon of Umu'liiu niter iiiniiiiik riumn. fhu ceiynti wlili'h had uppari'iitly lo.t n part of ono fnrnlr-n In n trap, had Hkllfnlly avoided poison liails, which had been used In nn effort to dontroy him. nnd had killed 11 lambs on tho JotlBon nuiKo. TIih nnlmal was tracked from n j fresh kill Sunday and ivna chased ny UOKH lnio a icnco corner uiiiM n 25-nilnute run. Thompson put his foot on tho coyote's neck nnd hold It down while It was tied und cap tured nllve. It wiis n lull Brown male uw HEX PUTNAM STATE L SUPT. Albany Man Chosen Out of Eighteen Applicants to Succeed Howard in $4,000 Position. SALEM, May 24, (AP) Gover nor Martin announced today the appointment of Rex Putnam of Albany as stato superintendent, of public instruction. Ho will suc ceed Charles A. Howard, who re signed recently to become presi dent of tho Eastern Oregon Nor mal school at La Grande, Putnam will take office September 1 un til tho next general eloct Ion in 1938. Putnam's name wits selected from thoBo of 18 Oregon educa tors who had been applicants for tho position, which pays $4,000 annually. Putnam, n democrat, is 47 years of agu and has been head of the Albany schools for the past five years. In announcing his appointment Governor Martin declared that "It was apparent from both the vol umo and-tho character of tho ro comiuendallons received that Put nam was tho ovorwhelmlug choice of ihe Oregon teaching . profes sion. . Tho governor staled further let tors, telegrams nnd telephone cnlls had been received from nil sec tions of (he stato urging Putnam's appofnlmqiit. He said ho had re ceived .more than 700 letters 'm'g ing the selection of various enn dhhites Including Put num. "I reel that Mr: Putnam will be a worthy successor to- Honorable f A. Mown rd, who for the past moro lhan 10 years has ably filled the position of state, superinten dent of public instruction. 1 feel Hint (he Eastern Oregon Normal school is fortunate (o have Mr. Howard as its president," Gover nor Martin said. Of Long Experience Putnam was born at Iluffalo Gan, South Dakota, -Tune 7, 18!)0, and was educated In the puWle schools of South Dakota. In 1013, he was irraduated from the Soulh Dakotn Normal school and moved to Oregon, where he attended (ho ITniverslty of Oregon from 1!M3 to l!tl5, receiving a degree of bach elor of arts In education. His first school was at Spring field. Ore. He taught two yenrs in Salem, fivo years in 'laenma. Wash., and then came to Red mond, Ore., In 1923 where he was 'Cnnl Imieil on pnun ft) col. Lien CI.EVT1LAND, Mny 21. (API The birth of u third son to Pol. und Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh on coronation night, Mny 12 was announced today by Miss Anno S. Culler, Mis. Lindbergh's aunt. The baby presumably was born in the rambling KngllRli house, "l.ongbarn," Sevennnks, Kent, III which the Lindbergh linvn sought solitude for more thnn n year. They fled thorn In December of 1035, before Di'illio lilchurd .llnnpl. inann died III the New Jersey elec tric chair for Ihe. kldnan murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., their first-born. Secrecy jiint ns deep ns that which surrounded tho Lindberghs' denailiiio from New YUrk envel oped the home In Kent. All In quiries sonio of litem from Ihe colonel's best friends In Ihe Unit ed Slntes embassy In lindon were turner nslde. Ilenorts renching the enibassv, however. Indicated Mrs. Llnd- berirh's health was good. Tho baby's name was not known. The parents hnvo six weeks from the dale of birth In which to register the fact Jn Kent. Col. Lindbergh nnd Mrs. Lind bergh returned homo April 11, about n month before the hnbv's birth, from n ten weeks' norlnl tour of Kurope nnd tho enst. ; Since then they have been In Ihelr usual seclusion with tholr l-yenr-old second son, Jon. NAMED JOBLESS INSURANCE ALSO GIVEN FAVORABLE DECISION BY U. S. SUPREME COURT Justices Divide 5 to 4 on One Phase of Social Security Law, 7 to 2 on Other; Verdicts Give Administration Clean Sweep at Present Term of High Tribunal. WASHINGTON, May 24. (AP) The supreme court, in momentous decisions, held constitutional today the unem ployment insurance nnd old age pension provisions of the social security act. Justice Cardozo delivered both opinions on the top-rank-, ing administration legislation intended to care for the future, jobless and to cushion the nation against another depression. This gave the administration a clean sweep in its litigation, before the supreme court during the present term. Previously it had won ten victories nnd sustnined no defeats, . , , . Approximately 27,800,000 work- E New Jury to Be Drawn in Case of Strunk Against Rosenberg Bros. Tho regular May term of circuit court opened thin mornlim with tho cusn of Mury ,C. . Slrunk HKnlnst Dun-nil Cni'ler and ltnxrmhorK llroH., an action for'danmK(ig..Ul -tho np proxlnutla mini of 15,500 us tho re sult 'of nn nutomohtlo nocldont. Tho Jury was drawn, but n mis trial was dnclarod ns a rosult of what the court railed wan nn Im proper statement by counsel nnd tho Jurors, wero dismissed, court t :ik f li pr niljbimiineut until Tuesday morning? when a new ju, y will bo 'drawn. 1 Another automobile damncro enso, that of Kail I. Wolfo tmnlnxt Rich ard lOUKhriikn nnd It. P. Van Tu- bcrninii, Is scheduled to follow tho uelion; now before tho court. A condemnation suit by;the stnto hlehwny commission nKnlnst T. B. Onri'lHon Is third on tho docket. As the fourth enso to ho heard, the court will tako up the retrial of tho damage notion of 11. T. Howies ngalnsl Lconn Creasnn nnd others, This case wns rnmundod by tho stato supremo court, which rovorsed the lower court's ruling following a, vordlct for tho defense Othnr defendants in tho suit nro Sheriff I'orcy Webb, Deputy Sher iff Clifford Thornton nnd Stato Pu llcemnn Fred I,. Pony. Howies claims ilnmuges for tnlHe nrrost nnd Imprisonment. Tho f ID li ense docketed for trial Is that of I.. P. f'nrnum against 10. N. Tnrrill, nn notion for money. o NEWBERG ASSURED UNIT OF O. N. G. Niownnnn, May .21. (ap Newborn, which long has sought n national guard unit, had word to day Unit n firing batlerv in the 218th field artillery will ho main tained here, the unit consisting of tour oineors nnd 110 man, who will bo rocrultod immodlutoly. Portland Police, Labor Unionists Fight as Strike of 500 Hits Mills PORTLAND. Mny 21 (API A Jurlnillctle.mil dispute wllh the fight belween the committee for Industrial nrgnnl7atlen nnd the Amcrlcnn Federation of Labor as a background flamed higher today us police clashed Willi demnnstrn lors nnd 5011 men walked nut or bag plnnls nnd rinui'lng mills, np Itarenlly In n sympathy strike. Several hundred men, massing before the delivery depot of the Meier Sr. Frank deparlment slnre, hntllogronnd of the Inlerdnhnr ills pule, were dispersed by police, who urresled Bix on charges of In citing to riot, nnd hntlcrcd the head or one or them. While a squad of 35 officers re stored order at lhe depot, operat ors of the hag plants and flouring mills found their rectories silent wllh notices posted on Ihelr doors Hint "an emergency exisls." Inter-Union War I'refliimnbly the emergency wns lhe attempt of the International Longshoremen's association ware housemen union to call a Btrlke among warehousemen of Meier & Frank In opposition to tho team sters' union, which claims Juris diction over the warehousemen. Last week llllnm Oreon, pre ors and 2,700,000 employors are tiuod to provide the old ngo bene fits which start In 1P42 when the recipient becomos 65. Forty-five stutcB nnd tho Dis trict of Columbln have . . "nssed measures, supplementing the fed eral act to protect 18,688,000, lior sons against futuro unemploy ment. The voto on the unemployment insurance section wnS 5 to 4 with' Justices Vim Dovnntor, Suther land, Duller und Mclleynolds dis senting. .-.-..;- Tho tribunal uphold tho old ngo pensions provisions by a 7 to 2 annul, with juollcos Money nolila nnd Hutlo'"tllBBOnllng on tho ground Hint tho legislation van reiiiignniit. lb tho tenth nmena- mont" and violated stnto rights. Word of tho court, s notion quickly pnssed on Capitol hill whore President lloosovoifs courc reorganization bill wns iiendlngi Soihn said the .court's rulings' would defeat tho measure; others took .the contrary position. Lessons From calamity Snenklng ' for himself and six other justices In ruling on tho old ago pension section ot tne secur ity lnv, Curdozo said: , "Tlio purgo or nntion-wino raw nmlty that began In 1929 hau tiuight us ninny IcsBons, not tho least Is the solidarity of Interests that mny onco hnvo seemed to be divided. ... The probbm Is plainly nation- nl In men Mid dimensions. More over, laws of tho soparnto slates) ennnot deal with It effectively. Congress, nt bast, hail a basis for, that belief.- ' Stales and local goVornmonts; nro often lacking In tho resourcos Hint, nro nccoscary to finance an adequate pingrnm of socurlty log the nged. "This Is brought out with a wealth or Illustration 111 recent studies of the problotn. "Apart from tho fnllure of re sources, Blates nnd locul govern ments nro at tlmeB reluctant to In crease so heavily tho burden or taxntlon to ho bomo by their resi dents for fenr of plnclng them selves In a position of cconomlo disndvnntngo ns compared with neighbors or coinpellloiB. We hnvo seen thin In our study of Ihu problem of unemployment compensation. . Danger Cited "A systoni of old nge pensions; (Continued on pngo 6) Ident of the A. V. of I,., called upon the central labor council hero to oust the I. L. A. group unleBU It quit Its efforts to orgnlllzo tho warehousemen under plans ot Harry Hildges, Pacific const mari time labor lender, lo extend th power or tho I. L. A. Inlnnd from Ihe waterfront. The council vote on the Issue tonight. Belligerents Clubbed In Ihe 1. L. A. demonstration, Ibis morning one man wns nrrest ed after he Jumped on a Melor & Frank truck nnd turned off tha ignition, while tour others In one automobile! wore nrrosted for try ing to slop trucks, nnd the sixth, num. becoming belligerent with nn officer, was clubbed to tho pave nient. In culling the demonstration, tha I. L. A. warned union members that unless they complied with tho order "they would bo dealt with ns tho union decides." Operators or the ling plants promptly called attention to n contract signed with the union some weeks ago, ns. sur'ng them thero would be no Btoppage ot 'work by strikes op pickets. "Apparently the union contract mentis nolhlng," wild one execu live. (, .