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The Weather Foreran : Unsettled tonight and Tuesday. Probably with showers. Cooler Tuesday. TEMPERATURE Highest )etrrday S7 Lowest this morning 50 When in Need of something flrtt Kid, 'tht Clssslfled Adl and If thli "something" Is not ll.ted try advertising. TheM little ids are widely read and they DO produce splendid results. Medford Tribune Full Associated Presi 5 ill United Presi Thirty-Second Year MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, MAY 24, 1937 No. 54. (0) Ml i IS UUM t , EDriSid By Paul Mai Ion Copyright. 1937, by Paul Ma Hon. WASHINGTON, May 23. The story behind the Robinson boom for the Van Devanter seat on the supreme court la one on President Roose velt. A Republican senator started It. He told his news friends very confi dentially that Sen ators Harrison and Byrnes had been up to see the president the pre ceding after noon Paul Mallon, dent said, of and that the prest course, the vacanc7 would go to the" senate floor leader. The Idea hit the headlines within 34 hours. Nearly every senator natur ally had to come out for his Arkansas friend and leader. The fact that his vote for the Judges retirement bill possibly disqualified him was laughed off. This could be met. It' was said, by a letter from Attorney General Cummlngs legalizing the appoint ment. Mr. Cummlngs, it waa pointed out, has legalized everything the supreme court has let him legalize, and a few other things, too. Everything was fixed. The senate promised to confirm the appointment awlftly, without debate. Everyone cald the appointment was In the bag, that Is, everyone except Mr. Roose velt. Apparently he did not know anything about it except what he read In the newspapers. This does not mean the president will fait to make the Robinson ap pointment, but only that the senate has been subtly trying to Jockey him Into a position where he could not stlect anyone else. The constitution says the senate snail advise and consent to supreme court nominations, but. In this case It seems that the senators are putting the emphasis on "advice" for the first time In history. What makes them so enthusiastic la the hope that they can thus prevent Mr. R. from nomi nating one of his friends Prof. Felix Frankfurter, Judge Rosenman or someone like that. Mr. Robinson, they know. Is the best they can hope to get out of the president. He used to be a conserva tive, but he has gone down the line or everything the president wanted and reprints the presidents legal and executive attitude In its mildest and best form. The president could not do better, and the senate Is Intent on seeing that he doesn't. Papa did not say It, but son James did In the matter of the appointment of W. Crelghton Peet as secretary of the maritime commission. It seems White House Secretary (Continued on Page Four.) Report Gosslin To Quit; Go New Berth PORTLAND, May 24. A re port that W. L. Qosslin, private sec retary to Governor Martin, would re sign or be transferred to another state department within six week was pub lished yesterday In the Oregontan, which aald his position would he left vacant, his duties to be taken over by Mrs. Margaret Langan, chief ste nographer In the executive depart ment. BOSTON, May 24. (AP-VSDA) Quotations In the wool market held close to last week's levels today. although mills showed little Interest In making purchases. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS H. C. Obye neglecting to keep 4 a. m. appointment to watch Ad miral West catch the limit of trout, the admiral proceeding to snag the limit without benefit of a witness. The Rev. Oscar Gibson, former Medford pastor, describing the glories of pastures new in California. Oeorge Green. Ashland publlsner. confining his Medford quaffing to cokes, he being used to the numer ous mineral waters of the Lithia City and apparently having doubts about the sparkling quallf.es of the H20 here. Little Bobble Smrn requesting a flde on a wild carnival contrap tion and coming out rather badly ahsken up but gamely answering "It t all right" when asked bis opin ion of the whirligig, although lack ing In the enthusiasm with whlcn he began the venture. Velma Severson catching her :irs f:sh and beating the veteran Bob Gil ittrap In a spirited contest at Fish 1U. mi Iht W II NX i i t NEW DEAL SCORES MAJOR WIN IN 5-4 COURT DECISION Final Rulings On Social Se curity Provisions to Come -No Surrender of State's Powers Says Cordoza. WASHINGTON. May 24. (AP) The administration's prized so cial security legislation. Intended to protect workers against an other depression, and to provide for them In old age, emerged un scathed today from Its constitu tional test by the supreme court. In epochal derisions, the tri bunal sustained provisions of the federal measure providing unem ployment Insurance nnd old age. pensions. It then upheld Mate unemployment compensation laws to supplement the federal art. This major administration vic tory gave It a clean sweep In Its litigation before the high tribu nal this term. Promptly some opponents predicted that It meant defeat for President Roose velt's program to put "new blood" In the court. Administration supporters, how ever, refused to concede the fight. WASHINGTON. May 24. (AP) The supreme court held constitutional to day the unemployment Insurance provisions of the social security act. Justice Cardoza delivered the mo mentous opinion which affirmed a ruling In favor of the legislation by the fifth circuit court of appeals and gave the administration another ma jor victory. Justices Butler, McReynolds. Suth erland and Van Deventer four of the nine Justices objected to at least part of the majority opinion. The final rulings on validity of supplementary state, legislation and on provisions of the social security act providing old age pensions were yet to come. Court Pack Speculation Speculation immediately began on Capitol Hill as to what effect the administration victory would have on President Roosevelt's proposal to re organize the tribunal. Opponents of the plan predicted that it would be defeated. Proponents contended Just the opposite. "Tho statute," Cardoza asserted, "docs not call for a surrender by the states of powers essential to their quasi-sovereign existence." It waa the 67th birthday of the Junior member of the court In point of service. The unemployment Insurance pro visions taxed employers of more than eight persona to assist In caring for the future Jobless and to provide a cushion against economic depression. To Induce statea to adopt pro grams of their own and carry out me purpose of the federal act. the legislation provided that employers could deduct up to 00 per cent of me leaerai tax by paying that amount to the state. Three States Decline Forty-five statea and the District of Columbia have adopted programs npprovea oy tne federal social se curity board. Those that did not are Illinois. Missouri and Florida. Eleven states specified that their own program should be dropped if the federal act were held unconsti tutional. Twenty-four provided that the program should be suspended to await a deciaion as to the future by (Continued on Page Three.) E EUNI MONTH, France, May 24. (AP) Wallia Warfleld and the Duke of Windsor practiced getting married to day and then announced they had abandoned any plan for a honeymoon cruise. Dr. Charles Mercler, the mayor of Monts. spent two hours In rehearsal with the man and woman he will marry June 3 He came bustling to the chateau and told his attentive listeners where tc stand and how to answer the questions he will ask in French. Abandonment of the cruise waa an nounced by Herman L. Rogers. He f.ave no reason, but there nave oeen :eports the British government has itfused to aliot a warship for protec tion of the yacht which Windsor pro posed to rent for a cruise that would tske him around the coast of Spain. Lor I, Jaw I Iff lm Improfe Condition of Twila Fern, nine-year-old victim of lockjaw, waa re. ported today as greatly Improved and she Is believed to be out of danger. She has been critically 111 at the Sa cred Heart hospital for the psst two wcck4 following infection of a slight skin abrasion, suffered In a fall. She ts the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ar chie Ferns of Fern Valley. Death Comes to High Points Of Cardozo Opinion On Age Security WASHINGTON. May 24. (API I The supreme court. In momentous decisions, held constitutional today the unemployment Insurance and old age pension provisions of the social security act. Justice Cardoso delivered both opinions on the top-ranking, admin istration legislation Intended to care for the future Jobless and to cushion the nation against another depres sion. Speaking for himself and six other Justices In ruling on the old age pension section of the security law. Cardobo said: Cardozo said: that began in 1929 has taught us many lessons, not the least is the solidarity of Interests that may once have seemed to be divided. "The problem Is plainly national In area and dimension. Moreover, laws of the separate states cannot deal with It effectively. Congress, at least, had a basis for that belief. "States and local governments are often lacking In the resources that are necessary to finance an adequate program of security for the aged. "This Is brought out with a wealth of Illustration In recent studies or the problem. "Apart from the failure of re sources, states and local governments are at times reluctant to Increase so heavily the burden of taxation to be borne by their residents for fear ot placing themselves In a . position of economic disadvantage' a compared with neighbors or competitors. We have seen this In our study of the problem of unemployment compen sation. "A system of old age pensions has special dangers of Its own. If put In force in one state and rejected In another. The existence of such a system Is a bait to the needy and de pendent elsewhereencouraging them to migrate and aeek a haven of re pose. Only a power that Is national can serve the interests of all. . .. "Even If they were collected In the hope or expectation that some other and collateral good would be fur thered aa an Incident, that, without more, would not make the act In valid." MURDERER WANTS Y .Riini i ' LONOKE. Ark., May 24. (AP) Lester Brockelhurst. 23, who police say confessed to killings In Illinois. Texas and Arkansas, and the girl companion taken with him when he was captured In New York, sought ermlsslon of their Jailer today to marry. Sheriff Troy Carroll said he did not think he had legal authority to pre vent their marriage. The girl's father, he added, "wouldn't want," her to marry Brockelhurst. Brockelhurst and the girl, Berntce Felton, 18, of Rockford, III., faced ar raignment today on a charge of mur der In the death of Victor A. Gates. Little Rock landowner, slain near here May 6 after he gave hitch -hixera a ride. Founder of 'Dollar Dynasty re Rockefeller It pieturtd in varying moods. From left to right, ires over hit studies (Associated Press Photo.! Her. he oo NfW YORK, Mar 31. (tP lohn n. Rockcfellrr. nr., was the .on of William Avery Rockefeller, a genial, eavftnlna. farmer and peddler ol medlrlne.. with a reputation as a flr.t rate home trader, John iMilvm Rockefeller was horn In a farmhouse In Rlrhford tillage, Tlo)ta county. In the rinfer Lake reflnn of upper .New Vork stale. July i. las!. He ma, or the fifth feneration In descent from Jnhan Peter Rockefeller, who rame with his sons to America from Near rohlens on the Rhine In ITtO and settled In New irrify. The fatnll. a orl'lnsllv rrenrh. named 'Rorhelrullle" or "Rorque-llle," meaning "Bi kleaf.' Young John made hi. flrt hulne,s "deal" at the are nf eight hen he found a hen turkey which had strayed away from the family farm. The buy harr.alned" with his mother mi that he could keep the hen', hrood of Utile turkett In return for finding her. He won her rnnent. rais ed the Inrkei. and sold them at a neat profit. He tot hi. flrt Joh at 18. fnrtj.ime rears later, alter reuplni a bonanta of "nhuk fold'' from (he hill, of penn,hanla, he retired lth for tune lalued at hundred, of million t of dollars. REX PUTNAM AS OF Albany Educator to Act As Superintendent Public In struction Till 1938 Vote. SALEM, May 24 . ( AP ) Governor Martin . announced today the ap pointment of Rex Putnam of Albany as state superintendent of public In struction. He will succeed Charles A Howard, who resigned recently to become president of the eastern Ore gon Normal school at LaGrande. Put. nam will take office September 1 until the next general election In 193B. Putnam's name was selected from thosor of 18 Oregon educators who had been applicants for the position which pays (4000 annually. Putnam, a Democrat, Is 4? years of age 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 volume and the character of the recom mendations received that Putnam was the overwhelming choice of the Oregon teaching profession." The governor stated further letters, telegrams and telephone calls had been received from all sections of the state urging Putnam's appoint ment. He said he had received more than 700 letters urging the selection of various candidates, Including Put nam. Putnam was born at Bufralo Gap. South Dakota, June 7, 1890, and was educated In- the' "public schools' of South Dakota. In 1913, he graduated from the South Dakota Normal school and moved to Oregon, where he at tended the University of Oregon from 1913 to 1915, receiving a degree of bachelor of arts In . education. His first school was at Springfield. Oregon. He taught two years In Sa lem, five years In Tacoma, Wash., and then came to Redmond, Oregon, in 1923 w-.ere he was superintendent for five years. . Since 1932 he has filled the posi tion of city superintendent of schools of Albany. Of his 22 years of school work. 17 years have been spent in Oregon md the lat 14 a an ad ministrator In Oregon schools. Putnam has served as president of the Oregon High School Principals' association and Oregon superinten dents' organization. He has been chairman of the legislative commit tee of the Oregon State Teachers' association for the past five years. firaln Markets Report PORTLAND. May 24. ( AP) Pacl ilo northwest grain markets were light to steady last week, the U. A. bureau of agricultural economics re ported today. Aberdeen Selected PORTLAND. Ore.. May 24. )AP) The 1939 convention of the Pacific district of the Norwegian Lutheran church of America will be held In Aberdeen. Wash. John D. Rockefeller, Sr., at 98 Kick of She-Hog Cripples Butcher; A Rare Accident TILLAMOOK, May 24. (AP) A female hog's kick in the shin had John Burns, butcher and stockman, walking on crutches to day. Burns, who has roped steers and bucking cayuses most of his life without ever receiving a scratch, has a leg swollen almost from his knee to Mi ankle. Never having heard of a hog kicking a man. Burns was killing in a slaughter house when the female, suspecting she would be next, led with a heavy boot to the shin. BIRTH OF THIRD T Event On May 12, Corona tion Night, at English Re treatSecrecy Envelopes Stork's Coming. CLEV ELAND. May 24 . The birth of a third son to Col. and Mrs Charles A. Lindbergh on coronation night. May 12 waa announced today by Mlsa Anne S. Cutter, Mrs. Lind bergh's aunt. The baby presumably was born In the rambling English bouso, "Long- barn," Bevenoaks, Kent, in which tht Lindberghs have sought Solitude for more than a year. They fled there In December of 1935. before Bruno Rich ard Hauptmann died in the New Jer sey electric chair for the kidnap mur der of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.. their first-born. Secrecy just aa deep aa that which surrounded the Lindberghs' departure from New York enveloped the home In Kent. All inquiries some of them from the colonel's best friends In the United States embassy In London were turned aside. Reports reaching the embassy, how ever. Indicated Mrs. Lindbergh's health was good. The baby's name waa not known. The parents have six weeks from the date of birth In which to register the fact In Kent. Col. Lindbergh and Mrs. Lindbergh returned home April 9, about a month before tho baby's birth, from a ten weeks' aerial tour of Europe and the east. Since then they have been In their usual aecluslon with their 4-year-old second son, Jon. Toledo Bonds Called TOLEDO. May 24. ( AP) C. S. Welborn, port clerk, said today 18.000 worth of Toledo port commission Yaqulna Jetty Improvement refund ing bonds, not due for one to 'hree yars. would be called July I. Passes Peacefully in Coma h Hughs at a Joke; ha appears F Death of Boy Bicyclist in Auto Crash Said Under Consideration. New term of Jackson county circuit court began today, first Item of bus iness being the selection of a grand Jury. The Jury comprises Edward W. Carlton. Central Point, orchard 1st, foreman; Warren Coppock, Gold Hill, painter; Cecil C. Clemens, 203 Van couver avenue, farmer; Nellie Reed, Gold Hill, housewife; Bruce P. Flem ing, Jacksonville, orchardlst; J. M Lively, Gold Hill, owner of tho Live ly lime works; and Alice Chase, Cen tral Point?, housewife. The grand Jury Immediately began consideration of several pending mat ters. It was understood that attention would first be given to the case of Nelson E. Cannon, 23. of 1122 Sunset avenue, who la being held on an open charge aa the result of the death of Francis L. Heryford, 16-year-old Med ford high school student. Cannon was the driver of a car that struck the boy as he was riding a bicycle on North Riverside avenue April 29. The grand Jury waa also expected to investigate the death of Joe Tole, 81, hopyard worker who died from injuries sustained In a fall from a car In the Apples ate district on the night of April 10. Cannon la held In the Jackson county Jail in lieu or $2500 ball. He served ten days for driving... without a license, A coroner'a Jury held hint re sponsible for Hcryford's death. PORTLAND, May 24. (AP) The state liquor control commission, fol lowing recommendations of lta newly created enforcement division, sus pended 20 beer and wine licenses to cay and denied 20 applications for licenses. The commission revoked the license of Rudolph V. Back hind. Eugene, on a chsrge he permitted hard liquor to be consumed In his beer shop. A resolution was passed to suspend all wholesale, winery and brewery licensers who have not filed their bond by June 7, the suspension to remain effective until bond Is provid ed. Sets Airmail Week. PORTLAND. May 24. ( AP) Gov ernor Martin designated the week of June 6 to 12 aa Oregon state air mail week pointing out that Oregon waa the first state to establish a board of aeronautics. In 1921. aerloua and kindly; ha It alerti F.D.R.'s Message on Wages and Hours, Praised; Flouted WASHINGTON. May 24. (AP) Congressional reaction to Presi dent Roosevelt's message propos ing the new wage and hour legis lation ranged today from the highest praise to outapoken con demnation. Senator Guffey (D- Pa.) said he was "wholeheartedly In sympathy with the methods and purposes outlined in the president's mes sage." Senator Norrls (Ind Neb.) char acterizing the message aa "very fine," said "that It Is one of the things we have got to do to get rid of unemployment." On the other hand. Representa tive Taber (R., N. Y.) aald: "It la another attempt to regiment the people and throw thousands out of employment. When the president's plan la thoroughly understood. It will be recognized as one of the administration's most reactionary proposals." T PASSAGE OF NEW WAGEJJOUR LAW Substitute for N.R.A. Out lined in Special Message to Congress Today. . WASHINGTON, May 1 24. UP) President Roosevelt asked congress today for a flexible law providing minimum wages, maximum hours and a ban on products of child labor and of employers who exploit unorganized labor. Reactionaries lilt "All but the hopeless reactionary," the president aald in a special mes sage, "will agree that to conserve our primary resource of man power, government must havo some control over maximum hours, minimum wages, the evil of child labor and the exploitation of unorganized labor." He did not specify any atandarda In his long awaited substitute for the Invalidated National Recovery act. He left this for congress to work out. A tentative draft of a bill waa ready, however, for Introduction In both houses detailing those stand ards. Chairman Connery (D.-Mass.) of the house labor committee, who Intro duced today the legislation to Imple ment President Roosevelt's wage and hour program announced ft five-man labor atandarda board would be cre ated to administer It. "Briefly stated, without regard to qualifying detail," Connery aald In ft statement, "the bill proposes to bar from the channela of Interstate com merce the products of child labor and of workers employed for unduly tow (Continued on Page Three.) BASEBALL American. R H. . Chicago 6 ft 3 Boston 14 0 Rlgney, Dietrich and Bawell, Ren- si; Walberg and Deaautala, R. R. St. Loilla 8 14 3 Philadelphia 13 0 A. Thomas, Knott nd Hemaley; Nelson, Csster and Hayes, Brucker. Cleveland 0 6 0 New York 14 Id 1 Andrews. Hudlln. Hevlng. Brown and Pytlak. Sullivan; Chandler and Dickey, Glenn. Score: Detroit ....... r. n. c. . 8 10 1 .17 1 Warhlngton Lawson and Cochrane; Newaom and Millie. R. H. C. .17 0 ,.080 Brooklyn Cincinnati Butcher and Phelps; 1. Moore, Derringer and Davit. R. R. f. Boston 8 8 it Chlcsgo - 18 0 Petto and Loper; carleton and Kartnett. R. H. C. .47 1 . 8 10 8 New York Pittsburgh Ht'.bheil. Helton. Coffman and Mancuso; Brandt, Bowman and Todd. J3seph and Stephen Montgolfler gave Franc ita first public balloon aaotnaloa la 1783, PEACEFUL END IN FLORIDA HOME TO 'There, That's Better' Last Words World's Greatest Giver Hope to Live a Century Unrealized. ORMOND BEACH, rta.. May 94. (AP) With only members of tha iiousehold and a few old frlenda pres ent, a brief funeral service waa held today for John D. Rockefeller. Sr.. who died at hta winter estate here 8unday. Hla favorite hymna wera aung and tha Rev. Jamea N. Anderson, pastor of the Calvary Baptist church at Day tona Beach, read from the acrlpturea. After tha services It was announced the 87-year-old phllanthroplat'a body would be taken from Ormond In a private car at 8 p. m. Tha car, at tached to a Florida East Coaat Rail waya train, will go to the Rockefeller estate at Pocantlco Hills, N. Y., arriv ing there Tuesday afternoon. (By the Associated Press) ORMAND BEACH, Fla., May 94. John D. Rockefeller, Sr., tha founder of the world'a greatest "dollar dy nasty" lay stilled In death today Just 36 montha ahort of hla cherished desire to live to be 100. He would have been 08 yeara old July 8. The aged capitalist died Sunday morning at 4:08 o'clock K. S. T., at hla winter home, "The Casements," drifting peacefully off to his flnsl sleep nf ter complaining that he felt "very tired." Hit physician, Dr. Harry L. Merry day, attributed death to aclerotle myocarditis, a hardening ot tha heart muscles. The nonagenarian - Croesus, who rose from a 64.50-a-week clerk to mastership of a fortune estimated aa high aa 63,400,000.000 died a com paratively "poor man." ' A family spokesman said he left a "relatively email, very liquid" es tate. Long ago, alnce hi retirement from active business at the age of 87, he had turned the bulk of hla fabuloua rlchea over to hla only son, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., or spread-eagled It In philanthropic endowment to the far ends of the earth. Gave Away Half flllllon. In hi life-time, out of the golden torrent that gained him the soubri quet of the greatest "money titan" in all history, he had given away the amaalng sum of 6&30.B30.O00. Other gift by hit son raised tha total to more than 6700,000,000. A apeclal train was ready today to take the elder Rockefeller's body to hla borne In Pocantlco Hills, If. Y.. where a simple private funeral will be held Wednesday. Burial will fol low on Thursday In Cleveland, where In 18SS he trudged the street for Hi weeks before he landed hla first Job aa a bookkeepers aaaletant. Death came auddenty and unei pectedly to the aged one-time maater of millions. No Immediate members of his family were present. Despite hi age, he had been In comparatively good health all win ter. He had outlived more than 30 physicians who attended him, and he was pronounced a "tine phyaloal specimen" for hla age when exam ined last June at hla Lakewood, N. J estate by Dr. Eugene Herbener, Devotee of Oolf. The ravagea of nearly a century the flrtt half passed In tumultuous conflict In amassing hi colossal for tune from oil, mine, coal, railroads (Continued on Page Three.) Hard Liquor Sales For Quarter Higher SALEM, Ore. May 34. (API Sale of hard liquor In atate owned stores and agenclea nearly reached the 69. 800,000 mark for the first four months of this year, the report of the commission showed. The grosa of 83483.744 wea a alight Increase over the first four montha of last year. April tales totaled 6633 .388. with net profit of 6131.867. Receipts of the license division were 813.836 and fio.r, the privilege taxes. 863,006.. Electric Cs-Op rile. SALEM, May 34. (AP) The feder ation of cooperative electric distribu tors filed articles of Incorporation with the state department to create consumers societies to purchase, gen erate, produce and aeil electricity and electric appliance. (tart Highest Dam BONNEVILLE, May 34 (AP) Work on the highest lock gate ever made, tha, 103-foot downstream gat of tha navigation lock at Bonneville, waa to start today, Capt. Colby M. Myers, lesldent army engineer at the dam, said. r
