The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 24, 1937, Page 1

SOMETIME RICHEST MAN IN WORLD DIES AT FLORIDA ESTATE End Comes Peacefully After He Complains of Feeling ‘Very Tired’ FAMILY MEMBERS ABSENT Will Be Buried in City Where He Started Career at $4.50 a Week : j Eee & 3 3 Bok Becks a z ae =e ta i \ppeared refreshed. On Saturday morning he conferred briefly with his senior secretary, Ward “I am very tired,” he said wist- fully. He - Social Security Act Held Valid | John D. Rockefeller Sr. Dies ‘Poor’ At Age of 97 North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper BISMARCK, N. D., MONDAY, MAY 24, 1937 The Weather Generally fair tonight and Tuesday; some- PRICE FIVE CENTS President Asks Congress for Flexible Federal Labor Law Into the Sunset of a Full Life This virtking study of John D. Rockefeller waa taken in his 9th year. é ole Flight DISABLED VETERANS in hte | MBETINGIN MANDA Levanetiaky, amerken.rsined Soviet! Over 100 Delegates From Posts Lpceriae dim z aa ues across the| if) North Dakota Expected During Two Days Moscow-San Francisco Route ‘Is Projected by Hop of Ace Disabled American war veterans converged on Mandan Monday for opening of their 17th annual three- day convention called to order for the first session by Floyd Castle, Grand Forks, department commander. Delegates began arriving in the =|clty late Sunday and early registra- tion figures showed more than 70 of- ficial delegates present. C. E. Forde, Mandan convention chairman, said the committee expected over 100 state delegates. Jorde announced that Froume R. Barbour, Cincinnati, national com- mander, would be unable to attend the convention. He explained Bar- bour had postponed his visit until June 3 and would stop only in Bis- marck. “Principal speakers on the opening day program were W. R. Johnson, Fargo, department adjutant; C. T. Hoverson, Fargo, manager of veterans administration; T. O. Kraabel, Fargo, vetefans service commissioner; F. C. DeWitt, Minot, Veteran of Foreign ‘Wars state commander; Frank Webb, Grand Forks, American Legion de- partment commander, and Jack Wil- liams, Fargo, state adjutant for the = 4 ti gion. The convention will close Tuesday with election of officers. G. W. Twiford, Minot Attorney, Dies at 52 st gee gz ict Hettinger Completes - Celebration Planning PTA Officers to Talk At Dickinson Meeting MOISTURE STORAGE DOUBLED, TRIPLED BY NEW IMPLEMENT Basin Lister Creates Shallow Reservoirs on Dust Bow! Grain Fields HELPS ACCUMULATE SNOW Enables Precipitation to Drain Into Subsoil Rather Than Run Off Minot, N. D., May 24.—(@)—A newly developed farm tillage implement, which tests have shown, doubles or triples subsoil storage of rainfall for future years, was watched! with in- creasing interest Monday by dry land wheat farmers, Lack of moisture during the grow- ing season long has been one of the principal worries of plains state farm- ers—worrles that more often than not were confirmed by failure of the wheat crop. While classified as semi-arid, rec- ords show there falls on most of the area annually twice the necessary amount)of precipitation to produce a wheat crop but the rains seldom come at the right time. ‘ Dams Furrows With this in mind engineers design- ed basin lister, which by an in- geyious arrangement dams the fur- MINIMUM WAGES, |Lindberghs Reported Parents of Baby Boy XIMUM HOURS’ STANDARDS ASKED Ban on Products of Child La- bor, Exploiters of Unor- ganized, Is Included LEGISLATION IS INTRODUCED Labor Board Would Be Given Broad Powers to Make Industrial Adjustments Washington, May 24.—()—Presi- dent Roosevelt asked congress Mon- day for a flexible labor law provid- ing minimum wages, maximum hours and a ban on products of child labor and of employers who exploit un- organized labor. “All but the hopelessly reaction- ary,” the president said in a special message, “will agree that to conserve ofr primary resources of manpower, government must have some control over maximum hours, minimum wages, the evil of child labor and the exploitation of unorganized labor.” He did not specify any standards in his long awaited substitute for the invalidated National Industrial Re- covery act (NRA). He left this for congress to work out. A tentative draft of a bill was ready, however, for introduction in both houses detailing those stand- rows at intervals of about every 10/ ards. pe in “A“flefa—all potential mud- puddles, ready to receive and hold the tain water until it drains into the subsoil. Immediately after harvest season last year agricultural engineers came into this and other plains state areas with basin listers. Fields were basin- listed, Late summer and fall rains made the mudpuddies. Fields not seeded to winter wheat accumulated snow in the basins which went into the ground with the spring thaw. dust before seeding the basins are levelled with a ridge buster. Within reecnt weeks holes dug in the basin-listed fields, have revealed moisture to a depth of 40 to 50 inches, compared to four to 12 inches where no attempt had been made to con- serve and store the rainfall. Wheat Condition Good Stands of wheat on basin listed fields are reported in excellent con- dition throughout the area, excepting the “dust bowl” where blowing dust cut the young plants to pieces or smothered them, Engineers expressed the opinion that basin listers may play an impor- tant part in getting level areas of the “dust bowl” back to grasses. Tests ore Dring, continued with this idea in mind. In addition to conserving the water, engineers pointed out basin listing also aids in preventing sheet erosion. APL ACTS 10 EXPEL GO CITY BRANCHES Chasm Separating Craft Union and Lewis’ Faction Wid- ened by Action Cincinnati, May 24.—()—Hopes for fan early settlement of the war be- tween the American Federation of Labor and John L. Lewis vanished Monday when federation leaders un- folded their battle plans. The eens cree pout pro} toa rence of loy! union representatives that the last vestige of unity in the American la- “Chairman Connery (Dem, Mass), of the house labor committee, who introduced Monday the legislation to implement President. Roosevelt's wage and hour program announced a fiveeman labor standards board would be created to administer it. “Briefly stated, without regard to qualifying detail,” Connery said in a statement, “the bill proposes to bar from the channels of interstate com- merce the products of child labor and of workers employed for unduly low wages, unduly’ long hours, or under conditions which violate the rights of labor by the use of strikebreakers or spies.” Connery told newsmen the bill would establish a 40-cent “floor” be- low which “the hourly wage ought not to fall” and a 35-40 hour work week “beyond which the working week should not be stretched.” Could Make Adjustments The labor board would have broad power to adjust these limitations for individual industries. Allowing for a few exceptiunal trades and permitting longer hours on the payment of time and a half for overtime, the president said a “general maximum working week” should not “be difficult to define.” “Allowing for appropriate qualifi- cations and general classifications by rative action,” he added, “it ould also be possible to put some floor below which the wage ought not to fall. “There should be no difficulty in ruling out the products of children from any fair market, z “And there should also be little dispute when it comes to ruling out of the interstate markets products of employers ‘who deny to their work- ers the right of self-orgainzation and collective bargaining, whether through the fear of lebor spies, the bait of company unions, or the use of strikebreakers. Must Curb Abuses - “The abuses disclosed by the in- vestigations of the senate must be bor movement be wiped out by expul- res sion of all Committee for Industrial Organization local branches from AFL city central bodies. The council also proposed that all loyal unions double their monthly contribution to the federation, now one cent a month for each member, to help fight enlargement of the CIO at every turn. Council members esti- mated this temporary dues increase would add $35,000 » month to the war chest. 50-Mile Wind Stirs Up Dust Storm on Sunday Housewives scraped a thin layer of dust off table tops and dishes Monday after a 50-mile-an-hour wind swirled up clouds of fine dust Sunday, im- peding motorists and hampering air travel. The storm centered between Jamestown and Mandan, subsiding to- wards eve ening. , Eight state points recorded mois- ture during the 48 hours preceding 7:30 a. m., Monday. Drake reported 01, Hankinson £2, Lisbon .10, Na- poleon .04, Oakes 01, Pembina 01, and Fargo 1» XN pursuits and services which no fed- eral legislation could effectively cover. “No state is justified,” he said, “in with which the state may effectively aeal without fear or un-neighborly competition from sister states.” “Our problem,” he said, “is to work Cleveland, May %4.—(?)—Miss Anne S. Cutter, aunt of Mrs, Charles A, Lindbergh, said Mon- day a baby boy was born te the Lindberghs coronation night, May 12, Miss Cutter declined to make any further statement. New York, May 24.—()— Sources close to the family of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh Monday re- ported a son was born coronation night, May 12, to Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh. The report was circulated widely, but lacked di- tect confirmation. The Lindberghs are at their English home, Longbarn, Seven Oaks, Kent. They ended a 10 weeks’ aerial tour of Europe and the east on Apr. 9. On that afternoon they landed at Gatwick airdrome, Sur- rey, in the new sport plane that had taken them over sea and desert, to India and back—a trip that covered the colonel’s 35th birthday, Feb. 4. Back home at their rambling old Kentish house, on the out- skirts of the old-world village of Weald, they left their little second son, Jon. It was to this pastoral setting that the Lindberghs fled in De- cember of 1935, shortly before Bruno Richard Hauptmann went to New Jersey's electric chair for the murder of Baby Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr, On Coronation day—the day, when, it now is reported, their third boy was born, Colonel Lind- bergh was not in Westminister abbey for the crowning of King George VI and his Scottish queen. He declined an invitation—and stayed at home, for reasons ob- vious now. May 20 the tenth anniversary of Lindbergh’s epochal flight, alone, from New York to Paris. He told a friend: “I did it. Why should I celebrate it?” Par No Match for Young Croonquist And still Neil Croonquist keeps hacking away at par with the best of them at the University of Minnesota, where he is putting in par. Neil is a member of the Uni- versity freshman team and considered one of the best pros- pects for the varsity team when he becomes eligible to play on that team next year. BOTTOMS FLOODING WILL BE DISCUSSED Park Hill Addition Residents Meet Tonight to Form Cooperative Society Residents of Park Hill addition, liv- ing on the river bottoms will meet at 8 o'clock tonight at Don Bailey's cabin near the play park to consider or- ganization of ® co-operative society which would finance and direct irri- gation of gardens in that area. This decision was reached at a& meeting Saturday afternoon at the World War Memorial building at which Oscar Hagen, H. O. Putnam and Fred Argast explained the new state water commission law and out- lined the co-operation which could be expected from that agency. ©. T. Haakenson was tem chairman of the meeting, and John B. Sutton was elected permanent chair- man, Named on # committee to look into the question of irrigation were ‘Walter Bailey, Clarence Stanley, Don Bailey, Mrs. William Kaizer and Mr. Among those present at the Satur- day meeting were John Glum, W. C. Mill, J. Grimstead, E. H. Johnson and Lawrence Earlwyne. All residents of the district and any others interested are invited to attend tonight's meeting. Sathre Draws Answer In Bonzer Case Action An answer to 2 complaint and sum- ‘mons filed on the state banding which rejected claims totaling $51,761 on bond of A. F. Bonzer, Jr., former manager of the state mill and elevator, was being prepared Monday by At- torney General P. O. Sathre. The action was started to recover the bond despite the bonding board's rejection of claims filed by A. J. Scott, acting mill manager, who alleged funds had been “wrongfully paid” by Bonzer. The board refused pay- ment on all of 18 claims made against Bonzer’s bond. Welfare Officials To Attend Indiana Rally Four officials of the North Dakota public welfare board left this week- end for Indianapolis to attend a six- day session of the National Confer- : KNIGHTS TEMPLER FROM THROUGHOUT STATE MEET HERE Eagles’ Band Heads Parade in Afternoon; Competitive Drills Are Held Virtually all commandertes-in’-tte |, state Were represented as the North Dakota Grand Commandery conclave of the Knights Templar opened here Monday morning for a two-day ses- sion, registration lists showing be- tween 125 and 150 already here with several delegations still unregistered. The conclave opened with forma- tion of an escort for officers of the grand commandery and dis! guests at 8:30 a. m. and 9 a, m, re- lgious services were held in the lodge room, with Walter Lee Airheart of Fargo, grand prelate, preaching the sermon, marck the benediction and invocation. Two luncheons marked the noon hour, with Mrs, 8. 8. Boise and Mrs. R. M. Bergeson in charge of the luncheon for ladies and Frank Evarts in charge of the men’s luncheon. Promptly at 2 p. m. all knights and uniformed bodies lined up for the parade to the city ball park, which was headed by the Eagles band. Compotitive drills were to be held un- der tHe direction of John A, Graham, Bismarck grand commander; Adolph D. Ertresvaag, Bottineau, grand gen- eralissimo, and Fred Minot, senior grand warden. Teams were to be judged by L. R. Baird, Williston, grand sword bearer, and Ertresvaag. Distinguished guests present Mon- day included John M. Anderson, St. Paul, grand recorder of Minnesota; ¥. C. Goldstone, Grafton, North Da- kota high priest of Royal Arch Ma- sons, and L, K, Thompson, Bismarck, personal representative of the North Dakota grand master of Masons. Epworth League Will Meet at Valley City Valley Ciy, N. D., May 24—(@)— Approximately 400 young people are expected to attend the 15th annual session of the Methodist Epworth League institute in Chautauqua park here June 26 to July 3. Leaders of youth who will speak are Dr. George Henry Zent, Min- neapolis; Dr. Alexander H. Kemp, missionary to Africa; Dr. Ezra M. Cox, Philadelphia; Dean Harris of Rust college, Holy Springs, Miss.; Lawrence and Mildred Lacour, evang- elists and marimba artists of Oska- loosa, Iowa; Dr. Charles L. Wallace, president of Wesley college, Grand Forks, and Dr. 8. E. Fairham, Fargo, district superintendent. *) Rey. Leslie R. Burgum, Jamestown, is dean of the institute; Rev. Carl H Meler, Edgeley, manager, and Rev. C. Maxwell Brown, New Rockford, counselor. Tax Exemptions for Non-Residents Eyed Owen T. Owen, North Dakota tax commissoner, said Monday he was studying legality of exemption of non-resident buyers in payment of the state sales tax and that no action would be taken until the situation had been “carefully” reviewed, Owen took the case under advisement fol-/ lowing a meeting with Fargo mer- chants who requested a system under which non-resident purchasers cot secure sales tax exemption by signing . /an affidavit attesting to his residence. PLAN NEW STRATO HOP Urbana, Ohio, May 24.—(?)—Maj. William Cummings of Wright Field, disclosed Monday that an- Rev. N. E. Elsworth of Bis- | serted J. Cummens, |ler what cooler tonight. { EMPLOYMENT AND PENSION FEATURES ARE RULED LEGAL Justice Cardozo Delivers Opin- | jon of Majority on His | 67th Birthday FOUR OF NINE DO NOT AGREE Speculation of Ruling Effect on FDR'S Court Plan Boils Up Again Washington, May 24—(7)—The ad- ministration’s prized social security legislation, intended to protect work- ers against another depression, and ts provide for them in old age, emerged unscathed Monday from its constitu- tional test by the supreme court. In epochal decisions, the tribunal sustained provisions of the federal measure providing unemployment in- surance and old age pensions. It then upheld state unemployment compensation laws to supplement the federal act. The major administration victory gave it a clean sweep in its litigation before the high tribunal this term. Promptly some opponents predicted that it meant defeat for President Roosevelt’s program to put “new blood” on the court, Administration supporters, however, refused to concede the fight. Stone Delivers Opinion Justice Stone delivered the 5 to 4 opinion upholding the Alabama un- employment compensation act, similar to those enacted by 45 other states and by the District of Columbia. It was a test case of the legislation. The provisions of the unemploy- ment insurance provisions of the federal act were upheld by a 5 to 4 vote and those granting old age pen- sions by a 7 to 2 ballot. Early this term, the high tribunal Justice Cardozo delivered the majority opinion in these cases. ‘Only Justices McReynolds and But- ler dissented to the old age pension Finds No Infirmity In his opinion Justice Stone as- that the Alabama law “on its face and as applied to appellees, is subject to no constitutional infirmity.” ‘and 3,700,000 employers provide the old age benefits which start in 1942 when the recipient be- ‘comes 65. Forty-five states and the District of Columbia have passed measures, supplementing the federal act to pro- tect 18,688,000 persons against future unemployment. The vote on the unemployment in- surance section was 5 to 4 with jus- tices Van Devanter, Sutherland, But- and McReynolds dissenting. Two Dissent The tribunal upheld the oki age pensions provisions by a 7 to 2 bal- lot, with Justices McReynolds and Butler dissenting on the ground that the legislation was “repugnant to the be amendment” and violated state hts. Speaking for himself and six other justices in ruling on the old age pen- sion section of the security law, Car- dozo said: “The purge of nationwide calamity 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 dimensions. Moreover, laws of the separate states cannot deal with it effectively. Congress, at least, had @ basis for that belief. “States and local governments are often lacking in the resources that are necessary to finance an adequate pro- gram of security for the aged. Brought Out By Study “This is brought out with a wealth of illustration in recent studies of the problem.’ Before reaching the oki age pensior. section of the act, Cardozo read the opinion of five majority justices up- holding unemployment security phases lof the law. “The statute,” Cardozo asserted, “does not call for a surrender by the states of powers essential to their Quasi-sovereign existence.” It was the 67th birthday of the junior member of the court in point of service. (Continued on Page Two) New Rockford Plans Mayoralty Election New Rockford, N. D., May 24.—(P)— Special election to name a president of the New Rockford city commis- sion, filling the position lett vacant by resignation of Rboert C. commissioners uld | Attorney R. F. Rinker said petitions must be filed with the city auditor by Wednesday, N. D. PIONEER PASSES |.—()—Funera) services will be held Wednesday for Mrs, Anne Kragness, 83, of Christine, North Dakota resident 62 years, who | see Be x *