The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 24, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. L., NO. 7492. Min imum UNEMPLOYMENT ROCKEFELLER, SR, HA Wages, . JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 24, 1937. Maximum MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS LABOR MESSAGE SENT CONGRESS BY PRESIDENT Roosevelt Puts Legislation Into Hands of Both Houses to Work Out CHILD LABOR PRODUCTS TO COME UNDER BAN Unorganized Labor Em- ployers Must Also Change Tactics WASHINGTON, May 24.—Presi- dent Roosevelt today asked Con- gress for a flexible labor law pro- viding for minimum wages, maxi- mum hours, ban on products of child labor and employers who exploit un- organized labor. “All but the hopelessly reaction- ary agree to conserve our primary resources of man power and the Government must haye some &on- trol over maximun hours, minimum wages, the evil of child labor and exploitation of unorganized labor,” said the President in his special message to Congress. No Specifications The President did not specify any standards in his long awaited sub- stitute for the invaildated National Industrial Recovery Act and left to his Congress to work out a ten- tative draft of a bill. A tentative bill however, is ready for introduc- tion in hoth houses of Congress detailing standards. Labor Standards Board Chairman Connery, of the House Labor Committee, has a bill pro- viding for a five-man Labor Stand- ards Board to be created to admin- ister the legislation desired in the President’s recommendations. Legislation advanced proposes the Interstate Commerce Commission shall bar products of Child labor n interstate commerce and also of workers employed at unduly low wages, long hours, or conditions which violate the rights of labor by use of strikebreakers or spies, according to Connery. Minimum Wage The House Labor Committee chairman further said the bill will establish a 40 cent an hour mini- mum wage, and a 35 to 40 hour week “which working week should not be stretched.” The Labor Board proposal would adjust limitations for individual in- dustries allowing for a few excep- tional trades permitting longer hours on payment of time and one- half for overtime. The President said' the “general maximum working week” should not be difficult to define.” NORTH POLE CONTROVERSY OPENS AGAIN Dr. Cook Confident Soviets Will Find He Was There 30 Years Ago BUFFALO, N. Y., May 24—Dr. Frederick A. Cook, Arctic explorer, said he was confident that the de- tailed report of the Soviet scientists who flew over the North Pole last Friday and have established an’air base 13 miles distant, would sub- stantiate his claim of being the first man to reach the Pole 30 years ago. P o e Maybe a Connection? BOWLING GREEN, Ky—Erving S. Dearing, 14, who recently receiv- ed his eighth grade diploma at Bristow consolidated school after never having missed a day at school in eight years, never has a motion m | JOHN 8. BUGAS HERE TO HEAD B-MAN OFFICE Bureau of Investigation Agent Will Operate Over Territory from Juneau John 8. Bugas of the Federal here on the steamer Northwestern Sunday to open a FBI office for Alaska in Juneau and today was; occupying a room in District At-| torney William A. Holzheimer’s of- | fice. For: the present Agent Bugas | said he would be the only staff/ member of the FBI in the Terri- tory. Later, if conditions warrant, the Alaska staff may be enlarged, he reported. Mr. Bugas, who has been with the bureau headed by J. Edgar Hoover about two and a half years, comes here. from Omaha, Prior to that he was in Wyoming, his na- tive State, and in Washington, |D. C. The Juneau office will be one of 47 similar offices the bureau has in the various States and Terri- tories, the new offices recently be- ing established in Alaska, Hawaii and Porto Rico. All Alaska will be covered from the Juneau office and the agent said he expects to fam- iliarize himself with the entire Tertitory, traveling to most of the major points on various missions during the coming months. Mr. Bugas is enthused over his first glimpse of Alaska and said he felt elated that the Alaska of- fice had fallen to his lot. He had been fearful he might have to go to Porto Rico which, he smilingly conceded, had no particular lure for him. The new Alaskan is unmarried and for the present is making his home at the Gastineau Hotel. MANY PRESENT FOR TRINITY GUILD TEA HELD ON SATURDAY Close to 150 guests called during the afternoon at the May tea of the Trinity Guild held in the at- tractively decorated Pent House of the Alaska Electric Light and Power Company building. The affair, last main event of the Trinity Guild for the season was held between 2 and 5 o'clock. Assisting during the afternoon were Mrs. E. M. Polley, Mrs. Harry Lea, Mrs. Charles Burdick, Mrs. Robert Rice, Mrs. Venetia Reed, Holbrook. " Bureau of Investigation arrived| End of Round Trip to London by Air Greeted by thousands, Dick Merrill (right) and his co-pilet, Jack Lambie, to crowds on their arrival a¢ Floyd Bennett Allm‘t,‘hth York. They had just completed a round trip to London by air in their sleek twin-motored monoplane. Panic Stricken Children Are Housed, Tent City, England all save memories of war. . a8 Pla_nes Roar Four Thousand Spanish SOUTHAMPTON, England, May g | 24—Four thousand children of the'dent Roosevelt has pledged the the legislation from the Fifth Basquelands are safe in England, are shown here as they waved IS PLEDGED T PROMOTE PEAC President in Maritime Day * Message Urges Int. Commerce WABHINGTON, May 24—Presi- United States to promote peace by !doing her share toward expansion of International commerce. UNITED STATES == MAKES DECISION UPON BIg ISSUE One Part of Social Security { Act Is Held to Be Constitutional IS RETURNED TODAY | Four Justices Object to Certain Requirements— *+ Cardoza Reads Opinion ‘\ BULLETIN — Washing- ton, May 24. — The Supreme! Court has not only upheld as, éonstitutional the unemploy- ment insurance but also the old age pension provisions of | the Social Security Act. Jus-| SUPREME COURT: MOMENTOUS VERDICT | INSURANCE PROVISIONS ARE S PASSED AWAY by tice . Cardozo , delivered both WASHINGTON, May 24.— The Supreme Court of the United States, in a decision today, held constitutional the unemployment insurance pro- visions of the Social Secur- ity Aect. | Associaie Justice Benjamin Nathan Cardozo delivered the momentous opinion which af- firmed the ruling in favor of Circuit Court of Appeals and where the refugees are quartered,| aerial motors echoed overhead. The Today as British military planes| roared over the city of 500 cents, the children ran in terror as the children expected @ crash of bombs| and became hysterical and could | not believe there wasn't an air raid. > gave the administration an- The pledge was made in a Mari- other major victory. { time Day message and read by Sec- retary of State Cordell Hull. The President stressed the im- portance of foreign trade to ship- Van Devanter, four of the, Associate Justices Butler, McReynolds, Sutherland and nine Justices of the Supreme’ ‘Court, objected to at least: part of the majority opinion \ Oil K ing Passes A‘W(;:;’ JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER SOVIET FLIER T0 MAKE DASH, MOSCOW-U. S, Levanevisky, Known in Ju- neau, Tuned Up for Non- stop Flight to 'Frisco MOSCOW, May 24—Sigismund| Levanevisky, American trained So- ANOTHER BABY | BOY IS BORN TO LINDBERGHS Flying Couple Have An- other Son, Report, on Coronation Night CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 24. — Anne Scutter, aunt of Mrs. Charles SPANIARDS CELEBRATE ATVITORIA| PLEASED JAPAN VITORIA, May 24—Great throngs of Spaniards, men, women and children and even babes in arms PACIFIC PACT PROPOSAL HAS Foreign Minister Says Na- tion “Favorably Im- on the final rulings of validity of the supplementary state legislation. - The statute, Associate Jus- tice Cardozo asserted “does not call for surrender by states of powers essential to their quasi sovereign exis- tence.” celebrated -the fete of St. Prudence by attending bullfights within sound pressed” by Spirit fenses. FOURTH SLIDE SEWARD, tion. six victims to be recovered. Dyste. TAYLOR SAILING FOR the Alaska Road - Commission of the Insurgent guns hammering {at the iron ring of the Bilbao de- Twenty thousand, in holiday spirit and gay attire, saw the bulls killed while twenty planes roared overhead with bombs for the fighting lihes. VICTIM FOUND Alaska, May 24— Searchers have recovered the body! of John Mehus from the snowslide on Lynx Creek, Moose Pass sec-|%- This is the fourth body of Seachers are now looking for the bodies of Dave Mapsfield and John ROAD PROJECT WORK| Chief Engineer Ike P. Taylor of 3%, Pound $4.94%, Republic Steel | TOKYO, May 24.—Taotake Sato, Foreign Minister, said Japan is “fa- animating from the proposal of a Pacific non-aggression pact made by the British government at the Imperial conference in London. The proposal was made by Prime Minister Joseph Lyons of Australia who urged cooperation between Great Britain and the United States to preserve peace in the world. It was suggested that Australia and Japan be included in the pact. e, * z STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, May 24, — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 12%, American Can 100, American Power and Light 9%, Anaconda 54%, Bethlehem Steel 87, Commonwealth and Southern {2%, General Motors 57%, Interna- tional Harvester 109%, Kennecott 587%, Southern Pacific 56%, United States Steel 101%, Cities Service 137%, Pure Oil 18%, Holly Sugar is vorably impressed toward the spirit” | “+ [ 4 Today is Associate .lus'.ic:e| |Cardozo’s sixty seventh birth-| “day. UPHELD 7 TO 2 | WASHINGTON, May 24. — The Old Age Pension provision was up- held by a 7 to 2 decision. The two decisions gave the Ad- ! ministration a clean sweep of vic- |tories in 'its litigation before the| | Tribungl at this term and immedi- ately prompted some opponents that it meant the defeat of the Roose- velt court bill to “put new blood” into the Supreme Court. 4 | Approximately 27,800,000 workers‘ land 2,700,000 employers are to be taxed to provide for old age bene- fits to start in 1942 when the recipi- ent becomes 65. Justices McReynolds and Butler dissented on the old age pension provision on the grounds the legis- lation was “repugnant to the tenth | Amendment.” PART OF FAIRBANKS IS AGAIN FLOODED The Chena river at Fairbanks has risen nine feet and the lower part | sailing on the Aleutian tomorrow for his regular summer trip to road projects in the Westward and In-| terior. He expects to be gone for| several weeks getting things in roads, trails and airports. 33%, U. 8. Treasury 2%s 97.28, Athi- jof the city is again flooded, accord- son General fours 110%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, 8:30 last night and moved at Ruby Mrs. C. E. Rice, Mra Wellmanishape for the summer's work on|Jones averages: industrials 17557 at 9 o'clock yesterday morning, ac- rails 58.75, utilities 28.48. ingito word to the U. S. Weather | Bureau here. The ice went out at Nulato at cording to report, !viet pilot tuned up his crack 1Douglas transport plane for a dash across the North Pole to the Unit- led States. Levanevisky was designated by iStalin himself to make the first {use of the permanent Polar base established by the Russlan explor- ers as a prerequisite to the long projected route over the Top of the World, Moscow to San Francisco. Officials here expressed the hope; ithe flight will bring a nonstop' distance record to Russia as well as| a forerunner of a regularly estub- lished scheduled commercial air ser- vice between Moscow and the U. S. via the Pole. KNOWN IN JUNEAU Levanevisky is known in Juneau. He was here last August on his flight with Heetor I Levchenko from San Franeisco to Moscow via Alaska. BASEBALL TODAY The following are results of games played in the major leagues this afternoon: National League Boston 3; Chicago 1. Brooklyn 1; Cincinnati 0. New York 4; Pittsburgh 3. American League Cleveland 0; New York 14. Chicago 5; Boston 9. 8t. Louis 8; Philadelphia 6. S S WALTENBERG3 HERE Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Waltenberg who arrived in Juneau recently are now stopping at the Gastineau Ho- tel. Mr. Waltenberg is associated with the light house at Point Re- treat, by A. Lindbergh, said a boy baby was born to the Lindberghs on Corona- tion night, May 12, but she refused to make any further comment. MOTHER IS 0. K. LONDON, May 24.—First reports of a new Lindbergh baby reached the Embassy of the United States from the Flying Colonel’s home near Weald, Kent, but the Lindberghs turned aside all inquiries and clos- est friends are unable to reach them telephone, Other reports said Mrs. Lindbergh Bodies of Two. Women, Hacked to Ile_ath, Found Murder Mystery to Solve Now | 'BAINBRIDGE, Georgia, May 24. |—A double murder mystery con- fronted the authorities today by the |discovery of a second hacked and battered body near the spit where |the body of Mrs. Ruby Hurst, 30, Ifarm worker, was found yesterday.. | The second body is that of Rita |Mae Richards, 16, farm girl. | Both women were hacked to death by “some sort of a pick,” Sheriff | Stephens said. * | Both women left. their home on a |farm near Colkuitt, Georgia, to- |gether several days ago for a hiking trip. - The bodies were found in a secluded and heavily wooded section. [Georgia Sheriff Has Double’ STANDARD OIL DIES IN SOUTH Aged Man Answers Last Summons Early on Sunday Morning NONE OF FAMILY ARE AT BEDSIDE Special Train to Take Re- mains to New York Home for Last Rites ORMOND BEACH, Fiorida, May 24—John D. Rockefeller, Senior, aged 97, died peacefully in his sleep at his winter home here at 4:08 o'clock Sunday morning as the re A special train was immediately dispatched from New York City to take the body there. Rockefeller, founder of the world's greatest “dollar dynasty” is at lasf stilled in death just 26 months short of his cherished desire to live to e 100. He would have been 98 on July 8. Rockefeller drifted peacefully off to final sleép after complaining he felt very tired. The family spokesman said he .lert a ‘relatively small and very liquid estate.” He had turned the {bulk of his money to his son and [phllamhroph: endowments to the far ends of the earth. Funeral Arrangements i The specig] train will take tha remains to Pocantico Hills, New York, home where a simple funeral service will be held on Wednesday land burial will be Thursday in Cleveland where in 1855 he trudged the streets for six weeks before keeper's assistant. As far as known, Rockefeller's last words came when he aroused to say to his valet to raise. him a’little higher and said: “There, that is better.” Career—Perfect Arc John Davison Rockefeller spent the first half of his life making money and the last half giving it away. “I believe it is a duty,” he said | many times, “fer a man to get all | the money he honestly can and to | give away all he can* His career described an perfect arc. o At the age of 16 he began, with nothing. He was paid $50 for his (first three months' work, & ssiste |ant bookkeeper in a produce com- | mission warehouse on the lake | front in , O. | By the time 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 jof the world. At the age of 57 he began to ’wit‘hdnw from active business life }and started giving money away. In 35 years he gave away consid- |erably more than half a billion |dollars, and one of his associates remarked that the world would be surprised at the comparatively small estate he would leave when he died. Size of Fortune The size of Mr. Rockefeller'’s for- tune has been a subject for public conjecture for many years. It has I never been revealed. While some estimated 1t as high as $2,400,000,~ 000, persons close to Mr. Rocke- feller place it at a much lower figure. His son, John D. Rocke- feller, Jr, onece said that it had never reached a billion, For many (Continued on Page Two) i he landed his first job as a book~ 3