Evening Star Newspaper, May 24, 1937, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Falr tonight and tomorrow; little change in temperature; gentle north, shifting to east or southeast winds. Temperatures— Highest, 81, at 1 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 61, at 5 a.m, today. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. ¢ Fp Closing N.Y. Markets—Sales—Page 20 85th YEAR. 33,991. Entered as second class matter post office, Washinston, D. C. _@h WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, MAY 24, 1937—THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES. ### ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ening Star llellllhl, Bome returns not yet r (UP) Means Associated Press. ATURDAY'S 134 547 SUNDAY'S Cireula . 148,086 ved.) TWO CENTS. SOCIAL SECURITY ACT UPHELD IN FULL PRESIDENT ASKS LAW TO FIX PAY AND WORK WEEK Message to Congress Touches on Goods Produced for In- terstate Commerce. CHILD LABOR BAN AIMED AT BY PROPOSED LEGISLATION '"Roosevelt Makes No Attempt to Set Pro- visions—Steps Already Taken to Present New Bills. *BACKRGROUND— Wage, hour and child labor regulation have been among major eoncerns of present administration, with objectives being sought through N. 1. R. A. and through pressure on behalf of child labor amendment. Invalidation of former and failure of latter, however, made new tactics advisable. Gufley bill already regulates soft coal industry, while pending Ellenbogen bill would do same for textiles, BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. President Roosevelt, relying on the power of the Federal Government to control interstate commerce, today called on Congress to enact a minimum wage and maximum hours "of work law. “We propose,” said the President in a special message to the House and Senate, “that only goods which have been produced under conditions which meet the minimum standards of free labor shall be admitted to interstate commerce.” Details Standards. These standards the President proceeded to lay down in general terms: 1. A general maximum working week. 2. A minimum wage. 3. No child labor. 4. No goods produced by concerns whose employers deny the right of collective bargaining to their employes. President Roosevelt urged that the legislation desired should be passed at the present session of Congress, Does Not Set Hours. No attempt was made by the Presi- dent in his message to specify what should be the maximum working hours of labor, or the minimum wage. He is leaving those details to be worked out by Congress. Immediately after his message was read at the Capitol, a bill was intro- duced by Chairman Connery of the House Labor Committee and Chair- | man Black of the Senate Labor Com- | mittee to put the President’s pro- | posals into effect. As first described by Connery, the | bill balled for a 40-cent-an-hour | standard for minimum wages and a 35 to 40 hour week standard for maximum hours. Produces Substitute Measure. A short time later, however, Con- nery produced a substitute measure whaich left the pay rate and the length of the work week blank, thus | putting up to Congress responsibility for fixing the wage and hour stand- ards. Connery said this change, by which the administration asked Congress to set its own labor standards, was de- termined on the last minute. Connery gave this description of the proposed law: “Briefly stated, without regard to qualifying detail, the bill proposes to bar from the channels of interstate commerce the products of child labor and of workers employed for unduly Jow wages, unduly long hours, or un- der conditions which violate the rights of labor by the use of strikebreakers or spies.” The law would be administered by a five-man labor standards board, which would have wide powers to vary the standards established, according to the peculiar needs of individual in- dustries or groups of industries, Exemption Under Plan. Except when the board ordered otherwise, employers of 15 or less per- sons would be exempt from the pro- wvisions of the bill. ‘The proposed law would draw its authority from the power of the Fed- eral Government to regulate inter- state commerce and a considerable section of the 42-page bill was de- voted to detailing how employment of workers under substandard labor con- ditions affected commerce between the States. President Roosevelt insisted in his tmessage that the time had arrived “to extend the frontiers of social progress.” He reiterated his assertion, made in earlier speeches, that one- third of the population of the United Btates, “the overwhelming majority of which is in agriculture or industry, is {ll-nourished, ill-clad and ill-housed.” ‘The President confined his proposal for legislation to interstate commerce (See PRESIDENT, Page A-6.) THREE DIE IN CRASH NEWARK, N. J, May 24 (®).— Three persons were killed and five critically injured in a three-car crash in Keansburg before dawn today. The dead are Miss Lea Wingrade of Perth Amboy; Herman Schatzman, + Text of Message of President on Hours and Wages THE text of President Roosevelt's message on wages and hours, sent to Congress today, fol- lows: To the Congress of the United States: ‘The time has amved for us to take further action to extend the frontiers of social progress. Such further action, initiated by the legislative branch of the Govern- ment, administered by the Execu- tive, and sustained by the judicial, is within the common-sense frame- work and purpose of our Consti= tution and receives beyond doubt the approval of our electorate. The overwhelming majority of our population earns its daily bread either in agriculture or in industry. One-third of our popu- lation, the overwhelming majority of which is in agriculture or in- dustry, is ill-nourished, ill-clad and ill-housed. The overwhelming majority of this Nation has little patience with that small minority which vo- ciferates today that prosperity has returned, that wages are good, that crop prices are high and that Gov- ernment should take a holiday. Cites Reasons for Failure, The truth of the matter, of course, is that the exponents of the theory of private initiative as the cure for deep-seated national ills want in most cases to improve the lot of mankind. But, well-intentioned as they may be, they fail for four evi- dent reasons—first, they see the problem from the point cf view of their own business; second, they see the problem from the point of view of their own locality or region; third, they cannot act unanimously because they have no machinery for agreeing .among themselves, and, finally, they have no power to bind the inevitable minority of chiselers within their own ranks. Though we may go far in ad- mitting the innate decency of this (See MESSAGE, Page A-6.) District Woman CLEVELAND BURIAL FOR ROCKEFELLER SET FOR THURSDAY Special Train Wil Carry Body to Pocantico Hills From Florida. RITES TO BE PRIVATE AT HOME WEDNESDAY Immediate Members of Family Are Absent as Death Comes Suddenly. Sketches and pictures of Rocke: feller's life on page A By the Associated Press. ORMOND BEACH, Fla., May 24— John D. Rockefeller, sr., the founder of the world's greatest “dollar dynasty,” lay stilled in death today— Jjust 26 months short of his cherished desire to live to be 100. He would have been 98 years old July 8. The aged capitalist died Sunday morning at 4:05 o'clock, E. S. T, at his Winter home, The Casements, drifting peacefully off to his final sleep after complaining that he felt “very tired.” His physician, Dr. Harry L. Merry- day, attributed death to sclerotic myo- carditis, a hardening of the heart muscles. The nonagenarian Croesus, who rose from a $4.50-a-week clerk to mastership of a fortune estimated as high as $2,400,000,000, died a com- paratively “poor man.” A family spokesman said he left a “relatively small, very liquid” estate. Long ago, since his retirement from active business at the age of 57, he had turned the bulk of his fabulous riches over to his only son, John D. Rockefeller, jr., or spread-eagled it in philanthropic endowments to the far ends of the earth. Gave Away $530,830,000. In his lifetime, out of the golden torrent that gained him the sou- briquet of the greatest “money Titan"” in all history, he had given away the amazing sum of $530,830,000. Other gifts by his son raised 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 Hilis, N. Y., where a simple private funeral will be held Wednesday. Burial will fol- low on Thursday in Cleveland, where in 1855 he trudged the streets for six weeks before he landed his first job as a bookkeeper's assistant. Death came suddenly and unex- pectedly to the aged one-time master of millions. No immediate members of his family were present. Despite his age, he had been in comparatively good health all Winter. He had outlived more than 20 phy- sicians who attended him, down the years, and he was pronounced a “fine physical specimen” for his age when examined last June at his Lake- wood, N. J, estate by Dr. Eugene Herbener. The ravages of nearly a century— the first half passed in tumultous conflict in amassing his colossal for- tune from oil, mines, coal, railroads and a myriad of other flelds—had forced him to curtail his activities. He had forsaken his gdf, his church- going and his whimsical practice of giving away shiny new dimes. But his hope of becoming a full-fledged centenarian seemed likely to be ful- filled. Complaint of Sleeplessness. Then, last Friday, he became rest- less. He complained that he could not sleep. His condition was re- garded by no means as alarming, however, and he was taken down- stairs in an elevator and wheeled out into the garden. For several hours he basked in the Florida sunshine and appeared refreshed. On Saturday morning he conferred briefly with his senior secretary, Ward Madison, “I am very tired,” he said wistfully. At noon John D. Rockefeller, jr., made a routine telephone call from New York and was assured there was (See: ROCKEFELLER, Page A-4.) SR e Slaying Case on Docket. TOPEKA, Kans., May 24 (#).—Sub- mission of evidence in the slaying of PFederal Agent Wayne W. Baker as he attempted to arrest a pair of bank robbery suspects in the post office here April 16 was on the docket for . the Federal grand jury todsy. Killed in Fall From New York Hotel Window A woman tentatively identified from personal effects as Mrs. Hanna M. Shurtleff, 38, formerly of Washing- ton, was killed yesterday when she fell 19 floors from a window of her room in a New York City hotel, ac- cording to an Associated Press dis- patch. The woman, who registered at the hotel yesterday, left a note in a memorandum book instructing the finder to notify Jeseph Gawler, Washington undertaker, “in the 21, and Nathan Parker, 24, of New Brunswick. Police said Michael Appanel of Bedford was driving one car with Stephen Menasky of Keyport as s passenger and Schatzman was driving another car with five passengers when they crashed. event of an ‘accident.” ‘The offices of Gawler & Sons, 1756 Pennsylvania avenue, said they had handled the funeral arrangements for Wade W. Shurtleff, husband of Mra. Hanna Shurtleff, when he died about two years ago. Mrs, Shurtleff, the funers! firm|held N said, had been in Washington several months ago to make arrangements for her own funeral. She said at the time she had no relatives. ‘The woman gave the undertaking establishment instructions, they said, as to what to do if she died in Wash- ington and what arrangements o make if she died out of town. Mr. Shurtleff, who was 70, died in April, 1935, shortly after he was found unconscious by his wife in the bath room of their apartment in the Conard, 1228 I street. Police said death was from natural causes. A son, Ralph Shurtleff of Cleveland, was listed as the only survivor be- sides Mrs. Shurtleff. Gawler & Sons sald final services for Mrs. Bhurtleff would be held in mmhnd. but rites slso might be BELIEVE ME, THIS BEATS TAFFY PULLING TUGWELL! RED RIDER REPORT ADOPTED INHOUSE Repeal Bill Wins by Vote of 182 to 60—Passed by Senate. The House today adopted the con- ference report on the repeal bill, 182 to 60. Immediately afterward it passed, without debate, a bill to prevent child marriages in the District. The meas- ure raises the age of consent for boys from 16 to 18, and for girls from 14 to 16. It also forbids issuance of all marriage licenses until three days after an application is filed for a license. Similar action on the rider was tak- en by the Senate last week. The re- peal bill now goes to the White House for the signature of President Roose- velt. While calling for outright repeal of the rider, the conference report puts Congress on record as opposed to the advocacy of communism in the Dis- trict public schools with a declaration that its action shall not be construed “as permitting the advocating of com- munism.” About 30 minutes of debate pre- ceded adoption of the report. Taking a leading part were Representatives Dirksen, Republican, of Illinois, & member of the District Committee, and McCormack, Democrat, of Massachu- setts, who sponsored the so-called “pink rider,” approved by the House several months ago. McCormack an- nounced his approval of the con- ference report. G-MEN ARREST SIX FOR AIDING KARPIS Two Women, Four Men Held in Toledo for Grand Jury Action. By the Assoclated Press. TOLEDO, Ohio, May 24 —S8ix Toledoans, two women and four men, were arrested today by the kidnap squad of the Federal Bureau of Identi- fication on warrants charging them with harboring members of the no- torious Karpis-Barker-Campbell gang. Those arrested were: Ted and Bert Angus, former night club operators; Ed and Clara McGraw, Edith Barry and Frank Greenwald, owner of the Private Taxi Service Co. The six were arraigned before Judge John M. Killits, in Federal Court, and pleaded innocent. Temporary bond of $20,000 each was set for the Angus brothers, Greenwald and Edith Barry. Bond of $10,000 was set for Ed and Clara McGraw. ‘The Federal grand jury was called today. The warrants charge that the group harbored Alvin Karpis, Arthur (Doc) Barker and Harry Campbell after the trio and other members of the gang kidnaped Edward Bremer in St. Paul in January, 1934. Karpis, Barker and Campbell and other members of the gang are serving life sentences for this crime. TORTURED FOR DIME Main Worry of Chinese Now Is Too Soft a Hospital Bed. PORTLAND, Oreg., May 24 (#).— Tortured into revealing the hiding place of his personal fortune—one well-worn dime—the chief concern today of Chin Soo, 89-year-old Chi- nese, was 10 leave an uncomfortably soft hospital bed and get back to his own “bunk,” with boards for a mat- tress and small box for a pillow. ‘Two white men, apparently believ- ing Chin had a large amount of money, broke into his home Saturday and hammered his face snd burned his right foot until he surrendered his I0 cents from its. cache. v “red rider” | * Third Son Born to Lindberghs Coronation Night, Kin Reveals Flyer Had Declined Bid| to Attend Crowning of George V1. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, May 24.—The birtn of a third son to Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh—on coronation | night. May 12—was announced today by Miss Anne S. Cutter, Mrs. Lind- bergh’s aunt. Miss Cutter said her mother, Mrs. Charles L. Cutter of Cieveland, was advised of the birth in a letter from Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow, Mrs. Lind- bergh's mother and Mrs. Cutter's daughter. “The letter only stated that a son and had been born,” Miss Cutter said. “However, we have received subse- quent news that both Mrs. Lindbergh and the child are doing nicely.” ‘The baby presumably was born in the rambling English house, Long- barn, Sevenoaks, Kent, in which the 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- murder of Charles Augustus Lind- bergh, jr., their first-born. Secrecy just as deep as 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 was 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 the baby’s birth, from a 10- week aerial tour of Europe and the East. Since then they have been in their usual seclusion with their 4-year-old second son Jon. On the afternoon of April 9 they landed at Gatwick Airdrome, Surrey, Summary of Page. Amusements B-16 Comics ...__.B-12 Editorials Financisl _ Lost & Found A-3 Obituary ___A-12 NATIONAL. Supreme Court upholds social security act in full. Page A-1 President asks Congress for wages- hours legislation. Page A-1 Burial for Rockefeller in Cleveland Thursday. Page A-1 Government notified of trial flight plans. Page A-2 A F. of L. moves to ban C. L O. locals. Page A-2 FOREIGN. New son born to Lindberghs corona- tion night. Page A-1 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. Five liquor conspiracy convictions re- versed. Page A-1 D. C. woman dies in 19-story plunge in New York. Page 'A-1 D. C. women win in College Park air meet. Page A-8 Three killed in nearby Maryland-Vir- ginia traffic crashes. Page A-2 ‘Two youths killed, third hurt when crash ends police chase. Page A-8 Six “liberal” A. F. G. E. lodges to pro- test economy. Page B-13 Chiefs of three Army branches assume duties toddy. Page A-15 War dead honored in pre-Memorial day. services. Page B-1 Robbery defendant changes ples to guilty. Page B-1 Oourt told Mrs. Bray drank before gasoline tragedy. Page B-1 Lack of D. C. tax provisions balks Page. Short 8tory -_B-9 Society - B-3 Sports A-14-15-16 ‘Woman's Pg. B-10 ‘mission. Community Chest plans unique 10th anniversary drive, Page B-1 MRS. LINDBERGH 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 anniversary, February 4. Back home at their rambling old Kentish house, on the outskirts of the old-world village of Weald, they left their little second son, Jon. On Coronation day—the day, when, it now is reported, their third boy was born, Col. Lindbergh was not in West- minster Abbey for the crowning of King George VI and his Scottish Queen. He declined an invitation—and stayed at home, for reasons obvious now. May 20 was the tenth anniversary of Lindbergh's epochal flight, alone, from New York to Paris. But he told a friend, “I did it. Why should I celebrate 1t2" Lindbergh Bars Inquiries. LONDON, May 24 (#).—First re- ports of a new Lindbergh baby reached the United States Embassy (See LINDBERGH, Page A-6.) Today’s Star D. C. Sanitary engineers study slaugh- ter house plans. Page B-1 Plans for first Federal building asso- clation speeded. Page B-6 EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. Editorials. Page A-10 This and That. Page A-10 Washington Observations. Page A-10 Answers to Questions. Page A-10 David Lawrence. Page A-11 Paul Mallon, Page A-11 Dorothy Thompson. Page A-11 Constantine Brown. Page A-11 Headline Folk. Page A-11 FINANCIAL. Corporate bonds gain (table)._ D. C. insurance sales soar. Stocks sell off (table). Curb list narrow (table). Earnings favorable. Steel rate higher. SPORTS. Slump of slabmen proves hard blow to Griffs. Page A-16 Connie Mack’s magic keeps ‘“‘weak” A’s on top. Page A-16 Star Cup et title toss-up among seven girls, Page A-17 Sarazen seeks comeback in P. G. A. golf tourney. Page A-18 New lightweight ring crop due, says Dempsey. Page A-18 Lady Avon, Sassy Too are sailboat race victors. Page A-18 MISCELLANY. Shipping News. Vital Statistics. City News in Brief, Page A-19 Page A-20 Page A-20 Page A-21 Page A-21 Page A-22 Page A-12 Page A-12 Page B-5 Page B-12 Page B-11 Page B-6 Page B-11 Page B-10 Page B-10 Page B-13 Page B-11 ashington. Nature's Children. Dorothy Dix. Betsy Caswell, Letter-Out. ¥ Winning Oontract, ~ A BOTH OLD AGE AND JOBLESS AID GIVENAPPROVAL Last Excuse for Court Bill En- actment Is Seen Removed by Its Opponents. 11 VICTORIES AND NO DEFEATS ROOSEVELT RECORD THIS TERM Decision Intimately Affects Welfare of 26,600,000 Workers—Treasury Officials Relieved. BACKGROUND— With an unbroken record of 10 victorles in litigation decided by the Supreme Court this term, Roosevelt supporters have awaited ruling on social security act with keen interest,” since the law aflects 26,600,000 workers and 2,700,000 employers. * BULLETIN. The unemployment insurance statute of the State of Alabama was declared valid by the Supreme Court today in a 5-to-4 opinion. BY JOHN H. CLINE. The Government won a smashing victory in the Supreme Court today when that tribunal upheld the con- stitutionality of the social security act in its entirety. This leaves the Roosevelt administration with an un- blemished record at this term of the high court—11 victories and no defeats. The social security decision , Intimately affecting the welfare of 26,600,000 workers and 2,700,000 employers, was hailed with unrestrained joy by the opponents of President Roosevelt's bill to enlarge the Supreme Court. They believe this ruling, coupled with the liberal decision on the Wagner act and minimum wage legisla- tion, removes every possible excuse for enactment of the court bill. Today's decision, incidentally, brought forth a sigh of relief from Treasury officials, who expect to collect approximately one billion dollars under the statute in the next fiscal year. measure been declared unconstitutional, Had the new taxes inevitably would have been necessary to make the refunds to taxpayers and to handle Government refinancing. < The social security statute was FIVE LIQUOR RING VERDICTS VOIDED 11 Others Convicted in City’s Largest Trial Are Not Af- fected by Ruling. BACKGROUND— With the indictment March 13, 1935, of 34 men and women as participants in an illicit conspiracy, Federal agents believed they had smashed a huge ring which sup- piied the Capital with most of its bootleg spirits after repeal. Con- viction of 16 February 26, 1936, attracted wide notice here and else- where. Eleven went to prison and five appealed. ‘The conviction last year of five of 16 men and women found guilty by a jury of operating a huge liquor ring, was reversed today by the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. The others convicted either did not appeal or dis- missed their appeals before arguments in the appellate court. Introduction of evidence that & murder was committed at the gang's headquarters in the 1400 block of P street was given by the Court of Ap- peals as the reason for reversal of the jury’s verdict. The killing had nothing whatsoever to do with the liquor conspiracy and was highly prejudicial, the court stated. Trial of the conspiracy case re- quired a month and involved the largest number of defendants in the history of the court. Thirty-four Were Named. Thirty-four alleged bootleggers were named in the three indictments re- turned March 13, 1935, but only 21 actually went to trial. Charges against two were nolle prossed and ac- cusations against the others were dis- posed of by pleas of guilty or death before trial. Estimates of the weekly business alleged to have been done by the ring. which supplied Washington with illegal liquor during the first year and a half of repeal, varied from $5,000 to $10,000. The conspiracy was said to have cost the Government more than $500,000 in uncollected taxes. The reversals today Involved Albert H. Smith, so-called first lieutenant of the organization; Earl G. Funk, John Manei, Belford R. Longnecker, all of ‘Washington, and Arthur Bartelezzi of Trenton, N. J., who, the Government charged, supplied the local organiza- tion with its alcohol, hippln( the (See LIQUOR, Page A-12) Barbers on Strike. NEW YORK, N. Y, May 24 (P — Approximately 1,400 barbers in 800 Bronx shops went on strike today, ac- cording to Fred Scafidi, international representative of the Journeymen Barbers' International local. The union asks wage increases of $3 to $5 ‘weekly, six holidays a year and 50 per mmmniu. A affirmed in two opinions, both delivered by the liberal Justice Cardozo, an appointee of former President Hoover. who today is celebrating his 67th birthday an- niversary. The first ruling, affirming the un- | employment insurance provision of the act, brought a 5-to-4 division in ‘(he court. Chief Justice Hughes and Justices Cardozo, Stone, Brandeis and Roberts voted to uphold the act. | Justice Butler dissented outright. Justice McReynolds wrote a separate dissenting opinion, as did Justice Sutherland. Justice Van Devanter, who retires from the bench June 2, concurred with Sutherland. There was less dispute among the justices on the question of old-age benefits, the division there being 7 to 2, with Justices McReynolds and Butler dissenting on the ground these sections of the act are repugnant to the tenth amendment, which reserves to the States all powers not specifically vested in the central government. Attacked by Stockholder. ‘The old-age pension provisions of the act were attacked by a stock- holder in the Edison Electric Illum- inating Co. of Boston, who sought an injunction to prevent his corpo- ration from paying the tax. The Dis- trict Court dismissed his suit, but the First Circuit Court of Appeals re- versed this action, declaring the entire social security law unconstitutional, Reversing the action of the Court of Appeals, Justice Cardozo said: “When money is spent to promote the general welfare, the concept of welfare or the opposite is shaped by Congress, not the States. So if the concept be not arbitrary, the locality must yield.” The opinion further held that the old-age benefit tax upon employers is a valid excise or duty on the relation of employment and that the tax is not valid as a result of its exemption. It does not apply to farm laborers, do- mestics and so forth. The statute as it relates to unem- ployment insurance had been at- tacked by the Charles C. Steward Machine Co. of Alabama. The com- pany paid the specified tax and then, claiming it was entitled to a refund, filed suit to recover the amount. Ths District Court dismissed the suit and this action was affirmed by the Fifta Circuit Court of Appeals. In his dissent on the unemploye ment compensation, Justice Butler said that “in principle and as ap- (See SOCTAL SECURITY, Page A-8.) DAYLIGHT SAVING MOVE DELAYED BY COMMITTEE A special subcommittee of the House District Committee in charge of the Sacks bill to put Washington on a daylight-saving schedule today postponed action on the measure until 10:30 a.m. tomorrow. The bill's sponsor, Representative Sacks, Democrat, of Pennsylvania, who also is chairman of the subcom- mittee, arranged the delay at the request of the other members. Sacks predicts the subcommittes will make s favorable report on the measure to the full committee. The subcommittee, he said, has failed to find any “pronounced opposition” to the daylight-saving plan. A