Evening Star Newspaper, May 25, 1937, Page 8

.0 ROCKEFELLER | I Not tmterested in RITES TOMORROW Body on Way North as Fam- ily Waits at Pocantico Hills Estate. By the Associated Press. NORTH TARRYTOWN, N. Y., May 85.—The body of John D. Rockefeller ‘was borne northward today to waiting members of his immediate family, carried with the richness, exclusive- ness and lack of public formality which characterized his life. Privacy was the keynote of all ar- rangements for final honors to the man who, although a great philan- thropist, lived secluded, a shunner of public notice. The body was in a special Pullman kar attached to a New York-bound express from Ormond Beach, Fla., where the industrialist-philanthropist died suddenly Sunday morning, two months short of his 98th birthday anniversary. He lay in a simple but rich mahogany and bronze casket, be- decked with a few lilies. Friends had been asked not to send flowers. The train was due in New York ®bout 5 pm. (Eastern standard time). The funeral Pullman then was to be wouted farther northward to a pri- vate siding behind the 3,500-acre Rockefeller estate, Pocantico Hills, near here, where it was due about X pm. (Eastern standard time). i Family at Estate. In the 47-room mansion on the wmstate waited his family, now headed by his only son, John D. Rockefeller, {3r, who is 63. The family had hur- |ried from points as far away as the P 1 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. Secarlett the first office, Richard T. Franken- steen, in general charge of the union’s Ford drive, said applicants for mem- bership could sign up just as if they were opening a savings account. “We feel that we are offering the same kind of an investment,” Frank- ensteen said. Homer Martin, union president, will officiate Tuesday afternoon at formal opening of the offices. He has offered a silver trophy to the union local or individual who signs the most Ford workers. Frankensteen said: “Our 200,000 Detroit members are co-operating in our plans to extend the organieation in the Ford plants and the undertak- ing may not prove as difficult as some would have us believe.” Organizers said a few Ford workers were signed Monday. The General Motors situation oc- cupled international officers until last night when members of the Saginaw local finally agreed to comply with requests that they return to work in three plants of the upstate city hit by walkouts since last Friday. Grievances of the Saginaw workers will be discussed at conferences to start at once in Detroit. Meanwhile TUESDAY, MAY 25, 1937. the men promised to resume work today. More than 2,000 men were made idle in three Chevrolet plants by the latest disputes involving vari- ous conditions of employment. TU. 8. Fleet Half-Way Home. ABOARD BATTLESHIP PENN- SYLVANIA, in Pacific maneuvers, May 25 (#).—The United States fleet was past the midway mark between Hawall and California en route home today as the six weeks of Midpacific maneuvers drew near & close. PRISONER TO BARE ASSASSINATION PLOT Grand Jury to Hear of Attempt to Kill District Attorney Fitts. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, May 25.—Deputy Prosecutor Eugene Willlams said a plot. to hire assassins to kill District At- indictments asked today of two men. Fitts was wounded slightly in the arm as he drove alone in an automo- bile last March. Charles W. Swindell, who faces a sentence in Oakland for burglary, will be asked to tell the grand jury what he knows of the asserted plot, Wil- liams said. The two suspects are being watched by investigators, who are ready to are rest them in case indictments are re~ turned, Williams added. He quoted Swindell as saying two torney Buron Fitts with machine guns | men had offered him $500 in 1936 if will be disclosed to the grand jury and he would help kill Fitts, THE HUB FURNITURE (O.. Th&D CELEBRATION i Mrs. John Hay “Jock” Whitney, society sportswoman of U;’perv_dle. Va., may take a series of screen tests at the insistence of David O. Selznick, film producer, but she says definitely she does not want to try for the coveted role of Scarlett O’Hara. She is shown as she arrived in Hollywood yesterday with Selz- yPanama Canal Zone to attend final Tites in the great hall at 10 am. !(Eastern standard time) tomorrow. It was not known exactly how many ©of the 26 children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren would be able to attend, The ceremonies will be strictly pri- Yate, with only a handful of business essociates and a few trusted servants Dresent, in addition to the family. Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, pastor 'of the Riverside Baptist Church in New York, built by Mr. Rockefeller, will read the scriptures; Rev. Lester !H. Bent, pastor of the Pocantico Hills Union Church, will participate; a few thymns best loved by Rockefeller will be sung, and that will be all Burial in Cleveland. Late tomorrow the casket again will Ybe placed in the special Pullman and taken to Cleveland, where Rockefeller {launched his fabulous career. He will be buried there Thursday with rites as ‘simple as those arranged here. The Rockefeller neighbors here had flags at half-staff today, but this was ebout the only sign of public notice of the death. At the wish of the fam- Iy, a8 “John D.” himself would have had it, there was a minimum of public ceremony. No special rite was planned for the ‘body's arrival in New York. Some of the Standard Oil Co. offices planned 6-minute periods of silence in a sus- Pension of operations tomorrow. Accompanying the body northward ‘were Mrs. Fannie Evans, Rockefeller's second cousin and his hostess for many years; Ward Madison, his sec- Jetary; Mrs. Florence A. Mitchell, a #iriend of Mrs, Evans, and five em- “ployes. In addition to his son, Rockefeller's only other living child, Mrs. E. Par- malee Prentice of Williamstown, Mass, was here. Two grandsons, Welson and Winthrop Rockefeller, wwere expected today or tomorrow after plane flights from the Canal Zone. Other members of the immediate family to attend the services were hurrying by train from Ilinois, New Jersey and Connecticut. Servants Pay Last Respects. Nearly a score of sad servants were Jeft behind at the Casements, Rocke- Zeller's Florida home, where they paid their last respects yesterday at simple services. The household and a dozen inti- Mate friends surrounded the casket in the rotunda room of the Case- ments. Colored shafts of light slant- ed down through the stained-glass Panes of a dome. Both men and Wwomen wept openly. Softly, I. W. Ramsey sang two of Raockefeller’s favorite hymns—“Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing” and "No Night There”—in the same room In which happy guests sang carols Bt “Neighbor John” Rockefeller’s Christmas parties. Rev. James M. Anderson, pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church, read drom the Scriptures. A half hour or less and the service was ended. The few townspeople present in- cluded Mayor Hubert Price, Drugglst Macon Thornton, the telegraph boy &t the railroad station, Dr. Harry L. Merryday and Dr. Sidney Main, the industrialist's dentist. ~_RESORTS. nick and George Cukor (right), who will direct the film. STRIKERS PICKET HEINZ FACTORY Group Demands Recognition of Canning and Pickle Workers’ Union. By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, May 25.—Several hundred men and women, with lunch boxes under their arms, picketed to- day the North Side plant of the J. J. Heinz Co. A strike was called at a meeting last night of a group of employes who demanded recognition of the Canning and Pickle Workers' Union as a collective bargaining agency. From a loud speaker set up in the administration building of the plant, & compeny official announced: “The management wishes to an- nounce that the factory is open for work.” Foremen talked with pickets exhort- ing them to call off the strike. A police detail patrolled the picket lines. The following statement was issued by the Heinz management. “Two committees, one purporting to Tepresent an American Federation of Labor organization and the other an association of employes, called on representatives of the management Monday afternoon. Each claimed that a majority of our employes were mem- bers of its respective union and request recognition as representatives of all the employes. “We have always been ready and willing to meet our employes to dis- cuss problems and grievances, just as We are now, and asked each for some proof that it represented a majority. Both promised to present this proof later and the meeting ended with the understanding that they would do so, Nei}her has since communicated with us.” Argentine Ships Visit Germany. HAMBURG, Germany, May 25 (P). —The Argentine battleships Rivadavia and Moreno anchored in German ports today for good-will visits, the Rivadavia here and the Moreno at ‘Wilhelmshaven, —— —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. GHOUR, S8-0AY DENAND ON FORD U. A, W. Plans Distribution of Handbills in Drive to Organize. By the Assoclated Press. DETROIT, May 25.—The United Automobile Workers of America, open- ing two branch offices in abandoned bank buildings at the edge of Dear- born today, announced plans for dis- tributing union literature at the gates of the Ford Motor Co. One leaflet will demand a six-hour day and a minimum wage of $8 a day. The announcement was made by Walter Reuther, president of the West Side local, shortly after the high com- mand of the U. A. W. A. had prevailed upon 2,000 General Motors employes to return to work at Saginaw, ending| “unauthorized” strikes in three Chev- rolet plants. Permit Is Promised. A Dearborn city ordinance requires 8 permit for the distribution of hand- bills. Reuther said the Dearborn city clerk had promised to mail such a per- mit to the union. Ford employes now work five eight- hour days a week. The minimum wage is $6 a day. Several times recently Henry Ford has declared that the company will put some “really high wages” into effect “when this strike mess is over.” Reuther said the distribution of union literature would be the first attempted at the Ford gates. The president of the local whose Jurisdiction includes the Ford Rouge plant said that “unionism, not Ford- ism” would be the slogan of the cam- paign to organize Ford employes, Final Plans Laid Sunday. Signs on the branch offices—which are .on the Detroit side of streets marking the Dearborn boundary— will read: “The Union Way is the American Way”; “Make Ford a Union Shop”; “Make Detroit 100 Per Cent Union,” and “Yesterday G. M.—Today Ford. At Monday's informal opening of aae—————————— RESORTS. WILDWOOD, N. J. PORTLAND EL. Memorial Day. 314 E. Glenwood Ave. Spe- glullsoall.. 8un,, Mon. Room and l;\;_lh, MASSACHUSETTS. RESORTS, CQI.ONIAI. BEACH, VA. COLONIAL BEACH HOTE Now onen Jor " fts G00R: S0 Decoration § pri baths. Peninsula-Greyh 8 times dally. or motor o e nound Bus 3 Frank D. Blackisione, Owner-Mgr. *® [GAY DIVERSIONS LONG CooL Funpy BAy NOVA COTIA vacation pastimes, you'll en- joy Bear River's colorful Cherry rnival, Digby’s Indian Gatheringand other gay Summer celebrations, egattas, Sports Meets; Golf Tourna- .Visit Evangeline’s Grand Pré, ing Anna, :7isRoyul, Wolfville nd Hal‘:_‘{gax by #he sea... A round of y activities—or relaxation for those ho luxuriate in laziness. Comfortable otels, inexpensive inns. Convenient in service to wherever you wish to 0. But 15 hours by steamer—Boston te armouth; or 22 hours from NewYork. Ask about All-Espense Tours. DOMINION ATLANTIC RAILWAY { 50_Franklin Street, Boston, Masa. or Canadian Pacifie, 14th & N. Y. Ave, N.W., Washingten, D. C.—or apply Travel Agent Dorth ta Amerloa’s largust National Park via i National, Biop 4t Jeover Fork Locke 1 tas of the Canadian Rockies. Rettways, §22-15th ¢, REE—New England _Vac 20 Vres. “FuNY niovereios. mow _for your copy. New <il. Dent. Bo GREAT Route of the Empire Bullder Between Chicago_and Pacific Northwest on. ey )RTHERN RAILWAY STEAMSHIPS. BERMUDA VIA FURNESS, $60 up, round Monarch of trip. with private ‘Bermud: uent bath on Monarch a and Queen of sailings. Ask your travel TRAVEL. HIP TICKETS es all ling “Travel it AMERICAN KXPRESS GOMPANY. N v agent. Bermuda. Fre- VIRGINIA, IN THE MOUNTAINS OF VIRGINIA Bryce's Hotel and Cottages (Basye, Va.) Just ‘before you get to Orkney Springs, Z1st vear. bigger and better each year. Reputation built on food and service. Swimming pool, baths. 1 to guests. horseshoes. S 5 can plan. $2.50 per day; $15 per week. Booklet. b vou Ko over'the Sk Line o1 5. . an rs, M R. BRY( ers. Private Baths. __ MRS. §. I. CAREY. THE LANKFORD Spec! Memorial Day Rates illin, Ocean Front ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. *NEW «OCEAN [prister * HOUSE [t Tenn. Ave., Just Off Boardwalk centrally located. Brick construction. Ocean view rooms. European plan. Rates reasonable. ~ Restaurant. _Taproom. Ga- rage. L. R. POLLOCK, Prop. e > 32-piece set of Dinner- ware included with every purchase of $38.00 or more during our 38th Birthday Celebration 60-Piece Tableware Ser- vice included with every purchase of $38.00 or more during our 38th Birthday Celebration. Solid Maple Modern Flocr Lomp, Bridge Lamp and Table Lamp included with every purchase of $38.00 or more during our 38th Birthday Celebration Spring Steel Chair S 4.88 3-Pe. M;filéiédroom Suite Solidly constructed of genuine maple in a rich horey tone Includes bed, desk-chest, and choice of dresser or vanity. All pieces are carefully finished in every detail. The desk-chest provides the luxury of a separate desk as well as usual spa- cious chest convenience. S48 y Present Included! }es 2.Pc. Modern Living Room A genuine suite built with custom-precision to afford years of uninterrupted service and comfort. construction throughout and tailored in a beautiful combi- nation of plain and figured tapestry____ Guaranteed spring Sordb Birthday Present Included! Comfortably made to provide a restful rocker effect. Choice of orange, green or black colors. Porch Rocker DECORATION DAY WEEKEND AT THE AMBASSADOR Celebrate Decoration Day by spending Saturday, Sunday and Monday in the luxury of the Ambas- sador. Let this three-day holiday bring your favorite sport or recreation in the new Sports Club. Swimming, sun bathing and beach games. Tennis. Riding. Marvelous meals. Dancing. Newly decorated and furnished guest rooms. Write for free illustrated booklet TH I\ ~ sl.49 Double woven cane seat; $olid maple frame in natural finish. A fine value! - : It's built especially to refurnish the modern sunparlor. Bright, cheerful pieces in decorative color schemes to pro- vide outstanding beauty. Solid maple construction built to Includes settee and two well-designed insure long service. chairs. i ple ASunroo‘mASl»l)i‘te S49 Birthday Present Included!