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SOUTHWEST Phoenix -jQ- 235 Today Page 118-120 N. CENTRAL AVE. TELEPHONE 3-1111 AM LmAngele W9 Dm ef 70 Samkme Miwm.FU.-Cr-9S NEWSPAPER 48th Year, No. 6. Phoenix, Arizona Monday Morning, May 24, 1937 TuoonjQT-220 LIC Lfuiyj Ik? IL Last Formal Portrait Study Of 'John D.9 hilant hr opist lae, Hour BUI Due At occumbs Roosevelt Hi! Basques Philtlos (Coprrtcht) int.

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Roosevelt carries a gun. Let's see who was that other rifle expert who always worked on the dead gallop? The wife of a famous American haa sued him for divorce after 37 years of married life. It is -possible that she always had a feeling it wouldn't last. (Tor Morr H. I.

Phillips See the Editorial Pas) YITH GENERAL MO LA'S REBELS OUT SIDE BILBAO, May 23. (UP) Four Basque batal- hons comprising; 2,500 men were trapped in the Azu- bian foothills south of Bil Court Ruling Alters Status Of Tax Bills 11. ORMOND BEACH, May 23. (UP) John D. Rockefeller, who earned more money than any; man who ever lived, died today at the age of 97.

His wealth had purchased for him comfort, luxuries, power and the esteem of his fellow men, but it could not buy fulfillment of the only ambition he had left to live to be 100. Death came at 4 :05 a. in the hush of a tropical dawn, on the day that Mr. Rockefeller always set aside to worship the things of the spirit and to forget the world and all that's in it. It was a peaceful, painless death.

Sinks Into Coma At Midnight Mr. Rockefeller went into a coma shortly after midnight and never emerged from it. Physicians said he died from sclerotic myocarditis, which means in the everyday language that Rockefeller himself spoke, that a tired heart gave up. "The end was very peaceful1 said Dr. H.

L. Merryday. "Mr. Rockefeller, I am sure, felt no Present at the bedside were Mrs. Fannie Evans, a cousin and hostess at the Rockefeller estate: John H.

Yordi, who has been valet and personal attendant for 30 years: Ray C. Sly, night nurse: and Dr. Merryday The" body will be sent north to Tarrytown, N. where the funeral will be held, probably Wednesday. Burial will be in Cleveland where Mr.

Rockefeller began his career as a clerk. Ambition Seemed Near Realization Until last week it appeared that Mr. Rockefeller's ambition to have a 100th birthday party would be realized. Physicians said he was "in the best physical condition" in several years. His faculties were hardly Impaired by age: his hearing was acute; he had retained most of hi teeth; and he had a lively interest in the world around him.

Mr. Rockefeller was all things to all men a titan among business men; a fatherly old man to members of hit family; benefactor to the lame, the halt and the blind. But here in Ormond Beach he was "Neighbor John" and that it why flaga were at half-ataff throughout the town today and why the Rev. Kerriton Juniper, pastor of the Ormond Union church, offered special prayer at the morning terviea. A little knot of sympathizers gathered in the afternoon at the gates of "The Casements," the estate that Mr.

Rockefeller maintained her amid exotic gardens where all types of flowers flamed in the warm alt. Long Familiar Greeting Remembered They were the people who had seen. him almost every day: had seen him smile and heard, too many times to remember, the greetings: "Good day and God bless you." Mr. Rockefeller patted thete people on his daily drive down Daytona Beach 25 miles round trip to an inlet where he sat for an hour, watching the fishermen and the shrimp boatt and lifting his eyet, now and then, to the blue of the sea beyond. This had been his sole recreation and exercise since he gave up his golf a game which he played as intensely as he once did the larger game of big business.

Long Ago Retired From Butinett Years ago Mr. Rockefeller retired from business, weary of earning money that rolled into his vaults faster than he could spend it. He had rivalled the Harrimans and the Goulds in the railroad business; he had L-esisiature Begins Final Week Of Session ONE LESS issue, and that an important one. faces the first special bao tonight when Gen. Mo-la's rebel columns surprised them in a "nutcracker" attack.

The panic-stricken Loyalists, encircled by thousands of troops and crawling through scrub brush under a curtain of machine gun and artillery fire, had the choice of surrender or annihilation. Mola officers said they had only scant chance of escaping from the trap. Defenders Retired Bilbao defenders abandoned their mountain-rimmed positions around Maneria along the Ochandiano-Durango highway as Mola drove his troops upon the city from Ur-quiola. They fled westward in disorder, attempting to reach Dim a. six miles There they found their companions scattered, their retreat cut off by another insurgent column moving upon Bilbao.

Before abandoning their Maneria entrenchments the Basques shelled rebel positions around Urquiola. in an effort to stem the enemy drive. Watches Advance From the mountain crest of Ara-roa. 18 miles south of Bilbao, a United Press correspondent watched Mola's troops as they cleared the session of the 13th Arizona legisla WASHINGTON, May 23. (UP) Joe T.

Robin-ion, senate majority- leader, said tonight after a White House conference that President Roosevelt would submit a general message on wages and hours to congress tomorrow and that a bill embodying his objectives would be introduced immediately In both houses. Robinson, after a two-hour conference with the chief executive and Ben. Hugo L. Black. Democrat.

Alabama, chairman of the senate labor committee, said the bill would be turned over to committees in both chambers for quick action. Predict Quick Action He predicted rapid consideration ef the proposed measure which will tupplant the labor features of the outlawed XRA. He said the bill would be put into final form as rapidly as possible. The measure was drawn up by $ack and Rep. William Connery, Democrat, Massachusetts, chairman of the house labor committee, after lengthy conferences between government, business and labor leaders.

It is understood to have the neral backing of the labor unions. Black cautioned newspapermen that the bill was not yet in final form and that it would be up to committees to decide on the ultimate limitations placed upon wages and hours in those industries engaged in Interstate commerce. "Senator Black and I have diseased with the President the proposed legislation respecting- hours ind wages," Robinson said. "Senator Black has been devoting ipecial consideration to this subject for several years and is the author of a measure now pending before the senate. Message To Be Short "The President has indicated the Purpose of transmitting- a message to the senate dealing generally with the proposal.

It is not a long mes-re. "At previous conferences extend-bis for some months plana for the legislation have been under con-(Contirued On Page 2, Col. 3) ture today as it starts the last week of its constitutional 20-day session. The Arizona Supreme Court Saturday outlawed Governor Stanford's relief fund, which was one thing: the senate apparently was determined to do, even if it had to repeal the sales tax law in its entirety to achieve that goal. Follows Lines Of Bill The court decision followed the lines of the senate bill which was sent to the house Friday and on the same day advanced to second reading there, with indications that it would be thrown onto the floor for JOHN DAVISON ROCKEFELLER, SR.

way for the "big push" on Bilbao He saw rebel columns moving cautiously through the mountain passes, sometimes in serpentine immediate discussion it transferred the relief allotment from administration of the governor, who has file, at other times in small groups Famous first as the builder of trusts for his creation of the Standard Oil empire, then as the nation's first billionaire and finally-as the greatest philanthropiat he world has ever known, John D. Rockefeller, died yesterday, near the close of his 97th year, at his Florida estate. This striking portrait study, copyrighted by C. C. Engelbrecht, is the last formal portrait for which Mr.

Rockefeller posed. It was taken in "The the Ormond Beach home in which death came quietly to thwart Mr. Rockefeller's last ambition to be 100 years old. been under no restrictions as to how it may be spent, to the Arizona rushing across shell-rutted valleys. A bright sun glittered on their helmets and bayonets.

On his back each man wore a white cross to identify him to insurgent war planes. Board of Social Security and Public Welfare, and specified that it must be spent for bona fide relief. Without legislative action one of the senate's apparent chief objec There were thousands of them. looking like fast-moving ants scur tives became fact, and altered to rying through the Cantabrian that extent the situation between Rockefeller's Good Works mountains. the legislative houses in striving for The valleys resounded with the an agreement on what, if any, revision of the present sales tax law is A Pete Knight I Is Killed By Sronc roar of insurgent airplanes, bombing and machine gunning the retreating enemy.

to be enacted. Sales Tax Provides Fund One fleet of insurgent bombers The governor's relief fund has Highly Lauded been derived chiefly from the sales tax. From it has been allotted 15 per cent approximately per alone numbered more than 30. When their bombs were exhaurted they swept low, machine gunning the Loyalist trenches. Troops "Mop Up" After driving 2,500 Basques into month and from the luxury tax has been allotted a flat $5,000 per month.

The luxury tax allotment was Leaders In Many a trap, Mola's troops "moppd up" along the Vitoria-Durango high carried along with the rest in the supreme court decision, but it is in connection with the major portion, that from the sales tax, that the present session has been way, wiping out enemy placements on the bordering Manaria and Saint Walks Of Life Sorrow (By Associated Press) Effect Conjectured Just what may be the effect of Dami Lawrence Says Roosevelt Fair Ruling Lauded WASHINGTON. May 23. (By Band Lawrence) ometimei were i a ripple of laughter in the wuse of representatives and it aoeart get mentioned in the official Proceedings. And ten the laughter -tall Justi- mm 99 Thus there were kiSUMPf iP.lY,' JK2 IAWRENCE ssi DISPATCH feller, yesterday at his Ormond Beach. estate brought statements of regret coupled with praise for his philanthropy from many walks of life.

the decision on what the legislature is likely to do was a moot question as the houses prepared to go back to work after a two-day recess over the week-end. Administrationists interpreted it as narrowing the issue definitely to Robert M. Hutchins president of HAYWARD. May 23. (AP) Pete Knight.

33 years old, world champion bronc rider and former all-around cowboy champion, waa killed today before 5,000 persons at a rodeo competition when he was thrown and trampled by his horse. Slowdown. The rider was tossed over the animal's head at it reared and plunged, and one of its hoofs came down on his body. Knight died shortly afterward at a hospital. He was one of 100 nationally-known cowboys who were participating in the finals of the 18th annual Hayward rodeo.

Knight had ridden the horse that caused his death eight or nine timet previously. Knight wat a native of Calgary, Alberta, Can. He wat widely known in the United States where for 10 years he had won most of the bronc riding eventt at the major rodeos. Knight it eurvived by hit wife. the question of revision of rates and distribution of the revenue, (Continued On Page 2, Col.

1) the University of Chicago, which Mr. Rockefeller founded, said it was "impossible to overestimate the indebtedness of America and of mankind for such noble service to education and the research for truth." Educators Speak Referring to contributions from the philanthropist and his family What To Do U.S.-British Shipping War Grows Tense Ban Of Yankee Craft From Tasman Sea Is Threatened May 23. (UP) The state department is anxiously watching developments in a hitter Tacific shipping war which threatens to raise new obstacles to the flow of the world trade, it was learned tonight. The department has ordered full reports from London on the current imperial conference, which is reported devising new strategy in the battle between British and American shipping interests for the trade between Australia and New Zealand and West coast cities. Officials here are particularly concerned over threats of the Australian and New Zealand governments to ban U.

S. vessels from the Tasman sea trade between the two dominions in an effort to kill competition with British-owned lines. "We do not want anv more hurdles in the way of world trade than we already have." one official explained. "Our policy is to try to open the channels of trade and keep them free so far as possible. We hope the proposed restrictions bv Australia and New Zealand will not be put into effect." "Wild" Rulers Blamed This official said the American and British governments were "dragged by the tail" into the commercial row.

which had caused "a lot of sharp words and sword rattling." He blamed "wild labor governments" of the dominions for precipitating the controversy against the wishes of London. Developments came thick and fast after the American-owned Matson line gained the upper hand ir a long rivalry with the British-continued On Page 2, Col. 4) Japanese Plane Falls, One Dies OSAKA. Japan. May 23.

ipi totaling $78,448,407. Dr. Hutchins About House added "This alone would give him a Lucia peaks. Mola's advance guard, moving (Continued On Page 2, Col. 6) Polar Test Hop Revealed MOSCOW.

May 23. (AP) The Soviet Union's expedition encamped at the North pole disclosed today that Friday's flight which landed 11 men thirteen miles from the top of the world actually was the expedition's second polar flight. On May 5, Prof. Otto J. Schmidt, leader of the venture, disclosed, an airplane carrying four men made an exploratory flight over the pole, but owing to fog and poor visibility made no attempt to land.

This flight was not reported until after the successful landing of Friday. Pilot of the May 5 flight was the noted airman, Pavel Golovin. He took off from the Rudolf Island base, 560 miles from the pole, reached the pole five hours later and then returned to Rudolf Island. That survey helped the May 21 flight by "giving assurance that heavier planes could land" at the pole. Professor Schmidt said in a report published today.

That led to a decision to abandon earlier plans to use parachutes for land-( Continued On Page 2. Col. 2) bought into steel until he threatened the primacy of Andrew Carnegie; he had invested in public utilities; real estate, street railways, ferries and ocean lines. His trucks were on the main streets of every crossroad town in the United States; his oil caravans plodded the Arabian deserts; his tankers fed oil to South America; his oil barrels rolled into door ways in China and along jungle trails in Africa. And everything he touched turned to gold.

So he turned away from the accumulation ef money and began to give it away. Finally, that, too, became too arduous a task management of more than half a billion dollars in philanthropies it a full time job for hundreds of persont. So he patted the work along to younger handt and became what he wat when he died a wrinkled old man in dark glattet who gave away thiny dimes, and loved hymns and sentimental poetry. The name Rockefeller, of course, automatically called to mind the words "Standard Oil" and the story of Standard Oil is the story of the rise of giant industries in the United States in the 19th century. He built the first billion dollar fortune in an age when competition was ruthless and piratical, when the slogan was "rule or ruin." From Hated Man To Benefactor In the era of the muckrakers he was often called "the most hated man in America." At a retiring, diffident, old gentleman who had relinquished hit scepter, he became celebrated at a giver not only of thiny new dimes, symbols of the thrift he preached, but of more than $500,000,000 in material giftt for the alleviation of tuffering and the betterment of mankind.

He wat attacked at few men have been attacked, for avarice, ruthlettnett, and commercial brutality. He made the benevolence of the world's greatett philanthropists shrink to insignificance when he became the world't mott generout giver. Oil, gushing in abundance from wells in various parts of the countr attracted Rockefeller's attention in the early 1860's. Samuel Andrews, a young engineer, had perfected a process for refining it. The two men formed a partnership, financed with a few thousand dollars, wrung by Rockefeller from his little business asa commission merchant.

Five years later, the firm became the Standard Oil Company, parent of the first American trust a strongly knit system of subsidiaries, affiliates, allies and liege-companies, under almost feudal control of Rockefeller, the overlord. Achieved World Dominance Standard Oil won world dominance. Its methods led to public outcry, to investigations, to bitter attacks, and finally the attempt of a "trust-busting" government to smash its control by dissolution. Yet it was also Rockefeller's fate not only to live through the era of corporation hatred, resulting only in the splitting of the parent into offspring companies, each as rich and powerful as the mother, but to see the day come when the "trust" would-be adopted by some governments as their own method of industrial control. He saw, therefore, two immense phases, two diametrically opposed social conceptions of the system he created.

The first would have smashed the trust into small, competitive bits. The second would rejoin the fissured pieces and bind them into an instrument for the state and the people. Empire Created Problem The building of this empire parallel to the creation of the steeJ trust, the aluminum trust, and a score of gigantic amalgamations created a new problem for the public and the government. People feared that one day the trust would be greater than the government would swallow the government. But since dealing with the institution was a new problem in sociology and economics, only one solution of the problem could be conceived in that age of fear.

The solution was to smash them. The storm broke in 1892, when the Standard Oil trust was ordered dissolved. It reached a climax in 1907, when Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landia fined Rockefeller's companies S29.240.000 for accepting illegal railroad rebates. The decision was reversed and the fine never was paid. It was at this climax that Mr.

Rockefeller retired from active business. When he retired, his retirement was absolute. To his son, John D. Rockefeller, jr, he turned over a great part of his power. Into bene ficent trusts the Rockefeller Foundation, the Laura Spelman Foundation, the General Education Board; into hospitals and schools and institutions for alleviating distress, into colleges and missionary societies, into agencies for research and charity: into projects for the restoration of the glories that were France jid England; into rtuilding the shattered (Continued On Page 4.

CoL 1) 10 Blgn biI1 appropriating for federal participation in World's Fair on the una that it was unconstitutional. of being a subject for tort. fact that Mr- Roosevelt And Lawn Ants unique position among the world's philanthropists. But what is almost as remarkable, he refused to in tV mcssaKe congress uphold a tail. Snstitutional precedents i iur approbation.

It is a sign iUreW carnPai'fn which has been th ue lasl two years against CUtive brnch of the govern-the hTause lt nas neld to lightly interfere, directly or indirectly, with the trustees' freedom of action or the faculty's freedom of thought and teaching." Harold H. Swift, president of the board of trustees of the University of Chicago, commented; "Mr. Rockefeller established a new conception of the social responsibilities of great wealth. He used his fortune with imagination and intelligence as a means of ac- (Continued On Page 4, CoL 5) T-TERE is another government bulletin covering an important household problem the control and destruction of house and lawn ants. It goes thoroughly into the problem, describing the kinds of ants, with pictures, and telling what to do about them.

This booklet should t- in every home, for if ants aren't bothering you now, there is no telling when they will. This coupon is for your order. Fill it in carefully, and enclose five cents in coin to cover handling and postage. Use This Coupon tionalT precedents of constitu-tect at navin5 ome JCnt 1 Street Is Calm At Death News NEW YORK. May 23.

(AP) Wall Street circles said today the stock market would likely take in its full stride the death of the oldest member of the New York Stock Ex-chanre John D. Rockefeller, sr. Jort." a- was said by sup-HUltt on Capitol "ourt iT supreme oq "o-ung a eaiutary eneci intii tt 3ustlces' opinions, but not Wid' r.mes8age on the New York .8 Far was disclosed could it This opinion was confirmed by a spokesman for the Rockefeller Continued OnPage 2. Col. 1) Aviators ratine.

Boat Capsizes, Quartet Drowns Arizona Republic Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C. I enclose herewith FIVE CENTS in coin (carefully wrapped in paper) for a copy of the booklet on ANTS. Flight Rockefeller Kin Will Fly Home COLON'.

Panama. May 23. (AP) Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Rockefeller and Miss Eleanor Clark, Mrs.

Rockefeller's sister, chartered a special plane tonight to take them to Veracruz, for plane connections to New York. They planned to take off at dawn tomorrow morning, expecting to make connections at Brownsville and Dallas. after leaving Veracruz, to arrive in New York in 30 hours. Winthrop Rockefeller left here' by plane this morning for Mexico, D. F.

fcrA.PHI India, May 23. (UP) CHICAGO, May 23. (UP) Four men were drowned today when an 18-foot power launch overturned in family WnO SaiU. J1 :i.ri.ri death should not affect the stock market in any way." "The estate is in the best condition imaginable and is very liquid." he said. "Mv understanding is that Mr.

Rockefeller has probably given away most of his securities to his children and foundations." "I don't think Rockefeller's death will cause a ripple." said one broker in a firm aaid to be closely connected with the Rockefeller interests. tetti iC01" and Francois Miche-kiJ 'rench aviatnrs this the Little taiumei river near me ind ies of on "J6 southern outsmris oi wie tuy. Three companions were rescued. identified bv A va the rescued men as Al McCaulley, plunge of a disabled heavy army 55 years old, owner or me ujl, u-ward Tebo. 35.

Edward Sachs, 65 Name Street or Rural Route City State (Mail to Washington, D. Domums piane into me heart of Osaka today resulted in death for one man and injuries for five others The bomber's engine failed and it Other comments echoed this point of view, although in some circles it was said it was possible shares TnVin Vlma.n. 42. auu 1 1 i Th 8ht from Paris to Tokyo. cord who hope to better the de i.w, JaPanese pilots who Wrs Toky-Paris flight in 92 Atheri, minutes, arrived from rly took off ft-0 Paris esterlay.

in the air and et to Iowr the west- Tokyo last year. The Rockefellers, sons of John D. cA 7nrnm Ana LAWI eiicc Rockefeller, escaped injury Fri Stomp, who were standing on the day when a Tan-American Grace Lriver edge when tne Doat capsizea. reii. snappea a nigh tension wire and smashed into the kitchen of an Osaka householder.

A iridestrian struck by the falling- wire was might undergo a passing reaction "sentimental" reawms. Wall Street commeh on the market's possible behavior centered (Continued On Page 4, Col. 6) jjumped into me water aim un plape made a forced landing at Lima. They were returning to the United States aftar a. visit to Peru- 49, and Harold Banton, 35, to safety..