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VOL. 38. No. 120. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 24, 1937. Per Copy lOcto
Two Supreme Court Rulings Given
EX-PATRIATE LINDBERGH’S HAVE NEW SON
John D. Rockefeller Succumbs At Winter Home
BLOODY FAMILY FEUD TEXAS
LEAVES FARMERS DEATH TRAIL
(By The Associated Press)
KNIPPA, Texas, May 24—The bloody family shoot
ing of May 22nd near this place, left four persons dead
at two farm houses. Justice of the Peace David White
today entered a verdict that Jarrett Sampier killed his
wife, her mother Mrs. Wm. Helbig Sr., and his wife’s
brother. Louis Helbig: and that Sampier was in turn
killed by Wm. Helbig Jr., son of one, and brother of two
others, of his victims.
Wm. Helbig Jr., was released without bail after
being arrested on a murder complaint. The elder Mrs.
Helbig and the wife of the triple slayer were shot to
death in bed at the home of Mrs. Helbig, and Louis Hel
big on the farm home porch. Sampier was killed in
the farm home of Wm. Helbig Jr., Sampier and his
wife have been estranged for some time. The couple
were the parents of five girls, all living.
Baby Boy Reported Born To The
Lindbergh’s Coronation Day. May 12
(By The Associated Press)
CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 24—Anne Scutter, aunt
of Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindberg, said in a statement
today that a baby boy was born to the Lindbergh’s, cor
onation night. May 12th. She refused further comment.
Secrecy Surrounds Newly Born Lindbergh Son
LONDON, May 24—The U. S. embassy reports that
the first news of the new Lindbergh baby reached them
from the flying Colonel's home near Weald, in Kent.
All inquiries from closest friends unable to reach him
by phone, although a report came through stating his
wife was in good health._
John I). Rockefeller Passed Away
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In Florida. Sunday, Aged 97
(By The Associated Press)
ORMONDBEACH, Florida. May 23—John D. Rock
efeller Senior, aged 97, died peacefully in sleep at his
winter home, at 4:05 A.M., EST., Sunday. Hardening
of the heart muscles is given as the cause of death. No
members of his immediate family were present. He
passed the winter in better health than usual; his con
dition was not alarming'until midnight when he lapsed
into coma. A.special train sent from New York will take
the body there.
Rockefeller to be Buried Thursday
ORMANDBEACH, May 24-John D. Rockefeller,
founder of the world’s greatest “dollar dynasty’, is at
last stilled in death, just twenty-six months short of his
cherished desire to live to be one hundred years of age.
He would have been ninety-eight on July 8th. Before
finally going into a st.,teof coma he said he felt very tir
ed.
The family spokesman said he left a “relatively small
liquid estate,” that he had turned the bulk of his money
over to his son and to the aid of philanthropic endow
ments reaching to t he far ends of the earth. He is cre
dited with having gbven away fre hundred and thirty
• million eight hundred and thirty thousand dollars.
Ills First Job Was as Assistant Bookkeeper
The special trai n will take him to his home at Poca
ino Hills, N. Y.. where a simple funeral will be held
Wednesday, and burial Thursday in Cleveland, where
in 1855 he trudged t he streets for six weeks before he
landed his first job as a bookkeeper’s assistant.
As far as is known his last words came when he was
aroused and said to his valet—raise me higher in bed,
“there, that’s better."
Industry Meets Labor in Conference with Secretary ^
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ler*Construction Company,'secretary Perkins, President Clorence Woolley of the American Kadi a tor Company,
• Gardiner of North Carolina, C. I. O. President John L. Lewis. Father Francis J. Haas and J. Warren Madden, chairman of the
{*>, national labor relations board.
COURT RULES UNEMPLOYMENT
AND OLD AGE PROVISIONS LEGAL
(Bv The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. D. C„ May 24—FLASH—The Su
preme Court in a decision rendered early today, held
constitutional the unemployment provisions of the So
cial Eecurity Act.
SEATTLE, May 22—Justice Cardozo delivered the
far reaching opinion which affirmed the ruling of the
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and gave to the admin
istration another major victory.
Justices Butler, McReynolds, Sutherland and Van
devanter were the four objecting judges to the majority
opinion on the final rulings on the validity of supplimen
tarv State legislation and also on proyisions of the Soc
ial Security Act, providing old age pensions yet to
come. Justice Cardozo said: “it doe^ not call for sur
render by States of their powers that are essential t<>
their quasi-sovereign existence.’’ It is Justice Cardo
so's sixty-seventh birthday.
LATER—Two Supreme Court decisions rendered
today held constitutional both the unemployment and
the old age assistance provisions of the Social Security
Act, Justice Cardozo delivered the decisions. Tht
vote on constitutionality of the old age assistance pro
vision. and that of unemployment compensation was
seven to two. Justices McRevnolds and Butler dissent
ing on the grounds that '“this legislation is repugnant
to the tenth amendment.”
Approximately twenty seven million eight hundred
thousand workers and two million seven hundred thou
sand employers will be taxed to provide old age benefits
commencing in 1942 for those who will have reached
the age of 65 at that time.
The old age provision of the Security Act was chal
lenged by suit entered against the Edison Electric Co.
of Boston Mass., by George Davis a stockholder, to pre
vent this company from paying assessments under the
Security Act, and as an abridgment of States rights.
Justice Cardozo said: “it is time to purge the nation
of the wide calamity that began in 1929—this taught
many lessons, not the least of which is solidarity of in
terests—it may once have seemed a divided problem
but it is plainly national. Moreover the laws of separ
ate States cannot deal with it effectively.”
Soviet Plane Tuned lip For Dash
Across North Pole To San Francisco
(By The Associated Press’)
MOSCOW, May 24—Sigismund Levaneffsky, Amer
ican trained Soviet pilot, tuned up his crack Douglas
transport plane for a dash across the North Pole to the
United States. He was designated by Stalin himself,
to make the first use of the permanent Polar base, now
being established by Russian explorers, as prerequisite
to the long projected air route over the top of the world
from Moscow to San Francisco.
Officials of the Soviet government expressed hope
that the flight will bring the non-stop distance record to
Russia, as well as a forerunner of a regularly schedul
ed commercial airtravel route between Moscow, tho
United States via the Pole, and based their hopes or
the success of the meteorological observatory, which i
rapidly being completed near the Pole base.
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