Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Key Officials The Life of John J) Rockefeller - M Conspiracy SUNDAY MORNING Deserted By JOHN K WINKLER John D’s chief purchasing agent on Oil creek was Jabez Bost-- wick a man of his own out who had been a director of the South Improvement company One day Bostwick announced that attain his ambition to become the man in the world he would buy no oil unlesa offered richest at lass than the market price Also Copyright 1937 for The Tribune John D Marches Toward that crude from the new and gush- (Monday: - His - Billion) sold field be for must ing Bradford immediate shipment not to be held for storage as bad been customary To the harassed well owners of the oil regions these “overt acts" were the last straw Hissing crowds gathered about the Standard receiving stations Effigies of John D were splattered with mud An organization very much like the earlier and original Ku Klux Klan sprang into existence overnight GARDEN CITY Kan June 5 A committee posted off to Harrisburg the state capital Governor (VPX — Rain has come to the dust Ilartranft came to Oil City in per- bowl and Saturday night residents son to find out what the disturbance was about He pledged support to of the area were confident that the dust storm menace was at an end the Independent oil men for this year at least Reaches Climax During the past 10 days the downpoThe situation came to a climax on April 29 1879 whert the grand ur-has continued — The drouth jury of Clarion county indicted John is broken Erosion experts do not D Rockefeller William Rockefeller expect further dust storms this Jabez A Bostwick Henry M Flag- year although a freakish weather ler William G Warden Charles condition that brewed ' tornadic Lockhart and several other Stand' winds along aYiarrow strip in the — ard — officials — The - indictment Oklahoma Panhandle whipped up charged consoiracy oppression e a black blizzard late— Friday tortion The Rockefellers and others The ust bowl expects no better not resident in Pennsylvania refused than a quarter wheat crop but the r to submit to extradition land bountifully supplied with more ' “This case will never be brought moisture than it has known In seven to trial” asserted John D calmly years of drouth is in good shape The prediction proved true Mys Farmers anticipate a bumper crop tenous influences appeared on thd of row crops sorghum kafir maize Standard side The year following and other crops that thrive ' 1880 the producers worn out and negari on the semiand prairies if given an disorganized accepted a pledge from occasional shower John D and the other defendants to' Optimism along those who hav cease the practices they had as- battled drouth for seven years the sailed The suits were withdrawn longest most devastating dry spell The producers knew they had been m the region’s history is at high i given merely a lip pledge But by pitch With appointment of a dust now they were thoroughly convinced bowl coordinator the probable esthat John D Rockefeller could not tablishment of a dust bowl authority be licked and utilization of the new district soil conservation law to prevent soil Charges Focus Attention practices agrarian exIn the early ’80s Ida M Tarbell depleting believe ‘that with this help perts oil out looked the points regions from nature most of the dust bowl upon John D “with superstitious be turned into profitable farm awe Their notion of him was very can land much like that which the English common people had for Napoleon in the first part of the nineteenth centum which the peasants of Brittany have even today for the English — a dread power cruel omniscient al wavs ready to spring” However the criminal charges focused countrywide attention upon Standard Oil’s oblique acts Civil inLOVELAND Colo June 5 CD-- Four vestigations were launched in New men drowned Saturday afterYork Ohio and Pennsylvania A noon in Lone Tree lake southwest legislative commission in New York of here when their motorboat caparraigned Standard Oil as “a mys- sized terious organization whose business One man reached shore called and transactions are of such a character that its members decline giv- passing motorists and sent them for ing a history or description of it help He gave the names of the dead as : lest this testimony be used to conKenneth Willets and Junior Wil-levict them of a crime” Colo Herschel of An ironic student of the times B MainEnglewood and Clarence Edltn of compared John D’s long and bitter Denver contest with the producers to the The survivor faynard Harris of barbarous hostilities between the Englewood was hysterical and Guelfs and the Ghibellines chilled from the cold water of the “John Rockefeller led the Ghibel-- i lake He was rushed to a hospital lines” commented this observer Physicians refused to allow ques“Attila the Guelfs Or someone else tioning of him equally ruthless and cruel And oh! All the dead were employes of the the horrid things they said and the Gates Rubber company in Denver wicked things they did! Not even the Borgia boys and the de Medici The Irish Free State’s "flying girls excelled these leaders In cun- squad” is seizing cattle of those who ning If the Guelfs shot a dog John have not paid their annuities bumped off two cats If they burned a church John poisoned a well If they wrecked a refinery John tore up a railroad” Holds Undisputed Power In those crowded years of intrigue and stress John D’s genius reached its zenith He was now undisputed lord of oil But in the fires of that consuming struggle were laid the foundation for digestive and nervous maladies that caused him much misery and temporarily cost him his stomach reducing his diet to of the pauper that ” The Rockefeller of 1882 was a very different man from the vigorous vital Rockefeller of ten years before A wisp of frost showed in this later Rockefeller’s hair and in the mop of moustache that completely covered his thin lips There was a noticeable stoop in the shoulders Vertical furrows were beginning to plough the cheeks A "slight film clouded the cold blue eyes that seemed to look through rather than - Rainfall Ends Drouth Peril In Dust Bowl -- Probe in Road Tragedy Reveals Only Seven Persons Lost Lives 12 Executives Resign Lake Tragedy Fatal to Four nt REDDING Cal June 5 (Al — officers decided Saturday thht seven and not nine persons burned to death Friday In the wreckage of a Greyhound Lines passenger bus which caught fire after leaving here for points north Crews searched the charred heap In vam for possible traces of two more victims after the driver of another bus reported a woman and a child had been aboard the County vehicle The bodies recovered ' were those of male adults The searchers abandoned the theory that there were additional fatalities after Mrs Cory Sunder-ma- n of Medford Ore told how she and her small daughter Shirley had transferred from one bus to another en route homo from San Dr F E Townsend Francisco Mrs Sunderman said she 'and McEvoy Washington correspondent her child changed from the first and press agent to the second section of the PortlanArriving at national headquarters d-bound buses at the Invitation shortly after Brinton had announced of another woman passenger who the resignations Townsend refused wanted their company to comment and went directly to officials said Mrs Greyhound his office where he was closeted Sunderman after the transfer apwith associates described by Brin- parently had been on the bus which ton as those likely to succeed to the preceded the one wrecked organization’s management son Robert Townsend of the old age pension advocate was in charge of headquarters Saturday a 18 SHADOW Z0 GARMENTS White leads in Summer Footwear dDrafleii at skulls- - Pleasure From Dividends One evening the oil man sat In d a neigh- -' the library-obor He noticed an open volume of — Moore's “Life of Byron1 and ' said musingly: “You get the pleasure of your books Judge?” ‘Yes” was the reply - “Do you know the only thing that gives mer pleasure?" asked John D “It’s to see my dividends coming in Just to see my dividends coming in” and he made a scraping motion across the table with his scooped — hand — The price of ambition was stiff But John- D was willing to pay it In 1882 he sat in a modest office at 42 Broadway New York This was three years before the great Standard enterprises moved a few doors down the street and 26 Broad- way became the best known business address on earth John D had the world1 in his lap He and the group he led controlled almost exclusively the manufacture transportation and sale of the fluid that men required to light their homes and lubricate their machinery He had merely to exact what the traffic rfbuld bear and he would f book-fille- - f Process Server ‘Socked’ on Park Avenue Tribune Leased Wire Imer She met him in the foyer could I do?” She was attired in a fetching negliThere was one thing he could do and with her was her stately and he did It He went to great many gee white-re- d mother Mrs William G court and got a warrant charge avenue apartments during his Larimer ing simple assault “She asked me to read her the He went back to the apartment long and fruitful career as a process server hut never before did he re- summons and I did” said Cohen and turned the warrant over to ceive a welcome quite like the one “She was very gracious Until I Stephen A D Jones an attorney for which was tendered to him by came to the $16 Then she popped tho Larimers The case was called She snatched the summons out Friday morning but Mrs Frost by Peggy Larimer grand niece of An- me of my hand She tore It lip She that time was In Banff It was drew Mellon then adjourned to July 13 At that “She socked me In the face” inflicted other Indignities “She is taller than I am and J time Cohen hopes to serve the said Cohen today “My hat fell off When I bent down to pick It up would never hit a lady so what papers in his damage suit she clipped me with some blunt instrument— I think it was a vase She broke my glasses I was Astonished to be treated this way on Park avenue" So Cohen Saturday drew himself up to his full 6 feet 4tk inches and York-vll- (1) that he has obtained warrant charging simple assault announced a and (2) that he is suing for $10000 damages This latter move Cohen predicted will ''prove a somewhat expensive method of teaching the young lady that she “must not forget he11 station in life" There will be slight delay in bringing both cases to trial however Miss Larimer is now Mis Thomas F C Frost of London She was married last Thursday in the Chantry Of St Thomas’ church a week Cohen paid his social call on Since she is now honeymooning in Banff Alta she can’t very well be in court In New York after her — Cohen -was given a sammonTto serve on Miss Larimer on May 27 It ‘was for a $16 dentist bill He went to the Larimer apartment building and phoned upstairs saying ho was a Mr Burke and that he had urgent business with Miss Lar- - 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