Evening Star Newspaper, August 23, 1922, Page 3

SureRelief |PAY 0F 300000 FOR ,I‘)NDIGESTION 50 \ . b > W‘é 3 Hot "= = Sure“lltztlgf DELL-ANS 25¢ and 75¢ Packages Everywhere Cause Surprise by Un- expected Action. DAY LABORERS AFFECTED United States Concern Takes Lead, Independents Expected to Follow Suit. By the Associated Press. BETHLEHEM, Pa., August 23.— President E. G. Grace of the Beth- lehem Steel Corporation, today an- nounced an increase of 20 per cent in the wage rate for common labor, together with an equitable adjust- ment In the rates of other classes ot its employes, effective Septem- ber 1. PITTSBURGH, August 23.—Execu- tive officers of many independent steel-producing concerns in the Pitts- burgh district were hurrying home today from vacation points to decide on whether their concerns would meet ithe action of the United States Steel Corporation yesterday in advancing ‘Ihe wages of 300,000 common laborers 20 per cent, effective September 1. Well informed interests were of the opinfon that the advance would be ‘l‘rnmplly met and announcement |\ould be made before the end of the | week. 1L {tistea {that they did not belleve the advance | would affect them. since their busic {wage in the recent past has been {higher than that paid In the steel {industrs. g manufacturing concerns not in the steel industry declared KDY DELICIOUS L. OrangeBoveage ol | ! 5 DRINK SHOPS ]um corporations. employing normal- Corporation Takes Lead. announced a 20 per cent wage in- = Iy nearly 300,000 workers, yesterday 3034 14th St. crease for all day laborers in thelr 1004 F St. ? { manufacturing _plante. (The United 719 14th St. er S IStates Steel Corporation took the lead, i C but was quickly followed by the Mid- 431 9th St. vale Steel and Ordnance Company and 931 9th St. the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company. In the absence of Charles Schwab and Eugene Grace of the Bethlehem cel Corporation no other official of that company would commit himself. Secretary Brown said, however, he {did not know of any- action that had i been taken on the wage question. | President Matthews of the Crucible Corporation said his company i Pad taken no action “as yet.” It was & | generally believed in financial circles Zithat all important independent steel £, {firms would wnnounce Increases with- in a few days. s News 1s Surprise. 5| Nows of the increase came as u £ surprise to the financial district, 2% | probably because wage adjustments in other industries have been gen- erally downward. It was followed by slight recessions in the prices of steel shares. No explanation of the increase was given by the steel corporations. How- ever, it is known that the immigra- | tion law has cut off the supply of unskilled laborers which formerly drifted_to the iron and steel cen- ters. When the labor shortage be- came acute last spring and the steel industry began to show signs of re- habilitation, temporary relief was af- forded by the employment of men thrown out of work by the coal strike. RELIEF IN 10 MINUTES Dearth of Laber. _ Resumption of coal mining and the increasing demand for laborers in other industries, combined with the expected business revival this fall, is reported to have caused apprehension among mill managers,” who feared that the higher wages elsewhere would cause sufficient desertions to hamper their operations at a time when there was every prospect for i heavily increased -orders. | The United States Steel Corporation Rettricted and Zoned Massachusetts Park s two miles from the White House and half a mile from Sheridan Circle. It is surrounded by our best resi- dential section, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Cathedral \venues. An area known as the “Triangle Of Increasing employs approximately 220,000 men, of whom 156,000 are affected by the wage increase, the 64,000 in the min- ing and transportation departments |being excluded. The increase will iswell the company’s pay roll by $35, 000,000 cn the basis of * that is, a twelve-hour day—but many of the men are now~ working only eight hours a day. Dropped to $332.000,000. The average pay roll of the corpo- ration during 1918, the. banner year. ‘was over $450,000,000, but it dropped ito about $332.000,000 in 1921, when there were approximately 190,000 men emploved. RAISED 20 PER CENT) % Three Big Steel Corporations i Values.” Over seventy homes from $15,000 to $100,000 built i and under construction. Over three million feet of wooded villa sites and lots sold. Price plat at office, and 32d and Cathedral Avenue (Woodley l Rd.) to 8 p.m. Builder— Fxclusite Agent—Owner Middaugh & Shannon, Inc. d) Established 1899 Main 6935 Tenth 899 Floor Woodward Bldg., 15th and H § ‘No Place Like Home: No Home Like Ours’ SPECIAL NOTICES. El 1n 64T, M- WALLS 18 NO LONGER CONNEGTED iwith the Luwin Carpet Cleani E01S 14th w( n.w.. the same 2ow being con: @ucted by Wm. H. Montague. 24° OORS MADE NEW, OR NEW straight, or in blocks: very reason. ADAMS. ‘65 F n.w. Main 1457. 279 ‘xpert Printing Co-operation z:u! RESULTS. No order too arge or too small. TTHE SERVICE SHOP BYRON S. ADAMS, PRINTER, g High grada. but not m.nmé i i .. When One Mechanic Is s —enough to it BUToRe (o e ixu_nn_g & ONEMAN. PRICESI™ Bur Painting. | siemerer me texee look Tey McReynolds service. « R. McReynolds & Sons, Inc, jalists 1n Paioting, Slip C Topa, “‘;‘2'-“2‘ L st. '. fl"“':’:‘_fm The Million Dollar I s tauipped to Bandle YOUR printing The Nag‘o:uxgln&pflal Press §f You Want T ROOF WORK Phone Main 14 IRONCLAD gie, ‘gel it | W. STOKES 8AMMONS, j 830 13th St. »"un Factory-made shades at fac- E‘"Z prices. Consult us. s - A LEAKY ROOF H Can cause you many dollars’ a: ! 1ot us make yours tight. 'R. K. FERGUSON, Inc. | | equipment compani A forecast of what is to come: is seen in the large orders for rolling stock recently received by railroad . The demand in other lines is also growing and there s much rush work on hand. Independents to Follow. STEUBENVILLE, Ohio, August 73.— All indegendent concerns in the Steu- benville district, including the Weir- ton Steel Company, Folansbed Broth- ers Company and the La Belle Iron ‘Works, announced today that they would follow the lead of the.United States Steel Corporation in advanc- ing wages of day laborers 20 per cent. It is estimated 10,000 workers in this district will benefit. AMERICAN LEGION POST T0 HOLD CELEBRATION Stuart Wolcott Organization Will Observe Its Third. Anniversary Tomorrow Night. The Stuart Walcott Post of the Dis- trict of Columbia American Legion will celebrate its third‘anniversary to- night. The ‘post is one of "the old- est of the-legion, and sent fts dele- gates to the first national convention. It also bore a large share of the ex- pense incurred during.the early days of organizing the Legion and carry- ing on necéssary membership drives. Commander Alexander M. Bremer has issued a bulletin' to all members, outlining the plans for the day. 18 afternocn the members will attend the free base ball ‘game at Ameri- can League Park, which e Clark Griffith - has extended to the legior.aires of the District,” and in the evening the it members and the Ladfes’ Auxillary and_their friend will take the boat for Fort Washing: ot upon the {nvitation Maj. W. F. Hartigan, U. 8. A, com- manding, the comrades will be enter- tained with music, dancing and re- freshments. The regular meeting of - the post ‘was held t night in the board room of the District building. —_——— - In traffic court yesterday, William A. White, of the District of Columbia Fire Department, cher, with an automobile collision, forfeited $40. The alleged collision occured at Four- teénth street and New York avenue northwest, in .which four automobiles ‘were dunl!ad. No one was In!urc‘. Readers can have The Star sent daily and Synday to them by mall in Maryland and Vir- ‘ginia at 20 cents per week, all other states 25 cents per week. Cash with order. Address may be charged as often as desired by giving-the old sa well as the new #ddress. Abe Martin Says: Th’ feller that’s willin’ an’ pleasant soon builds up an awful business. Skirts may get back t’ ther ole length, but women folks ’ll allus set on th’ frent porch. (Copyright Natiofal Newspaper Service.) L OFFERS ENS * OFCANATOSUN Approval of Parliament Only Condition to His Step- ping Down. PEKING AWAITS PARLEY Former Canton President Demands Amity, Which Is Now Be- ing Sought. By the Associated Press. PEKING, August 23.—The republi- can cabinet has announced that Presi- dent Li Yuan Hung is willing to re- sign in favor of Sun Yat Sen, deposed head of the South China government, provided parliament approves such action. . It §s stated in official circles here that Li Yuan Hung’s attitude toward Sun is triendly. Representatives of the Peking ad- ministration sent to Shanghal to ne- gotiate with Sun with a view toward reuniting the whole of China under one stable government still are urg- ing the former head of the Canton government to come to Peking, but he refused to come until assured that the various military factions in China have composéd their differences. Consequently Chang Tso Lin, gov- ernor of Manchuria, and Wu Pei-Fu, military leader of North China, have entered into negotlations looking to an agreement on the issues on which they have been at odds. Cabinet members told the Assoclated Press today that these mediations between China’s two leading military leaders were progressing. It was declared that if Chang and Wu agreed to harmonize, Sun would be disposed to proceed to Peking. ’ CLUE TO LIQUOR VESSEL FOLLOWS PLANE RESCUE Three Men, Picked Up by Schoon- er, Give Tip to Dry Officers. NEW YORK, August 3.—The story told by three men landed at Long Beach yesterday by a suspected rum- running schooner after having been rescued from the crippled seaplanc Ambassador II, has attracted the at- tentlon of prohibition headquarters. State Director Parsons announced | that all circumstances surrounding | the plane’s adventures would be thor- oughly investigated. Maj. Bernard L. 8mith, operating head of the Aero- | marine raflways, which owns the Am- ssador II and other commercial planes, promised every possible aid. ‘The fate of the plane, abandoned it was said when the unnamed schooner, as mysterious as the Fly- ing Dutchman, had picked up the stranded trio, has not been estab- lished. The trio, who said the schooner had slipped away after selling them a dory for $25 and letting them row ashore, declared the small boat had been swamped on touching the beach in the high sea, and also had been abandoned. From the fact that the schooner was unmarked, and the reticence of the skipper, Maj. Smith inferred that she was a liquor smuggler, many of which have been reported off the Long Island shore. He added that e . been told the crew looked like<Cubans ami he surmised that she might hay NEGRO-HELD BY JURY "~ AS.BANDIT SLAYER George Banton, 20, Accused of Fir- l»lng' Shot That Killed Samuel Frye, Store Clerk. George Banton, 4627 Dean avenue northeast, one of the two colored men, ca twenty, arrested in connec- tion with the slaying of Samuel Frye, Seat Pleasant, Md., and wounding of John. Taylor, 1314 _11th street south- east, in H. L. Gordon’s grocery store, at 81st and Dix streets northeast, Sat- urday night, Monday afternoon was held by'a coroner’s jury as the slay- er. - George ‘W. McGoines, 40th and reets, the other prisoner, was hailed -from' Havana. two shats were fired, the. buliets being of the same caljber, the caliber of the weapon handled by Banton. - There was no testimony that McGoines di; charged the automatic pistol he 'is al leged to have admitted having in his Ppossegsion at the st Banton and McGoines were commit- ted to jail to await the action of the jury. Frye's body was taken his iate home, where Tuneral serv- ices were held yesterday afterncon. SECRETARY HUGHES TO KEEP IN TOUCH BY RADIO AT SEA On and after August 24, when Sec- retary Hughes, head of the Brazillan commission, sails from New York on the Pan-American on tho.4,800-mile cruise to Rio Janeiro, he will be in constant commamication with this government through a special radio ‘|set just installea on this Shipping Board vessel. Practically, at least, the Secretary of State will maintain a floating State Department throughout his trip—al- though technically “at'sea.” Official communications from the Pan-Ameri- can will be cleared immediately and recelved with “right of way” either at the naval radio at Bar Harbor or the radio corporation’s stations at Port Jefferson or Riverhead, L. I Messages will be forwarded from either the naval station at Annapolis or commercial stations on the coast. TrLe special equipment, which was rushed from Washington to New York a few nights ago by a special mes- senger who stored the apparatus in an empty berth rather than trust it to the baggage car. will be capable of sending from Rio Janeiro to Bar Harbor. It comprises a federal tele- graph arc transmitter with universal amplifiers used in conjunction with tuners consisting af three stages of radio amplification and an audion de- tector with two stages of audio am- plification. This set is capable of using wave lengths varying from 150 meters to 30,000, but probably about a 2400 wave will be used for trans- mission. Tn sending the shore sta- tions will use longer wave lengths, ossibly as high as 9,100 meters. The “American Legion, on which Secretary Hughes will return, hasi also been equipped with similar radio apparatus, 8o he will again be in constant communlcation with the State Department. EX-DRY AGENT GUILTY. | BIRMINGHAM, August 23.—Thomas former federal prohibition officer, was found guilty of first de-! gree manslaughter and sentenced to | three years by u jury in federal court last night. in connection with the death of Curtis Tidmore. a Blount | county farmer last September. The | jury was out one hour. QUALITY Iself and his assoclates, , WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 23 RYE, MOONSHINE AND LIST OF CUSTOMERS SEIZED IN RAID A rendezvous for bootlegging Pullman porters and a completely equipped”dis- tilery were uncovered- in the heart of Washington last night when revenue agents and. the police raided the home of William A. Reid, colored, at 1110 Florida avenue. Three dozen bottlcs of genuine, aged- in-the- rye whisky, moro than twenty ~gallons of moonshine _corn whisky, 1,000 gallohs of mash and two Dig stills were captured by the raiders, besides a complete card index system of customers. An adding machine and full office equipment Wwere also seized. While the raid was at its height Luke Blackwell arrived from North Carolina, sult_case and basket in hand. Disre- garding the crowd that stood in front of the place, Luke got as far as the porch before he thought to drop his incrigi- nating luggage, but he was too late. Investigation disclosed that the suit case was filled with bottles of. genuine rye whisky which, the police say, Luke admitted bringing from Florida. He explained that his basket only contained some fruit his mother had brought to the train as it passed through his home town in North Carolina. Buried under the fruit, however, were found three bottles of corn liquo The raid resulted from information obtained by acting Capt. Wilson and Lieut. Sullivan of the eighth precinct police station, that Puliman porters were delivering large quantities of liquor at the Floride avenue address dally. Armed with a search warrant, the police and Internal Revenue Agent Hines reached the house shortly after 9 o'clock last night and easily obtain- ed admission when Mrs. Reid opened the front door. While poking in corners for ‘evi- dence, Lieut. Sullivan suddenly found himseelf face to face with two busi- ness-like looking bull dogs. Their vigorous efforts to wag what was left of their tails, however, saved their lives and they later proved to have highly friendly dispositions. Reid, his wife and Blachwell were taken to the elghth precinct station. The first two were held under $1,600 bail each on'charges of manufactur- ing liquor illegally, illegal possession of intoxicants and stills and violating those provisions of the revenue laws prohibiting the sale of intoxicants without paying a tax. Blackwell was released under $500 bond on a charge of illegally transporting intoxicants. DEMANDS THE REMOVAL OF DRY COMMISSIONER Representative Hill of Maryland Charges R. A. Haynes With Mis- use of U. 8. Franking Privilege. Immediate removal of R. A. Haynes, federal prohibition commissioner, is de- manded in a letter yesterday to the Secretary of the Treasury from Repre- sentative John Philip Hill of Mary- land, on the ground that he “is cn- zaged in defrauding the United States government, in that he is using and { causing to be used official mall franks of the Treasury Department for the Yending out of personal political propuganda In the interests of him- the Anti- Saloon League. Representative Hill. in his letter to Seeretary Mellon, charges that Pro- hibition Commissioner Haynes is using derived from taxes of which he (Mr. Hill) personally pays a part, for a personal propagandi against him and those others who, “in ac- cordance with their sworn duty, are advocating modification of the absurd and piratical Volstead act.” Representative Hill further charges that in addition to abusing his official privilege of the mail, Commissioner Haynes is neglecting the business of his office.in making stump speeches in_ favor of himself and the An Saloon League throughout the United States. REVOLT IN GUATEMAILA. NEW YORK, August 23.—A revo- lution, headed by the conservative party, broke out in San Jose Pinula, San Lucas, fn_the department of Sacatepaquez, and other small towns, but fafled, said cable advices from Guatemala City, recelved by Dr. Eduardo Aguirre Velasguez, consui general of Guatemala. The military Commander and mayor of Raijanes and the military commander of San Lucas were killed. Martial law has been proclaimed. Close to 14th Street Cars EXHIBIT HOUSE 1202 Kennedy St. N.W. Six Rooms and Bath Very Large Porches Lots 138 Ft. Deep to Wide Alley Best Location in the City Always Open for Inspection Daily and Evening Until 9 P.M. SEE FOR YOURSELF Why These Homes Command Preference D. J. DUNIGAN 1321 New York Avenue Main 1267 1582 14th St N.W. Closed All Day Saturdays Up to and Including Saturday, September 2 Final ClearanceRich’s Women’s Low Shoes All Greatly Reduced Get in at once and take advantage of the tremendous ‘savings in the highest grade foot- wear—all from our regular stock: 3 Clearance _Sale Prices $3:90 8490 3690 ana S8 Is it costing you too ‘much to live? If you want to save on cloth- ing, groceries, entertainment, home building and planning, | furnishing, and the cost of living generally, Good House- keeping will help you. It will bring joy and order into your home. In the big September issue, 62 features and 7 stories. How about taking a copy, home tonight? ; GOOD HOUSEKEEPING out today September This Is the Federal Corner Right in the heart of our shopping district. Thousands of people bank here because it's =0 con- venient. Federal National Bank JOHN POOLE, President HERE is no get- ting away from the fact that the Nash is one of the preferred cars in the estimation of the American public. Fours end Sixes Prices range from 3015 10 $2100, 1. e. 3. factory e e HURLEY MOTOR COMPANY Telephone North 6462 CREGG-COMPHER MOTOR CO. BIRVON MOTOR CO. GUY MoGLINCY “Hamilton, Va. Clarendon, Va. rndon, V. WILSON-NASH MOTOR Co. MAR-VA-NASH MOTOR CO. vest Mt. Roval Ave. DA merer e 7 Battimore, Md. MEYERS BROTHERS Alexandris, Va. 444444 opinions make 44 in smoking qualties—in the by ital Cigar & Tobacco Co. c."m Pa. Ave. N.W. Waeshington, D. C.