Evening Star Newspaper, September 17, 1922, Page 18

REBYILDING EIGHT C. & 0. LOCOMOTIVES NEWPORT NEWS, Va., September 16.—KEight locomotives are being re- bullt for the Chesapsske and Ohlo Rallway Company .by the Newport News Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company, as announced by the presi- dent, H. L. Ferguson. The locomo- alves are being rebuilt from the ground up and the work in no w connects with the labor boar ruling on the question of rallropds contracting out work, officlals of the yard said. The contracts were signed some time ago. Specjal improvements had to be made In the yard to handle m;: an's(a'Jd that the company has % oom] oxpended §40,000 or $50,000 in u{lflnl arrangements for this kind of work. The locomotives are being rebuilt at a cost approximately of $30,000 each. The work now being:d classed as new work, .the ‘buiiding being so complete and all inclusive :‘. to be regarded as actual eenstrue- on. BILL TO CURB FUEL PROFITEER PASSES Secretary Davis Makes Sug- gestions for Coal Commis- sion Measure. ADVISES SWEEPING STUDY Railroads Do Not Provide Suffi- cient Storage Space for Needs, Cabinet Officer Says. The first of the two bills originat- 142 gs a result of the coal strike— the Cummins bill, designed to check profiteering in fuel—was sent to the| President yesterday after the Sepate | ad,adopted the conference report,! 3Tt Suggestions for the proposed ln-l vestigation by the federal eeal com- provided in the Borah- bill before Congress, were Secretary Davis of the of Labor in a letter to Senator Shortridge, republican, Californta, made public yesterday. Broad Field for Inquiry. Exhaustive inquiry into all phas of the coal Industry before Congress “ttempts to enact remedial legislation | was recommended by the Labor Secre- ! tary. He urged that the proposed | nmission study detalls of mineral' d ownersh ources of coal sup-; pI§. acrcage cost of production, | Conferences Break Up as Inter- wholesale and retail distribution | . storage, transportation, stabilizatien, ! pretation Is Under Dispute. ON . Y. CENTRAL Officials Say Men Insisted on Questions Not in Program. wission, Winslow slven by Department SENIORITY THE ISSUE consumption. losses of mining time | 11d cost of miners’ living. Regarding | lutter, the Secretary said that the | r Department's reports in the | had not been representative.!p. (ne Agseciated Press. Leine hased larsely on lving costs | PV, in large citles, which did not “furnish | NEW YORK, 5“‘";"‘"; ““ :‘n- offcials of the r Lasis to find the cost of living ' €otiations between n_the mining communities of the |New York Central railroad and | representatives of striking shopmen different state Special study of coal shortage was 1ecommended by Secretary Davis and |00 the lines operated by that system | were broken off today without a isettlement, and it was announced in this con 1 he said that rall- roads were the chief offenders |that no further conferences would ibe held. failure to e coal for their future ads. public utilities | The New York Central lines issued a statement saying they had been willing to fulfill the memorandym jof agreement reached at Baltimore, but that representatives of the shop crafts “attempted to Interject ques- {tions not mentioned in the text and clearly outside the agreement, inaist- ing that these matters be included. To this the raflroad management could not ggree, the statement said. Senfority the Issue. It was uhderstood that seniority was the lssue on which the confer- jence broke up. The statement follows: “The final session of a series of conferences be- tween representatives of the shep craft _employes still on strike and officers of the New York Central lines, terminated this evening with- out an agreement being reached. - intermittency, however, and its| “The New York Central lines were and possible cure should be|ready and willing throughout the thoroughly investigated, Seeretary | suecessive conferences to abide by Jra is said, because the irregularity iand fulfill the letter and spirit of the “nd the uncertainties of each day's|memorandum of agreement reached wpportunity to work largely unfits the | at Baltimore. The representatives iner for any other vocation and con- | of the shop crafts, however, attempt- orce of necessity to led to interjeet questions not men. tioned in the text and clearly outside of the agreement, insisting that these matters be ineluded. To this the railroad management could not agree. { ‘““The New York Central lines will continue to employ men to fill ex- Vide stora, able them to supplies d mine railre the the business and tdle = most avallable, as umers of three-fourths of production,” E “The railroads are the greatest sinners in massing orders to supply their own needs when the needs of their con- suming patrons are at the peak. Idieness Not Total Lavs. of mines is not the economic Secretary that the overestimated when based on production of one-third to or even two-thirds workin, tim - miner is a “piece worker, the Secretary said. and speeds up pro- «uction on part time at a pace which ha could not maintain on g full time basis cd cause relative wne-half. tributes all the * 1ite for the maintenance of a wage ale so recently reneweds after a tour and a half to flve months strike. [ sting vacancies in their shop fore mal force of 35,192. Dispute Interpretation. Clashes With Non-Union Men and New Demands Blamed for Representatives of shop crafts workeys, following the onference, is- Chicago Disorders. sued a statement claiming the diffe: ences arose over the interpretation of the Baltimore memorandufm. The committee sald that they had offered to have Mr. Jewell come and go over !the agreement with the employers: spokesmen, but that the latter insist- |ed the employes sign today on the {company’s interpretation of the pget. Tis the Associated Press The workers” representatives CHICAGO, September 16—Clashes | they coutd not sifn the agreement o e anion wores | without Jeopardizing the Interest o ers and squabbles over the terms of the Baltimore peace plan today halted the return of striking shopmen tou | work in the shops here of the Chi- cago, Milwankee and St. Paul and the rthwestern railroads. The demands of the returning strik- ers for concessions which it was said were not provided for in the peace agreement were blamed for the dis- orders. The most serfous demonstra- tion was staged by Eeveral hundred men at_the Bentonville roundhouses the St. Paul. where the strikers. arrivingz with their lunch kits and | overalls ,were declared to have set upon non-union workers and refused to work with them. A free-for-ail fight rcsultec, in_which several per- sons were Injured. While no vio'ence was reported in any of the Chicago and Nerthwestern shows! onty « handful of strikers were | : Some of these later ng into altercations | non-union workers. i in part: ‘The employes’ representatives re. alize that in signing the agreement the men would have to return to work at the new rates of pay established by the Railroal Labor Board of July 1. The employes believed that if they must acept the decision of the board as to wages, the c-mpany should acept the decision of th board prohibiting the contracting out ation of plece work The company officials_interpreted { the agreement to mean that the em- ployes must accept the reduced wages while the company has the privilege of vielating the rules of the board {regarding contracting and piece- work.” The_employe: ithey had asked Mr. Jewell the members of the Baltimore con- out the differences. CONTINUES STRIKE WAR. at 2 left after gettin with th. REJECTS CANAL PROJECT. Men Ordersd Hired in Cleveland to Replace Those Out. CLEVELAND, September 16.—D, C. McBain, general manager of the Ni York Central lines in Cleveland, nounced tonight that he has received House Sends Rivers Bill Back to Conference. The House late sterday turned the rivers and harbors development bill back to its confereces for further ne- gotiatlons with the Senate, after de- clining to agre to the compromise proposal authori g the government to pay $9.000,000 for the Cape Cod canal and rejecting outright the Senate amendment by which the purchase of | fhe Dismal Swaimp canal for $100,000 | Thursday after details of the Wa would have been authorized. fleld-Willard-Jewell rail peace plan Prior to sending the measure back|were made public In Chicago. to conferene however, the House ac- cepted the Senate provision cutting |nouyncement came orders to the wn the uitimate expenditure ou the |Cleveland branch of the Fred W. Field ast river project In New York. The |Service Company to start replage- House action places permanently in the lment _operations _in _twenty-seven il 'a provision for eventual deepening s of the Eat river from upper New Fork | soia Nor porn Coniony oPerates tor to the navy yard to forty feet and a depth of thirty-ive feet from the na ihditn " | BOOTLEGGERS WOUND BUREAU. CHIEFS TO MEET. TWO DRY OFFICERS Col. Forbes Calls Conference Here |James C. Elliott and George T. September 18. Palmer in Quantico Hospital Col. Charles R. Forb: After Clash With Negroes. the Veterans' Bureau, called the econd conference of district man.| James C. Elliott and George T, Palm. fr(u. dl(al;:c: l:l;edlc;l.b?mix-“ and : or, prohibition officers of the Rich- oftlets. of - giskpies. X d, Va., district, were shot and ser}- to meet In Washington Sep-|™ond, Va. 2::{:’;: lg to 22. The eo-(u!onu ‘will |ously wounded when attemptiang to take up vlrlousupro:lelm:.rell;lenfi‘m arrest two negro bootlesgers near gliodier @o-opeRatun HESWeE Quantico asbout 8§ e’clock last night, M inc] g trict and headquarters offices, in Ilul o T i the tico Hospital, ing medical, rehabilitation, nls- | fliu it was sald by officers in ehapge. trative, compensation, finaacial, legal i3 ::ueu s SaeTREt and insurance questions. 1y in fi | vorabl Col. Forbes is strongly In favor of e tholan P the two negroes were drivin keeping all district offiees on & uni- Avp form working bat which wil] en- | whie! wmble the Washington manager of t“e the two officers ordered them to halt, district office division to speed up all i when both occupants opened fire. El. functions of bureau work. . The new [llott was shot through the hip ang hospitalization program, as provided, Palmer was struck in the neck, the for by the Langley bill, Is well under bullet entering his jaw. Sway and will be much helped, it is J, Simons, chief of gemeral pro- Dbelieved, by the coming confersnce. BULLARD TO RETIRE. Rear Admiral Willlsm H. G. Byl- lArde:vrlll be placed on, the nllnd%! avy September 30, on o G Y O by M clegneet eittes. ~. (3 ing the breaking off of peace nego- tiations with striking shopmen, to hire additional replacement forces to take the placé of shopmen now on strike. director of nts, got in communication with I‘. 0 _authorities imm: diately upon hearing of the attack, and said that a general search would be made for the assajlants, who were said to be making for Washington. of the an&luuoa, after more wears’ service. AGREEMENT FALS | i M 1 Hi M N C the employes. The statement follows, | of shop work and the compulsory in-| repregentatives said ' to get i ference together and try to straighten| instructions from New York, follow- | Hiring of additlengl men on lhr‘ New York Central was stopped here | Concurrent with Mr. McEgin's an- ! PENNSY TRAINM Officials of Road Declare Statement by Union Head Premature. HOLD' PARLEY STILL ON Les Insists Working Contracts on Line and Lehigh Valley Have Been Extended One Yesr. Py the Astociated Press. PITTSBURGH, September 16.—Ex- ccutives of the Pennsylvania system tonight reiterated the declaration they made last night, that the state- ment of W. G. Lee, president of the trainmen’s brotherhood, declaring that the system had come to an agreement with s conductors and trainmen, wag premature. Lee made that statement in New York yesterday and repeated it in Cleveland today. The raijroad executives pointed out that thejr local conference with Jead- ers of thelr employes has mnot been conclyded. “Minor points remain to be settled and uptil they are settied we have absolutely no comment to make upon Lee's _ statements.” id the spokesmen for the offigials. “It must be stated again, however, that tho declaration of a general settlement is premature.” 2 LINES BIGN, SAYS LEE. Request to Western BRoads for Con- ference Not Yet Answered. By the Associsted Press. . CLEVELAND, Ohio, September 16.— General ehsirmen of the brotherhood of rallroad trainmen and the order of railway eonductors have signed work- n, reements with officials of the ln‘l Valle: system _and the Pennsylvania lines, Lee, pre: dent of the trajnmen, announced here teday. The agreement signed on the Pennsylvania by the conductors cov: ol the entire system, while that signed by the trainmen is for lines east of Plttsburgh and Erle. Charles E. Musser, general cl man for the trainmen on the Pennsyl vania lines east, signed the agreement for his o zation as the result of the unanimous vote of eighty llbur ction. system chairmen in his juris message reads: onduetors for the entir Vennsyl- vania system and tralnmen for lines east of Pittspurgh and Erie have signed agreement for continuation rates and c nditions for one yei . Lee explained that the “chair- men in conference with Penneylvania officials st Pittsburgh are those om west of Pittsburgh. tlee of the signing on the Lehigh Valley system was contained telegram received by Mr. Lee from of present iine: A. Donnelly, general chalrman of that system at Bethlehem, Pa., this afternoon. The agreements on both roads, Mr. Lee salid, provide for a con- tinuatien of the present wages and working copditions for one year. Mr. Lee said he had not heard from the western roads in reply to the request of himself and Mr. Sheppard for a conference Tuesday. They also are negotiating for a conference with the southern roads, Mr. Lee said, at the conclusion of the Chicago meet- ing. 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Eddle Rickenbacker, American ace, - was married to- day, at the First 'Congregationat Church, ' Sound Beach, Conn.. to Mrs.® Adelaide F. Durant, dfvorced wife-of a former rival of the Amer- lean fiyer in auto mobile racing. :{They satled on the “AMajestic for a honeymoon in Eu- geremony had Eddie Riskenbacher. gaa n performed y Barney, with the Rev. Bister, rector of old St. Paul's Church, Lincoln Park. Chicago, who officlated at the chris- tening and confirmation of the flyer, as agsistant and best man. | Mrs. Rickenbacker wore a diamond. i and sapphire pepdant !form of & hat in the ring. the emblem of the 94th Squadrop, which Capt. Rickenbacker commanded, The em. | blem, one of the gee's most treasured possesions, was presented him by the | citizens of Columbus, Ohlo, his native | ¢ity, upon his return’from the war. ! ur romance began New Year o |t the Commodore Haotel,” Mrs. Rick- enbacker sald, “although'T had known | Capt. Rickenbacker fornia ten years ago.’ | I ‘at i shtly in Celi | The wedding tour will Inst for two imonths, Capt. Rickenbacker said, |during which they will visit the places | where, as America’s foremost war flyer, he is credited with bringing down twenty-six enemy planes. Capt. rand Mps. Rickenbacker will live in { Detrojt upon thelr return. AN, AUTO VANIH AS MOB TAKES WIF 1 { Woman’s Life Threatened by Masked Men, North Caro- lina Police Told. | ASHEVILLE, N. C, September 16.— | A group of masked men intercepted | an automoblle in which a Mr. and Mrs. Webb of Greensboro, N. C., were riding near Taylorsville, N. C., Thurs- .day night: The woman was taken from ithe car, blindfolded, gagged and | threatened with her life, according to meager reports received here tonight. Mr. Webb and the car are reported as still missing. with the officers of Alexander and Iredell counties in | search. The woman, told to leave on the firat train or her life would be forfeited, according to the reports of the affalr, left on a south-bound train. Efforts thus far to obtain any clue as to the {dentity of the masked men has been futile. NAMED ASSISTANT DIRECTOR. . W. Ambrose, chief petroleum technologist of the United States bureau of mines, has been e@ppointed j essistant dirctor of the bureau, to { il the vacancy created by the resi nation of ¥. A. Holbrook, who has ac. cepted the deanship of the mining school at the Pennsylvania State Col lege. The duties of F. J. Baily, ai stant to the director, have been i i creased by assigning to him .vir- tually all” business matters of the bureau formerly handled by the as- sistant director. 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M. de Jouvenel contended that the guarantee of security should precede disarmament, while Lord Robert ag- serted that assurances of - disarma- ment should precede such a guaran- tee. To this difference there was .added @ controversy over M. de Jou- venel's proposal that it should be un- derstood disarmament must be pro- ortionate to the guarantee offered. {Lord Robert also reverted to question of regiona a.re ~ n {said he feared they might result in a. | return to the old system of aluanees, and Europe might again. find herself |divided into two hostile groups. Doubts General Agrecment. M. De Jouvenel, supported by the applause of nearly the whole com- mittee, contended that @ general agreement for disarmament was im- possible now. If it-was desired to make & beginning it could be done only by regional agreements, he sald, and in case such agreements were made no country would disarm until its seourity was guaranteed. A. L. 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As she. :‘-a 8lso absolutely tranquil re- _g“ g Her nelghbors. He declared, rtugal would. vote in favor of the fresolution, although she also had e lonf coast line and many eolonies. Sir BEdwerd Grigg, Prime Lloyd George's secretary, London tonjght. Before parturo he sald the chances were about even as to whether Mr. Lioyd George would come to Gene Increasing skepticism prevailed here ;oncerning & visit by the prime min ster. BURTON PAYS CML ON FRENCH PREMIER Debts Not Mentioned in Brief Interview, Says United States Commissioner. | PARIS, September 16.—Representa- tive Théodore E. Burton of Ohlo, teday, byt, as In his interview with Premjer Theunys and Forelgn Minis- ter Jaepar at Brussels, debts were not montioned, and Mr. Burton said he folt that the abstention of these of- ficlg]s from mentioning this matter was extremely courteous. Summing up his trip through Europe, Mr. Burton saif: “After my intervi with various European Ztatesmen fn the last four weeks, I am deeply impressed by their egrnest desire to malntain peuce, and’their optimism, desplte certain’ threatened conditions which now. exist” The representative aiso had along talk with M. De Jasteyrfe, the #rench finance minister, on’ the gen- cral economic situation. He will'pro- cecd to London tomoryow, where he wiil probably have a talk with Pre- mler Lloyd "George. He will leave for the United States Sepltemmer 28, PLEA HALTS GAMING CASE Jurisdiction of Local Court At- tacked by Attorney. In the United States branch ef Po- lice Court yesterday afternoon, Judge John P. McMahon presiding, in the ase of the ited States against Veter Pappas, a Greek, churged with permitting_gaming on his premilses, James A. O'Shea, attorney represent- ing defendant, fled a plea to dismiss the case on the ground that the court had no jurisdiction. The motion was overruléd, and Mr. O'Shea noted an exception, which was granted. Attorrey O'Shea offered as authority | for his questioning the Police Court jurisdction the Moreland case passed upon by the United States Supreme victed and sentenced to do hard labor for non-support. This question {s now before the District of Columb Court of Appeale. Mr. Justice Hitz of the Bupreme Court of the Distriet of Columbiga, who has granted a num- ber of writs of prolibition challeng- ing the jurisdiction of the Police Court in guch cases, has decided that until the question is settled by the Court of Ap- peals no further writs of prohibition will be granted. 407 7th told the |, b URGE OCTOBER 27 AS RODSEELT DAY Memorial Association Move Al- ready Taking Hold in Capital. | As an appropriate means of com- memorating annually the birthday | of Theodore Rooseveit, the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial = Association of this city has started a movement to have October 27 observed generslly “Roosevelt Da; by holding appro- priate exercls Plans for t! day In Wa way th observance of that ington already are under and according to those in charge affair is to be of an Impressive and elaborate nature. The exercises are to be held at Metropolitan M. E Church, John Marshall place and C streets, and many prominent pergons including’ the President and Vice President e been invited to par- ticiyate, Capt. George Curry of New formerly of the “Rough ders” and recently appointed on the Internatiopal Boundary,Commis slon, United States and Mexico, will pr . He also |s chairman of the gen.ral committee of the local or- genization srranging for this me- morial service. Genersl Committee. Those whe are serving on the gen- eral committee with Capt. Curry are: Winfleld Jones, vice chairman; James W. Reynolds, second vice chairman; i | com- mittee of ex-soldiers of the Epanish- American war, James J. McFernan, James Howard, John Bender and! Walter Parry; Army and Navy veter- ans, George Snyder, Charles H. Stevens and James P. Donovan; naval veter- ins, Clifford ‘Allen. Ernest Brunner, | Tohn Howard and Charles J. Lehmann; Fhilippine veterans. Jere O'Sullivan, Timothy Connors and James McDevitt; grand army of the repub- | 'ic, Col. John McElroy, pt. Bdward | B.'Corcoran, James Ryan and Thomas P. Reidy; Indian war veterans, Pan! Bchnelder, Charles Stevens, h) ! Harvey and Alfred ¥ i war veterans, First Lieut. Judy, David M. Wagner, William H. Pettit, James W. Cash, John Tynan and George Dunbar. Apartment House Blaze Fought for an Hour by No. 3 Company. Fire which broke out shortly after 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon in the basement of the Pierpont apartment house, 217 F street northwest, emptied the apartment of its occupants and caused damage estimated at about 3 before firemen could get it under control. Engine company No. 3 and truck 1 rushed to the scene and fought No. the blaze for mearly an hour in view of a large crowd. ‘The Pierpont owned by J. D. Kennard of 1406 G street. The fire is believed to have started in a pile of rubbieh. g RELIEVED AT WALTER REED. Capt. Glenn D. Lacey, Dental Corps, has been relieved of duty at Walter Reed General Hospital, this city, and ordered to duty with the attending surgeon, this city. | I | There are more ducks im China than in all the rest of the world. N.W.—KAY’S—40 — Brin; - |an effect on reparations. SELEVE GERNAKS LONDON TRIP VAIN Havenstein and Fischer Go. to Paris After Briefr Reparations Talk..?;"': By the Associated Press. LONDON, September 16.—The + to. London of Rudolph Havensiein president of the reichsbank, and Dr Fischer, German secretary of stute for finance, is belleved here to_ hay been unsuccéssful. eo far as :‘177 reeults are concerned. Both MHbr: Havenstein gnd Dr. Fisgher dech, to make apy statement regards thelr negotiations with officlals of t bank of England. saying only tha they would depart for Paric tonight Sir John Bradbury, British membe of the reparations ecommission, who same here today from Paris, wqul muke no statement beyond that 1ier had been other reparation tangles and he was optimistic, the present crisis relative to German reparations to be paid Beigium would be passe successfully _In some quarters here the Near Eastern crisis is belicved to be having If the Lou en entirely ur '\ Al don parleys have succewsful, it is oueht in o juarters to be due to the Near Kast’ crisis, but it is betievea in iaris. oo cording to adviees from that city, tha a new arrangement probab will b made whereby Germa not hax to give up gold to Belgium —— TRUCK FIRE BURNS BOY. James Mezzanowte Victim of Oddd § Accident in Northeast. James of §10 burned b . ten years oid rtheast w jegs lust nigl while standing n automoh truck which caught fire as 1t wa being supplied with gasoline at 141 street and Florida avenus northe He was treated Ly Dr. Esch n drugstore at 14th and 11 streets northeast and later was able to g0 g hig home. M The truck was slightly damaged before firemen extinguished the hlazc The ninth precinct police patrol wagon, which hurried to the scen when the fire alarm was turned wae interrupted when it collided w an automobile operated by M at the intersection ) h OIL FIRM LOSES SHIPS. U. S. Forecloses Mortgage on Ves- sels Following Default. Foreclosure 4 me held by the :: Board on five vessels p United States New York city, was yes by the board. 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