Evening Star Newspaper, November 27, 1922, Page 2

g » < STABS AT SHIP BILL BLAMED ON ALIEN Studied Propaganda Direct- ed by Foreign Interests, Says Plummer. U. S. COMPETITION FEARED 68 Per Cent of American Exports Declared at Stake in Mer- chant Marine Issue. Ry the Assnciated Press, MILWAUKEE. Wis. November 2T. —British and other foreign shipping Interests and journals are engaged in a studied campaign of misrepre- sentation and propaganda to defeat the American ship subsidy bill, Ed- ward C. Plummer., commissioner of the United States Shipping Board. declared in a epeech prepared for delivery today before the middle west merchant marine and foreign trade conference. Alarmed at the possibility that the American ships will take from them aome 68 per cent of American exports chich are now carried in_forelgn <hips. the forcign shipping interests ate using ¥ possible means to discourage the upbuilding of the mer- chant marine in this country, Mr. mer said. “Th ~ome to think they own the land.” h declared. “so when we start to put in some stock of our own they proceed to charge us with about everything from trespass to m ughter.” Every sort of di practiced against American been ‘ve been feeding their cattle In our pasture so long that they've e n. crimination has G. H. Scidmore Dies; Served as Consul General By the Associated Press. TOKIO, November 27.—George H. Scilmore, consui ge 1eral of the United = States at Yoko- hama, died there this mornifg. He suffered a slight _attack of apoplexy during the visit: of the Prince of Wales to Yokohama. During the ceremony i cident to the u veiling of a me- morial arch Mr. Scidmore fainted and was carried away. Since then his health has been precarious. Consul _General | Scidmore was born | at Dubuque, Jowa, in 1854. He enter: sular service in 1876 & a clerk in the Liverpool consulate. F held numerous.consular posts, mostly in the far east. He was author of a book on consular courts. Mr. Scidmore attended the Emerson Institute in this city and also received his legal training here at the National Law School. His only surviving rela- tive is Miss E. R. Scidmore of this cit: I.C.PENAL SYSTEM s Senator Ball Offers Bill to Create Parole Board of District Residents. s in foreign trade, Mr. Plummer raid, their own British charge the United create a monopol. What Is the Anawer? “When giant American corporations ke the Bethlehe X Company, each of them finan- eially stronger than any European steamship concern and both of them shipbuilders as well as shipowners, y to close their own soes carried by foreign vess is the answer?” Mr. Plummer a: 3 “When such as they find. as they that they can charter foreign 3 for less money than ft takes merely to operate their own Steamers under the American flag, wh sense of setting up the claim—as op- ponents of A hipping do that American ships without govern- Inent aid can compete with foreign in carrving the commerce of &hi the United States?” “It cannot be done! Every tical shipping man knows that can’t be done: every man who has in- telligentl that it can't be done, and, therefore, prac- every man who opposes governmen: aid to American shipping is opposed to American ships. He wants foreign corporations to do our work. He may not realize it, but that is the fact just the same. Cites Australian Law. Mr. Plummer pointed out that by a criminatory law in Australia, American exports to that country paid an extra duty equal to the cost of transportation from the factory to a Pacific port. if shipped over Ameri- can railroads and in American ship: but the same exports escaped thi duty if shipped to Vancouver over Canadian railroads and from there in British vessels. an examplé of the lmek of fair corded American vessels, he case of the steamer Eten, led at Cape Town, South Af- hile en route home two years “ape Town wharves were ght consigned to Awer. 1ca. “which freight the owners there- of were anxious to send along in vessel, but were deterred from doinm o by the threatened loss of rebates h had accrued to them from the British conference lines, and the Eten came irom Cape Town st empty. —_—— THIRD PARTY THREAT MADE BY LA FOLLETTE (Continued from First Page.) but when Americans propose £0 do a little discriminating in favor of|tem of the District of Columbia are tates is trying to m Company and the |, t is the it studied the problem knows Tmportant changes In the penal sys- proposed in a bill Introduced today by Senator Ball, chairman of the District committee. The bill is drafted in ac- cordance with recommendations made the National Commission on Prisons and Prison Labor on the penal system of the District of Co- lumbia, which was submitted by Louis Browplow. Justice Wendall P. Stafford and John Joy Edson, the Columbia, on July 14, 1920, to Presi- dent Wilson. A board of indeterminate sentence and parole is proposed by the bill This board would be composed of three residents of the District, two to be appointed by the District Com- missioners and one by the chief jus- tice of the District of Columbia Su preme Court. No member of the board could be connected in any other institutions of the District. The members of the board would receive salaries of $1,000 a year. The board would select three parole officers, the chief of whom would receive $2,500 and the others $2.000 a year. Maximum Sentences Urged. After the enactment of the proposad law prisoners sentenced in courts of the District of Columbia would have the maximum sentence fmposed upon them, but with the proviso that they fnight be released on parole at time after conviction, if recommended v the board of indeterminate sentence and parole. However. in cases of con- viction of rape or assault with intent to rape no provision is made for pa- role, and the prisoner would have to serve the maximum sentence. All_prisoners would be taken first to the Distrigt jall and held there until the board’should determine where they should be to the best interests whether to the reformatory or to the workhouse. After the board should make its recommendati the pris- oners would be transferred or confined either in the workhouse or the reforma- to the approval of the oners. The United States jail would be used only to hold persons accused of crime. persons in contempt of court and peraons held for the action of the board of indeterminate sentence and parole. ‘Would Remodel Jall the reason for Inviting him to the It is proposed that $100,000 shall be REVISIONS URGED penal commission for the District of { any THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27, -1922. - NAVY BOARD SLALE OF WAGES SKORED {Improper, Declare Workers Here From Yards Al Over Country. SLASHES: IN FORCES HIT Men Say Living Costs Prevent | | Them Standing Further Cuts in Salaries. Severe crilicism of methods used by local navy vard wage boards in gath- ering data on which to base recom- | mendations for employes’ pay and a { general request by all witnesges for a 25 per cent increase in yard em- ployes' wages were made at the first session of the general wage board of review when It convened today in the Navy Department. Representatives of the Washington navy yard charged improper methods jwere used by the board in arriving at wage scales for the naval gun fac- |tory here. They asked for a wage jincrease of 25 per cent. Continued wrecommendations by | wage boards of wage cuts, coupled with slashes in the working forces, brought many men from naval sta- tions In all parts of the country. The hearing will last about four days. Labor leaders, including James O'Connell, president of the metal trades department of the American Federatlon of Labor, called particular attention to the extraordinary large attendance of working men at the session. Four Trades Heard. After hearing the general state- ments by labor ieaders, Admiral Strauss, after conference with other members of the board, decided to hear the men in accordance with the alphabetical listing of their trades: At noon he had heard the boiler { makers, brakemen, buffers and pol- ) ishers. 3 Asking an increase of 23 per cent in wages of Washington navy vard boilermakers as against the 1 cent per hour reductlon recommended by the local board, J. W. Osman said the cost of living here had increased 48 per cent and that the men cannot stand a reduction. Information Attacked. George A. Wilberton, representing the buffers and polishers of the Washington navy yard, but speaking in general for all the yards, stressed the precept under which the local board operated, in that it was in- structed to seek data from the “prin- i 25 lilar in character and comparable in' volume to the local yard.” He charged that the local board had ! | sought Information from small shops, lin many cases where only the owner| worked. | Mr. O'Connell charged that the data | collected by the local boards were 8o inaccurate, 80 unjustifiable. as to be vold of results. The questionnaires sent out by the wage boards, he charged, is turned over to a book- keeper, who merely takes the average | and returns i Itgloes not represent, ihe said. a fair statement of the wages | Da when class of work is compared. | The information gathered by the men {themselves, he asgerted, is much more Ireliable and can be corroborated. He |Ee pressed the hope that the present iboard would give serious coaside tion to the methods used by the local wage boards in gathering the data, and would suggest a plan that would “at least be fair.” Would Dodge Debt. The men, he eaid, want a wage that will keep them out of debt. Many of them are deeply in debt now, and if they are not, he went on, it is because they are living 8o far below the Ameri- can standard that their health will be sly impaired. e Witson, representing the Pat- cipal establishments doing work sim- |V Irulers and diplomats, leaders of C ‘gress and prominent officials in every {walk of life of Amer! NEW NATIONAL THEATER INTERIOR AS IT APPEARS TODAY FOLLOWING EXTENSIVE ALTERATIONS R by B IR L .15 Sl SITH DEBUT TODAY BY NEW NATIONAL Historic Theater, Remodeled, Presents “Bulldog Drum- mond” Tonight. The New National Theater, new now in every sense of modern theater equipment, opens its doors to the pub. lic tonight and presents for its ap- proval one of the finest playhouses of the country, an attraction of its kind greatly needed in_the nation's capital for many vears. The theater hich has undergone almost an entire renovation since last pring, is com- plete In every sense of the word, the walls alone remaining unchanged. Tiv: ojening tonight marks its sixth debut and the eighty-seventh year of its existance as a playhouse. Since its erection in 1835 by an as- sociation comprising Henry Randall, Richard Smith, Cornelius McLean, jr., George Gibson, William Brent and W. W. rcoran, who joined the project at the last minute. The theater has its audiences, pre: T'nited States, foreign ) n- WILLIAM H. FOWLER, Business Manager REMODELED POLYS WILL OPEN TONIGHT More Than $300,000 Spent in Altering Washington’s Famous Theater. ‘W. H. RAPLEY, Director extra pit now. slightly under the stage, which will give the combined orchestra a strength of forty pleces when necessary. Formerly when a concert was scheduled, many of the augmented orchestra had to seat themselves in the first one or two rows, making it very inconvenient. This inconvenience has been elimi- nated. | | Light Booth Altered. The booth for the use of the spot- lights and the showing of motion pictures, which used to jut forth in a sort of box in the gallery, has been set back into the wall. The rest- rooms for both w:an and women are now installed upon the mezzanine floor. fully equipped with modern irm- provements. When the front of the theater is changed next summer, a smoking room and lounge will be added, making the addition front the | street. I Col. Charles KeMer, Enginee: entertained in dents of the eat actors and aciresses of days gone by have interpreted their parts of the theater's stage. Their plays, representing tha pulse of American life, have swept their audiences be- fore them, frequently spurring them on to patroitic and honest endeavor. Scene of Four Fires. Four fires have occurred in the theater and four openings have been celebrated. In 1850, after the fire of 1845, Jenny Lind was the opening at- traction; in 1862, following the con- flagration of 1857. “The Serious Fam- Jly” was the premier showing: in 1873, after the third fire. the opening was marked by the presence of President | Grant and many government officials; ; and in 1885, after the theater had been rebuilt following the fire of that vear. Mlle. Rhea opened in ‘Lady | Ashley.” The reconstruction of the theater this year, marking its fifth opening since its original opening on Dec. ber 27, 1835, when “The Man of the World” was shown, will make its de- but for the sixth time in “Bulldog Drummond.” with H. B. Warner. The theater also suftered a slight mishap several years ago, When the Munsey building wgs being built. The After being closed since June 15 for extensive remodeling and refurnish- ing, Poli's Theater, one of the oldest and most widely known in Washing- ton, will open again tonight with a new musical comedy, “Haysee It will be a complete surprise to most Washingtonians, who have known the old Poli's as always the same since the days when it was Chase’s Theater, when thev see the great changes made in the house. miasioner, in visiting the theater terday, congratulated the owners and stated he did not see how it was pos- sible to have such improvements in s0 short a time, The theater could be described 28 being of empire architecture, and while the interior is rather barren, due to the white coating, the man- agement atates that all was done that possibly could be done in the time given, but that the decorations)Nothing of the old building was left hext summer and reconstructed front | during the alterations except the will make the theater one of the most |four walls, the roof and the back beautiful in the country stage, and more than $300.000 has —_— been spent in making the taudry and PROBING BUTLER’S Gt and comfortable theater, acoord- RAJLROAD CONNECTIONS ing to the manager, R. G. Craerin. All of the theater's interior was Action by the Senate judiciary com- mittee on the nomination of Plerce completely remodeled. The upper balcony, familarly known as “peanut = “"by and the third tler of boxes e be Two Days Now Left To Pay D. C. Tax Bill And Avoid Penalties Only two days remain in which to pay the first aalf of real estate and personal tax bills for (the cyrrent fiscal year. | Beginning December 1, the col- lector will add a penalty of 1 per cent for each month the first in- stallment goes unpald. All persona! tax bills have been malled, but real estate bills are mailed only upon written request. The time for payment Is now €o short that Collector Towers has appealed to property owners to call or send for their real estate bills. The rematning half of taxes will be due in May. Taxpayers may pay their bills in full at this time if they desire. TIERNANS, REUNITED, (Continued from First Page.) Their acquaintance was formed, he sald, through correspondence during the trial in South Bend. As many as three letters daily were written to him by the then Mrs. Brimmer. he said, and they were a mental stim- ulus to him. They met in Chicago by pre-arrangement the following night after he received his divorce and recognized each other from scriptions each had given in lette The Tiernans plan to leave South Bend this week. The professor said he expected to go to Chi o, place the three-children a private home for several weeks while they were getting settled again, then begin the practice of law. “This is absolutely the final chap- ter,” he emphatically concluded. BRIDE'S CAREER TANGLED. By the Arsociated Press. CHICAGO, November Mrs. Blanche Hawn Rash Bremmer, second wife of John P. Tiernan, former pro- fessor of law at Notre Dame Univer- sity, possesses a marital status at least as tangled as that of her hus- band for a day, according to revela- tion she made here before returning to Marshalltown, Iowa. She planned to sét-about today learning whether she was entitled to legally accept Mr. Tiernan In their Crown Point. Ind., ceremony Saturday. Mrs. Bremmer-was left by Prof. Tiernan with the injunction to *“Go and redeem yourself in my eves” re- plying with a tearful “Oh, I will, dear John. Those expressions came after Prof. Tiernan and Mrs. Bremmer were in- formed their marriage had been ren- dered illegal by annulment of Prof. Tlernan's divorce from Mrs. Augusta Tiernan at Soutk Bend. Ind.. and her own prior marital status possibly was beclouded: Eloped Eight Years Ago. When e was sixteen years old, eight years ago, she eloped with Floyd L. Rash, Marshalltown baker, from the home of her parents, the Rev. and Mrs. Charle: Hawn, then of Aredale, lowa, and now of Hansell, Iowa, she sald. Four days after re ceiving a notice that Rash had sued for divorce, she said, she married Arthur H. Bremmer at Oskaloosa, Iowa, only to learn still later that Rash had not obtained a final decree when she married Bremmer. Nothing was done about the matter, she said. but she and Bremmer came to Chicago, where she became a check girl in a Chinese restaurant. While here she learned Bremmer then was being sued for divorce by an earlier wife, whereupon she returned home, but rejoined Bremmer later at Kansas City, Mo. Brother Sald He Was Dead. He disappeared there, she said, and his brother informed her Bremmer was dead. “Is that all the proof of freedom vou had when you marriad me?” Prof. Tiernan was eaid to have exclaimed. Replying to a question regarding still another romance, Mrs. Bremmer 2 said she had not married the man named. but that she met him in Mason 1City, Towa, gone to Clear Lake. lowa. land from there to his home in Union- town, Pa., where his mother told her he was married and the father of a jchild. The man's mother paid her ay back home, Mrs. Bremmer said. i Shortly thereafter she became in {terested” in the Tiernan-Poulin pa- ternity case and began the penciled correspondence with Prof. Tiernan, which led to thelr meeting here last Thursday night, their first sight of each other, with two attempts to be married in 1llinois before their suo- cessful effort at Crown Point, Ind. Letters Grew Warmer. SEEK TO END SUITS| PROPAGANDA TALE DENIED BY GEDDES Hughes Is Told British Em- bassy Did Not Try to In- fluence Ship Subsidy Vote. The British embassy, taking forma! notice of published reports that thn ’Br‘lilll governmeént was attempting {10 influence Congress or the Ameri- |can peopie regarding the administra- tion’s shipping bill. has fssued & {statement declaring no such attempt had taken place. “The embassy.” sald the statement, “denies emphatically i that there iz any truth in this allega- l tio | A similar assurance is understood lilo have been gi 0 Secretal i i r Auckland Geddes, the British am- bassador. The statement was directed particularly at a Washington di tch, printed yesterday in various earst newspapers, but did not go into detail regarding it Embassy's Statement. The embassy's statement foliows “The attention of the British e bassy has been called to articles printed in today's issue of certair organs of the H, ernment is carryir a propaganda for the purpose of i fluencing the decision of the Ame: can Congress and people with regard to measures under discussion relating to the American merchant marine The embassy denies _emphaticail: that there is any truth in this & - legation printed b the Washington Times-Herald there 18 included what purports to be a af vit sald to have been made b a certain Matthew Quay Glaser. d scribed as vice editor and vice presi- dent of & publication called the Ma- sonic Review, who appears to claim that an offer was made to him on be- half of the British embassy invol ing the publication of a series of pa: articles against the passage of the ship subsidy measure. *It is not true that any such offer was ever made on behalf of the Bri of any British government offci No member of the British emb; staft has any acquaintance whatever with the individual describing him- self as Matthew Quay Glaser. Tells of Vistt to Lawrence. _“On Friday morning last. about § o'clock, two men appeared in tha neighborhood of the embassy. walted about for a considerable length ofy me and finally entered. ming’ that they were acquainted with Mr. Lawrence, the vice consul attached to the embass; Mr. Lawrence had never seen the men before and so informed them. He never at an time made to either of these men any offer whatever or had any con- versation with either of them on the shipping measures or on any other matter. “The measures taken by the allied and associated governments for the control and conservation of tonnags during the late war, w. referrad to in the pre: were adopted in the general interest and their details were arranged largel on the Initiative of the United States government itself. ARGUMENT HEARD TO CUT PHONE RATE (Continued from First Page.) only one in which & change of rate is irequested. The proposed change, {emanating from the company itself, would lower the rate to $6 per month. The second type is the individus! line message rate of $48 per year, which prescribes a monthly allowance fifty calls, with a charge for e ess messages. The third type is of the two-party line service, with an allowance of thirty-five messages | per month at $30 per yesr. Explains Increases. | “When the company introduced tie existing rates” Mr. Clarkson said e increased the differential in rates for the several classes. Prior to the ,first rate increasc in 1919 the dif- {ferential between the rates for the {several classes of service had re- mained fairly constant and the r sult was that there had been very little change in the proportion of sub- scribers under the several classes of service. The increase in rates which ughes informaily during the day by * ish embassy or with the ¥nowledge * eliminated. Yet the seating ?lplfiifiy,m'llh more znn? 2,000 chair. Mrs. Bremmer’s letters. as publish- s & e greatest of any of thejed by th lcago ral 3 iy legitimte theators. 1o00 86a1s! cminar, mopor o e nd having been added in the rear on the | Frrmar boFinery Foraa r ey ool ground floor, where formerly thers|aiqinan a8 “Dear Friend” and grad- Wwas a large promenade, {:- uBtil Prof Tiernan i3 ni;hfigu;"xl; Safety Assured, Say Officials. have replied: A new concrete floor, braced with! “Some day I am coming after you.” reinforced concrete piliarz, the new {t0 Which Mrs. Bremmer was quoted as bal¢ony thoroughly braced with ex- having .responded: “And when you tra heavy steel footings, and added|do vou'll find me waiting.” I have referred to was for the pul pose of securing additional revenue to take care of increased costs.” The result of the request for a nigher rates 1o meet the increasec costs of operation. Mr. Clarkson said. was a conclusion to apply larger in- creases to the higher grades of ice, that is, the individual line cla: Argument for Reduction. The meat of the argument for a appropriated to remodel the jail for an examining station, where the pris- oners could be examined before be- ing passed upon by the board of pa- role. < It is provided that no prisoner shall |1id be released on parole until the board | shall have satisfled itself that ade- quate arrangements have been made for suitable employment after the pris- { conference. “The iron is hot, it is time to strike,’ was one of Senator La Follette pressions. Mr. Hunt declared. psychology of the dissatisfied masses, # dissatisfled Lecause they are not get- ting living wages, because they are not getting sufficlent return for gheir «cTops to pay taxes and buy groceries, is at the back of this political un- heaval.” Hunt asserted the Wisconsin senator told him over the telephone. Butler of St. Paul sociate justice of the Supreme Court was deferred today to permit investigation of & statement forwarled by a western lawyer regarding Mr. Butler's profes- sional connections with certain rail- roads. The name of the lawer who made the statement was rot revealed, nor termakers’ League of America, asked|¢qking out of & couple of bricks from o ard to take Into consideratton the | the National caused its walls to saj increased cost of living. He said it i8] geveral inches, but this was remedies reasonable to assume that living costs|after the closing of but one night. il still go up following the new tariff. | ** 75 “theater, now owned by W. H Thel'vvnl;nm:nt. he said, should be an Rapley, S. E. Cochran and William H. leal employer. Fowler, will cause many surprises to- A. Flynn, representing the shipfitters|,;on ' The seating arrangement is| of the Charleston, 8, C. yard, pointed| ,ctically the same, except for the Out that one large firm had refused | PESCUCANR SN DLy i about the information to the man, but sald they|ggme, there being about 1500 seats. would send it in confidence to the 1ocal| 4},5y¢ fifteen less than heretofore Mr. Hunt will confer with demo- cratic leaders here today before de- ciding what he will do with regard to_attending the conference. "l feel confident that Senator La Follette has the best interests of the people at heart in his efforts to es- 1ablish this bloc.” Mr. Hunt sald, “Lut i cannet get away from my {ideas that the place to make this fight for the people is in the democratic part: Mr. Hunt said Senator La Follette outlined in detail the plans being fornulated for a governing bloc in both the Senate and House. RAPS OLD PARTIES. Liberal Leader Calls Them a “Bird of Prey.” DETROIT. Mich.,, November 2T. The republicgn and democratic parties are nothing more than the right and left wings of the same bird of pre:; Allen. McCurdy of New York, national secretary of the Committee of Forty- olght, told a state conference of that organizstion here last night. He advo- cated” the forming of a new party, which, he said, would be the seco: uni This was an opportune time, Mr. McCurdy said, to rally progressives nd liberals around a dominant eco- nomic issue and launch a new political movement. Other speakers, including Eugene J. Brock, secretary of the Michigan Pro- gressive League, favored continued activity by the liberal or progressive groups within the old parties, citing The large voté in the Michigan primary alection for Herbert Baker, whose nomination was indorsed by the Pro- gressive League. The Michigan Forty-eighters decided te send a delegation to the conference called for mber 11 at Cleveland by the natienal committee for progres- sive politica] action. Several Governors to Attend Meat- ing of Progressives. Seversl governors and governors- ect will take part In the forthcom- contarence here of progressiv leaders, it is announced by the peo- 's legislative service, which is mak. .ing arrangements for the meeting. Gev. Biaine of Wisconsin has nt word that he will be present, while Govs.-elect Hunt of Arisona, Sweet of Colorado and Waliton of Oklahoma have signified they will endeavor to attend the general conference, to be held December 3. ‘The the peo- statement issued .by ple’'s legislative nm“d‘: sald Frasior. of Nerth Debots and Ship i T -eleat of Consregy! oner is released. It is provided also that industrial training shall be given At the workhouse and reformatory and that the prisoners shall engage in some useful industries while serv- ing their sentences. ‘Provision Is made for the payment of compensation for this work, the money to go (o de- pendents of the prisoners while the prisoners are in confinement, or to pay certain personal expenses of th prisoners and to go Into savings ac- counts for them. It is proposed that $100,000 shall he jappropriated as a rotating capital fund for the purchase of raw mate- rials to be used in the prison industry and for the payment of compensation to tne prisoners. 34 PERSONS DIE IN LAUNCH CRASH Picnickers’ Boat Runs Into Ferryboat in River in Argentina. By the Associated Press. BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Novem- ber —Thirty-four lives were lost in a collision Sunday night between a launch and a ferryboat in the Parana river near Zarate, northwest of Buenos The collision occurred in the dark- ness at 8 o'clock night night. The them children, struck the while going at full the overhang of the bow under wufi the picnickers’ boat disa) three survivors of the excursis end the rl:.\meh crew. sl Gets From Ten Years to Life for LOS ANGELES, Calif., Novembér 27, «-Mrs. -Clara Phillips, convicted of Mrs, Alberta Meadows with & mer, was today sentenced to serve Aires. launch, filled with pienicke: of o farryboat The launch hit 8o far as is known thers are only ———— Hammer Murder. murder in the second degree for kill- d ‘Trom the judgment and gentends, board. The board would not show the men the information. He urged all such information should be open and the men should be permitted to examine it He asked a 25 per cent increage. Gives Boflermakers’ Case. Robert J. Hanna, representing boilermakers of the Philadelphia yard, said men had found It difficult to obtal firms. They obtained affidavits from individual employes concerning pay. The data coilected showed phould have been an 90 cents an hour for and 75 cents for helpers. The board recommended the same wage. but he asked for a 26 per oent increas Asked by Admiral Strau was a difference between tI sworn to by the men and the figures furnished the wage boards by the firms employing the men, he said there was. S George J. Thomas, boilermaker, Nor- folk, V&, navy yard, told of the dif- ficulties of getting correct infor: tion from the ship yards. He s that while the firms opened _their books to the local wage board, the books did‘not show the truth. Boilermakers of the Brooklyn paid 2s high as yet firms had sent in information that th id 54 cents an ?our—the wage paid boys not yet out of their time as apprentices. Trat there wa® & plan of big em- ployers to keog;ovn wages was the charge by J. Davis, legislative rep- rg n‘!ltl‘l& of the International Boil- ermakers. L. D. Elliowt, speaking for the brakemen at ‘the Thiladeiphia yard, asked that their wages be put on a par with thol aid by the rail- roads, $6.32 a day, against $4. recommended by the local board. 1. Messenger, representing buffers and lishers of e Norfolk yard, asked that the workers there be placed on the same basis as the Wash- ington COL. NAYLOR BECOMES ASSISTANT TO PERSHING Transterred ¥From Army War Col- lege Staff to Succeed Col Heintzelman. Col. William ‘K. Naylor of the Army War College staff was tran: ferred today to duty as an assistant chiet of ataff in charge of the intel- Stuart Heintselman, nominated to bhe w“fl pen! i+ th ” conferemse 6f mem.| A ten-day stay was asked to permit| gen be: | her. attorney to formulate an appeal The theater interior is in white, al- fire eacapes. make the construction of ligence section. Ha relieved Col | though this 8 T though these supported removed. A Large Columns Removed. The cumbersome columns which the balconies and proved n information from |an obstruction to the view, have been will be changed next ummer when decorations are mado. he curtains are also the same, al- also will be changed. gigantic steel girder weighing thirty tons has been in there | stalled which increase to |the balconies. boilermakers | boxes on the first floor. carries the weight of There are now no Twelve boxes, containing five seats each, line the balcony floor. On the gallery floor, two boxes, one on either total ix. it there | side, are installed with a total seat- he figures | ing_ capacity of sixteen, making the of box seats or loge now will be called, ge space remains the same, although many been added. improvements have The orchestra has an were the details made public. The statement was sent her by telegra) and was laid before the committee Senator Walsh, democrat, Montana. Committes members said afterward that steps had been taien to sacure additional information. —_— SOUGHT TAKAHASHI'S LIFE Youth in Tokio Accused of At tempt to Slay ex-Premier. By the Associated Press. TOK1O, November 27.—The police have arrested a youth they charge with planning an attempt on the life of Ex-Premier Takahashl during a meeting at Utsunomiya, according to a report printed in the Hochi Shim- Holly Berries—and Just Plain “Berries” Yau know, the k"nd you use to deco- rate your store—and the kind that deco- rates your bank book. There's “pretty pickin's” coming from December Ist to the 24th— : If you start now and pick the right place for your ads, and put them in the “Christ- mas Gift Suggestions” columns of The Star's Alphabetical Classified Section. . Our representative will call to talk over your Christmas berry crop. the building as safe as modsrn meth- ods could assure, according to the officials. With the plan of the theater 80 ex- tensively altered. complete new deco- rations, boxes changed, new curtain and seats, and an enlarged orcherstra Ppit, big enough for thirty musiciane. those who already have viewed the theater’s interior have expressed sur- prise and delight. The mural decora- tions are in 100‘ taste. Two large intings on either wall and oae over rl: entrance, the work of Thomas Dougherty of New York, are wmost leasing_and very well executed. g‘homll Lamb of New York was the architect in charge of the plans, with the Fuller Construction Company carrying out the work. ‘Work Speeds Up. At noon today, with work going on in eve not look as though it would be pos- ible to open tonight, but every de- ent expects to be ready well in advance of the evening g&' ormance. All day the theater has been a veri- table beshive of industry, with a amall army of workers putting on the fin- ishing touches. Painters and plaster- ers and decorators are still d at 1t, but at the sams time the cleaners and scrubbors are right behind them, ®o that, although this morning the scaffolding was scarcely out and the corridors were still knes deep with rubbish, the plans are well laid for one grand burst of speed to have everything in readiness for the com- ifort of tonight’s audience. o= TWO WOMAN PRISONERS HAVE GLAND OPERATION By the Amseciated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, November 27.— The first operation in female gland grafiing was performed on two n-sl‘.e'ln:l the San o; "fi years 3 resident vbnlm at the prisen, said today, discussing reports received from Paris on the same sub. erations at San Quentin on women have shown less satisfactory results than those performed on men, Dr. Stanley said, and for this reason they were not generally discussed. “The interstitial gland has been transplanted into women by numer- ous surgeons_throughout the United said Dr. Stanley. “The glands e usually those of female The uits in the ere almost negative.” Calls Him “Sakawawin." Regarding mone: Bremmer was quoted as say "I have plenty. Money has attraction whatever.” In another letter this id to have occurred: no failed to reveal the meaning of Sak- awawin. Mrs. Bremmer is the mother of two children, Verdene Rash, s=ix, and Kenneth Rash, four. WANTS TO KENOW STATUS. By the Associated Press. MARSHALLTOWN, Towa. November 27.—Mrs. Blanche Hawn Rash reached this city probably some time during the night. and today sought County Attorney A. B. Hoover to inquire as part of the building. it did |to the status of her marriage with)or minimum class, or else de= She told the county attorne: that she expected Mr. Tiernan would reach the city some time this after- noon. PITNEY RETIREMENT BILL IS PASSED BY SENATE Adoption Follows Reading of Cer- tificates of Physical Disabil- ity From Physicians. The Senate today passed a bill to permit retirement of Associate Jus- tioe Pitney of the Supreme Court, who has been fll for some time. Chatrman Nelson of the judiciary committee, in presenting a favorable report on the bill, read to the Senate oertificates from four physicians that from of the the justice was suffering Bright's disease, hardening arteries and from apoplexy and un- doubtedly would be unable to resume his duties on the bench. The bill was n g:ln- explained, tney, while having served the ten years requisite for retirement, had not reached the rstirament age. measure now goes to the Hopse. | HALL-MI I SOMERVILLE, N. J.,, November ! —The Somerset county wt“mnnr&umum tate's asset, remained ¢ “The Nearing scessary, Senator because Justice ‘The LLS JURY MEETS. | grand jury reagsembled today after a three-day|p payard, the newly elected demo- vacation to continue hearing wit- nesses in the Hall-Mills murder in- uiry. Twelve witnesses, including lutr-. Jane Gibson, whose eyewitness will .I“ — Prosemting smeins reduction of the rates is contained in the following utterances of Mr. Clark- son: “It has become apparent that as & result of the present differentia) or spread between the individusl line residence service, there is a down- vidual line trend in the party line trend, and #f it should cont! {lieve, would reach a point whe would seriously impair the quali character of vice we furnix and, having observed thi we believe it should be che ke with- {out further delay. Now the only way iof eliminating this apparcnt diffic: [that is, narrowing the spread between ithese classes of service, i either tn increase the existing -party rate se the individual line flat rate clase. Percentages of Subscribers. On January 1, 1919, the percentage of telephone users in the District having unlimited service was 55.3 per cent of the total subscribers. This percentage—although an actual gain of 25 per cent has been shown in the number of this class of subscribers— has dwindled in the face of large in- creases in other classes of service to a point where on November 1. 1922, the unlimited service mubscril were only 47.2 per cent of the total i subscrib On the other hand the two-par ine subscribers on_ Ja uary 1, 1919, constituted only 27.2 per cent of the total number of subsorib- ers, whereas on November 1, 192 they totaled 38 per cent of & scribers. The lines on the chart showed con- vergence of these types of subscrib- ers during the period since January 1, 1919, whereas they occupied a par- alle} mlhfln for & year u“:n.zh“:: date, {ndicating s comparatively increase in he& classes of service. et s SENATOR BAYARD NAMED ON DISTRICT COMMITTEE Newly Elected Member From Dela- ware Is Appointed, Under- wood nounces. The appointment of Senator Thomus cratic senator from Delaware, as & member of the Senate District com- mittes was announced today in the Senate by Senster Underwood the leader. the same fl;