Evening Star Newspaper, December 1, 1922, Page 2

* o9 - BETTER, SAFER CITY AIN OF CAMPAIGN Paraders, to Number of 2,000, Emphasize Purpose of Safety Week. The Safety week legions of Wash- Ington today touched the zenith of their campaign to make this a better and safer city to live in when more Escapes Father's Knife Which Slashed Mother | than 2.000 men, women and children | paraded up Penn passed in review before Harding, members of his cabinet and high officials of the Army and Navy. Blaze Washington. long used to the ania avenue and | President | mlamour and tinsel of parades, never: hefore saw anything to equal the spectacle of the Safety week pageant. Artistic minds and hands had con- spired together to bring home to Washington by printed words and tableaux the need for more care while driving, walking and working. ery government department, every large business establishment and many smaller ones, every civi patriotic and military organization. and numerous other bodies had floats in the line, each one picturizing the ever-growing demand for safety be- Augmenting these were hundreds of citizens marching, all carrving banners on which were printed the same messages. - The Post Office Department won the «ilver cup offered for the section mak- s the best general appearance in e parade. Its representation wa 1 by a float showing a number of <onvicts working in_a prison yard under the scrutiny of armed guards. und it was pi ife Jobs for Reckless Driver hind the float marched several hun- dred employes of the department. dressed in mail sacks, and carryinfi the flazs of the states. Other prizes were awarded as follow: ] Prizes for the best floats: First, war a series of = path time he rare all Department, with floats _showing the driver from the in‘o, something untll he operating table in the the Agricuitur chind the War h tombs:ione third. public unds department, wilding: r beneti of pl = showed the marching di- Department red and he hest Treasury dressed in white and ¢ ond. Interior I third. Navy Department girls he Army and Navy bands won for the best bands in line. v at noon the United States 1d “sounded off” from the Monument and the strang r trod America's “ave- o rocessions” swung into line. platoon mounted police went 1 1o clear the way and close be rode those citizens who ve Safety Week possible. Behind em came the Board of District Com- oners in automobiles and next ety Week executive committee. President Reviews Procession. Harding. Secretary of ecretary Wallace of the Agriculture’ Department, Gen. Per- shing. Rear Admiral Coontz. high vernment officials and Safety Week siood on the steps of the « House grounds facing Execu- tive avenue and reviewed the pro- ion as it passed up that street to- ard Pennsylvania avenue. Others in the party were Mrs. Henry F. Dimond, ;. A Lyon and J. Lynn Yeagle. Upon reaching that poiat the City Commis- sioners swung out of line and joined he reviewing party. A\noxr;crmra- ewing party, consist of ose who had led t -Lfm kek’cam- nd their friends, waltched the ion from the south portico of the Treasur: Line-Up of Parade. President War Weel ernment departments—Chairman rafety committee and staff; Treasury Department. four floats and four pla- War Department, band and five : public_buildings and grounds 1wo floats; Post Office Department. two floats and five platoons; Marine one_float and three platoons Na Department, band, ur platoons and one float; Interstate t‘ommerce Commission, three platoons nd two floats: Interlor Department, band, four platoons and three floats Department of Agriculaure, two floats: Department of Labor, three floats: Shipping Board, band, three atoons and one float; State, War Navy departments, one platoon snd one float; Veterans' Bureau, two government or platoons and one float; printing office. one float. Boy Scouts and band, police depart- nient. fire department, engineers de- partment. playgrounds. Universities and colleges—Scheols: Hand. high schools, band, Gonzag: <ollege. Community Center, one float; . St. John's College, band, Dunbar chool i and civic organizations— Girl Scouts, Kiwanis Club, camp Fire Girls of l:\'nmen's Clubs and other women's et Utilities—Capital Traction Compa Washington Raflway and Electric <ompany. Yellow Taxl Company, Po- tomac Electric Power Company. American Railway and Express Com- vany. Baltimore and Ohio raliroad. Herald, seven rainbow girls, bri- rade of flower girls, float. “Spring,’ . . Shaffer float, White, Inc. . “Summer.” Z. Blackistone float. “Flowers and Music" float, “Autumn.” Gude Company; . H. Small & float; float, Community Service float. Herman E .Gasch Com- pany: float. Wise PBrothers; floats ‘two). American Automobile Associa- iton: floats. Lansburgh & Bro.: float, Tolman Laundr. float. S. Kann Sons Compan, float. Goldenberg; float, 7-;;6:\-‘ Sompan cers o lome Defense Motor Corps ir automobiles. Kexgue Treasury in Lead. The Treasury Department occupied first position in the pageant depart- ment of the procession, 190 pretty xirls dressed in white, trimmed with red, marching in two lines abreast, one line carrying a banner that rea. “What's Your Hurry—Don't Get Hurt. The banner of the second line read. ‘Get Up Earlier. Stop, Look and 1isten. Immediately behind them came a Dlack draped truck. on which was mounted an automobile and a polic man attending a semiphore. Whi motorist iceman as to whether or not he had the right to proceed. a little girl on shates fell beneath the wheel and was hurt. The Treasury Department had an- cther striking float representing a smashed up automoblle on one truck nd immediately behind it the blood- covered victim of the crash was de- victed on the operating table of the hospital waiting for the surgeon's knife to patch him up. The department of public Bufldings and grounds had a monument erected t6 William Jay. It bore the following impressive lines. »f William Jay, who knew when he had the right of way. He was right, nll right, as he rolled along, but he's Jjust as dead as though he'd been Wrong. The Marine Corps’ float was typi- cally impressive, & squad of marines seated behind machine guns. A ban- ner around the truck read, “Nothing ®# more precious than human lif. guard it!” The Navy combined an a| peal for its perpetuation with its safety appeal. Its float consisted of a - :rl\l}p of n.llebr: vozll‘cllnh. & six-inch marine gun, above which was a s! reading, “Our first safet ex The Post Office Department scored a tremendoys hit with s float. It showed a number of convicts Ymaking little ones out of big ones” in & prison of aj 'nl\_\‘ vard clerical forces, police and The line-up of the parade follows:Eanization, both of this city, appear- NATHAN GLAUBACH. Plucky youngster who, after meeing his_mother attacked by his father. locked the latter in hedroom of their home, 27 H xtreet mortheast, and notified the polive. A banner above their heads “Life J hundred Post Office wearing mail s the flags of eve t The Kiwanis Club w also attractive. It consisted of a large billboard carrying safety-first mot- toes. In front of it stood a policeman and a firemen holding children by the hand, symbolic of men who daily our lives and property : street car companies were rep- resented by a tioat showing the fronts of two street cars, with passengers getting on and off in the proper man- ner. Banners described why it is safe alwayy to alight from a street car ‘ing the direction that vehicle is soin, ““I'he business houses had particular- attractive floral c al among th mor heir banners was o safe or sorry—which ASKS SQUARE DEAL INTHE NAVY YARDS Capt. L. M. Cox, U. S. N., Urges Wage Boards Shall Be Fair and Frank. of read, The spectac of a captain in the United States Navy making a plea on behalf of navy vard labor that wage- fixing boards be absolutely fair and frank with the employes was wit- nessed before the general naval wage board of review today when Capt L. M. Cox, U. S. N., a member of many wage boards, and in charge of the work of the Mare Island navy vard, California, appeared. Luther C. Steward, president of the Natlonal Association of Federal Employes. appeared on behalf of the other workers and asked & 25 Dr. Ch#rles R. Par- of the 'American and H. E. Howe, magazine of the or- per cent increase. sons, secretary Chemical Society, editor of the ed and asked that the chemists em- ployed by the Navy be recognized in 2 professional status and placed on a salary basis. N vard clerks. who have to qualify by tests of education. train- ing and experience, are at present paid less than the man who pushes a wheelbarrow, Mr. Steward told the board. Says Clerks Always Suffer. “The clerical force always suffers from the indefiniteness of the term clerk,” he said, “and this is especially true when government salaries are fixed by comparison with salaries for similar work in private employment. In few places outside of the govern ment service is one of the chief ex ecutive officers termed a ‘chief clerk. and the duties of any kind of a ‘clerk’ be quite different in one kind of or even in one office of the nd, and another. So far as the information of this board is con cerned, the clerks are at the mercy of the person who furnishes the out- side data. Nobody on the outside can tell whether the jobs are com- Navy ¥ General Federation | parable or not. “Another flagrant injustice to the clerks in the navy yard has been the reduction in pay on the theory that it was called for by reduction in force. The exact opposite is the case. With a diminished force the duties of the remaining employes become mors va- ried and consequently make more de- mands upon the individuals. A super- ordinates engaged on' one kind of visory clerk who had, say. fiftv sub- work, may be now in charge of twen- ty subordinates on five different kinds of work. Obviously he has many times the more difficult job in the latter case than he had before the force was reduced. Comparisons Inaccurate. “The navy yard police, as well as the clerks. have suffered from inac- curate comparison with outside work. Policemen afe paid at ghe rates of THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, $35.000 FIRE HITS PLUMBING PLANT at 13th and Little B Streets. Owing to the tremendous smoke | screen emarnating from a fire start- !ing in the workshops of E. G. Schafer & Co., wholesale plumbing supplies, at 13th and Little B streets, which ifor a time threatened the entire block, and the sounding of a three-alarm. jw hich brought out many apparatus, considerable excitement was caused iin the downtown section of the ef many Washingtonians were on eir way to work today. Quick work on the part of firemen of the twelve engines. two trucks and water tower ivhich responded to the alarm. sounded from 12th and Little B streets, prevented the flames from spreading to adjacent buildings, and within an hour Chief George S. Wat- =on. who personally supervised the work of his men_aunounced the fira control. The damage to the ompany plant, most of which tock. was placed at approxi- r by U. G. Haring, su- perintendent, all of which is covered by insurance. Employes Make Discovery. mployes of the hig plumbing es- 1 t antered the in their day's work, W. Henkel and kis colored ick Irvine, neard a sizaling ds. and discovered the whole rear part of the third floor of the building aflame. They imme- diately reported to J. Thornberg, in the main office, who turned in the alarm. Hundreds of government employes on their way to the Post Office and Agriculture departments swarmed the neighborhood. The police, under the direction of Maj. Danlel Sullivan, t the throngs well within the safe- ty zon Only within the last two weeks the third floor of the building had been well stocked with plumbing supplies, and included in L@°se was much oak- um, to the burning of which is a | tributed the grear smoke oloud that enveloped the tion. Fought From Outside. Fearing the collapse of the top floor, Chief Watson refused to permit his men to enter tha building, and all fizhting of the fire was done from ladders on the outside. The two buildings adjoining the Schafer plant, whi runs 200 feet down D street and Ohio avenue, were not touched by the tire, but damaged by water. In one of the D street house were stored many phono- graphs, which were quickly removed by their owners. ‘The E. G. Schafer Company. one of the oldest plumbing establishments in the city, was formerly located at the southwést corner of 13th street and { Ohio avenue, and moved into its new quarters only last August. The build- ing was for years Dyer's mill, well known to all old Washingtonians, and had but j recently been remodeled. The value of the plunt was placed at approximately $250,000. which includ- ed about $100.000° worth of stock. Claude Owens iy president of the company. & watchmen. They are not merely watchmen. however, whose duty it may be to heep a light going, for in- stence; see that no fires occur, and perform such routine duties as’ that. The navy yard police are guards with hazardous duties. They must pre- serve order and discipline in and about #he yards and protect valuable property, including govern t se- crets. T ¥ Arguing for recognition of &:praper ! standard of Wving in the fiking’of whge Mi. Stewsrd called:attention’ to the striking inconsistency of “the de- partment’'s ~_pronouncement upholding that principle and its practic:'falling far short of that. i Capt. Cox's Arguments. Capt. Cox went exhaustively into the history of wage boards in the Navy, and gave his idea as to what the phrase “consistent with the publlc interest,” contained in the law, meant. He said that it meant a certainty emergency growing out of some governmental policy. He stressed the point that the men felt that they were treated unfairly in not being allowed to examine the confldential data collected by the various navy yard wage boards. If this data is confidential, he indicated, it should be cast out, as only by tak- ing the men into its confidence will the government be able to obtain ficient workers and contented. worl er: It the general board collects data, in reviewing the recommend: llinns of the local boards, then it should first submit it to the men for examination. Contentment Best Guarantee. A contented body of workmen, he said. 18 the best guarantee of effi- ciency and mantenance of a high- class of production and economy. He strongly appealed for greater frank- ness between the wage boards and the employes. While he said that it might not be possible to give them the wdges they want, when the sit- uation is openly and frankly ex- plained to them, he said, they would g0 away contented. ‘He gave figures to show that it was next to impossible to gét competent artisans to do navy yard work, and pointed out that the few who did take jobs either left after three weeks' employment or were dismissed for in- competency. Vital Question, He Says. vital question for the Navy, It is he said, he was vitally interested, as he was in charge of some $2,800,000 worth of naval work, to handle which he could not get the artisans at the present rate of wages. He character- ized the ex‘sllnfi wage scale as un- fair and below that what it should be. It’s a Wise Man Who Knows What to Give Women was arguing with the ! | for Christmas and he pointed out that! “Here lies the body | | And a Wiser One Who ; Doesn’t Put Off His Selection Until the Last Minute. A Present for Your Wife or Mother or Sweetheart Is— More Than Anything Else—a Reflection of Your Thought for Her. 1 Unusual _Ideu That Will Help You to Make the Most Awrap_n-u Choice Are Gathered Together under “Gifts For Her” in the “Christmas Gift Suggestions” Columns in Today’s Classified Séction of The Star. i 1 DRIVER OF FIRE APPARATUS NEAR DEATH AS RESULT OF CRASHING INTO OYSTER TRUCK WHILE EN ROUTE TO BL wn_engine No. 7 street near E street. Driver Wernig was ja sround The lower picture shows Ne. 7 engine was going when YOUTHFUL ELOPERS SEIZED BY POLICE ‘ontinued from First Page.) was involved in an accident and Mr. Will was taken to Casyalty Hospital and treated. His injuries did not prevent him tod: from personally learning from the office of the District attorney that his son was of sufficient age, and the young girl also, to make it impos- sible for the young man to be held on a charge of violating the Mann act. He also was assured of the same by a personal investigation of Ken- tucky statues. Young Will was born here in 1903, and educated in the public schools. He left the MiKlnley Manual Train- ing School after two years spent there. Mr. Will this aftérnoon received a telegram from Justice of the Peace Bertelman at Newport, Ky., as fol lows: “I dld marry Calvin Will and Mattie Jean Lilly.” STROMBOLI IN ERUPTION. Volcano Off Coast of Sicily Is Re- ported Violent. By the Associated Prest LONDON, December 1,—The volcano of Stromboli, on the island of that name off the coast of Sicily, 1s in violent eruption, says a Central New dispatch from Rome today. 7 ke blase in the E. G. Schafer & Co. establishment, to which the pened. {CHARLES C. WRIGHT QUITS DISTRICT INSURANCE JOB Charles C. Wright resigned today as an assistant superintendent of in- surance in the District, and Harry S. Nichols, an employe of the insurance office, was promoted to the vacancy, the Commissloners announced. The po- sition pays $3.000 a vear. The city heads also designated De- tectives Eugene Davis and Edward Horne as detective sergeants assign- ed to police headquarters. This rank gives them $180 a year additional. Detective Davis has succeeded De- mobile squad. Horne is one of th veteran plain clothes men of the de- partment. and, because of his long period of service, is credited with having an intimate knowledge of the criminal element of the city. Detec- tive Horne was at police headquarters for many yvears, but recently he had been detailed at the White House. “AUTOMOBILE ON FENCE.” “There's an automobile hanging on the fence at the racetrack at the south end of Highway bridge” was the message received at police head- quarters this morning. It developed that the car belonged to Mrs. Carrie Murray, 1603 T street southeast, and was_taken from a garage In the rear of 1602 Minnesota avenue southeast Wednesday night. The damaged car. a coupe, was re- turned to the city by the police au- tomobile squad. Men's and Young Men’s Over- coats and Ulsterettes of very fine . double-faced cloth and well tailored. At 258 | following collisfon with vehicle loaded with oyster shelli on 1 ] from his seat and sustaiped serious injuries when he struck the { tective Hughlett as head of the auto- | 1922. GONEAT“Y" HOTEL No more cigarettes will be sold at the newsstand of the Grace Dodge Hotel, the exclusive women's hostelry near Union stafion. In fact, it came out in the arguments today before Justice Siddons in Equity Division 1 that there has been no such sales! since last June, when the Y. W. C. A. management of the hotel complained to Andrew G. Pollock, the lessee of the concession, that his agreement of last April not to expose for sale to- bacco and smoker's articles had been | violated. Justice Siddons grantea Mr. Pollock a temporary injunction against the | national board of the Y. W. C. A. to prevent the further prosecution of eviction procecdings begun against Mr. Pollock in Mun cipal Court. Bond | cf $1.000 was required and payment of the monthly rental into the reg- istry of the court until the case can i be heard on its merits was suggested. | The court pointed out that the only real complaint made agatnst Mr. Pol- | lock by the Y. W. C. A. was the sale | of cigarettes, and if he had the power the court declared he would. at the Tequest of the hotel marnagement, place an injunction against Mr. Pol- lock, g0 that he could not sell cigar- ettes there. The other matters com- plained of in the unswer of the hotel were shown to have existd for sev-| eral months without eompiaint, and the court declared Pollock Was en- titled to a hearing on them by the court bhefore the eviction proceeding | should be allowed to go forward. | Attorneys Clephane & Latimer, for| r. Poljock. were armed with afi-| | davits to show that the equipment of | ithe beauty parlor and bootblack stand | cording to specigeations fur- the management. Attor- s Elizabeth ¢. Harris and Michael M. Doyle, for the management. did not press for an injunction against Pollock selling cigarettes on the as- surance of counsel that no such sales are being made. —_— TRIES SUICIDE BY GAS, BUT CHANGES HIS MIND Lee twenty-nipe years old. taxicab driver, Was found ; !in a pantry at his home, 1528 E street ; southeast, shortly before moon today | {suffering from illuminating #ms| {poisoning. Earlier in the day his em- ! ployer had reported { failure to return his taxicab last i night, and a zeneral lookout was semt {for him. Towers Allen Tower: toid frightening _his wife. Towers, and to end his own life. Be. fore he became unconscious, however, he changed his mind about ending his life and turned off the gas. He said a2 ZE) ARGAINS! Women’s Low Shoes | BOUNCED OFF SEAT, | FIREMAN IS DYING | “onuinued from First Page.) truck dropped into an open manhole in the pavement and this may | prevented the machine from {driven into the oyster house. Leat Worth Up to $6 On Sale Tomorrow ve being i Engine Turned Around. In the meantime the engine had been {turned completely around by the im- \pact. It was headed south when it jcollided with the truck, but before lit stopped its nose was pointed al- | most squarely north. Wernig, vainiy trying to regain control of his en- {gine, was hurled to the street and |struck his head. He was hurried to | Emergency Hospital in an automabile |that happened to be near =zt Land | Physicians there said he had sustain- ed concussion of the brain, three fractured ribs and internal injuri 24 ACCIDENTS IN DAY. four traflic accidents ¢ rvation of {ne police terday. Maj. Daniel Sullivan. super- intendent of police. reported this morning. There was one fatality and nine other persons were injured | Seventy-two arrests for alleged ' traffic violation, twenty-seven of | { them for speeding. were made by th police during the twenty-four hour. and seven persons were arrested on charges of driving automobiles while under the influence of liquor. FELT SLIPPERS 1% Specially Priced at In all the pretty shades. Light Blue, Wine, Purple. Lavender, Gray, Old Rose and other popular colors. Felt Juliets, all colors, $1.39. | Boys’ and Girls’ Shoes | Gulnllt‘::.::l Tth 5t. N.W. Right on the Corner Open Saturday Evening o the police his | f he thought his wife would come to the pantry before going to her place o employment this morning, but she failer to do so, and he was found Ly his five-year-old son. Charles. Ho wux taken to Casualty Hospital. where do tors said they thought he would recove:. MILTON B. MEDARY, R, ON ARTS COMMISSION President Harding bas appointed Miiton B. 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