Evening Star Newspaper, April 16, 1923, Page 5

|Man Who Led Fighting Fleet | COUZENS ARRAIGNS who may resign. They argue that|type of old-time skipper who made N it Is unfair to the men who have had |the American merchant marine, as to work their way up from the bot- | well as the Navy, gossible. He does tom_In the merchant service. I nat look more than fifty and he em- When Admiral Flete returned | phasized this as he continued: trom Brazil early this year he de-| I am on a pay list based on condl- clded to go to work. Naturally he|tions which prevailed fifteen years FROM AVENUE AT NINTH RAIL MANAGEMENT Senator Renews Charge That Condition of Equipment Shows Incompetence. Leiterating charges that the condi- | ¥ n of railroad equipment showed in- petent management, Senator Cou- , republican, of Michigan, in a ment today, quoted flgures to ow that modern locomotives were not efliciently used that in recent s there had be great increase -order cars and engines. L previous statement, Senator aid, he had asserted that 1 practice of railroad man- was to cut wages or raise d of endeavoring to find ™ s replied, (1 reduced expensés 1 and that they averaged employes 1 600 tn 1920, greatly below the vol- Says Statement Is Deceptive. “Now let us sald the Michigan Sh ptive this state- tate Commerce serve that of employes was &pproxi- D so where is this © per cent. Some Suggestions Approved. | Senator Couzens t is that posing upon excellent {deas namely, ‘the storing of all railroad by September 1, wer and equipment nstruction be restrict nium after September re a reduction i portation. e 10 Buckingham Palace. Now Cannot Gei Any Sea Job Special Dispatch to The Star. | stands out in the annals of the Navy NEW YORK, April 16.—After fifty- | Department at Washington. As an ex- four years of active duty on land and | ecutive his work has been unequaled sea and with the most remote part|and he has commanded an’ American of the “Seven seas” as familiar to him | flect. as Broadway is to a taxl driver, Rear | Admiral William D. Fletcher cannot | get a job at his profession. He was retired January 1, 1922, on the rate fixed by the naval board some fifteen For a year after he left the active list he was helping out | the Brazilian naval authorities, W he is back home and wants a merchant ship. But, sgemingly, he is not to have one. It is admitted there In this country who the sea than Adm Center of Fight. 1f the job he sought was that of handling u fighting ship there 1s 1it- tle doubt that he would get it in a hurry. 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All I want is a job. 1 have served myx country in every type of craft, my first voyage having been in the old Hartford, & full rigged ship. Then 1 served on the Portsmouth, on the coast survey and In varlons other ships and was on the Massachusetts center of a fight—he personally calls | during the Spanish-American war. Went to France with six yachts and finished my service with the Brazilian val War College. Rivalry is natural, I guess. 1 am id some men do not read the mot- : D Live and let live, but I don't want tain even wrote to President Harding | to start a rumpus by going into these about the matter. Then his name was | things. When I find a job where I can suggested for anothter vessel—one of | use my knowledge and earn an hon- the Shipping Board's big liners this |est living I'll work as long as 7 can time-—but the sume progr: fol- |and let the young fellows fight the lowed out and the adm still | issue out. 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