Evening Star Newspaper, June 30, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. Fair tonight and tomorrow; moder- ate temperature. Temperature for twenty-two hours ended at noon t day: Highest, 75, at 5:30 p.m. yester- day. Lowest. 58, at 5 a.m. toda Full report on page 3. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 14 _— po No. 28914, PRESIDENT'S TREND TOWARD LIBERALS SEENBY OBSERVERS| Utterances in West Give Rise to View He Seeks Moral Leadership of U. S. COMES OUT FOR UNIONS IN MONTANA CAPITAL TALK Says Higher Wage Scales Have Corrected Faults in Economic System. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. HELENA, Mont., June 30.—President $arding is aspiring to the role of moral leadership which gave Woodrow Wil- son and Theodore Roosevelt their hold on that great body of independent vof ers, sometimes called “progressives, who swing the balance of power in the American electorate today. " Tinging his speeches in Idaho and Montana with a little of what might in other days have been called “radi- callsm,” the Presiden: made these sig- nificant declarations: First, recognizing that his Hutchin- son, Kan., speech didn't go to the root of the farm problem, he came out four Bquare for the principle of co-opera- “tive marketing by the producer, with a hint of co-operative buying by the consumer if the middleman didn’t take warning. Definite plans have not been worked out, but will be submitted to Congress next fall. Hits Conservatives. Second, he struck boldly at those re- publicans of the conservative variety who, since the campaign of 1920, have * sought to convey the impression that with Harding in the White House, union labor would be fought with the Entered as second-cluss matter oflice Washington, D. C. he WASHINGTON, Believed Conviction Unjust, Sheriff Says He Freed Man Talbot County Official in Letter of Res- ignation Says He EASTON, Md., June 30.—Pleading pathy for persons in distress” had caused him to free a man who had been convicteq of bootlegging and send a negro to jail for a year's sen- tence under the liquor violator’s com- mitment papers, Ira K. Caulk today mailed to Gov. Albert C. Ritchie his resignation as sheriff of Talbot county. Sheriff Caulk's proffered resignation was the expected climax to a ten- day sensation when it became known that the officer had constituted him- self court, judge and juror and liber- ated Robert Milanciz of Baltimore, whom Justice Frank §. Orem had ordered Incarcerated in the Mary- land house of correctlon for a year. Negro Substituted. Edward C. Opher, the negro the sheriff substituted for the convicted botlegger, had been convicted in the same court of carrying concealed weapons and sentenced to a like term of imprisonment. GOMPERS ASSAILS PRESIDENT'S VIEWS Says It Takes More Than Speech to Balance Score of Union Labor. Statements made by President influence of the federal administration, and that the “open shop” would be |’ made the rule rather than the excep- tion. Third, the P sermon on the ident preached a| proper relation of | Woman to the home, but pointed ous! demanded that social justice living | . wages for the rather, lest the mother, too, be compelled to work to support the family. Mr. Harding’s statement | in his speech here that the high scale | of wagés brought by the war had| done @ great uc.s to cor snean ties In America’s economic system was coupled with remarks that he didn't sympathize With those who shout for “deflation of labor” or who idvance the argument that “wages, must come down and union labor! ~Crushed.” This will bave an im- portant bearing on the next campaign. Borah's View Changing. Fourth, preaching the outlawry of war, the President took a leaf out| of Senator Borah's book of ideals in the senator's own state. Incidentally, | the ehgerness of Senator Borah to be seen with the President in Idaho, and the interview given by him approving \Mr. Hard.ng s world court scae.nc, 48 amended in the St Louls speech, fheans nothing more nor less than a Tecognition on the part of Mr. Borah that In the campaign of 1924 he must | be a regular republican in Idaho If he wants to be lected. i Mr. Borah has siowly but su:‘cls" been disavowing conncction with aj third party movement for President. | 1daho republicans say Borah must come in line and be a regular if he/ ants to be renominated. They have | ccesstully amended the primary law So that Mr. Borah must cater to the Tegular organization in the state, whieh is pro-Harding. | 1t will be noted, by the way, that| Nr. Borah doesn't think the World Court program will be finally acted Upon by the Senate in the next ses-! Sion of Congress, which fits in with fne prediction made by the writer, immediately after the St. Louis, speech last week, namely, that the| World Court controversy had been shelved until after the 1924 election, for if it isn't acted upon &t the next yesslon, as Mr. Borah prophesies, | there will not be another meeting of | Congress until December, 1924, This also will give plenty of time to ne- Fotiate with foreign governments the fugiested changes in the World Court's constitution. Speech Pro - \ abor. The Helena speech was distinctly pro-labor. It was utterly unlike any _yrevious addresses, in which Mr. Harding was wont to balance what nice things he sald about labor with gome equally welghted phrases about the rights of capital. The President felt this was an opportune occasion, Nowever, to rid his administration, if possible, of the taint of employer infiuence which Samuel Gompers und others have been persistently at- Tempting to fasten on it, especially kince Mr. Harding didn't recognize {heir candidates for Secretary ol La- bor at the outset and since Charles . Dawes of Chicago, Intimate friend of Mr. Harding, started his “minute men” organization to help the cause of the “open shop” in Amerlcan in- dustrial warfare. “I am quite aware,” sald the Presi- dent, in_his prepared speech at Fielena, “that there were some who ‘maginad, before the present admin- Hoiogtion was voted Into respansibl ity, that it was going at least to acdulesce. if mot defipitcly sympa- thize, with projects fof the deflation of labor and the overthrow of labor organizations Befcre this time these huve come to realize their error. Nothing has been farther from' the yurpose of the present administra- tion than any thought of destroying the right of either labor or capital to organize and each to deal in its organized capacity.” Answers Samuel Rea. Mr. Harding in one part of his \peech made answer to the contention of S8emuel Rea, president of the Penn- sylvania railroad, who insists that the United States Railroad Labor Board is wrong in rebuking the Pennsyl- wvania for falling to recognize the elected spokesmen of shop craft and clerical unions not affillated with the labor organizations created and man- aged by the Pennsylvania itself. ““The right of organization and of co-operative dealings,” the Presi- | dent In this connection, “is not any lopger the special prerogative of anagement and of capital. The %.:z of men, and brains, and skill brawn to organize, to bargain through organizations, to select their | ig that, when I am dead, and it won't | heads, they stcod anc ontin , Column 1. Harding in his labor speech at Helena esterday were assailed today by Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federatlon of Labor, who declared that “labor requires more than a speech to balance against the acts that have gone before.” “We believe the President is sin- cere in not wanting the unions destroyed,” sald the veteran labor leader. “No sane person could want any such catastrophe. But we can- not indulge in any tumult of applause | over this late profession of faith, be- the unions themselves have ved the day and they have done his in spite of the ofiicial acts of some of the President’s leading offi- ials and advisers. For their exist- ence today they owe no thanks to the administratio: TYPHOON FLOODING cause STREETS OF MANILA| Foot and Half of Water in Palace. Knee Deep in Many Thoroughfares. By the Assoclated Press. MANILA, June 30.—Manila, gripped by a typhoon which began raging last night, was flooded today. Many streets were under water. At the same time this dispatch | was filed the water was knee deep | |in many thoroughfares and there| was a foot and a half of water in the Manila Palace, the residence of the governor general. The rainfall in twenty-four hours was ninety- two millimeters. Canoes were being used for transportation through the streets. Governor General Leonard Wood, who has been visiting the provinces, was exvected back today, but was held up by the terrific storm. GREEK CHURCH PERMITS METAXAKIS’ WITHDRAWAL Given Right to Retire From Tur. key to Monastery on Mount Athos Announced. By the Associated Press. CONSTANTINOPLE, June 30.—The Grthodox Synod of the Greek Church has given permission to Patrlarch Meletios Metaxakis to withdraw from Turkey and he will proceed in a few days to a monastery on Mount Athos. Ostensibly he goes on leave, but it is believed that his resignation will follow, in view of the suggestion to that effect emanatipg from former Fremler Venizelos. The priests, Pan- deleimon and Chryssctomo: the archbishop brought from Amer- ica, will accompaany him. The incident closes a bitter inter- necine quarrel, which has led to some disorder, notably the recent invasion of the patriarch’s palace by Greeks demanding his resignatio that “an almost uncontrollable sym- Caulk Is al-| Was Victim of Un- controllable Sympathy for Prisoner. leged to have made the transfer by destroying Opher’s papers and turn- ing him over to the superintendent of the prison under Milanciz's com- mitment. In bis letter of resignation, Sheriff Caulk told Gov. Ritcte that if he had made a mistake it had been “an error growing out of kindness rather than out of any sordid motives.” “During my whole life,” he wrote, “and I be- lieve the people of Talbot county will subscribe to the truth of this, I have had an almost uncontrolabfe sym- pathy for persons who have met with | misfortune and are in distress.” ! Blames Himself. Sherift Caulk declared he blamed himself partly for Milanciz's plight, since he had advised the prisoner to stand trial upon the alleged assurance that he would recelve no worse sen- tence than a fine if he were convicted. ‘When he learned that the court chose a year's imprisonment Instead, the sheriff wrote that he was so firmly convinced of his prisoner's innocence that he permitted him to g0 home to see his family and “neglpcted to do anything further about it." IO BLAST KILLS FuiR ABOARD DESTROYER Four Others Injured When Blower Governor Fails to Operate Properly. , By the Awsoclated Press. NEWPORT, R. I, June 30.—The destroyer Willlamson after an explo- ! slon fn her engine room while at sea | this morning has returned here with |four dead and four injured. The de- Naval Hospltal, where the injured and bodies are being brought ashore. No detalls are yet avallable. Naval officials said the accident was caused by the unexplained closing of the cover to a ventilator and failure of the blower governor to operate properly, causing the blower to ex- iplode. This tore up the water feed line and the steam line and the men were caught in a mass of steam and hot water in the fireroom. The dead: Doc Ahermattier 3illican, | fireman, third class, Fairfleld. Ala. Harry Champlain Linicoln, third class, Newbern, N. Latchford, fireman, thi; s anon, Ohio; Joseph Alec Giaquinto, water tender, second class, Far Rock- away, N. Y. { gThe injured: Louls Randolph | Blanchard, fireman, first class; Hetry Anundson, water tender; Hask il Bowerfield, fireman, first class; Tony Rock, fireman, first class. SEIZURE OF GREEK SHIPS THREATENED BY TURKS Announce Purpose of Taking Al Vessels Under That Flag Arriv- ing at Constantinople. ! By the Assoclated Pre { LONDON, June ‘30.—The Turkish authorities. have notified the allies that all Greek vessels coming to Con- stantinople will be seized, says an Ex- change telegraph dispatch from Con- stantinople today. “Mule” Dog Lost; Last Seen Flying Skywardin Wind Special Dispatch to The Star. HAGERSTOWN, Md., June 30.— Charles Crampton, a boatman on the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, is still looking for his trained “mule” dog, which was carried away by the tornadolike storm which swept over the Willlamsport district. Crampton said that his dog, which was trained in driving the mules attached to the boat, wi running along beside the mules when the storm broke. He saw a whirlwind sweeping along the towpath and a moment later the dog, weighing about thirty-five pounds, was lifted from his feet, carried across the canal and then lifted higher into the air and over a thicket some 100 feet away. He has not seen the dog since. Persons living in that section have heard a dog howling at inter- vals, but the animal has not been located. SCHUMANN-HEINK WEEPS AS VETS TOAST SON WHO Special Dispatch to The Star. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., June 30.— While his mother sat at the head of the table weeping, with her. face buried in her hands, thirty men who | bear lasting Scars of their service for the allies in the world war last night silently drank a toast to a man who went down on a German U-boat in 1918, He was the son of Mme. Ernestine Schumann-Heink, in whose honor, as “the most distinguished delegate” to ! the convention of, the disabled Amer- ican veterans of the world war, & dinner was given. “I have two things to ask of you,” Mme. Schumann-Helnk said. you promise me these two things? “First, that you will never believe any false stories you may hear about me—-atories that I was a German spy, that 1 was ufitrue to this, my country, and to you. “The second promise I ask of you wan | DIED IN U-BOAT see to it that I am buried in America, in my country. And. boys, maybe | I could have. in a way, the purial of | & soldler. ot any fuss. Have them | play ‘Taps’ over my grave, as I have sung it to you. Will you promise?” Every one of the thirty veterans | sllently " stood up as she finished, raised his right hand and gave his solemn pledge. “I had a son in the German navy. He was mistaken, but he did what he ' belleved was right. I will not apolo- glze for hi; I never have. Remem- ber, boys, I was his mother, the sa: ‘And now,” Col. George . Leach, | mayor of Minneapolis, said, se a toast to that man who we: own on the German U-boat in 191 flently the thirty men arose and raised their glasses. Mme. Schumanri- | Heink sank into her chalr and cov- iered her face with her hands. Her s0bs could be heard by all. ever received. sllentll. with bowed be many more y€ars noW, you.will-she had left the room. stroyer has taken a position off the | walited untilsstay here over Saturday and 1 WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION News Note: Will Use a Wet Plank in 1924. RUHR BOMB BLAST KILLS 9BELGIANS Explosive Placed on Train in German City May Lead to Harsh Reprisals. D ELDORF, June 30.—Nine | Belgian soldiers were killed today by | the explosion of a time bomb in a | passenger car of a train carrying Belgian soldiers on leave back to Belgium from the Ruhr. Investigation thus far tends to show the bomb was placed in the car at Duisburg, either in the lavatory or in a suit case, which was mixed with the soldiers’ baggage. The nature of the explosion seems to indicate that the bomb was of the same kind as that which a well dressed German now is known to have brought to Wiesbaden before the explosion there, this leading to the bellef that two outrages were arranged by the same organization. Today's affair is regarded as the most serfous which has yet occurred in the Ruhr, and the Belgians are expected to apply rigorous penalties, likely beginning with the city of Duisburg. Use Repressive Measure. BRUSSELS, June 30.—When in- formed this afternoon of the bombing of the Belgian troop train at Duis- burg the minister of national defense sent Gen. Rucquoy, chief of the gen- eral staff, to Duisburg immediately with instructions to inaugurate the severest measures of repression. PRISONER FASTS 87 HOURS IN JAIL Alleged Murderer Continues Hunger Strike—Has Refused Even Water Since Thursday. CLEVELAND, Ohlo, June 30.—John L. Whitfleld, fasting in the county jail, charged with the murder of Patrolman Dennis Grifiin, refused drink as well as food this morning. At 9 o'clock he had gone eighty-seven hours without eating and his guards reported the new Information that since Thursday night he had declined even to drink water. Since breakfast time today he has rejected also the black coffee that he had taken during his first two days In jail When his breakfast was brought to him this morning, he refused to eat, leaving even the coffee un- touched. The food is left with him at all times, one tray being removed when fresh food is brought in. County Prosecutor Stanton said that forcible feeding was not con- templated at this time. “If he doesn’t want to eat, it's his own business,” Stanton sald. “I am not worried.” 1f the prisoner becomes very weak, Jail officials sald, a physiclan will be called to examine him and determine whether his condition demands forcl- ble feeding. MACMILLAN’S BOAT * Explorer Reports All Well on Trip Up Coast of Nova Scotia—Wire- less Set Working. BY CAPT. DONALD B. MacMILLAN. ireless from MacMillan Arctic Bound SPSmin Yo Bowdoin: Approaching North S3d- ney, N. 8. (Copyright, 1923.) We are just running into the har- bor at North Sydney, all snug and easy, after a sixty-six hour trip of over 400 miles up the coast of Nova Scotla. It was an unusually good voyage, with fine weather all the way. Our wireless is working per- fectly and we are nightly in commu- nication wiih amateurs from all parts of the United States and Canada. Shortly after midnfght last night we narrowly escaped running down will nday and leave early Monday morning. avold a collision. We Drohlbl‘v. ESCAPES COLLISION| 2 |June Marriages Break Record of Last YearinD.C Last Year in D. June continued to maintain Its fupremacy as the ‘marrying month,” according to the records of the office of Col.”W. A. Kroll, the license clerk. Although suf- fering a slight setback during 8hrine week, when only 136 licenses were lssued, as compared with 177 In the first week of last June, Cupld rallled before the end of the month and showed a total of 730 licenses for the month. The business of the month just closed exceeded that of 1922, when 719 licenses were obtalned. The records of previous Junes show 749 in 1921, 800 lu 1920, 714 in 1919, 686 in 1918 and 644 in 1917. Twice in the last six years June has been ousted from its position as best month by December. In 1917 De- cember showed 694 licenses to 644 for June, and in 1919 December's record was 795, as against 714 for June. PAY RAISE FOR 100 IND. . POST OFFICE iTwenty-Three Letter Car- riers and Seventy-Four Clerks Are Affected. | the Washington city post office were today notified of increases In salary to take effect tomorrow, the begin- government service. The Post Office Department author- ized the increases, upon recommenda- tion of Postmaster Mooney. Twenty- three carriers and seventy-four clerks of the local post office are the bene- ficlaries. The carriers receive Increases of $100 a year, their salarles ranging from $1,400 to $1,800. force three men are promoted to $1,500 a vear; twenty-four to $1,600; twenty to $1,700; seventeen to $1,800, and nine to special clerkships at $2,000 a year. of foreman at $2,100 a year. Employes in the Post Office Depart- ment. are declared the poorest paid workers in the government, for the same grade of work. On this account, officials feel that it is proper to promoie clerks at times of the year, rather than walit until the beginning of a new flscal year. The postal service, in_which the Washington city post office is classed, was reclassified several years ago and provision was made for the automatic advancement of carriers and clerks, starting in at $1,400 a year, and ending at $1,800 a year. New Appropriations. Owing to shortage of appropri tions the postal service greets the ad- vent of the fiscal year with joy, as it brings with it the appropriations made available by Congress last win- ter. Col. Sherrill of the office of public buildings and grounds tomorrow as- sumes control of the buildings on which the Departments of Commerce, Labor. and Justice, and the Civil Serv- Ice Commission and the Interstate Ccmmerce Commission are housed. This is the outstanding change in government affairs brought about by the beginning of the new fiscal year. Under a law passed by Congress last winter, the State, War and Navy De- partments, through the office of su- perintendent of bulldings, take over the control of the buildings named. From now on the Fulrdlnly clean- ing and repairing will be handled by emploves of the office of the super- intendent of the State, War and Navy buildings. The Navy Depart- ment will drop twenty-five temporary employes, and in the adjutant gen- eral's office of the War Department about one hundred temporary clerks will go. BOAT’S CREW ESCAPE. Some Sleeping in Bunks When Ves- sel Sinks. GALLIPOLIS, Ohlo, i Springing_a leak, June 30.— the government And then those thirty men paid her | a fisherman who carried no light and | steamer Crozet, sank near Hawkins perhaps the finest tribute she has |slid under our bows just in time to|point last night, the crew escaping | to the shore in lifeboats. ‘ Many were asleep in their bunks and had-to swim for-their lives, Nearly 100 clerks and carriers of | ning of the new fiscal year in the; In the clerical | One received the grade | D. C, SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1923 -THIRTY-TWO PAGES. Chairman Adams of the Republican National Committee Says Neither Party CHEMISTS EXAMINE - B0DY, TWO JAILED Widow of Filipino and Board- er Held in Death Probed by Police. While Mrs. Adeline Eunice Abing, twenty-elght, and Vincente Navarro, a twenty-seven-year-old Filipino, | were being held without bond by the police, chemists of the District today bad started to analyze the contents lof the stomach of Cleto M. Abing, husband of the woman, who died last | Saturday, after a short illness, at his home, 2225 New York avenue. The analysis was started following an autopsy performed this morning by Dr. Herbert Martyn, deputy cor- cner, on the bedy of the deceased, exhumed yesterday by order of Cor- cmer Nevitt. determined definitely by the post- niortem, both Mrs. Abing and N: varro will be held without bond, In- £pector of Detectives Grant said. The two were taken in custody by the police yesterday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Abing. At headquar- ters they were quizzed regarding the circumstances surrounding the death of Abing, who was a Filipino him- self, and the owner of his own home and the house next door. Prevents Complications. Inspector Grant said that the action was taken to prevent future compli jcations in the working out of possi- 1 bilities. The expressed aim of Coroner J. Ramsay Nevitt and the deputy coro- intestinal tuberculosis was the cause of death. How.long it will take to eliminate the Dr. T. M. Price, District chemist sald, is problematical, In the absence of immediate dfs- covery of suspicious matter in the intestines, he said, exhaustive tests and reactive analyses will be made. An examination of sections of the {intestines also wjll be made, Dr. Martyn said, to dfscover, if possible, existence of tubercular bacilll, Jury to Be Sworn. This afternoon at 2 o'clock a cor- joner's jury will be sworn in by Dr. Nevitt over the body of Abing, after which Dr.'Nevitt sald he would order reinterment. This Jjury, he said, would then be ready for an Inquest in case it Is deemed necessary. Three children lived with Mr. and Mrs. Abing, the whereabouts of two of which Is undertermined today. One daughter—Sophie, aged 6—is at Gar- fleld Hospital suffering from an at- tack of whooping cough. The two others are adopted children. Following the autopsy, . Martyn refused to make a definite dlagnosis ! without supporting evidence which is ito be gained from the post mortem analysis. He said, however, that the kidneys and liver and heart apparent- ly were in normal condition, thereby eliminating certain types of poisons known to cause death through their effects on these organs. Died Week Ago. Abing died a week ago today after v Ll;ll to reports received from Tomsk | t | | | Monday. will cause several important | increase of 10 per i baving suffered from what he thought ! was kidney or liver trouble for more than a week. Mrs. Abing toid police that “From 'Preu to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes < Yesterday’s as fast as the papers are printed. | Russians Spare - 45 Doomed to Die for Praying; BY GEORGE WITTE. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Dally News. Copyright, 1923. BERLIN, June 30.—Rain is re- iving religion in Russia. Accord- orty-five peasants were con- demned to death because they were caught praying for sunshine after twelve weeks of continual rain. When the sentences were announced thousands of peasants rushed to the churches to beg the saints to let the sun shine and at the same time save the lives of those facing death. Because they fear a peasant up- rising, the bolshevist authorities have hesitated in carrying out the death sentences and this has re- sulted in a strong revival of ligion throughout the eastern provinces of Russia. The latest dispatches from Rus- sia tell of dwarfed wheat and shrunken corn with the rail still pouring down in torrent CLIFFORD RESIGNS TREASURY POST AS| BIG SHIFTS BEGIN Assistant Secretary Explains Step Not Due to Re- organization. Col. Edward Clifford, assistant sec- retary of the Treasury, has decided to resign. Within a few weeks, it is understood, he will leave to re- sume his' busin®ss in Illinois. At the rame time it was learned at the Treasury that Secretary Mel- lon has ordered a complete reorgani- zation of the bureaus and offices of the Treasury, effective Monday. There was understood to be no connection between the resignation of Col. Clif- ford and the reorganization of the |Treasury. To Resume Business. The reason for Col. Clifford's resignation is unofficially said to be his desire to return to the more lucrative fleld of business and finance which he left to serve the govern- ment in the Army during the waf and since as assistant Secretary of the Treasury. Col. Clifford is understood to feel that he has given enough of his time in the publie service. At the Treasury today Col. Ciif- ford would not discuss his intended resignation, but it was learned that for some time he had contemplated retiring.. Had Three Burea Col. Clifford has been in charge of (the bureau of the public health serv- . ice, the supervising architect's office | Until the cause of death has been | #nd the coast guard. He has served since the beginning of the present administration. In addition to his regular duties he was called upon at various times to assume the heavy responsibilities of the other assistant secretaries, who have been absent. During the interim between resig- nation of Assistant Secretary Elmer Dover, who was the first to leave Secretary Mellon's staff, and the ap- pointment of Judge Moss, Col. Clif- ford was in charge of the cdliection of the customs and the internal reve nue bureau, Undersecretary Gilbert has an- nounced his intention of resigning, and will probably leave upon the re- turn of Secretary Mellon, in August. Secretary Melion has thus lost three of his assistants and will have two vacancies to fill. The reorganization of the Treasury, ordered by Secretary Mellon, effective changes in the administration of the ner Is to establish whether polson or | department. Refuse to Talk No official comment on the reason Possibility of poison.' for the changes could be obtained at ! the Treasury.today. Secretary Mel- lon is absent in Europe on vacation, Undersecretary Gilbert was in New | i York on private business, and the assistant secretaries, including Col Ciifford, were all disinclined to dis- cuss the matter of policy which had actuated the change. The order by Secretary Mellon su- persede his previous order of August 9, 1921. ‘Generally speaking, Secretary Mels lon -outlined the position of ‘“under- secretary” aythorizing him *“to act, for and by direction of the Secretary of the Treasury in any branch of the department.” He also represents the Secretary in dealings with the Fed- eral Reserve oBard, the War Finance Corporation and the Farm Loan Board. The offices of the three assistant secretaries_are outlined in the new order as the “assistant secretary In charge of fiscal offices” which at | present is held by Col. Clifford; the “assistant secretary in charge of foreign loans and miscellaneous,” now in charge of Ellot Wadsworth, and the “assistant secretary in charge of the collection of the revenues,” now in charge of Judge Moss. Burden Taken Off. The office of the undersecretary, which will be in charge of “the finances,” has, under the reorgani- zation, been relieved somewhat from its overburden by the transfer of the commissioner of public debt to the office of Col. Clifford. The under- secretary takes over the “section of (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) (Con.inued on Page 2, Column 2.) LADY ASTOR TUGS LORD’S COAT TO END SPEECH; HOUSE LAUGHS | By the Associated Press. LONDON, June 30.—Lady Astor, tug- ging at the coattalls of Sir Frederick George Banbury in a vain effort to in- duce him to stop speaking so that she and her liquor bill might have the right of way, sent the house of commons into peals of laughter last evening, in which the grave speaker was obliged to join. The opportunity of finishing the final stages of her measure had arisen and Lady Astor was eagerly hoping that the house could get to it if only she could placate Sir Frederick, who is a sworn opponent of her bill and who in- cidentally looks with disfavor upon the admission of women to parliament, al- though he is personally friendly to the ‘member for Sutton. As the time approached for considera tion of her measure, Lady Astor took a seat on the step at Sir Frederick's feet. | the debate on the agricultural credits bill and pald no attention to the plead- ings she addressed to him. Displaying great _impatience, Lady Astor finally tugged at his coattails trying to force him to sit down, while the house laughed heartily. At last Banbury stopped. ‘There were five_minutes left for consideration of the liquor bill, and great was Lady As- tor's discomfiture when Sir Frederick | immediately began moving amendments to it. Uttering groans of impatience and exclamations of dismay, her lady- ship made a desperate and futliz at- tempt to move closure. This only served to increase the merriment, and when the time limit expired with Banbury still talking and passage of the bill rele- ted to some future time, the laughter urst forth anew. Then Lady Astor from her seat, shook | her fist at the enemy and hastened toward him, gave him a resentful punch, half in fun and half in petulance, while the members shouted with mirth. ;’h bill, however, was not lost, as the government has promised to grant He, however, was well warmed up to | facilities for its eventual passage. Net Circulation, 89,803 * TWO CENTS. 100 HERE O LOSE JOBS BY NEW NAVY YARD WAGE SCALES Force Must Be Cut to Keep Pay Increases Inside Appropriation. WORKERS TO ADVOCATE DEFICIT TO SAVE POSTS Revised Rates Themselves Consid- ered Generally Satisfactory to AlL Wage increases, which become ef- fective tomorrow in all navy yards, will result in furloughing hundreds of employes, it was learned today at the Navy Department. Approximately 100 workers at the Washington yard will be released the latter part of next week. The total number to be laid off at the various navy yards, it was said, will depend on how many can be carried on the allotment for the new fiscal year. Fifty at the local yard have been furloughed during the past month. The 100 slated to go next week will reduce the force to about 2,800. The personnel during the war was about 10,000. Will Urge Deficit. While commending the Navy De- partment for granting the increase, N. P. Alifas, president of District No. 44, International Association of Ma- chinists, sald today that it is re- grettable that the reduction in the working forces has been found necessary. Mr. Alifas said his organization will urge the Navy Department to in- cur a deficiency instead of discharg- ing workers. believing that such step is justified. The department also will be asked, he said, not Lo let out any work that can be done in the government yaras to private con- wractors. “When wages go up gress makes an approp Mr. Alitas, “Congress suouida iner the appropriation i it wants the same amount of work don Kaive 1s Appreciated. after ation,” Con- said The new wage scales, he pointed out, will meet with general satisfaction among the men. The men at local yard, however, he said, feel that they should have been granted the 85 cents an Nour which they asked, but, in view of the cconomy In the government, ‘they will accept the &0 cefts an hour scale withuut protest and with appreciation for the cousid- Cialiull piven Wiewl by the depart- mental Wage poard. All data reiating to furloughing the additional 100 workers were turned over oudy 10 swear admiral B, P Hutenmson, wao succeeded near Ad- mirai J. H. Dayton as comuandant Admiral Daywen wil leave wasiun ton o take up liS New Ass.gament with the speciul service squadron in Central Americu. Adniral mucninson comes 1rom tue Iacinic neet, where he Was tne calel of scar New Rates Tomorrow. The new wage scales, computed upon rates prevailing in similar Imes f commercial work, will become | effective tomorrow in all navy yards fand naval shore establishment | while the rate for every trade varied {as between yards, there was a general :nt for tne helper |and arusan group; 1z per cent for the lower grades of ciericai, tecauical and drafting groups, aunda avodt luv D jcent for ine nigher grades of the: Same traaes. Lnanges In pay for common labor wouiu not be approxi- mated, the departneut &auanounced s.nce they were drawn to meet i0Ca conditions in the vicinity of each yard. The machinists in the local yard get an increase of 7 cems an nour over the former wage of (3 cents. Hoiler- makers will receive b0 cents an hour; patternmakers, wu cents; biacksmith neipers, b4 cents, and common labor, b0 cents. Examples of Seales. Typical examples of the new rates at the other yards, indicating the va- j riations, follow: | Blacksmith helper—Mare Island, 62 cénts an hour; Boston, 61; Philadel- phia, 59, and Norfolk, 53. Common _labor—Boston, Newport, 48; Norfolk, 38 31, and New Orleans, Stevedore—Portsmouth, 58 New York, 62, and Norfoik, 46. Firemen—Boston, 70 cents; York, 73, and Key West, Machinists—Boston, 67 cents; New | York, 70; Norfolk, 63, and Mare Is- land, 73. | i 50 cents: Charleston, cents; New Rate for Divers, Divers will receive $1.86 an hour throughout the service and masons and plasterers $1.12 an hour at all yards except on the west coast, where the pay will be §1.15. Sea-going pilots and tug masters at New York and Norfolk were given 183,000 a year and at other yards $2,400 | to $2,700. | “The new wage scales are based on the report of the departmental wage board, which replaces the one made by the same board in May, which was recalled by Secretury Denby because of the general dissatistaction e {denced both among civilian employes and naval officials in churge of the yards. Commandants of most yards reported it would be difficult, if not | impossible to maintain their forces in the face of outside competition, if the May schedules were approved. Or- ganized groups of workers declared {that the list of civilian establish iments used in determining the pay Jhad been “paddes” with unrepresenta- tive plants. Considered Improvement. The new award, in the opinion of the workmen's representatives, com- prised a material improvement in | compensation for the principal trades 88 compared with that offeved in the | May award. While some increases | were made in the recalled schedules | such advances were practically offset, {they said, by reductions in other lines. {The workmen contended that the old award was unfair because the data upon which it had been based was collected before the spring improve- ment in industry had stimulated pay in many trades. The latest award was computed on new statistics gathered within the last six weeks. 2