Evening Star Newspaper, May 14, 1924, Page 5

U. S. RAILROADS AID ALIEN SHIPS, CHARGE 0'Connor Condemns “Unholy Al- liances” Which Hamper American Marine. 869 VESSELS LYING IDLE Shipping Board Head Declares Japan Is Benefiting. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. “Unholy alliances” between American ‘Tailroad companies and foreign ship- Ping lines are hampering the develop- Ment of the American merchant Marine, according to T. V. O'Connor, Chairman of the United States Shipping Board. For the purpose ,of insuring themselves profitable freight busin Mr. O'Connor de certain Ameri- can railroads_have entered info con- Tracts with foreizn navigation com- panies whereby American shipments \ Systematically "are diverted to thelr YVessels. As the Shipping Board chair- Mman views it, American railroads are thus placing barriers in the path of the American merchant marine. To such tactics Mr. O'Connor as- cribes the fact that many of the 366 government-owned vessels are operated W2 loss and deprived of cargoes to . Which they are legitimately entitled. It is because of conditions like th Mr. O'Connor contends, that Uncle has a tied-up and idle fleet of 869 steel ships, many of which might otherwise be profit-makers. O’Connor to Voice Views. Chairman O'Connor this week isad- dressing at Detroit a convention of shippers, merchants and exporters, who will confer on transportation problems and foreign trade. He e pects there will be railroad tives in his audience. He hopes s because he intends calling a spade a spade when discussing the readin of some American carriers to discrim inate against United States ocean shipping. Mr. O'Connor cites as an example of “‘what we are up against” the con- tracts entered into by the Great Northern railway and the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railway with the two leading Japanese steamship lines. According to the Shipping Board chieftain, these roads have agreaments with the Nippon Yusen Kaisha line, which makes its Ameri- can headquarters in the port of Se. attle, and the Toyo Kisen Kaisha 1i which sends its vessels out Francisco. Freight Selicited for Japanese. Under these agreements, Mr. O'Con- nor explains, every agent working for the American railroads in ques tion is a solicitor of freight busin ¥Yor the Japanese companies. These companies are in direct and _daily competition with both American gov- ernment-owned and privately owned vessels. There is not an important port in the far east and _intermediate points that American flag ships do not touch in the course of regular services. Our boats afford, broadly '\ Epeaking, every facility which the Japanese lines offer, both as to rates, time and other factors. But the two Ereat northwestern trunk lines, al- lied by contract with the Japanese companies, are required, in effect, to work against the competing Ameri- can merchant marine. As an_example of how the combi- nation is working to the detriment of TUnited States shippins, the Shin- ping Board is in po: ion of data showing that of 75000 tons of freight recently carried over the Great Northern and C, M. & St. P.; lines to the Pacific coast, 71,000 tons were loaded aboard Japanese bot- toms, and only 4,000 aboard American Wbottoms. Complains of Loan. Chairman O'Connor asserts there is also & legitimate grievance in con- nection_with the $100,000,000 loan which Wall street recently made to the Japanese government. It was un- derstood, he says, that at least $80,- 000,000 of the loan would be spent in the United States for purchase of American _supplies, mostly earth- Quake reconstruction materials. Mr. O'Connor does not doubt that this part of the bargain is being, or will be, faithfully kept. But he de- Clares that there is no evidence that any of the profitable freight business Fesultant from such purchases has * been consigned to Japan in American ships. 1t IS _going there in Japanese vessels. The shipping chairman s this is ""an injustice.’ m"‘?r";cts for mutual profit between American railroads and foreign ship- ping lines are nothing new,” said hairman O'Connor to this writer. “Since the Shipping Board was es- uablished we have ordered several big trunk systems to cancel their ar- rangements where we found them di- rectly = discriminatory against our Ships. Our merchant marine will never reach the point it is entitled to reach, and easily can reach, until there is vastly greater teamwork among American merchants, manu- facturers, shippers and railway com- panies. Would Emulate Foreigners. “Instead of abusing foreign shipping companies for ‘stealing our business,’ We should emulate the businesslike methods they pursue. If they can, as they do, persuade their own people to Vnsist that goods purchased in the United States shall be shipped across the Atlantic or Pacific in non-Ameri- an ships, that is their privilege. It {s our duty to see that nothing like that is ‘put over us’ Foreign buyers need our produce just as badly as we need to sell it. They do not buy it because they love us. They buy it be- cause they find it necessary or profit- o do so. 3 ) e United States Shipping Board has deferred the effective date of sec- tion 28 of the shipping act, for, the ose of giving exporters and im- Porters full opportunity to adjust Themselves to the situation which that piece of American legislation creates. It is doing exactly what the ‘fiflllsh exporters and importers rec- ommended in their recent meeting, Where this emphatic declaration was made: m Cites British Example. Great Britain is to maintain m‘d! tmprove her predominating place in world-wide com- merce, there must be systematio and cordial co-operation in the felation of the shipowner, the hipbuilder and the cargo owner 0 ‘bis respective capacities of ufacturer, merchant, importer Ded exporter.” No longer can they Ay on their affairs in water- tight compartments, treating each tection as having interests alien the other. wrnis declaration,” says Mr. O'Con- nor, “is one which, in an American- [O% form, should be posted in_every business office in the United States. The cargo producer—that is, the The afacturer, the farmer, the rail- Mm% company, the ship owmer and the ship operator—have a community 8° interest. Let them realize this “fact, as their British competitors fact for decade after decade real- ized it. Let them act accordingly, as Jred foreign competitors are doing, e the result will be an increase in “nd Soreign trade, business for our S rchant shipping and an increased rosperity for all” (Copyright, 1924.) Modical Glasses Fitted McOermiak Eyes Ezamined Dr. CLAUDE S. SEMONES Eyesight Specialist 409410 McLachlen Bldg. o and G Sts. H.W: Don't nt Until Hot Weather, Have Awnings Made Now! Yt means saving and you will be ready for the hot days. Paperbanging and painting, ' Charges very reasenable. CORNELL WALL PAPER CO. £ 514 13th St. N.W., Main 5373-5374 A\ e THE WEATHER District of Columbla, Maryland and Virginia—Unsettled weather, probably showers, tonight and tomorrow; mod- crate temperature. Gentle to moder- ate southerly winds. West Virgiria—Showers this after- noon and tonight; slightly cool>r in West portion tonight; tomorrow cloudy. Records for Twenty-Four Hours. Temperature for twenty-four hours: Thermometer, 4 pm, 74; 8 pm., 67; 12 midnight, 59; 4 am., 56; 8 a.m., 62; noon, 71. ‘Barcmeter, 4 pm. 39.81 inches; § pm. 29.83; 12 midnight, 29.86; 4 a.m., 29.84; 8 am., 29.35; noon, Highest temperature, 75, ocourred at 3:40 pm., yesterday: lowest tem- perature, 55, occurred at 6 am. today. Temperature same date last year— Highest, 71; lowest, 47. Condition of the Water. Temperature and condition of the water at Great Falls at 8 a.m—Tem-~ perature, 54; oondition, very, very muddy. Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States and geodetio survey.) Today—Low tide, 10:30 am, 10:49 pm; high tide, 3:44 am. 4:06 p.m. Tomortow—Low tide, 11:25 am., and 11:10 p.m.; high tide, 4:39 am., and §:04 p.m. The Sun and Moon. Today—Sun rose 4:57 a.m.; sun sets 7:13 pum. Tomorrow—Sun sun sets 7:13 pm. Moon riscs 2:22 p.m.; sets 2.25 am. Automobile lamps to be lighted one-half hour after sunset. Weather in Various Citles. coast and and rises 4:56 am; Stations. Pt.cloudy Ee.cloudy ¢ cloud Atlantie Cify [ ¥ Baltimore . Cloudy Clear’ Rain ansas City. Los Angeles. Louisril r Cloudy Cloudy Clear Cloudy Pt.cloudy Clear Raleigh ... S. Lake City P an 46 02 86 s FOREIGN. (8 am., Greenwich time, today.) Stations. * Temperature. Weather. London, England . ar Paris, France . ar Copenhagen, Denmark Part cloody Stockhoim, 'Sweden . Part cloudy Gibraltar,’ Spain . Clear Horta (Fayal), Azor Part cloody Hamilton, Bermuda San Juan, Colon, Canai Zone. Argentina Weather Data. For the week ending May 12, 192 Mean Dept. Avg. temp'as from pre- tore. o'mal. cip. northern € o 43 Southern wheat area. 54 1 ISSUES MONTGOMERY GRADUATION LISTS County Superintendent Announces High School Students Who Will Be Honored This Year. Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md, May 14.—Prof. Edwin W. Broome, county super- intendent of schools, has announced the following as this year's graduates of the various high schools of the county: Rockyille: Academic department— Mary Margaret Rome, Nellie May Poes, Isabel Renneberger, May Louise Wood, Minnie Eudora Gardner, Olive Speake Edmonds, Elizabeth Colburn Markland. Emagene Porter, Myra G. Hicks, Eiizabeth Edmonston Hicks, Virginia R. Norman, Horace Wilson Bennett, Harry Spillman Burns, Julian Upton Bowman, Clifford Aldis Robertson, Herbert E. Ward, Joseph Harrls Stonestreet, Enoch Wellford Mason, Douglas Washington Long, Albin F. Knight, Thomas Lee Robey and William Summers Shoemaker, Commercial department—Mary Grace Clagett, Edna North Chiswell, Katherine Rebecca Benson, Eleanor Caroline Bean, Alma Lucille Hutch- inson, Avlynne Dorothy Carey, Lottie Belle Penn, Dorothy Merle Magruder, Elizabeth Shaw Virts, Ruth Louise Thompson, Bessie Thompson, Loretta Jane Umstead, Harriet Stans- bury Kimpton, Lillian Alpha Hamke, Helen Marjorie McLaughlin, Roecoe Feldman Garrett, Russell Lee Bogley. Gaithersburg: _Academic depar! ment—Laura _ Woodville Bohrer, Loraine Elizabeth Watkins, Gene. vieve Marie Selby, Vivian Sophia Reid, Frances Willard Walker, Kath ryn Elizabeth Soper, Mabel Frances King, Wilma Louise _ Watkins, Dorothy Virginia Hershey, Mary Dare Wells, " Elizabeth Bird Heil, Clara Evelyn Fulks, Edna Mae King, Naom! Ohler Butts, 'William Ralph Walker, Edgar Lee Higgins, Lycurgus Mat- thew Griffith, Wesley Dorr Hargett, James Windham and.John Wakefield. Poolesville: Academic department— Louise Wade Kohlhoss, Elsie Marie Brooks, Marguerita _Elizabeth N. Dept. from o'mal, 15 410 04 [ Desirable THE personal attention of the principal is always very much to be desired; naturally, he is more concerned with making sure that satis- factory service is bei given than any underling <A S AV as e It Woag et wd e ) W —~ THE DECLARES PHILLIPS BURNED EVIDENCE Witness Says Georgian Took Rec- ords From Him in Raleigh Hotel. BURNED IN THE BASEMENT Employes at Building Afirm De- struction Story. John L. Phillips, chalrman of the Republican state committee of Georgia, was accused today of de- stroying incriminating records which James I. M. Wilson of Philadelphia had brought with him when Wilson was summoned in June, 1922, to testify before the grand jury which Wwas investigating the alleged fraud in connection with the sale of surplus lumber from Army cantonments. Wilson, a government witness, had known Phillips for ten years when both had been employed by a lumber concern and admitted he had borrow- ed $1,000 from Phillips, whom he ac- cused yesterday of exacting $4,500 as a bonus to close a sale of a portion of the lumber to the Mueller Lumber Company of Philadelphia. The witness said he had not been called by the grand jury on the date of his arrival in Washington and so took his records with him to the Raleigh Hotel where Phillips also had a room. Phillips visited the room of Wilson and they went over the con- tents of the satchel in which the wit- ness had brought the documents. When he came across certain records Phillips, according to the witness, took the papers and announced his intention_of destroying them. Made No Objeetion. On cross-examination the witness ad- mitted he made no objection when Phillips took the papers and did not re- port their taking to the hotel authori- ties. On the next day, Wilson said, Phillips told him that the papers had been burned. The government then summoned em- ployes of the hotel, one a bellhop and the other a colored fireman, who cor- roborated the burning of papers by Phil- lips. It developed that Phillips called for the bellboy and inquired whers he could burn some papers, and was told that they might be put in the boiler. The bellboy said he went with Mr. Phillips, who carried a bundle wrapped in a newspaper, and when they reached the boiler room Phillips handed the bundle to the fireman with the request that it be burned, and the bundle was placed in the fire. The fireman cor- roborated the bellboy, but neither could say what was in the bundle. Testimony Barred Out. Justice Bailey in Criminal Division 2 yesterday afternoon refused to admit testimony concerning a conversation with Phillips in reference to a division of a fund of $4,500, which Wilson had declared Phillips had exacted as a bonus for selling him a quantity of the Army surplus lumber. Wilson testified that there was a shortage in the quantity of lumber contracted for, s on complaint Phillips returned $750 or the $4,500. Phillips, he stated. gave him $1,000 in money, and he had one of the bills changed, and, after taking the $750, gave the remaining $250 to Phillips. Received No Momey. The witness was cross-examined by Attorney Douglas and admitted that he knew Phillips was a government agent and the witness was an agent for a purchaser of the lumber. Wil- son said he was not in the employ of Mueller & Co., which hought the lum- ber, did not receive one cent of com- pensation _and did not expect any payment for acting as agent of the company. He never saw the money which he declared he paid to Phil- lips, the witness admitted. An en- velope was handed to him in Phila- delphia, he said. and he gave it to Phillips in Washington. The witness asserted he did not count the money nor did Phillips in his presence. Asked by Attorney Douglas how it was that he knew there was $4,500, the witness said he was later told about the amount. His Rude Awakening. From the Kanmas City Ttmes. Evelyn—Why worry? We can live on love, dear. Vaughn—You may love me but the landiord and grocer don't. —_— Myerly, Eloise Wootton Chiswell, Sarah Copstance Chiswell, Robert Wilkerson Allnutt, William Wallace Poole, Arthur Carpenter Elgin, Allen Dawson Allnutt., Sandy Spring: Academic depart- ment—Bettie Taylor Stabler, Frances Mildred Leishear, Catherine Lucille Bond, Catherine Elsie Ervin, Estelle Howson Janney, Marian L, Fraley, Alice Mae Hines, Mildred Eva Bryan, Mary Rebecca Baker, Muriel T. Tur- ner, Allan Farquhar Thomas, Jimmie Powell, Albert Hargett, William Rod- gers Hoyle, Lee Jennings Wilson, Lewis W. Barnsley. General—Paul J. Abbott. Fairland: Academic department— Gladys Catherine Baker, Warren Durfee Adams, Woodward Clark Adams, Truman H. Cissel and James Earl Lehmann. Damascus: Academic department— Mary Lee Stanley, Genevieve Milli- neaux, Eethel Mae Burns. Commercial department—Atta Virginia Ander- son. Dickerson—Irving Lawrence Fisk, Nellie White and Grace Elizabeth market-place If you have an Auto you want to sell—adver- tise it in The Star Clas- sified Section. Y€ vou are interested in L. “ng a Used Car— refer t. “hat Section and _y?u’ll fi... many prom- ising prosgc.:s. The Star Ci: sified Section is closely read by_almost everybox in Washington—that's why The Star prints MORE Classified Ads every day than all ~the other papers here combined. “Around the Cornes™ is a Star Branch Office ® McClure Newspaper Syndicate GLovAS WILLIAMS U. S. POSITIONS OPEN. Civil Service Commission An- nounces Examinations. The Civil Service Commission today announced examinations to fill vacan- cles in the following positions: Plant quarantine inspector, federal horticultural board, Department of Agriculture, at $1,860 a year; junior agronomist, junior botanist, junior dalry manufacturing speclalist, junier horticulturist, junior landscapé archi- tect, junior nematologist, junior physiologist, junior plant breeder, junior plant Introducer, junior pomol- ogist, junior seed botanist. Depart- ment of Agriculture, at §1,860 a year; reconstruction assistant, occupationai therapy, Veterans' Bureau, at $1.400 to $1,600 a year; physiotherapy aide, public health service, at $720 to $960 a year and quarters, subsistence and laundry: physiotherapy aide, at $1.600 00 a year: physiotherapy pupil a t $1,000 to $1,400 a year, Vet- erans Bureau; teacher of home economics, at $760 to $840 a year and furnished quarters, heat, light, and subsistence; principal of home eco- nomics, at $1,000 to $1,200 a year and furnished quarters, heat, light and subsistence, Indian’service; assistant poultryman (qualified in nutrition and physiology), bureau of animal industry, Department of Agriculture, at $2,400 a year; Instrument maker, bureau of mines, Department of the Interfor, for duty at Pittsburgh, Pa., at $1,500 a year; apprentice coppei plate map engraver, geological sur- vey, Department of the Interior, at $900 a year, and hydrographic office of Navy Department, at $1,500 a year; first-class steam-electric engineman, at $1,680 a year: second-class steam- electric engineman, at $1.320 a year: third-class steam engineman, at $300 a year, departmental and Indian EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, MAY T4, 1924 THE MINUTE THAT SEEMS A YEAR. —By GLUYAS WILLIAMS. WHEN, HAVING MADE THE ONE POSSIBLE WRONG LEAD, YOUR PARTNER. THROWS YOU THAT LOOK WHICH MEANS THAT AS A BRIDGE PLAYER- YOU OUGHT TO STICK TO MAH JONGG services; poultryman, Indian service, at $900 to $1,200 a year and quarters. fuel and light. Full information and application blanks may be obtained at the office of the Civil Service Com- mission, 1724 F street northwest. May dolls, which are paraded on May day in Devonshire, England, and in parts of Wales, arec believed to have represented the Virgin and Child, for many of the dolls carried small dolls in their laps. « From_the AVEN UE &t Continuing the Sale of 335, $370 Sizes for stout men, short men, regulars—and men higher-up. The whole alpha- bet of materials— worsteds, serges —and so forth. Styles for men with conservative ideas or men who want a bit of the swagger. 45 and *50 Suits Tomorrow will be the last day of the sale. 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