Evening Star Newspaper, November 17, 1925, Page 17

AT THE SHENANDOAH HEARING. ard of the Marine Corps, appointed the new judge adve court probing the Shenandouh disaster, and Capt. Paul Foley, U. . who resigned as judge advocate. SHE GOES TO WORK EACH DAY IN A TRUCK. “the world's fattest woman,” arriving at a theater in New York. The block and ta truck was contracted for by the theater’s press agent. AUDACIUS THEF ROBS T2 HOUSES| Series of Thefts in Brookland Last Night Nets Little in Loot. and_skillfully, a entered approximatel al houses in the Michigan Park rookland sections between mid- | night and o’'clock this morning, get- ng little loot but 1 alarm ar apprehension in his wake as discov- of his visits began to ple up this rnin Ior almost the entire morning one eport followed another into the twelfth precinct station, each marked | with some detail r to the one | that preceded it. same system was used over a route. In many es the entry was made thraugh un- Jocked windows. Nine reports had been made to the e up until 10 o'clock toc Detective Osc ported | it there were a few houses believed | to have been entered which were not | reported to the police. i Police believe that the series of usebreakings started at the home of | D, Degendorf at 4206 Twelfth | northeast, which was | ar window. At th wurglar furnish 1f | wercoat, after i rating boldly place [ Gets Little Loot. Phe second house to be entered was | just around the corner, in the opini of the where it was definitely ary took | 30 “o’clock | s the b 7T Entry was A §$5 bill was The fi this morning f Robert V. Montg stre north through a rear window <tolen from the sideboard. 5 1 then. it 1 down is believed, to Newton home of James W. | corner of Sixteenth | he ot in by the side | ime and ed the | Nothing w -n. Only | away, at _the home of | 3 Newton street | Yobbery was re- 1lso entry was obtained | dow: the first tioc wnd $5 in change v wended his treet, entering D on at the street northeust; window this lower tloor. w few do the ported. Here by the v was ransack stolen. The burglar then eviden kipped | two blocks and made his next entry nt 1510 Newton street northeast, once | wore through the rear window, ran racking the lower floor of the home of \ ¥red Tannell, but taking nothing with Yim neat as | Takes $30 and Watch. e was o hiatus. rusebreaker next scene of opers on was at 1323 Jackson street north- | the home of Mrs. Fred J. Tryon. containing $30 | was taken. tere @ pocketbook » opendface watch house was about four block: th and two blocks west of the vious one. The fixing of approxi-| mately 4 oclock this morning es the | me of entry enabled police to infer the relative position of this house on t ute. The burglars continued | a block und entered the home of | Robert L. Trainer son | through a side win-| 1 sund floor. but | Airs, reet northeast, ow, ransacking £ uothii Then the burglar swung far to.the K | Catholic Charities of District of Co- | Church and Delinquenc | getting | ditional reports this morning. W0, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1925. Left 10 right: Maj. Henry Leon- ate of the Navy THE MAYOR-ELECT GOES INTO recently elected Mayor of New York he was given the Copyrizht by P.'& A. Photos. <ociety. Mme. Jolly kle to get her from the Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. Philadelphia Seeks “Baron” on Charge Of $7.000 Swindle “Baron™ Beaverbrool ma wany aliases, wanted the po- lice of this and other cities to answer charges of having courted and married numerous women and disappeared with their cash and jewelry, was mentioned as John Victor Weidemeir, allas Frederick B. Stanley, in a message received from the Philadelphia police last night. Caleb J. Brinton, chief of detec- tives of the Quaker C: for his arrest on u charg larceny of jewelr amount of $7,000. the affair were given, but It tor Grant takes it for grantec it resulted from one of the swindler’s whirlwind courtships. MANY TO ATTEND DINNER FOR CATHOLIC CHARITIES More Than 1,000 Guests Expected at Mayflower Hotel Evening of November 23. m of York, students when the school’s NAVY YARD BOARD DECLARED INEXPERT ’ Representa- of he Knights of Columius und for | tive Says Body Fixes Wages ! of the District of Columbla, will be | i the toastmaster. The principal speak- ers will be Most Rev. Michael J. Cur ley, archbishop of Baltimore; William ‘Adoo, chief magistrate of New 2 fikc City, who will speak on “The Incompetence of 3 and Miss | Board to consider wage data ommend wages for nav ers, constituted at_pre it 1 officer: ed to by More than 1,000 persons are expect ed to attend the annual dinner of the iumbia at the Mayflower Hotel on November 23. At a meeting of the various committees at the Mayflower last night it was announced that more than 500 tickets have already been sold and that a number of additional requests have been made for t D. J. Callahan. supreme tre: nd r work- rely of . was point tatives ‘of the em. | fattingly, president of the So Unlon of the*District of Colum who will speak on “What the | Volunteer has to Contribute to C‘atho. lic Charities The dinner will be pr ceded by a reception hy Archbishop ! Curley. at-the Navy Department. The = { not at t on the board any | who knows anything about industr at 619 | management or is versed in the mo; 1 said J. N. Davis. who | ‘King | was presenting the plea of the hoile shard | makers for an increased pay The Wage Board of Review is con. ducting hearings of the employ the recommendations t 19 | boards of the Washington navy vards and naval stations for the w of navy vard' workers for the | The law requires that the Wages of these workers be based an- nually on the rates of pay given by | private ablishments carrying on similar work in the vicinity of each | yard. { s Says Data Is Ignored. i Mr. Davis charged that the local | board absolutely ignored the weighted | averages as shown by the data collec- | tor, and recommended rates of pay 10 cents an hour less than the averages all for. : | "“The data collected by the workers, Police recalled a similar serfes in | he said, showed & much higher aver- the Brookland section approximately | yge than that collected by the boards a year ago when a hobo working his | of naval officers, but even accepting way South made a series of such|the hoards’ data, they recommended its. They are inclined to believe | Jess. He contended that this was not that the same sort of a person is re-| only an injustice to the workers, but south, making his next entry Girard street snortheast, once through a re: window, rans: the first floor of the home of R E. Oliff, but taking nothing ‘What was probably the entered was the home of Osc around the corner from CIft's Sixth street northeast. where Mrs. Lloyd, arising at 5 o'clock, caught sight of 2 man with who was frightened ap- peared. Mrs. L d she was un- able to identify the man, Police believe that this lust happen ing convinced the burglar that it wa: too late for further opera and that he stopped at this on | loca nd other tions, voint. Three other housebreakings in th route, it is belleved by police, were perpetrated, but not reported. De- tective Mansfield is rounding up ad- y to Coral Gabl FEMININE CHEER LEADERS KEEP THE TEAM “ON | trom sponsible here because of the facili- | was not intended by the framers of ties for hopping off freight trains as | the law. they pausc in the vizht in the north In many cases, the data on which Braokland . sectlon, | the boards base-their recommendation SOCIETY. When “Jimmy” Walker, City. visited Florida a few days ago le= and a_big reception by Florida Miss Heten e of Semerville, Mass.. a sophomore in high school, who has been judged the best bread baker in Massachusetts. She is awarded a trip to Chicago, all ex- penses paid Copyrighit by P. & A. Photor. Left to right: Mrs. Joseph Slevin, Mrs. William M. Haskell and Miss Theresa R. O'Donahue. officers of the National Council of Catholic Women, which i: ITS TOES.” team goes on the gridiron. ve helpers in higher rate of pa; particular trades a than the mechani The board, he said, determines rates of pay for three of four classes of navy yard workers from the rates of pay of one certain class on the out- side. As to this feature, he saio, he had been unable to get any satisfac tory explanation from the local boards as to why this was done, and he did not believe that the general hould permit it to exi: The local boards, he said, should be | where men working in the navy yard omposed of at least one man who is tamiliar with industrial methods and management, and he pointed out that | alongside of them were paid consider- under the present organization of there enced not on them one man experi- n the mechanical art Data Available. He cited numerous where the boards h ply with the ages on which pay. s should for the hoilermak sidiary ¢ ifications would show :nts to $1 an hour, he said, and the least the board should have recommended wa 5 s an hour Robert S. Hopkins, representing the boilerraakers of the Philadeiphia 1, said from the data at hand it ppeared that some ing the truth, pointing out that the Philadelphia board recommended 83 cents an hour, f: the large Philadelphia plant showed th ould have received at least 86 cents. He cited figures to show that holders-on were recommended for 59 cents an hour, while the weighted average showed that they should get 79 cents. Welders Often Disabled. Serious occupational diseases are de- veloped among the welders, Mr. Davis said when he returned to the stand. These men lose much time, and some of them have been pronounced men- tally and physically disabled; and for these reasons, he said, they should be given much consideration in fixing their pay. i N i, heate dor ) ciiy notwithstanding _the | ct that information collected from | ! ! Without Trade Knowledge. | these boards entirely of naval officers i alleged instances | show that the coppersmiths and sheet d failed to com- | metal rules in figzuring the aver- | yard were recommended for 83 cents to base the rates of | an hour, whereas similar worker: nd showed the board what he | private establishments hearing before the | contended was evidence that full data | were receiving $1.31% an hour. General Wage Board of Review | could have been obtained by the local | havis saia that e tete tnat ne| ONE DEAD, THREE HURT | and their sub-| one was mot tell-| chief of police of McKees Rocks, a ' | By the Associated Press. now holding Copyright by Harris & Ewing. They control the vocal demonstrations of ers, sald that the helpers when re- quired to fill the positions of their principals during absences of thd lat ter should receive the®principals’ rates of pay. He was followed by John M. Gouthler of the Washington navy yard, who sald that there was a great trouble in the gun factory in getting this increased pay. Ed Murray, representing the engine- board | men and other trainmen at the Phila~ defphia vard, cited specific instances for private contractors and doing the same work as yard employes working ably more money. In some ins sald, the difference was between 83 cents an hour for navy vard work- ers and $1.30 an hour for private con- tractors’ employes in the navy vard. Data was submitted to the board to workers at ' the Washington at in this city gh Suburb | Shot in Face in Effort to | Arrest Men. PITTSBURGH, November 17—One man was killed and three others, in-' cluding two Cleveland men and the suburb, were wounded seriously last night in a gun battle in Joseph Che-! offe’s home. The shooting, it is be-, lieved, was done by persons who| sought to avenge the wounding of a| friend. Cheoffe, whose life had been threat- ened since he wounded Patsy Vali- a party of gunmen who drove up to his house in an automobile bearing an Illinois license. Edward Reider, the| police chief, who attémpted to arrest | the assailants, received a load of buckshot in the face. Samvel Mincatto and Samuel Fog- | lio of Cleveland were shot in the ab- iomen. The police expressed the be- lief that Cheoffe shot the Cleveland men before he dropped. Two of the gunmen, armed witf riot speaking | shwtzuns, escaped after shooting Che- belpers and haguuer- offe in the chesty ORPHANS ENJOY THE LARGEST APPLE CARE EVER BAKED. REAR ADMIRAL STRAUSS RETIRES AFTER LONG SERVICE IN NAVY. Secretary of the Navy Wilbur yesterd y, when Rear Admiral Joseph Strauss retired from the servic Admiral Charles McVay (right!, who succeeds Rear Admiral Strauss (left) as budget officer of the ice of Rear Photograph taken in the o Copright by P. & A. Photo It was prepared for the children of Sar Francisco’s Nursery for Homeless Children, and it contained 7 boxes of apples, 180 pounds of dough, 30 pounds of sugar and 10 pounds of butter. f the Morris High School, New Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. DIPHTHERIA SHOWS [}[][]I_II]GE UPPUSES SLIGHT INCREASE Eleven New Cases in Entire City| Reported by Health Officer Fowler. Eleven ne - s of diphtheria, from all sections of the District, were re- ported to the Health Department to day, but none of the additional cases was from the IKlizabeth V. Brown| The reporting of seven ca that school School. from a es few days ago caused Health Officer Fowler to take the cultures of all the other children in that building, tionary measure. merely as a precau- | The new patients reported today = not in any one locality, but repr: the total d: y. While this usual number of i 's report is -ases, for the entire more than the Dr. Fowler said cases occasionally come in groups. Dr. Fo: the Chev at the er will attend a 1aeeting Chase Citizens' Association | lizabeth V. Brown School to-| of morrow night and outline to the resi- dents of that commu unity what the Health Department is doing to pre- vent the spread of diptheria. PHYSICIANS TO MEET. Medical Society Holds Annual Ses- | Will make plain his ideas concerning | ent included Rev. C sion at Raleigh Hotel Tomorrow. The semi-annual meeting of the Vir- | centi two months ago, was killed by | Sinfa-Maryland-District of - Columbia | Medical Society will be held tomorrow | at 10:30 o'clock at the Raleigh Hotel. | ping Board and the Emergency The feature will be a symposium by | Corporation, will be made public .in | (oprano, gave spe specialists on diseases of the gall blad- der, at which Dr. Oscar Hunter, Dr. W ers. Dr. J. W. Bird of Sandy Spring will | shortly. be in the chair. luncheon there will mmul will be be special served, at which entertainment liam Mallory and Dr. Charles Stan- { ley White will be among the speak- | the best method of disposing of the Hand Grenade Cap, War Relic, Bursts, Boy Badly Injured Explosi; the tr souvenir flicted hand of 1t id had the patient taken to Homeo- pathic Hospital He probably will have to remain in the hospital for week or more. IARINE SUBSIDY 1 Will Not Ask Congress to Au- | thorize Movement, Believing It Impracticable. President Coolidge gave the impres- { ston to c today that he has no intention at this time of urging Con- gress to authorize a ship subsidy the interest of the American chant marine. Tt has been intim and predicted by a@ number of sons who have given the impre: that they were speaking for the Pre: ident that he would appeal to gress for lexfSlation of this r but the President made it ve today that such is not the | _While discussing the subject with callers today the President explained mer | vorably upon some form of subsidy, but he had practically come to the conclusion that it seems to be imprac- ticable at this time. It is thought likely that the Presi- | dent, while discussing the Shipping Board and the Emergency Fleet, in his annual message he is to submit to Congress next month, will touch upon the subject of ship subsidy and this proposal The report made to the President veral days ago by H. G. Dalton, shipping and transportation expert of Cleveland, Ohio, who was appointed by the President to make a personal inquiry into the affairs of the Ship- eet the next day or so. The report made | by the special commission appointed by the President to study the Muscle | Shoals properties and to recommend | properties, also will be made publi The latter report, howeve After the meeting a | is not a unanimous one and attached to it will be the recommendations of the minority members of this com Auission, that he had, in the past, looked fa-| P. & A. Pt Copyrt BISHOP ATTENDS DIAOND JUBILEE ; | Historic Grace Episcopal Church Celebrates 75th Anniversary. | | | | | growth a , urged it to continue it toward the greater uph ding Christian faith and t m of the service of the Episco weh on i nd o text and the the ristian lay nen to the .ord and winn Sove! { Christ Test of Members. tishop Free ch how how great the institution, if 1 casure up to this test s seen in the words of St. John t Divine, that they grow so in g and power of the Lord. his test requires that not of our means, but of our Rishop Freeman prajised the ¥ pal Church upon the g “I care not L clared re the actual members we live a posit a non the ¢ L kindl. place toda promin: Imost pe Y position in this y in which there w toward which in ition in the lives of the ome parts of the worlc alleled in Christian influence. ] Incentive to Zeal. o hould be er zeal, great efficiency, he swid. tatement of one ¢ ern pulpit was “There never W *“when opportunities were greater.” S| Teeman was part of the an incentive 1o g activity and gry He denied th tic that the mod \n__anachronisn a time,” he said of ‘the pulpi ssisted ag the ice by Rev rector « religious | Meade B | e Church g K. P. Cog {stant rector of the Church of th ativity, who was rector of the Gr: Church 17 years s Rishop of St. Thom: Rev | Calvert E. Buck of Christ Church, anc Rev. Encch M. Thompson, vicar of ! the Church of the Nativit George | Anderson, tenor, s M. Rice s at the sery | ice. Following the hour of worship, the congregation adjourned to the A1l adjoining the church, whe clal entertainment was held. Gold production in South Afriea re < been handicapped by a 12,000 n: lnhorers in 3