Evening Star Newspaper, July 1, 1937, Page 4

—4 %% MARITIVE BOARD 10 STUDY WAGES Hearings Scheduled to Start July 13—16 Subsidy Agreements Signed. By the Associated Press. The Maritime Commission will begin soen & study of wages and working conditicns in the American merchant marine. It will be the second step in the substitution of direct E\_Jhsldles for mail contracts of American ships in foreign commerce. A tentative schedule calls for hear- gs on minimum manning and wage scales to begin July 13 in New York, Other hearings will be Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles, New Orleans and Houston. The merchant marine act of 1936 ordered the commission to include in direct subsidy agreements a provision that the operators agree to abide by prescribed standards of wages and working conditions, Signs Subsidy Agreements. ‘The commission has signed subsidy acreements with 16 companies, Chair- man Joseph P. Kennedy announced last night. They give the companies subsidies of about 60 per cent of the amount they would have received under their mail contracts | The commission estimated the total | at $4.645.579. compared with $7.570,- 908 which the mail contracts would have provided in the next six months, | the period covered by the agreements. The subsidies are subject to recap- ture if the earnings of the subsidized ship line exceed 10 per cent of its fixed capital Kennedy expressed belief “substan- would be recaptured from The subsidies are based on a com- parison of operating costs with costs of foreign competitions. They are intended to insure that American ships can compete on an equal basis. Kennedy said 151 of the 460 Ameri- can ships in foreign commerce were covered by the agreements already signed. Mail contract holders with whom settlements have not yet been reached are the Tacoma Oriental Steamship Co, the American Line Steamship Corp, Dollar Steamship Lines, Inc.; | Munson Steamship Lines, United Fruit Co. and Waterman Steamship Corp. The commission said a tentative contract had been reached with Ta- coma Oriental, one was expected shortly with Munson and adjustment of the Dollar Lines' claims was await- ing further information concerning the company and affiliated corpora- | tions. 10,587 MURDERS IN U. S. | Texas Led in Homicides for 1935, Census Bureau Says. There were 10.597 deaths from homi- cide during 1935, compared with 12,055 in 1934, < Texas led in homicides in 1935 with 860, the Census Bureau reported today. Vermont was at the bottom of the list, ‘Wwith one. S Security for Rabbit Raisers. The Internal Revenue Bureau de- cided today that people who raise rab- bits for commercial purposes are sub- Ject to the sbeial security act. For This “Fourth” ... We in Boston, | Philadelphia, Baltimore, Norfolk, San | Department pier, (Upper) This is the Police Department’s front, where the Army Engineers propose to ‘Water Front Work: to Realize Dreams of George Washington THE EVENING The plan of George Washington and { other founders of the Republic in establishing the National Capital at the head of navigation on the Poto- mac River so it might develop into a sizeable port is finally due to be | realized, in the opinion of Army engi- | neers, who propose to begin improve- | ment of the Washington Channel | water front shortly. Local interests expect that Secretary Woodring and Maj. Gen. Edward M. Markham, chief | of Army engineers, will allocate little | more than a quarter of a million dollars to initiate the eight-year pro- gram. Funds would come out of the | rivers and harbors_appropriation for the new fiscal year. Congress already has sanctioned improvement of the | channel water front. "Maj. Walter D. Luplow, district engineer for the War Department for the Washington area, will have | charge of the improvement program, which contemplates facilities not only for yachts and pleasure craft gen- erally, but for steamboat piers, 8o that water-borne commerce will have added conveniences here. Work on Piers in Second Year. E. A. Schmitt, senior engineer in Maj. Luplow's office, made it clear uggest SPORTSWEAR SHIRT CoO. ® Here is sportswear that is different, individual, beautifully styled and superbly tailored. Sport shirts of handsome, practical fabrics in the more tailored models, as well as a sport shirts. New and swim trunks, gabardine great variety of knitted appealing color schemes, shorts, sport shorts and beach robes—all styled to the very minute. The Manhattan Shirt Company has done a great job in the sportswear field this season—and it will be mighty worth your while these unusual ideas. MANHATTAN SPOR to visit our store and see T SHIRTS, $1 to $5 . 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The program has been so ar- ranged as to cause a minimum of inconvenience to occupants of the | channel water front, many of whom have done business there for many years. “Definitely we plan on making a beginning on building the commercial piers in the second year,” declared Schmitt. “We have had numerous Te- | quests for suitable landings from outside interests, to discharge bulk cargoes, such as lumber, and to bring | in excursion steamers from New Eng- land and other points. But at the present time, we have no proper facili- ties for this commerce and we have to turn down several propositions on this account. “We plan on making a start on the STAR, - WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY, present pier on the Washington Channel water construct an enlarged combined Police and Fire | (Lower) The existing 260th Coast Artillery ) Armory for the District National Guard where space has been reserved for a possible future commercial development, as the demand arises. | partments and the Lorton (Va.) Re- yacht basins in the first vear's work, | as that part of the program is more easily organized to make a beginning on. work later on the commercial piers by In this way. we shall expedite | JULY 1, 1937. New Piers to Make Modern Port making space for them and pushing the job to completion.” Space Reserved for Pier. C. A. Chaney, senior structural | engineer in Maj. Luplow's office, ex- plained today that the piers will run from the bend of Water street, which is slightly north of Seventh and L streets southwest, downstream to a point just north of O street southwest. The area between O and P streets | southwest is reserved as a space for a future pier, should demand for it arise. “The facilities are just as poor along the Washington Channel water front for steamers as they are for yachts,” Chaney declared. *“‘We have no prefer- ence as between them—but want to serve both equally well.” The Army Engineers propose to con- struct in all six commercial piers, under the approved project, counting the ones the District Government plans to use for Police and Fire De- formatory pier. The Norfolk & Wash- | ington Steamboat Co. is expected to| occupy one pier; another pier will be | utilized for excursion steamers and there will be a commercial pier for| general use. In keeping with the beauty of the | National Capital, the Army Engineers do not propose to encourage heavy bulk waterborne commerce, Chaney said, but will encourage package freight and other commodities. The Engineers consider it possible that the Coast Guard and the Light- house Service each may want its own pier later and this might cause a rearrangement of the plan. The Coast Guard has under consideration the use of a pier near Seventh street, SIDNEY. WESTumc 14th and G Sts. SHOULD A MAN PAY ) FOR A TROPICAL WORSTED S 5 BECAUSE Fruhauf has ingemiously put into the coolest, lightweight Tropical Worsted obtainable all the su- perior tailoring and fitting refinements that are found in the finest reqular weight suit, BECAUSE you thus avoid any “summer slump” in your appearance and stay perfectly comfortable. BECAUSE The Fruhauf Trop- ical you buy this year will be serving you faithfully for several seasons to come. . . . Sidney West, Nc. 14™ ¢ G EUGENE C. GOTT, President which might cause the rest of the| development to be moved a bit down- stream. As yet, it is understood, the Coast Guard lacks authority to con- struct its pier, but there is time, inas- much as this phase of the work will not start until the second year of the program. One of the large piers originally set aside for the District Government has been split into two to make it more serviceable. In this way, officials said, more boats can tie up there, but the plan has been rearranged so all the piers will be nearly of equal size, | The two new piers projected jusz,‘ downstream of the four yacht basins will each be 300 feet in length, while the four farther down the channel| will be 250 feet in length. All the | piers will be 100 feet in width. | Jn this wise, the Army Engineers| are looking forward to furnishing | the National Capital with a modern | port by 1945, if the funds can be se- | cured immediately and the program | steps along at the rate that has been | mapped out. The National Capital Park and Planning Commission and | the Fine Arts Commission have ap-| proved the plans and now all that remains for their execution is to have the War Department allocate the necessary money, | 37W. P. A. STRIKERS HELD FOR BURGLARY | Three Hurt as 75 Dismissed Workers Storm New York Project Office. Py the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 1.—Fresh trouble broke out today between discharged W. P. A workers and police, as 21 W. P, A. strikers, including several women. charged with burglary, were paraded in the police line-up. Three persons were slightly injurad in today's fracas when, police said, 75 men and women, dismissed from the research and statistical project of the W. P. A, tried to storm the offices of the project, on the ninth floor of a West Thirty-first street building. | Police said they tried to get into the offices after shouting: “Let’s destroy | the records.” There were no arrests. | The 37 others were taken into cus- | tody last night when 15 patrolmen, | under Sergeant John Gleason, de- | scended upon the offices of the recrea~ tional unit of the W. P. A | All were charged with burglary, | possession of burglars’ tools, and ma- | licious mischief. i Police charged the demonstrators forced their way into the building, but William Portney, executive secre- tary of the city Projects Council, said the door was open and that the strikers merely had entered to await arrival of Robert Weisenhauer, ad- ministrator of the project. LAST DAY te ENROLL for BERLITZ SUMMER COURSES in Prench. German. Spanish & save 507 POSITIVELY no_enrollment for these Special Courses shall be accepted after JULY 1st. 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