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The Washington times., 1921-06-18
What's Doing; Where; When

Mesting--washington Radio cb,h Ma /.
tional Radio Institute. 1876 Pennsyiva MIA
avenue northwest, 8 .. m
Lawn Party-hsst Rivcrdsie Citizens
Entertainment-Idtersry Committee OF
the Arts Club. clubhouse, s p. m
sinis end Of Chain Bridge .. m
Outing--Merohants' and Manpfs ctpr.r'
Association. to Norfolk. leave Seventh
street wharf, y. m
TOMORROW.
Bssebsli--wsshinston vs.. 81. Lou,..
American League Park. s;ao p. m.
seventy-seventh Annual ConyentIon-
American lnstitute OF Homeopathy. will
MISUNDERSTANDING II. Pesrse Council.
American Associstlon for the Recognition
OF the Irish Republic, Gonxaea Hall, an m.
Meeting-Friends Of Irtsh Freedoro
Typogsphicai Temple, t2s @ street north.
vest D. m
The Washington times., 1921-06-18
JOLLY ROGER AT HELM
AS D. c. BOOSTERS SAIL

The jolly Roger" will be raised
over the steamer Midland this after
noon, when 200 leading Washington
business men climb aboard at 3
o'clock for the three-day booster ex-
cursion" being held by the Merchants
and Manufacturers' Association.
The apparent outward motive of the
trip is long round of amusement.
But the boosters haven't that name
for nothing. They are going TO spend
good part OF their time injecting
propaganda into the ears and cigars
into the mouths Of Virginia business
men. The first stop will be made to-
morrow morning at Yorktown. where
the boosters will go to church. Nor
folk will be the next stop, the boost
ers taking In Ocean View on the side,
They Will return Monday
The Washington times., 1921-06-18
GOVERNMENT
WORKERS START
ON HALF-H0[|DAy
Harding Denies Request tor
Year Round Respite,
However.

washington's vacation season was
on officially today when $4,000 Gov
ernment employees took their first
Saturday half holiday of the season.
They will continue until September
II.
President Harding yesterday denied
the request Of committee of Gov
ernment workers who asked for a
half holiday on Saturdays the year
round.
On July 1. Saturday half-holidays
will be effective in the District ot
Coium bia government. Approximately
1900 employees will be affected.
During the. months of July and
August the large department and
speciality stores of Washington will
be closed all day on Saturdays, which
means a nve-dsy week for several
thousand clerks and laborers.
The Washington times., 1921-06-18
BRITISH EXTEND SUBSIDY
TO SETTLE COAL STRIKE

LONDON, June IS. The British
governments offer OF subsidy OF
100000 pounds sterling to assist
the coal mining industry was today
extended twenty-four hours until Sum
day midnight
The offer was to be annulled n the
miners voted to continue the national
coal strike. but the government de-
cided to keep il alive in hope that the
union could take some steps toward
a settlement, despite the mems vote
to reject the offer of the government
and colliery owners
The Washington times., 1921-06-18
S44 PAGE THE WASHINGTON TIMEs v.1sssgs sss 1s se,,.
HONE HEADS WILL SEEK TO HAVE PRESENT RATE CONTINUE
Harding Asked to Equalize
Discharge of US. Employees

workers, due to large extsnt to
the demands of war, there are
States In which the quota Is
quite low.
Members Of the Civil Service
Commission arc Of the opinion
that the apportionment provis-
ions Of the Civil Service act do
not apply to the reductions. This
was stated to the Civil Service
committee by Martin A. Morri-
son, president of the commission.
States below their quotas, &C
cording to this opinion, may be
spared as far as possible
Through courtesy"
The Washington times., 1921-06-18
WOMAN SUED FOR $25, 900
BY HER SONS WIFE

STANFORD, Conn, June 1s.--The
eternal triangle" took a new turn
here today when a mother-in-law
was named defendant in a $4,000
suit for alienation. of her sons af-
fections.
Mrs. Florence Miller. widow of a
former New York grain broker, is
the third party in the triangle. She
induced her son, Robert G. Miller, to
leave his wife, Helen, the younger
Mrs. Miller charges.
In addition Mrs. Miller alleges her
husband married Mrs. Pearl Hubbard
Walton, a widow. in Los Angles,
April 81. last.
The Millers were married here April
z, 1915. They have one son. Robert
c., jr.. three years old
The Washington times., 1921-06-18
TODAY.

TODAY.
Observation-Disclosures vs. ST. Louis,
American League Park 5:30 D. m.
annual Excursion--District OF Columbia
Diectric Dealers Association, Marshall
HAIL steamers leave Seventh street wharf
at D. m
Band concert-war Risk Band. St Elis-
abeth's Hospital, s o. m.
bxoursion-Rambler Psstime Club,
p. m.
Lawn Fete-Hope Council. No. 4, sons
and Daughters Of Liberty, home Of Mrs.
Suns Dice, e67 South Carolina avenue
southeast, D. m
Midsummer Carnival and Bazaar, wom-
ems city Club, 20 Jackson place. 1880 .. m.
Final smoker-KaDpa Alpha Fraternity
OF Seorge Washington University, chap.
yer house. Fourteenth and Clifton streets
northwest p. m.
Lawn Party-.rakoms Park Baptist
church Ladies' Ala Society. seos FIFTH
street northwest. q D. IA
The Washington times., 1921-06-18

In an effort to equalize the
distribution Of discharges Of Fed
eral employees who outnumber
the civil service apportionment
by many thousands. President
Harding today was asked to
either issue an executive order
regulating the discharges. or else
place the matter in the hands of
members of his Cabinet.
Senator Sterling, chairman of
the Senate Civil Service Commit
tee. in a letter to the President,
calls attention to the fact that,
while many States, including the
District Of Columbia. have more
than their share of civil service
The Washington times., 1921-06-18
Irish to Hear Congressman.

Congressman Glynn OF Connecticut
will address the weekly meeting of
the A. A. r. l. r. at Gonzaga Hall
tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. Reso-
lutions carrying a tribute TO the
late Congressman William II. Mason,
will be read. Irish folk dancers will
perform and correspondence from
ireland will be read
The Washington times., 1921-06-18
MORE GARAGES THAN
HOUSES ERECTED IN 1920

Garage building was more popular
In 1920 than the construction of
dwelling houses.
Statistics from Fort Wayne. Ind;
Pittston, Pa; Scranton, Pa; South
Bend, Ind; Toledo. Ohio; Wilkes
barre, Pa. and the District of Colum-
bia presented to the Senate Interstate
Commerce Committee today during
the railroad investigation showed
these communities built 4.124 garages
In 1920 and only 2.004 dwelling houses.
The Washington times., 1921-06-18
DRYS MAKE LAST FIGHT TO
STAvE OFF FLOOD OF BEER

last-ditch prohibition fight is
being staged today before the House
Rules Committee. The committee
has under consideration special
rule, asked by Representative Vol
stead. which would permit his bill
Tightening the enforcement law and
preventing the sale of beer as medi-
cine to be acted upon by the House
without amendments.
Fully cognizant that IL the rule
rs granted opposition to the bill
will be choked on, those who are
inclined to be damp" are muster
ing their forces. Repress ntative
Volstead's campaign is being backed
by the "drys."
The Washington times., 1921-06-18
Negro Held for Assault.

Charged with striking Mrs. Lee
Chernekoff, 4s Fenton street north
cast, in the face and knocking her
down, James Fenton, colorei, of 2s
Fenton place, was arrested by detec-
tives last night and held at the First
precinct station. The police claim
Henson entered the grocery store con-
Quoted by the woman and after refus-
ing to pay for a bottle of grape
Juice, struck her and fed.
The Washington times., 1921-06-18
Girls AssaiIant Hunted.

Detectives from headquarters and
patrolmen are securing the city in an
effort to apprehcnd the negro who at
tackled seventeen-year-old Mary Doyle.
1911 Florida avenue northeast, last
night, near Thirteenth and H streets
northeast.
The girl screamed for help wheA
the negro struck her. Altar q short
struggle, her sssailant fed.
The Washington times., 1921-06-18
La Mamma Hurt by Auto.

John La Mana. forty-fve years old
of 3723 Georgia. avenue northwest. re-
ceived slight cuts about the head
when he was struck by an automobile q
shortly after 8 o'clock last night at
Lamont street and Georgia avenue.
The machine was operated by Frank
G. Can. of 40 Park road. who placed
La Mama In his auto and drove him
to GARFIELD Hospital whore he received
treatment
The Washington times., 1921-06-18
Vets Mourn Mason's Death.

Resolutions extolling the memory
Of Congressman William E. Mason OF
Illinois, who died Thursday, as q
champion of oppression and a friend
of the common people and the pri-
vate soldiers. were adopted yesterday
by the national executive committee
Legion.
The Washington times., 1921-06-18
Man Is Blackjacked.

Joseph Hughes, colored, of 22os II
street northwest, reported to the
police that he was struck on the
head with blackjack In an alley
in the rear OF 1904 II street north
west last night by an unknown man.
He was treated at George Washing
ton Hospital for lacerated wound
on the head.
The Washington times., 1921-06-18
Woman Suffers Burns.

Mrs. c. NJ. Kaucher, sixty-two
years old, OF 1925 F street north
west was slightly burned about the
hands yesterday I'm attempting to
extInguish a blaze in her apartment
before the fre engines arrived. The
cause OF the fre Is unknown Ths
damage was estimated at $50.
The Washington times., 1921-06-18
Ice Chest Looted.

The police department may pury
chase an x-ray apparatus to deter1
mine who the 'larder looters- are
that make speciality of refriger@
ators and pantries Mrs. M. ". KeAt1
ing, of 8os2 M street northwest yesl
terday reported to the police thai
her Ice chest had been robbed of I
dozen cantaloupes. large steak and
four dozen eggs. The thief. how
ever. left a large piece of Ice
The Washington times., 1921-06-18
New Railroad Bonds.

The Interstate Commerce Commits.
sion today granted authority to the
wichita Northwestern Railway Com.
pany to issue 100000 OF frst consoii
dated mortgage bonds and to pledge
the same with the Secretary of the
Treasury as security for a Govern.
ment loan.
The Washington times., 1921-06-18
Destroyer Is Damaged.

SAN DIEGO. ! Calf. June H.
Radio reports to the navy air sta
tion here yesterday stated the tor
redo-boat destroyer Dent had been
damaged during battle practice of
San Pedro. A tin-head torpedo
struck the Deut near the stern and
tore a hole in it's side. One of the
compartments was flooded.
The Washington times., 1921-06-18
'GOBACK TO SINK
! BUTTERFL| TELL
MARRIED women
Battle Of Bureaus Over Domss-
tic Job-HoIders increases In
Verbal Intensity.
And the Battle Of the Bureau con-

And the Battle Of the Bureau con-
tinuss.
Charged with butterfly tactics. call
Cd frail flappers who fain would
frolic through the night while mar
ried sisters sew In the light Of mid
night oil, and marked a. undoserving
gadders without grit for tho sacrifices
OF welded life, unmarried girls In
Government employment have joined
In their attacks on the married Job
holder.
Accompanying their bsratings Of
the married women come words in de-
tense of the confirmed caks-sater
girls"
Sad. indeed. is the plight of the
poor. unprotected married women who
will lose their jobs on June 30," writes
w. w. T., from Hyattsviile. q section
which has As yet remained out of the
married Va unmarried controversy.
JEWELS AN EVERYTHING.
The so-called butterflies are few
and far between. All the girls I
know who are. or were. employed by
the Government. are much more in
need or their salaries than the mar
ried women. Even the confirmed
cake-eatcr girls are good at heart
They make their own clothes and
some even make hats. They need
their salaries much more than their
married sisters who have husbands
to keep them.
II know of one case where a mar
ried woman and her husband are both
employed by the Government. They
live on the fat of the land They
| have purchased a fine house and au-
tomobile, and she sports thousand
dollar diamond ring which she bought
with her own salary.
20, marriage, where Is thy sting
Why don't the married women go
back to their kitchens where they
belong and give The girls chance"
WHOLE FAMILIES IN SOFT.
In the handwriting of what might
| easily be taken for thar or an elder
ly mother. comes another cheer for
the unmarried girls.
II do not blame the girls much"
writes NJ D.. for I myself know OF
| family of seven--all employed by
| the Government In addition to the
father. three daughters and two sons.
the mother is also drawing down a
pay check from the Government.
don't blame the young girls for
| knocking the married women who
are taking the Jobs of girls who have
no outside support
II hope that the married school
teachers will also be released in favor
OF the younger. unmarried girls.
Perhaps then a girl graduate will not
have to 60 unemployed while a mar
| ried woman flls the position she
| should have. There are lots of
widows. too, who cannot get jobs be-
cause of these married women who
| should be. cared for by their hus-
bands"
The Washington times., 1921-06-18
Cigarette Causes Fire.

A careiessly dropped lighted cigar
erette Is believed to have set IRE Il
an awning on the third floor of tb'
Aibee building last night Just be
fore the performance started a
Keith's theater. The blaze was ex
tinguished by policeman Leo Mur
ray. of the first precinct.
The Washington times., 1921-06-18
COMPANY
A,|LS | D
EARN6P'T.
Great Cost of Instructive Insti-
tuition One Of Reasons Organ
ization Loses Money.

The Chesapeake and Potomac
Telephone Company will petition the
Public Utilities Commission next
week for permission to continue the
present telephone rates after they
expire July 81.
The present attitude of the COM
mission toward public utilities indi.
Gates that serious consideration Will
be given to a reduction in the pres
ent high rates.
DOES NOT EARN . PER CENT.
Failure to earn a per cent return
on It's valuation Is the CHIEF argu-
ment the telephone company viii use
when IL appears before the commis-
sion. Cont tention also will be made
that the stability in the price of ma
terial and cost of labor necessitates
q continuation of rates.
A. IL. Berry, president of the tele-
phone company, in announcing that
the company wants the rates con
tinued. declared that no unreasonable
request was being asked; that the
company had not earned per cent
for many years and that II would
not even earn per cent under
continued rate.
OPERATORS ARE SCARCE.
A serious shortage In telephone
operators, which IL not remedied In
the next few months will result In n
break down of service. has necessi-
tated the maintaining at cost OF
more than 100000 a year. of Monroe
Courts as a home for out-of-town
telephone operators, Mr.. Berry said
The volume of calls now running
more than $4,000 day has necessi-
tated an increase in force. This IN
creased force can not be secured In
washington and the company has
been forced to call on the Baltimore
telephone office for help.
ave must get 634 new telephone
operators by next fall or our service
will go to pieces" said hr. Berry
today. "while the company would
like to employ only local operators
we md It impossible to do SO ana
maintain a high standard of service
"washington has suddenly taken
TO telephoning. serious situation
confronts US. With a turnover In
telephone operators of ninety-three a
nonth. the company nnds itseit
forced to keep up Monroe Courts At
great cost
GIRLS LEAVE POSITIONS.
The company expected to secure
telephone operators when the Gov
ernnent began letting out girls ana
women. Many such persons were
given Jobs, but II has been the expe-
rience of the company that such
girls and women do not remain at
their posts long and that they work
only two or three months and then
leave
The Public Utilities Commission
has expressed itself several times as
opposed to keeping telephone opera
tors here from out of town at such
large cost. Efforts of the telephone
company to replace these girls with
girls living here have so far failed
The best type Of young women for
operating are between the ages of
sixteen and twenty-five years. In
Washington the labor laws make IT
impossible to accept any candidate
under eighteen years, which bars
5000 girls In this city.
Government fisuros show there are
24.O97 women between eighteen and
twenty-five. The telephone company
at present requires about ass per cent
of these 24097 women.
The Washington times., 1921-06-18

J. Lomax, conductor living at
1921 street. Georgetown and ms two Ralph and
the $50 bicycles
the father after he turned yearly ubscr
tions to The Washington Times 4.st
perched the saddle while Ralph
holding handeba saddle indicate that the
bike belongs his he than
half the subscriptions.
The Washington Times 100000 bicycle
contest is the soe he into and he sees no reason
bicycle member of his family between
1, the ends.
He already gotten third subscription signed
almost enough subscribers third bicycle.
Remember, there limit the number OF
bicycles a contestant get in this contest.
Conductor Lomax is confident that each member of his family
will be riding bicycle before the end of this month
The Washington times., 1921-06-18
Highland Citizens Meeting.

Zoning, civic improvements and
District legislation will be discussed
at meeting of the Kalorsms Citi-
zen's Association to be held at the
Highlands at s o'clock Tuesday night.
The Washington times., 1921-06-18
Senate Ratifies Penn Boundary.

The Senate yesterday passed a
house Joint resolution ratifyine the
boundary line between the state Of
Pennsylvania and Delaware.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-07-06
STOCK PRICES ADVANCE
AF1ED DULL OPENING
Mexican and Other Oils Make
Big Gains After Touching
New Low Marks.
nv Associated Press to Every Evening

nv Associated Press 10 Every Evening
New York. July 6.--tWah Street.
10 30 "A mb-Stccks wer. weak at the
siusgish opening ~ todsy's session on
further liquidation of foreign oils.
Mexican Petroleum made a new low
declining ga points 70 SO. A brief
rally 90 eais was followed by fresh
d.,llne to sSN. ROYAL Dutch. one of
Yesterdays few nrm issues. registered
an early loss of points.
BALDWIN Locomotive. Stuochakcr
Central Leather. American Sugar.
Mercantile Marine, preferred, Sears
{ huetucs. Colorado Fuel and Famous
riayers were lower by fractions 20 l
point
Nominal gains were made by sew
eral unimrortsrt issues.
Noon--Mexican Petroleum was
forced down to S7& before buying
urdOrs caused a sharp rebound TO "a.
an actual pain of "a points.
Pan American Petroleum which
rcEistercd low records in the early
dealings alsn made brisk rccoveries
with Geperal Asphalt common and
preferred
Atlantic Gulf. American Sugar
United states Rubber. Studebakcr.
Chandler, pierce- Arrow. BALDWIN Io-
VumntlVu. Crucf,le. Bethlehem and
Harvester showed substantial i'm
pruNcment
Louisville and Nashville was tim
eutslanding feature amona rails
saining points Atlantic Coast l..nc.
southern Pacific Rock Island and
Chesapeake aud ohio also were ,trons
Call money opened az 80 Der cent
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-07-06
FREQUENT FIRES.

Newport. July 8 The Minanas Fire
60. of Newport has been called TO three
f1rea In The last three days On Nuu-
day night the house owned and oocu-
pied BY the MrNeals pf Belvidere.
near Newport. was destroyed by FIRE.
causing a loss Of about $500; cause
unknown
Yesterday the fire company prevent
e.. what might have been a serious
FIRE at Hoeelle, by estinguiahing 2
blaze on the roof of house which
caught from a chimney
EARLY this morning the Mlnnuas
company responded tu a call at Iyn-
dblia. a suburb uf Newport. where a
new bungalow, occupied tv Mr. Dugan
and family. was completely destroyed
causing a loss nf about $4,000. The
fremen were Handicapped in their ef.
fort 10 save this residence by the lack
of water.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-07-06
RAIL WAGE CUT ACTION
POSTPONED BY UNION.
Brotherhood Chairmen Decide
to Submit Question to
Referendum.

Chicago, July 6.~~Aecepthnce or res
lection of the fg per cont wage derte-
tion which by order of the United
states Isailroad Labor Board became
effective July | will be determined by
a referendum vote of the memberHhii
OF the ilvp train service hruthethuods.
and probably OF all othvr rail unions,
rot later than Sept /. Meanwhile an
effort will he made to arrange con
furences between union lenders and
railway executives.
The suggestion Tor joint confer
ence of rail and union officials was
generally interpreted as something Of
n challenge To the road executives, as
II expressed desire clearly TO place
the representatives Of the railway
corporations on record as to whether
or not they viii request further de-
creasea IN rates OF compensation, the
abolition Of scheduled rules or regu-
lations, or the elimination of time and
one half This also was received y
some circles as q peace overture.
Following a series Of daily confer
ences here which started last Friday
the 1000 general Chairmen Of the
railway hrutherhoods issued last night
a statement in which they said they
could not assume the responsibility
OF accepting wage reductions
II was predicted that other stan
dard railway organizations would
subscribe TO the brutherhoeda' state
ment Of policy within fortv-eight
hours. thus pledglng the i,5oone0
railway employees OF the country TO n
united stand.
The statement was made public
after 1t had been submitted 70 a meet
Ing Of the chief executives OF the six
teen leading rail labor organizations,
Attending this meeting were many Of
the brotherhood chiefs. including
Warren S. Stone, President ef the
brotherhood OF Locomotive Engi-
neera. The statement makes work
ing rules, especially as to pay fn'-
overtime. an issue of Importance no
less than that Of the wage question.
Two recommendation Of the state
ment. which were formally presented
md adopted as resolution were re-
gara,d as OF particular significancs--
one suggesting meeting between
union leaders and rail executives ana
the other providing that when the
strike ballot Is submitted a strike
ballot il will bet shall contain an
impartial and unbiased recital Of all
that is involved"
The fact that the union chiefs are
said TO be convinced Of The futility Of
strike lends Importance to the plan
to put the workers IN possession Of
the facts bearing on their problems.
Just what effect this action of the
brotherhoods will have on rail or
carnations which already have polled
strike VOTES iB a matter of coniune-
ture. but il ia deemed likely. as the
rail unions are trying 10 present q
Hofid fr,-nt. they will take a rrfsren-
dunn on the same question,
-~--=-z@-~--
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-07-06
ACTIVE WORK
ON CITY DIRECTORY
Up to the Minute Survey OF
Residents to be Ready in
September.

Active work III collecting the In :
fa,lnatlon for the 1921 Wilmington
elty directory was resumed today by
r.iatd superintendent Eartsst and a
star af assistants from the general
beaen,inrtera OF 4. l.. Polk Il Co.
which for several years has been ~
suing the local directory. Mr haeret
ans hia staff arrived IN Wilmington
Yesterday aud Immediately reported
their arrival and the resumption Of
their directory oumpflation to the
Chamber Of Commerce.
Last February the directory people
began their canvass OF the city. ant'
after having collected about 60 per
cent of the names. discontinued their
operations at the request pf the
chamber of Commerce. for the reason
Tint the legal moving day having
been fixed az June 2b, there was a
strong probability that a large per-
eentage OF neutrality-suspicious. VINO rent
their homes would aaye made resi-
Dental changes, and this would have
resulted In an iiiaecurate directory
ft was considered that II would be
much more beneficial 70 the city to
delay this publication until after mos
ing day changes had been made, anil
that It was much more important O.
have an accurate directory than an
early one. The directory people
readily agreed.
The directory people have opened
an office here. and will carry their
canvass through as rapidly as pos.
aiblp. and hope to bp able 70 give viii
nsingtnn an absolutely accurate direct.
cry by September.
The various enufnerators will he
furnished with proper means uf iden-