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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-05-17
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New-York tribune., 1922-04-14
Labor Men Split
On Ship Subsidy
Bill in Congress
All Marine Unions Except
Seamen Indorse Admins
iratiOn Measure; Other
Organizations Doubtful

A split in the ranks Of labor over the
marine subsidy bill, pending In Con
gress, developed yesterday at meeting
of the Central Trade and Labor Coun-
ell All the marine organizations eX-
cept the international Seamen's Union
showed their approval Of the measure,
while representatives of other indus
tries were uncertain in their attitude.
Nine labor bodies were represented
at the conference. These included the
longshoremen. marine engineers, mas
ters, mates and pilots. seamen and ma-
chinists The discussion lasted for
three hours.
Decision was reached to appoint
committee Of one member from each OF
the organizations, which will study the
bill in detail and submit report to the
American Federation of Labor. The
latter has denounced the measure. eSpe-
cial1y the naval reserve and immigra-
ton features, but is expected to call
general meeting shortly at which the
attitude Of the Federation viii be re-
viewed
The opposition of the International
Seamen's Union, the only marine body
to attack the subsidy plan, was cx-
pected Andrew Furuseth. president Of
the union. some time ago issued a
strong denunciation OF the bill. The
seamen were represented yesterday by
Oscar Carlson and Gus Brown
New-York tribune., 1922-04-14
American Wages Retard
Shipping, Merrill Says
Board Official Tells Senate We
Will Be Unable to Com.
pete With Low Paw

FROM 1he 11lOuHe'S w uSHlHOtOn bureau
WASHINGTON, April 13.-The diff
ference between American waves and
those Of other countries has been in
the past and will be in the future so
great as to make it almost impossible
for this country to compete in tramp
shipping. according to r. T. Merrill, di-
rector of the bureau of research of the
Shipping Board, in testimony on the
ship subsidy bill before the House
Merchant Marine Committee and the
Senate Commerce Committee to-day.
Mr.. Merrill sought to show that there
were important differentials in operat-
ing costs to the disadvantage of Amer
lean shipping and that it was necessary
to overcome these by government aids.
He referred especially to direct subsidy
aid.
About two-thirds of the worlds ton
mage is made up of the ordinary, slow
speed, medium size ocean steamer of
the tramp type, the witness said. In
respect of these steamers foreign
countries have the advantage, accord
ing to data which he presented.
at is all too common statement"
he said, that American crews, by their
efficiency, ability and ingenuity, can so
operate a ship as to overcome the diff
ference in cost existing between the
operations of American ships and of
foreign ones. For certain types Of
ships-the faster, larger, passenger
CARRYING steamers--thi5 may be true.
1t is not true and cannot be made so
for the tramp steamer under present
conditions"
New-York tribune., 1922-04-14
Suffragists Here Greet
Latin American Sisters
Reception Held for Women on
Way to Pan.American Con-
ference in Baltimore

Sufragists of New York gave a re-
ception yesterday in honor of the suf
fragists from Central and South Amer
ica, who are in this city en- route to
the Pan-American conference in Bati-
more next week. The reception was
held at the Women's City Club under
the auspices of the League of Women
Voters. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait,
president of the International Woman
Suffrage Alliance, and Mrs. F. Louis
Sladc, regional director of the League
of Women Voters. welcomed the
women from the Latin countries.
"The thing we want most to do"
said Mrs. Gait, sis to help you women
help yourselves to move little faster
toward political emancipation. There
is nothing dreadful about emancipa-
ton. 1t means simply the development
of woman's full powers for the good
of society, and that with these powers
she will be permitted to work hand in
hand with men, shoulder to shoulder,
to make the world better place"
The delegates present, some of whom
speak only Spanish, included Dona
Bertha Lutz, Brazil; Senorita Mar
garita Conroy, Peru; Sonora Mercedes
de Guevera, Venezuela; Sonora Sara de
Quiros, Costa Rica; Sonora Ester
DUDE, Hayti; Senorita Mercedes Sola,
Porto Rico; Sonora Maria Felicidad
Gonzales, Paraguay; Sonora de Vegas
and Senorita Celia de Vitale, Urugua>.
1t was announced yesterday that
Canada is sending as an official dele
gate to the conference Mrs. Emm cline
Pankhurst. former militant suffrage
leader, who is now head of the Ca
madam Bureau Of Social Hygiene.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-14
1000 Homeless as Fire
Sweeps Norfolk Suburb
Special Dispatch to The Tribune

NORFOLK, April 13.-Fire to-day in
Berkeley. a suburb, destroyed 200
houses and did damage estimated at
$1,250,000 before it was checked late
tonight by the combined efforts of all
fire fighting apparatus in nearby cities.
ly negroes, are homeless as result
but no one is known to have been
killed. Several iremen were injured
The fire, famed by a high wind,
spread rapidly, threatening for a tim.
to destroy the entire city. 1t was
brought under control after burning
over ten blocks. Many homes were
razed by the frefghters in stopping
the spread of the flames. A church
and a schoolhouse were destroyed, and
three ships in the Elizabeth River
were burned.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-14
Cumlnins Bla11les
Rail Tangle on
Federal Director
Insists Roads Should Have
Been Put OIL Paying Basis
Before Return to Owners;
kruitschnitt Echoes View

From The Tribune's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, April 13.-Failure of
the railroad administration to estab-
lish rates which would make the roads
reasonably self-sustaining'' on re-
turn to private control is the most
serious mistake the railroad admins
traton made, and is responsible for
much of the misunderstanding and
criticism of the railroads on the part
of the public, in the opinion of Senator
Cummins, chairman OF the Senate In
terstate Commerce Committee.
Il think the most serious complaint
that can be made of the railroad ad-
mlnstration lies in the fact that it did
not return the railroads to their own
ers self-sustaining,' said Senator
Cummins before the committee at the
conclusion of testimony of Julius
Kruttschnitt, chairman of the board of
the Southern Pacific, in the railroad in
quiry.
1T ought to have established rates
before the railroads were returned
that would make the railroads reason
ably self sustaining,' said the Senator.
THE failure to do that not only i'm
popular, and | think unnecessary duty,
but it imposed upon Congress the ac-
tion required to make the guaranty
running from March /, 1920, to Sep
tember ], 1920.
"The roads made repeated requests
on Director General Hines in the last
half Of 1919 to increase the rates" said
Mr.. Kruttschnitt, "but he kept saying
wait, wait, things will probably i'm
prove; prices may fall and you will be
better off, and it was finally delayed
until it was not done at ALL
at was the very distinct understand
ing of Congress, as we'll as the Presi-
dent" said Senator Pomcrene. that
when it would come to the matter of
rate making the Interstate Commerce
Commission would continue to function
as it had prior to government opera
ton, but the Director Generals office
saw fit to have its own rate making
body, and | guess. from what | have
heard, whatever they did was 0 K'd
by the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion without taking any responsibility
itself.
"If that had been done we would
have avoided at least, among other
things, this great discomfort and dis
satisfaction among the state commits
sions. With regard to the commiss ion s
authority if the roads had gone back
with the proper rates established all
this trouble would have been avoided y
New-York tribune., 1922-04-14
SanatOrium Head
Denies Hypnotical
Treatment as Care
Charges of Mrs. Melville's
Attorney i'll Lunacy Case
Fabrication, Says DR..
Cowles; Says Drug Used

DR.. Edward S. Cowles gave out q
statement last night denying the
charges made by John j. O'Connell,
an attorney, concerning DR.. Cowles's
sanatorium at 591 Park Avenue. as a
result Of which Attorney General New
ton has asked the State Hospital Com
mission to make an investigation.
Mr.. O'Connell asserted in his report
as special guardian for Mrs. Jean R.
Melville in !unacy proceedings brought
by her husband, William r. Melville
that hypnotic treatment was given ner
vous patients at DR.. Cowles's sana-
forum and drugs were administered
which inspired haliucinations that
may or may not be permanent"
DIR. Cowles, to whose sanatorium
reporter for The Tribune was denied
admission Wednesday night when he
called to get the physicians answer to
the charges, says in his statement
that he knew nothing of them until
read these libelous accounts in this
mornings papers"
Mrs. Cowles was suffering from a
glandular disease and was "mentally
institution, the history of her af1iction
8.
He consulted experts concerning her
case, he says, and as result of the
consultation gave her treatment that
was simple in the extreme"
The treatment consisted he says, of
tonic, two injections in her veins,
hot packs for swollen glands, hot baths
and what amounted practically to a
Mrs, Melville" the statement con-
cludes, chad severe attack at the
Battle Greek Sanatorium before she
came to me. According to Mr.. Melville
she had had these spells in varying
degrees for years before she went to
the Battle Greek Sanatorum. No hyp-
notism has ever been used by me in
this hospital and the state has been
saved many thousands of dollars by my
successful treatment of nervous pa
tients in the prevention of insanity.
The whole story is cruel fabrication,
as can be overwhelming established"
The physicians DR.. Cowles says he
consulted in Mrs. Melville's case are
Dr.. George Kirby. Of the Manhattan n
State Hospital; Dr.. EvanEvans, DR..
Samuel Lambert. DR.. Walker and DR..
William B. Giles
New-York tribune., 1922-04-14
Ton of INT Blows Up:
9 Hurt, Houses Wrecked
Rocks Rain Upon Utah Town,
Though Explosion Occurs
Across River

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, April
13-Nine persons were injured and
several buildings damaged at Helper,
Utah, when one and one-half tons of
INT used in road construction work
exploded across the Price River from
there to-day. Tons of rock literally
raned upon the town, damaging most
of the buildings along the main street.
Two employees of the contracting
firm were arrested, charged with GRIM
inal negligence in handling explosives.
They were released on $1,000 bonds
each. Authorities expressed the belief
that failure to have the INT properly
weighted down caused the blast.
There were many narrow escapes
from injury especially in the town
telephone office. hail of stone
smashed into the building, one boulder
flying between two operators at work,
breaking the arm of the chair occupied
by one of the girls.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-14
Senator Simmons
Opens Democratic
Attack ON Tariff
Charges 1t Would Cut Fac
tory, Farm and Mine
Production; Republican
Bloc Discusses the Bill

; WASHINGTON, April 13 (By The As
ssociated Press).-The Democratic at-
tack on the Administration tariff bill
was opened to-day by Senator Sim
mons, of North Carolina, rankinp mem-
Der of the Senate Finance Committee.
who, in statement, characterized it
as the most un-American bill ever
framed"
he predicted that its operation would
"penalize our export business, which
Will mean IN the end curtailment o.
production and increased unemploy-
ment on the farms, in the mines and
in the factories"
AT the same time senator's of the Re-
publican Agricultural-T Tariff bloc held
the first of a series of meetings for
the consideration Of rates in the meas
ure which were fixed by the Finance
Committee majority at figures below
those suggested by the bloc. Senator
Gooding, of Idaho. chairman of the
bloc, said that it was also the purpose
to take up American valuation at the
meetings.
There is a strong sentiment in tns
Senate for American valuation" he
said. 81 do not want to put all our
members on record as favoring it, but
many of them are strongly impressed
with the principle"
Pending a decision on the question
by the bloc, Senator Gooding would
not say whether fight for American
valuation would be made on the floor.
He said, however, that it might be
difficult to have the valuation basis
changed in the Senate, because of the
great task that would be involved in re-
writing practically all of the ad
valorem rates in the bill.
At their session to-day the bloc mem
bers, after hearing spokesmen for the
Southern Tariff Association, decided to
support the increased rates asked for
by that association on peanuts. rice
and copra. The association also urged
that the duties on sugar be advance d
from cents to 21a cents pound on
full duty and from 160 to . cents on
Cuban sugar but the bloc has vet to
determine whether it will support these
increases.
In his statement Senator Simmons
said that even cursory examination
indicated that it was the highest tariff
bill ever written. He added that a
tariff more unsuited to present CON
dltions, If we are to participate in
world trade, could not we'll have been
framed
New-York tribune., 1922-04-14
Coal Board Takes Recess
Anthracite Operators Fight
Long Car Pay Demand

The anthracite scale committee,
which has been holding negotiations at
the Union League Club with view to
effccting an agreement for the hard
coal fields, adjourned yesterday until
Tuesday to permit the members to
pass the Easter holidays at their
homes
In connection with the presentation
of their rebuttal evidence counterng
the miners demands the operators de-
voted yesterdays session chiefly to ar
gument against the eleventh demand,
which is that where the miners are
paid by the car it shall be on a basis
OF the short ton of 1000 pounds in
stead of the long-ton basis of 2,240
pounds as at present The operators
say that this change would add about
9 per cent to the pay rolls in such
cases.
Other minor demands OF the miners
also were discussed.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-14
Mrs. NJ. t. Barrett Killed
BY Train at East Orange
Daughters Sec Their Mothers
Body Carried Fifty Feet;
Wife of Publisher

Mrs. Mabel T. Barrett, wife Of
Thomas A. Barrett, New York pub
Usher, whose home is at 80 Carlton
street, East Orange, was fatally in
Jured yesterday when she was struck
by an eastbound train at the Lacka-
wanna station, East Orange. She died
thirty minutes later.
Mrs. Barrett was crossing the tracks
to reach her train and did not observe
u, the safety gates. She was accompanied
by her two grown daughters, Miss
Winifred and Miss Marjorie Barrett.
They crossed ahead Of their mother,
who was barred by the gates. She
hurried on to join her daughter and
they witnessed her death Mrs. Bar
rett was carried fifty feet by the loco
motive pilot before the train could be
brought to a stop
Mrs. Barrett was socially we'll known
and had long been connected with civic
ahalrs in East Orange. Her eldest
daughter, Winifred Barrett. is engaged
to marry Donald R. Baldwin. son Of Mr.
ana Mrs. Arthur Baldwin, of Fifth
Avenue, Manhattan.
Mr.. Barrett is president of the Play
ground Commission of the Oranges
MRS. Barrett was formerly president of
the Wednesday Club, member of the
Homeseekers' Association and of other
leading civic organizations. She was
also we'll known in charitable and gen
eral sociological activities.
Members of Mrs. Barrett's family
SAID last night that she met death while
on the way to buy wedding clothes for
her daughter, Winfred, who was to
nave been wed within few weeks
MISS Barrett's fiance is deputy assist
ant district attorney of New York
New-York tribune., 1922-04-14
Shipyard Wages on the
Pacific Coast Reduced
Ten Per Cent Cut Is Made Eff
fective on April II; Fol
lows Atlantic Lead

A reduction of 10 per cent in wages
at shipyard and ship repair plants in
the San Francisco district will be made
effective on April II, it was learned
yesterday. The new schedule fixes Ga
cents an hour as the basic rate for
most classifcations, and conforms
closely with those established in the
New York section on February Is, ex-
cept for such classes as wood caulkers,
ship carpenters, joiners, patternmak-
ers and sheet metal workers, which
have always enjoyed differential
With the exception of the Lake Tor
pedo Boat Company, in New England,
marine plants in New York and the
Cramp plant, in the Delaware River
section, practically every Atlantic
Coast shpyard and repair plant north
of Charleston has adopted a maximum
basic rates of 5S cents an hour for
skilled labor, with intermediate rates
of 50 and 44 cents for second and third
class mechanics
New-York tribune., 1922-04-14

l know taxicabs. was putting them
together for Henry Ford out In De-
troit in 1920, when went on a visit
to my home in Rumania. l married
Milne, my wife, year ago, and on
April while we were at sea these
twins were born to her. 1t took all the
money | had to get here and now I'm
broke. So. you see. can't afford a
taxi"
You don't have to-" interposed Dotv.
You make taxicabs--I run them. We're
brothers in the same line of business.
Now. just forget that you're broke, be-
cause you ain't-not as long as I've got
bank roll. So you and the madame
and the twins get right in here and
make yourself comfortable and III at
tend to the baggage"
Doty climbed In himself presently
and drove away slowly so the taxicab
would not jar the twins and the mother,
Churlle then tried to explain that he
could get some money in Detroit, when
Doty stopped him, saying:
Now, leave it all to me. I'm poino
to see that ycu go to good hotel, and
after that-Detroit. This party is on
me-" VA
New-York tribune., 1922-04-14
Test Device to Take Roll Out
OF Waves and End Seasickness
12O-Ton Gyro.Stabilizer Called Pronounced Sue
cess at Trial; Will Be Used ON Larg-
est Oceangong Ships

PHILADELPHIA, April 13.-Seasick-
ness and "sea legs" will be eliminated,
it is claimed, by the installation on
giant ocean liners of huge gyro-sta-
bilizer, a test of which was witnessed
at the Westinghouse Electric and Man
ufacturing Company's plant to-day by
naval officers, engineers and representa-
tives of shipping concerns. The, test
was declared to have been pro
nounced success"
Designed to prevent the rolling OF
the largest ocean-going ships, those
who witnessed the test said that
through the use of the device passen-
gers would be able to stroll on the
decks regardless of how rough the
weather might be. The device would
not eliminate pitching or riding of
great waves in storm, however, the
experts said. Aside from the greater
comfort to passengers as result OF
the steadiness of the ship, it also was
said that the stabilizer could be used
to roll a vessel, which would be effec-
tive in freeing ship grounded on
shoals.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-14
Says Newberry
Had L. S. Drop
Lincoln Claim
Ex-Agent of Department
of Justice Also Names
Senator Townsend in
Airplane Motor Case
Daugherty Is Accused
Former Aid Ayers Attorney
General Yielded TO Out
side Influences in Suits

WASHINGTON, April 13.-Charges
that the Governments cases for recov-
cry on aircraft contracts from the Lin
coin Motor Company and the Wright
Martin Aircraft Corporation were with
drawn from United States Attorneys
persons outside the Department of
Justice" were made to-day by II, L..
Scalfe, former investigator in the
Department who recently resigned be-
cause, he said, proper action was not
being taken to follow up the evidence
uncovered
Scaife. formerly a major in the Air
Service, issued his statement in reply
to Attorney General Daugherty's an
nouncement in Columbus last night
that he had rcbuked Scaife for pre-
maturely giving out information re
garding the Lincoln motor car.
Scaife Accuses Senators
Scaife declared Mr.. Daugherty never
discussed the Lincoln case with him,
but charged that Senator'S Townsend
and Newberry, of Michigan, had been
instrumental in influencing the At
q
case from the United States Attorney
at Detroit after Assistant Attorney
General Grim had refused to do so.
The report Of the auditors on the
Lincoln case. Scaife declared, showed
overpayments of more than $9,000,000.
and in the case Of the Wright company
overpayments of more than $4,000, 900.
Of all the aircraft contract cases in
vestgated, Scaife declared, only the
Lincoln and Wright Martin cases had
hecn presented to United States attor-
neys with instructions to proceed, and
they later were withdrawn.
Scaife's charges in detail were read
into "The Congressional Record Tues
day by Representative Woodruff, of
Michigan
Hares Chase Hounds, He Says
In taking issue with Attorney Cen
cral Daugherty's comment to-day
Scaife's statement declared;
"The trouble with these investiga-
tions is that they are stopped. There
is big blast of the trumpet and the
chase is announced. Small animals
have very hard time, but when the
real quarry is jumped the Attorney
General becomes weary. When we re-
turn from the hunt the harcs are chas-
ing the hounds
The government will proceed in an
orderly way to file and press the pay
ment Of" the claim Of the War Dc
partment against the Lincoln Motors
| Company, of Detroit, for approximately
| S9.11S.000 on aviation contracts, Mr.
Daugherty announced late to-day after
a meeting with private creditors Of the
defunct concern, whose claims also
amount to approximately $9,000,00Q.
The entire matter Of the claims, the
Attorney General said will reach
promptly the Federal court where "the
whole matter of the liability of the
parties will be determined"
The private creditors were repre-
scnted by Harold II. Emmons, of De
troit, acting for the Detroit Trus'
Company, receiver. There are 900 odd
creditors, Mr.. Emmons said after the
meeting, and to pay their claims there
is available $5,00O,oo0 out of the
| SS.o00,000 paid by Henry Ford at a re
ceivcrs sale for the property. The
other $3.0O0,000, he added, represented
preferred creditors, including labor
mortgages and city, state and county
| taxes.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-14

The stabilizer, which weighs 12o
tons, is to be installed in the Ship
ping Board steamer Hawkeye State,
plying between Baltimore and Homo
lulu. 1t was said to be the largest
ever constructed and will be the first
one to be placed in large passenger
vessel. Similar devices have been used
in yachts and smaller ships.
Operating on the principle of the
common gyroscope, the gyro-stabilizer
to-day attained an over-speed of 10 per
cent or $50 revolutions minute Its
big wheel is propelled with such force
that it was said it would spin for
eighteen hours after the power is shut
off. The action is confronted by small
horoscopes along the sides of the yes
sci. These register the direction OF
the roll and automatically start the
big stabilizer wheel revolving in the
direction necessary to counteract the
motion of the ship.
The device was designed in colabora-
tion of Westinghouse and Sperry en-
gineers and was built 20 meet the
specifications Of Elmer A. Sperry, the
American scientist and inventor.