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DARK TIVE SEEN- INKILLING OF 6L — > State Dema_hds and Obtains Holding of Harpers Ferry Lad on Murder Charge. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. HARPERS FERRY. W. Va. March 26.—James A. Stevens. the eighteen- year-old youth of Halltown arrested in conmnection with the killing of XKatherine L. Littleton in her home, at Bolivar, Sunday night, vesterday held for the action of the grand jury on the charge of murder. He was given a preliminary hearing before Magistrate D. H. Nichols. who, after hearing the cvidence, acceded to the demand of Prosecuting Attorney Por- terfield that the prisoner be held for the murder of the girl. Keen Interest Shown. So great was tle interest ease—which has provided more exc ment than this little town ha was rienced in years—that Magistra Nichols found it necessary to transfer the hearing from his home, in Boliva where such proceedings are usually held. to the Jonadab Hall. in this place. The rush of residents to g into the hall was so Jarge C. E. Marlatt ordered the after the place was filied to Hundreds of the curious populic were forced to remain outside the building during the proceedings. All the evidence he from twenty-five state witnes Attorney Forrest Brown of Charles Town, coun- sel for the defensc, had no witnesses and would not permit the accused to take the stand. The state, by its witne tempted to show attempted as the cause of the tragedy. bu ed, as the evidence showed that the girl's hair was only slightly disar- ranged, and this evidently was caused by the flow of blood. Demonstrates Pistol. Constables White and Wentzell, who arrested Stevens at his home, say they found him expecting arrest. immediately turned over the gun, with which Stevens admits the girl was killed. When the gun w duced in court f S. Glass d strated its operation. taking the jury outside the building and dis i it. attempting to show that it impossible for the girl to use it for self-destruction. Attorney Brown. in summing up, asked that the prisoner be held on on the charge of involuntary man- slaughter. However, Attorney Port- erfield in his summing up dwelt prin- cipally on the point that there were only two persons who knew anything of the circumstances of the shooting. He claimed that there was a sinister motive and insisted upon the prisoner being held on the charge of murder. He said he could not conceive how an innocent person could deliberately leave a girl dying and bleeding to death and go home without calling| her family or a physician to her re- lief. = ASK POWER COMMISSION TO REVISE REGULATIONS Executives Say About 70 Per Cent of Old Ones Found Workable. /The Federal Power Commission, at & meeting yesterday, was asked to revise certain portions of the regu- 14tions promulgated by the old com- Taission just before it went out of office March 4 by a committee of electric power executives. dt was the second meeting of the new commission, composed of Secre- tdries Weeks, Fall and Wallace. Just before the close of the last adminis- téation’ the outgoing commission pro- Tjulgated regulatfotss which |- the powermen vesterday -acknowledged to He about 70 per cent workable, but ntaining provisions which, they id. undoubtedly would prevent de- lopment of waterpower projects hich the bill was intended to imulate. [The regulations. as drawn by the tgoing commission. the power ex- utives told the secretaries, seek to nstitute the federal commission a gulatory body with expensive ma- inery, involving duplicate systems accounts and thousands of em- oyes. Congress, they argued, in- nded the commission to be a super- sory body. and. they argued, Con- ess showed its intent when it limit- the appropriations for the com- ission’s work to $100.000 a year. To CArry out the regulations as they now stand. the secretaries were told. would cost the govermmie¢nt hundreds thousands of dollars a year. re- rd the development of power proj- ts and represent duplication of ef- rt. To carry out the regulations, e secretaries werns told. would hel create another federal bureau. ‘By ended regulations, the power ex- utives maintained, the government uld do the work with a force of enty-fivé people and an expenditure $150.000 & year by utilizing the rvices of .the Army engineers. Pres- t regulations.. it was argued. were ¥ntury to, the intent of the law. HELPED HIS MOTHER KILL | STEPFATHER, BOY SAYS d Admits Carting Body in Toy ‘Wagon to Railroad Yards With Little Brother, Aged Nine. GRAND RAPIDS. Mich., March 26 —Caspar Didia; fourteen years old, eonfessed today, according to the po- lice, that he helped his mother club to death his stepfather, Joseph Scal- bius, last night. Then. according to | the confession, he und his brother James. nine vears old, placed the body in a toy wagon and carted it to the railroad yards, where they left it. The body was found early today by a switching crew. He was awakened during the nig Caspar declared. by u quarrel be. tween hsi mother and stepfather. “I struck him with an ax 1 a d my mother hit him with the police quote him as saying. “Then my brother and 1 carried the body away in the cart” Mrs. Scalbius and the two boys were taken into custody shortly after the body was found WILL TEACH JOURNALISM. ! ‘Washington and Lee University to Establish School. Bpecial Dispateh to The Star LEXINGTON, Va. March Robert E. Lee School of Journalism is s00n to be established at Washing- ton and Lee University in memory of the great southern generul who. when ent of the institution in 156 recognized journalism s a learned profession and founded the first chair on that subject in the his- tory of the country. This announcement was made by Tresident Henry Louis Smith of Washington and Lee, following an ex- tended trip through the south, where e has enlisted Support of a large number of newspaper editors in the project and received their promise to aid’in its endowment. DETAILED TO CORNELL. Maj. Henry S. Wygant, United States Army, retired, at Birmingham, Ala, has been detailed as assistant professor of military science and tac- tics at Cornell University, The e | He} Vacuum Too Thin for Electricity to Pass Obtained | _SALT LAKE CITY, Utal | March 28—Prof. Orin Tugma: of thé physics department of the nounced that he | the clonest approach to a per- | fect vacuum that hax ever been | recorded. | oThie “vacuum, he xaid, is too thin for even the passage of | electricity. The American Ax- | | sociation for the Advancement ©f Sclence furnished the funds for the experiment. A vacuum in which there is 1 | pressure of omly .00000002 i rounds per square inch can be obtained by the apparatus which Prof. Tugman used. The apparatus conxintx of two pumps. The Mist Ix an ofl pump and is capablc of produc- | ing a “vacuum" of .00002 pounds | | ver square inch. A fube ix then | | | comn ‘cted with a mercury vaper | pump or axpirator. The mer- cury in thix ix hoiled and the vapor parses through a noszle, sucking out the molecules of air. BERMUDA'S PAST LNKED WITHU.§ { Geographic Society of Is- llands’ Unique Distinctions. Bermuda. according to William Howard Taft., who lectured before ational Geographic Society last evening. has some unique distinctions, among which are: A precursor of a famous national idelicacy, the Virginia ham, for its discoverer, Juan Bermudes, en route {to Virginia, was shipwrecked there and some hogs he had on board es- jcaped to the island and multiplied. The locale of Shakespeare's play, {“The Tempest.” according to some scholars, because the Bermudas were generally associated with storms = the minds of Englishmen of that period. | A factor in our American revolu- {tion, because, when George Washing- ton was in desperate straits for pow- jder., a Philadelphia vessel went to Bermuda, and. with the connivance of { the colonists, broke open the powder {magazine. took the entire supply aboard the ship and conveyed it to Philadelphia. A place where direct taxes are lighter than anywhere else in the world. Earlier in_ the day, following a call lupon President Harding. Judge Taft was guest of honor of Gilbert Gros- venor. president of the National Geo- graphic Society, who also had as his guests the board of trustees of the I society, of which Mr. Taft is a mem- ber, at the Cosmos Club. In the after- noon he attended the annual meeting of the trustees at Hubbard Memoriai Hall. ' Extracts From Address. Extracts from Judge Taft's speech follow “It was during one of the periods of famine and suffering among the Bermu- | dan colonists that the Revolutionary.| war broke. out in the United States. ‘Washington was in desperate straits for a lack of powder. and a vessel from Philadelphia went to Bermuda, and! with the comnivance of the colonists, for it could not otherwise have been done, broke opensthe powder magazine and took the entire supply aboard the ship and conveyed it to Philadelphia. | “No man can be a member of the janemmy unless he possesses a free- i 1 hold rated at $1,200, just as one who votes for him must own a freehold A freeholder may have several votes—that is, he may vote in each parish in which he owns enough to constitute himself a voter. imate Attracts U. 8. Tourists. “The beauties of this island home. its fine climate and scenery. its con- of access from the United States, its efficient government, at- tract, during the colder and uncom- fortable seasons of the year, from the United States a large number of visit- ors. Indeed in time past there have been as many sojourners in the is- lands from the United States as there were permanent residents. “The land owners pay no general tax on their land or property. No man is compelled to pay an income.tax. for the income tax leviea by Great Brit- ain does mot apply to British sub- jects beyond the British Isleés. There are some gmall parish dues which the land owners pay, but they afe insig- i nificant. Nowhere in the world, I ven- lture to think, are the taxes lighter. “There are two things in the islands {that determine much of the social economy, one is the presence of build- ing material, which can be sawed out with a hand saw and after some ex- { posure is ready for use. and the other iis the total absence of wells. It is | necessary to get their drinking water rated at $300. venience from which the water is t6 be derived {should be kept clean by whitewash. “From the happiness that seems to prevail, from philosophic contentment with which the people of these islands 100k out upon the rest of the world, we may derive many lessons with r spect to our pursuit of happiness, which the Declaration of Independenci postulates as one of our rights.” 1748 MARINE CORPS “VETS” REWARDED FOR SERVICE Commissions, Mainly for Duty in World War. § Marine Corps veterans of the world i war, enlisted men and non-commis- sioned officers, have bgen rewarded i ISpecial Selection Board Awards for their service in the award of 748 | permanent commissions in the corps ranging from the grade of second licutenant to captain. Award of the commissions was based on the report of the spe b ial selection board, headed Maj. Gen. Wendell Neville. Of the total of 219 selected for per- commissions in the grade of . 122 fought through the war ned officers: while of first lieutenants chosen, 187 war veterans of non-commis- sioned r enlisted men | of the ¢ rded 180 of the | total of 253 commissions in the grade of second lieutenant. Practically all those awarded commissions saw serv- ice with the Marine Brigade in France ! from the action at Belleau Wood to | { | the Argonne. Ranking the list of s Le- | roy P. Hunt_ who served as major in the marine battalion which effected the historic crossing of the Meuse river on the eve of the armistice, while Louis Cukela. winner of the ongressional medal of honor, heads | list_of first lieutenants. Second | on the list of captains is the name of | Clifton B. Cates, who won two dis- | tinguished service crosses. | BAND WILL NOT PLAY. | Out of respect to the death of { cardinal Gibhons, president of the board of directors of St. Mary's Indus- | trial § not p the funeral. The band was coming hers next woek to spend several days in the ocity in connection with the two-hun- dred-amd-fifty-thousand-dollar com- paign to be launched here from April 5 to 14. The money will be \ll.dplh rebuild 8t Mary's School, which was destroyed by fire in 1918 R . the Babe Ruth Band will Washington until after \ ! f 1 LIPTON-BID- AMBASSADOR DAVIS GOOD-BYE. Thomas Lipton and Sir Harry Ladder photographed with John W. Davis, retiring ambassador to Great Britain, just before hix departure for America, at n week end party at Sir Thomax Lipton’s country home. BU“_IH RESENTS | Court to Devote Time to F: ixing LANSING CHARGES Takes Exception to Ex-Sec- retary’s Reference to Him in His Book. In a letter to Robert former Secretary of State, Bullitt, formerly of the State Depart- ment and member of the American commission to negotiate peace, tak exceptions to certain statements con- tained in the former’s book, “The | Peace Negotiations.” The letter was made public today. Mr. Bullitt cites a for his criticism the quotation by Mr. Lansing of a lengthy memorandum dated May 8, 1919, which was used to express views concerning the treaty at the time of a conversation with Mr. Bullitt on May 19. Quotes League Statement. After quoting a passage in which Mr. Lansing refers to the league of nations as a “new alliance with a alo,” declaring that “whatever it be called or however it may be disguised it is an alliance of the five great military powers.” Bullitt points out that Mr. Lansing “did not once advocate ratification of the treaty nor in any other memoran- dum written in Paris and quoted in your book did you advocate ratifica- tion of the treaty.” Lansing, a primary basis Having laid this foundation, Mr. Bullitt follows up_th n your telegram to the President. written some four months later and made public in your book. you added con- trary statements giving a radically different meaning to your words. You said that although you had criticised the treaty in your conversation with me you had followed your criticisms by saying ‘that nothing ought to be done-to prevent the speedy restoration of peace by signing the treaty’ and that ‘anything which was as obstacle to ratification was unfortunate be- ause we ought to have peace as soon s possible. This telegram, written four months after the evening, iy the sole evidence upon which you base an allegation that I ‘possibly uninten- tionally * ¢ by omitting the context entirely changed the meaning’ of your statements in our conversation of May 19.” Letter's Concluding Paragraphs. The letter occupies four typewritten ipages. Various excerpts and quota tions are used to bring home points. The concluding paragraphs wind up the letter as follows: “And, if 1 may quote you again as expressing a realization which I, too, had “‘In the circumstances it.is far too much to expect fo escape criticism The review of facts apd commen upon them may be characterized in certain quarters as disloyal to a su- perior and as violative of the seal of silence which is considered generally to apply to the intercourse and com- munications between the President Iznd his official advisers.’ “In spite of your realization of the criticisms which must follow. you {have at last laid bare your personal frelations with your superior officer. iand all your knowledge of the peace { negotiations. When 1 WT summoned from the clouds, and that as a meas-!to appear before the forefgn relations | ure of health requires that every roof | committee of the Senatd I followed the same course, with thi same real- ization of the consequencés to me. The real difference between us is this— You now publicly urge that the Amer- ican people were and are entitled to know the truth, You have taken them into your confidence after they have given judgment upon the treaty, when it is too late for the facts you reveal to help them. I acted when the issue was still doubtful and it seemed cer- tain that the treaty would he passed. Your present criticism seems to spring from the single difference that I spoke to representatives of the American people at an hour when the American people needed facts and were seeking facts upon which to base their de- cision on the treaty.” GAG THE PESSIMISTS, COUNSELS CRISSINGER “We ‘Are Not Yet Out of Trough of Reaction,” Controller of Currency Declares. Business conditions in the country would be materially helped by provid- ing some Kind of gag for pessimists who insist on keeping business and labor in an upturned state, according to D. R. Crissinger, controller of the currency. “We reaction.” he said, “and times are especially hard for the farmers of the south and west. I will do anything 1 possibly can to help them. “But_those people who seem to de- light in harping on hard times and the prospect of harder times are the ones most to blame for the present inactivity in manufacturing and for timidity on the part of the buying pubiic. . “Much of the stagnation results, of course, from the continued inability of Europe to buy our surplus prod- ucts, except on credit. The War Fi- nance Corporation is again a going concern, and I believe within a short time will arrange for the shipment of enough goods to relieve the con- gestion of our home markets and permit the resumption of manufac- turing on a large scale. “I have no cure-all to offer for the | economic ills of our ti They are ithe heri of the war, and only time and work can cure them.” Prices are falling all along the line, said Mr. Crissinger. GOES ON SPECIAL MISSION. Capt. eGozge F. Hobson, Quarter- master Corps, stationed in this city, has been ordered to take confidential dispatches to eGn. Allen at Coblenz. Germany, and report for ‘duty with the American forces in Germany. William C. | Mr. | are not yet out of the trough ! ' Stillman Case A POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., March 26.— It became known here last night that Justice Joseph Morschauser will de- vote his entire attention during the fore part of next week to a considera- tion of the application of Mrs. Anna U. Stillman for $10.000 a month ali- mony and $75,000 counsel fees in the isuit for diverce brought against her | by her husband, James A. Stillman, president of the ational Cit Bank of New York. Arrangcments have been made with Justices A. Seeger . Tompkins to substitute for and s Morschauser at the trial term Just of the supreme court at White Plains, over which he had been assigned to i preside, . " ;rwln,\ the last day for the filing aflidavits on the motion, .but it is understood that all the pape | submitted are now in Justic | chauser's hands. to be Mors- { The findings, it is announced. will | be sent from Poughkeepsie to White { Plains, where they will be officially made public. Women Jalled in Mail Theft. { CHICAGO.—Mrs. Myrtie Lemack and Marguerite Monfoe were ordered re- manded to Jjail by United States Commissioner Lewis F. Mason, fol- tion j robbery in Toledo, Ohio. Ships Burn at Los Angeles. LOS ANGELE: Calif.—Damage estimated at $500,000 was done by fire at Los Angeles harbor. A wharf, : four yachts and the plant of the sea- | craft” corporation were destroyed. A sixty-mile gale made the work of the firemen difficult, and, for a time, flames endangered other property. i Missing Securities Found. | xaNsas CITY, Mo.—The Mer- | chants” Nationa] ~ Bank announced that $31,500 in interim certificates, {belioved to have been part of the $92,000 worth of securities obtained {in & mail robbery at Centerville, Towa, Saturday night had been found on i the streets here and turned into the | bank. Some of the securities were i negotiable, it was stated. | Columbin Loses Debate. LOS ANGELES.—The University of | Southern California won a debate with the Columbia University team of New York last night. i ‘our Killed by Train. | PIQUA. Ohio.—The family of Mil- ton Lenox of Hardin, Ohio, was prac- tically wiped out, when a “Big Fou passenger train crashed into an au- tomobile at a railroad crossing in IHardm today. Lenox, his wife and A.F.OF L. IS CRITICISED FOR ‘EXERCISE OF POWER’ | gty | Dz. Ira N. Hollis, Head of W. P. I, Says It Is Controlled by a Minority. NEW YORK, March 26.—The Amer- ican Federation of Labor was crit cised last night by Dr. Ira N. Hollis, | president of the Worcester Pol technic Iustitute, for what he termed “undue exercise of power by a minor- ity” in exerting legislative and ad- ministrative pressure in this country. Addressing an assemblage of m chanical and clectrical engineers, Dr. Hollis said: “When the American Federation of Labor demands of Congregs Certain legislation or represents to'the Prés- ident of ‘the United States that he must have one of their number in his cabinet, it is an undue exercise of power by a minority just as serious to the future of our republic as the present activities of the hyphenates like the German-Americans and the {Irish-Americans. ~ Unchecked power | of minorities is a danger to any form of government. Scoring what he alleged to be the attitude of labor organizations in teaching their members to “put in hours simply to get pay,” the speaker continued: “The main emphasis has been |Placed upon the reduction of hours the increase of pay by reason of bet- ter work and,a higher capacity for work. In that réspect labor has been woefully deficient.” HURRY UP ROAD PLANS. Business Men to Improve George- town-Leesburg Pike. Plans for the improvement of the Georgetown-Leesburg pike are being developed rapidly by those business men who have undertaken to inau- gurate a direct mafor route from Washington to Great Falls on the Virginia side of the Potomac, accord- ing to an announcement made by Robert N. Harper today. Gov. Westmorland Davis of Virginia, stating that he would arrive in Wash- ington next week and address a con- ference of the promoters of the proj- ect. Gov. Davis' letter of acceptance to Herman Gasch of the committee in charge was directed also to other local business men who are advanc- ing_ the reconstruction scheme, in- cluding, besides Mr. Harper, B. A. i Bowles, cashier of the Potomac Sav- ings Bank of Georgetown, and D. S. Mackall of McLean, Va. CAPT. ROHDE ORDERED HERE. Capt. Samuel J. Rohde, Dental Corps, has been detached from: duty at Coblens, Germany, with the Ameri. can army of occupation and ordered | PRIVATE BRANCH EXCHANGE to this city for duty at Washington barracks. lowing their arraignment in connec- ' with the recent $1,000,000" mail |- and more pay per hour, rarely upon | limony and Fees two children were instantly killed. Two daughters, nine and eleven years of age, are the only survivors. Shot by Son in Quarrel. BRISTOL, Va.-Tenn—J. C. Isaacs was shot through the chest and per- haps fatally wounded by his son Charles Isaacs, at their home, at Ap palachia, Va.. as the result of a quar- Irel. The son is in jail. Mexican Emissary in Texas. AUSTIN, Tex.—FEduardo Ruiz, Mex- ican consul general at San Francisco, has arrived in Austin as a special commissioner of President Obregon to confer with Governor Neff concern- ing settlement of questions growing out of alleged mistreatment of Mexican citizens in Texas. The con- ference will concern especially the recent labor troubles in the oil ficlds of north Texas. | Mme. Curie Receives Medal. NEW YORK.—Awardink of the &old medal of the National Institute of Social Sciences to Mme. Marie Curie, discoverer of radium, is an- nounced. The award was made, it was { stated, beause of the benefit of her ! digcovery to humanity. | Mmers’ Union Officials Arrested. PITTSBURG, Kan—Alexander M. Howat, president of the Kansas Mine Workers, and three members of the organization’s . district (executive board were arrested here on charges of contempt of court in connection with the calling of a strike now in progress at a coal mine in this county. “B. L. T.” Left $25,000 Estate. CHICAGO.—Bert _ Leston Taylor, known as “B. L. T.” when he con- ducted the Chicago Tribune's column, “A Line O'Type or Two,” died inte- state. but left an estate valued at $25,000, it became known when the letters of administration were grant- {ed his widow. California Bank Cloxes Doors. - | _MODESTO, Calif.—The California { National Bank, with deposits approx- | imating $1.000.000, has closed its doors. Difficulties due to over-loan- ling were said by bank officials to be the cause. The bank's loans are | chiefly to agricultural interests. It is a member of the federal reserve vank. Commended for Killing Father. JONESBORO, Ark.—James Haw- | kins, a youth, who shot and killed his father, when the latter attacked his mother at Lepanto near here, was commended for doing his duty by the.coroner's jury, which exoner- ated him of all blame. SECRETARY WEEKS SAYS U. S. MUST GET BERGDOLL Declines to Discuss Method Pro- posed Bringing Draft Evader From Germany. “We are going to get Bergdoll if it is possible to get him," Seccretary Weeks of the War Department de- clared today, in discussing the case of the Philadelphia draft evader, now (in Germany. “I don't believe we will recognize any statute of limitation in_his case, if one should exist.” Secretary Weeks would not say -what steps would be taken to get Bergdoll out of Germany. He refused to discuss the possibility of his ex- tradition by Great Britain for viola- tion of British passport laws, but did say that he assumeg that if the state of war between the United States and Germany were declared at an cnd extradition of the draft evader would be_possible. Admission is made that Gen. Allen, { commanding American forces on the | Rhine, has made overtures to the German government looking to the pardoning of Carl Neuf and Franz Zimmer, Americans sentenced to pris- on terms at Eberbach, Germany, for attempting to arrest Bergdoll on Ger- man soil. ASKS LIMITED DIVORCE. i Mrs. for Julis T. Cormany Accuses }‘usband of Non-Support. Limited divorce is asked in a peti- tion filed In the District Supreme Court by Mrs. Julia T. Cormany against Isaac H. Cormany, an em- ploye of the general land office. The wife charges that her husband spends a large portion of his income for in- toxicating liquor and neglects to pro- vide properly for her and the child. They were married April 16, 1912, At. torneys Leckie, Cox & Sherier ap- pear for the wife. GET HONORABLE DISCHARGE. By direction of the President, Capt. rl J. Lehnhard, Field Artillery, and Capt. Vance R. Thralls, United States Army, at the Walter Reed General Hospital, this city, have been honor- Word was received yesterday from |ably discharged. THE Hoffman Co. CLEANERS and DYERS 12—_STORES—12 Main Office, 740 12th St. N. W. Plant, 1530 Pa. Ave. 8. E. Phone M. 4724 PLANHOSPITALFOR ABLED SOLDIERS St. Elizabeth’s Will Be Rec- ommended to New Commit tee as Most Suitable. Enlargement of the Government Hospital for the Insane at Congress Heights, D. C, to take care of 1.000 disabled former service men will be outlined next weck to the newly a pointed committee of consultant phy- sicians which will have charge of the selection of sites for new hospitals and also for extensions of present ones under the appropriation made at the last session of Congress. The small amount of money which would be required for the extension of the hosfital, it was pointed out by Dr. William White, superintendent of the institution, could be obtained from {the $18.000.000 appropriated by the last Congress. Of this sum $6.000,000 is available for the extension of pres- ent hospital facilities and the re- mainder for building new ones. Enlarged at Small Cost. Dr. White has already pointed out to the consultant committee, at an in- !formal conference, that with a mini- mum of expense the present institu- tion could be enlarged to the point whaere it could accommodate almost any reasonable number of men. giving them all expert medical attention and keeping them segregated from the violent insane and the criminal in- sane mow in the institution. The plans of Dr. White have not been reduced to paper, he said, but he will take them,up at enother con- ference next week. “The government has in St. Eliza- beth’s an institution which is already tunctioning and one which would be well able with alterations to accom- modate a considerable number of in- valided soldiers,” Dr. White said, “The possibilities of St. Elizabeth’s as an institution for the care of veterans are almost unlimited. We now have several acres of ground upon which could be erected semi-permament buildings of & modern type in which they could be housed.” To Consult Service Doctors. The consultant committee has ad- journed until Tuesday. When it Te- convenes it will have before it officers | of the Army and Navy Medical Corps to determine the present faciliti State and municipal’delegations se¢k-. ing locations of hospitals on sites in their respective areas will she -hgard Wednesday and Thursday. The com- mittee will consider only govern- ment-owned Bjtés or:logations which the communities are willing to give to the government. The consultant committee is com- posed of Dr. W. C. White of Pitts- burgh, chairman: Dr. John G. Bow- man of Pittsburgh, Dr. Frank 8. Bill- ings of Chicago, and Dr. Pearce Balley of New York. PRESIDENT SEES RELIEF. Learns of 12,000 Government Beds Available at Once. ‘What President Harding believes will go far toward relieving suffering among afflicted and wounded war vet- erans is the recent discovery of 12,000 government beds distributed through- out the country, which are available for immediate use. This announce ment was made by the President y: terday afternoon after a meeting with Brig. Gen. Sawyer, his personal physician, who is making a complete survey of the various welfare and health activities preparatory to the department. . At _this_conference were also Rear, Admiral E. R. Stitt. surgeon general of the Navy: Brig. Gen. M. W. Ireland, surgeon general of the Army: Dr. Hugh S. Cumming, surgeon general of the publig health service: - Dr. Charles. Mayo of Rochester, Minn.: Edward Martin, commissioner _of health of Pennsylvania, and Dr. Wil- liam F. Snow of the national health service. The delegation assured the President that a careful survey of the existence of these available beds. ICHANCE FOR DISTRICT BOY Commissioners Asked to Name Candidates for Naval Academy. The District Commissioners have been notified by Theodore Roosevelt. acting Secretary of the Navy, that a vacancy exists for the District of Co- lumbia at the United States Naval Academy. X : The letter requests the Commission- ers to nominate four candidates for {the position in time for them to take the competitive examination April-20. of the District. Detailed information as to physical and mental require- ments may be obtained from Daniel Garges, secretary to the Comimis- trict ‘building; Gréen Peas Cofree creatiom of one big government relief | hospital facilities of the Army, Navy | ‘{and public health service disclosed { Applicants must be actual residents! Service From Cream of Tomato-Croutons Delmonico Potatoes ¥ Microscope Used i : by Bacori Before - : i Knownto Stcienée NEW YORK, March ’o‘-‘lu- 1 covery of ciphered manuscripts, crudely fillustrated, which are clalmed to proyé that ‘Reger Bacon, Iaboring In the dark age | of the thirteenth century, used a high-powered mitroseope a telencope, Inatrupments generally attributed to sevemteenth cen- t y inventors, has been made known by Dr. Villfred M. Voy- | nich, noted bibllographer. i l The drawings reveal, he aaid, | Bacon ob and anatomical ;: T | human evex and first known to | | | xcience 400 years later. A key to the code used by | Bacon to concenl bis great work | has been found by Dr William Romaine Newbold of the Uni- vernity of Pennsylvania, and he | mow in deciphering the manu- {" | weript. Dr. Voynich said. For centuries the work passed from band to hand without itx con- tentw being known. he added, nd Dr. Newbold are to | ; | i collexge of physicians. CONEY PARALYZED FROM CHEST DOWN Flying Lieutenant’s Condition Considered Serious by Physicians. NATCH Miss, March 26.—The following bulletin was issned at 9 a.m. today by physicians attending Lieut. Coney “Condition of Lieut. €oney practi- cally the same as when he arrived last night. He passed a comfortable night. Temperature 100; pulse regular. . A bulletin issupd last night said “Lieut. Coney is suffering from frac tures of the third, fourth and fifth lumbar vertebrae. He is paralyzed from the chest down: temperature 103, We regard his condition as very seri- Jous. }; The licutenant was brought here trom Crowville, La. and members of the local American Legion post earried him to the sanitarijum, where an ex- amination of his injuries was made. Courngeous Flyer Talks. MONROE. La. March 26— will make the flight from the Atlantic to Pagific vet, if death does not me,” Lieut. Coniey declared short- fofe he was conveved by auto- mobile and train to Natchez, Mis: wanted to break my own world's record In my trip back to the Pacific and my keenest regret is that 1 have failed,” the injured flier continued. “I know that I would have establish- ed u new record if 1 hud not been beaten by nature. It is pretty hard to, overcome the iaws of gravily and to find out new things in nature. I thought that I was learning some of her secrets when this .accident oc- curred. 1 would have won out.if it had not been for, those fogs alang the Mississippi river. 1 had a fair flight until 1 struck the fog -banks along the river and them I lost.my way to some extent, and frem the Mississinpi river until I hit_.the ground I was fiying low. Wwas preparing, to make. a land- | Ing because of engine trouble when 1 struck a tree and went down. I Ldo not remember much about:what occurred after I struck the tree un- til 1 found myself in the arms of | conveyed me to thefr home: I guess it is all over.” Lieut. Coney early in the day kept repeating over and over that he was | going to_die; but” his' physicians had | cheered him ‘up ‘to-some extent, and | he was inclinéd to 'taKe a- more philosophic view of the “accldent. The injured flier sent a . telegram {to Miss Mary Morgan, San Diego. Calif., sald to be his flance. The mes | sage ‘was brief. simply stating, “My | plane fell and my spine was seriously injured.” e SACRAMENTO, Calif.,” March Lieut. Coney was a member of the aerial forest patrol last summer and {at one time was adjutant at Math- r Field. Prior to coming to Mather { Field. he was in the office of the chief of the air service at Washington, D. C., and at one time an instructor in acrobatics at a flying fleld in Florida. —_— CUTS FARES 10-PER CENT. New York Central Announces Re: ‘ dyctions for Summer Months. NEW YORK, March 26)—The New York Central railroad announces a 10 per cent reduction for rround-trip tickets, with time limit, effective be- tween May 15 and June 1, up to Sep- tember 30, to all points in its terri- = of the “homeseeker” bound westward as announced. These hed during the war. storation rates for colon of Chicago also rates were abol s from Farmt6You" _"'product EASTER SUNDAY The Bellevue Bantam 1332 G Street Northwest - - Has Prepared This Enticing TABLE D’HOTE DINNER 1to 8P.M. $1.25 Soups—Cholce of One Meats—Choice of one 3% Roast Squab Chicken, dreasing Roast. Leg ‘of Lamb, mint ssuce * Prime Ribs of Beef Vegetabfes—Choice Baked: Potato * Creamed Spinach Fruit Aspic, Cream Mayonnaise scal . ©1d Fashioned Strawberry Short Cake Hot Biscuitx & Butter Tez In Addition—a la Carte Service—11 A.M. to 9 P.M. 1334-36 G Street I~ 1338 New York Avenue OPEN SUNDAYS A la Carte Service—' 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. CLOSED | Mose Lanier and his good wife, who | Chicken Consomme “Stewed Rhubarb Open Week Days Until Midnight CALLER” MONDRY ment—Men, Reject Road’s Propositiens. | By the Associated Press. CHICAGO. Mardh 26.—The United States railroad labor board issued re- quests for the appearance before it on Monday. April 4, of three more railway executives. W. G. Besler of the Central Rail- road of New Jersey. E. . Loomis of the Lehigh. Valley and H . Bryam, Chicago. Milwaukee and St. Paul, will be heard after B. M. Jewell, chaitman 1of the railway employes’ department of the American Federation of Labor concludes his rebuttal testimony at the hearing over the national agree- ments Mr. Jewell has already occupied the stand for two days. The hearing was adjourned yesterday until Moncay. M. K. & T. Men Reject DENISON, Tex.. March 26.—Repre- sentatives of unskilled workmen em- ployed by the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad rejected - proposal that the question of wage adjustmen® be left to the, rallroad labor beard {for settiement, and notified railroad jofficials they would reply to the 'p--sul made by the road for a w: jcut of from 30 to 40 per cent at a conference to be held in Louis, April 21, Referred to Labor Board. TOPEKA, Kan. March 26.—The question of wage scale reduction for unskilled laborers on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe raiiroad will go to the Raiway Labor Board, it was decided at a conference of railroad and union officials here. Will Reply on A JEF CITY, March 26.—~Repre- sentatives of employes of the Central railroad in New Jersey yesterday took under advisement a proposal to re- duce wages to conform with scales in effect April 30, 1920, when the United States Railroad Labor Board granted an increase of 20 per cent. The em- ployes’ representatives said they would report back to their respective {organiztajons and submit their an- swer to the proposal at another con- fergnce April 4. 2 Conference Fails. HOUSTON. Tex., March Main- ltenance of way employes on Southern Pacific lines and road offi- cers failed to reach an agreement on proposed wagé cuts at their first con- ference, it was announced. & W ROANOKE, V: . Men Reject. March 26.—A pro- posal by the Norfolk and Western railway to reduce wages of truck- men, freight handlers and warehou men was rejected by representati of the employes at a conference with W ;. Jenks, general manager of the road. COMPARE MARKET DROP. Decline in Wholesale Prices Noted by Bureau of Markets. Decline in wholesale prices was mark- ed in comparisons made public today by the bureau of markets. The bureaustat: that potatoes a_year ago were selling wholesale at $5.75 a hundred pounds, but now sell at $1.35; onions, which were $6.25 a hundred pounds a year ago, now are quoted at 70 cents; new cabbage, which was $6.25 a barrel a year ago, now is $3.50 a barrel, and the best cold storage apples, quoted at $8.75 a barrel last March. now sell for $5.50. Whol i w - Prices realized on Swift & Com. pany’s sales of carcass beef on ship ments sold out for periods shown below, as_published in the news- papers, averaged as follows, showing the tendency of the market: Week Av.Prics Eading MM TR Pecn Mar. ceese 1647 Mar. 19, 14.00 ..1686 Swift & Company 20.00.. 1 i lloped Tomatoes or Parfalt or Milk SUNDAYS Private Dining Rooms’ el Parties now available upon advance application: for Dinner or Luncheon [4 ’