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WEATIHER. 7] | N | perature tonight; lowest slightly be- 1 Jow freezing; tomorrow cloudy, much || warmer. Temperature for 24 hours | ended at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 52, at || 2 p.m. _yesterday; lowest, 19, at 6:15 || a.m. today., Full report on page 7. i Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 24 Increasing cloudiness. rising tem- WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star. ‘The Star’s delivered to “From Press to Home as the papers are print.d. Within the Hour” carrier system covers every city block and the regular edition is ‘Washington homes as fast . Yesterday's ~Nel a:ulninn, 55,'649 Iintered as second-class matter st office Washington, D. C. 28,813. WASHINGTON e D TUESDAY, Two in Denby’s Party,on Lark in Balboa,‘Captives’ Radio to the Associated Pre ABOARD U. S. S. HENDERSON, Balboa, March 20.—Two members of Secretary Denby's congressional ALL OF GERMANY | " FEELING INVADERS | in the hands of a naval patrol last in’e ¢ 14 | night, according stesililo Berlin’s “War Budget” for | [iie accordin to stories they * Occupied Area Exceeds men, Conflict Average. ssigned to the battleship New York for yesterday's maneuvers, Representatives Albert B. Rossdale and Andrew N. Peterson, both of New York, drew sailors’ uniforms, had dinner with the crew, washed up their mess kits, obtained regu- lation passes and started out on shore leave. At the first cabaret they entered a sailor patrol interrupted a dance | and held the two for being ashore atter 11 o'clock, in violation of the regulations. Wireless explana- | tions from the battleship New York were necessary to effect a release. PLAZA HOTEL RENT SPURNING OF FEELERS IS AROUSING COUNTRY Just How Much Money Does Poin- care Want? Germans Ask. Coke Shipments Begin. i BY GEORGE WITT Sta Br W telosy to The News. surface the industrial life in the un- | upled uren scems about normal,! it is being gradually admitted lhnri | man: utch at her throat is beginning to feel France's The well known Women Notified Money Will economist, ustav Fink, points ouv‘ that Germany “war budget” for the yune g a8 heavier in proportion] B Refunded or They Must n was the cost of the war per day o world struggle. Move by March 31. Wit's Eny At how much money does Pre ‘ Poincare want trom Germany?| END OF UNCERTAINTY Willeimstrasse and the rest of the . country would be grateful if some- ! i hody would put this simple qu h“un!Govemment Exacts Immediate Un- i nee and recetve a direct repl s here admit that they their wits' end. derstanding on Question of Increases. e It is pointed out that in the last six me Germaany las offered to pay — various sums rangin; 50,000,000, | Right of the woman guests of the 009 to 30,000.000.000 gold marks, but|Government Hotels on the Capitol at no time has a definite reply been|plaza to make payments of rent forthicoming from France. e Shn Recent Feelers Fail. urding to a notice posted in otels today by direction of Rob- “feelers” by Ger e R e jert Watson. president of the United a mood now to receive new proposals | States Housing Corporation, and Sec- have failed to produce any satisfactory ;Tetary of Labor Davis. Although both | All guests who paid their bills for Great Britain | the half of March “u bave repeatedly given Germany to :'9*'"" mas" make application at the aave P , & _ jcashier's ‘desk for a refund of such erstand tha ey feel disinclined to | it Gerstand that they feel d d L0 part of the payments as is due the nterfere in the Ruhr situation at this | on the basis of the present rate. and tine the hope is still expressed here|d Dro rata allowance will be made o sountrles Sooa Wil bring | ¥hen they surrender their roc \at these countries soon wiil bring | Toomms at g any time prior March 31. The nough pressure to upon France to notice in up to > her to state definitely wiat | the Fuests as to whether or they ubr invasion aims” are. | desire ‘to retain thelr rooms lions and billlons of marks”| o sustav Fink, “are spent datly protecting both the Rubr front| and the home front. Six million per-{ sons in the Ruhr district alone have | | i response, Germany Says. the United States and last in o fect, puts it squarel bear Increase Annonnced. Early in March following failure of Congress to pass a joint resolution uthorizing payment of rental on the d occupied by the hotels, ¥ the Baltimore en savs “for b, to be fed chiefly at the expense of |by the Balt Ohio railroad, 3 = Sheiey | the Labor Department unnounced a pe country; that is almost as many ) an he country S MANY | increase of $4.50 per month per guest, as were all the soldiers in the Ger-|bringlng the sinile reom raie st an armies during the war. {$20. | The increase became cirective March 16, last Friday, and many of | Burons Raise Prices. last Iilday, Gnd many of the guests paid their 15 der pro- Repi & thajr action at the time | test, on the advice of the plaza coun- flo the “patriotic|Cil 2nd its attorneys. of the great struggle the "patriotic! " 'mhe plaza councll issued a statement ind barons’ have ralsed prices and|today in reply to the notice posted. in ) the buildings. declaring that the guests j Wil not atthis time demand a refund | of any portion of the new rate paid I relying upon their position in the mat- ter as contained in a letter of protest sent to Mr. Watson, & fortunes out of the protits their liens with the govern- ment. Of these billlons they give 2 million or two to the Ruhr relief fund | are praised throughout me“ country for their “patriotism.” The home front also is costing Ger- from and Attitude to Be knewn. The government hopes by the ac- cavily. As 80 per cent of her|tion taken today to make plain im. heavily. As 80 per ¢ | mediatcl, the attitude of the guests was mined in the Ruhr valley ! wity cegard to the increased rental not a single rHY!"R has coine|The government believes that if there in weeks, Germany has 10| exodus of the guests is to take place coal abroad. 'This means the or if the increase Is to be accepted ifice of a large part of the ua:(generally, it should be immediately fional wealth. Even her gold reserve!informed, inasmuch as the property has been drawn upon and only last|used by part of the hotel project it ek another 15,000,000 gold marks | not owned by the government and vas sent to a meutral country $ se-|gurance has been given that rent on curity for coal purchases made sbroad. | the property will be paid omt of the Unemployment. too, is increasing{rent charges collected from the ~verywhere in_Germany, but particu- | guests. larly in the Ruhr district Dussel- | dorf, which had only a handful of tnemployved men when the French in- vaded the region, now has 25,000 RELIEF WORK BLOCKED. KLAN PROSECUTION FAILS. SPRINGFIELD, Ohio, Motions made by the { miss the defendant, return the prop. New Order Bans Activity in Occu-jerty seized, and to throw out ali 7 | evidence and testimony offered by pied Area. { the state were sustained by Judge | Golden C. Davis In police court this o Awsociated Press. ‘umrnm: in the case of William Cort- BERLIN, Mareh 20.—An Lssen dio- | ner, Ku Klux Klan kleagle and or- el o - ! ganizer, charged with riotous con- (4 Vorwaerts reports that the ‘ spiracy. lind commission has fssued (new order forbidding activity in the al occupied area by any such organtza-| SACCO IS IMPROVING. tion as the Ruhr Relief Society. The BOSTON, March 20.—Nlcola Sacco, payments in connection with relief work also are said to have been for- Lidden convicted murderer under observation at the Psychopathic Hospital by court order as a result of his hunger strike | i collection of funds, sale of stamps or | { I H |at the Dedhamn Jall, was very com- The newspaper says under the au- forfable today after seven hours’ thority of this order humerous seiz- | sleep, hospital officials said. He was ures have already been made. Three | rather stronger and the physicians cit! specifically cited in which | considered that all danger of serlous 5.000.000 marks are sald ave been taken. These places in- le Rhevdt, where the Belgians ap- propriated 160,000,000 marks belong- Wt to the clty, 5,000,000 intended for ‘e unemployed and 68,000,000 held by he Refchsbank for distribution to the latway | men: Muenchen-Gladbach, where 10,000,000 marks in funds for | The unemploved were &eized, and Fainsberg, where the seizure involved 102,000,000 marks. Appeal for Settlement. Ty the Associated Press. | HAMM, Germany, March 20.—In a rosolution adopted by the leaders of the Mine Workers' Assoclation of Germany, the government is called on to “leave no possibility unex- nausted to end the Ruhr battle and settle the reparations crisis through negotiations.” : The resolution opposes any ' at- tempt to cripple the peaceful resist- apce campaign or, on the other hand, to prolong the struggle un- duly, and it demands the suppression of every movement which 13 aimed st producing armed opposition either | from inside the Ruhr or outside of it. B commons. ELEVATOR FALLS, 14 HURT The duty of the communists, he as- Structure in Pittsburgh Crashes | serted, was to ward off the danger “that i i Europe and the entire world will be From Third Floor to Basement. |thrown into an imperialistic carnage PITTSBURGH, Pa, March oy DOt to be compared with that of 3914.” 20.— | Their first task, he added, was to Fourteen persons werc injured here | bring the German workmen to the oday when an elevator in the Mur- | point of overthrowing the bour- effects from his prolonged fast had passed. FIRE LOSS NEAR $200,000. CHICAGO, March 20.—Firemen early today prevented a spread of flames that destroyed the Mercury Manufac- |turing Company, in the stockyards district. The _plant manufactures small electric tractors. The loss was estimated between $150,000 and $200,- For “United S By the Associated Press. FRANKFORT-ON-MAIN, March 20.— Exertion of all efforts against a fresh outbreak of war on the continent and into an international revolution aimed at establishing a “United States of Europe" were advocated before today’'s session of the international communist confer- ence here by J. T. W. Newbold, com- munist member of the British house of E:pkrrr & Co., Inc., building! (i:5pped from the ihird fioor to the | sasement. They were removed to a ospital in automobile trucks, where ‘loctors said most of them were suf- Zering from shock. i 5 K| der pro-j owned | Proposes Communist Revolution | the conversion of such a movement later [\ ASKS HEALTH TEST | A SAFETY STEP IN U.S. DEPARTMENTS Dr. E. C. Ernst Points’ Out| Losses at Organization of Council. MEASURES ALREADY TAKEN ARE REVEALED Government Elevators Declared Be- | low Standards Set—Many ! Slip on Wet Floors. ! With the perfecting today of the organization of the interdepartment- al safety council authorizcd by Presi- |dent Marding, representatives from | the government establishments con- |sidered plans today for instituting fety measures in all the federal de- partments with a view to putting the EKovernment workshops on & par with the safety achievements of private employers. | The meeting, which was held in the auditorium of the Interior Depart- ment, resulted in the election of Lieut. Col. C. Q. Sherrill, superintendent | of the officc of public buildings | and grounds, as chairman of the council; of S J. Owen, safety engi- neer of the Navy Department. e chairman, and Capt. W. L. MeMorris | of Col. Sherrill's office, as secretary. The three officials named also will serve as off] of un executive com- mittee, the following members of which were appointed today i Commander It o Navy ! | Depariment; Maj Mavior, | | War Department: w treas- urer; T. G, Mallilieu, Post Office De- | partme M. G. Llyod, Department l(.-r’ Commerce; Johin T. Doyle, « | Service Commission: Charles H. Ver- , ited States Employes Compen- | sation Commission: Walter G. Copp, | government printing office, and J. H. | Harvey, Interior Departme. Physical Test Urged. One of the most importar discussed following the of the council, was the advisabi putting all applicants for civil serv- ice examinations through an adequate I physteal test. A recommendation that this step | should be taken was made by Dr. . C. Ernst, medical officer of the comperisa- tion Commission, who pointed out the serjous losses in federal funds and en- ployes’ t which d been inc ed through accldents which might have n prevented had the employes be physicaliy before being signed their duties. Col. Sherrill pointed out that Dr. { Iirnst's suggeetion was oue that mer- ited serious study. Fle explained that the War Department at present ex- amines certain of ita employes be- fore asigning them to their work t questions with a view to seelng if they are {physically capable of dolng it. He raid it would no doubt be advisa- not only to examine the appli- ants the time of their mental | examination but to hold regular! [ physical tests at stated intervals i i Co-Operating With Council. In opening the conference ol | Sierrill pointed out that the govern- ment was actively co-operuting with| fthe Washington Safety Council, re-| cently organized, and that the gov- jernment was desirous of maintaining | ta high standard of safety among| {its own emploves. He explained that I chauffeurs of government vehicles were attending the trainlng school now under way and that a poster campaign was one phase of an edu- cational drive planned. Various departmental tives told of the losses entailed accldents in government establ ments and of safety measures are being taken to reduce suct dents to a minimum. Mr. Ver figures In connection with payments' of compensation to government em- ployes tending to show that careful guard of the employes in their dally | Work would reduce the annual com- | pensation budget. The commisslon, he pointed out, was engaged in acci- dent prevention, first ald, medical care and cure and compensation “'r;ule the employe's salary is cut oft. The greatest drain on the compen- | sation fund, he declared, originated | from strains undergone by employes | not physically equal to thelr dutles, | Haud such employes been subjected to | a rigld physical examination prior | to their assignment to their task, he | said, many of these clalms against the ‘government would be obviated. | Wet Floors Cited. i Another important facter In the large compensation payment made re- cently was the slipping by employes on wet floors. Thirty-five such ac-| cidents during the past year occur- red in Washington alone, and they cost the government $10,000. Wash- ing of floors, he stated, should be pro- hibited during working hours. “The government in the past has not pald the attention to accident prevention that broad-minded pri- vate employers have,” Mr. Verrill said. “The government does not al- ways observe elevator safety laws with resultant loss of money and in- jury to employes. A recent survey of elevators in government buildings in this city showed that only one lift came up to the safety standards gen- representa- by [ 3 erally prescribed. The new Interior Department building _was put up without regard for safety. This di (Continued on Page 2, Column ) tates of Europe” | geoisie and putting the great indus- tries of the Rhineland and Rubr into the hands of the German revolu-| tionists. Heinrich Brandler, German dele- | gate and president of the united com- munist ' party, reported that the danger of fascism in Germany had led the communists to organize “de- fensive companies.” Other speeches were made by French, Russian, Dutch, Polish and Bulgarian representatives, M. Marius of the French delegation announced that a number of the French munists had been arrest- ed by G#Tman police while on their way to Frankfort. This evoked ex- pressions of indignation, coming on the heels of the arrest in Paris last saturday of the German communist and reichstag deputy, Emil Hoellein. TODAY’S BASE BALL GAME. Washington, 1; Boston, 1; end of third inning. Batteries—Zachary and Lapan; Marquard and Gowdy, ito crea broadcasting use. | the fail WORKING 70 ADIO PARLE Secretary Tells Amateurs They Must Give Relief Con- gress Failed to Provide. AIR iS BADLY CONGESTED! Growth of Industry Since Last| Conference Has Upset Arrangements. Relief from congestion and interfe ence fn the air by radio broadcasting stations will be sought by the seconud national conference on radio. Secreta of Commerce Hoover sald today, open- s.gheld his { distingulshed audlence ln,‘#ound by | his description of an aboriginal civ- ing the conference at the Department of Comumerce. The conference, attended by more than two-score government radio experts and representatives of amateurs In the new art. wae called by Secretary Hoover to discuss proposals for rellef of broadeasting interference because of the fallure of the Sixty-sev- enth Congress to pass legislation which would have accomplished the purpose. Expansion of the industry has been €0 great sin the first radio con ference last year, Secretary Hoover sald, that gome means must be found additional radlo bands f: Where there were the time of the last confere b sixt broadeasting station: | Hoover pointed out, there ure tod 538 broadcasting stations using the ether for transimiis: of their mea- ges Cannot See Ahead. The conference, however, the ('on scretary shouid to interfere with nt of this new art, is now, according to Maj. Ger added, w George 0. Squler, chiel signal officer of the Army, still in such a fluid state that no one can look ahead to its future} development with any great degree of accuracy. Secretary Hoover said if the conferance deemed jt advisable use of the wave lengths between 606 and 1,600 meters—now used by the government-—would be opened i tain lerngths for broadcasting private stations. The = n in regard to confiict in the a Las become Worse nece re of the Senats to pass the aover ulded. declu:- the Presice i asked te issam 2h ex the confrrence S0 racam- mends. GeEgNAtnG certaio wave lengths for hroadcasting 1a adaltion to those airmady o use The counfer- cnce was openad for genaral Gisous- sfon of tne probiem todar. with the probability that committess = autd Appointed late this afternoon to re- port tomorrow. Would Safeguard Army. Gen. Squier declared that the War Department should be safeguarded in case of a national emergency by having a wave length of its own. He added, howevcr, that wars come only at fntervals, and that possibly it would be wise to open the air for broadcasting on lengths now used by the government. Gen. Squier said that following the failure of Con gress to pass the radio bill the Secre radlo bill. Mr, H i at ing would b order if (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) IDENTIFY BODY FOUND BEHIND BRICK PILE Found to Be George Shorr of Bal- timore—Autopsy Not to Be Held. Spectal Dispatch to The Star. HYATTSVILLE, March 20.—The body of the white man found early yesterday morning behind a pile of bricks on the Washington-Baltimore boulevard, College Park, was late this afternoon identified as George Shorr of 3015 O'Donnell street, Baltimore. identified by his brother-in- Tasv. e ho stated that Shorr left his home about three weeks ago. He had, on several occasions, stated that he intended to commit sulcide. Owing to this fact the autopsy or- dered by County Prosecuting Officer A. Wilson Ryan was not performed. It is believed the man was mentally defective. The body will to Baltimore tonight. He leavs a mother and two sisters, The fact of the man’s neck being broken Is ac- counted for by Officer Thomas H. Garrison, who believes Shorr climbed upon the brick pile and lost his ‘balance. z MARCH be taken | 1923 —THIR' 20, TY-SIX PAGES. UNDER DIFFICULT in Yu A tee ient {of antiquity the wonder: % amen’s tomb are believed to lle burled under ages of dust in the ruined temples of the lost Maya civilization {4n Yucatan. Dr. Marshall H. one of America’s roremost arcl ologists, told a brilllant meeting of {the Archeological Society gton in the Pan-American building last night. The speaker, fresh from an extend- d tour of the ancient cities 'aban- doned by the lost Maya: rivaling that of gyptians and treasures that may even the Tnlon | flization in southern Mexico, which, ilong before the dawn of the Chris- | zian era, had perfected a system of them leave writing that enabled to 51-POINT ADVANCE - INPIGGLY WIGGLY {Jesse Livermore Has Part ! in Sensational Rise on Stock Exchange. | By - Associated Press. | NXEW YORK, March 20.—A sensa- ,tional jump in the stock of Pigsly | Wiggly Stores, which had advanced i on a small volume of sales from Mon- da3’s close of 72 to 123 soon after] noon today, again brought dealings ! jthat stock on the New Yorl sxchange into prominence. Only 6,000 Recent i ! tion by tes of Btock Exshang: Today's sensational jump carried |25 atook to_new %izh levels for the | year. and follows I ment in Mempinis, Tenn., vesterday of e president of the ]u'orpornu-m that he had discontinued offers of steck on tie installment pay- t $85 a share. Six Points at Time. meut plax Jam| | Soen atter opening today the stock i sold at 92%, a rise of more than 20 points over vesterday's close, and continued to advance from 3 to 6 points on each successive sale. Total sales early this afternoon were approximately only 5,000 shares. Stock exchange officials refused to comment on the matter, but It was it generally reported that the advance resulted from -pool operations to queeze short interests. The sensational advance of &1 polnts in the stock was founded on unconfirmed reports that the New York Stock Exchange had found that no corner existed. Jesse L. Livermore, prominent Wall street operator, admitted that he had been buying and selling the stock for Mr. Saunders. He declined’to comment on his operations, referring all in- quiries to the head of the company. The business conduct committee was in session three hours without taking any action, but_ indicated that an- other meeting might be held later in the day. A governor stated that the committee was scrutinizing sales closely, but had reached no. conclu- sion. hortly after 2 o'clock Plggly Wiggly broke from 123 to 98. § HEAD OF FIRM SILENT, —_— Hinted That Delivery of 42,000 Shares Was Demanded. By the Assoclated Press. MEMPHIS, Tenn., March 20.—For- mal comment was withheld today at the office here of Clarence Saunders, | president of the Piggly Wiggly Stores, Ine, with regard to thd sky- rocket rise of that stock on the New York Stock Exchange. Rumors were current, however, that delivery had been demanded on 42,000 shares of the stock, reported to have. been sold in New, York and Chicage. of Wash- | the annource- | IES. { Declares Civilization of Mayas !HUUVER E[]NVENES Antedates Tutankhamen’syTimef catan. +somewhere in the v temples a wef. of thelr existence. sses of their | chronology Ancient Date Unknown. How far back this history will car- ; ry its discoverers into the dim ages| of the primitive past Dr. Saville did | not attempt to guess, but the world" leading ecientists have agreed that & civilization to have reached such ! advanced stages as the Mayas are known to have attained before the Christlan era must have emerged from savagery many thousands of | years ago. Ninety-six years before | the birth of Christ they were accom- ! plished sculptors, expert engineers |and extruordinary architects. | Thus far only ‘minor research ex- | peditions have been sent into Yueatan | and Guatemala to examine the ruined Maya cities, but ¢his vear, Dr. Sa- ville_s excavations ‘and _explora- (Continued on Page Column 4.) ' SAYSD..C. SURPLUS 1S PRESSING NEED Oyster Declares Congress’| Action Could Avoid a | Bond Issue. i Nearly all of the needs of the District g buildings, paved highways. and sim tar improvements slleged during the war could bo met if Congress at its nex: sessior wowid autherise cx- penditures f tha ol surpine rova- nues, Co lasioner Ovales Leier fall :Avocated e ¢ theme ermenc 21 bad (0 be daferred dur- ing the war period. Sinc: tha Joint committae House hus recor line, the the 7 e surpius to tha amount 0f upproximetely §4.500,000 i existence of ‘The Commiselonar now feels that it the legisiator» weuld apDroprieie the surpius there wotld be 2e need for 2 bond !ssue. t is the firm bai c jer Orster that the surpius shouid be appropriated oz ¢ Glty-Afty basis. But oven if the fund shouid be mads avaflable on the present sixtr-forty ratio it would give the city $7,500.000 to bring municipal work up to date. While the Commissioners are anx- ious to see the surplus made available for urgently needed Improvements, they have 20 Intention of anticipating the possible course of Congress by preparing estimates for ils expend- iture. They realize that it fs for the Senate and the House to decide what is to be done with the excess of Dis- trict tax money. The city fathers made this plain a few days ago when they denied any intention of regard- Ing the ‘Surplus as an available cash credit. When such a report was cir- culated the Commissioners stated in a letter to a member of Congress that they had nothing to do with the rumor. {in fact Archeologists of Excavations : | not be zccur: wiil s TWO CENTS. FRENCH AND BRITISH REACH DEBT SOLUTION By the Associated Pre: PARIS, March 20.—Montagu C. Nor- man, governor of the Bank of Eng- iand, conferred yesterday with Min- ister of Finance Lasteyrie and Georges Robineau, governor of the banlk France, says the Fcho de Paris, on the subject of repaying £65,000,000 in commercial credits extended to the French institution by the British. The French bankers, the newspaper | says, desire that the payments be spread over a perfod of flve or six years. Although the negotiations were not completed, Mr. Norman returned to London and a solution satisfactory to both part now is sald to be in sight. The British and French bank offi- clals did not discuss reparations, the article adds. —_— ROARING STORM DROWNS IN OCEAN Howling Nor’wester Rages Out Into Atlantic to Die Away. BALMY DAY TOMORROW Spring to Start in Regular Style. But Is Likely to Prove Coy, Says Forecaster. The Lowling nor'wester that swept | down from the arctic circle yester- day and plunged Washington and the entire country into frigld t tures drowned itself in the Atlan ocean at 6 o'clock this morning, Forecaster C. L. itchell of her bureau announced. The tem Derature, lie said, is rising steadil and tomerrow will really be &p! as well as in fancy. Tt will be the first day of spring, and the weather will be perfect enough to match the seaeon 3 vestige of the severe storm t d virtually all of North Ame esterday roared out ocean just about day-break, and its| force was reported to be large spent. Tonight the temperature wull be only a little under freezing st the lowest, and tomorrow will dawn bright and balmy. Anotker Storm Brewn. Perfect weather is not to remain long, however, Prognosticator Mitch- ell said. Thursday, too, will ba mild, but Friday will see a return of cool. er weather. The temperatures, how- ever, are not expected to approach anywhere near the Jow levels reach- ed resterday, although another storm is brewing In the far northwest. It is now somewhere in the vieinity of Alaska and the forecasters can not e so early just how severs tensity will be ‘when it reaches shington. The prospects for Palm Sunday ca penend upon this which the experts tl reach Washington. If it does get this far, rain and colder may be the diet for 'the National Capital Sunday. bas been one of the most unusual Marches on record, Mr. Mitchell sald. It has had more sudden changes and more gloomy, rainy weather than any other March for many years. May Continme Awhile. “The worst of it 15" he said, “i that it isn't over yet. TFor some day at least, we must expect a repetition of the weather we have been experi- encing all month. So I would advi every one to keep warm clothing hand; at ‘least. Temorrow will be pretty it 1s likely to make manj eve spring has come to stay. sured. Cold, rainy weat ! ahead of us. It may last un- foretold yet, Much storm, new 1 Ap: Compared w month Las been a March of 1810, this humdinger,” in the guage of the weather bureau. We ce had mere rain in one hour this year than we had the same month of 1910. Midsummer temperatures prevalled throughout the month WEST BIDS WINTER GO. By tie Ascoclated Press. CHICAGO. March 20.—Winter, the- ending three months' ab- te &way over the weather, today @ ‘{he effects of one of the ret March storms ever known to the great lakes region and the Mis- tssippi valley and prepared to vacate i3 post to a new monarch of the seasons, spring, due to arrive tomor- ile the grizzled old man of cold weather, blizzards and snowstorms checked off the property damage toll that came with his display of power, gentle spring hesitatingly announced | its nearness by a genial sun that yes- terday tempered the blasts of the frigid wave, 3 The storm that swept into the Mis- cissippi valley Sunday and yesterday. shattering all weather records for this time of the year as far south as Texas and Florida, the weather bu- reau said, has moved into Canada with increased intensity. Warm Weather Due. With that disturbance now hurt- ling toward the Atlantic coast the weather hureau reported u warm one of wide extent, coming down out of the northwest to be attended by rapidly rising temperatures in the Missouri valley, plains states, Rocky mountain and plateau regions, and precipitation from the northern Paci- fic_coast eastward to Minnesota. The rising temperature will con- tinue for two daye, the weather re- ports said and will be noticeable in the lower laie region, the Ohio valley, Tennessee, the east gulf states and the Atlantic states. You Can Read the 5:30 The more important terest in getting the last The Star is issued every always reliable. For sale by newsdealers throughout the city cover’ these “news postscripts” the 5:30 Edition of Sports finals, Stock reports and the Court Cal- endar for tomorrow are features of The 5:30 Edition. the Answer in Edition the news—the more in- word concerning it. To week day. Star news is A newsboys and of | mpera- | | = 50 | MILLIONS WASTED INVAGUF HOSPITA PLAN, EXPERTS SAY Treasury Consultants Point Out $316,000,000 Spent in Seven Years. BUILDINGS' TO EXCEED | VETERANS’ NEEDS SOON Report Cites One Instance Where Economy Resulted in Twenty Projects at $3.000 a Bed. . prehensive plan of hospitalization rest | €Xpenditure of more than federal ted In the $316,000,000 jIn the fiscal years 1917 to 1923, ine rasive, according to a report today trom the Treasury consultants on hose | Pitalization to Secretary Melion, with the unsatisfactory result, the o ltants point out, that “there will e 2 greater number of hospitals than 1 be utlifzed for the purpose fos i they were built,” and “probe- that was otherwlse wasteq e been preserved as perma- oris for u confronts try tuae tos arp Constructive Cri a word, the rej o nstructiv I a body of eminent riedtcal Lo served thefr count were called § creta on March: 4 cost of This is the which to Secre proposals for improvem Target at Firat. The Treasury committee, which hag been known by the more familiay title of the “White Committse,” from the chairman, Dr. Williami Charles White, of Pittsburgh, was at first the target for much unfavorable criticism from the veterans themselves, from ex-service men, and In some {nstances the American Legion itseif. But as | the work of the committee progrese ed steadily along. its critics perceive | ed that charges of maladministration |and delay were falling by the way- | “Until of 1ate th. |has turned the bitterness of its {former criticism into the warmth of approval, and friends of the veteran have been pointing with satisfaction to the actual results achievel by tha American Legion White committee. and comparing iwith commendatory reflection upon the Treasury outfit, the cost of hos- pital bed construction as achieved by the White committee and as be- {ing carried out by other branches of { construction. Urges Complete Record. So when Dr. White and his con cultants declare with an opening gun the first paragraph of their report, “the hospital problem of the United States is of sufficient importance to {the country to be a subject of con- \tinuous study in Some officc of the federal government!” the various governmental bodies dealing with {nospitals, and hospital construction will read with interest. “Such office,” says the report, “should keep a record of not only the hospitals of all departments of the government, but al! state, mu nicipal and civil hospitals and should have charge of the preparation of charts showing locatio ize, char: acter and use.” Co-Operation With States. | i | Outlining a general federal the lack of which, it is charged re- sulted in “overhospitalization” and “waste,” the committee recommends thorough co-operation with states, and continuance of such a body as the Federal Board of Hospitalization, of which Brig. Gen. Charles E. Sawyer, the President’s personal physician i chairman. Charges of “overhospitalization” at | one place were aimed at the Veterans® Bureau. and its efforts to obtain the so-called “Second Langley Bill,” pro- viding $17.000,000 to be pent by the director of the Veterans' Bureau. Un- der the subtitle, “overhospitalization and new appropriations,” the commit- tee reveals how the best judgment of- the cousultants, based on extensiv surveys of the whole hospital situa- tion was mnot wholly in agreement with the Veterans' Bureau. Program Held Unsound. “A bill had been introduced in the House for $16,400,000,” the report ex= plains, “The studies in the consult- ants’ office, however, as they became more accurate, indicated that this provisional program was not a sound one, especially on the division of beds contemplated, although, ina: much s It took into account the in ons under construction and contemplated enlargement, it 50 tar as could be foreseen at the time. & wise provision.” The act Enaliy pdsaed w0 April, 1922, provided pla nificant section of the that which gives in detall the amount of money epent by the ¢ for “hospital coastruc- voars 1817 to 1923, inclu- section was obtained from records of the Treasury division of bookkeeping and warrants. It i carefully worded, but the inference cannot fail to be drawn that this section Is intended s a powerful argument of the need of tho fedsral plan proposed by the committee, aud the lack of which, it is charged, led to waste. Some Could Have Been Saved. *“An idea of the amount of money appropriated by~ Congress for pital construction,” says the report CR hos-

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