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Evening star., 1921-03-26
PRESIDENT SEES RELIEF.
Learns of $4,000 Government Beds
Available at Once.

What President Harding believes
will go far toward relieving suffering
among afflicted and wounded war vet
Grams is the recent discovery of 10000
government beds distributed through :
out the country. which are avail able
for immediate use. This announce
ment was made by the President yes
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
creation of one big government relief
department.
At this conference were also Rear
Admiral E. r. Stitt. surgeon general
of the Navy; Brig. Gen. NJ. w. Ireland.
surgeon general of the Army: DR..
Hugh S. Cumming. surgeon general
of the public health service; DR.
Charles. Mayo of Rochester. MINI.
Edward Martin, conhmi ssioner of
health Of Pennsylvania. and DR.. Will
liam F. Snow of the national health
service. The delegation assured the
President that careful survey of
hospital facilities Of the Army. Navy
and public health service disclosed
the existence of these available beds.
Evening star., 1921-03-26
CONEY PARALYzED
FROM CHEST DOWN
Flying Lieutenant's Condition
Considered Serious by
Physicians. g.,

,, NATCHEZ, Miss. March 26.-The
following bulletin was issued at am.
today by physicians attending Lieut..
Coney:' e.
Condition of Lieut. Coney practi-
cally the same as when he arrived last
night. He passed comfortable night.
Temperature 100; pulse regular
A bulletin issued last night said:
Lieut.. Coney is suffering from frac-
lures of the third, fourth and fifth
lumbar vertebrae. He is paralyZed
from the chest down: temperature 103.
We regard his condition as very seri-
Gus"
, The lieutenant was brought here
, from Crowville, La. and members of
the local American Legion post carried
him to the sanitarium. where an eX-
animation of his injuries was made.
Courageous Flyer Talks.
MONROE. La. March 26.-"I will
make the flight from the Atlantic to
the Pacific yet, if death does not
stop me, Lieut.. Coney declared short
ly before he was conveyed by auto
mobile and train. to NatcheZ. Miss.
Il wanted to break my own worlds
|-record in my trip back to the Pacific
and my keenest regret is that l have
failed" the injured fier continued.
Il know that l would have establish
beaten by nature. 1t is pretty hard
to overcome the laws of gravity and
to find out new things in nature.
thought that I was learning some of
her secrets when this accident oc-
CURED. l would have won out. if it
had not been for. those fogs along the
Mississippi river. / had a fair fight
until l struck the fog banks along
the river and then / lost my way to
some extent. and from the Mississippi
river until 1 hit the ground l was
flying low.
"I was preparing to make. land
ing because of engine trouble. when
! struck a tree and went down. l
do not remember much about. what
occurred after I struck the tree un-
It'll / found myself in the arms Of
Nose Lanier and his good wife, who
conveyed me to their home. L guess
it is all over"
i 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 inclined TO taRe a more
philosophic view of the accident.
F.. The injured flier sent a telegram
to Miss Mary Morgan. San Diego.
Calf, said to be his fiance. The mes
sage was brief. simply stating. My
plane fell and my spine was seriously
injured" t.'
SACRAMENTO. Calf. March 26.-
Lieut.. Coney was a member OF the
aerial forest patrol last summer and
at one time was adjutant at Math-
er Field Prior to coming to Mather
Field he was in the office of the chief
of the air service at Washington, ID.
c.. and at one time was an instructor
in acrobatics at flying field in
Florida.
Evening star., 1921-03-26
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 pessimsts
who insist on keeping business and
labor in an upturned state, according
to d. X. Crissinger, controller of the
currency
I'VE are not yet out of the trough
of reaction he said, and times are
especially hard for the farmers Of the
south and west. / will do anything
l 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
public.
Much of the stagnation results. of
course. from the continued inability
of Europe to buy our surplus prod
ucts, except on credit. The War FL
nance Corporation is again going
concern. and l believe within q 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.
II have no cure-all to offer for the
economic ills Of our time. They are
the heritage of the war. and only
time and work can cure them"
Prices are falling all along the line,
said Mr.. Crissinger.
Evening star., 1921-03-26
HELPED HIS MOTHER KILL
! STEPFATHER, BOY SAYS
lad Admits Carting Body in Toy
Wagon to Railroad Yards With
Little Brother, Aged Nine.

GRAND RAPIDS. Mich. March 2s
-Caspar Didia. fourteen years old,
confessed today. according to the po-
lice, that he helped his mother club
to death his stepfather. Joseph Seal
bius. last night Then. according to
the confession, he and his brother
James. nine years old. placed the
BODY IN toy wagon and carted il to
tha railroad yards. where they left
It The body was found early today
by q switching crew.
He was awakened during the night,
Caspar declared, by a quarrel be-
tween hsi mother and stepfather
II struck him with an ak and a
shovel. and my mother hit him with
stick the police quote him as
saying. Then my brother and /
carried the body away in the cart"
Mrs. Scalbius and the two bows
were taken into custody shortly after
the body was found
Evening star., 1921-03-26
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 direct motor route from
Washington to Great Falls on the
Virginia side of the Potomac, accord
ing to an announcement made by
Robert N. Harper today.
Word was received yesterday from
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 prof.
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.
Bowles. cashier of the Potomac Saw
ings Bank of Georgetown. and d. S
Mackall of Mclean, Va.
Evening star., 1921-03-26
ASK POWER COMMISSION
TO REVISE REGULATIONS
Executives Say About 70 Per Cent
of Old Ones Found
Workable.

The Federal Power Commission, at
a meeting yesterday, was asked to
revise certain portions of the regu-
l4tions promulgated by the old COM
mission just before it went ont of
ONCE March T. by a committee OF
electric power executives.
ut was the second meeting of the
new commission, composed Of Secre-
tAries Weeks. Fall and Wallace. Just
before the close of the last admins
trationi the outgoing commission pro-
mulgated regulations .7Wh5cf1f- the
powermen yesterday acknowledged to
he about 20 per cent workable. but
containing provisions which. they
sid. undoubtedly would prevent de-
velopment of waterpower projects
which the bill was intended to
simulate.
THE regulations. as drawn by the
outgoing commission. the power ex-
dcutives told the secretaries. seek to
Cpnstitute the federal commission
regulatory body with expensive ma
dhinery. involving duplicate systems
q accounts and thousands of en-
noyes. Congress, they argued. in
t4nded the commission to be super
Ysory body. and. they argued, Con-
Qfess showed its intent when it limit
df the appropriations for the COM
Missions work to 100000 a year. To
carry out the regulations as they now
stand. the secretaries were told
would cost the government hundreds
OF thousands of dollars year. re-
frd the development OF power prDj-
9ts and represent duplication of ef-
fprt. To carry out the regulations
DE secretaries were, told. would be
u create another federal bureau BY
amended regulations, the power ex-
dfutives maintained. the government
dpuld do the work with a force of
twenty-five people and an expenditure
4 $f50.000 a. year by. utilizing the
services of!the Army engineers. Pres
9nt regulations. it. was argued. were
dpntrary to, the intent of the law.
Evening star., 1921-03-26
DARK motive SEEN
IN KILLING OF GIRL
State Demands and Obtains
Holding Of Harpers Ferry
Lad on Murder Charge.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
HARPERS FERRY. w. Va. March
26.-James A Stevens. the eighteen
year-old youth of Halltown arrested
In connection with the killing of
Katherine L. Littleton in her home. at
Bolivar. Sunday night. yesterday was
held for the action of the grand jury
on the charge of murder. He was
given a preliminary hearing before
Magistrate d. II. Nichols. who, after
hearing the evidence. 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 t.e interest in the
case-which has provided more excite
ment than this little town has expe
rfenced in years-that Magistrate
Nichols found ii necessary to transfer
the hearing from his home, in Bolivar.
where such proceedings are usually
held. to the Jonadab Hall. in this
place. The rush of residents to get
into the hall was so large that Mayor
c. E. Marlatt ordered the doors closed
after the place was filled to capacity
Hundreds of the curious populace
were forced to remain outside the
building during the proceedings.
All the evidence heard was from
twenty-five state witnesses. Attorney
Forrest Brown of Charles Town. coun-
sci for the defense, had no witnesses
and would not permit the accused to
take the stand.
The state, by its witnesses. at
tempted to show attempted assault
as the cause of the tragedy, but fail
ed. as the evidence showed that the
girls 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 He
Immediately turned over the gun.
with which Stevens admits the girl
was killed. When the gun was pro-
duced in court l. S. Glass demon
outside the building and discharging
1t. attempting to show that it was
impossible for the girl to use it for
self-destruction.
Attorney Brown. in summing up.
asked that the prisoner be held only
on the charge of involuntary man
slaughter. However, Attorney Port
erield in his summing up dwelt prin-
cipaliy 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
Evening star., 1921-03-26
Vacuum Too Thin
for Electricity
to Pass Obtained

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah,
March 26.-Prof. Orin TuRmnn
of the ply sizes department Of the
Univefxity Of Utah has an
nOunced that he has obtained
the closest approach to . per-
feet vacuum that hns ever been
recorded.
This ''vacuum," he said, IL too
thin for even the passage Of
electricity. The American AH-
sOciatiOn for the Advance ment
of Science furnished the funds
for the experiment..
4 vacuum In which there ix q
pressure of only .OOOGODO2
POUNDS per square inch can he
obtained by the appa IN tus
which Prof. I'ugman used. The
apparatus consists of two
pumps. The first In an oil
pump and ts capable OF produce
ing n vacuum" Of .OOOO2 pounds
per square inch. A tube is then
connected with n mercury vapOr
pump or aspiratOr. The mer-
curry in this iS boiled and the
vapOr DaNSeS through n nozzle.
sucking out the molecules of
air.
Evening star., 1921-03-26
SECRETARY WEEKS SAYS
U. S. MUST GET BERGDOLL
Declines to Discuss Method Pro-
posed for Bringing Draft
Evader From Germany.

We are going to get Bergdon If
it is possible to get him." Secretary
Weeks of the War Department de-
clared today. in discussing the case
of the Philadelphia draft evader, now
in Germany. Il don't believe we will
recognize any statute of limitation
in his case. II 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 :
ton Of British passport laws. but did
say that he assumed that il the state
OF war between the United States and
Germany were declared at an end
extradition Of the draft evader would
tbe 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
thinner, Americans sentenced to pris-
on terms at Eberbach, Germany for
attempting to arrest Bergdoll on Ger
man soil.
Evening star., 1921-03-26
Microscope Used
BY Bacon Before
knoicia to Scienc.

NEW YORK. March, 38.+Dis-
cOvery Of ciphered manuscripts,
crudeIy Illustrated. which are
claimed to prove that Roger
Bacon. labOrinK In the dark age
Of the thirteenth century, used
a hiEh-pOwered microscope and
telescope, instruuaenfs generally
attributed to seventeenth cen
tury inventors. has been made
known by DIR. EfIfred VI. Noy-
mich. noted photographer.
The drawings reveal. he said.
Bacon observed celestial and
anatomical objects never before
known to have been viewed by
human eyes and first known to
science 400 years later.
4 key to the code. used by
Bacon to conceal bis Great work
has been found by DIR. Wfllinm
Romnine Newbold Of the Uni-
ver~ity of Pennsylvania. and he
now is deciphering the manu-
script. DIR. VOynich snid. For
centuries the work passed from
hand to hand without its con-
tents l.efnE known. he added.
He and DIR. NewbOld are to
describe their discoveries in
Philadelphia nexf, month at the
college of physicians.
Evening star., 1921-03-26
BAND WILL NOT PLAY.

Out of respect to the death of
Cardinal Gibbons, president OF the
board of directors Of st. Mary's Indus
trial School, the Babe Ruth Band will
not play in Washington until after
the funeral.
The band was coming here next
week to spend several days in the
city in connection with the two-hun-
dred- and nifty thousand dollar COM
paiRn to Be launched here from April
to ~. The money will be used to
rebuild St MA<y's School, which was
destroyed hY dro In 1914.
Evening star., 1921-03-26
CHANCE FOR DISTRICT BOY
Commissioners Asked to Name
Candidates for Naval Academy. q

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.
The letter requests the Commission
ers to nominate four candidates for
the position in time for them to take
the competitive examination April 20.
Applicants must be actual residents
of the District. Detailed information
as to physical and mental require
ments may be obtained from Daniel
E. Garges. secretary to the Commits
sioners. fifth floor, District build ing. =:
Evening star., 1921-03-26
Court TO Deu0te Time to Fixing
SHlln1an Case AAmony and Fees

POUGHKEEPSIE, n. Y. March 26.-
1t 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-
ton of the application of Mrs. Anna
L. Stillman for $4,000 a month ali
mony and $4,000 counsel fees in the
suit for divorce brought against her
by her husband, James A. Stillman,
president of the National City Bank
of New York. Arrangements have been
made with Justices A. H. F.. Seeser
and A. S. Tompkins to substitute for
Justice Morschauser at the trial term
OF the supreme court at White Plains.
over which he had been assigned to
preside.
Today is the last day for the filing
of afhdavits on the motion, but it is
understood that all the papers to be
submitted are now in Justice Mors-
chauscrs hands.
The findings. it is announced. will
be sent from Poughkeepsie to White
Plains. where they will be officially
made public.
Evening star., 1921-03-26
|P[ANHOSP|TALFOR.
DISABLED SOLDIERS
St. EIizabeth's Will Be Rec
commended to New Commit
tee as Most Suitable.

Enlargement of the Government
Hospital for the Insane at Congress
Heights. d. c., to take care of 1000
outlined next week to the newly ap-
pointed committee of consultant ply
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 th, hospital, it was pointed out by
DIR. William White, superintendent of
the institution, could be obtained from
the $lS.000.0O0 appropriated by the
last Congress. OF this sum $6.000.00
is available for the extension of pres
ent hospital facilities and the re-
ma1nder for building new ones.
Enlarged mt 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-
ton could be enlarged to the point
whore it could accommodate almost
any reasonable number of men. giving
Keeping them segregated from the
violent insane and the criminal in :
sane now in the institution.
The plans of DIR. White have not
been reduced to paper, he said, but
he will take them. up at another con-
ference next week.
"The government has in st. Eliza
beth's an Institution which is already
functioning and one which would be
well able with alterations to accom-
modate a considerable number of in
va1ided soldiers" DR.. White said, The
possibilities of ST. Eliza beth'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 a modern type in which
they could be housed"
To Consult Service Doctors.
The consultant committee has ad-
journed until Tuesday. When it. re-
convenes it will have before it officers
of the Army and Navy Medical Corps
to determine the present facilities.
State and municipal' delegations seek
ing locations Of hospitals on sites in
their respective areas will be heard
Wednesday and Thursday. The COM
mittee will consider only govern
ment-owned sites or Locations 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 s. Bill
ings of Chicago, and DR.. Pearce Bailey
of New York. .f.
Evening star., 1921-03-26
WILL TEACH JOURNALISM.
Washington and Lee University to
Establish School.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

LEXINGTON, Va, March 2s.-The
Robert E. Lee School of journalism
is soon to be established at washing
ton and Lee University in memory of
tho great southern general who. when
president OF the institution in 1863
first recognized journalism as a
learned profession and founded the
first chair on that subject in the his
tory OF the country.
This announcement was made by
PRESIDENT Henry Louis Smith OF
Washington and Lee. following an eA-
tended trip through the south, where
re has enlisted the support of large
number of newspaper editors in the
project and received their promise to
aid in its endowment
Evening star., 1921-03-26
ASKS LIMITED DIVORCE.
Mrs. Julia T. Germany Accuses
Husband of Non-Support.

Limited divorce is asked in a petit
ton filed in the. District Supreme
Court by Mrs. Julia T. Germany
against Isaac H. Germany, an en-
ploye of the general land office. The
wife charges that her husband spends
large portion of his income for in
toxicating liquor and neglects to pro-
vide properly for her and the child
They were married April Is, 1912. At
torneys Leckie, Cox & Sherier au.
pear for the wife.
Evening star., 1921-03-26
CUTS FARES 10 PER CENT.
New York Central Announces Re
-ductions for Summer Months.

NEW YORK, March 26!The. New
York Central railroad announces 10
per cent reduction for Tound-trip
tickets, with time limit. effective be-
tween May Is and June !. up to Sep
ter1ber 80. to all points In It's terri
tory.
Restoration of the -'homeseeker"
rates for colonists bound westward
of Chicago also was, announced. These
rates were abolished during the war.
Evening star., 1921-03-26
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 bureau states
that potatoes year ago were selling
wholesale at s5.75 hundred pounds, but
now sell at $l.35: onions, which were
s6.25 a hundred pounds a year ago. now
are quoted at 10 cents: new cabbage,
which was $S.25 a barrel a year ago.
now is $3.50 barrel. and the best cold
storage apples. quoted at $S.15 a barrel
last March, now sell for $3.50.
Evening star., 1921-03-26
California Bank Close. Doors.

MODESTO. Calif.-The California
National Bank. with deposits approx
imating $1.000.000. has closed its
doors. Difficulties due to over-loan-
ing were said by bank officials to be
the cause. The banks loans are
chiefly to agricultural interests. 1t
is member of the federal reserve
bank.
Evening star., 1921-03-26
Will Reply ON April 4.

JERSEY CITY. March 26-Repre-
sentatives Of employees of the Central
railroad in New Jersey yesterday took
under Amusement a proposal to re-
duce wages to conform with scales in
effect April 80. 1920. when the United
states Railroad Labor Board granted
an increase of 20 per cent The ern-
ployes' representatives said they
would report back to their respective
organizations and submit their an
Swer to the proposal at another con-
ference April 4.
Evening star., 1921-03-26
Missing securitie. Found.

KANSAS CITY Mo-The Mer-
chants National Bank announced
that $3.50 in interim certificates
believed to have been part of the
$4,000 worth of securities obtained
in mail robbery at Centerville, Iowa
Saturday night had been found on
the streets here and turned into the
bank. Some of the securities were
negotiable, it was stated
Evening star., 1921-03-26
GOES ON SPECIAL MISSION

Capt. eGoSGe 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
Evening star., 1921-03-26
.B. l.. T.v Left s:.,ooo Estate.

CHICAGO-Bert Lesion Taylor,
known as "B. l. t. when he con-
Quoted the Chicago Tribune's column,
"A Line O'Type or Two" died inte-
state. but left an estate valued at
$4,000, it became known when the
letters of administration were grant
ed his widow
Evening star., 1921-03-26
Miners Union omcial. Arrested.

, PITTSBCRG, Kan.-Alexander M.
Howat. president of the Kansas Mine
Workers. and three members of the
organizations district texecutive
board were arrested here on charges
of contempt of court in connection
with the calling of a strike now in
progress at coal mine in this
county.
Evening star., 1921-03-26
Commended for Killing Father.

JONESBORO, Ark.-James Haw-
kins, 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.
Evening star., 1921-03-26
COLUMBIA Lose. Debate.

LOS ANGELES.-The University Of
Southern California won debate
with the Columbia University team of
New York last night.
Evening star., 1921-03-26
CAPT. RoHDE ORDERED HERE

Capt. Samuel J. Rohde, Dental
Corps, has been detached from, duty
at Coblenz. Germany. with the Ameri-
can army Of occupation and ordered
to this city for duty at Washington
barracks.