18 STIT DEPLORES UCKJFOOCTORS Admiral Asserts Inducements Offered by Navy Fail to Attract. By the Associated Press. Graduates of medical, dental and pharmaceutical colleges and of nurses’ training schools are finding the opportunities of civil life so at tractive that the medical department of the Navy in having increased dif ficulty in getting suitably trained personnel for its work Surgeon General E. K. Stitt, in his annual re port made public today, declares that, despite an intensive campaign during the year, including the send ing of 12.000 personal letters to young doctors, it was not possible to keep the Medical Corps up to its authorized strength. “It is apparent/’ Dr. tstitt said, that the inducements offered by the Navy are not sufficient to attract the young physician. It seems, there fore. that some legislative action will he necessary in the near future if the Medical Corps of the Navy is to be recruited up to the strength for which appropriation was made by Congress, or even if the vacancies occasioned by resignation, retirement and death are to be filled.” Health conditions generally in the Navy during the fiscal year were “It seems certain,” the report said. The death rate of 3.23 per 1,000 was “the lowest the Navy ever had," and admissions to the sick list also wore unsually low. During the year care of the Navy and Marine Corps dead in France was transferred to the permanent ••are of the Army, with 217 marine dead, and 23 Navy men still carried as unidentified or nnlocated. "it seems certain.” the report said, "that the time must soon come j when, despite all the effprts and re search. a certain number of bodies now carried as ’unidentified.’ must be j declared ’unknown.’ and those .‘un- j located’ as ‘missing.’ ” COOLIDGE HONORS EX-BANKER NEW YORK, December 26.—8. Og don Chisholm of this city, a retired banker and well known advocate of prison reform, has announced that President Coolidge has appointed him international prison commissioner to succeed the late John Keren. Mr. t'hisholm is known as an ardent ad vocate of the International code of procedure In the handling of pris oners. which, he said yesterday, he would try to have adopted by the International prison congress when it meets in London in 1325. I ■ ' ~ I Authentic Fashions in Evening Clothes j As Tailored by Saks Experts , Persona! ideas may prevail befittingly in one's Street Clothes to a large degree. But for evening wear —where you are the bidden guest—all must conform to definitely prescribed fashion. There are niceties of design and features of craftsmanship that weigh importantly—all of ! which have been faithfully carried out in Saks productions. Tuxedos with shawl or notch collar; In the Dress Coats are points and lines which must be “just so**—else they are all wrong. Same is true of trousers and waistcoats. Clothes matters of much moment when you step into the light of critical observance. All ready on the moment of demand here. Tuxedos (Coat and Trousers).... $37.50 to $65 Dress (Coat and Trousers) . .SSO and $65 • Black or White Waistcoats $6.75 to sls , Third rioor *.’ I . n. , r: M £v.:.7 1 ‘ . .*£=-1 Abe Martin Says: Nobuddy but a giant ever found his size in pajamas. These days when a feller calls on th’ President an’ says it wuz jest a friendly visit, an’ that nothin’ wuz discussed, we kin believe him. (Copyright, National Newspaper Service.) SCHOOL HONOR ROLL. Seat Pleasant Children Neither Ab sent Nor Tardy. Special Dispatch to The Star. SEAT PLEASANT, Md„ December 26.—These pupils of the Seal Pleasant. Prince Georges ocunty, Elementary School have been neither absent nor tardy since the beginning of school in September: William Carr. Hubert Kaldenback, Charles Shellhorn, Roland Watson, Cody Whittington. Caroline Richard son, Hazel Dixon, Dorothy Dixon, I Frederick Bean, Marian Richardson, (Gwen Kaldenback. Doris Brown. Mary Wells, Nelson Brown. Elmer Honey, ! Roger Beane, Fay Kaldenback and j Mary Shellhorn. WILL HONOR MME. CURIE. PARIS* December 26. —Mme. Marie Curie, working with her husband, Prof. Pierre Curie, in their modest laboratory in Rue I'Homond, made her momentous discovery of radium twenty-five years ago today. At 4 o'clock this afternoon, the hour that saw Mme. Curies experiments crowned with success. President Mil lerand, accompanied by members of the cabinet, the diplomatic corps and several prominent scientists, will meet at the Sorbonne to celebrate the anniversary. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, P. C. t WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 26. 1923. ASKS ACTION AT ONCE ON SHOALS DISPOSAL t : Rt ce Claims Fanners Are Suffer ing From Delay in Utiliz ing Plant. Expedition in disposing of the Mus cle Shoals property in order that the manufacture of commercial fertilizer may not be longer delayed is urged by Representative B. Carroll Reece, republican, of Tennessee. Unless the government can gej a better offer or stronger guarantees for the production of fertilizer the property should be leased or sold to Henry Ford, Representative Reece advises. “In the development of Muscle Shoals,” Mr. Reece said, ‘‘the nitrate or fertilizer features, together with due regard for the national defense, j should he the primary consideration. | “A continued delay in th,e dlspbsl- | tlon of Muscle Shoals cannot be Jus tified. The farmers are entitled to relief. The plant at Muscle Shoals working to capacity will produce an nuallv 250,000 tons of Chilean nitrate or 2,000,000 tons of the plant food in gredients used in ordinary commercial fertiliser.” ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT. Special Dispatch to The Star. FOREBTVILLE, Md.. December 26. —Tonight at 7:30 o’clock the annual Christmas entertainment of the Kor estville Methodist Episcopal Sunday School is to be held at the church. A number of interesting features are i planned. 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