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Show OFFICER TELLS liOiUNCLES?,i Sells Cement for $1 and Buys It Again for $6, Report Re-port Says WASHINGTON, Nov 22. Immediate Immedi-ate revision of the present method of disposing of surplus government ytorcs1 top revent speculators from buying federal property from one department j and re-selllng to another branch of tho government at a higher figure Is recommended rec-ommended In the annual report of Major Ma-jor General G. L. Chamberlain, inspector inspec-tor general of tho army, to the secretary secre-tary of war, made public today. The necessity for tho proposed action Is indicated by a recent Investigation that disclosed that one department of the k'.ivernment sold surplus cement for $1 00 per ton to a civilian who Immediately Immed-iately re-sold the samo cement to a I branch of the war department for, IG.00 a ton, tho report stutea B kZING DISt i S61 D Concerning hazing at the military 'academy at West Point. General I'ham-b I'ham-b rlaln said that while the practice has not yet been entirely eliminated, con-; Hldcrable favorable progress has been made to. that end Other recommendations of the In-pei In-pei t..r genera I Include More c.ire with regard to promfaes made recruits; abandonment of civii- lan Instructors ut tinny schools, renewal re-newal of tho clothing allowance .. tern for enlisted men, consolidation of air service units as far as possible and replacement of civilian employes In this branch With civilian personnel, revision of the property accountability system. CLEAN BILL QF HEALTH A clean bill of health Is given the forces In Germany by tho Inspector general with the exception of profl-jclency profl-jclency at target practice, duo, he Bays, ! to tho largo percentage of new men and lack of experienced officers to 'supervise their trulnlng Conditions in the army transport service in the Pacific are described as "satisfactory," hut in the Atlantic the service Is far from BatiflfactoFy," the report Bays "recommendation be I made that legislation be secured to I provide adequate commissioned and enlisted personnel for army transport." |