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Show CURBS 10 RESUME ITS WARPROBE TODAY WASHINGTON. Dec. 25. Congressional investigations of war operations and problems will resume full swing tomorrow, tomor-row, after a short Christmas recess, although al-though congress itself does not reconvene until January 3. In the war inquiry of the senate military mili-tary committee. Major General Sharpe, quartermaster general, tomorrow will resume re-sume his testimony regarding clothing and other a rmy supplies, health, sanitation, sanita-tion, transportation and cantonment questions. Three cantonment command- i ers who recently returned from abroad I may follow General Sharpe, whose fur- tlrj examination is expected to consume most of this week. Secretary Baker, who may make a definite statement of military 1 policy, is not expected to appear before the committee for some time. Investigation of the fuel shortage will be begun tomorrow by the senate manufactures manu-factures committee, postponing until Friday its further inquiry into the sugar shortage. Fuel Administrator H. A. Garfield Gar-field will be the first witness tomorrow , and Food Administrator Hoover is prom- . ised an opportunity Friday to get in with his statement regarding the sugar situation situa-tion which he vainly endeavored to place before the committee last week, and which was made public tonight at the White House. Members of the shipping hoard and officers of-ficers of the emergency fleet corporations will be further examined tomorrow afternoon after-noon in the shipbuilding inquiry of the senate commerce committee. which hopes to complete its work before congress con-gress reassembles. Plans for the railroad inquiry of the senile Interstate commerce committee are unsettled. oving to the sudden death of Chairman New lands and President Wilson's Wil-son's new conference Thursday with railroad rail-road managers and brotherhood chiefs. The committee's meeting planned for tomorrow to-morrow is to be postponed out of respect to Senator Newlands, and hearings proba-hlv proba-hlv will not he held until after the president presi-dent delivers an address on railroad problems prob-lems after the return of congress. |