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Show RHOADS COMPLETES LABORS AT DAYTON Washington. April 1'9 Major T. L ; Rhoads. military aide to President Wilson, will report lo Secretary Gar- rison today concerning conditions in the flood district of Ohio. Major i Rboads. who has been In charge of sanitation in the inundated territory I returned yesterdav from Dayton, where the high waters worked prob ably the greatest havoc. "The clenning up of the city is costing $80,000 a week." he said today, to-day, "but the people have regained their spirits and the air of hustle and industry is infectious. Stores and I factories are reopening and recon-I recon-I struction work is well under way " General W. H. Bixby, chief of the army engineers, has advised members of congress whose districts were flood-swept that a board of engineers has been named to consider measures to prevent a repetition of the disaster. disas-ter. He has asked the representatives representa-tives to advise their people so that conferences may bo arranged |