Evening star. [volume], July 25, 1937, Page A-11, Image 11

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Chicagoans Polled in Effort
to Get Secret Blood
Tests.
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Bj the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. July 24 — Health officers
bfgan the country's first, maw attack
on the syphilis plague today by poll
ing Chicagoans on the question of
submitting to free secret blood tests
administered by family doctors.
Dr. Louis Schmidt, head of Mayor
Edward J. Kelly's Committee for
Control of Venereal Disease, said that
In Chicaeo the problem has been di
vorced from superstition, ignorance
,and false modesty and hence it is
"the logical city for the first popular
referendum and actual abatement of
» syphilis."
The plague, he added, can be brought
under control just as tuberculosis
vas a few decades ago.
Dr. Schmidt said returns from the
secret ballots, to be mailed to every
family in the city at the rate of
Β0.000 a day. would govern estab
lishment of machinery for administet
ing the tests.
Doctors' Aid Asked.
Chicago's 5,500 physicians would be
asked to test the blood of their reg
ular patients without charge, the doc
tor said, and the State and city
health departments would be asked
to handle most of the laboratory
work.
"Undoubtedly there are hundreds
upon hundreds of doctors who will be
willing to give their timp and talent
for this project." Dr. Schmidt said.
"ΑΠ necessary supplies would be fur
nished them. They would give only
.their time."
Blood samples would be sent, to lab
oratories under code numbers and
results of the tests would be confiden
tial between patient and physician.
Treatment of those needing it then
would be arranged.
Would Produre Census.
R. Oliver C. Wenger, specialist in
the United States Public Health Serv
ice, explained the tests ultimately
would produce for the first time "an
actual census of syphilis and it will
be out in the open where we can com
bat It with medical methods."
The first bundle of 250.000 ballots
• nd explanatory letters were mailed
fnday. The Federal Government fur
nished 2.000,000 franked envelopes, in
cluding self-addressed folders for re
* turn votes.
When the poll is ended, the letters
«ill have put to Chicago's 3.500,000
residents this question:
"In strict confidence and at no ex
pense to you, would you like to be
given by your own physician a blood
test for syphilis?"
A "Yes" or "No" reply is requested.
PRIEST TO DESCRIBE
EXPERIENCE IN SPAIN
Very Eev. Sylvester Sancho. For
mer C. U. Student, Will Speak
Today at McMahon Hall.
Personal experience* In Spain lait
month -will be described by Very Rev.
Sylvester Sancho. O. P.. former stu
dent at Catholic University, in a lec
ture at McMahon
Hall at 7:30 p.m.
today. His topic
will be "An Eve
v 11 η ρ s s From
Spain ."
Father Sancho
Js rector magnifi
cus of the Uni
. ν e r s i t y of St.
Thomas at Ma
nila. P. I., a pon
tifical university
and the oldest in
•titutlon of high
er learning under
the American F.lhfr Slnch0
flag. He is a na
tive of Spain and a member of th»
Dominican Order, and it was at that
college at Catholic University that he
* itudied during the academic year of
1918-19.
Well acquainted with Gen. Franco,
Father Sancho entered Bilbao with
the insurgent army when that city fell
recently.
At present he is on his way from
en international meeting of Domini
can educators and provincials at Rome
to his post in Manila. He is visiting 1
the leading Catholic institutions of j
higher learning in this country on his
way to the Philippines.
, The lecture will be open to the
general public.
* .
RIVER TRIP TUESDAY
Southeast Business Men to Take
Families to Marshall Hall.
Members of the Southeast Business
Men's Association and their families
will take their annual trip to Marshall
Hall, Md.. Tuesday on the steamer
City of Washington.
Trips at 10 a.m., 2 p.m., a sunset
cruise at 5:30 p.m. and a moonlight
jaunt at 8:30 p.m. are scheduled.
Those making the early morning trip
t will have a schedule of entertainment,
Including races, calling contest, pie
eating contest, tug-of-war and a beau- |
ty contest. In the evening dancing ;
Will be the feature.
Arthur Shaffer is chairman of ar
rangements, assisted by Charles Fisch
er, Frank Del Vecchio. Charles Miller,
P. C. McGrath. Parker Stout, Charles
Jenkins, Alex Berlin, Andrew Dargen,
O. W. Rickard and Louis F. Frick.
Honored
r UUHMHI. Illlllimil
HALL S. LUSK.
G. U. ALUMNUS PUT
ON OREGON BENCH
Hall S. Lusk, Native of District,
Is Named to State Supreme
Court.
Hall S. Lusk. former honor student 1
at the Georgetown University Arts
College and Law School and judge of ;
the Circuit Court of Oregon for six ,
years, has been named to the Supreme j
Court of that State by Gov. Martin. 1t I
was learned yesterday through his '
brother, Rufus S. Lusk, president of j
the Washington Taxpayers' Associa- '■
tlon.
Lusk, who was born here in 1R83,
the son of the late Charles S. Lusk.
received his first education In local
public schools, subsequently being
graduated from Georgetown College j
in 1904 and the law school in 1907. j
He served for five years «κ secre
tary to Chief Justice Sheppard of the !
District Court of Appeals, later moving !
to Montana and then to Portland, j
Dreg, where he practiced law until
his appointment in 1930 to the Oregon
bench. In 1932 he was elected to the 1
Circuit Court for a six-year term.
While in school here he wm editor
in chief of the Georgetown Journal.
He led his college class in scholastic
average for four years. He now Is
president of the Georgetown Alumni
Club of Oregon and a professor at :
the Northwest Law School.
·
JOBS HELD FOUND
FORW. P. A. WORKERS
Hopkins Says Most of Them Went
Into Private Industry and Were
Not "Enforced Lay-Offs.''
rsy ι hp AiftOciETffl rrps.v
Harry L. Hopkins, the works prr>c- j
reee administrator, said yesterday ]
most of the persons leaving W. P. A
rolls In recent month* left for pri- j
vate jobs and were not "enforced lay- |
offs."
Although 171.458 workers If·ft. W
P. A. projects from April to May, he
said, rolls decreased only 64.928 be- !
cause 106.530 persons were assigned
to W. P. A. Jobe in May who were
not working on projects in April.
Most of the new workers were taken
from local relief rolls.
The Workers Alliance, however,
called for a national "job march" or
Washington on August 23 to protest
against W. P. A. lay-offs, which it
said would result in large numbers
being "condemned to miserable local
relief—or no relief."
MEETING TO DISCUSS
FARM UNION'S DRIVE
Plans to Be Considered for Enlist
ing 5,000,000 Rural Workers.
Henderson to Speak.
Plans to enlist the country's 5.000,
000 rural workers in the United Can
nery, Agricultural, Packing and Allied
Workers of America will be discussed
at 8:30 p.m. tomorrow at an open
meeting in the Friends Meeting House,
1811 I street.
The meeting is under auspices of
the Washington Committee to Aid
Agricultural Workers. The new union
claims to have 100.000 members in
23 States and a rampaien to organize
the other rural workers Is being
launched.
Speakers will include Donald Hen
derson. president, of the union: Con
rad Espe. secretary-treasurer, and Leif
Dahl, member of the executive board.
A report will be made on the recent 1
agricultural workers' convention in
Denver, at which delegates voted for
affiliation with the Committee on In
dustrial Organization.
TWO-WEEK CHURCH FETE
WILL OPEN TOMORROW
Holy Comforter Boys' Band to
Play as Annual Summer Fes
tival Is Launched.
The annual Summer festival of the
Holy Comforter Church will open to
morrow at 7:30 p.m. on the grounds
of the parochial school at Fifteenth
and East Capitol streets. Rev. Charles
R. O'Hara. chairman, announced yes
terday. It will last for two weeks,
ending August 7.
The Holy Comforter Boys' Band has
been engaged to play during the first
hours of the opening night and will
be heard again during the week. The
Knights of Columbus Band and the
Elks Boys' Band also will play.
Huckster Loses All as Auto
Wrecks Wagon, Injures Horse
Twice within two years George
Lomedlco. 60, a veteran huckster and
one of the few remaining in Wash
ington, has seen the contents of his
■wagon spilled over the street and
, sidewalk and his horse injured In a
traffic accident.
For 30 years Lomcdico, who lives
with his wife at 2202 I street, has
sold groceries to Washington house
wives from his horse-drawn wagon.
He came to this country from Italy
35 years ago, and still does not speak
good English.
"What I'm gonna do now?" he
eried bitterly yesterday after survey
ing the wreckage of hU wagon in the
2*00 block of Ρ street. "I got nothing
but this wagon."
Lomedico was making a sale on a
doorstep when a grocery truck, driven
far James Newman. 33, colored, 911
A
Twenty-fifth street, ran into the rear
of the wagon, throwing it onto the
sidewalk, injuring the horse. Kitty,
and spreading the street with vege
tables and fruit. The horse was go
badly hurt it had to be shot. W. S.
Collins, a veterinary, called by a
witness, borrowed a gun from Poll re
man John P. Ratzeman of the sev
enth precinct to dispatch the animal.
Newman was taken to the seventh
precinct, where he was charged with
reckless driving.
The elderly Italian vendor esti
mated the damage to be between $300
and $400, "all I got."
A similar accident happened at
Twelfth and Constitution avenue on
February 27, 1936. Lomedieo'e horse,
Sani, had to be destroyed following
the accident. Kitty wa« her »uc
cMsor.
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