Evening star. [volume], April 16, 1947, Page A-10, Image 10

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PTA Hears Parents
Use Movie Theaters
As 'Baby Sitters'
A committee of the District Con
gress of Parent* and Teachers will
investigate complaints that some
Washington parents are using movie
houses as places to leave their chil
dren while they go out at night.
Mrs. C. H. Bennett, who pre
sented the matter yesterday at a
meeting of the PTA Board of Man
agers, heads the committee. ,
Mrs. Bennett said one theater
manager reported it was not un
common for him to lock his theater
and go home leaving a youngster or
two still waiting for parents. An
other theater official said there were
10 to 14 children in his theater every
night for the late show, she went on.
Children Seen Begging.
Another report was that children
had been seen begging adults for
admission prices at theaters.
Many of the children, Mrs. Ben
nett said she had been informed,
are too young to care for themselves
and depend on ushers to help them
with their coats. Youngsters often
fall asleep in the theaters.
The problem is an old one, ac
cording to Capt. Rhoda Miliiken of
the policewomen’s bureau. Often
the parents are young people who
cannot afford a sitter, she said, and
who don’t seem to have relatives
available to care for their children
when they want a night out.
Hazards Are Cited.
The hazards of the practice, she
pointed out, include the child's de
privation of adequate sleep and the
chance that he might fall in with an
“undesirable” adult, although she
said the latter occurrence is not
too frequent.
Capt. Miliiken said when a child
Is found alone at a late show, the
bureau sometimes talks with the
parents and attempts to work out
arrangements to prevent a repeti
tion. Theater managers, she said,
are doing the best they can to pro
tect the children.
Citizens Group Would Add
More Nurses to City Staff
More nurses for the District Health
Department staff were asked by the
Cathedral Heights-Cleveland Park
Citizens’ Association at a meeting
last night.
The group pointed out that more
nurses are needed for making the
rounds of public schools.
This action was prompted by a re
port read by Owen B. French, presi
dent, that one nurse served 6,800
District students as compared to one
nurse to 500 students in Sacramento,
Calif.
The association also asked that
the liquor laws in the District be
strengthened and that the number
of stores be limited. They urged
, that the present restricted areas be
enlarged.
The group will elect new officers
at its next meeting.
The meeting was held in St. Al
ban’s Church. Massachusetts and
Wisconsin avenues N.W.
20 G.U.AIumni in Congress!
To Be Dinner Honor Guests
Twenty members of the Eigh»M*
Congress who are alumni of Georg#,
town University will be honor guests
at the 158th anniversary dinner of
the Georgetown University Alumni
Association next Wednesday in the
Mayflower Hotel.
The members are: Senators O’Ma
honey, of Wyoming; McCarran, of
Nevada; Chavez, of New Mexico,
and O’Conor, of Maryland, all Dem
ocrats, and Representatives Sadlak,
Foote and Patterson, all of Con
necticut; Boggs, of Delaware; Twy
man, of Illinois; Harness, of Indi
ana; Clason, of Massachusetts;
Bakewell, of Missouri; Leonard W.
Hall, of New York; Lemke, of North
Dakota, and Simp6on of Pennsyl
vania, all Republicans, and Harri
son, of Virginia; Hart, of New
Jersey; Walter, of Pennsylvania,
apd Johnson and Kilday, of Texas,
all Democrats.
U. S. Court Restrains
Jersey Enforcement
Of Antistrike Law
ly th* AlMciotod Pr**«
NEWARK, N. J„ April 16.—Fed
eral Judge Guy L. Fake signed an
order last night temporarily re
straining the State from further
enforcing its new public utility anti
strike law against the telephone
operators union which is cm strike
against the New Jersey Bell Tele
phone Co.
The restraint is operative until
April 23 when a three-judge Federal
Court will sit to determine the
constitutionality of the strike law.
It orders the State, it* officials and
agents to hold in status quo all
actions at law, both civil and
criminal, brought' under the anti
strike statute. This provision is
directed at the civil suit filed against
the union by the State and the
arrest of three officers of the union,
the Traffic Telephone Workers’ Fed
eration of Hew Jersey.
The order also provided that no
further criminal or civil actions may
be brought under the strike law
while the order is in effect.
Walter D. Van Riper, New Jersey
attorney general, said after signing
of the. order, that “any person violat
ing it will continue to do so at his
own peril. The judge’s ruling pre
vcnts enforcement of the act until
its constitutionality can be deter
mined by the $bree-Judge court.”
The new law provides for civil
suits of $10,000 a day against either
the company or the union for re
fusal to arbirtate; $10,000 a day fine
against the union for failure to
return to work in State seized util
ities, and $350 to $500 a day fine, or
30 days in jail, against individual
employes for failure to return to
work.
The three union officials, who
! were released in $500 bail after their
arrest last Friday and are awaiting
action of the grand jury, are: Mrs.
Mary H. Hanscom, president; Mrs.
Virginia Wigglesworth, vice presi
dent, and Mrs. Elizabeth R. Siciliano,
secretary-treasurer. MTs. Siciliano,
the former Elizabeth Ryan, was
married Sunday with court permis
sion.
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