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Scheele Takes Office
As Surgeon General,
Succeeding Parran
Dr. Leonard A. Scheele took the
oath of office as Surgeon General
of the United States Public Health
Service yesterday afternoon hi the
Federal Secur
rity Agency au
ditorium.
He succeeded
Dr. Thomas
Parran, who
stepped down
after 12 years at
the head of the
service.
Dr. Parran,
United States
representative
on the Interim
Commission of
the World
Health Organ
Dr. Sb«eu. ization, will con
tinue to hold the rank of major
general in the service, Federal Se
curity Administrator Oscar R.
Ewing told a press conference. He
will have the grade of assistant
surgeon general.
“Unfinished Business.”
“We have a great deal of unfin
ished business in the public health
field,” Dr. Scheele said after Dr.
Lewis R. Thompson, former direc
tor of the National Institute of
Health, had administered the oath
of office in the presence of USPHS
employes, Government officials and
medical men.
Among the items he listed are
the control of communicable dis
eases which still take about 100,000
lives each year, and the job of
seeing that the entire country is
covered with full-time local health
services.
There is “no excuse” he said, for
failure to control communicable
diseases, many of which could be
“eliminated if we worked more dil
igently with the tools at hand.”
Current Problem.
On another current problem—the
"crisis in professional schools”—he
declared that “unless and until the
crisis is resolved, the Nation will be
hampered in all its efforts to in
crease its health resources and to
improve the health of the people."
At the press conference at which
Mr. Ewing introduced Dr. Scheele,
the former head of the National
Cancer Institute said he believes
the Public Health Service is baslcly
“set up on a very sound basis” and
that he forsees no changes in its
basic program.
Dr. Scheele praised the work of
his predcessor. The USPHS today
is stronger, richer in confidence of
the people and “broader in its vi
sion of service” than ever before,
he said, and declared much of this
is attributable to Dr. Parran,
Michigan U. Graduate.
Dr. Scheele was graduated from
the University of Miehigan in 193L
5[e received his bachelor of science
egree in Jmediciinpironv, Wayfig
•nlgmteapctro-.t T193» Sffld l|g
oct<wl«nBdlcineMHSree»m neSEi
year.
In 1934 he was commissioned in
the Public Heath Service. He wa*
assigned to the National Cancer
Institute in 1939 as offlfipn charge
of the National Cancerppitrbl pro
gram.
' During the war, he was chief of
the Field Casualty section, Medi
cal Division, Office of Civilian De
fense, and later went to Europe on
loan to the Army. He was assistant
director of the National Cancer In
stitute before being named director
last July. •*
Plaintiff Ordered fo Pay
Defense Lawyers $308 Fee
District Court Justice T. Alan
Goldsborough yesterday ordered S.
Richard Gamer, 2939 McKinley
street N.W., a Justice Department
attorney, to pay a $308 fee to the
attorney who successfully defended
a 10-year-old girl last month.
Mr. Gamer brought two separate
suits, one in behalf of himself and
the other in behalf of his daugh
ter, Janet, 9, for a broken tooth she
suffered in November, 1945. The
tooth was broken when the defend
ant, Monica Mulvey, 10, of 6359
Thirty-first street N.W., accidentally
struck Janet in the mouth with a
metal lunch box during a school
recess. /
A jury brought in a verdict fav
orable to Monica.
The counsel fee must be paid,
under the court order, to Attorney
James E. Shtfflette who represented
Monica. Monica is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Mulvey. Her
father is athletic director at West
ern High School. ■*+ 4
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Action by Congress on His Plans
Would Meet Crisis, Truman Says
•y tha Auaciatad Pr«»
President Truman insists “there
would be no necessity for any world
emergency" if Congress would fol
low his leadership.
He said so in a letter to Repre
sentative Lyndon Johnson, Demo
crat, of Texas, who came back with
a few sharp words of his own.
Mr. Johnson, a long-time admin
istration stalwart, made public the
President’s letter, which also as
serted:
“If there was a little less emer
gency talk and a little more activity
on the part of Congress to meet the
international problem we would be
able to meet it.”
Representative Johnson had writ
ten Mr. Truman on March 30 to
suggest that the War Assets Ad
ministration be told to review, in
the light of possible future need, its
program of disposing of surplus war
plants and other facilities.
The President replied two days
later that the matter already had
been taken care of in sales contracts
for the properties; that “in case of
emergency they immediately revert
to the Gfovemment.”
To which Mr. Truman added: “If
the Congress would act on the
measures which I have asked for
there would be no necessity for any
world emergency.”
Then he recalled his various mes
sages to Congress in 1945 and 1948—
when the Democrats were in con
trol—and in 1947—after the Re
publicans had taken over.
He didn’t list the measures he had
proposed, but apparently he had in
mind such things as his pleas for a
quick start on universal military
training, for slower removal of war
time economic controls at home and
for keeping tax revenues high.
His letter closed with this para
graph:
“I hope you will put your shoulder
to the wheel and help get those
measures I asked for on the statute
books—that is the only way to meet
this sltuatloh.”
Mr. Johnson fired back his reply
yesterday. He t*id his understand
ing of some war plant sales is that
no provision is made for recapture.
Then he added:
“You say, Mr. President, that you
hope I will put my ‘shoulder to the
wheel.’
"I support the Marshall Plan,
building the world's best air corps,
selective service and universal mili
tary training. My shoulder always
has been and always will be at the
wheel of preparedness.
“It is difficult to accomplish pre
paredness, however, when the wheel
is pushed up hill one day and down
hill the next. World conditions re
quire that we mobilize men, and we
must also mobilize plants and indus
trial facilities to provide them."
Woman Novelist Quits
As Cultural Attache
At Czechs'Embassy
iy th» Associated Press
NEW YORK, April 6.—Mrs. Mila
da Souckova, Czechoslovak novelist
and poet, resigned last night as cul
tural attache of the Czechoslovak
Republic in the United 8tates.
Without serving notice on the
Czechoslovak consul general. Dr.
Rudolf Kuraz, she mailed a letter of
resignation and at the same time
notified the State Department of
her action.
(The Czechoslovak Embassy
here said today that Mrs. Souc
kova had been stationed In
Washington. A spokesman said
the Embassy had no comment on
her resignation or on her activi
ties as cultural attache here.)
Mrs. Souckova declared In a
statement issued in her hotel room
that every honest democratic and
courageous element in Czecnoslo
vak cultural life
is resisting the
force of a for
eign power. She
charged that
police have vio
lated the
demic freedom
of Charles Uni
versity.
"As a Czech
writer, my place
too. is among
those vfh6 pub
licly expose, and
combat the out
rage committed
against my peo- Mm
Me," she declared.
S She said that since
ment “has been torn by force from]
the hands of the Czechoslovak |
when the**0
tradition is being
ror, when literature
are gagged and cultural workers
who are not wiling to serve sub
missively and-slavishly are removed
from their positions and persecuted,
I cannot remain in the government
service.”
Prof. Roman Jacobson of Co
lumbia University said her first
novel about 15 years ago was "The
First Letters.” He said she also
has written a book of short stories
called “The School of Novels.”
He said she was considered “the
greatest hope in Czechoslovak lit
erature.”
Prof. Jacobson, who fled Czecho
slovakia in 1938, Is professor of
Czechoslovak studies In the Slavic
department at Columbia.
Taylor Delivers Letter
From Truman to Pope
•y the Auociottd Press
ROME, April 6.—President Tru
man has sent a personal letter to
Pope Pius XII, it was learned offi
cially today.
The letter was delivered to the
pontiff yesterday by Myron C. Tay
lor, the President’s special repre
sentative to the Holy See. Con
tents ef the letter were not dis
closed.
Mr. Taylor, who arrived here
Sunday by plane, refused to com
ment on a report published In
Rome’s Leftist newspaper Unita
that the President had given him
“the duty to co-ordinate electoral
activities of pro-American Italians
and the Vatican.” -
Delivery of President Truman’s
letter just 12 days before Italy’s mo
mentous national election, April 18,
was viewed as highly significant In
many informed quarters.
Mr. Taylor was received by the
Pope in a 35-minute private audi
ence last night.
The American, who conferred at
length with Gen. Franco in Madrid
last week, said he was not at lib
erty to reveal the nature of the
discussions here or In Spain.
Commenting on reports in Unlt^
that he would return soon to Spain.
Mr. Taylor said, “My plans are to
remain in or around Rome for some
time.”
Russian-Born Psychiatrist
Denounces War Hysteria
•y the Auociottd Press
RICHMOND, Va., April 6.—Dr.
Gregory Zilboorg of New York, Rus
sian born psychiatrist, believes Rus
sia and the united States could
settle their differences if people
would “talk Instead of threatening
to shoot.”
The United States is “all dressed
up to fight because some one told
her the Russian bogey man will
come in,” Dr. Zilboorg said in an in
terview in which he denounced
1 “crazy war hysteria.”
“War can be averted if President
Truman is defeated at the national
convention—provided he doesn’t
push into war before November,” he
added.
Dr. Zilboorg, in Richmond to ad
dress the Virginia Institute Seminar
in psychiatry and neurology, was
secretary to the Minister of Labor
in the Kerensky cabinet in 1917. He
s fled Russia® in 1919.
Notre Dame President
SeesU.S. Fund Threat
To Private Schools
ly (fra Associated Prats
PHILADELPHIA, April 6.—The
report of President TYuman’s Com
mission on Higher Education is "a
potential death knell” of many
private schools, the Rev. John J.
Cavanaugh, president of the Univer
sity of Notre Dame, said last night.
. Speaking at the observance of
Universal Notre Dame night, Rather
Cavanaugh reminded his listeners
that "in these highly modem and
thoroughly equipped buildings, bril
liantly stalled, and filled with all of
the young leaders of tomorrow, God
must not be mentioned.”
Describing the Nation’s private
schools as the “greatest single force
for the preservation of a sound
America," Father Cavanaugh said
that if the Government “continues
increasingly to pour money into tax
supported public schools • • • the
fate of the private school becomes
largely a matter of time rather than
of speculation.”
“The American Government," he
said, “Is on record as desiring to
subsidize education to a degree un
precedented in our history, and we
have long led the world. But we
feel that the proponents of private
education rooted in the principles
of religion possess the deposit of
faith of the great political experi
ment that is the hope of the world—
American democracy,”
;3ciarenceJlHEsnion, dean o£
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SBd *fgadJ,SWJball cowaB* al__
peared on the program.
Notre Dame {daces, scholarship
first, ahead of all other activities,
including football, John V. Hinkel,
director of public Information at
the university, told the Washington
Notre Dame Alumni Club at the
Carlton Hotel last night.
The dinner meeting was one of
many held by Notre Dame alumni
clubs throughout the country. More
than 200 alumni present at the
meeting here saw a television show
ing of the gathering in Philadel
phia.
Thomas L. McKevitt, an attorney
in the Justice Department, was
elected president of the Washing
ton Club. He succeeds Dan Cul
hane. Mr. McKevitt, a graduate of
the university in 1932 and of Its
law school in 1934, came to Wash
ington with the Justice Depart
ment in <1936. He lives at 10108 Big
Rock road. Silver Spring.
Other officers elected are Harold
V. Boisvert, Washington attorney,
vice president; Thomas J. Flynn,
insurance man, secretary, and Lt.
Comdr. J. Hal Roddy, U. S. N.,
treasurer, •
Taxi Woman Guilty
In Short-Changing
A Municipal Court jury yesterday
decided that to short-change a cus
tomer is larceny.
The jury, which included sevjn
women, took less than half an hour
to convict Mrs. Edna M. Rice, about
45, of the 1800 block of Kentucky
avenue S.E., a taxi driver, who was
arrested on a warrant sworn to last
month by Mrs. Mary Ann Pickles,
711 Longfellow street N.W.
Mrs. Pickles testified she was
driven by the defendant on a 70
cent ride on March 3, after first
telling her she had only a $10 bill
to pay her fare. The witness said
that, when she alighted and handed
over the $10 bill, she got only 30
cento In change, of which she gave
the driver a 10-cent tip before noting
she had been short-changed by $9
By this time, Mrs. Pickles said,
the cab had driven off. When she
contacted the driver later at her
home, Mrs. Rice denied she had
received a $10 bill.
Assistant United States Attorney
Frank Reifsynder told the jury he
felt Mrs. Rice formed a “larcenous
intent” during the brief time of the
transaction.
Defense Counsel Charles E. Ford
said he would appeal the conviction
after sentence is imposed by Judge
John P. McMahon on Saturday.
B-2 Bus Line Extension
Asked by National Gateway
Extension of the B-3 bus line was
a^ked last night by the National
Gateway Citizens’ Association.
The bus terminal which is now at
Bladensburg road and South Da
kota avenue NE. would be ex
tended to Michigan avenue NE.,
under the proposal.
A committee was appointed by
Gilbert C. Vincent to study the
Auchincloss home rule plan and
make a report on it at the next
meeting.
The meeting, conducted by Mr.
Vincent, president, was held in
the Avalon Heights Church of
Christ, Twenty-eighth and Doug
Bank to Battle
Starlings With
Sliding Board
StuUnga accustomed to roosting
on the roof of the Metropolitan
National Bank will soon be In for a
surprise. %
When they land on their old
perches, they will suddenly find no
perch but a sliding board.
Bank officials, tired of watching
thousands of the birds use their
building as an aviary, called on the
Gichner Roofing & Sheet Metal Co.,
418 Sixth street N.W, to install the
same bird-repellants the organiza
tion had put on the Hamilton and
American Security Bank buildings.
In addition to tin slides around
the edges of the roof, on which the
birds cannot get their tooting, spikes
are installed along the edges.
Wallace in Indiana;
Backers Charge Hotel
Canceled Luncheon
By th* Associated Press
INDIANAPOLIS, April Henry
A. Wallace arrived In Indiana today
amid confusion over one of his
scheduled appearances In three stra
tegic Indiana cities.
The third party presidential can
didate will speak in Evansville to
night, in Indianapolis tomorrow
night and In Gary Thursday night.
Wallace headquarters said ar
rangements for a luncheon here had
been canceled by the manager of a
downtown hotel. The hotel man
agement refused to comment.
A Wallace spokesman said yester
day he did not know where the
luncheon would be held. He added
that about 300 invitations had been
sent out.
Meanwhile, Harry White, the Wal
lace committee’s Indiana represent
ative, said a letter had been sent
to national headquarters of the
American Legion saying, in part:
"We have been informed from
two separate sources that the Amer
ican Legion is attempting to pre
vent Mr. Wallace from speaking,
being entertained or housed In In
dianapolis.”
Henry H. Dudley, Legion national
adjutant, said he had “no com
ment” on the letter. He added:
"The national organization has not
been brought into this. Our position
is pretty well defined in the pre
amble to our national constitution.”
Wallace Book Says Soviet
Need Not Be Appeased
By the Auecioted Preu
Henry A. Wallace says in a new
book that peace without appease
ment of Russia is possible.
But this country Is being led at
present, the third party presiden
tial candidate says, toward war and
fascism.
Mr. Wallace’s recipe for peace and
prosperity: Remove "totalitarian,
militaristic, Wall Street control”
from the United States Government,
plan toward "progressive capitalism”
at home, back the interests of the
workers and peasants abroad.
In his 121-gmge book, 'stewards
Worlf Peace,’gp iys: 7
"Russia mu!** ar to
her Communist other
countries that reactionary capital
ism still has some years of useful
mvim to hUMMttktauthe westr
""'‘TlfTT JfflSSt'’ intO
the discard.”
And “the reactionary cafgjpistk
who control the United Statesr isyii
the former vice President, may say
as they said In 1941; "We must
play ball with the Russians. Our
lives depend upon It.”
“Once an attitude of this sort Is
adopted on both sides,” Mr. Wallace
says, “all the rest will be easy.”
OTonnell Takes Oath
As Sixth CAB Chairman
By th* Auecioted Prut
Joseph J. O’Connell, Jr., of New
York today became the sixth chair
man of the Civil Aeronautics Board.
The oath was administered by
Chief Justice Harold M. Stephens
of the Court of Appeals. Justice
Stephens swore in the first board
10 years ago and has read the oath
to most of the members since then.
The board now has la full mem
bership for the first time since Clar
ence Young resigned in October to
manage the Los Angeles Airport.
Another vacancy will occur April
SO with the retirement of Harllee
Branch, and original member.
John Talbot Asks Divorce
In Reply to Wife's Suit
Sy the Auecioted Prut
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla* April
6.—John Alden Talbot, Jr., of Palm
Beach and Washington, whose wile,
Njmcy, named Lana Turner as the
“other woman” in a separate main
tenance suit January 24, filed suit
for divorce yesterday.
Counsel for Mr. Talbot filed an
answer to Mrs. Talbot’s petition and
a counterclaim in Circuit Court, but
papers wenMmmetJiately withdrawn
so that no details were available.
Mr. Talbot, who has been living
aboard his yacht at the Palm Beach
Yacht Club, told a Post-Times re
porter he had asked for a divorce.
"We tried to reach a settlement”’
he said, “but when that failed the
divorce was the only course open.”
Group Backs Licenses
For Practical Nunes
The Progressive Citizens' Asso
ciation of Georgetown is in favor
of licensing practical nurses for
the benefit of the public as well as
the nurses. x
The citizens indorsed such legis
lation after hearing talks last night
by Dr. James A. Gannon, member
of the Board of Education, and
Miss Edith Beattie, executive secre
tary of the Graduate Nurses’ Asso
ciation.
The speakers pointed out that,
“any one who Has nursed her grand
mother can go out and say she
is a practical ■nurse.'*
In another action, the group sup
ported a motion by Maurice Good
man deploring the “hysterical” ac
tion of the Federation of Citizens’
Associations in passing the “anti
subversive” amendment to its con
stitution last Saturday.
The association again will give
a garden party and prizes to the
street cleaners in the Georgetown
area as a means of promoting a
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cleanup campaign. The prizes will
be awarded to the most efficient
of the 12 street cleaners during the
past 12 months. The garden party
will be held the first week In June
at the home of Mrs. Frank West,
3406 R street N.W.
Three years ago they started their
first street-cleanup campaign, and a
garden party was held at another
prominent Georgetown home.
Last night's meeting was held at
Christ,Church Parish Hall, Thirty
first s fid o streets N.yt.
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