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Thomas Alters Stand,
Says He Will Accept
Socialist Nomination
By the Associated Press
READING, Pa., May 8—Norman
Thomas reluctantly agreed today to
accept should the Socialist Party
tender him a sixth nomination for
the presidency.
The veteran Socialist leader has
campaigned as his party’s nominee
In five elections beginning in 1928.
The decision assured his nomination
tomorrow at the 26th annual con
vention.
Mr. Thomas said he was reversing
a previous decision not to run be
cause “it is imperative that the;
party should nominate one who is
already well known by the public.”
“Never was a Democratic Social
ist program more necessary for the
freedom, peace and prosperity of
America and mankind,” he said.
“But instead of the new * party
movement for which we Socialists
had hoped and worked we are con
fronted with the Wallace-Commun
ist alliance.
“On some—by no means all—paci-;
fic issues I, like most Socialists, am!
in agreement with the views ex
pressed by Mr. Wallace.
“We emphatically disagree with
him in believing that peace can be
had by appeasement of aggressive
Communist totalitarianism.”
Mr. Thomas’ decision came as the
convention, working to complete the
party platform, rejected a proposed
resolution calling for “organized civil
disobedience” to all war and warlike!
preparations.
Adopted instead was a committee j
report pledging the party to support
of the Marshall plan in the event
Russia rejects proposals to “make
the United Nations a democratic!
world organization.”
In that event, the Socialist reso
lution said, the United States must
“pledge itself to continue its eco
nomic aid in the rehabilitation or
development of all countries accept
ing the principles of political free
dom, irrespective of their economic
institutions.”
Luxury Trains Collide;
Several Are Injured
iy th» Associated Press
MONTGOMERY, Ala., May 8 —
Two luxury trains narrowly missed
a tragic wreck today when they
rammed head on in a dense fog.
As it happened, one of them—
the Miami-to-Chicago Florida Ar
row was standing still—and the
Louisville & Nashville Railroad’s
Hummingbird, a streamliner, was
slowing up.
J. W. Patton, district claims agent
for the L. & W., said the Humming
bird engineer missed a signal in the
fog and failed to take a siding.
Several persons were injured, but
only four were taken to a hospital
for treatment. The others were
given first aid at the scene.
The engines of both trains, two;
cars of the Hummingbird and one
of the Arrow were derailed. None
overturned. The streamliner was
making a run from Cincinnati to
New Orleans.
It was the fourth minor accident
for the Hummingbird this year.
In another railroad mishap today,
a New York Central mail and ex
press train, hauling one passenger
coach, was derailed two miles south
of Shelby, Ohio. The locomotive
and 10 of 14 cars left the tracks,
but no one was injured.
7 New Members Added
To Hard of HearingBoard
Seven new members have been
added to the Advisory Board of the
Washington Society for the Hard of
Hearing, it was announced yester
day.
They are: Dr. Joseph Murphy,
Miss Bertha Taylor. Mrs. Robert S.
Brookings, Mrs. Gilbert Grosvenor,
Hal J. Miller, Mrs. Hazel Markel
and Huston Thompson.
Reappointed to the Board of the
Community Chest Agency were
David Amato, Mrs. Henry Grattan
Doyle, Judge Carl Britt Hyatt, Dr.
William H. Jenkins, Miss Helen
Nicholay, Thornton W. Owen and
Dr. T. Frazier Williams.
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Methodist Conference
Ends, Stressing State
AndChurchSeparation
By Caspar Nannes
Star Staff Correspondent
BOSTON, May 8.—The 1948 Gen
;eral Conference of the Methodist
Church closed its quadrennium
meeting here today by passing
resolutions emphasizing the separa
tion of Church and State, estab
lishing an information service on
“good motion pictures” and urging
the admission of displaced persons
to the United States.
Voicing “unalterable" opposition
to the use of tax funds for the
support of “private and sectarian
schools,” the conference declared
the “Methodist Church is commit
ted to the public school as the most
effective means of providing com
mon education for all our children.”
The motion asserted that “religion
has a right place in the public
school program, and that it is pos
sible for public school teachers,
without violating the traditional
American principle of separation
of Church and State, to teach moral
principles and spiritual values.”
The church Board of Education
was directed to “examine the mo
tion pictures and to inform our
people weekly” in the Church paper
whether “these pictures meet our
standards of the true, the good, and
the beautiful, and which are proper
for children, youth and adults.” It
was pointed out this type of ap
proach was preferable to censorship
in lifting the level of motion pic
tures.
Truman Urged to Aid D. P. O.
President Truman and Congress
were urged to support legislation
now before Congress providing for
the admission of 200,000 displaced
persons to the United States within
a two year period.
A brief division of opinion among
the delegates occurred when Wil
liam R. Cannon, a professor at the
Candler School of Theology, Emory
University, offered an amendment to
a resolution on racial discrimination.
Mr. Cannon wanted to amend the
motion so that segregation would
not be considered discriminatory. He
asserted as far as segregation is
concerned there are large sections
of the church that would “not ap
prove” the statement against such
a policy.
The Rev. Ernest F. Tittle, pastor
of First Methodist Church, Evans
ton, 111., pointing out the report
was not mandatory, declared “we
will never crusade for Christianity
and the church unless we are will
ing ‘to stick our necks out.’ The
unwillingness of ministers and lay
men ‘to stick their necks out’ is
defeating the ends which we are
supposed to serve.” He urged pas
sage of the motion asking that "ra
cial discrimination shall ultimately
be eliminated from our fellowship.”
It was passed by a large majority.
Funds Creek Urged.
Churches were asked to examine
carefully "questionable methods" of
raising 'money for their drives in
another report passed by the con
ference.
On the international front, the
meeting called on President Tru
man to recall “immediately” Myron
C. Taylor as his “personal repre
sentative” to the Vatican and asked
the Chief Executive to “refrain from
appointing a successor.”
Another resolution with interna
tional implications appealed to the
United States and “its former allies”
to take steps through the United
Nations "to facilitate the repatria-i
tion of all prisoners of war, in ac
cordance with the Geneva conven
tion.” President Truman and Con
gress also were urged to grant am
nesty “ to all genuine conscientious
objectors, who on grounds of moral
or religious belief went to prison
for conscience sake, thus restoring
their full rights as citizens.”
Ban On Liquor Ads Supported.
A crusading resolution calling on
Church members to step-up the
fight for prohibition was passed. It
urged support of legislation forbid
ding liquor advertising and called
for State’legislation enabling people
to vote out “the liquor traffic” in
any political subdivision.”
Support of the new Korean gov
ernment, to be voted on Monday
was voiced In a motion passed by
the conference. It declared the
United Nations should take steps
“to secure the unification of all
Korea under a free government
elected by the people without
duress.”
The general conference, which
opened 12 days ago, originally re
ceived approximately 1,000 memo
rials. Of these 266 were reported to
the floor by different committees,
with 236 of them being adopted.
Seventy-three were acted on during
the last session today.
Committed Appointed.
The committee to study education
in the Nation’s Capital will be com
posed of Bishops W. W. Peele, A.
Frank Smith and W. Earl Ledden;
University Senate Members Clyde
E. Wildman, Theodore N. Jack and
Goodrich C. White; and Delegates
N. B. Harmon. Guy E. Snavely and
Walter C. Coffey. The committee
will undertake an appraisal of “the
educational responsibilities of the
Methodist Church in Washington,”
authorized by passage of a resolu
tion by the conference.
Washington delegates to the con
ference were Bishop Charles Wesley
Flint, retired Bishop Edwin Holt
Hughes. D. Stewart Patterson, Mrs.
Joy Elmer Morgan, Dr. Frederick
Brown Harris, Dr. Horrace E. Comer,
Dr. Orris G. Robinson, Dr. Robert
Moten Williams, Mrs. Fannie D.
Tyler and Mrs. Stella Werner.
Businessmen to Meet
The monthly meeting of the
Southeast Business Men’s Associa
tion will be held at 8:15 p.m. tomor
row at the Donohoe Realty Co., 314
Pennsylvania avenue S.E.
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Padlocked Terrell Auditorium Shows Need for New Schools
(First of Two Articles.)
By Coit Hendley, Jr.
The aged Terrell Junior High
School, with its auditorium pad
locked since last Friday because it
is not up to fire safety standards,
is a case to prove that Washington
must replace its old schools.
When the order came from School
Supt. Hobart M. Coming that the
auditorium at the 58-year-old col
ored school must be closed, Miss
Valerie E. Chase, principal, found
her problems piling up. They were
bad enough any way with no play
ground, no music room and only
six shops for more than 900 children.
She was not alone. Hiree other
old schools have had to close their
third floor auditoriums because they
did not have exits, needed fireproof
ing and were in violatipn of the new
District building regulations. They
were Sumner Elementary School,
Hine Junior High School and Bell
Vocational High School.
Major alterations, including in
closing of stairway wells and new
exits must be undertaken before
they can be used again, Dr. Corn
ing observed.
Activities Canceled.
“I’ve had to cancel all the school’s
spring activities,” Miss Chase said.
Since there is no other auditorium
in the school—and none suitable
nearby—anniversary week at the
school was canceled. It was supposed
to be this week. A health day and
assembly, a father-son night, a
mother-daughter night and an
alumni gathering were called off.
But worst of all, Miss Chase re
marked the school’s spring operetta
will not be given. More than 250
children have been practicing for
the opperetta for months. There is
no place to hold it, Miss Chase ex
plained.
Things just like that happened in
the three other schools that sudden
ly found auditoriums closed down.
Hie senior class probably will not
be able to hold class day. The
graduation will be at Armstrong
High School—as planned all along
—because the 250 graduates and
their parents and friends would be
too much of a crowd for the Terrell
auditorium even if It could be used.
Cafeteria Used for Music Classes.
But even when the auditorium
was being used, the teaching staff
faced these situations:
The school has no music room. So
music classes must meet in the
school cafeteria when the cafeteria
is not in use. The pupils sit at
the white topped tables where they
will be eating later. A piano has
been moved into the cafeteria. It
competes with the noise from the
kitchen.
There are three shops for 400 boys
and three shops for 500 girls.
The present library is "not much
bigger than a closet,” to quote Miss
Chase, and is supposed to serve
more than 900 children.
There is no playground.
The fact that the children must
spend recess in the street in front
of the building, at M street between
New Jersey and First street N.W.,
raises another problem. The block
is closed off at each end by police
during recess.
But. the street is designated a
“fire lane” for No. 4 Truck Co., a
block away on New Jersey avenue.
Miss Chase has developed a new
type fire drill which consists of
getting out of the way of fire en
gines by "scattering to safety” when
the sirens start.
School Built in 1890.
Terrell was built In 1890, with
additions in 1911 and 1921. A gym
nasium was added in 1934. The
Blake School, an old elementary
school nearby, is used as an annex,
thus avoiding part-time classes for
the time being.
“We need a new building badly,”
Miss Chase said, summing up the
opinion of top school officials.
A replacement for Terrell has
been requested. Congress has au
thorized a $1,350,000 building but
has appropriated only the first
$28,350 for plans.
And as bad as the situation is at
Terrell, replacement of the school
is far down the priority list as far
as school officials are concerned.
Dr. Coming put it this way:
“We are faced with a two-edged
problem. There are not enough
buildings for all the children we
now have. But almost as serious is
the problem of the old buildings.
They are so very, very old and in
adequate.’*
Worried Over Jammed Areas.
He explained that it was a matter
of doing the most essential things
first. These happen to be getting
schools to house children now on
part-time classes and to prevent
additional part-time classes.
The “danger spots,” where large
housing projects are jamming areas
with children where there were no
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TERRELL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL WORKS UNDER HANDICAPS—One of the situations at
the Terrell Junior High School which has no apparent solution—because there just isn’t any
more room—is this. A music class, taught by Miss Hortense Pace, is shown meeting in the
school cafeteria. _ _,_'
children before and are few schools,
have officials worried.
How acute the situation will be
come in the next four years was
shown in a population study com
pleted last week by Dr. Carl E. Han
sen and A. Kiger 8avoy, associate
school superintendents. It showed
that by 1952, the white elementary
schools will have an increase in en
rollment of 16,722 or 60 per cent,
while the colored elementary schools
will add 10,564 pupils to their rolls,
an increase of more than 39 per
cent. Another 758 teachers will be
needed by that time to take care of
these children.
Although in the past few years the
overcrowding has been in the
colored schools, at present part-time
classes are split about evenly among
colored and white schools. But in
the immediate future part-time In
struction threatens to increase
drastically in the white schools.
The situation at the Hine Junior
High School, a white school even
older than Terrell, and those start
ling “danger spots” will be discussed
in an article tomorrow.
Defense
(Continued From First Page.)
its armed strength from potential
to actual.”
The five members who voted
against the bill in committee warned
that enactment of selective service
now would "be one of the most
tragic errors which could be com
mitted by Congress.”
Cal! It “Program for War."
Terming it a “program for war,”
they said they did not believe “a
sound and adequate defense sys
tem requires the police state meth
ods of compulsion.” Revival of a
draft at this time would merely
continue the “fateful game of
threat and counterthreat, bluff and
counterbluff,” they asserted.
Their report blamed military lead
ers for much of the current “hys
teria.” It also accused the Army of
having “deliberately refrained “from
making all-out efforts to obtain vol
unteers. Army failure to build1 up
the National Guard and organized
reserves was attacked as “bordering
on a national scandal.”
“The Army has acted as if it is
the policy making body of the
Nation,” the dissenting report
charged, "In effect, it has said Con
gress must accept a conscription
program before the Army will or
ganize, train and equip the Re
serves. Congress cannot permit it
self to become a rubber stamp of a
willful group of officers who want
to Prussianize this Nation and who
are prepared to sabotage our de
fenses in the process.”
"Controlled Economy" Seen.
The draft, in the opinion of the
five members, would wreck Amer
ican democratic institutions and
necessitate widespread and per
haps “permanent” governmental
controls over industry.
“In one measure,” they said,
"Congress is being asked to lay the
foundation of a controlled economy.”
The minority report was signed
by Representatives Short of Mis
souri, and Bishop of Illinois, Re
publicans, and Heffeman of New
York, Philbin of Massachusetts and
Havenner of California, Democrats.
“We are fully aware of the value
of preparedness,” they wrote, citing
their support of the 70-group Air
Forces program, “but the high rate
of obsolescence that flows from the
rapid advances in technology will
work to defeat the purpose for which
the (draft) system is established.
It is far better to maintain a high
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Here Miss V. E. Chase, principal of Terrell, and H. J.Rob
lnson, assistant principal, put up a sign on the auditorium doors
which says “closed.” It was closed yesterday because it did
not come up to building fire safety regulations. And the school
is now without an auditorium. —Star Staff Photos
alert research and development pro
gram, an up-to-the-minute aircraft
program and an efficient intelligence
service. The day is long since past
when a war can be won with mass
armies and obsolete weapons."
Air Force Called No Substitute.
The majority report declared the
70-group Air Force plan cannot be
a substitute for selective service.
“An understanding of the con
cept of balanced forces is of special
significance to those who are in
clined to think of air power as a
panacea for National security,” the
report stated. “The day of inter
continental warfare is many years
away.”
But the world situation was the
principal reason for the commit
tee's favorable action' of the draft
bill, the report said.
“The committee feel that the rec
ommendation (by President Tru
man on March 17 for augment
ing the standing military forces)
correctly reflected a serious deter
ioriation in the international situ
ation over the months immediately
preceding, and constituted the neces
sary response of this Government to
specific, aggressive and dangerous
actions on the part of the Soviet
Union,” the report declared.
40 Billions For First Year.
The report cited estimates that
only about 200,000 men would have
to be drafted during the first year.
There would be no inductions for
90 days after enactment of the will.
While sympathetic with proposals
that scientists and researchers be
deferred, the committee explained
it “would be unwise to establish in
legislation specific criteria for such
deferments.” It4 added that “the
maximum efforts in scientific re
search and related fields can best
be safeguarded by granting broad
permissive authority to the Presi
dent to defer persons whose activ
ity he deems essential to the Na
tional interest.”
The selective service program
would cost about $40,000,000 in tiie
first year and about $35,000,000 in
the second, the report estimated.
Fairfax Hall Fete Opens
WAYNESBORO, Va„ May 8 (A*).—
Fairfax Hall Junior College alumnae
opened a two-day homecoming pro
gram here today. The affair will
conclude with a May Day festival
tomorrow.
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OEEN EVENINGS
Taber, Cannon Oppose
Senate Proposal for
Omnibus Budget Bill
By J. A. O'Leary
The two top members of the
House Appropriations Commit
tee came out yesterday against
the Senate plan to handle the
entire annual budget of the
Federal Government in one ap
propriation bill. It Is now put
through in 12 or 15 departmental
measures.
Representative Taber, Republican,
of New York, chairman, and Repre
sentative Cannon, of Missouri, rank
ing Democrat on the committee,
turned thumbs down on the plan,
which the Senate Republican Pol
icy Committee decided Friday should
be considered at this session.
Both House members contended
the single spending-bill idea would
not prove economical or practical.
From bis home at Berryville, Va„
however. Senator Byrd, Democrat,
rallied to the defense of the pro
posal, which he is sponsoring Jointly
with Senator Butler, Republican, of
Nebraska.
Byrd Sees Tax Raise.
Predicting that the Federal bud
get will have reached an annual
total of $50,000,000,000 within the
next two years, Senator Byrd said
such a spending figure would neces
sitate Increases in the recently cut
tax rates.
"I 'think when the people under
stand the situation, they will de
mand something along this line,"
said the Virginian, expressing hope
that both the Senate and House will
consider the new plan seriously.
Mr. Taber contended lumping all
Government requirements into one
bill would result in an increase of
20 per cent in the total amount ap
propriated.
“It would lead to log-rolling—you
couldn’t prevent it,” Mr. Taber said.
Senator Byrd’s answer to this
argument is that log-rolling is Just
as possible with a list of separate
appropriation bills.
Cannon Cites Budget Size.
Mr. Cannon said he did not see
how the consolidated appropriation
bill plan could be followed "effec
tively or efficiently” in'a budget of
the size required for the Federal
government.
Senator Byrd said the omnibus
appropriation bill would give Con
gress and the people a clearer pic
ture of Government requirements
than they get now when the needs
of each department are taken up
separately over a period of six
months, between the convening of
Congress in January and the be
ginning of the fiscal year, July 1.
He said it also would enable the
House and Senate to compare the
cost of one department with another.
The omnibus bill could be divided
into separate titles for each depart
ment, but Congress would be acting
on the budget as a whole at one
time.
The Byrd - Butler bill as ap
proved by the Senate Rules Com
mittee, would not preclude the
Appropriation Committee* from
bringing out one or more general
deficiency, or supplemental bills, to
meet requirements arising after the
original budget was prepared.
Truman Budget Recalled.
The budget President Truman
submitted in January for the fiscal
year starting July 1 called for $38.
700,000,000. Both houses voted in
February to try to hold expendi
tures for next year to $37,200,000,
000. They took this action under
the requirement in the Legislative
Reorganization Act that they fix a
ceiling on the budget at the start of
each year, but this ceiling is not a
mandatory limit.
There are two factors that tend
to upset any arbitrary budget ceil
ing set at the start of a session: 1,
unforseen supplemental needs
which the President finds it neces
sary to submit: 2, approval by Con
gress of some items not recommend
ed by the administration.
Recently, for example, both the
House and Senate became so con
scious of the need for stronger na
tional defenses in view of the world
Situation, that they voted over
whelmingly to go beyond the ad
ministration’s recommendations by
approving funds to build the Air
Force up to 70-group strength.
Action Still To Be Taken.
The regular defense budgets for
the Navy and Army land forces, and
the first-year appropriation for the
European Recovery Program remain
to be acted on. Until the session
is nearly over, therefore, It will not
be possible to tell how the final
spending figures will compare with
the goals that were under discus
sion in February.
Mr. Taber reiterated his belief
that the requirement in the reor
ganization Act for the fixing of a
budget ceiling in February should bo
repealed.
The views expressed by Mr. Taber
and Mr. Cannon made it appear un
likely that the Byrd-Butler consoli
dated appropriation bill, as a new
approach to the problem of improv
ing budget procedure, can get
through both houses this year.
Congressional leaders hope to ad
journ about June 19, which leaves
only six weeks for its consideration.
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Corp. of America at Princeton, N. J.,
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