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House Unit Due
To Act Thursday
On St. Elizabeths
Committee to Decide
On Direct Admission
For Hospital Patients
The bill to permit direct ad
mission of mental patients to St.
Elizabeths Hospital, by-passing Gal
linger Hospital will come before
the House District Committee for
approval at its next session Thurs
day.
Already indorsed by the Miller
subcommittee on health, education
and recreation, the measure has
been widely recommended to re
lieve the congestion of Gallinger's
psychiatric facilities.
Also ready for action by the Dis
trict Committee, indicating House
action at the next District: day,
June 14, if not earlier, are many
other bills'
Hospital Grants at Issue.
One would authorize government
grants to private hospitals here
which did not join in the Washing
ton Hospital Center to be built on
tne Naval Observatory grounds.
The measure would amend the
Hospital Center Act of 1946.
A controversial fair trade prac
t ee bill to establish price control
over the District liquor business
has been the subject of hearings
by a House District judiciary sub
committee but no decision has been
reached. A session is scheduled for
early this week, to act on the meas
ure before the full committee con
venes Thursday.
Opponents charge that enactment
of the measure would result in an
increase in liquor prices, by elimi
nating cut-rate sales.
Hearing Set on Damage Bill.
A public hearing has been sched
uled by the Beall subcommittee of
the House District Committee for
10 a m. Wednesday on a bill to set
up claims against the District for
damages connected with the widen
ing of Eastern avenue.
Among many other measures
awaiting District. Committee action
are those to permit the District
to kill weeds on private property:
increase«pensions to widows and
orphans of police and firemens
broaden the field of investments by
insurance companies: remove tpe
$10,000 limit on damages for wrong
ful acts; grant licenses without ex
amination to craftsmen who have
been in business for five years: ad
just fees for issuance of barber
registration certificates; and require
physicians to be citizens of the
United States before receiving li
censes to practice.
St. John's Lists Plans
For Graduation Week
Commencement week exercises at
St. John’s College, Annapolis, will
begin at 8:30 p.m. Thursday with
the presentation of George Bernard
Shaw’s play, "Androcles and the
Lion.”
The King William Players will
perform in Iglehart Hall. At 5 p.m.
Friday the second commencement
week event will be the seniors’ re
ception for the faculty and staff at:
Great Hall. A second performance
of the Shaw play will be given at
8:30 p.m. Friday and an informal
dance will be held at 11 p.m. Friday
at the Boat House.
Class day exercises will be held
at 11 a m. Saturday under the Lib
erty Tree on the campus. Other
events Saturday will include a fac
ulty-senior baseball game. 3 p.m.:
the president’s dinner for the senior
class at 7 p.m.. and the final ball
at 10 p.m.
The baccalaureate service will be
held in St. Anne's Church at 5 p.m.
next Sunday. The president's re
ception for seniors and their guests
will bo held at 6 p.m. Sunday at his
home.
Simon Kaplan. St. John’s tutor,
will deliver the commencement ad
dress at 11 a m. Monday.
44 Graduate Tomorrow
At Madeira School
The Madeira School. Greenway,
Va . will hold commencement exer
cises at 5 p.m. tomorrow for 44 stu
dents. Dr. Mabel Newcomer, pro
fessor of economics at Vassar Col
lege. will deliver the address.
A graduation tea was scheduled
for 4 30 o'clock this afternoon fol
lowed by a senior vesper service at
the school at 5:30. The Rev. Peter
Marshall, of the New York Avenue
Presbyterian Church, will conduct
the service.
The 44 students who are expected
to graduate tomorrow are:
Appel. Jacqueline
Babcock M K
Barbcr. E M
Bowman. C D
Brigham. N K.
Cochran. M F
Danehower H J.
Daniel. H N
Davidson. F F.
Fishburg. S H
Fry. J. E
Gibney. V B
Griggs. E H
Grant. M B
Harmon E W.
Healey. J F
Henley. M K
Holden. Anne
Howard. L. P
Howe. Joyce Ann
Johnson. Juliet Ann
Johnson. Virginia
Lindsay. D G.
Lynch. S. J.
Mackall. A G
Marshall. M H.
Martin Dorp
Sousa. A M M P E
Meeds. P du Pont
Mitchell. G A
Mitchell. Lvnn
Pearre. N C
Phillips. Ann Cary
Rowan. Frances
SDiccr. V. S
Stillwell. E J
Summerlin. H P
Swan, Helen Ford
Taylor. S H
Treman. J S.
Tucker. C W
Wacner. M. E.
Waller M R
Wheelock. 1, M.
Retired Pastor, 82,
To Attend 60th
Methodist Parley
An 82-year-old retired Methodist
minister from Kensington, Md„ will
attend his 60th Methodist Confer
ence Tuesday at American Univer
sity.
The conference will be the 164th
Baltimore Annual Conference of the
Methodist Church, which is to be
attended by Methodists from the
District and Maryland. It will open
it 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Metro
politan Memorial Methodist Church.
Nearly blind, the Rev. Ulysses S.
A. Heavener has not missed a Meth
odist State conference since he first
attended one 60 years ago. The con
ferences he has attended include
some in both Virginia and Mary
land. where he served as pastor.
The retired minister received his
master s degree at American Uni
versity at the age of 60 and shortly
thereafter received his doctor of
divinity degree from the Lincoln
Memorial University in Tennessee.
Although he retired a number of
years ago. during the war he was
Called to prea^ in CVen Echo.
Bing Crosby Picks Miss Roch
As G. W.'s Most Beautiful Girl
belects Photograph
From Score Submitted
By Campus Sororities
Miss Elizabeth Roch, who was
graduated from George Washington
University last week, has been
selected as its most beautiful girl,
the school announced yesterday.
'Miss Roch’s photograph was se
lected by Bing Crosby over a score
of others submitted by various
camDus sororities. Her picture will
be featured in the 1948 "Cherry
Tree," the university yearbook.
She is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. H. C. Roch of Houston. Since
her graduation she has been em
ployed in the nursing office of the
George Washington University Hos
pital and is living at 620 Twenty
first street N.W. She is a member
of the Alpha Delta Pi Sorority. Miss
Roch tied for third place in‘a simi
lar contest in 1946.
Runners-up this year were Miss
Cynthia P. Leppart, 1306 Euclid
street N.W. of Delta Gamma Sor
ority; Miss Marion Cummins, 2745
Twenty-ninth street N.W. of Phi
Beta Phi Sorority, and Miss Eliza
beth King, 7423 Blair road N.W. of
Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority.
This year’s “Cherry Tree” is dedi
cated to the late Abram Lisner.
member of the university’s board of
trustees for 27 years who donated
the house and property where Lis
ner Library now stands. Mr. Lisner
also made provision in his will for
the construction of Lisner Audi
torium.
MISS ELIZABETH ROCH.
On a historical theme, the year
book contains pictures of early
buildings here accompanied by his
torical sketches.
Editor in chief was Miss Mary
Olga Longley. a member of the
junior class, whose home is in Pasa
dena. Calif.
Traffic Conference
Merits Complaints
Of D. C. Residents
Senator Taft, Republican, of Ohio,
will be the speaker at the luncheon
session of the third annual District
Traffic' Court Conference at the'
Carlton Hotel at 12:30 p.m. Wednes
day.
Two other sessions, cne starting)
at 10 a m. Wednesday and the other |
at 2:15 p.m., will be held in the!
Municipal Court building. The con- j
ference has been arranged by the j
District Bar Association, the Com-|
missioner's Traffic Advisory Board
and the Junior Board of Commerce.
Citizens have been invited to a
“gripe session” which will be held
starting at 3 p.m. They will be
given 10 minutes to question any,
traffic or court official at the confer
ence.
At the Wednesday morning ses
sion 'George E. McNeil, president
of the District Bar Association will!
preside. The speech of welcome
will be given by Chiel Judge George
P. Barse, of the Municipal Court, j
James P. Economos. of Chicago, ex
ecutive secretary of traffic court
improvement, committee, American
Bar Association will be the princi
pal speaker.
Following will be a panel dis
cussion by George E. Keneipp, Di
rector of Traffic and Vehicles; In
spector Arthur E. Miller, of the
Police Traffic Bureau: Mark Rasp
berry. chief of Park Police; Judge
Thomas D. Quinn, of the Municipal
Court; Assistant Corporation Coun
sel Robert D. Wise: Assistant Dis
trict Attorney J. Warren Wilson;
Mis. Elinor Kirwin, of the Traffic
Department; Thomas A. Sheehan,
of the Junior Board of Commerce,
and A. Julian Brylawski. of the
Commissioner's Traffic Advisory
Board.
The afternoon panel, will include:
Mrs. Mary A. Silver, of the Traffic
Revocation Board; Judge Armond
H. Scott and Frank H. Myers of
the Municipal Court; Assistant Cor
poration Counsel Clark F. King:
Capt. Loraine T. Johnson, of the
Police Traffic Bureau: Dr. Oscar B.
Hunter, of Georgetown University;
Nathan M. Lubar, of the Traffic
Advisory Board, and Washington
I. Cleveland, of the American Auto
mobile Association.
The Tiaffic Conference was es
tablished three years agq, by the
bar association in conjunction with
Municipal Court and District Court
judges to improve the administration
of justice in traffic cases and to
promote safety in the District.
Class of '08 at U. of Md.
Plans Reunion Friday Night
The University of Maryland Class
of 1908 will hold its 40th annual
reunion with a dinner Friday night
at College Park.
Thirteen of the 20 living members
of,the class, including Dr. H. C
Byrd, president of the university,
are expected to attend. The original
class membership was 31.
The class, one of the most active
in university affairs since graduat
ing. has made numerous financial
contributions to campus projects.
One of its presentations to the uni
versity for many years was the
awarding of the ’08 Medal to out
standing athletes.
W. A. S. Somerville, of Cumber
land, class president, will preside at
the dinner. Members of the Com
mittee on Arrangements include
Charles W. Sylvester, assistant su
perintendent of Baltimore schools,
chairman! Dr. R. L. Silvester and
C. A. Warthen of Washington, H. B.
Hoshall.and E. I. Oswald, members
of the faculty at College Park.
American Legion Pledged
To Buy Million in BondsHere
The District department of the
American Legion has accepted a
$1,000,000 quota in the current Se
curity Loan campaign, according to
an announcement made last night
by Thomas J. Groom, chairman of
the District Savings Bonds division.
The Legion campaign will be
headed by Robert H. Thren. com
mander of the Stephen P. Mc
Groarty Post No. 27.
Department Commander Owen C.
Hoileran urged the Legion mem
bership to “support this campaign
by enrolling as workers and by buy
ing United States Savings Bonds
to the very limit.”
Singers on Baptist Hour
The Rev. R. T. McFarlane will
lead the service on the National
Baptist Radio Hour at 9 a.m. today
and every Sunday over Station
WPIK A group of singers from
the Nanjemoy <Md.i Baptist Church
will be on tqjlay s program.
* \
Bids Totaling $136,000
Include Improvements
To 5 District Schools
Bids for improvements to five
schools are among bids totaling
more than $136,000 now being con
sidered by the District Commis
sioners for contract awards.
The bids were opened last week
at the District Building. School
projects included were:
Dunbar High School, locker room
alterations and installation of puri
fication equipment in swimming
pool, lowest bidder, Dee T. Turner,
3618 Fourteenth street N.W., $20,699;
Monroe Elementary School, boiler
replacement, lowdjst bidder, Charles
B. Broome, 614 F street N.E., $13,
920.
Stuart Junior High School, hot
water heater replacements, lowest
bidder, Robert E. Anderson Co., 809
Maryland avenue N.E., $5,391;
Western High School, pump installa
tion, lowest bidder. Charles B.
Broome, $1,075, and Noves Elemen
tary School, heating system installa
tions, lowest bidder, Robert E. An
derson Co., $6,479.
Other projects included:
Service sewer and water main ex
tension near Branch avenue and O
street S.E., lowest bidder, Leo Butler
Co., 8416 Georgia avenue. Silver
Spring, $26,906; storm sewer near
Mathewson drive and Argyle terrace
N.W., lowest bidder, Leo Butler Co.,
$11,015; storm sewer near Portland
street and Nichols avenue S.E., low
est bidder, M. Cain Co., 3315 Eighth
street N.E., $34,786.
Sidewalk construction In a num
ber of locations, lowest bidder, E. B.
Donaldson Brothers, Twelfth street
and Brentwood road N.E., $14,881;
heating plant conversion at Central
Public Library, lowest bidder, Robert
E. Anderson Co., $4,093, and pedes
trian barricade fence installations
in various locations, only bidder,
Berrall-Jasper Fence Co., 1201
Brentwood road N.E., $2,251.
Korean Legislator
To Drop U. S. Status
Chang Kee Young, a former
Washington resident, will give up
the American citizenship he won
through three-and-a-half years’
Army service to _
oecorr.e a mem
ber of the npw i
3 o u t h Korea 1
National As - 1
semb'y. |
Mr. Young. 40,
won the legisla- (
tive post in the
May 10 election
over five rival
candidates but
he did not know
for. certain un- g
til yes terday I
that he would |
have to give up
his citizenship
Mr. Yount.
to take the post. me American
consulate in the Korean capital,
Seoul, yesterday told him that was
the case, the Associated Press re
ported.
His wife and 10-year-old daugh
ter, Ruth Ellen, an Edmonds School
pupil, will join him as soon as they
can obtain passage, Mrs. Young said
yesterday.
Neither has been in Korea, but
both have been learning the langu
age. Mr. Young, born in Korea,
came to this country in 1928. He
met his wife while studying in In
diana.
Mr Young went back to Korea
with Dr. Syngman Rhee, for whom
he once worked on the Korean Com
mission here.
Woman Injured When Hit
By Moving Van Door
Mrs. Alice Morse, 51, of 1499 Irv
ing street N.W., suffered a brain
concussion yesterday when she was
knocked aown 6y a suddenly opened
rear door of a moving van near her
home.
She was treated at her home by a
private physician.
Police said the driver of the truck
was Benjamin Wooden, 31. colored,
of the 1400 block of Kearny street
N.E. 'He told them he was in a
nearby house and did not know the
identity of the person inside the
truck.
A 67-year-old pedestrian was in
jured when she was struck by a car
at New York avenue and North
papitol street. She was Carrie Mae
: Kilroy. of 55 M street N.W. Police
identified the driver as Howard
Kingwood 43, colored, of the 1200
: block of O street N.W.
Columnist Drew Pearson escaped
injury early last night when his
car figured in a collision with an
other auto in the 3700 block of
Massachusetts avenue N.W. Driver
of the other car was Fred B. Har
rington, 41. of 644 Massachusetts
wenue N.W.. according to police.
Mr. Harrington was unhurt.
Attack Victim's j
Condition Fair;!
iGl Faces Hearing
Soldier Held Without
Bond in Assault
On School Girl, 15
Charged with assaulting a 15
year-old McKinley High School girl,
a 19-year-old soldier from Fort Mc
iNair here was ordered held in Dis
trict Jail yesterday for Municipal
Court hearing June 18 while Gal
linger Hospital doctors sought to
determine the girl's injuries.
Pvt.’ John Joseph Cook of Bel
court, N. D., who had been stationed
as a military policeman at Fort
McNair, is being held without bond
on a charge 'of carnal knowledge,
j He appeared briefly in Municipal
' Court after being arrested about 2
i a.m. on the high school grounds.
Judge Walter Casey continued the
case to June 18 because of the girl’s '
i condition.
i Hospital officials reported last j
night the girl was in "fairly good’i
condition with a fractured jaw and!
multiple cuts and bruises. She is'
no longer hysterical doctors said.
They added that they do not expect
to determine until today whether
she had been raped.
Admits Striking Girl.
Police said Cook made a state
ment at headquarters admitting he
struck the girl with his fists when i
she resisted his advances as they
walked through the school grounds
at Second and T streets N.E., a
short distance from her home in the
300 block of S street N.E. I
Police quoted Cook as saying he
thought he attempted to assault
her criminally and as relating: "I
don't know how many times I hit
her. She started to cry and every
thing.” He told them, police said,
he had several drinks earlier in the
night.
Cook had visited the girl at the
apartment where she lives with her
parents. The girl, police said,
walked with Cook when he left to
take a streetcar to his barracks.
A call on the police radio that
"some one is screaming in the school
grounds" brought Pvts. O. N. Nelson
and H. B. Gilbert in a scout car.
They reported they found the girl
lying oh the ground "mumbling in
coherently,” and with her clothing
bloody and disarranged. Cook was
standing nearby, they said.
Said He Summoned Police.
The soldier, according to police,
later asserted he had asked a cab
driver to summon them to the
scene. The police switchboard re
ported the call came from other
sources.
The girl's father told a reporter
that so far as he knew the youth's
previous conduct had been "all
right.” Cook said he had known
the girl about four months, police
said.
Cook seemed dazed w'hen first
taken to police headquarters, Lt.
Richard McCarty, head of the sex
squad, said. During the Municipal
Court proceedings he seemed calm.
Short and stocky, with dark hair
and dark complexion, he still wore
his Army uniform and stood at at
tention as Assistant United States
Attorney Sylvan Schwartz presented
the case.
On military police duty with the
Third Infantry Division, Cook’s most
recent assignment was guard duty
at the gates to Fort McNair, the
former Army War College. He is
unmarried, according to Army rec- t
ords. He joined the Army March 14,
1947. and came to Fort McNair last
June 18 after taking basic training
at Fort Knox, Ky.
Prince Georges Lists
Dog Vaccine Clinics
Dr. C. J. Gibbs, Prince Georges
County Veterinarian, yesterday an
nounced the first weeks schedule
of clinics for free vaccination of
dogs against rabies.
The progiam. arranged by Dr. A.
L. Brueckner, director of tile Live
stock Sanitary Service, College
Park, and the County Commis
'sioners, will open Tuesday. Clinics
I will be open for one hour only in
I each of 10 towns this week. The
lschedule follows:
Tuesday — Aquasco Post Office,
5 to 6 p.m., and Naylor Post Office.
6:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday—Baden High School,
5 to 6 p.m.. and Brandywine School,
6:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Thursday — Danville Community
House. 5 to 6 p.m., and Gwynn Park
School. 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Friday—Piscatawav Post Office.
5 to 6 p.m., and Accqkeek School,
6:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Saturday—Tilch's Store, Silesia,
5 to 6 p.m.. and Van's Market,
Friendly, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Arlington Lions to Preseat
Horse Show Next Sunday
The Arlington Lions Club will pre
sent its 5th annual horse show com
mencing at 1 p.m. next Sunday in
the Ballston Stadium. Proceeds are
to be used in the club’s sight con
servation and aid to the blind pro
grams.
For the first time, the Arlington
show will feature a Western horse
class which will be an exhibition of
breeds raised for ranch work. Most
of the entries in this class will be
Palominos.
The usual hunter, jumper, pony,
saddle, five-gaited and fine harness
classes also are provided in the 15
categories. Championship trophies
are offered for the hunter, jumper
and fine saddle horse divisions.
Other class winners will receive cash
prizes.
Judges'for the show will be Thom
as J. Trodden, jr. of Washington; 1
Norman Haymaker of Berryville,
Va., and Earl B. Crall of Lebanon.
Pa.
Son Sues for $100,000
In Port Deposit Crash
The son of a woman who was
killed in the crash ,of an Eastern
Air Lines plane at Port Deposit,
Md„ a year ago filed a $100,000 dam- \
age suit yesterday in Federal Dis
trict Court at Alexandria.
Sanborn Chrysler, of Quantico.
Va.. names Eastern Airlines, the
Glenn L. Martin Co. and Douglas
Aircraft Co.. Inc., as defendants in
the suit. The suit says his mother,
Mrs. Gurney Chrysler, was one of
53 persons who lost tttBir lives in
the crasjt.
NURSE CORPS COLLECTS PORTRAITS OF CHIEFS—Shown with two of the portraits of
women who have headed the Army Nurse Corps are (left to right) Lt. Col. Ida Danielson,
chief nurse at Walter Reed Hospital; Maj. Gen. George C. Beach, commanding ge'neral of the
Army Medical Center, and Col. Julia O. Flikke, retired, who was superintendent of the corps
at the beginning of World War II.* Col. Flikke inspects her own portrait, while Col. Danielson
holds a likeness of Capt. Dora E. Thompson, retired, superintendent during World War I.
# —Star Staff Photo.
Tomorrow's Capital
Is Theme of Exhibit
At Armory This Week
Parents, teachers and the public i
were invited yesterday to attend
the Junior Community Improvement
Project Exhibition at the National
Guard Armory Thursday, Friday!
and Saturday.
The exhibition, approved by the
Board of Eduction, includes more
than 350 items from }54 public and
parochial schools, including models,
charts, maps and photographs, pre
pared by pupils as part of their
tlass work in recent ■yeeks.
No tickets are required. The gen
eral theme of the exhibition is
•Washington of Tomorrow’’. It is:
:eing arranged in co-operation with
the City Planning Committee of the
Washington Board of Trade.
Opens Thursday at 3:30 P.M.
Special presentations will be sub
mitted by the National Capital
Parks and Planning Commission.
Public Buildings Administration of
the Federal Works Agency. United
States Engineers of the Washington
District, Alexandria Planning Com
mission and the District Water,
ronce ana rire ueparimenis.
.The exhibition will open officially
at 3:30 p.m. Thursday. It will open
at 2 p.m. Friday and Saturday,
and close at 9 p.m. each day unless
attendance requires a later hour.
Speakers at the opening exercises
will include Commissioner John
Russell Young: Mrs. Henry Grattan
Doyle, president of the Board of
Education: the Rev. John S. Spence
of St. Matthew's Cathedral, and
School Supt. Hobart M. Corning.
Fischer S. Black, chairman of the
Board of Trade's City Planning'
Committee, will present to the
State Department exhibits chosen
to be sent abroad to show how
vouthi in this country helps plan
for better "neighborhoods. They will
be accepted by Assistant Secretary
of State for Public Affairs George
V. Allen.
Cadet Band to Play.
William E. Coyle, radio director
of The Star, will be master of cere
monies for the program, and music
will be furnished by the Roosevelt
High School Cadet Band.
Membersof Congress and their
families have been invited to the
Armory on Thursday evening. The
Central High School Chorus will
sing, and Chairman Dirksen of the
speak.
Friday evening will be observed
as "Civic Night" with special em
phasis on civic, business and neigh
borhood organizations. "Parent's
Night” on Saurday will be observed
with the co-operation of the Dis
trict Congress, »f Parents and
Teachers.
Leon Chatelain. jr., president of
the Board of Trade said the project
represented "a tremendous amount
of work on the part of the city
planning committee, public and
parochial school leaders and hun
dreds of students who have par
ticipated.”
An Information booth will open
Wednesday, with the telephone
number Franklin 6742.
2,000 to Attend Field Mass
Honoring Father Rakowski
More than 2.000 parishioners and
clergmen of the Washington and
Baltimore archdioceses are expected
to attend a solemn high field mass
at noon today at the Mount Cal
\ary Catholic Church, Forestville.
The occasion is the 25th anni
versary of the ordination of the
Rev. Peter P. Rakowski. the church’s
pastor. Father Rakowski, who will
be celebrant of the mass, also will
be honored at 5 p.m. at a recep
tion at O'Donnell's Farm, Forest
ville.
Two boyhood chums of Father
Rakowski in Baltimore will be
among the four priests partici
pating in the mass. They are the
Rev. Thaddeus Skrzynski, pastor of
St. Charles Borromeo, Catholic
Church, Pikesville, Md.. who will
be deacon, and the Rev. Joseph
Weber, pastor of St. Mary's Star
of-the-Sea parish. Indian Head,
who will deliver the sermon. Tht
Rev. Edward Luckett of Holy Com
iorter Church, Washington, will be
subdeacon and the Rev. Charles
Nelson, of St. Peter's Church, Wash
ington, will be master of ceremonies.
About 50 other priests also will
attend.
8th DistrictG.O.P. Group
To Meet in Culpeper
The Republican Committee for
the 8th Virginia District will meet
at 7 pm. Saturday at the Lord Cul
peper Hotel, Culpeper, Va.. Carl A
Marshall, of McLean, district chair
man. announced yesterday.
The committee will elect a vice
chairman and vice chairwoman, dis
cuss campaign fund raising, and
consider an organization plan sub
mitted by the State committee. Mr.
Marshall said Charles O. Pratt of
Arlington, and Tyrrell Krum of
Fairfax, candidates for the GOP
congressional nomination in the 8th
District primary August 3, will at
tend.
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Home Accidents
At Highest Peak
Since September
More home accidents were re
ported last week than in any week
since September, according to the
District Red Cross home accident
survey. Three elderly persons were
killed by falls and one infant
strangled in his crib.
One woman suffered second-de
gree burns when a gasoline stove
exploded. A 6-year-old boy found a
firecracker and was burned when it
exploded. A 2-year-old boy caught
the end of his finger in a door. A
16-year-old girl cut off the tip of
her finger in a faucet in her yard.
A youngster of 12 hit a bottle
and pieces of glass flew into his;
eye. Another boy of 14 seriously,
injured his eye while chopping
wood.
The year's traffic deaths to date
are 33. Home accident deaths are
118.
D. C. Director Studies
Plea lor Public Aid
In Cancer Registry
The feasibility of an appeal to
the public for money to establish
a cancer record registry in the
Health Department's bureau of can
cer control is being considered by
Dr. Jay McLean, director of the
bureau.
Dr. McLean said yesterday that
such a registry was essential in the
fight to control cancer. Without it
a continuing picture of the good
that is being done cannot be estab
lished. The registry would cost
about $30,000 a year to operate, he
added.
He said the plan he was con
sidering to get the registry started
immediately—without waiting and
trying to get money included in the
1950 budget—was possible if the Dis
trict Commissioners gave permis
sion. He said he probably would
ask them to do so through Health
Officer George Ruhland.
It is legal for citizens to con
tribute to the municipal govern
ments expenses—if they so desire—
by sending the money to the Com
missioners earmarked for the cancer
record registry, he explained.
Such a registry would enable the
bureau to tell just how much good
the present cancer treatment is do
ing by following cancer patients
through to their death. Connecticut
now’ has such a registry in oper
ation. the only State which does,
he said. The registry would depend
on the co-operation of the local
hospitals and doctors to report
.cases, he added.
The reason he gave for wanting
to start the registry immediately
was .that if it were opened now,
the data collected during the can
cer survey completed last year could
be incorporated. If it had to wait
until 1950 or later, mast of that data
would be last, he said.
50,000 'Short' Bottles
Found in Liquor Drive
A two-month investigation of
liquor bottles on the shelves of
Washington’s 388 packaged-liquor
stores has revealed approximately
50,000 short-measure bottles, J.
Thomas Kennedy, District super
intendent of weights, measures and
markets, reported yesterday.
Mr. ‘ Kennedy said the short
measure bottles were ordered re
moved from the shelves. He has
asked Corporation Counsel Vernon
E. West to rule on whether dealers
could sell the short-measure bottles
provided they labeled them as short
measure and explained that the
bottles were being sold at a lower
price because they were not full.
Mr. West, he said, has not yet given
an opinion.
When the investigation began,
Mr. Kennedy said, his inspectors
were "chasing” from the shelves
about 3.000 bottles a day. As the
investigation closed last week, in
spectors were discovering an average
of approximately 500 short-measure
bottles a day.
Mr. Kenedy said he plans this
week to recheck some of the stores
where large amounts of short-meas
ure bottles were found. If he dis
covers any on the shelves now. he
said, he will have the store owners
arrested for Municipal Court action.
Phyllis Hoyland to Sing !
At Democratic Convention
Miss Phyllis Joan Hoyland of
1277 Brentwood road N.E. has been
selected to sing "The Star
Spangled Banner” at the Demo
cratic National Convention at Phil
adelphia. it was learned last night.
Miss Hoyland. who now is studying
music in New York, is the daughter
of Mrs. Frances Bums Hoyland
secretary to Representative Fallon.
Democrat, of Maryland.
Miss Hoyland has sung at special
functions here for Mrs. Truman and
Miss Margaret Truman, x
Army Nurses Exhibit
Portraits of Chiefs
At Medical Center
Officials of the Army Medical
Center and guests yesterday in
spected the first of a collection of
portraits of women who have head
ed the Army Nurse Corps at a tea
given by members of the Corps.
The exhibition was timed to co
incide with the birth anniversary of
Florence Nightingale, pioneer nurse,
this month.
The portraits on display included
those of the late Dr. Anita New
comb McGee, organizer of the
Army's first nursing staff in 1898.
and the late Miss Isabelle Mclsaac.
third in the list of Corps directors.
Three Paintings by Gholson.
Others were of Col. Julia O.
Flikke, retired, superintendent at
the beginning of World War II:
Capt. Dora E. Thompson, retired,
superintendent during World War
I: Col. Florence A. Blanchfield. re
tired. superintendent at the close
of World War II and the early
postwar days, and Maj. Julia Stim
son. who was superintendent when
relative military rank was granted
to the Corps.
The portraits of Capt. Thomp
son, Miss Mclsaac and Col. Flikke
were painted by Samuel Creed
Gholson. He painted Miss Mclsaac's
picture from a photograph and used
members of the corps as models
for coloring, they said.
The picture of Col. Blanchfield
was done by John Johansen, painter
of the Versailles treaty signing.
To complete the collection the
corps must obtain portraits of Mrs.
Dita Kinney, first nurse to head the
Corps; Miss Jane Delano, for whom
the quarters in Delano Hail were
named and who founded the Amer
ican Red Cross Nursing Activities,
and Col. Mary G. Phillips, present
chief.
Gen. Beach Hails Portrait.
The portraits are being hung in
the main lounge of Delano Hall.
Maj. Gen. George C. Beach, com
manding Army Medical Center,
commended the project, asserting
the portraits depicted “very promi
nent nurses in the Army who have
done a most marvelous job.'’
Among the guests received by Lt.
Col. Ida W. Danielson, chief nurse
at. Walter Reed, was Col. Flikke,
who retired in 1943 and lives in
Takoma Park.
AcademyAppointment
Bill lor D. C. Blocked
The District’s long standing peti
tion for an increase in the number
of its candidates for the United
States Naval and Military Acade
mies once again has been pigeon
holed on Capitol Hill.
Senate-passed bills for an in
crease from 5 to 15 in the number
of middies at Annapolis and from
6 to 12 in the number of cadets at
West Point, have been blocked in
the House Armed Services Commit
tee.
Officials reported yesterday the
committee, at the request of Repre
sentative Vinson, Democrat, of
Georgia, has decided to defer the
proposals to the next Congress. If
action is not completed at this ses
sion, the bills will die and have to
be introduced as new legislation at
the next Congress.
The Commissioners have argued
^hat on the basis of population the
District is entitled to the greater
numbers but that numerous States
with smaller populations outrank
the District in appointments.
Bishop Ireton Will Bless
Arlington Crypt Thursday
The Most Rev. Peter L. Ireton,
Bishop of Richmond, will bless a
crypt dedicated to our Lady of Fa
tima at 11 a.m. Thursday at Mis
sionhurst, 4651 North Twenty-fifth
street, Arlington.
Missionhurst is the American
Central House of Immaculate Heart
Missions which constructed the
crypt and prepared a statue of Our
Lady, modeled after ‘the original
statue ft Fatima, Portugal, which
will go in the crypt.
The blessing will be followed by
solemn benediction of the most
blessed sacrament.
Arlington Girl Injured
In Maryland Wreck
Four persons were injured last
night in a collision of two cars on
Route 240, near Clarksburg, Md.
One of the four. Miss Anne R.
Crouch. 17. Arlington, who suffered
a possible concussion, was admitted
to Suburban Hospital, Bethesda.
The remaining three, who were
treated for minor injuries and re
leased. are:
Charles D. Walter. 23, Mt. Airy,
Md., who, police said, was driving
the car in which Miss Crouch was
injured: Archie O. Hood, 29, Clarks
burg, identified by police as the
driver of the other car, and his wife,
Mrs. Helen M. Hood, 23.
Police said no charges were placed
aMinst either driver.
D. C. Fiscal Bills
To Be Pushed as
Deadline Nears
Tailoring of Budget,
Tax Proposals Due
For Early Attention
By Don S. Warren
Vital District budget and tax bills,
along with a batch of other city
measures, are expected to be pushed
this week in a race with adjourn
ment.
In addition, the Auchincloss bill
for an elected and reorganized Dis
trict government may be given an
other hearing in the House this
week or next.
Even with House passage, how
ever, the District charter measure
was given only a ‘•miracle” chance
of Senate action by this Congress,
because of the late hour and possi
bilities of a Senate filibuster.
The Dworshak Subcommittee of
the Senate Appropriations Commit
tee is scheduled to decide Tuesday
how much should be cut off the
1949 District supply bill as a means
of meeting impending deficits.
$1,600,000 Cut Expected.
A cutback of at least $1,600,000
from the $101,165,000 granted by the
House has been expected. The
Dworshak group had scheduled
meetings for last Friday and yester
day but other business interfered.
The bill now is scheduled for a
report Tuesday, with Senate action
expected before the end of this week.
Senate decisions as to a budget
cut and several other steps to lessen
the size of city deficits will pave
the way for action on the city's new
tax bill.
As now planned this calls for a
two per cent retail sales tax coupled
with a drastic revision of the per
sonal income levy so as to exempt
incomes up to $8,000 and to apply
the resulting "high level” tax to all
persons maintaining "a place of
abode" here for seven ^months or
more of the taxable year.
The tax now is limited to only
88.000 out of a possible 200.000 tax
payers. by exempting the Govern
ment salaries of all persons living
here but claiming State domicile.
Informally Approved.
Members of the Fiscal Subcom
mittee of the House District Com
mittee. headed by Representative
Bates, Republican, of Massachusetts,
already have given informal ap
proval to the sales tax-high income
levy plan. Chairman Bates has
been delaying action until some
final decision on the spending pro
gram was in sight.
The sales tax. under his plans,
would take effect In July of next
year, unless Congress orders a Gov
ernment pay raise now. In that
event. Mr. Bates has agreed the
sales levy would have to be put into
effect July 1 of this year.
Even with or without a govern
ment pay raise, which would add
$7,000,000 or more to the city's pros
pective deficit, Mr. Bates has con
tended, the District will need a
limited loan to finance some of
the more pressing school construc
tion projects.
He has planned to delay the loan
proposal, however, until the next
Congress, assuming that other steps
could be taken now to solve the im
mediate crisis in city finance.
Tax Action Conjectural.
The House District Committee is
scheduled to meet Thursday to act
on the unfinished business on its
calendar. Whether any tax program
recommended by the Bates Subcom
mittee will be ready for action then
was conjectural-last night.
Members of the House and Senate
Fiscal Subcommittees, which have
been making a joint study of the
revenue problem, have been pressing
for quick action, since failure of a
tax bill would mean a sharp in
crease in District realty taxes. Pass
age of the record-breaking budget
along with a possible government
pay raise, but without a new city
revenue bill, it has been calculated,
would skyrocket the property tax
rate from $2 to about $2.55.
Alexandria Health Official
Asks $60r000 in Traffic Suit
Keith Wade, Alexandria health
inspector, has filed suit for $60,000
damages in Federal District Court
at Alexandria against three per
sons as a result of a collision be
tween a truck and his car on Routs
1 in Fairfax County July 31, 1947.
Named as defendants are Bern
ice F. Gautier, Clinton, N. C„ whom
the suit lists as lessee of the truck;
Mrs. J. F. Oweh. Angier, N. C„
listed as owner of the truck, and
Linwood Lee James, also of Clin
ton, who the suit charges was driver
of the truck. The health inspector
says that as a result of the accident
he was unable to work for four
months because of serious injuries.
He also claims he has incurred a
permanent deformity in his left
arm because of the accident. The
suit asks $20,000 damages from each
defendant.
Tick Fever Symposium
Set at Arlington Hospital
The medical staff of Arlington
Hospital will conduct a symposium
on Rocky Mountain spotted fever in
the County Health Department
auditorium at 8 p.m. Wednesday.
Guest speakers will include Drs.
Charles Armstrong, chief of the di
vision of infectious diseases, Na
tional Institute of Health: Harold
Jeghers, professor of medicine,
Georgetown University Medical
School: W. A. Browne, chief of
communicable diseases, Virginia
State Department of Health, and
Lt. Col. Robert H. Holmes, path
ologist, Army Institute of Pathology.
Customers Flee
Without Pants in
Valet Shop Fire
A fire, which broke out shortly
before noon yesterday in the second
floor of the Golden Star while-you
wait cleaning and pressing establish
ment at 1432 New York avenue N.W.,
sent 20 men scurrying from the third
floor booths into the street—some
of them minus their trousers.
An attendant handed them robes
before they emerged whil% customers
of the shoe repair service on the
first floor ran out in their stocking
feet.
The fire did little damage to the
building and none to customers'
clothes. All finally were able to
depart fully dressed with freshly
Imressed trousers and their shoes.
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