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Evening star., 1945-07-08
Home Accidents
For Week Set
New Record

The District Red Cross Accident
Prevention service yesterday re-
ported the highest number of home
accident cases treated at local hos
pitals. during any week this year
a total OF 142. The majority of
injuries listed were cuts.
Three deaths were reported. Two
were caused by falls and the other
by asphyxiation, bringing total home
accident fatalities to SO for the year
Listed in the cases treated were
SO falls, eight burns, four accidental
poisonings, three revived gas cases
seven foreign bodies in the eye,
throat and nose, 48 cuts and 33 of a
miscellaneous nature. The total
number of home accident cases
treated at hospitals to date is 2,422,
compared with 1852 for the same
period in 1914.
While brushing his teeth. part of
a toothbrush became lodged in the
tonsn of an adult. One woman re-
ceived second and third degree burns
from grease while frying meat and
another woman sustained injury
when a pan of boiling water scalded
her foot.
Two children were treated for
dog bites and an adult was bitten
by a cat. Accidental poisonings
were caused by food, boric acid and
skin lotion. Glass caused the ma
jority of cuts but one woman cut
her hand on a fish hook.
Evening star., 1945-07-08
Foote Re-assigned 10 Java
As U. 5. Consul General

Walter A. Foote, veteran career
diplomat who narrow escaped cap
ture by the Japanese invaders of the
Dutch East Indies in 1912, has been
assigned to go back to Batavia, Java,
as American consul general, the
State Department announced yes
terday.
The announcement said he would
proceed to Batavia "at such time as
later directed" which was taken to
mean as soon as Netherlands off,
cials re-establish civil government
there after the japanese are driven
out.
Mr.. Foote is we'll known in WASH
ington. He served as assistant chief
OF the State Departments Current
Information Division from 1881 un-
til he first went to Batavia as con-
sui in 1894.
He has been on special duty at the
State Department for the last sew
eral weeks, following wartime sery-
ice as counsul general at Curacao.
Netherlands West Indies.
Evening star., 1945-07-08
Mason Acts 10 Halt
Closing Of GaIIinger
tuberculosis Ward

Commissioner Guy Mason said
yesterday he will confer with Health
Officer George C. Rutland and DR..
Alvin r. Sweeney, new superin-
tendent of Gallinger Municipal Hos
pital, tomorrow to see if every pos
sible step has been taken to avoid
closing a tuberculosis ward at GAL
linger.
Closing of the ward, which has AZ
white and colored women, was rec
commended formally yesterday beg
cause of nursing shortage by DR..
Ruhling and Dr. Daniel L. Seckinger,
deputy health officer and acting
head of Gallinger until Dr. Sweeney
was sworn into Office Friday.
MIR. Mason said he wanted to
make sure that all means had been
exhausted before any order was
given for the ward to close. He in
dicated that the ~problem would
probably be put before the other
Commissioners tomorrow, rather
than Waiting for the usual Tuesday
board meeting.
Prior to receiving the recon-
mendation, Mr.. Mason said he was
hopeful that DR.. Sweeney would
find some way to keep the ward
open. There are Al other active
tuberculosis cases awaiting admis-
sion
The recommendation from the
top health officials was accompanied
by a brief memorandum from DR..
Sol Katz, medical officer in charge
of the tuberculosis section of the
hospital, who urged closing.
The proposal of the health off,
cials was to close the second floor
of the tuberculosis building, which
has % white women and 10 colored
women. They said that arrange
ments could be made to take care
of all the colored and about half of
the white patients by transferring
them to another floor of the tuber-
culosis unit or to the Upshur Street
Hospital.
The officials said they were try
ing to arrange for the transfer of
the remaining white patients to
Glenn Dale Sanatorium "if possible. .
That sanatorium last year, however,
had to close part of its wards be-
cause of a personnel shortage and
officials admitted that the transfer
to the sanitorium was the only
difficulty being encountered at pres
ent as an obstacle to the closing of
the second floor"
The officials said they wanted ap-
proval so that arrangements could
be made to make the adjustments
by Tuesday or thereabouts.
Mr.. Mason said he had been ad-
vised earlier. of the seriousness of
the situation and had approved the
expenditure of funds for advertis-
ing for attendants in the ward. Dr.
Katz said he was short about "a
nurses out OF so.
Evening star., 1945-07-08

Warrant Officer George r. Tweed,
43, Navy radioman, who held out
for 81 narrowing months against
the Japs as the sole American sur
vivor on Guam, was married here
last night to Dolores Kramer, 20,
War Department employe, who lives
at 4119 North Henderson road, Ar
lington, Va.
The ceremony was performed by
the Rev. Claude A. Brubaker at the
Little Church in the wildwood, Old
Georgetown road and Grosvenor
lane, Bethesda, Md. Mrs. Tweed
was attended by her sister, Miss
Roselle Kramer. Mr.. and Mrs.
Tweed left last night for brief
honeymoon.
Mr.. Tweed now is stationed in
Washington where he is attending
the Navy's radio school and catch
ing up on new wrinkles developed
in radio during the two and a half
years he lived a hazardous, hermit
like existence on the Jap-held
island.
Mrs. Tweed came to Washington
from her home in Milwaukee, Wis.
three years ago. She is the daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. George Kramer OF
Milwaukee.
Met At Dance.
The TweedS first met last fall, not
long after his return to this coun-
try. when both were attending a
dance given by the brides sorority
Lambda Chi.
Difficulties over the marriage
license very nearly postponed the
wedding. Thursday was the dead
line for getting the license, and
Mr.. Tweed drove out to Upper
only to learn he would
have to get the document in Mont
gomery County. He rushed to Sill
YER Spring because he believed he
could get the license there. At the
police station he was informed he
would have to go to Rockville, about
Is miles away, and that he had less
than half an hour to get there.
He dashed out of the police sta
ton so fast that he attracked the at
tention of two officers standing at
the door To complicate things
further, his car does not bear Ii
cense tags, owing to some red tape
delay in getting the tags from Cali
fornia, where he bought the car
few weeks ago.
So the police officers hoped into
their own car and overlook Mr..
Evening star., 1945-07-08
Sugar Shortage
Boosts Sales
OF Socchorine

Sales of Saccharine have increased
tremendously" in the District in
recent weeks as a result of the sugar
shortage, and diners out may soon
find the little tablets on their tables
IN place of the usual sugar bowl
Harold Kinner, secretary of the
District Association of Retail Drug
gists, estimates that sales have in
creased 25-fold since the recent cut
by the OPA in sugar rations.
Housewives are now buying sac
charine by the thousands of tablets.
he said. They apparently are not
for use by diabetes but are being
used as substitute for sugar in
households.
A spokesman for the Washington
Restaurant Association said that he
would not be surprised if some eat
ing places started using saccharine
Because the product is forbidden in
baking and preparation of food, res
taurants probably would place the
saccharine on tables and identity
it to customers.
Mr.. Kinner said he forsaw no
shortage of saccharine for diabetes,
even with the added drain on sup
plies.
Evening star., 1945-07-08
Objector Held in Bond
For Ignoring Draft Coll

David Paul Michener, %, of the
1400 block Euclid street NV,
charged with failure to report to a
conscientious objector's camp, yes
terday was held in $4,000 bond by
United States Commissioner Need
ham G. Turnage for removal to
Newark, N. J.
According to the Federal Bureau
of Investigation, Michener had been
ordered by District draft board
to report June % at a Skillman
IN. j. camp. He was arrested yes
terday in grocery store where he
was employed in the $500 block
Fourteenth street NV, the FBI
said
Evening star., 1945-07-08
6 More D. c. Area Men
Get Army Discharges

Five more District area men have
been given honorable discharges
from the Army at the Fort Dix IN
j. separation center, the Army an
nounced yesterday. A sixth Wash
ington man, Pfc. Robert w. Miller,
1903 Upshur street NV, was re-
leased from the Army through the
separation center at the Indiantown
Gap (Pa. Military Reservation.
The five men released at Fort Dix
are First 1t. Elmer j. Jost, 1924 La
mont street NV; T/5 Raymond H.
Anderson, 6506 Potomac drive,
Brookmont, Md; Sergt. John F.
Miller, 203-A P street NV; SISergt
Louis l.. Oddenino, 1888 Iowa ave-
nue. NV, and T/Sergt. Eddie Win
ston, 346 I street S.W.
Evening star., 1945-07-08
D. {. Pilot Lands Plane
Although Blinded by Oil

First 1t. Taylor Rapelye, %, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. H. A. Rapelye
2126 Connecticut avenue NV, sue
cessfully landed a fighter plane at
La Guardia Field, New York, yester-
day although he was nearly blinded
by squirting oil, the Associated Press
reported.
1t. Rapelye, who never lived in
the District, was over Long Island
Sound on a routine test flight when
oil began squirting from the hot
engine, 1t did not ignite, however,
but soaked the pilot and covered the
cockpit.
Emergency equipment stood by as
he landed and he was treated at the
airport emergency ward. 1t. Ra-
pelye is stationed at the Army air.
field at Newark, N. j. His father
is representative here for the Con-
tinenta, SIen Co.
Evening star., 1945-07-08
SaiIpIane Is Answer
For Pilot Who Likes
To 'Laze' in Flight
By JAMES BIRCHFIELD.

A motor may be necessity for
the speed-conscious airman-but
for the flyer who is willing to "laze'
for an afternoon chasing air cur
rents, the answer is streamlined
sailplane.
This reporter spent yesterday
afternoon aloft in the Yankee
Doodle Two" the latest design in
sport SailplaneS. He scared and
dipped for an hour and a half, and
was assured by Bill Sampson, his
pilot, that this sort of thing can
go on for hours"
The "Yankee-Doodle Two" and a
sister sailplane were towed to Hyde
Field, Clinton, Md, yesterday from
the manufacturer factory at st
Louis for a Today demonstration
of gliding and soaring" for Army
and Navy officials, foreign air at
tacheS and representatives of the
Civil Aeronautics Board.
To Show Joys" of "Air Sailings."
The idea of the demonstration
is to show both seasoned and pros
pective flyers the Joys of air sail
ing"
When this reporter took his "air
SAIL" the pilot cut loose from the
tow plane at $500 feet, just as the
glider entered an upward current
that raised it another 400 feet in
the flick of an eye.
From there on we floated, catch
ing one thermal (air current) after
another until we finally landed to
give another passenger a chance
at sailing.
Purely a Sport Plane.
The "Yankee-Doodle Two" is
purely a sport plane. A two-place
job with 50-foot wing spread, it
is designed for the sportsman who
wants to spend his afternoons in
the air, but doesn't relish the idea
of keeping motor in trim or buy
ing gasoline For a So tow charge,
he can get in the air and usually
can stay there for about as long
as he wants to. And when he lands
it takes less than 100 feet of runway.
Michael P. Efferson, Texan who
flew with the Royal Air Force be-
fore becoming Washington repre-
sentative for the glider, said that
when the "Yankee-Doodle Two"
goes into production after the war,
it probably will sell for less than
Sl,500
Evening star., 1945-07-08
AdIai Stevenson Given
NAVY Service Award

The Navy's Distinguished Civilian
Service Award yesterday was pre-
sented to Adlai E. Stevenson, 290C
n street NV, former special as
sistant to the Secretary of the Navy
and now special assistant to the
Secretary of State. The ceremony
was held in the Office of Assistant
Secretary of the Navy H. Struve
Hensel.
The award was for performance
of outstanding service to the Navy
in his position from June 30, 1941 tc
June 13, 1914.
During this most critical period
of the Navy'S greatest expansion,
the citation said, "Mr. Stevenson
rendered invaluable service to the
entire. naval establishment by ably
assisting and counseling the Sec
retary of the Navy in the efficient
operation of his Office Much credit
is due Mr.. Stevenson for his many
suggestions and ideas which ma
terially improved the organization
and functioning of the naval es-
tablishment."
Evening star., 1945-07-08
HouseSef foAct
On TeacherP Paw
Bill Tomorrow
Randolph Hopes for
immediate Passage;
Low Salaries Hit

The House tomorrow will take up
the District teachers pay bill and
Chairman Randolph of the House
District Committee hopes" for i'm
mediate passage.
The District Committee, in its IA
vorable report on the measure,
stressed testimony of school officials
that the large turnover of teachers
since 1910 is due to low salaries. Rob-
ert L. Haycock, superintendent of
schools, believes this turnover alone
is justification for passing the bill,
the committee reported Only 1856
teachers left the service in 1889,
compared to 432 last year.
The committees report, released
yesterday, added that more than a
score of cities comparable to Wash
ington have increased salaries since
the District last fixed its rates in
1924. In several instances the sal
aries paid here are now among the
lowest, the committee said.
Grants S4OO Raise.
The measure will give all perma-
nent employees next year at least $400
more than their present base pay.
This is $100 over the $500 temporary
bonus which expired June 80 but
which will become permanent under
the present bill.
Elementary school teachers-48
per cent of the total teaching staff
receive particular attention under
the bill, the committee pointed out.
Their basic pay raise from the pres
ent $1,400 to $1,000 is the largest
basic raise given teachers.
Ninety per cent of the increases
go to teachers. The remaining 10
per cent is distributed among super
visory officers, the committee indi-
Gated.
The average maximum grade in
creases provided by the bill are:
Elementary teachers, $700; Junior
and senior high school teachers,
$500; elementary principals, 1888;
junior and senior high school prin-
cipals, $1,000; assistant, associate
and deputy superintendent, $2,150,
and the superintendent, $4,000.
Teacher Tenure Safeguarded.
Teacher tenure, educational
leave and other employe rights are
safeguarded under the legislation,
it was reported.
The additional cost of the in
creaseS will be 81 ,326 TOO next year
$1,213,900 for teachers and $112,-
800 for officers. This is an increase
of $288, ZOO over the estimated cost
of the temporary bonus. In about
II years the annual advancements
provided in the bill will have in
creased the overall costs to $2,701,-
400.
Chairman Bilbo of the Senate
District Committee has indicated
he will ask his group to consider
the measure as soon as possible
after the House acts. He will con-
slider the four House hearings
rather than holding new ones, he
indicated.
Evening star., 1945-07-08
TubercuIar Patients
WaIkout' Brings
Plea for More Curbs

A need for legislation providing
more stringent powers in confining
persons having communicable dis
eases was reiterated yesterday, fol-
lowing the Municipal Court COM
mitment of a 36-year old colored
man said to have walked out" of
tuberculosis wards here three times
in the last year.
DR.. A. Barklie Coulter, director OF
the tuberculosis bureau, pointed
out the sentence given Levi Simms
300 block of Third street S.W., of
30 days and $100 fine or 180 addi-
tional days, is the maximum allow
able under the present law. Simms
was charged with being not properly
isolated while suffering from pull
monary tuberculosis.
A bill providing health authorities
here with increased powers in the
isolation of persons with communi-
cable diseases is now under study
by congressional committees and
District officials.
DIR. Coulter said Simms had been
admitted to Gallinger, Glenn Dale
and Freedman's Hospital tubercu-
losis wards and had left each on his
own decision. At the latter hospital
he stayed only three days after
entering last February 3, DR.
Coulter said.
Under the court order, he will he
committed to the Jail hospital al
Occoquan, DR.. Coulter said. In de-
fault of the $1O0 fine, he may be
confined for a maximum of seven
months and released whether he
is completely cured or not.
HE was put in the different hos
pitals here each time because we
felt it would be bad for his morale
as we'll as that of the other patients
to return him to a hospital which
for some reason he wished to leave .
DIR. Coulter said.
DR.. Coulter said he felt the allow
able period of forced confinement in
cases of such "recalcitrant" sufferers
should extend to complete recovery
For the good of the patient him.
self as well as for the protection OF
the public, such person should be
isolated, if necessary by force, in a
place where he may receive the best
possible treatment for his disease,
DR. Coulter said.
The tuberculosis bureau head cited
as desirable the method of handling
delinolIent communicable disease
cases in New York City, where he
has just visited Health authorities
and police work simultaneously
there for the commitment of such
sufferers to a hospital provided espe-
cially for the purpose, he said.
Tuberculosis is not so dramatic
a disease as perhaps polio or rabies
and does not get SO much atten-
tion." DR.. Coulter pointed out, .'but
the fact remains that it killed nearly
900 persons In the District In 4 year. "
Evening star., 1945-07-08

/ Tweed on the road to Rockville
When he explained his haste anC
the missing license, they said ii
sounded all right but they would
have to check with their station
They did, and the desk sergeant
ordered them to bring Mr.. Tweed
in.
Mr.. Tweed was driven back to
the Silver Spring police station in
his car by one of the officers. He
explained all over again to the
sergeant. The sergeant said he
would have to hold the car until
things were Strengthened out.
But the sergeant was also a man
of rare understanding. He said it
would be too bad if Mr.. Tweed S
marriage had to be postponed for
lack of license. And there wasn't
much time left. Accordingly, he
commanded the two officers who
had brought Mr.. Tweed in, to race
him to Rockville with sirens blow
ing. They got to the courthouse
just before the marriage license
Office closed for the day.
Mr.. Tweed was a radioman with
the naval garrison on Guam when
the japanese attacked and con-
quered the feebly fortified base
soon after Pearl Harbor. He was
one of six men who took to the
bushes rather than surrender to
the japanese.
Last American on Guam.
Within a few weeks he found
himself the sole American sur
vivor on Guam. The other five
men had been captured and killed
by the Japs. For the next two and
half years, his life became a
deadly game of hide and seek with
the Japs. He was in danger every
moment of the day and night. Some
of the natives helped him, bring
ing food and information. To the
islanders, he became a symbol that
the Americans would one day re-
turn to drive out the enemy.
He was rescued on July 10, 1914.
Last September he was awarded
the Legion of Merit by Secretary
of the Navy Forrestal for furnish
ing the attacking naval task force
with vital information about Jap
Notifications.
Mr. Tweed's adventures were pub
lished recently in the book, Rob
inson Crusoe, U. S. N."-his story
of 81 months on Guam as told to
Blake Clark.
Evening star., 1945-07-08
Silver Spring Society
Plans Meeting Tuesday

The Silver Spring Philatelic So
ciety, which was organized last
will meet at pm. Tuesday
in the county building at Silver
Spring, it was announced yester-
day.
Officers elected by the new organ
ization are R. G.. Clinite. president;
Harry P. Jones, vice president; Mrs.
L. v. Burt, secretary; Mrs. Mar
guerite Vernon, treasurer; A. S.
Cake, B. w. Kumler, and Mr.. Clinite,
trustees.
Evening star., 1945-07-08
Mother Of Missing Youth
Appeals for Information

Mrs. Homer w. Banks, 2106 Mount
Vernon avenue, Alexandria, last
night made public appeal for in
formation on the whereabouts of her
15-year-old son, Duncan Brooks
Banks, who has been missing from
home since May %.
A search by police, military and
school authorities has not disclosed
any trace of the boy, she said.
The boy is described as large for
his age He is S feet, II inches tall,
weighs 152 pounds, has black hair,
and blue eyes. Before his disappear
ance, he worked mornings and eve
nings in fruit store and attended
Washington High School.
Evening star., 1945-07-08
Capital to Get PortioI View
Of Eclipse 7 Tomorrow Morning

Washington residents who look
at the sun through smoked glass
between 7:05 and 1858 am. tomor-
row will have partial view of the
first total eclipse visible in this
country since 1882.
The eclipse will reach maximum
of 56 per cent here at 1859 am,
the Navy Department reports. In
Idaho and Montana, it will be total.
There won't be another total
eclipse of the sun visible on this
continent until 1854.
The direct path of totality starts
near Boise, Idaho, swings across
Canada and ends in Russian Turke-
stan.
The Associated Press reports
Evening star., 1945-07-08

hundreds of astronomers are ar
irving in the area of totality to OBJ
serve the eclipse. Astronomers
from Franklin Institute and the
University of Pennsylvania will
descibe it in a broadcast from VOL
seley, Saskatchewan, between sos
and 8::25 am. over Station WWDC.
Astronomers at the Naval OBJ
servatory here explain that the best
time to study the composition of
the sun is during an eclipse when
the moon blocks out the most
dazzling rays.
The astronomers will use spec
to photograph and meas
ure the rays. But for viewing it, a
piece of smoked glass 'still is as
good a. anything" they say.
Evening star., 1945-07-08
Streetcor, Taxi Crosh
Causes Traffic Jam

Streetcars we're tied up for 20
minutes last night on Pennsylvania
avenue between Seventeenth and
Twentieth streets NV, after col
lision between a streetcar and a
taxicab.
Valentine Ray, 80, colored, of the
800 block of Rhode Island avenue
NV, who police said drove the
taxicab, was admitted to Emergency
Hospital for observation of back
injury, and his condition was de-
scribed as not serious.
The streetcar was operated by
Ernest G. Backes, IS, of 1926 N
street NV, police reported.