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Evening star., 1946-01-11
Bloedorn Says Mount Alto
Is Doing a Good Job

DR.. Walter A. Bloedorn, dean OF
George Washington University Med
ical School, said today that Mount
Alto Hospital was doing a good
job" in providing care for Wash
ington area veterans.
DR.. Bloedorn, who Is member
of the newly formed Deans Com
mittee to Judge Professional Stand
ards at Mount Alto, said after a
meeting with hospital chiefs that
he was confident a satisfactory
working arrangement could be ac-
complished to provide consultants
and resident physicians for the hos
pital.
DR.. Bloedorn and the Rev. David
McCauley, dean of Georgetown
University Medical School, accom-
panied by several other Washington
doctors, met with DR.. Charles NJ.
Griffith, Mount Alto manager, and
1t. Col. Frank Bacon, chief med
ical officer, to determine how many
consultants, attending physicians
and resident physicians were need
ed for the hospital.
DR.. Bloedorn said that approx
mate numbers were fxed and that
the names of the doctors will be
announced later.
Evening star., 1946-01-11
Dial These Phone
| Numbers in Case
OF Emergencies

Here is a list of telephone
numbers to be dialed in emer-
gencies when switchboard op-
orators are not on the job.
WASHINGTON Il Fire, HO.
1916. Police, MA. 1913. Park
Police, DI. 1400. Ambulance,
HO. 1922.
Nondial (manuaD telephone
subscribers are advised to move
their receiver hooks up and
down slowly and report any
emergency.
MARYLAND-Bradley, Oil
yer or Wisconsin exchanges
Police or Fire, OIL. 1905.
Hyattsville, Union or Warfield
eXchanges-Police or Fire, UN.
1922. Shepherd, Sligo or Silver
Spring exchanges-Police or
Fire, SH. 5000.
VIRGINIA - Alexandria or
Temple exchanges-Police or
Fire, AL. 0013. Chestnut, Glebe
or oxford exchanges-Police or
Fire, OK. 1900.
Evening star., 1946-01-11
Byrd 10 Introduce Bill
For Union Registration
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, Jan. 1l-Sena.
tor Byrd next week will offer Con-
gress legislation calling for the reg
istration Of all unions with the Sc.
curities and Exchange Commission
he told the Richmond Chamber oi
Commerce. last night.
Until labor shoulders the responsi.
bility that accompanies power
there can be no lasting industrial
peace upon which our future pros
perity so vitally depends" Senator
Byrd declared.
Il have already announced my
desire to support President Truman
in all proper measures to contro.
strikes" he said. II believe it vitally
important that the President ano
Congress get together on a con.
structive course. 1 will do all car
to bring this about. !
II favor the cooling-off period rec.
commended by the President. favor
fact finding and the publication oi
full facts regarding both corpora.
tions and unions, but I do not be.
lieve that corporation profits should
be considered as a basis for collective
bargaining. If so, by the same token
losses must likewise be considered.
Evening star., 1946-01-11
WA Opposes New Service
By American AirIines
By the Associated Press.

6y lne Associated Fress.
Offlcials of Transcontinental &
Western Air asserted yesterday that
if American Airlines is permitted
to inaugurate proposed new serv-
ice on nonstop flights, it will cost
their company nearly $1,000,000 q
year in passenger revenues.
Americans plan, as outlined be-
fore a Civil Aeronautics Board
examiner. would give that company
such multiplicity of schedules and
routes between the East and West
coasts that competition would be
extremely difficult, TWA contended.
j. G. Stratton, TWA executive in
charge of route development, told
the examiner considering the Amer
ican flight applications that TWAS
gross passenger revenues last year
were $24,000, 900. He estimated
that II the American applications
are approved, about s964,0 900 In
passenger revenues would be di-
verted from TWA annually.
The American program, in effect,
would provide for one-stop trans
continental flights, with the use Of
four-engine planes. The single
break on the cross country routes
would be at either Tulsa, Okla, or
Oklahoma City.
Evening star., 1946-01-11
Jittery y. S. Gunners Downed
|Own Planes, kimmeI Reveals

Admiral Kimmel replied that he
did. He went on to relate that Ad-
miral William F. Halsey, at sea with
a task force including the carrier
Enterprise, had advised that six
fighter planes were coming in to
land at Ford Island, Navy airfield
in Pearl Harbor.
The Army, Navy and every one
else was informed, he said, and the
planes came in with their running
lights on.
Unfortunately, instead of going
right down and landing at Ford
Island, the smoke from the burning
oil overshadowed the whole place
and they were blinded and tried to
get In there and they came right
up over the strips" Admiral Kim
mel continued.
Evening star., 1946-01-11
Extreme Penalty Sought
In Attack on Mother, Babies
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Jan. 11.-Dis-
trict Attorney General Will Gerber
said last night the State would seek
the extreme penalty" in prosecuting
a 16-year-old colored farm boy
charged with murder in connection
with an attack on a mother and
her two infant sons.
One child, 1-year-old Sammie
Goss, died soon after the assault.
The 37-year-old mother, Mrs. I. T.
Goss, and the other child, Freddie,
3, were In a critical condition in a
Memphis hospital. Each suffered
a fractured skull.
Sheriff Oliver Perry said the
youth, Fred Jackson, confessed at
tacking the three and made state
ment that criminal assault" was
the motive of his violence against
the mother.
The mother and her two sons were
found Tuesday lying in the rain
near the smoking ruins of their
home on the outskirts of Memphis.
The youth also admitted setting
fire to the Goss dwelling, the sheriff
said.
Mrs. Goss identified the youth as
her assailant.
Evening star., 1946-01-11
Phone Operator Stays on Job
Despite Threats to Children
Union Workers
Mother Tells of
Menucinq Call

Despite reported telephone threats
against her two children, Mrs. Bar
bara Pierce, 7l6 Shepherd street
NV, a union telephone operator
was in her place again today at the
/ switchboard.
She is believed to be the only tele-
phone operator who did not join
yesterdays walkout.
Mrs. Pierce's mother. Mrs. M. j
Miller of the Shepherd street ad-
dress, said she answered the tele-
phone yesterday while her daughter
was at work to hear a mans voice
say threateningly, You know she
has two children. Don't you love
those kids?"
One of the children, Barbara Lee
Ames, 8. attends Petworth School.
The other is a 13-month- infant,
Ann. Mrs. Pierce's husband, Harold
S. Pierce, has just returned from
three years overseas with the Army.
Evening star., 1946-01-11
Pearl Hurbor
Continued From First Page.)

attack at Hawaii if the japanese
moved against the Philippines or
elsewhere and that there were COM
plete precautions against one. But
he said he never expected an air
attack, mot at any time"
Admiral Kimmel told the Naval
Inquiry Board that If the Army had
informed him on the morning OF
December 7, l94l, that its radar had
picked up planes 1872 miles north
of Oahu, he would have gone into
action Immediately.
Got Data Two Days Late.
'"The (carrier) Enterprise was
about 200 miles to the westward OF
Oahu and she had an escort of
heavy cruisers and'9 destroyers.
The (carrier) Lexington was 400
miles southeast of Midway with an
escort of cruisers and 9 destroyers.
Il would have put both those car
riers on an intercepting course and
kept them informed Of the move
ments OF the Japanese force. I would
have had all available light forces
join Admiral Halsey in the enter
prise and I think we would have
had quite party"
Actually, said Admiral Kimmel
he didn't get the information on the
radar pickup until two days after
the attack.
The former feet commander said
he had ceased to blame himself so
much" for the Pearl Harbor disas-
ter when he learned the Navy De-
partment had not given him all its
advance information.
Would Have Alerted Command.
Admiral Kimmel said that had he
known in detail or all the informa-
tlon Washington possessed:
Il think it is fair to state now
that I would have altered every
thing on shore to its maximum that
could be maintained over a long pc
riod. would have instituted the
reconnaissance to the best Of our
ability and I would have had the
feet put to sea-"
Kimmel said he realized the vul-
nerabfhty of the feet at Pearl Har-
Dor, and so told the chief Of naval
operations, Admiral Harold r. Stark,
and President Roosevelt in June Of
l941.
But, he added to the Navy inquiry
board:
II did not definitely recommend
that the feet be withdrawn at the
time Of my conversation, because
wanted to get some training in.
accepted the situation, but pointed
out the dangers that existed so long
as the fleet was in Pearl Harbor."
The congressional committee has
heard testimony that Mr.. Roosevelt
wanted to keep the feet there as
a restraining influence against Jap
anese aggression. Admiral Kimmel's
predecessor, Admiral J. o. Richard
son, testified that he bitterly OPP
posed this stand and wanted to
pull it back to the West Coast to
make 1t more ready for combat.
THE clearing of my name in con-
nection with the Pearl Harbor in
cident would, of course, have meant
more to me had such action been
taken in a timely manner, Admiral
Kimnel told the Nayy cnflrf
Evening star., 1946-01-11
Fred A. Motz to Advise
CIork's Men in Austria

Fred A. Motz, whose wife, Mrs
Mary Moore Motz, lives at 1878 Co.
lunlbia road NV, has been ap.
pointed agricultural adviser to Gen
Mark NJ. Clark's forces in Austria
the Army announced today.
Mr.. Motz, an employe Of the Agri-
culture Department here for Is years
before going abroad, will act in an
advisory capacity to Gen. Clark's po-
ltical adviser in Austria, with head
quarters in Vienna, it was said.
Evening star., 1946-01-11
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Gunners on American warships in
Pearl Harbor, jittery after the Jap
anese attack the morning of Decem-
ber 7, 1941, shot down some Amer
ican planes that night.
The incident was disclosed today
in publication of testimony by Rear
Admiral Husband e. Kimmel, 1941
Pacific Fleet commander. to the
Roberts Investigating Commission
four years ago.
The number of planes shot down
was not developed in the examina-
ton.
Gen. Joseph T. McNarney asked
Admiral Kimmel during the exam
-ination if he knew of "the incident
which happened on the night OF
December Z with regard to losing
some of our carrier planes?"
Evening star., 1946-01-11
Boy, 7, Dies in Fire;
Sister, ;, Believed
Playing With Maiche,

A 2-year-old colored child was
burned to death today when his
mother left him with his 3-year -old
sister while she went to the post
Office.
The child, Charles Boyd, jr., was
in blazing second-story room at
1920 Sixth street NV, when a
neighbor rescued his sister, Patricia,
who was standing helpless in the
doorway, according to police.
Playing With Matches.
Detective Sergts. Walter vogel-
sang and Louis Snyder of the
homicide squad said this account
of what happened was given them
by the mother, Mrs. Marjorie Boyd,
and neighbors:
Mrs. Boyd, whose husband is over
seas, went to the post office, asking
Helen Brown, first-f1oor tenant, to
keep an eye on the children. Miss
Brown said she looked In is minutes
before the tragedy and the children
were all right. Mrs. zena Thomas,
third-fioor tenant, said she smelled
smoke, and when she got to the Sec
ond floor found Patricia standing In
the doorway of the blazing room.
Sergt. Vogelsang said the little girl
told him she was playing with
matches.
Short Circuit Sounds Alarm.
A short circuit in fire box at the
Navy Yard this morning caused a
false alarm answered by most of the
midtown f1re-flghting equipment
While the equipment was out alarms
for the fatal Sixth street fire and
two other fires were turned in.
One of the alarms was caused by
fire in the basement of the Elec-
trio Refrigeration Service Co., 1915
Fourteenth street. Streetcar traffic
was tied up for an hour. Police re-
ported considerable damage was
done to the building. The cause was
undetermined.
Another fire partially destroyed a
two-story frame building occupied
by the Rite Way Cleaners, at 636 O
street NV.
Evening star., 1946-01-11
Western Union Strike
Causes Cable Jam on
Messages 10 Soldiers
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Jan. ll.-A strike
OF 1000 members of the CIO Amer
ican Communications Association
employed by Western Union, moved
into its fourth day today with no
prospect of agreement in sight and
many OF the company's operations
on curtailed basis.
Messages and money orders des-
tined for American servicemen over
seas were reported pilling up in
cable ofhces. Western Union off,
cials said cable operators refused
to forward messages reaching cable
points from domestic Western Union
facilities.
Joseph P. Selly, union president,
said all messages for overseas SOL
diers and sailors would be trans
mitted If telephoned or airmailed
to the home offices of the trans
oceanic cable firms in New York,
Washington or San Francisco.
Ralph H. Kimball, vice president
In charge of Western Unions indus
trial relations, reported the volume
OF traffic yesterday was slightly
higher than on the first two DAYS
OF the strike, when it was described
as Is per cent of normal, but Mr..
seny said the percentage was
even less.
Florists reported their telegraph
business at "standstill" as a result
OF the strike, called by the AGA in
protest against WLB decision low
ering a regional wage board award
OF an average hour in
crease in pay.
Other business firms reported that
mechanical failures were disrupting
nterofflce communications between
home and branch Offices, adding to
the already severe problem caused
by the commercial tieup.
The stock exchange, airlines and
railroads, operating over standing
circuits with their own employees,
were experiencing few difficulties.
Evening star., 1946-01-11
Anderson Tells Catf|emen
Not 10 'HoIIer Till Hurt
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
DENVER, Jan. 1l.-Secretary OF
Agriculture Anderson today advised
cattlemen pressing for removal OF
price controls along with subsidies
June 80 not to "holler until you're
hurt"
However, he warned the American
National Livestock Association Con-
vention that if Congress decides 1t
Is necessary to hold down the cost
Of living after that date "it follows
almost automatically that food prices
must be kept under control as the
central, most vital part Of America s
everyday living"
Evening star., 1946-01-11
Patterson Takes Blame
For Smashed CycIotrons
Rv the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
TOKYO, Jan. 11.-Secretary Of
War Patterson today assumed full
responsibility" for the. destruction
of japanese cyclotrons.
Asked at press conference who
in your department ordered the
cyclotrons destroyed?" the Secre-
tary replid:
IT will take the blame for that.
That is, the order went out under
my name. I didn't see the message.
The mistake was in not consulting
scientists first"
Several scientists who helped de-
velop Americas atom bomb protest.
ed strongly at the news Of the
wrecking of the cyclotrons. They
said the machines should have been
sent to the United States for study.
Evening star., 1946-01-11
Phone Workers, Kept
OFT Job by Piekets,
| Save Two From Fire
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. Ii
A group of Bell Telephone Co.
maintenance workers, kept from
work by a Western Electric
picket line, turned fire rescuers
today.
The men we're standingsnear
a telephone Office watching
pickets when word came that
persons were trapped in a
flame-swept home around the
corner.
The men borrowed a blanket,
raced to the spot and held the
blanket as Mr.. and Mrs. James
Phillips jumped to safety from
the second floor of their home.
Evening star., 1946-01-11
Man, 81, Is Robbed
Of Savings of ST, 500

Mangus Bradham, a.. colored, re.
ported to police today that his life
savings of $500 were stolen from
trunk in his room at 2O20 Ninth
street NV. yesterday.
The money was in S. and ST bills
nickels, dimes and quarters, plus
5000 pennies. He told police he had
accumulated it doing odd jobs fol
produce men at the Convention
Hall Market, Fifth and K streets
NV. For years, he said, he had
put the tips he received in the
trunk just as he got them.
Evening star., 1946-01-11
Telephone Pieketing
Restrained in Topeka
y the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TOPEKA, Kans., Jan. l1.-Paul
Heinz, Shawnee County district
Judge, today granted temporary
injunction restraining 10 striking
Western Electric installation work
ers from picketing the Southwestern
Bell Telephone Co. offices in ITO
peka and vicinity"
Sheriff Elb Beal notified the
pickets that under the order they
either must retire or face possible
contempt of court. He said two of
the pickets retired Immediately, the
others left shortly afterward and
that employees Of the telephone
company returned to work.
The hearing on the Injunction
was set for January 1S,
Evening star., 1946-01-11
Pepeo Names Bartlett
Commercial MANAGER

j. S. Bartlettshas been promoted
to commercial manager of the Po-
tomac Electric Power Co., succeed
Ing H. A. Brooks, retired, it was
announced today by A. G. Neal,
company president.
Fisher S. Black of the staff has
been appointed assistant to the
president, a new post.
Evening star., 1946-01-11
Bruce Uthus Quits CAA
To Head TWA Troinino

Bruce Uthus, assistant admins
traitor for aviation training of the
Civil Aeronautics Administration re-
signed today to become director of
training development for Transcon-
tinental g. Western Air and will
move from his home at 6118 Forty
third avenue, Hyattsville, Md, to
Kansas City, Mo.
A native of Chicago, Mr.. Uthus
has been in Government service for
the past II years. He is a graduate
OF the University of Illinois engi-
neering school and was a consulting
engineer in the Midwest until 1884.
Evening star., 1946-01-11
Eurth SherkS Recorded

NEW YORK, Jan. Ii (P).-Fordham
University reported today that two
fairly strong earth shocks were re-
corded on its seismograph shortly
before o'clock last night. They
seemed to be about 5,100 miles from
New York but the direction was not
determined.
Evening star., 1946-01-11
Arthur Treonor to Quit
Booth Newspapers Post
By the Associated Press.

BY the Assoclated Press.
SAGINAW, Mich, Jan. 11.-Ar-
thur r. Treanor announced today
his resignation as vice president and
editorial counsel of the Labor Com
mittee of Booth Newspapers, Inc.
effective January 80.
Mr.. Treanor, who said he was
looking forward to period of "rest
and relaxation" has long been
prominent in newspaper circles and
served during the war as director
Of the Printing and Publishing Di-
vision OF the War Production Board
Evening star., 1946-01-11
Dr.. Rioch to Speak

DR.. Margaret Rioch, director OF
the Montgomery County Mental
Hygiene Clinic, will speak on Re
Taxation in Our Children" at a meet
ing at the Chevy Chase Elementary
School Parent Teacher Association
at 2:30 pm. Tuesday in the school
auditorium.
Evening star., 1946-01-11
Irwin SeuIly Dies;
St. Louis Newsmon
By the Associated Press.

ST. LOUIS, Jan. ll.-Irvin j
Scully, 48, former head of the St
Louis Associated Press Bureau and
once a reporter for the Globe Demo-
crat and Post-Dispatch here, died
Wednesday night of heart disease.
For the last six years he was
public relations director of the
Queens Work, a national Catholic
publication.
Evening star., 1946-01-11
Telephone
Continued From First Page.)

workers are not affiliated with the
ACEW.
In most cities the picketing begar
prior to the scheduled m. starting
time.
| In New York pickets formed around
the A. T. e. T.'s main building al
$50 am. and a union official de.
clared the pickets were receiving
100 per cent" cooperation from
telephone workers.
Baltimore Cordons Formed.
Margaret C. Crocken, president oi
the Maryland Telephone Traffic
Union, declared that 1900 Baltimore
operators would not cross the ACEW
picket lines, adding that 1,50C
maintenance and TOO clerical work
ers also would honor the cordons
Pickets were reported formed around
Is exchanges in Baltimore.
In Philadelphia, Paul N. Williams,
national secretary treasurer of the
ACEW, said he was pleased with
progress of the ACEW strike re-
ported to him from locals through
out the Nation.
Mr.. Williams, who came here
from Pittsburgh for the duration
of the work stoppage by Western
Electric employees, said he had re-
ceived no reports of violence and
that the associations 5000 en-
ployes had gone out en- masse.
The, associations secretary treas
urer said he made tour of tele-
phone exchanges in Philadelphia
and that virtually all long distance
operators had respected the ACEW
picket lines.
Most Of them seemed pleased, >
he said, and some were talking
about vacations in Florida"
He said some local operators had
passed through the picket lines, but
! mot many"
Evening star., 1946-11-10

tanning book is the bees song, a
stave Of musical notes, ''' to
represent their humming at swarm
ing"
The American division Of the cata-
logue Of IAN old country library"
opens with Don Antonio de Alcedo's
Geographical and Historical Die
tionary Of America and the West
Indies" translated. with large
additions and compilations from
modern voyages and travels, by G. A.
Thompson, with appendix, five vol
umes, 1812-1s15.' It was a door or a
window Of a sort to another hemi-
sphere. Perhaps its owner opened
it by his hearth on a snowy evening
when his work was done and his
f1ocks slept in their fold. The editor
of the Sotheran booklet must have
had lots of fun.
Evening star., 1946-11-10
Mr.. Trumun's MESSAGE

1t Is highly encouraging to read
the reports that President Truman,
feeling that Tuesdays election has
relieved him of obligation to groups
or blocs, is preparing a message to
the country which will stress the
Importance of putting the public
welfare ahead of personal or party
interest.
The necessity for such an attitude
on the Presidents part would be
obvious enough in any event. 1t
becomes more obvious, however, in
the light of post election statements
by some of the individuals, groups
and blocs to whom Mr.. Truman un-
doubtedly felt a~political obligation
in the past.
For some time Mr.. Truman has
had to deal with hostile Congress,
although it was Congress noni-
nally under the control of his own
party Actually, however, the old
Congress was dominated on the
whole by the Republicans and the
conservative Democrats, these ele-
ments having joined forces against
the left-wingers of the Wallace-PAC
variety. Mr.. Truman's worst re-
bluffs came when he took his stand
with this latter group, and if that
was true in the old Congress, it will
be still more true in the next one.
The incoming Republicans, rightly
enough, are going to interpret the
election results as a protest against
the policies and the practices of the
Democratic administration And
they are going to be governed &C
cordingly. In time, of course, the
pendulum of public sentiment may
swing back to the left, but for the
next two years at least the temper
of the country and the Congress will
be conservative.
It would be disastrous for Mr..
Truman to combat this. 1t may be
all right for Henry Wallace to read
into the elections a protest against
too little rather than too much New
Dealism and to keep on talking
about the "Vandenberg bragga-
docio gettough policy" 1t is all
right for the Ickes- -Morgenthau-
Murray group to refuse to accept the
notion that the vote was a repudia-
ton of the Roosevelt Truman rule
They have no official responsibility
In the matter, and if they want to
deny the obvious, that is their privi-
lege
But the President cannot afford
to indulge himself this way. He con-
tinues to have responsibility of
leadership and duty to work as
harmoniously as possible with the
new Congress. He remains the Pres
ident Of the United States. and his
obligation now is to serve the ma
tional interest, even though that en-
tails the dropping of the blocs and
the groups to which he adhered in
the past.