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Evening star., 1946-09-03

auxiliary stats limit both the direct
and community services of this type
In 1945 and previously, it was
pointed out, the Army and Navy
helped mothers and the crippled
children of servicemen. Now with
the war over, according to officials,
Army and Navy aid is heavily cur
tailed and the city's clinical serv-
ices must be extended. In addition,
other aspects Of the maternal and
child welfare programs which have
been restricted or actually elimi-
mated during the war years must
be revived and additional aspects
added. -
Ask Program Extension.
An official recommendation states
that the immediate extension of the
program for crippled children is
clearly indicated through new and
additional facilities at Gallinger
Municipal Hospital and through
provision for regional diagnostic and
treatment clinics in other locations
in the city. Officials believe these
should preferably be operated in
cooperation with existing hospital
outpatient departments.
Surveys show that maternal and
child welfare cases constitute a
considerable bulk of cases treated
at municipal clinics but because of
the decrease in SelectiVe service
referrals and the transfer of most
infectious cases to other facilities,
the number of admissions and visits
to the clinics decreased last year as
compared to 1914.
With exception of three major
clinics, which include the South
west Center, most of the other
clinics are specialized units. At the
three major clinics there we're 8,187
admissions for routine examinations
or venereal disease treatments and
SO 040 patient-visits in 1945.
The Health Department states
that an increase in admissions and
visits may be expected from now
on by projecting the experiences of
increased incidence after the last
war, and points out that many Of
the existing facilities are sufficiently
substandard as to make them un-
able to handle the expected post
war case-load.
Tomorrow: The Southwest Health
Center.
Evening star., 1946-09-03
Alexandra Meeting Called
On Veteran TRAINING Plans

Veterans in the Alexandria area
who are receiving government sub
sistence for on the job training to-
day were urged to attend meeting
at 8 pm. Thursday in the George
Washington High School to consider
a plan for additional classes re-
lated to their work.
Alexandria Superintendent of
Schools Thomas c. Williams said
that DR.. B. H. Van OFT, State direc-
tor of trade and industrial educa-
tion in Virginia, representatives of
the Alexandria Office of the Veter-
ans Administration and the Alex
andria public school staff will at
tend to outline the proposed
training.
Evening star., 1946-09-03

one open at Delaware avenue and
Eye street S.W., are put in opera
ton at various sites in the city. The
centers would either augment the
citys clinics for specialized diseases
or eliminate them if in the same
areas.
In connection with tuberculosis
establishment of proper facilities in
the postwar period would facilitate
the coordination of the tuberculosis
activities in the District, according
to an official who said this develop
ment was still very much in the
formative stage and has shown little
improvement over previous years.
Centers Held Important.
Moreover, he added that the estab.
lishment of additional preventive
medicine centers, like the Southwest
Center, would permit intensifcation
OF courses of treatment for syphilis
and other veneral disease, which are
now being employed in several OF
the city's clinics with encouraging
results.
Although the actual number OF
syphilis deaths rose from 149 in 1910
when the population was 663,091, to
l59 in 1914, when the population was
900, 900, the mortality rate itself
dropped from 22.5 per 100000 popu.
lation in 1910 to 1863 last year when
938, ,458 persons lived here, it was
pointed out.
AS to infant mortality and mater
nal care, the health protection given
mothers and infants through the
Emergency Maternity and Infant
Care program, operating mainly
through clinics and at hospitals, is
an important factor in local prog
ress, officials stressed.
The effects OF the war continue to
be reflected in the Health Depart
ment's services of this nature, and
in services to crippled children. Off,
cials especially cite shortages of
medical, nursing and social services.
In addition, inadequate clerical and
District appropri a tim
Evening star., 1946-09-03
.Priorities Put
On q More
Building Items
Wyott Acts to Spur
Flow of Materials to
Veterans HOUSING

Iwenty-eight building materials
nave been added to the priority list.
IL was announced today by the
once of Housing Expediter Wilson
w. Wyatt, to help speed the now
OF critically needed building ma
ter1als into the veterans emergency
housing program.
The % materials bring the total Of
priority-listed items to So, including
virtually all materials necessary to
construct and complete houses.
Meanwhile, three-point program
also was announced which 1t was
hoped would add impetus to the
veterans housing work over the
country. The points are:
l. To set aside for builders
larger share Of critical materials.
This, it was said, has been one of
the chief bottlenecks of the pro-
gram.
2. Assurance that the materials
set aside for housing will be held
until needed for that purpose.
3. To reduce future authorize
tions for nonresidential construc-
tiOns.
Millwork Critically Needed.
Listing millwork as one of the
most critically needed items. all
millwork manufacturers or distribu-
tors now must reserve IS per cent
OF their supplies for certified orders,
the housing agency announced.
Other critically needed materials
and the "set-aside" percentages are:
Imported softwood, Is; residential
hardwood flooring, 100; cast iron soil
pipe, 30; bathtubs, 95; toilet tanks
and bowls, 80; kitchen sinks, IS;
lavatories, 90; housing size clay
sewer pipe, rs; gypsum board and
lath, IS; other building boards. IS;
warm air furnaces, rs, and radia-
tion, rs.
Evening star., 1946-09-03
Pageant to0pen
It's Run Tonight
In Arlington
Navy Bond Will Play
At 7:45 in County
Centennial Event

Arlington residents. Joined by
many from Washington and sur
rounding areas, today officially com
|memorated that county's withdrawal
from the District of Columbia 10O
years ago following a formal open
ing with concert and fireworks
at the Water Gate last night.
After the Water Gate concert by
the Army Air Forces Band, led<by
Maj. George S. Howard, spectators
were treated. to the novelty of fire.
works display set off across the river
on the Virginia shore which pro-
vided an unusual lighting effect
from the waters reflection.
The scheduled 30-minute fire.
works program was compressed into
Is minutes when rain began to fall
shortly after the display started
Most of the 5000 spectators re-
manned to watch the conclusion of
the program from their parked cars
or from comparatively dry spots
under trees.
Navy Band to Play.
The Navy Band will provide the
first of series of evening concerts
at 7:45 o'clock tonight in the Wash
ington-Lee High School Stadium
before a pageant-"Cavalcade OF
Progress'-is staged there. Ii
Charles Brendler will conduct.
In event of rain, pageant tickets
will be honored for any subsequent
performance
Tonight's concert and pageant
will be repeated each night through
Saturday.
Gov. Tuck Of Virginia and men,
bers OF his staff were scheduled
to be the honor guests at the first
showing Of the pageant tonight but
foot injury sustained by the Gov
ernor August "a will prevent him
from attending.
Gov. Tuck will be represented by
Tayloe Murphy. secretary of the
commonwealth, who will make a
short address before tonight's
pageant.
TdScduS Is nlStOIlCdl.
Charles r. FenWick, general chair.
man Of the Centennial Committee
invited those in the audience al
the Water Gate last night to visit
the county and witness the pageant
during the remainder of the week.
The pageant is developed around
narrator speaking to a boy in g
family group. After scenes of early
Indian life in the area now known
as Arlington County, various his
torical high spots in national his
tory, including the Boston Tea
Party, Declaration of independence
and cornerstone laying of the Capt.
tol are depicted.
President Polks presentation OF
a scroll, receding the former Federal
territory back to Virginia, is fea-
ture, and other events in the coun-
tvs history, including Lincoln and
Burial Party at Arlington" and
Wilson at Arlington" lead up te
more modern times and the grand
finale.
A parade and final performance
of the pageant Saturday will close
the celebration.
Evening star., 1946-09-03
Hyattsvi||e School Pupils
To REGISTER Tomorrow

All pupils of the Hyattsville Ele-
mentary School will register tomor-
row morning for classes which open
next Monday; Mrs, Mary A. Petty,
principal, announced.
Students OF the first grade will re-
port at $3.50 am. Those enrolling for
the first time should have birth Ger
tifcates showing they will be years
of age as of January l. 1947, as well
as certificates showing smallpox and
diphtheria immunizations.
Other students will report to the
class rooms they attended last year
at am. tomorrow. Pupils will be
dismissed Immediately after regis
teration.
Evening star., 1946-09-03
Silver Spring Underpass
Decision Expected Soon
By the Assoeioted Press

BALTIMORE, Sept. 3-Robert
M. Reindollar, chairman of the
State Roads Commission, said yes
terday he expected a decision to be
made within three or four days on
whether improvement of the Silver
Spring underpass would be under
taken this year.
A low bid of 1898 1862 was submit
ted on the project last week by the
j. D. Heldin Construction Co.
Washington.
Mr. Reindollar said the bids were
being forwarded to the Federal
Roads Administration for approval
since Federal funds will be used.
Evening star., 1946-09-03
By Harry Lever

The current all-time low rate of
81 deaths per 1000 population in
dicates that Washingtonians are in
better health now than before the
war put the Health Department is
concerned about maintaining this
record during the postwar years
unless more disease-prevention IA
cilities can be obtained.
This conclusion is derived from a
perusal of tive departments current
annual report which gives a de-
tailed picture of the city's health
High lighting the report are repeated
oficial expressions that a Uptopian
state of good health, with its result
ant benefit to the community, might
ultimately be reached if Facilities
that every modern municipal health
system feels it should have, were
made available here.
Not Best Obtainable."
The Health Department sums up
its future aspirations, in the report,
as follows:
While the health statistics OF
1915. in which the low rate of 81
deaths was attained, are altogether
encouraging, they obviously do not
represent the best obtainable. As
the Nations Capital, Washington
should show the best possible health
records"
Small but steady increases in the
District governments appropriations
for public health since 1910 indicate
the District Commissioners are in
accord with the departments de-
sires towards betterment of health
conditions here. This is shown in
the following table, which gives the
lowering death rate year by year
during the six-year period and the
amount of the increasing District
appropriations:
Evening star., 1946-09-03
Prince Georges Teachers
And School Heads 10 Meet

A general meeting of all Prince
Georges County teachers, principals
and supervisors has been called for
9:45 am. tomorrow in the Bladens-
burg High School by School Supt.
G. Gardner Shugart to outline plans
for the fall term which opens Mon
day.
Registration of students will start
Thursday morning at all schools.
All of the county's 81 busses will be
in operation for registration.
On Friday the principals will or
ganize their faculties.
Mr.. Shugart said that although
about Is teaching vacancies now
exist, he expects to have a complete
staff of teachers by Monday.
Evening star., 1946-09-03
Card Party Planned
By HyottsviIIe Church

A card party sponsored by all OF
the organizations associated with St
Jerome's Church, Hyattsville, for the
benefit of a new school to be con-
structed opposite the church, will be
held at 8:15 pm. September Is in
the Hyattsville Armory. The Rev
Edward Brennan, pastor, Is general
chairman Of the party.
Evening star., 1946-09-03
Mems Garden Club
To Meet Thursday

DR.. George S. Langford and DR..
C. E. Cox of the University of Mary
land will be the speakers at meet
ing of the Mems Garden Club of
Montgomery County at s pm.
Thursday in the Battery Park Club
house on Glenbrook road.
DR.. Langford will speak on insect
control and DR.. Cox will discuss
Control Of Disease In the Garden. i"
Evening star., 1946-09-03
Navy Separation Center
At Boinbridge Closed
BY tn. Associofed Press

BAINBRIDGE, Md, Sept. s.
After returning more than $4,000
Navy enlisted men to civilian life,
the Bainbridge Naval Training Gen.
ter'S separation Offices have ceased
operations and will be completely
decommissioned by September Is.
Capt. Carl F. Kottle, commanding
officer, said the center stopped dis
charging outside personnel August
20, and until it closed yesterday had
been separating its own personnel.
The last man discharged was Ern-
est Turner, 68-year-old chief boat
swain's mate from Severna Park.
Turner served 36 years in the Navy.
Evening star., 1946-09-03
BuItimoreun Sentenced
In Theft of 81 900 Pillow
By the Associotsd Prasx

By The Assoeiofsd Press
BALTIMORE, Sept. 81 h n
Murray was sentenced to six
months in the Maryland House of
Correction for stealing the pillow
william Teasley slept on.
Mr.. Teasley admits 1t wasn't a
good pillow. Too hard. Weighed 73
pounds. In 1t he had approximately
$1,000 in quarters and half dollars.
II am a man who likes to pay his
bills promptly" said Mr.. Teasley.
Evening star., 1946-09-03
Hearing Society Plans
Discussion on Center

Proposals for hearing aid center
here will be discussed at meeting
at 7::30 pm. tomorrow of the Board
of Directors of the Washington So
ciety for the Hard of Hearing .at
243l Fourteenth street NV.
According to Miss Minnie M. Hill.
president, the board will set up the
annual educational program Of the
society and consider increased lip
reading facilities.
Evening star., 1946-09-03
Registration Is Opened
For Manassas School

Registrations for enrolment in
the State Vocational School at
Manassas, Va, which will begin its
fall session Monday, are being &C
cepted now at the George Washing
ton High School office, zoos Mount
Vernon avenue, Alexandria.
Howard r. Richardson, assistant
of Alexandria pub
lie schools, said bus transportation
is offered free of charge from Alex
andria to Manassas. Dormitory
facilities at the rate of $40 q month
will be provided If there are suf-
ficient students to justify operation
OF the facilities. 1t was announced
Evening star., 1946-09-03
Alexandra Red Cross
Reopens Thrift Shop

The Red Cross thrift shop at 709
Cameron street. Alexandria. was re-
opened today after being closed dur
ing August.
Mrs. Frank M. Hiatt, chairman of
the shop, said that used clothing
household goods, knick-knacks, toys
and various useful articles donated
by residents of Alexandria comprise
the merchandise. All goods are sold
at low prices and the proceeds are
contributed to the general chapter
fund of the Alexandra Red Cross.
Evening star., 1946-09-03
Arlington Legion to Aid
Terminal Pay Applicants

Terminal leave pay assistance will
be furnished to veterans by the Un-
known Soldier Post, American Le-
sion, OF Arlington tonight and
Thursday from 7 to 8 o'clock at 9oe
South Glebe road, it was announced
today.
On September II assistance will
be given between 7 and 8 pm. in
the post meeting room at the Ar
lington Presbyterian Church School,
$500 Columbia pike.
Veterans are requested to bring a
photostat of their discharge papers.
Evening star., 1946-09-03
Only One Try
Another in a series OF jogs for
tagging memories regarding Dis
trict traffic ldWS.

Cars A and B are trapped mo-
mentarily by stoplight. When light
turns green again, driver of car A
is thinking of his income tax and
fails to move. Driver of car B i'm
mediately sounds horn long and
loud. Should driver of car A:
l. Walk back and punch impa-
tient driver B in the mazzard?
2. Call policeman and point out
B as a law breaker?
8. Throw his clutch into reverse
and ram backwards into B in re-
venge for tangled nerves inflicted
by horn blast?
4. Give B an over-the- shoulder
dirty look and drive of at snails
pace to show B who Is boss around
here?
Answer 2 Is correct, whether or
not the policeman is called, because
driver B is assuredly violating the
law. Section 50, paragraph Ia,
District traffic and motor vehicle
says in part:
1t shall be unlawful for any
person, at any time, to use horn
otherwise than as a reasonable
warning of danger or to make any
or unreasonably loud or
harsh sounds by means Of q horn
or other warning device"
Evening star., 1946-09-03
For q Healthier City
For Healthier City
More Facilities Held Needed
To Maintain Low Death Rate

This Is the first of a series OF
three articles on the Health De-
pdrtn1ent's postwar program.
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his full strength, broke the feeble
fastenings. It banged open.
At first the sudden rush Of light
blinded his eyes. Then he saw a
face, white and startled, wide
eyes, a tremulous mouth. The
woman he had seen sitting apart
from the fiddlers at French Pete's!
For a long moment they stared
thus at each other, and he saw
her trembling hands clasped close
against her bosom as if to still a
tumultuous beating of her heart;
but she uttered no sound, and,
after that first start of terror, did
not blench. O'Hara turned and
shut the door, finding a rusty bolt
which, after some fumbling, held
against the wind. A moment later
he had Invested himself of the
heavy coat which hid his uniform,
shaken off the snow and ice and
stood before the primitive stone
fireplace that Gharian had built
when the cabin was new. A few
logs were burning there now I'M
der smother of charred papers.
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high bank Of snow and slipped
back to the level ice again. And
here, where the snow was softer,
there were two sets of prints, one
of which was set in webs. OF
this he was certain, though john
son had made no note of it. AZ
BY this time it was showing
heavily, and though he finally
found the spot where the careful
retreat over the ice had become
flight, he lost the trail in soft new
drifts. However, it was not diff
cult to reconstruct the rest of it.
A dog train must have been wait
ing somewhere near; and the
usual trail for such teams was
scarcely twenty yards from the
place where he finally lost the
tracks. The person, woman or
boy, who had made the smaller
prints in the snow, must have had
help near at hand, help that came
over the ice of the river. No one
but a Cree would have had the
hardihood to face alone and afoot
the wilderness that lay between
this place and the nearest settle
ment.
IF Nicky Grouse seems to be
the only suspect bring him in -
"O'Hara smiled grimly. He
turned back now upon his tracks.
The wind, that had been rising
steadily for the last hour, was
blowing gale from the north
east, and the snow drove in his
face, almost binding him. Far
ther search would be fruitless. It
was lucky that he had saved
Gharian's deserted cabin until the
last, for he could take shelter
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hut. and broke trail afoot for
hours. He had found the spot
where Gharian and the girl had
fallen, pushed aside a new snow
blanket and confirmed Johnson's
measurements in the hard ice
crust below.
To follow the trail was more
difficult, but he chose to leave the
cabin until last. He traced, with
infinite pains, the third set of
footprints, and, trusting again to
Johnson's notes came to the spot
below the willows where the trail
showed swift slide to the ice of
the frozen stream. O'Hara drop
ped to his knees here, examining
every inch of the ground; some
thing in his predecessors face had
marked this spot fYr him.
''The key to the mystery's here,
unless old Johnson's made mis-
take. don't think he did. Ho!"
He stopped, and dug his fingers
in the snow, much as dog digs
for bone. He had found some
thing, a small object, and, after
infinite effort, he got it up out OF
the ice whole, stared at it dumbly
for an instant-an instant that
gave him certainty of one thing.
johnson purposely had shot up
his own arm!
O'Hara thrust his find carefully
into an inner pocket and began
to go over the ground inch by
inch. He was transformed into
the passionless man of the law.
Johnson had failed but O'Hara
registered a vow that he would
not! Grimly, relentlessly he
searched but he found little more;
broken branch, crevice in the
smooth ice of the creek, where
someone might have stumbled
badly, one place-fifty yards far
Their down-where the same foot
prints had tried to scramble up
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deep~in the snow. Fellow must
have slipped, then he got on the
ice and kept there. never found
where he got off it."
Large tracks?"
"Some. And some small; I meas
ured 'em. It's all down in the re-
port"
st see! Two persons, then? The
small ones might have been a
woman's, eh?" O'Hara w a s
watching the sick man keenly.
Johnson's fever flush deepen
ed. might be-" he admitted, "but
women don't take that trail alone,
pard, not commonly"
O'Hara admitted this, rising
and going to the lamp to look
over the notes he held in his hand.
He felt the sick mans eyes fol-
lowing, and remembered John
sons known reluctance to handle
a case where a woman was in
volved; he had suffered bad luck
once and believed himself unduly
prejudiced!
Decidedly O'Hara was of the
chiefs opinion. Johnson knew
or had guessed something that he
was holding back, but what was
it? O'Hara took his time, sorted
his notes and slipped an elastic
band over them. 81 think that's
ALL" he said cheerfully, returning
to the bed to clasp the constable's
uninjured hand. IT hope you
come through soon, old man, and
get back to help me on this job.
I don't believe Nicky Grouse is
guilty. S'long!"
Johnson murmured something
unintelligible about ''good luck, {"
and sank back on his pillows with
obvious relief. But, at the door,
his visitor turned abruptly. give
been thinking of Gharian's wife.
Find any trace of her about the
cabin, letter or picture-or any,
thing?"
Johnson met his eyes, steadily,
challengingly. ''No," he replied
after a moment. 81 found no
trace of her about the cabin"
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there now and pursue investiga-
tons at his leisure.
Strong as he was, he had to
battle with the tempest as he
turned in the direction of the
cabin, guided more by instinct
than by sight. He was in a white
world that was turning gray, it
was all gray, and full of fantastic
shadows and piercing, terrible
coldc when he stumbled up the
last drift and saw suddenly a
thing that brought him to a stand
in sheer amazement. A light
shone keenly in the gathering
gloom, the eternal twilight of the
Arctic winter-a light in Char
ian's deserted cabin!
O'Hara stood staring at it. I'm
til now-Save for one moment
when he recalled the sensation of
premonition - he had believed
himself alone in the wilderness;
yet someone must have been be-
fore him, and, in the storm, found
shelter in the house. A thin cur
tain was drawn across the win
dow, Through its filmy folds he
could see a lamp on the table.
There is a strange fatality that
draws a murderer back to the
scene of his crime, and O'Hara
knew it. Something keen and
merciless leaped up in his stern
eyes, and he felt quickly for the
holster of his pistol, loosened it
and strobe through the driving
snow up to the closed door of the
cabin. The bowling wind must
have made his first summons a
puny sound, but he put his shoul.
der against the door and, using