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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-08-14
New Health Era
For People Seen
In Hospital Act
Five-Yeor Program
Hailed by Porron as
Truman Signs Bill

The new hospital survey and con-
struction act for a five-year, Ma
tion-wide program, to include the
District of Columbia, was hailed
today by Surgeon General Thomas
Parran of the United States Public
Health Service as plan designed
to provide for the overall health
needs of the people"
The bill became law Yesterday by
signature of President Truman. who
objected, however, to two features
of the measure.
DR.. Parran, who will administer
the act under supervision of the
Federal Security Agency, issued
statement last night through the
FSA in which he said.
This act sets for the first time
"a national policy which makes it
clear that hospitals in the future
must be planned, located and oper-
ated in relation to the overall health
needs Of the people.
Integrated Role.
This policy, as evolved through
the leadership of the hospital au-
thorities of the country" he added,
Is recognition of the integrated
role that hospitals and health CEN
tiers must play in the future. AIDE
quate hospitals. health centers and
related physical facilities are the
essential workshops, without which
1t Is not possible to provide even a
minimum Of modern health and
medical services"
The act authorizes approximation
OF S75,000,000 each year for five
years for hospital construction, and
S3,0OO,O0 for State conducted sur
Veys of need. Two million dollars
already have been appropriated fol-
the surveys.
Population Determines Share.
The FSA in its explanation of the
act pointed out that any State may
initiate action by submitting a re-
quest to the Surgeon General of
the Public Health Service for funds
TO carry out an inventory of exist
Ing hospitals, and to prepare a plan
for the construction necessary to
provide adequate care for all the
people. In making the request, the
States must designate a single State
agency to carry out the survey and
planning and must appoint a prop
erly qualified advisory council to
consult with the State agency. The
proportionate share for each State
OF the total Federal appropriation
for survey and planning will be de-
termined by the population of the
several States.
/ Allotments for the actual con-
struction of facilities will not be
made until the State plan based on
the survey findings has been ap-
proved. Construction allotments to
individual States will vary in
amount. Population will be one
factor, and in addition. the average
per capita income will be used in
the allotment formula in such a
way that States with a lower per
capita income. where there is rel
atively greater need for medical
facilities. will receive proportions
ately larger allotments per capita.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-08-14
u. 5. Population Passes
141,0O0,O0O Mark
By the Associated Press

The Nation has now passed the
al 10000 mark in population. off,
cial figures disclosed last night.
The crossover was made during
July, it was shown by the census
estimate included in Treasury re-
port on the amount of money in
circulation at the start of this
month.
The report showed that although
circulating money increased $780,
$40 during July to total of s28,-
245, 1912, the even faster growth
of population by 10000 to a total
OF l4l,l07,O00 reduced the per capita
amount.
AS a result the average amount
in circula ton for each man. woman
or child in the country went down
II celts to a total of s2OO.l7.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-08-14
Court UphoIds 0PA Ban
On Selling Coffee at Loss

The Emergency Court of Appeals
late yesterday upheld the OPA ir
its regulation forbidding the Great
Atlantic and Pacific Co. to purchase
South American coffee above the
maximum price schedules and take
the loss in selling the coffee at
ceiling prices to its customers.
OPA officials commended that the
A8sP sold the coffee at a loss to its
customers in order to retain their
patronage, and gave the company
an unfair advantage over it's COM
petitors
The regulation forbids American
firms to use agents to purchase
green coffee in foreign ,ouut 4cs
above maximum purchasing prices
set up by OPA. Previously, the ban
only applied to American firms.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-08-14
IA Hunt in Accidents
In District Area; Boy
On Bicycle Hit byCar

Fourteen persons were injured in
nearly score of traffic accidents in
the Washington area yesterday and
last night, police reported today.
In the days most unusual acct
dent, l4-year-old James Clark, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Clark, 1904
Blair Mill drive, Silver Spring, Md.
suffered leg and body bruises yes
terday afternoon when struck by an
automobile while riding his bicycle
in front of the Silver Spring fire
house
Young Clark, treated at Washing
ton Sanitarium, was injured when
a car operated by Mrs. Fred Ruth
OstroW 43, of 7002 Connecticut ave-
nue., Chevy Chase, Md, struck the
boy, then ran over the sidewalk and
damaged door of the firehouse, &C
cording to Montgomery County
police.
Learning to Drive.
Police charged Mrs. OstroW with
failing to have a permit and reck-
less driving. They said she was
learning to drive in company with
her brother, Harry Rosenberg, and
that her 30-day beginners permit
had expired. A preliminary hearing
has been set for 10 am. Friday in
Silver Spring Police Court.
In another nearby accident, Bruce
Muscolino, 6, of Wadsworth, Ohio.
visiting friend at 9206 Old Blad-
ensburg road, Silver Spring, suffered
fractured right leg when he
slipped and fell under a slow-mov-
ing truck in the Silver Spring Shop
ping Center, police, reported. He
was taken to the sanitarium for
treatment.
Driver Of the truck, identified by
police as Edward E. Rosner, 4s36
New Hampshire avenue NV. was
charged with reckless driving.
A collision between a dairy truck
and a streetcar in the HOO block
Of Connecticut avenue NV. result
ed yesterday in minor injuries to
Mrs. Nellie Rodgers, 40, of 1880
North Capitol street, passenger in
the streetcar, police said. She was
treated at Emergency Hospital.
Police said the truck, operated by
Carl H. Byers, 80, of MARYLAND
Park, Md, was in collision with a
streetcar operated by Stanley J..
Kanis, 81, of 1106 Holbrook street
NE, when the truck attempted a
U-turn.
Boy Falls From Truck.
Eight-year-old James Leon Jack
son, colored, 1880 Third street NV,
sustained brain conclusion and a
possible skull fracture when he fell
from the back Of a truck near his
home. Police said the boy was at
tempting to hitch a ride on the truck
operated by Thornton l.. Gilss, 20
lib c street NE.
In another accident here. John S
Nichols. Is, of 1916 Twenty-seventh
street Sc, was injured yesterday
when struck by car driven by
Theodore H. Waldau, A, Hyattsville
Mo, near 1108 Orren street NE.
according to police. Mr.. Nichols
was taken to Casualty Hospital with
leg bruises.
Roscoe H. Smith, 80, colored, HOG
0 street NV, ran into the back OF
car driven by Philip Snitz, A, GAG
Newton place NV, slightly injuring
Ida Mae Smith, 1106 o street NV.
who was in Mr.. Smiths car, police
said. She was taken to Freedmen's
Hospital. The accident occurred in
the 200 block of Rhode Island ave-
nue. NV.
In another rear-end collision, a
car operated by Arthur L. Heating
70, Sl7 Sixth street NE, smashed
INTO the back of an auto driven by
Roy L. Braggs, SO, 1919 Buras place
Sc, in the TOO block of Bennine
road NE
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-08-14
Drugstore Messenger
MISSING With $1,000

Paul Jefferson, colored, %, of the
iooo block of Stanton terrace Sc
was being sought by police TO-DAY
after A. Edward Brandt, manager
OF the Peoples Drug Store at 100,
GOOD Hope road Sc, reported
he had been missing since / pm
Yesterday with $1,000 he was carry.
ing to the Anacostia Bank, only q
olock away from the store.
Jefferson is employed as a mes.
senger by the store. When last seer
he was hatless and wore a tan shirt
with brown trousers
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-08-14
USES Reports
Record Veteran
Benefit Demand
Surplus of Available
Workers in District
Called Substantial

More veterans now are drawing
Servlcemen's readjustment allow
ances here than at any other time
since VI day, Fred z. Hetzel
United States Employment Service
director fo' the District, revealed
today.
The surplus of available workers
In the Capital continues to be SUBJ
stantial, although unemployment is
not rising at the peak postwar rate
registered last March, Mr.. Hetzel
said.
The surplus exists among truck
drivers, helpers of various types and
construction laborers, Mr.. Hetzel re-
vealed, adding, however, that short
ages continue in certain other lines
He SAID the current supply OF woman
secretaries, stenographers and typ
lists now is lower than before VI
day.
Gauge of Work Load.
Pointing out that reception con-
tracts-the number of visits made
to the USES off1ces-are g. gauge
of work load, Mr.. Hetzel said they
had risen to $1,000 in July from
about 10000 in the month after the
wars end.
Reviewing work Of the Offices in
the year since the japanese sur
render, Mr.. Hetzel reported that
the two local centers handled we'll
over 100000 reception contacts, in
Guiding repeat visits by the same
job seekers, with 331 1000 entailing
service to veteran.
More than 1000 service men and
women have been placed in jobs
during the period. with the Capital
ratio of placements to referral cards
following the Nation wide pattern
lower for veterans than for non
veterans-Mr He Eel said During
July. 2,228 veterans and 1863 non
veterans were referred to jobs. A
total of 846 veterans actually were
placed, as against 1862 non-vet-
Grams. OF the total placements, 1888
were Of women
Interviews in July.
The July figure for employment
counseling interviews was TIL, high
er than in any other month since
VI day except last January, Mr..
Hetzel said.
He reported that the self regis
tration feature, whereby applicants
fill out their own cards, had assisted
materially in enabling the Offices to
keep pace with the increasing de-
mand for their services. Before the
system was adopted, job seekers
were obliged to spend 40 per cent
more time in the Offices while inter-
viewers filled out the cards during
Interviews, he explained.
Mr.. Hetzel promised that other
new services would be offered by
the Offices in the mar future to
adapt them to cha nging postwar
community needs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-08-14
Examinations to Be Held
For School Nurse Aides

Examinations for positions as
flrst-ald nurse assistants in the
white public schools of the District
will be held on September and 10.
DR.. Hobart M. Corning, superintend-
ent of schools, announced today.
The examinations are open to
women who have at least a high
school education and have completed
a standard course in an accredited
nurses training school. Applicants
must be between the ages of %
and As.
1t Is requested that applications
be filed with the Board of Exam
lners as soon as possible. None will
be considered if submitted after
September s.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-08-14
Union Official to Speak
To Cosmopolitan Club

Herbert Woods. research director
for International Union of Operating
Engineers (AFL) will address the
Cosmopolitan Club of Washington
at 1890 pm. tomorrow at Carlton
Hotei
His subject will be rs Labor Peace
pcssible?"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-08-14
Duffy Named Press Chief
IOf Third Naval District

Capt. Charles G. Duffy, former
day managing editor of the WASH
ington Times Herald, has been
named press relations officer for the
Sd Naval District, with headquar-
tiers IN New York, according to the
Associated Press.
Capt. Duffy was awarded the
Purple Heart for wounds suffered
at the Anzio landing. He returned
to the Times Herald last october
latter his war service, but resigned
recently to accept the new Navy as
signment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-08-14
Exchange Scholar Named

Miss Lllica Athena Vassiliades, a
student from Athens, Greece, now
ilVlng at 400 Sixteenth street NV.
mas been admitted to tne Washing
Ton school for Secretaries on an ex-
change scholarship from the Insti-
tute OF International Education. il
was announced today.
She is the daughter of Basil Vas
sillaoes, a member of the Greek
Mission here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-08-14
231 Marriage Licenses
Issued Durinq july

A total of 23l marriage licenses
2 less than the year. monthly high
established in May-were issued
during July by the Prince Georges
County Clerk of the Circuit Courts
office at Upper Marlboro, it was re-
ported today.
Marriage License Bureau officials
said 1856 couples were issued licenses
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-08-14

indefinite postponement of an in
quest into the death of William
triess. IS, killed in the Arnold Line
bus crash August 2, which was
tentatively set for tomorrow. The
officials said they hoped the pro-
ceedlng might be held some time
next week"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-08-14
Navy Nurse DeudIine Set

October has been set as the
deadline for all Reserve Navy Corps
officers TO request transfer to the
Regular Navy Nurse Corps,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-08-14
Only One Try

another in a series of jc7s for
tagging memoy 5es recording Dis
trtct traffic laUs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-08-14

WINNERS OF MUSIC AWARDS-Barbara Goodman a. of 1908
Russell road Mount Rainier, Nd the girl
tcate OF merit in the Boys Club Washington
receives the award from Charles M Fyfe director
the Boys Club Frank Jimenz IT, street E.
won certificate of merit medal and the
ing for sixyea perfect attendance the Boys
Club Junior Optmist Star Staff Photo
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-08-14

dihiHR areas STUDIED.
Mr.. Keneipp said certain build
ings under consideration are north
OF Pennsylvania avenue, between
sixth and Tenth streets NV, west
OF Fourteenth street near I, street
NV, and on either H or I street
near the new George Washington
Hospital"
-Four parking garage projects
slated to accommodate 730 cars have
already been started or are well
under way in downtown sections, he
explained. They are a nine-story
garage between Twelfth and Thir-
teenth streets on K street NV. and
additions to the parking buildings
of the Hecht Co, the S. IL II.
Parking Center, 1900 block I street
NV, and the Investment Building
Oficials of the Police Accident
Investigation Unit have announced
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-07-05

lost and when decisions are rendered
they usually are retroactive to the
date the request for an increase was
submitted, or to some date agreeable
to both parties.
There is no difference SO important
or urgent that it cannot wait a short
time so that all those involved may
have time to consider the matter in
a fair and impartial manner. Cool
heads should prevail, for strikes are
loss of time and money. More can be
accomplished at the conference table
before a strike takes place than after
it happens, so let's take the sensible
way to obtain better results.-From
the Shoe Workers Journal.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-07-05
CRAFTSMANSHIP

When an American statesman, tar
red by PAC campaigners with the
brush Of anti-labor, tells a national
audience that STRIKES cannot be pro-
hibited without interfering with the
basic freedom essential to our form of
government" and that "the basic laws
which raised labor to an equality in
dealing with employers must not be
abandoned" the it is time for trade
unionists to stop, look and listen.
When the same leader takes issue
with the labor policies Of the Admin
istration on the ground of the latter's
Inconsistency and ignorance Of the
principles of labor relations" and ex-
presses the thought that government
seizure is not a proper procedure as an
integral part Of any constructive sys-
tenn of regulating collective bargain
ing or labor disputes" organized labor
ought to consider these views.
And, finally, when that some man
cautions the unions that Legislation
rectifying certain abuses is not nee
essarily bad" and urges labor leaders
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-07-05

to participate in drafting a measure
which will help to stabilize American
postwar economy, then he renders, to
our way of thinking, yeoman's service
in steering public opinion straight to-
ward the goal of healthy government
industrial-labor relations.
The statesman to whom we refer
is Senator Robert A. Taft from Ohio.
He spoke before the Twelfth Social
Economic Institute at Camp Tamil
ment, Pa, dedicated this year to a
symposium on "America's road to in
dustrial peace" The Senator's address
on labor rights and legislation was
one of the highlights of that always
remarkable annual event.
1t is to be hoped that Senator Taft
will continue to lend his influence and
abilities toward an equitable solution
of our industrial-labor problems. on
which so much depends. The American
trade union movement will be equally
well advised to judge men and issues
by their merits, not by the public heat
and fury generated by party line prop
agandists and political hacks trying to
perpetuate themselves in power at the
expenses of freedom and truth.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-07-05
PARTNERSHIP FOR LABOR

"The time is ripe for making labor
a partner in the management of bust
ness. If this is communistic, let we
quote you statement of those we'll
known Communists, the hierarchy of
the Catholic Church in America: cam
erica has nothing to fear from Com
munism if we have here a social order
that regards man as the beginning
and the end of life in human society.
People who are well fed, well clothed
and well housed are not interested in
Communism" - Bishop Bernard ].
She'll, Chicago.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-07-05
FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1916
GIVING BABIES A BETTER
CHANCE

From Pearl Harbor to VI Day,
289,584 Americans were killed in COM
bat and died from battle wounds. High
as that loss of life was, it was still
less than the fatalities among babies.
In that same period 100000 infants
died.
This startling figure, says the Chill
dren's Bureau, U. S. Department of
Labor, points up the great need in
this country today for better care of
mothers and their babies. The care
a mother gets before her baby's birth
and at childbirth is, of couse, large
factor in the baby's chance for life,
along with the care he gets in his first
and most difficult year.
The National Commission on Chill
dren in Wartime, including members
from both AFL and CIO has put be-
fore the country a 10-year plan for
the expansion of material and child
health services so that good maternity
care can be made available to all
mothers everywhere in the country,
and children can have the care neces-
sary for normal growth and develop
ment even through adolescence. Such
services to mothers and children would
be built upon existing health pro-
grams developed in the states under
the Social Security program.
Today only 100000 of federal
funds are available annually as grants
to states for the operation of health
programs for mothers and children.
AS starter the commission says S75,-
100000 should be available for the
first year if comprehensive maternal
and child-health service is to be de-
veloped throughout the nation.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-07-05
WHAT NEXT?

A collecting device, using static
electricity, is the most recent develop
ment of the American Air Filter Co.
It's designed to remove oil, mist, smoke
and dust from heavily laden air in
manufacturing plants. Just as static
electricity causes bits of paper to
cling to comb, an electrostatic field
set up in the device electrifies foreign
particles in the air and causes them
to adhere to collector plates, while the
Cleaned" air passes on.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-07-05
COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS

AS DR.. Alexander s. Lipsett said in
his 1LNS colmn, News and Views, of
the June 25 issue:
"Orders to destroy millions of Ger
man books and other publications con-
sidered 'anti-democratic, militaristic
of Nazi' as well as all military monu-
ments erected since 1914, including
those to the war dead, come with poor
grace from the military representa-
tives Of a government dedicated to
liberty, democratic progress and learn
ing. Needless to say, they are going
to achieve precisely the opposite eff
feet from that sought"
DR.. Lipsett quoted from New York
Times editorial blasting the order
as simply stupid" and saying of it:
'If there is one way of making the
Nazis martyrs and their ideology a
prosecuted religion in the eyes of the
Germans, this it is !. Above all, it
tends to demonstrate to the Germans
that Hitler was right, since his meth
DDS are being adopted by the Allies
themselves"
Great Britain seems to be getting
around to the 5-day week in the coal
mines. London dispatches say that
the government has accepted the pro-
posal of the miners union for the es-
tablishment Of a 5-day week, the date
to be fixed after the National Coal
Board takes over the industry.
Emanuel Shinwell, Minister of Fuel
and Power told the House Of Commons
the urgent need for attracting new
workers to the industry was the prin-
cipal reason for the governments de-
cision. The miners union has long in
sisted that new workers would not be
obtained in sufficient numbers until
standard 5-day week had been put in
effect.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-07-05
WORK sTOPPAGES


Much of the labor trouble so preva-
lent can be traced to the meddling of
certain persons with communistic
ideas who have managed to secure
important positions in the United
States Government. Until they are
removed we can expect continued
strikes and delay in reconversion to
peacetime economy.
There is definite swing now to ar
bltration-something we have always
advocated and practiced. This may
seem slow method but no time is
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-07-05
Postwar Industries
Boom In New jersey

Trenton, N. J.-Harry C. Harper,
State Labor Commissioner, announced
that between March and April of this
year, the manufacturing industry of
New Jersey registered it's largest
monthly increase since VI day. Most
of the $4,000 new employees added to
the payrolls increased employment
more than 13 percent, making total
of 7S7,600 employed in April.
Mr.. Harper's joint report of the u.
S. and State Labor Departments
pointed out that the 737, 900 was still
122,200 below the figure for April,
1945, and 228,300 or 23.6 percent be-
low the figure for April, 1945, and
228,300 or 23.6 percent below the war
time peak Of $4,000 in September,
1943. The greatest increase came in
the durable goods industries.