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Evening star., 1947-11-11

cilities are needed, how quickly
they can be obtained and what
training can be given attendants
to assure that patients are no
longer manacled.
Both DR.. A. r. Sweeney. Gal
linger superintendent, and Health
Officer George C. Ruhland be-
lieve better treatment could be
given mental patients if the psy-
chopathic division became a
teaching center. The medical
schools have strengthened other
departments of the hospital by
sending in their consultants and
medical students.
AS a teaching center, it is be-
lieved, the psychopathic division
would have better chance of
attracting psychiatrists and resi-
dent physicians to I'LL its staff
vacancies.
Clinic Held Urgent Need.
DR.. Sweeney also believes that, If
the division became a teaching
center, it could take care of an
other urgent need-a clinic to
which the mentally disturbed
could come for treatment.
Georgetown University now
has authorized its newly arrived
professor of psychiatry, DR..
Daniel Blain, to confer with Drs.
Sweeney and Rutland to see If
the medical school can help to
improve the division and per-
Evening star., 1947-11-11
JAW Begins Election
with Reuther Victory
In All Posts Expected
Auto Workers Head Wins
Another Bottle on Filing
Of Loyalty Affidovits
By james Y. Newton
Stor Stoff Correspondent

ATLANTIC CITY, Nov. Ii
CIO United Auto Workers con-
vention delegates began voting
on new officers today and even
his opponents conceded that
President Walter P. Reuther
would be elected by a landslide.
Principal attention was centered
on the balloting for UAW secretary
treasurer. There, George Adde's, the
incumbent -Reuther candidate.
who has held Office for II years, was
opposed by Emil Macy, Detroit.
The prediction was freely made,
however. that the Reuther slate
would win all the way through.
The 1000 auto worker delegates
were to vote first for president and
then for secretary treasurer. It
was expected balloting for the first
two Offices would consume all today.
This will be followed by election of
two vice presidents and 18 executive
board members later in the meet
ingS.
The battle over Mr.. Reuther and
his anti-communist policy which has
been billed as hot contest suddenly
turned into a rout after CIO Presi-
dent Philip Murray Endorsed the
reelection of the youthful president
of the union of 10000 members.
Another Big Victory.
Mr.. Reuther won another over
whelming victory late yesterday
when the convention by a margin
of more than 6-to-1 voted to comply
with the Taft-Hartley Law. Dele
gates instructed all union officers to
file the nen-Communist affldavits
by the new labor act.
In his address, Mr.. Murray ap-
pealed to the auto workers to aban-
don power politics, and unite be-
hind Mr.. Reuther to prevent John
L. Lewis or anybody else from med
ding in your affairs"
The reference to the United Mine
Workers chief was the result Of re-
ports that Mr. Lewis had tossed
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Much can be done right now
to assure civilized treatment
for Washingtons mentally Ill.
A little money and a lot of
concerted effort by the Com
missioners, the community,
the Health Department and
the hospital itself can make a
different place out of CALM
gers psychopathic division.
Until mental patients are
housed in a modern building,
some evils cannot be reme-
died.
But such evils as manachng Of
patients, slipshod administration,
inadequate treatment and dismal
surroundings, among others. can
be stopped now.
Lack of Attendants.
DR.. Joseph L. Gilbert. head Of
the psychopathic division, has
said patients are manacled for
lack of facilities and attendants.
1t is the responsibility OF the
Commissioners, together with the
Health Officer and the hospital
superintendent, to see what IA
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Heavy Majority Of Cooperative
UphoIds Fulton Lewis, Jr., Custer
(See ARMISTICE, Page A

which provides for dismissal Of
members for acting contrary to the
best aims and best interests Of the
organization is illegal and will not
stand up against State or Federal
statutes or under the Constitution.
2. To dismiss him would violate
his right of free speech. He main
tains the Bill of Rights makes 1t
illegal to punish him for exercising
that right.
3. The proceedings before the
Board OF Directors were unfair In
that he was not given fair chance
to reply to their charges.
4 James r. Ayers, jr., Southern
States counsel, in . rebuttal de-
clared that the real issue was
whether Mr.. Lewis-in numerous
broadcasts-made true or untrue
statements. He claimed his state
ments were untrue and nisrepre-
sented the aims Of the cooperative
and itx purposes and said that Mr..
Lewis also misrepresepted his ex-
periences as . member
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First Live TeIecust Of Hearing
Is Presented by VITALITY

The first live" telecast of a
Congressional Committee hearing
was being presented today by Sta
ton WMAL-TV of The Evening
Star Broadcasting Co.
From the Senate caucus room,
its equipment was bringing Wash
ington area television set owners
the testimony of Secretary OF State
Marshall and others on the foreign
aid program before the Senate For
eign Relations Committee
Television stations have trans
mitted scenes of such hearings be-
fore, but these earlier instances
were done by means of f1lm-regular
motion picture cameras were used
by television men, and the film
was televised later.
Today, however, two WMAL-TV
television cameras were trained on
the witnesses and other participants
in the hearing. Special telephone
Evening star., 1947-11-11
BY the Assoeioted Press

RICHMOND, Va, Nov. ll.-South-
States Cooperative today upheld
the action of its Board OF Directors
in dismissing Fulton Lewis, jr. Mu-
tual Broadcasting System commen-
tator, from membership.
The IA. directors voted October 5
to dismiss Mr.. Lewis. charging he
had attacked farm co-operatives and
with ''misinforming and misleading
the public concerning Southern
States in particular" In todays
meeting, at which over 1000 mem.
bers were present. only seven voted
to allow him to retain his mem
bership.
In an hour and a half presenta-
ton of his side of the question prior
to the vote, Mr.. Lewis said he would
carry the matter to the courts. He
declared his dismissal would be ille-
gal for three reasons:
]. The Southern ST. kes bylaw
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What theRussions
Are Soyiinq of Us:

The Moscoto radio, broodcdsttn
in Russian to the Soviet Far Edsi
said:
The full equality of all the
nationalities of our country is
clearly reflected in the great
superiority of the Soviet state
structure, the Soviet democracy
consistent to the end. @''
The 80 years experience of
the Soviet Socialist State has
demonstrated before world his
tory an example of the TRUE
friendship, fraternal co-opera-
ton and self1ess mutual aid of
peoples. =. On the other hand,
crude and brazen attempts on
the sovereign rights of nations
and their political and economic
independence are characteristic
of the imperialist and anti
democratic camp headed by the
United States of America"
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Dictatorship Is Near
Under Labor Regime.
Churchill Charges
Former Prime Minister
Spurns Doctors Advice
To Fight Lords Bill
By fhe Assoeioted Press

LONDON, Nov. 11.-Winston
Churchill declared today I'VE
are approaching very near to
dictatorship in Britain" under
the Labor government.
The World War II Prime Min
lister ignored the advice Of his
physicians to lead his Conservative
Party's fight in the House Of Com
mons against the Labor Govern
ment's bill to curb the power of the
House of Lords.
What Is aimed at is a single
chamber government, at the dicta-
torship of ministers without regard
to the wishes of the people" Mr..
Churchill said.
We are approaching very near to
dictatorship in Britain-a dictator
ship without either its criminality
of efficiency.
"As q free-born Englishman. what
1See CHURCHILL. Page A-3.)
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lines carried the images to the
transmitter on the American Uni
versity campus. -,,.
In addition to transmitting the
sight-and-sound report of the tes-
timony over its own frequency
channel 7-WMAL-TV was feeding
the pickup to the other two tele-
vision stations here, WNBW Of the
National Broadcasting Co. and
WTTG of the Allen B. DuMont
Laboratories, Inc.
Burke Crotty, television special
events pioneer now in charge OF tele-
vision production for WMAL-TV,
was supervising the program.
General Manager Kenneth H.
Berkeley said television outlets in
New York had wanted the program,
but it could not be sent because the
coaxial cable of the American Tele-
phone IL Telegraph Co., which
(see TELEVTsION, Page A-59
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haps" use it eventually as 3
teaching center.
DR.. Walter A. Bloedorn, dean
of George Washington Univer-
sityis Medical School. conceded
that the psychopathic division
offers teaching opportunities and
said that 'if it would be helpful
to Gallinger, we would certainly
be disposed toward instituting
teaching program there"
DR.. Bloedorn emphasized, how
ever, that a teaching center
should have a nucleus Of full
time physicians.
A number of medical authori-
ties have pointed to the Nation
wide scarcity of trained psychia-
trists and suggested that the
salaries offered at Galiinger were
too low to compete. A review of
pay scales in the psychopathic
division is indicated.
AS for administration, DR.. Gill
bert now occupies two jobs-as
chief psychiatrist of Gallinger
and alienist OF the District. He
does work previously carried by
three men.
In October, 1943. a Senate
District Subcommittee recon-
mended his removal as temper
amentally untitled" for his post.
The Commissioners recognized
DR.. Gilbert's years of devotion
to q thankless job and upheld
him. But the question Of vesting
too much administrative respon-
sibilty in one man has never
been resolved.
Survey Seen MS Aid.
In April, 1914, committee
appointed by the Commissioners
made 48 recommendations deal
ing mainly with staff and facili-
ties. BY dint Of makeshifts, some
money and considerable juggling
Of staff, the hospital has been
able to deal with perhaps half
of the recommendations. These
are minimum recommendations,
most of which could be accom-
plished II the Commissioners
got behind them.
DR.. Sweeney twice has sug-
gested a study by an impartial
expert In psychiatry to determine
what treatment should be given
in the psychopathic division Of 4
municipal hospital. The Public
Health Service twice has been
requested to make the study.
This survey is one more step
that could be taken now on the
the road to modern treatment of
Washington's mentally Ill.
A new building is needed-most
CT litics are agreed on that point
a building with accommodations
for mentally i'll children as we'll
as adults, a building where the
mildly disturbed could be sepa-
rdCeQ from CnOSe awaiting COM
mittment to st. EliZabeth's Hos
pital, where every patient would
not be on view to every visitor
a building more like a hospital
than prison.
1t probab would require five
years before new building
could be erected.
In the meantime, concerted
action by the Commissioners, the
District Medical Society, the
medical schools, the Health De-
partment and the administration
at Gallinger Hospital would
remedy many of the present de-
fects-even without a new build
jno
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Railway Brotherhood
Finances Institution
To Rival Brookinqs
AFL and CIO Promise
Aid to Economic Study
Planned by Ia Guordio
By Robert S. Allen
N0DSFt y 7VS"
North American Newspaper Alliance

The Brotherhood of Railway
Trainmen today was disclosed to
be the financial backer of a new
research organization that will
compete with the famed Brook
ings Institution.
Conceived and planned by the late
Fiorello La Guardia of New York,
the new organization will be known
as the Public Affairs Institute. Of
fees will be opened here within the
next two weeks, stated by former
ace New Deal economists.
Head of the institute will be DR..
Dewey Anderson. A Californian, he
has been prominent in Washington
for years as liberal economic ex-
pert. His most recent Government
position was executive secretary of
(See TRAINMEN, Page A-3)
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Resistance Breaks Out
To SIAM S New Regime
BY the Assoeioted Press

BANGKOK, Siam. Nov. 1.-THE
Siamese military command headed
by Field Marshal Pibul Songgram
said tonight that armed resistance
had broken out against the new
regime established in swift coup
Sunday.
The military refused to say where
the resistance had manifested itself
or its strength. .,
1t. Gen. Phin Chunhawan, deputy
commander, said the opposition
units were called the Siamese Peo-
pies Resistance Forces. They were
believed to be elements of Free
Thai movement.
Evening star., 1947-11-11
Thousands Brave Rain
To Join With Truman
|nHonoring War Dead
President ond Military
Chiefs Observe Rites
At Arlington Cemetery

Several thousand Washington
residents joined President Tru-
man in a cold, driving rain to-
day to honor the Nations war
dead in Armistice Day cere-
monies at the Tomb of the Un-
known Soldier In Arlington
Cemetery.
Mr.. Truman entered the cemetery
shortly before II am. His approach
was signalled by 2l-gun salute,
timed SO that the volley ended as he
reached the tomb.
The President stood bareheaded
while the Army Band played The
Star Spangled Banner" He then
placed a huge wreath of yellow
chrysanthemums at the foot Of the
monument.
Minute Of Silence Kept.
A bugler sounded TAPS and the
President, with bowed head, lee
the 1000 present in a minute oi
silence.
At precisely the same time, the
Senate War Investigating Subcom-
mittee hearings on the Howard
Hughes war contracts were, inter-
rupted for a brief observance. AT
the request of Chairman Ferguson
all in the hearing room stood in
silence.
Sponsored by Legion.
Standing behind Mr.. Truman
during the ceremony were Admiral
William D. Leahy, chief of staff to
the President; Secretary of Defense
Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy
Sullivan, Maj. Gen. Harry H.
Vaughan, military aide to the Presi-
dent. and Rear Admiral James H.
Foskett, naval aide. Gen. Eisen-
hover and Admiral Nimitz, Army
and Navy chiefs, stood directly be-
hind that group.
Sullivan Urges Preparedness.
In ceremonies following the
wreath laying at the Amphitheater
Secretary of the Navy Sullivan and
James F. O'Neil, ma ational commander
of the Legion. spoke out for strong
national defense.
Mr.. Sullivan warned that ''the
price of peace will continue to be
preparedness" until the United Ma
tions proves itself as the protector
of peace.
In his address, Mr.. O'Neil cited
universal military training as "one
decisive step away from war"
More than that, it would allow
for universal acceptance of the uni
versal obligations to safeguard and
perfect the institutions we cherish
as Americans.
Il would ask you to remember to-
day that it is we the living who are
on trial. Our hero dead have ac-
complished their mission
Crowds Take Refuge From Rain.
Only a scattering of the crowd
sat on the rows of wet marble seats
that line the amphitheater. Most
of the audience took refuge from
the steady rain under partial roof
around the perimeter of the sta
dunn.
The colorful ceremonies began
with selections by the Army Band
and songs by S/Sergt. Delmar Fahr-
ney. The Rev. Frank L. Harrington,
Legion national chaplain, delivered
the invocation.
Owen C. Holleran. District nation
(See ARMISTICE, Page A-3D
Evening star., 1947-11-11
Mason Calls Star
GoIIinger Story
100 Per Cent Right

Commissioner Guy Mason,
who supervises District health
activities, yesterday character
lied the article in Sundays Star
describing conditions in the
psychopathic division Of Gal
linger Hospital as 100 per cent
right"
He blamed the trouble on q
shortage of money for construc-
ton and equipment. shortage
of materials and an ufidersupply
of available psychiatrists. He
branded the present psyche
pathic wards as "outmoded and
obsolete"
Evening star., 1947-11-11
Atom Bomb Set Off by Russians
In Siberia, Paris Paper Reports
12H-Pound Explosive Detonoted June IS Was
Heard for 20 Miles, Prague Writer Declares

itary men were reported among q
group of $50 official witnesses.
L'Intransigeant said John Griggs"
was a pseudonym. 1t said the iden-
tity of the author could not be dis
closed because he was still in Rus
sia," but that he was neither Amer1-
can nor British. The dispatch car
ried a parenthetical note under Mr..
Griggs' name saying information
transmitted from Moscow via
Prague" but the story bore a
Prague dateline.
The account declared that the first
test was made after the "momen-
tary disgrace" of Peter Kapitza,
award winning Soviet nuclear
scientist, who was replaced by Sergei
Vavilov as head of the Soviet
(See ATOMIC, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1947-11-11
Police Seek Bandits
Who Beat and Robbed
Couple and Shot Man
Victims Finally Escape
By Jumping From Auto
Movinq at 30 MPH

Police were alerted today fol
two holdup men who robbed and
beat a middle-a aged couple last
night after forcing them into an
automobile and later shot an
other holdup victim in the leg
when he resisted. The couple
escaped by jumping from the
speeding car.
The pair also was responsible Tor
a third incident last night, an at
tempted holdup, police said.
Howard V. Jones, So, chief clerk In
the adjutant generals office, and
his wife jamie, 81, who live at 1884
Blaine street NE, were the first
victims of the two young bandits.
Mr.. Jones said he and his
wife had taken their daughter to
Union Station and returned about
.8:15 pm. to their automobile
parked on a lot on California street,
near Second and E streets NE
AS they opened the door two colored
men stepped up.
Rings Worth $375 Seized.
One was armed with revolver
and told the couple, This is a
stickup." according to police. They
took Mr.. Jones wallet, containing 50;
Mrs. Jones purse, also containing
about So, and then forced Mrs
Jones to remove three rings from
her fingers. Value of the rings was
about s375, according to Mrs. Jones
Mr.. and Mrs. Jones then were
forced into the back of the car. One
of the bandits drove the car of the
lot.
A struggle began several blocks
away, when Mrs. Jones said she
began screaming for help. The
bandit with the gun struck them
on the face and at one point Mr..
Jones kept the gun from going on
by putting his thumb between the
hammer and the chamber.
At Seventh and L streets NE,
Mrs. Jones succeeded in opening
the back door and fell to the street
while the car was going about 80
miles an hour. A block later, at
Seventh and Morton streets NE,
the bandits stopped the car to sub
(see HOLDUP, Page A-4o
Evening star., 1947-11-11
Rome Cos Cut Of, Strike
Threatens All of ItoIy
sx the As.osia,sd Pros.

ROME, Nov. 1.-THE Gas Work
ers' National Federation called for a
nation wide strike today in support
of its demands for better working
conditions.
Gas In Rome-the first major city
affected-was shut off this morn
ing. The union planned to extend
the strike city by city throughout
the nation If its demands were not
met,
Evening star., 1947-11-11
BY re Associated Press

PARIS, Nov. 1.-THE extreme
Rightist newspaper, L'1ntransi-
geant declared in a dispatch
from Prague today that Russian
scientists exploded a small sam
pie atom bomb last June in ST.
IBERIA.
The copyrighted article, written by
John Griggs, said one 1212-pound
bomb of a type being made at
"Atomgrad," deep in Siberia, was
exploded at 10 am, June Is, near
the Amur River, not far from
Irkutsk. 1t said the explosion was
heard for 20 miles. Top Soviet mil
Evening star., 1947-11-11
All Markets Closed Today

NEW YORK, Nov. II P.-An
commodity and security exchanges
in this country and Canada were
closed today in Armistice Day OBJ
servance. marking the anniversary
Of the end Of World War I. London
exchanges were open,
Evening star., 1947-11-11
Bulletin

Manu- Convicted, Gets Lite
EST P.-Juliu
MANU-, Romanian National
Peasant Party leader, was con-
victed today and sentenced by
: . military tribunal to life i'm
prisonment at hard labor.
Evening star., 1947-11-11

RUSSIAN BOMB DETAILS termed
within limits of known possibility.
Page A-4
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$2,657,0O0, Will Be Asked
Of Congress Before June 30
For Aid in All Parts of World
A Disgrace to Washington
By Miriom Ottenberq

OF articles the psychopathc dusion
Galinger HospitalJ
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(See UAW, Page A-4)
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(See TRAINMEN, Page A
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(See HOLDUP, Page A-4o
Evening star., 1947-08-08
Maryland AgencyM May
Negotiate for Base
By the Associated Press

ANNAPOLIS, Aug 8-The State
Board of Public Works has given
the Board Of Natural Resources
power to negotiate with the Navy
to acquire its Solomons Island am
phibian base in Southern Maryland
for possible use as recreation area.
The base includes lit acres and
has 119 buildings State Engineer
John B. Funk said there is more
than 100000 worth of salvageabls
equipment.
He suggested yesterday that If
the State acquired it prison labor
be used to tear down the buildings
which the State will not need.
In requesting permission to me-
gotiate for the base, John e. Clark,
chairman of the Board Of Natural
Resources said it could be used for
recreation and as training center
for tidewater fisheries, forestry and
game and inland fish commission
personnel.
Under one plan suggested by the
Navy, the entire site could be ac-
quired for $4,000 to 5000, with the
Navy retaining few buildings. The
State would acquire the property
outright, but in case Of war the
Navy could reclaim it.
Among the buildings are some
which could be used as a boat re-
pair center for the tidewater fleet.
A Marine railway serves the shops.
Evening star., 1947-08-08
40 Hearings Slated
In Montgomery on
Rezoning. Petitions

Forty hearings on rezoning petit
tions, II Of which were denied less
than month ago, will be head by
the Montgomery County commits
sioners the latter part Of this month
and in September.
Among the rezoning applications
due for rehearing are four for large
apartment projects in the Silver
Spring area. They were previously
heard in May and June and denied.
Petitions Of J. A. and G. F. Wat
son and Hilleary o. Rose for recon-
ing for apartment use for djoining
parcels near the intersection OF
Colesville road and Dale drive in
Silver Spring have been modified to
include 20.75 acres instead Of
about 20. .....
In the new petitions the buffer
strip of residential A property sepa-
rating Dale drive and the Colesville
road from the proposed apartment
site has been increased a full city
block in width. 49,,
Samuel II. Horne, chairman of
the Building and Restrictions Com
mittee Of the Woodside Park Civic
Association, which led the opposi-
tion to the original petition, said it
was his personal feeling that the
proposed rezoning is still highly
objectionable.e
Mr.. Horne emphasized that al.
though he was merely expressing
his own personal opinion, he felt
Evening star., 1947-08-08
Stores With AmpIifiers
Outside Are Ordered
To Take Them Down

Stores-mostly electric appliance
shops - which use loudspeakers to
carry broadcasts into the streets to-
day were given notice by the Dis
trict that the practice must stop by
September Is or criminal prosecu-
ton may result.
Assistant Corporation Counsel
Clark King, senior prosecutor in
Municipal Court, issued the warn
ing in response to more than loo
recent complaints which he said
indicate the nuisance appears to
be approaching city-wide magni-
tude." .. =
Citing a section of police regula-
tions which forbids the use in stores
of amplifying systems for the pur-
pose of calling merchandise to the
attention of passers-by. Mr.. King
said his Office has been '1enient'
with such offenders in the past
But complaints have become toe
numerous lately and something
must be done soon to abate this
nuisance" Mr.. King said.
Il intend to prosecute these cases
after September IS and I will rec
ommend stiff penalties" the prose
cutor added. Maximum sentence
on the charge is $500 fine and 90
days in Jail.
Complainants have stated they
cant sleep at night" because OF
the noise, and sometimes can't
even hear the radios in their own
homes" Mr.. King said. He pointed
out that stores demonstrating tele-
vision broadcasts in their windows
with outside amplifiers have been
the object of many of the COM
plants.