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The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-11-22

ards and low tuition rates can tint
United with other parents in the
neighborhood, she can organize
morning or afternoon play group.
With meager equipment, little
expense and some professional as
sistance, these nursery schools
will help to stopgap the child
care and child education problem
until public nurseries are won.
4
THE TECHNIQUE of starting
a cooperative nursery is simple.
A group of four or five parents
Including fathers forms nur-
sery committee.
Then comes the search for suit
aable quarters sometimes rent
free) in the local school, field
house, church, temple or organi-
cation clubhouse.
The committee need hire only
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-11-22
Nylon thread useful
if machine adjusted

To sew successfully with nylon
thread requires few simple sew
ing machine adjustments. One of
the most important is to adjust
the machine for looser stitch.
The looser stitch can be obtained
by 1oosening the upper tension
slightly. If the upper thread forms
loops when the stitch is tried the
lower tension should also be
loosened slightly.
At present nylon thread is
available in a size marked CA.
This requires the same size of sew
ing machine needle as would be
used with number 70 or 80 cot
ton thread.
THE NEEDLE can be most
easily threaded by flastening the
thread end between thumb and
forefinger. 1t should not be
twisted because twisting will fray
the end.
Often it is wise to stretch the
seam slightly during the stitch
ing. Nylon is more elastic than
other types of threads; the seam
may quicker unless it is stretched.
This is also the reason for easing
the tension.
Nylon's elasticity has one as
set, though. It permits seams to
''give" slightly when a garment
is being worn and helps to keep
the thread from breaking.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-11-22
More firms up
profits 800 pct.

NEW YORK - F'P) = The ros-
ter of 300 percenters = corpora
tioEls which have increased their
profits 800 per cent or more over
last year-continued to grow as
quarterly financial S t a m nts
were made public here.
Prominent ON the list was the
Chrysler Corp, which announced
profit take of $47, 1898, O89 for the
first nine months of this year COM
pared to $10,292,645 in the same
period last year.
Western Union Telegraph Co.
did even better, converting last
years $10,420,174 deficit into a
tidy $7,577,395 profit.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-11-22

The drive was planned to coin
eide with the opening of the spe-
cial session of Congress in Wash
ington.
CAV, Chicago Chapter, has
called three large community
meetings for this week, in order
to make it possible for housewives
to become active on prices in their
own neighborhoods.
RHEUA Pearce, Chicago Presi-
dent of the Congress, who recent
ly returned from a 3-months tour
of Europe, will be the featured
speaker at all the meetings.
Mrs. Anita Wolfson, Chairman
of the CAV Consumers Commit
tee, will present the rallying
points of the Women's program.
l. Re-enactment of price con-
trolls with roll back TO June.
1916 levels-thru farm subsidies
if necessary and with rationing
of scarce items.
z. Extension of rent controls
until July. ls4s.
3. ALLEGATION of key mate
rails. curbing of installment
credit. maintaining of present
tax levels and passage of an
excess profits tax.
4. Feeding of the hungry of
Europe without political strings
attached.
Scheduled meetings are:
South Side-Hyde Park YMCA
-1400 E. 53rd St.-Friday, No
vember 21st, 8 pm.
North Side@Sheridan Plaza
Hotel-4607 N. Sheridan = Mon
day, November oath, 8 pm.
The public is invited to these
meetings which are admission
free.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-11-22

ated from Harvard and Meharry.
In 1947 only two Negroes were
graduated from all other schools
in the country.
The Negro physician who would
like to keep up his training by
postgraduate specialization and
hospital staff appointments meets
prejudice and open discrimination
at every turn.
MEMBERSHIP in medical So
ciety is one way to keep abreast
of medical developments-but in
II states and the District of Co
lumbia Negro physicians are
barred from membership in the
medical societies of the American
Medical Association.
Many unions are involved in
obtaining adequate medical care
for their members either in con-
nection with workmenS' compen-
sation or on a more gen eral
scale.
Some unions are setting up their
own health plans. Trade union
lists know how any division among
their members, on any basis what
soever, weakens a union.
WHEREVER unions are con-
cerned with medical care, as
members of the community, as
contributors to community chests,
as organizers of their own health
services, it is to their advantage
to work to break down segregation
and prejudice in medicine.
They must favor medical care
for all, and facilities to train the
best possible medical personnel re-
gardless of color.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-11-22

This difference is due to low
income, overcrowding, poor sani-
tation, poor nutrition, lack of edu-
cation and also to inadequate
medical care. Most of the diseases
which kill more Negroes than
whites could be prevented by
known health measures.
Medical care for Negroes is es-
pecially bad not only because they
have in general very low income,
but also because their hospital ia
cilities are limited and poor, and
because prejudice prevents many
Negroes from getting satisfactory
medical, nursing and other tech
nical training.
SEGREGATION in separa e
wards or separate hospitals is
widespread all over the country,
and exists even in some of the hos
pitals of the US. Veterans Admin
istration.
There are in the entire country
112 hospitals exclusively for Ne
groes. Even if they were first-rate
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-11-22

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l66 w. Washington. Chicago 2, Ill.
For an additional Csc you can get
the winter issue of FASHION.
So pages of the most wearable
misunderstanding free printed
gift pattern in each book.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-11-22
Union health services can put
skids under medical jimcrow
BY THE PHYSICIANS FORUM

ten-year handicap the day of birth the
Negro baby with While white child today
may expect average years. Negro
live about 10 years
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-11-22
Your child rem
Parents can organize
own nursery school
By JANET CASH

mother who is looking for school with high stand
rds tuition find her backyard
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-11-22
Womens groups open drive TO
bolster price, rent control

Chicago were launching all out drive this week bring down the
Fedora nandother majorw onnensgr s -
Evening star., 1947-12-29
Poultry Show Opens
In Baltimore Jan. 6
BY the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, Dec. 29.-The 10th
annual Maryland poultry products
show will be held January at the
Lord Baltimore Hotel.
Exhibits will be open to the public
without charge from am. to 10
pm.
Sponsoring the show is the Mary.
land State Poultry Council in co.
operation with the Maryland State
Fair Board, Maryland Farm Bureau
Federation and the University of
Maryland Extension Service. There
will be a separate department fea-
turing exhibits of All and FLA
members.
Exhibits will be received from 8
pm. January 5 until $50 am. jan
uary 6. The judging will begin at
$50 am.
A directors dinner meeting will
be held at pm January 6. The
councils annual business meeting
will be held the following morning.
Speakers at the convention will
include DR.. T. B. Symons, dean and
director of the University of Mary.
lands College of Agriculture, who
will discuss Maryland poultrymen
and the national food conservation
program"
Evening star., 1947-12-29
| Bullet in Brain
Fatal to Woman
AFTER 106 Days
BY the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, Dec. 29.-Western
district police said an 18-year-old
Baltimore seaman would be charged
today with causing the death of
Miss Vivien Grove, "a, who had
amazed doctors by living 106 days
with bullet embedded in her brain.
Miss Grove died yesterday in
University Hospital, where she had
been in a coma since she was shot
three and one-half months ago
while sitting in a downtown res-
taurant with friends.
At one time, doctors, while mar.
Yelling that she was still alive, gave
her fighting chance" of recover
ing.
She became gradually weaker,
however, and doctors could not
operate to remove the bullet be-
cause of her condition.
Herbert Deboissiere walked into
Central Police Station short time
after she was wounded and sur
rendered. He had been held without
bail on a charge of assaulting and
shooting. At preliminary hearings.
police described him as rejec ted
stItor.
Evening star., 1947-12-29
Election a Week Off,
No Candidates File
For Marlboro Board

Residents and taxpayers of Upper
Marlboro will go to the polls a week
from today to elect three town COM
missioners, but so far no one knows
who the candidates will be.
Although today is the deadline
for filing by prospective candidates,
no person in the community, in
cluding the incumbent commission
ers, has indicated a willingness to
run for office.
The present commissioners C
Gardner Shugart. Charles L. Wood
and William T. Davis-each has said
he would not file as a candidate.
In the past, the commissioners
have been elected solely on write
in" basis, and unless some one files
by tonight, it may be the same story
again. There also is the possibility
the present commissioner, may be
reelected, even though they have
not filed.
Shugart Too Busy.
Mr.. Shugart, a member OF the
Town Board for five years and its
president, explained his other duties
as superintendent of schools In
Prince Georges County-take too
much of his time.
Mr.. Wood said it was very doubt
full if I'll run" Mr.. Wood, who has
been a commissioner for three years
and is secretary of the board, is the
sanitary engineer for the County
Health Department.
Mr.. Davis, who is 72 and has been
a commissioner for about Is years,
declared ''it's time to turn it over to
someone younger
Mr.. Shugart said he hoped the
town, which has a population OF
more than 500, would have larger
turnout at the polls this year.
Usually, he explained, there are
only about 40 or so who vote"
"Write-In' Used Since 1904.
The town, which is the Prince
Georges County seat, has been fol-
lowing the "write-in" system since
it's first election in January, 1904,
he added.
Persons may vote in the town
even though they don't live there,
according to the existing charter,
Mr.. Shugart disclosed.
Upper Marlboro also has no voting
lists, Mr.. Shugart declared. All a
person has to do is meet the re-
quirements and vote on election
day, he said.
Polls will be opened next Monday
at the Upper Marlboro fire house
from 3 to 6 pm. Election judges
for the occasion will be Wilbur Jones,
Richard Sothoron and Montgomery
MorrON.
Evening star., 1947-12-29
Falls Church 10 Set
date for Election on
.Wdter Bond Issue

The Falls Church Town Council
will hold a special meeting tonight
to authorize and set the date for a
special election on proposed ST.
100000 water bond issue.
Under the town charter, two elec-
tions are required before bond is
sue can be authorized. Town off,
cials pointed out that the first
election, for which the date will be
set tonight, is determined by the
town itself, while the date for the
second is set by the circuit judge of
Fairfax County.
In the first election only resident
landowners will be permitted to
vote. If they should approve the
project, which calls for an enlarge
ment of the towns water system
and the tapping of the Washington
water supply at Chain Bridge, the
Circuit Court will be asked to set a
date for a second election which
will be participated in by all resi-
dent voters. j
Meanwhile, Town Manager Roy
Dunn has prepared prospectus
outlining the proposed bond issue
1t is expected to be printed and dis
tributed in the next few days.
A mass meeting is to be held soon
so that residents may question town
officials on the project.
Evening star., 1947-12-29
3 Goithersburg Youths Help
Save 2 From Blazing Home

Three Gaithersburg youths helped
save the lives of two of their neigh
bors yesterday by summoning fire.
men after being unable to arouse
the occupants of burning dwell
ing.
Members of the Gaithersburg-
Washington Grove Fire Department
identified the three as Richard p.
Tetlow, jr., Is, a student at
Gaithersburg High School; Donald
Windsor, 10, student at Charlotte
Hall Military Academy, and May
nard Watkins, 10, of Cedar Grove.
Firemen said the youths noticed
flames coming from a house on
Summit avenue in Gaithersburg
about am. yesterday. They
Evening star., 1947-12-29

knocked on the door and tried to
arouse the two occupants, Benjamin
Buckhannon, So, and his son, Harry,
30, firemen said.
When they were unable to arouse
any one, the youths summoned fire.
men who helped the Buckhannons
from their burning house. Firemen
said the Buckhannons were parti-
ally overcome by smoke.
The fire was quickly extinguished
Damage was confined to the rear
portion of the house, firemen said
The blaze was believed to have
started in q small water heater on
the rear porch.
The house is owned by w. Lawson
King Of Gaithersburg.
Evening star., 1947-12-29
) Children Killed as Fire
Destroys LAO Log Cabin
BY the Associated Press

MIDDLEBURG, Va, Dec. 90
Three children were burned to
death last night when fire destroyed
their parents Groom log cabin on
the farm of John D. Lawson near
here.
The victims, ranging in age from
to 8, were the children of Mr.. and
Mrs. Samuel Jackson, colored. They
were asleep in an upstairs room
when the fire started, apparently
from an overheated stove.
Mr.. Jackson, his wife and 2
year-old child were sleeping down.
stairs and escaped The Middle
burg fire. company answered the
alarm. Firemen were still searching
for the bodies this morning.
Mr.. Jackson, 10, is partially blind
and on relief, police said.
The family's log house was built
in 1740.
Evening star., 1947-12-29

tion," said Capt. Hutchinson. Mod
ern chronological advances have
made intervening distances merely
great circles of the earth's surface
1t behooves the Navy to explore and
discover environmental factors OF
this new and now important sea In
order that the Navy may impose
our national policy within it's en-
virons.'
World Data Essential.
Col. Mason said the military es-
tablishment is aware that it must
possess complete world data on such
subjects as tides and currents, cll-
mate and weather, coasts and
beaches, passes and obstacles, soils
and traffic ability, vegetation and
cultural features.
Frank C. Whitemore, jr., chief OF
the Military Geological Unit, United
States Geological Survey, discussed
his agency's study OF areas where
information was lacking in World
War II, it's check on previous studies
and revised measures for the con-
duct of future assignments.
DR.. Hoyt Lemons, chief OF the
Environmental Protection Section
of the Army Quartermaster Corps,
explained the relation of geographic
knowledge to his units responsible
ity in developing 10000 articles of
clothing, shelter and subsistence for
all climates.
Col. Poole and Paul A. Siple of
the Army General Staff Research
and Development Division, discussed
military awakening to the need of
geographic research during the war.
About half of those attending the
conventions took a field trip yester-
day to the Skyline drive and the
Massanutten Caverns and heard
Col. Pool review Typographical fac
tors in Civil War battles.
Evening star., 1947-12-29
Welfare Board Studies
Child Care Center al
Stuart Junior Hiqh

The reopening of child day
care center in the Stuart Junior
High School annex at Fifth and
D streets NE. was to be con-
sidered by the Board of Public
Welfare today.
This move follows the closing of
a center at Grant Elementary
School, Twenty-second and G
streets NV, on Christmas Eve
because of low enrolment. Only
13 children were taking advantage
of this center. The Carberry Center
at the Stuart Junior High School
is designed to replace the Grant
Center.
Parents of the children using
Grant Center have determined to
fight the closing of the center,
which is the only one serving that
section of the city. Attorney Claude
A. Thompson, who has been retained
by them, has filed complaint in
District Court in an attempt to
enjoin the Board of Public We'll
fare from closing the center. A
motion for a preliminary injunc-
ton against the board will be
heard next week, he said.
Action Is Explained.
Raymond F. Clapp, acting welfare
director, explained the move as an
attempt to place the few centers
for which funds are allotted where
RI
There are five centers in the Dis
trict, three for colored children and
two for white children. The white
centers, he said, are at the Trues-
dell Elementary School, Eighth and
Ingraham streets NV, and in the
300 block of D street Sc.
Mr.. Clapp said there was mo
question but that the closing of the
Grant Center will inconvenience
some parents" but he added that
by reopening the Carberry Center
about three times as many children
could be cared for.
I'VE just don't have enough funds
to maintain four white centers," he
declared.
Congress Cut Funds.
Last year, IL centers were in op-
Grafton until Congress cut the ap-
preparation for the system.
Mr.. Thompson said the closing of
Grant Center was arbitrary" and
there was nothing in the law which
gave the Board of Public Welfare
the right to close a center because
of low enrolment. He also charged
that the board was unlawfully re-
moving INDECENT parents from pub
lie assistance rolls by compelling
them to place their children in the
centers and seek employment.
Mr.. Clapp explained that the re-
lief rolls are overburdened now and
that one way to ease the situation
was to encourage parents capable
Of working to get jobs. To do this,
their children must be taken care
of in the centers, he added.
Evening star., 1947-12-29
By George Kennedy

Add this to postwar reSumptlOr
items: Washington's model railway
club is operating again in Union
Station.
What they are working on Is a
scale-model engineers dream. They
have been building it since May
with a summer vacation lapse. They
hope to have it finished in April.
The club had a scenic line in
operation in one of the upstairs Of
fees of the station before the war
They had to tear it down and get
it out of there due to wartime de-
mand for space in the terminal
This year they asked B. R. Tolson
who manages the station, for an
other room He gave them one on
the third floor of the west end of
the building.
Plans for Two Systems.
AL Schultz, who is in the Munich
pal Architects Office, has drawn
the plans for two new railroad sys-
TENS on mountainous terrain built
on benches more than 80 feet in
length. Mr.. Schultz built a model
railroad in shed in the backyard
of his Georgetown home for less
than $780, Model railroaders came
from all over the East to see it.
Now with budget of about 81 500
he is planning things that have
never been done before. The new
system will not be the biggest model
railroad. Rivalry in size with the
model railroad In the abandoned
New Haven Railroad station in Pei
ham Manor, N. Y, built by wealthy
model railroad fans of that West
chester County community, has
never been contemplated. But in
many respects, the Washington en-
thusiasts feel this will be the best
model railway in existence.
Mr.. Schutz's idea is to lay out 8
functional railway which will have
most of the operational problems
of a railway in a combined urban
industrial and mining area in hilly
country.
Industrial City Terminal.
It's terminal is a small industrial
city where an electric streetcar sys.
tenn brings workers to the factories
and passengers to the station from
city homes and from a small suburb
The terminal yards will have 8
turntable, switch engines, car shops
loading cranes. coal hoppers ano
grain elevators Its passenger sta.
ton will have baggage trucks ano
taxicab ramp. It's freight termina.
will have raised pavement so that
the tailboard of the model automo-
bile trucks will be flush with the
floors of the box cars.
The railroad will have two di-
visions, a central division and q
mountain division. There will be a
distributing yard at the change
over point, where by operation OF
levers on the electric control board
freight trains can shunt some OF
their cars for the mountain di-
vision and keep some for the re-
mainder of the run on the central
division.
The power plant of this railway
system alone will cost $3.50. 1t will
Evening star., 1947-12-29

Attacko on
School boardAct
lncumbents' Counsel
Says Law for Election
In Unconstitutional

The county manager form of gov.
eminent in Arlington is not en-.
dangered by the suit challenging the
legality of the elected school board,
attorneys for the incumbent ap-
pointed board said today as hearings
OF the case got under way in Airing.
ton Circuit Court.
Attorney George Allen told Judge
j. Garland Jefferson that the act
which permits popular election of
the school board in Arlington could
be declared unconstitutional with.
out affecting the county manager
form of government because the act
actually is an amendment to the
entire Virginia code and not to tbs
statutes setting up the county
manager plan.
The suit was brought by members
of the incumbent board who seek
to retain their posts after Thursday,
the day the board elected in Novem-
Der is scheduled to take over.
Constitution Cited.
Mr.. Allen told the court that the
act permitting the popular election
resulted in situation under which
school boards are appointed in SO Of
Virginia's 100 counties and elected
only in Arlington. He said this
violated the constitution because it
set up a special law for the conduct
of elections, contrary to section IS
of the constitution.
The suit, in the form of motion
for a declaratory judgment, names
the county's first elected school
board
The elected school board. which
will hold its organization meeting
Friday despite the suit, is rep
resented in court by Edmund D.
Campbell, former County Board
member; State Senator William
Medley, who sponsored the ques-
toned legislation. and Frank l..
Ball, sr,, former State Senator and
commemorative attorney.
Attorneys for the plaintiffs are
Mr.. Allen and Ralph T. Catterall,
both of Richmond
Douglas and Rucker Enter Case.
The countys interests in the case
will be looked after by Common
wealth's Attorney Lawrence w.
Douglas and the commonwealth
attorney-elect, Denman T. Rucker,
who entered the case on direction
OF the county's governing body.
The County Board voted to inter.
q 40 Nf va Ar1tS rrf@
Civic Federation.
County Treasurer John Locke
Green also has filed an intervening
petition in which he asks that the
board-elect be designated as the
one from which he can legally
accept drafts for payment of teach
ers and other employees. Mr.. Green
filed his petition after the in
cumbent School Board announced
it would continue in Office and
would not turn over books or
records to the new board.
Kemp Recognizes New Board.
County School Supt. Fletcher
Kemp announced Saturday that he
will recognize and cooperate with
the new board and will make rec.
ords available to its membership.
Members of the incumbent board
are William Montgomery Smith,
John M. Stewart, Mrs. Lucy G.
Bussey, Ernest C. Belts, jr.. and
Harry w. Porter Mr.. Porter, the
only member of the incumbent
board who did not seek election
November 4, said when he filed the
suit December 13 that it was his
idea and the other board members
joined at his suggestion.
Members of the new board are
Barnard Joy, Mrs. Elizabeth Camp
bell, Colin C. Macpherson, o. Glenn
Stahl and Curtis E. Tuthill.