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Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-03-07
Half Moon Notes
BY Mrs. Frank Smith

MIR. and Mrs. Jim Savage have
returned to their home in Troy
after a few days visit with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John john
son.
The Half Moon home demon
strahon club had its meeting Tue
sday at Mrs. Helen Smiths. The
meeting was called to order by
president Mrs. Opal Role. After
this meeting Mrs. liner Hansen
and Mrs. Helen Smith gave a
talk on meal planning. Lunch
Evening star., 1947-10-08
Bandits Loot 7 Shops,
Rob Woman at Home

Police today were investigating
a series OF small robberies, includ-
ing holdups of a dry-cleaning shop
and a Chinese laundry late yester-
day and the robbery Of a woman
in her home early this morning
Miss Helen T. Siemuc, q, of 175C
@ street NV, a secretary, told
police she was accosted by man
as she entered her room about
1:30 am. The man seized her
but released her when she screamed
she said. He fled after snatching
S. from her purse.
A colored bandit took $31 from
the Aristo Cleaners at 1854 P street
NV. at 4:30 pm. yesterday after
walking down the street to get
change for the clerk, Miss Beatrice
Gussin, II, of 1882 Illinois ave-
nue. NV. Miss Gussin, who was
alone in the shop, told police the
man held one hand in his pocket
as if he had a gun and took the
money from the cash register.
Harry Lee, 68, of 435 Third street
NE, proprietor of a hand laun-
dry, suffered a possible skull frac-
ture when a bandit struck him over
the head with a pistol last night.
The robber took SIS. Lee is in
Casualty Hospital.
Wood E. Crudup, 815 Eighteenth
street NV, reported to police he
lost a $500 bill somewhere between
the Moose Club at 1900 Twentieth
street NV. and a restaurant on
Ninth street between noon and
p.m. Yesterday.
Evening star., 1947-10-08
Probe Of Fire.Chief
Nearing Completion

The corporation counsel's Office
will complete its investigation of
Capt. Joseph w. Conroy's charges
against Fire Chief Clement Murphy
late this week, Assistant Corpora
ton Counsel Oliver Gasch said to-
day.
Capt. Conroy, head of No. 10
Engine Company. told House Dis
trict Appropriations Subcommittee
last spring that Chief Murphy had
contributed nothing but complete
decentralization" to the department
during his administration. The
Commissioners asked the corpora
ton counsel's Office to investigate
the charges.
Mr.. Gasch said he and Corpora
ton Counsel Assistants Milton D.
korman and John j. Donnelly, jr.,
had gone exhaustively into the sub
stance of the charges and had the
facts pretty well in hand"
Mr.. Gasch declined to discuss the
substance of his findings before
delivering them to the Commits
sioners. 1t Is an open secret at the
District Building, however, that the
corporation counsel's report would
be critical of the regime of Chief
Murphy, despite the fact he is cred
tied with cutting fire losses in the
city by 80 per cent.
Evening star., 1947-10-08

Tenor Miklos Gafni took a
deep breath and bent his 210-
pound frame at the knees to pick
up the torn pieces of paper which
were showering to the floor in his
Raleigh Hotel room.
This is how 1 am reducing" the
Hungarian Caruso" said during an
interview in connection with his
forthcoming concert october q in
Constitution Hall.
1t was difficult to imagine that Mr..
Gafni had been down to 80 pounds
only few years ago when he was in
forced labor in several concentra-
ton camps in Hungary. There he
repaired roads, worked in the fields,
serviced machinery, dug coal, and
lost weight steadily.
Now Touring U. S.
But there he also developed his
voice to the degree which has made
him widely known in Europe, Amer
ica and Australia. He is now on a
tour of this country and recently
completed 40,00O-mile flying tour,
which took him to Sydney, Canberra
and other Australian cities.
The 23-year-old former medical
student, who has filed his first cit
izenship papers in this country, in
sisted that everybody should know
what he is doing in Washington for
the first time in his life, and SO far
in advance of his concert.
1t seems that he wanted to see
Evening star., 1947-10-08

Attorney General; DR.. Miriam Van
Waters, superintendent of the
Women's Reformatory, Framing
ham, Mass, and DR.. George E.
Gardner, director Of the Judge
Baker Guidance Center, Boston.
Mr.. Caud1e pointed out that chill
dren will be happier whenever they
know they are loved and appreciated
and whenever they have been given
responsibility commensurate with
their age and development.
"It is the business of parents to
provide those ingredients generously
prudently and fairly" he stressed.
DR.. Van Waters pointed out that
parents are important, but corrupt
or immature parents cannot disci-
pline children. She also declared
that courts which lack knowledge
of the problem make matters worse
THE worst method Of dealing with
delinquerfts is to have no method
at ALL" she added. I've never
Evening star., 1947-10-08

fore dinner" the doctor said, 'is
often most constructive in increas-
ing vigor and endurance in the
elderly"
Continuance of smoking, coffee
drinking and other habits depend
on the aging patients individual
constitution, he added.
Excess weight is serious threat
in advancing years, DR.. 'Stieglitz as
serted. OF ten men 40 years old who
are Is per cent overweight, six prob
ably will live to be so, three to 10,
and one will reach 80. OF 10 lean
men, however, he said eight would
reach 60, five would live to 10, and
an average of three would live to
be 80.
In a public meeting in the Statler,
sponsored by the society last night,
three speakers participated in a
panel discussion on juvenile delin-
quency The speakers were Theron
L. Caudle, Assistant United States
Evening star., 1947-10-08
Doctors Speedy Diagnosis of Smotheng When Baby Dies Bed

known delinquent who was not
first a neglected child"
The first need Of a normal and
healthy child is the establishment
in itself Of firm feeling Of security
and love in the parent, remarked
DR.. Gardner, adding I'VE are gradu-
ally coming to see" that the child
is more important than the habit
schedule that governs its life.
Replying to a question from the
floor as to the influence of cigarette
smoking in connection with de-
linquency, he said: I'm not able to
say but suspect it is negligible"
G. Rowland Shaw, former Assist
ant Secretary of State. acted as
moderator. Music was provided by
the Metropolitan Police Boys Club,
Maj. Leon Brusilon, director, and
Clinton Brown, leader.
Doctors at the scientific assem-
bly, earlier yesterday heard Msgr.
Fulton J. Sheen Of Catholic Uni
Evening star., 1947-10-08
D. G. Ruling Grants Education
To Girl, Deaf and Almost Blind

A year later, the New York In
stitute for the Education of the
Blind indicated it was willing to
take the girl as pupil. But her
guardian was unable to pay the
difference between the contribution
the District could make and the
1900 tuition fee asked by the New
York school.
So there the matter rested until
last June, when the Family Service
Association offered to pay for hall
of the child's expenses. It was al
this point that School Supt. Hobart
M. Corning asked the corporation
counsel's Office for an opinion as to
whether the District could agree to
such an arrangement.
It was this move which yesterday
resulted in Mr.. Gray's verdict, open
ing the door of learning to "the child
belonging to the District of Co.
lumbia"-as she Is called in the
official papers on the case.
The aunt says they will be able
to teach the girl lip-reading in New
York. She asked the newspaper re-
porters to keep the girls name and
her own out of their stories because,
she said, she is still trying to con-
vince the girl she is no different
from anybody else
Evening star., 1947-10-08
Shots Rout ProwIer
AT Policeman S Home

Police today were checking hos
pitals and doctors in an attempt to
find the prowler who was fired at
by Corpl. William E. McCarten when
the policeman discovered him trying
to break into his home at 2034 Lin
coin road NE. late last night.
Corpl. McCarten, who is attached
to No. precinct and off duty at the
time, said he noticed the man trying
to force rear basement door. The
intruder fled when the officer ap-
preached, but as he ran into an alley
behind the house, Corpl. McCarten
fired two shots at him.
A policeman attached to No. 5
precinct this morning shot ano
slightly wounded man he believed
to be reaching for gun.
Pvt. Joseph M. johnson, 80, COL
ored, reported he was patroling in
the HOO block of L street Sc. about
4:30 am. when he attempted tC
question Willie Butler, 20, colored
of the HOO block of Second street
Sc. Butler fed, the officer said
and after a chase of several blocks
the man stopped and reached into a
pocket.
Pvt. johnson fired one shot, strik-
ing Butler in the back The man
continued to run several more
blocks before being seized, however
Butler was removed to Gallinger
Hospital, where his condition was
reported as good.
Evening star., 1947-10-08

Lose bedclothing is too often given
as the cause of an infants death
when smothering is not really to
blame, doctors were told today at
the District Medical Society's scien-
tific assembly.
DR.. John Caffey, Columbia Uni
versity pediatrics professor, called it
"a particularly vicious diagnosis, u
since it implies the baby would not
have died if the mother had been
present. -...
1T tortures the mother the rest OF
her life," he said. "It gives her a
terrible sense of guilt. We've even
seen divorces result from it."
What is to be feared, the doctor
said, is a sleeping bag with straps
which may get loose and strange
the child, or bedclothes that restrict
its movements too much.
He said babies should sleep In
their own cribs, at least for the first
four to six months. There Is danger
of adults rolling on them In their
Evening star., 1947-10-08

sleep when babies are too young tc
roll away, the doctor declared.
When doctors are tempted tc
diagnose a baby's death as due to
smothering in bed, DR.. Caffey con-
cluded, they should look for all the
other possible causes Of unexpected
death.
He supported the prevailing medi-
cal view that malfunctioning of the
thymus gland is not the common
cause of death it was once supposed
DR.. Edward j. Stieglitz, Washing
ton specialist in the care of the
aged, told the assembly the habits OF
elderly people should be respected.
at is important" he declared
mot to insist upon abrupt and rad
ical changes in their mode of living
They are physically upsetting.
The mere act Of survival is proof
that their habits could not have
been too bad"
"A glass of wine or a highball be-
Evening star., 1947-10-08
S33,500 Awarded 6. u.
For Cancer Research

Award Of $33, 500 for cancer re-
search at Georgetown University
was announced today by the United
States Public Health Service.
The grant is part of the $4,000
900 cancer study and control pro-
gram authorized by Congress for
research agencies throughout the
country during the current fiscal
year.
Georgetown's award covers two
projects approved by the Federal
health agency. A grant OF $24,500
will go for cancer instruction, while
$4,000 is to be used for follow-up
studies of benign and malignant
tumorS.
The Maryland State Department
of Health was given $11, ,695 for
evaluation of the cytologic test for
cancer.
Evening star., 1947-10-08
Man Held on Sex Charge
Brought by Boy, Is

A 29-year-old man today was be-
ing held for the grand jury on
charge brought by a 16-year-old boy.
The defendant was listed as Albert
Loft, of the 23OO block of Pennsyl-
vania avenue NV. He was held
under 81 900 bond after pleading not
guilty and waving hearing before
Municipal Court Judge Walter J.
Casey yesterday.
Sex squad detectives reported the
boy was approached in Lafayette
Park three weeks ago and went to
the Pennsylvania avenue address,
where the alledged offense took
place.
Both the defendant and complain
ing witness appeared yesterday at
No. 3 precinct, where the youth made
his complaint and Loft was arrested.
Evening star., 1947-10-08
Marie, 10, Dances Once Again
AfterL Losing Leg Bittenby Snake
Child Demonstrates
Agility at Meeting Of
Orthopedic Group

The grace with which 10-year-
old Marie Proctor moved across the
Wardman Park Hotels Continental
room dance floor gave other dancers
"a tingle~of pleasure last night.
But to Marie, it was much more
than that. 1t was the biggest night
in her life.
Six months ago Marie thought
there was nothing unusual about
being able to dance. In fact, she had
been taking ballet and tap-dancing
lessons for several years and her
teachers predicted great future for
her.
But that was before the light
brown haired little girl stepped on a
coiled rattlesnake while skipping
home from school one day. The
snake lunged and struck her right
leg.
Leg Had to Come Of.
Long weeks in a hospital in her
home town, Sarasota, Fla, followed.
Doctors said the leg would have to
come off.
After she left the hospital early
this summer she returned to her
home, her hopes for a professional
dancing career ruined.
But Mrs. Mildred Wheatly, her
self an amputee and owner of an
artificial limb factory in Tampa,
read of Marie's plight. Mrs. Wheatly
visited Marie often and told the dis
pairing child of her own dreary two
years in hospital, recovering from
the effects of the automobile COLI
sion which cost her her leg.
Mrs. Wheatly promised Marie that
she would walk and dance again.
She discussed the problem with
Marie until the young girl accepted
her misfortune as a bad accident
but nothing more.
Girl Flown Here.
Two weeks ago Marie visited the
factory and received a preliminary
fitting. Last Sunday the leg was
pronounced a perfect fit" and
Marie started to learn to walk
again.
Mrs. Wheatly brought the girl
with her when she flew to Washing
ton Sunday to attend the 30th an
nual convention of the Orthopedic
Appliance & Limb Manufacturers
Association, meeting Monday, yes
Evening star., 1947-10-08

the Nations Capital after singing al
State Teachers College in West
Chester Pa, Monday night anc
drove here with Patrick Hayes, who
is presenting the concert.
ut Is the first time I am here
but it is not the last time I an
here" Mr.. Gafni explained. Their
ne promptly discussed what the Dis.
trict has done to substantiate his
belief in the lucky number 21,'
It was in 1945 that Gypsy for
tune teller in Hungary told him
when he was 21-that in 1947 he
would become famous.
Finds FL Recurring.
"You add up all of 1947 and il
makes 21," commented Mr.. Gafni
meanwhile shoWering some more
paper around the room and picking
it up. MY plane to Australia was
marked No. 81. Other things I have
met with had 81 on them. Ano
what do you think? Today saw
here in Washington, three taxicabs
with license numbers containing 81
Furthermore, the tenor added, he
even has a friend here whose ad-
dress is 2121 Virginia avenue NV.
Mr.. Gafni made his singing debut
last February in New York's Town
Hall. 1t wasn't long afterward that
Hollywood made a date with him to
make a movie feature of his dra-
matte career.
Evening star., 1947-10-08
Pulaski to Be Honored
By Nation Saturday

President Truman today called
for national observance Saturday OF
the 168th anniversary of the death
of Count Casimir Pulaski, who
fought in the American Revolution.
Gen. Pulaski died in Savannah,
Ga, on October II, 1779, two days
after he had been wounded in a
cavalry charge.
In his proclamation the President
said "a noble deed, remembered and
cherished generation after genera
ton by a whole people merits the
reward of official public notice.
The President urged the people to
hold civic ceremonies Saturday and
ordered the American flag flown
from all Government buildings.
Evening star., 1947-10-08
New Grand Jury Takes
Oath at District Court

A new District grand jury to serve
for three months was sworn in today
at District Court. The oath was ad-
ministered by Justice David A. Pine
Robert D. Coffman, IS. of 600C
Thirteenth street NV, editor OF q
Potomac Electric Power Co. maga
zine, was named foreman. John H
Mcclure, 1477 Newton street NV
was named deputy foreman. The
other members of the grand jury
are:
Robert o. Barnes, 45O3 Macarthur
boulevard NV; Otis Barr, 418
Kenyon street NV; Albert Barton,
11O4 Third street SW.; Mrs. Emily
Lee Barry, 1920 North Capitol street;
Joseph L. Childress, ITO Sixth street
NV; Miss Helen T. Day, 5018 Fifth
street NV; Mrs. Elizabeth Louise
Frazee, 405 Twelfth street Sc; Paul
Granison, 1923 Benning Road NE;
Lewis D. Green, 322 T street NV;
Mrs. Grace Mccormick Hall, 1902
Thirty-fifth street NV; Theodore
r. Harris, 1873 Rosedale street NE,
and Mrs. Marion P. Hueter, 1424 r
street NV.
Also Mrs. Della Mary Keehan,.
5715 Thirteenth street NV; Mrs.
Mary Gruenwald Locke, 3700 Massa-
chusetts avenue NV; Mrs. Estelle
Davis Long, 1881 California street
NV; Mrs. Mary McKenzies, 123 G
street S. w.; Mrs. Audrey Naomi
Rider, 1855 Raum street NE;
Edward Smith, 1907 Forty-fourth
street NV; Arnold ]. Stuckley,
2805 Brentwood read NE; Alva M.
Templeton, 1917 Quincy street NV,
and Mrs. Edith Lucille McKinnon
Wood, 1882 Sherman avenue NV.
Evening star., 1947-10-08

versity expound once more his
views on psychiatry, on which he
has recently made several contro-
versial statements that received wide
publicity.
He told the annual luncheon
meeting Of the Georgetown Uni
versity Medical Alumni Association
that modern psychiatry has begun
to discover the repercussions of a
great number of conflicts which are
/ In human nature itself"
To the extent that psychiatrists
investigate this conflict and its
causes, he said. their science is "a
kind of an echo of the great old
Christian principle of the examina-
ton of conscience"
Msgr. Sheen said, however, that
he opposed the Freudian school of
psychoanalysis, which emphasizes
the sexual basis of varied emotions,
for its unique erotic Interpretation
OF mental disorders.
Evening star., 1947-10-08
Thief Takes $165, Leaves
$2,400 in Church Funds

Some one who apparently didn't
want to steal any more than abso-
lutely necessary from church last
night took $165 in cash and checks
from the funds of the Turner Me-
mortal Church, but left 50, 400 inside
the rifled box
The Rev. Isaac A. Miller, colored,
Of SOL P street NV. told police the
money was taken some time between
4 and 7:30 pm. yesterday from box
in his bedroom. Earlier this month,
Mr.. Miller said, two 500 bills were
stolen from the same box.
The church is at 500 p street NV.
Evening star., 1947-10-08
S250,000 Suit Is Filed
AGAINST Ken MAYNARD

Ken Maynard, Western movie
actor starring in a rodeo show at
U1ine's Arena, was named defendant
in q $250,000 damage suit on file
in District Court today.
Mr. Maynard, with Joe Evans,
also appearing in the show, and
Larry Sunbrock, described as or
ganizer and principal stockholder
Of the show, were sued by John
Weese, who as Johnny Wise operates
the Red Top Riding Stables on
East-West highway, and is West
ern rider in his own right.
Mr.. Weese asserted the rodeo has
been uaing a picture of him atop
his horse, Bob White, In its adver-
tising in various parts of this coun-
try and Canada, but with the name
of Maynard or Evans under the
picture.
In addition to the damages, which
he asserts are for harm done to
his own reputation. Mr.. Weese
asked the court to enjoin the rodeo
from using his picture further until
the case comes to trial.
Evening star., 1947-10-08

until successor could be named.
His resignation, the board an
nounced, was accepted with deep
regret and sincere appreciation. -
Pressure of his other duties made
it necessary for him to discontinue
his council post this fall, it was said
Acting Head Named.
Miss Hoey will act as head OF
the agency during the interim Pc
riod while the Council and the
Washington Community Chest are
working on plans for a proposed
merger. She is the first vice presi-
dent of the board.
She is director of the Bureau OF
Public Assistance of the Social Sc
curity Administration, Federal Sc
curity Agency.
A. gradute of Trinity College and
the New York School of Social
Work, she is a former resident of
New York City.
She received her master of arts
degree from Columbia University
and came to Washington in jan
uary, 1886, to set up the Federal
program of grants-in-a to the
States for public assistance for The
needy aged. needy blind and de-
pendent children.
Served Since 1914.
DR.. Griffith has served as presi-
dent of the council since 1914.
Under his presidency, the council
sponsored the social survey of
Washington on the needs in all
fields of social welfare in the Dis
trict.
He will continue to serve as a
member of the board with full vot-
ing power, in accordance with the
boards bylaws.
DR.. Griffith was a Rhodes Scholar
at oxford University. In 1885 he
became dean of graduate studies
at American University. He as
sumed his post at the Library of
Congress in 1940
Evening star., 1947-10-08

Preliminary hearings on the pay
raise legislation will be held next
month by the investigative staff Of
the Senate Civil Service Committee
There the union leaders will at
tempt to get together on what
kind of a pay bill to support. In
dications are that a temporary $500.
a-year increase will be asked, with
the raise to be withdrawn wher
prices decline somewhere to around
1910 or 1941 levels.
Meanwhile, Federal employe
groups are anxiously watching
events in New York, where New
York State civil service employees
are asking Gov. Dewey to grant
them a pay boast retroactive tt
October /.
Gov. Dewey has not indicated
just what he will do, but Fedora.
groups here are pulling for the
New York workers to get the cost.
of-living wage boast. They figure
1t will improve Federal employees
chances of getting a pay raise.
4 + X
ALL WET-A young lady, who &C.
cording to her none ne-to-quiet con.
versation with a companion, is 9
Commerce Department employe
was riding in a Virginia bus te
work the other day.
She had some freshly-p picked
flowers in a paper bag, presumably
for the vase in her Office. This
was all right, but it soon became
apparent she had filled the bag
with water to keep the flowers
fresh. The sack started to leak.
The girl was standing, the water
trickled on the coat, collar and
trousers of a dressed, dignified-
looking old gentleman. He stood
it as long as he could and then he
looked up.
will you please put that bag
on the foor?" he snapped. you're
drowning me-"
The woman looked indignant
why, she sputtered. "You-you-
Republican,"