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Evening star., 1947-07-25
Court Ruling Upsets
|0PA Suits Here for
100000 Damage.

The United States may lose treble
damage suits involving an esti-
mated sum Of nearly $4,000, ,00o
In the District alone, 1t was in
dicated today, If the United States
Court Of Appeals does not reverse
q ruling made earlier this month by
Justice James w. Morris Of District
Court in dismissing an OPA suit.
Dismissal on July II Of the suit
which charged partners in a meat
concern with selling at above CELL
ing prices wss granted on the ground
the Government had failed to SUBJ
stitute, within six months, plain
tiff in place Of former OPA Admin
istrator Chester Bowles, in whose
name that suit was brought.
Suit for $1,146,6o0.
The suit dismissed had asked ST.
LAG, 800, representing three times the
alleged overcharges In 1914 and 1945.
It was brought against Sam Siegel
and Berry G. Wright, said to be
partners in the Wright Beef Co., in
the 1900 block of Fourth street NE
The action against Mr.. Wright had
been dismissed earlier, however.
Meanwhile, the United States at
torney's office here has filed papers
to have the United States substi-
tuted as plaintiff in 1877 other OPA
treble damage suits, 1t was said
yesterday by Assistant United States
Attorney John D. Lane. The papers
ask that the substitutions be made
for Mr.. Bowles and Paul Porter,
both former price administrators.
There are IA other cases in which
substitutions are to be asked for
Maj. Gen. Philip A. Fleming, former
temporary controls administrator.
U. s. Held "Real Party"
The Government, in its filings
here, contends the United States is
the real party in interest"
In a supporting memorandum, 1t
asserts, treble damage actions sur
vive any change in administration
and may be maintained on behalf
of the United States"
Meanwhile a Justice Department
spokesman estimated yesterday there
are about 5000 treble damage suits
pending with about half Of them in
the same category as the local suits,
in which plaintiffs have not been
substituted for former OPA ad-
ministrators..
Evening star., 1947-07-25
|PUC Aide Questions
Estimate on Benninq
Streetcar-Bus Shift

A change from streetcars to buses
on the eastern leg of the Benning.
Rosslyn line would cost the Capita.
Transit CO. more than it thinks.
At the same time, repair Of the
carline and its continued operation
would cost less than the company
figures.
This was the testimony yesterday
of Chief Engineer Fred A. Sager OF
the Public Utilities Commission.
Mr.. Sager sought to show that
the company would have to use from
II to 20 more buses than 1t antici-
pates to serve patrons of the present
carline.
He also said the company's es-
Inmates of the capital outlay neces-
sary to modernize and repair the
carline and continue streetcar oper-
alton are too high.
If the number Of buses the COM
pany feels would replace present cal
service are used, the line would be
one Of the most crowded in Wash
tngton, he said.
In its estimates on the capita,
outlay and operating costs involved
in modernizing and operating the
streetcar line, the company has
added such expenses as extra land
for a double-track turnaround anc
installations which would have t<
be maintained anyway for othe,
lines, Mr.. Sager said.
Yesterdays cross-examination wa
a continuation Of the company's
long battle to substitute buses fol
streetcars on the Rosslyn-Bennine
line east Of Fifteenth street NV
Proceedings were recessed until II
am. Monday, when F. G.. Await
counsel for the transit company
will be given a chance to cross.
examine the witnesses who testified
yesterday.
Evening star., 1947-07-25
Professor Kills Self, but Fails
In ATTEMPT on Life of III Child

the next sentence ended with the
words, "helplessly insane"
Another note found in ingalls,
wallet said, according to the sheriff,
some people won't understand this. "
ingalls, had been q professor OF
geography at Norwich, a military
school, since 1889. Friends said the
daughter has been a spastic invalid
since birth.
Evening star., 1947-07-25
Heite Named to Head
Society of Florists ..,&s

Charles G. Heite, jr., of Wichita
Kans., was elected president Of the
Society of American Florists at the
annual meeting in the Shorehan
Hotel yesterday.
Other officers elected were s. s
Pennock, jr., of Baltimore, vice
president, and John H. Dudley, OF
Lansing, Mich, and Wallace Pier
son, jr., of Cromwell, Conn.,, di-
rectorS.
Evening star., 1947-07-25

ADVERTISEMENT.
Evening star., 1947-07-25
Citizen Group Drafts
IntefraciaI Proposal
On YMCACoffee Shor

A resolution drafted by a COM
mittee of citizens, asking an end
to the reported practice Of refusing
to serve colored persons in the
YMCA's coffee shop, in the central
branch, 1895 G street NV, will be
presented to the US Executive Com
mittee soon.
The citizens group met with five
persons representing the Y last
night. The citizens committee was
composed Of the Rev. Stephen Gill
Spottswood, pastor Of John Wesley
Methodist Church; Mrs. Luke Will
son, Byron Allen, Belford Lawson
and Miss Sidney Irwin, student at
the Interracial Workshop, 918 N
street NV.
Representatives Of Y.
The Y committee was composed
OF John w. Hardiel, Randolph
Meyers. George Heckert, H. E. Man
gum and Ralph Foster.
The Interracial Workshop last
week called off a demonstration In
the Central Us coffee shop, after an
agreement had been reached be-
tween its spokesman and Y officials
for last nights meeting.
Meanwhile, reports Of attempts
to break down segregation in Wash
ington were given last night at a
meeting called by the Workshop at
Asbury Methodist Church, Eleventh
and K streets NV.
Bayard Rustin, director Of the
Workshop and chairman of the
meeting, reported on what he said
was the successful breaking down
of the practice Of not serving colored
persons in the Methodist Building
cafeteria, 100 Maryland avenue NE.
Discusses Negotiations.
He also discussed the negotiations
being carried on with the Central Y.
The Workshop is sponsored by the
Fellowship Of Reconciliation, the
Congress of Racial Equality and the
Committee for Racial Democracy in
the Nations Capital. It has been
in operation for the past month with
students from II States and Canada
In attendance.
Other speakers included: The
Rev. Martin Jennings, chaplain to
the Catholic students at Howard
University; the Rev. George Joyce
of st. Augustine's parish; Joseph
H. B. Evans, secretary Of the Wash
ington Chapter of the National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People; the Rev. James r.
Cannon, acting pastor of the Asbury
Methodist Church; Miss Ida Fox,
secretary of the Committee for
Racial Democracy in the Nations
Capital, and Miss Norah Fujitha,
Toronto; Frank Stannard, Lawrence,
Kans.; Mrs. Doreen Curtis, Miami,
Fla, and A. c. Thompson and Frank
Kajikawa, Peoria, ILL.,, all students
of the Workshop.
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G.. u. Student to Teach
At Settlement House

Miss Florence Marie Hunter, a
student at the Catholic University
School Of Music, has been ap-
pointed music instructor at the
Christ Child Settlement House, 608
Massachusetts avenue NV.
Miss Hunter will give both clas-
sical and swing piano and voice les
sons, the Christ Child Society an
nounced. She plans to organize a
glee club and a house orchestra
later.
For six years, Miss Hunter has
been soprano soloist at st. Dom
inics Catholic Church. She lives
at 407 Sixth street s. w.
Evening star., 1947-07-25
Formers Get Bargain

Farmers in Queenstown, South
Africa, now laugh when their stray
ing cattle are impounded and they
have to pay cents head for the
extra feeding they get-because
otherwise the feed would cost them
up to So cents head.
Evening star., 1947-07-25
MANY never
SUSPECT CAUSE
OF BACkAChES
This Treatment Often Brings
Happy Relief

Many sufierers relieve naGging ieckssht
quickly once they discover that the ra
cause Of their trouble may b tired 6dneys
The Kidneys are Natures enief en- r.. wsy .si o.
blood. They help most people eliminate
about pints q day.
When disorder Of kidney function permits
voison6as matter to remain in your blood
Il mayssause nasging hackache, rheumatic
pains. sfer pains, swelling, pufiness uudel
fhe eyet. headaches and dixxiness. =.
Don't Hait ! Ask your aruggist for DoaM'i
Pills. 4 afimulant diuretic, used sueesssfully
Nv nailiious for over 80 years. Doan'l give
happy relief and win help the IL miles Of
Hdney tubes flush out poisonous yAsee $reu
1n1sr hIeod. Get Deans Pills
Evening star., 1947-03-16
Garfield Bullet llnearthed

that did the damage. This was
.44-caliber bullet. The ball weighed
200 grains and the charge was 18
grains of powder, and was then
said to be the largest size used in
a pistol.
President Garfield might have re-
covered had the physicians been
able to trace the course of the
wound more accurately. Indeed this
argument was used in the trial by
the defense, who said, 1.-The sylogism
is this: Three weeks after he was
shot his physician held a careful
examination, and publicly declared
he would recover. Two months
after this official announcement he
died"
AS a matter of fact the course
of the bullet was not definitely
known until after the Presidents
death. Indeed, at the time no
science available was overlooked to
save the Presidents life, and even
Alexander Graham Bell, whose
scientific knowledge was already
well established, and a Prof. Taintor,
Evening star., 1947-03-16

opened in September, 1915. Its
is miniature equipment for the chill
dren, a small outdoor playground
and modern kitchen to prepare
the noon meal.
Children who go to this nursery
school cannot play or take part in
many activities enjoyed by well
children. Some of them, hampered
by retarded mental or emotional
development, become dizzy from
forced concentration. They some
times understand more than they
can respond to and many who are
sluggish Of speech must have time
to express themselves.
But the experience of playing
with other children with similar
capacities provides handicapped
children, like normal children, with
the social experience in which each
of them learns to accept himself
with his handicap and with it learns
to achieve physical and social Sc
curity.
Those children who attend the
school throughout the year are
benefited at the end of the term,
observation and studies have shown.
The fatigue and listlessness of
the children from low-income homes
gave place to physical vigor as nutri-
ton improved and the children re-
ceived adequate rest. Two children
unable to walk without assistance
when they entered school were able
to walk alone at the end of the
school year.
Physical treatment by therapists
provided by the society was respon-
sible to a large extent for these
achievements, but it also was felt
that the school contributed toward
this development by giving these
children the opportunity to find in
dependence and constant encourage
ment.
When the nursery school first
opened its doors 10 children en-
rolled. The 28 which came last Sep
tember represented almost a 200
per cent increase. This year the
director, Mrs. Dorothy Shoemaker,
has two assistants, parent helper
and a full-time attendant and cook
It is hoped that further study OF
the nursery school experience OF
this comparatively large group OF
% handicapped children will enrich
the understanding Of the emotional
development of cerebral palsied
children. so that the knowledge
gained in this demonstration school
will be beneficial to other teachers
working in the same field.
This school has made the District
a leader among cities where the
study Of cerebral palsied children
has been undertaken.
The nursery is only one part OF
the varied program which the sale
Of Easter seals supports. The So
ciety, without duplicating the serv-
ices Of any other agency, extends
its aid In other forms also.
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Help a Crippled Child Walk
By Mary F. CogdeII

~ URING the last year 308
cerebral palsied children
~ were brought to the con-
sultation clinics operated
by the District of Columbia Society
for Crippled Children. OF this
number, 43 received speech therapy.
|28 attended the nursery school and
is spent a week or two at summer
camp.
Statistics such as these from the
society's annual report often mean
little, but translate the figures into
boys and girls and you have some
idea of the work of this society.
To carry out its program, the or
tganizatio is dependent entirely on
tine good will Of Washington area
residents. The chief source of in
come is through the annual sale
of Easter seals. This years sale
now is under way. Because thou
sands Of people bought these seal
last year large numbers of crippled
children showed marked improve
ment" at the end of&he year.
The work of the society is carried
on in a four-story building on Mas
sachusetts avenue near Dupont
Circle, which was purchased in
June. The charm of this old ivy
covered Washington residence with
its gracious entrance of solid GUAR
tered oak, its tall ceilinged rooms,
marble fireplaces and antique crys-
tai chandeliers, has an atmosphere
of warmth and intimacy. This dig
nified home was redecorated and
arranged for the comfort and Joy
of little children.
The street floor is used for the
nursery school and for the monthly
clinic.
The nursery school for cerebral
palsied children, the first Of its type
rooms are brightly decorated. There
in the District Of Columbia, was
Evening star., 1947-03-16

To many people camping is just
vacation in the woods, but to
the 16 handicapped children who
last year attended Camp Greentop,
Birdsboro, Pa; Camp Clarissa Scott
at Annapolis and Camp Lichtmann
at Reading, Pa, it is chance for
them to escape from their Gus
tomary isolation by making new
friendships, an opportunity for
them to learn how to "give and
take" to know nature and to ap-
preciate the spiritual aspect Of this
wholesome experience.
The backbone y Of the society's
work with cerebral palsied children
is the consultation clinic presided
over by DR.. Winthrop M. Phelps.
A kindly man, who has a way"
with children, DR.. Phelps last year
studied and talked with 308 chill
dren referred to the society by the
Crippled Children's Unit of the
Health Department., by the Ortno-
pedic Clinic at Children's Hospital,
by pediatricians, orthopedists, neu-
rologists and other private physi-
clans. ...
With each clinic DR.. Phelps says
| it becomes more apparent that the
progress of the cerebral palsied
child is dependent upon the close
working relationships between the
parent, the referring physician, the
therapists the educator, the psy-
chologist and the consulting physi-
clan.
It also takes another partner to
help the crippled child. That Is the
silent" partner that you become
when you support the work Of the
District society by your purchase of
its Easter seals.
Evening star., 1947-03-16

imous opinion of the attending sur
geons that the wound was on that
side, and suggests the possibility
that If 1t had been used on the left
side it would have indicated the
bullets location, and that it might
have anticipated the X-ray in some
degree, as an instrument for de-
tecting foreign metallic bodies in
wounds"
Further, says DR.. Tindall: 1T Is
to the credit of the scientific aspects
Evening star., 1947-03-16

fered American coffee, still packed
in the brown grocery bag. stamped
with an Army marking and stapled
with an Army clip. 1t is available
only at Army commissaries and sold
oniy to American wives.
However, the path of the wife has
not been entirely smoothed. Some
times she has to wait in line for her
groceries to be checked.
Evening star., 1947-03-16
Williamsburg
AMERICAS WILLIAMSBURG

BY Gerald Horton Bath. fCo-
loniaI Williamsburg, Inc; 65c.J
This beautifully prepared little
book tells the story of Williamsburg,
Colonial capital of Virginia, as 1t
was in the fascinating days Of its
political importance and colorful
social distinction, and as it is to-
day, a masterpiece Of restoration.
It Is illustrated with striking photo
graphs by Wendell MacRae.
- C W.D.
Evening star., 1947-03-16

used on the body an induction bal
ance" to ascertain the location OF
the ball, and regarding this expert
ment, Prof. Bell, in The Star of
August 2, 1881, said in part: =
"the use of the induction balance
was confined to the right wall OF
the abdomen, following the unan-
Evening star., 1947-03-16
Tale of a Young,
Man Caught in
A Dilemma.
IN A YELLOW WOOD
BY Gore Vidal. (E. P. Dutton
& Co.; $2.75.)
Reviewed by
IRVING LASH

lHNlN1 LASu
Don't stop to puzzle out the title
on this one, for the action, languid
though 1t be, takes place Wall
Street, where there Is n ugh
timber to fill a box of ma fhe
story revolves around ) man
Just out of the. Army az. three
women, one Of whom seems to have
followed the Army in Italy. The
young man, Robert Holton, clerks in
a brokerage house and spends few
minutes Of the "a hours covered by
the book wondering whether he will
get ahead. Despite the fact he
doesn't put in a very busy day, his
success is assured when he and
the president Of the company meet
at a fashionable cocktail party. The
boss figures Robert deserves some
thing better than clerking-"How'd
you like to be customers man, my
boy?"-because they move in the
same social circles. Robert says he'd
like it. The remainder Of the day is
given over to the young man and the
women, and Robert does all right.
As for the title again, Robert is
supposed to be caught in modern
dilemma" But man never moved
with more sureness than he does
when Carla beckcns.
Evening star., 1947-03-16
UNEASY TERMS

UNEASY TERMS
BY Peter Cheyney. (Dodd. Mead
G. Co.. S2.50.)
Slim Callaghan, whose capacity
for tossing down double whiskies
is matched only by his ability to
knock out three men simultaneously.
is called into this one by suspicious
stepfather who gets murdered be-
fore Slim reaches the scene. He
finds himslf entangled with three
sisters - sweet. beautiful Viola;
brash, beautiful Corinne, and youth
full, beautiful Patricia. Slim Is a
sucker for beautiful girls and
promptly gets himself into trouble
of the kind that sends private de-
tectives to Jail for obstructing JUS
tice. He extricates himself, as usual,
by pitting all the opposing forces
against each other until the end Is
inevitable-but not surprising.
THE BLACK GOATEE
BY Constance and Gwenyth Lit
tie. doubleday G. Co.; ST.
An apartment-hunting father and
daughter wind up by moving into
the mysterious left wing of their
cousins home. Two more squatters
follow them. They are just begin
ming to wonder If old Uncle Oliver,
who used to occupy the wing, has
come to haunt them when an elderly
man with black goatee shows up,
insists on a room for the night and
gets murdered. Then Maude and
Una, the cousins, discover the
squatters and their troubles pile up
In the ensuing slapdash Of comedy
and romance, Una suddenly disap-
pears. It is Maude who finally dis
covers the identity of the murderer
but this time there is no detective
to explain how it all happened. In
stead, the reader is suddenly pitched
into the murderer's mind as he re-
views the events leading up to thc
murder.
X X X
KILLERS PLAY ROUGH by
Adam Ring; Grown Publishers,
$1,000. Detective Jim Pierce en-
counters murder and sets out to
discover why $4,000 should be bid
for a $500 necklace.
HOW LIKE A GOD by Rex Stout;
(The Vanguard Press; $2.50). A re-
issue of Mr.. Stout's first novel, pub
lished in 1929. Suspense but no
Nero Wolfe.
A HALO FOR NOBODY by Henry
Kane; (Sirnon and Schuster, Inc,
So. Staccato dialogue, endear-
ments like "sweet-eyes" and pri-
vate detective who spends most OF
his time in the smoker night clubs.
1T AMT HAY by David Dodge;
(Simon and Scnuster, Inc, So. Tax
Expert James Whitney refuses to
advise a bearded crook and winds
up stalking a murderer.
THE TITLE is MURDER, by
Hugh Lawrence Nelson. (Rinehart
e. Co., Inc; So A first mystery laid
in a San Francisco bookstore where
all concerned are loaded with tenn
permanent. Fast moving and amus-
ing.
THE FIFTH DAGGER, by Doro-
thy Quick. (Chasles Scribner's Sons;
$2.) Trouble begins when beauti-
full patient slaps the doctors bride.
Dignified prose-hardly suited to
"whodunits."
BLOOD OF VINTAGE by Thomas
Kyd: 81. B. Lippincott Co.; $3.50.
Tiara is an exclusive Suburb-but
not too exclusive for murder. De-
tective Sam Phelan to the rescue.
Evening star., 1947-03-16
By John CIoeett Proctor

lowing man and calling, Rockwell |!
Where is ROCKWELL The man was
seized by ofaeer Kearney and Mr..
Parks, the depot policeman. The
President was taken upstairs. DR..
Bliss arrived soon afterward. It
was soon discovered that both shots
had taken effect. One struck him
in the right arm below the shoul-
der. The other went in at the right
side of the back. between the hip
and the kidney It then passed
forward and went down into the
groin. 1t was probed for, but could
not be found" ...
Pistol Was Snub-Nose
.A-Caliber Type
AS to the pistol, it is recorded
that when Guiteau came to WASH
ington, March 6, 1881, with the
determination of killing the Pres
ident, he purchased the weapon on
June 8, from OMearas Sporting
Goods Store, COL Fifteenth street,
Evening star., 1947-03-16

of surgery that one member OF
the medical profession was not
misled into an erroneous diagnosis
of the direction taken by the bullet,
but that two days after the per-
petration of the crime DR.. Frank
Baker, then assistant demonstration
of anatomy, in the Medical Depart
ment of Columbian University, now
George Washington University
made q diagnosis which the autop-
sy proved to be correct"
Evening star., 1947-03-16
BY Murion Wade Campbell

Oy WutIuH Vu0e AuHlPDStI
speeioI Correspondent Of The ssar
pounds Of American coffee, bought
at the Army conmissary for 40 cents,
is IS among the German population.
The number of wives indulging
in this traffic is hard to estimate, for
none has ever been charged with 1t
by the authorities. But on the street
corners the German passerby is Of
Evening star., 1947-03-16

Lessng Rosenwad collector (shown left in the
photograph the book printed in the Philippines
the Chana Manila 1593 to the Library of Con-
gre Roenwald shown presenting the only known copy
the Book librarian Congress- at the Library
Wednesday Philadelphia collector also presented the in
only the Ordinances Of the Domn
of the Philippines printed at Binondo in 1904
- Star Staff Photo
Evening star., 1947-03-16
Assassin's First Shot
Went Wild

AS to the present whereabouts of
the pistol there seems to be no
certainty, though a most thorough
inquiry has been made. However,
according to the writer's investiga-
ton, it would seem that sometime
during the period between 1884 and
1888, when Leslie C. Garnett was
the United States District Attorney
it was transferred to some other
branch of the Federal Government
AS before stated the first shot
from Guiteau's pistol proved harm
less and that 1t was the second shot
Evening star., 1947-03-16

opposite the Treasury Building, and
practiced with it at the foot of
Seventeenth street. On Sunday,
June II, he sat in Lafayette square
and saw the President start out for
church. He proceeded to the
church and would have killed him
then but for his fear of injuring
some one else.
After the crime, John U. OMeara,
proprietor of the store identified
the pistol as of the "heavy English
bulldog pattern" and the one sold
by him to Guiteau. However, i'm
mediately after the shooting the
pistol, when at police headquarters,
was said by the press reporter to
be "a revolver about 7 inches long.
1t had an ivory handle. The caliber
was very large. 1t is known as a
California pistol. 1t made a very
loud report"
At the time of the trial, Special
olltSCl oO4l41 1Ss 0SOtt, al 1NCl4I2AJ J11S
the pistol, and apparently careless
ly handling the weapon, was cau-
toned sharply by the district at
torney: Hold that pistol more the
other way; toward yourself or some
other way; it's loaded" Then the
pistol was carefully examined by
the jury.
AS to the disposition of the re-
volver after the crime, the late
Maj and Supt. of Police Richard.
Sylvester, says: although brought
to detective headquarters, the. weap-
on with which Guiteau shot the
President was, with. great impro-
priety and contrary to all prece-
dents, permitted to be taken off by
the district attorney. It was never
recovered, but is now in the posses
sion of a well-known citizen. The
fatal bullet likewise escaped police
record and disposition. The first
bullet fired is owned by Mr.. A. E. L.
Keene, attorney at law in this CITY,"