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Evening star., 1947-09-01
7 Diphtheria Cases Found
In One Baltimore House
BY the Associated Press

BALTIMORE. Sept. l. - Seven
cases of diphtheria among two fam
lilies in the same house have been
reported by DR.. Huntington Will
liams, city health commissioner.
DR.. Williams said that was the
largest number of cases to be re-
ported for any week since April
He noted that conditions in the
home of the victims were extremely
congested.
The commissioner also reported
100 cases of whooping cough, saying
the disease was more prevalent last
week than any other sevn-day per-
iod since july 81, 1914.
Evening star., 1947-09-01
Pennsylvania Crude Oil
Raised 20 Cents q Barre
BY the Associoted Pres,

BRADFORD, Pa, Sept. IA 20
cent-a barrel increase in the posted
price of Pennsylvania grade crude
oil. effective today, was announced
by the South Penn Oil Co. and its
subsidiary, the Joseph Seep Pur-
chasing Agency.
The increase will bring the price
to $3.50 a barrel. The present S4.30
posted price had equalled high
mark established July l, 1929.
Life expectancy of the average
man in Australia is now 65 years.
Evening star., 1947-09-01
British Bombers to Start
Flight Home Tomorrow
By the Associated Press

NsSOCTuIeu TTtSs
Britain's visiting squadron of big
bombers leaves for home tomorrow
by way of Canada.
The four-engine Lincoln bombers
which arrived here July % to tour
various United States Army air
bases and plants will take off at
10 am. from Andrews Field for
Trenton, Ontario,
Evening star., 1947-09-01
U.S.. and Jap Scientists
1oStudy Effect Of Atom
On Unborn Children
BY the Associated Press

How seriously atomic bomb eX
plosions affect unborn children, if a
all, will be investigated by japanese
and American scientists as part O.
a full-scale research study on sur.
vivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The Atomic Energy Commission
and the National Research Council
will undertake jointly a long range
study of the after effects of the
A-bomb, it was announced last
night.
Reports Of horrid and peculiar ab-
normalities in children born to sur
vivors of the blasts have circulated
but DR.. Lewis H. Weed. chairman of
the councils division of medical SCI
ences, said there is no evidence to
support these stories.
Statements Held Erroneous.
widespread interest has been
aroused concerning the effect of ra-
diation on heredity," DR.. Weed said
Much of this interest stems from
erroneous statements about the fire.
quency of abnormalities among chill
dren born in Hiroshima and Naga-
saki."
The program will be directed in
Japan by American physicians with
the participa ton ito the greatest
practicable extent of japanese
scientists under arrangement with
Gen. Macarthur.
Specifically, investigations will be
undertaken to discover the effect
of atomic radiation on the blood
cells. on the physical growth of
children, on the mechanismS of
heredity and on the formation OF
massive scar tissue.
The study probably will continue
for a generation If funds are avail
able, experts believed No estimate
of the cost was revealed.
Many Years to Be Covered.
One of the major studies will be
in the field of genetics and heredity,
a customarily slow research subject.
"A careful study of a period of
many years has been planned on
this subject under the guidance of
authorities on genetics," the Atomic
Energy Commission said.
Some of the peacetime problems
Of living in an atomic age may be
answered. too, the commission said.
The Japanese studies may result
in new concepts and new techniques
that can be applied to the develop
ment Of atomic energy for peace
time purposes" the commission said.
Background Of Study.
The commission gave this back
ground for the study:
Shortly after Japan's surrender
joint Army Navy commission
made extensive observations in the
bombed cities. When the report Of
this group was submitted, Maj. Gen.
Norman T. Kirk, then surgeon gem
.eral of the Army, pointed out the
necessity of a long continuing study
of the surviving casualties.
LAS a result, in December, 1916. a
five-man commission representing
the Army, the Navy and the Nation
al Research Council visited Japan
to study further the possibility of
long term research program. They
concluded that it was both practical
and important.
Even before this commission had
returned, President Truman, on the
recommendation of Defense Secre-
tary James Forrestal directed the
National Rsearch Council to under
take the study and authorized the
cooperation of Government agen-
cies.".
The National Research Council is
A part of the National Academy of
Sciences, a quasi-offcial agency in
corporated by Congress.
Evening star., 1947-09-01
Sets Soviet Swim Mark

MOSCOW, Sept. (P).-Iskander
Faizulin, Soviet Russia's champion
long distance swimmer. set a new
national record by swimming 74.S
miles in the Volga River in % hours
and 81 minutes today.
Evening star., 1947-09-01
Chino Accepts U. S. Bid
To Korea Conference
BY the Associated Press

NANKING, Sept. 1.-The foreign
Office dispatched a note to Washing
ton today accepting United States
invitation to join in a four power
conference on Korea.
Great Britain and Russia also were
invited to the conference. scheduled
Evening star., 1947-09-01

1,000-mile tour by automobile and
plane in an attempt to restore peace.
Right at the start Saturday they
saw thousands upon thousands of
Evening star., 1947-09-01

for Washington September 8. to act
on new proposals aimed at breaking
United States Russian deadlock
over Korea's independence.
Evening star., 1947-09-01

refugees fleeing for their lives and
heard reports that new slaughters
had taken place in both India and
Pakistan,
Evening star., 1947-06-29

Chart based Associated Press daily wholesale price in
commodities traces upward trend of prices since
January 1916 During year controls er
946 have risen 46 cent The peak
14-year- old index AP Wlrephoto
Evening star., 1947-06-29
6waItney Will Fight
NLRB Election Order
BY The Assoeiuted Press

SMITHF1ELD, Va, June 28.-An
order of the National Labor Rela-
tions Board voiding a May %, 1916,
collective bargaining agency election
among employees at the P. D. Gwalt-
ney, jr,, & Co., Inc, packing plant
will be resisted by every known
legal means" State Senator A. E.
S, Stephens, company counsel, said
today.
Mr.. Stephens indicated the NLRB
directive will be appealed.
The NLRB In a directive issued in
Washington on Thursday set aside
the results of the election in which
the Gwaltney employees by an 1927
vote rejected the bid of the United
Packinghouse Workers of America
(CIO) to become collective bargain
ing agent, and ordered that new
election be held when "circum-
stances permit free choice among
the employees"
The election last year was pre-
ceded by organization of citizens
Committee. the holding of mass
meetings and other incidents which
the NLRB declared did not permit
"tfe sort of free, unintimidated
choice of representatives which the
act contemplates
Evening star., 1947-06-29

to Kill. Pvt. Padgett was described
at his precinct as still in serious
condition although he is now home
I from the hospital after two major
operations. Several bullet jackets
are still in his body, a bullet is
lodged in the bone behind his eye
and both lungs and his liver are
affected.
Pvt. Francis C. Fenwick Of No. g.
who was shot three times after he
cornered two men in a blind alley
just before dawn on May 80, 1947
Indicted on charges of assault with
intent to kill are Matthew McIn-
tosh, %, colored, and Robert Sim
mons. 27, colored. His precinct de-
scribed his condition as fair. Pvt.
Fenwick is at home but expects to
return to the hospital for an opera
ton to put silver plate in his fore
head.
Detective Sergt. Howard E. Ogle
of the Detective Bureau who ser
iously injured his back June 8, 1947,
when he was pushed from second
floor porch during a struggle with q
man he was attempting to arrest.
Police held John Junior Doyle, 26,
who is on bond on an assault charge
in another case. The Detective Bu-
reau said Doyle would not be
charged in the Ogle case until the
injured detective is able to go to
court. Sergt. Ogle was released
from the hospital last Thursday and
is conValescing at home.
Detective Sergt. Joseph H. Hunt of
the Detective Bureau, who suffered a
gunshot wound in the chest in an
exchange of shots with two armed
bandits who attempted to hold him
up at stop light while he was de-
tailed to apprehend stop light rob-
bers June 13, 1947. william Ran
dolph, %, colored, and Charles H.
Armstrong, 20, colored, are being
held on charges of assault with in
tent to kill. At George Washington
Hospital, Sergt. Hunts condition was
Evening star., 1947-06-29
VA Will Ask Legion
To Name Sources OF
Criticism in Report

The Veterans Administration will
ask the American Legion to identify
sources of criticism in long report
giving a 'cross-section' of how the
Legion feels about operations of the
agency, it was learned last night.
The report contains several hun
dred miscellaneous comments about
Veterans Administration efficiency
from department officers and serv-
ice officers of the Legion. They
were made in answer to questions
framed by national leaders of the
Legion.
T. o. Kraabel, Legion rehabilita-
ton director. said the report has
been distributed to State depart
ments of the organization, but that
it was not meant for release to the
public. It was turned over to Vet
Grams Administrator Bradley Friday.
Sources of all the comments,
which alternately praised and
blasted all activities of the Veterans
Administration, were withheld in
the report.
An official of the agency said the
Legion will be asked to reveal names
of States where Veterans Admin
istration efficiency was criticized
and that investigations of the
charges will be made.
Meanwhile, Mr. Kraabel stressed
that the report was meant to be
the objective view of a large num-
Der of people who work closely with
the Veterans Administration and
not criticism of overall func-
tons" Sources of all the comments
are on hand at Legion Offices here
and will be turned over to the Vet
Grams Administration if they are
requested, he added.
A number of remarks in the
report voiced the opinion that the
veterans agency has too many en-
ployes. Others urged a reshuff1ing
of workers to give better service to
veterans-specif1cally charging that
personnel and special services divi-
sions were overloaded.
While every question asked the
Legionnaires drew divided opinion,
number of the comments criticized
the large number of military per-
sonnel in the Veterans Administra-
ton and suggested the agency be
put on a civilian basis"
Evening star., 1947-06-29
Virginia Snake CuIfists
Given IS Days in Jail
By the Assoeiated Press

JONESVILLE, Va, June %
Two members of the Holiness Faith
Healing cult, who said the Lord
would represent them and refused
to obtain counsel, were convicted
today in Lee County Trial Justice
Court Of handling a poisonous snake
at ceremony at Stony Creek last
week and given 15-day jail sentences
and $50 fines.
The defendantS-Macil Thompson,
40-year-old coal miner, and Mrs.
Frances Delp, about 60-remained
silent as State troopers testified
that they handled a five-foot cop
perhead, contrary to a recent Vir-
ginia statute. in a manner en-
dangerin gthe lives of others.
But when Justice George Cridlin
passed sentence they said: We want
to appeal"
Mr.. Cridlin sent the appeal on
to the next term of Lee Circuit
Court and Thompson and Mrs. Delp
said they would still rely on God
as their attorney in the higher
court.
State police interrupted the serv-
ices in the Shrine of Divine Heal
ing last week and bludgeoned the
snake that was being used in faith
demonstrations.
Evening star., 1947-06-29

which sold at 40 cents a dozer
wholesale now bring 81 cents.
Retailer dealers in New York sale
the OPA ceiling on butter was 81
cents, but consumers paid 80 cents
to 81 in the "black market" Today
the price is II cents.
| Grains, which are basic factor
in all food costs because they are
fed to meat and dairy animals or
farms, are substantially higher thar
under OPA ceilings.
! In Kansas City, where the record
breaking billion busfel wheat crop
| is just beginning to arrive, winter
wheat is selling for s218 to 1922 9
bushel against a former ceiling Of
$2011s. AT Minneapolis spring
wheat today is $274 to s2.82k
against a ceiling of $1.8812.
Most spectacular grain at the
moment is corn, which sold in Chi
cago this week end at $2.1212 to
$2.15 bushel against an OPA CELL
ing of $14612.
In other primary markets, family
flour at Buffalo which had CELL
ing of $5.73 a year ago is now $40,
ISteel scrap at Pittsburgh had cell
ing of $40 and now sells for $3.50,
tuTpentine at Savannah which had
a 8312 cents ceiling is selling for
59t2.
Average price of middling cotton
at 10 Southern markets a year ago,
not controlled by the OPA, was
5000 cents a pound. Today it is
i37.47 cents. .....
Such items as mems and Women's
furnishings generally are higher, al
though nylon stockings in New York
are an exception. The June, 1946,
price for 45-gauge 30-denier hose
was $120 and the supply was very
short. Today the price is $1,19 and
the supply is large.
Shoe Costs Higher.
| A sharp rise in hide and finished
leather prices is given as a reason
for higher shoe costs. In New York
mems shoes with an OPA ceiling
of S1095 now sell for $1495 while
WOIlleIl ) S1lOSS Will d4I OE n IldA4~
mum of $3.50 now bring $685..
In New York stores mems Worsted
suits which had a ceiling of $40 now
sell for S45 to $4750 and in Chicago
Meyer Kestenbaum, president OF
Hart, Schaffner & Marx. said prices
would be higher this autumn.
Are conditions better" or worse
today than under the OPA?
Advocates Of OPA argue that
prices in legitimate markets have
risen spectacularly, that only in GER
tain items have they shown signs
of declining, and that supply in
.creases in these latter goods would
have developed just as quickly un-
der OPA.
Opponents of OPA argue that
goods are more easily available. that
the crooked and sinister BLACK
market" has been eliminated and
that the OPA was unenforceable in
peacetime because it lacked the
backing of wartime patriotism.
Evening star., 1947-06-29
Rdbbis Confirm Stand
On Mixed Marriages
By the Asseeiatad Press

MONTREAL, June 28.-The CEN
tral conference of American rabbis
tonight reaffirned its resolution of
1909 declaring that mixed mar
riages are contrary to the tradition
of the Jewish religion and should
therefore be discouraged by the
American rabbinate."
This almost unanimous action fol-
lowed defeat, by a vote of "A to 70,
OF another resolution which said
that the conference docs not sane
ton mixed marriages between Jew
and non Jew without conversion
and it therefore calls upon the
members of the conference to dis
courage such marriages and to re-
frain from officiating at them"
A third resolution. which would
have left the decision up to the in
dividual rabbi, also was defeated by
the rabbinical group, which is meet
ing in annual convention here.
Evening star., 1947-06-29

should have the right to publish as
he pleases, just as he has the right
to speak as he pleases.
Mr.. Walters. executive of the
Chicago Daily News and three other
dailies. addressed the closing session
of the American Society of Jour-
nalism School Administrators.
Declaring that any attempt to
license thought and expression
would be to strike at the funda-
entail of mans freedom, Mr.. Walters
said he did not believe it would be
good for America, or the world, to
permit system to grow up where
by writer would have to have
license on his wall stating that he is
a professional Journalist"
Evening star., 1947-06-29
10000 Volts
Leave Worker
lust Stunned
By the Associofed Press

NEW ORLEANS, June %
Thornton Harrill, 20, of Kings
Mountain, N. c., came in contact
with 110,000-volt electric current
today and appeared none the worse
for his experience.
Mr.. Harrill, an electrical engineer,
was atop 100-foot tower measuring
slack in lines being strung on high
tension transmitters. He came in
contact with the current when he
reached for a cloth tape measure
which q co-worker had dropped.
The current left him "just
stunned" Mr.. Harrill said. He
climbed down from the tower, dazed,
and after treatment was advised to
take it easy" for the rest OF the
day.
Evening star., 1947-06-29
Congressional Report
Offers Little Hope for
Cheaper Food Soon
By Robert S. Allen

North American Newspaper Attonee
There is bad news on food prices
In a report due shortly from Con-
gress. The Joint Committee on
the Economic Report will make pub
lie a study offering little hope for
cheaper food in the near future.
According to the committee, con-
tinued heavy consumer demands
plus probable crop losses from adj
verse weather conditions will keep
prices high for the rest Of the year.
The report reveals that food costs
have scared 80 per cent since June,
1916, and that this rise accounts
for 10 per cent of the increase in
the overall price index for goods
and services.
The committees study attributes
prevailing high food costs to three
major factors:
/. The average American is eat
ing more both qualitatively and
quantitatively than he did in 1885,
80. The average per capita diet is
over 3,400 calories a day, an in
crease of per cent over the pre-
war period.
2. The average American worker
is paying high prices for food be-
cause, with greater income, he
can afford to spend more. His de-
mand completes with that of millions
OF other consumers.
3. Despite the tremendous in
crease in food production in recent
years, an amount now greatly in
excess of domestic needs, vast quaint
tiles are being shipped abroad for
United States occupational forces,
foreign relief, and commercial eX-
port.
THE per capita outlay for all
goods and services last year was
$685." the committees report de
clares. "Of this sum the average
expenditure for food was $273, or 30
per cent of the total. The average
annual per capita food expenditure
in 1859 was only $118.
THE higher amount actually
spent in 1946-47 reflects increased
per capita consumption as well as
shifts toward higher priced foods,
especially wheat. The average in
dividual consumption of meat rose
to 152 pounds as compared to 1876
pounds in the 1858 period. This
year the average person will eat
$50 to 155 pounds of meat"
Butter is the only important food
item noted by the report as show
ing decrease in consumption. The
committee declares this is due to
"buyer resistance"
The report declares that the price
of food has increased more than any
other major segment in the cost of
living, both in percentage and actual
dollar expenditures. However, the
committee points out that with this
increase in cost has gone a tre-
mendous increase in individual in
comes.
Income payments to individuals,
the committee declares, "totaled |
$165 billion in 1916 as compared to
$70.8 billion in 1899. In the first |
quarter of 1947, income payments |
were running at an annual rate of
$177 billion. AS a result, the aver
age family now not only buys more |
food but can expand its purchases1
of more expensive and desirable
kinds of foods"
Evening star., 1947-06-29
Work Gets Under Way
On New Receiving Home

Work on the excavation for the
foundation of the Districts new Re-
ceiving Home for Children, on
Mount Olivet road NE. between
West Virginia avenue and the New
York avenue underpass, will begin
tomorrow. John Tester g. Sons an
nounced yesterday. Bulldozers have
been clearing the ground for the last
week.
The present quarters on Lough-
borough road. in buildings belonging
to the National Training School for
Girls, recently have been adjudged
unsuitable for the children.
Money for the construction of the
building was appropriated in 1941,
but the beginning Of the war made
it impossible to obtain the necessary
building materials and the work was
not started.
Evening star., 1947-06-29
Salvation Army Board
To Meet Tomorrow

The Salvation Army advisory boarc
will hold its last monthly meeting
until September at 1890 pm
tomorrow at the Evangeline Resi-
dence, 1880 L street NV.
New officers will be installed al
the meeting. They are Frank Brig
field, chairman; J. Edgar Bur.
roughs, vice chairman; T. Stanley
Holland, treasurer, and Mrs. Flor
ence Huff, secretary.
Evening star., 1947-06-29
Butter Brings 66L Cents.

In the Chicago wholesale market
butter which sold at 5612 cents a
pound year ago today brings 6614
cents. But there was a Government
subsidy equivalent to Is cents
pound, paid to producers out of
taxes, on butter last year. Eggs
Evening star., 1947-06-29

described as satisfactory after an
operation last week.
Pvt, William 7. Burroughs Of No,
/, who was struck by o streetcar
while directing traffic at North
Capitol and K streets on April 80,
l947. At the First Precinct, fellow
workers said Pvt. Burroughs was in
fair condition at his home.
Evening star., 1947-06-29
Rote Increase Is SOUGHT

RICHMOND, Va, June % tP,.-
The Virginia Hospital Service Asso-
citation has filed with the State
Corporation Commission a petition
for rate increases Of about 25 per
cent. A hearing is scheduled at 10
am. July 81.
Evening star., 1947-06-29
Editor Opposes Any Move
To License Journalism

BY the Associufed Press
CHICAGO, June 28-Basil L..
Walters, executive editor of the
Knight chain of newspapers. as
serted today, ANY man or woman
Evening star., 1947-03-26

We'll, we'll! Here's cigarette
that doesn't imply it's made from
moonbeams, or promise to put roses
in your cheeks.
No-just expect straight talk
about plain, deep smoking pleasure
from Old Colds!
Our story is simple; we take the
most luxurious tobaccos grown
blend 'em with superior know-how
from nearly two hundred years of
Evening star., 1947-03-26
Hoover Asserts SiaIir
Could Spare Greeks
By Stopping Raids
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Mar. 26.-Former
President Hoover says that Prime
Minister Stain could give the word
that would lift "a large part of that
chaos and misery" from which
Greece now suffers.
Speaking last night to the Feder-
alton o. Hellenic Societies of
Greater New York at an observ-
ance of the 126th anniversary of
Greek independence of Turkey, Mr..
Hoover said:
America has shown its constant
solicitude and has given generously
of both private and Government aid.
We propose to continue to do so.
But large part of that chaos
and misery could be lifted by one
man in the world If he be willing.
That is Marshal Joseph Stain.
'It is within his power to stop the
aggressive war in the form of
guerrilla raids from Yugoslavian,
Bulgarian and Albanian territory.
ut is within his power to see that
the Communist bands in Greece stop
killing and abide by constitutional
means to express their views.
That would bring peace to
Greece. Then American aid could
be devoted to restoring productivity
of the Greek people instead of our
wasting our generosity on military
equipment"
Supporting the $12,0OO,OOO fund
drive of the Greek War Relief Asso-
citation, Mr.. Hoover said such private
aid would not duplicate government
assistance, but was needed for health
and child care work.
The program of President Tru-
man for aiding Greece and Turkey
was discussed at two other meetings
here.
The National Republican Club
adopted a resolution advocating
"active aid to those peoples and
governments who seek to establish
basic freedoms"
The Federal Council of Churches
of Christ in America adopted an
interim resolution stating that "in
such issues as those presented in
the Presidents proposal we should
give the United Nations full infor-
nation. we should seek the counsel
and cooperation of the United Ma
Evening star., 1947-03-26

fined by Judge Ellen <. Raedy That
penalty was recommended by As
sistant United States Attorney John
B. Diamond instead of the maximum
S10o fine because. he said, he felt
the defendant did not realize he
was violating the law"
MIR. Diamond added he and Health
Department authorities would con-
fer with Rubin to make clear" that
persons practicing massaging must
be supervised by licensed physi-
clan.
The complaint was, sworn out