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Evening star., 1947-02-07
Freedmen S Hospital
Health Conditions
Survey Opens Today

The United states Public Health
Service and the District Health De-
partment today began a survey OF
conditions at Freedmen's Hospital
that caused the Health Department
last week to condemn $500 pounds
of food stored in the hospital as be-
ing unfit for human consumption.
The survey will include all aspects
of sanitation-plumbing, storage
facilities and food handling.
The study was decided upon yes
terday at a meeting in the Office OF
Supt. Charles E. Burbridge, at the
hospital, and was attended by rep
resentatives of the Public Health
Service and the District Health De-
partment.
In order to expedite the work, the
survey will be conducted by two
teams. Team No. l will consist Of:
E. P. Price, Public Health Serv-
ice; John G. Jones, District Health
Department; w. w. Burdette, as
sistant director, Bureau of Food In
spection, Health Department; Rich
ard j. Carroll, food inspection
supervisor, Health Department, and
John E. Feeney, food inspector,
health department.
Team No. 2 will comprise:
A. P. Bell, Health Department;
w. H. Cary, jr.. director. Bureau Of
Public Health Engineering, Health
Department, and E. j. Herringer,
Health Service.
DR.. Arthur Hugh Simmons, medi-
cal officer and sanitary inspector
for the hospital, and DR.. Frank
johnson, director Of laboratories,
will work with both teams.
Evening star., 1947-02-07
Drive on Heart Disease
To Be Held Next Week

The American Heart Association
has designated next week as Ma.
tional Heart Week in its campaign
to teach laymen to recognize tht
Nations No. l killer-heart dis.
ease.
DR.. Frank s. Horvath, president
of the Washington Heart Associa.
ton, a member of the national or.
ganization, said there are 7,Oo0,0Ot
Americans suffering from some sort
of heart disease, with an annua
death rate of approximately 6O0,.
900.
During 1916, DR.. Horvath said
900 adult patients and 464 children
were treated in heart clinics affili.
ated with the Washington Heart AS.
sociation. which is a member O
the Community Chest. He sale
there was a need here for a con
valescent home solely for children
suffering from heart ailments.
Child patients receive GONZALES
cent care in the Children's Coun
try Home, Eighteenth street ant
Bunker Hill road NE, and at tn,
Christ Child Farm, Rockville. II
the District, heart clinics are main
tanned at Children's, Emergency
Georgetown, Garfield and Provi
dence Hospitals and in the Grip
pied children's clinic at Gallinge
Hospital.
Evening star., 1947-02-07
Good Sportsmonship Stressed
InHiqh School DRIVING Course

the other instructor, gives the
courses at Phelps and Washington
Vocational High Schools. One lee
ture period is held each week and
the rest of the time is spent in ac-
tual driving practice by groups OF
four students each.
Before the course is over, the
students will have studied every
thing related to safe driving, seen
motion pictures on the subject and
heard experts discuss traffic prob
lens Of the day.
Question of Attitude.
"You must have the proper atti-
tude to become an expert, safe
driver" Mr.. Roewe said, Take the
police, for instance. They are not
hired to give you bad time. They
want to make driving safe"
He said it was planned to have
inspectors from the Department OF
Vehicles and Traffic come to the
schools at the end of the course and
give the students their driving tests
as sort of final exam.
Other than written material and
the dual-coAtrol cars, equipment for
the courses is scarce. To overcome
this, boys in the classes have be-
gun work on construction Of about
a half dozen of the standard test
ing devices used to measure driver
qualifications, and help establish
driver attitudes.
Evening star., 1947-02-07
Beer License Favored
For Grocer Near School

A majority Of the members of the
Alcoholic Beverage Control Board
already have approved an off sale
beer license for a grocer opposite the
Park View School, whose application
was debated at the Board of Educa-
tion's last meeting, 1t was learned
today.
Protests were made by school Of
ficials, but action was postponed at
the Wednesday meeting after DR..
James A. Cannon, board member,
claimed the facts had been misrep-
resented. DR.. Cannon promised to
make a personal investigation, as
serting "well-meaning but preju-
diced people are attempting to keep
a man from making an honest living
by selling beer"
The ABC Board has not yet issued
the license to the grocery, B & w
Market, 1888 Warder street NV,
because of changes in storage ia
cilities that must be made.
Evening star., 1947-02-07
DR.. Oliver BowIes Busy
DESPITE Retirement

DR.. Oliver Bowles, now 10, has
retired as chief of the Nonmetal
Economics Division of the Bureau OF
Mines, but he doesn't intend his re-
tirement to be complete.
He proved it today by spending
a while in his old Office from which
he retired officially last Saturday.
A nationally-known authority on
nonmetallic minerals, Mr.. Bowles
plans to continue as consultant and
to write occasionally.
He Is looking back on 80 years OF
Government service and enjoying
increased time for his avocation-
cultivation Of flowers. He has a
large, professional-type conserva-
tory at his home, 5000 Massachusetts
avenue NV. African violets are his
favorites.
DR.. Bowles joined the Bureau of
Mines in 1914 as its first quarry
technologist. He became division
chief in 1912. During the war, he
furnished other Government agen-
cies valuable information on non-
metallic minerals.
He is a native Of Ontario and q
graduate of the University of To-
ronto. He received a doctor of phil
osophy degree from George Wash
ington University in 1922.
Evening star., 1947-02-07
II Organizations Resolve
To Back HOSPITAL Drive

Eleven organization interested ir
civic welfare and representing all
sections of the Washington Metro.
politan Area have passed resolutions
signifying their intention of official
ly supporting the current drive tc
equip the nearly-completed George
Washington University Hospital.
The university's campaign to
raise 1925 900 opened January 8 and
will continue through February 20
The structure is at Twenty-third
and I streets NV, on Washington
Circle.
The II groups which have made
public their support of the project
are the American Legion Depart
ment Of the District of Columbia
the Board of Managers of the Dis
trict Congress of Parents and
Teachers, and the following citizens
associations:
Rockland, Randle Highlands, Fort
Davis, Bradbury Heights, Logan
Thomas Circle, West End, Hamp-
shire Heights. Michigan Park and
Kenilworth,
Evening star., 1947-02-07
Search Continues for Plane
Lost Hour From CAPITAL

Military aircraft today began the
third day Of intensive search for a
Navy transport plane carrying 10
men which disappeared without a
trace Tuesday night within an hours
fight Of Washington.
"The search will be continued as
long as there are any possibilities
at ALL" Comdr. William H. Snyder,
search and rescue offlcer for the 5th
Coast Guard District said.
The number of planes partici-
pating In the search, however, has
been reduced from 20 to 8, the Coast
Guard said.
The search teams flew over large
sections Of Virginia, near Richmond,
yesterday.
Last word from the missing plane,
lost in a storm as 1t sought to reach
Norfolk, was at 7:30 pm. Tuesday
when a nearby radio station heard
the pilot calling to Anacostia Naval
Air Station. @
Evening star., 1947-02-07
Railway Cars Left Idle,
Suit by U. S. CHARGES

The United States Government
brought suit in District Court to-
day asking $4,000 in penalties from
the Southern Railway Co., charging
that 1t kept 10 freight cars at Nor
folk, Va, for unloading for more
than 10 days.
The suit charges violation of an
Interstate Commerce Commission
order.
The suit says the cars, loaded with
tobacco consigned to the British
War Ministry, were kept overtime
during last May and June. Two of
them, the suit charges, were kept 10
days overtime and eight of them 18
days overtime.
Assistant United States Attorney
Helena D. Reed, who, with United
States Attorney George Morris Fay,
filed the suit, said that the viola
tions occurred during an acute
freight car shortage.
Evening star., 1947-02-07

Good SportSmanShlp Is the key To
good driving.
This point is being stressed in
the student automobile driving in
struction courses being resumed in
the Districts vocational high
schools this week for the first time
since before the war.
Two instructors are teaching
about 80 boys and girls the elements
of good driving through lectures
and actual driving practice in two
dual-control instruction automo-
biles.
Look at it this way" Instructor
G. J~ Roewe told one of his classes
at lecture period. 'If you charge
through a line in a football game
and some one hits you accidentally
you don't pay him back on the next
play. That's not good sportsman
ship"
tits the same thing on the street
when you are driving. If some one
cuts you off at one corner, you don't
attempt to cut him off at the next
one"
One-Semester Course.
Object of the one-semester course
is to teach the students sound driv-
ing tactics and enable them to pass
their drivers permit tests at the
end of the course.
Mr.. Roewe teaches classes at
Chamberlain and Bell Vocational
High Schools, while Elmer E. Stokes
Evening star., 1947-02-07
Navy. Hospital Corps Cited
BY ForresfaI for War Job
By the Assoeioted Press

The 100000 men and women OF
the wartime Navy Hospital Corps
were officially commended today by
Secretary Of the Navy Forrestal, who
gave them credit for the 81 per cent
survival rate among Navy wounded
The group commentator, rare
distinction. disclosed that 1,724 Of
the corps lost their loves during the
war. On Two Jima, the percentage
of their casualties was higher thar
the losses among the marines, Mr.
Forrestal said.
Thousands of citizens are living
normal, productive lives who, but
for the skill of the Hospital Corps
might be dead or disheartened by
! invalidism," he said.
"a The high percentage of recoveries
sis record not equaled anywhere
any time" Secretary Forestal de-
clared.
Evening star., 1947-02-07
Tardy GI Trainees Given
TO Feb. IS 10 File Earnings

Seven hundred Washington area
CT trainees, suspended from sub
sistence rolls yesterday for failure
to report quarterly earnings, have
until February Is to forward their
reports and thus be reinstated on
payment lists, the Veterans Admin
istration regional office said today
The Wednesday deadline found
1900 Of 1000 forms properly re-
turned, the VA said. The suspen-
sions, however, will not be certified
to the Treasury until after February
Is. The fault lies largely with en-
ployers of the on-the-job training
veterans, who are charged with re-
turn Of the earnings reports, accord
ing to VA spokesman.
The veterans, drawing up to a
maximum Of $50 a month subsist-
ence, are participants in the G1
bill program providing ceiling OF
SITS a month III earnings plus SUBJ
,sistence for single men, and 5000 a
month for GIs with dependents.
/ Last month, 1000 of 1900 men
required to report their earnings
were suspended temporarily and all
ibut 120 subsequently were reinstated.
Evening star., 1947-02-07
Artist to PIoy Old Violin
AT Alexandra Concert

Miss Leona Flood, 25-year-old vio-
lin concert artist, will play her 249-
year-old Stradivarius violin for Alex
andrians at 8 o'clock tonight in the
George Washington High School. AT
2:15 this afternoon she will give q
special concert for elementary and
high school students.
Miss Flood, who at 16 gave her
debut recital in Oslo, Norway, has
played for European, Australian and
New York audiences.
Evening star., 1947-02-07
7 2Teen-Agers Hold u
Five in 40 Minutes
In Downtown Area

Two teen-aged youths, said to
have been drinking, staged a minor
crime wave of their own in down.
town Washington last night, carry
ing out four holdups of pedestrians
within 40 minutes and escaping
with $103.
The holdups began at $50 pm,
when Herbert Magruder, 1925
Twenty-seventh street NV, report
ed he was robbed of 81 by the youths
at Twenty-f1fth street and Pennsyl-
vania avenue NV. He described
both of the bandits as intoxicated
and said one carried a pistol.
A few minutes later, an unidenti-
fled man was approached by the
pair at Seventeenth and L streets
NV, but witnesses told police he
escaped and the would-be bandits
disappeared.
Two Others Robbed.
Two blocks further north, the
youths took $87 from Hui-Chen WI
and SIS from Airline McInnes, both
of 1876 r street NV. Another block
away, they demanded money from
Walter Plant of 1921 Saratoga
avenue Sc, but walked away when
he said he had none.
A green hat worn by Harry L.
Butler, 27, colored, resulted in his
arrest yesterday, only a few minutes
after q $54 robbery was reported at
Francine's Dress Shop. 736 Seventh
street NV.
Arraigned before Municipal Court
Judge Nathan r. Margold, Butler
was held in $4,000 bond for the
grand jury.
Police had been warned to be on the
lookout for man who had scooped
up the money from the stores cash
register. Mrs. Jane Lannon, victim
of the holdup, described the bandit
as nattily dressed individual with
a green hat.
Police Pick Up Suspect.
Pvts. Samuel r. Smith and Albert
R. Nelson in a nearby scout car pro-
ceeded down Seventh street in the
direction the robber was said to
have taken, soon spotted a hat of
the designated color, and arrested
it's wearer. Butler is being held at
precinct headquarters for ques-
tioning.
An armed burglar yesterday took
$3.50 from Henry West, owner of
Vests Pharmacy at 1924 Nichols
avenue Sc. Mr.. West told police
another $500 he was carrying was
not discovered by the bandit.
Loss Of $1,07990 in jewels was re-
ported by Abraham Hochberg,
owner of a jewelry store at 435
Seventh street NV, after an in
ventory was completed yesterday.
Police said the store was broken
into last week end.
Evening star., 1947-02-07
Health Of ALSO Here
Seen Affected by Cut
In Welfare Grants

The 20 per cent cut in public as
sistance grants which the Board Of
Public Welfare will put into effect
March l will place 4,750 persons in
the District on a standard Of living
below the level for minimum health
and decency," the Council Of Social
Agencies charges.
The council estimates that 1,300
persons in families which are re-
ceiving aid, and $3.50 other persons
will be affected by the cut.
At meeting yesterday afternoon
at the council headquarters, 1101 M
street NV, Miss Dorothy Bovee,
chairman Of the councils Committee
on Costs and Standards of Living,
said the aid grants now are based
on food prices in the District in
August 1912. Inasmuch as prices
have advanced At per cent since then
the cuts will mean hardships for all
those affected, she said.
The reduction she said, will
amount to about 80 per cent in food
allowances, since fixed items in the
budget, such as rent, will have to
be paid in full, and the brunt of the
cut will have to be made in food.
Applying this 30 per cent cut in the
already deficient food allowance
grants will bring the $42 food allow
ance to $29.40.
Miss Josephine Starr, secretary of
the councils Division of Family and
Child Welfare, said the council was
deeply concerned over the ca. She
urged public and private agencies to
urge Congress to grant the welfare
Board the supplemental appropria-
tton of i$184,00o for which It has
asked. She said the council had sent
letters to members of the Senate and
House Subcommittee on Deficiency
Appropriations and urged private
citizens to do the same.
It was announced at the meeting
that the Community Chest would ac-
cept contributions earmarked for the
most needy hardship cases and
would use the money for the present
emergency.
Raymond F. Clapp, principal as
sistant to the director of the well
fare department, said the cut was
the result of the increased number
of cases requiring assistance. The
department had 780 requests for aid
in January, and they are now aver
aging between ITO and 180 week,
he said. He expected this to keep up
for the next two months and then
drop slightly when construction
projects start in the spring.
Evening star., 1947-02-07
Montgomery Police Oppose
End Of Commissioner Post

The Montgomery County Police
mems Association has opposed abo-
lition of the post of county police
commissioner, it was announced
today.
In a vote at the regular monthly
meeting, the association agreed to
notify State Senator Roy Tasco
Davis and the Montgomery County
delegation in the State Legislature
of its stand.
Gifts of $25 each were voted to
the Suburban Hospital fund drive
and to the fund being raised for
Robert E. Jones, Rockville high
school senior who lost his hands in
a recent explosion in the chemistry
laboratory of the Richard Mont
gomery High School.
Evening star., 1947-02-07
Chevy Chase Forum Plans
Consumer Discussion

The Chevy Chase Forum will re-
sume its operations Tuesday at 8:15
pm, in the Chevy Chase Woman's
Club in cooperation with the Mont
gomery County League Of Women
Voters.
Arthur E. Burns, professor of
economics at George Washington
University, will lead the discussion
'on What Can the Eightieth Con-
gress do for the Consumer"
Panel members will be Eugene
Gotten, assistant general counsel for
the Congress of Industrial Organi-
zation; Senator McGrath, Democrat,
Of Rhode Island, and DR.. Emerson
Schmidt, director Of economic re-
search for the United States Cham
Der of Commerce.
Evening star., 1947-02-07
District Bar 10 Urge
Quick Approval Of ;
More Judges Here

The District Bar Association will
urge swift action to give Municipal
Court three additional judges when
the proposal comes up for hearing
in two weeks by a joint subcommit-
tee of the Senate and House Dis
trict Committees.
Austin r. Garfield, association
president declared his. group will
support Chief Judge George p.
Barse of the court, who has COM
piled statistics to show the increased
work load and need for more judges.
Mr.. Garfield pointed out there are
no more judges In Municipal Court
now than there were in 1908, nearly
40 years ago, despite the city's in
creased population and the added
court work.
The civil jurisdiction of the court
has been increased in limitation from
81 900 to $1,000, he said, and the
Small Claims Court, handling suits
involving under $50, requires full
time judge in itself.
The landlord and tenant branch
OF the court now requires q full-tlme
presiding Judge, and three Judges
to hear rent appeals, he related
Such litigation has increased with
the great demand for housing here
and the docket became so clogged
recently that judges Of the Munich
pal Court Of Appeals stepped in te
help out, Mr.. Canf1eld went on.
Negligent homicide cases, which
may require two to four days fol
each trial, are another burden o1
Municipal Court, he added.
Mr.. Garfield observed that estab.
Hshment Of the Municipal Court Of
fAppealS, to which cases may be car.
fried as matter Of right, and new
rules Of procedure have added de.
tails to litigation, emphasizing 8
need for more jurists.
Evening star., 1947-02-07
Pearl NARROW New Head
|Of Farm Women's Group

Miss Pearl MARROW of Spenceryille,
has been elected president Of the
Farm Wornen's Co-operatives Mar
ket, Inc, Bethesda, 1t was an
nounced today.
Miss NARROW replaces Mrs. Julian
Waters of Germantown who has
headed the Montgomery County
farm women for the last II years.
Other officers are Mrs. James Pur-
dunn of Clarksburg, vice president;
Mrs. George Schroeder, Gathers
burg, treasurer, and Mrs. William
Daniel Dickerson, secretary.
Evening star., 1947-02-07
Three Held in $500 Bail
As Numbers Suspects

Three men suspected as numbers
writer's were under 81 500 bond each
today on charges Of operating lot
terry and being in possession of lot
terry slips after gambling squad de-
tectives arrested them yesterday.
The men, arraigned before United
States Commissioner Needham C.
Turnage late yesterday, are John
Chaff1n, SO, colored, and his brother,
Melvin Chaffin, "a, both Of the 400
block Of Meridian place NV, where
the raid took place, and Louis Miller,
As, Of 317 Gallatin street NV.
Police said they waited in the
basement of the Meridian place
apartment for nearly two hours to
arrest q pickup" man after they
had taken the Chafiin brothers into
custody. Miller walked in, they said,
and was arrested.
Evening star., 1947-02-07
|WAA Unit Moves

The veterans certification unit
and other sections of the Washing
ton district Office of the War Assets
Administration were moved this
week to Temporary Office Building
r, on Independence avenue op-
posite the Social Security Building
The district Office formerly occupied
rented quarters at 1925 Twenty
first street NV,
Evening star., 1947-02-07
Connecticut Avenue
Chizens Pledge Aid 70
Police Capt. Bullock

The Connecticut Avenue Citizens
Association last night approved the
transfer of Capt. Albert I. Bullock
from No. II Police Precinct to No. g.
succeeding Capt. Lloyd Kelly, who
was promoted to the rank of in
spector.
The group will send Capt. Bullock
a letter congratulating him on bis
recent appointment and pledging its
full support and cooperation
Harry M. Sieber, chairman of the
fire and police committee, intro
duced the motion approving Capt
Bullock's transfer.
Earlier this week, the Forest Hills
Citizens Association demanded the
removal of Capt. Bullock from No. 8
after Maj. Harvey G. Callahan, SUI
perintendent of police, transferred
the officer for what Maj. Callahan
termed "unsavory connections" made
by Capt. Bullock while he was in
charge of No. II.
In another action the group rec
commended the sale of alcoholic bev-
erages be taken over by the District.
It also approved proposed change
in the Alcohol Control Act to per-
NIT stand-up drinking at District
bars.
Approval was given the George
washington University Hospital
fund drive.
In a final action, the association
unanimously indorsed bill intro
duced by Representative Hebert
Democrat, Louisiana, providing for
the establishment of child care
center at Laurel, Md, under the
Board of Public Welfare.
Harry G. Grove, president, con-
Quoted the meeting in the All Souls
Memorial Episcopal Church, Cathe-
dral avenue and Woodley road NV