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Evening star., 1947-07-31
Boys Death in Pool
with Six Lifeguards
On Duty Is Probed

Alexandria police today were in
vestigatingathe death of a .s-year-old
boy who drowned yesterday after
noon at the Alexandria pool while
six hfeguards were on duty.
Harbor police recovered the body
Of another young drowning victim
from Kingman Lake.
He was Gilbert Tyree, 10, colored,
the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Gilbert
Tyree, 2o4l Rosedale street NE.
Gilbert went swimming in the lake
yesterday.
The Alexandria drowning was dis
covered when an unidentified SWIM
mer dived into the deep end of the
pool and touched the boys body,
according to T. M. Fitzgibbon, man.
ager of the pool, and Eugene Barn
well, Alexandria recreation director.
Guard Receivers Body.
The diver told Stewart Anderson,
18, one of the lifeguards standing
nearby, that he had thought he had
touched some one near the bottom
of the pool.
The guard Immediately jumped
into the water and came up with
the body Of the Watson boy and be-
gan artificial respiration, Mr.. Barn.
we'll said.
The Alexandria Rescue Squad was
called and continued efforts to re-
vive the boy for more than an hour
1t was estimated by the rescue squad
that the boy had been under the
water about 20 minutes.
Mr.. Barnwell said it was a mat
ter of conjecture" how the boy
drowned. He pointed out that one
of the lifeguards noticed what ap-
peared to be a bruise on the boy s
forehead. According to Mr.. Barn.
well, the lifeguard suggested the
bruise may have been caused when
some one jumped on top of the boy.
Pool Crowded.
Mr.. Barnwell said the pool was
unusually crowded yesterday Que 10
the hot weather. He estimated the
size of the pool at go feet by 100
feet. The body of the Watson boy
was found at the deep end OF the
pool.
|a~ffe9yree boy, accordingsto two
playmates, Ronald Virgins, IL,
colored, of 2014 Rosedale street NE,
and Walter Stewart, II, colored, 2017
Rosedale street NE, was swimming
in Kingman Lake about 80 feet
from shore when he disappeared.
He came to the surface yelling for
help but finally went down. they
told police.
Policeman Sherwood Herring of
the ninth precinct, who responded
when police were called, said he
found the boys clothes on the bank
of the lake near Langston Public
Golf Course, Twenty fifth street
and Benning road NE.
Harbor police then dragged the
lake until 10 pm yesterday, resum-
ing their operations this morning.
Evening star., 1947-07-31
Average Of 30
Persons a Day
Killed in Traffic
By the Associated Press

CHICAGO, July 31.-Traffic acci-
dents in the United States killed an
average of 80 persons a day from
January l to July /, figures released
by the National Safety Council dis
closed today.
The council said there were 14,480
traffic fatalities in the first six
months-181 days-this year, 9 per
cent less than for the corresponding
period in 1916. OF the total, 2.490
were killed in June, an increase Of
5 per cent over June, 1946.
However, the council said, the
traffic situation was pretty we'll in
hand" 1t said the total in June
was per cent less than in May;
there were 20 per cent fewer deaths
in June this year than in June,
1941, the year an all-time high in
traffic fatalities was set, and that
travel is on the upswing, with indi-
cations the mileage death rate for
the first FIVE months Is about S per
cent less than last year.
OF Al States submitting traffic re-
ports, 20 showed decreases in traffic
Evening star., 1947-07-31
Flanagan Hits Efforts
To Cut Farm Funds al
Virginia Rural Institute
BY the Asseeiated Press

: BLACKSBURG, Va, July 81
Attempts in Congress to cut farm
appropriations came in for a sharp
attack here last night from Repre-
sentative Flanagan, Democrat. of
Virginia, in an address before Vir-
ginia's 14th Institute of Rural
Affairs.
Mr.. Flanagan, a member of the
House Agriculture Committee since
1881, said curtailments proposed by
the House majority would have
wrecked the present farm program
had some of the cuts not been re-
stored by the Senate.
"The Agricultural Appropriations
Committee wanted to cut Govern
ment expenses and wanted to drop
most of the cuts onto the farmer,
he asserted.
Urges Price Support Extension.
Mr. Flanagan called on farmers
to retain the present Federal farm
program and urged extension of
farm price support payments when
they expire in 1948
He reviewed farm legislation of
the past is years and, in condemn
ing what he termed attempts to
Evening star., 1947-07-31

replace some Of 1t, said. "We've
got . pretty good program and it's
working"
The Virginia Federation of Home
Demonstration Clubs at an after
noon business session in connection
with the institute elected Mrs. N. C.
Bailey, Orange, as president.
Mrs. Bailey succeeds Mrs. E
Floyd Yates, Powhatan.
Rural Health Educator Asked.
Mrs. G. M. Ware, Lee Hall, was
elected vice president; Mrs. A. B
Slagle, Clarksville, secretary, and
Mrs. c. H. White, Forrest, treas
urer, we're reelected.
The rural committee OF the Vir-
ginia Commission on Health and
Medical Care, headed by DR.. P. D,
Sanders, editor of the Southern
Planter, recommended that the
Extension Service and the State
Health Department jointly employ
rural health educator.
The Home Demonstration Club
Federation's Executive Board rec
commended that the Extension Serv-
ice add several new specialists, in
cluding one in rural health.
Evening star., 1947-07-31
Cable and Radio Telegraph
Rate Increase Authorized
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

General increases in the message
rates for international cable and
radio telegraph services, estimated
to yield the operating companies
81, 300, 900 a year additional revenue,
were authorized yesterday by the
Federal Communications Commis-
sion.
The action followed a commission
investigation started last March.
The companies testified increased
rates were needed to meet post
war decline in net earnings.
The FEC authorized:
On messages from continental
United States to Central and South
America, an increase from 20 to %
cents per full-rate word.
On messages to Europe, including
the United Kingdom, Fire, Turkey
and the Soviet Union, an increase
from 20 to Is cents;
On messages to transpacific points,
except Hawaii, an increase from 20
to 80 cents;
On messages to Oahu, Territory
of Hawaii, an increase from IL to
20 cents.
Evening star., 1947-07-31

Speaking last night at a memorial
service to the late Sidney Hillman,
who was president Of the PAC and
the CIO Amalgamated Clothing
Workers, Mr.. Murray said there now
is underway national registration
campaign the like of which the
Nation has never experienced"
The CIO president said thousands
OF workers throughout the Nation
had been organized to bring out
registration for the ls48 presidential
elections and asserted that the PAC
is going to be organized as it never
has been organized before"
IT the proponents of this bill
Evening star., 1947-07-31
King George Consents
To EIizubeth's Troth
BY the Asseeiatsd Press

LONDON. July 31.-King George
vi, carrying out an old ritual, gave
formal consent before the Privy
Council today to the marriage Of
Princess Elizabeth and 1t. Philip
Mountbatten.
/ Under the Royal Marriage Act of
1772, Princess Elizabeth-not as
heiress to the throne, but as a de-
scendant of George II-was required
to ask her fathers permission to
marry, and his permission had to be
declared in council" before her
marriage could take place.
Evening star., 1947-07-31
Murray Says PAC Will Fight
New Labor Law at Polls
by fhe Asseeiofsd Press

NEW YORK, July 3l.-The Taft
Hartley Labor Act, in the opinion
Of CIO President Philip Murray,
"is aimed at the people Of the United
States-all the people" and the labor
organization he heads will carry on
the work of the Political Action
Committee" in opposing the legisla-
ton.
Evening star., 1947-07-31

deaths during the first six months
this year. The States showing per-
centage decreases included Virginia,
13 per cent, and Maryland, IL per
cent.
Evening star., 1947-07-31
Peut Cutters End Strike

Peat turf cutters in Fires County
Roscommon, on strike for three
weeks, went back to work with o
60-cents-a-week raise and some
special allowances.
Evening star., 1947-05-15

Tricks to save minutes come in
mighty handy when it's question
Of putting housework behind you
-. so you can enjoy time out for
fun!" And OLD DUTCH is one of
the slickest, quickest tricks when
minutes count for it attacks
both grease and dirt on every clean
up job! Reason is that OLD
DUTCH dissolves crease "quick-'s-
a.Hash" and contains a dirt remover,
too. Named Seismotite, this dirt
remover is found ONLY in OLD
DUTCH! The ideal combination Of
4 srease-dissolver, plus Seismotite,
gives you a fast cleaning action no
other material has. That's why, as
tests have shown, OLD DUTCH
is fastest and easiest of all we'll
known cleansers!
Evening star., 1947-05-15
$Sss51ttB

Even the most scrupulously clean
housekeeper is often hostess to in
sects in her home for moths
hide out in woolens, ants creep into
cupboard crevices and silverfish dots
on books and storage closets. Not,
Of course, to mention pesky reaches!
So take my advice and enlist
WESTINGHOUSE Bug Bomb to
write sudden obituary for house,
hold insects! It's hand-size, aero
sol-type insecticide dispenser that
works automatically just press
with one finger and an atomized
mist does the bug-killing job! A
little goes long way =. reason
it's so effective on bugs that like
cracks and crevices! Because the
WESTINGHOUSE Bug Bomb con-
tains more pyrethrum, you can be
sure it's SAFER-plus being clean
and fast! Cost is $298 at Drug, Gro.
Gerry, Dept. and. Appliance Stores.
Evening star., 1947-05-15

shot on the 10th Century -Tox sound
stages.
Joan Leslie has received "A awazd
from 3 Roman Catholic Organization
for setting q good example IN the
free from m-all-scandal life she leads
here.
Paul Lukas and uona Massey are
hoping to co-star III Journey TO
Budapest ? which will be made Ia
the Hungarian capital.
Betty Hutton's dresses In Dream
Girl" feature the new sloping stoul-
ders minus all pads. This was an
idea OF Anita Colbys, who Is now IN
New York sending back fashion tips
to Paramount. Dresses, according
to Anita, now have corselets in the
dress itself for that tiny waistline.
And skirts are u inches above the
floor, or lower.
George Raft entered the Cedars Of
Lebanon Hospital last week for an
operation on his throat. They'll be
shooting around George on the aIn-
triguea picture until he can report
back for work.
From now on Wally Beery will
Evening star., 1947-05-15
May Program 10 Be Held
All Sacred Heart Sunday

Miss Sue Anne Di Prima. II, senior
at Sacred Heart Academy and May
queen, will crown the statue Of the
Blessed Virgin in the Shrine Of the
Sacred Heart Sunday in the annual
May procession Of Sacred Heart
Church, Sixteenth street and Park
road NV.
The procession and services will
begin at 4 pm. The procession will
include a cross bearer and acolytes,
the first communion class, kinder
garten children, grade school boys
Of Sacred Heart School; altar boys,
grade school girls, high school girls
Of Sacred Heart Academy, two courts
Of honor and finally Miss Di Prima
with her attendants.
The queen is the daughter OF
Mrs. Mary C. Di Prima, 5536 Thir-
tieth place NV. Her attendants
will be Jean Wolberg, maid OF honor;
Kathleen Kinsella, crown bearer;
Joseph Shaw and Jackie Regis.
pages, who win carry the queens
Evening star., 1947-05-15

ducing and starring q axly Al-'
taIrnn. Z
fNsiesssd ~ NsgtA Anaeiean Msx apsr
Allianee.9
Evening star., 1947-05-15
GoodFmANofYoal

With the Little Red Schoolhouse"
about to close down for vacation,
you'll have more and more demands
for "'tween-meal" snacks for the
youngsters. So may SUGGEST RY.
KRISPp Children like the thin,
crisp wafer from this 100% pure
grain bread and its rich rye
flavor is delicious with all types Of
spreads. Best of all, you can depend
on RY-KRISP not to dull the ap-
petite for regular meals for it's
made from two blends Of rye, salt
and water and contains only q
calories per wafer. That's why it's
such favored bread in reducing
regimes. So ask for RY.KRISP -.
good for the kids, good for YOUi
Evening star., 1947-05-15

make only one picture 4 year. The
rest of the time hen fsh and travel.
When Marjorie Main was recently
in New York. she WAS given 4
fstful Of tickets to zee all the shows.
@Bllt, Marjorie tells ME on the
"Wistful Widow Of Wagons Gap
set, Z gave them Ill away because
I preferred to walk up and down
Broadway!p Marjorie hadn't been to
the big city IN 10 years.
Ida Lupino says It's fun being q
producer because every one loves her
and every one wants her to give
them q job! ida IS currently pro-
Evening star., 1947-05-15
d6ss4es11kkx SnecsAL
BUY-LIMES .IyMany Sas,sr
Weekly Sponsored Column Of Thing. New aod n,.t..ns

NEW YORK, N. r, May 18th My idea OF
q wonderful way to entertain is to have
Sunday breakfast by the brook. Or It there
isn't a brook nearby just serve It IN the
garden under the trees. Have pitcher OF
orange juice J. heaps Of buttered toast !:
a casserole of apples and sausages hfked
together and huge pot of the best coffee
YOU can brew!
Evening star., 1947-05-15
Calvary Baptist Choir
To Go on Concert Tour

The choir Of Calvary Baptist
Church, Eighth and H streets NV,
will leave Saturday for four-day
concert tour.
Clyde j. Holt, minister of music
at the church, will be In charge Of
the group on the tour.
The IS choir members viii open
the 10th annual Northern Baptist
Convention at Atlantic City. N. j.,
on Monday night. They will give
concerts also In Abingdon, Pa, and
Philadelphia.
Evening star., 1947-05-15
Grohom
Continued From Page B-14.)


minis, is still able to manage nicely
-he Is allowed $500 q week for liv-
ing expenses.
Maria Montez' starring role In
Zone Touch Of Venus" depends on
whether 1t starts June 10, because
Maria has to finish 1t In time to do
Tfne Scarlet Feather" for Seymour
Nebenzal this year. Maria 5 deal for
Venus" calls for q straight $100, 900
or 3150, 900 or so and 10 per cent OF
the profits. And she wants Robert
Walker for co-star.
Wen be seeing Victor Mature any
day now personally, ] can't wait,
because Victor Is always good for q
story. His aKiss Of Death" ran into
little location trouble In New
York, and o few weeks OF 1t will De
Evening star., 1947-05-15
St,awbrryy5b,o,'''1'd,ake' n

When the strawberries come red,
ripe and wonderful on your fruit
stands soon, it'll be easy to serve
your family their fill Of STRAW
BERRY SHORTCAKEl Just re-
member that BISQUICK is back to
make it for you in double-quick
time! But more important is the
kisd of shorteake BISQU1CK
makes: crisp and Aaky outside;
melt-in-your-mouth tender inside.
To make it NTH BISQUICK is as
simple as this1
For the shorfeoke. Just add ereom
to BisqUiek, us directed on The
package. Make one huge short
cake or individual ones. Then
bake and while hot, split, sprsud
with butter, fhsn pile high with
whole strawberries or crushed
ones. And then In froditional
fashion, top the whole with
hscps Of plain or swssfsned
whipped cream.
Evening star., 1947-05-15
Prof. Krogmon to Give
|AnthropoIoqy Lecture

"A public lecture on .AnthIcpology
and Race Relations" will Be pre-
sented at Sis pm. Nay ~, under
the sponsorship Of the District Med-
loot Chirurgical Society and the Ali-
thropological Society Of Washington.
Prof. Wilton n. Krogman Of the
University of Chicago, president Of
the American Association Of Phys
ical Anthropologists, viii give the
address In the auditorium Of the Ma
tional Museum, Tenth street and
Constitution avenue NV.
Evening star., 1947-05-15

The sahuaro OF giant castsis" has
! root system which spreads from.
the nnain trunk for % much g so
feet close to the surface. 30 that
rainfall is easily assimilated and
stored in the pulpy interior of the
main plant.
Evening star., 1947-05-15

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Evening star., 1947-05-15
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The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-06-14
Briefs On The Inside

Steel's Joe Germano and UEs Ernie DeMaio trying to
get together for unity at the August % convention of the
Illinois State CLIO JAWS Joe Mattson proud first
annual wage agreement in the industry signed here C1O
Vice President and Organizatonal Director Alan S. Hay
wood here to confer with Regional Director Mike Mann and
others Thursday possible Maritime strike the lakes
AFL Retail Clerks organizers getting fed up at delays
by Godbatt Brothers union in attempt to get NRB election
and recognition for employees of the stores street
conductors negotiating but complaining riders will ride them
company grants increase and then excuse to
raise fares Sid Ordowers nightly broadcast CMonday
through Friday 730 p WJJD) reporting the labor
suppressed by practically all other commentators
spite of misleading headline of Chicago Daily News head
line announcing Americans for Democratic Action didn't
sponsor Henry Seattle, fact they joined with
Pea in sponsorship"
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-06-14
Go thanks AL

Inland Steel local of the Go
Steelworkers union at Indiana
Harbor, Ind, last week voted to
send a letter of appreciation to
the AFL Central Labor Union of
Lake County, Ind, thanking that
body for the cooperation of their
members during Inland's recent
strike.
Several hundred AFL construc-
ton workers of various trades are
employed by Inland Steel Co. Not
one of these men made so much
as a pass at the CIO unions pick
ct lines or even expressed dissat-
isfaction over being prevented
from working.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-06-14

A minor tempest broke last
week at the meeting of the
Chicago Newspaper Guild with
the disclosure of THE Case of
Margaret Hunton."
Miss Hunton. a capable news
paper woman. was employed by
Willard Townsend. head of the
Go United Transport Service
Employees as news editor of
the unions monthly. "Labor's
Horizon"
After a year of excellent
work. she was suddenly fired
as of June 2. Guild officials
went TO see Townsend and ask
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-06-14
Newsguild vs.. Townsend

ed III that she be reinsiated:
or ~ that she be given sever
ance pay: or t3) she be given
at least a few weeks vacation
in order to find another job.
Townsend's answer was q flat
NO."
Aroused. the Guild meeting
spent a full hour discussing the
case and declaring in no mild
terms what they thought of Mr..
Townsend. They laid out vig-
orous course of action. decided
10 hammer the case TO just
conclusion and set up a five
man committee to go into
action.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-06-14
Unity pays OFT
in n. Carolina

WINSTON SALEM, N. c. -
F'P) - Interracial solidarity paid
off here June 8 when some 10000
Negro and white workers, in the
second month of their strike, won
an average 12c hourly wage raise
from the r. J. Reynolds Tobacco
Co.
The workers, organized in Lo-
cal %, Food Tobacco & sAgri-
cultural Workers tCIO), walked
out May / when the company re-
jected their demand for a 15c
wage increase and countered with
an offer of 51z cents.
Maintaining their picketlines
despite company efforts to pro-
mote racial friction and use
evictions as an anti-strike wea-
pom. the unionists launched a
nationwide boycott of Reynolds
made Camel cigarefs and Prince
Albert pipe tobacco. The COM
panY countered with a red
scare in which is was aided by
the Thomas Rankin House COM
mittee on un-American activi-
ties. but the effort failed.
The strike was the first since
the Reynolds company smashed
a walkout by white workers some
Is years ago.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-06-14
Poy boost at CompbeIIs
Soup: Win Camel strike
New FLA pact
includes gains


Pay increases and improved
working conditions for 1000 en-
ployes of the Campbell Soup
Co. were announced this week
by Local 1874 of the CLIO Food,
Tobacco & Agricultural Workers
Union.
The plant is located at $3.50
w. 35th Street and the contract,
providing average increases of
14.9 per cent, was agreed upon
Tuesday, local union president,
John GALLAGHER, announced.
Six paid holidays and a COM
pany-paid pension plan were in
Guided in the agreement.
AT the same time another To-
cal union signed with the same
company improving the wages
and conditions of 5000 workers.
Settlement avoided strike
which would have cost both work.
ers and tomato producing farmers
millions of dollars. Farmers and
the Go union worked together
to obtain the agreement.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-06-14

tivities condemn me as COM
muinst. as you infer that they
do. then also must they con-
denim many others. If sponsor
ship of the National Council
of American-Sovief Friendship
marks me as a Communist then
so also are marked the other
sponsors including such leading
national figures as former Re
publican Congressman Joseph
c. Baldwin: William L. Bait.
of ski Roller Bearings: Re-
publican Senator Arthur Cap
per; Oscar L. Chapman. He list
ed a score of top-highi names.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-06-14
Viii NOT Pay Price

1t may be that you require the remuneration of my pro-
gresve ideals proof of my Catholic sincerity Discontinue
ing fight for freedom and security of all people
might be what you seeking Or perhaps you wish to
my lent to gigantic worldwide witchhunt that
would again plunge into gobal and the destruction
or enslavement of free everywhere.
eff such is the price that must pay to prove myself
to you find that neither my religious my trade on
PHILOSOPHERS will allow me to pay that price"
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-06-14
Fight slash
In state aid

Fighting plans against a pro-
posed $19,000,0O0 cut in Illinois
aid to dependent children were to
be made at an organizational meet
ing of the Citizens committee for
defense of dependent children aid
Tuesday, June 10, 4 pm. at Hull
House.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-06-14

The result was a vigorous at
tack. based upon the encYclical
Of Pope Plus XII. II know"
Adde's said. that final judge
ment upon right and wrong
shall not be passed by earthly
creatures" He explained that
"at NO place does he tPius KID
even infer that the duty of
Catholic Action is TO fight Com
munism by arousing suspicion
or by promiscuously identify
ing individuals as Anti
Cod"
He said: If some of my ac-