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Evening star., 1947-04-06
18 Citizens Groups to Meet

Stanton Park-Peabody School,
Fifth and C streets NE, pm.
Tuesday.
Logan Thomas Circle-Home OF
Mrs. Ella Thompson, 1886 Sixteenth
street NV. 8 pm.
Randle Highlands Eastern
Branch, YWCA, Sixteenth and Good
Hope road Sc, 8 pm.
Summit Park-Ann Beers School,
Thirty sixth place and Alabama
avenue Sc, 8 pm.
Wednesday.
Rhode Island Avenue-2004 Rhode
Island avenue NE, pm.
Thursday.
Connecticut Avenue-All Souls
Memorial Episcopal Church Parish
Hall, Cathedral avenue and Woodley
place NV. 8 pm.
Northeast-825 F street NE, 8 pm
Northeast Council-Police Pre-
scinct II, 100 Rhode Island avenue
NE, 8 pm.
Friday.
Bradbury Heights-Dayis School
Forty fourth place and n street
Sc, 3 pm.
Brightwood-Paul Junior High
School, Eighth and Oglethorpe
streets NV. 8 pm
Washingtonians- | 6 b land
Apartments. Connecticut avenue
and California street NV, apart
ment 40, . pm.
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Salvatore Baccaloni
With Philadelphians

Salvatore Baccaloni, basso-buffe
of the Metropolitan Opera, will be
/ the soloist on the second ofathe ex-
stra concerts given April 81 and n
by the Philadelphia Orchestra
Robert Casadesus, French pianist
will be ths soloist April n. 4
Baccaloni has appeared herf u
operatic scenes in aconcert version
but this will be his local debut as
an orchestra soloist. Born in Rome
career as an architect was planned
by his father. But the boys soprano
voice which won him q place in the
Sistine Chapel Choir, developed into
fine bass and knowing his talent
for dramatics, friends advised him
to study for the operate stage
Three years after his debut in the
Adriano Theater in Rome, Toscanini
engaged him for La Scala giving
him the comic parts usually reserved
for older men. DR.. Bartolo's aria in
The Barber of Seville" unused for
nearly a century, was revived for
him.
For his program with the Phila-
delphia Orchestra, he will sing two
of Osmin's srias from Mozart s
THE Abduction from the Seraglio, -
two Of Leporello's arias from Mo-
zart's Don Giovanni" two from
Verdi's 'Falstatf," the arias from
Cimarosa's III Matrimonio Segreto"
and "AStuzie Femminili."
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Tenor Tagliavini
And Pia Tassinari
Plan Concert

The young italian tenor, Ferrucio
Tagliavini, who created sensation
at his debut January 10 in New
York, will be presented in concert by
the Hayes Concert Bureau in Con-
stitution Hall on Wednesday night
at $3.50. Sharing the program will
be Pia Tassinari, soprano, now OF
the Metropolitan Opera and former
ly Of La Scala Of Milan and the
Teatro Reale Of Rome.
The two artists have starred to-
gether In the opera houses of Italy
and in Buenos Aires and Rio de
Janeiro. While singing together for
the first time In Palermo in Mas
cagnis "L'Amico Fritz" they were
forced to take shelter in an under
ground hideout during an air raid.
It was then that they decided to
marry and the ceremony was per-
formed during the year. Signora
Tagliavini continues to sing under
her maiden name, although sharing
concert programs often with her
husband.
Tagliavini has been called the
greatest tenor since Gigli and a new
Caruso. Born in Reggie Emilia in
1918, he showed unusual musical
gifts at an early age and sang in
the church choir. But he was more
interested in electricity and was de-
termined to become an electrical en-
gineer. His father, however, urged
and encouraged him to study for
opera and his debut was made in
Florence In 1899 as Rudolfo in LA
Boheme," the same role in which his
Metropolitan debut was made in
January.
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'Katinka' to Play
Constitution Hall
Thursday, Friday

The Columbia Light Opera Com
pany, Ethyl Manning, director, will
present Frimrs popular "Katinka'
Thursday and Friday nights In Con-
stitution Hall. The company will
celebrate its tenth anniversary this
year by its first performances In
the larger auditorium. "Katinka, y
q romance of old Russia, will have
. cast Of 100 and 4 full symphony
orchestra. The Russian and Vien-
nese dances In the operetta have
been arranged by Erica Thimay.
The title role will be sung by the
19-year -old Washington soprano,
Julie Curtis, and singing opposite
her as Ivan Dmitri, Attache OF the
Ambassador, will be Lewis Rose.
Mr.. Rose, who has appeared in sew
eral of the operettas staged by the
Columbians, Is we'll known for his
work in the USO. Miss Manning
will conduct the orchestra.
Others taking roles of Importance
will be John Kramer as Boris
Strogoff, Frances Jackson as Ia
tiana, Catherine Emery as Varenka,
Kerper Propert as Thaddsus Hop
per, Edith Hoffman Jones as Helen
Hopper, Bob Bloch as Knopf, Sterl-
ing Hedgepeth as Arif and Jacque-
line Taylor as Olga.
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Business Groups
Six Associations
Meet This Week

Monday.
Park View Business Association
City Bank, 1908 Georgia avenue
NV, $3.50 pm.
Tuesday.
American Business Association
Ell Patio, I'll Thirteenth street NV.
second floor, dinner-meeting, pm
Columbia Heights Business Asso-
ciation - Tivoli Theater lounge
Fourteenth and Park road NV.
1890 pm.
Mount Pleasant Businessmen
Association-Pleasantry Tea Room
1854 Mount Pleasant street NV, 8
pm.
Wednesday.
Washington Retail Liquor Dealers
Observation-Disclosures Hotel, Vic
tory Room, 8 pm.
Thursday.
Northeast Businessmen's Associa-
ton luncheon-Co Continental ) Hotel,
1890 pm.
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National Symphony
Ends Season Today.

The National Symphony Orchestra
will play its last concert this season
in Constitution Hall today at 4
Howard Mitchell, associate con-
ductor. will direct and the soloist
will be Percy Granger, pianist. Mr.
Grainger.is making his 18th appear
ance with the orchestra, having
played at both summer and winter
concerts. He will be heard in Car
penter's "Concertina" and in Liszt's
Hungarian Fantasy No. a.
Plans for IL Sunday concerts next
season have already been made and
soloists engaged. These will include
Dame Myra Hess, British pianist
who played with the orchestra this
year on her first American tour
since the war; Alec Templeton,
Sascha Gorodnitzki and Menahem
Pressler, pianists; Paul Makovsky,
Russian violinist who was soloist at
the Water Gate, and the sensational
American violinist, Arnold EiduS,
who last year won first prize in the
Concours Internationale Marguerite
Long-Jacques Thibaud competition
in Paris as the only American vio-
linist. to compete. Virginia Mac
Waters, soprano, is the only singer.
There will be four orchestral pro-
grams on the series.
Sunday subscribers have until
June l to renew their subscriptions,
while the deadline for the Wednes-
day subscribers is April 25.
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Programs OF the Week

MozaIt's The Marriage Of FisaSo;" i p,,.
cini's Il. Boheme," Nine , Iassinari;; h.;
fna1s flom M.sssn.ts aa,s" a0fIs nss't
Fritz" Mr.. Taeliavini, Nine. Tassi-
mari
ARMY AIR FORCES BAND SYM
s HqS1 Horafa' Ssoao eonsaetor: Tssi p.psftmsat
Of Interior Auditorium. $50 m.
santos .,,MaItita oyerture," , Ra-
meaus La Ponle M MThserst, Feig;
Temple ega , Of the aeat.S stubbs' Dance
OF the Witches Mexican folk song.
La Golondrina."t NJ MfSergt. Abrasha
Robofsky. baritone; Lecuona's Ma
lsguena."
THURSDAY.
SOLDIERS HOME sYMPHoNETTE,
Franklin B. Charles conductor:
Stanley Hail. $3.50 pm.
COLUMBIA light OPERA COMPANY,
Ethyl Manning, director: Frimfs
''Katinka';; Constitution Hall. $50
HOWARD MITCHELL. cello recital;
Howard University $50 PM por-
PoTehs PoTsi cGsssssa Minor OBJ 4o
ayers ssssnovens asrn enssa panee, Villa Mn hosos
...Psauena Suite" Liadov-Piatisorsks
= SlihSkA
BUDAPEST STRING QUARTET, Library
of Congress-. $50 pm. HAydn's
Quartet. Op. 60, No. g.: Van
vactor's Quartet No. L.; Debnssy's
Quartet. Op. 10
FRIDAY.
FRIDAY MORNING MUSIC CLUE, stu
dent members annual proerami
Barker Hall. 1880 am.
COLUMBIA LIGHT OPERA COMPANY,
Ethyl Manning, director; FrimIs
''Katinka"; Constitution HaH, s.30
pm.
BUDAPEST STRING QUARTET. Library
OF Congress, $50 pm. Repeating
Thursdays program.
NAVY BAND, 1t. Comdr Charles
Brendler. eondaetor D~epartmenfai ~
Tarantelle de Beiphesor. Gouid's
"Pavanne," Tropical" "Prima Dom
ma: Saint-Saens' '.Dsnse Macapre,
Williams The Three Bluejackets.
Gordon Finlay, Paul Attridge, Harold
Wendt. cornets. Ippolitoy -IvanoFs
Caucasian Sketches" overture.
Thomas "Mignon', Strauss Beau
tifui Blue Danube Liszt's Hum
Earisn Rhapsody, No. q"
SATURDAY.
SOLDIERS HOME sYMPHONETTE,
Franklin B. Charles, conductor.
STANLEY Hall, sac pm.
WADE n. srEFHENs. organ recital;
LID. 3. Chapel. pm.
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Rornaine Appointed

Westervelt B. Romaine, professor
of music education at American
University, has been appointed
organist and choirmaster OF st.
Johns Episcopal Church, George
town. Graduate of the Guilmant
Organ School in New York City, Mr.
Romaine received his bachelor OF
music degree from Oberlin Con-
servatory and a master of arts In
music education from Teachers
College, Columbia University.
Besides his teaching courses al
American University, he is con-
ductor of the. uniyersity's symphony
orchestra and chairman of the A. U
Television Development Committee
He was recently appointed member
of a central planning committee OF
the Music Educators National Con-
ference on Radio in Music Educa-
ton" Several of his compositions
have been performed publicly.
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Recital

Oscar Levant, pianist, author, wit
and raconteur, will be presented ir
a piano recital April Is in Constitu-
ton Hall by Dorothy Hodgkin Dor
sey. Mr.. Levant will intersperse hi.
playing with comments of an i'm.
promtu and spontaneous nature
His verbal adroitness and extraordi-
nary memory when he was mem
ber of the Information Please
program are familiar to radio listen
ers. He has appeared in two motion
pictures, "HumoresQue" and "Rhap.
sody in Blue" and is well known fol
his book, "A Smattering of Ignor-
ance," and for his piano recordings.
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80a1

Through the courtesy of Eliza
beth Sprague Coolidge the Califor-
mia String Quartet will be pre-
sented in a program in the Phillips
Gallery tomorrow afternoon at 4
The members of the group, Felix
Khuner and David Schneider. vio-
Inns; Detley Olshausen, viola, and
George Barati, cello, will include in
the program Mr.. Barati's quartet
composed in 1914 and dedicated to
Mrs. Coolidge.
The Randolph Singers, consisting
of Anna Louise Kautz, Georgiane
Peters. sopranos; Mildred Green
berg, contralto; Sakt Snaith, tenor,
and Bert Spero, bass. will give the
program in the National Gallery
of Art tonight at 8. Directed by
David Randolph, the group comes
from New York City for a first ap-
pearance here.
On Friday night the Navy Band,
1t. Comdr. Charles Brendler, direc-
tor, will play its last concert OF the
season In the Departmental Audi
torium. The summer series at the
east front of the Capitol will begin
in June.
The annual addition of the
Chamber Music Guild will be held
Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday
in the Toutorsky Studios, 1720 Six
teenth street NV. Frances Nash
Watson, chairman of the Addition
Committee, will be assisted by Mar
eel Ancher, musical director of the
guild, and panel of local musicians
including Mrs. john Jarvis Butler,
Marion Wilcox Coomes, Rose
d'Amore, Mime. Julia Elbogen. Fan
ny Ross Henbest, Donnenic Iascone,
Gertrude Lyons, Giln1o,r McDon-
aid, Marjorie Mcdonald, Sophocles
Papas, Gitta Rapoch, Abrasha Ro-
bofsky, Constance Russell, Junita
Russell. Nine. Vladimir Rybar,
Henri Sokolov, DR.. Basil Toutorsky
and Minnie H. Volkman.
Howard Mitchell, cellist and asso-
ciate conductor of the National
Symphony Orchestra, will give q
cello recital on Thursday in Rankin
Chapel, Howard University.
The Budapest String Quartet will
give identical programs in the Li-
brary of Congress on Thursday and
Friday nights under sponsorship OF
the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Foun-
dation. David Van Vactor's Quar-
tet No. l" will be the novelty pre-
sented.
A 50-piece orchestra will accom-
pany the Washington Choral Society
in It's first presentation of Beethov-
ems "Missa Solemnis" in Constitu-
ton Hall on Tuesday, April 20. Louis
A. Potter, conductor of the society,
placed the choice of the work for
the spring concert up to the public
and the "Missa Solemnis" was Sc
lected by a tremendous majority.
Soloists will be Agnes Davis, So
prano; Lydia Summers, contralto;
Burton Cornwell, basso-cantante.
and Irwin Dillon, tenor.
Susan Cornelia Gouge. harpist,
will play at the Easter services in
Trinity Episcopal Church today a
composition by her teacher. William
T. Cameron, entitled "Ballade."
Violet Breeding. soprano, will be
the soloists at the Easter services
in the auditorium of the National
Naval Medical Center, Bethesda,
Md. today.
Evening star., 1947-04-06

Cantor Samuel Malavsky, noted
recording artist and his four daugh-
ters and two sons will give a pro-
gram of Hebrew and Yiddish songs
in the Jewish Community Center
tonight under the auspices of the
Washington Highlands Jewish Gen.
fer
Evening star., 1947-04-06
Civitons to Hear Friede

Herbert A. Friede, Superintendent
of Emergency Communications for
the District, will speak at lunch
con meeting Of the Civitan Club in
the Mayf1ower Hotel Tuesday. The
luncheon will start at 1890 pm.
Evening star., 1947-04-06
TODAY.

TODAY.
NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA.
Howard Mitchell, conductor; Percy
a1nnssT ton Hail. R'1nls pm sSSlt ovsrture
enlssaiia eonserfino IN Ms Auis drainser: aleene cop
Ma,,Sas a,as st FsrsaEf rGr shs rsS1ass
MT. Grainger; Rimsky -Korsakofr's
The Russian Easter"
r. TERTIUS NOBLE, organ recital.
Washington Cathedral pm.
THE RANDOLPH SINGERS. David
Randolph. director; National Gal
1sty W. and 9i 15s Chant Pm tn casssisys
nome. allons voir 81 Ia rose; Mon
teverdi's .Eeee Mormorar londe"
e lsnds Gene &c. .o,.n, Asain' syss, wee Lgxe er
ley's My Bonny Lass. She smiieth,:
assd. Tssfs 81 Esssos yet asaea. sSsss Taas ais
cara Farmers sFair Phyllis" viii
Gave S hsurbtss ms rssssst whtfebssa seds
."Alleluia,' Mozart's % Du .Esel-
Haufrecht; Thompson's Gods Bot
TOMORROW.
CALIFORNIA sTRIN QUARTET,
Philips Gallery, 4 pm Schubert's
Quartet. G Major. op 1871: Ba-
RATS Quartet Beethosen's Quar-
tet, B Flat Major, Op. is. No. g."
WADE N. STEPHENS, organ recital;
LID. s. Chapel, g pm.
SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY Or
CHESTRA. Pierre Monteux, con-
duetor; Constitution Hall. $50 pm.
Bach Respirhi ''Passaeaslis. Fusue.
c. Minor; Messiaen's 'I'Ascen-
sion" Strauss Don Juan" Brahms
symphony No l.
TUESDAY.
SOLDIERS HOME sYMPH0NETTE.
Franklin B. Charles conductor;
Stanley Han. $40 pm.
CANTOR SAMUEL MALAySKY AND
GROUP, Jewish Community Center.
s pm Hebrew and Yiddish songs.
WEDNESDAY,.
WADE N. STEPHENS, orsan recital
LID. S. Chapel. s pm.
FERRUCIo TAGLIAyINI, tenor: PIA
TASSINARI. soprano: Joint recital.
Constitution Hail, $40 pm. Cac-
cfrrs "Amarili." Giordanis Caro-
MIC ben" Debussy's La Close;
Weckerlin's .Jeune Fiiiette." Hahn's
81 'Heure Exquise," ariss from Doni-
settfs 'LEIisir d'Amors," Bsilint .
ia sonnambula." Meyerbeers Af-
ricana," Mr., Taslisvini: Monteverdfs
"IAseistemi morire, ariss rom
Evening star., 1947-04-06

Funk .k Wagnalls Co. win publish
. book entitled How 10 Gain Pleas
ure and Profit From Stamp Col
lecting" by Henry NJ. Ellis, April IL.
Neat, clear postmarks are avail
able at Percy. N. II. Send covers
to postmaster there with clipping Of
this notice.
Ada Is in Kansas and Michigan;
Bertha in Minnesota, Missouri and
North Carolina; Catharine in
Kansas: Dorothy In Minnesota, New
Jersey and West Virginia; Edith in
Texas; Fannie In Arkansas; Geral-
dine in Alabama and Montana: |:
Helen in Georgia, Maryland and
West Virginia; Inez In Kentucky,
North Carolina and Texas; jean
nette in Pennsylvania; Kathleen In
Florida and Georgia: Lillian In Ala
bama and Texas; Marie in West
Virginia; Nancy in Kentucky and
Virginia; Olive in California, Mon
tana and New Mexico; Patricia In
South Dakota and Texas: Rose in
Kansas, Nebraska, New York and
Oklahoma; Sarah In Georgia, Ken
lucky and Mississippi; Thelma in
Kentucky, North Carolina and Vir-
ginia; Una In Arkansas and South
Carolina; Violet In. Louisiana; WiI1i-
fred in Kansas, Kentucky and Mon
tana: Xenia in Illinois and Ohio;
Ysleta In Texas, and Zelda in Ken
lucky.
Stamps, covers and coins found In
the mails will be sold at auction in
Room 3083, City Post Once, North
Capitol street and Massachusetts
avenue, Wednesday, April %, be-
ginning at 7 pm. Readers desir-
ing copies OF catalogue for the 230
lots to be disposed Of may write to-:
Postmaster, Washington, d. G.
The Woodbridge Stamp Club will
meet at the Public Library, 2206
Rhode Island avenue NE, tomorrow
evening at .. Wes. M. Tryon will
discuss the Famous American
series. Public invited.
An open meeting Of the Collectors
Club of Washington win be held at
1912 Ninth street NV. Tuesday
evening at g.. -
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washington Fhaselo he snaon Hotel Fifteenth
Tx Wednesday
stanps and covers of Latin America ming at g.
Evening star., 1947-04-06

An open meeting of the Collectors
Club of Washington viii be held ut
1912 Ninth street NV. Tuesday
evening at 8. 20
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Monday.

| Monday.
Belleyue-2l1 Boyer road S.W.
Is pm.
Benning Home of G. w. johnson
ITO Thirty-fifth street NE. 8 pm
Citizens Association of Takoma
| D. C-Takoma Public Library
Fifth and Cedar streets NV, 8 pm
Dupont Circle-Mayflower Hotel
t8 pm
Kenilworth-Community Center
Kenilworth avenue and Ord street
NE, 8 pm.
Southwest-Southwest Public Ii.
brary, Seventh and H streets S.W.
l8 pm
Evening star., 1947-04-06

The American flag is shown, with
other Allied standards, on peace
commemorative recently issued by
Romania - 3,000-lei ultramarine.
Other labels in the same set are:
300L, goddess of peace, in a chariot,
pale violet; 600L. goddess Of peace
with olive branch, brown; 7,20oL,
dove of peace, green.
Evening star., 1947-04-06


WARREN =. JOHNSON, oraanist
CHURCH OF THE PILGRIMS
/ asnd and r SITS. NV. s:3O O'Clock
Festival Prelude --DeLaH HdrteT
Paraphrase "Laudste Dominum,"
BoeflnsdHn
Musical instruction on piano, Hawaiian
Kuitar, Spanish guitar, mandolin. bAnjs
and ukuiele. Lessons in theory and har-
I meny. Ensemble practice given to ad-
yanced students, including training for
| radio broade sting and dance band work
co. s45s, MRS. ALMA WOLKNG.
iArmando Jannuzzi
| Grend opera oramatie Tenor
Voice Specialist
Fesndsfion end Tsekniess
/ sehsel sf bel easte
| hobavf 9o7s
ii5is osk 8. NV, tkr. 18th &. :
Evening star., 1947-04-06

Susan Cornelia Gouge. harpist,
will play at the Easter services in
Trinity Episcopal Church today a
composition by her teacher. William
r. Cameron, entitled "Ballade."
Evening star., 1947-04-06

Violet Breeding. soprano, will be
the soloists at the Easter services
in the auditorium of the National
Naval Medical Center, Bethesda
Md. TODAY.
Evening star., 1947-07-23

agement. Such practices obviously reduce
our output, lower our consumption and
retard economic progress"
Stated in other words, the President is
calling on both industry and workers to
have faith in the future and to subscribe
to the doctrine that our hope lies in an
economy of abundance and not of scarcity.
1t will not be easy to sell this theory to all
OF our people. There are those who dis
pute it; who cling to the belief that arbi-
trary restrictions on production and arbi-
trary limitations on work are inevitable.
But what these doubters have not done,
and cannot do, is to explain how, under
their theory, We are going to provide work
for 60,000000 people after the temporary
props under our economy have been with
drawn. 1t may be that we will be gambling
If we put our faith in an economy of full
production, but even If that be so it is the
lesser of two risks
Evening star., 1947-07-23
Tex for Alcoholic Clinics

The Senate version OF the Hebert bill
for the establishment of alcoholic clinics
in Washington is good one.
The bill, already passed by the House,
was reported favorably yesterday by the
Senate District Committee with some
revisions.
One of them shifts the cost OF the pro-
gram from the Districts inadequate gen
eral revenues and places it on establish
ments selling alcoholic beverages. To do
this 1t increases the license fees by ten
per cent-an increase which will realize
$4,000.
This will make possible full-time clinics
operating on the scale that has helped
half the patients at Yale's clinic in New
Haven-voluntary or committed by the
courts-to readjust themselves in society
1t is just start, as Senator Cooper, Re
publican, of Kentucky told the committee.
This thing has to grow. But under the
plan proposed in the bill, money for its
growth will always be available. The
fabulous value of liquor licenses in Wash
ington makes this tax, or higher one,
nominal The public has right to share
in value that it has created. No one is
going to be driven out of business, for the
alcoholic beverage trade in washington
appears to enjoy lower taxes than any OF
the States licensing commercial outlets
Senator Cooper has hopes of getting the
bill through conference and passed before
the sessions end. Representative Hebert,
Democrat, of Louisiana, the House sponsor
OF the measure, is in. complete agreement
with the revisions. The Star hopes the
Senator from Kentucky will succeed and
wishes to commend him and Senator john
ston, Democrat, of South Carolina, who
also worked on the bill, for their painstak-
ing interest in this matter of District
welfare
Evening star., 1947-07-23
Medical Care for WACS

In 1914 young Virginia girl joined the
Womens Army Corps. She underwent
pelvic examination in April, 1945, In con-
nection with her application for COM
mission. That examination showed some
abnormalities and the young medical
officer taxed her with being pregnant.
When this was denied skin test was
made. The result was negative. The girl
was sent on to another station to enter
an Onicers' Candidate School, and the
medical officer there was advised to check
on her condition. He, too, detected certain
abnormalities, but nothing was done. On
November II, 1915, the girl, then a second
lieutenant, was taken to Walter Reed Hos
pital. Five weeks later she died of cancer
of the pelvic organs.
Manifestly, a more expert examination
in the first instance might have saved this
girls life through early detection OF the
cancer And it was in the hope OF fore
stalling repetition of this experience that
Senator Byrd of Virginia, in connection
with the pending legislation to incorporate
the WAC in the Regular Army, offered
an amendment requiring that pelvic ex-
aminations of these girls be made by
doctors, preferably women doctors, who are
specialists in that field.
The amendment was defeated in COM
mittee, the objection having been raised
that 1t would be difficult to obtain the
services of gynecologists, either in the
armed services or on contract, to handle
these examinations. The incorporation
bill, however, limits the strength of the
WAC to 2 per cent of the total Army per-
sonnel, so it would not seem that the OBJ
lection raised Is an insuperable one.
spokesman for the Army Medical Corps
has opposed annual or semiannual pelvic
examinations Of women in the Army on the
ground that "out of 115,767 women in the
Army during World War II, there were
only 1877 malignancies and only 55 in
volved the pelvic organs" In the First
World War, however, deaths from tubercu-
1osis were $50 per 100000. This was con-
sidered shockingly high, and vigorous medi-
cal efforts brought the incidence in the
Second World War down to 81 per 1000
On this basis, pelvic cancer incidence
of SIS per 115,000 does not seem to be a
trivial matter. If this incidence could
be pulled down by more expert examina-
tions and early detection of cancer symp-
toms in the young women going into the
service, the extra effort involved would
seem to be well worth making