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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-11-16
A COUPLE OF CHAMPIONS


Francis Routt, Evening Star
photographer, accepts a
plaque from President Tru-
man in a preview of last
nights presentation of awards
to winners in the White
House Photographers Associ-
alton photo contest. Mr..
Routt won first place in the
color class with his picture of
a clown. pig and a boy, en-
titled "The Big Show which
is presented today on the COW
er of the Stars pictorial mag
azine section.
Also a winner at the Statler
Hotel show was Mr.. Truman,
whose entry below was the
best in the class limited to
Presidents of the United
States. Mr.. Truman won the
award for the White House
Class hands down, and his
picture looks as though it was
taken the same way. He
snapped the association men,
bers recently on the White
House lawn with a camera
they presented to him. Ex-
posure data for this picture
is unknown. White House
News Photographers Photos.
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and the use of electricity in Italian
homes.
S. Severe patrolling Of de luxe
restaurants for food violations.
6. Intensification of income tax
collections so that every wage
Garner in Italy will be required to
contribute his share" He said tax
collections already have jumped
from 80 billion lire a year when
he formed the cabinet last May to
current rate of more than so
billion.
7. Installation of a strict pay as
you go policy in all government de-
partments so that the budget now
400 billion lire in deficit for 1947
alone may be balanced within a
year by permitting expenditures
only if definite revenues are in sight.
Calling the Marshall Plan "indis-
pensable for italian recovery" Mr..
de Gasperi said that nonetheless
private capital was a necessary COM
plement of recovery and invited
American private capital to invest
in Italy.
A dispatch from Venice said that
in nearby Padua today mob trying
to storm the prefecture was stopped
by fire and teargas bombs, with four
truckloads of soldiers helping police.
Later. the dispatch said, the mob
wrecked headquarters OF the Italian
Social and Uomo Qualunque move
ments.
Lights in Venice went out for an
hour and half while workers of
the Adriatic Society of Electricity
struck.
A dispatch from Bologna reported
that demonstrations in Ferrara
burned non-Leftist newspapers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-11-16
Senator Myers Urges
Early Hearings on
Rent Curb Extension
By the Associated Press

Early consideration of legislation
to extend Federal rent controls was
urged by Senator Myers, Democrat,
of Pennsylvania yesterday to pre-
vent a jam similar TO last year
when he said President Truman
was constrained to sign a bad
bill"
Because of "the urgency Of the
situation" Senator Myers asked
Chairman Tobey of the Senate
Banking Committee to call hearings
on rent control extension in the
special session opening tomorrow.
IF this matter is delayed with
out any action, in the way of hear
ings prior to the start of the Sec
ono (January) session." he wrote
Senator Tobey, II am fearful that
we might be faced next February
with a repetition of the last-minute
action on rent control which oc-
Cured last June"
Under the present law, Feoeral
controls will expire February 29
unless Congress acts before then.
Senator Myers is the author of a
bill which would extend them for
another year and which would re-
store most of the controls over con-
struction which Congress removed
in June.
Senator Myers said Congress acted
so tardily on that occasion that
"the President could exercise little
or no independent judgment on a
far from adequate bill"
The chief Democratic criticism Of
the bill Mr.. Truman signed was
that it permitted a Is per cent
rent increase where the landlord
and tenant mutually agreed to it
in return for a lease running
through 1913.
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as valueless. THE balance sheet is
not prepared in translatable form.
1t does not indicate the assets and
liabilities of a particular fund nor
does 1t disclose the assets that may
be used for current operations" the
report asserted.
The surveyors also found that
food served at the hospital was
frequently cold and that floors were
dirty.
Among recommendations were
that the Department of Public Wei
fare liberalize it's policy as to eligi-
bility for assistance to patients ad-
mitted to the hospital through the
emergency ward. 1t also was
brought out that the city's support
of the hospital has not been in
good proportion to its support OF
other health programs.
The Community Clinic at the hos
pital was commended as a most
worthy undertaking." 1t was recon-
mended that the clinic be IAN inte-
grail part of the service offered by
the Alexandra Hospital to the COM
munity." The report warned, how
ever, that no move in this direction
should be made until the Alexandria
Hospital is ''reorganized to the
point where 1t (the clinic can be
safely absorbed " ."
The medical staA of the hospital
was highly commended. The re-
port added. however: "One sensed
that the medical staff were dis
couraged and felt that under pres
ent conditions they were up against
a stone wall inasmuch as there is
absolutely nc liaison between the
professional staff and the board Of
directors"
Mr.. Whitton said last night "the
survey report is quite acceptable"
He added that "the criticism of the
administrator Is a little tough to
take insview of the record of my
achievements since March, 1941.
Frankly, I'm willing to stand on my
record and to accept the favorable
evaluations Of men and women
working with me and those of my
associates in the hospital admins
tration field of the area, State and
Nation. I guess I made bad first
impression on DR.. Clemmons al
though it is easy to recognize. .the
influence of certain outsiders in his
StatamentS ="
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Six Star Men Take 7 Prizes
In White House Photo Contest

See prise-,0inning color photo
graph on .coDer OF today's Pictorial
Magazine.
Six Washington Star photogra-
piers won a total of seven prizes
in the annual White House News
Photographers Association photo
contest. it was announced last night
at the cameras annual banquet at
the Statler Hotel. President Tru-
man presented plaques to the top
winners
Star photographers swept all
three places in the color class as
we'll as taking prizes in the scenic,
sports and feature classes
The winning photographers went
on public exhibit at the Statler
Immediately after conclusion Of the
banquet in the Presidential Room.
Congressional, Supreme Court, cab
met and other public leaders were
among the $50 persons who at,
tended.
Truman Film Shown.
Also on view was Is nm. color
1ll1Il Va I4lC 4CNCllb f1olI Va O1IV P1lo-
tographers' association to the White
House. 1t was taken by President
Truman. using a camera presented
by the movie photographers in the
association. The Presidents cam
era technique Is a bit shaky and
runs to "arty' shots of the White
House grounds with the Washington
tho ho eDrrnyty3l II
noted.
The grand award in the photo
show went to John S. Thompson,
veteran Acme photographer, for a
shot taken during the Texas City,
Tex disaster last March and en-
titled Hell on Wheels" Mr..
Thompson also won first prize in
the presidential class with an in
formal picture of Mr.. Truman and
his daughter, Margaret, at National
Airport.
Star photographers who won
prizes were:
Francis Routt, first in color, for
his picture of a small boy feeding
a pig held by circus clown, repro
yucca OIL Tic COfCI . VI GOaoy . otd1
Pictorial Magazine.
Takes Two Awards.
Elwood Baker. second in scenic
and tied for third in the same
class.
John C. Mueller, third in sports
Paul M. Schmick, honorable men,
ton in feature.
Eugene L. Abbott. second in color,
and Gus Chinn, third in color.
First prize in the personality class
went to Walter Jacobus of Harris
e. Ewing. Byron Rollins Of the
Associated Press won first in the
sports class. Woodrow Wilson, a
Government photographer, took first
in the scenic class, and Milton
FREEZER OF Acme took feature class
honors.
George Jessel was master of cere-
monies for the entertainment pro-
gram that followed the dinner.
Movie and radio stars, including
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Hospital
Continued From First Page.)

off as charity instead of using every
possible means of collection.
No consideration has been given
to recommendation of the med
ical staff, which, although it is ef-
ficient, appears discouraged at the
way the hospital is administered.
Edmonds ability Praised"
The report found Donald Ed
monds, personnel director and pub
lie relations officer, "the best
oriented as to the purpose of his
department and the general prob
lens confronting the hospital"
The accounting department
headed by Mr.. Watts, was referred
to as very poorly organized. "Ap-
parently this department is under
the supervision of the credit man
ager, Mr.. Ridgely Both these de-
partment heads are comparatively
new in the hospital field and the
records and procedure and organi-
zation of this department reflect
this inexperience."
The practice of borrowing from
the endowment fund was sharply
criticized. Also condemned, was an
indication on the books that the
hospital spent cash received from
patients prior to rendering the serv-
ice for which payment was made.
The report left no doubt that the
survey group found the handling OF
money and bills at the hospital
slipshod.
In pointing out that all cur
rency and checks received~by the
hospital through the mail are
opened on the administrators Office,
the report declared that very little
control is exercised over the receipt
of cash and shortages are frequent"
The auditors report was described
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-11-16
THE SUNDAY STAR, Washington, D. c = A
SUNDAY NOVEMBER IT, 1el7

agencies; sufficient funds to supply
needed facilities" for American
Indians, especially those of the
Navajo reservation and Endorsement
of the Marshall plan and the st.
Lawrence Seaway.
The labor resolution called for
a minimum hourly wage Of rs cents
and urged fair employment prac-
tees, fair and successful collective
bargaining and expansion OF the
Social Security Act"
Delegates also favored Federal
aid to education without Federal
control" and establishment of an
institute of practical = political
teachings"
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publication. No further editions ap-
peared
Guilio de Mario, director of the
independent morning newspaper II
Momento, resigned rather than pub
lish the statement, and the news
paper appeared over another's
signature.
Events Preceding Strike.
This sequence of events preceded
the capitals transportation strike:
The anti-Communist Association of
War Prisoners Returned From Rus
STA met in hall in the Piazza
Esedra. The Leftists reported that
Marshal Giovanni Messe, wartime
commander of italian troops on the
front, was scheduled to ad-
dress the meeting.
A demonstration developed and a
crowd tried to invade the meeting
hall. Messe Is regarded as an arch
enemy by the Leftists who describe
him as a potential man on horse
back" for resurgent Fascism.
A short time before the Piazza
Esedra clash, 200 to 300 men armed
with sticks attacked police trying to
arrest black market tobacco vendors
in the Piazza Vittorio. Police
quelled an incipient riot there after
reinforcements were summoned.
A three-hour central strike devel-
oped in Bari where a Communist
group was reported to have wrecked
the headquarters of the Liberal
Party
Bomb Enrages LeftistS.
Dispatches from Perugia, Is miles
north of Rome, said Leftists-en-
ragged when a bomb was tossed at
Communist party headquarters
rallied in the town square and de-
wasted the headquarters of the
Rightist Common Man" movement
and shops of newspapers they &C
cused of Fascist leanings.
The Common Man movement
headquarters in Parma in Northern
Italy was destroyed. Workers DEM
onstrated in Florence, and disturb
ances were reported in Leghorn
Achile Narozza, Christian Demo
crat Assembly speaker, said Leftists
had raided the headquarters of his
party at AleSsandria. LeftiSts were
reported to have rioted at Cremona
an industrial city on the Pc river
Ten persons were injured in mot
action at Verona, halfway between
Venice and Milan.
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Indies-Bound Cunoeists
Take to Steamboat
By the Associated Press

PEORIA, Ill, Nov. 15.-Ray Sulli-
van, Al, and his wife, Madeline, 38,
who left Chicago Wednesday in q
2o-foot spruce canoe on the first lap
of trip to the West Indies, arrived
here today-via steamer.
Mr.. Sullivan said he and his wife
encountered foggy, 17-degree wealth
er. with heavy rains and some wind,
shortly after negotiating the Illinois
waterway and they boarded steam
boat, the kansas City," for the 30
mile trip here.
Mr.. Sullivan said they will go by
steamer to st. Louis and thereafter
they'll go on their own again.
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GoIIinger
CONTINUED From First Page.)

psychopati1ic division would be only
a last resort" because the District
should have a receiving point fol-
mental patients. . ,
He said he found physical condi-
tons in the psychopathic division
shocking" and saw no reason why
the place couldn't be cleaned up and
made more cheerful.
Could Attract Students.
With more cheerful surroundings,
more trained attendants, additional
trained psychiatrists and a we'll
organized program Of occupational
and physiotherapy, DR.. Miller added.
the medical schools would become
interested in establishing teaching
center in the psychopathic division.
He cited particularly the lack OF
treatment and the manacling OF
patients in his criticism of the psy-
chopathic wards.
He said the 48 recommendations
made three years ago by three
man committee of psychiatrists ap-
pointed by the Commissioners were
good and should have been followed
Commissioner Mason has instruct
ed his health officials to include
these recommendations in their re-
port on necessary changes.
Cost May Be Handled Later.
AS for the forthcoming survey t.
be made by Dr. Samuel B. Wortis
Public Health Service consultant
Commissioner Mason said DR.. Wor
It's recommendations may not come
In time to be included in the bud
get request when it leaves the Com
missioners but can be called to thu
attention OF the appropriations sub
committee at the time hearings art
held on the District budget.
Mr.. Koran pointed out that hi!
subcommittee previously had actet
on it's own volition to make neces
sary changes. He cited the subcom
mittee's decision to install a bust
ness manager at the District Train
ing School at Laurel as one example
of the subcommittee taking the
initiative in making what it con
sidered necessary Improvements.
At the same time. Mr.. Hora1
commended DR.. Miller for his keer
interest in undermining the psyche
pathic wards and said District clt1'
Gems were lucky to have man O.
DR.. MiHef's experience and ability
as chairman of the health subcom'
mittee.
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wheeling vehicles two and three
deep.
The streetcar and bus workers
anion called the transportation
strike to protest the arrest Of q
streetcar conductor during Leftist
raid on an anti-Communist meeting
of Italian war veterans. The police
identified the conductor as Com
murist.
Rome's Chamber of Labor met to
discuss calling a general strike, but
its decision was not known imme-
diately. Meanwhile, the government
was reported seeking to head OF the
threat by receiving leaders OF the
General Confederation of Labor
tonight at the Viminale, a govern
ment building.
Leftists Strike at Press.
Robert Lucifero, Liberal deputy,
declared in the Constituent Assem-
bly,. that the transportation strike
was an example Of the Leftist at
tacks on Mr.. de Gasperi's middle-of-
the-road government from which
the Communists have been excluded.
In a pattern similar to that fol-
lowed in other riot-torn cities OF
Italy. Leftist -controlled labor ele-
ments in Rome also struck at non
sympathetic sections Of the press.
Printers refused to put out today's
edition Of the Liberal -tConserva-
tive Party organ Risorgimento Lib
eraIe because its director rejected an
ultfmatum to publish in its entirety
a resolution of the typographical
rnion attacking what the union
called the capitalist and neo-Fas-
cist" press.
Voce Republican,, a newspaper
of the small left-of-center Repub-
Hcan Party, ran the resolution in
one edition but withdrew 1t when 1t
learned that the union required its
y. - ,'.---F -
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year. officials said. latter per
cent increase in March, increases of
10 and 6 per cent were announced
September % and October %, re-
spectively.
Richard r. Deupree, company
president, said in a statement:
The recent increases in the price
of soap are due entirely to recent
increases in the prices of fats and
oils FROM which soaps are made"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-11-16

Eddie Bracken, Virginia Blaine, Pat
O'Brien and Jimmy Durante.. were
on the entertainment list while the
United States Navy Band provided
the evenings music.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1947-08-08
DULUTH NEWS
SHOTS
BY ZILLAH WATERS

Miss Amanda Byrd of Mime
apolis arrived Sunday, July 81, to
spend one of her two weeks vaca-
ton with her mother, Mrs. jamie
Byrd, and sister, Mrs. George Cox
and family, both of AIS E. 9Th St.
Miss Byrd left for home Sunday,
Aug. 3. She was accompanied by
Mrs. Cox and her children, Marg-
aret, Florence, Frances and Charles.
They will spend a week visiting
friends in Minneapolis.
Mrs. SidOnia Black left for Chi
cago, Aug. /, where she will meet
her daughter, Miss Vivienne Black
of Kansas City, Mo. They will go
from Chicago to Detroit and then
take a boat to Buffalo. They will
be met in Buffalo by Mr.. and Mrs.
Earl Bell of Washington, D. c.,
and motor to Washington where
Mrs. Black will visit until Labor
Day.
Wiener Roast: A large group of
young people enjoyed a wiener
roast on Park Point Tuesday, July
20. They were chaperoned by Mrs.
Anna Lee Glenn.
Miss Shirley Stokes of Chicago
who has been visiting her aunt,
Mrs. Halle Hall, Gil Garfield Ave,
motored to St. Paul Friday, Aug.
l, to spend a few days before re
turning to her work.
Mr.. Al MINIS mOtOred to Duluth
for the day, Friday, Aug. /.
Boat Ride: Misses Bernice Dan
iels, Shirley Stokes and Margaret
Thomas, accompanied by Messrs.
Charles Wiley and Joe Waters, en-
joyed a trip around the Horn on
the S. S. Wayne, Thursday night,
July 81.
Miss Amanda Byrd enjoyed a
trip to Port Arthur and Fort Will
liam on Thursday, July 81. She
was accompanied by Mr.. Steve Cox,
his father and his aunt who are
visiting him from Mississippi.
New Home: Mr.. and Mrs. w. F,
Maupins, Jr., have purchased the
Merry's old homestead on East
Fourth st. They hope to move in
soon.
Purchased Duplex: Mr.. and Mrs.
David MINIS have purchased a du-
pick on Piedmont Ave.
Family Picnic: The Cox family
and relatives had picnic at Island
Lake Tuesday, July %. There were
26 who attended.
St. Marks A.M.E. Church: Sun
day, Aug. 8, at the morning serv-
ice, Rev. Joseph Jackson, pastor,
used Power For Service" as his
subject. He took his text from
John 15:26-27.
A report on the drive for money
to pay for the new stove was made
by the trustees, last Sunday, Trus-
tee Day. Contributions of 1924 had
been made, more than the cost of
the stove. The balance was placed
in the trustees treasury.
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and Mrs. C. Walton and their two
sons Of Detroit, Mich, TaV-
cling in their new 1947 Studebaker
on the way to Yellowstone Park
and then to California to be the
house-guests of their brother.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bass Booker re-
ceived long distance calls from On
tario, Calf, from Mr.. and MRS.
Leroy Wainwright. Mr.. Wainwright
is a former CT stationed here, who
roomed with Mr.. and Mrs. Z.
Booker and also with Mrs. Hattie
Wheeler, Mr.. Wainwright reports
that his family is now three mem
bers-and that he is now the owner
of a cleaning establishment with
three employees. Mr.. and Mrs.
Wainwright were active workers
in the community.
Miss Sylvia Booker, daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Bass Booker, GA N.
Minnesota Ave-, left Monday for
Camp Tepeetonka as junior eoun-
sellor, Girl Reserve, Y.W.C.A., for
10 days.
Mrs. JudsOn Phillips returned
from a business and pleasure trip
to Minneapolis Thursday. She was
the guest of her husband, owner
of a tailor shop there. Mrs. Phillips
reports that she was the house
guest Of Mr.. and Mrs. C. W. Chat.
ney and was entertained at lunch
con by Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Ben
Mrs !. C.. CroWder, 3719 Smelling
Ave. S., was hostess to her on 8
sightseeing trip and at a luncheon
at her home. On Saturday, Mrs
Phillips small daughter, Bonnie
2h years old, was the victim Of
an accident. She had a popsicklC
stick in her mouth when she raI
into the dining room table, which
required the aid Of a physician.
Pilgrim Baptist Church: Rev. Eu
gene Williams, pastor, spoke Ovel
KSO0 Sunday morning at 9 o.
clock. Morning worship with an il
Illustrated sermon was given. Com
munion was given in the evening.
st. Johns Baptist Church, Rev
L. c. Harris, pastor. Services bott
morning and evening were held il
the basement, owing to the weather
Rev. Harris morning worship ser
mon was Heart Divided" and hi!
evening sermon-"The Devil Con
vention." Lords supper in the eve
ming.
Rev. L. C. Harris, pastor Of st
Johns Baptist church, took an air,
plane ride Friday with Mr.. Robert
Haynes, only Negro pilot in South
Dakota.
Mrs. L. c. Harris, teacher at the
Volunteers of America Nursery
Home, gave a surprise party fol-
the children on Friday. Mrs. Har,
ris' two months vacation starts
Aug. l.
WEEKLY PUN: THE MOST
ANNOYING THING ABOUT THE
STANDPATTER IS NOT HIS
STAND BUT HIS PATTER.
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Large Crowd
Greets Former
Local Pastor

Extreme heat did not prevent a
crowd which occupied all available
space from greeting Rev. Carlyle
F. Stewart, pastor Of Ebenezer
AME church, Detroit, Sunday, Aug.
3, at st. Peter AME church, Min
neapolis.
The occasion was Homecoming
Day" at the Minneapolis church.
Rev. Stewart is a former pastor Of
the congregation. The present pas
tor is Rev. H. C. Boyd, who is filling
his second pastorate at that church.
Rev. Stewart has served as pastor
Of three Twin City churches.
Mrs. Stewart was prevailed upon
to sing a number. Both the Senior
and Junior choirs sang.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1947-08-08
Trial Of Officers -
Who Killed Men

PRENTISS, Miss, Aug. 4
(NNPA)-The trial Of three white
officers who killed Versie johnson,
a rape suspect, will be a mere
formality," District Attorney E. d.
Williams said here last Saturday.
Mr.. Williams filed manslaughter
charges last Monday against Sheriff
G. o. Berry, Highway PatrOlman
Andry Hopkins and J. Spencer
Pickett. Sheriff Berry said all
three Of them fred on johnson last
Friday when he tried to grab Pa
trolman Puckett's pistol from the
holster.
Trial Of the officers was scheduled
for Wednesday, Mr.. Williams said,
adding: "As far as l can see from
the evidence, these officers were
perfectly justified in what they did.
/ consider the trial a mere form
atty to clear the names Of the
white men,"
The three officers took johnson
to the scene Of the alleged crime,
and the suspect was in the process
Of showing them where the alleged
attack occurred when he was shot
to death.
Sheriff Berry admitted that a
mob Of some seventy-five persons
had gathered in the jailhouse yard
here when the report became cir
culated that johnson had been ar
rested for an alleged assault. He
denied, however, the statement Of
Virginia Hartzog, his clerk, that
the mob was in an ugly mood and
had given the sheriff until 8 o'clock
on the night Of the killing to obtain
a confession from the suspect.
According to the sheriff, John
son entered the woman's home here,
threatened to hit her with an iron
bar and dragged her to a place of
concealment in the woods nearby,
attacking her there. Later, John
son was allegedly identified by the
woman from nine suspects.