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Evening star., 1947-11-23
No Power Shortage
Likely in District

Due to increased use of electricity
now above the wartime peak, the
Federal Power Commission said yes
terday the national situation is
serious and power shortages may be
expected to last through 1948. The
commission suggested tie-in with
other electric systems in certain Sec
tions of the country to avoid emer-
gencies.
The shortage, however, does not
apply to Washington, Alfred G
Neal. president of the Potomac Elec-
trio Power Co., said last night.
I'VE are able to supply present
needs and those in the foreseeable
future" Mr.. Neal said.
The president explained Pepco is
linked by a 220 O00-volt tie line with
Baltimore, which draws power from
the Susouehanna River. This con-
dition has existed since 1888. Fur
ther. he said. as war measure
Pepco was tied in with the Virginia
Electric Power Co.. which obtained
electricity from the Washington
area.
Power requirements are greater
today than during the height of the
war effort" the commission said
when war production in 1914 was
keyed to its highest pitch the de-
mand for power reached 3o,400,00C
kilowatts. Today it has reached
100000 kilowatts. an increase OF
II per cent over the wartime high. -
Evening star., 1947-11-23
1000 at Capital Transit
Go on 5-Day Week Today

Starting today, the Capital Tran
sit Co. will put the five-day week
ordered in recent arbitration
award, into effect ior about 1,2OC
men in all the shops and those in
the way and structure department
E. c. Giddings, vice president, said
last night.
In the transportation department
however, Mr.. sGiddings said, there
are not enough employees available
to put them all on flve-day week
now. u Accordingly, he explained, il
will be made progressive as the
company adds men. 1t will be made
effective over the entire system in
stead Of being confined to the East
ern division as previously an
nounced.
Consequently, beginning this week
the transportation department en-
ployes will get one five-day week
in every four weeks. The company
plans to step this up to two five-day
weeks in every four, diminishing the
number of siX-day weeks until ii
is possible to put all on a five-day
basis.
Mr.. Giddings pointed out there
are now so men under instruction
in the company's transportation
school. The company is trying tc
obtain between 500 and 600 new
employees.
Evening star., 1947-11-23
Gates, Marines New Chief, Led
Every Type of Tactical Unit

vehement on the subject OF natlOna.
defense and constant preparedness
Sports Minded Officer.
This country has never lost 8
war, and our people have no idea
of what an enemy would inf1ict or
us if we lost the next war" he says
Il believe the men in the reserves
of the services, who realize what
could happen, must help to main
tain the Nations interest"
Gen. Gates is regarded as one OF
the most sports minded of top Ma
rine officers. At Quantico he has
backed every sport possible. includ-
ing a cross country track team.
The Quantico football team, which
plays any college team it can sched-
ule. has five players who were on
the Naval Academy squad last year
and which defeated the Boiling
Field team yesterday, 46-6.
Gen. Gates is frank in his views
on foreign relations. He doesn't
think that Russia has the inclina-
tion to get involved in war with
this country and is certain that
this country will not 60 to war
against Russia.
IF there is another war" he says
like many other military men, both
sides will lose. There will be nc
winner"
Evening star., 1947-11-23
Man Held in $4,000 Bond
On Impersonation Charge

A man said by police to be a
member of a ring of impersonators,
two of whom were arrested ,Wednes-
day, yesterday was held for the
grand jury under $1,000 bond by
Municipal Court Judge Almond w.
SCOTT.
The defendant, Theodore Self, "a,
of Richmond Hills, N. Y, was
charged with impersonating a po-
liceman when he repeatedly accused
a 64-year -old colored man with a
sex offense in Lafayette Park.
A robbery squad detective told the
Judge that Self then demanded and
got $500 from the man to quash
the arrest" .-..
The other men implicated by po-
lice are James B. Norton, 80, and
John B. Skrosky, 80, both of the
Stratford Hotel. Both appeared
Thursday on blackmail and imper-
sonation charges before the same
Judge who placed them under $l,500
bond each and scheduled hearings
for December 4.
Evening star., 1947-11-23
Mother Playing
With Baby Is
| Bitten on Arm

A young mother playing with her
baby was bitten by the child and
required three stitches in her arm
the District Red Gross Accident
Service reported in its summary
of accidents in Washington homes
last week. 4
Six accidental deaths during the
week brought the years total &c
1893 Two babies suff0cated in their
beds. and four persons died from
falls.
Hospitals treated 81 persons for
burns, accidental poisings, swallow
ing foreign objects. injuries from
fails, anG other home accidents.
A child was admitted to Provi-
dence Hospital in serious condition
after swallowing a toy automobile
Another child drank shoe polish and
required oxygen. A baby l8 months
old received arm burns after pulling
a cup of hot coffee from table.
An elderly man poured kerosene
on a fire and was severly burned
Evening star., 1947-11-23

The most extensive chest X-ray
program ever conducted in WASH
ington-an effort to examine every
residents Is years of age or Older
will be started January II AS a
Joint project of the United States
Public Health Service. the District
Health Department and the DIS
trict tuberculosis Association.
known as the Washington Chest
X-ray Survey, it will be the first
tuberculosis checkup of its size ever
attempted in an American city OF
more than 100000 population.
Portable X-ray units will be set
up at various points in the city to
make possible the taking of onou-
sands of chest X-rays daily.
It is anticipated the survey will
require almost six months to cover
the estimated 100000 persons 10 or
older in the Capital.
Attorney William E. Leahy, for
mer head of District Selective SerV-
ice, is chairman of Citizens Com
mittee of so assisting in planning
the x-ray campaign.
Coulter to Head Survey.
DR.. A. Barklie Coulter, chief of
the Healthi Depa rtinent Tuberculosis
Bureau, win be director Of the
survey.
Persons under Is will not be x
rayed in this program because rela-
lively few children have tubercu-
losis. Mass X-ray efforts, there
fore, are more desirable in adult
groups, 1t was explained.
About a dozen X-ray machines
will be in use during the survey.
which, it is hoped, will be completed
by June IS. The machines WI. be
placed in neighborhood locations for
stated periods and then moved to
others
One machine will remain at a
downtown location throughout the
survey.
Employees of the Federal and Dis
trict Governments and many large
UIlSlllSSS "llA NC given oPPoi
tunity to obtain the examination
while at work.
Only Two Cases Per 100 Expected.
Taking of the X-ray picture will
require only few seconds. Then,
within two or three weeks, the per-
son will receive confidential re-
port by mail. An average of sS out
of 100 X-rayed will be told the
X-ray reveals no suspicion of tuber-
culosis, survey officials stated.
Public acceptance of the survey
as an important step toward wiping
out the disease here is essential to
success of the program, it was en-
phasized.
A one week slogan contest was to
open today to focus attention on
the campaign, officials announced
A prize of $3.50 will be given for
Evening star., 1947-11-23
W. N. & A. Increase!
BUS Fares Scents on
Lines in Maryland

Increases in the Maryland fares
of the Washington Marlboro L.
Annapolis Motor Lines, Inc, which
serves about 10000 Washington area
residents daily, went into effect last
midnight on all but two of the COM
panys buslines.
L. L. Altman, company preSi-
dent, said he received an order yes
terday1 from the Interstate Com
merce Commission approving the
firms proposal to increase the fares
in it's 20 and 25-cent zones to Is
and 30 cents, respectively, and to de-
crease the size of the 15-cent zone.
The commission suspended the
action, however. on lines serving
Coral Hills and Hillside on the
Marlboro pike, just across the Dis
trict line. A hearing has been
scheduled for December 18 to con-
slider zone increases on these lines.
/ Mr.. Altman said the application
for the zone rate increases was filed
with the commission October %, to
go into effect 80 days later. The
public has been notified through
posters on company buses, he added
( The w. NJ & A. is the principal
carrier to Chesapeake Bay resorts
and to Seat Pleasant, Upper Marl-
boro, Forestville, Silver Hill, Brad
bury Heights and other communi-
ties in Prince Georges County.
The company on Friday applied to
the District Public Utilities Commits
sion for an increase in its cash fare
on rides within Washington from
10 to IS cents and in token fares
from 81 to 1872 cents.
The company saio the increases
are sought because of decline in
revenues and increased operating
costs.
Evening star., 1947-11-23
Senate Group 10 Make
Final Report on G5I
Some Time in January

| The Senate Civil Service Subcom-
mittee investigating the activities OF
Government Services, Inc. yesterday
issued a preliminary report sharply
critical of GSI operations.
A final report with explicit recon-
mendations concerning GSI's future
is expected to be made by the sub
committee sometime in January.
Loose management was charged
by the subcommittee against GSI,
which operates SO Federal cafeterias
and snack bars here, and various
recreational facilities.
GSI's status. the report declared,
had become that of commercial
Organization rather than one devoted
to any noteworthy welfare purpose. "
Referring to GsI's board of trus-
tees, which is composed of Govern
ment officials, the report declared:
There is nothing to indicate that
the trustees have had any business
experience and in view of the official
positions they occupy it is not un-
reasonable to assume that they have
spent the greater part of their lives
In the Government service
The report continued: "Conse-
quently, the situation is essentially
no different from that of a group
of locomotive engineers assuming to
direct erection of skyscraper
Also, it is doubtful whether the
trustees are acquainted with many
details of GSI's operations with
which they should be familiar, or
whether they have sufficient time
to discharge the duties imposed as
trustees IN addition to their duties
as Government officials"
Recently. there have been some
top personnel changes in GSI, with
a new general manager and secre-
tary-treasurer selected to replace
their predecessors, who resigned.
The preliminary report said that
the Federal Bureau of Investigation
had examined records of the first
eight parts of the ten-part hearing
but the FBI found that no investi-
cation of GSI by it would be justi-
hed "for the reason that it does not
seem probable that SUCH an investi-
CATION would disclose violations of
any Federal criminal statute"
Senator Baldwin, Republican, of
Connecticut IS chairman of the SUBJ
committee Serving with him are
Senators Flanders, Republican, of
Vermont, and Johnston, Democrat,
of South Carolina.
Evening star., 1947-11-23
1900 on Eastern Shore
Visit Train at Salisbury

SALISBURY. Md. Nov. % (P).-
Thousands of Eastern Shore resi-
dents filed through the Freedom
train today on its first stop below
the Mason-Dixon line.
oficials estimated that when the
ears closed tonight $4,000 had viewed
the display of documents linked with
Americas principles of freedom and
liberty. 80.
The train will go to Dover. Del,
tomorrow. 1t is due IN Baltimore
Tuesday and Wednesday.
Evening star., 1947-11-23
Standing Room Only Predicted
For Neiqhborhood Concert

All invitations for the fourth
Neighborhood Concert by the Ma
tional Symphony under sponsorship
of The Evening Star have been is
sued and standing room only is in
prospect for tomorrow nights af-
fair at Leland Junior High School.
The concert. which will start
promptly at 8 pm, will be held in
the auditorium of the school at
Forty fourth and Elm streets,
Chevy Chase, Md. 1t is the only
concert scheduled for Montgomery
County.
DR.. Hans Kinder, conductor of
the National Symphony. will be on
the podium in . well-balanced pro-
gram which will open with Bach's
Evening star., 1947-11-23

sinfonia TO Cantata No. 20, "WiI
Danken Dir, Gott"
In addition, the orchestra will
play the andante moderate and
allegro giocoso from Brahms SYM
phony No. in E minor; Strauss
tone poem, Don Juan, and two
etudes by Scriabin.
The program. like the rest in the
Neighborhood Series, now in its
second year, will be broadcast In
full by The Evening Stars station,
WMAL.
At 8:45 pm. the doors will be
opened to any who wish to attend,
whether holding an invitation or
not, as all invitation holders have
been requested to be seated by that
time.
Evening star., 1947-11-23
Comp Shows to Offer
The Patsy at Hospitals

|. USO-Camp Shows. Inc, will pre-
sent THE Patsy" at Veterans and
service hospitals in the Washington
area November 26 through Decem-
ber /.
The Patsy" will be presented at
Bethesda Naval Hospital November
26; Walter Reed Hospital, November
q and %; Mt. Alto Veterans Hos
pital, November 90; and the Re-
gional Station Hospital, Ft. Belvoir.
", Hccarnher |
Evening star., 1947-11-23
tuberculosis Survey of District
To Be Largest Yet in Big City

the winning slogan. There will be
a second prize of $25 and five other
awards of $5 each.
The contest is open to everyone.
An entrant may submit as many
slogans as he wishes.
The entries must be mailed to the
Washington Chest x-ray Survey
Washington 4, D. c.. and postmark-
ed not later than midnight Satur-
day
Evening star., 1947-11-23
Arlington Board
Reverses Stand
On Neviius Tract
Building Of VA
Hospital Favored
In Resolution

Use of the Nevius tract at Arling-
ton Ridge road and Lee boulevard
as site for a Veterans Admins
tration Hospital was favored yes
terday by the Arlington County
Board in resolution which re-
versed the boards former stand.
The Veterans Administration was
nearly ready last July to open con-
struction bids for a SIS 600, 900 hos
pital when Representative Smith
Democrat, of Virginia, blocked the
use of the tract through a Con-
gressional maneuver. Representa-
tive Smiths action followed pro-
tests by the County Board that, the
tract should be utilized by private
enterprise Mr.. Smith objected to
use of the tract by VA on the
grounds that the land was too
expensive.
After a conference early last week,
board members said Representative
Smith had agreed to support in
Congress the resolution which the
board was to adopt. Smith said
yesterday he was not certain when
he would make the recommendation
but that it would be made "in due
course"
In the resolution, the board de-
clared that building a veterans hos
pital on the land would be the
best" use to which it could be
put now that the Government has
acquired it.
The board made it clear that it
previously had opposed the proposed
750-bed hospital because it was
against any further land acquisi-
ton in the county by the Federal
government. The boards position
regarding land acquisition except
for future necessary highway devel-
opments" remains the same, the
resolution stated.
The VA has obtained possession
of the land by condemnation pro-
ceedings and the final price will be
decided at a court hearing next
month. The present owners, headed
by Avon NJ Nevius, retired vice
president of the Riggs National
Bank, have told VA they will not
take back the property.
Evening star., 1947-11-23
Health Council 10 Act
On Coordination Of
Work in District Area

Efforts to check disease in the
District and five nearby areas vii;
be more closely co-ordinated under
a reorganization plan now before
the Washington Metropolitan Health
Council.
The proposal, on which the codn-
ellis co-ordinating board will act
December T. calls for greater repre-
sentation for Prince Georges. Mont
gomery, Arlington and Fairfax
Counties and Alexandria, trans
forming the council from an agency
chiefly representative of the Dis
trict to one qualified to deal with
health problems of the entire area
If the council approves the re-
organization plan, it will request
transfer from the Council of Social
Agencies of the District of Colum-
bia and vicinity. which draws its
financial support from the Wash
ington Community Chest. The new
council would gettlts funds from The
Community Chest Federation, COM
ing directly under s..ai agency
Was Urged in Medical Survey.
The health council is an unofficial
planning body representing official
health agencies and voluntary Or
CARNATIONS providing health service
Its reconstruction on more in
elusive, metropolitan basis was one
of the chief recommendations of a
group of medical and hospital ex-
perts who surveyed the District
health scene at the councils request
last year. 5e
Diseases do not recognize boun-
Diary lines" the surveyors pointed
out. urging representation from all
areas concerned and provision OF
an adequate qualified staff to, pro-
vide leadership and consulting serv-
ice
A special health council SUBJ
committee on agency membership
and relations, headed by Ray Ever
EFT. supported the survey recommen-
dation and drew up detailed re-
organiza ton plan which has been
approved by the councils survey
committee and executive commit
tee, and now awaits the co-ordinat-
ing boards action.
Provides for New Board.
1t provides for a new co-ordinat-
ing board of So members. The board
would include at least four men,
bers. from each of the six areas
Among these would be the chairman
of each local health council. The
Council of Social Agencies and Dis
trict health organizations would de-
termine the District representa-
ton.
The delegate body Of the health
council would consist. as at present
of active and associate members, the
former representing recognized Of
fetal and voluntary health agencies
who would have the voting right In
council decisions. and the latter
chosen from lay organizations whose
interest in health is a collateral
ACTIVITY.
Should the reorganization plan
be adopted, an additional admins
trative burden would fall on the
health council staff. which now
consists of only two full-time en-
ployes.
ultimately, it will certainly have
to have a larger staff" it was as
serted last night by DR.. Herbert P
Ramsey, chairman of the survey
committee and past president of the
council.
Evening star., 1947-11-23
WW Post Plans Show

A variety minstrel show, "The
Womanless Wedding" will be pre-
sented at $50 pm. Tuesday at the
Ballston fire house, Oil North Stuart
street, Arlington, by Crouch-Mar-
Gus Strong Post, Veterans Of For"
eign Wars.
Evening star., 1947-11-23
Kensinqton Squore Dance

The Kensington Junior High
School Parent Teacher Association
will hold a square dance from 9 pm
10 midnight Tuesday in the school to
raise funds for purchase of school
equipment. Leo j. Paulin is chair
man of the Dance Committee.
Evening star., 1947-11-23
GuiId to Serve Dinner

Thanksgiving dinner will be
served by St. Peters Guild in the
Poolesville, Md, High School from
1890 to 8 pm.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-01-04
THAT POEM ABOUT TREES DOESN'T HOLD FOR PoPLARs

To Walter Wright, superin-
tendent of the bureau of parks,
Chicago is a forest of poplar
trees. And he wishes that we
were out of the woods.
In fact, don't let Wright
catch anyone planting a pop
lar tree i'm Chicago, under
penalty of arrest.
One of the lesser known facts
of our city government was dis
closed to our city fathers last
week when Wright requested
(and received an additional
100000 to do something about
cutting down some of the 20O,-
600 poplar trees that are rapid
ly rotting in all sections of the
city.
IT'S NOT that Wright doesn't
love trees. But he simply doesn't
like poplars.
He explained:
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-01-04

ager of the Chicago Star, this
week called for large reader
participation in the opinion poll,
which will provide the basis for
discussion at the conference.
-
POLL blanks can be secured
from the Chicago Star office.
They ask for reader opinion on
articles, columns, features, style
of writing, and other aspects of
the paper.
Stage for Action will present
specially prepared skit, .'The
Free Press" at the conference.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-01-04

This conference is to bring
together the members of the
Peoples Publishing Association
and all other organizations
wishing to participate" an
nounced Grant Cakes, Presi-
dent of the PPA and head of
the Farm Equipment Workers,
CI0.
st comes on the first anniverS-
airy of the Founders Conference
OF the PPA, which launched the
campaign for a progressive week
ly paper in Chicago.
4 <
81 CAN'T put too much stress
on the importance of the Peoples
Press Conference. 1t should pro
duce plans for a bigger, better,
and more widely circulated Chi
cago Star. l
"Ciubs, lodges, unions, and
other organizations should elect
at least three delegates TO re-
present them at the confer
ence."-
William Sennett, general man.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-01-04
THE SUN AND THE TIMES JUST CAN'T
FIND ROOM FOR OUR AID, SOMEHOW

The Star advertisement below is TO
At least not according to the Chicago daily
newspapers, enthusiastic what
Newspaper Publishers Association
American "free press
Chicago run the ad because thew said
1t looked too much like of the
The Times had another After setting up the adj
they called the Stars business
had advertising than they
etc Particularly said the Times fOr
promotionai particularly promotional ads for
other newspapers.
Note the Times carries Sun promoona ads including
that appeared the Stars ad
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-01-04
state lI'lllII|
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(frOm page ID
no more than touch certain high
points of this long battle, how
the IWW filled the West Coast
jails, how the Palmer raids took
up thousands in their net, how
the textile strikes were dipped
deep in blood, how steel was or
gained = up to a decade ago
and less.
YET OUT of all this, there was
no third party, no labor party, no
peoples party. The courts ruled
by injunction, and Congress be-
came a free-for-all in which each
party sought to Guido the other
in anti-labor legislation. Common
sense dictated the need for a Ia
Dor party = three generations
ago. Necessity demanded it, and
the call for it was underwritten
in blood. But year after year went
by, while the two parties played
their game of tweedledum and
tweedledee.
There are several reasons
why labor, in q large, organic
ed sense, never produced its
own, independent political ac-
ton. For one thing, until very
recently, American labor had
not yet crystallized as a class.
Through the eighties and nine
ties, through the turn of the
century, there was a great flux
ia the labor movement, u great
coming and going; the ranks
of labor changed; one group
was set against another, native
born against foreign born, and
later black against white.
For another, the leaders of la
Dor were in the main economists,
fighting for nothing but imme-
date economic gains, losing sight
of the forest for the trees.
AND FOR another, the disunity
of labor, the tragic three fold dis
unity of today - the twofold dis
unity of the past. All this mounts
up and when placed in con
junction with the enormous diff
culties third party faces in this
country, where the two major
parties have spent the past three
generations setting legal OBJ
stacles in the way of third par
ties, we begin to have some idea
why the working class today is
SO completely disarmed in terms
of the ballot.
This time, however. history
will not wait. The trusts have
learned well; they have up
their sleeves and ready that lit
tie device called fascism, and
nothing but the broadest, the
most complete political c0ali-
tion Of every progressive force
in America will prevent them
from Ixcsnn e.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-01-04

NThe Carolina pOplars that
were planted by the subdivid-
ers have q life span of so
years. Chicago was loaded
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-01-04

with them, and they are dy-
ing fast. The roots rambIe.
get into sewers, decay and
rot"
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-01-04
'People's Press Conference
will feature Howard Fast

famous author Star coumnist will be
headline attraction Peoples Conference January
pm. al of the Ashland Auditorium