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Evening star., 1948-08-12
Bridge Clubs Allowing
Gaming 10 Be Closed,
License Official SAYS

All Washington bridge clubs per-
mitting gambling will be forced to
close or face police action, a District
license official said today.
The breakdown, which is expected
when the License Board rules on a
pending bridge club license applica-
ton, will not affect games in private
homes.
Under District law, all bridge
clubs charging admission and meet
ing in public places must be licensed.
License Supt. Chatham T. Noting
ham said he will not issue licenses
to clubs where gambling, even for
small stakes, is pesmitted.
He will, however, issue licenses to
clubs where there Is no gambling
He is expected to rule that all rubber
bridge involves gambling and there
fore is illegal. Mr.. Nottingham said
duplicate bridge will be permitted as
a non-gambling pastime.
The pending application involves
Charles Geier. who runs a bridge
club in the 1890 block of Connecticut
avenue NV. Mr.. Geier applied for
license several weeks ago when
Mr.. Nottingham ruled that all bridge
clubs must have licenses.
His application was rejected when
police reported gambling was per-
mitted in his establishment. At the
hearing, Mr.. Geier said he did allow
low stake gambling on rubber bridge
games. The board has not yet an
nounced its decision.
There are about Is bridge clubs in
Washington awaiting licenses.
Evening star., 1948-08-12
Police Patrol Wagon
Damaged in Wreck

The fifth precincts patrol wagon
was put temporarily out of order
early today after it figured in a COL
lision with a truck at Fourth and
F streets SW.
Pvt William C. Barton, 81, of
420 Eighth street Sc. suffered a
minor back injury, but was not hos
pitalized. Driver of the patrol
wagon was Pvt. Glenn M. Griffin,
81. of 2815 Forty-fourth street Sc.
Driver of the truck was John N.
Head, %, colored, of 1880 Simms
drive Sc.
Two children were injured in
traffic accidents yesterday.
! Donald L. King, 5, of 1918 Thirty
first street NV. suffered a head
injury when he was struck by a
car driven by William King, 35, of
3114 N street NV. They are not
related. Police said the boy ran
from behind parked car into the
path of Mr.. Kings auto. He was
taken to Georgetown University
Hospital
In another accident, Ronnie
Cubitt, 5, Of Gaithersburg, Md, was
admitted to Suburban Hospital,
Bethesda, after suffering a broken
arm when he ran into the side of
moving automobile near his home.
Montgomery County police at
Rockville listed the driver of the
car as DR.. T. J. Collier. 46, colored.
of Hot Spring, Ark. The auto was
headed south on route 240.
The boy was taken to the hos
pital by the Gaithersburg Rescue
Squad after receiving first aid treat
ment from a Gaithersburg physi-
clan, police said. DR.. Collier was
not charged.
Evening star., 1948-08-12
Fund Started by Tydings
Given to VFW Home

The balance of a fund for needy
veterans which was started in 1885
by Senator Tydings, Democrat, of
Maryland, has been turned over to
the use of the Maryland State Cot
tage at the Veterans OF Foreign
Wars National Home for Widows
and Orphans, Eaton Rapids, Mich.
The suggestion that the almost
$700 be disposed of in that manner
was made by Senator Tydings.
Managers of the fund, in the Gus
tody Of special committee Of the
Baltimore Memorial VFW Post, had
received no applications for more
than five years. Senator Tydings
started the fund when his World
War I bonus was paid in 1885. He
is a member of the Baltimore post
Evening star., 1948-08-12

Division of the Public Housing
Administration. He has experience
gained from acquiring housing sites
for slum clearance and war housing
in so cities throughout the country
Here he made detailed appraisals OF
the Cabin John Gardens and Seven
Lock Terrace housing developments
near Carderock, Md. and the George
Carver Homes and Paul Dunbar
Homes in Arlington County.
Born in Macedon, N. Y, February
S, 1891, Mr.. Stack was brought up
here, graduated from Central High
School, was a student for two years
at Georgetown Law School and
was later trained in the United
States Marine Officers School. He
served with the Marines both in
World Wars I and II and has a
Reserve commission as a colonel. He
worked for many years in realty
firms here and in Palm Beach, Fla.
After World War II, Mr.. Stack
returned to the Housing Admins
tration. He is married and lives at
4801 Connecticut avenue NV.
Evening star., 1948-08-12
; More Polio Cases
Raise District Total
To 81 for This Year

Three new cases of polio were
reported by the District Health De-
partment today, raising the total
polio patients to be treated this
year att Washington hospitals to
81 residents and 81 nonresidentS.
At the same date last year, only
three resident and seven out-of
town cases had been reported. The
three new cases were:
A 2-year-old girl of the 100 block
of Bryant street NV, admitted to
Children's Hospital Monday; a
I3-year-old colored boy of the 1400
block of Forty-fourth street NE,
admitted to Children's on Tuesday,
and 6-year-old boy of r. F. d. 4,
Alexandria. admitted to Children S
on Monday.
Mans Condition Critical.
"A 38-year-old man who lives at
the 500 block of Shady lane. Falls
Church, Va. meanwhile, was re-
ported in critical condition at Gal
linger Hospital. He was admitted
Tuesday. So far, health officials
pointed out. there have been no
polio fatalities in the city this year
The Public Health Service re-
ported throughout the Nation the
smallest numerical and percentage
increase" in weekly infantile paral-
ysis cases since early in June.
officials would not estimate when
the peak might be reached in this
years outbreak, but said study OF
reports from North Carolina-one of
the three hardest-hit States-indi-
Gates the peak may have been
reached" there.
81 More Cases Listed.
North Carolina officials yesterday
reported 81 more cases, bringing the
States total so far to 1885. Two
more deaths brought that total to SO
In Virginia health representatives
reported nine new infantle paralysis
patients. These brought the Vir-
ginia total to 155.
New cases for the Nation as a
whole for the week ended August 7
totaled 1889, against 1,215 the pre-
ceding week, 225 for the correspond
ing week in 1947 and 1924 for the
same week two years ago.
Evening star., 1948-08-12
Girls Nation Survey Reveals
Little Background on Isms

can Activities she held two college
degrees.
yet she was not educated" said
the Senator.
He added that until we have a
law that makes it a crime for a
public officer to appoint a Com
munist or for a Communist to ac-
cept p4blic employment, we will
continue to have Communists in our
Government
Representative Mundt, one Of the
authors of the anti-Communist bill
warned the girls to be on guard
against Communism.
when the general public takes ii
easy" he said, that's the time sneak
thieves and poisoned philosophy get
going"
The group also visited the Federal
Bureau of Investigation building
and saw its vast flngerprint files.
Evening star., 1948-08-12
Park Group Sponsoring
Sonq-Writinq Contest

The Maryland National Capital
Park and Planning Commission Is
sponsoring song-writing contest
for persons enrolled in the 81 white
recreation centers 1t operates in the
Washington area.
The contest will end August 20
when $40 cash prize will be award
ed for the best lyrics to the tune,
-Four Leaf Glover"
More than 40 persons have SUBJ
mitted entries, the commission an
nounced.
Evening star., 1948-08-12
Last of a Series.)
By Crosby Noyes

Although public response to the
Health Departments campaign
against venereal disease In the Dis
trict has been encouraging, there
has been an occasional letter ex-
pressing misgivings about the
methods taken by the department
to accomplish its purpose.
Members of the clergy have writ
ten, indorsing the purpose of the
drive, but deploring the depart
ments purely medical approach
Their approval is reserved so long
as the moral aspect of the problem
is ignored.
The other principal objection
which has been voiced is that the
Health Department, by advertising
an effective. speedy and painless
cu1e for the most serious venereal
diseases, is destroying a powerful
deterrent to promiscuity-the fear
of infection.
They expect, in fact, that the
result of the campaign actually may
be a rise in venereal disease rates
here. Persons who previously were
restrained by lively fear of gonor-
rhea and syphilis will now expose
themselves carelessly. these people
say, secure in the knowledge that
the cure is available.
Problems Long Studied.
The Health Department campaign
was planned only after long study
of both these problems. The judg-
ment of the officials in the matter
is based, not only on their own
knowledge of conditions here in the
District, but also on the far-wider
experience of the United States
Public Health Service. which has
been working in the field of vene-
real disease for many years.
So far as the first objection to
the campaign is concerned-thaf
more emphasis should be placed on
the moral side of the picture
there is no real quarrel. Public
Health officials join with their
critics in seeking weapon against
promiscuity which would be effec-
tive. They agree it is a major cause
of venereal disease.
The department always has
sought, and often received, the ac-
tive cooperation of those agencies
whose primary concern is with the
moral welfare Of the public. They
believe there is nothing antagonis-
tic between their aims-that the
spiritual and physical well-being of
society are indivisible.
So far as the present campaign
Evening star., 1948-08-12
VD Medical Campaign Relies
In Part on Moral Pressure

is concerned, health officers hope
that those who are qualified and
able to bring moral pressure to
bear will do so. They feel that,
without this aid, the medical side
of the effort must fall short of
complete success.
For those who predict the cam
paign will backfire, and the disease
rate rise as the result of killing
the fear of gonorrhea and syphilis,
there is the contradicting evidence
Of experience and medical research.
Horror Tactics Failed.
For many years, campaigns against
venereal disease played up the fear
angle to the point of horror. 1t was
the major ingredient of all CAM
paigns, until the discovery of the
penicillin cure shortly before the
war. In the words of one veteran
field worker, the tactics "just natur-
ally didn't work"
Furthermore. recent medical re-
search, including the work of DR..
Alfred c. Kinsey, has led toward the
conviction that patterns of human
behavior are remarkably constant.
Even the impact of major sociolog-
ical upheavals, such as have been
experienced in the course of two
world wars, seems to have no very
noticeable effect on them. The con-
clusion of many is that, fear or no
fear, the patterns of behavior which
result in high incidence of We
nereal disease will not change ap-
preciably.
The present campaign against
gonorrhea in the District is admit
tedly founded on a new approach to
the problem. Previous efforts to
overdramatize, to frighten or cajole
the public into cooperation have
been abandoned.
Basically. it is a campaign which
puts high appraisal on the sound
ness and intelligence of the individ-
ual man and woman. AS one official
put it. what Is being done is to tell
the people the truth about gonorrhea
and syphilis quietly and dispassion-
ately; to say. Here, these are the
facts. This is what an intelligent
person does about it."
1t is an experiment that is being
watched carefully by the entire
country.
Evening star., 1948-08-12

| The champion and his family live
at 1888 Madison street.
Jacks coaster car, in which he
flashed to victory in the finals here
has been shipped to Akron. 1t will
be waiting for Jack at Derby
Downs" The. Washington cham
pion will make a trial run down
the 975-foot course sometime to-
morrow.
The final race on Sundays pro-
gram, when the winner of the four
year scholarship will become known
will be broadcast over Radio Station
WTOP, from 4::30 to 5 pm.
Evening star., 1948-08-12
Capital Transit Appeals Case
Aqoinst PSC in MARYLAND

ANNAPOLIS, Md, Aug. IL (P.-
The appeal of the Capital Transit
Co. from a Maryland Public Serv-
ice Commission order fixing fares in
suburbs of Washington was filed
yesterday at the Court of Appeals.
Number 81 on the docket for the
October term, the case is not likely
to be argued until early December,
clerks said.
Capital Transit appealed from a
Baltimore Circuit Court order May
26 dismissing its suit against the
PSC. The commission in April ord
cred the utility to provide cut-rate
Scent fares for school children in
scent zones before 1t would ap-
prove a schedule of higher fares in
Montgomery and Prince Georges
Counties.
Evening star., 1948-08-12
Vincent Stack Sworn
As Purchasing Officer
For Park Commission

Vincent Stack. former Public
Housing Administration official, was
sworn in today as land purchasing
officer of the National Capital Park
and Planning Commission. He sue
ceeds the late Norman C. Brown,
who died last month.
Maj. Gen. U. S. Grant, III, COM
mission chairman. in announcing
Mr.. Stacks selection, said he was
chosen from 10 applicants.
Because of his education, gen.
eral background, familiarity with
Washington and environs, and ex-
perience in local land acquisition
and appraisal work. the commission
ranked Mr.. Stack first Gen. Grant
said
Mr.. Stack has served recently as
director of the Appraisal and Land
Evening star., 1948-08-12
Delegates Are Chosen
.By Silver Spring VFW

Ten delegates and 10 alternate'
have been chosen by the Silver
Spring Memorial Post. Veterans o.
Foreign Wars, to attend the ma
tional encampment, August % u
September 2, at st. Louis.
Delegates are Charles B. Buscher
Edward L. Foster, Ward Cadding.
ton, Thomas R. Hewitt, Corbir
Welsh, Howard Elms, Joseph Stig.
ler, o. D. Fields, Alger Barbee ano
Harold Biebusch.
Alternates are Joseph Harty, Pet
er Blackwell, Edward Beitch. JOSEPH
Buscher. Richard Purnell, William
Barnes, David McCann, L. T. Faul-
coner, Charles Rogers and Larry
Joyce. ......-
Evening star., 1948-08-12
By Ted Mcdowell

More than one-seventh of the 94
high school juniors throughout the
country attending girls meeting
here have never discussed Commu-
nism in any way in their classes,
and less than half ever have had a
formal course in Government ide-
ologies.
This was developed today from
questioning of delegates attending
the Girls Nation at American Uni
versity. There are two representa-
tives here from each State except
Delaware. studying government un-
der American Legion sponsorship.
They were asked by Star report
er: How many of you have ever
taken a course which dealt with
Communism in any way?"
A show of hands indicated that
38 of the girls had discussed Com
munism in history or civics courses.
Thirteen said they had never dis
cussed Communism in any way
during their schooling.
Wouldn't Recognize Communism.
1t was pointed out, however. that
some schools take up courses dealing
with government only in the senior
year. OF the girls, 10 said that they
would enter courses next year, such
as American history and civics which
would deal with the question.
Most of the people down where ]
live wouldn't know communism if
they saw it, said 17-year-old
Carolyn Starkey of Altus, Okla
I'VE never studied communism from
books. But we did ask the teacher
about it. He said it is really the
same as socialism"
A similar impression about COM
munism was revealed by Mary Jane
Donegan, 16, of North Hollywood
Calf.
I'VE compared communism in this
country and in Russia in an Amer
lean history course last year. The
teacher said communism is really
socialistic in Russia and not so
dictatorial as the Communist Party
in this country" Miss Donegan
declared.
BrOOklynite Told of Ideologies.
Brooklyn, N. Y, girl, 17-year-
old Louisa Buono, said that all
political ideologies had been dealt
with fully in civics course in her
school last year.
hese girls, all of whom attended
public schools in their respective
States, are leaders in the various
girls State organizations, organized
under sponsorship of the American
Legion Auxiliary. Only Delaware
has not as yet organized a Girls
State.
During their stay here since Sat-
urday, however, the girls have had
plenty of warning against commu-
Congress members, a
Girl Scout representative and Mrs.
Lee w. Hutton, president of the
American Legion Auxiliary, who
spoke this morning before the group
adjourned.
1T is very likely that at some
time or other yo Twill be confronted
with Communist youth. They may
sit beside you in classroom or ask
you TO dance at social, but do not
be deceived by their slippery criti-
cisms of our country" Mrs. Hutton
said.
Yesterday the girls Visited the
Capitol where they heard Senator
Wiley, Republican. of Wisconsin and
Representative Mundt. Republican,
of South Dakota speak on Commu-
nism.
Senator Wiley emphasized that
good people make good Govern
ment." He added that education can
be "as cockeyed as anything" re-
calling that Miss Elizabeth T. Bent
ley, self styled Communist spy, told
the House Committee on Uu-Ameri-
Evening star., 1948-08-12
Living Cost Data
Cited to0ppose.
TransitFareR Rise
Three U. S. Officials
Testify on Behalf Of
. Consumer Group
By Jerry Oleory, Jr.

Opponents of the Capital Transit
Co.'S request for higher streetcar
and bus fares today brought testi-
mony before the Public Utilities
Commission citing Census figures
and the high cost of living as argu-
ments against granting the fare in
crease.
Three Government officials testi-
fled at the request of PUG Chair
man James H. Flanagan on behalf
of Harry R. Booth, counsel for the
Washington Committee for Con-
sumer Protection The consumer
group opposes Capital Transit's pc
tition for an increase of the 10-cent
cash fare to IS cents, permission to
sell two tokens for a quarter and a
boost in the sl.50 weekly pass to
$135.
The opposition witnesses today
were: John w. Mitchell, chief of the
statistical division of the Civil Serv-
ice Commission; Howard G. Bruns-
man. of the Bureau of the Census,
and Mrs. Ethel D. Hoover, chief of
the consumers price division of the
Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Hearings in 10th Day.
The hearings. now in their 10th
day, will end when Mr.. Booth and
Attorney Benjamin C. Sigal of
Americans for Democratic Action
run out of witnesses.
Mrs. Hoover testified that retail
prices in the District have increased
SO per cent since 1899, 246 per cent
since 1916 and 7.8 per cent since last
year. She declared that streetcar
and bus fares constitute Is per cent
of the average wage earner's family
budget.
She told the PUG the cost of liv-
ing increase in "a American cities
studied by the bureau was 9.3 per
cent during the last II months as
compared with the 78 per cent in
crease noted in Washington.
Mr.. Brunsman testified that the
population of the Nations Capital
was 663,091 in 1910 and had in
cerased to 861 ,000-a 298 per cent
increase-by July /, 1947. He said
the 1947 population was based on
estimates, while the 1910 figure was
by count.
New Outburst Yesterday.
Mr.. Mitchell, testifying as to the
number of Federal Government en-
ployes in the District at given times,
1f hn in
crease in recent months was at
tributable I'd the return here of cer-
tain agencies dispersed during the
war.
He said part of an anticipated in
crease in Federal employment due to
defense projects will considerably
increase Federal employment, but
not in Washington.
Yesterdays session was marked by
The third violent argument since the
hearings began among attorneys at
the counsel table Assistant Corpo-
ration Counsel Lloyd B. Harrison,
the PUG counsel, and Mr.. Booth
frequently at swords points
clashed again, when the latter was
oss-examining witness V. A. Nc
Elfresh.
Mr. Harrison charged that Mr.
Booth was retained only to delay
the case. Charges and counter
charges were shouted by both men
until Mr.. Flanagan banged his gavel
to end the argument.
Mr.. Booth then ended his cross
examination, saying he was unable
to continue because of constant
Interruptions.
Evening star., 1948-08-12
Contract for Replacing
BirneY Sehoo! Approved

The Commissioners today ap-
proved the award of contract for
the construction Of new $749, 500
elementary school for colored chill
dren to replace the present Birney
School on Nichols road near Sum-
ner road Sc.
The contract was awarded to r.
Calvin Owens, Washington con-
tractor, who was the only bidder
for the job.
The new 24-room school will be
of modern design with a combina-
ton gymnasium and assembly hall.
It's speedy construction has been
advocated by school officials to
relieve part-time classes in the
Southeast section of the city.
Evening star., 1948-08-12
.FWA Rejects
New Offer 10
Open Be|asco
Terms Unsatisfactory;
Plans for Legitimate
Theuter Continue

Hopes for reopening the Belasco
Theater as a legitimate playhouse
suffered another blow today when
the Federal Works Agency turned
down new proposal for lease of
the building.
The offer had been made infor-
mally on behalf of Joseph Curtis,
New York theater man, whose origi-
nal bid for rental of the theater
was one of two turned down by the
agency in July.
Wallace Cohen, attorney for Mr..
Curtis, said he was at a loss to
devise any new proposal for acquir-
ing use of the Belasco.
I'VE made a radical departure
from our first Offer" Mr.. Cohen said.
We thought we had given the
Government adequate protection
and at the same time suggested a
businesslike deal"
Plans Not Abandoned.
Mr.. Cohen emphasized Mr.. Curtis
had not abandoned his intention to
supply a replacement for the Ma
tional T.heater as a place to give
stage presentations.
I'VE are determined to bring
legitimate drama back to Wash
ington come hell or high water"
he declared.
He added, G. even if we have
to go out and lay bricks ourselves. "
Among alternatives to use of the
BelaSco, still under consideration
was the Strand Theater, a flm
house at Ninth and D streets NV.
Mr.. Cohen said his client was await
ing a report from an architect on
the estimated costs of preparing the
Strand for stage shows.
Lease Offers Unacceptable.
Federal Works Administrator
Philip B. Fleming has found the
lease offers for the Belasco sub
mitted to date unacceptable because
the prospective lessees insisted on
protection of their renovation in
vestment in event the lease were
Cancelled before the end of the pro-
pOSeQ lU-year Term.
The Belasco, used as Office and
storage space in recent years is
destined to be razed eventually for
a Treasury annex.
FWA officials have explained they
could not bind the Government to
any agreement which would result
in a financial loss If construction
plans for the annex were advanced.
1t was pointed out that the proposal
rejected today had not been enter
tained formally by FWA, but had
been given serious consideration in
the interests of advancing the play
house idea.
The other bidder whose offer was
turned down formally when bids
were invited, the American National
Theater and Academy, also has been
planning to make new informal
approach to FWA.
Virginia Theater Negotiates.
In addition, operators of the Vir-
ginia Theater in Alexandria, now
showing films, have announced they
are negotiating in New York toward
arrangements for presenting plays
at the Virginia next season.
At present, there is no solid pros
pect of seeing Broadway productions
on Washington stage. The National
is being equipped to reopen as a
film house next month. Its policy
change was decided on as a result
of an impasse with Actors Equity,
the performers union, over admis-
sions.
Equity announced its members
would not appear in the theater
unless persons of all races were
permitted to attend performances.
The theater's operators said they
would not alter the admission policy
unless the community pattern" were
changed in this respect.
Evening star., 1948-08-12
Dr.. Montgomery to Speak

| DR.. Riley B. Montgomery, presi-
dent Of the Lynchburg VaD Col
lege, will be the guest speaker at
the Wilson Boulevard Christian
Church, Arlington, at II am. Sun
day. DR.. Montgomery is presi-
dent Of the Virginia Council OF
! Churches.