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Boys Lovls vyeraIis at Graves the Clothing Man. 256 tf
Evening star., 1948-07-21

that may Be needed BY the armed
services.
Congress last month set the
August 81 for ending priorities and
preferences for Federal agencies,
veterans. State and local govern
ments, non-proflt institutions and
others. as well as discounts on pur-
chases Of surplus personal property
for public health and educational
purposes. Existing priorities in pur-
chase Of surplus real property will
continue until December 81.
After August 81, competitive bid
methods will be used exclusively for
public offerings of personal property,
Mr.. Larson announced. Surplus air
craft components will continue to be
sold through industry agents, he
explained,
Evening star., 1948-07-21
|WAA Sets Timetable
For S5,40o,oOo,o0O
Liquidation Sales

The War Assets Administration
mapped out a wind-up time table
today to dispose of all its surplus
personal property by the end of
this year, so that the agency can
come to an orderly end February 2s.
Administrator Jess Larson re-
ported that $5,4oo 100000 in left
over supplies, on the basis of original
cost to. the Government, remain to
be sold. leased, given away or
scrapped.
Since July 1, according to q con-
gressional enactment setting Febru-
ary % as final liquidation date,
WAA has not received surplus
property declarations from other
Federal agencies.
Aircraft Included:
The schedule set by MIR. Larson
today calls for disposal Of $475, ,000,-
900 in surplus personal property by
December 81; S760, 100000 in aircraft
and aircraft components by February
%, and not less than so per cent
of the $4,000, 900, 900 in real property,
Evening star., 1948-07-21

including about $1,000, 900 900 on
lease. by February 2s.
Since the end Of the war, wAA
has disposed Of surplus property
that cost the Government more
than $23, ,000, 900. It's functions
will be taken over next March by
the Federal Works Agency.
Mr.. Larson notified regional direc-
tors and others they must complete
reconciliation Of all agency records
by January 81 and cut operating ex-
penses still more.
Priorities Cease August 81.
While WAA faces a dificult task
IN disposing Of some types of sur
plus property, notably real estate,
it expects to move faster after
August 81, when all priorities and
preferences cease, except for goods
Evening star., 1948-07-21
RetoiI Clerks Plan Cruise

The Retail Clerks Association,
Local 639-A, win sponsor Z moon
light cruise aboard the 8. 8. Po-
tomac, leaving the Seventh street
wharves at $3.50 o'clock tonight.
Evening star., 1948-07-21

People Of Tollesbury, England,
are complaining Of q water shortage
every Saturday-bath night.
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the disease. In this way we can
advise measures to check the i'll
ness IN its early stage, when Il Is
easier and less expensive to cure.
Besides" Dr. Winslow told
her, Tuberculosis Is spread from
one person to another. People
who have the disease in an early
stage may be spreading their
germs to others. SO every time
an active case is found and
treated, there is that much less
chance that tuberculosis viii be
spread throughout the commu-
nifty"
l guessed the rest of DR.. Win
slows story before he finished.
Joan was at the X-ray unit the
next day. Her X-ray revealed
suspicious shadows and further
tests proved that she had tubercu-
losis of the left lung in an early
stage. Immediate measures were
taken for her proper treatment.
That all happened two months
before and, DR.. Winslow said,
Joan is already showing good
progress. He feels sure she will
get entirely well. Joan's aunt.
who lived nearby and was a fire.
quent visitor at the Moore home,
was later to have tuberculosis in
a moderately advanced stage.
Chances were. DR.. Winslow
pointed out, Joan had caught her
tuberculosis from her aunt, ale
though no one else in the family
had caught the disease.
After DIR. winslow left, l re-
Elected that many people, even
the most intelligent, were taking
chances in neglecting chest X-rays
and physical examinations, sim
ply because they felt and looked
well. tuberculosis In an early
stage has no outward SYMPTOMS,
but the X-ray can detect the dis
ease even in this early stage. The
earlier tuberculosis is discovered
and medical treatment is pro-
vided for the patient, the better
chance the person has of recover
ing and tn less chance that others
will catch the disease from him.
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More About
Job Discrimination
lContlnned from DAG ID

Continued from page y
sons as stewards and grill car
employees violated the Massachu-
sets and New York anfi-discrim-
ination statutes.
The complaints further charged
that the overall employment pat
tern Of the railroad in all cate
gories Of employment. including
clerical, administrative. m n
teanance and operation. skilled
and unskilled. was discriminatory
toward colored people. Forty-four
cooks and walters appeared before
the two commissions last year.
After investigation and confer
ences between representatives of
the New Haven Railroad and
members of the Massachusetts,
FEPC and the New York SCAD,
an understanding was reached,
disposing of the complaints salts
factorily.
As a result, crew personnel in
the dining services will be Sc
lected and allowed to exercise
their seniority rights in accord
ance with their qualifications I'M
der the terms of the agreement.
by which they are covered with
out regard to race.
In the joint statement. commits
sioners Mckinney and Carter
said 1.-THE New York and Massa-
chusetts Commissions appreciate
the fine cooperation evidenced by
the New Haven Railroad through
out the investigation. The Rail-
road is about to place in operation
a number of additional grill cars.
Thus the agreements arrived at in
these cases will have immediate
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operator and passenger, through
no fault of the passenger.
The mountain does not Just
have to come to Mahom t.
Your borhood stores
viii see to that. Teach Riddles
to walk; the exercise will do them
good. The saved ear fare will
purchase a loaf OF bread.
The very thought CT Seattle,
owning its buses. hiking fares be-
yond that Of any other city. mu-
nicipal or privately owned, is a
blow below the belt.
II may be sometime before the
citizens recover sufficiently to
strike back. Once begun. the I'M
petus will be sufficient for Seat
tleites to stage a walkout and
like It not from choice but from
necessity.
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More About g X Zzkeas.z/
Continued from y FN<E@
A new SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY
More About

focusing their eyes the Philadelphia event mo. u
and clamorng to be heard
About two weeks following the first Philadelphia
event mo. i, another major political party will hold its
National Convention Philadelphia much of the
aforementioned procedure tactics ard the like; and
certainly, with similar amount of nationwide and world
wide attention their direction This second event prom
ises to be even bigger "show" in some respects
whether of greater Importance noand the American
people viewing it with equal earnesness and probable
anxiety
It is all because of the SUPREME IMPORTANCE of
any in national and world affairs which mean
LIFE, STABILITY and SECURITY-or the opposte-TO
PEOPLE This is true and is being emphasized more to-
day than at any similar time in recent history
It would seem and certainly hope that both
these major political parties, and other, fully con-
scious of THE RESPONSIBILITY THEY ARE ACCEPT
ING; and that their work and activities in the months
and years to will be earnestly in keeping with to-
days PARTY PLATFORMS and tomorrow's CAMPAIGN
PLEDGES The leadership and policy makers should be
warned that these times too serious to allow failure
their parand that the Nation, including all and
classes, is in mood to be continuously vctimized
exploited by so-called political expediency.
There must be NEW SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY
TO AND FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE; and
mean ALL THE AMERICAN PEOPLEl
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of New York, noted physician
and choirmon, NAACP board
of directors. uUthor of this
weeks health column, which
discusses "x-Roy Pictures of the
Lungs. lamp
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Negro Americans must have greater and direct
representation in governmental are to attain any
of balance in matters of justice and fair play in
supposedly democratic Nation Such representation
should be at least token if not proportonate-in all
sections and not in any for the luxury and
glamour of being Gin politics'
The above declaration is made strictly in a of
SELF-DEFENSE and SELF-PRESERVATION! No one
however sincere and friendly brave-can truly
represent others who feeling the ILLS AND DEGREE
DATION OF SUPPRESSION without being part thereof
and feeling the thing Again, when think of the
long years of fragrant MISREPRESENTATION and
MISREPRESENTATION of Negro Americans in certain
Southern Statesperpetrated by the Bbos the Rankns
the Eastlands, the Vardamans, the Tlmans and like
breeds, convinced that the aforementioned JUS
tce and fair play long way off-until-
Negro Americans SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES
to refute the lies and propaganda especially designed to
retard and hold back their goupfor purposes previous
ly stated in these editorial columns.
Such representation, of course is not intended for
agitation but for the general purpose of UNITING
MORE CLOSELY ALL AMERICANS of ALL GROUPS
into ONE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS WITH FREEDOM
AND JUSTICE FOR ALL!
We pleased to note that the REPUBLICAN MA
TIONAL CONVENTION, in session in Philadelphia,
has made encouraging start in this direction by nclud
ing Negro Americans their committees.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1948-06-23
MRS. ]. W. Is RIGHT

The Northwest Enterprise is in
accord with Mrs. J. w. protest
ing bus fare hikes. in her letter
to the Seattle Times.
Hiking fares of patrons includ-
ing school children. on a city
owned tax free bus system.
leaves the ordinary home no alter
native, save to get mad and fight
back. A fifteen minute trans
fer is often of no value. Time
and time again we have waited
20 minutes for a bus-crowded or
delayed cars. A fifteen minute
transfer will often be productive
of an argument between the
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1948-06-23
N.A.C.C.P.

N. A. A. C. p. membership
committee reports that their cam
paign is progressing slowly. Mrs.
J. H. Shannon, chairman of the
Membership Committee. asks all
membership captains and work
ers to redouble their efforts since
the campaign has only two more
weeks to run and only one-fourth
of the quota of $500 members
has been secured.
The following captains are
leading in the drive for member
ships: Mrs. Mazelle Mccullough
with CO; Mrs. Octavia Brown
with 615 and Mr.. Alexander
Bishop with Al. While these
captains are making good
showing there should be no rea-
son why in the city the size of
Seattle these figures should not
be tripled or quadrupled.
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More About
Bus Fares

Continued from Page y
and property values due to this
raise IN fares.
One more raise will put all our
homes out In the country and turn
our transportation system into a
suburban bus line with several
city centers in Ballard, University
District. Georgetown. etc, CON
tanning shops and services for all
our needs. with our downtown
city center a forgotten city.
once we had a beautiful city.
but look around and see what
we have now. Just a tumble of
little country towns, each with
its little residential district and
little shops. How much longer
can our large and beautiful stores
hold out against this?
MRS. ]. w. "a resident
of Seattle since 1906.
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x-Ray Pictures of the Lungs

By Louis t. Wright, NJ. D., chair
man, board of directors, NAACP
New Yrk. (fr AMP.
My boyhood friend, DR.. Jim
Winslow, who now lives in an
other state. came to see me re-
Gently. We hadn't met In years
and talked over our school days
before we got around to discussing
our work Then DIR. Winslow told
me a story about the campaign
in his town to find all unknown"
cases of tuberculosis. or those not
reported to the health authorities.
The campaign was a community
wide chest x-ray survey which
every adult was urged to have
a free chest X-ray to check his
lungs. In less than a month, DR..
Winslow said, most of the people
in the community had been X
rayed.
One evening during the campaign,
while he was walking down the
street, he ran into 20-year-old
Joan Moore whom he had recently
treated for a broken ankle. He
had found Joan to be an intelli-
gent, alert young woman. She
told him he had done a "fine
job" on her ankle and that 1t
never bothered her. AS they TAX
ed, Joan asked the doctor If he
were 'as busy as ever"
1--WE been heping out with our
chest X-ray survey and we've all
been working overtime" DR..
Winslow went on. incidentally,
have you had your chest X-ray"
Joan laughed. 81 don't need it,
doctor. First of all, I've been
busy and, besides. I have no SYM
ptoms of tuberculosis-I'm not
thin or tired and l don't have a
cough"
Joan, the X-ray takes but few
moments--I'm sure you could
spare that. And it can detect
tuberculosis even before there are
any of those outward symptoms
you mentioned. That's its great
advantage. 1t shows up tubercu-
losis in apparently healthy peo-
pie who don't know they have
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LET'S TEACH THE DEMOS AND COPS
THEIR FEPCS

treatment, segregation, and dis
elimination" in the armed forces,
but also said:
I'VE pledge the establishment
by federal legislation of a perma-
nent FEPC.
1--WE favor legislation against
lynching, and pledge our sincere
efforts in behalf of its early en-
actment.
1.-THE payment OF any polltax
should not be a condition of vot-
ing In federal elections, and we
favor immediate submission of a
constitutional amendment for its
abolition"
Even that fairy tale had a
joker in it; the COPS knew there
is little or no chance of abolish
ing the polltax by constitutional
amendment.
Words without Meaning
AS for the Demos, under threats
of blackmail from Southern re-
VOTERS, they have developed a
platform-writing style whic h
makes nothing sound like some
thing, and is supposed to mean
all things to all men. For in
stance, their IA civil rights
plank read like this Il have sup
piled their mental reservations in
parantheses):
1--WE believe that racial and re-
ligious minorities have the right
to live Crowded they stay in
their place., develop lin Jim
Crow ghettoes. schools, and the
jobs assigned to them), and vote
provided they pay polltax and
steer clear of our lily-white
Demo primary equally with all
citizens and favor the rights that
are guaranteed by our constitu-
ton Except the 14th and 18th
amendments which were foisted
on the people). Congress should
exert its full constitutional
powers (Which we don't think in
clude jurisdiction over the poll
tax, lynching, white primary,
Jim Crow. or FEPC) to protect
those rights.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1948-06-23
Two Ordered Readmitted
To Sea Union

A temporary restraining order
requiring that two men who com.
tend the were wrongfully sus.
pended from the Marine Cooks &
Stewards Union be readmitted to
the union was signed this week
by Presiding Superior Judge
Roger ]. Meakim.
The men, George Tulip, q waiter
and Charles Birdsall, a utility
man, says In affidavits filed in
Superior Court by ]. Duane Vance
attorney, they were suspended
from the union because they urged
adoption of a resolution opposing
Henry Wallace for President.
The men contend they did not
receive a fair trial by the union,
and because they have been sus
pended by the union they have
been discharged from their jobs
on the steamship Alaska, a ship
operated by the Northland Trans
portation Company.
Tulip asks payment of $500 a
month from June 2, the date he
says he was suspended, and Bird
sail asks payment of $3.50 a month
from the same date.
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beneficial effect.
Joseph Quinn. general chair
man of the Dining Car Employees
Union. Local $40, lauded the de-
eision. declaring my only regret
about this Is that Chester Eaton
did not live to see his dream come
true"
Eaton. II was explained. was
once chairman OF the unions
Boston and Albany Railroad unit.
He died last February after ap-
pearing before Commissioner Nc
Kenney in Boston.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1948-06-23
BY sTETSON KENNEDY
Author Southern Exposure"
(FOR ANP)

\FON AM
The 80th congress has wheezed
down the home stretch after
chalking up a record which his
tory will doubtless record in S0th
place.
Here are just few of its back
ward mileposts:
Abolished price controls so eco
nomic royalists could pick peo-
pies pockets of a hard earned
$50 billion.
Adopted the Taft-Hartley law
enabling union-busting bosses to
run hog-wild.
Appropriated our billions to
give military and financial aid
to foreign dictators.
Failed to provide homes, hos
pitfalls. or security.
Failed to pass FEPC, anti
lynch, anti-polltax, or other civil
rights laws.
It is this last bone l want to
pick here.
Generations have como and
gone since Negroes were told
they were free and equal, and still
they are forced to remain sec
ond-class citizens. Patience can
be carried to far. It is high time
Negroes put a price tag on their
political support. by requiring
definite promises to be made and
kept.
Words without Action
Whereas the COPS have evil
IDENTIFY felt they could get by with
all words and no action, the
Demos apparently think they can
swallow their words on civil
rights. and have the support OF
the minority groups too.
The COPS have long shown a
great flair for writing platform
promises. but when it came to
translating those promises into
laws they suddenly developed
writer's cramp. For instance, in
IA they not only pledged a
congressional investigation" and
corrective legislation" of ''mis-
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1948-06-23
Opportunity

You must be not only present
in the body. but watchmul in
mind. II you would avail yourself
of the fleeting opportunity
(Seneca-
Evening star., 1948-02-05
Boy Scouts Big Show
Will Open Friday

An elaborate Boy Scout merit
badge show, the first since 1941
will be held in the Hyattsville
Armory tomorrow and Saturday
with proceeds to be turned over te
CARE.
The show, which will include ex-
hibits by is Prince Georges County
Boy Scout troops, is under the spon-
sorship of the Southern Maryland
District of Boy Scouts. The Dis
trict takes in Calvert, St. Marys
and Charles Counties as well as
Prince Georges County.
Two shows, from l to 5 pm. ano
again from 7 to 10 pm, will be held
on Saturday. A repeat performance
will be held from l to pm. Sun
day. Tickets will cost Is cents, with
children under IA and scouts ir
uniform to be admitted free.
The shows will be under the di-
rection of DR.. Marion Parker Of
College Park.
Communities with Scout troops
competing in the exhibition judging
include Hyattsville (three), Mount
Rainier, University Park, East Riv-
erdale, West Hyattsville, District
Heights, College Park, Greenbelt
Beltsville, Bladensburg, Lanham
Clinton, Takoma Park and Berwyn
Evening star., 1948-02-05
By T. NJ. Mcdowell

Ever since he was young boy
in Fauquier County, Va, DR.. E. M
Blackwell of Arlington has had
either a scalpel or a wood-carvine
knife in his hand.
The 83-year-old retired Navy sur
geon has lived at his. home, the
Anchorage, Att North Twenty sixth
street, since his retirement in 1928
He devotes most of his time to
wood carving in his basement work.
shop.
when I was a boy I had to walk
6 miles to school every day.
reminisced the doctor. Il would
pull branches off the dogwood trees
along the way and whittle canes. u
Acquires Real Skill.
With more than rs years expert
ence in wood carving Dr. Blackwell
has acquired real skill. Around his
living room are floor and table
lamps with f1uted columns and leaf
clusters at the tops, coffee tables
and statuettes which he has carved.
He even carved the fluted wood
work in the interior of the first
floor, laid the stairs and made the
banisters.
DR.. Blackwell's main work now
is on coats of arms for members of
his family. But most of his work
in the past has been for Saint
Mary's Episcopal Church, across
Glebe road from his home.
Made Church's Pews.
One of the founders of the church,
he made every one of the church S
SO pews in 1929, as we'll as the hymn
boards and tables for the Sunday
school children.
Other handiWork by DR.. Blackwell
Evening star., 1948-02-05

Less than two months remain for
art students participating in The
Evening Star Student Calendar Art
Contest to file their registration
cards and deliver their pictures to
Room 724, The Evening Star Build
ing. =.
Several pictures already have been
submitted, and steadily increasing
stream of registration cards has
come in as junior and senior high
school students announce their in
tention to compete for the six s1OO
Savings Bonds which will be
awarded to the winners.
The contest is open to all students
in Junior and senior high schools IN
Washington and the surrounding
Metropolitan Area, in public, paro-
chial and private schools.
At the conclusion of the contest
committee of judges, headed by
Clifford K. Bergman. The Stars
famous cartoonist, will select five
winners and a sixth provisional
winner. When the pictures are put
on display in the lobby OF the Com
Evening star., 1948-02-05
D. {. Man Begins Term
OF 5 Years for Robbery

A District man who lost his appeal
from an armed robbery conviction in
Prince Georges County has been
taken into custody by county au-
thorities to begin serving five-year
penitentiary sentence.
, John A. Mullen, 40, whose ad-
dress has been listed by police both
as in the 600 block of G street S.W.,
and the 1000 block of D street Sc,
was denied the appeal last week in
Prince Georges Circuit Court At
liberty en- 5000 bond, he was taken
into custody Tuesday at a tavern
in Brentwood.
He was convicted of participating
in the $1,000 robbery of Mr.. and
Mrs. Spruce Baird, Mount Rainier,
last July. Arlington County placed
detainer against him in connec-
ton with the robbery and beating
of Mr.. and Mrs. Cofer Fairfax, 817
North Lincoln street, Arlington. Re-
fusing an extradition on the charge.
he is scheduled to have hearing in
District Court February 10.