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Evening star., 1948-09-14
Five New Polio Cases
Send D. T.. Area Total
For Year 10 139

The District Health Department
today reported five new cases of
polio under treatment here, bringing
the total so far this year to 139, of
which IT are District residents. The
others are from nearby areas.
Meanwhile, a 17-year- -old infantile
paralysis victim who had lost her
power Of breathing as a result of
the disease was reported doing well
today at Gallinger Hospital after an
operation seldom required in polio
cases, tracheotomy.
The operation consists of cutting
into the wind pipe" below the vocal
cords to insert breathing tube.
DR.. A. r. Sweeney, superintendent
OF the hospital, reported the opera
ton was performed yesterday by DR..
Morey Parks of the staff after use
OF a respirator and suction had not
proved sufficient to allow the patient
to breathe.
The new victims reported today
all are from outside the District,
Under treatment at Children's Hos
pital, they are:
An 11-year-old boy of the 51o0
block OF Wheeler road Sc, Con-
gress Heights, Md. a 14-month-old
boy of the 1900 block of Livingston
road Sc, Oxon Hill, Md, and a
4-year-old boy of Indianhead, Md,
all admitted last Friday; an 11-year-
old girl Of the 1900 block of South
Ross street, Arlington, admitted on
Saturday. and 7-year-old boy of
the 5000 block of Gunston road,
Alexandria, admitted yesterday.
Sixteen weekend cases of polio
were reported to the State Health
Department of Virginia yesterday,
bring the total for the year in Vir-
ginia to 1892 officials expressed a
belief. however, that the State ap-
peared "over the hump" and seemed
to have escaped any outbreak of
epidemic proportions for this. year,
at least.
Polio normally begins to taper off
by mid-September, it was explained.
Evening star., 1948-09-14
Bea|| Says Hartley Law
Was a Save Labor Bill

Representative Beall, Republican
of Maryland, candidate for re-elec-
ton from the 9Th district, declared
last night that the Taft-Hartley Act
is a save labor" bill, not a slave
labor" bill. as some critics have said
Mr.. Beall, who is being opposed by
F. Byrne Austin, Takoma Park
Democrat. addressed the Young Re-
publican Club of Montgomery Coun-
ty. He told the club the high cost
of living could be cut through the
regulation of Government buying.
The Young Republicans elected
William Birely of Glen Echo as theil
president. He succeeds William E
Coyle of Silver Spring, who now
heads the State Republican Club
Other officers elected are Miss Jane
Hendershott, Chevy Chase, corre-
spending secretary; Mrs. Olga Beck
vice president; Hugh Hassell, re-
cording secretary, and John Kelly
treasurer.
Evening star., 1948-09-14
Hoins Point Slipping Into River;
Army Beqins Reclamation Job

years. will rnean burying, section by
section, parts Va four golf courses
a score or more tennis courts, roads
and sidewalks. How rapidly the
project progresses depends on the
Array Engineers, how swiftly the
river channel fills and how fire.
quently it is dredged.
Despite its dampness, the poin'
has been a popular spot for driving
since young dandies raced theil
horses and rubber tired buggie!
around the speedway" which
trimmed the morass.
Completed in 1914.
AS it stands now, the park is bull
from river silt and from dirt ex.
cavated from the Tidal Basin, which
had been cut to depth of feet
in 1894. 1t was completed in 1914
but Haines Point was ringed by 9
sea wall as early at 1894.
Cost of the East and West Po-
tomac Park projects was over ST.
100000. During World War I much
VI GllC I1dlllS 1O11lt die was Uul IlCO
into war gardens. Troop barracks
dotted it's fiat fields. Its real de-
velopment began Immediately after
the war. BY 1881, its 327 acres were
taken up with golf courses and the
Washington Tourist camp in the
southwest corner.
The teahouse near the tip of the
Point was built in the early 192Os.
The continued settling. much
more rapid in the early years, has
constant re-filling. More
than 100000 lineal yards of silt
went on the peninsula in 1912, and
several hundred thousands yards
have been poured on since that
time, Park officials say.
Despite this, the river is still try
ing. The tip and its water-side road
has been under water 27 times in
the last 20 years.
National Capital Parks is trying
to get it out of reach.
Evening star., 1948-09-14
| Star Movies

Community movies. sponsored by
The Star in cooperation with the
Recreation Department and The
Film Center, are scheduled for 8
o'clock tonight. Programs Of comedy.
sports, cartoon and travel shorts
will be shown at the following play
grounds and recreation centers.
Bald Eaxle. Nichols avenue and Joliet
Edgewood. Third and Eyarts streets NE.
Sherwood. Tenth and O streets MI.
Anacostia. Eleventh street and Pena-
syiyania avenue Sc.
Twin Oaks, Fourteenth ann Taylor
streets NV.
viIsinis Avenue Ninth street and
Cook, p street between North Capitol
and First streets NV.
Francis, Twenty-fourtn and N streets
Thomas. 800 block of Anaeostis avenue
Douslass-Dwelling. 1000 Alabama ave
nne 81.
Evening star., 1948-09-14
Federal Attorneys Begin
3-Day Session With Clark

United States Attorneys from oven
the country today began three
day series of closed conferences here
with Attorney General Clark.
The conferences will be devoted
To law enforcement problems and
other official matters. The attorneys
also will drawup the outline for a
seminar to be conducted in the
various districts by the heads OF
various divisions, bureaus and off,
ces of the department.
The attorneys were scheduled to
meet President Truman this after
noon at the White House.
Don G. Miller, United States At
torney for the Northern District OF
Ohio, is presiding over the con-
ference. He was one of the famous
-Four Horsemen" Of Notre Dame
football fame in the 1920s.
Evening star., 1948-09-14
By ChorIes J. Yorbrouqh

| Kains Point, reclaimed from a
Potomac River swamp for one o1
Washington's favorite Fairgrounds
is slipping back to the river.
To reclaim it once more and at
the same time resume war delay
ing dredgi" Of the rival channel
Army engineers are ready to begin
pumping silt into huge diked area
on the points northwest section
The dixie, Is feet high around
SO acres of the now-unused area
is being closed today, and pumping
will begin Immediately after the
Presidents cup Regatta. The dredg-
ing will be along the approximate
course of the regatta.
The operation will be the first
phase of a long-range plan calling
for almost complete covering of the
327-acre East Potomac Park with
river silt to build it higher above the
water level, National Capital Park
and Planning Commission officials
said.
Created in Same Manner.
1t was created in exactly that
manner, beginning in 1890, and more
than 20,018,000 lineal yards of silt
we're pumped into the swamps that
are now East and West Potomac
Park. Hains Point, named for En-
gineer Col. Peter Hains who had
charge of the project, has been
sinking back into the river marsh
under it at the rate of a half inch
per year.
Officials estimated that by 1890
the entire tip of the point would
have been back under water.
: Heavy rains, unusually high tides
and strong upstream winds flood the
tip now and leave water standing
in the lower spots of the entire area
for days.
The overall reclamation plan,
which officials estimate will take
Evening star., 1948-09-14
Bus Lines 10 Increase
Daytime Service 10
Virginia Tomorrow

Effective tomorrow, the Washing
ton, Virginia g. Maryland Coach
Co. will increase daytime service
on all bus lines between the Dis
tTict and Virginia points and will
abolish night service to Garden
City.
The Garden City service will be
eliminated after pm. because pat
ronage has not been satisfactory,
J. F. Stokely. traffic manager of
the company, said today. Like other
lines, however, it will share an
increase daytime service, with one
more bus each hour through the
day.
The Garden City line, via Lee
highway and Key Bridge, was in
augurated May 10. Under the new
schedule. the last bus for Garden
City (3-G route) will leave Eleventh
and E streets NV. at 7 pm. on week
days and at 6;55 pm. Saturdays.
Falls Church Service.
Mr.. Stokely said the principal in
crease in service will be for patrons
of the 3-F route to Falls Church
via Lee highway and Key Bridge.
Besides reducing the headway, or
time between buses, by the addition
of bus every hour during the day,
the company has added two after
noon rush hour express buses from
the District to Falls Church.
- Mr.. Stokely said the express trips
leaving the Washington termina.
point at sos pm. and 5:35 pm.
would pick up passengers at al
stops within the District but would
proceed nonstop to Falls Church
after reaching the bridge.
Saving Of 10 Minutes Expected.
The traffic manager estimated
that the express trips would cut
from 10 to Is minutes off the present
scheduled running time of 40 min
utes to Falls Church in the late aft
ernoon
On the 3-F Falls Church line, Mr..
Stokely said, headways which have
been from, IL to Is minutes will be
cut to 10, and those which have
been 80 minutes will be cut to 20.
On the 3-B route, Glebe road and
Lee highway, the company is adding
two buses every hour all day through
z pm, making the daytime head
way 10 minutes instead of Is.
Evening star., 1948-09-14
Catholic Women Delegates
Hear Father SchmiedeIer

Delegates to the annual conven-
ton of the National Council of
Catholic Women in New Orleans
today heard a Washington clergy
man urge a program attacking the
factors In America which have
created a "sickly" family life.
The speaker was the Rev. Edgar
Schmiedeler, director of the family
life bureau. Social Action Depart
ment, National Catholic Welfare
Conference, who has Offices In Wash.
ington.
The industrial revolution, and lack
Of religion are responsible for the
diseased condition" Of Family life
in America, he said.
He urged Catholics to read only
Catholic literature and stop buy
ing the trash" that Is on the market.
Evening star., 1948-09-14
Fireman Is ScoIded
Fiohtinq BIoze in House

Pvt. r. r. Better of Engine Com
pany n was scalded over the right
eye last night at q fire that de-
stroyed a one-story frame dwelling
at 51O0 D street Sc. He was treat
ed at the scene.
The house was occupied by Will
liam H. Hicks, colored, and his fam
lily. No one was injured in the fire,
which reports said resulted from an
oil explosion in q stove.
Evening star., 1948-09-14
BonsoI Is Transferred
To Embassy in Poris

Philip w. Bonsal, 1901 Twenty
eighth street NV, counselor OF the
American Embassy at The Hague
for more than a year, has been
transferred to the Embassy at Paris.
the State Department announced
yesterday
Mr.. Bonsal is well known In
washington where he formerly
served as chief of the American
Republics Division and deputy di-
rector of the ONCE OF American
Republic Affairs in the State De-
partment.
Evening star., 1948-09-14
Chest Sets October I
For Official Opening
Of District Campaign

The official opening date for the
20th annual Community Chest Fed
eraticn campaign will be October
7, according to Chauncey Parker,
general campaign chairman.
On this date the last of the nine
major collection agencies will swing
into operation as 2,400 volunteers
of the District residential unit begin
house-to-house solicitation of gifts,
Mr.. Parker's announcement said.
The opening day has been delayed
a week after the National Chest
Campaign kickoff on September 30,
so women volunteer campaigners
will not have to start work until
the "back-to-school' period is over,
Mr.. Parker said However, a mass
meeting sponsored by the Board of
Trade will be held on September
80, climaXed by broadcast by
President Truman opening the ma
tional campaign.
Some Must Start Earlier.
Some of the collection units, like
the Government and Business units,
must start their collections earlier
than the others, Mr.. Parker added.
He said that campaign leaders in
the Government Unit will start their
drive before September 80 in order
to reach every one of 900, 900 workers
by November 4, when the campaign
Is scheduled to end.
The two District Business units
who will canvass the employees oi
$4,000 stores, Offices and firms, will
start. on October 4.
The Red Feather campaign this
year seeks to raise $4,500,OO0 for 104
Community Chest agencies in the
Washington area. This includes
funds for the United Service Organ
ization, which is being reactivated
in l949 to meet the need for the
Army's new draftees. Assisting
Chairman Parker will be Leon
Chatelain. jr., president of the
Washington Board of Trade, serving
as general vice chairman.
Pre-Campaign Dates Set.
The dates of principal events
leading up to the campaign are:
September 20-Mass meeting OF
Government unit volunteers. Sep
tember 21-Government unit and
Special Gifts unit start solicitation;
rally of Business I unit volunteers
September 30-President Truman
and Henry Ford II, chairman OF
Community Chests Of America,
launch Nation wide Red Feather
appeal with a radio broadcast;
Board of Trade dedication meeting
October 4-Solicitation of business
firms begins. October 6-Mass
meeting of District Residential unit
volunteers. october 7-House-to-
House solicitation begins; joint
meeting of mems civic service clubs
of the National Capital area; formal
opening of the campaign. with all
units at work.
Evening star., 1948-09-14
Grounds Plans
Laid for 1850
History Pageant
Area at Monument
And Sylvan Theoter
To Be Revamped

Government officials today laid
plans to improve the Washington
Monument Grounds and revamp the
Sylvan Theater for the projected
sesquicentennial pageant in 1850.
At the same time, the National
Capital Sesquicentennial Commits
sion promised to sponsor 'the great
est lesson in American history and
American traditions ever put before
the American people"
The National Capital Park and
Planning Commission has prepared
a model Of the Monument Grounds
to provide for additional walks and
trees. Congress will be asked for
funds to do the work before the
sesquicentennial celebration.
Maj. Gen. U. S. Grant III, chair
man of the planning commission,
yesterday showed the model to the
Fine Arts Commission. meeting at
the Interior Department. The Fine
Arts Commission expressed ap-
proval of the idea but asked that
even more walks and trees be pro-
vioed
Consultations Planned.
H. P. Caemmerer, secretary of the
Fine Arts Commission, said his group
and the planners will be In periodic
consultation over the improvement
program.
Meanwhile, the National Capital
Parks is considering a $250,000 pro-
gram to redevelop the Sylvan Thea
ter on the Monument Grounds,
according TO Harry T. Thompson,
assistant superintendent.
Paul Green, Pulitzer prize winner
and pageant author, is considering
tine writing of pageant for Wash
ington's 150th birthday. The re-
developed Sylvan Theater would
nave facilities for scenery storage.
workshop and dressing rooms, an
enlarged stage, new sound system
ana Semipermanent seating for
5000 persons.
While Mr.. Thompson said the
outdoor theater can seat about 5000.
lit was designed many years ago
ana does not possess up-to-date
facilities.
If Mr.. Green decides to write the
pageant. it would be produced during
the entire summer of 1850 as a
feature of the sesquicentennial cele-
bration, officials explained.
Freedom" to Be Theme.
Meanwhile, the sesquicentennial
commission, through its director,
Edward Boykin, announced that the
theme of the sesquicentennial OBJ
servance will be Freedom.
| DR.. Luther Evans, Librarian OF
Congress, in indorsing the plans, de-
clared:
1--WE shall be celebrating the en-
during national unity of a great
people whose ability to govern them
selves is here exemplified. ''' We
Eshan be celebrating the irresistible
force of the idea on which this Re-
public was founded-the concept OF
free association of sovereign States,
/ whose national unity was and Is ex-
pressed in this their Federal City,
the District of Columbia"
Evening star., 1948-09-14
$1,O75 Theft Reported

Electrical equipment and tools
worth SLOTS were stolen from
construction company garage at the
Arcade Market, 1418 Park road
NV, over the week end, according
to Harold B. johnson, 5503 Con-
necticut avenue NV, . company
official. He told police three electric
motors, an air compressor and
moter, four floor model electric fans
and q box Of tools were taken.
Evening star., 1948-09-14
Betty Hynes Is Found
Dead at Home Here;
Was Society Editor

Miss Elizabeth Kenney Betty
Hynes, society editor of the Times
Herald since the late 1930s, was
found dead this morning at her
home, 1917 Thirty fifth street NV
She was so years old.
Found by a maid, Mrs. Maggie
Jones, Miss Hynes was pronounced
dead by DR.. Melvin Alper of the
Emergency Hospital staff. Her body
was in the doorway of bathroom
leading off her second-foor bed
room, police said.
Sleeping Pills Found.
Homicide Squad Detective Sergt
L. A. Hartnett said bottle of Sleep
ing pills was found in the bathroom
with five of the pills still in the
Evening star., 1948-09-14
Winston Is Reoppointed
To ReoI Estute Post

Carey Winston, Washington real
estate man, was reappointed to the
District Real Estate Commission
today for a three-year term.
The Commissioners approved the
reappointment after Mr.. Winston
had been recommended by E. A.
Bent. chairman Of the Real Estate
Commission. His present term ex-
pires Friday.
Evening star., 1948-09-14
Ruinbow Veterans to Meet

The District Chapter of the Rain
bow Division Veterans will hold its
first business meeting of the fall
winter season at BIS pm. Friday
in the boardroom of the National
Press Club. All former members OF
the 42d Infantry Division of World
War I and II have been urged to
attend by Dick Wayland, chapter
secretary.
Evening star., 1948-09-14
Trumun Coils on Nation
To Mark Columbus Day

President Truman today called for
national observance of Columbus
Day on October IL, commemorating
the 456th anniversary Of the dis
covery OF America.
The presidential proclamation said
that lit is fitting that the exploits
of this gallant navigator, who, has
enriched the lives of all peoples by
showing the way to land of un-
paralleled opportunities, should be
commemorated on the anniversary
of his finding that land"
Evening star., 1948-09-14
Man Held for Coroner
In Shooting Futulity

Police today were holding David
Burton, As, colored, HOO block OF
Sixth street NV, for action by the
coroner in connection with the
fatal shooting of Clarence Smith,
81, colored, HOO block Of First
street NV.
Smith died at Casualty Hospital
last night, an hour after he had
been shot in the back. The shoot
ing occurred in Smiths room. Bur-
ton, according to police, said the
gun went OF as they were graphing
for it. Burton said the gun belonged
to Smith,
Evening star., 1948-09-14
Citizens Call for Probe
OF Smoke and Fly Ash

The Brentwood Terrace Citizens
Association will send a letter to H
Kenneth Kugel, chief engineer of
the Division of Smoke Regulation,
asking him to investigate smoke and
fly ash in the vicinity of Fifteenth
street and New York avenue NE.
The association elected its Audit
ing Committee at its meeting last
might. The members are Mr. and
Mrs. Horace G. Gerber and Irwin
Gillard. Other new officers will be
elected next month.
The meeting was held in the Social
Oyster Club, 1851 Saratoga avenue
NE. and was conducted by Ralph
w. Donnelly. vice president.
Kodiak mirror. [volume] (Kodiak, Alaska) 1940-1976, 1948-01-10
Fire Alarms

Yupn in fire alarms st the dep.
uty u. s. ManshaPs ofice-locat-
ed in residence between the Ko-
diak hotel and Kodiak Variety
store.
Kodiak mirror. [volume] (Kodiak, Alaska) 1940-1976, 1948-01-10
Baby Statistics
Show Increase

The number of babies born at
Kodiak in 1917 was Just twice
as many as the new arrivals in
1916, statistics released by the
Griffin Memorial Hospital this
week revealed.
In 1916, So infants were add
ed to the city's population, and
last year ll6 were born, SO boys
and 81 girls.
Total number OF hospital pc.
tents in l947 was COS, a. COM
pared with AT the previous year
year. Five deaths occurred in the
hospital in 1947, record low of
IL of percent of the patients,
which, the staff believes, lis q
lower death rate than any other
hospital could boast Of"
Major improvements at the
hospital during l947 were the
front lawn and the installation
OF new X-ray equipment.
Kodiak mirror. [volume] (Kodiak, Alaska) 1940-1976, 1948-01-10

Mrs. Smiley Bleichner left
Tuesday night by Northern Air
lines for Seattle, to see her
mother who 10 i'll.
Kodiak mirror. [volume] (Kodiak, Alaska) 1940-1976, 1948-01-10

Mrs. August Heitman, Sr.
The above-named person may
call at CHRISTY'S Bakery to-
day and receive the Weekend
Special FREE. {adv)
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-03-13
Death AutOiiSt
Fined, Jailed

A 24-year old driver of an auto
mobile which struck and fatally in
jured Mrs. Kiyo Hoshide, AZ, of l4l4
Weller ST., last December 5, was
convicted of negligent driving by
Traffic Judge Roy De Grief last
Tuesday.
The driver, William F. Burchette
3412 Rainier Avenue, a clerk, was
fined $500 and sentenced to 80 days
IN Jail, with 20 days suspended on
condition he surrender his drivers
license to the court for six months
Mrs. Hoshide was struck in q
crosswalk at Rainier Avenue and
King Street while on her way home
from her work. Burchette testified
hat he did not see the pedestrian
until he was 80 feet away from her
Horace Hall, Durchette's attorney
gave notice of appeal and the appeal
5ond was fixed at $500.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-03-13
Japanese Win
'EScheat Cases

AUBURN, Placer Co. Calf. SUI
perior Judge Lowell L. Sparks has
signed papers dismissing escheat
proceedings brought against alien
Japanese in Placer County for vio-
lation of the California Alien Land
law.
The p p e S were signed by
Sparks after they had been pre-
sented by a representative of At
torney General Fred Howser of
California.
In the document prepared for
the attorney general, 1t was declar-
ed the state valves forever" its
right to institute proceedings under
the existing law which was stated
recently by the U. S. Supreme
Court as not in accord with public
policy"
Defendants in the action were
Senjiro Kondo and Minoru Taxa
gishi
Escheat suits against the two
farmers were filed by former At
torney General Robert Kenny of
California and District Attorney c.
f. Tindall of PAGER County.
The latter official joined How
ser in signing the request for the
dismissal of the two actions.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-03-13
SEAGULLS READY
TO FIGHT OFF
TITLE SEEKERS

SALT LAKE CITY Utah, March
13-Ihe Harlem-Seagulls will put
their intermountain crown on the
block against the field of seven
teams in the Thirteenth Annual
Intermountain Basketball Tomna-
ment being held on March 25, 26
and 81 at the Pioneer Gym under
the sponsorship of the Salt Lake
J.A.C.L Basketball League.
The defending champions will
have back in their lineup three
of last years regulars in Fun and
Yuk Kasai and George Ono, the lat
.er two of whom were named on
last years tournament all-star
team. They will be further boil
stored by the presence of he for or
zephyr tenn, last years League
nampions, in the names of John
Nakagama, Gus Tanaka and Ge-
orge Hiramatsu. incidentally
George Hiramatsu recently set a
new record in individual SCORING oy
netting 80 points in single ga, le.
The rest of the squad is made Up
of Harry Imamura. formerly of he
Salt Lake Busseis, Tado Tan )e,
formerly of the Chicago Husk IS,
and the player-coach of the tie n,
Toizie Katsuyama, formerly a
Northwest all-star and regular of
the Fort Smelling All Stars.
With this two Geep, power la en-
outfit. Harlem-S eagulls are de-
I'M ely in the running to win ,ir
third intermountain crown for a
period of four years with a s ID
chance of retiring a ten-year I'D
J.A.C.L. perpetual trophy. The
team is managed by George Sa Ia
shita