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Evening star., 1948-06-14
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Shot in Escape Attempt

A coroner's inquest was scheduled
today to investigate the fatal shoot
ing early yesterday of second pre-
cinct prisoner who police said was
killed while trying to escape.
John Jackson, 20, colored, Of 1924
Eighth street NV, was pronounced
dead on arrival at Freedman's Hos
pital with a bullet wound in his
back. Homicide squad officers said
Jackson, who had been arrested on
a drunk charge, was shot by Pvt
Clinton F.. Brown, officer in charge
of the second precinct patrol wagon
The shooting occurred, police said
in the rear of the precinct, Fifth
street and New York avenue NV
According to the report, Jackson
lunged at Pvt. Brown with an open
penknife as the prisoner was being
transferred to cell.
When the knife grazed Pvt
Browns badge, he fired one shot
The two men scuff1ed, then jackson
started to run, police said. A second
shot was fired. After running several
feet the prisoner collapsed.
Investigating officers reported find
ing scratches on Pvt. Browns badge.
A penknife was also found at the
scene.
Pvt. Brown was released in Gus
tody of his commanding ofhcer
pending the inquest.
Evening star., 1948-06-14

IT can't see being idle, even if
II am 72," he explained. mo golf
courses or easy chairs for me. These
things do out here are just little
things-buying stamps or books, fix
ing a plnball machine, picking up
letters. They probably don't seem
like much to an outsider, but they
mean something to these people"
The patients smiles show their
appreciation. One. went further. He
wrote letter to nominate Mr.
Schmidt in Washington's recent
courtesy contest.
Didn't Want Prize.
HE is a fixture with us boys, y
wrote the patient, land We look
forward to his smiling face and visits
every day. We just could not do
without him and I am expressing
the feeling of the whole hospital,
including the staff, I am sure"
Mr.. Schmidt won, but he didn't
want to accept his 500 prize, ac-
cording to contest officials. He also
refuses to accept carfare from the
patients for his errands.
Retirement from this job? No
such thing in my mind" MIR.
Schmidt said emphatically. It'll
last as long as I do"
Mr.. Schmidt and his wife live at
1909 Ninth street NV.
Evening star., 1948-06-14
Test Animals in Basement Zoo
HeIp FSA Guard Purity of Drugs
OF sugar IN the blood

the amount OF sugar In Lne DlOoQ
of the rabbit.
Tests Food for White House.
The division also carries out a
Ilarge-scale research program. One
of its phases is a study of possible
poisonous effects of disinfectants
and insecticides. A similar study
has just been completed for the
Army on the effects of continued
use of insect repellents.
The animals come in for their
share of testing, too, on foods, sent
in with complaints from citizens
from all over the country. Chemical
analyses are made of the foods
Then they often are fed to the
animals.
The same procedure is followed
for food that pours into the White
House each day in the form Of gifts
for the President. This week, for
example, the White House sent the
laboratory a watermelon.
A small slice of 1t was fed to a
monkey. He ate it with obvious
satisfaction and thrived. The melon
was sent back to the White House
Evening star., 1948-06-14
St. Thomas More School
Graduates First Class

The first class to be graduated
from st. Thomas More parochial
school, Buckingham Community,
Arlington. received diplomas yester-
day at exercises in the parish
. church.
The Most Rev. Peter L. Ireton
Bishop of Richmond. addressed the
class of IS students and presented
diplomas and other awards. He was
assisted by the Rev. Arthur j. Tay-
lop pastor.
Evening star., 1948-06-14
Gwynn Park High Graduates
Will Hear Dr.. Steinmeyer

DR.. Ruben Steinmeyer, professor
of political science at the University
OF Maryland, will speak at the
Gwynn Park (Md) High Schoo
commencement exercises in tht
school at $50 pm. tomorrow.
Five students will address the
class. They are Juanita Harpold
Theodore Neinhardt, Betty xander
Anne Reed and Charles Dillon.
Mrs. H. Edna Pitts. vice presiden,
of the Board of Education, viii
present the diplomas.
Following is a tentative list o1
graduates:
Dillon. Charles R. Harpold. Juanita M.
Driscoll, Anthony D. Reed, Margaret A.
Wilson, James B., jr.
Colonna:. Alice L.. Richards. M
A.lI: Ms5sa'sTiss 1' {. ssssI; ss..I. Masy N,r{:
Mudd. Ida Cecilia Thomas, Ruby C..
Perrie, Grace Anita Winters. Thelma L.
Rawlings, Erna A. Xander, Elizabeth M
General
Boswell, Joseph r Townshend. F. L.
Chiffon, Arthur B. Watson, Philip G.
Duyal. Clifton .. Green, LYDIA Ellen
Lange Herbert Paul Lange, Dorothy r.
Meinhardt. Theodore Pipes. Mary Pauline
Nimmerrichter, P. r. Roach. Carrie 2.
PAYNE. JACK Turner Showalter, Linda M.
smoot' William A. Soper, June M l..
Talbot. Albert W, Sowell Ruby A.
Evening star., 1948-06-14
By George Beveridge

Thousands of animals-enough to
populate a fair-sized zoo-make up
a little-known colony in the base
ment of the Agriculture Depart
ment Building at Fourteenth and
c streets S.W.
The animals, mostly rats and
mice, are used by scientists OF the
Food and Drug Administration in
their constant tests to determine
purity and capabilities of drugs and
medicines manufactured for public
consumption.
Use of dogs and cats in the ex-
periments and tests is on limited
scale. but large numbers of guinea
pigs, rabbits and about 20 monkeys
are members of the scientific me-
nagerie. At times, pigeons, ROSTERS,
capons and pigs also have occupied
space in the basement Laboratories.
The administration, now q part of
the Federal Security Agency, uses
the Agriculture building for labor
atory space.
Each Batch Of Penicillin Tested.
The animal tests actually supple
ment chemical and meteorological
tests. Animals, officials explained,
are used only when no other suitable
tests are known. But while new
chemical tests are being developed
constantly, no decrease in animal
use is expected because OF the large
number of new drugs coming on the
market.
Newest and fastest growing unit
in the laboratories, for example. is
a special Penicillin Division, which
uses mice and rabbits to test every
batch of penicillin manufactured
for sale. In 1945 Congress ordered
that every batch of penicillin man.
ufactured must have food and drug
certifcation before it could 60 on
the market.
DR.. Donald c. Grove, assistant
chief of the division, said his group
buys 1900 small white mice every
week. They get injections Of peni-
cillin samples to make sure the drug
has no poisonous effects.
The samples also are injected into
ear veins Of the divisions rabbits
400 of them-to test for the presence
of pyrogens-small by-products OF
bacteria which cause fever. After
the rabbits are injected, their tenn
peratures are read every hour for
four hours. The animals suffer no
ill-effects from the drug and can
be used countless times for the test.
vitamins Tested on Rats.
Each of the complete tests, DR..
Grove said. costs the manufacturer
81 per sample. AS an example of
the number Of tests run, more than
5000, 900 ,000, 900 units Of penicillin
were certified during a recent
month. About 1000 samples come
to the administration each month.
Similar tests are made for each
batch of the newer drug, strepto-
mycin, that is produced, DR.. Grove
said.
A second unit is the vitamin di-
vision, which deals almost entirely
with rats in its animal tests. The
rodents are fed diets with deficien-
cies of vitamins A, B-1 and D to
produce symptoms caused by those
deficiencies. The rats then are fed
commercial vitamin preparations.
Their recovery measures power OF
the preparations.
Largest of the animal units, how
ever, is operated by the Pharma-
cology Division, which routinely
checks each class of drugs on the
market.
An important phase of the diyi-
sion's work is the certification-
similar to that done on penicillin-
for all the insulin produced for use
by diabetes. The primary test in
wolves injection Of insulin into the
ear of q rabbit and then measuring
Evening star., 1948-06-14
Leslie Cheek, Jr., Named
Virqinia Museum Director
Nv the Associated Press

RICHMOND, Va. June 14.-Les-
lie Cheek, jr., former head of the
fine arts department of the College
of William and Mary and director
of the Baltimore Museum of Art,
will become director of the Virginia
Museum of Fine Arts July l.
Mr.. Cheek succeeds Thomas c.
Colt, jr., who recently resigned.
A graduate of Harvard University
with a magma cum laude in fine
arts, Mr.. Cheek holds bachelor
of fine arts degree from Yale Uni
versity and has studied at Peabody
Institute and Columbia University.
In 1912, he joined the corps OF
engineers. Since the war. he has
been an associate editor of "Archi-
tectural Forum"
Evening star., 1948-06-14
Homemakers' Course
Starts al Maryland U.
Today;;1,000 Attend

More than 1000 homemakerS
were expected at the University of
Maryland today to participate in
the Rural Womens Short Course,
sponsored by the Extension Service.
The session will last throughout
the week, with the women attend
ing two hours of classes and two
assembly periods each day. There
will be classes on 16 topics, includ-
ing nutrition, home management,
landscape gardening, personality
development, music appreciation,
journalism and parliamentary law.
There will be a special course for
women attending for the fourth
year, who will receive certificates.
More than 80 such certificates will
be awarded this year.
The program will start tonight
with a vespers service at which the
Rev. Ralph Sockman, pastor of
Christ Church, New York, will
speak. Other events today include
an Executive Board meeting of the
Maryland State Council of Home
makers Clubs and County Council
presidents: a meeting of the Official
Board of the State Rural Women,s
Short Course Club, and tea for
Executive Board members and
County Council presidents.
Tomorrow Representative Nixon,
Republican, of California will speak
on Our Stake in Europe" while
Mrs. E. Earle Gosweiler, State
Council president, will report on
club accomplishments during the
last year. =.
Other guest speakers this week
will be Mrs. Hugh Butler, public
speaking instructor; Roscoe Drum
mond, Washington Bureau chief,
Christian Science Monitor; Mrs.
Helen Carlton-S Smith, vice president,
ASSOCIATED Country Women of the
World, and Or. Ernest @. Osborne,
professor of education at Teachers
College, Columbia University.
Other events will include recep-
ton given by DR.. H. G. Byrd, Uni
versity of Maryland president; a
concert by the C.oister Choir OF the
Mt. Vernon Place Methodist Church:
a Gay Nireties Review put on by
county groups, sightseeing trip to
Washington, and county parties.
Evening star., 1948-06-14

much as city editors and reporters
operate in metropolitan centers. The
three collect material, write, edit
and file stories Just. as newspaper
people do.
1t. Kelleher, who was born at
Sandwich, Mass, said she does not
know how she acquired her writing
talent. Her girlhood ambition, she
explained, was to become chemist,
and she majored in chemistry at the
Evening star., 1948-06-14
Arlington Man Receives
Scholarship at Princeton

w. Tracy Scudder, jr., 1921 North
Wakefield street, Arlington, Is one
Of three freshmen at Princeton Uni
versity who have received 1t. John
A. Larkin, jr.. Memorial Scholar
ships for the coming year, the uni
versity has announced.
The scholarships, awarded annu-
ally for the sophomore year, are
among the highest honors the uni
versity can confer on unqerclassmen.
Evening star., 1948-06-14

The Haslett youth was a student
at Randolph-Macon Military Acad-
emy at Front Royal, Va. He was
the son of Mrs. Eura Haslett Of
the Sixteenth street address. In
addition to his mother he is sur
vived by sister. Miss Annah Lee
Haslett, 20, of the same address, and
his grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. Sam
Haslett of 726 Timber Branch drive,
Alexandria.
Drivers Freed Under $1,000 Bond.
Mrs. Potts and Miss Griggs both
are graduates of Washington-Lee
High School in Arlington. Mrs.
Potts husband, Eugene Potts, is
in the Navy and stationed at Chel-
sea, Mass. Mrs. Potts works at the
Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Miss Griggs is employed at the
Agriculture Department. She was
operated on this morning for in
ternal injuries. .s.a
The two drivers were released
under 1000 bond each as material
WlUllScoCo o. 1lCdl III IA
lington County Court June %.
Three cars were involved in q
collision on Livingston road in Oxon
Hill, Md, yesterday which sent two
persons to hospitals.
William NJ Fisher, 38, of 3l2$
Twenty-eighth street Sc, was OPP
orator of a car which collided with
one operated by William Percy
Proctor of $3.50 Oxon Hill road, Oxon
Hill, Md.
Goes Over Embankment.
Mr.. Fishers car careened OF and
collided with a car driven by Harry
Wolff, jr., 1907 Benton street NV.
who was travelling behind Mr. Proc
tor. Mr.. Fishers car then went
over a 6-foot embankment, remain
ing upright.
Mr.. Fisher suffered cuts and pos
sible fractured ribs. He is in
Casualty Hospital. Two companions.
William H. Acton, 48, Of $500 Liv-
ingston road, and Purcell Pickerel.
%, of 5406 Livingston road, were
treated at Casualty Hospital for cuts
and bruises and released.
Mr.. VOLTS wife, Mrs. Virginia
Wolff, suffered bruises and shock
and was admitted to Doctors Hos
pital. Their two children, Martin,
8. and Donald, 4, and third child.
Bonnie Singer, 6, of 1907 Connects
cut avenue NV. who was IN the
Wolff car, suffered minor bruises.
No one was reported injured IN the
Proctor car.
Evening star., 1948-06-14
Hawkins Elected Head
Of Virqiniu Tech Alumni
By the Assoeiosed Press

BLACKSBURG. Va. June 14.-H.
B. Hawkins, Richmond, has been
elected president of the Virginia
Tech Alumni Association.
He succeeds w. o. Bowles, Wash
ington, who has been named to the
associations Board of Directors and
Alumni Fund Council. Those named
to the Board of Directors include
". r. Legge, Winchester, Va
Evening star., 1948-06-14
Montgomery Thrift Shop
Plans 2:Day Rummaqe Sale

The Montgomery County Thrift
Shop will hold a rummage sale OF
clothing and household goods at 10
a. m. Thursday and Friday In Odd
Fellows Hall, Sandy Spring. Articles
will be on sale until evening each
day.
The sale has been scheduled to
clear the Thrift Shop, ATS Hamp-
den lane, Bethesda. for restocking
It closes June 81 and will reopen
September z.
Mrs. Oliver Kincannon, Mrs. Ho-
ratio Wales and Mrs. Howard P.
Bailey are in charge Of the sale.
Evening star., 1948-06-14
Film Slated in Kensington

The Kensington Cooperative
Nursery School will show motion
picture, This is Robert at 8 o'clock
tonight in the Kensington Elemen-
tary School. Produced by Vassar
College, the film depicts the devel-
opment of a child from the age OF
2 until the first year of school.
Evening star., 1948-06-14
GEORGE Damn to Speak

George Damn, Democratic mem
ber of the Virginia House of Dele
gates from Arlington County, will
speak at tbs o'clock tonight over
radio station WEAM in the sec
ond of a weekly series of talks
sponsored by the Democratic Club
Of Arlington County.
Evening star., 1948-06-14

QeT newly do
signed p u b Ii c
information Of
fcer. Through
her newspaper
like Office on the
third deck OF
the administra-
tion building
passes all news
the world re-
ceives from the
naval school.
With a two
man staff, 1t.
Kelleher covers
Naval Academy
S~re
Evening star., 1948-06-14

4AloS AAAd N4S
Kinnon. Is, of
3167 North Six
teenth street;
Mary B. Wheel
er, Is, Of GLIB
N or tn Thir-
teenth S tre e t,
and Joe Davis,
is. of 43l8 North
E / 6 h t e e n t h
street, who was
driving. TIL e y
were all treated
+ or superficial
injuries at Ar
lington Hospital
H~L ~11ao,aL
Evening star., 1948-06-14

C oils ion at
Tenth and North
Highland streets,
Arlington, ! a st
midnight.
Seriously in
jured were Mrs.
Dorothy Harris
Potts, 10 Of 1916
N orth Nelson
street. and Miss
Marjorie Griggs,
70, OF 8l4 North
Stafford street,
both Of Arling-
ton, who were
ri di ng in a
800 lrsx,o,o ~,
Evening star., 1948-06-14
Arlington Youth
Killed, 6 Injured
As Autos Collide
Two Drivers Freed
Under $1,000 Bond
Pending Hearing

Joseph Haslett, is, of 1894 North
Sixteenth street, Arlington. was
killed and six other youths were
injured, two seriously, in q two-car
Evening star., 1948-06-14

For the first time in history. a
woman is in a key post at the
United States Naval Academy.
She is Wave 1t. Marie B. Kelle-
Evening star., 1948-06-14

car driven BY Joseph HaaIett.
Francis Dutton, 81, of Cottage City.
Md. Mr.. Dutton was treated at
Arlington Hospital for cuts and
released.
Three Treated and Released.
Other occupants of the car In
which Joseph Haslett died were
Evening star., 1948-11-14

this better, tastier food. Let's
raise 80 much more livestock that
we can take advantage of the eff
ciencies that go with large-scale
production. and be able to sell our
products at prices more people can
pay. And let the bigger animal
population eat surpluses out
of existence.
The fact is, says Babcock, that
we now have many surpluses
which go to waste and which no
body thinks to worry about - the
grass going uncut in thousands of
Evening star., 1948-11-14

fields, waste potatoes and Gull
beans, citrus rinds and other food
by-products. This, he maintains,
is sheer bad business; we should
have enough animals to eat it all
up. This, in itself, he says, would
constitute an efficiency which
would be reflected in costs and
prices.
I7S Pounds a Year
r ROM the market point of view,
Babcock suggests an immediate
goal of enough livestock to give
the American people IT'S pounds
of meat and animal products per
person per year "a modest esti-
mate, he feels sure, of their will
ingness to buy. This would re-
quire an increase over the 1913
livestock population of II million
beef cattle. 10 million milk cattle,
eight million sheep, 20 million
hogs, and 12O million chickens.
And when that goal is achieved,
he feels certain, it will still be only
a beginning.
Up to now, as Babcock sees it,
our thinking - both on the farms
and in Washington - has been
far behind the times. The so-called
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Evening star., 1948-11-14
MEAT FOR EVERYBODY!
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foods represent many times their
own volume of grain, grass and
other direct-grown crops.
So, says Babcock, if we turn
grain to meat and animal prod
ucts, the old-fashioned problem of
surpluses disappears. To give the
American people the amount
of these products they ought
to have, he says, tho farmers
would have to work their lands
full tilt. They would have to
reclaim all our brushlands, restore
all eroded fields and irrigate all arid
lands. Even this, he figures, would
fall short of feeding the country
the way it would like to be fed.
OF course, says Babcock, if we
were content to live on corn-meal
mush, the farmers of three or four
Corn Belt states could feed the
whole country. But if we want to
eat meat, milk. eggs and other
animal products, it's another
story.
To prove his point, a year or 50
ago Babcock got a home economist
to work out menus for two days of
Evening star., 1948-11-14

good American eating - nothing
fancy, but three square meals a
day, well balanced nutritionally,
and containing the sort of things
that people would like to eat if
they could have them. Bacon and
eggs for breakfast, lamb chops for
lunch, roast beef for dinner.
Plenty of milk to drink, cream for
the coffee, butter for bread, cheese
to 60 with the pie, fruits and vege-
tables to balance the diet.
Then he sat down with an agri-
cultural economist and figured out
what it would mean in terms of
farming if the average American
family ate that kind of meals regu-
larly.
What We Need
l HE answer was that it would
take 50 much livestock that we
would need half again as much
grain for feed as we now grow in a
normal year - counting all we
now use in bread and cereal prod
ucts - and 10 or IL times as much
grass.
So. says Babcock to the farm
ers, let's restyle our product, let's
60 after the huge market that the
American people represent for
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-03-11
Guests of Mr.. and Mrs. z. S

Guests of Mr.. and Mrs. E. S
"-~@cnald Friday through Tues
day were Mr.. McDonald's nice,
, and husband, Mr.. and Mrs. L. A
: Dingman from Bremerton, and hi.
sister, Mrs. Ethel Harmon from
Portland. #.
Beverly Gilbert, daughter o,
Mr.. and Mrs. Leslie Gilbert, in.
vited group of her young friends
to a party at her home on Saur.
day afternoon to help her cele.
brate her eleventh birthday.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Simmons
drove to Craigmont, Idaho this
week end, accompanied by Mrs.
w. o. Simmons and daughter June
who had been visitors in Ken
newick for. several weeks.
WSCS Marytha Circle No. 2
will meet at the Methodist church
at noon Wednesday, March II for
lunch. Those attending will please
bring own table service. Mrs. Ed
Angel will conduct devotions and
Mrs. M. G. Clark will have charge
OF the program.
Kennewick Valley Grange will
meet Friday, March 8. The third
and fourth degree team from Fin
ley will put on the work. All
candidates from the neighboring
Oranges are invited.
Mrs. Charles Meyers enter
tanned the Highlands Grange Aux
iliary on Tuesday. The Extern
sion Class in Visual Education
with Mr.. Anderson, the instruc-
tor, went to Richland Monday ev.
ching and inspected visual eou-
cation equipment used in Richland
schools.
Kennewick Valley Juvenile
Grange No. 96 has received an
award of SIS for competing a
group of projects during the past
year. The Grange numbers So
members with Peter Misner l947
Master. The award was given by
the, Washington State Grange
through Grange News. Kathryn
Sturgeon is Master for 1913; Bar
bara Weier, overseer; Ruth Carl
ton, secretary; Mrs. H. Misner,
Juvenile matron.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-03-11

I-s .Iaan Osborne left last Sat
rday for q months vacation
'rl. visit with
her grandmother Mrs. Osborne in
johnson City, Tenn. She plans
also to 60 to Arlington, Va, Wash
'r~t~n n. o. and other eastern
points Of interest and to st. Paul,
...,iili. Miss Osporne'S aunt, Mrs.
E. M. Elliott of Yakima Is accom-
psnving her on the trip. .-
Mrs. Claude Mccormick and
Mrs. Lee WEIGH were hostesseJ Al,
the Mccormick home for a lay
cite shower in honor of Mrs. Ro-
'-n7 nirnond on Friday after
noon, March s. Fifteen guests
were present and many beautiful
gifts presented to Mrs. Dimond. A
dessert luncheon was served by
the hostesses.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-03-11

10 objection to women who are mar
ried and have no dependents. Two
years of college and one year of ex-
perience in planning and directing
social and recreational activities are
minimum requirements. Skill in
handling groups and mas I~recreatio-
nal activities, as evidenced by ex-
perience in clubs. counseling, and
girl scout activities. will be consider
ed acceptable for purposes of regis
tration. The jobs pay from $2992.50
to $4246.50 annually. Transportation
to the job location will be provided
by the army. Final acceptance Of re-
gistrants for employment will be
subject to examination and investi-
cation by the army, the MSES Of
fetal said.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-03-11
MSES Recruiting Women
Recreation Workers
For Foreign Service

The Mississippi State Employment
Service is now assisting in the re-
cruitment Of 400 women between the
ages of Is and 40 for civilian re-
creational work in foreign locations,
II. H. Thomas, manager of the Mis-
sissippi State Employment Service
office at Lexington announced today.
Registration of applicants for
these jobs is being conducted, at the
request Of the department of the
army, through the "a local offices of
the Mississippi State Employment
Service. Interested applicants should
contact the local Mississippi State
Employment Service Office where
application may be made. Applica-
tions received will be forwarded to
Washington for processing by the De-
partment of the Army, Mr.. Thomas
added.
The Department of the Army, Mr..
Thomas said. has stipulated that all
applicants for the foreign recrea-
tional jobs must be women who are
citizens of the United States. Single
women are preferred, but there is