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Evening star., 1948-01-26
ave Urges ForrestaI
To End Segregation
In Army and Air Force

The American Veterans Com
mittee said today it has asked Sec
retary of Defense Forrestal to wipe
out racial segregation practices
in the Army and Air Force.
Chat Paterson, AVG national
chairman, said the Navy is the only
branch of the armed forces COM
mitted ito a policy of nonracial
segregation" The charges, Mr.. Pat
erson said, are based on replies AVG
has received from the Army, Navy
and Air Force Departments to
questions about racial discrimina-
ton.
The Army reply, signed by Col
C. G. Blakeney, of its legislative
division, Mr.. Materson said, was in
terpreted by ave to mean that
while the Army recognizes that a
fighting force of top efficiency can
not be modified and maintained
under a segregated system, it is un-
willing to completely break with
tradition and abandon segregation
entirely"
Mr.. Paterson said Secretary of Air
Symington gave assurance that sug-
|gestions offered by AVG would re-
ceive every consideration. This
vague and general reply was, oi
course, not satisfactory" Mr.. Pat.
erson said.
He quoted a reply from Secre'
tary of Navy Sullivan as saying III
is the policy Of the Navy Depart
ment that no distinction be made
between individuals wearing the
naval uniform Of any armed force o1
the United States because OF race
color or creed"
Mr.. Paterson asked Mr.. Forres-
tai to require every component OF
our armed services to adopt and
practice a policy of nonsegregation
and nondiscrimination in the re-
cruitment, training, utilization and
handling Of personnel"
Evening star., 1948-01-26
Il, B, McC Gets Post
With Federal Reserve

President Truman today nomi-
mated Thomas Bayard McCabe,
Philadelphia banker and industrial
list, to be member Of the Federal
Reserve Board succeeding the late
Ronald Ransom.
Mr.. Truman also sent to the
Senate the nomination Of M. s.
Szymczak for re-appointment to a
14-year term on the board.
Mr.. McCabe, who is president OF
the Scott Paper Co. Of Chester. Pa,
has been a director and chairman
of the board of the Philadelphia
Reserve Bank since 1888. His term
will be eight years from February /.
He has been member OF the
Commerce Departments Business
Advisory Council since 1910, and
during the war years served for a
while as deputy lend-lease admin
strator and deputy director Of the
division of priorities of the old
Office of Production Management.
He was Navy Liquidation
Commissioner in 1945.
Evening star., 1948-01-26
Archbishop 0'BoyIe
Confirms $40 Adults
|At First Service Here

The Most Rev. Patrick A. O'Boyle
yesterday administered the sacra-
ment of confirmation to $40 adults
at st. Matthews Cathedral in his
first sacramental function since he
was installed last week at Catholic
Archbishop of Washington.
Among the group to receive the
archibshop's blessing were 511 con-
verts to Catholicism. Glasses Of
adults are prepared twice year for
confirmation at the Cathedral.
Church officials said this was the
largest group Of adults to receive
the sacrament here.
The service lasted more than two
hours, and was witnessed by several
hundred relatives and friends OF
those confirmed.
Rises to Great Amputee.
Candidates walked up the center
aisle to kneel before the archbishop,
seated on the altar steps, who made
the sign of the cross on their fore
heads and pronounced the words OF
confirmation.
One candidate, a soldier amputee.
was assisted to the altar, where the
archbishop rose to greet him. A
church official said he was Walter
Reed Hospital patient.
Archbishop O'Boyle congratulated
the candidates on conclusion Of the
confirmation ceremony, urging them
to stand fast in their faith and set
q Christian example to others.
At the end of the service, the
archbishop celebrated Benediction
of the Most Blessed Sacrament.
Acting Chancellor Named.
Assisting him were the Rev. Henry
Graebenstein of Holy Comforter
Church; the Rev. Louis Milton
berger of st. Martins; the Rev.
Joseph Moran of st. Thomas and
the Rev. Russell Phalen of st.
AIMS. DR.. John K. Cartwright,
rector of st. Matthew's, also took
part in the service.
Appointment of the Rev. James r.
Cowhig, curate at st. Patrick'S s
Church, as acting chancellor of the
archdiocese was announced today.
Father Cowlig will be the chief
ecclesiastical notary of the Wash
ington area, maintaining records Of
the archdiocese for Archbishop
OBoyle.
Evening star., 1948-01-26
Washington Dancers
Get Experts Praise

High praise for Washington's
Gross section" dancing was ex-
pressed today by representatives OF
the Dancing Masters of America,
who were returning to their various
dancing schools in the area after
a one-day forum" at the Mayfower
Hotel.
Members of the groups Wash
ington Chapter. No. (which in
cludes the District, Virginia, Mary
land and West Virginia-spent Sat-
urday night on informal tours OF
some of the towns better dancing
spots. Yesterday they gathered to
exchange ideas.
Most of the teachers I talked
to thought dancing in Washington
was smoother and more expert than
in other sections of the country u
Leroy H. Thayer, president of the
Washington chapter and secretary
treasurer of the national organiza-
ton, said.
In their business" session, the
dancing masters generally agreed
that the rumba-with notifications
is still riding the crest of popu-
larity.
Evening star., 1948-01-26
$l5Oin Half a Loaf of Bread,
2 Feathers Worth SIS Stolen

from the apartment OF Mrs. Edna
Tyner in the Shoreham Hotel.
A quantity of unstamped airline
tickets stolen from travel agency
at 2637 Connecticut avenue.
One ham and one chicken, re-
moved from the ice box in the home
of Chastine Belfield. colored. of 123
H street Sc.
One thousand pennies, stolen from
Percy Tally, 50, of 1700 Third street
NE.
About $35 worth of assorted cos
metics, missing from the Whelan
Drug Store, Connecticut and Rhode
Island avenues.
One sled, which was removed from
in front Of the home of Theodore Z.
Siepmann, 1927 M street NV.
Evening star., 1948-01-26
|x-Ray Units Plan
Shift Tomorrow
Ito New Sites
Schedule Announced
For Chest Check Here
| And in Montgomery

The first major shuttle in loca-
ton of mobile X-ray units and
those handling Government per-
sonnel in the Washington Chest
x-Ray Survey will take place this
week. ....-.
Oficials said more than $4,000
Washington residents have lined up
before the x-ray machines in the
first half-month of the District
wide check for tuberculosis SYM
toms.
Mobile units in neighborhood
areas tomorrow will begin opera
tions in new locations for the first
time since beginning of the survey,
it was announced. Mobile Unit No.
this week will be at Grant street
and Division avenue NE. and No. 2
will be stationed at the Bellevue
Housing Project, 213 Boyer road
S.W. Unit No. 3 will operate at
Good Hope road Sc. this week and
next. These units operate Tuesday
through Saturday. A fourth mobile
unit will continue through February
S to make X-rays at Connecticut
avenue and K streets NV
Schedule for Agencies.
The schedule Of units operating in
Government agencies is as follows:
Government Unit No. l today will
be at Federal Reserve Building,
Twenty-first street and Constitu-
ton avenue NV. Tomorrow it will
60 to the Interior Department
Building, Nineteenth and G streets
NV, and will remain there until
February 3.
Unit No. 2 will be at the South
Agriculture Building, Twelfth street
and Independence avenue S.W.,
through Wednesday. Thursday it
will move to the Bureau OF Engrav-
ing and Printing for seven days.
Unit No. will be at the General
Accounting Office, Fifth and F
street NV, today, tomorrow and
Wednesday.
At Temporary Buildings.
Unit No. will operate today in
Tempo 5, Sixteenth street and Con-
stitution avenue NV. Tomorrow it
will be at Tempo 4, Seventeenth
street and Constitution avenue
NV, and Wednesday and Thursday
at Tempo U, Twelfth street and
Constitution avenue NV.
Unit No. 5 will continue in the
Labor Department Building until
tomorrow, then from Wednesday
until February will operate at the
Treasury Department, Fifteenth
street and Pennsylvania avenue
NV.
. Unit No. will begin checks
Wednesday at the National Insti-
tute of Health, Bethesda, and will
remain there through Friday.
Unit no. today completes opera
ton at Government Printing Of
flee Annexes 8 and 4, and from
tomorrow through February 2 will
be at the City Post Office Build
ing, North Capitol street and Mas
sachusetts avenue.
The Central Unit, 1850 Pennsyl-
vania avenue NV, will continue
its seven-days-a-week operation,
operating from 10 am. to 6 pm.
In Montgomery County, which Is
conducting a parallel x-ray cam
paign, students and teachers of
Montgomery Blair High School have
announced a Bring Your Parents
Night" at the Silver Spring Armory
tomorrow, in an effort to get a 100
per cent turnout for the tuberculosis
tests.
Evening star., 1948-01-26
Trade Executives
To Honor Secretary

Mrs. Ruth I. Mulroy, executive
secretary OF the American Trade
Association Executives will be hon.
ored at a reception by approx
mately 100 hotel and trade associa-
ton executives from 5 to 2 O'Clock
tonight at the Statler Hotel.
Mrs. Mulroy, who has held the
position for five years, will leave
February / to become the New York
representative of G. Dewitt Con-
man, hotel representative here. DR.
Richard P. White, executive secre-
tary of the American Association
of Nurserymen, Is chairman for the
reception.
Evening star., 1948-01-26
FBI Reported Quizzing
Woman in AbeII Theft
By the Assoeiated Press

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 26.-Fed-
eral Bureau of Investigation agents
today were reported questioning a
woman arrested in connection with
a s21 ,973 jewel theft from Mrs.
George w. Abel. wife OF a Wash
ington newspaper columnist.
Tredyffrin Township (Pa0 police
said they "have turned the case
over to the FBI." the FBI refused
comment, but promised an an
nouncement "as soon as we have
something to say"
Mrs. Abel is the former wife OF
John D. M. Hamilton, Philadelphia
lawyer and one-time chairman OF
the Republican National Committee
Evening star., 1948-01-26
Southeast Dramatics Club
To Hear Talk Tonight

The Southeast Dramatics Associa-
ton will meet at o'clock tonight
to hear Miss Mary-Averett Seelye,
instructor at the Washington Co
operative Workshop, discuss the
problems of producing a play in a
community theater. The group will
meet in Hine Junior High School,
Seventh and C streets Sc.
The meeting will report on prog
ress made to establish a community
theater in Southeast Washington
and will discuss plans for one-act
play to be entered in a city-wide
tournament sponsored by the Dis
trict Recreation Department.
The association president, Mrs.
John j. Oberly, 100 Brandywine
place S.W.. has invited all persons
interested to attend, including rep
resentatives from other Southeast
community organizations.
Evening star., 1948-01-26
Truant Officers Renew
Efforts TO End Boycott
OF Browne School

In an effort to avoid taking legal
action, public school truant officers
today began their second round
of the approximately 1876 families
who are keeping children out OF
school in the Browne Junior High
School squabble.
These 1876 children are all that
are still staying out of classes in
the continuing boycott Of the Blow
and Webb Schools which started
on December 3 shortly after the
Board of Education transferred the
two buildings from white to colored
pupils. The move was made in an
effort to relieve crowded conditions
at Browne Junior High School.
School Supt. Hobart M. Corning
said that 10 truant officers this
time were to talk seriously to the
parents. The first round they made
was to see just how many were
staying out of school and was COM
pleted last week.
|, Action Held Possible.
"Court action is resorted to only
in very serious cases." Dr.. Corning
said.
It was presumed that If the ef-
forts of the truant officers this week
failed to get the children back In
school, the cases might be regarded
as serious by school officials.
Before charges are filed, the tru.
ant officers will arrange for con.
ference both at Franklin Admins
tration Building and with Juvenile
Court staff members.
The compulsory attendance Law
calls for a penalty against parents
found guilty of keeping children
out OF school unlawfully Of q SIC
fine or five days in Jail for every
two days of absence. Authorities
also may commit the child to a
welfare agency If the child is at
fault and not the parents.
During 1947, only six formal
charges were made against parents
at Juvenile Court although total
Of 98 hearings were held. In all
but the six cases, agreements were
reached.
This is a decided drop in prose
cutions as compared with the past
few years. In 1945, AZ parents were
prosecuted. This dropped to IA in
1916, mainly due to the policy o1
holding conferences with the par
ents and explaining to them the
error Of their ways.
On the legal front the Board Of
Education and school officials are
facing two suits filed last week
which, in general, ask that they be
enjoined from providing unequal
facilities, to Browne Junior High
School students by assigning them
to the Blow and Webb Schools
originally elementary buildings. Ont
suit was filed by the Browne Par.
ent- Teacher Association. The other
filed by a group of the striking par.
ents, also asks for $4,000 damages
Evening star., 1948-01-26

A half loaf of bread in which $50
in bills had been hidden was one OF
varied list of stolen articles for
which police were searching today
The bread bank loss was reported
by Hanna Sheik, owner of a grocery
at 1923 Tenth street NV, who told
police he had hidden the money
there when he feared two men loaf
ing in front Of his store were plan
ming to hold him up. He left the
loaf in the store, Saturday night
lest he be robbed on the way home.
About $50 in cash also was taken
from his cash register.
Other property reported stolen
during the week end included:
Two bird of paradise feathers,
valued at SIS, which were taken
Evening star., 1948-01-26
Truck Driver Indicted
In Staying Of Wife in
Lipstick Mark ScuffIe

George A. Austin, Is, Of 1910
Seventh street NV, today was in
dicted on a charge of first-degree
murder in the fatal shooting OF his
wife, Mrs. Virginia A. Austin, "a.
Mrs. Austin died in the Seventh
street apartment shortly after mid
night December 81. Police found
her slumped in a chair, shot
through the left cheek. The bull
let had emerged from the back of
her head and lodged in window
frame. Another bullet was in the
framework of an artificial fireplace.
Police said they went to the
apartment after receiving a tele-
phone call from Austin at another
address. Austin, who is a truck
driver, told police the pistol had
gone off while he was scuff1ing with
his wife.
Lipstick Mark Blamed.
He attributed the argument to his
wifes suspicious, aroused by q lip
stick mark on his face, police said.
The lipstick mark was left when
his sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Grattan,
20 Rhode Island avenue NV, who
had driven him to his home, kissed
him goodbye, Austin told police.
The indictment was among 81
returned today by the grand jury
before Justice Richmond B. Keech
of District Court.
Several persons were indicted on
sex offense charges. One Of them,
James L. Mitchell, %, colored, OF
the first block of K street NV, was
indicted on a charge Of carnal
knowledge involving a 9-year-old
colored girl.
Father Indicted on Sex Charge.
Elijah Brown, 46, colored, 100
block of E street S.W., was indicted
on a charge of assault with intent
to commit carnal knowledge, in
volving a 5-year -old colored girl.
Lee Carter, SO, colored. 500 block
of Twenty-first street NV, was In
dicted on a charge of incest involv-
ing teen-aged daughter.
Michael j. Krompholtz, jr., q, OF
Latrobe, Pa, was indicted on
charges of breaking into the Ross
Co. jewelry store in the 1900 block
of F st. NV. and stealing various
items, including radio, camera
and jewelry valued at more than
S570
Evening star., 1948-01-26
RichmondMun Returning
To Serve Assault Term
BY the Axsociotsd Press

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 25.-Carl
r. Burleson, former Richmond (Va)
policeman, who surrendered in
Hawaii to return to Virginia and
serve a prison sentence, arrived here
by plane last night and was taken
into custody by San Francisco police.
He was sentenced to seven years
for attacking a Negro woman in Vir-
ginia. He voluntarily surrendered
to the FBI in Honolulu Wednesday
and came to San Francisco, un-
escorted, by United Air Lines.
Police said they did not know
when Burleson would leave here for
Richmond.
Evening star., 1948-01-26
DR.. BerthoIf Going to Coast

WESTMINSTER, Md, Jan. 26 up.
DIR. Lloyd M. Bertholf, former
dean of the faculty of Western
Maryland College, planned to leave
for Stockton, Calf, today to assume
the post of dean of the College OF
the Pacific February l.
Evening star., 1948-01-26
Oxon Hill PTA Dance Set

The Oxon Hill Parent Teacher
Association will hold square and
round" dance from 9 pm. to mid
night Saturday in the Oxon Hill
School.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-03-04
THE JOLT:
Election

Democrats were puzzled, not to
say frankly alarmed, over the as
tonishing victory Of Leo Isacson,
American Labor party nominee, in
the special congressional election
for New York's Gath district.
The jolt was especially severe be-
cause Isacson had been prominently
supported by Henry Wallace,
avowed third party candidate for
the White House, and the Bronx
election had been viewed as test
ing ground for Wallace's power to
win votes.
Moreover, the election apparently
was no fiuke. Isacson, with 22,697
TALES, had amassed more votes
than his three opponents combined.
Karl Proper, Democrat, got 49,
578; Dean Alfange, Liberal party,
$3.50, and Joseph de Nigris, Repub-
ican, 1882.
In the first stages of shock, polit4-
cal observers took the elections re-
suits as significant straw in the
wind. Wallace had campaigned Wig
orously for Isacson, particularly at
lacking policies of the Truman adj
ministration with respect to Pales-
tine. However, no one was general
izing too much on the strength of
that factor, because the Bronx dis
trict Oath congressional has
heavy Jewish population.
Nevertheless, the Democratic
candidate had been expected to win
hands down, because the district
has sent members of that party to
congress consistently through the
years.
Said Henry Wallace, with great
elation: This proves that the So
called third party can become the
first party in l948.''
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-03-04
THE DICKINSON COUNTY HERALD CLINTwOoD, VA.
IRELAND:
Ne1U Premier

Even to members of the Fire as
sembly who had helped defeat him
it was strange to see canon De
Valera, premier of Ireland for Is
years, sitting quietly on the opposite
side of the house as leader of the
opposition.
In his place as premier was John
A. Costello, former attorney gen.
eral, whom the assembly had voted
into Office after new six-party CO.
aItion had taken control of the Leg
islative group as result of the
previous elections.
Costello, in dignified speech to
the assembly. explained his sudden
emergence as premier Of Ireland:
81 consented to this nomination at
the request of number Of parties
who felt that the interest of the
country required that there should
be an inter-party government and
that the premier of that govern
ment should occupy position in
political life detached from the con-
troversial bitterness Of the past.
The ''inter-party government
whose choice Costello was is COM
pounded of six political parties Of
apparently divergent ideals: Re-
publican, United Ireland, Labor, Ma
tional Labor, Independent and
Farmers.
Just how long government
made up of so many diverse COM
ponents would last was the subject
Of much speculation in Ireland. In
their present cooperative mood the
parties of the coalition may carry
on for a year or two, but few were
prepared to give the government a
much longer span Of life.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-03-04
PLANETARY:
Marian Life

After having given rise to much
idle speculation and phantasmago-
rial nonsense among recent genera
tions, one of the minor riddles of the
universe-whether life exists on the
planet Mars--fnally got a tentative
answer.
With scientific reticence, DR.. Ger
ard P. Kuiper, director of Melon
aid observatory at Mt. Locke, Tex,
offered a tinorous reply: eyes
maybe"
He made his disclosure, after TAX
ing a peek at the red planet, aided
by new-fangled infra-red spectre
graph, as it whirled to within So
million miles of earth, closest it will
come in two years.
But il there is life 1t exists in the
most primitive of forms.
DR.. Kuiper, aided by astronomers
from the Universities of Chicago
and Texas, came to the conclusion
that probably lichen, the hard,
moss-like growth found on rocks in
the U. S.. was present on Mars.
Weather conditions, although cold
er than anything Earth knows,
would support such life, DR.. Kuiper
said. Studies have shown that the
temperature ranges from a few de-
grees above freezing point to an
estimated 80-1OO degrees below
zero.
Mars. he added, evidently has
polar ice caps composed of wa
ter" However, the ice caps retreat
as much as 100 miles day, indicat-
ing that they are very thin, possibly
not more than one-eighth Of an inch
thick. Climate Of the planet resem-
bles ''earth at an elevation OF so, 600
feet" he explained.
One comforting deduction is to be
made from this latest scientific evil
dence: Anything resembling human
life, or even such malevolent life as
Fl. G.. Wells visualized. apparently
cannot exist on Mars. So apparent.
Iy those aying disk didn't originate
there, -.~.-.. -.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-03-04

On the whole. Sandburg, unaffili-
ated with any political machine,
looked pretty good on paper. The
poll showed him drawing a solid 81
per cent among the independent
voters interviewed.
AS far as the question of how a
poet can turn into politician is
concerned, those favoring him say
he Is a ''good man." he understands
the common people and is educated
and well-informed about the couln-
try's needs. The opposition claims
he is politically inexperienced and.
since he is a writer, is an impracti-
cal dreamer and an idealist.
But Sandburg, the poet. once
wrote:
''T'bs ssSGby}s Ss q dream.
Nstksag AaaAs@s gwlsw frss q avseass"
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-03-04
BAD TIME:
To Buy Farm

If you are thinking Of buying a
farm now, don't do it, was the warn
ing Prof. T.. J. Norton, University of
Illinois agricultural economist, gave
to young farmers attending the 47th
farm and home week program at
the university.
Regardless of what happens to
today's or tonorrow's prices. we
are close to the peak Of the present
price cycle" he said, adding that
debts should be kept ito mini
num-"
Norton pointed out that to start
farming as an owner now requires
excessive capital and he advised
against such o course.
Rslsase& by WNu TeaNiEes:
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-03-04

compared the estimates with "a
pre-gane guess at the final score"
But Sen. Alben Barley Dem, KY
called the procedure "a step in the
dark"
Most profound uncertainties aris-
ing in the budget estimates were
the result of the recent commodity
market drop, which might possibly
affect government tax revenues and
also the annual personal income
rate. Not one senator was willing to
commit himself with finality on
what future developments along
these lines might be.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-03-04
NURSE SHORTAGE:
Mass Recruiting Fails

Mass recruiting of nurses, which,
it had been hoped, would solve the
inadequate supply, is not working
out well, American Nurses associa-
ton reports.
Miss Ella Best, executive secre-
tary of the association, said that al
most four out of every 10 recruits
drop out before their training is
completed.
"That is a tragic waste Of time,
effort and money" she said.
Miss Best pointed out that pro-
fessional nurses favored the So
called negative" recruiting meth
cd in which the prospective nurse is
more carefully selected and given a
thorough grounding on what she
reasonably might expect in her pro-
fessional career.