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The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1949-05-07
CHARLES IN BENEFIT
EXHIBITION BOUT

EZZard Charles met Hubert HOOD
in four round exhibition bout in
Des Moines, Ia, for the benefit OF
the family of Billy Cornwel, local
boxer who lost his life in the box
ing ring last month.
Prices for the Ike Williams-En-
rique Bolance May 26 lightweight
championship bout will range from
$3.50 to $3.50. Tickets are going at
a fast pace for the Wrigley field
match. 1t is being for the benefit
of he Lou Costello foundation.
Bernard Docusen of the fighting
Docusen brothers who were recent
ly declared White in New orleans
will meet Milo Savage of Seattle in
a 1O-round bout in Seattle, May 10.
Docusen is a welterweight, and
Savage a middleweight.
This is the New Orleans Filipinos
first fight since being declared
White in his home town so he could
fight White men there. Curiously
enough, 1t is against a Negro.
Bernie has two other fighting
brothers, Regina and Make.
WHAT'S IN RAY ROBINSON'S
FUTURE
When Tony Yale announced his
retirement from the ring last week
the question that arose in many
boxing fans MINDS was what is go
ing to happen to Ray Sugar Rob
inson, welterweight champion Of
the world.
He is signed to meet Kid Gavilan
In defense of his 147-yound title on
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1949-05-07
Miami Girl Heads
State Y-Teens

Ann Johnson, 18th grade student
at Booker T. washington High
school, was elected president of the
state Y-Teens at the conference
held in Jacksonville in late April,
according to the announcement
made at the annual meeting OF
Murrel Branch YWCA, held Thurs.
day, April 2S.
Ann, who is the daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Richard Johnson, 1910
NV 1st ave-, was one of Il Miami
Y-Teens, who went to Jacksonville
to attend the conference, accom-.
panied by four of their teacher
advisors.
The conference, which is held
yearly, will meet in Miami next
spring.
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1949-05-07
sy LUX OVERBEA for AMP

the same card in which middleweight
champion Marcel Cerdan was sched-
uled to defend his title against Yale.
Robinson has long coveted the 100
pound, but has never had shot at
it. His agreement with the Tourna-
ment of Champions, Inc, called for
him to meet the winner of the
Zale-Cerdan bout in September for
the title.
1t is rumored that Robinson may
take Zale's against Cerdan, but is
also more authoritatively rqmored
that steve Belloise will fight Ger
dan with Robinson still to fight
Gavilan. If Robinson does fight Ger
dan, what happens to his 147-pound
crown?
A Robinson.C erdan fight is prob
ably today's most desirable fight
card in any division. With the
fights scheduled less than two
months away, something will be de-
cided soon.
Rocky Graziano may reenter the
middleweight picture if the Illinois
Athletic commission approves his
application to fight in the state. He
was suspended by the old commise
sion in September, 1947, because of
his dishonorable discharges.
A special hearing will be held this
week to determine his future stat.
us. Graziano is to appear before the
commission in person to present his
case. The present body does not in
clude any of the members of the
commission that suspended him.
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1949-05-07
JOE LOUIS FIRST
PROMOTION A SUCCESS

Joe Louis first International
Boxing club promotion in Detroit
April 81 was both a financial and
an artistic success. A crowd OF
1O,O62 fans jammed the Olympia to
see IBCs debut into the fight pro-
motion business.
Heading the list of entertainment
was an action-packed exhibition
four-round go between feather
weight champion Willie Pep and
Jack Dempsey's protege, Ellis Ask,
OF Finland.
In the two main bouts Luther
Rawlings, Chicago welterweight,
outpointed Art Aragon of Los
Angeles in To- rounds.
The winning streak of the sensa-
tional Lesten FELTON, of Detroit was
halted at 29 in the second 10-round-
er on the card when Bobby Dykes
of San Antonio, Tex, earned a
split decision.
The fans seemed very pleased with
the boxing show they saw. The
bouts were handpicked by Louis,
himself.
Results of this Detroit promotion
may encourage Pep to sign with
the IBC, for the rubber bout with
Sandy Saddler for the feather
weight championship. If so, Chicago
would be likely to get the bout.
Official prices of the Ezzard
Charles-J ersey Joe Walcott title
bout will range from $3.50 to $$22.75
slightly higher than previously an
nounced. Three groups of tickets
will sell under SO.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-30
ia Accidents
Occur in Capital
Homes in Week

People who dropped babies &C.
counted for two of the 1874 home
accidents that befell Washington
old and young last week.
The babies, according to the Red
Cross accident survey, suffered no
serious injury.
Other victims Of home accidents
were less fortunate. One young
man who had taken sleeping pills
fell out of bed and hit his head.
Another man found a razor blade
in his bed after his arm had been
cut. A small boy amputated a fin
gertip on bicycle chain and q
two-year-old girl cut her face when
she pulled over a fish bowl.
Other children on the accident
list included five-year-old girl
who burned her arm while ironing
a doll dress, four-year-old
who consumed a whole box of sulfa
tablets, a 14-year-old who burned
his eyes while experimenting with
chemical set and children who
drank everything from I've to DOT.
The last two weeks have brought
seven accidental deaths, the Red
Gross reported. 1t was also noted
that home accidents are on the
rise. So far in 1949, there have
been 479 injuries as compared to
371 for the same period last year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-30
Washington News
Rector Boy Has Big Skin Graft
Without Anesthetic Whinper
10 Square Inches
Given by Marine to
Burned Child, 4

Little Michael Rector, 4, lay on
the operating table at Casualty Hos
pital without an anesthetic for three
hours yesterday while ITO square
inches OF donors skin were grated
to the raw surface of his flame
scared body.
He didn't even whimper," said
DR.. Joseph Rogers Young, the sur
geon who has led the fight to keep
Michael alive since 10 per cent OF
his body was burned last November
IL. Ordinarily such burns are fatal
when they cover one third of the
body surface.
Michaers condition remained
critical, however-so critical that
DR.. Young felt the strain of an
anesthetic would prove fatal.
On the other hand, the skin
graft was imperative to prevent
loss of body fluids through the
uncovered burned area.
Fortunately for Michael, DR..
Young was familiar with a new
technique, developed during the
war, for grating skin. The pain
under this procedure is far less
severe than in the established pro-
cedure of sewing the donated skin
to the recipients flesh.
Talked to Boy Like an Adult.
DR.. Young told Michael they were
going to take him to the operating
room and would not put him to
sleep. He asked him to be brave.
I'VE talked to him just like an
adult" DR.. Young said. He knew
what it meant to have skin grated
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-30

to start this work also was asked
in the 1850 budget.
Mr.. Riecks said all new build
ings were being equipped with
new style light wood desks and
furniture. Old style dark desks,
with their initial-scarred tops,
are being replaced as rapidly as
possible.
Schools getting a new coat of
of Corning blue" and maybe
orchid this year are: Dunbar,
Armstrong and Mckinley High
Schools; Garnet Patterson, Ter
rell, Browne Junior High Schools
and the Blow and Webb Annexes;
the Webster Americanization
School, and Douglas-Simons,
Woodbridge, Burroughs, Lovejoy,
Orr, Janney, Oyster. Grant, Con-
gress Heights, Raymond, Moves,
Blair, Fairbrother, Carberry,
Madison, Hayes, Hearst, Emery,
Van Ness (old), johnson and
Barnard.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-30
Arlington p1As TO Hear
School Financing Debate

A panel discussion on State aid
for school financing will be held
at a meeting of the Arlington
County Council of Parent Teacher
Associations at 8 pm. tomorrow in
the Walter Reed School, 1914 North
Mckinley road.
Members of legislative committees
of individual PTAs have been in
vited to the meeting, which will be
open to all residents.
Members of the panel will be
State Senator Charles R. Fenwick
of Arlington, w. Alvord Sherman,
chairman of a special Fairfax
County committee which made
study of the Virginia tax structure.
and E. L. Morphet of the United
States Office of Education.
Moderator will be Robert Cox, a
Government budget official, and
chairman of the Revenue and Ex-
penditures Committee of the Ar
lington Civic Federation.
The meeting was arranged to aid
individual PTAs in deciding on
resolutions passed by the council
regarding school financing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-30
Corning Blue MIXED by HoborM rqhtens District School,

ing was looking around for a
suitable, scientific color to liven
up the corridors. None of the
standard colors seemed just
right. One day at the District
Repair Shop, he threw together
some paint, mixed and stirred
and came up with a light blue
shade with ne known name.
That's it," he said.
Repair shop personnel called
the color Corning blue" and
wrote down the formula. Many
a gallon has been slapped on the
Railways of District schools
since.
Classrooms are painted in one
Of six pastel shades-green, yell
low, cream, orchid and two greys.
John M. Riecks, associate sup
erintendent in charge of build
ings and grounds, explained the
colors have been proved scientif-
ically to be the best for classroom
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-30
Reader Asks Star to Send Stain
Copy of inaugural Day Edition

Some of the routing directions
were odd, too, as The Star worked
its way around the world. One
order directed that a tag should be
put on the newspapers providing
for their ultimate delivery by camel.
Somebody saw to it that every
dignitary in the world got those
inaugural editions" said a Star
circulation official, only just be-
ginning to recover from the chore
of mailing 104. 480 copies Of the in
augural editions out of Washington
OF that total, he estimated, ap-
proximately 1000 copies went out
Of the country. S.. s..s.ssss,s..
Each package carried copies Of the
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
editions of Inaugural Week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-30
Meihodists TO Open Series
OF Leadership Glasses

A Leadership Training School Of
the Methodist Church will begin q
series of classes for church school
workers in nearby Maryland at
pm tomorrow in the First Metho-
dist Church, EVANSVILLE.
The sessions which will be held
for six consecutive Monday nights
will deal with religious and general
instruction of children of all ages
They will end with a discussion OF
Our Faith by the Rev. j. Thoburn
Bard. director of the Wesley Found
ations at the University of Maryland
and George Washington University
Conducting the courses will be
Mrs. Richard S. johnson of Chevy
Chase Methodist Church, Mrs. C. A.
Lindsay of Calvary Methodist
Church, and Miss Sally Chesser
Baltimore Conference ckildren's
worker
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-30
Suburban Residents
Are Urged TO Support
Symphony Campaign

Support of Washington suburban
residents for the forthcoming sus-
tanning fund drive of the National
Symphony Orchestra was urged last
night by Van Lier Lanning, con-
ductor of the Arlington Civic SYM
phony.
The National Symphony fills the
need Of a resident, professional Or
chestra and is necessary to the
cultural growth of the community, z
Mr.: ,Eanningsa former player ID
the National Symphony, declared.
1T deserves the support of every
citizen Of the greater Washington
area, and I feel that its existence
is necessary, to the maintenance of
our own civic orchestra.
The Arlington Civic Symphony
includes both amateur and profess
sional musicians who play for rec
reation and enjoyment. Mr.. Lam
ming explained.
by playing with an orchestra we
do not satisfy all our musical needs, I"
he pointed out. I'VE must be able
to listen to good music as we'll"
The National Symphony fund
drive, which opens Thursday, will
seek $4,000 to maintain the Or
chestra through the spring of 1850.
Mrs. Clinton S. Raynor, S Duvall
drive, Westmoreland Hills, Md, is
Suburban Committee chairman.
Virginia chairman is Mrs. Douglas
Murray, Fairfax. Arlington County
chairman is Mrs. Ruthven E. Libby,
1899 South Twenty-sixth street,
Arlington, and Alexandria chairman
Is Mrs. Edward o. Hubert, 500
South Lee street, Alexandria.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-30

Some Star reader must have
wanted to make sure Joseph Stain
had chance to see how the Presi-
dent of a democracy looks and
talks on Inaugural Day.
So, this reader sent in the proper
sum and ordered a copy of the in
augural edition of The Star dis
patched to the Kremlin.
The Stars inaugural editions
found their way into some other far
off places, too.
One package was ordered for the
imperial palace in Japan. Another
went to an Indian Maharajah.
British Prime Minister Attlee was
sent one and SO was Chang Kai-
ishek. =. =
Three thoughtfur citizens ordered
copies sent to President Truman
at Blair House
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-30

who had written to the hospital
several weeks ago offering to donate
skin because Michael is such a
good fighter" was wheeled into the
operating room first. He was given
a general anesthetic.
Next came little Michael, wide
awake and talking with his nurses.
With a dermatone, a surgical ma
chine which peels off skin at any
desired thickness, DR.. Young took
a long strip from Sergt. Rapps
thigh. This was coated with throm-
bin, a blood CLOTHING agent.
A place matching the size of the
donors strip was cleared on
Michael's body and soaked with
plasma which exactly matched the
plasma of Michael's own blood.
Human Glue" Formed.
When the thrombin and the
plasma came together they formed
a human glue" which held the
donated skin firmly in place.
In all. four strips, totaling ITO
square inches, were cut from Sergt.
Rapp's thighs and legs.
DR.. Young said he is hopeful the
human glue" will hold the strips
in place long enough for the do
mated skin to receive nourishment
from Michael's blood.
Michael's condition remains criti-
cal, DIR. Young said, but the edges
of the burned surface of his body
are healing and, If he can continue
his gallant fight, it may be possible
soon to take strips from the un-
burned surface of his body to help
along the healing process.
Michael received his first skin do
nation-200 square inches-from his
father, Everett Rector, a garage me-
chanic of 613 Elliott street NE. A
second donation was made by
George Becraft, 81, of 200 Twen-
tieth street NE, who knew Michael
slightly and said he couldn't stand
to see children suffer.
Sergt. Rapp, who read of Michael's
gallant fight against death in the
newspapers, will be in the hospital
several days recovering from effects
Of. the skins graft, which, Is exceed
ingly painful for the donor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-30
Volunteers Give Blood
For So Tronsfusions
Administered to Boy

Volunteer donors, their ad-
miration stirred by the fight for
life being waged by Michael
Rector, have contributed blood
for SO transfusions administer
ed to the child since he was
burned November IL, the Dis
trict Red Cross said yesterday.
A mother whose own little
boy had been fatally burned
was among the donors, accord
ing to Mrs. Nita Russell, Re-
cruitment Director for the
Washington Regional Blood
Center, 1870 E street NV.
A total of AGO pints of blood
we're distributed by the center
during the past week to hospi-
tails in the District, as we'll as
Maryland, Virginia and West
Virginia, where the Bloodmo-
bile visits local chapters.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-30

use. In addition to removing the
subtle psychological irritation
caused by a drab, dark interior,
they give the maximum of light.
The redecorating program
started in 1916, he said. During
the next school year, the last of
the l72 buildings used for class
rooms will have new interiors.
From then on school officials
hope to keep a program under
way which will allow repainting
of every school each five years.
The 1850 budget asked for more
than 100000 for this last leg
and to begin the next.
The Board of Education has a
program to give better lighting
ina schools and the painting
is IN harmony with it. Approx
imately 1850 classrooms need ad-
ditional lighting fixtures, which
will cost more than $700, 900, or
about $500 classroom. Money
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-30
Group Piono Instruction
Offered in Alexandria

Group piano instruction is among
night courses to be offered at
Parker Grey School, Alexandria
for the semester beginning Febru-
airy 7.
One teacher and one piano will
be used. Students will learn the
Keyboard from individual cardboard
facsimiles. 1t is the first time the
piano course has been offered at
the colored school.
Registration for the adult eve
ming classes will be held Thursday
and Friday from 7:30 to $50 pm.
at the school. Glasses will continue
for Is weeks. Other courses offered
are tipping, English, mathematics,
shop, sewing, crocheting, music and
elementary education.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-30
Bethesda DAV InstuIIs
Urich as Commander

Fred B. Urich has been installed
as commander of the Bethesda
Chevy Chase Post of Disabled
American Veterans. Department
Commander James F. Aubrey con-
Quoted the ceremony.
Others installed include Emmett
R. Carroll, senior vice commander;
Carl w. Bollum. junior vice COM
mander; Muriel M. Partridge. treas
urer: William H. Mcneil. service
officer: Edward F.. Horton, chaplain;
George Keyser, judge advocate; Ben
L. Parnell, officer of the day; War;
rem Sullivan, sergeant at arms; Halle
Chisholm, executive committeeman;
David R. Wolverton, color guard
Robert C. Stay was reappointed
adjutant by the new commander
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-30
Symptoms First TeIevised Concert Thursday
To Mark Launching of Sustaining Fund Drive

The National Symphony Orches-
ira will start its 1949 sustaining
fund drive this week in up-to-the-
minute style-on television.
The orchestra's first full-length
television concert will be given
Thursday-opening day of the drive
in the auditorium of Western
High School.
The occasion will be the fifth of
the seasons Neighborhood Concerts,
which are free to the public The
television presentation will be over
WMAL-TV, accompanied by the
Irregular broadcast to radio listeners
over WMAL.
Howard Mitchell, next years con-
ductor and present associate con-
ductor, will make his television de-
but, leading an hour-long program
of music by Tchaikovsky, Wagner,
Mozart and Berlioz.
To set the keynote for the fund
drive, Emerson Meyers, the drives
chairman, will discuss in an inter-
mission talk the Importance of the
orchestra to the community Mr..
Meyers, a pianist and composer. is
head Of the piano department of
Sisters College at Catholic Univer-
sity.
Made Debut at Gala.
The event will bring the National
Symphony into the company OF the
small group of symphony orchestras
which have become pioneers in the
televising of fine music. The Or
chestra had a brief nationwide
television debut when it took part
in the Inaugural Gala show at the
National Guard Armory January 10.
For the audience in Western High
School, the concert will be an cp-
portunity for first-hand observa-
ton of video cameras in action. Two
of them will be set up in the bal
cony BY lens adjustments they
will be able to transmit the images
of the conductor and musicians to
the television audience at close
range.
Arthur Weld, WMAL-TV director
for the program, will use the music
scores to guide him in training the
cameras on the key sections of the
orchestra at strategic moments.
Like other concerts of the series,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-30
Fowler toConfer
With Housed Unit
On Guard Fund
Seeks to Determine
Fiscal Status in Light
Of Recent Transfer

Budget Off1cer Walter L. Fowler
plans to confer with members of the
House Armed Services Committee
tomorrow in an effort to determine
what effect the recent transfer of
the District National Guard to the
Defense Department will have on
city finances.
District officials say they do not
know whether the transfer relieves
Washington taxpayers of the re-
sponsibility for supplying the Guard
with funds from the city budget.
Mr.. Fowler said last night he must
find out what effect the transfer has
on the Districts fiscal pattern be-
fore Tuesday when the District SUBJ
committee of the House Appropria-
lions Committee will hold hearings
on the National Guard budget re-
quest.
Budget Request Slashed.
Brig. Gen. Albert L. Cox, COM
mander of the District Guard, asked
the Commissioners to approve ifs
cal 1850 budget request of $550,800.
The city heads slaShed this figure
to $4,000 and will defend that fig
ure before the House subcommittee
Tuesday.
Gen. Cox said last night that he
cannot see where President Tru-
mans executive order of last We'd
nesday changes the Guards finan-
cial setup in any way.
The law specifies that the COM
handing general transmit his bud
getary requirements through the
Commissioners, Gen. Cox declared.
LAS I see it, the Presidents brief
executive order merely transferred
control from the White House to
the Army National Guard Bureau"
Backed by Pentagon Official
This opinion was echoed by g
top Pentagon official who said the
District probably must continue to
pay part of the guards mainte-
nance.
Both District and National Guard
officials would be happy to see the
setup revert entirely into the hands
of the Federal Guard Bureau.
The Commissioners and Guard
officers were recently engaged in q
feud over control of the huge
Armory drill hall. The Guard bud
get requests have always been
larger than the Commissioners
thought they should be. AS a re-
suit, the Commissioners have cut
more heavily into the Guard bud
get in recent years than any other
department.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-30
3DPs En- Route 10 DC.
To Arrive in New York

Three more displaced persons are
en- route here on a ship due to
dock Tuesday in New York, the
International Refugee Organization
said last night.
They are among 399 on the way
on the S. S. Marine Shark to 81
States and the District. The new
boat load will bring to 3,503 the
number OF DPS to come to this
country under the Displaced Per-
sons Act of 1913.
The three on the way here are:
Leopoldas Buivadas, 40, Lithu-
anian, who will join his brother,
Romualdas Buivadas. at 1885 Mint
wood place NV. Both are veteri-
narians.
Oser Scher, As. also a Lithuanian,
who will join Charles j. Sidman,
6l58 Thirty first place NV, an &C
countant with the Bureau Of In
ternal Revenue.
Margit Macy, a nurse, whose ar
rival in this country is being spon-
sored by Henry K. Heuser, 1747 F.
street NV. Mr.. Heuser could not
be reached last night.
On the ship are Al DPS en- route
to Maryland, all of them farmers.
The boat will be met by Senator
O'Conor, Democrat, of Maryland
and William F. Laukaitis, head of
the States Displaced Persons Com
mission. The group will board q
special railroad coach for Balti-
more where they will be entertained
at the Fifth Regiment Armory.
Those ON the way to Maryland
are destined for Rockville, Pooles-
vile, Davidsonville, Queenstown,
Centerville, Westover. Taneytown,
Chestertown, GAINESVILLE, Queen
Anne, Massey, Hagerstown, New
Windsor and Baltimore.
Also on this latest boat from
Europe are three DPS for Virginia
as well as Isl for New York and
smaller numbers for the other
States.