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, 1949-02-21
Mrs. Wore Resigns
Post on Industry
Committee

Mrs. Caroline F. Ware of Vir
GINA, has resigned her post on
the Special Industries Commit
tee, it was announced by VIM.
r. McComb, Administrator of
the Wage and Hour Division.
Joseph L. Miller of Washing
ton, D. c., has been named to
succeed her.
Mrs. Ware and Canute A.
Brodhurst were named to re-
present the public in the COM
ing hearings scheduled to be
held ID St. Thomas and St.
Croix during March.
, 1949-02-21

and publicized in Member Coun-
tries by national committees COM
posed of the Director of the U.N.
Information Center serving those
countries and by the Secretaries
General of the respective national
y. N. Associations or other or
carnations furthering the aims
of U.N.
All entries must be sent to the
national committees for submis-
sion to the U.N. Department OF
Public Information by 6 June
1949. AS in the past, the winners
must be members of national or
CARNATIONS which actively CO.
operated with national United
Nations Associations, or with To-
cal U.N. Information Centers, or
Continued on Page A.
, 1949-02-21
st. Groix Wos Feature
In House of Mystery
Rudio Script

st. Croix was featured in a
radio program of the Mutual
Broadcasting Company last
month, sponsored by General
Foods. The play entitled "The
Mystery of the Perfumed
Ghost, written by Philip Fee
nigson; the producer-director
was Olga bruce.
In addition to the Island it.
self several of the hotels, their
owners or managers were men
toned in the script. While the
script is too lengthy, the fol-
lowing are some sample state
ments by one Of the players;
.. Besides you'll love St.
Croix. It's beautiful, peaceful,
the people are wonderful. And
there's lots of activity. We can
dance at the new hotel the
Armstrong; have built-the
Buccaneer. And We'll have din
ner with Paul GILES at his Ho-
tel-on-the- Cay.
, 1949-02-21
BurkleY Asks Support
For Trumun's
Civil Rights ProqrG1n

Vice President Alben Bark
ley speaking yesterday said
that in spite of the intrangis-
gent attitude of enemies of de-
mocracy, the prospects for
world peace are brighter today
than a year ago or at any time
since the end Of the war.
Mr., Barley cautioned how
ever, that the United States
must maintain her armed
might and remain strong eco
nomically, He called for full
Democratic Party support for
President Truman to insure
civil rights to every Ameri-
can. He admitted that there
had been controversy regard
ing the speed and degree of
Continued on page 4
, 1949-02-21
Prosecutors OF
MindszentY Disciples
OF Nero. Pope Says

Speaking before a throng es-
timated at over SOC, 900 per-
sons in st. Peters Square in
Rome yesterday, Pope Plus
said the Hungarian prosecu-
tors of Cardinal Mindszenty
has shown themselves to be
disciples of Nero's tormentors,
only they have surpassed them
in cruelty.
His Holiness said the COM
munists were not satisfied
with crushing their victims
physically they also seek to
render them despicable and
hateful to the fatherland and
to society.
Senator Willard Tydings
Continued on Page a
, 1949-02-21
International Essay Contest
Announced by u. N.

LAKE SUCCESS, New York A second international ESSAY
contest, designed to select ten members Of national organiza-
lions who will be awarded fellowships to study the work
of the United Nations at its headquarters here. has been
announced by the U. N. Department of Public Information.
, 1949-02-21
Woo WILL ACCEPT
SMALL GROWERS CANE
FEBRUARY %

The Virgin Islands Company
will accept the sugarcane of
small growers beginning Mon
day, February %, it was an
nounced by vice-president AK
ell Schade.
, 1949-02-21

Frederiksted Country.
Evening star., 1949-01-29
Girl, II, Kept Alive by Doctors
After Sudden Refusal to Eat

punishment. her mother had sent
the children to eat sparse meals
alone in their rooms.
Sally has worried that other men,
bers of her family might die If they
ate certain foods.
Doctors said there are many other
factors about the child's life that
may enter the question of treatment
including the rigid moral and
religious principles she had learned
to accept.
The case paper suggested that
the best path to treatment may be
to attack the satisfaction. Sally ap-
parently feels about the starvation
1t proposes that, if definite feelings
Of hostility can be concentrated on
one subject, headway can be made
in Strengthening out the confused
feelings Of hostility involving the
family. ~ = -
This was done at the hospital
doctors said, by developing a strong
hostile feeling toward members OF
the psychiatric staff. Almost i'm
mediately, they said, Sally gained
more interest in her surroundings
and visitors, including her parents
These ideas will follow the child
back home, where doctors can con.
tlnue the treatment started here.
I'VE feel" the paper said, "tha,
probably the best place to work out
these feelings is in the home set
ting, where the problems of rela-
tionships originate, and where she
will be dealing with them every
day"
Evening star., 1949-01-29
veney Named 10 Head
CheItenham School
By fhe Assoeioted Press

ANNAPOLIS, Md. Jan. 29.-Law-
son Jerome Veney. parole supervisor
at the training school of delinquent
boys in Washington, yesterday was
named superintendent of Maryland's
Cheltenham Training School for
Negro youths.
The announcement was made by
Gov. Lanes Office pursuant to
meeting of Cheltenham's Board Of
Managers.
Mr.. Veney, SO, has held the train
ing school job in Washington since
1914. Before that he was supervising
probation officer of the juvenile
court in Washington.
He is a native of Homestead, Pa.
married and has six children.
The selection was made from q
merit system list of 10 eligible
candidates, the Governors Office an
nounced. Two failed to take the
prescribed oral examination, passed
and 8 failed
The final selection was made by
a panel which included Frank Love-
land, assistant director of the Bu.
reau of Prisons in Washington;
Mrs. Anna D. Sanford, of the Dt-
vision of Juvenile Causes of the
Supreme Bench of Baltimore, and
DR.. F. Lowell Bixby, deputy commits
sioner of Correction and Parole for
New Jersey,
Evening star., 1949-01-29
Dairy Leader Hopes Butter
Al 40 Cents Won't Return
By the Associo,sd pr..x

BALTIMORE, Jan. "a dairy
farm leader expressed the hope to-
day that I'VE never will return to
Accent butter and 35-cent steak"
because that will mean depression.
Paul L. Talbot, Burlington Flats,
N. Y, vice president of the Dairy
mems League Cooperative Associa-
ton, said, "Our economy is geared
to a different level than it was" in
prewar days when you could buy
a pound of butter, a dozen eggs and
a quart of milk with a dollar bill
and have change coming"
Mr.. Talbot made his remarks in a
speech at the annual meeting of
the Maryland Cooperative Milk
Producers.
"The only way that the prices of
food can come down-except in rare
instances a. is through somebody
taking cut in wages, or through
greater efficiency =" he said.
The dairyman said he did not
think today's food prices were too
high in terms of wage scales.
Evening star., 1949-01-29
4 Fairfax Residents Fined
S400 After LIQUOR Raids

Four Fairfax County residents who
were arrested in a series of liquor
raids January IL were fined a total
of $400 in Fairfax Trial Justice
Court yesterday.
The four were arrested In three
separate raids led by M. K. Bryant,
Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control
Board investigator, and Fairfax De-
tective Sergt Cecil E. Brown. Those
convicted were:
Jacob Spriggs, Al. colored, of Ster-
ling, Va; Mack Stokely, "a; Luther
M. Gregg, Sc, ana Mrs. Dollie Jones,
3s, all Of Route /, Fairfax.
Spriggs, Stokely and Gregg were
charged with Illegal sale of liquor
and Mrs. Jones with illegal posses
sion. Stokely and Gregg also were
charged with illegal possession.
Evening star., 1949-01-29
Richmond Gets BarkIey
For Jackson Day Address
BY the Associated Press

RICHMOND. Va. Jan. 29.-Vice
President Barkley will deliver the
principal address at the Jefferson
Jackson Day dinner for Virginia
Democrats here February 19
The Vice Presidents acceptance
of the invitation was announced in
telegram received here yesterday
from Senator Byrd, Democrat, Of
Virginia.
This years dinner, in contrast to
that of 1948, will see the bulk of the
profits go to the National Demo-
cratic Committee. T. Nelson Parker,
Dinner Committee chairman, has
announced that the national party
will receive IS per cent and the
State Committee Is per cent of the
money taken in.
Last year, when many Of the
States Democratic leaders opposed
President Truman's civil rights pro-
gram. none of the $4,000 or more
netted by the dinner went directly
to the national party. 1t was held
by the Dinner Committee until the
State Central Committee voted to
keep the money in Virginia for use
in the congressional campaigns.
Evening star., 1949-01-29
$500 Violations Reported
On Virginia Truck Weights
By the Associated Press


RICHMOND, Va, Jan. 29.-The
State Highway Department reported
yesterday there we're $500 violations
of weight laws out of $4,000 vehicles
checked last year.
Truckers paid fines of $205 900,
court costs of $4,000. weighing
charges of nearly $4,000 and in
creased license fees of $4,000. In
addition, on all axle or gross load
limits violations discovered since
June 20 there was an additional
penalty of So per hundredweight.
This latter penalty was fixed by
the legislature last year. The Divi-
sion of Motor Vehicles was named
as the collecting agency and the
money was earmarked for the liter
ary fund. The amount received in
this manner was not included in the
highway departments report.
On a percentage basis the number
of truckers checked and the number
Of violations discovered were about
the same as in the previous year.
A compilation of weight limit
violators showed that of the $500
caught, 67.86 per cent were vehicles
owned in other States and 32.14 per
cent owned in Virginia.
Evening star., 1949-01-29
Morningside Girl, ],
Crushed 10 Death by
SuitIand School Bus

Seven-year-old Dorothy Shepherd
was crushed to death yesterday be-
meath the wheels of the school bus
from which she had just alighted
near her home in Morningside, Md.
Dorothy and 26 of her classmates
at Suitland Elementary School got
off the bus in the 5000 block of
Suitland road. according to Prince
Georges County police. Raymond
Schultz, the bus driver, told police
he watched the group of children
walk in front of the bus, guided
by a school safety patrol girl.
Dorothy apparently darted from
the group of children to retrieve
some school papers that had blown
from her hand, school officials said
they were told. She was crushed
beneath the rear wheels.
The bus driver said he did not
know the child had been struck un-
til children looking out the rear
window of his bus began screaming
when they saw Dorothy's body lying
IN the street.
Dorothy was in the second grade.
She was the daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Melvin B. Shepherd, 207 Ran
dolph road. Her body was to be
taken today to the Mattingly
funeral home, 131 Eleventh street
Sc. Funeral arrangements have
not been completed.
Assistant County Supt. of Schools
William S. Schmidt said Mr.. Schultz,
35, had been driving school buses
for the county for II years without
an accident. He said the construc-
ton of the bus would make it i'm
possible for the driver to see a small
child standing close to it, or bend
ing down at its side.
Mr.. Schultz, who lives in Clinton,
was charged with manslaughter and
released under $500 bond.
Prince Georges County Medical
Examiner DR.. James I. Boyd said
Dorothy had a fractured skull and
a number Of crushed bones.
Evening star., 1949-01-29
Two D. {. Teen-Aee Girls
Committed for HoIdup

Two Washington teen-age girls,
accused of assisting In the holdup
Of a Fairfax gas station January
13, yesterday were committed to the
custody of the Children's Bureau of
the Virginia Department of Public
Welfare.
Fairfax Trial Justice Harry T.
Carrico disposed of their cases after
a closed hearing.
The girls were arrested in Wash
ington last Saturday. Police said
they assisted Donald M. McKinnon,
%, of the 200 block of c street NV.
in the $94 robbery of a gas station
and tourist home at Fairfax Circle.
McKinnon awaits action of the Fair
fax grand jury on an armed robbery
charge.
One girl and McKinnon also have
been accused of robbing the Lee Hi
Market. 5405 Lee highway, Airing
ton, January 10, with a third teen
age girl, who has been turned over
to Arlington juvenile authorities.
Evening star., 1949-01-29
Abolition Of Jim Grow Law
Backed by Women Voters

Support of the bill before the
General Assembly to abolish the Jim
Crow law in Maryland was voted
yesterday by the Montgomery Coun-
ty League of Women Voters.
At a luncheon meeting in All
Saints Episcopal Church, Chevy
Chase, the league directed that a
letter be sent to the Speaker of the
House Of Delegates and members Of
the Montgomery delegation asking
them to support the bill, which al
ready has passed the Senate.
In another action, the league
directed that a letter be addressed
to Gov. Lane asking that he explore
all possible means Of meeting the
emergency school building needs ir
five counties which cannot be ade-
quately met through local bond
issues. The counties are Montgom-
cry, Anne Arundel, Prince Georges,
Hartford and Baltimore.
The league heard q talk by j. We'll
ton Jones, assistant director of the
Budget Bureau, on the subject,
Uncle Sans Budget and Your
Pocketbook."
Evening star., 1949-01-29
Sad New Year in Chinatown
Is Ushered In With Fireworks

behind his back. Two Chinese bands
started to play.
But the sober note was apparent,
as the 1000 Chinese in the area
began what Is to be week of cere-
mony commemorating the opening
of the 39th year since the forma-
ton Of the republic.
One spoke of trying to increase
his allotment Of food packages to
the old country. Others allowed
themselves a moment to think Of
their relatives in war-torn China,
now bowed in defeat.
A police sergeant was in the area,
but he didn't expect any trouble.
He was there to join in the short
celebration Of windy H street, which
was without its dragon dance, the
feature Of many previous years.
Evening star., 1949-01-29
UNIV Tells Maryland
Mines May Be Closed
from Yesterdays Last Edition. }

(From Yesterdays Last Edition.)
The United Mine Workers threat
ened today to close every mine in
Maryland in which they find haz-
ardous conditions if the State does
not take corrective measures.
John T. Jones of Cumberland,
president of the unions District 16,
30 advised Gov. Lane in a telegram
A union spokesman said the ac-
ton was prompted by farmhouse
fire at the George M. Nethken mine
last November which cost the lives
of five miners. The mine employed
only seven men.
Mr.. Jones said he had made Ger
tain recommendations for improv-
ing the mine and had demanded
the removal Of DR.. John j. Rut-
ledge, director of the State Bureau
Of Mines, and Inspector Clyde
Rowe.
Mr.. Jones claimed the two officials
were guilty of negligence and that
they had refused to admit a Fed
eral inspector to the hearing on the
accident.
Gov. Lane has appointed Assistant
Attorney General Joseph D. Buscher
of Maryland to head a special COM
mittee to recommend Improvements
in the States mine safety law.
MIR. Jones protested, in his tele-
gram to Gov. Lane, that the COM
mittee, with only one member rep
resenting the union, would be
stacked against" the union.
Mr.. Buscher's group yesterday
submitted report clearing DR..
Rutledge of blame in the fatal fire.
Evening star., 1949-01-29
Construction 10 Start Soon
On Baptist Home for AGED
Special Dispoteh 10 The s.or


CULPEPER, Va, Jan. 29.-Con-
struction Of the Virginia Baptist
Home for Aged is scheduled to begin
here son, j. T. Edwards, superin-
tendent, announced today. The
project is expected to be completed
this year.
OF the 100000 anticipated costs
for the three buildings, Mr. Edwards
disclosed, approximately 5000, 900 al
ready is on hand, and the remainder
will be solicited from Virginia Bap-
fists. Donations will be asked to-
morrow at 1,215 Sunday schools in
the State.
The home is operating temporarily
in a Culpeper building and caring
for 16 persons. Although the new
three-building unit will house 100,
there is a waiting list Of more than
800 now, MIR. Edwards said.
Evening star., 1949-01-29
Scout s9kM A'App|ying Artificial Respiration
Saves Life of'Bdby Who Had Stopped BREATHING

A tiny baby's feeble whimper can
be one of the most beautiful sounds
in the world.
Mrs. F. D. Dismuke and her son,
Charles, Is, of Fairfax Station, Va,
found that out on the night re-
Gently when 11-week-old Susie sud-
denly 9topped breathing.
Mrs. Dismuke, who cares for Susie
as a foster mother for the Chill
drens Protective Association, was
sitting near Susie's crib when she
heard the baby make an odd noise.
When went over to her, there
was no sound at all" she said. "She
wasn't breathing"
Frantic, Mrs. Dismuke took Susie
in her arms and patted her back.
Nothing happened. She called to
Charles. The mother and son
looked at each other. and the same
thought came to them at once.
Recalls Scout Training.
Charles had been a Boy Scout for
two years, with Troop 152 in Vien-
ma, Va. He had learned artificial
respiration.
Charles put his skill into use
as he never had before. In few
seconds the baby whimpered softly.
The whimpers increased as he
worked, coming in unison with the
pressure.
But every time he stopped the ar
tif1cial respiration the baby stopped
breathing. It was 10 minutes before
she finally began to breathe by her
self.
Feeling safe at last, Mrs. Dismuke
telephoned social worker of the
Children's Protective Society, which
the foster homes and the
children placed in them. The So
cial worker met Mrs. Dismuke at
Fails Church, and they took Susie
to Children's Hospital at midnight.
The society is Community Chest
Federation agency, and it was an
other Red Feather service that paid
for Susie's six days of observation
at: the hospital. Her treatment in
cluded X-rays to determine the
reason for a digestive difficulty
from which the baby had been
suffering, and transfusions to build
up her strength. The Chest hos
pitalization fund paid the bill.
Urges Training for Every One.
Charles was separated from his
Scout troop. also a Red Feather
agency unit, when his family moved
to Fairfax Station. But the train
ing which allowed him to save Su-
sizes life will never leave him.
Everybody should have it." said
the tall Fairfax High School stu
Evening star., 1949-01-29
Virginia Areas Report
200@ Rise in JobIess
SpeeioI Disnotch 10 The s,or

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, Jan.
29.-The number of unemployed
persons in Charlottesville and the
Counties of Albemarle, Nelson, Flu
wanna and Louisa has increased
about 200 per cent in the past IL
months. according to the Virginia
State Employment Service and Un-
employment Compensation Com
mission in Richmond.
A total of 1880 workers, $50 of
them women, were unemployed in
the four counties by the end of De-
cember, while year ago the num-
ber Of unemployed was estimated
et 400.
The vSES stated that employ
ment continues high" in this area,
but predicted fewer job opportu-
mites here in 1949 than there were
last year.
Evening star., 1949-01-29

; Radio Stations
Plan Appeal in
Contempt Case
Baltimore Court
UphoIds Press Goe'
On Murder Story
Special Dispatch 10 The stor

BALTIMORE, Jan. 29-Attorneys
Tor three radio stations ard a news
commentator convicted of contempt
OF court here yesterday for violating
q Baltimore court gag rule" said
today they were appealing the case
to the Maryland Court of Appeals.
Representing Radio Station WFBR,
one of the defendants, which were
fined from $100 to $500 for broad
casting restricted information about
a murder trial last summer, Attor-
ney William L. Marbury, jr.. said his
client had instructed him to file an
appeal within the Today allowable
period.
In Washington, Paul D. P. Spear
man, representing Station WCBM,
also said he would appeal the de-
cision. Mr.. Marbury said he under
stood that attorneys for Station
WITH and James P. Connolly, news
editor of the station, who was fined
500. were joining in the appeal.
Judge Upholds Court Power.
The widely publicized case ended
IN Baltimore Criminal Court with
Judge John B. Gray, jr., ruling that
the courts may limit the freedom
OF the press when it threatens the
right of a man to a fair and i'm
partial trial.
The broadcasts complained of con-
cerned the murder of 11-year-old
Marsha Brill in Baltimore last July
6. Eugene H. James, 81, a colored
janitor, was picked up the same
night. TWO days later, be was
charged with knitting the little girl.
He subsequently was convicted and
sentenced to be hanged.
Judge Gray, assigned here from
q Circuit Court in Southern Mary
land to hear the case, said it in
volved two cherished policies of our
Standardization of the press
and the right to fair trial"
Neither Right Is Absolute
"The solution" he said, lies in the
fact that neither of these rights is
absolute. Each is relative. Fash must
yield"
He upheld an unusual Baltimore
court rule which restricts publica-
tion of news about a criminal be-
tween the time of a defendants ar
rest and his trial.
Based on English law, it is novel
in this country. Baltimore news
papers and radio stations may not
publish the fact that an accused
has confessed. or that he had a
criminal record. They may not use
any information from a confession.
They may not tell about his conduct
after arrest. They may not discuss
any Of the evidence discovered after
he was arrested. They may not
photograph him without his con-
sent.
Judge Gray ruled this is not CEN
sorship.
He said he is convinced the courts
have the right to punish by con-
tempt where free speech and free
press have operated to create a clear
and present danger to the admins
tration of justice"
IF we concede that the court has
the inherent power" he continued,
"the court is driven irresistibly to the
conclusion that it can implement
that power by passage of rules that
do not transcend the power itself"
Evening star., 1949-01-29
Contagious Disease
Hospital Pushed in
Northern Virginia
Establishment of a communicable
disease hospital in Northern Vir-
ginia was a step nearer today.

Establishment of a communicable
disease hospital in Northern Vir-
ginia was step nearer today.
Representatives of chambers OF
commerce and health organizations
in Alexandria and Falls Church and
the counties Of Arlington, Fairfax,
Prince William and Fauquier last
night acted to set up hospital
commission for the area under a
1916 Act Of the Virginia General
Assembly.
The group voted to recommend to
the governing bodies of the cities
and counties involved that the COM
mission be named.
The proposal was made by State
Senator Charles r. Fenwick, chair
man Of the Arlington Chamber of
Commerce Public Health Committee.
The commission could establish
the hospital with funds obtained
under the Hill Burton Act, which
provides financing of such projects
by Federal and State governments
providing local communities furnish
approximately Al per cent of the
money needed.
The group will hold a second
meeting next month in Fairfax be-
fore the request for establishment
Of commission is presented to the
respective governing bodies. AL.
though not represented at las
nights gathering, Loudoun County
probably will join in the plan.
DR.. Ralph G. Beachley, Arlington
health officer, warned the group las
night that it is possible the Distric
Of Columbia some day may refuse
disqualification for infantile paraly.
sis cases from Virginia.
DR.. Beachley pointed out that
polio cases are the only contagious
cases now accepted from Virginia by
Washington hospitals.
Neither the Arlington or Alexan-
dria hospitals has communicable
disease facilities.
Evening star., 1949-01-29

A short but noisy furry OF street
fireworks inaugurated the Chinese
New Year at midnight on H street
between Fifth and Seventh streets
NV.
But even this attempt at celebra-
ton didn't hide the fact there was
sorrow in the homeland.
Things were quiet until just be-
fore midnight, although for some
time before, hundreds of members
of the On Leong Association arrived
to toast each other in the organiza-
tion's building at $40 H street NV.
George Moy, Mayor" of Chinatown,
was on hand to greet the visitors.
Then many Chinese went into the
flag -bedecked street, and the fire.
works began. A photographer
jumped as q whole batch went Of