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Evening star., 1950-08-18
Free Star Movies
Playground Film
Program for Tonight

Programs presented through
the cooperation of the District
of Columbia, Arlington County,
Montgomery County and Prince
Georges County Recreation De-
partments and THE" Film Gen.
ter of Washington.
Washington, $3.50 pm.
Janney, Wisconsin avenue and
Albemarle street NV; Bright
wood. Thirteenth and Nicholson
streets NV: Douglass Simmons,
First and Pierce streets NV;
Edgewood. Third and Evarts
streets NE; Briggs Montgomery,
Twenty-seven and I streets
NV; Trinidad, Trinidad avenue
and Meigs street NE; Watts
Branch, Sixty-second and Banks
streets NE; Thomson, Twelfth
and L streets NV; Randall,
First and I streets S.W.; Anne
Beers, Thirty-sixth place and Ala
bama avenue Sc
Arlington, $3.50 pm.
Lubber Run Park, Second and
Columbus streets.
Montgomery County, $3.50 pm.
Pinecrest, st. Lawrence drive,
Four Corners.
Prince Georges County, $3.50 pm.
Landover Hills Elementary
School. 1909 Varnum street.
Evening star., 1950-08-18
Catholics Will Collect
Shrine BuiIdinq Funds

A special collection will be taken
up Sunday in all Catholic churches
of the archdiocese of Washington
for the building fund of the Ma
tional Shrine of the Immaculate
Conception at Catholic University
THE completion of the great
Shrine of the Immaculate Con-
ception will be the expression in
outward form of the inward love
and veneration we have for the
Holy Mother of God" Archbishop
Patrick A. O'Boyle declared.
Catholics throughout the United
States have been contributing to
the building fund of the shrine,
which when completed will be one
Of the most magnificent religious
edif1ces in the world. The shrine
is tentatively set for completion
by 1854.
Evening star., 1950-08-18
Group S Final Report
Asks Better Liaison
On Aid 10 Children

A need for better coordination
of existing services to children is
cited in the final report of the
District Committee for the Mid
century White House Conference
on Children and Youth.
The committee, appointed by
the Commissioners to prepare fol
the December conference on youth
problems. has voted to discontinue
it's work because of a lack Of
! funds.
In its report issued yesterday
the committee said member:
would be available, so far as pos
sible, for consultation on an in
dividual basis with organizations
and groups wishing to devote part
of their fall programs to the
conference.
Committee members have given
more than 400 hours of their time
to the assignment, and $2,125 was
raised privately for the work, the
report said. Congress turned down
a requested appropriation for the
group, however.
The report listed four sub
committee findings. which in
cluded the following recon-
mendationS:
Education-Higher appropria-
tions for teachers salaries to help
reduce the present shortage; con-
struction of new schools and pub
lie recognition of the excessive
cost of providing a tax-supported
educational program for children
on the basis of racial segregation
and the impossibility of admin
istering such a program so that
the separate but equal theory is
carried out"
Observation-Disclosures of the
problems resulting from the
operation of the recreation pro-
gram almost entirely" on a
segregated basis; more camping
facilities for girls.
Health-A study of the child
population in the last 10 years
and the relation to increases and
expenditures for health services
public and private; study of the
number and types of handicapped
children and available facilities
for them.
Family Life-Compilation of a
questionnaire for use by parents
to stimulate their interest in be-
ing better parents; a study of ra-
dio and television as it affects
family life.
The report pointed out that
child population had increased
over so per cent since 1910, while
the total population increased
267 per cent.
Evening star., 1950-08-18
Parole Board S Decision
DELAYED in AcaIotti Case

The Parole Board announced
today it has decided ito continue
for further consideration the
case of Attilio Acalotti, AZ, Wash
ington gambler now serving to
"a months at the Lorton (Va)
.Reformatory.
Two members of the three men
board visited Lorton yesterday to
review the case and interview
the time Mayor of Thomas
Circle" who was convicted late
last year of attempting to OBJ
struct justice by threatening a
Government witness in a gam
bling prosecution. In January he
was found guilty of engaging in
gambling activities with William
"SnagS" Lewis and Frank Billeci.
Chairman Hugh F. Rivers said
the board would get the reac-
tion of the absent third member
before coming to any decision on
whether to parole Acalotti.
Evening star., 1950-08-18
u. ). Workers 10 Get
Continued Discounton
Sesqui Play Tickets

Government workers will con.
tinue to get a 20 per cent discount
on tickets to Faith of Oul
Fathers" the Sesqui pageant hon.
oring George Washington, through
September 4, the National Capita
Sesquicentennial Commission an
nounced today.
Paul M. MaSSmann, genera
manager of the commission, saiC
increasing demand for tickets by
Federal and District employees and
members of Federal and postal
unions had dictated the new
policy.
Government workers discount
tickets are available at the Ses-
quicentennial amphitheater boz
Office, Sixteenth street and Col
orado avenue NV, and at the
downtown ticket trailer outside
the District Building, Fourteenth
and E streets NV.
Special discount coupons al
ready issued or other evidence Of
employment are required for the
discount tickets, which sell fol
$3.50 and So. Prices for reserved
seats are normally $l.80 and $3.50
General admission tickets are moi
included in the discount,
Tomorrow will be Connection
State Honor Day at the SeSqu
amphitheater, with the pre-
pageant ceremonies scheduled tt
begin at 8 pm.
The Manchester Comm CheS-
ter Fife and Drum Corps and its
three-man Spirit of '76" viii
play new State march, Con
necticut Salute" in ceremonies or
the Capitol steps at 2 pm. tomor-
row.
Representatives of the State
also are to receive a commemora-
tive scroll during the evening
program. Carter T. Barron, execu-
tive vice chairman of the COM
mission, will make the preSenta-
ton.
Tonight's performance at tn,
amphitheater has been designated
North Carolina State Night. with
Gov. Scott and Paul Green
author of the Sesqui pageant
participating in a special pro-
gram at 8 pm.
Evening star., 1950-08-18
Six Sue Phone Company
For 100000 on Layoffs

Six men who contend they were
employees of the Chesapeake 81
Potomac Telephone Co, here for
many years and were laid off
on January 81, 1949, yesterday
brought suit for a total of more
than 100000.
Filed in District Court, the suit
contends the money is owed under
"a union agreement. The plaintiffs
and the money they say is owed
to them as layoff pay are:
William w. Bennett, Kensing-
ton, Md, who claims $13,497 is
owed him; Herbert S. Freeman.
Brandywine, Md, $13.209; George
L. Hagans, Cheverly, Md, $31 ,683:
Albert Jaeger, 1900 Thirteenth
place NE, $49,229; Richard C.
Topham, College Park, Md, $12,-
289, and Lawrence P. Walton, Sill
yer Spring, Md, $40,296.
The suit names the telephone
company as defendant.
An official of the telephone
company said he did not want to
comment on the suit.
Evening star., 1950-08-18
Polio Strikes Two More
In Washinqfon Vicinity

Two new polio cases were re-
ported today, one in Montgomery
County and one in the District.
A 5-year-old girl of the 500
block of Fourteenth street NE.
was admitted to Walter Reed
Hospital, raising the total of
Washington cases this year to
IS. Last year at this time "a
District cases had been reported.
A 9-year-old girl of the $500
block of Ridgewood avenue, Chevy
Chase, Md, was admitted to Wal
ter Reed Hospital. The Mont
gomery County total for this year
is 81.
No new cases were reported in
Arlington, Fairfax, Prince Georges
OF Alexandria. One hundred and
sixty-o one cases have been reported
in the Washington area to date.
Evening star., 1950-08-18
ABC Grants ; Transfers
OF Stores 10 Northeast

Despite protests from residents
and other liquor dealers the
Alcoholic Beverage Control Board
today granted the transfer of
licenses of three package stores to
the Northeast section of the city
Masters Liquors, Inc, was
granted a transfer from TIA K
street NV. to 1906 D street NE
George Lane, trading as Wood
ridge Veterans Liquors, 1858
Brentwood road NE, was granted
a transfer to 1927 Rhode Is.
land avenue NE.
The license of the Executive
Pharmacy, 1892 K street NV.
whose request for transfer tc
several locations during the year
were denied, finally was trans
ferred to Daniel Witt and William
Pollard. proprietors of Brent
wood Drugs and Liquor, 1901
Rhode Island avenue NE.
Evening star., 1950-08-18
Military Men Can Wir
AT the Peace Table,
Service Group Told

Fighting men must represent
America at the peace table as
we'll as on the battlefield, Col.
Joseph C. Stehlin, national COM
mander of the Army and Navy
Union, declared today.
Paying tribute at the Tomb of
the Unknown Soldier in Airing
ton National Cemetery at a noon
day service, the commander de-
clared: To-day, the enemy OF
democracy is communism"
Col. Stehlin told the audience:
I'VE have won two world wars
and lost the peace on each occa-
sion. Unquestionably. fighting
men must represent America at
the peace table"
The wreath-laying ceremony
at the tomb was a feature of the
Unions 62d national encamp-
ment, being held at the Wash
ington Hotel.
A dance will be held tonight
as major part of the convention.
Tomorrow nomination and elec-
ton of officers both for the Union
and its auxiliary will take place,
with $500 delegates expected to
participate.
More than 300 members of the
union auxiliary last night
marched from the Washington
Hotel to Gawlers Funeral Home,
1855 Pennsylvania avenue NV,
to attend funeral services for
Mrs. Eva Hatley. SO, a national
past president of the organization
Mrs. Hatley. of Langhorne, Pa,
died here Wednesday night at
the Washington Hotel. She was
attending the annual encamp-
ment of the organization which
she led in 1881 and 1882.
Evening star., 1950-08-18
Fighting an Unseen Enemy
.WytheviI|e Epidemic Unlikely
To Lead to Polio Control Plan

personal contacts again are nelQ
responsible for the spread of the
disease.
+ 1t was remembered that the 1916
outbreak was carried from New
York City to beach and mountain
resorts by New Workers going on
their vacations. That the dis
ease can be spread by personal
contacts was strikingly demon
strated in the epidemic among the
ESkimos on the northwest shore
of Hudson Bay during the winter
before last.
Canada'S northern territory is
unlike this country of automobile
roads, where it is impossible to OBJ
tain the record of all trips made
into an area where polio has
struck. There was so little travel
there that just such a record was
obtainable.
Early in September, 1948, an
Eskimo named Tatu or Tick
Took returned from Churchill,
where there were two cases of
polio, to his home in Pistol Bay.
He visited several camps en- route
in the neighborhood of Ninella
and Eskimo Point. During the
first week of October, two polio
cases developed in one of the
camps he visited; three in an
other.
Highly Susceptible to Polio.
The EskimoS proved to be very
susceptible to the disease. 1t took
its toll among them through the
winter in weeks when the mean
temperature was 80 below zero.
Certainly no insects were to
blame. The rate of incidence was
about the highest on record. 1875
cases per thousand population
and more than one-fourth of the
cases were fatal.
Another interesting thing about
the Hudson Bay epidemic is that
authorities were able to localize
the disease by forbidding travel
to or from the affected area.
something that would be eco
nomically impossible in this
country.
One of medicines hopes con-
corning polio is that someday a
test of susceptibility will be de-
veloped, something like the Schick
test for diphtheria. Perhaps it
would be possible effectively to
isolate susceptible children when
the disease breaks out in an area.
Polio is becoming one of the
most statisticalized diseases, but
so far the statistics have revealed
no clue. It seems to strike more
often in cities than in ruraf COM
munities, but it never strikes a
city as hard as it does some rural
communities like Wytheville
Hits Untouched Areas Hard.
Last year there was a larger
number of cases in proportion to
population in Tom Green County
in Texas than Wythe County
probably will arrive at by the end
of the current epidemic. Polio
seems to strike hard in areas
where there has been little Incl
dence of the disease in the past
few years. Wythe County had no
cases for the past three years.
DR.. John r. Paul of Yale Uni
versity is coming to Wytheville.
He is the man who found the
polio virus in New York sewage
when there was no polio outbreak
in the metropolis, indicating that
the virus lives dormant in human
beings between outbreaks. He will
take nasal waShings and other
physical material from polio vic
Tins back to his laboratory in
New Haven to isolate the 1850
Wytheville virus and identify it.
There are three known types.
The 1914 Wytheville virus was
not identified. It may be impor-
tant knowledge will come out of
this epidemic, but it is very
doubtful.
Evening star., 1950-08-18
Father Finds Boby Girl
Smothered in Her Bed

The 1-month-old infant daugh-
ter OF Mr.. and Mrs. George Will
liam Selkirk of Fort Washington,
Md, was found smothered in her
bed this morning
The father, a craftsman for the
Interior Department, found the in
fant. Irene Francis Selkirk, lying
face down about 8 am, DR.. James
I. Boyd, Prince Georges County
medical examiner, said. DR.. Boyd
issued a certificate of accidental
death due to suffocation.
Evening star., 1950-08-18

The film was slowed down for
as long a look as possible.
Its Billie" they all said ex-
citedly.
The Aim was backed up and
run again to make sure. Mrs.
Booth clutched her purse. She
was pleased to see her son SO
many miles away, but she plainly
showed the worries that only a
mother with a son at the front
can have. Again the film was run
She got up and moved toward
the screen to get a better look.
Its him all right" she said,
dry-eyed and self-assured as she
returned to her chair.
Mr.. Booth smiled the smile of
a proud father. uo,othy was just
plain happy.
Il had a hunch that some day
Evening star., 1950-08-18

There's Billie" Mrs. Booth
shouted, almost in unison with
her husband. who also had recog-
niZed the center figure of the
three soldiers.
Eagerly, they called the Stars
television station, WMAL-TV, and
a special showing of the film was
held yesterday for Mr.. and Mrs
Booth and their daughter, Doro-
thy, IT. At the showing, they con-
f1rmed that the picture was Of
Pvt. Booth.
In the studio, Mr.. Booth and his
wife, Beulah, and their daughter
were tense as the film was re-run.
Finally. the tank moved into view.
1t moved across the screen with
"a wavy-haired young soldier sit
ting between two buddieS
Evening star., 1950-08-18

letter last Friday written by her
son on August S. In the letter,
he said he was about six miles
from the front" While the exact
date the film was taken could not
be learned, it is believed it was
taken about the same time his
letter was written.
Pvt. Booth has been in the Army
for nearly two years. He enlisted
after being graduated from Stuart
Junior High School. After train
ing at Camp Pickett. he was sent
to Japan in June, 1949.
He was last home in May, 1949.
In addition to Pvt. Booth and
Dorothy, the Booths have two
more daughters, Mrs. Betty Bod
ner, who lives in Kentucky, and
Mrs. Vivian Calomeris of Wash
ingtOn.
Evening star., 1950-08-18

The Washington parents OF a
young soldier, sitting comfortably
in their living room here, were
startled and surprised when they
saw their son in action on the
Korean front on their television
screen.
The parents are Mr.. and Mrs
Leroy Booth. 1919 A street NE
The son is Pfc. William C. Booth,
18. who is with the 5th Ordnance
Company of the 9Th Army in
Korea.
The Booths were watching the
television news Wednesday night
when. during the scenes Of the
Korean fighting. a tank rumbled
across the screen. Atop the tank
were three soldiers.
Evening star., 1950-08-18

I'd see Bill on the television news
reels" Mr.. Booth, a painter, said
I've never had a thrill like
this" Mrs. Booth added.
He's Lost Some Weight.
"1t is a good picture of him
then she lapsed into the cares OF
motherhood again-"but he's lost
some weight"
He said he'd lost 20 pounds, -
Mr.. Booth put in.
After they had confirmed that
the picture was of Pvt. Booth, a
call was put into New York for a
negative of the film in order to
give the parents a set of the pic
lures. The film had appeared on
the Telenews Daily, which ap-
pears at 7 pm. Monday through
Friday on Channel 7.
Mrs. Booth said she received a
Evening star., 1950-08-18
Arlington Boy, 7, Injured
By Running Into Side Of Car

A 7-year- -old Arlington boy was
critically injured late yesterday
when he ran into the side of a
car at Lee highway and North
Cleveland street, county police
reported.
He is William Eugene Paxton
7, of 1921 Lee highway Airing
ton Hospital said he still was un-
conscious today and that he had
suffered skull fracture.
Arlington police listed the driver
of the car as Mary E. Rector, 20,
Mclean, Va. She was not
charged.
The child is the son of Albert
Paxton, operator of storage
company in Alexandria.
Evening star., 1950-08-18
Lost of O Series.

Lost Of Series.
small community that will bring
about control measures?
And the answer unfortunately
is that the possibility is very re-
mote.
DR.. Albert McCoWn of Virginia S
Health Department is very pleased
with the archaeological study
being carried out by his assistant
DR.. Catherine Brewer. Begun
two weeks after the first case
showed up, it has been able tc
establish personal contacts ir
many of the cases, even in the late
period of the epidemic.
The first reported case was that
Of the infant son of a player or
the Wytheville professional base
ball team, who brought Ills family
to Wytheville in April. Rut there
are indications that there were
previous cases of a non-paralytiC
nature which were not reported
Cases Now Total 1872.
The number of cases in the
county now totals 152. There have
been 80 cases in Wytheville (popu-
lation $500 and 10 cases in
Wythe County population $4,000
including Wytheville). There have
been II deaths. nine in the county
and eight in Wytheville.
The study is based on a simple
QUESTIONABLE, with items such as:
Had patient been associated with
any outside case?" and Had any
household contact done any un-
usual travelling during the month
before the outset?"
One of the questions is: "Was
any operation performed within
two months prior to the onSet?"
This question is aimed primarily
at tonsllectomies. The way the
removal of tonsils can make chill
drer susceptible TO polio was called
to the attention Of medicine in a
very dramatic incident in Akron,
OHIO. In family of six children,
all except the youngest had tneir
tonSilS removed on the same day
in the summer when nolio was
prevalent in the area. AL except
the youngest came down with
polio within a few days and two
children died.
Only the other day, an article
in the Military Surgeon, medical
journal, by DR.. James G. Cum
mings. former head of the
Bureau of Communicable Diseases
in the Washington Health De-
partment, advanced a theory that
the polio virus is effective when
an open wound has left severed
nerves for it to attack. He said
Of a group of 56 polio patients
studied, Sd had such wounds.
Contacts Long Suspected.
The pattern of personal con-
facts of the Wytheville cases will
be of interest to medicine, but
that personal contacts are re-
Sponsible is now so generally ac-
cepted that the Wytheville report
will not add much to current
knowledge of the disease.
The personal contact theory
first came to the fore about 1910
when laboratory workers succeed
ed in injecting monkeys through
the nose. Later it was decided
that human beings do not neces-
sarily get it that way and the re-
search workers began to go after
water, sewage, food and flies. This
work produced nothing, and now
Evening star., 1950-08-18
Truman Hopeful
Home Rule Bill
Can Be Passed
Wants 1t Brought
Out of Committee
To House Floor

President Truman still hopes to
see the Washington home rule
bill passed by Congress.
He told his press conference
yesterday he had always favored
home rule for the District and
thought it would be a fine thing
if the Senate-passed legislation
could be brought to the House
floor for a vote.
Informed that the petition to
force the home rule bill to the
floor lacked only Is or 20 sigma
lures, the President said he would
like to see as quick action on
the measure as there was on the
postal bill.
Forced Out of Copmittee.
The postal bill, which would re-
quire mail delivery twice day,
was forced from the House Rules
Committee by petition. This was
done by obtaining signatures Of
House members in about two
weeks. 1t was passed by the
House.
The home rule bill, however, has
been bottled up in the House Dis
trict Committee, and a discharge
petition to bring the measure to
the floor has been pending since
October 13.
Sponsored by Representative
Kennedy, Democrat, of Massachu-
sets, the secret petition now is
reported to have 204 or 205 sig
natures of House members. A
total of 218. a constitutional ma =
jority of the House, is necessary
to discharge the District Commit =
tee from jurisdiction over the
measure. Of the signatures al
ready on the petition, it is believed
about 10 are duplicates.
Opposed to Postal Bill.
President Truman said he was
not in favor of the postal bill.
There have been reliable indica-
tionS he will veto the measure
when it reaches the White House.
The home rule bill. sponsored in
the Senate by Senator Kefauver,
Democrat, of Tennessee calls for
a limited form of self rule for
Washington.
Setting up an elected city coun-
Gil, elected school board and ap-
pointed city manager, the measure
provides that Congress still would
have overriding control over affairs
in the National Capital, under it's
constitutional authority over the
Federal city.
Evening star., 1950-08-18
Fighting On Unseen Enemy
By George Kennedy
Stor Stoff Correspondent

WYTHEVILLE, Va, Aug. 18.-
The question everyone asks about
Wytheville, now that the Incl
dence of poliomyelitis is dropping
off, is this:
Is there possibility that any,
thing will be learned from this
extremely severe epidemic in a
Evening star., 1950-08-18

HOarding is foolish. Despite
the fighting in Korea there is no
Immediate prospect of food ration
ing or shortages. Don't hoard.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1950-01-04
Criticize "Rebuke"
Of White Teachers
For Blessed Tulk

NEW K--(ANP)-Dr. Will
lam Jansen, superintendent of
schools, was roundly criticized at
a regular meeting of the Board of
Education here, for his action in
dismissing charges of anti-Negro
bias against a white Brooklyn civic
teacher by administering personal
rebuke to her. The criticism was
leveled by Arthur Schutzer, execu-
tive secretary of the New York
American Labor party.
Schutzer asked the board to hold
public hearing on charges
against Miss May Quinn, who was
accused of making anti-Negro
statements in a classroom. Three
years ago, Miss Quinn had been
disciplined for using anti-Semitic
texts as background for classroom
work.
Board President Macmillan
Moss told Schutzer that DIR. Jansen
had acted within his powers and
that the board had no power to
intervene. The two men engaged
in a heated debate which ended
when Moss called Schutzer out of
order and adjourned the meeting.
About 200 persons attended the
netting.