davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1950-01-26

lvious precautions. In breathing
hhe worker inha1es tiny particles
fofs the: material. When the par
tic1e, often too small to see, hits
the lungs. it begins To emit radon
gas. ( ~. ~ "a
Particles in Lungs.
Life of the gas itself Is short
lived, but the particle creating it
remains in the lung. Day-after-
day inhalation will bring on ILL
ness.
When breath-testing day comes
selected workers initiate a bal
loon. Then the air Is fed into
one of the vacuum TASKS sent
out from the bureau, repacked
and returned here for the tests
With it goes an identifying name
or number and the date of filling
On reaching the testing project
here, the breath is started through
process, principal phase OF
which is the ionization chamber
But it includes huge bank OF
tubes, electronic devices and
methods of drawing moisture and
oxygen from the sample.
First tangible result-which
gives the count" determining
the amount of radioactive ma
terial in the lungs-comes to the
physicist on remade device,
which IBM once made to auto
matically count traffic.
However. depending on how
they want to get the information,
the physicists can put the pulses
of the radioactive material on a
loudspeaker, on a screen or on
the recording tape.
It isn't as simple as that. Listen
to Physicist Leroy L. Stockman:
Then the pencil work starts.
You have a background count
due to radioactivity in the cham
ber walls. You have a standard
count'-established through tests
here. You have count for the
breath sample.
You subtract the background
count from each of the others.
Then the activity of the radon
is the ratio of the count of his
breath sample to the count due
to the known amount of radium.' %
Get it? 81, .-)....s.ss
Evening star., 1950-01-26
Fother Of Four Faces
Morals Case Heurinq

A Navy veteran and father OF
four children, was to be given a
hearing today in Takoma Park
Police Court on a charge of in
decent exposure.
Police said the man. Frederick
Schroeder. 26. of the 800 block Of
Geranium street NV, has been
held in the Silver Spring jail in
default OF $1,000 bond after his
arrest Tuesday.
Evening star., 1950-01-26

The combined use of drugs
which prevent blood clotting has
saved the eye of an Arlington man
who suddenly lost his sight a
month ago, and has restored some
of his lost vision.
Lloyd F. Wood. 81, of 424 North
Thomas street, Arlington, lost the
vision in his right eye during the
night of December 16. The day
previously, he said, his vision
"blanked out couple of times" ,"
but the temporary condition
passed.
Doctors determined that the
blindness was caused by a clot In
the main artery leading to Mr..
Woods right eye, restricting It's
vision to distinction Of light and
darkness. -,-
Can Distinguish Movement.
I Mr.. Wood, business manager of
the National WiIdlife Federation
here, said he now is able to see
shadows in front of windows and
can distinguish movement.
The drugs responsible for The
Improvement, doctors said, are
heparin-a fast-acting anti-coag-
ulant which appears normally in
the blood-and dicumarol-a syn
thetic drug which acts more slowly
to prevent clotting.
DR.. Benjamin Manchester, as
sistant professor of clinical medi-
cine at the George Washington
University Medical School, said
there is no way to determine how
much additional improvement
will result, because the extent of
tissue damage in the eye is un-
known. The damage occurred
after the clot shut off the blood
supply and before treatment with
the drugs was begun.
Eye Has Been Saved.
BY halting the clotting action
however, doctors feel Mr.. Woods S
eye has been saved-in addition to
the Improvement which has fol-
lowed treatment with the drugs.
Mr.. Wood was referred by Dr..
r. A. Cox for treatment at the
G. w. hospital clinic, which re-
Gently received a grant from the
Washington Heart Association to
continue the anti-coagulant stud
les.
Evening star., 1950-01-26
Alexandra Opposes
Use Of Referendum on
Fairfax Annexation

The Alexandria City Council
last night voted against the use
of a city referendum in its plans
for annexation of 71a square
miles from Fairfax County.
BY a 4-3 vote, the resolution
by Councilman Marshall Beverley
was tabled. The council also
unanimously opposed anti-annex-
alton legislation introduced this
week in the General Assembly.
Action against the State legis-
lation was taken on recommends
ton of City Manager Guy Ancell.
He explained the bill would make
a referendum mandatory in any
annexation suit. and predicted it
would hinder cities In any such
proceedings.
Beverly Warns of Cost.
In requesting a referendum on
Alexandria's present annexation
plans, Mr.. Beverly warned it may
prove too costly. He said the city's
bonded debt already exceeds
So, 900. 600. More would have to be
added Tor Improvements If Aany
rural territory were annexed he
said.
aIf we should annex the pro-
posed territory. z said MIR. Beverley,
1T viii cost us millions to purchase
schools and roads and give services
to the community
The councilman then quoted a
verse from Shakespeare's Hamlet
to illustrate his point:
Truly to speak, sir, and with no
addition, We go to gain little
patch Of ground that hath in it
no profit but the name"
Smoot Proposes TabIing Move.
The motion for a referendum
was tabled, on motion of Council
man Albert A. Srnoot,. Council
men Roy Bragg and Leroy Bend
him voting in the minority with
Mr.. Beverley.
Speaking against an annexa-
ton referendum, Mr.. Smoot
charged that some Of the costs
anticipated by Mr.. Beverley would
not materialize. !.
Il also oppose referendum be-
cause I feel Virginia has one of
the fairest annexation laws in the
whole Nation" said Mr.. Smoot.
He declared some planners have
called Virginia's laws the best"
City Ready to File Suit.
However. I would not oppose a
referendum on any proposed bond
issue that may arise for the new
territory" said Mr.. Smoot. He
said an annexation referendum
would serve only as delaying
action"
Councilman Smoot said after
the meeting Alexandria is about
ready to file its suit. He said the
final report of surveyors is ex-
pected Friday.
The council unanimously voted
to ask that the Legislature ap-
prove higher State welfare bud-
get than has been requested.
Copies OF the action will be for
warded to Alexandria's represent
atives in the Assembly. Mr..
Smoot said the proposed budget
was not sufficient to meet welfare
needs in localities, and added that
more Federal funds would be
available if a higher welfare bud
get is auproved
Evening star., 1950-01-26

Arlington authorities will not
charge the driver whose car killed
Corpl. LIE Roy j. Ayers Saturday
Thomas Gilmer. assistant Com
monwealth's attorney, said there
is not sufficient evidence to issue
a warrant against Joseph A. Quig-
ley, jr., 10. of 1901 Otis street NE.
Corpl. Ayers, "a, an Army cook,
was hit as he walked on the Shir-
ley highway cutoff to Washington
boulevard. He lived at 1885 South
Twenty-eighth street, Arlington,
and was stationed at Fort Myer.
Evening star., 1950-01-26
BY Cho rIes j. Yorbrouah

The Bureau of Standards is irn-
porting breath. ~
Using q gallon -sized brass
chamber so sensitive it can de-
tect radioactivity while a. Geige1
counter stays dumb, the bureau
Is sampline the breath of scores
of radium workers over the Ma
tion to protect their health.
During World War I and imme-
diately thereafter. a number oil
employees Of plants manufacturing
radium dials for watches and air.
craft died because of the effects
of inhaling radioactive particles
It jumbled up their blood count
and eventually attacked the It's
sues.
There was lack of detecting
apparatus and a means of deter
mining what human tolerance
was.
Now, in the bureaus radon
testing laboratory, six men and
~ of the brass radon ionization
chambers are getting the answers
and sending them out daily to in
dustry. to State health depart
ments and military establish
|mentS.
Guide for Health.
It's the biggest breath-sampline
test since prohibition.
The project, aside from it's re-
search value. is largely an indus
trial health aid. Similar testing
laboratories have been established
in private business, but virtually
all health authorities look to the
bureaus work for the right
answer.
In one of the rooms of the
materials testing laboratory on
the bureaus sprawling grounds
are rows of what appear to be
stunted milk cans.
Each contains a flask of human
breath; Some contain air samples
taken from rooms where the
workers spend their day in some
phase of radium work.
Health departments in their
areas or health officers inside the
plants order the periodic breath
and room air sampling as an OBJ
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james corey's- DouehteI
Remains Unconscious

Patricia Ann Carey, 8, remained
in critical condition today at
Washington Sanitarium.
The child, daughter of CIO
official, has been unconscious since
hit by an automobile January S.
She has shown some improvement
under new methods of Sup
portive'' care being used.
Her father, James B. Carey, is
CIO. secretary treasurer. The
Careys live at Hilltop road,
Silver Spring,
Evening star., 1950-01-26
Alexandra Ordnance Proposed
For Rutproofinq of All Buildings

provides shelter or protection for
rats"
The law was approved on first
reading after health officials ex-
planned it would not impose any
fancy" requirements on residents.
A public hearing will be held.
In case the shut-out treatment
fails, the law would permit resi-
dents to eradicate" the rats by
several Notwithstanding trap
ping and clubbing to death.
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baziIe Election
Due Today.After
Probe Is Denied
Assembly Democrats
Unanimously Name
Him in Joint Caucus
BY stuff Correspondent Of Tn. ster

RICHMOND, Jan. 26.-Judge
Leon Bazile was scheduled to be
reelected by the General AS
sembly today after a House COM
mittee killed move to investi-
gate his fitness for office.
A joint caucus of House and
Senate Democrats last night
unanimously renominated Judge
Bazile and legislative officials
said his reelection today would
follow.
Delegate William J. Gibson of
Fredericksburg, who instituted
two resolutions calling for an in
vestigation and read a long list
of charges questioning Judge
Bazile's fitness for office. said that
as far as he was concerned, no
opposition would be made today.
Resolution Withdrawn.
Delegate Gibson said he re-
garded the vote of the caucus as
similar to that of a party pri-
mary, and when the Democrats
agreed in caucus all members of
the party were pledged to: sup
port the nominee. He did not
attend the caucus. however.
Last nights development came
less than two hours after conclu-
sion of an afternoon long House
Courts of Justice Committee meet
ing on the matter. Mr.. Gibson
had withdrawn one of his resolu-
tions calling for the investigation,
and the other, which he pressed
before the committee, was passed
by indefinitely or killed be-
cause, the chairman said, 1--WE do
not find sufficient evidence to
pursue the matter"
This was the climax of a routine
session at both ends of the Capt.
tol.
Fenwick Speaks.
State Senator Charles r. Fen
wick of Arlington delivered the
major address Of the day when
he warned that the budget pre-
pared by former Gov. Tuck fails
to meet urgent needs in the fields
of health and mental hygiene. He
said that if some funds were not
granted, the health and mental
hygiene programs would be "set
back many years"
1--WE hear a lot about sex
crimes" he said. Practically all
authorities agree that the answer
is not in laws alone. It is in the
functioning of mental clinics to
head off these crimes"
He deplored failure to include
funds III the budget which were
requested by the Medical College
of Virginia and University OF Vir-
ginia for medical and dental in
struction.
He quoted DR.. Joseph Barrett,
commissioner OF health and insti-
tutions as saying that If adequate
funds were available. between so
and 10 per cent of mental patients
could be cured. Another 10 per
cent would be kept out of mental
hospitals If adequate clinic facili-
ties were provided, he added.
He said mental hospitals need
$23, 100000 but the budget allows
only $1,50o.000 outright and an
other $11 100000 on conditional
basis. An additional 81 900 900 ir
the biennium would properly staff
the institutions, he said. Mental
hygiene clinics need SIS 900 but
were given only $4,000 he
warned.
Evening star., 1950-01-26

Alexandra rats are going to be
put out in the cold. An ordinance
proposed to city council would re-
quire ratproofing Of all buildings.
This means closing all means used
by rodents to get in and out of
homes and business places
It also would be unlawful to
provide rat harborage." This IS
defined as any condition which
Evening star., 1950-01-26
PTA PIons Square Dance

A square dance sponsored by the
Charles Barrett School Parent
Teacher Association will be held
at $3.50 pm. Saturday at the
Blessed Sacrament Church, Brad
dock and Seminary roads. Alex
andria.
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Alexandria Uso Dance

A dance commemorating Presi-
dent Roosevelt's birthday and the
March of Dimes campaign will be
held at $3.50 pm. Saturday at the
Alexandria USO Club, 100 block
OF South Washington street,
Alexandria.
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$4,000 Children Get
2Doys OFF Next Week
At Arlington Schools

Arlington's $4,000 public
school children will get a
two-day mid-semester holi-
day Monday and Tuesday.
Purpose Of the recess. first
such in the systems history,
is to give teachers a chance
to evaluate work done so far
and to plan for the second
semester's studies.
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"Villoge of the Blind
Being Established
In Israel

Funds provided by American
Jews through the United Jewish
Appeal are financing the con-
struction of a new settlement in
Israel which is to be operated and
managed entirely by one hundred
blind immigrants and their fam
lies who are expected to become
completely independent within
the next three months, Henry
Morgenthau, Jr. General Chair
man of the United Jewish APP
peal, reported yesterday.
Total cost of the project is
$125,OOO including provision of
$85 month for each family dur
ing the rehabilitation period. The
settlement, located at Gedera in
Southern Judea, includes a gro
Gerry, a general store, a restaur-
ant, community center and six
ty auxiliary farms" for truck
farming.
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Southern Center
Heads To Meet

Professor Salo w. Baron will
be the principal speaker at the
opening session of the Fifth An
nual Meeting OF the Southern
Section-National Jewish Welfare
Board, to be held at the Atlanta
Biltmore Hotel, Atlanta, Ca, on
January IA, 1850.
Mrs. Milton Sirkin, Vice-Presi-
dent O fthe Section and Chair
man of the Youth Committee,
will report on youth activities at
this opening session on Saturday
evening, January IA. Elliott Lee
vitas of Atlanta, Vice-President
of the Southern Section-Jewish
Youth and Young Adult Council
will give a report on the Youth
Institute, held this past summer.
Delegates from all Jewish Com
unity Centers and YM-YMHAs
in the communities affiliated with
the Southern Section in the fol-
lowing states will attend this
years convention: Alabama, Ar
Continued on Page Five)
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Mrs. Joseph L. Wilensky, pres
ident of the Southeastern Region
of Hadassah, will be the official
hostess of the Southeastern Re-
gional Hadassah Conference,
which will be held in Savannah
on Jan. $40, 1850 with the Hotel
DeSoto as headquarters. Mrs
Wilensky, the former Miss Ida
Slotin, who is a native SavAs
nathan, graduated from the Uni
versity of Illinois with A. B. De-
gree, cum laude, Phi Beta Kap-
pa. She is on the executive
committees of the National Con-
ference of Christians and Jews
and the Savannah Jewish Coun-
Gil; treasurer of the League of
Women voters; past chairman of
the Women's Division of the u.
]. A. Drive and of the Savannah
Women's Committee for Brand
els University. She is past pres
ident of the Women'S Club Of
the Jewish Alliance and of the
Savannah Chapter of Senior Ha-
dassah, besides being past vice
pre- 81 d ent, past organization
chairman, and past bulletin
chairman of the Southeastern Re-
gion.
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cation has a country wide net
work of health and social ser
vices, which covers all Of Israel,
of which the Rothchild Hadassah
Medical Hospital and the Hen
rietta Sold School of Nursing
has gained world acclaim for its
modern and scientific methods OF
healing, teaching and research.
They are located on Mt. Scopus
outside of Jerusalem and COM
prise % departments; X-Ray, Di-
agnostic and Therapy Institute,
Pathological Institute, Radiology,
Social Service, Dental Service,
neurosurgical, (first of its kind
in the Middle East. These ser
vices are available to all, regard
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ia and consisted of Resale Bar
anovitz, Sandra Goldstein. Shir-
ley silverman. Estelle Flax. Bev-
erlv Loeb, Elaine Schwartzman.
Harriet Cohen, Dottie Sweet
Eleanor Jacobstein and Lorraine
Cohen. Second place was won
by the Theodore Herzl club OF
Jacksonville. Fla" while the
Frieda group of Knoxville. Tenn
won third place.
The folk-dancing event, con-
Quoted for the first time at Jekyll,
was won by the Greater Miami
Young Judaea group. Second
CONTINUED on Page Eight
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I One o. ire highlights of the
Conference is the Open Forum
which will be held on Sunday,
January 8, 1850 at $50 p. m. in
the Grand Ballroom of the Hotel
DeSoto.
The subject to be discussed is:
THE Relationship of American
Jewry to Israel - Economical.
Political. Psychological. Cultur-
al and for Youth. Two national
speakers and two local speakers
will participate in the Forum as
resource persons.
Mrs. Abe Fitterman from the
ATLANTA Hadassah chapter will
discuss the subject from the Gull
tural relationship, and the pollti-
cal relationship will be discussed
by Mrs. Leo l. Dana who is ma
tional chairman of the organiza-
tional committee of Hadassah.
The local speakers participant
inq are Michael Adilman and
Judge Emanuel Lewis. Mr.. Adj
man will speak on the economic
relationship. Judge Emanuel
Lewis who is Judge of Record
er's Court. Southern regional
chairman of A. D. l.. and Vice
president of the regional ZOA.
will speak on the psychological
relationship of American JewrY
to Israel.
Mrs. Herman Klausner, presi-
dent of the Jacksonville chapter
of Hadassah, who recently at
tended the national convention OF
Senior Hadassah in San Fran
cisco, will be the moderator of the
Forum.
The Zionist Youth groups will
sponsor a luncheon on Sunday.
January 8. presided over by Mrs.
Isadore Moscovitz. of Jackson
vile, Fla. The -highlight of the
program for the luncheon on
Monday will be the story of the
Hadassah Medical Organization.
The highlight of the program
for the luncheon on Monday will
be the story of the Hadassah
Medical Organization.
The Hadassah Medical Organi-
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the group.
A new feature of the Conclave
was the one-day joint Board
Meetings of Regional Junior Ha-
dassah and Masada attended by
80 young adults who observed
the Judaeans in action. These
board meetings were presided
over by Miss Rosalie Abramo-
vitz of Tampa, Fla, president OF
the Junior Hadassah group, and
Henry Birnbrey of Atlanta, pres
ident of the Regional Masada
chapters.
The F. o. z. chapter of Atlanta
took first honors in the Israeli
choral singing contest. The group
was led by Leon Eplan OF Atlan'
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Southern Zionist Youths
Hold Successful Conclave
AT JekYll Island, Ga.

One hundred eighty young Zonists from eight Southern
at Georgia during the weekend OF
Dec 1928 to participate their 2h annual Winter
competition singing folk dancing athletics and
speaking of the three-daY Con-
ronr nreded over by Birmingham president OF
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HADASSAH CONVENTION SET
FOR SAVANNAH FOR 3 DAYS
STARTING THIS SUNDAY

The Thirteenth Annual Conference Region
of Hadassah will be held the
from January 9th through the 10TH
expected to attend from Senior Chapters
Professional Divisions
Puerto Rico Mrs Jack Levy Mrs general
Of the Conference appointed
n1ttees
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PLAIN TALK
BY Alfred Segal
VITAL STATISTICS

A Mr.. Gottlieb. out in Los An
seles, thinks a columnist should
Expose his life in order that the
leaders may have some know
|edge as to the authority by
khich he speaks.
ITO me, Mr.. Segal," he says,
you are just a disembodied spir-
b with no apparent physical con-
hections. read you every week
but 1 really don't know you. 1t
Gems to me that guy who
peaks weekly to the public
|hould give some evidence of his
Existence beyond the mere fact
|f his column.
Il should like to know who are
lou. AS a regular reader I am
Untitled to an introduction. If
ONE fellow stopped me on a
treet in Los Angeles and started
D give me a spiel. the first thing
ID ask him is. Who are you. any
FaY? Unless he told me would
II let him go on with his talk.
I'd walk away.
"But we have to take our COL
lmniSts for granted. They come
|nto your house and impose their
|deas on you and no reader
links of asking them to give
heir credentials.
We'll. sir. I am asking: Who
re you. anyway? What's your
authority? How old are you?
hat is to say. are you qualified
pY years and experience to speak
. me the way you do?
Especially, if a columnist
writes for the Jewish press we
'hould be told what his back
ground is. You may be some guy
put of the gutter presuming to
ELL me, but how can I know?
In other American forums one
Generally knows something about
ne person who is making a
'peech. He has university de-
Irees. he has been honored by
Farious societies. he amounts to
'cmething. What can a column
st say for himself? What honors
pas ne. such as give authority to
'ther speakers?
Speak up, Mr.. Segal!"
This Mr.. Segal felt put on the
pot. Honors? He hadn't even one
University degree. If he had had
my insight at all he would have
cen to it that he stayed in the
university of Cincinnati long
|noush to get a degree. But the
GLOW left that institution after
'ne year.
1t may be asked, how does
ne presume to speak to the pub
u each week without any ordin-
auon? But that's the way it is
Nitn columnists: They presume
'n the democratic idea to get up
and speak to the public.
All this Segal has in the way
y authority is that he was born
= a Jewish home. BY way of
'oFefying himself he likes to say
NAT the main school of Jewish
'oucation is a Jewish home. He
'sYs it's Jewish enough that a
mud sees his mothers hands lu-
n'nous in the flame of the Sab
S ! lights: it is Jewish enough
mat ne goes to the front door to
.pen it for Elijah at point in the
Se0er service; it is Jewish
enough for the child to inhale the
'1e fragrance of the spices in the
Nontinued on Pace EIGHT
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Chapter of HadaSsah
less of race, creed or religion.
Two sons of Iben Saud and the
boy king of Iraq were treated in
the hospital. At the outbreak of
the second world war, the HadaS-
sab hospitals were at the disposal
of Britain and later the Allies,
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