Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-01
By,Georse Kennedy


begin his Office hours.
A man of medium height. he
is a meticulous dresser-always
well groomed. With his straight
hair parted near the middle
keen eyesight and slight case OF
round shoulders which has been
his stance since boyhood, his ap-
pearance has not changed much
since his sos. His hair was black
then. It is iron-gray now.
He is the principal developer
of intra-a rterial transfusions
which are saving many lives
when the massive hemorrhages
sometimes incidental to duodenal
ulcers and to childbirth have re-
duced blood pressure and pulse
to zero. The transfused blooc
is forced up an, artery to the
heart, instead pf letting the
heart attempt to pump up blooc
transfused into a vein. Agar
and again patients have beer
kept alive by this new methoc
until the surgeon has been able
to clamp OF the bleeding in the
interior.
/ Medical Journal Author.
Despite his heavy SCHEDULED HI
has found time to write more
than 100 articles reporting hi
work in the medical journals. AL
this has brought his alma mater
George Washington Universit!
Medical School, where he taught
surgery for more than 40 years
and the Washington hospitals
where he has done his work, II
the favorable attention of thu
medical world.
His Office files contain caSt
histories of $1,000 patients.
He also has business respon
sibilities. He is president of thu
Washington Medical Building
Corp, the Columbia Medica
Building Corp. and the Doctors
Hospital and a director of thu
Riggs National Bank.
When the Puerto Rican ma
tionalists shot up Congress OF
March and Representative
Bentley of Michigan was takel
to Casualty Hospital with a bull
let hole in his abdomen, Dr.
White was sent for. He had tn
Congressman on the operating
table for almost two hours a
he repaired the damage TIN
bullet had done as it passed
through the intestines.
1t WIS $spainstaking opera
ton The mans liver had beer
shattered and had to be packet
together again.
Reporters were waiting in TN
lobby for DR.. White when h
finally came down in tn
elevator.
"Was the operation success
ful?" one asked.
He answered, IF it wasn't II
have gone out the backdoor."
Representative Bentley now i
back on the floor making
speeches.
Lifelong Washingtonian.
DR.. White is a lifelong Wash
ingtonian. He was born in {
comfortable two-story house a
Eleventh and E streets S.W., on,
of nine children-seven som
and two daughters.
His father. George w. White
operated a foundry in South
west Washington and was pres
ident of the Belt Line Stree
Railroad. His maternal grand.
father, William A. Harris, hat
a carpenter shop in Port To.
bacco. Md, in the 1905 and late,
moved into Southwest Washing
ton. Mr.. Harris had TIVE
sons and seven daughter
CDR. Whites mother wa
one) who married and. fol
the most part, bore large fam
lilies. Young Charlie White
counted his Southwest cousins BY
the dozens. Wimsatts, Stephen.
sons. Churches and HAIRLESS.
Little Charlie was a good stu,
dent. His mother preserved hi
sixth-grade report card from
Bradley School for March, 1890
It read: Department. 1000
scholarship. $685."
Southwest was "The Island
in those days, separated from
the rest of the Capital by tn,
canal. Charlie had a good time
He swan off the Stephenson Goa
dock (owned by an uncle) ant
played a pretty good game O
ball. He had early decided t,
become a doctor.
He went right from high schoo
into George Washington Medica
School, which was possible il
those days. His father die,
when he was hallway through
and he had to get a job and g,
to school nights. He was grad
uated in 1898; finished his in
ternships at CIV and Colum
bia Hospitals in 1901. In 100
he was appointed resident super
intendent of the old Emergenc,
Hospital at Fifteenth street an,
Ohio avenue Con part of the sit
of the Department of Commerc
Building) and rode the ambu
lance for five years.
Magic" in Emergency.
The Emergency ambulance
was horsedrawn and the driver
took pride in making it rol
faster than the fire engines. On
emergency call brought him II
a little colored boy who ha,
stuck his head in a length o
Stovepipe and couldn't get out