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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-24
BY JOSEPH O'KEEFE
Star Staff Writer

Baltimore'S streets were hot and
steamy, and the Rennert, the
Emerson, the Belvedere and other
hotels bulged with buoyant Demo-
Gratis. Alfalfa Bill Murray of Okla
homa gingerly sampled Maryland
crab cakes, and pink-whiskered
Senator j. Ham Lewis of Illinois
dined on Chesapeake Bay rock
fish.
The elated delegates to the
party's national convention who
eonverged on the 5th Regiment
Armory in 1912 felt confident
they were about to select the 18th
president of the United States.
A favorable political tide had
reached flood stage for the Demo-
Gratis within the fortnight. Theo-
dore Roosevelt, the Republicans
most spectacular vote getter, had
bolted his party and prepared to
run as Progressive.
Most sanguine of all Democrats
was Champ Clark of Missouri,
Speaker of the House of Rep
resentatives, who was strongly
favored to win his party'S nomina-
ton. His chief rival from Capitol
Hill was Representative Oscar w.
Underwood of Alabama. The 1910
Democratic landslide, moreover,
had focused attention on two more
men of presidential stature, Gov.
Judson Harmon of Ohio, and Gov.
Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey.
An Exhoustine Affoir
But the convention which
opened auspiciously so years age
tomorrow turned into an exhaust
ing affair that skirted the edge
Of violence. A deep cleavage over
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-24
By SID MOODY
and JAMES CALOGERO

BOSTON. - Down near the
tracks a factory worker was
lounging in a doorway catching
a quick smoke.
Shortly before, a freight train
had ratified through on its way
out of Boston. There was usually
one about that time, a little be-
fore 2:30 in the afternoon when
the kids got out of school. In fact,
the cops had been having their
troubles keeping kids from hop
ping rides on the cars.
There came one of the young
sters now, walking up the street.
But the way he was coming
brought the worker alert. The boy
The advance of medical
knowledge does not take place
in an evenly flowing wave.
There are heSitatiOns, and
sometimes quick spurts when
medicine cOnfrOnts the oppOr-
tunity to transform medical
research into medical practice.
The circumstances are apt to
be dramatic. So they were in the
case Of Everett Knowles, little
league baseball pitcher, of Som
erville, Mass.
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and 1 was talking to him to make
him feel comfortable.
Then I saw the boys hand
near his ankle. got between the
boy and his arm so he wouldn't
see it had been cut off. I tried to
make a tourniquet."
But she couldn't. There wasn't
enough Of stump.
Luck had played it's first card.
Had there been enough of the
shoulder to twist a tourniquet
around, doctors later said, it
might have damaged irrevocably
the tissues later joined.
Protected Shoulder
So Mrs. Chmielewski wadded up
the rags and held them against
the bleeding shoulder. just what
the doctor would have ordered.
HE was weak but never lost
consciousness. 1 kept talking to
him like a mother. I was think
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-24

from Virginia, where he owned
an estate.
Champ Clark, as was expected,
led in the early balloting, and
on the second day held a majority.
He was short, however, of the
two-thirds majority required by
party rules.
Clark was a witty and forceful
orator who had taken an active
part in the House revolt which
toppled the dictatorial rule of
Uncle Joe Cannon, and subse-
quently had become speaker him
self.
AS Woodrow Wilson was
relatively unknown on the ma
tional scene, so was the staff of
amateurs who pressed his cam
paign. Among those who became
celebrated in future years for
Sundry reasons were Representa-
tive A. Mitchell Palmer of Penn
sylvania, William Gibbs McAdoo
of New York and A. S. BurleSon
of Texas.
Judge Harmon SheIved
When the New York delegation
shelved Judge Harmon and
switched to Clark, Bryan i'm
mediately accused the Speaker of
accepting the help of predatory
big business.
The big bomb was ignited on
the third day. Bryan offered a
resolution reading in part. I'VE
hereby declare ourselves opposed
to the nomination of any candi-
date for President who is the
representative of, or under obi
CATION to j. Pierpont Morgan,
Thomas F. Ryan, August Belmont
or any other member of the privi-
lege-hunting favor seeking class. "
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ing he might die or pass out and
I wondered who he was. I asked
him his name and he told me.
asked him where he lived and
what school he went to and he
told me. All the time I was pat
ting his face and holding those
rags against the wound"
Police Arrive
Meanwhile, other employees had
Immediately called police. Sergt.
Donald MacElree was cruising a
half mile away. Police logged the
call at 2:31. The cruiser was
there at 2:34.
when I got there" MacElree
said, Mrs. ChmielewSki was hold
ing the boys head in her lap so
he couldn't see his arm. She whis-
pered to me that it was cut off.
But when 1 tried to take it away
from his body, he gave a little
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yelp of pain so I put it back and
covered it with a blanket"
Three minutes later the local
fire squad ambulance pulled up.
They brought out a stretcher
and lifted the boy onto it," said
Mrs. Chmielewski. "They put the
arm in beside him, with still a
small part of it inside the sleeve.
IT got in the ambulance with
him with one of the firemen. I
kept talking to the boy and hold
ing the rags, in place. I kept his
view blocked so he wouldn't see
his arm. And I prayed Oh, please,
God, help him.
II thought it would help the
boy if I kept talking to him, tell
ing him what a brave lad he was.
Il asked him how the accident
happened. He didn't tell me he
was hit by a train. I guess he
wasn't supposed to be down by
the tracks. He told me he was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-24
Campaigns in New York Aiming
AT Biqqer Roce-the "a National

B. Heating with almost anyone.
Senator Heating ran 100000 votes
behind Gov. Rockefeller in 1858,
though he is much better known
now.
Mayor Wagner says he will not
run for Governor, and the big
reason is he wants to run for the
Senate in 1864. The Mayor isn't
talking about his choice for
Rockefeller's opponent, but he is
not going to push any man who
may make such a good run for
the StatehouSe that, if he loses a
close race, he will be virtually
the automatic choice for the SEN
ate in two years.
Screvone Is Advanced
The Mayor likes City Council
President Paul R. Screvane of
New York City, who is responsive
to the Wagner ideas and plans.
Mr.. Screvane, at this point, pre-
SentS no threat to the Wagner SEN
atorial ambitions, which are of
long standing.
The Mayor is, to put it mildly,
hostile to the gubernatorial cam
paign of Representative Samuel S.
Stratton of Schenectady, who an
nounced his candidacy formally
in December, although it had been
firm long before that.
Mr.. Stratton is young, ambi-
tiouS and good campaigner.
When the State Legislature took
away his congressional district he
launched a twin effort at the
governorShip and a seat in a new
congressional district across the
middle of the State. Mr.. Stratton
poses an immediate threat to Mr..
Wagner's Senate plans because if
he defeated Gov. Rockefeller an
unlikely event-or ran a strong,
though losing, race, he would then
become his party'S top vote-getter
and the man who could run
against Senator Heating if he
wanted to.
The Split in New York
In addition, New York normally
splits its Senate seats between
the upstate area and New York
City. The Heating seat is the
upstate one, and Mr.. Stratton is
an upstater, while Mayor Wagner
is from the big city. This does
not preclude the Mayor from
going after the seat himself, far
from it, and with President Ken
nedy pulling in the votes and the
voters the party's Senate nomina-
ton looks more and more attrac-
tive all the time.
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When Bryan Made History in Baltimore

An uproar ensued. This was a
direct challenge to Tammany and
to Ryan and Belmont. The last
was a Wall street millionaire who
was also present as a delegate.
Bryan is money-grubbing,
office-seeking, publicity hunting
marplot from Nebraska" cried
John B. Stanchfield, New York
delegate.
Money Powers Denounced
When the protests subsidized,
Bryan had deleted the most Of
fensive parts of the resolution.
But in amended form it was
adopted. The Commoner's thun-
derous denunciations of the
money powers shook the delegates
and they began to drift away
from Clark.
Byt the week end. tempers were
frayed and delegates were run
ming low on funds. The party
fired the band as an economy
move. The convention recessed
over Sunday
Wilson gradually built up
strength. When the balloting re-
Sumed Monday, he passed Clark
on the 30th ballot. Late in the
afternoon of Tuesday, July 2, he
reached the magic two-thirds on
the 46th ballot.
IN one of its last official acts,
the convention nominated for Vice
President Gov. Thomas r. Mar
shall of Indiana In the turbulent
years ahead Gov Marshall never
became an international states
man. But he won the amused at
lection of a large part of the
Nation with his celebrated re-
mark, What this country needs
is a good scent cigar"
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party issues, personal abuse, in
tense heat and an all-night ses-
sion wrecked party harmony and
dragged out the nominations I'M
til July 2.
For the hopeful Democrats
nearly foundered on the same reef
which had split the Republicans
in two-the issue of progressive
VS.. conservative. William Jennings
Bryan watched the G. o. P.
debacle as reporter. He was
determined that the Democrats
would not ignore the progressives'
call for political and economic
reforms.
Bryan lost his first move to
win the convention Craftsmanship
for himself in place of Judge Alton
B. Parker, a New York conserva-
tive. But he succeeded in obtain
ing a platform of liberal tone.
Tommony Hall Accord
Through the press, Bryan and
his Western and Southern hackers
charged that Tammany Hall and
other big city machines planned
to steamroller through a reac-
tionary candidate.
So successful was this tactic
that when Thomas Fortune Ryan,
New York multimillionaire,
reached the city in his private
car, the Baltimore Sun broke its
tradition of no page one pictures
and printed Ryan's photograph.
The accompanying story began:
For the first time, one of the
great money kings of America has
arrived in person at a national
convention to carry on the fight
for the money interests"
Mr.. Ryan protested that he was
merely on hand as a delegate
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The Miracle at Massachusetts General Hospital

II cry when I talk about it. I
cry easy"
There have been few tears from
Everett Knowles.
Five days after his first opera
ton, he underwent surgery again
for skin CRAFTS around his shoul-
der. The CRAFTS took. but there was
pain.
Even after it was all over, the
pain was pretty bad" the boy
recalled, but Dr. Malt told me
that it would be a bad sign II
the pain stopped, so I got scared
whenever it went away.
81 must have been really lucky
to have doctors like him and the
other doctors. There wasn't no
other doctors in the world who
could do it. l read in the paper
that they tried it some place else.
in New York, l think, and couldn't.
I had the best doctors in Mas
SachuSetts or New England.
In the world, honey" said his
HlOIneT, JuIld.
Further Surgery Necessary
The prognosis for the future is
uncertain. SOM time in the next
several months Everett will re-
turn for the all-important nerve
operation. If the nerves are rela-
lively unchanged, surgeons will
try to reconnect the tiny fibers,
a terribly delicate operation, to
make certain the right nerve is
mated to its counterpart in the
arm. There may be muscle trans
plants and a bone graft. In all
it will be Is months or two years
before the case of Everett
Knowles can be closed.
Yet in practical information
medical science has learned as
much from Everett Knowles as
it has given him. His operation
doesn't mean all accidental am
putations can be restored. But it
has shown that under optimum
conditions they can.
And by the very fact that the
arm has remained alive this long,
a milestone has been reached.
In the meantime, Everett is de-
termined to resume his career to-
wards becoming a major league
pitcher. He pitched his little
league team to a 7-6 victory the
~
Message From Doley
During his hospital recupera-
ton there was telegram from
Bud Daley Of the New York
Yankees.
I'm a pitcher like you and
though you may not know it, my
right arm is withered from polio,
so don't lose all hope for your
self. But whatever the outcome,
you're showing the courage of a
major Lacquer right now"
And the determination. AS soon
as he got home, his arm still
immobilized in a cast, Everett
was thinking of baseball.
I'm gonna exercise my arm
and then go down to the park
and play ball. If 1 can't do i
then, I'll exercise some more"
Doctors don't think Everett
will ever be on the pitchers noun
again, but they are cautiousl
hopeful he will regain use of hi
arm sufficient to do all the nor
NAL functions of daily life.
But who can prescribe limit
to the recuperative powers of
boy who complained on his las
day as Mass General to DR.. Nal
that he had a stomachache, 6
headache and "felt bad all over?'
Then I told him he was going
home" said DR.. Malt.
They're all gone now"
whooped Everett Knowles.
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So before we did anything we
wanted to be absolutely certain
the thing was possible"
The boys father, who works
nights at one meat packing plant,
and his mother, who works days
at another, were called to the
hospital and asked if they would
consent to the operation. They
did.
Then DR.. John Hermann. first
assistant surgical resident,
wrapped the arm in sterile BAN
dageS and ice and rushed it up
stairs to an operating room. He
had harsh deadline. Tissue will
live only four to six hours away
from the body.
He pumped an Opaque fluid
into the arm and X-rayed it to
see if the veins and arteries were
still open. They had to be if the
operation could start at all. Then
he filled them with anti-coagu-
lants and antibiotics.
The hospitals plastic surgeon,
then its orthopedist, joined the
other doctors and the operation
began.
First the main veins serving the
arm were separated and con-
nected to their counterpartS in
the severed limb, much as tele-
phone cable is spliced. Then came
the brachial artery, the lifeline
that carries blood to the arm
from the heart.
When this was done the clamps
that had controlled bleeding to
that point were taken off.
Over their masks the doctors
eyes looked intently at the white
and cold arm. 1t became pink with
life. There was a pulse.
The Medical Methods
Next the severed bone of the
upper arm. After clearing away
of splintered bits shortening the
arm an inch, stainless steel rod
was driven into the two parts of
bone and they were drawn to-
gether
The nerves remained. If they
could be joined successfully it
meant Everett would regain the
use of the muscles in the arm as
well as the sense of feel.
But hours had already passed.
Crushed fingers on the boys left
hand still needed attention. Fur
Their time consuming surgery
would be needed to assess what
damage, if any, the nerve end
ings had suffered. So the three
main nerve cables, identified by
a heavy dacron suture, were left
to another day.
Everett was wheeled to an
other operating room where other
surgeons grated skin from his
right foot onto the damaged fin
gers. Dead tissue was cut away
from the shoulder, bandaged anC
a cast applied and the last opera.
ton was over eight hours aftel
the first began.
Meanwhile Mrs. ChmielewSk
had been waiting.
"I sat in the lobby for wha
seemed a long time. 1 was won
dering how I could get back
work on the streetcar with m
dress all bloody. I wanted to tai
S to one of the doctors but the
5 one of the firemen came out.
Il asked him please to give m
a ride back"
Sure" he said.
Two weeks later she came bac
for a visit.
HE looked very good, smiling
all the time. I was wearing
surgical mask and l didn't thinl
he would know me. But he told mt
I wouldn't be here today if il
weren't for you
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hit by a car and the driver didn't
see him and kept going.
THE boy talked perfect sense
on the platform and in the am
bulance. He asked me once, My
arm, my arm. is it all right?'"
The ambulance reached the
Massachusetts, General Hospital
approximately Is minutes after
the accident 81 miles away at
suburban Somerville. At 2:45 Ev-
erett Knowles was on the way to
the operating room.
A Greet Hospital
Mass General, as the hospital
is called, is one of the great hos
pitfalls of the world. It also has
one of the largest budgets for
hospital research in the country
about SIS million last year.
Among the research partici-
pants is DR.. Robert Shaw, a sur
geon who has done considerable
experimentation with blood YES
sells and arteries of animals. DR..
Ronald A. Malt, just completing
his residency in surgery, has done
extensive work on recommending
But three young doctors in the
emergency ward were the first to
see that Everett Knowles might
be more than just another am
putee case. 1t struck them when
they cut away the boys shirt
sleeve, which, remarkably had not
been severed with the arm, that
the arm might be restored.
You'd have thought the same
thing if you'd been there" said
DR.. L. Henry EdmundS, second
assistant resident in surgery. 1T
looked so perfectly good, so alive.
The only thing wrong was that
it had been cut off,"
In the medical books the re-
placement of a severed limb is
called reimplantation. 1t is not a
new concept and has been tried
before. A man in California had
a leg reunited with his body but
the operation didn't take and the
leg had to be reamputated. Por-
tons of fingers have been re-
grated successfully.
But a spokesman for the
American College of Surgeons in
Chicago, after looking through
records, said, with customary
medical caution, This we'll could
be the first time where an entire
limb has been replaced and lived
It's an amazing feat"
ResiIiency of Youth
Chance was working for Everett
Knowles. The sharp flange of the
train wheel had made a very
clean cut. The boy had the resil'
iency of youth. Within minutes
he had reached as skilled medica
care as the country can offer ant
at Mass General doctors long hat
been talking and working towart
such an operation.
THE only new thing in thi
case, said DR.. Shaw, "is that W
put together many ingredient
that have been handled SEP
arately before"
DR.. Edmunds and two otht
doctors decided a reimplantatio
was possible and called upstai
to DR.. Malt. DR.. Shaw We
reached by telephone and rushe
to the hospital. Within minutes.
doctors and as many nurses ha
gathered.
THE thing we had to first con
slider was making sure the DO
survived" said DR.. Malt. IF W
were to put back an arm and tn
boy died, or if at the end tn
arm was amputated, no very goo
purpose would be served by il
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-24
BY ALAN EMORY
Contributing Writer

For men like Nelson A. Rookie
Teller and Robert F. Wagner the
1862 election is just preliminary
for 1864.
This is the real key to all the
hullabaloo about New York poll
tics that has the country watching
the Empire State and mulling over
names like Rockefeller, Wagner,
James A. Farley, Ralph j. Bunche,
Edward R. Murrow and Leonard
w. Hall.
There are three interests in
volved in the 1862 battle:
Gov. Rockefeller has a strictly
numerical outlook. He wants a
margin big enough to give him a
headStart on the drive for the
G. o. P. presidential nomination
in 1864.
President Kennedy's viewpoint
is similar in nature, but contrary
in target. He wants a Democratic
candidate for Governor who can
upset Mr. Rockefeller or, at worst,
give him enough of a scare to
damage his 1864 presidential pros
poets.
Mayor Wagner, the new Mr.. Big
of New York Democratic politics,
doesn't really care who the candi-
date for Governor is, just so long
as he stays out of Mr.. Wagners
way for the 1864 Senate nominal
ton.
Eyeing White House
Mr.. Rockefeller is ostenSibly
running for a second term in
Albany, but he really is stocking
his arsenal for an assault on the
White House in two more years.
To this end he has downgraded
the enthusiastic amateurs"
whose political advice has
brought him considerable recent
misfortune and brought in such
veterans of the political wars as
Leonard w. Hall, former national
chairman and a popular party
figure across the country, and
William L. Pfeiffer, State chair
man during some of the G. o. P.
salad days in New York under
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey.
Mr.. Hall had fought Gov.
Rockefeller for the Republican
nomination for Governor four
years ago, then helped Richard
M. Nixon to the presidential
nomination against Mr.. Rookie
Teller in 1860. His presence in the
Rockefeller camp really applies to
Mr.. Nixon the elder statesman"
label on a national scale, regard
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was crying and holding his odd
looking right arm with his left.
And blood had turned the sleeve
Of his shirt a deep red.
II was in an accident" sobbed
the boy. please help me-"
Thus did Everett Knowles, jr.,
IL, enter the annals of medicine.
His right arm had been severed
from his body just below the
shoulder by wheel of the freight
train.
II wanted to hop a train, just
once" said Everett, Ito see what
it was like. I don't remember just
how the accident happened" Po-
lice said later the arm dangled
half way down the calf of his
leg. 1t isn't certain when it fell
away.
That was last May %. Three
weeks later, to the day, Everett
Knowles went home.
With his right arm.
First in History
Doctors who teamed to rejoin
the boys arm to his body shun
any claim to public attention. But
a search of records shows no
where in medical history is there
a case where the severed limb of
a human has been reunited sue
cessfully with the body.
Medical breakthroughS follow
from long, dedicated research. So
it was with Everett Knowles. But
sometimes there is coincidence,
chance or maybe Providence. And
so it was with Everett Knowles.
On seeing the boy, the factory
worker ran inside the plant, the
Handy Card & Paper Co., shout
ing There's a boy out there with
his arm hangin' way down low!"
Mrs. Alice ChmielewSki looked
up from her machine.
"All 1 could see at first was
this little boy lying on the plat
form. There was blood every
where. couldn't see his face and
I thought, oh, my God, it's my
son."
She ran from her machine,
scooping up any clean rags she
could find as she went. She knelt
beside young Knowles.
Then I saw he wasn't my son,
but I wanted to treat him like
he was my own. I wiped his face
Jackson advocate., 1962-08-18

awards both at the "Pink and
Green Ball" and at Theta Nu
S2gma's Dawn Breakfast the
morning after.
Miss Institute, 1862 and all
contestants were special hon
orees of Theta Nu Sigma at its
Annual Homecoming Breakfast
along with the newly initiated
Sorors at the Dawn Breakfast
in the Rainbow Room of the
Hotel. Mrs. Vernice Hardin
Marks of Detroit, Michigan,
Guest Speaker at the Breakfast,
urged all Sorors to study and
work together for continued
growth in beauty culture thru
science and education.
Included on the program were
Minnie D. Hurley of New York
City, Mrs. Elizabeth Strickland,
Of Cleveland, Ohio, Mrs. Mil
dred Green, Detroit, Mrs. Odelle
Carey, Kansas City, Mo-, and
Mrs. Marvin Fitzgerald of
Cleveland, soloists who were ac-
companied by Mrs. Mozell
Dolores CLANCY also of Cleve-