Evening Star Newspaper, August 25, 1937, Page 3

KIDNAPER HUNTED; BABY IS RETURNED Child Taken From Carriage Found Behind Apart- ment House. By the Associated P . CHICAGO, August 25.—Baby Diane Carol Lucas cooed happily in her crib today while 100 policemen conducted & wide search for the person who snatched her from a carriage in a| busy Northside shopping district. The 3-month-old child, clad in new | eclothing and wrapped in a white blanket, was found yesterday on the steps of an apartment building 23| ,hours after she was stolen while her mother, Mrs. Dorothy Lucas, 22, was shopping in a store. Policemen located the infant 4 miles from the scene of the abduction after receiving an anonymous tele- phone call. Officers sped the infant to the station, where Mrs. Lucas smothered | her with kisses and the father, Her- | man Lucas, 31, embraced both. The | parents wept with joy, and all the | excitement caused the baby to cry, too. | “Whoever had my baby must have | loved her very much,” Mrs. Lucas said, fingering Diane's new blanket, | trimmed in pink, a white embroidered dress, a wool undershirt and white stockings. Meanwhile detectives sought to trace the abductor through possible purchases of baby garments and food. They also urged apartment building Janitors to search rubbish boxes for Diane's discarded garments. Capt. Joseph Goldberg expressed the belief a childless woman, torn by maternal longing, took a fancy to the child as she passed the carriage and carried her away. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1937. Baby Returned to Mother Found on a North Side, Chicago doorstep less than 24 hours ajter she had heen stolen from her perambulator, 3-month-old Diane Lucas, was returned safely to her mother, Mrs. Dorothy Lucas. Here mother and daughter have a reunion. The theory is a childless couple might have taken the baby. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. Health (Continued From First Page) per capita, whereas the United States Public Health Service recommends a per capita expenditure of $250. He reported that whereas the 1936 death rate per 100,000 was 14.69 for the District, the figure for the country was but 10.92 for 1935, the latest for which national figures are available. “It may be seen that here, as may be ex- pected, a high mortality attends a low expenditure for health,” Dr. Ruhland said. “Analysis of the figures for white and colored population of the District shows that the death rate among the colored here is high, 20.62 per 100,000 population,” he continued. *“However, the high mortality rates here cannot be attributed to the colored race alone, for the death rate among the white race was 12.47 per 100,000. Pleads for Both Races. “It is important to emphasize that | the high death rate among the colored people of the District is a challenge to the Congress for higher appropria- | tions to combat preventable diseases among the colored people. But this | program of prevention should also be | extended to include the white race, for | mortality figures show there is great | need for such a program.” In a further discussion of the gen- eral need, Dr. Ruhland said: “In some instances, death rates for the Dis- trict are practically twice as high as for the rest of the country generally. Among these are deaths from tubercu- losis and venereal diseases, with pneu- monia a close runner-up. If death rates from these three causes also could be reduced to the level of the rest of the country, it may well be that our general death rate would more nearly approximate that for the rest of the country. In some mstances.% the approximations for the control of preventable diseases, particularly | tuberculosis, syphilis and other com~| municable diseases, have been quite meager. Little can be done to make serious headway against these dis- eases until the appropriations more nearly approach the standard.” Gallinger Overcrowding Cited. For starting the construction of the proposed new medical ward at Gal- linger Hospital, Dr. Ruhland seeks an initial appropriation of $150,000 for next year. He reported that over- crowding of the present ward building, opened in 1929, caused “an extremely undesirable state of affairs” and said the new building would lessen the danger of communicable disease and | make possible a much better grade of | treatment. The Gallinger staff would be in- creased from 515 to 589, or by 74 per- 8ons, in a request for a boost in the salary item from $468,560 to $513,320. The increase appears to be extraor- dinarily large, he argued, because there | has been “such a striking shortage” in recent years. As proof of the need, he offered figures to show that the hos- pital now is treating nearly three times the number of individuals it cared for eight years ago. The bulk of the proposed increase in staff would be 50 additional student nurses and 5 additional graduate nurses. He quoted the warning of the District Board of Nurse Examiners that the staff would have to be en- larged if the Capital City Training Bchool for Nurses was to continue to Teceive an accredited rating. $200,000 for Polyclinic. ‘The health officer asks $200,000 for construction of the second of the health centers, to be erected some- where in the “northwest central” area. ‘The sum would include the cost of the site. For the present year Congress approved an item of $165,000 for such & polyclinic on the site of the Jones Elementary 8chool, First and L streets, owned by the District. Dr. Ruhland plans five polyclinics in all. Items totaling $146,000 were insert- ed in the estimates for housing for the staff of the tuberculosis sanatoria at Glenn Dale, Md. These would be two duplex houses costing $65,000; an apartment house, $45,000, and six cot- tages, $36,000. The duplexes and the apartment would house 10 members of the resident medical staff and their families and the cottages would house members of the maintenance staff ‘whom it is desired to have live at the institution. For the full capacity operation of the sanatoria Dr. Ruhland proposes the addition of 124 to the personnel, at an additional cost of $171,840. Among these would be 34 additional graduate nurses, 3 medical officers, 6 head nurses and 6 educational as- sistants. If approved, the salary budget would be raised from $325,440 to $488,770. Asks Nursing Bureau Increase. ‘The ataff of the department’s Nurs- Bureau would be increased from ng 75 to 105, under Dr. Ruhland’s plans, A Ttem, Salaries Contagious disea: Dispensaries Nursing service Drainage of lots School medical inspection Laboratory maintenance - Food and drug control - Vehicle operation .. Child welfare ___ Tuberculosis Sanatoria Salaries _ Maintenance Repairs to proper! Consulting physicians New buildings Gallinger Hospital: Salaries Maintenance ___ Repairs to property Graduation exercises New medical ward __. Medical Charities Children’s Hospital Emergency Hospital Casualty Hospital _ Home for Incurables - Health Center construction .. Totals at an additional cost of $62,021, to raise the appropriation for the division to $197,161. There would be 20 addi- tional nurses, three more supervisors, an assistant nursing director and ad- ditional clerks. According to the stand- ards set by the American Public Health Association, Dr. Ruhland said, there should be one nurse per 2,000 of popula- tion, or roughly 300 for the District. Including 86 nurses of the Instmctlve’ | Visiting Nurse Society, he added, the District now has but 150 nurses, in all. To make the attack on tuberculosis | and venereal diseases more effective, the health officer seeks an increase | from $45380 to $64,900 for the dis- pensaries for these types of cases, for the employment of six additional | physicians, six clerks for keeping of records and a medical social service worker. Calling tuberculosis a chal- lenge to all interested in health and welfare, he reported there were 662 deaths from tuberculosis last year, making the death rate 107 in 100,000, whereas the national death rate in 1935 was 55. The tuberculosis clinic, he said, has heen woefully under- staffed and underequipped. Communicable Diseases Increase. More than half of the cases of com- municable diseases reported to the Health Department, he said, are suf- ferers from either gonorrhea or syphilis. He said the number of cases reported at the end of 1937 fiscal year here was 6,711, as compared with 4,937 in 1932. The number of visits to the clinic, he said, increased from 76,592 in 1936 to 90,506 in 1937, as On Maid’s Out or any day for that mat- ter dine at Ivy Terrace. Popular Prices Service, 5:30 to 8:30 Also Try Our Tasty Luncheon Specials! SILVER SPRING HOTEL Official A. A. A. Ga. Ave. and Dist. Line Choice Chicken and Steak Dinners SUMMER GARDEN NOW OPEN AMPLE PARKING Cool Per Month Special Tomorrow MAIDS’ NIGHT out WE FEATURE s Our Regular 1 $1.50 Dinner for Eioiet Samee © Scientifically Cooled RESTAURANT MADRILLON Washington Bid, 15th and N. Y. Ave. \\:( ‘1 1030 estimate. $234,128 49,170 64.900 205,461 1,500 114,016 7.890 9.860 2,400 34,060 Increase or decrease, $217.690 $16,438 43.830 45,380 143,440 1.000 111,060 7,890 7.000 800 25,000 325,440 203.000 13,000 920,350 270,000 8,000 5,000 146,000 594,910 67,000 —5,000 5,000 146,000 468.560 270,000 513.320 280,000 4,500 10.000 600 600 - 150,000 44,760 10,000 5,500 65,000 65.000 45.000 15.000 200,000 25 T 5000 5,000 35,000 $2,208,190 $3,416.655 $1,208,465 an illustration of the need for more personnel. For child welfare and hygiene serv- ices, the health officer asked an in- crease from $25,000 to $34,060, in- cluding provision for the hire of 10 additional attending physicians for the welfare stations, and $900 additional for supplies. To show the need, he £aid the infant mortality rate for the District was 72.5 for 1936 as compared with 56.9 for the rest of the country. The rate here was much higher than for 13 of the largest American cities. An expansion of the work of im- munization of children against pre- ventable diseases is proposed in an additional item of $5,340 for the con- | tagious disease service for help and supplies. Dr. Ruhland announced he had plans for establishment of im- munization centers at 13 locations for immunization of children against diphtheria, typhoid fever, smallpox and scarlet fever. The centers would be at 2304 Pennsylvania avenue, 230 Third street, 301 G street, 1205 Penn- sylvania avenue southeast, 900 Mary- land avenue, Freedmen’s Hospital, 518 M street, the Giddings School, 2237 Nichols avenue, the Petworth School, in Deanwood at Fiftieth and Grant streets northeast, at the Burroughs School and another at Georgetown. LUMBER Cut to Wanted Sizes. at no Extra Cost Save money by having yeur lumber eut and ripped to wanted free of charge. This spe- service is only one of t many services we render in con- nection with selling lumber. 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CUMBERLAND, Md., August 25.— The Allegany Trades Council, repre- senting nearly 30,000 Western Mary- land workers, broke up today into two opposing factions, split sharply by a controversy between American Federa- tion of Labor adherents and members favoring the Committee for Industrial Organization. Delegates from C. I. O. unions se- ceded from the council last night after W. D. Hart, an A. F. L. representa- tive, announced revocation of the council's A. F. L. charter. Hart brought the revocation order to the council’s regular meeting, explaining it followed the organization's refusal to oust C. I. O. unions from its mem- bership. The C. I. O.'group announced imme- diately their delegates will meet Tues- day night to form a new industrial union as a central body for labor in Cumberland and Allegany Counties. Unions now affiliated with the A. F. L. Trades Council would continue in operation for those unions remain- ing loyal to the federation. Leglqss, Ty es 155-Mile Swim |LEGLESS SWIMMER Charles Zimmy, 46, legless swimmer, rested in a cove near Hudson, N. Y., today until ebb tide brings more favorable con- ditions for continuing his attempted 155-mile swim from Albany to New York. Zimmy entered the water Tuesday and hopes to reach his goal Saturday °He was recently pictured in The Star performing a diving exhibition at the Airport Pool. : Court (CnnlinlletLli‘Lom First 'P‘i\ge:) assigning district judges to pressure areas. “It sets up no flexible machinery, with methods of administration read- ily adaptable to needs as they arise. “It leaves untouched the crowded condition of the dockets in our lower courts. “It provides for no flow of new blood to any of the Federal benches. “It does not touch the problem of aged and infirm judges who fail to take advantage of the opportunity ac- corded them to retire or resign on full pay. “All of these are objectives which are of necessity a part of any com- plete and rounded plan for the reform of judicial processes, Step in Right Direction. “The bill, on the other hand, con- tains several provisions which are def- initely a step in the right direction. It provides that the Attorney General shall be given notice of constitutional questions involved in private litigation and accords the Government the right to defend the constitutionality of the law of the land. No longer must the Government stand idly by, a helpless spectator, while acts of Congress are stricken down by the courts. “It expedites appeals to the Su- preme Court in such matters. “It seeks to improve intolerable situations created by the reckless granting by the lower courts of in- Jjunctions to restrain Government of- ficials in the operation of Federal statutes. It tends slightly to relax the rigid system within circuits of assigning | district judges to congested areas. “All of these provisions possess | merit and are either a part of, or consistent with, the plans originally | submitted to the Congress. | “Under this administration the De- partment of Justice has made great | {advances in that portion of the field | of judicial reform which relates to | crime and criminals. It has spon- sored improvements in the rules of practice and procedure in the lower courts. The bill moves in the same general direction of reform, and I have therefore given it my approval.” Senator Hatch, Democrat, of New | Mexico told reporters at least part of the President's unattained objectives | : Upholstering Workp thaleys | 2020 M ST. N.W. Let Haley’s Do It Right! would be investigated by the Special Judiciary Committee named to study court reorganization possibilities. The committee plans to investigate all such proposals with a view to rec- ommending action at the next session of Congress. Hatch is chairman of a subcommit- tee appointed to work out a schedule for the study. He was one of the au- thors of the compromise court plan, which replaced the first Roosevelt court bill and which the Senate sent back to committee to end the judiciary battle, : “The statement of the President that the present bill does not touch questions of congestion or of retire- ment of justices who stay beyond the legal retirement age or of new blood in the courts is entirely in accord with the thought I expressed on the | | Senate floor when the measure was | passed,” Hatch said. “I said that it was in no sense a bill to reform the judiciary sys- tem, although the matters covered were desirable as far as they went.” Most of the foes of the President's court plan were out of the city. FIVE HURT IN TRAFFIC Three Children Among Victims of Accidents Here. Five persons, three of them chil- dren, were slightly injured in traffic accidents yesterday. They are Frank G. Wynkoop, 22, of 1111 South Carolina avenue south- east, cuts and bruises; Roy Smith, 18, of 1908 F street, cuts and bruises; Claude V. Pitts, 9, of 1209 North Capitol street, back and arm bruises; Ruby Sharpe, 8, colored, 3007 Eleventh street, cut knee, and Henry Willlams, 11, colored, 203 Twelfth street north- east, cut over eye, Russia will issue stamps in honor of the North Pole flight. & + LAWYERS’ BRIEFS COMMERCIAL PRIRTING & ADVERTISING SERVICE < BYRON S. ADAMS Brush the oft r fa and give it & of this dressy nace paint form inte a tive place. Butler Fly PAINTS | 609C 5¢. N.w. GLASS MEtro. 0150 dust Houses W ANTED For Sale or Rent—Furnished or Unfurnished HOULD you wish to Sell or Rent your house we can be of service to you if you will list it with us. We have numerous requests for City, Suburban and Country Properties. 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Resting in a cove until the ebb tide brings more favorable conditions for continuing the 155-mile jaunt, Zimmy said he'd tried the oceanic swim but failed because the ship’s pool was drained each night. “And,” he added as he cupped his hands beneath his head and bounced around in the Hudson like a cork, “even I can’t swim on the concrete bottom of a dry swimming pool.” The legless New Yorker, father of two children, said his first attempt to swim the Atlantic was made aboard the Queen Mary on the trip home from | & world exhibition swimming tour. Accompanied by a motor launch | from which he is fed all his meals, Zimmy said he expected to be in New York by Saturday. 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