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During the special session of Con
gress Revercomb refused Dewey’s
request to amend the displaced
persons bill, to remove sections
wh.ch critics say are discrimina
tory. The West Virginian was the
chairman of a Senate judiciary
subcommittee which pigeonholed
the proposed amendments .
Dewey talked about discrimina
tion last night in an address to a
memorial dinner for the late Al
frei E Smith. He told the New
York aduience:
“Every human right carries
with it a responsibility to use it in
the interests of others and not to
their injury. It means that the
government which administers
these rights must guide its way by
a single standard of equal justice
and equal treatment for all.”
By applying the “single stand
ard,” he added, “we can meet
SUDDEN "FULL HOUSE"
LANCASTER, Pa. (/P)—On one
day, within approximately one
hour, triplets and twins were born
at the Lancaster General Hospital. 1
Two boys and a girl were born to
Mrs. Earl Farley and twins, a boy
and a girl, were born to Mrs. Les
ter Newswanger.
even our most difficult problems
of discrimination against minority
groups, of prejudice, of bigotry,'
of denial of certain human rights.” j
Mr. Truman, meanwhile, told a
radio audience that the Republi
cans plan to put the axe to the ;
New Deal’s “great progressive
body of laws.”
“The time has come,” he said,
“for the forking people and all
the progressive forces of this na
tion to realize the grave danger
that confronts them.”
The President said the Republi
cans started their attack by con
verting the Wagner Labor act into
“an instrument for union busting
by anti-labor employers.” They
did this, he said, by passing the
, Taft-Hartley act over his veto.
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Director, Bureau
Of Indian Affairs
Dr. Ralph B. Snavely retired as
director of health, Bureau of Indi
an Affairs, effective Oct. 1, 1948,
acting commissioner of Indian Af
fairs, William Zimmerman, Jr.,
aa> announced. Dr. Snavely has
occupied the position of director
since 1945, and has been connect
ed with he Indian medical service
since 1935. He will return to the
United States Public Health Serv
ice and will be assigned to the em
ployees compensation commission.
Announcement was also made
that Dr. Fred T. Foard of the
United States Public Health Serv
ice has been appointed to succeed
Dr. Snavely. This arrangement, by
which the Indian Service medical
director is drawn from the Public
Health Service, has been followed
since 1926 and has resulted in im
proved professional standards.
Dr. Foard has served many
years as an officer of the Public
Health Service in the Rocky
Mountain and Pacific Coast sta es.
For several years he was director
of District No. 8, with headquar
ters in Denver, Colo. He comes to
the Indian Service, therefore, with
considerable personal knowledge
of public health problems of the
Indians in the western states. Most
recently he was regional medical
director of public health activities
in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Is
lands. He is a graduate of the Uni
versity of Maryland Medical
School, class of 1916.
In his term as director of health,
Dr. Snavely contributed to the im
i provement of health and hospital
i services for the Indians. Notably,
he was responsible for organizing
a concentrated attack on the seri
ous tuberculosis problems which
confront the Indian population in
! the States and in Alaska. This pro
gram made use of modern case
finding techniques, BCG vaccin
ation, health education and sana
torium care. The last Congress au
I thorized construction of tuberculo
sis sanatoria in Alaska and when
this authorized construction pro
gram has been completed it is an
; lieipated that the natives of Alas
ka, for the first time, will have
adequate facilities for the treat
ment of tuberculosis.
P*esent facilities, with author
ized construction, includes the fol
lowing:
Sitka, Alaska, tuberculosis sana
torium, 200-bed, under construc
tion.
Sitka, Alaska, tuberculosis sana
torium, 150-bed, temporary hospi
tal transferred from War Dept.
Sitka, Alaska, orthopedic sana
torium, 70-bed.
Anchorage, tuberculosis sana
torium, 400-bed, Gen. and Med.
Point Barrow, tuberculosis, isol
lation unit, 20-bed, under con
struction.
Kotzebue, tuberculosis, isolation
unit, 20-bed, under construction.
Bethel, tubreculosis, isolation
unit, 20-bed, under construction.
Kanakanak, Alaska, tuberculo
sis, isolation unit, 20-bed, under
construction.
Galen, Montana, tuberculosis
sanatorium ‘State), 100-bed, addi
tion.
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Army Is Testing
Light Weight
Aretie Clothing
—
CHICAGO, i/P) — The army,
“preparing for an eventuality
which might find our troops en
gaged in Arctic operations,” has
developed experimental, lighter
weight clothing, a general said to
day.
Maj. Gen. William H. Middles
wart, chief of the military plan
ning division of the office of the
quartermaster general, said the
new clothing weighs 21 pounds
and will protect a man at 55 de
grees below zero.
The present standard clothing
ensemble weighs 25 pounds and
protects a man at 40 degrees.
In a talk to the women’s adver
tising club, he said the army had
also developed a catalytic heating
pad that will keep a sleeping bag
heated for 20 hours. This bag
would be used to evacuate wound
ed soldiers.
He said the army was working
on a similar unit that would pro
vide added heat inside gloves and
Navy Day,
October 27
The President has proclaimed
the 27th of October as Navy Day.
The Navy League, sponsor of the
celebration and observance, has
also designated the period October
23 to 29 us the week of Navy Day,
placing special emphasis on activ
ities for Navy Day, Sunday, Octo
ber 24. and Navy Day. Navy Day
has been annually celebrated on
October 27 since 1922, the date be
ing ini'ially selected because on
that date in 1775, the bill to create
the fleet was introduced into Con
gress and also because it is the
birthday of Theodore Roosevelt,
father of the modern navy.
The secretary of the navy has
requested that all naval personnel,
active, Reserve, and retired wear
the uniform on Navy Day and
Navy Day Sunday .
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wise would be too bulky.
Speaking of light weight plas
tics, he said might prove to be the
answer to developing effective
body armor for troops.
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