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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-10
TRUMAk'S
DEBUT POSTPONED
Truman's Daughter Suffers
Attack Of Laryngitis
AT Detroit

DETROIT, March 9-U.H-Mar-
garet Truman, her radio debut as
a concert singer postponed for a
week by a cold, left Detroit early
today for Washington.
Hotel officials said she checked
out this morning and that they
had no information about Miss
Truman's means of return to
Washington.
The Presidents ~23-year-old
daughter will return to Detroit
sometime this week to resume
preparations for her appearance
Sunday March is on the Sunday
evening hour over a nationwide
radio network (ABC).
Approximately 80 hours before
she was scheduled to 60 on the
air, it was announced in stimuli
taneous statements from the White
House and in Detroit that Brig
Gen. Wallace H. Graham. the
White House physician, had adj
vised her against singing " at this
time
It was learned that Graham had
flown to Detroit Friday to ex-
anime Miss Truman. He said she
was suffering from laryngitis.
All of Miss Humans movements
have been cloaked in secrecy. She
vas in Detroit "a hours last week
before the White House announce
ment was made Of her plans to
sing with the Detroit Symphony
orchestra.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-10

there are no humans to play the
game with him, ne guards it
noisily from imaginary foes.
Not very brilliant games, per
haps, these invented by dogs, but
you'll have to admit they show a
form of inventiveness. Foolish,
yes. but to dogs our card games
perhaps seem quite a. polntless
and foolish. My own dogs have
invented many games. So, doubt
less, have yours.
Dog Protects Food
A reader writes that her pup
snaps at her occasionally when
he is eating. 1t is only natural
for a dog to try to protect his
food. If you will take his dish
from him two or three times in
succession, always returning it to
him promptly, he will quickly
learn to let you come near him
when he is eating.
THE QUESTION BOX:
Question: I am told that ny dog
has a goiter. Do you think he
would survive a goiter operation?
l I'm told that such an operation
is fatal to a dog.-R. F.
Answer: Dogs can survive goit-
er operations. Such an operation
usually shortens a dogs life.
Question: What is considered
the most popular dog in America
today?-B. c. N.
Answer: The cocker spaniel is
considered the most popular
breed of dog in this country to-
day.
Released by Mcknight
Syndicate. Inc.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-10
By ROGER w. BABSON

BABSON PARK, Fla, March
TOO many people have a child
lie unconcern as to what is done
with their hard-earned cash after
It passes into Government hands.
Too many have a childlike trust
OF all institutions, from banks and
Insurance companies to govern
nfent bureaus. All should study and
Investigate the concerns or groups
which either receive or handle
their funds.
We all should know where our
tax dollars are going and how
wisely they are being spent. AL
though savings are as low as they
have been in many years, do you
realize how extravagant is the
new Truman Budget? It calls for
two to thirteen times as much
money to be spent by each gov
eminent department in the com.
ing fiscal year as was spent in
Any pre-war year. We enter the
third year of peace with a pro-
posed budget of around $37, $780,
Ooo,o0o, now in process of being
Whitfield down by Congress. Nine
billion was our peak in huge"
pre-war budgets.
Typical Items
why should it cost taxpayers al
most $500, DOC, 900 more in 1e47
than in 1916 to operate regular
government bureaus and depart
nients? Why does operation and
cost of upkeep of the executive
mansion have to be more than
three times the amount spent be-
fore the war? Do we need over a
nf1iiion more personnel in war
agencies today than we did be,
fcEs Pearl Harbor? All our de-
partments of Government are
slated to get what we used to call
wartime appropriations.
Ihe Department Of Commerce,
for-exanple, is to have more than
thirteen times the $40, 0o0, 900 at
its disposal before the war. It
1s.Aifficult to understand WHY in
times of good employment almost
much money is delegated to
relief" as in depression periods.
1ne veterans, the farmers, the
old people among use are adding
to the unreasonably high budget
by asking the Government tc
sqive all problems. Individual
self reliance and economical rlan.
nlng are being discarded as every.
one turns to Washington.
Subsidies
The cost of subsidies this year
will be over $13, 900, 900, 900. To-
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-10
DOG NOTES
By Peter Boggs

Two, of my dogs devised one
such pastime. One would chase
the other, who fled for perhaps
so feet in mock terror. linen the
one being chased would halt. The
pursuing dog would u ahead
for about the same distance. fu-
riously chased by the dog he NM
self had been running after. Then
the whole silly thing would be re-
peated over and over for perhaps
20 minutes.
At present, l have another dog
who hunts up a dog biscuit with
no desire to eat it. He carries it
about the house, placing it at
the feet of one human after an
other. and then throwing himself
upon it and growing a grim
warning when anyone stoops to
pick it -. From room to room he
carries it by the hour. When
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-10
Three Men Die

INDIANAPOLIS, March 9-PE
An early morning fire killed three
men today in a westside rooming
house and Deputy Coroner Sidney
Stevens said all three died OF
burns rather than suffocation.
The victims were John Moore,
As, former Army sergeant who
retired recently after 26 years
service, Ralph De Hoff, %, and
Bernard Gallon, AZ.
Seven veterans roomed in the
house, operated by Mr.. and Mrs.
Russell Payne, but only the three
killed were trapped by flames
that cut off the stairway. Mr.. and
Mrs. Payne and three other vete-
rams were away from home.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-10
HOW TO RID THE DOG OF LICE

. Fleas are the parasites mos
often associated with dogs, bu
lice can also prove troublesome
for they are likely to cause no
only serious skin irritation bu'
also sickness.
Here is a preparation which
have found invaluable in Kidding
a dog of lice. Take one pound O.
Siour of sulphur, one-half pound
OF unslacked lime, and one gal
lon of water: mix the above IN
'gredients and stir well. After thor
.oughly mixing, boil until reduc-
nd to ona-half gallon. Let stand
until cool. Then pour off the clear
LIQUID. and increase this quanti-
~ to two-and-a-half quarts by
adding cold water. Thoroughly
.aturate the dog with this solu-
sion and let it remain on for ten
minutes. By this time all ver1nln
Ahould be dead. After this treat
rnent, the dog should be thorough,
" washed, using warm water and
carefully dried. ,
This solution may be found
somewhat strong for delicate toy
dogs with tender skins. In such
eases. reduce the strength OF the
iolution by adding. an equal part
Of water to one part of the lotion.
To Choose Best Pup In Liter
A friend came to me, asking II
I would help in choosing a pup,
~ for his youngster. He wanted
10 know how one could pick out
the best Of a group Of eight,
wxeek-old pups. l said that at that
aae it was almost impossible with
any certainty to pick out tie best.
However. I told him about
method frequently employed by
experts in allowing the mother
DOG to choose the best of her Off
spring. -.
1t is believed by a number OF
people that the mother dog, IN
carrying a litter back to her BED
will pick up first the pup that
will develop into the best dog.
Arabian shepherds for centuries
Have followed this custom when
deciding to buy a new sheepdog
pup. When the pups are still very
young, they are ali carried and
placed some distance from their
mother. Each pup almost immedi-
xtely scents his mother and starts
to crawl to her. The pup that, on
two consecutive occasions, craWls
back first is considered to be the
BEST dog in the litter.
But remember, the selection OF
the best puppy in any litter OF
young dogs is always a gamble.
It is almost impossible to deter
mine which will make the finest
dog until the pups are at least
four months old.
Strange But True
Dogs can go without food for
many days. even weeks. and in
some cases months, before starry
ing to death. However, one ex-
cessively large meal. or n Of
improper food can kill a dog in a
few minutes.
Do Dogs Invent Games
Does your dog make up games
10 play? l don't mean ordinary
remping, but games which seem
- have certain set rules More
dogs do this than we realize. To
rae it is one of the many minor
proofs that they can reason.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-10

parts of the city at the height OF
the flames.
A boarding house on Wilson
street which adjoined the Virginia.
Carolina warehouse was saved by
the thick walls of the warehouse.
Several families residing in the
boarding house moved out into the
freezing temperature and eight or
nine inches Of snow, stacking their
belongings across the ST. or
snow-covered sidewalks and lawns.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-10
SHIPMENTS

MANILA, March 9. -(PH The
Phlllpplnes resumed copper ship
ments to the United States for the
first time since the wal today with
the loading of 1880 tons of copper
and gold concentrate on the steam.
er Sophocles, which will take the
cargo to smelters at Tacoma
Wash.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-10
BRAZII. HAS TREMOR

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, March
9.-(P)-A three-minute earth trem.
or was reported today in Alcan.
tara or the Northern coast of Bra.
I'll. Inhabitants e terrified
Damage was not reported.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-06-01
By Rudolph Kouffmonn II

One Of Washington's longest,
trickiest and most significant water
front land cases has been decided
against the Government after "a
years.
In an opinion just handed down,
Judge F. Dickinson Let's of the
District Court. ruled that land filled
out into the Anacostia River from
Square East 664-bounded by Water,
S and T streets S.W.-belongs to
James and Lottie May Martin and
the Smoot Sand and Gravel Co., not
the Government.
Judge Let's decided the owners
have full riparian rights, that these
are not cut off by a theoretical ex-
tension of nearby South Capitol
street and that the defendants,
have acquired ownership of and title
to" all filled land between the orig
inal high water mark and the bulk
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-06-01
Maryland Agriculture
Unit Gets Layoff Slips
By the Associated Press

COLLEGE PARK, Md.,-Virtuallv
the entire staff of the Maryland
State Production and Marketing
Administration of the Agriculture
Department has received termina-
ton notices, as result of reduced
congressional appropriations.
Unless the Senate restores cuts
made in the agriculture conservation
program by the House Appropria-
lions Committee, "a of the % en-
ployes will be laid off June 80.
Joseph H. Blanford, State PIMA
director, said the notices we're given
in order to permit the disbursement
of accrued leave out of 1947 funds,
which are ample, rather than out Of
funds earmarked for use after
| July l.
Notices of termination have not
been sent to county PIMA employees,
because they do not receive accrued
leave and hence can be laid of at
any time without drawing on next
years funds.
Mr.. Blanford said not all "a en-
ployes will lose their jobs, since
Senate-H House conferences are ex-
pected to restore some of the cuts.
He added it was unlikely that any
cuts in appropriations could wipe
out the State Office since it admin
listers the triple-A program voted by
Congress in 1887.
The House-approyed measure has
cut the Maryland program from the
$2,046,o00 asked by President Tru-
man to 81 ,149 900.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-06-01
Senate Group May Act
On BRYAN Tomorrow

The nomination of Common
wealth's Attorney Albert V. Bryan
of Alexandria to be Federal Judge
for the Eastern District of Virginia
may come up again before Senate
judiciary subcommittee and the full
Judiciary Committee tomorrow.
Senator Donnell, Republican, OF
Missouri, subcommittee chairman
said his group was waiting for q
report from the American Bar Asso-
citation.
All communications received SC
far have favored Mr.. Bryan's ap-
pointment, he said. It Is hoped the
committee may have the Bar Asso-
citation report in time to act at the
regular meeting at 10 am. tomor-
row.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-06-01
Competitive Drilling
ByHigh School Cadet!
To Begin Tomorrow

The climax of the years activities
of the High School Cadet Corps-the
annual company competitive drill
will be held in Griffith Stadium to-
morrow and Tuesday to determine
the top company in the high schools
Participating will be 81 companies
from 10 high schools. Drilling is
scheduled to start at $40 am. each
day and finish about 2:30 pm. On
Tuesday, after all companies drill
before the judges, a brigade review
will be held with music by the bri-
gade band. Awards will be made
shortly after pm.
Competing, in the order of their
appearance, are:
Monday-Company L, 4th Regi-
ment, Western; Company G, 4th
Regiment, Western; Company H, 4th
Regiment, Western; Company B, 9Th
Regiment, Wilson; Company A, 10th
Regiment, Chamberlain; Company
A, 9Th Regiment, Coolidge; Company
B, 7th Regiment, Anacostia; Com
pany G, LIST Regiment, Central;
Company B, LIST Regiment, Central,
and Company E, 5th Regiment,
Roosevelt.
Tuesday-Company B, I'd Regi-
ment, Mckinley; Company A, Sd
Regiment, Eastern; Company A, I'd
Regiment, Mckinley; Company B,
Sd Regiment, Eastern: Company A,
9Th Regiment, Bell; Company A, 1st
Regiment, Central; Company G, 5th
Regiment, Roosevelt; Company K,
4th Regiment, Western; Company
B, 9th Regiment, Coolidge; Com
pany A, 7th Regiment, Anacostia,
and Company G, 9Th Regiment, Will
son.
Awards will be made to the first,
second and third place band; the
first, second and third place COM
pany; to the school with the highest
general average for a regiment or
separate battalion, and to the top
noncommissioned officer. These
medals and other awards are pre-
sented by the public school system,
the American Legion and other or
ganizations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-06-01
Rure Ri Blood Operation Saves Infants Life

red blood cells. In extreme cases,
the resulting anemia produces death.
TRANSMISSION in 80 a Factor.
The danger was heightened in
Georges case by the fact his mother
had been given a blood TRANSMISSION
after an automobile accident in 1899.
The significance of the Ri factor
was then unknown, and doctors gave
Mrs. K1iegel a pint and a half of
positive blood. causing her to build
up high concentration of anti
bodies which later menaced her
child.
George came into the world with
no visible signs of anemia, despite
the adverse circumstances. After "a
hours. however. he developed acute
jalndice and medical men decided
an operation was necessary.
Fe-enfore, medical experience
stranse blood maisd:- has
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-06-01
D. {. Virginia State Society
To Honor Admiral Byrd

| John w. Rixey Smith, newly
elected president of the Virginia
State Society of Washington, said
yesterday the organization will pre-
sent medal to Rear Admiral Rich
ard E. Byrd as the Virginian selected
for most distinguished service dur
ing the year.
| The award will be made next fall
at banquet in Admiral Byrd's
honor.
A medal will be presented annu-
ally, Mr.. Smith said. He has made
arrangements to have the medal cast
at the Philadelphia mint.
Other new society officers starting
a one-year term today are Arthur
Clarendon Smith, Weldon w. Price
and George P. Grove, vice presi-
dents; Mrs. Maude P. Snead, secre-
tary, and Fred P. Myers, treasurer.
Mr.. Myers is commander in chief of
the Confederate Veterans.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-06-01
By THONGS 6. Buchonon

George Arthur Kliegel is involved
in medical history, though he is only
a week old.
Doctors say the operation that en-
abled George to live is the first of its
type to be undertaken successfully
here.
George was born with two strikes
on him last Sunday at Doctors Hos
pital. His mothers blood contains
the Rh negative factor, but little
George had Ri positive blood, and
in the last few years doctors have
learned this combination can be
fatal.
What doctors fear is a war" be-
tween the antagonistic blood types,
in which antibodies of resistance are
built up in the mothers blood, pene-
trate the unborn i--r--1t's body and
asgin to damag the ch1d's
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-06-01
Pop Hurts Two,
Wood Alcohol
Kills 5 in Week

Two men were injured last week
when bottles of carbonated bev-
erages exploded in their hands, the
Red Cross home accident survey
reported yesterday. Five more
deaths from drinking wood alcohol
brought deaths listed as home acct
dents to 80 compared with SO in
the same period last year.
Hospitals reported ia nonfatal
home accidents. Forty-six persons
were injured in falls, six suffered
burns and two were accidentally
poisoned. Among the accidents was
that of a 35-year-old woman who
swallowed a safety pin.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-06-01

dition was rapid, and he now is
healthy and apparently normal,
hospital authorities say. In three
or four weeks, the transfused blood
cells will have died of, being gradu-
ally replaced by the child's own
production of positive blood. The
dangerous antibodies will also have
been eliminated.
Doctor is Anonymous.
the doctor who supervised the
delicate TRANSMISSION is, at his own
request, unnamed. In an interview
about. the operation, he told The
Star he wished to avoid any ap-
pearance of seeking publicity.
Smiling down at eight pound
George in his hospital crib, the
nurses call him their prize baby
But proudest of all are 25-year -olo
Mrs. George Kliegel of 2o20 Nine
teenth place NE, and her 26-year-
old Army veteran husband. He =
their drst.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-06-01

been confined to cases which we're
operated on at birth, with new blood
pumped through the child's UNI
bilical cord and the old blood re-
moved, alternately.
"Exsanguination" Attempted.
This technique is no longer pos
sible after "a hours, however, and
it was necessary to attempt an
"exsanguinating TRANSMISSION, in
which negative blood was pumped
into the vein of one arm while the
child's own positive blood was
drained from an artery In the op-
posite arm.
About four-fifths of a pint was
administered to little George Kliegel,
and half pint was removed, leav-
ing a mixture of blood In which
about rs per cent was the trans
fused, negative type.
Improvement In the ch{fd's con-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-06-01
Residents Plan Protest
Against Sligo Park zoninq

A number of property owners in
Sligo Park Hills will appear before
the Montgomery County Commits
sioners Tuesday in Rockville to pro-
test proposed apartment zoning
along Sligo Creek Parkway and
Piney Branch road.
Plans have been made by the
Sligo Park Hills Citizens Associa-
ton to organize a caravan of cars,
to transport all opponents to the
public hearing, scheduled for 2:15
pm. Several hundred pamphlets
stating that the Royal Central Land
Corp. wants to build apartments on
the tract and containing informa-
ton about transportation to the
hearing have been distributed.
Petitions of protest are being cir
culated. Milton R. Vollmer, chair
man of the Zoning Committee, is in
charge of arrangements.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-06-01
II Navy Postgraduaies
Hear Admiral Kinq Speak

ANNAPOLIS, Md, May 81
Seventy-two naval officers were
graduated from the Navy Post
graduate School today and heard
Fleet Admiral Ernest j. King de-
clare "the development of your
mental capacity" was more vital
than mere learning.
The former Chief of Naval OBJ
erations, now special advisor to
Navy Secretary Forrestal, was the
principal speaker at the commence
ment when II of the graduates re-
ceived masters degrees in electronic
engineering. 1t was the first time
the higher degrees were given al
the school.
Rear Admiral Thomas L. Sprague
Chief of Naval Personnel. presented
the diplomas.
Among those receiving master
degrees was Comdr. Robert G. BY
water of 93s Kenmore street, Ar.
| lington, Va.
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u. S. Loses Long Fight for Title
To Filled Land on Anocostio

head line established by the War
Department.
Ruling Gives Exact Terms.
According to Daniel Partridge, at
torney for the Martins and the
Smoot Company, Judge Let's de-
cision is the first made in the Dis
trict which sets forth in exact terms
just what riparian rights mean to
landholder here.
| Under 1t, not only does a prop
erty owner have ownership of and
title to land he has filled in out to
the bulkhead line. He also may en-
cumber it and convey it the same as
any other land and must pay taxes
on it.
Previous cases In Washington, Mr.
Partridge said, have acknowledged
the riparian rights of property
owners but did not specify in exact
terms.
The Government originally filed
suite in the case in January, 1918
under the authority of the Anacos-
tia Flats Reclamation Act of 1912
For reasons not disclosed of rec
ord" the opinion said, it was not re-
vived until year ago.
Evidence Includes 1882 Grants.
During the past year Mr.. Par
fridge and Justice Department At
torney Robert Mcleod have dug up
a big table load of evidence in the
form of old land grants and surveys
stretching back to the Charter OF
June 20, 1852, by which King Charles
I of England granted Maryland to
Lord Baltimore.
The Government has been work
ing since 1912 to control Washing
tons water front as part of the long
range development plan of the city
Most of the water front is now
in Government hands, in many
cases because it is land filled in by
the Government reclamation prof.
ects.
But there are still sections of
land, particularly where Southwest
Washington fronts the Anacostia
River, where ownership is in ques-
ton. Hence, the decision helps set
Ia precedent for other cases.
Farley with Lawyers Planned.
To get the land now, the Gov
eminent will have to buy it through
agreement with the owners or
through condemnation proceedings
under the right eminent domain.
The 1912 act was passed expressly
to establish and clarity title to all
land on the Anacostia. 1t also
requires that the value of the
property be decided.
Judge Let's concluded his opinion
by saying a conference will be held
with the attorneys involved for this
purpose.
1t was not certain yesterday
whether the Justice Department in
tends appealing the decision.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-06-01
Circus Arrives Today
On 4 Special Trains;
Will Open Tomorrow
The "big show" arrives TODAY

! The "big show arrives today.
| The first of four trains bringing
the clowns, aerialists. elephants, sea
lions and other performers of the
Ringing Bros. and Barnum & Bal
| ley Circus to Washington for a six
day engagement is due at 9 am.
The other three will follow at
one-hour intervals. In all, 100 dou-
ble-length, gaudily painted cars will
roll into the Pennsylvania Rail-
roads Benning Yards.
Almost Immediately the circus
town will begin to rise on the show
grounds at Benning road and Okla
homa avenue NE. The big top
and AZ other tents will be erected
during the day.
The first Capital performance of
the season will begin at 2:15 pm.
tomorrow. There will be another
show at BIS pm. Thereafter, two
performances will be given daily at
these times through Saturday
Gates will open at / pm. and pm.
This years version of the greatest
show on earth" includes four major
spectacleS, 1.-The wedding of Cinder-
ella" an aerial French cancan ballet,
THE ROYAL Ascot depicting the
arrival of King Edward VII and
Queen Alexandria of England for
the famed hose race in 1909, and
the elephant and clown finale.
More than 100 clowns take part in
the last number.
A large group of European and
Asiatic circus performers has been
added to the company and will be
seen here for the first time.
These include Rhodin's trained
brown bears, Orlando's educated
polar bears, Vargas college-bred
chimpanZees, Natal the man
monkey, the juggling Perezoffs, and
the Idalys, who do something the
circus press agent describes as "the
absolute apogee of spine tingling
heroics in the vast dome of the big
top, where daredeviltry beggars
description, and where life hangs by
a slender thread"