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The frontiersman., 1947-02-05
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rage FOul ICE DAMAGE {cont
 turned to her anchor- age yes terday even- ing.
 It is repor ted that ice Hoes are jamming Kachemak Bay as we'll as the waters ar round Seldovia. All boat traffic be tween Se1dovia and Homer has been tied up since last :. Thur sday when the mailboat made it's regular we ekly trip.
 Hugh s. Watson, Homer pas anger :, on the ma lbo at, r repor t. ed that the Homer dock has settled for a dis tance of several feet at one c orner as a result of this win ter's ice ac cti on. How ever the dock still was stand ing last t Thur sday.
 Wir ed inf ormation to the Ander on Dock fr on Kodiak advised that ice condi tions were bad tat that DOT t also. The wire fuf@-'t lther stated that: .-no steamers could dock at Woman IS Bay until nglish Channel had clear ed of ice~ CASH Will Help Br ing
The frontiersman., 1947-02-05
The From tier sman
PLOTS ARRIVAL
 EXPECTED TODAY

Merrill smi tn, pi- lot who has beSn fly Ing to Saldo1 la for the past two months, Is expec ted to arrive In the city s one t ine today, weather per- mi t ting.
The frontiersman., 1947-02-05

BREAKS THUMB WHue SKI ING
 Dr.. Melvin Beltz o1' Se1dovii a hospital suffered a minor in jury whil e skiing last Sur ,dav. He broke h. is right thumb.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-09

practiced medicine in Wilmington
in my time have contributed in no
small measure to the greater allie
Walton of sickness and suffering
among our people.
I have known all Of the men who
have shared in the wonderful part
that medicine and surgery have
played in Wilmington since I began
my work here, and in looking back
over the years with all of it's diff
culties and its encouragements,
can honestly say that I am glad
TO have practiced medicine here In
these eventfule years and IN the
company of these men of vision, o.
ability and of high character.
All of this and more is what our
profession has accomplished, and
we r justly proud that now the
morbldlty and mortality is less here
than it has ever been in Whining.
tons long history. and if the Con.
gresS of the United States will al.
low us TO work out our own destiny
with the armamentarium that we
now possess, and which is being
continually added to in b~acteriol-
ogy, in pathology, radiology and
physiology, in physiological chem
lstry and biochemistry, in the fur
Their education of the people and
better sanitation for the people, in
improved surgical technique, and
in a more refined art of obstetrics.
all of which to be combined with
even more painstaking diagnosis
and intelligent treatment, and with
the help of all the new drugs that
have been introduced to the pro-
fession and successfully used. we
will continue like a mighty army
to 60 on ever upward and onward
to the glory of God and to the
greater welfare of mankind.
Everyone of us should dedicate
our lives ever more faithfully to
the heroic and tremendous task that
lies ahead.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-09
MORE NEWSMEN
ARE REQUESTED
Correspondents Gr GU p
Seeks Admission For
Additional Writers

WASHINGTON, Feb ~
Secretary of State Marshell urged
today by representatives OF two
correspondents associations to
press the Russians for admission
of a larger number CT American
newsmen to the Foreign Minis
ters' conference at Moscow.
They recommended at the same
time priority rules to be applied
in the event Russia insists upon
limiting the number of American
press and radio reporters and
photographers to IS or 20. Seven
ty-three have applied to attend
the conference which opens March
10.
The recommendations, announc-
ed by the State Department., in
clude:
l. Preference to organizations
which demonstrated their inter-
ct in news of the Council of
Foreign Ministers by assisting a
reporter to the Paris and New
York Meetings for most of the
sessions.
2. Wire services, newspapers,
news magazines and radio Or
CARNATIONS who have represen-
tatives in Moscow were asked
to rely on them for the big con-
ference to permit extending the
rights of coverage to as large an
additional segment of the Amer
lean press and radio as possible"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-09

Limited exceptions, however, was
proposed for the three major wire
services.
Should Russia agree to admit
a large number, it was recon-
mended that further priorities
be given to:
l. Organizations which cover.
ed both the Paris and New York
sessions but were not represent
ed most of the days the council
was in session.
2. Organizations which covered
the Paris conference of 81 ma.
tions.
The recommendations were
drafted by Thomas F. Reynolds Of
the Chicago Sum-, as president Of
the State Department Corresyoon'
dents Association, and William l.
Theis of the International News
Service, secretary Of the congress
sional standing committee O.
correspondents. They met will
Michael j. McDermott, MARSHALL!
press assistant. Another meetin.
was set for Monday to apply the
proposed rules to the list of appli
cants for visas and to recommend
a specific list of priorities in terms
of organizations rather than in
dividualS.
Marshall announced yesterday
the Soviet government had ad-
vised that no more than Is to q
American correspondents could
be Accommodated. He said the State
Department already has asked
that this figure be increased ano
also is trying to obtain broad
casting facilities.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-09

the city physician. DR.. MacMillan's
duties were to look after the coun.
ty prisoners in the county jail ano
the other county institutions, ano
DR.. Harper cared for the INDECENT
sick. Dr.. Macmillan had the repu-
tation of being the best roadside
diagnostician" in North Carolina
the necessity for this wholesale dl.
agnosis. at that time gives us a pic
ture of what might happen if we
get 'socialized medicine"
In 1905 Wilmington was far from
being a clean city. The surface Of
the ground al literally one great
big cesspool. There were 1000 sur
face closets in the corporate limits
and that was from 18th street On
the east-the historic Cape Fear
River on the west Deep Dry
Pond to Kidder Street on the
south, and Brooklyn to Nixon
street on the north.
When the s%cavenger carts came
around at night to clean these clos
cts, the stencil was horrible fol-
blocks around.
The water supply of the city
from the Northeast River-was un-
treated, unfiltered and often con.
taminated. The milk supply was
never checked for bacteria Or any
thing else. When a water and sew
erage system was beginning to be
installed-and then only in the mid.
die part Of the town a surface
closet for servants was still main
tanned and many private families
kept their horses and cows in theil
back yards. Many of the houses
were unscreened. Flies swarmeo
by the millions, and as a result OF
all this there was an epidemic OF
typhoid fever every year. l often
had as many as 35 cases of typhoid
fever on my list al one time and
most of them I had to see twice
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-09
20 Train Passengers
Rescued From Snou

HAMPTON, Ia, Feb. 8.-PN
Seventy passengers on the Rock
Island Railroads Mid : Continent
Special were rescued from the
snowdrifts last night just two hours
before the trains supply of steam
heat was scheduled to give out.
The train became snowbound
three miles north of here early
yesterday. Conductor A. E. Win
nett of Des Moines hiked to town
in sub-zero cold to get aid and c
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-09
State Professor
Is Award Winnie,

RALEIGH, Feb. s.-R-The
North Carolina Society of Eng1-
neers has presented its annual
award for outstanding engineer
ing achievement" to Prof. L. L.
Waugh, head of department of me-
chanical engineering at N. c. State
College.
Professor Waugh has been con-
nected with State College since he
entered as a freshman in 1902,
with the exception of two years
spent at Columbia University.
Most of his professional work has
been in the field of heat power,
principally heating and ventilation.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-09

snow-plow brought eggs, milk,
bread and fruit.
The piow couldn't bulge the
stalled train, however, but last
night-just as the engines coal
and water supply was approaching
the vanishing point-a rescue en-
CINE got through to pull two pull
mans and a dining a to Mason
City.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-09
Physician Traces ~ Years
Of Medicine In WI lmineton

EDITORS note: DR.. John B.
rranmer, 81 Market street,
Huntington, has been practic-
W. medicine for AZ years. In
.hs following article, which
"ss read before the Exchange
clIb Friday, the physician
trsces the history of medicine
" This community from 1905 to
me present time.
ny DR.. JOHN B. CRANMER
when | was asked to write this
uoner by the New Hanover County
Tedical Society, l was told that ]
ao,,ld choose my own subject but
@o+ If was thought that it would
:atores+ the Society if l were 70 tell
~ some of my experiences in the
~ wears covering my practice of
General medicine in Wilmington.
After thinking it over I have de-
oided that individual experience as
rule are not my interesting
aycept to ones immediate family
w. N ones intimate friends. There
fore, will begin by reading to you
tho list of the men who were
anoaged in active practice here in
to05-the year that I came here
II whom DR.. R. H. Bellamy, DR..
{ E. Koonce and I are the only
amos still in active practice. DR..
Andrew H. Harriss and DR.. John
r VESSEL have retired.
When | located here in 1905, WI
minqton was the largest town in
North Carolina, with a population
Of Is 900 and we maintained that
nrestige until 1914. There we're 26
members in the New Hanover Coun-
~ Medical Society at that time and
the profession has kept that aver
aye through the years, about one
doctor to every 1000 persons. Of
al the men who have practiced
Medicine here since l began, I can
cav without fear of contradiction
that DR.. Harriss, was the most pop
n1ar physician that Wilmington has
ever had.
If my memory serves me Alright,
thp James Walker Memorial nospi-
tai was opened to the public IN
1902, about two years before l
came here as a physician, and the
Marion Sprunt Annex was added
j, 1916. From 1895 to 1901, when l
went to the University of North
Carolina to begin my medical
studies, l had been here as a drug
gist. first with the late Robert R.
Bellamy, and later with the late
John R. Hardin.
When the hospital was first open
ed the ward rates were 81 per Gay
and the private rooms were SIS
per week. The doctors fees were
81 for a house call in the day and
s. for a night call-after 10 pm,
and an office consultation was fifty
cents, All other fees, medical. sur
gical and obstetrical, were in keep
ing with these figures. While these
fees were ridiculously small, to
quote the great psychologist, d..
Andrew Conway Ivey, 1--WE mace a
comfortable living while living
comfortable for other people"
Before the construction of the
James Walker hospital, the sick of
the community who could not be
cared for in the home were per-
force obliged to go to the old city
hospital situated on the site of the.
present hospital-and yeally noting
but an almshouse. The late DR.. W.
W. Lane was physician in charge
and the late DR.. w. D. Macmillan
was the county Health Officer, and
the late DR.. Charles T. Harper vas
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-09
MILK ~EXTINGUISHER

BINGHAMTON, N. Y, Feb. g.
[P - When the motor Of Alphonse
Marchuska's milk delivery truck
caught fire yesterday, he hastily
reached for bottles. Four quarts of
milk extinguished the flames.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-09
TO GROW SILK IN VERMONT

WILMINGTON, VT. WD - Miss
Edith F. Barstow of New Haven,
Conn, has bought a farm near
here and arranged to set out 1000
mulberry trees for a silk farm.
Evening star., 1947-06-12
Three Historic Homes
Will Open 10 Public
Special Dispatch to The Stor

LORETTO, Va, June 12.-Three
historic homes in this Essex County
area will fbe opened to the public
June 81 for the benefit of Vauter's
Church. in Loretto.
The three, Elmwood, Kinloch, and
Brooke's Bank, will be open from
1890 am. to $50 pm. Lunch and
tea will be served by the Essex
County Home Demonstration Club
at the church rectory.
Vauter's Church, built in 1719, Is
considered one of the finest ex-
amples of Colonial church archi-
lecture in the country. One of its
rectors, the Rev. Robert Rose,
helped plan the city of Richmond.
A communion service, still in use,
was given the church by Queen
Anne.
Elmwood has been the home of
the Garnett family for more than
$50 years. Mr.. and Mrs. Muscoe
Garnett of Washington, are the
present owners.
Kinloch was built in 1872 An
example of Greek Revival archi-
lecture, it is located on an estate
of 5000 acres. Mr.. and Mrs. Lee D.
Butler of Washington, acquired
Kinloch in 1941.
Brooke's Bank, a Georgian home
built in 1871. is now the property
of Mr.. and Mrs. Enos Richardson
Iof New York.
Evening star., 1947-06-12
District Area Students
To Be Guests Of Navy ]

Several hundred District, Mary.
land and Virginia high school stu.
dents will be guests of the Potomac
River Naval Command at 2::30 pm
tomorrow at an inspection of ships
moored at the Washington Naya,
Gun Factory.
The young visitors, who will be
given an opportunity to learn what
the Navy has in store for them as
future vocation, will visit the
destroyer U. S. S. Plunkett, the SUBJ
marine U. S. S. Drum and the
LST-987.
Among those expected to attend
are a number of Laurel High School
students and members of the st
Mary's Social Club and the Laurel
Recreation Center. Their transpor-
tation will be furnished by Laurel
merchants.
Permission to visit the ships also
was sought by members of Wash
ington area chapters of five frater-
mites, Alpha Phi Pi, Epsilon Lamba
Phi, Sigma Phi, Sigma Alpha Rho
and Mu Sigma, as well as by men,
bers of the Eastern High School
Band.
According to Mrs. Anna Lans-
burgh, Washington civic worker who
is making arrangements for the
visit, Radio Announcer Art Brown
will make a transcription of the
visit at 8 pm. for rebroadcast over
Station VOL at 4:30 pm. Motion
pictures will be taken by John Ro-
senblatt, University of Maryland
student photographer, Mrs. Lans-
burgh reported.
Evening star., 1947-06-12
Three Legislators Get
Committee Assignments

State Senator L. Harold Sothoron
and Delegate Leroy Pumphrey OF
Prince Georges County and Dele
gate Andrew R. Lofstrand of Mont
gomery County are among commit
tee appointments announced yes
terday by State Senator Joseph r
Byrnes, president of the Maryland
Legislative Council.
Senator Sothoron was named
chairman of the Budget and FL
nance Committee and will serve on
the Conservation and Health and
Welfare Committees
Mr., Pumphrey was chosen to head
the Education Committee and ap-
pointed to membership on the
Judiciary and Transportation Com
mittees.
Mr.. Lofstrand was appointed to
the Corrupt Practices and Elec-
ton Laws, Education and judiciary
Committees,
Evening star., 1947-06-12
Mass Meeting TO Protest
Razinq Of Mcguire House

The Marietta Plan" is to be dis
cussed at the mass meeting called
for s pm. tomorrow at George
Washington High School in Alex
andria to protest razing of historic
Mcclure House in that city.
Mrs, Elizabeth Mitchell of the
Alexandria, Little Theater explained
this plan involved the way residents
of Marietta, Ohio, preserved their
historic monuments and homes.
The four groups sponsoring the
Friday meeting are the Alexandria
Little Theater, the Alexandria
Society, Garden Club of Alexandria
and Alexandria Historical Society.
In addition to the Mcclure housing
razing question, it is also planned to
take up the question of saving other
historic landmarks in the city from
growing commercialiZation.
Evening star., 1947-06-12
Parent Teacher Council
Holds Institute Saturday

An officers training institute for
representatives of the 80 member
organizations of the Prince Georges
County Council of Parent Teacher
Associations will be held from 10
am. to 3 pm. Saturday at the Hy-
attsville High School.
Mrs. Stanley G. Cook, chairman
Of the Legislative Committee of the
Maryland Congress and of the Ma
tional Congress of Parents and
Teachers, will be the principal
speaker, it was announced today by
Mrs. Wells Harrington, of Green
belt, chairman of the county coun-
Gil.
Leading discussion groups during
the one-day conference will be Mrs
Frank S. Smith of Silver Spring
member of the Health Committee
Of the Maryland Congress of Parents
and Teachers, and Mrs. Catherine B
Reid, of Riverdale. vice president OF
the Maryland congress.
The county councils instructive
program will be presented by Mrs
Helena Taylor of West Lanham
Hills; Mrs. Joseph S. Yuill and
Richard Downes, both of Lanham:
Mrs. Albert Bailey, Suitland, and
Leon Raider of Mount Rainier.
Members of the Hyattsvine High
School Home Economics Department
will serve lunch to those attending
at 1890 pm, Mrs. Harrington re-
ported.
Evening star., 1947-06-12
WASHINGTON, D. C.

The open hearts of Washing
ton people who care what hap
pens to their small neighbors has
made it possible for 108 more
boys and girls to spend at least
two weeks in camp this summer.
Still waiting to find out if they
will get a chance for at least two
weeks at Camp Good Will or
Camp Pleasant are 1872 other
boys and girls.
One of them is a young fellow
we'll call Dickie.
Dickie is old for his 9 years
He's had to be. His mother is
widow with four children to
worry about. Dickie knows
when she isn't feeling we'll and
then he tries to keep his small
sister and brothers quiet.
| Sometimes, when his mother is
we'll and the other children are
asleep, Dickie pretends he is an
explorer. He roams through the
streets and alleys of Southwest
Washington. He pretends the
alleys are trails.
Sometimes he slips away TO
watch fishermen at the wharf.
He sits beside them, not saying,
anything, just dreaming. He has
heard from the other children
about the woods at Camp Good
Will and he dreams he is hiking
over real trails.
His mother knows how much
Dickie wants to go to camp.
She knows he would be safer
hiking through the woods than
roaming through the alleys of
Southwest. But paying the
rent, keeping the children in
clothes and buying even scanty
meals takes all her money.
You could make Dickie's
dreams and his mothers hopes
come true. For $40, you could
give him two weeks of exploring
the trails of Camp Good Will,
two weeks where his only re-
sponsibility would be to cram
enough fun for a year into each
waking hour.
For $50, you could give him
hiking and swimming and all he
wanted to eat for three weeks.
If you want to give a lonely
boy some of the fun he's missed,
if you want to help the rest of
the 1872 boys and girls still wait
ing to hear if they will be chosen
for camp this summer, mail cash
or a check to The Evening Star
Summer Camp Fund or bring it
to The Star cashier. The Star
will be glad to acknowledge gifts
Evening star., 1947-06-12
Safety Slogan Contest
Open to All in County

The Montgomery County Police
Department and the County Safety
Board today announced q safety
slogan contest open to all residents
of that area.
Although schools will have been
closed for three weeks when the
contest ends July IA, announce
ments were disseminated among the
schools in an effort to stimulate in
terest among young people but the
contest Is open to all residents.
A suitable safety slogan OF 10
words or less should be sent the
Safety Board at Rockville post
marked not later than the closing
date. A total of s195 in prizes has
been contributed by county automo-
bile dealers. Washington 7. Cleve-
land heads the Safety Board.
Evening star., 1947-06-12
Civic Group
To Meet Tomorrow

The Westover Civic Association OF
Arlington will hold its final meeting
of the season at pm. tomorrow In
the Westover Baptist Church recrea-
ton room.
Election of a new Board of Direc-
tors and reports on proposed Arnold
Bus Line rate increases are sched-
uled. A skit written and directed by
members and participated In by Boy
Scouts will be presented.
Evening star., 1947-06-12
By George Kennedy

What are you going to do with
kids when school lets out and the
only place they have to play is the
streets and alleys?
The Police Departments juvenile
bureau was brought face to face
with this question by campaign
against destruction of property
caused by ball playing on the pave
ments, begun by the police OF the
ninth precinct. The precinct is that
section of Northeast bounded by
East Capitol street, New York ave-
nue. and the Anacostia River.
Four groups of boys detained by
police for ball playing in the pre-
cinct were brought into the bureaus
Offices in Police Headquarters yes
terday along with their parents for
informal hearings. The parents
were so interested in the principles
involved that they gave permission
for the names of their children to
be used. The police agreed, point
ing out that the objections to pub
lication of the names of children in
juvenile delinquency cases would
not hold true in here because play
ing ball on the streets is not delin-
quency. ......
One hearing surpassed the others
in dramatic quality because the COM
plainants who caused the arrest of
the other three groups Of boys did
not.
Carpenter Makes Complaints.
Roy F. Tuttle, 713 D street NE.
carpenter with the Federal Works
Agency, found a window broken in
his garage in the alley behind his
house and complained to the police.
On the following day the police
descended on the alley and took to
the station Jimmie Kotz, IA, of 709
ID street NE; Stuart Hensley, jr.,
IA, of 647 c street NE; Herbert G
Stogner, jr., 9, Of $50 Eighth street
NE, and Andrew Chiacchieri, jr., 8,
of TOT c street NE.
Mr.. Tuttle and the boys, who were
accompanied by Herbert G. Stogner,
a veteran and an electrician, and
Mrs. Fannie Chiacchieri, wife of a
construction foreman with the
Charles H. Tompkins Co., parents of
two of the boys, appeared before
Pvt. Travis Harmon of the Juvenile
Bureau for hearing. Pvt. Harmon
also is veteran. He was a sergeant
gunner on a B-29 which was shot
down into Japan's Inland Sea.
The police, said Pvt. Harmon, were
between the devil and the deep blue
sea" in these cases. Property is
destroyed and complaints are made,
he said Then, he added. when
police enforce the law by taking the
children into custody, the parents
descend on them.
Held Only for Playing Ball.
How many windows have you had
broken?" he asked Mr.. Tuttle.
Six" said Mr. Tuttle.
IF he had only come to me in
stead of calling the police" protested
Mr.. Stogner.
But Mr.. Tuttle does not know
who the boys were who broke the
windows" said Pvt. Harmon. HE
was never able to see more than a
pair of legs disappearing when a
window was broken. He then corn