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Evening star., 1953-03-22
Apple Blossom Fete
Putting in Bid for
Visitors Attention

The crab apple blossoms are
putting in a bid for the atten-
ton of visitors who may not find
the cherry blossoms they come
to see next month.
The Greater Southeast Wash
ington Crab Apple Blossom Pa
rade and Festival Committee is
arranging to receive visitors in
Anacostia Park, where 1000 crab
apple trees are expected to bloom
the first week in April.
The eighth annual crab apple
blossom parade and festival will
be held there on April 18.
Expected About April 3.
w. Sutton Jett of National
Capital Parks, has reported the
crab apple blossoms are expected
about April 3 or 4.
George L. Gregg, general
chairman for the parade and
festival, last night said his COM
mittee had voted to make special
arrangements with Park Police
to receive at Anacostia Park Wis
itors here for the cherry blossom
festivities beginning April 8.
Mr.. Gregg suggested that those
who have the time stay for the
Crab Apple Blossom Parade on
the 18th. Termed the most
spectacular of its eight years.
the line of march already has
"a units, including the Army
Band, Marine Drum and Bugle
Corps and two flights from An
drews Air Force Base.
EisenhOwers Invited.
The committee reported that
several members of Congress al
ready have accepted invitations
to attend the crab apple blossom
festivities. Invitations have been
sent to the President and Mrs.
Eisenhower, Vice President and
Mrs. Nixon and members of the
judiciary and executive branches
of the Government.
The committees contest on
"Why I Will Attend the Crab
Apple Blossom Parade" closes
April 10. Entries are to con-
sist of no more than 20 lines
of poetry or $50 words of prose.
They should be mailed to Box
4649, Anacostia Post Office,
Washington 20, D. c.
First prize is a $50 savings
bond, second prize a $25 bond
and third prize $40 in savings
stamps.
Evening star., 1953-03-22
Spin Of Wheel
Determine
Blossom Queen
BrowneII to Preside
At Event; Hope Fades
For Blooms at Fete

Attorney General Brownell will
spin a giant wheel of fortune to
determine who will be the 1858
Cherry Blossom Queen, it was
announced yesterday.
Cherry Blossom Festival Of
ficials bravely went forward with
plans for the annual event,
scheduled for April 8 to April
IL. They have just about given
up hope there will be any cherry
blossoms at the time.
Chance for Blooms.
There still is a chance the
double blossom cherry trees
around HainS Point may be in
bloom for the festival. They
normally follow the single bios
som trees of the Tidal Basin by
several weeks.
Mr.. Brownell will spin the
wheel that selects the Blossom
Queen at the Festival Ball, which
will be held at 9 pm, April 10,
at the Shoreham Hotel. Official
hostess for the ball will be Miss
Iris Anne Fitch, the District
Cherry Blossom Princess and also
Miss Washington.
The spinning of the wheel will
take place after all the Princesses
from the States and territories
have been introduced.
Other Events Planned.
The ball is one of the many
events planned for the festival
week.
A parade will be held at 8 pm,
April 8. on K street from Ninth
to Twentieth street NV. A
water show will be held at the
Tidal Basin at 10:30 am, April
II and IL.
The festival pageant will be
held at 1880 pm. April II and
IL at the Tidal Basin also. Mrs.
Eisenhower will crown the
Cherry Blossom Queen at the
performance on April II.
Frank E. Weakly, Festival
chairman, said a limited number
Of reserved seat tickets for the
pageant would go on sale to-
morrow at Festival Headquarters,
Room 204, Evening Star Building.
He said tickets are not re-
quired for the $4,000 free seats
which will be available for each
performance. But, he explained,
the committee had set aside
1000 seats for which tickets may
be purchased at 81 each.
Evening star., 1953-03-22
Heart Splice Brings New Hope
To Silver Spring blue Baby
Skilled Surgery
Gives Girl Chance
For Normal Life
By John McKeIwoy

For more than two hours Fri
day a young doctor with skilled
hands worked at his ticklish
trade. BY noon he had changed
the course of a little girls blood
stream and her life.
1t was not an unusual opera
ton, considering the number Of
blue baby" operations in the
past 10 years. They take place
all the time.
But for Dianna Wilkinson, 6,
and her parents, a new happi-
ness is assured.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Wilkin-
son. who live at 2711 Sheraton
street, Silver Spring, Md, dis
covered something was wrong
with their daughter shortly after
her birth. She had energy, but
it never lasted. Her nails had a
blush tinge. Her lips were blue
after a bath.
And, like all blue babies, she
used an animal-like instinct to
pick up energy. Doctors don't
know why, but blue babies will
walk a few yards then squat"
That way. they seem to get more
OF the vital oxygen into their
blood stream. They all do it. No.
body has to tell them.
Waited for Strength.
Many doctors examined the
child, then decided to wait un-
til she had grown a little and
picked up some strength. On Fri
day. after six years, surgeons at
Children's Hospital took the step.
Until then, Dianna constantly
was looked after by her parents.
She was growing more and more
dependent. Her father carried
her all the way up Sugar Loaf
Mountain one time. She couldn't
make the first few yards.
A school bus took her each
day to Glenmont Elementary
School where Dianna is in the
first grade. The school is about
four blocks from her home.
Dianna, according to her par
ents, knew perfectly we'll what
she was about to go through last
week. She said she was getting
a new pump"
Maybe now I won't have to
take a rest in the afternoon"
she told her mother.
Doctors looked on Dianna's
case as relatively routine among
blue babies. There are plenty
of them. Up to 10 years ago,
doctors turned these children
away from their Offices because
there was nothing they could do.
In time, the children died.
CONSTRUCTED Passage.
In the right ventricle Of the
heart there is an opening. which
in normal individuals. permits a
good portion of blood to flow to
the lungs with each pump of the
heart. A surgeon said in most
individuals the opening is the
size of a finger. In Dianna's
it was the diameter of a tooth
pick.
Dianna, and no one can say
Evening star., 1953-03-22
Cherry Blossoms Ignore Date,
Early Warmth Forces Blooms

A few more warm days, like
yesterdays first full day of
spring. may coax Washington's
famed cherry blossoms into
bloom at least two weeks ahead
of the formal celebration here.
Park police said last night the
trees around the Tidal Basin
may be in full bloom by next
week end unless the weather
turns colder.
Evening star., 1953-03-22
Board Of Trade
Poll 0 0pposes
DC. Delegate
1919 of Members
Listed Against PIun
For VoteIess Seat

Replies to a Washington Board
of Trade membership poll on the
proposal for a voteleSs District
delegate in the House opposed
the plan by a substantial ma
jority, 1t was announced last
night.
Board President E. D. Merrill
reported that of 1870 board
members returning the question
naire, 968, or TOT per cent, OPP
posed the measure, now pending,
while 402, or 1913 per cent, ia
Vored it.
Some Want 2 or 3.
OF those in favor, the tabula-
ton indicated, 62.4 per cent be-
lieve there should be more than
one elected but voteleSs delegate.
with 45.7 per cent favoring two
and 54.3 per cent favoring three.
The questionnaire was mailed
to the boards $500 members on
March 5, with a March 16 dead
line for replies.
The boards announcement said
the membership opinion "iS in
substantial agreement with past
policies of the organization, al
though this marks the first time
that the votelesS delegate queS-
ton has been proposed as a
separate piece of legislation"
All Groups Oppose Plan.
OF the board members return
ing the QUESTIONABLE, 388 live
in Maryland, lat in Virginia,
and the rest in the District. OPP
position to the measure ran
TOT per cent among the District
members. 72.4 per cent among
those from Maryland and 66 per
cent among the Virginia men,
berS.
OF those living in Maryland
and Virginia, 903 per cent said
they had businesses located in
the District. And 81 per cent
said they owned property here.
Evening star., 1953-03-22
7 Held in Ho|dups
After Car Is Linked
To Hit-Run Cases

Two robbery suspects were
picked up by police yesterday
after their getaway car was
identified in two hit-and-run
accidents.
John T. Lyon and Ray E.
Oden, both 27, and house paint
ers, who live together in the
5000 block of Minnesota avenue
Sc, were charged with robbing
John Hyman, colored. A. of 1901
Allison street NV.
Detective Sergts. Richard Craw-
ford and John j. Wolf Of the
robbery squad said Hyman iden-
titled the men at hearing in
the Corporation Counsel's Office
on the traffic cases.
Hit on Head With Bottle. =.
Mr.. Lyman was walking near
his home Thursday night when
an automobile containing three
men pulled alongside and
stopped.
Two men left the car and one
struck him on the head with a
beer bottle while the other
robbed him of SO. Mr.. Hyman
was taken to Freedmen's Hos
pital, where 13 stitches were re-
quired to close the wound in his
scalp.
Police said the same automo-
bile figured in two hit-and-run
crashes the same night, one at
Fourth and E streets NV. and
the other at First and Inde-
pendence avenue Sc. The car
was abandoned at the latter
scene.
Cars Ownership Traced.
The ownership was traced to
Lyon. When descriptions of the
car and the occupants seemed to
fit Mr.. Hyman's report, police
brought Mr.. Hyman to the
hearing.
Lyon, who was said to have
welded the beer bottle, was held
under $4,000 bond yesterday
by United States Commissioner
Cyril S. Lawrence, and Oden
was placed under a $500 bond.
Police are still looking for
the third man.
Lyon, the officers said, was at
liberty on a $4,000 bond posted
in Trenton, N. j., on a charge
of receiving money stolen from
! a bank.
Evening star., 1953-03-22
Capital Called Easy Mark
For Out-of-7 Criminals

up two liquor stores. shoemaker
was a parole violator from
Georgia.
ESCAPED From Tennessee.
William Henry White, 81. was
arrested last December as the
leader of the bandit gang which
held up the Old New Orleans
Restaurant. His record showed
he was on parole from Michigan
and had previously escaped from
the Tennessee State Peniten-
tiary.
Elwood Jones, 80, of Baltimore,
was finally captured in New
Jersey after a series of house
breakings here last year. He
was indicted on four charges of
housebreaking and larceny but
was found of unsound mind.
Last August, two steely-nerved
bandits armed with a sawed
off shotgun and a revolver held
up a Safeway Store and escaped
with 5000 before the customers
knew what had happened. One
of them was arrested the next
day and subsequently convicted
He was Stanley Myles Phelps. %,
of Clinton. Md.
Last May. two men were jailed
here as suspects in hospital rob-
berries in New York, Philadel-
phia and Baltimore and the
$1,014 holdup of the Chesapeake
and Potomac Telephone Co.
here. The New York pair, Lewis
j. Wilkins, 81, and Stephen S.
Kelley, 20, both were indicted
but neither has yet been tried
They were found of unsound
mind.
Held Up Cashier.
Four Baltimoreans. three OF
them teen-agers. were arrested
on their way back to Baltimore
last July after a Marine sergeant
reported they had tried to beat
and rob him after offering him
a lift near the Lincoln Memorial
In May, 1851, a soft-spoker
robber held up a Woodward &
Lothrop cashier and walked out
with $1,077 before the alarm
could be spread through the
store. William Charles Wiltshire
IS, had come here from Rich
mond for the holdup and hac
returned home with his loot.
In March, 1851, James w
Sprading, Al, came here from
Huntington, w. Va. When HI
was arrested, police accused hin
of holding up a series of fooC
stores at closing time and they
reported finding the loot from
a number of housebreakins
cases in his room. After his in.
dictment. he was found mentally
incompetent to stand trial, spent
five months in st. ElizabethS anC
was returned to stand trial. HI
was convicted and sentenced bu1
he is still fighting it out in the
courts.
There are many other cases
the expert safe-puncher WHIT
made his pile and went back tt
Pittsburgh, the boys from Buf.
falo who made the bus trip herl
twice, the traveller who came
by air and held up airline OH.
cials on arrival.
Word that Washington Is AZ
"easy" city gets around.
Evening star., 1953-03-22
Mayor of Alexandria
Bocks Daylight Time

Mayor Marshall j. Beverly Of
Alexandria has asked Repre-
sentative Broyhill, Republican.
of Virginia, to reconsider his op-
position to daylight saving time.
The Mayor, who said he was
speaking for himself and not for
the City Council, said, II feel
that the majority Of the citizens
of this city want daylight saving
time. II not passed, it win add
confusion as well as deprive this
area Of the manifest advantages
Of fast time"
Evening star., 1953-03-22

This years Cherry Blossom
Festival is scheduled for April
IL and IL. After day of bright
sunshine, the buds last night had
swelled to the point at which
the first blossoms began to
appear.
The forecast is for cloudy and
mild weather today, with rain
likely during the afternoon. A
high of about 60 degrees IS ex-
pected.
Evening star., 1953-03-22

why, also has a Slight abnormal
hole in the side of the same ven-
tricle which allows blood to
"leak" through into another
chamber of her heart-the left
ventricle.
Blood was backing up in the
child'S heart and then forced
through the leak into the wrong
ventricle. Some blood got through
the "toothpick" hole and into the
artery to the lungs =. enough to
keep her alive. The blood which
should have gone to her lungs
to get oxygen was being pumped
out to other places - without
oxygen.
What the young surgeon did
with his skilled hands was to
splice the half-empty artery
leading to the lungs to the bulg-
ing, over-worked artery, or
aorta. Then, for the first time,
Dianna's lungs were getting the
blood they needed.
Sometimes you can see the
change right on the table," the
surgeon said.
Normal Life Ahead.
The surgeon said Dianna will
never be strong enough to swim
the English Channel" But now
she mas a normal" life ahead.
Without the operation, death
could have been expected before
she reached her teens.
Thedoctor pointed out some
thing more than the amazing
operation.
Usually blue babies are brats,"
he said. "They get too much at
tention and their family, natur-
ally, feels compelled to give it
to them. It's a psychological re-
action affecting all the lives con-
cerned with the blue baby.
But with the blue baby opera
tion, if it's successful, you can
sense the change in the family
as soon as it's over. The kids
normal then"
The doctor who asked that his
name not be used. said every
thing in Dianna's condition
points to good results" BY
Friday afternoon. Dianna was
asking for ginger ale.
Her parents said she had a
pair of roller skates which she
has never tried out. They hope
she soon will use them.
Evening star., 1953-03-22
Home Accidents Hurt 13O
In Week Red Cros Reports

Home accidents sent 100 resi-
dents to hospitals last week.
A breakdown in the injuries,
according to a Red Cross survey,
shows So falls, IL burns, eight
accidental poisonings, two re-
vived from asphyxia, five foreign
bodies. 20 cuts and % unclassi-
fed.
Falls at home resulted in eight
fractures of the wrist, nose, ribs.
ankle, two collarbone and leg.
One man dropped q fork and In
jured his foot.
Evening star., 1953-03-22
Senate 10 Get
Case Bill on
Daylight Time
Measure Would Let
D. G. Heuds Decide
Controversial Issue

SVubVbVVSbSuO tSSUS
Senate statesmen are faced
this week with the perennial
question Of whether to indicate
a preference for the voteless
cows back home or the voteless
taxpayers in Washington.
It's spring and therefore the
season to decide what to do
about daylight saving time for
the District.
Chairman Case Of the Senate
District Committee will intro
duce a bill which should make
1t easier for farm-conscious
members Of Congress to permit
the adoption of fast-time sum-
mer schedules in the Capital.
His measure would give the
District Commissioners perma-
nent authority to order daylight
saving time here under two con-
ditions: first. if Baltimore, Phil
adelphia and New York-or any
two Of them-adopt it; and Sec
ond, If the Commissioners find
it necessary for the promotion
OF the public welfare, conveni-
ence and necessity Of the resi-
dents of the District"
Cows Win First Move.
Last week the House District
Committee weighed the question
OF 1858 daylight saving time for
Washington and came up with
the usual f1rst-round political
answer: Nothing doing. But no.
body expected that to be the
final action; it will be brought
up again.
Commissioner r. Joseph Dom
ohue, the Democrat who expects
to be replaced at almost any
moment, criticized House mem
bers for their stand in a radio
talk last night. He said the
Representative voting against
fast time showed little consid-
GRAFTON for the District resi-.
dents. He commented:
NEARLY a million non-farm.
ing and non-voting residents of
the wholly urban District
were not given much considera-
ton by the elected representa-
tives of the farmers on Thurs
day when they, acting as the
city council for the District, de-
cided we who live there and want
daylight time should not have it,"
No Difference to Cow.
He added:
From a purely local point Of
view, 1t doesn't make any diff
ference to cow in Illinois what
time it is in the District"
Mr.. Donohue said he and his
fellow Commissioners would
meet tomorrow to discuss the
next step in the fight to get
daylight time this summer. He
said he felt a letter to the House
District Committee, asking re-
consideration, and to Chairman
Case of the Senate District
Committee was in order.
Case Indicates Action.
The House unit voted down q
bill to authorize daylight time.
Senator Case has indicated he
will introduce a measure which
would permit the Commissioners
to establish daylight time in the
city without coming back to
Congress each year.
Mr.. Donohue said he advocates
the case proposed for, permanent
authority for commissioners to
decide on daylight time. He
pointed out it would save Con-
greSs a lot of time each year II
it didn't have to debate this
question endlessly.
Mr.. Donohue said If Wash.
ington didn't get daylight time,
confusion would be the result
since the rest of the East prob
ably would. He said it especially
would be confusing in the radio
and televiSion industry and in
the transportation industry.
Evening star., 1953-03-22

Ala THE SUNDAY STAR
~ Washington, D. c.
SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 1853
Evening star., 1953-01-04
Exclusively Yours---
Congress Arrival Means Full Schedule;
Incoming PoIiticos Lease Dwellings
By Betty Beole

an excellent game of tennis.
He'll be an inspiration to Walter
Reed amputees.
Marion Fulsom. Undersecre-
tary of the Treasury-elect. has
also rented house in George
town, the Lawrence Bakers
Dumbarton avenue residence
which the Allen Dulles occupied
two years ago. Chapman Rose.
the incoming Assistant Secre-
tary of the Treasury, and his
wife Kay, who made scores of
friends when they lived here be-
fore, own a house in Georgetown
but since it is currently rented
they have leased another nearby.
Charles E. Wilson, the next
Secretary Of Defense. has taken
one of the handsome apart
ments in Wardman Park An
mex: Sinclair Weeks, future
Commerce boss. has taken one
at the 'Westchester and Herbert
Brownell announced to Gram
ercy Park friends at a party this
week that he would go house
hunting as soon as he arrives in
Washington on January is.
The Herbert BrownellS' neigh
bors tossed them a folksy party
more likely to have occurred in
Herbs native Nebraska or Doris
Brownell's Texas home town
than in its actual New York set
Evening star., 1953-01-04

something very specially Amer
ican about whistle stopping"
she observes. "It is hard, yes,
rugged. It is, or could be, mo-
notonous. It is a sort of travel
ing side-show whose participants
live at very close quarters to one
another. all under constant ten
sion.
1.-THE feature attraction, the
candidate himself. is supposed
to draw huge crowds down to the
tracks. make an appropriate and
witty speech about the condi-
ton of the world, of the United
States and of the county and
town in which the train then
happens to be stopping, outline
his program for peace and pros
perity, give his blessing to the
proper senatorial ard congress
sional candidates. say a few
words about himself and his
running mate, and then move
on to the next town and do 1t
all over again in an entirely
fresh and different way"
Mrs. Dick recalls nostalgical-
ly some of the trials and tribula-
tions of campaigning. She was
completely unable to sleep the
first few nights in her compart-
ment "strategically located be-
tween the bar at the end Of a
Evening star., 1953-01-04

An unusual holiday gift has
been received here by friends Of
Mrs. Edison Dick, Chicago and
Lake Forest socialite and a life
long Republican who devoted
the fall months to campaigning
for Adlai Stevenson for Presi-
dent.
The gift is a slim, hand
somely printed volume entitled
notwithstanding with Adlai,"
which Mrs. Dick wrote deScrib-
ing her IL days aboard a presi-
dental campaign train. Bright
ly illustrated with line drawings.
it was privately published in
Chicago just. for distribution to
. the authors friends.
AS co-chairman of the Ma
tional Volunteers for Stevenson,
Mrs. Dick made the last Eastern
swing with the candidate. Pre-
viously a stanch Republican,
she wandered from the G. o. p.
reservation for the first time in
1948, to work for Stevenson's
election as Governor of Illinois.
She voted for Thomas E. Dewey
that year. however, and still re-
CARDS herself as a Republican.
Describing herself as a RE
publican housewife and poll
tical amateur" who suddenly
found herself in an "extraordi-
nary situation" Mrs. Dick gives
a bright, amusing picture OF
campaigning as she saw it.
II was to find out that there Is
Evening star., 1953-01-04

The annual Capital invasion
Is on and from here on in, the
doings Of this social town will
be popped up to capacity pace.
Those people who have an idea
that the Christmas season is the
busiest for everybody couldn't be
more confused. Once the United
States Congress moves into
Washington. along with all the
people who plan to work with or
on Congress, the city is really
jammed and the schedule full.
Nobody can live, work or
entertain here unless they have
a place in which to stay, how
ever, and this is the No. prob
lem for the incoming admins
traitors and legislators. Despite
the fact that many of them are
extremely well heeled and
Capital real estate is in great
demand, the best prospective
purchasers Of big houses are
still foreign embassies. AS one
realtor put it, Republicans
don't like paying for big stats
of domestic help any more than
do the Democrats.
Hence it is no new cabinet
member but the Burmese En-
bassy that has just bought the
Hoover house on S street. known
by its most famous occupant
No. $500, which was formerly
leased by Perle Mesta, was sold
this past week by Mr.. Walter
Schoellkopf To the Burmese fol
use as q chancery. It is a sac
commentary on the cost Of to-
Evening star., 1953-01-04

days living that so many of the
handsome houses in the purely
residential section between S
street and Belmont road are
thus being converted into small,
high class Office buildings.
Secretary of the Air Force-to-
be Harold Talbot has rented
Christian Herter's charming old
Georgetown house at 3108 P
street. AS the new Governor of
Massachusetts,, Mr.. Herter will
not be coming to Washington
for the time being, but since he
is not selling his house, perhaps
he has an idea of returning to
Washington in the future as a
Senator.
The man who will represent
Chris Herter's old district in the
new House of Representatives,
Laurence Curtis. has leased Sem
ator Henry Cabot Lodges house
at 1882 o street in Georgetown.
Married recently at 81 for the
first time in his life, he and his
bride, the former Helen Schry-
YER, will be attractive additions
to the local scene. For the past
10 years Helen worked in Bos-
ton as assistant to Ted Weeks,
editor of the Atlantic Monthly.
Her husband, incidentally, lost
his leg in an air training acci-
dent in World War ] but plays