European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 23, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Monday february 23, 1959 the stars and stripes Page 5 surgeon saves Tot born with no oesophagus Boston a a 4-month-old baby born without an oesophagus is convalescing at a Hospital Here after a rare operation. The baby Eric d. Wright was born oct. 7 to or. And mrs. Edward Wright of Derby . The23-year-old Mother is the former Christa Kroll of West Berlin. A surgeon devised an oesophagus from a Section of the child s Colo nand set it in place. Mrs. Wright tells this Story coming into the world without food pipe is rare. In Eric s Case an incision was made in the Throat so that a tube could be inserted with a plastic Pouch attached. Feeding tube inserted this was to take care of  stomach Wall was opened and a feeding tube inserted. We fed him every three hours and regained weight. On Jan. 27 we brought him to the Hospital Foran operation that i Call a Miracle. An incision at the left of Eric s neck admitted the Man devised food pipe and Eric began to Swallow for the first  child now takes liquids Well but amounts Are  expect to have him Home in a few weeks the Mother said. Father is army Veteran the Wrights met and married in West Berlin in 1953 while he was with the .  father works in a textile Plant. There Are two other Chil Dren and they live in a $50 a month . Wright s Only concern is the Hospital Bill. She said i amounts to $1,250, not counting surgeon fees. But she added broke As we Are we have Confidence that things will come outfall right. I believe our prayers will be  hard shelled alaskan comes to dinner not at All squeamish about holding this sea monster Marilyn Atwood 23, assistant to Interior Secretary Fred a. Seaton shows off a King crab sent to Washington by the Ketchikan Alaska chamber of Commerce. The Titbit was part of a shipment for a dinner honouring Alaska. Up Blind youth joins Cap Philadelphia up a 15 year old boy who recently joined the civil air patrol will have to work hard for the next 18 months to earn his certificate of proficiency for he s totally Blind. James e. Spruill who lost his sight due to an Eye ailment when he was 2. Became interested i electronics while Reading about the subject in braille. He a passed the necessary tests to show he can operate the group s transmitter and receiver. Drilling is troublesome but that been overcome. Jimmy marches wedged Between two friends who step on his Ankles when he makes a mistake. Letter collection shows Washington was Fine Penman Ann Arbor Mich. A George Washington s penmanship was  is the observation of How Ard Peckham director of the University of Michigan s William  Library. The Library has a collection of78 Washington letters including 28 just Given the University by James s. Schoff a new York Busi Ness executive and u. Of m. Grad uate. All the letters received fro Schoff Are in Fine condition Peck Lam  of them he said is an eloquent Appeal for the adoption of the Constitution against the objectors who argued for the superiority of states rights.". Other letters collected by Schof Deal with Washington s problems of command during the revolution farm problems at mount Vernon and with political affairs during his presidency. Veteran film director Dies in Hollywood at 68 Beverly Hills Calif. A French born film director George Archa Inbau 68, died Here of a heart attack. Only two Days before he had completed shooting a script for the  Archa Inbau was born in Paris and educated atthe University of Paris. His first film direction was in 1915 at fort Lee . He directed among others John Barrymore Richard Dix Irene Dunne Dorothy Lamour of Hope and Gene a try. Boy saves dog in vain Smithfield . A Arthur Laprade i risked his life plunging into an ice encrusted la to Rescue his Mongrel dog , himself had to be rescued by a neighbor who smashed through ice for 15 feet. The next Day a speeding car struck and killed the dog. Speeder s Alibi braked East Providence . Up Pearl Sigers 27, of Providence explained to a judge she was Speed ing 70 Mph because her brakes were bad and she was in a hurry to get them  she was Fine $50. Office problem up in air space group in House can t get enough space Washington a the House space committee scanned the horizon and found a familiar scene space space everywhere but not for the committee. It is a familiar  year the newly created committee searched the two House of fice buildings and came up with a two room suite in the basement. The Pace was the Best available. This year the new chairman rep. Overton Brooks a Lahado lower his sights from the Satel ites Long enough to Check on their workroom for his legislative delayed Aid Check arrives too late san Francisco a Dan Iel Saraceni s doctors told him to Stop working after he suffered a heart attack two years ago at 52. Saraceni did and applied for so Cial Security disability benefits. He was turned Down. He asked re consideration but was turned Down again supported by his wife Helen defiled for hearing on his Case last october three Days ago he got a letter from the social Security administration earlier decisions reversed he was eligible for disability pay ments. Two Days later a retroactive Dis ability Check for $2.200 arrived. But Saraceni had died of a heart at tack during the night. Phone gabber May have Cost life of heart attack victim Syracuse . Up two talkative women who refused of give up their party line Telephone conversation May have Cost the life of a 52-year-old Man the sheriff s office Here  said the victim an Thony Idank,1 died after his so vainly tried to interrupt a Tele phone conversation Between two women so he could Call for assistance for his father who had suffered a heart attack. The incident occurred in nearby Mattydale. Frank Idank the stricken Man s Soni said the women laughed at him when he told them he was trying to reach a doctor. He said after a while they stopped laugh ing but refused to give up the line. Idank eventually went to neighbor s Home and called an ambulance. He said the delay Cost him 15 minutes. The next Day Idank said he was attempting to make another Call when he found the party line bus again. He said he recognized one of the voices As one who had refused to listen to his plea the night before. He quoted the woman As say ing i suppose you want a doctor again  the sheriff s department said iwas investigating the complain filed by Idank through the Telephone company.  did t like what he saw. 21 lose lives in Flash fires across nation by United press International an outbreak of Flash fire claimed a number of lives across the country in 24 hours. Most of the victims were children. At least 21 persons 14 of the children died in fires in new eng land Maryland and California. The East coast and new England were in the grip of a cold wave that kept furnaces and heating stoves working overtime. One fire at Crisfield md., killed five children. Another at Boston killed four and one at Hanson mass., killed three. At Crisfield the five children ofor. And mrs. Charles Miles died when flames trapped them in the second floor of the family s Frame Home at the Eastern Shore fishing Community. Futher not at Homo Miles was not Home at the time and his wife Lucy lumped to safety from a second Story window. She said she had no Chance to Getto the children in the fast moving inferno. Three boys and their infant Sis Ter died in the Boston fire. The three children killed in Han son were from a family of 11 Chil Dren. Four Brothers and Sisters were hospitalized and a fifth was treated for Burns. In los Angeles a Man and two Small Brothers were burned to death As their Mother watched helplessly. The flames quickly destroyed the one Story Frame House in which the woman and her son lived. The Man had been visiting. Fireman killed fireman it. Joseph l. Rock 43, died while battling a two alarm Laze in a Lynn mass., tenement from which nine persons managed to escape. Alexander d. Mckay 70, perished after being trapped in a three Story apartment building at Mil Ford . A body tentatively identified As sgt Kenneth w. Hopke of Cedar Bluff neb., a Westover air Force base airman was found in the ruins of a Chicopee mass., Home destroyed by  four Boston children were trapped in their living room when be had ordered carpenters to put iome private office cubicles in thes Ommittee room. That created a new problem so much Hammer no and sawing noise the staff Ould hardly hear the chairman. So he cocked an attentive ear to an offer from the nearby congressional hotel. The hotel would be pleased to rent three or four rooms for $6,000 a year he re ported. That would add 337 More Square feet to the committee s Domain including the Kitchen but not including the Large closet in the hotel space he said. Brooks decided to take the Issue to House speaker Sam Rayburn a Tex either More committee room in Congress or the commit tee takes the hotel space including Kitchen and closet. As the committee pulled in it shoulders some members looked longingly Down the Hill to where workmen Are Busy at the location of a new House office building which will provide much More space. But excavation work on the building is still going on there s nothing but a spacious Hole. A space Heater exploded near their Beds. The parents or. And mrs. Orland Watkins and a fifth child were rescued. The victims Range Din age from 14 months to 12 years. Blaze at form Home the father of the three Hanson victims Richard Sullivan was alone in their farm Home with nos children at the time of the fire. Family Friend or. John c. Angley said the Mother disappeared about two years  was Able to raise a lad Der to save eight of his children but three aged 3, 5 and 9, perished in their second floor bedroom. At North Adams mass., 19 per sons including nine children fled to safety in Zero weather when a space Heater explosion set a Tene ment afire. We grabbed the baby and ragout said Wayne Harwood in whose apartment the fire started. His hair was singed and his wife suffered face Burns but the baby Wayne 1, escaped unharmed. The tenement Block held four apartments. Goldfine son fined Pelham . Up Solomo Goldfine 32, son of Boston industrialist Bernard Goldfine was fined$100 in police court Here for d Ray ing while his License was revoked. He pleaded guilty. Goldfine whose father figured in the Sherman Adams scandal in Washington Las year is a resident of Scarsdale . Idaho Bill repeals ban on interracial marriage Boise Ida. A the Idaho legislature has completed action Ona Bill repealing the state s ban on interracial marriages the Senate passed the measure and sent it Togo. Robert e. Smylie for his Sig nature. The Bill repeals an old Law which prohibits marriages of Whites with mongolians negroes or mulattoes