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FUMES®
Variety Club Leads Day’s
Contributions With $50
Check.
With $122 already donated, the cam
paign to open the Y. W. C A. awim*
ming pool at 614 E street for the
forgotten children of Washington
actually got into its stride today.
First, contribution of the day was
a check for $50, sent in by Rudolph
Berger, secretary of the Variety Club
and chairman of its Welfare Com
mittee. who announced there would
be additional funds In the event they
are necessary to carry on the work.
In his letter to The Star, Berger
Wrote:
"We consider it a privilege to con
tribute to this worthy cause and
enclose our check in the amount
nf $50. We should also like to add
that in the event additional funds
are necessary, we shall be very happy
to extend further consideration.”
All old-time theatrical men, mem
bers of the Variety Club, are interested
in helping the youth movement in
this city—and the youth movement
this week is directed toward a finish
of the swimming pool campaign by
Saturday night at the latest.
It looks as if the boys and girls
might get their w'ish, too. When the
morning mail was opened at The
Star cashier's office. $32 in checks and
currency popped out of the envelope.
This sum, with the $40 donated
Saturday and the $50 given by the
Variety Club, reaches the total of
$122—not bad for a starter.
As it stands now, $378 more will
turn the trick—and turn the water on
at the E street swimming pool.
Contributions today came from:
Florence Teraw_$10.00
Hector Laeo _ 10.00
E W. McCallaugh_ 6.00
Sarah M. Lockwood_ 5.00
Cash . 1.00
Cash . 1.00
At this rate, it will not be long be
fore the full amount is at hand—and
the work on the pool begins. Object
la to have the pool in full operation
cn or before July 1.
•
MEDICAL PRACTICE
FEARS POLITICS
Danger to Free and Competitive
Medicine Seen in State
Aid.
BULLETIN.
ATLANTIC CITY. N. J. June 7
(JP).—A proposal lor a break with
medical tradition by inviting the
Government to contribute for the
medical rare of the indigent was
laid before the House of Delegates
of the American Medical Associa
tion here today by the Medical So
ciety of the State of New York.
Br the Associated Pres*.
ATLANTIC CITY. N. J., June 7
W5).—The question of what the State
should do in the field of personal
medical care was laid before the
American Medical Association as it
opened its annual meeting today.
"It. would be apparent that medi
cal care is a problem not alien to the
purpose of the Government,” said
President. Charles Gordon Heyd, M. :
D., of New York in an address be- .
fore the association's House of Dele- I
pates. Approximately 10.000 mem- |
bers are expected to attend the week's!
meeting
Dr. Heyd charged that hospitals
With paid physicians are practicing
medicine. These same hospitals, he
said, axe likely to appeal to the State
for support because their funds are
diminishing. Such a course, he held,
Would tend to destroy free and com
petitive medicine, and to bring on
political control of much of medical
practice and finally of medical
schools.
CHURCHMEN FIGHT
NAZI FOES OPENLY
Ttniion Grow* as Protestant
Leaden Assail Hitler
Philosophy.
Bs tht AasnrUtm Pru*.
BERLIN, June 7.—Tension in the
ehurc.h - state controversy increased
throughout all corners of the Reich
today after Protestant confessional
leaders unleased a new blast of ora
tory against the Nasi philosophy.
The religious dissension flared anew
Sunday as both Catholics and Prot
estant* joined in open opposition to
the Naai attitude toward the church.
Street demonstrations led to fist
fights in Munich, where 10 more
priests were thrown into prison.
Martin Niemoeller, presiding pastor
of the Confessional Synod, in a scorch
ing sermon derided attempts to dis- •
credit the Christian concept of re
pentance and to substitute for it a ,
heroic attitude, “as though there was j
only one possible attitude for a Oer- ,
man to assume today—that of Pro- ,
metheus or Lucifer, the pose of a ,
defiant triton.”
In Catholic churches vigorous at- ,
tacks were made against the “un
terupulous exploiting” of church im
morality trials which clergymen con- |
tend have been uaed for political pur
poses.
Reichafuehrer Adolf Hitler made
his answer almost simultaneously to .
the wave of religious protest.
Speaking to 120,000 Brown Shirts at
Regensburg, Hitler declared he would
never permit religious dlsaension to
tear Naai Germany asunder, retailing
the strife and devastation of the
Thirty Yeara’ War.
DANCE RECITAL
A recital In creative and interpre
tive dancing will be given at the i
Gordon junior High School at 8:30 ;
pm. tomorrow under the direction of
Mrs. H. W. Sweeney. i
Approximately 40 children will per- ;
form on the program which include! ;
20 dances. Mrs. Sweeney, a former
Marsh dancer of New York, will do i
a Gypsy dance as the concluding
number.
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To Graduate at Oberlin.
Ruth Orville Groff, 3900 Ingomar j
itreet, will be graduated with an A. B.
degree at exercises at Oberlin College
tomorrow. Miss Groff, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Dlller T. Oroff, is a
member of the Aeolian Literary So
ciety and majored M kindergarten I
training. T
Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
EGGS.
ENUS are rule books from which
employe* of an P atreet food,
drug and bathing/ cap establishment
do not vary.
Carter Barron, tha movie man, found
that out the other day when he
ordered two soft-boiled egg. for break
fast, The counter man was sorry, but
Mr. Barron could not have his eggs
that way. They were not on the menu,
and that was that.
“But you have eggs and you have
hot water, so why not soft-boiled
eggs?’’ Mr. Barron wanted to know.
The clerk wouldn't say, he said, but
that was the situation. Mr. Barron
could have eggs fried, scrambled, or
perhaps even nogged, bu, they Just
couldn’t be boiled because boiled eggs
were not on the menu.
Mr. Barron, who is red-haired, elo
quent and from Georgia, did his best
to break down the resistance of the
clerk to soft-boiled eggs. None of his
arguments worked, so he Anally took
eggs fried and went back to the office
boiling. After boiling for 24 hours
he went back to the same place and
ordered soft-boiled eggs, but this time
from the management.
He got soft-boiled eggs.
* * v *
BANANAS.
While on the subject of food, it
might be a good idea to tell the
story of Jimmy Malloy, who is 13
years old, lives in Somerset and. at
the moment, has a broken arm.
The broken arm has sort of been
a handicap in several ways, one
of them being that it interferes
with slicing bananas. Jimmy found
it so the other day and in his
dilemma figured out. the electric
fan would be just the slicer for
which he was looking. So he peeled
the banana and thrust it through
the fan from behind, ft sliced, but
all over the ceiling.
SAILOR BEWARE '
'"PHE Naval Academy closed for the
1 Summer before we got around to
writing this story, but we are foing to
write it anyway.
Seems that the Ralph L. McCabe
family went over to Annapolis Sunday
a week ago to bid adieu to a cousin
going away on a Summer cruise. It
had neglected to notify the cousin of
the intended visit and when it arrived
he was out among the 2,000 mid- :
shipmen and 10.000 guests—a sort of
nautical needle loat in a haystack of
humanity.
Mr. McCabe, a resourceful perent.
turned to his 8-year-old blond '
daughter:
"Come on. Sheila." he said, "you're |
just the girl to And a sailor."
She took him literally, departed,
and came berk in eight minutes with 1
the right sailor. And she had only
seen him once before in their two j
lives!
* * * *
JOKES.
VJPHAT with the way one tale is
leading into another today, j
column production is almost too |
easy. That one about children re
minds us of another which has to do
with a Chevy Chase child whose
father started a joke at dinner the j
other night, then decided not to An- |
ish it.
"I've forgotten the point.” he apolo
gised falteringlv to his wife.
"Go on, daddy," piped up his 1*- 1
rear-old daughter, "and then I’ll tell
i'ou some of my really snappy ones."
* * * *
SPECTACLES.
^ SPIDER'S web, woven at the bot
tom of a bush of some kind
:ransformed a local blue-blooded
"ocker spaniel into a carricature of
its lovely self the other day, an
jperative of high veracity reports.
After walking into the web the dog
jacked away with a pair of spectacles
jerfectly outlined in silken strands
‘round its eyes. There was the
jridge acroas the nose, the circular!
vhatucallems which hold the lenses, 1
ind the pieoea (temples, they're
•ailed) which run back to the ears.
Only the dog, the story goes, did not
mow how cute it looked.
* * * *
ART.
R. H. Miller, custodian of the
Palisades Park Recreation House,
is our authority for this catty little
note.
An amateur production of the
play, "The Cat Came Back," had
been using a live cat for the last
three weeks of Its rehearsal. The
feline took the play so seriously
that after being dutifully returned
to its owner one recent night, it
traveled over miles of pavement to
return to the darkened stage where
it had had its brief moment in
the spotlight.
Or had you already heard that
one, too? i
* * * *
BOOKS.
LJPHEN attendants at the Public
Library gather books from the
eference room tables, after students J
tave completed their research work,
he titles found some times give rise <
o a smile. There was the young :
i
!
Jolng to Have a Baby." i
NTERFRATERNITY SING ,
SCHEDULED AT G. W. U. I
.2 Men’s, 12 Women's Groups to <
Compete Tonight for
Prizes.
Fraternities and sororities at George ,
Washington University will hold the
Irst lnterfratemity sing tonight at
1:30 o’clock in the university yard.
Twelve fraternities and a dozen
lororities, having about 10 representa
ives each, will compete. Each' fra
.emity group will sing one of its own (
longs and the alma mater and each
iorority one of its songs and an op
ional number. The winning group
>f boys and girls will each receive a
oving cup. The prizes were donated
>y Stephen O. Ford, local manager of
,he L. G. Balfour Co. and will be pre*
lented by Dr. Cloyd H. Marvin, pres*
dent of the university.
The judges will be Dr. Robert Har*
non, director of the University Glee
71ubs; Dean Elmer Louis Kayser and
Miss Anne Pearl Cooper, chairman of
he Committee on Musical Organize*
ion of the university.
Tobacco Crop Large.
Nearly 29,000.000 pounds of leaf
obaceo will be grogn in Mexico this
'ear. ]
Beauties of Three States Lured by Life in Open Spaces
— - - — » _.* _
MISS KATHLEEN McCORMICK
Is proud of her catch of three barracuda and the trophy
awarded her as “Miss Fisherette of 1937” at Venice. Calif.
Fifty-six girls competed in the annual event to determine
who could catch the most fish in a specified time.
SALLY O'BRIEN,
Who was selected as outdoor girl at the
Merchandise Mart’s models in a recent
contest in Chicago. She will be on
hand to open Chicago’s beaches, offi
cially ushering in the Summer season.
.— . .- -—..
GERRY ROBERTSON
Reclines on the robe of 20,000 feathers she will wear as
the star of the “Cavalcade of the Americas," historical
pageant to be presented at the Pan-American Exposition
opening in Dallas, Tex., June 12. —Wide World Photos.
P.-T. A.!
H Teams Begin Campaign
to Sell Tickets for Bene
fit Magic Shows.
Fourteen team captains and their
workers, representing the 15,000 mem
bers of the District Parent-Teacher
Association, began today their cam
paign to sell tickets for a series of
magic performances to be presented
all next week at the National Theater.
The ticket drive, designed to raise
upward of *10.000 to help the P.-T. A.
Student Aid Committee next year in
Its work of helping to clothe and
Dtherwise assist Washington's needy
school children, is headed by Mrs.
W. A. Moyer, chairman of the P.-T. A.
Ways snd Means Committee, and Mrs.
Walter Fry, president.
In their efforts to reach the goal
and at the same time make a big
success of the entertaining perform
snces of magic and legerdemain
planned for the Washington public,
the school mothers followed in the
wake of a group of Boy Scouts, who
Saturday delivered to the Capital’s
Business men letters asking their aid.
Team Captains.
The appeal to executives of stores,
agencies, offices, factories, markets
and other establishments, called on
them to take in the name of their
:>wn organisation blocks of tickets
lor the shows.
The team captains are Mrs Moyer,
Mrs. Fry. Mrs. J. W. Anderson, Mrs.
W. R. JJcManes, Mrs. G. S. Fraser,
Mrs. L. L. Bailey, Mrs. E. Graves, Mrs.
M. L. Novak, Mrs. C. D. Lowe, Mrs.
3. F. Au, Mrs. B. G. Kirjassoff, Mrs.
j. S. Brooks, Mrs. L. J. Raebach and
Mr*. N. E. Embrev.
Mrs. Edwin J. Dowling, chairman
of the Student Aid Committee for
11 years, meanwhile presented three
letters from school teachers and
principals as an illustration of the
nany appeals and the many expres
sions of gratitude received by the
tommittee for its work. The letters
also Illustrate a demand that the
rommitte* often is unable to cope
vith an account of lack of funds.
Work Is Praised.
Principal B E. Taylor of Henry
School. Seventh and P streets, said
n a letter to Mrs. Dowling:
“It gives me great pleasure to ex
end to you and your associates in the
Student Aid Committee • • • the
tincere thanks and appreciation of
:he teachers and parents * • * for
he generous aid and assistance you
nave always given to the pupils of
»ur school. You have provided our
needy children with clothing and
ihoea, making it possible for many of
hem to come to school when lack of
jroper clothing would have prevented
hem.
“I feel that it Is a great work you
ire doing for child welfare and that
inder your leadership it has become
i most important part of the P.-T. A.
vork in the District.”
• Another letter, from Gertrude Rine
aart, at the S. J. Bowen Nursery J
School, thanked Mrs. Dowling for
tommittee aid and inquired, “Would
t be asking too much, if you can
pare more, to give some more clothes
0 the children? We can use any
hing for children from 2 to 6 years
tf age, and babies, too, and even
.hings for the mothers, who can
nake them over, as we have a moth
er's club here and do a great deal
tf seating.”
Principal Mary Lackey of Dennl
on Vocational School wrote:
“Thank you for the box of shoes.
Ve were able to flt all of the girls
txcept the two named above, and they
ieed shoes very much. Have you
he money for two shoe orders?”
rORSO SLAYER HINTED
IN FIND OF SKELETON
Cleveland Killer Believed to
Have Been Responsible for
9 Murders.
By the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, June 7.—Police in
estigated today the possibility that
1 skeleton found burled under a
Juyahoga River bridge might be that
if the ninth victim of Cleveland's
orso slayer.
Portions of eight mutilated bodies
lave been found in Greater Cleve
and within the past three years,
authorities said examination indi
ated one killer—probably insane—was
esponsible in all the slayings.
Fourteen-year-old Russell Lauer dis
overed the skeleton, with arm and
eg missing, In %*burlap bag which
aad been eoveretf etth lime.
G.W. U. Doctors Show Animals
Tamed by “Psychic Surgery”
Demonstrate Rare Brain Operation on
. Monkeys at Annual Meeting of the
American Medical Association.
BY THOMAS R. HENRY.
Blurt Correspondent ol The Star.
ATLANTIC CITY, June 7.—In
tractable wild animals tamed perma- !
! nently in 24 hours by "psychic sur- j
I gery" were exhibited at the annual
| meeting of the American Medical
, Association w hich opened here today
j by Drs. Walter Freeman, James A.
i Watts and R. W. Barris of the faculty
of George Washington University,
i The operation is prefrontal lobot
! omy, first introduced into the United
States last Fall by Drs. Freeman and
Watts and which has been attended
with remarkable success in various
types of mental disorder. Two holes
are bored through the skull. Through
i these holes a hollow needle contain
ing a sharp wire loop is Inserted and
six marble-sired bibs of white sub
stance are cut loose from the pre
frontal lobe from the back of the cere- ]
bral cortex.
The remarkable results of the op- I
erations were attributed by some '
neurologists to "psychic shock." It i
had been noted in the past that any j
severe jolt to the nervous system was
likely to be of temporary benefit to
persons suffering from mental dis
orders. Hence, the criticism was
raised that chopping of! a finger j
might be as successful as boring a '
hole in the brain.
The Washington neurologists be- !
lieved that the results were much too
specific for such an explanation and
the experiments on wild animals were
carried out to prove the point. They
used macaque monkeys. These animals
never actually become tame in cap
tivity. They always snarl and snap
at the hand that feeds them. They
are never handled without thick
leather gloves.
With macques "wildness" is a nat
ural attribute, not the result of
disordered minds. Because of their
hardiness in captivity, they are com
monly used in physiological experi- j
ments and hundreds of radical oper
ations have been carried out on their
brains without in the least altering
their natural jungle temperaments.
This throws out the argument that
they are subject to change by psychic
shock.
Accidental observation.
The lobotomy operations resulted
from an accidental observation by Dr.
Barris. He had removed one side of
the prefrontal lobe of a macque with
another purpose in view. After the
animal had recovered from this oper
ation, he extirpated the other side.
After the first operation, the creature
had remained as wild as ever. But
as soon as it came out of the
anesthetic given it for the second
lobe removal, Dr. Barris noted an al
most unbelievable change in Its be
havior.
Instead of napping viciously at his
fingers it cuddled against his arm.
It loved to be stroked and petted. It
had completely lost its fear of man.
It was happy and playful. It was even
tamer than the ordinary Capuchin
monkey used by organ grinders. As
it recovered from the operation it be
came as lively vs ever, but apparently
a little more restless. It would spend
hours walking in a circle, always to
the left because, Dr. Barris believes,
the left lobe was extrlpated first.
This led to the test of prefrontal
lobotomy. Instead of removing the
pre-frontal lobes they were blocked
off by serving the six marble-sized
cores of white matter. The results
on behavior were precisely the same
as complete removal of the lobes. The
theory is that something in the nature
of road barriers is thrown up across
the pathways of Impulses from the
pre-frontal region to the brain. The
normal activity of the higher brain
centers located Just back of the
forehead goes on vs before, but at a
slower pace. Theoretically, it was
explained, the same results might be
expected with any of the higher wild
animals—such as lions or tigers.
Nothing has been attempted in this
line.
Declared “Drivers tf Brain.”
When the operation was first per
formed at George Washington Uni
versity Hospital last Fall the results
were explained on the theory that
the pre-frontal lobes—formerly con
sidered at the locations of human in
telligence—actually acted as “drivers
of the brain.” In them the center
of speech is located and they are the
latest acquisitions in animal evolu
tion. When they became too active,
it was reasoned, they “lashed" the
older parts of the brain to unendur
able artivjfy. with mental break
downs as the result From this
over-driving, especially characteristic 1
of modern civilization, resulted wor
ries., distractions and all sorts of
neuroses.
While most of those upon whom the
operations were performed became !
calmer and happier, there was some
question as to the permanent effects |
on the mind itself. After all, the
prefrontal lobes were the most notably
•'human” parts of the body—their I
sire being the chief differentiating
characteristic between the brains of
man and the lower animals.
Since then this subject has been
investigated at George Washington 1
and the findings were revealed in the
exhibit today. There seems little
question but that mental alertness
and originality are diminished. Per
sons lead a more vegetative existence,
but this does not mean that they are
not mentally normal.
Three Tests Exhibited.
Dr. Freeman exhibited to physicians
today three tests. One was a simple
mare of electrical contact points.
Ordinarily it can be learned in four
trials and then repeated successfully ,
for an indefinite period. Persons
upon whom the operation had been
performed, it was found, require much
longer. They cannot remember their j
mistakes and repeat the same errors
time and time again.
Another consists of a sheet covered
with squares of different colors. A
person is required simply to name
the colors of thesa squares in order.
It looks easy for any one who is not
color blind, but actually. Dr. Freeman
says, a person who is emotionally up
set will pause several minutes before
being able to name a color. Even
entirely normal persons suffer
''blocks.” They can't keep their j
minds concentrated on what seems
a senseless task, although their
thoughts to roam, and find them- |
selves stuck. Persons upon whom the
frontal lobe operation is performed
do considerably better than persons
with entirely intect brains. They are
less subject to distraction and this
some times has led to the illusion that
their Intelligence actually increases.
It only means, Dr. Freeman explains,
that there is a less bumpy flow of
thoughts along a narrow channel.
The third test shown today is a
variation of the old country fair shell
game. Pennies are concealed under
cups and a person tries to remember
where he saw them placed. Here again
lobotomized persons do not succeed
nearly so well as normal persons. They
probably could be more easily victim
ized by a swindler.
The following long list of mental and
emotional conditions, Dr. Freeman
showed today, have been improved in
Washington patients by the revolu
tionary operation: Tension, appre
hension, anxiety, depression, agitation,
pre-occupation, sleeplessness, desire to
commit suicide, exhaustion, introver
sion, delusions, crying spells, halluci
nations, obsessions, nervous indiges
tion, cold hands, states of panic, dis
orientation, compulsions, catatonia,
alcoholism, heart flutterings and
hysterical paralysis.
There is no disposition on the part
of the Washington doctors, they
stressed, to put forward the new
“surgery of the psyche” as a cure-all
for mental disorders. Some of their
cases have shown remarkable, and ap
parently permanent, improvement.
Most of them have shown some im
provement. In only one case has a
death resulted. All the other patients
have had no bad physical effects.
The operation seems to be most
beneficial, they say, in cases just on
the border line between the normal
and the Insane—persons apparently
suffering from no organic disease of
the brain but in extreme conditions
of nervousness and worry. life has
become too fast for them and it is
slowed down. The remarkable results
with the wild animals, it was stressed,
probably would be explained on much
the same basis. The macaque in cap
tivity is in an environment to which
it cannot entirely adjust itself. It is
constantly worried and afraid and ex
presses these states in continual hos
tility. It is a highly intelligent ani
mal and its reactions presumably are
dictated by its prefrontal lobes. Ani
mals like the organ grinder's Capuchin
perhaps hasn't brains enough to stsy
wild.
Similar experiments at Yale Uni
versity on chimpansees. Dr. Barris
explained, have shown that when the
animals deprived of their prefrontal
lobes are glared In baffling situations
they no lfcafer get mad Moot It and
go into tantrums, but keep on trying,
over and over again, without the least
emotional reaction.
A particularly vieiou* form of ab
dominal cancer induced in rat* for
mixing in their food daily over a
period of two month* of wheat germ
oil. the most common source of vita
min E, which is in wide use as a
preventative of sterility, was shown
physicians here todsy by L. O. Rown
tree. John Lansbury and Arthur Stein
berg of the Philadelphia General
Hospital.
For some years Dr. Rowntree and
his associates have experimented with
the remarkable growth induced in
rats by feeding extracts of the thymus
gland at the base of the neck. There
was reason to believe that some of
the vitimins might be concerned in
this growth, which is progressively
accelerated from generation to gen
eration until rats attain their full
growth in three or four days.
Appearance of Cancer Unexpected.
The appearance of the cancer with
the vitamin E preparation was entirely
unexpected. The abnormal growths
could be removed, transplanted into
other rats, and keep on growing.
They are among the worst forms of
cancer known to science. The Phila
delphia doctors warned that their re
sults are entirely in rats and there is
no reason to believe, from present !
evidence, that overdoses of wheat germ
on may have the same effects in
human beings. The cancers were pro- i
duced, they stress, with unrefined
wheat germ oil. They have been un
able to duplicate the results with re
fined products obtained from pharma
ceutical houses. The significant re
sult. they say, is the evidence that a
vegetable product contains something
which will produce cancer. Hitherto
it has been possible to produce artifi
cial cancers only with certain Ur
derivatives.
Location of the brain site of a sixth
sense, that of location in spare, was
reported in an exhibit arranged by
Drs. E. A. Spiegel and Mona Spiegel
Adolph of Temple University, Phila
delphia, and Dr. Norman P. Scala of
Georgetown University Mertir»i Rrhnni
May Relieve Seasickness.
The experiments in which the Wash
ington doctor participated not onlv
throw new light on the physiology of
the brain and autonomic nervous sys
tem. but may lead to practical meas
ures for relief of seasickness, dizziness
on a merry-go-round, etc. The sense
organ of this ‘ sixth sense,” it was ex
plained. is the labyrinth of the inner
ear. When this is stimulated, either
by rotary or rocking motion, or by
an electric current or cold water, a
feeling of vertigo results. By special
instruments the experimenters have
found just what happens. First there
is a connection between the labyrinth
and a center in the medulla oblongata
at the base of the brain. This center
is inhibited, causing a relaxation of
blood vessels throughout the body and
a lowering of blood pressure. At the
same time the center of the vagus
nerve in the medulla is stimulated,
resulting in increased movements of
the stomach. This is responsible for
the upset stomachs so common in sea
sickness. With the causes known, Dr.
Spiegel said, various drugs can be
administered to stimulate the vaso
motor and inhibit the vagus center, i
The best system, he believes, is to
lay flat on one's back in a boat, thus I
assuring a good blood supply to the !
brain.
The brain center of this sixth sense
long has been in dispute among physi- ;
ologists. Dr. Spiegel and his asso
ciates studied a large number of cases
of "perpetual seasickness” due to
tumors of the brain. They found
that the moat common site of these
was in the temporal lobe, Just over
the ears, In which also is located the
center of hearing. The most active
point for the production of vertigo
seems to be about at the Junction of
the temporal and parietal lobes.
Represented in Cerebral Cortex.
They And further proof that this
sixth sense is represented in the cere
bral cortex of the brain in the fact that
conditioned reflexes can be estab
lished in dogs held in various posi
tions on a tilting table and that the
now familiar brain waves, known to
be entirely confined to the cortex, can
be extinguished by stimulating the
ear labarynth.
Discovery of a new hormone in the
pancreas, lack of which apparently is
responsible for fatty infiltration of
the liver, was reported by Drs. Lester
R. Dragstedt and John Van Prohaska
of the University of Chicago.
It long has been know that animals
from which the pancreas is removed
could not live, but this was supposed
to be due to the other hormone se
creted from this organ, the well
known insulin. It was found, how
ever, that even with plentiful injec
tions of insulin the animals died and
that the curious liver condition, which
sometimes is found in human beings,
was a constant phenomenon.
An extract of the pancreas has been
prepared which prevents this. Known
as lingeale. It msy become an im
ports** adjunct to medicine,
MISS EARHART OFF
Heads Over South Atlantic
From Brazil, Bound for
Dakar, Senegal.
Et the Associated Press.
NATAL, Brazil June 7.—Amelia
Earhart headed over the South At
lantic in a light rain today for Dakar.
Senegal, her goal or> the African con
tinent in her intended flight around
the world.
She left here on the 1.900-mile
flight at 2:16 am. Eastern standard
time and radioed more than four hours
later that "everything is going fine "
The silvery monoplane had 850 gal
lons of gasoline and 80 gallons of oil
aboard.
Mi.ss Earhart's round-the-world at
tempt started at Oakland, Calif., from
where she flew to Miami.
The plane made a perfect take-off
at Parnamirio Airport, while officials
of the field, operated by the French
trans-Atlantic flying company, Air
finance, looked on.
With the American flyer was her
navigator, Capt. Fred Noonan.
Miss Earhart. who arrived here yes
terday morning from Fortaleza.
Brazil, j^se at her hotel a little after
midnight and was at the field at 1 a m.
Noonan jumped into the cockpit
first. Then Miss Earhart lifted her
self in and w'aved to the small crowd
as the motor started and the plane
roared into the air.
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IL DUCE STAGES
BIG NAVAL SHOW
Demonstrates to German Field
Marshall Italy Could Be
Useful Ally.
B. the Associated Press.
ABOARD DESTROYER MAE
STRALE. off Naples. June 7.—Premier
Mussolini deployed Italy’s naval might
before Field Marshal Werner von
Blomberg today in a mock rombat
designed to prove to the German war
lord his Fascist ally's strength in the
Mediterranean.
The giant review was admittedly
planned to offset in the Reich war
minister’s mind or in the mind of
his Fuehrer, Adolf Hitler, any linger
ing effects of the recent derogatory
campaign against Italian prowess car
ried on in a portion the British and
French press.
More than 70 submarines were
massed as part of the grand fleet
of more than 150 warships brought
together for the maneuvers.
Italian officers boasted to their hon
ored German guest: ‘Only Fascist
Italy can mobilize so many under
water craft at a moment's notice."
Premier Mussolini was known to
have chosen a mock combat as the
significant means of displaying Italy’s
navy to Germany to emphasize the
Fascist state as a great power whose
force could be relied on if the actual
test came.
II Duce and Von Blomberg were
believe to have co-ordinated Italo
German international policy, particu
larly with respect to their support of
insurgent Generalissimo Francisco
Franco in Spain, in conferences during
the past few days.
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REPORTED MAIL BAN
HIT IN PROBE PLEA
Bridges Urges Senate Inquiry
Into “All Cases of Alleged
Interference.”
■ r the Aissocimed Presn.
Senator Bridges, Republican, of New
Hampshire, urged the Senate today to
investigate "all cases of alleged inter
ference’’ with delivery of mail to strike
bound industrial plants.
Bridges read press reports of the
Post Office's refusal to deliver food
packages to workers in steel mills at
Youngstown, Ohio, and other cities
where steel" strikes are In progress.
"It these reports are true," he
shouted, “this condition is a disgrace
to the United States and the postal
service."
The New Hampshire Senator intro
duced a resolution to authorise an
inquiry by a Senate committee of five
into all cases of alleged interference
with mail deliveries to strike-bound
Manta and any agreements. Involving
Bntal authorities, to curtail servlet.
2,000 Attend Memorial Rites
at Arlington—Veterans
Present. 1
Confederate organizations united
yesterday to pay tribute to heroes of
the South at memorial aervinjs m
Arlington Ampitheater.
Three Confederate veterans, all
from Washington, sat on the staza
during the program, which eras wit
nessed by more than 2,000 person'.
They were Gen. E. M. Waller, 94. of
1409 Harvard street: Maj. Robert W
Wilson. 90, of 3548 Warder street, and
J. J. George, 91, who lives at 1373
Quincy street.
The observance was sponsored bv
Camp 171, United Confederate Vet
erans, the Sons and Daughters of the
Confederacy and several other pa
triotic organizations.
Representatives Rayburn of Texas,
the Democratic floor leader, and Fish
of New York addressed the assembly,
with Mrs. Julia Evans, president of
the Maj. Charles M. Stedman Chapter
of the Children of the Confederacy.
“If Lincoln had lived, the great
Southland would not have been
ground under the heel of the carpet
bagger,” Rayburn said. The speaker
also paid tribute to Gen. Robert E.
Lee and his Confederate associates.
“The issues of that hour have long
since been settled,” he said, “but it
is fitting that on such occasions as
this those Confederates be remem
bered by their descendants who live
today."
Fish described a bill he has intro
duced to authorize erection of a
statue of Gen. Lee at the West Ga'e
of Arlington.
Fred P Myers, past commander of
the District and Maryland division of
the Sons of Confederate Veterans, pre
sided during the program Mrs Al
bion W. Turk, past president of the
j District division of the United Daugh
ters of the Confederacy, gave the sa*
; lute to the Confederate Flag, and
i Marx E. Kahn recited his "American
Ode.”
i After the amphitheater services, the
assembly followed the Marine Band to
the Confederate Monument near the
West Gate, where wTeaths were placed
over the gravfs of the Confederate
dead.
Other organizations which partici
pated in the services included the
Confederate Southern Memorial Asso
ciatlon, Children of the Confederacy,
United Spanish War Veterans, U. S
A American Legion. District National
I Guard and Boy Scouts of America.
SOUTHERN TEXTILE
RATE DELAY DENIED
I. C. C. Refuse* Suspension of
New Structure, Which Take*
Effect Tomorrow.
; Ej the Assoelated Fr«*.
The Interatate Commerce Comm is
1 sion refused today to suspend a new
I rate structure on textile products
j from Southern territory, but agreed
1 to reopen the case or further hear*
; ings.
The new rate structure, which the
1 Associated Southeastern Textile Mills
i said will mean a JO per cent increase
| on products from Georgia and Ala
bama, will take effect tomorrow.
The textile aaaociatlon. joined by
Gov. Bibb Graves of Alabama, peti
tioned for a suspension on the ground
the industry would be 'seriously crip
pled'' by the higher rates. They con
tended it would upset a long existing
relationship between the industry and
rail carriers.
Railroads and competing mills in
other territories opposed the petition,
I arguing the new charges would be fair
and would remove many difficulties
which exist under the present rate
structure.
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ROBERT M. TURNER DIES:
VETERAN OF TWO WARS
l _
Employe of Quartermaster Gen
eral's Office Succumbs at
Mount Alto.
Robert M Turner, 58. of *913 rirs'
; street, employe of the Commercial
j Traffic Division. Quartermaster Oen
[ eral's Office, died Saturday in Mount
Alto Hospital after an illness of four
I months.
I Mr. Turner, bom in Fauquier Coun
ty, Va.. was a veteran of both the
Spenish-American and World War".
He was a 32nd degree Mason end a
member of Washlngton-AlexandrU
Lodge, No. 22.
He l* survived by his widow. Mrs.
Ruth Harriet Turner; a son, Robert
M, jr.; two brothers, Benjamin F.
Turner, this city, and George E.
Turner, New York City, and two sis
ters, Mrs. Cora Smither.s and Miss
Mamie Turner, both of Alexandria,
i Funeral services are being held in
Fort Myer Chapel at 1:30 p.m. today,
! followed by burial In Arlington Na
J tional Cemetery.
Congress in Brief
TODAY.
Senate:
Considers routine business.
Joint tabor Committee hears John
L. Lewis on wage snd hour bill.
House:
Considers bill tg extend P. W. A.
two years.
Flood Control Committee opens
hearings on emergency projects for
Lower Ohio Basin.
Public Lands Committee continue*
hearings on California-Oregon land
grant bill.
TOMORROW.
Sena te:
Probably will take up District ap
propriation bill.
Joint committee will continue hear
lnga on wage and hour bill.
Appropriations Subcommittee execu
tive session on the unemployment re
lief bill.
House:
Considers immigration bill.
Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Committee begins hearings on bill to
amend the securities act, 10 a.m
Subcommittee of District Commit
tee begins hearings on bill for re
tirement of judges of Police, Juvenile
and Municipal courts. 10:30 a.m.
Subcommittee of District Commit
tee begins hearings on bill to limit
the number of taxicabe, 10 a.m. *