Evening Star Newspaper, September 10, 1936, Page 3

-BRAIN OIL FIL MYSTERIES FOUND Sclentist Tells of New Life- . Giving “Gossamer” State of Matter. # By the Assoclated Press. PITTSBURGH, Pa., September 10. —An entirely new ‘“gossamer” state of matter composed of microscopic oil films which promise to help ex- plain some of the mysterious work- ings of the brain, muscles and other parts of the human body was de- scribed today before the American Chemical Society. Prof. Willlam D. Harkins and Dr. » R. J. Myers of the University of Chi- cago described experiments with such films which apparently supply the missing link between inert materials of the body and the functioning mem- branes which contribute toward maintaining life. Molecule in Thickness. ‘The oil films, they explained, were in some cases only one molecule thick, or about one thirty-milliontk of an inch, the molecules of which ‘when spread on water could be made ~to stand up, lie down, or expand to the extent that one drop of an ani- mal or vegetable oil would cover an area of 20 acres. The Chicago scientists announced they had disproved old theories of mmolecular activity which held that oil fims could not be more than one molecule thick and that their new *polymocular” films apparently con- stituted the new state of matter. They believed the body could not exist when served by single molecule films, that such thin separations between tissues would result in clogging the . functions of bodily organs and *crossed wires” in the lightning-like electrical impulses which radiate through the brain and nerves. Thicker Films Declared to Exist. Thicker films must exist, Prof. Harkins believed, and he reported to- day proof that such polymocular films did occur in nature. The new films, ranging from 2 to 100 molecules in thickness, provide an explanation of the transition from a fiim to a bodily fmembrane, it was pointed out. In explaining the importance of the discovery Dr. Harkins declared that “films of oil on water, though they kill mosquitoes, seem to those + Who do not understand their signifi= eance of little importance. Millions of films, however, exist in the bodies of plants and animals, and have an all-important part to play in the phenomena of life. “Without these films and the re- fated membranes life would be non- existent,” he added. 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Sand ring. Md.. on Glen- %n’m’" 5 Bpeiag 2d. WAL W, MOORE. ,F‘URNACES VACUUM CLEANED !‘!m CARLBOB& INC. ave. n.e. Phone Hillside 0530. GRAPES—GRAPE JUICE. Follo Bridec. Raute. o' thivugh Viomna VERHOT T “ORCHARDS. Vimmm 1803, CHAMBERS s one of ""n""..‘#f‘ ) 2500. Donovan Tells of District Budget Plight Budget Officer Daniel J. Donovan is shown as the public hearings on the District’s proposed estimates for fiscal year 1938 opened today. He declared that, unless the Feder_al‘paymen{ to the local government is raised above the $5,000,000 granted for this year, the city’s operating exr- penses will exceed the total expected revenue for next year by $1,877,000. THE EVENING STAR WASHINGTON, 400,000, which will become & charge against next year’s revenues. Present estimates of general fund revenues for 1938, including a Federal payment of no more than $5,000,000, are about $36,350,000. There are a number of fixed charges which must of this sum. Included among these are reimbursement of the P. W. A. loans, $1,000,000; pay- ment of $300,000 under the Capper- Cramton act for park expansion; completion of the new Police Court Building, and claims against she Dis- trict estimated at $350,000. These charges would reduce the general fund revenues to about $32,- 385,000. The proposed 1938 esti- mates chargeable to general revenues now amount to $52,345,000, indicat- ing they must be reduced by about $17,750,000, unless there are taX in- creases or a very substantial boost in the Federal payment. Operating costs alone for this year are expected to total $34,262,000 as against 1938 requests for $40,553,000, an increase of $6,290,000. For this year, appropriations for capital im- provements amount to $5,237,000 as against 1938 requests for capital out- lay amounting to $11,792,000, or an increase of $6,554,000. Since 1920 costs of operation of the government has increased about 102 per cent, from $16,900,000 to $34,200,- 000, he added. “Therefore,” he concluded, “we find that the operating costs for this fiscal year amount to about $1,877,000 more than the net general revenues we may expect at this time for the next fiscal year.” The first witness was Willlam A. Maio, representing the Southeast Council of Citizens’ Associations, who asked the Commissioners to approve 17 requested programs of improvement for the Southeast section. Among these was an item of $650,000 for starting construction of a new Penn- sylvania Avenue Bridge; street widen- ing, additional parks, playgrounds and police and fire protection. Asked by Commissioners Hazen and =StarStagiEnoto. N i no would be in favor of a tax clared. “The Washington Taxpayers’ Association will leave no stone un- turned to see that this wasteful ex- penditure of our money ceases June 30, 1937.” Lusk asserted it was “strange, in- deed,” that there should be 4,444 re- lief cases, representing some 12,000 individuals, “in a city where 117,000 with a semi-monthly pay roll of more than $7,000,000 are employed by the Government, where building which employs a large porportion of un- skilled help is at & seven-year peak; where department store sales top all records; where apartments, office buildings and houses are filled; where there is a continuous and unusual de- mand for domestic help; where res- taurants are packed day and night; where automobile registration is the highest per capita in the world; where real estate tax collections are the best; where all these conditions exist and have existed for a year or more.” He answered his question by stating: “Of course, we know why it is. The administration of relief involves jobs, good jobs paying up to $5,000 a year. As the rolls have been cut down, it means & proportionate cut in the ad- ministrative staff. The continued de- mand for relief does not come from the organized citizens. Practically every man in the street is against it.” Suggests Reorganization. ‘The association also protested against suggestions for giving firemen a 44- hour week, by adopting a three-platoon system. It also suggested some reorgan- ' probably $4,000,000 more than the ization of District depariments as an ecopomy move, but opposed any change in the commission form of government. Today’s hearing was to recess after the morning session for a conference between the Commissioners and the between the Commissioners and a | commission appointed recently by President Roosevelt to direct a study of equitable fiscal relations between the Federal and District Governments. Maj. Donovan will meet with them. The commission, headed by F. L. Jacobs, Chicago efficiency engineer and tax expert, also will confer with other departmental heads. Some significance is attached to the conference, coming as it does s0 soon after the Commissioners opened their series of budget hearings. The meet- ing will be held behind closed doors and there are indications that the results will not be disclosed. Jacobs already has had several in- formal conferences with local officials, who have turned over to him a mass of data which he will use in his study. Commissioner Allen indicated his course at the hearing by advocating yesterday a local income tax in sub- stitution for the tax on intangible per- sonal property. Between Allen and Donovan a difference of opinion exists over the merits of imposing a local income tax—provided Congress would approve. 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SATURDAY ! boost to get the proposed jmprove- ments, Maio said he would, but he did not believe it would be necessary. When Lusk took the stand he re- marked: “The Southeast spokesman atill believes in Santa Claus.” Malo suggested the “way out” of the situation was to get the Government to increase the Federal payments. Alen declared taxes must be in- creased merely to cover increased maintenance and operating costs— barring a boost in the Federa pay- ment. COLORED WOMAN SLAIN Body Is Found in Hallway of Sherman Avenue Home. Her head severely battered, Ida Vir- ginia Wigenton, 28, colored, was found dead today lying face downward in the hallway of the house where she lived at 3013 Sherman avenue. Police are looking for a colored man believed to have a knowledge of the killing. ‘The body was discovered by Charles M. Tolbert, colored, a resident at the intangible personal property tax Donovan, on the other hand, estimated it would produce be- tween $500,000 and $1,000,000 more the first year. He figured, however, on increased tax returns later. The tax on intangible personal property was said to yleld around $2,000,000. Commissioner Hazen is expected to advocate increased gasoline taxes and in lieu of that an inheritance tax. Most of the tax suggestions are favored by the special committee on taxation with the exception of the proposed income tax. Maj. Donovan gave the keynote to the hearing by reminding the score of witnesses present that the District this year has appropriations which exceed by nearly $4,000,000 the rev- enues the District will collect within this fiscal year, Summary of Problem. He gave this brief summary of the District's financial problem: There was a surplus in the general fund of $2,798,000 at the end of the past year, which is being used nm‘shermnn avenue address, who came year. There will be a deficit at the |to the tenth precinct and informed end of this fiscal year of about $1,- police. Here’s the only cigarette that keeps tobacco from mouth and teeth...and "checks smoke irritants Vicero FILTER TIP CIGARETTES Annual Sale of KODAK ALBUMS HIS important event comes but once a year. It provides a wonderful opportunity for you to obtain a fine Kodak album at a substantial reduction from its regular price. Come in and see these bar- gains: A FEW OF OUR OUTSTANDING SPECIALS: Artificial Leather 7x11—50 leaves § .75 Album_—————-o-occe-mn=-$ 10x12—50 leaves $1.25 Album____. 11x14—50 leaves $1.50 Album._ Genuine Leather 7x11—50 leaves $1.50 Album = Also 10x12 and 11x14 albums at reduced prices. This special Kodak album sale ends Stflcm?n 26; act now if you wish to take advantage of it! EASTMAN A e/ STORES . " 607 14th Street N.W. D. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, .1936." FIGHT IS RENEWED - ON WIRE SEIZUR Hearst Attorneys File Ap- peal on Dismissal of Plea for Injunction. B7 the Associated Press. William Randolph Hearst has re- opened his fight with the Senate Lobby Committee over seizure of tele- grams by committee agents. Attorneys for the publisher yester- day filed an appeal with the United States Court of Appeals from a Dis- trict Court decision which dismissed Hearst's petition for an injunction against the committee on grounds of lack of jurisdiction. Hearst had sought an injunction to restrain the Federal Communica- tions Commission from giving any messages to the Senate Committee and to restrain the committee from using messages already received, or from receiving others. The appeal stated the sole ques- tion presented was whether the judi- ciary “has jurisdiction to entertain & suit to enjoin five men, members of the United States Senate, indi- vidually or as a Senatorial Committee, from violating the rights of a citizen as guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States. It contended “the inviolable nature of telegraphic messages has long been upheld in Federal courts. The dis- closure of their contents by the com- munications companies transmitting them for hire is illegal.” The Federal Communications Com- mission, the appeal added, had no authority, mandatory or discretionary, to disclose the contents of & tele- graphic communication to any agency of the Government for any purpose whatsoever. ‘The appeal stated further that “the action of the Federal Communica- tions Commission constituted an im- pertinent prying into private affairs| in violation of the provisions of the Constitution.” The Communications Commission, it said, has no authority whatsoever to examine the messages of newspa- pers or newspaper publishers for any purpose other than to determine whether they were handled in ac- Choice Acreage DIVIDED INTO PLOTS from one-half acre up. One-half acre priced at $750; acres at $1,250. Be. o af River d e of Washingt; architectural, tructional services ugh this office t p s intment to' see this cordance with properly filed tariffs at lawful rates.” Any other use of such messages, the brief stated, was “a violation of the first amendment to the Constitution of the United States as an abridg- ment or restraint of freedom of the press.” Seven errors in the lower court rul- ing were alleged by counsel for Hearst. JAPANESE COMMENT ON SUBBOATS REFUSED Swanson Statement Treaty Vio- lated by Retaining Extra Num. ber Elicits No Expression. By the Assoclated Press. TOKIO, September 10.—The navy ministry refused to comment today on assertions by Claude A. Swanson, United States Secretary of the Navy, Japan violated the London naval treaty by its move to retain more submarines than the pact’s terms per- mit. 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