Evening Star Newspaper, January 10, 1937, Page 9

SLEEP MACHINE DRONES LULLABY Science May Employ Radio in Making Use of New Gadget. BY AURELIUS KINSEY, Associated Press Feature Service Writer. EVANSTON, I, January 9.— Bcience has pulled a new one out of the bag—a sleep-inducing machine! Its soft, monotonous lullaby may even be used to put most of the Na- tion to sleep at a given hour every | night, suggests John J. B. Morgan, the Northwestern psychology profes- sor who invented it. Instead of counting black sheep or reading till you get drousy, you would simply turn on the radio—and let science do the rest. Like Airplane Drone. The machine, which Morgan says he has used successfully on individ- uals and groups in his psychology classes, is no larger than a :mall radio set. It contains an electric motor-driven mechanism causing a diaphragm to vibrate 20 times a min- ute with a tone two octaves below middle “C.” The “r-u-u-m, r-u-u-m, r-u-u-m” of the machine, en airplane motor in full flight, in- duces relaxation, weariness and then sleep, says Morgan, in all extroverts and introverts except the extreme types. Only a small number of per- sons find the tone irritating, he says. The time required to produce sleep varies with the persom, his imme- diate mental and physical alertness and his environment, but the profes- sor says he has found that usually one becomes passive and drowsy in a few minutes. 20 Frequency Best Rate. The tone frequency can be regulated, but the professor says that 20 times & minute is most effective. The listener 1s inclined to co-ordinate his breathing with the 20-time rate, which, like his breathing when asleep, is slower than the cadence with which he usually breathes. Morgan suggests it might be possible to put the Nation to sleep each night if radio broadcasting stations would send out a series of notes similar in tone and cadence to that produced by his machine. The tones would be broadcast at an hour most persons go to bed—if that could be determined. Great Possibilities Predicted. He says that households wishing to tune in could do so without worrying about turning off their radio sets if they had an automatic attachment ‘which would take care of that. ‘The few persons who find the tone rritating could avoid it by not tuning in on the particular stations broadcast- ing it. Morgan sees the possibility that | many persons might be caught almost anywhere except in bed at the “bed- time hour.” Any one ‘who is bored or capable of being thrown into a passive state of mind might be induced to sleep whether he be visiting, reading, eating or driving an automobile. “It might even be helpful in put- ting a restless child to sleep,” the pro- fessor says. “Repetition of the tone could easily catch the child’s attention, | lull it into passivity and put it to sleep.” MAN HELD IN DEATH OF ‘DIZZY'S’ RELATIVE Bus Manager's Slaying Leads to Arrest of Mississippi Man. By the Assoclated Press. GULFPORT, Miss, January 9.— Robert Tinsley, 45, was captured with- out resistance today by Harrison County officers investigating the kill- ing last night of Floyd Devine, a rela- tive by marriage of Jerome “Dizzy” Dean. Officers reported Tinsley, when in- formed Devine, manager of the bus company, had died of bullet wounds inflicted at the bus barn, said, “I am satisfied.” The officers said he ac- cused Devine of “‘double-crossing” him. Devine's wife, a sister of the wife of the Cardinals’ star pitcher, was with her husband when he was shot. She told officers Tinsley demanded to know whether he was fired and that her husband answered, “So far as I can tell tonight you are.” NEW LANDING GEAR WILL BE SHOWN HERE like the drone of | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Moore with Franklin, jr., shown immediately after the baby was returned to them last night after being kept at Gallinger Hospital since last Wednesday night. “We’re Happy Now, Aren’t We, Mamma?” —Star Staff Photo. Baby (Continued From First Page.) to us, kinder than I ever thought pos- sible a day ago. We've had letters and sympathy calls and offers of as- sistance. We appreciate it, don't we, mamma?” ! But Mrs. Moore only nodded as| she placed Franklin, jr. in his crib and gave him his rubber doll. She watched the baby and paid scant heed | | to_the visitors. The Moores left Franklin, jr., locked | in their automobile Wednesday night | | while they attended a moving-picture | | show. It was their first night out | in five months, Moore said. A passer- | by heard the child's cries, and called police, who broke in a window of | the sedan and took the infant to | the Receiving Home for Children. The i | Moores were jailed when they showed up to ask for their baby. “We spent the night in jail” Moore | said. “We were fingerprinted and | questioned and taken to court. I was handcuffed like an ordinary criminal. But we've forgotten all that, now that | we have the baby back.” | Moore, a W. P. A. worker, who is | employed cataloguing records at the | | National Museum, said they *‘put the | baby to bed” in the car because they | | had no one to leave him with when | they decided to take their first recrea- | | tion in five months. | “But all that's changed mnow, I hope.” he said. “Several people have | | offered to look after the child for us | if we want to go out some night. | Others called to express sympathy and promise assistance. “We're happy now, mama?” “Yes,” Mrs. Moore said. are.” 'CHACO CONFEREES AGREE ON ACCORD‘ Pact Would Maintain Status Quo in Disputed Area, Prevent- | ing Conflict. By the Associated Press. | BUENOS AIRES, January 9.—The | Chaco Peace Conference today ini- | tialed an accord for maintenance of | | the military status quo in the disputed Chaco region and for free commer- | cial traffic in the Western Chaco. | | Representatives of Bolivia and Par-| |aguay and the neutral members of | | the conference gave their assent to | the accord, which now goes to the |two governments for final approval. The agreement provides for con- | tinued neutral supervision of tke line iol separation between the Bolivian | and Paraguayan armies. This ar-| rangement is based on a plan pre- pared by Gen. Martinez Pita of Ar- gentina. Neutral members of the con(ermce‘ believed the accord will prevent fur-| ther troubles in the Chaco and also aren't ‘we, “Yes, we | ence at the conference of journalists May Wed King ENGAGEMENT TO LEOPOLD OF BELGIUM RUMORED. HEAD OF MORMONS TRAVELER AT & Heber Jeddy Grant “on the | Go” Constantly to Ends of Earth. SALT LAKE CITY (#).—Heber Jeddy Grant, 80-year-old president | of the Latter-Day Saints’ Church, who visits constituents in even the far corners, was disclosed today as the world’s most widely-traveled uhglous} | leader. Fond of speeding off to important meetings, the white-bearded leader is | “on the go” almost constantly—and 4 PRINCESS ALEXANDRINE LOUISE Of Denmark whose engage- ment, rumors in both Belgium and Denmark insist, to King Leopold of the Belgians will soon been announced. —Wide World Photo. NEWSPAPER GUILD | CABLES PROTEST| Omission in Plans for Pan-Amer-| ican Press Peace Unit Is Deplored. By the Associatec Press. NEW YORK, January 9—The American Newspaper Guild's Inter- national Executive Board today cabled a protest to the Pan-American Press Conference at Valparaiso, Chile, | against omission of the guild from consideration in the formation of a | Pan-American press peace organiza- tion. | The board said the guild was “the only representative organization of our profession in North America and is so recognized by the International Federation of Journalists * * * of | whose 21 constituent Nationai So- cieties of Journalists, we are the largest group.” | The cable characterized the pres- | claiming to be representative of the | profession in the United States as a | “seeming imposture.” | At the concluding session of & two- day meeting the guild board also dopted a resolution urging revoca- tion of the suspension from member- ship in the American Federation of | Labor of unions affiliated with the | Committee for Industrial Organiza- | | OIL WORKERS DON COATS | younger church officials call him the most seasoned traveler of all “Yes, I like to see new places and | enjoy it when my duties carry me about the country,” the venerable Westerner asserted in an interview. “I can do more work than I could | 33 years ago, when I went to Eng- land, at 47, to preside over the Euro- | pean and British missions. I had| church jurisdiction over members from Scandinavia to South Africa | then, but I could do a better job of | | it today.” Neither the church leader nor his secretary, Joseph Anderson, could es- | timate the number of miles Presi- dent Grant has traveled on churchly duties during his 18-year administra- | tion. | But here is a sample of his itinerary | —not including scores of motoring | trips in Utah and Idaho—within re- | cent months, always with the church | headquarters here as his starting point: . \ May, conferences at Detroit and Dearborn, Mich.; June, Grant fam- | ily reunion, Galesburg, I.: July,| Pacific Northwest and Alaska; Au- gust, Estes Park, Colo.; Butte, Mont., and Cardston, Alberta. where an | $800,000 temple was dedicated; Sep- tember, monument dedication at Oma- | ha, Nebr.; New York City (visited also the preceding January), and Bos- ton; October, San Prancisco; Novem- ber, organization of a new church stake in Chicago. The wiry tourist, who got his first taste of travel on horseback and by wagon—he was 17 before the railroads came to Utah—prefers train and auto- mobile transportation. | OF ICE TO KEEP WARM Outer Garments Soaked and Frozen to Provide Wind- proof Shield. By the Associated Press. LYONS, Kans,, January 9.—Oil well | rig workers here encase themselves in | JANUARY 10, SERVICE IS PLANNED IN PARKS EASTER Chorus of 100 to Sing at Sunrise Rites—Site Not Yet Determined. An Easter Sunday sunrise service, in which 100 mixed voices will sing the four great oratorios from Joseph Haydn's “Creation,” is being planned in the park system, C. Marshall v B S 1937—PART ONE. Finnan, superintendent of Washing- ton’s parks, announced yesterday. The exact location has not yet been de- termined, but it is known that Rock Creek Park, Montrose Park and the Sylvan Theater on the Washington Monument Grounds are under con- | sideration. 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Executives of the materiel division at Wright Field said the gear, adopted from the hose wheel system used on ‘Wright brothers’ planes 25 years ago, would be tested by various units to determine the extent of its future ap- Pplication to military aircraft. The hose wheel system simply re- verses the normal procedure in land- ing, engineers explained, and with the side wheels moved back of the center of gravity, planes tend to pitch forward onto the nose wheel, instead of rearing backward onto a tail sup- port. COUNT OF COVADONGA SEEKS CUBAN DIVORCE Former Crown Prince of Spain ‘Will Seek to Nullify New York Ruling. By the Associated Press. HAVANA, January 9.—The Count of Covadonga announced today he would file suit for divorce in the Cu- ban courts against his wife, the for- mer Edelmira Sampedro, Cuban com- moner. The once Crown Prince of Spain has an annulment action pending in New York courts, which ruled he must pay his wife $250 monthly. 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