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A—2 e» THE EVENI SWIMMING PoOL FUNDREACHES$122 Variety Club Leads Day’s Contributions With $50 Check. ‘With $122 already donated, the cam- paign to open the Y. W. C. A. swim- ming pool at 614 E street for the forgotten children of Washington actually got into its stride today. First contribution of the day was 8 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 wre necessary to carry on the work. In his letter to The Star, Berger wrote: “We consider it & privilege to con- tribute to this worthy cause and enclose our check in the amount of $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 Baturday night at the latest. It looks as if the boys and girls might get their wish, too. When the morning mail was opened at The Btar cashier's office, $32 in checks and | currency popped out of the envelope. This sum, with the $40 donated Baturday 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 &t the E street swimming pool Contributions today came from: Florence Teraw Hector Lago ... .. E. W. McCallaugh Barah M. Lockwood Cash Cash S e R L] At this rate, it will not be long be- fore the full amount is at hand—and | the work on the pool begins. Object ix to have the pool in full operation on 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 (A)—A proposal for a break with medical tradition by inviting the Government to contribute for the medical care of the indigent was laid before the House of Delegates of the American Medical Associa- tion here today by the Medical So- clety of the State of New York. | By the Associated Press. 1 Wa§hington Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things, EGGS. ENUS are rule books from which employes of an F street food, drug and bathing/cap establishment do not vary. Carter Barron, the 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 €ggs?” 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 finally took eges 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. * oo X BANANAS. . While on the sudject 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 brokem 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 jan would be just the slicer for which he was looking. So he peeled the banana and thrust it through the fan from behind. It sliced, but all over the ceiling. x o % SAILOR BEWARE. "THE Naval Academy closed for the | Summer before we got around to writing this story, but we are going to write it anyway. Seems that the Ralph L. McCabe family went over to Annapolis Bunday 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 lost in a haystack of | humanity. . e — > MISS KA Fifty-siz dy who couls NG _STAR, THLEEN McCORMI Is proud of her catch of three barracuda and the trophy awarded her as “Miss Fisherette of 1937” at Venice, Calif. irls competed in the annual event to determine catch the most fish in a specified time. CK WASHINGTON D. C Y 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. LAUNCHES DRIVE FOR §10,000 14 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 Mr. McCabe, a resourceful perent, turned to his 8-year-old blond | daughter: “Come on, Sheila,” he said just the girl to find a sailor. She took him literally, departed, and came back in eight minutes with | the right sailor. And she had only seen him once before in their two | lives! “you're | * x * x ATLANTIC CITY, N. J, June 7| (#).—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. | JOKES. HAT with the way one tale is| leading into another today, | column production is almost too | easy. That one about children re- +| the school mothers followed upward of $10.000 to help the P.-T. A. Student Aid Committee next year in |its work of helping to clothe and otherwise assist Washington's needy achool children, is headed by Mrs. W. A. Moyer, chairman of the P.-T. A. Ways and Means Committee, and Mrs. ‘Walter Fry, president. In their efforts to reach the goal and at the same time make a big sucoess of the entertaining perform- ances of magic and legerdemain planned for the Washington public, in the wake of a group of Boy Scouts, who 8aturda$ delivered to the Capital's “It would be apparent that medi- | MiNds us of another which has to do | business men letters asking their ald. eal care is & 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 Houss of Dele- gates. 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 #aid, are likely to appeal t0 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. e CHURCHMEN FIGHT NAZI FOES OPENLY Tension Grows as Protestant Leaders Assail Hitler Philosophy. B3 the Azsaciated Press. BERLIN, June 7-—Tension in the ehurch - state controversy increased throughout all corners of the Reich today after Protestant confessional | leaders unleased a new blast of ora- tory against the Nazi philosophy. ‘The religious dissension flared anew Bunday as both Catholics and Prot- estants joined in open opposition to the Nazi 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 berofc attitude, “as though there was only one possible attitude for a Ger- man to assume today—that of Pro- metheus or Lucifer, the pose of a deflant triton.” In Catholhie churches vigorous at- tacks were made against the “un- ecrupulous exploiting” of church im- morality trials which clergymen con- tend have been used for political pur- poses. Reichsfuehrer 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 dissension to tear Nazi Germany asunder, retalling the strife and devastation of the Thirty Years' War. DANCE RECITAL A recital in creative and interpre- tive dancing will be given at the Gordon Junior High School at 8:30 p.m. tomorrow under the direction of Mrs. H. W. Sweeney. Approximately 40 children will per- form on the program which includes 20 dances. Mrs. Sweeney, a former Marsh dancer of New York, will do & Gypsy dance as the concluding number. . To Graduate at Oberlin. Ruth Orville Groff, 3900 Ingomar street, will be graduated with an A. B. degree at exer at Oberlin College tomorrow. Miss Groff, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Diller F. Groff, is & member of the Aeolian Literary So- ciety and majored *} kindergarien training. with a Chevy Chase child whose | father started a joke at dinner the| other night, then decided not to fin- | ish it. . | “I've forgotten the point,” he apolo- ved falteringly to his wife. “Go on, daddy,” piped up his 14-/ year-old daughter, “and then I'll tell you some of my really snappy ones.” * ok o % SPECTACLES. SPIDER'S web, woven at the bot- tom of a bush of some kind transformed a local blue-blooded Cocker spaniel into a carricature of its lovely self the other day, an operative of high veracity reports. After walking into the web the dog backed away with a pair of spectacles perfectly outlined in silken strands around its eyes. There was the bridge across the nose, the circular whatucallems which hold the lenses, and the pieces (temples, they're called) which run back to the ears. Only the dog, the atory goes, did not | know how cute it looked. * ok o % ART. B. 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 eat for the last three weeks of its rehearsal. The Jeline took the play so seriously that after being dutifully returned to its owner ome 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? * % % BOOKS. HEN attendants at the Public Library gather books from the reference room tables, after students have completed their research work, the titles found some times give rise to a smile. There was the young lady, for example, who left behind “Life With Father” and “S80 You're Going to Have a Baby.” INTERFRATERNITY SING SCHEDULED AT G. W, U. 12 Men’s, 12 Women's Groups te Compete Tonight for Prizes. Fraternities and sororities at George Washington University will hold the first interfraternity sing tonight at 7:30 o'clock in the university yard. Twelve fraternities and s dozen sororities, having about 10 representa- tives each, will compete. Each’ fra- ternity group wiil sing one of its own songs and the alma mater and each sorority one of its songs and an op- tional number. The winning group of boys and girls will each receive a loving cup. The prizes were donated by Stephen O. Ford, local manager of the L. G. Balfour Co. and will be pre- sented by Dr. Cloyd H. Marvin, pres- ident of the university. The judges will be Dr. Rebert Har- mon, director of the University Glee Clubs; Dean Elmer Louis Kayser and Miss Anne Pear]l Cooper, thairman of the Committee on Musical Organiza- tion of the university. Tobacco Crop Large. Nearly 29,000,000 pounds of leaf tobacco will be grogn in Mexico this year, | 8tudent Aid Committee * 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 own organization blocks of tickets for the shows. The team captains are Mrs. Moyer, Mrs. Fry, Mrs. J. W. Anderson, Mrs. W. R. McManes, Mrs. G. S. Fraser, Mrs. L. L. Bailey, Mrs. E. Graves, Mrs. M. L. Novak, Mrs. C. D. Lowe, Mrs, | C. F. Au, Mrs. B. G. Kirjassoff, Mrs. L. 8. Brooks, Mrs. L. J. Raebach and Mrs. N. E. Embrey. 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 many appeals and the many expres- sions of gratitude received by the committee for its work. The letters | also illustrate a demand that the | committee often is unable to cope with an account of lack of funds. Work Is Praised. Principal B. E. Taylor of Henry Bchool, Seventh and P streets, said in a letter to Mrs. Dowling “It gives me great pleasure to ex- tend to you and your associates in the * * the sincere thanks and appreciation of the teachers and parents * * * for the generous aid and assistance you | have always given to the pupils of our school. You have provided our needy children with clothing and shoes, making it possible for many of them to come to school when lack of proper clothing would have prevented them. “I feel that it is a great work you are doing for child welfare and that under your leadership it has become & most important part of the P.-T. A. work in the District.” * Another letter, from Gertrude Rine- hart, at the S. J. Bowen Nursery School, thanked Mrs. Dowling for committee aid and inquired, “Would it be asking too much, if you can spare more, to give some more clothes to the children? We can use any- thing for children from 2 to 6 years of age, and babies, too, ‘and even things for the mothers, who can make them over, as we have a moth- er's club here and do a great deal of sewing.” Principal Mary Lackey of Denni- son Vocational Bchool wrote: “Thank you for the box of shoes. We were able to fit all of the girls except the two named above, and they need shoes very much. Have you the money for two shoe orders?” .. TORSO SLAYER HINTED IN FIND OF SKELETON Cleveland Xiller Believed Have Been Responsible for ® Murders. B the Associated Press. . CLEVELAND, June T.—Police in- vestigated today the possibility that & gkeleton found buried under a Cuyahoga River bridge might be that of the ninth victim of Cleveland's torso slayer. Portions of eight mutilated bodies have been found in Greater Cleve- land within the past three years. Authorities said examination indi- cated one killer—probably insane—was responsible in all the slayings. Pourteen-year-old Russell Lauer dis- covered the skeleton, with arm and leg missing, in lap bag which to BY THOMAS R. HENRY. Btaft Correspondent of The Star. ATLANTIC CITY, June 7.—In- tractable wild animals tamed perma I nently in 24 hours by “psychic sur- | gery” were exhibited at the annual | meeting of the American Medical | Association which opened here today by Drs. Walter Freeman, James A | Watts and R. W. Barris of the faculty | of George Washington University. 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 | types of mental disorder. are bored through the skull. various Two holes Through | these holes a hollow needle contain- | | ing & sharp wire loop is inserted and | 8ix wnarble-sized bits of white sub.: {stance are cut loose from the pr | frontal lobe from the back of the cere. | bral cortex. The remarkable results of the op- G. W. U. Doctors Show Animals Demonstrate Rare Brain Operation on . Monkeys at Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association. over-driving, especially characteristic of modern civilization, resulted wor- ries, distractions and all sorts of neuroses. | |80 into tantrums, but keep on trying, over and over again, without the least emotional reaction. A particularly vicious form of ab- | dominal cancer induced in rats for mixing in their food daily over a period of two months of wheat germ | otl. the most common source of vita- |min E, which is in wide use as a preventative of sterility, was shown physicians here today by L. G. 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 | MISS EARHART OFF MONDAY, JUNE 7, 1937 W Beauties of Three States Lured by Life in Open Spaces HEROES OF SOUTH GIVENHIGH PRAISE 2,000 Attend Memorial Rites at Arlington—Veterans Present. Confederate organizations united yesterday to pay tribute to heroes of the South at memorial services in Arlington Ampitheater. Three Confederate veterans, all from Washington, sat on the staze during the program, which was wite nessed by more than 2,000 personc. 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 Vei- 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 carpef- bagger,” Rayburn said. The speaker also paid tribute to Gen. Robert E. Lee and his Confederate associates. “The issues of that hour have Jong | 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 Gate of Arlington Pred P. Myers, past commander nf the District and Maryland division ot the Sons of Confederate Veterans, pre- ONT300-ILE HOP From Brazil, Bound for Dakar, Senegal. B the Associated Press. NATAL, Brazil June 7-—Amelia | While most of those upon whom the | 81&nd at the base of the neck. There | Earhart headed over the South At- operations were performed became | ¥3$ Teason to believe that some of | lantic in a light rain today for Dakar, | calmer and happier, there was some | € Vitimins might be concerned in | Senegal. her goal on the African con- question as to the permanent effects | thi# 8rowth, which is progressively ' tinent in her intended flight around on the mind itself prefrontal lobes were the most notably “human” parts of the body—their 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 | 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 eration until rats attain their full | | Browth in three or four days. | | Appearance of Cancer Unexpected. 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- | ;de]pml 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 | Ofl may have the same effects in | human beings. The cancers were pro- | | erations were attributed by some |today three tests. One was a mmple"du"dv they stress, with unrefined | neurologists to “psychic shock.” It marze of electrical contact points. | wheat germ oil. They have been un- | had been noted in the past that any | Ordinarily it can be learned in four | Able to duplicate the results with re- severe jolt to the nervous system was trials and then repeated successfully | fined products obtained from pharma- | likely to be of temporary benefit to | persons suffering from mental dis- upon whom the operation had been |sult, they say, orders. | raised Hence, that chopping off a finger | might be as successful as boring a | mistakes and repeat the same errors | hole in the brain. | The Washington neurologists | lieved that the results were | specific for such an explan; | bee much too ation 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 snar. and anap 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- 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 85 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 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 as 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 extripated 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 as before, but at a slower pace. Theoretically, it was explained, the same results might be animals—such as lions or tigers. Nothing has “een attempted in this line. Declared “Drivers of 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 activjly, with mental break- downs as the result. From this had completely lost its fear of man.| expected with any of the higher wild | for an indefinite period. Persons the criticism was | performed, it was found, require much | longer. They cannot remember their time and time again. | Another consists of a sheet covered with squares of different ocolors. A | person is required simply to name | the colors of these squares in order. | It looks easy for any one who is not color blind, but actually, Dr. Preeman says, & person who is emotionally up- set will pause several minutes before | being able to name a color. Even | entirely normal persons suffer 1 “blocks.” They can't keep their minds concentrated on what seems & 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 E 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. B Conditions Improved. 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 panie, 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, Pprobably 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 @apuchin perhaps hasn't brains enough to stay wild, Similar experiments at Yale Uni- versity on chimpanzees, Dr. Barris explained, have shown that when the animals deprived of their prefrontal lobes are in beffling situations they no I et mad i and ceutical houses. The significant re- 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 tar| | derivatives. | ‘I Location of the brain site of a sixth | | sense, that of location in space, was !reportpd in an exhibit arranged by | Drs. E. A. Spiegel and Mona Spiegel- | | Adolph of Temple Uniyersity, Phila- | | delphia, and Dr. Norman P. Scala of | | Georgetown University Medical School ’ | May Relieve Seasickness. | The experiments in which the Wash- | ington doctor participated not only | 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 & 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! After all, the ACcelerated from generation to gen- | the world. here on the 1.900-mile 16 am. Eastern standard She left flight at 2 | time and radioed more than four hours The appearance of the cancer with | /aler that "everything is going fine " | The silvery monoplane had 850 gal- lons of gasoline and 80 gallons of oil | aboard Miss 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 fleld, operated by the French trans-Atlantic flying company, Air Brance, looked om, With the American flyer was her navigator, Capt. Fred Noonan Miss Earhart, who arrived here yes- | Fortaleza, | rese at her hotel a little after | atlam.| terday Brazil midnight and was at the fi Noonan jumped into the cockpit first. Then Miss Earhart lifted her- self in and waved to the small crowd morning from as the motor started and the plane | IL DUCE STAGES BIG NAVAL SHOW Demonstrates to German Field Marshall Italy Could Be Useful Ally. the Associated Press ABOARD DESTROYER MAE- STRALE, off Naples, June 7.—Premier Mussolini deploved Italy's naval might before Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg today in a mock combat designed to prove to the German war Jord his Fascist ally’s strength in the | feeling of vertigo results, By special | Mediterranean. | instruments the experimenters have ‘round Jjust what happens. First there is & connection between the labyrinth | and a center in the medulla oblongata | at the base of the brain. This center |18 inhibited, causing a relaxation of | blood vessels throughout the body and | & lowering of blood pressure. At the | |same time the center of ihe vagus| | nerve in the medulla is stimulated, resuiting in increased movements of the stomach. This is responsible for the upset stomachs 30 common in sea- | sickness. With the causes known, Dr. | Bpiegel said, various drugs can be administered to stimulate the vaso- motor and inhibit the us ocenter. | The best system, he believes, is to | lay flat on one's back in a boat, thus | | assuring & 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 “perpetusl seasickness” due to tumors of the brain. They rcmndl that the most commen 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 find 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 8 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. Knewn The giant review was planned to offset admittedly 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 ear- | 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 s0 many under- water craft at a moment's notice.” Premier Mussolini was known to have chosen & 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 | sided during the program. Mrs. Al bion W. Tuck, past president of the | District division of the United Daugh- ters of the Confederacy, gave the sa- | lute to the Confederate Flag. | Marx E. Kahn recited his “American | > Ode." {Heads Over South Atlantic | After the amphitheater services. the | assembly followed the Marine Band to the Confederate Monument near the West Gate, where wreaths were placed over the graves of the Confederate dead | Other organizations which partici- pated in the services included the | Confederate Southern Memorial Asso- ciation, Children of the Confederacy, United Spanish War Veterans, U. & A.. American Legion, District National | Guard and Boy Scouts of America. 'SOUTHER N TEXTILE ; RATE DELAY DENIED I C. C. Refuses Suspension of | New Structure, Which Takes Effect Tomorrow. | Ex the Associated Press. | The Interstate Commerce Commis- sion refused today to suspend a new rate structure on textile produets | from Southern territory, but agreed to reopen the case ‘or further hear- ings The new rate structure, which the Associated Southeastern Textile Mills said will mean a 20 per cent inerease | on products from Georgia and Ala- bama, will take effect tomorrow The textile association, joined by Gov. Bibb Graves of Alabama, peti- tioned for a suspension on the ground the industry would be “seriously erip- pled” by the higher rates. They eon- tended it would upeet a long existing | relationship between the industry and rail carriers Railroads and competing mills in other territories opposed the petition, arguing the new charges would be fair and would remove many difficulties which exist under the present rate structure. ROBERT M. TURNER DIES: VETERAN OF TWO WARS Employe of Quartermaster Gen- eral’s Office Succumbs at Mount Alto. Robert M. Turner, 58, of 4013 Pirst street, emplove of the Commereial Traffic Division, Quartermaster Gen- eral'’s Office, died 8aturday in Moun: Alto Hospital after an iliness of four months Mr. Turner, born in Fauquier Coun- ty, Va., was a veteran of both the Spenish-American and World Wars. He was a 32nd degree Mason and a member of Washington-Alexandria Lodge, No. 22 He is 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 Smithers and Miss | Mamie Turner, both of Alexandria | Puneral services are being held in | Fort Myer Chapel at 1:30 p.m. today, | followed by burial in Arlington Na- | tional Cemetary. 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 day: REPORTED MAIL BAN HIT IN PROBE PLEA Bridges Urges Senate Inquiry Into “All Cases of Alleged Interference.” By the Associated Press, Senator Bridges, Republican, of New Hampshire, urged the Senate today to investigate “all cases of alleged inter- ference” with delivery of mail to atrike- 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. “If 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 authorize an inquiry by a Senate committee of five into all cases of alleged interference with mail deliveries to strike-bound i, it may becoms an im- medieine, ants and any agreements, involving authorities, to curtall service. Congress in Brief TODAY. Senate: Considers routine business. Joint Labor Committee hears John L. Lewis on wage and hour bil, House: Considers bill tq extend P. W. A. two years Flood Control Committee opens hearings on emergency projects for Lower Ohio Basin. Public Lands Committee continues hearings on California-Oregon land grant bill. TOMORROW, Senate: Probably will take up District ap- propriation bill Joint committee will continue hear- ings 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 Distriet Commite tee begins hearings on bill to limjt the number of taxicabs, 10 a.m.