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THE EVENING ITALY AND REICH T0 REJOIN PATROL Berlin Officials Believe De- tails Will Be Completed by End of Week. BACKGROUND— Germany and Italy withdrew from neutrality patrol in Spanish waters after cruiser Deutschland was bombed and a German squad- ron, in retaliation, shelled govern- ment-held city of Almeria. They demanded safety for vessels in fu- ture. Sir Italian officers previously were killed when plane bombed a navel vessel. Britain, fearing spread of war to Europe, yesterday proposed return of Italy and Germany under these conditions: Assurance against fu- ture attakes on patrolling ships; ertension of safety zones for neu- tral shipping, and powers agrce to confer on action immediately pro- visions are violated. B the Assoctated Press. BERLIN, June 9.—Official quarters expressed confidence today that Ger- many and Italy would resume partici- | pation in the Spanish non-intervention | patrol before the end of this week. All details connected with the end- ing of the crisis which led the two central European powers to withdraw their representatives from the London | group of nations will be settled before | that time, they indicated. German Ambassador to London, Joachim von Ribbentrop, they pointed out, would arrive at his post today and | is expected to confer with British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden to- morrow, During Von Ribbentrop’s stay in Germany he has discussed the non- intervention situation thoroughly with | Chancellor Hitler at Der Fuehrer's country estate at Berehtefgaden. He has also been in repeated .con- ference with Baron Konstantin von Neurath, foreign minister, and other leaders in Berlin. BLAME SPANISH REBELS. LONDON, June 9 (#).—The British government today blamed Spanish in- surgents for the mine which the British destroyer Hunter hit off Al-| meria last May 13. with loss of eight | of her crew and injuries to 24. A formal protest was dispatched to Gerenalissimo Francisco Franco. The foreign office instructed Sir Henry Chilton, British Ambassador to Spain who is now at Hendaye, France, to relay the protest to the insurgent, headquarters at Salamanca It termed the Hunter explosion an “accident,” but a spokesman said re- ports to British authorities indicated | the insurgents had laid mines in the high seas off Almeria and elsewhere. One of these, it was asserted, caused the Hunter incident. At the time of the H. M. S. Hun- ter incident there were some reports the destroyer had been torpedoed. These were subsequently dispelled upon investigation. In today’s move the British reserved | the right to claim remuneration for damage to the warship. Sir Henry's protest reminded the insurgents that Great Britain pre- viously had advised both sides in the | Spanish civil war that mine-laying on the high seas was not legitimate | since London has accorded neither side belligerent rights. i He pointed out that it was im- | probable that the mine that the| Hunter hit was a floating mine. But| even s0, he declared, the Hague con- | vention provided that anchored mines must become harmless when thEYi break from their moorings and un- | anchored mines must become harm- | less an hour after they are laid. FORTIFY NEW POSITIONS. Loyalists Strengthen Ground Gained | Washington Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. CALOR. EAT waves: No one has as yet sent in a story about & man frying an egg on the side- walk, but a friend of ours found a piece of sidewalk in his fried egg on Monday morning . . . he thinks maybe he swallowed a cement mixer over the week end . .. a chap who growls all Winter about getting poked in the eye by ladies carrying umbrellas got poked in the eye on F street yes- terday by a lady ... he had stepped on her foot . .. she uced her fist, as it wasn't raining . . . our favorite comic character in the local sporting | world is reported out of town again, sending himself telegrams like mad to make it appear that he has urgent business with dozens of people in dozens of places . . . he calls up over g distance at night and has his secretary read the wires to him, so he can tell what he is supposed to be doing next . residents of a large estate in Virginia awakened the other night to hear a dignified, white-haired lady leaning out the window whistling, but weirdly . . . she explained she was whistling at a whip-poor-will that had kept her awake . . . said maybe if the bird realized what a -uisance noises like that can be, it would shut up .. . two times two is enough, if you're addicted to drinking hot rum punches in this kind of weather ... the shady waters are cooler . .. the shady waters are cooler . . . was it Benchley who used to say that he especially liked books published by Doubleday, Doran; Doubleday, Doran; Doubleday, Doran « o+ boom!!! * % ok x PASS. One of the bright young State legisiators over in Maryland has a pass on a ferryboat used en Toute to a well known seashore re- sort. (Naw, we are not going to use any names at all.) When he approaches the ferry, accompanied by a brother and a cousin on a week end jaunt, he stuffs them in the rumble seat of his car and closes it. All three ride across the water that way. On the far side, he opens the rumble seat (we trust), unfolds his relatives, sits them up in the car and drives on. * % x X MIX-UP. STRANGEST heat case we've heard about yet is the lady whose re- action to the weather has been am- nesia with reverse English. Instead of forgetting things, she remembers them at the wrong times. Went down to the Traffic Bureau and stood in line for an hour to have her permit renewed. When she reached the win dow they told her the permit didn't expire until October. Called up an insurance agent and begzed him to be sure to give her automobile insurance beginning June 1. found it would expire on June 15. Wrote an aunt & letter congratulat- ing her on a birthday. The aunt replied that in the first place she had stopped having birthdays several years ago. In the second place, when she Northwest of Madrid. MADRID, June 9 (#).—Government l troops fortified newly-won positions today along the Coruna road, at the northwestern edge of Madrid. | The operations, near Aravaca and | Las Perdices Hill, threatened to sever communication between units of Gen- eralissimo Francisco Franco's besieg- ers at Aravaca and Las Rozas. Madrid itself relaxed only after mid- night from three insurgent shellings in which at least 20 persons were killed and 40 injured. POST VIGILANCE FLEET. Spanish Government Acts to Protect Northeastern Coast. VALENCIA, June 9 (#).—The Span- ish government posted today a special vigilance fleet and an anti-submarine defense on the Catalan or Northeast- | ern Mediterranean coast after Barce- lona, capital of autonomous Catalonia, reported that two cruisers were harass- ing shore points for the second suc- cessive day. The warcraft were chased to sea by government planes after shelling Pala- mos and San Pol without serious dam- age. Defense Minister Indalecio Prieto as- serted that new Italian seaplanes had arrived Monday to reinforce the Italian &quadron already in Mallorcan waters. FOUR ARE PROMOTED T0 GENERAL'S RANK President Nominates World War Veteran Colonels to Be Brigadier Generals. President Roosevelt has nominated four World War veteran officers for romotion from the rank of colonel 0 brigadier general in the Regular Army to replace men retiring from active service this Summer. « Those named in the nominations sent to the Senate Monday were: Col. Ernest D. Peek, Corps of En- gineers, at present division engineer, New York City, to succeed Brig. Gen. Charles D. Roberts, who will retire June 30. Col. Frederic H. Smith, Coast Ar- tillery Corps, at present chief of staff of the Panama Canal Department, to succeed Brig. Gen. Alexander T. Ovenshine, who will retire on June 30. Col. Philip B. Peyton, Infantry, now commanding the 29th Infantry at Fort Benning, Ga. to succeed Brig. Gen. Thomas W. Darah, who wil retire on July 31. Col. William Bryden, Field Artil- lery, now on duty in the operations and training divisions of the War Department general staff here, to suc- ceed Brig. Gen. Sherwood A. Cheney, who will retire on August 31. The four prospective brigadier gen- erals have long and distinguished military records. Each was decorated | characters. did have them, they came in De- cember, We suggest the only cure for upside- down amnesia is & little practice at | mirror writing, a sport that will stand you on your head for good. LR HEADQUARTERS. 'HIS is not intended as a tip-off to angry industrialists, but if by you are looking for John L. Lewis, the shaggy lion of labor, don't bother to go to C. I. O. headquarters in the Heurich Building here. Mr. Lewis hangs out up at the Tower Building, where the United Mine Workers have much more spacious offices than C. I. O, & fancy switch- board for telephones, pretty and effi- cient stenographers, and walls deco- rated with scores of cartoons depicting John L. in various moods, poses and Daughter Kathryn is secretary to the U. M. W. boss. She calls him “Daddy,” and offers you | only one brand of cigarette, because it’s union made. * Kk ok x ALL ABOARDERS. Latest wrinkle in boarding houses here is up near Twenty-first and P streets morthwest. Chap there claims he runs the largest room and board establishment in the District, and as an added feature of super- service now has bicycles delivered to the door on Sunday morning, for such guests as wish to go out and stretch their legs. Last week the cyclists toured Rock Creek Park. Next week, Hains Point. The starting hour, if perchance you contemplate moving to a room with bath, kitchenette and wheels, i3 7:30 am. * % kX SUBSCRIBERS. FELLOW here who keeps in touch with affairs back in Tullahoma, Tenn., advises us that we can get an annual subscription to the “Tulla- homa Guardian” in exchange for: One bushel of corn, rye, sweet pota- toes, Irish potatoes or apples; fresh meat at the market price, 100 pounds of walnuts, two bales of hay, three quarts canned vegetables, three quarts canned fruit, one bushel corn meal, one peck chestnuts, ‘one-half bushel peanuts, two large hens, two roosters, three guinea hens, two ducks, or one small turkey. And here we are, caught with noth- ing in the barn, nothing in the cel- for meritorious service during the ‘World War, »n lar, nothing in the smoke house but & couple of pig’s feet, with ingrown toertalla, 9 Then started to throw away an | old policy with another company, and | STAR, WASHINGTON, SHADOW OF MOON RACES BEFORE SUN Observers in Plane Witness Eclipse Phenomenon in Cold Atmosphere. An airplane flight, 25,000 feet above the coastal plateaw of Peru, to obtain the first complete photoe graphic record of an eclipse of the sun from an airplane is described here by the plane's pilot. Capt. Disher is a veteran of five years’ service on the regular Pan-Ameri- can-Grace Airways cross-Andes route. BY CAPT. C. R. DISHER. LIMA, Peru, June 9 (N.ANA).— In a flight career of more than a decade I have had many a wonder- ful experience—seen many a sight far beyond my powers of description. But the magnificent adventure those of Us in the Pan-American-Grace flying observatory had yesterday afternoon while making a photographic record of the solar eclipse from a point 5 miles above the coastal plain of Peru undoubtedly tops them all. I wrote Tuesday of the elaborate preparations we had made and of the full “dress rehearsal” we carried out on Monday. Yesterday we had the splendid good fortune to far exceed even those high expectations. Aboard our Douglas airliner Santa | Silvia as we lifted off Limatambo Air- port at 2:30 pm. (E. S. T) were myself, E. W. Gray, Pan-American- Grace co-pilot and radio operator; Maj. Albert W. Stevens, assigned to | our observatory by the American Mu- seum of Natural History, and J. W. Runcie of Lima, known as one of the best photographers on the west coast of South America. As I reported formerly, the door and several win- dows had been removed from the plane to give unimpeded photographic action, and much of our early climb was spent by Maj. Stevens and Runcie in preparing for the severe cold they would experience. Camera Carefully Protected. Gray and I wore ordinary clothes, because we would remain in the con- | trol compartment. Runcie, in heavy | ordinary clothing, crouched close to the cabin heater with his two large | aerial cameras until it would be time | for him to go into action. Stevens, | once we had taken off and climbed | to a cool enough altitude, stripped off his ordinary clothes and got into | the big, specially designed flying suit | which he used on both his balloon ascents into the stratosphere and then put on great, electrically heated | fur mittens. Of considerable more concern to the major than his own| personal comfort seemed the proper | | care of his Akley audio-motion picture camera, which he had surrounded with | blankets and hot-water bottles before the take-off, fearing that the extreme low temperatures we would encounter would freeze the oil in the camera | mechanism. As we swung over Lima in our climb | over the airport a few low, broken | | clouds were visible to the west of us, | { along the ocean and to the east of us along the tops of the Andes. By 3:15, | when we were over the town of Supe | }and had reached a height of 10,000 | eet, the clouds were thicker and a | general haze was apparent below us. Ahead and above, however, visibility | promised perfection. Climbing steadily toward the north- { ward, we reached 14,000 feet Huarmey at 3:45. | the rear compartment | took the controls, I | Stevens and Runcie put found Maj. tering about their cameras, taping up every leaks. Stevens. like a mother with | a delicate child, feared his cam was getting too warm and was taking | | off some of the blanket coverings. All of his tools were carefully laid out | along the camera bench beside him | or were hanging on wire hooks from | the cabin ceiling. Strangely enough, | | we were now eager to see coastal | clouds ahead and below us, because | | one of the most important contribu- | | tions our observatory could make to | science would be to catch photographs of the eclipse shadow as it speeds | across the earth. Temperature Falls Fast. By 4:15 we had reached the vicinity of Chimbote, which would be our gen- eral station during the eclipse, and | were cruising at a height of 17,000 feet. Runcie now started arranging his cameras opposite the windows. Maj. Stevens, jubilant that beneath us now lay a big bank of clouds, un- limbered his movie camera in the doorway. Suddenly, through the dark glasses | each of us was wearing a small nick appeared in the bottom of the red fire ball now almost due west of us. At 4:20 the bite the moon seemed to be taking out of the sun grew very distinct, appearing at a point 2 or 3 degrees from the exact bot- tom. We started climbing steadily | to,be at our determined altitude by the time of totality. Our engines were performing perfectly. As we passed 20,000 feet the temperature dropped to 10 degrees below zero, centigrade. At 4:45 we turned west and headed out to sea about 10 miles south of the Guanape Islands, where a fine low bank of clouds lay over the coast. By 5 pm. we had reached our 25000 feet. The temperature had dropped to 18 degrees below and we were in position to watch Mister Sun get in trouble with the moon. At 5:05 the impression struck us that, I am told, is common to all eclipse observers—that the moon | ‘Would never be big enough to cover the entire sun's disk. At 5:18, how- | ever, it looked as though some one with & huge mouth had swallowed the sun entire, save where the great and really awesome streamers of the corona made rainbow-colored pictures 'round the dead black center of the moon’s disk. To the north of us a towering mass of thunderclouds had developed rapidly and was flashing lightning. The sky had turned a deep royal blue, stars appearing bril- liantly. Glancing at gray in the weird light, I noticed great clouds of steam coming out of our mouths, so low was the temperature even in our con- trol cabin. As we turned south to remain in the path of totality, we saw that the light was gradually increasing once more. Speed of Express Train. Suddenly below us the sun’s shadow swept swiftly across the cloud bank behind us with the speed of an ex- press train. Stevens and Runcie, after taking direct shots of the eclipse it- self, had turned their cameras to be perfectly set for this phenomena and, as it disappeared, yelled out in jubila- tion that they must have gotten per- fect results. I had myself been wield- ing & small movie camera to make some contribution to the record, and I am sure their estimation was ocor- A ECLIPSE PHOTOS BELIEVED PERFECT Negatives Are Rushed to Honoiulu From Base at Canton Island. Painstaking efforts of long months crowned with success, the joint ex- pedition from the United States Navy and National Geographic Society, which yesterday observed the epochal solar eclipse from lonely Canton Island, today prepared to break camp in the South Pacific and head home- ward. Negatives of hundreds of priceless photographs, taken by 16 men as the moon blotted out the sun, and stars appeared in the morning sky, are being rushed in air-cooled compart- ments to Honolulu, from where the party plans to sail June 19. The period of totality—three minutes and thirty-three second plus—was the longest in 12 centuries, and by a rare dispensation from nature it was visible under perfect weathér conditions. Five minutes after the rim of the sun once more began to show in the darkness, the picture was obscured by clouds, It was just by that fraction that the expedition averted failure, “We had a glorious day,” Dr. S. A. Mitchell, University of Virginia Ob- servatory director and leader of the expedition, last night told his col- leagues here in a broadcast. Much Study Ahead. ‘The scientists’ study will not end, however, until after months of study of the photographs. Mitchell said his specriscopic pho- tographs “went through without a | hitch,” preserving a pictorial record of the sun's corona—a dazzling pearly | light darting like blue streamers for millions of miles around the blotted- out sun. . Capt. F. J. Hellweg, superintendent of the Naval Observatory, described the expedition as “probably the most successful ever completed.” Dr. Paul A. McNally, director of the Georgetown University Observa- tory, reported that his photographs showed exceptional detail. He ad- vised Washington scientists to “be glad in your hearts and rejoice.” A tense group of scientists gathered at the Geographic Soclety head- quarters here yesterday afternoon to hear the broadcast of the eclipse. Just at 2 o'clock, 6 minutes before the period of totality started, the broadcast, picked up from short wave on the Pacific coast, began to boom through the loud speaker. “The weather is absolutely per- fect,” George Hicks, N. B. C. com- mentator, told the waiting world, and the little gathering here instinctively broke into applause. Description Is Detailed. Then for 15 minutes the descrip- tion of the phenomenom rolled in from the outpost 6,000 miles away. Included in the party here were Dr. John Oliver La Gorce, vice presi- | dent of the National Geographic So- ciety; Dr. George W. Hutchinson, secretary; Capt. A. S. Hickey. acting superintendent of the Naval Observa- | tory in the absence of Capt. Hellweg; Dr. James Robertson of servatory staff and Dr. Briggs, director of Standards. A New Zealand party camped near the Americans on Canton Isle. In the open sea, 2400 miles eastward, astronomers of Franklin Institute of Philadelphia and Princeton Univer- sity viewed the eclipse from a freight- er near the point of maximum dura- tion. Maj. Albert W. Stevens, American Army aviator, observed the celestial display for the American Museum of Natural History as he soared 25,000 feet above Peru's mountains. Also clustered in the shadow’s path on the Peruvian‘coast were members of the Havden Planetarium-Grace Expedition from New York and Jap- anese and Peruvian scholars. Scientists and amateurs in south- ernmost parts of the United States saw a partial eclipse. the Ob- Lyman J. the Bureau of GETS MEDICAL DEGREE Lendall C. Gay Is Alumnus of Central High. Lendall C. Gay, son of Mr. and Mrs. Julius B. Gay of 1650 Jonquil | street received an M. D. degree from the Medical College of Virginia, Rich- mond, at recent ceremonies there, it was announed today. A graduate of Central High School, young Gay took his pre-medical train- ing at George Washington University. At the Virginia institution he was a member of Theta Kappa Psi National Medical Fraternity, Brown-Sequard Honorary Medical Society and Sigma | Zeta Honorary Scientific Fraternity. He plans to become a resident in- terne at Gallinger Municipal Hospital July 1. rect. Incidentally, while we had no- ticed a definite increase in radio sta- tic as totality was approached and passed, we were unable to measure any drop in temperature, it remain- ing steadily at 20 below zero during the entire phenomena. At 5:45 we were over Mount Mon- gon and had begun our return toward Lima. As we cruised southward along the coast over broken and well-scat- tered clouds, we made a more orderly check. Stevens, after a careful ex- amination, reported all four of the cabin cameras had functioned with- out a hitch and that undoubtedly we would have a complete record of the | progress of the sun’s eclipse, then of the swift advance and recession of its | shadow across the earth, the first ever taken from an airplane and, in Maj. Stevens' estimation, an inval- uable contribution to science well worth any effort we had gone to to secure it. At 7 p.m. we circled once more down onto Limatambo Airport with the memory of an almost indescribable adventure still thrilling us to the tips of our fingers. (Copyright, 1937, by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) Three Films by Prof. Smiley. HUARAZ, Peru, June 9 (#).—The greatest eclipse of the sun in 1,200 years was captured in three films by Prof. Charles H. Smiley of Brown University. “The sky in the vicinity of the sun was perfectly clear,” said Prof. Smiley, who hopes to obtain from the films evidence of how far from the sun the corona extends, and whether its light is emitted or reflected. Smiley said that although the films were not developed, he felt certain his observations had been successful. Smiley believes he has the fastest astronomical camera ever developed. He has been encamped for two days between Callan Peak and the village of Pira, about 14,000 feet above ses level in the coastal Andes, D. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 1937 This intrepid press photog snaps the charge of the ance in the Highland show. 3 NEW HORMONE TRACES DISCLOSED | Medical Association Told of | Unsuspected Evidence in Adrenal Glands. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. ATLANTIC CITY, June 9 —Evidence of at least three hitherto unsuspected “hormones” in the adrenal glands which may be of importance in medicine was presented before special- | 1sts meeting in connection with the | American Medical Association here today. | Hitherto the adrenals, close to the | kidneys, have afforded two of the most | | potent bio-chemical substances known | | —adrenalin, whose instant and power- | ful action on the heart makes it pos- sible sometimes literally to “'bring the dead to life,” and cortin in the absence of which life itself is impossible. There is also present, it was brought out today, some substance which in minute amounts seems to control the | blood pressure. Dr. Elmer L. Sevring- | haus of the University of Wisconsin | told of remarkable effects produced by | administering preparations of the | whole gland to sufferers from various | | types of asthenias, conditions in which one feels perpetually “all in" without | |any definite organic reason. The blood pressure drops to very low levels. | One is always tired. The condition often is associated with mental de- spondency. In its extreme manifesta- | tions, asthenia shades into the type of insanity known as schizophrenia. Despondency Relieved. In normal patients—mostly graduate | students at the University of Wiscon- | sin—it was found. possible to keep the | blood pressure up to normal, to relieve ! | the despondency, and to do away with the continual tired feeling by daily | | doses of the whole cortex preparation This did not include adrenalin which | | would raise blood pressure, but whose | | effects would be immediate and of | | brief duration. Dr. R. G. Hoskins of the Harvard | | Medical School told of administering | | much the same preparation to schi- | zophrenic patients with low blood | pressure. It raised the blood pressure, | but apparently did nothing to relieve the mental despondency. Whatever the blood-pressure principle in the adrenal crotex may be it is extremely | elusive, Dr. Hoskins said. “Now you | have it and now you don't,” he sam.‘i | referring to efforts to obtain a frac- | tion of the extract containing this principle alone | Dr. F. M. Pottenger, ir, of Mon- rovia, Ga,, told of two other apparent adrenal hormones, distinct from ad- renalin and cortin, one of which seems | to stimulate the reaching of maturity and the other to be a male sex stimu- | lator and at the same time a repressor of female sex characters. They are ! found in & preparation of the adrenal cortex, which is soluble in benzene and can be obtained in the form of a white powder. Advanced Development. Theatment with an adrenal prepara- tion, he said, brought about a develop- ment both mentally and physically up | | to about their normal age level of boys | who were far too young for their ages. | It brought about a growth of the . bones, rapid devolopment of “baby | faces” into the faces of normal boys in | their teens, and in one case seemed to bring close to normal intelligence a l, boy who was definitely feeble-minded. | | The male stimulating fraction of | the adrenal cortex showed marked re- | | sults in promoting the secondary male characters but, when injected into fe- male rats, showed a marked repressing effect. Still another growth-promoting sub- stance from the anterior lobe of the pituitary was described by Dr. Oscar Riddle of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. This is prolactin, the hormone of milk. Further experi- ments give evidence that it also may be the “hormone of motherhood” since injections cause maternal behavior in male animals. Dr. Riddle now finds that both rats and pigeons from whom the pituitary gland has been removed and whose | growth almost is brought to a stand- still can be started growing again, al- | | though at a much reduced rate, with | injections of prolactin. It long has | been known that in the anterior lobe | of the pituitary there is a growth- promoting substance which, when its secretion is below or above normal, results in the production of dwards and glants. Dr. Riddle rigidly excluded this known growth substance trom his prolactin experiments so that what- ever growth resulted was from the milk-producing hormone alone. Experimenting with pigeons, he found that a notable result of removal of the pituitary was almost complete loss of appetite. The birds would vol- untarily eat less than one-sixth as much as before the removal. The prolactin restored the appetite almost to normal. Colds Discussed. The common cold is due almost en- tirely to a filterable virus very similar to the recently isolated virus which supposedly causes influenza, Dr. A. R. Dochez of Columbia University said in & paper read before the association this morning. Not only has this virus —one of the innumerable family of supposedly living organisms far below the limits of vision with the most pow- erful microscopes—been found, but & method has been devise for keeping < famous Dr rapher calmly lies in the high © Anything for a New Camera Angle grass at Edinburgh, Scotland, and agoon Guards during rehearsal for their forthcoming perform- —Wide World Photo. A candid study of a candid cameraman trying for an odd “angle” shot of John L. Lewis when the head of the Committee Jor Industrial Organization appeared here before the joint con- gressional committee to indorse the Black-Connery wage-and- hour bill. —Wide World Photo. it alive in considerable quantities This leads to the possibility of eventual vaccination against colds. Such vac- cinations already seem to have proved effective with chimpanzees, Dr. Dochez said. but this far have failed to have any certain effect with human beings. In the past colds have been sup- posedly due to one or more of the numerous forms of bacteria found in the upper respiratory tracts, and these have been the basis of the various anti-cold innoculations which have proved indifferently successful. It is probable that these bacteria have some- | thing to do with a cold, Dr. Dochez said, but his experiments indicate that they cannot produce one until they have been activated by the newly found virus, Diseases of the heart arteries usua attack the male sex in early ding to a report by Drs White and R. Earle Glendy of Boston. As a possible influence in development of this condition, which takes a heavy toll of life every vear, they suggested the stresses of life in cities, the exces- sive use of tobacco by boys and faulty diet, y Dr. John P. Peters of New Haven | told the physicians that the acute conditions known as toxemias of pregnancy are not distinct diseases, but special manifestations of diseases of the kidneys and blood vessels. Women who have these infections sel- dom escape irreparable damage, Dr. Peters concluded after a study of 200 cases, and should not undertake to bear children. New Measurement of Deafness. Dr. Edmund P. Fowler of New York | advanced a new concept in the measurement of degrees of deafness. It has been customary to measure this by the ability of the ear to detect sounds of the faintest audible tensity. It was taken for granted that the ear which could not hear these was proportionately deficient for loud sounds. This is not true, Dr. Fowler said, in the condition known as ‘“nerve deafness.” Faint sounds stimulate only a few of the nerve fibers which carry impulses to the central nervous system. When the stimulus is weak the impulses are weak and slow. Loud noises increase the stimulus with the result that both the number of fibers acting and the frequency of the impulses are in- creased. A peculiarly malignant tumor that occurs in the urinary tract of chil- | dren was' described by Dr. Meredith F. Campbell of New York. The only hope of lessening the extremely high mortality in these cases, he said, is to find and remove the tumors early, with X-ray treatement before and after the operation. Drs. William J. Erickson and Jacob B. Feldman of Philadelphia reported a study of the relation of kidney stones to lack of vitamin A in the diet. Deficiency in this diet is known to produce exaggerated sensitivity to light. They found the same sensitivity in persons with stones. Treatment by adding the vitamin into the diet had no effect, however, and the investi- gators concluded that the stones may not be due to lack of the vitamin, but to inability of the body to as- similate it. Drs. James T. Priestly and William F. Braasch of Rochester, Minn., de- scribed “silent kidney stones” which may exist for years without showing any symptoms. New Concept of Shock. A new concept of the mechanism of shock, which is supposedly re- sponsible for at least a quarter of the deaths following surgical operations, was presented in on exhibit by Dr. Norman F. Freeman of the University of Pennsylvania. ‘The most notable result of loss of blood or shock from severs pain, cold & in- | NORRIS, COPELAND Nebraskan Charges Utilities Are Behind Plan to Switch { Committees. Bs the Associated Press Senator Norris, Independent, terday that private power companies are trying to block the administration’s flood control-T. V. A. bill by remov- | ing it from the control of a favorable committee. Norris, who introduced the bill, strongly opposed an effort to transfer it from the Agriculture Committee to the Commerce Committee. The Ne- braskan engaged in a clash with Chairman Copeland on the latter group. Foes of the proposal, Norris asserted, were “trying to get it away from a committee which has studied the sub- Ject for 20 years and has favorably reported bills which have not suited the private power companies.” Copeland Starts Row. Copeland started the dispute when he informed the Senate his committee had voted unanimously to report that the measure “properly belongs to the Commerce Committee.” He denied he was “committed in any sense” to op- pose the legislation, Norris said mittee already had taken steps to ar- range hearings, and ironically asked whether it should now “stop opera- tions” to permit the measure to be | taken up by a committee dealing with | everything “from medical subjects to | farming operations.” The “real issue,” he contended, was the opposition of private utilities be- cause of the power provisions. Would Set Up Agencies. ‘The bill would set up agencies, like T. V. A, to develop Government power and other resources along most of the Nation's major rivers. ‘When Copeland objected to Norris’ ing about the power companies,” Norris exclaimed: “Well, for God's sake, why not refer this bill that has power features in it to a committee that does know some- thing about power?” MARSHAL IS KILLED Gun Battle Takes Place in Shaw, Miss., Drug Store. SHAW, Miss, June 9 (#)—Night Marshal E. C. Harrington was killed late last night in an unexplained pistol battle that took place in the drug store of Claude Vance, 40-yea old member of a prominent Bolivar County family. County Attorney E. H. Green said Vance shot the marshal, but refused to make any statement. Vance's daughter Grace, a Louisiana State University co-ed, was wounded in the hip during the exchange of shots. or fright, Dr. Freeman explained, is a great decline in the blood pressure. It was supposedly due to a relaxation of the blood vessels and such stimu- lants as adrenalin, strychnine or caf- feine were given to revive the patient. These acted upon the sympathetic vessels which, Dr. Freeman's experi- ments show, was the worst possible thing to do. - § NFLODDBILROW NEWDRUG RIDS BODY OF DISEASE Powerful Medicine Which “Shoots” Bacteria Re- vealed to Doctors. By the Assoctated Press. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., June 9.— A drug which shoots like a “Big Bertha"” gun far beyond the range of any chemical previously used in medi« cine received its first intense inspec- tion yesterday before 10,000 members of the American Medical Association, The drug is a red dye called “sulfanilamide,” which was developed in Germany and has received first trials on human beings in this country only within the last year, Its blasting power for bacteria ranges all the way from those which cause sore throats to a type of pneumonia which is highly fatal and has resisted previous efforts at treatment. Effective in Many Diseases. Physicians who have used the drug and who are reporting on {ts uses this week were cautious about claim- ing too much for it. They agreed, however, that they had found it effective on this amazing list of human diseases; childbed fever, scarlet fever, erysipelas, septic sore throat, brain infections and some brain abscesses, pyelitis, gonorrhea, mastoids, acute tonsolitis, some chronio skin diseases and type three pneus monia, which is the deadly form for which serums have proven ineffective, Dr. Henry F. Helmholz of the Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minn., declared he had found the drug highly effective in checking the progress of all of the bacteria which infect the urinary tract except one, which thus far has failed to respond. It, too, may suce cumb if greater doses of the drug are given. Sulfanilamide, he added, works best on the alkaline side of body fluids, where the other drug he has used in urinary tract infections, mandelic acid, refuses to work. Thus, he said, “I believe that with these two drugs we have the possibility of clearing up most of these infections.” Results to Be Published. Dr. Ralph R. Mellon of Westerr Pennsylvania Hospital at Pittsburgh declared in an advance report on a book summing up the results of sul- fanilamide treatment, which is soon to | be published. that gnal benefit” being claimed by a large number of physicians for an “unprecedented number of infections.” The favorable results achieved | the treatment of type three | monia in rats “are of especial interest since they were later paral by | similar results” humans having the | disease, Dr. Mellon declared. Other physicians declared that they have had considerable success in use of the drug in treating gonorrhea, for h no specific remedy has been available, despite the fact that more than 10 per cent of the population of the United States is believed to have it. The chief action of the drug in checking these infections, a number of physicians said, seems to be to arrest their progress and thus enable | the body to eliminate the bacteria. Symballophone” Demonstrated. in versity of Cali today, by use of instrument similar to sound detectors used by the Army to locate enemy air) The instrument is a new stetho- | scope. called a “symballophone” by its !inventors, Dr. William J. Kerr and Dr. A. M. Basset. With it the physi- cian for the first time can determine | the exact location of sounds inside the human body and pick up the pre- birth broadcasts of infants long be- of | Nebraska charged in the Senate yes- | the Agriculture Com- | “implications” and said “I know noth- | fore they come into full voice. They demonstrated the device today before the association. The physician can also use the strument to make more specific ies of heart troubles, ol timing and pitch of heart sounds | diseases of the 1 s and respirat rack and friction within the lungs: of troubles in the vocal cords of opera {and other singers, and the various | “engine knocks” of the human body. Dr. Leverett D. Bristol of New York urged the association to indorse and | put into practice an ancient Chinese principle of medicine—paying the doctor to keep you wel instead of paying him to cure you. The time has come, he declared, for the phys: cian to apply preventive medic: rather than curative medicine and to persuade the p c to pay him “for individual health protection and pro- motion.” Birth Control Recognized. | American medicine gave recogni- | tion today to birth control as proper | medical practice after a long-stand. | record of opposition to contraceptives. The association has made a tradie | tion of turning down birth contrcl, For 25 years the fight has gone on for approval, but it was not until four years ago that the controversy cama actively into debate. Two years later an investigating committee was ap- pointed. The action today was unanimous, with the house of delegates, governing body of American medicine, deciding to make clear to doctors their legal rights in using contraceptives, to in- vestigate methods of contraception, to promote education in fertility and sterility and to restrict control of con- traceptives to legally licensed clinics, Congress in Brief TODAY. Senate: In recess. Joint committee continuesshearings on wage-hour bill. Interstate Commerce Committee continues rail financing inquiry. Foreign Relations Committee eon- siders Buenos Aires treaties. Appropriations Subcommittee com- pletes relief bill hearings. 4 House: Considers minor legislation. Interstate Commerce Committee studies proposed amendments to 1933 securities act. Flood Control Committee continues hearing on Ohio Basin program. Agriculture Committes considers farm tenancy legislation. TOMORROW. Senate: Miscellaneous business. Joint committee continues hearings on wage and hour bill. House: Considers nuisance tax bill. Post Office and Post Roads Commite tee considers foreign airmail bill, 10 am. Irrigation and Reclamation Come mittee considers moratorium bill, 10 a.m.

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