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Evening star., 1938-12-29

take hours was reported by nearly
half the men and only 10 per cen,
reported the opposite illusion in
which hours are compressed into
seconds, as might happen in high
speed moving picture.
Women, DR.. DiSerens found. were
more apt at remembering their
dreams than men. The latter had
to make more or less of an effort to
remember even that they had
dreamed and were considerably less
likely to remember any details.
Raising feminine social status by
means OF a synthetic hormone in
lection was reported today by Drs
w. c. Alice and Nicholas Collias of
the University Of Chicago.
Even without the benefit of a
barnyard social register, it appeared
from their report, the naughty mes
danes of flock of hens have q
social hierarchy among themselves
as rigid as any in human society
The ranking matron, they found is
entitled to peck all the other ladies
OF the flock without being pecked
back, which would constitute a Sc
rious breach of etiquette and q
thing that is not done in decent
barnyard society. In the same way
the second ranking matron can peck
all the others except her one su-
perior. So it goes down to the
Cinderella of the flock, who is
pecked by everybody and can peck
nobody.
The two professors upset this an
cient order of things when they
injected poor Cinderella and a few
Of her more plebeian flock mates
with the synthetic hormone daily
for nearly two months. The birds
that didn't rate lost all proper hu-
mility to their superiors under the
influence of this potent chemical
circulating in their blood and began
pecking back. At the end of the
experiment the social order was
almost completely reversed and the
one-time Cinderella was pecking
the hitherto most exalted lady OF
the lot without resistance.
Moreover. they report, this new
order of things was maintained
after the injections were stopped
and the treated birds were once
more entirely normal hens, so great
is the power of tradition in the
barnyard once it has been estab-
lished. The hormone used was tes-
tosterone, which also caused the
treated hens to grow combs.
i 4 4
Oxygen, which wakes men up
puts potatoes asleep. according to a
report presented by DR.. Norwood
c. Thornton of the Boyce Thomp-
son Institute of Yonkers, N. Y.
1t has long been known, he said,
that freshly dug tubers would not
sprout. This was supposed to be
Evening star., 1938-12-29
No P. ". A. Money
To Go for Defense,
|(kes Asserts
Imminent Report
To Show Nearly 1000
Of Funds Pledged

With the bulk of P. w. AS cur
rent $3.50, 900 900 appropriation al
ready allocated, no Withholding of
these funds for use in the contem-
plated national defense program will
be attempted. P. w. A. Admins
traitor 1ckes said today in advance
of report to be submitted today or
tomorrow to the White House.
Mr.. Ickes was questioned by news
men as to published stories that
since only SIS ,00O,OOO of the appro-
priation had been released by the
Treasury, the belief prevailed that
public works money would be held
back for use in the national de-
tense program.
The administrator replied that it
would be apparent In the report he
planned to make to President Roose-
welt that P. w. AS money was not
available for defense purposes. The
report shows the p. w. A. program
almost 100 per cent in the construc-
ton stage and approximately the
entire $3.50 900 900 pledged.
Spending Peak Next Summer.
Mr.. Ickes added that it was only
normal that the Treasury had dis
bursed but SIS, 1000 900, because the
peak of spending and building on
the projects would not be reached
until next summer.
Accelerated at swifter rate than
any other previous p. w. A. pro-
gram, approximately 10000, 900
out of $750, 1000, 900 for non-Federal
projects already has been allocated
in six months. Mr.. Ickes explained
a small margin of safety is necessary
to meet possible increased costs in
labor and material as the program
continues under the construction
period. All of the $500, 900 900 for
Federal projects also has been
allocated.
In the six-month period approx
mately $3.50 non-Federal projects
have been planned, financed and
started throughout the country. The
fact Congress imposed . January
deadline on construction, Mr.. Ickes
said, was the chief reason the pro-
gram moved forward 50 rapidly.
Administrator 1ckes set at rest
rumors that wholesale reductions
Evening star., 1938-12-29
Women's S Dream|and
Is More Beautiful
Than Mems
Scientists Told Males
Suffer Mostly From
Nightmares
BY Stan Correspondent of The Star,

BY Stan Correspondent Of The Star,
RICHMOND, Va, Dec. 29-The
dreamland of women is a far lovelier
place than that of men.
1t Is full of vivid reds and greens,
Of lovely music, of flashing lights.
Mans, by contrast, is gray,
shadowy place filed with blood
curdling shrieks and haunted by the
terrible forms of nightmares.
Such was the picture presented to
psychologists of the American Asso-
citation for the Advancement of
Science here today by DR.. Charles
M. Diserens of the University of
Cincinnati, based on the dream de-
scriptions given him by $50 students
Of both sexes.
He found that only 20 per cent
OF the men compared with 55 per
cent Of the women ever dreamed
they were listening to music. The
men reported the more vivid and
usually the more terrifying imagery.
Mems dreams were seldom colored,
but the women described enchanting
fantasies of red, green, blue, purple
and black, with the two first colors
predominant.
Nearly three-fourths of the
women reported dreams in which
bright lights flashed in their eyes.
Not single man had such an ex-
perlence. On the other hand, DR..
Diserens found, women are more
lkely to carry worries over their
jobs into dreamland These worries
become incarnated in the imagery of
their dreams.
Perhaps the most curious differ
ence between the two dream worlds
was in the illusions of space and
time. Thirty per cent of the men
reported dreams in which space ex-
banded to titantic proportions, in
the midst OF which they remained
tiny. helpless creatures. Not a single
woman had this experience. But II
per cent OF the women had the op-
posite dream illusion in which space
shrank to minute proportions and
they were like Gullivers in Lilliput
ABOUT IA per cent of the men also
reported one or more such expert
ences.
Inc terrifying illusion in which
time is magnified so that what ordi-
narlly happens in minutes seems to
Evening star., 1938-12-29
Bva sta1 Correspondent Of The Star.

RICHMOND, Va, Dec. 29.-
Chronic drunks were split into foul
types in a report submitted to thu
American Association for the Ad-
vancement of Science here today BY
DR.. Leo Alexander of Harvard Medi.
cal School. They are:
Cyclothemic drinkers-fellows who
vary from the laughing jag to the
crying jag in the course of a spree
Reactive-liable drinkers-individ.
uals easily upset by the ordinary
troubles of existence. who attempt tc
escape any unpleasantness, hardship
disgust, monotony, remorse or de-
feat Of everyday life by the artificial
euphoria and anaesthesia produced
by alcohol.
Shiftless drinkers by far the
greatest number who are character
lied as persons of peculiar imma-
turity, infantilism or boyishness, who
sometimes show feeble-mindedness
or low-grade mentality and occa-
sionally hysterical or other psyche
neurotic traits, and who essentially
are victims of personality distortions
with an inability to form organized
purposes
Epileptoid drinkers-perSons who
under the influence of comparatively
small amounts of alcohol, are apt tc
develop states of disturbed con-
sciousness with rage-like outbursts
of impulsive aggressiveness. Many
Of these are periodic drinkers only.
Differentiates Between.
DR.. Alexander also differentiates
between normal and pathological
intoxication. The former, he says
includes most of the first three
classes. A fellow drinks until his
consciousness is impaired by the
effects of the drug on his higher
brain centers. Before that he may
have been very active but from that
point on he becomes less and less
active the more he drinks, until
finally he slips into oblivion-the
deep sleep of the dead drunk
This is the way alcohol should act
in accordance with all the physio-
logical studies made of its effects.
But at The point where the nor
NAL" drunk starts dropping into
Inconsistencies the pathological,
drunk, who may have had much
less to drink, becomes more and
more active and starts looking fol
fight. He also is unconscious
as much dead drunk as the fellow
snoring on the floor, so far as know
ing what he is doing is concerned
He is the chap who wrecks cocktail
room, fights half dozen policemen
and wakes up in q cell the next
morning with a cracked shlll ane
complete forgetfulness Of everythinf
that has happened.
Explanation Is Unknown.
Alcohol, from all that is knowr
about it, shouldn't work this way
Evening star., 1938-12-29

disturbance is moving northeastwaId
between Labrador and Greenland Cart Cart
thaab. Greenland 2S94 inches Pressure
is low over Northern Hudson nsy Se chestss nsbss
4 sight distSrbanee is moving no5thsas,- beast
Ontario. 80. 90 inches with a trough ex-
tsndinE sou.hEsst.ard to Texas rUrt l,,nt
along the north Pacifc Coast. Kodiak:
Alaska. 29:32 inches; An extensive area re- 81 81
over the Middle Atlantic and North At,
lantic States. Block Island. R. T. ?o:5t
kenzie Valley southeastward over the MIG,
die and Northern Plains. Norman. District
Of Mackenzie. 3O.T4 inches. and Swift cur
rent Saskatchewan. 1904 inches. Pressure
is hish over the plateau region and Cali
fornia. Eureka, Calf, 3O.34 inches Dur
inr the last "a hours there has been some
light precipitation along the northern
border and scattered rains in portions OF
the Southern States. Temperatures have
risen in the Central Valleys and the lake
overspread the Middle and Northern Plains.
Evening star., 1938-12-29
Mrs. Helen Mark Named
Head Of Station VOL

Mrs. Helen S. Mark, widow of
lie Roy Mark, president of the AM
erican Broadcasting Co., which op-
crates radio station VOL, was
named yesterday to succeed her
husband as head of the company.
Others named at the Board of
Trustees meeting yesterday were
William B. Dolph, executive vice
president and general manager; w.
L. Shaffer, treasurer, and Mrs. Helen
J. Jet, secretary.
Evening star., 1938-12-29
Seek Couse of Deoth

Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald
planned an autopsy today to deter
mine the cause of death of Thomas
E. Mccullough, so, of GIT H street
NV, who was found dead at his
home last night after other residents
of the house said they heard a noise
like someone falling downstairs He
apparently died of a broken neck.
Evening star., 1938-12-29
Publisher Recovering
After Heart Attack

After a heart attack suffered en-
route here by train to spend Christ
mas, H. c. Ogden, 69-year-old West
Virginia and North Carolina news
paper publisher. was reported recov-
ering today. He was on his way
from his home in Wheeling to be
here with his daughter, Mrs. George
K. Nutting, when stricken.
When informed by telegraph Of Mr.,
Ogden,s condition, DR.. Nutting, his
son-in-law, met the train Friday at
Silver Spring, Md, and took him
home, 1907 lockwood parkway. Dr.
Nutting expects recovery in several
weeks.
Evening star., 1938-12-29

contacts with the arms attached to
the sensitive elements. Thus the
drain on the tiny battery is very
slight and much lighter batteries
can be used than has been possible
IN the past. At the same time, this
arrangement permits the use Of a
high signal current so that strong
signals are sent out which are easy
to receive.
Evening star., 1938-12-29
Golf Pro Is Found Dead

BALTIMORE, Dec. 20 (P.-Wal-
ter Brandu, assistant golf pro at
Hillendale Country Club, was found
dead today, apparently from car
bon monoxide gas, in a garage at
the home Of Ira Chalk. with whom
he lived. A note was found beside
him.
Evening star., 1938-12-29
PIon Open Forum

An open forum will follow an ad-
dress on Ancestry, Our Bond and
Our Inspiration" by Rabbi Henry
Segal at the B'Nai Israel Synagogue
Fourteenth and Emerson streets
NV. tomorrow night. The serv-
ices will begin at $3.50 o'clock.
Evening star., 1938-12-29
Will Go to Florida

Five Washington students at the
Shenandoah Valley Academy, Win
chester, Va, will attend the winter
session of the school in Lake Wales,
Fla, beginning January 4. They are
Roy Longenecker. Everett and Louis
H. Hall, jr.; William Curtis and
Jack Litchy.
Evening star., 1938-12-29
Weather Report

Columbia-Se probably turning rising
with lowest about 80 degrees
portion tomorrow night.
rising temperature tonight
portion
Vrgna-Occasonal tonight rising
perature tomorrow
Evening star., 1938-12-29
tuted with marvellous precision fol

the chemicals in the wood.
Then the earth's crust was fold
ed into the Rocky Mountains, so
that parts of the ancient forest,
turned to stone, were buried in the
tops Of peaks 2 miles high. Erosion
has since revealed part M it. DR..
Young has spent nine summers
tracing the remnants.
One tree stands exposed as q
pillar, 80 feet high and feet in
diameter. One fragment of petrified
wood looks like q rotten pine log,
while another resembles wood tun-
nelled by termites.
Evening star., 1938-12-29
'272, 91599, 91345, OO745.
Clarivoyance for Criminals,

Clarivoyance for Criminals.
Anybody who questions this is al
liberty to figure it out and DR.
Rademacher will apologize.
The new formula enables him to
do lot more arithmetical gymnas-
tics. He can find, for instance, how
many ways there are of partitioning
given number into parts that are
all odd numbers.
New mathematical methods OF
measurement which may be used
to test the abilities of criminals tc
succeed after release from Jail were
reported today by DR.. Ruth Struik
of Belmont, Mass. These new meth
ods are the result of two years in
vestigation of records in the re-
search department of the Massa-
chusetts Reformatory for Women
DR.. Struik endeavors to reduce the
life histories of women criminals
into certain mathematical symbols
These are then combined and ana
lyzed so as to give a prediction as
to whether or not any particular
women will be able to readjuSt her
life after her release.
The predictions already are being
tested and some favorable results
have been obtained.
Coffee Stirring and Planes.
Coffee drinking commuters now
may safely stir their coffee while
they read the morning paper. They
can be assured that in most cases
the coffee will eventually be well
stirred, as consequence of some
new theorems reported today by DR..
J. c. Oxtoby of Harvard Univer-
sity.
He reported on "metrically transi-
tive transformations" A single stir
of cup of coffee, mathematicians
explained, is an example of such a
transformation. 1t carries each drop
of coffee to some definite new po-
sition in the cup. He can prove
that if such a single stir is ap-
piled repeatedly it is almost math-
ematically certain that eventually
every bit of coffee will ultimately
Evening star., 1938-12-29

River Report.
Potomac and Snena ndoah Rivers clear
at Harpers Ferry: Potomac slightly muddy
at Great Falls today
The Sun and Mosn.
Rises. Sets
Sun today 1:26 1:53
sun. tomorrow 7:21 4:54
Neon. today ~ 11:32 Am.
automobile lishts must be turned on one
half hour after sunset.
WeAfh In XaeinuS CifiAs
Evening star., 1938-12-29
ReDsft fer Last "A Heurs.

Record for Last "a Hsurs.
Trom noon yesterday to noon todayJ
Highest, 80. noon today. Year aso. -.
Lowest. 21, 4 am. today. Year ago. "a.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest. 96 on August IL.
Lowest. A. on Novsnber u.
Humidity fer Last - Msurs.
From noon yesterday to noon today.)
Hisbest 81 per cent, at 5:45 Am. today.
Lowest, - Der cent. At 3 Pm. yesterday
Tide Tables.
Ournished By United States Coast and
0eodetie eurvey.)
Today Tomorrow.
High ----------- 1919 Am. :33 q. m
Low ------- 7:21 am. sos q. m
Htsh --------- 1:15 pm. 2:1O pm
Low 1883 pm. 1888 p m
Evening star., 1938-12-29

Monthly precipitation in inches tn the
Capital teurrent month to date):
Evening star., 1938-12-29
BY Stan Correspondent Of The Star.


WILLIAMSBURG, Va, Dec. 29.-
A formula for finding all the pos
sible ways in which number can
be divided was announced before
the American Mathematical Society
meeting here today, by DR.. Hans
Rademacher of the University OF
Pennsylvania.
For example, it was pointed out,
there are exactly seven ways of add
ing numbers together to make S.
such as plus plus 3; plus plus
q; plus 3; plus o, etc. There are
five ways OF making up 4, II ways
of making up 6. One can carry
this on for the digits but when
one gets to larger numbers 1t would
take lifetime to solve a single
such problem by trial and error
method. For instance, it has been
demonstrated, the number 600 can
be built up in 458, ,0O4, ,738 800, IA, $685.
$50, 1922 different ways.
The new formula enables one to
find the number of possible parti-
tions of any number very rapidly.
1t has been used, for example, to
find the number of possible parti-
tions of l4031. In case anybody is
curious they are precisely 90, 85303,
04759, O9931, 6o434, 85l56, 67127,
75089, 29l60, 5635S, 465OO, 54568,
28164, 5808l, 5O403, 46756, 1923,
s5895, 5sll3, 474l8, 8s383. 22063,
Evening star., 1938-12-29

StTdtOSpneTe hODOt SnONn.
A new kind of radiometeorograph,
unbelievably sensitive stratosphere-
probing robot, was described to the
society today by Bureau of Stand
ards physicists. The instrument
consists of a small, automatic radio
device attached to free rubber bal
loon which sends back to earth a
more or less continuous record of
pressure, temperature and humidity.
A rotary electric CONTRACTOR is driven
by a tiny electric motor weighing
about 2 ounces and capable of run
ming for several days from a single
f1ashlight cell of the type used in
fountain pen flashlights. As this
rotating contact touches arms at
tached to temperature, pressure and
humidity elements, it keys a small
radio transmitter which sends q
signal back to earth.
From the time between signals it
is possible to know pressure, tenn
perature and humidity at the
height the balloon has reached at
that instant. An automatic record
ing receiver is used at the ground
station. With the new instrument
it was reported today, pressure
measurements are accurate to about
two-tenths of per cent and tenn
perature measurements to / per
cent. The humidity indications are
accurate within about per cent.
A special advantage of the new
instrument, it was pointed out, is
that the radio transmitter Is on
only during the very brief electrical
The Washington times., 1938-03-24
Uphold Decisions

WHAT Mr.. Hull called for,
w with the approval Of Mr..
Roosevelt, was that United
States citizens should prepare
themselves to uphold the deci-
SionS of an imperialiStic inter-
national supreme court, actu-
ated solely by the principle of
property rights over human
rights, for the oppression and
suppression of hundreds Of mil.
lions of miserable humans
across the face of the globe. at
the very time the same Mr..
Roosevelt is crying human
rights before property rights"
within the frontiers Of the
United States.
That is the crueleSt of sophis-
try, the grossest deception Of
10000, 600 people who have not
the opportunity nor the time
nor the ability each and every.
one to study how their individ-
ual fateS are bound Up With the
moves their statesmen make in
foreign affairs.
Copyright. 1888. Ledger syndicate)
The Washington times., 1938-03-24
LATIN AMERICA
DICTATOR FEAR
is RAISED HERE
MaximiIian's En- pir e
In Mexico Cited
By EARL GOODWIN

Unless the rapidly expanding
ambitions of European and Asiatic
dictators are squelched, high Ad
ministration officials fear a dupli-
cation in Latin-America Of these
tactics. citing as an example at
the manner in which Archduke
Macmillan, of Austria, was made
Emperor of Mexico.
The idea apparently is that in
a year or so-or within a few
yearS-Some harried South Amer
ican republic or some island re-
public close to the U. S. A., may
invite aid from the successful
Hitler or Mussolini.
This was what Mexico did when
a committee went to Europe and
brought back Maximilian, younger
brother of Emperor Francis, Of
Austria. The committee gave it
self quite a name-the Mexican
Assembly of Notables, who offered
this noble a crown, which he ac-
cepted and became a Mexican
emperor late in 1864.
BACKED BY FRENCH
During his reign he had the
support of large French army
on Mexican soil, which finally
was withdrawn at the insistence
Of this Government.
This bit of history Is set forth
as an example of what might come
again to the Western Hemisphere
if the United States weakenS
Army and Navy preparations. OBJ
viously it has great disadvantages
as a subject to be utilized in the
raw in official speeches and even
in congressional remarks. Yet it
is more than likely that Majority
Leader Sam Rayburn, of Texas.
had this story in mind when he
warned the House that European
dictators were looking toward the
lush fields Of South America.
WORKS BOTH WAYS
But the object lesson works
both ways. The German Ambas-
Sador probably knows by now that
the higher officials of this Gov
ernment are driving home their
big Navy argument with the
startling example of a European
force landing in a South American
country-not more than an hour
to four hours away from New
Orleans or Miami by air. He has
a retort.
He could point to the historic
fact that when Mexico was in the
throeS of trouble, and the oppor-
tunity offered, an American army
invaded Mexico, raviShed the capt.
tai, took a trunk filled with gold
from Mexico to Washington, and
established the local Soldiers
Home with the cash. It has been
rumored that, at recent cocktail
party, the German Ambassador
pointed this out to several highly
placed Washington officials.
The Washington times., 1938-03-24
Baritone to Point
Lecture by Songs

Reinald Werrenrath, famous
American baritone, will both sing
and lecture on Sunday night at
the Town Hall meeting at the
Rialto Theater at 8:15 O'Clock.
His subject will be '"The Story
of American Song" and in addi-
tion he will sing as many numbers
as he would in one of his ordi-
nary concert recitals.
Werrenrath will trace the his
tory of American song from earli-
est Negro and folk songs to the
music of today.
The Washington times., 1938-03-24
SENATE WEIGHS
AIR SUBSIDIES

Q.N.S.) Recommendations by
the Maritime Commission that
Federal subsidies be granted to
private aviation companies to de-
velop and expand transoceanic
routes, were taken under consid-
Grafton by the Senate Commerce
Committee today.
Meeting in executive session,
the committee, headed by Senator
Copeland CD of New York,
scheduled the following wit
neSSeS:
Clinton M. Hester, counsel,
Treasury Department; Fred D.
Fagg jr., director United States
Bureau of Air Commerce; Lieut..
Col. Harold E. Hartney, technical
adviser Senate Air Safety Com
mitee: Col. Edgar S. Gorren, presi.
dent, Aeronautical Association Of
America; Leighton w. Rogers,
president, Aeronautical Chamber
of Commerce; Edward G. Ham
ilton, Airline Pilots Association;
Robert G. Thach, counsel, Pan
American Anyways; TIL o m a
Knowles, American Zeppelin
Transport Association. and John
E. Slater, Export Steamship Cor
poration.
Federal grants and loans fo1
construction and operation OF
over-the-Sea air lines was recon-
mended to Congress by Joseph P
Kennedy, former chairman of the
Maritime Commission, now Am
bassador to the Court of st. James
for the development of air com
merce and defense measures.