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Evening star., 1938-12-28
Farley D. vea|e,
Realty Firm Head, Dies

Farley D. Veale, 7s, president of
the Georgetown Realty and In
surance Co., died yesterday at the
home of his daughter Mrs. Edwin
M. Schlegel, 1776 Troy street, Ar
lington, Va, after an illness of sew
eral months.
Born near Leesburg. Va, Mr..
Veale came to Washington In 1883
and in 1889 began operating livery
business. He continued In that
business until shortly before the
United States entered the World
War and for many years furnished
special horses for the inaugural
parades.
Later Mr.. Veale was an automo-
bile dealer. He headed the George
town Realty and Insurance Co.,
from the time 1t was organized in
1923.
Besides his daughter, Mr.. Veale
Is survived by his widow, Mrs. En-
ma L. Veale; a sister, Mrs. Beulah
Darne, the latter of Forrestville,
Va, and one grandchild.
Funeral services will be held at
2 pm. Friday at Birch's funeral
parlors, 3034 M street NV. Burial
will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery.
Evening star., 1938-12-28

1t prevents convulsions, especially
those caused by various drugs such
as now are used to produce pseudo
eplleptic attacks in certain kinds of
insanity.
Experiments on college under
graduates showed:
1t temporarily raises the intelli-
gence, although 1t slows down the
rate at which they can do mental
arithmetic.
1t definitely widens the field of
vlslon-by its effect on the brain 4
sight centers and not, as morphine
oy an effect on the pupil of the eye.
Brighter Outlook on Life.
1t gives them a brighter outlook
on Hfe-a fact noted before by
physicians. but supposed to be due
TO relief from pain. These students
had no pains.
The great advantage Of cobra
venom in medicine, DR.. Macht said
comes from the long freedom from
pain 1t gives, compared with any
otner pain-killing drug. It is not
naolt-forming. Like morphine. he
found, 1t slows up the breathing Of
tne brain cells. The morphine aka
lold is quickly destroyed by contact
with living tissue while the venom
persists. '
Wnue an extremely virulent
poison. Or. Macht said, 1t operates
IN such extremely minute doses that
tnere Is q large margin of safety
between a pain-killing and q fatal
Evening star., 1938-12-28
Nebraska Power Sale
Approved by F.P {.

Important extension of control by
two public power projects of existing
facilities in Nebraska was author
lied yesterday by the Federal Power
Commission in approving sale of
the Iowa-Nebraska Light g. Power
Co. to the Central Nebraska Public
Power District and the Loup River
Public Power District.
The proposed sale, the commits
sion explained. will aid in accom-
plishment by the Central and Loup
Districts Of their proposed three
part program as follows:
l. Make available water and elec-
tric energy for irrigation and recla-
nation Of farm lands.
2. Rural electrif1cation.
3. Coordination of hydro-electric
and other power facilities into an
integrated public system to provide
sale Of electric energy at low rates.
Central Nebraska Is to purchase
the facilities south of the Platte
River for ST, ,370,112, while the Loup
District will take over the facilities
north Of the Platte for $2,825 ,879
In each case allowances are to be
made for transfer of accounts re-
ceivable.
To finance its expanded program
Central plans to issue $21 500 900 In
revenue bonds, with an issue Of
$5,0O0,0 900 in Loup bonds also con-
templated.
Evening star., 1938-12-28
Cobra Venom in Small Doses
Stimulates Brain Cells
~ STAT Correspondent Of The Star.

~ STAT Correspondent Of The Star. :
RICHMOND, Va. Dec. 28.-Cobra
venom, one Of natures most deadly
poisons, in minute doses has a stim-
ulating effect on the brain.
College students do better on in
telligence tests Immediately after
administration Of this drug, 1t vas
reported to the American Associa- :
ton for the Advancement of Science
here today by Drs. David I. and
Moses B. Macht Of Baltimore.
For the past four years they have
been experimenting with this dread
ed toxin as pain killer and pos
sible substitute for morphine in
some cases. Its action, they re-
ported today, is directly on vaylous
centers In the brain itself.
Properties Of the Drug.
Experiments with rats and guinea
pigs revealed the following properties
Of the drug:
1t first stimulates muscular &C.
tivity and then causes q depression.
1t markedly raises the threshold
for pain, so that a greater electrical
shock Is required to cause an ami
NAL to jump away.
It lowers body temperature through
an effect on the brains temperature
controlling center.
Evening star., 1938-12-28
Oil Firms Employees
Plon Bargaining Polls

Marine employees Of the Texas Co.
Of New York City will be divided
into three groups for collective bar
gaining elections to be held soon by
the National Labor Relations Board,
1t was announced today by the board.
The balloting will take place
among the radio operators, the IL
censed engineers and the harbor
craftsmen, canalmen and deck
hands. In the first two classifica-
tions the question will be over rep
resentation by G. I. O. afhliates,
while in the third the existing labor
organization is known as the Texaco
Small Fleet Association.
The company is subsidiary Of
Texas Corp, oil producer and dis
tributor, and operates 26 vessels in
its marine department.
Evening star., 1938-12-28
Maryland Wait Law
Waived for First Time

CUMBERLAND, Md, Dec. 20 R.
The Maryland law requiring a A.
hour delay before q marriage license
can be issued was waived yesterday
by court order for the first time
since it went into effect December 8.
A license for the Rev. George
Elmer Lamphere, 81, Baptist min
lister Of Oaklawn, r. l., and Miss
Katherine May Simons, 60, teacher
at Beall High School, Frostburg, Nd,
was issued less than an hour after
they applied for it.
An order signed by Chief Judge d.
Lindley Sloan and Associate Judge
William A. Hustler in Circuit Court
directed Clerk Robert Jackson to
issue the license Immediately" in
stead Of requiring the couple to wait
the 48 hours required by statute.
The waiver was granted in order
to allow the Rev. Mr.. Lamphere to
return to his charge at Osklawn
Immediately after the wedding at
Frostburg today.
Evening star., 1938-12-28
Daughter Of Mellon
Fiqhts Gift Tax Claim

The Board of Tax Appeals today j
was considering a petition Of Ailsa
Mellon Bruce, wife of David K. E.
Bruce and daughter Of the late,
Andrew Mellon, that 1t review
Government claim against her for
$50,730 in gift taxes for 1885 and
1895.
At the same time, it was dis
closed in Mrs. Bruce's petition that
she is seeking a refund Of $150,000I
on taxes paid for the years In dis
pute. 90.
The gift tax controversy centers
over the true value of stocks which.
Mrs. Bruce gave away during the
two-year period, and which she
claims are being over-valued by the
Bureau of Internal Revenue. ~
Mrs. Bruce gives her address as
Staunton Hill, Charlotte County, Va.
Evening star., 1938-12-28
Cruze Sues Daughter
Again for Property
3y the Associated Press

Z
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 28.-Resum-
ing efforts to retrieve $l50,O00 in
property decided to his daughter,
Film Director James Cruze filed a
new suit yesterday asking that the
deeds be Cancelled and the property
be declared held in trust by the
daughter, Julie Jane Cruze.
Mr.. Cruze contends his daughter
is incompetent to handle her own
affairs. He asked the court to
name guardian.
He said he was afflicted with a
heart ailment when the deeds were
executed and they were intended
to save the expense Of administration
In case Of his death. There was no
intention Of actually passing title,
he said. When he learned last
March that the deeds had been re-
corded, Mr.. Cruze asserted, his
daughter agreed to reconvey the
property, but has not done 50.
Miss Cruze was winner In an
other suit in the matter, tried a few
months ago. :.
Evening star., 1938-12-28
Peace and Economic
Conference Series
Urged in Petition
Statement Beorine 800
Names Is Presented
To Roosevelt

A delegation Of men and women
alarmed by the belligerent state Of
the world gave the President today
public statement bearing the sig-
natures Of more than 800 persons
eager for the convocation Of world
conference for economic and mill
tary disarmament.
John Nevin Sayre Of New York.;
president of the National Peace
Conference" who headed the dele.
cation, indicated after his White
House visit that, in the opinion Of
the President, the prospect for such
an international gathering as Mr.,
Sayre is urging is not wholly out Of
the realm of possibility. '-
The signers of the statement given
to Mr.. Roosevelt belong to more than
40 organizations with total men,
bership Of nearly 100000 persons,
Mr.. Sayre said. He added that his
organization felt that since a single
conference likely could not untangle
the worlds political and economic
knots, there should be a series Of
conferences and negotiations. p,
In the delegation with Mr.. Sayre-
were Murray Baron, vice president
OF the International Ladies' Hand-
bag, Pocketbook g. Novelty Workers :
Union; Hugh Moore, president Of
the Dixie Securities Corp; Father
Gerard Donnelly, Henrietta Roelofs;'
secretary for public affairs, National
Board, Y. w. c. A., and DR.. Charles
]. Turck. representing the Federal
Council of Churches of Christ in
America and general director Of the
department Of social education and
action, Presbyterian Church in tho
United States.
Evening star., 1938-12-28

The most elaborate exhibition ever
presented by the United States Bu-
reau Of Public Roads Of the Depart
ment of Agriculture will be on dts
play here late this week before being
transported to San Francisco as the
Bureaus contribution to the Golden
Gate Exposition.
Composed of SO dioramas tracing
four centuries of the progressive de-
velopment Of highways in the
United States, the exhibition was
year and a half in the making.
The pictorial models are 6 inches
in depth, showing perspective by
means Of bas relief rather than full
figures. The mechanism in connec-
ton with it makes it possible for the
observer to look through one open
ing and see the parade Of the do
ramas one after the other.
More than 1000 feet Of sound film
were used for the lecture which ac-
companies the display. Music ap-
propriate to each period presented
forms . background for the ex-
planatoey discussion.
Evening star., 1938-12-28
Brief Added Training
Needed 10 Fiji Pilots
For War Service
=
50 Hours Air Experience
Held Enough for Some
II 1918 Is Gauge
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Army. Air Corps officials said to-
day the college youths trained as air
pilots under plans unfolded by Pres
ident Roosevelt probably would re-
quire only brief postgraduate In
struction to fit them for war serv-
Ice.
In an extreme emergency" they
said. "the pick Of those with so
hours flying experience might even
be sent to the front lines.
They should be as well trained
as many who went to the front In
1918" spokesman commented.
The annual training Of 10000
youths promises to multiply q num-
Der Of pilots available for military
service, Army and Navy records
showed.
Few Flyers in Reserve.
Though exact current figures are
confidential, records indicated the
Army Air Corps has fewer than 1000
military flyers In active service and
still fewer in reserve. The Navy
has a somewhat larger number.
Al the end of last year there were
l,438 flying Army officers, and since
then 208 have been added. Training
has been stepped up from 200 to-
ward goal of 500 pilots a year.
In the Army Air Corps Reserve
there were ISL pilots in the prin-
cipal group, composed Of those re-
quiring an estimated three months
additional schooling, and others
rated as observers.
In a second group were 1872 flyers
who had not had Army training.
In a third were ITS former pilots not
qualified now for combat flying be-
cause OF age or other disabilities.
Of1cials said most of the Reserv-
lists would be ready to fly by the time
planes were available.
Navy Strength Listed.
The Navy listed 1,043 flying off,
GERS IN addition to II dirigible ex-
perts. 439 enlisted men qualified as
pilots, 548 aviation cadets with the
fleet and 46 ashore. about 800 stu
dents at the Pensacola training sta
ton and an inactive Reserve force
OF 460 pilots.
OF the college-trained youths, an
Army spokesman said additional
training given would depend on the
time available, with 200 additional
hours considered most desirable.
The instruction outlined by Presi-
dent Roosevelt would save much
time by wedding out youths without
natural aptitude for flying and pro-
viding basis of information so that
we can pour the rest of the train
ing at them pretty FAST" a spokes-
man said.
Evening star., 1938-12-28
SeIf-StyIed Trotsky Kin
Held in $4,000 Bail
DS the Associated Press.


LOS ANGELES, Dec. 28.-Romano
Nicholas Trotsky, who claims to be
the 41-year-old nephew of Leon
Trotsky, exiled Soviet leader, denied
in Federal Court yesterday he made
false statements in applying for
American citizenship.
Trotsky was indicted by the Fed
eral grand Jury last month on
charges of filing application for cit
izenship July 16, 1887, under the
name of Romano Lukiancguk.
Joudge Ralph Jenney ordered
Trotsky held under $4,000 bail
pending trial February 3.
Norman Neukom, assistant United
States attorney, produced F. B. I.
records to show that Romano Trot-
sky, under several names, had been
arrested in this country IL times
from 1923 to 1898; that he was &C
quilted Of murder; that he was &C.
cused several times of violating
medical laws and was arrested for
violation Of the Dyer Act, forgery
and petty theft.
Evening star., 1938-12-28
Reed, New Kansas Senator,
Expects to Be Unpopular
Free and Independent
Course Chartered
For Terra
By the Associated Press

6y the Associated Press.
Senator-elect Clyde M. Reed. Re-
publican, Of Kansas crossed his legs,
tilted his chair at a comfortable
angle, and predicted today that he
would be "the most unpopular 6ena-
tor ever" at the end OF his six-year
team.
Why?
Because I am going to be free
and independent" said the former
Kansas Governor, who contends that
farmer dissatisfaction with admin
istration policies helped him defeat
Democratic Senator McGill.
I intend to work with the Repub-
licans, yes. I'll consult them, yes.
But III make my own decisions, even
II member Of my own party is In
the White House In 1910, as I expect
him to be-"
The silver-thatched Senator elect,
whose weatherbeaten face has a
ruddy tinge, Is publisher Of the Par
sons (Kans) Sun. At 81, he rivals
many a younger Senator In sartorial
polish. Today he wore q natty blue
suit and blue shirt.
Speaking with a blunt emphasis
and a twinkle in his brown eyes, he
declared:
If you have a clear conscience, a
good digestion and don't take your
self too seriously, you can get along
pretty well these DAYS"
AS a man who spent 28 years in
the Transportation Division Of the
Post Once Department and has
practiced before the Interstate Com
merce Commission and State regu-
latory bodies, the Senator elect is
greatly interested in railroad legis-
lation.
AS for some Of the other issues
before Congress, he said:
I'VE can't stop this Government
spending all at once, although it has
been almost profligate. If we cut it
OIL all at once, we'd have a revolu-
ton.
Il think the degree of politics that
has entered relief his shocked the
conscience and outraged the emo
tons Of the American people.
Il think the Wagner Act needs
revision-I want both sides to have
q fair shake"
And on politics:
Il am good friend of MIR. Roose-
velt's, but when President goes out
promising bridges for votes, I get
on h.m-I don't care what party he
belongs to. That's what the Presi-
dent did in the Maryland primary.
Evening star., 1938-12-28
House Committee
Ratio Of 16-9 Talked
By Democrats
No Change Considered
In l0-4 Lineup Of
Rules Group
BS the Associated Press.

Bs the Associated Press.
House Democratic leaders talked
today of letting Republicans have
nine, instead of seven, members on
most major committees.
No change in the party division
of the influential Rules Committee
is contemplated. The committee has
10 Democrats and four Republicans
now.
But on those committees with Is
members, which is the customary
number for the more important COM
mittees, the lineup probably will be
Is Democrats and nine Republicans,
compared with the present 10 Demo-
Gratis and seven Republicans.
Republican gains at the polls No.
vember 8, from SO to 1859 seats, forced
the Democrats to consent to realign-
ing committees Some Republican
leaders, however. said they wanted
15-to-l0 division, because when
Republicans were in power, they
said, they always granted the mi
nority 40 per cent of the committee
assignments, regardless of the mi
nority's size.
Evening star., 1938-12-28
Road Building History, Traced
|By Diorunus, to Be Shown

Bureau oncials said today more
time and effort of experts was ex-
pended on the creation Of this ex-
'hibit than ever before. Extensive
historical research accompanied the
task. The dioramas are original con-
ceptions and the method Of their
creation originated In the bureau.
Beginning with 1889, when De
Soto brought horses to the New
World, the dioramas include various
methods Of transportation through
the centuries to the present. Shown
are Indian canoes, tobacco rolling
roads, Erie Canal, pony express,
Boone wilderness trail, first cross
continental trip by motor truck, old
Natchez Trace and modern trans
portation routes and methods.
Among those who contributed
their work to the exhibit were H.
w. Hendley, Carl Raleman and G.
II. Frey.
The exhibit will be on display in
the Workshop Of the bureau, l345
Z street NV.
Evening star., 1938-12-28
Legion Head Stands
Firm on Refugees
By the Associated Press.

~ sAe ASoOClAteQ Ffe8S
SEATTLE, Dec. 28.-Stephen F.
Chadwick, Seattle, national Amer
can Legion commander, stood arm
IN his expressed opposition to use
OF the United States as a haven for
any or all political and religious
refugees"
Commenting yesterday on pro-
tests from four legion posts in New
York City, Comdr. Chadwick said
MS organization had reaflrmed its
position at the September conyen-
ton by adopting a resolution asking
that all immigration be stopped for
10 years.
I'VE have in each expression af-
nrmed our sympathy for those who
are the victims of persecution and
abuse wherever they live" he added
But our own problems Of employ-
ment and the distressed economic
condition Of many Of our people
indicate that the course which we
recommend is the wise course for
America" ~N
Evening star., 1938-12-28
Keller Church Class
To Give Program

A post-Christmas candle light
program will feature the regular
monthly meeting Of the Comrades
Class Of Keller Memorial Church,
to be held tonight at 8 o'clock in
the church parlor.
Ching Chong Hung will describe
Christmas celebration In China, and
Saiko Neshio will outline Japan's
activities during the yuletide. Mrs.
w. Penn Howard will direct the
program.
Evening star., 1938-12-28
Yeorning for Ukroine
Held Nozi Smoke Screen
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, Dec. 28.-An authorita-
tive Soviet journal declared TO-DAY
that talk OF German ambitions con-
cernlng the Russian Ukraine was
merely a German-ma smokescreen
to hide the totalitarian powers real
designs elsewhere, notably in French
Tunisia.
The Journal de Moscou, French
language newspaper which frequent-
ly reflects the Moscow foreign of1lce's
views, said that the sudden en-
phasis on the so-called Ukrainian
question was not worrying Soviet
statesmen.
It asserted that the idea seemed
to be to kick up a great fuss about
the Ukrainian question, concentrate
European attention on that issue
and prepare meanwhile an Italian
attack on Tunisia."
Evening star., 1938-12-28

Institution in Washington.
It was also announced that DR..
c. w. Gilmore, curator Of the
United States National Museum
here, has been elected third vice
president of the society, at the
same. time resigning as president of
the archaeological Society of
America, an affiliated organization.
schaller Is Treasurer.
DR.. Waldemar T. Schaller, chief
mineralogist of the Geological Sur
vey, was elected treasurer of the
Neurological Society of America,
another affiliate. Schaller also re-
ceived the Roebling Medal of the
latter organization for contributions
to the science of minerals. He has
been associated with the Geological
Survey for IS years.
The Geological Society also an
nounced election Of Is other resi-
dents of the National Capital to
fellowships. They are: DR.. Roy w.
Goranson, physical geologist Of the
Geological Survey; DR.. Herbert ms
ley, Photographer Of the National
Bureau Of Standards; George WASH
ington Morey, physical chemist OF
the Geophysical Laboratory of the
Carnegie Institution; Paul A. Smith,
photographic and geodetic engineer,
United States Coast and Geodetic
Survey; Earl A. Trager, chief of the
Naturalist Division and chief geolo-
gist of the National Park Service;
DR.. George Tunell, petrologist OF the
Geophysical Laboratory Of the Car
negie Institution; DR.. John P. Mar
BILE, vice chairman, Committee on
Geologic Time, National Research
Council, United States National
Museum, and Thomas A. Hendricks,
DR.. Charles F. Park, jr.; DR.. John G.
Reed, DR.. Albert N. Sayre, DR.. Mil
ton N. Bramlette and DR.. Eugene
Callaghan, associate geologists of
the United States Geological Survey.
Awarded Agassiz Medal.
DR.. Vaughn was born in Jones'
vile, Tex, in 1870. From 1894 to
1924 he engaged in geologic and
archaeological research with the
Geological Survey and has been
senior geologist Of the survey since
1928.
From 1924 to 1885 he was director
Of the Scripps Institution of the
University Of California, at present
carrying on explorations of the sea
floor of the California coast. He
Is now director emeritus and a pro-
fessor Of the institution. In 1885
he was awarded the Agassiz Medal
for research in oceanography by the
National Academy of Science.
Evening star., 1938-12-28
Two Found Dead
Of Cos Heater Fumes
, the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NORFOLK, Va, Dec. %. - City
Coroner c. D. j. Macdonald said
James M. Davis, "a, electrical ap-
pliance salesman, and a waitress
identified as Mary Pearl Bice-Davis,
died Of poison fumes that escaped
from gas heater.
Their bodies were found yesterday
in garage apartment by Patrolmen
j. G. Hartsoe and c. j. Staylor. who
went to the apartment to serve Davis
with warrant obtained by his wife
charging him with desertion and
non-support of herself and their
child.
Detective Leon Nowitzky, coroner's
investigator, estimated the couple
had been dead since Christmas
morning.
Evening star., 1938-12-28
Jews Emigration
From Donzig Grows
By the Associated press.


FREE CITY OF DANZIG, Dec.
28.-Jews are emigrating from DAN
zig in increasing numbers of antici-
patton Of the Free City's union with
Germany. which they and Nazi
leaders Of Danzig consider inevita-
BILE.
Anti-Semitic laws patterned after
those Of Germany are being stead
lily adopted by the Naz-domi-
mated government and are squirting
the Jewish exodus. Up to the pres
ent, Nazi authorities assert. Jews
are permitted to take their wealth
with them when emigrating from
Danzig, in contrast to the rigorous
restrictions in Germany.
Evening star., 1938-12-28

A storm OF considerable intensity Is
Quebec. Port Harrison, 90. 90 inches, with Q
trough extending southwark over the Cana
dian maritime provinces and thence south
disturbance is moving eastward over the
Middle Plains Cheyenne. Wyo.. $3.50
inches. An extensive area Of high pressure
Is moving east-northeastwardo over the Ohio
Valley, Parkersburg. w. Va, 3O.6S inches,
while pressure continues high over the
western Canadian provinces and the Mac
kenzie Valley. Norman, district Of Mac
kenzie,. 3O.74 inches Pressure is high
east Of Newfoundland. g. g. Westernland
3O.30 inches During the last "a hours
ENGLAND States. the Lake region. the ex-
treme upper Mississippi Valley. the North
ern Plains, the Northern Rocky Mountain
peratures have fallen considerably in the
Atlantic States. the upper Ohio Valley and
while they have risen over the Middle
Plains and the lower Missouri Valley.
Evening star., 1938-12-28

convention in
New York that
DR.. Wayland r.
Vaughn, senior
geologist Of the
United States
Geological Sur
vey, has been
chosen to lead
it for the CON-
ing year. DR..
v a u 6 hn sue
ceeds DR.. Ar
thur L. Day,
former director
Of the Geophys-
ical Laboratory