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Evening star., 1940-02-03
COrrects Statement
In Star Story.

To the Editor of The Star:
In am writing to express my apprecia-
tion of the story devoted to the rally Of
the United Dry Forces of the District
of Columbia, which appeared in your
columns on January 30
At the same time, may I make the
observation that the United Dry Forces
is composed of local citizens interested in
finding solution for the liquor problem
in the District of Columbia? Only two
outsiders participated in the rally at
Mount Vernon Place Methodist Church.
They were Representative U. S. Guyer of
Kansas, author of H. r. 1850, to re-estab-
lish prohibition in the District, and Sam
Norris the principal speaker of the eve
ming.
1t so happens that the undersigned,
the last speaker on the program, is a
Washingtonian and general superintend-
ent of the National Civic League and not
superintendent of the Civic League of
New York" as stated in the story.
During the course of my remarks re-
ferred to the fact that the United Dry
Forces are backing the Reynolds s-Reece
bill Is. 2o66-H R. 3SOS) calculated to have
a far-reaching effect in determining the
extent to which alcohol may be cause
of motor vehicle accidents in the District
of Columbia. The purpose of the bill is
"to provide for the use of scientific tests
to determine the degree of intoxication
of motor vehicle operators" and admit
the results of such tests as evidence in
the trial of persons arrested for violation
of traffic laws.
This bill has the Endorsement of the
Traffic Bureau and is regarded favorably
by the American Automobile Associa-
ton. In view Of The Evening Stars
commendable campaigns for safety, we
venture to hope for early editorial advo-
cacy of passage Of the Reynolds
bill to hasten attainment of your safety
standards for the District.
j. RAYMOND SCHMIDT,
General Superintendent of the
February l. National Civic League.
Evening star., 1940-02-03
Asks Suggestions on
Oustinx Pigeons.

Asks Suggestions on
Ousting Pigeons.
To the Editor Of The Star:
VIII you please stop publishing pic
lures of how to feed our dear "feathered
friends" and publish few facts on how
to get rid of them? I have tried dill
gently for the past several months to rid
my house of IL or IA stray pigeons, but
nothing works.
am tired of providing a sanctuary
for these birds and would like advice on
how may get rid Of them. Any sug-
gestion will be welcome. A. L.
January 80.
Evening star., 1940-02-03

Down at Leonardtown, Nd, it has
been so cold that the buzzards have
been eating with the chickens. The
same sort of thing happens habitu-
ally in some night spots.
Evening star., 1940-02-03

An Indiana barn caught fire and
popped fifteen tons Of popcorn. Paul
Bunyan's shanty boys could have
cleaned this up In short order.
Evening star., 1940-02-03
An Admirer Of the President
Urges q Third Term.

To the Editor Of The Star:
I believe that President Roosevelt
should be urged to run again, and be
reelected. He is a man OF outstanding
ability; miracle President, and an ex-
ample to all the leaders Of the world.
January a. MRS. BETTY KING.
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Evening star., 1940-10-15

newly voted afflliation with the Fed
eral Council of Churches, which has
headquarters in New York.
You must consider whether the
presiding bishop is to live in Wash
ington and transact nine-tenths Of
his business in New York." Bishop
Tucker said.
Would Provide Auxiliary Bishop.
The eventual plan would make the
diocese of Washington the see Of
the presiding bishop and provide
and auxiliary bishop for its admin
istration, explained Bishop Paul
Matthews, retired, Princeton, N. j.,
co-author of the suggestion.
Two other proposals were aimed
at restricting individual clergymen.
One would fix definite retirement
age while the other would prohibit
marriage for two years after Or
dination.
Bishop S. A. Huston Of Olympia,
Wash, suggested that the bishop
and a placement committee of each
diocese nominate three clergymen
for any vacancy and that the af-
fected congregation choose from
them. If none of the three was
accepted another set of three would
be nominated.
At present each church, except in
a missionary diocese which receives
outside financial assistance, has the
Evening star., 1940-10-15

tions containing a specific hormone
are injected into mice. In the
George Washington method rats
are used and various technical i'm
provements introduced. The net re-
suit, DR.. Kelso said, is to cut not
only the time but the cost in half.
An American modification OF the
Ascheim- -zondek procedure has been
to use rabbits. With these animals
a test could be completed In 48
hours, but results have been uncer-
tain and it has been necessary to
keep the animals isolated for three
days beforehand.
The annual scientific assembly
opened at the Mayflower this morn
ing with series of papers on
various aspects of heart disease, the
leading cause of death in Washing
ton. At a luncheon this noon the
speaker was Maj. Gen. James C.
Magee, surgeon general of the Army,
who spoke on new aspects of mill
tary medicine.
This evening a new feature Of
these sessions, in which local phy-
sicians exhibit their hobbies rang
ing from miniature ships to post
age stamps, will be opened at the
Mayf1oWer.
Evening star., 1940-10-15
MoyfIower to Have
Special Draft Center

Men of draft age who are guests
at the Mayflower Hotel Or who are
attending a convention there will
be able to register tomorrow without
leaving the hotel
BY arrangement with the District
selective service administrator, q
special registration place will be
open from 10 to II m in the hotel
where several hundred physicians
from five States are attending the
District of Columbia Medical Society
meeting.
Other hotels are placing signs
conspicuously to notify guests where
to register. The Shoreham Is dis
tributing a pamphlet to inform its
guests who must register and where.
Evening star., 1940-10-15
Sp|it-Second X.Ray
Gives New Method
For Studying Brain
Hidden Tumors Revealed
By Thorium Dioxide,
Medical Society Is Told
By THOMAS r. HENRY.

Cerebral angiography, new way
Of looking at the inside of the brain,
was introduced to American medl-
cine here today.
1t was developed a few months
ago by the Portuguese brain surgeon,
Egas Moniz, and is being perfected
at George Washington University
Medical School by DrS. Robert H.
Groh and Walter Freeman.
The new method, demonstrated at
the opening session of the annual
scientific assembly of the Medical
Society of the District of Columbia,
makes possible the location of hid
den brain tumors and clots in the
circulation of the brain.
Angiography, a matter of split
second X-ray photography, depends
on the rapid injection into the
carotid artery, where the blood
stream enters the brain, of a COL
loidal suspension of thorium dioXide,
chemical combination of the
radioactive element, thorium, with
oxygen. This is carried by the blood
stream through the brain and out
again in approximately seconds.
It causes the entire circulation Sys-
tenn to throw a shadow on the X-ray
plate The picture then can be
matched with that of an entirely
normal brain.
Clots Can Be Localized.
Cerebral aneurisms, or clots in the
circulation which are responsible for
the shocks resulting in partial
paralysis and are a presumably
mounting cause of sudden deaths,
can be localized by means of dis
placements of blood vessels from the
normal. as revealed by the plates.
Tumors can be localized by abnor-
NAL masses of blood supply which
are interpreted as the blood flow OF
the hungry tumors themselves rob-
ping their neighbor brain cells of
proper supply.
Thus far the George Washington
doctors have used the method en-
tirely for the diagnosis of patients.
but it offers an even more important
field in the study of the physiology
of the brain. Some authorities have
contended. that the difference be-
tween imbecility and genius, in some
cases, may be a difference in cere-
bral blood supply.
One of the great difficulties of
brain operations in the past has
been the impossibility of locating
precisely a brain tumor. The sur
it. The outstanding danger has been
the puncture of a vein abnormally
located, resulting in a fatal brain
hemorrhage. The new method may
reduce these dangers to minimum.
Speed Element Lacking.
A few years ago DR.. Freeman in
troduced the method of putting a
form of thorium into the ventricles
Of the brain as an aid to photog-
raphy. In this procedure. however,
there was not the same element Of
speed. Without some device of this
sort, cerebral abnormalities do not
usually show up on an X-ray plate.
Tumors, for example, are invisible
unless there is considerable deposit
Of calcium from the blood-stream in
them.
AS the method was described by
DR.. Freeman, the patient is placed
on his back on an X-ray table and
the upper back and shoulders raised
6 or 8 inches by pillows. allowing a
marked extension of the neck. A
Evening star., 1940-10-15

direct puncture is then made in the
carotid artery in the neck. There
is considerable pressure behind the
blood flow into the brain. The re-
suit is that blood is pushed into the
needle almost Immediately. AS soon
as this happens, DR.. Freeman ex-
plains, a stopcock in the needle IS
turned and the thorium injected as
rapidly as possible. When about II
cubic centimeters have been injected
the first picture is taken. The in
lection has required about three Sec
onds, and by that time the thOrium-
impregnated blood has gone through
the entire arterial, or infiowing, sys-
tenn. The second half of the tho
rum suspension is injected imme-
diately, while an assistant is chang
ing the plates and a second picture
taken, showing the blood in the
venous. or outgoing, system. For
each picture there is an exposure OF
only three -tenthS of a second. II
necessary to obtain more complete
picture, the process can be repeated
and the patient turned on one side.
Little Danger in Method.
The new method is essentially
without danger, the two doctors re-
ported, and seldom causes any dis
comfort to the patient. The flow of
the blood is so rapid that thorium
seldom escapes into the tissues of
the brain, where it might cause some
pain. To reduce the possibility OF
this an ice cap is kept on the neck
for an hour afterWard
Not only the location but the ma
ture of a brain tumor can some
times be deduced, the doctors
explained. This is practically i'm
possible with any other method of
brain photography.
A new method by which human
pregnancy can be determined in
"a hours, half the time required in
the past, was shown the society by
DR.. Richard E. Kelso of George
Washington University.
Modification of German Test.
The method is a modification of
the classical Ascheim Zondek test,
developed in Germany about II
years ago, by which body secre-
Evening star., 1940-10-15

right to select its own clergyman
without consulting the bishop. The
new proposal was referred to COM
mittee.
Commission Planned.
The bishops voted to create q
nine-member commission to con-
slider compulsory retirement for the
clergy and report to the general con-
vention Of 1943. No retirement age
was provided.
DR.. w. S. Bowen, Washington
physician, who introduced the pro-
posal of two-year marriage bans for
clergymen, asserted too many young
ministers have had promising ca
reers impaired by financial difhcul-
ties.
The conyention'S puh1icitv depart
Evening star., 1940-10-15

ment said ut is considered unlikely"
that the marriage restriction resolu-
ton will be adopted.
The Houses of Bishops and Depu-
ties approved a change in the hym-
nal-a step not taken for "a years
by accepting draft proposed by a
commission Of 27 bishops, priests
and laymen. The new hymnal, said
Bishop Henry j. Mikell Of Atlanta,
head of the commission, stresses
simplicity. Some 200 of the 586
songs are new. Bishop Mikell said
it would be several years before the
hymnal would be ready for use.
To Have Consumption Room.
The convention will have a def
mite innovation tomorrow con-
scription room. Registration off,
Evening star., 1940-10-15
Episcopal Bishops
Indorse Washington
As Church's Seat
Convention Gets PIons
Aimed at Restricting
individual CIereymen
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, Oct. 15.-A pro-
posal to restrict the independence
of Episcopal parishes in selecting
their individual clergymen was be-
fore the church's triennial conven-
ton today.
A move to make Washington the
national capital of the church by
designating the National Cathedral
there as the seat Of the presiding
bishop was approved by the House
of Bishops. 1t also must pass the
House of Deputies.
Bishop Henry st. George Tucker
presiding bishop, questioned the wis
dom of the move in view of the
Evening star., 1940-10-15

cials have set up a special pre-
cinct" in Municipal Auditorium to
care for delegates. All members of
the House of Bishops are over the
age limit-the youngest Is 42-but
church officials estimated so mem
bers of the House of Deputies and
200 to $50 delegates would register.
Evening star., 1940-10-15
Bethesda PIT. A. Meets

A public address system for the
Bethesda Elementary School audi
torium will be supplied by the
schools Parent-Teacher Associa-
ton, the group has decided.
The place Of democracy In the
school program was discussed at a
round table led by Mrs. Ruth Clapp,
principal,
Evening star., 1940-10-15

The conventions publicity depart
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1940-03-08
BLACK0UT IN FILM
':WATERLOO BRIDGE"

The dramatic effect of a black
out in London of 1910 will be pre-
scented in the sensational opening
sequence of "WaterlOo Bridge, -
MGM picture starring Vivian
Leigh and Robert Taylor.
Camerman Joe Ruttenberg,
Academy Award winner for his
photography of THE Great Waltz
has worked out a system of light
ming for the London blackout
street scenes which will feature
photographing black light.
London street scenes are authen-
tically presented with the studio
research department providing
material on blackout procedure.
The famous Robert Sherwood
play has been given added realism
by opening the film on a London
blackout of today and then going
back to 1917 to tell the story of
the romance between a little ballet
dancer and the young officer she
meets in an air raid shelter.
Melvyn Leroy directs the pic
ture brought to the screen by Sid
ney Franklin.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1940-03-08
GOOD NEIGHBOR TOUR"
PLANNED FOR S. AMERICA

The imaginary Good Neighbor
Tour" of South America. which
the General Federation of Womens
Clubs is conducting for its 1000
GOO members by means of a stimu-
lating study program is to become
a reality.
Sailing from New York, May /,
Immediately after the Council
meeting Of the Federation in Mil
waukee, the Federation will spon-
sor a 52-day all-expense tour of
more than $4,000 miles and visiting
leading South American countries
and capitals. All accommodations
will be first-class. The tour is
open to club women, their hus-
bands and their friends. The cost
will be $1,100. For those wishing
a shorter tour three 3S-day trips
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1940-03-08
Il Take This Woman, Starts Next Thurs, at Maryland
TWO BIG STARS IN
TALE OF NEW YORK


Americas No. 1 Glamour Girl
and The king OF the screens char
4eter stars are joined economically
Ii Il Take This Woman" drama
ic romance OF New York with
Spencer Tracy and Hedy Lamar
playing Thursday and Friday and
saturday, at the Maryland.
Directed by ". S. Van Dyke. H.
the play deals with a social but
terfIy who, after a wrecked ro-
nance, finds her real love and
happiness at the side of an earn
est scientist working for the pub
lie good in a tenement clinic. Ac-
ton ranges from fashionable
night clubs and fashion salons to
the tenements. Dramatic high
lights include an attempted suicide
and rescue. an encounter with a
former lover, and a powerful dra-
matte sequence in which the wo-
man realize she is about to ruin
the life of the man she really
loves.
Verree Teasdale has the chief
comedy role and Kent Taylor
plays Tracy's rival in love.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1940-03-08

are offered. all sailing with the
main party. One of these trips in
cludes Peru with two weeks in and
about Lima, from $500 and up; an
other is to the land of the ancient
Inca civilizations, and the third to
Chile, each of the two latter from
$685. and up.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1940-03-08
ANDY GAINS WEIGHT

When Andy Devine sits down at
his dinner table, no longer will
flowers screen him from view of
the watchful Mrs. Devine. She
discovered that, hidden behind the
floral decorations, Andy has been
devouring prodigious portions of
food. And that's why, supposedly
on a diet for the past year, Andy,
in cahoots with the cook has man
aged to gain 80 good, solid pounds
of flesh, bringing the total to 271.
You'll see him soon. with Jack
Benny, Ellen Drew, Rochester and
Phil Harris in Buck Benny Rides
Again"
Mrs. Geza Groh, 43-year-old wife
of a Norwood. Mass. laborer re
Gently gave birth to her twentieth
child.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1940-03-08
FORTY LITTLE MOTHERS"

Forty Of the most beautiful girls
in Hollywood have been chosen
by MGM to play the title role in
the new Eddie Cantor picture,
'Forty Little Mothers"
The occasion of Cantor's forty
eighth birthday was made memoir
able by the beauties when Direc-
tor Berkeley inserted a scene in
the film in which all the girls kiss
Cantor. The actor turned to the
laughing crew at the conclusion
Of the festivities and said. E'Dale
Carnegie was right-Life Begins
at Forty with Forty Little Moth
ers."
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1940-03-08
TWO BINGS!

Bing Crosby commenced his
thespic career by appearing in a
Shakespearean drama in Spo-
kane, Washington, high school.
We heard that Gary, the eldest of
the Crosby children. was the hit
of the annual show staged by the
Black-Foxe Military Academy.
Bing taught his son to sing Gan
Apple for the Teacher" and the
youngster, who has the same
throaty voice as Bing, brought the
house down when he started
Swinging" it.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1940-03-08
IF YOU LIKE

A rousing good cup of Coffee (and
who Doesn't this is an urgent in
vitation to treat yourself and the
folks to Kenny's New Blend 1880
Coffee to which has been added
costly mountain grown coffee.
usually held out for more expen-
sive brands. Here without doubt
is the biggest coffee Value on the
market. The price CD Ask your
grocer and get surprise.
G.. D. KENNY co.
Importers of fine Teas and Cof-
fees. Adv.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1940-03-08

A New York City deputy, as
signed the job of collecting $11O
on judgment, reported: 81
pinched the defendant; he got up
the dough; that being the case,
let him 60"
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1940-03-08

If it was a breach Of interna-
tional law. of which there isn't
any more, for the British Naval
men to take their countrymen off
the German prison ship what
would you have thought Of them
if they had let the opportunity
slide?
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1940-03-08

Bedons the Patterson river and is the
to be mad In
the
Arriving the penalbox finted
forward This noticed According doctors
O
matte
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1940-03-08

c. A. Bates of Camptonville,
Cal. uses porcupine quilts as pho
nograph needles.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-09-16
BY PAUL HARRISON

HOLLYWOOD As equity
Commissioner Of the Department
q Glamor. Wham. zowie and
Umph. Il u my pleasure to an
nounce the arrival here Of req
headed trick named signe Hasso.
She's Swedish. "Signe" means
bless YOU "Hasso" seems TO be
Just a name. like Sternhielm OF
Gustavsen. except that II looks
better on the marquee.
HOLLYWOOD has been trying to get
Signe Hasso over here for five
yearx or ever since she was 20
and already an established stage
favorite Of the ford and smorgas-
bord regions. Metro and 20th-Fox
started the bidding. She was i'm
pressed. naturally. but she had a
husband and a brand-new son who
were not
Her husband. besides being an
artist and director. is a cinema
scientist who has invented several
important camera eontraptions.
Anyway. he knows a lot about the
movie business. and he told her
not to be in a hurry about listen
ing TO Hollywood. He even kept
her out Of Swedish films until she
was able TO enter them at the top,
as theater celebrity.
ON LINE FOR
SEVEN PICTURES
When IL finally was decided that
she should come here, RKO was
the studio she chose. Her contract
isn't the sort Of excursion ticket
on which a score or so of foreign
cuties have visited Hollywood,
belying their ballyhoo by doing a
couple of bit parts before fading
out again.
Miss Hasso Is on the blotted
line for seven pictures in four
years, and with four months of
tdNn ytdA lAtt Aol a ICiuAn " Inc i
Swedish stage or studios.
What the seven pictures will be |
Is anybody's guess. The first one
may be a super-western-the re-
cent Clarence Buddington Kelland
yarn about the founding of Phoe-
nix, Ariz., and reclamation of the
desert. Miss Hasso would be the
Swedish gal who ran a restaurant,
dealing out lots of food but no
favors whatever to the predatory |
pioneers. However, Miss Hasso
wouldn't play the role like some
with a cleaver-broad-
sword at her belt. The actress is
too warm personality.
The dark red hair helps, of |
course, yet there's nothing about |
her that reminds you of her ane-
mic and pale-spirited country
woman, Greta Carlo. There's
nothing flaccid about her hand
shake or frigid in her grin. and
she's enviably equipped for grin
ming. If she resembles anybody
it's Steffi Duna.
PLAYED MoLIERE
AT 12
Miss Hasso has 80 little accent
md gallops along 80 smoothly in
that her idiomatic
;rackups seem especially funny.
She'll stop on a syllable and grope
around in utter confusion for some
little expression like time after
line" or sure of myself"
don't know why all studios try
o represent their foreign players
IS linguistic geniuses who master
d English by talking with the
tewardess on the plane coming
rom New York. Miss Hasso is no
although she didn't
ONE by way of New York. She