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who had resisted every other form

who had resisted every other form
of treatment.
The malady is schizophrenia. or
soul splitting In its earlier
stages remarkable cures now are
brought about by throwing patients
into convulsions by the use of
various drugs or BY electric shock
treatments. After the condition has
persisted for a few years. however,
and has grown steadily worse the
cases have been considered hope
less.
Brain Operation introduced.
A few years ago the brain opera
ton known as pre-frontal lobotomy
was introduced into the United
States by two Washington neurolo-
gists Drs. Walter Freeman and
James w. Watts. BY boring holes
through the skull and removing
cores from the front of the brain
they we're able to bring about
notable improvement in patients
suffering from deep depressions and
various neuroSeS. They nave held
consistently that it would do little
good for the more malignant forms
of insanity
The University of Pennsylvania
doctors experimental with five pa
tents, all of whom represented the
ultimate extreme of insanity. They
were noisy, violent and dangerous
The condition aad persisted for an
average of five years and all pos
sible hope had been abandoned
Every previous treatment had failed
The pre-frontal lobotomy wa:
tried and the results were quite
rapid. Four of the five were i'm
proved to the point where they lost
their violence. did not require re-
straint and led comfortable lives
One woman who had been almost
flendish in her madness left the
Evening star., 1941-05-07
Two Leaflets Published
Here Banned by Canada
By the Associated Press

p. the Associated Press.
OTTAWA, Canada, May Eight
more publications, four of them
printed in the United States, were
added today to those banned from
Canada under defense of Canada
regulations.
Included were THE Western
Socialist" published at Boston;
Freedom and Plenty" published at
San Antonio, Tex, and The Gold
Standard" and Mars, the God Of
War in the Kentucky Hole" leaflets
published at Washington, dt is at
Fort Knox, KY, that United States
gold is StOred)
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School and the Washington and Lee
Regimental Band will play for the
auxiliary companies as they march
on and off the field, during inspec-
ton and at the regimental review
which will follow the competition.
Army officers, who will judge the
event, will announce the winning
group Immediately following the
regimental review.
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Chapel Built in Mine

First of its kind in the country,
a chapel has been built $40 feet
underground in the San Rafael vein
of the Esperanza Mine in Ell Oro
Mexico. 1t is conducted by two
sections of the national miners
union. Masses and other services
are held daily in the chapel.
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Girls Will Compete
In Drills Tomorrow

The first competitive drill between
Washington and Arlington County
high schools will be held tomorrow
at 1:30 pm. at Washington and Lee
High School, as girl cadettes of the
w. and L. Auxiliary will meet three
companies of the Anacostia High
School Auxiliary.
Bands of both the Anacostia
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amusing portrayal kept the tempo
Of the operetta moving at a swift
pace. The deep resonant voice Of
Kenneth Kinsella as Boris Strogoff,
Russian Ambassador to Austria, won
a special need OF applause after
his solo in the first act Irving
Chandler as Ivan, Howard Moore as
Knopf and James Magill as Arif-
Bey gave equally convincing inter-
pretations of their roles and sang
with excellent tonal color.
Others in the long cast who as
sisted in the success of the evening
were Davis Agey, Mayne r. Coe,
Louis Baskin, F. A. Wildt, Thelma
Erkenbrack, Ruby Arnold and Karl
Wilson. One of the most effective
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Through their combined efforts,
the presentation Of 'Katinka" was
spirited, lavish and entertaining.
The scenery was excellently designed
and not overdone, while the costum-
ing was rich in quality and brightly
hued. An orchestra of nearly SYM
phonic caliber, seated on another
barge in front Of the stage and di-
rected by Mrs. Manning, played the
tuneful music with zest, pure in
tonation and rhythmic assurance.
The large chorus, in well-fitting cos
TUNES, acted with abandon, and the
fine tone of its ensemble singing
added considerably to the enjoyment
of the performance.
The several singers In the leading
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feminine roles, led by jeanette Bitt-
ner In the name part, displayed ex-
cellent voices with enough variety
in their quality to mark their in
dividuality. Miss Bittner carried of
her important part in a graceful and
charming manner and her full, rich
voice contributed to the distinction
Of her performance. No less could
be said of Edith Jones as Helen
Hopper, Margaret May as Olga,
Frances Jackson as Katinka's
mother and Gladys Hunt as Ka-
tinka's maid, Varenka.
Among the men characters, the
comedy role of Thaddeus T. Hopper
In the hands of FlorenZ HIM was the
most outstanding. His natural and
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last evening and the enthusiastic
reception given the performers.
It would be difficult for a stranger,
hearing last nights performance, to
believe that this was not an i'm
ported company with a long pro-
fessional career back of it. The
acting and singing of the members
of the Columbia company now move
50 smoothly and with so much polish
in details that it has grown out of
the amateur class entirely. From
those important yet unapplauded
members who take care Of the me-
chanical needs Of the staging to the
impersonators of the leading roles
can be found an aggregation of
talent OF a truly professional kind.
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Auspicious
Opening at
Water Gate
Light Opera Co.
Gives 'Katinka'
Like Professionals
BY ALICE EVERSMAN.

The summer season at the Water
Gate was of1icially opened last eve
ming with colorful presentation of
Frimls "Katinka" by the Columbia
Light Opera Co. Special commen-
dation Is due the National Capital
Parks Office for including this worth
while local group in the Water Gate
events, to the Community Center
and Fairgrounds Department and
the Welfare and Recreational As
sociation of Public Buildings and
Grounds for their sponsorship and
to Ethyl Manning, who selects.
trains and directs the company
which she has built up to a place
of prominence in the musical activ-
tiles of the city. It's popularity was
evidenced by the large attendance
Evening star., 1941-06-20

Betty Cradle
IL in wrong with
sections of the
local press. The
day before Betty
went to the hos
pital to have
four teeth re-
moved had been
set aside for in
terviews with
the press. At the
last minute Miss
Cradle decided
to 60 to the
rae es wi t h
George Raft. So
rhn nratarJaJ
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speak Spanish. 1t might have been
simpler for Connie to sing in Portu-
guese and stay in Brazil. Or not to
sing at ill.
Release0 by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Ine.)
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Started in 1915

Director Alexander Hall Is cele-
brating his twenty-sixth year in
motion pictures.
Hall made his screen debut in
1915, as a juvenile in one of the
first serials ever made, The Million
Dollar Mystery
Evening star., 1941-06-20
Gals Let Their Hair Down
AS Did Veronica Lake
That's Hollywood's Newest Fad;
Charles Boyer Turns Soon
To Slapstick Comedy
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM.


Madeleine Carroll though
love When Madeleine made Virginia"
gesed that she might have publicity blond
giant But she Indignantly
oerohed 1t
ngs mother occupyg Miss CAROLS
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bits Of the performance was the
dancing Of Virginia and Mercedes
Barry, the solo dance in Turkish
costume by Miss Barry bringing q
burst Of applause. The stage man.
ager Of the presentation was
Herbert Kadushin.
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uhAO RASpNAaNN
she had advanced her hospitaliza-
ton by one day and cancelled the
interviews. She went to her dress
ing room to rest for half an hour
before meeting George, fell asleep,
and didn't awaken. until 5 in the
afternoon. SO she missed out on
the races as we'll But that didn't
make the reporters feel any better.
Veronica Lake has started some
thing with that hairdress of hers.
Every other girl in Hollywood Is
dressing her locks over one eve Ia
Veronica. Has 1t started in your
town? Bette Davis has recovered
her sense of humor and Is back to
her pre-tantrum, gracious self. :.
Maria Montez had date with Or
son Welles Dolores must have been
out of town. Afterward, some one
asked Miss Montez, What did you
talk about?"
"Oh, him, of course" she replied.
Charles Boyer will do slapstick
comedy in his next film, Appoint
ment for Love" In one scene he
enters Margaret Sullivans living
room carrying an ak and wearing
a firemans helmet! I'm not sure
yet what he does with them. But
it's hard to visualize the dignified
Monsieur Boyer in that sort OF
situation Lana Turner and
Tony Martin at the Judy Garland
engagement-to-Dav r o e and
birthday party, almost stole the
show. So many people asked them,
"and when are you getting mar
ried?' that they finally left IN a
huff Marlene Dietrich will be
seen on Broadway this coming
season In a musical comedy.
Mrs. Elaine Barrymore-remem-
Der herp-is hoping to write articles
for national magazines. She has
promised one publication an ex-
elusive interview with certain
Mr.. Barrymore, but the latter re-
fuses to see the lady. A couple
of guards are stationed at his house
10 keep his eX-Wife out .. =. Greta
Garbo recently went to Nevada with
LADY Mendl and Doc Hauser. She
owns a ranch in that State
Mickey Rooney is too short to be
a soldier, so Metro does not have
to worry about draft complications
for the number one boX-office chap
:. Talking about Metro, readers
are writing to me, demanding re-
prieve from death for Laraine Day
In the latest kildare" picture. Most
of the writer's state that Miss Day
Is the chief reason for the popu-
larity Of the Kildares, and to kill
her of means the death of the
series.
And while on the subject of COM
plants, I have offended sailor
at the U. S. Naval Air Station in
New Jersey with the "since when?"
remark on the Hays Office ruling
that a sailor must not be picked
UP by Ann Southern in her "Maisie"
picture. He writes, 'in the far past
perhaps some Navy men did do as
you infer, but today the morals of
the Navy are so much higher the
percentage is less than l per
cent -" Okay, Robert. But it still
seems a pity.
The locale Of Connie BENEFITS
present film originally was Brazil.
But Connie has learned to sing a
song in Spanish, and the locale has
been shifted to Peru-where they
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bH1ldn1dS, WIleIe Ille couple are CO..
starring in Bahama Passage" in
dicate torrid state of affairs.
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ADJUSTMENTS. A
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ADJUSTMENTS.

All Time Schedules Given in Warner
Bros. Ads Indicate Time Feature l.
Presented.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-19
1922 War Scare
Payment Sought

WASHINGTON. Feb. 10. UP)-
Sen. Allen j. Ellender, D., La. to-
day sought legislation to restore So
336956 to the Pan-American Pc
troleum and Transportation corpor-
alton for claims arising from the
1922 japanese war scare" and its
link to the famous Teapot Dome oil
scandals.
The money was spent by the COM
pany constructing huge oil tanks,
wharves and other facilities at Pearl
Harbor. Hawaii. when the navy
asserted they were necessary to
refuel the fleet in the event of an
emergency in tn Pacific. The navy
advanced the funds, but Pan-Am-
erican had TO repay them when the
Supreme Court ruled there was no
congressional authorization for the
navy's action.
Since then, Ellender said. the
navy has continued to use the ia
cities for defense purposes and pay
ment by the government is "mer-
tied"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-19
Girl Of Streets
Freed of kiIIinq

Jackie" in her profession, twisted
her tear drenehed handkerchief and
related how Barcelona had beat
her numerically for eight years
until. on the night of Jan. 9, he
threatened to throw her from the
18th floor window of her apartment.
She shot him to save her life.
During those eight years she had
given Tony her earnings. She esti-
mated them at $4,000. She set him
up in business with two night clubs
and had spent $4,000 on him when
he became tubercular. But she
couldn't leave him.
He told me: IF you ever leave
me I'll tell your family, in the
hustler girl" Her family, III the
northwest, even now doesn't know
that.
Prosecutor Joseph Garry waved
his hand to relieve the witness.
stipulated that this man Barcelona
was a violent man. I have per-
sonal knowledge that he was a
violent man.
And after this unprecedented
statement, he turned to the jury:
Let him that is without sin cast
the first stone he said.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-19
OPM Chief Cites
French Mistakes

WASHINGTON. Feb. ie. CUP)-
william s. Knudsen. director-gen-
eral of defense production, told the
house judiciary committee today
that he concluded from the example
of France that overall legislation
for wages and working conditions is
not very good
Testifying at hearing on the need
of legislation TO prevent labor stop
pages in national defense industry
Knudsen recalled that in 1899
French Premier Leon Blum settled
a sitdown strike by issuing an edict
acquiring as hours pay for 40
hours work.
You know the story" Knudsen
said, what happened in France on
the armament program was very
serious"
Knudsen said that there had been
some delays in defense production
due TO strikes but that they were
not important.
The main one was the Vultee
strike" he said. That held up
production of planes for three
weeks"
Rep. Earl c. Michener, R, Mich.
asked whether the closed shop is
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-19
Baby Dies Under
Wheels of Train

TUCSON. Feb. 10 (UP)-A little
15-month old Negro girl died under
the wheels of a freight train last
night while her screaming sister
and mother stood helpleSsly by.
The victim was Ruby Jewell Nc
Gee. daughter of Robert D. MCGEE
of Rillito. 18 miles north of Tucson
Little Ruby had wandered away
from home to the railroad tracks
about 100 feet from the house.
Hearing the rumble Of train, the
victims sister, Lou Georgia. 5.
looked up from the house and saw
her baby sister on the tracks in
front of the approaching locomo-
tive.
She called to her mother and
they ran in a futile attempt to
reach the 15-month old girl before
the train struck her.
The badly mutilated body of the
child was found 46 cars in back of
the engine.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-19
City Treasurer at
MADEIRA Arrested

MADEIRA, Cal, Feb.19. (UP)-Dis-
trict Attorney George Mordecai an
nounced today that MADEIRA City
Treasurer Max Wilkes, IS, had been
arrested on suspicion of embezzle-
ment and was being held in the
MADEIRA county Jail.
Mordecai said Wilkes was arrest
ed in San Francisco by two MADEIRA
county deputy sheriffs. He said
there was an apparent shortage of
s11.9OO in Wilkes accounts which
was discovered yesterday during a
routine auditing of city books which
had been ordered by the county
board of supervisors.
The district attorney said filing
of formal charges was being delayed
pending a further examination oil
Wilkes books.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-19
Flames Kill -Four
In ST. Mission
Community Center

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shinny down a big tree. Her own
skirts were smoking when she reach
ed the ground.
Kenneth Ellsworth. a sewing ma
chine repair man who was in the
building. was another hero. He
raced into the flames on the second
floor to rescue a small girl. He held
her at a rear window until firemen
could take her down. then collapsed
Lieut.. James Kelly carried Ellis
worth from the building. but both
were badly burned Two children
received sprained ankles dropping
from second floor windows. Care
taker E. Scott was badly burned,
and a half dozen firemen were
treated for near ar-aSphyXiation.
Fire Chief Charles J. Brennan,
who with Health Director j. c.
Geiger. is investigating the blaze.
said the building was no fire trap
but was baffled by the rapid spread
of flames.
Two of the three stairways lead
ing from the rear second floor where
the four were killed, were found
still usable. The building. construct
ed in 1900, complied with all city
laws.
The Community Center was a
Community Chest agency and serv-
ed as a recreational and educational
project for women and children of
the Mission district.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-19
Singapore Made
Into Great Fort
In Fear Of War
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over defense of the No. l position
in the Far East as we'll.
Official statements indicated Aus
tralia now has more than 125,000
men on the two fronts in addition
to a home defense force being built
up to a total of 250,000 and an air
force, in training and in action, OF
some 10000 men.
The Australians landed in Singa-
pore ready for action. They brought
their own artillery, their own trans
port, their own armS-eyerything
but provisions. AS the tanned, slOuch-
hated troops left their ships they
shouted: "When's the balloon going
up?"
Bangkok indicated that Japan
steadily is increasing her naval con-
centrationS in the waters north OF
Singapore. Permission was asked
there for destroyers of the japanese
patrol force TO provision and re-
fuel.
From Khartoum, British head
quarters in the Anglo-E Egyptian Su-
| dan, United Press Staff Correspond
ent Jan Yindrich reported that
Ethiopian troops, differed by the
British, are pursuing 5000 Italians
in the region south of Lake Tana
after a four-day battle in which
the Ethiopians captured the i'm
portant outpost of Danghela.
London said that two columns are
knitting into the vast Lake Tana
region and threatening Italian con-
troll of the whole area. If the ad-
vance continues the threat may be
carried up to Adds Ababa, capital
of Ethiopia.
Sofia reported the Germans are
actively bringing pressure on Greece
in the preliminary maneuVers of a
drive to force the Greeks TO make
/ peace with italy.
1t was said in Belgrade that Bull
| garia continued to call up troops
despite the Bulgarian-TurkiSh agree
ment and some reports indicated
that these troops continued to be
concentrated on the Turkish 'front.'
| ier. There have been no indications
that Turkey has lessened her heavy
troop concentrations across the
| frontier from Bulgaria.
Athens insisted that no German
peace pressure had been felt there
and that the Greek position re-
mained unchanged - that Greece
would fight the war to the end. A
considerable body of British opinion
clung to this view despite belief
of Balkan experts in London that
Greece now has little choice but to
make peace on the best terms she
can obtain.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-19
I'm Ready to Go
To War; Declares
Senator in Debate

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make this their last day OF set
speeches for the bill. The opposition,
which charged yesterday that the
measure would carry the United
States to the verge of war and make
the White House the war capitol
of half the world" were expected
to resume their speeches tomorrow.
Opponents meantime declared in
interviews that Secretary of COM
merce Jesse Jones had inadvertent-
ly disclosed the administration 5
true views when he told a house
committee yesterday that I'VE are
in the war, at least we're nearly
in it."
1T has been charged that this
is a war bill--that under it the
president may commit some acts
which may provoke a declaration
of war against the United States, y
Connally said. THAT charge i'm
plies that the president wants to
get America into war. 1t is an
attack upon the sincerity of the
of the president and upon his Oft
declared intention TO keep America
out of war. 1t implies that he is
less patriotic than those who bring
the charge. 1t evidences lack of con-
fidence and lack of trost and lack
of belief that the president will
exercise the high functions of his
great office in an honest, in a
sincere and in patriotic fashion
mo president needs such bill
as this if he should desire to en-
broil us in war. Any president who
is commander in chief OF the army
and navy of the United States, may
at any time SO employ either the
army or the navy as to bring about
an international situation which
might provoke war. The constitu-
ton and laws of the United States
and this bill presuppoSe that the
high officers of the United States
will exercise their lofty duties with
view to the interest, the safety
and the security of the United
States and its people
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-19
1900 Idle in US.
Defense Factories
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peryision of the office of produc-
ton management. Company and
union negotiations accused each
other of repudiating the Washing
ton agreement. Another conference
was called by a federal conciliator.
Indiana labor officials sent two
conciliatorS 10 Richmond, Ind, in
an attempt to avert renewed vio-
lence at the International Harvester
Co. plant where pickets of the
striking Farm Equipment Workers
Organizing Committee (CIO) clash
ed twice Tuesday with workers at
tempting to enter the plant. FEWOC
officials from Chicago also went to
the strike area.
The Richmond strike is one of
three in progress against the har-
vester company. The Indiana plant,
employing 1900, was closed Mon
day. The Chicago tractor plant, en-
ploying $500, and the Rock Falls,
ILL.,, plant, which normally employs
$50 workers, have been shut down
about a month. Increased wages
are issues in all strikes.
FEWOC officials at Chicago
warned Mayor Sam Fagley at Rock
Falls that any attempt to open the
strike-bound plant by importing"
workers from another harvester
plant would be met by the union
with a call for 1000 men recruited
from FEWOC locals in other cities.
A regional director Of the Con-
greSs of Industrial Organizations de-
randed at Buffalo, N. Y, that the
federal government take over man.
agement of the Vanadium Corpor-
alton of America plant at Niagara
Falls. The plant has been closed a
week with 400 UAW-CIO workers
on strike demanding higher wages.
The CIO official charged that the
Vanadium management was "delib-
erately sabotaging" The defense pro-
gram.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-19
H Cenfro Youth
AfMoffett Field

William A. Moody, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Aubrey A. Moody of Ell
Centre, recently reported at Moi
felt Field for his basic training at
the school maintained by the West
Coast Air Corps.
He completed 10 weeks of train
ing at Glendale. When he completes
the course at Moffett Field, officers
said, he will go to Stockton to the
advanced flying school. This will
lead to a commission as a second
lieutenant in the air corps and his
wings.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-19
Germans Building
Gigantic GIiders

flicting opinions as to the feasibility
of such craft in war operations.
They readily admitted that gliders
could be built to operate efficiently
with such loads and that they
would be a valuable method for a
silent approach attack. The big
problem, they said-and no official
here knew of a solution having
been made is to get enough glid-
ers into the air in a given time
to provide an effective mass attack.
Such take-offs require long run
ways and many towing planes.
Regardless of these difficulties, it
was said, Germany has great glid-
er producing capacity not only at
Prague but at Brunswick, Hanover
and Cassel. Moreover, Germany has
been the worlds leader in develop
ing glider pilots.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-19
New BattIeship
Ahead of Schedule

WASHINGTON. Feb. 10. (UP)-
The navy announced today that the
new 35,O00-ton battleship Washing
ton will be placed in commission
six and a half months ahead Of
schedule and will join the fleet
at least two months before the
original date of completion.
The Washington will be the second
battleship to be placed in commits
sion since 1923. The new 35 5.o00-ton-
ner North Carolina will be placed
in commission at the New York
navy yard on April II, also ahead
of schedule.
Capt. Howard II. J. Benson, of
Baltimore and Annapolis, was nam
ed to command the Washington as
soon as she is commissioned at the
Philadelphia navy yard. Comdr.
william P O. Clarke. of Mott. Calf.
was named TO serve as executive
officer.