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linger that there is danger of q
spread of contagious diseases among
infant patients because the insti-
tuition lacks receiving ward for
children.
This view was supported by DR..
Daniel L. Seckinger, deputy health
officer of the District and acting
superintendent of Gallinger. He
revealed he is preparing proposal
calling for development of sep
arate pediatric ward at Gallinger
so that incoming child patients
may be kept apart from babies
born at the hospital and to provide
isolation for child patients having.
or suspected of having, contagious
diseases. Such facilities now are
lacking he said.
Ward Called "First Must"
Dr. Seckinger said he regarded
the proposed development of sep
arate children's ward at Gallinger
as first must" on a program for
expanding the hospitals facilities.
He said he knew of no case in
which contagious disease had
been spread to an infant by the
admission of others who could not
be segregated until after the in
cubation period for communication
diseases had passed.
He added he did not regard the
situation as alarming" and that
maintenance of constant watch"
had kept the danger to a minimum.
but he agreed with Mr.. Stefan better
provisions should be made at CAL
linger.
DR.. Seckinger also revealed he is
preparing recommendations for
other Improvements at Gallinger,
including expanded facilities for the
hospitals laboratory, for an out
patient medical clinic and for estab-
lishment of unit system" of keep
ing patient records in a central
Office. Under the latter plan, the
case histories of all Gallinger
patients would be preserved for a
period of years for the advice of
Gallinger physicians when patients
again are admitted to the hospital.
Stefan Touring Institutions.
Mr. Stefan, who is making tours
of District institutions in prepara-
ton for the District budget hearings
scheduled to open April "a, said he
did not see that residents of Mary
land and Virginia Counties had any
claim on service from District hos
pitfalls. They have, certainly, no
more claim than the resident of any
State in the country" he added.
"On the other hand, pupils from
Maryland and Virginia now get free
tuition in District schools and people
in the Metropolitan Area receive
many other benefits from the
District"
He said he found that despite the
present lack of an adequate kitchen
at Gallinger the food served pa
tients is well prepared and whole
some. Arrangements now are being
made for provision of a larger
kitchen. He said he would make
other trips to Gallinger before the
budget study is completed.
Evening star., 1944-04-06

digeous. The ordinary Army field
ration calls for approximately five
pounds and five ounces of food a
day containing about 1000 calories,
or food energy units. This is con-
sidered an abundance for men on
the heaviest kind of work. Stint
ing his soldiers on quantity of food,
if it can possibly be gotten to them,
is not one of Uncle Sans faults.
Mess officers must fight to keep a
lot from being wasted. But the
average amount eaten by men on
insulin treatment in the hospital is
IL pounds and IL ounces. One day
it was pushed up to IA pounds per
man.
The weight gain is often as much
as a pound day. The menu has
calorie value of about 5000 day.
The men wake from their insulin
sleep ravenously hungry. They grab
food from the hands of the attend
ants as if they had been starving
for weeks. This is all to the good
in the eyes of Capt. Howard D.
Kelley, the medical officer in
charge.
Men 40 Pounds Underweight.
These men have come to the hos
pital as much as 40 pounds under
weight.
It is interesting to observe the
food the men select instinctively
when plates are laid before them.
They will leave a juicy steak to the
last while they gulp down the last
morsel of bread and potatoes. They
crave, above all things, the carbo-
hydrates which the insulin is burn
ing up so rapidly. Usually there is
little gain in weight for the first
three or four days. Some mecha-
nism, nobody knows just what, must
60 into action. After that a gain
of less than half pound a day is
considered highly unsatisfactory
The best record has been a gain OF
"a pounds in two weeks.
AS weight comes back symptoms
tend to disappear. After all, DR..
Kelley says, this is a neurosis hos
pital It's job is not to treat
stomachs, but nerves. Sometimes
a civilian doctor will try to calm
the nerves with sedatives so that a
patient will put on weight. Here
the process is reversed and one puts
on weight to calm the nerves.
"The doc just about steps out of
the picture" Capt. Kelley says. "The
really important fellow is the mess
sergeant"
Usually, it is pointed out, the
Chronic stomach" does not make
its appearance until some time after
the start of the anxiety neurosis.
1t Is unlikely that insulin treatment
ever will be given so far foreward
as an evacuation hospital. Seldom
will there be any call for it if the
sleep therapy is started soon
enough. But it represents perhaps
the biggest step on the assembly
line here where the true condition
of the men has been neglected four
or five months.
Chronic stomach" the doctors
here say, is a rather common con-
dition in civilian life. They expect
to add something to the techniques
] of treating 1t.
Evening star., 1944-04-06
A,212 at Circus
Invest ; Million
In War Bonds
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, April 6.-The cir
Gus stock in trade-the clown
came into his own last night at
Madison Square Garden, where the
Ringing Brothers & Barnum &
Bailey show had it's 1914 opening.
Emmett Kelly, as a mournful rag
bag, is the first clown since Dan
Rice of 10th century fame to
achieve stardom. The opening spec
tacle features him as Panto.
"Panto's Paradise" is the theme
of this years greatest show on
earth" Panto, asleep in the ring,
dreams the $250,00O professional
spec" complete from midgets to
elephants in the ring for future
|shenanigans.
Last nights performance drew
So 900, 900 from 14,214 War Bond buy
ers, the exclusive audience. They got
an unexpected thrill when two ira
peze artists failed to connect in mid
air, but fortunately the act-the
only one to do so-used net below.
Evening star., 1944-04-06
Coffee Promises
Full Inquiry Into
GoHinqer Needs

Chairman Coffee of the
House District Appropriations
Subcommittee gave assurances
today that his group would 60
thoroughly into conditions and
problems at Gallinger Hospital
during hearings on the 1945
budget estimates.
voicing belief that Gallinger
has been made "a political foot
ball." Mr.. Coffee said he felt
the hospital had needed extra
facilities and personnel for
some years. He added he would
seek approval of larger appro-
priations for the most apparent
needs.
Evening star., 1944-04-06
Pepco Counsel Seeks
To Bar Kleinman's
Testimony Before PUG
Flanagan Defers Ruling
On | illinois OfficiuI's
Comments on Rates

Attorneys for the Potomac Elec-
trio Power Co. sought today to
block testimony of Fred Kleinman,
chief accountant of the Illinois Com
merce Commission as Govern
ment witness before the Public
Utilities Commission on the effects
OF the depreciation policies of
Pepco under the sliding scale.
While Chairman James H. Flana-
gan has not ruled on final admissi-
bility Of the testimony, he agreed
to let Mr.. Kleinman continue in an
effort to establish the relevancy of
his data in this case.
The controversy involved the
present sliding scale arrangement,
under which Pepco credits con-
sumers with per cent interest on
its depreciation reserves. The 4 per
cent interest is lower than the
amount Pepco is allowed to earn
on its rate base and considerably
lower than its actual earnings.
Harry r. Booth, special counsel
for the Treasury Departments Pro-
curemenU Division, argued that this
difference in percentage permitted
the company to earn profits over
and above that to which it was en-
titled under the sliding scale. Such
additional profits, he charged. were
both inequitable and possibly lille
gal"
Pepcc Attorneys William K. Laws
and S. R. Bowen vigorously attacked
the relevancy of the testimony.
They contended that revenues en-
joyed by their company were re-
ceived under lawful regulation of
the commission and that the slid
ing scale arrangement had been up
held in the courts.
Alan Johnstone, general counsel
of the Federal Works Agency, also
an intervenor in the case, said the
commission should receive any tes-
timony that might be helpful in de-
termining future policies. Lloyd B.
Harrison, assistant corporation
counsel, who said he was not taking
sides in the controversy, reminded
the commission that the per cent
interest rate had been held valid by
the Supreme Court.
Mr.. Kleinman's figures showed
that from 1925 through 1943 $8,OOO,-
600 in interest had been credited to
consumers on the company's depre-
citation reserves. If the interest
credited to consumers had been the
same as the basic rate of return al
lowed Pepco on its rate base during
that period, he said, the figure
would have been twice that amount
on the basis of compound interest.
Evening star., 1944-04-06
Psychiatriists
Seek Data on
Draft E|igibIes
Family Physicions
And Employers Are
Asked to Help

Employers and family physicians
today were asked to help provide
the background information used by
induction station psychiatrists to de-
eide which draft eligibles should 20
into the armed forces and which
should be rejected
In appealing for cooperation, Dis
trict selective service emphasized all
the information obtained by the
medical field agents attached to Sc
lective service is strictly confidential
and is never seen by local boards.
Medical field agents, all profess
sional social workers, collect in
formation from employers, family
physicians, the draft eligibles and
sometimes their families to give the
psychiatrists working knowledge
OF the men coming up for induction.
Sealed Envelopes.
The information, 1t was explained,
goes to the chief medical officer of
the induction station in sealed en-
velope. After being used by the
psychiatrists, the envelope is sealed
again and sent to District selective
service headquarters where it is filed,
still sealed.
While most employers and doctors
have been willing to provide past
work and health records, it was ex-
planned, few have been hesitant to
give confidential information.
All the schools, District headquar-
ters said, have co-operated on the
medical survey, sending in the rec
ords of all their February graduates
and of hundreds of others who have
graduated or stopped school in the
last five years.
The medical survey started in
Draft Board No. 10 and has been
extended to Boards 81, 3, S. and 7.
Within the next few days, 1t was
said, Boards IA, 10, 2 and 18 will get
stats OF medical field agents.
Station Gets Information.
District headquarters said the
background information had gone to
the induction station on several
hundred registrants of Board No. 10,
but that it was too early to deter
mine what effect the medical survey
would have.
One District spokesman said he
expected the survey would not re-
suit in more reflections but that some
men who otherwise would have been
accepted will be rejected and that
some men who looked doubtful to
the psychiatrists will be accepted be-
cause their past record indicates
they will not break down under the
strain of life in the armed forces.
Meanwhile, registrants who have
received the forms entitled identity
and educational verification were
asked to return them at once so the
field agents will have the back
ground information ready when the
men are sent for their induction
physical Most of the boards, it was
said, are now sending out these
forms,
Evening star., 1944-04-06
l3 Forts Built Daily
At One Boeinq Plant
BY the Associated Press.

SEATTLE, April 6.-Four- -engined
Flying Fortresses were turned out in
one Seattle Boeing plant at the
rate of l3 each working day last
month for March total of 1862, it
was learned yesterday.
The announcement was made by
the Boeing Aircraft Co. at a meet
ing of several thousand employees
H. Oliver West, Boeing vice presi-
dent, said he could not comment
further for publication.
The company previously had an
nounced record output in March
but gave only the percentage In
crease In its public statement.
Evening star., 1944-04-06
lsNRahoniinq


Canned and Frozen Foods, ETC.
Book No. 4, blue stamps A-8, B-8
C-8, D-8, E-8, F-8, G-8, H-8, J-S
and K-8 good indefinitely. Blue
stamps L-8, Ms, N-8, P-8 and
Q-S valid May / and good in
definitely. Each stamp worth 10
points. Blue tokens are being used
as change. April point values of
canned peas and frozen fruits and
vegetables reduced to zero; canned
carrots reduced points.
Meats, Fats, Etc.-Book No. 4, red
stamps A-8, B-8, C-8, D-S, E-8
F-8, G-8, H-8 and J-8 good in
definitely. Stamps KS, L-8 and
Ms valid April and good indefi-
nitely. Each stamp worth 10
points. Red tokens are being used
as change. Point values on butter
and most meats unchanged over
March
Points for Fats-Your meat dealer
will pay two ration points for each
pound of waste kitchen fats you
turn in.
Sugar-Book No. 4, stamp 30 valid
for 5 pounds indefinitely Book
No. 4, stamp 40 good for pounds
for home canning through Febru-
ary %, 1945. Stamp No. 81 good
for 5 pounds indefinitely.
GasOline-No ga coupons good for
3 gallons through May 8. b.,
CO, B-3 and C-3 coupons good
for 5 gallons each.
Fuel Oil-Periods No. 4 and 5 cou-
pons good for 10 gallons per unit
through September 30. Consum-
ers in this area should not have
used more than 80 per cent of
their total yearly fuel oil ration as
OF April 8
Evening star., 1944-04-06
Taxpayers Crowd
Revenue BuiIdinq
For Help on Forms

Crowds at the local income tax
Office seeking help in making out
the declaration" of estimated tax
are increasing. Deadline for filing
the declaration is midnight, April Is.
More than 1000 filed through
room 1902 at the Bureau of Internal
Revenue, Twelfth street and Con-
stttution avenue NV, yesterday
Officials expected they would handle
larger number today,
Most of those coming for advice
find they have to pay something, in
addition to taxes withheld from
their wages or salaries.
Congress eliminated the 10 per
cent earned income credit which
formerly helped to cut down the
net tax due. Another change is the
elimination of number of excise
taxes which formerly could be de-
Quoted.
A change in the system of COM
putting credit for dependents also
was made for this year. Instead of
pro rating the credit for married
persons, or for dependents accord
ing to parts of the year, the married
and dependent status of the tax
payer is fixed as of July l, 1914.
If child becomes l8 years of age
during the first half of the year, or
even on July l, the taxpayer cannot
count the child as a dependent. If,
however, a child is born on July /,
or before, the child can be counted
as a dependent, and credit taken.
For large number of taxpayers
In the wage-earning brackets, how
ever. especially if they have no other
income, the withholding will entire
ly take care of their taxes for this
year. In other words, they are up
to date on "pay-as-you-go" taxa
ton.
District and Maryland income
taxes also are due on April Is. Vir-
ginia returns, however, are not due
until June s.
Evening star., 1944-04-06
Another District Firm
Charged by 0PA in
Black Market Drive
Grocer Bought 700 Lbs.
Of Beef Without
Coupons, Agency Says

The District Office of Price Ad-
ministration, continuing it's drive
against black market operations in
meat, today charged Louis Beckel-
baum, grocery store owner, at 1903
M street NV, with receiving 700
pounds of beef without giving up
ration points. -.-,-..-------
The grocer was served notice to
appear at hearing April 81 in
Municipal Court Building.
oPA officials, estimating the TOO
pounds of beef to be worth 1000
points, said the beef came from the
same supplier who allegedly has
furnished three Washington restau-
rants with meat.
Three restaurants-Fan and Bills.
Del Rio and the 400 Lounge-were
cited on similar charges Sunday,
and will face an OPA administrative
hearing in Municipal Court on Mon
day. The three, the OPA claimed,
acquired choice beef from an out of
town vendor at fancy prices"
Meanwhile, OPA Enforcement At
torney John L. Laskey admitted
that the meat supplier was still at
large, although OPA investigators
are attempting to track down leads
on his whereabouts.
Questioned as to whether he could
proceed with Mondays hearing
without the supplier, Mr.. Laskey
commented: You can prove a case
against person for receiving stolen
goods without producing the thief"
He stressed that he was not re-
leasing anything on the supplier
until we get him"
The restaurants have insisted
they surrendered ration points for
all meat purchased. The OPA
estimates that 17,803 pounds of beef
are involved in the transactions,
with a total ration value of 10000
points.
Evening star., 1944-04-06
$500 in Loot Stolen
LAT Secondhand Store

Cash, jewelry, clothing and War
Bonds totaling $500 were stolen early
today by thieves who broke into a
secondhand store at 1880 Seventh
street NV.
The owner. Donald Rubin, told
police entrance was effected by
jimmying two windows of a garage
adjoining the store.
Evening star., 1944-04-06
Bureau of Mines Expert
To Speak on Russia

w. A. Wood, metallurgical tech
nologist with the United States Bu-
reau of Mines, will speak on Mod
ern Russia" at meeting of the
Eastern Shore Society at tbs pm
Monday at the Fairfax Hotel, 21OO
Massachusetts, avenue NV.
Mr.. Wood, munitions engineer
spent seven years on contract work
in the Soviet Union during its in
ldustrialiZation.
Evening star., 1944-04-06

most mental hospitals.
Thus inSulin was introduced tt
psychiatry. 1t had previously beer
used only in the treatment of dia'
betes, where it was necessary tt
burn up the accumulation of ex.
cess sugar in the blood. Among the
psychotic patients one effect wa.
noted which seemed entirely beside
the point. 1t gave them enormously
increased appetities. They were
hungry all the time, especially fol
sugars and starches.
Following their terrible experience
In the Dunkirk evacuation there
naturally were a lot of anxiety
neurosis it shell shock" if yol
must. They developed all the com.
mon symptoms and one to which
not much attention previously hac
been given. 1t was observed by DR.
William Sargant, British psychi-
artist; they began to lose weight al
an alarming rate. Then DR.. Sar-
CANT made the same observation,
among neurosis cases resulting from
the London blitz. 1t seemed prob
able there was some connection be.
tween the. two. 1t still is not clear
whether the neurosis causes the
loss of weight, whether the loss OF
weight accentuates the neurosis, OF
what kind of a vicious circle is
set up.
One Common Explanation.
A common explanation is that
the mental condition interferes with
normal stomach secretions. Hence
the food is not digested. The pa
tient feels worse than ever and
worries about the weight loss, in
addition to his other worries. He
reaches the point where he cannot
stand the least exertion.
I talked here the other day with
an American sergeant who had been
through some of the toughest bat
ties in Africa, had been seriously
wounded and treated in an army
hospital. Then, apparently recov-
cred, he had been sent to England
Il felt all right" he said, "but on
the first hike I had to drop out
after half-mile. Before, Is miles
had been easy. Then I began to
worry"
Big. strong men become bed
ridden bags of skin and bone with
hardly strength enough to lift food
to their mouths. Their mental con-
dition constantly becomes worse.
Vice versa, DR.. Sargant found in a
series of brilliant experiments at
a British hospital, if they can be
made to put on weight their mental
conditions improve almost along
a parallel line in favorable cases.
One way to make a man put on
weight is to give him insulin in
doses not quite up to the coma level.
Not only does the hormone in
crease appetite but it induces a
condition where stomach secretion
seems to improve.
So this insulin therapy has been
adopted as the second step on the
assembly line at the brain repair
factory here commanded by 1t. Col
Ernest Parsons, formerly chief OF
the military service at st. Eliza
beth's Hospital in Washington. DR.
Sargant is in frequent consultation
and his own results are checked
with those of the Americans.
The appetite increases are pro-
Evening star., 1944-04-06
$50 French Reputriuted

LONDON, April (Py.-The Ger
man-controlled Vichy radio said to-
day that $50 French war prisoners
would arrive in Compiegne today
en- route home from Germany. 1t
was the first mention of any such
repatriation measures in some time
by either French or German
sources.
Evening star., 1944-04-06
Correction

In a dispatch from England
yesterday from Thomas R.
Henry, Star war correspondent,
1t was stated that Count Kor-
byski, described as a young
Polish nobleman and physician
on the staff of st. Elizabeth's
Hospital here 20 years ago, was
the center of a sensational case
involving the suicide of his wife
in the Anacostia River.
Mr.. Henry was entirely in
error. Count Korbyski, while
known at the hospital and
present there during certain
experiments he conducted,
never was on the staff and the
suicide case involved a psychi-
artist on the staff.
The Star regrets the error.
Evening star., 1944-04-06
IA District Men
To Report Tomorrow

Seventy-four District men have
been ordered to report for induction
tomorrow, after qualifying for the
armed services on their preinduc-
ton examination.
In addition, seven volunteers
were sworn in at Fort Myer yester-
day. Donald M. Gurrhus and Fletcher
j. Easter were sworn into the
Army. The following will Join
the Navy: Paul H. Hayhoe, Alfred
j. Funaro, Hilbert S. Stevens. AL
vim c. Wilbourn, ST., and Louis
Caplin
The inductee group reporting to-
morrow includes so men for the
Army and "a for the Naval Forces.
They are:
Evening star., 1944-04-06
1unney May Lecture
Before School Board
On Boxing Course
Members to Hear Expert
Before Deciding on
Teaching Manly Art

Members of the Board of Educa-
tion will be given a lecture on box
ing-probably by Comdr. Gene Tun-
|ney, U. S. N. R.-before they at
tempt to decide details of an ex-
|perinnental boxing course, to be
financed by the District Boxing
Commission, in three public high
schools, c. Melvin Sharpe, board
member and sponsor of the course,
announced today.
Mr.. Sharpe said he discovered
during discussion of the course
at the board meeting yester-
day that his fellow members
didn't know much about boxing" "
He was distressed, he said, that
some members did not seem to re-
alize boxers are gentlemen of cul-
ture and refinement-with perhaps
a cauliflower ear" He has notified
Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle, presi-
dent Of the board, that he will invite
Comdr. Tunney, "a personal friend"
and a "few other pugs," to give his
fellow members "a little talk" at
the next board meeting April 19.
Committee to Report.
A committee, headed by DR..
Chester w. Holmes, will report then
on details of the course, including
health conditions to be recommend
ed by the Health Department.
The commission has agreed, Mr..
Sharpe said, to pay for the in
structors and equipment for a box
ing course in at least three high
schools. All of the board members
in an informal poll said they were
in favor of the course, but DR..
Robert A. Maurer, vice president,
and several other members expressed
fear of possible difficulty in finding
"qualified' instructors. When DR..
Maurer urged that no educational
standards be lowered to get boxing
instructors, John H. Wilson replied
that perhaps Sergt. Joe Louis might
not pass the boards educational
standards but that he would be a
good boxing instructor just the
same.
Fears Over Enthusiasm.
Boxing matches between schools,
DR.. Maurer added, might stir UP an
overly enthusiastic school spirit
Central slugs Tech,' instead of
Frank slugs Bobby"
The new Patterson School in the
vicinity of South Capitol and Dar-
rington streets S.W., will be COM
pleted by about November IS to
replace the old Patterson, described
by the Boiling Field authorities as
"hazardously" near field runway.
Salaries of employees in the at
tendance deperament will also be
considered in the sweeping salary
revision now underway for all school
employees, the board decided. Time
OF next hearing on the salary re-
visions has not yet been set.