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Evening star., 1946-06-23
How Sick Was Hitler?

Of depression, administered twice as
large a dosage as had been tried
with "orchikrin." But war news was
too bad for "prostakrinum" to have
had much chance of success, even il
it was all that its manufacturers
claimed. 1t was only taken once.
No hairy -chested herman, Hitler
continued to be vegetarian at the
dinner table to the end.
As matter of fact, he appears to
have been almost a guinea pig for
an insatiably curious society doctor.
The army medical experts are still
wondering how much an incessant
consumption of compounds, pills,
tablets and solutions may have up
set his physiological balance so that
even normally harmless drugs ac-
quired an abnormal control over
him.
Day after day, year after year, it
was almost literally a case of Hitler
exclaiming. Quick, doctor, the
needle!"
DR.. Morell, now a prisoner, insists
'that Hitler always Stunned morphia
or hypnotics, regardless of his vast
intake of other things. The two
men finally became estranged in
April, l945, at the Berlin chancel-
lory, when the grizzled 5s-year-old
physician noticed in the midst of
battle that his patient appeared
very nervous and fatigued, and de-
clded to administer morphia. At its
very mention Hitler's suspicion of
impending foul play seemed un-
leashed. He stormed that he did
not need anything to see him
through. He fired Morell on the
spot, curtly thanking him for past
devotion.
DR.. Morell, who prospered as
venereal specialist to actors and
clubmen before he met Hitler, has
been described by some American
Army interrogators in official re-
ports as "a money -crazed quack who
believed in his own quackery."
| But he was prominent enough in
1886 to have been called to Munich
te treat Heinrich Hoffman,, the
Fuehrer's favorite photographer and
father-in-law of the present Nuern-
berg war crimes defendant, Baldur
Won Scnirach. This contact led him
to Hitler.
The Fuehrer was suffering from
astro-intestinal disturbances and
, eczema on the left leg. DR.. Morell
prescribed a preparation known as
'mutaf1or,' two capsules after break
fast.
Hitler said the treatment lessened
his discomfort. His eczema disap-
peared in six months. After that
DR.. Morell was a fixture in the en-.
tourage.
In earlier years he had turned
down offers to serve as court .physi-
clan for the Shah of Persia and the
King of Romania, but he said yes
to Hitler.
Did the Medicines
Make Him Dictator?
/ Did injections, as we'll as intui-
ton, mold Hitler as dictator? Their
political effect is still moot But
even such a prosaic substance as
; glucose, pumped into der Fuehrer
to give him new energy, may have
: tipped the balance of judgment more
/ than once. United States intelli-
gence officers think it probable.
He absorbed medicine in almost
every way known to man-intra- =
r muscularly, intravenously, orally
: and through enemas.
!. He was never entirely we'll. He
was rarely so i'll as to be bedfast.
: Until their break, Hitler docilely
S followed Morell's instructions with
= the blindness he demanded in poll
: ficc froy,, tho ,,,@;on
Evening star., 1946-06-23

cred bed and a high Oriental sofa
There were two bathrooms, old FASH
ioned but workable, and electric
lights, powered by a portable gen.
orator on a truck parked outside
the palace.
After lunch Rushdi Bey Malhas,
chief of the political department,
took us to pay our respects to the
King.
Ibn Saud's cream -colored palace
with its complementary buildings
Evening star., 1946-06-23

and courtyards covers more than a
city block. Two sentries in conven-
tional army khaki, green headcloths
and black headropes, stood at the
gate.
The King received us in his mejlis,
or council room, seated in a brocade-
covered armchair. A table with
telephone and buzzer button was at
his side. He stood to shake hands
with each visitor, murmured greet
ings in Arabic and waved us to
chairs
The Kings long white robe was
covered by q thin open-weave brown
Evening star., 1946-06-23
BY the Associoted Press
BALTIMORE, Md.

r rs a rare man these days who
~knows his own blood.
Small wonder: His blood is
not only red. but may be all this
too-A one B, MN, P minus, Ri SUBJ
zero double prime and Hr double
prime.
If you gave to the Red Cross or
served in the armed forces you
learned something about your blood
type, but not much as the subject
goes these days.
From the Red Cross form or the
Army dog tags, person would know
whether his blood was A, B. AB
or o. But neither the form nor the
dog tags said anything about MN
p plus or minus, about Rh. and Hr
Maybe, for the sake of simplicity
it's just as we'll they didn't.
Less than so years ago there was
just one type of blood to worry
about-red. But when DR.. Karl
Landsteiner discovered the first diff
ferences in red blood cells and called
those differences A, B and o he
started something.
The serologists-the men who spe-
cialize in the study of blood cells
have brought the blood-typing busi.
ness to the point where ityis now
conceivable that your blood CLASH
f1cation some day may be as indi-
vidual and as personal as your fin
gerprints.
Eight Hundred
Blood Combinations
Instead Of the one blood type o1
so years ago, there now are more
than 300 assorted combinations
Serologists believe that the ceiling
may be almost unlimited.
DR.. Landsteiner discovered that
there were certain characteristics
in red blood cells which could be
noted under a microscope and
tagged-A, B or O..
Since that pioneering discovery
four bther sets of characteristics
have been found. 1t would be much
simpler if blood cells fit into one
or another of these five parent
groups. Instead, they f1t into all
five.
The differences occur in tha,
each parent group has a number o1
subdivisions. And one specimen o1
blood fits into one, and only one
subdivision of each group.
It is this which makes possible the
real number of combinations. Ths
serologist starts with six types in the
A and B group-three more thar
lDr. Landsteiner found at first anc
Evening star., 1946-06-23

iof the oil company and an old
friend.
DO you still have those four
riyals?" he asked.
A riyal is worth about 30 cents
and the King referred to an incident
some time ago when Ohliger was
visiting him at desert camp. When
the King, wishing to reward a SER
want, turned to Ohliger and asked
| If he had any money handy, Oh
linger pulled four riyals from his
robe. With sniff, the King turned
to another and borrowed a larger
sum.
Evening star., 1946-06-23
Blood Will Tell

two more than is generally assigned
to blood.
You and the man next door may
well have the same type in this
group. But then the serologist
checks another group, the M and
N for instance. There are three
subdivisions in this class and the
chances that you and the fellow
next door have identical blood grow
much smaller. Eighteen combina-
tions, six times three, are possible
The same procedure must be fol-
lowed through the P group, with
two subdivisions; the RI group,
with eight, and the HR, three.
BY the time the man behind the
microscope has finished putting your
blood in its specific spot in each OF
the five groups, the chances are
slim indeed that you and the neigh
Dor have identical bloods. Simple
multiplication makes the odds more
than 300 to l.
It's Not Just
A Numbers Game
If the serologists discover any
more groups, as is quite possible, the
assortment will run into really big
figures. .J
| They aren't just playing a num-
bers game, either.
In the first place, it's a poor
idea for person with A blood to
get TRANSMISSION from a B donor
even if he needs blood badly.
The RH factor was found to be
the root of erythro-blastosis, a
dread disease which may kill the
offspring of parents with certain
RH mismatching.
In paternity cases and in some
crimes, the serolcgist may be Of
more help than platoon of detec-
tives.
Blood tipping became possible
with the discovery that certain blood
cells contain what medical men call
sgglutinogens, or antigens.
Mix blood containing certain ag-
glutinogens with the wrong kind
of blood and the result, clumpirg
together of red blood cells, can be
seen plainly under a medium-pow-
cred microscope This is the reac-
ton fear in improper trans
fusions and erythroblastotic babies.
Typing started with A, B and o.
Then it was broken down into A
one; A two; A one B; A Two B; B,
and o.
Then a new set of antigens was
discovered. Thus new classifica-
ton was possible and blood could
be sorted into the future types, M.
MN, and N.
Evening star., 1946-06-23

This time Ohliger was prepared.
He pulled out a sack of 40 to so
riyalu and handed them to the King
who grinned and tossed the entire
amount toward the end of the room
where his servants stood.
Don't I get anything out of this?'
inquired Ohligar.
"Yes," replied the King, handing
Ohliger the empty sack, you can
hold the bag!"
Our courtesy call was short, but
We were told each of us would be
given appointments later.
Two of the oil company officials
and I had worn our travelling clothes,
khaki shirts and trousers, to the
audience, although the rule is that
Arab robes shall be worn by all visi-
tors.
The King said nothing to us, but
we learned later that a palace off,
cial felt the sharp edge of his tongue
for failing to provide Arab clothes
Immediately for his American guests.
"Our guests came on a hurried
trip" the King told the official. "See
that our household provides for
them"
A short time after our return to
the guest palace. tailors arrived,
fitted us from the skin out and
gave us lessons in putting -on the
headcloths and headropes. There
after, we wore the robes every time
we left the guest house.
Evening star., 1946-06-23
He Insisted That
We Eat at a Table

Arrangements for my interview
with the King were made through
Rushdi Bey. He asked what informa-
ton sought, agreed to arrange the
details and told me to wait, that
the King would send for me. Before
that word came, the King was host
at a dinner.
When one American remarked on
the presence of table, the Bedu
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Evening star., 1946-06-23

VINO WlS AUOLJ H1LteT S per-
sonal physician for nine
gears. Wide World Photo.
felt light stabbing pain in his
right eye in March, 1914. Dr. Walter
Loehlein gave him prescription for
bifocals and advised him to avoid
unnecessary excitement.
A mailman? Four physicians have
sworn that his power of concentra-
ton was excellent. Commissions
paresis, paralysis and aphasia were
absent.
Ayear's sustained search has failed
to substantiate rumors that Hitler
was pervert and suffered from a
venereal disease, although after he
became Fuehrer in 1888 his sex ap-
petite dwindled for a man of his
age.
His lovemaking with Eva Braun,
the Bavarian fraulein who allegedly
became his bride during the battle
of Berlin, was sporadic and meager
Six doctors who attended Hitler
at various times and all available
former associates have been ques-
toned and requesitioned on their
knowledge of his physical state.
United States Army Intelligence
after sitting mass of interrogation
reports, decided that Hitler showed
no physical indications of abnor-
mality or pathology.
He Was Filled With
Hormone Injections
He was very fond of the society
Of attractive women, particularly
during his rise to power. In later
years his libido was apparently SUBJ
limated with the increase IN duties
and responsibility
Hitler's most thorough physical
examination was conducted in Ber-
lin in January, 1910, while he was
deciding to await fair weather fol
invasion of the Low Countries.
The medical diagnostic institute
operated by Dr. A. Schmidt Bur
bach said Hitler had a negative re.
action to the Wassermann test fol
syphilis, but provocative power.
were found to be below normal.
DR.. Theo Morell, the Fuehrer'
personal physician for nine years
avoided suggesting to Hitler tina
his male vigor was in need of stimu.
lation. but he did try something fo
fatigue" This was "orchikrin,"
combination of hormones extracte,
from young bulls.
| DR.. Morell injected % cubic cent?
meters of this supposed youth elixi
into Hitlers arm muscles. The eff
feet was definitely unpleasant
"Orchikrin" was abandoned.
Three years later DR.. Morell cam
across an extract of male secretion
named "prostakrinum," and, on tn
! chance it might reduce Hitler's fit
Evening star., 1946-06-23
Ireland Back in the News

the young men crowded around him
asking how 1t was possible to join
the American Army. If at that time
the American forces could have
thrown their ranks open to physical
ly fit Irishmen, 1t would have re-
ceived an amazing flood of recruits.
The Irish were always eager to
help the Americans in any way
they could. Occasionally, our bomb
ers and other planes were forced
down in neutral Fire AND the people
of the countryside turned out to
greet the stranded military person.
mel and to offer them hospitality.
One of the greatest stories of female
heroism heard by Col. McInerny
during his four years of Army serv-
ice, was that of the Irish woman
physician in Sligo who crawled on
her hands and knees 3 miles up a
steep mountainside at midnight in
pouring rain to administer flrst-aid
to seven surviving members of the
crew OF a crashed Bit.
The entire countryside was
aroused that night and the Irish
farmers formed human chain and.
after tying the injured American
boys to stretchers, passed them from
hand to hand down the mountain
side to safety. But for thes emer-
gency treatment given by the
courageous little Sligo woman, at
least half-dozen American BOYS
would have lost their lives, the
colonel says.
Time and again, members of crews
forced down, and airplanes were
returned over the border by the
Irish government, although no men,
ton was ever made of the fact.
Irish Were Good Samaritans
To Many American Flyers
Col. McInerny had an opportunity
to return to Ireland early this year.
He found that he had not been
forgotten since 1912 by the many
hundreds of Irish who knew him in
the dark years of the war as an
American officer engaged in a mis-
sion for his country. Train stewards,
doormen at hotels, and publicans
all greeted him like fellow-sharers
in the victory.
One reason why the American
people got such an unfair picture of
Irelano's benovelence during the
war, says Col. Mc1nerny, was that
very little of the news was covered.
American journalists were concen-
trated mostly in London, and people
who wrote authoritatively about
what was going on in Ireland some
times only spent two or three days
there. 1t was the popular pastime
to draw a glowing picture of good
food and good fellowship with the
Germans in Ireland, but it did not
give her government the benefit of
the whole truth. The British atti-
tude was invariably to let Ireland
alone and to obtain from her re-
cruits and food. Both objectives
were achieved, and today traditional
distrust of the British has largely
disappeared from Irish thoughts
and conversations. Ireland believes
Britain treated her fairly and has
no complaint.
The only cause for disaffection
between the Irish and the British
now is the Partition question, said
Col. McInerny. The Irish believe
that the six lost counties of Ireland
were set apart as British beach,
head to keep Ireland In line.
Evening star., 1946-06-23

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia.
~ UR plane came down on a
4 smooth strip of sand, TAXED
~ past ambling camels and
stopped before the three
tents which mark the airport for
Riyadh. capital of Saudi Arabia.
The other Americans, officials of
the Arabian American Oil Co.
dormed by Texas Oil and Standard
Oil of California, debarked on COM
pany business. remained on board.
Foreigners visit Riyadh by invita-
ton only. Two days before, I had
applied to Emir Khalid .Es Sudary,
the Kings representative at Dhah-
ran in the oil field on the Persian
Gulf, for permission to interview
King Ibn Saud.
A chance plane took off from
Dhahran for Riyadh before any
reply was received. In the hope that
something would turn up, or as the
Arabs say "Ensha Allah-if Allah
wishes" went along.
Five minutes after the plane took
off again, P. T. Mart, the American
Consul at Dhahran, relayed a radio
message that one of the worlds
last and least known monarchs
would grant an interview. The pilot
turned back to Riyadh, and landed
again. @
The Kings Guesthouse
Called Badia Palace .
It was a 10-mile automobile trip
to town. a collection of mud and
concrete buildings, guarded by a
thick wall. At Badia Palace, the
Kings guesthouse, I met again the
Americans to whom I had said good
by about an hour before.
The guest palace Is a two-story
mud and concrete structure built as
a hollow square. Each guest occu-
pied a small room with a net-cov-
Evening star., 1946-06-23
He Had Two Major
Throat Operations

DR.. Karl Brandt, RelchScOmmlS-
sioner for health, has disclosed that
the Fuehrer had two throat opera
tions, in 1885 and 1914. Each time
a laryngeal polyp on the anterior
third of the left vocal cord was cut
out by DR.. Won Eicken, Berlin throat
specialist.
The Fuehrer was a shade over
S feet 7 inches tall, weighed about
160 and feared excess fat.
A slight tremor of his left arm
and dragging of his left leg devel-
oped after grippelike illness in the
Ukraine during the early part of the
war against Russia. DR.. Won Hassel-
bach was inclined to attribute the
tremor to Parkinson's disease, but
also suggested it may have had a
psychogenic origin.
Hitler's embarrassment over this
neuromuscular defect was keen
When he brought a cup to his lips
or scratched his signature the
tremor could not be hidden.
Immediately after the bomb ex-
plosion at his East Prussian head
quarters in 1914, the tremor dis
appeared, but reappeared and grew
progressively worse.
The explosion slightly impaired
the hearing of one ear, tore the skin
on both of his lower thighs. bruised
his right elbow and left hand anc
lacerated his finger tips.
A month later his face became
yellowish, as if from jaundice. but
this was found to be due to over.
doses of patent medicines.
Hitler was an Unsuitable reader
especially before falling asleep, anc
Evening star., 1946-06-23
Though Incognito, Hospitality
Always Met Col. McInerny

Once, at dusk in a resort town
called Salt Hill in Galway, his au-
tomobile ran out of gasoline and
he walked into the village and
turned in at the nearest inn. He
was halfway up the drive when the
inn door opened and the publican's
wife called out to him that he was
welcome and that supper was on
the table. He asked the good wom-
an, as he was eating, how she knew
he was approaching. She said that
news of the American officer had
preceded him and that as the after
noon wore on she figured he would
probably spend the night there.
She was right.
Everywhere Col. McInerny went,
Evening star., 1946-06-23
BY Daniel de Luce
Assoeiafsd Press Stuff Writer

weak SGNlldCll anu dlIIlOSG
every word that he screamed in de-
fiance Of the world cost him an at
tack Of indigestion.
From his advent as Reichschan-
cellor in 1888, and even before, he
suffered intensely from intestinal
cramps, and was confirmed taker
of pills.
DR.. Hanskarl Won Hasselbach, Hit
ler's surgeon for 10 years, also has
told American medical researchers
that his patient did not like to walk,
and that he avoided his Eagles
Nest atop Mount Kehlstein at
Berchtesgaden because he believed
he had a weak heart.
After 1888, Hitler Stunned all
forms of exercise; acquired a stoop
from kyphosis of the dorsal spine,
and complained of poor sleep, al
though unable to spend long hours
in bed.
When his voice grew hoarse, more
than emotion mufled it. He had
throat trouble.
Evening star., 1946-06-23

"A year after Adolf Hitler's
supposed death American Army
medical investigators are still
collecting information on his lite.
They are under orders to debunk
myths, expose frauds and assem-
bic historically D1lunble material.
Here is a summary of their find
t1gs to date.
Evening star., 1946-06-23

Director of the Division of
Public Information at the
Department of Justice.
Evening star., 1946-06-23
BY Edward Curtis
Assoeioted Press Correspondent

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-02-22
QUALITY WHEN
QUALITY COUNTS

is assured when you buy St. Joseph
Aspirin. Unexcelled in strength
purity and quality. Always dependable
and economical. Demand St. Joseph
Aspirin, worlds largest seller at 1Oc.
Save more on the 100 tablet bottle 35c.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-02-22
Inspection OF All Cars
Favored By Maj. Hatcher

RALEIGH, Feb. 21-U.D-Major
H. j. Hatcher, of the state highway
patrol, would require that all vehic-
les in the state pass an inspection
test before being allowed to aperate
on the highways.
"Since we don't have such Leg
islation," Hatcher said, "Many
cars, which have been turned down
in others states on inspection tests,
are winding up in North Carolina.
In other words, the state is the
dumping ground for worn-out cars
"And no doubt some of the acci
dents of today are being caused
by such defective automotive equip
ment. The one way to rid the
highways of unsafe cars is to adop+
legislation to do 500
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-02-22


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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-02-22
SCHOOL LUNCHES
| BILL HITS SNAC
Southern Democrats S ay
Measure Amended To Deny
Sounds OF This Area

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.-U.D
The House hit new snag on
the $65, 900, 900 school lunch pro-
gram Thursday as southern Demo
Gratis charged that the measure
had been amended to deny funds
to southern states.
House leaders clung to the hope
that the complications could be
cleared up in time for final vote
by nightfall.
Rift Develops
The rift began developing late
yesterday when the House tenta-
lively approved a racial anti-dis-
elimination amendment offered by
Rep. Adam Clayton Powell, Negro
Democrat from New York. The
amendment, still subject to roll
call vote, would prohibit discrimin-
alton il distribution of funds for
the lunch program.
Southerners rose up in arms de.
spite claims of some membeq
that the amendment would not bar
funds to states which segregated
students Of different races.
Means Separation
Everybody knows. segrega.
ton means separation" Rep. Eu
gene Cox, D., Ca, told the House
'and of course, everybody knows
segregation is discrimination"
Rep. W. R. Poage, D., Tex, ther
began reading definition of dis
elimination from a huge die
tionary to support Cox.
Would Hit South
Cox and other southern Demo
Gratis said the Powell amendmen
would unquestionably mean tina
southern states would not be en-
titled to school lunch funds.
Rep. Jerry Voorhis, D., Calf.
ardent school lunch proponent
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-02-22

told the House he thought it was
perfectly clear" that the anti-dis-
elimination amendment would bar
southern schools. He expressed
fear that the bill would be defeat.
ed if it stayed in.
For Supplies
The controversy developed Just
before the House got to what pre-
viously had been considered the
bills major hurdle. That was a
provision to use SIS, 100000 of the
$65, 100000 for supplies, equipment
training of supervisory help anc
nutritional education.
Its supporters said the job woule
be only half done if $5O,OOO,OOO an
nually were used to feed children
and no effort was made to educate
them in nutrition.