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Evening star., 1948-05-20
By Thomos R. Henry
Science Editor Of The Stsr.

A simple but radical surgical op-
Grafton which sewers part Of the
bridge between mans new and ole
brains and essentially cuts the hu-
man mind free from the nature o1
self concern was reported to the
American Psychiatric Association
meeting here today.
At the same meetings. DR.
George S. Stevenson was elected
president for 1949-50.
DR.. Stevenson, medical director OF
the National Committee of Mental
Hygiene of New York, will take Of
flee next spring, succeeding DR.
William c. Menninger Of Topeka,
Kans., who becomes president at
the associations 104th meeting here
this week.
The brain operation was de-
scribed as slash with q steel in
strument into the front Of the brain,
made by inserting the instrument
between the eyeball and the eyelid
and driving 1t through a thin wall
of skull.
DR.. Walter Freeman. professor of
neurology at George Washington
University, reported he cuts con-
siderable portion of the nerve path
ways between the thalamus and the
prefrontal lobes Of the cerebral
cortex.
Requires About 10 Minutes.
The operation requires about 10
minutes.
The George Washington brain
surgeon already has approximately
100 cases in his records. There have
been no fatalities. Some important
improvements in mental and emo
tional conditions have been achieved.
The great value of the procedure,
DR.. Freeman says, is that it can be
carried out by any competent
psychiatrist with hardly any special
equipment.
This type of brain surgery ap-
parently is adapted to q variety OF
conditions. 1t seems to work we'll
in early cases OF Schizophrenia, or
soul splitting" the most devas-
tating mental disease Of the modern
world, but is essentially useless in
advanced cases.
Evening star., 1948-05-20
'SinpIified Surgical Technique
For Aiding MentoIIyM Reported

It also relieves cases of prolonged
anxiety" such as used to be called
nervous breakdowns. Several Of Dr..
Freeman's patients have been over
worked businessmen. It works best,
DR.. Freeman said, on women who
become depressed during the change
Of life period.
Differs in Technique Only.
The operation differs in technique
rather than principle from brain
surgery of the past. About 10 years
ago DR.. Freeman and DR.. James
w. Watts, also of the George Wash
ington faculty, first introduced in
the United States the radical pro-
cedure Of frontal lopotoniy y"-bor-
ing two holes through the skull into
the front Of the brain as treat
ment for extreme emotional insta-
bility.
This operation since has been
carried out all over the world. There
have been at least 1000 cases in
the United States and about as
many in England. Its effects have
been vigorously, sometimes acrimo-
niously, debated among brain. sur
geons and psychiatrists. The death
rate has been very low. The fact
remains that it can be performed
only by skilled surgeons with spe-
cial instruments. Also some cases
have resulted in serious personality
deterioration.
New Method Simpler.
The new operation Is simpler and
avoids these handicaps.
The eye sockets are natural road
ways into the brain. A specially
constructed sharp instrument
pushed upward at an appropriate
Evening star., 1948-05-20

with no memory Of what has hap
pened. DR.. Freeman has seldom
observed any untoward after-effects
such as sometimes followed the
frontal lobotomy operation.
The new operation is known as
." "trans-orbital lobotomy." DR.. Free
man recommends 1t only for cases
which have proved resistant to other
kinds of psychiatric treatment, such
as a series Of convulsiye electric
shocks.
The election, in which DR.. Stew
ems defeated DR.. C. Charles Burlin-
game Of Hartford, Conn.,. involved
the issue Of lobotomy versus other
types of treatment.
DR.. Dexter F. Bullard of Rock
Evening star., 1948-05-20

angle strikes a thin wall of bone,
the thinnest part Of the skull. It
can be pushed through this wall
with q few strokes Of a surgeons
hammer. It's blade then is In the
precise area Of the brains gray
matter traversed by nerve paths
from the thalamus to areas . and
10 Of the prefrontal cerebral cortex.
the recently determined sites Of
imagination.
The patient is first made un-
conscious by an electric current
passed through the brain from
electrodes fastened to the skull.
Recovery Rapid.
Recovery is very rapid. With a
half hour the patient is wide awake
Evening star., 1948-05-20

thought DR.. Billiards. latter remark
was . highly improper remark to
be made in this association"
DR.. Burlingame told reporter:
'I happen to believe In applying
all forms Of therapy tfor the treat
ment Of mental disorders). includ-
ing physical medicines. But out of
honest difference Of opinion comes
progress"
Evening star., 1948-05-20
Union AssoiIs WoIIoces
'TotoIitorion' Compromise

NEW YORK, May 20 P.-The
AFL Hatters' Union says Henry A.
Wallace is willing to compromise
with totalitarian principles and
governments in order to advance his
own political fortunes"
A resolution advising Mr.. Wal
lace to withdraw from his third
party presidential adventure" was
adopted overwhelmingly yesterday
at the sixth biennial convention OF
the United Hatters, Cap and Mil
linery Workers International Union.
The delegates voted down pro-
Wallace resolutions offered by Local
8 of New York and Local % OF Los
Angeles.
The anti-Wallace resolution said
he allowed himself to be used as
bait for a political trap set by the
Communist Party" All locals OF the
40, member union were urged to
expose the false character of the
Wallace movement"
Evening star., 1948-05-20
Wallace Would Visit
Stain if Sure Peace
Would Be Advanced
ey the Asseciofsd Press

SAN DIEGO, Calf, May 2o.-If
it would help the cause of peace,
Henry A. Wallace would visit Prime
Minister Stain.
Replying to a question from the
audience at his speech here last
night, the third party presidential
candidate declared:
IF was confident that by going
to Moscow and talking to Stain
the cause of peace would be for
warded, I certainly would CO."
Disputing a State Department
view that it cannot enter negotia-
tions on world issues with Russia,
he cited Article 80 Of the United
Nations Charter.
The article provides that parties
to any dispute which threatens
strife or endangers the peace of
the world shall first Of all seek solu-
ton by negotiations"
Il wonder" said Mr.. Wallace. "if
Secretary Marshall Is fully aware
of Article 33."
About 1000 persons heard the
former Vice President.
Evening star., 1948-05-20

vile, Md, and some other members
objected to the submission Of only
DR.. Burlingame's name by the Nom-
mating Committee. DR.. Bullard
nominated DR.. Stevenson.
Object to Surgery.
DR.. Bullard said he and some 9TH
ers also objected because he said Dr.
Burlingame has Q leaning toward
psychosurgery and lobotomy."
DR.. Karl Bowman of San Fran
cisco told the members that he
Evening star., 1948-05-20

Farmers in Italy are protesting
against the law compelling them to
hire unneeded help to reduce sur
Illus of farm labor.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1948-10-21
Post Office Jobs
Open in 20 Towns

Marysville is one of 20 Ohio
towns and cities where post office
jobs as substitute clerk, carrier
and special delivery messenger
are open. Applications will be re-
ceived until Oct. 81 by the direct
or, Sixth U. S. Civil Service Reg
ion, U. S, Post Office, Cincinnati
2, Ohio.
Other cities are Ashtabula, Bed
ford, Berea, Bowling Green Bu-
cyrus, Columbus, Cuyahoga Falls,
Gallon, Gallipolis, Greenville,
Kent, Mansfield, Orville, Paines.
vile, St. Marys, Sandusky, Tiff
fin, Tipp City and Troy.
All. jobs will be filled on the
basis of examinations taken by
the applicants.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1948-10-21
CLOSING OUT SALE
PUBLIC SALE.

As the farm sold is quitting
will sell at public action located miles north
miles of MarYsvile 5 miles northeast of New AZ
miles southeast of Pharsburg mile east of the Dover Phars
burg road. mile Springdae church
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1948-10-21
PUBLIC SALE

As have rented farm and quitting farming. will hol
compete closing out sale at this farm located 2a miles south
Mt Victory three miles north BYhaa IL miles sot
of Kenton and mile of Route 81. the Sullivan
for on Route ll.nn
Evening star., 1948-04-23
By Thomas R. Henry
Science Editor Of The Stor

Mysterious radiations from gram
ite under the earth were traced to
exploding potassium in a report to
the American Geophysical Union
here today by the Rev. j. Donald
Roll of Fordham University.
1t has been know for a long time
that all granite rocks are radio
active to a small degree. They
emit gamma rays, much the same as
X-rays.
Last year, however, it was reported
to the union by DR.. v. F. Hess OF the
Fordham faculty that the actual
radiation was more than twice what
would be expected from all of
the GRANTEES known radioactive
elements-uranium, thorlum, and
potassium. This led to specula-
ton on a possible unknown radio
active element.
A possibility was that cosmic rays.
falling on rock surfaces, caused
atomic fissions, such as occur in an
atomic bomb explosion, with the
consequent emission OF a great deal
of radiation. To check this, DR..
Hess and Father Roll set up
station in a New York subway, l6o
feet underground. and with solid
rock roof. Here there was no pos
sibility Of enough of the mysterious
radiation from the Milky Way pene-
| trating.
The radiation remained twice the
normal. Further studies, however.
showed that one of the potassium
jsotopes, potassium 40, is a far
more potent producer of gamma ra-
diation than hitherto had been sup
posed. It had been assumed that
it sent out about one-third as much
as the thorium and uranium IN
granite combined. 1t now appears,
Father Roll said, that it produces
an amount equal to that OF the
other two elements.
While this appears to solve the
mystery he pointed out, final con-
firmation may depend on getting
a. measurable amount of the pure
isotope which now exists only IN
infinitestimable quantities.
Potassium may turn out to be the
greatest single radioactive force IN
the earth, because of its wide dis
tribution throughout nature.
In another report, the union
heard that hurricanes and typhoons
set up elastic waves in the sea bot
tom which can be picked up by dell
cate seimographs as much as l,o0O
miles away.
The Navy now has set up 10 sta
tions in the Caribbean and Pacific
to take advantage Of this new sys-
tenn of storm warnings. BY means
of three seismographs set up on the
points of a triangle, about $500 feet
apart. it is possible to locate great
Evening star., 1948-04-23
Mysterious Rays From Granite
Traced to Potassium Explosions

storm precisely and tell the direc-
ton in which 1t is moving.
Progress made in such predictions
was explained by DR.. M. H. Gilmore
of the Naval Air Station at Miami,
Fla. Even the existence Of such
waves. comparable to tiny earth
quakes, was unknown until late in
the war, and there still is no ade-
quate explanation of them. They
come in at rate of from two to six
a second.
Evening star., 1948-04-23

Comdr. Rome said, show that there
is no break between the high noun
tains of the Palmer Peninsula,
northernmost extension of Antarc-
tica, and the featureless plateau.
Two new glaciers entering into
the Weddell Sea were named for
Washingtonians - Alexander Wet
more, secretary OF the Smithsonian
Institution, and DR.. Irving c. Card
ner Of the Bureau of Standards.
Evening star., 1948-04-23

Proof that the 100000 square
miles Of high plateau surrounding
the South Pole form a single conti-
nent was presented before the union
last night by Comdr. Finn Rome,
who returned last week after Is
months in the Antartic.
Flights from his base at Stoning-
ton Island over the Palmer PENN
sula and down the hitherto unex-
plored coast of the Weddell Sea,
Evening star., 1948-03-02
LiIienthaI SaysScience
Can Bring Golden Age

David E. Lilienthal, chairman of
the United States Atomic Energy
Commission, today declared science
can bring the world golden age
"in our time" if humanity makes
good use of scientific opportunities.
Speaking at charter day cere-
monies celebrating the 81st ami
versary of the founding Of Howard
University, Mr.. Lilienthal said:
There has been talk ever since
the first atomic bomb was dropped
at Hiroshima that science has ad-
vanced too fast. But the question
of whether science obliterates hu-
manity is not dependent on science
because science is neither good nor
evil Of itself.
Science is only what we make Of
it. Unless you handle the issues
of science and human relations well,
you need not worry about the scorn
of future generations. There may
not be any future generations"
Annual alumni awards for distin-
guished postgraduate achievement
were awarded at the ceremonies as
follows:
In medical education, to DR.. Ed
ward Arthur Balloch, 90, retired
dean emeritus of the college of med
icine; in liberal education, posthu-
mously, to Prof. George M. Light
foot. former professor in the college
of liberal arts, and in religious edu-
cation, to DR.. William Stuart Nelson
dean of the school of religion.
Evening star., 1948-03-02
Senate Confirms Stephens
And Proctor Nominations

The Senate today confirmed the
nominations Of two Appeals Court
justices and member Of the District
Redevelopment Land Agency.
The judges are Associate Justice
Harold M. Stephens, who will be-
come Chief Justice Of the Court Of
Appeals, and Justice James M.
Proctor Of District Court, who will
succeed Justince Stephens.
Richard r. Atkinson was con-
firmed to succeed himself as a mem
ber of the District Redevelopment
Land Agency.
Mr.. Atkinson was nominated for
a five-year term at the expiration Of
his first appointment for a one-year
term.
A Senate Judiciary Subcommittee
will resume hearings at z o'clock to-
night on the nomination Of Edward
A. Tamm, FBI official, to be a Dis
trict Court justice. Witnesses are to
include representatives Of the Amer
ican Bar Association, which with the
District Bar Association Is opposing
Mr.. Tamm's nomination. He has
been indorsed at previous hearings
by three Senators, Attorney General
Clark and FBI Director ]. Edgar
Hoover.
Evening star., 1948-03-02
4 Alexandra Youths Held
In Series Of HoIdups
By the Asseeiafsd Press

PRINCETON, w. Va, Mar. q
State Police Corpl. M. G. Yoak said
four Alexandria (Va.) youths held
here today have admitted five hold
ups In four States during the past
II days.
He identified the four as Robert
and Norman Romos, 19-year-old
twin brothers; Melvin Funk, 10, and
Clifford Prosser, jr., II.
They were arrested by State po-
lice near Beckley yesterday, two
hours after they held up Bluefield
pawn shop for guns and ammuni-
ton they said they wanted for a
planned "job" on Woodstock (Va)
bank, police reported.
Corpl. Yoak said they admitted
they held up the shop at Bluefield
and took three .38 calibre reyolvers
five German automatics and box
Of ammunition, all of which was
recovered. The patrolman said the
four are charged with armed rob-
berry in connection with the holdup
He said they told him that since
they left Alexandria February 90
they held up a service station in
Maryland, robbed a service station
attendant near Bowling Green, KY.
and held up theaters in Columbus
Ohio, and in a town they think was
GLASGOW, XIV.
Evening star., 1948-03-02
lawson Contempt Trial
Postponed 10 April Il

The trial Of Screen Writer John
Howard Lawson, one Of 10 Holly
wood personalities accused Of con-
tempt Of Congress, was postponed by
District Court Justice Richmond b.
Keech yesterday from Monday to
April II.
The action was taken at the re-
quest Of both Government and de-
tense counsel to permit testimony
by Chairman Thomas Of the House
Committee on Un-American Activi-
ties, who has been III.
Lawson and the other defendants
were charged with contempt follow
ing their appearances before the
committee last fall. during its hear
ings on Communist activity in the
aim capital.
The trials Of the others are sched-
uled to follow that of Lawson.
Evening star., 1948-03-02
Dewey Gives Up Vacation
To Press His Campaign
ly the Assoeiafesi Press

ALBANY, N. Y, Mar. Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey will pass up his
usual spring vacation and personally
lead his forces in a drive for the
Republican presidential nomination,
he disclosed today.
At the same time, the Governor
denied q newspaper report. not car
ried by the Associated Press. that
he had offered jobs in return for
political support in the Wisconsin
presidential primary, where he Is
contesting with Harold X. StaSsen
and Gen. Macarthur.
The Governor said at a news con-
ference that he was receiving about
20 speaking invitations daily from
all parts of the United States and
II hope I may have the opportu-
nifty" to accept some of them.
Gov. Dewey usually takes vaca-
ton after the 30-day period in
which he passes on bills after the
State Legislature adjourns. He said
he planned no vacation this spring
Evening star., 1948-03-02
Forest Hills Argues
Curb Service Merits

Drive-in banks, 30-minute valet
service and curb restaurants render
the public q special service, acord-
ing to George T. Bowman. presi-
dent OF the Forest Hills Citizens
Association, but various members of
the group feel that car-wash-while-
you-wait is fast becoming q neigh
borhood nuisance.
The problem came up at the asso-
ciation's meeting last night when
Mrs. Alice Tayman. $500 block of
AIbemarle street NV, charged that
a line Of waiting automobiles clogs
her street each day between am.
and 6 pm.
The time saving drivers patronize
q fast auto wash service on COM
mercially zoned Connecticut avenue
but they line up around the corner
on Albemarle street, which Is zoned
residential.
Mrs. Tayman said parking in front
Of her home is impossible without q
long wait to break through the line.
The association voted to help its
members by writing directly to the
G Commissioners.
"We've appealed to Trat1lc Direc-
tor George E. Keneipp three times, /"
Mrs. Leslie B. Wright, secretary, said.
"And our letters have been ignored. !"
Mr.. Bowman conducted the meet
ing, which was held in the Ben w.
Murch School, Thirty-sixth and Eli
colt streets NV.
Evening star., 1948-03-02
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Evening star., 1948-03-02
Polling Legion Post lnsfa||s
n. N. Blake as Commander

Nelson M. Blake Of Calvary Bap-
tist Church was installed as COM
mander of the Clark v. Polling
American Legion Post last night
at First Baptist Church. The post,
named in honor Of the Rev. Clark
v. Polling, Army chaplain killed in
the war, was organized on February
7, 1s47.
Other officers installed last night
were Samuel Prince Of West Wash
ington Baptist Church, senior vice
commander; John Dills Of Calvary
Baptist Church, second vice COM
mander; James Tinsley Of Petworth
Baptist Church, third vice comman-
der and George Jackman OF First
Baptist Church, adjutant.
Charles Libby Of Calvary Baptist
Church, Edward J. Fox Of Wiscon-
sin Avenue Baptist Church and
Charles E. Conway Of Petworth
Baptist Church were elected execu-
tive committeeman. The Rev. Will
liam D. Adams Of the Baptist
Church at Rockville, Md, was
chosen post chaplain.
Evening star., 1948-03-02

may have been connected with the
slayinss here.
The cab drivers slain In the same
neighborhood Friday night were
James Hardy, 80. colored, OF CAT q
street NE, and Howard Jones, 81,
colored, Of AT Irving street NV.
Mr.. Hardy lived until Saturday
night, and gave police q description
Of his assailants. He told them he
had been thrown down railroad
embankment near New Jersey ave-
nue. and street Sc, after he was
forced from his cab.
Mr.. Jones died instantly, police
said, when he was shot In the head
with q large caliber pistol. His
body was found in an alley near
Second and Canal streets Sc.
Evening star., 1948-03-02

from ElttSUuISu
to marry Budzynski in. his death
cell If the Governor would not
commute his sentence.
The communication was announced
by the Governor following con-
ference with Hugh Helm, attorney
for the Pittsburgh girl, and Jess
Talley, president Of the Tennessee
Association for Relief OF Ex-con-
Ucts.
Miss Lucas said she was ready
to marry the youth in the State
prison. He had been sentenced for
the Staying of a Memphis clothes
dealer and pawn broker in holdup.
It was her third visit to Nashville
In her efforts to marry the sweet
heart she met at Christmas party
eight years ago.
Jeanne said she applied for a
marriage license Immediately after
her arrival yesterday.
Both families oppose the mar
rage, but Miss Lucas said 1t was
zone Of Danny's last requests" She
added that he is Catholic.
Evening star., 1948-03-02
Second Officer Dies
In Moonshiner Chase
BY the Asseeiatsd Press

WYTHEvILLE, Va, Mar. IA
North Carolina highway patrolman
died in Wytheville Hospital early
today-the second fatality resulting
from q chase after suspected moon
shine runners near here yesterday.
Weaver H. Hogan died shortly be-
fore 8 am. today without regaining
consciousness since his critical in
jury in a North Carolina police car
wreck. Yesterday Charles Bryant
Taylor, 43, police chief of Sparta,
IN. c., died of injuries en- route to
the hospital.
A third occupant Of the CARLO
seph G. Wilson, like Hogan a patrol
man-was discharged from the hos
pital this morning and returned to
Sparta by automobile.
The police vehicle was demolished
when it struck q bridge on State
Route 81 south Of here.
Evening star., 1948-03-02
S. 60 on Trial In Turkey
Accused as Communists
by The Assosis,sd py.,s

IsTANBUL, Mar. 7.-Fifty-six nj.
legged Communists went on trial to.
day, charged with forming q So
ciety to establish the supremacy Of
one class over another"
They are the last group still held
from sweeping nti-Communist
cleanup in Turkey In December.
1916. Hundreds were seized, politi-
cal parties smashed, labor syndi-
Gates abolished and four publica-
tions closed.
Despite protests from the defend
ants, the trial was ordered held In
private. The prosecution contended
that indignation against the Com
munists is 50 high q secret trial Is
necessary for public order"
Evening star., 1948-03-02
Pope Plus II Today;
Elected 9 Years AGO
BY the Assoeiossd Press

VATICAN CITY, Mar. 2.-Papal
banners few today from Vatican
City in honor Of Pope Plus KITS Tad
birthday anniversary and the 9th
anniversary Of his election Is
pontiff.
But events will be observed for
mally on March u. anniversary Of
the Pope's coronation, with Q papal
mass in the Sistine Chapel. Most
of the Vatican Offices were closed
today, but the Pope went about his
usual duties.