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Evening star., 1955-01-30

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Evening star., 1955-07-31

apparently is wrapped around
the piece Of brain now ct the
institute. It has been learned
that a scientific paper, COM
|pleted after examination of the
brain. has been kept under
wraps due to an order from the
State Department.
In 1945, however, one official
of the institute did report that
no evidence of structural defects
could be found in the specimen.
Better luck was had with an
other brain, of another leader
one belonging to DR.. Robert Ley.
the violent Nazi labor leader who
hanged himself in a Nuremberg
cell shortly after the end of the
war. His brain also wound up
at the institute.
Examination of that object
found, according to a report,
"a long-standing degenerative
process sufficient to have
impaired DR.. Ley's mental and
emotional faculties"
A paragraph of the report
added that while the cause Of
the degenerative process remains
obscure the gross appearance
resembled that seen in brains
affected by syphilis.
What part disease has played
in human destinies can be spec
ulated about at length. mainly
because of a lack of evidence.
AS Dr., ,Overholser said, stand
ing there somewhat sadly with
the bottle in his hands:
1--WE had a wonderful chance
to prove something :. but the
whole thing fell fiat"
Evening star., 1955-07-31
Surveys Disclose
.Lute Effects of
Atomic Radiation

TOKYO, July 80 R.-The
United States Atomic Bomb
Casualty Commission (ABCC)
has been making surveys among
Hiroshima and Nagasaki sur
vivors-and their ehildren-to
detect any ''late effects" Of
atomic radiation.
Here's what 1t found:
/. Leukemia: A total Of 103
cases in the last five years among
approximately 100000 exposed
survivors of the two A-blasts.
Most of the cases were among
those within 1900 yards Of the
blasts. Although this Is a Lotto
20-fold increase over incidence
among those not exposed, the
offlcials point out 103 is still
Numerically small:
2. Cataractlike conditions OF
the eye: Incidence definitely
increased" among persons ex-
posed to radiation. Officials say
these spots are small, and so far
no case reported has resulted in
blindness. The ABCC doesn't
have exact figures for the two
cities, but last March it reported
Al per cent of the people within
2.200 yards of the blasts de-
Iveloped the spots while a nom
exposed group showed only 8
Iper cent.
3. Babies: The March report
said that 185 pregnant women
survived the Hiroshima blast to
bear children. Only eight of the
children showed signs of damage:
Heads slightly smaller thar
normal and some degree OF
mental retardation." Some of
the mothers of those eight have
since borne normal offspring
Evening star., 1955-07-31

playing in the war. try to secure
the brain-to nail down the
rumor about Mussolini and
syphilis.
DR.. Overholser telegraphed an
Army officer in the medical corps
in Italy and made his request.
He heard nothing for several
months.
Eventually. an Army officer
turned up at the Armed Forces
Institute of Pathology with the
brain. A bit stayed there and
another bit was brought out to
DR.. Overholser. Investigations
got under way. Nothing was said
about it.
Pathologists at both medical
centefs never did find the evi-
Idence some thought would be
there. There was nothing to ex-
plan the behavior of Italy's one
time Il Duce.
There was. however, accord
ing to the pathologist at st.
Elizabeths, good reason to be-
llieve the brain had undergone
certain changes, but after death
perhaps at the feet of the
angry mob which battered the
sought-after object. If there had
once been evidence of syphilis,
lit could no longer be found.
DR.. OverholSer now guesses
that Mussolini never had the
disease. considering the things
he accomplished long after the
ugly rumor had its beginning.
General paresis just doesn't act
that way over a spread of several
years.
|, Red tape, or q better reason,
Evening star., 1955-07-31
TODAY IN MEDICINE
MussoIini Broin Here,
But Study Is FruitIess

to science is the most recent
example.
With Mussolini. however. the
case was different.
As early as the l930s, there
was a rumor that the man caus-
ing so much attention in Italy
was being treated for general
paresis" syphilis Of the brain
in Switzerland DR.. Oyerholser
remembers hearing the sugges-
ton in Boston medical circles.
symptoms Match
If the rumor was. in fact. true.
it could account for the mans
temperament, his bizarre uni-
forms, his ideas of empire build
ing, his show-of romps with
lions. A man suffering from
syphilis of the brain could easily
act that way-then again, may
be not.
The rumor persisted-and still
persists. And though the best
evidence one could obtain to
hammer rumor into fact rests in
the little glass bottle, no one will
ever know why Mussolini did
what he did-at least the scien-
|tific explanation. That mob in
Milan can be blamed-if anyone
can blame the mob for doing
what it did.
It is interesting, DR.. Over
holser points out, that that band
of partisans who took 1t upon
themselves to do away with the
man, Mussolini, still respected
authority at a time shortly after
the street scene in Milan.
For in all the ferver and
excitement of killing a dictator
they found time to examine, and
accept, the request that a pathol-
ogist remove the brain and send
portions of it to the United
States. This was done at a
medical school in Milan.
As DIR. Overholser tells it, a
friend Of his. a psychiatrist, con-
tacted him shortly after news
of Mussolini's death reached this
country, He suggested that DR..
Overholser, then In close con-
tact with the armed services be-
cause Of the role psychiatry was
Evening star., 1955-07-31
By JOHN McKELWAY

A paragraph, perhaps q chap
ter. In medical history may have
been trampled into oblivion one
day 10 years ago in a square in
Milan. Italy.
An angry mob, watched by a
band of Italian partisans. spat
on and cursed the body Of a
dead man named Benito Musso-
llini. Some passed by and kicked
his head, destroying, perhaps.
the explanation for the mans
behavior.
One day last week DR.. Win
fred Overholser. the superin-
tendent Of st. Elizabeths Hos
lpltal, went to a safe in his Office.
pulled out a small glass bottle
and said. simply, there it is
/. it would have been a big
story but it fell fat"
Floating in the bottle in pre-
Iservative was something resem-
bling a chickens liver. The label
on the bottle sent ones thoughts
back to the dictator's ignomin-
ious end. The label read;
''Mussolini brain"
Fragment at Walter Reed
Another piece of the same
brain floats in a similar bottle,
but under hush-hush conditions
at the Armed Forces Institute OF
Pathology at Walter Reed.
/ Perhaps the chief reason fol
THE presence of bits of the brair
lis the Unsuitable curiosity o1
scientific men. Since the start oi
medicine, men have been trying
to find something significant II
the lumpy white and gray matter
lcalled a brain. The processes o1
Disease in that organ can readily
be spotted after death. but still
lacking is some explanation oi
the wide range of difference ir
so-called normal. healthy indi-
viduals. In short, a file clerks
lset of wheels" will match, ever
under the close eye of a micro.
scope, the brain of man &C.
cepted as a genius.
But Investigators keep looking
for something. The fact that
Prof. Einstein -willed his brair
Evening star., 1955-07-31
Areo Again FoIIs
Below Blood Quote

The Washington Regional
Blood Center fell iei pints be-
low its quota last week. the Red
Cross announced yesterday.
Only on one day-Wednesday
did it reach its quota. II
pints.
Bloodmobile visits also failed
to gain what was .flost" at the
center.
Only two collection points
managed to 60 over the quota.
Those were at Quantico and
Andrews Air Force Base. Guam
tico went rs pints above q quota
of 400 pints.
The blood supply. Red Cross
Evening star., 1955-07-31
Juvunese Doctors
Open Gripe Office

BANDUNG, Indonesiat R.-
from now on, the doctors in
Western Java are going to get
an earfull
The Priangan Doctors Asso.
citation has just opened an Of
lice where patients can lodge
complaints about their medical
treatment or their bills.
The idea. the association said.
is TO smooth relations between
doctors and patients"
Evening star., 1955-07-31

went back to finish high school
A scar twisted the left side oi
her face Her arms and legs
were disflgured by red burns
In the months to follow, hel
scared left thumb stiffened until
lit was rigid.
After high, school. Suzue went
to beauty school, then worked
as an apprentice. finally opened
Ia beauty shop in her own home
For a while. she says. she
didn't go out at all. After some
years she grew used to how she
looked and tried not to let her
sensitiveness interfere with her
life.
But she didn't 60 swimming,
which she had loved to do, be-
cause of the scars. She wore
long sleeved dresses whenever
possible. And she tried not to
think about anything but hel
work as the unscarred girls
around her got married, one
after another.
For the last several years, al
though a Buddhist, she went tt
social meetings at the Rev
Kiyoshi Tanimoto's Methodist
Church. There girls, some Of
whom were more disfiguree
than Suzue and lived almost in
hiding. had perhaps their only
social contacts. They had
reached marriageable age and
yet were ashamed to show them
selves in public. They were
called the Hiroshima maidens.
Flown to United States
Mr.. Tanimoto introduced them
to Norman Cousins. editor Of the
Saturday Review, on a visit a
couple Of years ago. Through
his efforts, and the sponsoring
Hiroshima Peace Center Asso-
|ciates, Suzue and "a others be-
Ilieved most likely to respond to
surgery were flown to the United
States in an Air Force plane last
May. The girls ranged in age
from II to 80.
Accompanying the girls were
two Hiroshima doctors who
wanted to study American plas-
tic surgery techniques. as well
as Mr.. Tanimoto. now lecturine
lin the East, and American
born Mrs. Helen Yokoyama. who
lis acting as medical interpreter
confldante and comforter. She
lis with the hospitalized girl,
from early morning until late al
night and even goes into the
operating room with them.
While awaiting operations. tn,
girls are staying with Friends
two to q Meeting. Every month
the girls move to another hom'
within the Meeting, as set W
by the Friends center jof New
York.
Suzue, paired with Misakt
Kannabe, stayed first with thu
Clarence Kings at New Canaan
Conn. Misako is not so dis.
figured facially, but she ha'
worse arm and leg scars thar
Suzue.
The King home Is q large
Evening star., 1955-07-31

Misako Kannabe, O lively IA.
year-old. There were others, al
high school girls.
Suzue remembers that people
In Hiroshima were getting jit-
terry. They knew this big army
base and industrial center o1
$4,000 people was a prime mill
tary target. They knew Other
cities had been bombed. They
wondered when 1t would be
Hiroshima'S turn.
They were preparing. and or
this bright moring even schoo.
girls Suzue's age and younger
were helping clear away the
rubble Of houses torn down tc
make fire lines. With seven
rivers that ran like irregular
spokes through fan shaped
Hiroshima, the fire lanes were
expected to localize any fires
caused by the bombing.
Plane Sneaks In
This was August 6, 1945. About
9:15. they heard a plane over
head. There had been no air.
raid warning and the girls
stopped to look. Suzue remem-
bers pointing UP at it.
Then she saw the flash
'pika," she calls it. Far enough
away. others heard the boom,
called "don." Suzue. four -fifths
of a mile from the blast center
heard nothing. But like the
others. she still calls the A-bomh
"pikadon."
The next thing Suzue remem-
bers was unbearable pain. Look
ing down through the boiling
dust that made night out OF
the bright morning, she saw she
had on only her white under
wear. Her wartime regulation
slacks and blouse had been
burned off in the fash.
In an instructive effort to
ease the pain. she plunged into
the nearby river. The same i'm
pulse had moved nearly every
body else. The rivers could
scarcely flow they were so
choked with the bodies Of the
living and half-living and dead.
There were lots Of people
dying all around, screaming
mother It was so horrible, it's
hard to tell about it,"
Once Suzue slipped and
reached out for support. The
skin of the arm Of the woman
standing next to her slithered
of in her hands.
Struggles Home
Sometime in the afternoon
someone came along and passed
out oil for the burns. This was
all the treatment Suzue ever got
Later she managed to stumble
and crawl to her home in an
outlying section called Inoh.
machi. She was accustomed tc
walking to and from schoo
nearer the center Of town, about
40 minutes each way. It tool
her hours this day.
At home she found her grand
mother fatally burned and hel
mother with a serious arm burn
The rest Of her family, hel
father, three sisters and two
brothers. were unharmed.
Her face swelled up so much
that her eyes were closed shut
She can't remember how long
this lasted. She can't remember
when she learned that the bomb
had wiped OUT 6O per cent OF
her town, or that more than
$4,000 people had died.
She can't remember when she
learned that Japan had sur
rendered Internationally eight
days after pikadon and that the
war was over.
But she can remember that
for weeks she couldn't bear TO
move, 30 great was the pain.
And that for six months pus
came out Of the burns.
Missed Treatment
Japanese doctors were given
information on treating the sur
vivors by the United States
Atomic Bomb Casualty Commits
sion, which came In after the
war ended. But there were so
many TO be treated--more thar
100000 In Hiroshima alone
that nobody ever got around tc
Suzue.
In about eight months. suzue
Evening star., 1955-07-31
Surgery Hope Brightens
Life of Hiroshimo Girls
BY JOY MILLER

DARIEN, Conn, July 80 QP1-That morning in Hiroshima
and sunny At am when the girls gathered at the
Kyobas River bridge to Hjiyama Park promised to be
scorcher
ivory sn delicate features and thick bangs There
Evening star., 1955-07-31

brown shingle house set in 20
acres Of Woodland, casual gar
dens and a bird preserve. It's
occupants include two cats and
Ia Boston bull named Beany.
Feel at Home
1--WE feel at home here" Suzue
said through an interpreter,
Harry Takamoto, who lives in
Stamford and drops by occa-
sionally. I'VE are used to gar
dens in Japan. and we don't feel
quite right without them. And
I love to arrange flowers for
Mrs. King. We were taught
flower arranging in school.
That's one thing all Japanese
girls know how to do"
Mrs. King took them to the
U. N. ("They came back with
two U, N. flags-so excited"D |:
on picnics ("they love eating
out; picnic was one Of the first
English words they learned") ,
and to movies.
"June Allyson, Greer Carson
that's an indication Of their
taste. Quiet, ladylike," she said
proudly. "And. Of course, they
love music. You should hear
them singing Stephen Foster
songs in English, not under
standing q word"
'suzue gave Mrs. King a hair
cut.
"She's very good" said Mrs.
King. I'VE stopped in q New
Canaan beauty shop once and
she had a wonderful time look
ing around. She hknew all the
words - 'pincurl,'
permanent 50 forth"
Another Home
Suzue and Misako spent this
month in Darien with the George
Hastings. The house is a pleas
ant two-story white frame, sur
rounded with carefully tended
grounds.
Mrs. Hastings was touched
when she found out a silk COM
forter Suzue and Misako had
sewn by hand in a couple of
days was meant as a gift for her
and her husband. They've done
so much for us already, just
being here"
While they seem to be having
the time of their lives, the girls
are eager to get started on their
treatments. But it may be an
other month before they are
called to Mount Sinai Hospital
In New York City, which is con-
tributing operating facilities and
bed care for four girls
at a time until the project is
completed. This may take longer
than a year, because each girl
may need five or six operations.
No Miracle Expected
Performing the operations
without charge is DR.. Arthur
J. Barsky, a prominent plastic
DR.. William N. Hitzig
The Saturday Reviews physi-
clan, visits the girls daily in the
gives picnics frequently
for the whole group. mother
hens the whole undertaking
Both doctors paid their own ex-
penses to Japan to select the
girls.
I'm not expecting miracles, :"
said Suzue. But ] know I'll be
helped some. 1t would be nice
to go back to Japan looking at
least q little better. I have a
girl keeping my beauty shop go
ing while I'm over here"
Misako chimed in. "And when
I 60 back I'm going to be a pro-
fessional seamstress. I've studied
and worked at 1t at home. /
want to work instead Of getting
married.
"Of course. ! do too." agreed
Suzue stoutly.
Then she looked happier and
said:
when I think about how kind
everyone is, I'm glad I've never
been bitter about the bomb. Just
please-no more Hiroshima"
Evening star., 1955-07-31

Editors Note: Ia one binding fIosh
thousands died OF Hiroshima. But
there were thousands more, like
Suzue, terribly burned but still olive
Shy because they Nwere disfieured
they led clustered lives. Now Is oi
them ore in this country for surgery
to try to correct the seors left q
decade oeo by the first A-bomb.
Evening star., 1955-07-31
omcials have said. Is stiA dam
gerousiy low.

~~--~-~~-- 1870 o~-~~-e -
gerousiy low.
Bioodmohiles are scheduled 10 make
the foIlowing visits this week startlnf
ct 10 an. unless otherwise indicated:
Tomorrow-Prtnce deorges County
Andrews Air Force Base. Building T-3-
40: Washinston County. g. Johns
Lutheran Church. 1Ie South Potomac
street. HagerstoWn, Nd.
Tnesday-D. C. Chapter: Main Navy.
contribution avenue, Room 2541. from
1880 20 $3.50 pm: Morgan County
Hish School Berkeley Springs, w. Na.
Wednesday-D. C. Chapter: Pents.
son, Room 4A-750; Berkeley Counfys
Interwoven Mil Martinshurg, W. Va
from an to noon and Ia pm.
Thursday-Fairfax County: Fort
Belyoir, Building NN34, from $50 {, N.
70 $50 pm: Piedmont Chapter: Trim.
ity Methodist Church. Piedmont. W.
Va. from noon to 8 PM EST.
:. Friday---Arlington County: Chapter
House. 4333 Arlington boulevard;
Warren County: TWA Hall. North
Royal and Chester streets. Front Royal
Va. from 10 am. 70 4 pm. EST.
Evening star., 1955-07-31
Missed Treatment

Japanese doctors were given
information on treating the sur
vivors by the United States
Atomic Bomb Casualty Commis-
sion, which came in after the
war ended. But there were so
many to be treated-more than
100000 In Hiroshima alone
that nobody ever got around to|
Suzue.
In about eight months, suzue
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-21

! You empty Good Seasons Salad Dsniag Mix into
the SelfMeasuring Bottle. Each envelope Of this
new mix contains famous chefs secret blend
of rare herbs and spices.
Next add jour JasOris Vinegar and little water
to make the dressing mix smoothly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-21

) Then add mild bars Weuon OIL Delicate Wesson
Oil = Americas favorite : is the freshest salad
oil you can buy. 1t coaxes out the fine favor of
all the spices and herbs in Good Seasons Mix.
Just shake for few seconds and you have won
derful salad dressing the kind that you'll find
served in celebrated restaurants.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-21

Get Wesson Oil at your store. And pick up
this 3oe Salad Dressing Kit Kit contains
different Good Seasons Mixes, the Self-Measur-
ing Bottle and a salad recipe leaAet.
p. Wesson Oil blends perfectly with all FIVE different
Good Seasons Mikes Old Fashion French California
French, Old Fashion Garlic, Exotic Herbs and Bleu
Cheese. Each sold in an individual envelope Good
Seasons Mix another fine product of General Foods
"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-07
OFFICE PIN-UPS
zone OF q series

zone of q
Doggy TROY, Is. born in Washington and has
lived in the all her life She makes her home
with her mother Mrs Jean Troy 5000 Hamilton street.
Hyattsvie
She attended Immaculate Seminary then graduated
from Northwestern High Peggy works in the payroll
department of Capital Airlines.
A horseback rider since she Z, Peggy takes her
galops in Rock Creek Park usually other Sunday
Il 60 when can get riding companions" she says
You'd be surprised know how few people
ride" We aren't. We don't know how either.
The Troys have cottage Beverley Beach and Peggy
goes down for the and salt week when
she can. She SwlmS too. BRIAN
Next week: pin up from the State Department.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1955-10-07
Zodiac Club Hostess
A. Bruneheon For
Visitor From Chieoqo

Members of the Zodiac club
were hosts at brunch on Sunday
October 2 in honor OF Mrs. Minnie
Murphy of Chicago. Ill. given at
the home of Mrs. Willie Sharpe,
9S9 Rondo Av.
The group enjoyed socializing,
renewing old friendships and par
taking of the refreshments.
Mrs. Murphy spent the week
end in st. Paul and was a guest at
Hotel Lowry during her stay.
Club members present were the
Mines. Fleetwood Smith, Harry
Nay, Roscoe Reed, Eulis Pierce
Willie Sharpe. Guests in addition
to the honoree were the Mines.
Robert Jackson, Robert Ray and
Lttleton Gardner.
In celebration of her birthday
on September rs, the Zodiac club
honored Mrs Fleetwood Smith as
the clubs special guest at the
Regalettes dancing party given at
Twin Lakes.
Next meeting of the club will
be October II, with Miss Donazelle
Branson, TOP Carroll Av,, as hos
tess
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1955-10-07

Club To Meet; The Oak Leaf
Club viii meet on Monday ,Octo-
Der 10 at p. m. at the home OF
Mrs. Leila jackson, 1912 Rondo
Av. Officers will be elected al
this meeting and all members are
urged to be present.
Former st. Paulite Ill: Word
was received this week by DR..
Lillian Lewis, 675 Iglehart Av.,
that Mrs. Ella Gibbs, formerly OF
st. Paul, is recuperating at her
home, e45 And St, Oakland. Cal
after surgery.
Ladies Aid Society Meets: The
Ladies Aid Society Of Pilgrim
Baptist Church met on Thursday
afternoon, October 8 at 3 D. m. at
the home Of Mrs. Anna Banks. 4le
Sherburne Av.
New Address: Mr.. and Mrs.
George Sutherlin and sons. George
Jr., and Lloyd, formerly of $50 st.
Anthony Av., are now residing at
7S5 Rondo Av.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1955-10-07

FRIDAY ltoday), october z.
Hospitalized: Mr.. Archie Per-
teet is a patient in the hospital
where he underwent surgery on
Wednesday, October 5.
Suburbanites Club: The Sub
urbanites will meet Friday night
October Z, at the home of Mrs.
Gloria Bowser, 1865 E. County
Road D. On Saturday evening,
October /, the club sponsored a
cabaret bingo party that was re-
ported a success.
New Arrival: Valerie Jean is
the name chosen for the baby girl
born on Tuesday, October 4 at
Miller hospital to Mr.. and Mrs.
Moses Wallace of 1892 Fisk st.
The couples first baby, she weigh
ed five pounds, eight ounces at
birth. Mrs. Georgia Bell Morris of
Los Angeles, Calf, maternal
grandmother, flew in by plane to
be with her daughter. Paternal
grandparents sharing in the ex-
element are Mr.. and Mrs. A. w.
Jordan, 961 Marshall Av.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1955-10-07
kopPo Wives Meet To
Form Silhouette Club

Wives Of members Of the St.
Paul-Minneapolis alumni chapter
of Kappa Alpha Psi met on Sun
day afternoon. October 2 at the
office of DR.. Alexander Abrams.
62415 Selby Av., and discussed
plans for organizing a Silhouette
Club.
Member of the fraternity and
their wives enjoyed the afternoon
chatting and getting acquainted.
Among the ladies present were
the Mines Ulysses Boyd. Carl
Fraction, William Taylor, Herman
Wilson, Robert Covington, Percy
Zachary, Alexander Abrams,
Lloyd Smith and Oscar Newman.
The next meeting Of the group
will be held at Or. Abrams office
on Sunday. October % at 4:30 p.
m. All Kappa wives are invited to
attend. The group will hold cleo
ton of officers at this meeting.