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THE INDIANAP( PO] LIS. TIMES

_FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1937

LIFE PROCESSES ARE SLOWER IN. ORIENTAL RAGE

Caucasians Lead in Rate of Metabolism, Science Meeting Told.

-By DR. FRANK THONE

Science Service Writer

PHILADELPHIA, April 23.—Chi-

nese calm and the placidity of the |

women of India, is partly a matter of lower life fires, of a slower burning of food into energy, Dr. Francis G. Benedict of the Carnegie Institution of Washington reported here

this morning before the meeting of the American Philosophical Society.

Studies on representative members of various .races, quite literally “rang’d ‘through the world from China to Peru,” have been made by physiologists trained in the study technique developed in Dr. Benedict’s laboratories in Boston. A collation of their results shows that metabolism, or production of body energy, is to a considerable extent a matter of race. Oriental races in general, it was

found, have a metabolism rate lower othan that of Caucasians in the | United States. The South Indian | women of Madras have a very much | lower rate—17 per cent below the Caucasian prediction standards—and this is further depressed about 10 per cent during deep sleep. A striking exception to the generally low metabolism rate in the Orient was found in 24 men of the Miao race in Szechuan, in- interior China. These individuals showed a metabolism rate 16 per cent higher than - the Caucasian prediction standards. Yet their pulse rate was decidedly slow—>55 beats a minute as | _ compared with an average of ® for Caucasians. High metabolism rates prevail for American Indians of the Maya and Chilean regions, other investigators found.

Gland Causes Amazing Growth

The thymus, a gland in the chest region that sometimes reaches the market as “heart sweetbreads,” has astonishing effects on growth and early maturity, reported Dr. L. G. Rowntree and. associates of the Philadelphia Institute for Medical Research.

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When the grand march gets under way at Butler University’s junior prom tonight in Murat Temple, Miss Jeanne Mitchell, Miss Mitchell, a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority, won the most coveted of campus coed honors yesterday when she was elected Prom Queen. with William Stalcup, class president.

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produded by the gland that need to be sought for. Working with Dr. Rowntree in this research were Drs. J, H. Clark, Arthur Steinberg, N. H. Einhorn, N. K. Schaffer and William Ziegler,

WITNESSES FIR 2 5 res ALLEGED BANDIT SUPPORT ALIBI

able to identify any person of that name. Youth, Sentenced on Guilty Plea in Holdup, Denies

Acquitted of Similar Charge Rolland was acquitted of another Accomplice Held.

holdup charge last Jan. 12. More than half a dozen witnesses testified yesterday that they saw Rolland in an Oliver St. beer tavern at the time of the robbery. | On cross examination, Chief | Deputy Prosecutor Oscar Hagemier | brought out conflicting testimony. Judge Baker threatened to send one girl to the women’s prison when she refused to answer questions.

A dozen more alibi witnesses were scheduled to parade before Criminal Court Judge Frank P. Baker today in defense of Joseph Rolland, 21, being tried on a holdup charge.

Rolland is accused of being one of two bandits who robbed the Thom McAn Shoe Store, 48 W. Washington St., of $400 last Dec. 12.

Elmo Rollins, 19, pleaded guilty to robbery and auto banditry charges and was.given two sentences of 10 to 25 years, to be served con-

currently. Rollins: denied that Rolland was

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Predestination in Noses Babies’ noses are merely comic to

| most persons, but to Dr. Charles B.

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KERNEL

Extract of this gland fed te 15 successive generations of laboratory rats, by the seventh to 10 generations speeded up growth 100 to 300 per cent or more, and has brought the animals to sexual maturity in from a half to a fifth the time nor-

noses is the same, as in identical

mally required. Pieces of the gland | implanted into parent rats have had | their speeding- up effects made ap- | parent in the offspring. | In an effort to find out what com- | pounds in the thymus are respon- | sible for these remarkable growth accelerations, Dr. Rowntree and his associates have traced the stimulus to three substances: Glutathione, cysteine, and ascorbic acid—the lat- | ter being the same as vitamin C. Now they propose to test a mixture | of these three things on rats, paral- | leling it with natural thymus extract, to see whether there are still | other growth-promoting substances |

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Noses are pretty much predestined to the shapes they will finally have, even before we are born, Dr. Davenport indicated. Like everything else about us, their fate is ruled by hereditary units, the genes.

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