Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 March 1940 — Page 7

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WIDE TESTING * OF PNEUMONIA

Spearhead of 2-Year Check on Value.

CINCINNATI, O. March 7 (U. iP.) —The first cross-section test of

8 new vaccine against pneumonia is expected to be made here by the U. 8. Public Health Service soon. The Cincinnati Academy of Medicine has proposed that at least 15,000 persons here be inoculated with the vaccine and health officers are known to be in favor of it. The experiment would take two years and if it proved the.vaccine actually a success, Cincinnati probably would become the ‘spearhead of a nationwide attack on the deadly disease. Six years ago Cincinnati physicians, working without publicity, succeeded in typing the various kinds of pneumonia. They found 32 specific forms, which enabled the scientists to develop serums for treatment of specific types. Until that time it had been supposed that all kinds of pneumonia were caused by one germ.

Cases Closely Checked

Since 1934 the General Hospital .Clinic and private laboratories have “been utilized for further experi"ment. Close tab was kept on all pneumonia cases. : The pneumonia mortality rate was enormous six years ago, ranging from 35 to 50 per cent of all cases treated at General Hospital here. Type 1 pneumonia, the technical name for the most prevalent of the 32 types, caused most of the fatalities. ar Most laymen are familiar with _ the symptoms of type one—a neg«lected cold, then a chill, a pain in the chest, high fever, difficulty in breathing. Pneumonia control began in earnest in Cincinnati with the discovery of a curative serum. Scientists killed pneumonia germs and fed them to horses. The horse soon developed protective bodies against the disease. ga Used in Human Type

This same treatment was used to fight pneumonia in human beings. Big laboratories kept horses immunized against all 32 types as sup--ply sources for the sérum. It formerly required seven to 14 days to pass the “crisis” period. The new serum cut it to three days. The Cincinnati death rate declined to 10 per cent, : Scientists recently discovered that “the new drug, sulphapyridine, also could be used effectively. It can be taken orally, while the first serum is injected. Sulphapyridine is more economical. . - Three years ago, Dr. Lloyd D. Fel-| ton, new senior surgeon for the USPHS, discovered a substance in the “envelope” of germs that has a protective quality. Since that time he has been experimenting in Civilian Conservation Corps camps. He found that his vaccine, as yet unnamed, cut down the: rate:of incidence in protected individuals. : But Dr, Felton used the vaccine only in vigorous young men, living in a controlled environment. The big question is: Will it prevent pneumonia in older people, in - “everyday” people who are susceptible because they get “run down?” Health authorities say Cincinnati is the ideal city to find out. In the _ first place, physicians here know “where pneumonia attacks most frequently—in the west end, a Negro sect They have “spof® maps” giving a complete picture of the situation. They have analyzed nearly 1000 cases

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VAGCINE URGED

{Cincinnati May Become!

For five years Pauline Cox, 26, of Dallas, Tex., masqueraded as a man, had dates with other girls and called herself “Paul” so she could “get jobs paying more’ money.” Police discovered the hoax, but released Pauline when her employer said she was a good worker and could stay on in either “pants or skirts.” {0

DENVER BEHIND

‘ |eitizens, many of whom voted for

ERNIE'S ARTICLE LURES TOURISTS

Travelers Make Rendezvous At White Sands After Reading of Trip.

Times Special SANTE FE, N. M.,, March 7.— White Sands National Monument, in southern New Mexico, has become a rendezvous for travelers, thanks to a series of articles on this strange phenomenon by Ernie Pyle, Indianapolis Times and Scripps-Howard roving reporter. Johnwill Faris, monument custodian, reported to Joseph A. Bursey, State Tourist Bureau director, that two couples—one from Maine and the other from California—met at White Sands recently on a prearranged itinerary. They had agreed on the meeting place after reading Mr. Pyle’s articles in which he described the White Sands as an “albino Sahara . . . miles of drifted sugar .-, . an ocean of utter white.” O‘her winter travelers in’ New Mexico also have visited the National Monument as a result of Mr. Pyles description, Mr. Faris said. Mr. Pyle visited White Sands in December, riding over the 30-mile stretch of desert with “dunes as high as 10-story buildings.” The White Sands, 20 milss southwest of Alamogordo, N. M. cover 176,000 acres and are composed of nearly 100 per cent pure gypsum Geologists theorize that the sands originate in gypsum beds exposed by mountains uplifted in the Tu-

“flarosa Valley.

Southwesterly winds are responsible for the great dunes. The wind i$ moving the entire mass toward Alamogordo. at the rate of a few inches a year.

HORSE LIKES BEER

COLUMBUS, O., March 7 (U. P.). —Caesar, prize brown and white horse owned by Bill Boyer, Columbus tavern operator, is quite a beer drinker. The horse drinks from a large basin placed at the bar by his owner. His drinking, however, is limited to two glasses at a “sitting.”

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BUDGET, CANT ‘FIND NEW TAXES

State Takes 85% of Fees, Sales and Excise Levies For Pensions. ..

By ROSCOE FLEMING Times Special Writer : DENVER, March 7.—~The wave of higher governmental costs resulting from Colorado's $45-a-month oldage pension. scheme has hit Denver, causing a commotion. = Angry

the pension, raised such a rumpus at new tax bills proposed to pay the consequent costs, that councilmen repealed the taxes in fear of their political lives. ;

half a million dollars more in expenditure than it anticipates in revenue. The realty tax rate for

assessed valuation, highest in the city’s history. Nevertheless the city is going to have to cut serv-

The result is that the city en-| tered 1940 with a budget calling for

all purposes is $41.94 per $1000 of|

snue somewhere, i Mayor Stapleton said the city needed $8,100,000 this year as against about $7,000,000 in-1939, The, realty boost is supposed to’ raise half a million; the nuisance taxes, which the councilmen were first scared into passing and then scared into’ repealing, were supposed to provide the rest. Fl Pension Biggest Item

costs was a lump sum of $430,000 that Denver discovered it owes the State pension fund; the biggest cut in revenue was of $150,000 a year from local liquor taxes and licenses, which Denver has heretofore spent on local needs and from now on must collect for the pension fund, The old-age pension amendment, which went into effect in 1937, contains a provision that 85 per cent of all net revenue from liquor taxes and license fees should go to the State pension fund. | State fees and licenses were obviously subject to this provision, but the cities and counties, including Denver, maintained that local fees were not covered. The courts last year finally held that it did; and the bills came due.

Treasurer Points to Law

posed was a penny a package on cigarets and tobacco, to raise $300,000 a year. Council approved ‘it. - Then State Treasurer Charles M. Armstrong vointed to another provision in the old-age pension amendment. “This provision sets aside 85 per cent of any future sales tax, or any axcise tax on the use. consumption or storage of any commodity or 7roduct, for the pension fund,” he said. : “1 hold that to mean local taxes as well as State taxes. If this tax becomes effective Jan. 1, I will kill the city for 85 per cert of it for State old-age pe; irrs,.and Il go to court to collect” “If ‘this tax is to go to the State fund and won't help the city, then

A. A. Blakley. “Anyway, it is an emergency tax for one year only. Law or no law, it goes out of existence at the end of 1941.”

.Another Dilemma

“Ah, but does it?” asked Mr. Armstrong “Another provision of the Colorado old-age pension amendment says no source of revenue for the old-age pension may be cancelled or repealed unless another source is first provided that will bring in as much. “If the tax becomes effective, Denver can’t repeal-it and it must

pension fund—unless you wanf to provide equal revenues from some other. source.” By this time public clamor against the taxes had reached a stage that kept councilmen’s telephones ringing most of the night. Another of the new taxes was a “wheel tax” of 50 cents a wheel on

streets. This also came under fire from the State House.

Engineer Threatens Action

Highways Engineer .Charles D. Vail pointed out that the people in 1934 passed a constitutional amendment requiring that all taxes on the operation of motor vehicles should go to the highways. If the city tried to spend this money for general purposes he would go to law instantly, he said. The third tax was a $50 license fee on all merchants selling on the installment plan. It. would raise only $50,000, against an estimated $300,000 for the tobacco tax and $200,000 for the wheel tax. But recall petitions began floating around, and councilmen met in secret rump session—such is their awe of Mr. Stapleton—and praduced a round-robin pledge to repeal all three taxes before the effective date. They did so. But they left property taxes perched on the highest rung in Denver history. When asked what the City can do, they have spoken vaguely of “over-all reductions in xpense.” Under State law, cities are supposed to present balanced budgets, ey

U. S. YIELDS TO DAM

PETTLE FALLS, Wash.. March 7 (U. P.).—The Post office here was moved to a new site on a hill because the present location will be flooded when Grand Coulee Dam is completed and backs water of the | Columbia River up the gorge, form-

Clears the Way for BREATHING . COMFORT

HEN you can’t breathe thre ugh your . nostrils because they are stopped up by a cold, insert a little Mentholatum. Soothing Mentholatum clears the mucus. clogged passages, lets In air. it cloars the way for breathing comiort.

Opens STOPPED-UP NOSTRILS

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The biggest item in the increased |

One of the nuisance taxes pro- ;

we'll repeal it,” barked Councilman|

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'REDWOOD CITY, Cal, March:7 (U. P.)—Steps were taken today .to remove the 800 blueblooded barking dogs owned by Miss Lydia Hopkins’ from’ the exclusive Woodside residential district’ whose citizens claim

they have spent: many sleepless |

months because of the baying of the poodles. © ~~ Lg The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors ordered District Attorney Gilbert D. Ferrell to - bring abatement = proceedings to force

''|removal of the dogs. from: the extensive kennels maintained by Miss

Hopkins, daughter of the late millionaire philanthropist, Timothy A. Hopkins. , Be , ; Miss Hopkins claims she has had 49 of her worst offending offenders de-barked—at a cost of $500--and gave away $1500 worth of animals that continued to bark despite the operation. : iin The Board ordered Supervisor John A. Lynch to confer with Miss Hopkins several weeks ago on @a

side -chairs.

Small carrying Charge on

soundproofing scheme for .the kennels. He reported ‘“no. dice”—that the courts must decide the problem. Joseph ‘J.- Bullock, attorney. for Miss Hopkins, said. he would defend the abatement suit to the last bark. “We'll be there when i's filed,” he said. ~~ he

HOLC DENIES FORCING SPECIAL INSURANCE WASHINGTON, ‘March 7 «(U. BP). —Qfficidls of - thé: Home Owners

Loan Corp. yestérday denied reports that borrowers applying for exten-

‘| sions en-their-loans are being forced

to take out insurance from specified by the HOLC. ‘The only requirement exacted from ‘delinquent clients, officials said,” is that they must hold “a sound insurance policy with a decent company” and must pay their:

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CLUY PLEDGES

~ AID IN CAMPAIGN”

“The “Fifty-One Club,” composed of Republican members of the Indi-

ana House of Representatives, has.

adopted a resolution pledging “full

|co-operation with the Indiana Republican Central Committee” dur- |

ing the.coming elections.

At the first annual’ reunion of|

the club at the Claypool Hotel yes-

terday, members discussed infor-|.

mally various suggestions for ‘the Republican state platform but no vote was taken on’any proposals. The club got its name ‘from the numerical position members held in the House last year when Repub-

licans had a majority of 51 to 49|

over the Democrats. Rep. James M. Knapp, of Hagerstown, is president of the club; Rep. Herbert H. Evans, of New Castle, is vice president, and Rep. E. Y.

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