Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 April 1942 — Page 11

WEDNESDAY, APRIL |, 1942 |

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The Indianapolis Times

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Hoosier Vagabond

CATHEDRAL CITY. 1.—Marshal Headle, chief test pilot of the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. had never been an “indoors” man. Both his work and his hobbies kept him in the open. in a life of great activity. And so, after his 42,000-foot “fall in a pressure-chamber experiment last June, he Knew he was doomed to many months of indoors quiet and solitude. He knew hed go crazy if he just let time lie on his hands. So the first thing he did. as soon as he was able. was to plan out his days so they would be fully occupied. It is working out well. He has not become bored or impatient. I have just been to see him in his nice rented house here on the desert, and. except for a constant twisting of the cords on his bathrobe, he seems perfectly calm and at ease. Yet a violent “shell shock” type of nervousness was the gravest aftereffect of his accident. Every morning Headle calls up the Lockheed plant—125 miles away—just to see how things are getting along. He doesn't worry about the work, for his assistant pilots are old-timers, and thoroughly capable. But he likes to keep his finger in the pie. During the day he sits in his living room. with a big north window looking out over the desert valley and down toward Palm Springs. The nurse sits in a sewin

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nearby chair, Headle has two nurses, one for day. one for night. family could not move out here from Los Angeles with him. for he can't stand the children's Any sudden or loud noise throws him int

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read in all his life before. He reads every type of book imaginable. He says he reads a lot of trash, | just to insure a diversion against boredom. He reads the newspapers. but never listens to the radio. Another ot Headless “occupying-time” diversions is figuring out the daily racing charts. He has been to only tour races in his life, and didn't bet then, but he loves horse races and loves to dope them out. He spends about three hours a day doping out the winners at various tracks. and he says his average is mighty high, although he never places any bets.

His Chin Is Up!

In his shocked condition, the two things Headle must avoid are neises and physical exertion. And it's very odd about noise. A noise that he feels is necessary doesn't bother him. For instance, there are Army training planes roaring constantly over the desert nowadays. I asked Headle if that didn't bother him. Oddly enough, it doesn't. He knows those planes are necessary, and he can’t do anything about stopping them even if they weren't necessary—so they don't bother him.

JUKE BOX.

A juke box isn't the word for it, says Nat Cohn (left). To be correct, call it automatic phonograph. Right: Gay Hess gives a new slant to America's Buy-a-Bond campaign.

By ELLIOTT ARNOLD Times Special Writer

NEW YORK, April 1.—On May

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What does bother him, for instance, is when he’s| juke boxes—and don't yell out, fast, that it's 10 years too late, So they have given you the inside shakes, blaring out the same

trving to get to sleep, and two people are sitting out| in the living room talking in low tones. to him they are screaming. He simply has to ask| them to stop talking. Marshal Headle is as nice a man as I've ever met | —quiet. courteous, intelligent, hospitable. He has] taken his great tragedy with his chin up. He thinks| that m two or three more months now he'll be back | at work, in a ground capacity. “Back annoying ev- | eryvbody.” as he puts it. His return wili be the nicest “annoyance” Lockheed company has had in a long time.

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Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

SOME Demeoecer

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OF THE town's and important are a little worried at the moment about election. A few of ‘em have wept on our shoulder, telling how terrible things looked and praying (figuratively, of course) for some big break. A good deal of the Democrats’ headaches spring from the south where the voters have long become fed up empty promises of track elevation and dump elimination What's more, there has been a good deal of backfiring about the public school situation South siders complain that north. east, west—all get new schools, ete. and the south side just dribbles along with old Manual Training. old No 6. old No. 13, ete. lapel certainly tear-stained

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INCIDENTALLY, WHILE we're on politics birdie whispered to us that there's no chance right those wdictments evervbody's been gossipping Bad timing now, what with the prinary so close, said the bird. Wait awhile, he chirped Now it looks like we may have a war chest campaign after asll—maybe this fall It's still not definite. One last fall Edwin 8S Pearce, president of the Railway Service & Supply Co. wrote the State Conservation department and asked for 200 saplings a portion of his T00 or so acre farm over endricks county He groaned when they arrived er day. Instead of 200 there were 2000—and a heck cf a lot of holes to dig.

Court Adjorrned

FEDERAL JUDGE Robert C. Baltzell i hh newspapermen out in the federal building corridor

From India

ALLAHABAD. India. April 1. —After talking with Nehru, nationalist leader, in his home here. it ic clear

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is the idea of peaceful resistance. as distinet from military resistance. The fact that some Indians cling to peaceful resistance must affect the whole handling of the war so far as India is concerned I began talking with Nehru as I would with any western leader. But quickly I foun we were branching off on separate paths, although Nehru is strongly antifascist and anti-aggression “We of the all-India congress were denouncing fascist Spain conguest of Czechoslovakia, and appeasement. at the time they occurred.” Nehru said. But, when I inferred therefore that India would fight, once the self-government quarrel with Britain were adjusted. he cautioned it would be necessary to consider the psychology of the congress movement Gandhi is saying we must resist the invader.” he said But the Gandhi method of resistance is non-co-operation—not use of force. It is refusing to cooperate with the invader, withholding every kind of aid and comfort. thus making the invaders’ war as hard as possible without resisting by arms.”

A Matter of Expediency

THAT MAY SOUND strange to vou. an American,” he went on, “but let me explain. If you are going to fight with arms. you must have enough force at your command to insure reasonable chance of vicWhat has been the result for nations that tried to resist by force without having enough force? Look at France. When force gave out, resistance collapsed and came to an end.

My Day

WASHINGTON, Tuesday. —I returned to Washington yesterday afternoon in time for dinner and was very happy to find a number of friends staying in the house. I was able to reach a friend of my daughter-in-law's, Mr. John W. Herbert. who happens to be here from Ft Worth, so he also joined us. After a pleasant, chatty meal, we saw the last movie in which Carole Lombard played. called. “To Be or Not to Be.” It was an exciting spy story. I only wish that in reality things could be done as smoothly and as easily as ther are in the movies!

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as we approached Washington. Even today, with a cloudless sky overhead. there still are patches of snow along the sidewalks and over our White House lawns, I only hope the little sprirg flowers coming up, were not hurt. The storm seems to have brought down a number of branches from our trees. but no great damage is done. so it cannot have been as severe as some of the pictures I saw in the papers made me Shink,

late one afternoon last week as he—and they—waited for the grand jury to make its report. The judge became more and more impatient as he waited. Now and then he did a little pacing up and down the | corridors. Finally, at 5:30 p. m., he remarked: “Well, | its too late now.” “Too late for what?" a reporter] asked him. “Too late to hear Lum and Abner, and | theyre at a critical point right now,” explained his| honor “Now I'll have to wait until the 2:30 broac- | cast.” Say Hello to Grandpa RUSSELL CAMPBELL, the Mayor's secretary, is in Van Buren, Ark. visiting Bob Burns’ grandpa Snazzy and aunt Peachy Mrs. Campbell, who ac-| companied him, is visiting her mother who lives there. | William P. Flanary of the County Clerk's registra- | tion office is handing out cards, just like the candi-| dates have. They read: "I am not a candidate for! sheriff, William P. Flanary—but boosting for Charles| R. Ettinger for county clerk—both democrats.” Nice! of Bill to boost his boss, isn't it! Yes, Sir, General DICK EVANS — beg pardon, Capt. Richard D | Evans, the brand new army officer—hadn’'t much more! than acquired a uniform the other day until he received a telegram instructing him to “report at Mitchell Field” at such and such a time. It was signed | “ULIO.” He couldn't. for the life of him, figure out the signature It looked like the initials, “UL” and the number “10.” Finally he phoned Ft. Harrison. Out there, we understand, they turned the problem | over experts. all of whom gave up. Then. as a ast resort. they phoned a certain officer at the! fort and got him out of bed. “ULIO?” he snorted. Why that just happens to be Maj. Gen. Ho. adjutant general of the U. 8 army.” was that.

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peaceful resistance never comes to an end. It goes on indefinitely, refusing to aid the enemy, even suffering death in the refusal to co-operate. “That is Gandhi's position. Not all of congress share it. In fact. congress as a whole is not inclined to accept non-violence as a means of dealing with an | external aggressor.” I asked Nehru where he stood. He took another spoonful of honey from a little glass, explaining he had a sore throat. Finally, he said it must be a mat- | ter of strategy which course would be more effective. | He added that India is unprepared. that the only force available is British: if thrown on its own. India would be unable to fight because she is lacking in weapons and trained men.

More the Hamlet Type

THAT TOUCHES the real dilemma. seldom men- | tioned. Indians are wondering whether they can| make good in independence, if they get it. Some! Indian leaders seem almost resentful that they may be given what they have been asking for. I heard one say that Britain is simply trying now to get out from under a bad situation by dumping the problem | of defending India on the Indians. Nehru is pleasant and stimulating. He loves to talk. including toward the philosophical. One gets the feeling that he knew where he was going before the war. but is now seriously perplexed. knowing what India would face if cut adrift with Japan hammering at her doo: Nehru has been pictured as a man of action. but he seems more the Hamlet type to me. Either he is! unable to decide whether to lead India to fight along side the united nations, or else he is plaving a subtle | game too deep for me to understand. He is quick, clear. and decisive in denouncing aggression; but vague. hesitant. and wandering when discussing what he would do with power if he had it. i He is always falling back on the statement that it would be a matter of expediency whether to use) peaceful or military resistance. i |

By Eleanor Roosevelt

Our magnolias are out and I see some forsythia | actualiy in bloom, as well as buds on many trees] and shrubs, | I am tremendously interested in the modern embroidery brought to me by Mr. and Mrs. Owen Latti- | more. They have now sent me the letter which accompanied this embroidery, which is a gift from Madame Chiang Kai-snek. The letter is so full of contidence and hope for the future that U want to, share it with vou and. therefore, quote it here. “Headquarters of the Generalissimo of China. | “Chung King, Sgechuan. | “Jan. 12, 1042. | “Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: “These eight immortals gladly stepped out of their | frame on a Chungking wall to fly to you. I hope you | will bid them welcome and find a place for them in| your home. They wish to assure you, as they have) assured me many times during these vears of bloodshed and suffering, that the world of war and woe is but a passing thing. however necessary it may be, for | over the edge of the horizon lies a path leading to universa! harmony and world brotherhood. “With all good wishes, “Yours sincerely,

“Mayling Soong Chi. 2 "*Matiame, Chiang Kai-shek.”

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It seems! tunes when all you wanted was a drink?

They belonged to Americana, a part of American living it may take a long time to bring back, and pretty soon vou may miss them.

Now the manufacturers of these incredible instruments, the huge square boxes that, lit up, look like a heathens idea of the God of Evil, are going to turn to more openly lethal gadgets—incendiary bombs, bomb sights and other ordnance. This is being done, of course, on government order, although there are those who will insist the order is strictly naive, that there can be nothing on this strife-ridden earth more deadly than the 12th repetition of one of the juke popular melodies. The other day, as a matter of fact after the third hour of listening to Rose O'Day. one of the current heaves, there was a little shooting outside a downtown drinking emporium. Anyway, with the creation of new jukes soon to be a thing of the past. it might be well to cast a last loving glance at this meteoric phenomenon of Ameri-

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Army Bonds Today?

BEFORE GOING into the story of the jukes it should be reported that they have come of age, and now are actively engaged in selling defense bends. Scattered around town are special boxes which accept only a quarter. When the coin is deposited out comes only one song: Any Bonds Today? Then, before the customer can get away, a lovely woman hops out from behind the juke and hands you a 25-cent defense stamp. This is all done with the rather bewildered approval of the treasury department, which never had to cope with a situation quite like this before. At a recent dinner in a New York hotel the machine was demonstrated for the treasury officials. During the course of the evening some $24 worth of defense stamps were sold, which meant the diners had not only to listen to the normal number of deadly after-coffee speeches, but also had “Any Bonds Today?" drummed into their heads some 96 times. The juke boxes are relatively new on the American scene—but not unimportant, In a recent national survey Variety, the authoritative amusement weekly, estimated the annual take oi te boxes at $150,000.000 and insisted its figures were conservative. Breaking down this estimate it set the weekly take in the metropolitan area at $300.000.

CLEAN-UP WEEK

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DUE THIS MONTH

Various Drives Combined: Mayors of All Cities Asked to Assist.

Fire week, spring clean-up week, salvage for victory week and all other “weeks” have been lumped into one week's drive and will be observed some time this month. The grouping was through the efforts of Governor Schricker and the state civilian defense council and April has been designated as “clean-up {or victory month.”

Mayors of all cities and civilian defense directors of all counties are urged by Governor Shricker and Clarence A. Jackson, state civilian defense director, to unite the forces and activities of fire prevention officials, women’s organizations, local defense councils, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and others in the observance of a general clean-up week campaign.

prevention

Fire Marshal Approves Clem Smith, state fire marshal and fire prevention authorities have indorsed the movement and have

urged “attic-to-cellar” house clean-

ing as a precautionary step in the perfection of the civilian defense fire warden program. The Indiana salvage committee has asked all local salvage committees to join the campaign to collect serap and waste materials to be sent to war industries. Governor Schricker said. “If we free our homes, attics and premises of the hazards of fire and accident and practice to the utmost the arts

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This is the first of two articles on the £20.000,000 a year juke box industry in the United States.

Dislike Juke Box Tag

THE EXPERTS in Washington said the industry itself was in the $20,000,000-a-year Last year, it was said, about 8900 tons of materials now needed for munitions were put into the machines. About 5000 tons of this was steel and the rest copper, lead, zinc and other metals. There are five manufacturers of

the boxes in the country, employing 4000 factory and sales employees. Some 200 organizations distribute the jukes to 7000 operators who employ 13,000 persons. In all, some 300,000 boxes are distributed throughout the country and it is estimated that 50.000.000 men, women and children, listen to the recorded music weekly. In the New York metropolitan area alone there are 35000 of these machines, Those are all the figures you'll get—except just one note on the cost of the individual juke box. That comes from Nat Cohn. one of the heads of the Modern Vending Co. of New York City, The Modern Vending Co. calls itself the “world's largest automatic music sales agent” and represents J. P. Seeburg Corp.. one of the biggest manufacturing companies in the country, in the metropolitan area. Incidentally, stop calling them juke boxes. “They are automatic phonographs,” Mr. Cohn said. “It don't give the business any dignity to call them juke boxes.”

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Average Cost Is $500

HE SAID THE average box costs about $500. That's what it costs the man who is known as the operator—the man who buys them from the distributor and then sets them up in the various eating and drinking and lounging establishments. Mr. Cohn explained that he distributes two different types of instruments. One is the super which is equipped with everything known 0 man. However, this one is the lesser of the two selling for $475 The other is called the de luxe and we will not attempt to paint its glories. Suffice it to say the

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By LESTER POSVAR

After whipping the axis, America must fight the amebiasis, Dr, C. E. Roach predicts

Amebiasis is infection with amebae, such as dysentery. Dr Roach of the search laboratories of Eli Lilly & Co.. warns that American soldiers will be bringing a great deal of that disease home when thev come from Asia, Africa, Australia and other parts of the world where they now are fighting Of course, there are amebae and there are amebae. Some forms of amebiasis, now prevalent in the southern states, cause much dis-

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super pales before the de luxe. This one costs 8500 As usu! with prices set upon products his country, the list needs a + explaining. In both these cases vou get 10 per cent off for cash and have to pay an additional 6 per cent for time. Derivation of the expression “juke-box” has never quite been settled. Most everyone in the busi= ness agrees the term stems from the South. In backwoods southern communities, particularly in Georgia, establishments where you could get beer, possibly harder drinks, and maybe a sandwich, were called “juke-joints” or “jookjoints.”

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THERE 1S a origin spelled juke, jouk or jook,

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which means to move quickly, and it thought that somehow the word got stuck to these places, which had tp hop around during prohibition. When the automatic music machines were put into these places they became known as juke-boxes, it is said, and the name spread. Oddly, in many southern places, the machine is now called a “piccolo” and the term “juke” has been discarded entirely. Some philologists said the word “juke,” as applied originally to some establishments in the South derived from the Jukes family, the name given to a family group with an unprecedented record of crime, degeneracy and pauperism. The name “Jukes” was applied to low characters of any kind, this school maintained, and since the lowclass establishments were patronized mainly by these people they, in turn, became known as “jukejoints.”

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Regardless of the origin of the title, the business is big business today, and almost no person can successfully avoid contact with the canned music boxes for any length of time,

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Split 50-50 as Rule

THE OPERATORS who buy the boxes from the distributor, to re-

turn, put the machines into establishments on one of two bases. The most common way is to split 50-50 with the proprietor of an establishment on the take. Some operators extract an additional profit off the top for servicing. That means they take a prearranged $5 or more from the take each week before they divide the remaining coin with the proprietor. The boxes earn between $20 and $35 a week on the average. The second method is simply to pay a proprietor of an establishment a set rate to keep the box in his premises and service it. This method is used for conservative owners who do not wish to participate in a gamble. Each machine holds 20 records and so carefully has the entire process been gauged that even the sequence of listing the tunes, on the numbers from one to 20, has become impoyrtant. Orchestra leaders will do a great deal for operators to get their recordings near the top of the list. “They figure,” Mr. Cohn said, “that a lot of people just look at the first one or two numbers before they put their nickels in.”

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Boosts Band Leaders

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Dr. Roach talked about amebic infections at a meeting of the In-

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histolytica, is quite deadly. the lower canal, but also the liver, ulcers of the liver. One in 10 Is Carrio Dr

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He apparently startled his audience with the declara-

CAUSING jn) that 10 per cent of the nation's

population already is infected with Amebae. ‘ I “One person out of 10 is a carrier of amebiasis,” he said.

Differs From Most Germs

Very few of the present carriers, he added, are infected with any of “At first you're afraid you're going the dysenteries generally expected to die. But after a few days of the to be deadly. But the serious forms ? ‘of amebiasis will become a lurking even as

enemy within our gates. dangerous as the “fifth columnists

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in war time, when the soldiers come Many of the soldiers, he suggested. will be car-

back from the tropics.

riers of the dreaded histolytica. An ameba, Dr. Roach reminded lhis scientific audience, is a single- | celled protozoan. In other words, \it differs from most germs, which (are bacteria, or plants, because it lis practically an animal, equipped with means of locomotion.

Fight Should Begin Now

| Just as a general speaks of a military enemy as “he,” Dr. Roach also speaks of this medical foe as “he.” | “He is something we should start Ito fight right now by improving our | diagnosis,” the doctor declared. “We

so. Several of the more popular orchestra leaders today were virtually discovered by juke ade dicts and elevated to fame on the basis of their clamoring. Ore chestra leaders frequently invited to important hotels in large cities, treat them only one shade less polite than they treat Broadway columnists. The jukes effects in ments. The take of the proprietor, for instance, be measured alone in terms of nick=els received. Drinkers at bars are known to stay long after they called their wives for the last time and promised to come home right away, playing some lachry= mose recording over and over again, weeping into their glasses. Frequently when the drinker shows signs of leaving the astute bartender will put in a nickel of his own to hold him tnere. In one establishment recently one drinker, having passed a certain stage, insisted on buying two drinks each time, one for himself and one for the girl he was re= minded of by the recording of My Gal Sal which he played. the bartender counted, 16 times.

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THE ENTERPRISING purveyor served the second drink each time and, in order tnat it

would not be wasted, thoughtfully invited friends of his in the establishment to help themselves from the renewing font. Waitresses, too have discovered the persuasive powers of music, After learning the musical weak= ness of a steady customer it is quite common for a waitress to in=vest a nickel of her own in his favorite tune. This little courtesy usually brings in an exira 10-cent tip, which is 100 per cent on her investment, In a waterfront saloon recently a Negro preacher entered the front door and started to berate the customers on the evils of drink. A sly drinker slipped a nickel into the juke on the premises and a particularly torrid piece of boogie woogie filled the room. The preacher manfully tried to continue his lecture on the hell-to-come, but his feet outwitted him and in a few minutes he was treating the customers to the neatest buck and wing they had ever seen. The preacher. converted, left the place shoiily thereafter and the evening was adjudged a huge success.

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becomes a new ameba When this happens. the disease likely goes into the active, or vegetable, stage. It is in the cyst form that 10 per cent of the population now is carrye

: a This| chemical society yesterday at the ing amebiasis. Dr Roach said. virulent disease attacks not only Severin hotel.

part of the alimentary

And the cyst ameba tough. ‘He has been known to live through a soaking in pure carbolie acid for 10 minutes,” Dr. Roach said.

is mighty

FACES HOMICIDE TRIAL

NEW CASTLE, Ind.. April 1 (U, P.).—Carl W. Current, 23, of Indianapolis, will stand trial May 11 lon charges of reckless homicide in (connection with the deaths of two |Sulphur Springs, Ind., high school ‘girls last Oct. 12. Current was the 'driver of an automobile in collision with another in which the victims were riding.

® WAR QUIZ

pm ect sma | 1—The insignia in this picture .resembles a fortress prison. Does {it indicate army military police? {If not, what does it signify? 2—As in the last World War, the British are now using the Isle of Man in the Irish sea as a place of im|prisonment for ‘captured ene-

should be training technicians ho mies. What nov-

will be able to recognize him when we must combat him after the war.’ Amebae usually enter the human {body with food. Once in the body. amebiasis takes one of two forms— | the vegetative and the cyst. In its vegetative form, the disease is active, for the germs multiply [through cell division. When the | disease is active, the patient defi- | nitely is inactive. | Amebiasis in a cyst form means

elist devoted much of his time te writing about this island—Dickens, Hall Caine, Thackeray, R. L. Steve | enson? 3—In connection with this same island, is it noted for a peculiar breed of dog, sheep, cat or pig?

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1—The insignia is worn by the army corps of engineers. 2—Hall Caine wrote “The Manx

| that each ameba has “crawled” into | man” and many other tales about

a shell. There are four nuclei io the Isle ot Man.

each cyst, and once an ameba

3—Man is the place of origin of the short-tailed x