Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 July 1942 — Page 5
fa WASHINGTON, July 21 (U. P).
TUESDAY, JULY 21,
STUDY SPEEDUP
OF EVOLUTION!
Weird Drug Makes Slow Change Rapid, Two Scientists Say.
—Experiments- with the drug colchichine on insects have produced results which suggest “a step toward weird possibilities even for the human race at some future time,” the Catholic university of America reports. The drug, it said, caused striking changes in hereditary factors
normally affected only by the slow| |
processes of evolution. Two biologists at the university— Dr. Dale C. Braungart and the Rev. C. E. Ott—injected colchichine into the brains of fruit fly larvae and, they reported, succeeded in “speeding what ordinarily have been considered evolutionary changes.” Cells in certain parts of the insect brains, smaller than a pinhead, became “polyploid.” First Used on Plants
“That is,” a statement from the university said, “these cells developed extra chromosomes, ‘the bundles of heredity’ which constitute the nuclei of all body cells.” Moreover, when the cells thus altered divide, “they will reproduce themselves exactly,” the statement added. v' Colchichine with its mysterious powers was first employed in biological experiments by an American a few years ago when Dr. Albert F. Blakeslee of the Carnegie Institution of Washington produced entirely new species of plants by soaking seeds in the drug. Since then botanical laboratories have produced many new kinds of flowers and vegetables with the drug. “Up to the present, however, all efforts to change with colchichine the heredity or body constitution of animals have produced vague results,” the university said, adding that Dr. Braungart and Father Ott had “crossed the line from the plant to the animal kingdom with a means of vastly speeding hat ordinarily have been considered evolutionary changes.
Scanning Pel
B. Howard Caughran (right), evidence in the William Dudley
Ewing, well-known New York trial lawyer, before the arraignment
of Pelley and his two associates in
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U. S. district attorney, examines Pelley sedition case, with Oscar
Federal court yesterday.
BUTLER TO GIVE DEGREES JULY 31
Plan 1st Summer Exercises In History of the University.
Butler university will hold the first summer school commencement exercises in its history July 31 for undergraduate and graduate degree candidates. The ceremonies will begin at 5 p. m. in Sweeney chapel of the graduate school of religion and the Rev. C. A. McPheeters, pastor of the North Methodist church, will deliver the commencement address. Acting President M. O. Ross will present diplomas to seniors and’ graduate students. Summer students elected to Phi Kappa Phi, national scholastic honorary, will be announced during the program.
Offer New Series
Introduced also for the first time on the school’s schedule this year will be an intensified three-week post-summer school, Aug. 3 to 22, in which students will have the opportunity to earn as many as three hours credit in courses offered in the botany, education, English, German, psychology and speech departments. A week of preliminary freshman activities beginning Sept. 4 will precede the fall semester Tegisiration on Sept. 8.
NAZI LANDING BALKED
work at the Permolb Co. here
MOSCOW, July 21 (U, P). — A Soviet coastal battery on the northern Karelian front has repulsed a German landing attempt by a con-'"
voy of 11 ships, a dispatch from that!"
front said today.
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MEDINA, O., July 21 (U. PJ). —Employees who needlessly miss
will be paid for the time lost— but in German money. Officials of the plant, engaged in war production, announced
that all work days unnecessarily missed from now on will be paid for in now-worthless Nazi currency. A note in offending employees’ pay envelopes will explain: “The extra pay enclosed is your reward for failing to report for work one day last week. This money comes from a country that is glad to pay you not to make ‘supplies for our soldiers. When you don’t work, you work for the enemy.”
11,003 TREATED AT |, U. GENTER HERE
Indiana university medical center treated 11,053 patients in its three hospitals dyring the fiscal year which ended July 1, according to the report by Dr. W. D. Gatch, dean of the medical school. This was 49 patients less than were admitted in the previous year. Riley hospital, with 3706 children admitted, showed the only increase among the three hospitals. The figure represented 135 more children than the previous year. Coleman hospital, with 3314, showed a decrease. of 98 patients, and Long, with 4033, reported a reduction
ADD SIX SHIPS T0 SUB TOLL
Unofficial Total ‘Stands at 412 Since Middle Of January.
By UNITED PRESS
nations’ merchant vessels sunk in the western Atlantic by axis submarines and mines since the
middle of January was 412 today,
with six sinkings reported in. the last 24 hours. : One, however, was not included in the total, because it was a neutral Swedish ship, torpedoed, shelled and machine-gunned, although it was displaying prominently its colors. None was injured, despite the fact that the submarine shelled lifeboats as well as ship.
Torpedo Takes 15 Lives
Fifteen men were killed by a torpedo explosion or were drowned when a medium-sized American cargo ship was sunk in the Caribbean on June 3, the eight naval district announced today at a gulf coast port. There was only time to flash one SOS after a torpedo blasted open the ship’s bunkers, the naval district said. Thirty survivors, including an unidentified gun crew, were picked up early on the morning of June 4 by a naval vessel and taken to Trinidad. Three additional sinkings were revealed by the navy yesterday. They included: A medium-sized United States freighter in the south Atlantic on June 29. Four dead and 27 missing. A small United States merchant vessel off the east, coast about three weeks ago. Thirty-five dead.
Six Men Missing
A small United States merchant vessel some 450 miles off the Atlantic coast on July 13. Six men missing. The Mexico City newspaper Novaedades reported that five men were lost when the 2325-ton Tachira, a merchant vessel of Panamanian registry, was torpedoed between Colombia- and. New Orleans on July 12, Survivors landed on the Mexican gulf coast in lifeboats.
SPEEDER ESCAPES FOLLOWING CRASH
_ Police today sought the driver of a car that sped through South side streets at 60 miles an hour and crashed through the lawns of two homes in the 1800 block, Lockwood st. last night. Police officers said they chased the speeding car for several blocks before it careened over a sidewalk in front of the home of Charles Irish, 1814 Lockvi~od. st, and crashed on the lawn uf Elmer Foster, next door. The driver fled from the wreck-
of 86.
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age but his 19-year-old eompanion was held pending an investigation.
s War Moves
By LOUIS.F. KEEMLE
United Press War Analyst
While the news from the Don river front continues the slogan, grave, the situation in Egypt seems improved and the Fighting,
The unofficial total of united]:
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NAVY CLEA HOUSE IN Hi
Encourage Office Workers To Eliminate Useless Procedure. By DICK ‘THORNS: WASHINGTON, July and ashore, the navy i¢ the barnacles off its adi. machinery. Every form and repo; navy handles is being (lc to meet this harsh standid: Does it contribute toward witiiing the war? If it doesn’t, out il oes. The campaign, under ‘i: June 1, already has rest discontinuance of some and reports. Hundreds, p have been simplified. .D: 4 have been replaced by wee:l many a weekly has | i monthly, and monthlies aie terly. iI Save 71.500 Hous
Of the first 500 rept: nated, 16 which wer: showed a saving of TL i(0
about 330 employees. ; The eliminations have i¢: inestimable savings of effort, not to speak of | For instance, the old Ww: dling temporary promo for a letter and six cop man’s promotion, some | dled by as many as six | one bureau. | Tho new procedure } is
is to it. | Offer Cash Price
Ruth Snyder, in the bureau, who thought ug: It got $500 and a congratule tof from Secretary Knox. Three other cash prize raises in grades have li out, and more are comi: ployees who think up way nate red tape. Posters in the navy ba
out in the naval district c “Wars Are Not Writing,”
serious axis threat to the Middle East by way of the scribe the cash awards. |(! Suez canal lessened. Marshal Erwin Rommel’s full strength may not ized to give out reward have been revealed, but it appears possible that the royal air force, strongly backed by United States -and South African planes, has turned the trick and Rommel may have to
! retire toward the Libyan border.
region is not suitable for holding. | According to a British commentary, the series of low ridges running roughly’ east and west between El’ Alamein and the Qattara depression give a wide field of fire over | [the surrounding desert and provide | invaluable observation posts for| mobile artillery. The importance of the ridges may be gauged by the fierceness of the!
struggle being waged for their pos- |
session. Some have changed hands several times and on some of them the opposing forces are dug in on opposite ends of the same crest, The British have shorter and better communication lines from Alexandria, whereas Rommel has to bring up water, supplies and ammunition over a long coastal road ex-
* Russian Prospects Grave
It is possible he may have to fall back as far as Tobruk to establish a stable position. Attacks on supply lines by the air force, aided by units of the British fleet, have caused great difficulty for Rommel. His losses have been considerable in tanks, planes and prisoners and the British, superior in the air, are making replacements difficult. The British report that the sinking of axis supply ships and transports trying to cross from Crete and Sicily has increased sharply after a serious falling off just before Rommel began his cffensive. On the Russian front the prospects are not nearly so good, even though the Russians have made gains at Voronezh. The fighting there is still severe
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MANY NEVER SUSPECT CAUSE OF BACKACHES
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It is certain that if Rommel cannot | advance, he will have to retire, because the country in the El Alamein
and there seems little prospect that
the Russians can gain enough ground to permit a flanking attack southward, where the danger is greatest.
Expect Strong Russ Stand
The three-way attack on Rostov spells grave danger to that key city.
“To the Northeast the Russians
have fallen back toward Stalingrad,
the most important German objecHowever, such retreats had been expected and have been prepared for in advance by the Russians.
Marshal Timoshenko’s forces are.
withdrawing in good order and should be in a position to make a strong stand in the stretch between the bend of the Don and the Volga. A strong reserve army is reported being held at Stalingrad to stop the German advance as it loses its initial momentum and its communication lines are extended farther and farther.
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