Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 September 1942 — Page 14

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Death Rate Lowest In Its History. WASHINGTON, Sept.

than ever before during wartime, according to Secretary of ar Henry L. Stimson. On the basis of records to date the general admission rate to hospitals apparently will be approx-

imately 10 per cent lower during 1942 than in 1941, when the army's physical well being was considered excellent, he said. ; . Thus far there has been no mild influenza épidemic like that of early last year. Incidence of disease shows a marked recession. Even the common ills such as colds, “sore throats and measles are at a low level.

Smallpox Eliminated

Universal vaccination ~ has virtually eliminated smallpox. Rigid ~ sanitary control and vaccination have made typhoid fever almost nonexistent. Incidence of scarlet fever is extremely low. . Veneral disease is substantially less than during the world war, with the syphilis rate now lowest in army history. = The total veneral ‘disease rate on an annual basis, “was 40.5 per 1000 men in 1941, and 38 per 1000 men for the first six months of 1942, including cases . among newly inducted soldiers in- ~ fected during civil life. Infected soldiers lose an average of 18 days or less from duty.

Death Rate at Record Low

Throughout 1941 and thus far in 1942 the death rate has been the lowest in army history. = During this period from one-half to twothirds of the deaths resulted from external causes such as traffic accidents. Overseas forces and battle casualties are excluded from these figures. About one meningitis’ case in ' three was fatal during world war I, but this death rate is now down ~ to about one in 20, owing to -promptness of diagnosis and new the army is far below that in 1% life. The malaria rate per thousand men per year in continental United States was only 0.61 for the first eight months of 1942, in contrast with 1.24 in the comparative period

| in 1941

IGNORES SCRAP DRIVE,

DOG CHOKES ON BALL

CARLSBAD, Cal. (U. P..—The refusal of Skippy, collie pet of the children of E. G. Kentner, to contribute her rubber ball with which

i, she and the children played to the

rubber salvage campaign cost her - her life. The dog retrieved the ball from the scrap rubber heap 'but in giving too big a gulp, the ball lodged in her throat.. She was rushed to a

18—(U. |} J).—The health of the U. S. army|! training in this country ‘is better |.

. Albert P. Stewart, director of the Purdue choir and glee clubs, will bring a group of his nationally famous organization to Indianapolis Tuesday when the Rotarians hold their ladies’ day luncheon at the Claypool hotel.

BACKS FARMERS CRYING ‘ME. TOO"

Idea of Putting Them On U. S. Payroll.

ing agriculture pay-—viz.

threatened today to become a grass

* Originally the idea came from 37 petitioned Wickard, asking that the

their hands, paying them a per acre rent plus a steady job as farm fore-

But today, the plan was receiving

gia Agriculture Commissioner Tom Linder, who long has criticized Wickard’s “fake” parity, and loudly demanded that the secretary be impeached. ) Linder ran his rickety mimeograph

work, mailing copies of the Social Circle plan to senators, congressmen, state officials and farm leaders, who he thought “might be interested.” ; “It just goes to show what fake parity is doing to our farmers,” Linder said. “The law say$ cotton

parity ought to be such that the

returns from a bale would buy the same amount of the things a farmer needs as it did in the 1909-14 period. If we had a just parity as the law provides, the parity price on cotton would be 32 cents a pound. But Wickard sets it at 18 cents. No wonder those Social Circle folks want to rent their farms.” “I don't know what method Wickard uses to compute his parity. If he uses a crystal ball, he needs a new one. His answers come out wrong.” Linder said the per’ capita farm income in Georgia was 38 30 per

dog hospital where the ball was re- _ moved, but she died the next day.

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i | Frank Hauser, 30, i | mistake of not expecting a moder : | wife to darn his socks.

Georgia Official Publicizes

ATLANTA, Ga., Sept. 18 (U.P) —! The Social Circle, Ga., plan for mak- | every, farmer a government employee—|

roots pain in the neck to Secretary | | of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard.|

Walton county cotton growers who,

government take their farms off

man, with a government pay check.’

enthusiastic promotion from Geor-

n!red-hot, and put his entire staff to

NEITHER DO MATES

1L.OS8 ANGELES, Cal. (U. RP). — made the fatal

Mrs. Adele Rauschit Hauser, who claims to be wife No. 1, said it was only while checking over her husband’s socks for mending purposes, when she found one sock .was of

i lone color and another of a differ-

ent color, that she suspected the existence of a wife No. 2. Hauser has been charged with bigamy.

"CHICAGO, Sept. 18 (U. P.).<A bluejacket who watched the fatal torpedoes -fi%m a Jap submarine ‘| speed toward the stricken Yorktown disclosed today that anti-aircraft gun crews of the destroyer Hammann fired repeatedly in the lastditch hope of exploding the missiles before they hit. “But the torpedoes were too deep in the water and luck was against us I guess,” related Cam Malone, first class machinists mate from Boyce, La., who was on the York-

“From where I stood it looked like the boys on the Hammann were

coming close, and if the torpedoes had been a little nearer the surface

they might have hit a couple off

them anyway,” Mélone said. Malone had survived the Jap dive-bombing assault on the “Mighty Y” Juhe 4 and had volunteered to go aboard with the salvage party two days later in an attempt to

right the heavily-listing aircraft

carrier.

[| “Iwas standing on topside and I

could see the wake of four torpedoes coming toward us,” he said. “They were about 200 yards away when I spotted them. ‘ “The 'Hammann was tied up alongside our starboard, between us and the torpedoes. There wasn’t any place to run for cover, and I knew they: would hit below so 1 held on to a stancheon and waited. It seemed like a long time. Then two of them hit the Hammann and

the other got us. The deck just

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seemed to rise up and knocked me down.” There were only two ‘casualties among 120 men who had ‘volunteered to go aboard to salvage the Yorktown, Malone said. Malone leaped overboard with the others and was picked up by a tug held in readiness to tow the Yorktown home: “A few more hours maybe and we would have righted the old Mighty Y,” he said, “but that Jap sub saw us first.”

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