Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 February 1943 — Page 15

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THE ATTACK was so sudden nobody could beYeve it was in full force. Our forward troops were ‘overrun before they knew what was happening. The nand' post itself. didn’t start moving back till ter lunch. By then it was too late—or almost too late. Command cars, half-tracks and jeeps started west across the fields of semi-cultivated desert, for by then the good road to the north was already cut off. The column ‘had moved about eight miles when German tanks came charging in upon the helpless vehicles from both sides. A headquarters command. post is not heavily armed. It has little to fight back with. All that these men and cars could do was duck and dodge and run like hell. There was no h thing as a fighting line. Everything was mixed over an area -of 10 miles or more. . . .

Every Jeep for Itself ¢ | IT WAS A COMPLETE melee. Every jeep was on its own. The accompanying tanks fought until knocked oul, and their crews then got out and moved along on| foot. One tank commander whose whole crew esgaped after the tank caught fire said that at least the Germans didn’t machine gun them when they mped from the burning tank. Practically every vehicle reported gasoline trouble that afternoon. gas, yet nobody feels that it was sabotage. They say there had been similar trouble before, but never 80 bad. A friend of mine, Maj.. Ronald Elkins of College Station, Tex., had his half-track hit three times by

RCH GROSSMAN, one of the town's No. 1 pasge) ger picker-uppers, had a full load yesterday. After picking up three women, who sat in the back seat, he picked up Mrs. Dave Braden, who sat in the front seat. Then he saw Frank McHale and, risking the : effect on his tires, picked up Frank, too. Frank crowded his 300 odd pounds into the front seat with Mr. Grossman and Mrs. Braden. . . . P. S. Whenever a passenger offers Arch a dime carfare, he suggests they donate it to the Red Cross. And .that's a darned good idea. . . . A businessman suggests we remind you folks to clip the blanks out of newspapers for rationing book 2. None is available at some registration places, we're told. . . . Seen in the alte back of the light company: An express truck

-of-way disputed by the regular morning flight starlings—hundreds of them—traveling weést past The resulting con-

starlings raced hither and thither, dashing through each other’s ranks, engaging in what rebled aerial “dog fights” in their attempts to conpe in their original directions and at the same time dodge each other. Finally the pigeons gave in

ashington

ASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—It is inevitable that congress, after a long period of domination by the

ssert itself. But the danger of this becoming destructive of : essential government activities is imminent, so much so that more level-headed Republicans themselves are alarmed. That is why Republicans like Senator Taft of Ohio and Senator Aiken of Vermont are publicly warning their colleagues to use discrimination and not to run wild. One of the most alarming proposals, and one with a good chance of passing, is that of Senator McKellar to require some 33,000 government employees to ted on by the senate. That ‘would even include

s and government arsenals, although the senate iary committee favors exempting them. he proposal is that all government employees ing $4500 or more a year be confirmed by the senate.

k “More ‘Pipelines’ for Senators

PONENTS OF this measure call it a patronize grab, Those supporting it say it is a purely coustitutional measure. Both are correct. : e proposition would mean that many thousands of professional and administrative employees of the government: would have. to become tied in with senators. To be appointed, or to be promoted into

My Day

GTON, Wednesday.—I forgot to tell you that on Monday evening I drove around with Commissioner Mason to see the extent and success for a ctice blackout, We were only gone from the din= ner for about half an hour, but drove down F and G streets and Pennsylvania ave., and

government building, nor from the theaters, restaurants or shops. There were two windows on

i; little light glinted: through badly drawn shades -or. curtains, and =! there was. one restaurant which i was slow in turning its lights out. Another one turned them on again before ‘the signal was given. I ‘was also. o inpressed by the number

it obtier oi civilian le with badges on 5, who, patrolled ¢ the stress. our escort and official car did not keep us When we showed our lights too ing Senn informed of our mistake by a man thority ¢ na street corner. ‘today with Vice Président and Mrs. Wal- ) meet the wives of Seutral | and South Seprosentatives mn

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German shiells. They were standing still, cleaning

Apparently there was water in the

no lights were showing from any

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i By Ernie Pyle

a carburetor filter, when the third shell hit. It set them afire. Some of.the crew eventually got back safely, but others are still missing. Maj. Elkins said they could have got clear back with the car “if the ‘damned engine had only kept running.”

Nazis Threw Everything

THE GERMANS just overran our troops that afternoon. They used tanks, artillery, infantry and planes dive-bombing our troops continuously. Our artillery was run over in the first rush. We were swamped, scattered, consumed, by the German surprise. Twilight found our men and machines straggling

over an area extending some 10 miles back of Sidi|”

Bou Zid. Darkness saved those that were saved. During the night the command post assembled what was left of itself in another cactus patch about 15 miles behind its first position. Throughout the night, and. for days afterward, tired men came straggling in from the desert afoot. That night the Germans withdrew from the area they'd taken, and next morning we sent trucks back to bury the dead and tow out what damaged vehicles they could. But by next afternoon the battle was on again. (Continued Tomorrow) : 4 2 EJ SEVERAL WEEKS ago Ernie Pyle wrote from North Africa, where dates are plentiful: “Some of our Christmas boxes from back home were full of stuffed dates. If somebody will just send me a little sackful of sand for Easter, everything will be wonderful.” A parcel just received in Washington, with a request that it be forwarded to Ernie in Africa, contains one small bag of sand, with a tiny American flag protruding and the label: “To Ernie Pyle, from Civitan club, Charlotte, N. C.”

nside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

and returned to the statehouse roof. Whether they conceded defeat, or merely were bored, our observer was unable to determine. There were no casualties in the encounter, albeit quite a few feathers were lost.

Around the Town

ADD SIGNS of spring: A Central Bus passenger reports seeing a sap bucket on a maple tree in the yard at the northwest corner of 32d and Central. It’s an easy way to augment sugar rations. . . . One of our agents reports that while out walking, he saw two men unloading coal from a truck in front of 2428 Park ave. to the tune of music from a radio in the cab of the coal fruck. . . . Folks headed for work yesterday couldn’t tell whether they were on time or not. The big clock in front of Gray, Gribben & Gray, 103 N. Illinois, was stopped at 11. The store probably was too busy fixing other people’s watches and clocks to fix its own. . . . One of our agents

~ thinks * we've got some pretty nice cab drivers

around town. He was in a group of share-the-ride passengers headed north about midnight recently. One of the passengers, an unescorted young woman, got off in New Jersey st. “The cab driver turned his spotlight on her until she got clear in the house, then explained: “I'd sure appreciate some cabby doing that for MY wife.”

Thanks, Soldier!

MRS. RAYMOND WGQRTH, 1520 Montcalm st., and her 9-year-old daughter, Gail, were walking in Ayres’ Monday when Gail saw a display of war stamp corsages and wanted-one.. A young soldier who was

standing nearby heard Gail ask for a corsage and he walked up, bought one of the corsages, handed it to Geil-with a smile and left. Mrs. Worth was too flabbergasted to say more than a feeble thanks. And so she Lopes the soldier will read this and know how much she and Gail appreciate his thoughtfulness. . . . Fred Bates Johnson is back from a one-week “business trip” to Florida. He had to go to Ft. Lauderdale on business, spent one half day taking care of the business and the rest of the time lolling on the beach. The lucky guy!

By Raymond Clapper

$4500 1a it would be necessary to obtain the approval of senators. Perhaps some senators would be too busy to bother to use this new power. Those who wished to, however, could use this power to strengthen fences back home. To apply the rule of senate confirmation to 30,000 government employees would give senators a good many more pipelines into executive offices and more leverage on the executive agencies, whereas any such leverage should be confined to the higher policymaking officials.

Alarmed by Extreme Actions

THE McKELLAR bill is an example of the extreme reaction against the “bureaucrats” and against presidential power. The administration has invited this kind of retaliation by ‘several years of indifference to congress, and by numerous political appointments which congress regards as having been made - strictly for political reasons—such as the attempt to make Edward J. Flynn minister to Australia ‘and the current attempt to get James V. Allred of Texas back on the federal bench after he resigned to make an unsuccessful run as the administration candidate for the senate against Pappy O’Daniel. Senators and representatives feel they are given scant consideration in many executive offices. Yet it is not justifiable retaliation to fix-it so that the only road to advancement, once a government employee is up near $4500 a year; is through the door of a senator’s office. Senators interested in developin; an effective oppt = sition to the administration, and ‘in restoring some of the balance of the government, are naturally alarmed at such hasty and extreme actions as congress is tempted to take in its present mood.

By Eleanor Roosevelt |

a charming and very agreeable group of women. I was deeply interested when Secretary Morgenthau told us all about Cuba’s associations for health and certain types. of education, Some of the old Spanish families founded these associations, * For a monthly payment of $2.50 a man and his

‘family gets complete care and any kind of operation

that is necessary and hospitalization as long as is required for any illness. In addition, these associa-

- tions carry on classes for the benefit of girls who wish

to fit themselves for some particular kind of work; especially in cultural things such as the drama, music and dancing. There is quite a little colony of Cubans, who have settled in Tampa, Fla., and who have established a small association of this same type. Everywhere the contribution to the health and hap‘piness of the people is great. I am learning something every day, but it never occurred to me that at this kind of luncheon I would

need my “short snorter”: Bill." Madame Martins, who|

travels by plane to and from Brazil, asked me if I was a member of this fraternity. When I acknowledged I was, she asked me to sign her kill and produce my own. ‘Luckily for me, there were only two members at the table, the vice president and Secretary Morgenthau, because I had left my bill at home. I had to

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(Fourth of a Series) By DAVID 1 DIETZ

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MAGIC in a hypodermic

difference between life and death for the victim of diabetes, can be purchased today for 50 cents a week. That is what it costs in 1943 to buy enough insulin to treat the

average diabetic.

Nineteen years ago it cost 25 times as much, $12.50 a week, for the

same amount of insulin. The prec

within the reach of the financially well to do. make tremendous sacrifices to get it or to depend on charity.

The story of insulin illustrates sometimes overlooked. The discov disease is not always enough. The available to those who need it. When Dr. Frederick G. Banting and his associates at the University of Toronto achieved their magnificent triumph, the isolation of insulin from the pancreas of animals two decades ago, there were 2,000,000 sufferers from diabetes in this country and equal numbers in other lands. Up to that

moment in January, 1922, when insulin was first

Mr. Dietz tried on human patients, the medical profession was as powerless before the onslaught of diabetes as it had been in the days of ancient Rome. The wasting away of the vic-

tim’s flesh, his unquenchable thirst, his gradual starvation, and his final death in a diabetic coma were as inevitable as in the days when Roman physicians first deseribed them. The problem, therefore, was how to get insulin to these millions of dying. men, women and children in all parts of the world. The answer, of course, was the mass production of insulin,

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Lilly Gets Assignment

THAT TASK was first entrusted by the savants of the University of Toronto to Eli Lilly & Co., distinguished drug manufacturers of Indianapolis. The other day I sat across the desk from Eli Lilly, president of the firm, and listened to -him tell how his organization had kept the trust. “The first year our output of insulin was small and we gave all of it away to the leading hospitals of the nation,” he said. “Because the quantity was small and because so much had to be learned about its proper use, we put it only in the hands of top-flight medical men in nationally known institutions. “The next year we began to sell it but because the output was still small and the cost of production

‘BRONEN JAW ERA’ IN WELFARE ENDS

The state senate yesterday passed and sent to the governor a bill which Senator Harry Chamberlin (R. Indianapolis) said would “end

the broken jaw era” in Marion

county welfare. The bill would transfer from Cir-

cuit Judge Earl Cox to Juvenile Judge Mark Rhoads the appointment power over the county welfare board. Senator Chamberlin said a feud was started several years ago between factions in the county which resulted in the assault on Wayne Coy in the statehouse corridors. He said the “feudists” were generally agreed on the bill and it

looked like the “logical solution” to}

the problem. The senate Democrats voted against the bill but it was passed by a vote of 34 to 11.

BUTTONS FOR REJECTEES' WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 (U. P.).— Legislation authorizing the director of selective service to award lapel buttons to registrants rejected for military service on physical or occupational grounds was introduced in the house yesterday by Rep. 1 Melvin P, Maas (R. Minn.)

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high, we sold it for exactly what it cost. us to produce it. Meanwhile our staff of research men were at work on methods of increasing production, improving the quality of the ‘product and lowering the cost. “The result is that we have Beek able to reduce the price of insulin 15 times in 19 years. Today we sell insulin—-and make .a. fair: profit on the sale—for one twentyfifth of what we were forced. to ask for it 19 years ago when we sold it at cost.” »

Studies Continue

EVEN SO, research on insulin has not stopped at Eli Lilly & Co., and a large force of men in the company’s magnificent research department are constantly working on the problem. “We have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to date trying to find an insulin product that can be administered by mouth,” Mr. Lilly said. “Medical men everywhere are eager to obtain such a form of the product so that the diabetic can be freed of the necessity of using a hypodermic needle. “Therefore, we are working on the problem. But we have no assurance that we shall succeed. There may be inherent reasons why insulin can never be given by mouth. All research is like that. It is a gamble. You spend your money over a period of years with no assurance: that it is ever coming back to you.” Eli Lilly & Co. is .one of a number of important pharmaceutical houses in the United States which devote a considerable portion of their energies and resources to research. : The 10 leading pharmaceutical concerns in the nation spend a total of $8,000,000 to $10,000,000 annually on research. They employ more than 1000 skilled Scientists to carry on this work. Among them are physiologists, pathologists, bacteriologists, biochemists and biophysicists, Nicholas H.

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Prisoners Made U-Boats' Decoys

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 25 (U.P). — Nazi submarine commanders attempting to mislead attacking warships use their torpedo tubes to propel prisoners and even crew members to the surface, a lieutenant of the Royal Canadian navy said today. Lieut. John Rhodes Sturdy, here to act as a technical film adviser, said U-boat commanders “shoot the victim to the surface along with debris and oil in an effort to show that their craft has been destroyed.” “When no prisoners are available, it is believed the sub crews draw lots to. select the one to make the supreme sacrifice, ” he said. “This. trickery at first was de- . ceptive and: subs we thought we had destroyed escaped. But with new sound detecting devices we are able to determine with certainty whether an enemy sub has been destroy:

AUXILIARY TO DINE Mrs. John Sproule, 4530 Crittendon ave, will be hostess to the membership .committee of the

Sapare Grotto auxiliary at a lunch-

Top: Insulin, saver of lives.

vice president and treasurer,

Noyes, vice president and treasurer of Eli Lilly & Co., told me. -

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Aid University Study

° WORK CARRIED on in company laboratories is supplemented by that of fellows in university laboratories and hospitals’ who are maintained ‘by these companies. . Another $1,000,000 a year is spent by these companies in maintaining such fellowships. Director of research at Lilly’s is Dr. George H. A. Clowes, internationally - famous authority on cancer research. From 1901 until 1918 he was a chemist in the New ‘York state cancer laboratory. He pioneered in the study of the spontaneous recovery from cancer in animals. This is a line of research that holds out much promise for the future. If ‘we could find out why these cancers disappear of their own accord in animals, it would be a tremendous step toward the conquest of cancer. Dr. Clowes joined Eli Lilly & Co. in 1918, becoming research director in 1920. The problem just outlined as well as many others of a fundamental nature are being studied under his direction today. Skilled scientists with every facility for research ‘at hand are investigating the: whole problem of cell growth, how the normal cell grows and multiplies, how it “breathes” or utilizes oxygen, how it produces energy. Then these studies are being compared with the behavior of malignant cells in an effort to get some understanding of how cancer can be controlled. FJ

Chinese Joins Staff

AMONG THE men associated with Dr. Clowes is Dr. K. K. Chen who is in charge of pharmacological research. Born in Shanghai, China, Dr, Chen received his scientific trainihg at the University of Wisconsin, returned to his native China to accept a university

FIND BODIES OF JAP WOMEN ON ISLAND

WITH: AMERICAN FORCES ON GUADALCANAL, Feb, 19 (U. P). (Delayed) —The , bodies of three

Japanese ‘women have been found:

on Guadalcanal by troops mopping up the Cape Esperance area, it was learned today. There have been stories of Japanese girls bravely charging into enemy units, or serving as aviators, machine- , Spies and snipers, but these are the first female bodies found on the island. Two of the bodies Jooked as if they had been dead for some time but the third apparently had died less than 48 hours before the Americans captured the area. Scores of unburied Japanese, as well as hundreds of graves, indicated that the buildings were used, as a hospital and the women. probably died of malaria. : It was difficult to aiteriain whether the ‘Women were nurses or “guests” of high’ Japanese officers.

JUGOSLAV OFFICIAL SLAIN LONDON, Feb. 25 (U. P.)—The assassination of Batric Zecevic, police chief of the munitions town of Kragujevac, 60 miles southeast of 5

Below: Typical scene in the research laboratory at Eli Lilly & Cos At the right, top fo bottom: Eli Lilly, president; Dr. G. H. A. Clowes, director of research; Nicholas H. Noyes,

post, then after a few years came back to America once more, He has held his present position since 1929 and did much of the important work to develop the uses of ephedrine, A great many researches which the company is carrying on today .are for. the army and. navy medical departments and, of course, little can be said about these. The laboratory is working on new methods *of preparing blood plasma. It is also studying and producing typhus vaccine. The .value of blood plasma has been amply demonstrated by all thé nations at war. The fact that 96 out of every 100 wounded men

at Pearl Harbor were saved is

ascribed in large part to the use of blood plasma to prevent the condition of low blood pressure and other difficulties known under the general name of shock. The Soviet Union has likewise

testified to the successful use of .

blood plasma in reports of the care of its wounded on the Ger-man-Russian front released by Russian war relief headquarters in New York. Typhus, as is well known, is one of the major medical considerations of the present war and the post-war world. This disease not ‘only had to be dealt with in world war I, but in many regions of Europe after the war. Recently President Roosevelt appointed the United States ‘of America Typhus commission under the direction of Adm. C. S. Stephenson, famous authority on preventive medicine, to deal with ils problem. tJ 2 2 MEMBERS OF Dr. Clowes’ staff are also working upon the problem of developing drugs that can be used in addition to drug plasma for the treatment of shock. What’ might almost be considered a sequel to the story of insulin is the story of liver extract for the treatment of pernicious anemia.

Camp Saves Food For 'Home Front

FT. ORD, Cal, Feb. 25 (U. P.). —=Soldiers tonight started a campaign - to “remember the folks back home” by conserving food. A survey showed 10 per cent of the food: allotted to this army camp could be saved by eliminating waste and issuing rations to soldiers on a day-to-day basis for the number of soldiers actually eating each meal -in mess halls, instead of ‘the previous system of .issuing food for the number of men in each company.

The new plan would eliminate. alloting food to men who are ab-" sent from mess. Maj. Willard C. Ross, mess supervisor, proclaimed: “It is up to

do not make excessive sacrifices

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us to see that the folks back home } to supply the soldiers with food: |

OMAHA, Neb. Feb. 25 (U. P)—|" Capt. Mary Bell, regional director

* When Dr. Banting was working on insulin at the University of Toronto, one of the men in America dying of diabetes was Dr. George R. Minot. The discovery of insulin kept Dr. Minot alive and he went on to discover the liver treatment of pernicious anemia. But eating a half a pound of liver a day was a difficult task for many victims of the disease and some were literally unable to do it. That started many expert medical men, among them Dr. Edwin J. Cohn of the Harvard medical school, Dr. William B.Castle and others on the hunt of a potent extract of liver that - would do the work. And again, the task of putting the extract into mass production was turned over to Eli Lilly & Co.

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Other Fields Cited

ONE MIGHT turn to many other fields in which pharmaceutical houses have made important contributions to bring necessary drugs -or “biologicals” within the reach of people generally. There are, for example, the vitally important fields of hormones and vitamins. ! In many cases, the price of a synthetic vitamin today is from 200 to 600 times: less than the same vitamin concentrated from natural products. A good example is vitamin C, known also as ascorbic acid. This is the vitamin found in orange juice, citrus fruits in general, tomatoes, etc. Pure vitamin C first became available in 1934 and because there is so little in one piece of fruit, the price of the stuff was $213 an ounce. Today, synthetic vitamin C, chemically indistinguishable from the natural product, can be obtained for $1.65 an ounce. Natural vitamin Bl originally

- sold for $300 a gram. Today + synthetic vitamin B1 is 53 cents a

gram.

TOMORROW: Aluminum.

W: The Age of 3 Je RECRUIT DOGS FOR ARMY

SOUTH BEND, Feb. 25 (U. P.).— A concerted drive to recruit dogs for army ‘service: will be started im

northern Indiana next week, the

newly formed South’ Bend chapter

of Dogs for Defense, Inc. announced ae

today.

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