Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 April 1943 — Page 17
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ONCAS ATTACKS
Chemists"Say Axis Probably|
- Will Aim at Our ~ Cities. By DR. FRANK THONE Science Service Staff Writer DETROIT, April 14—As the,
ring of inevitable defeat tightens|
around the axis, these world bandits may be expected to become reckless as well as desperate in the means = they. use in trying to break their way out. - ’ Poison gas attacks on civil populations as well as at the front can definitely be expected.
At a special session of the Ameri-|
fense and proper protective measures were outlined. It is quite possible, even probable, that our enemies have chemical warfare agentes not hitherto used in
Civilian Defense, told the meeting. They'll Be Bad
‘While scarehead stories of a couple ‘of decades ago, abouf chemicals so deadly that a few pints would wipe out a city, must be discounted, the new gases will unquestionably be bad enough. ° ..» Moreover, means for making improved over the : comparatively crude techniques of world war I. It is therefore necessary for chemists charged with our defensive measures to use their wits to the utmost, to forestall surprise as far as pos- . sible’and to be ready with an appropriate parry for any chemical thrust by our foes. Col. Gibson also demonstrated two “sniff sets” for identifying poison made by two leading perfume manufacturers, The compounds used are harmless, but they smell like the real stuff.
Panic Is Worse
Panic is feared even more than poison gas by these charged with the defense of the civil population against chemical attacks, Prof. Chauncey D. Leake of the University of Texas stated. People do not know about war gases, and they are afraid of them; but, “Tell the people the truth about war gases and they will probably respect them more and fear them less,” he said.
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NEW DELHI, April 14 (U. P.).— Soldiers of fortune flying the commercial airlines to Ching with supplies from the United States are returning these days with tales of baseball-size hail which punches holes in their metal-skinned ships and violent drafts which drive their planes upwards. and then down thousands of feet a minute. These are the pre-monsoon conditions over the 16,000 to 18,000 “foothills” of the Himalayas, which the fliers describe as the toughest they ever encountered. The other day Capt. Alec K. Gingiss, of Chicago, stepped out of his battered twin-engined transport. He sagged wearily against the plane and said “look at that wreck. Hail this big, doubling his fist, did that. It knocked off my radio loop, broke my landing lights,
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uwho was bern on “Independence day,” July 4, 1942. The tiny prince
at home,
Hail-Stones Pierce Wings of Planes on China Supply Line
cracked the window panels, dented the wings and punched holes in the tail. “How I ever got out of that alive is more than I know.” Gingiss came to India to fly commercially six months ago -after more than a year in England as member of the air transport auxiliary of the RAF ferry command. “I've flown all over the United States, the Atlantic and Britain, but I never saw anything like the weather in this part of the world.” Capt. Joseph Genovese, 31, of Brooklyn, N. Y., said a downdraft once caught him and drove his plane downwards so suddenly the cargo brbke loose from the ropes and hit the ceiling of the cargo compartment. Almost at the same time, an up-draft caught him and the load hit the floor so hard it burst the floor-boards.
Protection against gas attacks on’ _eitjes does not involve such elaborate equipment as is sometimes imagined, Prof. Leake pointed out. Gas masks and gas-proof clothing are not needed by everyone, but only by special workers who are likely to be directly exposed.
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i is not ‘necessary for practical purposes to learn the exact identity of a gas that falls on your neighborhood, although it may be helpiul in carrying out decontamination. Our food as well as our persons must be defended against chemical “attacks, Dr. Morris B. Jacobs of the -New York City Health department pointed out. Well packaged foods, in containers of metal, glass, thick waxed paper, multiple cellulose sheeting or .the like, have little to fear from war chemicals, but loose or ill packaged foods are not safe to use after contamination. They may be salvaged, but it takes an expert to do it with assurance of safety. Top floors and basements are the danger points in a chemical attack, the-speaker continued; poorly protected foods should never be stored in either place. Food is safe in a tight refrigerator—but the chance of the poison gas being drawn in
By Science Service WASHINGTON, April 14. — New evidence that man lived in California some 10,000 or more years ago and feasted upon animals long since extinct has been unearthed through excavations in central San Joaquin valley to be reported in the forthcoming issue of the journal, Science, by Dr. Gordon W. Hewes, now in Washington, D. C. Conditions at the site near Transquillity, Fresno county, Cal., strongly suggest to Dr. Hewes that the carcasses of now extinct mammals were brought there by hunters of the group who built fires, buried its dead and made the numerous stone and bone artifacts (tools) which have been found in the deposit. The bgnes of the extinct American camel, horse and bison occur along with bones of species still living in the San Joaquin valley and these are broken in such a way that they show they had been used for
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HAVING A BABY IS A \ PROBLEM
And it is the one problem we make no pretense of being able to solve completely. The most skilled corsetiere in the world couldn’t do that. But we can do quite a bit bout dt and that bit is just as
healthful as it is successful. In the first place, foo many women are too careless about their corseting at this critical time. Some are careless through ignorance, They don’t know that there are designed corsets that are helpful for them to wear. Others are de- - featists in the maiter.. They just "decide that they are going to look awful and resign themselves to do"ing nothing at all about it. Still others consider it ‘unimportant. They feel it is natural for their figures to lose their slim, lovely lines and that jo amount of corseting is going “to do them any good. Some few are old-fashioned about it and think corseting is harmful at such a time. Some, of course, are on the lazy side, They * don't want to be bothered with a they wish they
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No Meat Shortage for Men Who Lived 10,000 Years Ago
Four human skeletons were found
Lones, as well as those of animals, were very. heavily mineralized so
increased hardness. Scientific interest in the site arises particularly from the human
same level of the earth as the tools and extinct animal skeletons. There is little likelihood of further work on the site until after the war, but Dr. Hewes points out that if the animals and human beings did live at the same early time, anthropologists ‘will be able to establish the way the early Indian population of North America really looked, which it has not yet been possible to do. No age in years was assigned to the site by Dr. Hewes but the ani-
it was probably inhabited at about the time of transition from the Pleistocene geological period to what is known as the Recent, a time about 10,000 to 15,000 years ago.
WAR PRISONERS IN GERMANY TO. WORK
Times Special Some 250,000 French war prison-
~ |ers in Germany will be given “cap-
danger of falling from over-balangce. it keeps the muscles from
will and ‘presents a pleasing Sppeaiance
throughout a very trying time Ie Jou ais tavies a baby, won't
tivity leave” to work in the slavelabor battalions in Nazi war factories, the Paris radio said yesterday.
Chief of State Pierre Laval and German labor gauleiter Fritz Sauckel, calls for the prisoners to receive the same “freedom of action” and wages as workers shipped from France, the broadcast said. The U. S. government's foreign broadcast intelligence service recorded the broadcast.
POST-WAR PLANNERS TO HEAR DR. REED
Prospective members of Mayor Tyndall's postwar planning committee will hear Dr, Thomas H. Reed, consultant for the National Municipal league, at a meeting Friday noon at the Indianapolis Athletic club. Mayor. Tyndall today said he had invited about 25 civic leaders and business and professional men to confer on formation of a group "| which will attempt to alleviate laproblems after the war by mapand| ng a comprehensive public improvement’ program.
has withheld acceptance of the post pending appoiniment ot other
HOOSIER FLIER xen SAVANNAH, Ga., April 14 (U. P).
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that they are now twice the weight} of ordinary dry bone and of greatly |
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NORRIS WILL SPEAK AT I. U. GRADUATION
‘Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., April 14.—
university stadium on the afternoon of April 22, Mr. Norris is a graduate of Vale | paraiso university. Approximately 400 students will receive degrees at this, the third graduating ceremony of its kind since the accelerated wartime program was put inte effect at I. U.
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