Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 April 1943 — Page 14

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TESTING FEARED

Nelson Warns That Effort For Perfection May Slow Output.

BOARD AT COLUMBUS COLUMBUS, O., April 16 (U, P.). -~Three Bartholomew county draft board members who resigned. because of alleged “inconsistericies” in selective service regulations, offered today to ald draft officials in organizing a new local board.

TRAILER TRANSFUSIONS The San Francisco Red Cross blood procurement center: uses an automobile trailer to carry a staff

John E. Summa, an attorney; |of eight doctors and nurses anyFrank Metzler, bank cashier, and {where within 50 miles to accept conFrank Aldenhagen, farmer, offered | tributions of blood for plasma banks.: NP

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: White Plague on March in Wartorn Europe and 10

Million Persons May Be Affected by The Time Peace Comes."

By JANE STAFFORD Science Service Medical Writer Tuberculosis is on the march again. In Europe, war has

already broken the barriers man painfully built through the

Years against this disease.

Reports show an upward swing of cases as the White Plague claims more and more victims. By the time the war is over 10,000,000 persons in Eu-

rope will be affected, it is predicted. Here in America, medical and health authorities are determined

to hold this war plague at bay.

First and foremost weapon they are using in the fight is the X-ray which shows, before any other sign, when the tuberculosis germ has

taken up residence in the lungs and started to brew trouble. “ Since the spring of 1942, every man going into service in the armed forces has had his chest X-rayed before induction.

X-Ray Soldiers

“Tuberculosis authorities want this example followed by the civilian population, the millions of men too

old or too young for service in the armed forces and needed in essential work at home and the 40,000,000 women who are serving their country as workers or homemakers, or both. The reason for urging X-ray examinations of the chests of every person in the nation is that such examination shows tuberculosis in its earliest stage, when it is most easily cured and before it has had a chance to spread to another person. ; Rod-Shaped Germ

Tuberculosis is caused by a very Small, rod-shaped germ.” These germs are very fussy about the places in which they live. Their favorite residence site, apparently, is the lungs, though in about five out of 100 times they may take up residence in some other organ of the body. They are also slow-action germs, taking a full day to complete a full cycle of reproduction, for example, whereas pneumonia germs require only 20 minutes for this process. Similarly, the sickness caused by the tuberculosis germs may take years to develop, in contrast with only a few days for the pneumonia germs. Whether it is the tuberculosis or the pneumonia germs that invades, the body fights back with

able to kill all the invading germs. Scars of, healed tuberculosis,| marking the body’s victory over the invading germs, can be seen On millions of chest X-ray pictures. More often, however, instead of victory for the body's germ-resist-ing forces, there is an armed truce. Both sides fight to” a standstill, with the body unable to kill all the germs and the germs unable to make headway. The state’ of balance between body resistance and germs, however, can be upset in many ways. You can easily see how war, which overcrowds living quarters, street cars and busses and even work places, increases the chances for tuberculosis germs to get from one person to another. Equally obvious are all the warcaused strains, the worry and the difficulty of getting an adequate diet which singly or together may weaken resistance and upset the balance between the tuberculosis germs and the body’s fighting forces. in favor of the germs. The cost of tuberculosis in manhours lost alone is given in figures from the National Tuberculosis association:

160 GRADUATED

Received Intensive Training In Electrical Work at Purdue.

Times Special LAFAYETTE, Ind, April 16.— More than 160 bluejackets who have successfully completed 16 weeks intensive’training in preparation for duty as naval electricians graduated yesterday from the naval training school at Purdue university. The eighth company arrived at Purdue on Christmas eve from the ‘|naval training station at Great Lakes, Ill. During the past four 22,000,000 a Year months they have attended classes , “Tuberculosis sanatoria are giv-|daily on the Purdue campus in. elecing more than 22,000,000 patient|trical theory, electrical laboratory, days of treatment yearly: tuber-jtool laboratory, wiring laboratory culosis divisions of hospitals giveland mathematics. As part of their about 6,000,000. These figures,|training they worked with all types added to the man-days required|of electrical marine installations to take care of patients by doc-|used aboard ship. tors, nurses, cooks and janitors,|] The naval training program at make a grand total of over 40,-|Purdue, which began in June, 1942, 000,000 man-days yearly.” is supervised by Don Scott, assisted This is enough time to build 160[by a staff of 35 instructors. More destroyers, or 940 flying fortresses,| than 800 men are in constant trainor 8000 combat planes, or 16,000|ing at the station.

AT NAVY SCHOOL

all its force and may in time be

light tanks.

| SEEK TO END STRIKE HARLAN, Ky. April 18 (U. P). — Officials of the United Mine Workers sought today to end an unauthorized strike of 900 miners which has halted operations at three southeastern Kentucky coal mines. Robert Hodge, secretary of U. M. W. district 19, met with leaders of the walkout last night but

Times Special CAMP ATTERBURY, Ind. April 18.—Some of the Atterbury military police are in the dog house. They are the four-legged type, dogs that have been donated to the army to help do sentry duty and conserve manpower. : Twenty-four of these capable watchmen have arrived at the camp and are now receiving quarters and rations from the military police section of the 156th service unit. Soon they will be doing regular duty with the amen in the unit. The . history of these canine watchmen is an interesting one. Every dog in tke group formerly was someone’s pet; but now is in the army, has had basic training and some specialized training, and is just as much a soldier as the men in khaki. It has been found that one man and one dog doing sentry duty can replace. six men on the job—due to the super-sen-sitive hearing and sight of the dogs. Donated to the service, every dog is at least 18 inches high at the shoulders and weighs 50 pounds or more. Each dog has been trained at Ft. Robinson, Neb. and no matter how gentle he might have been when he entered the army, he would attack his former owner now if the sentry holding his leash told him to do so. A dog's basic training lasts six weeks and teaches him to be obedient to his master at all times. Then comes the “agitation” training for two weeks. During this time, the dog is taught to bite and fight in typical “commando” style—all the while being obedient to the soldier

"| specting” is the basic need.

Beached during the naval battle of November, 1942, this Japanese ship lies, half sunken, along the shore of Guadalcanal. Hundreds of wrecked Jap vessels are strewn along the beaches of the jatand, grim reminders of the fierce battles that took place there. :

German Shepherds Are on Sentry Duty at Atterbury

each four dogs during his training period, and this man goes with the dogs to their destination where they will do guard duty. While on guard] duty the canines are kept on the leash at all times. Each dog has his own kennel here where he eats and sleeps. A dispensary is now being built and equipped for the dogs, which must be kept in top condition. Keeping them that way will be part of the job of Capt. Vaughn D, Ishee, camp veterinarian. Supervising the work of the dogs and their trainers is Sgt. Jack Brodbeck.

NEW YORK IS FACING 90 MEAT SHORTAGE

NEW YORK, April 16 (U. P.).— New York housewives may have to plan many of ‘their meals in the next few weeks without meat and potatoes, market authorities warned today. The second meat shortage in less than a month loomed in the New York area reduced . consumer demand since point rationing was ef-

fected. The government bureau of markets reported reduced supplies

WASHINGTON, April 16 (U. P.). —War Production Board Chairman Donald M. Nelson, alarmed by a drop in production of steel plate, today called on the government and industry to avoid imposition of an over-zealous system of testing and inspection ‘which might cripple the entire production program. In a telegram to the heads of all steel plate mills, Nelson said “honest good judgment in testing and in-

“By all means let us make sure that the plates sent to the yards will give us ships which deserve the confidence of seamen and the nation itself,” he said. “By all means also let us avoid the danger of delaying the entire program by a blind, unthinking insistence on unattainable perfection.” Production of steel plate was said to have slumped after the senate war investigating committee disclosed that about 5 per cent of gteel plate produced at the Irvin Works a8 subsidiary of Carnegi-Illinois Steel, had been improperly tested. A federal grand jury in Pittsburgh is considering that case. CarnegieIllinois officials admitted before the senate committee that Irvin works steel plate had been improperly tested. They said that the persons involved had been dismissed.

MICHIGAN AGED FACE LOSS OF. FUND AID

LANSING, Mich., April 16 (U. P.). —Michigan may receive no federal old-age assistance funds in the next fiscal year if an error in the amended state old age assistance act passed by the 62nd legislature is not corrected. Fedele F. Fauri, director of the state bureau of social security, said today that because the word “not” was misplaced in the measure, the bill would deny instead of grant state old age assistance benefits to the needy.

SACK OF MAIL DROPS FROM SKY TO HOME

ALTOONA, Pa. (U. P.).—Walter E. Piper had heard of air mail service but he was overwhelmed when a pouch of mail dropped out of the sky into his backyard in the early morning. Piper learned later that fasteners on an air mail pickup plane accidentally loosened and released the

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Can Collection Breaks Record

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THE APRIL tin can collection completed yesterday netted a total of 24 carloads of the metal from the Indianapolis area, Luther E. Tex, street commissioner, announced today. “This collection is more than double the biggest monthly collection so far,” continued Mr. Tex. ‘The total tonnage will exceed 350 tons of tin shipped from our loading docks this week, while the former record was 172 tons gained from the February drive.” The date of the next collection will be determined by the mayor's committee after an analysis of the April drive,

REPORT DISCOVERY OF PLOT IN SARDINIA

By UNITED PRESS

The Moscow radio said today that Sardinia has been placed under a state of emergency following discovery of a plot to resist fortification of the island against an allied invasion. ; The broadcast, reported by the office of war information, said Italian police arrested three members of an anti-government organization on Sardinia, but admitted that they had failed to “discover either the central body of the society or any of its sections.” Sardinia“is one of the main axis supply bases for the Tunisian front and is expected to play an important part in any allied invasion of South Europe. -

NAZIS ARREST 30 IN NORSE PLATEAU AREA

By UNITED PRESS : The Nazis have arrested 30 persons in the blockaded Hardanger Vidda plateau area of Norway in their search for parachutists be-| & lieved to have been landed from| British planes, the OWT said today, quoting the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet. The 30 were suspected of aiding the parachutists, the newspaper reported. The population of the plateau area was said to have been] forced to stay within a blockaded | zone for two weeks while the Nazis conducted a systematic search that ‘turned up some explosives.

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