Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 November 1943 — Page 17
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‘May Be Solved by Surgery|
By DAVID DIETZ "Times Special Writer « CLEVELAND, Nov.
25.~New hope cases with marked improvement in
Dr. Pay, in a report to the Ameri {can Neurological society, told of performing the operation in three
{Says Shortage Could Be
NURSES 10 HELP,
of the spinal cord that killed Lou Gehrig, famous first baseman of thé New York Yankees, in 1041, is seen in a new surgical operation developed by Dr. Temple Fay of the : medical school,
for the-victims of the rare disease two of them.
The affliction is due to a deterioration of certain cells in the spinal cord. Because they are the same cells involved in infantile paralysis, some investigators have thought a virus must cause the disease. but
Danger to War Program. WASHINGTON, Nov, 25 (U. P).
~War Manpower Chief Paul V, McNutt said yesterday the shortage of
garded as hopeless in the past.
The* disease is known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Cdses do not occur, often but have been re-
this has never been proved,
nurses on the fighting and home
Paralysis Is Warning i The. disease begins with paralysis | of various muscles, frequently the | arms. As the deterioration creeps
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rup-the spinal cord it finally amt el Done { the base of the brain, paralyzing the | | centers that control swallowing, ! | breathing and other vital functions. ' Death ensues at this point, Dr. Fay's technique is based upon the theory that the disease is caused { by pressure put upon the spinal L-eord by the development of- varieose; | veins. within it - ~The backbone or spinal column is | made up of & series of bonés known | las the spinal vertebrae. They are ‘hollow, The spinal cord lies within ithe hollow interior of the spinal] column, the so-called spinal cord.
I Veins Become Blocked
“According to Dr. Fay, the net- | work ‘of veins in the spinal cord! in rare cases fails to function prop‘erly. The result is that the veins | | swell and dilate and become clogged with blood. This ‘causes pressure upon the spinal cord which is con-| fined within the spinal canal. result is the deterioration of "the jcells, with ensuing paralysis. |" The operation consists in cutting |slots. in the three upper vertebrae
the pressure on the spinal cord. -. Dr, Louis Karnosh, associate clinical professor of nervous diseases of | the Western Reserve university] school of medicine and resident! psychiatrist of the Cleveland City “hospital, said today that he was so} impressed with Dr.. Fay's . results that he would recommend the operation if a suitable case presented | itself.
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RESIGNATIONS HALT | | ~ MILITARY DRAFTING
| JACKSON, Miss, Nov. 25 (U. P.) | —Col. Lawrence Long, state director | of Mississippi selective service, said | today that there had been no men! inducted for military service from Alcorn county, Miss., since October! 2, when the county's three draft | ‘board members resigned. The members, Clarence J. Knight, | Lyman Burge Mitchell, and Arthur! R. Messmer, .along with District | ‘Supervisor Charles-Dick, and Arnsld. | Jobe, are, under federal indictment
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“No men have been inducted from - the county—of ‘which Corinth is| the county seat—simply because we! have no board there,” Colonel Long |
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WASHINGTON, Nov, 25 (U. —Chairman David I. Walsh Mass.) says that the: senate naval
lot the spinal column‘so as to release |
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fronts may become so acute as to interfere with the war program. His appraisal was contained in an accouncement of a nationwide registration of all graduate nurses to be conducted in the second week’ of February as a move toward mobilizing nurses for wartime needs. McNutt said heihoped that every
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‘affairs committee would make a day that Mps. Eleanor Rooscevit will] favorable report tomorrow on his{ emerge as. the Democratic party's bill authorizing 2,500,000 additional candidate for president. tons of auxiliary vessels and 1,000, | Mrs. Gray, who is visiting Mr. and 000 more tons of landing craft for| Mrs. H. L. Trovillion, Herrin, for
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| the avy. They wold cost $5,300,- - | Thanksgiving, based her prediction jon the theory that “the women will
wailch out, He's a constant re- [service of WMC with the ald of | minder - that the holiday spirit 25,000 members of the American] shouldn't enlist you in the army |meeical association's women's auxili- | fighting for inflation which would dry. f be a record New Year's headache. | “Nurses are desperately needed, "| McNutt said. “The shortage of] |nurses, both on the home and fightEUR PE DISEASE ing front, has created a serious situ‘ation that might easily become acute! to the extent of interfering with the | {war program, It is estimated that! {this country has close to 400,000 |graduate nurses, but only about half | ‘of them are now in active practice —~with 40,000 in the armed forces! International Committee Is , and 170,000 in civilian nursing. 0, |remainder, approximately 200,000, . Proposed to Direct {have given up “nursing.” Rehabilitation. | ' ATLANTIC CITY, Nov. 25 (U.P). U. S. GHOST SHIPS | —The united nations relief and rehabilitation conference subcommit- PUSH TOWARD IAPS tee on health and medical care yes-| terday urged the creation-of an in-| ApoARD U8. AIRCRAFT CAR- | ternational standing committee to map UNRRA's plan for driving the RIER, Off Gilbert Islands, Nov. 16 hidden enemy of disease from Eu- (Delayed) (U. P.).—Several of the | Folie along’ with axis armies.: {great battle wagons. the Japanese | * report prepared under “the thought they knocked out- forever] chairmanship. of Surgeon General at Pearl Harbor are in actin ini. Thies, Parran also proposed that this theater, it can be revealed to--member governments of the dav. oli conference assign technical | health people to prepare for re-| Gilbert islands to challenge the habilitating the maimed, the'under- | Japanese fleet along, with the nourished and those suffering from greatest carrier force ever put to“conditions of anxiety, fear and gether under-any flag on any sea. { emotional disturbances.” The last| Not only fully repaired, they have condition was said to be common even been modernized -to ' match | among children and youths of the their newer counterparts that are occupied lands, {moving - in 20-mile-long lines over A responsible authority said that | ‘the ocean, while crews sing “Good | the $2,500,000,000 figure frequently Bye,’ Mamma, I'm Off to Yokomentioned ad the goal of UNRRA hama.” { had never been an iron-c)ad object] (The dispatch did not identify tive and that the actual sum raised | the vessels. The battleships dam- | probably would be about $2,000,000,- | {aged at Pearl Harbor were the | 000. The ire, States’ share was Tennessee, West, Virginia, Cali5 re Si Colds At a CRAIN Pennsylvania and Maryland.) Predicts Democrats to Run Mrs. Roosevelt for President HERRIN, Ill, Nov. - w! ‘py. = elect the next president and it takes Mrs, Grace A. Gray, only woman Ohne woman to understand another woman.” Asked whether she would vote for {| Mrs, Roosevelt, she replied that “it depends on whom the ‘Republicails nominate.” Mrs, Gray was defeated by Emil Wetten for the Republican nomination for mayor of Chicago in 1935.
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REV. B. R. HUBBARD WILL LECTURE HERE
The Rev, Bernard R. Hubbard is scheduled to lecture in the initial program of the Bernadette forum at Howe high school auditorium at
8 p. m. tomorrow, Father Hubbard, just "back. from Attu island, has chosen “The Aleutian Battleground” He is also expected to relate many
far North. Several reels pf colored
lecture. The forum is being conducted under the sponsorship - of the Mothers club of Our Lady of Lourdes church. The programs are open to the public.
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