Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 March 1944 — Page 2

By Science Service

URVIVES RAIDS, : Ted Cures of-usually fatal brain § CHICAGO, March 2—La tes t/fections in three patients trea .

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:Bombs Failed to Hit Ships,

!serfous illness to yield to penicillin Wi treatment i secondarily infected amebic abscess of the liver. Recovery of the patient-after penitillin had been injected into the abscess is reported by Dr. Paul H. Noth and {Dr. John Winslow Hirshfeld, of

But Torpedoes Didn't.

\ Seaman 1-¢ Carl O. Creech, Bul

fssue of the Journal of the American Medical Association here. This issue of the medical journal might be called the penicillin num-

“ner on a merchant marine P| per, since the bulk of the reports ‘who underwent a two-hour air at-| to OYE on this subject.

tack in the Mediterranean, only to “have his ship- sunk two months “later, is visiting his parents, Mr. “and Mrs. C. R. Creech, 17 N, Ee ave. “ With him is Seaman 1-c Louis | Vaughan, son of Mrs. Gladys! . Vaughan, 1125. Park ave. The: two Indianapolis bluejackets, who have been together since the day they enlisted, | Oct. 5, 1942, have | shared a 10-month trip around the world which they F 3 ] dubbed ‘a “pleacE sure trip,” a six-| . Seaman Creech nny, trip to taly, the sinking of their ship and -garthquakes, without injury. ha

Part of Convoy

on the trip to Italy, their ship, part of a convoy, was one of the targets of an air attack from Ger‘man bomber and torpedo planes, | “ “We were lucky; the ship wasn't hit and no one was injured,” Seaman Creech said. + Two months later, about 20 miles from -shore, a German submarine got in two direct hits. The boys, after spending several hours in the water, were reunited when an English patrol boat picked them up and took them to a rest camp in Naples, where six earth” quakes shook the buildings. Seaman Creech is a former employee of the circulation department of The Times and "Seaman . Vaughan worked at the Intérnational Harvester Co. They will report to New York for reassignment,

aA Lt. Hawekotte Lt.- Stowell

Two. Indianapolis men, Lts. James Hawekotte and Aubrey L. Stowell Jr. were graduated as navigators and second lieutenants at Hondo field, Tex., recently. Lt. Hawekotte is the son of Mr. and Mrs, Everett | H. Hawekotte, 717 E. 40th st, and! Lt. Stowell, formerly of 2004 Pros- | pect st, is the son of Mr. and Mrs.’ Aubrey IL. Stowell Sr. of Lansing, Mich.

P. Breedlove R. Huls

Twe Indianaapolis men, LTS. PAUL L BREEDLOVE JR, and ROY F. HULS, are now rated as “girplane commanders” upon completion of an intensive four-engine bomber pilot course at Liberal field, Kas. Lt. Breedlove is f@merly of 1108 N. Dearborn st, and Lt. Huls, is formerly of 3102 Ruckle ave,

E. Allen R. Kendall

SGT. EUGENE D. ALLEN is visiting his mother, Mrs. Mary Allen, 2931 W. 10th st. He will return to.Camp Hood, Tex., where he is stationed in a tank destroyer unit, ’

ROBERT M. KENDALL, aviation cadet, son of Mrs. P. M. Kendall of Crothersville, is at Carlsbad, -N. M., for advanced flight training in bombardiering and. navigation. His wife, . Mrs. Margaret L. Kendall, lives in Vincenn®ae

E. Atkins | H. Robértson

EDWARD R. ATKINS, son of Mr, and Mrs. C. E. Atkins, 6021 Carrollton ave, sergeant major at headquarters of the 80th flying navigating training wing, San Maf©08, Tex, has been promoted to master gergeant. A brother, Lt.

Shirley D. Atkins, is a flying in-#

structor at Shaw field, 8. C. |] HAROLD E. ROBERTSON, {son of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Robertson, 64 BE. LeGrande ave, has been pro-

moted to specialist gunner third |

with penicillin at Lawson General Hospital are reported by Capt. Albert I. Evans, M. C., A. U. 8, Staphylococcus germs were responsible for the meningitis in two cases «nd pneumonia germs in the third.

Need for more knowledge of how

gE wayne University —Coliege of -Medi~ tng mold-chemicat “lene, Detroit, in the. forthcoming

-achieves-its-cures and of the best methods and doses foy use in treating patients is stressed in reports by Dr. Martin Henry Dawson and Dr. Gladys L. Hobby, of New York; Dr. Wallace E. Herrell of the Mayo Clinic; Dr. Arthur L. Bloomfield, Dr. Lowell A.

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Chicago, “The most urgent problem” Dr. , Dubos states and Dr, Keefer Te-

more and more .antiseptics, but the definition of. that property or more

agent will retain its antimicrobial activity in the presence of animal tissues without injury to the latter.”

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already available, JESSE STUART, AWAITS CALL

| GREENUP, Ky. March 2 (U.P). ~—Jesse Stuart, 36, author ‘of the

current best selling book’ “Taps for Private - Tussle,” has passed lis pre-induction physical examination

and is awaiting call for army serv- - “Every grand

ice, it was disclosed today.

PREFERS WORKHOUSE TO WOMAN'S PRISON

m - 8ST, PAUL; Minn, March 2 (U. P.). “District Judge Carlion ¥. McNally ;

today sentenced Wilhelmena Douglas, 20, to up to five years in the

Shakopee women’s reformatory for |

‘slashing an Indian in a tavern brawl.

Miss Douglas’ lawyer pleaded that Lher-sentence be changed -to-a-year

in the Ramsey county workhouse, “Why that would be the most unfair sentence I. could give,” the

judge said, “Our workhouse, to put. "

it mildly, is not in good shape. Srand jury zoe te law 1»

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