Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 May 1944 — Page 8

going down under the wealth of eggs, green beans, lettuce, carrots, potatoes and spinach on hand. Clothes prices are goingup, with women's spring coats in "the lead. Cotton dresses .and rayon stockings are higher. Dinoh space ing room and bedroom sets cost available. You'll get more butter, | more because lower-priced lines po, a the new low 2-point value |-are scarce. Brooms are up, with - low-cost ones disappearing. . Lend Butter Points Of course when you need a .- OPA is lending points to whole- broom, a dozen eggs won't do, but salers who can cram butter into | it's something to ponder when you storage spade for later lean days. | are choosing where to skimp on Your milk man will have as | your budget.

See New Penicillin Drug as Boon to Medical Science

By Science Service Sah SAN FRANCISCO, May 1.—The penicillin family of germ-discourag-ing compounds secreted by the lowlier representatives of the plant king- * dom has a new member named chlorellin, which is unique in that it is the first of the group to be found in a green plant able to manufacture its own food out of natural raw materials. All previously discovered compounds, including penicillin,’ are made. by molds, soil bacteria, and

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plied with ready-made foods in the form of glucose solutions or. the like, This point promises to be of ex-

. : {tremely great practical significance ; X if it is found practicable to use : chlorellin for medical purposes. All : t

(the producing plants need is water, |a few assorted mineral salts, and a

Fine Network of Hospitals supply of carbon dioxide bubbled

(through' the tanks in which they|"

Established in Britain

: "Announcement of chlorellin’s adFor Americans.

vent is made .. the forthcoming By HELEN KIRKPATRICK Times. Foreign Correspondent

issue .of Science, by a group of 12 {scientists who have been at work {on the problem for a year and a

proved for the boarding of children whose home life for various reasons has been disrupted.

Roell, chairman of the child wel-

offering homes-as a result of the board-a-child campaign last fall.

boarding of children, 116 were -rejected and 217 withdrawn.

STREET LIGHTING TO BE DISCUSSED

Improved street lighting as a phase of post-war traffic safety will be discussed by E. B. Karns of the wi Electric and Manufacturing Co., at a luncheon meeting at 12:15 p. m. Friday in the Indianapolis athletic club. Co-sponsors of the luncheon aré the Indianapolis: Chamber of Commerce safety council, Indianapolis P.-T. A. council, Electric e of Indianapolis, the Illuminating Engineering society and the Indiana Electric association.

M. I. T. DEAN TO SPEAK

Walter R. MacCormack, dean of the school of architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will discuss “America’s New Frontier” at the Rotary club luncheon at 12:15 p. m. tomorrow'in the Claypool hotel.

Seventy-five Indianapolis and

The report, made by Mrs. Helen P.

fare section of the Council of So-| ' cial Agencies, showed: 684 persons| .

Of the 584 homes offered for|

month. They will require considcide now whether they will have room for the growing of these vegetables. Plant in hills at least three feet by three feet.

The following vegetable crops may go in the garden this week: snap beans, cabbage, carrot, kale, lettuce, onion, parsnip, summer’ squash, radish, salsify, spinach, New Zealand spinach, Swiss chard and tomato, As a control measure for the European corn borer wait until May 20 to May 30 to plant sweet corn. - .

ing late May for transplanting in late June. Walt until late June or early July to seed Chinese ‘cabbage.

4 TO RETIRE FROM |p. Agnes E. Wells of the mathe-

{matics department and former dean INDIANA U. FACULTY jot women; Mrs, Myrtle E. Stempel,

Four Indiana university faculty head of the comparative philology members will retire at the end of department, and Miss Adda L. Frathe fiscal year, June 30. They are ley, instructor and critic teacher in

Dr. C. E Edmondson, dean of men; elementary school work.

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to it as “thought enemy distributed a two-panel cartoon portraying a Japanese version of “a slick Yank” wooing Australian “sweet toots.” . The

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thalf. LONDON, May 1.—In medical as . > . | A Common Organism In other fields the United States} The producing crganism is a very army will have the benefit of €X- common one-celled fresh-water alga perience gained in the Pacific, known as chlorella. The investigatNorth Africa and Italy to give cas- ing scientists used cultures of two

~~ Between these bases, or general!

ualties the best possible care in the

combat area and behind the lines. Two years in Britain have en- ' abled United States medical authorities to build up a fine network of hospitals, staffed with some of America’s leading specialists. hospitals, and evacuation hospitals in the field there will be the most modern means of communication. "In addition to many hospital trains built by the British from their rolling . stock, for American use, there will be a considerable] number ‘of wounded evacuated by | air. Blood Banks-Available

species of this lowly plant, chlorella ~ vulgaris and chlorella pyrenoidosa. After growing masses of the|: cells in five-gallon tanks, they filtered off the plants and treated the] water chemically to ‘extract whatever compound might have béen left in it. In its -crude-extract condition, chlorellin is a brown stuff, sometimes tacky and gummy, sometimes hard and brittle, Tried out in solution on test cultures of several kinds of bacteria,

chlorellin produced effects much] - like those of penicillin, checking the |-

growth of such. organisms as streptococcus and staphylococcus. The researchers even, suggest that chlo.

rellin may actually kill-the germs,|. One great advance in medical fa- whereas the utmost that has ever cilities is a system of blood banks, been claimed for penicillin andg-re-which will enable forward field lated compounds is that they are units, mobile surgical teams and bacteriostatic: that ris, that they evacuation hospitals to have whole (heck growth and weaken the germs, blood. | making it possible for other agenTrucks with refrigeration, flying cies (usually the white ‘blood correfrigerators and ships with facili-|puscles) to finish them off. ties for storing whole blood will keep Crude Thus Far front line units supplied with this] The investigators make ft- plain]. vital aid to surgery. None of these! that chlorellin is still far from the features were present in North Af- point of large-scale production:and rica or Italy, with the result that! practical use in medicine, The exhospitals had to draw on their own! tracts thus far obtained are crude, - staffs and service troops in the area and the concentration in the plants’ for blood transfusions. {growth water is thin and uneven. A Plasma is of enormous help in great deal of additional research is nourishing the wounded who are still needed, they emphasize. suffering from shock, but in modern! The communication in Science is war where injuries are far more! signed by Robertson Pratt, T. C. serious than ever before, nothing! Daniels, John J. Eiler, J, B. Gunnican replace whole blood. (son, W. D. Kumler, John F, Oneto The United States army's hospital and Louis"A. Strait, all of the Uniprogram in the British isles consists | versity of California's college of of three types of hospitals: { pharmacy here, and by H. A. 1. Those hospitals taken over from Spoehr,'G. J. Hardin, H. W. Millner, the British, ——|J. H. C. Smith and: H. ‘H. Strain, 2. New and permanent army camps Of the Carnegie Institation of built by former War Secretary Sir| Washington's division of plant biol- « Leslie Hore-Belisha, which are par-|0gy, with laboratories at Stanford ticularly adaptable to hospital pur-. university. : poses, | — 3. Those hospitals specially built SCHEDULE RAIL HEARINGS for U. 8. army Gse by the British,| WASHINGTON, May 1 (U. P). with ‘British labor, from plans Arbitrators appointed by the naagreed upon jointly by the British | tional mediation board will begin ministry of planning and recon- | earings in Chicago next Thursday struction and U. S. army medical 0 Seltle a vacation pay dispute beauthorities. tween the nation's railroads and

New Arthritis Treatmien

Gets Results With Speed

; By Slience Service | dose of the neostigmine, she was pSHICA0, ig) en new treat. sie to extend her right knee to 130 { ! AIL egrees and to cross i which swiftly relieves the painfui jeft, As the Midi _ re muscle Spasm and consequent dis-| tinued, she was able to open and ability is reported by Dr. Philip R.| close her hands to get out of bed! .Trommer and Dr. Abraham Cohen. | and into a wheel chair without help of the Philadelphia General and to, wash her hands and face and Jeflerson hospitals, in the forth-.comb her hair ang would put her coming issue of the Journal of the! /

: arms and hands i American Medical association here.| head. 5 Im back of yer

By Mary, Dunhill |

The treatment consists in hypo-| In this patients case the limit of] Np —- a : g off So . :

dermic. injections “three or four | improvement was reached after]: times weekly of the drug, neostig-| three months:of treatment because. mine, also known as prostigmine. of the partial abrormal union ‘of

; similar related condi-| tients showed similar im _ arthritis and | | provemen Hons, 13 gave a favorable response’ even when the disease had et the treatment. present for years. 5

Ahhh! I's irresistible! ‘A Fragrance as true Th ‘asa fresh-picked 8 de ia—as delicate and 4 Relieves Spasm ; ; ‘Although the neostigmine does],

not affect the diseased condition of| the joints, it does relieve the ac-|.