Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 January 1945 — Page 10
NEW PENICILLIN
Was tense,
: hung the fate of a penicillin: ex-
TESTS SUCCEED
Mist Method of Treating “Lungs Perfected by
* Young Scientist.
. By EPSIE KINARD NEA Stat Writer “COLD SPRING HARBOR, N. Y,, Jan 1.~"Are you all right?” The woman's voice aver- the telephone
On the answer to ‘her guestion
periment ‘which ‘might affect all mankind. : But her concern was for a young colleague, "Who alone at night in a deserted laboratory was selfstrapped into ap oxygen-mask, Jumping penicillin for the first
time into human lungs. to_put_his| JE
experiment to the crucial test. i He was 31-year-old Vernon Bry-
Island Biological Labordtory. - One
son, research scientist of the long, pee Poul TF Eastman, 3408 Birchwbod ave. prepares to re-
“night last June he pulled a success-
ful experiment from his test tubes
which . miay chalk up another triumph for the wonder drug.
Hospital Using Method
place ‘the twisted barrel of a 50caliber machine gun. He is stationed in Italy with a 15th air force air depot group. >
Proof of its-great promise is that BOLIVIAN SEES "NAZI
his method for inhaling penicillin is in experimental use in the Huntington Long “Island hospital and
INFLUENCE IN NATION
WASHINGTON, -Jan. '1
in the College of Physicians: and Jose Antonio Arze, Bolivian left‘Surgeons of New York's Columbia's; jeader who was -expelled from)
Presbyterian Medical Center. -
Promising to be a more effective tion, dec
{the Bolivian constitutional cofrven= | dtoday that Bolivia is:
cure for . pulmonary diseases, the now ruled by a system of “savage “new method of administering the | terrofism.”
yellow magic is to have patients
Describing the “group.. now - in
drag it into their lungs in a mistipower in Bolivia” as “Nazi-Fascist;”
U0, Po.
TORINK PROBLEM | AT SEA SOLVED
Science Provides 3 Methods
For Men. Adrift -to Procure Water,
By Science Service - WRIGHT FIELD, Dayton, O., Jan, 1.—Men adrift on a life raft now have three sources of fresh drinking water, thus bringing; to a suecessful “solution a situation which
E for centuries has posed . a rough problem for ‘men - who battle the
seas. The most abundant drinking watér is rainfall. caught in tarpaulins and transferred to empty food. tin or other receptacle. - Frequently men adrift on the sen are exposed to the hot,” parching
“source of
Arays. of the sun for days on end.| § forces|
scientists set to work to find a way!
Realizing this, - ‘army-- air to use the sun's-rays to take the salt out of sea water. The result was the solar still. :
Sponge Absorbs Heat
The solar still is a vinyl plastic { envelope; 30 inches long with |rounded ends 12 inches across.” A | plastic screen covered with black cellulose sponge is stretched through |’ the middle. About 90- per cent of] the sun's rays pass-through -the|, trarisparent “skin” of the envelope, {which is inflated by blowing it up| like a balloon. The sponge, soaked | with two. quarts of sea water, ab-|
Rain is|-
WAC Mechanic
_ Pvt. Mabel Stanley, daughter of “Mrs. M—L. Reid, 3452 W.-10th st, is one of the first enlisted WACs to qualify for the rating of airplane and engine mechanic at the air transport command field, Miami, Fla.
{pint of “fresh drinking water. Six stills are packed aboard each life
raft. The third source is & chemical sea water desalting Kit designed for use when*the. sky is overcast and when there is neither rain nor sun. Heart lof the chemical kit is a compouhd|
Post-War Blankets, “Clothing “ta _Gain Warmth ‘With Discovery.
By Science Secvice ST. LOUIS, Jan.
greater warmth than a mink
1. h—Post-war blankets and sleeping hags may
mE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES NEW INSULATING PRODUCT FOUND,
“PARIS, Jan. 1 U.P Col. Gen. Joseph Sepp Dietrich, of the S88
the panzer armies: which Field Marsha] Karl von Rundstedt threw into the Western front, is a former bartender and Nazi gangster who is high on the allies’ war criminal list. Dietrich, the - most Nazi-minded
it capable of the three generals lead-
weigh but-a few ouhces, yet afford | 8nd probably the least militarily
or red flannels, as the result of new development, in the textile in-
{ dustry.
Known commercially as Santocel, it Is an organic silicon compound
perfected by research chemists of| nro teufrel's
General Electric Co. Schenectady,
ing armies in the German drive, is
week to he fighting alongn. Hasso Eccard - von panzer army, Dietrich, an old-guard Nazi who 1s
tively 1 side Lt.
N. Y.- ‘A derivative of silica, Or|s intimate terms with $8 Chief
sand, it looks like | finely ground snow, and pouts like water. cupful of the material there are
millions of deadair pockets, which
act to slow up the transmission of heat or cold.. It also™s employed as insulating agent. between quilted layers of fabric designed for us in hunters’ ‘coats; life Jackets. and life rafts. “Would . Reduce Spas .
Post-war refrigerators. may, be thin-walled if they make use of the new product, occupying no more kitchen space than present models, Used in camouflage coatings, the silica compound breaks: up surface light rays, affording a desirable dull sheen. Research at ‘the textile laboratories of the Monsanto Chemical
sorbs tHe heat. The heat evaporatés | consisting of about two-thirds silver | |Co. is being conducted to determine
i the water, which passes off as vapor |
leaving only the sea salt and other!
.eventful .summer night climaxed af
son's aé the Long Island Biological laboratory, where the two yourg
nature.
* have,”
Lyman Bryson, a young man who
* me into his evergreen-framed white |"
’
* Although not a word could . be
~ charged ‘marine whose lung disease
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om
put up inm-briquettes in a package | new uses for the material. One of [ly | minerals in the sponge. This vapor these briquettes is dropped into a be poured between the, ~ Of fine particles. This gets bigger | Arze said they had sought to elimi- | conderises as fresh water on the in-|plastic bag filled with sea water: of uncut velvet, sealed in
weighing about 22 ounces.
doses more directly to infected" lung {rate him physically on July 8, six side of the skin of the envelope and | Almost instantly the briquette dis- |
areas.
{days after his election to the con-| then runs down into a reservoir .at| In developing the method, Bry- | vention, when he was shot and seri-| the bottom of the still. On a sunny
| | day the still will make about one
integrates and by precipitation removes the harmful salt -and. other | substances.
|
Recentcould , layers h thermoplastic stitching in millions. of little pockets, and the cloth used for lightweight dressmaker coats for women,
they found that it
In als in Normandy,
Heinrich Himmler, was last heard There® he" com~ manded an SS panzer’ corps which wis placed unter SS. Gen. Paul |" Husser’'s 7th army fo oppose” the British-~ Canadian attack at Hilly Campagne hear Caen. Fo
Native of “Bavaria -
Born” 51 years ago in Hawagen, Bavaria, Dietrich volunteered during world war I ‘and became a sergeant major. He fought the Poles abroad and democratic—organizations at home as a member of Freikorps Oberland. When this activity ceased he became a barman in his native Bavaria, but soon became identified with the Nazi party and participated in the 1923 Nazi putsch in Munich. Five years later he joined the SS and in 1933 was entrusted with formation of the Leibstandarte, Adolf Hitler's personal bodyguard.
Trusted by Nazis
SS commanders and the most
elite guard, who commands one of |.
nted for atrocities committed at ‘Kharkov, Russia, ; His panzer army was Known posi-
leaves and swords from Hitler -personally. - German generals like von Manteuffel’ and - Erich Brandenberger, now commanding the Tth German army,-have no connection with the Nazi party and probably were chosen by Rundstedt solely for military ability. Brandenberger, 52, fought this war mainly in Russia and did not appear on the Westérn front until October, 1944, in" his present com-
mand. Also Bavarian,-he served in an artillery regiment in world war I. Manteuffel ‘is an. exceptionally able, 4Tsyear-old junker born. in Potsdam. He has all Hitler's decorations up to oak leaves and swords, but there is no information that he has any connection’ with the Nazi party. 3 de
NAZI OFFENSIVE ~ GIVEN 9TH PLACE
NEW YORK, Jan. 1 (U, P.).-The editors of the United Press have revised their list of the 10 biggest news stories of 1944 to make a place for Germany's December offensive on the Western front which began after release of the original list. A recheck of those voting in the U. P.s annual poll was male last week in the light of year- -end “de-
velopments. The result ‘was the substitution of the German offensive as ninth in the list.
It. replaces the sasSassination plot |
against “Hitler and the mystery of
“This deeline® A report.from supreme Dietrich is. the most publicized of | {said Hitler personally had planned trusted by Nazi leaders, having re-| Ceived the knight's cross. with oak | Belgium and Luxembourg.
headquarters in France this week
the December counter-thrust into]
a TSENTAY, JAN. 1, 104 SS Elite Guard Commander. Is-High on Criminal List
CONNALLY EYE HARDEST Flo
Colorful Toxart Has He: Set on. Senate 0.K. 0 World League.
‘WASHINGTON, Jan, 1 (U, P. The congressional recess last w gave Chairman Tom, Connally Tex.) of the senate foreign relati committee an opportunity toup for what -may be the toug fight of his long, colorful and fig ing career, The fight in the offing invo the job of putting through the,s ate the plan for U. 8. participa in a world security organization prevent future wars, The issue 'is expected to to off lively senate debate from moment President Roosevelt si mits for ratification ‘the agreem
Thetng worked out. as “result of
recent Dumbarton Oaks conferen He'll Be Ready :
When it comes, Connally will ready. Meanwhile, he took full advantz of the current congressional cess to rest up from his most cent victory-—overwhelming con: mation of a series of state depa ment appointments. A shrewd and practical ‘tact cl the Texan started long ‘ago to groundwork which may ‘ease job ahead. ] The figst step was to put throu the senate more than a year-ago f Connally resolution 4indorsing. 1, participation in a new league of 1] tions. Anothér early move was the {pointment of .a ‘foreign relafid {subcommittee $0 maintain 1s | with the state department TE out preliminary discussions on t | world organization problem.
son had the help of two colleagues. ously wounded.
One, whose telephone .call oh that
six months’ experiment is Eva Sansome, British mycologist of the neighboring Carnegie Institute of Genetics. The other is Sidney Laskin, a fellow staff member, of- Bry-
men are engaged in wartime physiological research of a confidential
At Home in Laboratory “If we hadn't hit upon the method of harnessing the new penicillin to an existing technique of inhalatiorial therapy, someone else would says Bryson, Ph. D. son of Columbia University’s famed Dr.
has been at home in a science lab since the test tubes at San Diego (Cal) High first caught his, fancy. -Although painfully modest on the .-subject of his accomplishment, Bry=son, who is youthful looking, dark- | eyed and diffident, did explain in| * the manner of a science teacher ex- | plaining. a simple’ formula the big | problem ‘which he and his two colleagues were up against. “That” -he said,” after’ ushering
cottage - overlooking Long Island Sound, “was to see if penicillin could be made into a mist and inhaled without destroying the potency of the drug.” Lung Penetration Tested While Dr. Bryson explained how the penicillin mist was tested out on mice and rabbits to prove that it would penetrate into “the lungs, his four stairstep-sized children romped back and forth from the | chintz-bright living room where | their pop talked, to the kitchen | where their lovely blond mother] kept. busy cooking their dinner. “The mice,” Bryson said, “were marched into glass’ testing. cham- - bers and exposed. to a - penicillin mist, Later, when their lung lobes were ground up, penicillin was| found to be present.” This was the | evidence he and his colleagues had set out to get. | Additional proof obtained was penicillin recovered | in the urine of experimental | rabbits. | The new treatment, he explained, | is simply “applied with a nebulizer | —first cousin to an atomizer. Placed | directly in the patient's mouth, the | penicillin. mist “is drawn: by slow | intakes of breath ‘into the lungs, while clocked seconds tick. © «° i
Evidence Piling Up The man who helped to develop |
|
the method insists ‘that the ad-|
vantage of it over penicillin injected into’ muscles or veins ' can be evaluated only after the medical évidence is collected. But thet evidence is piling up. |
dragged out of Bryson about these | clinical results, it is known that the first patient treated — a .dis-
of long standing was affecting his brain—is recovering from a ‘lung operatign which th& new treatment “made possible. Fifty per-cent improvement is claimed ‘in the case] of a woman, suffering from chronic | bronchietasis — characterizéd- -by.| coughed up sputum in vast amounts and at freguent intervals.
BUREAU IN FRANCE -
PARIS, Jan. 1 (U, P.).~Appoint-| ment of Joseph W. Grigg Jr. as| United Press manager for France
and its territories has been made
by Virgil Pinkley, vice president and |
general Burgpean manager. “Mr. Grigg succeeds Ralph E.| Hetrsets former U, P. Paris man—been' orn a assignment since his rélease from internment, in Germany early this year. (He spoke in Rndisnapons . several months ago). Grigg has - been in’ " charge of |
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