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RIVER OF DEATH, Brazil, Dec. 18.—They put you in jail for pointing a gun at a Chavante Indian. For pointing a camera, the fetocious Chavantes put an arrow through your gizzard. Then they serve you up for dinner with an apple in your mouth. You can't win. ' ‘

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Locate Indian Village “I THINK there is a village about 100 miles beyond that next range of tains,’ said Joao Alberto

Lins de Barros, Brazil's

: village was there, all right, 12 thatched huts in a circle, but the Chavantes were not. Joao Alberto said that he had heard that there was another about 80 miles further on. The pilot said that he was get-

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uncheon, “We've got a noon. ...I know you'll like him,” he emSo when the two arrived both were seated head table. You could have knocked Mr. over with a feather when the chairman Introduced Lou Young as the day’s guest speaker. With. a look of amazement he got up and managed to say, “Well, I'll be ...” Mrs. Frank Grovenberry,.243 S. Butler ave, is, trying te find her pet wire-haired terrier, Mike. He has been missing since last Tuesday and no one in the neighborhood ever has seen him since that time. He's about 10 years old and always keeps one ear up and one down. If you see Mike you can call Mrs. Grovenberry at IR. 1968. . . . Dave Bogue, 5502 W. 15th st., paid back the Speedway volunteer fire department Sunday. The Speedway volunteer firemen recently put out a fire in the Bogue home. So Mr. Bogue helped them fight flames at the fire at the John Grande & Sons greenhouse. -He got a good soaking at the same time. ’

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By Ernie Hill This time the Chavantes were at home. There

were 10 huts, the one in the center belonging, no doubt, to the tribal strongman.

Jean Manzon, French photographer of Rio de]

Janeiro, collected an arrow through his plane's fuselage two years agp up here. Another time the Chavantes winged a plane. The pilot said that they might Be gUnbe wise up and start shooting for the gaso-

Inside their territory 150 miles, and on foot, was as good as being on the dinner menu, So we at a 45-degree angle to keep our lowslung gas tank out of bow and arrow range. Walter L. Patterson, Oklahoma City, attached to the U. 8. air corps in Brazil, and De Roth banged away with their cameras. But the angle was bad.

Show No Sign of Fight WE DIVED four times, the last two at a straight up-and-down 90. degree angle and close enough to shake hands. But nothing happened. The Chavantes looked stoically calm and not at all like the mankillers they have been for the last 50 years... That, Joao Alberto concluded, was a good sign. The Chavantes might be coming around.

ywood cuties. Boy! Would ut, Lana Turner is winning

I probably was the first ever to see Chavantes at home, Sha always cherish, 3 , TS aniinapedls 1 Times and

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Second of a Series

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.— | “7 Vast expansion in every field of medical science awaits

t | the lifting of military security : [restrictions and the detert {mination by congress of fu- ¢ [ture policy on atomic energy

research. Nuclear energy holds great promise of relieving disease and human suffering. This does not mean that atomic pills will soon be available on every drug store counter to cure every ailto athlete's foot. vid : For a long time the use of nuclear energy in medicine will be confined to research laboratories, or to clinics and the big hospitals with highly trained staffs. Atomic energy is chiefly a research instrument. It will be used [to study body functions and to gain a better understanding of the nature of diseases. It has no direct curative power, at this time. , Development of this new médical science may take 10 to 20 years, says Col. Stafford L. Warren, chief of the medical section of the Manhattan district, which developed the bomb, - t J sn COL. WARREN in civil life is professor. of radiology of the University of Rochester, college of medicine. On the atomic bomb project he was responsible for all the health problems of the people who worked on the bomb and their families. The medical research on nuclear {energy released in the making of the bombs was organized under his direction. It began as a big problem in preventive medicine. Radiations from the release of nuclear energy can be extremely dangerous. They are like X-rays. If the heman body is over-exposed to them, serious injury will result. Reproductive organs may be sterilized and even death may be caused. [ J . . ONE of the primary research problems was to find out how much shielding the atomic piles would require to make them thoroughly safe for workers in the plants, Dr. Robert Stone and his group at the University of Chicago worked out the safety factors for these operations. _ Co ' Because only small quantities of uranium had been used before, in the ceramics industry, little was known about the effects of uranium dust on the blood, the lungs, the kidneys. ] . » »

SEVERAL hundred. young doctors, ‘biologists and chemists, along with a few older and more experienced heads, had to be recruited to conduct this research. » They are the men to whom civil. ization owes a big debt for breaking

of medicine. Their work was carried on at special-health laboratories connected with the Clinton Engineer works at Oak Ridge, Tenn, at Newark, Del, and in the medical re(search centers at Columbia, Rochester, Chicago and California uni-

. ” . A] FIRST, the laboratories carried on their experiments on rabbits, mice, guinea pigs, dogs and even on flies. Some of the animals, as controls,

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Hundreds of research men checked the effects of radio-activity and developed protective measures for workers in uranium separation 2bsorbed Into the blood stream and process plants. Their work was so successful that hospitals like this one at the Richland, Wash., plant never had a patient who was injured or lost his life from causes directly connected with the release of atomic

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uranium dust and nuclear energy radiations. Others were subjected to varying exposures to these hazards in carefully air-conditioned cabinets for eight hours a day, six days a week. These were the conditions under which workers in the plants had to do their job. The animals were then subjected to regular physical examinations and from these observations safety levels were set from 10 to 100 times below the danger line for each hazard, Dr. Harold Hodges and his group at Rochester were in charge of much of this research. - . . THEIR results were almost unbelievable. Up to the time the bomb was dropped in Japan, not one worker lost his life or was injured from causes directly connected with the release of atomic energy. After the end of the war, one young scientist did lose his life in an experiment. but it was only because he had disregarded safety precautions. To achieve this unique safety rec ord, many ingenious devices were developed in the Chicago and Roch-

lived lives carefully guarded against

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| plex experiments conducted jointly |by specialists in several related fields.

. » » IN TWO years, working in this way, they learned more about the use of radio-active materials in medicine than had been learned in the previous 30 years or more. Yet their work has just begun, and it is in danger of being seriously interrupted. The young doctors and Ph.D's. want to get back to teaching, private research and private practice. What is needed is

. . . THE quantity of material with which the laboratory technicians deal is sub-microscopic. They weigh it out in terms of micrograms. A microgram is a millionth of a gram, and it takes 28 grams to

SYNTHESIZED radio-active matter may also be used directly in the treatment of certain specific diseases

Before the war it was discovered that radio-active phosphorous was

had beneficial results in the treat. ment of leukemia. Today the laboratories have the whole range of matter to study and determine what facts nuclear energy activation will have medicinally. The synthetically radio - active materials may also be used externally in the treatment of disease. X-rays have been used for a number of years In the treatment of tumors. To a lesser degree. radiations from “needles"—gold or platinum tubes filled with radon, the gas given off by radium disintegration— have been used in the treatment of cancerous growths.

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Times Foreign Service TTAWA, Ont, Dec. 18.—Men trained in war and machines born in its awful urgency now may help to open a vast area of the North American Arctic, half as large as all of the United States, Twelve snowmobiles and their crews and observers—about 55 men

up the west coast of Hudson bay, if all goes well, they will emerge at

| Among ‘its long-term objectives are these: ONE: To determine whether the snowmobiles can take it, in the and cold at the beginning and the spring breakup that is exend.

By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M. D.

COMMONEST cause of fatal home accidents at night was falls.

1 Most of those who were killed were

five passengers. Each of the snowwill haul a fully-packed trailer with supplies.

Copy 1943, by The Indianapolis Times » The Chicago Daily News, Inc.

HE DOCTOR SAYS: Simple Precautions Prevent Accidents

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WASHINGTON, Dec. 18. More fog than facts today greeted the first of the government's fact-

ferret out trai; which the parties in a la: bor dispute - don't feel free to volunteer? The answer, apparently, is—none. The facts: The C. 1. O. oil workers’ union and 20 oil companies are presenting allegations which neither side can disprove without help from a referee. » » .

THE FACT-FINDING board in the oil-wage controversy is se uncertain of its functions And authority that—to invoke football analogy—it is likely to be pehalized for too many times out.

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