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FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1046 _

EPTOMYCl

IN TUBERCULOSIS BATTLE Zz

48 .township winners in a county‘wide judging contest. ”

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N IS NEW HOPE te moins

A Highway Workers Return to TWO 8 :

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partment employees have returned

Eight Marion county 4-H youths to thelr: jobs after overseas service : :

[Chen's Island o ~~ Chosen Site

NEW YORK, March 1 (U. P).—

Miracle Drug Developed to Succeed Where

Penicillin Failed; On

: Even Market in 6 Months.

By ROBERT RICHARDS United Press Staff Correspo

NEW BRUNSWICK; N. man, with the twinkling eyes, “Money ?” he asked. money from it?” :

It had been just another job to Dr; Selman A. Waksman, | working in the laboratories of Rutgers university. It had

been a job, and he had discovered streptomycin—the new miracle drug developed - to succeed where even penicillin has failed. . Dr. Waksman, and his associates, have found the key to a new hope in the struggle against many diseases, including tuberculosis. But so far it is only an experiment and still a hope-—yet excellent results

’ have been reported. ?

“It would be both cruel and foolish to raise false hopes at this time,” Dr. Waksman said, “but against certain types of tuberculosis our steptomycin definitely shows promise.” Then he settled down in his chair and stared out the window. “But -you must understand, we do not do these things for money. Here at Rutgers, we are scientists. It is our work.” Dr. Waksman said within six © months there would be quite a large commercial supply of strep-

jopdent J. March 1.—The small gray was puzzled,

“And why should” I make any|-

produced a certain delayed toxicity in the animal body and many bacteria also were found to be resistant to it. “But, just the same, we realized that ‘we were moving in the right direction,” Waksman said, “So we concentrated our efforts on the actinomycetes, searching for an antibiotic capable of inhibiting or de{stroying the gram-negative bacteria. and yet nontoxic in its effect.” : And after a long hunt, Waksman and. another assistant, Albert Schatz, isolated streptomyces griseus and produced streptomyein. Streptomycin is being used in the fight against tuberculosis, typhoid fever—both resistant to penicillin —tularemia, whooping cough, hemolytic ‘influenza, undulant fever, paratyphoid B fever, and gastrointestinal infections such as: colitis. » »

{penicillin - are successful against {the same types of disease,” Waks-

tomycin on the market. “There are... ...4 «In such cases penicillin

15 companies inthe United States

now beginning to manufacture it,” he said, “and some are even building speéial plants.”

= » » STREPTOMYCIN. comes from actinomycetes, a type of plant that

The streptomycin-producing organism, called streptomyces, griseus, was finally isolated from fhe soil and from the throat of a laboratory chicken. Dr. Waksman, and his staff, isolated more than 1000 strains of actinomycetes before they finally found what they wanted. ’ » “Any company. in the United States, with proper facilities, can make streptomycin,’ Wakeman said. they are not fly-hy-nights and prove they can do the job. Rutgers university gets only a small royalty from the process, and this royally will go into a fund for further rcDr. Waksman is only too eager to gef streptomycin moving on a mass production basis. ‘A pile of letters lay in one corner of nis office, and each letter asks: e get streptomycin?” iS Each letter probably represents at least one person who is dying, or mn

“We will “welcome them, if!

“When

is preferred because it is cheaper to produce and because streptomylein still remains slightly toxic.” | However, Dr. Waksman said, lab- | oratory tests had shown that pro- | longed use of streptomycin had

| patrmant of the kidney or liver in { human beings. { Streptomycin is a fine white pow-

SMITH GIRLS TO

‘Students Sell Stock - to Finance Deals.

By JOHN MADIGAN { United Press Staff Oorrespondent | NORTHAMPTON, Mass., March 1. | Twenty-three Smith college girls were ‘up to their Sloppy Joe sweat-

ers in the stock market today, Come “bull, market or. bear, | Ecclyco, Inc, was a going concern at $5 a share for voling stock and {$1 for ‘non-voting.

| those in typhoid or tuberculosis.

" | “SOMETIMES streptomycin and

PLAY’ MARKET,

*. Care. Net weight—0. Gross weight—

+ desperate pain. ” » s

| The incorporated economics class, |

[Here's the Way It's Pronounced

NEW YORK, March 1 (U.P. —~—Columbia university's college of pharmacy gives the correct pronunciation of streptomycin: as “strept-o-my-sin”. with the accent on the third syllable.

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der and may be given to a person either internally, or through injec. tions. It is far more effective when injected,” Waksman said. Waksman explained his discovery of streptomycin this way: “We knew that certain microbes will destroy others,” he said. “The observation of these microbes has

sought to isolate a microbe which would be the most effective against other types of ‘microbes, such as

” ” » «WHEN WE found this microbe,

robbed him of ‘his fighting chemjeals and used -this substance, for ourselves, against typhoid or tuberculosis in human beings.” Waksman said it was something like being a referee between two human armies. “Suppose one group of scientists is developing an atomic bomb,” he explained, “which you know can destroy another. group. Well, in the case of the microbes, we just helped them develop their atomic .bomb to its absolute perfection and then we took it away from them and used it to help out in our own fight.” Waksman also made clear, with the present limited amount of clin-

| the value of streptomycin, " = Like John Paul Jones, it has just begun to fight.

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Flies Travel

Across U.S. Via Airliner

By EDWARD ELLIS | © United Press Staff Oorrespondent CHICAGO, March 1.—The bill of lading read: “Flies—Handle With

|18 lbs.” The air express agent at Chicago’s municipal airport looked at {the fly cage and remembered the { famous, short: story, “Pigs Is Pigs,” {in which a railway express agent {handled guinea pigs that multiplied {faster than he could handle them. | He remembered, too; that flies breed like mad. Hastily, he -shoved

the Center, 902 N. Meridian st, and county winnérs wil compete in a district contest at the center March 27. District champions will represent ten central Indiana counties at the state 4-H Club Round-Up at Purdue university in July.

Patrick ball in the Travertine Room of the Hotel Lincoln Satur

band, according

been our life work. So we simply|.

we built him: up and fattened him ¥ under ideal conditions. Then wef

r ical data available, that it was as| ‘is half fungus and half bacteria. | failed to cause any functional im- | yet impossible to assay completely

‘Earl Sweeney has resumed his position as assistant engineer of road design. Entering the army | An January, 1941, as a captain with the 113th observation squadron, Indiana national guard, he rose tothe rank of colonel, serving “in Greenland and ‘Iceland with the air transport command. He also served at airfields in Colorado, Mississippi and Illinois. ' Robert Berns, who spent 28 months in the navy, 16 of “which were in the Admiralty and

The competition will be held at Purdue-Marott ° Agricultural

Mr, Sweeney

Philippine islands, -has resumed duties as assistant road construc-. tion engineer. He was operations officer of a construction, .equipment and material depot overseas.

‘ST. PATRICK BALL

Mr. Berns

Tom Chen was just a Chinese cook, aboard a small freighter 27 years ago when he put into a tiny South Sea island and .decided that one "| day it would become his own and] “the would reign over it as king. The story of his vanished dream| 1 J of a kingdom was disclosed today.| saved by 1029, } The Chinese youth, fresh from his| with the dep birthplace, Hongkong, stood oh the ! shore of the island, looked at the long, lazy breakers against - the white sand and the emerald green

The Fifty club will hold a St. TR | : - AWARDED PURPLE HEART

Marine Pfc. Maurice E. Pebbles,

furnished by Ted Campbell’s/ceived in action during the “war. to Edward GG.

of Marine recruiting for Indiana.| entertainment.

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STRAUSS SAYS:

GOLFERS and TENNIS PLAYERS — Hunters and Fishermen — and Horsemen — Sportsmen-—generally —will find in- the new store +- on-the corner [open soon) a Sportsman's paradise! SPALDING is a star member of an all-star showing! It will be on !

the SIXTH FLOOR!

SKATING PARTY PLANNED The, Indianapolis chapter, Order|mine.” :

el ; 2017 Central ave., has been awarded | of DeMolay, will hold a skating day evening, March 16. Music will/the Purple Heart for wounds re- ty. next Wednesday evening at uP.» handful of sand to take back

Award was made by Chief Warrant Rollerland. Jack E. Dickey heads| gang from the kingdom of Chen.” Meyer, chairman of the dance com-|Officer Anthony Morello, in charge| the committee on ticket sales and

blanket of palms, and told his ship mates: 5 hy é “Some ‘day this is going to be all

| party Bu They laughed when he. scooped morning the dream en

to the ship and remarked: “This is|announced that for the ! of the atomic bomb, Bill: Chen shipped” out later for the |been selected. United States, where he believed' It was Chen's island of

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‘uy MUST answer them all tne same,” Wakeman said. “J must tell them, ‘We regret to say that streptomycin is still produced in limited

amounts, and considerable time will elapse before large amounts of it

the only one of its kind in the oes | the flies aboard an airliner And (tion, issued a prospectus and Pulig gheq his hands of the whole {2000 shares of stock on sale.over-| {the counter. The capital will be my .0c ¢1 way common house

used for trading, on the New York

{exchange.

flies are béing flown across the na{tion in the year 1 of the atomic

Ecclyco wasn't looking. for any io

‘are available . for - public distribu- | tion.” Waksman said the isolation ‘of tryothricin, which was announced | in 1939, by Dr. Rene, Dubos—one |

business from “smart” Operalors| p, tne past few weeks 20,000

sitions. {than their own to 15 cities throughPeslered By Offers {out the U, S. They are air-ex-of Waksman's former ‘students— Since the Smith misses revealed | pressed by the Superior Paint and had paved the way for application their Wall street ambitions last| Varnish Works to its distributors to of both penicillin and streptomy- December, they've been pestered by | demonstrate the fatal attraction of cin. |offers including ‘the one from athe firm's new wall paint, a-paint “Here at Rutgers we began work |G. I. in Shanghai | containing D. D. T; the mew in“on the destructive effect of one! He mailed a 50-yuan note and | secticide. microbe upon another long before wanted $50 worth of stock rushed | Die Half Hour Later 1939,” he said. “But we were in-/to him. Through “its adviser, the mp. gistributors take the flies out #\erested in the problems from an NewYork brokerage house of E. F. i'r Ri comfortable cage and place .‘agricultural point of view. We were Hutton, Ecclyco discovered that the | them in -cages sprayed with the busy studying the importance of note was worth less than 50 cents. | new white paint, suitable for attics,

these effécts in Soil processes. + The next step in Ecclyco’s indoc- |lasements, storage rooms, poultry trination in high finance was set! houses and the like.

and dealers in ground-floor Propo-| gisc-have traveled on wings other|

on " ” “BUT WHEN Dubos showed the great’ potentialities of such compounds we became definitely in-

terested and directed all our ener=,

gies in that direction.” It was a long, slow process. In

1041, Waksman and his co-worker,

Dr. H. B. Woodruff, isolated a compound called actinomycin, “But in experiments it proved too toxic for animals,” he explained. Then next came clavacin, which

* also was too toxic for animal use,

put not as toxic as actinomycin. “Then three years ago we isoJuated a substance called streptotrictn,” Dr Waksman Sait. “It looked very promising because by this time we knew exactly what we wanted — a .substance to react against organisms which penicillin

for Friday when the class views] the “big board” in New- York and | lunches at the Wall Street club. Meanwhile, the members awaited results of the stock sale and discussed its chances of success. ". “I know that we'll never be able to dispense with brokers and their ladvice,” said Grace Greer, & junfor from Englewood, N. J. “But I feel, that forming Ecclyco will give us some insight into the workings ‘of the system of selling stocks and | | bonds.” | Miss Greer has relatives fn the {brokerage business “who are as"tonishéd when 1 enter into tech= {nical discussion -on market hap- | penings.” | ~<But they don't take me very seriously,” she added.

As flies will, they make six-point landings on the sides of the cage. After. only seven seconds’ contact they take a pessimistic view of life. In about 30 minutes they're dead. The paint manufacturers get their flies from a Chicago oil company which breeds them for labor= atory study. The OPA hasn't provided a ceiling for flies since they don’t cost anything—yet. Because air line hostesses haven't had training in the care and feeding of flies, the paint company has to anticipate their wants while traveling. Flies can be kept happy if they are moderately warm and if their menu consists of sweet-bread moistened with water, And should you want to fly flies in luxury liners, the cost is one cent

wouldn't affect. We wanted some-| Catherine Meisner of Akron, O., thing that would fight a gram-|a senior, said “Ecclyco has taught negative bacteria, most of which me much more than the theory of

per fly. ASPHALT USED ON PYRAMIDS

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are immune to penicillin.” | corporation’ organization and what| WASHINGTON. —Asphaltum was 2 nx ou be in Russia {can be done with a few legal words. [employed to make the Egyptian . : iy as Aas tos the | 1 Will make me. cautious and TH (pyrainids and the Sphinx .water- : , néar h : : ‘the |p) . te Inve a od ates in 110 and wast mk things over before DYES [oer nen fe mummification of COLORS—You Said It! graduated ‘from’ Rutgers in 195. 0 O° MAROON CAMEL He received his doctor's degree R v » : ' , trom the University of California YOUR G.I. RIGHTS... By Douglas Larsen ¥ WHITE BROWN "® 4n 1018, and refined to others i BR TROPICAL NAVY . mit iret nt GS | 's Are Able to Trans Fa blology, teaching mostly gradustes, 2+ |. § Ar€ £\DI€ TO 1ranster YELLOW AIR. BLUE. the New Jerseys Agricultural Ex-| b O S by t A +h . : IS 1S one o e most satistactor periment station. rom ne Cr 00 he o norner Sizes 10; to 13 a into—and a really spectacular I Waksman claims, with a quiet : : \ . emp—— ‘grin, that there was no drama in ‘WASHINGTON, March 1—Prob-i A—If you have queries about the discovery and development. of lems of veterans going to school | Specific colleges and what they have | streptomycin, There Were. no tense under the @, 1, Bill of Rights have !0 offer write directly fo them. L. STRAUSS & CO.; INC. moments, no sudden climax, ‘With | = d th : foil’ aciesbions: Some time before next fall VA will] INDIANAPOLIS ‘ . . en eurk.™ he sald, “and that |Taised the following questions: have finished its survey of‘schools ater — They're for active men—for the oy means both night and day.” ‘Q—My son got out of the coast and colleges and will be, able to] SEND PHOENIX WOOL SOCKS ‘ ics : But, with or without drama,iguard and started school in’ the give you ther ezactly what informa- | ps per this data! » i The wool is almost incre streptomycin probably has been de-! state university. His grades are all| on you want. Novof Palfs............. aht inwe ight ap Fad veloped "faster than any other ~ but > it ro the schiogl|. S- My Wile and:.1 are both in| BUIB so vcessesetsnneivaniyn HS ight iC wei pe Al known drug. Its discovery was first | oo much d is unhappy He|COlle8® under the G. I. Bill of Rights ; (10% to 13 is ‘available) WE HAVE NO AN NON anno in January, 1944, but ry ch Aan ‘ ' !She was a SPAR. While we are| . 4 : 0) : RN NA it actually isolated six | VOI like to change at the end of 1, college will it be possible to also! - wor s) COLORS veer rss invs ives runny worse You're welconve NR ” the semester but I.am afraid he| i al a a a nanan HEA CRETE te A ou 0 A months before. in wit lose his G. I. benefits. Can heii 2, eg oan sad b oy : (There are 8 dolors and white—see abaye) y hae in my \\ “WE HAD to be sure that there transfer without this happening? [town permanently. NAME ,..... Sua e eae veh ney hae WHILE HE. ‘N i was no mistake,” Dr. Waksman said. | A—He can transfer as long as It. s_peing in school under the ADDRESS and it will’ A Two years after its. discovery, it is to a state-approved school and | pj of Rights doesn't disquali- Teal has Tax uted, Ai ‘colors are aph ! was being developed. clinically. {he continues to meet all the other fy you for a guaranteed loan to CITY... ...cvivviinai STATE.......... ; “Its rapid development chiefly requi nts, He does not lose 807 yyy » house. - That is, if you find {] CHARGE [J CHECK ;C. 0. THEY'RE READA | was due to the fact that we already rights by changing schools. {an agency that is satisfied you and | mi you. can get at had both penicillin and sulfa drugs 'Q—In trying to find out what your wife will be able to pay it back rt ; vv to guide us,” Waksman said. “The | College, I could enter next fall when |, 40 the normal conditions. Most - fii : :

application and usage, of these I Will{hdve been discharged from ijenqging agencies, however, want

'drugs laid the groundwork for the the ny,.1 wrote to Veterans Ad-

application and usage of Wtreptomyelin.” ; . | about i : ‘how Ition o

hools won't let veterans enter.

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