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EVERYBODY ELSE IS TALKING abhoiit the elecsion confusion, so we might as well follow suit, A picture taken as the first ballot was cast in the first precinct of the eighth ward indicates that even then things were getting topsy turvy, - The picture, which shows one of the officials with her ribbon badge on upside down. ,.:, At another polling spot, a woman who was candidate for Democratic precinct committeewoman hung around her precinct all day. She was soliciting votes, even though she was unopposed. When she found at the end of the day that there had been twice as many Republican ballots cast as Democratic, she was crest= fallen over her “defeat,” . , . A woman stopped in her neighborhood market Tuesday. and, in ordering groceries, asked the operator if he had any beer, She was shocked when the man, who usually saves her a
She had a ringside seat at a waterfront spectacle,
Mrs, William Shepherd , .
Andes Road Dying
PORTILLO, of South America,
Chile, Mav 10. ~The trans-Andine
railway, one the greatest: engineering feats of
is about to give way to the air aze,
The ‘snow-blown villages along the railway’s windAndes realize the numbered. Many death along’ with
ing route through the towering days of the once proud line are of these towns will die a the railway. When the airlines get equipment rail passengers will be few and far between, Construction trans-Andine took 23 vears Work was started in 1837 and completed in 1910, Tt was recognized as engineering accomplishment of its generation. a Once the speediest connectdng link between Santiagn on the west and Buenos Aires on the the trans-Andine today is traveled only by those who cannot get airplane reservations, and by a sightseers. Already plane rates are cheaper than The crossing from Santiago to Mendoza, on the Argentine
slow
sufficient in service,
of the the coast east,
few
rail.
side of the mountains, is made in 90 minutes. The train takes 15 hours. Air Transportation Unarva lable PLANES FLY from Santiago to Buenos Aires in
hours. The train takes two day As" my train crept around through blinding snowstorms and tunnels more than two miles long, I asked 15 passengers in the coach
ix treacherous curves,
whv they were aboard All of them said thev had been unable to get 31° of twice as many passengers; The Argentine] airplane seats. After two days of wearing travel National Airline, F. A. M. A, plans to inaugurate theg added they would never try it again if planes Many! ths as soon as its planes are ready. le Copyright. 1948, bv The Indianapolis Times and were available, The Chicago Daily News, Inc, | » . - i » e By David Dietz Scienc : y Davi iets POSSIBILITY OF the development of new meth- current issue of the Journal of Biological Chemistry. | od= and chemicals for the treatment of germ disease Apparently, the anti-invasive catalysts form a : . . Bunsed hv TI new type of anti-bacterial svstem in’ the body. iz =pen in the discoveries Just announee y Frwin Haas of the Institute of Pathology of Western ¢ A, 47 gsing Reserve university DR. HASS REPORTS that the three “antivasins” LESSON FOR THE DAY. . .. Instructor Edwin Fulwider (left) THEY COVER A WALL. . . Dr. Haas has just found three previously unknown have Deen found in both te biood of tran and checks the rough sketch of a magazine illustration by Miss Martha . subs es in the blood plasma which pro- °° i : . : y . : chemical substan 8 n lood | AH I " animals.” Their method of action is distinct from the Best as Joe Haramy pours over his drawing which nearly is completed murals. tect the human system against invasion by disease antibodies previously known to exist in blood. It The school teaches fine arts painting and sculpture, commercial on s i i ASLY AL . . " germs. He calls the substance anti-invasive cata- differs also from the action of the sulfa drugs or art and teacher's training. The present school began in 1902, attention on their drawings. lvsts.” and has named them Antivasin I, II and IIL. senicillin. ’ Within recent vears, the war- on disease has poaiety nasi kill invading bacteria by de : he a asins ill ’ cused at chiefly ¢ such bacterial killers . : CA $ Ii p S 1o Wi oh g ; gi BR eT Se such rniewer Sub- STOYIng the catalysts contained in the bacteria, thus ustraiian remier alior Ins eaa 8 sulfe "uggs, nic : er Sub- : : Boi : Re BE and tyrothricin, These making it impossiMe for the bacteria to function T S M Hi) F S stances ! ro Enownh. as “antibiotics.” * His experiments show that they also slow up the 0 ee acA ur WON'T COMPROMISE or aving % st é eS § é 5 " % . t Subst Re 5 a A i dical eli: turned 10 spread of snake venoms whose chemical reactions Before jeir ‘discovery, njeaical ‘men: urn in some ways resemble the chemical effects pro- TOKYO, Friday, May 10 (U ) " Vincent J. McLaughlin, 664 Oakthe intern#l chemistry of man and the animals for : : OAKLAND, Cal, May 10 (U. P.). a . ) ¢ i 2 duced bv some bacteria Australian Premier J. B. Chifley land ave. formerly a Yeoman 1-c w VY in -the war on germs, developing various + y by : ’ he” Teke: a ~-Maj. Gen, Claire L. Chennault, weapons : se A, ® Ror Antibodies are produced in the blood only after ’ y r 11 in the navy, has been awarded wims and vaccines such as those used to fight HPL 5 8 A Ly will arrive in Tokvo May 13 en retired, former commander of the serums -an > Bl > ¥ a us the person has been exposed to the infectious germ . m oH ; the navy and marine corps medal " : ; ver ie pel wd Xpos : us g Y lia he United “Flving Tigers, believed today : diphtheria tvphoid fever, Pele. ; oute to Australia rom the mit . for “heroic econ- ’ and they disappear from the blood stream in the i 1b n , Communist forces would accept no . WR i ti 0 States an wil e the uest, 0 +f, Recent Discoveries course of reactions with the infectious agent a g compromise in their determination duct n effecting : : The antivasins, on the. other hand, seem to be Gen. Douglas MacArthur before , “o,ntr0l the government of | 4 the rescue of a ONF OF THE most, recent discoveries along such: present at all time and are not destroyed by their jeaving for Kure Tuesday to visit China. | 4 drowning man. lines was the work in separating gamma globulin , encounters with invading germs or poisons. British headquarters Gen. Chennault, who stopped] Capt. G. P. from blood” plasma This. fraction of the blood Previous studies had shown that certain bacteria Mr. Cuiflev ‘tien “loaves Kure here briefly last night en route to Kramer, com-= contains many -of the so-called antibodies which and also certain snake venoms release an enzyme r,. Lhittey . Washington after a four-month ¢ manding the fight, disease. It is rich in the antibodies which called “hyaluronidase” which serves as the spearhead Thursday for Okinawa: where a ict {5 civil war-torn China, | U. 8. naval ord-
protect against measles and during the war gamma globulin was used successfully to prevent outbreaks of measles in army camps and at embarkation points, Dr. Haas has been engaged in the study of the substances in the blood which wards off infection and has been seeking to isolate them from the hlood stream in pure form. This line of research has led to his present discoveries which he reports in the
My Day
NEW YORK (Thursday) .—TI have heen thinking a good deal about the President's proposal to congress that all the countries in this hemisphere join together in a joint defense system. In many ways there would he advantages to this system if it developed confidence and greater knowledge among us in this hemisphere, It : should bring about a feeling of ence which perhaps we need to develop on a regional
interdepend-
scale before we develop it fully on a world-wide scale. 1 hope we would make it clear, however, that this would be a joint undertaking and in no way
would change the individual political freedom of each nation. In some areas of the tion seems to mean political domination by more nations. This, 1 think, interferes with the lib erty of smaller countries,
world, military co-opera-
one or
Need Mechanical, Scientific Power
BASICALLY, those of us who are trying to build up the United Nations must realize even though some regions may have military power, their military power must at all times be the joint. knowledge of all the othet nations and must be available th®ough the Unjted, Nations for keeping peace in the worlds, The more we learn to use joint° power, the more we should be ahle to’ reduce, even on a regional basis, the power of Individual nations, This does not mean 1 want to see us grow into
a
Whale of a Show
couple hottles, answered: “No, and if IT did have I wouldn't sell it to you.” He kept a straight face while she stared at him in bewilderment for a minute and | “then laughingly reminded her it was election day,
A Deep Sea Mass Suicide THREE INDIANAPOLIS RESIDENTS had an exciting time in Sunset Beach, St. Petersburg, Fla. or cently, Mr. and Mrs. William Shepherd, 1 E, 36th st. Apt. 503, and Mrs. Shepherd's mother, Mrs, John F.| Welch, were there when a school of 27 whales sot: mitted mass suicide by getting grounded in low water. Hundreds of spectators hurried — pr boats to watch the huge animals floundering and to catch whales themselves, Mrs, Shepherd watched fishermen save the life of a baby whale by performing a Caesarean operation on its dying mother, She was later photographed sitting atop one of the big killer whales. The whale was quite dead, incidentally. Fishermen believed the leader of the school was ill and led the entire group to their deaths, The whole aftair was one of the most spectacular in the waterfront town’s history. . , . Motorists driving south on Capitol ave could take their choice of red or green Wednesday night at the intersection of Capitol and Ohio. For awhile the flasher on the west side of the street, was both red and green at the same time. . . There are a lot of .weary, red-eyed people at the City hall these days. Some work all day after working all night counting ballots. Anotfier worry harassing a | lot of them is the-annual budget-work. ~The budget must be in the hands of department heads by the 18th, |
What Speedway RACES? A READER wants to know why we referred to Speedway “races” the other day, pointing out there is | only one. To be honest we don't remember doing it | and if we did it was a mistake. We did comment that | someone was “off to the races” but that's a legitimate cliche so we won't apologize for it. . . . Pity the life ot a press agent, Dorothy Knisely, of the Indianapolis Symphony, had it all arranged for newsmen to meet some Philadelphia orchestra officials as the train pulled in the Capitol ‘ave. yards. At the iast minute the schedule was changed so she had to do some rush] phoning to change the place to Union station.: Just
as some newsmen boarded the train in the station and |,
got settled in the lounge, the train pulled out into Capitol ave, yards. Then Miss Knisely had to whip nut to phone other newsmen looking for the train at Union station and tell them the Capitol yards was
the spot after all.
By Ernie Hill
Here at Portillo, toms officials of both bled
the irip became hectic Chile and Argentina scramthrough luggage and queried passengers concerning their reasons for travel. Portillo is in the Andes, near the border between the countries.
as Ccus-
two
Modernization Proposed RAILROAD officials modernizing the trans-Andine and But by
of both countries have proposed speeding
up schedules.
the end of this year Panagra| virline of the United States and several other lines | {
high |
plan to have adequate service to handle all customers. |
The railroad probably will be reduced to little more than a freight liné ‘with one run a week. When it declines to that extent, the question
will arise whether it will be worth heavy maintenance costs to keep it in operation. ; Big crews must be kept in many towns. The train |
reduces 10 miles an hour through storms. track is still mountains has blocking passage. Peaks along way 20,000 22,000 feet Passengers enjoy the scenery for two or three hours, but when the tracks wind up to 13,000 feet, most of them begin to feel the altitude and go to sleep.
speed to
He must see that one of the
come
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the are
The airlines say they will have enough space for| Panagra!
all who wish to travel, within a few months. has announced it will fly larger planes that will take
for invasion.
the bacteria or venom to travel along. At the same time, this destruction of tissue supplies the invading bacteria with food The action of the antivasins seems to be to destroy hvaluronidase more,
the any
and to prevent the production of
By Eleanor Roosevelt
a flabby country, with men fend it physically, We might defense in the future, as well as aggression, mechanical equipment and scientific research, Disciplined Citizenry Important I THINK, 100, we need to devote our energies to better health, stronger, finer people, better better fed and, above all, better disciplined. mocracy is to succeed, zens who use citizenship with intelligence: Prof, willidm James used to say, in a socleLy,
successfu
good qualities. which war brings forth in humar beings, such as unselfishness, real brotherhood of man,
the
snow- | The engineer must see for himself that the]
sliding down overnight,
who a% unable fo deas well face the fact needs
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educated, If dewe need well-disciplined citi-
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there would be found some equipment for
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the recognition of the and the basic human values
which are recognized on the bhttlefield, where people
are free of any artificial surroundings. There is only one real moral equivalent,
and that |
is complete devotion to the improvement of man's
condition,
Since that depends very largely on the elimination of war, and since the elimination of war depends very largely on the development. of citizens through-
out,
the world who insist on being free to think. for
themselves and to express their beliefs, we must work
{for these objectives.
Governments respond to the development of their |
citizens in the demoeragies, so our respon: sibility seems.
clear,
SECOND SECTION
THE SAME FOREVER. . . , Years will change Mrs, Stuart Boughton but caught in clay by her husband (right) will be her likeness | come back through Paris on my in the sculpture department of the art school of the John Herron Art institute,
of today.
on (center, left to right)
A STUDY IN LIFE. Haslet sketch Harry Esman
This enzyme breaks down the tissues plane provided by MacArthur's stafl at the point of invasion and so opens a path for o. fy
land.
the premier to his native
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Here she poses holding her son, David, are David Rubins,
+ « » Elbert Rawlinson and Miss Waunita (center) Models pose for 25 minutes with five minute rest periods. members always are available to constantly check student progress,
FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1946
CAMERA CLOSEUPS + By-Victor Peterson
John Herron Institute—Art
instructor, and Donald M. Mattison, school director.
THE FINISHING TOUCH. in one of the life classes, Faculty and the five years for a degree.
Miss Martha Ayres, Miss Patricia
painted a gloomy picture of peace prospects in Asia. |
“It is my belief the Communists : Now a student won't compromise in any respect,” h the onoo] of 0 “Their ; ’ business adminhe said. “Their objective is to take y y ryepaughlin telrat over the government of China, and stration at In-| I won't hazard a guess as to diana university, Mr. McLaughlin whether they will be successful” entered the navy in October, 1942. He said Communist forces were He is the brother of the Rev. Fr.
well-equipped and were being sup- Edward McLaughlin, assistant pasplied by “someone with modern tor of Little Flower Catholic weapons of every kind.” church,
THE DOCTOR SAYS: Penicillin Destroys Bacteria
Wonder Drugs Prove Effective:
‘BY WILL] AM A. O'BRIEN, M. D. | When the known is purified and the’ PENICILL IN destroys bacteria by extract used in treatment, it does interfering with their growth and not have the same-effect as when development, and not by killing the whole penicillin is used. them directly as do so many of the| The unknown portion of the drug antiseptics, The bacteria do not is apparently more effective than die at once. a fact which makeg!the known portion in destroying the it necessary to continue the treat-!spirochetes of syphilis. ment for, a time after the disease| Penicillin does not destroy all apparently has been conquered, {varieties of germs, as those causing The action of a on bac- | typhoid fever, tuberculosis, and a
teria is metabolic in nature; other| few other diseases are not affected) apy with rest treatment do not | ime they eat the kind of food they anti-bacterial agents, sulfa drugs, act by producing similar
notably the. by it. It is most effective in the! treatment of infections caused by changes. The structure of the germ is replaced in part by the sulfa! drug or penicillin, and this infer- | feres with its life cyclé. Penicillin is the most potent disease-destroying agent yet dis-| covered. The purest penicillin that can be obtained will destroy germs when’ only minute traces are used, | flourish in its presence. - » » ” | ~
PENICILLIN consists of two) STREPTOMYCIN ‘i8 being tried
and gonorrhea germs.
that its use will be extended,
parts, the known and the unknown. in Infections in whieh the sulfa saving. .
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Enrollment is the greatest in history with 130 regular day students, and ever. increasing number of whom are veterans. Saturday and night classes also are held,
... How to make frames is one of the subjects taught students in the four years required for a diploma
currently are designing a music hall lobby complete with wall-covering Miss Dorothy Oldson tacks her completed design on the bulletin board as Miss Virginia Lee and Hillary Bunger focus their Originality is the keyitole of the school, |
nance plant here, | coLU MBUS G ETS N EW made the award. |
pus-producing bacteria, pneumonia, |,
Penicillin now has been tried in| most diseases, and it is not likely|
Many bacteria, after being de-| stroyed by penicillin in the begin-| ning, become resistant and actually nomenal, In some instances the use | of these drugs is superfluous, a
| ——Othman's Travels— [3 Being Detained | In ParisHas °° Its Pleasanfness
By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Staff Correspondent PARIS, May 10~I think the Paris chief of police likes to have me around. I think he thinks that in my perfumed shirts (I'l get to those in a minute) IT am a sweet smelling ornament to the oulen vards, There can be no other explain tion for the fact that he won't let me leaye town. That's all right, chief, I am pres pared to sit in a wicker chair in front of the Cafe de la Paix watchs ing pretty pretties mince by on stilts they call shoes, Take your time, chief, 80 long as my cake of soap’ holds out I like it here, . » ”
THE IDEA last week was {or ma to kiss Paris goodby (on both cheeks) and take a quick look a life in Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland and a few other places cole ored pink and purple in my geoge raphy book. The American consul had to ape prove this scheme, Then the cone suls of all the other countries had to approve his approval. | Only they'd do no business with {me until the French foreign office | said it would be all Tight for me to
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Looking way home. A beautiful blond at the Qual {d'Orsay said she'd fix my passport | immediately, All I needed was a letter from the concierge of my hotel saying I was a. permanent resident there. n » ~ “BUT I am about said, “You're said. I got the letter. I took it to her, She said, mondieu, why didn't thak devilish hotel man get it stamped by the police, I got it stamped. I took it back. This consumed another couple of days, because a Frenchman has got to deliberate before he stamps anything. But why go on? The blond (I bee lieve she uses diluted orange cols ored dye) took my passport and my letter. The chief of police took the same from her. ” » y EACH DAY 1 go back to get 'em, . and each day she reports the chief hasn't made up his mind about me {yet, and am I kicking? Tonight I'm going to see how naked a lady can get in public ak the theater. Tomorrow I'm going to the races, I've made a deal with a restaurant to supply me with what the French call nervous coffee; that means the genuine article keeps you awake ab night. I'm still reducing so I don't mind much the size of the meals 1 get, The wine's good, the women are nice to look at, and tHe songs are all right, too. Chief, there's no hurry about that passport.
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still permanent,” she
Working here are (left to right) Fenton and Orfeo Vian,
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MY ONLY problem concerns the cake of soap I brought from Lon=- * don. The maid at the Hotel Des Etats Unis uses it to wash my shirts, and I don't think she rinses them well because they smell of verbena, Then she brings my soap to my room and I use it to wash myself. . This double life for the cake of soap is like burning a candle at both ends. It's getting thin, The maid says when it wears out come pletely she can continue my launs dering (she does it daily) with my shaving cream.
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| If Overweight, | Why Not Get VOTE FOR MERGER Used to It Now?
SAN FRANCISCO, May 10 (U P.).—Leaders of six C, I. O. mari-| time unions and one independent | CAME across some advice for voted unanimously yesterday to overweight women the other day merge their membership into a sin-| that really made sense. gle, nation-wide organization, fifth| The plump woman, it is pointed in strength in the C., I. O. union out, should always arrive for an | appointment on time—because the ! puffing, out-of-breath fat woman calls attention to her excess weight and always looks a bit ludicrous. Also, the plump woman shouldn't go in for coyness or try to be a clinging vine, She is advised to keep out of deep, cushiony chairs, too—because held a half-block downtown area|it’s impossible for her to get out of which will become a city park. It| gone gracefully. was presented by the First Chris- | Bow tian church, Mrs. Hugh Miller, and | ANp SHE is told she should give Miss Elsie I. Sweeney to replace|.yira time to good grooming—and the former commercial park, now special attention to cultivating & the site of the new Christian pleasing voice. church, Now those are things any overs . weight woman could do to make herself more attractive. And live ing up to those wouldn't be the . |strain on her good natufe that [constantly trying to reduce would
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By RUTH MILLETT
heirarchy, to present a united front against American ship owners on land and sea.
CITY PARK GROUNDS
COLUMBUS, Ind, May 10 (U. P.) ~The city of Columbus today
Such advice ought to make plump Bi a little less apologetic about |themselves, For it assumes they {aren't being traitors to themselves and their families by not wagingta depressing battle against weight.
drugs and pencillin are not of value, notably tuberculosis and typhoid] fever, The possibility of successful treatment of patients with acute brucellosis and tularemia has been | indicated by recent trials. At the present time; streptomycin is used with greatest success in some unusual forms of tuberculosis. Patients with regular tuberculosis : who ‘are progressing favor-
| YF OVERWEIGHT women will just take that advice and try to be |as attractive as they can despite their weight—instead of saying guilty “I really shouldn't” every:
love—they will ‘be able to live peaceably with themselves. i The next thing is for someone to persuade middle-aged women there is nothing disgraceful about t
require streptomycin.
Bacteria also can develop resistance to streptomycin, which suggests that we will need other drugs to back it up, years, so they can. quis 8 Progress in the treatment of dis- be young. That i ease with antibiotics (sulfa, peni-|group of women can relax and en= cillin, streptomycin) has been phe- joy life, - ‘ : Tt is high time we quit trying as pour women into a youthful nature will effect a curs unaided. by making them feel guilty but in many cases they are life-'years bring wrinkles or pounds. |
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