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‘GERMS POTENT

» > By ROBERT RICHARDS

"and "fully as the atomic side of it.”

AS WAR FACTOR

Scientist Reports Bacteria| Dangerous as A-Bomb,

United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Sept. 26.—If world

war III comes, you may die of a mysterious stomach ache, still worried over the atomic bomb.

Or, even if you live, the war may}

be half-ended before you're fully aware it has started. “Few people realize it,” a Manhattan bacteriplogist said today, “but biological and bacteriological warfare has developed just as fast

Poison Revealed The war department recently revealed that it had developed a poison so powerful that one tiny cube could wipe out the combined populations of Canada and the United States. That's only the beginning, bacteriologists say, and many insist— as of now—the bugs could win over| the bombs,” if the attack were] worked just right. . The enemy, at ‘present, may be slugged by either a bacteria or a virus. Botulismus. toxin (which is your old foe, food poison) may be purified and concentrated into a power- |

» ful force which would go a long!

way toward knocking out an entire | population,

Agent Could Carry Supply “Any enemy agent could carry the. .necessary supply in “his| pocket,” a bacteriologist explained. “He would have two focal points

WARNS PLAGUE STILL MENACING

| Virulent as at Any Time in History, Doctor Says,

By Science Servioe SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 26.-— Plague, while virtually conquered by | modern communities, still looms on the medical horizon as a grim threat in any major disaster to civilization. 3 This is indicated by Dr, Karl F. Meyer, noted University. of California bacteriologist, who says that while the mortal black death of the middle ages appears to, be as viru{lent and more widespread than at any time in history, its harvest of death has been cut to.a negligible point by modern civilization, Obstacles placed in the path of | plague, outside certain parts of | Asia, include good housing, sanitation, quarantine, and ‘supervision of ¥= | the infectious sick. More recently new weapons of ‘modern medicine With Lis father, Pier, tan have been added, including the sulfa amateur violinist, marking time : : drugs and streptomycin, with the at their home in Rome; Italy, | qd " Dé Pierino Gamba, 10 years old, | promise that epidemics may ? [ halted almost before they start.

plays the full orchestral score of | is Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Disappearance Still a Mystery Dr. Meyer says that laboratory ex-

The 4-foot lad used a doubled- |

over pillow to be high enough for the keyboard, but his

feet don't reach the pedals, |

_Pierino had his first music lesson at 7. His father soon discovered the boy's ability to grasp the difficult scores and groomed him for conducting. Pierino has since conducted Italy's royal opera orchestra and has a conductor's

repertoire of ‘21 complex scores. [sons exposed -to plague reduces the

Critics term him a im a genius.

of attack—the water and milk sup-| ply. If he missed one, he might

connect with the other.” In the use of bacteriological poisons, however, some experts be-

® lieve it would prove a hit-or-miss

affair unless the enemy agent went | around jabbing all his victims with | hypodermics. “It's too. unstable,” they said, “and doesn't keep its strength very long.” Could Use Virus

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BID TO BREMEN

Unification.

Times Foreign Service

f. PARIS, Sept, 26—The French

But if bacteria fails, & -virus decided today not to permit Ger-!

could. he used—such as influenza. ‘During the past 15 years we have developed the culture of virus| organisms to such a fine degree, 'l a bacteriologizt said, “that we] could . easily give an entire nation] influenza, or Japanese fever. “Virus organisms would be easier | to handle in attacking a country] because they are spread through | the nose and throat, while bacteria usually must be taken internally to be effective. “We wouldn't even worry about killing all the people. “That wouldn't be necessary. All we'd need to do is to make them sick.”| He said that virus organisms could be spread silently through a city with ‘a common hand spray, | and no one would be the wiser, | In a war against the bugs, you couldn't even "be certain just which country was ‘attacking you.|

Suggests Tea at Cocktail Parties

MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 26 (U, P.).—Rosseau Van Voorhies, Chicago businessman, advocates tea | parties instead of cocktail parties to “raise the level of fellowship.” | van Voorhies was applauded by the 72d annual convention of the ! National Woman's Christian | Temperance Union yesterday | when he told how a group of Chi- | cago men substituted tea for | cocktails and found they pre- | ferred the tea.

TIMES SERIAL—

Devil's Laughter ....By Alice M. Laverick

CHAPTER 22 AS THE brothers struck out at] each other, underneath my terror | I was aware of a vague surprise that Colin seemed to be getting the worst of it, : Surely he must be a stronger man than Mark, he was larger and Mark | was not at all the athletic type. It. somehow dawned on me then ‘that Mark, in his" maddened state, was possessed of a sort of spurious strength,

» » » [, THEY HAD fought all over the! stairs and down into the lower hall | and into the dining room. Then 1 heard a smothered scream from Ellen. Mark had picked up the carving knife from the table. Ellen screamed again and at the same moment the doorbell rang. | Mark let the knife drop from his| hand and stared at it and then at| Colin, as if he was just awakening from a nightmare. He released Colin's throat and Colin's breath began to come back in harsh rasping gasps. It was upon this scene that Pather Gene came in.

® Nw HE STOOD in the doorway regarding the two brothers in shocked silence for a long moment. Ellen took my arm in a hand that trembled violently ‘and we went back into tHe kitchen, : ~ After a while, and with the aid of two good hot cups of tea, we ‘felt somewhat better. Whatever Father Gene sald to the two brothers I never knew. But

| man administrators in the French

zone of occupation to attend the Bremen conference scheduled to open- in a fortnight. This conference has. been called by the British for the purpose of | discussing unification of the British and American occupation zones of Germany. Today's move is in line with the long-standing French policy of

| opposing any attempt purporting

to lead to the centralization of Germany under German political

| organization. And behind it are | seen internal political motivations.’

For example, President-Premier Georges Bidault, though holding less uncompromising views on the subject than Charles de Gaulle,

wants to avoid risking attack by

the general, just a month before general elections, He also seeks fo placate the French Communists, who are "opposed to unification of the Reich notwithstanding the“ fact that their counterparts in Germany

{call for it. | Copyright, 1946. by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Ine.

FIRST CAPITAL CELEBRATES

CHILLICOTHE, O. (U, P), — | Chillicothe, the first capital of Ohio when statehood was achieved In 1803, will hold a sesquicentennial celebration Oct. 1-5. Nathaniel Massie, Revolutionary war soldier, surveyor and trader, founded the

{ city in 1796.

Ellen and I had settled into “a library and sit there the rest of the

routine, also. We were in a conspiracy ‘to keep Colin from getting in Mark's way. To be sure, Ellen

always insisted on: my going to would go away and leave him there {bed early on week nights, now that | and on these nights I got very little I was going to school, and she sleep, myself,

herself would lie ‘awake and listen | home, Then she would steal down and let him in. But now and then, over-

asleep and fail to hear him, and

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[tor the sound of Colin coming | "THEN AGAIN. he might be so

{come by exhaustion, she would fall|

{then I would creep down and open

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{help him to bed. ~ » »

THERE WAS never any telling {what his mood might be on these nights. © Sometimes "he would be

they had ever held for me.

{gay and much fike his former self, and then he would call me “Little Saint. Cecelia” and tell. me fan-

tastic tales of faraway places. I always listened with the fascination’ fall to the floor and be hurt.

Once he lifted a strand of my!

periments at the University of California and elsewhere and reports from India on the use of sulfadia-

among persons who have contracted the disease can be cut to a small percentage. The laboratory research also indicates the dosing of healthy per-

| possibility of their contracting the disease to a small percentage. Preliminary studies with streptomycin indicate this antibiotic may be even more effective as an agent against plague. Dr. Meyer says that the disappearance of plague from western {Europe after the London epidemic lof 1666 with its 70,000 deaths still is

portunity to grow up and rhobilize weapons against it. Vigilance Urged The disease appeared in epidemic form again in 1894, at Hongkong, and quickly spread all over the world, concentrating in particular areas, When it appeared in China the plague bacillus was quickly isolated and identified and serums were developed against it. Perhaps even more important, its mode of transmission was determined; it is carried by rats in cities and by squirrels and mice in field and forest, and the bacillus 1s spread among these and to man by flea bites. Dr. ‘Meyer warns that vigilance must not be relaxed against plague, in spite of® the potent defenses against it. Rodent control and flea eradication, the latter with the aid of DDT, must continue, Urban communities need fear little from piague today, but a constant source of potential outbreaks in rural areas lies in wild rodents. Reservoirs of plague from this source exist in 14 states west of the Mississippi; 38 species of rodents are carriers. Only occasional deaths éccur from this rural source of the disease, though there is no good explanation for this, Dr. Meyer says, except possibly the modern mode of living | and “unrecognizable and immeasurable” natural forces.

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| night, drinking and staring into the fire. But he would not go up to bed |and I dared not speak to him. 1

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{very drunk when he came home from town that I would have hard work helping him up the stairs |

His eyes would be dull, unseeing,| he'would not recognize me. He would | sit on the side of the bed with. his head in his hands, when I finally got him there, and I, standing helplessly ‘by, would never be sure ‘what I should do. : Should I go away and. leave him or stay for a while until he moved? Many a night I have sat there, numb with cold, in a straight- | backed chair and ‘waited until he had fallen back across the bed, fearful always that he might, instead,

~ » ~ THERE WAS one night when

hair gently in his hand and held I bad him half way up the stairs it for a moment before letting it{and the study door opened and fall back into place, and he .said, there was Mark, standing staring “What glorious red hair you have,|YP at us as if he did not believe little Saint Cecelia. You know, I've | his eyes.

a notion. you'll be a heart-breaker| After that first moment of one of hh. Je days.” ear! breaker] shocked disbelief, Mark '. came

That night after T returned to SWAfLLY up the’ stairs himself and

my litle room, I-stool before my relieved me of my burden. WFO oe Leushiod my Lar until a S, ee my foolish ordered m y ym whee don't ever do this again. It is not

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after that there was no more fighting, thotigh I knew Mark was still very bitter and that he hardly spoke to Colin, As for Colin, he took the natural course, the one to be expected of | one of his temperament, 5 wo BY THE time fall came and the

| ter, be the I So { . = e the hero described as blond I'M SURE Mark hol? fothing to

as a Norseman or as red-skinned | | his Brother that night, realizing as an Indian, in my mind I pic-| that Colin was in no state to comured him a black Irishman exactly prehend anything. But “the- next [ like Colin Fitzgerald. levening at dinner he gave Colin : what Ellen referred to as “an eleOften his mood was different. T|., pi€e of his mind.” And Colin (have seen him stand and gaze Up came out into the kitchen after- | the stairs with that in his, eyes wards to apologize to Ellen and me.

leaves had all’ withered apd blown | | that seemed ‘to tell me he was see-|

away ‘oft the tall maples and I |ing the ghost of Beatrice in her > had returned to high school, Colin rose-colored gown, standing wait-|

Fitzgerald had settled into a routine. {ing to take that fatal plunge. Or] There was never a night went by | hearing again, perhaps, Miss Charin which he drew a sober hreath.||otte laugh.

Oolin Fitzgerald had “taken to the| After that he would be surly and drink . silent, He might go Into the|

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(To Be’ Continued)

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