Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 January 1947 — Page 2

Is Seen Aid | (To New Drug | Grisein Is Sister’ To Streptomycin

(Copyright, 1947, by Science Servigs)

| germefighter has been discovered by { _ |Dr. Selman A. Waksman, famed i _. Rutgers university and New Jersey edi: ACCIDENTAL TRAGEDY — agricultural experiment station - 3 \ : her who discover streptomyState Trooper Stephen Ranich ne germ- fighter Is related t'

Be Chief | startled ¢fate police radio men |streptomyein.

panions, were in Chiet Chapmags port: “I've shot my best | Loo pune germs. The name office in Munster, a suburb of Ham friend." comes from the last part of the : name for the soil organism which

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last night. sani | pV) rth yieide bois it and streptomyein, | Trooper Ranich, 28, of Chi-| J" streptomyces us. : signed out of service over his fa’. Wo . ; - Qrisein was discovered in a search

for “bigger and better streptomy-'

He used Chief Chapman's office fre- \ 1 ed eins.” Dr. Waksman sald. : quently and kept his records and IZ The new antibiotic {1 sno rival to Removes Revolver * gis streptomycin. By itself it shows, : "City police and FBI agents last|,, creat promise as a weapon! minutes

i Ten later he was back on night” recipturéd two long term|agdinst germs. : the air, sobbing Out the rePOCt:freders criminals who broke out off Its value, Dr. Waksman believes,

!sistance to antibiotic drugs is the

battle jacket and revolver and hol-| iding in FBI a y ster, tossing the gun on the chief's 4 uv patrol Patrick M | moder yemeates for infection, said

cylinder do extract” cartridges when | 0. Kenneth” Sanders, | Germ resistance to streptomycin sen

discharged. | Davis was serving s long sentence ;,,; pe even more important thah Taro lad beh wailing CDSE Tobliery and Winhoven ws! fecitance to penicillin. This, Dr. , ing 25 years for post office rob-| : hands st & basin across the poy’ or Waksman explained, is because

his ) streptomycin is used in chronic room, was going to his desk to get FS erdem————— illnesses for which it must be given

oe when the gun red. Roads Mostly Clear ~~ [over a long period of time. PentWas

meeting a , on the other hand, is used! x Of ice and Snow fo acute condaigions from which the | the shot and Chief Indiana roads which are not patient gets well quickly. Chapman's outcry, and rushed to closed to traffic for repairs are Develop Resistance

alive | Streptomycin should, for example, and the trooper hysterical when except for a freeing rain on a... o.04 results in undulant fever, | man

but in practice it does not. This. long drawn-out illness gives the

: " partment reported today. : i i : germs a chance to develop resistance with two children. The trooper, a| Closed because of construction = =.. =~ cote The same thing |

veteran of world war II. lives in are U. $ 12 in Michigan Guys nd ay occur in tuberculosis, for which of the Hammond of Monticello; Ind. 32 east of An. | SUgptom] Sn sn ning how | 'derson;.Tnd. 39 north of La Porte; entists np : a half-mile west of the streptomycin, penicillin and oes

Ind. 49 three miles north APtibioties' aet to overcome ;

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. lof the common cold, influenza and

service 8 7H | infantile paralysis, and for others | record” and that he is Navy Death Toll “one of the best troopers in the that might even be effective against business.”

88,842; Army 308,978 cancer.

A routine coroner's investigation, WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 (U. P.).— What. No Robins? rr" :

WASHINGTON, Jan. $1—A new J

“Jas night with his sobbed re- | Grisein is the name Dr. Waksman |

AWARDED MEDAL—Cmdr. Richard Nott’ Antrim; Peru, Ind., _recaived the medal of honor from President Truman in a ceremony yesterday at the White House. Cmdr. Antrim was cited for fearless leadership and for his courage when, as a prisoner in the Netherlands East Indies, he stepped forward and offered to take the remainder of the punishment being given a fellow officer, al ready beaten info unconsciousness. His act saved the life of the

“ 4 earenworth last week. will come from combining it alt

by Norman H. MeCabe,| Most Important Problem He n charge of the Indianapolis This development of germ re-|

Daf Lie day errs: wed’k tal loved in: on thle pair. who : broadcast most important problem today in ; | taxicab at English inaction with, the use of these [87

radio talent and teen-age enter-

jtainers about town. Mr. Stone and

Mr. Kelk will serve as M. C.'s for

the Indianapolis teen-age enter-

tainers. The secorid half of the program,

from 11 p. in. to midnight, will: be |;

broadcast over the four radio stations. Mr. Stone will be M. C. for the radio show, '

ginia Byrd and the Trolley Trio, Johnny Winn and the Four Stars,

Qilbert Forbes and other local Tex, and the Bronx.

was set today. As a formality Lt. The toll of known dead for the navy, Rex Risher, commandant of the marine corps and coast guard was, LEWES, Del, Jan. 31 (U. P).— Dunes Park post, asked town [88842 from the beginning of the Eight consecutive days of un-| board officials who were present war to the first. of this year, the seasonable 70 degree temperatures to file a report. ¢ |navy reported today. |caused dandelions to bloom on the LL Risher said Trooper Ranich| Latest war department figures Delaware Capes today—two months is off duty today, “prostrate” with showed 308.978 army dead as of last ahead of schedule, Iris, daffadils grief over the tragedy. ‘June 27. |

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THREATENED «~ Thelma Thompson, Hollywood waitress, who told police she was taken to an isolated lovers’ lane and threatened by a man who called “himself the “Black Dahlia" slayer.

le Mk Bwygert said today the two boys

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Held ‘Too Strong’

LOGANSPORT, Ind, Jan. ) ? (v, ).~Federal District Judge Luther

thorities and not by the federal

government, : Judge Swygert sald the case

‘would, be" handled by the state or

Cass county authorities, He said °

_ Any prosecution of Lysle Oraves, 11, and Jack Sprinkle, 12, under the

federal train wrecking act “would be too strong in view of the tender years of the subjects.” Bee The two boys demonstrated for

‘officers last night how they placed

a bale of fencing wire on the tracks, They probably will be prosecuted as Juveniles in a state court, author

ities sald.

: 6 Cars Derailed Four persons died and 40 were injured as a result of the wreck. The engine of the Chicago-bound train struck the wire and swept it along the track until it snarled a

Switch. It threw the engine and six of the train's.eight cars off the | track.

During last night's re-enactment, the boys required 385-minutes to place two planks, three fende posts and the heavy bale of wire fencing across the tracks. Earlier, they had

{told Investigators they decided to

place the -obstacles in the train's

: (way “just to see what would’ Avenger” were dozen in one mail delivery, one happen.” ? flooding police and newspaper desks, | with postage. due, some from as far away as El Paso, were too obviously the work of pranksters to warrant fingerprintOne newspaper received half a'ing.

They fled the scene and hid bee Ho ‘hind a house as the train ape | proached then plunged off the track.

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