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Drug Produced On Mass Basis

Research Scientists Reveal Synthesis Of Chloromycetin

By JANE STAFFORD Copyright, 1040, By Becience Service | WASHINGTON, Mar. 26—For the first time in history a diseasecuring mold chemical, or antibiotic drug, similar to penicillin, has been synthesized on a practical basis. The drug is which has been

chloromycetin -euring scrub

~ typhus and other kinds of typhus

fever, typhoid fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, undulant fever, virus pneumonia, whooping, cough, Friedlander's pneumonia and some other germ infections. The synthesis was achieved by research chemists at Parke, Davis & Co. in Detroit where production of the drug from the mold has been going on for about two years. First news of its synthetic production reached scientists through a report by Dr. Joseph E. Smadel| of the Army Medical Department here to the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine. Hear Details Next Week Details will be reported at the American Chemical Society meeting in San Francisco next week. Tests on embyronated eggs, mice and two human patients with scrub typhus fever showed that the synthetic chloromycetin is as effective as the mold;pro-| duced one, Dr. Smadel reported. | In these tests it was tried against] scrub, epidemic and murine typhus fevers, spotted fever, psittacosis| (parrot fever) rickettsialpox and| the lymphogranuloma virus. | Pencillin, first of the antibiotic drugs, was synthesized after years of intensive efforts by teams of]

Indiana's Junior Scientists Hold Assembly

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A youthful scientist is interviewed by members of the judging committee in the Iddiana Science Talent Search. Shown are (left to right) P. D. Edwards, Ball State Teachers College; Paul Judy, durris High School, Muncie; Miss Winona H. Welch, DePauw University, and Lawrence H. Baldinger, Notre Dame University.

2 High School Seniors Honored

Announcement of Awards to Be Made

By VICTOR PETERSON Weird scientific ‘equipment was erected in the roof garden dining room of the Severin Hotel today as outstanding Hoosier high

“Others Hurt

scientists here and in England. school scientists met for the InBut this synthesis was a labora- diana Junior Scientists Assembly.

tory feat not suitable for production of usable quantities of the

g. The chloromycetin synthesis is on a practical large-scale production basis. Parke, Davis & Co.| are now. producing the drug by the fermentation process from the mold and by the synthetic process. The synthetic chloromycetin has| been named chloramphenicol. Hope Price Will Drop Both kinds of chloromycetin| are now on the market. Original-| ly, the supply was so small that it could only be used for clinical trials by a limited number of physicians. But with two kinds of production going, the manufacturers have been able to release it through regular channels, though this has been done so recently that drugstores in some communities may not yet have supplies. With two ways of making the drug, it is hoped that the price will soon drop. At present, the best price, to institutions such as hosiptals, is somewhat over $2 per gram. Doctors now use from eight to nine to 20 grams for each patient treated. Hope that chloromycetin might become a cure for the common cold has been raised by its effectiveness in some virus diseases. A few physicians have tried it and reported good results, but there have been no scientifically con-

trolled trials of it in colds as yet.)

Egyptian Royal | Beauty Finds |

Romance Again

CAIRO, Mar. 26 (UP) -— Ro-| mance flowered again today for Princess Fawzia, 27, one of the most beautiful women in the world, who was cast aside by the Shah of Iran after nine years of| married life in which she bore him no son. ~The royal palace announced that the princess, sister of King Farouk, would be married Mon-| day. The bridegroom-to-be is Maj. Ismail Sherine Bey, 40, handsome

and wealthy. and Jack Forbes,

Graduate of Cambridge, Maj. Donald Sherine is press officer for| the/Gardner anc Dana Mary Gillies

Egyptian cabinet. His uncle is governor of Cairo. = 1] ” LAST Nov. 19 two identical announcements were issued in Cairo and Tehran. They disclosed that the queens of Egypt and Iran neither of whom had given a son to their regal husbands, had been divorced.

levi, took the 17-year-old Egyptian princess for his bride in March, 1939. She was proclaimed empress of Iran Sept. 17, 1941. Plane Hits Arsenal; Two Fliers Killed DENVER, Mar. 26 (UP) — board of Air Force officers searched through the scattered wreckage of a C-45 plane at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal today, seeking the causgof a crash that killed two fliers. Lowry Air Force base officers sald the twin-engined plane smashed into an Army engineer warehouse at the arsenal near Denver late last night.

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Amusem’nts 5-9 Inside Indpls. 5 KS ...... 8 Mrs. Manners 7 Bridge ...... 3|Movies .ivv0s 5 Classified .11-13 Needlework . 3 Comics ......14! Obituaries ..11 Crossword .. 8 Pattern ..... 3 Editorials ...10 Radio ....... 8 Forum ......10| Side Glances 10 - Meta Given . 3 Society’ ..... 3

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Twenty of the top high school seniors over the state specializing in science are here as winners in the Indiana Science Talent Search sponsored by The Indianapolis Times, the Indiana Academy of Science and the Indiana Junior Academy of Science. They were selected by a judging committee composed of leading professional scientists in the state. All entrants were contestants in the National Science Talent Bearch sponsored by West-' inghouse Electric Corp. and Science Service, a Scripps-Howard affiliate. Assemble Projects

The projects entered by the Hoosier youths were re-evaluated on a state basis. Today the young scientists converged on the Severin Hotel from all corners of Indiana. Each youth immediately began to assemble the physical aspects of his projects on tables } lining the large dining room. Some of the equipment was o. a simple nature, test tubes, flasks, gas burners, sterile dishes. The simplicity of equipment, however, has no bearing on the complexity of the subject. Other students virtually needed a trailer. The project of Richard Walker Patch, West Lafayette, filled a large table. He studied and constructed a workable wind tunnel. ~ Robert F. Treadway, Roosevelt High School, East Chicago, enlisted the aid of his father and mother to assemble his complicated setup on the culture and breeding of fish. Announce Awards Announcement of the awards was to be made at a luncheon. Presentations were to be made by Walter Leckrone, editor of The Times. Keynoting the luncheon session was Dr. Karl Lark-Horovitz, Purdue University physics department head and nationally famous scientist. Youths attending the session include: Paula Jean Petty, Judith Alger Indianapolis; Thomas A.

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- James Gettinger, Sullivan High School, puts the finishing touches on his soil exhibit,

Donald Scheiber, Central Catholic High Scheel, Ft. Wayne, adjusts his project.

Scheiber,

Ft. Wayne; Gerald A. Peterson, Chesterton; James R. Maloon

Kendallville; William Lee Kissick, ” ° Howe Military Academy; James \" G d IN { | R. Gettinger, Sullivan; Plisha P. Ins’ ran Q iona Russian Hero, 66-1 Shot, Finishes

Blackburn, Hartford City; Robert First in Famed Steeplechase

L. Bell, Hammond; Donald R Judd and James Leon Goatley AINTREE, England, Mar. 26 (UP)

Evansville; Donald L. Gray and Mark Joel Stern, Gary; Robert F.

Louise Stiller, Connersville; Paul the historic Grand National Steeplechase today. R. Judy, Muncie, and Richard W. | Patch. Jest—~Lafayette.

Car Kills Man

856-yard course.

has won the Grand National since a lark, picked himato win.

An Indianapolis man was Sprig, at 6 to 1, came home first

fatally injured shortly before noon 22 Years ago. today when he was struck by an A crowd estimated at 500,000 automobile at 27th St. and turned out amid ideal weather to Northwestern Ave. ‘see” the running of the historic ,."." p inner by eight length The victim, who tied in an am- classic, although actually most of | 5 noipan length Evoaroted LE bulance en route to General Hos- them got only a small glimpse of gnq and-third horses. pital, was identified as John L. the two laps around the haz-| Williams, 921 W. 27th St, by ardous triangular course. 'papers found in his pockets. He 43 Horses Start imay, finished fourth. He was (was 32. d th Co | A total of 43 horses went to! 6 to 1 choice in the betting. Withesuts sal ; e pan was the post today, the same number ——————————— struck as he crosse e street at |, last, year.

[the intersection. He was first, In romping Rome 45h easy Youth Accused

| t f LR taken to the office of Dr (victory, Russian Hero earned for Of Gi |’ M d {his owner $37,868. Roimand’s , Irs uraer

100 to 1, but dropped to 66 by po time, ‘

| Young, 2653 Northwestern Ave. | Hospital officials sald Mr. Wil‘injuries and a possible fractured $4600 for second. Mrs. M. HAar-| pigtrict skull. ‘ ; ivey, owner of Royal Mount, reMr. Williams, an employee of ceived $2300 for third and Lord the American Foundry Co., is sur- Mildmay $1148. vived by his wife, Ola Mae; a| Russian Hero, a nine-year-old tricia Birmingham, pretty 1 sons, . i \ x .

Russian Hero, a 66-to-1 The Shah of Persia, Reza Pah- Treadway, East Chicago; Mary shot picked by the London Daily Worker, won the 105th running of

Roimand, a 22 to 1 shot, was second and Royal Mount was third in the grueling race over 30 thorn and gorse fences on the four-mile

Yet he charged across the finish ‘

Cromwell; heavy favorite rid-| |den by owner Lord Tony Mild- 444 whirled across Indiana from

Hams died of internal and head OWner, Lord Bicester, collected, MILWAUKEE, Mar. 26 (UP)—

Agree on 15-Month Rent Rule Extension

Tornadoes Kil Weds Patient at Billings

2; Report 48

Oklahoma; Texas Hit; Property Loss | Believed Heavy

DALLAS, Tex., Mar. 26 (UP)— Tornadoes and savage winds whipped through Oklahoma and Texas today, leaving at least two dead and 48 reported injured. Twisters struck at Crowder, Okla., and Springtown, Tex. in the pre-dawn hours. One person was killed and 25 reported injured {in Oklahoma and angther four {were injured at Springtown.

Today is the first anniversary of the destructive Good Friday tornado which wrecked the town | of Coatesville last year and | caused 21 deaths. The Coates- | ville business community Is about 75 per cent recovered and new homes have been built near

| the sites of those wrecked. { 1

Winds gauged at 75 miles an hour and a tornado at Desde-| ‘mona, Tex., late yesterday had| taken one life and injured 19 {persons in nine nearby communities. Albert Allen Avery, 36, died at El Paso when he feftfrom from a roof he was working on in high wind.

4 in Critical Condition

The Oklahoma state highway patrol reported that Mrs. Jane Colburn, 45, of Crowder, died in a McAlester hospital, where 25 other persons had been taken by a fleet of ambulances dispatched to the small community after the storm struck around 4 a. m. (In“‘dianapolis Time). Four of the thjured were reported ‘in critical

ondition. ii t early two hours later, the boiling T™annel of wind struck Westville, Okla., about 100 miles northleast of Crowder. All 1200 residents of the city were believed safe, but damage to buildings in the business district was estimated at $150,000. The tornado, first of the “twister season” in Oklahoma, had pounded across the iittle Pittsburgh county settlement of Heywood a few minutes before hitting Crowder. No injuries were reported there, but there was extensive property damage. | Phone Lu*:s Down First reports said three persons were dead at Crowder and nearby Canadian, but the patrol reported later that there was no definite information.

| Telephone lines were down and the only contact was through the highway patrol radio from McAlster to Oklahoma City.

At Springton, the Texas highway patrol said 12. houses were flattened. Many minor injuries | were also reported.

| At McAlester patrol dispatcher Fred Emanuel said the storm | swept a path from southwest to northeast through Crowder, a { town of 378 population.

| Members of the 180th Infantry Company of the Oklahoma Na- | tional Guard were called immediately to search farm homes and the area around Crowder for ‘more possible injured. ! '

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Cloudy Weather, Rain to Continue

‘Choice’ of Daily Worker | rn. non

6 | 7 a m... 54 11 a. m... 58 8 a. .n... 55 12 (Noon) 60 9a m.. 56 “1 p. my... 62 The first ‘anniversary of the

Good Friday tornado which killed 21 in. Indiana last year and wrecked Coatesville was marked today by steady rain and gray skies in Indianapolis. . The mercury, however, refused to be depressed. It reflected the mild temperature with a high of 65 degrees. Temperatures will not fall very

The defeat of Cromwell main-|to 1 shot in yesterday's wagering ¢ar tonight, the Weather Bureau tained the old jinx — no favorite when the Worker, apparently. as predicted, even though showers or

thunderstorms are expected. The

Overnight, the price leaped to'low Will be a springlike 58.

Tomorrow's forecast called for clearing and partly cloudy weathr. Sunday churchgoers may enjoy fair skies and a temperature

s >f probably 66 degrees at its highist,

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Property damage in the millions was counted when the tora Clay to Jay counties last year. {Most of the casualties and damlage occured at Coatesville, » — wi a———

‘Sally’ Begins Sentence

still clung toa hope of freedom

Attorney William Mec- today as she began serving a 10 | Cauley today charged Milton to 30{Babich with the murder of Pa-

|said, he planned to ask

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|-~Mildred (Axis Sally) Gillars)

year sentence for treason. {Her attorney, James J. Laughlin,

Ft. Harrison, slips a ring on the

William M. Spencer, a patient in Billings General Hospital,

House Group Wins in Bout With Senators

, Bigger Returns for ‘ Landlords Remains As Sole Key Issue WASHINGTON, Mar. 26 (UP) — House and Senate conferees agreed today on a straight’ 15-month extension of rent controls which expire Mar. 31. ’ The Senate conferees gave in to ‘the House and agreed to the 15 months duration, after more than an hour of discussion. The Senate had voted a-13 | months extension with a threes” months “moratorium” period dure (ing which tenants could not be (evicted for refusing to pay ine

creased rents. The conferees were

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finger of Catherine Stonehouse, wn - thelr

Times switchboard operator, in the hospital chapel, and R. Stanley second day of trying to work out Hendricks, chaplain, pronounces them man and wife in marriage a compromise rent control ex

_ceremonies yesterday.

Two Injured at Harvester Foundry

S. Side Woman Suffocat When Bed Catches Fire

Girl, 5, Burned by Trash Blaze;

v / tension law. 2a = a! The most controversial point still remains to be settled. That involves the question of bigger . return for landlords. The House voted a “fair return” {guarantee to landlords with nothing specific spelled out. The Sen~ |ate rejected that as unworkable and instead approved two “auto-

A 39-year-old South Side woman was suffocated by smoke when matic” 5 per cent rent ceiling inher bed was ignited today, and three persons were burned in other creases over the next year.

fires. .

Late yesterday the House made

The woman, apparently asleep when the fire broke out near her Concessions on a so-called ‘home bed, died in her smoke-filled apartment before she could summon aid. /rule’ formula for letting states, Miss Clara Supple was carried from the blazing residence at 827 Cities, towns and villages remove

8. Delaware St. by firemen. Attempts to revive here were unsuccessful. She was found lying on the floor at the foot of her blazing bed in the kitchen of the one - story brick © apartment. Firenan Paul Lindemann of Station 17 carried the victim outside to a vard where resuscitation attempts were made. . Firemen said the woman was not burned. Cause of the blaze was not determined immediately. James Duman, who lives in an adjoining apartment at 216 E. Wyoming St., called firemen when he discovered into his residence. Neighbors reported Miss Supple had arrived home shortly after midnight. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Supple, 323 Bicking St. In a second early morning fire Charles W. Walters. 31, of 2156 Winter Ave., was burned about the face. arms and hands. Cause of the blaze, confined to his bed-

Miss Supple

room, was not determined. He was given first aid by firemen. Girl, -5, Burned

A 5-year-old girl was in serious condition in St. Vincent's Hospital today with burns on the legs and back. Carla Marie Murray, 5524 Vietory Dr., was badly burned yesterday when her clothing was ignited as she played near a trash fire. Her mother, Mrs. Carl Murray, heard the child's scream and called a relative who took her to the hospital. Fred Watkins, 40, of 108 Artis Dr., suffered body burns today in a flash fire at the International Harvester Co. foundry. He was draining a spraying fluid from a tank when the liquid poured out

“on hot sand or metal

Olie Montgomery, 27 Johnson St., another workman, smothered the lames which ignited Mr. Watkins’ clothing He was in fair condition in General Hospital today.

Pilot Sure Beauty Queen

Wed Him for

» Going to §. America to Write Memoirs Under Title: ‘How Green Was My Billfold’

NEW ORLEANS, Mar. today he is finally and completely Orleans of 1948” married him for dla. He sald he is going back

memoirs, which he will call “How Green Was My Billfold.”

‘I've been a gentleman as

Cauthen said. “Now I'm going —— to laugh it off and have some fun.”

| Capt. Cauthen saw his 18-year-old bride,

Jean Floyd, twice yesterday. The Cause

where he and her brother were WASHINGTON, Mar. 26 (UP) drinking and told him: “I came heard it to my face,” he said. to tell you what you wanted to

(hear. I want a divorce.”

Ruling Delayed

smoke billowing ~

the former Barbara not love, but a plane ticket, be-

mn a ceilings with their governor's ap-

Little David’ Case "=:

Elsewhere in Congress:

Pensions Chairman John E. Rankin today scheduled House Veterans Committee ne yapung ’ ~ Wis hew 10 give Probe $1 8,000 pensions to needy and aged veterans. Florida Home | The Mississippi Democrat said A ruling in the “Little David” he believed the hearings could be Walker earnings hearing was up concluded next week. in the air today as Probate Court! House administration leaders Judge White awaited the result!predicted the House would pass of an investigation into the boy's the modified bill. £18,000 Florida home. | Technical experts from the Submission of evidence in the Veterans Administration are ex-four-day hearing closed yesterday pected to be called as the first although an accounting of the boy witnesses. Mr. Rankin's new bill evangelist's earnings still was in-|carries $72 monthly pensions for complete, Left unaccounted for needy, 65-year-old ex-servicemen was $5000 paid out in campaign of World War I.

funds. Foreign Aid

Senate Republican Leader Kenneth Wherry protested that, under the present wording of a provision in the pending Marshall Plan extension bill, the adminis. mortgage tration oud be authorized 2 nance e evelopment o 1itThe Rev. Raymond Hoektra, igh oi] refineries Fall over the manager of the 14-year-old boy.!giohe.” testified the house was “given”| The provision would give the to Little David by Dr.-Fred Myers, Economic Co-operation Adminisretired Florida physician. Louis tration the authority to assist any

Mortgage Hinted ! Russell Newgent, attorney for! James Dawson, “Little David's’ guardian, asked for a delay when it developed the Orlando, Fla. property may have a $14,000

Rosenberg, the Rev. Mr. Hoek- overseas project which is produce stra’'s attorney said “Little ing material needed here for U. 8. David” is not-obligated to pay the stockpiles. Sen. Wherry said this mortgage. section “could be used for any-

The accounting had been de- thing under the sun.” The pendmanded by Mr. Dawson who Ing bill would extend ECA for 15 charged the boy evangelist was months and authorize it to spend being “mismanaged.” 3 $5,580,000,000 in that period. ECA

- SR now expires Apr. 2 Invoke New Law “erewion In Heavy Fi n eavy Fine (from June 30, 1943, to June 30, 1945. CCC President Ralph 8.

| Sen. Williams told the Senate {last night he has been informed Truck-owners and drivers with Twigg said that if Sen. Williams

{that the CCC books are $350 million out of balance for the perind

overloaded vehicles considered| |S Suggesting that funds have today what happened at Peru to! heen fo SaPPropriated, I flatly Warren T. Mohr, 23, Brazil, a 7 ceem—

dFiver for a Terre Haute freight Depot Theft Trial

hauling firm fined $2069 ana COSe Set for Apr. 18

Mohr was $18.30 court costs by Miami Cir-|. Trial date for three men who cuit Judge Henry 8. Bailey when have pleaded not guilty to an he pleaded guilty to a charge of indictment charging them with driving a semi-trailer with 20,690 the theft of $27.667 worth of gove pounds more load than the maxi- *fnment property from Jeffersone mum allowed by state law. |ville Quartermaster Depot has es | been set for Apr. 18 by Federal | Judge Robert C. Baltzell. In the case against Leon M. . | Ades and George A. Blusinsky, Plane Ticket |both of Louisville, Ky., and Paul IC: Scott, Jeffersonville, the gove ernment contends that the defen dants smuggled tarpaulins, shelter halves, aluminum pans and scrap from the base. The property was

26 (Up)—Capt. George Cauthens said later sold in Waukegan, Ill, and

convinced that shapely “Miss New Chicago. a plane ticket home from Colom-| ‘Ades and Blusinsky operate a to South America to write his Louisville scrap company and (Scott was formerly in’ charge of long as I can stand it” Capt. the salvage section of the depot.

The second conference was pri-

vate tnd Cant Cautnen said she In Your Sunday 3-Cent Times

she was stranded and!

first time she walked into a bar| broke. COUNTER-SPY — New, . “I didn’t, believe it until I had| exclusive shopping data by , Louise Fletcher, Times “She sald she wants a divorce.|: Woman's Editor. {My answer to that is ‘by all, SOLUNAR TABLES—Ex- | Then she stalked out, but re- means—and as soon as possible.’ pert, up-to-the-minute in-

turned later and spent an hour

“Then I'll ask for a transfer| formation on the right time

{talking to him. A photographer (to Rio or some place far enough to fish.

the U. 8. was present the first time, and south so that I'll be out of danger 6- Court of Appeals Monday for a Capt. Cauthen, a dashing airline from traveling beauty queens. aring in May on her request for pilot, thought that might have den by E. McMorrow was a 50 the sister of his wife, Kathleen. |a new trial : :

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