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New Carfisone
Use Suggested
Drug Might Relieve
Digestive Disorders
By THANK CAREY
AiineUlrd TreM Sclenre Rrpnrlrr
ITHACA, N.Y. A possible new
use for cortisone employing it
in treating premature babies lor
often-fatal digestive disorders
has been suggested by a zoolo
gist of Washington University,
St. Louis.
Dr. Florence Moor reported
that experiments with mice sug
gest this possibility, although she
emphasized that any such use of
the powerful drug would neces
sarily have to be in the hands of
doctors having long experience in
administering the medicine.
Cortisone is the drug that has
hown promise in the treatment
of arthritis and certain other con
ditions. But experts In its use
have repeatedly warned of the
possibility of harmful reactions
and the need for extreme care in
using it.
In a report to the annual meet
ing of the American Institute of
Biological Sciences, convened on
the campus of Cornell Univer
sity, Dr. Moog said digestive dis
orders constituted the principal
cause of death among premature
Infants.
She Rave this account of her
mouse research:
Prior to the age of two weeks,
mice have little or no ability to
digest and absorb solid food,
even though they can eat it.
But, at two weeks, there is a
sharp increase in a chemical that
occurs in the lining of the intes
tines and whose function is to aid
in the absorption of solid food
into the rest of the system.
Dr. Moog found that by giving
cortisone to the mice, the food
absorption chemical reached I
maximum efficiency about a
week earlier than normal.
She said she had heard infor- i
mal reports that some doctors
already were giving the drug to
very young full-term infants
presumably for digestive disor
ders but that she knew of no
case where the drug had been
given to premature babies.
Also, she said, the mouse ex
periments "suggest a rational
basis" for employing the medi
cine In both premature and full
term infants faced with a diges
tive problem.
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(AP wirepnoiuj
COUNTRYSIDE TRAGEDY As her home near Moose
Lake, Minn., is devoured by wind-whipped flames, Mrs.
Toge Anderson paces back and forth, sobbing. "No, no,
God, what will we do?" She is comforted by Walter Eldot,
a reporter. The fire, cause of which was not learned, broke
out after Mrs. Anderson, mother of four, drove to town
to meet her husband who was rejoining his family after
working in Duluth. The house was reduced to waist-high
ruins in less than an hour.
Navy Seeks End
To Washing Woes
Russia Retains
Manchuria Hold
Alleged Japan Threat
Gives Reds an Excuse
iMYNf KONt; The Moscow
!inrpmpnt announced Tuesday
shows Russia maintains her grip
on Manchuria, using an alleged
military threat by Japan as an ex
cuse for holding Port Arthur indef
initely. It will surprise no seasoned ob
server here to learn once the
whole story is told that Russia
emerges with a greater share than
ever in that broad and rich region
it has coveted since tzarist days.
MAJOR CONCESSION
Russia appears to have made a
major concession by giving up con
trol of the Changchun Railway, the
main line of transportation in Manchuria-.
The line supposedly had
been jointly operated with China.
This undoubtedly is only so much
ra.0.cnvintf for Russia's Red Chin
ese ally. Port Arthur is the coastal
terminal of the railway. Undoubt
edly. Russia retains freight hauling
privileges.
In any case, the fact remains
that Russia stays in Manchuria
whereas it Dromised in 1950 to
clear out by the end of this year.
PRETEXT FOR STAYING
The pretext for staying was
framed this way: Red China's pre
mier, Chou En-lal, asked the Rus
sians to keep a garrison in Port
Arthur because of the "dangct ' of
renewed aggression from a rearm
ing Japan.
Under the Moscow agreement,
the Russians will stay In Port Ar
thur until Japan siens a treaty with
Red China and Russia.
Wife Saves Husband
CENTRAL1A, 111. WV-"I think
it's time to get up. It's pretty bad,"
Mrs. Oscar McClay told her hus
band. A windy rain storm raged
around their Illinois farm home.
McClay said he had just left his
bed when the lop of their house
blew off, showering bricks on his
hori Hp arlmiltprl he mieht have
been killed if he had not acted on
his wife's advice.
Tax Group 'Well Handled1
SALEM an Gov. Douglas McKay
Friday said the Oregon State Tax
Commission was "well handled
and there was no need for a grand
jury investigation,
i The governor's statement fol-
I n ........ncl h f'linirmnn
! Robert I). Maclean In have a grand
jury investigation 01 ine commis
sion as an answer In critics of the
group. Maclean retires from the
Irnmmission October 15 to enter the
insurance firm of Slate Treasurer
Waller .1. Pearson.
"There is no occasion for a
grand jury investigation of Hip i9.
commission," said McKay. "The ile-
paruneni nan necn wen Handled."
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ATLANTIC CITY 1H The Navy
is trying to make washday easier
and cheaper for the fleet and also
save the American housewife
money on soap suds, the Ameri
can Chemical Society was told
Thursday.
Scientists of the nation's first
line of defense are planning to oil
duds with "radioactive dirt" in ef
forts to find more efficient cleans
ing agents for use aboard ship
where gobs have to dunk their
dungarees in salt water, reported
Conference Applicants
Beaten by Japanese
TOKYO W Thirty applicants
for passports to the Communist
"peace conference" in Peiping
Sept. 26 were beaten and kicked
by about 20 young black-shirted
Japanese, the newspaper Asahi re
ported Friday.
Asahi said the youths wore "pa
triotic martyrs corps" arm bands.:
The applicants were staging a
sit down strike at the Foreign Of
fice, which rejected applications
of 97 to go to Peiping.
Stable Foreign
Policy Asked
SAN FRANCISCO John
Foster Dulles says this nation
I should create a top-level hiparti
i san council to lead the free world
with a "stable and consistent" for
eign policy.
I Declaring Ihe United States "is
In deadly peril." Dulles described
the present administration's pol
icies as "reactions to Soviet ac
tions." Dulles Is foreign policy adviser
to Ihe Republican party and for
merly held that post with Demo
cratic administrations.
He told the American Bar As
sociated yesterday a free world
needs American leadership, but
other governments "cannot allow
us in zig-zags and somersaults." i
chemist Rubin Bernstein of the
Philadelphia Naval Shipyard.
"While the problem is one of
concern primarily to the Navy,
he told the chemical society's
122nd national meeting, "such re
search should result eventually in
savings for every American house
wife.
Already, he said, the Navy's
laundry sleuths have been employ
ing experimental detergents con
taining radioactive materials the
idea being to see to. what extent
the cleaning agent is absorbed onto
and later removed from cotton
cloth in the. washday act. Since the
stuff is radioactive, the extent of.j.
its activities on dirty duds can be !
traced by means of a Geiger count
er. .
DIRT RADIOACTIVE
Next on the program will hej
tests wherein Ihe dirt -itself is
made radioactive so as to test for!
possible traces left in the fabric
when detergents of varying com
positions are employed,
i "Despite the fact that launder
ing and other associated businesses
have grown to a billion dollar in
dustry," said Bernstein, "a great
deal remains to be discovered
about the actual mechanism by
which dirt is actually removed
from a soiled material by soap, or
synthetic detergents.
"Cleaning is a very big problem
for Ihe Department of the Navy,
which authorized the present
study."
A recent survey omong plotewearers pointed to
Ihe answer when it reveoled that 71 of them
wear their platei ALL Ihe time, day and night.
Most of the otheri lake them out at night. This
is a high tribute to Ihe quality and comfort your
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tant indication of your dentist's skill in this
importonl phase of Dentistry.
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the emborrassment of toothless days . . ,
mokes it possible for you to carry on your
normal activities, without extra loss of lime
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obles you to star) wearing your Denial
Plates THE SAME DAY your teeth are extracted.
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