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PENICILLIN MIST FOUND EFFECTIVE FOR LUNG CASES Drug Inhaled Through Oxy gen Mask Success In Some Respiratory Cases Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y. (U.R) Dr. Vernon Bryson, re search scientist of the Long Island . Biological Laboratory, described today a new method of treating lung diseases with "penicillin .mist." , Bryson and two colleagues perfected seven months ago a process of breaking the liquid drug into a fine fog. Patients with lung trouble inhale the drug through an oxygen mask. "Indications are that it is prov ing successful in the treatment of some lung diseases," Bryson said. , . Indications Good ' Medical evidence of the effect of the method will be published soon. , , "I'm a biologist, not a physi cian. I can't talk about the med ical results, but indications are that It is very effective in cer tain respiratory diseases," he said. The 31-year-old scientist was assisted in developing the .new method by Eva Sansome, mycol ogist from the Carnegie Institute of Genetics, near here, and Sid ney Laskin, of his dwn labora tory staff. ,", "Our problem," he said, "was to determine if Penicillin could be made into a mist and inhaled without destroying the potency of the drug. Experiments Successful tm mist was used success fully on mice and rabbits and is being used now experimentally on patients in St. John s hospi tal, Brooklyn, and at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, Manhattan. Bryson said he was reluctant to "even mention the names of diseases that can be treated by this method, because, while a certain drug or method of apply' big it may be very effective in treating one person, on another person with the same disease, it may have no results at all." 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German Staff y v o o ' Mem Radio-TeUphoto) Field Marshal Walter Model (left) and Marshal Karl ran Runstedt (extreme right) and other high-ranking German staff officers study map of their great counter-offensive against the Allies at Nasi Western Front headauarters. according: to German caution accompanying this radiophoto from a neutral source. . EAGLE PT. PILOT TUMBLES' FAR A Ninth Air Force Fighter Bomber Base, France Going over Niagara Falls In a barrel has lost its ferver for 1st Lt. Roland L. Wisdom, Eagle Point, Ore.! who, outnumbered ten-to- one by FW-190s, "tumbled" his- eisht-ten'P-47 Thunderbolt from 3,500 to 1,000 feet and lived to tell the tale. Flying top cover to dlvebomb- ers near the Rhine, four Thun derbolts led by 1st Lt. William J. Kuntz, Johnstown, Penn., were attacked by 40 plus FW 190s. "We were at 3,500 feet when they came at us with smoke streaming," said Lt. Wisdom. hauled back . the stick to get shots in one's belly. . 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Dm MiU Tribune Want Ads. LT. RECEIVES THIRD MEDAL CLUSTER An Eighth Air Force Bomber Station, England First Lt. Mark K. Miller, Jr., 21-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Mark K. Miller, Sr., 017 Yakima place, Seattle, Wash., has been dec orated with the third oak leaf cluster to his air medal, it was announced recently by the com manding general, eighth air force. Lt. Miller Is a bombardier of a B-17 Flying Fortress in tne veteran 457th bombardment group of the eighth air force. He has participated in many huge daylight precision bombing as saults on industrial and military objectives in Germany and nazi occupied continental Europe. Among the targets were those lo cated in Munich, Merseburg and Cologne. He is a graduate of the Med ford high school, Medford, Ore., where he was active in the sports program as a member of the baseball and football team. He then entered the Oregon State college to study engineer ing and was a student there prior to his entry into the army air forces on September 29 1942. E KILLED IN BLAZE Spokane", Wash., Dec. 27 (U.R) A captain of the Spokane fire department, Walter F. Gustaf- son, 49, whs killed and seven other firemen were injured in a spectacular blaze on the top floor of the Lomax fireproof warehouse here last -night. The fire was believed to have started In a shipment of paper napkins. It quickly spread to large quantities of stored paper, engulfing the entire floor with billowing smoke which trapped the firemen. Gustafson's body was discov- EVERY WOMAN CAN'T SERVE IN THE ARMY OR NAVY NURSE CORPS.:: but Help by learning how to Help by volunteering for work in civilian hospitals relieving registered nurses for Important wartime work. . ' The Army and Navy needs Registered Nurses to help in the great task of maintaining the health and spirits of American men. As President Roosevelt recently said, "One of the most necessary things to keep up the morale of our fighting men is the knowledge that competent nursing care is always at hand for those injured in battle. The record made by the sixty thousand nurses who are serving with the Army and Navy is one in which every American citizen can take pride. .We: will need more nurses in the Army and the Navy and I know, you will not fail in providing them.' IF YOU ARE UNTRAINED... take a borne nursing tours. There Is an urgent need bom now and In the future for women in the home to know how to take care of illness when It comes, to prevent It, when possible. Or you may volunteer as a nurses die. The saccess of this project to train women to become Red Cross Volunteer Nurses Aides is one of the spemcolax proofs of the ability of American women to meet an emergency. IF YOU ARE A SENIOR CADET NURSE... serve your final six months of training in an Army hospital Complete your valuable training so that yon can qualify to relieve a registered nurse. IF YOU ARE A REGISTERED NURSE... join the Army or JJavy Nurse Corps now 1 You may mean the difference between life and death to our wounded men. ered on a stairway after the smoke had cleared. Another fireman, Bob Snoddy, fell from the fifth floor of the warehouse when his gloves failed to hold on an icy hand rope. Snoddy, still conscious, was taken to a hospital where physi cians reported he had miracu lously escaped critical Injury although both of his heels were fractured. T Los Angeles, Dec. 27 (U.R) The California Taxpayers' asso ciation today estimated that the population of the state of Cali fornia on Jan. 1, 1945, will be 8.842,700 an increase of 469,- 620 over Jan. 1, 1944, and a gain of 1,935.300 since April, 1940. when the last official census was taken. The Increase since the census is about 28 per cent. The association, basing Its esti mate on school enrollment, em ployment records and ration book registrations, reported that 21 California counties have shown increases of 20 per cent or more in population since 1940, while 13 have shown de creases. Los Angeles county, with an estimate Jan. 1, 1945, population of 3,441.000 is four times more populous than any other Cali fornia county, the association said. Since 1940, Los Angeles county has grown by 655,360 persons, or 24 per cent. San Francisco county Is the second largest with an estimated population now of 750,000, an 18 per cent gain since 1940. bilIThahtTahk Hollywood, Dec. 27 (U.R) William S. (Bill) Hart, silent motion picture star, today will see his old home in West Holly wood dedicated as a public park. Dedication will be made by Mayor Fletcher Bowron and park commission officials. Hart has donated $50,000 for con struction and operation costs. He now lives at his Saugus, Cal., ranch. M Women take proper care of their own families . For full particulars about Home Nursing, Nurses Aides, Cadet Nursing and Army and Navy Nurse Corjs phone or. visit local Red Cross Headquarter. We&Mfda. Dee. IT. 1144 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE THREE JACK FRANKISH OF UNITED PRESS IS KILLED BY A Belgian Village, Dee. 23 (U.R) Jack Frankish, United Press war correspondent', was killed Instantly today by Ger man bomb. The bomb exploded about 18 feet from where Frankish was standing outside a small hotel Three Belgian soldiers were killed by the same bomb and about 30 1st army PRO officers and men and half a dozen war correspondents were slightly in jured. The hotel was virtually de molished. Frankish was felled by the' concussion of the exploding bomb and struck in the back by fragments. Death was Instantan eous. He was 30 years old. (This dispatch was held up un til the widow, Mrs. Barbara Frankish, was notified yesterday in California, where she is liv ing with her two children, Gall and Brian.) El Centro. Calif., Dec. 27 (U.R) Jack Frarkish, 30, a Unit ed Press war correspondent, was killed Saturday on the western front, the war department in formed his widow, Mrs. Barbara Frankish. Frankish, veteran of 10 years with the United Press, went abroad last spring to help cover the allied Invasion of Eur ope. He was the second United Press war correspondent lost in a little more than a month John Andrew failed to return from a Superfortress mission in southeast Asia early in Novem ber and the fifth to die in war coverage. Two others are prison ers of war. Frankish had been at the front in France and Belgium for three months after covering the development of the robot bomb blitz. He joined the United Press in 1935 at Philadelphia. 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