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Scientist Believed to Have Key For Reliable Test for Cancer Br Piui r. eihi United Press Science Editor Atlantic City, N. J., Apr. 18 U.R) A west coast scientist working in a basement labora tory of his home may have found the key to a reliable blood test for cancer and even more, per haps one of the causes of cancer. This scientist is Dr. H. S. Penn, of the University of California, Los Angeles, who reported with three of his colleagues the de velopment of a new tost for can cer at the American Association for Cancer Research here. Simple Process The new test, based on a sim ple process, has been found to be 98.6 per cent accurate and is the result of 15 years research, including long, tedious nights in the Penn basement where he was experimifnting with tissue of liv er of cancerous patients, and isolating what may turn out to be a causative agent of cancer. Penn and Drs. George C. Hall, A. H. Dowdy, and A. W. Bellamy told the association that more than 4.000 had been studied in connection with the test, and that of that number 830 persons were patients definitely diag nosed as suffering cancer. In their cases, the test was 98.6 per cent accurate. The most significant part of their report was the statement that those persons who under went surgery for removal of a cancerous growth showed up negative in tests eight days after the operation. Thus, if the tests meet other clinical trials and are found to be without error, can cer doctors may be able to de termine whether all of a cancer has been removed. Similar To Kahn Test The new cancer test technique is similar to that of the Kahn test for syphillis, it is done quickly in a test tube, and re quires no microscopic examina tion. In the first place, the doctors use the livers of persons who have died of cancer. The tissue is ground, and prepared in a pur ified form. During the early work, the scientists found that the livers of persons who have Husbands Outnumber Lovers As Murderers Evanston. 111.. Apr. 18 (U.R) A sociologist reported today that women are in greater danger of being murdered by their hus bands than by their lovers. Prof. Edwin E. Sutherland of Indiana University based his con clusion on a three-year study of New York Times homicide re ports. He reported his findings in Northwestern University's journal of , criminal law and criminology! Of 324 female murders. Suth erland said 102 were committed by husbands and 49 by lovers and suiters. He said 37 were committed by fathers or other close relatives, and the rest by strangers. What chance a woman would have with both a husband and a lover Sutherland did not say. cancer and not particularly can cer of the liver contain a factor that appears to be a causative agent of cancer. The medical men know that the human body creates anti bodies, or chemical fighters, against disease but there has been no proof that cancer causes the body to create anti-bodies. The new test is based on the as- Adventists Open Annual Drive for 'Ingathering' Fund The annual drive for funds by Seventh-day Adventists to assist in the carrying on of their world wide humanitarian work was an nounced today by O. E. Schnep per, pastor of the local congre gation. The drive marks the 41st con secutive year that Adventists have sought funds from their friends and neighbors to aid in the support of medical, educa tional, and missionary projects at home and abroad, Mr. Schnepper said. The drive, known as the "Ingathering," is being launched simultaneously throughout the Adventist churches of America. The overall goal is $2,500,000, of which the three local churches in the valley expect to raise $4,400. Stuudents of the Rogue River academy will join in the drive and have their annual field day Thursday. Later the lower grade children of the academy will follow their usual custom of so licitation with small cans. The Missionary volunteers have for a number of years fol lowed the practice of singing on the streets in the evening while some of their number solicit for contributions. Papers or folders are given to all donors describing this uplift work and snowing how the money is used. Funeral Thursday At Grants Pass for Mrs. LeRoy Asheraft Glendale. Ore., Apr. 18 Serv ices for Mrs. LeRoy Ashcratt, 48, of the Upper Cow creek dis trict near Azalea, will be Thurs day at Hull and Hull chapel at Grants Pass with interment at Pleasant Valley cemetery. She died Saturday. Mrs. Asheraft was born on Mar. 28, 1902 at Pleasant Valley and had lived in the Upper Cow creek area for five years. Survivors are her husband. LeRoy: her mother, Mrs. George Woodson, Jacksonville, and five sisters, Mrs. Eva Hall, Bend; Mrs. Maude Bertelscn, Santa Barbara. Cal.: Mrs. Hazel Bish op, Long Beach. Cal.: Mrs. Beth Howeger and Mrs. Frances Bur- chette, both of National City, Cal. pbo o ag& x PA TWIN FULl-WIDTH FEATURES J Iji IN THE DEEP COLD ZONE lL r Piiihln frozen foods! The brand new Naw X r Built-in QujcJk.CTiaer chiU Hom I ages, desserts, salads has I QUICK . huge built-in meat compart- V mil IB V Frem ment. se, the8e iitestZin V ' J Xft featurt now. ..at our store! r PHIICO tot. We urge you to compare this great new Philco feature for feature cubic foot by cubic foot with any refrigerator at its price! We're sure you'U agree, it's America's greatest value ins C O A ft C A deluxe refrigerator. J y 0 U EASY TERMS MEDFORD GRANTS PASS J00I sumption that cancer does cause the body to create anti-bodies, such anti-bodies show up in the white part of the blood the ser um. Blood Mixtd In making the test for cancer. the west coast doctors took blood from persons in the study and mixed it with a saline solution containing the "cancer factor" of the liver of cancerous persons. in the case of persons who had cancer in their body, it was as sumed the blood had created anti-bodies against the disease. Result was that in those per sons who definitely had cancer there was reaction in the test tube test. That is, substances, apparently anti-bodies, were "at tacking" the cancer agent and causing the solution to lose its cloudiness, such is a positive test. Those persons, known to bt in health and apparently free of cancer, had no such reaction. Their serums remained cloudy. There was no activity of a "can cer anti-body" attacking the can cer agent. The doctors reported that "false positives" were reported in persons suffering some disease other than cancer, but that the number of false positives could be eliminated eventually by development of the cancer agent in a more pure form. To further prove their studies, the scientists had two other lab oratories make similar tests. The results were virtually the same, Sands of the desert, used some times as a symbol of perpetual warmth, grow extremely cold at night. A daytime temperature of 100 degrees Fahrenheit in the Sahara may drop that same night oeiow freezing. 'Hamlet' Found Powerful, Masterful in Techniques; Matchless Entertainment "Hamlet," Sir Laurence Oli vier s production oi snaKe speare's greatest tragedy, is not the type o( mm tare to wnicn Medford audiences are accus tomed as was evidenced by the moronic guffaws of one lone ado lescent in the rear of the theater last night. But the fact that there is an clement in the city which can appreciate cinematic artistry was also evident by the good-sized crowd which appreciated the ter rific power of the story about the man "who couldn't make up his mind." Techniques Mastered The film was presented for the first of three evening showings at the Esquire theater last night. Technically, the picture is an odd combination of roughness which Hollywood seldom allows, and mastery of photographic tech niques, lighting, movement and settings which American films have seldom equalled and never surpassed. The story of the melancholy Dane is so well-known that it needs no repetition, although ar guments over different interpre tations will undoubtedly be heard as long as the language endures. Olivier's version leaves little to the imagination. Mood Sustained From the first glimpse of Es inore castle looming out of the mists, to the last dark profile of the prince's bier, the mood of the film is sustained, with Shake speare's inimitable touches of comedy offering relief. The picture is matchless enter tainment, and yet is not one to be viewed lightly, or by those whose most important thought is concerned with the plight of comic-book heroines. It lacks the lightness and color and dash of the producer's other Shake spearean drama. "Henry V," but it leaves the intelligent viewer with the feeling of quieted shock which only a great work of art can give. Those in Medford who appre cite something more than the mediocre in their film fare, and are willing to contribute some thought to their own entertain ment, can well hope this week's showing of "Hamlet" is success- Tusiday. 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