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.
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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,
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'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. April It, 1958
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN
Dollar Sales Up in Average Retail Store
New York, Apr. 18 (U.R)
Dollar sales of the average retail
store in the United States during
1S48 were triple those of 1939,
a census bureau official said to
day. W. C. Truppner told the New
York chapter of the American
Marketing Association that re-
ful enough to justify the theater
management in bringing other
top flight films here. E. A.
tail sales in 1948 were almost
$130 billion.
This was three times the 1939
level while the number of re
tail stores is almost the same.
Truppner said figures gath
ered in the 1948 census of busi
ness showed that retail stores
provided about 7 million jobs,
compared with 4,800,000 nine
years before.
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