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SIXTEEN POUGHKEEPSIE EAGLE NEWS MONDAY, JANUARY 5. 1942 Vitamin- Vitamin-Chemical Balance New Cancer Egg-White Stops Growth Of Wild Cells Biotin Most Potent "Known Today By STEPHEN J. McDONOUGH WASHINGTON, Jan. 4-(Wide World) Some scientists studying cancer have found a new approach the delicate balance between A vitamin necessary for growthe and A chemical which checks: vitamin's activity. The vitamin, biotin; a member of the Vitamin is the most potent known and is vitally necessary for the growth of every cells living thing.

Without it, ranging all the way, from bacteria to the highly specialized tissues of the brain are unable to function and die. An excess of biotin in the cells, it is now becoming apparent through research in a score of lab- to oratories, is one important clue the why some cells begin to mulpliply. rapidly and in unconto cause cancer growths. Biotin Return Aids If this excessive growth could be controlled chemically just As strong acid is neutralized by alkali, the balance of life could be restored by returning the blotin content of the cells to normal. This hypothesis was suggested about six months ago by William L.

Laurence, science writer of The New York Times, and since then scientists have worked unremittingly on the problem. chemical used is the archenemy of biotin, called avidin, and. is almost as potent a factor. It is obtained from the whites of eggs. It is not normally present in the body, but is apparently manufactured by some disease-causing organisms such as the streptococcus of erysipelas, smallpox, pneumonia, and acute tuberculosis.

Spontaneous cancer regressions have been observed to occur human beings following severe attacks of these diseases, indicating that poisons, including avidin, have robbed the cancer tissue of the biotin necessary to its growth. The cancer tissues, being five to ten times richer in biotin, were attacked first while normal cells lost little of their biotin content and continued grow until both the cancer and -the disease were shaken off. The newest experiment on the biotin-avidin balance was reported at the annual meeting of the Society of American Bacteriologists. Dr. Maurice Landy and his associates in the laboratories of the SMA corpotation at Chagdin Falls, Ohio, were able to prove that some specles of bacteria require biotin from outside sources in order to grow, while others make it synthetically from other cell Avidin Controls Growth The growth of some forms brought under complete control by the administration of avidin and frequently growth could be.

started again by stimulating the knockedout cells with heat. "These results indicate the existence a specific relationship between the biotin requirement, of any given organism and the degree of growth inhibition by they declared. In other experiments avidin was found to give, complete protection to mice which were injected with a cancer- -producing oil called "butter Scientists who are working on the biotin-avidin relationship have not yet attempted experiments on human beings but its use has been suggested in the treatment of some types of cancer which are found and. correctly diagnosed in their early stages of development, Appeal Made To Churchill India Wishes To Aid British NEW DELHI, INDIA, Jan. (AP) -A group' of 15 distinguished Indian leaders appealed directly to Prime Minister Winston Churchill today for "some bold stroke of farsighted statesmanship without deJay" to political crisis in India and insure her full cooperation in Britain's war effort.

The plea, cabled to Churchill. in. Washington, asked the prime minAster to declare at once that: "India will no longer treated as a dependency to be ruled from Whitehall and henceforth her constitutional position and powers will be identical with those of other units in the British commonwealth." Year Seen as One Of Hardship And Sacrifice in U.S. Jan. 4-(P)- Spokesmen for Government, Industry and Labor.

tonight foresaw 1942 as year of sacrifice and hardship for the American people but a year in which the nation's facilities would be geared to all -out war production leading to ultimate victory. They participated in a radio forum over the Mutual Broadcasting system on the subject America Looks Ahead to 1942." Thos who spoke included Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt: Philip Murray, president of the CIO: Undersecretary of War Robert Patterson; Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ralph Bard: Albert W. Hawkes, president of the U.

'S. Chamber Commerce; Leon Henderson, Price Administrator: and Paul McNutt, Federal Security Administrator, The FORECASTS EASTERN NEW YORKally fair and somewhat colder Monday. WESTERN NEW YORK and WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA- Generally fair and continued cold Monday. EASTERN PENNSYLVANIAGenerally fair and somewhat colder MARYLAND- colder east portion Monday. NEW JERSEY and DELAWAREFair and cold Monady, OHIO and and WEST VIRGINIA -Generally fair and continued cold Monday, TEMPERATURES (By The Associated Press) U.

S. Weather bureau reported the following high and low temperatures Sunday in 13 U. S. cities: Albany 28 22 Boston 34 18 Chicago Cleveland 26 23 8. -12 Deriveston 34 Los Angeles Miami 71 New York.

31 Philadelphia 30 Pittsburgh 24 St. Louis 2 Washington 30 U.S. Surgeon Suicide Victim Dr. C. E.

Hawks Found Dead BETHESDA, Jan. 4 (AP) Dr. Felix Reville Brunet, 50, U. S. Public service surgeon, was found dead of gunshot wounds at his home here today.

C. E. Hawks, county medical examiner, issued a suicide certificate. Dr. Brunet returned about month ago from Rio De Janeiro, where he had been on duty with the Pan -American bureau, and was working at the National Institute of Health here while waiting.

to be assigned to industrial. hygiene bureau work. Survivors included his wife, Mrs. Mary Wagner Brunet, and 8 son, Felix, 9. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at Pittsburgh, where he was born.

U.S. Needs Tanks, Guns Chrysler Plant Widens Efforts DETROIT. Jan. (P) -K. T.

Keller, president of Chrysler corporation, announced today, he had been asked by the War department to triple the Chrysler tank capacity and to double the Chrysler production of anti-aircraft guns. Washington authorities said the new tank production order would give employment. to 12,000 more workmen and an additional 10.000 will be employed on the manufacture of the guns. At present 6,000 are employed. How large the contract was.

in millions of dollars, was not disclosed. Chrysler's engineering and mechanical divisions were ordered immediately to go to work on a 24- hour, 7-day week basis to get the War department's new. orders into effect, as quickly as possible. Koch Saved From Choking Edward Koch of 17 Gray street was saved from choking to death early yesterday morning by the prompt response of the fire department emergency car under' the of 'Lieutenant Merrick to a plea for assistance sent in by Dr. Marc 'Eckstein.

The fire department records bear the laconic notation that a call for medical assistance was received at 8:28 o'clock yesterday morning and the emergency car responded with the inhalator which was -used for 25 minutes by Lieutenant Merrick and Firemen Mullaly and Newkirk. Dr. Eckstein said that he had been called to the Gray street address and on arrival there found slowly strangling. He was suffering from pulmonary ailment which was cutting off his breath. "When I arrived the patient was turning Dr.

Eckstein said, and added. "I called the fire department for oxygen and an inhalator and it responded immediately. We used the inhalator and administered oxygen for nearly half an hour at the end of which time the assistance of the firemen was no longer needed." "The patient is now resting comfortably," he added. Frederick Palmer's Rites to Be Today The EagleBANGALL, Jan. -Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.

m. tomorrow for Frederick G. Palmer, 69, who yesterday morning at. his home here. The services will be in 'the Congregational-Christian church Stanfordville, and burial will be in Stanfordville cemetery under the direction of the Allen Funeral home.

Mr. Palmer was born in the town of Stanford and was a son of the late John and Phylany Ostrander Palmer. He retired 10 years ago after being employed for a number of years by the New York. New Haven and Hartford railroad. Two brothers, Charles and Webster Palmer of this village, survive.

San Francisco's Defense Now HumsBefore Pearl Harbor It Ho-Hummed SAN FRANCISCO, indifferent to fate. That was the San Francisco of Robert Louis Stevenson. San Francisco's not indifferent any more. Bombs that fell on Hawaii that fateful Sunday, and the air raid sirens that proclaimed enemy aircraft over the city, shattered serenity. Today guns bristle along the coast line.

Armed guards trol the Mar ina, where fine yachts have been converted from pleasure craft to patrol boats. Every citizen has bee. shocked into alertness. What "couldn't happen here" has happened. Civilian defense registration which on December 6 stood at 3,620, hit 6,386 by Monday morning, quickly soared to over 40,000 within 8 few days.

The American Red Cross, whose volunteer headquarters had been pleasantly busy for the past few months, WAS swamped with applicants. Every service has rupled, and first aid classes are being set up in every corner of the city, The British War Relief organization has joined forces -with the Red Cross, and is adjusting its requirements to those of United States armed forces. UNEVENTFUL YEARS LULLED SAN FRANCISCANS BY ETHEL BOGARDUS plation. "HO-HUM" ATTITUDE PLAGUED THE MAYOR Startling, even to the people who have always believed. that "San Francisco Knows How," is the speed with the long-discussed Disaster Relief program went into effect.

Until the bombs fell on Hawail, had met with was com-, plete indifference. Disaster was no novelty to a city that experienced to' destruction of 1906. suceeding uneventful years lulled even the alarmists. disaster relief program which was adopted by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors when hostilities broke out was first presented in embryo form about 12 years ago. At that time the Red Cross, the American Legion, the Commonwealth Club and the Down Town Association, thought something should really be done about an emergency setup for the city, All they succeeded in doing.

was to get written into. the new charter a paragraph giving the mayor wide powers in an emergency. (Those are the powers which Mayor Angelo Rossi has used to good effect since war started). No action was taken until the fully- disaster relief program presented to the Supervisor in 1935. The San Francisco News and three or four supervisors urged Its adoption.

But Mayor Rossie frowned upon it, and labor opposed it on the grounds its men might be called out at the whim of Big Business. By 1938, the Red Cross thought something ought to be done, just in case. It started working over a new disaster relief plan, and in 1939 appealed to the city for cooperation. The Supervisors again eyed the plan with apathetic gaze, and dismissed it as too remote for present contem- Bombs Hawaii changed their minds. The Parent- Assoclation, which had air ady lined up Larke, who fathered the disaster rechairmen in or each school, swiftly completed its organization.

Thomas lief plan and now heads it for San Francisco Red Cross, summoned his skeleton staff the day of the Japanese attack on Hawaii. By the next Sunday, the plan was law, and Mr. Larke really went to town. A meeting of doctors, nurses, ambulance drivers, Red Cross leaders Bomb Wrecks Apartments Families Seek Other Quarters KANSAS CITY, Jan. -(P) -An explosion shattered all windows on the south side up to the seventh floor of the 10-story Locarno apartments in the Country Club plaza tonight.

Fifty families were forced to seek other quarters. Police said the blast was caused by a bomb placed outside a window near the entrance. Mrs. Vallie Kent, assistant manager, said she could not account for the bombing. Deaths Last Night WILLIAM HALL MILTON MARIANNA, Jan.

4- Former U.S. Senator. William Hall Milton, 78, died at his home today after a brief illness. DR. JOHN O.

TVJEN CHICAGO. Jan. John O. Evjen, 67, dean of Carthage col106-, carthage, and well known lecturer and church hi-torian, died of a heart ailment today. 'He once taught at Gettysburg (Pa) college.

MRS. J. W. GRIESS Jan. 4-(P)-Mrs.

Justin W. Griess, 42, socially prominent dog fancier, died yesterday at the House of the Massachusetts General hospital after, a short illness. with her husband, she operated are. duced some of the nation's best LAURA M. GILBERT POTTSTOWN, Jan.

4-(P)- Laura. M. Gilbert. 75, died from heart attack today on her way to Emmanuel Lutheran Sunday school, where she had attended every sere. ice for the last 54 years.

President Roosevelt congratulated Miss Gilbert on the 50th anniversary of her perfect Sunday school attendance in 1937, and The Rev. Lutheran', Movie Time Table The following are the starting times of- feature pictures furnished by the theater managers: BARDAVON Purchase" STRATFORD "Rise and Shine" "Swamp Water" JULIET "Honky Love" Tonk" 8:40. "Accent on Meets Broadway" "Lady Be Good" RIALTO "Smilin' Through" "Honky New Pumper Needed, Says Noll Breakdown of Engine 7's pumping apparatus, which was formerly used by Booth Hose and is the oldest in the city, having been purchased 25 years ago, will necessitate the purchase of a new pumper by city next year, Fire Chief Noll believes. "The pump just broke down from Patrol Car Picks- Up Nazi U. S.

Men Take Escaped Flier AMERICAN RED ONES NICE NO COMMISSION SCOL DIVISION The Red Cross plays an important gram. Above, members of the Red trailers, which are equipped with cendiary bombs. role in San Francisco's Cross rescue division examine axes, shovels, first aid kits, stretchers quickly-organized Civilian Defense proone. of the new air raid rescue and materials for dousing in- Blackout abrics San Francisco's hospitals are to evacuate their patients to places of safety. during air raids.

At left, above, a nurse and attache of the Shrine Hospital for Crippled Children take one of their little charges to the -safe basement during an air raid drill. -Note blacked out window in. background. Novel at first, but now a commonplace in San Francisco shops, is the sight of housewives buying blackout curtains, as in the photo. at right.

and civilian aides, was called. The city was divided into 12 districts. Supplies, were all ready and were distributed. Each district is having its test call. The Civilian Defense organization grew out of a similar travail.

Last January Mayor Rossi proclaimed the need to. organize San Francisco "against military invasion or a catastrphe caused by an act of God." The civilian reaction was "ho-hum" -in. spite of frantic 'warnings by the men who knew what might come. San Francisco remained "indifferent to fate" until Mayor LaGuardia national civilian defense director, started his organization, The San Francisco News took up the cause, and hammered editorially at the city's. apathy.

Finally the machinery began ponderously to turn. Mayor Rossi chose Armistice day to. spur the civilian defense group to action, and set enrollment day. GENERAL DE WITT BLASTED INDIFFERENCE An item from Washington appeared in the papers Nov. 15, warning that San Francisco is in a blackout area.

People said "oh, so?" and went on with what they were doing, A few. enrolled at police and fire houses, Supervisors were urged to appropriate at least $50,000 for. civilian defense. This prposal bogged down in red tape- until the Japanese cut the knots. Lieutenant General John L.

De Witt, commander of the Fourth Army, blasted away the last bit of indifference. Appearing before the citizens' commitee, he denounced as "insane, idiotic and foolish," those who refused to believe those planes, over San Francisco weren't the real enemy. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Mayor LaGuardia whirled through the city and actually started wheels running smoothly.

Blackout orders are being carried out. The second and third siren blasts left the Bay region in darkness. The City Health Department and the. Red Cross have ambulances -ready at all hours. The American Women's Voluntary Services brought two air raid precaution experts from New York, who gave 100 college-trained women A week's intensive instruction on what to do about and the 100 are now instructing others.

Ten thousand aid raid. wardens are ready. Three thousand of the expected 15,000 auxiliary fire fighters are getting their training now. Robert Louis Stevenson wouldn't know San Francisco today. FSA May Establish Migratory Labor Camps UPPER DARBY, Jan.

4- (AP)-Farm Security administration may' establish migratory labor camps in 11 Northeastern states this year to overcome a threatened short-' age of farm labor, J. H. Wood, regional FSA director for the area, announced tonight. Noting that many itinerant farm hands now are in the armed forces Society to Catch Horse Thieves Sees Business Booming THOMPSONVILLE, Jan. 4-(P)-Enfield Society for Detection of Thieves and Robbers, founded primarily to catch horse thieves, holds its 119th annual meeting here tomorrow.

There haven't been any horses stolen around here for a long time. But you can't buy new automobiles or tires 'any more, 50. the society expects have large attendance at its meeting. Italy Discovers Oil Bootleggers BERLIN' Jan. 4-(Ctficial Broadcast Recorded by: -Oil bootlegging in Genoa has been discovered by Italian police, the Berlin radio reported today.

It said "Black Market' transactions involving 160 tons of petroleum and mineral oil had been bared, the manager of one oll company arrested and "the names of a further 167 persons brought to the notice of the courts." A. Krouse, pastor of the church, said a check of nation-wide records indi-' cated Gilbert's 54-yeat-mark has never. been surpassed. BROCKVILLE, Jan. 4-(AP) -Back in custody, handsome Bavarian-born Nazi flying officer reflected tonight on the hazards of hitch-hiking as a means of making good an escape from a WAr prison camp.

He is Walter Manhardt, 24-yearold German flier who got away from the Bowmanville, internment camp last Tuesday, wearing a blue civilian overcoat over his soiled Nazi uniform. He got. across the border into the United States while a manhunt was on for him and reached Ogdensburg, N. Y. The car he a "thumbed" while trying to hitch ride to Watertown turned Border out Patrol to car.

be a United States old age," Chief Noll- -explained, stating that the apparatus is now being inspected to determine whether or not it will be possible to repair it. Shown: NOW 3:36 6:48 Thru Wed. 2 GREAT HITS! 10:00 WAMP WATER 20 Welter BRENNAN HUSTON- BAXTER ANDREWS -PLUS COMPANION HIT NO. JACK OAKIE LINDA DARNELL GEORGE MURPHY "RISE AND SHINE" 2:00 5:12 8:24 Coming Thursday Barbara Stanwyck Henry Fonda In 'YOU BELONG TO ME' plus Bonita Granville "DOWN IN SAN DIEGO" First GREAT BARDAVON 2:56 5:09 HIT 7:22 9:35 of 1942 LAST 2 DAYS LOUISIANA starring: PURCHASE BOB HOPE VERA ZORINA. VICTOR MOORE IN TECHNICOLOR Plus: SUPERMAN CARTOON INFORMATION PLEASE JAN.

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tax or defense work, Wood said that "the labor. shortage problem has our technicians working night and day on the problem of labor camps and they hope to announce soon that camps will be available in those areas most affected." Labor camps, he said; have been successful in meeting the problem in the west and' south. Wood also listed these other Michael Marinucci Rites Today Last rites will be held this morning for Michael Marinucci, 22 Talmadge street, who was fatally stricken Saturday while walking in Delafeld street. The funeral service will be conducted at 9 o'clock at the home, and at 9:30 at the Church of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel where a high mass of requiem will be offered.

Burial will be in St. Peter's cemetery under the direction of the Torsone Memorial Funeral home. Mr. Marinucci collapsed near Duane street and was rushed to Francis' hospital in the police car by Patrolman Burchell. He was pronounced dead on arrival.

'Detective Leach investigated and reported Mr. heart ailment. Dr. Howard P. CarMarinucci had been suffering a penter, deputy county medical examiner, ordered the body removed to the Anderson Funeral home.

Born in Italy, Mr. Marinucci had been a resident of this city for 33 years. He was a communicant of Mt. Carmel church and was a member of 'its Holy Name society. Surviving are: his wife, Mrs.

Anna Letteri Marinucci; three daughters, Mrs. Theresa Amorello, Mrs. Antoinette DeFraio and 'Mrs. Concetta Minholtz of this city; three sons, Carmine Thomas, Frank and Albert Marinucci; and 11 grandchildren. Dreary is the name of a town in Idaho.

problems facing farmers of the area: 1. The severe drouth and con'sequent shortage hay and feed in various sections New York and of some of the New England states. 2. The shortage and anticipated shortage of farm and home 3. Indications of a probable shortage of garden seed.

December Bond Sales Surpass Half Billion WASHINGTON, Jan: 4-(AP) -Treasury receipts from the sale of defense bonds in December totalled $528,599,000, Secretary Morgenthau announced tonight, compared with $233,487,000 -in November. JULIET RIALTO LIBERTY TO-DAY-TO-MORROW TO-DAY-LAST-DAY -DAY CLARK GABLE CLARK GABLE Eleanor Powell in LANA TURNER LANA TURNER LADY, BE GOOD IN HONKY TONK PLUS HONKY TONK PLUS GUY KIBBEE SCATTERGOOD PLUS JEANETTE MacDONALD MEETS BROADWAY GEORGE MONTGOMERY. ACCENT ON LOVE THRU TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAy thru FRIDAY. TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY Devil's World FLYING WE GO GREAT BADLANDS BLIND FAST GUNS of DAKOTA Command Premier with with with with with with BRODERICK John Richard Arlen LYNN CRAWFORD. BORIS Barrymore LAUREL Jean Parker BARI and HARDY -Andy DEVINE Francis Farmer.