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TIMES I eocasfe 1 1 The Weather (Br the V. S. Weather Bareati) Decreasing cloudiness and shower activity today through Sunday. Southwesterly winds up to 20 mph. Toil' Temperature 1 3 ft 7 8 10 11 12 I 1 79 80 77 78 79 77 75 74 74 75 75 76 DAI FIFTY-SEVENTH YEAR No.

168 TAMPA, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1949 PA. PRICE FIVE CENTS 1 Essay Winner to Be Feted Iptoidls Jtef mm mmj Tax Hearing Draws Plea For Revenue But More-Money Advocates Don't Say How to Raise It Vast Dope Ring Found In New York International Tieup Uncovered; Leader Linked to Peru Revolt New York, Aug. 20 MP). A vast Illicit drug ring so powerful that it sparked an abortive revolution in Peru and involved United Nations action was exposed here yesterday with the arrest of the alleged ringleader. Authorities called the arrest the first high point in an international crackdown on a huge smuggling syndicate which has plied a A.

Ai iJ Jacksonville, Aug. 20 (JP). Flor ida Legislators won praise for their Locked Out Tenant Trapped By Spout; Out All Night record $240,000,000 appropriation bill, but members of a joint Sen El: v. i' High School Football Out ate-House Tax Study Committee failed to get any revenue-raising suggeuuns ai me luuimng mmiuii New York, Aug. 20 i.T).

Law-of a public hearing here nre M. snrv-PvPri his Early speakers urged members kpvs his ess MSfiiwite 13 ems TRUCK DRIVER CRUSHED TO DEATH Orlando, Aug. 20 (AP). Douglas Bracken, 33, was crushed to death today when a 200-pound beer drum fell on him. An employe of the Atlantic Brewery Bracken lost his balance and fell from a truck, upsetting the drum.

He is survived by his widow and three children. He formerly lived at Ashburn, Ga. RUSSIA WARNS YUGOSLAVS IN BROADCAST London, Aug. 20 (AP). Soviet Russia has warned Yugoslavia it is prepared to take "effective measures" to defend the rights of its citizens there, the Moscow radio said tonight.

It added that Russia also had threatened to "bring to account" those responsible for alleged mistreatment of Soviet citizens in Yugoslavia. The on the third foor, everybody asleep. A drain pipe from the roof passed alongside one of his windows. cocaine trade between the U. S.

and Peru. He did fine in getting to the roof and starting down the pipe but a leg stuck in a bracket. American, Peruvian and U. N. authorities joined in a two-year drive to smash the ring, said to have used narcotics profits to arm insurgents in Peru in an attempt of the committee to iind some revenue sources, however, which will enable the State to carry out the appropriation bill spending program for public schools, the University of Florida, tuberculosis control and public health.

Two members of the 11-man group were not present at today's hearing. They are Norwood Strayhorn, Lee County, and J. Ben Fuqua, Manatee. Fourth In Series Today's session was the fourth He strugggled and shouted. He couldn't get his leg loose, couldn't to seize control of the country get back on the roof, couldn't awaken anyone.

Eight hours later early this The story of political intrigue end plotting, tied in with large-scale drug traffic, was unfolded For Season Group Ignores Number of Requests To Lift Suspension New Smyrna Beach, Aug. 20 JP). The Florida High School Athletic Association's Executive Committer refused today to revoke its suspension of Jefferson High of Tampa. Jefferson was suspended for the coming semester for using an ineligible football player last year. The committee's decision was announced after an hour's closed session, which followed a hearing at which pleas were made for re mm 4 '1- with the seizure yesterday of the alleged ringleader, Euardo Bala- morning that was a neighbor saw his plight.

A police emergency squad untangled him and took him to a hospital for treatment of leg lacerations. of a series of five public hearings scheduled through the state in order to sample public opinion rezo, 48, Great North River, Long Island. He is a naturalized U. S. citizen on Florida financial problems.

Speakers included J. Velma of Peruvian descent. Wide Circle broadcast was heard by the Soviet monitor. This was another in a series of bitter exchanges between Soviet Russia and her former Yugoslav ally. AIR FORCE DISCOUNTS 'FLYING SAUCERS' 20 (AP).

The Air Forfe said today that two old machines found in a Maryland tobacco shed yesterday "have absolutely no connection with the reported phenomena of flying saucers." The announcement ended speculation that the contraptions may have been early experimental models of the strange objects that have been reported whizzing through the air from time to time. Special agents made an investigation after Keen, Tallahassee, chairman of the More than 80 persons, some of Continuing Education Council; MISS LOLA JEAN HINDMAN them prominent business men, have been arrested in Peru, au K. Walrath, Jacksonville attorney and a member of the University of Florida Alumni Board of Gov Auburndale High Graduate thorities said, and 5CT or 60 operatives in this country are believed August Rain Now Well Over Normal Showers which began yesterday and continued to keep Tampans ducking for shelter today have brought the rainfall total for the month up to more than 14 inches, or nearly six inches above the normal. ernors; Mrs. Ramona Masure, Co ordinator of the.

Florida Tuber connected with the ring. moval of the suspension. Assistant U. S. Attorney Joseph culosis Control program and James A.

Henderson, Miami, president of the Florida State SchooTBoard A statement by Committeemen P. Martin said the syndicate apparently tried recently to expand operations to Italy through efforts H. A. Schubiger, New Smyrna Civitan Club Honors Essay Winner Tonight Beach; C. J.

Popell. Lakeland and Association. Keen told the Legislators that Continuing Education Council Jennings Rou, Tavares, said: to contact Charles (Lucky) Luci ano, exiled one-time vice king. "With 10 days of the month still "During the course of the meet to go," said Meteorologist Talbott, Balarezo was arrested aboard members are "willing to pay" for ing of the Executive committee. "we already have nearly six nothing has developed to cause the members of this Committee the liner La Guardia, which runs between New York and Italian ports.

He was held in $100,000 the cost of good schools for their children. The organization was formed 18 years ago, he said, and inches more than the normal 8.18 inches for August. Since yester Miss Jean Hindman, charming young Auburndale high school graduate, will be honored at a Civitan banquet tonight as the first Floridan to win in their international essay contest on citizenship. Eighteen-year-old Miss Hindman won second place with an essay entitled "Life in a Democracy." In her essay she says, "If we dare look on our government to feel that it will be justified in changing its decision concerning day we have had more than four bail by U. S.

Commissioner Ed is made up of appointed representatives of many state-wide groups. inches of rain here at the Weather Bureau to bring the total for the the suspension of Jefferson High ward McDonald on a charge of conspiracy to smuggle cocaine Keen told the committee that month up to about 14 inches. Of School. The suspension as ordered in Orlando on July 16 is from Peru. simply as a legacy left to us for Capt.

Alfonso Mier Teran studies of the 1947 school law convinced his organization that "some further improvements in the law course, we are still about four inches behind the normal for the hereby confirmed." Both Principal D. W. Waters and Former Coach Richard Spoto of of the Peruvian Department of Investigation who has been here year." and certain additional appropriations would be desirable." For those planning weekend for two months to aid in the hunt Jefferson admitted the violation beach trips and other outdoor ac The whole "Minimum Founda tivities, Mr. Talbott offered only our benefit, enrichment, and ease, then we shall some day awaken to find that our nation has rotted as quickly as our character has decayed. "Democratic self government tries its people with a sterner challenge than any other system in the world Some Injustices Rules Tightened On Giff Parcels Officials in Germany Tackle Black Market said Balarezo was a source of arms in the Aprista Party uprising in Peru last October.

The Captain said Balarezo was tion Program" for the public schools would have required lukewarm encouragement. To go along with southwesterly winds up 000,000 for the two-year period, rather than the $99,793,000 appro to 20 miles an hour, Mr. T. prom taken from here to Peru on Peruvian warship in March, 1948 ised only decreasing cloudines Boiling Field here was advised that "some flying discs had been located in Maryland." State Police found the relics in a shed near Glen Burnie, about 11 miles south of Baltimore. QUAKE RELIEF PLANE VANISHES Caracas, Venezuela, Aug.

20 (AP). The Ransa Air Line disclosed today one of its planes handling relief supplies for quake-stricken Ecuador disappeared soon after taking off Thursday with 12 persons aboard. The plane carried nine Venezuelan passengers, including reporters and photographers, and a crew of three. The last radioed report from the plane heard here gave its position as over Villavicencie, Colombia. CIVIL CONTROL IN GERMANY SET FOR SEPT.

15 Berlin, Aug. 20 (AP). The State Department will take over from the Army Sept. 15 in conducting the United States occupation of Germany. A statement by High Commissioner John J.

McCloy today said an earlier announcement erroneously gave the date of the changeover from military to civil rule as Nov. 15. FORMER GOVERNOR NAMED COLLEGE PRESIDENT Lewisburg, Aug. 20 (AP). Horace A.

Hildreth, former Governor of Maine, has accepted the presidency of Bucknell University. Appointment of the 45-year-old Portland attorney was confirmed by a university official who said Hildreth probably would assume his new duties some time next month. DOG POISONER HUNTED IN ORLANDO Orlando, Aug. 20 (AP). Police are hunting a dog poisoner blamed with killing 30 pet dogs in recent weeks.

An unidentified man was seen throwing meat loaded with strychnine from an auto in the south section of town, authorities said. priated, he said. Part Acceptance and shower activity for today and as a guest of Victor Haya de la but said the school wras "a victim of circumstance" and that the action was not willful. The Association charged the player failed in his academic studies the previous year, gave a false residence address and accepted small sums of money for his athletic ability. Asking leniency were Principal N.

H. Ruggles of Plant at Tampa; tomorrow. Toree, chief of the now outlawed "The Legislature did not see Like the weather forecast. Miss Aprista Party. Revolt Failed fit to accept all the recommenda Tampature's smile also lacked sun "And while the imperfections of our democratic government, like all man-made institutions, have brought injustices to some, advantages to others, it nevertheless Frankfurt, Germany, Aug.

20 (P). Tighter controls on gift parcels from the U. S. will probably tions, but did appropriate enough shine today. She admitted she was Balarezo allegedly took with him money to allow for normal growth just about as dreary as the $60,000 in cash and a quantity of! be set up next week in order to and increased the appropriation for capital outlay purposes," he has helped us to achieve greater munitions, for use by the Aprista keep such shipments out of the weather.

For one thing, she was about to believe that her vacation i-any in us uprising, tne plot black market. was never coming, and, for an succeeded, he was to be rewarded declared. Keen commended the Legisla personal dignity and more ma terial wealth than any other na tion in the world An American Military Government official said yesterday the other, she faiTed 'again this morn ture for the appropriation it did ing to find a letter from her favor ite boy friend in her mail box. Miss Hindman was working in make, but pointed out that Flor Crockett Farnell, Supervisor of Public Instruction of Hillsborough County; Principal W. R.

Boone of Orlando Senior High and Principal Vivian Gaither of Hillsborough High. They contended that Jefferson's suspension will hurt the athletic programs of all schools it had been scheduled to play because of curtailed revenue. ida is still far away from the the Connecticut tobacco fields when she was notified of her with the post Chief of Peruvian Customs, Mier said. However, the revolution failed. Hay de la Toree took refuge in the Colombian Embassy in Lima, where he remains a political refugee.

Balarezo fled by air to the U. leaving behind his family. Government prosecutor Martin school program envisioned in the Citizens' Committee report and the award. new regulations follow investi-j gation by Customs officials of what they called diversion of gift parcels to the black market and will contain provisions of close legal loopholes. Military Government officials said the drive will be directed Patrol Needles Covered Wagon 1947 school law." The Civitan Club of Tampa He offered a resolution urging furnished her transportation by air to Tampa, where tonight she that the Legislature raise suffi Batavia, N.

Aug. 20 (P) will be honored by state Civitan Arthur Lamear resumed her cov said Balarezo's ring has been smuggling cocaine from Peru cient money in its special session next month to meet the appropriation for the public schools and to officers. ered wagon trip from Arkansas to Vermont today after being ordered She was given many gifts by the Auburndale Civitan Club yes maintain State institutions of against hundreds of phony charitable groups which have sprung up in Germany since the war. They emphasized that such well-known agencies as the British and American Red Cross, and the off a nearby State picnic area. higher learning, terday, including a loving cup, the In response to a question by Whisky Worth Angry Wife Sen.

John E. Mathews, Jacksonville, Keen said he did not believe Council of Helief Agencies are not involved in illegal rackets. International second prize award. College Scholarship Among other surprises to be given to Miss Hindman tonight, will be the announcement that she will receive a four year scholar it possible to reduce the appro priation "without seriously im Operation Raising I. Q.

Reported Wrightsville Beach, N. Aug. 20 (JP). A Cleveland doctor disclosed here that he has perfected an operation that will improve the mentality of retarded children 20 percent. Dr.

Charles F. McKahnn, professor of pediatrics at Western Reserve University in the Ohio City, told a New Hanover County Medical Society symposium yes 1000 Stolen On Aug. 12 the Anglo-American Export-Import Agency (JEIA) announced it had can pairing the school system." since 1946, bringing in an average of 50 kilograms a month. Each kilogram, Martin said, would bring more than $9000. Martin said the smuggling traffic became so heavy last year that the U.

S. suspended all imports of cocaine from Peru, but later agreed to import a limited amount of raw cocoa leaves after the Peruvian U. N. delegation said the embargo threatened one of its chief exports. As part of the U.

N. compromise, Peru agreed to shut down all of its cocaine factories. Captain Mier said there were six legit In Miami yesterday, bouth Mrs. Lamear said Harry W. Driher, a State Highway department engineer, told her to move her livestock from the picnic ground.

She added the three-day stopover was necessary because her horses needed shoeing. She is retracing the route she took from Bethel, to Clarks-ville. last year. Her rubber-tired wagon is crammed with livestock and camping equipment. With her are 12 goats, 25 chickens, two dogs, two horses and a colt.

Florida business men went on rec celled "all outstanding licenses and contracts in the name of the Overseas Mail Order Service ord as opposing any general sales tax to raise additional state MctcDill Ave. Package Store Robbed in Night revenue. Men from Miami to Key West A Palma Ceia package store was told a joint Senate-House Legis Busts Dice Game Bullets Fly as Mate Loses Money Los Angeles, Aug. 20 (JP). An angry housewife complaining about her husband's gambling losses shot up a neighborhood dice game last night, police reported.

Her son joined in the fracas. Both were arrested. Detective Sgt. C. W.

Barber said this is what happened: Vance Cushman, 41, and some broken into during the night and ship to the college of her choice. Today Miss Hindman is being shown around town by friends, and she is having lunch at the Columbia with Earl Carver, president of Civitan here, giving instructions to "let her have as much ice cream as she wants, and just show her a good time." District governor, Leland Cory, Orlando, will preside at the banquet at 6:30 o'clock tonight at the Egypt Temple Shrine. Past Governor Leon Noll will also be at the speakers table. lative Committee such a tax would drive business out of the state and work a hardship on the little peo terday that the procedure entails more than $1000 worth of whisky was taken, Sheriff Culbreath re imate factories in Peru, and the OMOS Hodgens to Return First of Week Sheriff Culbreath said today he expected Deputy Alto Klay to return with the confessed Red Cross embezzler, James Thomas Hodgens, Monday or Tuesday. ported.

clean-up drive resulted in the discovery of eight illicit plants. He said Balarezo had controlling interests in some of these. Deputy Nelson Dukes, investi Illinois Thief Gets Enough Rope to Hang Himself Martin said clampdown on the gating, told the Sheriff that during the rainy night a two-foot square hole had been cut in the rear of King's Package Store, 2409 Mac- cocaine traffic resulted in Bala Galesburg, 111., Aug. 20 (JP). Sheriff Charles Dahler says that whoever came stealing around the Court House last night "now has ple.

They were among an estimated 125 persons who attended an all-day public hearing to express views on ways to raise money to meet the Legislature's 1949 general appropriations act authorizing record expenditures of Paul Sher, secretary of fthe Key West Better Business Bureau, sug rezn eoins to sea last May as Nabbed in New Orleans, the ex-Tamrja chaDter bookkeeper readily Dill owned by E. G. Hill, and approximately 20 cases of liquor mends were having a little game in Fred Barnett's upholstery shop. Mrs. Cushman and her son, Wil enough rope to hang himself." was taken out through the small hole.

liam, 19, appeared at the place. Man Confesses Murdering Girl increasing the blood supply to the brain. "Several" operations he has performed on mentally retarded children have resulted in remarkable improvement in the patients, Dr. McKahnn said. Making what he termed tne first public disclosure of his method, Dr.

McKahnn said the technique of the operation involved hooking of one of four veins from the brain to one of four arteries. The effect, he said, would be to have five arteries carrying blood to the -brain and only three veins carrying blood from the brain. The increased blood supply, he added, results in an improved intelligence quotient (I. She said "I want the $200 mv Dukes said the burglar alarm gested the appropriations bill be line encircling the store, approxi Cincinnati, Aug. 20 (P).

Capt. Patrick Hayes, acting Cincinnati husband lost," and when Barnett said he did not have it she took a gun from a bandanna handkerchief and fired two wild shots. Her son belabored Barnett with steward aboard the La Guardia. His primary purpose, Martin said, was to extend his market in cocaine to Italy and in return to import heroin from Italy to the United States. Heads Civil Service Washington, Aug.

20 (P). President Truman today named Harry B. Mitchell chairman of the Civil Service Commission. Mitchell firmerlv vas president of the three member commission. admitted taking a "pretty big amount of money" from Red Cross funds the last three years to pay gambling debts.

He told newsmen "I hope this will make the Red Cross stricter with their funds." Hodgens will face trial in Criminal Court on a direct information from the Solicitor's Office charging him with two counts of reconsidered and studied before any action was taken. Asks.Restudy mately two and a half feet above ground level, had been missed by less than an inch by the cutting detective chief, said today Wil liam Gamble, 26, had confessed The thief took 150 feet of rope used to hold scaffolds from which workmen have been tuck-pointing the building. Convicted Negro Wins Stay of Execution Tallahassee, Aug. 20 (JP). Governor Warren today granted Garfield Ruff, Duval County Negro, a 30-day stay of execution.

The stay was granted to allow Ruff time to present his case to the Cabinet Pardon Board. instrument used by the burglars, Horace F. Cordes, a member of in an oral statement the slaying a rubber mallet and a spray gun the Legislative Committee of the of Muriel Baldridge, 17, high ine Lusnman iamiiy lett as Discovery of the theft was not made until noon today when the Retail Merchants Division of the Burnett's friends called ptlice. school cheerleader, at Prestons burg, last June ,27. store was opened for business.

Hayes said a written statement Miami Chamber of Commerce, also advocated further study of the present bill. "We're willing to spend time (See TAX HEARING Page 3) Youngster Had 'Diabolical Possession' Later Mrs. Cushman, 40, and William were seized and booked on suspicion of assault with intent to commit murder. Barnett was hospitalized with face and head was in the process of being taken from Gamble, who with Olen Col lins, 15, was brought to Cincin Quarterly Report Released Cancer and Heart Diseases lacerations. Flown to TexasFrom Chicago Priest Reported as Driving Out Evil Spirits by Ritual 48 Die in Tunnel nati police three days ago for lie detector questioning.

Gamble has been charged with murder in the girl's death but until today steadfastly declared his innocence. Lead County Death Causes As Korean Train Stalls Polio Serum Helps Patient Make Overnight Recovery majority were negative. Twenty- Seoul, Aug. 20 MP). A passenger train stalled in a tunnel.

Forty- eight Koreans were reported killed trying to get out. Lubbock. Aug. 20 (JP). six were diagnosed as definite tuberculosis.

Lack of funds, Doctor Chappell explained in the report, forced discontinuance during the Summer months of the County's Dent-amobile. The mobile dental clin This report was made today by C. L. Burpee, American adviser Washington, Aug. 20 (JP).

The ancient ritual for driving out evil spirits is credited by a Catholic newspaper with ending the reported "diabolical possession" of a 14-year-old Mount Ranier, boy. Reports of strange manifestations bothering the boyhad been made public previously by the Society of Para-Psychology. It said church, with the consent of his parents, he received religious instruction. Later the priest baptized him and then successfully performed the ritual of exorcism. The parents of the afflicted boy are non-Catholics." The Washington Post says the ritual was performed by an unidentified priest, both here and in St.

Louis. It adds that the priest Hospital attendants said a four-year-old polio patient showed no Hello, There San Francisco, Aug. 20 (JP). A smartly-dressed woman drove' her big, flashy automobile briskly into the service station. to the Korean Railway Commum sign of the disease last night, sev cations Division: He said the Cancer and heart disease took more lives in Hillsborough County during April, May and June than any other ailment, a quarterly report of the County Health Department showed today.

Of the 604 deaths in the county for the three-month period, those two diseases accounted for a total of 231,. Dr. Frank V. Chappell, director reported. Heart disease took 140 lives, cancer 91.

Live births were nearly twice the total number of deaths, with a recorded of 1172. Twen passengers fought to escape from ic is expected to be back in oper- i eral hours alter her grandfather, a Chicago doctor, gave her an in-jetcion of a speical serum. Her bumper caught a pop stand and a dozen bottles went flying. three qars which became uncoupled from the rest of the train this serum, but that it has been used with success by the Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago. Dr.

Molander did not give the serum's name. He described it as "a convalescent serum taken from polio patients." American Airlines flew the serum from Chicago to Dallfls, wnere it was transferred to the Braniff plane. At Chicago, a spokesman for the American Medical Association said a sufficiently large num The serum was given to Peggy The car hit the oil display stand about midway through a two-mile ation by Oct. 1, the Health Department director said. Correction of overflow drains from air conditioning units eliminated many of the 1351 general Ann Best, Jordan, N.

M. tunnel 120 miles south of Seoul Thursday night. Many were trampled. The nlim sanitation complaints handled, the Braniff Airways detoured a Dallas-Amarillo flight 200 airline miles yesterday to deliver the serum. Peggy Ann's sister, Sandra Jean, 7, died Wednesday, the day ber of injured was not known and a tire rack, and oil cans and tires went a-roliing.

Then she squarely hit two gas bowled them over and drove away. As she passed through, attendant William Wardley told police, she smiled and said, "Hello." report stated, adding that considerable planning has been done here. Train crews finally cleared a Protestant minister interested by the youth's family, had witnessed a number of weird phenomena while trying to sleep in the same room with him. In one instance, the society reported, a pallet on which the boy was sleeping slid across the floor and under a bed. In another, it said, a heavy armchair in which the boy was sitting with his knees drawn under his chin tilted slowly to one side and fell over.

ber of polio patients had not been treated with the serum to deter the tunnel late yesterday. Poetry Prize Criticized, Library Drops Awards mine its overall worth. He added, to set up the mosquito control program which was authorized by the Legislature. In compliance with the regulation of a local bill calling for a however, that there had been some encouraging reports on ex Features Today she was admitted to the hospital as polio patient. Dr.

C. O. Molander. the children's grandfather, came to Lubbock after Sandra Jean died. He ordered the serum from Deutsch Serum Center in Chicago.

He explained it had been in use Washington, Aug. 20 (JP). The perimental work with the ser ty-five stillbirths were listed. In addition to cancer and heart diseases, the following were classified by the Health Department as the "Big 10" in causing death: Cerebral hemorrhage, pneumonia, nephritis, tuberculosis, accidental deaths, premature births, diseases of early infancy and diabetes. Veneral diseases were more than double the next highest of reported diseases measles.

Reported cases of measles, chickenpox, mumps, scarlet fever and whooping cough came to 474 while venereal disease stayed with the boy for two months, accompanying him back and forth on the train. The Post's account continues: "Repeatedly, each time the ritual was performed, the final reaction would come from the boy when the words were spoken, 'I cast thee out' a reaction of profanity and screaming and the astounding use of Latin phrases, the priest was reported as saying. "In one manifestation, the boy reported that he had seen a vision of St. Michael casting out the devil. "Finally, at thei last performance of the ritual (last May), the boy was quiet.

Since then, it was reported, all manifestations have ceased." The ritual of exorcism consists of the saying of Mass, special prayers, psalm singing and the sprinkling of holy water. Library of Congress is cancelling um. Bingay 4 Our Children 6 Churches 5 Post 7 Countywide Bangs program, testing has been completed on 97 percent of the dairy farms. Hillsborough County is the first in the State with the law, and the report stated that If), 518 cows have been tested for the disease. Comics.

.....14 Radio 8 Crossword ..12 Society 6-7i The Catholic Review, weekly newspaper of the archdiocese, says the boy has been exorcised successfully by a priest after entering the Catholic church. The review says the priest involved refused to discuss the case in any way. It gives this summary of what happened: "A Catholic priest was called upon for help. When the boy ex "But for statistical proof a very large number of cases are needed," he added. "Polio is a strange disease and sometimes dramatic recoveries occur spontaneously." The AMA said earlier this week that there was no drug known that would prevent or affect the course of infantile paralysis, although much experimental work is underway.

all plans for giving prizes and awards because Congress did not like the selection of Ezra Pound for a poetry prize in 1948. Pound was accused of treason after he broadcast for the Italians during the war. The Pisan Cantos, for which he got the prize, were written while he was held in an American prisoners of war camp. Now he is a patient in St. Elizabeth's mental hospital here.

Deaths 2 Sokolsky 4 Dorothy Dix 7 Sport-Rays 9 Editorials 4 Sunday School 5 Markets 12 Weather Map 5 McLemore 4 Where to Go. .11 Moley 4 Winchell 4 for 10 to Id years not as a preventive but to lessen the severity of polio. "In the bulbar type polio, the mortality rate is reduced from 45 to 50 percent down to 18 percent by the use of the serum," he said. Dr. Molavider said many doctors and hospitals "do not believe in It The comprehensive report also listed other work carried on by the Health Department and progress made in the three months.

Among these were typhus control, the nursing division and school student hearing test programs. stood at 634 reported cases. The tuberculosis clinic made 8258 X-rays taken on the Health Department's case-finding machine. Of this number, a large Ask drujrifist for RUB-ALL-EN for lired muscles and feet. Adv.

pressed a desire to enter the.