The Hutchinson News from Hutchinson, Kansas • Page 14

KUUKTKKN THE HUTCHINSON. KANSAS, 5. THURSDAY. AUGUST 13. 1936.

Learn Disease Rides the Air Revolutionists Shell Spanish Submarine In Civil War IJItra-Violcl. Hay HcstMcaiia Of Killing Germs Boston, (fP) Air-horne infection, new avenue for disease prevention, opened when Harvard scientists announced they hnd recovered the virus ot "flu" from the air and had destroyed il by purifying the same nir with ultraviolet light. This was the first instance in medical history of experimental proof that disease can spread in the air itself. It was something entirely different from the air peril described by the medical warnings to "cover coughs and sneezes." Uncovered, those actions project infectious particles through the air like slow bullets. But the Harvard men found deadly disease germs floating alive in air, after the droplets which projected the infection had completely evaporated.

This puts the air in the same position as drinking water fifty years ago. What "pure air" really is can now be discovered by the Harvard methods. Suspected Before The diseases that the air may carry to the body through the respiratory tract include measles, whooping cough, smallpox, meningitis, mumps, diphtheria, scarlet fever, infantile paralysis and psittacosis. The air has been under suspicion. But some curious facts had given it almost a clean bill of health.

Once the belief in air born infection was universal. I asteur's discovery of bacteria small enough to float in air, seemed complete confirmation. But while one disease after another was traced through its bacteria, not one had hitherto been proved to be spread by air. The mosquito carried yellow fever. Water transmitted typhoid.

A whole class of diseases was traced to infected food and drink. Another great class of diseases was found transmitted by contact. Air Infects Ferrets At the Harvard school of public health, W. F. Wells, instructor in sanitary science, and Dr.

II. W. Brown, a fellow of the Rockefeller foundation, sprayed a liquid infected with human "flu" into a sealed steel tank the size of a very big clothes closet. They discovered that a droplet one-tenth of a millimeter in diameter evaporated before it reaches the floor. That it leaves floating in that air a "nucleus.

Fail to Block Doc Townsend OAP Man to Speak al Couglilin's Convention Full May Prove Costly Independence, (IP) James, Elk City, today faced the prospect of paying $50 for. a catfish he bought for 25 cents. James was fined $25 and assessed costs of $25 yesterday in Justice court under a Kansas law prohibiting purchase of fish caught in Kansas waters. He appealed the decision to district court. This exclusive and remarkable picture shows a Spanish rebel shell as it struck the water off the bow of a Loyalist submarine (in right background) which was patroling the waters around Algeciras to prevent transportation of rebel troops from Morocco to the mainland.

The submarine was forced to flee when shelled by the rebel land batteries. This picture was taken by an Enfliahman on a passim steamer. Pholo. Preparations for its use in contagious wards are now under way. Nasal Spray Purifies Purifying the air is only one method of combatting air-born disease.

Another is already offered by the U. S. public health service. This is use of a nasal spray to prevent infantile paralysis virus from infecting nasal passages. Whether infantile paralysis is airborn is not known.

But there is no question by the medical profession that it attacks through the nasal passages, and In the way air-borne disease would be expected. Four Counties May Get Lakes News Brevities The Southwest District association of The Negro Baptist church at Great Bend, is being largely attended. Mrs. Mary E. Grayson, 106 East president of the Mis sionary department opened the meeting this morning.

Pat Harmon of Cushing, Okla has moved to Burrton in his work for the Shell Petroleum Co. Roy Garrigues has moved to Hutchinson with his three children as representative for the White Sewing Machine Co. Southwestern Projects Employ Farmers to Floyd F. Fish of Lyons is a new the slightest air current keeps the I employe at a filling station at the nucleus up. Even deprived ot air! intersection of 17th si.

and the motion one of these nuclei takes Nickcrson pavement. He is making hours to to the floor. I his home with Mrs. Fish and their Such a nucleus could easily I six children at 618 North Adams carry the cause of ''flu," a virus I 5 invisible in any microscope. Miss Louise M.

Biddle of Par- Trovcd Real Flu I sons has moved to 127 Ave. A east. KCJl 'she will teach in the Hutchinson They nrew air out of the tank school3 thjs faU and innocu ated ferrets with the recovered vims. Bight ferrets in Ella Bratton and Miss Dorair drawn within 30 minutes after! BrM spraying the tank came down with visitors Hutchinson today the human type of flu. There i J- M.

Baney was in Pratt yes- Dodge Hamilton, Gray and possibly Morton counties have lakes projected for this fall, some of which may be started immediately, it was revealed this: week when G. A. Dunwoody. district WPA engineer made a tour of the four counties meeting commissioners, city councils and civic leaders. Counties that have been designated as drought areas are to have WPA projects to give farmers employment, it was announced, and district officials are especially interested in building dams for ponds and lakes.

Morton county has a site north of Richfield, and several dam projects are under way in Finney county. Near Spearville a highway project has incorporated a dam and a bridge, impounding water for a sizeable lake. Nc-ss county has site at the west edge of Ness City would require damming of Walnut creek. Engineers' plans call for a 90-acre lake, three miles long and a half mile wide in places. A shale bottom would assure the water remaining impounded.

Gray county has two sites, one west of Cimarron, the other south of Montezuma. Hamilton county could have a lake two miles north of Syracuse where two years ago the state game commissioner had plans for a project which were never fulfilled. Only requirement for any of these to be adopted immediately by WPA is for a municipal body, county, iownship or city, to obtain title to the land and sponsor the project, it was announced. As water closes in behind the body of a swift moving fish, it necessarily converges sharply immediately behind the axis of the body. A rounded tail fin would be caught by the water and would act as a drag, but a forked tail leaves this space open.

Fan Mail Sings A Single Tune "Gimmie-Gimmie" Is Refrain of the Public Helium gas is not inflammable, although it is derived from hydrogen, a highly inflammable gas. Einstein explains the loss of weight of the helium atom as being due to radiation, and the loss is believed to go into the making which'of the mysterious cosmic ray. were many different proofs that; these ferrets caught real fix i They were immune after reeov- ering and their blood scrum afterward neutralized the flu virus in mice. They had neither property i before catching the disease from the tank air. i Finally no ferret exposed to i virus from the 30 minute air es-! caped flu.

1 Six ferrets given the virus an hour after the spraying did not! catch flu. Two ferrets were exposed to the virus from the air at its deadliest; after it was yet did not catch influenza. The air to those two had passed! through ultra-violet light before i reaching the animals. Kay Kills Germs Five years' important work pn terday on business Mr. and Mrs.

E. F. Robinson and children Carol Ann and Elwood Lee, of Kansas City, are visiting friends and relatives in Hutchinson, including Mr. and Mrs. C.

L. Burt, 1005 North Washington Miss Mary Jones, 702 East Ninth and Mr. and Mrs. Cleo Curtis, 731 East 10th st. Miss Mabel Smith of Beverly Hills, is visiting her parents, Mr.

and Mrs. John L. Smith, 1519 East Sixth st. Beverly Allen, 607 West Sherman is a new Hutchinson resident from Topeka. Severe freezing during the winter months does not injure the fruit bud.

even though it is frozen i solid. But after the bud has gun a awaken, with the warm sudden cold ruptures the the fruit ts each acre of moderately sloping fields are lost through erosion every year. ceded this particular experiment, days of spring, These years proved that within 1 snap freezes and five feet of a strong ultra-violet plump cells, and light, disease germs are killed I ruined. within about one second. They; are killed more slowly up to dis-! More than 100 tons of soil from tances of about 25 feet.

The preceding five years showed the physical laws of evaporating droplets. They showed why the experiments of earlier inves- tivators had missed the potential threat of the air-floating "nuclei." They showed that these nuclei may spread in a few minutes through a fair-sized building. Also in a big tank the Harvard men proved that 15 different micro-organisms lived, floating in air. up to five days after atomizing. Among these the bacteria causing pneumonia and diphtheria, and the streptococcus hemolyticus, cause of scarlet fever and erysipelas, were recovered from the tank air 48 houres after they had been sprayed into it.

Used In Hospitals One of the next stops will be to discover how long these infections remain capable of spreading the disease in air, and in what concentrations. Proof of this will depend on giving animals the disease from the air, and then recovering the bacteria from the. infected animals. The tank experiments already have given a clue to why bacterial diseases like those carried by food and water were not transmitted by air. Typical intestinal bncteria were out of the tank air in less than 12 hours.

Ultra-violet light of the kind used to purify the flu-laden air can be used in air conditioning systems or in rooms where persons are shielded from the direct action of the germacidal light. Glass shields will serve this purpose. Less than 50-wutt tubes are capable of purifying several thousand cubic feet of nir a minute. It is being used now to purify the air of hospital operating rooms. Say Abduction Attempted i Three white men were shot at Annlston, as an aftermath (o a reported attempt by a Negro to abduct the child of Mr.

and Mrs. Ullnian Williamson, shown above with the parents. The men were In a group that went to a Negro home in search of the alleged abdi Mary Astor's Friend By Her Side In Court Hollywood -The middle name of many a movie fan is Gimmle. Gimme-a-photograph is a fellow who writes to every player, even to players who have never appeared in a film. But photographs and autographs by no means end the demands.

Money, money, money is an endless refrain, varied by such pleas as these: A New Yorker would like Gary Cooper's latest sports suit. A rubber nose from Charles Laughton. who had six made for "Cyrano de Bergerac." would be appreciated by four different fans. 'Send Me Your Dog' George Raft's neckties have special appeal to a certain English fan. 'Party ideas" from Carole Lombard would please several fan hostesses.

(But Jane Peters of Rockland, 111., wanted just a letter from Carole signed with her real name, Jane Peters.) A woman in Milwaukee lost her pet thinks the Lombard pooch would substitute ad mirably. Stuart Erwin, the candid camera addict, can please several fans who want no more than an Erwin-snapped photo of Garbo in her dressing room. Wanted: Blueberry Pie Cleveland fan knows that Una Merkel's blueberry pies would "keep" long enough to reach her by parcel post Ann Harding, Jean Harlow, Ginger Rogers get requests for locks of hair, but Mary Boland was asked for the combing from her brush. Jean Hersholt, often a screen doctor, has been asked for asthma cures. A Rochester, woman wants her son to have medical education.

She wrote 15 different players about it. Myrna Loy could please a souvenir hunter by sending the wig she wore in her first film role. But Myrna treasures that herself. Ball Bond Sought Mae West's letters contain requests varying from "Please send me one of your Christmas cards" to "Please get my husband out of jail." Cary Grant and many other players could adopt, right now, any of several youths who think it would be a grand idea. Usually all the fan asks is a job and servant's quarters, but one lad has written Grant with the adoption plea for three years.

Claudette Colbert, if she wants to make youngsters happy, has only to buy sports outfits for a dozen-odd teams. But Ted Healy probably has the toughest assignment. A wanted one of his "stooges" to marry. Cleveland, (IP) controversy within the Rev. Charles E.

Coughlin's National Union for Social Justice over whether Dr. Francis E. Townsend should address Its convention was settled today with an announcement by Coughlin that Townsend would speak to the delegates Saturday. That will be after the official close of business sessions of the convention, the Royal Oaks, priest said. Opposition to appearance of the founder of the old age pension movement had been raised by Walter D.

Davis, convention marshal. "I have not extended an invitation to Dr. Townsend to speak before the convention," said Father Coughlin on his arrival today. "The business sessions of the convention are expected to be con eluded by Saturday noon. From then on we will be calling on many speakers.

"This convention is not going to be an oratorical contest." Davis, in his own words, had "emphatically opposed" Town send's addressing the delegates. "I want to keep the National Union out of politics," he explained. "This is not an open forum Father Coughlin was invited to address the Townsend convention but that is no reason why he should Invite everyone to speak at our convention." In an open letter to delegates. Father Coughlin wrote: "If one out of 12 apostles were a Judas Iscariot, it was an even bet that one out of 1,200 delegates in the national convention will be Gomer Smith!" Smith, an Oklahoma City lawyer and member of the Townsend movement's board of directors, attacked Coughlin and upheld President Roosevelt at the Townsend convention here a month ago. Dr.

Townsend immediately sought removal of Smith as a director but the board of directors delayed action. Father Coughlin's open letter was published in his union's organ, "Social Justice." High quality starch is obtained from sweet potatoes. high and may have been the oldest tree in the world. The growth of rings were not counted. Scientists believe that birds are an offshoot of active reptiles, A Douglas fir felled in 1895, in British Columbia, was 417 feet PAINFUL CORNS GO Removed by Nev Iodine Discovery RctieJ in 3 or Money Hack IQO-llt.

the new iwilno discovery, ends alt and pain in 3 Jmt wot com or calloun with iOP They dry up oaten. Shortly you retnovo thn painful growth, Hra fcnd all. No cuttinn. No fillnt. No toB-lBl is ftftfo.

mitiseptlo and simple to no. 3 iJ 5c bottle At your druggist today nod atflat no longer. or Money teak. Pubjic Auction The following named goods for the named people will be sold at public auction August 22, 1936 at 1:30 P. M.

at The Cody Transfer Storage 3rd Maple to cover storage lien on goods: Mrs. C. R. Briggs, dining room suite, stoves, overstuffed suite, rugs, piano, chairs, electric sweeper, H. Cochran, electric ice box, overstuffed suite, breakfast room suite, range, boxes, Wallace Bruce, F.

Gardner, cartons, boxes, beds, H. Jackson, gas heater, sweeper, R. Lord, gas range, radio, overstuffed suite, beds, Pan Cleaners, laundry Ridgeway, F. G. Seward, dresser, chairs, beds, bbls.

dishes. CODY TRANSFER STORAGE CO 3rd and Maple Phone 219 Fires 6 Shots Into Body Chanute, Pierced by six bullets in the region of his heart, the body of Lorenzo Carmel, 40, grocer, was found yesterday in the i locked bathroom of his home. A revolver was lying by his side. Friends said he had worried recently over finances. The widow and two daughters survive.

Woodpeckers do not carry grass and feathers to line their nests, as do many other birds, but they cannot be considered lazy. Few birds work as diligently as woodpeckers in building their homes. They are the master carpenters of the bird world. Insured? Better Sea Barry Altlt The Security of a Safe Deposit Box There's no temptation for stealthy ban da when your valuables are locked safe and secure in a safety box. Keep your important possessions where there is no opportunity for loss.

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