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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1956
Now 'Mustard Gas To Treat Cancer
San Francisco.
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The Worlei
A form of the mustard gas used in World, War I is being given to patients undergoing surgery for cancers which spread by way of the veins, three University of Illinois scientista reported.
direct result
They told the 42nd clinical, reived it died us Congress of the Anurican College of bone marrow depression and of Surgeons of "encouraglag" itite-fun--United Press.
ut results
the from the line drug. nogen mustard, on rats. The doctors are Ericvio Cruz, Gerald McDonald, and Warren
Natural Defence
London. Perrone of normal health ap- Cole. All are in the Departmene i have a natural defence of Surgery of the University of Illinois, College of Medicme.
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Four Buffalo, NY, selenlist: Į reported dug hac cluevej "spectacula, brief PAJTUNGLOTH-
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palienes
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(Trichykashi-Phosphoramide;
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One patient, he wife of physician, had extensive spread of cancer to the abdomerà una liver. She
ded to respond
had falled
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WELL, WHAT IS YOUR HP?
of the disease after it aliacka
New
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HE TAKES PHOTOS
25,000 FEET
BELOW THE SEA!
New York,
Scientists
Beat
'Red Heat'
Now
New York Electrical equipment body tissue, an American can- Capt. Jacques-Ives Cousteau, which can break through undersea explorer, said the "thermal barrier" has ver specialit said.
today photographs have been developed, it was an- D: C. P. Roads of York City
4 speech
been taken at a record nounced recently. the Royal College of Surgeons
depth of 25,000 feet,, A spokesmen for General that a natural immune machau-
opening up a new world Electric sald caginotrs had in the healthy human body
for man to explore. produced the equipment after a may is a valuable ally in treat-
long technical battle against inst cancer by drugs.
the Cousteau said "dozens of heat produced by aircraft at This may operate
new forms of life have high speed, way in which antibodies bacteria are an almost
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nd penanbe aid in their real- ciclilin by
other agents, said Dr Rhoads, who is of the Sloan-Kettering etitute for Cancer research. "Th
yo au describof ime in collaboration Eh the Ohio State University tele) $ hot in which ganeer cells were injected benath the ak of the forearms of 14 withy volunteers from Ohio State Penitentiary.
Washington.
The National Heart Institute has announced the development of an ingenious technique for measuring your heart's horsepower.
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vigorous local recien to the cancer cells was observed
nul 14 pages, he said. Even in.
Implant in which the cases wa o inuncdiately exelsert, t was completely sloughed off in a viurus rejee kon reaction.
Re-occurred
wg mn in valty-
wer
already been spotted. The etrineers have bullt Already some species are radios, transformers, motors and new to science for surf." other electrical equipment which He said the photos in-can withstand temperatures up to 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit, as dicated there are just as many plankton, a simple well as latense alomie radiation. form of life, at 28,000 fect as there are near the surface.
He said a four-month cruise in the understa research vessel, Calypso, also in- dicated that the floor of the ocean is not always a plain of mud, as had been suspected, but that the photos showed rocks and large pebbles at points.
ed
some
The company explained that with this development, nuclear- powered aircraft are ncarer to reailty, us much of the weight atomic reactors used to shield may be climinated,
elec-
Dr C. G. Sulls, Vice-President and Director of Research, show- ed reporters modtis of what he called "revolutionary" tronic circuits and diveer which "red-hot" at "skin- operate sizzling" temperatures.
were
Shoplifter At Large
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SHE'S BEEN GETTING AWAY WITH
IT FOR SIX MONTHS!
New York. Mrs Mary, Dragoti has been shoplifting $300 to $400 worth of goods a weels for six months and hasn't been caught yet. This saddens her. She wants to be caught.
Mrs Dragoti teaches salesgirls how to catch shoplifters. As part of the course, she wanders around the store seeing how many items she can snatch from the counters.
most common
The in class, she confronts bag. You just get close to the with the counter and, woricini quickly, the sales personnel goods that has been taken from brush stuff into the bas. under their
CX- nosta. She
The next it. plains to them how she did Next week she comes back and method is what Mrs Drazoli docs 1 ngul.
calls "wouring out." Thus: "You by, op, sóveral sicirts and then Put your own skirt over it and walk out, this is good because there are no packages. You can take several garments; you just looks a little heavier, that's all.”
Mra Dragoil's training pro- stromune Includes instructing the employees of the Hess Brothers department store in Allentown, Permusylvania, in the tricks that shoplifters use.
not
The fact that she has been caught in a theft yet is tribute to her expertness, As n storo detective for the last 10 years, she has
mastered the wiles of shoplifting.
WEARS A MASK
A fact noue of
Mrs Dragoti wears mask in class so that the pupils will recognise her as she wanders unmasked around the store doing her shopiling duties.
women
No. 3 method is the triçiç box. paper Use a box wrapped in t the store uses and tied up us if you had bought something. Have
a slit cut in
one side, big enough
to thrust folded stuff foto, Hold the box by the curd with the slit toward your body. Work fast.
EXTRA POCKETS
MOTORISTS' RESPONSES NOT QUICK ENOUGH
Chicago.
said average
neurosurgeon
the
A today that person is not equipped with quick enough responses to drive a modern automobile
especially under gency circumstances,
emer-
Dr Emil Seletz of the Univer- sily of Southern California de-School of mediene and staff vices, such as extra pockets in member of Los Angeles County
There
are many other
D 5 1tz raid he had treated
more than 20,000 cases of ac- ellertal injury and hot the in- cid:nce of man-made head in- lures has filled me with horror, Pearl-Handled
couts, or putting shower hooks capital, mace the arsertion at
4 10 Bernnial Congress What type of person doc on a belt and hanging loot on
Intern.de t College of shoplifting? The housewife. Mrs them, or "ticket switching," | "
Sur Tous Dragoti says
outif This lost involves taking, 203, a men 5 to 1.
$5 price ticket, and switching t Howevis, during ber decade to a $20 item and paying only of detecting, Mrs Dragoti has $5. The illly women "seem to
types of people, feel this isn't actually stealing arrested all that from children to lawyers to just reducing the merchandise,
two. United Pres. made clergymen. She caught
with Bota, mid they didn't know metal what came over them, neither
the did a very good job of
As for the
However, when similar cx- icer patients who had advanced cancer, 21 of 23 attempts to im- plaif.
the diease colle *ucęczaful. The implanted cells continued
until they to [TOW
werks removed several Dr Road • mich. Even after the implants were removed, cancers re-occurred in the four of
Now York the patients with a "of need
cansar in Its Anal stage,
He showed how one circuit developed could pick up and amplify a radio sign even while
was in the equipment,
direct An expedition headed by
flames pro- contact with the Cousteau to Equatorial dued by three blow torches. East Africa was sponsor- The officials explained
French the developments the by Government and the through experimentation
ceramics, the pol
the "Miracle" Geographie utanium, and National
lead pelleta Society.
size of
aspirins, coated who played an important apart in the battle against heat at the "thermal barrier-heat He so hat it can reduce glass to a
milky puddle..
doclors pri to help And out whether you're headed before Itable long
sar. And any symptoms
have had an alluck, it will pamine how much work
safely.
said instikte
bc also method
Cal ratu. in judging the for particular patients, rful experiences such as gend operations."
Te new technique has proved
wore
in other parts of their body, the physician stated
He said the experimčuks dicated that cancer cells,
in-
like
bacterial cells, can be regularly
ale i sucearful on como 100 otcerved in the diseased tissue,
ms and will soon be tried on the boat tube or
can be cullivated in pure form laboratory It determines | In alah pallens,
and transplanted can- alue output or horsepower by mal Tauring the force with which cer in animals ean be restrain- the hazai trives blood through ed, and even cured, by chemicals
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blood
Above The Heart
To ovary-removal w}} wa; CON- sidured
diyin to be
plean. Thren weeks after being given TSPA. BIK WILS discharged from the hospital and ha. jesumed maury of her
The norma activius rmisstun
lasted threo
months so far.
The report was presented by
George Dru
Moore, William Wear,
Tompkins Watson, and Arluru Beltran of the Roswell Park Memorial Intitule, N.Y. The surglow warned, Tt1ye (ever, that the drug was quite
toxic. The co patients who
re-
Hitch-Hikers Got A Plane Trip Too
New Plymouth. Hitch-hiking has long been catablished in New Zealand ns an economical method of getting from place to place, but it recently took an unexpectedly spectacular turn for two Now, Plymouth youths.
They were sitting on a bank outside a smail North Island township when a passing moteris! offered them a lift. He drove them to a nearby airfield and shop:rded them into a top- dressing aircraft.
Twenty minutes later, the still-surprised hile nikers wore stepping out, en to the LUTTAG of a towriship nearly 50 miles away. China Mail Special.
He Took A Taxi
Rome. "Take me to London,” sald the man who hopped into “Antonio Mazzoni'a taxi here.
Mazzoni bilakod at the English traveller, Robort Gray, But he explained he was short of lire, but could pay in pounds when he got - back to Britain.
So Matzoul, drove
| faxi a total of)1,401 miles Zand ¿collectedVkyttere
about 2
or
A Min Plantie Lutre, Or catheter, is inserted to a leg artery, and pushed all the way up
into
Horta
large 1st Riove the urtery
heart. Two small tubes inside the catheter Continuously register the difference in blood pressure, Terence between two points the aure while the heart is pumping.
The pressure difference is re- corded coni.uously intanti
CIF 21 martine. From this
“ቅ
cord, the scientists can compute the heart's output at every lit pidest in 1952 wurdine cycle,
The technique was developed by De Donald Fry, Alexander Aifred Casper of Mallos, and
Institute's Clinic of General Medicite arici Experimental Tetrapoules.
They said they plan to launch a bunun trul of the method vêhin a few months--Li soun As they have finished work on oms further,
or drugs-United Press.
POLICE COPTER SPLASH
Paris.
A Paris Police helicopter took an embarrassing bath in the River Seine last week while co- monstrating rescue techniques for newsreci camajamen.
Cousteau said there was
vastness and beauty to undersen life forms. said, "my biggest wish la, to have national parks some day underwater,"
ceramic- she says. professionals,
do samppartment store,
things. In a
nowing
BOMBS AWAY
"As the miracle of our push- bufton, "mechanised' divilization 12- Prpesce," he said, "the cidence of preventable head in- juríds are maltiplying beyond Ellef:
"Our super-deluxe, block-long
instad of being a source of comfort and vanity, is in reality, a potential lethal waa- pon-comparable "to " pearl-
Flatpic Potato pickers here, ran for two men shoplifted
cover the ether day when a Royal lifter posed as window diye bomo near Dom for the play man, picked up a manner second time, in a way quin with a $5,000 mink coat, und walked it from window to his waiting truck.
boat. At another store, a shop? Air Force plane dropped a prag car of pink and lavender
RUTTING ON. WEIGHT-
He said the pictures at SNAIL'S MEAL
25,000 feet were taken by
Bristol. the latest type of deep- fash sca electronic
Citizens of this busy port are
of their camera. The camera was wondering if delivery
But the canimion, or could nut bc speed- developed by Dr
shoplifter Harold mall
ed up. The postmaster app- wifely, of the Edgerton
standard mathoda becaus logised to P. Nolan Massachusetts Institute
spalls gnawed holes in a letter 'of Technology.
addassed to him-United Press.
Jellyfish Beat A Sub
Auckland. Jellyfish got the better of the British submarine Thorough In the Tasman Sea, and forced her to surface. Thorough arrived in. Agok-
land one night frum exer- claca with New Zealand frigates.
Jellyfish biladost. the, peri- and clogged, "the SCOPP speed-reporsling apparatus beneath the submarine.
The Whirlybird, piloted by Colonel Joan Curie, was badly damaged, but the pilot and his rescue "vistim," reporter for television station Europe Nura- |****** ber One, cscaped uninjured.
The accident occurred. rofinements." Curio was landing the newsup.
They reported, however, that after plucking him off a raft in the technique has proved the middle of the yellow-green "reasonably accurate and sure." | waters.
be
Locating Trouble
While nowsreel cameras whirred and early morning
The method is expected 10 passersby clucko approval,"
invaluable in determining the ability of a palent's heart to withstand surgery, checking, the effect of certain drugs, and In diagnosing such things ar valvular defcuts,
Also
useful
Curie landed the helicopter on he edge of a whort julting in- to the river.
As the newimen, was stepping triumphantly, out of the craft, It will probably prove the copter swung off balance, in locating potential testered,on lão whart for heart trouble in people where
long moment, and then plunged may be suspend. But experts ingloriously into the Seins, "1ts said it most likely will not be willing bindes spettering water
1sed routinely in normal peo-like e, garden spray.
de because there is always an
Itment of rik-howover slight
The pilot and the "victim”
In running a cather into the were able to rescue. themselves
corta.
bry
from the helicopter
cond into the Zivari | Nevertheless, experis sat the 2. 10.
irch-sque
The
น promises
by waters.
pilot was unscathed
Superior in many respects to but spluttering The victim re- The methods for measuring ceived a Lght facial cut, cardiac output which are now
In use.
These methods—which dater- mine outpur, by meanying tho
A landebound 'crane rescued the helicopter****
extent 10 which the heart Or A Hare In A
dilutes oxygen or dye in the bloodstream are
rallion inaccurate and provide Chemist's Shop
only mean, rather than constant
and Instantaneous valycs,
Real Power.
Milani.
A harusood hare and, a pury suing, dog wrought havoc in In diation,
drugstore... atje meerby. Sesang the new technique also can be used to measure, the other night,
The hare chased by hus heart, horsepower during exer and dogs bed into the Vil "clio on voll as resi no, an to provide a more convpresandvs dished into the pictine
One of the dar
| power
If the human triste o thaife experimental- finding
hid
Faind
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A full:speed. spurt under-
wafer failed to clear, the, periscope and the sub- marine had to surface, Jellyfish were found," fear. toaning the Jumping wire running from bow to con- ning tower and back to the, sterr
"I have never soon anything
the like it,"
captatu Lieutenant-Commander B. C. H. Mason, EN, ́maid later.
RAF officers, gave.faulty, radar angled mpchinez said, 19`
why
their
equipment as the reason the planes twice missed targot by 13 miles.
After the first incident they house-promised "It couldn't possibly employs happen again." After the second undil which you they suspended practices may want to study. The most they installed now eqizipment common device is the shopping United Press.
Colour Bar In Notts Textile Factory
Nottinizham. English girls, in a Neulpsham textão Icetory have. refused to work with Negro girls and have forced the management to put the coloured rle in a separate department.
The English dirža, nów, work
in one department, the coloured viris in anot Mr. Johns of tha Council, said
Becretary Trades
the
idea of segregation against trade union principles le better than refusing M. Frank Crowson, production
Bald to
tho coloured people manager of the firm segregation was the only way of firm at overcoming shortage
za¶¶¶¶¶¶* I machinists.“
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WHAT'S IN A
HAIRCUT ?
London. Str. Anthony Eden's haircut showi
tha potentist irritability of one who resente his pell- meaning activities fot being understood,” barber said today.
It further, indicates # of conscious
stic Bald swank
Mayfair, hairdresser, Albert
Sabedors th, tho
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Sir Anthony moustache
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