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STREPTOMYCIN EFFECTS ON TUBERCULOSIS
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1947.
THE VOICE SPEAKS,
THEY GO TO SLEEP
'Too Dangerous'
To Televise
SUCCESS to Mr Peter Casson means
failure--that is, failure to become a television star, Mr. Casson is a hypno- List, and the B.B.C. believes that, tele- vised, he would be dangerous.
Mr Casson, un ex-naval petty ofeer, who. wus born at Bridlington, Yorkshire, is aft. 1isins. tall and 25 years old.
Profensor C. E M. Jond said to Mary Adams, one of the B.B.C. television producers: "Try him in television." So on a' recent Wed- nesday Mary Adams took him to Alexandrą Palace.
Four out of six people watching him on a olosed-circuit television screen fell asleep.
Said the B.B.C. Inter: "Because of the suc- i cess of this experiment, and the consequent dan- ger of hypnotising viewers who might not have anyone at hand to wake them, It has been de- elded that a hypnotic television broadcast would not be advisable."
Sold Mr Casson: "I am very dis- appointed. It is nothing to fear. It is extremely agreeable sensation of profound rest and re- inkallon."
'Breathe deeply'
д
This is what happened when he gave 15 minutes to eight people who volunteered in the Daily Express unlice.
He seated them in a row, and then spoke==strong” vibrant, Insistent~-~- like this:-
HEELS ONLY ON CHAIR
BOTH FEET! OFF FLOOR
“I had a headache' she said, “but it's gone'
SHOULDERS TAKE THE WEIGHT
Ruld Joyce Tucker supports the whole weight of hypnotist Peter Casson: "I heard a voice," she said afterwards. "It sounded soft, pet louder and louder, . I had a headache before it started, but it has gone," In the corner seat: Leonard ("I felt right numbed") Savape.
TO TEST EINSTEIN THEORY
DURING ECLIPSE IN MAY
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Soft-Spoken Young Men Direct Underground Operation In Holy Land
(EDITOR'S NOTE:
Associated Dress Correspondent Carter L. Davidson has been covering strife-torn Palestine for the past year. In the following dispatch he glues au account of a secret meeting with Jewish underground leaders in the Holy Land. bue of the rare occasions on which the Iron Zvai Leumi command has dealt directly with the foreign press.)
By CARTER L. DAVIDSON JERUSALEM-I have just returned from a visit into the strongholds of the Jewish underground, where I wns permitted to meet secretly with a group of confident young men who plot to carve with the sword a Hebrew republic on both sides of the Jordan River:
They are the leaders of the legun The Irgun strategy is based on “a Zval Leum! (National Military Or constant state of war** Canisation) and from their war chest "opportune moments." The spokes- geared to have sprung most of the Inetics men explained that the explosion which have turned the Holy Land on March 1 in the Jerusalem British Into battlefield. Jaced It with Offleers' Club which killed 16 per- barbed wire, drenched it with blood sons and wounded 20 "might possib- on occasion and, at last, have placed ly be regarded the unhappy country is the lap of Foreign
answer to Minister Ernest the United Nations.
Devin's. House of Commons speech in which he called us, a mere religious sect,"
When was brvited to talk with the Irgun high command. I sent a fist of written questions along with my neceptance, questions concern- Ing the organisation's performances and 'polley.
Exciting Proliminaries
45 an
Strike When Possible "Bui generally," they added, "there is no question of limiting the struggle to reactions and reta- Jiations. We strike when and where possible."
attack on the Jewish Sabbath was The staging of the Omers' Club not a change of policy, they stated. It was based on a precedent of "a war of duty." Such attacks on Sabbaths occurred in the Maccabean,
cellpse the U. S. Army Air Forces blackout goggles and slumping low us on the Sabbath for after
but
The interview Itself W29 60. casual in its manner that it might have been a chance gathering of bank clerks or insurance salesmen talking shop had it not been ducted
con- "somewhere in Palestine." The preliminaries-waiting at a pre-arranged spot in a prescribed explained
wars before Christ, They further costume, changing from one taxi to been planned
that the operation had New electronic equipment, de-
Another un a dark road. BY PAUL F, ELLIS
wearing veloped during the war,
but had been will be
will measure the temperatures of on the taxi seat, hearing terse pass because the danger to civilians is moved up to the daylight hours tool to uncover more knowledge of used for the first time as a relentist's United Press Science Writer
the air overhead with raysonde words and instructions in Hebrew increas balloons and in aircraft that will fly the universe
after dark. which
The scientists will attempt to a extremely high altitudes. These meeting was lacking in dramatles the
were exciting, the actual
requirements of war make eclipses the sun this month,
determine whether light rays from temperature measurements will certain stars are bent as the rays help the scientists to determine how Irgun commander, Menachim Beigin, agitera for the freedom of Israel,
essential tactical This eclipse, the last total
I was not pert
co-ordination permitted
to see the between Irgun Zval Leum and the until 1955, may give the astronomer pass the sun on their way to the much of the bending by the star and physicist the answer to many earth. A total eclipse of the sun light is caused by the earth's at-sured, however, that he had written plained, but there have been no "for security reasons." was as the so-called Stern gang," they ex- questions popping up more often offers the only opportunity to make mosphere and how much by the sun, the answers to my questions and petually combined operations re-
that now
ntomic the
has this test because the stars are not
vialble when the arrived.
yun is In the In addition, colour photographs that he would see me at a later cently." Relax. Go to One of the top things on the heavens.
will be taken of the sun's corons, dute "when the situation eased." agenda is a new text of Einstein's With the sun in cclpse, however,
of other sairs near the sun, and of theory of relativity with its con- the stars are
Speak Calmly visible. Photographs the southern Milky Way, Improved repts that space is curved, that time will be made of the time of the models of the spectroscope will be comes in as a fourth
dimension, celipse. They will be photographed used to study the intensely hot 4.02.
and Joyce Tucker was asleep.
that in:ss and energy ure
again six months later night goses surrounding the sun. 4.35. Derek Stark was asleep. So equivalent.
time, and comparisons made. Gavin
Elaborate Expedition Вету and Leonard
Einstein has predicted that if his Value of Einstein Theory Savage.
theory of relativity is correct, these Mr Casson steered Joyer Tucker
amount gently to
For this "Put your her feet..
and other tests, the rays would be bent by an
arc. Then did. Stiffen your back." shoulders back," he said--and she scientists have gone to a mountain qual o 1.75 seconds of
bending of the rays. results, ac plateau near
Bocayuva, Brazil,
cording to the theory, by the in- miles north of Rlo about 400
De fluence of the gravitational field of which meteorologists the sun. Jeneiro, belleve is the best leation for clear weather. The total eclipse, coming on May 20, wil be visible in the
Einstein's
announced In
4.49 p.m. "Close your eyes and relax. I am going to hypnotise you A preliminary report On some of you, but not all of you. streptomycin, the first drug ever by really relaxing,
I don't want you to fight it. Do it to affect and apparently, cure, and go to sleep.
You will relax Don't be angry. tuberculosis, was made recently Breathe deeply. to the American College of Physicians in Chicago.
4.51. The head of Private Alan shoulder of Miss Dorothy Denney. McLean dropped gently on to the
were
Of cases at a New York hos- pital covering all types of tubercu- losis treated, 20 are well, apparently cured all signs of the disease being Bone-and 12 died, but in all 10 streptomycin had definite effects even when the improvement Was only temporary.
Whatever good streptomycin does has to happen within a very short time-one to three months.
He placed the rigid girl horizontal, After that the human tuberculosis, with her head resting on one chuir He sat germa remaining become resistant to und her heels on another.
Look his feet streptomycin and this drug is not on her stomach and longer useful.
off the ground.
Onte
of the Important promises of streptomycin appears to be for early tuberculosis:
The New York studies were re- ported by Dr Walsh McDermott, associate professor of medicine of Cornell University Medical College.
Associated Press,
4.59: The steepers awoke at his northern hemlordere.
quest.
Mr Casson put on his coat. "They 1005, helped to explain the structure often get rid of their headaches, but of the atom, which in turn was I am sorry about the B. B. C. No, I essential in the development of the don't use my eyes. That is an old-atomic bomb-and now the appllca fashioned technique. I've put tion of such energy to peace-time a sergeant of the Marines to sleep." purposes.
+
My
The
Numerical Strength
Irgun spokesmen said that while the organisation's suppiles of munitions were not unlimited, "they - well-dressed informants are sufficient so that no operation" could pass for members of a young Has ever been cancelled or delayed" businessmen's club in America, for lack of weapons. They spoke so calmly and matter- of-factly that it was a little dif- fleuli to realise they were speaking Dr Gilbert Grosvenor,
They added that in addition to the president of their aim to wage "n state of explosives and arms taken, from the of the U. S. National Geographic constant warfare to restore Pales- British in recurrent arsenal raids, Society, which is working in junction with the Army Air Forces, call the country
con- tine to the Hobrow people. They the Irgunists now are manufactur-
Eretz-Isract and tald the expedition for this eclipse meun
ing as a home product "an explo- both Palestine and Trans- sive more was one of the most comprehensive Jordan.
powerful and useful" than what had been ever went into the field,
Without emotion these men spoke from the British.
appropriated Previous Tests Made
The expedition is virtually Bir- of a cperations staff" and a They denied any connection with borne. Besides the men and the board of strategy and calmly recent robberies, such as that In Previous tests have been made, scientific apparatus, 10 tons of food asserted that the Jews, who have which
ngang of 10 Jews a few some showing the TAYS bend more and 25 tons of camp equipment are not been warring nation
ago took $12,000 from the than
for days Einstein's
and being transported calculation
to the sila by 2,000 years, "are now turned to Palestine Discount Bank. others showing they bend less.
AAF planes.
warfare and they have proved, at The Irgun spokesman dodged an- the The selenists will complete most least, that Jewish minds, turned to swering when I asked the organisa- of their work In a period of 3 the art of war is before theytion's numerical atrength. They minutes and 48 seconds-the time of tumed to the arts of science, musle would say only that "recruitment, is the eclipse totality.
and others, will become proficient." in progress in satisfactory numbers."
For his eclipse, however, scientists have newly-developed in- struments that may make the results more convincing. Also during the
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
*GET AWAY FROM THERE SHOO! BEFORE I KNOCK,
YOUR EARS OFF"
THOSE SERENE OLD DOGS THAI. CAN REST
MYVIERE "AND
THE PERMANENT HOUSING PROJECT
~ON FOUR-LEGS-IS-POPULAR, WITH-
THE FLEAS.
WHY DON'T YOU HANG THAT
PICTURE A BIT LOVER P
"The Bigger Dogs"
BY KEMP STARRETT
THOSE BIG WATCH-DOGS THAT HAVE TO BE WATCHED.
AE JUST WANTS TO DLAY WITH YOU!"
GENERALLY DO.. ANYWHERE THEY CAN BE TRIPPED- OVER...
THE BIG,JOLLY, CARE-FREE DOGS THAT NEVER WORRY ABOUT ANYTHING, ESPECIALLY YOUR. BEST DISHES 2 THEY DON'T HAVE TO PICK THEM UP/
THE BIG ONE BELONGS TO FRED: 1 TAKE KIM WITH ME
FOR PROTECTION AND
THIS ONE FOR," COMPANY!
WITH SOME OF THE MORE FEROCIOUS-LOOKING DOGS ONE IS NEVER, QUITE SURE IFHE WANTS TO BE A LAP-DOG....OR JUST YEARUS TO LAP UP SOMEONE.
THERE ARE TIMES WHEN YOU WISH YOU'D GIVEN HER A MEXICAN HAIRLESS: THIS ONE SEEMS TO HAVE FORGOTTEN YOR, EXCEPT AS A POSSIBLE MEAL. AND HE'LLDOUBTLEST I GET YOUR EXPENSIVE CANDY FOR DESERT..
BIG DOGS ARE MORE CON- VENIENT FOR PATTING: HO STOOP, HO SQUATSIRAND- NO DOUBT ABOUT WHAT THEY ARE