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AMERICAN CLINIC TO

DESTROY LIVES

INSECTS AND WORMS ARE

MURDERED

FOR SAKE

OF AGRICULTURE

Unlike the physicians who maintain surgical diules to save lives. Dr. J. Franklin Yeager, of Washington, D.

clinic designed to destroy lives.

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Murder, on # wholesale scale is his business and he bas designed and made practically all his own surgical instruments for destruction purposes. These, incidentally, are perhaps the smallest in use today. They include tiny scalpels, knives, scis sors, forceps and tweezers, one of them more than a couple of inches long. patterned in miniature after those ordinarily used In the operating room

snuffed

Although be has hundreds of Hives and plans destroy 1.tr. usands mury. Yeager will never be punished by in the search for better ways of

for law for these homicides,

he controlling insect pests bas committed no crime NOD of his veins are humans; they are cockroaches and army worms. the latter those tiny greenish gray caterpillars which often des troy acres of crops before farmers realise what is happening.

Dut which the insect heart mechanism Loperates and to gain physiological

will be Dr information that

helpful

in charge

f

HEARTBEAT RECORDS USEFUL

Such beartbeat records have Deen obtained from the cockroach. Ruselu) experimental bug that serves the entomologist in some cte.) what the same way that the white rai gulnes pig serves the 200- record. The

Besides being the custodian of logist Te blain the pug "death ellote Dr. Yeager entire back of the insect, with the has another distinction He's also my heart attached is dissected a bug. "boarding from the anesthetised rouch and where the guests" ve In placed upside down in a beeswax Mr-conditioned. temperature-cuni receptacle The heart nasues krT trolled luxury, eat the very finest kept alive with salt solution that delicartes and upon oresalon are acts artitis blood even served sandwiches of a very specta) kind

it

With the neart attached at be end to a tiny glass lever. every motion of the heartbeat is passed on to the Vertical

arm of the

I all this sounds trifle on the Bonly side, don't think 11 of the Box auctor. for he's a Conserva lever, staltied to make j opaque. Mive selentist. In fact one of the A strong beam of light turned on world's leading authorities an in-tr lever passes through 1he seet phystology HA now ar lenses f A

milerascape powerful

ing at nique correr for him and is then projected into the sell o Die research centre of the eye or slit, of a special cumera US Department Astre A moving roll of photographic

!

Jocated just ulside Washington paper in the camera registers the at Beltsville Md. Herr physical fluctuations of the greatly mi examinations

Led autopsies nlited shadow rust by the opaque

movements

which

of

thousands of bugs provide The art the fundamentali tacts entomologias teorrespond exactly with the heart must have in devising better ways movements The developed photo-

to control the 10.000 different beat pictures, or "mechanardi kinds of insects responsible for graphic paper forms ther ineart crop losses running up to ful # billion dollars every year.

Dr Yeager makes tasty sand- wiches us part of the diet of his

Lack of informelten on how the grama" heart blend, digestive

tract and army worins other organs and issue nf des-succulent

tructive bugs function normally

Yeager.

First he selects two

turnip leaves, thea covers them with a spectal spread as well as under the influent, or containing one of various polsons. structive bugs function normallyThe bugs feed in the sandwiches --long has handicapped entomo- for a certain length of time, then Jogists u their search for mer their blood and vital urgans art effective Inserheldes Th lower examined under the microscope this handicap the Department of to ascertain the eflects of the Agriculture has set up a sort

or various types and amounts of the clinic under Dr

where poison doses death and destruction, rather than Dr. Yeager explains 'By the Hfe and health are the objec- poison sandwich method we hape

to learn the precise efferts GIVEN FOOD THEY LIKE BEST various Insecticides upon the Army worms, von Kavaches and leading erop and household pests other insects destined for the T supply an Insecticide in the clite are reared under conditionsfield as a control measure without Ideal for their development They knowing how it affects the bug's thrive and multiply on the foods organs and tissues Is shooting in they HK best. I r and Mrs. the dark"

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FRIDAY,

JULY 4, 1941.-PAGE 9

GARGANTUA A SISSY?

Male Gorrilla Of U.S.

Circus "Interviewed**

NEW YORK ---There's a certain big ape around town who has been! making a lot of noise lalety beat!

2)</ proclaiming

his breast himself terrific.

Many of the good citizens are convinced, But there are a hand- tul who haven't forgotten Ferdinand The Bub

some- thing of a physical specimen, too, They also point out that the big ape is working for Ringling Bro- thers and Baroum and Bailey Circus, an organisation doing very well with an

wis- old pearl of dom: "There's a sucker born every minate."

One of the scoffers is Mr. Harry Lederhandler, photographer, who received the circus' solemn word #7,80 that the great beast, Gargantua ;

by name, la "an ancient evi, with a devil's mind in a beast's body."

Furthermore, said the ape's heau keeper, Gargantua especially dis- likes photographers and is "beset flash by wild fury every lime a bulb goes off.”

Mr. Lederhandler decided to look

to the matter personally.

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He learnt there are bigger apes, rice on contract from abroad in order to safeguard the essential food supply at the majority

n Captivity Moreover Gargantua's diet isn't meat and

warm blood at all just egge, liver People living in Malaya.

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but nothing

Vege- tables for funch. He cannot even supplying countries to take s cer- $1.40 breathe ordinary air-t first has tain quantity of all grades of rice includes broken communique from

to he made pure by thermostats produced. "his and strainers

In fact, the photo- rice, states a grapher was informed that if he the Food Controller. Malays.

Before the wanted to get close enough for a

war it was known large number of

shop- plcture, he would have to wear a that a

keepers mixed broken rice with mark.

their white rice. This would now the prices at to make a picture all right. first be legal because went out and bought a nice bouwhich rige may be sold are gazett

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quet of roses and presented it to the ferolous flashbulb hating: beast

When the first bulb went Gargantua just smelled the flow.

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Roach, for instance, are especially Although Dr. Yeager and his fond of dog biscuits and bananas associates are only starting on lengths of 1 to 2 inches. No ex- (of all things!!. The more swanky their unique type of insect in-

perimental gulcea pigs ever got members of the caterpillar family vestigation, they have already unbetter care.

The roaches live in are weaned on salads containing earthed many fact that are of

¡trays in small cages with screened Juley turnip leaves

practical Importance to the entire sides. They are kept under high Insects from

All gardeners and far-humidity and controlled tempera- each lut nation selected for special study are al- mers, for instance, will be interested

conditions,

regularly lowed to continue this Utopian Dr. Yeager's findings about

igiven water and fed the

finest Ching life. Others are

rations any worms,

those tiny worms

foods.

Cements containing a polson such as arse- that hatch from eggs laid in grass

The scientiat has made many H.K. Mectric Rts nfc, flourides, nieoline, pyrethrum and weeds and which

surprising discoveries about the these fast and chew so fast, from April roach. For

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one thing, he has experimental bugs are taken tolo July, that they often

found that. contrary to the gen- nt the clinic and dissected. Most of acres

before farmera

eral belief that it is a filthy in- sect, the roach is a stidious bug The total value is $15.342.50. that preens itself very much the

Or rotenone.

made

own.

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destroy

a cat.

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the insect operations must be realise what is happening. The under the microscope a best way to control the army delicate job calling for great skill worm. Dr. Yeager points out. Ia to same way and quite as often as and endless patience. Unable to sprinkle polsoned bran valt over find instruments small enough for the tnfested area as soon as the

Recent tests have revealed that their purposes. the operating en-minute caterpillars begin to craw

Of Commodities tomologists have devised their onto stalks of young grain or other one reason why the roach is dim- plants. Dr. Yeager breeds, Prac- cult to drive from a home is that

ENSHIH, July 2 (Central)-- Experienced Book-keeper Wants Clinical

worms used it is an exceptionally hardy area now leally, all the army bugs records of filed at Beltsville show that large 1 nts novel

programme. ture. This is due mainly to the Negotiations have been successfully students to form a class. Guaran- fact that the cockroach has only, completed between Mr. Chang tee students to keep a whole set of doses of arsentents break down the They are feared in special cages, white blood cells and nothing to Tien-halang, Director of the Bast books after completion of a course blood cells of the army

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When there is an infection in the Mr. Tung Pang-kwel, Director of ticulars. The nicotine do not; and that areent- and

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wille rotenone and, lach ur more. are in their larval organism. phenothiazine do not. Rotenone stage for about 25 days

Insecta

Lest

The white blood celle Hupeh provincial authorities on the and no of a roach which has just eaten supply and shipment of Brechwan insecticide ВЕТТЕ the same salt and the exchang of Brechwan Durpose, literally eating up the salt for Hunan rice, EXPERIMENTAL ROACHES poison that threatens to destroy Experimental roaches are main-the creature.

has long been used as raticide, their damaging leafreating during an while phenothiazine. parent of this time. many important dyes and a rela- tive of malfanilamide, kills many Inquets.

interfere Industry.

Mr. Chang and Mr. Tung who arrived Enshih from Wan-

at tained by the hundreds in the What Dr. Yeager and his asso- halen recently will proceed to the Large, clear pictures of insectboratory. Dr. Yeager is not clates are striving to do is to find Yangtze valley to inspect the salt

to out whether they can delicate breeding the yet, but hopes heartbeats made by n photographic method recently de do so in the near future. Good Boriously with the remarkable der romh; vised by Dr. Yeager make it pos-cockroaches aren't necessarily hard fence mechanism of the sible to compare the behavior of to find, he explains, but they are whether they can lower its reale-

to catch in the heart before and after contact" vary difficult

good tance to various polsons. Thus, says Dr. Yenger. "After all, phy- with any one of the substances condition. Thus far Dr. Yeager for they have been moderately alatans by the thousands, have CARO of sodium been studying man's physiology that look promising in the De-has been buying his test roaches successful in the

nicotine Insecti- for hundreds of years, and an in- partment's persevering hunt for from expert "catcher," located arsehate and batter Insecticidos. The new me- mostly in the deep South.

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