1935-08-19 — Page 15

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 1935..

INFANTILE PARALYSIS

SCIENCE BATTLES -

WITH DEATH

DESPERATE FIGHT

TO SAVE LIVES OF CHILDREN

New York, Aug. 15. The scourge of infantile paralysis, which has claimed 400 lives in the United States in the past week alone, and caused the postponement of the Scout Jamboree at Washington, may be brought under the control of science as the result of new experi- .ments.

Scientists, made desperate by the alarming increase in fatalities since mid-July, are killing Rhesus monkeys as fast as they can obtain them to manufacture vaccine. Five hundred were killed last month.

As fast as it is being made, this vaccine is being sent to the affected areas.

None of the 2,000 children vaccinated in California con- tracted the disease, nor have any of the 500 similarly treated in New York and New Jersey.

It requires thousands of tests in infected areas to be certain the vaccine immunises, Dr. Maurice Brodie, discoverer of the new preventive, explained. He has been working with Dr. William H. Park in the laboratories here for two years developing the discovery hel made while H professor McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

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Warm Springs Fund Aids Funds from the Warm Springs

Foundation, in which President Roosevelt jA interested have

helped carry on the research and

development.

SCHOOLBOY SEES WORLD

Leaving behind a splendid record of 30 years' service in different parts of the Chisa saan, during which she was several times commissioned as flagship of the Japanese squadron, the cruiser Tsushima eniled from Shangbai for Japan recently. Photo shows the warship leaving the wharf with a section of the crowd cheering and waving flags.

GUAM CAROLINE, ISLANDS

CAMPANESE PORNDALER

MIDWAY),

WARE

HONOLULU

O CHAN

A Pacific Route that will soon become a prolity..

Shorter Skirts

This Autumn

WOMEN ARE GOING

ALL LATIN Women this autumn and winter are going to

wear:

Full-sleeved day frocks with draw-string necks.

Flowing evening dresses on classical lines.

Gored skirts about an inch shorter than at present.

Vividly flecked tweeds with

Pacific Islands Become rocks to match the fleeks.

International Prizes

ONCE UNWANTED DOTS ON ATLASES Honolulu, Aug. 14.

PROGRESS put a premium to-day on desolate dots of land which sprinkle the mid-Pacific where 20th century pioneers are engaged in a strange and exciting venture leonquering the ocean with commercial airlines. "It is a formalised and polio Nearly a score of barren, uninhabited islands string

Dr. Brodie said, ex-ing out from Honolulu to the South Seas and westward plaining its difference from other to the Orient, known for years to navigation only as land- attempts to immunise against marks to be avoided, have found a future in aviation and the dreaded infantile paralysis. The organisms polio virus-are a value which may set nations to bidding for their "killed" and preserved in sovereignty. formalin, making the vaccine.

vaccine,"

summer

Stockinette that does not lose its shape.

High-necked conts with huge

ur collars.

Large embroidered berets. These are some of the precious ecrets of the designing rooms. The first of the advance shows

week.

Stowaway To Hongkong Home Again

SCHOOLBOY WHO WANTED TO SEE THE WORLD

JACK

Sydney, Aug. 16. THOMAS, who ning years ago left school at the New South Wales coal- mining city of Newcastle and stowed away on a tramp steamer bound for Hong- kong, has returned home Jugain.

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Successively he wag wanderer in the Far East, a pea- nut grower in Darwin, and a gold miner in New Guinea.

When tramping to the Edle

Creek gold fields he was operated

on for appendicitis by a half-

janaesthetic.

caste doctor, who used a locat

Resuming his journey he ar- rived at the village and was shot in the leg by a hermit, who after- wards explained he had thought Thomas was after his gold. The adventurer's mate used a red hot

razor to remove the bullet.

вая scarce

On the goldfields there was no bonanza for Thomas and an air- man gave him a lift back to Rabaul. From there he worked his passage to Darwin and went overland through treacherous native country to Western Aus- tralia. As work there Thomas set out once again for Darwin, this time on a bicy-

but his ele,

machine was smashed 200 miles from his journey's end, and he finished. Later he did the trip on foot. missionary work at the Roper

River.

or the autumn will be held this i "I started off with nothing and have nothing now, but the Isobel, one of the leading English experience was worth it." said designers, said last week," "Tweeds

Thomas. will be quite different from what

|

we usually associate with the word. "They will be brightly flecked,

and the under-dresses will take up WHEN SCOTS FALL the colour of the flock.

OUT: OVER TIES

骨

"Stockinette-an old-fashioned

material greatly improved—is com- ing back to fashion. It no longer pulls or loses Its ahape.

High Necks “Everything......will have tremeu-. ously full sleeves and shoulders of the Magyar peasant type, and neck- Hines are draw-string design. with huge fur collars.

"Coats have very high necks

FEUD BETWEEN THE HIGHLAND MACS

London, Aug. 1.

The Mackintoshes and Macraes are involved Inn, lively feud over whether a black or a white tie should be worn with the kilt for

A dozen Hawaiian schoolboys, | Miller said Jarvis offers a in groups of four, are camping suitable Innding site for either Scientists have tried for 25

boats or land planes į years to find some way to fight Howland. Baker and Jarvis flying the disease. They have attempt Islands, a little more than half though natural facilities would ed to use active virus in a serum way from Honolulu to Pago have to be improved. Baker Pago. They will remain there and Howland provide emergency instead of "killing" them.

Fall

inking hourly landing fields, but waters sur Several Pioneers In Field weather observations and mak-rounding them are unprotected.

"A great deal of fur is going to of surface condi- Dr. Sam Flexner, director offing surveys

U. S. May Claim Islands be worn, by itself and for extra-evening dress, Rockefeller Institute, was one of tions.

to the interests of vagant trimmings. American airlines, the United Their lonely vigil foreshadows

"Skirts are about an inch shorter sued the pioneers. Others were the

States may claim these three than last winter--10ins, to 11ins, world. late Dr. H. L. Abramson, Dr. H. an airline which some day will

and others in the ocean avenue from the ground-and a little failer dress. Gerber and Dr. Sidney Kramer, link the United States with Aus-!

to Samoa, as possessions, bring by means of gores. The tubular all of New York City, and Dr. Aralin and transform inter-i

ing to them with the swiftness idea is dead. John Albert Kolmer of Phila mediate islets into bustling | delphia,

plane bases.

new

When Dr. Brodie's method became known he was

Samoa Route Favoured

Alert

The Inverness Kilt Society In- booklet throughout the standardising highland

"

of aviation the civilization they "Greek lines influence all evening at the annual meeting, strongly ob- have missed during the cendresses," turies of plodding sea travel. William T. Miller, federal air... Another aspect of the situa brought here to develop it. He commerce bureau official, who, tion is what will be the effect of and Dr. Park have worked day recently returned to Honolulu Commercial air service on ship. and night to perfect the vaccine, aboard the coast guard cutter ping lines.

The lure of a sea voyage and With the call for help from Itasea after two cruises toward North Carolina production was Samoa, said that route offered the historic perseverance speeded.

better flying conditions than the water transportation

of

-

The Mackintosh of Mackintosh,

jected to the book's statement that Berets, after a season of either a black or a white tie worn, banishment, are back, but they declaring that black, was correct. are berets plus. They are The Duke of Atholl and Major large, elaborately made and Colin Matrae asserted that white embroidered, and they will was correct. cover the face rather than the The Macintosh of Mackintosh head.

replied that if any one appeared. An English designer who shows before the King wearing a dress against his collections in Paris has taken white tie with a kilt his soup would The normal demand of 25 or distance between Honolulu and very other form of shipping the Italian aspect of the classical, i be spoiled. 50 of the Rhesus monkeys a Midway,

will continue to keep liners and "Women are tired of stream- "Unless the error is repudiated I week was advanced to 100 and When the Itasca picks up the freighters in the forefront of lines. They want casiness, hewill retire from the Kilt Society,"

Pacific commeree, 150. They are inoculated with 12 young Robinson Cruses next

William P.said. "The Italian art lines give he added.

There will be a speelal meeting the disease germs, and as they month they will have detalled charts Roth, president of the Matson it."

to discuss the subject. go into the last stages they are of conditions valuable for flying Navigation Company, believes. chloroformed and killed. Their data, since six of them have been Roth, whose views apparently spinal cords are ground up in there since February observing ailjare typical of other major ship- the formalin for vaccine.

weather changes.

pers regarding impending com- With Pan American Airways¡mercial air service, said Matson already poised for its projected i welcomed Pan-American Air-! commercial airmail and passen, ways to the Pacific because the ger service between America venture was bound to increase and the Orient, the pulse of the general volume of business. trans-Pacifle nylation has been

Argument Based. On History quickened.

John E. Ryan, Matson's gen- eral passenger traffic manager, endorsed Roth's opinion.

Monkeys Become Paralyzed

There is no scampering and j. playful gibbering in the enges of the tiny monkey house. Occasionally there is a whim- poring and excited scolding as a A line between California and monkey discovers his legs have the Antipodes via Honolulu and Keepers know ago Pago no longer is remote, but the next vordun to be flung out in

become useless.

Status in Doubt

"Water-borne transportation has persevered against all other forms of

commerce down through history," Ryan sald, indicating he considered air competition no exception to the

rule.

then that the injection has taken the web of neean flying. effect-generally five to seven days. After that it is any day until the monkey becomes com-

The International status of these pletely paralyzed.

three and other islands which may The monkey drags around be utilized as way stations by roar- with his arms until they too being skyliners is huzy.

"There is # romance and Howland and Baker Islands, 36 come afflicted. He writhes and whimpers piteously until he is miles apart and about 1.750 miles glamour to sea travel that will south of Honoluld, have been oc-never wear off," Roth said. able only to move his eyelids, cupied intermittently by Ameri-"People buy a steamer ticket as Attendants then take the animal, cana and British. The allegiance much for the voyage as for the pile it with similarly paralyzed of Jarvis, east of these two and sight-seeing at their destina- brothers and rush them to the approximately 1.345 miles south of tion. We will always get this operating room.

Honolulu, is perhaps even more Chloroform, a merciful knife obscure. The question of their type of passenger.

Trans-Pacific air mail con- into the heart and the monkey is arren, sandswept and without tracts undoubtedly will cut into dead. Quick hands of surgeons fresh water or vegetation, they Matson's mail poundage some- cut through the body and if the long have been considered useless what, but both Roth and Ryan monkey had no contributory dis dots in the vast Pacific until now refused, to believe that compe case the spinal cord is removed, they appear as convenient serial tition would be felt appreciably, -United Press.

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