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THE - HONGKONG TELEGRAPR. MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 1985.

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, áre 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 teste 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 thei laboratories here for two years developing the discovery hej made while # professor at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

Warm Springs Fund Aids Funds from the Warm Springs Foundation, in which President Roosevelt is interested have

helped carry on the research and

development.

SCHOOLBOY SEES WORLD

Leaving behind a splendid record of 38 years' service in different parts of the China'ssat, during which she was several times commissioned as flagship of the Japanese aquadron, the cruiser Tusabime sailed from Shanghai for Japan recently. Photo shows the warship laaving the wharf with a section of the crowd cheerin y, and waving Bags-

QUAM CAROLINE; ISLANDS

Sipoppiest mawagter

WAKE:

OCEAN

A Pacific Route that will soon become a reality.

Pacific Islands Become 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 conquering the occan with commercial airlines.

Stowaway To Hongkong Home Again

SCHOOLBOY WHO

·WANTED TO SEE THE WORLD

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

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Successively he was wanderer in the Far East, a pen- nut grower in Darwin, and a gold miner in New Guinea,

When tramping to the Edie

Shorter Skirts Creek gold fields he was operated

This Autumn

WOMEN ARE GOING

ALL LATIN

Women this autumn and winter are going to

wear:

Full-sleeved day frocks with jdraw-string necks,

Flowing evening dresses on classical lines.

Gored skirts about an inch shorter than at present.

Vividly flecked tweeds with frocks to match the flecks,

Stockinette that does not lose its shape.

High-necked conts with huge Tur collars.

Large embroidered berets. These are some of the precious screts of the designing rooms, The first of the advance shows or the autumn will be held this

| week.

Isobel, one of the lending English designers, said last week, "Tweeds

usually associate with the word.

on for appendicitis by ʼn half- Jenste doctor, who used a local janaesthetic.

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

razor to remove the bullet.

adventurer's mate used a red hot

On the goldfields there was no bonanza for Thomas and an air- gave him a lift back to man Rabaul. From there he worked is passage to Darwin and went overland through treacherous native country to Western Aus- tralia,. As work was there Thomas set out once again for Darwin, this time on a bicy- hut his machine ele. smashed 200 miles from his journey's end, and he finished the trip on foot. Later he did missionary work at the Roper

River.

scarce

Was

"I started off with nothing and have nothing now, but the. experience was worth it." said Thomas.

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

OUT OVER TIES material greatly improved-in com

"It is a formulised and polio Nearly a score of barren, uninhabited islands string-will be quite different from what vaccine," Dr. Brodie said, ex-ing out from Honolulu to the South Seas and westward They will be brightly flecked. 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--pollo virus--are a value which may set nations to bidding for their "killed" and preserved in sovereignty. formalin, making the vaccine.

Several Pioneers In Field

Dr.

new

jall

summer

"Stockinette an old-fashioned

ing back to fashion. It no longer pulls or loses its shape.

High Necks

of aviation the civilzation they "Greek lines influence all evening have missed during the cendresses.” turles of plodding sea travel. Another asret of the situa tion is what will be the effect of commercial air service on ship-

FEUD BETWEEN · THE HIGHLAND. MACS

--

London, Aug. 1. The Mackintoshes and Macraes are involved in a lively feud over whether a black or n white tie should be worn with the kilt for evening dress.

The Inverness Kilt Society in- booklet throughout the standardising highland

A dozen Hawaiian schoolboys,; Miller said Jarvis offers a in groups of four, are camping | suitable landing site for either Scientists have tried for 25 on Howland, Baker and Jarvis flying boats or land planes "Everything will have tremen- years to find some way to figh! Islands, & little more than half though natural facilities would dously full sleeves and shoulders of the disense. They have attempt.

to Pago have to be improved. Baker the Magyar peasant type, and neck. ed to use active virus in a serum way from Honolulu

lines are draw-string design. instead of "killing" them. Pago. They will remain there and Howland provide emergency "Coats have very high necks

hourly landing fields, but waters sur- with huge fur collars. taking weather observations and mak-[rounding them are unprotected. [ "A great deal of fur is going to

of surface condi-

U. S. May Claim Islands be worn, by itself and for extra- Dr. Sam Flexner, director of ing surveys

Alert Itions. Rockefeller Institute, was one of

to the interests of vagant trimmings. American airlines, the United "Skirts are about an inch shorter sued # Their lonely vigil foreshadows the pioneers. Others were the

States muy claim these three than inat winter-10ins. to 11ins. work. late Dr. II. 1. Abramson, Dr. H. an airline which some day will

and others in the oceni avenuei from the ground-und a little fuller dress. Gerber and Dr. Sidney Kramer, link the United States with Aus-

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

ing to them with the swiftness iden is dead.

The Mackintoshi of Mackintosh, into bustling John Albert Kolmer of Phila-mediate islets

at the annual meeting, strongly ob- delphia.

Iplane bases.

jeeled to the book's statement that Berets, after * When

season of either a black or a white tie worn, Brodio's

Samos Route Favoured

banishment, are back, but they declaring that black was correct. method became known he was į William T. Miller, federal air

ure berels plus. They are; The Duke of Atholl and Major brought here to develop it. He commerce bureau officini, who

large, elaborately made and Colin Macrae asserted that white and Dr. Park have worked day recently returned to Honolulu

embroidered, and they will was correct. and night to perfect the vaccine, aboard the coast guard cutter ping lines.

cover the face rather than the The Mackintosh of Mackintosh With the call for help from Itasca after two cruises toward

head,

} replied that if any one appeared North Carolina production was Samoa, said that route offered the historic. perseverance

An English designer who shows before the King wearing a dress better flying conditions than the water transportation 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 every other form of shipping the Italian aspect of the classical. be spoiled,

will continue to keep liners and 50 of the Rhesus monkeys Midway.

"Women are tired of stream- week was advanced to 100 and

he want easiness," When the Itasca picks up the freighters in the forefront of lines. They

Pacific commerce,

William P.nid. "The Italian art lines give 150. They are inoculated with 12 young Robinson Crusoes next the disense germs, and as they month they will have detailed charts Roth, president of the Matsonit. 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 all are typical of other major ship- the formalin for vaccine.

|pers_regarding impetuling com- With Pan American Airways]mercial air service, said Matson ulready poised for its projected welcomed Pan-American Air- commercial airmail and passen, ways to the Pacific because thej ger service between America venture, was bound to increase and the Orient, the pulse of the general volume of business. trans-Pacific aviation has been

Argument Based On History quickened.

John E. Ryan, Matson's gen cral passenger traffic manager, endorsed Rath's opinion."

speeded.

Monkeys Become Paralyzed

There is no senmpering and playful gibbering in the enges of the tiny monkey house.

Occasionally there is a whim-

pering and excited scolding as a

weather changes.

A line between California and

monkey discovers his legs have the Antipodes via Honolulu and become useless. Keepers know Pago Pago no longer is remote, but then that the injection has taken the next cordon to be hung out in

the web of ocean flying.

Status in Doubt

The lure of a sen voyage and of

"Water-borne transportation has persevered against all other effect-generally five to seven

formis of commerce down days. After that it is any day

through history," Ryan said, until the monkey becomes com.

The international status of these indicating he considered al pletely paralyzed.

three and other islands which may competition no exception to the The monkey drags around be utilized as way stations by roar-

rule, with his arms until they too being skyliners is hazy.

"There is

AL. romanco and Howland and Baker Islands, 36 come afflicted. He writhes and

miles apart and about 1,750 miles glamour to sea travel that will whimpers piteously until he is south of Honolulu, bave been oc-nover wear off," Roth anid. able only to move his eyelids, cupled intermittently by Amerl-"People buy a steamer ticket as Attendants then take the animal, cans and British. The allegiance much for the voyage as for the pile it with similarly paralyzed of Jarvis, cast of these two and sight-seeing at their destina- brothers and rush them to the approximately 1,345 miles south oftion. We will always get this

lonululu, is perhaps even more type of passenger. operating_room.

obscure. The question of their Chloroform, a merciful knife sovereignty has never been forced.

Trans-Pacific air mail con- into the heart and the monkey is Barren, 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- ease the spinal cord is removed. they appear as convenient aerial tition would be felt appreciably. -United Press.

stepping stones.

|—United Press, ·

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"Unless the error is repudiated I will retire from the Kilt Society." he added.

There will be a special meeting to discuss the subject.

This donkey was the main attraction to the spectators and the sinema-

· photographova in Paris - recently,

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