AL FRESCO THEATER —Service men at a B-29 base
on Guam enjoy a show in the open air theater, Gab Gab Gables,
in the fleet recreation area. Enlisted personnel from the naval
operating base furnished the talent.
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During the Balance of the Season
Also
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3 Times Each Week
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MEDICINE’S GOLDEN DECADE ....
Science Finds Cure For Blood Clots
By SCHUYLER ALLMAN—Features Writer
A
FIFTH IN A SERIES
A sick cow kicked over the
lamp of research and uncovered a
long-sought drug to check blood
clots that spell illne-s and death
for human beings.
The cow, in fact a number of
cows, were sick from eating
spoiled sweet clover. This gave
them a hemorrhage disease new
to veterinary science. L. M. Doder
ick reported in 1922.
Medical research perked up i s
ears. It had been looking for dec
ades for a drug to dissolve dan
gerous blood clots. What induced
hemorrhage in cattle might dis
solve clo s in man.
Researchers stalking the blood
clot went looking for a weapon in
spoiled ensilage.
Link Isolates It
Then in April of 1940, Dr. Paul
Link of the University of Wiscon
I si.i and co-workers announced
that spoiled clover’s valuable sub
stance had been isolated. They
called it dicoumarin.
Dicoumarin is not the only anti
coagulant, but it is generally con
! sidered to be one of the most
LINK: Dissolves Clots.
promising. Doctors have tried a
number of snake venoms and
other drugs, of which heparin, an
NATIONAL WAR
RELIEF FUND
Russian War Relief has with
drawn as a member of the Nation
al Wa rFund, effective June 30,
it was announced by the Territori
al Chairman, Mrs. John McCor
mick.
The withdrawal of Russian War
Relief, Mrs. McCormick said, is
due to the fact that this agency
contemplates a change in program
involving less “war relief” as
such, and more rehabiliation and
reconstruction, and that the needs
of the program of Russian War
FJelief are now predominantly in
the field of gifts-in-kind with
cash needs restricted largely to
administration, expenses of local
committees, freight, warehousing
and processing. In light of the
change, and because Russia is not
at war, the agency will change
its name to “The American Soci
ety for Russian Relief, Inc.”
The National War Fund has ad
vised the Territorial Council that
the withdrawal of Russian War
Relief, following that of British
War Relief and America Denmark
Relief, now makes it possible for
National War Fund to stay within
its budget of $115,000,000 and still
meet increased demands for the
work of USO and USO-Camp
Shows, as wel las making possible
greater appropriations for relief
in the Pacific area, particularly
the Philippines. It will also re
lease some additional funds for
emergency needs arising in re
cently liberated European coun
tries.
The executive committee of the
National War Fund has already
approved a budget of $61,650,000
for the USO in 1945-46, an in
crease of approximately $6,000,000
over the original USO budget for
1944-45. This increase has been
made necessary by wide expan
sion of USO-Camp Shows over
seas, by new demands for USO
services in this country during
the period of re-training and re
deployment of armed forces re
turning from the battlefronts.
1
Amateur Radio
Operators May
Broadcast
WASHINGTON. Aug. 22—UP)—
The Federal Communications
Commission today authorized am
ateur radio operators to resume
broadcasting on 112 through 115.5
megacycles band until November
fifteenth.
Storm Damages
Tabernacle Organ
SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 22—
(/P>—The world famous Mormon
Tabernacle organ was slightly
damaged in two spectacular
storms which lashed the city Sun
day. Water, mud and plaster
clogged the pipes, requiring the
removal of an entire section of
the organ.
Clear Heads Choose Calvert’s
acidic compound, was about the
best.
Ileparin is expensive, calls for
oro’ mged a.id difficult adminis
t ring by the vein and has a rec
ord fur occasional failure.
But dicoumarin may be taken
by mouth, and has a record of
succes.-* against such ailments as
thrombophlebitis, a sweling of leg
veins caused by clotting ‘com
mon!} called -phlebi is lag”1, and
’’m fiuadly heart di ease, coronary
r imbosis.
It Works Mysteriously
IIow dicoumarin work> is still
u mystery.
Scientists believe it either pre
vents the formation of prohrom
b:n, a protein in the blood which
kelps it to clot or it makes the
prothrombin inacive.
9
A great drug of this decade, di
coumarin is not the final word on
he subject, for like some other
wonder workers it is dangerous.
It can cause fatal bleeding.
But it is one immense stride
along the way to an understand
ing of the mechanism of the blood,
which is fearfully and wonderful
ly made.
(Next: Modern Weapons right In
Pestholes of War).
AMERICAN IMMUNITY
WASHINGTON— (/P) —A Navy
medical officer reports that on his
hospital ship there were 284 Jap
anese and 384 Americans, all
wounded in the same engage
ment. The Japanese developed 14
cases of tetanus, ten of them fatal.
The Americans, who had been
vaccinated, had none.
LEND-LEASE
IN ANIMALS, TOO
NEW YORK—(JP)—The Bronx
Zoo has shipped an urgently re
quested “backyard collection” of
familiar mammals and birds to the
Concepcion Zoo in Chile. The ship
ment is the American part of an
international exchange of animals
common in one country but rare
in another. It includes two skunks,
two opossums, two coyotes, two
sparrow hawks, one gray fox and
one red-tailed hawk, none of
which are native to Chile.
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