Miss Latin America
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THIS romantic looking lady is Undo Sam's dose neighbor.
Miss Latin America, who made a big hit when presented tb
delegates at the recent Pan American Newspaper Conferenpb ■ .
in Venezuela. Miss Latin America's creator, Leon Helguera, who
hopes she'll take her place alongside international symbol*
like John Boil and Mnrianne, says the lady is a composite
creation;
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and Portugoi. The flowers in her hair, the natural beauty of
t Latin America. Her long tresses, her Indian origin. Her striped
l blanket, the cold and temperate dimate of the high plateaus.
Like three rows of flounces on her dress, North, South and Con*
*Sral America. The string of peorle, the isles of the Caribbean.
|whe white in the flog symbolises peace. Twenty gold start (the
iflD ppshlfd eerround a map of Latin America, learned fay a
oold dm emweeentina unite.*' " ^
WALLACE HOTEL & TAXI
NOME, ALASKA Phone MAIN 55
The Progress
Of Medicine
Prepared by Science Digest
ATOM BOMB—A BOON
FOR MEDICINE?
The atomic bomb which smash
ed Hiroshima may also have rung
up the curtain on a new medical
era, in which radioactive sub
stances will be available in a
quantity and variety hitherto un
known. Cancer sufferers would be
only one example of those bene
fited.
An extension of experimtnal
neutron therapy for cancer is -
dieted in the New York Times by
John E. Lawrence, physicist,
brother of the inventor of the cy
clotron.
Doctors use common elements
rendered temporarily radioactive,
in treating and tracking down dis
eases. Radioactive phosphorus,
for example, goes after the can
cerous white blood cells of leu
kemia. Radioactive sodium is used
in tracing the circulation-stop
pages of gangrene. Counters sen
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sitive to radio-activity show just
how far the sodium goes along a
bloodvessel before it reaches a
block.
Many of these temporary radio
actives, hitherto produced by cy
clotron, are costly and lose their
strength quickly.
New atomic processes may re
sult in more sources of supply,
slash shipping time, cut costs to a
fraction, as well as producing
wholly new temporary radioac
tives.
GERM-FIGHTING MOLD
FROM HUMAN HAIR
A “red-headed” mold from hu
man hair may yield a penicillin
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A TORQUE CONVERTER TRACTOR
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LONGER TRACTOR LIFE is assured by the cushion effect of convertor
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LONGER LIFE OF EQUIPMENT PULLED OR PUSHED is the natural
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SMOOTHER OPERATION . . . LESS GEAR SHIFTING means greater
operator comfort, more work done. Tractor operates in each speed with
out stalling. An overload can pull it to a standstill . . . but engine can
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You will want to investigate these any many other advantages of this new-type
money-making Diesel tractor.
Lomen Commercial
Company
like remedy for typhoid fever and
some kinds of dysentery. Discov
ery that a red dye or pigment
produced by the mold stops the
growth of typhoid and dysentery
germs in culture plates, as peni
cillin stops the growth of other
germs, is announced by Dr. L.
Rosenthal, of Israel Zion Hospital
in Brooklyn, in a recent issue of
“Science.”
Penicillin does not have any
effect on the typhoid-dysentery
group of germs. ,
The red mold pigment, if it
proves effective as a remedy, *
could be given by mouth, Dr. Ro
senthal’s studies indicate.
Tests to determine whether it i*
poisonous or can be safely used
and whether it would affect th ?
germs in the body as well as in
culture plates in the laboratory
are now under way.
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TELEGRAPH CO.
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