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Hpnltersmt Uatly Bispatrli THIRTY-THIRD YEAR 'tmSkM" HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 2~ 1946 ' ,^,!'^^;Vtf^i>N1^7K,,NUON FIVE CENTS COPY GI'S WIN ELECTION BATTLE CANCER KILLS TWENTY AMERICANS AN HOUR TB HEART HEARTIHEARTHEART | fl 1944 185.7 1886 I 238.1 314.4 PNEUMONIA TB PNEUMONIA^^H3HqJ^^^ZM2? j HEART PNEUMONIA TB NEPHRITIS NEPHRITIS H 151.4 141.7 113 1 910 81.S ? DIARRHEA DIARRHEA NEPHRITIS PNEUMONIA 'ACCIDENT H 139.9 114.2 88.7 82.6 73.6 ? NEPHRITIS NEPHRITIS ACCIDENT PNEUMONIA ? ' ACCIDENT ACCIDENT ACCIDENT TB TB 77.3 845 71.6 71.1 45.9 DIARRHEA DIABETES ? I ^?jVoS^^ 26.0 26.6 ' NUMERALS IN ABOVE C'LART INDICATE DEATHS RER 100.000 OF It-| POPULATION IN REGISTRATION AREA OF U. S . HAWAII EXCLUDED. SINCE THE TURN OF THE CENTURY, as this chart shows, cancer as a cause of death has risen from seventh to second place on the list of diseases which take the lives of most Americans. Only heart trouble tops it. Of the 135,000,000 persons in the nation today, about 17,000,000 will eventually succumb to cancer. Physicians point out that this figure undoubtedly would be reduced if persons would submit to regular examinations, for cancer is often curable in the early stages. The reason for its quick climb up the list of death causes is the increasing longevity of Americans brought about by-advances in medical science. For example, many persons who would have succumbed years ago to pneumonia, nephritis, and other diseases, were saved and struck later by one of the diseases which tend to afflict older persons. Little Janet Fay Carroll (right) of Klondike, Ariz., who doctors believe was borri with cancer, and who now has a good chance to live, tries to speak for living Americans doomed to die of cancer unless something is done about iL finternational) Atom Bomb Plant Turns Out First Peace - Time Products i By FRANK CAREY. Associated l*rcss Science Reporter Oak Ridge. Tenn., Aug. 2.?i/l'i? The first peacetime products of the . government's vast A-bomb project ( were lianded over today to research ; institutions fur the study of cancer ; and other problems of mankind. i, Declaring the opens "new ho- ' ri/.t tis of medical and biological re search." the Army's Manhattan fin- . gineer District ? makers of the , atomic bomb?said the first prod- 1 nets consigned were five "pea-sized" 1 units of radioactive carbon, ?.ailed i Carbon 14. They were produced in the same , chain-reacting uranium ovens used J in develop i-g the A-boinh. Each weighs one ten-thousandth of an , ounce and costs $400. including han dling and shipping charges. Ootid For 25.000 Years. j Described as capable of emitting;? 37 million atomic ray particles alt settiid for the next 10,000 to 25,000 j i years, the carbon units were ear-1 ?narked for research in the follow-; ing fields: Cancer, diabetes, the role of car bon in human teetli and bones, lite, utilization of f its try ttie human body, and the mechanism of "photosyn- j thesis' ? the little-i cden-tootl phe nomenon try which plants take en ergy from sunlight and store it as chemical energy. Photosynthesis is responsible for most of the stored i energy used by man. such ns coal, oil. wood and food Today' s nnnoi i cmcnt. acccmpa- j' nied by new and dramatic details of the Wily in which the atomic energy 1 plants can lie made to serve man f instead of killing him. imrrkcd 'he latest step in a program outlining V i mid-June At that time it was stated that ' some ton different varieties of ra dioactive materials producible id the Output Handed Research Institutions For Study Of Cancer, Other Diseases Clinton laboratories at 0;ik Itidgc uid <i( other centers would be matte ivailablc as soon as possible to ac- j ?rcdiblc hospitals, universities, in lustrial reseaivh laboratories it d ?linical investigating- groups. ? Col. E. K. Kirkpatrick, deputy di ;? net engineer in charge of the </ak| Itidgc project, said today hundt-cds I >f applications for various types <>t | naterial hart been received, lie said bat .'til to -It) orders will be filled n the immcdaitc future and that i several hundred sire likely to lie fill si within the next few months. V addition to radioactive carbon, he atoiidc energy facilities can pro luce radioactive forms of many com tion and rare elements, including ?uch medically-important material., is radioa.live sulphur, phosphorus ?lid iodine ? hitherto produced in mly minute (pui'.titles by the instru Ticnts known as the cyclotron. Wide Price Kangc. Prices set by the Manhattan Dis trict for its new products range from $t(>7 a unit (excluding han ding charges) for radioactive ear >111 to i?7 cents lor a radioactive mix lure of the metals zirconium and vo umbium. The substances are known as "ra dioisotopes" ? that is. radioactive forms of stable elements. While pos sessing the same ?. hemieal propcr les as their stable "sisters" the ra dioisotopes emit invisible atomic I rays which ac-gjptoctiblc by special nstruinents The army's announrment declared that two important roles are en-1 L'isioncrl for the radioisotopes: 1. As "atomic spies" or tracers for j follow ng the course of many com-! non elements in medical, chenir al. metallurgical and other processes 'I bus, Carbon I-}, ran be used as a i "las" to trace the role of its stable sisters. Carbon 122 and Carbon 12? the forms found in organic material. 2. As '"possible therapeutic agents for trentinn t of certain special dis eases." In such a role in the iso lypes would serve as "atomic artil lery." emitting their rays against body tissue. Kad inactive phosphorus already has slu >wn potentialities in controll ing ecrtain forms of leukemia, a blood disorder. Special Cans. Hut today's annotu .-ment said: "The use of radioactive materials in therapeutic neditions is still very much in the investigational s'tige . The greatest henefits from the use of these materials will most likely come, not from thcrapautir uses, but by using the tracer tech nique in investigating the causes of disease and the life process in gen eral " Materials to be bombarded by neutrons in the uranium ovens tire placed in special aluminum cans. The cans tire placed in graphite blocks whr h arc pushed into the ovens and left there from <i e to sev eral weeks. , Some finished materials can be shipped .us solids. Others are so iu finitcsmal in size that I hey tire pre- ( pared for shipping in waler or acid solution. Some emit such strong radiations I that they must lie shipped in lead Ij containers: others emit such weak , radiathu that they can be shipped |, in thin aluminum cans, glass hot- i lies or wooden boxes. N. Y. Financier Discloses Making $5,000 Loan To Rep. May, INot Paid Back Yet ?;? i Washington. Aim. 2.?(/!')?F.lisha j Walker, senior partner of the New j York firm of Kuhn-Loeb. "' formed Senator Mead (D) of New York, to day that in 1B41 he lent $5,000 to Hep. Andrew J. May <IJ) of Ken-1 tacky at the request of Munitions i Maker Murray Gnrsson. Walker said ( he still has not been paid back. The New York financier conferred here with Mead, chairman of the Senate War Investigating Commit tee. Afterward, Walker told reporters that prior to the matnritv of the not'* he had written May about it. and had received a reply from May "that he give the original note as an ne commodation to Mr. Gnrsson and that Mr. Garsson had advised him that such renewal notes would be | paid In a few days "In view of Mr. May's stalcnvrnt," i Walker snid, "1 took up with Mr. | ? ( Garrsct; the mailer of paying that note. Up to the present time, how ever, it has not been paid." Walker said that he had put the details of the ease before Moid be cause he "thought the committee should have ail the facts" concern ing the relation between Garsson. one of a munitions combine that has been crdcr investigation and May. chairman of the House Military Committee. Garsson first approached him in the spring of 1011. Walker said, ask ing him to participate in the acquisition of "some manganese properties in West Virginia." He said he told Garsson. after in vestigation. he was rot interested and that "about that time or shortly thereafter. Mr. Garsson told me that he needed $5,000 and asked if I could advance that amount." Shows Some Hesitation. Walker said that he. himself, showed "some hesitation" in that Garsson then it-quired whether "I would be willing to make the loan on th enote of Mr. Andrew .1. May." Walker said that he replied that he would he willing to do so on that basis adding that he had "never met or had any relations with Mr. May, but of course. J.e was known to mo by reputation." ?? In one phase of the investigation ?that of faulty mortar shells which killed American soldiers who fired them?the committee got aid from battle veterans. From one combat soldier came an offer to supply the committee with "the lot numbers" of bad 4.2 shells supplied the lOOlh Chemical Mortar Battalion in Europe. A second let ter related thai a complete report hfid been furnished the chemical warfare service of a test at Ft. Bragg. N. C.. during which a mortar shell exploded at the mux.zle. kill ing or wounding the entire crew. Tidelands Bill Veto Sustained Washington. Aug. 2.?(/I')?The H o u s e today sustained President Truman's veto of t'-ie tidelands bill, thus killing the legislation. The vote was 130 for overriding the vc'o and 05 against, but this fell 17 ballots short of the two-thirds ma jority needed to enact the measure into law over the President's objec tion. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy and continued rather warm tonight and Satur day. Widely scattered after- ! i noon ahowera. 1 Chairmanship Spat Snags Peace Parley New Zealand Balks At Big Four Plan To Rotate Position Paris. Aim. 5.?(<Ti?A rules com - nil I Ice of the FjU'-pcan peace con ference spent mTst of its fifth ses =ion today wrangling over who houhl be ?permanent chairman of the foil coiifcrqjicc and recessed >vithout docidingy.tho question. Many of the smaller nations, led by New Zealand, lined up against a decision of th^kforcign ministers if the hie four powers?U. S. Bri tain. F ranee and* Russia?to rotate ?lie chairmnnshilrtVmong themselves, but the issue diet not reach a vole. Ask Election of Bidault. When I lector iVIacNcil, speaking for the British, called on the pro ponenls of a single chairman to of fer a proposal which would speci fically call for the election by ac clamation of President Georges Bid ault of France as permanent chair man, Russian Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov remarked, "in this very room the foreign ministers made the decision to have a rotating chair manship." Looking over his nose-pincher glasses in the direction of the Brit ish dclcgatie.n, Molotov said. "I can not understand those who voted for it in the foreign ministers council now coming here to vote against it." MncNcil had said: "We want to get on with our work and quit mak ing speeches. I hope a:; we go along we will he able to throw aside our suspicions and prejudices and get on with our job." Small Nations Back Plan. The Brazilians. A u s t r a I inns. Dutch and Canadians were among those supporting New Zealand's: move in the debate amid indications that Bidault himself did not want the post, in as much as lu* has a difficult domestic task as well as France's foreign affairs to handle. Earlier, a Polish demand to sit on the peace conference commission which will den! with the treaty for Hungary, although Poland was not formally at war with Hungary, set off a dispute between Molotov and Dr. II. V. Kvnvtt of Australia. The Polish delegation withdrew | motion after a sharp debate, declar ing that it "had its i>oinl that it was j at war with Hungary and was sat isfied witli that." Measure Revamping Congress Now Law Washs'Kton. AilK. -??t/P>?Presi dent Triinuin imicl into law today a bill callum for iin extensive over haul of legislative machinery in Congress ;ni(l including :? $2,500 pay boost for members. The measure raises the yearly salary of Ieui> lalors from $111,000 to $12,500. II also retains a $2,500 an ual expense aerount. lax free. An other provision permits members passed 02 years to retire en pension after six years of sorviee. if they contribute to a civil service retire ment fund. BYRNES CONGRATULATES CHAIRMAN ^ ?? SMILING PAUL HENRY SPAAK, Belgian Foreign Minister, Is congratulated by U. S. Secretary ot State James Byrnes (left) after the former had been elected Chairman of the Hules Committee at the Paris Peace Con ference. Spaak was nominated by Dr. H. V. Kvatt. (International) I 79th Congress Near Final Adjournment I I Solons Teamed-Up With Two Leaders, In War And Peace Washington. Aug. 1.?h/I'i?'T h c 7!)lli ('< i gross. which learned with President Itoosevclt and Truman in carrying the burdens uf war lull luilked on many home front matters, sped toward final adjournment to day. Willi an lllh hour compromise worked out to Iree/e. the social se curity tax. a last minute Hurry ovei a world court pr< posal was the only threat to phi ? for adjournment at the end ol today's session. The Ifouse already has voted for final adjournment today hut tin I Senate has hcld-ii|> on ?'.? suggeslii n Barring an eirergcr/ y that won I i cause the President to recall it for a special session, the 7111 li Congress will not meet iiga n onre it closes the | books, for the Congress that con venes in ?faniiary will be a new one, the With The fact that a no . Congress wilt he elected in November was " ? e ol the compelling reasons that prompt ed the body to take i's longest va cation in l>! years. All*435 House! seals and 32 of the !MS in the Senate will be filled, and members seek-1 ing reelection want ample time I" campaign. . hvon as they bcg.it leaving Tor their homes, many members fell they might be recalled into special session after the November elec tions. Should (lie licjinhlicaii parly | make good its hoc.sis tiial it will win l enlrol of the House in the new | Congress, they feel certain that Mr. Truman will make one final off ml I to w . approval of some of his do-i moslie legislative proposals from the Democratic 7Jlth. I Old Age Tax Compromise Worked-Out Congress Is Set To 'Freeze' Levy To One Per Cent Washington. Aim. ?i/Pi?Con (ii'jf wsis '?! today. ;is ??in* of its Inst acts iH'fiiic final adjournment. I<> friT/.f the "Id age insurance tii \ for the eighth year .it hih' per wnt. It will thus prcvcnl two billion ilolliirs in .'iddilioiiiil lax reduction* in I 17 from employes* 1lav an ' em ployers' payrolls. A 14-man Sennle-1 louse confer ence runtmilh"* agreed unanimous Iv last night on a compromise social security loll. In iidilitii>11 to blocking ? >n otherwise automat n* rise of the payroll levy to 2. > p**r t-?-iit January I. the legislation make. these broad revt. ion., in III" security program: I I.arger fi'ilcrnl grants lor two million aged persons, 750,0011 blind, anil 77:'.IMMt dependent childtcn. un rmr a in*w foriimla lliat would be I specially beneficial.. b> low inf-oinc slates. This will mean iibont $ I 51). iii ill.in hi ,'idibt ii.n. il in t<*deral money i nun.illv for needy persons. '2?Survivors' insurance for fam ilies of World War II veterans lor Hirer* .vein's wilboiit charge. Sur vivors "f a veteriin who dies with in liner yen is after discharge from the .*>' i*vic>* would receive fin* same benefits lli.it would iieciue if lie had i been working on cnvcrcd employ- ' men I ;il $150 ii monili. This woid'l amoiiiit to about 1120.00 a month for ii widow iitul iiboul $|(| for ii child under 18. To! >1 m-l to the govern ment is estimated at $175,000,000 between now and 1050. 3 It I ii n k c t s 200,000 maritime workers under the unemployment compensation benefits of lire social security act. This will cost about $3,000,000 during the reconversion period. Federal Action JO Test Georgia Unit Vote Filed ftrunswicls. Aim. 2. i/I'i?A' mil whs filed <t KiKlrnil Hlstrict Court bore today attacking the rem- i stitutionatity of Georgia's roi illy unit ; primary election system and seeking) to block the nomination of Eugene j Tnlmadgo for bis fourth term as gov criior. Tiilmiiflcc won the tioininatioo un der ;i county i ? it system in ;i July 17 primary. He re- eived ;i majority i of the county unit votes, but in the I popular vote trailed young James E. C'armicb id who had the blessing of Gov. Ellis Arnall. The suit contended that the Geor- , Kin primary law was in conflict with the 14th Amendment of the U. S. | Constitution. GOBS' GARB, NEW AND OLD THE NAVY SHOWS ITS NEW OARB for gobs as compared with the old, at Treasure Island, Calif. Modeling the garments (1. to r.) arc: Yl/c Howard Marcou in new dress blues; S2/c John Phelps, wearing old garb; First Class Petty Officer Harold Rudolph, in new undrt sscd blues, and Mailman 3/c Thomas Hendricks in new work clothes, (international; 'Machine' Is Overthrown By Veterans Tennessee County Is Quiet Today After Gun Fire Athens. Tenn., Aug. 2.?i/Pi?A bipartisan group of (jl's, their elec tion to .Mi-Minn county offices con ceded by a leader of the opposition, brought quiet to bullet-ridden Athens today after a bloody six-hour gun battle around a now battered jail. At least 18 persons were injured, six seriously, in the election day strife which began Thur: ?luy after noon and continued until 3 p. in. when about 50 deputized officers surrendered their hold on the two story brick prison building. Before complete order could be restored, several automobiles were overturned, and near riots swept over this town of 7,0(10, suddenly bereft of formal law enforcement from county agencies. A mobilization ot state guardsmen was cancelled anc! a spokesman for the Gl forces said they would main lain order until a mass meeting Monday when it was hoped some provisions for filling county offices would be made. In Washington, Attorney General Tom Clark ordered an investigation today of the gun fight. The civil rights section of the Justice Depart ment was directed to determine whether Scleral laws had been violated. The battle of the jail, pocked and battered from bullets and homemade bombs tossed by GI sympathizers, was a direct outgrowth of the bit ter political campaign waged by the veterans to overthrow the Demo jratic organization of State Senator Paul Cnntrell, in power for a decade. Take Boxes To Jail. Armed sheriff's deputies moved twrr ballot boktfs to the jail Thurs day afternoon, shortly after the polls closed at 4 p. m? and trouble long brewing, burst into the open. A group of the GI's disarmed seven of the deputized officers, beat them, and shoved them into auto mobiles for a swift ride out of town. At !? p. in., a crowd, estimated at >i)(l and armed with pistols and light rifles, moved on the jail, occupied by the force of deputies. Ralph Ditggan. a former '/ivy lieutenant commander and leader of the GI forces said the crowd was "met by gun fire" and because ttiey had promised "that the ballots would be counted as east," they had "no choice but to meet fire with fire." Deputies Surrender. The exchange of toe, sporadic for six hours, ended nfter tlie jail was rocked by four blasts of explosives and one of the deputies shouted down for a halt because "we are dy ing in here." Shortly after .'i p. in., the deputies, hands in air. marched from the jail. The officers were searched anil returned to the jail under CI I gourd. As one, identified by oil-lookers as Deputy Sheriff Winey Wise, step ped up to be searched, several of the crowd surged about him, maul ing him before he was marched back onto the jail. More than a dozen cars, parked about the jail, were overturned and smashed before patrols of the Gl's could restore order. Duggnn said that the Gl's, who recovered several balled boxes from the jail, "are elected and will serve as your county officials beginning September I." lie produced a state ment from George Woods, a mem ber of the county election commis sion. which said that he "conceded the GI candidates have been elect ed." Senator McKellar Wins Sixth Term Nashville, Trnn.. Aug. 2 ?<yi*?? Senator Kenneth I). McKellar. 77 ycnr-nlrl dean of the Upper House, won Democratir nomination and a sixih term in Wn.vhlngton yesterday n a State-wide primary election marked by bloodshed and violence. Hacked by the powerful Democratic organization of KH II. Crump in Shelby county (Memphis) the vet eran McKellar rolled lip a margin of nearly two to one against his chief opponent. ClO-backed E. W. Cartnaek. Scattered Stocks Continue Advances New York. Aug. 2.?i/l'i?Scatter ed stocks continued to reach for higher prices today although many market leaders hacked into slightly losing territory. I Ahead fractions to a point or so were Allied Chpmical. duPont, Johns Miinville, Bethlehem, Douglas Air crult .aid General Motors.
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