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Special Service At
St. Lukes In Memory
Os Late W. E. Shipp
Stationed In Manila
Sgt. Howard E. Lawing (above),
son of Mr. and Mrs. Loyd Lawing
of Boger City, is now stationed at
Manila in the Philippine Islands.
Sgt. Lawing has been in the service
fifteen months, being 0 n duty in the
Philippines the past twelve months.
He expects to return to the States
in September. His present address
is: Sgt. Howard E. Lawing, 44078892,
1761 Eng. Parts Shp. Plat, AFWES
PAC Hq., APO 707, San Francisco,
Calif.
FATHER ADMITS TO
MURDERING BABIES
Redwood City, Calif., July I—Vor
hes James Newton, 24, stood Friday
before the mortuary slab on which
rested the battered bodies of his in
fant daughters, and in a terrible half
hour told how he killed them, Deputy
District Attorney Fred Wyckoff said
after it was over.
“He said he did it,” Wyckoff said.
“He said he was mad when he did
it. He said he didn’t know why .he
took it out on the kids. He said, 'I
hit my wife first—l think I hit her
with the bottle (* baby’s bottle) be
cause it was between us on the front
seat.' ”
The young father and former coast
guardsman is already charged with
murder for his babies’ deaths during
a family drive last Monday. His wife
is in a hospital critically • injured.
Until confronted with the two lit
tle bodies, Newton had professed los«
of memory.
He closed his eyes and shuddered,
Wyckoff said, when he was led to 1
the slab in the Burlingame mortu
ary. Then he controlled himself and
answered questions calmly.
Throughout the questioning, how
ever, he insisted repeatedly that he
did not remember the actual killing,
the deputy said, although on details
he spoke readily enough without
qualification.
Newton next was to be taken to
the San Mate 0 coastal region where
the bodies of the two children were
found last Tuesday.
“I must have done it . . .” the 24-
year-old father and former coast
guardsman mumbled wearily to au
thorities Thursday night after almost
a full day’s exhaustive questioning
on his professed loss of memory.
Frank Marlowe, chief district at
torney’s investigator, quoted Newton,
and disclosed that Newton and his
wife had been in a disagreement
over a proposed abortion.
The badies’ bodies were found be
side a canyon road in the Half Moon
bay area Tuesday, their heads beaten
in. Newton’s 21-year-old wife, Lor- I
raine, was picked up in a dazed con
dition not far away, wandering along 1
the road with a severe skull fracture I
and unable to remember what had
happened.
Newton himself was found, half
clothed, incoherent, and with head
and back injuries, along a highway
not far from the Nevada line.
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4 Navy Men To Stay
At High Altitude*
For Next 28 Day*
Pensacola, Fla., July I—-Four men
have started a month’s stay at sim
ulated high altitudes ranging up to
the equivalent of almost six miles in
the sky.
In a navy “Operation Everest,” an
experiment to learn more about high
altitude flying, four volunteers en
tered a pressure chamber where they
will live twenty-eight days at simu
lated atmospheres up to 29,000 feet,
higher than man has ever existed
without supplemental oxygen.
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Price Ceiling* Lifted
Off Scout Uniforms
Washington, July I—OPA has sus
pended price ceilings on Boy Scout
and Girl Scout uniforms except shoes.
The agency said these uniforms are
made for non-profit organizations
which control their distribution
through authorized dealers.
The Lincoln Times
Published Every Monday And Thursday Devoted To The Progress Os Lincolnton And Lincoln County
Flowers Used In Church Dur
ing Impressive Service Are
Placed On Grave
The altar flowers at St. Luke’s
Church-in-Lincolnton for the confir
mation service yesterday by Rt. Rev.
Robert E. Gribbin, D. D., Bishop of
Western North Carolina, and the
Holy Communion, were in memory of
Lieutenant William Ewen Shipp, 10th
United States Cavalry (West Point
1883).
After the service the flowers were
placed on the grave of Lieut. Shipp
in the church yard in the presence of
Bishop Gribbin, the Rector, Rev.
Grant Folmsbee, and members of the
congregation.
Lieut. Shipp was killed in action at
the battle of Santiago, July 1, 1898.
Forty eight years ago today his body
was brought back t 0 Lincolnton for
burial beside the grave of his moth
er, Mrs. William M. Shipp.
At yesterday’s service the Rector
of St. Luke’s announced that a mem
ber of the congregation on behalf of
St. Luke’s church had made a gift of
several volumes about the United
States Military Academy at West
Point, which will be presented to the
Lincoln County Memorial Library in
memory of Lieut. Shipp, who was a
student there (in Memorial Hall) be
fore entering West Point and during
the time that Rev. W. R. Wetmore,
rector of St. Luke’s from 1862 until
his death in 1904, was principal of
the Academy.
This gift of books in memory of
Lieut. Shipp is the firsf of several
similar memorial gifts St. Luke’s will
make to the Memorial Library during j
the current year, in which the Parish
is celebrating the consecration of the
present church sixty years ago on |
August 12 next. The Parish was |
founded at a meeting held in what
was then Pleasant Retreat Academy
on the evening of Advent Sunday,
November 29, 1841, and the congre
gation worshipped at the Academy
until the first church building was 1
consecrated July 29, 1843, and dur-!
ing the months in which it was being
replaced by the present Gothic edifice
in 1886.
Brigadier General William E. Shipp,
U. S. A., son of Lieut. Shipp, and
also a graduate of West Point in the*
Class of 1916, is a member and bene
factor of St. Luke’s. The grave of i
his younger brother, Lieutenant Fab
ius Busbee Shipp, sth U. S. Cavalry,
who met his death in an accident on
the P°l° field at Ft. Huachca, Ariz., I,
November 2, 1925, is beside the grave ,
of his gallant father. Nearby are the ]
graves of two sisters of Lieut. Wil- |
liam Ewen Shipp, Mrs. Sumner Mc-
Bee and Miss Kate Shipp, founder of;
Fassifern School for Girls.
Flour Also Will Be j,
Put On Ration List
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London. July I—The British people 1
got the bad news officially recently: 1
Bread will be rationed throughout
the country, starting July 21.
The announcement was made by 1
Food Minister John Strachey in the '
House of Commons. The basic bread
ration will be nine ounces a day for 1
most adults, but heavy workers will 1
get 15 ounces and expectant mothers
will be given 11. Flour also will be 1
rationed in Britain. 1
One indication of the seriousness
of the food situation in Britain today 1
is the fact that the British did not
ration bread in either of the last two
wars.
In Washington ’ President Truman
said that the world food crisis is not i
over. The President added that the !
United States has caught up to its I
goal in the shipment of grain. j i
No Salary Boosts For Teacher* Provided
By State Board Os Education’s Budget
Raleigh, July 1— No salary in
creases for school personnel are re
ported in the $42,676,129 budget
which the State Board of Education
adopted late Thursday for the nine
months public school system for the
next fiscal year. However, the bud
get sets an all-time high for North
Carolina and is $1,500,000 higher
than the record budget for the last
fiscal year.
The increases are to take care of
602 additional teachers, higher trans
portation costs, increased costs of
plant operation, and to buy coal usu
ally ordered in the Spring but un
available this year.
Controller Paul Reid said a defi
ciency of $678,391 would be taken
care of by using an unexpended bal
ance of $879,391 in the current bud
get.
Approximately $3,163,320 in addi
tion to the budget will be paid from
the State’s general fund for emer
gency salaries to school personnel, as
approved by the last legislature.
Reid said that the budget calls for
$34,822,581 for instructional salaries,
compared with $34,011,085 last year.
The item contemplates an additional
602 public school teachers.
Tha general control budget is sl,-
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WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT,
I>IAT ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL; THAT THEY ARE
ENDOWED BY THEIR CREATOR WITH CERTAIN UNALIEN
ABLE RIGHTS; THAT AMONG THE Si: ARE LIFE, LIBERTY AND
i r THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS; THAT, TO SECURE THESE
•RIGHTS, GOVERNMENTS ARE INSTITUTED AMONG MEN,
DERIVING THEIR JUST POWERS FROM THE CONSENT OF
THE lßffi22!L Df THAT WHENEVER ANY FORM OF GOV
ERN'IIMKI»*S. DESTRUCTIVE OF THESE ENDS, IT IS
THE ro MTER OR ABOLISH ,T
EBB9EK *?■
WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT .
Words that have particular importance as we celebrate this
peace-time Independence Day. It will be the Brst time for
several years that many of the sons and fathers will be home
to aid in celebrating the Independence that they gave so much
to maintain. ... , _
ATOM BOMB
ROCKS BIKINI
OPENING LINCOLN
COUNTY SCHOOLS
The summer sessions of the Lin
, coin county schools will open as fol
lows :
: j North Brook No. 1, No. 2, and No.
1 3 schools, Union and Howards Creek,
Thursday, July 18th.
] Rock Springs, Triangle and Mac
-1 pelah schools, Monday, July 22.
The colored schools will open on
Thursday, July 18.
The Edward’s Grove colored school
and the Liberty Hill colored school
; 1 have been discontinued by the State
! authorities on account of the small
■ attendance. The Edward’s Grove
school averaged twelve pupils per
j day and the Liberty Hill school only
, ten pupils per day this past year.
The Crouse, Love Memorial, Lab- ]
l oratory, Long Shoals, Asbury, Iron
Station and Hickory Grove schools I
| will open on the same date as the I
| Lincolnton City schools, Wednesday, |
September 4th. The pupils from these'
schools attend the Lincolnton High I
' school, after graduation from the I
elementary school, it was announced
by Joe R. Nixon, Superintendent of I
the Lincoln county schools.
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Tip* For Bosses
I Chapel Hill, July I—Lloyd E. Fos
j ter offered some tips to employers
who have secretaries. Foster is pres- 1
ident of the Southeastern Institute
for Commercial Organization Secre
taries:
He said: \
Don’t be any more like an old bear
than necessary—the stenographer is
entitled to some consideration.
Don't bawl her out for errors—
point them out kindly and she will
do her best next time.
Don’t withhold praise for work well
done—a pat on the back will pay big
dividends.
Don’t be too important to be hu
man. Really big men are easily ap
proached but it is often hard to get
past a $25 per week e'erk into the
j office of a big shot.
Don’t chew and mumble like a hog
eating acorns and when your stenog
rapher asks you to “repeat, please”
I retort with the question, “Are you
j getting deaf?”
145,293, compared with $1,084,090.21
lest year. Included are salaries of
superintendents, clerical assistants,
office expenses and county boards of
education expenses.
Instructional service, including
teacher and principal salaries and in
structional supplies, is budgeted as
$35,640,706,* compared with $34,234,-
177.32 last year.
The plant operation budget is $2,-
753,255; last year’s $1,874,931. The
item includes salaries for jannitors,
fuel, water, light, etc.
Fixed charges are budgeted at $25,-
000, compared with $22,041 last year,
and auxiliary agencies, including
transportation and libraries, at $2,-
942,880, compared with $2,838,000.
The board also:
Voted to set up a fund of $lO 000
against school bus fire losses and to
discontinue fire insurance on buses.
Ordered consolidation of the 36-
pupil high school at Hobgood, Halifax
county, with Scotland Neck, with the
Hobgood school to be reinstated if
enrollment increases to the required
limit.
Ordered consolidation of the Pac
tolus High school in Pitt county with
a nearby school.
LINCOLNTON, N. C., MONDAY, JULY 1, 1946
One Craft Capsized and Six
Ships of Mighty Force Set
Afire By Blast
Aboard U. S. S. Appalachain off
Bikini, Monday, July I.—Two ships
were sunk, a third capsized, and 11
others damaged or set afire as the
world’s fourth atomic bomb burst
over the 73-vessel target fleet in
Bikini lagoon today, but capital ships
stood up staunchly beneath the ter
rific force.
The Nagasaki-type bomb, with the
flash and heat of 10,000 suns, burst
in the air above the center of the de
serted fleet at 9 a. m. (5 p. m. Sun
day, E.S.T.) with a mass of flame
that quickly sent a vast cloud column
I towering up 50,000 feet.
A task force spokesman announced
at 11:15 a. m. (7:15 p. m. Sunday,
E.S.T.) this toll:
Two transports—the Gilliam and
| Carlisle —sunk.
I The carrier Independence and sub-
I marine Skate heavily damaged.
I The destroyer Lamson capsized.
Fires aboard the carrier Saratoga,
' battleship Navada, destroyer Wilson
and transport Briscoe,
j Minor damage to the Japanese
cruiser Uakawa, cruiser Pensacola,
Japanese battleship Nagato, and a
small oil tender.
The Independence, flaming and
adrift, was floating into the Nagato.
The task force command earlier
had reported “moderate fires” aboard
a half dozen ships, shortly after the
explosion.
The sound of its blast—a distant
boom—.reached the Appalachain, 18
miles distant, about two and a half
minutes later. With it came the shock
wave. I noted a sudden, sharp pain in
my ears, and felt the rush of the
wind. But it was only a small, sharp
shock—far from the wind anticipated
by those who had heard descriptions
of the New Mexico blast which swept
men from their feet at 20 miles.
First reports from Vice Adm. W.
H. P. Blandy, task force commander,
cited this damage to the target fleet:
“The destroyer Lamson has cap
sized . . . several other ships appear
to be damaged and the following
ships have moderately small fires
aboard: The Pensacola, the Japanese
cruiser Sakawa, the carrier Independ
ence, the carrier Saratoga, the trans
port Julian and one concrete oil
barge. We cannot accurately deter
mine extent of the damage until
boarding crews enter the lagoon.
There have been no tidal waves, no
earthquakes.’’
Some 34,000 military personnel,
newsmen, scientists and observers at
safe distance aboard their ships
watched the writhing, twisting col
umn of lethal smoke shoot up from
the shrouded target area.
When the blazing ball of fire and
smoke rolled up from the horizon
it was a pure white mass, boiling
rolling and surging toward the strato
sphere.
At first the column was blocked
from view of the Appalachain by a
huge, white, fleecy cloud, but the
cloud drifted away, and there was
one of the most magnificent sights
ever seen by man.
It had broken up into three mush
rooms, with the great cap of it
thousands of feet above the lagoon
in a matter of 10 minutes. The col
ors were incredibly lovely. The
center of the column was glowing
rose, and the billowing edges of the
cloud were creamy white, gradually
suffused by a rose glow as it mount
ed into the blue heavens.
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Plastic draperies that look like
Chantilly lace are the achievement of
a plastic manufacturer. They’re
made of a semi-transparent film
I which can be made into aprons, show
er curtains, garment bags. It doesn’t
need laundering just wipe it off
{with a damp cloth.
Jobless Former GI
Wants To Sell Eye
Seattle, July I—A jobless 24-year
old former soldier, wants to sell one
of his light-blue eyes to finance him
self in a business of his own.
“Someone ought to be willing to
buy an eye,” the veteran, Alfred I.
Wilson, told a Seattle newspaper.
“I'm not crazy. I’ve thought it over
a long time and it seems to me it’s
the only out. I figure I can see as
well with one eye as with two, any
way.’’
ARMY LAUNCHES
‘NEW ORDER’ IN
RELATIONSHIPS
Washington, July 1— The Army
has launched a military “new older”
experiment by narrowing social and
other distinctions between officers
and enlisted men without wiping them j
out.
It also decided it can get along
with less saluting, except where a
snappy salute counts.
Secretary of War Patterson put the
new formula into Army life when he
gave carefully qualified approval to
all but two of the fourteen recom
mendations submitted by the Doolit
tle “gripe” board which investigated
postwar GI complaints of too much
caste in the service.
Patterson announced that the War
Department is ordering:
1. Abolition of saluting except on
military posts, in overseas occupied |
areas and on ceremonial occasions, i
2. Elimination of an existing re
quirement that officers wear distinc
tive uniforms, live apart from their
men in garrison, and confine their
social contacts to other officers.
3. Granting enlisted men the same
privilege as officers, effective July 1,
in accumulating unused leave time,
currently thirty days a year.
4. Studies looking to a possible
upward revision of pay schedules
along with allowances for food, quar
ters and travel.
5. Measures to train officers bet
ter for leadership, and to overhaul
the present system of promotions.
6. Rewriting of regulations to de
fine “essential” priviliges of officers
and to prohibit or minimize “possi
ble abuses of authority and prestige.”
7. Efforts to improve the social
facilities available to enlisted men.
Announcing the War Department’s
action on recommendations made by
the Doolittle board a month ago, Pat
terson rejected outright a proposal
that the terms “officers” and “en
listed men” be eliminated entirely,
and stressed there must be no weak
ening of discipline in. the Army.
Patterson rejected also a proposal
that reports of inspectors general of
the War Department should bypass
field commanders. His reason was
that no change should be made that
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would give the inspectors “anything I,
to ‘gestapo’ or under-cover status.” i
Lincolnton Juniors To
Piay Newton Tonight
Lincolnton’s American Legion Jun
iors make a final bid to stay in West
ern District elimination play in a
crucial test with the Newton Juniors
in Newton tonight.
iMecklenburg’s Juniors cinched first
place in the Southern division last
week with wins over Gaston and Lin
colnton by identical scores of 13-4.
Gaston and Lincolnton are now tied
for second place with 4 wins and 3
defeats, and end their Southern sche
dule with games tonight, Gaston
playing Bessemer City and the locals
meeting Newton. Victories for Lin
colnton and Gaston tonight will cause
a playoff between the two for second
place. A Lincolnton win and Gaston
loss would cinch second place for the
locals.
Slug Bessemer City
The locals kept in the elimination
running with a 19-9 slugfest win
over Bessemer City here Friday night.
Some faulty Lincolnton fielding in
the early innings of the game gave
the Bessemers a 4-1 lead and threw
a scare into the ranks of the Lincoln
ton supporters. However, an explos
ion of Lincolnton base hits in the 4th
netted seven runs and pushed the
locals ahead, 8-4. Featuring this 7
run outburst was Mace’s triple with
three on, and Baker’s homer into the
right-center hedge with two on.
Catcher Cornwell, back in the Lin
colnton lineup after missing the last
two games due to an injured finger,
lined a long triple into left center
in this frame.
Bessemer almost drew abreast of
the locals with two runs each in the
sixth and seventh innings, cutting
the Lincolnton lead to 9-8. The locals
then cause back with a vengeance i:i
the seventh with four runs and six
more in the eighth to put the game
away for keeps.
13-year-old Johnny Lowder, curve
ball righthander, went all the way
in the Lincolnton win, giving up eight
hits, and at times received shoddy
support from his mates afield. Steve
Gabriel collected three hits to lead
ClycL Cunningham
Found Dead On
Railroad Tracks
Accepts Lincolnton Call
if ~ jB
! , A est J§
The Rev. Hoke H. Ritchie (above)
has recently accepted a call to the
Daniels-Grace Evangelical Lutheran
Parish, Route 2, Lincolnton. He will
assume charge of the new work on
July 17.
For the past two years he has been
pastor of the Watauga Parish, Boone.
The Rev. Mr. Ritchie is a son of
\ Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Ritchie, Salis
bury. He was graduated from Boy
den High school, Salisbury; Lenoir
Rhyne college, Hickory, and the Lu
theran Theological Southern Semi
nary, Columbia, S. C. Mrs. Ritchie
is the former Miss Eunice Cook of
Concord.
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Girl, 15, Seeking
Annulment From
Man In Seventies
Newton, July I—Action has been
instituted here wherein a 15-year-old
girl, Lois Ledford, of West Hickory,
seeks an annulment of her marriage
from John D. Jenkins, of West Hick
ory, a man in his seventies, according
to the complaint.
The proceeding is brought through
Effie Price, as next friend of Miss
Ledford, who is a minor.
The complaint alleges that Jenkins
took the Ledford girl to York, S. C.,
January 12, 1945, gave her liquor un
til she became intoxicated and then
went through a marriage ceremony
with her. It is also alleged that the
couple, in company with other per
sons not named in the complaint, re
turned t 0 Hickory and that the mar
riage was never consummated.
It is declared, too, that the girl
was under the age of consent to get
married and that she is an orphan, I
and therefore did not have the con
sent of her parents to enter into a
marriage ceremony.
the Lincolnton hitting and keep his
season’s average about the .400 mark.
Routed By Meeks
The locals collapsed completely
afield, and proved futile at the plate,
in losing to Mecklenburg’s Juniors
13-4 at Griffith Park in Charlotte
Saturday afternoon.
Mecklenburg piled up 13 runs in
the first three innings, in which Lin
colnton errored seven times, and
coasted to an easy win in the abbrev
iated seven inning debacle. Jack
Heafner, Lincolnton’s ace pitcher,
started for the locals, but gave way
to centerfielder Medlin in the second
after being reached for five hits and
seven runs. However, six Lincolnton
errors in this second inning proved
Heafner’s undoing. Medlin, after a
rocky third inning when the Meeks
scored five more runs to run their
total to 13, settled down and pitched
scoreless ball the last three innings.
The locals, after showing plate
power to spare in their slugfest wins
over Bessemer and Gaston, were able
to touch the Meeks southpaw, Robert
son, first baseman turned pitcher for
the game, for only tw 0 hits—an in
field hit to deep shortstop by Mace
in the first inning and Gabriel’s short
fly ball that fell safely between the
shortstop and leftfielder in the sixth.
Three Mecklenburg errors, a base on
balls, stolen base, and Gabriel’s hit
gave the locals their four runs in the
sixth.
Score By Innings
Bessemer City 012 102 210
Lincolnton 100 701 46x
R H E
9 8 4
19 11 6
Dixon and Shuford; Lowder and
Barker, Cornwell.
Lincolnton 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
Mecklenburg 17 5 00 0 x
R H E
4 2 9
13 10 3
Heafner, Medlin, and Cornwell;
Robertson and Whitlock,
Lincoln County’s
Favorite Family
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j Funeral Services to Be Held
This Afternoon at 4:00 At
Gainesville Baptist Church
Clyde Yates Cunningham, 25, vet
eran of World War 11, was found
dead pn the Seaboard Railway tracks
near the Rudisill Spinning Mill yes
terday morning. Just how the acci
dent happened has not been determ
ined, though reports are that the
young man was struck by one train
and run over by another.
Coroner Frank P. Heavner and
Sheriff George E. Rudisill investigat
ed the case and Coroner Heavner said
it has not yet been decided whether
an inquest will be held.
Cunningham is survived by his
wife, Mrs. Lucille Carpenter Cunning
ham, three children, Carol, Caroline
May and Jerry Yates, his mother,
Mrs. Della Cunningham, two brothers,
Arvil Cunningham and Hugh Cun
ningham, and six sisters, Mrs. Lum
Martin, of the county, Mrs. Ernest
Conner, of Vale; Mrs. Lawrence Tur
ner, of High Point; Mrs. Jake Black,
of Cherryville; Mrs. Esther Heavner
and Mrs. Arthur Rhyne, of Lincoln
ton.
Funeral services will be held this
afternoon at 4 o’clock from the
Gainesville Baptist church and burial
will follow in the church cemetery.
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Two Lincoln Students
Enrolled At Brevard
Brevard, July 1— There are two
students from Lincoln county en
rolled at Brevard college for the
summer session, it was announced by
the registrar.
.They are Jimmie Hine, son of Mr.
and Mrs. George W. Hine of Lincoln
ton, who is in the pre-college divi
sion, and James Moore, son of J. C.
Moore of Southside, also pre-college.
There are approximately 200 stu
dents enrolled at Brevard for the
summer session. It promises to be
on e of the best summer sessions for
some time.
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40 War Brides Just
Could Not Take It
Boston, July I—About forty disil
lusioned brides of Canadian and New
foundland soldiers have sailed from
Boston for their old homes in Britain
and France.
The women blamed their broken
marriages on the hard life in th e Ca
nadian woods and in Nova Scotia and
Newfoundland.
One said: “We didn’t know what
we were getting into. We’d never
get used to that kind of life. We
just had to call it quits and go back
home.”
Nearly all of the brides took with
them their legal limit of fifty dollars
worth of foodstuffs and 25 dollars
worth of fabrics.
ATOMRESEARCH <
MAY GIVE CURE
TO SKIN CANCER
San Francisco, July I—Successful
treatment of two types of skin can
cer with atomic research by-products
was reported Friday by Dr. Bertram
Low-Beer, University of California
radiologist, to the North American
Radium Society.
This presumably is the first prac
tical medical application of radio ele
ments such as will come from atomic
ovens. The substance is radiophos
phorus.
While the substance used by Dr.
Low-Beer was made in the cyclotron,
it can be made in relatively large
quantities in the ovens which now
turn out plutonium for atom bombs.
Dr. Low-Beer reported 100 per cent
success in the treatment of 36 cases
of hyperkeratosis, and 98 per cent in
52 cases of basal cell carcinoma. Both
of these are shallow cancers and if
caught in the early stages often can
be removed successfully by surgery
Or X-ray treatment, or with radium.
The radiophosphorus also was
found to be 88.6 per cent successful
in eliminating warts from the hands,
94 per cent or, warts of the soles of
the feet, and 93.6 per cent on wart*
under the finger-nails.
Dr. Low-Beer did not claim that
the radiophosphorus treatment was
any better than the other methods
but said it was much simpler. The
substance was put into solution, a
tiny pinch in a small bottle of water.
A few drops of this solution was
put on a piece of blotting paper cut
the size of the cancer to be treated.
The patch then was bandaged over
the growth and left for four or five
days.
On removal the cancers looked red
dish and inflamed. Within two
months they disappeared. In some
cases a small dimple of non-malig
nant tissue remained to mark the
spot.