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Show tAV J. "Y ii PROVO. UTAH COUNTY. UTAH. .FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1947 j Scientist Reveals Danger Boat Rocked From Nuclear Radiations i - tvv f awt. i m-mm mm amm mm CHICAGO, Sept 12 U.R -4 A ; series of atomic wan would wipe f out mankind by planting tiny de- t layed action "bombs" in the bodies , xt persons not killed directly by ; the nuclear blasts, a Nobel prize-, prize-, winning scientist said today. Dr. IL J. Muller;- professor of zoology at Indiana -university, wrote in the bulletin of the atomic scientists that radiation . from a tomic , explosions 'causes thousands thou-sands of mutations, or changes, in ' the genetic, system of all persons in the vicinity. "A ""vast majority of mutations are harmful," Muller said, "and damage enough could probably t be done If there were a world wide misuse of atomic energy, to result in 4he genetic dying ouLof a number of people equal to sev- Doctor Summoned From Battleship ABOARD BATTLESHIP MIS-! MIS-! SOURL Sept. 12 (U.R) This bat- . tleship bearing President Tru man home from Brazil dispatched f a doctor Wednesday to tseat a sea-i sea-i man suffering from blood poison- ing aboard a merchant ship 200 miles away. ! The fast destroyer Shaw, es corting -the Missouri, took Lt. (j.g.) J. T.-AVolstenholme. "navy physician, off the battleship by breeches buoy and sped with him to the S. S. Cape Juby. If the seaman aboard the Cape Juby requires hospitalization he will be brought back to the Missouri, Mis-souri, which has elaborate medical facilities. The Shaw was summoned to the Missouri's side and while the two warships synchronized their speeds, the navy physician and a pharmacist's mate were transferred trans-ferred to the destroyer. The Cape Juby, a 5,000-tonner, was southward bound. The Mis-souir Mis-souir was about 60 miles east of Recife, Brazil, when the distress message was received. Gl Fails to Come Back for His Car TRENTON, N. J., Sept. 12 (U.R) An aging sedan sits on jacks in a parking lot here, waiting for a GI owner who. may not return. The car was left with Albert Hocking, owner of the lot, in May. 1944, by Pfc. James Wilson, , of Yuma, Ariz., who told Hock-; Hock-; ing a friend would pick it up in a ; few weeks. Then. Wilson went overseas with the 317th infantry. Late that year he wrote Hocking Hock-ing from France, saying his friend had been unable to call for the car, but that he himself would return re-turn when he could. Two more letters asking Hocking to drain the radiator, and promised to pay the accumulated storage charges. That was all. Hocking tried ; a year ago to get Wilson's, address from motor vehicle license au thorities in Arizona, but they didn t have it. The storage bill is $117 now. But Hocking won't consider selling sell-ing the old car a 1934 sedan to meet them. 5 "Tat young fellow will come for it if he's alive," he said today. "He- was that "kind of boy. And I hate to think anything might htve happened to him." The Doctor Says Chickenpox CanAttack Adults Severely By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M. D. Written for NEA Service Chickenpox can be serious in adults who failed to develop the infection when they were children. chil-dren. Severity of the illness is also related to the extent of the Eruption. Chickenpox is probably caused by a special virus, although it has not been found. Microscopic examination of bits of the skin in chickenpox show a striking resemblance to the changes seen in shingles and, at times, chickenpox chick-enpox is preceded or followed by shingles. Susceptible individuals contract con-tract chickenpox readily. The incidence in-cidence of the -disease tends to increase with the coming of cold weather; closed windows favor its spread indoors. Epidemics of chickenpox occur at two-to-four-year intervals, although al-though small outbreaks and Isolated Iso-lated cases may develop from time to time. One attack usually Confers permanent immunity. ;The incubation period of chickenpox is two to three weeks. Slight fever, general aching and soreness, loss of appetite and headache herald its apperance in children. A skin rash appears the second day. . ,. i At first, chickenpox resembles early stages of scarlet fever, but later typical pimples and blisters appear. The final stage is infection infec-tion and-crusts. The 'cycle takes about three or four days to run its course. It may be difficult to distinguish dis-tinguish chickenpox from smallpox. small-pox. Chief difference is the character char-acter of the eruption. In smallpox, small-pox, the extremities and face show the most severe reaction. 'Another difference is that, in chickenpox, the eruption is found in various stages, while, in smallpox, small-pox, the entire eruption is in the same stage of development rild or Severe i;-Mild i;-Mild chickenpox may not show more than a dozen pox, while in severe infections;- especially in adults, ' the patient is extremely ilKand the skin is covered with the eruption. Because of the severe se-vere itching, secondary infec- eral times more than the popula tion of the earth. . "These would be scattered over so many future generations that they would not affect drastically any single generation. "If, however, the exposure to the radiation were repeated in this way generation after genera tion, it could in time succeed in destroying the human gene system -beyond recovery. Muller won the Nobel prize last year for his researches into the effects of X-rays in mutations and on the aene system as a whole. He explained that the gene is the portion of the body structure which determines whether chil dren will resemble the father or the mother, and determines the physical characteristics of the body. "When an atomic bomb is- set off in a large populated area and kills 100,000 people, enough mutations muta-tions may have been implanted in the survivors, living on the fringes of the explosion, to cause at least as many genetic deaths as the original blast. "In other words, there have been planted hundreds of thou sands of minute time-bombs in the survivors' germ cells, resulting in a spattering of hundreds of thousands thou-sands of deaths from now on through the very distant future,' he said. He added that by. the time the delayed action "bombs" finally go off, the mutated genes will have become spread throughout the world. He said that many descendants of Americans including those of scientists who developed the bomb probably will die as a result re-sult of "hereditary injuries" caus ed by the blasts at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Women Should Not Fall Foil Fake Curve Production WASHINGTON, Sept 12 (U.R) The Food and Drug Administra tion warned today against the use of hormone creams which promise to make virtual Lana Turners out of flat - chested women. No cream known to medical science will put. . curves where nature ignored them, Dr. Gordon A. Granger, administration med ical officer, said. .He said the admlnistratton nowfnient-bttt an lamination failed ia trying to stop the bust de veloper racket which has taken the bulge out of the pocketbooks of thousands of American women wo-men during the past 18 months, and failed to put it anywhere else. Granger said the creams are both harmless and useless. But they cost money. Food Prices Soaring In Utah SALT LAKE CITY'. Sept. 12 (U.R) Food prices are continuing to soar upwards in Utah. Retail grocers reported today that butter and egg prices are going over last Monday s prices. lapday sweet cream had risen from $1.02 to $1.03 per pound butterfat which was expected to bring about an increase from 80 to 82 cents per pound for top- grade butter. tion and scarring is a common compllcation. Special skin care is necessary in chickenpox to prevent excessive exces-sive secondary infection. Skin should be kept clean with soap, water and alcohol, and preparations prepar-ations containing phenol can he applied to prevent scratching. It is better to have chickenpox when young, as the disease is milder and the complications fewer in childhood. QUESTION: I have -had heart trouble for years. Should I take dicumural? ANSWER: Not' unless your physician recommends that you should. It helps to keep clots from forming in the. coronary artery of the heart. Making the Overhead Pay Off 4 nit1 4- A new department store in suburban New York City offers this olution to parking problems: Just leave your car on the root and ' coma on downsuirs to shop. " " : jr A' V A Perched precariously on a rocky crest at WraagelL Alaska, ihm good ship Evelyn awaits a high tide to refloat her. Summer squall bounced boat unto rocks when her anchor Una broke. Youth Dies from Uncertain Cause SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 12 (U.R) John McCauliffe Jr., 20, of Long Beach, Calif., died Thursday of undetermined injuries which he reportedly suffered in a fall on a Salt Lake tennis court yesterday yes-terday afternoon. , Dr. Clarence Openshaw, city physician, said today he would ask the youth's parents for permission per-mission to conduct a post-mortem to determine' the cause of death. The youth, a son of Mr. and Mrs. John E. McCauliffe, had been visiting an aunt,-Mrs. L. M. Coulam in Salt Lake City. Yesterday he ran into a 4tt- foot guide wire on a Liberty park tennis court which knocked him to the ground. His companions took nun to openshaw for treat to reveal any injuries except temporaryJ loss of wind. However, yesterday morning Openshaw was called to the Coulam Cou-lam home because the young man was "acting strangely." An hour later he died. The youth had been attending the University of California at Los Angeles. He is survived by his parents and four sisters. Kidnap, Forgery Suspect Is Held CALDWELL, Ida.. Sept 12 (U.R) james uaugnerty, 26, wanted in Twin Falls as a kidnaping and forgery . suspect, was returned to that city today following his ap- prenension by Caldwell police. Two other men Cary Daugher ty, 22 and Hanely Erb, 21 be heved to be accomplices of Daugherty," were arrested in Twin Falls Monday. 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