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Show A 4 4AA AAAIAAAAA AAA A A A4AAA I WHO'S NEVS I THIS WEEK... By Lemuel F. Part on YVtTTTYTTTTTYTYTTYTYTTYY Medical G-Men Catches Up With Outlaw Leprosy. NEW YORK. Simultaneously, Simultane-ously, Dr. Earl B. Mc-Kinley Mc-Kinley announced the isolation isola-tion of the leprosy germ and Emil Ludwig published his biography of the Nile, where the germ first was mentioned in graven headlines 4,000 years ago. Starting from scratch, Dr. Mc-Kinley, Mc-Kinley, one of the cleverest of the G-men who patrol the submicro-scopic submicro-scopic world, caught up with the outlaw in 20 years. He is the forty-three-year-old dean of medicine of George Washington university. His announcement was made as he arrived ar-rived in Manila, where he was with the Rockefeller foundation in 1927 and 1928. He will conduct further research among the 6,000 lepers of the Culion island leper colony. This work will be in behalf of the General Gen-eral Leonard Wood Memorial fund. Dr. McKinley is a native of Emporia, Em-poria, Kan., educated in liberal arts and medicine at the University of Michigan. He continued his studies stud-ies in bacteriology as the holder of a research fellowship cf the Pasteur institute of the University of Brussels. Brus-sels. He gained eminence in his profession in teaching and. research work at the University of Michigan, Baylor university and the college of physicians and surgeons of Columbia Co-lumbia university. After his work in the Philippines, he was dean of the school of tropical tropi-cal medicine at Puerto Rico. He is a member of the International Leprosy Lep-rosy association and the American Leprosy foundation. He is an authority au-thority on the "filterable virus," the author of several books in his field, including "The Geography of Disease," Dis-ease," and a member of many learned societies. News from the Philippines is that chaulmoogra oil, the ancient Indian remedy, is proving increasingly effective ef-fective at the Culion island settlement, settle-ment, although it is not yet an absolute abso-lute cure. But this, with the isolation isola-tion of the germ, gives hope that the dreadful plague of mediaeval Christendom will soon be vanquished. van-quished. Meet Viscount Halifax. INFORMED observers of British politics tell me that Viscount Halifax, Hal-ifax, who fenced adroitly with the German Von Ribbentrop, has risen within the last year to power unsurpassed unsur-passed by that of any other one man in England that it was his inexorable in-exorable decree that drove Edward from the throne. He is better known as Lord Irwin, Ir-win, former viceroy of India, in which office he disclosed a mastery of political subtleties never suspected sus-pected in his years of comparative obscurity. He is six feet, two inches tall, with a long, pallid, melancholy face, broad forehead and big ingenious eyes, the cagiest, wariest and subtlest sub-tlest of all modern statesmen. His father was a fervid leader of the Anglo-Catholic movement in England. Eng-land. In the son, this religious fervor fer-vor has been sublimated in metaphysical meta-physical politics. He is a Tory. It was believed he was willing to make a deal with Hitler, to divert Germany eastward, but the word now is that the fascist threat to the Balearic islands and the Canary islands, on England's lines of empire, had implanted in his mind some deep misgivings about a German tie-up. A Mexican Caballero. STRAIGHT Graustark is the life story of Gen. Jose Gonzalo Escobar, who may be repatriated by the Mexican decree of amnesty for political exiles. He found his wife at a beauty contest a Texas contest, too. She was the famously beautiful Conception Goeldner of El Paso and Mexico City. The handsome, hard-boiled and bucko General Escobar, staged in a long and glamorous plot of amour and fighting, was one of General Callcs' best officers. He was the hero of the "shelf of death" battle in 1025, suppressing the De La Huerta revolt He suppressed the 1927 uprising and rode into Mexico Mex-ico on a handsomely caparisoned white horse, with the bands playing and the crowds cheering. Two years later, he hid in a clump of soap weed, shed his gaudy uniform, uni-form, medals and all, put on a peon's soiled dungarees and strolled across the national boundary line under the eyes of his enemies. He had started a revolution of his own. It didn't jell. His beautiful wife traced him to a house in Prince Arthur street in Montreal. With a lawyer, she arrived ar-rived to tell him she had started divorce proceedings. He could turn on charm by just pushing a button. Senora Escobar wilted into his arms, and it has been a Ruth and Bnaz story ever since. The divorce proceedings were withdrawn. His enemies charged that he had taken tak-en a half million gold pesos with him when he fled. C ConsolMMe J News Features. W.VU Service. |