Show War Var on Cancer Sets Gets New Urge German Secret Microscope I Offers Another Attack On Dread Disease f COLUMBUS OHIO Hopes Hopes of a anew anew new attack on cancer are given Vet Vet- Veterans Veterans' Veterans Veterans' Veterans Veterans' I I erans' erans administration doctors in the discovery of a year old Nazi se se- secret secret cret in wrecked bomb-wrecked laboratories in Jena Germany says the United se-I se Press The secret was a little-known little Ger Ger- GerI I I man phase microscope that was found among the ruins by an Amer Amer- American American Amerlean ican lean army colonel Arthur T. T T Brice Brice former VA medical tech tech- technical technical technical expert brought the micro micro- microscope microscope microscope scope back to this country along with picture motion-picture films of cell celli growth taken through the ment mente VA officials here explained that the motion picture was significant because it showed the mysterious processes of the microscopic world of living cells better than ever be be- before before before fore in medical history The instrument gives scientists their first clear view of how liv liv- living living living ing cells subdivide and Cells multiply The chief characteristic of cancer cells is their unbridled multiplication tion officials explained The cells themselves and their pattern or life are different from normal body cells as far as anyone yet has been able to prove they said If I some fundamental difference could be proven between the life processes of cancer cells and other cells they said a new method of attack on oh cancer might eventually result The living substance that Colonel Brice presented in motion pictures consisted of the sperm cells of a grasshopper Their life was record record- recorded ed on 16 mm film Time was telescoped so that the evolution of 24 hours was flashed on the screen in a matter of min min- utes The phase microscope involves the complicated field of light waves Overlaps Light Rays The instrument overlaps light waves to defeat transparency with with- without without without I out in any way interfering with the normal aspects of the object viewed I looks l. l Lk scope scope f beT CI he- he Ti rit bulb and the stage on which the i specimens are placed there is insert insert- inserted I ed an arrangement of discs and I slits that overlaps the light rays Before the Nazi instrument was uncovered scientists had been able I to study cells microscopically only by employing color to overcome transparency But this stain often killed the cell celland celland celland and always left a question of how much uch it affected their normal proc proc- processes processes processes esses officials explained |