European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 5, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes april 1948 7 1 i Hope rises for control of cancer popular research seen pointing Way editors note Public at Tention is focused today As never before on the problem of following is the first of two articles on the killer by Alton Blakeslee new York Outlook for controlling cancer in brighter than for some very sound these Are widespread Public advances in detection and treatment and research into the cause of this major medical but dont expect or have Hope that spending a couple of dollars could suddenly Arhip cancer by the same kind of mobilization of Money and skill and Energy that produced the at Omic the atom bomb project started with Many of the Basic facts already Well cancer is a different kind and tougher with too much that still is the answer lies close to the Sec ret of life and growth during april Public attention is focused on the disease by nation wide Observance of cancer control Here is a Survey in Abc terms of the current status mans knowledge of the its treatments and main lines of it is types in simplest cancer is a uncontrolled growth of body How and Why it starts Are most experts feel there Well May be several something goes wrong in body end they dont have or grow two general classes this starting something might be an one of the chemicals of an oversupply or under Supply of or some other chemicals or a virus As yet chronic from either mechanical rubbing As from the Tongue striking a Sharp edged tooth or from chem ical appears to be involved in Many cases too much exposure to from the Sun or carries a cancer some things that cause can cer in some cases will cure it in no part or Organ of the body is immune from there Are two general types of and carcinomas Are cancers of the skin and outer covering of Sarcomas Are cancers of the in Ner or connective tissues or of marked by overproduction of White blood is a cancer like disease of the blood Hodgkins disease is i years april 1943 Berlin reports several soviet divisions have launched attacks the East front of the Kuban april 1944 Allied planes bomb the Plesti rail Yards and Oil april 1945 russian denounces its 5year neutrality pact with the japanese signed in a prof 1946 Yugoslavia denies a re quest to Nermit american offi cers to testify at the trial of drama april 1947 the big four foreign ministers in Moscow agree to establishment of a Central administrative Agency for radioactive used in the treatment of thyroid is removed from a Lead Box at new Yorks memorial Hospital for cancer and Allied diseases and put into a Large Glass bottle for the technician works behind a Lead Box with hooded Lead Glass for Protection from radioactive the radioactive known As iodine can be used to treat about 15 percent of thyroid cancer cancer like condition of the Lymph cancer starting to one spot May by spread to other parts of the body by the blood or this spreading is known As on the one american of cancer every three min the death toll now than i has been party because More americans Are living longer and cancer starts becoming More pre Valent after Middle it kills More women than Gancer is the worst killer of women be tween the Ages of 30 and after it takes proportionately More cancer often can be if it is caught Early for those moderately the chances of recovery Are much a late Start in treatment carries tie Hope for the symptoms one Bright spot has been the drive by the american cancer society for discovery of much depends upon Edu waiting the Public to noting Early danger persistent lumps or bleeding or sores that donor seem to heal White patches inside the a swelling in the Bone or a Boring pain in sudden loss of weight or unexplained should be brought to your doctors at Tention they May not be signs of but it is too dangerous a Gamble to assume that they another important develop 80 in universities briton says eighty per cent of the Stu dents in americas universities do not belong Robert University of London the English University student gets there by he while the american student gets if he can pay for is lecturing at Clark ment has been the spread of cancer detection 200 now Are in and some states Are sending Mobile units into the hundreds More Are periodic even if you suspect no Are Good in often1 there is no pain in cancer until it has too a head diagnosing cancer is very often usually a bit of the petted tissue is Cut away and examined under the rays and Fluor Scopes Are frequently used to locate but cancers deep within the like the stomach or intes Are much harder to spot this is one reason Why stomach cancers Are so often Quick and accurate tests for Early cancer Are being and there several hopeful developments one is that certain tests May show whether cancer there is a Chance that the urine of person with cancer May con Tain identifying Progress being in developing a test that examines the cells which Are continually being discarded from the to be continued luxury spending shows Washington spending is falling com Merce department figures americans spent less in february on less on furs and custom and less on Candy than in the same month last although sales for All types Independent retail stores were 6 per cent higher than in february in Many lines less goods actually were the increase in sales volume was Only a reflection of higher prices in some traffic deaths in february put at Chicago National safety Council has reported that persons were killed in traffic accidents in the Council said the number was about 340 higher than sex the death total for two months of 1948 was drop of 8 per cent Over the same period a year cities showed an average in crease in deaths of 4 per the councils report prelim Inary figures for february from 44 states reported decreases in 22 increases in 20 others and no change in the largest City in the nation reporting a perfect record for the first two months of 1948 was new the next largest cities with no traffic deaths were and Kansas was the largest City with a perfect record for followed by and grand the b bag Way discovered to end scientists Chaim Harvard scientists report they have opened the Road to the prevention of malaria by discovering a certain blood component is vital to the growth and reproduction of the disease causing Ralph Mckee and Quentin of the har Vard medical school suggested that neutralization of the component might eliminate the trop ical disease eventually by depriving the malaria parasite of nourish ment and halting its reproductive v they identified the subject of their research As one of the amino acid components of protein which is present in blood i Navy fails to find Antarctic uranium Washington navys recent Antarctic expedition found no deposits of uranium or other minerals of commercial value in the ice locked sub con Gerald Ketchum has Leader of the expedit said his two icebreakers hauled Back More than two tons of All were taken by the expeditions Earl to Syracuse University for research on the history ant the expedition spent the Winter the Antarctic coast line for map making loses foreign service pay when a deduction is made the pay of an enlisted Man for time lost while awol or in con does the also lose Bis overseas pay for the periods of time lost under a 107 i was tried for seven Days sence without leave and to 20 Days will 1 lose my overseas pay for 27 Days Buck private editors note ing to a 351490 the which member of the military c establishment outside the r to rental limits of the ii7 removed from whether under arrest or in confinement while awaiting action of courts by reason of an offence in connection with which i subsequently is or while serving a sentence posed by a court not constitute a period of Sero tee while beyond the Continental limits of the s Unchin the meaning of v Tion act of june so at f to entitle such person to the in crease in pay authorized by said in cases to charges Are dismissed without trial or Tohen trial results it the time spent under arrest or in confinement May counted in computing the service pay salutes red Cross Gerfe when the last dec red club closed its we Felt a though we had lost our through thick and Tina the red Cross smiling and had been a touch of Home to How Many unto times have they lifted us out fits of homesickness and to when the Battles were still raging in Europe their Gay mobiles were within a few of the the girls spreading sheer and Good will with their passing out Gratis t food and drinks and other smash the Token of a grateful when the rain of death ceased she was there setting up and doughnut bars to Fease the Monotony for helping us for awhile to forget our cares she was always there with laughter and gaiety to our whether her name was or be she from Oregon or she was Home to All of memory of these Coura will always be out for through was made so much easiest to special services esses Are taking 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