—

- Mediately began

- Of this

come
_ treatment for warts. What treat-

|. ‘shed, there “will ‘be nothing

OME Indian he ro bs;

mouse milk, _ Moldy
grain and a cancer vig-
tim . . . can you make any
Sense out of that? Let’s see
why these four items make
up a list of great medical
victories.

Your grandmother knew about
the herb called mandrake. The
Indians sometimes used it te
cure warts. Modern doctors oc-
Casionally use an extract from
‘Mandrake, the drug called pod-
Ophyllin. And because a certain
women patient was given this
stuff in a New York hospital,
there happened a strange and
fascinating accident.

Doctors Ormsbee and Corn-
Man were doing research on
Cancer cells. They had bits of
skin alive and growing in a
test tube. Some skin cells were
Normal, others had cancer. The
doctors were trying various bio-
Chemicals on the different cells,
to determine why and how the
Cancerous ones behaved differ-
ently to: the healthy skin cells.

They were using old Thomas
Edison’s favorite method—“When

‘Stumped, try anything at all, it

May work!” One day they were
astonished to find a great many
cancer samples rapidly dying.
This was a mystery, for nothing
at all had been added to these
Skin cells,

Nothing except the nourishing
Solution needed to kep the cells
alive. The two researchers im-
tracing the
°tigin of this solution. One part
‘cell food’ was human
blood supplied by the hospital
Maternity ward. Some hasty de-
tective work showed that the
blood. used in these tests had
from a mother getting

by DYSON CARTER

ment? Oil containing podophyl-
lin!

It sounded foolish, but Orms-
bee and Corman were willing to
follow any clue. In their labora-
tory they hastily made up a
fresh podophyllin extract. When
this was added to new samples
of skin cancer, the ‘cancerous
cells were killed.

S discovery does not give
us a cancer cure. But it
represents a very important lead.
Already cancers in mice have
been partly destroyed by podo-
phyllin injections. Biochemists
are now busy finding out what
chemical in podophyllin. (the
stuff is a mixture) is respons-
ible for the cancer-killing action.
Even if this pure material turns
out to be too. poisonous for hu-
man beings, it may lead the
chemists to other similar drugs
that will be safe to try.

There are more good reasons
to\ believe that cancer research
is on the verge of very impor-
tant revelations. No sooner had
the New York men _ released
their story than a young veter-
an doctor from Brooklyn told
cancer specialists of an aston-

ishing case he had studied.

‘ Hitler converted at a cost of
$200 million into a fantastic
Workshop of death, is today a
Wilderness of destruction.

; It was here the Fuehrer
Planned to win the war with
an army of 11,000 slaves toil-

_ ing to turn out V weapons at
the rate of 100,000 a year.

But for the heavy delaying
blows of RAF Bomber Com-
Mand in the summer of 1943,
Hitler might, in fact, have
Won the war from this vast
Tocket arsenal — now just a

| Mountain of cubble and twist-

ed steel.

For six hours, with two
ether British correspondents,

have walked, climbed and
driven through the vast ruin-
€d mysteries of this island
‘city,’
_ The Russians showed us

verything. They readily as-
Sented to our inspecting
| Whatever we wanted to see.
__A year ago it was being
Said that Peenemuende was
Working full-blast again as a
Secret testing-ground’ for
Soviet y weapons.

_ The Russians, it was claim-

» had erected new barracks.

Workshops and set up

new camouflaged _firing-

Points,

Our inspection revealed that |
1¢ Russians in fact have
been and are conscientiously
and Tapidly completing the
TOocess of destruction begun
¥ the British bombers.

|}, They expected to finish the

demolit

On program by mid-
Summer, «

“When we- have fin-

aSft at all: «Major -Vasiliev, |
Year-old g@rey-haired com-

dant of the Peenemuende
area ‘ag us.

pons tity Vasiliev and
Atillery. _ Major Leonid

—
The end of Peenemuende
Kovalov, commander of the
of eta ae ree ee and engineers, were

' stallations. Now the Russians

‘States — and General Dorn-
berger, head of the German

andj technical experts were

buildings have - been blasted

“in, the Germans will be left
‘to clear up the mess, _

-tatoes and cabbagegs are ex-—

full of praise for the RAF.
Time and time again they
waved their hands toward a
mountain of concrete blocks
which had once been a work-
shop and said, “There is some
more of your RAF's excellent
work.” .
Major Vasiliev said the
RAF accounted for 70 per-
cent of the Peenemuende in-

are blowing up the rest.

“The Germans took more
than five years to create this
place,” Major Vasiliev said
with a smile. “The RAF
knocked it out in ten hours.
Our work will have been vir-
tually completed in two
months. \

‘What we do here we look -
upon as a present for your
children and their future.”

Three to four hundred Ger-
mans, mainly strapping young
women, together with a hand-
ful of Russian sappers and en-
gineers are carrying out the
dynamiting. ‘

; Nene
Peenemuende site was

chosen in December, 1935,
by Professor Werther von
Braun -—,..who the Russians
said was now in the United

Army's rocket research de-

tment. ~
Mast of the key ‘scientists

evacuated ‘before the station
was overrun by the Russians.
- When the last half-wrecked
to the ground and the last
underground chamber filled.
It will mbar years of hard -
work, but one day wheat, po-

pected to flourish there again.

DAY, JULY 25, 1947

.for. years.

here,

The patient was 70 years old.
Besides cancer, the man had a
very bad heart. Given up to die,
he volunteered for tests’ that
were being made by Dr. Maur-
ice Black of the Brooklyn Can-
cer Institute. Dr. Black had be-
gun this work before the war,
‘but army service had delayed it
Briefly, it consisted
of using certain chemicals known
to affect very strongly the cells
of growing plants.

Human cells, like plant cells,
have to digest molecules of su-
gar and starch in order to live.
When this digestion process is
interferred with the cells die.
Dr. Black believed that cancer
cells in their wild and rapid)
growth digest food materials dif-
ferently than normal cells do.
His idea was to block their di-
gestion. So he gave the dying
man a mixture of complex
chemicals.

Unfortunately, the patient died
of heart failure. But the experi-
ment was a_ striking success.
Before death the man had def-
initely begun to recover from
his cancer. He had almost no
pain and he was gaining weight.
After he died a post mortem

DYSON CARTER

showed that his stomach can-
cer had shrunk to a fraction of
its former size.

Other patients too, have been
helped. The trouble is that so
far all the patients were volun-

teers so sick they were dying. |

Now experiments are being made

on less hopeless cases, Again,
science is approaching a _ can-
cer cure.

A , e

Now for the mouse milk. Mem-
Hers of the American Cancer

' mold chemical,
- to penicillin,

Association have at last isolated
a cancer virus from the milk
of female mice, a pure and
deadly substance capable of giv-
ing. cancer to other mice. This
also is a great step forward, be-
cause study of this virus will
take research right into the
secret of what causes cancer.

All three of these discoveries
were announced in May. That
same month a group of bio-
chemists published results of
their work on moldy grain. We
might take this as a joke when
we find that these researchers
work for Schenleys, the big dis-
tillers. But it, was serious work.
Research on influenza.

In one line; there is a new

distantly related
that cures infiu-
enza in test animals. It is the
only substance ever found. that
will stop the dreaded flu virus.
It can be produced like penicil-
lin and it is non-poisonous. Now,
if only a flu epidemic ‘would
strike somewhere the doctors
would be able to test their dis-
covery ‘on human patients. In
the meantime, we can at last
be confident that influenza -and
the common cold ‘are going to
be conquered.

Fascist provocation i in Britain

by I. RENNAP

—LONDON.
a AM quite satisfied that the
words used by the speakers
were highly provocative and
were intended to be provoca-

tive.” This is how a North Lon- |

don police court magistrate re-
cently described anti-Semitic
speeches made at a fascist meet-
ing resulting in a disturbance |
and the arrest of seven Jewish
war veterans and one fascist.

A fascist speaker had shouted
“Go back to Belsen, you bloody
Jew" to David Goulding (who
rose. to Flying officer rank and
won the Distinguished Flying
Cross during the war) the
court was told. The same
speaker told another defendant;

Gerald. Flamberg (ex-paratroop-

er, who won the military medal
at Arnheim) to “Get out» of
you Jew bastard.”

Highly indignant, the magis-

trate urged action against the

pro-fascist . British League,
ex-Service

of
Men and Women,

_which organized the meeting.

The speakers should be in
court with the defendants, he

’ said. There -was no doubt of

the speakers deliberate inten-
tion to be provocative. The pol-
ice must put a stop to this.
anti-Jewish incitement.

But despite these laudable
sentiments he ruled that’ ‘in
law words were not sufficient’
provocation to be a complete
answer to assault.” He found
all eight defendants guilty and
bound them. over for 12 months.

Legal action can only: be tak-
en against the dissemination of
racial propaganda ‘to. be- delib-
erately spread to.--create. a
breach of peace. Since the fas-
cists are hardly expected to de-
clare their -anti-Jewish fulmin-
ations as deliberately intended
to creat’ disorder, authorities can.
do ‘nothing except keep _ anti-
Semitic Screvantee paren _ obser
vation.’ ie

he. North London magis-
en statement that the words
used by the fascists “were high-
ly provocative” and “intended to
be. provocative” was something
new. No magistrate had as yet
expressed himself thus. :

NN view of the increased fas-
cist activity and the govern-
ment’s attitude to it, there is
grave concern over the exist-
ing inadequate legslation re-
garding racial incitement.

At a big anti-fascist trade
union demonstration in North
London recently, D. N. Pritt,
K.C., independent labor M.P.
and world-famous lawyer, re-
vealed that 18 months ago he

_ submitted to the government a

draft bill to outlaw racial in-
citement, but it was turned
down,

The attitude of government
members was that too much
fuss was being made over fas-
cist activity and that legislation
on the statute books was suffi-
cient to deal with anti-Semitic

activity. In the opinion of the —

ministers, democracy means the
right for all people, including
fascists and Jew-baiters, to ex-
press their point of view. Ac-
cording to Home _ Secretary
Chuter Ede, repression of fas-
cist activity is totalitarianism.

Democratic opinion refuses -to
accept this viewpoint of the ade-
quacy of existing legislation
when responsible magistrates
who demand action against fas-
cists are compelled instead to
find ent the victints of fas-
cism. --: an

Moves are afoot to’ remedy
this ugly situation. A unani-
mous resolution against anti-
Senjitism was adopted at the
International Consultative Con-
ference on Human Rights held
recently in London under the
auspices of the National Coun:
cil of Civil Liberties, attended
by 69 delegates from 15 coun-
tries and representing — ya —Ta-
tional ‘organizations.

\

This resolution points ‘to the
various

such as Poland, Romania and —
Czarist Russia, where “legisla-
tion has been passed to out-_
law not only incitement to vio-
lence against specific —
such as Jews, but all tote oF ee:
racial} and religious discrimina-_

_tion and the dissemination of _

slanderous . iia. aaa sain
such groups.”

The resolution proposed, -
among other things, ‘that legis-_
lation be introduced to make
it iNegal to discriminate by

_Speech or in ‘writing, propagan-

da directed against groups on
grounds of race, religion or

color. Where such legislation
now exists, steps should be
taken to ensure its enforce-
pent ie

4 @

A MOVE is afoot in the
Workers Circle Society, Bri-_
tain’s most progressive Jewish
workers organization, to con-
vene a big conference of Jew-
ish organizations for action
against the renewéd fascist men-
ace. It is planned to bring for-_
ward a demand for anti-racial —
legislation along the lines of
the Human Rights Conference
resolution. : :
Local _ defense committees
under the Board of Jewish depu-.
ties are — still _ largely paper
bodies who only meet and talk.
Notable exceptions are those. in
east and north London where
militant Jews, staunch members
of the labor movement, have
activated these committees and.
established excellent contact.
with non-Jewish organizations,
in their areas. But the Board
of ‘Jewish Deputies has aband-
oned’ even its "previous “feeble
attempts to secure anti-racial
legislation ‘under the pretext: —
we must not worry the govern-
ment unduly or embarrass them. .
The North London r police
court case, ‘however, is another.
in a growing series of warnings, ;
which © all Jews “must — heed.

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