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Dangerous Day's Work
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(New York Times)
“I have only been doing my day's work." With that typically
modest statement did Dr Charles Armstrong accept the Ameri
can public health Association’s significant award, the Sedgewick
Memorial .Medal. For his fundamental work at the National In
stitute of Health on the transmission of sleeping sickness, psitta
cosis and infantile paralysis this Government scientist abundantly
merited an honor that automatically classed him with such med
ical giants at Hans Zinsser and Theobald Smith.
Dr. Armstrong dSd not speak of the dangers that are part
of his day’s work. Let his friend. Dr. Paul de Kruif, tell of them,
as he does in a testimonial article in The Ladies Home Journal,
written long before the award to Dr. Armstrong became known:
On blue days, when the hunt for truth about people
seems futile, or when I fear the consequences my more and
more open expression of dangerous truth may have for me,
I'm bucked up by the memory of Charles Armstrong’s
'*' chuckle. After he had just dodged dying from the parrot
fever he was fighting, he came back to trap the deadly virus
of the St. Louis sleeping sickness. Then a mysterious brain
malady, caught while studying his sleeping-sickness monk
eys, knocked him over. But Armstrong got up off the floor.
Back in his laboratory, Dr. Armstrong has since succbded,
where all other medical scientists failed, in making it possible
for infantile paralysis research to be Conducted upon mice. Thus
be opened the way for intensive study of the dreaded disease !
against which funds are annually raised in the President's birth
day drives. Should this study lead to control of infantile paraly
sis. the “Armstrong strain" of the virus, now carefully nurtured
in many (medical laboratories., will be a more enduring monu
ment to its discoverer than the gold medal that he has just re
ceived "for distinguished service in public health."
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ene. Day and night, there’s a
continuing flow of wirephotos,
pictures of important, news from
all over the world. The best are
Selected for TELEMATS — and
The Nugget.
Take, for example, a picture of
e building bombed in London.
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utes later — Wirephoto newspa
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prints the picutre of the bomb
ed building.
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when a story breaks, there’s a
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Only since January 1, 1935,
have newspapers been able to
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Bombing Of LI S.
Agency Regretted
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SAIGON, French Indo-China—
The Governor Genera) asked thp
United States Consul Svdney
Brown to convey regrets to Wash
ngton for the bombing of the
U.’i.ed States Consulate recently.
The official communication
says the government is taking all
possible steps to find who plant
ed the bomb.
A Tokyo radio broadcast, pick
ed up in Saigon, said it is certain
that anti-Japanese elements are
quite active in Indo-China and
the bombing is an attempt by j
such elements to break up peace
negotiations now being carried \
on in Washington between the
United States and Japan.
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born. Before Wirephoto, pictures
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speed.
The science of sending photo
1 graphs by wire was the out
growth of many years of experi
menation. As far back as 1907,
equipment for telephotography
was developed by the German
scientist Korn, but the idea was
abandoned after two years. Sub
sequently, scientists in several
nations worked on a variety of
systems, but none worked satis
factorily. Not until the birth of
: Wirephoto were the twin obsta
I cles of time and distance over
come.
In 1936, AP first started us
ing portable Wirephoto trans
mitters to supplement regular
network sending stations. These
portables, now placed at strategic
spots throughout the country, en
able AP to send pictures directly
I from scenes of events, thus sav
; ing valuable time that would be
consumed getting pictures to the
nearest regular sending station.
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j readers the best and latest in
J news and pictures through the
Associated Press and Telemats.
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big kick out of it
C of C Honors
Army Officers
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At Luncheon
The N. W. Alaska Chamber of
| Commerce held a luncheon meet
1 ing at the Nevada Grill yester
1 day in honor of the officers of the
local U. S. Army Post. Dr. Thom
| as Morcom presided and intro
1 duced Senator O.D. Cochran who
| said a few words of welcome to
1 the guests.
! The officers who were present
; ed to the gathering which num
bered nearly fifty persons were:
Major Hayes, Captain, Martin,
Captain Miller, Lieutenants
Eason, Barozzi, Casey, Vannoy,
Williamson, Baum, Stratemann,
and Koenig. Other guests who
were introduc'd were Mr. and
Mrs. Clare Skold, recent arrivals
who have taken charge of the
Bureau of Indian Affairs School.
The chairman announced that
due to favorable flying weather
Russell Maynard, Director of the
Department of Public Welfare,
departed by plane enroute to his
headquarters at Juneau. It had
been expected that h? would say
a few words about his depart
ment.
Asks For Broad Viewpoint
Captain Miller, who is medical.1
officer at the Post, when called on
had this to say: “The boys as a
group probably have never been
so far away from home for so
long a time and we are all a
bit lonesome for our own people.
Some may do things which they
would not otherwise do, so we
ask you to take a broad and tol
erant attitude toward us and to
ward all of our boys." In reply.
Dr. Morcom said. “The reason
why these men are here is be
cause people can't get along to
day, so we should accept the
boys on the broad standpoint and
show we have the intelligence
that a great many people in Eu
rope didn't have.”
Here To Fight
Captain Martin, commanding
officer stated, “we are here for
one purpose. If men did not
fight, we would not be here. Why
we came such a distance to get
ready to fight is not a question
for me to answer. We are going
to live here and going to stay
here with you, The one thing
we are preparing for is to fight,
and fight it out to the last man.”
Major Hayes of the Quarter
master Division recalled the fol
lowing quotation which was well
taken, “Now I get me up to
work. I pray the Lord I may not
shirk. If I should die before the
night, I pray the Lord my
work's done right.”
Lieutenant Baum of the U. S.
Enginers expressed his apprecia
tion for the cooperation extend
ed his group and said he hoped
that Captain Martin could count
on the same cooperation.
The chairman introduced
Judge J. H. S. Morison of the
U. S. District Court who told an
anecdote which illustrated the
idea that if we sit still today
"Hell is going to blow out of us,”
and if we show to the world that
we can fight we will “throw in
the dynamite and let it blow up
whomsoever it will."
Chicken Pox In Nome
Dr. Mcrcoin announced that
for a while there will be some
chicken pox in Nome. He said
! that the original case come from
Anchorage about two months ago
i and remarked further that it us
ually takes from 14 to 21 days
to develop after the person has -
jbeen exposed. m
Reverend Wilbur Wood, Presi
j dent of the Chamber of Com
merce, extended a few words of
greeting and we'comed the Army
people as 3 part of the comrnun
; ity.
The chairman stated that the
Chamber tries to hold meetings'
at noon every other Tuesday and
invited the officers to come and
sit in on the sessions and enter
into the discussions of the prob. 1
terns involving community inter
ests. i
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Basket-ball Team Standmas j
Old Folks won 4, lost 1: Gold i
Bricks won 4. lost 1; Mule Rid- \
ers. won 3: lost 2: Southerners j
won 3. lost 2: Kenn’s Bakery won j
1 lost 4: Anns won 0. lost 5. i
Scot ! Doc. 1st: Go d Bricks 14.
Old Folks 10; Mule Riders 17, j
A 'os 8: Southerners 26. Kenn's 1
Bakery 23.
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UMSTEAD AT CONTR )LS OF TiiE B-l!)
* ; Co!-. Stanley Cm-dead, in command of the B-19, sits at the controls of the giant bomber af
ter the plane was in the air three hours carrying 20 persons on a combined test and photographic
night over Southern California. The B-19, rated by the Army Air Corps as the World’s largest pliane
recently completed its army acceptance tests.
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‘HANDLE WITH CARE’ MEANS JUST T H A T_"Gently, gently ' the hand of iha, c m
ing as a 2.C00-pound demolition bomb is lowered from its carrier into the bomb c radle, for a touchy trio ovi/'fn 4° *7
Orleans. Ifs all part of a day s work for a bomb service crew of the 450th ordnance co„ aviation bombardment 7h 1 , a Th 7 at ?eW
job of delivering to the air corps the TNT-loaded bomb all finned (to give stability) and fused (to provide the^gnitin^forJeK^*