Evening star. [volume], April 04, 1937, Page A-18, Image 18

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Research Work Advances
Treatment, Dr. Parran
Declares.
Bv the Associated Press.
Research work is bringing more
eompjete understanding of the cause
of cancer and development of more ef
fective methods of treatment, Sur
geon General Thomas Parran of the
Public Health Service said yesterday.
“I think we may be on the eve of
important developments in getting at
the factors which cause cancer and
thereby eliminating them,” he said.
That belief, he added, is inspired
not by the discovery of methods of
preventing cancer, but paradoxically
because many chemical substances
have been found which produce cancer.
Some of these substances. Dr. Par
ran explained, have been derived from
coal tar, which long has been known
to cause cancer, and are closely re
lated chemically to normal constit
uents of the body.
This suggests, he said, that it may
be possible to develop other sub
stances which will retard the produc
tion and growth of cancer, just as
the coal tar derivatives promote
growth.
Scientists of the Public Health Serv
ice believe the explanation of the
cause of the cancer is found in
changes which occur in the chemical
reactions of the body.
Senator Bone, Democrat, of Wash
ington, and Representative Magnuson,
Democrat, of Washington, asked Con
gress Friday to spend $1,000,000 for
ft Government cancer research pro
gram.
About only $500,000 annually h.as
been spent on cancer research in all
the laboratories of the country, Dr.
Parran said. This includes the Gov
ernment's expenditure of $115,000.
Radiator Caps Lock.
Motorists of Num Num. South Africa,
ere equipping their cars with locking
radiator caps to stop a new pastime
of children, that of mixing sugar with
mud and dropping it into the radia
tors to “gum up the works.”
NEW AIR CORPS BOARD
TO STUDY BOMBERS
War Department Announces Plan
and Meeting at Dayton
April 12.
The War Department yesterday an
nounced creation of an Air Corps
board to inspect and determine the
value for military use of new types
of two-engined and multi-engined
bombardment airplanes. The board
is to be convened at Wright Field,
Dayton. Ohio, on or about April 12,
it was announced.
The board is headed by Lieut. Col.
Howard C. Davidson, former com
manding officer at Bolling Field and
now on duty in the office of the chief
of Air Corps.
Other members of the board are
Maj. Franklin O. Carroll, Wright
Field; Maj. Eugene L. Eubank, Lang
ley Field, Va.; Maj. John F. Whiteley,
Langley Field, and Capt. Stanley M.
Umstead, Wright Field. Capt. Um
stead, famous as a test pilot, formerly
was engineering officer at Bolling
Field.
Dummy Goes to Museum.
“Television Jack,” the ventriloquist's
dummy which was the first thing to
be televised in England, has been
placed in the National Museum at
South Kensington.
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