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ENAll.SH NEWS

Bnai Brith Honors Kings

New Discoveries
Bring Results to
Mental Patients

New Heart Disease Care
BROOKLYN (JPS) — A- new
technique of administering he-
parin, an anti-blood clot chemi-
cal, plus large doses of penicillin
may conquer endocarditis, an
almost always fatal heart dis-
ease, according to Dr. Leo Loewe,
Dr. Philip Rosenblatt, -Dr. Henry
J. Greene and •Mortimer Russell
of the Jewish Hospital. Heparin
was administered by them under
the skin instead of as formerly,
into the bloodstream.

t. Penicillin Typhus Cure
I • ST. LOUIS (JPS) — Penicillin
as a possible remedy for typhus
and spotted fever, is described
by Dr. Donald. -Grieff and Dr.
Henry Pinkerton, of St. Louis
lJniversity. Science News Letter
reports on the result of their
experiment in which the growth
of typhus germs injected into egg
yolks was strikingly checked by
the penicillin.

Measles Preventative
Research by Dr. Edwin J.
Cohn, of Harvard Medical School,
has led to the development of
gamma globulin, a• measles pre-
ventative obtained from blood
plasma.
Dr. Cohn succeeded in separ-
ating gamma globulin from
plasma by chemical means. One
result of this separation is fibrin
foam now used to stop bleeding
in _surgical operations.

Mental Test for Draftees
NEW YORK (JPS) — A new
series of quick mental tests de-
vised by Mr. Arthur Weider, Dr.
Bela Mittelmann, Dr. David
Weshsler and Dr. Harold G.
Wolff with the technical assist-
ance of Miss Margaret Meixner,
are designed to weed out the
mentally unfit among selectees
for the armed forces. The tests
take 15 minutes to complete and
can be scored in two minutes.

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Italian Checks. Found
On Arab Terrorists

NEW YORK (JPS) -- Checks
and money from Italian banks
were • found on the bodies of
Arab terrorists killed in t h e
Palestine disturbances of 1939,
according to the testimony of a
British officer, it was declared
by Dr. Walter C. Lowdermilk,
assistant chief of the Soil Con-
servation Service of the U. 'S.
and father of the "Jordan Valley
Authority" project.
Interviewed by Bessie Beatty .
Over station WOR, the soil ex-
pert said that a British officer
had given him the information
linkint the Arab terrorists with
the fascists and confirming ear-
lier - ireports to this effect.

3 Jetvs Found

Medicine's Wonder

Old Man, Woman and Child
Sole Jewish Survivors 'of
Nazi Slaughter

By Dr. Appehnan

Cure is Effected
Alive inWilno With
Penicillin

PHILADELPHIA (JPS) —
More than half the schizophrenic
cases treated by "prefrontal lobo-
tomy," a brain cutting operation,
are now leading useful lives, ac-
cording to Dr. Walter Freeman
and Dr. James W. Watts of Wash-
ington, D. C., • Science News
Letter reports. Results of the
operation, in which the brain is
cut to change the behavior pat-
tern established by severe mental
illness, are said to be "encourag-
ig to . science in its thousand
year search for an understanding
and a cure of insanity."

Insulin Results
NEW YORK (JPS) — Seven
years' experience with insulin
shock treatment of schizophrenic
patients have resulted in impor-,
tant findings regarding the men-
tal disease schizophrenia, accord-
ing to Dr. Alexander Gralnick of
Central Islip New York State
Hospital, it is reported in Science
News Letter.
Better results with insulin
shock treatment are obtained in
cases of recent duratiOn, while
the age of the patient and the
type of schizophrenia are not
significant factors. Dr. Gralnick
declared that women patients re-
spond to the treatment better
than men.

Friday. 'July i1,1944'

King Christian (on horse) of Denmark and King Gustaf of Swe-
den, in whose names the Bnai Brith - Hillel Commission has estab-
lished permanent interfaith student fellowships at the Universities
of Wisconsin and Minnesota, as a token of appreciation for the
human action of the Kings, their government and people in aiding
the Jews of Denmark to find a sanctuary of safety in Sweden when
threatened with annihilation by the Nazis.

In Lighter Vein

The Week's Best Stories

A Clever -Rebuke
During Sarah Bernhardt's first
American tour, a clergyman of
the period publicly, and through
the press, -attacked the, trage-
dienne and her classic repertoire
of plays.• Mr. Abbey, her man-
ager, thereupon sent this letter:
"Whenever I visit your city, with
my companies, I am accustomed
to spend $400 in advertising. But
as you have done the advertising
for me,' I send you $200 for your
poor•"
* * *
Christian Science Monitor's
Persistent Nahum Grodner
A recent issue of the Christian
Science Monitor told the follOw-
ing story:
Nahum -Grodner was a noble
Russian patriarch, whose • life
was devoted to the practice of
charity. It was the custom of
Grodner to visit the city every
afternoon to collect food and
clothes for the needy people of
Grodno, his native village.
One day his plea to . a certain
rich man for a contribution was
gruffly refused. He sought to
reason with the man, but found
him adamant. Then he gently
pointed out to his listener the
vanity of man and the uncer-
tainty of his wealth and life.
Incensed, the stony-hearted man
slapped Grodner upon the face.
For a moment the man was
dazed. Then, with the utmost
politeness, he exclaimed: "Well,
Reb Malkiel,_- that was for me.
Now, what are you going to give
for the poor?".
This ' story is a classic in
Jewish anecdotal literature.
For the record, this should be
known: Nahum (a Hebrew
name stemming from the word
consolation) Grodner (derived
from the fact that he lived in
Grodrio) vas a JEWISH patri-
arch. This • anecdote has been
used on many occasions by .
Jewish - preachers in order to
rebuke the illiberal.

50,000 Yemenite
Jews Face Hunger

Immigration fo Palestine Is
Sought; Face Choice
Of Conversion

TEL AVIV, (JTA) — Fifty-
thousand Jews in the Arab
kingdom of Yemen on the Red
Sea face the alternatives of dying
from starvation or becoming
converts to Islam, the president
of the Yemen Settlers Associa-
tion here, told a press conference,
appealing for steps to rescue
them.
He disclosed that about 3,000
Yemenite Jews are camped in
the harbor city of Aden under
indescribable conditions awaiting
an opportunity to emigrate to
Palestine. About 200 of this
group are expected to arrive here
this week, he said, adding that
about 3,500 Jews from Yemen
have reached here in the past
few years through the assistance
of the Joint Distribution Commit-
tee, the, Jewish Agency and the
Jewish Federation of Labor in
Palestine.

French 'Jews Plan
Return of Culture
In Postwar France

NEW YORK (JPS)—Night-
marishly symbolical in its fact-
ual horror is an Associated Press
dispatch from Moscow reporting
that only three Jews survived
the Nazi massacres in Wilno
(Vilna). The "three who greeted
the Red Army, were "an old man
who walked - with out-stretched
hands, a woman and a small
boy."
Wilno, famed in Jewish lore
and history, had a prewar popu-
lation of 235,000, of whom 30
per cent were Jews. No figures
are available as yet on the num-
ber of Wilno Jews evacuated in-
to Soviet Russia during the Nazi
attack in 1941. The Soviets re-
gard three -officials of the Nazi
occupational setup as mainly res-
ponsible for the slaughter of
Wilno's population. They are
Commissioner Khinkht, Gestapo
Chief Neugeboyer and S. C. Chief
Weiss. If captured they will be
liable to the death penalty.
At least 600,000 Polish Jews,
now in the Soviet Union, will
seek to return home at the term-
ination - of the war, according to
Dr. Oscar Lang; Chicago pro-
fessor who was with Father
Orlemanski on a mission to Mos-
cow for Polish American groups
friendly toward the Soviets. Dr.
Lange declared that these figures
were confirmed by Dr. .E -mil
Sommerstein, a leading Polish
Zionist and former member of
Parliament, and other prominent
Polish-Jewish refugees in the
Soviet Union.

Chachmey Lublin Plans
Drive in Mt. Clemens

Palestinian Given
The British Cross

JERUSALEM, (JTA) — The
first British Military Cross won
by a Palestine J _ ewish soldier has
been awarded by Sir Harold
Alexander, Allied commander in
the Mediterranean theater, to
Capt. Ferdinand Zangen, 35, of
the - Royal Artillery Medical
Corp, it is reported here.
Capt. :Zangen, who won the
award for bravery "somewhere
on the Italian front," was born
in Czechoslovakia, and came to
Palestine about five years ago.
He enlisted two years ago and
participated in the campaigns
from El Alamein to Sicily before
being sent to Italy. While tend-
ing wounded at - the front line,
Capt. Zangen was captured by
the Germans, - but succeeded in
escaping, bringing with him sev-
eral wounded men.

ALBANY, N. Y. (JPS) —Plans
to re-establish Jewish religious
organization in France and in
French colonies to provide hous-
ing facilities for - vorship, supply
ceremonial vestments, and pro-
cure rabbis and other officers to
serve the Jewish communities
there, have been filed here by
a committee . headed by Baron
Edouard de Rothschild, Baron
Robert de Rothschild, Andre
Meyer, Rabbi S. Langer, Edmund
and Alfred Weil.
The committee, incorporated
as the "Association pour le Re-
tablissement du Judaisme en
France et dans ses Possessions
Outreziaer;" will help to estab-
lish and maintain contact be-
tween agencies engaged in Jew-
Palestinians to Observe -
ish rehabilitation and relief C
`Fifth Commandment Day'
projects in Frnace and the
JERUSALEM_ (JTA) — Pales- French colOnies. The corporation
tine Jews will celebrate "Fifth will have its principal office in 1
Commandment Day," as a per- New York City.
manent •institution, similar to the
observance of , "Mother's • Day"
and "Father's Day" in the..13. S. Ravnitzky Succumbs
Leading Jewish official bodies At 85 in Tel Aviv
here have decided to proclaim
an "Honor Thy • Father a n d
TEL AVIV (JPS)—Joshua Ch.
Mother Day." The details of the Ravnitzky, dean of Hebrew let-
observances a r e still to be ters, died in TPJ. Aviv, Palestine,
worked out. The Fifth. Com- at the age of 35. He was stricken
mandment says: "Honor thy fa- at a memonV meeting on the
ther and thy mother, that thy anniversary of the death of the
days may be long upon the land famous Yiddish humorist Sholem
which the Lord thy God giveth Aleichem and died several hours
thee."
later.

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Penicillin, the wonder drug, is
credited with the eight-day ap-
parent cure of an 11-year-old
child, who had been treated in
and out of hospitals for the past
four years for a purulent infec-
tion of the left upper lobe of
the lung.
Pretty brown-haired Berneva
Pudney, 220 Smock, Northville,
was released from Harper Hos-
pital when her physician, Dr.
H. B. Appelman, stated • that no
further medicinal treatment was
indicated.
"When penicillin became avail-
able for civilian use, surgery,
blood transfusions and continued
doctoring having failed," ex-
plained Dr. Appelman, "I decid-
ed to try this drug. As soon as
arrangements for the administra-
tion of the 'drug could be made,
I started giving her dosages_ of
20,000 units, every two hours
around the clock. This treatment
continued for eight days, neces-
sitating approximately 1,300,000
units. Further observation of the
patient is indicated to determine
the ultimate result," says Dr.
Appelman, "as we are not yet
too familiar with the drug."
A fifth grader at Northville
.Grammar School, Berneva who
attended school only three
months last year, intends to
catch up on her studies. Her
Mother, Mrs. Earl Pudney, who
feared that her only daughter
would be bedridden for life,
smiled through tears of happi-
ness and patted her daughter's
hand. -

Yeshivath Chachmey Lublin
will conduct a one-day drive in
Mt. Clemens this Sunday. Ap-
peals will be made in the various
hotels. A committee of Detroit
rabbis and members of the
Yeshivah board are making the
necessary arrangements.
It is announced that the
Yeshivah now has 70 students
from various states and conducts
a preparatory and English de-
partment.

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