SUNDAY, JULY 29, 1946
Army Develops Inex pensive
Method of Producing Quinine
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By The Associated Press
FORT BELVOIR, Va., July 28-The
Army announced today it has devel-
oped a method of producing a "poor
man's quinine" which conceivably
could greatly facilitate treatment of
malaria throughout the world.
The process, developed by the.
Engineer Board at 1Fort Belvoir, is
a "field method" of extracting to-
taquine (from which quinine is
derived) from the bark of the cin-
chona tree. This is done right at
the scene of the harvest in virtual-
ly trackless forests of interior Latin
America.
The method is described as "a radi-
cal departure" from present methods
which the Army says require labor-
ious transportation of the whole bark
from the forests to extraction plants
far from the harvest region.
A ton of bark must be trans-
ported out to yield 40 pounds of
totaquine; but the Army says that
under its method only the 40
pounds of concentrated material
needs to be transported.
The technique involves treatment
of freshly-cut bark with an acid to
dissolve the totaquine constituents,
followed by a series of chemical and
mechanical steps that extract the
totaquine in the form of a dry pow-
der.
Declaring the process eliminates
two steps required in the commer-
cial method-drying and grinding the
bark-and that it cuts transporta-
tion costs at least 50 per cent, light-
ens labor costs, and saves shipping
time and space, the Army outlined
these possibilities for the new method.
1. Since totaquine (pronounced
"tota-keen-a") is itself an effective
anti-malarial substance-without
further refining to produce the con-
stituent quinine-the method offers
Latin American countries a rapid
means of producing a "poor man's
quinine" not only for their own
uses in a malarious territory, but
possibly for export to other coun-
tries.
(Dr. Clark H. Yeager, of the U. S.
Office of Inter-American Affairs, says
that of 300,000,000 cases of malaria
a year on the earth, only 15 per cent
can afford to purchase quinine and
the war-developed synthetic ata-
brine.)
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Decision Due
In Hooper Case
Within Week
By The Associated Press
BATTLE CREEK, Mich, July 28-
Four men accused of murder con-
spiracy in the slaying of State Sen-
ator Warren G. Hooper will learn
theirufate this week from a jury in
circuit court here.
Special Prosecutor Kim Sigler will
make his final plea Monday.
For nine days the six women and
eight men serving as jurors here have
heard testimony against the four de-
fendants, Harry and Sam Fleisher
Mike Selik and Pete Mahoney. Only
one defense witness took the stand.
"Rottenness in High Places"
In a courtroom packed with spec-
tators, many of whom refused to
leave their seats even at mealtime for
fear they would miss a part of the
drama, Sigler unfolded a sensational
series of circumstances which he said
led to the Hooper murder and point-
ed "to rottenness and scurviness in
high places"
State witnesses testified that the
alleged murder plot was hatched in
O'Larry's Bar in Detroit last Christ-
mas night. They told the jury that
$15,000 had been "put up" to silence
Hooper "because he's talked too
much."
Sigler drew from his witnesses tes-
timony that defendants Mike Selik
and Harry Fleisher "cased" the kill-
ig in Albion and that Sam Fleisher
drove a paid gunman to Hooper's
home on two occasions where they
lay in wait for the intended victim.
One witness, a woman tavern man-
ager from Albion, said she saw Pete
Mahoney in the tavern the day
Hooper was slain.
Witnesses Granted Immunity
The defense lashed out at the state
witnesses, two of them ex-convicts
who said they, too, had plotted Hoop-
er's death along* with the defen-
dants. They testified they had been
granted immunity from prosecution
in return for their appearance
against the four.
"Let's hear from men who have
not been granted immunity," the de-
fense cried.
Defense attorneys challenged the
prosecution "to find the real mur-
derers" and Sigler prophesied to the
jury "Somewhere, some day the man
who passed this dirty, lousy money
on to these men will be brought be-
fore the bar of justice."
The trial rocked early in the week
under the repercussions from charges
of laxity in the administrtion of the
State Prison of Southern Michigan.
Defendant Selik and Harry Luks, a
key state witness, were named in the
prison report as having been ring-
leaders in prison sub rosa activities.
The outcome of the conspiracy case
is of grave importance to Sigler as
special prosecutor of the Carr grand
jury. Conviction of the four, he has
indicated, would be a long step to-
ward finding the actual killers; ac-
quittal, he contends, will necessitate
a turning back to pick up the threads
of a murder mystery unequalled in
Michigan political history.
Sororities Plan 'Summer
Swing' at Martha Cook
Martha Cook will have a "Summer
Swing" from 9 p. in. to 12 p. in. EWT
(8 p. m. to 11 p. m. CWT) Aug. 4.
Four sororities will sponsor the par-
ty: Alpha Kappa Theta, Pi Phi,,
Delta Gamma and Kappa Kappa
Gamma.
There will be refreshments, enter-
tainment and dancing. Everyone is
invited.
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CHAIRMAN OF BRITAIN'S
LABOR PARTY - Harold Laski
(above), University of London pro-
fessor and chairman of Britain's
Labor party, delivers an address in
London during the recent election
campaign. Winston Churchill, cam-
paigning for , the Conservative
party, directed much of his attack
on the Labor party at Laski, re-
ferring to him as a left winger.
Ilurley- May,.
Return Soon
Truman Man Would
Take Over China Post
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON, July 28 -Specu-
lation in authoritative quarters is
that Maj. Gen. Patrick J. Hurley's
tenure as ambassador toChina may
end in the rather near future.
Hurley was sent to China to ce-
ment relations and strengthen Chi-
na's role in the war. Reports are
that he may soon make way for a
Truman appointee.
* * * .
Prep school: Washington is becom-
ing a sort of jumping-off place for
Latin American presidential candi-
dates. Venezuelan Ambasador Dio-
genes Escalante is leaving soon to
campaign for the Presidential nom-
ination of the Venezuelan Democrat-
ic party.
The name of Mexican Ambassador
Francisco Najera is running through
the rumor mill as a prospective can-
didate for the top post down Mexico
way.
Ambassador Gabriel Turba left
here a few months ago for Colombia
and has just received the Liberal
party nomination there. Enrique Ji-
minez of Panama now is Provisional
President after serving as ambassa-
dor to Washington for a number of
years.
- * *
Near record: President Truman
may be headed for the all-time rec-
ord of quick cabinet changes by a
Vice-President succeeding to the
presidency.
One more change and he will have
tied the mark set by Millard Fillmore
who swept out all seven members of
the cabinet of Zachary Taylor when
he succeeded to office.
With six changes rung up in about
three months, Mr. Truman already
has tied the record of Fillmore's run-
ner-up, Chester A. Arthur. Arthur
made six cabinet changes in the first
year after he became President.
Women Leave
War Jobs In.
Large Numbers
By ALEXANDER R. GEORGE
WASHINGTON, July 28-(A)-A
big exodus of women from war jobs
is under way.
Munitions plants are laying ofi
thousands of women workers, partic-
ularly married women and teen-age
girls, as war contracts are cut back.
Some are voluntarily going back to
their own kitchens and to school.
Thousands of others want jobs. Many
need the money that jobs bring.
Re-Employment Difficult
Reports from war production cen-
ters indicate that the reduction in the
output of munitions is hitting a larg-
er proportion of women than of men
workers, especially in the heavy indu-
stries. There are signs that the re-
employment problem, in general, will
be more difficult for women than for
men.
Job-getting is harder for women
at a time of widespread shifts in en-
ployment because n (1) women are
newcomers in many of their present
lines of work and (2) ther'e is a long-
established tendency to give job pref-
erence to men.
Five-Fold Increase
More than 8 million women (about
half of those at work recently) are
either new workers since 1940 or
changed their field of occupation aft-
er Pearl Harbor. The increase of
women workers in war goods manu-
facturing (metals and metal products,
chemicals and rubber goods) has been
almost five-fold.
These women have not built up
long seniority records. Besides, many
union contracts do not protect the
seniority of women. Numerous firms
hired feminine workers with the un-
derstanding that they were to be em-
ployed for the war emergency only.
Capt. MClosky
To SingHere
David Blair McClosky, baritone,
will present a recital Tuesday evening
at 8:30 p. m. EWT (7:30 p. m. CWT)
in the Pattengill Auditorium of Ann
Arbor High School as one of the
series of summer faculty recitals.
Captain McClosky, a teacher of
voice in the University School of
Music, is about to be released from
active service in the Army, where he
was in charge of Public Relations in
army bases here and overseas. He
has received training at the New Eng-
land Conservatory in Boston, in Ber-
lin and Milan. He has traveled ex-
tensively in both the United States
and Europe as a recitalist, including
three appearances in Town Hall, New
York.
He will sing a program of song cy-
cles of the composers Beethoven,
Schumann and Mahler. Joseph
Brinkman will accompany him on
the piano.
Slides To Be Shown
At Russky Kruzhok
A meeting of Russky Kruzhok,
Russian Circle, will be held at 8 p.
m. EWT (7 p. m. CWT) Monday in
the International Center.
The second in a series of two slide
showings on nationalities in the So-
viet Union will be presented.
By The Associated Press
NEW YORK, July 28-Africa's 150
million native Negroes range from
near savages to Oxford graduates,
and Author Stuart Cloete knows ev-
ery type.
Cloete was born and grew up on
that continent of white supremacy,
yet he does not believe in that theory.
He says that living all over the world,
studying the same wars from opposite
points of view, has killed for him
any conviction that his country al-
ways is right.
Reverence for Emblems
British by citizenship, six feet tall,
mustached and dashing, he believes
that reverence for such emblems as
flags is good only for stirring up wars.
This from a man who went to Sand-
hurst (England's West Point), held
a commission in the King's own
Yorkshire infantry, served with the
Coldstream Guards and was wounded
twice in France in 1918.
He began to write about the Africa
he knew so well after the first World
War. "Turning Wheels," a book of
the month choice, was published in
1937. "Watch for the Dawn," a best-
seller, followed, then "Congo Song,"
all telling of the new Africa.
Less picturesque than Joseph Con-
rad and other Britishers who made
the world British Empire-conscious,
his books are lusty and real with a
modern, questioning approach.
"Against These Three"
This month his "Against These
Three" was published. Non-fiction, it
tells of the three men who hoped to
keep Africa for their people: Paul
Kruger, the great leader of the Boers,
Cecil Rhodes, the tubercular English
empire builder, and Lobengula, King
of the Zulus, militant savages who
devastated Africa in the early part
of the nineteenth century.
Cloete sees startling parallels be-
tween Zulu culture and that of the
Nazis. "People of the Heaven," the
master-race of Zulus called them-
selves. Their king, T'chaka, commem-
arated his mother's death by killing
7,000 of his people. When a child
was born to one of his women, it was
suffocated by a clod of earth in the
mouth, and its mother killed.
T'chaka, like other more recent dicta-
tors, knew how to get rid of rivals
before they got powerful.
Ostrich Plumes
The Nazis had their swastikas; the
Zulus had their ostrich plumes and
cow tails. In combat, they had their
pincer movement whereby the main
body broke into two racing wings and
surrounded the enemy.
Author Cloete Has
New Ideas on Africa
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Workshop at Michigan Union, will
lecture for the public as follows:
The Personal Equation, Why We
Behave As We Do"-University High
School Aud. Tuesday, July 31 at 4
p. M. EWT (3 p. m. CWT).
Significance and Formation of
Evaluative Attitudes" - University
High School Aud. Wednesday, Aug. 1
at 4 p. m. EWT (3 p. mn. CWT).
Church and State Education, will
be the subject of a lecture in the
Religious Education Workshop Ser-
ies, by Prof. Francis J. Donohue,
Ph. D. of the University of Detroit,
Wednesday, 3 p.= m. EWT (2 p. m.
CWT) in Michigan Union, Room 305.
Public.
Symposium on Molecular Struc-
ture. Dr. R. G. Fowler will speak on
"Infrared Spectra and Structure of
Organic Molecules" in Room 303
Chemistry Building on"Monday, July
30 at 3:15 p. m. CWT, 4:15 p. m.
EWT. All interested are invited to
attend.
Linguistic Institute. Introduction
to Linguistic Science, Tuesday, July
31, 6 p. m.. CWT (7 p. m. EWT), East
Lecture Room, Rackham Building:
"Linguistic Geography and Historic
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