Evening Star Newspaper, May 25, 1928, Page 11

LASTKILLSTWO * INPRINTING PLANT Martinsburg Journal Em- ¢ ployes Working With Gaso- line When Tragedy Occurs. Special Dispatch to The Star. MARTINSBURG, W. Va, May 25.— Jack Welty, 18, and A. Douglas Messick, 22, are dead of burns sustained here THE EVINING STAR. WASHINGTON, T, FEVER PRODUCED BY RADIO MAY PROVE CURE FOR DISEASE Scientists Are Conducting Experiments to Test Effects of Ailment as Antidote for Other Ills. By the Associated Press PRINCETON, N. J, May 25.—The possibility of inducing fever by radio in order to combat disease was held forth today. Experiments conducted by Prof. Wil- liam G. Richards of the department of Princeton University and | chemistry of late yesterday when they were caught | ihe q"eY 1oomis of the Loomis Labora- in an explosion in a storage room at the plant of the Journal, an evening | th newspaper. Fire followed the explosion. ‘The two were working with gasoline, cleaning parts of & press, which was | w; being prepared for erection this Sum- mer. They were using an electric light blub extension. The bulb broke, ignit- ing the fumes of the gasoline. No one else was in the room, a tem porary structure, at the time. The ex- plosion blew glass from windows be- tween the storage room and the main | composing room and injured & linotype operator. Welty was dead when taken from the room. His body was not recovered until after the fire had been controlled. A fellow workman dragged Messick from the building. He was unconscious when taken to a hospital and died this morn- A score of employes in the mechan- ical room rushed to safety through the smoke and flames. Property damage ‘was not heavy. The fire occurred between editions of the paper and final edition was | published in Ha 3 REPORT 4 INDICTMENTS of the use means of inducing a high temperature in the blood of a patient sugering from a disease whose bacilli cannot live in a high-blood temperature, tories, Tuxedo Park, N. J,, have shown he heating effects of radio waves on salt solutions of similar concentration to that contained in the human blood. The experiments were begun when it as noticed that men working with six- meter radio sets in the factories of the General Electric Co. sometimes fainted or hecame suddenly ill. Radio waves from different powered sets were used on salt solutions and it was discovered that the temperature induced varied with the wave length and the concentration. | temperature was induced by a six-meter wave-length apparatus on & solution of sal: water approaching the concentra- tion of human blood. ‘The maximum The discovery points to the possibility of radio apparatus as a Sufferers from paresis, a muscular paralysis, now are inoculated with ma- | laria germs in an effort to produce a | tever to kill the bacilli. could be induced by radio waves, the theory goes. it would probably be con- trollable and cause much less incon- venience to the patient in addition to being safer. If the fever Dr. Robert V. Christie of the Rocke- SERVED ON RUM RUNNERS | U. 8. Secures Evidence to Smash Border Bootleg Ring; Paper Declares. 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