New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 31, 1930, Page 4

- NURSE BATILING FOR LIFE JOKES “Breathing Maching” Enables Her to Win Struggle 31 (P—Frances Mec- her fight for the the help of a 0, Oct Gann has won hreath of life with “breathing machine.” But she now faces what is e pected to be a longer and even more tedious siege to recover the use of her arms and legs. McGann. Luke's ho Chic: student Miss nurse at was stricken with pe September, just six months before he was to have been graduated. Her chest muscles beeame useless, and rapid death by suffocation ap peared imminent. Then wist] to the breathing and she's lived in it cver since Even now she spends all except a short part of each day in the ma- cine, but it does only a part of her for her. The rest she is with the pumping nechanical lung” re voung ital she w machine he was quite gay could move one e had r limbs. recov- spirit eyen k about h at complete little time She knows t ery will continue to tax the which has kept her gay er fight for breath ospital room S a center of national interest in medical circles sount of the novelty of the settled into a pro- It sounds rat drum of a never-e An electric motor ly. There is a contin ient “zoom” from the pump takes the load of wi ihe air at each “breath.” The machine itself, an aluminum- ccated box, looks like a cross be- tween a fircless cooker, a coffin and a laundry vat rom one end protrudes the girl's ad. When she speaks her voice is clear and wait to catch the rhythm machine-made breath like edging in on a skipping rope Onc on the rhythm, ing is no effort and where inter- quite hum- gears, as the hdrawing she has to of her a child “People come in here as thougn they were entering a death cham- ber,” she complains, hey are sur- prised to find me apparently quite healthy. Of course I'm sick only from the neck down, but visible only from the neck up.” A rubber diaphragm scals up the aperture in the end of the metal box | through which the girl's head pro- trudes. This diaphragm is taped 1ightly about her neck, completin, the air-tight seal. The motor whirrs, the unsees gears on the unseen air punrp inter mittently zoom at regular tion frequency and the rubber ¢ pbragm alternately becomes taut and relaxes, “I get eight or ninc hours of eyery nigh Miss M &et perfect service on my r having any hands, and I don't even have to worry about breathing They give me anything I want and feed me like a young robin.” res) MOVIES ESCAPE UNENPLOYMENT (asting Bureau Says Hollywood Busy as Usual Hollywood, Oct. 31 (U'F) The country-wide depression has not af- fected employment in the motion picture studios to any grect degres but has resulted in more applicants for work, a survey of the situation reveals. Hundreds ar there are 10 screen job, but that is nothing new. “The situation is good,” said Dave out of work and applicants for cvery Allen of the Central Casting corpora- | tion, through which the dios hook extra help lot of people out of larger stu- “There are a vork in other alysis early in | g | Irish. however, is quite | e T T e |tines who are trying to get into pic- |tures. “As a result of this influx, there | may be more people out of work (than usual in Hollywood. But they |are not really movle people. I think the best indication is that we mads /197,311 placements in the nine months ending September 30. For |the same nine months in 1929 we | Imade 199,305 placements. | “The comparative figures show al- most an even 2,000 less placements this year, but this does not neces- sarily mean a falling off. “It probably just happened that there were a few less pictures call- ing for great mobs of extr | “Extras are the cheapest things in ! pictures,” he said. “One star for a | picture costs more than a thousand extras. Yet extras are of great im- Iportance for an imp: ive picture.” Allen said the talkies had made casting more difficult. “In the silent days if a studio| wanted 200 Russians I could us2| anyone with a beard, even if he was Now the Russians have fo Russian. That means a man jcan be only one nationality and !work less. “On the subject of bearded men, | it I have to get 200 I may have to try the Los Angeles park blocks. And every one of those 200 will get one work and then hang around for three months hoping for an other. That complicates emplo ment."” eak PARASITES FEED N DISEASE GERM. Yale Professor Has New of Killing Bacteria v York 31 (R—Discovery L new and effective treatment for ctious diseases, introduction into wsed persons of a parasite that | crally cats the dis | been reported to the Medicine. The discoverer of the new treat- | is Dr. Felix D'Herelle profes- | sor of bacteriology at Yale who has been experimenting with the treat- | for several years. | Oct se germs ha Academy of | The germ eaters are known as bacteriophage and are found in patients convalescent from discast He treated 10,000 cases of dysen- | tery in Drazil and had only two foilures, Dr. D'Herelle said. Four patients in Egypt suffering from bubonic plague were cured by in- ction of the bacteriophage into the cllings. In India three y ago | he treated, Asiatic cholera by that | method and despite adve condi- | |tions had a mortality rate of only |81 per cent among his patients | when the general mortality rate | om the discase was 62.9. is the specific treatment | excellence,” Dr. D'Herelle said par (GERMANY SOUNDS U.S. | | ON INTER-ALLIED DEBTS | Ofticial Feeler Extended to Wash- | ington, Reliable Sources Indicate— Wall Street Reported Interested. ‘ | Berlin, { hus Oct. 31 (UP) entended an ofticial Waushington to determine tude of the United States govern- ment on inter-allied debts and reparations, it was understood in reliable sources today. IYoreign Minister Jullus Curtius revealed the German move at a se- cret meeting of the reichstag foreign | committee Wednesday. 1t was un- derstood that he reported Wall street interested in the German celer, but said that Washington op- any move at pr | Curtius, it was repor ftitude of the United States of threc reusons why vould not proclaim a reparations | moratorivm at this time. The other were understood to have infancy of the Young plan for ( Wy to own financial ~Germany feeler to the atti- posed i i as one | Germany | | | reasons Leen the nd the reconstruct necessity her tem before trying to reduc tions paymen SYS- Eeniig| Canada s increased customs Juations on a range of fruits, veg- bles, livestock, meats and eggs The Jackaway’ 58 WEST MAIN ST. 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