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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Jan. 11, 1954
U.S. Mercy Trip Saves Life of Austrian Child
Innsbruck, Austria — (U.P.)— A "miracle serum" flown from the United States and brought to Innsbruck by jeep through a raging snowstorm today stopped the flow of blood which threatened the life of an eight-year-old Austrian boy.
A dose of 20 cubic centimeters of anti-hemophilia glo bulin was pumped into the veins of little Gottfried Eder a short time after two German drivers rammed through snow-choked mountain roads and delivered the serum to Innsbruck Childrens clinic.
They had struggled through Alpine snows from Munich to Imsbruck for eight hours to reach the boy before it was too late.
The serum which they brought started its journey at Lansing, Mich., was flown to Washington, ferried to Westover Air base, Mass., flown across the Atlantic to Frankfurt, Germany, transferred to Fuertsten-feldbruck Air base near Munich, and then brought here through one of the bitterest snowstorms of the winter.
There was an immediate improvement in the condition of the boy, victim of a rare blood condition which causes uncontrollable hemorrhages from the slight cut.
He started bleeding Jan. 2 when an infected tooth was extracted, and had been kept alive by blood transfusions. When the new serum arrived, it was injected through a vein in one of his legs.
The international epic of mercy, which united the efforts of the U.S. Army, Air Force and State department, appeared to be headed for a happy ending.
New doses of the colorless, blood-clotting serum will be administered at 30-minute intervals if the bleeding begins again.
The vast undertaking to save the boy almost failed yesterday when a shipping blender sent a package of smallpox vaccine, instead of the needed serum, to Innsbruck.
But the correct package finally arrived, after being relayed after midnight from Frankfurt to Fuemr- talmadbuck in perilous flying weather.
Surgery Cures Army 'Brain'
Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Md. (U.P.)-The Army's first all-electronic computer underwent "brain surgery" here with the result it can "remember" 100 10-digit numbers, five times its original capacity.
The electronic numerical integrator and computer has been on duty at the ballistic research laboratories to help the Army solve problems posed by America's new weapons during the past six years.
Before the new "memory" was installed, the ENIAC could remember only 20 10-digit numbers. If more space were required, the elec-
trons would be replaced with flash cards, notes, in the form of cards, punched or read outside the machine, itself.
The "memory" is composed of 4,400 tiny magnets whose polarity may be changed electrically. All of the magnets, or any number of them, mark time or turn in place when ordered to do so by the computer or the machine operator. The computer later tells the ENIAC what to do or enables it to remember answers to problems previously solved.
And this mental muscle is no longer in danger of mathematical amnesia. If the machine is shut off the magnets remain in the condition they held at the time the machine was powered up, so a digital electronic device to remember answers to problems or the last set of instructions fed into its brain.
Before settlers came to America. Indian bird-lovers attracted martins to the tepees by attaching hollow gourd nesting boxes to tent poles.
Washington — (U.P.) — President Eisenhower today proposed to Congress a 14-point program for changing the Taft-Hartley labor-management law, including a plan to have union strike votes conducted by the government in secret.
T-H Law Changes Proposed by Ike
In a special message spelling out his labor program for 1954, he said that because of recent progress in labor-management relations "no drastic legislative innovations in this field are . . . desirable or required at this time."
His recommendation for conducting strike votes under government auspices was brushed this way:
"In the employer-employee relationship there is nothing which so vitally affects the individual employee as the loss of his pay when he is called on strike. In such an important decision he should have an opportunity to express his free choice by secret ballot held under government auspices."
The other points had been largely covered in Labor department recommendations dating back to a program submitted by Martin P. Durkin, former secretary of labor, who quit last summer in a dispute over the extent of the proposed changes in the labor law.
Mr. Eisenhower's proposals would greatly liberalize present provisions of the law covering injunctions and secondary boycotts. These two recommendations have been pushed by organized labor, particularly the American Federation of Labor.
The strike vote provision appeared to be the only entirely new recommendation by the President.
Mr. Eisenhower proposed, however that this injunctive process in secondary boycotts be discretionary, rather than mandatory.
Mr. Eisenhower also recommended that when an injunction be issued under the National Labor Relations law and where a union contract exists, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation service should set up a special local board to meet with the disputants in an effort to reach a settlement.
Present law requires the general council of the National Labor Relations board to seek an anti-strike court order in the case of secondary boycotts.
The President recommended clarification in the law so it would not be considered a secondary boycott when concerted union action is taken against (1) an employer who does "farmed-out" work for another employer whose workers are on strike, and (2) an employer on a construction project, who is engaged with other employers in work on the site of a struck project.
The president said a "true secondary boycott" is indefensible and must not be permitted. But he said federal law should not "prohibit legitimate concerted activities against other than innocent parties."
Terry Moore's Ermine Suit Gets Mothballs
The chief Executive made good on
Hollywood —(U.P.)— Terry Moore temporarily packed her famed white ermine bathing suit in mothballs today and said it is doomed to be turned into a dress.
The pug-nosed actress flew home from Korea late last night and heard offers from a Texas junior chamber of commerce and various television shows to appear in the controversial suit that almost got her tossed out of the Orient.
"But I'll never wear that bathing suit again," exclaimed Terry. "For one thing, the studio said not to. Besides there'd be no reason to wear it again.
"I never thought," she sighed, "that one little fur suit could cause so much fuss.
"I'm going to keep the top half and have a white ermine skirt made for it. The bottom half I'll make into a muff, maybe."
As she unpacked from her 11-day tour of GI encampments, Terry told why she showed up in Korea with that bathing suit after insisting she hadn't taken it with her.
It seems her mother, Mrs. Louella
Koford, not Terry, backed the suit.
"There was some talk about the suit so I agreed not to take it," Terry said. "But I wanted to take the fur mittens, hat and boots because they were warm and I could wear them."
Mrs. Koford said she packed the suit without Terry's knowledge, "because it didn't take up much room and I thought she might need it to pose for pictures."
Before boarding the plane for Korea. Terry told Hollywood coordinating committee head George Murphy that the suit was not in her baggage.
"I didn't know I had it until mother and I got to Tokyo," Terry insisted. "The head of the tour saw it and told me to wear it. An Army chaplain also approved it. I wore the suit three times and nobody objected. One of the other girls wore shorts much shorter than mine.
a long-standing promise to seek a change in a section of the Taft-Hartley law which labor has said could be used for "union busting."
The President noted that under the present law workers striking for wage increases are prohibited from voting in elections to select union representation.
"In order to make it impossible for an employer to use this provision to destroy a union of his employees," the President recommended that in strikes involving wages the NLRB be prohibited from considering an employer's plea challenging the representation rights of a striking union.
Australia's Boomerang
Sydney, Australia (U.P.)—Stone age native craftsmanship has given way to modern machinery in production of the boomerang and other native weapons at La Perouse Aboriginal settlement.
Natives Go Modern
Mass production methods became necessary to cope with the huge volume of orders for aboriginal souvenirs for tourists during the tour of Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh.
But the authentic touch is still with the goods because the aborigines use stone-age methods to burn designs on the boomerangs, nullanullas and shields.
In his natural state, the Australian aborigine does not till the fields for crops, wears no clothes at all and obtains his food from hunting and wild vegetable growth.
The aborigines at La Perouse do not live in this "back to nature" state but reside in the government-backed settlement in a peaceful communal life.
Eight of the 176 men at the settlement are now working full time making souvenirs. The experts are polishing and whitening up to 18
hours a day to meet orders for boomerangs.
The bootmakers are sold to retail stores and overseas agents for between eight shillings (90 cents) and 3 pounds ($7). Several of the aborigines often earn as much as 25 pounds ($56) a week.
Two electric fretwork saws and polishing machines have triplied the output for the souvenir-makers. Mulga, mango, and sallywattle wood is used.
One aboriginal, Bob Sims, 43, is making nine special boomerangs for the 1956 Olympic games in Melbourne. He has been officially asked to give an exhibition in boomerang throwing at the games, and intends to use the nine special weapons.
A usual boomerang is a curved, angular club that can be thrown in such a way that it curves around and returns to the thrower, but the war boomerang, used in tribal wars or for hunting birds, does not return. It is only a throwing cl
A nula-nulla is a hardwood club with a pointed head. It is approximately a yard long and has a comparatively thin handle. It is both a war and hunting weapon.
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