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AL J tu REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES E fiW .'v f ? "<&' ' p R ' yiiiui/Vj v MINES BUREAU fill BY HEALTH SERVICE OF ETHYLGASOLINE Cummmg's Office Disapproves! Report Whose Authors Plead Was Simply Preliminary, Although It Resulted in Marketing Fluid INQUIRY BY GOVERNMENT MAY FOLLOW CONFERENCE Manufacturers Had Potential , Influence Over Original Tests, Assert Critics From The World's Bureau v Special Despatch to The World WASHINGTON/ May 2.--The tln ited States Public Health Service may make an indefieg^eni investiga tion into the use of tetraethyl gaso line following the general conference called here for May 20 by Surgeon General Hugh S. Cunrming, The Question whether its use is a menace to public health has been recognized as so important that the Surgeon General has determined upon a thorough canvass of compe te n t expert opinion first, and then, if it proves advisable, an independent study of the gasoline and its effects upon the human system, v Criticism Canses Action So much criticism has come from disinterested sources--notably from Prof. Yandell Henderson of Yale--of th e alleged inadequacy of tests so far made by the Bureau of Mines and of th e m anner in which the Standard Oil of New Jersey, the General Mo tors Corporation and the Ethyl Gaso line Corporation have been identified w ith th e Bureau of Mines Investiga tion, that the Public Health Service considers it Imperative to make an inquiry along entirely independent lines. The chief criticism has been that , these companies, being the ones | commercially interested in having | the new product pronounced harm1 lees, have potentially, if not directly, { influenced the investigations so far. T h e tests by the Bureau of Mines kave been made "In co-operation w ith thfr General Motors Research Corporation,'' according,, to the b u r e a u 's p u b lish ed reports. Health Service Critical W h ile Bureau of Mines officials are e m p h a tic in sa y in g th eir report nnb- lisb ed last N ovem ber was inron-'iu s iv e and nver war. intended ?> hr j taken as final, officials of th*5 Public H e a lth S e r v ic e are eq u ally c"'"'b IN ETHYL GAS CASE , (Continued From First P age.) of Mines finding as premature and insufficient; Dr. Alice Hamilton, bac teriologist, assistant professor of in dustrial medicine at Harvard Medi cal School; Prof. C. E. A. Winslow of Yale Medical School, Di^ William Henry Howell, physiologist of the School of Hygiene at Johns Hop kins; Prof. Lowenheart of the Uni versity of Wisconsin, Dr. Marshall of Johns Hopkins, Prof. Iteid Hunt, pharmacologist of Harvard Medical School; Dr. Haven Emerson of New York, former President of the Board of Health and Health Commissioner of New York; Dr, William H. Park, bacteriologist- of New York/ Prof. Yandell Henderson of Yale, Dr. Will iam A. Pusey of Chicago, President of the American Medical Associa tion. The Public Health Service has also requested the American Automobile IA ssociation, the . . Nationals . S a fety Council and the American Federation [of Labor to Send-representatives. Ih- Ivitations are being issued to State and City Boards' of H ealth. Representatives of"the E thyl G aso line Corporation, of th e Standard Oil and of General -Motors are to-be asked to present their side of the'case. Dr. Cumming said to -d a y 'th e pur pose wan to make this session as comprehensive as possible, in ordei that all aspects of the pfoblem may be brought out and all the facts ascer Itained. ______ Columbia Ethyl Gas Report Finished, bat Not Given Out A lthou gh experts o f C olum bia LTnivereity are reliably reported to have completed their investigation of tetra ethyl leaded gasoline, their formal re port will not be issued "for some days," Frank D. Fackenthal, Secre tary of the university, said yesterday. Previously The World had learned from authoritative sources the report was being typed Friday, and it was said then it would be turned over to the Ethyl Gasoline Corporation and to administrative officials of the univer sity yesterday. Mr. Fackenthal Intimated the report would be made public in full by the uplverslty. " W e do not keep our scientific work secret," he said, " and when the report is ready for release you m ay expect It to be m ade known generally." H e said he had been inform ed by Dr. Horatio B. W illiam s, head of the Department of .physiology of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, the report would not be ready " for some days." He added he was un able to make this more specific. As exclusively revealed in The World, this report is s expected to disagree In im portant respects with the claim of E thyi Gasoline Corpor ation that its product is entirely safe in public use. tThe Inform ation p u b lished by The W orld has been ques tioned by Dr, /W illiam s, in whose departm ent the Investigation has btton made, but he has not denied the report will be unfavorable. Ethyl G isoline Corporati' iced vesti 1 l a y had request! in General C u m m i n g a was call a gi tier.(I c o n fere n ce 1 to eonsidi r the tfilnrion ()f tl t. to pillila h e a lth , and t h a t 'i li m il i a,! t o s e n d il. N'< '