Famed Russian
Explorer Schmidt
Dies After Illness
Was Treated in Nome
After Sensational
Adventure in 1933
MOSCOW, Dr. Otto Yulie
vich Schmidt, 64, chief of the So
viet Northern Sea Route Adminis
tration in the 1930s, died Friday
after a long illness.
Schmidt, a noted explorer, com
manded the first expedition ever
to sail in a single season thru the
ice - flecked northeast passage
from the North Atlantic to the
Pacific. The 1932 voyage paved
the way for regular shipping thru
the cold seas north of Europe and
Asia.
A year later, attempting to du
plicate the trip, his ship was
swept northward toy a typhoon
just a few miles short of the
Pacific. It was crushed and sunk
in the ice floes, and 101 persons—
including 10 women and two chil
dren—were marooned for three
months on the ice.
Their plight gripped the imag
ination of millions thruout the
world. They stayed alive by eat
ing polar bear flesh. Soviet air
planes finally rescued the party.
Explorer Schmidt, suffering
from pneumonia, iVas flown to
Nome, Alaska, for treatment.
Enroute home, he was feted as
a hero in the United States.
Schmidt directed the 1937 mass
' flight of Soviet airmen across the
North Pole to the United States.
He led an expedition to the top
for the world the same year.
Today, the northeast passage is
a regular shipping route for Si
berian ports. A fleet of Soviet ice
breakers, aided by air reconnais
sance, keeps the route open from
June to September.
Mother of Kidnaped
Baby Collapses at —
Graveside Ceremony
NEW HAVEN, Conn., (*>—'Tiny
Cynthia Ruotolo was buried Sat
urday, but her grief stricken par
ents saw only part of the brief,
simple ceremony at the grave.
Eleanor Ruotolo, mother of the
six-week-old child, collapsed at
tht grave before the casket, en
cased in a plain pine box, wa«
lowered.
The baby’s father, 33-year-old
Stephen, caught his wife as she
started to fall just three minutes
after the cortege of three auto
mobiles arrived at the cemetery,
about seven miles from the big
Hamden department store where
Cynthia was snatched from her
baby carriage a week ago Satur
day.
Mrs'. Ruotolo sobbed quietly as
she and her husband, accompan
ied by a state policeman, arrived
at the grave. She gave a small
cry as she stood to the left of a
praying priest; then she crumbled.
Her husband, an $80 a week
salesman, picked up his wife and
carried her to an automobile and
left the cemetery.
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Univ. of Minnesota Scientists Claim
Record in 26V2 -Mile Balloon Ascent
MINNEAPOLIS, (fl—University
of Minnesota scientists claimed a
balloon record yesterday—by al
most 20,000 feet. A plastic bag
they sent up soared 142,900 feet,
or about 20 4/5 miles.
The record was set by a pyra
mid-shaped balloon 180 feet long.
It was constructed of mylar, a
new plastic, and its skin is one
thousandth of an inch thick.
Edward P. Ney and John R.
Winckler, university physicists
working under the Office of Na
val Research, said the balloon
Supreme Court
Review Might
Save ESC Funds
JUNEAU—J. Gerald Williams,
attorney general, announced Fri
day he is preparing a petition re
questing the U.S. Supreme Court
to review the Ninth Circuit Court
of Appeal’s decision rendered in
the Fidalgo Island Packing Co.
case.
The attorney general, in his
statement, said that after giving
the matter his “most serious con
sideration and- reflection,” he is
“sincerely convinced that it is in
the best interest of all the people
of the territory," and therefore his
duty, to make every effort to pre
serve the solvency of the Employ
ment Security Commission fund
and to prevent the flow of over
$400,000 of ESC funds to persons
residing out of the territory.
If the Supreme Court reverses
the appeals court, approximately
$500,000 will be retained in the
ESC fund. Conversely, if no ap
peal is taken, this money will be
immediately disbursed and $400,
000, or 80 percent of the funds in
volved, will be paid to non-resi
dent cannery workers and fisher
men.
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carried 48 pounds of instruments,
cameras, ballast and timbers.
Previous altitude mark for un
manned balloons, 125,000, was set
last year by a bag sent aloft by
Winzen Research, Inc., of Bloom
ington, Minn., in a separate mili
tary project.
A spokesman at the University
of Minnestoa said the experiments
are being carried out to study
cosmic rays and meteorology in
the upper atmosphere. Earlier
balloons in .the project have gone
higher than 100,000 feet, he said.
Data gathered is expected to
provide means for helping solve
the problems of space travel and
the launching of artificial earth
satellites, the physicists said.
Babe Zaharias’ Condition
Remains Not Serious
‘But Might Become So’
GALVESTON, Tex. MV-Abrupt
temperature elevations this morn
ing caused University of Texas
medical branch physicians attend
ing famed woman athelete Babe
Zaharias to call her condition “not
serious at the moment, but it
might become so.”
The official bulletin issued by
the hospital where the Babe is
fighting cancer said “she has had
some abrupt temperature eleva
tions during the past 48 hours as
sociated with spells of coughing
but no chest pain.”
Managers Announced
For GOP Campaign
Announcement of managers for
the GOP campaign was made last
week by C. Kip Hiddleston, terri
torial manager. Ed. M. Riley, con
tract administrator of the defense
products division of Western Elec
tric Co., will serve as assistant
territorial campaign manager.
Tex Noey, popular radio and
TV commentator, will be the cam
paign manager for Seward; and
George Ashby, owner-manager of
Copper City Lodge, for Copper
City. Austin Simonds, manager of
the Westward Motor Co., was an
nounced as chairman of the fi
nance committee.
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From A Pill Pan To A Great Research Laboratory
“Sugar-coated” pills are so standard today that few persons are
aware that they were comparatively uncommon until an ingenious
American pharmacist discovered a way to mass produce them in the
middle of the last century.
i he innovator was wwiam K. •
Warner, founder in 1856 of a
pharmacy that was the forerun
ner of the well known Warner
Chilcott Laboratories which cele
brates its centennial this year. Al
though a Persian scientist coated
pills as long ago as the tenth cen
tury, most pills dispensed until
Warner’s time were dreadful
things to the taste.
Rejecting the attitude that med
icine must taste bad to be effec
tive, Warner dipped his pills in
syrup to sugar-coat them. In time,
he discovered how to roll them,
hundreds at a time, in a swinging
pan filled with syrup so they would
coat themselves into hard smooth
spheres. The original pan is now
in the Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, D. C.
Warner’s new process was de
veloped during the great accelera
tion of progress in medicine that
has occurred since 1856. More
progress has been made in the last
hundred years than in the preced
ing twenty-two centuries since the
famous Greek physician Hippocra
tes laid the basis for scientific
medicine.
Practically all of the drugs now
in general use by physicians were
unknown a century ago and such
great discoveries as the fact that
germs cause disease, the X-ray,
the microscope, antibiotics, the
hormones, and the vitamins, to
mention only a few, have all been
made since 1856.
There have been many great
names in the last century of medi
cal progress — Louis Pasteur and
Robert Koch who traced disease to
bacteria; Paul Ehrlich who de
veloped the first specific chemical
cure for an infectious disease;
Alexander Fleming who discov
ered penicillin. Less familiar to
the public but equally important
to human well being are the many
discoveries that have been made
by anonymous teams of scientific
researchers.
From the sugar-coating pan of
William R. Warner’s little phar
macy has grown a world-wide
business in prescription drugs and
a great research organization.
Tastiness in drugs has become
standard practice but is no longer
of primary concern to the scien
tists.
Today, Warner-Chilcott’s pio
neering is mainly in synthetic
chemistry and biochemistry. It is
not limited to blazing out a single
path. Instead, it follows a multi
tude of clues that lead into new.
unmapped areas.
The Warner-Chilcott research
teams have developed drugs that
are being used successfully in the
treatment of such conditions as
heart and arterial diseases, the
number one killer in the United
States today; peptic ulcer, which
affects one out of every fifteen
Americans; asthma, a common
condition among both young and
old; and thyroid gland disorders.
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