Pamir Survivor Tells of Harrowing
54 Hours in Lifeboat Before Rescue
CASABLANCA, Morocco, W)—
Five cadets and crewmen who
survived the sinking of the Ger
man sailing ship Pamir reached
Casablanca today and told of bat
tling the stormy Atlantic for 54
harrowing hours before rescue.
Only one of 81 other men on
the Pamir has been found since
the vessel sank last Sept. 21 in a
hurricane off the Azores. The five
were brought here aboard the
U.S. Military Transport Service
ship Geiger. The sixth survivor
is bound for Puerto Rico.
The five were dressed in U.S.
Navy uniforms as they lined the
rail to wave to officials on hand
to meet them. Later they told
about 120 newsmen and photog
raphers of their experience.
Karl. Otto Dummer, a baker,
did most of the talking. He said
the four-masted ship capsized be
fore the crew could launch any
lifeboats.
“As we jumped (from the list
ing vessel), one landed on the
other and many were pushed un
der; that is how a lot were prob
ably drowned.”
The wind drove the ship against
the men, forcing them to swim
rapidly to escape.
After about an hour in the wa
ter, Dummer’s group spotted a
lifeboat bobbing about 100 yards
away. When it was reached an
hour later, 10 men remained in
the group.
Two men died the first night.
Next day two men, crazed 'with
thirst, jumped into the sea and
CAP CADETS NEWS
Civil Air Patrol Cadets held
their weekly meeting Thursday
evening, studied test booklets on
Air Power and CAP history. They
also held drill team practice. I
There was a slight increase in \
the number of cadets present over
the previous meeting since sev
eral new members have been re- j
cruited. Any student in high
school, over 14 years old, may
participate in CAP activities by
attending the weekly meetings
at the American Legion Hall.
The Cadets are short of books
on Test No. 1, so anyone having
these books are requested to bring
them to the next meeting.
—Don Munz, PIO
Most babies and young chil
dren are farsighted.
IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR THE
CAPE NOME PRECINCT, SECOND
DIVISION, TERRITORY OF ALASKA.
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF
C. A. H. HAGEN, deceased.
No. 1073
NOTICE OF HEARING
ON FINAL REPORT AND
ACCOUNT OF EXECUTOR AND
AUTHORIZATION OF DISTRIBUTION
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
Charles F. Lewis, of Nome, Alaska, the
Executor of the above named estate, has
filed his Final Report and Account of
his doings in this said estate with the
above named Court, and that the Court
'has, by order duly made and entered,
set the 21st day of November, 1957, at
the hour of ten o’clock A.M. of said day,
at the office of the above named Court
at Nome, Alaska, as the time and place
for a hearing on said report and Ac
count, and also, at such time and place
the Court will authorize distribution of
the net assets of this estate.
Objections, if any there be, to said
Report and Account, will be heard at
that time.
DATED this 20th day of September,
1957.
CHARLES F. LEWIS,
Executor of the Estate of
C. A. H. Hagen, deceased
James A. von der Heydt
Attorney at Law
Nome. Alast-a
Publ. Sept. 23, 30, Oct. 7, 14, 1957.
drowned. The group saw ships
and planes searching for them on
the second night but had no way
to make themselves seen. They
became too weak to open their
canned emergency rations.
On the last day in the boat—
Monday—most of the survivors
began to have delusions. They
saw lifeboats and motorboats
moving toward them.
Then another man jumped into
the water and the group was re
duced to five.
Suddenly the rescue ship—the
American steamer Saxon, ap
peared.
“We jumped up and started
signaling . . . We knew a lifeboat
had been launched. Surprisingly,
we found our strength and
jumped into the water and
grabbed lifebelts and lifelines
thrown to us.”
New Germ Yields To Research
Because the scientist’s war against infectious disease is waged in a
world so tiny that even powerful microscopes sometimes cannot render
the enemy visible, researchers frequently find themselves not quite
cure what manner of beast they are battling.
A struggle on such strange terms naturally involves some guess
work. And, although researchers,#
backed by a wealth of scientific
knowledge, manage to acquire an
almost uncanny ability to deduce
\he right answer, their conclu
: ions are necessarily subject to
error.
Until quite recently, for in
stance, scientists were baffled by a
mysterious form of female infec
tion that did not yield readily to
any known agent, not even to an
tibiotics. It was concluded that the
condition was caused by germ
colonies, that had been altered by
such factors as the patient’s age
cr weakened condition, pregnancy,
cr disease. Because no single germ
could be pin-pointed as the caus
ative organism, the infection came
to be labeled “non-specific.”
Not completely convinced by
this theory, two scientists — Drs.
Herman L. Gardner and Charles
7). Dukes of Baylor University
College of Medicine — decided to
f earch a little deeper. Their study
1 osulted in an announcement in
1954 that most cases of the trou
blesome female infection thought
to be caused by no one particular
germ were in fact due to a pre
viously unidentified organism call
ed Hemophilus vaginalis.
Better understanding of this
condition and its cause has led to
improved methods of treatment.
Thus, the two scientists who dis
covered the new germ recently re
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ported in the medical journal Obs
tetrics and Gynecology that a new
drug called Sterisil is “an effect
ive agent” against the germ. The
doctors found that local applica- |
tion of a gel containing the drug
for fourteen consecutive nights
produced cures in 83.5 per cent of
a large group of women suffering
from the infection.
Thus new research techniques
continue to resolve mysteries in
the world of microbes. And, where
observation fails in grappling with
this strange world, human reason
is constantly striving to fill the
gap.
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ASTRONOMY NOTES
By OLAF HALVORSON
The comet seen last April called
the Arend-Roland comet is still
being followed by astronomers
through telescopes at observator
ies. It is now about 100 times too
faint to be seen with the naked
eye. It will be possible at the ob
servatories to follow it through
this year and probably for most
of 1958 also.
Several calculators have deter
mined the elements of the orbit.
The comet was closest to the sun
on April 8, when the distance
from the sun was 29,500,000 miles. |
It was closest to the earth on the j
21st of April, at a distance of j
about 53,000,000 miles, which fig- j
ure is a little over half the dis
tance from the earth to the sun.
The comet was moving in a
hyperbolic path, which means
that it will not return to the vic
inity of the earth and sun again.
This was the brightest comet to
be seen in several years.
Monday, September 30, 1957 THE HOME MPQOET5
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