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FAMOUS SCIENTIST PLANS MOST DARING STRATOSPHERE TRIP
Professor Jean Piccard Expects To Rise Twenty Miles With 2,000 Small Balloons To Furnish Lift And Dynamite Caps For Safety Valves To Control Descent
New York, Feb. 27.
With about 2,000 small balloons to take him up, and dynamite caps for safety valves to come down, Professor Jean Piccard, Uni- versity of Minnesota, announced to-day the most daring stratos- phere flight plan ever made.
New Drug That Kills Pneumonia
Germs
Washington, Feb. 21.
Dr. Sanford M. Rosenthal of the National Institute of Health announced discovery
He expects to rise easily to twenty miles, seven miles over the present record, and for above the capacity present-style stratosphere bags,
of
Ife naid he plans to make a pre- liminary test. About eighty rubber sounding balloons will take up a one- man gondola. The balloons range in diameter from four feet to sixteen, which le their bursting point.
EXPLAINS MECHANISM
The little balloons will be tied above the gendola in bunches, with
fixed dynamite caps
where one balloon or one bunch could be cut loose. Electric wires to the gondola will enable Plecard to fire the caps and mop the experimental ascent, Ballast will be relied on to bring the with the remaining gondola down balloons.
of a drug which kille pneu- REPORTER
monia germs in mice.
While mice infected with the SUES IN
three major types of pneumonin
have been treated successfully. ZURICH
Dr. Rosenthal warned that be-
cause of the large dosage required
OF INFORMATION
the present chemical treatment ACTS TO SAFEGUARD could not yet be applied to hu- JOURNALISTS' SOURCES man beings. He was hopeful, however, now that a successful. treatment had been found for mice that a more powerful drug, human beings. effective on would be developed.
Zurich, Mar. 1.
A suit to safeguard journal- ists' sources of information be-
The discovery's importance is em-gan yesterday in the District. phasized by the current outbreak Court here, of common colds and influenza which
It was filed by Dr. Heberlein, the frequently are accompanied by pneu- National Zeitung correspondent, monia. Hospitals of castern metro against the district, prosecuting at-
crowded politan areas have been
torney, who sentenced the journalist during recent weeks with sick perto ave days in prison and aned him sons and a cure for pneumonia would have materially cut down the num ber of fatalities.
+
LENGTHY NAME
The effective drug has the lengthy technical name of "P-aminobenzene sulphonamide," It is reasonably cheap and is available commercially, Dr. Rosenthal said. It is closely allled to the drug treatment streptococcus infection which was given Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.
Boston last month
of
"While we are not yet ready to use this drug treatment on human beings, Ils discovery is quite an advance in the right direction," said Dr. Rosen- tual as he worked over a rabbit in his laboratory.
"We have a drug to do the work and now the question is to make practical for human application. In the past history of medical research, the advance usually has been quite rapid when the laboratory workers have gotten as far as we have."
100 francs because he refused to say who gave him information regarding the arrest of same Communists.
His counsel contests' the competence of the prosecuting attorney and the any law making such existence of
♫ crime. The journalistic, secrecy counsel also argues that a prosecuting attorney in issuing a John Doe war- rant against Dr. Heberlein's inform- ant made a dangerous innovation In Zurich Canton. He held it would practically suppress freedom of the
press to allow sources of information to be reached in this manner.
The court deferred judgment.
SOVIET JAPANESE WAR WARNING
Moscow, Mar. 1.
"A. war between Japan and the Soviets is coming very soon, accord- ing to offelal documents from the A double approach from the point highest Japanese military quarters," of view of the chemist as well as of writes Marshal Bluccher, commander at the of the Far Eastern Red Army, to-day the doctor is being made National Institute of Health. An on article commemorating the chemist is secking additional chemi- cal for Dr. Rosenthal to test.
baitle. of Valochayesk in 1922, as a result of which Soviet rule was established in Siberia.
4 YEARS' RESEARCH
The Far-Eastern autonomous The finding of an effective drug to army, the Pacifle fleet and the en- combat and kil) pneumonia ROTTAE tire country are ready, under the was the result of four years research leadership of Stalin and Voroshilov, by the 30-year-old senior pharma- to repulse the enemy," he declares.
Health Reuter. cologist of the U.S. Public Service. During that time, he tested between 300 and 400 drugs before he found one that would be effective. While he was working in the Nation- here al Institute of Health buildings which overlook Arlington and much colourless powder is mixed with oll of the mall around the Lincoln Memorial, other research workers abroad were carrying forward simi- lar experiments.
In 1934, Dr. Rosenthal found that formaldehyde sulphoxylate, which was useful in overcoming the effects of bichloride of mercury poisoning, was also capable of curing mice in- fected with one strain of pneumonis. It was ineffective against the other two major types which recount for most of human pneumonia.
ing year French doctors discovered that it was only a part of the dye
was crystal that
necessary, The
and infected to the patient suffering from streptococcus infection.
Dr. Rosenthal's research has car ried, forward the research in allied sulphur compounds and he has found that "p-aminobenzene sulphonamide" is effective in killing preumonia
germs in mice.
Dr. Rosenthal, a graduate of Van- derbilt University, has been with the Publle Health Service for eight years, During the later half of that time, he has devoted his major attention to pneumococcus infections and how
Two years ago, German scientists found that a purple dye-killed off streptococcus germs and the follow- to cure than.
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