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Letter Describes Conditions
In Leopoldville, The Congo
(Edltor'i note: The follow
ing are excerpts from a let
in dated July 12 from Rue-
, tell Ultich. ion of Mn.
. Lewis Uliich. 839 Minne
(ota are., Medford. who ii
an asiistant (uperiniendent
of meteorology for Pan
American Air lines. Ulrica
was recently caught in the
, strife-torn area of Leopold
Title, in the Republic of.
Congo. Africa, and has writ
ten his experiences to his
mother. He had been in the
area while on a business
trip along with two other
Pan Am employees, who all
took refuge in the American
embassy, and finally evacu
ated by the Military Trans
port service.
By RUSSELL ULRICH
We left Johannesburg (South
Africa) on Tuesday, July 5,
on a French Airline . . -,' to
Brazzaville. This is the city
across from the Beligum Con
go city of Leopoldville. We
arrived late in the afternoon,
too late to catch the last boat
for Leopoldville so we spent
the night Brazzaville. '
The next morning ... we
took the ferry to Leopoldville
end met our station manager
(Pan Am official) who show
' ed us around the city and
out to the airport where we
conducted our business . . .
We got a good briefing on the
political situation in the Con
go which at the time was
fairly quiet.
Thursday we conducted
more business and heard
rumors that the Army was
dissatisifed with its Belgian
officers and also there were
numerous groups of people
gathering to listen to speeches
in the street . . . As yet there
was no evidence of trouble,
Friday Lost Day
Friday was a lost day which
started out with all of us hav
ing to prove at breakfast to
an armed Congolese soldier
who could neither read nor
write that we were not Bel
gian officers. It seems that
during the night the Army
had revolted against the Bel
gian officers and they were
rounding them , all up. One
fellow got taken away just be
cause he had khaki pants on-
he was later released.
From then on the day was
full of bad news as we heard
the airport was taken over
by the Army and closed so
our plane had to return to
Johannesburg . . . stranding
us completely.
Also the boat to Brazzaville
was closed so there was no
way out of the Congo . . . We
stood by the PAA office which
was in the hotel where we
were staying, along with a lot
of Congolese ministers, and
watched the troops go by in
jeeps and trucks and loads of
Belgians headed for their em
bassy across the street from
the hotel. ,
' Needless to say the rumors
ware terrifflc, - particularly
since there was . shooting
across the street caused by
trigger happy soldiers being
careless with their guns.
Center of Activity
The hotel where we are
staying is right in the center
of all the activitiy and an
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open air cafe in front of the
hotel provided a good place
to sit and watch until things
got too hot and too many
soldiers were waving guns
around.
Our airport manager made
it out to the airport to tell
the plane not to stop here
but on the way back he was
pulled out of the car several
times by soldiers and roughed
up a bit so he stopped half
way back to town and held
up in a hotel . ... He is a Brit
isher who speaks French and
could be easily mistaken for
a Belgian officer. These are
the fellows that the Congolese
Army is after. Also photo
graphers, we saw several ci
vilians stripped of their cam
eras and searched for arms.
The city is very tense to
night with jeep loads of sol
diers patrolling the streets and
it would take little to set the
entire situation off in a big
explosion where people could
get hurt.
Separate for Night
Clark Bassett, Dick Arvld-
son (PAA. associates) and I
have been sticking together
but our rooms are not adjoin
ing so we had to separate
for the night with a rendevous
at breakfast, if there is any
rood by. then. Have no idea
of when we will be able to get
out of here, the next PAA
plane is a week from today.
We hope to get across the
river to Brazzaville and to
get a plane to anywhere from
there.
Saturday, July 9 Today is
much of a repetition of yester
day but we have moved tem
porarily to the American Em
bassy a few blocks from the
hotel. Because of the crowds
around the . . . PAA office,
the PAA manager decided to
move the office to the Embas
sy since any evacuation of
personnel would be organized
from this place.
Last night was quiet except
for the Army trucks patrol
ling up and down and only a
few occasional shots. Our air
port manager got safely- in
from the hotel near the air
port where he spent the night
locked in his room.
Land at Brazzaville
Our plane yesterday land
ed at Brazzaville across the
river in French territory, at
least it used to be French and
is now independent; there
were no passengers to pick
up so they flew on to Luanda
in Portuguese Angola and!
Pasudonn, Calif. (Science
Service) - The appendix, long
considered nti obsolete organ,
may have a purpose after oil,
It may help save cancer victims.
Research conducted here by
California Institute of Tccli-
nology inmiuiinlogist Dr. Die
tcr H. Sussdorf indicates that
the appendix may piny an
important role in the body's
defenses agnlnst infection
This fact Is particularly rele
vant to radintion therapy for
cancer, in which high doses
of total body radiation often
temporarily- paralyze the In-
fection-fighting system.
Heart Defects
Told Before Birth
Chicago - (Science Service)
- Heart block in three unborn
babies has been diagnosed
with an electrocardiograph.
Drs. Saul D. Larks, Uni
versity of California, Los An
geles, and Lawrence Longo of
the Los Angeles County Gen
eral hospital reported in the
Journal of the American Med
ical association that this
unique use of the electro
cardiograph may permit sur
geons to prepare for corrective
surgery immediately after de
livery. ,
They said the technique may
help uncover the cause of
such inborn defects. Recent
improvements in the use of
the electrocardiograph permit
physicians to make accurate
charts of the current produced
bv the contraction of an in
fant's heart muscle as early
as the 22nd week of preg
nancy. -
PAA made a good try to get
Americans out.
About 2 p.m. we found out
that the boats to Brazzaville
were running again so all of
the PAA people left the Amer
ican Embassy and drove to
the docks where we were pas
sed through customs and im
migration and on to the boat.
It left at 2:30 and IS minutes
later we were safely in Braz
zaville. The dock was quite
a sight all was directed to
ward the accommodation of
the hundreds of whites that
were arriving by boats and
the American Embassy was on
the job collecting baggage and
getting everyone onto trucks
to go to a French military
camp .where . we would be
housed until we got out
We separated from the rest
took taxis out to the airport
to see what planes were avail
able, but all planes were
shuttling back and forth be
tween Brazzaville and Leo
poldville bringing out Europeans-
About 6:30 p.m. a hugh
USAF Globemaster came in
from Tripoli and it was de-.
cided to fly us all to Accra,
Ghana,, the next day in this
plane.
On Straw Mattresses
We went to . . . the Foreign
Legion barracks to spend the
night on straw mattresses and
under mosquitoes nets. All of
the hotels were completely
jammed with refugees . . .
the French were very hospit
able and helpful as were the
black Congolese on the French
side of the river. About 11
a.m. we went out to the air
port and at 1:30 p.m. we all
65 Americans and Belgians
got aboard the C-129 USAF
Globemaster. We arrived
there (Accra) about 7 p.m.
lha' evening.
All planes out of Ghana to
ward New York were sold
out with long waiting lists so
we found space on a BOAC
plane going north across the
desert to Rome. We left at
6 p.m. Monday and made one
no one had made it to there! stop in Kano, Nigeria, and ar-
so they-came back to Brazza
ville and still no evaucees had
made it across the river, so
the- plane continued on to
ward New York. At least
rived at Rome at 6 a.m. Tues
day. We checked into a hotel
for about, six hours, then at
3:30 p.m.- left for Paris on a
Pan Am jet. '
Before the body recovers
enough to fight buck, bacteria
and foreign substances culled
antigens may run rampant,
and the victim may dio - not
of cancer but of infection. For
this reason, paralysis of the
antibody - producing mechan
ism is a major cause of radia
tion deaths. ,
Groator Protection
Systematically cover ing
with lead shields one organ
and then another, durum ra
diation "treatment (or cancer,
Dr. busuclorf found that shield
ing only the appendix gave
greater protection than did
shielding of any other single
organ.
The puzzling thing was that
the appendix itself is not di
rcctly Involved in antibody
formation. From this Dr. Suss
dorf concluded that the up-
nendi some how hud some
thing to do with the spleen's
nblllty to recover from radin
tion dnmngc.
The spleen is a blood-storing
orgun rich in lymphoid
tissue and is usually the first
organ to react against infec
tion by producing anti-bodies.
After the spleen has triggered
the defense mechanism, the
Business Bureau
Warns Buyers
New York ttlPD - The Na
tional Better Business bureau
has warned buyers to beware
of "Buy One - Get One Free"
deals.
In a bulletin to Its members,
the NBBB said it had found
after a nationwide investiga
tion of current advertising of
"two gallons of paint for the
price of one," that such deals
are deceptive if two units are
laways uttered at a single
stated price.
" A question arises as to
whether this method of sell
ing paint, or any other com
modity, involves the sale of
one unit and the gift of an.
other, or whether, in reality,
two units at a time are reg
ularly and customarily sold
for a single stated price, said
Kenneth B. Willson, NBBB
president.
Willson said the bureau be
lieves that public understand
ing of "Two-for-One-Sales" Is
that, for a limited time, two
articles are being offered for
the usual price at which one
has been' sold as a single unit
in the recent regular course
of business. - .....
"When two articles are al
ways offered together for a
stated price, and cannot be
secured individually in the
normal course of business," he
said, "the customary unit of
sale is two, and to imply that
the state price is the regular
price for one, and the other
is tree Is fallacious.
Mercury Capsule
Has Glass Shield
Corning, N.Y. -(Science
Service) - Thin shields of
glass will be used on the Mer
cury capsule in which one of
the U.S.'s seven astronauts
will orbit the earth. Corning
Glass Works reported here
that the firm is making the
shields to protect transmit
ting and receiving antennas
but permit their radio signals
to pass. The firms 96 per
cent silica glass will form a
ring about . the neck of the
capsule. This glass will not
break even when plunged
from high heat into Icy water.
Radio signals streaming
back to earth through the an
tenna shields will carry criti
cal information about the
chosen astronaut's heart rate,
blood pressure and body tem
perature. The signals will
also send data on the satel
lites operation.
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lymphoid cells In some other
organs and in the lymph
glands take up the task.
Reasoning Correct
From u scries of radioiso
tope tracer studies, Dr. Suss
dorf found that his reasoning
was correct. Lymphoid cells
In the shielded appendix mi
grata to the rudlutlon-dam-nged
spleen, rcpupulato that
organ and nuumfueturu anil
bodies there. l)y shielding the
appendix mid spleen with
lead, tho dangers of Infection
lifter Irradiation for leukemia
and curtain other forms of
cuncur uio reduced consider
ably. Dr. Sussdorf begun his re
search at the University of
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