Evening star., 1941-07-22
Diagnosis Travels 1000 Miles
By Radio to Aid Missionary
Rev. J. H. ShuItz,
Still III, Arrives
From Tibet
BY ROBERT A. ERWIN.

A battle against infantile par
alysis that took him halfway
around the world, after his illness
had been diagnosed over the radio
thousands of miles away, is ending
in victory for the Rev. James Har-
old Shultz, 36-year-old missionary
of the Seventh-day Adventist
Church, who has lived since 1888 in
the wilds of Tibet.
The battle began on cold spring
day in 1910, when snow blanketed
and when communication with the
outside world was almost impossible.
The minister, with his wife and
children, lived in a combination
home, church, school and clinic they
had helped build and which they
maintained for the Tibetan natives.
Fever began to grip the minister.
His body ached. He walked with
difficulty. He knew he was becom-
ing seriously i'll and yet no doctor
was available within 200 miles, on
the other side of a mountain range
in Lanchow, China.
Told Symptoms in Letter.
Despite this fever, the Rev. Mr..
Shultz wrote a letter to his brother
Gerald, who is employed at Wash
ington Sanitarium, Takoma Park,
Md, explaining the symptoms.
Gerald Shultz took the letter to
DR.. Robert Hare, chief of the medi-
cal staff of the sanitarium, and
talked the case over with DR.. Hare
and DR.. C. H. Wolohon. The doc
tors said: TT looks like infantile
paralysis. Tell Harold to come
home where he can get the proper
treatment"
Gerald knew of one quick way
to communicate with his brother.
The missionary is an amateur radio
operator. In Tibet he had set up
his own transmitter, powered by two
automobile batteries and a motor
generator. Each Monday night at
8 o'clock, from Tibet, he conversed
with a National Broadcasting Co.
radio engineer in New York. Gerald
was in New York, standing by the
engineers side, on the Monday
night following his conference with
the doctors
Talks With Brother.
The atmosphere was unusually
clear that night, so clear that the
engineer and the Rev. Mr.. Schultz
could talk by radio telephone, rather
than by code. Gerald took over the
phone after contact had been made.
Harold" he told his brother in
Tibet, "Dr. Hare and DR.. Wolohon
say, you have infantile paralysis.
Do the best you can for yourself
with what you have in the clinic.
But come home as soon as you can"
The message from New York was
beamed over the ether waves south
ward through the South Pole, and
then sped northward to Tibet,
distance estimated at II, 900 miles.
The Rev. Mr.. Shultz fought the
infantile paralysis, fortunately not
cripple him for life, with everything
at his command. His wife, the for
mer Miss Dorothy Burt of Charlie
mont, Mass, a practical nurse, cared
for him. Meanwhile she gave birth
to a son, Melvin Earl, their fifth
child and the second born in Tibet.
An American nurse arrived from
Lanchow a week later. The mis-
Sionary, himself i'll, had helped bring
the child into the world.
Plan Return Trip.
The family began to make plans
to return to the United States, and
to Takoma Park, where the Rev. Mr..
Shultz had attended and graduated
from Washington Missionary Col
iege. Almost q year had passed
since he was stricken. The mis-