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Washington Henry Ochsner, a Swiss-born oil geologist, died in 1927 at 47 in a Portland, Ore. hotel, alone and virtually penniless. Behind he left a widow, two former wives, three children, a host of disgruntled backers and oil royalty rights on 2,538 gullied, sun-scorched acres in California's Kettleman hills. The year after Ochsner died, pay sands were struck in those hills, opening up one of the country's major oil pools. From the Ochsner acres nearly $1,000,000 of royalties have already accumulated, and estimates of the eventual total run as high...
Middle of March Phönix-Wien's pudgy little Director Wilhelm Berliner died under mysterious circumstances. Within a few days the small subsidiary Kompassbank failed and the Bourse knew that Phönix-Wien owed at least $50,000,000. When police sought Heinrich Ochsner, director of the Finance Ministry's section supervising private insurance companies, he blew his brains...
Smoking Before Breakfast. During his discussion of stomach ulcers, to which he believes certain people are predisposed at birth, Dr. Edward William Alton Ochsner of Tulane University declared: "Excessive use of tobacco, especially between meals, on an empty stomach, is dangerous. Very bad is smoking in the morning before breakfast...
...organs removed. As the patient's insides heal and connective tissues fill in the cavities, Dr. Coffey hauls out the wicks one by one. His method helps insure against peritonitis. Appendicitis. Mortality from appendicitis is 50% higher today than it was 15 years ago, deplored Professor Alton Ochsner of New Orleans. One person dies in the U. S. every 29 minutes from appendicitis. Before the age of 50 four times as many people die from appendicitis as die from cancer. Ages 10 to 30 are the appendicitis years, 70% of cases occurring in that range. Added Dr. John...
...Elected president was Herman Louis Kretschmer, urologist; defeated, Edward H. Ochsner, surgeon...