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'PAGE SIX NOOMED TO DEATH, VICTING DESCRIBE ;:= RADIUM POISONING New Jersey Factory Women ; Battle With Fatal Disease SLOW DIAGNOSIS Trouble Started With Paint. ing of Watch Dials, 1917-1920 Orange, N.J., May 17.--~Miss Grace Fryer, one of the five New Jersey factory workers condemned to die a slow and painful death, described some of the symptoms of radium poisoning in an interview Wednesday. While she waits for the law to come tg her afd in the $1.250,000 damage suits which she and her former working companions have filed against the United States Rad- ium Corporation, her bones aru he. ing disintegrated by the radium which she took into her body while painting watch dials. "I have had 19 operations,' Miss Fryer said, "but my doctors tell me there is mo hope," The strange malady, for which the world of science kiows vo curs, has centred in Miss Fryer's right leg and her jaw and back. She wears a large brace on her back and the trouble in her jaw is caus- ing her to lose her teeth. Licked Paint Hrush Miss Fryer estimates that rhe put the radium paint brush to her lips to wet it about 400 times a day between 1917 and 1920 when Red Rose Tea is guaranteed in every way, , Order a packe age tod Use any portion of it, bh A 3 you are not en» tire! Plea you may return the balance to your grocer and your money refun BR she and.70 other women were em- Rigred in he Yateh factory. her former working compen bave died already ana of saving in the present suit for fr Redress for the condemned wo- men is being delayed by a provi- sion in New Jersey law which re- quires' that suits for damages must be filed within two years af- - the cause of the injury. Radl- m poisoning, however, does uot poh itself until several years afier it is contracted. In the case of the five women in the present suit their allment was not diagnosed for seven years. Miss Fryer has brawn hair and eyes. At times during the inter- view a smile of determination in- dicated that she was not altogether hopeless despite the death sentence which hangs over her head. *'The worst part of the whole thing is I don't dare do much with my hands for fear of being scratched," she said. "The least scratch will not heal because of the radium." Dr. Robert E. Humphries, head of the staff of the Orthopedic Hos- pital here, concurred in the testi- mony of other physicians at one of the hearings on the case. Dr. Hum- phries has theated all five of the women. "We kiaow they have radium in their systems," he said, "but no one yet has succeeded in developing an antidote for the disease. It may pe that the radinm poisoning makes them so weak as to be sus- ceptible to other diseases. It de- stroys their will to live. "Just how long they will live, 1 cannot say. We do know that rad- ium is so devastating that it can- not be long." The next hearing on thé plea of the plaintiffs to enjoin the Radium Company from taking refuge, be- hind the statute of limitations has been posthoned unti] September, A motioin by Raymond H. Berry, attorney for the complainanty, seeking to have the hearing specd- ed up will he argued in the New- ark Chancery Court of Tuesday. EXHIBITS IN BRITAIN OF CANADIAN GOODS Ottawa, May 18. "Major J. Ge Parmalee, Assistant T-puty Minis- ter of Trade and Commerce, sailed yc terday from Montreal for Eng- land in connection with the install- ing of an extensi-» program of ex- hibits throughout Great Britain with a view to further expanding the Dominion's trade. LUKE FURNITURE COMPANY 2) Did You Buy One of These Beautiful Suites Yesterday at This Low Price? THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES. FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1928 DOG GOES WIT! WITH Many stories have been publish- ed reecmtly of long journeys made by dogs, but the following record of Punch, a ten-year-old sheep dog, belonging to a resident in a west- ern suburb: of London, will take some beating. "Since the age of three months," writes the owner, he has accom- panied me as my pilllon passenger on every motor-cyvele tour, either on duty or pleasure, 'and to date he has travelled upwards of 105,000 miles, "Many of our journeys comprise runs of 250 to 300 or more miles per day in all weathers. Somos of our longest day runs are:-- * London--Milford Haven, both ways, nine times. | MASTER FOR ROUGH MILES ON SWIFT MOTOR C London to Liverpool and back, 14 times. Liverpool to Cromer, three times, Cromer to Gloucester. Gloucester to Carlisle. Carlisle to London, five times. "There is searcely a town or vil lage in England or Wales that ne has not visited, He has not .once fallen off his seat, which is an or- dinary piece of flat board attach:d to the back earrier. On this is placed a cushion, but he is not strapped on. "The faster I go the greater his pleasure, and he shows his resent- ment of a trafic hold up by growl- ing. 1 should be pleased to know it any other reader has a dog who can equal this record." PRIVATE OPERATION FOR BEAM WIRELESS British Labor Ns Opposed to Transfer from Govern. ment London, May 17.--It is assum- od in parliamentary circles here that the Imperial Conference on Wireless and Cables will recom- mend that the Empire beam wire- less service be handed over to a new company, to be formed by the amalgamation of the Marconi Com- pany and the Eastern Telegraph Company. It is further understood that the question will be submiital to Ot- tawa and the other Dominion Gov ernments and that the Conference's report will not he issned hefore the replies have been receivd in London. Th Labor Party is antagonistic to the entire proposal to return the beam wireless system. of communi- cation to private operation and {is demanding that the question te aired in Parliament. The Conference is nnderstood to have provided the fullest safe- guards for those national interests which will be affected hy the trans- fer, particularly as regards control at the combined companies in tie 12 YW, 2s % 77, 7. Zy hk event of war. 1Itis stated that as. surances to this effect will be give en to Parliament on beha!f of the Government when the debate un the proposed transfer is hela. Meanwhile a piquant develop. ment has arisen through the ac- tion of the Irish ordinary share- holders.~who have organized to se. cure the return of the Marcon! Company's present ten-shilling shares to the former value of a pound. They even threaten that un- less this is done and they secure benefit from the proposed alloca- tjon of the new shares in the moot- ed: holding company, they will block the merger with the cable companies. As the Irish shareholders con- | trol a third of all the ordinary shares In the Marconi Company, and in view of the fact that they are thoroughly organized, their op- nosition 1s very serious. HIDING PLACE OF DICK TURPIN London,---A passage off Berk- shire square, London, W., known as 'Lansdowne Passage," which was used as a hiding-place by Dick Turpin on his ride fronr London to York, was closed recently for 24 hours to preserve it as the private property of the Marquess of Lans- downe. After the famous ride a bar was erected in the middle of the pas- yi i, sage to make it inaccessible to a horse. The bar still stands, 7 % Yi §. 7 iis badly oF Ad Me i Wiiry wy) wy Zz la / 27 po oT , ys Yo es / / LA ) 7) i 90 |"ROCKET" CARS AN EXPERIMENT English Motor Expert Gives Views on German Adaptation The London "Daily Chronicle" contains the following article om "Rocket Cars," by Capt. E. de Nor- manville: Some sensation has been caused in motoring circles by the brief reports of the "rocket-driven" Ger- man experimental Opel car, which is* stated to be capable of speeas such as 450 m.p.h. While I do not wish to decry an amusing technical experiment, it should be clearly understood that from the practical aspect the pos- sibility of usefulness is very re- mote, Viewed from a purely motoring standpoint, the experiments, though admittedly instructive, possess that attribute solely from a sclennig basis. Reactionary Resistance The .principle of propulsion is what is known to scientists as '"'Re- actionary Resistance™ dating back the many centuries necessary to reach Archimedes' day. But, despite the age-known facts, practical applications bave been few and far between. . Early fire-floats on the 'Thuwes were 80 propelled--the water being drawn in and then expelled through tapering nozzles by powerful pumps. The Reactionary Resistance thus created drove the boat: --an old idea The ordinary sky rocket is an- other example. And some years ago 1 spent a lot of time satisfying myself that the idea was impractic- able for aeroplanes. Whether such a propelled car would be eligible for world recurd speed attempts remains to be seen. In my opinion it should not. The news side of the terrible road congestion during the Easter holidays has already been com- mented upon in "The Daily Chroni- cle." 1 would add the personal ex- perience that. returninz to town un the Monday, it took me 27 minutes to negotiate Guildford High street. One appreciates that Bank Holl- day circumstances are abnormal. It would be futile to ask for official aid towards the betterment of con- ditions. But I would ask whether our motoring organizations could [not evolve some voluntarily under | taken organization which might help all concerned. The idea in mind is to query whether some of the more popular venues could not be selected--such as Brighton and made the subject of one-way routes to and from Loa don? I do not suggest official action by the Ministry of Tramsport. But it the R.A.C, and A.A. would get together and say, "When going to Brighton go via A., B., and C.; and when returning to London go by D., E, and F."--and arrange thor- oughly to broadcast and signpost such routes, it is conceivable that all road trafic would benefit ma- ferially. 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