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    "ocrText": "HER SKIN LUMINOUS\nFirei\nOWING TO RADIUM\nBloo\nFrom\nCHICAGO,\nWoman So Testifies, Asking\nof a boby twe\nthe human in\nDamages of $250,000 From\nmen, two ph\nFor twenty-fo,\nWatch Dial Company\nGeorge Smith\nmotors served\nBorn on\nI\nchild was appat\nOTHER EMPLOYEES SUE\njaundice appea\nperformed an\nout the liver.\nsteady decline\nPlaintiff L'imps\nrt to\ndeath had inter\nMrs. Smith\nTell of \"Poisoning'\nsquad. They w\nshowed a spark\ntanks of oxygen D\nThe first of five damage suits for a\ntotal of $1,250,000 brought by former\nwomen employees against the United\nGATEMAN\nStates Radium Company in Orange,\nN. J., for injuries alleged to have re-\nsulted from painting luminous watch\ndials in the company's plant, was\nIN DEATI\nbrought to trial yesterday in the Chan-\ncery Court in Newark, N. J.\nMrs. Edna Hussman of No. 50 Bu-\nchanan Street, Hillside, N. J., who, like\nLong Island Rai\nthe four other plaintiffs, is suing for\n$250,000, testified yesterday that the\nFound Blamt\nfirst day she went to work for the\nUnited States Radium Company in\nJune, 1917, a forewoman showed her\nCrossing\nhow to get the best results by wettting\nand \"pointing\" her brush with her\nlips and tongue.\nJURY OUT Hi\nBody Became Luminous\nA few months later, Mrs. Hussman\n(said, she began to notice that her hair\nand skin were just as luminous in the\nForrestal Denies\ndark as the watch faces she had been\npainting. It was not until July, 1925,\nnal Before Da\nhowever, three years after she had quit\nthe Job, that she began to feel any\nill-effects, she said, and then her\nAfter deliberating\nphysician told her she had rheumatism.\nIn court yesterday Mrs. Hussman ap-\nbefore Kings County\npeared to be crippled and limped\nyesterday acquitted\nnoticably as she made her way to the\nrestal, No. 2810 Fulto\nwitness stand. She alleges her crip-\na former gateman 01\npled condition to be due to radium\nRailroad, who was c)\npoisoning resulting from her employ-\nslaughter in the seco\nment.\nnection with a collisio\nThe other four former employees\nand a.11 automobile.\nAT\nvho aresuing-the-eompany for similar\namounts and who allege the same kind\nresulted in the death\nof injuries, are Miss Catherine Schaub,\nThe accident hap\nNo. 124 South Seventh Street, Newark;\ncrossing at Eldert L\nMrs. Quinta MacDonald, No. 386 High-\nAvenue, where Forrer\nland Avenue, Orange; Mrs. Albina\nThe prosecution call\nLarice, No. 463 Austin Place, Orange,\nthe gateman at the\nand Miss Grace Fryer, No. 497 Tre-\nthe east, who testi\nmont Avenue, Orange.\nrestal warning of t?\nwestbound express y\nPlant Closed Down\nthe automobile by\nThe deaths of several persons em-\nsignal, and got a re\nployed or formerly employed in the\nForrestal.\nplant led to an investigation in 1925\nForrestal testified\nby Essex County Medical Examiner\nno such signal,\na\nHarrison S. Martland, and in December,\nwarning he had of\n1926, the Orange plant was closed\nexpress was when h\ndown.\nfeet of his shanty.\nThe damage suits were transferred\ndown the gates so 1\nto the Chancery Court after the de-\nstruck the rear of\nfendant company had tried to plead\nJohn T. Davey, a is\nthe statute of limitations. Although it\n105-10 88th Avenue,\n(\nwas more than two years after their\npassing underneath,\nillness first manifested itself before\nThe automobile\nthey sued, the plaintiffs contended\ndragged 500 feet by\nthey had no knowledge of the cause\nand his wife, Mrs.\nof their ailment until some time after\nseriosuly injured, b1\nthe time alleged to be set by the\nof their children we\nstatute of limitations had expired.\nDavey's sister-in-la\nSeveral months ago, the body of one\nGroves, and her so.\nof the victims was exhumed and the\nold.\nbones examined by several prominent\nForrestal is still e.\nphysicians. The next hearing in the\nroad.\nsuits will take place April 2 before\nVice Chancellor Backes in Newark.\nSeaman's Wido\nWHO'LL GET THE $50,000?\nfor His D\nA verdict of $1\nSponsors of Crows Dinner in Chicago\nyesterday by a\nCourt Justice\nHaven't Decided\nfavor of Mrs\n75th Street\nSpecial Despatch to The World\nSubmarin\nA\nCHICAGO, Jan. the\nTransma\n(big success made by Gene Tunney in\ndamage\ncollecting $50,000 for charity at the\nFrai\nFeed Box, the friends of State's Atto:\nney R. E. Crowe are planning to con\n$50,000 in the same way, but\nicharity. He is to be honor\nner next Tuesday.\nkets have been\nsol\non the marke\nhotel"
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