Clipping, September , 1928

Inventor of Radium Paint III; His Household Conceals Cause Dr. Sabin A. Von Sochocky of No. 207 health. Amherst Street, East Orange, N. J., in- He explained that mesothorium, the ventor of radium paint, who holds the radio-active material which is most theory that persons poisoned by radium dangerous to human tissue, loses half gradually expel the poison and regain its potency in less than seven years. their health, is seriously ill and the This would mean, he said, that the cause Of his illness is being concealed. poison in his body, as well as that in He said in June that he had nearly the bodies of the women, now is less purged his body of radio-active ma- than half as dangerous as when it was terial which attacked him seriously in taken into their systems. 1920 and 1921, and expected soon to Now, however, Dr. Von Sochocky is be entirely free from the poison. conceded by a member of his house- Also last June he predicted that the hold to be seriously ill, and no one in five women who obtained financial his household will say what alls him settlements from the United States or whether it is radium poisoning. Radium Corporation on the ground that He was technical director of the they were threatened with death from Radium Luminous Materials Corpora- radium poisoning suffered in the cor- tion, which became the United States poration's employ, would regain their Radium Corporation,