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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1928
FIVE AWAITING
Six Months to Live!
S
With $10,000 to spend and six months of life re-
RADIUM DOOM
maining, Miss Katharine Schaub, left, is writing
poetry. Mrs. Quinta McDonald, right, plans for her
children.
ENJOY HOBBIES
Women Spend $10,000 Award
to Realize Ambitions; One
Prefers Remaining at Work
NEW YORK, Dec. 11.-Just across
the Hudson River, in Orange, N. J.,
five young women, free, life-loving,
a
apparently healthy, are doomed to
die,
They are guilty of nothing, but
their fate is more irrevocably fixed
than if the nation's highest court
had sentenced them.
Apparently healthy? Yes, but in
each courses a minute bit of that
most valuable, most mysterious,
most deadly substance in the world
-radium!
SIX MONTHS TO LIVE,
"A year to live," the doctors said.
And that was six months ago. They
were given $10,000 each by the com-
pany in whose service they had in-
vited death. And now the world is
watching the enacted answer to that
hitherto question:
=
"What would you do if you were
G
given a fortune and a year to live?"
The story of their poisoning has
been told. But the manner in which
at Plymou
they have chosen to spend their
precious interim- an unmatched
study in the varlety of human char-
acter and ideals-is reported for the
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