Newspaper Clipping, 1928

FIVE MARTYRS TO RADIUM, DYIN OF SLOW POISON, FIGHTING FOR LAST REWARD (By LEMUEL F. PARTON.) (Copyright, 1928, Consolidated Press Association.) Newark, N. J., May 14.-Five young women spent their early working years illuminating watch dials and now time runs inexo- rably against them. They are doomed to die from radium poison- ing, and while they wait their lawyers fight to stay the statute of limitations in a suit for one-quarter million dollars for each of the victims against the United States Radium corporation of East Orange, N. J. Raymond H. Berry, their attorney, Monday will renew des- perate efforts to procure a hearing on the cases on May 22. The approach of death is swift; the The five young women are Mrs. law moyes slowly, and, unless Mr. Quinta McDonald, her sister, Mrs. Berry is successful it may be Septem- Albina Larice, and Miss Grace Fryer, ber before the courts can even pass of Orange, and Mrs. Edna Hussman on what action may be brought, as the and Miss Katherine Schaub of New- two-year time limit under the statute ark. Mrs. McDonald has two children. of limitations already has expired. They await death calmly. They say This, their lawyers will contest on the they want recompense from the com- ground that their affliction came pany to care for their dependents. slowly and they were not warned in Thirteen of their fellow employes pre- time to bring suit. They will cite an viously died from what physicians said old New Jersey case in which dam- was radium poisoning. The United ages were found against a physician States Radium corporation has closed twelve years after he had bungled its plant at East Orange. an operation, the court ruling that the Dr. A. St. George of New York, who statute of limitations became opera- has treated all five of the radium vic- tive only after the discovery of the tims, said Monday he could see no affliction. chance for their recovery.