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NEW YORK E INVALIDS SWARM SEN TINY TOWN FOR TRI CANCER CURE Discovery of Radioactive Water Counsel in French Village Brings Evie Rush of Afflicted. By BASIL WOON, By frite Universal Service Staff GREAT Correspondent. -An Imp Special Cablo to Universal Service. PARIS, April 23-After the trial of : gold rushes and the diamond tana, on rushes we now have the cancer fice, and rush. court was Government chemists have just S. Dietric reported the extraordinary dis- Recess covery of the tiny hamlet of himself witness 8 Estreys, in the upper Loire de- direct ert partment, where no case of cancer Opposit or tumor has ever been known. gerheads The government investigation graphic & showed the existence in the village leged lon of a mineral water which the in- from Ed habitants used for drinking and Solicitor washing clothes, but which could B. Hayes not be used for cooking because Governme it ruined the utensils. The dei Analyzing the water the chemists vestigatio were startled to find that it was record of ernment ) the most highly radioactive water known to exist, with a power ing all te of 37 nicrocuries, which figure far stroyed a surpasses that of any other natural HAYES' water known in the entire world. Hayes t The coincidence of the radio- on March active water with the absolute ab- sence of cancer is exciting scien- meeting P tists, who, together with hundreds at which of invalids afflicted with the to get - h scourge, are flocking to the vil- Campbell, lage. The sole hotel and every fore the house and hovel in Estreys as well By the as in other villages for miles he was to around are filled with health seek. fees, "ru ers avidly drinking the lifegiving figure." water. Wheele

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