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THE PHILADELPHIA RECORD,
SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1929
5 Doomed 'Radium Victims'
May Live to Die of Old Age
Girls Are Much Alive After a Year and Scientists Now
Think They Absorbed Nesothorium and Not Clock
Dial Illuminator.
ORANGE, N. J., May 31 (UP) -Medi-
But if it was mesothorium, they have
cal experts doomed them all to be in
a fair chance of living to old age.
When their claims were finally set-
their graves by tomorrow, but five
tled out of Court the corporation gave
young women who attracted national
them each $10,000 and a pension of
attention a year ago are still very much
$50 a month as long as they should
alive.
live, having accepted, at the time, the
testimony of medical experts that their
They will be remembered as the "ra-
cases were incurable.
dium victims," factory workers who
How they spent what they believed
painted tiny luminous numerals on the
was their last year of life, and what
dials of watches.
use they made of their money, is inter-
They claimed, and scientists agreed,
esting.
that in their work they had contracted
To Mrs. Quinta McDonald, who is
a poisoning for which no cure was
now the most seriously ill of the five,
known. Doctors shook their heads and
came only unhappiness. Her husband
gave them a year to live. But today
quit his job. They quarreled and
finds them nourishing hope that they
separated. Mrs. McDonald's money is
will live many years more.
invested in a trust fund to educate two
Since that day a year ago when they
children.
were pronounced doomed, science has
Miss Katherine Schaub bought an
made a second guess, namely, that it
automobile with her settlement and
may not have been radium which
spends long afternoons driving in the
poisoned them, but a substance known
country, a pleasure that always had
as mesothorium. This substance is not
been denied her before.
necessarily fatal, and may, in time, be
The money allowed Mrs. Albina Larice
eliminated from their bodies.
some small extravagances for which
The five young women first attracted
she and her husband hal always longed.
interest when they sued the United
They travel a bit now.
States Radium Corporation, their em-
Mrs. Edna Hussman bought a fine
ployees, for $250,000 each.
player piano and a radion and says
In painting watch numerals they had
she enjoys them as much as anything
"pointed" their brushes with their lips.
she could have.
Over a considerable period of time the
But the fifth of the "doomed" young
substance they used in the work had
women, Miss Grace Fryer, invested all
seeped into their systems. If it was
of her $10,000 and went to work again;
radium they absorbed, it will keep
not at the factory. of course, but in a
breaking down the red and white cor-
Newark bank. She believes she will
puscles of their blood until, in a com-
somehow reach old age-and believes
paratively short time, they must die,
in being financially fixed for it.
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