IN "IRON LUNG."
MILLIONAIRE'S SON. Amazing Journey from the Orient. CHINA TO CHICAGO. United Press Association.—Copyright. (Received 12 noon.) PEKING, June 2. Enclosed in an "iron lung," Frederick Snite, son of a Chicago millionaire, who is suffering from infantile paralysis and who must live in an iron respirator, has begun a life-or-death journey to Chicago, which will cost £125,000. During the journey, Snite's life will depend upon the efficiency of the portable petrol engine now operating the giant respirator. The Chinese Gdrernnient is co-operat-ing by clearing the lines for a special train in which it will travel to Shanghai, then cross to San Francisco in a specially-equipped room in the liner President Roosevelt. At San Francisco a special train will carry him to Chicago. Snite will be accompanied by his father, with doctors, engineers to operate the respirator, nurses and diet experts.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 130, 3 June 1937, Page 7
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