18 DAYS IN OPEN BOAT

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30399, 25 March 1964, Page 17

18 DAYS IN OPEN BOAT

One Survives s Ordeal < t.V.Z. Press Assn. —Copyrioht) * KINGSTON (Jamaica), ! Mar. 24. Eighteen Cubans, including ' five children and six women, . drifted for 18 days in an open boat in the Caribbean in an attempt to flee from Cuba, ' the Associated Press re- ( ported. Seventeen died. Sixteen , bodies were dumped into the , sea. , The survivor drifted on to < Grand Cayman Island with the body of his dead wife still aboard. He had grown too weak to dispose of it This story of thirst, hunger and exposure was pieced together on Monday by a Jamaican medical officer, Dr. - Sammy Williams. Grand Cayman Island is a dependency of Jamaica and is about 100 miles south-west of Cape Druz, Cuba. Dr. Williams said the lone survivor was in Georgetown Hospital on Grand Cayman, very weak and exhausted. Dr. Williams said the Cubans set out on March 2 and the engine broke down about 10 hours out of Cuba. After that the boat just drifted. Mould May Be Asthma Cause (N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) DENVER (Colorado), March 23. A yeast-like mould which may be growing inside half the world’s inhabitants has been found to cause asthma, an allergy specialist said today The head of allergy and asthma research at National Jewish Hospital, Dr Irving H Itkin. said in an interview that the mould, known as Candida albacans, grew in any warm, moist area, and it was often found in a human's mouth or throat “Possibly half the human population carries it around." he said. The growth of the mould was encouraged by the prolonged use of antibiotics and steroid drugs used to treat asthma and arthritis, he said.