“MAN IN IRON LUNG”

Greymouth Evening Star, 26 April 1938, Page 12

“MAN IN IRON LUNG”

SECOND ANNIVERSARY. NEW YORK, April 1. Night-club „ stars sang and prizelighters battled in a specially-built ring to entertain 800 guests at a party given by the Man in the Iron Lung. It. was the second anniversary of the day on which Frederick B. Suite, son of a United States millionaire, was placed in the “lung ’ at Pekin. He contracted infantile paralysis there while on a world tour. Electric motors, by creating a vacuum in the “lung” every four seconds, and thus raising his chest and sucking air into his respiratory organs, have kept him alive since then. The party took place at his father s mansion home rd. Miami Beach. Twenty-six-year-okl Fred was wheeled on to a balcony adjoining his room. _ He watched the entertainers througn two adjustable mirrors affixed to tae iron lung over his upturned face, and cheered the boxers through a microphone. The American Legion band played as he watched. . . This was the text of his nivitutum card: — “Dear Dames ’n Guys. louse is invited to an all-star boxing show in our patio on Thoisday, March 01, at- 8 o'clock.

“Signed, “De Boiler Kid.” “P.S. —Brang your friends., V e will pass de hat for charitee. Onedialf of the collected will be forwarded to the Chinese Red Cross, and the remainder in equal parts to the sisters of the Shanghai General Hospital and the Pekin Local Relief. . , . Thus will young Suite express his gratitude for the aid he received Up iu the Chinese when he was first afflictQtl Five bouts were featured in the boxing programme, three all-engro and two all-white. The high spot came -.' hen live negio fighters were released into the ring at the same lime to dive into a largo bairel of flour containing 50-ccnt pieces. Guests invited included Jack Deiiip-<-cv Rudv Vallee, John Oliver Lagorce, Magazine,” and Mr. De Witt Page, editor of the “National Geographic treasurer of General Motors.