“IRON LUNG” CASE
3.15 P.M. EDITION
TRIP FROAI CHINA TO U.S.A. VICTIAI OF PARALYSIS. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) Received June 3, 11.45 a.m. PEKIN, June 2. Enclosed. in an “iron lung,” Air Frederick Snite, the 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 Air Snite’.s life depends on the efficiency of the portable petrol engine now operating the giant respirator. The Chinese Government is co-op-erating by clearing the lines for the special train in which Mr Snite will travel to Shanghai, and then cross to San Francisco in a specially-equip-ped room in the liner President Roosevelt.
At San - Francisco a special train will carry him to Chicago. Air Snite will be accompanied by his father, doctors, engineers to operate tho respirator, nurses, and diet experts.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 156, 3 June 1937, Page 10
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