Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 August 1948 — Page 1

Pain in Thigh. Lump int rhroat lead To Research With Radioactive lodine

{A member of the Atomic Energy Commission, appearing. be-: “fore a congressional committee, saufiouly discusied adis-active froatment of cancer. He said" results achieved ranged from "im-

Sey to the ‘dramatic first-person story writh by Henry Noble : 75, veteran journalist, to er ema underwent treatment in New York's Memorial Hospital as a guinea pig for the unknown quantity of radicactive iodine. Here, in five articles, is a condensed version of his story that begins when doctors first discoversd he was a victim of canesr | and ends with his restoration to an active life.)

By HENRY NOBLE HALL .LATE IN JANUARY, 1845, after a spell of overwork at my typewriter, I felt a sudden pain in my right thigh. A day or two later I began to limp. In the absence of my regular doctor, who was in the Pacific, I. had been going to another man. When I showed him the place where the pain had shot through, he said it was the sartorius muscle. Whatever tenderness there may have been had disappeared, s0 he took a blood test. A pedigraph showed my feet in excel- ; lerit condition. He then sent me to the New York Hospital for an X-ray of my hip. This he said was entirely negative and suggested that a little physiotherapy could do Me no harm. x » . = ¥ a NT 3» a well Sows $n: of ADgust my limp iad GIN Pp ‘rapist. Inside my appeared. On my return to he soon found a sensitive spot a po Fri New York I had to do a lot of n inflammation of the anterior crural nerve. Nature was flashing a red light. Diathermy and Swedish massage did little | to ‘help and, on his advice, I { went to the seaside in June, 1945, staying in the sun all day morning and afternoon.

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eneration of Pelvis Found JIN NOVEMBER, 1045 I de- be feared. Nothing could be | veloped bronchopneumonia, lost done for me and physiotherapy 14 pounds, ‘and was left very would sot help weak. The nerve condition in I WAS WAENRD especially my right - leg grew rapidly about stepping off curbs as worse, considerable atrophy of hip was very fragile and might the muscies set in, and my right break, .

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U. S. Communist leader, today charged that ledge uineane bordel ssid | {Pasty of Aerial #4 Pith colinief Soviet gf : : Mr Bde ae caliod IE af eh oa eitate inti Senate Investigating Committee's inquiry into Copimuniats

ha hit a record level of $32 a hundredweight. i Beef, Pork Loins Up i Choice wholesale heef was up| lone cent a pound and pork loins sold as much as two cents a pound higher at New York today.! The asking price was higher for all classes of meat, Department of Agriculture officials said a ‘buyers strike,” {which had caused a downward

ended, . however. Prices were forced up today,

physiotherapist but despite his efforts my condition showed no improvement. my limp got steadily worst and at the ‘end of September, I had to use a cane to walk.

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f saving his life, he was treated with radio-jodine for cancer of : and then went back| hospital as a human op 4 teat 1hie ‘value of

to the clinic of Memorial pital to see if their radioactive tréatment could do anything for me. On July 1, I told the attendant there I wanted a consulta tion with, their head bone man, ‘who read my case. history and looked at the X-rays. Just then another doctor came in and a brief introduction followed. “This is my assistant, he will look after you. ” -

was of syphlitic origin. He sent biog to 19 4 nétirologist who reto the specialist that ee Was no trace of syphilis. Another set of X-rays showed no trace of tuberculosis. I was told that the condition of the pelvis would grow steadily worse and that serious trouble with the diseased Holle was to

and h icine's Jong-sought goal: The cure of a dread and malignant malady. Cured? =

“No doctor will ever admit that a cancer case is cured until he has had the patient under observation for five years. But apart from the fact that I am still weak ‘and have to move about op crutches, I feel younger that I: have at any time in 10

years,” Mr. Hall says in closing this pew chapter in the never- X-Rays and Blood Samples Taken: I SHOOK hands with a On July 8 he showed me on

Hog Prices Tie $31 Record Here

| Top prices for hogs matched the

ending fight against cancer.

As a newspaperman and pub-| lic relations officer Henry Noble Hail worked in many countries. But he speaks of the more than| 10 years he spent as a reporter and editorial writer for the old! New York World as his “glorious

younger man, who took me into | an adjoining surgery and examned me. He took samples of my blood and sent me to the X-ray department telling me to come back and see him in a “weak ¥

the X-rays what rapid progress the degeneration of the pelvis

‘all-time record of $31 today in

the Indianapolis” Stockyard for]

had made. I asked him if it was the third consecutive market day.

curable. “In this hospital we don't ad-

The record price of Dec. 24 and 126, 1947, was first equaled last)

Thursday.

years.” (Continued on n Page 3—Col.

Won Panama Libel Case For Joseph Pulitzer's paper, he won the Panama Libel case, covered the White House, visited 36 of ‘the 48 states, was the first correspondent to interview a monarch, King Albert of Belgium at LaPanne in January, 1915. During World War I with Wilbur. Forrest: of the New York Tribune and another correspondent, Mr. Hall was the first to en-

BABY.SITTER QUERIED—Mrs. ‘Margaret Davis, 20, "babysitter’ in the house where a mysterious blast occurred, is escorted to sheriff's headquarters by Deputies Ben Griffith {left}, and Erol Wessel. She was not held,

. Mystery Blast That Burned Estranged Husband Probed

Sheriff's Office Reports Explosion

And Fire Moy Have Been Arson Stanley Hensley, 46, critically burned in blast at the home of

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¥IGURE CORRECTED The Times stated that the children of the 1200 block of Hoefgen St. made $34.49 from their third . annual Penny Aic¢ade last week. The figure was $300.02 short. The correct total was $334.51.

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time. 7)! Hog receipts for the Indian’ A aan a apolis market have dropped! WwW J PWHSMOITS 2: one-half in one month and anna oin {the trend seems likely to con-| 4 2 tinue. i Just Look for ‘Fireball a ph sctifs sof ta {were 5000 as compared to 8125 lon July 12. On July 19 h Local Sky ‘Phenomenon’ May Be July 4th ifeecipts slipped to 6275 and to|—— Balloon—Or Just a Hoax, Astronomer Says 900 0 Jans Voualy. prices were In Indianapolis todsy almost everybody kept their eyes to theexpected to be felt soon by th skies. hos nsumi blic with eas Those who saw the huge fireball which Rovered aver 1ngian- lof 1 to ng sul a pound on retail a fis Inst viii were SoeDing an oye Bien 'or a return vis meats ter St. Mihiel after its récapture| J who didn’t—and who have listened all day to the eye from the Germans. He was in| yitness ee of those who did—were going to be sure not to the front lines during the entire! ico anything else which might —— : Declares W baitle of the lstss-Atgotine. pop. up in the blue today. flammable material jmmersed tn en England declared war on yr anything occurs teday—{ly- kerosene jn the botto I ed wife at 3252 Holt Road, may have been an arson Germany in September, 1939, Mr.| ine discs, space ships, or balls of burned the gas filled the balloon victim. Deputy Sheriff Virgi Quinn ssid today, Hall was transferred to thelgee spore be-g flock of new and sent it up. i “It looks mighty suspieious,” said the deputy. British Embassy in Paris as frst members to the exclusive’ “They stay up as long as the, Mr. Hensley, in General Hospital ith third-degree burns all secretary in charge of informa-| i «PWHSMOITS” ‘Club — “People fir burns. The sparks that were over his body, was seared in the explosion When he struck a mateh) tion, |Who Have Seen Mysterions Ob- Seen could have been from the." City Action Spuired ‘because the lights didn’t work. RE REET | jects in’ the Sky.” {burning material. : By Boy's Death He had gone to the home Sat- Tri lets Born Meanwhile, a theory that Indi-| Whatever the fireball was, it y ys ‘urday night to visit his wife, P anapolis’ “ball of fire” which was the biggest topic of con-| Spurred by death of a 7-year- Mrs. Pearl Hensley, bul she was Ad New Castle startled Jmdseds Inst " night varsation around 3own afiee 2 od at ne City R Seelared away at he tie. Said then might a hoax stemmin war toda we ars remen + the national “flying disc” and ILD: m. Ed oe, Williatn Wisden, son of Mr. detected “gasoline” in the Shared “space ship” stories was pro- police and a boards. gn rs. Harry Wiedehaupt. 3718 house, They also found a ge pounded by Emsley Johnsen 8r., it Apparenily Was seen HOWhere E. 35th Bt. died Sat night ir gasoline jan behind jhe. Home. veteran member of the Indiana eis seneral Hospita e wag struck they sai erosene stove in Astronomical Society. Flier Finds Nothing by a truck BSathyday while rid- the kitchen had not exploded, tion today. lr . n their own w “Whe Just Some Fun? It first appeared in the east, ing his bicycle at 35th and Sta- they added. The two girls and one bay were recording ate in use the| thers Mr. Johnson didn’t see the moved slowly south, then west, tion. Sts. Tells of Threats placed in an incubator afier birth gutomatic tone device will pro- ~~ i4pall of fire” himself but he was then horth and disappeared. A ie blamed the accident on From his hospital bed Mr. late Saturday night. They were duce a distinctive brief, for Soviet a kept on the telephone by persons|Trans-World airplane ‘passing Righ Weeds at the interséction. Hensley, of 1418 Central Ave, born a few hours after the 20th almost musical note” “If you. : 'who did and from the numerousithrough about the same time left ¥UEC FUEY sad, obstructed his 1oj3 = Deputy = Qiiinn his life annual twin reunion al & NeWi peated at 15-second intervals. | going to one. esplonage | eyewitness stories he’s formed alits course to investigate but found n . SN . driver's view. had been. threatened ' by ani Castle park nearby. That “beep,” they add, will cost| you're m en-—you're

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| conclusion. nothing. anonymous telephone caller, He| Mrs. Bertram is the mother of telephone recorder users an extra! =.» | “] got some calls Saturday, Police Inspector Leolin Trout- The orks hoard today Daced said an unidentified man had gx other children. The babies '$2 a month. : 5000 Peacetime GI's take |Mght from some persons out at man observed the fireball about! oop 0" “he oe get i a NeW warned, “Your time is up. ‘were Roberta Ann, four pounds, {Fall Creek reservoir who saw 20 minutes from the 900 block yf 0 Tp 0 "0 0 clearing going to kill you....I Want your su. ounces; Rebecca Jane, three — — over Camp Atterbury tunis ball of fire dropping sparks. N. Gray St. 8 throughout the Pils au Ill get her any Way pounds, four ounces; and Robert 9 Games Ahead, | . with pictures. Page 3 han last night I got call after] “It looked a little larger than, can.’ | Allen, four pounds, two ounces. 0 ry >a Teal bright star. Then every Deputy Quinn today questioned! The father works at the Per- Indians Look Like j Blight rils 165, 000 elm } wl as all this I'm inclined to once in a while it would Jecieges Mrs. Hensley and Miss Margaret! tect Circle Piston Co. foundry at . 8 pe {believe what these people saw is in size and burst out again, send Davis. 20, a baby-sitter she had Hagerstown. They were the first one of those fireball balloons that Ing off sparks. I watched it with employed to care for her four- ever born at Henry,

{year-old son, Richard. Miss Davis’ County Hospital. {told investigators she left the xperimental station ! five minutes to 11 and dis-|P® was $3 a lot, but that Other Other Inside Features king. Ha Matin ot vu appeared about 115 {will be revised upward in line ‘Drive-in Theater

{house ‘earlier Saturday Sveniog because she “had a funny f “Then again, maybe somebody's straight north.” (with rising labor costs, he added.| gy something wis going to hap-| Robbed of $4000 ‘Amusements 18, Mrs. Manners 18 having some fun.” | Another policeman, James Man- Auto > Taas | H lalf Pri pen. | GRIFFITH, Ind, Aug. 2 (Up) {ing to Times; Sports Ernest Blau. 11; Movies 18! In the first place, Mr. Johnson gus, was on &n emergency run AU ags na rice Although nobody had been ar-' 3 oo ood’ Bandit robbed Ash. oar a ing Wop j

City. City Street Commissioner Tony. Maio assigned street repair Swe to weed cutting duties. Mr, 0 said private property owntrees here . . . a picture | P g|used to te a Fourth of July fav-/ military field glasses but ft |oFS Youla BS willed for: lot-clear-’ tarp orite. The balloons may be from! zee it too well. It at/Ing jobs. previous charge, |

Business 7. Obituaries. 8 explained; no one can observe to 4000 E. 30th St. when he saw H. Dale Brown. director of thé rested. at noon today. Deputy - Carnival ... 9 F.C.Othman 9 movement of any planet or star. “an orange ball of fire in the State Motor Vehicles bureau, 8n- Quinn said - op oe eo driven theater ged? | ere pa Classified 14-16' Radio ..... ~ 8° "That's elementary because south, abrut 3000 to 4000 feet nounced that beginning today all yse a le-detector “to get to the ues reported. Comies .... 17! Ruark 9 they are so far away.” he ex- high. He observed it about 10 1948 license plates @xépt those pottom of this thing.” Pre spol forced the maa Crossword,. 8 Scherrer ... 10 plains. “The fact that everyone minutes as it moved slowly to used on farm will be snes mana er, Arnold Berger, to open Editorials... 10| Side Glances 10 observed this thing in motion the east, finally disappearing be-sold at half-price. The. cut rate LOCAL TEMPERATURES {the get: while 1000 customers Forum ..,.. 10 Society .... 11 rules out that possibility.” {neath a cloud. is placed in effect after the li- Lo 81 10 a. mi... 75 {watched the movie oiitside. : Ernie. Hill... 9! Sports .... 6,7 “A long time ago I ‘used to Stout Field, Weir Cook Airport censing period is half over. This .m., 84 1am. FF AGOE TOR INE ks 1 obods 3 Hollywood.. 18/ Weather Map 5 send up large paper balloons on and the Weather Bureau fbported year's licenses expire Feb. 28, ... 70 12 (moon) 78 XETIONALLY FAMOUS YOR 3% YEARS, Tribe. Read Ash's detailed Ia 1ndpis..; 3, Women's .... 12/the fourth of July. They had in- no information on~the “fireball” 1049. . 78 1p .. 3 [Chartey's Restaurant, 144 E: Obie—adv. on Page 6.

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