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    CMP) Statesman Salem, Ore., Wed., July 18, '56 ' Z '
Italy 'Amazed! at Arsenic Paint
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Story; 'Poison' Roses Covered
By FRED JX'ST
ROME OB The bizarre ttory
that the long Illnesses ef U. A,
Ambassador Clare B t h t Luc
stem from arsenic la tht paint of
her bedroom celling stirred Italy
Tuesday.
Italian! and diplomat! expressed
amaxement.
A U S. embassy spokesman dis
closed that a layer of heavy tar-
paper now hides the "poison white
roses" on the ornate ceiling in the
blonde envoy s bedroom of the 17th
Century villa Tavema.
He said the paper was nailed oa.
and coated with nonleaded paint,
after it was discovered that arsen
ic dust and fumes from the roses
had sifted throughout the bedroom,
making Mrs. Luce ill.
The villa Taverns Is the officio!
residence of U.S. ambassadors in
Italy. As suck, it is diplomatically
a part of United States territory.
The United States bought It in
14I.
Me IB Effort .
' Two ether American ambassa
dors, James Clement Dunn and
Ellsworth Bunker, slept la the
same villa with no apparent in ef
fects before Mrs. Luce took up her
appointment here la May 1953. i
Time Magazine broke the arsen
ic story last night.
, Mrs. Luce, former playwright
and Republican congresswoman
from Connecticut, is the wife of
Time's editor la chief. Henry ft.
Luce.
' la the United States since last
May for treatment of intestinal in
flammation and anemia, she is due
to resume her duties here next
moots after a three-week Mediter
ranean cruise. . . fib has b a a
' troubled by anemia and fatigue
during much ot her work la Italy,
tell Uaoaspected
By Time's account, tiny specks
of the poisonous arsenic fell un
suspected from the paint, powder
ing room and her breakfast cof
fee, and ia summer gave off fumes
Which she inhaled. Mrs. Luce has
done much of her work at a desk
ia the room, in addition to using it
as a sleeping chamber.
Expert opinion differed about as
sets of the case.
-One of Rome's biggest paint
stores said it sold a lot of paint
containing arsenic, but hsd never
heard of anyone being poisoned by
it. Similarly, A Rome hospital
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to Italy Clare
Lace as skewa as see
arrived la New York last Msy
far treatment ef a mysterteas au
meat. Last ai(M Time Magasise
revealed that deadly arseaie dast
siftlag eowa frees the paust ea
her at dream reillif la Kama re
portedly caused the leag series
ef Utaeases that have aJageed
her. (AP Wirepbste.)
Court Blocks
Model's Effort
To Regain Son
ALBANY. N Y. un A state
supreme court Justice has held
that the doors are "closed forever'
gainst a New York City .model's
regaining her son through the
agency te whom the surrendered
him when he was four days old.
' Justice Isadora Bookstein Mon
day dismissed a habeas corpus
proceeding brought by the natural
mother, Joan Romano, against the
Family and Children'! Service of
Albany Inc.
He held that "a consummated
adoption is unassailable and hence
the doors of the agency are closed
forever to the natural parents.
Legally A tooled '""
' The boy was adooted leeallv
last November by a family whose
name has not been disclosed.
Bookstein said the adoption pro
ceedings had been "wisely ordered
sealed" and might be opened only
by court order. He added: ,
"I see no good purpose in so or
dering since, in my humble Judg
ment, H Is lor the best Interest of
the Infant and the foster parents
that they remain unrevealed, even
to me."
; The child was born Nov. I, 1954,
la a Schenectady hospital. .
Miss Romano contended she was
coerced into aigning away the
baby. She said that she gave him
up at the insistence of her then
husband. Donald McGaffin, a for
mer Schenectady newspaperman
who now lives ia Saa Diego, Calif.
They were divorced later.
Career ea Upgrade
The adoption agency said that
Miss Romano told agency repre
sentatives at the time: "I know I
don't went a child that win inter
fere with my careeer."
. The agency said she then "was
an the upgrade and had almost
reached the top ia her profession."
' Miss Romano told the court that
she would net about ttt.oos from
modeling this year. She ssid she
had not stsrted the actios to re
gain the child sooner becsuse she
had been low oa funds.
spokesman said he had never
beard of such a case of arsenic
poisoning.
Added te Kill
But in Washington, a paint chem
ist declared if there was lead ar-
senste ia the paint of Mrs. Luce's
bedroom ceiling "U wss added
deliberately either to kill someone
or to kin flies.
That idea was advanced in an
interview by F r a a c i s Scofield,
chief of the technical division of
the National Paint, Varnish and
Lacquer Assn. t
Scofield said there vu another
possibility that paint applied in
this century may have flaked
off and loosened particles of a coat
applied before 1900 which might
have contained arsenic poison. He
ssid this would have been "Paris
green" or copper arsenste not
lead arsenate and it would have
required large doses taken inter
nally to cause illness.
No Evidence
At the same time the U.S. State
Department said there Is "abso
lutely no evidence" of any attempt
on Mrs. Luce s we.
John D. Jernegsa, embassy
counsellor in charge while Mrs.
Luce la undergoing medical treat
ment ia the United States, said be
could add nothing to the Time
Magazine report
L Reporters were not permitted to
emer ner vuia to loot ever the
ambassador's bedroom.
A spokesman for Salvatora Mun
dl International Hospital used
by many foreigners resident in
Rome said be had never heard
of such a case of arsenic poison
ing.
One of Rome's biggest paint
stores said K sold a lot of paint
containing arsenic but had never
heard of anyone being poisoned by
it. .
Pais Peisealng
A Dutch doctor practicing In
Rome said he had seen a number
of cases of similar paint poisoning
in the city.
"It seems to be most frequent
in cases of green paint," he ssid.
Mrs. Luce's bedroom, in her
17th Century villa, reportedly has
heavy green beams. But the ar
senic powder and fumes were un
derstood to come from white roses
painted on the ceiling. '
Dast Falls Easily
A doctor who had been called In
on the Luce case ssid he had never
heard ef a similar instance. "But
it would be very possible ia these
old buildings." he ssid. "Dust
easily falls from the ceilings.'
Italian newspapers front-paged
the story. One called it the case
of "the poisoned roses." Another
termed it "a romantic adventure'
for Ambassador Luce. The pro-
Communist Paese Sera referred
to "a dark mystery" and recalled
for its readers the Borgia family.
which reputedly took care of some
enemies by use of poisons.'
Paese Sera said there was noth-
ln like this in the Luce case.
Mrs. Luce's bedroom is on the
second floor of the vills Taverns,
the ambassador's official residence
in Rome. The brown stucco build
ing, with about a dozen rooms.
is m a seven-acre park of green
lawns, cypress and pine trees and
marble statues. It is su rounded
by aa ancient brick wall.
Worked la Rasas
The ambassador's bedroom, one
of two master bedrooms, is de
scribed as large and ornately dec
orated. Mrs. Luce, an embassy
spokesman said, did a great deal
of work at her desk there, in add
tion to using it as a sleeping
chamber.
The embassy was unable to say
exactly when the ambassador's
bedroom was repainted. A press
spokesman said he understood it
was done la July or August last
year. This would have been six
months or more after the arsenic
theory was first introduced as a
factor in Mrs. Luce's - continued
illness, according to the Time re
port. ,
British Army
Women Win
Undies Battle
By ALVTN STEMKOPF
LONDON tsV-The British Army
has surrendered the girls in its
ranks can wear any kind and any
color panties they choose. And the
ssme applies to bras.
Antony Head, the secretary ef
war, backed down in the face of
incipient mutiny. Also confronting
him was one of the most deter
mined members of Psrliament,
Dame Irene Ward.
The girls of the WRAC (Wom
en s Royal Army Corps) have
been fuming for yean over gov
ernment issue panties.
Aeeaaale ia Site
They are of sturdy material,
khaki in color, elastic at the waist
and in the region of the knees.
And each of -a size to accommo
date about two girls.
The bras? They fit pretty well
if worn over a trenchcoat.
Both bras and panties, said the
girls, were apparently designed by
a male quartermaster before
World War I who hsd only the
foggiest idea about the female'
figure. I
Most of the girls used the
panties for laundry bags, and,
wore undies they bought them
selves. But there wss slways the
risk that at inspection they would,
be caught improperly uniformed.
Seagbt Allowance
They got Dame Irene on their !
side. She campaigned for a money
allowance and the demobilization '
of government issue lingerie. ;
The War Department hesitated.
saying it might be hard to find the ;
money lor another allowance.
Secretary of War Head parried
and delayed.
But Tuesday he made this state
ment in the House of Commons:
We are going to change over
to an initial allowance for under
clothes in the women's services.'
Dame Irene, magnanimous in
victory, said: "I thank the minis
ter bow that the battle has been
successfully concluded."
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