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TuMday, July 17, 1956
Mrs. Luce Declared Victim of Arsenic Poisoning From Paint Decoratin
New York 'U.Rj CIA
agents have traced the caue of
the recurring illnesses of Am
bassador to Italy Clare Eoothe
Luce to arsenic poisoning from
the white-painted roses on her
bedroom ceiling.
Time Magazine, in its issue
appearing Thursday, will say
that for 20 months, Mrs. Luce
had been breathing fumes, eat
ing food and drinking coffee
powdered with deadly white
dust.
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1 Tests showed that the borgian
; white roses in the bedroom of
her 17th century Villa Taverna
had been brushed and re-brushed
with paint having a high con
tent of arsenate of lead.
The magazine said the discov
ery was made more than a year
ago and the poisoning was "one
of the best kept secrets of U.S.
diplomacy."
Condition Grew Worse
In the late summer of 1954.
Mrs. Luce returned to the United
States where after a long medi
cal examination experts found
she had symptoms of serious
anemia and extreme nervous fa
tigue. Feeling better after tvo
I months, she returned to Rome
j to face a full work load.
''In a short time," the maga
; zine said, "all the symptoms ap
peared and some new and fright-
ening ones developed. Her fing
i emails became brittle, broke at
i a slight tap. She began to lose
I blonde hair by the brushful. Her
teeth were noticeably loosening.
Worst of all. for a diplomat, she
j had become irritable.''
Too busy to return to the U.S.
Mrs. Luce went to the U.S. Nav
al hospital in Naples. A Navy
nose-and-throat specialist asked
if any of her medicines contain
ed arsenic. None did. It was the
first time arsenic had been men
tioned in connection with her
illness.
The Navy doctors sent their
North Bend Git, 12,
Loses Life in Creek
North Bend (U.R) Ore
gon's week end drowning toll
rose to three with the reporting
here today of the death of 14-year-old
Marcia Lynn, Sundbaum
of North Bend, Sunday.
Officers said the girl, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Emil Sund
baum, drowned in Tenmile creek
when she slipped from a life
preserver she was wearing and
sank in 14-feet of water.
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findings and laboratory speci
mens to the laboratories of the
U.S. Naval hospital in Bethesda,
Md.
On the Navy's records the pa
tient was fictitiously identified
as "Seaman Jones." Back to Italy
went the report: "Seaman Jones
is a victim of arsenic poisoning."
The news was relayed to Mrs.
Luce while she was at home dur
ing the 1955 New Year's holi
days. No Suspects Found
Faced with political and diplo
matic repercussions if the secret
came out, the Central Intelli
gence Agency and embassy of
ficials went quietly to work. All
U. S. and Italian embassy em
ployees were quickly investi
gated. No individual who had
any contact with the ambassa
dor seemed even remotely sus
pect. The disconnected leads final
ly led to the high-ceilinged bed
room with its beams in terra
cotta green and cluster upon
cluster of roses and rosettes.
"Quick tests showed a high
content of arsenate of lead," the
magazine said. The experts also
found that the heavily leaded
paint exuded fumes in Rome's
humid weather."
Mrs. Luce, wife of Time-Life,
Editor-in-Chief Henry Luce, has
been in the United States under
going treatments to correct the
arsenic induced condition since
mid-May. Her general health is
greatly improved, the magazine
said.
She is scheduled to leave this
week for a three-week Mediter
ranean cruise and then return
to Villa Taverna where its roset
ted ceiling has since been redone
in non-leaded paint.
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Washington 'UP' Outnum
bered Southerners predicted to
day that "quite a few" Northern
Republicans will support their
fight to kill or weaken the ad
ministration's civil rights bill in
the House.
But they conceded they were
waging an uphill fight to block
House passage and probably will
have to depend on a threatened,
or real. Senate filibuster to kill
the bill.
Battle Begini Thursday
The House planned to wind
up two days of general debate
today and then lay aside the bill
until Thursday when the ham-mer-and-tongs
battle begins. The
measure then will be thrown
open to countless amendments
and to innumerable delaying
tactics planned by the South
erners. Debate Monday was heated,
but orderly, after the House1 re
jected a Southern move to open
the bill to immediate delaying
tactics. The unrecorded vote i
against the move was 151 to 103.
Northerners Counted
Rep. William M. Colmer (D.
Miss.) said he counted about 20
Northern Republicans but not j
a single Northern Democrat !
voting with the Southerners on ;
that test vote. He expected sup
port from "quite a few Northern
Republicans" in the battle that
lie ahead.
The bill would establish presi
dential commission on civil j
rights, create a civil rights divi-:
sion within the Justice depart
ment and authorize federal pros
ecutors to go into federal courts
to protect the voting rights of
Negroes and other minorities.
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Illinois Auditor
Gives Resignation
Springfield, 111. U.R) Gov.
Wiliiam G. Stratton awaited
word of assurance today from
two men he has "in mind" to
succeed Orville E. Hodge, who
resigned as state auditor and as
a Republican candidate for re
election. Hodge resigned from office
Monday at a conference with
Stratton here in the face of
mounting charges against the
auditor's office concerning more
than a half-million dollars worth
of "questionable" state checks.
Meanwhile, a Sangamon coun
ty Grand Jury which opened its
probe into the case here Monday
was scheduled to hear from sev
eral witnesses today. At least
two of the witnesses have indi
cated they will refuse to sign
immunity waivers.
The Hodge resignation was an
nounced at a news conference
here by Stratton, who said that
Hodge also was bowing out as
the Republican candidate for re
election and as an Illinois dele
gate to the Republican National
convention in San Francisco.
Stratton immediately accept
ed Hodge's resignation as audi
tor, and said he would call a
meeting of the Electoral board
of which he is president to act
on Hodge's withdrawal as a can
didate for reelection.
Coast Guard Plans
Probe of Accident
Portland 'U.R1 The Coast
Guard was slated to open a for
mal investigation today into the
boating accident on the Willam
ette river a week ago that took
the life of a 13-year-old Port
land girl.
Lt. Com. James W. Conway
will conduct the investigation.
Killed in the mishap was Gail
Kryohek.
Witnesses at the time said the
boat in which the girl and her
11-year-old sister were riding
was struck by a power boat op
erated by Dr. George Eagon, of
Portland.
Eagon was towing a pair of
water skiers at the time of the
accident. He managed to rescue
the younger girl but was unable
to geach the other girl in time
to save her life.
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