The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-01-21
|$l5,OOO,OOO FOR
TREATMENT OF
CANCER PLAGUE
Aged Millionaire Plans TO Estab-
lish 20 Hospitals With Free
Radium
200 GRAMS NEEDED
FOR AMERICAN VICTIMS
Ore Fields of Colorado Practical
iy lnexhaustible, Expert Tells
House Committee

WASHINGTON, d. G.. Jan. 81
Announcement that IAN aged million
are has plan To erect 20 hospitals
at u cost OF $4,000. 000, Tor free
fadium treatment OF cancer was made
loday by President j. NJ. Flannery OF
ne Standard Chemical Co. before the
house mines committee. Each iastitu-
ION would have five grams OF radium.
10 Indicated that neither Rockefeller
nor Carnegie was the man involved.
Flannery's announcement was made
a the course OF an appeal that the
government not undertake 10 regulate
radium extraction. His exact words
we're:
There is a philanthropist who has
plan TO put up 20 Institutions in
he centers OF population, such as
ew York, Chicago Boston and the
est, at a cost OF $ioOO0. 600 so that
III cancer Uctims may be treated
rec of charge. He wants to have five
grams OF radium for each OF these 20
faces"
That's lot OF money" interrupted
I Rep Austin. We're from Missouri
nd I'll nave 20 be shown
That wouldn't be the first time
(iissourians have been shown, real
honey" the witness retorted This
lffer isn't SO remarkable when We
onsider all that all the countries mil
onaires such as Carnegie and Rookie
eller have undertaken"
Following committee hearing Elan
cry fatty refused Il discuss the oner
trtftcr
Publicity would spoil the plan, he
eclared but il seems to me that
5 good idea il an old man wants
use his money this way when II
ont do him any other good. That's
be way Rockefeller and Carnegie
ave done"
1t was apparent that Flannery re-
arded the possibility OF the govern.
bent making a monopoly OF radium
s likely to stop at once this plan
pr free radium cancer institutions
The witness offered 20 sell his Sc
ret process for extracting raG,u1
hlts from carnolite ore TO the gov
Eminent, If 1t wouldn't be used
gainst him as revolver 10 shoot
he"
Flannery's estimate was that there
re- now 100000 cancer victims in the
nited States. lie said this number
bud be treated In the 20 Institutions
clnded in the philanthrOpists offer
e placed the yearly cancer death toll
$4,000.
The cost OF radium the life saving
ement In the battle against the red
ague," will amount 10 a half million
pillars gram II the federal govern
lent withdraws radium ore lands
ON entry. Mine Commissioner Thorn
X. Henahen, OF Colorado. told the
ouse mines committee today
Frankly admitting that he is a
states rights man, llenahen said all
dorado wants is 10 be let alone to
inc It's carnolite without federal
pionage or control Carnolite, the
lneral from which radmm is eX-
acted Is practically inexhaustlble in
dorado. according to Henahen.
The witness declared that the ma
on can best answer the wall OF 75,
10 cancer victims for more radium
giving prospectors free rein in
dorado.
J. NJ. Flannery, president OF the
andaFd Chemical Co. OF Pittsburgh
Id the romantic story of his struggle
upbuild il. how he had secured
aims and the valuable secret ex.
action process as the result OF life
me OF earnest effort.
Inspired by the death OF a relative
ON cancer, Flannery declared that
set about 10 discover a red
ague" cure Experts he sent to
urope, returned with the report that
ldium was an effective remedy.
hen with small plant he started
manufacture the mineral salts. lie
Iund miners ia Colorado who We're
filing TO sell for q song their carno-
G ore filings The witness said II
Dok $50 or 400 tons OF ore to pro
ice gram OF radium.
Flannery declared that Colorado
as enough radium to supply the en-.
re worlds cancer victims five times
yer" Two hundred grams. he esti-
ated as the amount needed for suf'
rers I'm the United States.
I'D be willing to contract to fur
sh this amount in five years 10 the
byernment ar price lower than the
byernment could manufacture tat
maximum figure OF $4,000 gram.
asserted.
Radlum, he declared, was % times
ore valuable In other diseases than
Ancer. IL is a positive cure for
rheumatism and other painful dis
uses. Then he made his sensational
atement OF the projected chain OF
alum hospitals.