Evening journal., 1914-01-24
DR.. KELLY
Is ATTACKED
The Noted Radium PrOSpeCtOr
Charges MerCenary
Motives
CHAIRMAN FOSTER
TO THE DEFENCE

WAShlNGlON, Jan. z4-O. Ii. Will
marth, a Colorado mine prospector,
testifying yesterday before the Mines
Committee of the House of Repre-
sentatives, which is hearing testi-
mony on bills proposing the with
drawal of Misunderstanding lands.
charged DR.. Howard Kelly. OF Balti-
more. with purely mercenary mo-
tvies" in his plan to effect partner
ship with the Government in radium
production. He said the Government
had been "deluded" by DR. Kelly's
humanity plea"
This agitation for Federal control
has narrowed the possibilities for
benefting humanity" Willmarth de-
clared. because doctors are refus-
ing to buy radium. believing that the
Government will either reduce the
price or bottle it up for Government
hospital use"
Monopolization of radium- bearing
lands was impossible. the witness
said because of the fact that there
are 100000 acres of carnotite' land
in Colorado-enough to furnish ra-
dium for generations"
Chairman Defends Doctor.
In defense of DR.. Kelly. Chairman
Foster, of the committee. announced
that the cancer expert was establish
ing "A public fund for cancer sufferers
out of his profits.
Willmarth also alleged tina. DR..
Kelly had inspired the eQort to with
draw radium lands ito divert atten-
tion from himself"
Thomas #. V. Curran. OF Placer
Vile, Col, who said his family owned
and operated about 70 radium claims
in Colorado, told the committee that
doubt as to Dr.. kellys humane mo-
tives was not possible.
Chairman Foster announced that
/ the contract with Or. Kelly for ex-
periments to discover a process foi
reducing radium would be put in evi.
dence later.
Willmarth and Curran. the latter
/ OF Placerville, Col. argued that The
/ withdrawal OF radium on lands would
discourage prospectors and miner.
from looking for the ore or digging II
up out of the earth, and the result
would be that the Government woull
have to 90 through the tedious pro
/ cess of looking for the ore and oX
tracing the radium from IT,
Representative Howell of Utah sug
! gested that it might be we'll for thu
/ Government through its expert, {,
/ experiment and try to develop a pro
cess for getting out the radium, ant
/ thereafter to make the information
public. so that private enterprise an,
competition would put up plants an,
produce the radium element in a.
great quantities as might be needed
Hears Of Radium Faking
Tho committee also beard some test
mony about radium taking" d
Charles II. VOL director of the StanC
ard Chemical Company of Pittsburg
declared that foreigners have persistent
ly imposed upon the American publ
BY charging Sl0O,00O to sl20000 pc
gram for an inferior grade of radiun
which consisted OF the real article mike
with other materials.
There are tons OF iadium in III
oceans Of the world. Dr. Niol ASSERTED
but it is so finely divided that lis sepal
alton from the sea water is almost In
possible
Three thousand dollars worth OF ra,
ium salt. containing about % mill
grams OF pure radium, lay before Oh
committee. The containers resemble
two pencil leads not over an inch
length.
Dr. Niol explained that radmm
gotten out of the carnotite and that
required three months OF treatment
the ore to get the radium into shaI
for sale.