In search of miraculous healing at the world-famous Grotto of Lourdes, Frederick Snite, bound to live in a respirator since he was struck down by paralysis while in China, left Miami today en route to France via New York, a voyage of 11,000 miles.
Twenty-eight years old, son of a Chicago millionaire, Frederick Snite has spent the pest three years in a steel-and-glass "iron lung." In this time, slight improvement of his condition has been remarked. Now he is to try the miraculous French grotto, where so many of the blind and halt have found new hope and health.
He left for New York in a special railway car arranged to it his needs. He will leave New York for Lo Havre on May 25 and will visit Tours and Bordeaux before going to Lourdes, where rests his hope for a speedy recovery.
He will return to New York on June 26 and will see the World Fair before returning to Chicago. Throughout his travels, he will be accompanied by a physician, five nurses, two technical experts to see that the "iron lung" does not stop for a single moment, and one chauffeur. The last-named will drive the specially-built motorcar in which young Snite will travel in France.
Snite came to the United States from China two years ago, leaving Shanghai just before the outbreak of the. Sino-Japanese hostilities. He had travelled south from Peiping, where he had lived for a year in the "iron lung" into which he had been placed after being struck down by paralysis while on a flight from Shanghai to Peiping—Havas,
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