PIG WHICH MIGHT HAVE BEEN SAILOR

Chronicle (Levin), 19 July 1946, Page 5

PIG WHICH MIGHT HAVE BEEN SAILOR

Press Assn.

By Telegraph

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.Received Thursday, 11.30 p.m. XEW YORK, July 18. Pig 311 — a walking amorphous mass of radio aelive pork chops — bids J'air lo become the greatest hero oi mcdical atomic pioticeriitg. He is the sole survivor of the alom bomb blast on the sunkeii Japanese cruiser Eakawa in the recent operation "eross-t-oads. ' ' He is one of more than 3000 animals affected hy radio a clive rays and he is lighting grimly J'or his lil'e. Still nameless, this husky porker, numbered like a eonyict, typifies the young figlil ittg itian. • His ship was terribly hit by everything the bomb had. J lo was found swimming 24 hours after the ship satik. His age is relatively 1 liat of a young man oi' 20— such as might stay atloal th at long. rig311 has had three doetors in attendance. He has had peniciliin and strange liquids but his symptoms remain a military. seeret. If Rig 311 were in a butcher's shop, his meat would ])robaI)ly scem the same but seientifie savants claim they could denionstrate tliat his would be a different kind of chop with less pork and more carbon. Even his bones should contain strontium — used in fireworks- — and other elements not ustially in bones. Xntnber 311 sbonld .be snffering from Uood and bone marrow malaise, fever, loss of appetite and internal and external bleeding.