CLOSELY GUARDED
VALUABLE RADTUM SUPPLY
NEW YORK. June 18
An armoured car manned by armed guards carried a valuable cargo to the Bellevue Hospital, New York. The small treasure would have been a wonderful haul for enterprising bandits, for although it weighed only five grammes, or about one-sixth of an ounce, it was valued at £70,000. It was a consignment of radium lent by the Belgian Government Radio Foundation, at the request of the American Director of the Department of Hospitals', for use in checking cancer. The radium was landed in the United States a month before it was delivered to the hospital, but it had been with the officials of the Bureau of Standards at Washington where its strength was checked. Armed secret service agents stood guard over the package during the jrailwriv journey from Washington, and an armoured car awaited them at New York.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 June 1932, Page 2
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146CLOSELY GUARDED Hokitika Guardian, 22 June 1932, Page 2
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