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Show Boise Asks Iron Lung In Fight Against Death I within 24 houn If th victim, whoM lung collapsed Monday night, if to be laved. One at the Salt Lak General hospital's two "Iron lungs" was to be taken In a truck late Tuesday to St Luke's hospital In Boise, Idaho, In a race with death. Mrs. Harold Hones. 24-year-old mother, stricken with Infantile paralysis, is fighting for life In the Boise hospital. The nearest "Iron Jung" was 400 miles away and the victim'! condition condi-tion was getting worse hour by hour when the hospital communicated communi-cated with Dr. George H. Curtis, superintendent of Ealt, Lake General Gen-eral hospital, , Dr. Curtis readily agreed to send on of the hospital's two "Iron lungs." American Legion officials of th Salt Lake City post stepped in, provided a truck and driver. The victim's- physician told Dr. Curtis the machine must reach Boise |