Show 1i Z = Tff lUNG S lENGE BROKEN Utah Man r Hears for First Time in Years 1 SPEECH IS ALSO I RESTORE I Iij j Had an Operation Performed < in Dofianca af f tho Lav i i i i I I I Three College Students Perform Work i I in Chicago Hotel Which Brings i Back Lost Functions J St Paul NOV 9After having been deaf and dumb for nearly four years I Conrad FJllnmnn a shocnmlccr has regained re-gained ills power of speech ami hearing I by an operation performed upon him In defiance of the law by three Chicago i medical students in a hotel room last Wcek I Fillniann arrived in St Paul six weeks he had ago from Seattle Wash where been 1 student in the deaf mute Institute Insti-tute since he lost the use of his vocal I and auditory < organs In an accident inn in-n coal mine In Utah in ISM Soon nflor wlrd he obtained employment at his trade Three weeks ago he became troubled with severe headaches and boarded a car to go to a physicians office of-fice On the car ho met Fred Miller a I nodical student whom he had known In Milwaukee I After looking him over Miller wrolo I on the mutes tablet that he could be cured Fillmnn has been pronounced incurable by many physicians but he iiuickly ottered himself as a patient Heal He-al he would undergo anything to have Ills power of speech and hearing restored re-stored To pay his way through college Miller U Is acting In vacation as a traveling II siiUsinnn for a surgical instrument F house He sent to Chicago for two of his fellow students and after consultation I consulta-tion they decided to perform the operation I opera-tion tionHe He was put under ether a few minutes later and the students began working f on his throat They found seven large riots of blood resting on the muscles I which control the vocal organs and removed re-moved those t Then it was found that Fillman once more had the free use of the muscles Vher the man revived he was advised not to try to speak for several days He waited anxiously for three days while his throat gradually healed and then surprised his employer by greeting him Ills power of speech had returned to j him complete On examining of Fillmanns ears the I rtudcnls found that his left ear was completely destroyed The right auricle was not In such bad shape and they decided I de-cided to try the use of an eardrum In I It Each contributed So and they sent to Philadelphia for drum It was put r In Flilmnnns ear last Wednesday and he could l hoar perfectly from the minute J It was placed there I |