Show Man Seeks Escape From m Awful A Death LOS ANGELES Feb I 19 P In l'-In lInan In Inan an effort cHart to relieve relie a throat stricture that is slowly causing him to starve stane A. A E. E Brainerd 63 65 passenger traffic lc manager for the New York Central railway left here last night for tor Philadelphia Phila Phila- Philadelphia delphia to undergo a delicate opera opera- tion Brainerd was stricken fourteen months a ago o with a stran strange c constriction constriction constriction I tion of the esophagus which Is gradually grad tally closing dosing his throat and making it t Impossible for tor him to take food lood The present throat passage is about the size of ot a small string |