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Show SENATOR'S SACRIFICE SAVES WIFE'S LIFE WA8HINOTON. June 30 United State Senator Luk. Lea of Tenneeaee, te aeve tha Ufa of hi. wife, heroically aacrl-flced aacrl-flced a Quart of blood at Georgetown unt-veretty unt-veretty noapltal Sunday, and laat night hope for Mr.. Lea', recovery, which had almoet been abandoned. I. practloairy aa-aurd. aa-aurd. while the youngest aenator In the nation, a. h. lie. near tha bedetde of hla wife, la recuperating hla atrengrh- Mra. Lea', condition, aetioua for mm time, became alarming Sunday atar aa operation the day before. Her strength, because of lack of blood, wa. gone and Tltallty wa fast ebbing away Senator Lea. upon learning of her condition, con-dition, demanded that a tranafoalon op rattoa be performed and prepared at ono to submit to the ordeal. Attending phyatdana and .org eon. mad. arrange-menta arrange-menta Immediately, and th ' operation which followed wa. declared to have been very successful. Senator Lea withstood tha operation well, though It left him greatly weakened. weak-ened. For hour, he could not atand alon. Surgeons aaaured him that without the tacrine which he made Mr, Lea could bav Hvrd but a few hour. It will be two or three day. before Mr. Lea 1. altogether out of danger. At prea-ent prea-ent her aymptom. .re favorable, although she Is still very weak. Senator Lea. It la expected, will be able to leave hi. room In a few daya. Becauee a prim factor In transfusion operatlona Is that the blood of th two bodlea be fusible, tests were hastily ordered. or-dered. Before th analyal. waa com-plet com-plet the surgeons rearing that death might be swifter than they, decided to try th. operation anyway. juat aa th Mnator'a arm had been bared and a tuba Inserted In an artery, word cam. that the blood of th hue-band hue-band and that of the wife wer fusible. The patient responded to tha treatment from the first. Gradually the color waa restored to the Hps and cheeke of tba sufferer. But as Mrs. Lea', color wa. restored the flueh faded from th. cheeks of her husband. After the operation Senator Lea fell to the floor In a faint. |