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Show 'HAY SAVE A : mmt i Surgeons in. a Hospital to Patch Up a Broken Neck I New York, Dec)30. By an early operation, it is hoped at "the Roosevelt Roose-velt hospital today to save the life of Edward Cox, a 17-year-old clerk whose neck was broken in a peculiar accident on Broadway yesterday. Cox attempted to cross the street In the wake of a passing taxicab and stumbled over a njpo with which tho motor car was towing a disabled automobile. au-tomobile. In falling he turned a complete com-plete somersault and landing on his head. t A hospital examination by x-ray revealed re-vealed that his neck was broken. Cox although conscious and able to walk freely, cannot move any portion of his body. The lfospltal surgeons, however, express bopo of being able to restore him normal condition by heroic measures. 4 |