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Show YEOMANETTE IS DEAD AFTER SEVEN HOURS UMDER KNIFE ;'" (By International News Service) . XLYV YORK -Details of n. rare op-J -t eratlon nerfornu d imin Mias Edith leahelle Orltman. the ilrst woman pal-' Z' lem to be admlttecr to the Polyclinic m?. :j hospital since it was taken over by, the go ernment. have been made pub-1 lie. Miss Grltman who nerved In the war an a veomanette m the na y, died after a tumor had been removed from her brain. Since las; March she has been the only woman patient among the hundreds hun-dreds of soldier and .sailor wounded and 111 in the hospital. Kor month prior to entering the hospital she had , ymg, suffered intensely from headaches but1 $$k eye specialists and physicians were un- $8? able to determine the caue. WM Because of her scrvicei In the wur ra she was admitted io :ne Hoiyc.in:'" JMk hospital. Eight weeks ago an x-iay L showed the pre , on the r'' brain. A preliminary ejjerarion was Ml immediately performed to relieve the 2,'! depression, nd Joseph K King, brain' (til spj i i illsi of the New York Neurologl- SHm .al Institute, renioved the tumero'js, jM growth. Bk The operation lasted seven and one- aWm balf hourn. Miss Grltman, who was 20 . Keara ind lived with her parents B In Itb'hmond Hill, never recoverri cunsclousness and died two hours |