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Show JOBLESS MAN SELLS GLANDS TO MILLIONAIRE H. P. MCORMKX ! UNDER KNIFE TO REGAIN YOUTH Pays $500 for Glands! Needed to Restore Desired Vigor OPERATION SUCCESS Millionaire Recovering From Physical and Mental Trouble, Too Bv JAMES L. KILLG UJ EN, International .-w Service. CHICAGO. Juno 17. Tonight In the Wesley Memorial hospital lie two I men. one a multi-millionaire Harold' F SlcCormick, the Harvester man and the other a nameless, virile young chap recently of the army of unem-, ployed. Between them exists a strange; common bond The younger man. for a consideration of "Bomething l s than $500" has given his Interstitial glands to the ." 1 -year-old millionaire. In x remarkable effort at rejyvepa -ing. the elands were transplanted Mondny night by Dr. Victor D. Ees-pinasse, Ees-pinasse, whose experiments with human hu-man and monkey glands have startled medical circles. . si KM- VERY W ELI Mr. McCormlck. who is chairman of the executive committee of the International In-ternational Harvester company, smoked an occasional clgarot OS he ai propped up in bed in, his luxurious suite this evening. His cheek- had i healthy pink flush and he app. ir. .1 to bo In excellent humor. He declined, de-clined, however, to make a statement concerning the operation It Is expected that he will lea.-o the hospital within ten days. The younger man Is In much better condition. con-dition. It was said, and may leave at in. moment Sir McCormlck s operation was said to be a success. It was reported to be a painless one though one Which is serious to one or both parties concerned con-cerned It was said the millionaire patient had been suffering mentally as well as physically when he went to the hospital The transplanting of the glands has brought relief to this mental trouble too. EXPERT ON GLANDS. Dr. Lespinasse, who has performei 200 experimental operations upon glands, declined to discuss the operation oper-ation Fan a physician diSCUSfl operations with the press?" ho asked. There has been talk that Mr McCormlck Mc-Cormlck would marry Canna Walsk a. the Polish opera singer. HIS daughter, daugh-ter, Muriel, some time ago said ne would The day following the opera Hon he Is said tp have cabled the noted singer, who Is in Paris, that the operation was successful. The Harvester official was visited at the hospital during the day by Muriel und later by Mathilde McCormlck. McCor-mlck. 17-year-old granddaughter of John'D. Rockefeller, whose approach-in? approach-in? marriage to Max Oser. middle-aged middle-aged Swiss riding master, has created a stir. Late today Mr. McCormlck was well enough to give dictation to Miss Gladys Hanson, his stenographer in |