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SIAMESE TWINSSINKING WITHriitLITTLE CHANCELUS.Wr,s1Phoenixville. Pa.. May 2 lt;AP) —s The Sticrly 8iame.sc twins were still * ! alive today, and still flgrhtimr aatnAt I I a death which doctors say is tnevtt-r* I ables* j Thr Mcute little blonde girls ’ were lr isolated in the Phoenixvillr hospital o nursery. A nurse was with them taconstantly. c| •*r, i The gtrls were boi n early Sunday P morning to Mrs. Mary Stierly, 24. | whose husband. Harold, a war plant p k. worker, was killed In a motorcycle o accident two months ago. ! nn 1 Mrs. Stlerly saw them for the ouj i first time yesterday. Their crib was awltceled into her room. Tlieir bodies, I c Joined together at me pelvis, were v ic hidden from her by a sheet She saw ' r only the heads.Mrs. Stlerly's condition Is good, but she Is considerably depressed. I a r. said Dr J Elmer Ootwals, chief of s .staff at the hospitalSmaller lav Take Sister“The girls arc sinking. Their temperature Is higher today, and their pulse rate is too fast. There is no hope.Every six hours, nurses feed the girls a condensed milk formula. 'Hie 11 larger child Ls fed by bottle the .smaller by medicine dropper.It Is the smaller who is expected to take her sister with her in j death. Her head is about two-thirds j as large as her sister's, her vitality !! Ls low. and her circulatory system 1is bad. cThe girls have a single alimentary ;c tract and cannot be separated by j * surgery. When one dies. Dr. Got- 1 wals says, the other will soon follow.irstss*tI€sintieAc
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Gettysburg Times
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, US
Tue, May 02, 1944
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