For Cancer: $3,000,000

John Davison Rockefeller Jr. last week gave $3,000,000 in cash and securities and $900,000 in land to build a new cancer hospital in mid-Manhattan across the street from his Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. The building will house Manhattan's Memorial Hospital for the Treatment of Cancer & Allied Diseases.

Memorial Hospital will soon abandon its 49-year-old quarters on the upper west side of Central Park, either to a hospital organization not too finicky about modernism or to an apartment house promoter.

Most happy over the Rockefeller gift was zealous, learned Dr. James Ewing, who thereby realized 40% of a dream. Dr.

Ewing, whose cancer research at Memorial Hospital has done most to combat this disease in the U. S., has repeatedly asked for a $10,000,000 cancer research institution in Manhattan. With such an institution and five similar ones in five other major cities, he claims that oncologists can eventually conquer cancer which, by killing one person in every thousand each year, ranks second as a cause of death in the U. S.&* The present old cancer hospital takes care of 325 patients a day, has some 11,000 active cases of cancer on its outpatient rolls. The new hospital will care for twice as many patients a day, will surpass in medical and research facilities the cancer institutions in Rome, Milan and Buenos Aires, which at present are considered the best in the world.

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