LIFE

Last week these births made medical news:

In Oakland distracted young Horatio Randall shot his pretty estranged wife Elsie in the head. Elsie was almost nine months pregnant. Less than ten minutes before she died, Surgeon Clarence Augustus De Puy delivered her by Caesarean section of a robust boy.

In East Irvington, N. Y,, answering a midnight emergency call, Patrolman George Butler sped his radio car to an out-of-the-way household where Mrs. Eleanor Moller, 22, was about to bear her third child, in a kitchen, alone. Police Doctor Cassius De Victoria was soon en route in another police radio car, but Mrs. Moller could not wait. Patrolman Butler edged his car up to the window of the kitchen where she lay, turned up the radio to full blast, so Dr. De Victoria could tell him what to do. In a few minutes John Joseph Butler Moller was successfully born.

From Jasper, Fla. Dr. Joseph Horace Corbett reported in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association, that just as he had everything ready to deliver a mother, the baby began crying. "It could be heard all over the room and by an uncle in the adjoining room," said he. "We postponed giving the anesthetic, because it was such an unusual occurrence. I have never heard of a case like this before. . . ." Many a babe has been heard crying inside its mother, sometimes hours before delivery. It occurs when, as the amniotic membrane bursts, letting fluid out, air gets in.

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