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2d Ey me =" ‘ : ROME DAILY AMERICAN - | Tuesday, September 28, 1954 _ Tae, £ os > . : “ i 7 vit ae he 5+ bees Pe ea a 2 ‘ J ve followe.\/ ay Josions in Ttaly ha a yester- ous: windshield exp treress surtd ¥! . Mysteri path” of ghattering Bass Oe ite firat etarthays that hurric red beading north. A u ., - oorth Piedmont Jest o =, fay appeare? *——_—-____—+ uP-lunexplainable car-u:ndshield ex. — reef plcsion have moved to Rome and then. started narth again. with the fea: case being acted ane week ag? at MoJjena, on the southemn edge af the Raitt valley. In its wake the mystery lise left tources of stunned motorists, many cut by glass, describing the pheno- menon to puzzied authorities. ‘|. They were driv.ng along, sober folk with mathing unusual visible [Before them, when juddenly—erach! The “explojei” windshield sptint- ers into a thousand pieses, trashing into their hiys and efien cutting {the hands snd face. More than RCE & BeTiOUS trackup biz been oarrowly averted, What sauses {#? No one seems to know, Tialians call it “cancer of the windshield.” in its course across Ftaly, the “disease.” which “i tiret eppeared to Strike i si cyorists in northy Ss. eee Tram aulam-biles include atreetcars and houses. ui bas occurred by day and night and geems unrelated to weather, speed or age of vehicle. Following its June appearance in the Italian Pie{ment, where # struck four cars iy an grea of a hunired miles, the esidemic mov. ed east and south, blr Rome a week later. The phensmensn then move ed north, blasting the front glass of « big red tourist bus in Genoa. Latest case, still further north, was the itera! explosion of the Windshield glass of Dr. Martino Fa- *Trinettl at Modena. Dr. Farinett, #n route to a clinic, was cut in the face and momentarily Jost contro! of the ear. Attemping to brake to a stop, he spun around and pearly went over in « ditch. Se av er : Le) * 2