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ROME DAILY AMERICAN — Tuesday, September 28, 1954 abaiscires es sige TW iWindshield ‘Cancer’ Epidemic orthern . i i losions windshield exp! * * of shattering glass % “purricane path” of s! h. A Unit Any appeared heading bose sinfud SSS! to Rome a! then started north again. with the last case being noted one week ago at Modena, on the southern edge of the Reser valle: In foe ke the mystezy has left sources of stunned motorists, many cut by glass, describing the pheno- menon to puzzled authorities. They were driv.ng along, sober folk with nothing unusual visible before them, when The “explojed” Mysterious More than once a serious crackup has been narrowly averted. What causes it? No one seems to know. Ttalians call it “cancer of the winishield.” In tts course across Italy, the “disease,” which first appeared to. strike ical otorists inno spread Trom automobiles to melude streetcars and houses. It has occurred by day and night and seems unrelated to weather, speed or age of vehicle. Following its June appearance in the Italian Piedmont, where it struck four cars in an area of a hunired miles, the epidemic mov- ed east and south, hit Rome a week later. The phenomenon then mov- ed north, blasting the front glass of a big red tourist bus in Genoa. Latest case, still further north, was the literal explosion of the windshield glass of Di. Martino Fa- rinetti at Modena. Dr. Farinetti, €n route to a clinic, was cut in the face and momentarily lost control of the car. Attemping to brake to a stop, he spun around and nearly went over in a dit