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ROME DAILY AMERICAN Tuesday,September 28,1954 Windshield 'Cancer'Epidemic Moving To Northern Italy have-i Mysterious windshield explosions in Italy plosion have moved to Rome ana Lex- last case being noted one week ago of the Po River valley. sources of stunned motorists, many cut by glass, deseribing the pheno- menon to puzzlei authorities. They were driv.ng along, sober folk with nothing unusual vis.ble before them, when suddenly-crash! The "explodedwindshield splint- into their laps and cften cutting the hands and face. More than narrowly averted. What causes it? No one seems to know.Italians call it cancer of the winishield.In its course across Italy, the "disease,"which spread from automobiles to include 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 Pieamont, where it struck four cars in an area of hunired miles, the epidemic mov- a ed east and south, hit Rome a week later. The phenomenon then mov- Latest case, still further north, was the literal explosion of the windshield glass of Dr.Martino Fa- rinetti at Modena. en route to a clinic, was cut in the Dr. Farinetti face and momentarily lost control a stop, he spun around and nearly went over in a ditch. ENCLOSU! 83894-357