Crane then set up a company called
Allied Industries to develop and
construct Rife Frequency Instruments.
Rife and Marsh were partners in the
company. Rife provided the technical and
scientific expertise, while it appears
that Marsh handled sales and marketing.
Crane then hired Thompson as their
Electronics Engineer. Although much of
Rife’s documentation was destroyed in
mid 1939 during Morris Fishbein's AMA
assault, Rife did all he could to
provide Crane with as much information
regarding the design and construction of
the Frequency Instruments that he could
remember, including the details of the
frequencies that were used. Fortunately,
Dr Gruner of Canada, who had worked with
Rife in the 1930’s, had a circuit
diagram of a Hoyland Rife Ray Instrument
and he sent Crane a copy.
The frequency instruments that Crane,
Rife and Marsh started to build used
audio frequencies. It may have been that
they were the easiest to build because
they already had a working Beam Ray Corp
instrument to base their design on.
Crane also lowered Hoyland’s frequencies
by a factor of 10. Marsh later
said that they had come up with the
frequencies using mathematics. Thompson
knew what frequencies Hoyland’s
instrument used and he gave those
frequencies to Rife, Crane and Marsh.
There were a few variations in some of
the new frequencies and these
adjustments may have been necessary in
order to get them to work better. Most
people thought that the lower audio
frequencies were Crane’s invention. The
facts have now shown that they were
Hoyland’s frequencies divided by 10.
Crane said that the first instrument
they built didn’t work very well and it
was not until 1957 that their
instruments were giving the sort of
results that had been achieved with the
Hoyland instruments. The Palo Alto
Detection Laboratory, the Kalbfeld
Laboratory, the UCLA Medical Laboratory
and the San Diego Testing Laboratory
were each provided with a Frequency
Instrument to test whether the output
from the instrument was harmful or not.
All four laboratories declared that the
instrument was safe to use.
In December 1953, with Crane’s
encouragement and with increasing
confidence as he saw his work being
revived, Rife wrote a report titled “History of the Development of a
Successful Treatment for Cancer and
other Virus, Bacteria and Fungi”.
The Rife Virus Microscope Institute, San
Diego, published this report. In this
report Rife described his methods and
the results achieved with his cancer
cure. However, the established medical
authorities ignored the report.
At the beginning of 1954, Rife
copyrighted his cancer report. Also in
1954, Allied Industries applied for a
research grant. Rife was listed as the
Principal Investigator for the grant,
and was shown as the Director of
Research. John Crane was listed as the
Manager and Design Engineer, Verne
Thompson as the Chief Electronics
Engineer, Don Tully as the Development
Associate, and Cameron Bland as an
Electronics Engineer. Dr James Couche,
MD, was listed as a consultant to the
company.
By 1956, Allied Industries had
changed its name to Life Labs Inc. with
Crane as the President and Rife as the
Chief of Research. The address of the
company was shown as being at 4246
Pepper Drive, San Diego.
On 8 November 1956, the San Diego
Section of the Instrument Society of
America witnessed the first public
showing of the new Frequency
Instruments, along with one of Rife’s
microscopes.
In July 1957, Crane and Marsh
supplied Frequency Instruments to Dr.
Robert Stafford of Dayton, Ohio who
began to conduct clinical trials. Here
is a quote from Marsh’s papers. Rife,
Marsh and Crane were talking at great
length about Marsh’s trip to Ohio to see
Dr. Stafford. In the papers they talked
about the frequencies. I would
recommend that everyone read these
papers because they show that Rife,
Crane and Marsh worked as a team and
that Marsh and Crane considered the Life
Labs Inc instrument to be Rife’s
instrument.
-
Rife:
“Well I have lived my life for the
benefit of humanity, and it is the
end result of the accomplishment.”
-
Marsh:
“Yes, now here is what I did tell
them. They wondered where I fit into
the picture. I told them I had
layouts of the base, [that] I
designed part of it. You would say
that I was possibly not exactly an
inventor, but I think we are all
co-inventors of a sort by adding
what we think would make the
instrument better and if they try to
validate any of the statements that
I have said to them please don’t let
me down, and say no this isn’t so,
which might upset what might be the
truth to them. I mean just by
accident. Now what I mean by that is
this. I don’t think that I have in
my own right lied to them. I did
[didn’t] try to impress them with
the idea that I was the one that did
it. I did impress that you [Rife],
John Crane and myself had worked
together on this thing, but that you
[Rife] were the inventor and John
[Crane] was the designer and
inventor, co-inventor and myself for
putting this thing together and
making it. They asked if I helped
putting this thing together and
making it from time to time. I
couldn’t tell them that I didn’t,
because if I had built up a feeling
in them that I knew nothing about
what I was doing; psychologically
that could have torn down, or have
caused delay [to] the foundation
that now is laid. Now I think we
have a solid footing there. I under
no circumstances would want that
torn down, and I will not under any
circumstances accept the credit for
this instrument as being invented,
because it is Rife’s instrument as
printed on the plate in front and
that is one of the reasons in
building you up to them, which I
don’t think is unwarranted; not by a
darn sight, and that is why they
want you there. They want to hear
you talk, and they also want to know
your past experiences with the
people of La Jolla and also I was
very happy to have received the
paper concerning the Dr. etc.,
because I’m sure Stafford will
contact every blooming Dr. that you
had given him to me and I turned
over all the letters to him, because
I didn’t want anything to stand in
the way if he could contact him, now
whether he would do that, before he
would talk to the group, and I do
not know. I suppose he will, but he
wants the truth as badly as you do.
Now I don't know an easier way it
can be done. I don't think there is
going to be an easy way to get it
on, but I think I’ve outlined this
thing. I studied the moves I was
going to make before I ever went
there. I studied what I was going to
do if I had the opportunity to do
so, which I did.”
-
Rife:
“Well I think that you did a very
excellent job.”
(From the John Marsh tape collection
- Trip to Ohio papers pages 4 & 5 on
www.rife.org)
In October 1957, Crane made a circuit
change that allowed control of the
intensity of the ray emission.
In November 1957, after 6 months of
testing, Dr. Stafford reported positive
results. Of 4 patients with cancer, one
made “remarkable and unexpected
improvement.” The other 3 were treated
while in a terminal stage. All 3 died,
but all obtained relief once the
treatment was initiated. Autopsies
were done on 2 of them. The results
showed they had died from other causes.
Stafford reported that there was a
“surprising paucity of cancer cells.”
Stafford also noted that of 33 patients
treated for a variety of ailments, none
experienced any detrimental effects from
the treatments.
In January 1958, Crane supplied
Rife-Crane Frequency Instruments to a
group of Salt Lake City doctors who
began to use the instruments on
patients. In February 1958, Dr Stafford
presented his findings to the Executive
Committee of the General Practice
Section of the Montgomery County Medical
Society of the AMA. The committee of 8
doctors were impressed. They agreed to
allow Dr Stafford to set up a Research
Committee with Dayton’s most influential
doctors. In March 1958, Dr Jeppson at
Salt Lake City, Utah reported that the
trials with the Rife-Crane instruments
were successful, however by May the Salt
Lake County Medical Board forced Jeppson
to stop providing Rife treatments. In
May and June 1958, Crane received
reports that the Rife-Crane instruments
often strayed off the desired set
frequency, which hindered the success of
the treatments.
Stafford used the AZ-58 for 5 years
on his patients. His report is very
favorable on many conditions that he
used it for but when it came to cancer
treatment, it seems that the AZ-58
instrument did not work as well as
Hoyland’s instrument did. Stafford said
this about the AZ-58 frequency
instrument:
“As yet, we have failed to “cure” any
case of advanced, terminal malignancy.
It appears in several instances that we
may have impressed the disease
favorably, temporarily. It is difficult
to rule out the psychological, morale
booster effect to the terminal patient
when some definitive effort is made
again in his behalf. However, several
improvements have appeared to be more
physical than emotional...All the
patients in the series were treated with
the same frequencies (e.g., 728 - 784 -
880 - 2008 - 2128). Perhaps these
frequencies may be wrong, or only nearly
correct.”
(From the John Marsh tape collection -
Dr. Stafford’s report on using the AZ-58
on www.rife.org)
Everyone that has been involved with
Rife technology for a long time has seen
the very same results as Stafford. The
question is why did Hoyland’s audio
instrument work so much better than the
AZ-58 when it came to cancer? It appears
that Life Labs Inc should have built the
AZ-58 exactly the same as Hoyland’s
machine and not changed it as they did.
The instrument had to be built exactly
the way Hoyland built it for it to work
properly. This unique way of building
the instrument appears to have
accomplished what he wanted to do and
that was to keep anyone from finding out
what the true MOR’s were. As we have
already read, Stafford came to suspect
that the audio frequencies were not the
true MOR’s and he corresponded with Dr
Edward Jeppson in Salt Lake City
regarding this problem. Here is an
extract from his letter:
“Please
excuse my format in the following letter
for I intend to ramble a bit and forget
strict grammatical dictum. I am writing
you at this time partially because John
Marsh informs me in a recent letter that
you may be somewhat disheartened or at
least worried about your role in the
experimentations with the Rife Machine.
Believe me, Dr. Edward I know how you
feel for I too have been through this
same feeling with this matter. I have
observed clinical results after
treatments with this gadget which I can
scarcely believe myself. Yet, despite
these good results, I have been confused
by some rather simple failures such as a
recent experiment which I conducted at
Good Samaritan Hospital where we used
the machine to treat some cultures of
Staph Aureus and Strept. Fecalis. In
this work we failed to inhibit growth at
all or influence the cultures with the
Rife Rx. I sent the results to John
Marsh and asked for clarification and to
be very frank I am not satisfied with
John’s excuse of the failure as
described by Dr Rife. I am afraid I’m
not a very good apostle for I’m getting
some ideas myself on how this thing may
work. I really wonder if this ultrasonic
kill’s bacteria and virus at all or does
it work like other forms of ultrasonic
and merely stimulate the tissue in some
unusual manner thereby improving the
circulation and secondarily enhancing
the bodies defenses against infection…To
summarize some of this rambling: I feel
that the Rife Ultrasonic Therapy has a
very definitely beneficial effect on the
human (and canine) body...I furthermore
feel that we, as doctors of medicine,
using this machine must remain
constantly alert to the condition of our
patient and vary the Rx as
indicated...Let me hear from you Dr
Jeppson. How are your cases coming
along.”
Clearly Dr Stafford didn’t believe
that the audio frequencies were correct.
Little did he know they weren’t even
close to the true frequencies. The
Rife Ray #4 frequencies were the correct
ones and the AZ-58 could not output
these frequencies. It could only try and
reach these frequencies by harmonics.
Whatever was told to Dr. Stafford by Dr.
Rife through John Marsh there was no way
that they were going to tell Dr.
Stafford he wasn’t using the correct
frequencies. This would ruin everything
that they had worked for. Besides they
were testing the AZ-58 to see how well
it would work using audio frequencies.
At this time it is apparent the AZ-58
was not performing as well as Hoyland’s
instrument. We need to remember Hoyland
tested his instrument using Dr. Rife’s
microscope. When Henry Siner was in
England testing Hoyland’s instrument he
reported that it would kill the
organisms while they were looking at
them under Rife’s microscope. Dr.
Stafford found out the AZ-58 was not
capable of doing this. In the 1950’s
Rife no longer had a lab for testing any
microorganisms. They were not able to
test the AZ-58 frequencies properly with
the microscope. So they did the only
thing they could. They let the doctors
use it and tell them how well it worked.
We must remember the first instrument
that Rife gave to Marsh and Crane was
Hoyland’s and it worked. Marsh said it
cured his wife of cancer. Again the fact
is the AZ-58 never worked as well as
Hoyland’s instrument. How Hoyland came
up with his idea to build his instrument
and make it work is still not fully
understood. The changes made to
Hoyland’s instrument to produce the
AZ-58 were not good changes. These
changes did not produce the same results
as Hoyland’s instrument. But still even
with the changes the AZ-58 worked very
well on just about everything else but
cancer. These lower square wave audio
frequencies are what people have been
using for the past 50 years believing
they were Rife’s true MORs. Until the
Beam Ray Corp trial papers, John Marsh
papers and the Beam Ray Corp instrument
of Hoyland’s came to light we did not
have the ability to finally figure out
where all these frequencies came from,
or which frequencies were the true MORs.
Not withstanding the various setbacks
Dr. Stafford was still amazed at the
wonderful results he achieved with the
AZ-58.
In June 1958, Crane built the first
Contact Pad Frequency Instrument and by
August 1958, Stafford had “the big
machine with the blue light bulb” and
the “new little machine with the direct
applicators”. The development of the
contact pad or electrode type instrument
was done supposedly with Rife’s
assistance. Crane had reasoned that the
radio transmitter type plasma ray tube
instruments would have difficulty
getting licensed as health devices, and
thought that a machine using contact
pads, instead of a ray tube, would
achieve the same results and be more
acceptable to the medical authorities.
Rife apparently supported this
development, since Crane and Rife are
heard in Marsh’s recordings, talking
about these instruments. Crane had
reasoned that the essence of the
instrument was the use of the correct
frequency and any means to deliver the
frequency would be acceptable if it was
effective. Rife stated later, that he
had observed a test of the effect of the
electronic frequency generator, of the
type produced by John Crane, and that he
had seen the instrument kill earthworms,
bacillus coli and other microbes.
Initially, Crane just used a Heathkit
audio frequency generator, although
later on he found that a more refined,
purpose built instrument worked better.
At the end of 1958, The California
Public Health Department held a hearing
regarding the use of the Rife-Crane
Frequency Instrument. Despite having
been declared safe by four prominent
laboratories, the AMA Board under the
California Director of Public Health,
Dr. Malcolm Merrill, declared it unsafe
and banned it from the market.
In 1959, Dr Couche provided Crane
with a taped interview & testimonial
titled “Twenty-two Years of Applied
Medical Therapy with the Rife Frequency
Instrument.” On 28th February
1959, Dr Stafford initiated discussions
with Crane for the rights to manufacture
and distribute the Frequency Instruments
in the Eastern United States. He had
already discussed a partnership with
Harold Leland, who was an electrical
engineer and they intended to form a
company to manufacture the frequency
instruments, under license from Life
Labs Inc. Crane replied to Stafford in
March 1959, and he discussed the details
of how the business venture between them
could be structured. Crane also
indicated that he was looking forward to
completing the design of the first
production instruments. He made a point
that these would operate below 10khz to
avoid any licensing requirements by the
FCC. Obviously, the machines that they
had been working with up until that time
were considered to be experimental
machines and a final design was still
being devised. Crane also proposed a
plan to only lease and not sell the new
instruments so that there would be more
control over the instruments to ensure
that they were periodically checked for
effectiveness. Crane was concerned that,
if the instruments did not work
correctly, the doctors would fail to get
good results – an occurance that had
troubled them in the past. Crane had
already completed a preliminary patent
application with a California attorney,
and he sent a copy of it to Dr Stafford
for his Ohio patent attorney to examine.
The two patent attorneys were in
agreement that the application was in
order.
However during the period 1959 to
1960, Crane was unable to submit the
patent application to the government
patent office until the “usefulness” of
the invention could be shown. He was
advised that substantial evidence had to
be gathered from enough doctors and
others experimenting with the different
frequencies, before the patent
application would be accepted. With no
organized medical, scientific and
laboratory involvement in the research,
as had been the case in the 1930’s,
Crane was forced to establish
“usefulness” under a very difficult
handicap. There was opposition from the
California Public Health Department and
he already had problems with the
authorities in Salt Lake City. So Crane
decided to lease the Frequency
Instrument out to doctors in order to
build his experimental base and thus
prove the “usefulness” of the device.
The number of people who were being
healed with the machines began to mount.
Crane slowly gathered reports,
testimonials and evidence. In the
meantime, he refined the procedures for
the operation and use of the pad-type
Frequency Instrument.
In 1960, Crane wrote and copyrighted
a manual explaining how the Frequency
Instrument was to be used. By that time,
about ninety instruments were in use by
doctors for research and verification
purposes. Crane finally improved the
efficiency of the instrument by placing
a tuning capacitor in the resonant
circuit of high voltage transmission.
However, things were soon to turn
against Crane and his colleagues. Towards the end of 1960, the AMA and the
FDA raided Crane's office and $20,000
worth of equipment, electronic parts,
engineering data, research records and
reports were removed along with all his
pictures off the wall, private letters,
invoices and tape recordings. This
was reputedly done without a search
warrant. Doctors who had Rife-Crane
instruments were visited and forced to
give them up. Ordinary citizens who had
begun to experiment personally were
threatened. Eventually the partners of
Life Labs Inc. were served with a
summons regarding “the manufacture and
sale of illegal medical devices” and
"practicing medicine without a license".
Rife, then almost 73, was unable to
handle more abuse from the authorities
and went into hiding in Mexico. On 7th
March 1961, while in Mexico, Rife
provided a sworn deposition to assist
with Crane’s defense.
In Spring 1961, the case of "The
People of the State of California vs.
John Marsh, Lallas Bateson, and John
Crane" came to trial. From the
beginning, the case went badly against
the defendants. Crane, Bateson and Marsh
were not allowed to use any of the
records and materials seized, in their
own defense. The judge did not permit
Rife's deposition or Dr Stafford’s
reports or any other medical reports
from the 1930's and 1940's to be
presented as evidence. Dr
Tully provided Crane with a testimonial
document titled “A Discussion on the
Frequency Instrument Therapy” but it was
also not permitted to be presented. The
foreman of the jury was an AMA doctor
and the balance of the jury was screened
to make sure that they had no medical or
electronic knowledge. No Frequency
Instruments were presented or
demonstrated in court. The only medical
opinion offered by the State of
California came from Dr Paul Shea who
had been asked to evaluate a Frequency
Instrument by the Public Health
Department 2 months before the trial.
Shea admitted that he “never tried (it)
or made tests to evaluate it. He simply
examined it and decided that it had no
curative powers and didn't lend itself
to investigative use". Ben Cullen
related an interesting occurance during
the trial. Verne Thompson was called to
testify and the prosecution asked him
some questions about Crane's device.
They asked, "Was it any good?" and
Thompson said, "No, it was not any good,
it was just a fake." When Thompson came
off the witness stand, Cullen beckoned
him over and said to him, "For goodness
sakes, now you knew the value of those
little black boxes. They were properly
calibrated for certain conditions. Why
did you lie that way?" Thompson replied,
"I have a job to protect." And Cullen
said, "For goodness sakes alive, you
mean to say you would lie and send a man
over the road, to protect your job?"
Thompson said, "I have a family." The
trial lasted 24 days and Crane and Marsh
were both found guilty and were
sentenced to 10 years in prison. Later
on appeal to the State Supreme Court,
two of the three counts against Crane
were reversed "because no specific
criminal intent had been proven". After
the trial, Stafford was so pressurized
by the authorities that he gave up
medicine.
Using his time in prison
constructively, Crane studied law and
was successful in obtaining an early
release for both himself and Marsh.
Crane and Marsh spent a total of three
years and one month in jail. When Crane
was released from prison in 1964 on
parole, he was watched closely by the
San Diego police. On at least one
occasion, after attending a meeting of
the early San Diego Cancer Control
Society, he was arrested by the police
and taken to jail for violating his
parole conditions by attending such a
meeting. Although the “Rife Cancer Cure”
was in a shambles, Crane vowed to begin
the fight all over again.
After their release from prison in
1964, Crane and Marsh continued to
collaborate together on their Rife work,
but they were forced to work separately
so as not to violate the the terms of
their parole conditions. During December
1964 Crane met Ron G Rockwell who
began to work with Crane building Rife
Frequency Instruments.
In October 1965, Crane submitted an
application to the California Board of
Public Health for approval of the
Frequency Instrument. The application
was made in the name of the Rife Virus
Microscope Institute, of which John
Crane was stated to be the President.
Sometime in late 1965, Rife returned
from Mexico but remained in the
background. On 17th November, the
California Board of Public Health
replied that Crane must first show the
instrument to be effective in use before
they will grant any approvals. Dr
Charles W Bunner, a Chiropractor, agreed
to provide "proof of effectiveness."
Shortly thereafter, officials from the
California Board of Public Health
visited Bunner and forbade him to use
the instrument. They also presented him
with a court order to have the
instrument destroyed. Dr Les Drown,
another Chiropractor, provided Crane
with a statement regarding the
effectiveness of the instrument. Drown
was then “forced” by an American Cancer
Society representative to surrender his
Frequency Instrument or go to jail.
On 4th March 1968 for the sum of
$500, Rife signed over ownership of the
rights of invention of his microscope to
Crane. It was stated in the Assignment
of Invention that Crane intended to
patent the Rife microscope and that Rife
would give all assistance for Crane to
obtain the patent. Rife already had
considered the Frequency Instrument to
be jointly owned by himself and Crane
because of all the work that Crane had
done on it.
During 1970, Crane continued to seek
funding for research and applied to the
National Cancer Institute, the
Rockefeller Foundation and others for
financial aid and support.
On
10th October 1972,
Ron Rockwell (our
friend) was officially appointed as the
Chief Engineer and Machinist for the
Rife Virus Microscope Institute.
In 1973, Crane again tried to patent
the Frequency Instrument. Here are some
extracts from the patent application: