Show President Greets Wounded Yanks HONOLULU July 29 Delayed UP UP The The wounded kid in the stretcher shielded his eyes from the sun when they lifted him out of the hospital plane at Hickam field He looked no more than 19 or 20 years old but he was a marine lieutenant and had suffered a bad leg wound on When the stretcher bearers carried him across the concrete runway to a awaiting awaiting awaiting waiting ambulance he was thinkIng thinking thinking think think- ing only of a clean bed in a cool hospital The stretcher bearers stopped and the lieutenant uncovered his eyes to see why There leaning out of an an automobile was President President President dent Roosevelt Hello son the president said reaching to take the marines marine's hand The young lieutenant didn't I say a word He just grinned Well the president said youre up here now It is good to see you you you-I I got here just in time Other Litters Passed Other litters passed by the presIdents presIdent's presidents president's presidents president's dents dent's car and he waved or talked to each of the men they bore Most of the 17 wounded brought in from were what army doctors called very sick Some of them lay deathly still with not nota a flicker of recognition when the president greeted them Mr Roosevelt spent most of today visiting the wounded of the army navy and marine corps He went first to the army's general genral hospital formerly StLouis St St. Louis university and left his automobile automobile automobile au au- au- au to make a detailed tour of five wards He saw the septic surgery ward where each bed contained a young man suffering from a badly infected infected in infected in- in wound Virtually all aU of the wounded in the army hospital were from Go Goes s to Hospital Later the president went to the naval hospital overlooking Pearl Harbor where the results of war were brought home force force- fully He saw surgeons picking pieces of shrapnel from the skull of a sailor and he saw surgeons attempting to mend a marines marine's broken leg The president also visited for a moment with a young marine lieutenant lieutenant lieutenant lieu lieu- tenant who had amputated his own leg after suffering a bad wound in the jungle In this room the president marveled at the good spirits particularly when someone told him that the marine referred to himself now as doctor |