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Show Vets Give Blood In Saving Lives WENATCHEE, Wash.. Feb. t UP) The American Legion's "battalion of blood" (had more" of the life fluid la Wena tehee than It aver did on the battlefields of Franca, but It's battling to save lives now. When the call come from soma h capital ca-pital or clinic, eight legionnaires can offer their veins within IS minutes, giving the surgeon, who summoned them for an emergency blood transfusion trans-fusion his choice of all four of the blood types needed to save the life of tha petient . It started, M. G. Wagner said today, to-day, when he was at tha point of death last year, and only a blood transfusion could ssva him, the doc-ton doc-ton said. The call went out and six of bis fellow legionnaire responded. When he left the hospital ha was thinking of tha good that could be done when a patient has no friends or relatives or funds to help with a transfusion. , Dr. A. G. Young, who "typed" the blood of the eight men in the squsd, said all four types are available. The legionnaires are not commercializing their services. "This is one of the finest things In a medical way that could happen." I said Dr. Young. "In tha large cities I they have regular lists at the hospitals, hos-pitals, but those donon are paid. Our I blood squad here is a different sort I of a proposition." |