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Show iflii '0 I 1 I I AQaiMiwdj i Air Evacuation of Wounded Its Place With IRWMD Sulfa Drugs and Blood Plasma as One of Modern , a New Yorker: New lork papers recently ot IVofs of The lakes tered an article by Gypsy Rose Lee's mother. The story was about Gyp-i- y . . . New Yorkers are familiar ivith the silly quarrel between these two . . . Supposed to have started when Gypsy wrote articles for a magazine about her early career in which her mater was kidded a lot and unfrocked a little . . . Broad. wayites later heard buzzing about mother and daughter getting to the M ilifary Medicine's Greatest Life-Savi- WAS one of the doughHEboys who jumped down - Iff f It agreement aimed to remove the on oil. ianger of war an agreement ecoticklish most of the one Oil is nomic subjects in the world. Oil is makes a nation's battleships move, runs the automobiles, sends the planes into the air in fact, spells the difference between a nation of itrength or a nation which must The dow to the whims of others. setpresent oil agreement seeks to tle the battle for oil; eliminate one Important cause of war. The last war was scarcely over Great Britain began maneuvering to corner the oil supplies of the world. British leaders were quite frank about it. United States Protests. Finding itself in this position, the United States government jumped Into the battle for oil with vigor. The secretary of state, Charles Evans Hughes, wrote a series of blunt, notes to the British, wanting to know why they barred American oil companies from Palestine, 6ince Palestine was not British but merely mandated to the British by the League. the British, though Meanwhile, barring the U. S. from their areas of interest, quietly invaded ours. They turned up with concessions in Colombia, not far from the Panama Canal. Even in Panama proper, a g British company staked out a huge and suspicious claim in an area where no gold was known to name-callin- Now is probably the last time to recount this instance of the humory ous that went on between FDR and Henry Wallace. When Mae West was suing Frank Wallace for divorce the papers were full of stories headed "Mae West Charges Wallace Unkind to Her." The President by-pla- scissored one out and sent it to the vice president with a note (in his own handwriting) reading, "Henry, is this the way to treat your wom- en?" Ernie Fyle reported the incident of captured Nazi General von Schlie-ben- , who squawked to Yank commanders about American photographers taking his picture without ask-in- g permissidn . . . And how General Collins reminded Von Schlieben that in the United States there is a free press "and we in the army cannot stop our newspapers from printing the news and taking pictures." In Time (or Life) a few editions ago, we read what the photographer said when Von Schlieben barked: "Oh, I am bored with you American photographers taking my picture." The American hocus-focu- s man (who understood German) snapped back: "And I'm bored taking pictures of captured Nazi gen- erals." This is the newest Russian gag overheard at the Madison Bar: "So Ivan Ivanovltch died gallantly in the midst of battle," sobbed Katerina Mikhallovna Mrkhailovitch. "You say be uttered my name with his lasl breath?" "Part of it," replied the returned soldier, "only part of it." An ironic fact is that George M. Cohan never could scribble a suc cessful ditty about baseball, the sport he loved so much. Cohan, as all Broadway knew, was a Polo. Grounds faithful. Yet the two songs he wrote about baseball were never performed more than a few trrerj times, even with John McGraw and the Giants lending themselves to its promotion. Yet Albert Von Tilzer'i "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" is as famous as the game itself, anc Von Tilzer saw his first baseball con test only a short while back, aftei his tune had been played and sunj for decades. "Take Me, etc.," was not the first baseball song ever written. In 188? a ballplayer named Kelly was an ida up in Boston. A faithful fan scribblec a ditty tagged "Slide, Kelly. Slide." The three-wor- d phrase became mon popular than the song. A song was responsible for finish ing a baseball star's promising ca rer when it looked as though h rnigijt develop into another Hubbel or Walter Johnson. His name wai Harry Covalcskie, and he was witi the Phillies. One season he established himset by pitching against the Giants threi times in five days (beating them it all starts) and taking a pennan right from under their noses. Th Giants, burned up, found out latel that Covaleskie, as a kid, hac trouped in amateur vaudeville sing ing "Silver Threads Among thi Cold." One afternoon the following sum mer Covaleskie was hurling agains the Giants when from their dug-ocame the strains of "Silvei Threads." The Giants kept this uj all during that series, and other Na Uonal League clubs followed with thi In six weeks, Co same ribbing valeskie was a nervous wreck . . The following year saw him fad from baseball completely. u ... Despite the ODT's warning: against unnecessary travel, vaca tion travel is up 10 per cent. Ap parently, there are people who won' do anything to help win the war-ev- en if it means staying home an doing r.nthing. certain New York State Senator after a nervous breakdown and i holiday in a sanitarium, was pro He re nounced honky-doolturned to the Senate at Albany where he engaged in a hot debat the first day. During the debate, one of his opno cents, forgetting the man's illness lost his temper and yelled: "You'n . it-- - his gaping wounds. The next morning four s) Within two hours they had gathered up not only this GI Joe but wounddozens of other desperately ' ed, loaded them into the planes . which were soon winging their way back to England. Two weeks in an American army hospital there and then on June 29 a huge Air Transport Command plane settled down on an airfield on Long Island, N. Y. It was just 19 hours since it had left the British Isles. A day's rest in a hospital near New York then aboard a plane again. And today this GI Joe is con valescing in an army hospital out in the Colorado Rockies, near enough to his home so that Dad and Mom and Sis can come to see him get well It's several thousand miles from the place where his blood dyed the sands of the French coast to this place where both his body and mind are being healed of the wounds of war but this cycle of life, near-deatthen life again, is encompassed with. in the time span of less than four weeks! The reason for this can be summed up in two words: air evacu atlon. No wonder that Maj. Gen David N. Grant, air surgeon for the army air forces, was able to de clare recently that the army's system of air evacuation of its wounded takes its place with sulfa drugs and blood plasma as "one of the three g measures of greatest modern military medicine"! Because of air evacuation, men are alive today who would have per ished in the jungles of Makin island or on the Anzio beachhead, and personnel of the air transport com mand's ferrying division, who have participated in the air evacuation of more than 7,500 war wounded. have no hesitancy in indorsing the air surgeon's statement. It's a part of the army's policy of handling wounded soldiers through a progressive system of unit hospitalization which has been developed to a high degree under the direction of Maj. Gen. Norman T. Kirk, surgeon general of the army. Because of front-lin- e treatment given American soldiers, more than 97 per cent of the wounded brought from batUeflelds to evacuation hospitals have been saved. Once the wounded have been treated, they must be sent to hospitals far from the scene of battle where they can res,t and recover and, of course, the quickest way to get them there is by airplane. Part of these wounded have been flown from foreign theaters of war to their homeland and thousands of them have been flown from hospitals on tha coast to hospitals near their homes where they cun convalesce and benefit in spirit from visits of family and friends, for it is a basic army policy to get its wounded soldiers as close to home as possible for the convalescent period. In a recent report on the handling of rpen wounded during the invasion ofVrance, Maj. Gen. Paul R. Haw-lechief surgeon of the European theater of war, stated: "There has not been the slightest hitch in the chain of evacuation. As a result of the speed with which these wounded were evacuated from Normandy, the condition of the casualties on arrival in the United Kingdom has been surprisingly fine." To that comment might be added the fact that approximately 4,000 sick and wounded have been returned to this country aboard Air Transport command planes, part of them over regularly scheduled transport services opera t- y, J&a. 1 bare-face- GOING HOME A soldier is carried aboard a plane operated by the ferrying division of Air Transport command and in a few minutes will be flying to a hospital in the vicinity of bis home. Flight surgeons inside the aircraft supervise the job. ed by the ferrying division of ATC. Many hops are as long as 12,000 miles. Only one patient among those evacuated by the Air Transport command has been lost as the result of air travel. Cooperation Does It. Close cooperation between the several organizations of the army makes possible successful air evacu ation of the war wounded. The combat air forces outside the United States, the foreign wings of Air Transport command and various air commands in the United States, no tably the First Trooper Carrier command, have done experimental work on the problem. In 1943, a total of 173,527 sick and wounded patients were evacuated by American military aircraft throughout the world. ATC carrying all those returned to this country. Here is the way evacuation from the combat areas is accomplished: Suppose the scene is Anzio beachhead. Medical corpsmen have toiled across the bullet-swep- t area, given a guy named Jim emergency attention, then inched back with him to the beach where he receives more extended treatment. At a nearby clearing station, the flight surgeon classifies the patients. He determines that this soldier, just arrived from the front, has a serious head wound which requires immediate surgical attention. When the transport plane flies in, Jim is among the outgoing patients. The medical air evacuation units transform the plane from its troop or mission and do it quickly lest snipers or bombs disable the aircraft. Litter equipment is installed in three or four tiers and as many as 24 patients are loaded. Two men carry each litter to the plane, two more place it in position inside and a third man inside fastens it in place. In an emergency, the flight nurse in the plane must use untrained personnel for this work and occasionally she takes the place of a loader. When the plane takes off, the flight nurse is in medical charge. Only in extreme emergencies does the flight surgeon accompany her. A surgeon checks, when possible, during the refueling stops. Otherwise the flight nurse and a surgical technician, an enlisted man with non commissioned officers' rating, handle the patients. The plane is equipped with an ambulance chest which is a small trunk containing bandages, medicine for the relief of pain, equipment for administering intravenous medication and blood plasma also is on the plane. Once in the air, the flight nurse is in complete charge, aided by a trained staff sergeant. Aloft she handles ar.y emergency and does anything a doctor would have to do except operate. Already the men borne aloft from Anzio were feeling better. Removed from the din of battle, their shock condition improved. Jim, for example, mustered sufficient interest in life to ask where he was going. Six hours after he left Anzio he was in a base hos pital in North Africa undergoing a delicate brain operation. The evacuation chain does not end at the base hospital overseas. Ef- ficiency and medical factors suggest that the men be kept moving rearward until they are as close to home as possible. Part of the wounded. cargo-carryin- g of course, come home by ship. Patients for the trans-ocea- n flights are selected by flight surgeons. Four Kinds of Patients. Patients' general fitness for air travel is the deciding factor and they are grouped into four medical categories: (1) Mental patients requiring security accommodations en route; (2) Hospital litter patients who must remain in bed, services rendered by other individuals; (3) Ambulance patients requiring medical care en route from other individuals; (4) Troop class patients needing little medical care en route who can take care of themselves, even in emergencies. Air evacuation increases enormously once the patients have reached coastal receiving hospitals in the United States, either by aircraft or by surface shipping. The same system of screening is employed at the coastal receiving hospitals that was described previously as prevailing overseas. Urgency of the patients' conditions, together with their susceptibility to air transportation are primary considerations. Sergt. Walter A. Smith of Springfield, Mass., can testify that the army doesn't stint on its resources when one of its wounded needs special attention. On May 9, 1944, he was wounded in action in Italy. He reached the United States June 14 in a convoy and entered Baker General hospital at Martinsbury, W. Va. An examination by the staff there revealed that immediate surgical attention was necessary. Ashford General hospital at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., had the specialist for the type of operation required. Two mornings later a ferrying division plane was at Hagerstown, Md., when Sergeant Smith arrived by ambulance. He was placed aboard with a full crew making certain that the solitary patient received every attention. By noon that day, the sergeant was on the operating table at Ashford General hospital receiving the best surgical care that the army has. Ordinarily ferrying division planes engaged in air evacuation are completely utilized with all space occupied. Within the continental United States, the evacuation by air of the army's war wounded is the responsibility of the ferrying division of the Air Transport command. Since this responsibility was assumed more than 7,000 patients have been moved without injury to any of the per- sonnel involved. "The air evacuation of sick and wounded personnel of the armed forces was pioneered by the medi-ca- l services with the AAF and it can be considered as one of the greatest measures in modern military medicine," Lieut Col. Andres G. Oliver, surgeon of the ferrying division comments, "Its rapid and comfortable delivery of the patient to a hospital where he or she will get the best (and most spe- cializcd) treatment; or to another closer to his home, where his con-' valescence will be shorter and far more pleasant, has become a great morale factor among our returning heroes." Thus justice is being served when the aircraft, so terrible an instru-meof death and destruction, can be converted to such humanitarian functions as air evacuation. iir Medal History Begins to Repeat. In World War II, history at first began to repeat. The five senators who toured the world war fronts came back with the story of how the U.S.A. was rapidly depleting her oil reserves while the British were hoarding theirs. They told how the British were trying to keep us from further developing oil resources in Arabia; how the British had a refinery on the Gulf of Persia, 50 per cent idle, while we shipped oil clear across the Atlantic to British armies in the Near East. Yes, it looked as if history woul repeat. On last April 29, however, representatives of the British and American governments negotiated an informal understanding 'timed to eliminate the oil battles of the future. It was an excellent, agreement. And during the last two weeks in Washington, Lord Beaverbrook and his associates have been negotiating with Secretaries Ickes and Hull to make this informal oil agreement formal and binding. This time, the British have been far more cooperative and Ribbon Winner obvl-ouM- y rib-bo- n i cuts of standard widths them have seats and . yet K back ,of comfortable angles. The lines proportions are good and backs are removable for J storage. i . Pattern 2SS materials, laree diapi nm. all the pieces of the child's chair uiieuuuns ior assembling p,., 269 lists materials with riis,J. . NOTE of p rections for the u vv. adult-sii- vuiiia, ms chair. Patti or Doth rd e tstpaia, VlUCt IrOlH MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEAttS Bedford Hills xew ytt Drawer 10 Enclose IS cents for Pattern 253, 25 cents for Patterns 253 and 269. bt In Address. V--a Monument to Champion Swapper of This Ai tick lefor 0 Rome's monument to Vict Emmanuel II. king of Italv to 1861 to 1878, is the costliest med rial of its kind in the world, sa .ale ceo i Collier's. Built of white marl and embellished with numero sculptured croups and reliefs well as a great equestrian stafc of the king, this massive structo occupies almost a square block. It is as high as an buildmg, cost $5,000,000 and ws under construction for 26 years fore its dedication in 1911. It is) lane be "1 l k:: VERONA 5rJ- - many n.um. fair future peace. For instance, he has been insisting that Britain have the right to ban the sale of U. S. oil in England, despite the fact that British Shell sells in this country. However, the basic agreement is truly encouraging when it comes to future peace. Provisions of Agreement. It provides, first: 'That petroleum shall be available in international trade to the nationals of all peace-lovin- g countries in adequate volume, at fair prices and on an equitable and basis." This means that, if the U.S.A. runs out of oil or vice versa, it is up to Britain to help supply us unless, for example, one or the other attempts to conquer Ethiopia as did, and the world countries attempt to cut off their oil as the League tried to do to Italy but. because of pressure from the big companies, could not ?Tdod star. aootbPow- -.: ""j ro 1 jmri- - Upset Stomach . ww nnuviw IH 4NUMiwt Whn txeam itomKh rtd etnw I'"'"1' u. aoar nonaeh and hrttourn, dnetori""S, Inn ,,""-"- rt rnintmniac relief -- Bnlinnm bnnif mm"", Ti&Ui. No lai.tlv.. Mi-in- i buk go retan Jiffy or doohl jour nvm to oft. 2m at all druuruM. Mus-soli- peace-machiner- y do. The agreement also gives "equal opportunity" for "acquisition." etc., in areas under This eliminates cutthroat rivalry for new fields. Each nation relpcct 0,6 valid concessions of the other and its citizens. Finally, and very important, "exploration, development, operation of reflncnes and distribution shall not be hampered by restrictions imposed by either government or its nation- n. ' "N A JUST A 0SH IN wiTMrot H (Aiix Axis nmmm And Your Strength and Energy I. Below P"' ...! by "dli th.t permit, r1,, arat function t ocomulU!. For 'ru'5Lr,bn MERRY-T.O-ROUN- Mr- - Turk- -" --utn kVJinmVfflsWI may b. S; Caulllo1Us A i Ato Get Your War Bonds To Help Ax the HS. you want on why the finally broke with Germany. it wa! because Hitler had moved troops out of Bulgaria just opposite After that, the Turks afrafd of bring attacked.... X Sw52 .uw-aow- soldier some attention that Is much appreciated. Lieutenant Bonwhuls wears the Air Medal In recognition of heroic gerv-Ice- s performed in the South war theater. larger edition that you see i sketch. All the pieces are sto than in 1919 with one possible exception. After U. exports laid their excellent April 29 ground work, Lord Beaverbrook kicked over the traces at some things, and he seems to be keeping a more watchful eye on the interests of the empire than on a j MORALE BUILDER Typical of the flight nurses assigned to the ferrying division of the Air Transport command is Lieut. Gerda II Bouwhuis of Kalamaioo, Mich In this picture she Is giving a wounded crazy." you?" exist. " ... Pulling out his discharge certifl cate, Our Hero waved it and said "I ean nrnvp I'm ane now cat d jl gold-minin- life-savi- A y Brit-li- n are just concluding the first A chattering machine gun in a German pillbox, that swooped down near the field hospital where he lay. Land mines were exploding 150 yards away when the first two ships landed. Out from these planes sprang two flight nurses Marjean Brown of Columbus, Ohio, and Suella Bernard of Waynesville, Ohio. "All right, soldier, you're going to take a little trip with us!" smiled one of them. should be important. The United States and Great y. planes (unarmed .im to T ton or husband out of another war, from a landing barge to the sandy shore of Normandy on hadn't yet been silenced, point of sprayed lead across his path Once Gypsy received a telegram and he slumped to the ground. from her Mom, which warned that There was a cry of "Medic! unless the two could get together about a certain matter she the Medic!" and a moment later mother would "give" the story to skilled hands were binding up the newspapers. "Look, Mom, don't be a fool," replied Gypsy, "don't give it to the papers. Sell It to them." Clf Z f& t?M J , . .iat "3a 1 ana id inches for little ones enougn to be Washington, D. C. their earl through ACCORD OIL U. 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