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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER Lawn Chair Is Like Sulfa Drugs and Blood Plasma as One of Modern Military Medicine's Greatest Notej of a New Yorker: The New York papers recently ottered an article by Gypsy Rose Lees mother. The story was about Gyp-i- y . . . New Yorkers are familiar with the silly quarrel between these two . . . Supposed to have started when Gypsy wrote articles for a in magazine about her early career which her mater was kidded a lot Broad-wayite- s and unfrocked a little . . . later heard buzzing about mother and daughter getting to the point of name-callinOnce Gypsy received a telegram from her Mom, which warned that unless the two could get together about a certain matter she the mother would "give the story to the newspapers. "Look, Mom, dont be a fool, replied Gypsy, dont give it to the papers. Sell it to them. Now is probably the last time to recount this instance of the humory that went on between ous FDR and Henry Wallace. When Mae by-pla- West was suing Frank Wallace lor divorce the papers were full of stories headed "Mae West Charges Wallace Unkind to Her. The President 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 women? Ernie Pyle reported the incident of captured Nazi General von Schlie-bewho squawked to Yank commanders about American photograaskphers taking his picture without Gening permission . . . And how eral 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 hocus-focu- s picture. The American man (who understood German) snapped back: "And Im bored taking pictures of captured Nazi generals. This is the newest Russian gag overheard at the Madison Bar: "So Ivan Ivanovitch died gallantly in the midst of battle, sobbed Katerina You Mikhailovna Mlkhailovitch. say he uttered my name with his Iasi breath?" Part of it," replied the returned soldier, only part of it. An ironio 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 tired times, even with John McGraw and the Giants lending themselves to its promotion. Yet Albert Von Tilzeri "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 sung for decades. Take Me, etc., was not the firsl baseball song ever written. In 188! a ballplayer named Kelly was an ido up in Boston. A faithful fan scribbled 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 stafs promising ca reer when it looked as though hi might develop into another Hubbel or Walter Johnson. His name wai Harry Covaleskie, and he was wit! the Phillies. One season he established himseL by pitching against the Giants thre times in five days (beating them it all starts) and taking a pennan right from under their noses. Th Giants, burned up, found out latei that Covaleskie, as a kid, hac trouped in amateur vaudeville sing Silver Threads Among th ing Gold." One afternoon the following sum mer Covaleskie was hurling agains the Giants when from their dug-oSilvei came the strains of Threads. The Giants kept this uj all during that series, and other Na tional League clubs followed with th In six weeks, Co same ribbing valeskie was a nervous wreck . . The following year saw him fadi from baseball completely. u ... warning: Despite the ODTs 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 nothing. By ELMO SCOTT WATSON Released by Western Newspaper Union. v- - y. i$ i - V ft 1 t ' yi-A- V , f field K J' hospital where he lay. Land mines were exploding 150 yards away when the first two ships landed. Out from these flight planes sprang two nurses Marjean Brown of Columbus, Ohio, and Suella Bernard of Waynesville, Ohio. l ,4 All right, soldier, youre gowith a little to take trip ing GOING HOME A soldier is carried aboard a plane operated by the smiled one of them. us! ferrying division of Air Transport command and in a few minutes will be Within two hours they had gathinside ered up not only this GI Joe but dozens of other desperately wounded, 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 days rest in a hospital near New York then aboard a plane again. And today this GI Joe is convalescing 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. Its 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 within the time span, of less than four weeks! The reason for this can be summed up in two words: air evacuation. No wonder that Maj. Gen. David N. Grant, air surgeon for the army air forces, was able to declare recently that the armys system of air evacuation of its wounded takes its place with sulfa drugs and blood plasma as "one of the three measures of greatest modern military medicine! Because of air evacuation, men are alive today who would have perished in the jungles of Makin island or on the Anzio beachhead, and personnel of the air transport commands ferrying division, who have participated in the air evacuation of more than 7,500 war wounded, have no hesitancy in indorsing the life-savin- g air surgeons statement. Its a part of the armys 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. Betreatment given cause of front-lin- e American soldiers, more than 97 per cent of the wounded brought from battlefields 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 rest 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 the 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 men wounded during the invasion of France, Maj. Gen. Paul R. Hawley, chief 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 plSnes, part of them over regularly scheduled transport services operat flying to a hospital in the vicinity of his home. the aircraft supervise the job. Flight surgeons ed by the ferrying division of ATC. of course, come home by ship. Patrans-ocea- n flights are Many hops are as long as 12,000 tients for the miles. Only one patient among those selected by flight surgeons. evacuated by the Air Transport comFour Kinds of Patients. mand has been lost as the result of Patients general fitness for air air travel. travel is the deciding factor and It. Does Cooperation they are grouped into four medical reClose cooperation between the categories: (1) Mental patients en accommodations of the several organizations army quiring security makes possible successful air evacu- route; (2) Hospital litter patients ation of the war wounded. The who must remain in bed, services combat air forces outside the United rendered by other individuals; (3) mediStates, the foreign wings of Air Ambulance patients requiringindividother from route en care cal various air Transport command and needcommands in the United States, no- uals; (4) Troop class patients en route who care medical little comCarrier ing the First Trooper tably even in mand, have done experimental work can take care of themselves, on the problem. In 1943, a total of emergencies. Air evacuation increases enor173,527 sick and wounded patients were evacuated by American mili- mously once the patients have hospitals tary aircraft throughout the world, reached coastal receiving in the United States, either by airATC carrying all those returned craft or by surface shipping. The to this country. same system of screening is emfrom Here is the way evacuation hosthe combat areas is accomplished: ployed at the coastal receiving described previously was that beachAnzio scene the pitals is Suppose of head. Medical corpsmen have toiled as prevailing overseas. Urgency across the bullet-swep- t area, given the patients conditions, together a guy named Jim emergency atten- with their susceptibility to air transconsideration, then inched back with him to portation are primary the beach where he receives more tions. At a nearby Sergt. Walter A. Smith of Spring-fielextended treatment. Mass., can testify that the the surgeon station, flight clearing He deterthe army doesnt stint on its resources classifies patients. mines that this soldier, just ar.ived when one of its wounded needs spefrom the front, has a serious head cial attention. On May 9, 1944, he wound which requires immediate was wounded in action in Italy. He reached the United States June 14 in surgical attention. When the transis flies in, Jim among a convoy and entered Baker General port plane hospital at Martinsbury, W. Va. An the outgoing patients. The medical air evacuation units examination by the staff there reattransform the plane from its troop vealed that immediate surgical GenAshford g mission and do it tention was necessary. or quickly lest snipers or bombs dis- eral hospital at White Sulphur able the aircraft. Litter equipment Springs, W. Va., had the specialist is installed in three or four tiers for the type of operation required. Two mornings later a ferrying diand as many as 24 patients are loaded. Two men carry each litter vision plane was at Hagerstown, to the plane, two more place it in Md., when Sergeant Smith arrived was placed position inside and a third man in- by ambulance. He side fastens it in place. In an emer- aboard with a full crew making cerregency, the flight nurse in the plane tain that the solitary patient By noon must use untrained personnel for ceived every attention. this work and occasionally she takes that day, the sergeant was on the operating table at Ashford General the place of a loader. When the plane takes off, the flight hospital receiving the best surgical nurse is in medical charge. Only care that the army has. Ordinarily ferrying division planes in extreme emergencies does the comflight surgeon accompany her. A engaged in air evacuation are surgeon checks, when possible, dur- pletely utilized with all space occuing the refueling stops. Otherwise pied. Within the continental United States, the evacuation by air of the the flight nurse and a surgical technician, an enlisted man with non- army's war wounded is the responcommissioned officers rating, handle sibility of the ferrying division of the the patients. The plane is equipped Air Transport command. Since this with an ambulance chest which is responsibility was assumed more a small trunk containing bandages, than 7,000 patients have been moved medicine for the relief of pain, without injury to any of the perequipment for administering intra- sonnel involved. venous medication and blood plasThe air evacuation of sick and ma also is on the plane. wounded personnel of the armed Once in the air, the flight nurse is forces was pioneered by the mediin complete charge, aided by a cal services with the AAF and it trained staff sergeant. Aloft she can be considered as one of the g measures in handles any emergency and does greatest anything a doctor would have to do modem military medicine, Lieut. except operate. Already the men Col. Andres G. Oliver, surgeon of borne aloft from Anzio were feeling the ferrying division comments, Its better. Removed from the din of rapid and comfortable delivery of battle, their shock condition im- the patient to a hospital where he or proved. Jim, for example, mustered she will get the best (and most spesufficient interest in life to ask cialized) treatment; or to another where he was going. Six hours after closer to his home, where his conhe left Anzio he was in a base hos- valescence will be shorter and far pital in North Africa undergoing a more pleasant, has become a great morale factor among our returning delicate brain operation. The evacuation chain does not end heroes. Thus justice is being served when at the base hospital overseas. Efficiency and medical factors suggest the aircraft, so terrible an instruthat the men be kept moving rear- ment of death and destruction, can ward until they are as close to home be converted to such humanitarian as possible. Part of the wounded, functions as air evacuation. cargo-carryin- DRk 10 V2 7QN ion or husband out of another war. should be important The United States and Great Brit-li- n are just concluding the first lgreement aimed to remove the danger of war an agreement on oil. Oil is one of the most ticklish economic subjects in the world. Oil is what makes a nations battleships move, runs the automobiles, sends the planes into the air in fact, spells the difference between a nation of ttrength or a nation which must sow to the whims of others. The present oil agreement seeks to settle the battle for oil; eliminate one Important cause of war. The last war was scarcely over when Great Britain began maneuvering to comer 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, bare-face- d notes to the British, wanting to know why they barred American oil companies from Palestine, since Palestine was not British but merely mandated to the British by the League. Meanwhile, the British, though 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 exist. 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 th rish 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 wouli gold-minin- Air Medal Ribbon Winner ... MORALE BUILDER Typical of the flight nurses assigned to the ferrying division of the Air Transport command is Lieut. Gerda II. Bouwhuis of Kalamazoo, Mich. In this picture she is giving a wounded soldier some attention that is obviously much appreciated. Lieutenant Bouwhuis wears the Air Medal ribbon in recognition of heroic services performed in the South Pacific war theater. i of them have seats and backs J-- at comfortable angles. The lines and proportions are good and the backs are removable for winter storage. 253 gives a complete list materials, large diagrams for cutting all the pieces of the childs chair and directions for assembling. Pattern 269 lists materials with diagrams and dichair. Patterns rections for the adult-sizare 15 cents each postpaid, or both patterns for 25 cents. Order from: NOTE Pattern of step-by-st- e MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS New York Bedford Hills Drawer 10 Enclose 15 cents for Pattern 253, or 25 cents for Patterns 253 and 269. Name Address Monument to Champion ' Swapper of This Age Romes monument to Victor Emmanuel II, king of Italy from 1861 to 1878, is the costliest memorial of its kind in the world, says Colliers. Built of white marble and embellished with numerous sculptured groups and reliefs as well as a great equestrian statue of the king, this massive structure occupies almost a square block. It i3 as high as an building, cost $5,000,000 and was under construction for 26 years before its dedication in 1911. ',y ry On last April 29, however, representatives of the British and American governments negotiated an informal understanding limed to eliminate the oil battles of the future. It was an exagreement. cellent, 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 with than in 1919 one possible exception. After U. experts 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 inter- - , ests of the empire than on a fair future peace. For instance, he has been insisting uuat 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 basis. and 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 cr the other attempts to conquer Ethiopia as Musy solini 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 far-sight- ed Upset Stomach Relieved in 5 minutes or double money back When exeesfl stomach acid causes painful, suffocati- and heartburnt doctors usually ng! ess, sour stomach medicines known for prescribe the fastest-actin- g like those In Bell-an- a ymptomatic relief medicinea Tablets. No laxative. Bell-an- s brings comfort in a on return of bottle beck vour doable or money jiffy to as. 25c at all druggists. peace-machiner- do. The agreement also gives equal deopportunity for "acquisition. conin under areas etc., velopment, cession. This eliminates cutthroat rivalry for new fields. Each nation is to respect the valid concessions of the other and its citi ns. "exFinally, and very ploration, development operation of refineries and distnLution shall not be hampered by r;strictions imposed by either government or its nationals. D Cautious Mr. Turk If you want n on why the Turks the real finally broke with Germany, it was because Hitler had moved troops out of Bulgaria just opposite Turkey. After that, the Turks werent afraid of being attacked. . . . With Sweden and Switzerland both closed to Hitler for escape, his few remaining havens are Japan which wont last It has long and Argentina. long been rumored that the Nazi top men were building up cash in Argentina. C. low-dow- holiday in a sanitarium, was pro He re nounced honky-dool- y turned to the Senate at Albany where he engaged in a hot debati the first day. 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