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Show NO JOB, GIVES HIS BLOOD Former Service Man of Omaha Aids Sufferer and His Own Family at Same Time. The heroic spirit of man has not always been bora under the shadow of awe-inspiring mountains, o n the rock-bound coast of the sea or in the busy, crowded ways of a great city. Fred W. Smith of Omaha has never lived in the presence pres-ence of those magnificent and noble works of God or man. In fact, his days have been spent on an unromantic Nebraska farm, in an Omajia packing plant and in the kitchen of a base hospital in France. But these, things have' not kept him from being the true hero. Not long ago, when a man was dying in an Omaha hospital, and the doctors believed be-lieved that a pint of human blood might save his lift, Fred Smith went immediately to the hospital and offered of-fered to let as much blood as was needed be taken from his body. "1 was strong and a little blood didn't mean much, to me if It would save the other fellow's life," he said. His act gained all the more commendation com-mendation becanse he had a wife and two small children to support and was out of a job. |