Show BROADWAY AND MAW MAIN STREET another kind of courage has it all over standard heroics by BILLY ROSE recently recen a doctor I 1 in n maine bent me a story about a courageous g e s kid an and unless im getting soft in the heart its the most t touching 0 u aching talo tale of heroism ive come across in a long time some time ago the medico medica got a hurry up telephone call to 0 come out to a small summer camp 20 miles west of bangor there hall half an hour later he examined a six year old girl and found that one ot 04 her legs was broken and that she had lost it a lot of blood from a gash in bi her thigh the story as he got it from the mother was that the girl and her brother aged 7 had gotten into the loft of an abandoned barn and when a y 1 t lh rotted plank gave way she ha had cfall fallen V broken her leg and ripped her thigh on a piece of rusty barm machinery As the doctor was billy rose cauterizing the cut cut and setting tho the leg the boy his name wits was pete kept watching from the doorway with worried interest Is molly going to be all right he asked when the splints were in place ashes lost a lot of blood said the doctor but it if she gets past the crisis tonight everything will be okay a crisis its well I 1 guess its the time when a person is sickest when people lose a lot of blood do they die sometimes you see the heart needs a certain amount to keep going in a way its like the motor of a car it stops running it it 4 get gasoline 1 I see said pete LATER THAT NIGHT the little girls pulse began to slow up im afraid your daughter needs an immediate transfusion the doctor told the father but theres a c complication or she has an unusual type ot of blood and I 1 doubt whether the blood bank in bangor has it in stock her brother has the same type said th ohp lather father 1 I know because the pediatrician who examined the kids last year told me so pole pete looked startled a minute later when his dad asked him if ho he would give give up a 4 tup cup ol of blood 0 10 o help Us his sister get well how ean can 1 I the boy asked the ibe doctor does it with a little rubber tube 11 can I 1 think about it sure said the father but dont take too long pete went to his room ana his paren parents ts heard beard him close the door five minutes later he was back looking very earnest all right h he ebald said IT WAS over the doctor bandaged the boys arm and told him to lie he down and take it easy but instead the kid went out on the porch and when his father found him there at midnight his face w was as white and his fingers were clenched the matter pete oh nothing said the boy look here said his father theres something going on in that head of yours what is it 1 I was wondering how long it will take how long will uw what abas take how long it will take fake me to die to ro do what to die repeated the be boy iff like the doctor said when there enough blood the she motor stops running 1 I see said the father when you gave your sister a cup of blood you figured you were going to we die jour yourself self sure said pete why I 1 wanted to think it over v er |