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Show Cheer Invalid Radio 'Hams' kee's radio amateur's club, Fred H. Zolin, loaned the boy the use of the microphone in his hone to send thanks to Rex. Arrangement Arrange-ment for a short wave receiver to be installed in Armand's home has been made, and he has been appointed an honorary member of the "hams." MILWAUKEE Nine-year-old Armand Schultz, a sick little boy, has nearly 30,000 post cards to cheer him. He can thank radio amateurs all over the world for spreading the word that he is interested in collecting post cards. He is afflicted with lympathic leukemia, a disease that is deadly. dead-ly. He has undergone lengthly treatment at the Wisconsin general gen-eral hospital, Madison. His interest in post cards is one of those interests that mean so much in the treatment of the chronically ill. News of Armand's hobby came to George Brown, radio amateur, Providence, R. I., who transmitted trans-mitted it to Harry Rex, Jr., amateur ama-teur of Nantucket Island, off the coast of Massachusetts: Rex promised to get the word " around that Armand wanted post cards. He contacted a friend in West Monroe, La., and informed him of Armand. A "ham" in Anchorage, Alaska, heard the conversation and called Rex for Armand's address. Soon the message got around the globe and post cards and letters let-ters began pouring in. A radio amateur in Rhodesia, South Africa, sent two magazines. maga-zines. A QSL (radio "ham" acknowledgement ac-knowledgement card) was sent by a "ham" in Japan. Best wishes came from an amateur in Peru. Other communications came from New Zealand, Mexico, Alaska, Alas-ka, Canal Zone, Panama, Canada and England. Radio amateurs over the United States flooded him with mail. A collection of post cards dating back to 1878 was sent by a man in Greenville, R. I. The cards included in-cluded everything from love notes to notices of overdue bills. A post card in Braille, expressing express-ing best wishes, came from a blind Nantucket musician. Rhode Island's governor sent cheer. A special cabinet to hold the cards had to be built by the boy's grandfather.' They have overflowed over-flowed this into boxes on the floor. The vice president of Milwau- |