One-Hander Becomes
A Good Hand At Sea
EXMOUTH, England—i/Pj—Bill
Salter wanted to go to war—and
did, despite the fact that he was
born without a right hand.
Rejected by the RAF, he volun
teered and was accepted by the
Royal Observer Corps and was
posted as an aircraft identity ex
pert aboard the liner Empire
Broadsword which took troops to
Normandy and brought wounded
men back.
Salter has been listed as missing
since the Empire Broadsword
struck a mine and sank.
Coin Lost 60 Years
Found For Owner
MOUNT VERNON, Wash.—(/P)
—Franklin Good, 77, has recov
ered a 50-cent piece he lost in
1883.
The coin, which Good earned
by shooting ducks with a single
barreled muzzle-loading shotgun,
fell out of his pocket and rolled
into a mortise of a home he was
helping his father to build.
Recently he heard a new owner
planned to raze the building and
told him of the lost coin. It was
found within a few inches of the
spot where Good remembered
dropping it 60 years ago.
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GIs Protest
Demobilization
Slowdown
MANILA, Jan. 7—(/P)—At least
twelve thousand American sol
diers jammed into the shell-bat
tered ruins of the Philippine’s
Hall of Congress last night in a
noisy but orderly mass protest to
the demobilization slowdown.
They thundered approval to a
resolution calling for Congression
al investigation. Boos rang through
the hall as an enlisted man, acting
as chairman, read a statement by
Lt. Gen. Styer, commanding the
army forces in the Western Pacif
ic, explaining the delay of home-!
bound trips.
Earlier thousands of milling en-i
listed men marched to Gen. Styer’s
headquarters and sent in a com
mittee of five, who were told by
the general that “changing inter
national situation” prev ente
sending all eligible men home at
once.
Long before six p.m. service
men began gathering, climbing the
twisted masonry fronting the great
flight of ruined steps to the capi
tol entrance where a makeshift
stage had been set up and a
wheezy loud-speaker where one
soldier orator asserted “since the
last regulations were promulgated
every guy in the army has had his
release figured down to the last
minute. Now the War Department
slowdown leaves everybody up in
the air.”
Meanwhile, a charge was hurled
that a uniformed man, represent
ing himself as an officer, exam
ined hundreds of soldier telegrams
to Congress, which had already
been turned in at the cable office
here. Earl Baumgardner, manager
of the Manila branch of the Radio
Corporation of America, said the
Filipino night supervisor on duty
early today said a man wearing a
United States Army officer’s uni
form, entered and the officer de
manded to see the files and read
them. The manager declared the
man had no authority to examine
the files and violated civil and
criminal codes.
THINKER- Lewis a
Schwellenbach, secretary of la
bor, struck this thoughtful pose
in an appearance before a com
mittee of the house of repra
' aentatives in Washington. 1
Victory Clothing
Collection Drive
Starts Here
NEW YORK, Jan .7—Dr. John
W. Studebaker, Commissioner of
the U. S. Office of Education, has
called upon the nation’s school
children, college youth and educa
; tional leaders for utmost support
' in the Victory Clothing Collection
I for Overseas Relief. His statement
was made public today by Henry
J. Kaiser, nation chairman of the
Collection. Mrs. Carl Glavinovich
is chairman of the Nome Victory
Clothing Collection.
Dr. Studebaker pointed out that
school children, college students,
! school administrators and teachers
through spirited cooperation in the
April United National Clothing
Collection helped collect clothing
which aided 25,000,000 war suf
ferers in Europe, China and the
Philippines. Pointing out that mil
lions of other ill-clad children,
women and men overseas are suf
fering and dying, he said the need
of clothing is imperative.
In a letter to superintendents of
city and county schools, and to
presidents of colleges and univers
ities, Dr. Studebaker said: "Now
I am asking you to marshal all of
your forces again for the second
nation-wide clothing drive.”
The Victory Clothing Collection
in scheduled in Nome for Jan. 7
to 12. The national goal is 100,000,
000 garments in addition to shoes
and bedding. Each contributor,
Mr. Kaiser said, is invited to at
tach a message of good-will to
clothing gifts, "a message to warm
the heart.”
There are some six thousand
species of orchids.
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