ScenesAtThe Leyte Cathedral-Hospital
This Is Leyte’s Cathedral-Hospital-a place of worship on a blood
irenched island where hundreds of Americans and Filipinos lay
woumled and dying on cots; a church that remains a church but
which is also the surgical ward of an American evacuation hospital.
Here a daughter of Leyte gives a helping hand. Her name is
Caridad Monte jo and she goes ’bout fixing bandages and helping
the wounded GIs. Sitting with her Is Sgt. Tom Parsons. The bandage
swathed man is unidentified.
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The Filipino citizens of Leyte and the nearby barrios, black
▼eiled and pious, kneel to the rites of the Mass as a badly burned
army officer lies swathed in bandages just behind them. The
civilians pick their way carefully past the hundreds of cots. Some
kneel in aisles between the cots; others group themselves before
the altar. Some fear to disturb the doctors and the wounded.
Second Lieutenant Florence Vehmeier, a nurse, looks back
upon a patient who lies suffering from a bullet wound in his
stomach. Just back of him is s holy water fountain with a
uagonsteen” arrangement made ready for surgical irrigation
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Within the main church, scenes like this are everywhere. Capt.
D. E. Campbell, of the Medical Corps, treats a wounded man. With
him is Army Nurse Capt. Catherine Acorn, who was evacuated
after Bataan and Corregidor, but felt it her obligation to return.
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Turkey Dinner Promised
Soldiers In Philippines
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By JIM HUTCHESON
GEN. MCARTHUR’S HEAD
QUARTERS, Philippines, Dec. 23.
__/£>)—Turkey and a flood of gift
packages will give Christmas
some of its traditional holiday
spirit for the troops and sailors
in the Philippines.
The distribution of hundreds of
sacks of Christmas packages has
been under way for more than
a week with delivery to the troops
up front rating a high priority.
Today the Quartermaster Corps
started distributing a million
pounds of turkey from a refriger
ation ship.
By airplane, fast boat, land ve
hicles and on the backs of carabaos
and men, the turkey is going to
the front lines. There also will
be an allotment of a dozen cans
of newly arrived beer to be sold
to each man between Christmas
Eve and New Year’s Day.
Maj. Robert C. Russell, Cham
paign, 111., who has one of the
world’s biggest turkey peddling
jobs said: “We will throw the
turkey to the men in the frontmost
foxholes if necessary.
“Six planes are carrying turkey
to the Mindoro troops tomorrow.
Fast boats are taking it to the
outlying islands. Also to Samar
and the Ormoc front. I don’t think
we are missing anyone.’’
A pound is allotted for each
man both Christmas and New
Year’s. The turkey will be cook
ed in the mess halls before be
ing taken to the front lines.
Maj. Russell is a formar Chi
cago advertising man. He out
lined this menu where facilities
are available: Fruit cocktail,
turkey, biscuits, peas, corn, as
paragus, pumpkin pie, hard
candy.
“Beer will go to the combat
troops first but all will have it
by New Year's, Maj. Russell said
“Even if you add all this up,’
said Maj. Russell, “it won’t be
exactly a Merry Christmas for the
troops but the fighting men at the
Pacific fronts havie had a lot
worse.” ____
Infant And Children s
Shoes On Critical List
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22. — (/P) -
In an attempt to boost output, the
War Production Board today plac
ed certain sizes of infants’ and
children’s shoes on the critical pro
ducts list.
The action covers infants’ sizes
4 1-2 t0 8 an<3 children’s size, - ,,
to 12. Taken because oj man * 2
shortages in the industn ?
measure provides that local J
duction urgency committees 1
consider the labor needs f
producers when the rem.r lhe?e
ol the most critical war Dro0ment5
have been met pi0oram$
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want to take time
out to enter into the gladsome
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holiday spirit with our sin'
cerest good wishes for a very Merry Christmas and the happiest of
New' Years, to all our new acquaintances and old friends.
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Many are the prayers in our hearts this Christmas day. Some pray for
the restored health of a stricken loved one. Some play for the return of
child, husband or beloved far from home. ....
Some wish for security against the dangers with which life can be
fraught. Others look forward in a hope that for all the people of all the
world, suffering of all kinds may one day be ended, through the achieve
ments of science, education, and truespiritual awareness among all man
kind.
To all of you whose prayers and good hopes spring from deephearted
zealousness we say “May those prayers be answered on this Christmas Day
—and for all the days to follow.”
We trust that due to the unusual Christmas rush . . . the
shortage of help and merchandise that our customers were
not unduly inconvenienced or disappointed. We would like
to have served better but we feel—and hope that you will
understand.
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