U. S. Delegates to Conference
The United States delegates to the San Francisco World Security
conference are shown above. Top, left to right, Secretary Stettinins,
Senator Vandenberg, Representative Bloom, and Cordell Hull. Lower,
Commander Stassen, Representative Eaton, Senator Coonaliy and Vir
ginia Gildersleeve. Center, official emblem and view of home of the con
ference.
Flag Heroes Visit Truman
Heroes of he raising on Iwo Jlma look'at oil painting of historic
picture displayed by President Truman. Left to right: Pb. M. 2/e John
it. Bradley, Appleton, Wis., Secretary Henry Morgenthau, President
Truman, Pfc. Keue (iagnon, Mass., Pfc. Ira Hayes, Bapehule, Aria.,
as they visit in the President's office in the White House.
Substitute for Horse Power
Hooking Us pet tiger to > plow. Melvln Coonti. Chits worth. Calif.,
gentleman farmer, proceeds with his spring planting regardless of gas
rationing or manpower shortage. Coonti declares the most primitive of
i the animal famil7 takes to dirt farming like a veteran. The tiger,
however, is not generally recommended as a farm animal.
Russian Army Invades Berlin
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to Now York to Chicago aad shows the dam age daws to the heart aI
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Opens Conference
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Stettinlus as be opened tbe United
Nations Conference for World Se
curity in tbe San Francisco War
Memorial opera bouse. Delegates
from 44 nations were present at the j
opening session of the conference.
Outstanding Mother
Mjrs. Esther Stolnick, Brooklyn,
who has been ? chosen as the out
standing mother of 1945. She is
the mother of hine sens and two
daughters, eight of her sons are in
the armed forces. She is shown hold
ing some of their decorations, in
cluding the Purple Heart.
To Head Air Forces
U. Gen. Barney M. alien, apper,
appointed eonowliu general of
the army air forced in the Pacific,
replacing Lt. Genr. Millard F. Har
mon, reported missing on flight. Lt.
Gen. Ira A. Eaker, lower, la the new
deputy commander of the army air
forces.
G.I. at Conference
At the ro*aast at SeorrUrj of
State Stettinias. Pvt. Alfred Lilies
thai. New York Ctty, has been se
leeted by Aaserieao Veterans com
?*toe to represent thorn at 8a*
Francisco.
Doctors Find Way
To Prevent Palsy
Operation on Brain Stops
Shaking of Hands.
ST. LOUIS, MO.?A new brain op
eration for shaking palsy has been
reported in modern medicine.
This operation has cured 7t per
cent of 200 cases on which it was
attempted. It consists in removing
a fold of gray matter about the size
of a long slim potato from the top
frontal portion of the brain. This
section is known as the premoter
area.
The new operation was devised by
Roland M. Klemme. M. D., of this
city. It follows work by a group of
eminent scientists on the nature of ,
shaking palsy, medically known as i
Parkinson's disease, or paralysis
agitans.
This palsy, which causes a con
tinuous shaking of the hands, and
frequently a fixed lifting of the eye
brows and staring expression, was
found due to destruction of some
nerve pathways in the brain. These ;
paths were in the basal ganglia,
which are lemon sized organs, mid
way between the temples and the,
back of the head.
Several surgical operations have
been tried but none had a high per
centage of success. Dr. Klemme's
operation came from a shrewd guess
about what goes on among some
tens of thousands of brain nerve
fibers.
Palsy victims can make any vol
untary movements they wish. But
they cannot stop shaking when they
want to relax. Their voluntary
movements are directed from an
area of the brain near the top of
the head known as the motor cortex.
This voluntary center lies between
the premotor area and the lemon
shaped ganglia. Dr. Klemme rea
soned that normally the premotor
and the ganglia maintain a nerve
energy balance, which the voluntary
motor area interrupts when, for in
stance, a person wants to move his
hand.
With some of the ganglia known
to be destroyed. Dr. Klemme rea
soned further that the balance was
upset, leaving the premotor area to
cause the uncontrollable shaking. He
took out the area and in most cases
the shaking stopped. Removing the
premotor part of a human brain
does not appear to cause mental or
physical damage.
V-Bomb Kills Parents
As Girl Goes to School
LONDON. ? The official lan
guage still calls them V-bomb "inci
dents" in southern England.
Thirteen-year-old Daphne Newton
figured in one. She had just said
good-by to her father and mother
and run out of the house to call
for a friend on the way to school.
As she rounded the corner and
pushed open her friend's gate, the
V-weapon fell. When choking clouds
of dust cleared. Daphne looked back.
Her home was a rubble; her par
ents dead beneath it.
Her neighborhood since 1940 has
been scarred by a mine, an ordi
nary bomb and two flying bombs,
all before last fall.
The local church has been dam
agd for the fourth time. Another V
weapon injured many children who
were on their way to school. The
head teacher says most of them
would have been killed if the bomb
had struck later when all were in
school.
Aircraft Worker Speeds
Up as His Family Grows
LOS ANGELES.?Ceil Langston,
aircraft worker, telephoned his
wife's physician that the stork was
near.
"Better hurry her to the hospital,"
the doctor advised.
En route Langston called again,
frantically reporting:
"What'll-I do, doctor? There's a
baby in the back seat."
Again he was advised to hasten
along.
Presently he called again.
"Doctor, when I got back to the
car there were two babies!"
All was well with Mrs. Langston
and her twin daughters later at the
hospital.
Best Safety Record Made
By Nation's Coal Mines
WASHINGTON. ? The nation's
coal mines last year chalked up their
best safety record in history despite
equipment shortages, loss of skilled
workers and other wartime handi
caps, Secretary of the Interior Har
old L. Ickes said recently.
In a report to congress on the
federal mine inspection program, he
said that 1,306 mine workers lost
their lives in 1944. This is a fatality
I rate of only 1.91 life for each 1,000,
000 tons of bituminous coal and
anthracite produced. The rate was
2.26 deaths per 1,000,000 tons in 1943.
Fight Battle of Odor
With Convoy of Skunks
ALBANY. ?Motorists rubbed
their eyes in unbelief, then broke
all records in closing automobile
windows as a convoy of skunks,
reported to have numbered at
least 300, crossed the four-lane
Albany-Schenectady road. It was
believed that brush fires had
driven the skunks from their old
lairs.
Marines Adopt
Queer Mascots
Odd Pets Are 'On Duty* With
Masters at Outposts
On the Pacific.
WASHINGTON. ? SI wash the
swashbuckling, legendary duck of
Bloody Tarawa, probably is the
most famous. But throughout the
vast reaches of the Pacific war
zones, in all the far ftung areas of
the global conflict where United
States marines are serving and
fighting, the lesser - known marine
mascots are "on duty" with their
masters, reports Sgt. Bill Ross, a
marine corps combat correspondent.
Paradoxically, Uncle Sam's ma
rines?famed as the world's finest
and fiercest fighters ? have more
than their share of the "motherly
instinct when it comes to pets.
A communications unit of the bat
tle-tested Second marine division felt
it lost one of its most important
members when "Major Joe, a
black cocker-spaniel, was lost in
action at Saipan.
When last seen, Joe was heading
for the front?looking for action just
as he did at Tarawa. The belliger
ent pup was owned by Cpl. Laddie
R. Stansbury of Lake Charles, La.,
but he "belonged" to the entire unit.
In the savage invasion of Tarawa,
Joe won a signal victory?in open
paw-to-paw combat?over a Jap dog
on the beach.
Mjscots Awiy Back.
Later he fcioke into a stockade
containing a few of the handful of
J?p prisoners taken on the island.
He had a merry time chasing the
frightened, beaten enemy around in
circles, barking at their heels.
"He was just a pooch?but we
kinda loved him . . . wish he were
back," said a tough sergeant of Cor
poral Stansbury's outfit.
The case of Major Joe is but one
of many.
Marines undoubtedly have had
pets and mascots since that Novem
ber 10, 1775, when at Tun Tavem
in Philadelphia the corps was born.
But today, more than ever be
fore, you'll find mascots wherever
you find marines.
A Leatherneck garrison at a South
American lend-lease base had an
eagle, claimed to be the most
"ferocious mascot of any military
unit in the world" . . . one outfit
recently arrived in the South Pacific
has a lion cub purchased from a
zoo in Los Angeles . . . Queenie, the
swine empress of Guadalcanal, is
world-famed as the pet pig of a ma
rine unit there.
Mascots are treated as full-fledged
members of the units which adopt
them. The pets are given rank, have
service record books and uniforms,
are promoted or "busted" as their
duty record warrants. Mascots in
war zones?as in the case of Major
Joe ? frequently are wounded
or killed, receive shell shock, are
casualties just as their human com
rades-in-arms.
Have Service Records.
The hard-fighting Sixth marine
division, composed of units of the
famed raider battalion, has one of
the most unusual of all Leatherneck
mascots. One platoon of the Sixth
has a leopard kitten. The pet came
from Burma and joined the corps
when it was sent by an army colonel
to his son, Lt. C. B. Bryan of Falls
Church, Va.
Black Zombie, a tiny terrier origi
nally from Kingston, N. C., met
death in an accident thousands of
miles from his native home. He
was killed chasing "traffic" ?
crushed under the wheels of a big
gun moving up to blast the Japs.
The unit to which he was attached
had had Zombie since early train
ing at Camp Lejeune, N. C., long
before they sailed overseas.
A marine aviation unit recently
' came up with a mascot almost as
big as a plane. It was Thor, a Great
I Dane, belonging to Capt. H, C. Wal
lace of Tulsa, Okla.
Thor's size precludes his flying in
combat?or any time?with marine
corps fighter planes, but he is al
ways on hand when the Leathernecks
take off and return to their Pacific
base.
*01101017 City' Is Set Up
To Fool Boon Raiders
BONN, GERMANY. ? A dummy
city complete with a tricky light pat
tern had been set up in the woods
outside Bonn in an attempt to de
ceive RAF night raiders, six cap
tured Germans disclosed here. It
had been in operation for three
years.
The lights went on each time there
was a raid. One of the Germans
pulled a switch. The five others took
stations with buckets of water to
put out any fires the bombs might
cause.
But every time the bombs fell on
Bonn ? "even after we used spar
klers and colored lights," a spokes
man for the prisoners lamented.
Coast-to-Coast in Eight
Hours Made by Big Plane
LOS ANGELES.?A Pan Ameri
can Airways crew has flown a Con
stellation transport plane from Los
Angeles to Miami in 8 hours and 5
minutes, a new record for the 2,500
mile hop.
The flight knocked 38 minutes off
the mark set February 20. Capt.
Victor Wright piloted the Constella
tion on the "routine" flight for the
army air transport command's Af
rica-Orient division.
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Kathleen Norris Says:
To Our Undying Shame
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"There is going to be a bad time for the mothers and sweethearts and friends who
have to answer their question, Tou gate blood, didn't you?' with an embarrassed
'Well, no, I didn't, darling'"
By KATHLEEN NORMS
A FEW days ago I was in a
group of young women
who were gathering wraps
and parcels as they dispersed
after a club luncheon.
"How many of you," I asked
them casually, "have been to
the blood bank lately?"
Lately I Out of 13 of them, only
one had ever been, and that more
than a year ago. These were healthy
young women, busy, or course, bur
dened with responsibility for homes,
kitchen, babies, school-age chil
dren, to be sure. But not so bur
dened, not so busy but what this
confession of theirs constitutes the
most terrible indictment that Ameri
can women ever have had to face.
It constitutes the most shameful
reproach that after-war memories
will ever bring us, a shame never to
be forgotten and never to be
wiped out; that the Red Cross and
the medical corps have to beg us
for this life-giving blood, and that
we refuse it.
My own blood burns when I
think of it, and I wonder how we
will explain it to the returned sol
diers someday; how we can ever be
happy again knowing that magnifi
cent young lives have been sacri
ficed because we, safe and warm
and well-fed and free from fear,
just never gave a thought to the
blood bank.
"Oh, I've meant to, and Marcia
and I talked about it," these young
women said cheerfully, "but it's so
hard to get around these days. We
were going to, remember, Jean?
And then we didn't! Oh, yes, the
blood bank. That's wonderful, isn't
it? Mother says they didn't have
it in the last war, and that thou
sands of lives were lost. Do let's try
to get to it this week, or sometime."
Marines Attack.
The day before this conversation
I had happened to see a movie reel
of our marines taking possession of
a tropical beachhead, as they have
done so often. Past the camera
flashed the line of young faces, as
the heavy boots squelched in ' the
mud and fixed bayonets glinted in
the fast-falling rain. Such fine,
strong faces, earnest and trusting
and hard with the desperate cour
age and resolution of the attack.
And even as we looked this splendid
vigorous body and that one fell in
the swamp, never to walk again in
the pride and confidence of youth I
Our boys have seen grim sights
in these war years, they have suf
fered all the agonies to which hu
man flesh is heir. They have seen
children mad with hunger, and
dead with hunger; seen homeless
thousands of women and old people
seeking despairingly for food and
shelter. They have seen their own
friends fall and die, or carried away
on stretchers, moaning, bloody, in
human wreckage. They have known
homesickness more bitter than
death; known months, not hours or
days, of loneliness and doubt.
To have these men pick up a
paper from home and read that the
Red Cross must solicit donations of
the life-giving stream that alone will
bring some of them home, is in
tolerable, and we ought not to tol
erate it!
In every gathering of men and
women ? at men's luncheon clubs,
women's club meetings, lecture
halls, movie theaters, indeed in the
actual churches, why doesn't the
chairman or speaker ask those who
have contributed life to our dying
men to raise their hands? Or bet
THEY NEED YOUR BLOOD
tf e have pV heard, over and
over, thai hlo >d plasma, admin
istered on the battlefield and in
emergency ' hospitals, is saving
thousands of lives. In this uar
less than three per cent of the
wounded die?as compared with
six or seven per cent in the last
war. Blood plasma and whole
blood administrations are re
sponsible to a large degree for
this great saving of young lives.
But this blood has to come
from healthy human beings. As
the tempo of battle increases,
greater and greater quantities are
needed. The Red Cross is asking
and pleading constantly for more
donations?not of money, but of
blood.
After every victory there is a
tendency on the home front to
slow down. This is true of bond
buying, of war plant production,
of donations to the blood bank.
On the far-flung fronts, however,
there is still urgent need for blood
plasma?and will be until the
last battle is fought. Keep on giv
ing!
ter yet, ask those who have not
given their blood to the white
faced, bleeding boys in the serv
ice hospitals, please to stand? It
ought to be the first topic of con
versation wherever men and wom
en gather together: "Have you been
to the blood bank lately?"
'White Feather' Emblem.
And why not a white feather for
the lapel of every man's and wom
an's suit who chooses to ignore this
appeal? Surely if they are not
shamed already the mere wearing
of this sign of cowardice wouldn't
hurt them? There isn't half enough
fuss being made about all this.
We have an emblem that means
"I gave my blood" that hundreds
are proud to wear. Why not an
other emblem meaning "I didn't pay
the slightest attention to the fact
that for the men who are shed
ding their blood for me?some
times every drop of it, I didn't do
anything in return. I knew what
plasma is, I knew the miracles it
works on the far-away battle sta
tions, but we really haven't any
thing to be afraid of here, so why
worry?"
Remember, you American men
and women, our boys are going to
come home an embittered and dis
illusioned lot. What they have had
to endure is cruelly upsetting to
mind and morale. For many months
after honorable discharge we will
have to give them special treat
ment; comforting, bracing, re
building souls and bodies. There is
going to be a bad time then for
the mothers and sweethearts and
friends who have to Answer their
question, "You gave blood, didn't
you?" with an embarrassed "Well,
no, I didn't, darling. I thought that
there would be so many others that
my poor little pint wouldn't mean
much, and somehow I never got
around to it."
There is still time to save your
self that shame. For God's sake,
and for the sake of humanity, do it
today. Don't ever let anyone feel
again the sting I felt when a young
naval doctor wrote me from Guadal
canal to ask the caustic question:
"Do you suppose that if they offered
two red points a pint some of the
men and women at home would get
busy at the blood bank?"
Decorating with Pictures
Hang pictures at eye level, if pos
sible without cords showing and flat
against the wall. Tinder an impor
tant picture place a substantial
piece of furniture. Assemble your
family photographs, simply framed,
in large groups in your bedroom.
Be sure the store you've chosen to
do your framing knows its job, for
the value of a signed picture can be
ruined by too close trimming.
Cheaee simple frames so that the
frames will not compete in interest
with the pictures themselves.