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Evening star., 1941-07-20
Our Army Goes to Sea
By Malcolm d. Lamborne, Jr.

Va, where he had supervision of con-
struction and repair of what little marine
work was done by the Army in the 20s
and early 30s. From 1884 to 1888 he was
in charge of all maintenance, repair and
construction of new vessels under the
Water Transport branch in Washington.
Then last July when the Ship Repair
and Construction unit of the Quarter
master Corps was expanded, renamed
offices to Washington, Col Moore was
placed at the helm.
Needed Transfer.
The transfer of the unit from nearby
Baltimore was an absolute necessity as
the Army's expansion program was &C
celerated. With headquarters in the
Capital, Col. Moore and his assistants
were assured speedy check with high War
Department officials as well as the i'm
portant coordination with the National
Defense Commission, the Navy Depart
ment and the Maritime Commission.
AS the War Departments plans for
defense of this hemisphere broaden and
5IOW, 81 CdoC bllC OOIlCS VI SOl N1OOIc
There are new transports to be COM
missioned, more and more auxiliary air.
craft boats to be built by the Nations
small shipyards as our air force expands
and greater numbers of mine planters,
mine sweepers and tenders to be designed.
Nor does this include the great miscel-
laneous fleet of harbor patrol boats,
o,,vfliory irEa EaII
utility craft even down to little 16-foot
skiffs.
Boat yards IN numerous sections of the
country are turning out these craft-their
exact number cannot be told here, for
that is a military secret. There is the
little yard down on the coast of North
Carolina. Its story is typical of the
sudden bonanza many a sleepy village
found thrown in its lap overnight. Before
the order to build number of aircraft
rescue boats came their way this yard
barely survived by building an occasional
pleasure boat and keeping repaired the
local fishing fleet. But now the yard has
been expanded and the whole town
revitalized. Now the leading citizen is
tliC idNhy pOdV WllOOC INV UlO W
build block of boats for Uncle Sam was
accepted back in washington.
Great pride these Army officers show
for the craft they're turning out Take,
for instance, their line of airplane rescue
boats-the Navy calls its design crash"
boats, but the Army prefers the more
formal aircraft rescue boats"
No Navy PIT racers are these rescue
boats; their errands are of mercy, not
destruction. They have been designed
and powered to get to the scene of a
plane crash in hurry, and to return as
fast to the nearest base with injured
airmen. These boats carry specially built
Itters for the wounded and hoisting
equipment for salvaging planes. The
majority of them are powered to do better
than rs miles an hour. The Armys cur
rent fleet of airplane rescue craft range
in size from % to 80 feet. An even larger
boat of this type is now in the drawing
board stage, and rumors are it will be
around $50 feet, capable of operating far
At ~.
Evening star., 1941-07-20

Blood-sisters have been created at the
center in greater numbers than blood
brothers. The women frequently return,
too Some donors have come back five
times. Husbands and wives report to-
gether. One donor brings in another
almost every girl employed in one large
District restaurant has now turned up
A pint of blood is taken from HUSKY
men; half pint from women.
With the commercial price of blood
standing at s25 pint, this is worthy
contribution to national defense, but
hardly strenuous one. The donor lies
down. is pricked with local anesthetic
and finds himself joined at the crook
Of his arm with a tiny rubber tube ex-
tending to bottle. He closes and opens
his fist until the job is over in 10 min
utes, rests briefly and leaves to resume
normal activities.
At this point the work OF the phar-
macist mates has just begun. For a
fortnight they labor First task is to
eliminate red and white corpuscles
about 100000 per cubic centimeters)
from the plasma IN which they float
first by settling the liquid and then by
use Of cream separator" which twlrls
the liquid $500 times a minute Constant
tests are made under the microscope
and in the veins Of white mice and rab-
bits. The blood is also typed, but this is
only for the donors information since
the great advantage of plasma over
whole blood is that it need not be of a
particular type to 60 in the bloodstream.
Scientific tests are in the habit of de-
scribing plasma as "colorless," but it
actually varies from gray to rust-red,
each donor having his own hue.
The blood-brother on the receiving
end of the line must remain anonymous
to the donor, but reports on results are
sent back to the center here. Almost in
variably the reaction has been favorable.
Evening star., 1941-07-20

You, sir, can become blood brother to
a warrior-hero. Just roll up your left
sleeve and appear at the rambling pavil-
ion on the northwest corner of Consti-
tuition avenue and Twenty third street
N.W.-the only blood station of its kind
in America.
If this idea does not capture your
fancy Immediately, recall that the hon
orable custom of blood brotherhood has
been adopted by many nations as they
turned to a military way of life. Two
beligerent Vikings, setting out on a
perilous expedition to Vineland, would
first cash their arms with daggers till
the crimson spurted mix their magic
fluid on the turf and over it swear
eternal comradeship.
Less passion and more science mark
the little ceremonies that go on daily at
the Army and Navy Red Cross Blood
Donor Center, the scene of our story.
The aim is still military, and highly
practical for our times. The fluid you
give from your veins on white bed
here will be added to the blood of some
badly injured member of the armed
forces. Your blood-brother may be in
the Orient, or of Iceland with the At
lantic fleet.
The donor center here is unique be-
cause it is the sole source for wet blood
plasm mot dried plasma) now being used
to save lives of American sailors and
soldiers. Shipments go out with great
speed to the feet, to the Pensacola ali
base, to Annapolis, TO Corpus Christi
Evening star., 1941-07-20

manent grass only to die itself in the
fall.
The crisis on the Mall was test not
only for Mr.. Rabbit but for the man who
has devoted 20 years to the study of
grass-Dr. John Montieth, ir.. Agricul-
ture Department consultant.
DR.. Montieth considers grass the frame
for the marble buildings of Washington
Tie Government, he was accustomed to
point out, spends millions of dollars for
buildings, thousands for shrubs and pen
nies for grass.
When Mr.. Rabbit, his assistant, was
hired by National Capital Parks, the
picture began to change. 1t is still
changing.
First, there was the matter of
sprinklers, beautiful display; also
grass killer. The watering system was
halted.
Then there was the question of seed
ing. Last September, seeding was started
with more permanent grass.
Dr. Monteith maintained that a dol
lar spent for good fertilizer would con-
tribute more to a good turf, if there was
a reasonably good grass to start with,
than IS spent for grass seed to thlcken
up turf. Last fall $4,000 was spent to
fertilize the grass in the city's parks.
Moving Higher.
Another important step was setting
the lawnmowers to higher cut. There
was a time when lawnmower manufac-
turers advertised the closenesS of the
cut, but Dr. Monteith found that close
shaven lawn encouraged that summer
pest, crabgrass. BY allowing the perma-
nent grass to get longer, he discovered it
could put up a better fight against the
Evening star., 1941-07-20
Washington Donors Give Blood for Defense

Here are few facts about plasma treat
ment as reported by two Medical Corps
officers, 1t. Comdr. L. R. Newhouser and
Capt. Douglas B. Kendrick:
Bleeding-Plasma is more useful in
treatment than whole blood, since it can
be given more quickly. Death from
hemorrhage is not due to lack of blood
cells but to loss of fluid volume.
Burns-Large quantities of plasma
protein are lost by burned persons. and
should be restored. During the first two
days it may even be necessary to pour
as much plasma into the victims body
as the volume of blood that the body
usually contains five or six quarts.
Shock-In mild shock 25 per cent Of
the plasma volume may be lost, and
double this amount in severe cases. The
sooner it is replaced the less is needed.
This is the first military emergency in
which plasma has been put into use. 1t
is a fact that if medical science had
learned its lesson earlier there would now
be many more members of the American
Legion, and more Daughters Of the
American Revolution, Tor Americas oat-
tie casualties would have been far fewer
in all its wars.
Research in plasma has been under
way ever since 1918. but actual successes
nit the newspapers in late 1889 and early
1910. Developments are rapidly taking
place 1t has been found that plasma
can be kept indefinitely when frozen,
and will also last for years when dried
properly. Dried plasma makes COM
pact package for a military man, and
can be administered on a battlefield or
at sea by addition of water.
Expanding continually, the Washing
ton donor center has on order a me-
chanical drying unit of a type developed
only last year. With this available, out
put will increase greatly. and the need
for additional donors will soar.
Evening star., 1941-07-20
Bow Sailors Rescued in Atlantic

picked up and another shipmate died
four days ALTERNATING three dead in
our boat"
pulled out a cablegram from his mother.
1t read: Love and kisses, dearest.
God bless you. Mother Hardie."
Brian stuffed it back in his pocket.
"She nearly lost 'er two that time.
She'll want me to stay ashore. But
won't do it."
Brians brother, Gordon, galley boy on
the torpedoed freighter, is equally de-
termined to sail again.
The Hardies come of a fighting family
Mother does her bit. Dad is in the
A R. P. There are two boys in service
besides Brian and Gordon, one on a
warship and the other in the British
Army. One sister is a nurse and the
other is driving Royal Navy car.
Both the Hardie boys admit their last
experience was a close call. After they
were picked up by the rescue ship the fog
closed in again and that night 1t was
freezing and bitter cold. Brian says he
is doubtful if he or the others in their
weakened condition could have withstood
such weather. Although they both get
around with bit of a limp their limbs
are slowly coming back to normal.
Close Escape.
Sailing is going to be my job for life, y
remarked jeff Chequer as he waited
here for his next ship.
jeff was mess boy on a tanker bound
for Canada when Nazi sub torpedoed
it last June 4, about 500 miles off the
Azores. 1t was shortly before midnight
when the torpedo struck and he was
asleep at the time. The first thing he
Evening star., 1941-07-20
Bv Cwil Robinson.

AN EASTERN CANADIAN PORT, July
te.-Young Brian Hardie, Is, of Gates
head, County Dover, England, wisp OF
yolnpster with a shock of auburn hair
and clear blue eyes, idgeted like boy
4, church who has become bored with
the sermon.
ats too quiet ere he complained. I
wish 7 was at sea again. The doctor
saws my feet and legs are coming
around all right. So I'll soon ave an
other ship" His eyes glistened at the
thought.
You begin to appreciate this youngster
for his courage when you learn that less
than two months ago he was nearly
corpse. The spark of life was getting
low in him and his 13 shipmateS when a
rescue ship picked up them after II days
sdrift in the Atlantic-victims OF Nazl
torpedo.
Brian's attitude-his mistaken de-
Termination to continue his role in the
battle of the Atlantic-is shared by other
boy seaman calling at this port-klds In
their teens who not long ago were play
ing "cops and robbers" or swimming IN
the lakes and docks back 'ome when
England was at peace.
Talk with Brian or his elder brother,
Gordon. II, who was his shipmate in
the aforementioned torpedoing. Talk
to 17-year-old jeff Chequer of Birken-
head. Cheshire, England, who miraculous
" escaped death on a blazing tanker
and drifted about four days before he
was rescued. Ask teen-aged Jack Shep-
herdson. like the Hardies of Gateshead,
who also knows what it is to be tor
pedoed at sea and left to drift about
on the chance of being picked up; ask
these lads if they want to return to sea.
You'll get the same reply every time.
"Of course we're going to sea again.
We like it. And besides, England needs
US"
This attitude of young Britons Is i'm
portant because it shows high morale,
and morale may yet be England's secret
weapon in ultimate victory.
Brian's Story.
Here's what happened to Brian Hardie
Remember he is only Is years Of age
He lied about his age, put it up two years
so as to get ship. He was making
his second trip, bound from England to
Baltimore in a British freighter, when
a Nazi torpedo suddenly ripped through
the ship into No. 4 hold and there was
a terrific explosion. The ship upended
at crazy angle and Hardie, mess boy
who was lying down at the time, scam
pered with others to the lifeboats.
The U-boat left them to their fate
There were two lifeboats one with 25
In 1t, which has not been heard oi
since. and Hardie's, with Is in it. Fol
IL days they tossed about IN mid
Atlantic. soaked to the skin by rain, dried
out in the sun, soaked through again
their boat in danger of capsizing al
times.
An Arab shipmate, who could stano
It no longer, drank himself to death
with a mixture of salt water and brandy
Rations were getting low on the morning
of the eleventh day. fog Which hae
closed in suddenly lifted and a young
Dane. Kag Jensen, climbed the boats
mast and waved a torch in a last des-
perate hope.
"Our luck was in," recalled Brian
telling the story in port. "A freighte'
saw Kag's signal and picked us up
The cook died four hours after we wer'
Evening star., 1941-07-20

The United States Army boasts no
Atlantic or Pacific squadrons nor single
admiral, yet it possesses a fleet which
stretches half way around the world
Numerically the Army has more boats
than the United States Navy, and at the
rate Uncle Sans land forces are build
ing under its boat expansion program,
the sea arm, even with its projected two
ocean Navy, is going to have difficulty
in keeping pace.
Seldom does this sea-going feet of the
Army make the newsreels. And it has
yet to be immortalized by a~full-length
movie. An Army transport or Panama
Canal tug has little glamour in the eyes
of Hollywood. Tugboat Annie hasn't yet
been given command Of an Army tug.
Nerve center of the Army's daily ex-
panding boat construction program is
small section of Washington's new Mu-
nicipal Center Building. There Army
officials work late hours on project that
has only one goal-a feet of auxiliary
vessels sufficient in number to facilitate
the operations of the Army in all of its
far-f1ung bases. including those ac-
quired from Great Britain.
Young Reserve officers move through
corridors carrying blueprints under arms,
blueprints not of some new tactical prob
lem, but of new airplane rescue boat
or a minelayer. Colonels and majors
there speak knowingly of hatchways and
coamings, starboard engines and under
water exhausts.
For a minute the Municipal Center
visitor might wonder If he isn't in the
Navy Department, Is blocks away. But,
no, 1t is the Offices of the Water Transport
branch of the Quartermaster Generals
Office.
Details of Program.
Tucked away at one corner of the
building is Marine Design and Construc-
ton Section, presided over by tireless,
slight built man. He is 1t. Col Werner
w. Moore, chief of the section and the
officer through whose hands pass the
orders, specifications and endless details
growing out of the Army boat program.
No newcomer to the Army's marine
program is this native South Carolinian.
For the past IA years he has been identi-
fed with Army ship construction and re-
pair, background which made him the
logical man to head the section when
the War Department began expanding
1t a year ago this July.
Seamen would say he came up through
a hawse pipe. Col. Moore was commits
stoned a second lieutenant during the
last war after attending cadet training
camp. He left college at that time and
has been with the Army ever since. Like
many Reserve shavetail, he received his
first training in the infantry. At the
close of the war he was transferred to
the Motor Transport Corps, which under
the National Defense Act of 1920, was
absorbed by the Quartermaster Corps.
Col. Moore was quartermaster at the
Fishers Island station out ut the end Of
Long Island Sound and at Fort Monroe,
Evening star., 1941-07-20

knew was when water started gushing
into his cabin.
Il jumped out of bed and tried to open
the door. At first couldn't get it open,
but finally managed to bust it down.
The ship was sinking and on fire. When
I got up on deck, the deck was burning
IT had been sleeping aft and the fire
was on either side. 1t was between me
and the lifeboats. 1t was lucky for me
that the ship swung around and blew
the flames to port" This. he related,
made path through the fire, enabling
him to reach the lifeboats.
In the hurry to escape from the burn
ing tanker. young jeff fell out of the life
boat into the water. A shipmate fshed
him out.
For four days after the U-boat left
them to their fate, Jeff and Is shipmates
drifted about the ocean. They had a
compass and made for the sea lanes in
the hope of being picked up.
Breakfast consisted of one biscuit, din
ner of two biscuits and a morsel of corned
70 beef, with biscuit at night. Each was
given half teaspoon of milk and goblet
of water per day. Not much for a grow
ing boy like jeff!
There was nothing downhearted about
this boatload. They sang to keep up
their spirits, told jokes and generally kept
their minds off their plight.
1--WE never gave up hope" JEFF said.
-Four days after being torpedoed we were
picked up by Norwegian ship and were
brought into port
"Will go to sea again? Sure. Why
not? I can't stand it ashore Nothing
will keep me from going to sea. wish
they'd hurry up and get me ship
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1941-02-07
Herbert 2. Schendel Attorney
WyandOtte, Mich.


STATE OF MICHIGAN. COUNTY Of
Wayne-ss. At a session of the pro-
bate Court for said County Of Wayne,
held at the Probate Court room in the
City of Detroit. on the sixteenth day
of January in the year one Thousand
nine hundred and fOrty-one. Present
Thomas c. Murphy. Judge Of Probate.
In the matter of the estate OF
MINNIE VI. GRAY, deceased. Chris
tine =. Gray, Administrative Of said
estate, having render ed to this Court
her fist and final account in said mat
ter and filed Herewith her petition
praying that the residue of said estate
be assigned To the pc! sons entitled
thereto. 1t i> ordered. that the third
day of April, next at ten O'Clock in
tn forenoon at said Court room he
appointed for examining and allowing
said account and hearing said petit
ton. And il is further ordered. that
a copy OF this order be published three
Successive weeks p eviOus 10 said time
IF hearing. in the Wyand0tie Herald,
a newspaper printed and circulating in
said County of Wayne.
THOMAS T.. MURPHY,
Judge, OF Probate.
"A true copy
CHARLES Il. HARRIS
II putty Probate Register. 5w3
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1941-02-07
Herbert r. Schendei, Attorney
WYantlOtte. Mich.
SrATE OF MICHIGAN, Tn,

STATE OF MICHIGAN The Pro-
bate Court for the County of Wayne.
No. PSI Cos
In the matter of the estate OF
FREDERICK BUSSE, deceased. No
tice is hereby given that all creditors
of said deceased are required to pre-
sent their claims, in writing and un-
der oath. 10 said Court at the Probate
Office i'm the City of Detroit, in said
County. and serve a copy thereof upon
MaeviOlet Federspiel, executrix OF
said estate, at S14 Forest Street. Wy
andOtte, Michigan, on or before the
eighth day of April, 4. ID. 1911, and
that such claims will be- heard by said
court before Judge Patrick III. O'Brieu
III Court Room No. 307, Wayne County
Building in the City Of Detroit. in said
County, OH the eighth day of April.
A. ID. 1911 at two o'clock i'm the after
noon.
Dated January -, a. ID. 1871.
PAnRICK ii. O'BRIEN,
Judge Of Probate.
Published i'm Wyandotte Herald
once in each week for three weeks
successfully, within thirty days from
the date hereof. JwS
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1941-02-07
Respectfully yours,
George G.. Benin,
Councilman.

The Honorable,
the Mayor and City Council,
City OF WyandOtte
Gentlemen:
In answer to your letter of January
BIRD. enclosing complaint from JOS
eph L. LOSelle and Carroll +. Hick-
man relative to used cars parked on
Mulberry Street, between Blddle Ave
nue. and First Street, please be advlS-
ed that we have taken care OF the
WyandOtte Motor Sales cars which
were parked there and there are now
no ears belonging to the WyandOtte
Motor Sales parked in that section:
We trust this meets with your ap-
proval.
Yours very truly,
Board of Police and Fire Com
mlSSiOnerS
Louis A. Eastman.
President.
Received and placed on file.
The Honorable,
The Mayor and City Council.
City of WyandOtte.
Gentlemen:
After making check of salaries in
various police and fire departments
in nearby cities. comparable with the
City OF WyandOtte, we have learned
that all salary cuts which they had
been given in 1892 have been restored
to members, in addition to an increase
in salary.
Our local industries have given their
employees increases in salaries and
we feel that the members of the Po-
anfiflp6
to fifteen per cent increase over
their present salary. The greater por-
ton Of that, which is ten per cent,
was taken from them in 1882.
We respectfully recommend that
your Honorable Body give this matter
your immediate and favorable cOnSid-
GRAFTON.
Yours very truly.
Board of Police and Fire Com
miSSiOnerS.
Ralph f. WahOwiak.
Secretary.
Referred to Council.
Honorable Mayor and City Council,
WyandOtte. Michigan.
Gentlemen:
should like 10 request Of your
Honorable Body that Il committee be
appointed To study the housing prob
lem i'm WyandOtte.
We consider many of the SubStand-
ard dwellings Ia be definite health
hazard.
Yours truly,
" ID. McGlauShlin. NJ. ID.
Commissioner OF Health.
Committee appointed consisting oi
Frederick Gartner, DIR. mclaughlin
IL W. LiddlP. Ford Wagar, Louis Boil
From the Recrea ton Commission in
viting all City Officials To attend the
Southern Michigan Gold Cup Speed
Skating races ut Burrell slim on Sun
day. February 9th, 1T ! 30 l.. VI.
Received and placed OH file.
Copy of communication addressed t.
the Honorable PrentisS NJ. Brown
United States Senator, from the Ad
jutant General Of the War Department
relative to the rehabilitation of the
>hipyards at WyandOtte for defense
purposes.
Received and placed OH file
Bills and Accounts.
WyandOtte. Mich. Feb. I. 1911.
TO the Honorable Mayor and
COuncilmen,
Gentlemen:
The following claims have been ex
amined audited and found TO be cor
rect:
| therefore recommend that they Dt
approved and payment made
Respectfully submitted,
Lawrence j. LaCOurSe,
City Clerk.
I,; I'D g., rro.nbou.c. IN m
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1941-02-07

Municipal Service Commission 4.
l.. G.. SlOcum (Truck Hire)
Evening star., 1941-07-23

being a FreemaSon explains much
OF his policy 1t quoted the news
paper II Messaggero as declaring
that a head of state who also is a
Freemason can act only according
to the wishes of Jews and Boil
shevists.
In New York. Henry c. Turner,
grand master of the Free and Ac-
cepted Masons of the State of New
York, said it was public property
that the President was a member
Of Holland Lodge No. in Manhat-
tan and was grand representative Of
the State of Georgia to New York
Mr.. Turner said George WASH
ington, a prominent Mason. laid the
cornerstone Of the Capitol at Wash
ington at Masonic rites and that
Presidents Mckinley and Harding
were MaSons.
The organization is open by in
vitation to any one who believes in
God. Mr.. Turner said.
Three sons of the President
James, Elliott and Franklin-are
members, he said.