Victory worker. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1942-1943, 1943-08-20

to the front rank of cities meeting
the urgent needs of merchant sea-
men who are delivering troops and
war materials to the battlefronts.
Since May Is, when it became
exclusively a USS residential club
for seamen, the Pembroke Hotel has
been providing each day first-class
accommodation to an average of 100
officers and men of the merchant
marine waiting for their ships to
sail again to our worldwide fight
ing fronts.
The facilities of the USS social
club at 1864 Fourth Avenue,
with its canteen, library, writing
rooms, dance floor, lounges and
shower rooms, have also been in
full use since June 26.
The Seattle Port Area office, To-
Gated at 1910 Second Avenue,
houses the administrative offices,
the personal service office ard the
port medical office. -.-
Established Throughout World
Through these units and others
United Seamen's Service is estab-
fishing in ports throughout the
world, Americans can, in the words
of President Roosevelt, discharge
a small part of their debt to mer-
chant seamen-the men who are
vitaizing the vast tonnage we are
producing to defend our way of
life"
International in scope and a
participant in the National War
Fund, USS is a unique organiza-
ton. It's endeavors to serve the
embattled officers and men of the
1 merchant marine much as special
lied organizations such as the Red
Cross, USO, Emergency Relief and
Navy Relief serve the men of the
armed forces. Additionally, it pro-
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dati6ns ashore by means of a
world-girdling chain Of clubs.
Now eleven months old, United
Seamen's Service, with headquart-
ers at 30 Broadway, New York
City. maintains and operates nearly
50 units throughout the world.
Each month new units are being
opened, with the final goal some
where in the neighborhood of 70.
Some of these units, as in North
:. Africa, stand on what was until
recently enemy territory, under
fire of our guns. New units will
be opened as more ground is cap
tured by our troops. In the Pacific
theatre, units have been, or are
being, opened in Honolulu, Noumea
| New Caledonia) and Espiritu San
to New Hebrides).
Medical And Emergency Aid
USS facilities consist of port
medical offices mot included in the
computation of "units'), recupera-
ton centers Operated in close col
alteration with the War Shipping
Administration residential clubs
Chose abroad operated in collabor-
alton with the War Shipping Ad-
! ministration), and recreation cen
ters. In this framework, USS Of
fers medical care, board and lodg-
ing, entertainment and diversion,
and emergency personal aid to
merchant seamen and their ia
miles.
I The nearest rest and recupera-
tion center to Seattle is at Millbrae,
California, on the estate of the late
Darius o. Mills, which has been
lent to USS for the duration. Like
all USS rest centers, this one pre-
serves the atmosphere of country
house. Men discharged from hos
pitfalls and those needing rest
after severe duties, are admitted.
In addition to Millbrae, rest centers
are located at Gladstone, N. j.; at
Oyster Bay, New York; at Bay
Ridge, Md; and at Pass Christian,
Miss.
Medical Offices
Port Medical offices are located
in Baltimore, Charleston. Mobile,
New Orleans, New York, Phila-
delDhia, Seattle and San Francisco,
and in New York and Philadelphia
clinics are established. Seattle's
new Port Medical Officer, Mrs.
Edith Robson. is operating from
the area office at 1910 Second
Avenue. Additional port medical
offices are being established in
other cities.
World Wide Service
Depending on the size of the
port, residential clubs and recrea-
tion centers vary in size. In New
York City the residential club is
the History former Hotel Wiltshire.
located just off Central Park
South, and the recreation club is
the former Dartmouth Club on ex-
elusive MURRAY Hill. In Baltimore,
the former Baltimore Athletic Club
is the USS residential center. while
in Charleston the Villa Margherita,
long a show-plaee tourist hostel,