1944-11-30 - Northern New York Historical Newspapers

PAGE TWO THE BREWSTER STANDARD — ESTABLISHED 1869 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1944
Red Cross Did Not
Sell Blood Plasma
Red Cross Chairman Basil O'Connor
recently issued the following statement:
"It has been called to our attention
that rumors alleging that Red Cross
blood plasma Is being sold to soldiers
and sailors are being circulated thruout
the United States. These rumors
are vicious lies and apparently are
circulated by persons who wish to deprive
our fighting men of life-saving
plasma.
"The blood which each week more
than 100,000 patriotic Americans give
to the Red Cross Is turned over to the
Army and Navy and processed * by
them into blood plasma, or flown as
refrigerated whole blood to Europe and
the Pacific.
"Pull possession and control of the
blood plasma passes into the hands of
the Army and Navy when the Red
Cross ships it from its centers to processing
laboratories. The Army and
Navy, as Is well known, administer
this blood plasma or whole blood to
wounded soldiers and sailors without
any charge. Persons circulating such
rumors should be reported to the Federal
Bureau of Investigation."
" As of November 1944, the Red Cross
Blood Donor Service has supplied over
ten million pints of blood to the laboratories
that prepare dried plasma and
serum albumin for the Army and
Navy. In addition to this, the whole
blood project which has recently been
inaugurated in several Blood Donor
Centers is sending whole blood by airplane
directly from the donors In this
country to the battlefields.
Mrs. Leslie P. Dodge, Chairman of
the Blood Donor Service for Putnam
County, with Mrs. Harold A. Knapp
of Brewster recently attended a regional
meeting of the Red Cross Blood
Donor Service In New York City at
which many of the practical problems
of obtaining blood to meet the ever
increasing need were discussed. Lt.
Cord Meyer whose article on this subject
appeared in a recent Issue of the
Atlantic Monthly magazine spoke at
this meeting, as well as Mr. Lamont
and Mrs. Vanderbilt Webb of the Red
Cross. Mrs. Dodge has announced that
all persons having type O blood needed
for the whole-blood program newly
inaugurated will be welcome at any
time at the Blood Donor Center In
New York City and will be taken immediately,
without appointment and
without waiting, if they wish to go
there. Mrs. Dodge says that the next
visit of the Mobile Unit to Putnam
County will not be before next summer
or early fall but that those who
wish to donate blood in the meantime
(the same person can donate blood
approximately every four months) can,
if they wish, make appointments at
the New York Center or can go to
RidgefteM, Conn., when the Mobile
Unit calls there In January. Transportation
for those from this county
who wish to go to Rldgefleld can be
provided by the Red Cross Motor
Corps, if persons so desiring will notify
Mrs. Dodge in time tor arrangements
to be made. Many of our Putnam
County people also donate blood
at Peeksklll, Mrs. Dodge stated. At
the last visit of the Mobile Unit to
Putnam County 867 pints of blood
were donated, which more than met
the quota which had been fixed for this
county.
Blood Donor Service has been of
extraordinary value in saving lives.
Much credit Is to be given all those
who have whole heartedly cooperated
in this vital war effort
ORTHOPEDIC CLINIC
The District Nursing Association
announces that an orthopedic clinic
will be held Friday, Dec. 1. 10 ajn.
and 2 p.m. Residents of Southeast
may make appointments by telephone
to Mrs. Olive Cole Hopkins, Brewster
2361.
o —
"My husband Is an efficiency expert
in a large office."
"What does an efficiency expert
do?"
"Well, if we women did lt, they'd
call it nagging."—Phoney Phun.
Truck, Tractor, Trailer
Owners Please Heed
New regulations relative to the Issuance
of registrations for trucks,
tractors, trailers and semi-trailers for
1946:
An application for any truck, tractor,
trailer or semi-trailer which is
being registered for 1945 must be accompanied
by a weight certificate,
form M.V. 908, if the unladen weight
of the vehicle Is 4000 pounds or more.
This Includes vehicles which have been
previously registered and under no
circumstances may a registration be
Issued unless the applicant fully complies
with the procedure,
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No All-Night Permits
For New Year's Eve
John P. O'Connell, Chairman of the
New York State Liquor Authority,
1775 Broadway, New. York 19, N. Y„
announced today that the Liquor
Authority will continue its policy of
not Issuing All-Night Permits for New
Year's Eve for the duration of the
war.
Commissioner O'Connell explained
that under present provisions of the
law, alcoholic beverages may be sold
on licensed premises In the City of
New York until 4:00 a.m. Outside the
City of New York, alcoholic beverages
may be sold until 3:00 am., unless an
earlier closing hour has been prescribed
by the local alcoholic beverage
control board.
ORDNANCE FLASHES
Although the Army Ordnance 37mm
antitank gun has been largely replaced
by the more powerful 57-mm
gun, it Is still a versatile and useful
weapon—particularly in jungle .warfare
where the going Is rough. The
87 can be carried in a jeep or by four
men to places where a 57 could not
be emplaced.
In the fighting for Saipan, the 37mm
gun was very effective in piercing
the light armor of Japanese tanks. It
was also effective against personnel,
machine gun nests, and pill boxes. At
the heights of the Salpan engagement,
a 37-mm gun knocked out two machine
gun nests at a range of 300
yards within a few minutes after
opening fire on them.
Vehicle performance reports from
the European Theatre stress the power
and effectiveness of the Army Ordnance
3" Gun Motor Carriage, M10
tank destroyer. In one Instance, a
solitary M10 encountered three German
Panther tanks on a curve of a
narrow hedge-bordered road. In the
engagement which followed, the M10
knocked out the three Panthers unassisted.
Writing of Army Ordnance, Ernie
Pyle said: "This Is not a war of ammunition,
tanks, guns and trucks alone.
It Is as much a war of replenishing
spare parts to keep them In combat as
lt Is a war of major equipment A
thousand tanks or a thousand motor
trucks are as good as no tanks nor
trucks if the butterfly valve, no larger
than a quarter. Is missing from the
carburetor of each of them. The gasket
that leaks, the fan belt that breaks,
the nut that la lost, the distributor
point that falls or the bearing that
burns out will delay OI Joe on the
road to Berlin, if he hasn't got another,
just as much as if he dldnt have a
vehicle In which to start."
Mrs. Helen Mariey Kenny, one of
the sixteen lovely Ordnettes who demonstrate
the latest guns and equipment
at Army Ordnance War Weapons
Show In the Chrysler Building, has
been selected as "Miss Subways" for
December, 1944. Her picture will appear
in all New York subways during
that tmythi
Thes first step in permanent rat
control Is a clean-up program*-get rid
of old, discarded lumber piles, broken
down unused sheds, piles of papers,
boxes and bags, and near-by trash
dumps.
EVERY BUY A BULL'S EYE
Fred 1 . 1'iirlu-r—L'n>nUr Ettiiurial Carloout, lut.
Knight Errant
By R. L. ARVIN
MeCIure Newspaper Syndicate.
WNU Features.
\M ADELINE saw the soldier while
1 1 she was some distance up the
highway and Impulsively she started
to slow down. But aa the car stopped
beside him she was a trifle uneasy.
She had never before picked up a
hitchhiker. She scanned his face as
he tugged at the door handle and a
measure of confidence returned. He
was lean and brown and hard and
reminded her of her brother; he
wore overseas ribbons, too.
The lieutenant brought into the
comfortable coupe the not unpleasant
odor of a mild soap and good
tobacco and also, to Madeline's
astonishment, a casual intimacy
that did nothing to improve her
driving.
Re sat half-facing her, with one
arm thrown over the back of the
seat and his fingers played gently
with the collar of her polo coat.
She turned toward him reprovingly
and saw that his eyes had missed
nothing — from the tight roll of
chestnut hair clear down to her slender
ankles.
"You'll do," he decided, catching
her glance.
Madeline blushed. "Thanks. I was
expecting a whistle," she said tartly.
"You'd rate a whistle if you'd take
off those shell-rimmed cheaters,
fluff out that hair-do into something
modern and slip into a jersey that
should be more becoming than that
gunny sack you're wearing," he shot
back at her.
Madeline clamped her Jaws tightly
to retain control of herself, then
"She wam'ff"
asked: "You're going to Middleton?"
He nodded. "And I would that I
were not."
"Home to a wife and children?"
Madeline chided.
"An obligation, yes, but not that
kind." He stared at the road ahead.
There was silence for a minute before
he explained:
"It's a long story, Beautiful. Maybe
I'd have been better oft* in the
long run if the Jerries had got me.
This fellow saved my life the first
day out. I was a wise guy, see, a
smart aleck, but he shoved me into
a hole when those MEs started coming
over. I made that right a little
later by drilling a sniper who had
his bead set on him. So we got to be
buddies - the best kind. WeU, I
thought his sister must be all right,
too—" He hesitated and Madeline
gave him a look of encouragement.
"She wasn't?"
The lieutenant closed his eyes
and frowned. "You can judge for
yourself. I get a letter from this
girl, thanking me for saving her
brother's life. Then our outfit splits
up and my buddy and I are separated.
I don't find out anything about
her from him but I answer her letter
and away we go. Well, at first
she's amusing. Then she begins to
write about our 'glittering tanks that
charged into battle like avenging
angels of death.' Even that sounded
kind of cute, but after a while everything
gets daffy. I don't get it at
alL"
"No?" Madeline prompted, her
twinkling eyes glued to the road.
"No. She wrote about the night
having a thousand eyes that
watched over me. I was her knighterrant
and she was my ladylove.
Imagine it!"
Madeline smiled. "You've no appreciation
of romance. Besides, she
probably thought it would be good
for your morale."
"Nuts! Jerries on the run is all
my morale needs." They were entering
the town and he leaned toward
her eagerly. "Listen, Beautiful, I
won't even call up this gal with the
fantastic ideas if you'll give me a
break."
Madeline stopped the car at the
curb and faced him with severity.
"But Lieutenant Milton — Lieutenant
James Milton — my brother
never described you as a person who
would run out on anyone."
She waited expectantly, but no
astonishment was evident. Only a
good-natured grin.
"O. K., Mary, we're even now,"
he said softly. "You knew me when
you picked me up. But those initials
M. S. on your car door were a dead
giveaway, too. So forget all I said
about your letters. How about tonight?"
Madeline laughed. "It's all right
but first you'll have to speak to my
eleven-year-old sister. Her name is
Mary — and she's the one who's
been doing all the writing."
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