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WORKERS ON
ANZIO BEACH
ANZIO BEACHHEAD, Italy—
the regional director of Amer
ican Red Cross personnel in Italy
*ver had any doubts as to the
Ability of his workers to stand up
lender shell fire and bombing, they
passed away with his recent v sit
id the Allied beachhead below i
.Rome,
“ “I can’t get over it,” said Alf t
i. Thompson, Mattoon, 111., the j
.^rector. “With shells coming in I
and bombs dropping all the time, \
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those American civilians are iust i
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as cool and calm as though they
were safely back home.”
• He has especial pra se for the
coolness and presence of mind of
•three Red Cross hospital workers
attached to beachhead hospitals
while he was there: Maryles
(Rusty) Nahl of Oakland, Calif.,
first Red Cross girl to make the
landing below Rome: Clara tJean'*
McNeill of Fort Slocum, N.| Y„;
and Helen Ewing of Delaware,
Ohio.
“A Jerry barrage had started
and some of the shells were fall
ing around the hospital area,” he ,
said. “Helen got into a dugout
safely, Rusty reached its entrance,
and Jean was washing in a steel
helmet in her tent when a shell
dropped and exploded about fifty
.feet away.
“The concussion blew Rusty into
the dugout. Jean just had time to
hit the dirt before a shell frag
j J ment passed through the tent,
right over her head.”
The shell, said the Red Cross
! ’ executive, seriously wounded an ,
Army nurse. While two other
nurses bolted from the dugout to I
scare for her, Rusty brought the
nearest ambulance to pick up the
,j£r!.i . .
• With thy; shelling and subse
quent ones, some of the hospital
personnel became understandably
ytttery. Rusty and Jean dug out
'canteen cups, chocolate, milk,
cheese and GI crackers, and pre
| , pared hot chocolate and sandwich
es for them. As more surgical
cases were brought in, Thompson
declared, the hospital ran out of
all-important clean towels. The
Red Cross girls broke out their
stock of towels and turned them
over to the surgical tents.
The Illinois man went with
Rusty into an operating tent where
doctors, nurses and corpsmen were
working.
“Hey. Red Cross, give me a
hand here,” called a soldier- ^
medic, who was trying to cut away
the clothing from a man whose
hips were injured. Though she
yvas not a nurse. Rusty pitched in
iand did the job. “The Red Cross
girls are considered so much a
part of the hospital they are
called on to do nearly anything,” j
Thompson explained.
Ordinarily, these girls have no
part in medical or surgical af
fairs at the field and evacuation
hospitals. Their function is to
distribute tobacco, toilet articles,
games and sationerv to the pa
tients; talk with them; write their
letters; run their errands; take
their messages; and dc anything
to help keep their spirits up.
“Seeing those three in action
convinces me that our girls must
be a pretty brave lot,” the Red
Cross director said. “They have
taken everything the enemy had,
and they were not especially
picked for this job. They came
along with the hospitals to wh ch
they were attached.
A GIRL FOR
THE ALEXANDERS
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Alexander
are the proud parents of a daugh
ter, Dean Naomi, bom on March
9th in Fairbanks. Mrs Alexander
is the former Miss Betty Jefford
who with her mother, Mrs. Jef
ford, lived in Nome for several
years.
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Chief Petty Officer Ray Erv. n
Coyle, 26t of Los Angeles, was
killed by an automobile Sunday
when crossing the street with his
wife.
The couple was celebrating his
first leave after several months'
service at Dutch Harbor, in the ,
Aleutians.
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AT POLET'S STORE
A new and interesting item is
being shown this week at Polet’s
store. This is a belt woven of
ptarmigan feathers with a band
carved ivory buckle. The design
made with the different colored
feathers, is very intricate, show
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ALASKA FLYER DOWNED
REQUESTS TIDE DATA
NAKNEK. ALASKA —When
bush pilot Bob Rove, the only
civilian pilot employed by
the army in Alaska, recently ra
dioed Flight Control here and
asked for tide data, the boys in
the tower dee ded they had heard
everything.
During their tour of duty at
this remote Bristol Bay station
they had received calls from pilots
who had crashed in the foggy
peaks, who were lost and wanted
a hearing, and even a frantic mes
sage from one pilot who said he
was “sweating out" the birth of
a child and wanted to know if
they could find out if it was a
bov or a girl. But this was the
first time a flyer had requested
information regarding the tides.
They admitted later, however,
it was'something that could have
been expected from Reeve, who
rates in the 11th Air Force as a
sure enough white-haired wonder
because of his snowy thatch and
the fact that he habitually flies
the island chain in an ancient and
battered single-engine plane which
none of the highly trained army
pilots would even step in.
Reeve’s request for tide data
was due to the fact that he had
been trapped over Bristol Bay in
zero-zero weather, with ice mak
ing on his wings and propeller and
no open field within his somewhat
limited flying range. So he had
set the venerable plane down on
a mud flat off-shore—the only b;t
of land he could find—to wait
for the weather to break. When
he contacted the tower he said
he had the feeling he heard some
where that the tide today was the
highest of the year, and he though1
it might cover the mud flat.
When the tower boys confirmed
his suspicion, Reeve took off hur
riedly and came in through the
murk to a safe landing at Nak
nek. As a result of his experi
ence, 11th Air Force pilots are
now carrying tide books.
CHARLES CALKINS
IN AIR CORPS
Charles Calkins, known oy his
Nome friends as Chuck, is now in
! Texas taking his basic training.
FETCHING —Anita Colby,
cover girl tinned movie actress,
posed for this portrait to expla:n
why a group of pharmacists
mates in the Pacific sent her *
round-robin fan letter.
From there he will be sent to
college lor further training before
going into active service. Chuck
is the son of Mrs. Marguerite Cal
kins, well-known Nomeite, who
now resides in Santa Rosa, Cali
fornia
Ice Pool Dates
disposal, the following list are the
official dates on which the ice
moved at Nenana:
17—Apri, 30 .11:30 a. m
1913—May 11 .9:33 a. m
1919— May 3 2:33 p.m,
1920— May 1J 10:45 a. m.
1921— May 11 .6:42 a. m.
1922— May 12 1.20 p. m.
1923— May 9 2:00 p. m.
1924— May 11 3:10 p. m.
1925— May 7 .6:32 p. m
1926— April 26 4:03 p. m,
1927— May 13 5:42 a. m,
1928— May 6 ....4:25 p. m,
1929— May 5.3:41 p. m.
1930— May 8 7:03 p. m
1931— May 10 9:23 a. m.
1932— May 1 .10:16 a. m
1933— May 8 .7:30 p. m,
1934— April 30 . 2:07 p m.
1935— May 15.1:32 p. m.
1936— April 30 . 12:53 p. m,
1937— rMay 12 8:04 p. m.
1938— May 6.8:14 p. m.
1939— April 29 .1:26 p. m.
1940— April 20 3 27 p. m.
1941— May 3 1:50 a. m.
1942— April 30 128 p. m.
1943— April 28 7:22 p. m.
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