Sailors Learn Pill-Rolling
To Treat the Merchant Fleet
AP Features
NEW YORK — The U. S Mari
time Service is sending men down
to the sea in ships with medical
kits and litters to keep America's
merchant fleet the healthiest as
well as the mightiest, in the
world.
At the Sheepshead Bay train.ng
station, grizzled salts and youths
yet to be dunked in their first
spray receive hospital corps
training. The old salts are purs
ers of varying rank, ashore for
16 weeks' schooling in the pill
Soon after establishment of the
Hospital corps school, the Purse:
School for ‘raining ship’s clerks
was combined with it. Until then
the captain or first mate had
given necessary medical care
Supplying a man with funda
mental medical knowledge to each
merchant ships means that incip
ient epidemics can be halted,
ship’s sanitation improved, and
the danger of diseases spreading
from one port to another be cur
tailed. During the war, these
men provide medical care also for
SALTS FOR SALTS—A sea
man learns to prepare rudi
mentary drugs at the Maritime
rolling arts. The trainees get 28
weeks of preliminary drill as
seamen, and advanced training as
hospital corpsmen and junior as
sistant pursers.
Only One of its Kind
The hospital corps phase of the
school is the only training of its
kind in the world in any maritime
service.
On Liberty ships, freigh'ers
and tankers, the hospital corps
man-purser must frequently work
alone without the advice of doc
tors. On other vessels, such as
transports, there may be several
corpsmen or pharmacist’s ma'es.
The hospital corps school open
ed Dec. 7, 1942, to fill a vital war
time need. At the outset, mer
chant seaman casualties were six
times as frequent as those to
Navy personnel.
Volunteers entering Maritime
training stations may apply for
advanced training as a pharma
cist’s mate-junior assistant purs
er, instead of choosing deck or
engine schools.
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Service's hospital school at
Sheepshead Bay. With his di
ploma he gets a pharmacist's
mate rating.
the Navy guncrews on every mer
chant ship.
At the start of every voyage
hospital corpsmen administer ty
phoid, smallpox, tetanus and ty
phus inoculations if needed and
are also prepared to immunize
against yellow fever, cholera and
malaria prophylaxis. Upon ar
rival at destination, they assist
quarantine officials.
Fifty men a week enter the
school; 40 are pursers given leaves
of absence by shipping lines and
ten are trainees.
By lectures, motion pictures,
field trips and actual practice
they are trained in human anat
omy and physiology; hygiene,
nursing, pharmacy, emergency
treatment including plasma and
the miracle drugs, sulfa and pen
icillin. *
To complete their medical
training, they get four weeks of;
practical hospital training.
Pursers and trainees are im-!
pressed that when they finish
they won't be “doctors”, but they
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Boykin’s Goin’ Fishin’
3r WILLARD YARBROUGH
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ATLANTA — “Steer clear of
Atlanta—that’s John Boykin's
town!”
That word spreading along ’he
underworld grapevine has kept
big-time gangsters and racketeers
away from Atlanta for nearly
three decades, police of this south
ern metropolis say.
But the man who made the
crytic ini’ials D. A. spell “Dan
ger” to the underworld is going
to end his crime crusade this year
.to go fishing for mountain trout.
Still active despite his 67 years,
Solicitor General John A. Boy
kin dropped something of a pol
itical bombshell recen’ly when he
yielded to family persuasion and
said he would not be a candidate
for re-election after seven four-,
year terms.
Officials believe his 23 vears as
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a prosecutor may be a national
record for big c ties.
Boykin began in 1916 by con
victing scores of Fulton county
officials of graft.
The Edgefield, S. C., native
splashed in'o the national lime
light when he cracked down on
the ‘ Buncos”, a racket syndicate
operating a fake Atlanta stock ex
change. A bunco prospect asked
Boykin's advice on investing S85.
000 on the exchange and that was
all the D. A. wanted. His inves
tigators' herded scores of, bunco
operators into a net and convic
tions were wholesale.
The widespread ‘‘flop game”—
a damage suit racket backed by
unscrupulous lawyers and physi
cians—gave Boykin considerable
trouble, but when he finished, a
good many attorneys were dis
barred and some doctors left
town without packing. Women,
who paid their witnesses, haven't
tossed banana peels on street
will be competent to treat ordi
nary ailments and keep alive a
dangerously ill or wounded sea
man until a medical officer ar
rives.
cars and taken a “flop since.
“A successful district attorney,’’
said Boykin, “must always be ag
gressive and stand between the
people and forces of crime.
‘‘But if a prosecutor takes the
JOHN A. BOYKIN
From Dragnet to Fish Net
attitude ‘bring me the evidence
and I'll prosecute’, he's worthless
to the community. My philosophy
has been to nip a racket in the
bud.” ,
The ‘‘d:r‘y dollar” is responsi
ble for most of the crime in the
upper brackets, Boykin believes.
Boykin, large of stature with
sparkling, blue eyes and thinning
gray hair, has prosecuted 20,000
cases or more during his 28 years
in the driver’s seat. His batting
average is better than 85 per cent
convictions.
He credits the newspapers with
much of his success. ‘‘A fearless
newspaper that will reveal cor
ruption is indispensable to the
public welfare and the D. A.",
he declared.
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