The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 9, 1944, Page 8

uitr t Army ashore from vith the first inv ARMY HIGP'T NURSE ANN MAR KOWITZ administers blood plasma to Lt. Mary Harvey, an Army nurse, being evacuated from Europe. ve won 198 military award¢ thus) in this wa ding 20 Pur ple Hearts medals, 17 | bron: n comm d staffed evacu- ‘u planes stood them by air of- Deeds frica they worke in lifeboat and icy w suffer into Normandy the wounded in air eva C-54 uation | | gion of In a tribute conduct of | Army nurses Bernice M. W to the | They jon the how sked | |on the peti put my t on the hat | 1 3 Calonel Wik rit R z service in the me Allied Force Hes recalled the case of 46 years of ¢ ABOARD the evacuation plane Nurse Markowitz stops to talk with a coionel who suffered severe chest wounds while serving abroad, « COMMITTEE YOTES HOUSE HAVE HAND BRITISH PATROLS LEAVE ATHENS 10 INTREATY MAKING BATTLE LEFTISTS The today Dec Col ttee posed con ve H in future Repre- e NP resolution s two-thirds to 4, to ire inter tion ratific both-houses. The Ho of th fectiye, resolution must pe and Senate and three-fourths legislatures to become itutipnal € to ! > of the p ef-1end tcok ATHENS, Britis ut from t t 700 in- militiamen advancing ast on Athens where 1 patrols today push- roj heavy the Com- Constitu- hute troop: g out behind on the wooded area and east lace. trols infiltrated the wot up n positions during the night despite constant fire. ELAS | the through' “You'll kill me if you do," urse pleaded, This nurse the was in charge of her {unit’s blood bank at-Anzio, work- ing 18 to height of 20 hours a day during the fighting in that Colonel Wilbur,, who was in charge of 4,000 nurses in Italy, North Africa and Southern Fram e, pointed out that manv her 1ave been in front 111‘ [\l‘!'l since the first e them out ason,” she said, ause it would break their morale. want to stay on the job. When I toured the front, nurses in y hospital told me they were to be where the work was And in the rear hospitals the nurses begged for an oppor- tunity to serve at the frout.” Plenty of Hards Army nurses have no time to vered soldiers’ brows in war, And Army nursing is d work, the colonel empbasized. V't funny and it she said. “This up to your knees orous after t After that it b job, but Army nurses lo < and they'll put up with don't ta hips juent checks are made on the Ith of the nurses at the front. hours, tent hospitals, C-ra- als and the strain on life in the combat greas sometimes ta toll. There have been 8 hs in the Army Nurse Corps ous causes, including ill- . accidents and combat, since jor. have undergone all the that face fighting men . There are 66 Army who have been prisoners of war since the Japanese took the Fhilippines. Army nurses do not complain about hardships. They cheerfully take the discomfort§, the risks and the toil. Their only plea is for help to assure wounded American fight- ing men the finest possible medical attention. Emphasizing the need for addi- tional nurses on the fighting fronts and in Army hospitals at home, Col. LeRoy W. Yarborough, officer in charge, recruiting publicity bu- reau, U. 8. Army, pointed out that the Army is seeking 10,000 more registered nurses. There are 30,000 registered nurses in the United States who have been declared eligible- for service with the armed forces by the War Manpower commission, Colonel Yarborough asserted. i “We owe it to the wounded fight- ing men io see that at ieast 10,000 of those 1-A nurses accept com- missions in the Army Nurse Corps, said Colonel Yarborough. “Their best reward will be the gratitude of the men they will serve.” tion m TRUSCOTT NAMED NEW ALLIED HEAD ON ITALY FRONT ROME, Truscott, the Dec. 9—=Lt. Gen. Lucian Jr., 49, who commanded Allied forces on the Anzio beach- head and, who, later led the assault troops in the invasion of Southern France, has been appointed Com- mander of the United States Fifth Army Truscott succeeds Lt. Clark, recently named Commander of the Fifteenth Army Corps. Clark, as Commander of All Allied Ground Forces in Italy succeeds Field Mar- shal Sir Harold Alexander who was appointed Allied Commander in Chief for :lm Mldll(’llun(‘flll e BLY WAR BO\DS Gen. Mark > |PLANS COMPLETED T0 BUILD MODEL TOWN AT HOONAH | The first model Indian village in | Alaska will rise out of the ashes | and debris of fire-ravaged Hoonah | Village next spring, when 80 homes will be constructed to replace those ' lost in the conflagration which de- "<troyed the settlement last spring The dwellings, it was announced, |are to be of basic design and pro- \ide a living room, tani bath on the main floor, with & stairway leading to the attic witich will permit installation | two additional bedrooms if cwner so desires. Back of | Yakutat huts salvaged from aban- |doned Army camps, will be con- | nected to the dwellings by a cov- !ered porch off the kitchen. These jare to be used as utility rooms. | Due to the fact that the Hoon: | Indians are engaged in fishing, | war-essential industry, the Natior | Housing Agency made an appro- | priation to rebuild the village. The (project was’ turned over to the I’FPHA, with. the H. B. Fecss Com- |pany of Juneau appointeéd as agent |to prepare plans for the constru | tien, following the pooling of T 'dian lands through the Alaska In- {dian Service, a necessary prelimi- |nary to construction of this type. The project involves the follow- |ing steps: Cleaning up the fire de- |bris, filling the tidal slough (the houses to be built on solid ground rather than on ml s as formerly) . of most of the houses two bedrooms ! the |2 additional land adjoining the immediate rear of the village to allew a each dwelling; installation streets, sewage and water sys- tems and an electrical distribution that will provide street lig s well as demestic electricity, h the Indian residents supplying $10,000 for the purchase of 2 diesel generating plant. Allowances are also being made for the subsequent construction of additional buildings in the form of 2 Salvation Army Hall and a rec- reation milding, to be erected by the Presbyterian Church. A future- commercial also being laid out The ;uum:m and in criginal lot for of area is has been subdivided into lots of sufficient size to permit » minimum of 20 feet between which are to have an finish of ned cedar dwellings, terior the duration of ind will pay rer rangement at war's can buy the war, the with an a end whi the house Final p are now being drawn nd the contract for ccnstruction to be let sometime in the early pring - .o Major J. J. Griffiths Passes Away Today CHICALO, I, Dec. 9 — Major John J. Griffith, 67, Commissioner Athleties - of . the Far Western ference, died in his office of t is believed to have been a art attack shortly after being re- ed to office for another five s at a meeting of the Confer- ence athletic officers. larger | y Pcint (BYRNES 0 SPEED ~ WARPRODUCTION WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 — James Byrncs and his new crew of assist- ants today moved in on the lagging war production’ to speed munitions to tie Yanks. Into the campaign the; imneled efforts of all gov- ern; responsible in any way output; the manpower it, and trans- portation ring the Director of War jon and Reconversion were z production in mmunition, assault radar planes n for found cast tanks, and Superforts fc He had to hunt up so rk- ers to bring the s par. Byrnes named Maj. Gen. L. D. Clay, 47-year-old engineer and West graduate, as his Deputy Di- rector in charge of war programs ‘The War Production Board is re- ported to be meanwhile proposing the clamping of labor ceilings on the I urgent war plants as well as civilian industry, In a special WPB report on armament ¢ gency, it said it recommends the Government fix limits on th number of worker can be less e actories big and for bombing 300,000 w 1edules back to tha sential - - HAMPTON IN TOWN Frank Hampton, from Seattie, is staying at the Baranof -~ MacLANE HERE w. registered at the Baranof from Ket- chikan E Bv All'ED plANES i ';‘j)\‘ ,Dae. 9 RON AL nated C ov mber bAleDA\ DLCLMBLR‘) 1944 GERMANHOSPITAL FASCIST TROOPS SHIP HIT AND SUNK Dec. ¢ raft of Coastal Air ank the unillum- spital ship, Tueb- light as en- routs to Tri TROOPS Tegr Head- ment said unfortuna ng.” Headquar- erstood crew cast i nd the ship unded at - - i ALY J! MAKE MORE GAINS ROMI Dec. § drivin; Lamm C nza, and ed Castel, R multan: the Allied Cec mand disclosed that the First Can- adian Corps Fou Army mone h resulted enna ed by Lt. Gen action the , scored a bre ighting between Montone i in the fall of Ra on and the |t DESERTING LINES Fifth new enemy south of Bologna Eighth Army re- in_ heavy fighting Montene and La- northeast of the Bo- sgna-Rimini Highway town of Faenza, Allied Headquarters said. Italian Fascist troops and Ger- mans began quitting their line abcut a month ago, deserting to Allied lines at the rate of 30 to mere than 100 daily. yesterday attacked Ameri- at Monte Belmonte E( mbina, the central sector of front, suffering heavy losses the attacks were breoken up. R ATTERDANCE AT GRID GAMES ON INCREASE NEW. YORK, attendance took the 1944 se -American troops smashed tacks while the lccked between the when Dec. 9 — Football a huge jump dur- son even after due allowances were made for the number of schools which resumed the game this year, after two out of competitio The overall average shaowed a in ef 13 8/10 per cent of total attendance. Three hundred and thirty-three games were played by ges covered by the annual survey. The at- more than 1,500,000 ing