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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Friday, December 11, 1942
They Serve Uncle Sam
About the Men In the
Army, Navy and Marines
By BEN SAMUEL
OXYGEN FROM HEAVEN:
Miracles, it seems, still drop out of
the sky every so often.
Recently an American transport
plane was forced down at a moun
tain village near the China-Tibet
border, during a run on the India-
China ferry service. The crew
came upon a child, the eighteen-
month-old daughter of a mission
ary, dying of bronchial pneumon
ia.'. . .
The boys quickly removed their
oxygen tanks from the disabled
plane and rigged up a crude oxy
gen mask with a hose and funnel.
This apparatus was used for
three days, at the end of which
time the crisis had passed and the
little girl began to rally.
She is the daughter of Harry
Fisher, British missionary whose
wife, the late Ann Andrews of
Cleveland, Ohio, died in child
birth.
The names of the crew members?
Lt. Lloyd Aronson of Norwulk,
Conn-, Lt. Bruce Kregerbaum of
Dayton, Ohio, and Private Murray
Langer, of the Bronx, N. Y.—all
stalwart descendents of Abraham.
After being marooned for 14
days in the mountains, the boys
were themselves rescued, when
food and tools dropped from other
planes enabled them to say well-
fed and eventually to repair the
transport.
Meanwhile, in a different part
of China, another Jewish young
man, 21-year-old Lieutenant Mor
ton Sher, of Greenville, S. C., was
being feted by the pigmy natives
of a Soje village never before vis
ited by a foreigner.
Lieutenant Sher had been over
Hong Kong that afternoon shoot
ing down a Jap Zero. His plane,
with three Zeros in pursuit of it,
was forced down by engine trouble
and landed on a small field. Chin
ese on the field quickly camou
flaged the plane with grass and
saved it from enemy machine gun
fire. Suffering only from a head
tfUTTip, the lieutenant was removed
to the Soje village where, despite
the fact that he is only five feet
five himself, he was regarded by
the natives as a giant. Officials
called upon him to speak at gath
erings of 15,000—and even to sing.
For songs he went through the
Star Spangled Banner and what
ever campus ditties he retained
from his days at the University of
Alabama. When they demanded
stories, he told what he could re
member of “Little Red Riding
Hood.”
At length he was returned to his
base, and is probably up in the air
again right now fighting more Ze
ros.
• • •
ON THE DISTAFF SIDE: Any
qualms you may have about the
stamina of women in war work
will surely be soothed after you’re
heard about Rebecca Morris.
Miss Morris is a lady of 70 sum
mers who recently abandoned her
practice in Binghamton, N. Y., and
walked into an aircraft training
school, demanding a course in
welding. She passed al ltests with
flying colors, surpassing, according
to instructors there, the skill of
many men who enrolled before
her.
Miss Morris is still at school and
will soon be a full-fledged aircraft
welding. She passed all tests with
welder. Holding her acetylene
torch and peering thru a pair of
electric arc glasses, she recently
told reporters to stop clucking in
credulously. “It’s just routine,”
she said.
Of course, you don’t have to be
70, girls. You can be 24. Miss Dor-
PIONEER WOMEN
MEET TUESDAY
The regular meeting of the
Pioneer Women’s Club will be
held Tuesday, December 15th at
2:30 p. m. at Rich’s Conference
Room. An interesting program and
a report of the last bridge party
will be presented Members and
friends are urged to attend this
meeting.
THANKSGIVING
OFFERING
Through the courtesy of Julian
V. Boehm a thanksgiving offering
came to the attention of the Fed
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Mr. Boehm many years ago be
friended a non-Jewish boy who
has now grown to young man
hood. The young man is now
working in a war industry plant
in Alabama. On Thanksgiving day
he wrote the following letter to
Julian Boehm.
“Today I mentally enumerated
many of the things I have to be
thankful for and this letter is a
result of that thinking . . .
‘Then, too, I get pretty dam
mad every time I read about new
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maybe it will give some one else
something to be thankful for.”
Such is the stuff out of which
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• • •
GOOD WILL TOWARD MAN:
A young woman named Helen Or
mond walked into the office of the
Committee on Army and Navy
Religious Activities at the Jewish
Welfare Board the other day, car
rying a heavy box.
“These are for you,’’ she said.
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