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NUMBER BILLY LUTHER LOST 75 POUNDS WHILE PRISONER (Conttnoed rom ae One) Ma rtinsvilfe Daily News Teleplme 4171 CMefTamMl BM MarttnsTllIe Va May IM TRENT INANT DIED TODAY garden on Sutherlin Ave ther NUMBER 4 NUMBER 2 irst LEGION TO MEET (Continued rom Page One) (Continued rom Page One) 5 Ullv pvutivn 4 Rockingham county circuit court head given troops making an as i iha 1 2 rt Ua ic olen ihtt hfklH in NUMBER 5 (Continued rom Paje One) is NUMBER 3 of 1 TRACK MEET TODAY (Continued rom Page One) ANNUAL TRACK MEET There Luther had neen oversea month vhen captured On S03 Mai Street at DISCUSS BUDDING is 80' 44 NIPS SINK IVE LIGHT SHIPS George Washington High Student Council organized certain that held numer was a member of the Meth church in Chase City and Auxi meet 141 29" business af from being said yester SAY QUISLING WILL DIE BY HIS OWN HANDS ALL RESISTANCE TO ALLIES IN WEST IS HALTED SPEARING TOWARD JUNCTION WITH AMERICAN TROOPS Emden The great naval bases and ports in Holland and Denmark are available tA Allied Navies Aircraft Electric Motors 93 2 68 's 1 44 134' 455 Mrs Charles Blunt Named Cliib long corridors of his massive stone retreat perched on the tip of Byg docy Peninsula in Oslo jord Whispers have come out that he is plagued insomnia and has Mrs Henry inney Dies At Richmond uneral Tomorrow James Martin Dies Rites Sunday At Boydton At 3 BARTOLO WINS DECISION BOSTON May A eatherweight Champion Sal Bar tolo 1234 of Boston gave rugged Gus tPelli Mell 132 of Montreal an artistic boxing lesson while gaining a unanimous 10 round de cision In their return non title bout tonight before an 11027 crowd at the Rbston Garden To Be New Home Of Red Cross CHARLOTTESVILLE Va May The board of visitors of the' University of Virginia met here yesterday in an all day ses sion when plans for proposed buildings al the university to he built after the war were discussed The hoard meeting was attend ed by Governor Darden Cancels Radio Address Change Of Venue Petition iled He lived in Danville many ago and at the time of his was a resident of Boydton Boyer Show Draws Heavy Patronage CHAPEL HILL May One hundred and twenty entrants from 12 schools will seelc honors here Saturday in the 33rd annual interscholastic track meet sponsored by the North Carolina High School Athletic Association Durham's roster of 23 heads th list with Charlotte Central and Greensboro each registering 20 hopefuls Other schools represent ed include Needham Broughton of Raleigh Curry of Greensboro High Point Greenville Sanford West field ranklin ayetteville andReynolds of Winston Salem Pfc Herman Dill 21 son of Mrs Rose Dill of 623 Worsham Street has been honorably dis charged from the Army at Batt ey General Hospital at Rome Ga Pfc Dill entered the Army 28 monthl ago and served 10 months over seas duty in rance Belgium Lux embourg and Germany AUXILIARY TO MEETThe Woman's Missionary liarv ot Christ Church will Monday afternoon at the hoane of Miss lora Whittle Mrs Whittle president will preside Dr Bishop Speaks To Masonic Group Ordway Is Honored James Jefferson Martin aged 81 died at Memorial Hospital last night at 10:25 o'clock after an illness of three years Mr Martin was a native of Henry county a son of the late William and Mary Riddle Mar tin years death Va He odist also a member of the Masons and Oddfellows Besides his wife Mrs Eva Love Tisdale Martin he leaves a num ber of nieces and nephews one of which is Mrs Minnie Shoffner of Danville uneral services will be held at Boydton Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock with the Masons and Odd fellows conducting their rites the graveside Tuberculosis Treatment Hot Point Of Issue In Current Investigations Of VA Hospitalization Program HARRISONBURG Va May Judge Bertram will await the filing of a memorandum citing precedents before acting on a change of venue petition of Mrs Grace Smith and Ralph Gainer both charged with the murder of Mrs husband rank Smith The decision was reserv ed yesterday after arguments on the petition had been heard in her home members the in Holland which by Hitler's legions 1940 just five days years ago CHARLOTTESVILLE Va 5 (A) The fourteenth Virginia Prep School Association I track meet will be held this after noon at the University of Virginia i with Wowlberry orest Episcopal The School yestetday for the 1945 46 year Hope Lyon was named president Peyton Hatcher vice president and Robert Ramey secretary treas urer Otis Dewey Trent aged I months passed away at his home I Route 1 Danville this morning at I 2:20 after an illness I about a week I He was born November 24 1944 1 Danville a son of George and I Maude Reynolds Trent I Besides his parents he is sur 1 vived by one sister Georgia Liley ITrent and three brothers Alexahl der Trent rank Edward Trent and Jesse ord Trent all of I 1 Danville uneral services will be conduct ed from the chapel of the Swice good uneral Home tomorrow af ternoon at three o'clock by' Rev Sorrell and interment will follow in Highland Burial Park The remains will rest at funeral home packed with explosives corkscrew ed into the fleet before dawn They succeeded in damaging only one American ship Bombers attacked the Yontan airstrip causing some damage and joined Kamikaze (suicide) pilots in raiding the fleet Some bom bers loosed Baka glider type bombs guided by suicide pilots ifty four attacking planes and one Baka bomb were shot down by guns and combat air patrol Intercepting carrier aircraft brought down 96 planes and four others were wiped out isolated actions 9O'i 234 78 i 23li 264 29 31 38 lll 20' 2 12 2334107 k17 46V4 4 Defense counsel requested the motion for leave to file the me morandum after the state had fil ed memorandum of authorities of court of rulings up holding the lower courts in the re fusal of venue changes Defense petitions filed a week ago hold that the defendants can not get a fair trial in Rockingham county because of gos sip untrue and slanderous re concerning Smith's death Also it is contended that lous and news paper stories have influenced public opinion against the accused JUDGEMENT AVORS ACL RICHMOND Va May A judgment of $419333 and in terest was entered yesterday by Judge Robert Pollard in Unit ed States district court here in favor of th? Atlantic Coast Line railroad in a suit against the Unit ed States government The suit involved freight rates on lend leur material destined for Eng land The order also dismissed acounterclaim by the government May annual ENTERTAINS AT PARTY Lucv English entertained about I fortv friends riday afternoon at the Western Pacific marks the third Day for Sgt oy Prior to this operation Sgt oy participated with his organization in the establishing of a beach head at Makin in the Gilbert Is lands and the conquest of Saipan in the Mariana Islands At Hour oy unit swarmed ashore behind the pounding of Navy battleships and cruisers A cook Sgt James oy en tered the Army in August 1941 and has served 37 months on over seas duty He is entitled to wear the prized Combat Badge Asiatic Pacific ribbon with 3 campaign stars American De fense ribbon and the War Depart newest award an arrow I i 1 winbinrt an The regular semi monthly meet ing of the PannilCPost Americas Legion will be helcKMonday eve ning in the Legion Home at 733 o'clock with Charles Bradley com" mander presiding Liggett Myers Lorillard Loew Inc Marshall ield Montgomery Ward Central North American Aviation Oliver arm Equipment Paramount Pictures Pennsylvania Cola Philip Morris Pure Oil Radio Corp Republic Steel Reynolds Tob Sears Roebuck Simmons Co Socony Vacuum Southern Rwy Southern Pacific Standard Oil of Texas Corp Union Carbide United Aircraft Steel Warner Bros Westinghouse Elec Woolworth Mrs Charles Blunt III was installed as president of the Of Wives Club riday evening at their dinner' meeting at the Henry Hotel 4 Claude' Taylor Jr elected secretary to succeed Mrs Charles Reed who recently re signed Several new members were wel comed into the dubs Mrs Larry Schoenfeld Mrs George Brodie Mrs A Jr Mrs Smithson Morris Routine business matters werediscussed' CHATHAM Va May Mrs Minnie Mattox inney 54 wife of Henry inney of Museville died at Medical College of Vir ginia Hospital Richmond early riday morning after a brief ill ness Mis inney was born in Pittsyl vania county and has lived in the Museville community her entire life being a member of the Muse ville Christian Church Besides her husband she is sur vived by two daughters Mrs Richardson and Mrs Carroll Garnett both of Richmond: two sisters Mrs Adams of Gretna and Mrs Ben Johnson of Hope well She also leave a brother Beverly Mattox of Lynchburg and a grandson uneral services will he con ducted from lhe Museville Church tomorrow afternoon at two o'clock and interment will be made in the family cemetery problem since the hospitals were set tip but Wolford points out that the average length of stay of a tu bercular patient Increased from 78 days In 1922 to 188 days In decided (or fiscal 1944 the average length of stay was 1673 days) I LYNCHBURG Va May (A5) Shrader Amherst county trial justice has announo ed that he does not intend to en ter the race for the governorship in the August 7 Democratic pri mary Explaining that his fairs prevented him a candidate Shrader day: "At one time I was I would run have ous conferences with mV friends in Lynchburg and Campbell county as well' as' in Richmond and else where about the state offer of support has been gratifying and I appreciate it very much However I do not feel that 1 can make the race at this Shrader's withdrawal leaves the field to two candidates announced far They are Lieutenant Gov ernor William M' Tuck of South Boston and Moss Plunkett Roanoke 31 27117 4 38 Vi 28 Vr 44 So irst Methodist Church will meet Monday as follows: Circle No 1 Mrs Russell Pease Cleveland Avenue 8 Circle No 3 Mrs A Bowles Stuart Road 3 Circle 5 Mrs Scott Cleveland Avenue 3:30 The Anne Boyer show at the City Auditorium last night drew a ca pacity house and offered a color ful ballot and ballad show with a large and well costumed caste The Anne Boyer shows have be come a fixed event in Danville's entertainment calendar and in variably draw a large response because the participants are pu pils at Miss Boyer's dance school and the family of all participants usually turns out in force As in other years the income de rived from last night's show goes to the clinic for underprivileged children conducted by the Junior Wednesday Club The story of the play Lit tle Man was a pure fantasy of delightful drnce numbers 'pas seqj and ensemble songs and pan tomime spread out through three acts and five scenes the wholebeing held together by Hie ser vices of a Narrator The dances were arranged by Miss Boyer with Alyce Lee Sat terfield providing the music and Nancy Leigh in charge of costumes and Charles Carter lightings ef fects May Gen ranz Boerne German Army commander in Norway cancelled a scheduled radio address last night by Major Vidkun Quisling Nazi puppet premier and called Quisling to his headquarters at Lillehammer the Swedish Nor wegian news agency said today The agency added that on Thurs day affernoon an estimated 12000 hirdmen the Quisling version of the SS (Elite Guards' were mobil ized by telephone and placed at disposal The hirdmen were given yellow armbands mark ed At the same time lhe agency said posters appeared at Oslo warning Quisling's Nasjbnal Sam ling party members that any per sons who resisted Norwegian or Allied troops would not be con sidered belligerents or taken pris oner but would be shot The warning was taken as an indication that Allied troops were expected soon the agency said and the armhands were believed to be a measure of protection for the so that they would be regarded as military personnel in the event of surrender sault landing He is also me noio er of the Purple Heart for wounds sustained on Saipan Sgt oy is the son of Mrs Grace oy of Schoolfield channel ports and islands The two day bag of prisoners In Denmark Holland and northwest Germany was the greatest mass surrender of this war ceased at 0800 hours British double summer time to on the 21st Army Group front declared the 392nd commu nique for Supreme Allied Head quarters German armed forces in northwest Germany Hol land and Denmark including the garrison on Helgoland and the risian Islands have surrendered unconditionally to Allied The: surrender leaving the Third Reich one of the most com pletely shattered powers which ever lost a war was negotiated by ield Marshal Sir Bernard Mont gomery who flatly rejected a Ger man offer to surrender to him three armies facing the Russians rom 80000 to 100000 Germans I surrendered was invaded on May 10 short of five In Holland Canadian and Ger man troops kept to their own lines as this zero hour of peace came and passed A front dispatch said it might be 36 hours before the Canadians moved forward to oc cupy surrendered sectors and tae their prisoners since the Germans first must supply information on minefields obstacles rations and supplies Newly transferred from Stock holm to Paris AP Correspondent Daniel De Luce said negotiations were underway for the surrender without battle of Germans in Nor way and in remaining portions of Austria and Czechoslovakia In Austria Third Army troops wee but a few miles from Linz and 60 miles or less from Russians moving westward toward Linz In gains today of up to 18 miles along a 50 mile front be tween Salzburg and Linz General Pation's men crossed the Traun River at Weis and captured both towns 16 and 25 miles southwest of Linz our German lieutenant generals were made prisoner Other Third Army units were up to or across the entire western border of Czechoslovakia but ap parently were not attacking an other indication that a surrender mote may be underway Russians in the east fought in the mountains of Moravia In the south the Seventh Army seized' Berchtesgaden vir tually completing occupation of Bavaria Americans went through the Brenner Pass yesterday and met ifth Army troops in Italy Allied airmen flew more than 1000 sorties yesterday concentrat ing on traffic in Austria and Czechoslovakia and escape ships in the Baltic Surrender of German garrisons at Helgoland and the risian Is i land of Borrum both heavily for i tified permits Allied minesween ers to move quickly to open surh porta a Hamburg Bremen and Dr Jones Danville den tist long an authority on rose cul ture has been named a trustee of the American Rose Society' Roses have been his hobby for years and he has some six hundred plants in his nue Many Attend Senior'' Play At High School 1 The Senior play All In Your Head" drew a large audience 'last evening when the cast chosen from the claw presented the three act comedy drama' The players showed thorough training and a great deal of drama tic ability Mrs Gporge Pollard and Miss Vera Baron directed the produc tion BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS Mr nd lilrs William L' Vippetr man announce the birth ot a daughter May 4 at the Shackelford Hospital Mr and Mrs George Crews an nounce the birth of a son May 5 at the Shackelford Hospital Personals 'Clyde Mize Harry Lee Rhodes Jr' i Mrs Harvey Lee Guye and Mrs: Peter Oscar Sink are patients at the local hospital rances of Hol ton Arms is the guest of Dr and Mrs A Shackelford i WESLEY GUILD TO MEET Mrs 'D Panpill will be hos tess jvtonnay anernoon at on Church Street 'to the of the Wesley Guild of Methodist Church Dr Curtis Bishop president of Averett College was guest speak er last night to 21 past Worship ful Masters who gathered at Ra mah Lodge No 70 to honor A Ardway who has been a Mason for the past 50 years Dr Bishop spoke on in a Changed and Changing tracing Masonry from its origin in the building of the Temple connecting the value with the task of Masonry today in a chaotic world High tribute was paid Mr Ord way who joined Ramah Lodge here 50 years ago but who now makes his home in ranklin Due to illness the veteran Mason could not be in the city for the meeting but the 50 year pin will be delivered to him in ranklin by A rix district deputy Grand Master Harry Motley who was Wor shipful Master of the lodge during 1913 and all officers who served with him were present Seventeen members attended who have been Masons more than 25 years Prior to th formal meeting in the Lodge Hall 27 Masons gather ed jn an informal dinner at lhe Hotel Danville The dinner meet ing was featured by good fellow ship and a musical program ren dered by Miss Marjorie Lee An derson soloist Mrs Dorothy Ed wards Waugh pianist and Mrs Martha ulton errell I Shrader Not To Enter Race or Governor of Dresden Another German account said Marshal eodor I Tolbukhin's Third Ukrainian Army had launch ed a new blow westward from St Polclten where Soviet troops were 60 miles east of Linz The Germans also said that troops of the Third Ukrainian Army were striking for Graz from points below the Semmering Pass Northwest and southwest of Ber lin more than 45700 Germans surrendered to the Russians while north of Stettin the Red Army opened a drive to clear the Baltic Islands guarding Stettin Bay Marshal Konstantin Rokos sovskys Second White Russian Army captured more than 22000 Germans in Mecklenburg province Southwest of the crumbled Ger man capital troops of Marshal Gregory Zhukoy's irst White Russian Army the conquerors of Berlin advanced 23 miles and threw the Germans back toward the Elbe along a 40 mile front south of Brandenburg capturing 23700 enemy troops Second White Russian troops crossed the pievenow Canal 28 miles north of Stettin and estab lished a 27 square mile bridgehead on Wollin Island one of the lands blocking Stettin Bay 98 244 48 34 31 52 79 i 19ik Cas 1 American Tel A Tel American Smelt net American Tobacco Anaconda Copper Atchison Topeka San Atlantic Coast Ln Atlantic Refining Bendix Aviation Bethlehem Steel Boeing Airplane Chrysler Corp Coca Cola Consolidated Edison Curtiss Wright Douglas General General Glidden Greyhound Corp Johns Manville Kcnnecott Copper Kresee Kroger Grocery Ringgold Home Lost By ire Early Today The home on the Ringgold Ken tuck Road belonging to Bar nes and his sister Mrs Bru was completely destroyed by fire early this morning Jbe house was known as the old Taylor home Occupants of the home were awakened this morning about 2 o'clock when they detected the odor of smoke Upon entering the hall of the home they found that the house was filled with fire and smoke but they managed to get out of the house before being burned The fire was thought to have started from a short circuit in the electric refrigerator The loss was covered by insur ance By RANK CAREY Associated Press Science Writer WASHINGTON May ('Pn Treatment of tuberculosis patients in hospitals of the' Veterans Ad ministration is a particular point of issue in current investigations of the entire VA hospitalization pro gram Assertions have been made that VA's tuberculosis record is far in ferior to that of civilian hospitals VA says no true yardstick is avail able to compare 1 lie records iof vet erans' and non hbspilMs A medical consultant for the Veterans of oreign Dr Kincaid said last August treatment of tuberculosis among veterans is at least par with that of tuberculosis among non He made the state jnent in to a National Tu berculosis Association (NTAI com mittee 'The importance of' finding the true picture of tuberculosis treat ment is indicated from statistics on tuberculosis among veterans of the irst World War In 1941 there were 63994 vet erans of that war on VA pension rolls fortuberculosis Death claims had been paid to widows and de pendents of approximately 48330 tuberculosis World War veterans Actable in the 1943 VA report lists 10315 patients discharged in cluding 4219 under tion complete" and 5916 under "hospitalization' In an article in Hie March Cos mopolitan magazine "condensed in the April Digest 'Albert Maisel wrote: the last: recorded fiscal year 1117 exclusive of the whose hospitaliza tion was" incomplete and those whose condition is not were discharged In the same period 1922 veterans died in these hospitals Maisel didn't give the date of the report: 1943 re port tinker the classification pitalization Complete" lists lhe total of arrested apparently ar rested quiescent improved and unimproved cases discharged as 1117 the figure that Maisel used Maisel'continued: is no war created situation The Veterans Administration has been this desperately poor record for two decades1 in its annual reports which though tech nically correct are actually decep "He noted that VA do not figure death rates as a percentage of the total number who complete treatment but instead as a percent age of the total number discharged (alive or dead) and declared: who die usually after leaving a veterans hospital In are just as dead but they clutter up the statistics! By such juggling with figures the Veterans Administration man ages to make it seem that the death rate in its tubercular hospi tals is only 1896 per cent Even so that rale is 50 per cent higher" than the average death rate of all the 92 hospitals approved for by the American Medical Association" On March 7 article was referred io by Its title Rale Medicine or irst Rate in a House speech by Rep Philbin (D Mass) Phjlbin (lid not specify refer ences to tuberculosis treatment! hut ssid the article and presents startling and convincing evidence that many of our veterans are being neglected' and' denied the basic rights benefits and privi leges which congress has provided for A Those not wounded were made to work num weakness and exhaustion were Tharo beaten wsa a Mrs Herbert Martin chairman of the Danville Chapter American Red Cross announced today that the Red Cross Office now located at 1 15 Main Street will move to the new Chapter House al 803 Main Street on Monday May 7 The office will he closed for the day Persons having business with the Red Cross are asked to postpone their visit to the office until Tues day In this way there will be time to set up the mechanics of the office so that the work can he ex pedited in the usual manner Real Estate Transfers The number of real estate trans fers deeds of trust showed a substantial decrease in the office of the city clerk during the past month During the month 41 deeds and deeds of trust were received at the office by the clerk "During April nine marriage li censes were issued expected to be the strong est contenders Woodbcrry orest has taken championship six times since I meet first started in 1932 They took (he title last year and in 1943 SMA and Episcopal High each have I win three championship Virginia Episcopal School has won once These four schools along with Union Military Academy Hargrave Military school and Ran dolph Macon Academy make up field of 124 contestants Wood berry orest loads with 40 entries and Episcopal High has 22 HONORABLY DISCHARGED 1 in" bv German mortar Amer Mach A rory Ore Both tanks and the half American Roll Mills 1 bernl Al4 mif I TraCKS writ VMS ualties were heavy inally the remaining 450 men offered to sur render but the Germans refused to accept and the fighting went on It was about 5 o'clock one after noon when fighting subsided aft ed all but 42 Of the 450 men had been wiped out Of the remain ing 42 20 odd were wounded in cluding young Luther An enemy bullet ripped through his helmet and caused a head wound which i Tendered him senseless The small group was taken prisoners The wounded were taken to a farm house which was set up as a first aid station The Nazi doc tor had no anaethetics and surgery ordeals were agonizing The wounded were there stx das be ing fed only twice by a sy mpaihetic Belgian farmer during that time The Germans gave them no food Then came lhe long ride in an open truck that ended at Limburg It required two and a half days in the snowstorm At the start the Nazis had taken winter top garments even his shoes The youth had no food or water dur ing the entire trip Arriving at Limburg they were lodged in quarters which were ap palling Thin mattresses sluffed straw and burlap bags weie on the floor Sanitary conditions were almost unbearable with the camp reeking with stench and filth Luther survived the numerous Allied bombings of Limburg a vi tal railroad center which was raid ed almost nightly Many prisoners ilU4 Hnft niaht if wciv niuvut RA attack bombs fell short of the rail yards into the camp One hundred were killed In addition to the agony of slow starvation the prisoners at times feared the bombings The Germans made numerous attempts to transfer the prisoners but devastating Allied raids frustrated them On March 21 a train comprising a thousand cars was loaded: with 50 to 75 men in a car Included in the train also were flatcars with tanks and other heavy war equipment In the railyards during one raid Allied fliers knocked out four engines seeking repeatedly to move the train out during a fixe day period One hundred and sixty Allied of ficers and 25 or 30 enlisted men swere killed Desperate the Nazis painted POW in large letters atop the cars The attacks ceased The raiding fliers merely circled around Again the transfer effort was thwarted when a railway bridge was bombed and destroy ed Shortly before American forces effected the liberation the Ger mans took all the men who could walk and marched them away There were nearly 300 Being among the wounded Pfc Luther remained He and others were lock ed inside for seven days and six nights They were fed daily only one piece of cheese and inch square a piece of bread four inch es square and half an inch thick and given water twice daily inally Germans set the train containing ammunition along with the occupied and locked box cars afire This was probably the young soldier's closest call It uas here that the German civilian guaul with a brother in America and who had slipped some of lhe GIs cigar an Allied doctor The German and th doctor then opened the car doors letting the other trapped prisoners escape the flaming death that would have come to them At nnnn on March 28 the 99th Division of tank destroyers aved and liberation was at hand The job was fully completed about 4 in the afternoon after the American liberators had wiped out Bets of Nazif! in wonf Luther as well as others were overjoyed Some of the boys hug ged and kissed their liberators Describing life at the Limburg camp Luther said that for reasons never learned the Germans took Red Cross parcels intended for the American boys and gave them to the rench The prison diet con sisted chiefly of watery soup Luther believes that being wounded spared him a worse fate than he actually suffered Those ettes when he got a chance freed speijs of violent weeping that give 1 way to fils of rage One report reaching the Nor wegian government was that Quis ling has a pnonia of being poison ed He refuses to touch his food until it has been tasted by one of his oersonal bodyguards Packages delivered to the Quisling mansion are inspected by guards at the edge of the estate for time bomns Norwegian underground sources report that Quisling rarely leaves his estate where lie is surrounded by 150 well trained Norwegian Nazi storm troopers Machine guns are set up among the trees and shrubs at various places around the massive stone structure known as House of the The doors of Quisling's mansion according Io a Norwegian are built of wood and steel shutters have been installed for the win dows When the British Royal Air orce began raiding Norway Quisling built a concrete re in forced air raid shelter which re putedly cost $40000 In it was installed every convience includ ing a picture theater said one Norwegian source by the Germans and hated by the countrymen he betrayed is an outcast in a laud he sought to an outcast fac ing a traitor's doom And he knows CIRCLES TO MEET The circles of the ciety for Christian Service of Referring to the death rate of 1896 per cent for 1943 Co! Roy A Wolford" assistant medical director of VA said in a statement: comparison of imme diate results of twb groups of hos pitals is hazardous because num erous tuberculosis saniloria admit only persons of certain ages color race and economic status the group of tuber culosis: hospitals 'and sanitoria serv ing New York City probably rep resents more nearly the number and classifications of patients serv ed by the facilities than any other group of institutions "According to Drolet 'a doctor who made a survey in the New York area) during the year 1943 there were 11734 tubercular dis charges from the 23 hospitals in the New York area of which 2435 or 21 per cent were those who died in the institutions "The stage of disease of new patients admitted to these 23 New York hospitals with pulmonary tu berculosis was 12 per cent minimal 35 per eent moderately advanced and 53 per cent far advanced stage of disease of tuber cular beneficiaries admitted to VA hospitals in the same period was 10 ner cefttLminima) 27 per cent moderately advanced and 63 pei High School and Staunton Military cent ar 'advanced I although Hie patients ad l( milt'ed to our hospitals were a more advanced stage than those admitted to the'c 23 tuberculosis hospitals and saniloria serving New York City the death rate in our hospitals was appreciably lower" Col Wolford said the death rate for the Niw York hospitals was calculated in the same way that VA's Is What of the record of VA tuber cular hospitals with regard to cases? Louis' I Dublin third vice president statistician of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co declared in the December '1943' issue of the American Jour nal of Public' Health' that: "At no time since 1929 when the present type of report of the Administration began has the total for the parently arrested' and (cases)' reached six per Even allowing for the advancing age of patients Dublin said the figures represented painful con to results "obtained in well managed state municipal and pri vate Colonel Wolford of VA says ap proximately 85 per cent of the dis ability awards for service connect ed tuberculosis in 1941 were being paid for "arrested" tuberculosis "This would he declar ed in a technical report many of our patients leave the hospital before we can properlv classify their condition as arrested that the great majority of the vet lerans receiving compensation for i c'e connected tuberculosis have attained an arrest of their pulmonary condition and the ulti mate results can he classified as What about veterans who leave the hospitals before treatment is completed? The 1944 annual report of VA lists 6646 tubercular patients dis charged under the classification ''hospit(ilizatioh 'as against' 5026 who treatment was completed VA'says some wholeave do so medical advice" others are irregularly discharged for he Ina without and still others are discharged "for disciplinary before their hospitalization Is complete VA declares this has been1 6 I 1 '( (urnished By Courtesy Abbott Proctor and Paine) American Can Xmrr Mach A dry The ones who collapsed Cnrro U'larn RllOt i German screcant named Isenhour vho killed several too ill to work Although not certain Luther believes that they (the lib erators) In the camp epidemics of dysen tery only added to the deplorable sanitarv conditions in which many of the skeletons had to lie in filth unable to move or do anything for themselves the' return trip from Limburg he passed by and saw the results of Nazi 'murder in the form of starvation victims piled up by the thousands He also saw the huge furnaces the Germans used as crematoriet Sergeant oy Carries Variety Campaign Ribbons WITH THE 27TH INANTRY ON DAY April Sgt James 11 oy of 22 Augusta Avenue Schoolfield Va landed with the Appleknocker regiment of the famed 27th Infantry Divi sion in its initial assault on an Is land of the Ryukyu Group 365 miles from the Japanese mainland The smash at the Ryukyu Group a key point in the vital communication center of lhe en emy's direction of his forces in her home on Mulberry Street the occasion being the celebration of her eighth birthday anniversary Games and contests were enjoy ed on the lawn of the home An ice course candies and cake was served to the guests The hostess was the recipient of a number of birthday remember ances.