The Galveston Daily News from Galveston, Texas • Page 20

THE CALVEITON NEWS--PACE 20-JUNE British Seaman in Hospital Here Was Torpedoed Eight Times and Lost Family in German Blitzes BY OH LAND O. DODSON Out in the United States Marine Hospital, 24-year-old merchant lying flat on his back in A narrow bed. Is spending his Bpare time working on a flying model airplane he is building. Yesterday he wasn't doing so well with it But the few men in the same hospital ward as Kenneth Allen, the young seaman, will give you odds that he Tilt finish the plane, on another list--that of wounded men. Several bits of shrapnel were embedded In his left leg.

He lost A lot of blfod. When he was re- Teased, months later, from a British hospital, the merchant fleet turned him down when he volunteered for further duty. With the game leg, he was told, handicap of having build it in the air. despite the virtually to They have heard Kenneth's story. They know that he doesn't give up.

Kenneth Allen was born in Watford, England, '24 years ago, son of an architectural engineer, Wben he was 12, he went into.his father'i office to learn the profession. But he, ivas not destined to ply his father's trade. i 6 he ft ined leg wound had become infected, ritish merchant fleet, planned to doesn't know how long it he'd never make "They said I was unfit for duty," he said. But the men who go down to the sea in ships had not seen the last of Kenneth Allen. Soon he was nailing again this time with the American merchant marine.

Up to May 26, that it. The game leg gave way while he was in Houston, preparing to eail on the Harvard Victory for Poland, to take supplies and food in the battle against starvation. He came to Galveston, and admitted to the hospital here. The will be before he. will call again.

But he definitely doesn't plan to give up He's an engineer now, at 24, with eight years on the yeas behind him. In the meantime? He smiles and nods at "hi? table. There are two completed ship there, along with a stack of books. And then there's the model plane to build. "Right now," he says, "I'm worried more about that plane than anything else." become a marine engineer.

That 'was in 1938. The world was on the verge of war. Young Allen didn't know that. But he wanted adventure. The war broke out, and Kenneth remained in the merchant fleet.

There was the submarine war, A couple of ships were torpedoed right out from under him. He tnanaged to escape safely. Then in 394t, there was saddening news from Watford. Kenneth's parents, his younger sister and his younger brother were killed in a German bombing raid. That was in June.

In July his grandparents frere killed In a raid OP their town, Grays, Essex. Two months later the only remaining member of his immediate family, his older sister, a nurse in Guys Hospital, London, died in a raid. Then, for a year, Kenneth Allen was, as he puts it, "in a sort of a daze. I guess I hit the bottle kind of hard. Life didn't mean much to any more." England wasn't home then for Kenneth Allen.

There were too many memories. HU home became the ships on which he sailed. He headquartered in Canada, on over the raJls of Missouri Parare occasions when he was ashore, je.fic. Texas A Pacific and Pennsyl- And then somewhere aiong the ivania railroads. trail, about a year after his par-; Negotiations for the operation of enti were killed, the young Brit- Isleepinp cars through St.

Louis via Isher took stock of hinwlf. Giving'other Eastern lines and the Mis- up wouldn't do. he decided. souri Pacific and Texas Puriflc are If any man had a personal, score being continued, Mr. Weinberger to settle with the nazis, that man MOPAC ANNOUNCES TEXAS-NEW YORK THROUGH SERVICE Through train service from Galveston, Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth to New York will be inaugurated July 7 by the Missouri Pacific which will extend the run of the Sunshine Special f-nTM, York.

E. M. Weinberger, division traffic and passenger agent here, said yesterday. The new daily scuedule will oper- was Kenneth Allen. And he settled The Sunshine Special will arrive, the score.

i a depart at St. Louis as a solid He threw himself into his work. 1 1 nd whil win Time after time hin ships were I 1 SL 0 8 no cari wlU be torpedoed out from under him. i "witched in or out there. i Eight times in all.

On five con- The Sunshine Special. leaving voyages, carrying supplies poinU including Galveston. to Russia via the Atlantic Sute.i toB Ds lias and Fort Worth. his shlDS lost wil1 rrlve at SL Lou! flt 8:3 snips lusi. i A I I A A A herd of Brahma Is driven along run! highway outside Paulista.

Brazil, In the northwest section tht South American country. The la tnm tha U. S. consulate at Retire, near Paulista. Smith Opens His Campaign With Attack on CIO NacogdochM, June 15.

John Lee Smith opened his campaign for governor In this history- touched city with a speech prepared for delivery tonight which declared war on the CIO. He termed Nacogdoches the birthplace of Texas freedom, and said from enrly Texas history he drew "the- Inspiration to wage a new fight and clean and Just and honest government." His 15-point platform covered a wide range of subjects from old age pensions to rural road Improvements, but particular emphasis was placed throughout on his opposition to closed shops and his advocacy of what he termed "free enterprise." He also urged a law to curb strikes. "I shall urge the legislature to pass a law giving our returned service men priority on all jobs, both public and private," he said. "We gave them an A-l card to go out and fight. Why isn't it right and fair that we give them an A-l card to work In What American would oppose this? We compelled them to quit their jobs and go and fight for us.

Whnt is wrong with my plan that we now compel every factory and shop to give them work? "But the CIO Is opposed to this. They want these boys to join up with their union and pay them an Initiation fee before they get a job. But you and I know the CIO is wrong "The closed shop should be prohibited. It Is as un-American as the lockout. The returning veteran should every shop open to him." loosing his usefulness In life and a visiting nurse is about to return him to the hospital whsn the accident occurs.

The dramatization Is In the In- Merest of the Home Nursing Strv- ice of Galveston which operatel I through clinics, classes, and visitations. The health education service Includes visits by the nurse to prenatal and maternity cases, well babies and pre-school children with ncute communicable diseases, and tuberculosis Four week well- baby and pre-school clinics a.re located In the city, conducted by volunteer physicians, nurses and volunteer workers. Classes and clubB for mothers are conducted by the nurses In thb clinics, teaching health, care of tht sick, and the important of health environment, diet and the care of the child In the home. We Close Thursday 1 P. At WAR A I --The giant British liner.

Queen Eltiabeth. Is shown anchored in the Clyde as workmen en er wirl me cimouBir apply paint for her return to peacetime service. guaranteed education for the children of men and women killed In the war, a federal bonus for world war II veterans, an additions! Ic- per-gnllon tax on gasoline for four years to raise $48,000,000 for farm- to-market immediate redis- trlcting of the state for legislative representation, soil conservation, a return to the constitution, 'improved state health standards. On old-age pensions, Sadler said: "A fraud was perpetrated on the Sadler Pledges Fight to Make Homes Available BY DAVE CKEAVENS Waco, June 15. IP Jerry.

Sadler, candidate (or governor old op! 0 Te lot by ipened hi. cumpa.gn nere on ngllw wa written into M.V Sgt. Rogers Listed As Killed in Action a brother, Kollo D. Rogers, stationed Luke Field, Ariz. RADIO PROGRAM TO STRESS VALVE OF NURSING SERVICE "No Place Like It," next in the of the Red Feather Man." transcribed radio series heard each Monday at 10:45 a.

m. over KLUF under sponsorship of the Galveston County community council, will dramatize a catastrophe that gave an amputee a new Interest In life. Home on special furlough from the army hospital, the knd character, played by Jimmy Lipton, is "WHERE SHALL I BUY MY NEW GLASSES?" Hay we suggest the answer? Buy where you are assured QUALITY Our reputation of 89 years experience Is your greatest assurance. Buy where glasses are fitted SCIENTIFICALLY nur modern optical equipment lit up- to-the-minute. Buy whcrd you are assured of STYLE nnrt COMFORT nur optometrists are traM-cd hy many years of perlence.

SERVING GALVESTON FOR OVER 89 YEARS SAME OPTOMETRISTS Dr. S. H. Fridner, Mgr. Dr.

M. A. Minister OPTOMETRISTS St. Rial 2-3021 Tril.t Bldj. Earl O.

Rogers, 32, 5807 S'A. has been listed by the a department as killed (n action lowing a year during which he i has been classified as missing. Son of Mrs. Blllle N. Blomquiat, Sgt.

Rogers was a crew member of In the summer of 1042, in thi Atlantic, his ship was crippled torpedo attack A skeleton creijTM i at Washington volunteered to stay Aboard, to take the vessel nome. Among the volun- depart at 9:20 a. and arrive making it possible for all a New York at 7:20 a. m. next Texans to buy homes or farms at without a down payment.

This plan he characterized as Sunshine "the mudsill, the bedrock founda- with to fluht 'or leglnln- ronjitituHonM amendment which The m. next day. East South the celling of JM.IWO.OOO on the junte-g pensions appropriations and lc $40 as the amount which could paid old people. Tnr oW toUlt too)( ln face memy fighter plane on Mny 29 over Yokohama. He was among the first allied airmen to bomb Japan from the Chinese mainland.

In March. 1944. he was tent to Tin Ian Island from where he was reported mias- Ing. He is survived by his mother and to th.n 'thT he "rive Oallu and Fort Worth the (hi. program.

government awarded the Order morning o.wesion I Houston and San Antonio the next the British Empire to Kenneth Al- afternoon. len and his fellow crewmen. In November. 1942. for devotion I to duty, Kcnccth Allen wiu- DIES awarded the Albert Cross.

And in June, 1943, for bravery under fire nd devotion to duty when another was torpedoed under him he won the George Cross, the British equivalent to the American Con- secret plans for revenue to Cl'ililli: make Texas progressive." he said. "because In this case the enemy i Of OUT is the honey-money boys. 1 SI. Louis. June 15.

IP Alhert not tipping my hand to them." i Malimum prices for men's DUST YOUR GARDEN Webb, real estate dealer, In- Sadler outlined what he proposed but rebuilt hoots nnd shoes dc- ventor and early day automobile I to advocate as governor, emphaslz-ictared surplus by the armed forcer racer, died today in Barnes old-ape pension problems, his offered for sale through th- pital here after an eight-month attitude toward labor and manftpe- war assets administration hav illness. In 1907 Webb Invented ment, and his for home and 'been annnunrM at J3.25 for bout- iey form sunken breakwater for eubsequent landings. His ships never made it. Nazi dive-bombera attacked and sank her before she reached her destination. And Kenneta A i name was Transportation taticruJ furnlihcd by fttecu of earrUrt: ARRIVALS Gulf, Cotorada Ho.

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n-i 10 gutlio Jrnr tint Hntfl JO f. 7 unut 1 10 Mii.n so utterly feminine Luxuriously lace-trirrimed or tailored rayon satin slips that fit smoothly under sheer summer dresses. The form fitting fashioned waistline also adds comfort to the garment. In choice of tearose and white. 5.00 LINGERIE SECOND FLOOR in airy Pony-Boy rayon by Bloomsburg.

Jewel-toned summer delight in cool mesh Turquoise Blue, Coral Red or Gold Jade. Sizes 9 to 15. 17.95 Exactly ai Sketched AS APPEARING IN JUNE MADEMOISELLE EXCLUSIVE WITH EIBAND'I JUNIOR FASHIONS SECOND FLOOR Dinnerware for the June Bride Looking for a wedding gift? We've just unpacked fifteen sets of Edwin Knowles China in 53-piece sets of dinnerware. Pattern is similar to illustration--scalloped edge, gold bnnd, floral decoration in cenler only on ivory background. Set consists of eight each: Dinner plates, bread and butter plates, fruils, coupe soups, cups and saucers, and one each: platter, baker, cream and sugar, 17.95 SET I A A I i.