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Twelve THE BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE JANUARY 28, 1945 jman been changed this time, and special living quarters provided for the doctors, medical aid men and nurses attached to the ship. And of course there are wards for the casualties and a few one-and-two-bed rooms. The wards are 50 to 108-bed in size. with its broad green band. Since the Germans recognize the Geneva Convention, the 17 American hospital ships that now ply the Atlantic and Mediterranean have made G3 landings with 34,983 battle casualties at Charleston Port of Embarkation always fully lighted and unarmed.

They may be boarded for inspection in mid-ocean by the enemy. WK teiliipii i I I ft story. And not a complaint on the voyage!" "The GI never complains," Capt Iva Lindstrom of Chicago, chief nurse, said proudly. "He's just grateful," Lt Rita Aylward of 2 Helena st, Jamaica Plain, Boston, added, "for clean sheets, a bath and shave, ice cream and eggs specially when he has a piece of shell in him fresh milk. Never a word about his pain or what he's lost." Before dawn, scores of Col Faw's heroes, red robed, pajama clad, lined the rail, straining their eyes hungrily through the dark and fog for the first glimpse of American land.

Among them were men who had swung up the companionway on their "three legs," as they blithely call their crutches. But when they saw first outline of Fort Sumter nearby at starboard there were no shouts, no cheers. "I sure never thought I'd see the old U. S. again," one of them said softly.

"I'm going to kiss American soil," Chaplain Wm. D. Turkington of Boston' Tremcnt Temple, returning ill after nine months with an armored division in Italy, reverently. "Boy, there is a GI murmured. Above therq.

the great red cross on the stack of the Sigman was picked out in red lights as it has been from dark to dawn through all the voyage (except for the blackout on Christmas Day when they were loading at Leghorn within sound of explosions from a German air raid). Below lights shone through port Continued from the First Page Some of them have beer lying in American hospital beds in Italy since October. Many were carried on board less than a week away from battle. There are broken bodies and chronic aches, blinded eyes and war-weary minds. But, surrounded by the creature comforts of an American Army hospital ship, warmed by the rare and admiration lor his achievements which the attractive Army nurses never see-n too tired to fcive the G.

they are amazingly cheerful. They kid about the "peg legs" they're sng to get, the ambulatory patients have explored the ship from tiirige to engine room and they iuve put on an average of 13 to pounds a man during the voysge one GI had to have a new issue of trousers; he outgrew his nn board and many casts have had to be changed because they began to pmch! It's a Ship Heroes "Any heroes?" Col Wylie Faw, MC, hospital ship commander, echoed. "It's a ship of heroes, every one of them. Every man has a i iTN i Eighteen Bay State Patients Eighteen of the Sigman's patients, soldier officers and GI's and one sailor, are from Massachusetts. There are 297 litter patients, some of them seriously ill.

One soldier with tuberculosis died en route. Most of the 582 patients are coldiers, but there are a few sailors since the Army transports Navy wounded, too; there are some nurses and WACS, a Med-ford, Red Cross worker, and 45 Brazilians who have been fighting with the American forces and who were greeted on board today by Lt Dos Santos, liaison officer and interpreter. "This is the best voyage we've had," Col Faw told the Globe, his eyes crinkling with satisfaction. "We had a quiet New Year's Eve because we had some pretty sick men. Usually there are two or three who are bitter or sober.

There hasn't been a complaint on this voyage." He was all over the ship this morning, checking preparations for debarkation witi the Port officials, looking in on the sickest soldier whose wounds have been making trouble and who will be the first evacuated from tho Sigman. He also pointed out with pride and amusement the Sad Sack murals Sgt Leo Vider of Chicago, one of the ship's complement, is painting in his leisure hours on the walls of patients' mess, two panel to a voyage. Preparation for debarkation and evacuation to Stark General Hospital, seven miles away the Port of Embarkation, have been under way since the first patient was wakened to have his face washed this morning. We accompanied Rev. Stephen Mahoney, Catholic ship's chaplain and a cousin of the Globe's veteran automofc'le ec'itor, James T.

Sullivan, on a last morning tour from to A decks. 'They're Glad To Be Alive Walls all over the ship are a soft hospital green, operating and dressing rooms gleam with the chromium and white tile of the most modern hospital, the mess galley shines like a battleship's and the oaken tables in the patients' mess are white with many scrubbings. At 8 o'clock this morning the air in the 108-bed ward on deck "best ward and patients in the ship," its nurses insist, was as sweet as in a private hospital room. 2d Lt Arthur Slaman of Natick who grew up in Wellesley beamed from a bed there when he heard someone from home in another ward, Pvt Roy Thompson of Milford, who had been hit by a mortar shell when he was fighting in Italy with the 91st and "hadn't walked since Oct. 17, when he was taken to a hospital in Florence," had his little blue bag with all the worldly posscrsions a soldier brings out of battle firmly in hand, all dressed up in pajamas and ready to gr home.

"There isn't one bitter man on board," Chaplain Mahoney said. "Even the blinded soldiers aren't resentful, and it's amazing, too, the way others joke about their peg legs. They don't want anybody to pity them or help They're just boys, 20 and 21 years old. They've been through so much and they've seen their buddies worse hurt or knocked out. They're glad to be alive." "We're the bitter ones for them," Lt Aylward observed.

"They've been through pretty tough fighting, yet they never complain. And many of them want to go back and finish it." "Our division has been in Italy 24 months, through mud and cold and terrible terrain," Chaplain Turkington said. "The men want to get home, but they get along. Our Americans are ingenious at adopting themselves. Their religious attitude is at a pretty high level out there whore they are faced with realities.

They arc very receptive, very cooperative. But they feel that the country should know that there's a war on in Italy!" Religious attendance on board ship is good, too, Chaplain Mahoney V. S. Army Signal Corns Photo DRESSED UP, TAGGED, READY TO GO, is Pvt Roy Thompson of Milford, Italian front casualty, as hospital ship docks. V.

S. Army Signal Con Photo. "IT'S A PRIVILEGE, LIEUTENANT!" says smiling Lt Jack Gillespie of Texas, holding up his arm as Lt Rita Aylward of Helen Jamaica Plain, counts his pulse on board USAHS Blanche F. Sigman. holes and lighted the white hull said.

He says Mass every morning Two Bird Societies Have Joint Meeting president, other officers elected are: Smith, Harrison F. Lewis, Laurence B. Fletcher, James L. Peters and Charles L. Whittle, vice presidents, and Charles B.

Floyd, Newton, secretaary-treasurer. Speakers at the afternoon session were Frederic C. Walcott, president of American Wildlife Institute, Dr. Frederick C. Lincoln, head of Migratory Bird Investigation, of the Fish and Wild Life Service, Washington, D.

and Edwin A. Mason, superintendent of the Arcadia Wildlife Sanctuary, Northampton. Today the annual Winter field trip of the Audubon Society will take place with members observing Winter birds of the Plum Island region. heir rounds. There have been baths, fresh dressings, clean pajamas, temperatures taken, medical checkups, little bags of their possessions placed on beds and tags for everybody, big white ones with their case histories, and colored ones which tell the ambulance driver at a glance whether a man is to be taken to a medical, surgical or neuro-psychi-atric ward at Stark.

"Anybody who thinks that Army nurses haven't enough to do vould travel on a hospital ship," Capt Lindstrom observed tiredly. "Thirty-seven nurses to care for practically 600 patients, day and night for 24 davs with some very ill ones "Six weeks without setting foot on land, too," Lt Estelle Gilman of 99 Gordon Brighton, added as she read a soldier's temperature. Even at the end of six weeks' and on Sunday he and the Protestant Chaplain, Rev. Francis Jones of the Church of the Disciples in Boston, both hold services in the mess hall. Ranking casualties on board are a colonel of engineers, gray haired, gold spectacled, resentful of his cast and angry at being sent home.

"I'll be back there in six months to finish the job," he barked at the Globe as they lifted his litter; Col George Wieland, ambulatory patient, well known airman who has been a military liaison officer in Jugoslavia with Tito's Army; and Lt Col Florence Ncwsome of Warwick, R. Gen Marshall's secretary who developed car infections when she was on temporary duty with the Congressional party of Clare Boothe Luce in Italy. although there are rust spots along the water edge of the hull which will be repainted before she heads back for another cargo of wounded a few days from now. It's easy to see why it costs about convert a ship into cne of the "mercy fleet." The Sigman was a Liberty ship and she had to have gyro stabilizers and bilge keels on the starboard and port added to keep her from rolling too much in heavy weather with her lighter load. Additional decks were given to the superstructure to provide mere wards, elevators were installed for men unable to climb companion-ways and for litter patients, mess galleys and a hospital diet kitchen, two operating rooms in which two appendectomies were performed this voyage, X-ray room and dental office, several dressing rooms in which more than 1000 dressings have More than 450 bird lovers and naturalists gathered at the joint meeting of the Massachusetts Audu-' bon Society and the Northeastern! Bird-Banding Association at Horti-: cultural Hall, yesterday.

Directors elected by the Audubon Society are: Philip B. Haywood, Worcester; Mrs. Maxwell E. Foster, Topsfield; Mrs. Donald C.

Alexander, Lowell; Clarence B. Allen, Newton; M. Louisa, Hunnewell, Wellesley; Rev. Robert F. Cheney, Southboro; Eliott B.

Church, Newton and Roger Frnst, Brookline. They will meet next month to name the new president of the Society and chairman of the! board. C. Russell Mason, was reelected secretaary-treasurer. The bird-banading group reelected Lawrence B.

Chapman, tle and sudden death to be found in war. She wears the horizon blu of a flight nur.se and is being sent home for usthma. "I heard about the man shortage in the States," she laughed. "I thought I'd better go out and get mine! It was definitely romantic. I met him Maj Daly Johnson, a pilot in the Isle of Capri and honeymooned on the Riviera." Lt Regina Trum of Natick and Lt Katherine Maclntyre of 1191 Boyl-ston Boston, who trained at Cambridge Hospital and was recently transferred from the USAHS Chateau Thierry, are both In the nurses' complement on board; Sat Raymond Sabourin of New Bedford Is a hospital corpsman, and Cpl David Urusso of Springfield, Cpl John Moore of Boston and Sgt Andrew Frazier, former Boston newspaper man, of 21 Burwell road.

West Roxbury, are all members of the Transportation Corps personnel on ship. Capt Thaddeu Valenski, Harvard "33 and Tufts Medical School '37, is a doctor attached to the Sigman. The sun is shining warmly in a blue sky. The Blanche F. Sigman is nosing into dock, and the wounded GIs.

all of whom have been told to stay below until evacuated, grin and almost lose that far-off look that all of them wear as the strains of "I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy," played by the CPE band, blare a brisk welcome home through the open portholes. 37 Nurses for 600 Patients The 37 Army nurses attached to the ship "we need at least 10 more," Cant Lindstrom said medical corps- Australia has put millions of dollars into fences, the longest of which is 1100 miles, to barricade dingoes and rabbits. round trip, the ship is shining clean, men and doctors were completing ntafeu mm 1 P. TO 9 p. m.

rroud of Yank Soldiers Ellen Angell Zakutney, a teacher at Tufts College, who was married to Lt Walter Zakutney of the 15th Air Force in St. Peter's in Rome, is returning ill after two years wuh the Red Cross in Africa and Italy, proud of the "American soldiers who are bearing up bravely under a long, long war," and when she came down to the library, Sgt William Boykin, S. made her picture for the Globe with Red Cross worker Eleanor Merriman of Me. Miss Merriman has charge of the library, games and parties on the Sigman. Eleanor Rahsman Johnson of Pittsburgh is another patient wno thinks there's love as well as bat Other Days 9:45 A.

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Her "Mirror Before Me," danced for the first time here yesterday afternoon after it made its bow in Washington in October, is a poignant fragment of a nightmarish hue. Cast in the role of a woman waiting in an antechamber, tortured with half-remembered pieces of the past and complete uncertainty about the future, Martha Graham presents a picture of mental processes which a psychoanalyst might see. Dancing within a hypnotic oblong area before a mirror, she battles fear and torment while May O'Donnell, as her attendant, tries to mitigat her agony by sharing it. music suits the inward-looking choreography remark-nbly well, although conductor Louis Horst wns hard put to it to keep his orchestra in line. Isamu Nogu-chi's set has the stark simplicity of the Oriental stage, a twisted-looking stool and a startlingly white rack.

"Appalachian Spring patterned to music by Aaron Copland was repeated after its Boston debut on Friday and will bear many more repetitions before its full content is appreciated. The interrupted motions of Miss Graham as the bride helping her husband (Erick Hawkins) build their house in Spring in Pennsylvania are again highly introspective. Her use of the shallow platform to indicate changes of mind is effective. Swift patterns of movement elaborately squared at the corners contrast with the uninhibited posturings of the Revivalist (Merce Cunningham) and th flowing line achieved by the Pioneering Woman (May O'Donnell). Erick Hawkins is highly satisfactory as the earnest husband.

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