Friday, September 12, 1947

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

Page Twelve

A Pleasant Mouthful

latest shipping news in code to signal corps. A slow grin lit
his face. "I'll break army regu-
Palestine.
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lations if you will, lieutenant,"
said the happy corporal. "You
ONE BAD MOMENT
THERE WAS ONE critical get me a radio part from your
moment when the whole line of supply room and you'll have
communications was threatened. your treatment." • -
But the lieutenant balked. He
An important radio part was
missing. The Underground ap- wanted no part of a conspiracy.
pealed to the Americans for But the corporal was equally
help. Days passed without suc- adamant. No part, no penicillin!
That night the underground
cess. A ship was approaching
the waters of the eastern Medi- radio was back in operation.
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terranean and there was no way
to send the word that would
mean safety for the hundreds of
Rosh Ilashonah Greetings
homeless aboard.
An American corporal, at-
tached to a medical station,
s Service
knew of the crisis. But he had
no access to the signal corps
Station
supplies. One night a lieutenant
t Good Gulf Gat"
came to his clinic for treatment.
kes
Lined and Adjusted
He had contracted a venereal
Can Washed
disease and begged for off-the-
record treatment.
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The corporal was sorry but
PETER RIDAL
the answer was no—until he
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looked twice at the lieutenants
insignia—the crossed flags of the r.

way. The purpose was htimani-
tarian; nothing went to the black
market; and so no questions
were asked.
One day a chaplain, driving a
weapons carrier loaded with
precious food and clothing down
a road in northern Italy, was
hailed by two hitchhikers. As
he waved them toward his truck,
he - noticed that the three stars
of a lieutenant general gleamed
from the shoulders of one of
them.

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QUESTIONABLE CARGO
"OUR CAR BROKE down,
captain. Would you mind giv-
ing us a lift to the airport?"
asked the general.
Glancing back uneasily at his
highly questionable cargo, the
chaplain nodded glumly and
then nervously waited for the
holocaust, as the general also
turned to examine the contents
of the vehicle. "We're taking
halt
year
old
survivor
of
Nazi
terror
is
shown
Three and a
these supplies to a camp for
American
generosity
in
the
Vienna
above getting a taste of
refugees," the chaplain blurted
office of the Joint Distribution Committee. Not only does she
out.
eat her fill, but she also gets an armful of food to take home to
Suddenly the general smiled
her family. SOS shipments include canned meats and fish,
and the tension snapped. "You
Juices, fruits, milk, beans, cereals and other nutritional items.
chaplain are on the ball. You're
SOS (Supplies for Overseas Survivors) Collection of the Joint
doing great work for those peo-
Distribution Committee supplements JDC purchases.
ple." Driver and passengers
beamed and the truck rolled on.
Hundreds of American soldiers
pitched in and spent their eve-
nings in refugee camps, sharing
in their songs and dances, list-
ening to plans for departure. A
beautiful spirit of camaraderie
to the vessels which lifted an- developed; some chaplains and
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their assistants were even per-
the Underground is not yet done, chor for Palestine.
The army was quite aware of mitted to enter the secret radio
and its traffic is still in human
lives. Someday, the full story all this, and looked the other stations which broadcast the
of one of the most glorious chap-
ters in Israel's history will be
told. • •
Wtih the war's end in Europe,
ROSH IIASHONAII GREETINGS
several Jewish chaplains met
secretly with Underground lead-
ers, learned their needs, lived
with them, and served as soldiers
in the final act of liberation.
Suddenly army post offices
found themselves flooded with
parcels. At one APO fully half
the available space overflowed
with packages that streamed in
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from all parts of the United
States in response to the pleas
for help.

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TAKE OVER SURPLUS
OFTEN THERE WAS access

to surplus food and clothing.
Even in the days of the North
African campaign, the chaplains
section received large amounts
of food destined for destruction
or waste: Canned food without
labels and therefore useless to
army mess officers; food branded
"unfit for human consumption"
(although most GI's will not be-
lieve it, the quartermaster did
set high standards!); tropical
Hershey bars glutting the post
exchanges because the soldiers
were so weary of them.
As supply officer of my sec-
tion, I was once called upon to
distribute a quarter of a million 0
Hershey bars to institutions of
all faiths, and distribute them 0
I did—to Catholic orphanages,
Unitarian clinics, OSE centers.
This was the kind of surplus
food that so often found its way

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