Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 126, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1918 — New Eyelids for Hero. [ARTICLE]

New Eyelids for Hero.

When Henry M. Robinson of South Orange, N. J., resumes his duties as a submarine boat chaser in the navy In a few days he will have a new pair of eyelids. They were grafted on his face by surgeons In a New York hospital In two different operations. Robinson, who is twenty-one years old, was terribly burned January 2 while putting to sea from an Atlantic port on a hurry order for submarine boat chasers. His eyelids and part of one ear were burned off, and his face seared. He was confined to the naval hospital in Portsmouth for weeks.