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HOSPITAL SHIPS

Services Plan to Strip 25. Wartime Craft.

By DOROTHY WILLIAMS United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, May 17.—Unless someone comes up with a better plan 25 army and navy hospital ships soon will be stripped of their special equipment and put to various non-hospital peacetime uses, Two cities—New York and Jack-| sonville, Fla—have decided that! surplus military hospital ships] could help solve their over-crowded |

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hospital problems. With four unsuccessful marriages behind her, Constance Bennett [to strengthen this part of GerActing on their request, the U, 8. | is going to try it-again, this time with Air Force Col. John Theron (many, : public health service got them the; Coulter with whom she’s pictured (above) at a Beverly Hills, Cal, The German “army” of 36,000 loan of two former army hospital night spot. She has announced they'll be married in Riverside, Cal, men, the statement said, consists ships. One of these is due to be! on June 22, The 4l-year-old, screen star's previous husbands were |of “prisoner of war camp staffs and anchored at Jacksonville about May | Chester Moorehead; millionaire playboy Phil Plant; the Marquis Henri |POW's newly transferred from 25 for use in Florida's venereal dis-| de la Falaise de la Coudraye, and Mexican-born actor Gilbert Roland other zones for discharge; also un-

ease control program. | (Luis Damaso Alonzo). New York has rejected one ship|~ i GER i

for failure to -meet municipal hos- older vessels, some of them dating | Meantime, the army is still opers| “Also included are hospital cases

pital requirements, but is hoping for ' pack to world war I. |ating seven hospital ships. One the offer of a more suitable ship. | What will become of them de- these is due for dfcommissioni Meanwhile, the ship which New ; : . soon. York turned down is available to pends upon many factors, including The navy, likewise, is maintai

meet, the request of any other port the age, worth and possible use of |i; gx noenital craft. One of these | Yi be repatriated by early June."

city. {each ship. has been assigned to “Operations Present army and navy plans call] The army has been using 15 of its Crossroads,” the designation for the

for keeping as hospital ships only onetime hospital craft for trans- atomic bomb test at Bikini atoll,

12 of the most modern of the 39 porting the wives and families of | Six navy hospital ships have been vessels which once afforded a capac- {servicemen in the now dwindling lor are about to be decommissioned. ity of 24772 beds for sick ang, war bride operation. In addition the navy has just got

wounded men of this war. | These ships have lost most of hack three hospital ships which

The hospital ships which are be- their hospital ship characteristics operated for the army. There has

ing turned over to the U. 8. mari- and now more closely resemble heen no decision on the disposal

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BRITISH DEBUNK | GERMAN ‘ARMY

So-Called Group Consists of 36,000 Men—In- Prison,

HEREFORD, Germany, May 17 (U, P).—British army headquar- | | ters issued a statement last night || which said the “so-called German army” in the British occupation gone consisted of 36,000 men-—all disarmed and in prison cages.

The army's official statement manifestly was issued in response to reports abroad of a British occupation policy which was tending

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dischargeable categories such = as - | senior officers and security suspects.

of | 48 well. as a number of non-Ger-ng| Mans still to be repatriated, such {a8 Austrians, Hungarians and n. | EOmAanians, It is hoped nearly all The statement said there were {an additional temporary 45000 un|dergoing demobilization, most of {them transferred to the British (zone for demobilization, Some came {from the American occupation | zone, “The total number of prisoners {of war and. disarmed personnel dis- | banded in the British zone thus {far is 3,001,185, including 2.482780 discharged, 438,711 transferred to other zones for discharge, and 79,604 non-German nationals repatriated to the countries of origin,” the statement said. The only other German army members held by the British were described at Dienstgruppen (service troops) “and to call them potential’ troops “would be the equivalent of calling uniformed taxi drivers soldiers.” The British occupation army employs 66,680 Germans, the navy 26,000 and the royal air force 17,000. the statement said. But they are { mere workmen “and do not cor{respond in any way either to German or British army units. They {do not wear German or British uniforms or have German or | British service ranks. Their work{ing dress is a golf jacket and ' slacks.”

VETERANS HOSPITAL PLAN ‘BOGGED DOWN

WASHINGTON, May 17 (U. P.). ~The Veterans Admistration’s new 3 . f hospital construction program is ] § completely “bogged down” because Shop of high estimates submitted by builders, Dr. Paul R. Hawley, V. A. medical director, said yesterday. Mr. Hawley said construction costs were estimated at between 50 and 60 cents a cubic foot when con- |# gress appropriated building funds. But the lowest bid received, he said, is $1.14 a cubic foot. “We can't build a single new building on the money appropri-!’ ated,” he declared. Mr. Hawley said Veterans Administrator Gen. Omar N. Bradley was conferring with the house appropriations committee to see what could be done. : Meantime, he said, V. A. is cutting red tape and providing better

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