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During bloody World War I, Surgeon Kenneth Macfarlane Walker was a captain in Great Britain's Army Medical Corps. Statistically-minded, he noted that a third of the battlefield dead died of chest wounds, that as few as 3% of chest-wound victims reached a dressing station alive. Reason: even a tiny fragment of bomb or shell, piercing the chest cavity, can easily rip a large blood vessel, bring quick death...
...State Controller William A. Runnells was known in Maine as a stern economizer and a man of lofty integrity. Recently, as auditors prepared to report to the Governor on Maine finances, Runnells shot himself (not fatally) in the chest. He called it an accident. Governor Lewis O. Barrows learned of shortages of at least $72,000 in State funds, which Run nells had handled for eight years, was told that Runnells had been a large and lavish liver, a collector of nude snapshots (some of Augusta women). Last week authorities were hunting for the photo graphic subjects...
Announced by the Harvard Student Union after its executive meeting last night is a new drive to raise funds for a national Anti-War Chest to be used in the cause of peace...
With the anti-war chest, which is expected to reach $10,000 in the national sale, the National Student Union plans to do more of its pacifist work in the South and Southwest, virtually virgin territory for this sort of campaigning...
...forces, horses dragging anti-tank guns. Across the fields refugees run desperately carrying whatever they can. Desperately they pile on trains. Sometimes German planes machine-gun the trains. There are gruesome shots of a young Polish woman clutching the train seat in her death spasm, a father shot through chest and abdomen sitting helplessly between his hopeless wife and frightened, bewildered little girl...