Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, November 02, 1943, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextPAGE TWO MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1943. RED CROSS HAS STAFF OF 5,100 Had Only 17 Employes When War Started Get Up to 100,000 Letters Daily. By Erie Lauff.r United Press Correspondent Zurich (U.PJ The Internation al Red Cross Committee, largest most efficient and most Impar tially humanitarian organization in the world at war, has ex panded its staff from 17 when hostilities began to 5,100 now. This (act was revealed recent ly in a United Press interview with scholarly Max Huber, 69 year-old president of the IRCC Huber, successful Industrialist, authority on international latv and formerly permanent Judge on .the International Court of Arbitration at The Hague, has held the presidency of the IRCC since 1928. Huber's business, in short, is alleviating some of the misery caused by war. Because he has to work with Axis and Allies alike, the Job Is delicate. Be cause the misery of war is great, the job is big. Huber talked about both aspects. When war broke out, the IRCC, with headquarters at Gen eva where Huber has hia per manent office, had 17 staff mem bers. It now employs a paid staff of 1,100, has 2,000 volun tary workers in Geneva and 2,- 000 more spread throughout other Swiss towns. "Mall is our chief problem,' Huber said. "We sometimes get 100,000 letters daily, so you see 1 can't answer all of them." The Geneva files contain IS- 000,000 namecarda. During 1942 IRCC handled 19,000,000 incom ing letters for war prisoners, 30,000,000 out-going plus 6,000. 000 civilian messages. -The or Ionization also dispatched 230. 000,000 pounds in packages and 1,000,000 books lor prisoner! of war. . Additionally, IRCC handled bout 18,000,000 worth of pris oners' parcel! and' operated 6, . 000 goods vans plying between Geneva and various porta at well as 12 ships sailing all oceans to collect and deliver food, clothes and medical sup plies. ; . . . To accomplish its work among belligerent! the IRCC hai 92 delegates traveling in various countries. "The most difficult task," Hu ber said, "is to maintain lmpar tlality and patience necessary to conduct negotiations with bel llgerent governments, taking in to account that their main busi ness is to make war and every thing else must be relegated to"1 second place." Huber hinted that his part ex perience as an International judge, as member of import ant Swiss' foreign commissions and as a collaborator with the world's experts on international Jaw was sometimes scarcely suf ficlent background for dealing with the delicate and complex situations arising among the bel ligerents. "We must look after all our prisoners and these prisoners art held by all belligerent coun tries," Huber said. , "If by some thoughtless action We displease one country we may be debarred from helping prisoners and in ternees in camps there. We can not take sides even In face of conditions which conscience urges should be alleviated." Asked what he considered the greatest success of the IRCC since the outbreak of war, Hu ber answered: "Our most Important gain has been development of facilities to help civilian Internees, who although uncovered by any in ternational conventions, now en joy the same status as war pris oners In all belligerent coun tries. This enables the IRCC to extend relief to a class of war sufferers for whom nothing was done previously, although main ly women, children and old peo ple are Involved." To minister to the needs of war prisoners and internees, the IRCC has sent delegates to 67 countries and to 2,000 individual camps for prisoners and incar cerated civilians. For making the IRCC's work possible through contributions, Huber credited various govern ments, national Red Cross soci eties and other charitable insti tutions, and above all the Swiss public, whose per capita contri bution in money as well as in voluntary service has been the highest of any nation. . Huber, whose own position is unremunerated. concluded: "Tell your readers all this work is done by a body of ideal ists, men and women whose only official status is that they con sider help wherever possible, not as a mission, but as a self-evident Juty. , "If we Swiss do anything worth while, it Is because we have been spared so far from being drawn into the greatest of all wars." - Golden trout are native to only one small stream in the Southern Sierra' Nevada, near Mt. Whitney, although they have been planted extensively else where. . ' ; LOCAL IN SIGN Several men from Medford and near-by towns enlisted in the Navy ' Seabees October 28. through the Medford navy re cruiting station, according to H. W. Crain, local recruiting officer. Included in the grpup from Medford were William Reece Robinson, Boyd Catey Cllne, Wendell Stafford Spence, Har old Lee Newhouse, Merritt Lyle Hittle, George Ingram Brown, Joseph Oscar Sundermeier, Mel- vtn Orln Wright, and Richard Hewell Baize. From Ashland was Joseph Francis Perry; Grants Pass, Jo seph Andrew Burroughs and Fred Albend Dayton; and from Jacksonville, Gordon Forest Tid well. ' WON 11400' Mount Washington, N. H. (U.PJ The eight-mile carriage road to the summit of Mount Washington always has been a challenge to the betting frater nity. On one memorable occa sion, a 230-pound woman, on a $1,000 wager, hiked to the sum mit, descended on foot, and danced at the Glen House the same evening. Horse racing as a sport in Eng land dates back as far as 1774. L Charles Rusho, 22, of 511 Park avenue wasretttving treat ment in Community hospital today for severe head lacera tions and shock he received when he accidentally walked into a 96-inch cutoff saw at the Williams Lumber company mill at Prospect Monday afternoon. Hospital attendant! said he spent a fair night. State police, who investigated the mishap, said the youth was helping to repair a conveyor chain and had left the scene to shut down the engine when u- .inu tn the saw He was brought to the hospital by Bert Wagner oi jiouie , fellow employe. BIRTHS HELM To Mr. and Mrs Frank, 115 McAndrews road, NoV. 1, boy, 6 lbs., at Commu nity hospital. WEIDMAN To Mr. and Mrs Rudolph, Eagle Point, Nov. 1. boy, 9V4 lbs., at Community hospital. 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