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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.
WALKER To Pfe. and Mrs
Frank, 1208 W. 10th St., Oct. 31,
girl, 7 lbs., at Community ho
pital. ,
There were 88 sanctioned mo
tor boat meets in 1935, Involving
10,800 starters.
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