European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 14, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 3 the stars and stripes sunday. September 14, 1980 life Buna a  us _ americans and germans team up to Rush clotting agent to bleeding Haemophilia a boy by Rudi Williams Brane Batra Burnt chaff . Germany Sis Quick think ing and teamwork combined to bring a life saving blood clotting agent to a 6-year-old american Haemophilia a boy. Joining in the Effort were an army medic military and German policemen three army interpreters a Ger Man sea air Rescue team and a German Navy doctor. The drama started when sgt. . Richard j. Heltz of the Bremerhaven army Hospital medical lab or Gemmy requested maps Here to make an emergency run to the Hanover blood Bank the nearest source for he blood supplement to save the boy s life. Only one ambulance was i a available at the Hospital and no army medical evacuation helicopter. Hultz s Call went to sgt. 1st class Hunter d. Downey operations sergeant Provost marshal s office. The boy s father had brought him to the Hospital from Wie Smoor Germany about a two hour drive away. Medici Al authorities said minor trauma can cause bleed ing in Haemophiliacs. We had a source for the blood supplement Cyro precipitate in Rotenburg  their Supply was out said Heltz 41, of Garyville la. They told us the blood was available at the Hanover blood Bank  we would have to get our own  the boy s doctor capt. Clinton d. Wilburn said his patient would not have needed the blood for a few hours  still it was a life threatening situation. Haemophiliacs Are missing the clotting Factor Factor souvenir of German Row Camp 8 in their blood said Wilburn. 35. Of Pontiac , assistant chief of paediatrics said bleeding in Haemophiliacs occur around joints. The Young patient was bleeding in the ankle area. He has bled Many times before said the  there seemed to be plenty of Lime to get the clotting agent the military policemen were not taking any chances. Downey called in his co worker . Wayne l. Degeere who Speaks Ger Man. I called the Bremerhaven German police to see if they could assist with transporting the blood from Hanover said de Geere 32, of Manhattan Beach.  tinker Keith tink a. An my interpreter called the Hanover police who told him they could get a civilian helicopter  it would Cost 100 Marks a half  said Degeere. The Hanover police said the Cost would be the same if a German police vehicle were used. The police suggested the maps Call a Hanover taxi because it would Cost about the same. The maps cancelled the request with the Han Over police. Meanwhile Gitta Hansen an interpreter at the Hospi Tal was talking to the Hanover blood Bank to make sure it had the clotting agent. Erika Tran Bow another my interpreter helped coordinate the Effort. I turned to my German counterpart at the Marine school in downtown  said Degeere assistant operations no. German Navy or. It. Cmdr Michael Storck of the medical support group German Navy said he would try to help. Or Storck called Back about 10 minutes later and said the air Rescue service helicopter was already in the air to Hanover " said Degeere. He said it could be expected to arrive Back at the Marine Barracks at about 7 . We notified the Hospital that the blood was on Iti wad Geere and Downey headed for the Marine Barrack at 6-20 . They had driven less than half the Way there when a German blood Wagon sped past them with blink Ine Blue lights. They smiled at us As they passed  we wire not sure they were the right ones said Downey 33, of Rochelle Iii. They were running about 45 minutes Early to make sure the two military policemen continued to the Marine Barracks. It was the right blood Wagon. It had taken Only 90 minutes to solve the problem after Degeere s first Call to the Navy doctor. Lab technician spec.5 Denise j. Jaynes 22, of Corpus Christi. Texas said the doctor ordered the blood supple ment 10 times during the weekend. Her Job was to thaw and Issue the clotting agent whenever it was needed. Wilburn said the boy was released from the Hospital  will have to return for More blood supplement. The youngster comes to the Hospital to receive the needed clotting agent approximately every 10 Days according to doctors  will need the blood supplement for an indefinite period of time and possibly for the rest of his life a Hospital spokesman said. Judge has a Dollar Bill that is Worth something by Brian Lewis Sis new York Bureau Leon a. Is a special Dollar Bill rests now in the desk of a Federal District judge in Virginia thousands of Miles and fight years away from the German pow Camp where the two first crossed paths. Judge Basil c. Burke of the 16th Judi Cial District in Virginia was a prisoner in stalag in in 1945 when that Camp was liberated by advancing Allied armies. While Burke does not remember actually signing the Bill he says he can Tell it s my  than pvt. Burke served As a medical Aid Man with a Rifle platoon of the 423rd inf regt of the 106th div during the Battle of the bulge. The dates of his imprisonment Are on the Bill As Well As the names of 14 of his comrades. Tinong the names capt. . Buxton Albert b. Smith. Nicholas a. Scarlo . Brown. Carlton Wing. Vej. Hickey. Mel Vin a. Kraft Rudy Molnar and Herman a. Eel Mann. Also Robert Cathey Frank Sarault Man. . Kalin and Joseph h. Hunt signed the Bill in addition to  legible on the Bill is the following message prisoners of War dec. 14, 1944. Stalag in b. Bad orb Germany. Liber ated april 2, 1945, 8 30  at that moment things were pretty exciting As Burke remembers. With so much going on at the time he does not remember actually taking the time to sign the Bill. He believed that someone had put the Bill up in the Aid station at the pow Camp and asked the people there to sign it. But he cannot recall which of the signers had the idea. Burke described Camp conditions As very primitive very Tough. We were hardly Able to move around at  he added however that the guards at the prison were far from the stereotyped image of the brutally efficient nazi soldiers. Most of inc guards at the Camp were fairly Nice. A lot of them were pretty old men. Some had kids who were soldiers Burke recalled. Today Burke of Leon va., is a Federal Jud pc serving four coun ties in Central Virginia. The Bill is kept in a desk drawer to keep it out of the  the Bill was issued sometime in the 1930s,  inc final digit of the Date is not Reada  has not been in Contact with any of inc other signers since the War the Bill came into Burka s Possession after travelling a Long and still somewhat mysterious path after being signed at the pow Camp. Somehow the Bill travelled from stalag in to a Philadelphia area Bank. In 1950 Earl Kane who worked for Bendix corporation in Germantown pa., took his weekly paycheck to the Bank where he cashed it into is Bills which went into  household budget Enve Lopes. As he was putting this particular Bill in one of the envelopes he noticed the writ ing. I almost missed it he said. Kane and his wife were Able to make out some of the names quite easily  to clearly read All inc names they had to put the Bill under a magnifying Glass. As a result they were Able to identify almost everything on the Bill although they read the number of the pow Camp As stalag in and believed capt. Buxton s signature to read Cpl. Bixton. Last May the Philadelphia bulletin ran an article on Kane and his Bill which caught the Eye of Roland Gellot of Devon a. Gellot attended school with Burke and knew that Burke had been in a pow Camp during the War. So he assumed he was inc Basil Burke on the Bill. As Kane noted Basil s a name you tend to  Burke later Scal the Kanes a Check which Kane used to go out to dinner with his wife. While a Dollar May not go As far As it used to the Bill in Burke s desk has certainly done some travelling. Earl pm mus Doit by Fig sip Ture Fly swim w Philadelphia bulletin photo