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Soldier Flying Home To See Daughter Ill
San Francisco reports Sel Elmer Truax, 24, platoon sergeant on Roosevelt orders, nears New York on the last leg of his South Pacific flight to see Therese, 19 months, seriously ill with leukemia. His wife in Noo, New York, had appealed for furlough. doctors had kept the child alive with transfusions. Truax, exhausted by 27 sleepless hours, said the President’s action makes his homecoming possible.
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