U.S. sets up hospital for Big Three parley
Staff of dispensary picked for efficiency
By Gault MacGowan, North American Newspaper Alliance
BERLIN, Germany (July 14) – Big Three delegates will have no difficulty in obtaining a daily dose of aspiring. A special dispensary has been established in the conference area able to take care of anything from a headache to an appendectomy.
Fifteen beds await jaded occupants. Six pretty nurses will soothe feverish brows.
Staff surgeons and doctors who were picked for their efficiency and bedside manner, await the patients with ambulances, X-rays, cardiographs and the latest appliances. Airplane ambulances capable of trips to the big military hospitals at Frankfurt and Paris are available.
Has team of specialists
If there should be a case in which it was preferable to bring the physician to the patient within a few hours it would be possible to land a specialist for almost any complaint here by air.
However, Col. John Knauer, born in Reading, Pennsylvania, the chief surgeon, has a team of specialists already on the spot. His executive officer, Maj. Walter de Forest, administers conference dispensaries – one for VIPs (very important personages) and four others. Six surgeons – the best specialists available in the Berlin area – are assisting him along with one dentist.
Commands hospital
Commanding the hospital is Col. Seth Gayle. The hospital is located in a former newly-built Nazi building.
“From our first installation overseas in a Cardiganshire town with a screwy Welsh name, we came to Berlin with Lt. Gen. William Simpson’s Ninth Army,” explained Col. Gayle.