82d Airborne
Gift Presented
For Dutch Aid
N. Y. HERALD TRIBUli
FEB 11 1953
Liberators of Holland Help Fight Its Floods
Catholic Welfare Group
Also Is Thanked for Its
200,000 Lbs. of Clothes
Sends Cablegram
In a cablegram to the Most Rev.
Karl J. Alter, Archbishop of Cin
cinnati and chairman of the
N. C. W. C. administrative board,
Bishop Mutsaerts said, "Please ac
cept heartfelt thanks to Your
Excellency and N. C. W. C. board
for the generous gift. God bless
all American benefactors."
Besides the N. C. W. C. gift to
Holland, representing a value of
$350,000, the organization sent
30,000 pounds of relief material to
Belgium and 20,000 pounds of
clothing to English flood areas,
Archbishop Alter said.
Arnold Vas Dias, president of
the Foreign Press Association rep
resentative of a Rotterdam paper,
also thanked the American people
for their aid yesterday at a recep
tion in City Hall marking the
association's thirty-fifth anniver
sary. Mayor Vincent R. Impellit-
teri presented'a scroll to Mr. Vas
Dias for the "distinguished and;
exceptional public service" of the;
association.
Relief for the flood-stricken
areas of Holland, Belgium and
England continued to be sent from
the United States yesterday as
military and civilian organizations
joined in sending aid.
Five members of the 82d Air
borne Division, veterans of the
division's air-borne operation at
Nijmegen, Holland, on Sept. 17,
1944, yesterday presented a flood
relief check for $12,255.19 from the
division to Baron J. A. DeVos van
Steenwijk, Dutch Consul General,
at the offices of Holland Flood
Relief, Inc., 72 Wall St.
Five G. 1.8
The five soldiers came here from
Camp Drum, N. Y., where the divi
sion is now participating in "Exer
cise Snowstorm." They were
M./Sgts. George D. Ketchum, of
Amboy, 111.; Monnie M. Sanders,
of Charleston, S. C.; Herbert H.
Kitchen, of Tonkawa, Okla., and
Robert L. Hughes, of Cumberland,
Md., and Sgt. John E. Taylor, of
Hamilton, Ohio.
In accepting the gift, Baron Van
Steenwijk told the division repre
sentatives that the 82d Airborne is
now a by-word in Holland for
"rapid offensive military action,
heroism in the field and staunch
and reliable friendship."
It was also announced yester
day that thanks for a gift of
200,000 pounds of clothing, blan
kets and shoes, sent to the Neth
erlands by the War Relief Services,
National Catholic Welfare Con
ference, had been received from
the Most Rev. William P. Muts
aerts, head of the Catholic Emer
gency Relief Committee in Hol
land.
Herald Tribune
Sergeants of the 82d Airborne Division who jumped into Holland during World War II present
ing check for $12,255.19 to Baron J. A. De Vos van Steenwijk, Dutch Consul, for the emergency
Holland Flood Relief Fund, 72 Wall St. Making the presentation is Master Sgt. George D.
Ketchum. The other sergeants are, left to right, Herbert H. Kitchen, Robert L. Hughes, Mon
nie M. Sanders and John E. Taylor. The money was collected from the division's 13,000 men
