People: People, Feb. 28, 1944

Parents

Inconspicuously in the letter column of the New York World-Telegram appeared last week a letter from Red Cross recreation worker Ethel Gross Hopkins.*She had sent carbon copies to many a newspaper. The letter:

"Notification has just come to me that Stephen, my youngest son, aged 18, a private first :lass in the United States Marine Corps, was killed in action. I have come to New York hoping to receive fuller details regarding the circumstances of my son's death, which occurred so soon after I received his APO number and notice of his reaching...

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