All God's Chillun Got Shoes. No ration points are needed as Coast Guardsman Joseph Hegener, chief boatswain's mate, makes a pair of canvas shoes for a happy repatriate child, Eleanor Ruth Austen, who is en route from the Far East to a new home in the United States. She took her first steps on the Coast Guard-manned troop transport in the shoes made by Chief Hegener. The little girl's mother died in India and her father, Army Sergt. James F. Austen, Jr. is bringing her to his home in St. Louis, MO. Chief Hegener lives in Mt. Rainier, MD.

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Keywords: 17-a2-212, 26-, coast, guard, history, job, rdss, rg