Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 May 1941 — Page 5

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MAY 23, 1041

ALLEGES CHILD'S Girl Ambulance Drivers Know No: Fear, but" Never Get Used fo

"MIND ‘POISONED Marion Talley Says Former Husband Turned Susan Against Her.

HOLLYWOOD, May 23 (U. P.).—

charged today that er

star, Adolph Eck-

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By PAUL-MANNING Times" Special Writer LONDON, May 23.—Peacock Alley at the Ritz—that’s where we met.

The girl \ambulance driver was in , and this was her night off —s0 she wanted to celebrate. But one hour was all the celebration lasted because 30 minutes after .|the air raid alarm sounded it was evident that this was no ordinary blitz night. The German bombers Marion Talley, former grand opers were coming over in waves.

center of the city and then they|when first you see life, and then would dive in long, roaring glides|death. : until it seemed they were just skim-| ne station was not on fire when ming the rooftops—though actually | we arrived, but it might just as well they always leveled out at around |nhgve been. It was in the triangular two or three thousand feet. corner of three fires—a garage, a After three bombd had rocked the paper warehouse and a freight yard. hotel she left the table to telephone| There was an ambulance at the the station of her ambulance unit,|curb which we. learned was now which is a No. 1 danger spot in|available. A short 40 minutes before, London during a raid. two’ girls had decided to double up When she returned, we left for|in one ambulance because trying~to the station. Her unti was being|drive around tomb carters and rub-

were rturning for another load of injured when ‘a bomb, the one you never hear, struck the right front fender. Not even the fender was left, 8 . So that was the ambulance that was available, the one this second girl had left parked by the curb. And this night the young little Captain, Madame O. C. she is. called by her subordinates, did not object to a man not in uniform helping out. Climbing in, we headed for a pub-

swamped with calls and I wanted |ble in this section during a. blitz is|lic air raid shelter which had been

They were coming over at ato see what driving in an ambulance|a two-person proposition. They had |hit. There were more than 60 in-

and as the wardens continued to dig, they uncovered more. Some were dead and many wouldn’t last the trip to the hospital. : : That trip, and the others which

followed, was a nightmare. The girl

was good, though. When she was at. the. wheel, which was most of the time, she never got rattled. Not even when we would be going slowly down an open street and suddenly find the street no longer open because high explosives had cut a crater dead. center. :

out and try to find a way round. We'd return from the hospital to ‘the ambulance station and wait for a call from some air raid warden whose crew of men had just finished digging through to people trapped beneath the timbers of their home. The wait was never long, however, because the telephone was always ringing. . Along about “five the German planes stopped their bombardment, but. the job. of transporting the injured continued on until nine in the morning. Then it all began to: taper

—.. PAC

the Sight of Violent Death”

uled to take over, we returned to - ‘the station. - ~

' She was tired, of course. So was I. - Everyone was. But sitting

For most of them, it was the first time in their. lives ‘they'd really x seen death in wholesale quantities with no punches pulled... But they were standing the ordeal fine. * “You become a little hardened’ after a while,” one said, “but that. is. only when you're‘working. Later, like now, you know you'll never get used to the sight of violent death—— never, even if this war lasts another

great height until they reached the really meant during the blitz hours!made one trip to the hospital and!jured stretched eee terete ————————————————————————— ee, eee setts eee eee

st rom, had tried to poison’ -the mind of her baby against her. "+ She described . yesterday, in the trial of her suit for divorce and custody of the child, Susan, 6, an incident which occurred last June in New York, wheni she

out alopig the street,

When that happened, Td climbloff and with the day shift sched-'thousand years!”

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Holds All 3 Rooms

Susan Talley

visited her daughter. = “We were no sooner seated in our automobile when Susan looked up to me and said, ‘mother, is it true that you told lies to the judge?’ ” she testified. , “I said, ‘Why, Susan, what do you mean?’ . : “ ‘Father said you told the judge “lies and if he didn’t turn me over . to you, he was going to jail." Is that . true?’ ” : . ¥ Miss Talley began to cry, and it was some time before she could continue: . “Susan next said, ‘Is it true, mother you struck Aunt Ruth?’” “Aunt Ruth” is Mrs. Ruth Nelson, Eckstrom’s sister. Miss Talley* had previously charged that Mrs. Nelson “bodily threw“ her from her Mamaroneck, N. Y., home when she went to claim Susan, after not having seen her for, three years. She described another incident, ifn a New York courtroom during a previous custody suit. “Susan came into the room with her father,” she said. “She wasn’t crying, but she looked very sober. She did not recognize me. I said, ‘hello,’ and she just stared straight ahead. . “The moment Mr. Eckstrom went out of the room, Susan came over to me and greeted me and acted like a perfectly mormal human being.” She said she learned later that Ecktrom had instructed Susan to ignore her.

VETERANS TO HOLD MEMORIAL SERVICE

Berry Camp, Spanish American War Veterans, and-the Tillman H. Harpole Post, American Legion, will conduct memorial services at Antioch Baptist Church Sunday afternoon. Preceding the services, veterans will form a parade starting at the C. M. C. Willis Funeral Home and march to the church. The Rev. O. H. Mays, former chaplin—in thé Spanish American War, will deliver the memorial address and the Antioch Choir will sing.

OLD-TIMERS RETURN TO SIX MILE CREEK

Those who have skated! swum and played along the banks of the old Six Mile Creek at Charlottesville, Ind., are coming home for a reunion there June 1. - Former residents and students of the Charlottesville and Jackson Township Schools will attéhd the annual affair in the high school building. Sunday school wil] be held at 9:30 a. m., morning worship at 10:30 and a basket dinner at noon.

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