Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 October 1944 — Page 2
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“French Cosple Wed. i in Seer Serod Church to Tune of Sammy Kaye Recording and Nazi Arillery
ly in an unofficial capacity. Just happened to be around and
Balcony,” on leave with the army |
He called for Auguste and his accordion to play a wedding march. . - » zh AUGUSTE, the grocer, stepped forward from the crowd in the
entranceway and held out empty hands. Didn't they remember? Had not the Boches taken away
1 his accordion?
Perhaps, suggested the mayor's wife, there would be something
| appropriate on the radio, if the
power had not failed. Oh, .the power is on, turn on the radio, people sald all together. Twisting of the dial yielded‘a news summary from a German
station. “Bad news, we hope,” commented the mayor drily. Everyone laughed. “Ah,” he said, “I have it. The American station. Toujours les Americains, ils nous aident.” The Americans always help us out.
» . » 3 A FARMER, who had assumed charge of the radio, tuned in the American forces network from London and stepped back triumphantly as a G. I. announcer was reading the baseball scores. * “They will play music, Mon-
sieur?”’ the mayor's wife asked
me. I assured her music would
‘been taken to Germany as a slave | 18 months ago was reported dead |
about & month ago,
There was the bride's brother, | 19, with his head still bandaged ' where a fragment from an anti- | personnel bomb had torn part of |
the scalp away, Then there was the mother, also a widow, of the bride's first husBand, She does most of the - washing in the village. Her husband had been killed in 1940 in a
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IT 18 customary during wed-
Monsieur le Maire observed, as _ 8 former artilleryman would, that | ithe Germans were using big stuff.
WAVES LIEUTENANT
WILL SPEAK HERE
Lt. Marjorie P. Forsyth, former
“school faculty now serving with the - WAVES, will speak at the Indiana
annual meeting of the International
- Association of Public Employment
es
Bervices Nov. 4 at the Hotel Washington.
Lt. Forsyth is assistant district
civil readjustment officer at Chicago | and will discuss the navy’s civil re- |
: . sent the movie,
SAFETY SERIES SET
FOR SCHOOL DRIVERS
A series of eight safety meetings | for school bus drivers throughout |
the state is being conducted by state
y police today.
Trooper William Gemmill will
conduct the local meeting in Tom-
linson hall, Meetings were held yesterday at South Bend, Lafayette, “Terre Hauts and Osgood. =
_ Other meetings today will be -
- Pt. Wayne, Jasper and Crown Point.
CHURCH TO SHOW FILM The First Friends church will pre- |
“Courageous Mr. Pen,” at 7:30 p. m. today in the
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church, The film, produced for use | in theaters, will be shown in the church in commemoration of the 300th anniversary of Wililam Penn. |
Ration Calendar
MEAT—Red stamps A8 through |
Z8 and A5 through K5 in Book 4 good indefinitely for 10 points each. | I5, M5, N5 and P5 become good Sunday,
CANNED GOODS—Blue HE A8 through Z8 and A5 through R5, fn Book 4 good indefinitely for 10 points each. S85 through W5 become
_ good Nov. 1.
SUGAR—Stamps 30, 31, 32 and
33 in Book 4 are good indefinitely
follow this significant announcement to-the troops. Tine “Ah” sald’ several, “an announcement to the troops, They listened intently to the world sertis scores not comprehending a word.
“It is good news, Monsieur?” the grocer asked anxiously, That all depends, I started to explain. Another “shell exploded and the radio squawked and went dead. After a minute or two, it continued and there was music.
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“Darling, You And 1” as played
by my friend, Sammy Kaye, Iv was strictly in the groove. Somebody turned down the volume and Monsieur le Maire read the ceremony and the laws of the
French Republic on the subject.
of marriage. Every time he came to the end of a sentence, a German howitzer shell would punctuate it for him. The earth would quake, the house would shake and the old man would lose his place in the book from which he was reading. Then there would be a silence in the room as he hunted the place.
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IT TOOK five shells to complete the brief, ceremonial reading. After that, he made a speech and as each shell burst, he paused dramatically and waited until the house settled back on its foundations. . : “I am an old man 78 years old,” he began, “and I have through three German wars.. In the past, our community was among the first to recover itself and to resume its peaceful and prosperous way of life. “Now, we have come through another trial. There are twenty of you good people of our village in this room and there is not one
lived,
of you but who fas not lost relatives, dear ones and precious posessions.
away my bicycle, the tires from my automobile and my typewriter, for example? Did they not take my silverware? Did they not humiliate me by forcing me to humiliate you in asking that the women Wolunteer to clean up their billets for them? » » » a “ALORS, I do not wish to remind you of our common misery of the past four years. Rather I wish to show that this wedding day stands as a symbol of our re-
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“Did not the dirty Boches take |
They go to your head with
_covery which has already commenced under the mouths of the German cannon. “Life stirs again in this corner of France! I say to this husband _ and to this wife to go forth in freedom and in blessedness and to build a new life and & new na~ tion.” There was a muffled “bravo.” The wedding party broke up. The bride and groom walked
through the muddy street with its . :
low stone hbuses that seemed to grow out of the earth and be & part of it and disappeared, ° To the east, the shelling continued.
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