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Eisenhower Was My Boss— lke Inspects Battle Area

His Sole Concern During Trip

low. The Americans in particular

- NDIA wes anasto on ies cen A BaGt SUPVivOr taste of defeat. Gen. Eisenhower ;

| The Rev. Matsumato of Hiro-

was so glum and worries, plus the first home-front| criticism of his combat direction, | that I couldn't bring myself to] {complain about my own health. “You don't look so hot these

here in the light; let’s take aj

weary with these

~~ By Kay Summersby AT 7 O'CLOCK the next morning we set out for Constantine,

defeat at Kasserine Pass. 3 This was my first combat drive, with no resemblance to piloting the General around rural England. We started out in protective convoy, accompanied by two jeeps, a spare sedan, and a Weapon P Sane x ain hizhw 1 A jeep driver braved the mud| 8away, li; take me to the evacuation hos-| realized the protection was! ital I miles away. where planned for possible aerial attack. Pio Severa y. Some stretches of that route were| front-lie as lonely as only desert country, contin ean be. Still, to me, they were absolute Heaven compared with]

nurses, reserved

the spots where we hit supply] convoys traveling the red ball express; the road was two-lane at best, with soft shoulders, and! truck drivers hogged that center| part with frightening insistence, | despite our little group's horn, | the siren on our car, the flags,

others were so worried about Gen.

unknown battle that I, too, be-| came nervous. ! “You'd better stay right here, ay,” Dick said. “If things get ny worse, I'd rather you'd be here than over at the evac hosand the four-star license plates. pital. It looks as though Gen. The solid, miles-long lines of Eisenhower won't be back tilll huge trucks constituted a dan- real late, anyhow. So we'll bed gerous, exasperating obstacle you in the V-I-P’'s tent. It at course. With my valuable passenger in| 7 agreed readily, happy to be the back seat, and remembering! near him if anything was going

the rumors of sudden paratroop|t, happen, then climbed into bed attacks on the open stretches, Iifylly dressed, just in case.

began to see that driving a Gen- eT n=» eral in wartime is far from glam- 3 rous. lled, rai -| AWARENING Srous. Clidied, rainy weather add hours later, I heard the sound of

d a final hazard. ed a Snal haze muffled voices and boots munch-

Jy : x ’ ing around in the mud. I was sure THE GENERAL'S sole concern, jt “was the Germans, already in

however, was the continual col-|oyr camp. Just then I heard lection of grins, whistles, wolf-|pjck's voice: “Sir, we didn't excalls, and coarse remarks I har-| pect you back so soon. Afraid we vested in this exclusively-male | py¢ Kay there in your V-I-P tent. territory. He cursed and tried to|gy,t there's another empty tent look as stern as possible, mutter- | piont down here, if you don't ing about the lack of discipline. ming, Sir.” Their boots gurgled in I attempted not to smile, pretend-ithe mud and the voices faded ing I neither heard nor saw the away, wholly natural reaction of these] when Gen. Eisenhower and

men to a woman, any woman. |Dick appeared at mess, I learned Our party spent the night atthe Germans threatened our lines DO Stentine) y Dilleted Bg fe | With a full-scale’ break-through, sma oup of nurses. We leftijf not a rout. The General, buntiers before Faw for Tebessa, dled to his ears, was a very, very bing us hg — rig red nan a Jouked as though > “he hadn't slept a wink. mand Post and to guide us| He said the trip up front had through the surrounding lake of|ended in near-disaster when his wid. My passenger conferred jeep driver, exhausted from the wi So. Anderson eo Dout strain of moving that near action cot, en talke e reluctan (with a four-star passenger in the Gen. Truscott into a trip right up|rear, had tossed them into a Is the Bota) Trout, 1 ST Disk |ditch. Gen. Truscott added, unwent off In search o ck, smiling, “We got your boss back, stationed at corps headquarters. gay, 2 1 Rb want to take - -| ” Femalalint: 3 Nas She sur him up that far again, ever!” Obpu 2 5 p eh {viously anxious to get rid of the js far gh gure 2 we [Fesponeibiiny. for 5, he provided . another escort to Tebessa. appearance, hardly slinky, what ® on with dirty slacks, battle blouse, VHOWER

EJ GEN. EISEN refused god an old Air Corps flying jac-|pjane transportation on the et.

{grounds that the Air C inDick soon enlightened me: the gro orps

sisted upon an aerial escort and battle situation was so fluid that P

: {he didn’t want to pull any fightRita Hayworth wouldn't have er's away from the battle area, drawn a whistle.

{where they were so urgently ® = {needed for combat. We returned THINGS WERE BAD, really to Constantine for the night and, bad. Dick himself was busy and after bucking convoy traffic for we had only snatches of conver-/ eight hours on that narrow, dansation. I sat around morosely, gerous highway, returned to Alsoaking up the contagious appre-|giers. hension, well aware this was no| Headquarters had all the cheer time fér feminine chit-chat with of an empty funeral parlor. News old acquaintances. Dinner at the from the front, starting with the mess was gloomy, almost word- licking we took at Sidlibou-Zid, less. ; ‘was increasingly bitter to swal-

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ters, He has set about erecting a! new building. Bur

The Rev. Mr. Matsumato was glar Traps Fail Local Baptists |

graduated from Ohio Wesleyan 10 Foil Thieves

{University and Drew Theological !Seminary.

{good look at you.” I moved OVer dent of the Methodist Girle’{night in Cadle Tabernacle . INSTALLMENT 13 job diently. “You've got jaundice!” School in Hiroshima, was badly e

burned and spent more than 2/Show 35% Hoosier

Ethel confirmed the boss’ sharp year in the hospital after the!

diagnosis. I was in the hospital {mp Tebessa, and the scene of what turned into the sad American|a week.

at Tunis. !

ing of the city. His wife was {drowned in the panic of refugees TOMORROW—Victory parade'fieeing the city and 350 of his girl students were killed in the

Intricate burglar alarm systems He will speak during the all-day failed to stop safemen who bat-

Methodist area meeting on behalf tered their way through three : |of . the “Advance for Christ and walls to enter the Lockefield days, Kay,” the General said one Shima, Japan, about whom John|His Church,” Tuesday at Roberts] morning, peering intently through Hersey wrote in his book, “Hiro- Park. : his frame reading glasses. “You're ghima,” will speak Tuesday in the!tions will hold similar meetings Was Reaction of Front-Line GI's a funny-looking color. Stand over roberts Park Methodist Church.{and unite with the Methodists for os The Rev. Mr. Matsumato, presi- & missionary meeting Tuesday down a door to the building at

Twel ther d \ {Liquor Store at 860 Indiana Ave. lve Jone @eNOMina-/jast night.

Police said thieves first battered

186413 Indiana Ave. then drove a hole through the wall connect{ing “the Janie Beauty Shop at Vote Against Unions [862 Indiana Ave. WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 (UP) | After three attempts, the bur—The National Labor Relations glars succeeded in battering a hole Board released statistics today|through the east wall of the

Pastor Dies |

The Rev. George Baltimore, 3053 Station St., pastor of the!

Negro youth.program of the New Bethel Baptist Church. Hundreds of ckildren, and especially those from nearby School 26, took part in it. : Active in other civic affairs, ne was a member of the East End Business League. He was treasurer of the Indiana Baptist Association and secretary of the Min-

New Bethel Baptist Church, died|isterial Alliance at the time ‘of

is morning in General Hos-| his death.

th pital. Taken ill while returning from Jeffersonville, Ind, where he had been attending the State Association of Baptist Ministers’ Conference, Rev. Baltimore had been in General Hospital since Oct. 17. A native of Lexington, Ky. and a former pastor-at Rockville, Ind., he had been assistant pastor of the New Bethel Church 1C

Rev. Baltimore received his elementary education in Lexing- - ton and was graduated from Normal College here. He attended the Butler School of Religion here. a In addition to his wife, Nancy, he is survived by three sisters and two brothers in Lexington. The body of Rev. Baltimore

|least has a drp pebble flooring.”

SEVERAL)

(Copyright, 1948, by Kay Summersby)

Envoy

{moments with Dick. He and the With Defense Secretary James ing my nation into war.”

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