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Normandy
lke Tried to Visit All His Troops Before Invasion
: INSTALLMENT 27
By Kay Summersby
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IT SEEMS NO EXAGGERATION to say that Gen. Eisenhower, with his historic role, faced problems of such heroic range that they required the judgment of a Solomon, the military mind of a Na-
poleon, the diplomacy of a prime
minister.
One hour, for example, he might be in the giddy heights.of
international poli discussing Edward Stettinius delicate problems expected to arise in liber-
Gen. Patton for making a chance public remark (highly resented by hard-pressed Russia) that America and Britain would have
with Under Secretary of State est only in those phases of the
invasion which might affect his! Ite by holding
Free French; he was not informed of exact target details,
There was another weather session that evening. All who at-
to rule that post-war world, The|tended were agreed D-Day could
next, Ike might confer with Monty, listening to complaints that several United States gen-
Gen, Eisenhower had far less social life than the most lowly member of his staff. = = s NORMALLY, however any leisure was spent at Telegraph Cottage, where bridge was the major indoor sport. : Once in a while Gen. Ike would look up from his desk, hounded by nerves, and suggest an hour's horseback riding. Upon such occasions we accepted the standing invitation of Sir Louis Gregg at the ‘Air Ministry and hurried out to enjoy trails in Riehmond ark, which was closed to the foe because it contained falsefront “factories” as decoys for enemy bombers.
When the general did have a dinner party, it was informal and intimate. I was especially pleased one night when he included my mother and me in a party of about 10 invited to Hays Lodge. Among the other guests were Jimmy Gault and his wife, some people from the Red Cross, and Gen. Patton. The latter was in good form that night—on good verbal behavior which impressed my mother no less than me. As usual, he kidded Ike about wanting some more medals. “You haven't done anything yet,” Gen. Ike chided. “Wait till you get on the continent!” » = ” SEEING AND TALKING with soldiers in the field was more pleasure and more relaxation for him than anything London's social planners could devise. Also, he thought it vital that the supreme commander be seen, that he become a person instead of a vague signature on orders, that he try to obtain first-hand eviaence on conditions in the field.
In all truth, I doubt if in military annals there 1s anything to equal Ike's record of a general's non-stop attempt to visit all his troops before an impending operation of such magnitude. Despite pressing headquarters problems, he launched this ambitious campaign within a fortnight after reaching England.
” = = WITH MAY growing old, London was drained of its leave
troops. Barmen, theater owners, movie ushers, taxi drivers, and nightclub doormen commented on the poor business.
Staff officers due to travel in the invasion fleet disappeared one by one from their offices, without explanation. Headquarters staffs were strained, touchy’ to the| point of ugly temper. | American military personnel were restricted to quarters for a 24-hour perigd so MP's could root out AWOL’s.
Hospitals dismissed all but the worst bed cases; laundries received instructions to make hospital linens a top priority. Travelers found few trains; hundreds of engines and coaches had been shunted to military service. Everyone in the British Isles— and probably in the German General Staff—knew the invasion would pop any day. But only the necessary few men knew it was scheduled for June 4. n » ” GEN. EISENHOWER attended the final Big Brass conference three weeks before, on May 15, at Gen. Montgomery's 21st Army Group headquarters in old St. Paul's School. Then, all our attention focused on the South Coast, now choked with invading armies straining at] the leash. Hesitant to bother any of the active headquarters with his presence, Gen. Eisenhower set up an Advance CP at Southwick, six or seven miles north of Portsmouth. His office was a trailer; I had a tiny desk in one corner. The whole CP was set in a wood where sunshine was exiled, where rain soaked our entire canvas headquarters days on end, giving everything a damp, musty order; it was a long jump from London or Algiers. The prime minister and Field Marshal Smuts were headquartéred on a special train parked at Southampton. Nerve-ends were so exposed, security so exacting, that even the supreme allied commander had to carry a pass. Everyone topside was jumpy over our other enemy: the weather. The area was alive with weather experts, meteorologists, and plain second guessers—all studying, figuring, worrying about the weather, key to the whole invasion. . # » ” JUNE 4—supposed to be D-Day —undoubtedly was the longest day of 1944. The prime minister came down for a comforting visit, leaving ‘as downhearted as the most pessimistic man in the office. Another visitor was Gen. Charles de Gaulle, who raised
maddening political questions at this late hour and displayed, inter-
{ders sagging, the loneliest man in
not be delayed much longer. So the final, decisive conference was set for the next morning, at 4 a. m. Everyone went to that meeting with the full knowledge that a decision had to be made this time. Further postponement, even another 24 hours, would endanger the entire expeditionary force. On the other hand, cancellation of D-Day meant a complete rescheduling of the whole invasion, weeks, perhaps months, later in the summer. ” ” . THE DUTY for the frightful decision belonged to Gen. Eisenhower. Even knowing him as I did, I had no idea what was passing through his mind. “If it goes all right” marked to him afterward, “dozens of persons will claim the) credit. But if it goes wrong, you'll be the only one to blame.”
Fifteen minutes after going into that meeting in the damp merning of June 5, Gen. Ike made the historic, staggering decision.
It was his decision, his alone. Barring his death, no one else could make it. Not another. person on the face of the earth could make that decision at that time and place. The invasion was on. And by nightfall not even he could stop it. » # ” GEN. EISENHOWER got a little lift of spirits when I drove him to an inspection 6f a British unit and the assault trops yelled, over and over again, “Good old Ike!” That evening around 6:30 I drove the general to Newbury, where, 10 weeks before, we had witnessed the spectacular demonstration by the 101st Airborne
I re-
troops. This time, Ike had to look|.
these troops straight in the eye, knowing that he, only he, was responsible if they and the men of the 82d Airborne encountered sheer disaster. Then they started off for Normandy. Gen. Eisenhower turned, shoul-
the world. | Without a word, he walked slowly toward the car. I hurried; we had to make the Southwick
headquarters before 1 a. m. D-Day. “Well,” Ike said quietly. “It's
on. He loked up at the sky and added: “No one can stop it now.”
TOMORROW: Kay Visits Washington and Hears All the
Gossip About Her. (Copyright, 1948, by Kay Summersby)
Four Sentenced
On Theft Charges
Four persons convicted of motor vehicle theft today "began serving federal prison sentences. Judge Robert C. Baltzell sentenced three men who pleaded guilty to the charges and one found guilty by jury trial. Sentenced were Samuel Henry Crowe, 28, Charleston, S. C., 18 months; ‘Thomas R. Niles, 22, Three Rivers, Mass. five years; John Sells, Dayton, O., three and one-half years; and Delphus Walls, 43, of Louisville, Ky., who was tried by jury, two and onehalf years.
Fined $100, Jailed
In another action, two loeal men received $100 fines and were given two-year prison sentences for mail theft and check forgery. They were Willlam Garfield Overton Jr., 24, 741 Indiana Ave. and Charles A. Mayweathers, 26, of 3112 Boulevard Place. Claude B. Kendall, officer of the C. B. Kendall Co. Inc., 2039 Madison Ave., was fined $150 for violation af the Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act. The corporation was also fined $150. Charges stated that an interstate shipment of misbranded medical tablets had been made by the company last year,
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Tuvenile Court Gets Girl, 16, Held 35 Days
Bond Set After Hearing on Writ Superior Court Judge Walter Pritchard today set a bond of $400 on a 16-year-old girl who had spent 35 days in county jail without’ bond and without trial. The order was made in a suit for habeas corpus after. Judge Pritchard agreed that her constitutional rights hed been vioher without bond. The habeas corpus action was filed by Attorney John MecNelis
Before the bond could be made, however, the girl, who was one of two teen-agers arrested Oct.
was ordered back into Juvenile Court for possible action to send her back to Marydale from which "T° as a runaway. - The suit was filed against the sheriff of Marion County, charging the juvenile is quartered with adult prisoners contrary to law. The girl was placed in jail by Juvenile Court Judge Joseph Hoffman, pending a hearing. Juvenile Court defended its action by citing the girl's past record of broken probation and runaways. Honor System Cited “In her excursions this girl has involved a number of men and has caused trouble for herself and others,” Charles Beswell, chief probation officer said. “We had to lock her up to protect her.” He said she could not be held in the Juvenile Detention home or Marydale. Both are operated to a great extent on the honer system. Juvenile Court officials said on Friday of last week and postpened it at the request of her attorney. It was to have been held this week but the attorney said he would not be ready to try it until after the holidays, court workers said. The girl was first arrested in March, 1948, in the bus station. She had been reported ‘missing from her home in December, 1947. A month later a friend reported the girl had stolen $300 worth of clothing. Treated for VD On her arrest the girl told court workers she had beéen a prostitute in several hotels, using taxi drivers and a bell boy as solicitors. - At the time she had
a venereal disease. After treatment, she was placed |
care of her mother / and stepfather. Shortly after this she broke her probation by staying out late and a month later was arrested at 3 a. m. with several boys in a parked car. An investigation showed that
been traveling for several days in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana in the car, which was stolen. She was sentenced to Marydale June 3 but ran away two weeks after her commitment. At Large 4 Months She remained at large for four months, until Oct. 23 when she was arrested early in the morning with two cab drivers. 8he admitted to police that she had been prostituting for two cab drivers in hotels, tourist cabins, in taxies and the taxi lot for three weeks. _Prior to that, she said, she had lived with several men as man and wife. She told workers she had “lived so many places I can’t remember them and I can't remember all the men I've lived with.” Eight persons were charged with contributing to her delinquency, including a young attorney. who had believed her te be a 19-year-old divorcee. v After her arrest she was placed in Marion County jail as a runaway from Marydale and on the prostitution counts. Since Marydale does not normally re-admit runaways, a hearing to commit her to the Indiana Girls School. was scheduled. It is this hearing which is currently pending.
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Dual Job-Holding | Dispute Settled |
Two Legislators Win, | Three Lose Fight
Slate Auditor A. V. Burch’s long court fight against dual job! helding by five legislators was| over today with two paid off for services rendered and a totai of $23,155 forfeited back to the state! treasury. Reps. Glenn R. Slenker, Monticello,.and Charles T. Miser, Garrett, received back pay totaling $18,332 for Mr. Slenker's work since March, 1947, as public counselor for the State Public Service Commission and Mr. Miser's job as state highway commission maintenance superintendent. Mr. Burch dumped into the state treasury $18,803 which he had withheld in pay from three other state representatives involved In the legal controversy over their rights to collect salary checks from two lucrative state jobs. Mr. Slenker's check was for £10,250 and Mr. Miser’s for $8097. However, both had to pay back to Mr. Burch part of the money they had received for their salaries as state legislators. Mr.
fund. The remaining $18,803 * which Mr. Burch put in the state treasury was money withheld from Reps. Elmer Weller, Dale, and Beecher Conrad. Petersburg, and Sen. Clyde Black, Logansport. The Indiana Supreme Court held that Mr. Weller, Mr. Conrad and Mr. Black could not collect frem both jobs because a state constitutional clause prevented dual jobholding. But the high court ruled recently that Mr. Miser and Mr. Slenker had a right to claim their back pay for both jobs because they resigned their state jobs before the 1947 session of the legislature began and were reap-
Slenker’s refund was $2167, Mr. Miser’s $2185, both of which were| returned to the state generalia heart attack. {Clerk Ray Scott died the same]
Mrs. Annetta Lawson, presiden® of Me-De-Phar Guild (left), presents a check from her organization for the purchase of wheel chairs at General Hospital to Dr. Paul V. Evans, medical director, as
Five Officials, Police Die— Was It Doomed Man's Hex?
In Less Than a Year, Convicted Killer's Prophecy Is Realized in Wave of Deaths
TACOMA, Wash., Nov. 27 (U to himself as he sat in his cell in
And if the 46-year-old condemned man really believed he had |, . "or acteristics your husband s
occult powers, he probably started the sixth since he put the hex on Just a little less than a year before Judge E. D. Hodge and heard the jurist sentence him to| be hanged Jan. 16, 1948, for the] ax murder of Mrs. Bertha Kludt| and her 17-year-old daughter. | “Wait and see” Jake told De-| tective Lit. Sherman Lyons. “You policemen and judges will be settin’ and waitin’ at the pearly gates a long time before I roll| up.” .
A month later, Judge Hodge was stricken with a heart attack] and died. Friends said he had been in excellent health right up| until his death, | Granted Stay On Jan. 14, two days before his scheduled execution, Jake| was granted a stay by Gov. Mon C. Wallgren so he could be ques-| tioned about some unsolved mur-| ders in the Midwest. Undersheriff Joe Karpach questioned him. Before the month was out, Mr. Karpach died—of Chief Court
month, also of a heart attack. He had been in office five years and never missed a day because of illness. For seven months the hex was forgotten. Jake appealed to the state Supreme Court. The conviction was upheld.
Fifth Victim Last Sept. 28, Detective Lyons, to whom Bird made his threat, died of a heart attack. The fifth person connected with the trial died last night. He was J. W, Selden, 75, the attorney who defended Bird. At the time, Mr. Selden had asked to be relieved of the de-
pointed after the session ended.
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back on the right track. I said he was stupid for not trying again. I think he is stupid but| maybe it is me. Anyway, we're} anxiously awaiting your letter. - A FRIEND, CITY.
Your friend had better not marry anyone until he combines love with common sense. It would be foolish to revive | the old romance if he Is sure his personality and the former girl friend's personality conflict and would spoil their love. Marriage wouldn't work without hoth of them making con- | stant concessions. He'd miss | her occasionally if he married the woman he’s so practical about. That good cook might be bossier than he thought—and discontented—if she discovered | they had nothing in eommon except appetites.
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‘Get Your Divorce’
! GET your divorce, Mrs. J, 8. P.| P)—Jake Bird must have smiled 14 shouldn't be hard to break
the Pierce County jail today. away from a man with all the
concentrating on his next victim, ha
his prosecutors, | Aren't women weak? I'm weak, ago, Dec. 6, 1047, Jake 5t00d UP 1 jive with an unfaithful man— the trial. He suffered a heart his only fault—but you say your attack in his office last night and/ husband drinks and is jealous, died within minutes. years older than you, dishonest, Other officials connected with|violent and irresponsible. When the trial are reluctant to talk|you haven't respect for him how about the hex. but Pierce County|can you stay? You have no fu-
Attorney Patrick M. Steel, who/ture. prosecuted Bird, just laughs it off. PHOEBE, CITY. “Nothing to it,” he said today. Thank you, Phoebe. Mrs.
J. 8, P. wants to hear, from many of you.
“Never felt better in my life.”
Pocket-Picking, Holdup Net $69
A holdup man and a pickpocket | obtained $69 from two victims] early today, while two armed gunmen overlooked $200 hidden in a third victim's clothing. A 44-year-old carpenter was robbed of $20 when a man got in his car in the 2100 block in Col-|. lege Ave. slugged Mm on the head and forced him to drive near
Ice Fan Inquires HOW can I join an Elizabeth Taylor fan club? Where ¢&an I take private ice skating lessons? How old are Sonja Henie and Michael Kirby? PATTY, ANN AND SANDY. Write Miss Taylor in care of MGM, Culver City, Cal. Call Mr. and Mrs. Edward Rushka (TA. 4256) about skating lessons at the Coliseum. Miss Henie is 35, the Motion Picture Almanac says, and Kirby's age is not revealed in Hollywood publicity, His birth date is Feb. 20.
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He went with a girl he planned to marry three years ago and misunderstanding and never got About Dick Powell
MY HUSBAND and I have been talking about Dick Powell. He says he used to lead his own band at the Indiana ballroom, and I say it was Charlie Davis’ orchestra. Who is right? ? ANN, CITY. Dick sang with ‘Charlie Davis” orchestra at the Indiana Theater, and later had his own band at the Circle Theater.
Party Gomes ; COULD yo# suggest games suitable for a party celebrating a boy's 18th birthday? BEECH GROVE READER. Libraries have many books including “The Practical Handbook of Games” by Emily W, Elmore and Arthur Lawson's “Home-Made Games.”
Skipper writes privately that she’s jealous when her good husband mentions old girl friends, even when he admires his sister or movie actresses— You know how to concentrate, but you're doing it on the wrong things. Feel lucky that you have found the right man and concentrate on improvements so you'll feel sure of him, and of yourself. You're going to bore him by those rages and by that possessiveness. Then where Will you be? When he wants to go to perfectly harmless places with men act willing, if it kills you. Don't give him any idea about hunting objectionable spots, to show he is boss.
Husband Travels
MY husband travels, and we're new in Indianapolis. We've been married only a short time. I'm very lonesome. Where could I go to meet young people? Of course I don't want a man, but I'd like to find young people with similar interests—dancing and general socializing. MRS. K. A, NORTH SIDE. The 829 Club of the YWCA has activities for men and women including dinner-dances on Sundays. Ask the YWCA about classes, drama and chorus groups, thé Outing Club, ballroom dancing class (at 6:45 p. m. on Wednesday for men and women 16 and over) and the Newcomers’ Out.
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