Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 March 1950 — Page 28

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By FRED SPARKS, Times Foreign Correspondent - : "ROME, Mar. 4—Noted while inhaling Yards of spa-

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was a

lire.or francs on. and valor.

One 100-lire note is torn clean of New York's Publ Lirary ole ar across the middle and taped wagshington's Capitol! with the edge of a Sheet of SPE

One 50-lire note is ripped across one side- and alsp on two edges, It is bandaged, like the vitcim! of a Joe Louis encounter, with paste, stickers, and gummed papér. I figure T lost about a dollar a week by furiously pitching away currency torn, ripped and faded beyond repair. Four things I like about Rome His Likes ONE: Best-dressed town in Furope. Tailors are terrific Men feature flannels creased sharp as a fingernail. Girls generally copy Paris dresses. short Hollywood haircuts, nvlons and no hats. 8till they spot Americans by their thin-soled shoes, large-crowned hats, rapid walk. T™WO: Pilgrims have been coming here * gape at the glories gince Caesar tossed his legions’ weight around. So {t's one town © where the locals (yawn!) ignore you if vou “sit on a park bench glimmering a foreign paper. Elsewhere on this continent they study a foreigner as if he were the new two-headed crane in the zoo. THREE: They usually serve coffee before talking business. Relieves the high pressure, makes you feel work is play. ; FOUR: You can sit down on the steps of any public monument and nobdy will lift an evebrow. Jjayqwalker toa loney bin

Copvright, 1950. The Inc ilanagolis. Times Imagine squatting on the steps and The Chicago Dall Se

“ONE Theanti*Yank signs ice to-his-country: scrsbbled. by Commuifist mischiefmakers on every second wall, You'd think each American was determined to A-bomb mothers, women and children . . . and in his spare time cut canaries’ throats. Typical nasties: is a war plan.” us alone . . we want peace.’ “Don’t sell your soul for Yankee dollars.” “Mothers! ican fascism.” TWO: Hotels soak vou “ext ras for everything but breathing. My hotel bleeds me 20 lire -tabout 40 Pvt. cents) daily for “heat” (even if medical I turn off the radiators And if fantry, you have a bathless room they'll in sock vou the public tub. THREE Too many monu- “A. medical. aid ments drooling history have been 5 night crossing commercialized. You .'need the Rjver with troops

“Marshal Plan

McGee,

action 500 lire for dunking in many, on

near Mar,

postcard peddlers out of the way Th enemy Pantheon. . FOUR: The terror of, traffic. heavily People who've dodged vehicles personnel mines. from Tokyo to Toledo agree that crossing a Rome street is more dangerous than crossing the Pacific on a camel, Bicycles scoot

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an Indianapolis boy beh in "action in ; Congressional - _ Italy, like France; is the.land of patched money. They {Honor winner ‘grid was so deecan't seem to acquire a decent brand of paper to print their’ orated for outstanding bravery

I could show you a wad of SOgRY Bills" in my “pocket.” William D. McGée was the son — lof Mr. and Mrs. William D. Mecof 1251 Shelby St. The | plaque, recently unveiled, tells the Four things I hate about Rome: story ’'of a Hoosiers herole serv-

In keeping with policy of renaming barracks for heroes of World War II, the cere-— mony honoring the Indianapolis hero was held recently. Chaplain Speaks The eulogy and prayer were de- : “Truman leave jjvered by Maj. Bernard Fenton, chaplain, after “troops occupying Fight Amer- the barracks were brought to attention. and saluted during the playing of the National Anthem. attatched detachment, 76th Division. was Killed

official citation. follows:

Notre Dame line to knock the captyre the town of Mulheim. had as you approach the Coliseum or the sector where assault

strewn

Stepped on Mine “Two men of the first to work around corners; forward detonated mines which; without warning: horse-carriages wounded them seriously. Entirely come from every direction; there on his own initiative, Pvt. McGee are few red lights; public squares entered the mine field, brought (0 numerous) make for confu- gut one of the injured to comsion sufficient to send a Chicago parative safety, and had returned ta’ rescue the second vietim when!

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Mulheim 18, 1945.

erThe Mr. and Mrs. William D. McGee Sr... man, -he made of the Moselle endeavoring to

seriously wounded .in the resultIng explosion, “Although suffering retreated in and bleeding profusely, boats shouted orders that none of his’ left the shore — ii with anti-

he saved his life,” Pvt.

wave their way,

mine and was

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“Plaque i in » Germany Honors vocal War Hero ‘Money in Rome pry Bomack Need tr

I Over In Stuttgart, Germany, a bronze plaque designates a military barracks as McGee Bar-

. their fate son honored. comrades was to risk his life by entering the death-sown field to intensely Tender first aid that might have

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A native of Tennessee,

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