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Show THE TIMES- - NEWS, NEPHI, UTAH Thursday, December 23. 1948 Sees p y.f. It TV'" 1 ; 1 , ft ' VYI r a cLJe 1 Dwight Eisenhower's chauffeur and secretary, Kay then an English civilian but later, by Eisenhower's favor, a captain of the American WACS, writes of her attachment to an American colonel. This officer had a wife and child in the United States during one year of their association and including the time of their betrothal. Soon after she met General Eisenhower, seemingly by chance but possibly by plan of the British foreign office or war office, he "hurled dozens of questions at me about women ambulance drivers" and "women's role in the war." Miss had Summersby driven an ambulance in the LonPEGLER don blitz and was now, in her own words, in process of oozing into the personal and official household of the man with the duty of behaving according to the moral code of West Point, and, indeed, the code of the crusaders, as an example to others. There is absolutely no discount from this code for West Point men either In ths military academy or later. At the time when Miss Summersby says Eisenhower hurled the dozens of questions at her she was driving his limousine and was definitely assigned to this duty by the British. She explains that in the summer of 1941, about the time the big blitz ended, she "ran into an American colonel at a cocktail Sum-mersb- y, party." Life Was Dull 'He mentioned, she continues, "That his little group of 17 officer "observers' (then in civilian clothes as America wasn't in the war) needed drivers who knew Lon don. I told him about our work and how life at post No. 1 had turned dull. Several days later, a few motor transport corps girls were transferred to U. S. army head- quarters." few pages later she is referring to this officer as "My own, my very special American," who had been her "Very special American ever since the days when I was an ambulance driver and he was a States army 'observer' at tl5mbassy." That time definitely was during the life of his marriage. This marriage was terminated by divorce in Reno one year after the meeting mentioned by Miss Sum mersby. This officer and General Eisenhower were, fellow members of the West Point alumni and obligated by traditions of honor which discountenance disloyalty in personal as well as military There were only a relations. small corps of West Pointers In the army, and this colonel was known to Eisenhower as a West Point man. On Page 34, Eisenhower asks Kay "Would you like to go along?" on the invasion of North Africa. "I was almost shouting," she says, "As I explained that Dick undoubtedly would be heading the direction of the forthcoming invasion. I would do anything to be somewhere near him. Ike knew about Dick. No further emphasis A tSi was required. "It'll be in about month or so," he said, warning of the need for extreme security." Although Eisenhower had blabbed this vital or mortal secret to an English woman who lacked even a pretense of military status or special qualification for essential work. Miss Summersby was in a great swivet about the need for secrecy. On page 45 Miss Summersby, now safe ashore at Oran, gives a picture of a bossy dame bawling out American officers who had the temerity to give attention to more serious matters than her imperious desires. She wanted to telelieutenant, phone Algiers and major and finally a colonel appeared to question her. At this point she writes, " 'Look here, I said In exasperation. 'I've Just been rescued from a torpedoed ship. 1 want to rail General Elsenhower and tell him his staff la safe. And I want to get orders what te da next. Do you mind?' " "Do you mind?" 1 In italics, for iliar emphasis, fht one magic word Elsenhower got me the telephone." As far as the war was concerned It made no difference whether she was safe or dead or what she did next. But Eisenhower had nothing more urgent to do than get on the phone and even put General Mark Clark on. By some oversight he didn't manage to talk Individually to all th American men and women who went Into the water when the same ship went down. Telling The Secret O V v. 1 f Uy tYettt brook Meyler Released by WNU Features. PAGE nine of her memoirs her service in the war as PAGE TTTREB 1 i i 4 ... ds iJ- " ,ull.,...irttrvv r News Omission U. S. newspapers outside New York and Washington sometimes get mentally kicked around by their readers through no fault of their own. They are at the mercy of the press associations which frequently take their lead from the York dailies. ig Washington-NeHere is a case in point. Front-pag- e news in the big metropolitan dailies recently was the report of D. Worth Clark of Idaho urging that several billion dollars be dumped into China. Clark had been sent to China by Republican members of the senate appropriations committee and almost every newspaper frontpaged his demand for Chinese aid. However, not one paper carried the very important fact that Clark was a former partner in a law firm which was paid $100,000 by T. V. Soong, brother-in-laof Generalissimo Chiang for the express purpose of getting aid for China. ' i sriti . . CHAMPIONS - "Good seed, good soil tilth, plenty of fertilizer and . . IN A EASE-U- P Meanwhile, medical schools are overcrowded and medical faculties are so understaffed that, if new medical schools were started, it would be difficult to find enough professors to staff them. Ewing Is working on a plan for federal loans to medical students as one way to ease the doctor shortage. Local banks to would grant tuition-loan- s qualified students, with the government guaranteeing the loans 100 per cent. He is also hoping that the bill introduced by Senator Thomas of Utah will pass the next congress giving government subsidiesnumto medical schools based on the ber of students they turn out. FREEZE-U- P 100 ft. 75 n. CAN YOU 4 STOP J 150 ft. 26 n, Labor Diplomat President Truman's advisers are seriously considering the appoint ment of a labor leader as assistant secretary of state. Hitherto, high state department Jobs have usually gone to Wall streeters. as for instance the present Undersecretary of State Robbig investment bank ert Lovett, er, and Assistant Secretary Charlei Saltzman, former vice president o the New York Stock exchange. most European However, governments are now dominated by labor. In fact, the moderate labor leader of Western Europe are considered the best bulwark agalnt Russia, and It Is vital that V. 8. diplomats understand .lelr point of view. That's why a laboi leader may be among the new state depart ment executives, also why Irving nroWn, the International labor of flee representative in Europe, may be appointed U. S ambassador to country western a European Brown's quiet work among European laboi leaders has done more to combat Sovietism than a who! crew of the old fahioned U. S diplomats combined. ft.- - give-awa- CONCRETE 69 ft. ar NO CHAINS 40 ft. CHAINS ON fr' REAR WHEELS 169 ft. NATURAL SYNTHETIC RUBBER TIRES RUBBER TIRES NO CHAINS NO CHAINS 88 ft. 197 1 LI hi v t&'X CHAINS ON REAR WHEELS FACTS . . . New winter accident facts, based on research by National Safety council, reveal alarming increase of skidding and poor visibility crashes during snowy, icy weather. Authorities urge equalized brakes, using tire chains, windshield wipers, defrosters, good lights and lower speeds to minimize the added winter seasonal hazards. The National Safety council's six rules for safe winter driving are: (1) Get the "feel" of the road before you start out, (2) Adjust speed to road, weather and traffic, (3) Use tire chains on ice and snow, (4) Keep windshields and windows clear, (S) Pump your brakes on snow or ice. Don't lock wheels, (6) Follow at a safe distance. It takes three to 12 times more distance to stop on snow or ice. GRIM s, tow. ...J. com-Dle- Jlil " , vj ' ' if 'v ; Hi mi V - . V 'A CINEMA REVIEW READERS GO NUTS "Lunacy in a family is not a funny thing, nor does it seem fitting and tasteful as a matter to be treated as farce. Neither does a seem an apt comic giggling half-wi- t character. Somehow it just isn't funny to see a pitiful affliction made a Joke." Bosley Crowther on "Miss Tatlock's Millions." WHY (- Iff."' te deep-freez- r Truman's Jaw Comments W. F. Bond, Missis sippi's commissioner of public wel fare: "Samson slew 1,000 Philis tines with the jawbone of an ass a record which stood for over 6.000 until years, and was not brokenTruman November, when Harry with his own Jawbone slew over 21.000,000 Republicans." 175 Braking Distances on Various Road Surfaces at 20 mph WET CONCRETE 7U 125 ft. I ? i Mayor John F. Davis of Reading, Pa., tells this story on himself. "Shortly after I was elected, Is began to learn about the qualinca-tionfor government office. A friend dropped in and suggested that I give a job to George Schultze down in the 6th ward. " 'What can he do?' I asked. ' 'Nothing,' replied my friend. " Then let's hire him right away,' I said. 'We won't have 'o break him in'." tors." his son, Lair, give for being crowned King and Prince Corn at the recent International Livestock exposition in Chicago. It was the second father and son victory in show history. Qualified Public Servant Unassuming Oscar Ewing, the federal security administrator, has been doing some quiet digging on the problem of getting more U. S. doctors, dentists and nurses. "Even today, three" years after says wing. the end of the war, "there are large sections of the country woefully lacking in doc- 1 - bard work" are the reasons Newton L. Halterman and k, Doctor Shortage s . i , ' ' I)g--- or Kai-she- t PRACTICALLY every one of the long parade of great football selling predictions to railroads, coaches has come from good or Camp, communities, shippers, airlines and better football players all sorts of corporations whose busiHaughton, Rockne, Little, Crisler, ness is affected by weather. It Bierman, Neyland, Thomas, Hicklooks like a good depression-proo- f man, Voigts, Yost, Heisman, on and business. There never can be a on indefinitely. I can recall but one exception. weather SHORTAGE. His name Is Bill Alexander of GeorA man In the weather industry gia Tech, one of the top coaches need never worry over conservation of all time. MAYOR Dr. Ernst Reuter, Alexander headed north from the movements, embargoes or federal head of the Social Democratio red clay hills of Georgia to accept control. party of Germany which polled the accolade of the of the total more than two-thirTouchdown club of And Washington never can ravote cast in western sector elec New York. Today tion it! tions held recently. Reuter is he is Georgia Tech's now mayor of Berlin. John E. Wallace, a former army graduate manager, forces major and having turned over .) air Df the Washington the coaching reins weather bureau, at Tech to Bobby started the weather forecasting Dodd after directsales service, and is reported ing the destinies of swamped with orders. He says he the Yellow Jackets takes it up where the regular for 25 years. bureaus leave off, and dopes out the probable weather in greater de Grantland Rice But the important tail and over more specific areas. point is this Alexander was never a college star. He This is one type of weather was on the scrub team at Georgia in 1907, 1908 and 1909 before prophet who can't lose. He gets Tech he became John Heisman's assist or lose draw. win, paid ant in 1912. Bill Alexander, physically, We are sorry we didn't think was never quite equipped to be of this first. Imagine cashing a college star. But, mentally in on the age-ol- d question: and psychologically and emo"What're we gonna have, rain or snow?" tionally he was far beyond most of the greatest players the game has ever known. from the beginning of time people have been answering that one He knew football. He knew the for nothing. It has been strictly a side of football But. bet physical y program. ter than most, he knew the value CALM . . . Alger Hiss, controof deception, of using speed to versial highlight of the state deAnd suddenly there arrives the match weight and power partment spy investigation. Is When John Heisman left Georgia shown quite serene as he arrived rain, snow, sleet, hail and sunshine Tech in 1920 to go to Pennsylvania, at the Manhattan federal grand specialist, the tycoon of temperature changes, the mogul of cloud Alexander took over and set up a jury which has been Investigatbrilliant record for the next 25 years movements. ing Communism and espionage. until he turned over the job to Bobby Dodd in 1945. shoe1'he man who started on a In that time. Old Man Alex had million-dollstring and worked up to a industry now gives way to the won seven conference championfellow who began with an isobar and ships he was named the coach of 4 1 worked up to a the year in 1942 and he had baffled f & major corporation. ' I and bewildered more rival coaches j than anyone I know, with lighter, We await the radio commercial: ; "Do you suffer from unexpected faster, smarter working material. It was lack of weight and power weather? Are you among those people who get caught in the rain? that bowled Tech over this year. Does snow enter your life without Bill Alexander is football's warning? Are you a victim of fallphilosopher. He has leading not Then why ing temperatures? known the game from the front Weaths Never-Miswrite today for line for over 40 years. He has er Forecasts? Find peace of mind a marvelous sense of humor and nonchalance through knowing an amazing understanding of about blizzards Instead of merely values. Never-Mis- s guessing. Here's an Alexander story that Weather Forecasts will take those wrinkles from your forehead, end goes back exactly 20 years to 1928 those falling hairs, efface that ap- and explains Alex: Georgia Tech was playing its final prehensive look from your eyes and 'i send you outdoors every day radi- game of the season against Notre ant in the thought that you are pre Dame. This game meant staying TAKES PLEDGE . . . Michael or going to the Rose Bowl. pared for anything from a shower home J. Quill, president of the CIO "How are things?" I asked. to a typhoon. transport workers' union, pledged "How would I know," Alexander "And don't forget that you can at the union's convention that he "I haven't seen the team in said, 500 of mink win one coats, would remove Communist influthree days. I've had 122 tickets to e and unit with ences in the organization, and got collect and deliver to old grads. muff, by completing the sentence, the backing of many delegates Say, who're we playing?" "I like to know whether it is going in this endeavor. to rain or snow BECAUSE . . .'" would go. who However, Mr. Truman, knows what it is to be broke, said he didn't want any cabinet mem-he- r to appear to be fired, for fear tt might hurt his future earning power. "And I'm not going to throw them out while the newspapers are sniping at me," he added. "When the newspapers stop picking my cabinet for me, I'll pick my own." , Scrub to Coaching Star RNY WEATHER? Weather forecasting now has become a business. Companies are fided that he did not intend to make any cabinet changes before Jan. 20, at which time several cabinet members i 1 NEED Truman Goes Slow friend last TALKING to a close Truman con- GMV71AAD U.Phillipf 1 - " ' ' from being tasteless, "Miss Millions" holds to a high level of fantastic humor. It is genentertainment. erally delightful Charles Bracket's idea of having a man masquerade as a heir makes for elegant nonsense." "Far Tatlock's half-witte- d 4 lZ Urn,,. A TOO GA V? . . . -- Princess iJ Mar- garet Rose, shown dancing with an unnamed escort, has drawn criticism from a section of the British press because of the late hours she has been keeping In the course of her social whirl. "MISSOURI" SILVER . . . President Truman attended ceremonies aboard the U.S.S. Missouri at Norfolk, Va where Gov. Phil Donnelly or Missouri presented a $10,000 sifver service to the majestio battleship. Left to right are Secretary of the Navy John L. Sullivan, President Truman, Capt. James II. Hatch and Governor Donnelly. Howard Barnes. Dr. Edwin G. Nourse has been named chief of an board. Is he a trained Nourse or a practical Nourse? anti-Inflati- The Four Horsemen There hav been many stories told about the Four Horsemen of Notre Dame since they rode to victory over 20 years ago. sweeping the plains from Army and Princeton to Stanford at Palo Alto. You may remember their names Harry Stuhldreher at quarterback, weight 154; Don Miller and Jimmy Crowley at the two halves, around 162 and 164; Elmer Layden at fullback. 162. Some of the main arguments that always break out when their names come up are: "What did they all do? Who did the blocking? Who did the Who did the kicking? Who did the tackling?" This was undoubtedly the great est pony backfield, pound for pound. in football history. The average weight was around 160 pounds. There wasn't a man on the job at 165 pounds or higher. Yet it ripped. ran and passed its way from coast to coast with a series of victorious A commission has found that Washington could save 250 million dollars a year by merely buying thrusts. One of the main arguments startsupplies with a minimum of red d tape, duplication and poor business ed when Don Miller, now a Cleveland judge, stopped me methods. Paper work on 1.5 million --1 orders a year involving only $10 in before the Army-Navgame a year '"J each case cost the government ago and berated me soundly for more than $10 for unnecessary let- picking him as a blocking back "I never blocked a guy in my ters, carbons, filing, duplication of effort, unnecessary help, etc. That life." Miller said with much indignation. gives you an idea. I told this to Elmer Layden, During the shipping strikes we Layden laughed "I'll recently. to a went heard of a fellow who l you the truth," he said. "We travel agency and asked, "What's all had to blork. We all had the best liner to take and not go our blocking assignment, even anywhere st all for a long time?" bowling ever the two end, helpWe heard his companion asked for ing take out a tackle, or hana deck chair on the sunny side of dle the secondary. the mediation board. "Stuhldreher was probably the test of our blockers, but we had to high-tone- v. ' 1 " m:z-.'--- i" , ; " i" ' cv- - : U-l- r . i. VANISHING TA People AMERICANISMS want a change m Washington. "T rumen J5- ; SENSATIONAL PL'MPKLN ... pumpkin newspaper WIUou Auld, where Whlttaker Chambers points to the small, hollowed-ou- t hid microfilm capsules on a Maryland farm. The house activities committee has declared that the bunch of microfilm, found In he pumpkin. Is evidence thai government secrets have been "fed out of ate department." A reporter, AQUA South STETPErt this . . . Down Is called skiing. The expert shown here is Mitchell, Florida's ski She's stepping out with (wist aa she goes through tions of a water adagio. Martha champ. a new the mo- it a good man, but. . . , lft all done by tycUu" "Ynm wouldn't go against the polls. wouid jar The new chief of staff of the Brit ish army is named Slim. We will feel better If the head of any oppos ing force Is a General Fatso. lock. Miller, Crowley and I han- Stuhldled most of the running dreher did the passing but we were more of a running team than a passing team We aU had speed I could Just shade 10 seconds say 9H for the 100. and the others were about th same I did the kicking " Also the pass tnterfeience 1 sugIn the Stanford gam gested against Ernie Nevers and others, Layden Intercepted four or five passes, running two Interceptions back for touchdowns |
