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*The Longest Day’
Lieutenant general james gavin is one of
the more than 700 people in four countries of
whom writer Cornelius Ryan asked: “What were you
doing on June 6, 1944?”
The General replied that he was assistant division
commander of the 82nd Airborne and quite busy that
day with its parachute landings in Normandy. Long
afterward, when Mr Ryan had co.mpleted his hun
dreds of interviews and written his forthcoming book,
General Gavin said: “If you have read all the accounts
of D Day or ndne of them, if you were in the fighting
or on the sidelines, you will be spellbound, as I was,
by this magnificent telling of a glorious and tragic
story.”
And in presenting the first of its two-installment
condensation of the book in its June issue, under the
title of “The Longest Day,” Reader’s .Digest says:
“Ryan has uncovered many arresting facts which have
never before been revealed. What he has produced is
not a military history; it is a moving, living record of
men and nations in mortal combat.”
German intelligence, Mr. Ryan reveals, had
cracked the Allied code with the French underground
sufficiently to receive advance warning of the Nor
mandy invasion on June 1st, and again on the very
eve of the landings. Yet, an astonishing number of the
senior officers assigned to the defense of Hitler’s 800
mile “Atlantic Wall” were absent from theft posts
when Allied forces hit the beaches and dropped cut
of the air. Plainly, the Eisenhower strategy was so
deceptive these warnings were ignored by the enemy.
“The Longest Day” explains why General Eisen
hower accepted the added risks of unfavorable weather
rather than delay the most colossal military adventure
in all history. From his trailer he commanded almost
three million Allied troops More tha.n half of his
immense command was American. British and Cana
dian forces totaled about one million,and there were
Free French, Polish, Czech, Belgian, Norwegian and
Dutch contingents in addition.
Tomorrow is the fifteenth anniversary of this
earth-shaking event, and freemen around the globe are
thinking of their debt to those millions and their
commanders.
Nicaragua Pres.
Says Revolt Threat
Is Under Control
MANAGUA, Nicaragua, ifft —
President Luis Somoza claimed
last night that the threat to his
regime from invading rebels and
a general strike is “about over.”
The 37-year-old dictator said
again that his 2,000-man army has
the situation under control.
He told a news conference for
foreign correspondents that the
decision of the Organiation of
American States (OAS> to inves
tigate the situation in Nicaragua
guarantees peace.
Somoza had appealed to the OAS
for hemispheric aid, but the or
ganization’s council voted 17-2 in
Washington Thursday to empower
a committee only to collect infor
mation. Council members stressed
that they did not want to intervene
if the rebellion is a purely internal
affair, as Cuba’s representative
claimed.
“Crazy adventurers,” was So
moza’s term for the two plane
loads of Nicaraguan exiles and
others who landed from Costa
Rica last weekend in an attempt
to launch an uprising against his
regime. He said the rebels “are
running so fast we cannot catch
them.”
In San Jose, Costa Rica, the Ni
caraguan rebels issued a commu
nique claiming that the rebel
forces were being joined by vol
unteer insurgents. It said the two
groups of rebels were planning to
link up and then to march on
Managua.
Adenauer Under Fire
For Decision To Remain
West German Chancellor
By GEORGE BOUPTWOOD
j BONN, Germany, OP) — Konrad
Adenauer held fast under pressure
today to his surprise decision to
keep his job as West Germany’s
Chancellor instead of moving up
to the Presidency.
There was criticism from Ger
mans on both sides of the Iron
Curtain^ uneasy silence among
Western diplomats at the Big Four
foreign ministers conference in
Geneva.
Socialists and other political
foes of the 83-year-old Chancellor
in Bonn were reported busily try
to mobilize enough opposition in
the Bundestag, the lower house of
parliament, to unseat him on a
vote of no confidence.
This could not be done, how
ever, without the assistance of de
fectors from the powerful ranks
of Adenauer’s Christian Demo
crats.
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Boxing Kingpin Indicted on
10 Counts, Bail Cancelled
CAMDEN, N. J., Ufl — Frankie
Carbo, described as “a most cor
rupt, corrosive and degenerating
influence on the sport of boxing,”
was remanded to Camden County
Prison today pending outcome of
extradition proceedings filed by
the City of New York.
Judge Benjamin Dziik, who had
freed Carbo in $25,000 bail Me
morial Day, canceled the bond on
grounds the Governor of New Jer
sey had signed an extradition war
rant. Thus, he ruled, there could,
be no bail.
A New York County Grand Jury
has indicted him on ten counts
charging conspiracy and charging
that he was an underworld boxing
manager and matchmaker. He is
also wanted on federal charges of
income tax evasion.
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Measles Vaccine
Reported Effective
BOSTON, UP) — A Children’s
Hospital team of doctors today
reported a newly discovered
measles vaccine has proven effec
tive in the first group of children
to whom it was given.
Dr. John F. Enders, a Nobel
Prize winner, and Dr. Samuel
Katz, said the long-sought vaccine
has been used on 20 children with
good results.
The vaccine produces tempera
ture, spots and protective anti
bodies against the disease without
making the youngsters sick, it was
reported.
The world’s first official detec
tive bureau was established in
Paris in 1817 by a reformed
French thief, Eugene Francois
Vidocq.
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