The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 7, 1954, Page 5

The French Haven't Forgotten Casualties Of Normandy Beach ~ By HAL BOYLE OMAHA BEACH, France — What was it like on the beaches of Normandy 10 years after D-Day? The French people showed yes- terday they haven't forgotten the | 9,485 Americans still in St. Laur- ent Cemetery and those thousands ‘of others who died here but are buried in their homeland. French Tricolors decorated ev- Phone Call Saves Life BURLINGAME, Calif. W—A 39- year-old divorcee today owed her to a transatlantic telephone call from the man “I cannot face life ” Mrs. Elizabeth Evans was seri- , but no longer critically, ill, @ police told this story of a near- arital triangle: vans took an overdose of pills Saturday, then tele- John Hurd, 45, in London, representative of an Ameri- airline, heard a ‘“thud’”—then. silence, called Mrs. Evans’ ot a busy signal. He wife Cecilia in Burling- ,alerted police. They Mrs. Evans’ apartment her lying unconscious on f sed in a complete ‘wedding ensemble. were two notes—one from Mrs. Evans saying all was between them and he was go- his wife, and one from to Hurd saying, “I can life without you, I am coulda’t see the wedding Hurd told police she and husband separated early last and he met Mrs. Evans. Mrs. said they had been recon- | - F i eft : FE FE thi ar g oe Es Taf hex af iE > ery small town to welcome vis- itors. More than 25,000 turned out to hear speeches at Utah Beach by France’s President Rene Coty anc U. S. Ambassador Henry Cab- ot Lodge, Jr., President Eisenhow- er’s personal representative. Gen. J. Lawton (Lightning Joe) Collins and Gen, Lee T. Gerow, commanders of the two American corps that landed here on June 6, 1944, were among the host of high- ranking Army, Air Force and Quick Response OMAHA (#—A telephone repair- man swiftly answered a trouble call from the John Koffend home here. The Koffends hadn’t expected him so quickly and, being up- stairs, didn’t hear the front door bell ring nor-the knocks at the back door. How to get in? The repairman hooked his test phone onto the line and called the Koffends to let him in. Cops Chase Fireman SAN FRANCISCO —Fireman Wilbur Dunker, 41, was booked on charges of hit-run-driving, drunk driving and failure to heed a siren after he showed up at a fire during his off-duty hours. He drove his automobile over fire lines, knocked down a traffic policeman and a fireman, A motor cycle officer overtook him 10 blocks away. ciled. She plans to join her husband in England soon. In London, Hurd told a reporter the incident was ‘‘a tempest in a teapot.” He refused to discuss it. In St. Louis, relatives said Mrs. Evans’ first husband was William H. Evans of Pittsburgh. They were married in 1938 and divorced in 1941, She was reported to have married an August Evans in World War II and divorced him after the war. Today's ARTHUR MERIMS be eet Tay and_ state a cull i only one known a huge bond issue and constructing a multilane of the future, with toll t appropriate intervals. w, Kentucky will auc- i! at f § million dollars of turn- Tevenue bonds to finance a toll road from Louisville bethtown. On June 16, the State Thruway Authori- come to market with 300 dollars of similar obliga second part of a financing to build,a 427-mile toll from New York City to Buf- is only a sampling. Fi- circles around Wall Street, men whose job it is to raise Hy Fi ePRGGesi Business Mirror By Sam Dawson money for these projects, are con- vinced that America ig-just.on the verge of a Toad era. Coupled with this conviction is the foreboding question—will land traf- fic financially support all the new toll roads? ~ There are only 840 miles of toll roads in operation in the United States, costing about 674 million dollars. That’s not impressive when matched with the 37,000 miles in the U. S, highway system. But more than a thousand miles of similar thruways are already under construction at a cost of more than a billion and a half dol- lars. And 5,000 additional miles of toll highways have either been au- thorized or proposed at a projected cost of nearly six billion dollars, Newest speedway is slated to open Aug. 1. It’s the West Virginia turnpike, an 88-mile strip through rugged mountains, it took 123 mil- lion dollars of bonds to build. The need for superhighways be- comes apparent when one realizes that 15 per cent of the nation’s traffic passes over less than 1 per cent of the highways, Navy officers present - imagine us offering it for these low half sault, American forces suffered some 18,000 casualties on Utah of} and Omaha beaches. Lt. Col. Russell R. Raab ‘of East Orange, N.J., estimated 95 per cent of the visitors to the cemetery yesterday were French. They are still friendly to Americans, he said. Almost every French family in this area lost someone during the war, Several veterans who fought on of about 400 U. S. troops brought here for the ceremonies, ‘The feeling they seemed to share was expressed by -Lt.. John J. Moglia of Hempstead, N.Y., who said: “I always wanted to come back to see this piece of terrain under places I could never forget are hard to find. If it weren’t for the cemetery, the beach would look like a summer resort. Most of the obstacles that were here 10 years ago afe gone now.” “Yes,” said Lt. Col. Albert H. Smith Jr. oi Baltimore, Md., who hit the beach in one Of the earliest Wy at the lowest prices ever © Made with GOODYEAR’S exclusive 3-T Triple-Tempered NYLON ! This Goodyear Tire that's up to 80% stronger than standard tires ao mach as 12% — gives 15% greater traction — practically ing squeal on turns with its new anti-vibration tread desi prices! Yet it’s a fact! 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