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...Line, back on the Loire near Orleans, the Americans collected still another dividend from their bold strokes. It was a bonanza for a storybook. There 20,000 Germans were handed over to U.S. troops as stubby Major General Erich Elster, bemedaled and sticking to the Prussian amenities, flourished his pistol in surrender. His big force was the remainder of a German army that had held the Bordeaux-Biscay area. Cut off hundreds of miles behind the Allied lines, harried by Maquis, raked by aircraft on the roads, they had laboriously marched to the safety of U.S. custody...
Meanwhile, the King's mother, Queen Helen, notified of events by telephone, sped from the royal family's summer home at Sinaia (northwest of Ploesti) to a rendezvous with her son. All through German-held country she clutched a small pistol, determined to shoot the first enemy soldier attempting to halt...
Died. Mrs. Julia Columbo, 78, mother of the late famed Bing Crosby-style crooner, Russ Columbo; in Los Angeles. When Russ Columbo was killed in 1934 by the accidental discharge of an antique dueling pistol, his mother was too ill with heart trouble to be told of his death, soon after began losing her eyesight. For ten years the family kept Russ's death secret from her, explained he was having great success in England, read her affectionate weekly letters signed "Russ," inclosing the monthly $398 insurance annuity he had taken out in her favor...
...time was 4:20. As the first shots rang out, Leclerc and Koenig tried to hustle De Gaulle through the door. De-Gaulle shook off their hands and never faltered. While the battle began outside, he walked slowly down the aisle. Before he had gone many paces a machine pistol fired down from above. At least two more joined in, and from below the F.F.I, and police fired back...
Marshal Tito sent his three-year-old, battle-worn pistol to New York City's battling Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia-acknowledging the Mayor's message of admiration for the Partisans. The Mayor, a World War I veteran who did not succeed last year in getting a brigadier generalship, expressed his belligerent thanks: "Now that Tito has given me the gun, I hope my own government will give me the opportunity to use it ... before it is too late...