University Daily Kansan
Friday, May 7, 1965
Page 5
Europe Victory Recalled Again
By Louis Cassels United Press International
GETTYSBURG, Pa. —(UPI)—Twenty years ago today, a delegation of German officers headed by Col. Alfred Jodl clumped into a bomb-pocked chateau near Rheims, France, and glumly saluted a five-star American general from Abilene, Kan.
It was a regulation military salute—not the "heil Hitler" Nazi salute. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower had insisted on that. And he was in a position to dictate terms. His Allied armies had crushed Nazi military power in the West. The German generals had come to surrender unconditionally.
Eisenhower was in no mood for social chit-chat with the defeated enemy.
"Do you understand the terms of the document of surrender?" he asked brusquely, his normally amiable face frozen in a grim mask.
Jodl nodded. "Ja, ja."
Not until the surrender was completed and the Germans had left did the Eisenhower grin break through. He held aloft the two pens which the Germans had used to sign the surrender document and, at the urging of photographers, arranged them at a "V for victory" angle.
In the 20 years that have sped by since V-E Day, the man from Abilene has served his country as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as the first supreme commander of North Atlantic Treaty Organization Forces in Western Europe, and finally, for eight momentous years, as President.
IT WAS ONE of the great moments in U.S. history, and Dwight Eisenhower thought at the time that it would surely mark the climax of his career. But he was wrong.
Today he is "retired" and is supposedly living the life of a gentleman farmer at his Gettysburg estate.
"But he's actually working harder than ever," says his aide, retired Brig. Gen. Robert Schultz.
EXCEPT DURING THE winter months, when he vacations at Palm Springs, Calif., he has little time for his favorite relaxation. "He hasn't been on a golf course in the past 10 days," says Shultz.
It is small wonder that the 74-year-old general scowls at visitors who blithely inquire how he's "adjusting" to the ease of retirement after so many years of heavy responsibility.
"On this 20th anniversary of V-E Day," he said, "it would seem that all of us—every private citizen and governmental official throughout the world—should unite in renewing our faith and reinforcing our determination that the intellect of man will concern itself more with human advancement than with its destruction.
"If all the powerful nations of the world could, with real confidence in each other, forego the production and maintenance of the frightful weapons of war and devote their attentions to betterment of their respective populations, then happiness would soon supplant poverty and misery; confidence would replace fear and tension everywhere.
"Though such idealistic purposes will not soon be realized, it is certain that V-E Day's a fitting occasion on which to resolve, anew, that these goals will never be lost to our sight."
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Rescue Teams Look for Victims After Tornadoes Crush 2 Cities
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — (UPI) — Workers pried through twisted and crumpled houses today for more victims of tornadoes that tore through suburban communities.
At least 11 persons were known dead and more than 400 were injured in Minneapolis-St. Paul's second disaster in a month. The damage ran into millions of dollars.
In the South, another band of tornadoes slammed through Oklahoma, killing at least one person and injuring three others. Three of them were in a car that was dumped into a ditch. The twisters struck seven towns in a 100-mile stretch in western Oklahoma between Sentinel and Hollis.
The tornadoes which roared north of Minneapolis Thursday night clawed at a dozen towns. They came less than a month after the devastating Palm Sunday twister onslaught of April 11, when Midwest tornadoes curling south of Minnesota killed more than 250 persons.
The final toll of Thursday night's disaster was just being assessed as dawn broke.
sounded the warning. Within 30 terrible minutes, men and women were sucked from their homes and hurled into the streets. Homes were punched into matchsticks.
A blast of sirens in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul
Minks, released when the twister tore up their cages at Glencoe, Minn., ran loose in the town. Cars had been tossed like tennis balls. Hospitals and emergency centers were flooded with the injured. Bodies were being picked up from the streets.
The twisters struck at the towns of Chanhassen, Mound, Cottagewood, Deephaven, Excelsior, Spring Lake Park, Mounds View, Fridley, Norwood, Glencoe, Navarre and Coon Rapids. Some of the towns in the Lake Minnetonia area are among the most expensive suburbs in the Minneapolis area.
Four persons died in Mound, three in Spring Lake Park, one in Norwood. one in Mounds View, one in Fridley, and one in the Robbinsdale Hospital. Hospital
workers were still trying to match names to some of the bodies today.
The dead ranged in age from an 84-year-old woman to a three-month-old baby whose body was found in a street.
An explanation of an advertisement concerning a senior class party has been submitted by the Senior Class Executive Committee.
Senior Celebration To Be Supervised
Bob Ritter, Kirkwood, Mo. senior and Public Relations Chairman of the committee, said, "The advertisement that appeared in the UDK yesterday (Thursday, May 6, page 12) was intended strictly to inform the members of the Senior Class of a group gathering in their behalf. The purpose of the ad was in no way contemplated to promote or condone any actions that would be contrary to the standards of the University Administration or the All Student Council social committee. The party will be controlled and supervised by qualified personnel."
Gev. Karl F, Volrvaq paid a midnight visit to Mercy Hospital at Coon Rapids, where more than 100 persons were treated and 25 were admitted with severe injuries. Rolvaq ordered out the National Guard to maintain order and aid in rescue work.
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IN CONCERT
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The twisters hit in almost the same area where the worst floods on record on the upper Mississippi River began a destructive rampage a month ago. The Mississippi flood caused extensive damage as it rushed through the Twin Cities. Twelve Minnesotans died in the flood waters.
VENTURES
Until daybreak today rescue workers had no way of knowing how many more victims of the tornadoes might be dead or awaiting rescue.
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DANNY COX
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