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6-1020 for Appointment Sfeady Work, Beneftfi UMimm. Continued from Page 1 He looked longingly toward the 4 serenity of his home at Lees- 1959 FORD Kreaiesi war nisiory. un nimburp- Va anrt hi winter nW Democrat and Chronlcl Rochester, N. Oct 17, 1959 Typhoon Strikes Okinawa Base TOKYO, Oct IS (UPD U.S. Marines left their tents and quonset huts today for concrete storm shelters on the island of Okinawa in the face of approaching Typhoon Charlotte with lll-mile-an-hour winds.

It appeared that the full fury of Typhoon Charlotte had hit the U.S. military base. Since evening no reports had been received from the island, leading authorities to believe the storm had knocked out communications. fell the responsibility for mo I bilizing, equipping and train SKY1INER HARDTOP CONVERTIBLI ing this force and driving it on to eventual victory. In a time of tremulous peace i 7 h' lU he was the architect of the Mar shall Plan, to bolster with American billions the economies of free world nations and SAVE $900 RALPH-FORD 2900 Monroe Ave.

Cor. Cfovtr their will to resist communism For that, Marshall was honored with the Nobel Peace Prize in LOU RASCHIATORI in North Carolina. A stern, austere man 'with piercing blue eyes, Marshall expected subordinates to jump when he spoke. He could be angry and forbidding on occasion. But at home he was soft and gentle.

He like to leaf through a good look or take a hoe in hand in the garden. Before he could settle down to leisure and ease, a retired officer, a tap came quickly on the shoulder. President wanted him. Marshall went off on a fruitless mission as Truman's personal ambassador to try to bring a satisfactory end to civil war in China. i While- he was on the wav 1953.

The retired general of the armies left a sick bed to fly A to Oslo to receive it. Illnesses had plagued Mar hall in the twilight, pipe and slipper years. After suffering a mild stroke at his Pinehurst The greatest technical advance in rainwear INTRODUCED TO THE WORLD BY home, lie was rushed to Wo mack Army Hospital at Ft Bragg, N.C. Mrs. Marshall was beside him daily.

The general suffered a sec home 13 months later, word came through from the White House that he had been named secretary of state. For two years Marshall held down a job he considered more challenging in some respects than his duties Vs. ond, more serious stroke Feb. 17. But by March 11 he was able to fly to Washington and enter Walter Reed Hospital.

as Army chief of staff. Aquascuium He had stepped into a new For Marshall, there were fame and world acclaim In his field, he explained. War was lifetime. difficult, but he knew war He knew and worked with "That was my business, mv pro Aqua Five Is Aquascutum's exclusive fession. I had worked at it all great men of many nations, Former Prime Minister Wins my life.

ton Churchill of Britain and the To efforts to set the world late Premier Joseph Stalin of on the path to peace. Marshall devoted more of the wearing Russia both considered Marshall so talented that they fa ton and firmness he had applied vored his appointment as su to an illustrious military career lhis was a period in which preme commander of allied MARSHALL IN KOREA-Gen. George C. Marshall, then Secretary of Defense, rode in jeep with top U.S. generals as he visited Korea in 1951.

Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, left, commander of U.N. forces i In Korea, and Lt. Gen.

James A. Van- Fleet, commander of U.S. 8th Army, r-Y also were on the Inspection trip. (AP) CI America took a tough stance toward the spread of commu forces in the West for the in vasion of Europe. process for impregnating fabrics for raincoats.

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economic and military aid was laid down, to tell the Reds to Marshall wanted to be a field general. There is little doubt of stay out of Greece and Turkey. Resigned In '49 Along with Eisenhower, Mar The Marshall Plan itself that. But Roosevelt decided ne emerged in 1947. The was too valuable as chief of shall figured strongly in politi staff.

The Allied command went cal guessing about a Democratic Atlantic Treaty still the main Western bulwark against the Communist world, began to take form. to another general Dwtght Eisenhower. presidential nominee in 1948. Firm to the point that critics Each turned a cold shoulder to politics then. But Marshall Eisenhower, who achieved his greatest military role under Marshall's command, put Mar MIK3E Now nearing 70, the old soldier once more answered the summons to duty.

Through the dark days of a war that ended in victory for no one, Marshall put in a year as the civilian head of the armed forces. It was a year of difficult decisions, of troubles and frustrations, of more long hours and hard work. But it was to be his last contribution to the military services of his country. Marshall was one of the few Army chiefs of staff who wasn't a West Point man. His school was Virginia Military Institute, where he made his marks as a student and football tackle.

Marshall was born in Union-town, on the last day of stuck to his position, saying: said he was undermining the chances of a cold war settlement, Marshall rejected "agreement for agreement's sake." shall "in the class I call great," coal and coke business. One of his forebears was an uncle, of the renowned Chief Justice John Marshall. Home from VMI on vacation, young George Marshall watched a parade of triumphant Spanish American War veterans march down the flag-decked main street of Uniontown. From then on, he said, he knew he was going to be a military man. In 1901, Marshall started out.

He became a shavetail lieutenant and began climbing the ladder. It took him to the top. Marshall married Lily Carter Coles in 1902. She died in 1927. Three years later he married Mrs.

Katherine Boyce Tupper Brown of Baltimore. There were no children by either marriage. "I will never become involved typifying, he said, "all that we look for in an American patriot." in political matters. I never could be drafted." In words that sound much like Bad health forced Marshall the Eisenhower of today, Marshall told Congress in 1948: "Diplomatic action, without USE OUR 3-PAY 90-DAY CHARGE ACCOUNT the backing of military strength to resign as secretary of state early in 1949, after a serious kidney operation. But once more he failed to make retirement stick.

36 EAST AVENUE in the present world, can lead only to appeasement." Marshall set something of a "THE NATURAL SHOULDER SHOP" For two years he took over pattern, too, for the late Sec the presidency of the American Praised by Truman Former President Harry S. Truman once called Marshall "the greatest living American." Truman cited him publicly as heading the list of "the great commanders history." The general was by no means immune to criticism. But his critics were a decided minority. And toward them Marshall maintained a stony aloofness. Former Sen.

William Jenner (Rind) opposed Marshall's nomination to be secretary of defense in 1950. He called Marshall a living lie and a itooge for Truman's secretary of tate, Dean Acheson. He said retary of State John Foster Dulles, with frequent flights to international conferences in Moscow, Bogota, London and Paris and with appearances at Red Cross and a few odds and ends of such public chores as serving on the Battle Monuments Commission. Still, there w.wMv.wvMww,wv6rtwii open all day today was time for life at Leesburg United Nations sessions. and the pace was less In Bogota, Marshall stayed on LAUGH'S 50 STATE ST.

through the worst of a violent Then war erupted in Korea. Three months later, in Septem revolution. Out of the conference there of the diplomats of Western hemisphere nations came the inter-American defense pact branding aggression ber 1950, Truman once more beckoned to Marshall, this time to become secretary of defense. Marshall "is not only willing, he is eager to play the role of the front man for traitors." The late Sen. Joseph R.

McCarthy (R-Wis), who leveled accusations of communism at numerous people in the government and outside, once told the Senate that in allied councils Marshall was inclined to follow the Soviet rather than the British point of view. McCarthy said Marshall was "steeped in falsehood." The general who had a vital role in those councils never replied publicly. Marshall wasn't the combat hero type of soldier. He was more the planning type, strong on vital staff work. MODERN 1 i.

lull" TRADITIONAL INNERBED SOFAS Early in his career, superiors pointed to him as something of a coming genius. The American commander, Gen. John J. Pershing, singled him out for attention in World War I and once described him as the finest officer of that vast conflict. On Sept.

1, 1939, the day Nazi hordes attacked Poland and struck the match to World War II, Marshall was elevated over 32 seniors to the post of Army chief of staff. All through the war, he was America's top ranking soldier, spotting and directing the way toward ultimate victory over Germany and Japan. When victory finally came in 1945, Marshall doffed his uniform. He was nearly 65. He had put nearly 45 of his years into military service to his country.

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