The Seaforth News, 1958-10-02, Page 7Won Medal For
Keeping Silent
Casually, the sergeant - major
picked up the file from the floor
of the conference r o o m, But
when he had glanced at a cou-
ple of pages, his eyes almost
popped out of his head
For what he had read convinc-
ed him that he was holding one
of the most eital secrets of the
World War II in his hands—the
master plan for the invasion of
France.
Sergeant-Major Eugene Einile
Couture had been supervising
the cleaning of the room at the
Chateau Frontenac, in Quebec,
Canada, after an important
meeting between Roosevelt and
Churchill in 1943
Hustling the cleaners out el
the office, Coulture, already in
1 sweat and with the vital file
tucked under his arm, hurried
o the military headquarters at
Zuebec.
"I have to see the Distr et
Officer at once," he told a staff
officer, "and I cannot tell you
what my business is except that
It is top secret."
The officer grinned. "Sorry,
Couture, no one can see the bri-
gadier without telling me whist
he wants."
"I cannot tell you, sir," Cou-
ture snapped.
"Then you can't see the Dis-
trict Officer," the captain re-
plied.
Frustrated, and with the top
secret file still under his arm,
Couture hung about headquar-
ters for several days in a futile
attempt_ to see the brigadier.
On the fifth day, Couture
spotted Major Edouard Gerneay
entering headquarters. He knew
Gerneay very well and talked
him into letting him see the bri-
gadier.
Brigadier Edmond Blais took
the file from Couture with little
show of interest.
But as he read the first page,
his face blanched and he looke4
up quickly at Couture.
"Have you read this, Sergeant-
Major?" he demanded.
"Great Scott! Do you realize
what this is?"
"Yes, sir, those are the final
plans for the Normandy inva-
sion discussed and decided by
byMr. Churchill and Mr, Roose-
velt"
oose-.Telt"
"Call the guard!" the briga-
dier snapped and, while Couture
fumbled nervously, two soldiers,
accompanied by a lieutenant,
marched into the office.
"T h is 1n a n," the brigadier
snapped, "is to be kept under
arrest and no one—understand,
no one at all, except myself --
,is permitted to see him,"
In an office where he was
looked up, with two armed
guards outside the door, Couture
sweated on the future, Why
should they punish him for
reading some papers left in an
ordinary folder on a desk?
Three hours later he heard a
key turn in the lock and jump-
ed up from the chair. A grim -
faced Major Gerneay stepped
in,
"We are leaving for Wash-
ington immediately," said Major
Gerneay. "An aircraft is wait -
"May I — may I say goodbye
to my wife—"
"You may not," Gerneay snap-
ped. "You are allowed to speak
to no one until we receive an
all clear from London — from
the Prime Minister himself."
The fact that a special 'plana -
bad been laid on for the express
CHAMP CRAMPED — A friendly
macaw at the Jungle Gardens
made it hard for Dennis Kyle
to display his mibs shooting
skill which recently won for
him the title of National
Marbles Champion.
AT REST — Iraqui Prime Minister Brig. Gen. Abdel Krim Kassem
sleeps on a blanket in front of his desk in his office in Baghdad.
Kassem, who has been Prime Minister since the recent coup,
has been using his office in the Ministry of -Defense to sleep
in during the night.
Eight to the Pentagon complete-
ly unnerved
omplete-iy'unnerved Couture. By the
time armed American soldiers
met the 'plane and marched hum
direct to an office where nine
of America's war leaders were
waiting, Couture could just
about walk.
After questioning the ser-
geant -major for ten minutes, the
officers ordered him to be plac-
ed under close arrest in the
Pentagon. By this time, Couture
was certain he would be shot,
or at least imprisoned for life.
The next day, Couture wa"
hustled under close guard to an
office where he found the Vice -
President and a number of mili-
tary chiefs awaiting him.
A devastating cross-examina-
tion followed. Had he shown
the file to anybody? Had he
talked to anybody about it? Had
he allowed the file to leave his
possession for even as long as
a minute?
To all these questions shot left,
right and centre at him Couture
had only one reply: "Noi'l The
file had even gone to be.) with
him when he realized how se-
cret it was. It was his secret
alone.
The top brass then dismissed
Couture and promised to "send
for him soon."
The War Office in London
advised Washington that Cou-
ture should be interned for
safety, but . Washington a n d
Canada protested,
"You can't intern a perfectly
good Allied soldier because of
the carelessness of someone on
your side," the Pentagon snap-
ped. "In fact, you ought to de-
corate the man for keeping
quiet."
London wilted under the cri-
ticism, and Couture, still under
guard in Washington, was freed
and flown back to Quebec.
Exactly one year later the
War Office announced that the
British Empire Medal had been
awarded to Sergeant-Major
Eugene Emile Couture.
Today he is just plain Mon-
sieur Couture, of Quebec, but he
ranks in the annals of war as
the only man in history to be
decorated for keeping his mouth
shut!
Sees Swarm in
Man's Beard
An elderly man with a mag-
nificent now -white beard sat
down on a bench in the Tier
gcrten, Berlin's chief park, one
hot afternoon and was soon en-
joying a nap.
Suddenly he was aroused by
a noise of humming which grew
louder and louder. To his horror
he discovered that a swarm of
bees had settled in his beard.
Fortunately he had the pre-
sence of mind not to move. A
girl who was passing saw his
plight and summoned the fire
brigade.
She was right. The firemen
brought along with them a skep,
a kind of straw beehive and the
bees were induced to quit the
old man's beard and enter it.
That incident is being recalled
this summer by beekeepers in
many parts of Europe who have
been called to deal with an ex-
ceptionally large number of bees
swarming in odd places,
A man in. Paris was having a
bath whenhe heard a.prolong-
ed buzzing and found that bees
were swarming under the bath-
room floor. When the flooring
was ripped up, the bees and 20
lbs. of honey were removed.
In Spain a swarm posted it-
self in a letter -box and had to
be evacuated by a bee expert
before the postman could collect
the mail.
Bees swarming caused the
failure of a navigation light on
II buoy in the Kyles of Bute.
First they settled on the lamp,
then they went inside extin-
guishing the light and choking
the air circulation.
PIPE THIS — There are nothing
but choice weirdies in the pipe
collection of 'von Morgan, of
Welling, Kent, England. His 19 -
year search for grotesque
smoking aparatus has yielded
a collection of more than 100.
Gravel In The Sky
A magnificent display of
shooting stars startled the in-
habitants of the Americas on
November 12, 1883. Beginning
before midnight, the meteors
increased in frequency until at
dawn they were as thick as
snow flakes. A single observer
often saw twenty appear within
a second, spreading out from
the constellation Leo, Many su-
perstitious people thought this
marked the end of the world
end, as bells tolled, they pre-
pared for the future. Next day
all was serene, but anew branch
of astronomy, the study of me-
teors, had been founded.
This great display and the
others that occur from time to
time present some of the most
interesting but tantalizing in-
formation we have about tile
occupants of interplanetary
space. We know nothing of these
flying gravel banks ui`,til we
collide with them and have a
great meteor shower. Even af-
terward we cannot accurately
trace their paths through space
to predict when we may en-
ceunter them again, for when.
between the planets they are
invisible to us. The earth is
playing a game of cosmic blind -
man's buff with them; only it
by chance we meet one of these
swarms of particles does a bril-
liant meteor shower result,
otherwise we go swinging
around the sun, completely ig-
norant of where or how the me-
teor swarms are moving.—From
the Planets," (revised edition),
by Fletcher G. Watson,
Tanks Still Safer I
Big automobiles stil hold first
place in the battle of the high-
ways and they are cheaper, A.
J. White, Diretor of Motor Ve-
hicle Research of New Hamp-
shire told the state chapter of
the American Society of Me-.
chanical Engineers in an ad-
dress at the Unversity of New
Hampshire. The research author-
ity said American cars cost 50
cents a pound, whereas the small
foreign cars cost $1.15 per
pound. And when a big car
crowds him on the road he wants
to be in a big car too. It there are
many converts to this line of
reasoning the Army should
be able to dispose of all its ob-
solete tanks in short order. -
S. Louis Post -Dispatch.
Obey the traffic signs — they
are .placed there for YOUR
SAFETY.
Tales Of The
Baseball Diamond
TIIitEE-CORNER SHOTS
In the first inning of a game
between the Yankees and Tigers,
Dick Wakefield smashed a liner
which bounced off first baseman
Nick Etten's shin directly to
second baseman Joe Gordon,
who threw Wakefield out.
The identical play occurred in
the sixth inning. A savage line
drive caroming off Etten, going
to Gordon, then back to first for
the putout. Wakefield, victimized
out of two sure hits, fumed and
rag feel bad," jockeyed
Gordon. "Nick and I practice
that play every day."
THEY SHALL NOT
PASSARELLA
Connie Mack was a kindly
old gent on the ball field, but
he wasn't the Milquetoast his
biographers would have you be-
lieve. He could express himself
quite firmly when the occasion.
warranted.
There was the afternoon an
umpire called a game on ac-
count of rain in the seventh in-
ning, just as the Yankees went
ahead by a run. The game had
started in light rain and Con-
nie saw no reason why it
shouldn't finish the same way.
He walked over to umpire
Art Passarella and impaled him
with a baleful glare. "Tell me,
Art," he sneered. "Did the rain
get any wetter '-'hen the Yan-
kees went ahead:"
NIPPED IN THE HUSH
When Big George Magerkurth
was calling 'em in the American
Association, he once gave Dottie
Bush, manager of Indianapolis,
a beautiful dose of comeup-
pance. In the fourth inning,
Donie came roaring out of the
dugout to protest a called strike.
Magerkurth waited until Bush
nearly reached the plate. He
then turned his back an him
and addressed the crowd,
"Ladies and gentlemen," he
cried. "Mr. Bush is about to
make a short speech. As soon as
he finishes it, he will be called
upon to leave the premises, I
thank you."
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CLOSE TIES
When Tony Lazzeri took over
as Toronto manager in 1939, he
inherited a team of hitless won-
ders who had just put together
a string of thirty -odd scoreless
innings. The old Yankee slug-
ger took the situation philoso-
phically.
One day Walt Lanfranconi
pitched a beautiful game —
walking nobody and giving up
just four hits. He lost, 2.0. In
the locker room, Tony patted
Walt's shoulder consolingly.
"Never mind, kid," he said,
"Next time maybe you'll pitch
a shut -out. And with our slug-
ging, you'll be sure to get a tie."
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I3y Anne Ashley
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A. Add enough carbonate of
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