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Meagher. Phyllis Paskle, Harriette
Kaiser, E. Zimmerman.
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women who gave SO much time
towards helping collect funds for
the Red Cross drive and members
of the Red Cross board of directors
are equally appreciative of the work
of the motor corps and of Mrs.
Barrigan.
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had overheard regarding President
Washington, Mr.. Coolidge, pointing to
the great white shaft erected to that
beloved President, said: We'll, the
Monument still stands, anyhow"
Lincoln, of course, had many reasons
for admiring this marble tribute to
Washington, for 1t was during his en-
tire administration, though it was not
then finished, that his Government was
fighting for the preservation of the
Union, for the achievement of which
Gen. Washington played such an i'm
portant part-indeed, an indispensable
part. 1t is also true that the Civil War
President was member of Congress
when the cornerstone of the shaft was
laid July 4, 1848, and as Congress did
not adjourn until some time the fol-
lowing month, after this event took
place, it can well be assumed that he
was present at the exercises and listened
intently to the grafton delivered upon
that occasion by Robert C. Winthrop of
Massachusetts,, then Speaker of the
House of Representatives.
1t is also probable that he had the
pleasure of seeing some of the notables
invited to be present at that time, in
GLIDING Mrs. Hamilton, the 91-year- old
relict of Alexander Hamilton, famous
American soldier and flnancier. Mrs.
Dolly Payne Madison also was among
those present, as we'll as Mrs. John
Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren,, Mil
lard Fillmore, Lewis Cass, Gen. Sam
Houston, Chief Justice fancy, George
Washington Parke Gusts, adopted son
of Gen. Washington, and others.
Marsh and Farm Land
When the United States took title to
the Mall, In 1891, the Tiber flowed along
its northern boundary for practically
its entire length. The portion east of
Twelfth street and nearest the Capitol
appears at an early date to have been
more or less heavily wooded, while from
Twelfth street westward to the river
was largely marsh and farm land, titled,
where tillable, by the soacalled "obsti-
nate" David Burnes, whom the record
shows was not obstinate at all.
Squatter sovereignty seems to have
prevailed, for about 1902, according to
Christian Hines, colored man called
Old Jack had his house on the south
side of the Tiber not more than two
or three hundred feet from where he
and his brother were catching driftwood,
which was in the vicinity of Seventh
street He also says that Old Jack was
buried on the south side of this stream
between Thirteenth and Fourteenth
streets.
About this same period, Hines says,
what is now the Smithsonian Grounds
was the scene of fair for the amuse-
ment of the country folks and to draw
custom to the CITY,
Until 1848 no improvements had been
made to the Mall, and at this time only
the section lying between Seventh street
and the Potomac River were graded,
with few trees planted. However, this
must have contributed but little to the
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dropped in France around 80 am. on
spots lighted by Lillyman and his crew,
but the job the Lillyman boys did Is
another story. A British parachutist'
dropped at 1902 south of Isigny, but he
was little late, just At minutes be-
hind the Americans.
Danahy dropped in an obscure little
joint south of the Douve River, with
his stick. AS senior officer he was the
last man out of the airplane. wasn't in
the plane, but they told me later what
he said to parachutist as the orange
fax blossomed up and shot through the
floor of the ship. The boy, in his first ac-
ton, was little jittery. 1t was the first
battle for Danahy, too. What will we
do when the Germans come at us on
the flank?" asked the boy.
Hell with EN-" said Danahy.
Constant Feud
The Air Force must have been little
jittery, too, that night. They scattered
parachutists all over Normandy, but
there Is constant feud on between the
parachutists and the Air Force, and
you can excuse how they dropped be-
cause the fax was pretty heavy, and
the boys in the Vat cockpits hadn't
had much experience with the stuff, al
though they had been ordered not to
take evasive measures, but to run
through and drop their men steadily.
Anyhow, Danahy's stick of 10 men
was supposed to drop around the hill
north of Carentan. and work on back
to protect some of the roads and par
ticularly the road from the beach to
st. Marie du Mont. Actually they
dropped south of the Douve River, in
the middle of bunch of Germans and
got back to the command post at HES
vile after some experiences that would
curl your hair.
There were other parachutists dropped
far of the DE- drop zone) and Danahy
gathered them up by small groups.
They killed lot Of Germans, swan some
rivers, ate with the French and had
some fun Danahy's crowd was showing
north toward Hiesville and the COM
mand post, through, a little French
town when French. woman ran out
with bottle of cognac for lies Amer
icains." He grabbed the bottle out of
her hand and shot at Germans with the
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Gus about it.
had around 100. But Danahy has had
his share.
A great fighting division, the lol. It
has some Msty scrappers in it. When
they piled into those airplanes the night
before D-day they knew where they
were headed and what they had to do,
and they were clear-headed when the
time came for killing Germans.
They fought and died In Normandy.
Carentan was their glory when it had
TO be taken and held. It wasn't Danahy
who said at the end, when the divi-
sion had been drawn back into COM
parative rest area near Cherbourg 1t
was bewhiskered little paratrooper.
But I could imagine Danahy saying
the same thing. 1t. Gen. Omar N. Brad
ley, commanding the LIST United States
Army, was presenting some Distin-
guished Service Crosses in the rain in
field in France. around him thousands
Of paratroopers.
'sYou men have destroyed the super
man myth he said Each one Of you
can lick three Germans.
you're wrong. general, tpiped up s
private.
ANY one d Us can NICK I'VE oermana.s
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-26
By Walter cCallu,ra,
Star War Correspondent.

LONDON, England tBy Maid Its
as near cinch as anything can be that
the man will wind up pushing up daisies
II he persists In kidding himself that
the German bullet isn't made with his
number on It. But while he still walks
around Europe and England In his para
chute boots, Paul Danahy is going to be
hero. He would be the last to admit
the indictment
"fIow about those other guys out
there, the kids with rifles on their Shout
ders, and the boys In the cemetery
around st. Mere Eglise? Where do
you get that hero stun? Those are the
real heroes, not me-" he says.
But he was In the middle OF tank
charge in nothing more protective than
a jeep. He insisted In going on patrols
in Normandy with nothing more effec-
tive than the AS Colt he wears slung
deep below his hip, and whenever any
thing hot comes up Danahy, his Irish
pan screwed up into grin, insists on
being in the middle OF it. He is me-
dunn sized guy with background OF
college boxing. He was a salesman In
Minneapolis, where he went after
boyhood spent in Buffalo, N. Y. mot
too bad, either" he says. Sometimes
I even got In to see the boss"
Tough Guy in a Tough Outfit
He is of the 101st Air Borne Division
Of the United States Army, which means
he is rough, tough guy, in rough,
tough outfit. The parachutists, in case
you don't know about them, have been
taught to believe they are the toughest
soldiers In the world. They've been
trained to be killers. The fact that they
drop behind the enemy lines from an
airplane makes them little tougher
than most ground troops who go in on
foot or by motor. So their GIs, of which
Danahy is one. and an important one,
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"He aOe1at to sleep eating
the SOuD."

"He a0e1at to sleep eating
the soup"
They told me he led a charge that
murky night. Later I saw him In the
parlor of French home, eating arti-
chokes, washed down with cognac. He
had had no sleep, but he went out again
to the west, where the Jerry still
thought he could fight. We had bowl
of soup and a drink and he went to
sleep eating the soup, which Is quite a
trick with the noise there was around
there.
That night the Jerry came back He
came back with a couple of Scheutzstaf-
fel regiments and smattering of ia
natical young parachutists. I saw the
field orders from the German COM
mander later. Capture and occupy
Carentan," they said. the l0lst was
against them, these young fanatics who
died in droves beating their brains out
against the American chutists. 1t was
pretty grim business there in the dark
that night, the tracers shooting across
the road and the hedges and the
Schmeissers chattering and the mortar
shells falling. Danahy was out there
again. don't know how he got any
shuteye.
Not Good Tank Country
The Nazi fanatics got more reinforce
Inents, somewhere. He kept tossing them
into their death and finally the Amer
lean general called for help. Up from
Isigny came two battalions of tanks.
clanking along the road and through
Carentan toward the fight with two bat
talions Of armored American infantry to
flank them while the tanks went along
the roads. It want good country for
tanks, with the hedgerows, but they
went anyhow.
That afternoon, Of the second day,
Danahy turned up and came to my fox
hole. Somehow he had grabbed i couple
Of hours sleep and was ready for action.
Come along with me" he said. Lets
see the tank fight. Wen have some fun"
How are you going? In : tank7. I
asked.
mo. In jeep.. hs said.
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appearance OF this park, for an early
writer tells us that prior to 1850 from
Seventh to Twelfth streets and from the
canal to B street south (now Independ-
ence avenue) presented a surface Of
yellow or white clay, cut into by deep
gullies and without trees except one or
two scraggy and dying sycamores.
1t was in 1851 that Andrew Jackson
Downing began to lay out the Smith
sonian Grounds, and the grading and
laying out of the Department of Agrt-
culture grounds, between Twelfth and
Fourteenth streets, was not commenced
until 1858, when the work was begun by
William Saunders, botanist and super
intendent Of propagating garden, from
plans prepared by him.
The old Department of Agriculture
Building was not completed and occu-
pied until August, 1858, and the old
building OF the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing was not begun until 1878, and
not completed until the following year.
Before this building was erected the site
was occupied by one or more small
frame residences and shops, for 1t was
here that Samuel w. Lloyd lived and
had his carpenter shop. and where his
daughter, who became Mrs. Willis, was
born. From 1861 to 1865 this same
ground was occupied as a part Of the
Quartermaster Corps, which included a
commissary that distributed supplies
for all the varied activities Of the Army.
including the rationing of pensioners
and Army officers.
Necessarily, this required a large
storehouse and probably several of them,
for here was also bakery, presided over
by John Gately, who later went into the
baking business for himself at 243S X
street NV. There was also nearby
wheelwright and several blacksmith
shops and FORCES and butcher shop
conducted by Jesse. Oliver and Rose
Varnell. 80 a'ie3ftssz
These commissary buildings, shops
and other structures were in plain view
OF the White House, as were the horse
and cattle corrals which lined the dirty,
sluggish Washington Canal as well as
the old stone LIGHTHOUSE at Seventeenth
street and Constitution avenue, erected
in 1887 for the use of the lock keeper of
the Washington branch Of the canal.
Here James McGuf1n, who hailed from
Baltimore, Md, was at one time the lock
tender. and another man to serve as
such was Mr.. Bryan, whose daughter,
Fannie D., was born there In 1857, and
married Mr. Carter.
The City Canal
This canal was distinct from the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, q part of
which we may see today in and above
Georgetown, and which was commenced
on July 4, 1928. However, both canals
had their terminus in a triangular
shaped and walled basin which occupied
a large section of the northwest part of
the Monument Grounds, beginning at
Fifteenth street and widening out to-
Continued on Page C-5.)
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other hand while he tilted the cognac
down his throat He said later he hadn't
had drink in three days. So while
the Germans chartered at him and his
crew Danahy "a votre santed."
A Jaunty Grew s-.
They strolled into the command post
three days later, as jaunty crew of SOL
diers as ever packed gun. BY that
time they had picked up quite few
other parachdtists and the hedgerow
fights had been pretty ferocious.
His first question was what had be-
come of Maj. Larry Legare. Larry was
assistant G-3 of the division and when
Danahy inquired. Larry was back in q
nice hospital bed in England, bullet
through his leg. They told the Irishman
that Larry had had some fun, too. Larry
had dropped around 80 and had done
some German killing, when suddenly
he found himself with his squad in the
middle of bunch of Heinies. One of
them yelled 'Achtung" at him and
Larry saw the muzzles of a couple of
Schmeissers leveled. 1t was pretty dark
and the Germans were not sure. They
were pretty well disorganized anyhow,
with this bunch of ferocious Americans
dropping in behind them and killing
them, and were more or less jumpy. So
Larry made the other boys drop to the
ground and yelled, in perfect French,
I'm on my way from visiting my sick
cousin. All the time he was yanking the
pin from grenade. He tossed 1t and
the krauts went out like light.
"We Had Fun
When Danahy found that out and
that Larry was home in England in q
hospital, he said, ''They can't do that
and get away with it, Anyhow. Larry
had fun. want some, too" He went
out on messy patrol that night and
got some more. So they made him as
sistant G-3 It irked the Irishman to
sit in tent all day and take phone
calls and mark on situation map, Nut
he made up for it at night, when his
bosses were sleeping in foxholes. Where
he got any sleep don't know, but he
turned up bright-eyed in the morning
There was some nasty fighting around
the Huot Farm in the Douve River
marshes, where the Jerry had flooded
the Lowlands and some parachutists
died in the water, unable to free them
selves from their shrohds. One outfit
killed ITS Germans in one blast of flame
as they advanced across the level
marshes against the entrenched Amer
leans around the farm There was even
nastier fighting along the causeways
leading from the beachheads inland, to
the towns Of st. Marie de Mont, ST..
Come du Mont, st. Mere Eglise, where
the 82d Airborne was working on the
German Vierville and Blosville. But
the 101st took Its losses and went on and
cleaned up those places. The hedge
rows, fields and roads we're full Of dead
Heinies. Some OF them we're Poles and
White Russians, impressed into tho
German Army By fear Of repriaals. star
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"They gaze Ddnahy the
SLIDER Star"

lucy yuOC AuHufty Cftc
SLIDER Star"
must be good to lead such a Grappy
crew.
In the l0lst they tell yarn Of how
the colonel commanding one of the
parachute infantry regiments, put on
lighting speech one day at the British
camp where they trained for overseas
duty. The colonel said to them: "If
you men are walking down a narrow
pavement and any other soldier of any
other outfit or nationality comes along
don't step out Of his way. Make him
take to the gutter"
In one town in France, pivotal spot,
which the 101st took unaided, Stars and
Stripes had 1t the Rangers took it. A
few days later some officer stopped q
scrap on the beachhead between a
parachutist from the l01st and a
Ranger. The 1olst boy was on top, and
ready TO work on the Ranger when the
oflcer broke 1t up. was with the
division In those hectic days around that
town and almost got shot because I
was newspaperman, even though I
had nothing to do with Stars and
Stripes. The temper of the boys was
pretty high, and deservedly so. The
l01st lost lot Of good Joes in the taking
Of that town, and Danahy had a lot to
do with 1t.
First in France
The 1o1st Air-borne Division was the
first American outfit to set foot on the
soil of France on D day, the 9Th of
June. 1914. Lest there be any doubt
about that, you have only to refer to
the record. H hour was $50 am for the
LIST and 4th Infantry, and the Shore En-
gineers went in soon after.
But Capt. Frank Lillyman, pathfinder
chief of the 10lst, stepped out of his
parachute harness at exactly 1915 am.
June 6 in little field in France near
st. Marie du Mont, set up his flare
equipment and welcomed the rest of his
intrepid pathfinders. with open arms.
The others followed soon after, In vari-
Gus sticks dropped from speeding CAT
transport airplanes. Most of them
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Meet Danahy, Arny's Fightingest Irishman

The tanks went in and did q Job, and
the arnored infantry did all right and
the Scheutzstaf1el and the parachutists
couldn't take it. They Withdrew down
the road to the west, taking some Of
their dead with them. But they left
enough to know their losses had been
pretty severe. The boys got lot Of
parachute pins and German Jump knives
that dsy Is souvenirs.
Danahy Was There, Too
The colonel was in the middle Of 1t.
riding In an unbuttoned tank ali over
the road. That was brave enough, but
Danahy was there, too. In jeep. He
showed up around the front, at pomt-
blank range, in that little thing, while
the ferries had wallop at him.
Later he said he was scared. ut was
pretty rough there on that road" he
said. Glad you didn't 60 along You
might have made me scared, too"
They gave Danahy the Silver Star,
along with some other fellows, one
night in Carentan's village square. He
stood below the parachute draped statue
to La Mort de la Patrie Of the other
war waiting his turn for the general
to pin 1t on.
All Kinds of Heroes
There were all kinds of heroes In the
10lst. Some OF them are still in France
and will stay there. But OF them all
Danahy, the guy who wouldn't sleep
while there were ferries around, the guy
who led desperate missions when the
down under machine-gun fire, was Of
that tiger breed of men. He may get it
some day, but If he does it will be with
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walton, or both. Not bad fighters, either,
and cruel customers, as the 101st found
out when they discovered some OF their
boys still In their chutes, their hands
tied behind them and their threats
slashed. That sort Of irked the boys and
I think they forgot to take prisoners
for while, until their officers caught
up with them.
Carentan Was the Hot Spot
Carentan, pretty little French town
about miles inland from the mouth
OF the Douye, was pivotal spot. The
10lst had to take it, as LIST Division
pushed inland from the south and the
4th showed north in huge strides toward
the tremendously strategic port of Cher
bourg. Carentan was the hot spot. the
hinge of the whole line, the protection
for the south flank of the American ef-
fort. 1t had to be taken.
Plenty OF the parachutists had but
terflies in the belly that night, though.
1t wasn't a picnic to drop in on a Ger
man Army in well-prepared foxholes,
an army that has been on invasion
maneuvers for days and was ready.
Capt. Tommy White of Boston, aide to
Maj. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, division
commander, was kidding Danahy one
night about his patrol activity. You're
going to get It," he said. Me, I don't
want to be the bravest man in this war.
just want to be the oldest" Tommy
is "A.
They Took the Position
So Danahy went down to Carentan,
looked over the road junction where the
three dead mules were at the top of the
hill leading over the causeway, with the
burned-out American tank sitting
alongside, and crawled up to a company
pinned down in the ditch by enemy
mortar and machine gun fire. There's
only one thing to do boys. Come on" he
said. The boys took the position.
That night he went out around the
marshes and led regiment through
into the eastern edge of Carentan.
Along the causeway there was bitter
lighting. The causeway was the only
way to get through because the marshes
had been flooded and the Jerry was
holed up in houses and foxholes, where
only artillery and mortars could get at
him. One regiment took a bad pasting
along that causeway and had to pull
back q little bit, until 1T. Col Bob
Cole of San Antonio and Mai. John p.
Stopka of Sheridan, Wyo., ordered a
bayonet charge, the first of this war.
They killed 200 ferries In that charge.
The battlefield was pretty rough later,
but they took the position and worked
into the north edge Of the town. while
the other outfit came in from the east
and south, where the road led in from
1signy, which the Navy had worked
over with 16-inchers and the Rangers
had stormed and taken.
Danahy Led the Charge
Danahy left the command post at
7;3o. Better come along" he said.
Wen have some fun" That night the
l0lst took Carentan, finally working the
last live German out of the west edge of
the town around 7:30. Danahy turned
up, jaunty as usual, around o'clock,
his helmet at oocky angle. You should
have come" he said, at was fun"
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other hand while he tilted the cognac
down his throat He said later he hadn't
had drink in three days. So while
the Germans chartered at him and his
crew Danahy "a votre santed."