davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Valley settler., 1941-10-03


grove rs net to discuss The grow
ms end marketing OF potatoes.
Many very good suggestions were
made and comm tee, mooting with
Co op Mgr. l.. C. Stock, drew up
g set Of suggosti ons and rules
to be followed in handling, the
l94l crop.
Quoting Ar. Stock at that
nc oting "Tho AasQci alton Is not
CT stcd in boing q GU ms
place for surplus produce whom
1t cannot be mario ted els 5uAoro.
.io intend to first find 4 market
or those people who expect US
t do their marketing. 1trs
Stock still fools the sac Way
about it, and the reconuao adations
Of the coaIai tee Will be carried
out.
The advance payment Will
be 2l.7o 2ol cWt. as lon cs
funds are available Tor tttlls pur-
poso end storage $500 Will per-
nj t.
ALI potatoes Will = hand
Led On Q pool basis VI til ed tion-
al advances to be made fr3I time
to tine as JUS titled ard only
one POOL Will be Formed to handle
all potatoes harvos tod from lSAl
crop.
Samples for tostin. to be
gathered from each rroducor.
Reforming to itom 10. 10
Of the Aotato Rules approved on
l4oy 8, l94l, you vi II rofnso to
take into tho pool potatoes from
any 72roGucor Who has so7C OF con-
templates selling port On Of
2is crop direct. We Will, u1ldcr
no circurs tancos, be used as
dumping ground cItor o s. e5uccr
T2orlo is rort Of his CROP. CIR
.aorl1ot Will be res crvcd "3rst
for those Or d. GERS Who Gro c1-
poctin3 Us to market the: - en-
tire potato crop.
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her fists when the maid and calculated:
"Oh. thought that playing Mr.. Levant"
The ST Mor Hotel its best show Cafe de
la PaiX the 25h All traffic led
for the show Frisco Adde Mofett dancing
named Anita Alvarez
MANHATTAN Muras The sign in John Pooles:
AVA Wear English nd Be Tweed
heart
The femme shoppes sign:
What Dressed Lady VIII Under Wear"
The intellectual who 4ith Street between
Broadway and the Paramount stage door Beside him
painted sign saying
"Clean Comedy Philosophy Music Theater
With Shoe shine" He's clever. Look him up
NEW Yorchids Andy Kinks hy thmS the Famous Door
Chief Quartermaser Matt (USN) Murphys coors
He's done nearly all the Nays posters.
Laura Deane buttons thruShng up the Wanbow Woon
Jimmy DorSeys Of Embraceable You"
Kitty Carlisle Versailles
Zanucks "Yank the Raj
Lila Barbours Swingy-Zngy Leon Eduardos
Ace Newell sinful The Zebra Bar-yery comcal
Marie Whitbeck Clarks Sing Me Song book of safety
dittes for and adults
Jerome Wedman philosophy in the Aug 23rd SEP
Life Is a series OF pa-sl giving little they
a lot"
COUNDS in the Night: Al the Riviera:
- dumb: reading book
In Claremont Inn:
good thing YOU haven't a mind-women would
1t all the time"
Al The Tsvern-on- the Green;
"Shes unexcting breakfast for one"
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ONE CONDITION

The prisoner may cover any
number of sheets with his
writing: the only condition is
that he delivers 10 his guard
as many sheets as he has re-
Ceived.
The guard brought me three
sheets, and pen and ink. He
also brought me a piece of
board which was 10 serve as
a table. Then he unlocked
the irons from my left wrist,
leaving them To dangle from
my right, and left me.
A quick glance at the spy
hole showed me that the
trooper kept observing me
from the outside. He merely
followed camp regulations;
many a prisoner. having his
hands freed under the preteXt
of wanting 10 write 10 the
Gestapo, seized the opportu-
nifty TO commit suicide.
One sheet | addressed 10
Regierungsrat Schreckenbach.
the chief of the foreign
division Of the Gestapo. 1
wrote flaming denunciation
of communism. l declared
that herewith severed all my
connections with the Com
muniSt cause. I concluded
this letter with the sentence:
II am a German. ! realize
that he who embraces COM
munism accepts the betrayal
Of his fatherlsnd as a part of
his duty 10 Moscow"
/ added that / agreed TO the
publication OF this declaration
IN the Nazi press. The Ges-
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Better to Die Standing
Than to Live Crawling!
By Elsie Robinson

THERES line in Ernest
l. Hemlngways tremendous
book. For Whom the Bell
Tolls" that you can't shake.
II goes ringing through you
like trumpet ChallenG-
ing you giving a new
meaning 10 your life. no mat
ter how desperate your plight
j.. The five men, dragging
themselves along that wooded
hillside, were in a very des-
perate plight. For days--or
was il years they had been
ducking death, in this strange
civil war they could not
understand.
They had started Justify
enough, knowing only that
Spain needed them. They had
started in AS men-strong,
angry men, filled with purpose
and pride.
But now they were only
hunted beasts - snufflnG,
fumblng. clawing at their lice
They moved with diff
fculty for they were no longer
whole.
Pieces of them were gone.
They pulled themselves along
on fragments of hands and
legs
But harder to bear than the
holes gouged in their bodies
we're the pieces torn from
their hearts.
THEY could only 60 on 80.
Il climbing -. digging shall
low trenches Squattlng
behind their guns splitting
out stray mouthfulS Of words
as mon do around a last
campfire, knowing they will
not come again.
So il was. out of seeming
idlenesS,7that the boy Joaquin
croaked his lips being broken:
"Passionaria says n Is
better 10 die on your feet
than 10 live on your knees.
He went on digging. The
others looked at each other
furtively. They went on dig
ing. too. II was not well TO
speak Of death al time like
this. when death was already
in the room.
They were older. They
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Nknew. SO they did not answer
Joaquin directly. Instead they
bantered him and each other
=. making light OF his words
tossing them about as
If they were heel of bread.
But inside themselves, they
did. not make light. The
words moved them. They
knew, for a truth, that the
words were bread bread
they had lived on all their
lives and for which they were
now about 10 die.
a man might not have
much not even a skin Of
wine 10 wet his wlthered
throat. not even a bandage
for his rotting feet. Still
there was something that no
one could take away from
him.
NO ONE could take away
~ his love Of freedom
nor the pride no felt in fight
ing for that freedom
nor his contempt for a man
who would be a slave rather
than fight.
Better To die on your feet
than to live on your knees"
The words drifted vaguely
through their heads. They
were far gone. They could
not remember words well.
But they could feel them
working through their blood.
They could feel them work.
inc like good wine old
wine that had lost its raw
fro'h that warmed a man
and steadied his spine. They
could feel them like honest
bread bread in which a
starving man could set his
teeth.
Better Ia die on your feet
than 10 live on your knees"
Strong Words those. To he
free and not afraid 10
believe in something greater
than yourself TO fight for
il and. if need he. die for il
10 live or die with your
head high rather than droop-
ing-that was all that any
man needed for a good life.
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garded as man of the world.
First Of. all. serve my
country he said.
l said respectfully, ia, Sic
sind Soldat, Herr kom-
mandant."
"What YOU have told me to-
day" the kommandant unused,
"ail these details about the
cesspOOl beneath the Com
munist belt line-yerdammt.
they'd be worth an article i'm
the NOelkischer BeObachter."
There was a short silence.
The kommandants commune
cative mood tempted me 10
ask him about Firelei. !
realized instantly that i had
made mistake. My vague
question regarding my wife's
health jerked him back into
his customary bruSqueness.
"Your wife got what she de-
served" he snapped. mo
more. no less"
"She never was n confirmed
Communist" i interjected
II know her case" the kom-
mandant said. "She deserted
her child rather than face re-
spOn>ibility for the crimes she
committed. Abhorrent, that.
Worse than "A beast. The
lowest female beast takes care
-of-her-y aung-aneS,- defends
them. dies for them. Shoot
ing Is too good for such one"
Says IN HIS CHAIR
I hung in my chair, my arms
dangling limp.
Dismissed" the komman-
dant- barked.
A trooper entered.
"Take him back to his cell"
'Irons, Herr Kommand-
ante"
"MOst certainly"
The rest of that day and the
following night remain hell
iSh memory in my mind. /
let another day go by. The
next morning l resumed the
bitter offensive.
The guard on my tier that
morning was "A phlegmatic,
apple-cheeked fellow whom
the prisoners judged the most
casy-going in Camp FuhlS-
buettel. When he entered my
cell for the daily inspection
told him l wanted TO write a
letter TO the GeStapO.
what sort of "A letter ."
"A confession, Herr Yacht
meister."
Long or short ."
"A long one, Herr Yacht
meister."
very we'll"
Each prisoner. no matter
how isolated is a l.ways
allowed 10 write TO the Ges-
tapo. The Gestapo welcomes
letters from prisoners. The
more they write, the more
they bare themselves. the
deeper usually-do they be-
come entangled in the thou
Sand-and-one snares laid out
for enemies of the New Ger
many.
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StSleu III d CUMMING Inoou.
Paulette Goddard is in Reno 10 take
Spanish lessons. she says. But her mother
is there for the Usual Reason.
c. V. r. Thompson, the London Express
man here. hops for there on the LIST.
The Senate's Nye indicted Chaplin's
film, The Dictator" as warmongering
The speech at the finish is a ringing plea
for Peace
Who remembers all the way back Ito a
few months ago1 when we were called
names for calling the turn on Lindbcrgh?
CALLlES in Our Alley: Fred Allen tells
- about the absent minded barker in front
of a Broadway Girlesk joint. He turned his
head, started his spiel toward the lobby
and talked 200 people out of the theateri
Oscar Levant got something of a shock
the other day His unmarried daughter of
IL months was banging on the piano with
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-23
Walter WincheH
On Broadway
Trade Mark Registered. Copyright, ls4i.

EMOS of Mdnigher: Fred Astaire the Tip Toer time
4A stepping With during lunchtime with flock of
giggng behind hmand the embarrassed
tonnage by IS
pounds show STOP He's funny
at 30!
very unhappy hookup didn't jel
Sophie Tucker book The Life of the Red Hot
Mamma Will asbestos because Mr. Oman
tod in acloNup
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FED ON FLATTERY

1.-THE greatest fault of the
German IL his narrowness,"
the kommandant suddenly de-
elared II. too. have seen
much Of the world"
endeavored 10 flatter his
pride until he. who was at
best a scullion of the Ges-
tapo, found Il hard 10 con-
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DECISIVE ISSUE

My thoughts turned TO my
own problems. "Why are YOU
being called 10 the Gestspo ."
l asked myself. My whole
future hinged on the answer
TO that question.
The truck veered into the
yard Of GestapQ headquarters,
the yard in WITCH Karl Bur
meister had died a thousand
days earlier. ! was not driven
into the waiting room Of the
Gestapo. l was led into the
basement dungeons and locked
into A closet which barely pro-
vided standing room.
Continued Tomorrow
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HE WRITES AGAIN

| was afraid Of emptiness.
Regardless of how il ended, it
seemed TO bring a purpose into
my life again. AT the end of
, the week / wrote another
letter TO the Gestapo. l
humbly asked for permission
10 study Mein kampf by
Adolf Hitler.
Early next morning. under
supervision of two troopers. l
was shaved by tight-lipped,
elderly Jewish prisoner.
"You are going to the Ges-
tapo,' n trooper informed me
with a parting kick.
l was marched TO the
ground floor Of the old prison.
and stood nose and toes
against the wall for several
hours. To my right and left
a long line of prisoners also
stood nose and toes against
the wall, waiting.
At last / was herded into
the prison van AS usual, IT
was overcrowded. But while
the lorry rumbled through the
streets toward the Gestapo
headquarters / realized that
the prisoners who we're being
carried 10 torture sessions in
the latter part of 1886 were
different types that the mill
tants of the first three years
of Hitler power.
There were more Jews. pro-
fessional men. Catholic priests.
small merchants and others
who never had belonged 10
the party or the proletariat. /
tried 10 draw one or the other
Of them into A discussion. But
they were too frightened TO
speak, il seemed.
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ASKED ABOUT CILLY

He asked me about Cilly
who had been his prisoner
during the months between
our arrest and trial. Her
clever defiance, together with
her rather exotic charms. had
interested him. He seemed to
derive some pleasure when |
willingly answered a string Of
questions pertaining TO Cllly S
personal affairs
The kommandant pressed
me for details. invented
them for him In that hour at
least Cllly'S allure fascinated
the kommapdant more than
all the theories of Rosenberg
and Hitler. l felt the ice
thaw.
our talk consumed hours. I
forged ahead eagerly The
kOmmandant was irritated
whenever the telephone rang
or when a guard knocked 10
ask for instructions regarding
the ordre du Jour.
From Cilly'S role rs an in
ternational voluptuary tn g
conversation shifted 10 the
moral corruptneSs Of leading
BolShevikS in general and to
Dimitrov. W,ollw Q b er and
Heinz Neumann in particular.
told the kommandant
weird tales about mass rapeS
during StaliniSt jamboreeS IN
Moscow and Paris. Because
Communists were the culpritS,
he believed them. The next
theme was public immortality
in the Soviet Union. From
there we jumped TO the prices
Of women in various zones and
climates.
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really said something there. Best comic
heard Waiting the Church by Vesa Victoria
Olivia De IIayland IIolywoodan An unusual
OF beauty "oomph Olivia has been married
But quite frankly admits she wants to be. Says she:
Il wish would along and sweep off my
feet"
Asked type she preferred Miss De Havland
said:
oh somebod, wi looks like just
DEsPrTE contrary
meter : infallibIe," writes Bostonian.
am inclined agree
reported make per candy sales
So you fellow. if get rich think kind
OF Scent chocolate
That's how Mrs Ethel " Mars became nd has a
active racing stable 60 thoroughbreds
Maybe I'll try up something chocolate bars
myself. The thing o S name.
Is said 10 times many color blind when
It Distinguishing green Fellow who
couldn't distinguish between and red would be bad
at night a traffic intersection
THERE are more people named johnson
than people named Jones Or Brown Most common names
In order Smith, Johnson Brown, Williams and Jones
said per American don know make
should
coffee making for wives.
Taxpayers always expense of
employees More of them should be printed Two
bers Pennsylvania Police working of illegal
race track betting turned IN the following expense account
"Tifty-one $50; WHISTLES
poker losses SiO eight soft drinks, 10 shave 90
HEARD appealing song Diane night Is
"A my Hadn't heard for a long Figure
1t is about i years old.
of the period OF Just Gigolo Il Surrender Dear"
Singing the Rain Just one More Chance" My Blue
Heaven and Chloe"
Says what girl shoudknow expert
The safest kind of the outdoor The worst the
romantic intellectual.
Have turned this claim horses and depart
q as
Dr. Albert Edward Wiggam. who a partner in a
Denver Col, florist shop OF the orgnators OF the
Flowers by Telegraph idea
by KinE
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By JAN VALTIN


rations, most of which were
obtained under torture, on the
assumption that they would
do much toward demoralizing
the remnants of the under
ground opposition.
INVENTED EXPOSE
The two remaining sheets l
filled with notes about real
and invented acts of profligacy
of Communist chieftains who
had been more or less in the
headlines OF the German press
since 1888. Over this Slush /
affixed the title $50 live the
would-be wreckers of the Ger
man family" This expose !
addressed TO the kommandant
OF Camp FuhlSbuettel.
The guard who received the
two letters for dispatch grin
ned broadly.
II know what IL means
when a former Staatsfeind
writes To the 'Gestapo," he
said. "The inner struggle
Oh, yes-sOlitary confinement
and the inner struggle"
lie went away chucklinG.
Nothing happened for a
week. The monotony, the
routine brutality, the food
Gobbled up from the floor, the
banging doors and angry
Sf1otts and the screams of
beaten men, the constantly
gnawing pain in my wounded
wrists-all that remained the
same.
Different only was the man
ner in which l occupied my
brain. | had succeeded in
forcing myself not to think Of
Flrelei. ! had abandoned my
usual grind Of mechanical
mental exercises. My brain
was filled even in its dreams
with but one train Of
thought: How can YOU best
carry out the command Of
the COmintern ."
This central problem gave
birth 10 uncounted silent
questions and a multitude of
equally silent answers. l had
been stripped of most illusions.
saw the Comintern for
what il was. But l clutched
at the task.
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the Side
BY E. V. During

Sba9 ost be brorc soldier rto fights BY mp side
ia ne cousc mankind. ~ Our crceds a9rcei
shall gre .p ttr tI.ead hare .oIpcd and tried.
n he .t,-. aot t,torc ttc altar Nth me?
tknoW have quoted aN5lehiore bat right
good o quote agan.-EVD)
WOMENS hats with hair attached being sold This
" hesdCear pcrrni> make her choice As what
she going to goes OUT brunei blonde rcd
head.
No doubt tins VIII cause some confusion.
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CHAPTER 80

The commander of Camp
FuhlSbuettel lounged behind a
battered desk. His Office was
ovcrheated and cluttered with
files and papers. Portraits
of Nazl leaders lined the
walls.
The kommandant was a
slender, grazing man with
Soldierly features. He wore
the black uniform of the
Elite Guard. A saber scar
ran from his temple down 10
his mouth, a souvenir of a
duel, or of the World War, or
of his years in the French
Foreign Legion
When / entered the office,
clicking my heels and report
ING IN the sharp customary
manner, he waved several
clerks also members of the
Elite Guard-out of the room.
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Out Of the Night.

who crumbIe under hardships
are not worth bothering about.
Just what put the idea i'm your
head 10 read Mein kampf."
my life has been irretriev-
ably destroyed. Herr k0m-
mandant," / said I've no
intentions of becoming "A
NatiOnalsoZialist. cannot. IL
il too late. But I know that
I've belonged Ia an army
which has been beaten
definitely beaten"
Beaten: Annihilated,"
the kommandant said. eco
on"
"Annihilated." / admitted.
1T was "A strong army and il
has been annihilated by the
Hitler movement. That il
why l want 10 read Mein
kampt. Herr kommandant.
am curious and anxious Ia I'M
derstand what gives National
Socialism such annihilating
strength"
BLIND TO CONCEPT
you should have done that
I'm 1890" the kommandant OBJ
served.
AT that time i was blind,
sir"
And YOU are still blind: ."
,No, SIR"
~ don't believe you. You
seem to me n kierl who'd
hash his bead against n stone
wall rather than admit that
YOU were wrong. You shouldn't
start crawling"
II do not crawl, Herr KOm-
mandant."
The kommandant tapped his
desk. He spoke crisply:
You find yourself In a
situation where honesty is the
foe of loyalty. my friend. The
Communist Party Is rotten
from top to bottom. Always
was rotten. The fact that
very few Communists stick to
their guns even in hell proves
It,"
II cannot profess loyalty to
a cause which has ceased to
exist" / countered.
$50 YOU wish to read Hit
ler's book ,"
Eyes, sir"
Request refused. I'll have
you chased - times around
the yard instead"
The kommandant pressed a
button. A trooper clanked in,
stood at attention. The kom-
mandant issued an order.
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ERE pleasant little game give you message
every day 1t Is numerical puzzle designed spell
your fortune Count the letters your
OF letters or subtract II the
add The result your Start at the upper left
hand corner Of the rectange every your
numbers left to right Then read the
the checked figures give you o-a3
cOpsSt W King Features, me
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CLOSE SCRUTINY

For some time he looked me
over. stared at the pale
blue eyes of the man under
whose regime in Camp FuhlS-
bucttel 50 many of my COM
radcS had persisted. Finally
he snapped:
why are YOU here"
~ wish To ask"
IL don't want To know what
YOU WISH" he interrupted.
Why youth protective
custody"
II was accused Of stirring
up unrest i'm prison"
| saw that the kommandant
liked my frank answer.
us the accusation true ."
I'm part-yes," | admitted
"Why did you do il:
II saw the futiIity of the
old ideas" l replied Il de-
SPARED. To avoid facing the
truth. struck out In the
opposite direction"
That seemed easier than
facing the TRUTH" he asked
shrewdly.
Yes, sir. II seemed-for a
time"
"Why were YOU sent to
prison >"
For illegal work against
the Third Reich"
How much ."
Thirteen years"
"You were lucky. Had I
been judge, you'd have been
shot"
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FASTER! FASTER.

Hdl cIltlPU lilP lUlclN lew.
| was taken out into the yard
by two guards who made me
run % times around the inside
Of the surrounding walls. The
guards ran in smaller circle.
Faster" they 5 h GU t d.
"Faster"
If | did not run fast enough,
they tripped me and beat me
with their truncheonS. Two
rounds were nearly a kilo-
meter. While l ran I saw the
kommandantS slight figure
leaning against the barred
window of his office.
/ ran for two hours. Then
I sagged TO the ground, was
dragged back to my cell and
handcuffed.
There was a special tele-
phone line directly ronnecting
the kommandantS office with
the headquarters Of the secret
police. | knew that over this
wire my petition to obtain
Mein Kampt had been COM
municated To the Gestapo.
After several eventless days,
I was again called 10 the kom-
mandants office. With all the
resources / could muster l
continued the comedy on
which | had embarked. To
my astonishment, the kom-
mandant,' when we were alone,
told me to sit down.
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DETERMINES TYPE

Silence. He scanned me
minutely l looked straight
into his face. His type had no
love for servile skulkerS.
"Why are YOU kept In
irons?" he asked.
II attempted suicide"
"AIl that ] know" the kom-
mandant drawled lazily. But
YOU came to make a political
statement. Now. out with it,"
I'D like permission to read
Mein Kampf." | said.
At first he scowled. He had
probably expected something
else. Then he smoked thought
fully After a while he said
"Why should "A traitor like
YOU want TO read the Fuehrer's
book ."
when man il much alone,
he starts to think. Herr kom-
mandant." | explained. II said
had TO make a political
statement. desire to read
the book. That. To me. Is a
political statement, Herr Kom-
mandant."
The kommandant leaned
forward. you are not turn &.
ing Nazi are YOU: he asked
ironically.
mo, sir"
"You are still a Com
munist ."
Il thought was. But
communism in Germany Is
dead. sir"
That's tough luck, NIGHT
wahr ."
! nodded. I continued 10
stand as rigidly as l possibly
could. In the presence of the
camp commander, no gesture
was permitted a prisoner.
The hardshlps of camp life
are not conducive 10 Com
munist morale, are they?" the
kommandant went on.
II don't mind hardships,
sir" / answered.
"Hardships make men. Those