The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-17

Details of the story are SO ghastly that they hardly can be believed Yet the accuracy of the observers has stood up in the past; also the wholesale slaughter methods of the Germans at Lub- In Is already Q matter of ofiiciSl record.
 It Is estimated that the im- ported slave labor inside Ger many totals about 10000, ,000, Either because Hitler fears their sabotage and rebellion, or else because they are a drain in Ger many's food resources, machinery has been devised to kill them of. The number killed SO far is esti- mated at around i,500,000 though this is q very rough estimate. Alb. solutely definite, however, is the fact that mass execution depots, such as that at Lublln, already are set up In various parts of 0ermanys. These have been wit- messed.
 The Luhln execution depot con- sisted of large chambers for the administration of lethal gas to several hundred persons nt e time. Afterward, the bodies were sys- tematlcally stripped, their jewel ", shoes, clothes sorted out and handed by a quartermOster store
 Reason for this cold.blOoded system of Mass executions is explained aS follows by under. ground observers who have come out of Germany: Originally, storm Troopers were given list to 20 person and told to shoot them with their revOlverS in the night. Sometimes this included whole families with children. So not even the s. S. men could take 1t. They Suf- fered nervous c0llapses, had to be sent to sanltOriumS.
 AS c result the mass execution system was worked out at Lublin, and now at other places. It takes only Q few men to handle the lethal chambers, and enough per- sonnel can be found to perform this gruesome work without be. coming insane.
 CAMERANFAN MISSES ONE
 Judge Thurman Arnold, who as assistant Attorney General proS- ccuted more anti-trust suits than any man In history, was in Holly. wood, recently, where he graced one of It's fancist swimming pools.
 Tn a swimming pool Judge Arnold is Q sight to behold. Usually forgetting to take off h's black rlbboned pinee-neS glasses, Thurman lights Q long cigar swims on his back, with the cigar protruding above the water, puff iang smoke like Q Mississippi steamboat. The big corporations whom Thurman has fined and belabored would give Q lot to see their prosecutor thus relaxing.
 On this occasion, Judge Arnold got into conversation on the edge of the pool with bathing beauty Esther Williams, who is also c sight to behold.
 They were sitting together, spiashing their legs in the water, when publicity cafneraman be. gan to line things Up for Q shot of Miss Williams.
 ''WOuId you mind moving out of the way?" he called brlSkly to Judge Arnold, not realizing that he was missing the shot of his life. we want to get Miss Williams"
 Later, Mrs. Arnold had the time of her life Kidding her hus- band. "They just didn't know who you were, deaF," she said. "TE0w things have changed since you went Into retirement two years agO!"
 KLEBERG MONEY
 AIDS O'DANIEL
 Last summer, Congressman Dick Kleberg of Texas, part owner oi the largest ranch in the world was exposed as having put thret 'teen.oid boys on the federal pay roll, who later kicked back part in the world. Courage and hdel- fly stand high on the list of values
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