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Evening star., 1945-04-10
10000 Persons Believed Slain
In German Murder Factory

Russians were taken into the asylum
and not one came out alive.
When we first walked through
the asylum the insane inmates
laughing and screaming, followed
us around in packs" Capt. Hamilton
added. There were dWarfs and
stupid giants, but all seemed harm
less. Only the sane people there
were killed"
He said that each morning the
surgeon director, the head keeper
and the nurse conferred on who
would be killed that day.
"One assistant said the doctor was
regarded as a kind man because il
one of the victims fought against
taking the hypo needle the surgeon
would not let the attendants bea.
him into submission Capt. Hamil-
ton recounted. He Just let the mar
go without food until he was toe
weak to object"
Children Among Victims.
The gas chambers and cremator-
ium were operated by SIS men from,
Berlin, the investigators added.
After their l0,000th killing the
SIS men had a drinking orgy" Capt
Hamilton said. They cleaned out
the skulls of some of their victims
and used them as drinking cups
Townspeople and former employees
at the asylum testified to this"
He said some of the victims were
young children who were hall
Jews"
Most Of the victims appeared to be
Russian men and women workers
who couldn't stand the strain OF
hard work and little food, the Of
f1cers said. Many Poles and some
Dutch were killed, but there was nc
evidence to prove that Belgians OF
French were slain.
The surgeon, confronted by evi.
dence and testimony on operations
of the murder factory, was quoted by
Capt. Hamilton as saying: Il have
always been a doctor of honor
Evening star., 1945-04-10
Stamp to Commemorate
Sun Francisco PurIey

Ey the Associated Press.
A United States postage stamp
will be issued to commemorate the
San Francisco United Nations Con-
ference
Announcing this yesterday, Post
master General Walker said re-
quests for such a stamp had been
received from many quarters. A
description of the stamp, including
the denomination, will be an
nounced later.
Sale of the stamp will be inau-
gurated at San Francisco April 25
the day the conference opens.
Security investment-War Savings
bonds. Secure the four freedoms
buy one today.
Evening star., 1945-04-10
Helen Traube| Cancels
So|oist Role Here Toniqht

Helen Traubel, Metropolitan Opera
star, will be unable to fulfill hel
engagement at Constitution Hal
tonight because Of a throat iAfec-
ton, the Snow Concert Bureau said
today.
Eugene Ormandy will conduct the
Philadelphia Orchestra in an all
Wagner program. There will be nc
soloist.
Miss Traubel has Cancelled hel
engagements in Baltimore and
Syracuse this week and will 60 tC
Colorado Springs the end of this
week to recuperate, it was said
Later, she will join the Metropolitan
Opera in Milwaukee.
Evening star., 1945-04-10
Okinuwu
Continued From First Page)

fought in an 85-square-mi area
or 10 times the size of Two Jina
would continue in siege style for
some days.
Pouring out an increasing volume
Of small and machine-gun
fire along with their artillery, the
Japanese are making a stand from
prepared positions which one 10th
Army staff officer called "Okinawa s
Siegfried Line"
Maj Gen. J. R. Sheetz, artillery
commander of the oath Corps
likened the fight on Southern Oki-
nawa to those which has charac-
terized the European war.
Evening star., 1945-04-10
BY HAL BOYLE.
Var Correspondel

Associated Press War Correspondent.
LIMBURG, Germany, April 10
American troops have discovered a
German murder factory rivaling
any house of horror dreamed up by
fiction writer's, where it is estimated
10000 persons viewed by the Nazis
AS "undesirables," were systemati-
cally slain.
Located in an insane asylum
near Limburg, the terror filled
establishment was in charge of
tall, scar-faced 70-year-old Nazi
surgeon, assisted by husky As
year-old chief woman's nurse and
middle-aged chief warden, Allied
officers said. On the staff were SIS
elite Guard officers from Berlin.
! Tales told by German residents Of
the village of Hadamar, miles
north of Limburg, led 1t. George
Walker of Deshler. Ohio. and Capt.
Alton H. Jung of San Antonio, Tex,
LIST Army officers to question
officials in the village. and resulted
in locating the asylum.
ee .AIItSttu.
Maj. Harvey M. Coverly, Sausalito,
Calf, ordered the arrest of the
three in charge of the factory"
said by the officers to be one of six
set up by the Nazis inside Germany
to dispose scientifically of unruly
slave laborers or those who had out
lived their usefulness.
German civil authorities estimated
$4,000 victims were gassed and Gre
mated and another 5000 killed by
drugs or poison and buried in COM
munal graves.
The stencil of burning bodies
caused Hadamar residents to COM
/ plain, and the Bishop of Muenster
lodged protests with the asylum Of
! ficials. That caused the NaZis to
switch from gas to hypodermic in
jections and from cremation to mass
burial.
The slayings were described as
mercy killings" authorized by 1889
Nazi statute. l...AA
SAoLSu AhAhdtCo Nuh IICC. ''
Two investigators. Capt. Brinkley
Hamilton, British officer at
tached to an American infantry di-
vision, and 1t. w. R. Johnson,
Loveland, Colo, told story of
death and torture and ghoulish
feasts by drunken executioners in
the asylum, where 300 crazed in
mates were permitted to run free
in underground dungeons.
Nobody would believe it, 1t.
Johnson said. 1T had underground
chambers with dripping water, bats
flying around and little crazy men
who jumped out at you at every
step"
Of the Nazi surgeon in charge,
1t. johnson said: Il never saw a
tougher looking man in my life
The job of the chief nurse, he
added, was to put the death needle
into woman patients. She was
about feet tall, built like a foot
ball player and as ugly as a witch"
The head keeper, "a mousey-
looking middle-aged man who had
been promoted from driving victims
to the asylum to the actual job of
doing away with them" gave the
officers the first indication of how
the asylum operated, 1t. johnson
said
Kept Three Graves Ahead.
"He told us the asylum never held
more than 500 patients and showed
us that there were only 481 graves
in the cemetery. There were fresh,
empty graves, and when we asked
him about them he said, We always
keep three caves ahead"
The officers learned that from 6
to 20 bodies we're dumped into each
grave.
Capt. Hamilton, a veteran of 20
years at London's Bow Street police
Montana labor news., 1945-04-19
Six Month Bridge Job
Is Done in 16 DAYS

Observation-Disclosures u. S. Army
Engineers headed toward the Rhine,
there was on strategic spot on the Mo-
selle river where they needed a heavy
railroad bridge with concrete and steel
piers to handle heavy trains with super
weight materiel.
After dumping everything available
into the river to make a ford to the
pier sites, they had to mix concrete in
freezing weather. They built a roaring
fire, then piled on sand and gravel. The
fire dwindled but the hot embers made
the sand and gravel warm enough to mix
and pour concrete. To keep the freshly
poured concrete from freezing while it
set, the engineers punchd holes in the
sides Of empty cans and filled them with
hot Goals. The hot coal stoves were
stacked around the newly poured piers
and tents were erected over each unit.
Thus, the concrete was kept from freez-
ing and it had set in 70 hours. In 16
days, the heavy bridge was completed.
Montana labor news., 1945-04-19
HIGH COURT BARS
WAIVER OF EXTRA
PAY PENALTIES

WASHINGTON-lFP)-If you are
entitled to overtime payment for work
in excess of your regular work week and
it is unpaid, the law viii forbid you
from feeling sorry for the boss and sign
ing a waiver of the double indemnity
provided by the federal wage and hour
act.
That was the substance Of an order
Of the u. S. Supreme Court April 9 in
a CD decision covering the act read by
Associate Justice Stanley u. Reed.
mo one can doubt but that to allow
waivers of statutory wages by agreement
would nullify the purpose of the act. We
are Of the opinion that the same policy
decisions which forbid waiver Of basic
minimum and overtime wages under the
act also prohibits waivers of the enc
ploye's right to luidate damages.
Chief Justice Harlan Stone. Justices
owen Roberts and Felix F%rankfurter
dissented from the majority's opinion.
The case was based on a provision of
the law that says an employer failing
TO pay tie minimum wage or overtime
is liable for that payment and am addi-
tional amount as %hquidated damages.
Three cases were involved in the de-
cision. IN one. the Brooklyn Savings
Bank was defendant i'm a suit by Will
liam j. ONeil, a night Waterman.
ONeil effected a settlement with the
bank and gave the employer a release
for unpaid overtime.
The other cases were along the same
line, with the majority holding that
employees receiving less than the statu-
tory minimum are not likely to have
sufficient resources to maintain their
w%ell-being and efficiency until such sums
are paid at a future date. The same
policy which forbids waiver of the
statutory minimum as necessary to the
free flow Of commerce reuires that repa-
rations to restore damage done by such
failure to pay on time must be made to
accomplish congressional purposes
Montana labor news., 1945-04-19
The WHY'S OF A
MEDICAL HEALTH
INSURANCE PLAN

For the interest of u readers the
following item on health and medi-
cal insurance is printed. A short
article on this subject will be printed
each week until the subject has been
covered. This is the seventh of such
articles.
Ouestion-Does a social insurance sys-
tenn provide free medical care?
Answer-No. The benefits Of a social
insurance system are not free or a
handout." individually and collective
ly. the insured workers pay for their
medical benefits. The payment is not
made at the time when service is re-
CURED: &c is made through regular con
tributions when the worker is earning his
income. Employer contributions and
contributions from general tax revenues
may also help to build up the prepay
ment fund. from which payments will
be made to doctors and hospitals and for
other medical services.
Question-What services should be in-
cluded i'm @ program which insures
against the costs of medical care2
Answer-Ideally, the program should
include all services needed. at first.
however. because of shortage of iacili-
ties and personnel in some areas, it may
not be practicable to provide all types of
medical care. mitially. the program
should provide services of general prac-
titioners and specialists. hospital care.
and laboratory services TO ALL COW
Erred WORKERS AND THEIR DE-
PENDENTS.
Question-Would a social insurance
m-edical-care plan improve or retard the
development Of our health services?
Answer-1t would improve health sery-
ices. Tt would give doctors access to all
diagnostic and treatment aids in the
care of their patients, no matter what
the financial circumstances of the pa
tient served. By removing the cost bar
riers which are responsible for postpone
ment and neglect Of medical attention,
the insurance system would stimulate
early diagnosis and treatment and thus
prevent much illness and disability. BY
guaranteeing doctors fair payment for
their services, it would make it possible
for them to practice in communities
where at present they cannot derive
adequate income. BY guaranteeing pay
ment for hospital service, it would en-
courage the construction Of needed hos
pitfalls and health centers in commumi-
ties which hitherto have hesitated to in
vest capital in constructing facilities be-
cause they had no assurance Of contnu-
ing operating income to maintain the
facilities once they are built.
The social insurance system might
also use q small part Of the contribu-
ton income to support medical research
and training. Such aid would result in
an improvement Of the uality of medical
care and would further the prevention
Of illness and disease.
Montana labor news., 1945-04-19
Radio Tube
Output Short

WASHNGTON-Adjustment Of radio
receiving tube production schedules. to
meet military demands in the next six
months, was effected after recommen-
dations by the Receiving Tube Schedul-
ing Industry Advisory committee, WPB
said. overall Army and Navy require
ments, not including any overseas
must" or emergency orders, still exceed
production by a small margin. WPB
radio and radar officials reported. The
present production of certain critical
types is about 30 per cent below both
the industry's own forecasts and mill
tary reuirements the officials said.
Manufacturing companies were told that
all plants must maintain production
schedules based on military require
ments.
Montana labor news., 1945-04-19
Printing Paper
Limited

WASHINGTON-Because Of an ex-
pected shortage of printing paper in the
second calendar quarter of this year,
most commercial printers will be limited
in the amount Of paper they may accept
from their mills or suppliers to 81 per
cent Of their average 1914 quarterly
consumption, WPB said.
Small users consuming 25 tons Of pa
per or less per quarter and printers with
less than 20 days supply are protected
so that their inventories will not be de
pleted, although they may not order or
accept in excess Of 100 per cent Of their
average 1914 quarterly consumption,
WPB said.
Similar restrictions have been placed
on the book and magazine publishers. In
no event may a commercial printers in
ventory be greater than so days supply
on June /, WPB officials said.
Montana labor news., 1945-04-19

J The dull, deep ache in millions OF
hearts is one that Franklin Roosevelt
would ask us to use to steel ourselves
for the difficult tasks ahead; to close
ranks, a united people determined to
reach the goals he set.
Roosevelt plotted the course to make
America a prosperous country in a world
Of democratic, prosperous, united ma
tons. He forged the Grand Alliance or
coalition that was necessary to win the
victory. That coalition stands firm to-
day. 1t must be maintained and
strengthened if we are to reach Roose-
velt's goal and bring lasting peace, fun
production and full employment.
All Americans felt the deep sense OF
loss N the news of the Presidents death.
But none felt it more keenly than did
his most faithful friends and supporters,
the working men and women of America.
II was Americas workers that RoOse-
welt had helped out of the mire of de-
preston; it was to them that his pro-
gram Of 60 million postwar jobs meant
an end to fear and held out the bright
hope Of peace and prosperity.
AS a young man of %, Roosevelt cut
himself loose from the life of a wealthy
idler. In so doing, he made two dis
coveries that made him the world figure
he was. The first was that he belonged
in the political arena. The other was
that the object of government is the
welfare Of the people.
AS a fighter for the forgotten man.
champion of the common people, Roose-
welt made his mark ON America and in
the eyes of the world. He never lost
sight Of his goal, though at times some
Of his maneuvers to reach it through
the nests of political s~harpshooters dis
mayed a few friends.
Throughout his 10 years in the White
House, Roosevelt carefully etched his lib
eral policies and programs on the hearts
of most Americans. Because Of that he
can be assured in death that the ma
ti0n's masses of workers viii close ranks
now and move forward-upholding the
hand Of his successor. President Harry
s.. Truman.
Pledged to carry out the Roosevelt
principles and program, both foreign and
domestic, Truman both needs and richly
deserves the support of the whole people.
Although the basic war strategy has
been planned and the means for achiev-
ing the durable world peace millions de-
sire has been outlined. Truman's task in
finishing out Roosevelt's fourth term is
truly great.
Unity is the first need of the nation
today. Americans i'm the shops. assembly
lines, factories and farms will rally TO
the side Of the new President. They
win give him the loyalty and devotion
they so freely poured out to Roosevelt
because Truman is determined to finish
the job as his old chief would have done.
with victory at hand on every fight
ing front, with production up to new
peaks, with the United Nations coalition
holding firm, the task ahead is to COM
plete the outline Roosevelt sketched.
The best monument to Roosevelt will
be the attainment of the ideals he
fought for. He would ask none better.
our job, yours and mine, is to see to
it that We don't disgress; to press on.
relentlessly, remembering with FDR that
the only thing we have to fear is fear
itself "
Montana labor news., 1945-04-19
Airplane Output
1858 for March

David j. Winton, regional director OF
WPB, today announced the production
of 1858 airplanes Of all types during
March. Output exceeded the working
schedule Of 6,s63 by three per cent, and
70 per cent higher than the Febru-
airy total Of 6,29 Commenting on the
increase, Mr.. Winton said that for the
most part this was due to the greater
number Of working days in March. Ac-
tuaIy, the average daily rate Of 26l
planes per day was slightly less than
the daily average in February.
Montana labor news., 1945-04-19

Singer Dick Haynes knows a man who
asked a druggist to fix up a remedy for
him. because he was feeling somewhat
under the weather. The druggist pre-
pared a small box Of pills and gave them
to the man. The next day he was back.
feeling no better. did you take the
pills?" asked the druggist.
sure, I swallowed them"
swallowed what?' asked the amazed
pharmacist.
THE box"
You swallowed box and alp"
Yes" said the man, didn't you tell
me?"
The druggist shook his finger at the
man. You just wait" he scolded, until
the lid comes off that box"
Montana labor news., 1945-04-19
Only 40 More Names
Needed On
Poll Tax Petition

WASHINGTON-QP)-As oon as 40
more members of the q. S. House of
Representatives sign Discharge Petition
No. /, the long-delayed poll tax repeal
bill, HR 2, will be forced out onto the
floor for debate and final vote.
Rep. vito Marcantoni0, author Of the
bill, said that as Of April 10, a total Of
17s congressman had signed the dis
charge petition, leaving only 40 needed
TO bring it to the necessary 2l8 and
force the bill from the rules committee.
Montana labor news., 1945-04-19
To Speak on MVA Over
KGIR Saturday, April 81

Joe Mason, secretary-treasurer of the
International Workers Order and an &C
tive member Of organized labor for the
past several years, will speak on the
Montana Radio Forum over KGR next
Saturday evening, April p, at $50
O'Clock. His address viii dwell ON the
benefits Of the Missouri valley Authority.
Montana labor news., 1945-04-19

A group Of German civilians, who were
taken by the Americans on a tour Of a
Hitler concentration camp, couldn't be-
lieve the horrible sights they saw there.
Apparently they thought Goebbels had
gone over TO work for the Allies.
Montana labor news., 1945-04-19

Sen. Arthur V~andenberg Of Michigan
wants to amend the Dumbarton Oaks
agreement so that all the decisions of
the war can be reviewed later.
Including the question Of who won
the war?
Montana labor news., 1945-04-19

German soldiers now being captured
by the Allies are reported looking for
ward eagerly to the soft life in American
prison camps in Arizona and elsewhere.
They don't mind losing the var so
long as they can have a nice, comfort
able peace at American expense.
Montana labor news., 1945-04-19
Milk Drivers Vote Death
Benefits for
Servicemen's Families

CH1CAGO-FP)-AFL milk wagon
drivers here are paying a maximum Of
$3.50 to families Of union members who
die in military service.
A resolution providing for benefit
payments in such cases to families Of
servicemen beginning after one year Of
union membership was adopted unani-
mously by Local 1853, Init. Bro. of Team
sters, at the recommendation Of the
unions executive board. The maximum
is paid to families of union members
who belonged to the organization for
three or more years.
Montana labor news., 1945-04-19
ROOSEVELT POLICIES TO LIVE ON
HE PLOTTED The COURSE TO MAKE AMERICA
A PROSPEROUS COUNTRY in A WORLD
OF DEMOCRATIC AND UNITED NATIONS

WASHINGTON-GFP)-The peoples President is
dead, but Franklin Delano ROosevelt's great dreams and
gigantic accomplishments will never pass away.
Palmer of victory and mapper of peace, Roosevelt
lived to see the dawn burst on his work. He died know
ing he had led America safely through the peril Of the
worlds greatest war. He knew that world fascism was
gasping its last. that democracy was triumphant.
Montana labor news., 1945-04-19

Dick Haynes knows a thrifty charac-
ter who signs "Xerxes" to all kilograms
he sends his girl. Figures he gets in
two kisses without paying for them.
Montana labor news., 1945-04-19

Tokyo consistently beats us on broad
casting the war news, and we consist
emily beat them on making Il.
Montana labor news., 1945-04-19

My rhinking...
NY MensY...My Tine
will s,oy In til.
wor 70 the finish
-EvsT Aasfleoh
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-06-28

Is much less important than the
number OF cans on the pantry shelf
against next winters needs. There
won't be enough canned cherries
or apple sauce or dried apples for
our fighting men; nor of some other
fruits, 1t seems clear. Those Sec
tons Of the civilian pantry shelf
must be filled, and with something
else. In fruit, the else looks like
peaches, mainly.
mo ration points" on home
canned peaches is a poignant con-
sideration in these days of dizzy
heights for points on canned fruits.
Under the prospective shortage, OPA
will doubtless try to discourage
canned fruit buying by maintaining
high point requirements.
Peaches are reaching the markets
now, in limited quantities from
Georgia and the Southern States.
But real canning volume will not
reach our stores until the time-tried
Elberta variety; still after so years
the greatest peach of them all" in
volume produced and in Mrs. Az
erage Consumers preference for
home canning. The big volume Of
Georgia Elbertas will be in the
stores right after July 4, by present
indications. The first peak" will
be swelled by Hileys, Golden Jubilee,
Georgia Belle and other favorite
varieties from the Carolinas, Ten
neSsee and Arkansas. In the Missis-
sippi Valley Arkansas famed Fair
Beauty will be harvested before July
/. All through July. peach volume
in the stores will swell, as Elbertas
roll in from the other Southern
States. The heaviest peak week"
Of the season promises to be about
July 10 to Is.
In the East, New Jersey, Della
ware and parts of Pennsylvania
have lots Of peaches; perhaps IS
per cent Of last years. These reach
market in volume after August /.
Illinois and Missouri In the Mid
west have large crops coming, most
" after August !. Michigan, with
half . crop, markets late-after Sep
tember !.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-06-28

about the corner grocery store, you
find jar Of the really bitter mar
malade with the slivers of rind In
1t, take 1t home in triumph, make
some thin, unsweetened pancakes
like the French crepes and put .
generous spoonful of the marmalade
in each one, before rolling 1t up
neatly. Squeeze just q bit OF lemon
Juice over the outside of the roll
why 1t improves the flavor 80 much,
I don't know, but 1t does.
Then there Is the famous French
pain perdu," or lost bread" This
Is much like French toast. Small
slices Of bread are cut half an inch
thick and the crusts are removed.
Then the slices are soaked In warm
milk well favored with vanilla for
about three or four minutes. The
slices are drained, gently dipped
into the well-beaten yolk of an
eggs, to which / tablespoon Of the
milk and vanilla has been added.
The slices then are fried In butter
or margarine until well Drowned on
both sides and spread with jam
while they are still hot. Deliciousi