davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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POULTRY & EGGS

POULTRY PRICES. TAI poins Imperial
Valley OPA Maximum set Oct. IL, 1943.) }
First price-At ranch to wholesaler or re-
taller. Second price-Delivered to whole
saler or retailer. Third price-At ranch
to consumer:
Broilers, Leghorns, under 2A pounds
30c; IN to 3 pounds, 29c; fryers. 8 to 4
pounds, 29c; roasters, all weights, 29c;
fowl, Leghorn. all weights, 35hc; colored
all weights, 25kc; ducks, all sizes. 25c
rabbits. under pounds, 22-24c.
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l.. A GRAIN

Los Angeles tUP)-Grain market: No. !
hard or soft white wheat, bulk, 27O-2.75;
grading barley, DC lbs bulk 206A 2. II
No. oats. 35 lbs. bulk, 262k -2.6 y
No. yellow corn, bulk, 250-2 So; No.
California milo, sacked 2.42-24715
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The wild Indian passed from the
Texas scene about 1876, after Gen.
r. S. Mackenzie trapped the main
bodS of Comanches and Kiowas
and put them on reserVations. !
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LOS ANGELES, June 16. (UP)-Eggs:
Wholesale prices consumer grade: Large
Grade A, 43k; Grade B, 401a medium
Grade A. 401&; small grade A, 36k.
Candled eggs to retailers: Large
Grade AA, cases AT, cartons 49: med
ium Grade AA, cases %. cartons "a
large Grade A, cases As cartons AZ
medium Grade A, cases 42, cartons Al
small Grade A. cases 3S, cartons 40
large Grade B, cases AZ, cartons "A.
Retail prices to consumers (carton)
Large Grade AA, 81; medium, 4S: large
Grade A, 81; medium. 4S; small. As
large Grade 3, 49,
Butter and poultry unchanged at cell
ings.
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T., A. HAY

Los Angeles (UP)-Alfalfa market No.
1, 81 90; No. 2 leafy 28.OO- 80. 90;
No. ? 25-00-26.00; No. 1 barley hay 24.O0
26.00; Nc. l oat hay % 9.0O-31.00.
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the bases full. He tightened up,
however, and got out of the hole.
Servicemen were blanked in their
half of the first.
In the second frame Civilians
were blanked and the Servicemen
came across with three runs. The
third inning was blank for both
teams, but in the fourth Civilians
made another run. That was the
end of the scoring.
Servicemen used three pitchers,
Keyes of Holtville Navy; Hustek
of B. & G., and Blaylock of Ma
rine Station. Beaver caught seven
innings after which Goodson took
over.
For the Civilians Proscal and
Jackson of Acme was the battery
all through the game Proscal had
8 strike-outs to his credit; Keyes,
L; Hustek, 8, and Blaylock, 5.
The game was hotly fought and
the margin Of win was so close that
fans are talking about a return
game.
Linescores:
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-17

Service All-Stars 003 900 000-3 3
Civilians ............... 100 100 000-2 4
Batteries-Keyes, Hustek, Blay-
lock and Beaver; Proscal and Jack
son.
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and spent ID months in the Eur
opean theater. He underwent an
emergency operation in the field
in Germany and was later flown
10 England. He is the son of Mr..
and Mrs. Pearl Baker. Pfc.
Henry p. Hartges, of 1910 ker-
ner avenue, has returned to an
American hospital from IL
months in the ETC, wearing a
Purple Heart.
Gerald SimcOx, %, of Mt.
Clemens, who swiped truck
load of dresses from PriehS
and sold them at bargain rates
to unsuspecting Mount Glenn
ems women has started a
twO-tO-four year rap in State
prison.
WE SALUTE - Capt. James
Fast. %, several times decorated
AAF bombardier, son of L..
Wade Fast, released under the
point system after 81 months
ETC service. Bronze Stars
to: Pfc. Walter j. Burkhardt, Of
New Baltimore, for bravery on
Luzon: Pfc. Dick Deneweth,
Hall road. for work IL the Phil
ippines; Capt. Floyd We White
(Selfridge 1934-42) won his star
in Italy. Meritorius Serv-
ice unit plaque awards to: s
Sgt. Robert w. DeLaRue, 9th
AAF, for duty in the ETC; S.
Sgt. Edward D. Brown Jr., ST.
Clair Shores, for his units work
on Luzon. Released POWs:
S. Sgt. Gordon M. Slocum, New
Baltimore, now home, and also
It's Jack Coddington. now on
his way home after Is months
in a stalag. 1t. Allan d.
Aschenbach, 9th AAF, whose
VILE lives DIT W olIlltH StICCl,
Mount Clemens, is now a cap
tain.
The day after Hank" Mil
Ter, of the Medea barber shop,
posted a sign on his door:
Out looking for pork
chop" while he was lunching
wag posted another
sign: WED even give a pork
chop il we could find you
open to give us a haircut"
CONGRATULATIONS - NJ.
Sgt. and Mrs. Willis Hathaway
on the birth of son in Tucson,
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NS'y WCSN O'lO I'SIG tI'c
cream of it:
Attorneys for G.. Boyd Mac
Pherson, Warren Township oil
refiner charged on second war
rant with leaving the scene of a
fatal accident (the first case was
dismissed) threw a bombshell
into legal circles here when they
asked the Circuit Court to force
Justice Don Parent to halt the
case because, they allege, he is
serving as justice Illegally.
His failure to pay the nOm-
inal IS annual membership fee
TO the State Bar Association
since 1889, they claim, dis
qualities him from practising
as an attorney (Which a JUS
tice must be-, and also, they
allege. his leave of absence
from Mount Clemens last fall
and winter, when he lived at
Frederick, Mich, means he
quit his job on the bench.
Don has had nothing to say
about the Bar Membership fee
angle, but claims the city APP
proved his absence due to i'll
health. The defense at
torneys' complaint also mentions
Ray H. Callens, named code
PENDANT, who represents the auto
victims family and obtained the
second warrant from Parent.
They claim Ray and Don are
putting court pressure on Mac
Pherson to make him settle a
civil suit brought by the mans
widow.
Nineteen year old James
MarkIe, of Van Dyke, who in
May 1914 tried to swindle a
Gold Star mother with a yarn
about her hero son, broke into
the news again, this time as
the husband" of 13-year-Old
Lola Brack, a Center Line
trailer camp resident :.
with whom he went through
a marriage ceremony before
J-P who was shown a license
stating LOla's age as Is.
After a three day honeymoon
at a resort hotel near Algonac,
the couple returned home and
Markle was manned by deputies
and thrown in the jug
while Lola, still protesting II
love him." was escorted to the
Juvenile Detention Home. Mar
-kle who -has-pleaded guilty to
charges of criminal assault and
perjury in the obtaining of a Ii
cense, is awaiting sentence.
The long awaited decision
on the Blossom Heath inter-
racial clubs application for
operating license in the Shores
has been handed down by
Judge Paul r. Cash, of Alma,
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Legal Notices
Laura G. Ullrich-Estate
July =, 1915

July 9. 1913
STATE OF MICHIGAN, The Probate
Court for the County OF Macomb
At session of said Court. held III
the Probate Office In the City OF Mt
Clemens, In said County, on the 4th day
OF June A. d. l945.
Present: Hon. Joseph v. Trombly,
Judge of Probate.
In the Matter of the Estate of Laura
c. Ullrich, Deceased
Marcus Ullrich having filed In said
Court a petition praying for license 10
sell the interest of said estate cartain
real estate herein described.
II Is Ordered, That the and day OF
July A. D. l945 AT nine O'Clock In the
forenoon, Central War Time 1000 a. IN.
Eastern War Time' at said Probate
Office. be and is hereby appointed for
hearing said petition.
II is Further Ordered. That further
notice thereof be given by public alton
OF copy OF this order. for three sue
cessive weeks previous 10 said day OF
hearing. in the Monitor-Le adler. q news
paper printed and circulated in said
County.
JOSEPH v. TRoMBLY,
Judge OF Probate.
ELEANORE swALENTowICZ, =,
Deputy Register of Probate
NEALE 4 HIRT.
Attorneys for Administrator,
Mt. Clemens. Michigan.
June s.i5.22-M-L.
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Ariz. S. Sgt. NJ. A. Hen
nings, son of Mrs. A. j. Wiese,
who marked his goth birthday
with the AAF in England. &.
Cpl. and Mrs. Frederick Gem
mer on their daughter born al
ST hospital this week. He's on
Two Jima p. O. Norman
LaCroix and Mrs. Adele Nc
Pherson LaCroix, on the birth
of a daughter. June s and
James l.. Cole Jr.. who blew
out three candles His daddy,
1t. Col. James l.. Cole is in the
Philippines. Seaman &c
Lawrence Nicola, 80 Gibbs
street, on his 10Th birthday Gel
ebrated in the Pacific area.
A team driven by Elvie Wal
ter, of Van Dyke, cut loose on
that busy highway Thursday
when a passing car horn start
led them. They romped down
the broad highway, sending
busses and cars right and left
until they reached a
plOughed field that slowed
'em up.
HONORABLE MENTION -
EN- &c Louis NJ. Grabowski
Route 4, had a battleship box
seat at OkinaWa Cpl. Hen,
ry +. Murphy, Route /, AAF
ground crew member, recently
had view Of Europe's battered
cities from the air Pvt
Sidney Z. Shue, 81 Logan street
is busy with the Red Arrow
Division in the Pacific.
2 G Paul j. Pointer is at Pa
cific port. Sgt Herman
konzer is now in Austria after
France, Germany, Luxembourg
and Belgium. !. T. Sgt. Del
mer Wright is home from Eu.
rope and the Middle East or
brief furlough. Pvt. Harold
Engelman writes from a Pacific
bound transport. 1t. Og)
Mart Bobcean has pneumonia al
Pearl Harbor. Seaman nc
Joseph j.. Belowsky, 1870 Dick.
inson, is home from 20 months
with the Seabees in the Aleu-
tians. 1t. Fred X. Dell
is around town after ETC duty
Pvt. Nicholas Mighion won
the Infantryman's Combat badge
in CZechoslovakia. Marine
Pfc. Chester Zurawski. 239 Eliz-
ageth, on leave after l8 months
action in the Pacific. Ben
jamin w. Kulman, USNR, is in
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Mich. It goes against the Ne
gro group who, Cash points
out, were not Disseminated
against because the village in
1899 set up a zOning Ordi-
nance placing the Heath in a
residential area five
years before any club tried to
take 1t over.
He pointed out that club Ii
cense for a white group was also
refused by the Shores prior to
the Heath rejection: The plain
tiffs are members of the black
race and in any matter in which
the personal or property rights
of the Negro are involved he
always has, as against the white
man, the additional argument of
racial discrimination said the
judge. This matter has
been decided solely on cold, I'M
biased legal principles"
After a dramatic jury trial
during which a 31-year-Old
mother of three children
screamed her testimony to the
jury, Clyde Spells, "a, and his
br0ther-in-law, Harold b.
dab, "a, were convicted of
criminal assault. and, face
possible life terms under the
laws Of Michigan. Prosecutor
Bill Held said the case was
the most brutal ever to come
to his attention.
Just a block away from the
Cady-McCoy smoke blackened
corner, the Cunningham Drug
store, Macomb and Gratiot, was
the scene of a $4,000 fire last
Sunday evening when
flames suddenly swept into the
store from the basement and
routed a bunch of customers.
Eight business establishments
around the corner were disrupt
ed by the blaze.
Out at Selfridge Field sub
depot the other day, Under
sheriff Tommy kaltenbach
put the finger on a 20O-lb., S
f0Ot-4 inch woman typist and
asked her to come along. She
was Bertha mickey, Al, an at
torney and former assistant
prosecutor of Twin Falls, Id
ahO wanted in Salt Lake
City for $4,000 worth of bum
checks. She plans to fight ex-
tradition.
Art Roses MisWeet, first filly
TO enter the Kentucky Derby
sinve 1896, and the first Mount
Clemens-owned' horse ever list
ed in the Big Race will
have ploughed up Churchill
Downs by the time you read
this, whether or not she wins
the $4,000 race and gets
wreath of roses = it will
have been a great day in racing
for Mount Clemens.
For the first time in three
years, Mount Clemens folks
may be able to get a bus to
the Municipal Beach when it
opens shortly. if the Of
flee Of Defense TranspOrta-
ton approves and our friends
Barney Fuller and Lou Pei
tier can make the necessary
arrangements. It'll be r great
break for the kids who hitch
hiked through the broiIing
sun these last few summers.
Hester M. Posner (Mrs.
Adolph r. DeVriese) often won
the hearts of Mount Clemens
readers with her rare talent for
poetic expression. Now, first
copies of her first published
work, "Interlude" and being
distributed nationally. It's So
age book containing 81 choice
poems which an able critic des-
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-06-08

PURPLE HEARTS - In the
latest list of arrivals at Percy
Jones Hospital, Battle Creek, is
Sgt. Max L. Baker, of 293 South
Broadway, Mount Clemens. He
has been in uniform five years
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the Pacific and saw the Philip
pines, Two and Okinawa shows
from a heavy cruiser.
Two Detroit Youths face
cruelty to animal charges for
renting horses at a riding
academy Memorial Day and
riding them numerically"
until one horse drop
ped dead and the other was
seriously harmed.
SPORTS s 7 l. FF - The
weather's been giving us a better
break, but the season schedule
in softball has been set back so
badly that for the first time in
history senior and junior
league "double-header' has been
scheduled here Sunday Sci
fridge Field (4-0) and Super
Cleaners 800 are the leading
contenders in the senior loop,
followed by Hillcrcst and Gov
cred Wagon In the Juniors,
l O OF, Breitmeyers. Nesbitt 5
Orange and Vans Fish Market
are all grouped 10 a Mount
Clemens team starts Sunday
against Center Line in the Jr.
American Legion B c b a !
League They halted the
Eastern Michigan HIS League
track meet last week Dust when
the Bathers appeared TO be
sweeping the board on account
of bad weather so the boy ;
went back TO Ferndale Thursday
and although they were proper y
ganged up on Ray VickerS took
the broad jump; Jimmy Char
benau the 100 and 900 and Boo
Manning the shot put The
relay was a dead heat for the
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Fires
CONTINUED from Page ~

Continued from Page ~
and 100 gallons Of chemical
used.
LIST EXPENSES
The payroll for the fire de-
partment was listed at $751;
$1,000 and various amounts
were spent for other expenses
such as insurance, S480.55; fuel,
$631.23; upkeep of trucks,
S621.9O; gasoline, $2l3.72, and
$l,228.85 for miscellaneous ex-
pcnses.
Smith stated that S624.20 in
cash was received from the city
scales.
The report was submitted to
the City Commission and APP
proved as read.
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first three times so they
gave Mount Clemens third place!
=. Anyway. they're scared Of
4
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By D. A. ~
By D. A.
suggested enclosure personal thsm)

DEAR JACK: The has been pouring in hot and
ost all week with stories breaking here thot reod
all the state and in other sotes and you can bet
your last blade that yours truly didn't do much oone
around But tired not resolved give you the
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cribes as "a new voice in the
field of poetry"
Two Waldenburg farmers
became suspicious that foxes
were raiding hen c00ps. With
q shotgun and shovel they un-
earthed a litter Of four-month-
old red foxes from . nearby
ditch bank. Chicken bones.
feathers and rabbit fur lay all
around.
AROUND THE CITY-Among
the So SMHS grades who are
being awarded diplomas this
week are: Victor Garske, Robert
Kurz and Clarence Voiland, in
the avy; Thomas Mcmahon, in
TIE AAF and Tom Sawyer who
leaves tonight for military duty.
Mo. MN &c Lawrence Dluge,
a student of '43, in the South
Pacific also gets a diploma. :.
A War Department hearing on
Clinton flood control will be
held here June IA. High
water and chilly weather has
delayed the bench opening till
about the 10th. A wing
tank used in chemical warfare
work slipped from a Selfridge
plane Thursday and demolished
a tree beside the Erich H. Spitz-
er home, Sugar Bush road. E.
End 1t. Byron Erskine got his
Goodfellows Christmas package
in Austria on May 6. Sig
mailman sc Gerald l.. Brown.
on the DE Paul G.. Baker, got
his Navy Mothers yule package
off Okinawa on May 25.
Utica's Ross jenkins won't
take anything lying down ..
especially creaking sign
over shop below his apart
ment. When the wind blows
its squeaks keep him awake
all night, he told the City
Fathers, who are conducting a
probe.
AROUND THE COUNTY -
The War Bond drive is tagging
badly at home, so maybe you
guys will have to 60 easy on
those bombs you're dropping on
the Japs. Apparently Mount
Clemens and Macomb County
Folks have only attained about
Is per cent of their E bond quo
ia. Gladys LaVigne's Disco
Tavern, built in 1850 and sue
cessively a private school,
church, Justice court and tav.
ern, burned to the ground. :.
Looks like Detroit's going to
forget about a Warren Town
ship airport. They prefer a
Wayne County site. Char
lie Teets, 40, of 3460 Camp
Ground road, Washington, was
shot through the arm the other
night by a bullet from a high
powered rifle in the hands of
someone outside his window
who apparently missed only be-
Cause Teets suddenly changed
his position. Rank amateur
stick-up men from Detroit who
took an East Detroit restaurant
owners car and escaped with it,
were easily nabbed by Deputy
Floyd Beard in l3 minutes.
Paul Sunday, II, and Nicholas
Kangas, 33, of 2370l Allor, st.
Clair Shores, overcome by gas
fumes, were rescued and reviv-
ed by alert Shores officers.
When Deputies Leon Kandt
and Bill WOOlcott gave speeder
Walter O'Neal,. IL, of 1898
Floyd, Mount Clemens, a tick
ct the other day, he made
mistake tearing it up as he
drove away and scattering the
Lieces out the window. Now
they're asking disorderly
warrant and one for resisting
an officer, because O'Neal al
legedly got rough.
LEST WE FORGET - Earl
E. Robinson, USN, son of MIR.
aid Mrs. Lewis M. Robinson, IS
McKishnie, previously reported
missing, died a heros death off
Okinawa April IL, they have
been informed. He was an honor
MCHS grad in 1912. AMIN
nc G.. Reginald Baker, East
Detroit High School boy, of
$4,000 Rein avenue, also died
in tho South Pacific EN-
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-18
PRESIDENT STILL
WANTS SIS BILL

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.-P-
President Truman today renewed
his request for unemployment COM
pensation ranging up to $25 week.
However, hackers of the plan were
not hopeful as they made ready
for fight in the Senate Tuesday.
The chief executive made the
request to Congressional leaders
at White house conference. Sen
ate Majority Leader Barley of
Kentucky told reporters the Presi-
dent was emphatic that he still
wanted his original proposal. This
calls for Federal supplements to
raise state unemployment COM
pensation payments so that per-
son entitled to maximum benefits
shall get at least $25 week for
|26 weeks.
Present state maximums vary
from SIS to $28 a week.
The $25 plan has been rejected
by the Senate Finance committee.
It reported a measure providing
Federal aid to extend the duration
Of state payments by so per cent.
For all but two states, this
would mean a maximum duration
of rs weeks. In Mississippi and
Arizona it would be % and frac-
ton weeks. =
Senators Ki1gore, D.-W. Va.),
ar Mead, D.-N. " have prornis-
ed a fight to go back to the plan
recommended by the. President.
Talking with reporters, Kilgore
fCo~n%i,nxra.l n~s T.~n, Cn1 ~
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-18
FIRST CHRISTIAN
CHURCH ANNOUNCES
WILSON APPOINTMENT

The Rev. Allen Wilson has been
called as temporary pastor of the
First Christian Church for a per-
iod of six months, succeeding the
Rev. James Lawson, who recently
resigned to accept the pastorate of
a church in Indiana.
Mr.. Wilson has occupied a num-
Der of larger pulpits of the Chris
tan Disciples Brotherhood in sew
eral states. For some years he
served as State secretary for Ken
lucky.
Mr.. Wilson comes to the Will
mington church highly recon-
mended as a leader in his church.
The Rev. Lawson resigned to &C
cept the pastorate of a church OF
900 members after serving in Will
mington for more than eight years.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-18
STATE OFFICE
PLANS INQUIRY
Will Look Into Generals Statement Issued At
Tokyo, Commenting On Occupation Sue
cess; Enemy Said To Be Cooperating

TOKYO, Tuesday, Sept. 18.-CF
General Macarthur, foreseeing
early and complete demobiliza.
tion'' of his triumphant Paci:: :
army of draftees, declared today
that 200, 900 regular troops probably
could rule Japan.
(The State Department at Wash.
ington, surprised by the statement.
planned to investigate it. One Of.
fetal said it was feared the i'm.
preston would spread abroad that
the United States was planning to
withdraw at an early date, leaving
the Japanese largely in charge Of
their own affairs.>
The Navy headquarters at Pearl
Harbor disclosed that Admiral Hal
sey would leave Japan next Thurs.
day for the United States. His
Third Fleet forces remaining in
ia 1nese waters will be assigned
to Adm. Raymond A. Spruance's
Fifth Fleet.
Vice Adm. Frank Jack Fletcher,
commander of the North Pacific
Fleet which had assumed charge
of early occupation operations in
northern Japan, also will leave
soon for his headquarters in the
Aleutians.
Macarthur said the occupation
was so smooth that plans for mill
tary rule were junked and those
thereby freed from duty would go
home as fast as; ships could take
them. He estimated that military
rule operating without the Japa.
nese government would take "sev-
eral million troops" to enforce.
The Japanese showed their coop.
Grafton by shelving militarist-taint-
ed Foreign Minister Namoru Shige-
mitsu and replacing him with
Shigeru Yoshida, veteran diplomat
once jailed for opposing the war.
simultaneously Macarthur put
into effect a drastic re-education
program designed by dint of press.
radio and the public schools to lead
Japan's millions from militarism to
the ways of Democracy.
Four more suspected Japanese
war criminals were locked in
Yokohama prison, where once
some Allied prisoners languished.
Twenty of the 46 on Mac
Arthur's wanted list now are in
custody. Two others were suicides.
1t. Gen. Yoshio Shinotsuka, class
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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-18
Mass Murder Trials Get
Underway, At Lueneberg
BY RONALD CLARK
United Press STAFF Corresponds

LUXEMBOURG, G Err ANY,
Sept. 1.-THE prosecution charged
today at the first mass trial of
German war criminals that more
than 250,000 persons were killed in
the gas chambers Of Auschwitz
conc entration camp and inmates
of Belsen were driven to cannibal.
ism by mass starvation.
Forty five defendants including
10 women went on trial before a
British Military Court for atroci-
ties at the two camps. All pleaded
innocent including Josef Kramer,
the Beast of Belsen'' who sat in
court shackled to another prise.
ner and wearing a foot-square pla.
card labelling him mo. IL
The charges were made by Col
T. M. Backhouse, prosecuting at.
torney, who said the old, the preg.
nant, the i'll and children were
singled out at Auschwitz for the
gas chambers. Sometimes 1000
were executed at a time. Forty
four crematoriums could not keep
up with the bodies, he said.
OF $4,000 Greek Jews at Ausch-
WITT, only 60 survived, Backhouse
asserted. He introduced records
compiled by former British in
mates rescued when British t1rAps
overran. the camps.
There were $4,000 unburied
| corpses. at Belsen. when British
forces arrived. Disease and star.
walton were so widespread, in.
mates had been forced into canni-
balisrn. AS many as one in IL
corpses showed signs of having
been subjected to cannibalism, he
said.
.Backhouse estimated that 80 per
cent of the $4,000 men and $4,000
women found alive in Belsen hac
dysentery., Within six weeks after
troops arrived, $4,000 died. They
were beyond medical aid. He sale
there were nearly 900 cases O.
typhus and that 1000 prisoner:
were trying to bury the dead. A
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