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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-07
Roundups Common

II she tainted under abuse,
she was restored to conscious
ness and further abused by
dousing with water. NaZis make
routine roundups of attractive
young Polish girls for shipment
to Berlin and battlefront BROTH
els. often on pretext of sending
them to Germany for forced
labor Many need medical care
after a month with the troops.
Regular woman-hunts are or
ganiZed by Germans in War
saw. who carry off their prey in
trucks. Eighty girls we're kid
mapped on March 10, 1910, in the
Warsaw suburb. With such acts
receiving official German sane
ton, many NaZi military patrols
roam at night, catching girls
for their own unofficial pleas
ure. Official records show that
the 228th Infantry kidnapped
three girls in Powislo in the
spring of 1910, taking them to
quarters occupied by troops,
where each of them was vio-
lated several times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-07
Tree Chopped Down

While the prisoner sang idi-
otto NaZi songs two overseers
were ordered 10 saw down the
tree. When the frightened
Viennese howled with fear more
bullets flew near him to force
him to resume his song When
the tree crashed he was killed
instantly.
OF the many cregnatoria used
by the NaZis TO exterminate
subject people. one about which
little has been published is at
Mauthausen. One ghoulish in
cident occurred here when bod
les were being carted into the
furnaces One victim, who had
only tainted, sat up and cried
out.
The lad Servicing the fur
mace wanted TO halt the cart
and either kill or save the living
man. The IS official in charge
shouted that the man must be
dead because his death had been
recorded In the office. There
fore, there could be no reStora-
ton. The living man was flung
into the furnace.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-07
Feet Never Heal

Following this exercise. the
prisoners were forced TO spin
around until overcome by diZzi-
ness. Another treatment calls
for prisoners to squat and re-
main motionless. Torn skin OF
bruised feet cannot support the
body's weight. and prisoners
collapse while NaZi guards roar
with laughter. No medical at
tention for cut feet. No band
ages. The next day were gym
nastics" on the gravel deepen
the cuts. which are never al
lowed to heal
A hundred men witnessed this
incident and can swear that il
happened. An SIS man named
Schubert punished a Viennese
prisoner publicly by forcing him
10 climb a 130-foot-high noun
tain pine. When he climbed too
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-07
Await Their Turns

Other prospective vict m 8
meanwhile watched and awaited
their turn, like animals in a
slaughter house. Jews shipped
from Frankfurt in special trains
were thrown off at various To-
cations, forced to undreSs. then
machine-gunned. Their clothes
were used to repleniSh waning
stocks in Germany.
In wholesale deporta o n s
from Salonika, Greece, lasting
six weeks, men, women and
children were packed into cat
tie cars. One witness who
Travelled over the deportation
route afterwards counted bod
les of 1S dead children less than
2 years old, who had suffocated
and been thrown out en- route.
Women suffer the worst fate
under the Nazi New Order
brutal torture, murder, rape.
Forty girls between IA and 20
years of age in Inowroclaw, Po-
land, were shot down by their
guards as they filed out Of jail,
when guards opened a door and
said they were to be released.
Female students were round
ed up in Cecho-Slovakia after
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-07

signified slow and certain death
to all who were sent there. In
genious torture methods in
cluded tying the victim in a
painful cradle, witt one guard
beating him numerically while
another sat on his head.
At one camp In Holland. pris-
oners were buried with only
their heads above ground and
guards marched around stamp
ing the ground firmly until the
buried persons lost conscious
ness.
Eyewitnesses tell OF brutal
Gymnastics" at Oswiecim camp
in Poland. where over 10000
persons persisted up 20 July.
1912. Arriving on crowded cat
tie trains without sleep and
with little food for days, prison
ers were forced TO run for
hours around a gravel yard.
After five minutes bare feet
began TO bleed. Older prisoners
who Jagged were beaten by
guards. Men who collapsed
were dragged to a pump and re-
vived and then forced TO con-
tinue running or suffer new
fortunes.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-07
StarIet Sets
Wedding Date
HOLLYWOOD. Dec. 30.

HOLLYWOOD. Dec. 30. -,
Columbia Starlet Les .
Brooks and Tony Shay have So
the date-Feb. 1. And. Incl
dentally, Sgt John Shay,
brother of Leslie's fiancc, has
been given a part in The Story
Of G. /. joe"
Before his army discharge he
won the DIG ard Air Medal for
his feats as an aerial gunner.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-07
Devise New Method

In formerly occupied Russia
the Germans once forced sur
vivors of a typhus epidemic to
walk hundreds Of kilometers to
another camp. StragglerS were
drowned en- route.
More brutal torture methods.
A German prison camp in Riga
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-07
Maxi Death Trains
Took Thousands
on Last Journey
PART II
Humanity VS.. the German People

humanity w. the German FeOpio
PART II
TNDESCRIBABLE horrors
4 have been committed by Ger
mans on hundreds of death
trains, which carry unfortu-
nate victims of the New Order
from various corners of Europe
to concentration camps in west
ern Poland and Germany.
Jews deported from CZecho-
Slovakia and Austria ride in
unheated cattle cars travelling
as much as three weeks. Hun
dreds die from disease and ex-
treme cold en- route. In one
camp. when a baby was born
during the journey, a Nazi
guard flung il brutally from the
tra'N because there was no
room for it," The mother was
driven insane with grief.
Prisoners on death trains"
seldom know their destination.
Sometimes they go direct to
concentration camps after long
hours of standing on railroad
sidings-as did the train which
carried Samuel RajZman from
warsaw TO the Tremblinka
camp in Poland.
Even on RajZman's short
journey five women and two
men died. When the ira n
stopped at other times prison.
ers were deliberately destroyed
the old and infrm packed
into large, closed trucks which
had exhaust pipes arranged to
direct fumes into the truck and
aSphyxiate the inmates.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-07

Germans obtained names and
addresses from university Of
fees in Prague. NaZi officers,
carrying lists of students
names, raided hoStels and even
dragged girls from their homes.
Each girl taken was handed
over TO a group of 10 officers.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-07
Boys Taken TO Germany

The German 7th Anti-Air-
craft Artillery committed SIM
liar offenses twice in the dis
trict Of Mokotow. OF illegiti-
mate children born to occupy
ing German soldiers and women
of occupied countries. boys are
taken TO Germany and girls left
b c h in d-thus depriving the
country of male children and
furnishing cannon fodder for
Germany's next war.
The death march" used by
Japs on Bataan is not new to
Germans. In 1910. French pris-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-07

oners taken In Brittany were
marched for three weeks to
Stuttgart. Once en- route they
were locked in a railroad sta
ton for three days without food
or drink. Otter guards beat
them. At their final destination
they were fed in pig troughs.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-07

Shirley Temple and Jen-
infer Jones are the sister
team in a great story of
present American family
life, "Sinee You Went
Away" at the Palms-State.
Clau dette Colbert and
Monty Woolley play adult
roles.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-07

slowly the SIS man forced him
on with revolver shots. When
the prisoner reached the tree
top the Nazi sadist forced him
TO sing. firing at him whenever
he stopped.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-21

ward the adult education classes, with the assistance of staff members of the Health Boat Hygiene, as well as extension classes under the dir ection of Miss Imogene Wood, of the University of Alaska Extension Services
 The second objective of the Sis terhood will be the reorganization of junior ANS and ANB groups for teen-agers. The activities of these junior groups closely parallel Boy and Girl Scout work, and are organ- ized in the villages where such youth organizations do not exist.
 The third part of the program as outlined includes the improving of Indian arts and crafts, and the buy ing of stock in a newly organized company for the wholesale distribu- tion of Indian made products.
 Mrs. Peratrovich also announced the ANS treasury report showed a surprising increase, due mainly to increasing membership, and said that the sum of $500 was turned over to the Grand Treasurer of the ANB, to help pay the years expenses.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-21

kans from all over Alaska and also the Third District to attend and have raised several thousand dollars to entertain the delegates.
 L. V. Ray of Seward has been invited to be the keynote speaker
 Business of the convention will be to name as the conventions choice a Delegate to Congress, Territorial Treasurer, Commissioner of Labor and Senators and Representatives from all Divisions, later to be pre- sented by respective District Dele gates.
 Platform and resolutions will also be an order of business. State hood will come to the floor as we'll as condemnation of many boards and methods now being enforced in the Territory.
 Those who will perhaps leave on the steamer Yukon, next week, will be the Chairman, E. E. Engstrom, and Wm L. Paul, who has been in- vited to attend so that the Native people of Alaska will also have rep resentation, Paul having been a Republican Representative for a number of years from this District.
 Albert White will also be in the party and others from Ketchikan, Juneau and Cordova and Seward will join enroute to Anchorage
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-21
WIDMARk IS NEW GRAND PRESIDENT
 OF NATIVE GROUP
Elizabeth Peratrovich Re- named 10 Lead Sister-
 hood Organization

New Grand President of the Alaska Native Brotherhood is Alfred Widmark, Klawock merchant, who was elected at last weeks ANB-ANS convention at Angoon, following re- fusal of candidacy by Roy Peratro- yich. retiring president.
 Mrs. Elizabeth Peratrovich was re- elected as Grand President of the sister organization, the Alaska Ma tive Sistephood.
 Most important resolutions adopt ed by the convention included: App proval in principle of merger of bar gaining activities with the American Federation of Labor Unions; re- quest for special legislative session; that aboriginal claims be settled by extinguishment and payment there for; request for August l opening date for salmon fishing covering all Southeast Alaska except gill net areas; request for consolidation Of Federal and Territorial schools where communities so desire with Alaska Native Service to provide community worker in addition; breakwater and dredging improve ments at Gastineau Channel, Fake, Angoon and Hydaburg; year-round maintenance of Haines cutoff as an open highway; Federal tuberculosis hospital at Saxman.
 Other officers of the two organ iZations elected at the convention are: ANB-Andrew Gamble, Angoon Mayor, Grand Vice President; Will fam L. Paul, Jr., unanimously re elected Grand Secretary; the Rev. Walter Sotoleff, unanimously re- elected Grand Treasurer; Jack brown, Klawock, elected Sergeant at-Arms theld post two years ago.
 ANS-Flora Cook. Sitka school teacher, reelected Grand Vice. President; Edith Smith, Klawock, re- elected Grand Secretary; Mrs. Ma, tilda Gamble, wife of Andrew Gam ple, elected new Grand treasurer; Mabel Johnson, Angoon, reelected Sergeant -at-Arms.
 The Angoon convention his year was reported very successful, with long hours devoted entirely to the
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-21

important business before it. At least three days the sessions ran in> to early morning hours. The formal business of the convention was ad- Journed at o'clock Saturday eve nng, following which installation of officers and the grand ball was held. Despite unfavorable weather, all delegates were present except those from Hydaburg, Craig and Wrangell, who had planned to arrive by plane.
 The delegations from Juneau, Douglas, Haines, Klukwan and Yak
 utat arrived here Monday night at Il o'clock, aboard the vessel Princeton Hall, which carried them to and from AngOon.
 New ANB Grand President Wid- mark, though not well-known in Juneau, has been prominent at Kla- wock, being active in local ANB Camp affairs there and holding the local post Of ANB Treasurer. He has served several terms on the Kla- wock city Council and for the year past was ANB Grand Vice Presi- dent lie is married, about 36 years old. is a graduate of the University of Oregon, has three fine children and operates a general store at Kla- week His brother, Lawrence Wid- mark, is prominent at Sitka
 Action taken toward merger of bargaining activities with AF'L groups, following approval of the merger in principle, included author ization to a constitutional commit tee of three to meet with an AFL committee to develop details for the joint organization The AFL's ASP SU and CWA union groups were in- vited to send three delegates to Wrangell before January Is, to meet with the three delegates comprising the ANB-ANS committee. Selected for the constitutional committee from the native organizations are the Grand President, Grand Secre- tary and Chairman of the Labor Committee of the ANB; Alfred Wid- Mark, William Paul, Jr., and William Paul, ST, respectively.
 The proposed merged bargaining agency would be arrived at by dis solution of present collective bar gaining groups of the AFL and ANB-ANS and substitution therefor of a new agency, which would ap- ply for a new charter under the Seafarers' International.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-21
FUNERAL SERVICES
 FOR LLOYD WINTER
 TO BE HELD FRIDAY

Funeral services for Lloyd V. Wintcrs, pioneer resident of Ju- ncau who died Sunday night at St. Ann's Hospital, will be held on Friday afternoon at o'clock, from the Charles w. Carter Mortuary, with the Rev. Willis R. Booth de- livering the eulogy.
 Ernest Ehler will sing two ap- propriate selections. The pallbearers will be H. L. Faulkner, w. E. HiX- sen, T. M Davis, N. F. Fagerson, F. M Hermann and Homer Garvin.
 The Masonic Ritual will be fol- lowed for the services, and inter- ment will be in the Masonic Plot, Evergreen Cemetery.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-21
EDUCATIONAL FILMS SHOWN

A group of educational films, produced and assembled by the Alaska Territorial Health Service, were shown yesterday at the Doug las schools, with MT. Stone, Senior Sanitarian, operating the projector, and Miss Margaret Welsh, Public Health Nurse, commenting and ex- blaming the different titles. Two films were shown the entire stu dent body and two were shown to the upper grades only.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-21
o. F. s. INITIATES

With a fine turnout of visitors, a regular meeting of Nugget Chap ter No. 2, Order of Eastern Star, was held last evening in the Eagles Hall. Initiated were: Alfreda Dore, Elloise Allen anG Lawrence Allen. The banquet hall was cheerful with Thanksgiving decorations and refreshments were served by the following committee Catherine Balog, Edith Barras and Alice Poor.
 Next meeting will be held Dec. Is, and will be climaxed with the annual Christmas party and gift exchange.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-21
AMATEUR SHOW ENTRIES

The Douglas Girl Scouts, under the direction of Mrs. Helen Par rish, presented a Mexican act at the Juneau P.-T.A. amateur audi ton last evening and the "Gingham Girls consisting of Pat Balog, Shirley Edwards and Pat Andrews, also presented their singing trio.
 Both acts were accepted for the finals which will be presented by the Juneau P.-T.A. Association on November 30 Tickets are on sale for the show at the Douglas school.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-21
DOUGLAS
 NEWS
BIBLE CHURCH SERVICES

Instead of regular Bible studies at the Douglas Bible Church to- morrow evening Thanksgiving Day), there will be special eve ming of fellowship observing the Thanksgiving holiday. The pro- gram will start at D. m, with the public cordially invited to at tend. After the services. refresh ments will be served to all, accord ing to the Rev. Peter Nickels.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-21
cop CONVENTION
 AT ANCHORAGE TO
 BE WELL ATTENDED

The Territorial Republican Con- vention at Anchorage, December l to December 4, will have large at tendance according to advices re- ccived by Territorial Chairman E. E. Engstrom.
 The Republicans of Anchorage have gone to town in inviting Alas
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-21
SEATTLE

SEATTLE - Labor and manage ment representatives say there are no developments in strike which closed down Seattle's three daily newspapers Sunday. Striking Typo graphical Union pickets are per- mitting only newspaper executives and news service employees to enter the Post-Intelligencer, Times and Star buildings. The union is de- manding pay increases of $295 a day
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-21
ANS DOINGS

Much interest was shown among ANS members in the three-part program carried on by the Sister hood, Mrs Peratrovich reported, and plans made for going forward with each of the main objectives.
 Renewed efforts will be made to-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-21

TORONTO-Test work to determ- inc whether enough oil can be found to turn the wartime Canol Project into a profitable commercial enter prise is being carried out in vast ,rea adjacent to the Norman Wells field, an Imperial Oil Company spokesman said today
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-21
B JULIE ! l N }

WASHINGTON -- President Trl-- man has ordered government seizure of Washington's strike bound bus and trolley system by the Office of Defense Transportation He termed the walkout "a blow at the sanctity of labor agreements
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-21

BATAVIA-The Allied Nerther- lands East Indies Command has ordered gum waving native troops under Dutch command to withdraw from the Java capital Comparative quiet is reported in Soerabaja.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-21

LONDON-Tyler Kent, former U. s. Embassy clerk whom the British imprisoned on charges of revealing contents of coded messages, sailed today for the United States, the Embassy announced Kent was sen tenced to a seven-year term on con- viction of violating the British Of ficial Secrets Act With time off for good behavior, his sentence expired last October 5.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-21

PARIS-Gen. de Gaulle's Chief of Cabinet said today that the Presi- dent had formed a coalition gov ernment giving the Communists five portfolios, including a newly Ministry of Armaments.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-21
TOKYO-Allied headouarters ;o

TOKYO-Allied Headquarters to- day directed the Japanese govern ment to compile complete informa- tion on the location of graves of Allied personnel in Japan, reporting full details before December Is. The directive coincided with a renewed search for personnel still listed as missing in Japan-including more than l 500 airmen.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-21
WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON = President Tru- man today accepted the resignation of Robert A. Lovett, Assistant Sec retary of War for Air, effective De- cember 8. Lovett's resignation was submitted September at the time Henry L. Stimson retired as Secre- tary of War
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-21

{. DETROIT-The CIO Auto Union
 has begun a strike against the
 General Motors which appears to be 100 per cent effective The walk out is in 100 plants in 20. States.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-21
WASHINGTON
Tonl)rrow'S

Thanksgiving observance at the House House will be marked by a small family dinner No other special plans have been made for the day.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-21

The continent of Africa is defic- tent in natural harbors, gulfs, and bays.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-21
NEW VORK-CIO

! NEW YORK-CIO union officials announce that all employees of Montgomery Ward will be called out for one week for a work stoppage beginning next Monday
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-21

ilion of the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-21
WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON Secretary of State James Byrnes says that Marines are being kept in China in accordance with promise given the Japanese last August. Byrnes revealed that as part of the sur render negotiations this country agreed to help with the surrender and repatriation of Japanese soldiers in China.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-21

JERUSALEM Gen. Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham, newly ap- pointed High Commissioner of Pal estine, arrived here by plane this morning and was to be sworn in at the Government House this after noon. He succeeds the ailing Lord Gort
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-21

LOS ANGELES-Admira William Halsey, Jr., Commander of the Third Fleet, will today turn over his flag ship South Dakota to Rear Admiral Howard Kingman. Halsey will then return to Washington for brief period of temporary duty then enter private business.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-21
LEWISTON, Mont.-Two sm

LEWISTON, M0nt.-IWo SmaiI ranch children were burned to death early yesterday and their par ents critically injured in an heroh attempt to save them from their flaming home The dead are Jac- quelin 4, and Geraldine Gore, 4.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-21

NEW YORK-Robert c. Benchley, 56, author, editor, actor and humor- ist, died early today of cerebral hemorrhage at the Hardness Pay
The daily monitor leader., 1945-08-02
.Heovy Rains
Ham perDrive
in JunsIes

CALCUTTA, Aug. 2 R-
Monsoon rains in the Lower Sit
tang river bend area Of Burma
have forced British and empire
infantry troops to wear Mac
West life preservers when cross
ing normally calm and narrow
streams which have been flood
ed into turbulent rivers OF mud,
men back from the Front said
today.
A new system has been work.
ed out whereby front line troops
earn one days rest in relative
ly dry quarters behind the lines
after three days fighting
through shoulder deep mud in
the area northeast of Rangoon,
where more than 5000 japanese
were killed in a recent nine-day
period.
Southeast Asia Command
headquarters said today that az
gressive patrolling continued
between the Rangoon-M -Mandalay
railroa dand the SittanR river.
East OF Pyu, enemy troops at
tempted vainly to escape across
the river under cover Of ma
chine gun fire from the East
bank.
British, Indian, Ghurka and
patriot Guerrilla troops have
been pounding bitterly resisting
japanese forces believed to be
trying to escape eastward
toward Thailand to Join with
other pocketed enemy troops in
q possible last-stand fight.