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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-01-19
Zion Evangelical Church
(Whittaker)

Rev. w. F. Boettcher. minister.
10 a. m.-Sunday School. Mrs
Lottie fowler. sunerintendent
ll:15 a. m-Preaching service.
7:30 p. m.-Youth Fellowship.
Wednesday. 7:45 p. m. - Prayer
and Bible Study held alternately
with the Seybert Church.
Ladies' Aid Society the frs;
Thursday OF the month; Mrs.
Helen Dexter. pre- ,ident.
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BelleVille Methodist
Rev. Alfred Eddy. pastor.
10 a. m.-SG1day School,.
ii a. m.-Nursery department
II a. m.-Morning Worship and
Junior Church.
Thursday OF each week at 3:l5
p. m.-Juuior Choir practice.
Thursday Of each week-Junior
Religious Instruction az $50: Sen
Tors at 200; CHANGER Choir rehear.
sal at 500.
Campbell Chapel A. NJ, e.
Rev. a. l.. JeltZ, pastor.
$50 a. m.-Sunday School
II a. m Worship service.
Wednesday, p. m.-Prayer serv.
fee.
Cherry Hill Methodist
Rev. &. 7. Nevln, pastor.
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KILLED BY TRAIN

Decatur-James W. Vandermolen
and Robert Krem were killed late
Wednesday when an eastbound
Michigan Central train struck their
truck at the Glenwood crossing Of
County Highway 677, six miles west
OF here
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London Community Methodist

1878 Plank Rd.
Rev. Charles Bragg. pastor
1890 a. m.-Bible School, Mrs.
Aria Cline, superintendent
1880 a. m.-Church services.
Sermon by pastor.
s !. m.-Thursday. every week,
prayer meeting and Bible study
Church Official Board meets eV.
cry second Sunday at chur CHI d.
rectly after churen services.
Young people meet every second
Friday in month.
The WS.C.S. meets each first
Thursday.
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St. James EVANGELICAL
(Sannr TnunsninA

Rev. c. A. Haneberg. pastor.
10 a. Morning worship. First
and third Sundays, the service is in
German; other Sundays in English
IL a. m.-Sunday School.
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Sumpter Mennonite Brethren

In Christ Church
26lGi Sumpter Rd.. six miles
south of Belleyille.
Arthur Beyelhymer Romulus.
supply pastor.
10 a. m.-Sunday School Felt-o-
gram pict-re every Sunday.
II a. m.-Preaching.
80 p m.-Evening service.
Thursday evenings Cottage Pray
er Meeting.
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Saline Methodist Church

Rev. Fred f. Lendrum, pastor.
10 a. m.-MornIng worship.
HIS a. m.-Sunday School.
$50 p. m.-Epworth League. Jun.
or League.
7:30 p. m.--Evening service.
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Saline Federated Church

William II. Bach, pastor
10 a. m.-MQrning worship.
ll:15 a. m.-Sunday School. Fer
man Clemens, superintendent.
$50 p. m.-Chustian Endeavor.
1880 p. m.-Eyening worship.
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OBTAIN JOBS

Grand Rapids-A total OF 1856
World War II veterans have OBJ
tanned Jobs through the United
States Employment Service Office
here in the past year the USES an
nounced today.
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Salem Congregational Church

LUCIA NJ. StrOn, Minister
1890 a. m.-Divine Worship. The
pastor will preach.
l1:45 a. m.-Sunday School
F ll:45 a. m.-Sunday School
Harry Richards. superintendent;
Frank Sherman. assistant superin-
tendent and Adult Glass teacher
The Junior Choir sings Sunday.
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Grace Baptist Church

(Roys St, Bellevillc)
A. W. Henderson, pastor.
9:45 a. m.-Bible School.
IL a. Worship Service.
6:15 p. m.-louth Service.
7:30 p. m.-Gospel Hour.
Wednesday, 7:3O p. m.-Mid-
week prayer service.
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Saline trinity Lutheran Church

Rev. II. l.. Engel, pastor.
10 a. Morning service. Serv.
ices in German and English alter.
nate.
1l:15 a. m.-Sunday School
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Salem Federated Church

Mrs. Ray Pennel, pastor.
1880 a. m.-Morning service.
1l:45 a. m.-Sunday School.
Wednesday. 1880 p. NJ Choir
practice.
Thursday, $50 p. m. Prayer
meeting at the church.
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Milan Baptist Church

II a. m.-Bible School. Bruce
Williams, superintendent
1880 D. m.-Seryices.
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Saline ST. Psu's Evangelical
Church

Rev. c. H. Wittbracht, pastor.
10 a. Morning worship. Ser
mon.
4:5O p. m.-Christian Endeavor.
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Friends Church

Rev. Charles ]. Carey. pastor.
10 a. m.-Sunday School. Ralph
Moorhead. superintendent.
Il a. m.-Preaching.
1870 p. m.-Christian Endeavor.
Wednesday. 1870 D. m.- Mid
week prayer meeting.
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s p. m.-Eyening Service.
Thursday, s p. m.-Mid-week
Fyayer Service.
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DearboTnshIre Church
Onkster Rd. on Van Born Rd)
p d. Doty. pastor.
2:3O p. m.-Sundav School
$50 p. m.-Worship.
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wills Methodist Church

Rev Percy Lomas. pastor.
1880 a. m.-Sunday School. Ray
Smalley. SUNDAY School super.
intendent.
- noon-Worship service.
Boy Scout troop IS meets Sutur.
day afternoons at o'clock N
church annex.
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lnkster M. (. Church

Rev. Herbert Berry, pastor.
10 a. m.-Morning services.
IL a. m.-Sunday School.
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1875 a. IN Sunday School.
ll:4j a. m. 800 Morning worship.
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seybert EvanoeIlcaI Church

Rev. W. f. Boettcher, minister.
10 a. m.-Morning worship.
II a. m.-Sunday School. We're
Shupp, superintendent.
Wednesday, 7:45 p. NJ Prayer
service and Bible study held alter.
nately with Whitaker Church.
The Good VIII Missionary So.
ciety meets the second Thursday OF
each month. Mrs. We're ShIpp.
president.
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Milan Free Methodist Church

Rev. c. K. Ferguson, pastor.
10 a. m.-Sunday School. Robert
Gregg, superintendent: Ora Scar
toss, assistant superintendent.
II a. m.-Preaching.
7:15 p. m.-Young Peoples Meet.
ing. Anna Jane Anderson, president.
p. m.-Preacning.
7:30 p. m.--Thursuay Prayer
Meeting.
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oakvllle M. E. Church

William A. Johnson, pastor.
9:4j a. m.-Morning worship.
1915 a. m.-Sunday School.
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RomuIus First Baptist Church

Rev. Grant Foster, pastor.
1880 a. m.-Freaching.
11:45 a. m.-SunGdy School.
$50 p. m.-Epworth League.
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New Boston Methodist Church
Rev. Harold Berthal, Pastor.
$50 a. m.-Morning worship.
1880 a. m.-Sunday School.
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MoorevlII. Methodlst church

MooreVile Methodist Church
Tavern Kramer. Sunday School
superintendent
. a. m.-Church services.
1915 a. m.-Sunday school.
$50 p. m.-B.Y.P.U.
1:4J p. m.-Gospel Service.
Thursday, s p. m.-Prayer Meet.
ing.
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Denton Methods

Rev. G.. +. Neyiu, pa stor.
y:ij a. m.-Sunday School.
1915 a. m.-Churcn services.
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Beaole Sunday School
BeIIeville Methodist
Myrtle

9:45 a. m.-Sunday School Mrs.
Max Miller, superintendent.
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5erean Bible Church
6fS9 Belleylle f.d.. between Van
Born and ECorse.
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York Baptist Church
Rev. J. l. Masemore, pastor.
10 a. m.-Sunday School.
II a. m.-Morning worship.
7 p. m.-YOung Peoples Meeting
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Milan Methodist Church
William \. Johnson, pastor.
ii a. m.-Sunday School.
II a. m.-Morning worship.
II a. m.-Junior Church.
$50 p. m.-Epworth League.
1880 p. m.-Eyening worship.
Thursday, Z p. m.-Prayer meet.
ing.
Thursday, 8 p. m.-Choir rehear-
sal.
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Dixboro Methodist Church

Oixboro Methodist Church
Rev Francis +. wilson pastor.
1890 a. m.-Worship Service.
1880 a. m.-Sunday School Mrs.
Fred Fishbeck, superintendent.
Wednesday. s p. m.-Choir p-ac.
tice.
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Rev. G.. T. Neyin. pastor
$40 a. Morning worship.
II a. m.-Sunday School.
Clarence Fischer, superintendent.
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RawsonviIle Community Church

Rev. Melvin O. Rydberg. pastor.
1880 a. m.-Sunday School.
so p. m.-Sermon.
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WAYNE chureh on rhe Nazarere

Wayne Church OF The Nazarere
Wallace st. and Wayne Rd.
Rev. John w. Springhall. pastor.
10 a. m.-Sunday School.
II a. Morning worship.
$50 p. m.-Young Peoples meet.
ing.
$50 p. m.-Eyangelistic service.
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Milan Peoples Church
UnterdenominatioEaD
Rev. !. W. Parrish. pastor.
10 a. m.-Morning service.
1915 a. m.-Sunday School.
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Stony Greek Methodist Church
Rev. Percy Tomas, pastor.
1880 a. m.-Sunday School.
Mrs Robert Hollowel. Sunday
School superintendent.
Evening star., 1945-08-25
THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. c. ~ As
SATURDAY

at union rally at 3 pm. tomorrow
on the lot at 219 Second street NV.
Representative Beall, Republican,
Of Maryland also has been invited
to speak.
Andrew N. Richardson, president
Of the United Taxicab Drivers, Inc,
said his organizations board Of di-
rectors will meet Tuesday to con-
slider af1iliating with Local 935. The
proposal will be put up to 500 mem
bers on September 13, he said.
The united group, established In
1912, withdrew from the CIO, ac-
cording to Mr.. Richardson, because
drivers operating under commits
sion or renting their own cabs did
not believe they had the problems
Of labor group.
Now the drivers expect to have
stiff fight limiting the cabs, and it
is understood that many believe
that strong union backing Is
essential, in order to prevent cut
throat competition in the postwar
period.
Mr.. Richardson said the drivers
agree that veterans should have a
right to enter the business.
1.-THE veterans have got to be taken
care Of / was a veteran myself
after the last war;" he commented.
When we get a limitation, it will be
necessary to make plans for giving
them preference"
Evening star., 1945-08-25
Invisible, Eternal Fires Burn
In Americas S Atomic Ovens

Also emitted are the forms Of light
known as x-rays and Gamma rays.
The latter two rays are identical.
Cause Earth's Inner Heat.
That these particles are real fire,
OF the eternal sort, Is shown by the
fact that part Of the earth's interior
heat is due to the particles and
energies emitted by radium.
Three Of tNe particles, electrons,
protons and neutrons, are the blocks
out Of which all atoms, of all kinds,
are made. The other particles seem
to be byproducts, that appear when
an atom gets too hot, or too highly
charged with electrical or magnetic
energy.
Any kind Of heat will cause one
or more Of the particles to emerge
from an atom. The particle comes
out at high speed, but does not
travel far. Air stops most of them
in few inches. The neutrons travel
fastest and farthest; they may 20
several hundred feet.
These emerging particles collide
continually with atoms Of all kinds
Since the atoms are formed of ex-
actly the. same materials as the
particles, the collisions alter the
atoms in some way.
Best known Of the changes are
the chemical reactions of test tubes
of industry, and Of cooking a meal.
Ordinary fire is one Of the reactions
caused by the particles.
The collisions frequently knock out
of atoms more of the fiery particles
either of the same kind or of a
different kind than make the hits.
Only these particles are able to
penetrate to the cores of atoms.
When they do that, atomic energy
may be released from the cores.
Therefore the particles are the tools
with which scientists hope to get
atomic power. They are the only
known tools.
Evening star., 1945-08-25
Cab Operators Join
1eamster Union; Plan
Record-Size Local

A drive to organize Washington
taxicab operators and taxicab ga
rage employees into one of the larg-
est teamsters' union locals in the
country was announced today.
Erwin Dollar, secretary of the
Associated Taxicab Operators, re-
ported the aff1liation OF his group
with the International Brotherhood
of Teamsters (AFL) under the name
OF the Taxicab Operators, Drivers
and Garage Employees, Local 935.
The local, starting out with a
membership Of 300, has been pledged
the assistance of all teamsters'
locals in the District, he said. Union
stickers were being distributed to
cab drivers today, and ITS, 900 (AFL,
members will be asked, Mr.. Dollar
adde, to ride only in union cabs.
The first aim of organization is to
gain support for legislation to limit
the number of cabs operating in the
District. Mr.. Dollar said an attor-
ney is drawing up bill for Congress
to give the Public Utilities Commits
sion control over the number of
licenses issued here.
The bill would give the PUG au-
thority to increase the number of
cabs if public convenience calls for
1t and would make licenses nom
transferable.
I'VE want to cut out the wartime
racket Of selling licenses" Mr.. DOL
lar explained. Some drivers have
paid as much as $4,000 to get a
license. They shouldn't have to pay
more than $25."
There are 5000 cabs now operat-
ing in the District. Mr.. Dollar said
4,500 would be "a gracious plenty"
in normal times. Before the war
there were as many as 5000.
Senator Radcliffe, Democrat, of
Maryland and jeff Davis, King of
the Hoboes" will share the platform
Evening star., 1945-08-25
Germproof Building
Started al Bethesda
For Virus Laboratory

Construction Is under way on a
100000 germproof building to
house the new Virus and Infectious
Diseases Laboratory Of the Ma
tional Institute of Health at Be-
thesda.
c. w. May, superintendent of
buildings and grounds at the in
Stitute, announced that the Fed
eral Works Agency is building the
addition for the Public Health
Service.
To safeguard laboratory workers
against germs, the three-story
brick building will have a specially
designed air-conditioning system,
preventing the use of air more
than once. Used air currents will
be drawn into exhaust flues.
Diseases contracted in the old
laboratory have caused the death
of II workers and 1877 infections,
the Health Service said.
In the new building technicians
will remove their street clothing
in special decentralization locks"
before entering the laboratory
Work on infectious material will
be conducted under ventilated glass
hoods, with small holes through
which workers can insert rubber
gloved hands.
The building has been designed
to remove the danger involved in
research on such killers as cpl
demic typhus, scrub typhus, rabbit
fever, parrot fever and Rocky
Mountain spotted fever. Three
floors will be devoted to labora-
tories, with a mechanical and util-
ity department in the basement,
Evening star., 1945-08-25

the feeble minded. These children
were sadists, originally put away
because they liked to tear the eyes
out Of cats, etc. 1t occurred to SS
leaders that their talents were being
wasted In an institution. They were
brought to Pankrace to tear the
eyes out Of Jews and cut OF their
ears and noses with razors.
Children Aid Der Fuehrer.
! am, Of course, taking the word
OF the Czech prison authorities for
this. They say the children got
much innocent pleasure from thus
serving Der Fuehrer, and much was
made Of them by Copa and his
pals.
They dragged in an old, gray
headed man with most cruel face.
He struggled and kicked as the
guards brought him into the corri-
dor for inspection. They call him
Fink the Butcher" He was in
charge Of marching 1000 Jewish
prisoners from Buchenwald to the
concentration camp south of Prague.
Not many arrived at their destina-
ton. Fink with his club saw to it
that most Of them were left In the
snow.
The Czechs are not treating these
former guards very badly. The only
feature of their Imprisonment,
awaiting trial, which might SAVIOR
OF vengeance-and over which they
complain bitterly-is that they get
only Jewish rations, supplemented
by necessary vitamins. They are
skin and bones.
I realize that this is probably the
worst horror story of the war.
only saw the hanging room and the
guillotine and for the rest of it
am taking the word Of those who
claim to have seen all these things.
Personally I do not Doubt them
Evening star., 1945-08-25
(Sirth OF a series.)
BY HOWARD w. BLAKESLEE
Associated Press Science Editor.

Associated Press Science Editor.
NEW YORK, Aug. 25.-The Stomic
fire in the graphite ovens at Han
ford, Wash, where the plutonium
for atomic bombs is made, is as
simple al the fire In stove.
For the stove you need fuel. oxy-
gen and match. II you could
throw away matches and start your
stove merely by turning on the
oxygen, and extinguish the fire by
turning of the oxygen, you would
have counterpart of the atomic
fire.
For the atomic fires in Washing
ton the fuel is common uranium
(238) metal. The oxygen is neu-
irons, the particles elected from
cores Of atoms. These neutrons are
as invisible as the oxygen in the air,
but. like oxygen. they are every
where.
In your home stove you have
drafts to regulate the oxygen sup
ply. In the atomic stove you use a
bar Of boron steel, or maybe bar
Of cadmium. Either one regulates
the atomic oxygen" by absorbing
neutrons.
Part of Eternal Fires.
The Hanford ovens really are part
Of the eternal fires that burn every
where in earth, on the other planets
and in the stars. These fires are
visible in the stars. They were seen
in the flashes Of the atomic bombs.
They are not always visible on
earth, however, since they are
usually minute and scattered. They
are SO comparatively minute in the
Hanford ovens, being only small
fraction of per cent Of the energy
in the burning atoms, that the
graphite ovens do not even glow!
These fires are made by six kinds
Of atomic particles. All are emitted
from atoms. The six are:
Electrons, smallest known bits of
matter, bearing negative electrical
charges.
Protons, about 2,000 times heavier
than electrons. with positive charges.
Neutrons, weight same as protons,
with no charges.
Positions, weight same as electrons,
charges positive.
Mesotrons, weight between electron
and proton, charges negative.
Alpha particles, made of two
neutrons and two protons, charge
doubtful
Evening star., 1945-08-25
|Todoys War Story
|Nozis Had Two Death Rooms
Behind Curtains in Court

pleasurable relaxation. The black
curtain separating the courtroom
from the guillotine chamber would
be pulled back. They could sit at
ease watching the machine at work
All victims, both men and women
were stripped to their underwear
before their deaths. Sometimes
there were guillotining parties when
the Judge and his aides would in
vite friends to sit with them and
enjoy the spectacle.
The guillotine room also was a
model of efficiency. The heads
were saved for a German scientist
who was studying the human brain
Altogether 1.780 persons were exc
cuted here. There were 1885, waiting
execution when Pankrace was seized
by the Czech underground at the
beginning Of the revolt which broke
out on May S.
Worst Feature Described.
Neither the gallows nor the gull
lotine were the worst features OF
Pankrace Prison. Here there was a
pretense Of legality, though nobody
ever left the black room
alive. But in another part Of the
prison is q closet, like a janitor's
closet, with large set tub. Here
the hanging captain" with crew
Of five men used to work, without
any pretense Of legality. His name
was Weisner. He was German
officer. Victims were sent to him
from a large Jewish concentration
camp south Of Prague. Weisner and
his crew used to take them one by
one into the closet, stand them on
the set tub with a moose around
their necks, and throw the other
end of the moose over the water
pipe overhead. 1t is claimed he ex-
ecuted more than 5000 in this way
The same crew also used to beat
people to death. They are alleged
to have killed 5000 more with clubs
Copa and Weisner no longer are
at Pankrace. They were handed
over to the Russians"
. Some of the guards and those who
assisted in the executions still are
here, in the cells of their former
victims. They were brought out for
inspection. One of them was a
feeble-minded boy who appeared
to be about II years old, although
he claims to be 18. He was one
Of a group of boys brought to
Pankrace from a German home for
Evening star., 1945-08-25
British Reveal Secret
Of Navigation Device
By the Associated Press.

bS tne AkSoclAted PreSE.
LONDON, Aug. 25.-A 30-pound
radio device that enables navigator
to determine his vessels position by
reading two dials and consulting a
chart, was taken of the secret list
last night by the Admiralty.
The apparatus, which guided ships
from many parts of Southern Eng
land through minefields to Nor
mandy beaches on D day, was
credited by seamen with being five
times more accurate than any other
navigational aid.
The instrument sends out a RADIO
beam which allows the navigator to
take readings from the dials. The
vessels position is then determined
by correlating the dial readings
with specially marked chart.
Evening star., 1945-08-25
Michuux ToIks Open
At Ball Park Tomorrow

Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux,
with a chorus of 1856, will begin his
annual meetings at Grifith Sta
dium at $50 pm. tomorrow with the
slogan War Declared on the Devil.
The program will be broadcast over
radio station WTOP. Admission is
free.
He will speak at other services as
follows: September 2, "The Seven
Seals, Seven Angels and the Seven
Thunders";; September 9. 'The New
Body That God Shall Give Man"
and September 16. "A New Heaven,
q New Earth, With Peace Forever
more"
Evening star., 1945-08-25
Todoy's War Story
BY THOMAS r. HENRY,
Star staff Corresponcsnt.

PRAGUE.-The most gruesome
place have seen in Europe Is q
room In the Pankrace Prison in
Prague.
1t is large room divided into
three parts by black curtains.
The first partition was a court
room. 1t is barren except for three
tables-one for the Judge. two on
each side for his clerks. At the
center table Hauptmann Copa, SIS
head Of the prison, sat in Judgment
two or three mornings a week for
i've years. Only death sentences
were given here and everybody
brought before Copa was con-
demned, according to my Czech in
formants.
The next partition was the hang
ing room. Here is an overhead rail
on which are hooks attached to
wheels, precisely the same arrange
ment used in slaughter house for
moving carcases to and from the
icebox. The condemned, as soon
as sentence was passed, were taken
behind the curtain. Nooses were
put around their necks and they
were hanged from the hooks. There
was no gallows. They simply
strangled.
As soon as a victim was suspended
from a hook 1t was showed along
the overhead rail and the next
hook was ready for the next victim.
There were 10 hooks In all and 10
hangings constituted a fair morn
ing's work. While one victim was
being hanged just back of the cur
tain the next man to be hanged
was being tried.
Hanging Disgraceful.
Hanging was considered dis
graceful death. In Copas court only
Jews were hanged, except for a
few Aryan offenders who were con-
sidered exceptionally evil
In the third partition was the
guillotine. reserved for Aryans who
had committed such crimes as
listening to Allied radios, etc. Death
on the guillotine was considered
quite honorable. Those sentenced
to lose their heads under the ITO
pound knife were not executed until
the afternoon.
Copa and his aides, exhausted
from a morning of judicial labors,
sed to devote their afternoons to