Eugene Register-Guard, Wednesday, Jr.ne 21, 1944. ,
bc-Nazi Prisoner Finds U. S.
Treatment Of Germans Good
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I By RALPH HEINZEN
Utiiled Press Staff Correspondent
ATLANTA, Ga. (U."J Just out
of a German concentration camp
alter 13 months' imprisonment, I
visited here in the south a camp
of German prisoners of war, to
judge the contrast, and, , readily
enough reached the conclusion that
trteir lot is far, far better than
mine was.
TThe difference between an
American prisoner-of-war camp
and a German concentration camp
iithe difference between a sum
mer resort and a barnyard. Both
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sides live up to the letter of the
Geneva convention, but the living
is so much better on this side.
If ever again I am to be taken
prisoner and interned in a prison Y
camp, I hope I am taken prisoner
by the Amertcan army and sent
into a camp in this country
Camp Croft, at Spartanburg, S.C.,
for example.
Nazis Not Pampered
German prisoners in American
camps are no pampered pets; they
do live, however, in a luxury
which very few Germans share to
day and their meals are better
than anything Hitler, Himmler,
Goering or the other nazi leaders
can eat in Germany these days.
In one meal at Camp Croft the
prisoner gets more vitamins and
calories than we American pris
oners, interned in Baden Baden
under the guard of Himmler's ges
tapo, got in a week.
"We respect the Geneva con
vention to the letter, no more, no
less," Col. Charles Fox, command
er of the stockade at Camp Croft,
told me.
To a veteran of German prison
camps, however, the difference of
conditions is tremendous. In Ger
many we often went hungry; here
every prisoner shares exactly the
ration of any American soldier.
Ve were given no clothing or
chance to buy new things in Ger
many when ours wore out; here
the German prisoner is refitted
from head to foot as often as his
things become shabby. We were
isolated by the gestapo, forbidden
to read American war com
muniques or listen to them over
the radio; here the camp com-
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lelly beans are given their characteristic shape
when hot syrup, fed inta powdered cornstarch molds,
forms the sweet centers. After 2 days of hardening in
a "hot room," Societe jelly beans are ready for "sugar
sanding" . . . next comes the sweet, flavorful coating.
A week of hardening, "then "shining up." The candles
are spun round and round In huge, copper pans, In
which just a touch of honey bee wax Is added. The
merge jewel-bright, yummy Societe jelly beans!
EVIDENCE that Eugene youngsters want to learn to swim and have a place in which to swim was
the turnout for the Red Cross "learn to swim" week. More than 300 came to register. The course ends
June ii. In the upper picture Is a scene at the pool (women s pool In Gerlinger nail, university cam
pus), Sgt. David Lloyd Ringland, U.S. marine corps. Instructor, shown at the edge of the pool giving in
structions. Below, a "shot" from the group of many youngsters hurrying to register.
On Friday evening of this week the classes will give demonstrations of the Red Cross teaching meth
ods. All parents are invited especially. (Wiltshire photo and engraving) .
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Societe jelly beans, too, march
to war. If your dealer doesn't
have a supply of this sugar
sweet candy remembart
they're worth waiting fori
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mander distributes gratis to Ger
man soldiers American newspa
pers which print the German
communiques.
Meat Ration Large
The daily meat ration Is the
equivalent in content of one whole
week's meat ration in my German
prison. In fact there is too much
meat for the Germans' taste and
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Today, quick, get mildly medicated
Cuticura. You'll probably be amazed
how it helps relieve externally
caused pimples, rash, blemishes and
helps ease out blackheads I Recom
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hospitals. Buy today! AW druggists.
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they asked Colonel Fox for per
mission to trade It back to the
commissary for more starchy veg
etables, chiefly potatoes. Fox con
sents so long as the total falls
within the cash value of the com
plete rations established by the
war department.
Occasionally, a prisoner tries
to run away, but seldom. In the
only recent case the German was
picked up by the FBI within an
hour in Spartanburg. j
In Camp Croft there has been i
no trouble between the nazi ele-
ment and the non-nazis among the
prisoners, although army officers
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told me that in many other camps
there has been trouble. In those
cases, tiie younger prisoners were
inevitably militant nazis and the
older prisoners were non-political
or openly anti-nazi.
Wherever possible, within the
stockades, the militant nazis at'
tempt to rule over the other Ger
mans. Always, however, they re
spect American authority. Army
officers call them model prisoners
but doubt that capture and im
prisonment has changed their po
litical mentality
Believe Cities Bombed
I was told that some of the
younger, more militant nazis ac
tually believe that New York,
Washington and other eastern
cities have been badly damaged by
German bombers. While I was in
Germany, until two months ago, I
never heard that rumor which ap
pears, however, lo have been pre
valent among the troops iri the
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Recently when a special train
arrived in a southern camp from
Canada, via Buffalo and Cleve
land, bringing new prisoners of
war, an officer questioned them on
their belief.
"You have seen much of this
country and you have seen no
damage, so how can you believe
that New York and Washington
have been bombed?" the officer
asked a German.
"I am convinced It is true, ejsc
why did you route us a longer way
instead of bringing us directly
through New York and Washing
ton where we might have seen the
destruction?" the German replied.
Slaying Case Stay
Of Execution Granted
SALEM June 21. M) xhe
state supreme court Tuesday
agreed to a stay of execution to
allow a United States supreme
court appeal by Richard H. Lay
ton, former Monmouth police of-
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