i Locals i
Gilbert Croshaw has been ad
mitted to Salem Deaconess hos
pital for observation.
Shop Woodrow's for unpaint
ed furniture. Willard batteries,
Kelly tires, Nason paints and
Kem-Tone. Also auto glass. Cre
dit and liberal terms. R. D.
Woodrow, 325 Center St. 103
While inAstoria the automo
mobile driven by Roy Brant, of
Salem and one operated by Fred
Karki, of Astoria, collided at
an intersection.
Economy dress forms, mould
ed, dress making, alterations.
Fittings in your home by ap
pointment. Phone 4323. 96
Graveside services were held
at Albany Saturday for Peter
DeWall, 87, former Linn county
resident who died at Forest
Grove at the home of a daugh
ter, Mrs. Mary Adams. He was
born in AlsacerLorraine April
27, 1857. Besides his widow and
three other daughters he is sur
vived by four sons, John De
i Wall, Jefferson; Frank DeWall,
rScio and Claus and George De
Wall, both of Albany.
Dr. M. D. Vinyard has secur
ed the services of Dr. P. W.
Carr (formerly with the De
Venys of Portland) to take
charge of his office during his
illness. 97
Forty-four school children
were examined at a health clin
ic at the Brooks school this
week in charge of Dr. W. J.
Stone, Marion county health of
ficer. In addition 101 diphtheria
immunications were given, 65
smallpox vaccinations made;
34 tuberculin tests given and
eight immunized a g a in s t
whooping cough. Assisting at
the clinic were Mrs. Howard
Ramp. Mrs. William Cottew,
Mrs. Harry Bosch, Mrs. Joseph
Burr, Mrs. George Legg, Mrs.
Bertha Jones and Miss Lorna
MsCoy.
Why not take advantage of
Mhe opportunity to learn the
use of office -machines while
taking commercial courses. You
can do this at the Capital Busi
ness College, 345 Court street.
. Phone 5987. 96
Mrs. Ray Scofield, of the Mid
dle Grove district, is in the
hospital following s u r ge r y
Thursday.
Wanted: Clay Flower Pots.
Breithaupt Greenhouses at 211
E. Miller St. 97
Guests at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Wendell Webb are
Capt. and Mrs. Frank Wiggins,
the latter former shop forman
for the Coos Bay Times before
going into military service. Af
ter service in the south Pacific
Capt. Wiggins has been instruc
tor and ferry pilot with the
ATC, stationed at Morocco and
flying in the European theater.
Out (nfitiranpp service is as
close to you as vour telephone
Aicnara oevewu ivcijr iuiiu
of insurance including Life. Con
stant, dependable service. 212 N
High. Ph. 4016; evenings 8213.
For Home Loans see Salem
Federal, 130 South Liberty.
Leaving the hospital for home
re Harry Thompson, 146 Cen
ter street; Mrs. Douglas Free
burn and infant daughter, 1745
North 22nd street; Mrs. J,ohn
Ashton, route 7 and Mrs. C. J.
Strickfaden and infant daugh
ter, 1590 Norway.
Experienced Cashier wanted.
Price's 135 N. Liberty.
Mr. and Mrs. James E. Mo
hatt, 740 North Cottage, are the
parents of a daughter born Fri
day at a local hospital.
To sell that furniture see Russ
Bright. Phone 7511.
. Four Willamette university
students will attend the Sun
day morning services at the Sil
verton Methodist church and be
This Funny World
"Can you tell me which one is made from the aluminum donation from
FinchTille, South Dakota?"
guests at the fellowship dinner
in commemoration of Willam
ette universiyt day. Fred Bak
er, Sunday school superintend
ent, and his corps of teachers
will program honor guests at the
dinner hour. The student pro
gram will be given owing to the
continued illness of Rev. O.
Leonard Jones, pastor) who is
confined to his home with a se
vere case of mumps.
For sale: Potatoes $1.50 sack
or 2c lb. You dig Sunday. Bring
sacks. Phone 23052 or 9623.
John J. Roberts & Co.
Wanted: Clay Flower Pots.
Breithaupt Greenhouses at 211
E. Miller St. 97
Townsend club, No. 2, will
meet in the WCTU hall Monday,
April 23 at 8 p.m.
Wanted: walnut bedroom
suite. Phone 5862 after 5 p.m.
96
The executive committee of
the Women's missionary society
met at the home of Mrs. Floyd
White Thursday for a dessert
luncheon. Plans for the meet
ings next year were discussed.
All types of plumbing, heat
ing and repair work. J. K. Par
menter, Phone 6209. 1340
North 17th. 96
Special automobile accident
policy written by largest health
and accident company In world.
Covers men and women of all
occupations, aged 16 to 65. Pays
death benefit $2500; Hospital
benefits, .monthly benefits $50.
Cost only $5 per year. Call or
write Bickford Insurance Ag
ency, 211 Oregon Building.
Phone 7050 office hours 9 a.m.
to 2:30 p.m. 96
Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Gould will
spend the week-end in Lebanon
at the home of their son-in-law
and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. W.
H. Hardt.
Enroll now. Beginner's class
in shorthand taught the modern
method, will be started Monday
night, April 23, at the Capital
Business college. Phone 5987.
96
Mrs. Harold Digman, 351 'A
North Cottage, is in the hospi
tal for curgery and Sandra Stif
fler, 1035 Highland for medical
treatment. Both were received
Friday.
Rose bushes 40c and 65c.
Blueberry bushes. Berry plants.
Fruit trees. Knight Pearcy Nur
sery, 375 S. Liberty. Open af
ternoons, Saturday 8. 'til 12.
Sunday 12 'til 4. 96
Rugs cleaned. Ph. 6831. 96
Arthur Selander, Salem art
ist who was principal speaker
at a meeting of the Oregon So
ciety of Artists in Portland this
week, was elected vice presi
dent of the group. Selander
spoke on "Force of Contrast
and Recession," illustrating his
talk by painting a scene of the
North Santiam.
Reroof with Johns Manville
shingles right over your old roof.
Free estimates. Mathis Bros. 164
S. Commercial. Phone 4642. 96
Central Townsend club, No.
6, will meet at 259 Court street,
Saturday evening at 8 o'clock.
Pioneer Trust Co. Fire and
automobile insurance. 97
New Seiberling tires. Tire re
capping and repairing service.
Gil Ward, 395 N. High. 96
Henry Wick of Willamette
university placed first in the
after dinner speaking depart
ment o the annual Pacific for
ensic conference conducted on
the campus of the University
of Idaho Friday night. Charles
Melvin, another Willamette en
trant, placed second in oratory.
Prof. W. A. Dahlberg of the Uni
versity of Oregon was elected
conference president and Col-
J. 4-2 (nmWi
UeKiught Syndicate. tno- Americas
lege of Pacific at Stockton,
Calif., was named site for next
spring's meeting. The Moscow
tournament attracted 22 speech
students from seven western col
leges. Want man for yard work.
Oregon Gravel, 1405 N. Front.
96
Night crawlers, 548 N. 20th.
96
Dr. W. J. Stone, head of the
Marion county helath depart
ment, will have charge of a pre
school clinic at Mill City Tues
day with local arrangements be
ing made by Mrs. Mabel Need
ham, grade school principal.
The clinic, between 10 o'clock
and noon, will be available for
children who will enter school
next term with any other pre
school children to be examined
if desired.
Men for critical war work,
day or night. Rienau Supply Co.
20 Highway Avenue or Phone
9203. 98
The Salem Geological soci
ety will make a field trip into
the Eola Hills near West Salem
Sunday afternoon. The group,
to be headed by Prof. Herman
Clark, of Willamette university,
will meet in front of Collins
hall on State street at 2:30
o'clock. The driving distance
is approximately 15 miles.
Everything for your yard and
garden flowering trees, orna
mentals and shade trees. Azal
eas, camellias, rhododendrons
and magnolias, at Ferrill's Nurs
ery & Greenhouse, 'A mile east
of Keizer school. Also fruit trees
and walnuts. Berry plants, rhu
barb and asparagus, grapes. Ve
getable & bedding plants, ger
aniums, etc. 96
Wanted: '36 or '37 Chevrolet
or similar make Sedan. Phone
days 9232; evenings 6196. 97
Memorial services for Ernest
A. Buckingham, navy man
killed in action recently in the
Pacific theater of war, will be
held at the Pentecostal Light
house church Sunday evening at
7:30 o'clock. Buckingham lived
with his mother, Mrs. Katherine
Buckinham, 620 South 18th
street, before the war. He en
listed during the early part of
the war and saw much action
before his death.
Boys of the cadet, prep and
junior gym classes of the YMCA
will give a demonstration of
their skills next Thursday night
for the benefit of their elders.
The demonstration will include
tumbling, rope climbing, acro
batics and swimming. The gen
eral public will be welcomed.
James Woolery, 6, of 1970
Lee street, fell from a porch
at his home Friday evening and
broke his left forearm. He was
given first aid and taken to Sa
lem Deaconess hospital. Earl
Dean, 8, got a fall when a wheel
came off his roller skates and
a severe injury to the left el
bow resulted. Both boys were
taken to Salem Deaconess hos
pital for X-rays.
Frank Kowalkowski, 1498
Court, fractured his left wrist
in a fall at his home Friday,
first aid reported. First aid
was given Saturday to Jim
Rowland, route 4, for a cut on
the left hand received while re
pairing an automobile in West
Salem.
C. B. McCullough, assistant
state highway engineer and
chairman of the Salem long
range planning commission, will
go to jpringfield Monday night
to address the Chamber of Com
merce there on planning. He
will be accompanied by other
members of the commission and
several officials and hiembers
of the Salem chamber.
The fire department was
called Friday to 433 North High
where a roof fire was extin
guished. Alderman Lloyd T. Rigdon
left Thursday for a business
trip to Los Angeles and San
Francisco.
The first census in the United
States was taken in 1790.
Salem Court News
Circuit Court
Complaint for divorce by Earl Momn
Ev)n v. Bernlc E. Evjen t1)e that
they were married at Kimball. Neb . May
2S, 1942. ami that she dwrtPd him May
2". the name year. It la tnkfd that th
name Bernlce Kelley be tutored to de
fendant. Deere of divorce In the ense of Mor
ton Howard vs. Clei Nora Promlnslcl
provide that plantiff shall pay defend
ant S50 a month for support of two minor
children and S.ltJ month aa alimony
Divorce complaint by Beulah June v.
Anthony Victor Dunn asks custody of two
children. JIO0 a month support money
and 42b to be paid In 'monthly Install
ments. Complaint to quin title to ral prop
erty has been flU-d by Guy R. and Panny
Dickey vb. Frank Dickey and other.
Order of dismissal in the ca.se of lo
N Chllds v. Philip H. Kellfy and other
states settlement has been made out of
court.
Complaint by Harry vs. Violet "Williams
seeks to secure possession of a car or
In lieu thereof II250, value of the car.
Order in the caw of Violet E William
vs Howard H. Willlam.s names Harry
William as party d"(endant, the oroder
statlnr that Harry Williams claims some
interest in property involved In the luit.
Probate Court
Petition for sale of real property .n
Stayton belontim to the Erma H. Olunt
itau bis been filed by Carl H. Oiuni,
Ernie Pyle in
Salem in 1939
Ernie Pyle, world-famous war
correspondent who was slain by
a Japanese sniper on Ie Jima,
and who was buried there to
day with doughboys whom he
loved to write about, was a Sa
lem visitor in 1939, and made
the Salem Art Center and (he
Willamette valley subjects of his
syndicated column which was
then beginning to attract wide
attention.
His Salem visit was recalled
today by Miss Carol Dibble, now
of the Capital Journal staff, who
was then receptionist at the art
center.
"Ernie Pyle's visit here," said
Miss Dibble, "came about
mainly because of his acquain
tance and close friendship with
Charles Val Clear, director of
the Salem Art Center. He was
interested in the center's ob
jectives, and especially intrigued
by its appeal to many persons
who had a love for and a crav
ing for studies in art, but who
had never had the opportunity
until it was brought to them
by Mr. Clear and the art cen
ter. He also found much to ob
serve and write about in the
valley around Salem."
In writing his story of the
Salem Art Center the colum
nist made use of notes prepared
by Miss Dibble.
No Layoff
In Northwest
Portland, Ore., April 21 U.
Northwest shipyard workers
are not going to be laid off as in
various other areas facing a
cutback in production in the
next 90 days, manpower offi
cials predicted today.
L. C. Stoll, manpower direc
tor for Oregon and A. F. Hardy,
holding the same job for Wash
ington, announced after a Los
Angeles manpower conference
that prospects were bright in
the northwest for full produc
tion through 1945.
Stoll said probably 100,000
workers will be laid off, chiefly
in southern California aircraft
and shipyard industries. He
pointed to the contract which
will keep the three Kaiser yards
in Portland and Vancouver go
ing at full speed in 1945, and
the further work allocated to
the Vancouver yard until mid
1946. Stoll said prospects are bright
for securing more ship repair
work for the Portland-Vancou
ver area.
Realtors Told of
Jobless Insurance
The unemployment compen
sation commission as it deals
with real estate and Insurance
brokers was discussed Friday
noon for the benefit of mem
ber of the Salem Board of Real
tors by David H. Cameron, su
pervisor of contributions for the
state commission. Under certain
conditions salesmen and their
employers are exempt from the
provisions of the law as it op
crates in Oregon, Cameron said.
However, employes must oper
ate for a full calendar year and
then ask for exemption from
the state commission in order
to be eliminated for rseponsi
bility for contributions to the
fund.
The commission now has a
balance of approximately $65,
000,000, the speaker said. It
deals with 10,000 active ac
counts and has a list- of some
25,000 employers. Effective on
June 15 of this year benefits
will consist of $18 per week for
a period of 20 weeks. The com
mission has approximately 125
employes as against 500 in 1938.
Building permits: W, R. Stan
ard, to alter a garage at 457
North 7Eth, $50. Mrs. L. H.
Dugger, to repair a one-story
dwelling at 1970 North Water,
$75. John W. Goebel, to alter a
two-story apartment house at
1399 D, $250.
administrator, and order has been filed
for citation to issue.
Second annual report of L. Mae Water
as nuardlan of Patricia Mae and Donald
Prank Waters, minors, has been approved.
Order In the Richard C. Oamble estate
authorize Pfoneer Trust company ta sell
real property.
Pinal hearinr in the J. W DeLap es
tate ha been set for Miy 7
Third annual account on the estate of
Ann Eliza McKlnney shows balance of
1217.50.
Pinal account of Perry DeLap as ex
ecutor of the estate of J. W DeLap shows
receipts of I5S88.8B and disbursement of
1655.95.
PIrst annual account of Vern Osborn 1
and Floyd C. 0ona as admlntortTaloii ot 1
the estate of Will R. Jones shows re
ceipts of $3183 85 and disbursements of
11034.89. I
Final decree has been iranted Pioneer
Trust company on the estate of William
A. Davis.
Petition hr Blanche O Shelman aks
appointment of hernelf as luardlan of
Dw:ffht Farry Shelman and Of F B
Keeler. Edith Shaffer and Victoria Camp
bell as appraisers. Request for hearing
is made.
Marriage Licenses
Chu. H Hsrru. l.nl. ht m.(i!
orker. ind Ev.a M Erre. ill. houie
wlte. Dotb M. Capitol. Sitem.
Elephant Arrives
At Stock Yards
Portland, Ore., April pi WP)
The north Portland livestock
yard, unloading its usual cargo
of cattle, hogs and sheep des
tined to slaughter, was horri
fied to find an elephant in one
car.
Investigation proved the ele
phant was going to a nearby
amusement park.
Branch Plants
To be Solicited
From the Salem Chamber of
Commerce a letter is going out
to corporations that have branch
plants in Salem, asking for their
support in the campaign to raise
$65,000 as an operating fund
for the Salem long-range plan
ning commission. Some of these
concerns, it was said, have al
ready contributed to the fund.
Stressed in the campaign,
which, by the way, is progress
ing smoothly and satisfactorily,
is the argument that proper city
planning may ultimately save
millions of dollars in taxpayers'
money by preventing blunders
in the location of industries and
various other businesses that
may have to be remedied in fu
ture years.
"The planning program," said
President Loyal Warner of the
Chamber of Commerce today,
"is more than a post-war pro
ject. It envisages a progressive,
continuing effort under volun
tary leadership of 10 of the
most able and influential men
in the community. Under their
direction a competent, practical
engineer of excellent reputation
will be employed to carry out
the technical phases. It Is esti
mated that the engineering, ar
chitectural and research work
will require $65,000 for a five
year period, or approximately
$13,000 a year.
"They feel that the money
subscribed for it is a good in
vestment which will prevent ex
pensive blunders in haphazard
post-war growth and construc
tion." Amity The WSCS met In the
social rooms of the Methodist
church Wednesday afternoon.
The decorations were led by
Mrs. Lucy Massey. During the
business meeting it was voted
that a family no-host dinner
be served in the church dining
room, Sunday, April 29, after
the morning church service. A
group of young people from
Willamette university will be
guests for that day. During the
social hour refreshments were
served. Hostesses were Mrs.
Mary Javens, Mrs. Charles Funk
and Mrs. Russell Jones.
Arrested iP) Dr. Mannfred
Zapp (above), Nazi propaganda
chieftain expelled from the
United States in 1941, has been
captured by the U. S. Third
army. He was chief Nazi propa
gandist in the U. S. from 1936
until expelled.
Hopkins' Successor? Hugh
Fulton (above), New York at
torney and personal friend of
President Harry S. Truman, was
being mentioned as possible suc
cessor to Harry Hopkins as the
president's personal adviser. ,
TP5
14 $ 3
Wl Wlllill MWBMI1 IMIIiCnal
Dr. P. H. Dencep
Funeral Held
Funeral services were held
Friday afternoon at the W. T.
Rigdon chapel, with Rev. Ches
ter Hamblin officiating, for Dr.
Phillip H. Dencer, early Ore
gon and Washington dentist,
who died at a Salem hospital
Wednesday.
The doctor, who learned his
profession under Dr. B. F. Mer
edith in Salem many years ago,
was born in Minnesota, April 30,
1857, and with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Valentine Dencer,
came to Oregon in 1875. Decem
ber 25, 1889, at a ceremony read
in Salem, he was married to
Lizzie Degraff of Minnesota,
who died in May, 1917.
Dr. Dencer, a resident of Sa
lem and member of the city's
volunteer fire department when
the fire engine was pulled by
hand instead of drawn by hors
es, practiced dentistry in Spra
gue. Wash., for 20 years and in
1909 moved to Bend, Ore. There
he purchased a farm where he
resided until coming to Salem
for medical treatment two weeks
ago, after being in failing health
for some time.
A life time member of the
Presbyterian church, Dr. Den
cer was prominent in the
church's activities and was ac
tive in civic affairs in the com
munities where he made his
home.
Surviving are a brother, Ed
ward Dencer of Salem, and two
sisters, Mrs. Barbara Lorence of
Monmouth and Mrs. Lucy Kas
par of Newberg.
No Gl Favored for
San Francisco Meet
Paris, April 21 (P The army
newspaper Stars and Stripes to
day vetoed a suggestion . by
Senator Magnuson (D Wash.),
that it select a combat soldier
to represent the GI's at the
world security conference in
San Francisco.
"The typical GI x x x would
be a two-headed calf at a world
conference for dignified study
of a confusing situation," the
newsaper said, adding that the
soldier would be wined, dined
and flattered but would be com
pletely bewildered by the com
plexity of the problems to be
examined.
America's eight trained dele
gates are competent to repre
sent soldier opinion as well as
the rest of the nation, the paper
said, "and that's good enough
for us."
62 Canadians Freed
London, April 21 VP) The U.
S. 87st Infantry division freed
82 Canadian soldiers captured
at Dieppe when it overran the
German city of Tambach, a
field dispatch to the Times said
today.
Parent-Teachers Valley Group
Discuss Current Problems
Members of the Parent-Teacher association from Marion, Polk,
Benton, Linn and Yamhill counties, Friday in a conference at the
Chamber of Commerce, at their morning session heard their two
speakers, Mrs. O. C. Ufford of f-
Fort Collins, Colo., a national
regional vice president of the
organization, and Mrs. Cornelia
Packer emphasize the fact that
the responsibility of the success
of the people of the next genera
tion In coping with not only
their community problems but
those of the nations rests on
the shoulders of their parents.
Especially stressed was the fact
that the parents are the ones
responsible for the amount and
type of education received by
the children.
Mrs. Ufford, the main speaker
at the morning session, noted
that it is the duty of the Indi
vidual members of the PTA to
serve the child for he is build
ing today for what he will be
tomorrow. Children, she stated,
cannot wait to be well educated,
for they live today and tomor
row and must be dealt with now
and tomorrow.
Commenting on those persons
who complain about the amount
of money spent on education,
Mrs. Ufford stated that the lar
ger the sum spent in educating
people the higher the returns,
not only In better citizenship
but economically, for the better
educated hold better positions
and have a greater buying pow
er. She noted that in a recent
survey (t was shown that the
buying power of a state was
directly related to the money
expended in that state on edu
cation. Of adolescent delinquency the
speaker said there is no adoles
cent delinquency, only adult,
teacher and community delin
quency. She advocated a com
munity recreation program not
as a cure for juvenile delin
quency, for the trouble, she
stated, lies not In the child but
adults responsible for the shap
ing of his life, but as an exper
ience in citizenship for child
ren. Stress was placed on promot
ing a health education program j
of the type that begins when the j
child enters school, and Mrs. Uf
ford then touched on the parti
Capital Joqrnal, Salem, Ore.,
British Force Nazi Elite Guard
To Bury Piles of Slain Victims
By William Frye
Belsen, Germany, April 20 M) The dead were getting a burial
today at this fearsome concentration camp each nameless dead
getting a ghastly burial. No coffins or flowers at this funeral.
No tears or well-bred sympathy. f
No music
These naked corpses were
hauled in trucks and dumped
into a pit. Their pall bearers
were SS (elite guard) men and
women, now allied prisoners.
Their litany was the hoarse
shouts of British soldiers, sick
with disgust and fury, ordering
these marked members of Hit
ler's chosen legions about their
horrible task.
I saw Belsen its piles of
lifeless dead and its aimless
swarms of living dead. Their
great eyes were just animal
lights in skin-covered skulls of
famine.
Some were dying of typus.
Priorities for
Projects Here
Priorities for two projects at
state Institutions in Salem, have
been authorized by the War
Production Board for immediate
construction, C. T. Mudge, dis
trict priorities chief at Fort
land, announced today.
An application from the Ore
gon state purchasing depart
ment was approved for con
struction of five bathroom ad
ditions to the state hospital at
Salem. Estimated cost is $50,
000. It was not disclosed whe
ther this work has any connec
tion with the $550,000 two-
story therapeutic treatment
building which Architect Pie
tro Belluschl of Portland is de
signing for postwar construc
tion at the state hospital.
Another project approved for
construction at Salem was a 9
by 30-foot addition to the boiler
plant and rearrangement of the
boiler roof equipment to allow
installation of two new boilers
complete with oil burners at the
State School for the Deaf. Plans
are to be ready inside of a month
at which time the state board
of control Is expected to invite
bids for the work which will
cost in the neighborhood of $23,
980. Nazi Refuge Liner Sunk
Malmoe, Sweden, April 21 W)
The 17,000-ton liner Pretoria
of the German East Africa Lines
loaded with refugees and bound
for Copenhagen, struck a mine
south of Oresund and sank with
in a few minutes early today,
reports from Denmark said. The
North German Lloyd ship Pots
dam was reported to have
reached Copenhagen safely with
other refugees.
that the PTA had played in pro
moting this program by encour
aging preventive measures in
control of contagious diseases
The control of cancer and its
study is a project now being un
dertaken by the group, and two
reasons were given for its selec
tion, the fact that more chil
dren are left motherless from
cancer than any other disease
and more children under 10
years of age die from the dread
ed disease than from polio.
Mrs. Packer, the first speaker
at the morning session, brought
out the fact that the changing
world had necessitated the edu
cation for world citizenship and
emphasized the part that fath
ers in a community should play
in the education of a child with
so many of the fathers away
at war.
Addressing the group at their
luncheon meeting was Mrs.
Harry H. George, president of
the Oregon congress of PTA,
who told of the work done by
PTA groups and made a com
parison of the activities of the
organization during the last war
and this war. She noted that
in World war I membership had
dropped because the members
had turned to war work, where
as the PTA this year was pro
moting the work within their
group and taking it as one of
their projects, whleh is prob
ably one of the reasons that the
state's membership now stands
at 41,551, 4000 more than its
go'al for the year.
IOC
o
S First Methodist Church
Down Town The
MornlnR Worship 10:50 "Be Still and Know," a ser
mon by Rev. John L. Knight, Counselor on Religion
at Willamette University.
Friends and Visitors In
I0E30E
Saturday, April 21, 19459
some of typhoid, some of tu-
berculosis, but most were just
dying of starvation. Starvation
the flesh on their bodies had
fed on itself until there was no
flesh left, just skin covering
bones and the end of all hope,
and nothing left to feed on.
Tragically, there is still hops
inside these still-breathing ca
davers. As long as eyes can stars
from the bodies scattered every
where on the floors and on the
ground there is hope. Hope in.
these for whom there is no hope.
They are living but they cannot
live. No food, no care can save
them. Ahead of them is noth
ing nothing but that pit with
the bulldozer waiting to cover
them with earth.
Nothing well, there Is one
thing, the knowledge that after
months of bestiality there is
suddenly, unbelievably, friend
liness and goodwill among men.
At least they will die aware of
that.
Countless thousands soma
say 30.000, some say more
died without even that comfort.
Died horrible deaths before the
British second army reached!
this camp on the Aller river
southeast of Bremen Sunday.
I saw these dead hundreds
and thousands lying in ditches
and against walls of drab huts
and piled in heaps, each one in
a grotesque attitude In a gro
tesque mound. Some were cloth
ed, but most were naked. Their
nakedness was of no account
because there had long ceased
to be anything recognizable hu
man about them, even befora
the last flicker of life disap
peared. This is what I heard:
Josef Kramer, SS commander
of Belsen now under close ar
r e s t, previously commanded
Auschwitz, where children were
taken from their mothers and
burned alive, where a gas cham
ber killed thousands, where
Kramer kept his own orchestra
to entertain him with Strauss
waltzes while abdominations
were practiced under his com
mand outside his window.
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Fuerstenberg - Strausberg
Bernau line, the German high
command said.
Still farther north other Rus
sian forces were declared to
have forced two bridgeheads
over the Oder between Schwedt
and Stettin, guarding the north
ern approaches to Berlin.
Three Million in Berlin
"Great Russian encircling
moves are drawing closer to
wards the capital," the German
transocean agency said. "Rus
sian spearheads have reached
the northeastern, eastern and
southern suburbs of Berlin."
Both German and Russian ac
counts described the fighting
along the outskirts of Berlin as
a violent tank battle with the
Russians making use of planes
to disperse German armored
formations.
An earlier German broadcast
said that 3,000,000 persons still
were in fire-blackened Berlin
"awaiting the battle."
Memorial Program
Planned by Chapter
Amity Amity chapter, OES,
met Monday evening in the
Masonic hall. Mrs. Margaret
Morse, chaplain, and Mrs. Em
ma Simpson, treasurer, were
escorted to the east where the
worthy matron, Mrs. Edith Law,
presented each with a gift from
the chapter in honor of her
birthday anniversary.
A social hour followed with
movies shown of many mem
bers when babies or young chil
dren, which were identified by
those present. Light refresh
ments were served. Hostesses
were Mrs. Margaret Wood and
Mrs. E. O. Morse. A Memorial
day program will be presented
Monday evening, May 21.
Tax turnover by Sheriff Den
ver Young from the 1942 roll
shows an additional $2899.23
collected.
Card ot Thank?
We wish to extend our thanks
and appreciation for the acts of
kindness, messages of sympathy
and beautiful floral offerings
from our many friends, in loss
of our beloved son. Mr. and
Mrs. W. Thomas. 96
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