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FOtJH MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNB Thursday-, Aptll It, 1945
Mass Torch Murder By Elite
Guards Kills Slave Workers
By Clinton B. Conger
United Press War
Correspondent
With U. S. Ninth Army In
Germany. April 19 (U.R)
Seven hundred Polish, Russian,
and Hungarian slaves cringed
on the gasoline-soaked straw In
the small barn,
A Nazi youth In SS uniform
not over sixteen, opened the
barn door and threw In a lighted
match. As the flames began to
lick, he laughed, and slammed
thfl rinnr.
Some of the prisoners bolted
through a rear door. As they
ran from the barn, machine guns
manned by more teen-aged SS
h-ooos cut them down. Tnen me
Hermans went to the door
emptied their guns Inside, Bnd
threw In hand grenades for good
measure before they finally shut
It for good.
Young Tails Laugh
The smell of burning flesh
came from the barn. The screams
of men being roasted alive rip
ped the air. And the young SS
troops laughed.
Rnrh was the story told 13th
Corps investigators today by 10
survivors of an original group
of 2,000 slave workers movea
from an aircraft factory In east
ern Oermanv.
Most of the story was told by
a haggard, Hungarian musician,
Bonds Gaza. He lea invesiiga
tors through the. barn which be
came a crematorium near Gar
delegen, 24 miles north of Mag
deburg, borne oooiei uu
smouldered In the ashes. Beside
the ruins was a neat trench with
a charred leg sticking up from
the freshly turned earth.
Gaza said the original 2,000
were Jammed into a freight train
for a seven-day cross-country
trip during which they ate only
bread. They finally halted at
Mlesta, eight miles from Garde
legen, and the death march be
gan. Those who faltered were
ahot dead where they fell.
When they reached Gardele-
gen, 300 German political pris
oners were appointed guards, on
bloody Friday, the 13th, 800
were marched tq the lonely barn
on the plain. The hundred
slaves who fell on the way wore
killed where they lay.
Herded Into Pyre
Then came the mass torch
murder. The 700 were herded
Into a barn 100 by 60 feet and
made to sit on the gas-soaked
straw. Five minutes later the
young SS fiend came in with his
match.
Cm a and others tried fran
tlcally to dig holes beneath'the
barn wall with their hands.
Three of them dug for an hour
and got their heads outside for
breath. Eventually they made
holes big enough to wriggle
through.
In the darkness they hid in a
field but a dog sniffed them out
and howled. A German who in
vestigated shot u Pole among the
trio but Gaza and a friend es
caped, and crawled and walked
to a farmhouse two miles away
There they hid without food or
water for two days.
On April 14th. they said, SS
troops returned and killed six
survivors they found . in the
death barn.
JANTZER REUS
TIMBER PROPERTY
IN SALE OF MILL
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AETHA ItfSURANCa COMPANY
Of Hartford, In tli Btatt of Connect leot,
'on th thirty-first day of December, 1044.
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ttmated anwunt Qua or
P r o s p e c t, April 19 The
George L. Jantzer Lbr. Co., saw
mill was sold to Dana F. Crush
ing and Thomas G. Ross of Ber
keley, April 14, the purchase In
cluding the dry kiln, lumber
sheds, and company houses. The
new firm will be known as the
Ross & Cushlng Lbr. Co.
The Jantzer company will still
be active, as they have retained
their timber property In this lo
cality, and will sell logs to the
new company.
The logging equipment was
bought by Lewis L. Jantzer, old
est son of Geo. L. Jantzer, who
sold his two lumber trucks to
Charles B. Broomfield and Vic
tor L. Chapman, the latter hav
ing taken over the lumber haul
ing contract. . Floyd Kelley,
Henry Dufer, Roy Colllngwood,
and Everett Shafer have each
bought the truck they have been
driving, and are handling the
log hauling contract.
Sale of the sawmill marks the
end of a quarter of a century of
lumber manufacturing for Mr.
Jantzer. Starting with a 10,000
per day capacity mill In 1920, at
Azalea, Douglas County, Jant
zer was associated with his fath
er, the late Frank Jantzer Sr,
brother John Jantzer, and
brother-in-law, M. Madsen, and
this business was known as
Frank Jantzer & Sons Lbr. Co,
After a year, Jantzer bought out
the other three, enlarged his
mill, and changed the name to
the present one.
In 1933-34, Jantzer moved his
tommlaalone. hmkeraae. or
1 other charges due and ae
I erued n ,
All other liabilities
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mfll and logging equipment, and
built on the present site, S miles
west of Prospect, bordering the
Crater Lake highway. Losing his
sawmill by fire in September,
1936, without insurance, Jant
zer rebuilt a larger mill the fol
lowing winter, installing band
saws and modern machinery, and
increasing the dally cutting ca
pacity to 30,000.
In 1938, Edmund F. Pease of
Medford, boujht an interest in
the company, and served as sec
retary and treasurer. Mr. and
Mrs. Pease have sold their home
here to Mr. and Mrs. Ross, and
have moved to Medford, where
they have purchased a home on
King street.
Mr. and Mrs. Cushlng have
bought the Jantzer house, and
Mr. artrl Mrs .Tnntrpr havn takon
up residence at their new home'
at B3T Spencer Avenue, Med
ford, that they purchased from
Mr, and Mrs. Jack Moran.
The George L. Jantzer Lbr.
Co. will maintain an office in
Medford to handle their timber
interests.
Talent Students
To Stage Comedy
Friday at 8 p.m.
Talent, April 19 "Busy As
a Beaver, a three-act comedy,
will be presented by the Talent
high school student body Friday
in the school gymnasium at 8
p. m. This modern comedy is
said to be filled with bright
lines and hilarious situations and
the plot revolves around a young
chap who, although he claims
to be "busy as a beaver" always1
has time to pass along the latest
gossip.
A matinee will be given Fri
day at 2:30 p. m.
The cast of characters are
Kenneth Grae, 'Ronald Quack
enbush, Chester Rapp, Marvin
Hart, Lucille Marquess, Betty
Montgomery, Lilly Millage, De
lores Hawley, Natalie Hayes, De
lores Chapman, Betty Negles
and Leola Llndstrom.
Mrs. Elevita Bales is directing
the play and the Talent orches
tra will entertain with music
between acts.
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store merchandise 13, valuables
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Panning vegetables: This method of cooking vege-:
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in so-called "waterless cooking". Water should be
practically all cooked away when vegetable it
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